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6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, NEW YORK IERALD! Finanetal Propositions in Congress—A BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, SSRN THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day tn the gear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. pists eae LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. Volume XXXIX FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, cwenty third street and Broadwa‘ ‘OLLINE, at 8 P. M.. closes at 1020 P.M. My, Harkins, Miss Aaa’ Dyas. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—PRECIOSA, at 5 P.M; neo closes at THEATRE COMIQUE, a No SM Broadwa OLLEEN BAWN, and VARIETY Es (ERTAINM ; Closes at 10:80 P.M THEATRE, hird street —E Mrs, J. B. Boo! Sixth avenue and Twent: NE, at 745 ¥, M. ; closes at 10:30 P.M. Better Outiook. The currency battle in Congress is rapidly developing tts-ss into a sectional fight, so far as the direct question of expansion or con- traction is concerned. The West, the agri- culta:al and railroad interest, is on the side of expansion and no gold basis; New Eng- land, the manufacturing interest, is in favor of contraction and immediate or speedy resumption. It is » struggle between the debtor and creditor classes. The former desire to make anything that will pass for money abundant, and are indifferent how much it may be diluted in value, because they desire facilities for paying their debts. The latter wish to restrict the currency, so that its value may be increased, and to place it as quickly as possible upon a coin basis, because they would then realize so much the | more when their debts were paid. New Eng- | land, we are told by one authority, would gladly surrender all tariff protection, the vial legislation to which it owes its wealth, | if it should become necessary to do so in order to prevent any increase in the volume of the | currency and to place the existing Treasury notes in the way of speedy redemption. The | West, on the other hand, supplies the back- | bone of the Washington lobby that is clamor- } | 3] | ing for expansion and denouncing a gold’ basis WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—-MONEY, at 8 P. M.; | closes at LLP, M, Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys Lewis. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston aud Bleecker streets. — VAUDEVILLE and NOVELTY ENTERTAINMENT and ‘a Troupe, at 5 P. M.- loses at ll P. M. Holman Op BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE. »pposite City Hall, # Jyn.—SAM and DUNDREARY, at 3 P.M. ; closes at Ll » Mr. K. A. Sothern, SWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, , Brooklyn.—LADY AUDLEY'S SE- ; Closes at i P.M. Mrs. Bowers. x Washington CRET, at 8 P. Bowery,—THE SIAME, seM . Begins at closes at 11 P ta. ETROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway —VARIETY TAINMENT, at loses at 10:3) P. M. NIBLO’S GARDEN, ween Prince and Houston streets.—THE OTHING; TH WRONG MAN IN THE . Begins at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M WOOD'S MU: Broadway, corner Thirtieth stres ar? PMS closes at 4:30 P. closes at IP. M, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth avenue and Twenty-third — street.—HUMPTY pUMPrY OAD, at 755 P. M.; closes at 1045 P.M. r. G. L. F TONY PASTO: No. ML Bowery.—VARL M.; Closes at LP. M. A HOUSE, RTAINMENT, at 8 P. OPERA HOUSS. ner of Sixth avenue —CINDER- RO MINSTRELSY, &c., at § P. BRY. Twenty-third s ELLAIN BLA M. ; Closes at 10 HARLEM THEATRE, DER FREISCAUTZ at 5 P. M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. STEINWAY MAL Fourteenth street.-CHARLOTTE INGs, at? P. M.; closes at 4 P.M. HMAN’S READ- BAIN HA Great Jones street and Lafi GRIM, at'5 P.M. ; closes at 10 te place.—THE PIL- co” Broadway corner of Thirty NIGHT, at 1 P.M, closes at 10 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1874. THE NEWS OF .; closes at SP. M.; same at7 P. M.; YESTE RDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. THE ORDER OF PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY! REVIEW OF ITS ORGANIZATION, PUR- POSES AND RESULTS! THE COMING “SESSION OF THE NATIONAL GRANGE— THE CAP MAKERS’ AND CIGAR MAKERS’ STRIKES — DEPUTY TAX COLLECTOR GILL’S DEFALCATION! ITS ESTIMATE BEING INCREASED! GILL FINDS BROOKLYN A BAD BREATHING PLACE—OCONGRESSIONAL DEBATES! FI- NANCE IN BOTH HOUSES! THE ARMY: ITS COST AND ABUSES—FirtH Pace, COURTS—WHEN DO CONGRESSIONAL ACTS BECOME ZLAWS!—AN IMPORTANT DE- CISION—A CANADIAN THE OF TENNESSEE VS. NATIONAL BANK OF THE METROPOLIS OF WASHINGTON, D. C.