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vania, General George G. Meade, was sud- denly thrust upon him. He did not avoid the xesponsibility, nor did he call to his councils interested politicians. As is his wont, he waited, watched and bided his time. He has at length decided wisely and well. We wereaware that General Meigs, General Terry and others had strong claims upon him; but we felt certain that his strong good sense and clear insight would enable him to bound over the political mud pool set before him by his whilom friends. And he has triumphed. General Irwin McDowell, senior Brigadier General of the army, is the next in rank for promotion, and him the Commander in Chief has properly and wisely selected to take the place on the roll of the army of the United States of the lamented Meade. General McDowell won his spurs before Bull Run, and ‘he has a better right to wear them now. A -eool, calculating, able. officer, he is an honor ‘to the service. Long may he wear his double stars! But the President shows his ardent desire to clasp hands across the sanguinary chasm of popular misrepresentation in another way. General Hancock, who, for some years, has been looking through a glass darkly at the White House steps, gave ex- Pression, or was reported to have given expression to sentiments not at all *Somplimentary to the President, and now, ‘before all the people, General U. S. Grant “‘elasps hands,”’ and makes General Hancock commander of the comfortable, easy and most » desirable Department of the East, President Grant is evidently determined to supplement civil service retorm, for which the country yearns, by other reforms not less welcome to the people who have honored him with their suffrages and made him their ruler for the next four years. Let him continue as he has commenced, and his constituents—and not they alone, but his Inte political oppo- nents—will hail him, not merely as the next, ‘ut as the best President of the United States. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. M. Ernest Rénan is in Naples. Prince Christian, of England, is on the Conti- nent, Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Froude yesterday returned tothe Brevoort Flouse from Boston. State Senator W. B. Woodin, of Auburn, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-State Senator J. H, Ramsay, of Albany, is at ‘the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General 8. E. Marvin, of Albany, is sojourning ‘at the New York Hotel. Donna Maria Pattuzi Gavazzi, mother of Father Gavazzi, died lately at Pistoja, Italy. State Treasurer James P. Newcomb, of Texas, is in the city, at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General 0. V. Dayton, of the United States Army, ‘has. quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Senator Wililam M. Gwin, of California, yes- terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Prince of Wales’ thirty-first birthday was celebrated with great enthusiasm at Sandringham ‘on the 9th inst,- The Earl of Shrewsbury has been installed Provincial Grand Master o! the Freemasons of Staffordshire, England. ‘The King and Queen of Naples will pass the Win- ter at Pau, where they now are. King Francis ap- * pears little in public, and receives but few visitors, Congressman L. P, Poland, of Vermont, yester- day arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Mr. Po- ijand was formerly a member of the United States ‘Senate. M. Hyacinthe Lemoyne, an advocate established &t Cairo, in Egypt, is the person with whom the Duchess. de Persigny is about to unite herself in amatriage. Professor Huxley and the Marquis of Huntley are famed for the Lord Rectorship of Aberdeen Uni- versity. Messrs. Gladstone and Darwin have both Geclined the proffered honor. Mr. 4, M, Powell will be associated with the National Temperance Advocate after the Ist of January next, when The National Standard, which he now edits, will be merged into the former paper. Patrick Donahoe, of the Boston Pilot, whose ‘building was consumed in the great fire, having een since burned out a second time, says in this week’s number that he is “about tired of this Phoenix business.” M. Fournier de Saint Amant, long esteemed the greatest French chess player, has at last been checkmated by death. In 1848 he was Provisional Governor of the Tuileries, and for several years past had resided in Algiers. The Emperor, of Russia, at his recent visit to the cemetery at Sebastorpol, where repose the soldiers killed during the siege, planted two acacias before the tomb of Prince Michael Gortschakof and crowned his bust with flowers. ‘The Honorable Eliot Yorke, son of the Earl of Hardwicke, is soon to be married to Miss Annie de Rothschild, second daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild. The lady, it is reported, will not change her religious faith, Her papa is feu d’esprit. M. Thiers, having been understood by the police ‘to have been caricatured in the Alcazar Music Hall, in Paris, that establishment was shut up for a week. The portrait was, however, announced by the artist as that of the actor Léonée. Itis bad to resemble the wily Adulphe. Maria Mangin Brown, lately of Mayfair, having neglected to make a will and being without heirs, has enriched the British government by some one anda quarter million dollars, A dozen such in- testates and John Bull could settle the Alabama @laims without another penny on the income tax. Among those who arrived on the steamship Baltic yesterday was the Rev. Father Adams, for- merly pastor at Ballymena, Ireland. He is reported to bea fine linguist, and was educated at Sala- manca, Spain. It is understood that Father Ad- ams will be appointed toa curacy in this diocese by Archbishop McCloskey. Herr Wagner, the musical composer, threatens several German newspapers with libel suits for their strictures upon his music. Why does the {rascible maestro trouble himself about cotem- porary opinion when he writes for the future? If the editors are found guilty the punishment should be to sit out “Tannhauser” long as a single set of dddie strings would last. Mark Twain has returned home in the Batavia, &t Boston. His first joke is a serious one, com- prising, as it does, an unique account of the pick- (ng up of a number of shipwrecked seamen, all of which he witnessed in a terrific gale, without the protection of an umbrella, This thrilling account ne sens to the London Humane Society. He asks no reward for his own superhuman exertions on the occasion, Mr, Anthony Trollope, the English novelist, who arrived at the Brevoort House on Monday, will sail dor home to-day on the steamship Cuba, Mr. Trol- Jope is now closing a Jong journey through Austratia, Aceanica, Canada and the western part of our own country, The many and diifering scenes that he witnessed during his tour probably cloyed his appe- tite for novelty and influenced him to leave New York without having more thau a glimpse at its proportions and peculiarities. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Wyoming will leave this port on Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool. The maila for Europe will close at the Post Office at Naif-past cleven o'clock A. M. Tur New York Hevatp—Eaition for Europe— will be ready at holf-past nine o'clock in the morn- in hs Siagle copies, in wrappers for mailing, six cents, FRANCE. ENGLAND. + The National Governmental Deadlock Main- | Banking Diffieulties and a Press Libel Case and Serious Conse- quences Lxpected. tained Paris and the Provinces Deeply Excited—The Parliamentary Committee and President Thiers—Radicalist Prophecy of a Terrible Bevolution—Political Acousation of a Royalist Pact Against the Republic— Changarnier Charged as an Inter- ested Reactionist—MacMahon and Ladmirault in Personal Support of Existing Or- der—The Latest Posi- tion Favorable to the President. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Paris, November 26, 1872, The French governmental crisis is still main- tained, The public situation presents to-day with the same aspect of interest and excitement which was reported in the HkRaLp despatches dated in this city and at Versailles yesterday. THE PRESIDENT, THE PARLIAMENT AND THE POLITI- CAL PARTIES, There are no indications whatever this morning of @ settlement of the differences between the Executive and Legislative departments of the gov- ment, President Thiers and the Assembly committee on the address in reply to his message both adhere firmly to their respective positions, and the na- tional situation 1s regarded by all as very serious, PARIS DEEPLY EXCITED AND THK PROVINCES MOVED BY THE AGITATION. Great excitement prevails in Paris and through- out the provinces over the aspect of atfuirs as it is atated from Versailles, It is announced this morning that the members of the parties of the Right and Right Centre in the National Assembly have come to the determination to support the views of the committee appointed to draft a reply to the message of M. Thiers, and that they accept the definition of the Parliament- ary position which has been set forth by the com- mittee. THE SWORD OF THE ARMY IN SUPPORT OF THE RE- PUBLICAN STATE. A reception, which was largely attended, was given at the Executive Mansion last night. Mar- shal MacMahon was present, and the greeting be- tweep that officer and M. Thiers was marked by the utmost cordiality. General Ladmirault, the Military Governor of Paris, who was present, said, during a conversa- tion, that the city of Paris supported the President in the present contest with the parties of the Assembly. FINANCIAL FEELING AT THE OPENING OF THE. BOURSE. The Bourse opened flat. centimes, English Report of French Radicalist Manifestations. Lonpon, Nov, 26, 1872, Special despatches from Paris to the London afternoon papers say that the radical journals of the former