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it in Spain and Frattce? We have not reached that point yet, but the Louisiana affair was » considerable stride toward military despotism. Cyclones of the Northern Hemisphere. Ata recent meeting of the Meteorological ‘Society in England the distinguished mariner and meteorologist Captain Toynbee proposed an important revision in the rules now in use among seamen for avoiding dangerous storm centres. The occasion of his discussion of this subject was while introducing valuable data of the great North Atlantic hurricane of last August, which will be remembered for its violence at Long Branch and its ravages on ‘the coast. This storm, it now appears from the report of Lieutenant McFarlane, of Her Majesty's ship Plover, was fully traced to the southeast of Bermuda, whence its track ran to Halifax—the scene of its greatest desolation. The investigation of this cyclone, Captain ‘Toynbee contends, will enable meteorologists to determine the true form of the hurricanes of the Northern Hemisphere. Last year Mr, Meldrum, of Mauritius, over- hauled the seamen of the world on their present rules for escaping from the jaws of the Southern Hemisphere cyclones, and showed that the current circular theory they follow unerringly leads them into danger and often irretrievable loss. He bases this fact upon the discovery that in the South Indian Ocean the form of the typhoon is not circular, but -elliptical, and that the winds do not gyrate around the central vortex, but sweep inward | in nearly radial lines or gentle spirals. His diagrams, drawn from actual observations, as far as they go, make good his deduction ; and every sailor who goes to sea should be familiar with the facts, There is no reason to imagine a different | cyclonic law for the Northern and Southern hemispheres, but every reason to believe that the law announced by Mr. Meldrum holds good over the entire ocean. In this view, the endorsement of Mr. Mel- | drum’s accuracy by Captain Toynbee is timely and judicious; and his call to his fellow scientists to work out the problem fully may | inure to the greatest good for navigation on all the seas. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Mayor William G, Fargo, of Buffalo, is stay- ing at the Astor House, Major John Tyler, United States army, is quar- tered at the Hoifman House. The anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln is to be celebrated in Buffalo on the 12th inst. Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain, has offered to pro- vide for the education of Marshal Bazaine’s chil- dren. General Keredine, Prime Minister of Tunis, Af- Tica, 18 a Circassian, aud was lormerly a slave of the Bey. Bishop Wilberforce’s memorial is to be an Epis- copal throne, in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxiord, England. There are two Mexicans in the Colorado Legisia- ture who can neither speak nor understand the English language. Nancy Clem will be tried this week (the fifth time) for murder in the Boone county Circuit Court of Indiana. Miss Fanny U. Roberts, a Universalist preacher, ‘was ordained to the ministry of Kittery, Me., on Friday evening last. John 8. Hager, United States Senator elect from | Calfornia for the short term, bas not yet left tne State for Washington, Dr. Charles McKnight Smith, who was Collector Oi the port of Perth Amboy, N. J., for tie past twenty-five years, died last Monday. Governor Hendricks and several State officers of Indiana have. been on a visit to Springfield, Ill., to take a look at the new capitol. Old Phin Teeple, of Preston, Wayne county, Pa., during the past sixty years has killed 2,985 deer and 438 bears, What a destructive Phin! David Stiles, of Minneapolis, Minn., is 108 years old, naving been born in Woodbury, Conn., in 1766. He, has been a,Master Mason for seventy-live yearg. Benjamin Newhouse, one of the principals of the ‘Oneida (ree love) Community, is inakiug arrange- ments for stocking Oneida Lake with salmon trout, Franz Witke, a son of a wealthy German Baron iving near Dantzic, is working as @ tarm hand in Illinois. Franz wasa@ cavalry officer in the late ‘war, Ola John flarper, of Woodford county, Kentucky, the owner of the racehorse Longfellow, is very ill, and, it is said, cannot recover. He is nearly eighty years old. Dudley Witney Adams, of Iowa, the head of the Grangers of the United States, is a native of Win- chendon and a relative of Governor Washburn, of Massachusetts. W. F. Storey, manager of the Chicago Times, it is said, fas turned Spiritualist, and is now a firm believer in Rochester knockings, trance mediums and tabie tipping. Hon. Samuel F, Hersey, Representative in Con- gress from the Fourth district of Maine, has been sick and unable to leave his home since the present session commenced, Another “oldest Freemason” has tarned up in Detroit, Mich. His name is Stephen Wolverton. He is ninety years old, and was initiated in Erie, Pa., sixty-one years ago. “Ginx’s Baby” is willing to again be a candidate for Parliament in Dundee, Scotland, Mr, Edward Jenkins has written to this effect from Canada, where he is now visiting. Daniel Pratt, Jr., the great American traveller and editor of a newspaper called the Gridiron, accuses the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher of stealing an article intended for the Gridiron and publish- ing it in the Christian Union. ‘Iwo of the oldest Freemasons in Massachusetts reside in Spencer, Worcester county. They are both over eighty years old. Their names are Cheney Harrington and Orrin Worthington, the last named having been @ member of the order Ailty-eight years, On Monday last Rev. W. F. Poor, a Lutheran preacher at West Land Lake, N. Y., essayed to cross the Hudson at Troy. He broke through the ice and saved himself with some difficulty from drowning. Yet he still refuses to commune with the Hard Shell Baptists, An editor, who knows him, gives the following sketcn of Withers, the new Virginia United States Senator:—He was shot in the war, and the lead in him bas been a cork, and nota sinker. He was born in Campbell county, resided in Lynchburg, doctored in Appomattox, was a Know Nothing, had heap of ‘claims,’ don’t drink, is @ poor speaker, and a clever féllow, piain family nag—safe and de- cent.” Professor Tyndall has written a letter in reply to Professor Goldwin Smith’s recent assertion that Americans hate the Engilsh. He says that his ex- perience among the peopie of the United States teaches him that:—"Kither they do not hate us, as alleged; or, if they do, the manner in which they suppressed this feeling, ont of consideration for a guest, proves them to be the most courteous Of nations.” FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION, St. Lours, Mo., Feb. 8, 1874. 