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——$—$ FRANCE. The Question of MacMahon’s Term of Power— Preparation for the Assembly Debate— Republican Electoral Gain. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Nov. 16, 1873. ‘The moderate section Of the Left has resolved to withdraw the amendments witch it intended to propose to the report of the commivtee on the pro- longation of the President’s powers, and to unite with the republicans in an effort to defeat a motion for an unconditional prolongation of ten years, whieh will be presented to the Assembly by Gen- eral Changarnier to-morrow. REPUBLICAN ELECTORAL GAIN. In the elections for members of the Assembly to- day, the repubiicans carried the Department of the Aube, SPAIN. The Carlist War and a Cabinet Crisis. TELEGRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD. BAYONNE, Nov. 16, 1873, ‘The Carlist chieftain, Dorregarray, now occupies Los Arcos. General Moriones retired to Logrono, to await the result of the ministerial crisis in Madrid, THE ASHANTEE WAR. The King Determined to Vanquish the English or Die in the Attempt—The Marital Relation Not Respected. [From the London Times, Nov. 4.) Care Coasr Caste, Oct. 10, 1873. Our news consists entirely of rumors. It is rumored that the Ashantees have left their camp near Elmina. It was rumored some days ago that reinforcements for the Ashantees had crossed the Prab, and now this report has received some confirmation from Accra, An Ashantee prisoner captured in the Eastern districts says that TWO LARGE ARMIRS of 20,000 and 12,000 men had crossed the Prah, and that the King had sworn the great oath to take Cape Coast Castle or perish in the attempt. The Soudan, mail steamer, homeward bound, was tak- ing in cargo at Accra, and, although she would only have remained there a day, Captain Glover thought it advisable that Sir G. Wolseley should receive the intelligence at once, and paid £250 to the Soudan to sail at once. Mean- while the road from Cape Coast Castle to the Prah is being made under the charge of Lieutenant Gordon, of the Ninety-eighth regiment, who came out here some time ago as a volunteer, and who has now been placed by Sir G. Wolseley among the special service officers attached to this expedition, Lieutenant Gordon has nearly reached Yanco- massie, where THE FANTRES WERE BEATEN. ina pitched battle by the Ashantees, and where ‘the bullet marks are still to be seen on the trees. It 18 about 30 miles northeast o! Cape Coast Castle. So far already guns can be transported. The first and great camp isto be at Doonque, a lew miles this side of Yancomassie. A company of 60 men of the West India regiment, under Lieutenant Jones, is at Akroofoo, nine miles this side of Doon- que, Captain Glover, at Accra, is said to be get- ting on well, the only contretemps having been fight between the Houssas and the Accras. The Houssas are not yet quite broken in, and frequently take the sheep, fowl and wives of their iriends. The Ashantees No Mean Enemy—They Understand Flank Movements. FRBETOWN, Sierra Leone, Oct. 16, 1873, Two of the mail steamers from the Leeward Coast, the steamship Elmina and the steamship Monrovia, arrived here to-day almost simultane- ously, The Monrovia went aground nearly four months ago on Brass Bar, and alter remaining aground for three days, was got off with consider- able difficulty and repaired so as to allow her to return to England. The steamship Soudan, which left Cape Coast before the Mon- rovia, has nearly all the Coast mails on board. She has been expected here for some days past. It now appears that the cause of the delay in her arriving 18 that she met with a ship in distress off Cape Palmas, and remained to tow her to Sierra Leone. She is expected to arrive here to-morrow. The Monrovia brings a strange report to the effect that when the Soudan was at Accra Captain Glover received news that the whole strength of the main army of the Ashantees, headed by the King in person, was MARCHING FROM COOMASSIR by the Accra country. Captain Glover deemed this news of such importance as to induce him to give & very considerable sum to the captain of the Soudan to induce him to proceed at full speed to Cape Coast, without making any delay at Accra to ship cargo, and apprise Sir Garnet Wolseley of the news. It appeared uncertain whether an attack on Captain Glover’s newly-raised Houssa levies at Accra and Addah was intended, or whether an attempt would be made to attack Sir Garnet Wolseley in flank, and thus interrupt the cutung of the road to Coomassie. Captain Glover was re- ported to be CONCEYTRATING his own forces at Accra. Confirmation of this re- port is anxiously expected. Ii the news ve true the reported movement o/ the Ashantee army will probably have arisen from the rapid progress that was being made by our troops in cutting the road to Coomassie, which the Ashantee Generals must have seen it was vital for them to stop at all risks. The Monrovia made but a very short stay at Cape Coast. She reports the healtn there to be greatly improved. The road to Coomassie is now opened nearly to Donquah, and it was stated that Sir Garnet Wolseley intended moving his headquarters trom Cape Coast some distance to the front, SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERTS, The Strakosch Opera Company appeared in con- cert last night at Wallack’s, represented by the following artists:—Mlle. Torriani, Miss Cary, and Messrs. Capoul, Del Puente and Maurel. The or- chestra, under the direction of Mr. S. Behrens, played a couple of overtures, and assisted Signor Morosini in the rendering of the andante and finale of Mendelasohn’s hackneyed piano concerto in G minor. The execution of this gentleman is neat and fintsned, but bis method of playing from the shoulder and elbow, instead of using the wrist as a medium of power, 1s fatal to his tone, The cello obligato in the andante was entirely too loud, and at times almost . obliterated the pian- let, Mile. Torriani received a well deserved eneore in the grand scene from “Der Freischttz,” and Miss Cary sang a selection from “Elijah” with her wonted artistic power. M. Capoul appeared to the best advantage in the ro- mance from ‘L’Eclair,” and Messrs. el Puente ‘and Maurel renewed their previous successes, The next operatic concert takes place in Brooklyn on Thursday night, A slim attendance greeted the concert of Mr. ben, bandmaster of the Seventy-first