The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1873, Page 6

OR] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR eee Volume XXXVIII....... No. 350 ——<$—— = = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Atma; on, Hxip in Bonpace. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 28th st. and Broadway.— O.p Heaps axp Young Hearts. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-tnird st.— Err; on tax ARKANSAS TRAVELLER METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway,—Vantery ENTERTAINMENT. or MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tauian’s Last Lov. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Lavy or Lroxs. THEATRE COMIQUE, Ni ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sis—Drap Hxaxr, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—CurcpRen 1 7 dod. ‘WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Ours. » 514 Broadway.—Vaniery UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near oadway.—Lep AstRay. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— Tux Inisa Derrcrive, Afternoon and evening. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 73) Broadway.— “Tux Woman uw Ware. GRAND OPERA HOU! “st.—Homery Dumpty Aproap. hth ay. and Twenty-third GERMANIA THEATRE, lith street and 3d avenue.— Due Stipruncsryst. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS! Variety Entexraiuent. Matinee BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner Sixth av.—Nxcno Mixstexisy, &c. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, between Broadway ‘and Bowery.—Tnx Pionim, ASSOCIATION HALL, 234 street and 4th avenue.— Matince at 2—SuaxxsreaRiaN IMPERSONATIONS, Riss 201 Bowery.— THE RINK, 8d avenue and 64th street, —MENAGERIE AND sk UM. ernoon and evening, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NATIONAL FINANCES! FIRST SKIRMISH- ING [N CONGRESS! TAXATION OR RE- DUCED EXPENDITURES! SQUINTING AT INFLATION”—LEADER—SIxt H Pace. CONGRESS AND THE NATIONAL FINANCES! A FIELD DAY YESTERDAY! A GREAT DEAL OF BUNCOMBE! THE TAX INCREASE! THE BANKRUPTCY REPEAL BILL! NER AND PINCHBACK—Tuinp PaGE. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS YESTERDAY! THE SPECULATORS AWAIT- ING CONGRESSIONAL ACTION! GOLD UP— HOW THE BROOKLYN TREASURY WAS ROBBED—NINTH Pace. WALL STREET BUSINESS PHOTOGRAPHED IN INK! WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO ?—PUL- PIT AND LITERARY THEFTS—ABUSE OF POLICE CLUBS—Firra Pace. THE CUBAN CAPTAIN GENERAL URGED TO PROCLAIM MARTIAL LAW THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND! THE RIOTERS DENOUNCED! MEETING OF SLAVE OWNERS! THE VIR- GINIUS SURRENDER—SBVENTH Pace. VIGOROUS REBOMBARDMENT OF CARTAGENA! SIEGE SUCCESS TO ASSURE THE RECOG- NITION OF THE REPUBLIC—SEVENTH PaGE. FRENCH PETITION FOR RESTORATION OF THE MONARCHY! COMPENSATION TO THE EX-EMPRESS—EXTREME AGITATION OF EUGENIE OVER THE BAZAINE SENTENCE— SEVENTH Pace. GERMANY TAKES 24,000,000 MARKS OF THE NEW BUNGARIAN LOAN—SWISS PRESI- DENTIAL ELECTION—S&VENTH PAGE. THROWING TEA INTO THE SEA! HOW IT IS PROPOSED TO COMMEMORATE THE DAR- ING ACT OF PATRIOTIC SAMUEL ADAMS A CENTURY AGO—SEVENTH PaGE. A WORLD'S SORROW! LAST HOURS OF AGASSIZ—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS— SEVENTH PaGE. THE SINKING OF THE VILLE DU HAVRE! SUR- VIVORS’ ACCOUNTS—FACTS ABOUT THE ACCIDENT TO THE COAL BARGE UPLAND— FourtH Pace. HONORING THE LAMENTED NELSON! ELO- QUENT TRIBUTES BY THE BENCH AND BAR! COURTS ADJOURNED! THE OBSE- QUIES—THE PASSION PLAY ALBUM— Fourth Pace. THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AND THE LATE JUSTICE NELSON! STATES HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAX THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS—THE PRESS UN THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP—FirTH PAGE. POLICE “PULLING” THE “POLICY” PEOPLE! A SORTIE BY THE FOURTEENTH PRE- CINCT ON THE BOWERY HEADQUARTERS OF THE CURSE OF THE CITY—TROTTING TURF TROUBLES—Firti Pace, THE KILLING OF PATROLMAN BURNS—MUNI- CIPAL MATTERS—EiGuTH Pac. PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS YESTERDAY— OBITUARIES—EIcuTH PaGE. Tae Porsce Raw on tHe Ponicy DeatEers.— The headquarters of the great policy organiza- tion in the Bowery, which has about six hun- dred branch offices in this city alone, were visited by the police yesterday and an effectual stop was put to this nefarious business. The extent of the policy swindle is alarming, no Jess than three million dollars being the an- nual receipts at the office in question. This enormous amount of money is mainly drawn from the hard earnings of the working classes, _ whoare deluded into being robbed by the Specious representations of those unconscion- able gamblers. Although the action of the Police is tardy, it is no less welcome. The present, Board of Policé Commissioners will earn for themselves the gratitude and esteem of the respectable portion of the community if they persist to the end in abolishing all those dens in which the public are daily fleeced. The policy swindle is worse than the transactions of faro and keno concerns, as the inducements held out to poor people are more tempting and veiled under the appearance of fair dealing. All honor to the police for what they have accomplished in this matter. Tax Lerren or 4 Brornen.