The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1873, Page 5

ri ears * gaid in answer to the interrogatory:— NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ment or whitewashing, an must be informed about what is being done to establish the innocence or the guilt of these Senators, who are really to be on trial for cerraption, perjury and other high eri Louisiana’s Electoral Vote—The Facts in the Case to be Submitted Without Reecommenda' The*Senate Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions have completed their report on so much of the evidence before them as relates to the pro- ceediags im connection with the electoral vote of Louisiana, The report ts brief, merely stating the sacts in the case, without recommendation to the Senute, and will be presented on Monday. It is concurred in by all the members of the committee. Appropriations for River Improvements. ‘The House Committee on Commerce te-day con- cluded the River and Harbor bill, and among other things agreed to recommend an appropriation of $225,000 tor the imprevement of the East River, in- cluding Heil Gate, New York; $50,000 for Portland harbor, and $76,000 for Batfato harbor. ‘she Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Bridge Controversy. The Senate Committee on Pest OMces and Post Roads were occupied several hours te-day in hearing arguments in regard to the location of the proposed bridge of the Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail- road Company acress the Mississippi. Congress last year authorized this company to censtruct a bridge at or near La Crosse, Wis., leaving ita pre- cise location to be determined by the Secretary of war, Who, on the recommendation of a board of army engineers, fxed tts location ot the town of La Crosse, The railroad company are dissatisfied With this location for the reason that it obliges them te make something of a detour, and now seek legtsiation authorizing the bridge to be lo- cated at @ point about a mile and a half above the main portion of tke town. Alexander Mitchell, president, and Mr. Cottrell, attorney of the Milwaakee and St. Paul Railroad Company, represented its interests at the committee meeting to-day, and the opposing interests were repre- sented by J. W. Losey, attorney fur the Northern Minnesota Ratiroad Company, and Congressmen Rusk and Dunnell, of Wisconsin and Minnesota, respectivély. General Weitzel, of the Engineer Corps, was also present to answer questions and defend the action of the Army Locating Board, of which he was a member. The committee took the question under consideration. Half a Million Asked for League Island. Secretary Robeson was before the House Com- mittee on Appropriations te-day with Representa, tive Leonard Myers, and asked an appropriation ot half a million doliars for League Island. The Inauguration Committee of the New York State Association met to-night and appointed sub-committees to open correspondence with New Yorkers intending to attend the ceremonies, to procure rooms and board for visiters, and to take charge of them white in Washington. The association gives a ball on inauguration eve. The railroad companies are reported as havin; broken their engagements for reduced rates of fare. A New Collector for the Third District of New York. Maurice Friedsam has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third district of New York in place of Mr. Melarg, resigned. Mr. Fried- sam is now Assessor of the district. The Mint and Coinage Bill Practically a Law. Both Houses having agreed to the report of the Conference Committee on disagreeing votes upon the mint dnd coinage bill, it is practically a law, and will go into eifect on the 1st of April next. It provides that gold coins reduced in weight by nat- urai abrasion not more than one-half per cent. be- low. the standurd weight shall be received by the Treasury at tueir nominal value, and received if they have beenin circulation twenty years, and sball be received by the Treasury, at a ratable pro- portion, for any period less than twenty years. Silver bullion may be deposited for forming into bars or “trade dollars,” but not for coinage other- wise. But silver bullion contained in gold deposits, and separated therefrom, may be paid for in silver coin at such valuation as may be prescribed by the director of the mint. The Cadets at Large for West Point Class of 1874. The President intends to designate, about the middle of February, the ten cadets at large whom Ke is authorized to appoint to the Military Academy for 1874. The designation is to be made thus early to enable the appointees to enter at once upon a course of study consonant with that pursued at West Point. The list of “specially meritorious” applicants includes, among ethers, the sons of General Benjamin H. Grierson, the famous raider, now of the regular army; Colonel Robert Nugent, of the Irish brigade, also of the regular army; General Israel Vodges, an aged ar- tillery oMicer; Major George P. Andrews, also of the artiliery; General H. W. Beaham, ef the engineer corps; Commodore Almy, chief signal oflicer of the navy, and General George W. Getty, ofthe army; Andrew Donelson Wilcox, grandson of Major A. J, Denelsen, adopted son and private secretary of President Jackson, and William B. Turnbull, a maternal descendant of the Parke- Curtis family, of Virginia, are also ameng the ap- Plicants for the class of 1874, The Shipping Act Amendments. Collectors of Customs have been notified by the Secretary of the Treasury that the Shipping act has been amended by Congress, so that its pro- visions do not apply in the case of vessels bound to the British North American possessions or tie West India Islands or the Republic of Mexico, Treasury Statement. Amount held by tne United States ‘Treasurer us security for national bank circulation. WASHINGTON. President Grant Determined to Enforee the Laws in Utah. GENERAL SHERIDAN SUMMONED. Secret Mecting of the Poland Credit Mobilier Committee. WHE FATE OF THE C. M. M.C.'S Weuisiana’s Electoral Vote—The Report of the Committee—Wil:on’s Resignation—The Mint and Coinage Bill Virtually a Law—Appro- priations for Harbor Improvements, WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1873, The Presi it im Karnest About the Utah Matter—General Sheridan Sent Por. President Grant, im conversation with a repub- Mean Senator to-day, expressed himself strongly 1M iavor of an enforcement of the laws in Utah, i Mt takes the whele available military sorce to sus- tain the civil authoritics, Gencral Sheridan has deen sammoned here ve give hia advice, from per- @enal observation, of the hest localities within a day's railroad distuuce of Salt Lake City fer tem- perary encampments of troops, The President is fm earnest about this Mormen matter, and those of ‘the Saints who are here fel muck disturbed, Senator Wilson's Resignation Written— His Successor to be Elected on the 18th, Senator Wilson is in Boston. He has written his setter of resignation, to take effect March 3, and it ‘will be submitted to the Massachusetts Legisia- ture next Monday. The election of his successor will take place on the 18th, Seeret Session of Poland’s Committee—A Sweeping Ce! re of All the C, M. M. €.