—EIGHTH PAGE. POTTERS FIELD—LAXITY OF THE AUTHORI- TIES IN REGARD TO IT! HORSE NOTES! THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING AT NICE, FRANCE! RAPID TRANSIT! LETTERS UPON THE TRIPLE SHEET. BISMARCK AS A PARLIAMENTARY FIGHTER! ASHANTEE! OUR CORRESPO UP THE VOLTA! THE FINA s hed TO REACH COOMASSIE—FovrTH AGE. CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS IN CONVENTION! PLATFORM AND RENOMINATIONS—TurrD Pace. CUBAN INSURGENT TRIUMPHS! THE DIARIO'S | JEREMIAD—Tuirp Pace. THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS! CONSERVATIVE GAINS! GLADSTONE AND LOWE RE-ELECT- ED—SEVENTH Pace. ARCHBISHOP LEDOCHOWSKI IMPRISONED! GERMANY AND THE VATICAN IN ACTIVE CONFLICT—SEvENTH Pace. LOUISIANA CONFLICT! A REPUBLICAN CAUCUS! NO ELECTION! DURELL ASKED TO RESiGN—SEVENTH Pace. OHIO WOMEN’S WAR ON WHISKEY! FIGHTING—TuIRD Page. SAVINGS BANKS IN JERSEY CHARTERLESS! THE REMEDY—Tairp Pace. THE HEAVY Srume or Havana Hackmen.—We need never despair of progress. The hackmen of Havana have had astrike ; but, unfortunately, they came quickly to grief. A paternal govern- ment would stand no nonsense, so the cavalry was ordered ont to compel the strikers to resume their whips, They were left the choice of forcible enlistment or return to their duty. ‘The mere mention of sending them near the insurgents was sufficient. The strikers struck their colors at once, thinking it better to whip skeleton horses than to be whipped into skele- tons themselves, Tue Guaxorns or THe West.—In another column we print an able and interesting letter, which deals with the progress of the secret political combination known ag the Grangers, or Order of Patrons of Husban- ary, which is likely to exert an over- whelming influence on our national politics in the coming Presidential struggle. It is one M, ith street.—PARIS BY | SPECULATOR’S | TROUBLES IN COURT—SUIT OF THE STATE | SUBJECT—ELEVENTH PAGE, | as a wicked device of foreign capitalists to get us more completely in their clutches. Here and there individuals may be found from either side advocating the policy adverse to the sentiments or interests of their section, but they are only exceptions to the rule. Mr. Thurman, for instance, | political aspirations, and is, on that | account, astride the financial fence; but his friends at home are, nine-tenths of them, advocates of inflation. Mr. Sherman is also a politician with a future before him, and he would gladly see some compromise which would help the West to more currency with- outin reality increasing the volume of green- | backs now afloat. Of that character is the bill reported by him yesterday from the Finance Committee, with a recommendation that it be made a law. This measure is amendatory of the act of July, 1870, in rela- tion to the circulation of national bank notes, | and seeks to secure a more equal distribution * | of the currency among the States by the withdrawal of twenty-five million dollars from the States which are in excess of their due proportion and its distribution in the West and South, among the States which have less than their share. This is, in effect, contracting in the great money centres, like New York, and expanding in the Western and Southern States, without increas- | ing the volume of currency. While the prop- | osition possesses some apparent justice it is | like a law endeavoring to force water to run up | hill, for the currency will, after all, seek its | natural channel, and no legislation can turn it | out of its course. After all, the wires which move the Con- gressional puppets are held in the hands of the lobby, and the real fight promises to be between the interests of classes or sections rather than between honest legislators who differ in their views as to the policy de- manded by the interests of the whole people. This opinion is strengthened by the fact that there appears to be a design on the part of some of our Washington financiers to befog | the real issues involved in the questions of currency and finance. No doubt the desire is to confuse the public mind with the multi- ‘plicity of conflicting theories and proposi- tions, so that in the end the people may tire of the subject, and legislation to suit the in- terests of the national banks and the plans of the inflationists may be suffered to slip through Congress almost unnoticed; for the probability now appears to favor a union be- tween the banks and the inflationists and a continuance of a policy similar to that we have heretofore pursued, only in an aggravated form. The objects to be | attained in the interest of the na- tion are, however, simple enough. We have a heavy debt entailed upon us by a war which impoverished an important portion of the country, and we desire to reduce the rate of interest we now pay upon this debt, to lighten the burdens of the people who have | suffered severely from the war, and to leave the principal of the debt to be paid by those who will come after us to enjoy the immense benefits we have secured for them by our sac- | rifices in the war. We have an irredeemable currency, growing out of the war, which is issued by the government and made by law to Tepresent money, but which has no value | except as we may hereafter pay it in coin as we would pay any