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‘mg this statement before the Committee on f' Appropriations looks significant of more money being wanted. The Post Office estab- lishment is now enormously expensive, and does not earn enough by millions to pay its way. If special fast mail trains can be run without adding to the cost of the department, all very well. No one would object. The Pith of the Pulpit. ‘Two, at least, of our city pastors gave at- tention in their discourses yesterday to the temperance question. Their views differ very widely, as may be perceived by the reading of 80 much of them as we publish this morning. The Rev. W. ©. Steel took what may be called the women's side of this reform movement, while Mr. Frothingham took the opposite. It has been left to American women, says Mr. Steel, to crush the head of an exotic hydra—lager beer. This figure implies knock- ing in the head of akeg. ‘(Would to God,” he exclaims, ‘‘that its keepers had never come to our shores to pollute our morals and de- bauch our youth!’’ He thinks that while the women of Ohio are at work in their cities and ‘towns the women of New York should or- @anize to break down the drug store liquor traffic. He thinks the movement will soon Spread over this State and become national. Mr. Frothingham is not quite so sanguine as his Methodist neighbor that this movement will succeed in Ohio or anywhere else. In- temperance is a vice, and as such it cannot be put down by violent means, This vice, like others, has its root in human nature. It is not like a garment that can be put on and off at will. A deep-seated hereditary pro- pensity is not to be eunningly conjured away on the spot, and any attempt to suppress vice is followed by a reaction. ‘‘Vice,”’ says Mr. Frothingham, ‘‘has many guises. Suppress in- temperance and alcohol and it comes out in opium. These great vices cannot be put down by suppression, but by discipline, which = means thought, consideration and devotion to noble purposes.’’ The poor and the fatherless were not wholly overlooked by the pulpit. Mr. Ferguson based an appeal for the Muhlenburg Orphanage at St. Johnsland upon the abun- dance of God's bounty tous here. ‘There is no believer, however poor or despicable his worldly estate,’ he remarked, ‘who cannot place his hand on the beautiful promises of ‘the Bible and say, ‘These are mine—my legal inheritance; mine by virtue of my interest in the atonement of Christ.’ "’ Other sermons published to-day are of the ordinary religious turn. The divinity of Christ, Mr. Newton thinks, is proved by His works and by His teachings. His was nota negative, but a positive character. His decla- rations were delivered in a calm consciousness that He Himself was the truth and the light. more than can be traced or pictured by human hand or compassed by words. ‘The great fact of His resurrection from ‘the\dead puzzles the mind and sets philosophy at naught. If His works prove Him to be more than man, then, Mr. Newton argues, He is God. And if God, then how dare any man stand out- :side His Church? There can be no consist- tney in admitting His divinity and rejecting His teachings. Dr. Bottome, analyzing the elements gov- erning the women of Ohio in their war on the gumsellers, finds them just the elements seeded in every successful religious revival. ‘They are fourfold—namely, awakened ‘sympathy, which is the golden key to unlock weforms ; consecration to a purpose, un- divided effort and entire trust in God. The Doctor thinks it a very sad thing that the ‘Church has to go outside her own pale so often to seo her principles most successfully carried out. Instead of being wearied with his last ‘week's out-of-town labors Mr. Beecher seems to have bad more than ordinary inspiration and vigor in his pulpit discourses yesterday. Taking the experience of Paulas of one man at least, he reasoned that infirmities, trials, ‘disappointments, poverty and the like—what- -evor puts man to the necessity of endeavor for hope, for heroism, for patience, for faith, de- velops truemanhood. This manhood does not ‘consist in what a man puts on, his externals, ‘but in his disposition, character. Mr. Beecher thinks this same Paul was superlatively ego- tistical, aiid that at fizst he feared rather than faced these things. But he rose to true man- hood in Christ, where Mr. Beecher invited his hearers to seek it. Mr. Beecher’s evening dis- course was exceedingly felicitous, as may be judged from the sketch we give to-day. Dr. McGlynn delivered an appropriate dis- course on the season of Lent. Fasting, he nn ‘utained, has a peculiar power to disen- sgage ot hearts from earthly things, from our ‘inordinate’ ®ttachments ond passions. The ‘Doctor cita,' Several examples of long fasting and* of the benefits aris- ing therefrom. * Prayer and religious reading, including, of cow." Such as we pre- gent from time to time in tn.’ HeRaup, the Doctor also recommended as hen? t? devo- tion during this penitential season. oe Tho Rev. Dr. Clark, of Brooklyn,’ callea upon his Presbyterian congregation to offer themselves upon God’s altar, and to bind : themselves even with the cords of duty to the horns of the altar. Until this is done they will not have met the exigencies of their need. Tae Wan on WHISKEYMONGERS AND Im- srsers.