The New York Herald Newspaper, February 13, 1874, Page 5

CUBA. The Patriots on the March to the Central Department, A GREAT SCARE IN HAVANA. The Public Mind Being Prepared for the Draft. Death of Francisco Maceo—Interesting Letter from Cuba Libre—The Ova- tion to Lucca in Havana. Havana, Feb. 7, 1874. Phe Voz de Cuda this morning publishes the etter of @ volunteer of the Filth battalion, in which he communicates that reliavle intelligence has just been received from the Eastern Depart- Ment that the greater part of the rebel forces of that district, with the Marquis of Santa Lucia at their head, are on the march to the Central De- partment. The reliable parties who furnish this a declare that it is the intention of the Msurgents to strike one or two effective blows in the Central Department, pass on to the Cinco Villas, raise that jurisdiction and then commence their work of destruction in the Western Department. The writer of this com- munication calls this project simply diabolical, the Fealization of which, by bringing the war into thie, the Westerd Department, would be the defl- nite ruin of the island, and should be opposed, at all Bazards, by every loyal Spaniard. Then the writer declares the decisive hour, ao often announced, has arrived, and urges the necessity for every good Spaniard to comply with his duty, for there ta me other remedy to prevent the lossof Spanish nationality in Cuba within a short time, AB a proof that this letter is but one step in the many preparatory to 4 GENERAL LEVY, the writer goes on to say that itis publicly declared that the preparations for a general armament which everybody demands are already terminated, and that it will take place within a few days, and it ts declared to be the only salvation of the coun- try; for, says he, ‘itis a vain hope to expect any farther reinforcements from Spain ; for, even should they arrive, they would be few in number and of but Mttle importance.” Meantime the writer proposes that while the new levies are receiv- ing necessary instractions and drill the different corps of volunteers shall go imto campaign, distributed, as may be founa mecessary, throughout the different departments, “The forces of the enemy are not numerous, and 8 few thousand men would be sufficient to anni- hilate them,” confidently adds this bold volunteer, forgetiing that since the beginning of the iusur- rection the forces of the enemy have always been @espised, and already many times has it been de- clared that the insurrection was on its last legs, and that afew more thousand men would bring about its complete annibilation. Already 80,000 wen have come from Spain for this pur- pose within the past five years, and the insurrection to-day 1s stronger than ever, as i acknowledged even by the Spaniards them- selves, This volunteer adviser, although admit- ting that he 1s not a milltary man, says that every effort should now be directed to preventing the Mmsurrection irom passing the trocha (military Mime) between Jucaro and Moron; every sacrifice should be made toward this end; the insurrection must be finished without being allowed to pene- trate into the rich districts of the West, which have Jong supported the army and the cause of Spain in Cuba. The Voz de Cuba declares that it is entirely in accord with this letter, and admits that the concentration of the enemy is already of long date, and to this concentration is due the two or three sdvantages which the insurgents have obtained by attacking isolated columns of government forces, The Voz admits the necessity for a number Of forces almost as large as those already in the Meld, as the force of circumstances has caused Jarge bodies to be stationed at placcs wherever an attack from insurgent forces might be ‘expected, thereby leaving but few men available for offensive field operations. The insurgents, remarks the Voz, have nothing to Keep watch and ward over; they have no parks of artillery to guard, no military stures, not even er, to look after; their en- campments are built in a iew hours, of palm branches, occupied perhaps as long, and as casily abandoned, and in this respect they have an im- meose advantage over the Spauiards, It calistora vigorous campaign vo wipe out at once the insur- rection, which nas done so much damage for the past five years, and deciares that the great neces- si of the moment is that when the voice of a@utisority shall be heard calling ior the indis- pensavle and necessaty forces to carry this pur- Pose ito effect jt shall be oveyed. ‘he foregoing, trom the Voz de Cuda, !s given to show that, wiille admitting the strength o1 the in- surrection and tacitly confessing the impotence of the Spanish forces against it, strenuous efforts are Deing made for more men, and the mind of the public is being gradually prepared by means of editorial articles, letters, supposed communica tions, rumors, &c., 1or the drait, to which public ooene ts now very generally épposed. Indeed, it 1g probabie, should this extreme measute be de- eed, that it will be resisted by the volunteers emseives, even those who are the must clamor- ‘Ous Jor it, out belleve tn tue Artemus Ward styie of wartare, “all their relations, but not themseives.”” ‘the following extracts, taken froma letter dated Deeemver 24, 1873, written by @ prominent insur- geut chief in the district of Bayamo to his parents, are nut only interesting On account o/ showing THH CONFIDENT AND HOPEFUL SPIRIT prevailing in the insurgent ranks, but because they confirm Nt eat news already previousiy furnished to the HeRaLp in reference to the desti- tut.on oi President Cespedes, the conduct of miil- tary operations and the general state of affairs in ‘the insurrection :— To-day I have the pleasure of announcing to you that Kam ensrely cured ot my wouna, and that soon i will be iound ut the post to which Lain assigned. there to <3 ©on inue assisting, with my moral and materiat powers, the emancipation of our patria. There will I await eheertully the end which Providence may have decreed for me; there will I see, in union with my companions, full of joy, the grand day of the final redempuon of Cuba; oF ‘there, serene, will 1 receive, mayhal Sor § death of the patriot. Lam prepare wy that may happen. Lhive always told you, ‘the 7b of April, 1309, the mournful day I separated trom Jou that never has the flattering idea crossed my mind ry the would see you again; out never have I felt so full ‘Of satisiaction as when I have thought that perhaps for al red the felicity of giving up my lite on me also is re the battle ground, forming, with many others, a holo: eaust to the hberty of our patria. In one of my previous letters I indicated that I would obably be ordered to serve in this district (Bayamo), ‘use it being the one which has all my sympathies t had requested to be ordered to duty here: but as—al- though it appears a joke—we are soldiers and have not even the right to our lives, God knows where the goveru- nt will think fit to place me. First I was assigned to the place of chief of stat of the division, which | dis ed until L was younded; but now, although: nothin pfficial has been colnmunicated to me, it i likely that ‘will be sent to Santiago de Cuba or to the district