The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD| BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore ‘Henarp. Letters and packages should be properly Sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- ¢urned. res LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be PEA, received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. © THEATRE, ston and Bleecker streets — vay, between H MODEVILLE and” LTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 3 AUDEVILLE and NO RM. , closes at lt P, My BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hail, Brooklyn.—B AST LYNNE, at 8P. M.; | \eloses at 11:15 ¥. M, Miss Lucile Western, BOWERY THEATRE, Rowery.—SCOUTS OF THE SIERRAS, at 8 P. M. ; closes lat ile. M. Mr, I. Frank Frayne. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, as JETY ENTERTAINMENT, at Xo. 585 Broadway.—V AK $745 P, M.; closes at 10:3) P. M. 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BRY ANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third str e th avenue.—CINDER- | ELLALN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTESLSY, &e., at 5 P. AL. ; closes at 10 P, M. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—W LENLAWSK1-MAUREL-THOMAS CONCERT, at 8 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. BAIN HALL, ‘Great Jones street and La ayetie place. PILGRIMS UXBOGRESS, at P.M. ; closes at 9 P.M. COLOSSEUM, th prcee Oe ORO RANA lway, corner of Thirt; N BY , #roadway y WF LONDON BY DAY, at SIGHT, at7 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. ‘New York, Tuesday, January 27, 18: M.; closes at 4 P. .; closes at 1U P.M. “THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. "DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE’S GRAND LIFE WORK CLOSED IN DEATH! THE EMINENT AFRI- CAN EXPLORER DIES OF DYSENTERY ON THE WAY TO UNYANYEMBE! HARDSHIPS PKIOR TO H SKETCH UF DR. LIVINGSTONE) - MENTS IN THE CAUSE OF SUIENCE, HUMANITY AND CHRISTIANITY—Tuinp PaGE. DISRAELI ON THE GLADSTONE COUP AND POLICY! THE GROUNDS ON WHICH HE ASKS A RE-ELECTION! THE EUROPEAN | SITUATION! HOUSEHOLD SUFFRAGE AND THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS—SEVENTH PAGE. DBAN PATRIOT OPERATIONS IN THE (DAD VALLEY! THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NEW STRATEGIC MOVE! DR. Liy- INGSTONE AND THE MAMBIS—FovurrH PaGE. RIGHTING AT MANZANILLO, CUBA, WITH UN- SAT/SFACTORY KbSULTS FOR THE SPAN- JARDS! ESPONDA REINFORCED AND AT HOLGUIN! ARREST OF THE HAVANA LOTTERY DIRECTOR! JOVELLAR STAMP- ING OUT THE PRE! SEVENTH PaGE, MURDEROCS WORK OF A PITTSBURG QUACK! SEVERAL PEOPLE FATALLY POISONED! ARSENIC OBTAINED IN AN ANALYSIS OF A VICTIM'S SIOMACH! THE “DOCTOR” IN JAIL—SEVENTH PAGE. LOUISIANA AND CoD RIGHT TO A SEAT 4 BY THE SENATE MITTED! RIGID SLANDER! THE “INDIANA PLA) FINANCIAL RELIEF—Firri Page, {MPROVED HEALTH OF THE KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS! ELECTION EXCIT- | MENT— AFFAIRS IN AUSTRALASIA~ SEVENTH PAGE. MATTERS BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE YESTER- | “DAY! THE NEW CITY PRISON BILL AND | THE WILLIAMSBURG FERRIES CONSID. | BRED—THE OBSERVANCE OF BUKNS' | BIRtHDAY TENTH PaGe. | THE LIGATURED SIAMESE! A DESURIPTION OF THE TWINS AS THEY APPEARED HALF A A CENTURY AGO! A BOSTON DOCTUR'S OPINION! LIFE INCIDENTS—Fovrrn Pace. | PUILADELPHIAN INCEPTION OF THE CENTEN. | NIAL JUBILEE! THE GRAND BALL OF | THE FIRST WASHINGTON ASSEMBLY |! A | GORGEOUS ADMIXTURE OF LIGHT AND | COLOR, DRESS AND DECORATIONS—Turrp Page. DRAMATIC FEATURES OF LAST NIGHT—MEET- ING OF THE AMERICAN EVANGELIVAL ALLIANCE—Tninp Paor, PLENTY OF MONEY IN WALL STREET! FANCY STOCKS TUMBLING! GOLD AND BONDS FIRM—EIGuTH Pace. THE GREAT FIRE IN JEDDO, JAPAN—START- LING STATISTICS OF THE CRIME IN —THE EX-COOK OF THE STINERS | !ED—AN ASSISfANT ALDERMANIO ROW—Fovern Pace. THE Tue Stmesr Twrxs.—We publish to-day some further facts in regard to these once wonders of the scientific world. It will be some time before the interest of the public in the subject is exhausted, and the statement which we reproduce from a London paper ‘printed in 1829 concerning the Twins is es- | posially worthy of attention at this time, | the | and East Airican slave trade, and his appeals The Desth of Dr. Livingstone. ‘We have the sad tidings, in a brief despatch from London, of the death of the world-re- nowned explorer and Christian missionary in the wilds of savage Africa, Dr. David Living- stone. It thus appears that he died of dysen- tery, while travelling trom Lake Bembe to Unyanyembe ; that his body has been em- balmed and is on its way to England by way of Zanzibar. This report, brief as it is, appears too preciso and positive to be questioned. We presume that it comes from an official source at Zanzibar, and that in truth, at