The New York Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1874, Page 10

17 NEW YORK HEBALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1874——WITH SUPPLEMEN - Rees PHILADELPHIAN POLITICS. A New York Policeman Files an Affidavit Against One of the Centennial Candidates. THE GENTLEMAN AT ONCE RESIGNS, The Ladies of Philadelphia Hold a Political Mecting—Reformers Siding with the Republicams—An Awful Mudile. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1874. personal dlous combination ry © cr that, Philadelphia its quests (rom new and ‘of personal preter- ield belore the imiery minently ene pigues. or amb:tion musty: ous hecenaity. “Mr. Gray has not Uke our din candidate for the mayoralty, been prot beiore the people and conspicuous in the strugele (or re - form for years past so that even the most cleverly _ trived calumny might resound {rom him and injure the calummiators only. A large part of ls | fe Naw oe, Passed in another State, therefore he gracetuily gives way that he may not burden a cause which is 50 10) greater than man. THE PROBABLE NOMINATION. The candidates who will come up before the EX- eoutive Democratic Committee in the morning for the office to-day vacated are these :—Mr. Louis Lad- quer, a German banker of high social and po'itical Standing; Mr. Moffat, a democratic candidate lor Congress, some years ago, aud thomas Hy. Gui, President of the recent democratic convention. It 18 at this late hour regarded as certain that one of these three wil secure the nomination, though the names of Mr. Gowen, Preskdent of the Board or Bankers, and James A. Clay, of the Reform Club, ‘Though the party now ruling this city may act ‘be nnecent of thecharge of ballot stuffing and general politieel carruption made against it, the indicetion is at present that it will remain in power, still controlling a vast amount of money; and, having effected its complete organwation montus belere the so-called centennial constitu- ional movement was even conceived, its wires are all laid, and at @ single touch the action of the republicans is spontaneous and unilorm througi. out the length ana breadth ef the city. McClure has gained no ground since his nomination; while the reformers, whom tt was presumed would side — with him, are acting in sympathy with the reput- | licans. | Doeements of a most damaging nature are con- stantly appearing against the McClure ticket, and almoetallof them are in tue form of afidavits, | One-f the most outspoken Is the following, from a | gentieman holding an unbiemished reparation in this city. a CARP TO COLONEL M’CLUFE, Cobenel A. K. MoCrune:— Sin—in your reported speech, om Monday evening last, 1 ind u test for the Semacorship. two y delivered in Frankford | tanguage :—"Lhe con- | rstigo, Was an eflort to | break up jhe nowination of candidates by rounders and | policemen.” | T have had no desire toraice my voice in this campaign, | much Jess to indulge in personalities, preierring to de." vote my tune exclusively to my business, But I eannot rmit this charge to go by unnoticed. I was not the pminee of roundersor poilcemen, but was presented to the voters of the Four 4 enatorial distriet by a majority | of the best republican citizens residing therein, aud you | know it. You secured many votes of republics romise thet 3 upon the ‘ou would support General Grant tor the | residency, Whereas you alverwards bec: lead: the movement ior Mr. Greeley. You secured also the Fetorm vote oi: the district upon the declaration that you would advocate all measures of retorm, but you ‘will remember bow, after the contest was decided m | ur lavor, You contemptuousiy asked me, “What would reformers think of me ley saw me now !”’ as vou vat in a room in the second story at the Keystone House, at Harrisburg, surrounded with year boon companion img your 'wuinings in the shape ot ivory chips o unters piled in victorious heaps im tront of you upon | the tabie. And yet you have the audacity to solicit the | | reform vote again, "It my statement is denied by you L will turnish the proot; but be good enough in the tature not to accuse me of sinstor which Iam not responsivie. espectiully, W. GRAY. THE LADIES IN THE CAMPAIGN. Asif to add to the republican strength, the ladies of the city, who are identified with many charities, for the first time in their lives have heid ——— Meeting, and appear to become in- volved in the local issue. They have addressed to the Sunday newspapers the fvillowing lette! Messrs, Eprrons—During the last year we were en- aged in hospital and dispensary work in the southern sectiom of the city, where the so-called dangerous Classes coagregate, Where the low liquor saloons, policy | shops and gambling rooms tempt the poor at every cor- ner and tlourish upon their miseries. Our mission work us into attics and cellars, into courts and alleys, and we had a tavorable opporiunity mowing what it was that destroyed the peopl and who could remedy it. We have often counted | from twelve to eighteen men aud women lying intoxi- | cated upon the sidewalk, while their last cent was clink. | im the money drawer o! the groggery hard by. Early | dm June last, when the locality was swarming with these | Beople, Mayor Stokley bexari his wor, and before he Amished 50 or more were provided with homes. The ‘cbange in the vicinity was miraculous. Quiet and order | prevailed. We no longer had to take the middie of the street to avoid stepping over the bodies of drunken men ‘women; and, during a period ot five months, not one drunken woman. presenied herself at our Dispen- gary. Hitherto it had been a daily occurrence. A low higaor dealer in the neighborhvod told managers that he was ruined. tie saia:—“I have been accustomed to make trom these people $25) a ween, of | one of our | Colonci Fornes, this evenmg. 1t becomes evident haze M’CLURE"S CHANCES are better at tweive o’chock to-night than the; were at twelve at noon, Several parties identifie with promment banking and business houses came in and, for the first time, What action they wouki take in the campaign, Numerous canvassers are still out with papers, which it is thought before daylight will be signed by genuemen of influence, who have thus far shown an unwillingness to endorse McClure and a wish to remain sirictly neutral. Numerous meet- | ings bave been arranged for the coming week, and Mr. Davenport has placed the Chestnut Street Theatre at the disposal of the McClure party. Ex- Governer Curtin and Charles A. Buckalew will ad- dress public assembiages during the week. WEATHER REPORT. ppeeere aerate! Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinaton, D, C., Feb, 9—1 A. M. Synopsis jor the Past Twenty-four Hours. ‘The barometer has risen since Saturday night | Over the entire country east of the Rocky Mountains, except over a portion of the Lake region and in the South Atlantic Stutes. The temperature h risen in New England and the central Gulf States. Northwesterly winds and clear weather prevail in the Middle and East ern States; southerly winds, with cloud and snow, in the Upper Lakes, as far as heard from; cool northerly winds and clear weather throughout the creasing to brisk, with rain in the South Atlantic States, Probabilities. During Monday the storm centre will move northeastward to Cape Hatteras. For the South Atlantic States continued north- erly winds, with rain, extending by evening to the Middle Atlantic coast. FOR THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES ON THE IMMEDIATE COAST NORTHERLY WINDS, WITH CLEAR WEATHER; IN THE INTERIOR AND ON THE LOWER LAKES SOUTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS, WITH CLEAR, FOLLOWED BY CLOUDY, WEATHER. For the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, upper lakes: cloudy and clear Weather. Cautionary signals are ordered for Wilmington, The Weather in This Oity Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-lour hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1873, 1874. 1873. 1874, Were aiso mentioned during a long interview with | signitied | THE NEW CRUSADE. The -Gentle Assailants of King Alcohol Still in the Field. “Voiees of Prayer from Tent, Shanty and Bar room—An Obdurate Innkeeper Rein- - forced by the Law. LaNcaster, Ohio, Feb. 6, 1974. Not since the celeprated raid of that dashing Confederate cavalryman, John Morgan, inte south- ern Ohio, have the cities, towns and villages of this vicinity been m such a@ state of excitement and furor. Butin this instance the people have not risen en masse to repel and subvert a foe iu mortal guise, but one more potent and puissant in its deleterious and destructive etfects—whiskey! la nearly every town along the line of the Muskingum rages a fierce, unrelenting and determined war against man’s direst enemy—intoxicating drink. THE INCEPTION OF THE MOVEMENT. At Washington Court House, a town of about 3,000 inhabitants, the strife has been continued the | longest, with more vigor and determina- remarkable struegie was first inaugurated, hav- ing received its “send-off!” irom a most eloquent temperance jecture delivered there about Christ Southwest; northeast to northwest winds, in- | and the Northwest north and west winas, partly | 3 A.M. . 36 13 3:30 P. M. 47 30 | 6 A. M... . 4 6P.M. - 41 27 9A. M. -3 1 OPM 37 12 M.....s0.0.2. 40 21 12 P.M. . 37 23 Average temperature yesterday. = 20% Average temperature Jor corresponding date last year. debtew on SOI THE WEATHER AT HARTFORD, HarrroxD, Conn., Feb. 8, 1874. while tuisweek Ihave mace but $2 00." Policy shops are also broken up, and the entire neighborhood is charged. Ladies who served on committees and whose dutles.ofien brought them to the hospital were startled at the great improvement. ‘Now it would seem it there is any work of preparation for the Centennial gathering moré important than an- other iv is inthe direcuon of morals aud good order. Jet the Centennial Mayor be the inan who dared to strike at the interests of gainblers and o her violators of H.C. L. HOPKINS, street. OLIVE 2 ALDRID Mount Vernon street. Mrs. J. He ¥ A SERIOUS AFFIDAVIT. The candidate for Receiver of Taxes on the MeUlore ticket is one Charles S, Gray. In regard to this person, a New,York detective, named Heiaciberg, nas made the toliowing attidavit:— State of Pennsyloania, City of Philadelphia, s.—Charles Heidelberg, being dulv sworn according to'law, deposes and says, that he has veen connecied with the Police Department of New York since June, 1506; that at that time your deponent knew \ harles’ Gray, and also he ‘was Known to the Police Department 4s a confidence swindler and thie! operating on the wharves on the Last River, in company with one George Englisi, now serving @ term oi imprisonment in the state Prison @ictare now in the Kogues’ Gallery at the Mulberry street station, New York city). In the year 1866 he was charged with swindling a sea captain. at Burling Slip, ‘out of several hundred dollars through a bogus ehesk, obtaining money trou said captain by representing je seid check as genuine, upon which he obtained the money irom the captain. ‘Ihe said Gray and inglish then disappeared, an] never, until to-day, has your deponent geen the said Charies =) Gray. when’ your deponent saw im at No. 443 Voplar street, in the city of in company with Mr. John Wek ibb Police Devartment, and Mr. W York. Further. the said Chin der, of New was known while in New York city as swindie! and thief to the poiice © LBERG. Sworn and subscribed betor 1s 7th dav of Fel ruary, A. D., 1874.—J awes Givix, Kecorder of Philadelpia. Accusations in this form are damaging certainly, ‘wnile the above is but one of tlree reiating pre- cisely the same jacts, The strangest part ot tue whoie affair is that at the moment the aboy found in print Mr. Gray’s resignation also appears, as 1ollows :— A A PRUDENT DECLI Bexsauin L. Teartr, Chairman De Comunttee :— Having been nominated by the Democratic Conv tion for the oftice of Keceiver of Vaxes, and having been endorsed theretor at a meeting of ‘citizens convened without regard to party afliliation, [ accepted the nomi- mation. 1 have since learned that charges have been made against me which are untrue aud cannot be sustained, Dut as [ understand that it ts ditcuit ior a candidate to Vindicate bimself against charges preterred against hit by the King on the eve of election, [ tear that my con- nuance as a candidate may jeopardize the cause of local retorm which is now before the people, and I do not propose that I shail, even in # reimote degree, be an obstacle to the accoimplisbinent of the vietory' of the People at the first election under the new constitution, and I thereiere decline the nomination that was con: Jerred on ine, without my solicitation, by the Demucratic Convention. ' Yours very truly, CHARLES 8. GRAY, The 4>mocrats will no convention to-morrow nig: apers, without exceptior $ y. The iatal error of th ‘ats has been de- lay. While they should have been at work they Were wrang!ing, and now, When tue eve of election 4 hear, they are only partly organized. DEMOCRATIC CHAGKIN, uc Executive inate a new candidate in \ The regular Sunday i ‘Mayor Stok- Even the Sunday Mercury, which has ever been | the stern and able champion o| the democracy, » @ditorially speaks in tis wise this morning In the contest for the Mayoralty the democratic party fs out ot the fight. A convention, claming to represent Mt, underiook fo Hand it over aud breeches,” to its dong-time and implacable toes, not binging on any true democrat. On the contrary, it leaves each one ciitirely iree vither not to vote at all, or, if he pleases, to vote agains! tie cowlition, which seeks “first, to ase the democracy tw place them in power, and, that being secured, inwnits, next, to effect, if possible, the utter disintegr: ndment of the party. This act, ot course, is | This morning was the coldest of the season here, the thermometer at eight o’clock ranging trom four to tweive degrees below zero. At eleven o'clock it Was twenty-lour degrees above, a change of over thirty degrees in three