of Hol- guin. Liwill gov content, wherever I may be ordered, Iris Cuba, and for this reason {t is the same in ome part as another. I do not remember if I informed you in any of my pre- ‘vious letters of the death of the gullant patrician, Pancho Maceo. As you know, he devoted his services to the eet to which he gave ail his support. He died ‘While tate smiied on him, when, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, he hoped to labor with in the new govern- ment Cuba nas lost in Maceo one of her most useful en and bis numerous friends a good comrade and ther. As to myself his disappearance from our circle has been most painful tor me, He always treated me ‘with tavor anc d for me has been otten proved by deeas. When C edes Wax deposed and he became thi of the new Cabinet, he offered to me the Chancellorship of the Treasury. a Dost which T did not wish to accept, but which he kept vacant for me until his death. Peace to the ashes of this good ser- ‘vant of our adiicted country, OUR MILITARY OPRRATIONS Continue to be carried on with activity, as Calixto Garcia has been appointed Chiet of the Eastern Departmen which to-day extends to Las Tunas, and, with several thousan: men under his orders, the crass wili not grow under his feet, I have said nothing ay % VIRGINIUS DISASTE! because you course, better advised than we are, and because is made’ so little impression upon us, although undoubtedly @ loss of some consideration, that Semen nothing beyond regretting the fate of our Letters from the insurrectionary district dated on the 10th of January say that sew days previ- ously General Caltxto Garcia attacked the villa; of Corraiito, seizing an immense number of cattle and live stock. The Spaniards left their tntrench- ments, but were bravely attacked by the Cuban troops in a charee and riven back into the fort, leaving be! im twelve n rifles, On the t the amie pisces brilliant ich lasted eight hours, Th 18 Were about 900 to 1,000 furoed toretrost into nels noel pmsnie, closely beset and pursued by the patriots, leaving in their treat forty Killed and many arms, Their total joss is calculated at 200. The Cuban loss in killed @nd wounded was sixty. The Spaniards were not totally routed, thanks to their taking up positio pn high ground, which gave ; that no private tudividuals can be found in good ‘Institute, on the subject of “Edmuna Burke.” them “great advan- | Total.errevsserederereeres tage, Dut from wnicn tne Cul them. In these efforts the triots gave out and they were obliged to suspend Operations, ‘The entire battle took piace in open Belda and the enthusiasm of the patriots ts bound- Jess, All compete it Lravery and valor, 8 OPERA, Mme. Lucca had her beneft last night. The ‘acon Theatre was crowded trom pit to dome, Bhe received most enthusiastic applause and all kinds of fSattering ovations, Gy wreaths, doves, pigeons, &c., Were thrown at her teet. Tiect avalanche of fowers fell upon the stage— de. She was called at least twelve times beiore the curtata. Her Ty irers pre- sented her with a laurel crown, wrougut in ailver, of beautiful design and workmanship. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. To Tux EDITOR OF THE HuRALD:— Jobserve in the Washington items of your issue of this morning the following statement in regard to the “Tehuantepec” route :— ‘The report of the route examined and surveyed by Captaid Shufeldt—Tehuantepec—is laid aside by the commission until they shall have been able to safisfagtorily iniorm themselves :egarding the gur- veys at Nicarauga and Napipl. This 1s lor the rea- son that Captain Shufeldt’s report presents little more than an examination of his route, It con- tains no estimates of the work required anda doubtiul recommendation of its feasibility with anv means short of national resources, ‘The surve 8 of Captains Lull and seliridge present compiete estimates and earnest recommenuations, ‘The ‘Work O1 each of these officers has been that of the surveyor, though @ civil engineer has been en- gaged with each party, whose report is an appen- ix to their own. ‘This statemeut ts, I fear, calculated to do injus- tice to that route and incidentally to myself. For the purpose, so /ar as possible, of correcting any misapprehension which may result from itl beg leave to say:— THE PRIMARY PROBLEM SOLVED. First—Tuat the expedition was organized by my- self tor reconnoissance only, it occupied a period of five months, and resulted in solving the primary problem, viz. :—F 1s a0 uniailing source of water supply at the summit levei sufficient to fill a canal of the following dimensions :—162 teet top breadth, 60 tees bottom breadth, 42 feet depth, These dimensious were assumed, be- cause the utility Of tals canal was based upon its geographical, commercial and political position With reiereuce to the domestic trade o1 the United States, To develop our own trade, to bring the East and the West ot our own country in juxtapo- sition, to complete & water route asa competitor to the transcontinental railway syatem are the main objects Of un interoceanic canal. SO iar ag the people of ae United States are immediatey concerned, to hold that route within our own con- trol and to locave 1t Within our own waters ought tobe the ovjects of the government, It strikes iunpolitic to build a can 1 which in time of ce would throw open the commerce of the Pa- cific to the easy competition of surope, or in time of war would enable any naval Power to control it. NO ESTIMATES YET CONTEMPLATED, It was not contemplated to estimate for this work, Estimates, uniess based upon the most careiul investigation oi every i00t of the route, are jallacious ana culcuiated to mislead. We neither jad the men nor the money to make such a survey, and it Was 80 expressly stated in my final report, THE FEASIBILITY OF THE CANAL ig doubted as a pecuniary investment on the part of capitalists, but is recommended as a national undertaking, because we ail know that the Suez Canal Was ouilt, in pomt of tact, by the French government; that its nominal stock does not begin to represent its real cost, and that even upon that stock 1t does not yield a paying divi- dend. We have no reason toexpect that a canal across this Contipent can be constructed on more Javorable or less expensive conditions, It is fair to assume that with the knowledge of the cost of the Suez Canal and tne remuneration, either present or prospective, to its stockholders, together with the fact that this was built, to a very great extent, yd forced labor under & des- Ppollc government, it is fair,1 say, to assume daith to undertake a work of such magnitude on this Continent at the present day. 1 believe that a treaty with Mexico, so far ag Tehuantepec is concerned, could be made by which that country might issue bonds for the construction of a canal aud the United States, as an offset to certain mill- tary and Mercantile concessions, might guarantee the interest upon them. We look ior remunera- tion to the imt.ense benefits accruing to the coun- try by the opening of a route which will go far towards solving the question of “cheap transpor- tation.” ADVANTAGES OF OTHER SURVEYS, Second—the surveys at Darien and Nicaragua are more thorough, because they have occupied much