—In Ohio snd Indiana the war on the sellers of spirituous and malt beverages continues to be most zealously waged by the plucky daughters of Eve. In their en- deavors to strengthen poor, weak, deli- -eate man in his dutifal resistance to temptation they, mayhap, have o thought of forever wiping out the imputa- tion of having aggravated to him the tempta- .tion of tho first fall. However this may be, and we are ready to believe that they have still more lofty motives, conferring more noble benefits upon -humanity, it is certain that the movement is and will be strongly felt throughout the whole sphere of society, and that its effect will be elevating to the general morality of this present world. Workers of virtue are more rare than speakers of it, and in the measure of their works are they great. The tidal wave of temperance has also touched the Long Island shore ; but here its force seems somewhat milder, or else it meets with harder obstacles in the metallic will and obdurate pride of the Long Island Yankee—drinker of -applejack and bard cider. Christ is to the believing soul, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, fEBRUARY 16, 1874.— Disracli’s Cabinet—The Ministerial. Slate as Drafted by the People. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, Feb. 15, 1874. The London Observer saya the new Ministry will probably be composed as follows:— Mr. Disraeli, First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Cairns, Lord High Chancellor. Duke of Buckingham, President of the Council. Duke of Richmond, War Secretary. Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Ad- miralty. Mr. Ward Hunt or Mr. Hubbard, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, Home Secretary. THE PEBRAGE, It is ramored that Mr. Gladstone will advise the Queen to elevate Mr. Chichester Fortescue to the peerage. The SHilection Returns—The Commons Representation and New Members. Lonpon, Feb. 16.—6 A. M. A few elections in Ireland are still pending. With the week ending Saturday 346 conserva- tives and 297 liberals and home rulers haa been returned to Parliament, the net conservative gain being sixty. The House of Commons will contain 216 new | Members, RUSSIA. _ An Imperial Visit to Queen Victoria. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Feb. 16—6 A. M, The Emperor of Russia will visit England next April. SPAIN. The Boyalists Before Bilbao in Danger—Carlists- Defeated and Tolosa Relieved. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, Feb. 15, 1874. The Carlists will soon be obliged to raise the stege of Bilbao, General Rivera, with the advance, 2,000 strong, of General Moriones’ army, is now within nine miles of Portugaiete. CARLISTS DEFEATED AND A CITY RELIEVED. The national troops have defeated a band of 2,000 Carlists before Tolosa and revictualied the city. CUEA. Lay and Clerical Agitators Arrested at Ha-. vana—Names of the Prisoners— Peace and Penance, TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, Feb, 15, 1874. The police have made several arrests of parties charged with taking a leading part in the demon- stration of Thursday evening. among them are Sefior Niceto Sola, editor of the defunct republican journal, El Gorro Frijio; Evaristo Gutierrez, a companion of Sefior Mar- tinez, whose arrest was reported on Friday; also a lawyer, named Chaple, and a coachman. A CLERGYMAN ARRESTED—ACTION OF THE BISHOPS. The arrest uf the priest Castro on Friday was in no way connected with politics, although the pris- oner is a well known republican, He was taken into custoay at the instance of the bishops. PEACE. There has been no attempt to renew the late disturbance. PREPARATIONS FOR PENANCE. animated. A Wild Rumor Key West. Fioripa Bay, Feb. 14, Via Key Wast, Feb. 15, 1874. It is reported by the steamer Margaret, which arrived here yesterday morning from Havana, that martial law has been declared in Havana, and that the volunteers, to the number of 7,000, have taken possession of the city of Havana, com- pelling the Captain General to take refuge on board the Spanish war ship Arapiles. NO EGRESS, No person is allowed to leave the city. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Dn Chaillu is lecturing in Iowa. General G. F, Shepley, of Maine, is registered at the Windsor Hotel. One of the crew of the Virginius is driving an ox team in Willimantic, Conn. ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Congressman J. H. Rice, of Maine, has ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel. apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. birthday in Newark, N. J., on Monday last. Lieutenant Commander George P. Ryan, United States Navy, is quartered at the Windsor Hotel. Will S. Hays, the musical composer and editor, 1s now a journeyman job printer in Louisville, Ky. Tolif Gleson, who claims to have been the first white settler in Olmsted county, Minnesota, is still living. Mrs. Thomas McCarty, daughter of Hon. Francis Kernan, is dangerously ill at the family residence in Syracuse, N. Y. Bismarck’s eldest son, Lieutenant Herbert von Bismarck, has been appointed attacné of the Prus- ‘sian legation in Dresdens Sergeant-at-Arms N. G. Ordway, of the House of Representatives, arrived from Washington yester- day at the Grand Central Hotel. J. M. Walker, President of the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy Railroad Company, is among recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotel, Sam Foster, of Washington county, New York, threshea by hand pipety bushels of oats in thirteen hours, Sam should get out a patent ior himself immediately. Ex-United States Senator Revels, negro, aspired to be the State Printer of Mississippi, but the c tore.t members of the Legislature, who ure in the majon.