The New York Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1874, Page 7

‘™ alll parts of the city. The Fire Department is not adequately furnished with machines and “men, and it is in reality powerless to supply the deficiencies The proper authorities should provide for the outlay of the moneys requisite to a thorough organization. Yet more than this remains to be fone. The system of fire escapes should be widely and generally ap- plied, and scuttles and other outlets from our private and public houses should be closely scrutinized, in order that they may always be accessible to those driven by smoke and flame. Yesterday's Sermons. Mr. Beecher yesterday instructed and edjfied ‘his hearers with a discourse on the expediency of Christ’s physical absence from the earth and the divisions of the Church which have resulted therefrom. He took up the logic of the men who reason that if they had lived in the days of Christ, or if He lived now, so that they could see Him and feel Him, their faith would be so much ‘stronger and the unity of faith in the Church would be so much surer, and asked, Is it desirable to have unity of belief in the Church? Mr. Beecher thinks it is not desirable in the | ‘sense in which men talk about this unity, though it is very desirable in the sense in which Christ speaks of it. He thinks it is mot quite certain that men would believe in Jesus if they could see Him to-day any more than they do, or than men did when He lived among them. Mr. Beecher favors variety of belief, honestly entertained and taken in love, and believes that Jesus in heaven is near to every believer and ready to help all. Dr. J. D. Fulton took the story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts v.) from which to preach @ sermon for money to his people, and one pertinent question which he asked is one that might be sounded from every pulpit in the land, “Is it perilous to be dishonest in deal- ing with God?’’ Ananias believed it was safe to tamper with God, and he acted under the belief that no one knew the secret of his theft and lying but himself and his wife. But Satan knew his man, and though he had tried the one hun- dred and twenty ministers with whom Ananias ‘was associated there was only one fell. In- stead of making such an ado over one that falls we should rejoice over the many who remain firm and true. Mr. Frothingham thinks it is not fair to expect individuals to live up to their belief. We have to consult the drift of opinion of the people among whom we live. The best ap- Pointed train in the world will not run forty miles an hour over a stubble field. The Hebrews’ belief that they are an elect people, Mr. Frothingham thinks, is what made them what they were, keeps them to- gether as brothers to-day and which has given to us the Old Testament. The Christian’s belief that Christ is the Re- deemer of mankind makes him hold the salvation of his soul as of primal import- | ance, and consider every other religion but Christianity a superstition. And yet there are good people, Mr. Frothingham thinks, who are | not Christians, who believe this world is every- thing and who seek to make it as good as they can. The Rev. Mr. Miller reviewed Father Lake's latest utterances on the common school sys- | tem of education here, and has joined issue with him on that question, believing that “our national honor has been insulted.” The discourse is, therefore, given in the spirit of a man who alone had to de- fend not only the national honor, but the entire system of secular and religious edu- | cation throughout the land. It does not breathe any of the gentle, forbearing spirit of the Great Teacher, and is designed rather to provoke enmity and ill-will than peace and amity. Matters extraneous to the question in issue are introduced for the purpose of giving | fresh ‘broadsides to “the Papists’’ and ‘‘the | Jesuits.”’ Dr. McGlynn opposed the union of Church and State, believing such union to be injuri- | ous to the best interests of religion. In his | sermon yesterday he combated the notion that religion is and should be “‘as free as the | air we breathe,’ and said very truly that it was simply absurd to expect it to be given any- where free of expense to those who seek or bene- fit by its ministrations. And there is no more sacred duty, and no higher privilege, he thinks, than to contribute, at the expense of some self-sacrifice, to the building up of God’s altar and the support of the charities that naturally cluster around it. Father McNamee gave an exposition of the Parable of the laborers hired to go into the vineyard, and commented upon the ingrati- tude and indifference of mankind toward God | ments there give the Ministry great influence. and His work. ‘The remembrance of what Christ has done for us should compel us to be faithful laborers in the vineyard of the Lord. The Rev. Father Meagher tried to dispel from the minds of his hearers the idea of the potency of ‘the almighty dollar” to do all things for them. The late panic was an illus- tration of the folly of trusting in money and at the same time a punishment of the sin of | idolatry indicated by such trust. Father Garesché opened a mission in Brook- lyn yesterday. ny Our Cmarrrizs are again described in the Herarp this morning, and especially with reference to the manner in which the moneys | are disbursed. The entire community is | interested in the operations of these societies, | and will closely scrutinize any extravagance | or unnecessary expenditure. Salaries, of | course, must be paid, and $4,500,000 can hardly be distributed without considerable expenses, yet they should not be excessive, Conuistons AND Loss or Lire at Sea.