city are violent in their language, The French radicals declare that a terrible revo- lutton will follow.the overthrow of the govern- ment of M. Thiers, The same journals accuse the legitimists, Orleanists and imperialists of having formed a coalition to work for the downfall of the present French government, General Changarnier is also charged with aiming to secure power. Rentes 52 francs 62 Minority Report on the Assembly Reply to the Presidential Address—M. Thiers Approves of its Contents. Panis, Nov. 26, 1872, The minority of the committee on the address, who disagree with the report made by the majority, have adopted a resolution to propose to the Assem- bly the nomination of a committee ot thirty-five members of that body witi instructions to present @ bill establishing ministerial responsibility and embodying the constitutional reforms necessary to. secure the regular working of a republican govern- ment. The resolution has been submitted to M. Thiers, and he expresses his entire approval of it, The Majority Report—The Radical Ex- tremists Repudiated. PARIs, Nov. 26—Evening. The majority report of the Committee on the address was read in the Assembly this afternoon. It is @ strong INDICTMENT AGAINST THE RADICAL PARTY, and insists on the establishment of a responsible ministry ag a means of fighting radicalism. The majority of the committee asked for the im- mediate consideration of the report. The minority moved that it be postponed untit Thursday. ‘The motion to postpone was carried by a vote of 356 yeas to 332 nays. EXECUTIVE ENCOURAGEMENT FOR A TERMINATION OF THE CRISIS. ‘The Parliamentary result is regarded as a very favorable indication for the government. The President's supporters in the Assembly be- lieve this vote virtually ends the crisis, and that a similar majority issure for the government next Thursday. GERMANY. Prussian Legislation on the Counties Reform Bill. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, BERLIN, Nov. 26, 1872, The Lower House of the Prussian Diet: has passed the Counties Reform bill by a vote of 288 against 91, EGYPT. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. . LONDON, Nov. 25, 1872, A telegram dated tn Cairo reports that His High- ness the Khedive of Egypt continues his prepara- tions for the despatch of a force of 5,000 men, under command of one of the American ofMcers now serving {n the Egyptian army, to Africa in aid of Dr. Livingstone, and with the view of searching for the source of the River Nile. SALE OF THE INDIANAPOLIS RAILROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov, 26, 1872, Ths sale of the Indianapolis Railroad, in pursu- ance ofa decree in bankruptcy against the com- pany, took place to-day. The only bidders were James A. Frazer, President ofthe road, and D, W. McLaren, President of the Cincinnatl, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, The road yas sold to Mr, McLaren for $1,000,000, on Trial in the Courts, Nautical Reports of Sea Disasters by the Storm— A Vessel from Russia Lost, with All Hands—Fatal Disaster to an Aus- tralian Emigrant Ship. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Nov. 26, 1872. Mr. Robert Bowles, the banker, has been re- manded to jail until the 4th of December, when a hearing of his case will be had. PRESS PROSECUTION FOR PERSONAL LIBEL. The case of Hepworth Dixon vs, The Proprietors of The Pall Malt Gazette for libel opened to-day. Mr. Justice Bovii, the presiding Judge, was sud- denly taken ill and obliged to leave the bench, Judge Brett succeeded him and the hearing was resumed, Mr, Dixon went on the stand and gave an ac- count of his American experiences, showing that he waa well received everywhere in the United states, Sada Sufferings from Shipwreck and Fatal Losses at Sea. LONDON, Nov. 26, 1872. Vessels artiving from sea report that the gale continues, but not with the severity of Saturday last. Several of the English seaport towns have been considerably damaged by the violence of the storms, Reports of marine disasters are constantly eom- ing to hand, The ship Loch Lever Flower, from Berdiansk, Russia, for Falmouth, wa% fest at sea with all on board. The ships Electric, Captait Peyn, from New York October 24 for Hamburg, and Chance, from Pensa- cola for Suaderiand, have also been lost at sea. Their captains and crews were’ rescued by the bark Holmestrand, from New York for Queenstown, and landed at the latter port. ‘The ship Royal Adelaide, whi cly sailed from this city several days since for Sydney, N. 8. W., was totally wrecked off Portland and several of her passengers drowned, VARIABLE WEATHER WITH ELECTRICAR DISTURB- ANCE, ‘The weather to-day tm London and its vicinity is fair; but at many other points in England local storms with thunder and Nghtning prevail: LATEST MARKETS COMMERCIAL REPORT, ‘The following, the latest, reports of the’ London and Liverpool produce markets were issued in the olty this evening:—Linseed oil opened at £34 58. a £34108, and closed at £34 per ton. Spirits tarpen- tive, 438, a 438, 6d. per cwt. In: Liverpool spirits turpentine was at 448. a 448; -6d\ per cwt. SPAIN. Provincial Riot---Proclamation of Mar-- tial Law in Murcia. Reinforcing the Garrieons—Ministerial State-- ment of the Condition of Affairs. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. MaDRID, Nov. 26, 1872. A despatch from Santander reports that a riot occurred in that city yesterday, but adds that the disturbance was soon suppressed, The province of Murcia has been placed under martial law. Additional troops have beem despatched to An- dalusia. Ministerial Statement to the Cort Cabinet Estimate of the Cris: MADRID, Nov, 26, 1872, His Excellency Sefior Zorrilla, President of the Cabinet Council, made a statement in: the Cortes to-day of the condition of affairs in the Spanish provinces. He stated that troops had been sent to Anda- lusia, where roving bands were committing depre- dations, and that others would soon follow. There had been disturbances in Velez-Malaga, but they were soon suppressed. Murcia had been de- clared in a state of siege and placed under mar- tiallaw. In the city of Santander a riot occurred yesterday, which was suppressed by the National Guards. Four of the rioters were arrested. There had also been slight disturbances at Gijon, in the province of Oviedo, There were indications of disorder in Almeria, and troops were being con. centrated at diferent points in that province. Sejior Zorrilla said, in conciusion, that but “little importance was attached by the government to these-demonstrations.”” Medical and Military Reports—The King Convalescent and His Enemies Being. Coerced. Maprip, Nov. 26—Evening. The Court Physician’s bulletins announce that the condition of the King’s health continues to improve. GOOD NEWS FROM THE FIELD, The only repubiican band in Murcia has been dis persed. Disturbances attempted in Saragossa were quickly suppressed. VICTORIA AND ITALY. The Queen of England’s Contribution to Dis- tressed Italians, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, London, Nov. 26, 1872. Her Majesty Queen Victoria has forwarded the sum of $2,000 to Italy for the relief of the sufferers by the recent inundations, ALABAMA, The New Governor Not Yet Able to Rec- oncile the Contending Partics—Commit- tees of Conference Said to Have Been Appointed. MonTaoMERy, Nov, 26, 1872, The branch of the Legislature at the Capitol did nothing special to-day. The other branch sent a committee to wait on the new Governor, Lewis, The committee reported that they had waited on the Governor and that he would communicate to- morrow. The committee further stated that he (the Governor) gave reasons for his delay which it was best to communicate in caucus. They then adjourned, the spectators retired and the body became a republican caucus, The result of their deliberations on the purport of the Governor's statement to them is not known, It 1s surmised, however, that a committee of ten was appointed to confer with a like committee from the conservative side. THE LOUISIANA POLITICAL MUDDLE, NEw ORLEANS, Nov, 26, 1872, In the Federal Court to-day, in the case of Kel- logg vs. Warmoth et al., plaintif’s counsel filed 6,000 affidavits of voters to the effect that they had been deprived of the right to register and vote. The Court granted the opposing counsel permission to file counter aMdavits. Thomas J. Semmes made an argument for the defendants, after which the Court adjourned until to-morrow. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. COLUMBIA, Nov. 26, 1872. 5 The Legislature assembled to-day. Mr. Lee, col- ored, was elected Speaker of the House. A dispo- sition to reduce the governmental expenses is already manifest, Governor-elect Moses will be in- augurated on Monday next. Governor Scott has been sick, but is now improving. THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE OF MISSOURI Sr. Louis, Nov. 26, 1872. The oMciai vote of Missouri for President 13 an- nounced as follows:—Greelcy, 119,196; O'Yonor, 2.429, 151,433; Grant, WASHINGTON. Presidential Hints Concerning the Message to Congress. General Grant Asked by the Man and Brother to Champion Civil Rights. Sumner’s Thunder from the Other End of the Avenue. Redskins Promising To Be Good Children of the Great Father, ———— REORGANIZATION OF THE SIGNAL SERVICE, a The New Attorney General and the North Caro- lina Senatorship—Effects of the Hodge Pardon—Enropean Views on Steamboat Regulations, Wasninaton, Noy, 26, 1872, The President and the Message. The rough draft of the President’s annual mes- sage, though not quite finished, was read to the Cabinet to day, ali the members being present. it will be somewhat—perhaps one-fifth—longer than last year’s message, In addition to the two copics to be sent to Congress five wilt be made in manifold for the use of the city press and for telegraphing, In