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reign of justice has begun. Of the five-and- twenty bloodstained wretches whose cold- blooded or ferocious phrases we have printed aboye but two have been hanged—the false prophet, Reynolds, and the colored man, Thomas. The student of these lines, say half @ century hence, should keep this fact in mind if he wishes to glean an iden of the social state in New York at the present day. Now, the Hznatp unites with all the law- abiding people of the city in demanding that all this shall be changed. It is necessary now, in the words of Danton, that terror should be inspired. It must not be a Reign of Terror for the peaceful citizen, but a visible terror to the criminal classes, The Court of Oyer and Terminer, before which the untried must, under the present law, be brought, is clearly not equal to meet- ing the emergency. The Legislature should at once set about some measure to give New York relief from the incubus of untried mur- derers. A new court should be provided, and the District Attorney might then employ all the assistance needed. We want ao complete and speedy jail delivery, so that we may know’ whether the men in the Tombs are to be hanged or ac- quitted. Wherever conviction follows trial wo then want to see the sentence faithfully cir- ried out. There is no other way to stem the evil we complain of. While tho present slow, cumbrous and uncertain mode of reaching the gallows remains, we may expect that the sad literature, of which we have given a fow choice specimens above, will be daily enriched. A Dull Day in Congress. Congress yesterday was duller than usual. Ames’ confession of the previous day hada most depressing effect upon the honorable Senators, and sadness prevailed throughout. The funny man from Nevada, who was wont to set the Senate in a roar, failed to obtain a’ hearing, and Sherman was compelled to with- draw his amendment to the Appropriation bill raising the salaries of certain unfortunate ,officials. The amendment proposed by Mr. Hill, of Georgia, to make the pay of members of Congress eight instead of five thousand dol- dors per annum, fell through from tho game cause. But. the House, in Com- ‘mittee of the Whole, managed to worry through some necessary work. Tho Senate amendment appropriating three hun- dred thousand dollars for the expenses in- ‘cident to the representation of the United ‘States at the Vienna Exhibition was amended to two hundred thousand dollars. Poland’s committee was directed by resolution to in- quire whether any members of Congress were “interested, @ la Crédit Mobilier, in the Dubuque, Sioux City, and the Central Pacific railroads. And this was the sum of the labors of the day. Bos yr so Starvation of Bricfless Barristers. A few weeks ago a gentleman named Haddy ‘was found dead in wretched London lodgings. At the Coroner’s inquest it came out that he ‘was a barrister of good address, fully medium ability and of exceptional general intelligence. He lacked the business capacity to establish a ‘professional connection, His habits were un- exceptionable. He had obtained a small reve- nue from newspaper writing, but having no regular employment—too honest to steal, too proud to beg—he had actually starved, though -surrounded by men who respected him highly and would have cheerfully aided him. The -day after his death brought a letter assuring “him of all needed relief, but too late. Only the undertaker could help him then. This occurrence has provoked a discussion for the establishment of a fund to relieve destitute barristers, and, better yet, a proposition to assimilate the English legal practice to our own, allowing barristers, counsellors and solici- tors to be also attorneys, and thus come into immediate relations with clients and the pub- lic. It is believed such a change would. obviate the danger of other worthy men in the legal profession following the fate of Haddy. If they could not get the briefs of other lawyers they might doubtless’ obtain a share of routine attorney work which would bring them bread. - “Tue Socta, Revorvrion om Jaran.—The Japanese calendar aud mode of reckoning time, which have been observed in the Empire during, as it is supposed, two thousand five hundred and thirty-three years, was changed, and the foreign Christian method substituted in its stead, on the lst of January, 1873, New Year's Day will in future be the first day of the first month of the Japanese year. The day is to be divided into twenty-four hours, in- stead of twelve, as before, and the one which corresponds to Sunday is to be observed asa holiday. Strange to say, the Japanese chroni- clers and astronomers have just discovered that the 25th day of December should have always been observed as a grand holiday by the Japanese, and that the ceremonial has been neglected for some reason