The New York Herald Newspaper, December 2, 1872, Page 7

——— Oe — — UO \ive confingrtion in New York would be | fihely to Wake TNO our Tasumues SEP snios, we realize the necessity of some prompt and effective action. Marin see ‘Report <¢ the Comptroller of the Cur- reney. Our Washington correspondence has given he outline of the report of the Comptroller of ‘the Currency, which has been prepared for Con- ‘gress. The topic of most interest referred to is that of a proposed increase of the national , bank notes. The. Comptroller recommends 4the repeal of the act of Congress which calls for the redistribution of twenty-five millions of mational bank currency, by withdrawing that ‘mount from the Middle and Kastern States sand giving it to the South and West, and in dieu thereof to issue five millions a year ad- Aliitional circulation for the next five years, to ‘meet the wants of those States which have not shad their full proportion, This, of course, ~would be an inflation of the currency of the coun- ry to the amount of twenty-five millions, and all of it in national bank notes. True, the Comp- ‘roller proposes this inflation in small doses of five millions annually; but it is, after all, ‘an increase of paper money and one which is for ‘the special benefit of the national banking associations. The Comptroller assumes, cvi- dently, that the Middle and Eastern States ave not too much currency. He isa cordial ‘advocate of the national bank interests and ‘endeavors to place gradually the whole circu- lation of the country.and its profits in those -banks. But he does not tell us how we are to ‘reach specie payments if this insidious pro- -cess of national bank note inflation is to go on. He calls upon Congress for some declaration or amendment of the law imposing penalties sypon the banks for taking usurious interest, 4n consequence of meeting with difficulties in acting upon cases that have oocurred. The entire circulation authorized by Con- gress amounts to three hundred and fifty-four millions, the whole of which has been ab- orbed, except twelve millions which have -been promised to the banking associations that shave filed their applications and have taken the preliminary steps for organization. The Comptroller is opposed to any change in the Jaw with regard to the reserve which the banks are required to hold, but suggests that it ‘would be better for the banks to kcep a larger proportion of their reserve in their own vaults instead of placing it on deposit with the city banks. He parades the fact that the national banks have paid in taxes to the fed- eral government about ten millions a year. ‘Well, does not every other kind of business and capital pay taxes? He does not tell us what the gratuity by the government to these insti- dutions of three hundred and fifty-four mil- lions of circulation is worth. We will supply the defect. It is worth over twenty millions a year—twenty millions that properly belong to the government and people. The Comptroller states that the net earnings ot the banks— capital and surplus—have been about ten per cent annually, exclusive of bad debts. He does not include in this the profits on circulation. If we mistake not the profit on the capi- tal invested, including the interest drawn from the bonds deposited, will amount to nearer fifteen or sixteen per cent. Two things uggested by the report are worthy of consid- eration by Congress and the people—First, as to how we are to reach specie payments if the process of inflation goes on; and, next, how can the banks bé made to contribute something more out of their enormous profits 4o the revenue of the government for the great privileges they enjoy? The present Comp- troller is a national bank man, and is the friend of those institutions much more than ho is the servant of the public. Secretary Robeson’s Scheme to Pro- mote American Shipping and Com- merece. It is reported that similar recommendations will be made by the Secretaries in their re- ports to Congress with regard to improving American shipping interests and commerce to those made last session, and that Secretary Robeson has a scheme to aid shipbuilders and shipowners, by connecting in a certain way steamship lines with the navy. He proposes, it is said, to make a subsidized and govern- ment-fostered mercantile steam marine the foundation of a new sort of navy. The ves- sels can be used, he argues, for carrying the mails, as well as being available for war pur- poses in time of need. The proposition is to ‘assign a portion of the appropriations for the navy to aid in constructing swift iron steam- ers, which will be owned ‘and controlled by private companies or individuals, except as xegards the postal service and the right of government to use them in time of war. The Navy Department, however, is to have some- thing to say as to the plan and manner of constructing these steamers. This is a gigan- tio and novel scheme, and is one, probably, that will be urged by shipbuilders and steam- ship companies, for it would furnish ‘them with a vast amount of capital from the ‘Treasury of the United States. We hardly think the taxpaying people of this country will eonsent to such a union or partnership be- governmertt and business firms which is to be sustained by money from the Treasury. Nor are they likely to admit that this is the way to build up an efficient navy. It seems that both the Cabinet officers and Congress are apt at inventing impracticable schemes to restore our shipping and com- merce and ignore the plan that is practicable. ‘The proper course would be to repeal or sus- pend the navigation iaws so as to let our mer- chants and capitalists build or buy steamships where they can get them cheapest and best. But there would be no job in this, and hence the great interests of the country are to be sacrificed for the benefit of local interests—for the benefit of shipbuilders, iron manufactur- ers and timber merchants. The benefit to the republic of acquiring steamships in this way, ‘we suggest, would be far greater in two or three years than all the profits to the special land local interests named would amount to, land that without taxing the people generally for the protection of a few. The whole yheme of Mr. Robeson is wrong in principle nd impracticable, and should not be touthed by Congress. ae Non-Restent Usirep Srates Senarors.