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SHOCKING RAILWAY DISASTER IN SCOTLAND! SIXTEEN INSTANTLY KILLED! MAN OTHERS INJURED—SEVENTH PGE. ENGLAND ALL AGOG OVER THE PARLIA- MENTARY CAMPAIGN! WHY THE PREMIER DISSOLVED THE LEGISLATIVE BODY! LONDON DEMONSTRATION AGAINST UL- TRAMONTANISM! AMERICAN RAILWAY CARS—SEVENTH PAGE. LOUISIANA BUCHUISM DISCUSSED BY GEN- ERAL GRANT'S CABINET! AMERICAN CREDIT ABROAD! CLAIMS FOR THE GENEVA AWARD—TENTH PAGE. PROGR! OF THE LEGISLATURE ON CONSTITUTIUNAL REVISION! PREME BENCH—Tuiep Pace. FEATURES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CITY—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEW SEVENTH PAGE. 4 $50,000 STEAL! THE JERSEY CITY TREAS- URER ALSCONDS, CARRYING AWAY WITH HIM HIS OFFICIAL BOND—Tuirp Pace. LIVELY WORK ANTICIPATED IN THE PHILA- DELPHIA MAYORALTY CONVENTION TO- DAY! COLONEL A. K. Mot RE A CAN- DIDATE—ART TREAS S—FOURTH PAGE. HAS CONGRESS THE RIGHT TO REGULATE INTER-STATE COMMERCE OVER THE RAIL- ROADS? MR. MORTON CON DS IT HAS! PERFECTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL— FirTH PaGE. HOW TO INSURE SPECIE PAYMENT RESUMP- TION! FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS YESTERDAY—NintH Pace. CUTTING OUT THE SOCIAL EVIL ULCER! RIGHTEOUS UNITY OF PURPOSE OF THE EDUCATIONAL BOARD, THE DISTRIC ATTORNEY AND PROMINENT CITI AFTER MAY 1! HELNOUS PROSTITUTION— FourrH PaGE. | ENG AND CHANG BUNKER! INQUISITION rl | THE USUAL DOCTORS’ DIS- S! THE CURIOUS SOCIAL LIFE UF THE TWINS—FourTs Pacer. MR, PRICE AND HIS DIVORCED MARITAL PARTNERS | GENERAL LEGAL SUMMA- RIES—THE RAPID TRANSIT PROBLEM— THE NI TH LOSE THEIR AR- MORY—EIG: THE THE SU- A Remouiscence.—We have before us an invitation toa ‘Junior Exhibition” at Yale University, issued in 1836—thirty-eight years ago. The managers’ names are W. M. Evarts, ©. Goodrich, ©. 8. Lyman, M. N, | Morris, M. E. Pierpont, W. S. Scarborough, J. W. Seymour, M. R. Waite and S. Yerkes. Of these William M. Evarts and Morrison R. Waite were associate counsel at the Geneva Conterence, and the latter is now Chief Jus- tice of the United States. | place and. circumstances considered, General Grant, the Bepublicam Party and the Presidential Succession. Since the reactionary State elections of last October and November there has been a marked decline in the relations of unity, con- fidence and harmonious co-operation which previously existed between the administration and the ruling chiefs of the republican party. The general results of those elections dis- closed such unexpected reductions in the re- publican vote, from the outlet of the Hudson to the head springs of the Mississippi, such a prevailing spirit of apathy or discord or mu- tiny in the republican camp, such startling indications of a great impending political re- action as to be noted among the remarkable events of the dying year in the late annual Message of the President to Congress. His allusion to the subject is very brief, being only the passing remark that ‘political partisan- ship has almost ceased to exist, especially in the agricultural regions ;’’ but, ‘time, this is a very Significant hint from a republican President to a republican Con- gress. It has something of the ring of a declaration of independence from General | Grant, or of a warning that he must no longer be expected blindly to conduct his administra- tion in the interests of the republican party, when ‘political partisanship’? has almost ceased to exist among the people. . This warning of the Message has been fol- | lowed by General Grant with the absolute abandonment of the radical policy of a mili- tary regulation of the local affairs of the recon- structed Southern States. According to the example of military intervention in support of Kellogg in Louisiana, Davis of Texas, with a convenient decision from the Supreme Court ot his State in his favor as Governor, had rea- son to believe that his application to the Pres- ident for a detachment of the United States army to maintain him in his office would be answered with the advance of a squadron of cavalry, a regiment of infantry, and a battery of artillery upon the headquarters of the presuming posse of democratic State officers elect assembled at Austin. But, to the consternation of Davis, General Grant advises him to submit to the will of the people; and, in answer to a second appeal for martial Jaw in his behalf, the unfortunate Davis is flatly told that he has no case and that his re- quest cannot be granted. This is equivalent to a proclamation from the President that he will pursue no further the profitless and disas- trous radical policy of armed intervention in the settlement of the contested elections of the Southern States. Having thus crossed the Rubicon, General Grant has no further inter- est in the maintenance of the Kellogg usurpa- tion in Louisiana. Mr. Morton has dropped the prima facie case of Pinchback as claimant for a seat in the Senate, and if Governor Kel- logg is not to be tried by a new State election he must, at least, hereafter take care of him- self, These