regiment, Lyceum Theatre, The soloists were Miss ntonia Henne, who sung Luzzi’s “Ave Maria” with much feeling and expression Chris- tian ile tenor, who exssayed ne Wan- derer,” and_ Mr. Eben, who contributed a flute solo, The last mentioned artist played a@ number of variations on the last move- ment of Choptnte “Marche Funebre,” and although he ranks first among flute players in this country, ‘we cannot admire the taste would desecrate such @ subject as @ funeral march by variations. The great Mexican violinist, Sefor Delgado, was announced to appear, but ‘that gentleman en- tirely disclaimed the fact of being even notified of an engagement until he saw his name in the adver- wo and consequently there were no violin 0108. A third concert was given py the N Stingerbunde at their hail, at which the arena soloists were Mile, Pauline Canissa and Herr Rem- mertz, The favorite prima donna sang an aria from “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” and the barytone a song by Abt. TRUE BLUE AND THE LATE RACE, SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16, 1873, Mr. Chamberlin, owner of True Blue, says he believes the horse is permanently disabled as a racer by the accident yesterday. Various conjeo- tures have been made as to the manner in which ident occurred, but no one knows certainly. nerally believed the horse must have got his foot into a hole made by a gopher. was at his stable to-day very stl and lame. ‘True Biue | WASHINCTON. Lr Sant WASHINGTON, Nov..16, 182.°- The Spanish Minister and Our Cube ‘Troubles, The report published in several papers that Ad-- miral Polo, the Spanish Minister, had received tull powers from his government to stop the execution of the remaining prisonera taken on board the Virginius aud to settie the complica- tions that have arisen between the United States and Spain is pronounced to be as unfounded in fact as impossibe in theory, The Captain General of Cuba is not subject to the orders of the Spanish Minister at Washington. In connection with the report above mentioned, it Was also stated that the Spanish Minister had, in company with Seflor Potestad, the First Secretary of the Spanish Legation, called on Secretary Fish, and that the interview which ensued was a lengthy one. According to information obtained at the State Department, Admiral Polo was accompanied by the Second Secretary of Legation, recently ar- rived in this city, for the purpose of introduciug the latter to the Secretary of State, such being the diplomatic etiquette, The interview, however, lasted only @ few minutes, and the remarks that passed were entirely conventional. The Senate Committee on Transpor- tation, The Senate Committee on Transportation have determined to postpone thetr Southern trip until about the 23d of December, this change being made on account of the short time between now and the meeting of Congress, and also because one ortwo members of the committee are unalye to make that trip at the present time. BISMARCK AND THE CHURCH. Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, on Church Persecution. SCRANTON, Pa, Nov. 16, 1873, The Right Rev. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, 8. C., who 1s collecting funds for the restoration of the church wrecked in his diocese during the re- cent civil war, deltvered @ masterly lecture here this evening, in St. Vincent's Cathedral, on “Bis- marck and the Church.” The vast Cathedral was crowded with persons of different denominations, who, having heard of the Bishop's oratorical powers, were anxious to hear him treat of the interesting subject in question, The Bishop set out by laying down the fact that during the existence ol the Catholic Church she has been the object of oppression and persecation under one form or another. The Church was now going through a crisis which three years ago mone would have looked for. In Germany, where the minds of men were taught by the sad experience of religious persecation centuries ago, they ought to think it sweet to live in religious peace, and where, of all civilized nations, religious freedom seemed thoroughly established by consti- tutional provisions, a persecution has unexpectedly burst forth like a hurricane, and oone could teli the extent to which the storm would go. Bismarck, to whose brilliant and successful career as @ states- Man the lecturer gave due credit, seemed aiter the wonderiul victory over France and the estab- lishment of the German empire to be INTOXICATRD BY HIS SUCCESS and to conceive that there are no limits to the power in his hand. He compared him with Trojan of old, who aiter ali his victories thought he haa not full power so long as the Christians would not obey his imperial edicts and worship the gods of heathen mythology. The Bishop said Bismarck thought his power was not complete unicss it Was submitted to by the Catholics of Germany in the matter of religion. In founding the German Empire he seemed to have taken the Russian Km- pire a8 a model, with the Czar as absolute head on earth of army, navy, civil government and Church, thereby aiming to secure perfect unity of the Em- pire;8o Bismarck desired that the imperial gov- ernment of Germany should have supreme control even in matters of religion, Ihe Bishop spoke of the eflorts to give some importance to the Uld Ca- tholic movement—an effort which had falled, aud then of the laws against the Jesuits, the Kedemp- torists and other religious orders of men and women; ofthe prosecution of bishops, clergy and eminent laymen; o! the interierence with religious worship and Catholic schools; Of the late law pro- viding lor a supervision by the officers of Catholic sermons, and, finally, of the Falck law, which strikes at the very life and being of the Uatholic Church, and wouid reduce it in the German Empire to littie more than A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT OF POLICE. What was the cause of all this? Had the Church done any act whatever to call for this attack? None. The Jesuits had gone en masse as chaplains. serving in the German armies during the late war with France. Some had lost their lives and many had received crosses and medals irom the German authorities for their heroic devotedness, The Bishop asked what would be che upshot of this persecution? As yet it is contined to persecutions, threats of imprisonment and menaces, We have but the commencement. The storm may grow fiercer in