The New York Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1874, Page 3

WASHINGTON. Binancial Views of the President. APPROXIMATING SPECIE PAYMENTS, Bills To Be Discussed in the Senate and House To-Day. : Wasninaton, March 2%, 1874, Wiews of the President and Secretary of the Treasury on the Finance Question— The Old Limit and the Accumulation of Gold Favored, ‘The Senators who have so persistently advocated ‘an increase in the volume of currency, were sur- Prieed to hear that the Presiaent had tvld the anti- inMationists that any measure looking to perma- Rent inflation would have to run the gaunlet of his veto, Last night and to-day the President was ‘Besieged by friends and opponents of inflation to ascertain the truth of the report, His answer to Senator Logan, who was among the wurst to call, Was characteristic. Said the President, ‘The report has no foundation in fact, Iuever thought of doing what has been said I would do, and I mever uttered a word to anybody that could be construed into the meaning attrivuted tome. hI Were & member of Congress and the President should threaten in advance to veto a measure I Would resent it as it would deserve to be resented.” But there 1s no difference concerning the agree- Ment between the President and the Secretary of the Treasury with reference to the financial ques- tion, Both feel themselyes well sustained by @ strong force in Congress, and both are working together to secure a limit of currency issue that will satisty the country. It is by no menang certain in their opin- fon that the amount of $56,000,000 will be de- cided upon, the Western and. Southern element being overpowering and more than likely to pre- vail Itisnow well known that both of these bigh authorities favor jree banking, especi- silly in those States wherein banking capital (s disproportionate to that of more thickly settled localities, and, furthermore, that the disposition of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury is not onlyto keep the reserve where it stands at present, but to reduce the cir- culation as rapidly as may be consistent with pub- lic policy to the figures existing beiore the panic. The Secretary of the Treasury is now weil assured that his income will be ample for all purposes and that no further legisiation is required, provided shat it be understood that the present outstanding issue shall be considered the limit, There is also good reason for the stutement that botn the Presi- Sent and the Secretary fayor an accumulation of gold, to the end that it may eventuatly be made the basis of specie resumption, The subject, however, fests with Congress, for upon its action depends the decision of the entire financial question, Ita Old Jaws so hedge the Treasury Department around that the latter has but one course to pursue—it | MM. must pay the expenses of the government. Mr. Dawes to Approach the Financial Difficulty To-Morrow—The Three Posi- tions To Be Taken if Concession Is Necessary—The Estimated Vote on the Question. In the House to-morrow, after the morning hour, éhe first thing in order is tne bill proposing that the government shall assume the control of the Louisville and Portiand Canal and coinpiete the structure, on the States naving an interest in the canal relinquishing their rights, This may con- sume two hours of the session, if not a longer time, The next in order is the motion of Mr, Bromberg to fix next Monday for tne consideration of the bill to prevent the importation of conta- gious diseases into the United States, which will probably consume an hour. After that the Speaker has promised to recognize Mr. Dawes, Chairman ef the Committee of Ways and Means, who will ask that the rules be suspended to fix the amount of the legal tender circulation, It will be seen that fully four hours of the day’s session is Ukeiy to beftaken up with rules and business | which will not be deferred. So the prospect of the House reaching the $44,000,000 question to-morrow ig extremely doubtful. If Mr. Dawes shonla suc- ceed, however, in getting the Noor, some member of the Banking and Carrency Committee may call for the yeas and nays on suspending the rules, and this, before they can be taken under the pres- entrule, requires a majority vote. Should they be ordered, then it requires a two-thirds vote to suspend the rules, All this will take time, and, | granting that everything proceeds as smoothly aa | Dossible, there is not much prospect of the legié tender question getting before the House to- morrow. When itdoescome up Mr. Dawes will move that the limit be fixed at $356,000,000, and in this he will be mainly supported by the New England and New York delegations, | but does not expect to be sustained. The next motion will be to fix the circulation at $382,000,000, the amount now out. In this he will be sustained by the ad- vocates of the minimum amount and a num- ber of Western members, who are opposed to contracting the amount, but oppose any farther increase. Jt is doubtiul whether a ma- jority will sustain him, and, failing in this, he will then move that the limit be fixed at $400,000,000. Mr. Dawes will advocate this as a business necessity, and, whether sustained by the minority or not, he will vote for the largest amount. With 240 mem- bers present it is said by those who have | canvassed the House that between 150 snd 160 members cin be counted upon to | vote for the maximum amount. Not counting the time for debate, the call of ¢he yeas and nays on the three motions and the delay incident to legislation in so large a boay will be sufficient to consume a day’s session, unless the spirit of wis- flom and harmony shali hover over the hail of the House of Representatives. This week there 18 in- deed avery poor prospect for the distracted money changers getting vearer a settled policy. The Banking and Currency Committee believe the @mancial measures should pass through their | bands, and will dispute, in the debate proposed by | the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, Dis right to interfere with their duty. Sherman’s Currency Bill in the Senate— Its Chances of Success—Approximating Specie Payments—Free Banking—The Ultimatum of §400,000,000 Likely to Paes the House. The financial question is assuming @ graver com- plexion to-day, and the discussion of the subject among those pecuniarily interested, as well as those who are sponsors for a future healthy em- bodiment of the jeunesse dorée, are brought to a serious consideration and weighing of the effects to be produced by the bill which Mr. | Sherman will offer to-morrow, by instruction, as chairman of the Senate Finance Com- mittee, The bill will provide for an interchangeable