Louisiana usurpers are among the monstrosities and dead weights of the re- publican party, of which, in the opinion of General Grant, the party cannot be too soon relieved. He has had enough of them, and will no more be troubled by them, be the con- sequences what they may to the ‘‘carpet-bag- gers’’ or to the republican party in the South- ern States. In this important matter General Grant, in his quiet way, has assumed the responsibility of acting upon his own judgment, as in his several nominations for a Chief Justice. His emphatic rebuff to Davis, of Texas, was doubtless as much a surprise to the republi- can magnates of the Senate as was his nomi- nation of Cushing for ‘the highest judicial office in the government’ after his confirma- tion as Minister to Spain. He does not seek | aconfiict with the Senate in its official capa- city, but he will not recognize the Senate as a party machine. He lost nothing of the popu- lar confidence from the Senatorial bolt against him of 1872, and he, perbaps, fears nothing from any combination that may be organized against him for 1876. Whether he contem- plates a third term or the naming of his suc- cessor, or a retirement from the field and the position of a neutral in reference to the. republican nominating convention of 1876, we do not know. It is apparent, however, that since the State elections of last autumn the opinion has been gaining strength that General Grant will not be the republican candidate for the Presidential succession; that the republican managers are casting about for a new man; that numerous aspirants for the prize in both’ houses of Congress have already been dis- covered; that the President comprehends the situation; that, having fulfilled his engage- ments with his party, and that, as the party itself is in process of dissolution, he is free to pursue his own course henceforward, and will so pursue it, regardless of party instructions and solely in view of a good record for his ad- ministration in the judgment of an intelligent people. The spirit of Jacksonian independence manifested by General Grant in the recent acts to which we have adverted may be readily explained upon this theory; but it may other- wise be accounted for. Whether it is his pur- pose to enter the canvass as a candidate for a third Presidential term, or to withdraw in 1876, and, in retiring, to name his successor, after the manner of Jackson, or whether he has determined upon an absolute retirement from the strife of party politics, leaving the succession to take care of itself, after the example of Monroe, it may still be the purpose of General Grant to establish the rights of the Executive against the dictation of a party cabal in the Senate. Or he may still desire that the general policy | of his administration may be adopted and pursued by his successor in office, and in this view he may be preparing the way for the probable contingency of a new balance of power, fresh from the people, in the next Congress. In any event, in his abandonment of the radical policy of the bayonet in the regulation of the local elections of the South- ern States, General Grant has done much to regain that public confidence which he lost through his armed intervention in the local affairs of Louisiana. If we have in this change of base only the soldier's retreat from an untenable position it is, like his retreat from the St. Domingo scheme of annexation, an encouraging example from General Grant of his readiness to prove the truth of his first inaugural declaration, that he has ‘‘no policy to enforce in opposition to the will of the people.” We can hardly as yot discover woon the. / NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. surface of fhe waters the first ripples of the Presidential agitation for 1876. The battle is yet afar off. Yet, since the time of Monroe, never were the parties, the issues and the candidates of a Presidential campaign, even three years in advance of the contest, more involved in doubts and uncertainties than they are to-day. We shall not have in 1876 a repe- tition of the unequal contest of 1872. We may have a scrub race, as in 1824, or a broak- ing up of the republican party analogous to that of the democratic disruption of 1860, or possibly a combination of the opposition ele- ments as overwhelming aa was that against Van Buren in 1840. The elections of next autumn for the Forty-fourth Congress will partially enlighten us on the Presidential question. The republican majority in Con- gress, apprised of its responsibilities and its dangers, is endeavoring to set itself in a favorable position before the people. It can- not afford meantime to quarrel with General Grant. His administration is still the bond of cohesion to the republican party; but as the party has fulfilled its appointed mission it must be reconstructed or it will be super- seded. Its leaders may assume that for the time being General Grant is but the instra- ment of the party, but nevertheless he holds the balance of power in determining its destiny in the struggle for the