response to a question asked by the writer of this despatch, the President remarked he had no objection to saying that the message would not show a change of policy on his part, as his endeavor was now, as it had been in the past, to perform his entire duty to the extent of his @bility and in such a manner as would best serve the interests of the country. He was not certain that he would recommend to Congress an exten- sion ef amnesty tothe two or three hundred per- sons excluded by recent legtslation; but if he would: it would be with a proposed condition that the beneficiaries merely take an oath to support the constitution of the United States. Congress, however, had ample authority in the premises and could act with regard to the matter without a repetition of his views upon the’ subject contained in his: former annual message. He saw no more necessity,.as had been asserted, for making a declaration of a more friendly policy towards the South than for such a declaration towards the North, as he’ sought as President, under the obligation of his oath, to: execute the duties of his position without favor or partiality in accordance with law. He would in-his message endorse such recommendations of legislation as may be presented by the heads of the several de- partments, and which experience had shown to be necessary. He would recommend to Congress that actiom.be taken with regard to the award made by the Geneva arbitrators. The money will be paid by Great Britain.to the Department of State and’ be deposited in the Treasury. Of course it cannot be drawn therefrom, except—in accordance with law-—for the purposes specified. In the course of conversation on the sub- ject of. civil service reform the * President said that, while competitive examinations were desirable, he did not think it right that oMce should be given to enemies of the administration to the exclusion of its triends, He was now engaged in examining applications for pardon, taking up the cases singly, with a view to conclusions upon them. He intended to pardon Co!onel Bowerman, who about eighteen. months ago was convicted of em- bezzlement while he was an officer in the Balti- more Vustom House. He added that in addition to other reasons Colonel Bowerman was a brave and fasthful oMoer during the late war. President Grant and Colored Civil Rights. A delegation of colored men from Pennsylvania, composed of some of the most prominent repre- sentatives of that race in the State, called to-day upon the President for the purpose of urging upon him the importance of recommending in his annual Message the adoption of a law similar to Senator Sumner’s Civil Rights -bill, which fared so badly last Winter at the hands of the Senate. The dele- gation represented.the executive board oi the Equal Rights League of Pennsylvania. They went up to the White House at about two o'clock, and were cordially received by the President. William D, Forbes, tho colored Elector at large for Penn, sylvania, addressed the President in behalf of the delegation in. an exceedingly flowery effort, ar- raigning class legislation and prejudice and avow- ing the doctrine that through African votes. Gene- ral Grant was the only constitutionally elected President. America had ever had. This gentleman appealed to ¢he President for his power- ful interposition in behalf of a people whose only crime was their color, and whose only demand. was justice, The President, after listening patiently to this effort, responded as follows :— “In your desire to obtain. all the rights.of citi-~ sens I fully sympathize, That you should have what other citizens have I know, and I wish that every voter of the United States should stand in @il respects alike. It must come, A licket on a railroad or: other conveyance should entitle you to all that it does other men. I wish it to be so. I think, gentiemen, that your very earnest recom- mendation, however, belongs more properly to the next administration.” Before withdrawing, the President gave the dele- gation to understand that he would recommend the subject in his forthcoming annual Message. The Inauguration Ball and Oar African Brethren, Governor Cooke has requested the leading citi- zens of the District to meet at the Legislative Hall on Saturday evening next to make arrangements for the inauguration ceremonies on the 4th of March, ‘The Inaugural Ball will have an entirely new fea- ture in the presence of the ¢lite of colored society in Washington, The social idea of civil rights was fully developed in 1969 at the first inauguration of President Grant. It required all the strategy and pleading of the influential members of the com- mittee on arrangements to keep the “man and brother” from indicating his rights by attending. Since then the fifteenth amendment has been ratified and Congress has squinted at civil rights, In the District of Columbia colored men are mem- bers of the Legislature, hold