other debt. We desire to put this irredeemable paper as speedily as possible ona coin basis by fixing a definite | time for its redemption. We desire also, for the credit of the national government, to take it out of the shinplaster business and to place the issue of currency where it belongs—in the hands of the banking institu- tions of the country. We have a limited ; number of national banks chartered with | special privileges under a special law. We | desire to make banking free, so that capital | may engage in that business as unrestrictedly | asin any other; for there is no good reason | why banking should not be as open to compe- | tition as shipping, dry goods or any other | pursuit. The landmarks to be kept in view by those | who are willing to legislate on the subject of our currency without reference to special or | class interests are distinct enough. There must be no more inflation—that is to say, our government must issue no more irredeemable promises to pay than are now afloat, and must | hasten to call in the amount put out without | authority of law, or at least with very ques- tionable authority. If it be desirable to get rid of these irredeemable promises to pay and to get back to a basis on which our currency will have a real value, then it cer- | tainly must be undesirable to increase their | volume and drive ourselves further and further | from resumption. There must be a gradual withdrawal of our government currency from circulation and a plan for the substitution of | some other currency. This can probably best be done by substituting gradually, for green- backs, gold bonds as a basis for banking, re- deemable in a certain number of years. The | bank circulations would then take the place of the cancelled greenbacks, and would be in reality on a gold basis, although realizable at 4 distant day. With free banks we must have development of the popular resistance to the | a positive provision for redemption at the monopolies which oppress the country. counters of the institution, If the has ambitious ( notes of the banks are for the pres- ent to be redeemed in greenbacks lot it be so; but let redemption be made a positive obligation. When greenbacks are out ot existence we shall be on a gold basis. How the banks are to manage to secure the means of redemption, whether in greenbacks or gold, is @ matter for their own consideration. If they cannot safely or profitably engage in the busi- ness and fulfil the law it is very certain that they will seek some other investment for their capital. We now see that there is no occasion to be alarmed about the financial condition of the | country. When Mr. Richardson found the | revenue receipts diminish and the stupid | policy of a rapid payment of the debt sud- denly interrupted be rushed in a panic to the | remedy of additional taxation. We opposed | such a needless addition to the public burden, | and advised the Secretary that his alarm | was unnecessary and that the revenues would soon recover from the temporary offect | of the commercial crisis. The result proves | that we were correct. The debt has decreased | during the past month over one million eight | hundred thousand dollars. In seven months | our imports have been forty-three million | dollars less than in the same period last year, | while our exports have been proportionately larger. All this shows returning prosperity | and holds out a good prospect for the future. Let us avoid quackery and dishonesty in our financial legislation, and we shall grow stronger | and stronger and come nenrer and nearer to a | specie basis every succeeding month. The Connecticut Democratic State Con- vention Yesterday. The Connecticut Democratic State Conven- tion had a brief and harmonious session yesterday at New Haven. The entire State ticket of last year, with Governor Ingersoll at the head, was renominated. The platform contains eleven points, which may be regarded as the eleven commandments of the Connecticut democracy in this initiatory step in the political campaign of 1874. There is no particular change in these articles of faith beyond those before enunciated. The old States’ sovereignty doctrine, subject only to constitutional limitations, is reasserted; un- compromising opposition to government ex- travagance, salary grabbers, ring politicians, land monopolists, &c., is proclaimed; the incompetent management of our national finances is denounced; a speedy resumption of specie payments recommended; the grievances of the industrial classes recognized, and the platform closes with words of glorification over the benefits that have accrued to the State from last year’s democratic administra- tion of its affairs, and with a supplementary resolution expressing sympathy with all people struggling for freedom from oppression and tyranny. With the difficulties among the New Haven | democrats settled there is every probability that the present democratic Governor will be re-elected. But the appearances are that a | republican Legislature will be chosen, which will insure a republican United States Senator | in place of Mr. Buckingham. On off years } the republicans have a peculiar faculty of looking after federal position, while they complacently allow the democrats to fill the offices of State governors and positions of that kind. In the present case of the Connecticut United States Senatorship it is not unlikely that the seat, when vacant, will be filled by Buckingham vice Buckingham, unless, of | course, the democrats carry the Legislature as well as the general State ticket. An AstronomicaL Mmuron.