—The sad story . Of the Ville du Havre calamity seems to be in- exhaustible, This morning we publish, among other interesting matter describing the melan- _ choly scenes during the last moments, a letter _ from a young gentleman of this city, Mr. Waite, who, with his young sister, left our 4 shores, contemplating a tour of pleasure in _ the Old World, little dreaming that it would east a dark cloud of gloom and sorrow over his future years. Wee will let him tell his own , one of peculiar horror and tenderness, g qualities which the public will not p applaud, SUM- | Inflation. Congress and the publication of Secretary Richardson's report to that body that the subject of the national finances must soon be discussed. It assumed unusual importance yesterday from the debate in the House of Representatives, from the letter of the Secre- tary of the Treasury to Mr. Dawes, the Chair- man of the Committee of Ways and Means, and from the resolution of Judge KeHey. Though no definite action will take place till after the holidays the matter will come up, undoubtedly, immediately on the reassembling of Congress. We can form some idea, how- ever, from the occurrences yesterday what the drift of opinion is in Congress. The Committee of Ways and Means, as represented by the chairman and other prom- inent members, had evinced no disposition to accede to Secretary Richardson's recommenda- tion to increase taxation for the relief of the Treasury. The committee passed a resolution asking the Secretary to give his reasons in writing foran increase of taxation, and why he had selected the articles named in his report as the proper objects of taxation, and also to inform the committee specifically as to the expenditures and condition of the revenue which render the proposed increase necessary. The reply of Mr. Richardson will be found in another part of the paper. He recurs to the remarks in his report ‘that, should there not be a revival of business at an early day and an increase in the receipts over those of the past two and a half months, additional means would be required to meet expenditures.” In that case he recommended additional taxation, judiciously laid, so as to be the least burden upon the people and business of the country, rather than resort to borrowing money and increasing the public debt. The Secretary then goes on to say that the receipts from customs and internal taxes have not materially increased, and that no con- siderable augmentation is soon to be expected under existing laws. This term, ‘materially increased,"’ is a little ambiguous. Does Mr. Richardson mean that the receipts have not increased much over those of a corresponding period, or over his estimates? Or does he mean that they have actually fallen off? If there had been any increase at all, as is im- plied by the term ‘‘not materially increased,” we cannot see the necessity for more taxes. But he means, no doubt, that there has been a positive decline of the revenue. The public will be rather surprised to learn, from his statement to the Committee of Ways and Means, that the public debt was increased nine millions during the month of November, that it will be still further augmented the current month by many millions, that the coin receipts are little more than sufficient to pay interest on the debt and other coin expenditures, that, therefore, it will not be prudent to sell gold to give more currency, and that eighteen millions have been drawn from the forty millions legal tender reserve to meet the current expenses of the government. He remarks further that there remains only about twenty-six millions of this reserve which can be used before the extreme limit of the issue of United States notes authorized by law will be reached. He deems it necessary, in order to maintain the public credit, that the receipts of the Treasury be fully up to the ordinary expendi- tures, for interest on the public debt and for the purchase of bonds for the sinking fund to the amount provided by law. He prefers to have a surplus revenue rather than incur the risk of a deficiency. He has selected spirits, tobacco, gas, railway and steamboat receipts, express, insurance and telegraph companies as subjects of taxation, in order to raise the revenue he demands, as they are in his opinion best adapted for that, and because the taxes would be collected with