The New York Herald Newspaper, December 31, 1872, Page 3

FiNGTO WAS Beeretary Boutwell Not to Resign Until March. A New Phase of the Credit Mobilier Affair. Combined Efforts to Concoct a Nice Little Story for the Marines. THE GOAT ISLAND JOB AGAIN. Gloom in the Honse of Blair-—Frank’s Fading Hopes of Return to the Senate. Contemplated Change in the Whiskey Regulations. Army and Navy Cadets—Proposed Increase of the Medical Army Staff—Powell’s Paint- ing of Perry’s Victory—Nevada’s Electoral Vote in Danger. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 80, 1872, ‘Mie. Boutwell Not to Kesign Until March 4—The Massachusetts Senator- ship. Secretary Boutwell does not intend to resign ‘antil March 4, when he, along with the whole Cabinet, will tender his resignation to the President. In the meantime Mr. Boutwell says ‘he will pursue the even tenor of his way as if there ‘was no such thing a8 a prospective Senatorial lection in Massachusetts. There is, however, Mttle doubt here that he will be the successor of ‘the Vice President elect, as Dawes’ chances are said to look very slim. Mr. Boutwell observes a modest reticence on the subject, although he does mot conceal that he would be only too glad to be relieved from his present exacting duties by elec- tion to the Senate, & New Departure by the Credit Mobi- Mers—A Plain Unvarnisned Tale to be Told to the Marines. Letters have been received here to-day an- @ouncing a complete change in the Crédit Mobilier éavestigation. Instead of endeavoring to prevent a@ @isclosure of the damaging facts which are sure 0 be made known, the parties implicated will e@bange front and demand en opportunity to tell their little stories, which have meanwhile been carefully concocted and made to tally with each ether. The letters which Dawes, Garfield and other recipients of the enriching stock wrote ast Summer denying all knowledge or it will be kept out of sight, and there will be a general confession in the style ofan old-fashioned Methodist love feast. When this has gone abroad the committee will begin short sessions with open doors, and witnesses will be examined, who will each occupy a day or two, ‘out who will know nothing, or, rathér, tell nothing @ot already told and known. All this time the end Of the session will be drawing nearer and nearer, and the whole thing will fizzle out ingloriously, #The next Congress cannot investigate the conduct Of Ames, a8 he will not be a member thereof; in- @eed@, he has in reserve the plea that he has done mothing during the present Congress that is wrong, and that the transactions of himself and other members of past Congresses cannot now be over- fanled.g@ Not only will the Crédit Mobilier ‘tee Owners come back into the House in an eaggressive spirit, “pride in their port, defiance in their eye,” but they will say to those Representa- tives who own stock in national banks, “Stand by Qs, or we will aid in destroying you.” It is well &nown that scores of Congressmen are the fortu- mate holders of stock in national banks, which yields them enormous rates of interest, thanks to defective legislation, by which it is easy for a bank to extort usurious interest from borrowers. This 4s well known to the Crédit Mobilier men, who @ean that the national bank men shall help them Dut of their scrape. Should the ayes and noes be called it will be curious to watch the votes of those who thus have a common cause to defend. Constermation in the Blair Family— Schurz Opposing Frank’s Return to the Senate. ‘The Blair family are in great sorrow. The holl- fay season has brought with it lamentations, and Me Blairs will not be comforted, Tho report has reached Silver Spring that Senator Schury% Is op- - posed to Frank Blair’s re-election to the United States Senate, his term expiring on the 3d of March next, All day telegrams have sped in every lrection to the friends of Schurz to know why this position on the part of a confederate in the iberal movement. Schura’s address is not known, ind so the Blairs were compelied to retire to-night vith the cold comfort that 1t was because Frank is ‘@emocrat, and Car! wants a republican, probably ‘nkelnburg, as his colleague, until 1875, The Goat Island Job 5 to be revivea—that is, the Pacific Railroad 1ob- yists want the subject referred to a committee, in he hope that it will be favorably reported to the enate. Senator Stewart, the poor Congressman’: 4 fend, is a disinterested Pacific sloper, an: ‘hether the Military Committee or the Pacifi allroad Committee get it he does not care. It a Me Senate calendar, and, speaking after t. ener of Calhoun, he says sometning must be me, and he don’t care what, Mr. Wheeler and the Speakership. Mr. Wheeler, of New York, has again been heard om. He would not only not be Speaker of the ouse if every member voted for him, but he wants | aine re-elected. Blaine has a remarkable faculty t making engagements and promises which are Ways remembered, &c. However, Mr. Wheeler satisfet with the Chairmanship of the Pacific allroad Committee. The President's State Dinners. The President will give his first State dinner on % e@ 8th of January, the guests being members of the ‘binet and their wives, Vice President and Mrs, Wax, General and Mrs. Sherman and Admiral a Mrs, Porter. State dinners will be given at @ White House every alternate Thursday during © season. mbarrassing Increase of Army and Navy Cadets—Proposed Reduction of the Number of Officers. (he House Committee on Appropriations will »et to-morrow to hear the Secretaries of War and frase of appointments to cadetships in West int and Annapolis, as the filty new Congres- nal Gstricts will add fifty cadets to each of the © colleges. While the army and navy remain their present peace footing such an merease of cers is unwarranted and positively burden- ne. Bven at present more officers are turned » in Ww Point and Annapolis than can conveniently placed in the two branches of the vice. This is particularly the case with regard the navy. The Appropriations Commtitee * Proposes to reduce the increased number og ‘ets by aome means which will net deprive \arcesmen of their present privilege. The See- ary Of War is opposed to any reduction, saying temploymont could be found in the army for additional Aity omcers. He says more officers réguired in the army than in the Davy, and tthe-present number of omicers in the former Froportionately smatier than in the tter. The retary of the Navy is in favor of reduction, of lengi‘Vening the perioa of Stuy from four the Navy with regard to the increase of the next | syise by fifty members and the consequent in- | admitted into the Naval Academy, they would after five years of preparatory study still be very young for the position of commissioned officers. Five Members of the Appropriations Committee» Mesers. Garfield, Hale, Sargent, Margha” ‘gnq Patmer—will be im attendance %o.morrow. Of these Messrs. Hale and Garfizid are known to be in favor of a reduction. " Army Surgeens Asking for Reinforce- ments For Thete Corps—More Doctors Than Soldier, The army surgeons are urging an increase of their corpse, and they invite attention of Con- gressmen to the fact that 150 civilian doctors have tobe employed to care for the sick at the hospitals of the different forts and posts. It is also true, however, that there are more surgeons in this city than enlisted men on duty, and that 1! some of them could be sent from their cosy quar- ters to attend to the post hospitals on the fron- tiers, there would not be such a number of civilian doctors needed. The medical “ring” here, of the mavy a8 well as the army, should be looked into and razeed at once. Powell’s Picture of Perry’s Victory. Powell, the artist, has arrived here, with his palette, paints and brushes, anxious to complete his painting of Perry’s victory, so Moran’s great picture of the canyon of the Yellowstone, for which Congress paid $10,000 last Summer, was taken down down from the blank space at the hack ofthe northeast grand staircase, Senate wing, and Powell’s canvas is to be unrolled in its place. It remains to be seen whether Powell will persuade Congress to increase the sum of $25,000 voted for this picture, the greater portion of which he has already received. Nevada’s Electoral Vote in Danger. Mr. J. H. Mills, of Nevada, arrived here to-day ‘With the Electoral vote of that State for Grant and Wilson. The envelope was addressed to Vice Presl- dent Colfax, but that fuactionary was not here to receive it. The State Department, in the person of the Secretary, was unwell, and not able to relieve Mr. Mills of his burden. To-morrow ia the last day of grace, and unle sthe State Department is able to attend to this duty Nevada will have no voice in the Electoral College. Mr, Colfax has shown but little desire to receive the envelopes which contain his political and official death warrant, Contemplated C! in the Whiskey Regulations. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue contem- plates a change in the whiskey regulations on the 1st of January, under which alteration an allow- ance of one fermenting period, but in no case more than forty-eight hours, will be made upon the opening of additional tubs before those additional tubs are included in arriving at the producing capacity. Heretofore additional tubs have been included from the moment they were opened. This new ruling will be prospective from the Ist of January, but in no case will be retroactive, or, in other words, will relate entirely and only to the products of January and future periods. No Legacy ox Succession Tax—S’cat!? In case of a devise of property left in trust to provide for the support of domestic animals the Commissioner of Internal Revenue decides that there is ne legacy orsuccession tax. This question ‘was raised on the will of a lady in Boston who left property for the maintenance of a cat. Ingredients in Native Wines, The new circular of the Internal Revenue De- partment about native sparkling wines, the sub- stance of which was telegraphed hence last night, states that any ingredient may be added to those wines which is used in foreign countries in the production of what is accepted as pure wines, Purchase of Land for a Government Building. The Secretary of the Treasury has accepted the proposition of Messrs. Edward Cadwalader and Samuel Poorman to eell the property at the corner of Fourth and L streets, in Sacramento, Cal., for the sum of $30,000. A new government building is to be erected on this property, which fronts 180 feet on L street and 160 feet on Fourth street. District Attorney Bliss’ Commission, The commission of George Bliss, Sr. Unit States Attorney for the Southern district of New York was forwarded to hina. to-day by the Attorney General; also the commiasion of William Patrick as United States Attorney for the Eastern district of Missouri. The Condition of the Banke. The Comptroller of the Currency has called for Teports of the condition of the national banks at the close of business on Friday last, the 27th inst. A New National Bank. The Northfield National Bank, of Northfleldy Minn., bas been organized, with a capital of $50,000, Treasury Balances. The sollowing were the balances at the close of business to-cay at the Treasury Department:— Including coin certifi at Special deposit of legal tenders for re- demption of certificates of deposit..... RUSSIA. ore A Foreign Frince of Royal Blood In. dicted for Forgery—His Crime and Lincage—Conviction and Sentence. {From the Exchange Gazette, of St. Petersburg, Dee. 6.) A few days since the public of St. Petersburg saw standing before the bar of a St. Petersburg Court of Justice Prince Michael Lusignan, a descendant of the former Kings of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenis, The family of the Lusignans is one o1 the ejest of royal origin, and goes back to the t*rvisth century. It is, therefore, not to be wondered at that when ‘wsionan appeared before the Court to > ‘ere audience had 25,145,000 | penury, and contema.— | his samily in the person of his oniy sv... THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF THIS OLD MAN | 18 so full of interest that we cannot refrain from | giving a few of its main incidents, Prince Louis | Lusignan was born in Cyprus, April 19, 1808, and re- ceived from his father an inheritange which | amounted to about six million pounds, mostly in | money, This fortune had been placed for safe keeping in the hands of bis uncle on the mother’s side, Athanasius, a eekeeen of Nicomedia. On Easter Sunday, 1821, Athanasius was arrested by the Turkish Governor, and, together with the Pa- triarch of Constantinople, put to death. The entire fortune of Prince Louis was confiscated and he himself barely escaped with his life, owing to the exertions of the Spanish Minister in Constantino- ple and the good offices of some members of the British Bible Society then in Turkey. After wan- dering about for nearly a year Prince Lusignan went to Athens and entered the Greek service. In the year 1823 he came to St, Petersburg and otfered his services to the Russian government on the following conditions:— Firs —To receive no pay nor mark of distinction for hie ears Second.