Presidential succession, Dr. Livingstone’s Death. The sad news of the death of the great African explorer has been confirmed by an official despatch to the British government from its agent at Zanzibar. At the time of his death Dr. Livingstone was engaged in the prosecution of his discoveries, and the gallant veteran may be said to have died in harness. Far away in the midst of the savage wilds the courageous old man pushed on through the jungles and marshes of the interior in the pursuit of accurate scientific WMowledge and that he might aid in opening up the iyterior of Africa to the light of civilization and Christianity. After a terrible march through a swamp Dr. Livingstone sunk from sickness and ex- haustion and gave up his bold spirit into the hands of his Creator. Like other apostles of civilization in Africa his noble devotion has cost him his life; but, looking back at the work he has achieved, no one can say that his | life has been thrown away. Science has been a gainer through his labors, and humanity owes him the partial suppres- sion of that infamous slave trade which de- populates and degrades Africa, To have achieved this, by awakening in the conscience of the civilized world a horror of the traffic in man, is a grand result for a lifetime of labor. In that great work our correspondent, Mr. Stanley, shared, and the names of the two men will go down to posterity linked indis- solubly together. The British relief party which went out under the command of Lieu- tenant Cameron will receive the remains of the African discoverer at Ujiji, and will con- vey them to Zanzibar for shipment to Eng- land. A month must elapse before they can arrive at Zanzibar, whence they will be borne tenderly and lovingly to Dr. Livingstone’s native land, to rest from weary toil until the angel’s trumpet shall summon all generations from the tomb. Improper Use of the National The fraudulent use of papers in the sailing of the Virginius has cost the United States more than five millions of dollars. To say nothing of the magnitude of the sum and the oppressive burdens which the imposition of additional taxation will put upon the people at a period of gen- eral financial depression, the country has suf- fered in prestige, our maritime weakness has been made apparent to the world, and we have only escaped from a humiliating surrender of the vessel by its timely passing into the depths of the sea. We perceive that the House Judi- ciary Committee bas under consideration the resolution of General Butler providing against the possibility of a recurrence of another Vir- ginius affair. This is as it should be. Con- gress should at once provide for the punish- ing of all offenders against the strictest inter- pretation of our maritime and neutrality laws, giving the United States conrts adequate jurisdiction, and naval officers, consuls and harbor officials full police powers to seize all vessels which, either by their notorious character as filibustering craft or upon sufficient evidence, shall be deemed of a character hostile to any nation at peace with the United States. Officials who neglect to perform this duty, after having been properly informed of the illegal character of a vessel, should not go unwhipped of justice. The truth is that many of the international wrangles, joint high commissions and wars of words and unnecessary bitterness are directly traceable either to the negligence or corruption of some petty official. We submit that the peace and dignity of the country should no longer be placed at the disposition of irresponsible men who connive at the violation of the spirit of maritime law. Therefore we hope that Congress will adopt stringent measures and that the administra- tion will enforce them with all the vigor at its command. Flag. Tae Avapasea. Cams iw prominent lawyers, representing the inter- ests of the insurance companies and other claimants for the Geneva award, as well as of those who sustained losses by the Shenandoah, were before the Judiciary Com- mittee of the House of Representatives yester- day, and made arguments with regard to the | distribution of the money lately paid over by England to our government. Let us hope the claims will be promptly and equitably dis- tributed to those who are entitled to them, | and that the matter will not drag along like | the French spoliation claims, doing injustice to many citizens, being a constant annoyance to Congress and opening the door for spurious or exaggerated bette the —————_—___~ e Tue Exxcrion Exc ITEMENT Brrraw.—The liberals and t! are both putting forth their best efforts, and each party is confident of victory. Betting is freely indulged in as to the result, and yester+ day, we are told, it was in favor of the liberals, There is some idle talk about the immediate cause of the dissolution; but in view of the fact of the general election the immediate cause of the dissolution is a matter of comparatively little importance, There can, we think, be little doubt that in the new Parliament the Jiberals will be largely in the majority, RD.