hours. | OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN ERIE. The Work of Decapitation Going Steadily On—How the Brie Company Has Been Victimized. | he investigation into the misconduct of em- ployés, chieMy bosses and foremen, of the Erie | Railway Company still progresses, and every | day brings to light some new act of rascality or dishonesty. Threeoft the bosses were discharged last week, and turee times three in the vicinity of the depot at Jersey City stand in great danger. The offences established against many of them render them liable not only to dismigsal, but to indictment, and it is the determination of Vice President Clarke to bring his officers, when the proper time arrives and make @ swoop on all the delaulters. The meanest and most heartless of the charges against certain foremen is that they levied upon the poorest class of laborers fees $10 and even $20 in consideration of giving them employment. This hes become so common a practice that regular monthly percentages have been exacted by several Joremen from their subordinates. A statement Was submitted yesterday to a representative of the HERALD by aman who formerly held a promi- nent position on the road, setting forth numerous instances in which full time was ailowed by fore- men to employés who had been several days ab- sent from work. The inierence is that the fore- men appropriated the balance. ‘This practice of allowing {ull time, to the injury of the company, has also become so common that very few of \the foremen are guiltless of it. Large quantities of timber have been appropriated and soid.by men whom the directory Placed in a responsible ‘position to protect the in- terests of the corporation, Mr. Watson is expected Wo arrive within a jew days, and @ report of the misdeeds of years’ standing will be submitted to him. Omicial pitation in every direction is certain to lollow. Some householders and owners 0! property in Jersey City will be called upon to | restore the timber, solder, paint, tin roofing, &c., or their equivalent to the ‘Erie Company, from which they stole these articles, or answer in | toe courts. The long list of shefts, petty and | otherwise, perpetrated from 1869 to the present year, covers several pages of fooiscap, and 18 posi- lively starting. It saows that the Erie Company | has been victimized by its employés to an extent Which not one of the directors ever dreamed of. | Phe investigation will be continued during the | ensning Week at the Grand Opera House. In the | Meantime the squad of detectives by whom these frauds were jerreted out have been disbanded. A GAS HOUSE NUISANCE. | To THE EpiTor or THE HERALD :— Knowing your readiness to protect the public | interests, 1 take the liberty of writing these few | lines to cali your attention to a great nuisance to which the inhabitants of the Eighteenth ward have | had to submit for the last two weeks. It appears | mas time by Dr. Dio Lewis, So forcibly impressed and so deeply affected were the female portion of the audience by the Doctor's vivid portrayals of the misery, Wretchedness and ruin resultant from intemperance that the night succeeding the lec- ture they met in solemn conclave aud resoived to call a second meeting. Accordingly, the next morning the streets were floqded with posters calling a grand temperance meeting, over which it Was aunounced that Dr. Dio Lewis would pre- side, that alternoon, in one of the town churches. ‘The ‘call was responded to by nearly the entire pop- ulation, the meeting Was a perfect and enthusiastic success, the speeches eloquent, resolute and eftec- tuve, 48 Was iudubitably attested by 100 ladies, | mothers, wives, sisters and dauguters of the most prominent citizens Of the place torming them- Selves into a long procession, and, to the turiliing, pathetic chant o: their voices, taking up their line | oi march to the nearest groggery, leaving tae geuticmen atthe church to pray jor the accom- plisumeut of their most philanthropic and glorious undertaking. And, indeed, 1t seemed as If there | was | A DIVINE INTERPOSITION in their favor, for the first half dozer saloons visited met tbe Women crusaders with open doors and warmest cordiality, and required but little prayeriul persuasion to cause them to allow unob- structed access to their cellars, the depositories of | their wines, whiskeys, &c. ‘The ladies had set out | | with a firm aud unyielding determination, and went to work with a commendable will and alac- | | rity. They were deterred by no conscientious | scruple, and would only discontinue their efforts | when the just vestige of the whiskey trafic was eradicated irom their town. FILLING THE GUTTERS WITH ARDENT JUICE. Barrel aiter barrel of distilled corn-juice was brought up Irom the cellars m buckets and emp- ted into the gutters and set on fire, the ladies all the while keeping up their stimulating and re- ligious chant, and further encouraged by the ring- ing of ail che church beils in the town. Aiter about a week’s unremitting and laborious exertion every whiskey dealer, save one, suc- cumbed to the entreaties Of the noble crusaders, and abandoned their nelarious avocation, with the emphatic promise to never again enter into it. Ponder over it! kvery saloon in a town of 3,000 inhabitants ciosed in a week's time! A gigantic business, to which handreds looked for bread and clothing, utterly abandoned! Truly, the | achievement 1s marvellous! AN OBDURATE BIPED. The single man, one Beck, who held out against all prayer and supplication, finally, as he oped to rid bimself of further annoyance from the cru- saders, Who persistently visited him as certain as the sun’s diurnal course and spent hours with him in prayer and exhortation, moved his saloon to a hastily erected shanty just outside the corporation line and continued to dispense the noxious bibu- Jant to all who called for tt. But the women were undaunted. They pursued him thither apd constructed in juxtaposition witt his extempore saloon a tabernacle. Every day since this occurrence the unflinching ladies have been regular and faithful im their attendance at this edifice. praying, singing and beseeching this misguided anu inexorabie biped to close up his saloon and cease filling the land with beggars and paupers, | thieves and murderers. But their efforts have proven utterly futile, and at last a new phase has appeared in the drama. AN INJUNCTION AGAINST THE LADIES. On last Monday Beck empioyed CO, A. Palmer, the oaly lawyer he could find in the town to take up the cause jor the liquor dealers, to take the neces- | sary Steps jor an injunction by applying to Judge Safford, of Chillicothe. This was granted, and on ,) Tuesday forty-seven of Washington’s ladies were summonea by tie Sheriff, under an order of Vourt, | and issued by Judge Sadord, to appear belore the Court of Common rieas, on the 7t1 of March next, to answer a compiaint made by Charles Beck ona petition for an injunction to stop tuese ladies from | assembling at their tabernacie and hoid- ing prayer meetings and other devotional exercises. It was also ordered by the Court | that the tabernacle snould be removed, | vision of Beck himsell. Aiter this dirty work was | consummated, Judge McLain, upon whose premi- | ses the siructure was situated, caused the arrest | and commenced suit against the parties who de- stroyed it. . How the affair will terminate remains to be seen. THE CRUSADERS UNDISMAYED. Notwithstanding the unexpected action taken the noble women are notin the least disneartened, but are in the vest of spirits, and determined to | continue the gen until the last drop of intoxicat- isappeared from the town, | ing lgquor has THE DUFFRES MUEKDER TRIAL, An Ignorant Black Jury Find a Verdict of Murder and Manslaughter Against the Two Accused—A New Trial Moved. CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. 