—Not to become a Russian subject. The conditions were accepted, and Prince Lusignan was assigned to service in one of the regiments with the rank of Captain. Since enter- ing service the Prince took part in Nearly ever; campaign made by the Russian army. By degrees hi ans of living became weli nigh exhausted, and his efforts for recovering his lost fortune from | the Turkish government met with continual ob- | stacles tila few weeks before the war between | Frauce and Gert | one of his ministers, offered to use all his influ- | ence to recover the property of Lusignan on con- | dition of receiving 10,000, francs for his ser- vices in case of success. Prince Lusignan on this occasion received an autograph letter from Na- poleon, in which the above-mentioned conaitions | arereferred to. The war with Prussia, however, | gave the hero of Sedan something else te think Of begides saving the property of the Lusignans, Failing fortune and money embarrassments | By epee his son to commit the crime of forgery. le has been found ey and condemned to exile in the Urat eg The decision of the Court will be submitted to His Majesty the Czar, and some mitigation of the punis!ment is hoped for, RAILROAD ORASH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, ConcorD, Dec. 30, 1872, The half-past three P. M. train from Montreal’ xan into the ap train, which was awaiting its ar- in rival here in the raliroad yard. The upright rod on & switch broke, being full of frost, when the en- y, when Napoleon IIL, through | b + Seeretary Boutwell’s Present Position. WILL THE SYNDICATE BE RENEWED? Senator Sherman to Have Mr. Cameron's Chair- manship of the Foreign Relations Commit- tee to Make Room for Mr, Boutwell to Head the Committee on Finance. To Taw EpiTon oF THE HERALD:— “Ll am very decidedly of the opinion, though I do not wish to be quoted as saying it, that Mr. Secretary Boutwell has pretty sharply violated the law in his operations with the Syndicate.” ‘Thus said a distinguished chairman of one of the most important House committees of the present Congress, At will be remembered that an effort was made during the last session to legalize the Syndicate Job, and that it utterly failed. A resolution giving it a thin coat of whitewash was, indeed, reported from the Ways and Means Committee and Tushed through the House under the pre- vious question gag rule, but the Senate re- fased to touch jt, In short, the scheme was barely tolerated. It was not in any sense legal- ized or even endorsed. It was utterly repudiated and condemned by the people and press, and barely tolerared by the Secretary’s political friends in the lower House of Congress, The Sen- ate has not thus far investigated it, SECRETARY BOUTWELL'S PRESENT POSITION. In view of these well known facts Mr. Boutwell’s present position becomes a matter of great public interest. Is he preparing to repeat the Syndicate operation? If the scheme was such a great benefit tothe country ashe pretends, why is the repe- tition so long delayed ? What is the real cause of the delay? Why has the funding of the new loan by the Syndicate plan been suspended for one whole year if the plan itself was honcet and fair all round ? Fourteen months ago Secretary Boutwell was about the worst frightened man to be found in or about the national capital. The HERALD had given his Syndicate scheme a thorough exposure; repub- lican members of Congress talked about impeach- ment for violations of law, though they knew party rules would not permit such an act of justice. At all events the Syndicate transactions were abruptly terminated and the corps of Treasury oflcials stationed in London was revalled, Though the Syndicate managers were perfectly willing to keep up the profitable operation of ex- changing their certiticates of deposits of gold in banks where no such amounts of coin existed for interest-bearing bonds, Mr. Boutwell was too badly frightened to proiong the profitable pastime. It was thought best to hold up until public opinion could have time to cool off, and until the Presiden- tial election was over with. The ring managers were temporarily shut out of the national Treasury, and an attempt was made to pacify an outraged People. A resolution giving the job. thin coat of whitewash was rushed through the lower House of Congress, but the Senate refused to sanction it in any way, either directly or indirectly; and there the matter now stands. OBSTACLES 10 A RENEWAL. Though the Presidential election is over and past, and the House of Representatives has given Mr. id Boutwell’s Syndicate scheme @ thin cout of white wash, there are ed several obstacles in the way of its renewal, Public opinion has not yet cooled down vo the proper rT where such a job would be sate. e Senate Finance Committee has not yet been heard upon the subject, and investigating committees abound, But the principal obstacle is nothing more or less than the Massachusetts Senatorial election. Secretary Boutwell is @ candidate for the Senate, and does not dare to start another Syndicate job until after the Senatorial election, His Sriends expect to caucus him into the position of chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in of 0x Sherman, who js compen- With the chaitmanship af de Pokey wale tions Committee, that Senator Cameron says he does not care to keep. For these and other reasons to be given hereafter the proposed job is delayed; but meantime the parties interested are engaged io manipulatin; yenic opinion, or, rather, “pop lartzing” the old Syndicate, by sending oul man factured “news items” and in a hundred differe ways known to experienced and weil paid lobby ists, Here is one of their items:— Secretary Boutwell, in his statement before the Ways and Means Committee, gave a history of the arrange: made in this country ind Karope to ne- fellate the funded loan, He also stated in reieren his future plans that he had a verbal proposition Jay Cooke & Co. to negotiate the loan in precisely t same manner as they negotiated the other. They h sito inormed him that the Rothschilds had ‘agreed to understood that they had an idea that when they have disposed of the five per, ceut bonds (hey cam ea and dispose of four and one-third per cents in the sane way, He thought the government had already lost by the delay in negotiating the new bonds, and, in his juds- ment, it would be better to dispose of the remaining five per cént bonds now than to wait, WHAT IT I8 FOR. The substance of the above was given