—In the Legis. lature it is proposed to authorize the city to borrow a million dollars, to be devoted to Central Park for the establishment of an ob- servatory and other purposes. None can go further than we will in readiness to support every addition to that beautiful heritage of the people, that is now the pleasure ground alike of the many and the few, and that, as we progress, may be- come a great and agreeable means of popular education. But are there not many more ad- vantageous uses to which the public credit can be put just now than the cultivation of astro- nomical science? Itis pretty and, in the bigher sense, profitable, no doubt, to be able to ob- serve the transit of Venus once in a decade ; but how about the transit of Brown, Jones and Robinson once a day from their offices at the Battery to their dinners near Harlem River? Tux New Jensey Savincs Banxs.—The attempt of some of the savings banks in New Jersey to evade compliance with a law com- pelling the payment of assessment on their capital has placed them in a very equivocal position. Under the plea that a savings bank is a benevolent institution they have sought to avoid assessment, and now the Governor has declared ten among them to be incapable of bringing suits at law until their charters have been renewed. The act ordering an assess- ment of all private bills passed in 1869 and the time for payments to be made under it has long since passed, so that, in order to degaee their business, the banks will be compélled to renew their charters. The difficulty is, how- ever, of a technical kind, and does not neces- sarily involve any unsoundness in the banks. No doubt, when the directors are convinced that they will no longer be allowed to evade the provisions of the law, they will take steps to have the defect in their legal status reme- died without delay. Common Sznsz IN THE Sovrn.—lIt is re- ported that Sonth Carolina is determined to overcome negro supremacy by inducing emi- gration. Alas! alas! if they had thought of this eight years ago! In those days there were hundreds and thousands of fine young fellows ready for the adventure and eager to try their chances in that community. But the people of that section thought the only attention worth paying to the new comers was to burn them out or shoot them. §o only the carpet-bag politicians remained, and they were driven to Sambo. But new ideas may open new possibilities, and the proposition of South Carolina is the keynote of the hopes of all the Southern States. “Turoven By Dayuiont.’’—The actors in one of the Philadelphia theatres have struck on account of the non-payment of salaries. The play to be produced, but which was not, on account of the strike, is entitled “Through by Daylight.” Would not the ‘Long Strike” have been a better one? | turned to Parliament. | of The Elections in Great Britat A cable despatch special to the Henan in- forms us thaf, up to a certain hour last night, the returns from the different election centres throughout the three kingdoms show that of forty-one elections twenty-seven conser- vatives and fourteen liberals were re- Mr. Lowe has been returned for the London University without opposition. Bristol has made no change, and the old members, Mr. Samuel Morley and Mr. Rickmap D. Hodgson, who | bave been selected, are both liberals. The Greenwich election topk place yesterday, and Mr. Gladstone was returned by a small major- ity. The returns from Scotland and Ireland are as yet meagre, and afford no data by which we can come to any satisfactory conclusion, but the proportion of conser- vatives set forth has been almost maintained. | There is one feature of the present election contest which compels attention; it bas | been riotous beyond any general olection which has taken place in England in many years. Feeling, it is manifest, runs high. Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy, praiseworthy in itself, has evidently not been satisfactory to a large number of the constituency. The old No-Popery sentiment is working against him among the masses in England. His abolition of the old system which allowed the purchase | commission in the army, as well as his Irish Land Tenuro bill, made him many enemies among the aristocratic classes. Then, again, his steady refusal to legislate in their interest has lost him the sympathy and sup- port of the brewers—a numerous and powerful class, who in former times were faithful to the liberal cause. It remains to be seen, however, whether the substantial merits of Mr. Glad- stone as a statesman and the generally bene- ficial character of his legislation will not carry him triumphantly through this contest and seat him again in power on the Treasury Bench. A majority against him is not impos- sible; but it is simply absurd to imagine that the tories, being as they are, can ever again for any length of time hold power in the British Empire. The tendency of British politics is progressive and must continue to be so, but with the onward march the tories have no sympathy. Riotous Railway Laborers. There appears to exist in the mind of cer- tain classes of workmen an idea that when they suffer from any grievance they have the right to remove it by violence. Another ex- ample of this too prevalent state of feeling is furnished by the conduct of the laborers at Middletown and Ellenville, on the New York and Qswego Railway. They allege that the company has not paid wages due to them, and, in order to force compliance with their de- mands, they stop the traffic and damage prop- erty. This is a very foolish and very criminal proceeding. It deprives the workingman of all sympathy outside his own class, and brings him into direct conflict with the law. From the statement of the railway officials the laborers appear to have good ground of complaint. The railway has changed hands, and the new company are unwilling to pay for labor employed by the old company, though they inherit its benefit. It is possible that, according to the strict letter of the law, the company is not responsible, but the case appears a very hard one for the laborers. But the faw courts will, no doubt, afford them all the protection to which they are entitled, and no amount of violence or destruction of property is likely to secure for them the satisfaction of their apparently just claim—that they shall be paid for work done. | Condition of the Strects—A Suggestion to the Authorities, ~ After every snow storm the people and the press have to complain to the authorities of the piles of snow, ice, slush and mud that are sure to accumulate in our public thorough- fares. The Street Cleaning Department has been frequently advised by us as to their duty under the circumstances. It is to bring out their carts with their force of street cleaners and, instead of shovelling the con- glomerated mass to the one side or the other of a street or crossing, only to be trodden or scattered back again by the multitude of passing vehicles, to shovel it at once into their carts and convey it to their dumping places, of, what is better, it being an excellent fertilizer, to dump it in heaps upon our public parks, where it may remain until spring, when it can be spread over the grass lands with infinite benefit to the incoming vegetation. This practice was adopted a long time ago in Boston, the prac- tical people of that city soon realizing the double benefit of the removal of a nuisance and atthe same time preparing for a moro luxuriant growth of grass and shrubbery the following sammer. There is no good reason why a similar system cannot be adopted here in New York. Camparanina mm Aratca.—Mr. Stanley has been up the Volta with Captain Glover, the commander of the right wing of the English expedition, and he describes the English soldier in “a letter we publish this morn- ing as o great man, an efficient chieftain, popular with his men and thoroughly under- standing his work, without exaggerating his own importance. It should not be difficult, therefore, for his wing of the expedition to leave the Volta, form a junction with Sir Garnet Wolseley, and thus permit the allied troops to enter Coomassie as one body. It will be observed that the Ashantee expedition has been fruitful in adding to the popular knowledge concerning the savages. New sections of territory never before ex- plored have been written about for the first time by journalists, and Mr. Stanley's letters seem to us the most vivid and interesting we have seen. Tae Porrers Frevp Anvse.—The employés of the Commissioners of Charities and Cor- rection sometimes perform their duty with little consideration for the feelings of the rel- atives of such unfortunates as die while in their charge. Several cases have lately oc- curred in which the corpses of comparatively wealghy men have been consigned to pauper graves and no notice has been given to their families. The public has a right to complain of these abuses, because not only are they annoy- ing to individual citizens, but are expensive tothe city. It may be, as the Secretary of the Commissioners states, that the relatives take more interest in the unfortunates after death { from that State almost daily. 