greater fa- cility, and with less cost, than in any other way. He urges immediate action, as he is somewhat fearful of the uneasiness of the peo- ple, and as some time must elapse before the laws could go into operation and the results be obtained.. Mr. Richardson says nothing about reducing expenditures, which is the very thing the Committee of Ways and Means seemed to be most intent about. The debate that sprung up in the House on this same subject of meeting the requirements of the government was inspired, we presume, by the apparent conflicting attitude between the Secretary of the Treasury and the Commit- tee of Ways and Means. Mr. Dawes seems to have been very wary, and, to use a colloquial expression, on the fence. He was disinclined to make a direct issue with the Treasury De- partment, but could not refrain from refer- ring to reckless estimates. Mr. Garfield sub- mitted resolutions for the reduction of esti- mates. Mr. Butler contended that taxation would fail and advocated the issue of more currency. Mr. Cox, speaking for his New York constituency, expressed fear that an in- creased tax would be imposed upon tea and coffee. He wanted the people to know what fresh burdens they might expect. Mr. Kelley was very decided against additional taxation, and seemed for the time to have the sentiment of the House with him. He informally sub- mitted to the Committee of Ways and Means the following resolution, with notice that he intended to offer it in the House under a motion for the suspension of the rules :— «That it is the sense of this House that the taxes which now burden the people shouid not be increased; but that fhe extraordinary means, if any be required, for the support of the government during the temporary paralysis of the industries of the country now prevailing, should be ob- tained on a temporary loan on bonds bearing a low rate of interest in currency and redeemable in United States notes.”” It is said on one hand that no vote of the committee was asked on this resolution, and onthe other that the committee refused to report it. It is evident, however, that it met with favor by a large number of the members of the House, that the committee fought shy of it, and that the substance of it, at least, entered largely into the debate to which we have referred. Nothing further will be done, probably, till after the holidays; at least there is not likely to be any definite action on this or any similar regolution. Judging from what occurred yesterday the House is more in favor of inflation, or an @¥ditional issue of currency, than of increased faxation. A majority, no doubt, would orefer a reduction of eatimates It has been evident since the opening of use tho party whip and force its measures. nigh all powerful, should be determined to Although the resolution proposed by Mr. Kelley is not very explicit, and seems to be framed to prevent the idea getting abroad that any great increase of the currency is contemplated, it seems to carry out that gentleman's well known views regarding a legal tender and convertible currency. A temporary loan on bonds means, wo apprehend, a new issue of bonds, bearing, as Mr. Kelley says, a low rate of interest in currency—three sixty-five, per- haps—and these being redeemable in United States notes are intended to give elasticity to the currency. It would be well, prob- ably, if relief could be obtained both to the Treasury and the business interests of the country while passing through present difficulties without adding to the volume of circulation—if the present amount could be put in such a form as to give elasticity. Withdrawing the national bank circu- lation and substituting in its place legal tenders would not increase the volume of currency, while at the same time it would afford all the relief the Treasury needs, or is likely to need. It would, besides, give the profit of three hundred mil- lions of circulation to the government and people. That amount of six per cent bonds taken up with the legal tender issue would save to the country eighteen millions a year. Such a uniform currency, based directly on the credit of the govern- ment, if kept steady or not augmented, must, in the course of a reasonable time, with a favorable state of foreign trade and exchange, approximate to a specie basis. The greenbacks would become as good as gold. It is not the greenback currency that is in the way of specie payments, as many fool- ishly argue, but the balance of trade and our indebtedness abroad. We should reach specie payments no sooner if all the legal tenders were withdrawn and a national bank currency were issued in its place. In- deed, we should be further off, and it may well be doubted if we should ever have a specie basis with a national bank currency of six or seven hundred millions. We would have the