gold five per cent bond, redeem- able aiter January 1, 1976, whereby the present obligations of the government, in the denomina- tion of $1,000 or its multiple, may be converted and made payable in gold at that time. This ap- Proximates specie resumption. The next clause of the bill provides that there shall be free banking, and for every million of circula- tion so introduced there shall be a retirement of seventy per cent of the greenbacks until there shall be a reduction to the standard of $300,000,000 of the circulation, No further reduction beyond shat Limit shall be made, but free banking shall mull go on. The next clause fixes the circulation of legal tenders at $82,000,000, The vote on the bill in committee stood five against two; but there committee room, where he 1s on District affairs. He did not seem to be pleased with the scope contemplated by the torthcoming bill of the Finance Committee, and, in response to his inquiry, Senator Sherman said he thought that a vote would be obtained on it im the Senate this week, There will undoubt- ediy be many speeches apon is, More especially from the specie resumption Senators who voced against the amendment of Senator Cameron, offered in the Senate, which in effect contem- plated free banking, but was rejected on February 20 by @ vote of 32 to 26. The present approval of that measure in the bill of the Finance Committee ie regarded as @ great triumph by those in iavor of more circulation, Senator Sherman does not think that the proposed effort of the House for to- morrow, as intended, to Ax the circu.ation at $400,000,000 will be productive of any benefit, | unless they shouid send a bill to the Senate prop- erly matured, which they would be glad to have, and at once proceed, through the medium of game, to secure @ conclusive joint action on the finance question. It may be salely said that, with a full examination of’ the whole fleld and ali we indications, the sense of the House will favor $400,000, 000. The Exccution of Semator Sumner’s wil, Mr. Balch, who is one of Senator Sumner's excc- ntors, has gone to Boston to file tne will in the Probate Court, after which he will present it here. He will then have the works of art sent to the Art Museum at Boston and the books to the Itbrary of Harvard College. The furniture awaits the decis- ion of Senator Sumner's sister, Mrs, Hastings, and if she dves not desire to keep it it will be sold at auction, Mr. Pierce, a brother of the Boston Uon- gressman, will complete the editortal labor on the deceaseu Senator’s Works, the tenth volume of which is in the hands of the printer, while the material for two more volumes has all been pre- pared, | REVENUE RECEIPTS. Decrease of Government Income Caused by the Rum Crusade—Other Duties— §100,000,000 To Be Collected in the Year—English and Irish Imports. SHINGTON, March 22, 1874, The receipts from internal revenue have dimin- ished within the past two weeks, especially in districts in Ohio and Indiana, the cause of which js attributed to the Women’s crusade against alco- | hol now in progress there, wholesule dealers de- laying their purchases from distillers on account of this raid. In one or two instances small distil- leries have ceaged operations, being unable to dis- pose of their supply on hand, SUMMARY OF THE RECRIPTS, The receipts from internal revenue for the pres- | ent fiscal year amount to nearly $71,000,000, and | the Commissioner expresses the opinion that by | the end of the year they will reach tue sum esti- Iated—viz., $100,000,000, as the receipts from | Special license tax in May and June will be in the | meighborhood of $8,000,000, The receipts from | this source last year were $5,016,904 irom retail | liquor dealers, $751,663 from wholesale liquor dealers and $1,500,000 trom tobacco dealers, ‘the | receipts trom all sources for the last three quarters | were $27,500,000, but it is not expected that they will | Come up to tis figure during the next quater, | exciusive of the special license tax maturing in ay and June, though they will provably reach $20,000,000, which, With $3,000,000 estimated for the olance of this month and the special tax | avove mentioned, will reach the $100,000,0,0 esti- mated for the year, Another cause of the decrease in receipts is the uncertainty throughout the country a3 to what actfon Congress will take in regard to Nnances and taxation, the eifect of which 18 that trade is carried on upod & hinited scale, BRITISH AND IRISH DMPORTS. The following is an oficial statement from the Bureau of Statistics of some of the princical arti- | ¢les of British and Insh produce and wanuiactures | exported to the United States in tae two montns ended February 28, 1874, compared with the cor- responding period in 1873:— CONGRESSIONAL NOTES. Southern War Claims—The Increasing Pressure Upon Congress and the Alarm Revived in the Senate—Proposed Re= organization of the Customs Revenue ServicemThe Proposed Flooding of the Colorado Desert. WASHINGTON, March 20, 1874, Upon w section in the Army Appropriation bill ag it came from the House, providing for the | transter of all pending war claims before the | Commissary General and the Quartermaster Gen- | eral to the Commissioners of Claims, and that | they shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all such | claims hereafter, and upun the amendment pro- | posed by the Senate committee reporting the bill, | providing for the continuance of the authority of | the Commissary General, &c., over these | ciaims, and upon an amendment to this amend- | ment, proposing the adjudication of a large | mass of Southern war claims by the Court | of Claims, there wason Tuesday a discussion in the Senace, from which it is contended that if the door is opened to this mass of Southern war claims there will be no end to the catalogue short of the bankruptcy of the National Treasury. Such were the opinions of Senators Frelinghayven, Car- penter and Sargent particularly, against the prop- osition to open the door to the recognition of the mass of Soutbern war claims arising from the ap- | propriation, occupation, or destruction or loss of property from the operations of the armies of the Union in the Southern States during the war of the late Southern rebellion, According to Senator Sargent, uniess we draw a line which will cut of | ali these Southern war claims, we may establish @ precedent which will open the door to them ail, and to the resutution of the cotton tax, un- constitutionally levied and tor several years couected irom the Southern cotton crops, and nally to an indemnity of two or three twousand millions for the genera: loss of slave property, resulting trom the emancipation