The New York Herald Newspaper, January 30, 1874, Page 6

BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the tear, Four cents per copy Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New York Wexarv. sets ae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YOBK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Se ¥ THEATRE, B SIERRAS, at 8 P.M. ; closes METROPOLITAN THEATRE. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 749 P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Froaiway, between Prince and iionston streets. — FIN IN 4 FOG, atSP. M.;closes at 10:3) P.M Vokes Fauuly ACADEMY OF MUSTC, corner of Lrving place. KELLOGG ROUPK—THB BOHEMIAN GIRL, LP. M, M, NATAD QUKEN, at onitway. corner Th apache He BJIM, at 5 P.M; 2 closes ac 42 Closes av DF. M. ND OPERA HOUSE, street. —TUMPTY rifth Twenty-third Done R closes ai 10:45 P.M. ne DUMPTY ABROAD, at 745 P.M, dir. G. L. Fox. ed # PIPTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twentv-cightn street and Broadway.—FOLLINE, at 8 ¥ BoP M. Mr. Barkins, Miss Aga Dyas, closes at 10 GERMANIA TREAT! —BARBF BLEU, R Ufienbach's opera ; closes ac 31 P.M. Fourteenth stre Boufte, ar sl THEATRE COMIQUE, Bis Broadway.—RENT DAY, and VARIETY ENTER- TAINMENT, ai 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. BOOTH’S THEATRE, ixth avenne and Twenty-third street -LA FEMME DR i. 740 P.M; cldses at 1030 P. Mo Mra. J. B. WALLACK'S THEATRE, and Vhurteenth street —MONRY, at8 P.M: P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys | Broadwar Closes at Lewis. OLYMPIC THEATRF, Broadway ghetween Houston and Bleecker streets — VaUDE VIEL and NOVSLTY ENTERTAINMENT, at8 P.M. closes at li P.M, LYN PARK THEATR' 3, Brookiyn.—OLIVER TWIST, at 8 P. M. Miss Lucille Western. BRO ty Hi satil: CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, treet, Brooklyz.—Performance begins at 8 ses ac ll P.M. Edwin Booth, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 6 P. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third street, corner of sixth avenue.—CINDER- ELLA Ls BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, dc., at 8 P. M. , closes at OF, M. BAIN HALL, Groat Jones street and Latayette p PROGRESS, ats P. M. ; closes at 9 P.M. lace. —PILGRIM'S: COLOS M, corner of Thirty-fifth street.—C YCLO: BY DAY, at 12 M.; closes at 4 IGHT, av7 P. M. RAN, P.M. New York, Friday, January 30, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ENGLISH ELECTION AGITATION! THE PREMIER HARD PUSHED AT GREENWICH! MONE- TARY STATUS! MR. WHALLEY PERSISTS IN THE ASSERTION OF LUIE£’S VERACITY— SEVENTH PaGE. @ARTISAN HOPES AND STRUGGLES IN ENG- LAND! HUME RULE, THE FRANCHISE AND WORKINGMEN’S RIGHTS! GLADSTUNE’S FORMER DEFEAT—Fovrtu Page. @®RENCH FINANCES! ELECTIONS TO THE ACAD- EMY—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—Sev- | ENTH Pace. @RENCHMEN MOURNING THE DEAD NAPO- LEON IIl.! CHURCHES CROWDED! THE TRICOLOR DISPLAYED! DISTINGUISHED MOURNERS— FourTH Page. SPECIAL FEDERAL CAPITAL ITEMS—AFFAIRS IN ST. DOMINGO—AMUSEMENT FEA- TURES—SrventTH PAGE. PINCHBACK AND DURELL EXCORIATED IN THE NATIONAL SENATE' ANOTHER Durell and o Now Election. General Grant's present position in regard to the Louisiana difficulty is at least definite and comprehensible. Ho stands by what has been done and throws the responsibility of any injustice or impropriety in acts sustained by federal authority upon ‘‘the courts’’—that is to say, upon Judge Durell. If the Presi- dent satisfies his own conscience by this easy process he will live to learn that the review of his acts from that source is far more indulgent than the judgment that will be passed upon them by public opinion. Itis true that the constitution supposes that decisions of the federal courts, properly reached, shall, if resisted, be enforced by federal power; but then it assumes that the judges shall be honest men, properly dis- charging judicial functions, and it further- more assumes the responsibility of the Executive for these points. Does the Presi- dent feel satisfied with his relations to this part of the Louisiana difficulty? If Durell is responsible for his acts, who but the Presi- dent is responsible for Durell? Appoint- ments have been made as if the idea of any responsibility to the country on that head had never reached the White House ; and men have been continued in office after their acts had made their names infamous ; but to ap- point bad men or not to remove them is equally to betray the trust the country reposes in the Executive. General Grant, therefore, in justifying his acts by reference to Durell’s judgment, takes advantage of his own delin- quency ; or rather he rests one delinquency upon another and simply moves his ground of accusation against himself. Porhaps the President, rightly regarding the Louisiana usurpation asa monstrous outrage on the liberties of the people, would scarcely care to be classed as an accessory and accom- plice of the parties who planned and executed the villanous proceeding; yet when he says that in his official course he ‘simply followed the decision of the courts," he commits him- self to an attempt to uphold Durell; for how else can we interpret this calling the famous midnight order ‘‘a decision of the Court?’ No one is in any doubt as to what is meant by the words ‘‘a decision of the Court,” and as neither the Council of Ten nor the Spanish Ingui- sition are the types of our constitutional tribunals, it is tolerably well understood that these words cannot apply to a midnight impulse that has no relation to any facta or any case presented in court, but is simply part of a plot to seize the power in a State. It is something more than a mere abuse of words that the President thus falls into. It isan assent, if not an as- sistance to the conspiracy, thus to endeavor to give constitutional form and character and legitimacy to an act that was as clearly a mid- night outrage as was any midnight murder ever done by a footpad or a burglar. More- over, if the President proposes to reat his ex- ecutive responsibility upon a presumed author- ity to act derived from a federal court he must first clear up the history of the order sent to the commander of the troops in New Orleans, which anticipated any appeal to the courts and was itself the very origin and corner stone of the whole fabric of fraud. There is at least one point in the Presi- dent's latest views on the case in which we can entirely agree with him—which is, that the Judge should be impeached. Both as a precedent necessary for the tuture safety of the people and as an important preliminary step in the present case this should be done; and we are glad to learn that testimony taken at New Orleans with a view to this proceeding is now in Washington and likely to be acted upon with littie delay. The impeachment of Durell would strike out the pin that holds to- gether the whole frame of the edifice that covers Kellogg and Pinchback and the rest; for the rebuke and disavowal of that mid- night order would be equally the rebuke and disavowal of the employment of the troops, the seizure of the place used as a State House, and, indeed, of every subsequent step in that train of outrages; and upon the impeach- ment of the Judge the Executive would necessarily cease to sustain the act upon which the impeachment was founded. Kellogg would fall, therefore, and to avoid anarchy the government would be compelled to order a new election. But though the President urges that Congress should impeach Durell it seems that there are those about him who BASIS FOR SPECIE RESUMPTION—FirtH PAGE. CITY RAILROAD JOBS IN THE LEGISLATURE! THE CiTY PRISON! THE BROOKLYN CHAR- TER—THIRD PaGE. ARRAIGNMENT OF A POL! BY HIS ASSOCIATES WRITING AX MOUS EPISTLES TO THE MAYUR AN COMPTROLLER! ONE OF THE LETTERS— TeNnTU Pace. BAMILTON’S MALEFEASANCE! NO CLEWS TO HIS HIDING PLACE—TairD Page. THE NEW FRENCH TRANSATLANTIC STEAM- hold different opinions, and deem that they are properly defending the President in doing what they can to prevent Durell’s impeacb- ment. They urge, first, that Durell should resign, and, if he will not do this, that Con- gress should legislate him out of office by abolishing his district. They pretend that their desire in this is to save their party the scandal and the disintegrating strife of an impeachment trial But these men, if this be their real motive, un- derstand very little the relation of SHIP AMERIQUE! £ DIMENSIONS, AC- COMMODATIONS AND OFFICERS! RESCUE OF THE CREW OF A WATERLOGGED VESSEL —Tuigp Page. THE ABSORBING QUESTION OF RAPID TRANSIT THROUGH THE CITY! PLANS OF ROAD- WAYS—CHEAPER ‘TRANSYORTATION OF BREADSTUFFS—ELEVENTH Pace. ALDERMANIC ACTION ON THE PUTTER'S FIELD INTERMENT OF MR. FRENCH ! THE SCHEME FOR “AIDING THE WORKING- MEN”—FourTH PaGE. NO ICE YET GATHERED IN CO. TROTTING AND BREEDING FouRTH PaGE. AMERICA’S CURRENCY PROBLEM! FINANCIAL AND CUMMERCIAL EVENTS YESTERDAY— THE JERSEY RAILROADS—NinTH Pace. LIFE IMPRISONMENT METED OUT TO A MAN- SLAYER! GENERAL LEGAL SUMMARIES— THE WORK FOR THE CORONERS—wieuTa Pace. NEWARK'S NEW MOVE—RETRENCHMENT IN NEW JERSEY—THE RESULTS OF GRANT'S INDIAN POLICY—THE WORKINGMEN’S AS- SEMBLY—firmn Pace. eCTICUT— HORSES— Mowtcrpan Worksnors.—The proposition for the city to establish official workshops for the employment of voters, an experiment re- sembling that tried in France in 1848, and which is now, no doubt, put into the Alder- manic brain by some of our socialist agita- $ors, has been rejected. Isp1ans.