*s or the Expulsion of Amcs To Be Recommended. Pelana’s Committee had a secret session to-day ‘Bpon the subject ef its repert shortly to ve sub- mitted to Congress, The entive session was taken ap with a discus:ion ef the testimony and proper methods of punishment of Congressmen found guilty before the committee. Although rather cautious of expression as yet, the majority of the committce are iniavor of recommending the ex- Puision of Oakes Ames, but’ may not, from notions of policy, recommend more than acensure. Mer- wick and McCreary are in tavor of including James Brooks with Ames for expulsion; but other members are opposed to this, Poland thought he had been very severely pun- tshed already, and was rather disposed to not go farther than a vote of censure. Banks was at first father inclined to side with Merrick and McCreary, but eventually leaned to Poland’s side. Niblack fe notin iaver of extreme measures. He thinks, aside from Oakes,Ames, that a vote of censure 18 ample te recommend. When this question of cen- sure gine te be discussed there was a careful com- paring of testimony, so as to arrive at the proper @onciusion. The cases of Patterson and Colfax were, of course, not considered, being im the other house. If the vote of censure is to ve passed, the great point now before the committee is whether to make a sweeping censure on the prac- tice indulged in by the Crédit Mobilier manipula- tors, without mentioning names, or else to mention particular causes. Poland, Banks and Niblack are 4m favor of the former. Merriek and McCreary are in favor of boldiy moving and proneuncing judg ment upon Congressional offenders, The com- mittee will try to keep back the report until tile Jatter part of next week. It will hold future sessions of cousultation. Ames’ testimony is Anished. The prebabilities are that the report of the committee will be on the side which Poland recommends. What Will be Done with the Soiled Congressional Innocentst—An M. C. on Cc. M. ‘What is to be done with the Congressmen who Rave been slain by the Crédit Mobilier investiga- ‘tion is the question that possesses an all-absorb- ing interest at present, as the session is drawing toa close. Your correspondent has had conver- @ations with several of the prominent Congress- men here with a view of ascertaining the opinion of the House upon this subject. Conversing with ene of them this morning, who is comsidered a Keen observer and a well informed member, he “What are you going te do with the Crédit Mo- Dilier men *” “Well, really it is very dificult te say. The minds @f most of tue members are pretty well made up on the subject.’ “Hew? To expel all of the guilty ones 1” “as to expelling, 1 den’t think any one will be expelled, except Oakes Ames.”” “are you sure of Ames 1? “Yes, pretty sure. There is avery strong feel- Ang here against him. It is tolerably clear he will Bave to ge.” “If he ixexpelled why will not some of his vice tims be expelled as well ?”” “‘Itie like this:—There are some hundred mem- ‘ders of this House who will leave at the end of this session. They, in the main, are indifferent upen ‘the subject, and will be entirely neutral when the question comes up. Then, none but Ames has been And tor public dep 15,635,000 found guilty ot thing which technically places intergal Fevenus Teoet genes @ Congressman within the rule that would au- ‘or the month, thorize expulsion.” For the fiscal year. 72,682,209 Fractional currency he ‘Perjury and complicity with a swindling er- Printing division for the week end- ganization will then be passed over 9" ing to-day “Oh, no! not that. There is but little doubt that jotes Congress will censure the practice of these re- | National bank circulatio reant members; but to go further than that would his sn: ited: ed be to outstrip its powers.” “The case in a nutshell is, then, the expulsion of Ames and censure of his too willing victims }” Treasury Balance: The balances in the Treasury at the close of bust. ness to-day were:— “Yea, that is It, as near as can be stated at pre- | Currency..... wrasse scccss secseceeass GH /O08, 088 ES) al tof legal tend sent. None of the Congressmen accused have been edempe ion of certicates of deposit. convicted of bribery. It has been shown that no | Coin................ special legislation was required at the time of the | /mcluding coin certificate: New Nati The Atchison National Bank of Atchison, Kansas, with @ capital of $100,000, was to-day authorized to commence business. Acts of Congress Signed by the Presid. The President has signed the following acts:— The act to provide for the holding of additional terms of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern district of New York; the act making appropriations to defray the expenses of the in- vestigations in regard to the elections in Kansas, Louisiana and Arkansas; the acts to remove the disabilizies of William A. Graham, of North Oaro- fina, and A. B. Hardcastle, of Mississippi, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WAsmtncton, Feb, 8, 1873, On motion of Mr. Artur, (dem.) of Ky., the Senate bill appropriating $130,000 for a govern- ment building at Covington, Ky., was taken up and passed. On motion of Mr. Barry, (rep.) of Mias., a bill to rearrange the judicial districts of Mississippi was ‘ey from the Judiciary Committee and Mr. Da of Mi mints ae Spa aats madean arya ne A NEW BOSTON RELIEF BILL. The bill already passed by the House remitting the duties on goods destroyed was virtually de It could not pass the Senate. and its iriends gave it up. He now asked to r Committee of Ways ‘and Means.” serra asocubecc sian Mr. Kerr, (dem.) of Ind., objected, The House then’ took Up a4 the business of the istribution of the shares. You might say that it ‘was given to have them friendly to the road; but that ts a mere induction from the facts, not a reality to base action upon. Of course the moral effect of the investigation has been te politically kill the men exposed—in effect the same as if they were ex- pelled from Congress, as it is very evident, from the tone of the public mind, that they never will be ‘trusted again.” ‘The Senate Investigation Committee. ‘The select committee appointed by the Senate to consider the evidence taken by the Crédit Mo- Biller affecting members of the Senate held a pre- Mminary meeting this morning to discuss infor- mally what is the exact scope of the duty with which ‘they are charged, and adjourned to meet again mext Monday. It was not determined to-day, but fits considered quite certain that the session of the committee