— 16 Mobile Register favors the election of lexander McKinstry to the United States nate in place of the present incumbent, E, Spencer, whose seat is about to be ted. The Register avers that if Mr. cer is permitted to retain his seat six years longer Alabama will not again enjoy ie ceva beholding his visage, for the place of residenéd earing his eutire term. ‘This ia, unfortunately, thé cage wi-t too many of those gentlemen who occupy state ini the United States Senate. The States they hail | from are only used as lodging places or hunt- ing lodges, and the money they spend is not among their constituents, but among a class of hungry gourmands, who are always ready for a grand reception or a champagne and Seflor J. de T. Pinto, of Peru, is registered at the Clarendon Hotel. Minister E. B. Washburn is in town, staying at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Congressman B, T, Eames, of Rhode Island, is at the Albemarle Hotel, Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecti- cut, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, has bowled along to the Gilsey House. Congressman at Large Lyman Tremain {s con- tent with a room at the Gilsey House. Colonel C. B. Phillips, of the United States Army, is in quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel. General W. D. Whipple, of the United States Army, has quarters at the'Hoffman House, General A. H. Terry, of the United States Army; yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House. = General Joe Hooker yesterday arrived at the Bre- voort House from his home in Watertown, in this State, Private contributions have made good $100,000, of the loss of, Harvard University by the Boston fire. The editors and publishers of Maine are to cele- brate Benjamin Franklin's birthday on January 17, Lemonade and tea and nice speeches! A poor man who hanged himself, owing to domes- tic aMiction occasioned by his wife, is thus disposed of out West:—‘Henry Lyman, shoemaker, Terre Haute—bedcord, Jealousy.’? Some of the Western papers are still insisting that Wendell Phillips intends to act as umpire lec- turer in the Froude-Burke controversy. Wendell for a wind-up 18 good. Dr. Dohrn, a young German naturalist, is making @ great aquarium at Naples, the cost of which in a great part comes from his own packet. It is a harm- less amusement, The editorial pages of exchanges are filled with articles on Horace Greeley. An almost affectionate sympathy permeates the announcements of tne great journalist's death. The late Mr. T. Combe, of the Clarendon Untver- sity Press, Oxford, has, it is said, bequeathed to the University his valuable collection of Pre- Raphaelite pictures, said to be worth the large sum of £2),000, Tce Springfleld Republican demands three years’ imprisonment and a fine of $300 each for Susan B, Anthony and her fourteen sisters. The Republican parenthetically promises to do all it can to hasten the day when women may vote. Mr. Ernest Rénan has been as warmly received in Naples, where he now is, as in Rome, The clergy, since his departure from the Holy City, are reported to have celebrated a “triduo” to expiate the profanation o1 his heretical presence there. The Japanese rapidly become cosmopoli‘an in their tastes. The ambassadors now in England have acquired a liking for beer. They were lately taken by Sir Henry Parkes to the brewery of Messrs. Allsopp, at Burton-on-Trent. The chief ambassador having announced his preference for the strongest, he was presented with a butt of it. ‘The Baltimore American has sympathy ior Con- gress if Alexander H. Stephens is elected to the Senate. There was once, it says, a lecturer, who was so “extended” in his remarks that he thought it prudent to tell his audience that he was speaking for posterity. One of the audience mildly, but promptly told him, “he guessed that they would all be along soon to hear him.’’ Mr. Froude laid before the jury of American pub- lic opinion his side of the Anglo-Irish question. Father Burke, the attorney for the defendant, re- piled. Mr. Froude last Saturday night rejoined to the reply. Let the case now go to the jury, which, by the way, will not agree. In the meantime will not Mr. Froude talk to us upon literary subjects? But a few of us have heard him, and the most bril- lant historian of the day must not return to Eng- land till he has a clearer understanding of Ameri- can hospitality and of American love of free speech than he was given at Boston, where it is made to appear that two Irish Cathoiic servants, with mis- guided zeal, refused to walt on the opponent of Father Burke, The rumor that Police Commissioner Henry Smith has definitively resigned his position as President of the Board is without foundation. Un- der a statute of the Legislature the President of the Police Board is ordered to meet the Mayor and Comptroller before December 1, to pass finally upon certain street-cleaning estimates, As Mr, Smith was prevented attending through iliness it was necessary that some one filling his position should be present, hence the resignation ad interim which has been paraded by certain journals in this city. It is believed that Mr. Smith will be able to resume his duties to-morrow, when Commissioner Manierre, the acting President, will resign the presidency to make way for him. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. At the Theatre Comique will be presented & uew sensafion drama, entitled “Africa,” this evening, in which the sdventures of the HeraLp Search Expedition are wrought up for public delectavion. Mr. Neil Warner, an actor who plays leading parts in the minor theatres with commendable ability, has been engaged to act Stanley. Mr. Stanley begins his own course of lectures at Steinway HaN on Tues- day evening. Not to be behind hand Dan Bryant also gives a burlesque lecture on “Stanley and Katula.”” Mr. Sothern fs still filling Wallack’s Theatre by his nightly impersonations of Lord Dundreary, The engagement of the Lydia Thompson bur- lesque troupe at the Olympic ends with this week, after which the Aimée opera boutfe company returns for three weeks, Besides the pieces with which the American public are familiar they promise the operas of “Les Cent Vierges” and “La Princesse de Trébizonde.”’ The new piece of “Leo and Loto: Niblo's ad- mits ofa very wide range of performance, and ts not the less charming by being made in parta grand variety show. Davies, the ventriloquist, in his laughable,performances; Miss Josephine Walby, in her exercises with the skipping rope, and Mr. Wieffenbach, in his remarkable feat of playing on sixteem drums at once, are not out of harmony with the pageantry and give a pecultar interest to the spectacte, The Italian opera company sings “Mignon”! to- night, the three prime donne, Madame Lucca, Miss Kellogg and Senora Sanz, appearing. This 13 the last week of opera at the Academy. Though the season has not been what we can call success- ful, these ladies, by their exceptional excellence, have afforded much pleasure to opera-going people, and Mr. Jamet has retained the approbation ac- corded to his previous efforts. Among the musical events of the week will be tlie second soirée of chamber music by Mr. S. B, Milis and Dr. Damrosch. These musical entertain- ments, which appeal to the thoroughly refined taste, grow in Javor as they become better known. Mrs. Maloney and the dusky Queen of Kongo- couri—as these interesting specimens of female loveliness are to be interpreted—at the Theatre Comique this evening, cannot fail to instruct even Mr. Stanley in African life and manners, and it would not be surprising if Mr. Josh Hart sent. for Dr. Livingstone himself to witness more startling events in the jungles and woods of Africa than he or Stanley ever saw. The ancient civilization of that country has not yet received proper treat- ment from the dramatists, Othello and other crea- tions falling below the true African standard. We look to the King of Manyema as the great repre- sentative of dark-browed royalty, and if we fall to find it in bim we shail indegd be forlorn. NEW YORK - oxen FRANCE. ss, The Public Sifuation Still Unsettled and Paris Agitated. Monarchist Aspiratione—Resignation of a Min- ister—Cabinet Council—Tender of Resig- nation of Thiers’ Remaining Council Colleagues and a Crisis. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Paris, Dec. 1—Evening, } Via Lonpon, Deo, 2—A. M. The condition of public affairs remains critical of change, and nothing has been settled with respect to the relations existing between the President and the National Assembly. PARIS UNBASY AND MONARCHISM CONFIDENT. The situation Is one of the gravest. Paris is uneasy; but the monarchists are frm and confident, PERSONAL MINISTERIAL RESIGNATION. The resignation of M. Lefranc, Minister of the Interior, which was tendered yesterday, imme- diately after the result of the debate in the Assem- bly was declared, has been accepted by the Presl- dent. CABINET COUNCIL. A Cabinet Council was held to-day which lasted three hours, THB CABINET CRISIS COMPLETE. All the Ministers have offered their resignations, but up to the present time M. Thiers refuses to accept them. PRESIDENT ‘MIIERS UNEASY AND ANXIOUS FOR RE- TIREMENT. The President of the Republic ts much ‘affected by the last vote of the Assembly. He says the “only course left for him 1s to resign.’’ GERMANY. Imperial Creation of Prussian Peers—The Ma- terial Which Has Been Ennobled—A Oon- stitutional Crisis Terminated by a Stroke of Concentrated Imperialism. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. —— Berray, Dec. 1, 1872. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor William of Germany has issued a royal decree, by virtue of which he has created twenty-fve new Prussian peers, The gentlemen who are thus ennobled have been taken from the ranks of the government ofiicials, generals of the army and landowners. Constitutional Principic Involved in the Cris Ten years have passed away since an attempt to alter the existing feudal system in the six prov- inces of Prussia was made by the liberal Ministry of Count Schwerin. The progress of ‘the scheme was interrupted by the constitutional struggles provoked by the demand for funds for the army, and was then further delayed by the wars of 1864 and 1866, In 1869 a new project was introduced by Count Eulenburg, but the war of 1870 again inter- vened to stop progress, and it was not till the Au- tumn of 1871 that the second bill was brought in. Lengthy discussions took place in the Lower Chamber; two sessions were necessary to bring