more time. That of the first, under Com- mander Selfridge, has been in progress Jor nearly three years, and that at Nicaragua, under Com- mander Lull, having also had tae advantages o1 a previous and thorough survey, made by Colonel Child, These reports are of course more complete, and their estimates, | presume, reliaole. ON THE BASIS OF ABSOLUTE FACTS, Third—in my report on the return of the survey. ing expedition trom Mexico I referred the Navy Department to the accompanying report of the Chief Civil Engineer, wno, tron his attainments and experience, was in every way calculated to give the subject that scientific accuracy which the object demanded. A work which before it is begun must challenge the criticism of the world, so far us [am con- cerned, was placed belore the government upon the vasis of absolute tacts and the deductions of a competent expert, To the limited extent of my own knowledge of the last and my own personal inspection of the first lam wAling to stake my reputation. Professor Fuertes, the Chief Civil Engineer, is now in the faculty of Cornell Univer- sity. It is proper to add tbat almost immediately | aiter my return irom Mexico [ went to sea and | the report was leit to the revision of others, Now, alll ask jor myself is the credit oi having | organized this expedition, actuated by the sole | hope of benefiting the country, and the permission | to express the belief that when this question 13 understood in all its bearings the isthmus o/ Te- huantepec will ve found to possess advantages which this country cannot agord to ignore. R, W. SHUFELDT, Captain United States Navy. NAVY YaRD, New York, Feb. 10, 1874, — ~"" EDMUND BURKE, ~ Lecture by Richard O'Gorman, Last evening @ lecture was delivered by Mr. | R Richard O'Gorman in the great hall of the Coover ‘The hall was crammed, every seat being occupied, and nearly half of the audience were ladies, The jecture was under the auspices of the St. Mary’s Li- brary Association, connected with St, Mary’s Roman Catholic church, at the corner of Grand and Ridge | streets, ana for the benefit of the library and read- | ing room. There were a large number of clergymen and citizens upon the platiorm, among others the Kev. Fatuers a 2 Galligan, Baxter, McEvoy, Judge William ane and Jonn Maially. Rev. Father OReilly, pastor of St. Mary's | church, introduced the orator of the eyen- ing, Richard O'Gorman, who was received with loud applause. The eloquent gentle- | man depicted the struggles, life, genius, learning | and patiovism of the great Irish statesman in a lowing manner; but, as the lecture has previously ‘en delivered by Mr. O'Gorman, it is not neces- | sary to enter into its details. WHERE I8 HAMILTON? A Reward Offered tor His Capture—A: other Absconding Employe. The most conflicting rumors in regard to Ham- fiton’s whereabouts were afloat in Jersey City yes- terday. The story that Hamilton had beca cap- tured, a8 published in some of the afternoon papers, 1s @ pure invention. Mayor O'Neill, acting under the authority of the Legislature, has issued the fol- lowing prociamation :— Whereas Alexander D. Hamilton, late City Treasurer of Jersey City, isa defaulter to said city, and ab- sconded with the money, bonds and property of said city, embezzling and unlawiully taking the same while being Treasurer and 19.4 fugluve (rom justice, now, therelorcy I, Charles H. O'Neill, Mayor of Jersey City, by yirtus of authority in me vested by an act of the Legislature of New Jersey, passed and approved this day, being a supplement to the charter of Jersey ity, do hereby, in conformity with the. provisions of sald act, proclalin and oiler a reward of $2,500 tor the apprehen: sion and surrender of the sata Alexander D. tamilton {nto the custody of the sheriff of ‘the county ot) Hudson, in this said Stal hat the said Hamilton may thereatter be dealt with a to law, Given under my t Jersey City, this 1th day of February, 1874 ARLES H, O'NELLL, Mayor. Hamiiton’s example has not been lost on the community. Peter Harley, the familiar messenger | boy, so long employed at the City Hall, has left for parts unknown, leaving tis board bill for three mouths unpaid. When the city government passed into the hands of the commissions he was retained at the instance of Mayor O'Neill, He sold his war- rants for the aod three months and was heavily tn debt, although his salary was fixed at $900 a year. Another defalcatton was reported in the Finance Department of the city at nine o'clock last night, but no positive confirmation of the rumor coul be obtained. CITY AND OOUNTY TREASURT. Comptroller Green reports the following disburse- ments and receipts of the treasury yesterday :— DISBURSEMENTS, Claims paid (number of warrants 47), amount- hp etirsra vores SASL 186 Pay rolls (umber @ warrants 46), amounting to 24, Total (number of warrants Lund mounting to $459,792 RECEL From taxes of 1873 and interest. From arrears of taxes, assessme: From collection of assessments aud taterest. From market rents and {ees From water rents... va and 0 nses, Mayor’ 0 From urea hs Chey alias Office From sales of vitritie eben se From fees and fines, district courts, *Weart, to have the Jersey Olty Boulevard act re- 1; me | ido'were natives of the The Sale To-Day at Schenck’s. To-day at noon @ number of worke, whieh have been wittily announced as works of art, and which are entertaining and instructive examples of what Paint, brush and canvas can accomplish under un- favorable conditions, will be disposed of at the gal- lery of Mr, Schenck, No. 60 Liberty street. They consist, in great part, of casties on the Rhine, twi- light on the plains, sheepfolds, Italian landscapes, garden trophies, flowers, landscapes and cattle, spring-times, studies, still life, marimes, sea shore sunsets, brooks, Indian summers and other themes, Supposed to be selected /rom nature and expressed through the painter’s art. We do not precisely deny that these themes were taken from nature, but we venture te deny the existence, on this little earth, Of nature as here represented, ihe reality of the universe has always been a conviction dear to us, anu we stand speechless be.o.e @ displ like this, which shakes that conviction, or, at leam! insinuates that tnat portion of the umiverse o! which the sky aod tand, the lake and sca, the shore and ocean of earth consist, 18, ater all, & very different thing trom what our senses gave us iniormation of. 1u the midst of this dreary display it ts pleasant to Onserve some really genuine and excellent work, Work which 18 to the credit of Mr. Schenck to have retained, and which causes bim to ‘stil seem to possess the Judgment which none but his enemies have mitherto questioned, Among this work are some very pleasing pictures oy the late Mr, Kensett, am artist who, above aimost all his peers, had the art o1 putting upon canvas the passion of a dying sunset, of painting the last hour 0. day through all its varying moods of flery ardor and mnelting melancholy, ‘the Last Gleam’ leads tie list of this valuable and cherished minority, and then follow bali a dozen landscapes, sketches and stauies, One picture, No, 239, 1s announced “attributed to Kensert.”” Recently the continua tion and conclusion 01 “Edwin Drvod,” purporung | to have been communicated to a medtum by the spirit of the late Mr. Dickens, was puvlished, but literary apprectators remembered that Mr. Dick- cus spas aone them too much to deserve the impu- ation. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE, chorea Local Option Again Killed—The Stevens’ Battery To Be Soid—Ihe Jersey City Boulevard and the Freeholders. Loca? Option met with a virtual defeat in the House. A bill was introdaced a short time since to apply that measure. to Bloomfeld, a village a few miles from Newark, in Essex. county. It Was accordingly referred to the Judiciary Committee, who, after some deliberation, made an adverse report. Mr. Halsey called up this report yesterday, in order that the House might have an Opportunity to place itself on the record 1n refer- ence to this much-agitated question, He wag eus- tained by a vote of 45 tc 8 A discussion then commenced which consumed the forenoon seasion, involving the question, “Shall the report of the committee be concurred in? which resulted in the ollowing vote :— Yuas—Messrs, Adams, Albertson, Anderson, Baldwin, Carpenter, J.; Carse, Cole, Coombs, Cox,’ Dowdney, Ficegerald, Gifford, Gill, Henry, D.; Henry, 'T, %; Her: ring, Jones, Kirk, Lindsay, Lonan, Marter, McDonnell, McGill, Morrow, Mutchier, Patterson, Rabe, sheeran, Bkellinger, eeroen Sutphin, ‘ten Broeck, Vanderbilt, Vanduersen, Vanness, Ward, Wasnbur Nutt — Nays—Messrs. Burion, Budd, Carpenter, William B.; Carscalien, Conover, Voremus, Eldridge, Halsey, Hem: mingway, Hobart (Speaker), Hoppock, Howell, iszard, Langley, Magee, McGill, McKinley, Pope, schenck; Smith and Young—20. An act relative to the Stevens’ Battery, intro- duced by Mr. McPherson, opens with the tollowing preamble :— Whereas the war vessel known as the Stevens’ Battery has not been and cannot be finished on what the execu- tors ot Edwin A. stevens, deceased, have adopted and Dursued, as bie general plans fur the sum ot $1.0%,00, nor without large additional expenditure; and, whereas there now is and for a considerablé time past has been @ suit pending in the Court of Chancery of this State (originally instituted by the widow and iniant children of said kdwin A. Stevens against two ot the executors of said deceased—the Attor- ney General of this Stace and an adult daughter of said deceased), Involving ior judicial decision, among other things, the powers, rights and duties of said respect to finishing and alspos- this State hildren of sai deceased in and to said vessel, and the money appropri- ated by the will of said deceased to finish said vessel, and also the rights ot the heirs-at-law of Robert L. Stevens, | deceased, in and to said vessel; and’ whereas the dam Which separates the basin containing said vessel trom the water of Hudson River, and other pro- tections to said vessel, are believed to be insecure and lable to be at any time broken by the torce of the waters of said river or otherwiso, and great if not irreparable damage done thereby to suid vessel: and while the protection and preservation of said vessel, . since the work of finishing {i stopped, has been and will continue to be largely expensive to ‘said execuiors, the said vessel and its constituent parts have been aud will Continue to be (rapidly and larxely) ceterioraiing in quality and value, so that, unioss said vessel is disposed of at an early day ‘it will be of but small value to. any and will, be. substantially wasted and lost; heirs at law of Robert 1, Stevens in and to said vessel 18 that of @ part interest, in common with others, and the tate, if said vessel be adjtidged to it, can, under the permission ot Congress heretofore given, make No use ot Said vessel except to sellit, and said executors desire and intend f0 sell sald vessel’ In case it shall be adjudyed that they cannot or should not offer said vessel to the State as a present, and that the state shall not receive sald vessel. Here follow seven sections, which provide for the sale of said Stevens battery on an advertise- ment to be tssued sixty days alter the passage of this act, the proceeds to be paid into the Court of Chancery ana disposed of as the Chancellor shall @etermine, the purchaser or purchasers to be | given the privilege of using the docks Whereon the Stevens battery lies for a period of one year after “the purchase, | lor the purpose of finishing and removing said battery, and none other, A memorial accompa. | nied this will, signed by W. W. Shippen and 8. B. Doad, executors of E. A. Stevens, praying for the Passage of this act. Another bill, introduced by Mr. McPherson, em- powers the city of Hoboken to borrow money and | to issue bonds ior the same to pay | any indebtedness’ or lability existing | at the time of the passage of this bill In consequence of there being not sufMcient money in the city treasury not otherwise appro- riated to pay the same, said bonds not to be sold jr less than nminety-seven per cent of their par value, and the interest on such not to exceed seven per cent. The Mayor and Common Council shall have power by ordinance to provide by tax- ation for the payment of said bonds and interest thereon as the same shall become dug, An act in retation to the admission of attorneys, solicitors and counsellors who shail have resided in an adjoining State and become residents o1 this State, introduced by Mr. Jarrard, eave thatany citizen who shall have become a@ freeholder of the State and who shall have been five years and up- Wards an attorney and counsellor in the Supreme Court of the United States, may, on presenta- tion of 8 license to the Governor and a certificate from a Justice of the Peace certifying that said Justice had been personaliy acquainted with him for five years, and also a certificate as to his private character, &c., shali be admitted to practice in any court of adjudicatton in the State. Jen years is the ume fixed for counsellors residing and prac- tising In the adjoining States to enable them to be entitled to the same privilege. The Centennial billin the House was Eogrpones to next Monttay evening by a vote of 22 to 21. A determined effort is being made by the Board ol Freeholders of Hudson county, through their chairman, Mr. Startup, and their counsel, Mr. pealed, So that the freehoiders may take the con- struction of the same into their own hands. This new move meets with great opposition from prop- erty holders of Jersey City, who state that the pro- posed change would cost the city $4,000,000 ad- ditional if the freeholders undertake the work. PROTECTION FOR THE SCHOOLS, Demand of Citizens of the Eighth Ward for the Suppression of Vice. On the 28th of January last the HERALD published the petition of citizens of the Fifteenth ward to the Board of Education, esking the enforcement of the laws forbidding the maintenance of disorderly houses, Similar action is being taken by residents of the Eighth ward, who allege that their children attending the public schools are in danger of cor- ruption by contact with the loose characters who frequent houses of infamous character in the im- Mediate vicinity of the schools. An appeal to the Board, signed by many respectable citizens, has been submitted for consideration at the next meeting. ihe