will be public. Senators Enjoying a Holiday—The Folly of Secret Sessions of the C. M. Com- mitice, ‘The weather to-gay has been warm and &pring- like and as the Sevate had adjourned over untti Monday the Senators enjoyed their holiday. Some ‘went dawn to the Nary Yard to see a model for the statue of Farragut, others visited the departmnta On office-penting expeditions, and in the afternoon there was.a quorum pregent at Mrs. Grant’s recep- tien, This :ia the inst secreation that the Senate ‘will be able to enjoy until after the 4th of March, and after apother week there myst be night sea- sions, 80 des! morning hour a bill reporte: ivuedl learn.the lesson taught | wuliam Meder Hubbell, or his heirs or Tegal repre- yy the HERALD to the House of Representatives |- sentatives, $133,! fn fut Satisfaction of the oe zie e Sanctioned the commence- ment of Crédit = Mobilier investigation with closed doors. The Semators giay try the same experiment, as its committee Proceeds to investigate Wilson, Pagterson, Harlan, and also poos Pomeroy; out we pepwle want po concgal- balance of his actual Joss and dam: asce} by the Court of Claims for the use’ by the tuned States government of several millions of his PATENT FUZES FOR NAVY SHELLS, and for rifle acnnon explosive shelis during the war of the rebellion, and Jor the transfer of his patents fo the United a S Aster guscussien Ut KERB, Of Indu moved to lay ed tay the table, which was negatived—yeas 50, 8 105, Mr. ARCHER, of Md., moved to strike $100,000 out of the appropriation. ‘The bill as thus amended, appropriating $33,333, was passed, The Honse then, at half-past one o'clock, pro- ceeded under a special order to the consideration i tesnees reported from the Committce on aims, After passing a large number of bills the House adjourned, * DEBTS OF THE SOUTH. A Grand Scheme for the Relief of the Recon- structed States—An Issue of $125,000,000 To Be Divided Among the Southern States. Wasuincton, Feb. ¥, 1873. The following brochure is in circulation ‘where it will do most geod.” It is deserving of attention in view of the fact that it proposes @ prompt remedy for the financial embarrasaments of the Southern States, and a preventative of the threat- ened repudiation of the enormous load of debt un- der which those States are at present groaning :— While the candition of the country is one of great gene- ral prosperity, that of eleven ot the States, consider: industrialy, condition, attributed to the results ey were engased, but it has also been materially affected by the action which the government deemed it necessary to take in the reconstruction of their governments. Though their reconstruction was demanded by consid- erations which the Congress decided to. be imperative and necessary to effect certain great results, vet its operation intlicted consequentially great Gnancial evils on them. Itis not now proposed to consider the great Jegal question as to whether the decision of the gove' ment, that they had ceased to be States and coul become such by a reorganization of their original cle- men’s, is to be deemed conelurive that they had ceased corporate hodies, and that, asin other cases of ihe antihtlacion ot corporations, their debts died with them. Nor ist, perhans, necessary to inquire whother | thelr altered condition and the loss of @ e raater pestien of their property does. not equitably justity a compromixe with creditors and the payment of a lesser sum. Still less is It proposed to question the righttulness of the recon- struction ‘acts. In fact, there is no reason to doubt but that to promote the objects which the essential, such legislation was necessai ‘a well-settled principle that when, in ci Public purposes, damages result to indr remuneration may property be made. true when the operation is lawful and right, but even in cases of trespass or other wrongful acts compensation is deemed proper. The immediate effect of the reconstruction acts was to throw the control of these States into the hands of per- sons utterly incompetent to manage their business ceastully. Their debts were largely without any corresponding advantage The financial eredit — o! me of been uuerly ruined, and that of others so greatly impaired to render their obligations of value in the markets of the world, The high taxes im- osed on cotton and tobacco, too, the articles on ihe pro- uction of which they chiefly depended to obtain money, operated with especial hardship on then. Even in thelr crippled condition these eleven States have furnished in value mere than hall of the exporis of the United States. In the Northern States of the Union, where most of their bonds are held, many persons are seriously suffer- ing from the failure to receive Interest due them. ‘he fact that some of the States cannot meet their obll- gations undonbtealy injures all Amer! not only at home but even in Europe, where the United States six er cent bonis are scarcely equal in market value to the ritish three per cents, it the government of the United States can without loss or serious inconvenience to itself, and without imposing bnrdens on its citizens, remody these evils, it would seem proper for it todo so. The plan now suggested has been Preuenited to the consideration of a number of statesmen, nkers, merchants and o.her emincat citizens, and h be Ge, oe unanimous approval of all who have ex- ainined it. It a proposed that there be an, issue of not more than 125,000,000 of bonds of the United states, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent in specie, and redecmabie at, the end of forty years. Let these bonds, or so many of them as may be found necessary to meet the conditions hereinatter stated, be Sih aeeetee amon constructed States, on the combined and population—viz., one-halt of the sum divided in pro- Portion to their bona fide debt a4 existing on the Ist day of January, 1873, and the other half in the ratio oi thelr population as shown by, the census of 1870. Let there be five commissioners appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose com: nsation shail be equal to the salary of Justices of the jupreme Court tor one year. Prov! these com- missioners shall determ{ne the amount of the debt of each of the States above reterred to, and shall also decide at what rate the different classes of their bonds may be ex- changed (or the four per ceut United States bonds, Then, upon any One of these States, through the action of its Legislature, accepting the conditions of this act, let an opportunity be afforded tor a limited time to each ot the creditors of that State to exchange such ot its bonds as he holds, at the reduced rate as fixei, for the bonds of the United States. ‘To give the highest possible value to the four per cent bonds it might be provided that the United States should, for the term of twenty years, pay the interest with a condition, however, imposed