last, the African re- searches and discoveries, the trials, privations and sufferings of the devoted Livingstone, as a pathfinder in the cause of science, civilization and Christianity, are ended, The intelh- gence of this melancholy event will carry with it a heartfelt sorrow into the remotest corners of the earth. And, like all those seli-sacrificing adventurers into | realms unknown, whose labors have enlarged the field and the triumphs of civilization, and the interchanges of commerce, and the bless- ings of Christianity, ‘‘he builded better than he knew."” He began his labors as a Christian mission- ry in South Atrica, uuder the auspices of the London Missionary Society, in 1840. With his missionary work he began his geographi- cal explorations, and in tue two characters of Christian missionary and geographical ex- plorer he ended in the great field of his fruit- ful researches his laborious and beneficent | career. Once in Airica, he soon became famous for his geographical discoveries, and with the resulting Lonors showered upon him he naturally grew ambitious of still | greater achievements in the gigantic task of | completing the map of the Continent. Hence his tenacity to his great purpose, as the | crowning labor of his li.e—the discovery of the | utmost sources of the mighty Nile. But even the solution of the drainage of the Nile was undertaken by Livingstone more in view of | resulting bencfits of Christianity to the savage tribes of A’rica thap for the ap- plause and the gold medals of ge societies, As a Christian mi: heart was fixed in his later explorations upon the mitigation of the horrors of the Central | dom for the suppréssion of this horrible traffic | were as the cries of one who despaired And yet, when those earnest from Livingstone | of success. and eloquent petitions were brought home by Stanley, and thence sent abroad as upon the four winds of heaven, there was an answering cry from all the realms of Curistendom which could not be disregarded by that Christian nation held as in duty bound to put forth its strong arm for | the abolition of this East African slave traffic, fed from the Central slave traders, And the great market has been closed, and for 1873 there were, perhaps, less by one hundred thousand than the number of Afri- can slaves brought io the seaboard in 1871. Nor has the work been con- fined to the coast. While the prayers of Livingstone were being answered from England Baker Pacha, in the service of the enlightened ruler of Egypt, was by force of arms breaking up and dispersing the camps of the slave dealers on the Upper Nile. These are the beginnings of the redemption of Africa, to which Livingstone devoted his life, but which he had little ground to hope would be witnessed for a generation yet to come. Elsewhere in these columns the biographieal sketch which we give of the great explorer and faithful Christian missionary embraces the record of his Atrican researches and discover- ies. That they will prove of incalculable value to mankind in the ultimate develop- ment of vast centres of valuable trade in Africa in the exchanges of northern nations for sugar, coffee, cotton, rice and other tropical products, no intelligent reader can doubt. It has been known to Europe from the days of the old Romans that a great portion of Africa is av irreclaimable and almost impassuble desert ; but it is only from the explorations of Livingstone, Baker, Speke and Grant, Burton and other courageous travellers, that we have learned that a very great portion of Airica is composed of the rich- est and most fruittul lands on the globe, capable of sustaining millions of people where only hundreds or thousands of idle and warlike savages, now half starved, lead a miser- able existence in the midst of abundance. There are many individuals now living in this community, we doubt not, who will be num- bered among our merchant princes from their profitable ventures in the trade with Equatorial or South Airica, and there are some—as returning travellers from the lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza and from Ujiji, and from Livingstone’s great chain of lakes over the mountains west of the Tanganyika—who to dehghted audiences will tell the story of the prosperous settlements of civilized people in those beautiful lands where Livingstone wandered among savages till he became ‘‘a mere ruckle of bones,” and, exhausted from famine and exposure, was dyiug upon his feet when rescued by a deliv- erer from a land beyond the Western Sea. Such, with the abolition of the slave trade, are the prospective fruits trom Livingstone’s thirty years of Christian labor and geographi- cal researches in the wilds of South and Cen- tral Africa. From the obscurities in which he has so long been