* byparspnatser him. Bishop Peck, of California, will preside over the Providence Confere.°* Of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, which win,0e held at North Briage- water, Mass., on the 25th of n*Fch. ‘The Danish Socialist leader Pits, WhO sought to force the King to grant an audience by .#8embling @ multitude in front of the royal palace, af wPpen- hagen, has been condemned to eight months’ fiatd labor. Father Hecker, Mr. J. L. Slevin and Mrs. Don- nelly, of New York; Mr. S. D. Warren and family, of Boston, and several other ladies and gentlemen | are making the journey to the Second Cataract of the Nile. Leopold Sonnemann, editor and proprietor of the Frankiort Zeitung, has been re-elected a member | of the German Parliament. His opposing candi. | date was the well known Parliamentarian, Dr. Edward Lasker, pure hard-grit democracy of Germany. Speaker Shadd, negro, of the Mississippi House of Representatives, was born been editor of a newspaper in Canada, One of his sisters is principal of a high school in Washing: ton city, and another is principal of a high schoot in Louisiana, He has a brother practising law in Arkansas. For having struck his dog, a Captain Mackenzie, | of the Ross-shire (Scotland) militia, recently pun- ished a boy in an ingeniously cruel manner. The brave militiaman enticed the boy into his house in Dingwall, and, with caustic or iodine, marked the word “dog” upon his forenead. Afterwards he deftly sketched whiskers and moustaches upon the youth’s face, and finally held him before a fire until the caustic had sunk into his skin, A truly caustic revenges The Carnival is now in progress and is very | Ex-Governor J. N. Goodwin, of Arizona, 1s stay- | Judge Jeremiah 8. Black, of Pennsylvania, has | | Mrs. Sarah Wells, colored, celebrated her 1v0th the M. Sonnemann is a leader of the | in Delaware, is | thirty-seven years old, @ printer by trade, and has | OBITUARY. William E, Dunxeomb. William Ellsworth Dunscomb, \ well known citi- zen of New York, died at his residance in this city yesterday, 15th inst., at the age of eighty-five years. He was born on the 2th of December, 1788, and graduated at Columbia College in the class of 1806, He was admitted to the bar in 1809, and practised law many years. During the war of 1812 he was commissioned an officer of the army, and disch his duties witn credit to himself and advantage tothe country, In his later years he was identified with the affairs of Trinity church, serving as @ ves'ryman since 1830, He was Comp- troller of the ‘Irinity Corporation during many years, resigning the position, in which he was suc- ceeded by Governor Dix in 1871. He was senior warden of the church to the moment of his death. Leading the life of @ practical Christian he de- voted himself to the promotion of good works among his fellow men. John Douglass, the Actor. The London Telegraph of February 2 publishes the following obituary notice:—‘“‘A deep feeling of regret will be extended through theatrical circles by the announcement of the death of Mr. John Douglass, who expired alter a long iliness on Saturday. Mr. John Douglass, who had been connected with the stage from a boy, was literally the architect of his own | fortune, parsoing through his lite a career of un- flagging industry, and in all his various enterprises displaying a sagacity which, associated with pru- dence and probity, enabled bim co ultimately be- come the proprietor of the Standard Theatre. Out of respect to his memory, the Standard, of which be had been the manager for more than @ quarver of a century, was closed on Saturday evening. As an actor Mr. John Douglass will be best remem- bered by his spirited impersonations of the British sallor in a series of nautical melodramas which ac- quired Jor hizn considerable popularity.” Sir Walter Palk Carew, Bart. The London journals of the 3ist of January re- Port the death of the above named genticman, one of the best known sportsmen in England. He was in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Many years ago, says Bell's Life in London, Sir Walter | Carew kept foxhounds in Devonshire, hunting some of that country now called Mr. Westlake’s, and his hounds gained considerable celebrity under @ huntsman known as Old Beal. It was a good pack of hounds, too, full of the most cele- brated blood of the time; and even now Mr. Tre- Jawny’s hound list shows an asterisk against many of the inmates of his kennel, with @ note of explanation at the end, saying that they have a strain of Sir Walter Carew’s blood in them. For many years past Sir Walter has principally confined himself to Mr. Trelawny’s hounds, always showing himself a most capital preserver of foxes, and thus a very useful 1andowner, for a great portion of Dartmoor is comprised in the family estates of Carew. In his early days Sir Walter was a very hard rider over a country, distinguishing himself at one time as a good weiter weight in Leicestershire, and he was also well known in the coaching world, besides being a more than average shot, so that he was a good all-round sportsman, to which quality may be added that he was the best of landlords, and the eer of @ most charitable disposition, Sir ‘alter was brother-in-law to the late Lord Wil- loughby de Broke. WEATHER REPORT. Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. 0., Feb. 16—1 A. M. Probabilities. For Monday in New England falling barometer, easterly winds, cloudy and threatening weather. For the lower lake region winds veering to southwest and northwest, with partly cloudy and clearing weather and somewhat lower tempera- ture. FoR THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC COAST, SOUTH- WESTERLY WINDS AND CLEARING OR CLEAR WEATHER. For the Southern States, southeast and south- west winds, cloudy or partly cloudy weather and higher temperature. For the Ohio Valley, northwest winds, rising | barometer and generally clear weather. For the upper lake region and the Northwest, rising barometer, westerly winds, lower tempera- ture and generally clear weather. Cautionary signals continue at Eastport. Re- Ports from the Canadian Provinces are missing. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— its 1873. 1874. 873. 1874. 3A. M. 32 39 6AM 9A. M, 12M. Average temperature yesterday.... Average temperature jor correspon last year.......... whee ceasaseeeevee SUK. A BROKEN HEART. The Circassian Beauty, Zeluma Agra, Ruins by Disdain the Mind of an Ad- mirer—Madness trom Dispppointed Love. PITTSBURG, Feb. 18, 1874. Mme. Zeluma Agra, a lady of prepossessing ap- pearance, commonly called the “Circassian Beauty.’’ who was closely concerned in a New York | sensation of last September, and was travelling with a menagerie and circus, has appeared lately at a museum in this city. Among the visitors to the establishment was A GENTLEMAN NAMED BRUCE, who resides and owns considerable property in the Twenty-first ward, He was deeply smitten with the girl’s appearance and cultivated man- ners, and his visits to the museum at once became | so frequent as to attract not only the attention of | the attachés, but also of the patrons. His visits | | grew more froquenttluring the month of January, until it was notioed that he came in the morning and remained unt:l the establishment closed for | the night. About two weeks ago he began to | press his suit with the warmth of a Romeo, and | insisted on on immediate answer to his | proposal of marriage made some days before. | This she refused to give, stating asa reason that | | he was entirely too hasty, but on the expiration of | | the time of her engagement she would give the matter her serious consideration. Fearing she | document which contained ue of his | ‘ ~AFFECIIQNATE PROMISES, 1 a8 30, Tt is sald, a transfer of much of bis prop- y. He had it legalized and forwarded tg the. | Circassian. Seeing that she would not yieiu to ns j entreaties he took rdoms at the Union Depot | Hotel, that he might be near her at all times, aud | | his visits to her became, if possible, more trequent | than ever, On Saturday night last he remained at | the museum until it closed, and then, bdjid- | | ding the girl good night, he stated his intention of calling on her on the morrow. She re- fused to see him when he called, and he then re- turned to the hotel. Then his actions were noticed to be strange enough to excite suspicion. He grew worse very rapidly, and it soon became apparent that the man was insane. On the following day ee MEDICAL ASSISTANCE was calle is friends also visited him, but | their efforts fal led forogtore nara ry ason. ies | name of Zeiuma was Constdfitly on his ‘int and he | spore. of her in the most endearing terms. #rom | | that time forth he grew rapidly Worse, and yester- day was a raving maniac, and had to ‘be removed 4 to the Dixihont Insane lum in irons, | The grt Js the picture of misery over the sad re- suifs Of the flirtation, and expresses herself as ~ having liked the gentleman very much, and having | (had no idea that such a fate was in store for him. | FOUNDING A FRENCH COLONY. Count De Veroux Purchasing 40,000 | Acres of Land in Missouri for Settle- | ment. | | \ Sr. Lovis, Mo., Feb. 15, 1874. | Count De Veroux, of France, who has been ex- | | amining lands in this and other States jor several months past, has just closed a purchase of 40,000 | acres of land on the line of the Atlantic and Pacific | | Ratiroad, in Newton county, Missouri, extending | from Neosho to the border of the Indtan Territory. The Count will erect a flour and a saw mill, a | | school, @ church and a store at once, and arrange | as speedily as possible for bringing out some 500 French people from his estate in France, to es- tablish @ colony on these lands. DEATH BY SUFFOCATION, Curcaco, Il, Feb, 15, 1974 | The Coroner's inquest on the bodies of the two Thompson children was not held to-day. A third child died to-day, and the nurse, Mrs, Benrens, who was at first suspected of having some connection with the affair, is now very ill, with symptoms similar to those in the other cases. The physicians are still unable to determine the cause of the deaths, but there seems to be a general impres- | lies of the United States. doubted his asseverations of love, he drew up a | “af the adoption af the ‘saree at WASHINGTON. The Senate Indian Committee Proposing a Change of Policy. THE “IRON-CLAD OATH.” Prospect of a Short Session, with * Small Results. LOUISIANA PROCRASTINATED. WAsuinaron, Feb. 15, 1874. Another Week in Congress of Wind and Smoke—Prospect of a Short Session and | Small Results—Louisiana Indefinitely Postponed. ‘The labors of this week in Congress have yielded | no