The New York Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1874, Page 4

4. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. i she now nae te feat serew mar, while (¢ wafts us onward, soitly, silently NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. ed sloops and idcent ‘a surely. HORSE NOTES. E OUR NAV VY. |iase eis te pagers | a eens meneuine yt te FOOD FREIGHTAG vo comtrot ‘all : com- | that is (ull of @ mild, penetrating, all-pervadiug | A Bold Move for Hudson Coumty—The | ye Cnaricston and Courter eaye bined, eoste her per anau charm. Staten Island Tannel Project Again— } tna doubts RiGe Neve 00K: mee! } i now in guenuisnion Sout tor volet ships, | ts pecullar and umigue wn together in its | Jarrard’s Gas—The #irst Gum of the nee yn Superga pe or Forty i on Board the United treaty aie anole slow, anata: | naire space mon are, bro nevunder Bind of | Ratizead War-Pattorsom Replies to sacar an ae conse ate ae an the'omest | 1He St. Louis Memorial to Congress on ip Wabash by a the 5 ehortco: and abl Sewell, announcement ts ‘Phe ‘races will com- States StBamship y BY of thie ary. costa. us | shortcom i Gaiketesa—moll a5, srsinnis | Die inthe. Mewderaey Lemalntmre hes in. aaah teetssiborinees uae the Eastward Grain Movement. Herald Correspondent. foolish are aap it ws ail Know,tpem ere as rou ver to know them | creased to such an extent as to necessitate an ex- | four daya,”” very well to about tne absurdity of kee up | @nywhere else, © tome Co tension of the sessions of both houses to the usual BOmSEe gad ox give pare in times of peace, | study those little charac- John Trout, wno has been driving the trotting Bat since we spend the why shou we Bot ter, those aligns Of, temperame ut, | number of days during she past woek. In the Sen- | yorses of Aiden Goldsmith for several years past, 18 THE ‘ERIE CAN NT UADRON. Mave nomathing for ist tis ag those deltoate met ra ad alway8 | ate a good deal of time is wasted over the discus- | nag been engaged by William Lovell to drive Ameri, AL USELESS ? ‘THE ATLANTIC a ay informed, bo bd tik te are me | nity Sahin seattnoag? ide ae alon of the constitutional amendments, can Giri and his mane trotters next summer. cs = acini Tee Narceaaraeane Pallbwed | pours ae realy ia and 6 " wie’ oat 4 bil was introduced by wr. Mo\'ierion which | ‘Amerionn Gil has ad many drivers nice sho BO . “a ad everybody thes yw, scapid — school authorizes e Board Chosen #reeholders of | came 7 : ttempt ot dvocates Mississtppt River @ismanagement of the Navy—Why More Bi wttene ah our liste, Anger. and | One is astonished to see how le are, | Hudson county to condemn and take {or public nad Ro necperty oh Mr. Laces Was ate Dewey pt P O Rk. 3d of @ form of | after forty days of wardroom acquaintance, from ® better thau the one who handled her iast Improvements to Make This Appear— Cannot Be Expected of It. wovernment it, best an rote ee ee pi /aagnreres when you were first ee age all that portion of Snake Hill not now owned | season ryan 1 that. the has ever every man hes devel-| py said A authorizing the eale of th a“ yet can {tbe true rat Sonn Ballin spite of bis characteristics and Be OSE ee ea at tac tenda attached te tha | 4 Convention of turimen was held a Peru, ind., A Demand for $16,000,000 from antiquated form of 0 pot aba and’ old logy a9 that now, looki my Grst entry on the 14th inst., the object being the tnaugura- the National Treasury. potwons, really manages to about ten times as ee, eo AA fn entirely | county farm. The firat aeotton of this bill acts | gon of ‘Ssorien of summer race mectings, to be much for hia money a8 we Ponte fe different set of men bad stieped into to che | forth that said portion of land is to be used fF | noid as points consecutively, thereby prevonting {PECULIARITIES OF CONGRESSMEN. eee ee aes mig’ qustlsns, do, aot Pepeee 2h, Shogo. 5. Shen, aut dhaon 0 Sle the purposes of am almshouse, jail, workhouse, Q A long’ memortal, accompanied With éoptous ito consideration the wo ings of our form is @ frankness an open way of » | any condict in time ofthe meotings and avoiding | . tables, has recently béén’ adopted otueverament, the peculiarities of our polt Dlurting out the ne ua ot opin- } lunatic sayiam and suck other public | peayy expenses in transportation of stook by pro- Statistioal tables, w lawgivers and Dor thelr. siriking and tons on pre ga to @ moan | puildings as may be required, and i180 | fessional turfmen. Resolutions ‘adopted to | ‘te Board of Directors of the’ St Louis’ Untos Uife in the W original manner of mapaging the affaira of the va- + oe to atudied, Suttons NESS | to furnish stone quarries, to be worked were Merchants’ Brehange for presenta: to ‘Com ardrooma — No | tion. it must not be forgotten that Con; 2 Preval Euro} novel ‘Oley on June t and liberals} not only mast live ¢ themacives, but that they have | as it is rorremine. ther = by che’ prisum and pauper iabor of ; Huntington, | gress, urging prompt ppropriations Better im the World. & large, number employéa | an absence of true politeness, ds chat kindly | said county. The second section provides for ‘ak each : | trom the federal Treasury for the’ Improvement of times ts deat." yes Rts eee, ~ saa oars x. cock: gas hel ia ie the appointment by the Justice of the Supreme wie pa oneal gages oy hang the the Mississippt and its navigable tributaries,’ ‘Tas alt ais 1 ‘cama case’ artesy reason Ow Board Uxtrap 87. the navy should orenne w thout paying its quota | them carats little aot or kindinase. ‘Bat Ais abo Court of Hudson county of three disinterested, tm any previows document’ gratefuity acknowledges that Oongress Kay Weer Jon. 1 tera' | (of thelr support the oe, Gurreat oni GS | Barres pooch or the | impartial and judicious frecnolders, residents in ‘be mude in the races Lo | has already, by a series of ‘appropriations, hg ings, di mponsesin navy yards, | telling of moro or lesa, palatable tratha. A man county of mB, a8 oom ners to Ox. ime of making | nized the ciaims Of the vast region drained by the seme set wie enn neo | 2 Sees ine mE nae es | Sa eae as Rene | Senge eee ag a itnahippan seman tana! we eS ae oe, the open roadstead of Key West; | visions contingent expenses depart. | deen entertaining ‘undue notions of his own merit firea ‘othe porsons ineerested, and ares. meen Onapton, | improvement of tts natural channels of commerce, Nice, with