which they are unable to explain. Christmas Day is to be henceforth held sacred to Trinnia, the first Emperor of Japan. These extraordinary facts are really encouraging to the progress of the Christian cause in Asia. Do they come, even at this late moment, from the dogmas of Confucius or the preaching of St. Francis Xavier and other missionaries? JUAN MACIAS TO VISIT PRESIDENT GRANT, The English Minister of the “Republic on Somi-Ofictal Business. Colonel Juan Macias, the English Minister of the “Republic of Cuba,” leaves this city to-day for Washington, when he will visit the President and Mr. Hamilton Fish, to explain the existing feeling in England about Cuban matters. Colonel Macias, it may be stated, has been requested ks man: members of the British Parliament and other nigh offidials to make this visit, and it may thereiore considered of a semi-ofMcial character, PROFESSOR TYNDALL/S LAST LECTURE, New Haves, Conn., Jan. 23, 1873. Professor Tyndall delivered his last lecture in America in this city to-night to @ crowded house, although the night was very stormy. After the lecture last evening by Professor Tyn- dal the Préfessor was invited to meet & company of gentlemen invifed by the Governing Board of the Sheffield Scientific School, The party sat down to @ pleasant entertainment in the parlor of the New Haven Hotel. There were about thirty gentiemen present, hen age whom were Gover- bor Jewell, President Parker, ex-President Woolsey, Lieutenant Governor Winchester, Menry Farnu Professors Whitney, Brush, Newton, Eaton, Walker, Brewer, Joinson, Trowbridge, Wright, Marsh and Lounsbury; F. 4. HN ahah and a delegation of the Yale Scientific oul President Porter made a speech of welcome, to whieh Professor Tyndall replied briefly. Professor Lyman was called.upon, and responded. Governor Jewell made one of his most apt after-dinner speeches, . The party separated at a little after midnight, Lyman, Norton, | NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. SHIP WRECK. SEEN Three Hundred and Fifty Lives Lost by Collision in the English Channel. The Australian Emigrant Ship Northfleet Run Down by a Steamship—Sad Scenes Of Dunze- ness Light—The Ship at Anchor and the Woe-Worn Exiles Reposing in Sleep—Sudden Shock and a Wild Farewell to Life—Panic on Board and Firearms Used in the Tumult TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ~~ ONDON, Jan. 23, 1873, Reports of the occurrence of a most terrible and appalingly fatal marine disaster tn the English Channel during the night yesterday have just been received in this city. The melancholy narrative reads as follows: THE AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANT SMP NORTHFLEET SUNK BY COLLISION—MANY HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST, ‘The emigrant ship Northfect, which sailed from London several days ago for Australia, with 412 pas- sengersand the requisite crew on board, was in Collision at midnight, two miles off Dungeness Light- house, witha foreign steamship unknown at the moment, and was cut to the water's edge. Only eighty-five persons are just at presnt known to have been saved, and it is believed that every other person who was on board has founda watery grave. No attention was paid by the stcamship to the emigrant vessel after the collision, and she pro- ceeded on her course, leaving the sufferers to their fate. THE OFFENDING CRAFT WATCHED FOR IN PORT. Towards noon it was said and believed that the steamer which ran down and sunk the Northfleet is a Portuguese craft. Her name cannot be ascer- tained until she arrives in port. Statements of a still later date were circulated in the evening that the offending steamship is be- lieved to be a Spanish vessel bound from Antwerp. The Board of Trade or this city has offered a re- ward of £100 for the discovery of the vessel which was the cause of the dreadful fatality. LATEST REPORTS. The Northficet at Anchor When the Collision Was Accomplished. Lonpon, Jan. 23—P. M. Particulars of the consequences of the fatal col- Usion of the steamship with the emigrant ship Northfleet continue to come in hourly. ‘The Northneet was lying at anchor at the uime the coUision occurred. Her cargo consisted of railway tron. Three hundred, and twenty-one persons were drowned immediately, including the Captain of the ill-fated vessel. The name of the steamer which ran into the ship has not yet been ascertained. SCENES ON BOARD OF THE SUNKEN SHIP—PANIC AMONG THE PASSENGERS AND PREVENTION OF EFFORTS FOR RELIEF. At the moment when the collision between the Northfleet and the unknown steamship happened @ panic occurred on the former vessel. The passengers on the emigrant ship, who were asleep, rushed from their berths to every portion of the ship where they thought they might be safe, and utterly refused to obey the orders of the Cap- tain, That officer, as a last resort, to enforce obedience to his command, was compelled to fire upon the terror-stricken people and one pf them was wounded, It is believed that if the passengers had obeyed the orders of the Captain more of them would have been saved, The Telegraph At Work for the Of- fender’s Arrest—The Number ot Lives - Saved. Lonpon, Jan. 23—Evening. The Lloyds have telegraphed to their agents at all southern 8 ations to stop, if possible, the steamer which ran the Northfeet down. TUE NUMBER OF THE SAVED. Twelve additional persons have been saved from the Northfleet, which makes ninety-seven lives. known to have been rescued from the wreck. ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION. The English government has ordered a prelimi- nary inquiry into the disaster tothe Northfeet. The investigation will begin to-morrow, at Dover, Press and Cabinet Condemnation of the Steamship—Sixty of the Saved in the Capital. Loxpon, Jan, 24—6 A. M. ‘The journals express indignation in the strongest terms at the heartless conduct of the captain of the unknown steamer which sunk the Northflect, The government has offered a reward for the dis- covery of her name. Sixty survivors of the ill-fated emigrant ship have arrived in London. if FRANCE. Severe Action Against Secret Enemies of Consti- tuted Society—Financial Ring Men Roped In by the Police—Cabinet Promize of Parliamentary Elections. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Panis, Jan. 23, 1873, The Assembly this afternoon passed a bill pre- scribing severe penalties for drunkenness. Ten members of the International Society have been arrested in France, in addition to those pre- viously reported. FINANCIAL FRAUDS MEN FRUSTRATED. Several parties connected with a swindling finan- cial company have been arrested, Some persons holding a position high in the financial world are implicated. Among them 18 said to be an ex-Sen- ator of high rank. CABINET CONCESSION TO ELECTORAL RIGHT. M. Goulard, Minister of the Interior, has in- formed the Committee of Thirty that the govern- ment contemplates ordering elections to fill vacancies in the French Assembly to take place during the first week of April. . THE FRENCH BOURBONS. Dynastic Canvass Concerning the Color of the National Flag. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Paris, Jan, 23, 1873, The legitimist deputies in the Assembly say the Count o1 Paris will visit the Count of Chambord ina few days, A compromise in regard to the “white flag’’is anticipated. Chambord will insist on retain- ing the white flag as the royal standard, but will consent to allow the army to keep the tri-color, ENGLAND. Sa OS The Bank Rate of Discount Reduced and Rate for Money on 'Change. ee Bullion in Flow to the Bank—The Rights of Labor and Friends for the League—Com- ments on Court Scenes in Amer- ica—Lord Lytton’s Funeral. TELECRAM! 10 THE NEW YORK HERALS. LONDON, January 23, 1873. The rate of discount of the Bank of England has been reduced one-half per cent and is pow four per cent, vali The Stock Exchange report, dated at one o'clock in the alternoon to-day, announced thus:—The rate for money at the Stock Exchange, on government securities, is lower than the Bank of England rate by three-fourths per cent. . BULLION IN FLOW TO THE BANK. The bullion in the Bank of-England has increased £432,000 during $e past week. THE ASSOCIATED GAS STOKERS AND THE CAUSE OF LABOR, Thirteen gas stokers have been discharged from prison at Maidstone, the terms for which they were Sentenced having expired, Their release has been made the occasion of several meetings of working- men to express sympathy with the victims of what 1s denounced as “a tyrannical ab’se of the law.’? The larzest and most important of these meet- ings was held at Nottingham last nignt. Hon, Auberon Hervert, Member of Parliamont for that city, made a powerful address, in which he cnarac- terized the sentencing ofthe stokers to imiprison- ment as “a sensational straining of the law to Please the few." THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN AMERICA, The London 7imes, commenting on the scenes at the close of the Stokes tral, says that no Engiish Judge would have tolerated such indecent proceed- ings as the exchange 0! personalities on that occa- sion, ‘ LORD LYTTON’S FUNERAL. ‘The remains of Lord Lytton will be buried in West- minster Abbey. TRIBULATIONS COMING DOWN FROM TICHBORNE. Mr. Onslow, M, P., having since repeated several times the offence against Sir John Duke Coleridge, in relation to his connection with tne’ Tichborne case, for which he was recently fined £100, an order ofarrest for contempt of court has been issucd against him. RUSSIA AND BRITAIN. Imperial Russian Pronouncement on the Rela- tions in Central Asia—The Great Powers’ Policy Said To Be Almost Identi- cal—British Opinion at