of the sluves Of tue Southern States, Excluding, how- ever, this itew of slave property, it is ronghiy estt- mated that the property destroyed or that appro- Priated by the Union armies 1n the South during the jour years of our late civil war would amount to an aggregate Of not less than $3,000,000,000, A genera: indemnification ior this enormous aggre- gate loss is simply impossible, ‘The best that von- gress can do is provide for alew exceptional cases of extreme hardship and approvea loyaity to the government, There is no danger that dur- ing this session of retrenchment the liberauty of Congress toward Southern claimants will be car- fied to dangerous excesses, ‘here is no danger that even the unconstitutional cotton tax collected from the South will be reianded this session, ior the act would drain the Treasury of $70,000,000, THE REACTION TO BE FEARED, But when the severe spasm o{ Congressional re- trencnment shall have subsided, when a new Con- gress, free from the bad odor of the bast Congress, shall take the piace oi the present Congress, an when the dominant party shall begin to cast about for the Southern balance o1 power in the Presiden- tlal contest of 1876, we shali probably have South- ern relie! measures passed by the two houses, and @ general reaction in favor of liberal appropria- Uuohs and an expansion of the currency which will carry us on @ tidal wave of prosperity througn the Presidential campaign only to be wrecked, as we were in the time of Van Buren, in the year immediately Succeeding it “Sufficient unto the day 18 the evil thereof;” but it is apparent to an observer here. with oe half an eye, that the fit of retrenchment which has seized upon this Con- ess will pass Of with the elections of the com- ft, fall for the next Congress, whatever the re- sults may be. CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. The Committee on Civil Service Reform have greed to report mr. Woodford’s bill for the reor- ganization of the Customs Revenue Service with x wil be no minority report, inasmuch as the fee banking featare is acknowledged as a concession to those in favor of increased circulation. Senator Thorman said to-night, after Senator Shermsn had explained the provisions of the bill as adopted by the committee, that he wished to be heard on st, and asked shad be MUEDS LO seMh Lox 0 they! amendments, The substance of the bill is to pro- vide for three commissioners to east \plity and reconstruct the whole budget of ta if revenue laws, including the abolition moteties, the anb- stitution of fixed sala and toreport to Uon- at the next session. This means that nothing to be done wy the subject this session in ti i$ matter of Custom House reform, unless member of tha OF the ~NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH fixing the limit of the currency circulation at | 1874, janutactured, 242 ery, millinery an browery aig 716 | Hardware and cutiery £14249 | Iron, pig, tons, 20,205 vat, tons. 863, railroad, tons. 16,978 hoop or sheer, toni 4, 03 | Steel, unwrought, ions. Vges | Lend, pig, tons 301 Lined manuiactures, ot all Kinds, yards. 24,017,710 | | Machinery and mill w £102,621 ‘EBL Paper, writing and printing...¢.. £27,089 £9146 Salt, rock and white, tons, * 4 82,007 Spirits, British and irish, gallons WSs Silk manufactures, ribbons of wil 8 £94,022 £13,903 £28,712 £14,526 £611,218 £301,274 ir + 27,219,100 17,682,220 ries in aa amendment to sme sparopristion | BEECHER---STORRS--BUDINGTON. moieties in an amendment to sume appropriation ° ty ine Onl belies Melons ‘Committee. ued. not d * m Co! meet the immediate necessity, could be done | COrFespondence Between the Three Clem gymen on Church Discipline—A Council Proposed but Refused—Can a Chureh Drop Members from Its List Without Investigation ? ‘The late dissersions which sprung up in the Con- gregationa) churches of Brooxlyn have lea to & lengthy private correspondence, now given for publication, between the Rev, Henry Ward Beecher on the one hand and Drs. Budingron and Storrs on the other. in the first letter, dated 7th January, which is written by the two doctors, af ter explaining their principles at some length, they say :— to @ half Cogn lines tn ap amendment to an appro- priation bil. Where there is a will there is a way, =e ‘this is the wa: in which ti menos Per and “oack pay grao” was passed in hours Of the last Congress. THE COLORADO DESERT. The Committee on Public Lands of the Senate, on motion of Mr. Jones, of Nevada, have been or- dered to inquire into the expediency ol providing Jor @ survey ot the Colorado desert, with a view to | its submergence and conversion into a lake, Mir. | Jones, a8 has already been published, has, at his Own expense, caused # preliminary survey o! this desert to be mace, Irom which it appears that it covers an area of 300 miles in length, by from 60 to 100 miles and more in width, and ite sur- face is from 100 to 300 feet below the level o1 the sea, It lies partly tn the southwestern corner of a cf of Nevada, partly in the western corner of arizona Ping ely ey oy whee St ont Poe and partly in tie southeastern section Of Cullior- | made public were sent to the Piymouth church. We | mia, and this desert ig the terror of ail travellers | have had no wish whatever, as wi sara have had passing between the great Colorado River of Utab Brees ea ineneas “fa the mauve ment ph ite jairs. and Arizona around by the sowtuern depression of |) eva ote soumee bo Tatentare ene ves | the Sierra Nevada range to the Paciflo coast. By 9 canal {:om the Colorado River througn some opens | ing in the hills tais desert may be converted into @ lake, its boruers may be rendered fruitiul, | and tie cumate of all the surrounding country | may be changed irom its present roasting sammer | heats aid sterility to @ mild temperature ana & e001 rendered productive trom irequent rains. ‘This ig the theo. y; but as it takes the supplies of | three goody rivers and some smaller streams to | maintain the volume of Great pale Lake against its evaporation, it would require the whole volume of the Golerado River Fecmapen ay to submerge this Arizona desert, and then, if the supply were | mot equal to a flowing stream Irom the lake, the | lake, in the course of time, would become a salt lake, use.css for irrigation or for drinking. It 18 certain, moreover, that the diversion of tte Col- | orado River into said desert (rom any point avove its mouth woud destroy, irom the Gulf ol Cail- fornia, the navigation of the stream (and it is navigable now lor small steamboats jor several hundred miles), For the simple drowning of tne of hie right to iéave it on’ his own proper conscience aud desert, a canal irom the