Germany, for there seems & spirit abroad of persecution against the Church. It is seen in Switzerland, which denies all its traditional lessons of liberty. It is seeu in Spain and in Italy, and is seen in the persecution ol the Holy Fatner who is a prisoner at the Vatican; but, though the clouds were dark and menacing, the Church of God must stand, tor He declared that He is witn her and that she cannot fail. She may be tried by persecutions, bat they will give her new life. The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians, on = God’s own good time the tempest would be stilled, Bishop Lynch, who is a venerable looking man, of commanding presence, with long, gray hair, spoke with great fervor and depth oj feeling, which was inteusified when he drew jor his hearers a vivid picture of the devastations caused in his diocese during the war. THE BAZAINE TRIAL, Colonel Stoffel’s Evidence. {From the London Daily News, Nov. 5.) There has been intense excitement to-day at the Trianon at the result of Colonel Stoffel’s examina- tion, He appeared in plain clothes, being dis- missed from the army. His story about Marsha) Bazaine’s despatches which he did not transmit to Marshal MacMahon was briefly this:—Marshal MacMahon was uneasy at the absence of news from Marshal Bazaine. Colonel Stof- fel obtained from M. Pi¢tri two Paris police inspectors, Rabasse and Mies, who were to try to get in and out of Metz. Colonel Stoffel promised them 25,000 francs (£1,000) as a reward if they suc- ceeded. The policemen got as far only as Longwy, and then telegraphed to Colonel Stoffel that there was no chance of entering Metz. At the same time, as they alleged, they telegraphed to Colonel Stoffel the contents of four despatches from Marshal Bazaine and General CoMnitres, confided to them by Marshal Bazaine’s messenger, Guyard. These despatches were the same as those shown in the night to Colonel Absac, who declined to keep them, on the ground that the con- tents had been telegraphed before. Colonel Stoffel, denying any knowledge of the anticipatory telegram, admitted the receipt of the original despatches, but swore he put them in his pocket and never read them, being under the impression that, the agents’ mission having fatied, they could not be important. He repeatedly pleaded loss of memory about unimportant things. The Duc d’Au- male remarked sternly on the improbability of his not looking at despatches brought by special agents of his own to whom he had offered a ?arge reward, and desired him to retire, saying he should e to call him again. Colonel Stoffel attempted to make @ speech against General de Riviére’s report, accusing him of suppressing despatcnes; and, though interrupted by the Presi- dent, he succeeded in loudly uttering these words, “I share in the contempt and disgust of the whole army for the reporter.” A general oMicer near me whispered his surprise that this contempt of court ‘was not visited by arrest on the spot. ‘I'he Court, however, adjourned for luncheon, and remained absent for the unusual period of an hour. On returhing Colonel Stoffel was recalled, and the President repeated to him, as having been heard by some members of the Court, the objectionable words he had uttered, Colonel Stoffel refused to retract thom, saying he was not a child and always thought retraction childish, Tjjerenpon the Ducd’Aumale dictated to the Registrar a de- cree, which, in substance, Was an order to a di- visional general to arrest Colonel StoffeL Thus tar he could hold his head high; but worse was to come, General Pourcet, the Judge Advocate, rose, and ‘citing various articles of war, moved the Court that, whereas there existed suficient pre- sumption that Colonel Stoffel was es? between September 22 and 27 of having wilfully suppressed, destroyed or lacerated despatches addressed to Marshal MacMahon he shonld be allowed to prose- cute Colonel Stoffel. The Court granted this, after an objection by M. Lachaud that defective mem- ory Was not a crime.’ The meaning of all these formalities 1s that by this time Colonel Sto/fel is in custody, SNOW IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. Concord, Nov, 16, 1873, A snow storm set in here during Saturday night and has been falling all day, There are about five inches on the ground, is PRESIDENT GRANT'S MOVEMENTS. i Hat Boat He Spends Sunday in Elizabeth, N. J.—* Attends Church with His Mother—A Fervent Prayer tor Wisdom in the Cuban Matter—Of for Washington in | the Evening. After the reception and supper at ex-Congress- mo George A-.Halsey's, On Saturday night, Presi- dent*Grant returned to Senator Frederick T. Fretingdnysen’s house on Park place, Newark, and slept there. Yesterday morning he waa driven to Elizabeth, somesfive miles beyond Newark, and there spent the day qumietly in the society of bis venerable movtex, mow approaching four score years, who, sinee the death of her hns- band, Jesse Grant, has\.taken up her abode with | her daughter, the wife of Mr. Abel R. Corbin, at their home on Elizabeth avenue. With so little ostentation were the resident's visit and stay in Elizabeth conducted that the great mass of Eliza- bethians will for the first time tearn this morning through the HERALD that the illustrious soldier Chief Magistrate was in tieir midst a whole day. Outside immediate neighbors and intimate per- sonal friends, there were no callers yesterday at the Corbin House. In the forenoon the President, accompanied by his mothe:, Mrs.Grant; nia brother- in-law, Mr. Corbin; and Congressman Amos Clark, ATTENDED DIVINE SERVICE at the Westminster Presbyterian church, @ short distance from Mr. Corbin's house. Although tb waa known in advance that the distinguished visitor would attend service here, the congregation was no larger than ordinarily, The only point in te service different from every other Sunday service was the opening prayer, in which the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. C. Roberts, obered an earnest and eloquent appeal to the Throne of Grace for the highest wis- dom to be vouch: to the President and his Cabinet in the present important epoch in the nation’s affairs, The distinguished worshipper occupied @ pew in the middle aisie, and when the service concluded the President passed out, Mrs. Grant, senior, leaning on his arm, In conversation yesterday, as well as on Saturday night, the President freely expressed bis unqualified admiration oi