its background of wooay hills, | ments and bureans cost in the about | that di a propanly same "be taken out of | Tation to be by the Board of Freeholders w shoes, by the | ana that some of the most’ needful works have heignta, towering cliffs and receding slopes, | $1 000, It cannot be expected eo large a | him. he i# mak! le, there | requestin, Justice to make such ap} travel over the | atready been complesed or commenced. It then ‘With gardens, clothed with olive trees and | Um of m should be expeaded C01 Wille no hesitation In let! it, and if) The proot payment or tender amount them, The Ne- i ue aid peadeens no | ‘ibuting to the support of our statesmen, and | be has in any way unknown, welt @ talent of | awar Sande ese commissioners shall at all times, jowing desorption or | atates that for years the movement Di with villas, lying warm and sieepy in the | when account is taken of the profits to govern. | boring people soon fi out. There | be idered as plenary. evidence of the ‘—t ia 8x12 inches in } of Western agriculture to Eastern oonsuniers has \sof"December sun, while their feet are being | ment neat who are totimate Pata be Boll mess coal ne, gentle flat- right of ae gala eg be fey lney of and Goetted. pe as been embarrassed on’ adcouns’ ofits” enormous 13000 resuit i 8 ey " to woe oer wie “eegpeare ‘as a cea THE HRAVY ERs NOW BxTORTED BY Lossrisre, | is that there is no tag ao. detrac- the | f nor or. owners of any of the lands feel ag- nol the other add quantity, and the small value in proportion to ite , level sandy flats of the of the fe no nr de ae upon manipu- | tion, 20 unkind onititimn BO feeling. Ij) grie yy the decision of the Gommlsetoners they sharp toe aud | bulk and weight ‘renaering the freightage over \wee@s; from the splendid hotels, the cosey restau- IT femember well the lively inpression made upon | may aki to tne next Otronit Court of Hudson ted solidly to long distances onerous both to producer and con- the gay promenades, the blooming gar: | hone Sera undersea that Gh ean Ara de omer Berg ae ir aerate ee t{0,fu0 fOOt OT | sumer. In a single yeat 6,500,000 tons of vegetable the delicious music, the beautiful women, preity do more fer the Jos wien and a cot had neon swung for my socommodation pool ry the. trial of "sail controversy. and Oy ore er st eneark food hes been moved oastwardiy by omy five tollettes, pleasure seekers lounging, Roafing, firting, the cosey, comfortable, old- Wasttioned French village, snugly planted among (eho Goutnern slopes of tne Mediterranean hills, to eho’ scrambling, scattering, wooden American \sown of Key West, with its hybrid, mongrel, negro- \Bpanish-Ouban-American population, dirty streets, iairtiér shops, dirtiest, dearest and most execrable ‘Of Notels—from Nice to Key West, im abort, is a Wwhahge, a disagreeable and much to be regretted Jehange, as every officer of the American squadron jon the European station is ready to maintain, An! were curses, not loud, perhaps, but deep, on the heads of the C2bans and Spaniards pwhen the order came to sail, and change this Boone of beauty ana pleasure for the sandy desola- ‘Sion of the Florida reefs. Within eighteen hours after Admiral Case received the order from Wash- Ington to return the Wabash was under way. The rest of the squadron had already been commanded ‘eo rendezvous in Gibraltar, in anticipation of this movement, and on Sunday afternoon of the 23d of ‘November the flagship steamed slowly out of the Pretty little harbor of Viliefranche, white her officers, gathered on the poop, gazed sadly on the Wetreating shore, the quaint, old-fashioned, sharp- Poofed houses, the mounting, winding road leading &o Mice, now crowded with carriages, horses and people, come out to see us off and wave us adieu. Many of them left families, wives and children, from ‘whose arms they had been torn on the short notice of six hours, they might not see them again for months, while many of the single ones, I opine, left attachments and brought away heartaches Ny less dear. For my own part I reached Nice in time to catch the Wabash, and, with ap hour’s time to pack my travelling bag, I found myself very unexpectedly on my way to my native land on a man-of-war | old after an absence of five years. I was very kindly | received and welcomed by Admiral Case and Cap- tain Franklin, as well as all the officers of the ward- | room mess, and in a short time was as comfortably Installed as though I had been among them all my lie. We left the harbor of Villefrancne, Founded the point separating tt from Nice, | Bteamed past the latter piace, with ita broad, ,Slean promenade along the water's edge, its white villas and dark background of mounfains, rocks and trees lying bathed in a sea of mellow light— eft it as well as the far-famed Monaco perched | back among tue nillsin the smoky distance far be- bind, and by dusk the land was only @ low, dark, Irregular line of haze along the horizon. ‘We were six days from Nice to Gibraltar, and found upon our arrival at the latter point tne Congress, Alaska and Wachusett waiting for us Bod ready to put tosea. They ail! left a few hours afterward, while we stopped twenty-four hours to take tm 200 tons of coal; then, on the 30th of November, at eleven o'clock at night, again got under way, and by morning were far out om the broad Atiantic ° “HOMEWARD BOUND."? Running down the coast of Africa, under steam snd sail, leaving the Canary Isles to the south, we Strack the trade winds in about latitude 21, when out ten days. ‘The Wabash cannot. carry enough coal to steam gecross the Atiantic, and is therefore obliged to depend on the wind {or the greater part ofthe | soyage, THE NAVY. An idea may be formea of the pitiable state of Gecay into which our navy has fallen, when it 13 earned that the Wabash, one of the largest and* swiftest ships in the fleet, can only steam #1x knots per hour, while consuming coal at the (right- ful rate of forty,tons per day. A Spanish tron-ciaa could run her down, run around her, run away | from her, out-mancuvre her with the greatest ease, so that she would be little better agaiast such an antagonist than an old floating battery. And yet, with the exception of the Tennessee, a new ship just finished, the Wabash is among the swiftest vessels of our fleet. ‘This is @ very embarrassing position in which to be found with a foreign war upon