on said States, that at the end of four years they shall begin to pay to the gever: ment four per cent, and after a fn of twelve yea: six per cent, until the United States should have been paid the interest advanced by it When the period of twenty years has expired, the in- terest and principal of the said four per cent debt w: become that of the States alone. To prevent the reckless creation of new debts by such legislatures as have existed in some of these States, it micht be agreed that until it discharged ils obiigations to relieve the from the responsibility for im- al it would not, without the Tess, create any new debt of greater amount than what would be equal to ome dollar on each of its inh This condition, if deemed And tinanciaily, is Their situation, i Congress deecm increas me the eleven re- tio of their debt cessary, wntecd cither by a proper re- striction ’in its constitution, or by the understanding that if it violated the agreement the Treasurer of the United States should have the power to reissue its old obliga- tions instead of cancelling them. The effect of this measure would be, in tho first to relieve the bondholderschiefly residing in the ern States of the Union. Secondly, it would be a great reilef to the recon- structed States themselves. From present appearances it is not improbable that a number of them from, inabil- Hy alone, will utterly fall to discharge the debts with which they ure burdened. Many of their creditors, prob- al y ‘most of them, would gladly exchange the bonds they h half the amount of United states four ber cents, or even o hile the substitution four ' per cents for bonds bearing a much higher rate of interest would still further greatly reduce the actual amount of their debt. some of States would probably have their debt reduced toa third of its present volume, while all of them would be so aided that they might easily carry the remainder of their obli- ations, They would for four years also be relieved from e payment of interest, and might, while recovering their former prosperity, make preparations to meet their reduced obligations. Great eqvantage would Probably be at once eaperi. enced by the Uni States, Its citizens have hitherto been, and doubtless will continue to be, jarcely con- f the productions of foreign countries But no nation can for any gn J period import more than it can send abroad by way ot exchenge Viment Graluing itself ._ These eleven States have heretofore furnished tthe Pod n lace, jorth- by the ‘on imports received in ‘fously, therefore, to its advantage t the Cat should be as large as possible. Improv- the condition of these States will tend greatly to pro- d ‘addition to the imports amount to only twenty infifions, the present tariff 3 would sufficient to afford the government a greater sum than the five millions annually to be paid by way of interest, le out of view the fact that this sum isto be tes. the credit of all the States was restored fo ations were romney met there mn to doubt but that the bonds of the United States would bear a higher very fact that the government, after Sipantic a rebellion, showed itself able of all the States, woul (4) it ad consideration and im the eyes of all the civilized nations of the globe. It can scarcely be doubted but eh in conse- quence of this, it would meet more favorable terms in making such new negotiations as it might from time to time find it necessary to undertake. As this measure isnow presented for the first time for comsideration. if it were promptly. adonied, those now holding the State bonds mid derive the chief immediate benefits, while delay of action on it might lead to the promotion of speculative combinations and it might thus be prejudiced in the eyes of Congress and uf the country at la ‘As the plan is It intelligible to to be no seems be adopted. 1h st Sre made to present the subject for consideration, rather than indicate the precise fourm in which the measure ought to be passed. aiealaielies NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The United States steam sloop of war Juniate, commanded by Commander Daniel L. Braine, will ge into commission on February 10 and receive her provisions and other stores. Only a portion of her officers have reported for duty, as follows:— E. N. Kellog, Lieutenant Commanding and ex- oMcer; G. W. De Long, Lieutenant and Navigator; 4. T. Merry, Lieutenant; H. M. Perkins, Lieutenant; BR. B. Nones, Chief Engineer; A. E, Hoehling, Sur- geon; T. 8. Thompson, Paymaster ; B. F. Wood, First Assistant Engineer; M. K. Henderson, gunner; P. Huckins, boatswain; L. L. Martin, carpente: Van Mater, sailmaker; G. J. Maubry, captain's clerk. Lieutenant Commander Francis Morris is or- dered to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H.; Commander William A. Kirkland has been de- tached frem the gene and ordered to the com- mand of the Guard; Commanaer Charles A. Bab- cock from the Guard and ordered to the command of the Supply Pay Director John 8, Cunt m2. has beem detached from duty as Inspector of Pro- visions, &c., at the Washington Nav; ordered to settle accou! Pay master Charles i Thompson has been ordered to duty as Inspector of Provisions, &c., at the Washington Navy Yard, REDUCTION OF THE ATLANTIO OABLE TARIFF, New Yor«, Feb, 8, 1873, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD :— It gives me great pleasure to inform you that at a meeting of the directors of the Anglo-American and French Atlantic telegraph companies, held in London yesterday, and at @ meeting of the Board of Directors of the New York, Newfoundiand and London Telegraph Company, this morning, it was ‘unanimously resolved to reduce the tariff on mes- sages between Great Britain, France and New York from $1 per word to seventy-five cents per word on and after the Ist day of May next, I trust that this reduction will create such an in- crease of business as shortly to lead to the adop- tion of @ still lgwer tarif. I remain, sir, yours, keapectfally, + SXBVS W. FIELL, SPAIN VS. FREE CUBA, Fitting Out a Spanish War Vessel in New York. The Confederate Privateer Chickamanga Being Equipped with a Naval Armament. The Forlorn Condition of the Fleet of Spanish Gunboats Off Cuba—New Boilers Re- quired—History of the Chickamanga— Interview with Mr. Delamater. In view of the increasing complications between the government of the United States and that of Spain, a Spanish vessel of war is now being fitted ‘up in this port at the well knownshipbuilding yard of Mr. Delamater, situated at the foot of Fifteenth street, North River, The name of the vesgelin ques- tion (the Chickamauga) is familiar to Northern ears, for during the late war she was engaged as a rebel privateer, and inflicted upwards of a milion dol- lars’ worth of damage on our commerce by captur- ing some half a dozen vessels, The steamer in question is to be armed with a hundred pound Pivot gun