out at the Treasury Department immediately after Assistant Secretary Richardson's revurn from Europe, nearly @ year ago, and it has been semi-officially promui- gated, with a tolerable degree or regularity, nearly every month since. Its object is humbug the eople iuto the belief that the Syndicate uh job of 1871 was @ fair and honest business transac- tion, beneficial alike to the taxpayer and bi holder, though rather hard on the poor syndlexz@ brokers, who were compelled td perform the la- borious and responsible task of haning one set of bonds over their counter ap« taxing back another for the mere gon; commission, 4 short of the whole story is that Mr. Proposal to renew the Syndicate looks ly like a job. By the plan proposed it will actually cost more to convert sixes into the new fives than we shall save in interest in four years; besides, it creates a yes financial crushing machine, to be worked at the pleasure of the ring, quite regardless of the business interests of the country, Itis @ mistake to think of engaging in any great fil ial transactions at this time, when “easiness 18 felt as to the future on the whe Rank of England open to puuue vou; lowest responsible bidder or piauess. ‘There are several thousand responsible bankers in the United States. Let us have, therefore, “a competitive examination,” and ascertain who will transact the business the best and cheapest. At all events, no repetition of @ mere pretence of | phd Md open to the public will be tolerated. It_will remembered that Secretary Boutwell, previous to his arrangement with the Syndicate, offered the loan to bankers in general, or to a large number, at one-quarter of one cent commission; but before many bonds we: whole business exclusive! friends, the Syndicate be ‘ators ‘tas that are understood to have netted them a commission o1 one and one-half per cent, besides incidental pro- fits, or anout six times more than he offered when he threw the business open to tel competition. It will also be remembered that Secretary Bout- ly into iA hands of his | well advertised his first offer of one-quarter of one | cent commission far and wide; but that the Syndi- | | cate arrangement, about six times better for the | Operators, was conducted with the most profound | secrecy, | lished Ta the Heravp that the people had any idea | of their nature. In fact, the nature and extent of | the Syndicate encroachmeat upon the taxpayers’ treasury would be to this day a profound secret | had it not been for the HERALD's Capiorations of | . | the Fifteenth street financial labyrinth. As we are to have a new Finance Minister some | nine weeks hence, whether Mr. Boutwell goes to the Senate or not, it would seem to be the part of wisdom for the pregent Secretary to let his succes- 8 Martti the business, Let the job be post- poued, x. CONFLAGRATION IN OSWEGO. Oswreo, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1872. A fire broke ont in the block occupied by Ham, ton, Coe & Co., booksellers, on the east side, at two e'clock this morning, and destroyed the block, with nearly all its contents, including the jeweir store of Hy W. Paal and the dru sore a HO. Whitney. The loss on stock Is $30,000; insurance ue The loss on building is $13,000; insurance FIBE IN FULTON, WN, Y. FuLton, Dec. 30, 1872, The knitting factory of H. 8. Conde & Son was burned this afternoon, about five o'clock, causing @ total loss. The fire originated in the picker. ‘The NE syNDICATE | dig | iz of egtie three million dollars | re disposed of he put the | and it was not until the terms were pub- | NEW ‘YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1872—TRIPLE | THE AMUSEMENTS. Edwin Booth as “Richard ItI.” ‘The production of “Richard III’ at Booth’s The- atre last night, with Mr. Edwin Booth in the title part, was the occasion of a large gathering of the tragedian’s friends. We have not seen a beter house at any of the theatres this season, which is saying much, for some of them have been very great, both in numbers and quality. The first thing to be said of the performance, though the least gracious, is that Richard cannot be numbered among Mr. Booth’s greatest parts, great as it is in comperigon with what it would be in the bande of any Other actor. ‘This is especially true of the first act; but the thorough lack of support is perhaps as Much the cause of this apparent weakuess as his own lack of sympathy with the bratal instincts of the violent and deformed creature the English once called King. Never was actor so feebly sup- ported, and with a sort of poetic jus- tice the feebleness of the others returned upon him to mar his work. The Lady Anne of Ellen Morant was not simply bad—it was so bad that that there was nothing to the part except words. Nor was Miss Bella Pateman’s Queen Elizabeth sufficiently dignified to lift Mr. Booth out of his extreme necessity of playing to automata. The Duchess of Miss Mary Wella waa better than either of the others—so much better, indeed, that had those been equal to this there would be littie in. ‘The other parta were fairly Messrs. 1s nh} ne, jangs, Becks, Fenno and the rest playing their indefinite noblemen with sufficient Roility to satisly the necessities of the Sengeeys of Mr. Booth's ole, we do not wish to ak ntation this season of a It was full of pecul nished and concise, His elocution was never at fault, and his stage business was equally faultless, Af- ter the first act he sometimes rose to tho highest exhibitions of passion, and we 4o not ‘think we should have been impelied to find fault with his acting in the early scenes if it had not becn for the unfortunate character of the cast. His love- making was made to a woman the like of whom no man ever courted before, and whom no murdering king would care to woo, even were he intent on crimes and schemes such as those of this hunch- backed Englishman. It is certainly a grave error to 80 cast a piece, and if it were necessary to criti- cise Mr. Booth’s acting, which is always great enough to provoke the Highest encomiums for his many fine points, we should do it Independently of every other part of the picture. At the matinee, on Saturday, Mr. Booth plays Don Cwsar de Bazan and Richard every evening during the week. There can be no doubt that he will continue to fill the house while he remains at his own theatre, for the fine touch of his genius is such that people will see him over and over again. liar art, clear, Bowery Theatre—The “Swamp Angels.” Last evening the thrilling four-act drama of the “Swamp Angeis,” evolved principally from the