Home, TELECRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD, . Sr. PETERSBURG, Jan. 23, 1973. The Russian Oficial Gazette states, in confutation of the various rumors circulating to the contrary, that there are. no important differences in the views of Great Britain “and. “Russia with regard to the present movement in Central Asia. Russia’s Objective Point and the Ulti- mate Aim of Her Present March—Not Delhi, but Constantinople. The London Telegraph, writing on the Central Asiatic question generally and of the present in- tent and ultimate object of the Russian march against the Khanates and England’s interests therein, says :— The problem presented by Muscovite encroach- ments beyond the Hindoo Koosh stands there doubtless ior solution, and will one day task the sagacity and vigor of English statesmen. ‘That we shall have to trame a policy suited to the circum. stances jew will be found to deny. The question, in all its bearings—and they do not concern India alone, or India so much as countries nearer home— must be thought out by those who are responsible for imperial safety east and west of the Euphrates, Ab abrupt interposition at the present time, still more a proceeding not only sudden but violent, not only imparting @ declaration of policy, but enun- ciating a distinct threat, bears its own condemna- tion on its face—first, because it would, be uncalled for; next, because it would be inappropriate. War might not be the result, but peace would not be more secure, The capital jmportance of the Central Asian question does not lie in Tashkend and Samarcand, but on the Euphrates and Bosphorus, There are amen Oo! great learning and sagacity who see visions of @ Russian Timour heading the warrior desert tribes in @ new career of conquest beyond the Ina We do not dispute that in process of time Muscovite genius may discipline Turanian valor and make the riders of the steppes once more for- midable with lance and breeciloader; but an in- road upon Hindostan is not the aim of Russia. She is playing for even a greater stake. Her objective ig not Delhi, but Constantinople. Whenever she tries to reach that goal again her course will not be through Roumania and Bulgaria; it will be directed athwart Asia Minor, and she will rely on a solid position about the @xus and Caspian shores to paralyse the arm of England in the East. The production of that effect is t’e end sought to be gained by Central Asian con? icsts. We shall be smitten with political blindness if we ever fail to discern this cardinal fact in Russian policy. Those who think that India alone is endangered Would lead us astray from the facts. It js not India which is in peril; it is the Bosphorus and entrance to the Mediterranean, Now, except at a greater cost than the ee proposed is worth, we cannot prevent Russia from subjugating the Khanates any more than we could exciude her flag trom the Caspian. Khiva, despite the bravery of Turcoman and Usbeg, is doomed to become @ Russian prefecture, and her troops will be master ofthe desert roads beyond. That result is a fore- gone conclusion, because obstacles presented by nature have everywhere yielded to the art of man, and there are no other really valid impediments. When the conquest we are not prepared to frus- trate has been accomplished then we may devise a policy on the basis o1 ascertained facts. Unless we are determined to fight at once we shall not say, “Here are the limits to bi arms.’? What 1s essential is strict watchftyness and accurate knowledge. Since we never sive up empire with- out a struggle to maimtain it, English statesmen in Eagiand and India may be trusted to adopt 4 fitting course at the proper moment, provided al- ways that they keep themselves well iniormed, and are not lulled asleep by a jargon about trade and civilization or cajeied by absurd proposals to es- tablish @ zone of neutrality. GERMANY AND FRANCE. General Mantenffel’s Defence of Marshal Ba- zaine—Prussian Reminiscences of Metz. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS. Pants, Jah. 23, 1879. General von Manteuffel made a speech recently at Metz, in which he defended Marshal Bazaine from the attacks which had been made on his military fame. He dwelt in terms of generous praise on the bravery displayed by the French Marshal, which, he declared, was quite equal to that of any general in the German army. The pas- sions of the hour prevented an impartial judgment in this case, but he believed history would’ justify Marshal Kazaine. ROME. Prince Arthur of England Visits the Pope. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rome, Jan, 23, 1873. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of England visited His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth and His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli to-day. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23, 1 A private cable telegram from Florence, Italy, announces the deathin that city, at eight A. M. to-day, of Oscar C, Shafter, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court of California, DEATH OF A NEW ORLEANS LAWYER. New ORLEANS, La., Jan, 23, 1973. Henry Raphael Denis, of this city, died to-day, aged eighty-six years, He was @ resident of N Orleansgfor sixty-eight years, and one of the oldest members of the Bar. The Superior Court ad- journed out of respect to his memory, SPANISH SLAVERY. British Movement Against Slavery in Africa and Cuba—Mnunicipal Demand for Free- dom in tho Antilles, TELECRANS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Jan. 23, 1873, A public meeting was held at Birmingham last night, the Mayor presiding, at which speeches were made and resolutions passed condemning the slave trade in Africa, Polynesia and Cuba, A resolution was also adopted urging Her Ma- jesty's government to support tie American gov- ernment in the demand it makes on Spain for the abolition of slavery in the Antilles, . The Emancipation Movement in Active Progress in Madrid—Porto Rico Com- pensation Estimates. R MADRID, Jan. 23, 1873, A great anti-slavery meeting was held in the Royal Theatre to-day, under the auspices of the Abolition Society, the Tertulia ana the Progres- ista c'ubs. . The theatre was crowded from floor to dome, Brilliant speeches were made and the enthusiasm was intense. PARLIAMENTARY ESTIMATE FOR PORTO RICO COM- PENSATION, The committee of the Spanish Cortes on the abo- lition of slavery in Porto Rico estimate that the indemnity to be paid by the State to siave-owners in that island for their property will amount to 140,000,000 real: "SPAIN. The Alphonsists Disavowed—Court Honor to Napoleon’s Moemory—Telegraphic Projects, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapnip, Jan, 23, 187: The Duke de Montpensier has written a letter discarding the Alphonsists and disavowing all con- nection with their intrigues. COURT HONOR 10 THE BONAPARTES. The Spanish Court goes into mourning nine days for the death of Napoleon III, TELEGRAPHS, SPECULATION AND ENTERPRISE. A decree has been issued granting a concession to Lascarte for laying a telegraph cable between Spain and Cuba, Offers have been received by the government from British companies for the purchase, mainte- nance and management of the inland telegraph lines. CUBA. Admiralty Look-Ont for Liberating Invaders— None Soen py the Spanish Sea Dogs, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, Jan, 20, 1873, The Diarto newspaper says that nothing positive is known about the recent movements of the steamer Edgar Stewart, except her arrival at Key West. . The Spanish Admiral says there are no traces along the coast of any men or arms haying been landed by tfle Edgar Stewart, BRAZIL. The Dowager Empress at the Point of Death. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS, Lisuon, Jan, 23, 1873, News has been received here that the Dowager Empress of Brazilis seriously ill, and that her life is despaired of, Sketch of the Invalid Lady. The Dowager Empress of Brazil, Amelia Augusta Eugenie Napoléone, Duchess of Braganza, was born on the 3ist of July, in the year 1812, She is daughter of the late Prince Eugene, Prince of Eichstadt, She was married, by procuration, on the 2d of August, and in person on the 17th of October, 1829, to Pierre, Emperor of Brazil, and be- came widowed on the 24th of September, 1834, MISSOURI SENATORIAL INVESTIGATION, Sr. Lovrs, Jan. 23, 1873, In the Senatorfal bribery investigation at Jetfer- son City to-day it was put in evidence that General Dorris offered to loan W. G, Pope, member from Wright county, money to be pald when he, Pope, became President of the United States. W. H. Wilson, of Kansas City, of- fered to loan Pope $2,000 and give him $200 for every Phelps man he turned for Dor- ns, Pope deciined, and told Phelps, for whom he was working, of the transaction, to put him on his guard, . Subsequently Wilson agreed to give Pope and ©, H. Morgan, of Barton county, $1,000 each and $100 for each vote trans- ferred from Phelps to Dorris. Pope was also informed that note had been sent him from Mr. Cravens, a frend of Phelps, con- taining an offer from Dorris of $10,000 to turn the Phelps vote for Biair; Craven afterwards con- firmed the statement, and said Dorris authorized the offer; all these things were told to Phelps so that should Dorris develop any strength in caucus they could be sprung on him. Mr. Morgan cor- roborated Mr. Pope’s testimony, and Colonel McAfee, Governor a eg leading friend, corrobo- rated the statements of both Pope and Morgan. Coionel Colby, of St. Louis, testified that Mr. Edens, ex-Member from Mississippi county, told him there were dead loads of money in Jefferson City in the Dorria interest; the offer to