about an agreement on the subject between the [ebb di tarts ana the House of Representatives. ‘he compromise which was the result during the last session was carried by 256 to 61 votes. It was sent up to the Peers, and it was hoped that at last they too would agree to a measure which, though introducing the principle of self-government in the provinces, nevertheless made no rude break with the system of administration in actual existence. It abolished the hereditary magistracy and allowed the urban communes to elect their schulze or may- ors and aldermen. It also deprived tne local land- owners of the control they had been accustomed to exercise over the police, and established a new ad- ministration appointed by the governor: of the province. On the other hand, the provincial or county assembly appointed by the King of Prus- sia was retained; but side by side with it was established a committee of six members to hold office for six years, through the man- ner of whose appointment the element of self-government was introduced, and upon whom devolved the preparation of the various schemes and projects to be voted upon by the Provincial Assembly. Considerable modifications were intro- duced into the composition of the Provincial As- sembly itself. Hitherto it has been wholly under the influence of the local proprietors, but by the ew arrangement the other classes of the popula- tion Mia! oe admitted to an appreciable share in titutios its consi proportion to population and taxation, Thus the bill passed the Lowe House with the approval of the Iately rejected by the Upper aS & col misé in which the conserva- and prejudices of a party were defer- re poh many points. All the saine, however, it was a heavy blow dealt at th wers an 8 of the landed proprietors and ‘‘squirear- chy’? of Prussia, and the members of that class in. Prussia will be vastly agitated by the prosent action of the German crown. WEATHER REPORT. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 2—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer is low in the Northwest and over the lakes and thence to the Ohio Valley, with northwesterly to southwesterly winds, occasional snow on the Lower Lakes and increased temperatures; in the Guif and South Atlantic States, partly cloudy weather, southerly winds and increasing temperature; in the Eastern and Middle States, southerly to westerly winds, low pressures, warmer and threatening weather, with snow, hail, sleet and rain, Probabilities, In the Northwest and the Upper Lakes and thence to Missouri and Kentucky northwesterly and southwesterly winds, increasing pressures, colder and cloudy weather, with occasional light snow; in the Gulf and South atlantic States south- erly to westerly winds and low barometer, cloudy weather and occasional rain; on tne Lower Lakes and Ohio, the Middle and Eastern States, southeasterly to southwesterly winds, higher tem- perature, falling barometers and threatening weather, with occasional snow and hail. Warning signals continue at Dulush, Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Haven, Detroit, Toledo and Cleve- land, and are ordered for New York, Cape May and Baltimore. The Signal Office reports that at twenty-five min- utes to five P. M. yesterday it was snowing at Oswego, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, De- troit, Pittsourg, Indianapolis, Toronto and Kings- ton, and raining at Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville and La Crosse. At eleven P. M. it was snowing at Boston, Mohtreal, Burlington, Oswego, Rochester, Buffalo, Breckenridge, Dover, Kingston and Port- land; raining at Washington, Pittsburg ang Omaha and sleeting at Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HaBALD Building :— WAR DEPARTMENT, } 2. 1871, 1872. 17 8:30P. au 30 Wy 6P.M. 31 21 9PM 35 a7 12P.M 37 Average temperature yesterday oageee . & Average temperature for corresponding ¢ TAAL OAT. cosceeesceeeereeeeeeeewens 20 BALD, MONDAY, DECKMBER 2% Jb7y The Mortgage Bank and Loan Bills Passed in the Senate-A Mew Loan Prepared for Issue—Republicanism and Carlism Still ““.Moving in Armed Insurrection, : Mapnip, Dec. 1, 1872. The Spanish Sc2ate has passed the Mortgage Bank and the Loan bi The loan provided for py .the latter bill will prob- ably be issued ou the 15th tns.ant. TREASURY EXPLANATION OF THD NEW FINANCIAL PROJECT. Seflor Gomez, Minister of Finance, stated the provisions of the new Loan bill tothe Cortes in the course of his treasury statement, delivered be~ fore the members in the month of September last, The Minister said:— The government, after explaining the facts of the national accounts and the present budget, which they do with frankness in all the charges Of State, have come to the following conclusions :— First—Convenience of realizing @ loan in con- Solidated debt, i—Necessity of adopting @ special form for payment of the interest of the debt. Third—Means of effecting the loan and of imme- diately utilizing its advantages. » It does not seem opportune to resort to credit at &@ moment when, recognizing the impossibility of paying the whole of the coupons in cash, we pro- pose to pay two-thirds in cash and one-third in consolidated debt, at the price of fifty per cent, tor five years, This dificuity is in part overcome, as we have the concurrence of the first bankin, establishments of Europe. To raise the loan an realize its advantages we have provisionally con- cluded an arrangement with the Bank of Paris and the Netherlands (Banco de Paris y de los Palses-Bajos), Its essential clauses are:—The loan, i the Cortes authorize it, will be realized by public subscription opened in all the markets of Europe. The aforesaid bank will be empowered to open the subscription abroad under the same conditions as the Messrs. Rothschild realized those of last Ppt ‘The govern- ment reserve to themselves the faculty of opening the subscription in Madrid and Lisbon. The issue will be made with the condition of paying for five years two-thirds of the Interest in money and one- third in paper, The same form will be adopted for the payment of the interest of the whole debt of Spain. The nation guarantees the payment of the two-thirds in money by national property, issuing in its representation certificates of value (valores) soenes to. an hypothecating bank (banco hipote- cario).’ The Bank of Paris and of the Netherlands, as an advance on the products ot this loan, will renew its existing loans to the Treasury, amounting to 60,000,000 pesetas ($12,500,000), at twelve per cent er annum, and will moreover pay to the Spanish ‘nance Commissions abroad 20,000, 000f. in Septem- ber and 11,000,000f. in October, at the same rate with which all our obligations maturing up to those two months will be met without dificulty, Republicanism, Federalism and Carlism im Armed Insurrectionary Movemcnt— Crown Victories over the Triplex Vio- lence. Manrtp, Dec. 1, 1872. The Gaceta newspaper of this city publishes the following report of the latest operations of the con- tending forces, rebel insurrectionists and royalists, in the provinces of Spain:— The insurgents approached the city of Malaga on Friday and made an attack on the troops posted in the suburbs, but met with a repulse and were pur- sued several miles, The rebel loss was heavy. A republican band, numbering 100 men, at- tempted to surprise a small force at Anviradiel, but failed, and were driven off. OARLIST DEFEAT. The Carlists had a fight with the troops in the Province of Toledo and were defeated, They lost seven killed, including two leadets, and twenty-three were taken prisoners, FEDERALS. A body of insurgents, calling themselves federals, have also been beaten in Valencia. ENGLAND. The Radical Reformers in Open Air Demon- stration, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, Dec. 2—6 A, M. An orderly meeting was held in Hyde Park yes- terday. Messrs, Odger and Bradlaugh were the principal speakers, A resolution condemning the Public Parks Regu- lations pill was adopted, and a petition drawn up asking for the resignation of Commissioner Ayr- ton, SHIP WRECK. The Steamship Dalmatian Lost—Thirty-Five Persons Perish with the Wreck. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. Lonpon, Dec. 2—6 A. M. The steamship Dalmatian, from Liverpool for the Mediterranean, has been wrecked. + Thirty-five of the passengers and crew were lost. THE NORTH CAROLINA SENATORSHIP, Vance and Merriman Withdraw—Tac- tics of the Contecstants—Vance the Probable Victor in the Fight. RaLgicH, Dec. 1, 1872, The Senatorial muddle 1s still further muddled. Vance addressed a letter to a caucus of his friends "last night, withdrawing from the contest for the sake of unity and harmony in the conservative party. Merriman, following suit, also withdrew, and the caucus adjourned without making a at chennai ee i evry pints nation, To-day the conservatives are at sea, ani all is uncertainty. The conservatives’ caucus meets again at half-past eight o'clock to-morrow morn- ig} but Vance hien gay there will be no nomina- tion and uo Slegtion to-morrow. The prevailing opinion is that the party will all come back to Vance aiter failing to agree on a third man, and fifty .of Vance’s friends say no other man can be nominated. So it would appear that the Vance game is now to fight in caucus against a concentration of forces, and maintain the fight until something turns up. The vote in joint session yesterday stood on first ballot substantially as the Gay before. On the second ballot nine republicans went to Merriman, increasing his vote to thirty- one. Any number of Senatorial candidates are now in the field, and the breaking up yesterday and last night of the conservatives so un- paralleled that I should not wonder if the Senato- rial Congress would be prolonged all the Winter, finally resulting in the election of Vance; for if Vance refuses to hold out the republicans will pre- vent the electioh of any democrat over him. SEVERE FIGHT WITH INDIANS. The Modocs Refuse to Go on the Klam- ath Reservation and Shew Fight— Soldiers and Savages Killed and Wounded. San FRANcIsco, Cal., Dec. 1, 1872. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs of Oregon ordered Superintendent Ordeneal to put the Modoc Indians on the Kiamath Reservation, and by force uf necessary. The Superintendent went in person to the Modocs, but they refused to go. The sub- ject of their removal was then reierred to the military authorities, and on the 28th of November Major kaon, of Company B, First cavairy, with thirty- men, left Fort Kiamath for the camp of the Modocs, near the mouth of Lost River. Reaching there, he surrounded the camp and re- quested an interview with the chief of the Indians, whom he told that the soldiers did not come to fight, but to put them on the reservation: The fodocs refused to comply, and were ordered to lay down their arms. During the parley one Indian raised his gun and fired upon Lieutenant Bouttelte, He missed his aim, wever, and Bouttelle returned the fire, killing the Indian. Instantly firing on both sides, the battle lasting two hours and desperate in character. One soldier was killed and four were wounded, and two citizens, William Nass and —— Hurcher, were killed. Fifteen Modocs were killed, and all the women and mai horses were