The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1872, Page 3

WASHINGTON —+—_— ‘yhe Credit Mobilier Partisans in Congress. Brooks and Oakes Ames Give McComb a Flat Denial. \WAReged Attempts at Compromise and Pacification. PROTECTION TO IMMIGRANTS. Ohanging the Lights on Sandy Hook Lightship. WASHINGTON, Deo, 15, 1872, Whe Credit Mobilier Seandal—McComb’s Aseertions Concerning Brooks Viger- ously Denied. ' ra ‘The Credit Mobilier excitement bas. reached ite climax, All those implicated go about. with. Gepicted in thelr faces: they congregate conclavea at the Arlington. Yesterday Ames, brother of Oakes Ames, was tele- for w attend a secret conference last evening. Among those present were Oakes Ames, fis brother Oliver, MoMurtrie, ex-Congress- map John B, Alley and four or five other gentlemen supposed to be implicated in the affair, whose names it is not necessary to mention at present. To-night they met again in parior. D at the Arlington. Ail except Oliver Ames, who left to-night for the North, werg pres- ent, The purpose of the conference was to pre- pare an answer to the testimony of McComb. Mr, Alley, Wio Will be examined to-morrow, will meet all the specific charges against him by an absolute denial. He says he never gave Gfty shares of the Credit Mobilier to Mr. James Brooks, nor had the latter any interest in the Credit Mobilier stock. McComb, he says, made a Weliberate misstatement when he asserted befere Whe committee that those shares were given to Mr. i i i SBrtoke In his (it ” ._fAnother part, San tool wit titey tad ned ae redit Mobilier shares states that Oakes Ames will deny that he dictated to McComb the Lst of Congressmen among whom the stock was to be distributed, as McComb has alleged before ‘the Committee. There is not a particle of truth in it, says Oakes Ames; the whole story is Bn invention of McComb. When the Presidential election was in doubt McComb, it is alleged, thought to scare Oakes Ames into settling the claim be had against the latter by implicating Jeading republican members of Congress. For this purpose he had statement published, with the letters of Oakes Ames in his possession. He made wpa liat of the most prominent members and added them to tue correspondence. Failing to realize his object he fs sald to heve been determined at least to vent his enmity against Congressman Brooks, who was instrumental in baving McOomb dis- placed from the Union Pacific Railroad. It appears that two suits were instigated in 1666 against the Union Pacific Railroad—one by Fisk, before Judgo Barnard, in New York, and the other by McComb, in Pennsylvania, This was apparently s preconcerted Movement between Fisk and McComb to black- ‘mail the road, for both swere to the same thing in Bubstance and at the same time. There was afight then between the Boston and New York parties Owning the stock as to who should be the govern- ment director of the road, This was under Presi- Gent Jobnsonu’s administration. Johnson would ot appoint either of the nominees of the two par- ties, but he appointed Mr. James Brooks to the position, At the advent of Presi- dent Grant all the democrats were turned out of the government board, which was made up anew exclusively of republicans. The stockholders, who did not want the road made & political machine, insisted on Mr. Brooks remain- img in as their director, in which position he still veatinues. McComb is very bitter against him for the above reason. But Mr. Brooks will not rest tranquil under this imputation, He will probably bring the matter up to-morrow before the House and ask for an investigation. {t t# understood that McComb offered, through his counsel, a compromise before the investigation commenced, to the effect that if Oakes Ames would settle his claim he would not appear or give adverse testimony against him. This proposition ‘was rejected. The above is the statement of some of the parties implicated, and gives their version of the story as it will be given to the committee, On. the other hand, it is alleged that the: fear of exciting popular indignation is such that it has been determined by ames and his friends that he will make an attempt at pacification by an honest and ingenu- Dus confession that he did sell shares of the profit- able stock to certain Representatives, who paid fim therefor, and who pocketed the fabulous profits. He will seek to conceal the names of those members of Congress who were thus enriched by bis benevolence, that, had he ever needed their votes in return, nothing but a high-toned sense of public duty would have enabled them to refuse. But this will be carrying out the veil of secrecy & little too far, and making it, as the popular phrase goss, “a little too thin.’ ‘This Congress may not have the time in which to overhaul these benevolent railroad operations, but if they don’t the next Congress will. It will be pleasant to learn who has had stock, not only in the Credit Mobilier, but in the Union Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Central Pacific and the Northern Pacific. Politics will be ignored in these researches into the _frater- gal philanthropy ef certain Congressmen fer certain other Congressmen, and disclosures q@ill be made without distinction of party or of volor. Whether McComb is entitled to canoniza- tion can be judged better aiter his business trans- actions with Hd Bae Crigags oat Wis | previous relations with the War Department are fully investigated. As already asserted in these egpatches, all of the accused will get the benefit of ‘@ doubt, whatever may be the suspicion of their guilt, Mr. Conger’s Immigrant Bill=The ‘Amendments to the Old Law=The Lit it Bone aud Sinew To Be Cared For. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, author of the bill for | the better protection of immigrants, will endeavor Geplace it upon its passage on Wednesday next. This bill has been recentiy revised and more than ‘ordinary pains have been taken to perfect the sys- tem, It provides for the organization of a bureau, having all the usual powers of such an organiza- tion, and provides further that the Commissioner of Immigration shall have no pecuniary tuterest, @irectly or indirectly, in any railway, steamsiip or ‘transportation company, nor in the settlement of tracts of wild land, the expenses of the bureau to ‘be aefrayed by tax imposed on the steamship com- panies. The Commissioner of Immigration is au- thorized to contract with any existing State com- mission for the care of immigrants at any particu- far port, for if, for instance, the vastie Garden com- ‘mission is placed in proper hands, there is no dis- position to supersede it as a local tustitution. Courts'of summary jurisdiction to the amount of a fine of $100 are proviced for, Steerage passengers are to be entitled to sixteen superficial square feet wien carried on the main deck, and eighteen when two decks are used and the lower one occupied, Proper ventilation, pre- cautions against carrying combustible and malari- ous substances 4s cargo and the establishment of proper landing depots are included, Express pro- vision is made to prevent the landing of notori- SMA crominaia or paupers, The Jaw is very sluilar NEW Y to te one now should it pass, will be made or national treaties with elt European Powers subjects emigrate in large numbers to the United States. Reorganizsing the Department of the Interior. Department of the Interior, with a view to its re- Tanltatlon ne Wlectoral College. All the lists of the electoral colleges of the sev- oral States for President and Vice President, ex- cepting three, have beem sent to the President of the Senate by mail; though not more than one-third of the entire lists required by law to be delivered to hima by measengers have yet been received. Louis- fana sends lists from two different electoral col- leges. The two houses of Congress, in joint con- vention, will determine which list shall be counted, on the second Wednesday of February, the time of counting all the electeral votes, Colfax’s Course Net Yet Mapped Out. Mr. Colfax has iriformed his friends here that it ig not certain whether he shall vacate the chair of President of the,Senate for the editorial chair of the Tribune, but it is the general opinion that he will, Ifhe should resign by letter, Anthony, of Rhode Island, who was elected Preaident of the Senate pro tempore om Friday morning, will vir- tually be Vice President until noon on the 4th of March next. But éf Oelfax presides again, and takes leave of the Sonate in a speech, as he probably will, then’ 1¢ will be necessary to again elect @ President pro tempore for the remainder Of the session,’ Of course, in case the President of the United States sheuld die during that time, the President of the Senate pro tenypore would be- come his suceessor antl Congress should, by law, delare what officer should act or.should order a new election. Speaker Blaine’s Talking Machine. Speaker Blaine has been applied to for permis- sion to exhibit a talking machine, which a mechan- ical German has brought here, in the hall of the House during the coming revess, The Speaker has it under constderation, and the Glove phonogra- phers are urging this continuation of the debates through the holidays, agit will keep them at work. Chyistiam Endorsement of Senator Pome- ‘ roy. The Rev. General Howard, forgetting how Rev. Dr. Newman injured Senator Harlan’s chances for re-election, has printed a letter vouching for the Christianity, philanthropy and ability of Senator Pomeroy, who is now & candidate for re-election. The Western people don’t fancy these pious Wash- ington endorsements, which promise neither In- dian contracts, post routes nor river and harbor improvements, Rea Lights 2 ndy Rook Lightship. ‘The frequent rand made recently in re- gard to the confusion marinéré experience in thick weather in distinguishing between the lights at the Neversink and the Sandy Hook lightship has induced the Lighthouse Board to order a change in the color of the latter. The notice has been prepared and Will be published in a few days, announcing that the Sandy Hook lightship lights will be changed from white to red. ‘The New Marshal of the Supreme Court, ‘The resignation of R. G, Parsons as Marshal of the United States Supreme Court takes effect to- morrow. He will be succeeded by Mr. John G, Nicolay, of Illinois, who was private secretary un- der President Lincoln. The contest for the office ‘was narrowed down to Nicolay and Mr. D. R. McKee, and on a number of ballots the vote stood three and, with a complimentary vote for ex- Governor Kirk, of Ohio, and Frederick Schiey, of Maryland, The latter was supported by Chief Jus- tice Chase. Nioolay finally received the two scat- tering votes, and was declared the choice of the Bench, Increased Pressure om River Steamboat Botlers. Near the close of the last session of Congress a bill passed the Senate allowing an increased pres- sure of steam to be used on the towing and freight boats on the Mississippi River and its tributaries from 110 to 150 pounds to the equare inch for boil- ers forty-two inches ter, and im the pro- portion for all other boil The bill teached the House too late for final action. Amendments were mooted suspending for one year on ail steamboats the requirements as to registering steam gauges, lock-up safety valves, low water indicators, testing pumps and one or two other appliances of ques- tionable utility. The orginal bill is again before the Senate, strongly recommended py the Secre- tary of the Treasury, either with or without the House amendments. It will undoubtedly become @ law at the present session of Congress, Ex-Mayor Berret’s Appointment as Police Commissioner. The ultra republicans hereabouts are much ex- cited by the President's