8, 1874. ‘The trial of James and B. L, Duifres for the mur- | last night, and resulted in a verdict of murder in the case of the former and manslaughter in the case of the latter, white men and respectably connected. The ac- cused were defended by three leading lawyers, and were prosecuted by the Attorney-General of the state. ‘The peculiar feature of the trial was the selection by the prisoners’ counsel of a jury composed ex- clusively of biack men of the most ignorant class, the reason assigned being that these men would be free trom the prejudices created by the news- paper reports of the atrocious eircumstances of the murder at the ume it was committed. The jury were out three hours, THE NEXT POPE, What the Italian Government Thinks of the Vatican Election, The Franeo-Italian Correspondence of Rome, | speaking of the policy of the great lay Powers successor, | during the election of Pio Nono’s says: Valley Ratiroad from Zanesville to Cincinnati | tion, and with better results than any that just mow comes under my notice. | Here 1% Was that this unprecedented and | Hours and hours nave been spent in | and a | party proceeded to demolish it under the super- | by the defendant and ordered by Judge Safford, | | der of Harry West, in July last, was closed late | All the parties were young | NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Affairs at the Norfolk Navy Yard—Ar- rival of the Juniata da Dictator— The New Sloops-of-War To Be com- pleted at Once—0 for the Naval Drill—Vessels Repairing. Norrous, Feb, 8, 1874, The iron-clad Dictator, Captain W. F. Spicer commanding, arrived at the north wharf of this Navy Yard avout two o'clock yesterday afternoon, The United States steam sloop-of-war Juniata, the convoy of the Dictator, arrived at the naval | anchorage early yesterday morning. They left | | New York on Wednesday, bound for Key West, and putin here for coal principally, and for some slight repairs to the Dictator, whict will remain at the yard until Tuesday, An arm or lever for | raising her battle plates has been broken and will have to be replaced here. She aiso requires some | packing around her turret, Sbe will take on 260 | fons of coal and @ quautity of stores betore leav- jae THE DICTATOR BEHAVED ADMIRABLY on her trip down, altuough retarded by rough weather, and ber officers are greatly pleased, The third rate sloop-ol-war Juniata, Commander Daniel L. Braine commanding, will be coaled at the naval anchorage Irom the steamtug Jean Sands, as she ouly requires sixty-five tons to compiote her sup- hy Pithe steamer Gettysburg, Lieutenant D. H. | McRitchie commanding, leit to-day with a draft of | | eighty sailors on board for Washington. | ‘The machinists worked all last night and to-day | on the steamer Powhatan, to complete repairs | which are nearly finished, and she wiil sail for the Delaware Breakwater to-morrow afternoon, The repairs to the steamer Frolic have been com- | | pleted, and a supply of seventy tons of coal is } | being puton board, ‘It is expected that she will | take a number of distinguished persons to Tortu- | gas to witness THK NAVAL DRILL. Suspensions continue to be made in every de- partment of the yard, and the force will be re- | duced to the minimum as rapidly as circumstances | | willadmit. It has been decided not to abandon work on the two new sloops-ol-war. The naval hospital here is crowded with sick received trom the squadrons at Key West, and a great many | More are expected. OBITUARY, Dr. E. W. Hatch, Atclegram from Meriden, Conn., under date of yesterday, February 8, reports as follows:—Dr. E. | W. Hatch, Superintenaent of the Connecticut | | State Reform School, and a prominent member of | the National Prison Reform Assoctation, died on | Saturday evening after a short illness, at the age of fifty-five years. The funeral will take place on the 10th inst. John Milton Earle. John Milton Earle died at Worcester, Mass., yes- terday, aged seventy-nine years and ten months, He was prominently identified with the growtu of the city of Worcester, and for thirty-flve years was editor of the Worcester Spy, from which position | he retired about fifteen years ago, Mr. Earle was aleading memberof the Society of Friends, and also of the Horticultural Society and other organ- izations. He was formerly prominently conmected with State politics. Henry Miller, M. D. Henry Miller, M. D., President of the Louisville Medical College, died at his residence, Louisville, Ky., yesterday, at the age of seventy-three years, He was author of many standard medical works, and was identifiea with several ee public institutions during thirty years of his life. Marquis de Caze. The Marquis de Fénélon-Salinac de Caze has died of apoplexy. He was proprietor of the Park of La Marche, in which the steeplechases are held, and of the ice wells of the Seine-et-Oise, irom which Parts is chiey supplied with ice. He was a son of the M. de Caze to whom the Duchess d@’Angouléme confided her domain of Marnes and Villeneuve-l’Etang, afterwards sold to Napoleon IIL, to be added te the Park of St. Cloud, THE WATOH HILL COLLISION, The Propeller Doris Not Yet Heard From—Uneasiness as to Her Fate— The Extent of the Injuries of the Steamer Newport. Newrorr, R. I, Feb. 8, 1874. ing. She will not be able to reach her dock at New York until to-morrow morning, as it will be dark before she reaches Hell Gate. She cannot go through without a pilot, and consequently will be obliged to awatt daylight. No news has been re- | ceived as to the arrival of the propeller Doris at any port, and some uneasiness is felt as to her saiety. of the extent of the injuries of the steamer New- port. Shouid it be found that she 1s more damaged than it is supposed under water, she will be obliged to go to New York tobe taken on the dry dock ; otherwise she will be repaired here. From & rough estimate of the Newport’s injuries it is thought that $10,000 will be required to repair the damages, Employés are very reticent in regard to the col- lision, and there 18 a general desire to see the Statements of Captain Torrey and Captain Sim- mons, in the absence of which it is impossible to get at the facts. THE ARMORY WAR. Meeting of the Ninety-sixth Regiment. A meeting was held yesterday