4 boiler in & sawmill in Chariton county, Mis- souri, explodedtyesterday morning, Elisha Smith, the engineer, and Richard Worthington and Jesse Thatcher, employés, were killed, and William Simpson was badly wounded, smith was blown about six rods from the mill. His head and both arms and legs were torn off, his open and his brains scattered over the geonece Worthington was blown 200 feet from the mill, both his arms were torn off and both legs vroken near the ankies, Thatcher bad his skull broken and one faba ce oy Ban oie ain eeoee, and was carrie jee m the e cause of th explosion is unknowns sd if | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT. ENGLAND. Premier Gladstone Awaiting the Popalar Ver- dict. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Feb. 8, 1874, Mr. Gladstone will await the conclusion of the elections before deciding what course the govern- ment will take. The Strength of the Parliamentary Parties. Lonbon, Feb. 9—6:30 A. M. ‘The Parliamentary returns announced up to this date show that seventy-five conservatives have been elected to seats formerly filled by liberals, and that twenty-seven liberals have been chosen in place of conservatives, ACHEEN. i Determined Defence Against the Dutch Ad- vance, JELEGRAM TO THE WEW YORK HERALD, Lonpow, Feb, 8, 1874, The latest advices from Sumatra show that the Achencese chie1s still hold out, and are building forts in the interior, MEXICO. _ Seen Yucatan Disturbed by Revolution and an Indian Raid—Sonora Agitated and Jalisco Pacified—Diplomacy, Commerce, Bail- ways and Law—The Press Patronized. TELEGAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Crry oF MEXICO, via HavANa, Feb. 1, 1874, The revolution in Yucatan is gaining strength. Tne Indians have plundered and burned the town of Canotchel, in that State. Complaints are made that the merchants of Belize sell arms and ammunition to tne Yucatan savages. The Apaches have raided in Sonora and com- mitted several murders, The revolution in Jalisco is ended. , DIPLOMACY AND COMMEROE, The appointment of Seiores Benavides and Corona to be Ministers to Germany and Spain re- spectively has been confirmed. The press complain of the injury to Mexican in- terests caused by the introduction into foreign commerce of the new American trade dollar. A FREEMAN WHO WANTS MORE FREEDOM. Judge Ramirez, of the Supreme Court, declares Mexico a republic only in name; that in reality it | is governed by military despotism. SAD WARNING TO OFFIOE-SEEKERS. Through @ mistake of the Customs ofMcials the port of Maxabuata was located in the wrong place and all the employés sent there died, A change has since been ordered. THE PRESS, Fifty-three journals are now published in the capital. AMBRICAN HOSPITALITY. Mr. Foster, the United States Minister, has en- tertained at a banquet Bishops Keener and Simp- son, who are looking alter Church interests in Mexico, RAILWAY PROGRESS. The building of several railroads is abont to be commenced, lt 1s reported that the Mexican and the International Railway companies will be amal- gamated. AMUSEMENTS. First Sunday Concert at the Grand Opera House. The first of a serlesof Sunday concerts was given last night at the Grand Opera House, and, as far as the numbers of the audience were con- cerned, it was anemphatic success. The attena- ance recalled the season when the Ninth Regiment Band held forth at this house and the musical at- tractions were varied and numerons. Gilmore's Twenty-second Regiment Band, in their handsome uniform; M. Wientawski, Mesdames Lichtmay, Heise, Henne and Lehman, and Messrs. Graf, Toedt, Vierling and Urchs—the last mentionea artists forming a double vocal quartet—were pre- sented on this occasion, The band selections con- sisted of the overture ‘“‘Semiramide,”’ Wieprecht’s arrangement of themes from “Le Prophete,’’ Austrian fantasia by Westemeyer, the second “Torchlight Dance” by Meyerbeer, and the “Hal- Jelujah Chorus” from the ‘Messiah.’ The progress of this band becomes more marked at each appear- ance, Careful rehearsals, an indefatigable leader, excellent materials among the principal instru- mentalists and the confidence and harmony of thought that result from constant practice together already produce flattering results. Two of the members—Mr. Arbuckle, cornet, and Mr. Lefebre, saxophone—played solos, that of the former artist, a work by De Beriot, being rendered with especial finish, expression and warmth. . In response to @ unanimous recall he gave a very beautiful interpretation of “Robin Adair.” M. Wieniswski, the eminent violinist, played an air, with variations, by Vieuxtemps, in his best style, and it was one of the chief tea- tures of the concert. For an encore he ave an equally attractive rendering of “Willie, ve Have Missed You.’’ ‘The ease, gracetul delivery and high intelligence that characterize M. Wieni- awski’s artistic efforts cannot be too heartily com- mended. There is not a coarse note on his violin in any work he essays, and the tone has breadth | and warmth, rare to find with a virtuoso on this instrument. ‘The vocal part of the programme comprised the quartet, “Mezza Notte,” from ‘Martha,’ with the parts doubled, a rather uninteresting performance ; a scene from “Il lrovatore,’”’ by the same German singers; @ couple of Austrian songs, rendered by Mme. Lichtmay, the first, ‘‘Morgeniensterlein,” a comic song by Proch, being ratner out o! place on the occasion, and the aria, “Robert toi que )'aime,"* of Meyerbeer, very tamely and ineffectiyely sung by Miss Henne, The second concert, on Sunday next, ‘Will present an entire change of programme, Musical and Dramatic Notes. Mrs. D. P, Bowers plays Marie Antoinette at the Brooklyn Theatre this evening, An opera by Franz Schubert (unpublished) will be shortly producee ai Vienna. M. Wientawski has been engaged as solo violintst for the next Phisharmonic concert. The Kellogg Englisn Opera Company have just concluded a successful engagement in Philadel- phia, ‘The concert for the benefit of the suffering poor of New York takes place at Steinway Hall this evening. The Harlem Theatre is to be occupied throngh- out the week by the company of the Brooklyn Park Theatre. Mrs. Caroline Richings-Bernard will present her. musical union of singers at Steinway Hail on Wedneaday evening. Miss Fanny Herring has returned to her loving east-siders, and will to-night begin to delight them at Tony Pastor's, Mile. Anna Elzer, who sang in concert with Mme. Fabbri in this city a couple of seasons ago, has made @ successful début in San Francisco, in the rdle of Amina in “La Sonnambula.”” Acharity entertainment for the benefit of the Poor under the auspices of the Rev. 0. B. Froth: ingham, is to be given at the Lyceum Theatre to- morrow evening. Mr. 8, Mollenhauer, the young musician, is to play & number of solos on the vio- lin, and the comedy “All That Glitters is Not Gold” will be performed. : Manager Daly is industriously preparing novel- ties to follow “Folline.”” The first of these to be brought out is Shakespeare's comedy of “Leve’s Lubor Lost." This play has been almost unknown on the New York stage for many years, For this reason it should be produced, as we cannot afford to allow any of Shakespeare's works to fall ous of the popular mind and be retained only in that of the scholar, Yet ‘Love's Labor Lost” is, probably, among all Shakespeare’s writings, the least worthy, and it bears good evidence of having been his earlicet production, It has never been popular aa his other comedies, and therefore managers have been ever unwilling to pass by them to select it for representation. It has many beauties which should be familiar, and the manner of its perform. ance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre will probably Make them 80» WASHINGTON. The President’s Opinions on the Louisiana Question. A RETREAT FROM RESPONSIBILITY. Movements of the Political Forces in the Field. THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS. WasuINaTon, Feb. 8, 1874. The President’s Opinions on the Louisi- ana Muddle—The Senate’s Dilatoriness in Meeting the Question—He Points Three Ways tor Congress Out of the Dificalty—The Proposcd New Judicial Districts—Pinchback’s Next Move. It is conceded now by the President’s most inti- mate advisers on political matters that he has at Jast begun to appreciate the motives and legerde- main of the republican members of both houses on the Louisiana question. He frequently remarks that it seems to him that in the denate on this question, and in other actions, they are all anxious to unload themselves of any responsibility in the | matter, by shielding themselves benind an ac- | knowledgment of the President's power in the premises, and @ tacit concession of the justification of Executive interierence In the interest of peace and order in Louisiana, but at the same | Aime disclaiming any acceptance of the | validity or the decision and orders of Judge Durell, or a responsibility for the charac- ter of the Kellogg government. 1n the recent in- terview with Senator McMillen, of Louisiana, the President said Congress might do one of three things :—‘First—Pass a joint resoiution endorsing the Executive's action in his recognition of the Kellogg State government, which would end the controversy and pacify the public mind, as was | done im the Dorr case; for if they do not believe that the Executive action was warranted by the facts it is their duty to recognize the McEnery govy- ernment, and I will execute their wishes, as I do not make law. I simply execute it, and believe Congress should act one way or the other on the facta L presented in my Message and relieve me of further responsibility. Second—If they wantea the constitutionality of the Eniorcement act tested and the true tacts of the Louisiana question given to the country, let them pass an act o! Con- gress authorizing the Circuit Judge (Mr. Woods) of the district to review the proceedings of Durell, so that either party could appeal to the Supreme Court, and further directing that Court to give priority to the adjudication of this cause over alt others, which would finally determine the great question as to the power of the tedera) Courts to intervene in State contested elections in the man- ner prescribed by the knforcement act. It is con- ceded now that in chancery an interlocutory | order is without an appeal, and a final determina- | tion of such proceedings 1s at the will of the Chan- cellor. Therefore when the Supreme Court was applied to for a writ of prohibition and certiorart by the McEnery party, the Court could not grant it for the reason that there was no complete record to make up a case which could be passed on by the Appellate Court. Hence the legislation now sought would be absolutely necessary to reach such cases as are presented in the Louisiana con- troversy. Third—The {mpeachment and convic- tion of Durell would determine the motives, whether corrupt or otherwise, which actuated this decision in the Kellogg case, as well as fix for the future the jurisdiction and power of the Court, Ag the Executive