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» MONEY PANIC IN LONDON. Causes of the Financial Crisis—Influence of the Indian Famine. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. “Toxo, April 1—6 A, M, The Times acknowledges the existence of @ financial panic in London, and _at- tributes it to the effect of those with which New York and Vienna have been visited, combined with the depressing influences of the indian famine. It (the Times) says the check to trade is prob- ably as severe as in any former instance, GERMANY. The Archbishop of Cologne Made Ready for Prosecution. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Benn, March 31, 1874, The Roman Catholic Archbishop or Cologne was arrested to-day for violating the ecclesiastical laws. The arrest was mede without any demon- stration. Bismarck’s Prosecution of Catholic Prel- ates. The arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne will be likely to hasten the civil action of tue German government for the active prosecution by trial of the many prelates and members of the minor clergy of the Roman Catholic Church who are held in arrest, charged with violations of the ecclesias- tical laws of the Empire. The trial of the Arch- bishop of Posen was set down to commence with @ judicial interrogatory in April, and 1t is believed that the Archbishop of Colozne and the Bishops of Munster and Breslau will be p dat the bar soon after the result of the first judicial experi- Ment 1s made known. ‘ie ‘he Bishop of Munster bas been sold by auc- tion and realized the sum o/ forty-seven thalers, orabout $3550, and almost all the great West- phalian nobles have placed thcir houses at his dis- posal, The Prince Bishop oi Bres!au has no inten- | tion of withdrawing into the Ausirian part of his | diocese, us has been alleged. and on the other hand the Prussian goverainent is to proceed against the Archbishop of Ulmutz, in Moravia, for | the appointment of priests in the Silesian part of that diocese, and will stop the fines out of the Prussian portion of his revenues. Nor is the Prus- sian prosecution at all confined to the bishops who | appoint priests, The priests appointed also come in for their share; the parish priest of Anclam, in Pomerania, is in prison, and two young curates aeroata in Dantzig have been sent to serve in the army. The crusade against the Catholic Associa- tion is being kept up, and a government official at | Neuwied has ordered a search amon: the papers of | Count Alfred Stolberg-Stolberg, who happens to be | @ deputy to the Prussian Parliament, and who has | complained to the Chamber oi! this violation of an article of the constitution and of Parliamentar Privilege. ‘he Chamber has stopped the procee ings and ordered an inquiry as to who 1s responsi- ble for them. The possibility af a new issue of inconvertidle paper I regard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue would be a detri- ment and a shame.—CHARLES SUMNER, ENGLAND. Parliamentary Reminiscence of the Ravages of the Alabama—Mr. Whalley’s Tilt with Chief Justice Cockburn—Legislative Recess. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 31, 1874, In the House of Commons to-night Mr. Anderson Was, according to noticg to have introduced a resolution declaring that, as Great Britain was ad- Judicated to be in the wrong in permitting the escape of the Alabama, and compensated Amer- | fcans who suffered by the depredations of that ‘veasel, British subjects who suifered sunilarly ought also to seceive compensation, When the notice was called Mr. Anderson, with the consent of the House, postponed the introduc- | tion of his motion. WHALLEY AND COCKBURN. During the sitting of the House of Commons the select committee on the judicial committal and | fining of Mr. Whalley, M. P., for contempt of court, reported that Chiet Justice Cockburn only dia his duty under the circumstances, and that the affair | £id not require further investigation, Mr. Whalley himself subsequently gave notice | that he should call attention to the case on | April 17 and ask fora new committee of investi- gation. LEGISLATIVE RECESS. The House has adjourned for the Easter holl- | days. WEATHER REPORT. The weather throughout England to-day is wet. CHINA. * The Wreck of the Steamship Nil—A Number of Lives Lost. TLE:RAM 12 THE KEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, March 31, 1874. Later despatches from Houg Kong in relation to the loss of the Messageries Maritimes Company’s steamship Nil, while on a voyage irom that port to Yokohama, say that eighty persons were drowned, | turuiture of | | POP URL { SPAIN. Serrano's Censorship of the Telegraphs—Big Guns Playing on the Carlists. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, March 31, 1874. Marshal Serrano has issued an order prohibiting the transmission from Santander and places in the vicinity of that town of private telegraphic despatches. A heavy fire is kept up by the artillery upon the Cerlist positions before Bilbao; but the other troops are resting. Reinforcements Marching to Serrano— Abanto To Be Again Attacked. Maprip, March 31, 1874, ‘Troops to the number of 15,000 are on the way to reinforce Marshal Serrano, been killed, Tuesday or Wednesday. The United States Embassy at Madrid. Paris, March 31, 1874. General Daniel E. Sickles, late United States Minister to Spain, and the Hon, Caleb Cushing, his successor, who are now in this city, had an inter- view yesterday. Mr. Cushing will leave here for Madrid on Fri- day next, going by way of Bordeaux. General Sickles proceeds to London, where he will remain some time in consequence of sickness in bis family, ASHANTEE. The Conqueror of King Koffee Feted in Guild- hall—Serious Charge Against African Royalty and Honor — After-Dinner | Sketch of Deeds Done in the Field. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 31, 1874, ‘Yhe Lord Mayor of London gave a banquet to- night, at the Mansion House, in honor of Sir Gar- nett Wolseley. Among the distinguished guests present were the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Cardwell and Mr. Gathorne Hardy, General Wolseley, in response to a toast, gave an interesting account of the Ashantee expedition, | and declared that King Kolfee had for a long time premeditated the war, | The General was received with the greatest en- | thusiasm, and his speech was frequently inter- rupted with cheers. W EW CALEDONIA. —-——-+ How Rochefort and His Companions Made Themselves Free. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK ERDALH LONDON, March 31, 1874. A despatch from Melbourne says that Henri Rochefort and his companions escaped trom New Caledonia by stowing themselves away in a vessel bound for Newcastle, N.S. W. They have arrived at Sydney, and will proceed to Europe direct, INDIA. pee i alist Effective Relief in the Famine-Stricken Dis- tricts. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Catcutra, March 31, 1874, Reports from the districts affected by the famine show agreat improvement in the situation. The distress of the people have proved very effective, There are now no actual cases of starvation out- side of Tirhoot, and in that district there are but a few. WEATHER REPORT. eee a SEED, WaAB DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, April 1—1 A. M. Probabilities, FoR THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES, HIGH BUT FALLING BAROMETER, NORTHEASTERLY WINDS, LOW TEMPERATURE, CLOUDY WEATHEI, SNOW AND RAIN. 5 For the lower lakes and the Ohio Vailey, north- easterly to northwesterly winds, cloudy weather, | partly clearing in the forenoon. For the Northwest and upper lakes and the lower Missouri Valley, northwesterly to south- westerly winds, cold and partly cloudy weather. For the Southern States, northwesterly and | southwesterly winds, cold, cloudy weatner and rain. Cautionary signals continue at Norfolk, Cape Henry and Cape May, and are ordered for Peck's Beach, Atlantic City, Barnegat, Squam Beach, Long Branch, Sandy Hook and New York. The Weather in This City Yesterday. | 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 :— peel Leh PERSONAL TELLIGENCE, The Archbishop of Canterbury Is about to resign. Santa Anna wants to die among his countrymen. General Lew Wallace is avout to become a lec- turer. Napoleon latest. The Czar will journey to England in May in his yacht, the Livadie. Iv., the “Imperial Barkis,” is the George M. Puliman, of Chicago, has apartments | at the Brevoort House, Sir Alexander T. Galt arrived from Montreal yes- terday at the Gilsey House, Ex-State Senator Oharles Hi. Adams, of Cohot N Y., is at the New York Hotel, General E. F, Jones, of Binghamton, N. Y., fegistered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Solicitor &. O, Banfield, of the Treasury Depart- ment, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Perez Sandi, @ Mexican pricst, has been arrested 8 @ con/ederate of the outlaws of Tepic. Governor Thomas A, Osborn, of Kansas, is among the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Mrs. President Grant and Miss Nellie Grant arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night trom ‘Washington. Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher and Major ‘tr. W. Rutherfurd, of the British Army, are quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. How things do get mixed! The Mexican papers @peak of Hamiiton, the Jersey City delaulter, asa famous New York bank robber. Consul General Goodenow is acting as Chargé | 4’ Affaires at Constantinople in the absence of Mins ister Boker on his Italian tour. Mr. ©. J. Brydges has resigned the managing irectorsiip of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, a position which he has held for twelve years. Baron Barthoidi, the recentiy appointed French Minister, leit the Brevoort House yesterday morn- ing for Washington to present ms credentials to the President, Collector W. A. Simmons, who has been to Wash- ington, telling what he knew about the Sanborn contracts, was at the Westminster Hotel yester- day, while on his way to Boston, ‘The President yesterday withdrew the name of Henry P. Rolie from before the senate, and in its stead sent in the nomination o1 Jonn G. Hall, to be United States Attorney for New Hampshire. The possibility af a new issue af tnoonvertible paper I regard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue woud ve a detri- «nent and a shame,—CHARLBS SUMNER, | is 1873. 