and two sixty pound broadsiders, SKETCH OF THE PRIVATERR’S HISTORY. . The Chickamauga is @ long, rakish, low set ves- sel, with sharp bows and stern, of about six hun- dred tons burden, and is a perfect type of @ rapid vessel, She was built in 1864, at Blackwall, near London, by Dudgeon Brothers, She was originally laid out for a Danish gunboat at the commence- ment of the war between Denmark and the com- bined land and sea forces of Prussia and Austria, but owing to the speedy termination of the war her services were not required, SHE ENTERS THE CONFEDERATE SERVICE. Owing to her great speed, she was purchased for $45,000 by the Confederates, who were also at- tracted by the unusual thickness of her tron plates, they being from seven-elghths to half an inch in thickness, She has a clear upper deck and a berth deck, with a commodious cabin and wardroom ait for ofiicers. The following are her principal di- mensions :—Length, 180 feet; breadth of beam, 25 feet; depth of hold, 15 feet. She has five water- tight compartments. Her four engines, of 800 horse power, are remarkably powerful; the diame- ter of each cylinder is 34 inches, and 22-inch stroke of piston. SHE 18 A TWIN SCREW, with two engines to each screw. Her consumption of coal is twenty-four tons per twenty-four hours, and her speed Js fifteen knots an hour. She miy be considered as one of the swiftest vessels of her class in this or any other country, and among her cele- brated runs may be cited that which she made from Nassau to Wilmington in fifty hours. SHE REMAINS TWO YEARS UNDER WATER. At the capture of Wilmington by the federal troops she was sunk by the rebels to prevent her being taken. At the close of the war she was sold as she lay, with a large amount of other property. Her owners lost no time in raising her from her iresh water bed, getting her repaired and taken to Bal- timore, and it is computeé that the money ex- pended in raising the privateer amounted to up- wards of ope hundred and twenty thousand dollars, HER SALE TO THE REPUBLIC OF MEXICO. After remaining.idle tor some time at Baltimore General Sturms, on behalf of the Republic of Mexico, agreed to purchase her for the navy of that country, and her name was changed to that of the then President of Mexico, Benito Juarez, and the Mexican arms were engraved on hentern, and remain thereto this day. Owing, however, to some misunderstanding the sale was never con- + gia and the Chickamauga remained idle as fore. THE SPANISH NAVAL AGENT IN NEW YORK. By the last steamer which arrived in this city from Havana, the Spanish naval officer in thus city, per- manently stationed here, Don Casariego, and whose office is situated at 42 broadway, received defective instructions to purchase the vessel in question, and conclude the sale which had been pending for over a month, and a couple o! days ago the ex-privateer was brought round to the yard of Mr. Delamater to be thoreughly overhauled, SHE I8 VISITED BY 4 HERALD REPORTER. Yesterday morning @ HEKALD reporter went down to the shipbuilding rye just mentioned to inspect the vessel in question. On her decks were @ number of mecnanics work! hard at “over- ee ” or, in other words, fitting her up as a Spanisl jan-ol-war. The decks were lumbered, and the sharp ring of the hammer was heard on every side. A portion of her bulwarks been lowered for the setting of the pivot guns No time, it 1s reported, is to be lost in getting her ready for sea, as the Spanish government requ: her services at once, and as many other steamboats as they can afford to buy in this country, for it is reported on the highest authority THAT TAK SPANISH GUNBOAT FLOTILLA, which consisted of thirty steamers, and which were allowed te leave this port about three years bo 3 for Cuban waters, by order of Secretary Ham- ilton Fish, are now in @ most dilapidated condition, and requiring new boilers, which are now being prepared and shipped by Mr. Delamater. This | setapae ruination of botiers is considered to be he exclusive fant of the Spanish engineers on board (resea boners Seon burn areae in a by gross ignorance and carele: @nd not of the constructor, Mr. Delamater. Alter having watched the workmen on the steamer for some time @ reporter paid a visit to Mr. Delamater im his office, and the following short conversation toek place. REPORTER—You are fitting out the Chickamauga for @ Spanish man-of-war, I hear, Mr. ‘Delamater? Mr. Truce dear sir, if there is a person on earth that I do net like it is areporter. Caugn. ing.) fixronren—went, is it yes or no, Mr. Delamater ? Mr. DELAMATER—I have only to . that Mr. Casaricjo has put the vessel in my hands to be thoroughly repaired and overhauled. RerorTeR—I will only bother you with one more question. Have you heard hew many of your gun- pou oe 5 have lest off the coast of nal Mr. DELAMATER—! provided thirty boats, and they have now tlurty-one, or one additional the number I farnished, and there have been no losses, therefore. ‘Mr. Delamater for his courtesy the re- Thankin, porter withdrew. A CONTRADICTION. Subsequently the reporter spoke with several well informed persons, who say that they believe that some five or six, at least, of the gunboats have been lost, WILL THE PERUVIAN MINISTER INTERFERE? It is believed that the Peruvian Minister will pro- test against the Chickamauga leaving this port as an armed Spanish war vessel. The Peruvian gov- ernment is not at peace with Spain, there being merely a three years’ truce existing between the two a and which shortly expires, When the gunboat flotilla of thirty ves: ist alluded to, each costing about flity thousand dollars, left this pert to quell the Cuban insurrection, the reru- vian gevernment made a remonstrance to this gov- ernment, but in vain. SUCCESSFUL CUBAN RXPEDITIONS. It is apparent that the flotilia in question is, com- paratively speaking, unserviceabie in preventin; the landing of the numerous expeditions which have of late been carrying arms, munitions of war, ee ve the patriot Cubans in diferent parts of the sland. FURTHER PURCHASES OF SWIFT STEAMERS BY THE The former bi wade ruune the e lockade runner, uette, has been sold at Baltimore for « “cattle it to a wealthy Havana firm, but she, like the Chicka- mauga, it is understood, is about to recruit the forces of the ae squadron on the shores of Cuba. It ts reported also thi Spanish steamer henge tye Orleans to await the large ton which, it is sald, will leave there shortly. é Spanish naval officer im this city hag fice! steamers Northern and Southern, bow fing steel stem ern, LOW | in the Erie Basin, es iil PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1873. The representatives of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Society of New York are in this city at the present moment, and propose to hold a meeting at Bethel | church (colored), Sixth street, on Monday evening next, Speeches will