— Mr. Houghton, of California, has very prop- erly taken up the subject of collisions at sea, and has provided in his bill for the ounce of prevention, The amazing and reckless indifference of the ocean steamship lines, their penchant for tawdry ornamentation and cheap glitter have been subjects of regret on the part of those who still attach importance to the security of human life. Legislation of the character demanded in this bill is what the country needs, not alone in this special instance, but in all cases where monopoly is arrogant and reckless, A Computsory Epvcation Brix has passed the lower House of the Ilinois Legislature. It requires ‘reasonable proficiency” in the three RB's and the two G's. If there were no other objections to such a law the fact that it is un- necessary ought to prevent its enactment, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY. 2, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, ENGLAND. Progress. of the Election Polls—Conservative Gains—Cabinet Influence Defeated at Chat- ham—The Attorney General Re- turned—An Oppositionist Rein- forcement of Eight Members. TELEGCAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonvon, Feb. 1, 1874. The polls were opened yesterday in Guildford, Chatham, Kidderminster, Maidstone, Andover and North Lincolnshire. ‘The conservatives were victorious, holding their own in all the elections except that at Barnstaple, and electing their candidates im eight boroughs represented by liberals in the last Parliament, The liberals show @ gain of only one member, having defeated the conservatives at Barnstaple. CHATHAM CARRIED BY A CONSERVATIVE. Rear Admiral George Elliot, conservative, was elected at Chatham by a majority of 669, although the dockyard and other government establish- At the last election he was defeated by tne liberal candidate, Mr. Otway, the Under Secretary for | Foreign Affairs, who bad @ majority of 184, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL UNOPPOSED. Mr. Henry James, the Attorney General, and Mr. A.C. Barclay, the former liberal member, were both returned from Taunton without opposition. RE-ENDORSEMENT OF A LIBERAL, Mr. Onslow, liberal, was re-elected at Guildford by 243 majority against twenty-one at the last election. RESULT OF A SEVEN DAYS! STRUGGLE. During the week there were forty-eight elections, and the result is that twenty liberals and twenty- eight conservatives are returned to serve in the new Parliament. The Latest Returns—A Home Rule Vic- tory in Ireland. Lonpon, Feb, 1—Midnight. The liberals have carried Maidstone, electing both their candidates. A conservative has been returned from Bewdley, in Worcestershire, and the Home Rule candid ate from the burough of Carlow, ireland. GERMANY. Bismarck Not in Episcopal Correspondence with Gladstone. TELESRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Feb. 1, 1874. The report from Paris that Bismarck nad written to the British government relative to the attitude of the ultramontane press and the Roman Catholic bishops is contradicted, ASHANTEE. A Royalist Embassy Suing for Peace—The British Will Negotiate in Coomassie. TELEGRAM TO .HE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Feb. 1, 1874. A despatch from ‘Cape Coast Castle states that twelve ambassadors from the Ashantees recently arrived in the British camp suing for peace. Sir Garnet Wolseley replied that he would only | treat with the King himselfat Coomassie. DIPLOMATIC USAGE SAID TO HAVE BEEN VIOLATED BY THE ENGLISH. Itis reported that General Wolseley has de- tained the Ashantee ambassadors as hostages for some Britisn sailors taken prisoners by the enemy. ACHEEN. Cholera in the Hostile Camps—Rumor of the Death of the Sultan. TELEGRAM TO TH: NEW YORK HERALD. Tue Hagus, Feb. 1, 1874. A despatch from Padang reports that the cholera | has broken out in Acheen. It is rumored that the Sultan of Acheen has died of the disease and that the war is virtually over, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Catherine Meagher, aged 103 years, died last Fri- day 1n Boston. Captain Ward, of the British Army, is quartered at the Brevoort House. General W. L. Burt, Postmaster of Boston, is staying at the Astor House. John D. Philbrick, Superintendent of Public Schools of Boston, yesterday arrived at the Hott man House. Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson left one Gaughter, an interesting young lady, who is now at school in Charlotte, N. C. Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheriaan and Colonel George A. Forsyth arrived from Washing- ton yesterday, at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Mrs. Levina Miller, of Bartholomew county, Ind., @ grandchild of a sister of Daniel Boone, is in possession of the veritable fiddle formerly owned by the aforesaid Daniel. Mr. William Trotter, or Taylor county, Kentucky, has fallen heir to $500,000, bequeathed by an aunt in England. Before his good luck overtook him ne used to be Old Bill Trotter. One of the latest oficial acts of ex-Governor Davis, of Texas, was the appointment o1 a lady as the Commissioner of the State to the Centennial celebration at Philadelphia, Judge John J. Van Allen, the leader of tne “straight out’? democrats of this State in the last Presidential campaign, is among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. All the Presidents of the United States but four had each but one Christian name. Tue four were, John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, and Ulysses S, Grant. “Municipal insanity” is what they call it in Chicago. In New York and Brooklyn it is termed “municipal rascallty.” To doctors of law it is | Known as a complication of “ring-around.”” M. Jules Janin, the famous Parisian theatrical critic, has had a modest fortune come to