important offices under the District government and have a social standing which will entitle them to participate in the festivities of the occasion. Good Red Children of the Great Father. The importance to the government in bringing to Washington and sending to the principal Eastern cities parties of wild and sometimes hostile Indians is confirmed by the following facts gathered from ofmMcial sources:—The last large delegation which, came East was composed mainly of Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches and Arapahoes from t Indian territory, in charge of Captain Henry b. Alvord, special Indian Commissioner. They have. now reached their homes, and that gentle- man has returned and submitted was re- port. The Arapahoes and the Caddoes, Washi- tas and aMiiated bands fully sustain their dele gations in their negotiations here regarding their lands, by which these tribes accede to the proposi- tion of the government for their location upon con- siderably diminished reservations, Tho Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches had been informed of the substance of the recent address by the Commis- sioner to their delegates while in this city in ad- vance of the return of the latter, and this, in conjunetion with Colonel McKenzie's timely attack upon the atill implacable Comauches ~oaming in Texas had borne its first fruits. The tribes named have promptly surren- dered to, their agont the last of the captives heta by them, and declare their intention to give up the Stolen animals in their herds and otherwise fully comply with the demands of t be governmen NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1872—TRIPLH SHEET, a ag nr Already Maorri, or Shaking Hand, the moat tin- portant of the disaffected Comanche chiefs, with nis band, and Kicking Bird, with nearly all the Kiowas, have come again to their reservation and camped near the agency at Fort Sill, A lew well-known Kiowa braves, with a smal! following, express their de- termination to continue to defy the authorities; but this was expected. The men have long been Outlawed, and their own chiefs disclaim all re- Sponsibility for their deeds and assure their agent that the government will be sustained by the tribe in any action it might take in regard to this faction. Special Commissioner Alvord saya that betore he left St. Louis arrangements were made with the United States Marshal at that city to send back to Texas Satanta and Big Tree. These chiefs were sen- tenced to death, but the punishment was subse- qnently commuted to imprisonment for life. Gov- ernor Davis had, at the request of the Indian au- thorities, permitted them to be taken to St. Louis to see their old Indian companions on their way to Washington, and which served a good purpose, Reorganization of the Signal Service. With the view of diminishing the expenses of the Signal Service and at the same time possessing the power of suddenly increasing the number of sta- tions trom which reperts are to be had in any section of the country which may at any scason of the year be especiaily threatened by the Storms, which at the different seasons seem to pass more frequently over — particu- lar portions of the territories of the United States, the organization of a mobilized Corps of Observers has been commenced, This corps, which wili consist of picked men, skliful and chosen for their special fitness for its contemplated duties, will be equipped with portable apparatus, comprising all the instruments they will be re- quired to use at any station to which they may be suddenly ordered, The stations will be properly occupied tn cach section of the country in refer- ence to the storms to which that section t ia habitually exposea at particular seasons, and wili be designated in advance, and the proper telegraphic connections for those stations will be previously arranged. It will be posaible to occupy in this way the stations with very great rapidity. The périod of danger for which they may be occu- pied being passed they will be abandoned and the force left free to be transferred for the protection of other sections whose seasons of danger may be then approaching, Effect of the Pardon of Paymaster Hodge. The pardon of Paymaster Hodge has been unfa- vorably commented upon in official circles, The frequent allusion, by prominent supporters of the administration during the Presidential campaign, to the punishment of defaulters is now recalled, The’ case in question was particularly dwelt upon, ag an evidence of the President's determination not to be influenced by social influences, The pardon receives-no countenance in army circles, where it was known months before the election that after the campaign Major Hodge would be released. There are now in confinement in the District jail in this city three government clerks—Marden, Johnson and Kenbig—sentenced for misappropriat- ing government funds, Their friends, inspired by