—Elsewhere we give the report of the Indian Commissioners who believe in the peace policy. They say that, excepting the Modoc war, there has been peace since 1868, It is something of an exception, but then they pay tho pence policy is not reapongible for it, parties to public opinion, and the President was @ far better politician than they are when he proposed relieving the party by publicly and notoriously cutting loose trom it the in- iquities that those men propose not to put aside, but to smother out of sight and retain. All the scandals ever brought to light would not do the harm to the party that will be done by retaining this monstrosity, and the im- peachment of the Judge would be a political purification that would indicate to the country that the leaders of the republican party are more interested in its good repute than in the success of its disgraced adherents, Senator Carpenter's exposure of the Louisi- ana history in the Senate yesterday indicates the real nature of those judicial proceedings upon which the President now rests the illegal acts committed by his authority. The Senator's declaration of the need for an election in the oppressed State did not go beyond the facts. If, as reported hitherto, Senator Morton has now abandoned the ground even on which he urged that Pinchback, having his credentials from o Governor regularly chosen by the people, had a prima facie claim to a seat, he can scarcely raise his voice in favor of the enormous offence against popular liberty ; and it is known that every other member of the committee that had the Louisiana difficulties before it is against admit- ting Pinchback, and denies the _legiti- macy of the power that now rules in that State. There is little doubt, therefore, but that the Senate will reject Pinchback, and his wish to have a mow election was overruled by his Cabinet, and now seems to hope for the impeachment of Durell as a aolution of his own difficulties, and is here also obviously opposed by the Cabinet, it is difficult to see how his relations with the present advisers can properly continue. How can a Cabinet stand that is the only support of the fraud of & clique of political ruffians and sharpers when that fraud is boldly exposed in both houses, and when the President and Seuate are in sympathy in their opposition to it? Judge Chase’s Biographer and Friend. It will be remembered that immediately after the death of the late Chief Justice Chase an effort was made by some of the dead jurist’s family to prevent the preparation of his me- moirs by Judge Warden, a Cincinpati lawyer, then living at Washington. Sqme under- Standing had been arrived at between the Chief Justice and Mr. Warden in regard to these memoirs, and the work was bejag done under the Chief Justice's personal “direction and supervision. During his lifetime Mr. Chase had kept a complete diary of his thoughts and acts, ‘unfaithful many times to the life he seemed to lead in the eyes of the public.”” This diary, containing many things which the family and the Chief Justice's best friends would be anxious to suppress, was left at the death of Judge Chase in the possession’ of Judge Warden. The reason given for asking Judge Warden to desist from a task so delicate as writing a life of the late Chief Justice was the allegation that Warden was not qualified to become the biographer of his friend. Upon general principles we should doubt the qualifications of a mere lawyer to be- come the historian of a statesman’s career; but, while we should not have hazarded an opinion upon Judge Warden's fitness or unfitness on this ground, a letter, confessedly inspired by Warden, published in a Western paper, determines, the question beyond cavil. The reasons of Mrs. Senator Sprague’s opposition to Warden, as related in this epistle, are singularly puerile, and show, besides, the extreme puerility’ of Judge Chase's would-be biographer and friend in as- signing them as the reasons of Mrs, Sprague’s action. They are that this diary shows that Mrs. Sprague investigated the Chase family tree by the aid of some professor of heraldry only to find the search end in a tailor’s goose and cordwainer’s lapstone, and that Mr. Chase loved his first wite better than his second one, the mother of Mrs. Sprague. These two inci- dents are to be important features in Warden’s life of Chase. But the letter writer goes further, and, speaking of Mrs. Sprague, says:—‘She knew, too, that Judge Warden, if left to himself, would paint Mr. Chase’s por- trait faithfully from the studies Chase himself had jotted down in his journals, for she knew that Warden was one of those cold, reasoning men from whose hand a character comes forth clear, sharp, and, may be, cruel some- times, in the fidelity of delineation. She knew that in the literary statue of her father which Warden would chisel out with his pen there would be but little toning of whatever angularities nature may have left NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JAN UARY 30, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. in the Green