government look steadily toward specie payments, and direct all its measures to that end, and if possible fix some time in the future for that. There is nothing scarcely that this country cannot accomplish when fully resolved. In the meantime, how- ever, it would be better to overcome the ex- isting embarrassments of the Treasury by re- trenchment than by increased taxation. At any rate the greenbacks could be used in the way we have mentioned without inflating the volume of currency in circulation. Duty of the Authori- ties. Among the many nuisances that afflict tax- payers, most of them owing their continued existence to the apathy and criminal careless- ness of the constituted authorities who are supposed to watch over the interests of the city, the least tolerable are those that infest our thoroughfares. The condition of some of the principal streets after a rain storm or a heavy fall of snow is disgraceful in the ex- treme and dangerous to pedestrians. In many places ruts and defective pavements are per- mitted to remain as man traps, and severe in- juries are frequently the result. Street lamps are at times extinguished by the wind and no effort is made to relight them. Iron doors and ventilators encumber the sidewalks, and are admirably adapted for breaking limbs or rip- ping clothing. The public complain and journals are filled with indignant remon- strances against these nuisances; but no sensible action is ever taken to remove them. The patrolman walks leisurely along the street, making a note of the number of un- lighted lamps he has passed on his beat, yet he never thinks of relighting them, although it would not interfere in the slightest degree with his special duties. How easy, too, would it be for the knight of the shield and baton to throw a plank or two across a dangerous rut or place stepping stones where the slush and mud are ankle deep? This is a mode of utilizing the police that cannot be objected to on reasonable grounds. They should be compelled, in their capacity as pro- tectors of person and property, to remove aught that may be injurious to the same when opportunity offers. Now that we may look for the commencement of the real winter season, with its attendant snow, thaw, rain and slush, the question of street cleaning should also be considered from a practical point of view. Treacherous hillocks of frozen mud, hidden in pools of slush, should not be allowed to remain until the sun alone removes them. The police authorities, with very little exertion, could render our streets comparatively com- fortable, even during the most inclement win- ter. The only question is, will they do it? Our Streets—The Oxz Resvnt or THe Hanpor Onsteuctions, caused by the vast quantities of ashes and garbage which are being constantly thrown, into the river and bay, has been shown in the stranding in the bay of the fine ocean steamer Greece, belonging to the National line. The regular channel is being rapidly filled up by these obstructions, and certainly the prompt action of Pilot Commissioner Blunt against such unlawful practices is sadly needed, if we wish to keep the commerce of the metropolis intact. A couple of swift police boats, patrolling our waters night and day and keeping a sharp lookout for delin- quents, will serve as an efficient check against such an unwarrantable nuisance. Toe Empress Evcenm, according to a news despatch which we publish this morning, is deeply grieved at the sentence passed upon Mar- shal Bazaine. A visit about to be made to Queen Victoria has been postponed in consequence. Why should not the Empress be grieved? The disgraced Marshal of France loved the house of which she is a prominent representative, not wisely, but too well. What may happen in France we know not; but if the Bonapartes at an early day return to power Bazaine will, no doubt, benefit by Eugenie’s grief. Bazaino has a chance which poor Ney had not. Stonrercant of Not Very Hanp Trres— To see twenty or thirty private carriages at one time in front of one of our Broadway fashionable jewelry stores, and streams of others going and eoming from nine A. M. to four P, M newspaper to be the curse of modern armies—we mean he does not know any better. Ho is a type of @ very common class of men in the world, who would fain be their own historians; who would be the sole commentators on their own acta, and who regard the daily chronicler in their midst as a military spy and literary pirate. We know this character well. He inveighs against the press—‘‘an accursed in- stitution, you know—engine of slander, vehicle of false intelligence,’’ and so on. This is all public declamation. Its. utterance gives tone to its author—he becomes a man of quality; he is of the first estate; the press of the fourth. But with what strange action hé gives illustration to his words. He