let- ters of the daring HERALD Special Commissioner, Mr. A. B. Henderson, and the inner consciousness of Mr. Charles Foster, a well-known playwright, was reproduced at the Bowery Theatre toa very large and highly excited audience. The drama is generally descriptive of the adventures hair- breadth escapes and daring doings of the HERALD Commissioner among the lawless Lowery gang of the swamps of North Carolina, The drama is well written, and the asloges is Ste perce humor- ous character throughout. The shooting of the murderer who slew old Pop Strong, in the tirst act, is all that the heart of the Bewery could desire in the way of speedy justice, and the advent of the HrraLp Commissioner at Low Neck station 1s intensely graphic. The Boston Damas is very humorous and very and the ited lady who delineates the eccentric Yankee girl from Cape Ann or Penn Yan—it was difficult to discover which—were both artists in their way. The author of the play, Mr. Foster, played the part of okt Allan Lowery ana did tt justice in évery detall, And Henry Berry Lowery (Mr. W. L. Street), the chief of the outlaws, was as bold and revengeful looking a ruf- San in appearance as ever strode the Bowery boards. ‘The beauty of.this drama is that for the Tong length of four acte—the second act closed at hali-past ten o’ciock—it always appeals to the higher emotions of mankind and womankind., Vice is either clubbed on the back of the neck or shot throagh the brain throughout, and in almost every instance virtue shrieks triumphantly and discovers its lost kindred in a series of tableaux, This is as it should be. The HeraLp, the mighty journal of civiligation and truth, was enthusiastically cheered in every act, beginning with the second, and full and overflowing houses are certainiy guaranteed to this thrilling drama, CONDITION OF THE SOUTH. - How Southern People Feel Concerning the Louisiana and Alabama Trou- neem Water VALLEY, Miss., Dec, 20, 1872. To THE Epiror OF THE UeERALD:— For the article “The Treatment of the South— Are the Southern People to Have Peace ?’ please accept the thanks of every law-abiding citizen of the country. The writer of it sees through the same spectacies that every honest man of the South does, With nothing to lose and all to gain, the defeated rascals, with the hope of federal in- terference, “pitch in* to get the places of the honest and dishonest ciected. Between the two scramblings the people suffer, The New York ‘journal of civilization” (?) made bold some time since 10 say that the “devilment in the South kicked up since the war was in those | States where the Southern whites had the suprem- acy.”’ While it is patent to the whole worid that they have had less power in South Carolina, Ar- kansas and Louisiana, in those very States has there been most disorder. In Qvorgia, Tennessee, Virginia, Texas and others, as fast as that very 1 element has gotfen control disturt ceased; nor has it been at the e. t new civil and political rights of the } the minority Wiltes. Thésé aré facts, ventilr by the HERALD. We are glad to see it, We really getting anxious to know if the federe ernment, now rendered supreme b° changes in the constitution—whether | to occupy in the future the relative of Ireland to England, or whether the our section are ever to be considered a equal inembers with the others of the publict If the former, send us honer who will reli us of our dishonestl, dens of debts and annual taxes; if t! us alone $n our elections to work or vation under the new order of thir federal powers interfere in domes prevent violations of federal law get rid of our Ameses, who misy National Legislature; our Kello. and Lewises at howe, and pr representative white men i might throw out a few Pools ~~ ** wanld be bet 8 or We opie 1 the ance, gir in- ssuance + ach jon—we wwe “ta. of two entire assessed to three and a 1s and villages. to Ames out of Humphries Vutec debt, and two or more hundred thousand dollars in the Treasury. Estimated expenses last year, $900,000; taxes collected, $2,000,000. All gone and debt increased $450,000, Internal improvements ! Where are they? In North Carolina, for her $20,000,000 increase, where are they? In Alabama one railroad, the only instance in the entire South, and the debt for that represents double its actual cost. Is it disloyal to complain or not? we ask the great North. Were we dogs it wonld be | allowable to bark. W, A. HERRING, | THE PRENCH REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO. The republican members of the French Assembly have issued a manilesto, of which the following is @ translation :— Dean Friiow Cin France has been agitate: | has been c 4 s—For the last three weeks work has slackened, business Ked, unxicty has taken possession of the he national existence has been, so to peak, suspended. * This uneasiness is caused by ‘the divided stato, from which the Assembly appcars whable to issue, which renders the government of the Republic power: | and destroys In ee erm all hope of stability. Honest timid minds have hitherto believed that circumspec- tion, prudence, temporizing, would suffice to put an god to this situation. Ilusion ts no longer allowable. | The recent votes in the Assembly show that « majority can neither establish itself there nor even be formed there. Thus the government, | being able to govern, seems sometimes a i! hot sure even of existence. Crises are incessantly recur. ring which are fatal to every interest. Hence the convic- tion in the minds of all clear-sighted patriots that it 1 time for the country to resume the exercise of its mtention which the omth of August d oH country alone can settle. e | at tho very sitting in which the As stituent powers, the brought forward a mo sembly ays ume: arty of the Union R id to the spared the country the trials to w! ubjected sinec that period. At the present moment @ large fraction of he Assembly recognizes that a dissolution Is the sole funing; it would hav y ave Aiich It tias be issue for those who desire to avoid fresh perils. On all sides the electors are adopting this view. A digsolution obtained by legal means, such is our object, such the avowed desire oi ‘the nation. openly reject all means of violent pressure; foree wherever it may proceed from; we disord We hawe, during the last two years, proofs of this, tor we have been found united wovernment of M. Thiers whenever it has thres‘ened, We ask the country to continue our work to form by fresh elections @ powerful majority capable of giving tothe government of the Republic ad efective support and