following is an extract trom the appeai:— In so much as the suppression of these honses is of | great moment two us we will, upon your application to | ANy one of os, furnish you With witnesses and other | Proofs of the tacts herein alleged; but in case you d cline, as such Boards, to Investigate and adopt the ne sary ‘measures to overpower and crush the evils com- plained of, we demand, as citizens, taxpayers and par- ents, that the schools be removed, at the earllest possible | moment, to some locality where their inmates shail be free trom the contagion of the vices and depravity which gow surrounds and almost overwhelms thi BROOKLYN MORTALITY RECORD. The Brooklyn Registrar of Vital Statistics has prepared the usual report, showing 173 deaths for the week ending February 7. The number is the | same as the previous week, 5 more than the cor- responding week of last year, 43 less than the cor- responding week of 1872; 82 deaths occurred among children under the age of 5 years, Only 2 deaths during this week are chargeable to the Six- vweenth ward. This ts the smaliest number that ts recorded tor two ra in that ward, The sixth ward has recorded this week 22 deaths, 11 of these belonging to tne xymotic or preventable class of diseases, such as Measies, scariatina, diphtheria and remittent fever, Consumption carried off 23 rsons, inflammation of the lungs, 14; bronchitis, ; convulsions, 10; Sphcie fever, 2; scarlet fever, j measles, 5, and smallpox. 1." Of the number United States, | reference to its place in the trench, as compared 4 a evr: NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. America vs, Canada. It may be remembered that when certainex- perts tn the ancient game of curling, from Canada, visited New York last winter, they struck terror tothe hearts of the lovers of the “roaring game’? in this victnity by thetr dexterity and the ease with which in game after game they carried off the palm, There ig some likelivood of the position of agaire being considerably altered if not entirely Feversed this season. An offer trom the well known ‘Four Brothers Club, of Canada,” to send on players was at once accepted by our burlers of the “channel stones.” xesterday morning seven members of that club, from Toronto and the township of Scarboro, arrived | Imm this city, The team is scarcely less redoubtable than the Toronto Red Jackets, who formerly hum- bled the pride of our jocal players, or than the Hamilton curlers, who ranked smong the cham- pions of the North on tnat occasion. 1t was, therefore, with some anxiety that those Interested | in the honor of America sougut the scene of the contest in Central Park. The preliminaries hav- ing ail been arranged against the coming of the expected visitors, no time was lost belore tne “stoues” were orougtt on to the ice out o! their | Tecesses, and brvuums shouldered by the contes- tants, it may be explained that the Four Broth- ers Club ts one of those affiliated with the Grand Nat.onal Curang Ciub of America, At the yearly meeting Of tuat organization @ seriés 01 matoaes is arranged jor medals given by the body. ‘The last meeting was heid wm ‘ioronto, and there the | club whose representatives are now in this city Was pitted against the st. Andrew's €lub ol New York, The match yesterday, therefove, lay be- tween the strangers and the sous o! St. Andrew for the G. N. C. , medal, besides having all the in- terest 01 an international contest. Piay was com- meNced about noon, and was o1 the most excitin qgescription, It is hardly necessary to tell oi all the humorous aspects of the game, the broad “Doric” oi sume of the players or the mysterious technicalities of a not altogether famuiar pastime. “goop her up,” “Play wi) the outside turn,” “Inwicking,” “Qutwicking” and other phrases | and expresstons served, by their strangeness and | the entmusiasm of tue players, to keep alive , the interest of a considerable number of on- | lookera. Tue ice was in excellent condition—that is, what is Kuown as “keen? —and remarkably Straight and level. 1¢ was impossible ior the most sagacious to divine the result, so equally did the scale of victory hang. From the outset it was fur- | ther evident that either the Canudiaua present Were less skilful shan the players of lust winter or Doririta of tae ART MATTERS. CURLING MATCH AT cENTRIL Pann. [ THE STRIKES. The Situation Unchanged—No New De- Velopments, Until yesterday Jate in the alternoona policeman had been stationed at the door of Messrs. Kerbs & Speiss, cigar manufacturers, No, 37 Bowery, with tne object of preventing any disturbances that might occur between the strikers and some of their fellow-operatives who have gone to work. The policeman assured @ reporter of the HERALD that there were some 160 hands at work. Upon in- quiry the bookkeeper of the tirm said he thougnt there must be some Ofty workmen in the shop, oue-hali of whom were returned strikers and Gie remainder “outsiders.” It will be remem- bered thar on Wednesday, while the manutactur- era claimed to have twenty returned hands at work, the lockouts positively asserted tat they had but one man and tive women. Upon going down statrs our reporter said tu the policeman :— ft pere are only 60, mMsicad of 160, hands at work.”? “Dun? know, Cap’n. The boss told me as how there was 150 on ‘em, ‘’Haint bin up stairs and can’t say for gartin, Not seen no trouble all the buliday. veryching quiet as court.ng.” There were fewer ol the strikers 10 be seen in the vicinity of the fac ory than af any previous time since the commencement of the lockout. No decisive step will be taken until alter the meeting of the Cigarmukers’ Union, te oe held next Mun- day nigut, ‘The meeting of the Capmakers’ Central Union Was not so well attended yesterday, nor did its session continue so long ason other days, There was, indeed, but littie todo. Employers and em- ployed are both severely in the sulks, and each party jeels that it is at last im the real tug of war, The men continue to assert that the “bosses” must needs give in, ag the spring trade 1g full upon them and they have hundreds of dozens of caps waiting to be made up for a ready market, irow which manulacturers will reap @ gvlaen return, ‘the bosses, per contra, endeavor to couvinee everybody that the time ior making Up spring goods has passed, and they are deter- mined to BilcK together in maintaining the jockout until the reiractory hands shal have accepred the employers’ new scale oi prices. And 80 tue thing gves on Irom bad to worse. The Jouger 1t endures the worse 1t will be lor ail par- ties, Attheir meeting yesterday the men passed a@uother resojution, atlirming their determimauon Ol not going to Wurk unless tweir demauds be fully complied with, ‘The lockouts are about to form a co-operative that our own players have greatly improved in tne interim. When time was calied, at hali-past five, | by the umpire, Mr. H. L. Butler, of Paterson, N.J., | 1b was lound tuat voth sides had scored thiriy- ; eight shots, Mr, Butier therefore declared that a | double end should decide the cont The Jol- | lowing is the score :— CANADIAN, Rink No. 1 ST. ANDREW'S. ink: Wo, 1. A Hood 1, G. Henderson. 2 A. Hood. 2 Henderson. ne i" & W. Mecraith, B. Malcom), skip....... 16 A. Dalrymple, skip.... 20 Rink No. 2. 