the splendid display of home manufactures which Newark exhibits at the Industrial Extubition. He took the train for Wash- ington last evening. There was no demonstration whatever at the depot, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY ROBESON, who accompanied the President from Washington on Saturuay aud visited toe Exhibition with him, spent the day in Newark and also started last evening for Washington. A gute-tender at the depot in Newark, who is no respecter of persons, stopped the Secretary and ex-Congressman Halsey from passing On to the platform until satisfied that they had righta which gate-tenders are bound: to respect, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Solon Shingle Owens is staying at Barnum’s Hotel. G. S. Coyne, Royal Horse Guards, London, is in Chicago. District Attorney Moak, of Albany, is again at the St, Nicholas Hotel. The Rev. Dr. Lyman, of Baltimore, has arrived at the Coleman House, Judge Henry U. Banks, of this city, is at the Palmer House, in Chicago. Dr. J. J. Woodward, United States Army, is stay- ing at the Hoffman House, General Joe Hooker arrived at the Astor House yesterday {rom Philadelphia. State Senator Johnson, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., has arrived at the Windsor Hotel. Captain C. Holmes, United States Army, is quar- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Join M. Harlan, of Kentucky, is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge Reuben Hitchcock, of Painesville, Ohio, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. A seventy-five-year-old Kentuckian has just been made the happy father of twins—both girls. A Boston lady says she has solved the servant girl question. Her little son is washing the dishes, D. C, Ellis, Superintendent of the Bank Depart- ment, arrived irom Albany yesterday at the Metro- politan Hotel. It is stated that there is neither a machine poet nor a female lecturer in Iceland, What nice lana that must be to live in! E. W. Halford resigns his position as managing editor of tne Chicago Jnter-Ocean and returns to his old love, the Indianapolis Journal. The death of Ela Merriam, one of the pioneers in the stage business in this State, occurred at Locust Grove, Lewis county, recently. Twenty persons were fined for drunkenness in Providence in a single day. A little providential interference might help to improve this condition of things. Charies Howard, bookkeeper for the Sylvan Lake Mining Company, at Sylvan Lake, Dutchess county, has absconded with $4,300 of the com- pany’s money. H. ©. Frisbie, founder of the Fredonia (N. Y.) Censor, is dead, having commenced its publication 52 years ago and retaining his editorial connection therewith for 17 years. The architect of the Vanderbilt University in Nashvilie, Tenn., announces that he will have the foundations for the structure completed before the hard frost of winter sets in. An eXchange announces that “A Row in the Kitchen,” commenced in & previous number, will be resumed in its next issue, Part of it will prob- ably be given in “broken China.” 4 Block Island is covered with snow, and the sportsmen find difficulty in "eaching game in conse- quence of the blocked ap condition of the roads, although the island is one of “little Rhody’s.”’ The Young Men’s Christian Union of Boston in- vite all those members who are unable to be with their kindred on Thanksgiving Day to join them in an old fashioned New England dinner on that oc- casion (November 27). reason why some of the Spiritual manilestators draw such full houses is because so many people who are about getting married want to know how easily Knots can be untied. Arthur J. Whiteside, second ofMcer of the Cunard steamship Siberia, 1s commended by the Boston press for praiseworthy efforts to rescue a sailor, who had fallen overboard, from a watery grave, although those efforts were, un ortunately, unsuc- cessful. The Boston Transcript suggests that a few intel- ligent ladies might do Boston good service on the School Committee. There are too many “old women” now on the Board. The same might be said of school committees in other places besides the “Hub.” An exchange remarking upon the manner in which mourning is carried on in the South Pacific, the Louisville Courier-Journal expresses the opinion that ‘some prominent financiers in Wash- ington could tell how mourning is carried on in the North Pacific.” The Duncan will case, at Battle Creek, Mich., in which so many bequests to the Methodist Church are involved, has been brought to a pause for the tume being by the disagreement of the jury to which it was submitted. Ten of the jurors voted to sustain the will, but the sympathy of the other two was with the Duncan heirs, A Boston paper thinks that ttre country would be the gainer if all over it, and by all parties, there were as much interest taken in civil service re- form as there should be in domestic service reform, A reform in the management of their domestics by American mistresses may also be regarded a8 among the domestic reforms demanded. A SHOOKING DEATH, Crushed by Falling Down a Shaft Into a Coal Mine. SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. 16, 1873, Yesterday afternoon a poor miner named Martin Hart met with a most agonizing death, at a place called the Koaring Brook shaft, on the borders of this city, There are two openings to the mine, aboat 26 yards apart—ove through which the coal is taken up, and the other through which the miners are conveyed to and trom their work. Hart was returning to his work as usual, and when the car descended as far as the depth of the first vein of coal he stepped off and sauntered along an archway communicating with the main shatt, Not being acquainted with the workings of the mine he walked along the gloomy passage, not knowing where it led to until he heedlessly stepped into the deep yawning space and jell to the bottom of the pit, a depth of 70 feet, among rocks, jagged heaps of coal and mire, where he was shattered in a shocking manner. A car was led down for him a8 speedily as possible and he was conveyed to his home, where he lingered for two hours a sort of living death, after which he died in great agony. Hart had been but a weok fe and chiki wholly ‘gland. in this country and leaves a wi unprovided for in Liveroool, Ki An Eastern paper is of the opinion that the | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEKT, pales