oath leaves no discretion with him in the execution of the judgments of the Court, under the federal laws, this course would prove valuable to iuture Presidents if called upon to deal with like dificultles,” General McMillen was much Pleased at the candor and earnestness of the Pres- ident in the discussion of the Louisiana question, and really believes that, if the President was un- trammelied, he would ando the wrong that the State is now suffering trom and afford the relief, as General McMillen holds that it 1s the duty of Congress to act upon it immediately by the passage of a new Election bill. Colonel Carter left direct for New Orleans on Saturday as a special envoy of Pinchback, with written instructions to meet the emergencies arising in the Pinchback case, and before long it is understood that Pinchback will make some new moves on the Senatorial chessboard. His adver- saries are also much exercised over the mission of ex-Speaker Carter to Louisiana, Senator West 18 actively standing by the fortunes of Pinchback, who, he believes, will yet be seated in the Senate. Marshal Packard, the Mephis- topheles of the federal ring, has telegraphed his departure from New Orleans for this city in the in- terest of the Durell-Kellogg enormities and against the passage of the Morey District Court bills, as his tees will be greatly reduced by the division of his district, inasmuch as the mileage derived from serving writs in the country parishes is immense, He is expected to arrive in this city to-morrow or Tuesday next, and the Louisiana politicians are much concerned as to his attitude on tne situa- tion, as it is said ne has a strong hold on the atiec- tions of the President, who has always resolutely stood up against pressure looking to his removal. The House Judiciary Committee have taken the necessary steps for the immediate printing of the testimony taken in the Durell im- peachment case, which will present in its true light the notorious and flagrant proceedings of the Bankrapt Court, and make many officials quake when the public understand how and by whom they have been swindled. It is understood that parties in the interest of Durell hope by pro- crastination to stave off impeachment, and they re making all sorts of promises to this committee toinduce them to certify that the only error of Durell lies in the order of Durell and not in the corruption carried out in the proceedings of the Bankrupt Court. This ruse ts too weakly conceived to c@ceive either the committee or Congress. The bill of Morey, dividing Louisiana into two district courts, has already brought out numerous candidates for the coming judgeships, most prominent among whom are Judge Pardee, who 1s supported by Messrs. Sheldon and Sypher, and Hunt, supported by Governor Kellogg and many of the New Orleans Bar. For the Red River dis- trict the most prominent candidate is Mr. John Ray, who was elected by the Kellogg Legisiature for the short term, but was not admitted to tne United States Senate previous to Pinchback's application for a seat under the long term. Some who pretend to be well informed say that the President will give this judgeship to Brigadier General Commissary Beckwith, who has been the brains of the Kellogg usurpation in Louisiana, although Ray will have the support of the Loui- siana delegation in Congress, as he has been long in public life in that State, and was a Union man during the war. Will Congress Adjourn in May? Mr. Dawes has been waited on by a dozen or more jeading republican Representatives and in- formed that if he desires the good of the party he Will speedily introduce a resolution fixing a day in May for the adjournment of the session sine die, He has promised to comply with their request. Proposed Telegraph Lines Connecting the Posts Along the Indian Fronticr. The Commitire on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives have made a favorable report on the bill to provide tor the better protection of the frontier settlements of Texas against Indian and Mexican depredations by lines of telegraph. The committee say the importance of the measure can- not be over-estimated. It will connect the military posts upon an exposed frontier with each other and with the military headquarters of the district and of the division. It has been urgently recoin- mended by the general commanding the district and by the General of the Army and the Secretary of War, and repeatedly called to the attention of Congress, and, as a matter 01 economy, the same | lle service. | gress will to some extent provide more definite | thing lixe the amount of cost to the government, which is estimate) by competent officers to be leas than the amount required to support one company of cavalry for one year, The committee urge upon Congress the importance of this measure, ‘The line, if built, would connect the posts between the Red River and the Rio Grande at some convenient point with Austin, San Antonio and Waco. BAL to Restore the Indian Management to the War Department. The Indian question will soon come beiore the House, and give rise to much discussion. The Committee on Indian Affairs are maturing meas- ures which look toa change in the management of Indian affairs, dispensing with the present Board of Indian Commissioners, and restoring the Management to the War Department. A bill will also be reported from that com- mittee to more effectually carry into effect the Indian iniercourse act rigidly excluding spir- ituous liquors, Already a bill has been reported | with a view to securing publicity to the acts of | Indian agents by giving ready access to their bonds, and a general reform in Indian agencies will be recommended. Many gentlemen repre- senting various interests, are desirous of being heard before the Committee on Ways and Means on the subjects of tariff and interna! revenue, but the committee have necessarily to restrict such hearings for want of time. The bill tor the