Isle; but what the Home Rate party can expect from the author of “Lothair’’ we confess we know not. Ireland owes Gladstone much. It owes Disraeli nothing. All the indications of the moment encourage belief in a great liberal victory. A few weeks will determine the result’ In another place, in the Heraup of this morn- ing will be found an exhaustive and instruc- tive article on British politics and Parliament- ary affairs generally. A careful perusal of the article will enable the reader to watch intelli- gently the progress of the present election contest. The Financial Skirmishing in Con- gress—T' Propositions for Relief. ‘The skirmishing on the finances and currency was continued in Congress yesterday. Both houses are busily engaged in the work of complication, and the propositions are multi- plied daily. One fact makes itself evident through all the attempts to befog the real is- sues—the fact that the influence of the na- tional banks is all-powerful at Washing- ton, and will, in the end, prevail. The legislation which will eventually be shaped out of the various bills and resolu_ tions with which Congress is flooded will be such as harmonizes with the interests of those institutions and is acceptable to the inflation- ists. We may havea surfeit of debate, and many sound and wholesome principles may be stoutly maintained, but the probability is that there will be at last a union between the national banks and the inflationists which will carry the day—that is to say, nothing will be done that will destroy the special privileges enjoyed by the one or defeat the projects of the other. In the Senate Mr. Fenton presented the im- portant memorial of the bankers, merchants, shippers and other large capitalists of this city, who have united in a protest against any expansion of our present irredeemable paper currency and a prayer that the questionable issue of the legal tender reserve may be with- drawn as speedily as possible. The fact that Mr. Fenton was made the agent for the presentation of this petition in prefer- ence to the administration Senator, Mr. Conkling, is in itself significant. The memorial represents the great bulk of the wealth and commerce of the metropolis, and the choice the signers have made of a spokesman indi- cates that they have but little faith in the dis- porition of the administration party to study the real interests of the country in its financial measures, Atthesame time a petition from citi- zens of Illinois asking that the national banks may be stripped of the special privileges now accorded them, and that the whole paper issue may be made legal tender, was confided for presentation to Mr. Ferry, of Michigan, while the Senators from Illinois, Logan and Oglesby, were ignored. On the other hand, | Mr. Conkling introduced a bill in the interests of the national banks, providing for a partial redemption of the securities lodged with the Treasury Department for their circulation and a corresponding contraction of the national bank currency. As we have said, these facts are significant, in moulding him, be they either unsightly excrescences or inbarmonious hollows. But, above all, she knew that her own relations with her illustrious father, as far as they were of a public character or had to do with his career as a public man, would be brought out in the same clear light and limned with the same unrelenting fidelity to truth.’’ And so it appears that a biography of Chase is to be constructed after the pattern of the recent life of Lincoln. No greater disgust has been cre- ated in a long time than in the treatment of Lincoln’s memory by men without qualifica~ tions for writing his history, who were anxious to link their names with his. It seems that Judge Warden is ambitious to do the same thing with the memory of Chase, and to write a life of his friend with as little “toning’’ of the great man’s “angularities” as was found in the Herndon-Lamon-Black ‘Life of Lin- coln.’’ This sort of literary assassination must be discouraged, or the memory of de- ceased public men will be in greater danger from their friendly biographers than from the attacks of their lifelong political foes. The New York Harbor Bill. The importance of putting an end to the habit of throwing ashes and refuse matter into the harbor channels has attracted the attention of every one interested in the future of New York. The public demands that such laws shall be made as will deal effectively with the nuisance, but the members of the State Legislature, for reasons best known to them- selves, appear very unwilling to attack the evil in a really earnest spirit. The bill before the Legislature is worse than useless, and does not deserve to be regarded as a serious attempt to prevent the filling up of the harbor channels. It is merely s pretence of dealing with what bas grown to bea nuisance dan- gerous