ts Statistios of the Signal Service—Practical Recommendations by “Old Probabili- ties” for the Extension and Perfecting of this Popular Institutiow. Wasurnaron, D. C., Nov. 16, 1873. The following ts a synopsis of the report of the Chief Signal OMicer, for the year ending September 80, 1873+ He reports that systematic and continuous tn- struction of the army in iilitary signalling and tel- Whipple, Va, and in the Department of the Mis- souri, One of the officers at the Military Academy at West Point is designated as Instructor of Military Signals and Telegraphing, but makes no re port to the Chief Signal OMcer, who can- not, therefore, estimate what proportion of study and practice m allotted to the several titles. During the past year, as in that previous, it nas been apparent that some of the most powersl foreign governments have been directing special attention to the system of the Signal Office in rel- erence to the branches of military science under its charge, and have taken pains to procure the recommendation made in previous reports, that Special instruction at the Military Academy should be provided for, with @ merit value given it, affect- ing the standing of the cadets, is renewed, and tt is also suggested that, to secure accuracy and unitormity, the ofMfcer to be tn juture charged with that instiuction should have passed through the course at Fort Whipple, Six commissioned oficers have received instruc- tion ut Fort Whipple during the year, Sixty-seven private soldiers have been tnstructed as candi- dates for promotion to the grade of observer sergeant, and 127 a8 assistants to observer Sergeants, It is recommended that a system of details be established by which officers of the ariny shail have the benefit of this thorough and well-appointed school for instruction in the duties Oi the fleld signal service, The post bas, during the year, assumed a character of permanence much desired, The fleld telegraph train has been lupproved, and drills with it are regular and satis- factory. The drills of the Signal Service detach- ment, with signal equipments, and with, as well 43 without aris, has been thorough, and through increased advantages, as- well as Dumbera, dis- cipline has been promoted, The system oi duty and practice at the post gives the desired military training, besides imparting accurate understand- ing of, aud familiarity with, the special branches for which it has been established. Recruiting for the Signal Service has been suc- cessiully and inexpensively conducted, the stand- ard of acyuirement being maintained by strict ex- amination Of those offering themselves for enlist- Ment. After selection and enlistment tue men are at once placed under @ course of drill and instruc- tion, ler, aGs after @ second examination, those especially designated for duty at stations are drilled, examined, instructed, tested by practice, instructec in the higher branches pertaining to the service, again examined and egain tested be- fore being entrusted with the management of stations of observation, The Chief Signal OMmcer is, by experience, convinced that the success of work entrusted to him depends in great part upon the drill and discipline by which the men executing its details are made good soldiers, The jormer recommendation, for the establish- ment by law of @ permanent Signal corps, or ior such legisiation at least as will secure a recognized permanency for its details, is renewed and earn- estly urged. The extent of the service and its national importance now seem to require that it should be guarded against the accidents and im- peteoe working to which an organization depend- ig upon temporary detail is always liable. WEATHER DESPATCHES. The whole number of stations from which the office now receives its stated meteorte reports 1s 92, of which 78 are the regular stations in the Uni- ser nten 11 are in Canada and three in the West ndtes. Of the stations in the United States 13 have been added during the year, and of the Canadian, from which reports have been received by comity of exchange with the Dominion Meteorologica: Bureau, four are new. The regular telegraphic reports from Havana, Cuba, began on August 6; from Kingston, Jamaica, on September 18, and from Sanciago de Cuba on September 2% Three other points in the islands oi Porto Rico, Guada- loupe aud Barbados, will be equipped as soon as observers can be designated. There is no inter- national arrangement with the authorities ol any ol these islands, which fact is greatly regretted; nor is there ap yeeene any retarn of weather telo- grains provided for or oflicially requested, Steps are in contemplation by which, it is hoped, neces- Sary arrangements will be effected. he aisplay of bailetins and weather charts at stations, the supply of prompt and gratuitous in- formation to tie press and the exuibition at de- signated points of day or night signals at times of probable special danger, ‘or the benefit of shippin, and commercial interests, have been continued, The total number of tabulated bulletins issued and distributed at the several lake, seacoast and river ports and inland cities have been 143,007, exclud- ing the river bulletins of changes in cepth of water Of principal rivers. The total number of weather charts issued and distriputed has been 320,770, and the press reports (exclusive of the publica- tion of the synopses and probabilities) have been 25,224, Nine thousand four hundred and two copies of the “Weekly Weather Chroni- cle” and 6,796 of the “Monthly Weather Review” have been jurnished and gratuitously distributed to the press, avricultural and commercial associa- tons, institutions of learning and scientific per- sons. ‘The office has, under the direction of the Secre- tary of War, continued its exertions to solve for the special beneiit of the agricultural interests the problem of giving promptiy the informatiom con- tained in the daily weather reports to the many farming and other communities not now reached by telegraph, and for which the copies puviished by the press do not arrive in time tor | use. The pian adopted has been to divide the ter- ritory of the United States into districts, each dis- trict having a distributing point at or near the cenire, irom which two printed copies of the sy- | nopses and probabilities are forwarded by mail to all post otices within the district, and which can be reached by rail, steamer or mali coach by four