cor- rection of errors in the present tariff act and em- bodying amendments to conform to judicial de- cisions is still pending, The Financial Question, ‘The consideration of the financial question will be resumed by the Committee of Ways ana Means this week, there being several measures concern- ing it before them. Some of the members look upon the Committee On Banking and Currency 83 an embarrassment to the Committee of Ways and Means and unnecessary, as the latter has to m2- ture the ways and means to carry on the govern- ment, their fanctions being necessarily connected With the currency ana the public securities, The Investigation Into tne Landaulet Practices of the Department of Jus- tice, The House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice at their meeting yesterday adopted a resolution that the investigations to be conducted by the committee be made at meetings regularly held, and that they shall cover the trans- actions and disbursements of the Department or Justice from its organization, The Attorney Gen- eral has been requested to appear before the com- mittee on Wednesday next to furnish such intor- mation as may be deemed necessary for the pur- pose of enabling the committee properly to dis- charge their duties, The investigation will cover @ large range of expenditures, involving those of United States Marshals and others in the execu- tion of the Enforcement law, for contingencies, allowances and the expenses generally of the ju- dicial system. The investigation has also for its object the correction of abuses which may be found to exist. More Definite Regulation of Expend- itures to be Made. The committees which have been examining heads of departments and chiefs of bureaus have almost entirely tailed to obtain information from them in the direction of economy, and will, there- fore, act upon their own judgment, with the ascer- tained facts concerning the workings of the pub- Although put little retrenchment is expected in the civil list, itis believed that Con- | | means than now exist for the expenditures of large sums Of money, especially in the Treasury Depart- ment, in connection with loans and the printing of notes and securities, The Frauds Upon the Washington Monu- ment Fund. General Chipman, the Delegate representing the District of Columbia in Congress, has called upon the government of the Washington Monument fund to show how much they have received in donations from the American people, They will evade an answer, as it would then appear that enough has been given to have completed the monument, but that so much has been appropri- ated by agents that it is only partially finished. The sooner that the charter 1s cancelled and an engineer Officer placed in charge the better. The Senate Loath to Take Part in the District Investigation. Some of the Senators are opposed to the Senate taking part in the investigation of the affairs of the government of the District of Columbia, not only on account of the pressure of committee business, but because it is thought the House se- lect committee is sufficiently able to conduct the investigation without the concurrence of the Sen- ate. And it has been privately urged that there is a manifest impropriety in the Senate taking part in the investigation, because it charges of flagrant wrong should actually be established, involving the oficial standing of some of the parties accused of improper conduct, it might devolve upon the Senate to take action other than in a legislative capacity. Detect in the Postal Laws Regarding Bids for Mail Contracts. The Post Office laws require that bidders for mail contracts shall deposit guarantee checks on some national bank to the extent of five per cent, payable to the order of the Postmaster General. It has been discovered that some of the checks have been made payable to the order of John Cres- well and others to the order of John A. Crewell instead of John A. J. Creswell, Postmaster General, and others to the order of the Second Assistant Postmaster General, all in good faith; but, in con- sequence of these informalities, the bids of those giving such checks will be ruled out under the law. Inorderto cure the defect Representative Luttrell yesterday brought the subject to the at tention of the Postmaster General, who has pre- pared a bill for that purpose, and which Mr. Luttrell will introduce in the Mouse to-morrow. As the pending proposals for mail service on the Pacific Coast and other sections are affected by the informalities it is supposed the bill will be passed at an early day. Justice to Inventors by the House Come mittee on Patents. The House Committee on Patents will, probably, at their next meeting adopt a series of rules to govern them in the consideration of the business | before them. The rules were considered on Friday, but there was not a full atttndance of members, It is known that, heretofore, bills have been reported trom that committee for extensions and passed, when the persons interested had little or no standing at the Patent Office in the merits of their claims, or when the cases did not clearly come under the Patent OMce law. In other words, } there has, in former Congresses, been special | legislation for the benefit of particular parties, irrespective of ita effect on the public at large. But the present committee propose to give the patentee, who has not realized money on useful inventions and whose rights have been infringed, an opportunity to have a fair hearing before the Patent OMce in behalf of an extension of his patent, and where it ts shown that an inventor or patentee has been largely or reasonably compen- sated and not presenting sufficient reasons for an extension they will, of course, report adversely. The Proposed Re-establishing of the New Orleans Mint. The Committee on Appropriations have reached the question of re-establishing the New Orleans Mint, ana to-morrow Representative Sheldon, of | Louisiana, will deliver an