—Several Unloading the Louisiane Monstrosity. ‘There appears to be some doubt whether the President will recommend a new election in the Louisiana case; on the contrary, it is reported that his special Message on the sub- [; ject takes the ground that no new election is necessary. In the absence of the Mossage there is, of course, no knowledge of the steps by which the President has reached this point, and we can only conjecture, therefore, whether the objection to a new election is simply an attempt to deny the justice which it is hoped Louisiana will obtain, or whether it covers, as it well may, an intention to make that justice even more complete than it could be by referring the subject once more to the voters of the oppressed State. ‘There are two ways by which the President might ‘‘unload” the republican party of the Louisiana iniquity. By ordering a new election the monstrosity of federal interference in a State government without right would be stamped out of existence without reference to the history of the mon- strosity and, of course, without retrac- ing any of the steps by which the inter- ference Was brought about. Indeed, it would be the peculiarity of this remedy that it would cover with convenient decency a series of events that are a disgrace equally to the government and the President and his most intimate as well as his constitutional advisers. If we understand public opinion on the sub- ject there was and isa general readiness to assent that the past may be kepi covered if the wrong is now set right. People are dis- posed to believe that the President may have been misled, that his intention was to act within the hmit of his authority, or that he was under the impression that'not to act in the premises might have been a neglect of duty. Another way to “unload” is by doing justice without a new election—that is, by permitting things to take in Louisiana that regular course which they take after election in every other State. For this purpose it is simply necessary for the United States to cease to support the usurpation it now maintains in power, and immediately the rightfully elected government will take its place. Judge Durell’'s order is the keystone of the arch of villany, and if he be impeached for that order the whole fabric must fall. Certainly this would be the better, the more thorough and more honest way to ‘‘unload’’ this monstrosity, and we trust that the President’s advice against a new election may prove to have this signif- icance, The Russian Bath Casualty. In another column we give some communi- cations on the subject of the recent death in an establishment where Russian baths are given. One is from Mr. Gibson, the pro- prietor of the establishment in which the fatal event occurred ; the other is from the proprietors of a Russian bath ina different street, who, perhaps, apprehend that if so much public attention is directed to another establishment theirs may be overlooked. From these last we are not astonished to hear that their ‘‘distinguished medical authorities’’ have ‘left them in the profoundest ignorance” on several points which they, nevertheless, pretend to discuss, Our statement in regard to the Russian bath is not controverted. Mr. Gibson says that Mr. Wilcox did not take the bath proper, but a portion of it only, and it has been published that the room in which he took that portion had a temperature of ‘eighty degrees—say thirty to forty above the temperature of the air on that day. Now, the autopsy has shown that the deceased had a fatty heart, and the definite cause of death, therefore, was that this weakened heart, equal, perhaps, to ordi- nary occasions, was not equal to the demand made upon it by the change of temperature. It could not keep up an exaggerated activity; it was called upon for a sudden labor that it was unable to perform, and this sudden labor was due to the temperature of the room in which the partial bath was taken. These are the facts; and these facts fully sustain our original observation, that where there is an un- sound heart the Russian bath is exceedingly dangerous, and that the advice of a physician is necessary to say whether in any given case the physical conditions that make this luxury dangerous do or do not exist. GuapctonE aND THE Homg Routers.—Tho contest for the representation of Greenwich promises to be one of the most amusing phases of the election struggle about to begin in England. It is rather a good joke to have the Prime Minister of England contesting a Parliamentary election with an Irish rebel, or, at least, rebel sympathizer. The idea is certainly a novel one. The ballot and the lodger franchise have created in the large cen- tres of population a considerable Irish vote, and in many constituencies the fate of the candidates will be decided by the way that vote is cast. Mr. Nolan has been long promi- nently before the British public as a stanch advocate of the release of the Fenian pris- oners. He has been a constant and unwel- come correspondent of the English Premier, and evidently has made up his mind to avenge the Minister's denial of mercy by dividing the liberal vote at Greenwich in the hope of securing Mr. Gladstone's deteat. We may look on the action of Mr. Nolan as an indication of the policy which will be pur- sued by the home rulers in and out of Parlia- ment. Their programme is obstruction. District or Covvmpia Anuses.