1874. 1878. 1874. | SA. M. 3 888330 P, M. 50 33. 6 A. M. 38° 6 P.M. 34 | 9 A, ML 38° 9 P.M. 34 12M... 60 34 12 PM. 32 Average temperature yesterday... ieee COM } Average temperatur | last year. | tor corresponding date A SNOW STORM IN WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON, March 31, 1874. | A-heavy fall of snow, accompanied by rain, com- menced here this morning, The snow melts as it | Teaches the ground. INSURANCE FRAUDS IN IRELAND, Conspiracy and Fraud Against the New York Life Insurance Company. The Irish journals of the 14th of March report | that @ case of very extraordinary character and | of great public jmportance was opened on the pre- | vious Tuesday Before the magistrates in the court | house, Bruff, county Limerick. “ The action was instituted on behalf of | the Crown, against a number of medical men, | shopkeepers and farmers for fraud on the New York Life Insurance Company. Dr, | Mehan Bruff, Mr. M. and Mr. James Mehan, and | Mr. William Barry were charged with conspiring | to defraud the New York Life Insurance Company | by obtaining policies of insurance on lives of per- s0ns residing in the district of Bruff, Kilmallock, | Without toeir knowledge or consent. The alleged | fraud was stated to have been committed in 1872. The charge specially preierred against Dr. Mehan was that he had granted certificates of good health in certaim cases to parties Insured witnout having made Reece eXamination inio the state Ol their health, Mr. Clery appeared for Dr, Mehan, and on his behalf stated that he lad liberty from Mr. Barry, of Kilmatiock, who acted as agent for the in- surance company, to fill medical certificates re- garding parties with whom he was well acquainted, | Without subjecting them to personal examinatio! | Mr. 0. W. Smyth, J. P. (whose life bad been b | sured ostensibiy by a person named James Whee- jan), was examined, and swore that he was | Wheelan’s landiord, but had never been examined by Dr. Mehan, as was alleged. He did not know of ; any insurance being eilected on nis life in this | company. | Mr, Smyth some two years ago received threat- | ening letters in reference to land disputes. | James Wheelan stated that his signature to the | alleged insurance on the live of Mr. Smyth, his land- lord, was a forgery; he had never signed a docu ment. | County Inspector Gallway deposed that on ques- tioning Dr. Mehan he at once admitted the ge | umencss of his signature to the policy on M | Smyth’s life, and that he had the authority of Mr. Barry, the agent at Kilmallock, for so doing, witn- out ‘personal examination, provided he was ac- quainted with the parties for whom he certified. ‘At this stage die Court stated that a prima sacie case had been made out and they would take in- formation and return the defendants for trial at the assizés, ‘ihe necessary recognizances were then entered into for the appearance 0 the parties to take theix trial, The final attack on Abanto will be made on | measures taken by the government to relieve the | The following record will show the changes in | tyvnn LOA, It is reported that the Carlist General Olio has | | Start his Fest Theatre at Bayreuth. The Germans | are fast forsaking him. | of Music, WIN DOUA | AMUSEMENTS. The possibility of a new issue of tneconvertible paper Iregard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue would be a detri- ment anda shame.—CHARLES SUMNER, Lyceum Theatre—“Le Petit Faust.” Hervé, the composer of this admirable travestie on Goethe and Gounod, is not always as happy in opera as he is in this work. Unheppily for his chances of success, he indulges in the temerity of writing his own libretti, and in the cases of | “ceil Crevé” and “Chilpéric’? the beautitul music with which both these operas abound is crushed be- neath the imbecility of plot and dialogue. 2 Pett Faust” is something better in this respect, and has many happy musical thoughts. Mile. Aimée and Stani as Marguerite and Mephisto, and MM. Juteau, Duplan and Lecuyer in their ‘respective | roles, bringing out to the fullest extent the humor- ous spirit ol the music. The “Valse des Nations” is worthy of opera comique, and the German trio “Tyrolenne” is irresistibly funny. “La Fille de Madame Angov” will be given tis and to-morrow evenings and “Barbe Bleue” on Frida’ A grand Parisian “Folly” willbe the Easter teature at this theatre, and Manager Chamberlain promises @ short Salvini season aiter the holidays. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Stuart’s Park Thedtre and Fox's Broadway Theatre will open on Monday, Hans Von Bitlow will not come to the United States until the fall of 1875, The Carolina Singers (colored) appear at Asso- | ciation Hall on Thursday evening, in a varied pro- gramme. Mme, Annie Butler, an American soprano, who lately arrived here, sang for an entire season with success in Italy. Mr. H. R. Humphries has a concert at Steinway Hall on April 11, in which a dozen of well known musical artists will appear, “The Seven Last Words of Christ,” by Haydn, will be sung on Friday evening, at St, Ann's church, by the choir of M. Louis Dachauer, The Metropolitan Theatre has a new bill for this week, in which the principal feature is the popu- | lar comedienne and vocalist, Miss Jennie Hughes. Mme. Julia De Ryther, one of the chiet favorites among American prima donne, sings at Robinson Hallon nexv ‘tuesday evening, at the benefit of Mrs, Etta Manning. Richard Wagner cannot raise suMectent funds to In a few years he will be dead or jorgotten. So much for the new school of opera. Mile. Iima Di Murska commences on Easter Mon- day a short season of Italian opera at the Academy | “La Sonnambula,”? “Dinorah” and “La Stella del Nord” will be the principal novelties of the engagement, Mme. Pauline Lucca makes her first appear: ance under the Strakosch management this even- ing, at tne Academy of Music, in the rdle of Leonora in “Favorita.” The other artists in the cast will be Campanini, Del Puente and Nannetti. ‘The new attractians at the Lyceum Theatre will be a grand Parisian folly, for which extensive preparation is being made. It will be thoroughly | French in character and will include an entire | ballet from the Paris Grand Opera House. It | promises to be something quite new in the way of sensations, Donald McKay and a number of his scalp-taking braves are giving theatrical entertainments in | Washington ‘Territory. War dances and scalp | dances by real live Indians are the great attrac- tion, They also give dramatic effect to their per- formance by representing the tragedy of Dr. Whitman’s murder, and finish it off with a dance around his supposed scalp, Mrs. Eliza Young, the nineteenth wife of the Mor- mon Prophet, delivers her famous lecture on life among the Latter Day Saints, at the Bedford ay- enue keformed church, in Brooklyn, E. D., to-mor- Tow evening, BEECHER ON INFLATION, Henry Wi rd Beecher at Steinway Hall Last Evening. There was a great audience at Steinway Hall last evening, It was not the promise of the pre- sentation of some great foreign favorite which sold the tickets, but it was of having “The Wastes and Burdens of Society” tboroughly commented upon by one of the most popular pulpit orators of our own land. It was not such a congregation as throngs the doors of a iree lecture, nor was it an audience remarkable for extreme religious or so- cial views. 1t was a thoroughly intelligent, moral and thoughtful audience, without being super- ficial, pedantic or dogmatical, that greeted the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher as he stepped to the tront of the rostrum. Those who for the past two years have been abusing the lecture rostrum as a means lor amusing, as well as instructing, the metropoli- tan mind would have led people to believe that the speaker of last evening would not ‘raw.’ The lecture, without the cause of poor destitute woman to “co-operate,” always fills a house, but, with ‘charity’? as an object, tickets soon find a market. The receipts of last evening were for the benetit of the “ree Dormitory tor Women,” No, 54 Amity street. Among others on the piatiorm were the Kev. Dr. Deems, Theodore W. Dwight, Judge Davis, Douglas Taylor and Algernon 8. Sullivan, ‘The lecturer was introduced by Mr. Algernon 8, Sullivan, who relerred to the work of the “Fraternals” in establishing this home for desti- tute women, and stated that during the past year it had jurnished meals and lodging tor 1,200 poor wouen, Mr. Beecher was received with long and continued applause. After the noise hud sube sided the lecturer saic Al! nations consider the eople Of all Other nations conceited. The truth tuat there 18 considerable conceit at the bottom, Yo have a good opinion of ourselves 1s to take the first step toward advancement. I propose to talk to you to-night of the jaults and foibles of society and to point out that there is ample oppor- tunity for every one to relorm some abuse or to point out some improvement on what 1s | | now regarded as perfection, The reijation of good health to society as weil as industry is not always fully estimated. No community can afford to have many sicx people am its ranks, It is a very poor investment. Weakuess 13 just us great a burden as sickness, or dies, but Weakuess is a chronic annoy, Who 18 Weak, be he ever so capable efforts when weil, ¢: people of a great city cannot atford to have a por- tion of their citizens living well while the great bulk ot the population are dwelling in hovels. ‘The second element of waste which i shali speak of is ignorance. by this 1 donot mean those who can- not read and write. Ihave seen men who could read and write—aye, and cypher—who were pro- foundly ignorant, Some are troubled about their pedigree. For my part, this does not disturb me at all. Lhave no prejudice against the animals. [ would just as lief know that | am descended from amonkey as not, i the line could be traced far enough back to satisfy me. What is more worth- less or even more helpless than man when he is born. It would be an honor to begin as high up in the scale asa caif. By an ignorant man I mean one who is born an animal, grows up and always remains simply an animal. Great mistukes are made in the choice of trades or proiessions. I know it to be true oi the ministry. When men are called to preach some are always cailed to hear them, and When no one does come to hear them Asick man either gets well Noman atter a fair trial it 18 a preity good evidence that they haye mistaken their calling. 