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. city should be saddled with the cost of bury- ing rich men. ‘Their sorrowing relatives ought, in justice to themselves and the public, to be allowed to pay the funeral expenses. Some reform is needed in this mattor. Will the Commissioners see to it? Thurlow Weed’s Watch. He will be an uncommonly mean thief if he keeps that watch, with the portraits mside of the veteran editor's wife and daughter; and we believe that, as thieves go, the pick- pocket is not generally the worst of them. His taking it was, no doubt, in the legitimate exercise of his craft; for he could not know or recognize that that old gentleman was differ- ent from any other old gentleman, and a watch is a watch; but he knows the difference now, and there is no excuse for him if he does not restore it. Joseph the Tinker, who founded a dynasty of Persian kings, was once, in the days before he assumed the royal robes, engaged in a robbery. He had gathered to- gether in one of the rooms all the valuable portable property of a great house, and was about to get away with it when, in the dark- ness, he trod with his bare foot on some hard substance that he thought might be a large emerald. He groped on the floor, found the object, and, to teat its nature, touched it with his tongue. It was salt. He had tasted salt in the house, therefore, and he could not rob the owner; so the honest scoundrel went away empty handed. It cannot be but the rogue who has stolen Mr. Weed's watch has some day tasted salt with the old gentleman, who has been a laborer on the press through so many, many years; and if, when he knows this, he does not return the property we are sure he will never become a king, as Joseph the Tinker did. Rerrencament 1m Concress.—The House Committee on Appropriations is still busy finding out where Uncle Sam’s money goes. Some of the revelations are exceeding droll, though the public can scarcely afford to laugh at them. They cost too much to be funny. Policemen exercising themselves open- ing windows at eighteen bundred dollars a year is comic, but decidedly dear, and young attachés rushing round the world on pleasure trips under pretence of bearing despatches may be very amusing for the tourists, but we who pay do not like it. We are glad to seo | the committee is examining the shady places about the Capitol, and we hope they will prove themselves as stanch enemies of the big abuses as they seem to be of the small ones. Brts or Broarapay.—The Kellogg faction at Washington is represented by Beck and Pitkin, the Pinchback faction by Carter and Billings and the Durell faction by Norton and Barrett. A Western paper classifies all of them, except Barrett, as carpet-baggers; but the New Orleans Times says that Pitkin “feels that the lifeblood of the traditional pelican is just as dear to him as to Barrett or any other man."’ The Times adds that Pitkin is ‘fair haired and poetical.” The great question as to whether Governor Allen, of Ohio, was born in Virginia or North Carolina having just been settled in favor of the latter State, it is re- freshing to fall upon such 4 choice bit of biography as this. We know not only that Pitkin was born on Louisiana soil, but rejoice in equally important biographical information Ono's Waisxer Wanrrtons.—The ladies of Ohio are on the warpath, and already many rumsellers’ scalps have been taken by the ama- zons. So far great success has attended the new crusade in favor of temperance, and in many districts drinking saloons are a thing of the t. The fair champions of temperance ve adopted now tactics, and move about in battalions, taking possession of the saloons and turning them into meeting houses. They intend to fight on the same line if it takes them all the winter, and will not lay down their arms until the virtues of spring water have been confessed in Congress. THREATENED BoMBARDMENT oF Brpnao BY THE Caruists.—The Carlists threaten to bom- bard the town of Bilbao, and it is doubtful whether they can do so with anything more | dangerous than high-sounding phrases. Gen- eral Moriones is advancing to the relief of the place, but he has been advancing so much on paper since his appointment to command that we have very little faith in his relieving powers. Serrano seems to succeed no better than Castelar against the Carlists. They have a bad cause, but they defend it very well. Tae CenTenn1an.—Russia has refused to send goods to the Philadelphia Centennial on the plea that it is a private undertaking. Rus- sia has been too hasty. The Philadelphians now ask the United States to pay five-sixths of the expense of the Centennial; and if the United States should be foolish enongh to comply with the modest request, what would become of the Russian plea? New Jersey acts more liberally than Russia, and votes to give one hundred thousand doliars towards the Exhibition; but this generosity is, probably, in a measure, influenced by the interstate commerce in chickens and turkeys. Tae Carmaxens’ Srame.