him from his father-in-law, who died recently. Unfortunately his lack of heaith will not permit him to enjoy it. Syed Salim, ex-Sultan of Muscat, who has just | been beard of as the leader of an unsuccessiul revolt, several months ago narrowly escaped con- Viction in Bombay of obtaining goods on false pre- tences, Henri Rochefort is living in what is described as the healthy and picturesque valley of Numbo, on the peninsula of Ducos. He keeps apart from other convicts, and desires to remain quiet and unnoticed, Mr. Van Dyke, of New Hampshire, left in his will $140,000 to his relatives, and hoped they would not snuffie and shed crocodile tears at his funeral, but would cover him up and hurry home to fight over the money. by George Brown, the founder of the Swedenborgian brary in Cincinnati, has become so destitute that he 1s forced occasionally to seek lodgings in the station house, He was once in affluent circum: stances, The spirits should now aid him. Professor Goldwin Smith lately addressed the Trades Union Congress at SheMeld, England, and took occasion to remark that his experience in the United States teaches him that the average Ameri- can cherish a most hearty hatred for England, Guisel, of Oswego, N. ¥., has given public notice to liquor dealers forbidding the sale of liquor to her husband, Ludwig Guisel, under pen- alty of the lgw., On the same day the notice was given Ludwig was sentenced to thirty days’ im- prisonment for getting drunk, Ignatius Donnelly, formerly member of Congress from Minnesota, is lecturing on the Darwinian theory in the West. He takes the side of Darwin, except in speaking of the theory of Natural Selec- tion. He does not -believe in that, for he remem- bers that Washburn was chosen over bim for Con- arene, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Fox's last week at the Grand The present is Mr, Opera House. Max Bruch seems to be the coming man tn mu- sical circles in Europe. The Strakosch Italian Opera Company commence their Boston season this evening. Amy Stone and “Cigarette” may be seen at Wood's Museum next Monday evening. Wendell Phillips lectures next Monday night at Association Hall on “Street Life in Europe.” Next Thursday evening 18 set apart at the Ly- ceum for the Young Ladies’ Charitable Union en- tertainment, A Mr. G. B, Bartiett isto be visible at Lyric Hall next Friday and Saturday evenings in statuary and tableaux. The National Conservatory and the New York Conservatory of Music are now incorporated as one institution, Mr. Rullmann will, probably, engage a company to support Mme. Lucca from the resident German artists in this city. The fifteenth week of Mr. Wallack’s season at his own theatre will be troduced this evening with a repetition of Money.” Mrs. D. P. Bowers, one of the very best of our native actresses, appears to-night as Lady Audley at Mrs. Conway’s theatre. Mr. Thomas’ third matinée will be held at Stein- way Hall next Saturday. Mr. Myron W. Whitney and Mr. Bernhard Listemann will appear. Miss Charlotte Cushman will this evening read scenes from “The Merchant of Venice’? and some miscellaneous selections at Steinway Hall. Next'Saturday afternoon is to be devoted, at Bry- ant’s Opera House, to the benefit of the Founding Hospital. The entire minstrel troupe will appear. ‘The annual concert of St. Thomas’ choir will be given on Thursday evening week at Association Hall, under the direction of Mr. George William Warren. An English version of “La Grande Duchesse,” to be given at the Olympic by the Holman troupe this evening, will begin at eight and end ata quarter past nine. Rubinstein’s tour of Italy has been a remarkable success, The great pianist is understood to have given up bis intention to apply himself exclusively to composition, ‘The applause won and deserved by Mrs. J. B. Booth in “La Femme de Feu” is a reason for cher- ishing a pleasurable expectation of her début in Belot’s new play, ‘“Elene.”’ Bristow’s Arcadian symphony, descriptive of the journey of an emigrant train on the Plains to their destination, will be played at the Philharmonic re hearsal on Friday afternoon, Mr. Rowe's success with “Tne Geneva Cross’? Prepares one to anticipate with kindness his dramatization of “The Last of the Mohicans,” presently to be produced at Niblo’s. Miss Thursby, Miss Henne, Messrs. Sohst and Faitsch and the Seventh Regiment Band appear at Steinway Hall on Friday evening for the benefit of the chapel fund of the Madison avenue Relormed church, * No doubt the forthcoming Sunday concerts at the Grand Opera House will be meritorious and at- tractive, but we question the good taste of an- nouncing the Twenty-second regiment uniform as one of the chief charms. On the evening of Saturday, February 28, the Charity Amateur Dramatic Association will, at the Academy of Music, play ‘Love’s Sacrifice,” for the benefit of the Hebrew Benevolent Fuel Association and the Hebrew Relief Fund. A French performance will be given at the Ly- ceum next Saturaay evening for the benefit of the family of the late M. Edgard. The programme will comprise “Quand l’Amour s’en Va,” “L’ Esclave du Mari,’ and a miscellany to which M. Régamey and the Martens will contribute. To-morrow evening an entertainment is to be given at the Union League Theatre for the benefit of the St. Barnabas Industrial Society, under the charge of the ladies connected with the Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society. An amateur club of local celebrity will assist. An interesting and valuable discovery has just | | Nevertheless, I can say nothing in favor of specu- been made at Prague. Portions of the opera of “Don Giovanni,” entirely in the handwriting of Mozart, have been found in the theatre where the first