our hands; but, Strange as it may seem, it brings out tn brilliant colors the peculiar smartness of the American peo- | ple, and the sage wisdom of our statesmen. We are | had expected. | Officers, economical, and, uniike the o!d-fogy governments of Europe, who keep up their navies in times of | | thelr bugle call to “hammocks” is | yard 110 feet, while her spread 0! have ver: su) Supervising the Tanagoment ee the navy yards friends. Transl were never dreamed of by Niblo’s take oe Without creating or curiosity, eXcept on the part Of naval office: who are always in a toolishly obronic atate and on the subject Pifido not reler to these, matters, to a breast. Torbia thas should fora ware refect lat the honesty of our Senators statesmen. I only wish to state facts, without aneamnens, to show that more Cannot really be the Navy Department, and thas things could not be better than they are seu the BAVINGS OF AND DISSOLUTE English, tt is true, view thi diffe! ie, view things rent ‘inate of Parliament who have a ndeaniaey Pot 1 government penenproarahe frowned down. premier who would his personal Sands Pk wile’s brothers to oigh ‘ood and then mote them from one tel d ge gl Ww en their accounts show phere lots cts be looked Upon With disfavor, an workers to do iron work on their tron would be consid- ered, owing to the interests involved, a highly dangerous a3 well as expensive experiment. Par- lament would be wow if asked to give away rp RS ee of es or other oe se prop- T- demain snd presit er speculations are beyond their depth, and juages are never the property of rings or other | private corporations. Such Bp peoueeninie Wand: in Engiand, be consi he French | say, “4 » (slightiy indelicate)* :,but then | the Engitsh nave strangely antiquated notions, which every true American would be ashamed of. These are some of the reasons, however, why the old-fashioned Engush government gets so much | more for ite money than the best government the sun ever shone Upon, and this is wny land, with the expenditure of a bow agh small sum | of money, is mistress of the seas. She can build an ironclad for $2,000,000, whereas if we should undertake it, what ‘with the fees of lobbyists, the XCESSIVE PROFITS DEMANDED BY RINGS, the profits of contractors and the necessary ex- penses of Congressmen, we should be lucky if we got off with $5,000,000. The Navy Department, as will readily be seen, 1# laboring under & great dis- advantage, and caunot be expected to produce the results whe, the same money as obtained by the English Navy. LIFE ON A MAN-OF-WAR, As few of my readers have, perhaps, ever lived apoard of a map-of-war I Rak aa, asbort descrip- tion of our way of life on the Wabash. And, first, something with regard to her size and dimensions. She is over 300 feet in length by forty teet breadth of beam; she draws twenty-six feet of water, and her whole depth, froom her poop to the Keel, about filty pe! or the height of a moderate four story house. Her matnmast ts 200 feet high irom the spar deck, aad the length of her main- gall on the fore- ‘mast, with the wing alt and studding sails set on each side is 150 feet—a beautiful and graceful pyra- Mid of satl 200 teet high. As to her intertor arrange- ments, she is divided into several stories, hd counting from the top, is the “poop,” that ele- vated portion of the deck immediately behind the mizzeumast, where tne officer of the deck veces back and forth and commands the and where we , talk and smoke. | Captain’s cabin, which opens out on the spar aeck, from where the ship 1s worked, and where, in addition to great calls of rope, , Tigging and two or three boats, aré ranged 18 omen 9 and one | oa pivot. One story lower isthe gun deck, ranged 24 guns and two rifes, | of an afternoon we set around @ vacant gun port and talk, read, quarrel, smoke and piss, at Pinovel- board. Still one story lower 1s ti a berth deck, where are the wardroom, of! teerage and | “sick bay.” There are no bad ames, no suspicious | odors, no disorder, no contusion—everth! on like clockwork, and the whole ship is | scrubbed, scoured and SS am a way thot | would do a Dutch housewife’s heart good to see. THE CREW | 18 composed of about 700 men, who receive rations ana from $15 to $30 per mon’ They have break- fast at seven, dinner at twelve, supper at ab and “put mein my tule bed.”” The wardroom of the Wabash 1 i: | well lighted, well ventilated, and I did not'find lire peace, we allow ours to go to the dogs; but when | war does come we hurriedly scrape together umber of oid, slow, rotten, worthlesa ships, that remind one something of Faistafrs ragamafins, and sbout as eMcient against a respectable enemy, ‘The beauty of this system is that it does not cost much. A fleet harriedly got together and built up under these circumstances will always cost some- | thing more than the magnificent iron-clad fleet of England, and then in the end, even if victorious, we have nothing to show for it. THIS IS TRUE RCONOMY. And yet Ihave met people who were mad enough to insinuate that dhe Americans were not the most | Intelligent people in the world and their states- men not the*very impersovation of far-seeing wisdom. [tis true that even now we have not a single man-o-war in Europe to protect American com- merce, and that Spain bas only to mount a couple of howitzers on @ fast merchant steamer to run down and’captare every ship bearing the Stars | and Stripes in the Mediterranean, or in European waters for that matter; but as Mr. Boutweil and Mr. Fish, whose breadth of mina and grasp of in- tellect are acknowledged py the most vuigar, bi truthfully and forcibly observed “if Americans do not wish io be maltreated, robbed and shot in foreign countries iet them keep away,” and “if | them stay at home.” This ition, this bold and i t the the statesmen of Europe, bound to the routine o! the the past: would never have mighty itellecta, 0 comprene: sve vie rs “of eosive views may be made on the subject which a may t be new to the mass of Ameri- cans, mnforthed and so intelligent. Ie sa ‘thet our ‘nary 0 ry costs nearly half us much as siraid that we have allowed ourselves Velieve that the a hundred times mB do u ours, ire, cod teat y are thus impoverish- | ing emselyes ‘er we bay terol our weaith for jutare needs. a palms ortant, a is bat one thee sl oa thele escape tne Mary in te ‘eoretary vy, in bis report, says:— a