is never more courtly, never more polite, never more deferential than in the company of the special correspondent, whom he classes elsewhere under the generic title of a ‘‘camp loafer.” It is this style of man who will call the special correspondent aside, after an abundant feast, and* whisper in his ear, “if you mention my name make it short.”” It is this class of people who throng the newspaper offices of New York with “ personal intelligence’ respecting their own remarkable selves, or ‘news of the first importance to the community’’ concerning some business enterprises of their own. It is this portion of the human race who send more waste-basketed communications to the press than all the rest of mankind. They donot like the special correspondent because he is the historian of the day, the recorder of facts, one whose appointed duty is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. We imow that there are mendacious correspond- ents as there are mendacious generals, but this should lead no one to conclude that they are all of the bad. Now, if Sir Garnet Wolseley were conducting his expedition against Ashantee at his own expense, and as a private enterprise, perhaps there might be a reason for excluding a special correspondent from his camp. But itso happens that Great Britain supplies the coin, and very consider- able coin, to say nothing of some valuable lives. It is, therefore, of some interest to British subjects who are directly taxed to make a big reputation for Sir Garnet, to know what use he makes of his money and his men. This is the reason why a correspondent representing a large constituency had a right to” “accompatiy all operations in which those constituents are interested. In the early times, when the newspaper correspondent did not exist, mili- tary expeditions went into history with all the coloring, the vainglorious and pompous self-puffery which s commanding general might be able to command from his Boswell. Thus we remain in ignorance of many of the colonial wars which have been prosecuted by the maritime Powers. To-day that kind of deception is impossible. The correspondent prevents it, as he also gives just credit and deserved praise when due. When the rebel- lion broke out an attempt was made to obtain correspondence from those actually engaged in the service. All of those men proved fail- ures because they could not devote the neces- sary attention to their pens. Then the special military correspondent became an institution and a useful public servant, as our copious and graphic lettera from Cape Coast Castle printed yesterday morning furnish ample proof. We doubt not Sir Garnet Wolseley will return with a high opinion of this class of writers if he become a successful general in the present campaign ; but if he reaches Eng- land with a long face and disaster in his heart newspaper correspondents will be viler than any of those beings who ever depended from Tyburn Tree. Congress — Louisiana—The Finances— Taxation—The Bankrupt Law. The contested Louisiana Senatorial election was brought before the Senate yesterday, with the report from the committee on the subject, submitted by Mr. Morton, that as the commit- tee upon the contested election between P. B. §. Pinchback and General McMillen were evenly divided he would ask that the commit- tee be relieved from farther consideration of the matter and that it be referred to the Sen- ate. It was so ordered, when Mr. Morton in- troduced a resolution that the credentials of P. B. 8. Pinchback are formal, and that he is entitled to a seat in the Senate, having a prima facie case; and upon this proposition Mr. Morton gave notice that after the morning hour to-morrow (i. ¢., to-day) he would ask the attention of the Senate. This appeal from the committee to the Senate in behalf ot Mr. Pinchback, the colored claimant representing the Kellogg party of Louisiana, means, no doubt, that, althqugh Pinchback has failed to pass a judicial ex- amination, he is none the less entitled to ad- mission as a Senator from Louisiana on account of his services to the party which holds the power in Louisiana and in the Senate. The credentials of Pinchback are formal; he has a prima facie case, and, according to the Senator from Indiana, this evidence of an election ought, upon a pinch, to be sufficient. We presume, however,-that the members of the committee who are sat- isfied that Pinchback has no claim will, at least, enforce a thorough overhauling of this very doubtful election before the vote of the Senate is taken upon his admission. We have had enough of mere formalities in the affairs of Louisiana. The regular order of the day in the Senate | was Senator Sherman’s resolution from the Finance Committee in regard to the checks and balances necessary to relieve the country from its present financial