at No. 48 Orchard street of the members of the Ninety-sixth regi- ment for the purpose of taking steps to obtain re- dress for the capture of their armory and the ex- pulsion of the Ninety-sixth by another regiment. Mr. William Bischotf presided over the meeting, Mr. Frank Fuchs acted as Secretary. It was de- | i | | as citizens and soldiers, A committee, embracing one member of each of the nine companies of the regiment, was cn pear gg for the purpose of draw- ing up the petition and such resolutions as may be found serviceable, The committee will submit the papers to the regiment at @ juture meeting preparatory to sending them to Albany, * SUICIDE IN JERSEY, An aged man named Peter Hibbs committed suicide yesterday by suooting himself in the head from Trenton, Owing to his intemperate habits his wile leit nim. He then gave him to dissipation and became so demi Coroner's jury had no hesitation in finding a ver- dict that the unfortunate man was laboring ander | ilfe. RD ae FELL FROM HI8 CART, Coroner Kessler yesterday held an inquest at the Morgue, on the body of Daniel Eichel, a German, pg Pc of age, who died in the hospital from the effects of injuries received in November last by | failing from his own cart im the upper part of the city. DEATH FROM INJURIES, | Yesterday morning Coroner Kessler was notified | to hold an inquest at the Park Hospital on the | body of Thomas Keating, a middie aged man, who died from the effects ot As announced in the HERALD of Sunday, the an- | j; chors of the steamer Empire State were fouled, and, in addition to the extra work of getting her | ready, she was delayed untii ten o’clock this morn- | Examination by divers will be made to-morrow | cided to send in a petition to the Legistature ask- | ing redress for the outrage perpetrated upon them at Lawrenceville, a village a few miles distant | mental derangement when he put aa end to his | ALMOST, A MURDER IN JERSEY. ruck Down at the Abattoir. Yesterday forenoon, at eleven o'clock, a dispute arose between Patrick Carmody and Henry Sharpe, two of the hog slaughterers employed at the Lew abattoir on the Hackensack River. Carmody pub an end to the dispute by wielaing a piece of wood used tor hanging up hogs and striking Sharpe & stunning blow on top of the head, Sharpe re mained unconscious for nearly an hour, and it was supposed he was dead, Coroner Reinhardt aud Dr. Noble arrived an hour afterward, and it was decided that tne injured man | | taken to St. Francis’ Hospital, in Jersey City. The physician stated that the injuries wee not neces- sarily latal ‘fhe Corouer uanded over Carmody to au officer, who bandeuffed him and conveyed him to the county jail, When his fellow workmen sur- rounded him alter the affray Carmody flung up tus hands and exciaimed, “On, boys, I’ve killed hin, and Il have to swing Jor } Carmody bas - New jutcher @ family residing in Hudson City. Sharpe, who was known to iis tellow” workmen by the sobriquet of “scotty,” boarded at the corner of Henderson and Seventh streets, Jersey City. He is a native o! Scotland, is unmarried, and the oniy relative he has in this country is a sister who resides In Brooklyn. Both are young men. The fitherto quiet dis- trict in the neighborhood of the Hackensack Bridge is acquiring a history, and the establishment Ot the abattoir wil help it to au unenviable noto- riety. What witn the incessent squealing and grunting of the dying animals and the scent of the baked plood, undergoing the jertilizing process, the locality 18 no longer a desirable place Jor a residence, MARBIAGE IN HIGA LIFE. A marriage has been celebrated at the Church of Sainte-Cloulde, Paris, between the Marquis d’Albuféra and Mile, de Cambacéres, Among those present were Prince Charles Bona- parte, Mme. la Maréchale Suchet, Count Clary, Baron de Rothschild, M. Thiers, Duke and Duches de Galiera, Baron ‘de Beyens, Count Aguado, Princess Troubetzkoi, Countess Duchatel, Prince Joachim Murat, Count de Rémusat, General Chan- garnier and other distinguishea personages. PRINTING OLOTHS MARKET. Provipence, R. I., Feb. 8, 1874, f_ cloths market quiet and weak. Sales of the tour squares. SHIPPING NEWS. WHITESTONE TELEGRAPH. ——+ The New Yore Heratp has consirusted a telegraph line from New York city to Whitestone, LI, and the same is now open tor the transaction of business. ‘The line will be found of great service to those having business with vessels passing to and trom the Sound, and every facility will be given to merchants and others to communicate promptly, As there is no other telegraph communication with Printiny Whitestone, the Herald Line wili be open tor all business | and private messages, and the same attended to with all possible despatch. Ali messages must be pfepaid. ‘The following rates have been established :— Private messages, twenty-five cents for ten words or less; two cents for every additional word. Business messages—For a message of twenty words or less, to be delivered on board vessels off Whitestone, one dollar; five cents for every additional word. Advertisements for the New Yous Hsnap free. orrices. Herald Office, corner Broadway and Annstrest. Herald Ship News Office, pier Nol Bast River. Herald Branch Office, No 1265 Broadway. Herald Branch Office, corner Boerum streets, Brooklyn. Whitestone Dock, Whitestone, LI. Atthe Herald Branch Offices, corner of Boerum and and Fulton | Fulton streets, Brooklyn, and 1265 Broadway. New York, | will be a bulletin of the arrival of all steamers daily OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. DATES OF DEPARTURE FROM NEW YORK FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. ‘Steamer. Saite, | Destination. Office. Goethe 1Reb, 10..!iamburg..| 11% Broadway. Minnesota 2"|Rep. 1v..jLiverpoo!..|29 Broadway. America Feb. ..| Bremen Bowling Green tab hia. Feb. ..|Glasgow 7 Bowling Green ) Calabria. Feb. 11.,|Livernooi..|4Bowling Green ‘Thuringia: Feb. 12.;]Hampurg ‘:|1 Broadway Canada. ive ‘]69 Broadway. Australia. Glasgow. ..|7 Bowling Green | Hecla, Liverpool..|4 Howling Green. City ot .|Liverpool.. 15 Broadway. | Laverpool.. 19 Broadway. ..|Liverpool../29 Broaaway Liverpool..|4Bowling Green :"|Glascow.. .:|7 Bowling Green Pommerania. .| Hamburg... |6L Broadway. Repubuic 2] Liverpool. 19 Broadway. Hermann. {|Bremen...-|2 Bowling Green Ethiopia... ‘|Gtasgow...:|7 Bowling Green | City ot Antwerp ‘| Liverpooi..|15 broauway. Egynt. Liverpoot..| 69 Broadway. | Marathon. Liverpool.. |4 Bowling Green 72 Broaaway 58 Broadway 113 Broadway. .| Glaszow. Havre.. {| Liverpool. . 129 Broadway {[iverpoot..