representation of the great work took place. The Museum at Vienna has purchased the treasure | for £280, M. Petit recently represented Mephistopheles, in “Faust,” in Milan, Italy, and in so novel a manner that he was coldly received. He differed from all | other per.ormers, the audience knew, by jollowing | the ideas of author and composer. Just as Goethe | did M. Petit represented Mephistopheles as lame, and, having the sanction of M. Gounod, he sang | some of the music faster than it is usually sung, THE REPORTED MASSACRE BY INDIANS, It Is Not Yet Confirmed. YANKTON, D. T., Feb. 1, 1874. The report of the massacre of woodchoppers, near Fort Rice, is not fully credited here. A de- spatch received from General Stanley, commanding at Fort Sully, to-day, says that the mail has ar- rived on time from Grand River with no reports of any disturbance. A small marauding party of Sioux Indians recently made an attack on Poncas, but were easily repulsed and left. The open winter aflords a good opportunity for Indians to get | foci but all seems quiet as far as Fort Suliy at least. WORK ON FORT ADAMS STOPPED. A Lack of Funds the Cause. Newrort, R. I, Feb. 1, 1874. Word has been received from Washington to stop work upon the fortifications, &c., at Fort Adams, at this place. The workmen will be paid off to-morrow, and no further work will be per- | jormed tor an indefinite time. The reason is that the appropriation for the past year is used and that the one for 1874 13 not yet available. THE ROOF OF A MINE FALLS, One Man Baried in Coal and Rock and Another Narrowly Escapes=The Re. mains Dug Out. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Feb. 1, 1874. On last Thursday afternoon a portion of the roof of a coal mine, in Plains township, four miles from Wiikesbarre, belonging to the Hillside Coal and Iron Company, fell in, crushing beneath it a laborer named Patrick McDonald. McDonald and the miner for whom he was working were engaged in robbing the pillars, when the roof commenced to crack. The miner heeded the warning and escaped unhurt, but McDonald tarried and a mass of 300 tons of rock and coal fell upon him. The portion of the roof that fell was fully half an acre in extent and twelve feet in thickness, A large force of workmen at once set about re- moving the débris, and put forth the utmost exe! tions, hoping that McDonald might be alive. Work was carried on day and night, but not until to-day was his body reacned and life found extinct. His fingers were first seen sticking from under a huge boulder and the rocks had to be blasted be- fore his body could be removed. His back, arms and legs were broken and he was otherwise crushed, and must have been killed instantly. BOLD ROBBERY NEAR ALBANY, ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 1, 1874 A bold and successful robbery was perpetrated during last night at the house of Andrew Murra: an aged farmer, living in the town of Guilderland, about eight miles from this city, by four masked men, who bound Mr. Murray and his sister, the only occupants of the house, with cords, and then robbed the house. They stole a pair of valuable horses, which they harnessed to a sleigh, and made good their escape. A WOMAN SERIOUSLY BURNED, PRILADELPHIA, Feb. 1, 1874. To-day Emiline Toet, aged thirty-eight, living at No. 1,344 Hancock street, was burned in ashock- ing manner by her clothes taking fire. During the excitement a watch and chain were stolen from @ person in the house THE NASHUA CITY SAVINGS BANK, Nasuva, N. H., Feb, 1, 1874. The City Savings Bank will to-morrow come mence paying depositors ten per cent without notice, This action is rendered necessary on ac- count of the funds being invested largely in real estate, mortgages in this city and vicinity and in stocks, on which it is im} ible to realize value at once. Notices for withdrawals have decreased since January 1, and it is the opinion of the oMeers that the bank can pay all its liabilities if not com- elled to RactiAce its securities, THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Professor Proctor’s Detinitien of His Theory of Hvolution as Contrasted with That of Laplace—The Meteor Sys- tem in Exhaustion when the Plaae- tary Globes Were Fashioned. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1874 To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— There are two or three points in your well writ- ten article. on my theory of the solar system on which I should be glad, with your permission, to make @ few remarks. My leisure is short, as [am lecturing every night and travelling, on the aver- age, twelve hours a day; but, as I hope to have an Opportunity to present my theory again to a New York audience, 1 shall only require to touch on the considerations suggested by your criticisms. 1 would remark, first, that my theory is not wholly antagonistic to Laplace’s, Both theories are based on evidence indicating. I think we may say demonstrating, the evolution of our solar system, And this, after all, is a point of greater popular interest than the indication of the manner of such evolution. It is next to be noted tnat by the very require- ments of my theory the meteor systems at present existing should be utterly insignificant compared with those existing millions of years ago. The process of exhaustion must have gone far towards completion when the planetary globes had been fashioned. Taking our earth, we know that mil- lions of years have passed since she began to be peopled, and a much longer time since she existed ag an intensely hot orb, During all these years She has been gathering up merely a few fragments left unused during the formation of the system—a few chips scattered about the mighty workshop in which the giant