derangements. Upon this comprehensive theme Mr, Pratt, of i Indiana, delivered an argument in favor of an inflation of the currency as the one thing needful to meet existing emergencies. In the House of Representatives numerous bills and resolutions were introduced, includ- ing a bill reported by Mr. Tremain for the repeal of theBankrupt law, which was made the special crder for this day, and which, from present indications, will be passed before this day’s adjournment. A resolution was re- ported jointly from the Committee of Ways and Means and the Committee on Appropria- tions requiring the heads of the several exec- utive departments so to reduce their estimates for the ensuing fiscal year as, if possible, to obviate the necessity of increased taxation. ‘The appeal of the Secretary of the Treasury 'nistic to purity of House against an increase of our taxes and in favor of a general retrenchment in the na- tional expenditures. Agassiz and Neison, It is but seldom that a great nation has reason to mourn the loss almost at the same time of two of its most honored and distin- guished citizens. The death of Agassiz and the death of Judge Nelson, occurring as they have done so near each other, have commandéd the attention of the press, not only here, but in Europe. Here, as there, it is felt that two good men have passed away from the scenes of human activity and that the world is poorer from their absence. Judge Nelson was old and had retired from active life; Agassiz, though not young, was, until quite recently, full of hope and full of enterprise; but the death of the one and the other has created a gulf which it will be difficult to bridge. The name of Agassiz is associated with some of the grandest triumphs of modern science. A foreigner by birth, .he was an American by choice and by hearty adop- tion; and in the future his name will be associated with American _ history. Of all the scientists of the present time no one was more daring and at the same time more conservative than Agassiz; and, wide as was his knowledge of the book of nature, he never found that that knowledge conflicted with the Book of Revelation. In this respect he was a model scientific inquirer. Judge Nelson, in his day, occupied a different sphere and had different work. During his active life there was, as there is in ours, great temptation to do that which was wrong. But this man has passed away with a record which is as white as snow— a record which covers alike his career as a lawyer and his career as a judge. Of how few of our lawyers and judges still left in the midst of us could so much be said! Venality is too common at the Bar and on the Bench; and although of late improvement has beep made, there is need for greater improvement still Agassiz and Nelson have both left lessons behind them. The lesson read by the one is that the deepest knowledge is not in- compatible with the highest form of religious belief. The lesson read by the other 1s that sucess in a legitimate calling is not antago- life and integrity of char- acter. * The Coast Signal Service. The Weather Bureau, we learn, is now add- ing to its storm-signalling machinery a new ‘wheel within a wheel.” This is a system of coast signals lining the Atlantic beach from Cape Hatteras northward. This novel ex- periment is designed to bring vessels which have been out of port for several days on the high seas under the telegraphic premonitions from Washington. Thus a vessel, having left Cape May an hour after a storm-warning is hoisted, will proceed but a little way before the coast-signalman will notify her of the ap- proaching cyclone. The Hxnraup more than a year ago urged the adoption of some expedient like this to caution vessels in transitu of the great Atlantic gales, and the present experiment will be hailed with pleasure by all who sympathize with the perilous life of the mariner. This new branch of the Meteorological Department will use the international signal code (just issued by the Bureau of Naviga- tion), in which its observers have been dili- gently trained at Fort Whipple, Va. These observers will co-operate with’ the officials of the Life Saving and Wrecking Service now on the coast, and they will be in independent and telegraphic communication with the Cen- tral Signal Office at Washington. The wires for this service have been already suspended from New York (or rather Sandy Hook) to Barnegat and along the entire Jersey const, and are now being laid from Norfolk to Cape Henry and Cape Hatteras. Submarine cables will be used to cross intervening inlets and make the network complete. This is, we understand, the first service of the kind ever undertaken. The cautionary signals have heretofore, not only in this, but in Euro- pean countries, been displayed to vessels in port; but the present arrangement