of errs the pacific triamph of the national will and the siability of the republican number! around the been gine struck the rail and threw the train on to the ve years, \Thia would be tantamount to are- don of tweMty-Ove per cent, as the cadets of | clags could utaduate alter Ave instead of four track where the other train was standing. The car bagma “4 phe oe engine er alae cr it, F 1e Iwo ¢ follewi ere scomgw: at emavhed, so row Toss on the building 1s $12,000; insured for $7,000, ‘Tire loss on stock and machinery is $60,000; in- sured for $40,000 by policies in the ‘Royal ‘Lan: cashize, tna, Hartiord, North America, Frank- lin, Penpsylvania and North Missouri Companies, Institutions, Dear fe.low citizens, your bogey has come to our par pen You will ensure by your zeal the victory of tora opinion. Above all things take and remem- rt ¢ rixht of petition Ne i is an i of which inguaranteed by the Yawe of te gone exerc: ved by tl if th - aie eta a Drinciple of the SHEET. national sovereignty. To violate tt would be to violate tinea eairage att “ate Edmo! Allemand, Ancelon, Ai Pag Rg Rg LS Oe Brel ‘Bridlie: ri Brouses, Al Garlont Albert’ Caste jules cat, ue, nau, J) Chatlemel-La: cour, oy 2 maloun, Dagmas auvourt, rian, Dreo, Dul ae un} Dap Pautin Duriea, Ls "Gaauiros Gent, ‘Rene ‘uranaple poe dots: eelelat: 4 *Hlentt de R "Tatont de Yon- F, Laget, Alexis oi lois, Amedee Lar- . Laurent Pichat, Henri Lefevre, Lepore, Lepouze, Lherminier, Loustalet, Mereler, Millaud, Henri Monier, Moreau, N. inaire, Parent, Peyrat, Edyar uinet, Rat r._ Michel aud, Rouvier, Sameuy was, Scheurer-Kestner, Schalcher, Simioit, Taberlet, Tardiets, Testelin, Tiersot, Tirard, Tolain, Edmond Tur: iox. Pua, Dee. 10, 1872, THE TAMMANY PRIMARIES. Elections Last Evening=The New Gen- eral Committee—A Qulet Time. The Tammany primaries were held last night, and the following candidates from each Assembly istrict were elected members of the General Com- mittee :— FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. John Fox, William Shine, Jeremiah Kennefick, John Bgan, Matthew T. i roe, Thomas MecCor- mack, Richard Enright, Michael Meehan, Morris Jacobs, Henry Opp, Patrick A. Gillen, cians F Hawk, James sul ivan, William B, Pugh, James Healey, Dennis Quinn, John F, Berrigan, William Heddendorf, Hugh Kelly, Thomas K. Smith, Wil- liam B. Burns, James P. Wilson, John Tubbs, SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Timothy Brennan, William Walsh, William P. Kirk, Patrick Lysa; ht, William Hughes, Andrew J. White, John Fitzpatrick, Maurice O'Connell, Hugh Keane, Denis Burns, Thomas D,. Conroy, Edward Henry, John Powers, Martin J, Keese, Maurice Scaniin, Frank Murray, Jeremiah Murphy, William Kennedy, Thomas J. Nealis, Jacob Koehler, John Kennedy, Timothy Darcey, M. A. Kearney. THIRD ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. James Hayes, Ambrose O’Neil, qomph Shannon, Diedrich Knave, Francis McKenna, Michael Fee- ney, John Lee, Charles M. Clancy, James Conlon, John A. O’Brien, Michael Brophy, Thomas Casey, John O'Neil, Patrick Campbell, James McGuire, Patrick M. White, James Dougherty, Daniel O’Rellley, FOURTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Edward J. Shandley, Thomas Sheiis, Edward T. Fitupatrick, Jamea Ryan, John J. Blair, Daniel O'Brien, Koday 8. Bragsell, William Colligan, Michael’ H. Whalen, John Smith, Julius Stitch, John ©. Keating, Edward Clarkson, Bernard C. Ryan, George rown, Peter Maher, Michael Reynolds, Charles Lindeman, Owen O'Rourke, George Linda, Edward Dargan, James Heffernan, Patrick McNa- mara, John Giass, Philip Collins, John Simken. FIFTH ASSRMBLY DISTRICT. Nelson W. Young, John Kelly, Edwin R, Meade, James Boyle, jacob Mohrman, Joseph IF. Rogers, Charles Suess, Maurice Hart, James Fay, George W. Van Voorst, Louis ©. Bruns, John Purcell, Ber- nard Neia, Adrian J. Roberts, Philip Ketterer, Henry A. Gumbleton, Henry Hughes, Ralph Bogert, Thomas ©. Knox, Joseph Jennings, James H. Roome, John H, Statiander, John Garrie, Thomas Nelligan, John McGinn, J. Charles Koch, Henry Warner, Edmund M. Plum, SIXTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Timothy J. Campbell, James Carraher, William Clancey, Jeremiah F. Delaney, Michael Healy, Thomas Brady, John Buses, Albert G. Bearuss, Peter McAleer, Michael Moloney, Jacob King, Pat- rkk J. McLaughlin, Matthew itten, John Byrns, John Brown, Jacob Scherding, Frederick Zimmer, Thomas Dowd. SEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Morris 8. Miller, Martin T. McMahon, Jolin T. Tully, James W. Fowler, Algernon 8. Suilivan, Joseph Strauss, James W. Collier, Charles W. Up- ham, Elliott Sandford, Charles Golden, John W, Greene, Patrick Reid, John McUauley, Michael Wil- son, George 8. Walsh, Peter B, Olney, H. H. Por- ter, John O, Williams, Patrick McCabe, John Hamp- gon, Michael F. Dougherty, RIGHTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Seth C. poumese Edward D. Gale, Albert Allen- spack, Daniel W. Gruber, Alburtis Wood, Hulett Qdell, James Carr, Martin Neidig, Philip Goldi Jacob Morton, August Braun, John Kintz, gh Morris, William Campbell, Matthew MeSh Henry Seigel, Rudolph Krausholat, George Kinzer, Julius Folk, Robert De Lacey, Thomas J. Carleton; James Durning, Stephen Mott, 4, Stauf, Thomas Kerrigan, George Smith, Jr., Thomas Dolan, John F. Gerdes, Peter Wiegenroth, J. W. Reppenhagen. NINTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. William G. Bergen, Ignatius aye Daniek Wil- liams, William J, Van Arsdale, John Oakford, John Mack, John J. Levy, Thomas Moore, William H. Dongan, Thomas Coonan, James D. McClelland, Ramson Parker, Jr., Michael J. Cahill, William dge, Thomas Simmons, Lawrence McDermott, William H. Gray, Robert Culkin, James Bogert, Jonna Richardson, William Carroll, Andrew J. Math. ewson, Joseph 0! McBrien, Charles O'Rourke, John Houghtalin. TENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Anthony Eickhotf, “olonel Join Guth, William By Maclay, J. Williay *tzer, Owen Murphy, Dr. Philip Merkle, Jor mond, George Stein- brecher, Chris, Be’ ~ Connon, FV. Ei ring, G.' A. Heln Nuity, ‘Jacob Moore, Charles * Jonn Zann, John N. Reyne Toseph M. Ohmetls, Josey ELEY. John Mo! ein Clark, Louis Lort! Ford, William 8 no'a, Willk J Baker, W! a, ‘he er, Micu Aer Traine, assy, Peter Hers. sher, F, H. Hamilton, sBLY DISTICT. « Koch, Willtam W. Cook, F. pay. James Donohue, sob Fleischhauer, Patrick , Samuel 8. Acker, Albert Daniel Hanley, Frank Mu Aaron Aarons, John Keenan, son Mayer, fH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. .elly, Jacob Links, Patrick