of Great Britain is mos: formidapie. Se a A a eslknow to be Fle cues from by Our most intelligent oMcers, on home wna FHEKLE GNTs their navy than we bogies ingenious a ‘Ger ca interests abroad is one | lish @pend about | not be | in it during sort: Ls npr by any means as dull as i e mess consists of about twenty all good iellows, and maki up avery merry little society. There are five lieutenants, one fag lieutenant, the executive officer, the navi- | gating officer, two marine officers, three surgeons, three engineers, the paymaster, the admiral’s secretary, all presidea yr and kept in order in a dignified mauner by Chaplain Henderson. ad- hich is supplied exclusively officers, and not from the government exchequer, a8 is too often asserted— there is @ “wine mess” and @ “cigar meas,” by which means wine and cigars are furrushed those who want them at European whol We take coffee at eight in the morning, breakfast at twelve, dine at SIX, and all lights are put out at midnight. We have an exceilent band of music, which plays every day at dinner, and serves to ighten the mo. notony of many a weary nour with the “Prophet,” the “Huguenots,” ‘“froubadour,” Rigoletto,,““Blue Beard” or “La Fille de Madame Angot.” There is Teligious service every Sunday, at which I was sorry to observe that few of the crew assisted. ‘The influence of the chaplain in the ward room 1s, however, very beneficial and effective in prevent- ing too great looseness of speech among younger members and Leen | conversation from degene- rating into the stupidly profane, as it too often does in the society of men unrestrained by the Presence of woman or some other renning in- uence. Our Voyage, although s long one, was not, upon the whole, unpleasant. If we nad not been anxious to arrive and learn the news—if we bad nothing in ok raged to do, I can imagine nothing more de- ightful than such a voyage. rived within the latitude of the trade winds the propeller was hoisted, fires allowed to go out, and the Wabash thus became a sailing vessel. For days | and weeks we slipped along the twentieth parallel at the rate of six to ten knots an hour, in the most | delicious, soft, warm weather, borne onward bya gentle breeze, varying irom northeast to soutn- } snd striking | West, that rendered the air deliciously sweet and refreshing. After breakfast we would gather in little family circle on the gun deck, treshiy scrubbed and scoured, around @ large open gua port, and t TALK, SMOKE, QUABREL | and play shovelboard, or lazily watch the silver boas sha black oucked sperm whale. that would 0 taal aide oxalin in his strength and 9 revelling clear water in a way dpcod, rove Wn envy, hich a ‘bail, white and ghostly, giiding the horizon, and the blae waters over Snieu the gun tarew. long lines of trembl mamering Hens, light, #0 ey beaatiful, so calmly majestic, graceful, ‘andalact with the even na ‘musical rhy' yk pe ge Hed ‘swell that rose up along aide waves, remind! zone in Its feline grace and soft iad ms aS ng up ‘ apt tn pe Ee eh on the rahe ght ja ea monroe, sad ate poop te tai wai oats | fie ‘Tad sere As soon as we ar- | “in the soantry’’—that is, out in the main room— and here i turned in, Alter® troubled dream of falling, éalling, Catling an tndntte number of times from some diazy height into the sea, from which | was ny ig le aught up bf tes ny Sony friendly hand in time nga | memee amg dashed Ogee ve. repeated in, varied by me ocoastonal ‘Shook of an carth- Tawoke and found theship rolling — o.& log. and heard @ screeching and groaning 0! timbers, @ creaking of! masts, & peaeisng, of potwates, a howitny of winds, which, with’ the bere of falling crockery, mad@ up an ever stun- din that was fearfat From out this noise I ood id catch the following somewhat spicy snatches of conversation :— “Well, we're our bie nobdie Loeneig and when’—— “Jono ae — your soul a to bring me Of comes.” “Bnots. wal- Towing about like ‘an oid log.” “Ohi I like the sea—ugh!” “No, thank Ate T don’t Coed now. rm Di edied econkeccad er.” fan cousiga Ouba id Spain, with twit all thot their miserable, God-forsaker: inhabitants, Basar tneetiee regions of ty eeri's awe. you see ngering over a pretty ou can bet there's some’ ee there. oat of tailing pan’ ) Ob, my God! will mi fasten up ya ‘There won't be one nora ars bier elt to drink out of.” The wind is aft and we are under reefed I know. waere ‘Willey 9) left bis heart. Nice, nice man, you are. You ought to be ashamed. You have aiready told that atory several times, Burke. Dyes Ke “Burke,” “Burke,” running around the I after ail there is war, and we should 2 i | ue 4 pity them. Not wisety, well, the Rab of a life by Oulda. ‘ont mason (tragically) tumseif upon on Rinangas white steea— (cries oF “Coal black !’’ ‘Coal black !’)—coal black steed, while bis heart bounds ay aoe mighty throb; he drives deep into the sides of the noble beast, who rears, tenes eadly and then dashes furiously down the road—on' onward, to the throbbing ‘brink of the prectpice—ne reaches it—one last, tong, lingering jook upon this bright, beautiful world, and then horse and rider disparaissent, oh heavens, for- ever! Butser, slave! Doctor, 1 tell you we want mo more of your equivocal stories; my morals are already sufficiently corrupted. Ob, heavens! I had rather be atoad at once, and feed upon the foul and poisome vapors of a di 0, tham such a cut- let, Oh, you may object and, be—Je suts la fille, je suis la Alle, You i, 1 know, excuse the biupt- ness of 8 soidier, but you strike me as being ex- ceedingly idiotic this morning. 