to the well-being of this city. It would be well, before legislating on the harbor question, to have a thorough, inquiry made as to the effects of the w! ¥ and embankments in changing the tidal and river currents. The growing obstructions in the harbor channels are no doubt due in great part to the change of currents, and this aspect of the question ought not to be neglected. But unless the bill under consideration is very mach modified it will effect no good. The law to deal with the throwing of ashes from steamers andthe dumping of refuse matter into the harbor requires to be unusually severe. The difficulty ot applying its provisions will be very great, and unless steamboat captains are restrained by the fear of heavy penalties in ease of discovery and conviction it will be found impossible to put an end to the evil. The General Eleetion in Great Britain. To-day, according to previous announce- ment, the election contest commences in the British Islands. The county elections, contested and uncontested, will occupy the first two weeks in February. The borough elections, beginning to-day, will, it is a be over by the 7th of next month. = ing allowance for certain unavoidable delays, the full returns are likely to be in the hands ofthe government on or before the 16th of February. In the first week of March the new Parliament will assemble. Both parties go to the country confident of success. Eng- land, it is almost certain, will give Mr. Glad- stone a large majority ; Scotland will stand by him almost aa a unit; but what course in 80 doing it will practically reject the Kellogg government. Who then will sustain it? Only {he Cohinet opparently. As Gencnal Grant ly and as the administration party possess the power in both houses, we are induced to regard them as an indication that the friends of the national banks and the advocates of ex- pansion will join their forces and carry through such meagures as may suit their in- terests, : The sense-ef the country is, no doubt, ad- verse to a continuance of the special privileges accorded to the national banks, and in favor of free banking. If we are to have a con- tinuance of the legal tender or greenback cur- rency, if the government is to go on issuing its irredeemable promises to pay and to give them by legislation the character of money, then there can be no good reason why the whole volume of currency should not be of the same character and of the same value. At present we have, say, seven hundred and fifty millions of paper money afloat ; but of this about one-half is in greenbacks and the other half in the notes of national banks. The former is legal tender by law; the latter is not. The banks that enjoy this privilege of circulation lodge government bonds with the Treasury Department as a security for their notes, and receive on these bonds six per cent interest. An individual who invests. million dollars in government bonds gets his sixty thousand dollars a year from: the public Treasury as the interest on the investment of his principal. The national bank buys a government bond, deposits it in the United States Treas- ury, receives its sixty thousand dollars a year: interest, and receives back in addition ninety per cent of its capital in its own notes, upon which it trades and speculates, and makes in- terest out of the people in loans and discounts over again. If the whole currency should be greenbacks.and baking free any bank with a sufficient capital would buy greenbacks. of the government and issue them as its circula- tion, and the government would save the interest on the bonds used in such purchase. If we are to have gowern- ment notes at all as circulation. this simple method would strip the national banks of their double interest and of their special privileges, but it would give the country the full benefit of the whole volume of currency, obviate the necessity af any bank reserve, save the nation, some twenty-one million dollars a year interest, and prevent that ‘docking up” of greenbacks which has lain at the bottom of all the unprincipled speculations and combinations which have so seriously disturbed: the country.. It is too much to hope for any such legisla. tion from a Congress in the interests of the national banks. The choice, therefore, at present seems to rest between the bill nomi- nally for ‘‘iree banking” reported yesterday in the House by Mr. Maymard, of TYen- nessee, and the proposition for the re- placement of the greenbacks by gold bonds, hearing four per cent interest, and redeemable in fifty years, to be used asa basis of banking by free banks. Mr. May- nard’s bill includes the provision for the issne, at the rate of two millions a month, of United States notes, without interest, but redeemable in two years, to grad- ually displace the present legal ten- ders. These notes would commence to fall