captured. The Indians retreated to the hills, but returned in the afternoon and recommenced firing, the fight con- tinuing at last accounts, Sixty Modocs were en- d, Both sides are expecting reinforcements, Four chiefs were killed, WORKMEN DISCHARGED, Poston, Deo. 1, 1872. Five hundred workmen were discharged from the Qbarlestown Navy Yard yesterday. —TRIPL SHEET. rr Wasminaron, Dee. 1, 1872. The following is a Synopsis of the past of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue :—Aggregate receipts from all sources, exclusive of the duty upon the capital, circulation and deposits of na- tional banks, were, for the fiscal year ending Jane | 99, 1870, $186,295,868; 1871, $14,011,176; 1872, $131,- 770,047. These dmounts include sums refunded and allowed on drawbacks. The decrease in the aggre- Gate receipts for the last two years is due to legis- lation approved July 14, 1870, which reduced the revenue by the estimated amount of $55,000,000 Per annum, but which did not go into full opera- tion before the ¢lose of the fiscal year 1871. The amounts for drawbacks and sums refunded for taxes illegally assessed and collected for the last three years were as follows:—1870—Drawback, $5,838 55; sum refunded, $196,809 81, 1871—Draw- back, $22,887 97; sum refunded, $617,581 07. 1872— Drawback, $13,704 67; sum refunded, $587,609 19, The total amount of drawbacks allowed by this office prior to June 30, 1872, was $6,526,514 67; and of sums refunded, 4,719,806 50. During the fiscal yeay ended lune 30, 1872, drawbacks were allowed only on general merchandise, under section 171, act of June 30, 1864, limited by the act of March 21, 1868, The total collections irom September 2, 1868, at the on apes of the office, to June 30, 1872, are as First—Articles: and occupations now taxable, tn- cluding penalties :— Spirits. . Tobacco, Fermented iiquors. Banks and banker: Adhesive stamp: $336,138) 546- 200,213,837 52,954,500 Penalti¢s...... Total.. - +++ $757,009,005 Second. jpations now exempt from tax :— Manufactures and production: Gross receipts. Sales... Special taxes not relating to spirit: Tobacco and fermented liquors. 437,647 Income, 1,706,038 rer inschedul eee icles in schedule “. 5 Miscellancous, 250,993, Spirits—The _ rev sources under spirits was as Gallon tax.. Per diem tax on disiille Distillers’ special and bar tal) liquor dealers’ spectal tax, Wholesale liquor dealers’ Pe ing tax on 1 - ereidg entrant aie 11,940,602 he aoanety ol pi nd on July 1, 1872, was, in taxable gallo: 742,118, uantity 8," he entered in bond during the year ended Tice 30, 1872, Was 68,275,745. The A rinse | withdrawn from bond duriag the same lod was 64,914,471. The quantity remaining in bond on June 30, 1872, was 10,103,392. The quantity remaining in bond on July 1, 1871, as per Peapod report (less than the quantity stated in the report for 1871, as shown by corrected reports of collectors received subsequent to the publication of the report of 1871), was 2,242. The total quantity of spirits in the United States not in internal revenue warehouses on May 1, 1872, was 39,672,197 proof gallons. The Commissfoner recommends that section 54, of the act of July 20, 1868, as amended by the act of June 6, 1872, be further amended so as to authorize you in a more explicit manner than at present pro- vided to require export bonds of persons applying to export distilled spirits for the benefit of draw- back, It is desirable that the language on this point should be perfectly clear and unquestionable, inasmuch as the exportation of spirits on which the tax as «6 not )§=6vbeen «paid will be cted — thereb, as well as that affe: y; provided in section 54. Tt is apparent that the re- tention of spirits in the warehouse after the distil- ler has ceased operating extends the time for pay- ment of the tax due, and is, therefore, for his bene- fitonly. In view of this the Commissioner recom- mends that when a distiller has ceased operations the pay of the storekeeper for subsequent services at his distillery warehouse, in consequence of spirits remaining therein, shall be reimbursed to the United States) by tho distiller. The tax received on fermented liquors at $1 @ barrel during the first quarter of the fiscal year ended June 80, 1872, was gait, 202, while the re- ceipts from the same source during the tirst three months of the present fiscal year amounted to $2,684,241, an increase of $466,049. The averaged increase of about $100,000 annnally during the last three fiscal years, as contrasted with the station- ary character or the = receipts during the four years next receding, 8 cer- tainl, gratitying, but the increase during the first three ‘months of the present fiscal year, as above stated, far exceeds that of any corre- sponding period in any other year since the or- ganization of the office. The tax received on fer- mented liquors, at $1 per barrel, was, for the year 1872, $8,009,969, ‘The number of persons engaged in the manufacture of fermented liquors during the year ending June 30, 1872, was 3,431, The Commissioner recommends sections 18 and 22 be so amended as to provide for passages known as “thirds,” The act of March 2, 1867, authorized their use to accommodate brewers west of the Rocky Mountains, who are compelled to send their products from their breweries to the con- sumer or retailer on the backs of mules, this sized package being specially adapted to such a mode of conveyance, ‘I'hirds’ ap- pear to have been omitted in the act of une 6, 1872, through inadvertence, and they should be restored. ‘The amendments made by the act of June 6, 1872, to section 59 of the act of July 20, 1868, a8 amended