argument before the committee, Sumner’s Opposition to the Philadelphia mtennial Exposition. Charles Sumner {3 opposed to the holding of an international exposition at Philadelphia in con- nection with the centennial celebration of our national independence, and through his influence the Massachusetts Legislature has re(used to in- struct the Senators and Representatives from that State to give it their atd. This augurs badly for the success of the demand to be made for $10,000,000 of national aid. Penitent Patterson, of Credit Mobiler Immortality. Ex-Senator Patterson, of New Hampshire, is | here, hoping to obtain from the Senate a reversion | of the anarr ey pronounced on him by the report PI nted at the close of the session of 1873, and unacted on, Recognition of Vice-Consul. ‘The vresident has recognixed Antonio A., Manos Provection cannot oyherwise be secured ay avy- , his own chara cter to take care of Will assert your | i you had made “a vigorous attack’ the “rebels | persons of high offictal position, repeatedly de- | Offence in auy case it must be positive and | only . 28 Vice-Cousul of Vonezucia. at New Yorks FITZ JOHN PORTER Montgomery Blair on the Ilegal- ity of the Court Martial. A Soldier Sacrificed for Political Profit—The | Prosecution Bigoted and Fartisan— “Pablic Justice Will Yet Come.” WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1874, The following ia the letter of Montgomery Biatr im fui, which has recently been referred to as showing the justice of General Porter's demand for @ rehearing on account of new testimony ia his case :— WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 1874, To Maso® GENkRAL Fits JOHN PoRkreR, Morris- | town, N. J. Deak GeNERAL—You ask me what can be done to get your case reviewed by the adininistration, Nothing thati know ol. They probably see some troubie and no political advantage ip it and will letit alone. You can get all you really want; the vindication, if any is yet needed, of your good Raiwe in the minds of the people, by getting abie and distinguished lawyers who command the pub- le confidence to review tie record and pronounce their judgment on it, Judge Curtis and Daniel Lord and Keverdy Johnson and otuers have jven you their ciear and positive opimion. I have no doubt Mr. Evarts and Mr. U'Conor and Mr. Baruevt and Judge Slack would give you the same opinion, ‘fhese are among she great lawyers ot the day. Men of their stamp would not reluse to do justice toa true soldier sustering under a great | wrong. No wan o! sense will regard against their | Jucgusent the finding of all the courts marital or | commissions or boards that ever were packed. I do not mean to disparage military courts iairly constituted, But te same securiues against pre- | judice, bias and interest are required in them as in all tribunals. Undoubtediy you ure ENTITLED TO A HBARING by the President, You are under sentence of dis- qualification which is still inf and course of | execution, If it were an executed sentence ne might say it was final in law, and rid bine sell of it in that way; but as tue case is [ consider 1% to be his clear duty on an application to the pardoning power, with show ol probable cause, to look into it, and | IChe finds the sentence unjust to issue bis pardon, Of course you do not Want bis pardon, and would | refuse to accept it unless he puts it ou tue grouud ol your innocence. But your application does not lie only to the purdoning power. Many precedents | and @ positive statute imdicate a more complete remedy in such & case Of gross injustice. he President may restore you with conseut of the Senate. Undoubtedly it is its duty 1! public justice requires it. Itis not a mere matier of Executive | favor, 1 do not see how he can refuse to declare hig judgment of your entire innocence tf | he will examine the new evidence, It is | largely evidence from the side of the enemy, which you could not procure during the war. It refutes utterly tue conjectural fnd- ings of the court martial, You are as much en- tilled to this evidence as Bazaine was to the testi- mony of the German princes and generals. Ido hot say that tuis new evidence 14 necessary to ‘our vindication. I believe with Judge Curtis and | ir, Johnson and Mr, Lord that you are entitled to @ juli and honorable acquittal on the evidence at the trial; but the new evidence leaves no peg to | hang a doubt on. No Judge Advocate wuoo has guilt in the face of such evidence, ‘The public, 1 think, wilt now look at your case fairly, and no longer through a gliss darkly of party Jecling. When they tried you the War De- partment wanted to excuse POPK’S DEFEAT and their share of the business. That honest and able man, Secretary Welles, tn his deience of Mr. Lincoln, teils how Stanton met the emergency. He charged the blame on McClellan, He demanded of Mr. Lincoln bis instant dismissal He tried to en- gage the whole Cabinet in it. He tried to get them all to sign @ paper drawn by him to compel Mr. Lincoln's consent. But Mr. Lincoln thought Mc- Clelian only couid rally the army, and he went to him and asked him to resume the command. That put a check on the business till McClellan was finaliy removed, and then the charges were worked up against you. The prosecution went on the ground that “the Army of Virginia” (Pope's army), Which got in benind the defences of Washington, “had uobly perlormed the arduous and peril- ous work committed to it, Its campaign was marked by signal vigor and ability.” And would have been overthrown," and “Jackson's army” (neither within your reach nor in the habit of being captured aud destroyed, uniortunately for us), destroyed or captured; aud that, ior “the escape of that army” and the ‘calamities and un- told grief of our peopie” im the ensuing years of the war you were Chargeable. There was NOT ONE WORD OF TRUTH in all this. It nad scarcely any color, from the | evidence at the trial. And now the new evidence | sweeps away the woole