due in July, 1876, and thereafter two millions of them would have to be paid in gold every month. Could the government rely on its ability to do this? Would it not Troland will adopt it is difficult yet to predict. Flora sie i, wo doubt, be the tavt auastion be at the mercy of gold speculators Land in the ond bo fored to declare itself unable te redsem its pledges? The other proposition for gold bonds at four per cent, with fifty years to ran, as 8 basis of free banking, would take from. the govern- ment the odium of issuing irtedeemable paper currency a8 money; would place the free bank circulation virtually upon 4 gold basis, although at a distam day, and would transfer the redemption of the gold bonds to those whe come after us, and who will not feel, as we feel, the burdens and sacrifices of the war. We regard the long gold bond policy as the wisest and the most practical of the two. Adjustment of the Mariner's Conrpass at Sea. Since the loss of the steamship Atlantic the ablest nautical minds have been. busily inves- tigating the mysteries of the mariner's com- pass and its deviations in iron ships. Among the first fruite of their work we find in the last issue of the Nautical Magazine (London) a paper read by a high authority on the adjust- ment of the compsss—an elaboration which mast provo invaluable to the navigator. The design is to expound a method for correcting the needle’s indications, by revolving the ship while on her voyage, to ascertain any and every deviation acquired since she loft port. The usual method of adjusting the compass ina still-water dock, with the ship upright and in the midst of many other iron vessels, each one of which is itself a huge magnet, is known to be very mnscientific and unsafe. ‘The devi- ations thus determined hold good so long as the vessel is in the dock, but scarcely has she got out of port before they become useless. Once at sea, the ship’s heeling and the violent blows from rough weather influence the course she is taking by making the needle a fickle and oscillating instead of a reliable guide. The captain cannot now depend upon the tables furnished him in dock by the compass adjuster, and must guess how much his needle is disturbed. The object of the elaborate paper which was recently read by Captain Miller, before the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Association, is not only to point out the peril which now at- tends navigation, but the safeguard against it. The process of swinging the steamer at sea and obtaining, by the shadow of a style on the card, the correct bearing of the sun on every point of the compass, as she slowly re- volves, is‘short andl simple. It can be done by stopping the ship anywhere at sea for thirty minutes, provided only the sky is clear. The loss of time is not worth considering, and the simple observations taken while the ves- sel is swinging around under the sun afford the seaman data for how far he can trust the pointings of his. compass. Captain Miller illustrates the importance of applying this well-tested method by the tatal confidence in his compass calculations which marked the: unfortunate commander of the Atlantic. No doubt this confidence in his compass had been acquired by making Sam- bro light and other points as expected, and thus all extra precautions would appear very superfluous. But this disaster, with its appal- ling consequences, was, perhaps, necessary to prove the unreliability of the mariner’s com- pass as.a'servant if confided in without the knowledge of the effects.of outside influences and without frequent tests of its changes dur- ing every voyage. Our Imports from Great Britain. One of. the: most hopeful signs of an im- proving financial condition in the country is the decline-of. imported luxuries. According to the report of the Bureau of Statistics there was a considerable falling off in theimportation of the principal articles of British manufacture for the year 1873.as compared with the previous year, and. particularly during the last months of 1873. Take-cotton piece goods, for exam- ple, and we find that in 1872 131,617,336 yards were imported, while in 1873 the number. of. yards was 109,500,345. So we might go:through the list of imported articles and find a corresponding reduction. Iron, however, is.specially worthy,of mention. In 1872. there ware 467,304 tons of railroad iron, 64,553 tons of bar, angle, bolt and rod iron and 195,161i tons of pig iron imported, while in 1873 the amount was—railroad iron, 185,702 tons; pig iron, 102,624 tons, and bar and other kinds of iron, 23,006 tons. This isa difference:of over $20,000,000 in iron alone. If we can.continue to reduce our imports and increase: our exports the exchanges will be more in.our favor, and this would do more to bring dowa the premium on gold and carry us toa. specie basis than all the proposed legislation of Congress. Tae Ans anp Navy Appropatation Brit.