workmen, Attraction and Repul- sion, had fashioned the solar system. Yet a goodly quantity of chips must have been collected by her in'the interval. I have shown by a very moderate computation that the earth increases in mass each year by more than 20,000 tons, Since she was first formed, then, she must have increased by millions of miltions of tons, Ihave nothing to say about the mass of comets’ tails, It mayor may not be true that one horse could cart off their whole weight, but meteor trains attending’ on comets are no one-horse af- fairs. Taking even Professor Newton’s estimate of one meteor to 900,000 cubic miles during the No- vember shower of 1867, tt is easily shown that dur. ing the continuance of that shower the earth gathered in at least a ton of matter; while, re- membering the enormous extension indicated by the recurrence of the display in 1866, 1867, 1869, &c., We must ascrive to the November cluster of meteors a total mass of many millions of tons, The fact is, the tail and the train of a comet are in no way to be confounded together, When a comet is inperthelion its tail lies at right angles to its train. (I may note, by the way, that Professor Asaph Hall calculates the mass of Encke’s comet a8 exceeding that of many asteroids.) You speak of my theory as a “manceuvre in favor of evolution, as opposed to and irreconcilable with the idea of acreation.”” This 1s not strictly correct. Evolution is irreconcilable with the idea of creation as respects the evolved object, but not with the general idea of a crea- tion, We know that a tree is developed from the seed, not specially created; but we donot consider the fact irreconcilable with the idea of a creation. I can see no reason why the evolution ofa solar system, or even of a siderial system, should be more so. It was to show I thus viewed the matter that I introduced the illustration of the May files, and compared our ideas of what we re- gard as the universe with the ideas—not more im- perfect, in my opinion—which so ephemeral creat- ures might entertain. Lastly, I must take exception to your remark that “where speculation occupies the fleld science vanishes.’ Rather, speculation is the seed whence springs the tree of theory, which, duly nourished by observation and experiment, will bear as fruit lation, or, indeea, of theorizing, unless to be checked and guided by observation. But every | useful observation I have ever heard of has been suggested by theory. Tne Baconian metnod, pur et simple, has never yet to my knowledge achieved chief secret of American success in science that have preferred a combination of the two methods to that reliance on the inductive method which has been favored in England by all save a few—among whom, however, are all the great leaders of scien- tific progress in Great Britain. Pray excuse this hastily written note, as I have had but a few minutes in which to write, and Believe me, faithtully yours, RICHARD A, PROCTOR, THE CROP PROSPECTS. Report of the Product of Corn and Hogs in the West. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1874. The National Crop Reporter contains to-day es- timates in relation to the percentage of tne last crop of corn remaining in the hands of producers stock hogs in the bands of feeders at the same date; in comparison with the quantity and number on hand at the corresponding date of 1873. In relation to corn, the States of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin, which produced in 1873 upwards of 352,000,000 bushels, the average amount on hand at the date named is estimated at a traction less than fifty per cent on an approximate quantity of 190,000,000 bushels, The average consumption was very untiorm in all the States, being highest in Wis- consin, where it was sixty per cent. The unusu- ally mild weather i all localities has aided largely in keeping down the home consumption, and the condition of the stock generally is better than was anticipated a month earlier. is ‘The estimates upon stock hogs are for the same States named above, and indicate an average tall- ing off of twenty-one per cent from the number on hand a year ago. The condition of the same is con- siderably below the average. The high prices paid by packers and the scarcity of corn having caused au outtiow of the marketable hogs and a stinting of the supply of 1ood to those remaining. The outlook is very poor jor hogs tor summer packing. A yoy oe of average prices in the States named on December 1, 1873, and January 15, 1874, shows @ decided advance, although the indi- cations are that the maximum has been about reached, THE WAITE POLYGAMY TRIAL, The Jury Disagree and Are Discharged. PORTLAND, Me., Feb. 1, 1874, County Attorney Libby summed up for the govern- ment, occupying two and @ half hours. The Judge ‘Was fifty-live minutes in delivering his charge. The jury retired at half-past seven, and at hall- tions; not having reported at midnight, the Court was adjourned, At hall-past twelve the jurors sent word to the Judge that they were unable to agree, and were discharged. They stood nine ior acquittal and three for conviction. The court room remained crowded with men and women until the adjournment, BESLEY ACQUITTED. CUMBERLAND, Md., Feb. 1, 1874. The jury in the case of Resley, on trial tor the murder of Lioyd L. Clary, the late editor of the Cumberland Times, in October last, brought in a verdict of “not guilty” at precisely ten o'clock last night, amidst deaiening cheers from the crowd in the court room. Resley was then escorted home by the crowd, cheering all the way. INJUNCTION ISSUED. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 1, 1874, Yesterday, in the United States District Court, Judge Cadwalader issued an injunction against tne Franklin Saving Fund Society of Philadeiphia, restraining its oMcers and employés from making any disposition or transfer of the property of the corporation. VALUABLE MILL BURNED, PRINCESS ANNB, Somerset county, Md., i Fev. rier } ‘The sawmill of Cohn Brothers was burned here Jaat night. The loss is about $12,000, any noteworthy success, and I believe it is one | the deductive rather than the inductive method | has been favored by them; or rather that they | on January 15, and estimates of the number of | After the counsel for the defence concluded, | past eleven o’clock came in for further instruc. | |GREAT FIRE IN SOUTH NORWALK. Destruction of the Old Well Hotel and Livery Stables—Sixteen: Horses Burned—Los $75,000—List of Insurances, Sourn Norwaxx, Conn., Feb. 1, 1874, The most destructive fire which has visited this city since it had an organizatiun took place early this morning, and resulted in a large amount of damage. It broke out at six o’clock in the harness room adjoining S. H. Hopkins’ livery stable, com- manicated with it and the Old Well Hotel, close by, and in leas than turee hours had levelled them all to the ground. South Norwalk has no fire eu- gine of any kind, and it being Sunday and very early in the morning, few persons were made aware of the progress of the flames until they had gained headway. An alarm was Promptly given after the discovery of the fire; but the Norwalk steamer, which had a distance of over two miles to travel to reach the scene, did not arrive till alter eight o'clock, when it was too late to render any practical aid in saving property. <A heavy wind was blowing from the west at the time, which caused the fire to Spread with wonderful rapidity, Great effort was Inade to save the stables and hotel, but the former succumbed, with all its carriages, harness, hay and other material, the saddest feature of it being the BURNING TO DEATH OF SIXTEEN HORSES, @ crowd of horrified inhabitants looking on, Powerless to render any assistance; while the latter, aframe building and very extenstve, was as @ vast tinder box bursting into Name, which/all the engines in Fairfield: county would have been un- able to cope with, Colonel F. F. Stedman, the pro- prietor, was among the first to observe the fire, and only succeeded in rousing bis wife, fam- ily and guests from their slumbers in time to make good their escape. Kverything in the house was burned. The wind curried the flames across Washington street and upon, #, Peck’s drug store, ut by bringing a small hand en- gine to bear upon them it was saved. At one tume Ely’s new block was on fire, but by the aid of axes the wooden cornice was knocked off and the building saved. CHECKING THE FLAMES. The Norwalk lire Department and Pioneer and Rescue Hook and Ladder companies now arrived, and rendered vatuable assistance in keeping the fire from furthur spreading; but, without doubt, to Mr. Dexter Fairbanks, foreman of the Norwalk Iron Works, who got up steam and put the com- pany’s great force pump in motion, and to the en. gineer of the Lock Works, who imitated his ex- | ample, does this city owe a debt of gratitude in | saving their dwellings and places of busi- ness from burning. These establishments are @ quarter of a mile distant from the fire, but by lorcing Water irom the river into a tank in the rear ol Lucas’ Hotel on Main street the Norwalk steamer Was enabled to play upon the flames, At ten o’clock all was a mass of blackened ruins, THE TOTAL Loss cannot fall short of $75,000, Ex-Mayor Dudley P. Ely, who owned the hotel anda stable buila- ing, also the brick blocks on either side is the heaviest loser. He estimates his losses at $30,000, imsured in the tollowin, companies:—The hotel, in the Firemen’s Fun | Caliiornia, $2,600; Firemen’s Association, Pennsyl- vania, $1,500; Westchester, New York, $1,000; Niagara, New York, $2,000; Pennsylvania, Phila- delphia,’ $500; Black’ River, New York, $500; Far- ragut, New York, $1,000. The livery stable, in the Koyal, Liverpool, $1,000; Wiillamsburg City, New York, $1,000; Continental, New York, $1,000; Penn- sylvanta, ladelphia, $500; Black River, New | York, $500; Farragut, New York, $1,000, SMALLER LOSSES. | The loss of F. F. Stedman & son, of the hotel, will | reach $20,000; insured for about $3,000. The store | on Washington street, occapied by Elkan & Co., dry goods, was insured in the Fairfield County Fire Insurance Company for $2,500, and in the New York Plate Glass Company for $400. Ely’s block, occupted by D. Dayton, boots and shoes, and Coris- tian Swartz & Co., cigars and tobacco, was insured Jor $5,000 in the Aitna and National, of Hart- jord, and the Narragansett, of Rhode Island, The loss on stock belonging to vhese gentlemen may reach $1,000 cach. Mr. Dayton was | insured for $4,000, principally in New York com- panies. Elkan & Co, were insured in the Fairfleld County for $5,000. ‘The stable was the largest, and said to have been the best kept of any in this por- tion of the State. THE PENALTY OF NON-ASSURANCE. Mr. Hopkins, its proprietor, had his atl invested discovered scientific facts, Destroy specula- | init. A short time since his policies of insurance tion, and science dies; for there never | expired, but the nigh rates tor renewal asked since 4 e lied him to delay attending to the has been a single —sclentific discovery | tHe Panic, impeliet tin a yo ah as which had not its origin nm speculation. | Tne hotel was of recent construction, very com- modious, fillea with guests, and was well kept. It was an attractive place of resort tor the denizens oft South Norwalk. In addition to the above, Alex- ander Sword’s News office, with most of its con- tents, was destroyed. Loss total. From what can ve learned by