Gulf, letting the sea water | into tiie iower level, would be ths cheapest’ ana | ,4,fekard the onpostie notions as derived fram that ex. | and most feasible plan, and by this plan the desert | represented by the Roman Church, in which mea are its desert ciumate would “be abolished, The | treated us subjects, and governed with a rad of iron, and survey will, doubtless, be ordered, aud the result | never suffered io go forth, except with pains and penal will, no doubt, be the subversion of the Arizona i og sieht). elibeall inieka: Toeeoues desert Into a lake. churches is that members leave and drop their connec- THE NAVY. tion wath given churches op their own sense of duty. They leave or other towns, grow cold and worldly, are out and join some church, without sending for let- Pith of the New Navy Register—Two Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety- one Officers of All Ranks and Condi- Members of churches go trom one denomination to another, without leave asked—sometimes trom sectarian. tions—Forcigners on Board and Where They Hail From. Impitise, sometiines because it is not the custom of their WASHINGTON, March 22, 1874, former church, in such cases, to give letters, and for vari- ‘The oficial Navy Register, publisued, as usual: | two months aiter date, but containing the changes that have been made in the stations and duues of | officers up to the end of January, shows that there a have rejoiced in its unusual and abiding pros Un ‘er the impression made upon us by this action, how- ever, we lelt constrained. to. tuterpose so tar as to ascer- tain It these impressions were correct, and, if th shouid prove to be so, “ke measures to release ourselves from the respousibilities which yould then become to us an occasion of pain and not of gladness. «In bis answer, dated January 14, to this, Mr. Beecher, alter expressing his peculiar views ob the brotuerhood in the chureh, sajs:— No word more happily expresses the idea of a church than tha: wii b you employ—brotherhood. The church im peculiar iorm of amily, only it bas nota legal con- tract between its members as there is between husband and wise, nor legal relations such af exist between pa- rents and childre it is & voluntary brotherhood for | moral ends, in which the members aré held by personal, aflectiouate and sympathetic induencea And ult ough itis eminently becoming in every mem- ber who leaves this brotherhood to do it with the know! edge and consent of its members, yetit is his right to leave it without their consent When the question Is pressed rigorously to the absolute rights of @ mun, he is not, by entering a church, divested i | ry Ls 'y be said that if itis not general usage | among Christian churches tor members to leave upon | their own proper judgment and liberty, yet it is so ire- quent as fo show the practical recognition of the mght He adds further on and urges with some force nis recent action by drawing @ striking compari- gon as lollows:— | A memt of Congress can resign at his own | will on the eve of proceedings against him, or in their | Very midst. ‘his is true of state Legislatures. A judge about to be impeacied, as in the case of Cardozo, can | resign, and no turcher action can be had, aber of | & corporation or of # board of directors can resign and | €o out wt any tine, on his own choice and without the consent and against the wishes of the board of direc- tors. The courts, \oo, have decided that any action taken by his ince associates derogatory to his character f the trial of churches | are 2,291 officers of all ranks and conditions on the | books of the Navy Department, who are divided | into the following elasses:— Line oMicers, 906, consisting of 13 admirals, 25 commodores, 60 captains, 9 commanders, 132 lieu- | members oi ‘the association are responmble to him at tenant commanders, 236 lieutenants, 100 masters, | law tor their action, without privilege, just asit he hud 36 ensigns, 103 midshipmen, 48 boatswains and 64 | never been a mewber. Staif officers, 642, viz. :—Medical corps, 160; PAY | Cmice and asociation—even trou partnershipsswithout corps, 131; engineer corps, 216; chaplains, 22; pro- | the consent of bis associates, oF of the body, but on his | fessors of mathematics, 12; secretaries, 2; uaval con- | own power. He may be subject to damage for liabilities | Eker 16; civil engineers, 7; carpenters, 46 le | ge: \ or ore mustasned by oshers hoe be power 1a makers, 40. off his mem iP irom es social, political an Naval Academy, 293, embracing 21 profesoors, as- | commercial 1 recogmwed by custom aid setiled by | sistants, Wvrarians, 6.5 236 cadet midsutpmen and | numerous decisions iv courte. 87 cadet engineers, (In addition to these 21 pro- Applying the matter to the Church the eminent | fessors, &c., whose duties are confined exclusively | divine adds :— | to the Academy, there are 54 oilicers detailed from | When charges have been made, and judicially enter- the line ana stam o1 the navy, making the total | tained by the church against any recognized member of Dumber of oficers and cadets 347), Pechuren, petted shall then abandon the church for 7 . gk 4 exeaping investization, 1t may er fo) Volunteer nav!» 8s viz; ii wotlng master, 1 act. | ti suet) Ga ayins tavern Ahad be BFGbe ing ensign, 5 passed astistant surgeons, 23 actiO + “ood name’ or for the relief of any Who May have been | assistant surgeons and 68 mates, | Wronged, to proceed with the case, and to declare its Marine corps, 92, vig.:—1 brigadier genetal, 5 | judgment. But to pursue such a one with. pains and staif orticers, | colonel, 2 lleutenant colonels, 4 ma- | penalties, after his own withdrawal, would probably fors, 20 captains and 69 lieutenants, render all concerned actionable at law. Retired und reserved list, 270, cousisting of 36 ad- | gt. ue has gone out arom the church for years “has Mirals, 40 commodores, 17 captains, 13 commande | rengious views, and 18 known for yearsto have disa- ers, 9 heutenant commanders, 5 leutenants, 11 | yowed church memberstup—it is not the duty. of the masiers, 2 ensigns, 1 midshipman, 35 medical OM- | church, if chorges should be made against such a one, cers, 16 pay Ollicers, 27 engineers, 8 chaplains, 4 | to attempt to bring back under their jurisdiction, for the projessors, 3 naval constructors, 10 boatswains, 3 be Ray one Ad yer by. long consent, they have gunners, 11 carpenters, 9 sailmakers and 10 offl- ur foglnes yuiaalekaaks ee cers of marines, . e Compared with the Register for July, 1863, there | 12 the iollowing language :— ig a net The attempt to bring churches to trial has never been INCREASE OF FORTY-NINE OFFICERS, | Brpductive oe Seog rer ikea 50 every, Seip ak Mae