— The navy is not likely to fare as well as the army, or not better, certainly, with Con- gress, for Congressmen from the interior know little and care little about the navy. They are particularly alive, however, to any appro- priations for public buildings or anything else in their several districts. This was seen when they combined to defeat Mr. Garfield's bill to duce expenditures on public buildings. If not watched these virtuous representatives will take all the money saved from the army and navy for buildings and other improvements in theix own! localitics. Tenmmyat = Facturrms, — Only increased facilities, for handling freight at this port can preserva the commercial supremacy ot this city. So says a committee of the National Cheap/Transportation Association. They may not be. right, but our readers can see their re- port fn another column and judge for them- selves. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Borriel }eaves Havana for Madrid to-day. General 3. E. Marvin, of Albany, 18 again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator Bainbridge Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, is staying at the Astor House. General T. G. Pitcher, United States Army, ts quartered at the Everett House, Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, has ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Hagner, United States Army, 1 regia- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Joseph H. Sloas, of Alabama, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Ezra Abbot, of Harvard College, ia re~ siding temporarily at the Everett House. Lieutenant Commander J. 0. Kensett, United States Navy, is at Barnum’s Hotel. Ex-President Theodore D. Woolsey, of Yale Col- lege, is among the late arrivals at the Kverott House, Inspector General J. H. Wood, of Governor Dix's atad, arrived from Albany last evening at the Hovel Brunswick. ‘The Rat of Ncheater has been made Captain of <a Ne tne Queen's Body Guard. Che post (9 6 sinecure carrying a salary of £1,200, the greater part which, it ts said, will thie year We swallowed up in the cost of the Eari’s uniform, ‘Mr. John Ruskin has been givtey advice toe Bible clans, and he wishes it to reacts all readers of the Scriptures, It is:—“Don’t think that Nature (human or other) ts corrupt; don’s think that you yourself are elect out of tt; and don’t think te serve God by praying instead of obeying.’” AMUSEMENTS. Concert im Aid of the German Ladice” Society, The audience iast night at Steinway Hall, tor the benefit of thif moble charity, was the largess assembled thts season at any concert, and the programme was correspondingty interesting. Mr. Armin Schotte played an organ solo, the first movement of Haydn's symphony in D major, as an introduction to the concert, and displayed powera of no ordinary standard in the sktll, taste and ex- Presson whieh were combined in his interpresa- tion, Miss Isabella Brush, au American éléve of the Conservatoire of Milan, sung an aria from “L’Blisire a’Amore,” and 8 volkelied a8 an encore. Her voice ia rich, fexible and welltrained. in the duet of Campana: “Mira ia Bisuca Luna,” which she sung with the Liederkranz basso, Mr. F. Steins, Miss Brush was no less satis‘actory. The other artiste were Mesars. Mills, Damrosci and who gave a choice rendering of a selection from Beethoven's trio im K flat, opus 1. Mr. Mille also contributed two of the most popular prano works in his répertowe, Dr. Damrosch an of Vieuxtemps and Mr. Bergner one of imitable compositions for the ‘cella Mr. sei im the curious song of Suppe, “Liinditch, stttites, was warmly applauded, aud for an encore gave @ beautiful melody of Feschka. It was a thoroughly enjoyable concert trom begining to end. Musical Notes. Miss Anna B, Reid sings at the conecrt of the Baltimorediaydn Association on February 12, Messra. Mason and Hamlin gave an organ ree cital yesterday afternoon at their hall im Untom square. Mr. Theodore Thomas apnounces a matinée at Steinway Hall for Saturday week, with Messmm, Whitney and Listemann as solonste. “The Bohemian Girl” will be rendered for the last time this evening, at the Academy of Music, by the Kellogg English Opera troupe, Signor Albites gave a select matinée mustoale at his College of Music yesterday, at which a number of his pupids sung uperatio morceans. The generad calibre of the voices was surprisingly good and the method of singing based on.the vest Italian sclool, There were, indeed, materials pufficient vo foum the nucleus ofa very excellent opera company. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPsRTHENT, OFFICR OF THE Curr SIGNAL OFPICRR, WASHINGTON, D..0., Ja0.30—1 A, M. For New ENGLAND AND’ THE MIDDLE STare® GHNEBALLY OGOUDY WEATHER AND LOWER TEM PERATURE WILL PREVAIL, WITH RISING BAROM- ETER, NORTHERLY TO EASTBRLY WINDS AND' FOS SIBLY SNOW. For the Southern States east of the Mississtpgy River clear or fair weather daring the day, fol- lowed by colder and. partially cloudy weatner bp Friday night. For the lake: region cold-and cloudy weatheh with rising barometer, northerly te-easterly winds and snow. For the Ohio: Valley and thence westward to the Lower Missouri Valley colder and generally cloudy weather, with northerly to easterly winds and ris tng barometer. For the northwest: very cold and: partly clou@p weather, with northwesterly, to northeasterly winds, very tigh barometer and light snow ta the tiver valleya, The Weather in This City: Yesterday. The following record will show'tne changes (m the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding: day last year,, as indicated by the thermomeser at Hudnut's pha macy, HERALD Building :— 18' Bel 4 18th. \ 1874. 30 3:30 P. 33 28 «OP. lL (36. 29 «OP. 8 36. 12M. «he 5 35 12P. M 5 86 Average temperature yesterday. 838% Average temperatare for corresponding date last year. BHA BERITH. ‘1 Peixotto at Bucharest Telo~ CHCaao, Jan. 29, 1874.. The Bnai Berith Convention.to.day was largeigr attended. A resolution, introduced by A. E. Frankland, was unanimousty adopted, referring.to-the Centennial Committee to carry into operation:the plan to um veila commemorative -statue at the Philadelphim exhibition. The Committees on Report reported a resolutiom deprecatory of the sentiments contained in.tae Felsenthal letter and which. have aroused some feeling 11 the brotherhood. The resolution wag . adopted. The subject of homes and .asylams was cordially recommended for adoption by, each Grand Loage, but the proposition for a general institosiom ‘was condemned, : A resolution encouraging the Cinclanati Uniom’ and University was rejected. t At this stage of tne proceedings A. F. Franklan® was presented with some engrossed resolu tions by District No. 2, in ackmewiedgment of his services and conduct during the pestilence ip Memphis. A series of resolutions complimentary to the, Rey. Max Samfieid, ol. Memphis, were also The report of the Committee on Roumauia was. read and unanimously adopted, ana the culogism’ of the Chairman on the. success thus far of Consw Peixotto was loudly applauded, The report recom mends the presentation of a petition to Congress asking that the Consul at Bucharest be propery salaped, and appeals to, members oi the we contribute to the Roumania fund. ‘The following telegram was (forwarded, to Mr. Peixotto by Mr. ‘olf, President of tne: Cen- vention :— “Convention congratulates you. Confidence im yon unbounded, We willsastain you.’’ The Convention then: went into secret seasiom on Lhe subject of the ritual THE.WESTON MURDER. Lowenstein et Length Put on, Trial for the Alleged Assassination. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1874, The trial of Lowenstein for the murder of Wem ton was commenced this morning, & jury having been secured. The prisoner appeared entirely un- concerned. His wife sits near him, His counsel, Mr. Herrick, moved that the witnesses be excluded from Court during the delivery of the District At torney’s opening address, but the Court denied the motion. ’ The District Chet igs So proceeded. with his address, reciting all the facts already; known. Charles Francisco, @ conducter om the Harlem, Railroad on the Sth of August last, was the first, witness. He testified to & man. resembling the, prisoner being on his train at that time (rom New. ‘ork to Chatham. Jonn B Hunt, @ conductor, on the Springfield train, testified to seeing both Lowenstein and Wes-. ton or a one-armed man on that day. They came-to, ‘Albany (rom Chatham on hia,traim To the beat of, his recollection Lowenstein was one of the man. John Blackburn, a resident of Albany, tesufed that about the time of the marder he saw two.mem in the western part of the city, one of whom, naa arm, ontharies Miller testified, to ror! the body of Weaton dead in the suburbs of the city. Other witnesses gave similar circumstantial evi dence, when the Court adjourned. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Firat Assistant Engineer John A. Scott has been ordered to the naval rendezvous at San Francisco, ieving Engineer Andrade, who is ordared to Bare isidnd avy Yad " The Pawhatan at Norfolk. Fortress MONROR, Jan, 2, 1874. ‘The Untted Ssates steamer Powhattan, irom Key West, passed the fart at four P. M. to-aay for the Norfolk Navy Yard. FIRE IN FOURTEENTH STREET. A fire broke out yesterday in the cellar of the four story brick building No. 58 West Fourveenth street that caused a dumage of $6,000, The frst and second floors were occupied by Rozhschitd & Co, as a millinery store, and the third and fourth doors wore fitted up aa lodge rooms. Tne batidi belongs to Hogar & Van kio, aad wan dameged (0 the extent of $800; insured.