|4 Bowling Green ‘)Hamburz.: 161 Broadway Almanac for New York—This Day. | SUN AND 400 HIGH WATER. | Sun rises... . oL | Gov. Island....eve 1 42 | Sun sets, + 528! Sandy Hook....eve 12 57 Moon rises., morn 12 31 | Hell Gate. seve 3 27 PORT OF NEW YORK, FEB. 8, 1874. ARRIVALS. REPORTED BY THE HERALD STEAM YACHTS AND HERALD WHITESTONE TELEGRAPH LINE. Steamship Australia (Br), Mackay, Glasgow Jan 25, with mdse and Il passengers to Henterson Bros. Had sirong westerly gales th | lon 6%, passed a brig-rigged German steamship, bound west;'7th, 150 miles east of Sandy Hook, saw an Anchor line and @ Cunard steamship, bound east. Steamship George Cromwell, Crawford, New Orleans Jan 31, with mdse und passengersto Clark & Seaman. Steainshin Gen Barnes, Cheeseman, Savannah Feb 5, with mdse and passengers to W R Garrison, Steamship Hatteras, rrnest, Riehmond, City, Point and Norfolk, with mdse and passengers to the Old Dominion Bteamshin Co. Steamship, Old, Dominion, Walker, Richmond, City Point and Nortolk. with mdse and passengers to the Oid Dominion Steamship Co, Ship Arundel Gastie (Br), Balliff, Calcutta Oct 19 and Sands Heads 20th, with ndse to E E Morgan's Spns. Bark Askoy (Nor), Marcussen, Liverpool 69 days, with mdse to Funch, Edye & Co. Bark Ozarina (of St Andrews, NB), Nickels, Barrow 46 | days, in ballast to RP Buck & Co. jark Caroline (Ger), Stricker, Bremen 61 days, with | empty barrels to JA Pauli. jark Lizzie, W Loud & Co, Bark Florenc | nold, Hines & © Mayo, Boston 3 days, in ballast to Ar- raltar Jan f, with fruit to Lawrence, Giles & Co; vessel to Squire, Thornton & Uo. Took the’ norihern pass: Jan 21, off Georges Ban wok a heavy gale from N lasting 76 hours; sprang ‘emast; since & continuatl of heavy gales, with snow; Feb 6 took a pilot {rom pilot boat No 22, off Barnegat ‘Brij to Te sehr Mary D Leach (of Provincetown), PR, 18 days, with oranges to Jas Douglas ‘Wenberg. In report of ship Tybernia, which arrived 7th, it should tkins, Ponce, sel to BS eter, not chain. Passed Through Hell Gate. BOUND SOUTH, Steamship Acusnnet, Rector, | York, with indse and passengers to B Schr Modesty, Weaver, New Haye Del. ing & Davis, tor Wilmington, entire passage ; Feb 6, lat 4115, | Wotton, Cardenas 17 days, with sugar to | Brig Lewis L Squire, Baker, Messina Dec 15, via Gib- | ion | ig Norge (Nor), Johansen, London 43 days, in ballast | tens & Bockmann. have read, furnished ship Elecdreent with a chronom- New Bedford for New | a nee | Mam campea on the shore near the wreck until orders are received trom the owners or underwriters, The Prince Allred offered Capt Balch supplies of clothing &e, but he did not require them, Steamer Kesouure arrived a: Norfolk Feb 7, with 73 les ot cotton on boar. taken from te wrecked sehr Queen of the South. in Watchpricue Inlet. She Feports that the schooner's uoper deck and sern have poe Naaned away, but her masts are still standing A orton af her cotion has been washed ashore, fr ch eng Se. tthacwlrewly removed, rei New Suyuna, Fla, Jan 30—Schr Jos P vomegys, Hub- | bard. Is sill here. all efforis to ruse her having beew failures thus fare Butit iy thought that they will get her f week. ‘The sicamer Godfrey Keever, with two divers, are still at work on her. Schr Anthea Goifrey struct on the ber, and remained during one tide, A survey was held, and they reported no damage. Misccllancous. bua Lina, of Now ¥ denned at Herimuda, has vecn & for some ‘American port as soon na put her in sailing cond! hn slg onan Pt was bu pILDING—The new schr being b rs'yard at cast Setauket, LLis approselting anole, Her dimensions are of keel 9 leet; penta, ; hold, 410 feet; between decks, 44 feet; tonnage, casurement.” Cost about | tio | 2% about 300, carfenter’s im | and will be launched some. time ‘this nm | Swned. by the builders, und will be emulagag focus | South American traae. At same yard a bark of about 800 tons, to be owned by the builters and costing about $40,000, will be immediately commenced, Wm Bacon has: intrame a brig tor Capt Aibert Davis, of Mt Sinai, to cost about $41,000. Diensions—Leugit of keel 126 tect; beam, 3! fee! pold, 17 feet. Notice to Mariners, CONNECTICUT—FLASHING RED LIGHT AT PRNVIELD RExP, LONG Isha SOUND. otice to Mariners, th petween the flashes of red light at Penfleld heer nd sound, will be changed to 5 seconds, instead of 10 seconds. CALIPORN s Notice is hereby given, that on and ait Jog bell will be established at the lirht Island, California, ant will be sounded every 10 seconds during thick and loggy weather. ‘WAsuINaTON LIGHTHOUSE, STRAITS 01 Also, that on and af will be sounded during thick, weather at New Dungeness light station, straits of Juai de "Fuca, Wash- ington Perritory. The fog signal house is 40 feet NE from the light- hous The characteristic distinction of this whistle is that blasis of 6 and 8 seconds duration will be sounded at in- tervals of 12 and 39 seconds. By order of the Lighthouse Board. JOSEPH HENRY, Chairman. Treasury Department, Office Lighthouse Board, Wash- ington, DU, Jan 24, 1874, Whatemen, Bark Andrew Hicks, Howl Rio Janeiro Dec 7, to sail t hea'th had much ifaprovedt: had aken @ 2. Dbl sp whale on the passage {rc ena o Rio Janeiro; would be At Bardados about the Ist of May. Spoken, mindar (Rr), Stedetord, from San Francisco fox 9 N, lon 124 W. foun West Indies, bound north, NEW DUNGENESS. Fuca. eam tox whistle | | | | to cruise. “Capt H's Brig . 1» Feb 4, lat 87 06, lon 74 52. NOTICE TO MERCHANTS AND SHIP CAPTAINS, Merchants, shipping agents and ship captains are in- | formed that by telegraphing to the Henaup London Bureau, No. 46 Fleet street, the arrivals at and depart- ures from European ports, and other ports abroad, of American vessels, the sam? willbe cabled to this eoun- try free of charge and published, Foreign Ports. Cannenas, Jan 28—Arrived, bark Sarah E Kingsbury, Woterhouse, Ardrossan (not as misprinted in yesterday’3 edition tH, E, Feb 8—Arrived, steamship Herder Ger), New York for Hamburg. American Ports. Feb 8—Arrived, steamshin Oriental, Hallett, Savannah? brig Quaco (Br), Dakin, Matanzas; schr John 1, Cahoon, Virginia, Sailed trom the Roads, HM Morris, BALTIMORE, Feb 7—Arrived, brig Geo Latimer, Wil- son St Johns, PR, Cleared—Dark Sedmi Dubrovacki (Aus), Margaretich, Queenstown; schr Emma Crosby, Crosby, Cardenas, Also cleared 7th, schrs Lena Hunter, Boston; Rodney Parker, Parker, New Haven. *th—Arrived,’ steamers Josephine, Thompson, New ork; Octorora, do; America, Billup, Savannah; bark Lawrence (Br), dteed, Demerara! brigs 8 A'Snow (Br), do: schr Flower o’ Moray (Br), Fairweather, Mem | sina; Henry D May, New York. Below. bark Ophelia M Hume. from Montevideo: brigs Aino (Rus), ; Chesapeake (Br), Doo, trom Demerara via Bermuda; Gladinteur (Br), Lennon, from | New York: schr Ethan Allen, Blake, trom Cardenas. eb §—Sailed trom Parker's Head, sehr Bonny , New Yor! D STON, Feb 5—Arrived, steamship Manhattan, Woodhull, New York. GlearedSchr Lucy D, Hall. Boston. Sth—Arrived, steamship South Carolina, Becket, New York: bark Limpio (Nor), Hoyer, Liverpool. Off the | port, steamship Mercedita, from Boston. | Salled—Bark Beitiste (Sr), Strick, Liverpool; brig Alice (Br), Vives, Gibraltar; schrs “Lucy Ann.” Boston; Ida Richarason, Bedell, New York; J H Stickney, Col- lson, Baltimore. DARIEN, Ga. Jan 28—Arrived, barks Lammergier (Br), Crosbie, Barrow; Feb 1, Impulse (Br), Robertson, Liver: | pool. Per port Feb 1, ships Velox (Nor), Stoesen; Sunbeam (Br), Dalzail, ahd_ Edith (Br), Rozers, for United King. dom, lag: barks Ebenezer (Nor), Gundersen: Balmoral (Br), Rosin: Rio de la Plata (Br), McLeod, Transatlantic (Br), Colvin; Henry Reed (Br), Townsend; Neptune jer), Wilhelm; Bothnia (Nor), Reymert: Richard (Ger), repin; West Wind (Br), Riddon; Peter suppicich (Ger), Meyers: Harold (Nor), Lorquist: Emily Lowther (Br), Cain; Ann Wilson (Br), Lewis: Glenalyon (Br). Lewis} Kong Oscar (Nor), Jensen; Queen of the Fleet (Br), Holmes; Franziska (Nor), Roth, and Iduna (Sw), Lund: ren, for do do; Mabel (Br), Bell, for Montevideo, do: | Brix Kong Oscar (Nor), Hansen, for United Kingdom, do schrs Clara G Loud. Welt; Lauta Bridgman, lark, and Maggie M Rivers, ftivers,'for St John, NB, do; Mary ‘upper, Gilman, for Boston, do; 8 8 Bickmore, Barter; | aC Buckley, Buckley; GH Brainard, Brown, and susan Harker, Vansaam, for Philadelphia. FALL R, Feb 5—Arrived, schr Wm H Bowen, olden, New York. | GINDIANOLA, Feb 2—Ta port, schrs J 8 Lamphrey, | Gould, amd LA Van Brunt, Tooker, tor New York, lig? | Franklir, Baker, and Carrie. Allen, ‘from do, disz; Ajax. | Saunders, from Pensacola, do: Indianola, Bloom, from | Pascagoula, do: Maud Webster, Wentworth, and A L Fitch, Fitch, from Apalachicola, do; Eliza’ Anderson, Clark, lightering. NEW ORLEANS, Feb 4—Arrived up, steamship Car- roll, Hodges, Boston: ships Armstrong, Ryan, Liveruoo! ; | Porhona, Hamilton, do; Anglesea, Richardson, Bueno# | Ayres: barks Kate Yarm (Br), Smith, Yarmouth, (NS; Jonathan Chase, Chase, Kordeaux; (eresina (Ital), C | la, Palermo: schrs DB Everett, Gregory, Savanna. | Mari Jonnie Wood. Utila. “Below, ship Brothers, Mur | phy, trom Liverpool; barks Galathea, Steansen, trom Rotterdam; Willie S Thompson, Chapman, from Sayan- nah. Cleared—Schr Mary Ellen, Law, Grand Cayman, Arrived at the Passes 8th, steamshipsGen Meade, son, and Geo Washington,’ Whitenea', New York; Koln Ger), Ringk, Bremen: bark Marie (Nor), Kjole, Laver- ool. pailed—Steamships Now Orleans, and Mississippi; snip Merchant: barks Geo Peabowty, and Priscilla. peQugerst Pass, Feb 4—sailel, bark Constantia; schr obt Ruut. SEW SMYRNA, Fla, Jan 3)—In port sehrs R B Taylor, dner: Witch Hazel. Springer; Anna B Hyer. Reville 1 Willetts, Brewster: sallie Mair, Powell; Admi- Steelman; Anna W Col- Jul ral, Steelman; Anthea Godtre; lins, Bayles; J H Lockwood, arrett; Minnehaha, Douglas; James Jones, Hilton, and Horatio Nichols, [Most of the above are bound tothe Norfolk Navy Yard, and are detained at the bar.| NORFOLK, Feb 6—Arrived, brig 8 V Merrick (Br), Lippincott, Baltimore; schr ‘Sarah Mills, Kelly, New ed—Bark Osmo (Rus), Hanila (from Baltimore), | Belfast, in tow. NEWPORT, Feb 5, i—Arrived, schrs Nathanie? Holmes, Smith, Providence for New York; J Albert Smith, ‘Patterson, and RS Newcomb, Higgins, do for Virsinia: Bartie Pierce. Hawes, Boston for do; Fashion, Carberry, Elizahethport for Providence, 6ih—sailed, schr Fashion, Carberry, Elizabethport tor | Providence. In port—Schrs Pinta, Trask, from New York: Oliver Jemeson, Jameson, Portiand for Baltimore; L Holway, Bryant, trom Hoboken: KS Newcomb, Higgins, and J Albert Smith, Patterson, Providence for Virginia; Na+ thanel Holmes, Smith, io tor New York; Bartle Pierce, Hawes, Boston for Vir NEW HAVE 4. schrs Hattle Chevalier, Joyee, w York; Ch. Miller, Johnson, Virginia. PORT GAMBLE, Jan 30—sailed, bark Lunahio (Haw), Lawrence, Shanghai. Sist—Arrived, bark Ranier, Hayden, Antofozasta. | PHILADELPHIA, Feb 7—~Below, harks Alice 6 (Br), Dix, trom Rotterdam ; Susan M Dudman (Br), Darkee, from Hamburg. Sih—Arrived, steamer Rattlesnake, Pierce, Boston vin Provincetown. Lewxs, Del, Feb 7—In port schr Lorine, from Pensa- cola. Went to sea 7th, AM. ship WH Workman, for London, 8th—steamship Ohio, Morrison, for Liverpool, went to sea this mornin, PORTLAND, Feb 6—Arrived, schr Madawaska Maid, ‘Tupper, and C'H Hildreth, Goats, New York. ice , steamship Nova Scotian (Br), Ritchie, Liverpool efavored the “ve - tuntio sett : | 1tis quite true that, on the initiative of tt injuries recetved several ‘St Albatross, Davis, F New York, | “PROVINCETOWN, Feb 7—Arrived, brig Grace Lothrop, smeliege tase Ii calchuul ae cignascauon, We do Hot | that the New York or the Manhattan Gas Company, | Cabinet of erlin, a’ semiusicil axckanve “ut | 4498 ago. Deceased ‘ived at No. 31 De Peyster | miles praatngcnee Pau River for New York, with | a nitivea tor Hoxton: pasate gd MeClure, But we do belive that during the ced. | which has gas houses in the neighborhood, empties Ideas took place belore and aiter the puolication | Street, whither the body was removed ior inter- BOUND EAST, Ken Froeman, Alexandre; Neltio A Siow, Snow, er a 3 , Aus d Italy, in reference Schr Oliver Ames. Higby, New York for Boston. a ore, § ; ) jen, Jer: ( oF With trove cyan boos coat meet | twenty-four hours, with high tide, all the houses, | the more or less near ¥: yin the Holy See. But POLICE MATTERS, Ben J Young, Keene, New York for Fall Hiver, PO oe ee ae hn, Norfe te democratic sheet | q a e » M08 | eared —! ¥ N .,. French, Norfol ‘MoUlure. The campaign, much as it may be hos- | Steet, Mrs surferavie | cord was established, or could ’ be, between | Theodore Mullin at the Grand street ferry last — in Duteh Island Harbor Sty corer Joba i verty, ihe to the wishes of geniiine reformers, shows a | stench arising thereirom, that it will soon be im- | those "three Powers’ on ‘that grave ‘subject. | evening. They were charged with picking pockets Don Enrique (Peruy), for Melbourne: Pegasus Providence for do. i i tory ior the republicans, “JeCUOH Of an easy Vie- | possible to remain there unless this nuisance be | While admitting that tue peace of the | and locked up at the central Mice, Bentton at: | § Neer nian rerk, ouvyenny,(Umem URVatue, MOND, Feb 6—Sailed, schr HP Simmons, Wil- Pid ie a pity that the’ democrats could not wave | done away with. The Board of Health has been | fretld mia! etton, the poten cov enmeng | tempted to throw away a sliver watch after being | Wing at sunset W, light Jette Ne ANCISCO, Jan S1—Arrived. ship Canada, Har- Aecided spon a candidate immediately upon the adoption of the new constitution. sy missing | ‘thie most favorable opportunity and by quarreling | with the reformers, they were forced 1n convention to precipitate upon their party one who is uu- popular alike to the resjormers and to themseives, Qnd one who will lose at least one-third of <he Tespeotabie. democratic votes. | | Sensation Over the ‘Charges Against | Gray=Newspaper Opinion—The Next | Probebie Nomination=Mr. MeCiure’s | Chances, | | PHILADELPATA, Feb. 8, 1874. A great deal ef sensation is caused by the affida- vit charging 4 criminal ofence tied against Mr. Gray, the citizens’ Centennial candidate for Re- { ceiver of Taxes, and it ought to be Said, in justice | to bis party, that 26 soon as the charges were made | Known ap indirect pressure was brought to bear | ‘pon him, which caused his resignatyc Af doriuer despatch. enation, given ina PRESS OPINION, # ihe Press will spe OWE In regard to tu! to-morrow as fol Mr. Charles § ak editorially | Gray, cendidate of the Citizen's © gtiutional party” tor Mer OF Taxon. Hees COR: made the subject ot charges. of a z nature, has dard bearers cy th. anvase | Like Conar's wite, the ie men Who are striv tg upt Jobbing aud Dalit stuffing pulse tion wil SUspicion. ence & new nome 01 made, "This movetnent tor Ke jorm “is top imbortant to “be ghecked ‘py | | Motified several times of it, but that body seems to be sleeping. About sixty persons calied yesterday at the *anhattan Gas Company's | compiaining, among them even one of their di- rectors. This company states that it 1s not at fault, but tnat the Ammonia Works, in connection | with the New York Gas Company, are the cause of the trouble, which the Manhattan is endeavor- ing to find out. Now, it seems to me that we bave to suffer enough of these gas companies, as they charge enormously for miserable gas, which seems to fly through the burners an meters without giving much light, but swell up the monthly bills to douvle and treble to what they were formerly. If this new nuisance con- tinwes mach eet Pion Will be obliged to leave that part of the city altogether, as the servants already refuse to stay longer on that account. Will you not Wake up the Board of Health, and give publicgtion to this in your paper? To you will be due the the thanks of the people, and particularly those of a A SUBSCRIBER, FIRE IN MONTREAL, MONTREAL, Feb, 8, 1874, Adestructve fire broke out about six o'clock this morning in the premises of DuBgra & © tobaceo manufacturers, in St, Amie lane, near cques Cartier street. The fire burned for two but was confined to the building it origi- hated in, which was completely gutted, The lows is alaws 019 O06 cr saTaMce, $8,500, | future Pontifical election, the Italian government decided upon not following Germany in the pre- ventive measures she proposes, and categorically | refuses to pledge itseil by a collective deciaration | not to recognize a Pope elected under other con- | ditions than those which have hitherto been adopted, The thesis sustained by Italy in those diplomatic | interchanges of views—a doctrine which appears to be approved by the Vienna government—tis that the suppression of the temporal power has re- moved from ail States any reason for intertering witn the conclave, and thut the successor of Pius IX, who, as King, would have fallen under the governmental action of Kurope, reduced to the part of Pontiff, can’ only interest Catholic con- sciences, those latter alone having the qualification Ryaeme as to the legitimacy of the choice and the chosen, DINNER OF THE FEATELLANZA ITALIANA. About 200 ladies and gentlemen connected with the well-known so¢iety, tle “Unione Fratellanza Italiana,” sat down to a liandsome banquet, which ‘was served up at Vercelli's, No, 81 and 83 Nassau street, at four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The ban the taian Emigrant Eveniag School, and the occa- sion was graced by various toasta, &c. Colomel Pratt presided at the feast, and was called upon to address the company, which ne did in his usual felieitous style. ‘he dinner was in every point @ success, and the committee, conaisting of Messrs. Corradi, A. Bertolino aud M, Vanni expect to | realize & handsome sum jor a deserving charity, juet was given to aid the charity known as | captared by the officer. Both prisoners will be taken to Court this morning. THE ELEVATED RAILROAD, The Elevated Railroad in Greenwich street re- newed the running of trains this morning. There has been a stoppage one day in consequence o/ the breaking of a steel axietree on one o1 the dummy engines. This line accommodates upon an average 3,500 passengers a day. CARELESS USE OF FIREARMS, Hartrorp, Gonn., Feb. 8, 1874. Albert M, Case, @ son of 0. P. Case, Esq., of this city, twenty years old, shot himself accidentally in the head last night while carelessly handling a pistol which he thought was uot loaded. he ‘wound will probably be fatal, Willie White was also shot yesterday by a com- panion through carelessness, The wound is se- vere, but hopes are entertained that he will re- cover. i} | MASKED BALL MYSTERY. | The Houston Daily Mercury has the following | among its telegraphic news :— Mempms, Feb. 3, 1874. ly respected young lady, at- | tended the maskea bal! Wednesday, and has'not | been seen since. It is feared she has been ab- ducted. Another mysterious be 1 eae 18 that | o$@ man named Ramsey from Mississippi. Miss Sanders, a hij | A Marine Di Ts. Sreamsiip ALYXANDER Lavettey (Fr), ashore at South: | ampton, Li, remained all right on, the 7th, the late blow | Rot having aftectod her. She leaks a little, Nearly all | the cargo has been discharged and bouted to the wreck- ing steamer Keliet, The prospects are favorable tor #av- ee ship, and she will probably be alluat im aiew | | Sir Saxpusxr, Norton, trom Mobile for Reval, Russi with 2800 bales of cotton, is reported by a revenue cut: ter which arrived ai Mobile yesterday (th), to be on fre in Mobile lower bay, | the westward, and Iett tor Monile for Sandusky registers 1018 tons, was bu Ne’ +» Me, | in Tod, and Rails from New York } ME | Bkic Waree Witcu, trom Turks Island for Baltimore, at Charleston leaking slightly, would repair and was to proceed on the 7th inst Senn NatHaN Cieeves, from Portland, at Norfolk Feb 5, picked up, when off Cedar Island, six bales of cotton, part ot the cargo of sehr Queen of the South. Scnr L & A Bancocr, from Bath, Me, with jee, before reported ashore on the Joc Klogger, got off PM Feb 6, | and lay at Reeay Island AM 7th, apparentiy aninjured. St¥amee Prince Auyren, at San Francisco Jan Sl from Victoria, VI, reports passing the ship Panther, from Na- naimo for San Francisco (betore reported). lying on her Weam ends on @ reef, about 120 fathoms trom Point Nir- Jow Isiand, in 6 fathoms at low water, Her sails and running gear were sent ashore, except the braces, They can cave all the Apars and standing rigging. lower rigging, which canngt be, got at, the, lee ein under water at low tide, Capt Balch states that she ha Sfeet of water in ber ‘hold when she struck the ree, sistance. [The cept the it having been ashore before while in tow of the steamer | Goliah, and that Capt Libby, of the Goliah, hang on to tne ship as long’ aa posible, and ‘did ail in’ it during the g: wich considers the cargo of coal 1p ber ral under water at low tide, ex. fevt tho wea fag captain und ‘crew will re ‘he revenue cutter towed her to | rk Cordonan, (Fr), nd, Bor a Consteau, do, titia, Lorenizen, Honolulu via Huin- Nevada, Howell, Panama: ships valley Forge, Wood, Liverpool; James B Bell, saunders, Nanaimo, SAVANNA, Feb 7—Cleared, Boston, , Meo arrivals, Wind NE, blowing a gale, sth No Suamanips Montgomery, aircioth, and San. dor, Nickerson, New York; C W Lord, Colton, Phila Saragossa,” Baltimore: Seminole, Matthews, Somerset, Doane, Providence; bark Landbo ‘Olsen, Reval; schr 8 L Burns, Philadelphia. MINGTON, NO, Feb 6—Arrived, schr John, Ga: briel, New York. 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