members was $300 down and $200 alter election; Edens also said he had tlandled some of Bogy’s money and was to get $500; that he had paid six members $250 each to vote for Bogy ; that Bogy's friends were to ay him for getting votes; that he was working fs the interest of Bogy and that’ Derris was to pay him; Dorris told Colby that he had $25,000 to se- cure his own election. W. H. Wilson testified that General Dorris, to whom he was @ stranger, loaned him $1,700 with- out taking any obligatian for it; he did not attempt to influence votes for Dorris, but used money for private purposes; did not know why Dorris loaned him money or did he have any understanding with him that he should aid nim in securing the Sena- torship. ‘A resolution was passed in the Senate to-day to appoint a committee to inquire whether the pres- ent constitution, known as the’ Drake Censtitution- was adopted by a majority of the voters in 1565, ‘The inquiry involves the counting of votes by the then Secretary of State, Rodman, THE FLORIDA UNITED STATIS SENATOR- SHIP, TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan United States Senator to-day. E: Walker, liberal, received 32, There was no clec- tion, 39 beg necessary to a choice. Governor Hart came ont to-day for H. Bisbee, Jr., or K. M. Randail, and threatens all republicans who vote for Conover with the loss of executive favor. ‘The Governor says it would be @ serious calamity @ io elect a republican to the United States Senate by democratic votes. It 18 reported that Osborne will withdraw from the contest to-morrow. The Legislature adjourned until twelve M. to- morrow. ee ane aa THE LOUISIANA ELECTION TROUBLES, New ORLBANS, Jan, 23, 1873, The Supreme Court of the State to-day rendered a decision on the Returning Board contest in favor of the Lynch-Hawkins Board, Justices Ludeling, Taluaferro and Howell concurred, and Justices Kennard and Wylie dissented, each rendering an opinion. THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE. Littie Rock, Jan, 23, 1873. ‘The House to-day, by # strict party vote, passed the Senate memorial to Congress for the passage of a Civil Rights bill. THE ILLINOIS GOVERNORSHIP, CHIcaGo, Jan, 23, 1873. Governor Oglesby resigned his office as Governor to-day, and Lisurenant Governor Beveridge was sworn into office as his successor. Ps THE PENNSYLVANIA CONSTITUTIONAL CON- ‘ VENTION, PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 25, 1873. The Constitutional Convention has finally settled | on the days fur holding elections, The State elec- tion is to be héld on the Tuesday following the first Monday oi November, and the city and township electians om the third Tuesday of February, THE FIVE PER CENT LOA} Two Syndicates Rolled Into One Undertake to Provide the $30,000,000, Jay Cooke & Co. and Morton, Bliss & Co. to Divide the Amount, The Terms Substantially the Same as Before— Neither Syndicate Thoroughly £atisfied— Operations to Commence in April. WASHINGTON, Jan, 23, 1873, Yesterday afternoon Secretary Boutwell said that he would probably decide to-day what he would do concerning the funding of the balance of the five per cent loan, Accordingly Henry D. Cooke and H. J. Fahnestock, representing Jay Cooke & Co. and others, and L. P. Morton and J. 3. Morgan, representing a syndicate of bankers, met at the Treasury Department to learn the decision of the Secretary. While these gentlemen were patiently waiting for the verdict a gleam of intel- ligence came from New York in the way of a HERALD despatch announcing that General Butler wag ready to fight the Syndicate, and that he would oppose any attempt to support banking interests with Uncle Sam's credit, When Secretary Boutwell informed the repre- sentatives of the two Syndicates that he was not willing to give to either the exclusive privilege of putting any portion of the loan on the market, the quartet of bankers were de- moralized. <A recess was then in order, and Secretary Boutwell resumed his daily duty of signing warrants and letters, The messengers hurried up the business of the office, collecting the mail while the bankers endeavored to collect their wits. At three o'clock a conference was held by the representatives of all the capital of Europe and America. The Secretary kept on writing; the bankers went on talking. When the aspirant for Wilson’s shoes had concluded his cmrographical labor he resumed his seat at the desk, and was informed by Mr. Morton and Mr. Fabnestock that the two Syndicates were ready to unite and agree to take the remainder of the five per cents, amounting to $300,000,000, ‘Assistant Secretary Richardson was therefore informed of the fact, and General Butler, who had been a patient waiter in the Judge’s room for some time, was also let into the secret, and departed satisfled that he had carried his point. The papers were at