pas c , q mischief. There w such an occasion to emplo: Which ts accounted for as follows:—The death of | Councils and to withdraw fellowship aeons that wen Winslow aud the actual retirement oi Goldsborough | trendation as in New /ngland during the Unitarian cone decreased the number of admirals from 13 to 11. | troversy. But there was never a council called. Churche: | Tne ust of heutenant commanders was reduced at | each tor itselt, withdrew fellowship trom churches th. from 141 to 132, by 7 promotions to the next | haa abandoned the theology of the (athers. Even this grade, Ldismissal and 1 death. The leutenants hace gong by aps eve as unhe onioes of fellowship | ned 11 and the ensigns 8 by promotions, while yt 4 wag. | fie mlasbipmen lost 26 by promations ana casual | vii, et, L heartily, Geieve tn, the culowahin o¢ ues, ‘The stall corps lost 3 ductors, 4 paymasters, | of teliowship that the churches of old learned to exer- | Qengineers and 1 civil engineer, and gained 1 | Cise domination and that there 18 an inherent danger in | chaplain. ‘The number of Warrant officers was | the disciplinary exercise of feliowship which should | imoreased by 11, the cadet midshipmen by 60, the | putevery lover of the liberty of the churches upon his cadet engineers by 18 aud the volunteer force by 4, | guard. | _ ‘There are comparatively few officers of ioreign | birth in our be especially in the line, as will be seen bythe subjoined statement of where they | hall from:— In the line there are 3 Irishmen, 3 Engitshmen, 8 He also says:— In short, I hold that a church should care for its erring members, and restore thew it poesible by moral influ. ence; that when they are incorngible they may be dropped from the roll, {t mo crime or glaring sin be im- America, 2 in the West Indies, 1 at sea, 1in the | the circumstances seem: ni | Sandwich Islands and 1 in italy, the last two being sons of officers, In the stat England has 11, Ireland 8, Scotiand 5, Canada 5, Nova Scotia 2, Germany, Spain, Austria, | East India, Mexico, New Bronswick and the isle of Man 1 each. Of the 203 warrant officers 30 were porn ont of the United States—viz., 9 in Ireland, 8 in Engiand, | 2eachin Scotland and France, 1 each ia Capuda, New Brunswick, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Hol- Jand, Denmark and Greece, and 1 at sea, Of the 88 volunteers, 5 ure natives of Germany, 2 each of Ireland, England and Norway, and 1 each of Canada, Denmark, Italy and the Azores. From the careiuily prepared summary given below, showing the number appointed from each State and Ye ritory, it appears that New York and | | Pennsyivania have turnisued more than one-third of the wnoie number of officers on the active list | of the regular navy. Of tne 61 appointed by the President “at large,’’ 38 are still at the Academy | imbibing naval tactics, &c, The others were ap- | | poluted as tollows in 1862, 21n 1863, 1 each ia | 1864, 1865 and 1866; 5 in 1867, and 6 each in 1868 and 1869, The twenty-two put down assons of | | omicers do not exhaust the list of that class of ap- | omtees, 28 Many of those designated as having | en appointed at large owe their existence to prominent army and re officers. For example, | among thom are sons of Fox, Case, Emmons, Uol- tins, Winslow and others of the navy, and Fremont, Robinson, Hunt, Dent, Gove, Maynadier and many others of the army, as weil as Jonn Potts, late chief clerk of the War Department, Li the theory of in- | herited tendencies is worth agything, the sons of | gooa oftice:s should be the best material from | | which to select cadets. Kleven officers entered | the service a8 naval apprentices, two as enlisted | boys, and one Was appoluted irom the army. The eedtul for the vindication of the church or any of its members, Mr. Beecher conéludes by saying that gentleness is a greater power than the machinery of churches, In the answer which is made to this exposition of Mr. Beecner’s views Drs. Budington and Storrs say that his views of the power of members to leave or join churches unquestioned are ‘totally unknown to Congregatioualism” and are “contra- dicted by its history,” and they ask that he call a council to advise with them on the subject, in answer to this Mr. Beecher says, in a letter dated February 8, he 1s willing to submit the ques- tion to @ mutually called council of the tnree charches, aad suggests that the following question be put to a council: — May a church, according to the Word ot God and the usages of the Congregational churches, exercise its own discretion in dropping trom its roll the name of one against Whom serious charges are preferred, but who de- clares himselt not to be a member of the church, or must the church, accordiug to the Word of God and C gregational usage, go forward with the trial of charges tow final issuer He, however, proposes that the forms of the | | | | agreed upon by an informal body of members of Plymouth church, and, if they see their way to accept the mutual council, then to cali it. Upon this proposition the two doctors join issue, in a letter dated February 10, with Mr. Beecher and with the questions to be put to the council as they suggested them, and they conclude by say- ing:— We should feel constrained, Laren ig hk to adda third question to the two we proposed for the advice of a council, a question concerning the proper relations of our churches to. yours, in view of its resolution of De- cember 5, and it seems to us indispensable that some deciaration be made on the subject of tellowship, as on the others. We regret that the our letter as a possible factory to you, and, as we cannot surrender the modity thein in any important particular, there is probably no occasion, in view of your many engage- ments and ours, for further protracuing our correspond- ence. Propositions submitted to. s ‘ou in of agreement are not satis- | latter is Professor Kk. H. Holden, a graduate of | West Point, class of 1870, tn which he stood No. 3, | who resigned his commission in the Engineer | corps to accept a professorship of mathematics in | the navy—difierence in his favor, $900 per anpum, WHENCE APPOINTED. Louisiana. { | HORSE ' NOTES, The trotting mare Tennessee died of lockjaw at New York..... 13 Pennsylvania » | Massachusetts. | Ohio. | | latins ce inst, Tennessee belonged to James Dater, of Fleet- Arkansas anaas.. Mississippi West Virginia. ‘ orida. had a record of 2:273. The San Francisco Chronicle of the 13th inst. Bays:. A match trottin; Connecticut . Indiana. here, a8 was supposed, for the purpose of getting a match with the little mare Mattie Howard, belong- ing to George Treat, Mattie having trottea twenty st Washingion New Mexic me masse ; SHESRSSINEBS ESA SSCR: Vermont. | miles inside of an hour two years since so gamely Delaware. | at Agricultural Park in this city, No maten could Tenness ) be brought about until the present time. The ae- Lop win gat iw tails have finally been arranged for these horses to ‘otal. . no mari hae Sb n come together. George Treat matches his mare Tne above exhibit docs not incluae the twenty- | Mattie Howard against L. K. Martin’s John Stew- one professors and assisiants at the Naval Academy already referred to nor the eignty-eight volunteer officers, the States irom which they were appointed vot being given, The 270 retired officers and tnree Japanese students at Annapolis are aiso excluded. ‘The ofticers ot the navy are serving their country in various ways, a8 evidenced by the following statement of HOW THEY ARE EMPLOYED. luding Voluntecrs, art, twenty miles out, to harness, for $1,500 a sic | Tue race is to come off over the Gakland Trott 4 Park between the 1st and 7th of April, the day to be set in ten days irom woe time the match Was made. Mattie Howard is in charge of A. Lewis, an old and experienced driver, while John Stewart will be handied by that veteran whip, 0. A. Hickok, ‘This will be a race between two of tne best twenty- milers in the country, and low time will, 0 dou!it, be recorded on that occasion. SUNDAY GAMBLING IN BROOKLYN, ei] 2 255 7 Last night Captain Campbell, of the Tenth pre- Waiting oraers i] cinct, with several of his officers, made a descent On special duty Ait sundry kinds. > | on @ lager beer saloon at No. 101 Flatbush avenue On receiving ships...... . §2 | Kept by John Redlein. The place has been com- Keruruine te he Unite ‘egies: $f | pluined of as being a disorderly house, and at the On torpedo auty. ees ssees 23 | time the oMcers entered a number of men and On duty in the Navy Department. 22 | boys were found gambling, Michael Murtha, Lonis On coast survey duty 20 | Rupp, Frank Swit, John Smith, Uharies Smith, At the Naval Observai is | Frederick Bukly, Daniel Miller, James Cellar, p egiepice eat iey 1) | George Rediein and Mary McGlynn were arrested oe eros ornbeeers cae 11 | 88 disorderly persons. Join Redlein, the pro- Under suspension... 7 | prietor, was also arrestea and locked up to an- At experimental battery, Annapolis 4 | swer, Settling accounts... 3 | nts Furloughed 2 | A THIEF AT THE BROOKLYN YOUNG MEN'S hats “Adios CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, At marine barracks ai 3 or On duty afloat. Mr. S. Thorne, the proprietor of the Maddison Avenue Hotel, in New York, caused the arrest of Benoni Rosehall last night at the Brooklyn Young Men’s Christian Association, on a charge of stealing clothing and other property from the hotel. He was plored at the place as @ servant and had a pass ey which admitted him to all the rooms, Amo! the articles taken Was a sealskin overcoat, value at $500, At the time of his arrest he had on an $80 boarders, ue accused was locked lp ay ose Pot accused was ib a house to answan, be ' ing . “ Sick 1, on leave 1. recruiting 1. to United Stat Not stated J, returning ¢ pu — md LS Cadet midshipmen and cadet enginoers, Wait lors 262, on leave teh a | neni Cen peels is, if spoken, slander, and it written, libel; that is, the | , 2 r 3 3 C icted of crime they be ex- | Germiang, (including 2 Yrusinns and 2uxong), 2 | Bet ahery that 1 convicted a cha, Gy, be cx, | Scotchmen, 1 Weishman, 1 Norwegian and 1 Poie, Sore; while une Trial,’ that the church drop their | in addition to these 1 officer was born in South | name from the roll, with sach other action asinay in questions to be put to the mutual council be first | e | the farm of Mr, Van Cott, near Fishkill, on the i4th | | wood Park. She was @ very valuable mare, aud | | Kentuck; | race was made late on Tuesday Missouri- | evening, whicu will attract much interest when it | Rhode Ishi | comes off, A few montns since the celebrated Caluornii | twenty-mile horse John Stewart was brought out Micuiga: | | BISMARCK TALKS. The German Chancellor’s Ciat with a Hungarian. AUSTRO-HUNGARY A PEACE NECESSITY, Frenchmen Frivolous and Harm- less---The Papacy Dangeron: —————— wHo 18s POPE? FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, March 1, 1874. Maurns Jokai, the greatest of living Hargarian novelists and the editor of the Hon, the most influ. ential of the Magyar journals, gives in the columns of his paper a very interesting account of an audi- ence granted him very recently by Prince Bis- Marck, Though the conversation of the Prussian Premier was mostiy directed to subjects in which his Magyar visitor was mostly interested— the re- lattons of Germany to the Austro-Hungarian mon- archy—he nevertheless vouched on other im- portant questions, especially the Oriental, Roman and Elsaas-Lothringian. M. Jokai was received at the Prince’s manston at Wilhelmstrasse at nine o’clock in the evening. He remarka that he was agreeably surprised at finding that he could enter the house by ringing the door bell for admission, just as at the resi- dences of ordinary mortals. He evidently thinks the big porters enveloped in furs and holding the staf! of office who guard the entrances to the bouses of Viennese government dignitaries are dispensable Inxuries. Aiter being led through the ante-room, be found himself in the reception and work room of Prince Bismarck. He describes the furniture therein as belng severely simple. ‘In the corner there stood an iron couch; before the window there was a large tron safe; in the middle of the room @ great writing tabie, at which the ‘Man of Tron’ sat. “The Prince,’ says M. Jokal, “‘was 80 very con- livery of @ well thought out address which [ had prepared in my wind, and began at once by saying how astonishingly young I looked; he had thought I was much older, for when he was a first lieuten- ant in the army-he had read a review of one of my works in the Augsourger Allgemeine Zeitung, which at that time was stila clever paper. I told him my age. ‘Well,’ he said, ‘1am ten years ahead of you.’ Then he asked me to take a seat at the op- posite side of the writing table, and, fetching a box of cigars out of the iron safe, offered one to me, thanked bim, for ido not smoke, The Prince said he did not smoke cigars—he loved better bis meerschaum pipe. CONSOLATION AND HOPE, “While we were speaking the side door was opened, and the Princess, with her daughter, en- tered {rom an adjacent apartment. The Man of Tron has his magnet too, The Princess is still of imposing beauty, of a noble cast of countenance and form, and the Comtesse is a brilliant ideal beanty, and came to take leave of the head of the family, Bismarck dismissed them with a patriarcial kiss, and bade the Princess give his reverent salutations to Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, “We resumed our places at the writing table op- posite each other. The Prince spoke; I listened, AUSTRO-HUNGARY A NECESSITY FOR EUROPE, “Tv is necessary that @ consolidated State like the Austro-Hungarian monarchy should exist in the centre of Europe, I perceived that when [ has- tened to conclude peace in the year 1866, It is the calling of the Germans on the one part, and of the side of the Leitha. The other nationalities give soldiers to the monarchy; but we have to look es- pecially to the Germans and to the Magyars for ad- ministrative talent, for statesmanship, intelligence and wealth, But all are heid together by the bond ofa common history. The establishment of small possible; only historical Therefore the dualistic form of government at present existing between Austria and Hungary must be malatained. The history of your nation is one with that of Austria; itis one through your wars; earlier, indeed, you fought one against the other; now you are bound together tor mutual protection.’ Here I remarked,'’ says M. Jokal, “that every rational Hungarian pohtician wished this bond of alliance and mutual protection to be Taaintained. “PRINCE BISMARCK CONTINUED :— “That mission, which you in Austro-Hungary have to accomplish, cannot be fulfilled by any neighboring State. Do you think that Germany needs more provinces that are undermined by the Papal authority? We have, as you know, still | many good friends who suspect us of wishing to annex the Austrian crown lands, God forbid! enough with the Danish boundary dificulty, and if geographical considerations nad not compelled us we should not have added to Germany a single foot’s breadth of land whereon Frenchmen dwelt, The French are a wild, irreconcilable foe; for the French are a wild people. Take away from them their cooks, their tailors and their friseurs and you leave the copper-colored Indian. If we were only able to release ourselves of that non-adaptabie element which we bave acquired, to say nothing of lusting after the pilgrimage-loving tribes of Aus- tria! And what should we do with Vienna asa border city? Vienna and Buda-Pest have the mission to become in the East rich centres of civ- ilization and commerce. And tho German siates- man who could entertain for a moment the idea of annexing anything from Austria would deserve— (here the Prince made a movement with his hand as much as to say, ‘deserve to be hanged”). If the German provinces of Austria wished with all their might to come to us, I, for my part, would be inclined to oppose them, Rest assured that fora Jong time to come nobody will molest the Austrian monarchy—at least as far as human wisdom is able to look into the future. The efforts of Ger- man diplomacy have been successful in bringing avout a good understanding between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, This good understanding is now perfect. In case these two good friends of ours had come to a quar- rel it would have been diMcult for us to have chosen with which to side. Now we are bound together, not as once, through the Holy Aillance, but im the mutual guarantees to make peace, the free development and the weilare of the nations lasting. Your Emperor has become very popular and is liked as Regent in Hungary. (‘fe is, in- deed,” remarks Jokai.) RUSSIA, GERMANY AND AUSTRIA, “Whoever would disturb the peace of Austro- Hungary would find himself opposed by Germany. | But there is no one who has an interest in attack- | ing you. Why should Russia do so? Her territory, stretching trom Japan to the Baltic, 18 so large that Galicia in comparison therewith would be an insignificant gain. She carries on wars of con- quest in Asia only to give employment to dissatis- | fied elements, She has enongh to do in Rfssian- izing the 3,000,000 Germans in the Baltic provinces, and even these are not promotive of her pros perity. My fellow countrymen, the Germans, are @ moral, industrious, onest and economical peo- ple; but when they once ome Russians they adopt the vices of the latt and lose their own good qualities in the process. T was frequently on the chase in Russia, and] once | heard the proverb (the Prince spoke Russian and then explained in German) to this effec ‘When @ Russian steals he steals enough to last him for | that one day; bat when a German steals he steals enough not only for himself that day but for his children, and something over for the morrow.” Russia does not need any more conquests in Eu- rope. She has enough todo at home. The idea of Russia annexing Transylvania is simply ridicu- Jon.’ “When I spoke of the antagonistic attitude main: siderate that he did not permit me to Onish the de- | They were just going toa court soirée, | Magyars on the other, to rule on this and on yon | national States in the East of Europe is im- | States are possible. | We have enough to do with Alsace-Lorraine, | An twofold measure, | are twospecies) of Russian policy—the St_beréraourg and the Uon- stantinople. As s00D 48 an ambassador goes ta Constantinople he becomes equally deranged witht the rest. They carry on European politics en there among themselves, as tf this duty specially confided to them, until they are sudden)y, recalled.’ THB RUSSIAN CROWN PRINCE. “I permitted myseif to express my fears of a change of Russian policy when the present Crowa Prince comes into power. “Believe me,’ replied the Prince, ‘the Russtan Crown Prince will carry out the policy a8 at pres~ ent pursued by the Czar. He is @ brave, peace-and. quiet-loving father, who does not dream for a moment of entertaining Tameriantan or Napo- | leonte plans, or of carrying out the testament of | Peter the Great. He is glad when he can live hap- | Pily in the circle of his own family. From this side You have nothing to ‘ear. The only person who, could disturb the peace of Europe at this moment is THE POrE. | You are not, I believe, a Carnolic ? “1 am Protestant, indeed; but, even If I were hot, the Catholics of Hungary are enlightened People, and it would be impossible for any one to create @ camp for religious wariare there.’ “The Prince conciuded his remarks on this points by saying, ‘We do not even know who 1s the Pope.’ “Then he began to speak of bis sojourn im Humgary—how he had cuce purchased a norse there, &c. DIED, “Then the Prince's secretary came into the room with a mountain of decuments, whereupon I took leave, the Prince pressing my hand warmiy and inviting me to his soirée on the jollowing day, when [ was to be made acquainted with the mem- bers of the Reichstag. SIGNIFICA’ “lL remember that during the conversation the | Prince held in his hand two large lead penciis—so | large. indeed, that they would have served me as | walking sticks, When he sald that he did not lust | after the German provinces o! Austria he demon- | strated his assertion by holding up one of the | enormous pencils and saying:—‘No; we do not | wish to annex a piece of land even as large as this lead pencil.’ “It is true, M. Jokai adds, good bumorediy, “that if this pencil had been piaced on an ordinary Map it wouid have extended from Germany to | Trieste and lave covered a big slice of Austria.” | ART MATTERS, | i ALN New Pictures at Goupil’s Gallery. Spring, which calls up the dormant iife in alt ereatea things, exerts iis influence even in art | gaileries. Old pictures that weathered the cold | looks and shrugs of winter, fall irom the walls to give place to the trester studio shoots, Goupil’s | gallery is now in that interest.ng period of change, and new works, full of interest, have been added to a collection already remarkable, The Europeam schoois are strongly represeuted, but there ara | Some pictures painted by resident American artists which show how much may be done at home, it the work be undertaken in the proper spirit, Among the strong ‘oreign pictures one from the | easel of P, Jazet, which was exhibited last year im | the Paris Salou, deserves especial attention troum the quality of the work and the interest whict | always attaches to a dramatic story well told, | The artist calls this work ‘An Affair of Honor.’* | it represents two gentiemen of the seventeenth century settling adisjute with pistols in the cool morning. The place of meeting is the ditch of the fortifications, which loom up gray and solid im the background. One of the duellists, according to the old French code, 1s about to fire. His opponent,, who is in the comfortabie situation of being about: to receive the discharge, holds his pistol so as ta | protect as much as possible his head and neck, | and is evidently gathering himself up to offer ag | amall a target as possible to his opponent. The man about to fire is braced up, unnaturally ens deavoring to steel his nerves and steady is alm, as on the issue of his shot his own life depends, Removed from the line of fire, one of the seconds i | giving the signal, and the group watch intently the result of the suot Tue incident is most aramatic and the story is strongly told. The clenched hand and unnatural tension of the figare of the man about to fire have been admirably con- ceived, The dramatic action of the picture is very, strong, but quiet and impressive. There is not a | trace GF sensationalism in the work, The charac ters of the assistants are well marked, the chief actors are the more concerned and concentrated, | but the interest of the witnesses ts Intense without being capital. Hach face wears @ different ex- pression, and yet there is something which belongs to the svene that is common to all, We see at once that whoever is shot will be regretted, but that | the parties will bow coldly and separate as soon | as the morning's work is done. This painting is im, | better taste and ranks higher in art than most | duel scenes we have seen exhibited. Other artista | nave selected the moment when the tragedy hat | been completed and the real aramatic interest lost because the issue was decided; but Mr. Jazet, with truer artistic instinct, selects the instant bi | fore the trigger is pulled—that is to say, the poing | where the dramatic interest to all concerned haa | reached the climax. In @ second of time the | ball will be sped. Will the aim be true? | Ic is the question of life or death, ang ‘hence the dramatic interest of the canvas is rendered most intense. In addition to admir- | able composition the picture is painted broadly and the color Jaid on solidly, yet every detail ia | caretully worked out. It is one of those pictures | Whose value will not be affected by change of fashion, The work is done on sound principles of art, and will, therefore, always be valuable. | Another important French work, “Vive le Rol? | by Edmond Andre, deserves attention. It isan tit< | teresting picture, with the usuai sensational inter- | est of revolutionary pictures, It 18 very cleverly. | painted and dramatically conceived, but it lacka | the quiet power of Jazet’s work. It representa | a group of captured royalist oMeers being led out | to execution during the Reign of Terror, “Timidity” is the title of a very charming pic- ture by a resident artist, Signor Vainl. It repre~ | Sents @ richly dressed and beautiiul girl crossing | @ rivulet by a plank, The figure of the Jady i graceful and full of charm, dt one feels that thera 18 a@ good deal more of coquetry than fear in her | timidity, which she has evidently assumed, Tha@ | Composition of the picture is clever and effective, | Slender trees are made to furm an arch over tha figure of the gitl, which stands in bold relfef, her | Pink dress telling with great effect on a cold, | luminous background. The scene and figure are | both American, and furnish ample proof that are | tists need not wander far from home ior pleasing | subjects and poetic inspirations. | There is an admirably painted picture by Vanut« | telli, representing a simple household scene in hight | life, a@ gentleman in Spanish costume conversing | with a lady. ‘Ihe subject bas nothing to interest, } but the work 1s so admirably done that it gives in« | terest to the subject. There ts & roundness an | solidity in the modelling of the forma rarely me' | with, even in the dest pictures, and the color is: | strong and pronounced, but Iilelike, as if blood | flowed througn the figures. Nor are the details of the tapestry and furniture less carefully or strong!y treated, but the Whole scene seems to stand out | from the canvas. Valles ia represented by @ | Moorish picture, “The Juggler,” which has much | local color, but 1s rather aketchy in treatment. Hamon is represented by one of his strange outs le pictures, full of poetry and bad drawing, and the thinnest kind of patnting, but withal nossessing {| much charm and poetic feeling. There are a num« ber of other interesting pictures in the gallery | Which We cannot spare space to mention, but enough has been said to show that the spring exe | hibition at this gallery will be a treat to those ine terested in art. Among the treasures in reserve are a large and powerful Boughton and a delight« ful genre piece by Gérome, tn which that masteg makes an effort to snatch Meissonier’s laure! i | | | | } | He has not quite succeeded, however, but tn “French Guat an” he has painted will su those who fi looked on Gérome as an STebenal i a util cas whe color treatment, iA