April 10, 1869, relatin; to the special taxes for selling spirituous and mal liquors and wines were, it has appeared to me, in- tended simply to provide tnat, in addition to the former classes of liquor dealers, there should be two classes, ab a lower special tax, authorized to sell malt liquors, ouly leaving to the former classes of liquor dealers the privilege of selling malt liquors which they previously possessed; also leaving unchanged the exemption from special tax as wholesale dealers extended to brewers who sold fermented liquors of their own production at the brewery in the original packages. _ Nevertheless that intention is not 80 clearly expressea by the language of the section, as amended, as is desirable in so important a provision of law. The total receipts from tobacco for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, were $33,736,170. Compared with the total receipts for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1871, there is an _ increase the total receipts of $157,263, and the entire product of manufactured tobacco reported for the fiscal year ended June 30, 187: exceeds the total product of the preceding fiscal year by 1,431,092 pounds, while the aggregate quantity which reached taxation for the it iscal was on! 815 pounds in excess quantity which reached taxation preceding year. ras the Commissioner ig able to judge, the law providing fora nakerm rate of on ail manufactured to- bacoo, whether chew! ing or smoking, is operating very satisfactorily, ‘Total amount received by sompromises, $236,719; total number of suits pend- ing say 1, 1d42, 1B, | The seizures of property for vioiation of the In- ternal Revenue law during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1872, were as follows:— 151,619 gallons of distilled spirits, valued at. 9,633 barrels of fermented Uquors, valued at. iz pounds of su, vi 254,836 pounds of tebacc 1,131,099 cigars, valued Miscellaneous 'propert; Total value of BelZUres......6....6eccereeeeeeed 3 ‘The report contains statistical information in ad- dition to what is stated above. The Commissioner concludes with an argument in favor of the consolidation of districts, and says:— vin reparing the proposed plan Ihave con- suited freely with the leading oficers now in the service a8 well as with many of those who here- tofore have been prominent in it. “Without an exception it has met their hearty concurrence, They have commended it with a view to its simplicity, concentration of responsi- bility, economy aud the just expectation of the nation that no more otiicers shall be retained than are clearly necessary for the due enforcement of the law. In this rec-* ommendation I have not forgotten that the plan, if accepted by congress will pine rsonal inconvenience to many of the ablest and best citi- zens of the country, now and for many years in the service; and, while I express the tribute of this office to their intelligent, faithful and eficient dis- charge of important duties, I cannot but suppose that their individual loss will be reise sated in the consciousness of a great public gain, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Effects of Mr. Greeley’s Decease—What to Do with the Democratic Vote. BAaLtimore, Md., Dec, 1, 1872, Since the death of Mr. Greeley a number of tele grams have been received in this city inquiring how the electoral college of this State will cast its vote for President, and suggesting unanimity in the vote by electors in the States electing the democratic and liberal tickets. The electors for Maryland will have a meeting to-morrow night and decide. The college is composed of five democrats and one Nieded -Governor Bradford, The im- tance attac! to the vote to be cast on ednesday seems to be the bearing it may have on @ nomination four years hence, Hendrici is proposed in ali telegrams received hi suggested the National Democratic Committee should express its opinion. CLOSING OF THE CANALS, Rocuusrer, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1872, The ice in the canal is very thick and fast closing up the channel A boat, belonging to Mf, Henry L. Fish, was stove in yesterday by floating ice at the Brighton Locks, near this city, and was sunk, ‘The logs is about one thousand dollars, Ice breakers are moving through the canal ty Keep the chaunel oven for boats yet tg arrive, CC THE Drea; PEVENOE REPORT. OBITUARY. = Samuel Marsh. | saaizet Harm, "Ro died at the Astor Mouse om Saturday at the age vf Clghty-seven, in connection with William B. Dodge,Daniel Drew, Benjamio Loder and others, constragtyd the Erte Railway, and for over twenty years he was Vice Prest- dent of the road and three times temporary President. He also aor an active interest tm building thd Delaware, Lackawanna and Westera New Jersey Ceutral and the eae Western Katiroads. In conn Corning, E. 0. Delavan, Horatio Seymour aud others he did much to develop the H the State of yn atthe age of eignty- five took the contract forbullding @ railroad fromn Green Bay to St, Paul. John R. 8. Bond. John R. 8. Bond, a Western journalist of long labor and considerable repute im the professton, died at his residence in Chillicothe, Ohio, yester- day afternoon, He was carried off by am unusually severe attack of chroni¢ laryngitis, Mr, Bond was in the fitty-first year of bis age. He devoted twen- ty-five years of ‘the period to newspaper’ pursui and was editor of the Scioto Gazette at the moment of Its decease. For severat years he held an im- | thin mig business position on the Cincinnatt ’ ing letter, which have been ¢arefully considere: zette, aud Was also connected with severarether newspaper enterprises