once drawn up, and at five o’clock the agreement was signed, The following was then given to your correspondent :— “The parties to. the two proposals which have been pending before the Secretary of the Treasury having united, the Secretary has this even- ing completed a contract for the negotiation of the remaining $300,000,000 five per cents funded loan ! with Messrg. Jay Cooke & Co., representing N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co. and themselves; and with Messrs. Morton, Bliss & Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co., gepresenting Messrs. Baring Brothers & Co., J. S. Morgan & Co., Morton, Rose & Co. and themselves."” The terms are substantially the same as the first contract, the Secretary reserving tie right to de- termine when he will place the Donds and what amount shall be placed, It was then proposed that the operations should begin one month hence, say the latter part of February, which was agreed to, and at half-past five the business was concluded. It was apparent that neither were satisfied with the bargain. Jay Cooke & Company had shown that a Syndicate was practicable, and the other side were anxious to enjoy even honors and profits. The biggest kind of influence had been brought to bear upon the Secretary to induce him to favor both Cooke et al. and Morton etal. Mr. Boutwell, “impressed with the fact that the two Syndicates united would represent the leading banking interests of the world, and, having no other propositions to con- sider, resolved upon the plan adopted, The in- terests of both combinations were thereby chal- lenged, and neither dared refase; but from the temper of the representatives on both sides after the transaction was concluded it was evident that the marriage is not lkely to be a happy one, It is not probable that the first call of the bonds will be made before the 1st of March next, At a conference held to-night the representatives of Jay Cooke & Company and Morton, Bliss & Com- pany agreed to equally divide the three hundred miliions. NATIONAL PRISON REFORM. Co BaTmMore, Md., Jan, 23, 1873, In the National Prison Reform Congress this morning Rev. Dr. Wines offered a resolution for a committee of five to consider the propriety of ap- plying to Congress for aid. Adopted. C, J. Walker, of Michigan; Dr. Bellows and Dr. Wines, of New York; Edward Earle, of Massachusetts, and R. R. ‘White, of Kentucky, were appointed such com- muittee. Dr. Bellows read a paper on prison discipline. Reports on penal and reformatory institutions were read from New Hampshire, Rhode Island and South Carolina, The reading of the several papers was followed by a discussion on prison discipline. Dr, Wines announced that a gentleman who de_ sired his name to be withheld had donated funds for the publication of the work of Edward Living- stone on penal service, which, when published, will be furnished members for $10, Rey. Dr. BELLOWS submitted @ resolution ac- knowledging a debt of gratitude to Mr. Livingstone as the great American feunder of humane prin- ciples which have since been developed as a true guide to reform in penal laws and their adminis- tration. The resolution was adopted, Mr. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania, in discussing prison retorm in his State, asserted that it was one hundred years in advanee of New York and pa aah it was founded on the principles of Penn, General EGGLESTON, of Mississippi, said he be- Neved his State isin advance of anything he had heard in the Congress, They had been required to punish but two convicts, and there was very little trouble with them, They have @ parlor organ, with which to amuse themselves on Sunday. ey have @ school in which the convicts take an interest, and on Christmas they are permitted to intermin- gie and have @ good dinner. When they are dis- charged ail traces of the prison, as far as possible, are removed from them. They receive $10 and are told to go on their way and do wrong no more, During the session the subject of intemperance in its relation to crime was discussed, Mr. Coates contending if rum shops were not closed they might go on holding prison congresses until the day of judgment. is At the eveni session a paper written by Dr. Dements, of Paris, on the relormatory institutions of Europe was read; also one by Dr, Anderson on | the reformatory institutions in New York. Re- | ports from Massachusetts and Tennessee were dis- cussed, When the Congress adjourned. TIRED OF > ‘CDSN, | A stranger, giving his name as H. White, at- tempted suicide by shooting in this city this morn- ing. He claimed to be a native of Prussia, twenty- five years of age, anda weaver by trade, On his person was found a note in German, which bein, translated, read as follows:—"1 am tired of life, sent one ball through my breast, but was too timid to send agecond one alter it, MH. White.” He is | still alive, but his physicians belicve be camnot re- cover, t ne ee et PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. conchnesnerielietgareninies Mias Anna Dickinson is shopping if Boston. Ex-Congresaman Joseph Vilas, of Wiaconsia, ia a& the St. Nicholas Hotel. Genera! Kiapka is to reorganize the Turgish Army 4 two years for 600,000 florins. Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, haa ar- rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Sir William Jenner has been elected President of the London Pathological Society. Ex-Congressman 0. C, Washburn, of Wisconsin, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, the Crédit Mobilier man, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Professor Kraut, of the University of Gottingen, died on New Year's Day, aged seventy-two. Sauer kraut, Rev, J. F, Montgomery has been appointed Deam of the diocese of Edinburgh, vice Dean Ramsey, lately deceased. Huh Allan, of Montreal, one of the proprietors ofthe Allan steamships, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. One of the most promising students at Cambridge is a Hindoo in Christ’s College, who ia distinguishes as a mathematician, The Comte de Chambord has given 4,000 france tothe Figaro fund for the beneflt of aufferera by the Seine inundations, he Ex-Congressman ©. P, Kimball, the late demo» cratic candidate for Governor of Maine, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Aman named Anthony Winn, who drove over ® girl named Golightly and caused her death, has been committed at Durham, England, for map» slaughter, A Mr. Dixon offers to remove Cleopatra's Needle: from Egvpt and erect tton the Thames embanks ment, London, for $75,000. What “darns’’ it would cause before it got there. There will be no dificutty in ascertaining “who: struck Senator Patterson" if one reads the testi- mony before the Crédit Mobilier Investigation Com- mittee for the past few days. Rey, Vivyan H. Moyle, the English vicar, who ia charged with forging a large amount of stock cer- tiflcates in sundry corporations, is a descendant of Colonel Moyle, one of the characters in Walter Scott's “Waverley.” Blood will tell. French journals notice the death of Viscount d& Rongé, member of the Institute, Professor of the College of France, and formerly Councillor of Stati He was one of the best Egyptian scientists in Eu- rope and had published several works of great merit. Four men, named Pople, Howland, Smith and Wells, of the American Club, No. 2 Rue Scribe, Paris, have been convicted, and heavily fined, with imprisonment, tor keeping @ gambling den. Paris | is not New York, but they gamble in the gay city all the same, The Hon. George H. Boker, United States Minis- ter to Constantinople, has been made an honorary member of the Greek Syllagos, a literary society of Constantinople. The honor has never been be- stowed save upon foreigners of the highest liter. ary distinction. Charles Sutherland, the Jefferson county (N. Y.}. murderer and suicide, was respectably connected, and his brother was several years clerk in the Ottawa Hotel at Montreal. His aged mother has been driven to the verge of insanity by the crime ofher son. Sutherland was to have been married in one week after the day on which the crime was committed, Edward Mathews, a tramping boiler maker, lately procured lodgings in kdinburgh by a: novel device. He asked accommodations in the police oMice, but was told he could not be received with- out acharge. He went directly and broke a pana of glass ina house close by, when he was brought out and got an order for three days’ board, No patent applied for. Mr. James Oakes, whose duties in connection with the settlement of Edwin Forrest's property have kept him from Boston for a time, has arrived home. The property of the late Mr. Forrest lies in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Tennessee, Louist- ana, Mississippi and Misseurl, and consequently if Mrs, Sinclair claims any of it she must take out letters of administration in each of these States, UTAH. Stabborn Resistance by a Saint—Politie cal and Mining Interests—The Horse Disease. Sart Lake Ciry, Jan, 23, 1873. The Gentile President of Cache county who waa deputized by the Judge of the District Court of Salt Lake to serve a writ of habeas corpus was re- sisted by a Mormon oficial, badly beaten and | driven away. ‘The horse disease {s spreading throughout, the Territory. The principal stage lines have sus- pended and the livery stables are closed. General Maxwell is preparing a determined fight against Cannon for the seat in Congress. He hag ccaoneye testimony of great outrages on tha allot. > The mining interests and prompece are more than ever encouraging. The Union Pacific trains arrive on time. 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