apparent results upon the financial question, | or on the question of a reduction or increase of the | national taxes, or on the main question, as now considered in both houses, of a retrenchment of expenditures. Mr. Dawes, Chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means, in a startling ar- ray of statistics has shown that the Treasury has so far been drawing upon its reserves that only @ sweeping system of reductions in the expenditures of every department and every bureau, or increased taxation to the extent of $100,000,000 will save the government from the alternative of borrowing or breaking. Next week, from some more hopeiul republican, we are prom- ised amore encouraging exhibit of receipts and disbursements, resources and labilities, But to-aay the official report of the merciless Dawes is accepted as defining the situation of the Treasury. Itis short, and the Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on Appropriations, with all | their prunings are still short—short of many mil- lions; and so they are still engaged in cutting off and cutting down appropriations which, in the end, will be mostly restored in the annual bill. It is thought so by some of the shrewdest members of the House, who think that this present fit of re- trenchment will soon pass away. 3 Beyond the discouraging figures of Dawes, and | one of the periodical tilts of General Butler | with the windmills, and a ventilation in the Senate of the horrors of the Kuklux Klans by Scott of Pennsylvania, and of the all-terrible despotism of | martial law in South Carolina by Bayard of Dela- ware, and excepting the modified Bankrupt law | agreed upon in the Senate, and the fighting of | the battles of the Modoc war over again | in the House, there 1s hardly anything in | last week's proceedings of either chamber worth | recalling. Yes, there is the resolution ot the House -amMrming, by a large majority, the power of Con- gress, in the regulation of commerce among the States, to regulate railway freights, fares and com- binations, which may be pronounced the most significant vote of the House upon any subject since the decisive vote of that body upon the fifteenth amendment, Nevertheless, upon all the leading questions | before Congress we are as much in the fog to-day | as we were a week ago. The opinion is strength- ened that the session, as the long session, will be @ short one, that it willbe brought to a final ad- | Journment early in June, and that, excepting a bill on banking and currency, calculated to meet imme- diate necessities, the results of the session will be limited to the annual appropriation and deficiency bills and other routine measures. If there were any general intentions of a reconstruction of the tariff, of the internal revenue law, and of the national banking system, there would be no idea enter- tained of a final adjournment this side of August. But the republican majority not knowing what tt should do, or can do, or may safely undertake to do upon these subjects on a comprehensive scale, will content itselt with such temporary tinkerings ofthe currency as may serve to convoy the party through the fall elections. The members, too, on their reduced salaries, are not disposed to pro- long their stay needlessly in the costly hotels and boarding houses of Washington. I! these poorly compensated lawmakers were paid by the day while in actual service in the Capitol, as in the ola time, they might remain in session till Septemper. As it is their perquisites from the lobby, since the Crédit Mobilier exposures, being cut of, they lose | by lengthening and save by shortening the session on their $5,000 a year. Itis now understood that between the repub- lican leaders in Congress and the President there ig an agreement that “masterly inactivity” shall be the policy of Congress in the affairs of Louis- jana. The opposition forces, too, are becoming indifferent upon this matter, inasmuch as they fear that ifa new election were ordered it would be under such regulations and such election officers as would surely give the victory to the Kellogg party. In reference to the troubles in Utah a bill, it is believed, will undoubtedly be passed this session defining the jurisdiction respectively of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and so shortly, too, as to clip the wings of the Mormons | in bringing them and their saintly institution of polygamy completely under the laws and authori- The President, when approached on the subject, loses no opportunity for urging upon members of Congress the neces- sity of a reconstruction, of the courts of Utah. Beyond the answers required to calls ior infor. trenchment and Reform, the admtuistration has nothing to disturb the even tenor of its way. Mr. Cushing goes to Spain only to arrange the terms of @ temporary armistice in our transactions with the island of Cuba. No comprehensive treaty will be attempted with Madrid short of the establishment of a government in Spain. Itis apprehended that -the difficulties and wranglings among the Central American _Steccs pal i rauigd dong call (or aetiyg <apromiatfe Intervention Of the part or o} vernment, particularly in the event route for an Intereceanic ship canal iF route will finally be settlea upon for the canal (aite® al) Slat has been urged in favor of the Atrato route) is by no means improbable. The Senate Indian Committee and the Unsatisfactory Administration