—Several of the oldest, most prominent and wealthy citi- zens of Washington have petitioned Congress, praying for an investigation into the affairs of the District government. Among the names are those of W. W. Corcoran, G. W. Riggs, J. D. Claggett, Marshall Brown, Gunton, Perry and others. These gentlemen have larger interests in and know more about the District than any others. Their memorial, therefore, is significant, and implies that there is urgent necessity to probe the abuses of the Washing- ton city government. As the present govern- ment is the pet of the administration this petition may not be regarded favorably; but if the President is resolved to throw overboard the dead weights that encumber him and the republican party he should sanction the inves- tigation asked. ConFINEMENT oF Persons AuiEGED To Br Insanz.—A bill has been introduced in the Legislature at Albany to prevent abuses in re- gard to insane asylums. In the course of the remarks of a member it appeared that persons nerfectly sane have been committed to lunatic ‘The purpose, it is alleged, was to confine cer- would interfere with the possession of certain ’ property. This subject has before been called to the attention of the Legislature upon the recommendation of Governor Hoffman and others, but thus far, unfortunately, without practical effect. Those who have the subject now in hand at Albany will, we trast, press it until a definite and satisfactory conclusion is reached. The bill is now in the hands of the Judiciary Committee, upon recommitment. English Sympathy with Bismarck. The friends of civil and religious liberty in England have been kicking up a jolly row, under the leadership of Earl Russell, Mr. Newdegate and men of that ilk.’ The cable informs us of a very large and enthusiastic meeting at St. James’ Hall, for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the Emperor of Germany in the war waged by his government on the German Catholics, The action of Bis- marck-in establishing himself as a kind of lay Pope over the consciences of the Catholic Germans has filled the Russells and the New- degates with delight. In the Man of Iron they behold a sword of the Lord’ specially commissioned to smite Popery. It does not matter to these logical people that every tenet of civil and religious liberty has been tram- pled on by the German Chancellor in a fight he has by no means won as yet. They only soe that he hates the Pope. In their eyes that is sufficient to justify whatever he may under- take against the Old Lady on the Seven Hills. All this would be very amusing and very comic, only it suggests rather sad reflec- tions as to the value of our boasted civilization and progress when we see men ad- vocating the application of measures against others they would regard as unbearable tyranny if applied to themselves. Yet the party represented by Mr. Newdegate and his friends are the blatant worshippers of civil and religious liberty—for themselves, If these people do approve of the acts of the German Chancellor—acts so much in conflict with the ideas of the age we live in—itis to be regretted that a sense of decency does not re- strain them from exhibiting their foolish bigotry to the outside world. The State Legislature. The amendments to the State constitution are progressing very slowly through the Sen- ate, and it is rather doubtful whether the present Legislature will do its work in a way that will enable the people to enjoy the bene- fits of the proposed changes in 1877. The ne- cessity of protecting New York Harbor has forced itself on the attention of the Senators, and a bill has been introduced to prevent the filling up of our harbor by the emptying of cinders from the steamers. The intention of the bill is excellent, but the penalty proposed to be imposed is altogether disproportionate to the offence and will not carry with it any deterrent effect. The notion of restraining huge corporations like the ocean steam- ship companies from violating the lw by threatening to impose a fine of fifty dollars is simply ridiculous. The chances are a hun- dred to one that the offenders will never be discovered, and when the danger of being found out only involves a loss of fifty dollars the restraining power of the law will be small indeed. If the Senators want to .check au abuse which threatens to destroy the pros- perity of this eity they should make the throwing of ashes into the harbor a mis- demeanor, punishable with imprisonment and @ serious fine. The captains and engineers should be made liable for the acts ot their sub- ordinates, and then we would soon have an end to the nuisance. But childish legislation, only meant to appease the popular demand by the appearance of protection, is worse than ‘useless. Tue AsHaxtex Wan.