be delivered by many influen, tial colored people in this city, and the meeting promises to be an enthusiastic one. Several thou- sand signatures have been obtained to the petition calling upon General Grant to interfere im behaif of the abolition of slavery, and to accerd the Cuban patriots belligerent rights, The excitement among all classes Of colored people on the sabject is very great. The following is the cail for the meeting Five hundred thousand fellow men now held ai in the Island of Cuba by the government of Spi mand our sympathy and assistance de- In the war whic! has been carried on in that island for the past four years we recognize two distinct purties—one the advocate of freedom and the other the advocate of slavery and the siave trade. The Cuban patriots, in the commencement of thé struggle, inscribed upon their banners and adgpted consuution declaring that “all the inhabitants are abso: lutely tree.” The government of Spain has upheld the detestable institution of slavery, has made slaves of 69,00) freemen, and has committed berbarities that are shocking to the senses of a Unristian people. It is, therefore) resolved 10 petition His Excellency the President of the United States, to grant belligerent rights to the Cuban patriots, and place the cause of freedom and humanity on equal grounds with slave: slave ee F: thel church, fixth st - Ih thel cl big elt rect, below Fine street, om Mon- day even ev, Henry iighland Uarneti, D. D., af New York, the a ie coneres clty churches and others will ad- J, Young, John ©. Bawers, Stephen fa }» Henry ‘opper, Wil Bowers, 1, C: W Jos. W. Casey, Levi ‘Cromwell, Robert 'M. Adger, Veorge W. Goines William Still, Liysxes B. Vidal mvs, Jacob C, White, Jos. CL |, Pubert Huctill, J. Whipper Purnell, wobert Voglass. SPANISH MISREP“ESENTATIONS OF THE OARLIST MOVEMENT, Convicts Sent to Cuba as Regular ‘Troops. To THE EpiroR OF THE HERALD:— Being in a position to know the facts in the pres- ent condition oi affairs in Spain in the contest now raging between Don Carlos and the govern- Ment, I would call your attention to the garbled telegrams dictated by the Spanish government, for ‘the exclusive benefit of the United States, relating to the universal successes of the government troops ugainst the Carlista, The facts are that in no he ad conflict within sixty days have the troops gained the advantage. ‘Ine soldiers have not been paid, are badly provisioned and equip) 3 they reuse to attuck tne Carlists, The government has called out a national guard to fill the ranks of the soldiery, but with poor success. The Spanish government wish the United States to understand they are capable ot overcom- ing both home diserder and Cuban civil war, feat ing 1i the weakness of the government was known the people o1 this country would be encouraged to take sides with the Cuban revolution. Ask your correspondent in Cuba to report on the character of the soldiers shipped to Cuba as regular treops, Thenate taken trom tie hulks and prison; of Spain, as the government no longer dare order tne regu- lar army to that service, as none of them ever return except It be the officers, whe escape the service under every possible excuse. A SUBSCRIBER, The Government of the United States, Not the Peuple, Responsible for the Cuban Atrocities. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— The stand you have taken in regard to the threatened outrage to your correspondent, Mr. O’Kelly, will no doubt be supported by every patriotic American, for it is an insult to the people at large and muat be dealt with accordingly. Spain seems to have forgotten that it is due to the weak aud vacillating policy of our government, and not to the American people, that the outrages that have been committed upon our citizens in Cuba are submitted to; but tne people are fast waking up to the situation, thanks to the efforts of an independent press, of which the HERALD takes the lead, and if the threat of General Morales is carried out the subservient State De- partment, as you say, would be but a reed in the Way of the storm of indignation that would sweep the United States; and tne people would rise in their might to annihilate the Power that dared to injure oue of their countrymen, and the Spaniards would then find out that there were other people than themselves in this world whose rights were bound to be respected. THE HERALD COMMISSIONER TO CUBA. (From the Poughkeepsie Press, Feb. 7.) The New YORK HERALD has sent a Commissioner, Mr. James O'Kelly, to Cuba, to gather facts in the interest of the American people and the world at large concerning the condition of that island, This enterprise does not snit the despotic magnates of that little Territory, and Mr. O’Kelly has re- ceived official notice that if he is found among the insurgents, or after returning into the Spanish lines from such @ mission, is taken, he will be shot as a spy. The HERALD gives due notice to the Spanish authorities that if they should commit such an outrage against this American citizen Spain will be compeiled to pay the penalty for it. The Hera.p is right. We very much doubt that the Spanish authorities there, steeped as they are in innocent biood, would so defy the moral senti- ment of the world, Should they do go the blood of the martyr would be the rank growing principle of political liberty and disenthraiment from foreign despotism in that island. In less than six months not an emblematic rag of Spanish rule would show itself in Cuba, ADAMS EXPRESS ROBBED. Capture, Trial and Conviction of an Employe for the Embezzlement of’ $6,000—The Arrest Brought About in a Curious Way. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 8, 1873, The Adams Express Company in the State of Ohio have again been called upon, and for the third time in five months past, to realize the fact that men working on salaries that barely sustain them, and at the same time having the control of large sums of money, are prone to do evil. The first of the three cases cited is that of Hezekiah H. Whit- tlesey, of the Cincinnati ofice, of whose embezzle- ment of $9,000 the Heratp has already been informed, The second case is that of George R. Blakeslee, @ messenger now under arrest here, who, it is claimed, has stolen $1,506 from the com- pany in the course of the past year er two, his operations being conducted on a small scale. THE EMBEZZLER OF SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS, ‘The third case is now to be considered. The cir- cumstances connected with it were developed in the Police Court this morning. W. K, Tidball was arraigned on the charge of emblezzing $6,000 of the Express Company's funds while a ag their agent at Alliance, Ohio, The prosecution not pane ready with thelr the prisoner was committe to jall in default of $5,000 and the preliminary hear- ing set for one week from date, KLING HIS BESETTING SIN. Tidball