will assist the thousands of vessels which constantly run up and down the coast to “get wind” of com- ing gales and stand out of the way. If these signal stations can be connected by cable with our off-shore sentinels at the lightships and lighthouses their prospective usefulness and value to the shipping would, we suggest, be very greatly enhanced. We remember how last summer the steamer E. M. Arndt came into this port at the front of a storm, which she was the first to announce, and which fol- lowed upon her westward wake. It seems in the highest degree probable that, if the coast signal station could bs connected with the lightships, such early announcements of ad- vancing northeast gales might be greatly in- creased and great good done. Sumnen’s Dovsix Txam.—Senator Sumner, it seems, wants td make a double team of General Amnesty and his Civil Rights bill. Are they not strong enough to travel alone and in single harness? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Albert Bierstadt, the artist, bas apartments at the Brevoort House. Judge Theodore Miller, of Hudson, N. Y., is stay- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. James Tea Fields arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Boston yesterday. Ason of Senator Morton isto wed @ daughter ofS. P. Brown, of Washington. Werome B. Parmenter, of the Troy Press, has ar- rived at the Westminster Hotel, Ss. A. affmann, of the Washington Star, is registered at the Everett House. Colonel W. lL, Scott, ex-Mayor of Erie, Pa., is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. » The Philadelphia Press of yesterday says, E. L. Davenport is seriously indisposed. Sir Alexander T. Galt, of Montreal, is among the recent arrivals at the Gilsey House. ' State Senator-elect Frank Abbott, of Port Jervis, N. Y., is registered at the Hoffman House, Captain Hamilton Perry, of the steamship Adri- atic, has arrived at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Lieutenant Commander J. C. Kennett, United States Navy, is quartered at Barnam’s Hotel, Robert H. Berdell, ex-Presidemt of the Eric Railway Company, is at the Fifth Avenue ‘fotcl. Vice President Wilson Wag @ distinguished guest at Mr. Drexel’s last “Saturday Night” in Phila delphia, / Captain Robert H. Hall, Adiatant of the West th of George Washington; — “first in war, frst in peace, frat in the hearts of his countrymen," . A newsboy in Wilmington, Del., has saved money enough by selling papers to buy is mother a sew- ing machine, This is much better than being knocked on the head by a brutal policoman, Colonel Charles H. Taylor has become sele Manager of the Boston Glove, with Edwin Baem as assistant, It ts often said ‘the world is given to change,” and it now seems that the Globe ta. Reporters who attend prize fights must be care fal or they may meet the fate of one of the frater- nity in Illinois, who has been arrested and lodged in jail for being present in his journalistic capacity ata mill in that State that resulted fatally to ene of the parties, A Southern paper says of Jeff Davis, that “he does not care to enter Congress and play the part of the Atturian parrot seen by Humboldt in the Azores, which spoke the language of the Atturians, an extinct Indian tribe, and whose words no one could understand."” The morale of the Milwaukee Sentinel! staff seema *to have been slightly disturbed lately. It appears that the paper suddenly changed hands, and the editor and proprietor as suddenly found himself without an organ. Itis stated that Senator Car. penter has a finger in this typographical ‘pi,” Mrs. Mix, widow of a United States navy cap» tain, and mother-in-law of Hon. ©, ©. Kunta, of Wisconsin, died at the residence of the latter in Sank county, on the 2d inst., aged 82, One of her sons died as a lieutenant in the navy and another was killed during the rebellion while Colonel of an Towa regiment, The deceased was well known im naval and military circles. Notwithstanding the democrats have carried Texas by some 50,000 majority (as some democratic Journal might say) the reign of order does not seem to be restored in that State. For example, recently in Parker county, some young men tried to steal the daughter of Mr. Majors, who fired into the Party. The fire was returned, and Mr. Majors was killed. The party was arrested and placed in jail. WEATHER REPORT. PNR IAS oa 8, Wark DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16—1 A. M. Probabilities, For New England on Tuesday, partly cloudy weather, with light to gentle northwesterly to southwesterly winds. FoR THE MIDDLE STATES AND THE LAKE REGION, AND THENCE SOUTHWARD TO TENNESSEK, WINDS GRADUALLY BACKING TO SOUTHERLY, WITH GENER- ALLY CLEAR WEATHER. For the South Atlantic and Guif States, less prea sure, with partly cloudy weather, the temperature rising slightly