the action of the President in the case of Hodge, have already commenced efforts to secure their pardon, In relation to the case of the New York brokers who were the agents of Hodge, it is said at | the Treasury Department that the law under which they have been indicted is defective and that it does not reach the case of brokers, This defect, with important recommendations for the better protection of government funds, will form a por- tion-of the forthcoming report. of the Secretary of the Treasury. The New Attorney General and the North Carolina Senatorship. It is: stated’ here that the nomination of 8. F. Phillips, the new Attorney General, is likely to seriously affect the resuit of the pending Senatorial election in North Carolina, While Mr, Phillips has been a pronounced republican his promotion is accepted as a proof, by the more reasonable con- servatives, of the desireof the administration to. bring forward, as fast as they canbe found, men of social and personal worth. Mr. Phillips’ nomination is so regarded, Adding this feeling to the dissatis- faction felt by the moderates at the nomination of Ex-Governor Vance as the democratic candidate for Senator, it is considered as more than likely that the Senatorial contest will result either in the election of Mr. Merriman or the:choice of Governor Caldwell. European Hints on Steamboat Regula- tions, In: response to the request of this government for information from: foreign nations respecting the regulations of their steamboat service, nearly all the leading nations of Europe have forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury, through the State Department, the aesired: documents, These will be: carefully examined and any points which can be practically incorporated: in our Steamboat bill will be recommended in: the:proposed amendment. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Promotion of Commodere Worden and Consequent A@vancements in the Service—Rumors and Gossi) im the Navy—Movements of the National Fleet. The promotion of Commodore-John L. Worden to the rank of rear admiral wll promote Captain Fox- hall A. Parker to that of commoaore. Rear Admiral Joseph F; Green, who. was to have re- tiredifrom active service this. month, will still be re- tained in the command of the North Atlantic squad- ron. His retirement will promote Commodore George Emmons to the grade of rear admiral, and Emmons* promotion promotes Captain John Guest to the grade of commodores Commander De Kraft is promoted to captain by Captain Parker’s promotion to commodore. Commander Badger is promoted to captain by Captain Guest's mation. to commodore, ptain Shufeldt, lately in command of the fag- ship of the Mediterranean squadron, has been as- al to the command of the United States steamer Plymouth of that squadron, and Com- aig K.R. Bruge has returned to the United tates. About the middle of December, 1872, Commodore E. F, Middleton will be retired, when Captain D, Fairtax will be promoted to the grade of com- modore, and Commander Harris will be promoted to that of captain. Commodore R. N. Stembel will be retired from active service December 27, 1572, when Captain Cletz will be promoted to the rank of commodore, and at the same time Commander L._B. Luer will be promoted to a captaincy. The previous promotions will advance Lieuten- ant Commanders Mahan, Remey, Fargahan and Greene to the grade of commander, Kumor hag it that Rear Admiral John L. Worden will be made chief of one of the naval bureaus at Washington, and the command of the Naval Academy will be offered to Commodore Le Roy, now President of the Board of Inspection. The United States steamer Alaska, Captain Blake, is now. about one month on her way home from the East India squadron, It is said she is ordered to New York to go out of commission. By latest dates from the Asiatic squadron the United States steamer Iroquois was at Hong Kong, in dock, repairing a leak in her bottom. The United States steamer Lackawanna was sta- tioned at Yo! a The Saco,was at Shanghae with the Palos. The Ashuelot was.to pass the Winter at Tien-tsin, The Colorado was at Chefoo awaiting the return of Rear Admiral Jenkins from Pekin, Upon his arrival the.Colorado was to proceed to Snanghae, thence to,Hong Kong, looking inat Ampy, and by December 25, 1872, it was confidently expected the Colorado would be bound tor the United States, via the Cape of Good Hope. It is Lelieved the Volorado will stop. at Cape Town and St. Helena upon her bi home. ss The Frolic, the flagship of Rear Adm’ral Rowan, will soon go to the Brookiyn Navy Yard for Win- ter quarters. ‘The receiving ship Potomac wilt soon haul in alo le the wharf at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for iter quarters. She is.very much in need of ‘epalrs. mm the 26th inst. the monitor Saugus wag in- ed by @ board of officers, and in a few days she will proceed, undar convey of the Powhatan, to Key