P.M, of the same day. This plan has been put in operation with the co- operation of the Post Office Department, the bulle- | tins being exhibited in irames by each postmaster gt each post office as soon as received, and now provides tor the regular distribution daily of 8,982 printed copies oi the weather report | for display at 4,491 different post oftices. It will be extended as rapidly as expedient. ihe work has Siven satisfaction to the jarming and interior pop- ulation reached. | Numerous communications received at the office | evidence the fact thatin many localities tarming and other agricultura! operations are conducted with reierence to the atmospheric conditions an- nounced in these reports as probably to occur, The | immense agricultural interests of the United States | and the great results to be attained, if they can be thus benefited, have rendered this success pecu- liarly gratifying. The whole number of these spe- clal bulietins, 80 far printed and distributed, is 895,014, ihere are 19 spectal river stations from which reports of the depth of water in the principal rivers of the United States are dally made by telegraph at particular seasons, during which dan- gerfrom freshets may be anticipated. River re- ports are also had irom 700! the regular sta- tious. ‘These data are widely published and dis- tributed along the lines of the rivers. The reports thus had enabled many dangers, otherwise apt to follow rapid rises in the rivers, to be guarded against, and contribute, by the constant aud ac- curate kuowledge given of the depth of water in the channels, to the convenience and satety of tho river commerce, The benefits resulting from these reports, Bow in the second year of their issue, have been iuily acknowledged by the various interests they have advanced. The total number ot special river bulletins issued has been 23,210. By the different modes of publication adoptea for the service, each of which has been arranged with definite purpose, and incinding that had through the public press, it is estimated that the information emanating trom this office reaches daily oue-third of the housebolds in the United States. The office isin regular communication with 161 established organizations, as boards of trade, chambers of commerce, agricultural societies and commercial associations, In addition to this wide diffusion the works of the oMce of a more scientific character, and not intended for daily popular use, have acquired a prectsion of detail and fulness of tilustration which enable them to iggy favorably with those of foreign countries, ‘ne plan and arrangement of these works are peculiar to this country. For the study of the phenomena of the upper portions of the atmosphere, in view of the benefit oi the deductions to be had from them and to de- termine more accurately the proper reductions to be made for great elevations, stations have been established at Javorabie points. In addition to those on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, the digicult ‘task of establishing a permanent telegraph station on the summit of Pike’s Peak, at an elevation of 14,216 feet, has been accomplished, with the sanction of the Secretary of War, A telegraph line has been built to connect the station with Colorado Springs, and it 18 now in operation. An additional duty was imposed upon the Secre- tary of War by the legislation of the last Congress, authorizing the establishment of signal stauons at light houses and at such of the life saving stations on the lake or sea coasts, as may be suit- ably located for that purpose, and to connect the same with such points a8 may be necessary for tne proper discharge of the duties of the Signal Ser- vice by means of a suitable telegraph line in cases where ne Hines are io operation, in discharge of this daty, a tele; h line has been completed, 10 miles in feng rom Seavilie to Peck’s Beach, N, J., connecting at Seaville with the line of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The material is ready, and the work in progress on the construction of line Irom Sandy Hook to Barnegat Inlet, New Jersey, & distance of 60 miles, connecting with the Western Union line at Long Branch. These con- analy ections will allow of REPORT OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER. ography during the past year has been given at tne | Si,nal School of Instruction and Practices, at Fort | Minute details of equipment and apparatus, The | the life-saving tations established at Sandy Hook, Long Branch, Barnegat, Atlantic City, Peck’s Beach and Cape May. The plan in contemplation proposes the establishment of signal stations at lile-saving stations and light houses along the ocean coast of New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May, at distances’ of 25 mies from euch other, A line is in process of erection from the village of Rockport, Mass, to Thatcher's Island lighthouse, a distance of three miles and & half, of which ome mile and a half will be cable. A line connecting the stations at life-saving sta- tions and lignthowses slong the coast (rom Norfolk, Va., to Cape Hatteras, N. C., a distance of 137 miles, and on one of the most dangerour coasis of the United’ States, tw {m construction. It is ex- | pected that the above mentioned lines will be completed during the present year. Attention is invited to the-fact thas the whole work now done ia the erectiowof these’ lines, and to be doue here- alter in operating’ them, has been done and is to be done by the o@icers ald.mesm of the Signal ser- vice of the army. By no other agency could so large an amount of line so situated be constructed with the small appropriation provided. Tt 1s not necessary to dwell upon the benefits to result from the work ofthe stations thus provided for. Notonly will the meteoric infortmation regularly recetved be greatly increased in amount and value by that taken on the sea coast and at tne actual sea level, but storm warnings visible af a sufficient distance from shore to allow orten of the proper means t be taken or salety, can be given to ves- sels approaching dangerous coasts, While on the occurrence of inevitable disaster assistance can be summoned at once from the neighboring life- saving stations, and information regarding the occurrence be transmitted to underwriters and otners interested. Communication can readily be held by mgnai and telegraph with vessels of the naval and