1 will bet any man & bottle of champagne we eat our Christmas din- ner in Key West. And so on until my brain be- gan to whirl. ‘with one great and told |* Judging by what I heard, I concluded that I baa = into @ preety lively crowd, and ot to won- ler how I would get on enone say m. Peering @round the head of my cot, which was tossing lsaw them sitting at tabie, some reading or trying to read, some breakfas! as well as they could, wuile holding on to things to =. from upsetting, while the waiter boys made darts and plunges from one side of the ward room to the other as the ship rolled, with their hands full of dishes, which they only’ sometimes eceeded in bringing intact to the table, eli Cd timbers screeched and groaned as though the! = couldn't stand it any lo! ont my | now, however, to leel & strange and peculiar sensation in the region of my stomach, I closed my eyes, and SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS interested me no more that day. Ionly turned out next day, when the weather had somewhat settled, to take vo oa at table with my new companions, I found them aii Kind, generous and obliging, and now, after forty days at sea, I bave no reason to change my first a able opinion of them. They are Wyentiemen b cation and manners, and for dash, brill a7, knowledge of their profession and ingenuity a imadequate means to the accomplish- ment of desired ends I do not think they have tnetr superiors in the world. Any one who has been with them much cannot have failed to remark a sense of honor of a kind and degree very different trom the mercantile and political classes of our country. They are men to whom the wild speculation, stock gambling and Buchu enterprise of the com- Mercial classes and the vile corruption, thievery, bribery and low cunning of politicians aud Con Fressmen are unknown—men who, if offered @ ribe, reply with a blow, and who can crete to look down on shoddyism in its every shape and form with contempt. We agreat and mighty people in many things, but we are a commercial people, and, the world 6 over, commercial people are ot renowned jor their high sense of honor, It is well for the couptry that we have a little knot of men |ike the officers of the army and navy, among whom (antil they allow themselves to be drawn invo the slimy vortex of politics) the old fash- joned ideas of honor and Meonesty still survive, whose standard of honor is something different trom that of politicians, Congressmen and stock brokers—a little knot of men forming the aristoc- Tracy, Dot of wealth, but of honor and honesty, THE DEBT OF VIRGINIA. Governor Kemper to Propose a Compro- mise with the State Creditors—Con- gress To Be Asked for Assistance. RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 28, 187% It has been Known here by those en rapport with Governor Kemper that he 1s preparing a mes- sage to the General Assembly on the financial con-, dition of the State—s subject of great intricacy, and” the rock on which Governor Walker stranded, The Governor is understood to have most deciced views: on the question of the State debt, and the hesrta- tiomin the delivery of these views has resulted rather from a prudential caution in the mode and time of presentation than from any want of con- fidence im the integrity of the plan to be pre- sented. Without entering upon details, his gen- erat 18 understood to be to reduce all the reng classes of debt into one, and to issue in leu thereof the bonds of the State, either to bear six per cent on the marke: value of the ex- isting bends, assuming that to be $50 per share, or three per cent on the present par value, ‘The pian proposes that commissioners are to be ary by the Governor, charged with the auty laying belore the creditors of the State ber lia- | bilities, ner assets, the causes of her inability to | meet her obligations and the depressed condition of her peopie—in @ word, asa merchant with Dis creditors, 10 compound with the debtor a pon terms of equity and right. It is a fact that Virginte has endeavored to give to her creditors not only the “pound ‘aesn,” but even drops of blood | m the shape ,of interest, and of interest | upon interest.’ Yet it can be no longer —— that her ability is not equal to her he It has already been demonstrated that sne cannot | meet four per cent on ber debt and carryon the government, and it is painfully felt that her ple can bear no addition to their present taxation. pet is alsg believed that the Governor will recom- pplication to Congress for a loan, which, be the compromise hoped for with her creditors, will bring that relief so greatly needed by this people—an application which can hardly re. fr since her means to meet her obligations peen qessroyed by the war. The appication t rightly be fhade in Congress, it is to assume their obligation; but the Governor pro: poses simply & loan of the bonds of the general Cea which are to be returned as soon as ‘he State shall be abie to do so. Virginia last year undertook to pay four per cent in caah, gtving cer- tificates for the deferred balance. It's now very clear that she cannot comply with tois law, unless the taxes shall be increased, and to attempt an increase is to essay something impracticable, if not imposstble. CHARGED WITH LARCENY, Michael Sullivan and Mrs. Mary McOaoe, of Cam- bridge, Mass., were arrested yesterday by the po- lice, charged with absconding from that city with pe aera ak a, OEE gent the Tombe Police Goart a jury to be struck and @ view of the be nad, and it shall be the Org RK Lgl uty to assess the value of the said dam- ages sustained; and Jf the! No ‘ina a greater sum than malssioners shall have awarded there judgment thereun and costs shall be entered against Board of holders and execution awarded there- for. The fiith section empowers the Board of Freeholders to sell off so much of the meadows yu ‘condemned by this ‘act, or, if not sold for ota, to oaply the inter- est received on the proceeds of sale to the semi- annual payment of the interest on the bes bends i nere- inafter to be Spanked, to meet inciae} payment ot of sald fends Pty to be pe aPvea to the Placing the same the hands of Comnlissioners of the Sinking Fund of Hudson The aeventh section pi rovides 10r the payment of the interest and principal moneys ot bon under the sixth section when they become due and payable. There shall bemaiantines tax, at the same time and in the aame manner a8 the county taxes are raised, such sum as the Board of Freeholders shall elect cach Year for such pur ae ares troduced by Mr, Washbarn, for the relief of Ae Tabular ‘Transportation Company of Staten Island, sets forth that the charter is given for the purpose of maintaining and operas, ing 6 or tunnels unger the the waters of Kill Sisten Island me petweda ot New York and New Fe iad and that said com- any be given the right to enter upon and land the area of said Rogier 4 at any point or points on said watersin the State of New w Jersey, ‘Opposite Staten Island, and that said company may select & location a{ter first obtaining consent of the own- ners of said property. If the owners will not con- sent to give such property Maren ey shall be anpoined to estimate the