1, D. Purdie. 1,8. MeConchie. 2 A. M, ptewart ecor. & A: Fleming. x A. Malcom, skip,....., 22 Total....... 38 Totalssessereees ‘. PLAY Orr, st. 0 First Rink 3 second Kini +3 Total... The St. Andrew’s Club consequently won bya | majority of one shot. On the conclusion of play an adjournment was made to the Lasino, where the | victors entertained their visitors to 'he orthodox dinner of “beet and greens.” Mr, Butler presented the medal to the winning team in a tew remarks, and the remainder of the evening was spent en- | joyably, in true curler tashion. To-ay the Canadians piay the New York and Caledonian clubs, to-morrow the Burns and This- Ne clubs, and on Monday they go to Paterson, | dai fad they play the Jersey City and Paterson OUBLING AT BUFFALO, BcrFAa.o, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1874. The curling match between the Toronto Club, of | Canada, and the Caledonia Club, of Buffalo, for the Thomson Scoville Medal, came off this afternoon at the skating rink, The Caledonta Club was vic- torious by one, the score being—Caledonians, 120; Torontos, 119, ‘lime, six hours. - THE POTTER’S FIELD INQUIRY. Sa ‘An Aldermanic Visit to Hart’s Island How the Paupers Are Surled—The Trench System Investigated. Aldermen Koch and Gilon, of the specia! com- mittee appointed to inquire into the case of Grand Master Nathaniel French, of Bermuda, who was | buried in Potter's Field, yesterday resumed the investigation by visiting Hart’s Island, At hall-past ten o'clock the Aldermen, accompanied by James E. Morrison, Jr., Grand Deacon of this State, Prest- dent Laimbeer and Warden Brennan, embarked at Twenty-sixth street, on the steamer Minna- } hanonck for the island. On arriving there they were introduced to Warden Dunphy, who exposed the books for the inspection of the committee, and explained the manner of preserving the records of persons buried in Potter’s Field. Very little not | already divulged upon this point was elicited ; but it was ascertained that the only available ground owned by the Commissioners of Charities and Correction is about ten | acres on the east side of the island, | that the buriais are about four to five thousand | per year in trenches, in some cases five tiers deep, | as the ground will permit. A careful record is keptin the office oy number of each body so in- terred, so that whenever a body is called for,a with the number in the books, will at once enable the authorities to disenter the body named. Mr. Dunphy explained that the ground was consecrated by both the Roman Catholic and Episcopal clergymen; that the Catholics are tnterred in separate ground; that in no case is there any difficulty in locating any body, and | there tas never been a cent charged to the iriends of deceased persons lor disinterment 01 the bodies, Leo following 13 the order of the entries in the a Ag Fourth—Keligion, ifany. Fith—Birth place, ‘Sixth—How long in the country, Seventh—Date ot death, Eighth—Cause ot death, Ninth—Signature of physictan, Tenth—Kesicence, it kiown. #leventh—Kemarks. The entry in the case of Mr. French ii fel French, aged torty-nine, native ‘ales; died August 2, of delirium tremens, at the Charity Hos- ital,’ and the permit for burial is signea by Dr. lisha Harris, The committee pushed their investigations to- Wards ascertaiming whether bodies could not be interred in separate graves, but the testimony taken shows that it would require about one acre pec year for this purpose, so that the entire ground would be used up in two or three years | trom the date of the opening of Potter’s Field. ‘Nathan- e The trench system of burial is precisely the same , as was totlowed in the army during the late war, | and the system of keeping the records seems to be very perfect—as perieot ag can be, except keeping diagrams 01 tne trenches and their occu- pants. [t was ascertained that the Commissioners ermit the removal of bouies from the trenches in ihe winter season, but do not in the summer, as the opening of the trench would not only subject the employés and occupants of the hospitals and Inaustrial School, bat the Inhabitants of City Island, adjacent, to disease. A few separate graves were found, and among them one bearing @ heat headstone, upon which was inscribed the | name of a nobleman of Prussia, who died in the Charity Hospital. The inscription reads :— eeamaaatetetegttenatrentea tomrtpetten : ih CAPTAIN OSGAR VON KRAPFF. 3 Born in Prussia. Died May 15, 1870, aged 50 years, AL RAO LODE OOOO REDOET LO RELELEDE CE DEDPLOOLIONEDE ODIO DD Warden Dunphy reports that the family of the deceased nobleman, through the Consul, consented to allow the body to remain in its present resting piace but asked permission to erect the above headstone over the Lis dA! He stated also that there has not been in four years an application from the friends of persons interred in separate graves to have the remains disinterred. An tn- Spection was also made of the hospitals and schools, and the committee returned to the city about four o'clock, convinced that with the pres ent insuMciency of ground the Commissioners oa bd nothing less objectionable than bury in renehes, WOMAN'S RIGHTS, Miss Cozzens, the lady practitioner at the St. Louis Bar, will deliver @ lecture on “Women as Lawyers” at Association Hall to-morrow (Satur- day) evening, BROTHERS QUARRELLING IN JERSEY. Yesterday afternoon young man named Charles Eaton was committed to jail on the charge of committing an atrocious assault on his brother Joseph, at the corner of New York avenue and Franklin street, Jersey City. It appears that the brothers have lived on very bad terms for some time past, and the dispute between them culmi- Dated in @ quarrel, when Charles struck bow g on the head with @ club, inflicting a wound that may Coroner Reinhardt was novided, and | in fatal, committed Quarles to the County Jal, society among themselves. They intend holaing a meeting On Daturday in No, 79 Essex street, ior the purpose of compleung the organization of this new company. The men seem to think that the manutacturers are endeavoring to split up their organization by insinuating that it is ed by ambitious or ungerupu- lous men; but the operatives are certain that these, which they call vile tricks, cannot succeed. The operators and finishers were the classes mainly instrumental in rejecting the offers from empioyers. ‘These two classes of tradesmen complain more bitterly than the others that the Manulacturers accepted only a few unimportant items in the strikers’ schedule, while the most im- portant articles of everyday use were cut down most unmercifully, 8ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY ELECTIONS, OapeENsbuRG, N. Y., Feb, 12, 1874. All the towns in St. Lawrence county bave been heard irom. Twenty-seven elect republican Su- pervigsors and three elect democrats. The city of Ogaeusvurg elecis Jour Supervisurs in May, at the time of the charter election. WORKINGMEN IN COUNCIL, A General Depression in Trade Indus- tries Reported. The Workingmen’s Central Union met at Masonic Hail last night. The business was of a routine character, but still interesting, The Auditing Committee’s report was read. It showed that