—The native allies un- der Commissioner Glover are being made ready for a rush on Coomassie with better suc- cess than attended the efforts of General Wolseley in the same direction. A good deal of ill-concealed jealousy exists between the two commanders, as the Commissioner seems to desire to snatch all the laurels of the expedi- tion. As will be seen, he has at his disposal a force of twenty-five thousand native warriors, who appear to be full of fight. We do not place very much reliance on the value of the discipline they are said to have acquired, and in all probability should Commissioner Glover move into the interior without the support of General Wolseley he would find himself sud- ‘denly attacked by overwhelming numbers of Ashantee warriors and deserted by his dusky friends. So far as can be judged, Great Britain will have to make considerable sacri- fices before this war is terminated. ‘Tse Siamese Twrns.—The story we publish in another column of the lives of the two re- markable beings who were once known to the public as the firm of E. & C. Bunker will be found full of interest. The record of their lives has something irrepressibly comic, even in its saddest phases. The enforced companionship seems to have been borne by both men with real philosophy. They mace the most of their link, and the comparatively large for- tunes which they left to their families show that it is by no means such a bad thing to be a Siamese twin, after all. It reflects infinite discredit on the @uthorities of Surrey county, North Carolina, that no steps have been taken to hold an inquest into the cause of death of these men. The miser- able and indecent desire of gain is no doubt at the bottom of this neglect; but there ofight to be some decent people in the county who could insist on the authorities carrying out the law and inquiring what caused the sudden demise of two human beings. THE TEXAS SENATORSHIP, Active Balloting of the Democr: Caucus for the United States Se ship. in tore AvsTIN, Jan, 26, 1874. The democratic caucus to nominate a United States Senator met in this city to-day, The time of the Convention was literally wasted during the first three hours, eight ballots being taken without result, at least according to the two-thirds rule there was no nomination, The eighth ballot stood as follows:—Throckmorton, 36; Reagan, 37; Maxey, 16; Flournoy, 4 The radicals are threatening to vote dor Reagan. thus uriving the extreme demo- crats to Throckmorton, the choice of their party. Reagan, however, st: @ fair chance of securing the coveted seat at Washington. The contest oc- casions considerable political gossip, and a ripple of excitement is maintained by the active canvas- ding of the opposing factions. ne el Commapder R. F. R. Lays, Upited States Navy, is at the Astor Hodse. Ex-Congressman Lewis McKenzie, of Virginia, t@ staying at the Astor House. Chief Engineer W. H. Sbock, United States Navys is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Francis 1I., ex-King of Naples, is now residing at St. Maude, a suburb of Paris, john McEnery, one of the contending Governors of Louisiana, {s in Baltimore. Ex-Congreasman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, if registered at the Gilsey House, J. H, Ramsey, of Albany, is among the recent ar- rivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The Emperor of Austria is expected to arrive in St. Petersburg about February 13, George Prince, a soldier of the war 0f 1812, died im Harrisburg, Pa., on Saturday last, Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City ot Chester, is at the New York Hotel, General J, N. Knapp, of Governor Dtx’s stag, hag returned to the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Odin Bowte, of Maryland, yesters day arrived at the New York Hotel. It is said the Mr, Bass, M. P., the brewer, nas re faged a peerage from Mr. Gladstone. Five Senators and thirteen Representatives in tho present Congress were born in Vermont, The Duke of Edinburgh and the Princess Marie are to remain ip Russia until the second week to Maroh. Rev. Samuel Scovill, Henry Ward Beecher’s aon- in-law, is foreman of Rescue Hook and Ladder Company at Norwioh, N. ¥. Colonel Sweet, editor of the San Antonio (Texas) Herald, recently received two Indian scalps as a present from an admtrer of his paper. Vice President Henry Wilson arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Monday night from Washington, and left for Boston yesterday morning, Count Andrew Bernstorff, lately a member of the German Legation at Washington, bas been ap- pointed Landrath in the Duchy of Lauenburg, ta which tis family estates are situated, Mrs. Dr. Richie, of Albia, Iowa, has @ plain gold ring 150 years old. It served as the wedding ring ofhersel{, her mother, grandmother, great-grand- mother and great-great-grandmother, Mra. Patience Bushee, of Swansea, Mass,, who died on Thursday last, would have been 100 years old had she lived until the 13thof March. She died on the same place where she was