of In- dian Affairs, The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs have under consideration a number of propositions on the subject py. the future control and management Of the Indians, Theyresent policy, in its results, particularly as compareawyith its expense, is by no means satisfactory. The éstam.chment of a ter- ritorial government for the India »'Titory 1s now being considered. Several Cherokéés..and other Indians in the city, in the interests of the people, have made statements belore the commit” tee. Senators Bogy, of Missouri, and Ingalls, of Kansas, are understood to be in favor of the Terri- torial form. The rest of the committee are unde- cided. A proposition looking to a transfer of In- | dian affairs trom the Interior to the War Depart- | ment is now pending, wit! spects ;% pe ig, With greater prospects than | escaped. ever, in view of recent developments, of being car- | ried out. | The Bill to Abolish the “iron: ar? | Oath and Political Disabilities. | General Butler and Judge White, of Alabama, having been appointed a sub-committee on two blils, heretofore introduced in the House, and re- ferred to the Committee on Judiciary, to abolish | the test or “‘iron-clad” oath in all cases where it is now required by law, have prepared a long re- port upon the subject in favor of the abolition, which they will this week submit to the full com- mittee. There seems to be no doubt that tne ma. | jority of the House are in tavor of the relief, as | they are disposed to restore a better feeling, and remove as far as they can all traces of dis- | content growing out of the iate war, Such a bill Will enable the Postmaster Gonerai to select deputy postmasters competent to the performance of the duties r@yuired, whereas at sion that they were caused by gas trom the coal ve. The nurse, when found, was apparently in | 1® VOry Rrocerioua Oe present he is restricted in his selections to those who can take the test oath, not a few of the poat Aces Viglding pus @ Mal sup A LNA waw at Cama 2 | and strongest arguments that could be adduced c le ET. p asatton, and being more especiatiy tor the com ver. nce Of sparsely sevtied Southern neighbor- hood, Persons exeinded from Pensions, by rea- son ofh. @¥!D8 aided or countenanced the rebellion, will, to a. mited extent, be restored. Such a bill will also en. *¥€ persons of competent means to contract for c. ¥'¥iMg the mails in the South and relieve others n ?W ©Xciuded from public service ‘on account of poin al disabilities, Democrats Rebs ting Against the An- solute Rule of th® epublicans in the Hoase. The recent change in the FUle of the House, re- quiring a majority to second .“2e motion for a sus- pension of she rules on Monday, 83 deprived the democrats, who only number one-. Vird of the House of all opportunity to put the mem. ers on record when any question of importance is ,tesented by the minority, while the republicans have™!t in their i power to put the democrats on record a‘ often as | they choose. It has become notorious th.Xt only three days of each week can be devoted towusi- ness—viz., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursd:\y- Monday has thus far been wasted in buncombe. Friday is private bill day, and Saturday is devoted \ to debate only, The democratic members, more zealous ior retrenchment and reform, have agreed to put a stop to the Monday nonsense at least, and to-morrow will inaugurate the following pro- gramme, of which they have given due notice :— Alter the call of the States, if the House refuses to Proceed to business a motion will be made to take a recess, to ajourn, and toa given day, on all of which the “yeas” and “nays” will be called, and every possible filibustering motion will be made to prevent the republican side from enjoying the bene- fit of the recent change in the rules, These motions, with tne roll call, will consume fully three hours, and will be renewed whenever an attempt is made to avoid business, Speaker Blaine has agreed to give the democrats all the assistance in his power. Valuati of Foreign Coin when Re- ceived at a Custom House for Duties on Merchandise. The Treasury Department is in receipt of numer- | ous protests and appeals from importers of foreign | merchandise against the construction placed by that department on the first section of the actof March 3, 1873, fixing the value of foreign coins, The department holds that the provisions of that section apply to the Custom House valuation of | THE NEWARK RING IN AGONY. Feverish Anxicty About the Action of the Grand Jury—Mayor Perry's New Move—How the Auditor Performed Hig Duties. It 18 now about five weeks since the Grand Jury of Essex County, N. J., was sworn in and com- menced its labors, The chief duty expected of i¢ by the community of Newark, as clearly defined im Judge Depue’s charge, was to make & thorough in- Vestigation of the alleged frauds snd crimes of com- mission and omission perpetrated by the City Halt clique, which for many years past has had control of municipal mawers, The previous Grand Jury, being composed largely of officials, failed miser- ably in the matter, although it felt compelled to make the strongest kind of a general present~ ment regarding the corrupt and disgraceful man- ner in which city business was transacted, It in- dicted nobody, however, except the unfortunate Scapegoat, Broadwell. This Grand Jury has had before it the same evidence