the receipts for last m nth were $70 65; expenses, $69; cash on hand, $1 65. ‘The repo: ts from the several branches of indus- try represented, inciuding blacksmiths, masons, carpenters and paper hangers, were read, and all | concurred In stating that there was a general de- pression in trade, The petition to be sent to Congress, protesting against the action of Mr. Mullett, looking to the res- | toration Oi the ten hour system, was discussed and approved. a he ,oliowing resolution was unanimously adopt- ed:— Resolved, That we petition Congress to appoint a conmmivtee tor the purpose of inquiring into the violation of the eight nour law on the New York Post office, Mr. Coyie, of the Plumbers’, Introduced a lengthy resolution calling lor @ petition to the Legisiatnre | asking for the appointment of @ sanitary commis- on of eminent Dhysicians to investigate the sewage and water piping in the tenement houses of the city. The resolution was adopted, | and the petition will be made out and transmitted to the Legislature. THE CARTMEN’S GRIEVANCES, \ Mecting,at Hibernia Hall Last Night— j Address by Mr. W. Bowles. | The Cartmen’s Association held a meeting last | night at Hibernia Hall, No, 28 Prince street, to pro- | test against the action of the Street Cleaning | Bureau in reducing the pay of cartmen (who tur- nished their own carts and horses) from $4 to $3 50 | day and that of scavengers irom $2 to $1 50a | day. Mr. James B, Hackett presided and intro- | duced Mr. W. Bowles, who expressed the griey- ances of the cartmen in a pithy speech. | Mr. BOWLES denounced the Street Cleaning Bu- | reau for using the corporation carts for carting | away private garbage irom hotels and other estab- lishments. They could do this more cheaply, be- cause the private cartmen who did the work for- merly bad to pay from fliteen to twenty-five cents per load at the dumping ground, while the corpora- tion need not pay anything. Now, where did this money go to? Some of the hotels, like the Fifth Avenue, paid as much as $80 @ month for carting Away its garbage. The carting of this private gar- | bage Was worth $6,000 or $7,000 alone, below Fourteenth street, and who got all the money? He denounced the Police Board, and | The Capmakers’ Strike. I 5 THE NEW DOMINION. A Thousand Petitioners Besiege Payliamen House in Victoria, British Colambia— No Violence Offered—The Decos- mos Ministry Dissolved, Vicrorra, B. C., Feb. 11, 1874, Monday afternoon citizens, numbering nearly 1,000, marched to the Parliamentary Building to an orderly manner. There was ®@ large police force on hand, but no disturbance occurred, Dr. Helmcken presented a petition, passed at a meet- ing on Saturday, the gist of which 1s that this Meeting deemed it inadvisable to enter into any negotiations tor capitalizing the dry dock guar- antee or to borrow any money from the Dominion Government until the scheme of the McKenzie Ministry for the alteration of the terms of union shall be made known; snd, further, that it 18 distinctly opposed to the pro- vinclal government interfering in any manner with the terms of union or agreeing to any new terms offered by the McKenzie government until they have been submitted to the people for adoption, The application by the Ministry for a gunboat to be stationed at the government buildings was refused by the commander of the fleet. _ A resolution was aiso sent to the city members who support the government, calling upon them toresign. The same aiternoon Decosmos resigned, and has since left the city, itis said, to stand for an outside district for the Commons, To-day Mr. Walker, of the Decosmos Mintstry, Was called upon by the Governor to form a gov= ernment. It is understood that he will make no changes in the PERSONNEL OF THE CABINET, Considerable excitement still prevails, Mr. Morton, one of the leaders in the attack on the Parliament Buildings, 1s out as a candidate for tne Commons, and Higgins, another leader, having been threatened with arrest, publishes @ cara ac- cepting the entire responsibility of the demonstra- tion, The House meets on Friday, when the petition will be considered. The press in opposition to the general government say that nothing but dissolu- tion will satisty the country, and charge that tho attempt to change the terms o/ the union was done to Viliate the ratiway clause, THE COLONY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA includes Vancouver Island, within a few miles o1 which is San Juan, a small spot in Puget Sound, Which it took the Emperor of Germany to decide whetner it belonged to the United States or Great Britain. The Dominion of Canada has had many troubles since it attained a kind of independence in 1867, and among the most serious and most dif ficult to overcome was the positive aversion of the maritime colonies to consent to absorption in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. The colony has not more than 12,000 innabitants, exclusive of Indians and Chinese, who probably amount to twice that number, bat tt has large resources in fisheries and mines and tts geograputcai situation ts such as to adapt it to command @ large trade on the Pacific. British Columbia was visited im 1857 by at least 30,000 California miners, attracted by the reports of Vast gold deposits on Frazer River; but the adven- turers Were sorely disuppointed, and those who escaped {rom the intense severity of the climate were glad to get back to the United States. The vast territory is hemmed in on nearly every side, and emigranis can only reach there by pussing turough the American Paciiic States. Its great want has been means of active communication ‘with Canada and, comparatively, with the world at large. The Dominion government, im order to induce the colonists to join the union, made an en- gagement to CONSTRUCT A RAILROAD FROM ONTARIO to the city o/ Victoria, in Puget Sound, and to pro- vide for steam communication with San Francisco, besides contributing annually @ considerable sum toward the support of the local government. Work on the rauroad was to have commenced in July last and be flnished in elght years, The Englisn guaranteed a loan of $15,000,000 to aid in its con- struction, and the highest hopes were entertaine? 