hidden ‘rom civilization he is reclaimed at his death to be advanced on the roll of —The few, the immortal names That were not boru .o die. What he has been doing or what he had accomplished, down to his death, in his explorations since his sepa- ration from Mr. Staniey we have yet to learn. Our despatch says that he died of dysentery while travelling from Lake Bembe to Unyanyembe. From this it would appear that he had been far south of Lake Tangan- yika, when it supposed outside that he & thousand miles to the northwestward, following the river from that interior chain of lakes which he believed tributary to the N Did he solve the mystery of that great interior river? Did he then move southward to solve the mystery of the outlet of Lake Tanganyika? Did he find that the waters from that lake are drained into the Zambesi or the Nie? These are among the questions hich we hope will be settled with tho retum of was was | do so, | will be sent to the Senate to-day. Sad Tidings from Central Africa— | it would appear that before or immediately after his death he had been overtaken by an exploring party—perhaps that of Captain Cameron from Zanzibar—and that this party was well provided with supplies, including drugs and medicines. From these facts we concltide that the papers of the great explorer ave been carefully preserved and that with their arrival in England the world will be fully enlightened as to the field and the results of his explorations of the last two years. Nor are we without the hope that they will solve the mystery of that great in- terior system of lakes and their drainage, and the mysteries of the outlet of Tanganyika and the sources of the Nile. The Louisiana Case in Congress. The Louisiana case was the feature in the proceedings of the United States Senate yes- terday. Assoon as the subject came up for debate Senator Morton moved for an investi- | gation into the tatle of Pinchback to the seat he claims, announcing that he had changed | his opinion as to the righé of the claimant in consequence of information of which he had become possessed, but at the same time de- fending the course pursued by the administra- tion during the Louisiana troubles. Senator McCreery then made his anticipated assault on the Durell-Kellogg proceedings, character- izing them as the ‘darkest and foulest busi- ness ever transacted in the history of this country,” and charging that by republican admissions the fraudulent voting in the State averaged six thousand in every parish. In the course pursued by Mr. Morton, as well as in the fierce attacks made upon Judge Durell by Mr. McCreery, the policy of the Senatorial majority in this troublesome case is supposed to be foreshadowed, This is announced to be the impeachment of Durell, whose conviction, looked upon as certain, will destroy the legality of the present Kellogg Legislature, and render it necessary to order a new elec- tion, in which Pinchback will be at liberty to try his chances if he should think proper to The President's Message on the case It is profitless now to inquire what share of | blame attaches to the administration in this Louisiana scandal. It may be that if the President had failed to sustain Kellogg and his party there might have been a conflict in the State—possibly even a civil war—to be ended only by the federal power. Never- theless, the interference of the gen- eral government in a State quarrel, and especially the support of a gross usurpation of State authority by federal bayonets, was full of danger, and could not fail to have an unfor- tunate ending. Itis evident that the Presi- dent now sees the blunder into’ which he was led by the bad advice of his political friends, and especially of the Attorney General. The Louisiana ‘‘monstrosity’’ is one of those the burden of which he is the most anxious to ‘‘un- load.”’ If Judge Durell is to be made the scapegoat nobody will feel any sympathy for him. He may have done only what he be- lieved to be the work demanded of him by party fidelity, but he has shown himself a dis- grace to the Bench, and there will be retribu- tive justice in his punishment. The sooner | the country is rid of Durell, Kellogg, Pinch- back and the whole tribe of political knaves of a similar character the better. Let justice be done to Louisiana, however tardy it may be, and the ‘‘new departure” of the President, as mani- fested in the Texas affair, will assure us against similar scandals in the future. The Profits of Rapid Transit. According to the official returns of the city railroads one hundred and thirty-five million passengers were carried on the horse cars last year. Of these nearly one hundred millions travelled by the direct uptown lines and the balance by the cross-town lines. The uptown travel would be