appointment of ex-Mayor James G. Berret as a Police Commissioner. They charge that Mr. Berret was imprisoned in Fort Dela- ware during the war for positive disloyalty, and his course while manager of the democratic organ in this city displayed his persistent opposition to the republican party. The opposition is so marked that his confirmation by the Senate is doubtful. The Cuban Claims Not Yet Awarded. The United States and Spanish Commission to adjust the claims of American citizens on account of damages sustained in Cuba during the present rebellion have not yet made any awards. About one hundred claims have been filed. There has been difficulty about taking testimony in the | island, but as a remedy it is proposed by our gov- ernment to unite with Spain in appointing a joint commission for that purpose. Heavy Cotton Claims by the Douglas Family. Robert M. and Stephen A. Donglas, sons of the late Senator Douglas, have preparea and will pre- sent to Congress on Monaay a claim for $250,000 for their private cotton and other property taken, used and appropriated in March, 1863, in Missis- sipp!, by a portion of the army of the United States, The Vienna Exposition. The House Committee on Foreign Affafts will on Tuesday report a bill appropriating $100,000 toward defraying the expenses attending the exposition of United States productions at the Vienna World Fair. This amount is regarded as insuMictent tor the purpose, $240,000 having been appropriated for the Paris International Exposition, and, therefore, a motion to amend the bill may be made in the Senate, There is no doubt that two national ships will be detailed to carry American productions to aed oman aA: . vidliuw The Last of the John Brown Raiders. ‘The funeral of Mr. Osborne P. Anderson, colored, the last of the John Brown raiders, took place on Saturday afternoon. BOWIE ENIFE PRACTICE IN TRENTON. TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 15, 1872, W. Phillips and Theodore Weagand were stabbed by a New York rowdy named James Price at this place early this morning. Weagand isin a pre- carions condition, being stabbed in the abdomen. Price has been held to answer in the sum of $1.500 to await the result of the injuries. The fight was the culmination of an old grudge. Each of the par- ties had veen drinking heavily. OLD SOUTH CHURCH. The Old and Historical Edifice to Serve the “Base Uses” of a Mail Depot. Boston, Dec. 15, 1872, A vote has been taken by the Old South Church pew proprietors which resulted 28 to 22 in favor of leasing the building for a Post Office. This vote indicates the final disposition of the matter, although another vote is to be taken Friday next, SERIOUS OHARGE AGAINST A DEPUTY PosT- MASTER, Cincinnati, Dec, 15, 1872, Thomas Sannderson, Deputy Postmaster of Springfield, Ohio, who is charged with robbing money-order letters of $3,000, waived an examina- tion before the United States Commissioner yester- day and was heid in $6,000 bail for trial. MORE DEFAULTING PO8TMASTERS. New ORLEANS, Dec. 15. 1872. Postmaster Barnes and Deputy Postmaster Bracey, of Bolton, Miss., have been arrested, charged with robbing the mails. They failed to. procure bail in $6,000 each, and were sent to prison | Iitod, Reade ahd Weed | that the THE PLUNDERED PUBLIC. A Retiring Alderman “* to Explain.” Tho City a Creditor and the Erie Com- pany the Long-Time Bebtor. ‘ Rises An Untold Chapter of Municipal Corruption. —— A Railrosd That Pays No Rent for the Use of Public Property and Another That Pays No Taxes—Comptroller Green’s ‘Singular Econ- emy’—What He Has Yet te “Collect.” The following motion, introduced by Assistant Alderman Geis, has been made @ ‘special order of the day” for the session of the Board of Assistant Aldermen this afternoon :— Comptroller be and is hereby di- ite stated tee ‘to report to Board at its next ¢ amount now due the city for rent of land, wharves, ure! and the names ‘asalso the amount due Bea ee pers oain ta Ra To pay the igtereat on the PEasOn 0 1H dnizans Re gieb By what authority t New York rt] Erie Rails Gompany ave been to possession of t) block of ground ee eed eecone ad oe Paying rent for ame since . With the idea that there was an African of the largest dimensions in this wood pile, a HERALD re- porter yesterday called on assistant Alderman Geis to get from him, if possible, a detailed state- ment of the wrongs perpetrated ia the city and indicated in his motion which is to come up this afternoon, rent THE SABBATH WORK of the reporter was not witout its reward, as the AERALD will have the opportunity of laying before the public A AN UNTOLD CHAPTBR OF MUNICIPAL FRAUDS. ‘The reporter found Mr. Geis at bis home in East Eighteenth street and alter stating that he had called in reference to the motion to be considered to-day, Mr. Geis invited him into his library and ex- pressed his willingness to give the HERALD apy information in his power. “Ihave called on you, Mr. Geis, in reference to the resolution which I understand you are to move to-day. Ag take it your resolution attacks, in the fret ace, the Department of Docks, and, in the second clause, the Directors of the Erie Railroad Company.” “I don’t want to be understood as entering on A CRUSADE AGAINST THE ERIE RAILROAD DIRECTORS or anybody else. I merely made my motion in the interest of the city.” “Well, Mr. Geis, I am prepared to receive any statement yon have to make in regard to this resolution, In the first place I want to hear all you can tell me about the first clause in your rero- lation, which relates to the Department of Docks.” “Tt doesn’t reflect on the Department of Docks; it reflects on the Comptroller,” “How so?” “In this way, that the Comptroller is responsible for all the arrears of rent, leases, &c., which have not been paid to the city.” “Do you mean to say that the city has been the creditor of the Department ot, Docks or of private individuals in thts connection ?"” * THE COMPTROLLER AND THE CITY'S DEBTORS. “I mean to this, that ifall that has been ne the city of New had been collected, it woul amount to $3,000,000,” “Can you give me any figures to prove the truth of what you Liv “Yes, sir; in May of this moneys were due to the city For year the following Total. .seeeeeeeseee PURE Rot you believe that this moncy is still due the city “T have no reagon to believe to the contrary. I have never seen any return of the money, nor has there been any public recerd of it coming from the Department of Finance. Ido not believe that one dollar of this money has been pala to the city, though I cannot be certain of it.’ “I would be happy to ae some further Sgures from you in relation to this matter.” “You can say on my authority that when I first took hold of this mutter last year the following bp Seay due to the city” (refers to some oficial jocument) :— Due from Henry Smith on lease of pier No. 40 an unpaid balance Buedesevataenecsl FivEs . $50,500 Due trom J. G. Haverland for piers Nos. 83 and Peet Due from William Bradley for piers at the foot of ‘Thirty-seventh and Fourteenth streets. 4,180 Due from George Brown for pier foot ot street. . vee 2,075 Besides these items a large sum of money was then due from the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents. “7 will ask you again, Mr. Geis, has any action be in reference to these maiters since any? “No, sit, Idonot believe there has. A motion Was made some wonths ago in the Common Coun- cil to have THE RETURNS OF ARREARS made, but the only thing we heard was that Messrs. Harcland & Smith had contested the bill ips i by the city against them.” “Might lask over what time these arrears ex- tended?” “From 1859 to 1871. Sir, all these amounts were due to the city last ‘ch, when first that reselu- tion I spoke of was abandoned.” “Now, Mr. Geig, in reference to the latter part of your resolution which reflects on the directors of the Erie Rallroad Company.” “You probably have read the resolution which I introduced, which is under the ‘special order’ for to-morrow?” “4 want the facts which led to that resolution.” “Well, I must go back as far as THE YEAR 1848 to commence my story, At that time lease was entered into by the city with the Erie Railroad Company to lease this block of which we speak for" the annual rent of $1,200, In 1858 this lease was renewed, but the rent was increased to €2,000, Meanwhile, in the year 1850, @ new contract was enterea into by which ite rap lity 9} Ww unided by Duahe, Wash- streets, for twenty years, the lease to come into execution on the Ist of January, 1868, and to conclude 1884, for a consider- ation of five per cent on the present appraised valuation of the property. This lease, as you see, was fae come into execution in January, 1868, but we have oft xes NOT HEARD OF ONE DOLLAR aid to the city since that time.’ Vas the Property appra ed $7? Yes, by ‘bogus’ appraisers, It is valued at Present at $225,000 8 year,” “is that & fair valuation t’”_ “No, sit, 1 do not believe it is, inasmuch as a railroad inan, who a to krow, has told me property ought, at the very least, be valued at hal! a million a year.” “Might I ask your authority's name ?” “He is a man connected with the New Haven Railroad Company to whom I was at one time vier in,’ when he made the remark that the Erie Ratiroad Company were STEALING HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR from the city of New York." “When was this property appraised "? “Very peas T inquired some time ago and Comptroller Green told me that tl ppraisement had been made of $225,000, Now thisis only half the value of the property, according to a railroad man’s estimate; but outside that the Erie Rail- road Company has not paid one cent of rent for that property since the year 1868, According to the appraisement the rent of that property at the rate of five per cent on $226,000 wonid be $11,000 a year in round numbers. Not a dollar of this percentage in a small valuation has been paid to the city, and it has amounted toa big sum, as you Will see by this table:— Interest at five per cent on $226,000 for four years. . $48,000 “Do you mean to say, Mr. Geis, that no rent has been paid for this property for four years since the lease of 1850 came into execution ?' “Yes, sir, The appraisment was made, as Iun- derstand, recently, and the public ought to know who the appraisers were. n I first introduced | the resolution Assistant Alderman Connor sprung from his seat and said that my resolution was a COVERT INSULT TO GENERAL DIX, the Governor elect,and the late President of the Erie Railway Company. He added that since 1868 that | this property of the Erie Railway Coinpany has been transferred, and that a man named McIntosh is at present the responsible party, Lowry was made recently the receiver of the road, I contend that the very fact of @ private individual havin er invalidates the contract 0! sly provides that the municipal authorities must ‘frst be consulted before any change is mede or a receiver appoiuted, and in the next place the city has anyhow been swindled out of nearly fifty thousand dollars since 1868,'’ “Do you betieve that this came about through THE OLD ERIB RING f” “Why, certainly, They all had @ rake, and it seemenew to OFFICE OP THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasmineron, D. C., Dec. 16—1 A. M. Synopsis the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometér ts slowly falling in the Northwest and eastward #0 the Western Lakes, with south- westerly and partly cloudy weather; in Mlinois, Indi ‘and Kentucky, and thence to the Gulf, ni rly to southeasterly winds, cloudy Weather, with Occasional light rain; in the Lower Lakes and Canadian regions southwesterly winds, generally cleat, cold'weather and high pressure; in the Middle and Eastern States northwesterly Winds, fair, moderate