damag Jarrard introduced a Dulin in the Senste to in- corporate the Greensville Gaslight Company, E hoead & capital stock of $2,000,000, for supplying Jersey City and other towns of Hudson county. "A bl was introduced in the House aurhorising me Board of Chosen Freenolders of Monmout! ey to Taise $110,000 to build @ new court house d When Mr. Patterson’s concurrent resolution call- Ing for a spectal committee of both houses to in- vestigate the affairs of the New Jersey Southern and otuer railroads came up in the Senate, Mr, Sewell, brigadier general of Tom Scott's forces, moved to amend by referring it to the Committe on Railroads and Ca) instead of to special mittees, which was ted without a dissentient voice. This action of the Senate was reported to the House shortly afterwards, when Patterson made one of characteristic speeches in denunciation of the action of the Senate, which, he said, placed his resolution m such ashape that ‘ft will hang fire.” He said he offered it in, faith in behalf of the interests of. ir, suffer- ing bumanity on the line of the rail alluded to in the resolution. He said these railroads should show cause why they had not forfeited their char- ters to the State, for they bad taken public prop- erty for private use without giving the people of the State just compensation. They had no! on formed to tne laws of the State, nor nad they taxes. Alter afew remarks from the Bald of Sussex the amendments of the Senate were concurred in. Beet Fifty Cents per Pound=Foreibie Recruitment To Be Resorted To—Last Desperate Efforts of the Spaniards. ‘The letter from wnich.the extracts given below are taken has been received by a prominent mem- ber of the Amigos de Cuba Society. It is dated Puerto Principe on the 1st inst. It ssys:— During the past month General Portillo recetved the command of this (the Central) department. His fame as the pacifier of the Cinco Villas has come before him, and in it the Spantards found their bopes for the possible restoration Of peace to this district, But it is @ thing which, to me, seems very difficult, for the experience which | have had in the war impels me to predict that Portillo will tail as his predecessors have eee in, On the first day of this month the patriots sented themselves in force in the cultivated re; on, nd carried off all the cattle which they found there, All tne men able to bear arms joined the Cubans, The movements of the revoiutionists were seen irom the housetops ol Puerto Princ!pe, and every day since until now they make their rendeavous in sight of the city. They take every- vhing that may be useful to them withoat meeting resistance. ere 18 &@ report in secret circulation among the officers of tue army that Colonel Montaner has as Note] but no particulars can be ar- Portillo, with all the available forces that 4 could concentrate, went out, bat was Fag rR make forced marches in order to reach ge Principe, losing many of his men on the way. have heard @ Spanish officer say that Povo stated in a meeting of officers that the rebellion is 80 strong in this ‘rtment that unless be re- Cetved 1,000 or-12,000 men to reinforce him ail his beg ong) must Jail and every effort on his part ‘would be useless, and that if reinforcements were ot sent soon he was prepared to resign his com- mand and leave the glory of achieving success to some one I have also learned throngh the Spaniards that Coal ie nda, with all his jorces, has been or- to Manzanillo, and that then he 1s expected Socom come re with all haste to Camaguay. ‘wn state of fay dear Camaguay is lamentable. is is Necessary to be @ person of importance in or. der to obtain reek meat, and then fil bad, pay- fifty cents a pound for it. 2 tatoes and (vermicelli) are eee (.] vibe ise of ar- a, of er eeeeloran niateen F than the people an pay. Whe auanuty of gold oan be had tt is ‘anged at 100 per Wer LS gee and I bave heard many persons als will prove'te, you that taany percet re rove you pe critical hour’ to be near and do not'want to trast the morrow, Final ai my dear friend, the peo ple wbo have emigrated may be very thankful to ‘vheir orothers in the field. We nere understand what passes. The deleats of the Spanish troops follow eace other with such seo is bucinge mee ‘notwith- standing thelr great caution in disasters, ‘We learn of them now and then throng hb our saffer- Ings, which they attribute to the hand‘of God; but she truth is shat they are combating with men Who gre courageous, armed, and who, in six years, have no ‘opened their mouths to ask a cent of pay Dor @ pound of meat when they were Huuery. Thetr regotution i bea ed ipl augers and Ea gene even to death victory; thus placing their country on the elevated Romzion that she deserves, and by their glorious leeds are torcing their enemies in the last corner of shame and defeat. In view com the 1 bility of receiving men 8 re of forcible Wee “4 id of placing a force of 20,000 Cubans on a War footing, to send them to the front against their brothers. This is the last step that Spain nas always taken with her American colonies, Like good Spaniards they Rend i dream of the division among the creoles itber what has happened in 5. ‘Domingo, Mexico or South America, serves to teach them anything. ‘They only know how +o read in that book which all understand, and in vain Sasser, Jaimeron and others have tried to teach the! iz elBe. I think at even Mr. Hamilton Fish now ow knows them, and in the end will have to treat them to the point of bis boot, which is the oaly way they can be dealt with. FIRE COMMISSIONERS. The Fire Commissioners ere held a meeting yester- day, but transacted only routize business, sach as applications from would-be firemen, auditing of bills, &c. The on int of Lena was the adop- ton ots resolution Toe advertising for four chemi- caicaer tn conformity with a resolution of the aan Ot Apportiol ft siresay published ia the D, The celebrated racehorse Sterling, The Sports- man aye, hes lett bis training quarters ang gone to the Yardley Stud Farm, Notwithstanding this announcement we find Sterling's name among the entries for the Chester Cup, The promising steeplechase horse Canon, by The Flying Dutchman, dam Ooai Black Rose, while out with his owner's (Sir Robert Bateson Harvey} harriers, January 8, near Langley Station, put his foot in a rabbit hole, and, breaking his thigh, was immediately