more than doubled if we had steam railroads through the city instead of horse cars, for the reasons (1) that thousands of people now living so far down town that they do not ride at all would live up town if they could go from the Battery to Harlem River in half an hour; (2) that thousands who now live across the rivers would, under such circumstances, live in New York and Westchester county, and (3) that thousands who now make but one trip a day would make two or three trips if they could pass between their homes and their places ot busi- ness in from ten to twenty minutes. We leave out of consideration the fact that the reported travel is based on the actual’cash receipts of the companies, while, in fact, it is probably one-third larger, as fully that pro- portion of the receipts is supposed to be appropriated, or, in horse car language, “knocked down,"' by the employés. It is not by any means an extravagant calculation, on the basis of the actual travel over the horse car lines, to say that steam cars would carry two hundred million passengers in the year. At six cents fare this would realize twelve million dollars in gross. Allowing filty per cent of the gross receipts for running expenses, there would be a net profit of six million dollars a year remaining, or six per cent interest on a capital of one hundred million dollars. These rough figures will serve to show the profits that are to be made out of rapid tran- sit, provided it is such as can accommodate the full demand for city travel. Let two roads be honestly constructed by the city— one on the line of each river to the Westches- ter border—and the receipts would be suffi- cient to pay the interest on the cost and to redeem the construction bonds without the imposition of # dollar taxation. Tue War Srrvation in Cupa remains ex- ceedingly lively, particularly for the Spaniards, according to telegraph reports from Havana, which we publish in the Heraup to-day. Captain General Jovellar is engaged in the preparation of some important orders. In the meantime the insurgents continue to deal fierce blows against his power. Manzanillo needs reinforcements sadly. Guantanamo is threatened by the insurgents, and a Spanish war steamer has been ordered to Gibara to embark troops for its relief. In the meantime the insurgent government performs its func- tions and ‘changes and nominates Ministers regularly. Tue License Law and Sunpay Amuse- MmeNts.—There appears to be a desire on the part of the police and the Commissioners of Excise to shirk the responsibility for the en- forcement of the law against liquor selling and musical entertainments at liquor saloons on his remains to England. ‘His body has been embalmed.” From this fact Sunday. The police report violations of the Sunday law to the Excise Commissioners, and the latter do not seem anxious to prose- cute the offenders with severity. The tempo- rary excitement raised by the pious reformers of other people’s morals will probably die out in a few weeks, and leave our German fellow citizens and hard-worked laboring population to enjoy their beer, pipes and music on Sunday evenings as usual. After all, this trifling in- duigence is not much of a public nuisance, and probably will not be recorded in the Great Book of Judgment as a more heinous offence than perjury and frauds upon the revenue, Disracli’s Aildress—The Conservative Policy. Mr. Disraeli’s address to his constituents opens the canvass in England and may be ac- cepted as presenting in somewhat hasty array the principal points upon which the conserva- tives make their appeal to the country. Ap- parently the most important of these points is the accomplished 'Squire of Hughenden him- self, for his return is assumed, not merely as indispensable, but as having an importance that it is impossible to exaggerate. Civil and religious iiberty in Europe, it appears from the address, “mainly depends upon the strength and stability of Evgland,” and there- fore the leader of the opposition especially wishes to be in Parliament ‘‘to resist the im-- pairment of England’s strength and to sup- port her imperial sway.” So the fate of Europe rests with England, and the fate ot England rests with the author of ‘Lothair;” and it is gratifying to know that that gentleman does not propose to keep in the background, but is ready, and even eager, to prevent the tremendous calamity of the ruin in Europe of civil and religious liberty. Aside even from this somewhat extravagant, statement of Mr. Disraeli’s relations to civili- zation generally, his address seems to us wanting in his usual felicity of thought, as well as in his usual good humor. Its tone is peevish; its argument, where it deigns to argue, is disingenuous and unfair; but its worst feature is that it argues