is a young man of tall stature, smooth complexion and rustic appearance. He 1s married and two children. He was born of respectable arents in Alliance. He first entered the Adams Express Company's employ as a messenger and about three years age was promoted the control of the agency at Alliance. He always found pienty of work to do and plenty of moaey to handle, Un- used to the latter he soon fell into bad habits, and among other things took to gambling, using small sums of money pilfered from packages that passed through his hands in the “enterprise.” As gam! grew to be a frenzy with him so did his moral prin- ciple desert him, His situation finally grew des- perate. He was $3,000 in arrears and knew no way of making it up. He therefore concluded to make a big haul and rum his chances of escaping with the booty. THE FATAL MISSIVE FROM HOME. On the 17th of last month he absconded with a package containing $3,000, and aiter seeing @ little of the eastern part of the country he rounded to at Washington, D. C., and assumed the name of J. H. Myers He was not disyuised, and yet, notwith- standing the fact that tull descriptions and photo- graphs of him had been distributed broadcaast through the land by the company, he escaped ap- rehension. He might have been at large now ut for @ curious circumstance. One of the letters sent to him from home fell into the hands of a genuine J. H. Myers by mistake. ‘The letter was once given inte the hands of the police, who ar- rested Tidball, and heid him until the arrival ot a detective from this city, who Was sent on to Wash- ington by the company immediately upon their re- ceiving information ef the arrest Dmy $103 was found upon the swindier's person when arrested, but he claims to have sent the $3,000 package from Washington to a friend of his in Alliance, and that it will be recovered. He con- fesses having stolen the money, and professes to be very penitent. is trial will most prebably take place at Alliance, and there is every prospect of his going to tne Penitentiary. The Express Com- pany were petitioned agen Sd in itlesey’s case, but they refused to harbor any though: if mercy, and he is now in the on rami aving bo sentence of one year—a very light sen- nce, PUBLIO SCHOOL ABUSES. To THE EprTor OF THE HERALD:— Your articles on school ventilation have my hearty approval, I have sent my two youngest boys for two successive Winters to the boys’ school on Thirteenth street, near Sixth avenue (primary department), but each time they remained from one to two weeks and then had to remain home owing to a severe cold or inflammation of the lungs which kept them away for weeks. Having tried the school thus I was compelied to remove them thia Winter to @ private school, where they have at- tended regularly and have been in good health, No judgment is used in that department tn regard to ventilation, Sometimes the room is excessively warm; at other times the windows on botn sides of the house are epened, and the current ef coid ir descending ow the heads of the children causes arrhal affections and pneumonia, Such complaints as the tollowing have been made about the giris’ school, Twelf.h street, near Univer- sity place. A continual system of heating is going on aiter they leave in the alternoon. The desks locked up are opened and articles removed, even books as well as other things, and if anything is accidentally left by the sciolars it is always gone before morning. Nothing is safe in that school, and the Cg is, Who steals it ? Complaints, | under- stand, have been made, but ne steps taken to cor- rect it again. ‘The Board of Education is frequently applied to for necessary books aud material for conducting the school, and they are not supplied, No notice is taken, The teaehers have to purchase them- selves the necessary articles, or go without, At “"p Woeting will be bois o Juniper he adore ght, ap | resent, to my knowledge, an important part of a acher’s duty is prevented being fulfilled by reason of not having the necessary material. hers it are @fraid of complaining for iear of losing the: Aiuationg, aos, “low last evening. THE MODOCs. 7 How They Are Entrenched—Their Watura} Fortifications Impregnable—It Will Cost the Lives of Six American Soldiers to One Indian to Move Them. (Correspondence of the San Francisco Chronicle.) YREKA, Jan. 27, 1873. Allis quiet at the front. Captain Jack, Scar. faced Charley, Shack Nasty Jim and the other war- riors are resting complaccntly in their bow!l-lke camp, waiting or the next demonstration, Ihada conversation with James (, Fairchild today. Mr. Fairchild is a brother of John A,, the man who ha@ the famois interview with the Modocs, Both his brother and himself were in the late fight. Mr. Fairchild is a very intelligent gentieman, and is @ shrewd, keen observer. He says that 2,000 men wilt not get those In:jians out of that lava bed. He de- scribes their position as one of the most wonderful natural fortifications he ever beheld. He is a maa of great experience, He went through the late war ‘on the reble side; was at Vicksburg, all through the siege, and in a dozen others. what were at that time supposed to be impregnable strongholds, and he says he never saw anything like it. These lava rocks, he says, are filled up in a way that na engineer could plun out. The Indians use them as real forts, getting behind them and | shooting through the cracks the sume as through @ case- mate. Their positions cannot be charged because some of them are 100 feet in height and utterly inaccessibie irom below. Neither can tuey be shelled, ior shells would strike against these rocks like botled turnips agatust 2 tombstone, Mr. Faire child says there are two ways of getting at these Indians, One is to charge en them with @ force of twenty to one, expecting to lose six lives out of every ten. The other 18 to surround and starve them out. The one plan will cost an ocean ot blood, the other a mint of money. The latter plan isalmost impossible to carry out for the reason that supplies caunot be brought into the lava bed, and any cordon that is drawn around Jack must be located right in the rocks. As it was the other day, the wounded had to be packed out on horseback for miles. Nothing in the form o:)a wagon could be brought within ten miles of where the troops fought. Again, Jak has beei cattle by the hundred im his camp, with plenty of grass on tue lake shore to feed them on, Months would have to elapse before he would even feel the necessity of supplies, and by that time our side would feel as tired of the starving out process as he. The only feasible plan, then, is to charge on them—kill and get kilied. ‘This will in- volve a terrible loss of lite; but then—pshaw! what are soldiers made for, and what are their lives worth when the dignity of the government is to be preserved 7 [Vide Senator Cole's despatcues to Governor Booth.) Mr. Fairchild