—The trouble be- tween the capmakers and their employers seems to be ina fair way to be arranged. Some of the more important firms have ac- cepted the workmen's terms, but the minor houses, it is said, cannot afford to do so. strike seems unfortunate at atime when so many thousands are out of employment ; but the necessities of the spring trade will proba- bly force the employers to accept the pro- posed terms. A spirit of conciliation ought to be shown by both parties, as neither has anything to gain from a lengthened interrup- tion of business. Tae Trovetx in the Boston School Com- mittee in regard to the right of ladies who have been elected to the Board to occupy seats therein still continues, Ata recent meeting in one of the wards it was resolved that the subject should be reopened and the question fairly argued and tested whether those wards that had chosen to elect ladies to represent them in the committee should have their rights and wishes respected. It would not be surprising if the ladies and their friends car- | ried their point after all. A Goop Inra—The new regulation of the | Post Office Department which abolishes the old system of charging letter postage on news- papers and pamphlets endorsed by the name of the sender and the number of papers con- than before . but that is no reason why the | tained in gagh envelope, The | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge R. D. Rice, of Maine, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Vice President Wilson will remain in Massacha- setts several weeks, Wendell Phillips arrived from Boston yesterday, at the St, Denis Hotel. Four newspaper reporters are candidates for the Nova Scoua Legislature, Mayor Charles M. Reed, of Erie, Pa., ia regis- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, has spare ments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John E. Mulford, of Richmond, is quar tered at the Grand Central Hotel, Sam Bowles, of the Springfleld (Mass.) Repubtt can, is already sick of the Centennial, Assistant Adjutant General J. B, Stonehouse, of Albany, is again at the Hotel Branswick, The Duke of Edinburgh is the first English prince ever commissioned tn the Prussian army, whereta he ts now a colonel. Mr, Antonio A. Mujioz, of this city, has been ap- Pointed by the government of Venezuela to act as Vice Consul of that Republic. Senator Wilham Yprague, of Rhode Island, ar- rived at the Hoffman House yesterday, and left last evening for Washington. A Troy (N. Y.) paper says a domestic {n that city has recently become heir to a fortune in England and puts the figures at $2,590,000. Dr. Helen W, Webster has decided to accepts professorship in Vassar College. She will assume the duties of the position in a few weeks. Jem Davis has not yet selected a permanent reai- dence in which to pass the remainder of his life, He is still hanging around Memphis, Tenn, Judge Jeremiah Smith, of Dover, has resigned his position of Associate Justice of the New Hamp- shire Supreme Court, on account of ill health, Amadeus, ex-King of Spain, and Francis IL, ex- King of Naples, recently met at the Strasbourg railway station. They were in the waiting room together twenty minutes, spoke not @ word and looked away from each other, ‘The Marquis dé Noailles, late French Minister, arrived from Washington yesterday, with his family, atthe Albemarle Hotel, He is about to start for Europe, having been recalled from Wash- ington and assigned to the Court of Rome. If Jeff Davis and Henry S. Foote come to pistols, seconds and surgeons, the public will view the fight with about the same disinterestedness that the woman looked upon the contest between her husband and a bear—it was immaterial to her which gained the victory. The wickedest men, the handsomest men and the homeliest men have all been shown up in proper newspaper colors, and now comes the “stup- bornest’’ men, who are represented to be the two Comptrollers of the cities of New York and Brook- ayn, Green and Schroeder. Ex-United States Senator James Shields, for- merly of Ilinois, then fof Minnesota, subsequently of California, and now of Carrollton, Mo., who had aleg broken tn May last, 1s able to walk about. General Shields was in the Mexican war and in the late rebellion ana tt used to be said of bim that he never went into a battle without getting shot. Sir Richard Wallace has endowed Paris with drinking fountains. All Parisians are not grateful to him, however. A gentleman of an enterprising character went to him and asked for a loan of 50,000f. for no particular cause. Sir Richard laugh- ingly said, “No, thank you,” upon which the in- jured individual rose, took up his chapeau, an@ reyenged himself with the remark, “After all, your fountains are very poor affairs.” Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, of England, has left the Reform Club in London, The club men of tne city, a8 well as the members of the Reform, are excited over the matter, and attribut it to the conduct of Mr. Whalley, M. P., and M- Onslow, M. P., who have used the club house a ® place for conference with the Tichborne claimat, Jean Luie and other persons connected witrthe great trial. This act of the Chief Justice am the comments upon it are new evidences of th: in- timacy between social affairs in London asd tue circumstances of the Tichborne trial. OBITUAEY. Beis A Captain Davil Ritchie. Captain David Ritchie, & well known officer ot the United States revenue Marine, died yesterday, at his residence, on Long Island. He was born tm England, and adopted ttt sea as his profession at an early age. At the commencement of the war he was employed on the revenue cutier Louis McLean at New Orleans, which was commanded by Captain Brushwood, who deivered the vessel over to the rebels, Rychie was employed as quarterMaater, and when he saw that the vessel was jikely to be he swam ashore with the colors of the vessel wrapped round his body, and made his way to Washington, where he delivered them over to the proper authorities, As a reward for his patriotism he was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasary | lieutenant in, the Revenue Marine. During the course of the war he was on board the cuvters Mahoning and Miami, engaged in the carrying of despatches and making trips togFortresa Monroe, Savannah, Key West and other places. He was on the yacht jabontng: which was formerly the roperty of Lord Palmerston, when she was sunk by ice in the Delaware, Subsequently he waa transferred to Boston, where he did good work, and later to the Mocas- stn, which was stationed at Newport. It 18 said by those who were acquainted with Cap- tain Ritchie that while he commanded this ns y he always was where his services were requ and if any vessel went ashore on the coast it was a common remark, “Ritchie will be round in a tew hours, lending assistance.” He rendered good | service at the Metis disaster in saving nineteen of the passengers from a watery grave, and for these services he received the thanks of Congress. Cap- tain Ritchie was thirty-eight years of age. N. 8S. Dodge. N. S. Dodge, the well known American ltera- teur and magazine writer, died at his residencein Boston on the 2d inst. He was carried off by apoplexy in the sixty-fourth year of his age, He enjoyed a very enviable reputation as author of “A Grandfather” and other books, and in his post tion as Presjdent of the Papyrus Club, made up of literary men, of Boston. Mr. Dodge was formery a quartermaster in the army, and subsequently »m- ployed in the Treasury Department at Washingion. OHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. A Letter of Thi to the Ohie Constitational Convention. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1844. The Constitutional Convention to-day receved the following letter from Chief Justice Waite, which was read and ordered to be recordea mthe journal :— ToLEDo, Ohio, Feb. 2, 174. To Hon. Rorvs Kina, President of thé ConstitutionaKom vention :— Dean Sin—I make haste to acknowledge the recopt of your favor of the Sith ult., transmitting a copy ¢ the Fesolutions, of the Convention adopted upon t ceptatice of my resignation. {ited ‘notsay to you that Tam deeply thankf for this token of esteem from my late associates, and at it Will be my constant endeavor to merit the continance of the iriendahio which they assure me In such Mtter- sae cept ny thanks for the words of Kindness with which you have been pleased to commumcate the ttion OL the’ Convention... With highest respect 1 rmain your obedient servant, i. R, WATE, THE FULTON FLOODS. Another Rise in the Oswego River-The Inhabitants Removing with ‘heir Property. Osweco, N. Y., Feb. 3, $74. Adespatch trom Fulton says:—To-day th fire bells of the village rang, the cause being a ftther rise in the water. The people turned ou and rescued what persons were living in the uppe part of their houses and were now in danger The rise is about two and a half feet ivove what it has heretofore been. Gardner & Seyiour’s Nouring miil in the lower part was flooded, ad the horse stable attached, that had been dr was flooded 80 that the horses stood init nerly to their breasts. A good deal of stuff was raoved to a piace of safety. The water is now within three inches of t® pa- per mili floor, and 1s over the toor of Dit ma- chine shop. The water flows into the can, bas this does not, as it was hoped, help matter A much larger extent o! country is foodd than heretotore, and no one knows where it is to stop. The damage must be very large, ow large it is at present impossibie to tell. MOBE HAND GRENADES. Three other hand grenades were found yéerday Street in Chambers street, near West Bridway. ‘They were sent tv headquarters and hh over. to Superunteydens Mawelk by OMcer Harvey, of the Third ret a the surrendered” 7