very little, and, while it lays down no distinct line of policy against the government policy, it refers to this latter only in terms that are discourteous, if not opprobrious. Evidently the Premier's strong case and his good political tactics irri- tate the opposition, and they enter the contest, not with confidence and high courage, but in the spirit of men already contriving excuses for the defeat they have good reason to an- ticipate. They cannot fergive Gladstone for the painful position in which they found themselves when, upon the defeat and re- tirement of the Ministry last year, they were unable to assume the power that the liberals virtually dared them totake. The fact that the government, with several adverse votes against it, and one of these a vote upon which it deemed it proper to resign, was yet so completely master of the situation that the conservative party dared not undertake to govern in its presence, is too much for the tory equanimity, because the fact was a humiliation to that party by its exposure that alone the tories were not able to cope even with their crippled enemy; that their historic splendor was gone; that even the barren vic- tory scored in their name was not really gained by their adherents, but was due to assistance received from votes upon which they could not count for further service. It is laid down in the address—and this is doubtless a primary point of the conservative policy—that it would be better for the country “if the foreign policy of the government were more energetic and its domestic policy less energetic.’’ The point in the domestic policy to which objection is especially made is the “incessant, harassing legislation,”’ By this is meant the Ballot bill, the Education bill, the Irish University bill, the bills for the exten- sion of the suffrage—in short, all those great constitutional measures which ‘are the realiza- tion of the liberal revolution, and the agitation of which has fairly broken up the crust of that old-fashioned, tory England that was so pre- eminently ‘a pleasant place for gentlemen,” but also a land of slavery for the laboring population. Naturally the tories dislike laws of that sort, and as laws of that sort are the kind for which parliaments nowadays have a pre- dilection they quite as naturally extend their antipathy to the fact of legislation, and would like to stop it altogether. For this reconstruc- tion of the domestic institutions of England they would substitute ‘an energetic foreign policy.” That is to say, they would prefer that the energies of England should be em- ployed in mending the institutions of her neighbors in order that her own might be left alone. They mean that they would rather have fought the United States on the Alabama case than have paid fifteen millions of dollars to settle it, and that there should not be a battle ficld on the Con- tinent on which the “thin red line” of British troops did not figure. This criticism of the course of the liberals and this proposi- tion for a substitute indicate at a glance the change that has taken place in the history of England since the days when the resources of the country were squandered in the wars against Napoleon, and when the staggering burden of the national debt was laid on the shoulders of the British people only to keep down the French people. In our time a British Premier deems that the more legiti- mate sphere of his duties is the government of England and the amelioration, so far as laws will accomplish it, of the political and social condition of her people; and this modern notion of government, rather than a recurrence to the former notion, will, we believe, be supported at the polls. We see in Mr. Disracli’s address nothing likely to affect the political opinions of Eng- land in @ sense tavorable to his party— nothing but wornout and futile figments of the fancy, utterly inadequate to arrest the tide of liberal opinion that, despite some apparent eddies and counter-currents on the surtace, is sweeping over the country. New Zgauanp anv THE Paciric Isuanps.