informs me that the indians fight with a tenacity of purpose and with a milit: sa- gacity worthy of the highest civilization. heir evolutions on the day o! the main battle were car- ried out witn consummate tuct and wonderful pre- cision, Taey seemed to have their whole position laid out in parallels, each man having his own lava rock breastwork from behind which fo fire. Wher they fell back, which they did whenever they were hard pressed, they did it deliberately, merely tak- ing their positions behind the rocky vreastworks next in their rear, where they were even mvre se. cure than before. Captain Jack was constantly heard giving his orders, and to all appearances his authority was recognized as prowptly as though he had bee! Major general, The Indian squaws and children all occupied # position in a kind of basin, within the Indian lines, and the fight took place ali around them in a circle. THE HOBOKEN MURDER. Conelusion of the Inquest and Discharge ofthe Car DrivereThe Horror to Re- main an Unfathomable Mystery—Fu- rious Attack on the Police for Accusing Berger. ‘The inquisition into the cause of the death of the unknown traveller, near the Elysian Fields, on the Seth of January, was continued by Coroner Pars ‘ihe number of anxious citizena present was no less than that on Tuesday, The prisoner, Charles Berger, was present. Dr. Ben- son deposed that when the implement was pre- sented to him by Chief Donavan he found blood corpuscles and tlree hairs on it. Whether the hair nd blood were human or not he did not know. The side of the turner fitted exactly into the large wounds, and the point of It symmetrized with the smaller wounds, (The Doctor was subjected to a critical croas-examination by counsel for the pris oner.) The wounds could not have been inflicted with # woeden instrument or with A KNIFE OR HATCHET. The County Physician testined—There were five wounds; one was two inches long, penetrating ta the bone on the right side of the chin, a wound on the upper lip, one above the right eye, a round flesh wound over this, on the forehead, a Har. external wound on the right side of the head and penctrating the skull; @ piece of the skull bone was found driven into the brain and a clot of blood in the cavity ofthe cranium; the man must have enjoyed general good health; THE SWITCH TURNER FITTED into some of the wounds; he could not remember whether he had seen it fitted into all the wounde; he gave it as his opinion that the two round wounds might have beea inflicted with @ slung shot, onde! He the wound in the head near the hole inthe hat fitted the instrument; in his opinion pone of the wounds were caused by the switch urner, ‘x-OMicen Woodfine sworn—I rode im one of the small horse cars gn the evening of the murder, leaving thé ferry about seven o'clock; one passen- ger Was in the car, whom I at first sup) to be @ pedler with whom I was aoquarniens 1 said “holloa” to him, and then found Ihad mades mis. take ; I subsequently recognized in THE DECEASKD’S FEATURES those of that passenger, to the best of my knows ledge and belief; three Pocegenr nob and myself got off at Eighth street, and the passenger before men- tioned remained alone in the car. This witness was severely catechised by counsel for the prisoner, but nothing could be elicited to shake his testimony, Two drivers swore they had not seen Woodfize or deceased in their cars, ‘The prisoner, Berger, then came forward, and, e ner, Berger, then rw by advice of his counsel, refused to be sworn. He made a verbal statement, however, as follows:—"E don't know at what time Lleft the ferry on that evening, but I must have left between six and seven, inasmuch as We make two ti an hour; don’t know that I've seen deceased at any honed | don’t know whether I stop at Eighth stree' then; went straight on, and, without stopping im Eleventh street, returned to the ferry; don’t know whether the Eleventh street lamp was lighted or not.’ He was interrupted by nis counsel, who said that the prisoner had sufficient state- ment, Berger ended by averring that he knew nothing of the occurrence. Hereupon @ crowd of Germans in the hall be; & dance of applause, which was promptly fuppressed by Coroner Parsiow and Constab! hn. The Ce er having e charged the jury very impartially, the latter, after a few minutes, rendered a verdict that deceased came to his death from wounds inflicted by UNKNOWN PARTIES, and exonerated Berger. The authorities were ane able to repress the applause which greeted the jurors. Several German roughs gesticulated furl- ously, threatening vengeance on the police and avowing a determination to have them dismissed. This Teal is, happily, confined to the narrow- minded, ¢ police could have done nothing but their sworn duty in the matter, as all high minded citizens well Know, aud they certainly deserve sympathy in this foul attack upon them. It ts, of course, lamentable that a man like Berger should have even a dark shadow of suspicion cast upon his name, but he has to blame the unfortu- nate circumstances which were not created, but discovered by the police, REVELATIONS OF THE SUN THROUGH THE SPECTROSCOPE. Lecture by Professor 8. A. Barker st Cooper Institute Last Night. The third of the course of free lectures under the auspices of the Cooper Union was given last even- ing by Professor Barker, of Yale College. The sub ject was “Revelations of the San Through the ‘Spectroscope.”” So interesting a theme naturally drew an un-~ ‘usually large attendance, and the hall was packed with an assemblage of eager auditors, many of them ladies, who were particularly attracted by the brilliant experiments. If they did not thor- oughly comprehend the technical of the lectare, they could at least appreciate the coloring and beauty of the illustrations, The Profeasor re- viewed the history of renomical research in re- to the sun, fessor Bu ote himself almost exclusively to spectrum: alysis, and the spectroscope was his constant. flon'at the Casticcol Heidelberg—he avatied Mewag on al e av: ry of the instrument to decompo a emanating from the II that diferent oy the aid furnisned by five European gov- eraments, physicists were despatched, on the occasion of a solar eclipse, to different portions of the globe. Their observations, through the aid of the spectroscope, conclusively demonstrated that the various terrestrial metals, such as silver, stronlium, titanium, &c., existed as constituent elements of the sun and contribated to the form: tion of soiar light. These facts were illustrated 4 the aid of @ screen and magic lantern, on whic! the spectra were projected and the different vari colored rays exhibited by successively substituting the different metals in the illuminating apparatus, f-past nine, lecture was concluded about feaned wich Cutertaimmeng and the audience departed, bigaly the instructive and interesting aiiprded them by the Professor,