ground of it. Sulll fear that neither the party, as a whole, nor the admin- istration, will take the trouble to do you justice, although you have the testimony o! a personal and political iriend of President Lincoln that at the time of his death he purposed a rehearing of your case, by which evi- dence, Don-aitainable during hostility, might be adduced tv your favor; an act so like his just | and generous Nature! And aithough you had the | cordial assistance of President Fillmore and other claring your sentence an unjust one, aud although you have bad presented the opinion of General Sherman, that you could “with propriety peution the President to review your case, to remit so much ot the sentence as prevents you from hold- ing office, and to nominate you jor some position, the same as or similar to that held by you in the regular army at the time you were dismissed ;”” and although you have in your possession, with Which to ever command the attention and respect | of the patriotic people of the country, the assur- | ance or THAT GREAT SOLDIER, GENBRAL GEORGE H. THOMAS, that “he could safely assert that not one of your old army iriends believed for one moment that the finding of the Court was just, and that it was unk vVersaily believed that the Court had been misied,’” And although Vice President Wilson, and Horace Greeley, and Governor Curtin and Senators sher- man, Foster and Harris, with many otuer dis- tinguished leaders of the administration party, have recommended to the President the revision you ask tor—still I fear your case must walt. A FALSE ARGUMENT, | One false argument has been used against you | With the public—that you disobeyed orders; and “disobedience of orders,’? with or without serious consequences, is a military crime that justifies the sentence. Now, the public do not know that the first part Of Chis proposition is not true in tact, and the second is not military law. Disobedience of orders, according to the motive and circumstan- ces, 18 an Offence Of the highest or lowest grade. It may deserve death or a simple reprimand, In small matters, and without wrong intention, it 18 not to be regarded seriousiy. Yo be a serious wiltul, If (it proceed tion, from honest motives, from — siucere sense of duty, it may be proot of incapacity, but it is no crime. Even the best officers may have to plead such excuses, Military | lle gives irequent occasion for them. “No com- mander,” a great historian tells us, “was as in- | duigent to such errors” as the great Napoleon, | and “no master Was so faithfully served.’ Even | when Grouchy fatied him at Waterioo, though he thought it as “strange asi an earthquake had met uis army and swallowed «it up,” ne was still just and generous enough finally to doubt whecher | “it Was treachery Or Only misiortune.” It 1s estab- lished that you were not amenable to either | charge. from —_msconcep- BLIND OBEDIENCE TO ORDERS, In regard to the obitgation of orders and “blind. obedience” to them, the same great master of war has inculcated that absolute, unreasoning, blind obedience 1s only due when the commander who gives the order is present. If he be absent, and | the subordinate is clear thatthe order was made | in i§norance and error of the situation, and that the commander, if present, would not make it, he | is allowed to exercise his own best judgment as to | the execution of it, A grave responsibility of course devoives on him. A selfish, stupid man, may say the order is positive—iet the blame be on him who gave it; but that1s pot the suggestion of @ high and true sense of public duty. In your case orders which you were convicted of disobeying you were relieved and discharged irom im express terms. The first or joint order to Gen- eral McDowell and yourself—omitted by Mc- DoweN’s word and act—directed “it should not be carried out if any considerable advantages were to be gained by departing trom it,’ and this dis- cretion was availed of all that day so successiully as to keep Lee from throwing all his forces on Pope's scattered army. The otner or last order— known 4s the half-past four P. M. order—even if it had not arrived too late for execution, directed | you to advance on the exposed flank of Jackson’s army. It was not Jackson's fank belore you but Lee and Longstreet in overwhelming torce. ‘Ihe | wounds by following directions of the Dave nos the least doubt: I believe tne always prevail in the end, ~ frucn wilt PUBLIC JUSTIOR WILE YET COME, It is no new thing to sucrifice a soldier to serve @ political cause. byng's case is one of those which are the opprobrium of “military justice.” No his. torlan, no writer of any party in England deiends it, Yet, at the time, no man of hw party, except Pitt, had the brave and hovest heart to remom strate with the bigot King against that shameful prurder. The like iniquity was attempted a; Admiral Keppel, “Ove of the greavest and best men of his age,’’ say# the est of Engtish writers, aud o the eternal disgrace of the nation,” with likelthood of success, but for the | popular outery, Public justice will yet come te YOUF rescue, “YOURS Hay OMERY BLAIR, INDIA. 