shot, Mr. R. Hillier will matoh tis horse Albert Victor to trot Mr. Hodgin’s Black. Hawk Jenny two miles, for not less than £50 a side, on a fair turnpike road. rath ia: tt berry ug ker ecpen gr tbtnd ort hel letters, Mr. ‘Hillier oe at Mr. Crown, ppletelée Me danke 0 oo Monj ar cvening ae neee prepared to make Mr, Robert Carr, Liverpool, will trot ge Just in Time mare or horse breading Eoa'nide, oF any portion upto su000 a tide, 10 a or to a come off wishing iouan ot articles, ' An answer thro see pares ‘will receive immediate attention. %s Life to be stakebolder and sp- point a ret Mr. Richard Hanwood Jones, of Bradworth Hall, - Pai Leet st, died on the 7th inst. Mr. Jones wn on the Northern tarf, having been Tinos Cttberal supporter of tt for the ee aersiae med es his colors were generally atefract, York, poe] fe Tarek, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kichmond and ocher Northern meetings. Mr. Jones wad in his etxty-fourth year. Mr. Hawki of Wi will masch_ his horse Jackey to trot Mr. Moore's mare Just {n Time forty- five miles on the Lichfield and Burton Ke Toad, on Monday. senuae 26, ior £100 a side. 3 Sal to be stakeholder and referee, or appoint one, A deposit sent to Bell's Lye and articies to Mr, Hawkins will insure a match. Mr. Hawking will decline making @ match on any Other terms. In answer to Mr. Moore’s challenge in laat week's Beis Life J. Rook, of the Locomotive Inn, Gigham road, Manchester, will match Steel Grey to trot Mr. Moore’s mare Just in Time, from one mile to ten miles, round any race course, OF on any fair turnpike road, for any sum ‘from £200 to £1,000 8 side. Beli’s Life to be stakehoider and re/eree, or to appoint one. To trot in wo montin sign- ing ar articles. By applying to 4. Rook can et ae that was given by Bell’s Life, of the 84 eee, “that the resolution to send Prince Oharlie to the stud might be toe te was based on a foundation, as he has been entered with Newry, ig ag Blenheim, Trombone aud Oxonian in a Sweeptakes at the Newmarket Pirst Spring, 3 well as in the Rous Stakes at the Second Spring, the All-aged Stakes at the Houghton and the race Of the last mentioned title at Ascot.” On Monday tast a match was made for £10 4 side, between K. Corbett’s Kitty, 133g hands high, and J. Baliard’s Tommy, 12% hands high, the latter coi ceding 200 yards start in five miles, to trot on a turppike road wituin a iortnight. The wherea- bouts and all particuiars can ascertained any time at Mr. F. Johnson’s, the new East End trottiu; rendezvous, Bacon street, Spitalfields; Mr. Wil- son’s, Hare street, Brick lane; or J. d's, Spitalfields Market, A gentieman is prepared to match his under 13 hands high, to trot Mr. R. Co! Hf Kitty, or any other pony in the world no higher, a straight away race, for £100 or £200 a side, to take place on a turnpike road half way between home and home, within a month from signing articles. Both to start together and trot for one hour. Beli’s Life © choose the road and appoint a Teferee. The match can be made any at next week, between the hours of seven and ten, at F. ile) the Ship Tavern, Bacon street, Spital- jelds. In reply to repeated inquiries and observa:ions once and for all Mr. D, Allen challenges the world :— That mo pony 12 hands high trots one or two miles in harness aud equals the late Master ree able erformance of August 17, 1870, for £100 @ side, and agrees to accept and abide by the decision of the reporters of the sport- ng — present, and deposits £25 in our hap to make F *) match, or will meet any one with that object in view at $4 Shoreditch, or at W. Wright's, tne White Heart avern, Uiliton street, Fingbury, any night next week. Tom Olliver expired at his residence at Wrough- ton, near Swindon, January 7, where for some years past he has acted in the capacity of private traimergo Mr. Cartwright, Olliver made bis first mark inWife as a cross-country jockey, and many brave deeds in the saddie are recorded of him. He gained his first public jaurels in December, 1887, at St. Albans, with Mr. Anderson’s The Reformer, beat Lottery and six others, and in 1889, the first year of the great chase, Was second on Seventy-four to the famons Lottery. He won the Grané National in 1942, with Gaylad; in 1943, with Vanguard, and in 1852 with Peter ‘Simple. The following are the number of entries for the spring handicaps, co. parse with previous years, which 3! now in most of mM @ Marked falling of: 1867. | 1868. | 1869. 1870. Liverpool Steeplechase = Giy and Suburban wo Great Metropolitan: “y Northamptonshire Sta' 31 Newmarket Handicap 59) 60} 2 Chester Cup.... " 180) 140] 138 i (1871. 1872 | 1878. j 1874, Laverpool Steeplechase Ti| 6) 100|” Great ietropallan ie Bly reat Metrop: Nort nahire Si oy a) Newmarket Handicap 30 Chester Cup. S31 105) 100] 80 The contract bet: een the ° Ragiat and American tro: horse cannot be better exemplified than by the Jollowing list of challenges taken from Ball's LAfe tn London. t will be seen that all the trotters named must be either gonewn between eleven and thirteen bands ser, Le Pas trotting horses coun maagieen. bear no comparison with our large, “Gums, that in conformation rival the Seis Facer, and we cease to wonder why petter class of Enghshmen ignore trotting as a pastime. It would be dificult to entice an Ameri- can bepind an English trotting horse answering to the following description: “Mr. Worrell, guninaker, of Portsmouth, having got nis old favorite & ny, Crazy Jane, back again, thinks sbe is faster than ever she was, and, being fond of a little sport, he begs to say she shall trot any pony in harness belonging to Portsmouth or the a ET ‘and give 100 yards start in two miles, and not particular to an inch or so in height, for from £10 to £25 a side; or she oak trot any pony in England under 113; hands high, mules, @nd neither pony to draw less than ‘twenty ae Gyre apt driver, trap and fi side, and give £2 to trot in the nelgh- borhood of Portsmouth. f ™ CITY AND COU COUNTY TREAS TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the following disburse- ments and saitrain ke: the treasury yesterday :— DURARM ANTS Clatms paid (number of warrants fifty), amount- , amounting fe ' 33 s le From taxes of 1873 ed interest -- From arrears of taxes, amessine i300 From soles’ oy asiamrereten 804 From market arate and teed 1,892 Fe Ga 7 rea eee tel tase Stes nm routes, Other roated