West, Naval Orders. WasHinaton, Nov. 26, 1372. Lieutenant Commander A. G, Caldwell is ordered ag executive officer of the Canandaigua, at Key West. Lteutenant Commander E. 0. Merriman is detached from the Canandaigua and ordered to pes command of the storeship Pawnee at Ponsa- cola, ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 1972. In consequence of the assignment of General McDowell to the command of the Department of the South, the Department of the East, embraced in the Military Division of the Atlantic, will be in charge of General Hancock, there being at this time no brigadier general without @ department under his command, cxcepting General Uoward, who (9 90 special d 7 INSURGENT CUBA, Herald Special Report from Santiago de Cuba. Interviews and Dinners with General Riquelme. A HIDALGO’S CHALLENGE. A Spanish Editor's Cool Desire to Appro~ priate Herald Enterprise, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. despatch to’ the Henarp has been received from our core respondent at Havana : — Havana, via Key West, Nov. 26, 1872. A. B. Henderson, the Heratb special come missioner to Ovba, telegraphs to thia’point as follows :— Santiago pe Cuna, Novy. 20, 1872. Tarrived at this city on tho 18th, acoome panied by Lieutenant Aguero, the interpreter courteously placed at my disposal, INTERVIEW WITH THE COMMANDING GENERAL, I was accorded a two hours’ interview with Genera. Riquelme, commanding in this dis trict. This distingnished’ soldier, accome panied by others, dined at the American Cone sulate on tho 19th. To-day the same party dined with British Consul Ramsden. A SPANISH CHALLENGE) A communication appeared in’ the Diario, requesting me to publish in its:columns og those of the Bandera Espanola what I. had seen, and to set forth the impressions I had received General Riquelmo authorized me to answer this come munication or not, according to my pleasure, guarantecing with his head my personal se~ curity while within the territory under hig command, The following special of the war with the insurgents, GOING INTO THE FIELD, To-morrow I leave this city with the Spanisty forces with the object of studying the opera tions in the field which are promised by the Spaniards, MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, Saint be SEES Mme. Pauline Lucca sings in “La Favorita to night at the Academy for the last time. Oh Thanka giving evening there willbe a mixed programme presented at popular prices. Moriami, Coulon, Sparapant, Sanz and Jamet will sing and Bonawita and the orchestra of the Italian Opera will play ia concert selections. Portions of “Crispino e ta Comare” and ‘Lucrezia Borgia” will conclude the entertainment, Mr. John Koch, Manager of the Terrace Gardem Theatre, announces ‘Fra Diavolo" for this evening, with Miss Louise Beckman, Misa Clara Perl and Horn, Formes and Beetz in the cast, ¥ Rubinstein, Wieniawski and Miles, Liebhart and Ormeny appear in Cleveland this evening. The theatres in this city have ail settled to thote course, and there will be no important change im the sailing orders for some weeks to come, “Agnes” is likely to hold its place at the Uniom Square till the end of Miss Ethel’s engagement, and Dundreary will challenge attention at Wal- lack’s as long as Dundreary pleases. Miss Neilson has met with a success at Booth’s which would assure a second long run of “Romeo and Juliet,’% if it had not been predetermined to alternate Juliet with Rosalind in “As You Like It’ next week, and finish her engagement with Julia ia the “Hunchback” and Pauline in the “Lady of Lyons.” The “Merry Wives of Windsor” at the Fifth Avenue seems destined for a long and suce cessful season, The new piece at the Gran® Opera House has not yet been fully tested, and “Leo and Lotua” at Niblo's is just ready to ast popular appreciation. All these, with burlesque at the Olympic and the variety performances at the- Many other places of amusement, are sufficient te gratify every taste—good, bad and indifferent. “MUSIOUS” AND “VIATOR” To Tae Epiror OF THE HERALD:— Among the numerous printing fauita, which as @. great exception appear in yesterday's HxmaLp, there are some in my letter to the editor of the HERALD, such a8 “Cavaticn” for ‘“Cavatina,’’ “Donizetti” for “Donzelli,” “steady” for “studies,” and many others which I will pass over quietiy, But there is one which L cannot allow to remains unmentioned—that is the signature of ‘Viator’? b kenbet under my prose instead of “Musicus."" it would be too ungenerous to expose that defence- less poor lamb “Viator’’ to the yellow rage of that old critical nonentity, known bade 3 his noble triends as Tom Baggs, the arpeggiodinken, in con- sideration of his recent distinguished discoveries im the Rubinsteinarpeggio line, I am willing and prepared to bear the terrible consequences of pro- voking this calm and profound Khadomantus .my-~ If, MUSICUS. self. 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