1m Canada, and particularly in Britisu Columbia, that the Dominion was about entering on agrand and progressive career. But the disciosures in the Management of the afairs Oo! the company, which brought the Ministry of Sir John MacDonaid id which, in the recent elections, party in @ miserable minority, dispelled all the bright visions of our nortnera neighbors. Over $1,000,000 have been spent in | surveys, and though work was to have been com- | Menced at both ends of the road seven months 860, Rot @sod has yet been turned. Not an inch of the ine has been located, and it does not ap- pear even that a practicable route has been jound. There has been, therefore, a complete BREACH OF THE LEADING CONDITION upon which Briush Columbia entered the Cana- dian union and the Dominion government organs openly and emphatically deciare that it 1s as_sen- sible to talk 1 buliding a ratiway “to the moon,’ asto think of doing anything practical In eon- structing a road to the Pacitic in less than two years. ‘The terms of annexation with the conied- eracy specified the route of the rallway, bat it is now announced that this must be changed. AS might be expected the piucky British Colum- blaus became wrath on learning of this breach of Jaith, Though @ mere handiul, they owna very large country and consider that the obligations entered into should not be disregarded. Their | only interest in a political connection with Can- ada was the building ct the Pacitic Ratiroad, and that failing they oensider they will be better of going iton theirown hook. They claim the right uf secession from the Canadian union and only acknowledge the authority of the british Crown, The frat provincial Legislature of British Colum- bia met at Victoria in December last, The Canadian Parliament. Orrawa, Feb. 12, 1874, Itis understood that Parliament will meet on or about-the 18th of March. Opening of the Now Brunswick Legisia- ture. FREDERICTON, Feb. 12, 1874. The New Brunswick Legislature was opened to- ridiculed the bill introduced in the Assembly tor abolisbing the Exeise Board and incorporating it | in the Poitce Department. As if the Police Com- missioners did not get fat enough! Could they tell | him where the money paid to them by hotels went | to? hi they would deprive-the poor cartman of bis | livelihood, bis bread, Whom would they not rob? | in unis very Ward they had robbed four cartmen of | their daily bread in this manner. [i the Investigat- | ing Commitiee irom Albany examined the books ol the Street Cleaning Bureau and compared the wages paid with the sums received for | wagea from the Comptroller they would unearth | enormous frauds, Tae cleaning of the . streets could be done more cheaply by private | | contract than by @ public commussion. The cart- men did work; Why Were they not paid regulariy | once or twice @ month? Did the Commissioners make any money by delaying the payments? He | knew of an individual who, when be had the workingmen’s money, loaned it out jor twenty | days, and the Commissioners might do the same | thing. There Was no lack of money in the city treasury for paying the cartmen and ashmen dl- | rectly and ee aon These poor, almost desti- | tute, men had to come under the iron hoo! of | tyranny called a Board of Commissioners. Last | week they put the poor men to work for a/| day or two, but alter they had wiled they | did not even obtain the bare necessaries of lue. He hoped they would appoint a committee to wait on the Commissioners to ascertain if they would not return to the old prices, There were far too many foremen in the bureau and too many ginecure positions, Tueir wages had been de- ducted to enrich those who did nothing. The Po- lice Commissionerashould only have control of the Police, aud he would ask the Legislature to deprive these men of every function except to protect le aud property. Mr. JAMES KELLY Called attention to the fact that for one Sunday, On Which but 200 carts were out, the bureau CoP a) $50,000 for cleaning. This pre- posterous fraad could be proved by reference to & LIBRALD of the succeeding day. Alter appointing @ committee to wait upon the Commissioners in order to present to them their | grievances the meeting adjourned. THE ORANGE OATHOLIO OHURCH DIP. FIOULTY, Deep regre® is felt in ali religious circles in New Jersey, excepting a lew of the more bigoted ones, over the financial troubles which have befallen St. John’s Roman Catholic chureh in Orange, and ‘which have culminated in its being announced as for sale publicly by the Sheriff, next Tuesday, to satisfy the judgments of creditors to the amount of some $30,000, The church is one of the hand- Somest and most sustantially constructed in the State, and was built ander the pastorate of Rev. Father Hickey, who toiled if ent hg | times in the edfort to clear the church o! ean, i is Ee oe that the congregation suoscri furs ing the last ‘over $160,000, more than enough to pag of everything, Dut injudicious mao- agement failed to float the church Ire. A year or 0 when Father Hickey was transferred by Bishop an to New Brunswick, the congregation bade fim farewell bathed in tears. The church is now without any pastor. A Protestant layman te that in order to save the Church trom iz into profane hands the several parishes in he diocese might easily combine and raise enough mi to eatisiy the judgments and place church ons iree footing, day by Lieutenant Governor Tilley. Alter reterring tothe abundant harvest of the past year, the en- couraging condition of the shipping trade and every branch of productive industry, he said:— “since the last session of the Legislature arrange- ments have been made with the government of the Dominion, and witn Parliamentary sanction, | by which the government of New Brunswick ia to receive from the government of Canada $150,000 per annum, and without umitation of time, @8 an equivalent for the surrender of the export duty authorized to be collectea on lumber shipped from the province. This arrangement was pro- posed by the government of tuis province to the overnment Of Canada at the time when the eaty of Washington was under consideration by the Parhiament of Canada, The papers at that time submitted to the government of the Dominion on the part of this government will be latd before you. On the completion of this arrangement the government in council by prociamation brought Into force the act passed by you at the last session repealing all acts imposing an export duty ou lumbe His Excellency referred to several matters of local interest, and enumerated measures that were to receive the attention of the members, and the House adjourned. Funeral of the Late Right Rev. Joseph E. B. Guigues, Bishep of Ottawa. Orrawa, Feb. 12, 1874, ‘The faneral of the late Right Rev. Joseph Eugene Bruno Guigues, D, D,, Roman Catholic Bishop of the diocese of Ottawa, took place tnis morning with imposing ceremonies. The procession in- cluded various national and religious 2 sada e Cabinet, Munictpal Council, County Council, the different professions and an immense number of prominent citizens of all Teligious denominations. The body, in a sitting posture, was dressed in full episcopal robes, aud carried by eight priests in an open bier. Ten bands of music performed suneral dir; Stores were closed and many of them ape in mourn- ing. A vast concourse of peopie the city and surrounding country witnessed the ceremonies. Nova Scotia Affairs, Hauirax, Feb, 12, 1874. ‘The toca Legislature of Nova Scotia will meet on the 12th prox. The Halifax Chamber of Commerce has passed reso.utions in favor of a repeal of the amp duty and @ reduction of the duty on sugar and molasses. The majority in the Newfsound- land government is but one, consisting of the Speaker's vote. TRIAL OF A MAINE MURDERER, LEWiston, Fev, 12, 1874. The trial of Lowell for the murder of his wife was resumed this morning. Mrs. Clark, who helped to make the dress found with the remains, identified to Mrs. Lowell and also testified tween Lowell and his wife, and that on one occasion be locked nae. ‘Up in hia room. Some articles of jeweiry dt tn possession of Lowell after bis cry’ boty od identified as be- \ to his wile, a Sarah of Mrs, Lowell, Gaagnter to Lowell about seven years ago,