and considerably more, but a yet has given no indicatiowof 1s Probable action. Last Monday, after having, according to witnesses who appeared before it, pretty thoroughly probed many dubious munte- ipal matters, it adjourned for one week, in order’ (rumor says) to allow time for the compiling of certain evidence. Meanwhile the members of the City Hali ring and their horde of supporters are suffering the greatest AGONY OF ANXIETY as to what will or will not come of the graa@® inquest, Not second to their anxiety is that of those citizens most deeply interested. it 1s eal@ that the calendar is wiped clean, all but the cit; frauds, anc these will from to-morrow forwar occupy the attention of the jurors, THE BILLS OF ALDERMEN. Considerable excitement has been occasioned and out of official circles over the recent action o' the Mayor in refusing to sign warrants on the City Treasury in favor of Aldermen who, as dealers, have furnished supplies to the city. The Mayer bases his action on the municipal laws which ex- plicitly provide that no Alderman or other city ofmMcial “shall be interested in any contract with | the city orin any compensation for work done for or materials or supplies furnished to the city or to any contractor, or any person furnishing the same to the city, nor shall he perticipace in any profits with such contractor or other person." The Mayor’s action is not original, however. foreign invoices for the assessment of duty, while the importers contend, under legal advice, that | there is nothing in the act to justify any change of | the specific valuations placed by a long series of | acts of Congress upon foreign currencies, tor Cus- | tom House purposes. These protests are, of | course, moat numerously received from importers | of French goods, on which the duties are chiefly | ad valorem and at high rates. By the change tn | the valuation of the French franc, fixed, by | the law of 1841, from eighteen and six- | tenths cents to nineteenth and thirty-three hunc- | dredths cents, rates of duty on ad valorem goods are increased avout four per cent. The Treasury Department having had the benefit of the ablest against its construction of the law of 1873, and | being fortified by an affirmative opinion from the Attorney General, is not in a mood to depart from its announced construction of the law, contending | that in its most favorable aspect for the importers | if isa doubtful question which, as they are dis- satisfied with the solution as applied by the Treasury Department, can best be settled by an appeal to the courts or to Congress. No definite | action has yet been taken upon the appeals, but there isno doubt that the Treasury Department | will adhere toits present action until it is reversed by the courts or by Congress. Important Cases Before the Committee on Claims. The Senate Committee on Claims, at their meet- ing yesterday, considered a number of applications of loyal citizens in the South for reimbursement | | for property destroyed, used or damaged by the | army in the late war. The case of Cowan and Dickinson, for the destruction of cotton, was re- ported favorably to the committee. The Loudon | county cases, for losses sustained by Sheridan's | raids, and the claims of the Virginia Conference of | the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Catholic , Church of Chattanooga were discussed, but not | acted upon. There will be no reports in these cases until the committee is ready to lay down a | principle to govern the adjustment and settlement | of all of a similar nature. The Observations To Be Made of Venus | in Transitu. | Despatches relative to the sessions of the | Transit of Venus Commission are calculated to | mislead the public both as to the personnel of the commission and what is being done by them. The commission consists of Rear Admirai Sands, Presi- | dent, and Professors Henry, Peirce, Newcomb and | Harkness. The points considered at the last | meeting were some matters of detail respecting | the photographic experiments, which are not yet perfected, what arrangements should be made in order to enable the observers to have the usc of | | tudes, and finally the arrangement of the per- | sonnel of the different parties, The instruments state of great forwardness, many of them com- | pleted and tested. Portable observatories have been designed and a number completed. The stations to be occupied are Vladivostock, in Russian Sibe- ria; Pekin, Nagasaki, Crozet and Kergueen Islands | im the Antartic region; New Zealand, Chatham Dieman's Land. In each of these parties there will be five persons, two being astronomers and | three photographers. I tion, none of whom will leave before the end a! May. Nearly all will serve without pay, being ar | knowledge. Sse and Georgia, Private and ‘thar épe being raplily avy, enerally moving to Thé Missvnsg, ‘exas. In some districts scarce | | I gratulating themselves | ligent population in their’stead. National Library) + Jongs. A MINER MURDERED. : Beaver Meavows, Pa., Feb, 15, 1874. Neii McBride, a miner, was murdered on Main street, im this place, last evening, opposite the | public house of Peter Schwab, which he had just left with the intention of going home. It is supposed the murderer is an Irishman, ut twenty years old, named Neil Paul, who has The particutars of the crime cannot ve ascertained at present, as an inquest is now being held ana the testimony of numerous