have carried nearly another iniilion tons, abd still another million tons went southward to market. Ten Northwestern States ima year of full crop raise 364,000,000 bushels of grain for shipment, of which 236,600,000 bushels go eastward. Beside this they send East 2,500,000 toms Of other agricultural: products. The routes whies carry 8,000,000 tons of agricultural products alse catty 2,500,000 tons of forest products, nearly 1,000,000 tons of petroieum and 1,000,000 sons of Manufactured tron ond other articles in theeame direction, while 9,000,000 tons of coal move over the same routes and mostly towara tide water, Agriculture and the centres/of its surplus pre- duction are, rapidly moving westward. In 1860 Pennsylvania produced more wheat than eny, other State, ‘In 1673 Minnesota showed the product,, More thau haf the wheat produ the Northwestern States for export or consamp~ tion in the Eastern States is now grown west of the, Mississippi. The recent financial and indus- trial disorder of the country convinces the me- morialista that the only remedy lies in cheaper im~ terchange of commodities, especially food mar terials, between the widely divided Eastern and Western consumers and prodacers. This’ they believe can only, be done, by way of the Mlasisaippt frainlnunoted ugep the orien ates Bearest q navigable to ether of the ri produ districts the West, and foulo water cur Tents without interruption or other motive po' wil float em oe days close to New York bor in the Atlantic. | atue memorial’ statos the the location of six fertility and wean sapere wheat, corn, oats and a ra hemp, cotton, sugar and moiasses, and stutes, of 9,000,000 tons of surplus sgricultaral the great central river and its feeders sre the natural outlet chien — It shen ogreat +0 # consideration the route irom grain | ee pen districts towara New Yor! iy ‘Way of the lakes and the canais of our State, follows :— In the devel nt of country the location ofthe arpa dots has advanced 90 fat to wiping ponte Evrae arose A aeaats pas. effect, cl rol ry, a 2 BiH ton B10, S Very year in‘whieh, the enlargement nal Was completed. But the quantity, the New York, Central, avania rail 1 To wo at cae iy ees expect ction Oficial records, Show tbat, while the Stave of iew ¥. ‘bas reduced its tolls one Geet or $1 06 per ton, to Albany, the charges of, transpo higher than <n 182 but have archaeal tne veduction of tol &, tor 1870 to Is? inclusive. $2 44 par ton, whereas the od by th the present method ot niargemen increastt aes for tips ‘ho sost or boats and. ha capital losing titerert when the canal, i by re ‘has more eujargoment Ther we, aad the not tally’ om the we of jer oats, would © on ularity in the movem ‘he, average employment. ast six years has been equiva- r of full work eleven to one; that is ‘such, cents in November. importance ot facts im fn posal est of Hanporiaion ty that rote, an e yy ofsecuring lower rates, ei ment of New York cauals of construction Of others t to the same conditions, will be appreciated. ‘Bur it also appears what the lake as well as the canal now moves s smaller proportion of the rain of the West than it did in 1862, and that the same causes. in a ure, effect the cost of. transportation, A iat me that a fleet capable eS movi a from Gushews in oe mont, actually moves ouly Dushels in a season, a quantity equivalent tof ment for only ‘ft the eastward freight “greatly exceeds. ward, and that, in spite ot rates than ' were ined before the war, obtau and especially in the iail months, when the greater quaasees of grain are moved, the increase of vessels on the has been in no degree proportioned to the incres crops moved eastward, a tact which sees even ‘the rates Row obtained are not found especial ci bie to carriers. cegratngiy, though ‘os ona ‘of grain were shi; dal mn} cultural surplus” “rausportation by railway. eftected at much lower cost per ton ath ie 2 formed at very much lower rates, for lot distances. The alias Pot ae W. producing i tseriots listances West are near!: that for transporte eit ports about ten cents per bushel. Two transfers by elevator on the rou ‘water, and the rates on lake and cans Sverage for three years pasu make the entire that route trom ‘such points to New York about five cents per bushel, besides in: geo while many of the same ints e summer, wy rail all od ral ry irty A rg bi at” weansport ii the their own _ price earn “interest on "capital "while the closed by frost; the railways can carry at below it’during a art of the summer, until eee of grain in the fall invites the faaet & at Pr ne om Chicas ate, Tall raten to New ork ae recorded of Trade averaged for Lrgff Sed eign cen per 100 pounds, and a art season Tm charge wrard by of Ravigation Aity-four cen at one time the was but fort This ower of the erallvayg io oh at pase during a cumiver, re strained by ca Competition {rom snower waver route, open dur larger part of the year. than by the northern lakes, And i aeesnes Of high rates “tot the chief surplus producing 1g districts to the can suet dG ates Ro ia ata eon rater, Je: Stherwine, the" centre of the fed oy: hee tie Mysntaee of cy the oner the Fouts will cmaen Diets the dependence ane FA _cosamers, upon necessarily much more 6x; mat cost ‘esent standard. Even the freight ne raat af Dailt, it ia sere open @ route for forty counties between the Al leghanies and the Mississippi, while improvements in the river navigation would benedt forty-two counties in beciooe alone. At one cent per ton per mile—the cheapest safe rate for pale Te Would cost thirty-two cents to bi Wheat irom the *lsstesippl River New ¥ re with the improvements ‘tempi it believed, @ much lower rate could aoraca ae river, even from St, Paul. discuss’ the other water rout existing and projected, Lore 3 in each obstacles to the hope of cheaper ti Tney thereupon iound their claim for sional 4] arta ec to the extent of $1 They that the river be deepened leans to the Gulf to thirty jeet, at @ 7,500,000; that $5,000,000 be spent in secur! eat Of WaLaE to ibe oat of aa ae x in removal of snags and wrec H 0,000 for the tributaries. Tale ree ot a assert, will cheapen to a) grain produced west of the Mississippt by tom cents a Y Dushel, would conter immeasurable benefita upon the juvers. of Todisoa and Ono and all jatnore, 2 the valley an@ eta ay ita expense nation in one your in even duqgeamivg year Worgalter,