Camp. Fine, Sidney P. Nichols, Thomas Jooney, Philip McDowell, James 4 Berrian, Alexander J. Shicids, , Thomas Smith, William Brennan} Charles Cowan, William Lamb, 4, Hugh Lavelle, Peter Young, Edward ard Flanagan, JURTRENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Chanler, Bernard Reilly, Peter Gillespie, Westervelt, Johu T. Kelly, Jacob A. Gross, | Alabn, Philip Weber, George Caulfield, John Sebastian Michel, John A. Foley, John y, Thomas Sullivan, Michael Lestrange, FIPIRENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. omas A. Ledwith, Oliver Charlick, William non, Peter Radley, Charles Conley, John H. stzea, James P. Rogers, Edward Fitz, “in Morris, James J. Deery, Peter Sanger, ostigan, Joseph Blumental, Rufus Hatch, Michael Fitzsimons, ‘Neil, William Schneider, David P. | | Port Elizabeth, AFRICA. Progress of the Territorial Secession Movement at the Cape of Good Hope. First Ministry Under Responsible Government— Treasury Income and Outlay—The Dia- mond Fields—Religious and Industrial Progress—Death of a Veteran Boldier and Settler. By mail from Africa we have our files of Cape of Good Hope journals, dated at Port Elizabeth on the 1st of November, Citizen Agitation tor Colonial Territo<- rial Secession. The Port Elizabeth Herald of November 1 has an editorial on the progress of the citizen agitation for colonial, territorial and governmental separa- tion, It says:— The monster petition to Queen Victoria from the Eastern Province, praying for separation of the provinces, has already attached to it upwards of twelve thousand names, aud many more signa- tures will yet be obtained. At the last election of member of the Legisiative Council, about a year ago, the number of registered electors in the Bast- ern Province was 14,673, and 12,000 signatures to a petition is a very large Dumber to obtain out of such a population, THE FIRST MINIGIRY UNDER RESPONSIBLE GOVERN- MENT. The only subject of general political interest which occupied attention during the eo alter the despatch of the previous matl was the formation of the first Ministry under responsible. overnment. The Cape Argus, which is the Cape ‘own organ of the liberal or responsible govern- ment party, stated, apparently with authority, that vr. Moiteno had been ‘sent for’ toforma Ministry, and that the following gentiemen were asked to take ofice:—Mr. Advocate de Villiers, Attorney Generel; Mr. Vintcent, Treasurer Gen- eral; Mr. Glanville, Native Atfairs, and Mr, ©. A, Smith, Public Works. The formation of the first Ministry is a dificult task, all the more diMecult from the fact that the Colonial Parliament will be dissolved after next session, and few South Afri- cans care to take office for a year with a general election in prospect. TREASURY INCOME AND EXPENDITURE, The Port Elizabeth Herald of November 1 says:—. “The comparative statements of the revenue expenditure of the colony in the quarters and ye ending June 80, 1871 and 1872, have just been The returns are very satisfactory, we Ing, as they do, an increase of revenue and & de- crease of expenditure both for the quarter and the year. The total ordinary revenue for the quarter and years ended June 30 last was £275,187 against £172,739, showing @ net increase of £102,448. The increase under the head of customs atone is £63,006 ; land sales, £15,201; special receipts, £12,783, and: land revenue, £8,015." THE DIAMOND FIELDS. {From the Diamond Field (newspaper), Oct, 24.) A white diamond of twenty odd carats was found | at Waldek’s Plant on Monday last. Upwards of two hundred claims were marked out at Niekerk’: | Folly and licenses issued on Friday last by Mr. In- Pio Boyes, Luarkin's Flat, however, a short distance down the river, is more in favor with and is being worked by a large numphey of diggers. ¢ CHURCH PROGRESS, oe Special religious services in connection with the opening of a new Wesleyan chapel in Russell road, were held, Ia the morning the Rev, Wiiliam Impey, General Superintendent of Wesleyan Missions, formally cpened the building for Divine service and dedicated it to the worship of God, The evening service was conducted by the Rev. J. Fish. The collections at the three ser- vices amounted to £66, COLONIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE VIENNA EXHIBI- TION A Cape Town journal says We are much pleased to report that while the Cape Colony has taken no fermal official step to occupy a place in the Vienna Exhibition, thanks to the Hberality of Mr. N. Adler, | Consul for Austria at Port Elizabeth, that it will nevertheless be represented in this grand gather- South Atrican produce in its Re i ing of nations, and manufactured state will be presented. monds in the so-called matrix, rough and copper ore, iron ore and other minerals; ostri feathers, ivory, skins in great variety, in their rough state and Proeeey, dressed ; wool of every kind, and in its various stages, from grease to snow white; mohair, wine, wood of all kinds, argol, buchu, tortoiseshell, silk, cotton, coffee, sugar, gold and gold-bearing quartz, and indeed everything which will show the pro- ductive powers of this country will appear to the best advantage at the Exhibition. DEATH OF A VETERAN SOLDIER AND COLONIST, The Geath of Witham Denton, a British Kaffra. rian settler of 1820 and a Waterloo hero, is re- corded. Mr. Denton belonged to the Second regi- ment of Lise Guards, and was Leal wounded at the battle of Waterloo, He died at Mount Pleas- ant, Lower Bushman’s River, Cape Colony, at the ors age of eighty yea OUR HARBOR DEFENCES. Does Not Agree with “De- the Country Might Re Aition to Resist John ot. j nt Te voleation in your invalua,. ~viter shows how easy @ bs. bs bie the port of New 4. prepared some iron- Yankee vessels, all backea bor, Selah! how he writes? v fence of our harbor {8 so much from below’ Imagine the English feet comin, torpedoes would be so laid upon the bar anu entrance that, by a system only known to o Naval Torpedo Corps, when every vessel of the English fleet occupied its position over a tmple row of torpedoes, each and every vessel of the English fleet would in spite of itself signalize its position over the particn- ; lar torpedo to @ corresponding number in the battery on shore, and even sound a bell to hurry } up the officer to apply the wires and blow up not liam 8. O’Brien, Edward Lodore, Francis Morgan, | Leonard Gatman, Patrick Brady, thomas Baw, Patrick Mackey. SIXTEBNTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT, Abram 8. Hewitt, Samuel J. Tilden, Edward Cooper, John T. McGowan, Peter Woods, John