Chief of Police 8. Hodges and his subordinates, who have been | vigilant during the fre and since in looking up the cause, there is little doubt that 4 THE FIRE WAS INCENDIARY. Mr. Hopkins kept a watchman—Join Reagan— who always slept on the premises. During last night a man named Slaven, known as ‘Joker,’ a noted character, was seen about the premises. | Strange to say, he was the first man to awaken Mr. Reagan and iniorm him that his bed was on fire. The latter hastened to his feet, and a moment later the house burst into flames. Alter the fire a number of martingales und otbes har- ness appurtenances were found on Slaven’s person, and this, with the mysterious man- | ner in’ which he had gained admittance to Rea- | gan’s room, was confirmatory evidence, in the mind of Chiet Hodges, however mistaken he may be, that Slaven had applied the matcn. Other circum- stances led to the same belief, Slaven was accor- dingly arrested, and to-morrow morning will be | urled beiore the Uity Court ior the alleged onence. FIRE IN CHRISTOPHER STREET. of the Hoboken Ferry House. About seven o'clock yesterday morning a fire | broke out in the Hoboken ferry house at the foot ot Christopher street, North Kiver, that com. pletely destroyed the building. From that it spread toashed at the foot of Barrow street, in which the United States Quartermaster’s Depart- ment was located, and set tire to the barge Reliel, laden with hay and straw, lying close to. The loss on the ferry house is egtimated at $5,000; to the Destruction | $2,000, and to the cargo $1,000; insured for $1,000, The boat ts the property of J. W. Hoffman. The fire was through the woodwork. In addition to the Fire Department, the Poggi under Inspector McDer- mott, were at the fire, with the police boat Senaca. ‘The barge Relief, A. W. Hofman captain, was destroyed, together with severai bales o1 hay. The barge was insured tor $1,000, and the hay also ior $1,000, in the German-American Fire Insurance company. The ferry company are now using one of the piers adjoining the old ferry house tempo- | rarily, and notice has been given to the pubiic | that no boats wil be run alter six o’clock P. M. at present, ‘ihe company state that if they can make arrangements with the Dock Commissioners |. without paying too heavy arentai for their old | piers they will erect @ fine ferry house on the pres- ent site. Should the Dock Commissioners demand an exorbitant rent jor the ferry the company will | select some other on the river for their terry, and will put on two additional boats on the Barclay | Street ferry. LABGE FIRE IN NASHVILLE, NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb, 1, 1874. The old Post Office building, at the corner of | Church and Cherry streets, occupied as a dollar store, was burned at one o'clock this morning. | The building is insured for $2,600 in Hartiord. The stock, valued at between $5,000 and $9,000, 1s insured for $5,500. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Hand Grenades Unearthed by the Police. Atone o’clock yesterday morning Captain Wil- liams, of the Eighth precinct, accompanied by three officers, made a descent on the premises at No, 168 Bleecker street, in the cellar of which he found, stored away under a pile of rubbish, a quan- tity of hand grenades. The building is occupied by Desire Debuchy, a French florist, who was ar- rested, and, together with the hand grenades, removed to the station house. The destructive missiles are thirty-six in number, and were carefully packed in an old ammunition box. They were not | charged, Thetr construction is said to be peculiar. It consists of a sphere within a sphere made of one-sixteenth inch cast iron, and capable of con- taining one and a half ounces of powder, The covering consists of two hemispheres of one- eighth of an inch cast iron, joined by means ol a powerful screw. Capped and primed they could be easily carried without danger to the party handling them, and would, doupiless, prove a de- cidedly destructive weapon. During the forenoon buchy was taken before Superintendent Matsell, who remanded him to the station house. He claims that the grenades were mple lot made in this city by @ party named ‘phy, the order for their construction having been given by the Comite Democratique, who de- signed sending them to the Committee of Safety at Paris during the late Franco-Prussian war. Order was restored in Paris before the weapons wore completed, #0 they were never shipped, but were stored where the police found them, The risoner will have @ hearing at the Jetfcrson | Market Police Court thia morning. | Quartermaster’s Department, $3,000; to the barge, | caused by the stovepipe which ran | 7 WEATHER REPORT, —_-___ War Derarrwent, Orriog OF THE Cuter SIGNAL OrviceR, WASHINGTON, Feb, 2—1 A, M. “ Symopsts for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The area of bighest pressure is now central im the St, Lawremce Valley, and the barometer haw fallen decidedly in the upper lake region and im the Mississippi Valley. ‘The temperature has very generally fallen in the Middie ana Kastern States, and has risen seme- What in the Southern States, where northeast winds, cloudy weather and occasional light reine are reported, Threatening weather and light snow prevall from the Middie Atlantic coast westward to the Mississippi, Probabilities. For Monday, in New England, northeasterly winds, followed by rising temperature and m- creasing cloudiness, with snow. FOR THE MIDDLE Stares, THE LOWER LAK® BE- GION AND THR O10 VALLEY NORTHEAST WINDS, TUREATBNING WEATHER AND SNOW, For the South Atlantic States increasing north easterly winds, cloudy weather and rain. Midnignt reports are very generally missing from the Gulf States, upper lakes and Northwest. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours tm comparisom with the corresponding day of lass year, as indicated by the thermometer at Pharmacy, Haseanp Buuding:— at Hudnuts. $18 874, 1873, 1874, 16 3 af 8 AB\.6 3 oS 2 16 9 * 4 2 19 12 19 te ‘ature yesterday. . 16% Average temperature for corres; ie last year, . ++ BK SEATING, Yesterday’s Weather—Preparations for Park: Skating—What the Prospects Are. There was no skating yesterday of any conse. quence in Brooklyn. The ice was notin condition, and the sacredness of the day had also its in@u- ence upon those who Indulge in this ¢le- gant winter pastime. The thermometer, hew- ever, continued its downward tendency through the night, and to-day all railable ponds will, doubtless, be crowded with the skaters who patronize the ponds and lakes of the Park. The needful freeze has been long expected, and, with the exception of this day week, the skaters have been unable to participate in their pleasura- ble ana nealthful exercise this winter until torday, when, from present indications, there seems e' probability that they may at least reckonupon ®& week of the right kind of weather. TRAGEDY AT A BALL, NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 1). 1874, Last Friday night, at a ballin the Sixth district of Davidson county, Joseph Briley, aged seventeen, was shot dead, while on the floor with his partner, Robert Bates. The quarrel grew out of riva’ claims to a poung, lady for the dance. The parties: left the decision to the lady. She took: Briley, an@ Bates was so enraged that he shot him, bates. escape The Weekly Her contains the news, Only $2 per year, ‘The only Weekly Newspaper Ameri ica. Published every Thareday morak. Contains the most reliable reparteof AGRICULTURE, Rai. SPORTING, ‘RTS, ~Gossrr, “FASHIONS, “WARKETS, “CATTLE, “HoRsR, “FINANOLAL, DRY GooDs, | RELIGIOUS, a0, 40. Also THE BEST STORY PAPER Liberal arrangements to clubs of ton or twenty or more subscribers. in Amer! S A Address ~NEW YORK HERALD, ae jaw York City. Brooklym, A.—Herald Branch Office, corner Fulton avenue and Boerum street. Open irom 8 A. M, tod P.M. On Sunday from 3 to9 P. M. A Sworn Cure for Rheumatism, Neu= | raigia and. Nervous Diseases—Dr. FITLER'S RHBU- MATIC REMEDY; no cure no charge. Advice gratis, | 21 John street. A.—Numerous Ruptured Persons Here and elsewhere have been cured by the BLASTIC TRUSS, 63 Broadway, where you can get testimony on rupture and iron hoop business that will gratify you. Are You Disturbed at Night and broken of rest by a child suffering and crying wit! eo | pein of cutting tecth?. It so. go at ence aud geta boule of | Mrs. WINSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP, A Trial of Mme. Porter’s Cough Balsam for the past 35 years has given proof of itsefficiency in curing pulmonary complaints, It has living evidences of its unrivalled nsefuiness. 25e, and 50c, | Batehelo: Hair Dye Is Splendid— | Never fails, tablished 37 years. Sold and proverty applied at B. 3 ory, 16 Bond st, N. | cramp in the Limbs and Stomach. | Pain in the stomach, bowels or side cured by the HOUSEHOLD PANACEA AND FAMILY LINIMENT, Purely vegetable and all healing. The great internal and external remedy. Sold by all druggists, Havana Bankers.—J. B. Martinez & Cos, 10 Wall. street, New York, will pay the hignes? rates for | Spanish Doubloons and Havana Bank Bills, &c. | Novelty.—Carriage Cradle and Carriage combined, with patent adjustable Canopy. Send stamps for cironlar to. LEWIS BBALS, No. 512 Broadway, New York, opposite St. Nicholas Hotel. The Old Effectual Cough Remedy— JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT, | The Man is Cruel to Himself Who At- he strength and renew the vitality o1 the system PHO WOLFE'S SCHIEDAM AROMATIO never faield. | ____NEW_ PUBLICATIONS. ae —“HOW FORTUNES ARE MADE IN WALI | A..“strect) Anew book sent free, Call or send org | y L ¥ nae & 0v., Bankers, 48 Br we Yor : | A —$10 TO $100 IN WALL STREET OFTEN LEADS + Toa tortune,, Thirty-two page pamphlet tree, VALENTINE, TUMBKIDGE & CO., Bankers and Brokers, No. 39 Wall streat. | BOOK FOR ALL.—VERY REV, FATHER PRES- | A towatectures Upon the Devotion to the Most Sacred. Heart of Jesus. Just out. Price $1. ROBERT CODDINGTO. 366 Bowery, N. ¥. OW RI YY, BAD iWE TRIBUNE_ALMANAC FOR 1874 idition to the CALENDAR AND ASTRONOMICAL PAGES. contains The Latest Election Returns, by States, Countics aa@ T ‘owns, Constitution of the United States, ‘Avoropriations, Made’ and Abstract of Public Laws | Passed at the Third Session of the Forty-second Con- Styne Salary Grab. Population ot Canadia ‘The shipping of the World. Foret , pans thon United States, Canada, Greag a ebt of the United States, Tne Transportation Question: $ Monthi, lange of Gold Premium for ars. Financial Condition of the states or welve Fe Local Indebtedness of the State of New York. piitistlowof the Hrindtpal United States and Canadiam ailroads. Deaths of Distinguished Persor Disastors-of the Gear iar ot ae New York State Government, United States Government—Ministers to Foreign Coum ies. ran Congress and Standing Committees of the Two Ouse’ ‘The New Constitution of Pennsylvania, States of the Union, Population, Apportionment, Time of Holding Elections, &c. Vote for President, 1452 to 1872, And much other vatuable statistical and historical ins formation. Price, 20 cents; 7 copies for $1. For sale by newsdealers throughout the United States, er Postpaid on receipt of price. 38 THE TRIBUN! Ne Tore. Publ “OPSERVATIONS ON CATARRE’—AN ABSTRACT from @ forthcoming work on Throat Diseases, oy 4, Williamson, M.D. te Ciltical Physician in, the hive: v Mex le tires. Address, i ing stamp, the author, Na. 137 Kast Sscvonteeuth streak.