— The news from New Zealand and the other islands of the Pacific, which we print this morning, shows marked material progress in those distant lands. Auckland has a new railroad, and there has been an important increase in steam facilities for the coasting and interisland trade. What shows the con- dition of the settlements in the most satis- factory light, especially at a time when the workingmen in other parts of the world are complaining, is the fact that there is an in- creased demand for labor in Victoria and some of the other English colonies, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Currency and Banking Quer tions Before Congress. The Honse Committee on Banking and Cur- rency was hard at work yesterday, and after discussing various propositions of a financial character instructed Mr. Maynard, by a vote of six to five, to prepare a bill authorizing free banking, the banks to keep on deposit at the Treasury legal tenders to the amount of five per cent of their circulation, which is to be used to redeem their own notes when pre- sentéd, The banks are to have the privilege of making daily exchanges of their notes for legal tenders if they desire todoso. If the telegraphic despatch be rightly worded this proposition to require the banks to keep only five per cent of their circulation in legal tenders on deposit is an extraordinary one, unless, indeed, we are to understand that bonds are to be deposited to secure the rest. Not having the proposed bill in detail we must wait before making further comment. Mr. Maynard was also authorized by the committee to report a bill allowing gold banks ninety per cent circulation on bonds deposited, instead of eighty per cent as under the present law. This may be well enough for banks paying gold, as these insti- tutions must keep a sufficient amount of specie to represent the balance of their circulation not secured by bonds on de- posit with the Treasury. Still it would tend to weaken the hold of the government upon the banks. Another bill was authorized, pro- hibiting national banks from paying interest on deposits of other national banks, and re- quiring national banks with small capital to keep their deposits in their own vaults, and not to send them to large cities to be loaned out. To this there ought to beno objection, for much of the financial difficulties in the country towns during the late panic arose from the country banks having loaned their deposits on interest to the New York banks, the latter making a profit by lending to the brokers and stock operators at a higher rate of interest. The postal savings bank scheme of Post- master General Creswell was at first voted down remorselessly by the committee, though, by way of easing off the blow and out of courtesy to Mr. Creswell, the vote was reconsidered and a bill authorized to be prepared for discussion in Committee of the Whole House. Members of both houses are girding up their loins for a grand struggle on the questions of currency and banking. To-day Mr. Sherman is to bring up his resolution in the Senate against inflation and in favor of resuming specie payments. We shall have, doubtless, some remarkable developments and crudities in the course of the debates in both the Senate and House. The vote of the Senate on Mr. Sherman's resolution, however, will indicate how that body stands with regard to currency expansion. River Improvements—A New Danger. While mast of the newspapers at the West are bitterly sarcastic upon harbor improve- ments in the East, they nearly all advocate river improvements for their own section. The improvement of the national channels is demanded, we are assured by the St. Louis Republican, by all the river towns from St. Paul to the Gulf. Of course the villages on the streams emptying into the Mississippi will all ask for equally delicate attentions. We must take issue with the Republican in regard to any such grand scheme of public improve- ments. The improvement of the national channels is a very imposing phrase, but it is not more captivating than was the poetry we heard ten yearsago in regard to that grand national highway, the Pacific Railroad. It was the comprehensive enterprise of the West that forced that work upon the nation years before it was absolutely required. The same logic that applied to this national highway applies with equal force to such national chan- nels as the Mississippi River. Indeed, it may be said that the argument in behalf of Missis- sippi River improvement is stronger than that so effectively used in favor of the Pacific Railroad, for the river, like the Harbor of New York, is a constant commercial necessity; but the waste, extravagance and corruption in the one case would equally disgrace the other if Congress should seriously undertake any plan of river improvements. Already, we are assured by another St. Louis authority—the Globe—the lake ports of Michigan cost the government more money than it receives as revenue from the whole State. River im- provements would soon cost more money than the revenues of the entire Northwest, and propositions of this kind must be battled against with the vigor necessary to destroy a new and extremely plausible method of de- pleting the national Treasury. Tue Pouce Justice Controversy.