born. The ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria lives in & retired manner in Prague, Bohemia. He has few visitors besides priests, and all his time is con- sumed in making ingenious toys, in religious ex- ercises or in solitary walks, Sir St. George Fox, an English nobleman, with six servants, four horses, twenty-one dogs and 6,000 pounds of baggage, has been hunting in the ‘West, and is now on his way to Florida on a fishing expedition. He says it is too blarated cold to hunt on the Plains, Judge Benjamin U. Frapklin, one of the founders of the Lone Star Republic of Texas, died at Gal- veston on Christmas Day. He went to Texas whem it was a province of Mexico, forty years ago, joined the Texan revolutionary army under Sant Houston, and carried a musket in the famous battue of San Jacinto. The Bishop of Nismes, France, has received, as @ Teply to a recent pastoral, two visiting cards, one from Mme. Hyacinthe de Loyson and the other from ‘“Hyacinthe Loyson, curé of Geneva,” on which are written tne foliowing lines :—‘With our Christian pardon for the gross insults which you have heaped upon us.”” Colonei Daniel, of the British Colastream Guards, who lately died in London, had for severat years @ strange idolatry, which originated in grief for the death of his son. Before the youtn was buried the Colonel had made a wax model of him, which he kept in an oratory fitted upin his house. He vis- ited this place every day, and thus kept his griet in force. He continued in society, however, and few were aware of the remarkable expression of his sorrow. A distressing suicide has just occurred near Paris. It«was that of adeformed orphan boy who had been driven into the streets by a cruel aunt, to whose protection he had been confided by his parents. Boys increased his misery by mocking and assaulting him as he passed them, and, despair- ing, he went into a wood near Pantin and hanged himeelf, A note left in his pocket would suggest his frightful life experience, even if it were not wellknown. it read:—‘{ have had enough. Take me tomy aunt. I forgive her.” WEATHER REPORT. OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OrvicEn, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28—1 A. M. Probabilities. For New Engiaud, southeasterly to southwesterly winds will prevail, with rain and sleet. For THE MIDDLE STATES, SOUTHERLY WINDS VEERING TO WESTERLY, AND RAIN FOLLOWED BY CLOUDY WEATHER AND LOWER TEMPERATURE, For the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy weather and areas of rain, with light to freak southerly winds and falling barometer during a portion of tne day, and without a decided change of temperature. For the Gulf States, and thence northward to the Ohio Vailey, rising barometer and lower tem- perature, with possibly areas of rain during the night, followed by clearing weather. For the lake region, cloudy weather, with rain or snow, followed by lower temperature, rising barometer and clearing weather in the upper lake region. For the Northwest, colder and clearing weather, with northerly to westerly winds and possibly light snow in the Mississippi Valley during the night. Fresh to brisk northerly winds, with lower tem- perature, will probably prevail on the coast of Texas. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 187: = 1874. War DEPARTMENT, } 3. 1874, 28 43 30 43 35 40 37 40 temperature yesterday. 6 Average temperature for corresponding ‘date sast year EXTREME COLD IN NOVA SCOTIA. HALirax, N. S., Jan. 27, 1874, The weather here last night was the coldest during thirty years, the thermometer being eigh- teen degrees below zero. THE 8T, LAWBENCE FROZEN OVER. Care Vincent, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1874, The river is frozen over at this point and crosa- ing 13 now perfectly sate. BOSTON LADIES BEPULSED. Boston, Mass., Jan. 27, 1874. The Boston School Committee this evening re- 4 to grant seats to the ladies elected to the Board. ‘whe vote declaring them legally disquali- fled stood 46 to 39. ee MASSAOHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Boston, Jan, 27, 1874, The eleventh annual report of the Massachusetts Agricultural College represents the college to be in a state of prosperity. The expenses of the college are about $30,000 per annum, and the in- come from the endowment fund in the State Treasury is $15,000, The total annual eipts from other sources are about $10,000, There: 1s thus an annual deficit of $5,000, and, as no appro priation has been .nade since 1871, the indepted- ness amounts to $15,000, hope is expressed that the bill of Senator Morrill, now betore Con- gress, for granting additional endowments to the national colleges, ‘hid soon become a law. INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR OR CARPENTER, OF I0WA, Des Momnes, Towa, Jans 97, 1874. The inauguration of Governor Carpenter and Lieutenant Governor Dysart occurred this after- noon. The Governor's inaugural address occupied nearly an hour tn delivery, and wos received with Sppreciation and applauae by the large audience