in the Lower Mississippi Valley. For the Northwest, generally clear weather, with light southerly to westerly winds, will prevail during the day. For the canal region of New York State the tem. perature will remain stationary during the coming % hours, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes In the temperature for the past 24 hours in compari- son with the corresponding day of last year, as in- dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, HERALD Building:— ra 187: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The Steamship Frankiin in Commis- sion—List of Her Officers. Boston, Dec. 15, 1873. The United States steamship Franklin was placed fn commission this afternoon. The oMcers and men went on board at one o’clock, alter which Captain Roe, Executive Oficer of the station, turned over the vessel to Cpatain Simson, and the American ensign was hoisted. The following is a complete list of the officers of the Franklin so far as reported :— nders—F. J. Higginson, G. W. Armentrout, Lieutenanis—J. R. Selrridge, R. M. Cutts, W. H, Parker, H. W. Lyon. Medical Inspector and Fleet @ the North F, M. Gunnell. EES data Crosby. ef Engineer—A. J, Kiersted. ineer—C. J. Habighorst. Master—Alexander McCrackin. Po abe 8, Holliday, J. 3. Abbott, John B. on. Midshipmen—S. A. Staunton, A. J. Dabney. Captain of the Marine Corps—vharles Heywood. ri First Lieutenant of the Marine Corps—E. RB. Rob- inson. Boatswain—John McCafferty. Gunner—Thomas R, Wilson. Carpenter—H. M. Griffiths. Sailmaker—Wiliam M. Howells. The Franklin will, doubtless, be the flagship of the Cuban squadron, of which Admiral Porter will Probably have command. Naval Orders. WASUINGTON, Dec. 15 1873, Commander James A. Greer has been ordered to duty as a member of the Board of Inspectors ; Com- mander Francis A. Baker as Lighthouse Inspector of the Fifth district; Lieutenant Commander E. F. Woodward to the receiving ship Vermont as executive; Lientenant W. L. Field to special duty in the Bureau of Navigation; Assistant ee ©. K. Lancy to the ae ee at Mare oe 3 8. hiteh A. to the Minne- sota; Commander Sabins Stanley is detached from duty as Lighthouse Inspector of the Filth district Irom January 1, and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenant T. P. Giimore is detached trom the Frolic and ordered to the Minnesota; First Assistant Engineer B. Fiooiis detached from the Iroquois and ordered to the Saco; Third As- sistant Engineer G. H. White is detached from the Saco and ordered to return home and re- ort on arrival; Gunner John Gaskins is detached ‘om the Norfolk Navy Yard and ordered to the Minnesota; Gunner John C. Ritter is detached from 4 Frolic and ordered to the Navy Yard at Nor- folk. ‘THE KELSEY CASE. Huntineron, L. I., Dec. 15, 1873. ‘The injunction order in the Kelsey case granted by County Judge John R. Reid and made returna- dle before Judge J. W. Gilbert, at the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, December 15, was on Saturday vacated by Judge Reid on a technical law point. ‘The statute makes an order of injunction ted on ex parte statements returnable within 10 trom the date of signing, and this was by mia’ made 15, The notice of vacation was served onjMr. FE. R. Ackerly on Saturday evening, who accepted the same, and immediately prepared papers for another order, which was signed by Judge Reid, at his residence, in wenien Suffolk county, at half- past twelve o'clock this morning, It is returnable on Monday, December 22. The object of this in- junction is to enable the defence to have g hearing, in which case they claim their ability to bring proof that will pata very diferent aspect on the whole case. THE ORADLE OF THE HUMAN RAGE, Lecture Before the American Geographi- cal Society. Mr. George Kennan, author of “Tent Life im Siberia” and a distinguished traveller in Asia, will read a paper this evening before the American Geographical Society, entitied ‘The Mountains and Mountaineers of the Eastern Caucasua,’’ at the rooms oi the Historical Society, Secend avenue and Eleventh ed | Chief Justice Daly presiding. The lecture will be illustrated by splendid Lhe ticon views, revealing the splendid scenery of Eastern Caucasus, and native costumes and wat implements of Daghestan will be exhibited. A DISTINGUISHED COMPANY AT WEST POINT. The Earl of Rosebery, Viscount Tarbert, Ohicf Justice Shea, of the Marine Court, General Gimore and Roswell L, Colt visited Weat Point on Friday Jast by special invitation. The party visited alt the interesting points of this most interesting locality, attended by General Ruger and Com- mmandakt General Upton, ‘The various military de- partments of the institution were al oF of regard and tnserass yi to ee visit Spe rtaking of the Genel ell ton, ed to the city the ie evening, Wi with thetr vislv oad nvertainment