—The question as to the constitutionality of the law under which Mayor Havemeyer has appointed the Police Justices now performing the duties of the office at the various Courts is to be set- tled by the decision of the Court of Appeals on a test case agreed upon by the old Police Justices and the incumbents, The formal evidence in the case was taken in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, and the appeal will be made immediately the decision of that Court is rendered. The question is one of serious moment to the city, and should be set- tled as speedily as possible. Drvnxarps.—It is proposed by one of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to abandon as. ineffectual, expensive and mischievous the system of committing for ten days persons arrested for drunkenness. It is argued that where the person arrested has been guilty of only a chance indulgence detention till sober is a sufficient punishment, but that habitual drunkards should be com- mitted to the Workhouse for terms long enough to make possible some reform in their habits; which sounds sensible. Great Fines.—An account given elsewhere of the great conflagration that recently de- stroyed the better commercial districts of the city of Jeddo, in Japan, will recall the fact that extensive fires, like the one that destroyed Chicago, are not a product of civilization, but are among the relics of an almost barbarous condition, against which civilization has not yet provided altogether adequate remedies. DEATHS WHILE TRAVELLING. OMAHA, Jan. 26, 1874. A young man named Perrine, of New York, on his way home, died of consumption on the Union Pacific train which errivod here on Saturday, Mr. P. F. Davenport, @ native of Massachusetts, & brother-in-law of ex-Governor Clafin, the sarac disease on the traim Which arrived here yesterday. The two were intimate friends, and had been travelling in California tor their health, Renee ee eee eee EEE EO EeES_7OnOEOneee ——_——-—-sanmenaing PERSONAL INTELLIGENUE. Governor Tom Bennett, of Idaho, ts on a visit to Richmond, Ind, Congressman E, 0, Stanard, of Missouri, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Commander Farquhar, United States Navy, us at he Metropolitan Hotel. ‘There is @ sixteen year old boy at Central Falls, R. L, who weighs 260 pounds, Ex-Congressman James M, Marvin, of Saratoga, is staying at the New York Hotel, General James A, Cunningham, of Boston, is registered at the Windsor Hotel, Rev. Fanny Roberts, of Kittery, Me., recently performed the marriage ceremony tor her son, Judge A. M. Osborne, of Catskill, N, Y., ia among the recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Captain J, Whiting, United States Army, from Fort Grif, Texas, was in St. Louis on Friday last. Judge T. M, Bowen and State Treasurer Henry Page, of Arkansas, have arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, U.S. Grant and Horace Greeley died \ast wee of infantile complaints in the Children’s Home of Montgomery county, Ohio, George W. Miller, lite Superintendent of the Insurance Department, arrived irom Albany yester- day at the Hotel Brunswick. Charles Marsn, of Jordan, Marsh & Co.; Otiver Ames and Edmund Quincy are among the Boston- fans at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Herr Von Rehiucs, German Minister to China, ts to leave his post, and, probably, the diplomatic service also, on account of tliness, The Minnesota Wushvurn (WW. D.), the defeatea candidate for Governor of that State, 1s building the largest fouring mui! in the West, The Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly. Lord Chiet Baron of the Court of Excaequer, is the oldest judge in England, being aged seventy-eight. The oldest member of Queen Victoria's Privy Council, Lord St. Leonards, is ninety-three years of age; the youngest, Prince Arthur, 18 twenty-four. General Rulus Ingalls and Colonel W. W. Cooke, United States Army, who arrived from Europe yesterday, are quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel, The Yale University crew this year will be Cook, Fowler, Kenneay, Brownell, Wood and Nixon, The three first named palled in the race at Spring- field, Mags., last July. Captain E, A, Chapel, Jately living in retirement at Hudson, N, Y., aiter a long term 0. service at sea, has tired of land life and acce; ted the captaincy ofa large clipper ship, bound jor Australia, New Zealand and China, The Earl of Dunraven, Viscoant Parker and Dr. Kingsley, of Engiand, who have veen hunting on the Western Plains tor several months past, ar- rived in the city yesterday, and occupy apartments at the Brevoort House, Rey, W. H. fl. siurray, who was chased out of the Adirondack Mountains last summer by con- stales for shooting deer in violation o1 the game laws of the State of New York, drives one o/ the fastest trotiers in the vicinity of Boston. J.C. Orem, a prize fighter of considerable celeb- rity in the ‘mountain regions oi Utai and Montana and winner of several bluody conflicts, has