witnesses being taken. ‘The murdered man leaves a wife and four young children, HOMICIDE AT A CHRISTENING. Boston, Feb. 15, 1874 A christening party was held on Saturday night, atthe house of John Barry, in Highland District, at which Lawrence Norton, aged twenty-five, was fatally stabbed, and was found dying in the street early on Sunday morning. Five men, including Barry, and two women have been arrested on suspicion of connection with the homicide, HOTEL ROBBERY IN PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15, 1874. This morning two men hailing from New York engaged quarters at the Commercial Hotel, and shortly afterwards left, when it was discovered that four rooms had been entered by means of nippers and rebbed of jewelry worth $1,000 and $250 in cash. James Moran has been arreated gp AUIDILION pl CAADitaigy 2m the Crim, the ocean telegraph lines for determining longi- | to be used by the parties are all in a | island, near New Zealand, and Hobart Town, Van | The southern parties will robably be sent out ina naval vessel, Secretary | beson having authority to do this by special act - ms | ingress, The other parties will proceed by the See eo canines: Ike. CARR to | aay mail routes. The Naval Observatory, | Coast Survey, Engineer corps of the army, the line of the navy and some of the colleges of the coun try will furnish the persons composing the expedi- tuated only by the desire to advance sctent’ yo | Migzatign of the Blacks from AYs»ama public letters received here state e Guif States of Georgia and Alabama are ~--onulated by the blacks, who are | “mpi Valley and to T Maiow gitizen + | of African descent” is left, and the whites gre con «upon the prospect of an | *%:, “rst post. [inflowing of a sturdier, «thriftier and more intel- | Removal of the Law section of the | An application will be made at the present sea sion of Congress praying that body to s Parate | the law section of the National Library theréno™ and placing it under the control of the Supreme’ | Court of the United States, were it properly ve- } As long a as 1858 Judge James Hewson, while acting as the First Auditor of Newark, retused to coun- tersign a coal bul for some $1,200, drawn in favor of the dealer, who happened to be a member of the City Council He aiso retused to sign a bill for, @ few dollars held against the city by the thea President of the Council, N. G Bi who in the ordivary way of business had pain an oilice sign tor the Auditor's office. He based his action first on his official oath of oMice and next on the provision of law above quoted. His action created great excitement at the time, and the Coun- cil relerred the matter to the then City counsel (now Chancellor) Theodore Runyon, whe affirmed the action of Auditor Hewson. Not satis- fled, however, counsel applied for another opiniom to the late Governor Peter D. Vroom, who gave opinion, which cost $50, reaffirming the opinion Runyon and the action of Hewson. esterday! diligent search was made for these two opinions im the City Clerk’s office, but, strange to say, they COULD NOT BE FOUND. Furthermore, lifting the matter entirely beyon@® question, the Court decided some time ago that certain ordinance passed was rendered null an yold in consequence of one of the Aldermen vot upon its passage having been personally and, financially interested in its provisions. The poinw of law then laid down was that any legisiaton should be tree from the taint of having his vote ti- fluenced by personal considerations. The charter and the municipal law make it the imperative duty of the Auditor to audit all bills or claims; te countersign all warrants signed by the Mayor and City Clerk; and before so Crabs deeb law declares that “it shall be the duty of the Auditor af Accounts to examine and compare the said ware rant with the bills, accounts or other voucners | records in his office relating thereto, an if any error be discovered by him to with~ hold his signature until the due core rection thereof.” Forasmuch a8 there |a3 abundance of proof to show thad THE. PRESENT CITY AUDITOR has countersigned bushels of warrants upon th treasury during the iast six years for large sut of money in favor of contractors who had neve been required to sign a contract, in cases eve! where no legal contract existed, it seems cle: that he is in anything but an enviable position. Particularly is this percetvable in view of ay ERINOIFLE OF rs fen asthe, laid down not long ago by Judge y effect that “any act or omission of a public officer in disobedience of his officia! duties, in a matter. public concern, 1s punishable as a crime.” Hi Honor added:—“‘In the practical application this. principle the rule is that where the duty is | ministerial, and involves in no case the exercise of judicial discretion, and the duty is pointed out distinctly by law, an indictment will lie tor tue mere failure or neglect to perform such duty.” NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A Mysterious Frigate Off the Savannat® Bar. A United States frigate, supposed to be the Juniata, has been cruising off the bar all day. FUNERAL OF A DISTINGUISHED MASON. CHARLESTON, 8. C., Feb. 15, 1874. A great concourse of citizens of all classes at tended to-day the funeral of Robert Stuart Burns, Past Grand Master and one of the highest and brightest Masons in the United States, SUICIDE IN NEW HAVEN. 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