weather and high pressures, extending to the South Atlantic States, with light southerly winds, 3 War DEPARTMENT, | Probvaditities, - The pressure will decrease in the Northwest, with partly clovéy and warmer weather, andsouth- erly winds extending over the Upper Lakes and to Missouri and the Lower Ohio Valley; from the Ohio Biver to. the Guifand South Atlantic coasts varia- ble northeasterly and southerly winds, partly cloudy and clearmg weather and lower tempera- ture, with oocastonal light rain; in the Lower Lake region and Canada southerly winds, diminishing Pressures, Warmer and generally clear weather; in the Middle and Eastern States northwesterly winds, veering to southwesterly, and clear weather, . The navigation of the lakes having closed the display of warning signals at the lake ports has been suspended during the Winter. The Weather im 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, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HERALD Building :— N 1872, past tied 33 «8:80 P. M..... 33 . M. 2 36 3 OP. M. a 82 ry ture yesterday; oe 383 verage temperature yesterda: . Average temperature for corre: te ee last year. + 28% IGE ON THE HUDSON, Kinasow N. Y., Dec. 15, 1872, The steamer Norwich, of Cornell's towing line, reached here from New York last evening and re- porte very heavy ice from Poughkeepsie here. Very few boats would be able to force their way through. It ig rumored that the Norwich will en- deavor to take tow down to New York to-morrow , but as the weather has changed and is cold again it is like iy she attempt will ¢ Norwich is known as the ice he Hudéon, and if she cannot force the river may be considered as frozen over. The ice here is from four to six inches thick in the river and the ferryboat makes very ir- regular ‘trips, Busine great delay in the arrival and departure of ty THE DIAMOND ‘‘SALTERS.” Arnold Vehemently Denies “Salting,” and Claims the “Find” a Bona Fide Affair. Lovisvinue, Ky., Dec. 15, 1872, Philip Arnold, whose property was recently attached at the instance of William Lent, on account of the recent California diamond swindle, publishes @ Jong defence in the CouwrlexJournaly in which he denies the charges made against him, saying that he never sold a dollar’s worth of property to Lent, or had any contract with or received any money from Lent at any time. He dentes that the fields were salted by him, but alleges that the discovery ‘was honestly made, and that the transactions in regard to it were all between himself, Slack, Harp- ending and G. D. Roberts, and were all fair, and after full investigation by all parties. He charges Lent with being in a powerful and un- scrupulous ring and guilty of many swindling min- ing transactions privately. Arnold says that he has discovered a silver mine in Kentucky worth $300,000,000 and has bought for $9,000,000 all the property in the locality of the mine, ‘iiiam Wilson, a [ene lawyer in Hardin county, where Arnold resides, Vege through the city yeSterday en route to California, to bring a libel suit in behalf of Arnold apes the parties connected with the charges of swindling made against him. Wilson says he has been prospecting with Arnold and knows he has made the discovery of the silver mine and purchased the property, THE WRECK OF THE GUATEMALA. No News of the Missing Boat. The following despatch to the HERALD has been received from Panama :— PanaMA, Dec. 4, 1872. No news has yet been received here of the missing boat of the wrecked steamship Guatemala, and hopes are entertained of its safety, MUBDEER OF A SHIP CAPTAIN. Bloody Deed on the Deck of the Bark Corea. The following despatch to the HERALD has been received from our correspondent in Peru:— Lima, Nov. 26, 1872, Captain Phinney, of the American bark Corea, was murdered by one of hia sailors on the loth instant while on shore in the port of Molendo, No cause is given for the murder, aon Corea was brought to Callao by the first officer, NEW YORK CITY. -——emow Tae = cat Annie Higgins was remandea from the Essex Market Police Court yesterday to the station house toa er a charge of stealing $300 worth of dia- monds, The complainant's name was Nellie Welshe. ‘The palace ferryboat Garden City, owned by the East River Ferry Company, was placed on the route between James slp, New York and Hunter's Point, on Saturday. She is built on the same model the Southampton, and is valued at $100,000, Coroner Schitmef was yesterday oaltéd to No. 422 East Eleventh street to hold an inquest on the body of Annie Dunphy, @ child one year old, who was drowned by accidentally falling into a boiler of cold water which stood om the floor where de- ceased was at play. The American Geographical Society will hold their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening next, at the hallofthe New York Historical So- ciety. Professor J. T. Rothrock, M. D., now a real- dent of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who explored the region lying between the Fraser River and the Arctic ean, will read avery interesting paper on the resources and the manners and customs of the aie among whom he has spent consider- able time, Mary Sherwood, aged thirty, of 149 Sixth avenue, was fatally burned last night by the explosion of a kerosene tamp at her residence. Officer Laird, of the Ninth precinct, heard the woman’s screams as he was passing the house and hurried to her assistance. The policeman found her writhing on the floor, frantically endeavoring to quench her flami nts, With the assistance of the om- cer the woman was removed from the house, but not until she was burned in a manner that will Es her recovery. corte Melson, of the sam ouse, Was also burned about the face and ORIMINAL PREOOGITY IN JERSEY, About a year ago Patrick Hackett, a youngster from Eighty-third street, New York city, was found guilty of larceny in the Newark (N. J.) Courts, and ‘was sentenced