Julian, John Mullane, James Maher, Thomas Brogan, Michael Dolan, Abram Hummel, ‘Thomas Reilly, John Kelly, John B. Dolan, Alired . Ackert, George Kelly, Michael G. Fagan, Marx Crowley, Jacob Seitz, Bryan McMahon, Cornelius Dugan, William Kelly, Edward Duify, John Nesbitt, John Carr, John Malone. SEVENTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. James EK. Coulter, Thomas Ryan, Nicholas Sea- grist, Robert J. Brown, Thomas Roxch, Hiram Calkins, John Duggan, Jr., Jonn G. Tietgen, Chas, H. Haswell, Thomas Kerrigan, George W. Plunkitt Thomas ‘ins, James Hamblin, Adam Heid, Michael Whelan, Francis Blessing, Michael Har- rington, Patrick 'H. Power, Chas. Mcintyre, Join Makewen, Charles Feitner, Jerome Buck, Jonn G. Carey, Leon C. Dessar, James O’Brien, John M. Calhoun, Lawrence Meintee, Frederick Smyth, Arthur Fiynn, Frederick Meyer, FIGHTEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Jonn Kelly, Josiah Sutherland, Richard Croker, Michael Kane, Henry R. David, Nicholas Killien, Joseph Garry, George W. GaMit, Nicholas Hoffman, J, A. Hallanan, William J. Shields, Hugh P. Farrell, Matthew Nugent, Abraham R. Lawreuce, Willlam H, Wickham, Michael Gavin, Henry MeVabe, Michael Gehegan, Judson Jarvis. Michaél O'Connell, Farrell etn Jeremiah Murphy, Edward Keliy, Robert Ball, Jacob C. Wand, William Sinclair, sr. NINETEENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. Daniel F. Tiemann, Andrew Smith, W: David L. Baker, John J. Marrin, B, W. V James T. King, Thomas Fenton, John FP. Maginn, Bartholomew McDona Shields, Peter Masterson, Jonn Jas McCormack. TWENTIBTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT. n Voorhis, Schull, 2 patrick, | Thomas one, but the entire fleet, no matter whether the feet came by night or day. Again, does he think ward Bracks, Robert Power, Wil- | our naval commander would risk all his monitors outside when he commands euch a few? Oh, no. | Should Mr. Johnny Ball ever get over the bar with i | | | | 20 guns, nearly all 15-inch calibre, Wm. C. Conner, James A, Flack, Julius Johnson, | Feodore Mierson, Wm. H. Lyons, Thomas Duffy, George berg, 0, Sackeradorf, Owen Moran, John Kava- nagh, Franz Koehler, Wm. Henry, Henry New, Win Dunham, John Butler, John’ Eagan, Robert ag ibe John Rugsell, Jonn D, Coughiin, Janes L. Miller, Rush, Charles E. Hartshorn, W! latthow Murray, Patrick Donahue, Peter seph Rosenthal, Joseph Meeks, Patrick Anthony, uincey, Charles H. ‘im. H. Leonard, Jo- Wm. Gallagher, Henry E. Barton, Wm. Carberry, | Al. Bedell, Abraham Dowdney, James Thornton, Isaac Sommers. TWENTY-FIRST ASSRMBLY DISTRICT. J. Kelly, ©. Jones, W. McManus, A. Thain, E. J. Stein, T. McGinnis, J. McGuire, W. H. Johnson, J, Baimor, W. Z. |, M. Cogan, M. Braun, J. McCurker, J. Drew, T. Owens, J. H. Sulli- van, W. H. Kip) B, Dunonican, J. ‘I. Brown, T. Feely, G. Biewart, E. W. Hinuman, 8, Turner, |, A. McCaffery, J. McGuire, anon, J. F. Miller, P, McMannus. CARL SOHURZ’S LEOTURE ON GERMANY AND FRANCE. Hartrorp, Conn., Dec, 30, 1872. Senator Carl Schurz delivered his lecture on Germany and France to-night, in Allyn Hall, to a large audience, who listened with evident pleasure and interest to his rapid sketching of the charac terletica of the two mations and of their leading men, past and present, . Wool, 8, Goldeu- | his huge tron-clads he would flud the monitors with their light draught lying where the Bulls could not get at them—to wit, in shoal water, there to calmly and deliberately plant fifteen-inch steed shot just where these wall-sided foreign monsters soon get their pangs of death. Besides, fast wooden vessels would, before these Englishmen could awake to the reality that they were on our coast, find some of Lay's torpedoes plunging under their bottoms at two or three miles’ dis- tance at sea and urging them heavenward with from 800 to 509 pounds of nitro-giycerine as the motor. Also, does he think any fleet in the world could get into New York harbor, with this nation given thirty or sixty days to i are t Why, we would not only defend New York, but every harbor of importance on the coast. Let me enumerate what could be done by the navy alone, and let the Army speak for itseli—and the Lord knows it can do that. The Navy could have ready the Roanoke, three 15-inch, three 269-pounder rifes, all in three tur- rete; the Dictator, two 15-inch the Saugus, two 1é-inch; the Puritan, two hh; the Ajax, two 16-inch; the Canvnicus, two lé-inch; the Ma- hopac, two 15-inch; the Manhattun, two 1i-inen; the frigate Minnesota, fifty Q-inch guns; the Mediterranean squadron, consisting of tho Wabash, 45 guns; Brooklyn, 20; Congress, 16; Plymouth. 12; Shenandoah, 11; ‘achu- sett, 6; the North Atlantic squadron, consisting of the Worcester, 16 guns; Canandaigua, 10; Shau- mut, 3; Wyomiug, 6; Nipsic, 3; South Atiantic— Lancaster, 22; Ticonderoga, 10; the Monengahals, 10; Juniata, the Frankiim, 45; the Florida, 24; the Tennessee, 24; the Richmond, 14; Ossipee, 5; Santee, 60; Constellation, 10, and some few others, ‘This would ve no mean force to meet, 8 monitors of id 422 9-inca and 11-inch guns. Give the command of these to an intelligent Admiral who knows how to bandie such @ feet, say Admiral David D. Porter, and I will venture to say with these and the torpedo corps of the navy, & gun need not be fired from any fort or battery that could be viaced at Sandy Hook. John Bui, John Crapeau, John German or Johnny Rugsia, either one or ail, would never get inside Sandy Hook point, or even over the bar, lf our Legislators want to do something for the navy why don’t they put our monitor system ip pee tit iy at least twenty of them, to be kept ready for a week's call at the furthest; also butic twenty fast sloops of war, as you suggest, with not legs than ten guns, fitted with every torpedc appliance and atleast one of Lay's torpedoes tc each’ Besides, have on hand fifty of those won- derful torpedoes, also some at each naval station. | When they wish to concentrate them, say at New. York, @ train of platiorm cars can bring them ali here in eighteen hours, and they can be launched and soon be at the desired point tor use; and ac effective are they that you can single out the enemy’s most iormidabie ship and destroy her iv the midst of the feet. LUCK. DEATH OF A GOVERNMENT BMPLOYE. RicamonD, Va., Dec. 30, 1872, Colonel Edward Loraine, Chief Engineer of the James River and Kanawa Canal, and recently im charge, under Colonel Craighill, of the United States Government Survey of the Central Water Line, died to-day, aged flity-five years, He was @ Bative of New Or!