arrived in San Francisco in search of some buffer with sufficient temerity to “knock a chip off of his shoulder.” The Hon. Captain A. W, Charteris, of the British Army, who Was recently killed by the Ashantees, was one of the best looking and most popular men of London society. He wasan ardent soldier and a vol unteer for the Airican service, He was 80 good fa his profession that his papers, presented at a regl- méfital examination, Wete read as models to the class succeeding his. : EXSENATOR POMEROY, ToreRa, Kan., Jan. 26, 1874. Private advices state that ex-Senator Pomeroy will be here to-day, when he wili complete his bond and arrange matters for his trial, which has been postponed to the July term ol the Court. THE HERALD, IN TEXAS, (From the Jefferson (texas) Mail, Jauuary 17.) Yesterday morning we counted nineteen news: Paper mail bags on board the Marshal) train going West, “chuck full’}oi NEw YORK WEEKLY BuRaLbs, and all for Texas subscribers, Allowing 1,500 copies in each bag—a low estimate—the WEEKLY H&BALD has a circulation in Texas of 28,000. ‘Ihis gives the HERALD in our State a larger circulation than any ten of the most influential papers published in’ Texas, excepting, of course, the Mail, We are not surprised at the popularity of the HerRaLp with the people of this country, for it is the only newspaper we have. Its telegraphic despatches and its cor- respondence from all parts of the globe are equalled by no other journal in the world for truth and reliability. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States sluop-of-war Juniata was te have sailed yesterday to convoy the monitor Dic- tatorto Key West. It was found, however, that the steering apparatus of tie latter ves:el was out of order, and itis thought that she will have to go into dock at the Navy Yard lor repairs, The Juniata is ali ready for sea. Orders and Kurtoughs. : Lieatenant Commander William S. Dana is ore dered to the Ossipee as executive. Lieutenant M. B, Buiord will be detached trom the Congress on completion of the naval manceuvres now in prog- ress at Key West and ordered home, Lieutenant C. R, Meeker’ is detached from the Brooklyn and ordered to await jurther imstructions at voston. Lieutenant Edward Strong is detached trom the Navy Yard at Boston and ordered to the Shenan- doah, Surgeon Woolverton is detached from the Shenandoah and granted sick leave. Arrival of the Lancaster at Key West. Key West, Jan, 26, 1874. The Lancaster, Captain Caldwell, has arrived. here, She 18 fifty-four days irom Rio Janeiro. Eleven irigates and corvettes, three monitors and five despatch boats are nowhere, The filibuster General Sherman is coaling preparatory to starting for New Orleans, where the Court in her case wil be convened. AN EARTHQUAKE SHOOK IN MASSACHUSETTS. LOWELL, Jan. 26, 1874, The citizens of Chelmsford report a perceptible shock of earthquake at that place yesterdav noon, which shook buildings and caused considerable alarm, FIRES. A Kerosene Lamp Accident. Nasuua, N. H., Jan. 26, 1874. A donble dwelling house, owned by Dr. L, FB. Locke and occupied by J. &. Hunt, was burned last night. The cause of the fire was the accidental breaking of @ kerosene lamp, The loss is $2,0005" imsured. aaa Horses Burned to Death. EVERETT, Mass., Jan. 26, 1874. The stable of Patrick Crowley, in South Everett, was burned on Saturday, with « dwelling house neds, The famlly barely escaped with their ives. ‘Two horses were burned to death. The loss 18 $3,000; partially covered by insurance. A Dwelling Burned. BosTON, Jan. 26, 1874. ‘The dwelling of Charles Greene, in Beacon street, Alisten, was burned this morning and 1s a total The building and furniture were insured for ire the Pha:bix Insurance Company of Hart- 13,000 10 ford. Fire in Helena, Arkansas. *Mempauis, Tenn., Jan, 26, 1874 A special despatch from Helena, Ark., says:— On Sunday morning, at one o'clock, fire was dis- covered in the southwest corner of the immense frame building Known as Miles! block, belonging to John A. Boppe, of Newark, N. J. Ina few minutes the whole puilding was in a@ blaze, and, despite the efforts of the citizens, the fire spread to @ two story frame house, Cet a | to J. B, Miles, which, with the three story bric! dwelling of Miss Augusta Wedon, were consumed. On the south, two irame stores, occupied by Q. Re Datley and Ross & Elder, and owned by J. B. Miles, of Helena, and L. A. Arinstrong, ot Bewark, were destroyed. The brick building occupied oy Ktug & were here checked the fire. Thair Joss by water and fire is about $4,000, not insured. West of Miles’ bloock two frame houses were destrayed. The Miles block cest $40,000, aud the entire lossea wili reach about $70,000, against which there ia insurance, ‘Tha fire waa tae work of au Incen. diasy.