to the Reform School at Jamesburg. Here he remained until a short time since, when he succeeded in escaping, first having robbed one of the two officers of a fine overcoat and the matron of her spare change, which he found in ber trunk, Last night he was again caught in Newark a detective McManus and lodged in the lock-up. le will be returned to the Reform School, His Sriends live in Eigbty-third street, New York, RK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 36, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. THE ASIATIC COOLIE TRADE, ——_+_— English Colonial Patronage of the New Slave Tradic—Struggles for Right and \. {From the Georgetown (Demerara) Colonist, Nov. 26.) J On Friday, 220 Noveriber, the ship Gainsborough, Chariton master, ninety-five days out from Cal- Gutta, arrived of the bar. This vessel is of 973 tons burden, with a crew of thirty men, and is consigned to Messrs. A. W. Perot & Co. She brings 235 men, Binety-three women, twenty-one boys, twelve girls and twelve infants—in all 373 immigrants. There were twenty deaths on the voyage, the last of which occurred on the 14th inst, There also arrived the ship Golden Fleece, Jyfee, master, seventy-nine days trom Calcutta, 1,257 tons burden, with a crew of filty-seven men, and consigned to Messra. Samuel Barber & Co.; ar- rived off the bar on the 22d, She brings 493 immi- grants. There were fifteen deaths on the voyage, On the passage from Calcutta to St. Helena the im) ts complained of their food pene insuf- ficient and commenced to break open the locke and to steal rice, &c. The captain, fearing lest the disturbance should turn into mutiny, placed the ringleaders in irons, and, arriving at St. Helena, represented the matter to the Governor, who caused an addition of fiiteen men to be made to the crew. The surgeon also died on the passage from Calcutta to St. Helena, and his place was filled by a military doctor, Mr. Cotter. When the immigrants arrived here they were porate quiet, and showed no signs of dissatis- ction. “MAN'S INUMANITY TO MAN’? AND ITS CONSE+ QUENCES, 2 [From the Georgetown Colonist, Nov, 27.1 The Demerara Times of the 5th inst. bas an article on the recent disturbances in Essequebo which, although ostensibly fair, is really written in an anti-planter vein, The Zimes says:—"* We must assume that the Guiana government conu- aiders the. coolie population so dangerous that the deadiiest weapons may be used against them,”’ This assumes that the military rifles fred on the turbulent coolies were A oe et ag discharged— fe. by order. If the writer in the Times knew any ting of the subject he would be aware that the Demerara ‘government’ considers the coolie an animal hardly less sacred than the Brahmin bull, and would as soon think of “catting” @ bishop as of interfering with a coolie, The Times goes on:—“It_ may be that the coolies, by their numbers and turbulence, ex- cite @ reasonable fear. It is only those on the spot who can know allthe grounds of their fears, and we have no hesitation in saying that the residents in Esseanebo had very reasonable grounds for fear- ing that they might be subjected to horrors only equalied in India during the mutiny. It ought never to be Songatean that there are in this colony Many of the old Indian mutincers,”’ The writer adds. that ‘neither Indian nor Chinese are naturally turbulent.’? This may be so in their own countries, but the question as regards this colony is what are they here, As to the coolies only one answer can be given, that they are easily led into the commis- sion of all sorts of turbulence and violence by any. body who manages to acquire their confidence. If the truth were known it would be found that a very few individuals are at the bottom of all the disturb- ances that have occurred in this colony, SOUTH SEAS SLAVERY, British Naval Search for “Kidnappers” in the Islands Group—Bishop Patter- son's Murder and Why. Sypney, Australia, Oct. 25, 1872. Her British Majesty’s ship Cossack has returned from a craise among the Sonth Sea Islands, bring- ing as prisoners Captain McLiver and two sailors of the British brig Nukulu, charged with kidnap- ping. McLiver ig said to be tho person who success- fully personated a missionary during his slaving expeditions, thereby disarming the suspicions of the Kanakas and decoying them aboard a supposed missfon ship, when they would not go within miles of a “labor” vessel. If the allegation is true he is responsible for the murder of the Right Rev. Bishop Patteson, as the Wesleyan Mission at Ln has cleared Reon. of the mystery connected wit! that sad event. Their published statement, based on what they call good authority, is to the effect that afew months prior to his fatal visit a slave schooner stopped of Espiritu Sanctu and was boarded by the crew of a uage canoe, to whom it ‘was represented that the Bishop was on board, Five of them were decoyed into the hold and secured, the remainder escaping @ similar fate by swimming ashore. The five men thus stolen were represented by the five pieces of palm iound inserted in the Bishop's ys McLiver 1s also charged with six murders, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN JAMAICA. PP sans AREER Seventeen Tho nd Dollars’ Worth .of Property Barned in Half an Hour. About twelve o’clock on Saturday night fire was discovered in the planing, saw and grist mill of Peterson & Co., on Puntine street, in the village of Jamaica, The alarm, though promptly sounded, was not as promptly responded to by the Fire De- partment, ana the able progress in the planing room, a small wooden structure, before engines got to work, The main building, which was of brick, two stories high, soon caught fire, and the supply of water running short, the build- ing, with its machinery, was totally destroyed, The loss on building and machinery will reach $17,000, upon which there is an insurance of $5,000, The