3 Famine Extending in the Provincas? TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Feb, 0, 1878. A special despatch tothe 7imes reports that tae famine has extended to Nepaul. PROPOSED REDUCTION OF TAXATION. PRESS The following communications of the Mayor angy* Comptroller relative to the reduetion of the este mates jor the support of the city and commty gov- ernment during the year 1874 nave been jorwarded to A:bauy, and will be presented to the Legisia- ture this week, The suggestions made by the Comptrolier for accomplishing a reduction of tax~ ation are embodied in two accorapanying bilts, one of which relates to the city and the other to tne county estimates :— oy Executive Deranrwexr, Ory Wat New Yous, Fob. 4, 1874. To rae Hononsntx rux Leoisiatoux Oy tux! Stare oF New York :— T have the honor to transmit herewith two bills in re- lation to the estimates and uppropriations for the sup} rtof the government of the city aud count York, together with @ coinmunica iio troller of the city respecting the sane. I recommend their passage. The interests of the city require that they be acted upon at the earliest practi-abie period. Wik great respect, , Fy HAV EMEYER, Mayor of the city ot New York. Ciry or New York Derantuent or Pixaycn, > Comprrouixn's Orercx, January 24 1874.” § To the Hon. Wiutiam f. Havemkyen, Mayor — 1ik:—The Bowrd of Estimate and Apportionment tm December last, acting under the statute, made the ap- Propriations for the year L874, Inciuded in these appropriations were certalm smounts which the board was compeiled, by the terms of the law, toinsert. These, with the additional burden throwa upon the tax-payers by the increase of the State tax: by ihe snaneeee ‘of the SORES of be late le debt, by the increased expenses occ: nexation of the Twenty-third and Twenty-rourth irda, and by the addition of certain sums to be patd out of tax- ation, which heretofore have been provided tor by bonds, will require a tax rate for 1876 of $3.40-100. Taxa- tion to this extent will be too great a burden. I have heretofore iniormed you that it can and ought to be reduced. In order to accomplish it further legisia- tion is necessary; and I have prepared, and submit here- with, two acts authorizing the Board of Apportic to Tevise aud redetermine the approprialioas fof the ear 7 Mould the Legislature promptly pass the ae laws, the impending burden of taxes sor 1874 can Be re- duced; if, however, a third or a quarter of the year is suifered to elapse before the Hoard ot Apportionment is Authorized to act, its power to reduce the expenditures will be proportionately lessened. os haces if, on examination, you approve these acts, here submitted shall be much obliged if you will transmis them to the Legisiature with such coms em proper. respec Par i GhiseN, Comptroller. TERRIBLE BAILROAD ACCIDENT. A Passenger Killed and Three Wounded-« The Shattered Car Barned to Ashes. RUTLAND, Vt., Feb. 8, 187% The rear car of train No, 6 on the Rensselaer an@ Saratoga Raiiroad, leaving Whitehall at ten minates: past four o’ciock P, M. yesterday, was thrown from the track one mile south of Fort Ann. The car went into the ditch and was burned up in twenty minutes, Five passengers were in the car when It ran off One was killed, two were hurt badly and one wap burt slightly. All were taken from the burning car through the top of the door before the fire reached them. Tne name of the person killed was Samuel Crans- ton, a contractor on the New York and Canada Railroad, who resided in Cohoes, N. Y. The names of the injured are:—Ira Wright, & conductor on the Rensselaer and Saratoga Rall road, though not in caarge of the train; Mr. Daley, @ brakeman on the train, who resides in troy, ‘and William Van Bramer, of Whitehall, The killed and wounded were taken on the train, which proceeded, with only thirty-five min utes’ delay. Mr. Cranston’s neck was broken. FIRE ON BROADWAY. A fire broke out last night in the basement of the six story iron building. No, 371 Broad- way, that caused a damage of $200,000, The basement and first and second floors were occupied by ©. B. Russe, fancy goods, Stock totally destroyed. The third and upper floors were occupied by N, Friedman & Co., white lace goods, The fire was in progress at the ‘hour of | going to press. FIRE IN RIVINGTON STBEET. Afire broke out yesterday morning at No. ié Rivington street, that caused a damage of $5,000. The house is a six story brick and used as a paper hanging manulactory. The building was injured to the extent of $2,000. Cause unknown. THE SIAMESE TWINS, The Dissection to Take Place To-Day. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb, 8, 1874. The examination of the bodie: of Chang and Eng will, it 18 definitely understood, take place in the College of Physicians about noon to-morrow. No person will be admitted unless he is a memoer of the college, aud all present will be pledged to secrecy. SUICIDE IN ST, LOUIS. St, LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 8, 1874. T. R. Hatch, suppoged to be the travelling agent ofsume New York house, was found dead in his room at tne Planters’ House last evening with the top of his head nearly blown off by a pistol shot, fired by his own bands, Died. MONAGHAN.—On Sunday, February 8, after a, short iliness, OWEN MONAGHAN, io the 76th year of his age. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 9 Centre rally place, on Tuesday, Feb, 10, at two o’clock P. M. (For Other Deaths see Third Page) A.—3,000 Pairs Self er ae Coa t on and off without using the hands, an ROLE BOUTS AND SUOES, at BROOKS 1190 Broad way, corner Twenty-uinth street. A.—Herald Branch Office, corner Fulton avenue and Boerum street. Open trom 8 A. M, to 9 P. M. On Sunday from 8 to 9 P. M. Brooklyn, “A Guide to Sacce: igg? 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If you, had sacrificed your corps ou could not have pleaded the order jor ft. Orders must be obeved in good faith; the letter will not justly aby act in fraud. of the true intent and spirit. | General McClean asserts and distinguished om. } cers coincide in the opinion that you acted with | excellent judgment and ability in the case. It is clear theré was no technical disobedience of or- pa ULL AND YOLD. THE TRIAL NULL ’ You will, when you get an honest hearing, have the trial set aside as null and void. The arviice of making a staf oMcer sign the charges in lieu of the military commander, to evade the law which allows a court to be appointed and detaned by the President in such a case ag yours, is a fetch gnd contrivance of no, Validity inlaw. The court detailed by General Halieck for Mr. Stanton was im jaw no court, and there has been bo triat and there is no legal verdict or sentence against you. 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