merchant manne from Washington aud from other cities, and the coast will be pro- vided with a yedette system invaluable in timqof possible war, The expense of securing these ad- Yantages to the country 1s comparatively trifing, the observer sergeant ol the Signal Service at each station being charged with the telegraphic opera- tions and the necessary lines being constructed, maintained and worked, under the direction of the Chief Signal Oficer, by enlisted menof the magoa Service. It ts to be hoped that Congress will, by future appropriation, allow the extension Oi this special work on the lake and sea coaste where the life-saving and lighthouse system are deemed necessary, affording thus a system of coast service unparailleied in the world. During the year cautionary siguals have been ordered to be displayed in anticipation of 88 prob- able storms, In 70 cases the storms anticipated maniiested their effect at some of the stations at Wuicn the signals were ordered. The signala thus giving warning to shipping and other interests which would otherwise perhaps have been danger- ously exposed. Forty special cautionary telegrams were sent to the Meteorological Burean of Canada. As in preceding years where there has been error of display, it bas been on the side of caution. While on occasions the signals ordered may have proved unnecessary, and are so re ported unverified, on ‘the other hand no extensive storm has occurred in the regions included in the system oi! cautionary sig- nals without warnings of its approach having been displayed in at ljeast part of its course. The pub- lic confidence exhibited in the heed given to the Warnings when they are shown has evidenced their general utility. The ascertained comparative accuracy of the deductions from reports, styled “Probabilities,” has been more clearly presented in this than in preceding years. The percentage of verifications as been mathematically computed ior each of the geographical districts mentioned in the re- orts. The annual average of veriftcations has ecD as follows sor the following named districts :— New England, 81.50; Middle States, $1.17; South Atlantic, 19.92; Lower Lakes, 78.90; Eastern Gulf, 77.16; Ohio Valley, 76.42; Western Gulf, 74.40; Up- per Lakes, 75.25; Northwest, 74.00. With @ more rigid and scrutinizing mode of cal- culation than was belore adopted tne percentage of Verifications has improved. The analysts of the year’s work indicates clearly at once the wisdom cop oaioney mereasing the number of stations and the general regions in which they should be established. The percentage of verifications foreach district exhibits a regular proportion to the number of stations from which reports having reference to the atmospheric conditions in the district under consideration have been received. It is thus, toa certain extent, mathematically demonstrated that the rules applied jor the apnouncement of the de- ductions of the forecast are practically correct and that, with increasing facilities, the percentage of verifications can be annually increased. Itis not known that @ demonstration of this character has been before attained. The office has still to regret that its telegraphic facilities are not as complete as the best discharge of the duties in its care would require. The hope is entertained that this source of difficulty will removed. The Chief Signaf Officer refers to the proceedings of the. Meteorological Congress of Vienna, heid in pursuance of invitations Officially issued by the Austrian government for @ convention of persons charged with meteoroiogical duties in different countries. ‘The adoption by the unanimous vote of the Con- Sag of a proposition to the effect that it is desira- le, With @ view to their exchange, that atleast one uniform observation of such character as to be suitable for the preparation of synoptic charts should be taken and recorded daily and simulta- neously at as many stations as practicable through- out the world, 18 regarded as oi! special importance in relerence to works of this kind now undertaken by tue United States. This formal announcement With such sanction tends directly to the estabush- ment of systems of signals and weather reports common among civilized nations. It 1s mentioned in connection with this subject that arrangements have already been made with Russia and Turkey to commence on January 1, 1874, the exchange with the United States of our daily report, taken simultaneously at the vifferent Stations throughout the great territorial extent of | the Russian and Turkish empires and the United States, The co-operation of the systems of other nations is expected, In conclusion, the Chief Signal Officer acknowl edges, as in preceding years, the general support of the popular opinion of scientific men, of the press and of the War Department. Without this aid the work achieved would have been impossibie. Whenever errors have occurred it has been recognized as inevitable that some must occur in the present condition of science. Success has been generously commenaed. The evidence of interest and progress in similar duties is extending in ail countries, Their utility is no jonger questioned, and eifort at home and abroad turns only toward their development, The field becomes world-wide, with the promise of resuits a few years ago hardly to be hoped tor. There will be needed time and labor; there must often be disappointment; but the public good to follow is certain, THE POSTMASTER GENERAL’S REPORT. A Recommendation to Reduce the Charge on Registration of Letters and Packages—Postal Savings Banks. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 1873, Postmaster General Cresswell will shortly issue | an order reducing the registration fee for domestic letters and packages to eight cents, The law limits the charge to 20 cents for each registration, and it was fixed by Postmaster General Dennison at the present rate of 15 cents, which Mr. Cressweil thinks is unnecessarily high, especially | in view of the fact that the fee for registering let- ters or packages seut through the mails to Europe | Is only eight cents, Itis believed the intended reduction will result in a large increase of the Tegistration business, without materially augment- ing the Pecvrnl expenses of the service. The Post- master General has finished bis annual report, as heretofore. He gives an elaborate statement of the conditian and business of the department during the past year, and renews the recommen- dation of a government postal telegraph. He en- forces at length his views in favor of post office savings banks, some time ago given to the pnblic, He makes no recommendation of subsidies to steamship lines for carrying the mails, THE WAGES QUESTION. Successfal Opposition of Pittsburg Printers to = Reduction, PrrrspunG, Noy. 16, 1873, There was an attempt made to-day on the part of the combined newspaper publishers of this city to reduce the price of composition trom forty-five cents to forty cents per 1,000 ems. The printers all frowned down the movement, and meetings of the Typographical Union were held, at which it was resolved not to come down in the price of composition. Several of the newspa- per offices were last night guarded py policemen, and union printers were denied ad- mittance. From anearly hour this morning till three o'clock this afternoon the sidewalks in the vicinity of the newspaper offices were throngea with printers, who earnestly canvassed the situa- tion, and maniiested a determination to stana out avail hazards against the proposed reduction of their wages. One evening paper has secured a force of non-union men, and, in consequence, the union men resolved they wouldn’t work on any paper until these were discharged. This afternoon other meeting of the newspaper proprietors was held, at which anumber who at former meet- ings exhibited the strongest nerve now. be- trayed symptoms of weakness least they would fail to get Monday morning's paper out, Mr. Siepenick, who secured non-union men, was finally induced to discharge them, and then is was ate A Tesolved to continue for the present the old price for composition. There is much rejoicing by printers over this decision. The trouble is not bad yet, as another attempt at reduction may be made, Short Pay by the Cambria Iron Com- pany: Pitrsauna, Nov, 16, 1873. To-morrow all the employés of the Cambria Iron Company, the most extensive works of its kind in > wages 21 per cent tn ~stonishing reduction. Bu® “{¢ is obliged to take” ‘fons entirely, The ‘e reduction, ty severe one nt $3 16 ‘ There ig ‘© ~ra, &| are to be reduve’ m which is considered aw the company tends tims this step or suspend opeta puddlers will go to work at & maintain that the decrease 18 @ them and their families. it ‘On the reduction they can make'a%®, dav, working 12 hours, and hard wort, some discontent among the coal riff. estimate their wages with this reduction 9 per day of 12 hours. The miners held a me. yesterday atternoon, at which a committee ®, ~’ Sppointea to wait on Mr. Morrell, the managed the works. This gentieman’ informed them th the terms are the very best the company’ offer. There are quite 4 number of miners discom tented, but it is not apprehended that they will re" fuse to go to work to-morrow. The puddlers caneq not work without the aid of the miners, and: trouble | with the tatter would cause the-works to suspel entirely for want oi coal. TBE CHICAGO BILLIARD TOURNAMERT. Details of the Great Ganie Betwoem Ubassy and Daly—Enthusiastic Cheer for the Victorfous Frenchman, Curcaco, Nov. 16, 1873, In the billiard tournament last evening the free gaine was between Cyrille Dion and FP: Snydere- Dion won In 58 innings by @ seore of 400 to 200. The winner's average was 6 26-29, The second game was between Ubassy aud Dal and was by far the most exciting gamcof the tournament. Daly won the lead, and in thet sixte~ | tpning he rolled up 489, folowng it in the fourteenth inning with 47, imthe thirty-nintt inning with 63 and turning his first and second» 100 points ahead of Ubassy. The latter, how- ever, Picken up on the twenty-seventh in- ning, following it up on the twenty-ninth with 60 amd on the thirty-second with 30. The excite- © ment was intense thronghout and the attendance » was the fargest of any during the tournament Cheers were given at every successiul shot‘ot either contestant. On his thirty-ninth inning . Daly turned his fourth hundred, making @ run 63 and bringmg his score up to 351, while Ubassy had only 248, by careful play Ubassy increased his - score until on the fifty-seventh inning the score stood—Daly 399, and Ubassy 358. The Frenchman here took the balis and by @ sertes of wonderiul plays ran the game out amid the tumuituous ap- plause of the audience who took up the victor and after carrying him around the room placed him om’ @ table and gave him three umes three cheers, Ubassy’s average was 7 1-7. THE HERALD AND ITS ENTERPRISE. Bo See eS [From the Muncie (Ind.) Times, Nov. 13] In the matter of the collection of news the Naw York HeRa.p ia undoubtedly the greavest paper” in the world. Bennett is irrepressible. .He senda his correspondents wherever there is anything o€ interest transpiring or anything novel to be found. He is now proposing to do what governments, in- cluding our own, have iailed to do—te find. the North Pole. The expedition will be elaborately fitted out, and, tf HERALD enterprise 1s not for once. at fanit, we may, not many years hence, have the satisfaction of knowing that the Pole is not a myth. What Bennett wiildo with it when he findg it he has not yet deigned to inform the world; but tn all probability he will donate it to the government for @ signal station, reserving only sufficient elbow room for @ HERALD correspondent. Success te Bennett! Aa | KILLED BY A TRAIN. Boston, Mass., Nov. 16, 1673. - James Foley, aged 35, was killed last night while endeavoring to get aboard a train at the Dor- chester station, alter it haa started, Consumption Can’t Kill Any Patient ho will Take BALL'S HONEY OF HOREHOUND AND TAR when ne's ill iption will stilt. Of a cough that no other pres PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DKOPS cure in one minate. A—Three Profits—The Manufacturer's, the wholesale dealer's and the retatler’s—are sometimes . ealized on hats. Avoid this by purchasing of KBPEN- SCHEID, No. 118 Nassau street, who manufactures oa his own bremises His dress and'soft HATS for this seasom are pertect gems and very reasonable in price. .Try them, At 115 Nassau street. A.—Herald Branch Office, Brooklym,. corner Fulton avenue and Boerum street. Open trom 5 A. M. to9 P. M. On sunday from 3 to 3 Ale! Superior American Ale .Sold by all the leading grocers, brewed expressly for and bottled by JOHN J. 31 ‘AFF, 115 Chamove et. 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