sash and blind manufactory of Mr. Henry Marvin, adjoining the mill, was destroyed by the hook and ladder company, to prevent the further spread of the flames. Mr. Marvin's 10s8 is $1,000 on building and stock, upon which there was no insurance. The fire was undoubtedly the work of fire had made consider. | | | authorities in any direction. an incendiary, as the firemen were in and about | tne boiler room of the mill aiter the fire had been burning some time and could find no signs of fire there, OONFLAGRATION IN OHIO. $125,000 Worth of Property Destroyed= One Fireman Killed and Others In- jared by Falling Walls. TOLEDO, Dec. 15, 1872. Early this morning a fire broke out in the block corner of Lafayette and Ottawa strects, occupied by Warren & Beawell’s coffee and spice mill, which, with the contents, was entirely destroyed. Crossing the street the fire spread to a block of four stores, occupied by Walker, Halstead & Co., tobaccenists, and to the Ohio stove works, which were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $125,000, which is covered by $200,000 insurance, mostly in Eastern companies, The buildings were all owned by Mrs, J. C. Hall, and were insured for $22,000. A fireman named James Welch while attempting to escape irom the third story, by sliding down a line of hose, lost his hold and fell to the ground and was killed. John Koel, another fireman, had an arm broken, and several others received slight bruises by the walls falling on them. FIRE IN SOUTH CAROLINA. if of the Business Portion of the Town of Chesterville Destroyed. CotumBiIA, 8. C., Dec, 15, 1872, At abaut two o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the town of Chesterville, usu- ally called Chester, the seat of Chester county, in this State. Shortly aiter the alarm was given the fire apparatus had reached the spot, but the flames spread with such alarming rapidity that, notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions on the part of the firemen, aided by the citizens, who had turned out im large numbers, one haif the business portion of the town was completely de&troyed. The total loss is estimated at $150,000, about half of which is insured. ‘The origin of the fire is not positively known, but is universally believed to be work of an incendiar; A TERRIFIO EXPLOSION. A Saw Mill Blown to Atoms—Four Men Killed and Three Others Dangerously ‘Wounded, Sr. Lours, Dec, 15, 1872. On Friday morning last the boiler in Waugh’'s saw mill, on Black River, Wayne county, Missourt, exploded with terrific force. The mill was literally blown to atoms. Pieces of the boiler were hurled a great distance. ents were found nearly a quarter of @ mile from the mill, and what was left of the boiler was rolled out flat. Four of the em- ployés were killed outright, and three others gerously wounded, ‘Their names are not yet asc tained. The clogging of the boiler flues with mud is supposed to have been the cause of the ex- plosion. DEATH IN A DITCH. Sr. Lovis, Mo., Dec. 15, 1872, Aditch, thirty feet deep, which was being dug on the premises of the Insane Asylum for the pur- pose of having water pipes laid to that institution, caved in yesterday afternoon, burying five work- men, two of whom, named Patrick Hannon ana Austin Varnum, were taken out dead. The bodies of dames O'Donnell and Nicholas Kraus still remain in the trench and will be taken out to-morrow. James Small was rescued alive and unhurt, havin, been protected by some shovels and boulders a the bottom of the ditcf. ‘The accident was caused by an absence of braces. | the case stands NEW ORLEANS The Prohibition Decision Exe pected To-Day. MR. OGDEN’S PROTEST. The President’s Action Considered Im- perious and Premature. Pinchback Was Not Lientenant Governor and Therefore Ineligible. A RECONSIDERATION ASKED FOR, The Citizens’ Delegation En Route for Washington. Departare of the Citizens’ Delegatiom for Washington. : NEw ORLEANS, La., Dec. 15, 1872, | The citizens’ committee lett for eran aa this evening. Although a drizzling rain bi set in, @ crowd of at least five tho people had collected about the depot ta see them depart. Gloom and sadness was pic+ tured upon every face, and it looked as if the peo- ple were following the corpse of some beloved! citizen, hi As the train moved off, at twenty minutes past five, cheer upon cheer rent the air, whieh was} kept up until tne cars were out of sight. Judg@ John A, Campbell is, Chairman of the committee, Prayers were offered in the churches of alli denominations to-day for the downtrodden people of Louisiana. Bishop Wilmar, of Lou- isiana, will . issue a etter to-morrow announcing that the church of his dio- cese will be open during the whole of next week, to offer prayers for the people of unfortunate Louisiana, The feeling is intense, and the Northern press do not understand the situation. The fight is not for Warmoth, but for the people against corruptions. Warmoth was not a candidate for any office. The Decision of the Supreme C t im the Prohibition Sait Expected To-Day. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 1872. Itis expected that the Supreme Court will to, morrow, ugh Justices Miller or Bradley, an< nounce the opinion of the Court against the ap plication of Governor Warmoth for a writ of prot hibition against Judge Durell, The impressiow now prevails here that the delegation of New Or leans citizens wiil not visit Washington, as th despatch of the Attorney General, in reply to th one for McEnery, is kwown torefect the final determination of the administration, Warmoth’ friends in Washington are said to have given up all hope of success, ATTORNEY GENERAL ODGEN’S LAST APPEAI, The following letter from H. N. Ogden, Attorney, General of Louisiana, has just been made public:—< Wasninato, Dec. 14, 1872. Hon. G. H. Wittiams, Attorney General of th¢ United States—: My Dear Sin—I beg leave to submit through yo to the President the following points :—The action of the Executive in recognizi ng the assemblage Mechanics’ Institute in New Orleans as the Legis lature of Louisiana and P. B. S. Pinchback Governor was certainly premature, Pinchback'! ‘was never Lieutenant Governor of the State, and his term as a Senator expired under the constitu- tion of that State on the 4th day of November. last. The assemblage at Mechanics’ Institute was notoriously returned and seated by a deputx United States Marshal under the order of an infe- rior formal Court. This fact can be ascertained by reference to the papers filed by me tu the Suprema Court of the United States in the matter of ex parte Warmoth applying for a writ of prohibition, These arecircumstances of which the government must. ~take notice. Without discussing! who was or who was not elected I respectfully suggest that before the Presi- dent undertook to settle the controversy and to pledge the great power of his oftice'to either side inuch deliberation aud a full hearing should have been accorded. The election was the most quiet and orderly ever held in the State, not @ symptom of riotous disposition, not even @ personal quarrel or encounter con- nected with politics, was reported by the police The machinery of the State government was in perfect order after the election and entirely competent to manage itsowm affairs, and with Courts ol justice ready to protec the rights of every citizen. By asudden action of an inferior federal Court, which was abso- lutely coram non judice, the State gov- ernment is completely overset, the State House seized and a government enacted Whose Officers the people have never chosen, It cannot, sir, have escaped your attention that im jursuing this course a federal Court has been tna< Bred, by the assistance of tie army of the United States, to subvert the e government aud to construct one in its place; for it was well know that the Board of Returning OfMicers, recognized by Judge Durell, has not acted upon the sworn re- turns of the regular election officers of the State, from which alone they could have, under the law, declared the result, but profess to have been guide by the returns of United States inspectors, office: s entirely unknown to the laws of Louisiana, so that plainly thus :—A federal Judge, absolutely without jurisdiction, seizes a state House and seats a Legislature, the members of which have no other claim to their seats than the finding of a returning board, whose sole authority is the recognition of this usurping federal Court, and which professes to act solely upon the state- ment or returns made by certain United State: officers who are entirely unknown to the laws o! Louisiana, These are facts known now by every intelligent man in this couniry, but, of course, not had from the Chief Magistrate. The Legislature thus assem- bled is rec ed by the Executive of this great nation, and you telegraph upon his authority to our people commanding them to submit, If they were an uncivilized people, accustomed to the shackles of a despotism, that submission which ‘ou command would be an casy matter; but, sir, ey are Americans, like yourself, born and raises under the free institutions of this great country. They are suffering the most grievous wrong that could be done a people, and are conscious that their government has acted without proper delib- eration and upon an ex parte showing of the case. Can you blame them for not yielding tamely to this obpressing and for muking another appeal, which I now do in their name to tLe President, for @n investigation of this matter? I am not pre- senting to you the case of Henry C. Warmotn or that of Willtum Pitt Keliogg in this appeal; they are both strangers to us, and our people have sui- fered long and patiently under the mismanagement of such men, as is known to the whole country, lam speaking in the name and as the representa- Live of the best people of Louisiana, who are firmly convinced that In the recent election they carried most of the important officea of their State, and that if effect shail be given to the real popular ver- dict of November the government will _ into ey the hands of honest and capable men. feel that in this they have a right to expect the sympa- ey of the federal Executive, who has recently re- ceived from the people of his country such dis- tinguished evidence of their confidence. ie course of the Executive in this matter is, I fear, calculated to alienate the affections of the best people and weaken their confidence in the protection of the government and their love of our institutions. am rsuaded that, if the government should at this juncture pursue a wise, Magnanimous and impartial course, let the resuit be what it may, the confidence and affeoMion of the South would be promptly restored in the national government aud all trouble in that direction jor- ever settled, ‘The action heretofore taken can be cancelled of modified so as to give effect to these views, and ina very short time tne true case can be placed before the government, as # committee irom Louisiana is now on its way to Wa anes bearing Il the facts to the President, and this commmittee 48, according to my understandis » BOD-partisan. urs, very respectfully, * Oa EN, ‘Attorney General of Louisiana, THE INDIAN WAR, General Crook Vigorously Pursal: Apaches on the War th); dred Redskins Killed in Arizona. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15, 1872, ‘The latost advices from Prescott, Arizona, state that General Crook is prosecuting the campaign vigorously against the hostile Apaches in the northern part of the Territory. Five expeditiona are operating in the mountains east of the River - Task tga biel Af arin: ie camp: have teen killed and many wounded. a res and provisions, ares ints were ed. General Cro: follow the Indians constantly and hunt then down in every direction, 1 N.