in Cincinnati. Mary Somervitie, By cable despatch from London, ander date’of yesterday, we learn of the death of Mary Somer- ville, the celebrated’ mathematician anit writer on: astronomy. Mary Somerville was born in Scotland‘some few years before the close of the last century. She was, it may be, seventy-eight years of age. Hor early life was passed’at a school near Musselburgls, in the neighborhood of Edinburgh, where sale was distinguished for her easy, modest and unassuming manners, She was married first to an officer of the Royal English Navy, This gentleman took great pleasure in initiating her into a knowledgeof the mysteries of mathematics and born science, encouraged thereto by the wonderful aptitude whieh she displayed for such pursuits, The hith- erto latent power of her mind was thus‘developed. Her first work, a summary of the “Mécanique Celeste” of Laplace, waa undertaken at the sugges- tion of the late Lord Brougham. It came out, under the title of “Mechanism of the Heavens,” 3 1831. This was succeeded by “The Connection the Physical Sciences,” in 1834, @ work which was vastly praised the reviewers, Next came “Physical Geography,” in 1848, comprising the his- tory of the carth and embracing all those branches: of scientific discovery to which she had directed her attention. Her great depth of knowledge,. combined with her exalted tone of reasoning, ren- der works most acceptable to the Uteratt and scientists. She was elected an honorary member. of the Royal Astronomical Society in the year 1835, and during a lengthened life receivea many other Well-merited acknowledgments of her literary ser- vices. Some few years since the English govern- Bent antes her a pension of £300 a year irom the divi “AN UNHOLY HOAK. Canard About a Jorsey Catholic Clergy- man, A statement having gotten into print to the effect that the Rev. Father Hickey, pastor of St. John’s (Roman Catholic) church, at Orange, N. J.. had failed to the extent of $140,000, that gentiemaa authorizes an unqualified denial of the story, which he pronounces a pure canard, The only apparent foundation for it is the fact that the Father, in his efforts to provide the parish with a handsome edifice, issued considerable paper, which is now onthe Newark money market; but the Father assured a HERALD reporter last evening that his church was perfectiy solvent and amply able to meet all ita liabilities. In addition to the possession of thirty-eight valu- able building lots the Father sees the church's way clear to realize by contributions of the con- gregation about fifty thousand dollars @. ear until the debt on the church is paid om, Besides, his own life is insured for the benefit o& the church to the amount of $180,000. 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Wixstox, Esq., President, Dear Sin:—The Mutual Lite Ins now been in operation well nigh the p human generation, and the exhibit of its affairs, just pub- Ushed, demonstrates, in my opinion, ity ability and urges upon it the duty to revise {ts rates and widen the range Of its usefulnesaby diminishing the price of its assurance. r iranice is to give to persons of slender means, and e: ly the laboring classes, the opportunity to provide a support for those whom sudden death may reduce to helpless dependence. The special objects of its care are indigent widows and orphaus. The prices for their protection are often paid trom hardly earned and scanty means, and should be the lowest cou- sistent with entire safety.” I would respectfully ask your early and serious attention to the subject; and that’ you may have the matter tully before you, [submit herewith a new scale of reduced rates, and certain suggestion with regard to the future practice of the company shoutd they meet your approval and become the basis of our future business, The old net prices, based on four per cen and the Mortuary Rates of the American Tables are re: tained; and the alterations arise trom achange in th tion for ordinary expenses, which is re- forty to ten. y dividends under the new system will, of greatly reduced, and I earpestly recom~- 1. That the reversionary credits for these dividends be given. as hereto‘ote, but that no use be made, of thens il, in every instance, their present cash value on the policy anniversary shall amount to more than one ait- bual premium when excess above one premium may be lable to pay, at the expressed wish of the owner, the avi PePMinat these credits be held to be assessable to mect any deficit that may arise from any circumstance what © PTinat in case of death, the whole of the reversionary to the helrs, as at present. policy holders may “have, the option Thetf policies undisturbed, and pay ther iving, ot eourse, thelr poporugual divi. lends and re mary credits, or to take out poli- dentwith thelt existing credits’ added, and pay the now ‘The true mission of Life A: cent, for money, crt ding to their then present age, provided ey aubject themeeives to. new Medical examination, atthe Company will, by this most desirable plan, have 1 a lat fund to which it rt Umer of trouble, should trouble’ come to ie wha ve YY those ne dio it] wh ould be in, add that this Gompany has pioneered its way to a condition of unrivalled prosperity and copes. tt has had experience, and commun! may properly expect It to use this experience to advance the interests of life assurance, so as to bring within the ra f ity business the poorer classes. 08 to ance money beyond the true price of gee only to be returned at the end of twelve months, is @ hardship to which, L think, they ought not to be ‘sul |. 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