1 would” next refer to the waste of lying, considered tn the light of political economy. If We can’t trust or believe any one but ourselves industry is clogged in every branch. Anything which weakens public confidence Weakens society. 1 cannot pass over even the gigantic Wickedness of our government in printing lies by the hundred thousand. (Vealening ap- ary I would next reier to the burden o1 war. hoid that many wars are inspiring, and thata nation often comes out of a war better. But this is not the rule. Twenty-one thousand million dol- lars of war debt overhangs the Christian nations of the globe. Do you wonder what makes Com munism? Where debts are iniamous they nevi will be pald, The devil can’t tax me for vice and not near about it, The three classes whom to blame lor this more than all others are the rich, the cultured and the religious, They draw back from the duties of citizens, and then complain that the politics of the couatry are in the hands of the low and unscrupuious, A CORRUPTION FUND IN BROOKLYN, It was reported on good authority in Brooklyn yesterday that the Gowanus Canal property own- ers have raised a fund of $4,000 or $5,000, to be used im the defeat of the biil now before the Legis- lature providing for the collection of the Gowanus Canal debt, $600,000. Some of the heaviest tax- payers along the line of the improvement have contributed $500 or $600 each toward the fund, and the money 18 to be taken to Aibany in a day or two by the counsel to the property owners, The bill that was ordered by the Common Couneil last Monday has not yes been draited. Many suspect that tt will be altered mm Alhany‘to suit the monop., yy Legis No, 204 South street, 1, Ari 1, 15(/4.—-0KLP LK SHEET. CITY STRIKES IN PROSPECT. 2 LAR BM The Boss Carpenters Want More Hours from the Men—Decided Resistance—The Eight Hour Law To Be Abided By— The Bricklayers and Plasterers— Circular from the Central Council. Yesterday the boss carpeoters, the boss brieklay- ers and the boss plasterers had meetings at which strong expressions of opinion were heard, which plainly show what the exact feeling in the matter is, The stumbling block in the way of an adjust. ment of dificulties between employers and em- Ployés 1s not, as is generally the case, 80 much a question of money as a question of time. The boss carpenters are particularly decided and unani- mous on this point, They say that during the coming season at any rate the men must give up the eight hour rule and work, if possible, ten hours | per day, but in any case nine hours as a minimum. They do not wish, they say, that the men shall do this extra work without extra pay. On the contrary, they propose to pay for the extra hours of work. Their object is to get more work done, as the shortness of the present working time makes the impediments in their way ex- tremely great. The decrease in labor is said to be | Very great since the adoption of the Hight Hour | Jaw, and for their own interest the boss carpenters Say they feel obliged to resort to this measure. On the other hand the carpenters are very decided in their determination not to give way to this press- ure by the bosses. They state that they have Stood by the Eight Hour law, have adopted it in every sense and mean to adhere to it, in spite of What the bosses may do or say. No promises of extra pay can induce them to break through the eight hour provision, even though a strike be the result, At the meeting yesterday the bosses re- solved to have a meetung with the men and pr pose the measure to them. Though chey feel vaat their efforts will not be crowned with success they Mean to force it upon the men, With the bricklayets and the plasterers the situation ts somewhat different. ‘The bosses are not so decided in their determination to enforce increased hours of labor upon the men, though they sincerely are im favor of the measure and ein Lo endeavor to get the men to agree to it They know that the men are not in favor of work- ing any harder than they do at present, even with increased pay; but they hope that by meeting the men, discussing the question with them, and by persuasion they will be successiul in taducing tie employés to agree to some sort of a compromise, if not ten hours per day, at all events nine. ‘ne | men appear to be equally as determined as the carpenters not to accede to any overtures of the | kind, and advance the same reasons as their con- | Jreres—that they worked hard to get the EI Hour law passed, aud now intend to abide by tt. | ‘The bricklayers state that eight hours’ work 18 ail that they can well do on hot summer days, and | that more they will not do. They use the argu- | Ment also that eight hours’ good work 1s bett than nine or ten hours’ bad work, and that the | be 8 can gain pothing by a chanye of this sort, — | he joliowing circular has been issued by the Workingmen’s Central Counci!, and is is intended | to promote a general mass meeting of the work- ingmen in favor of the kigot our law all over the country JUSTICE TO LABOR—THE WORKINGMEN’S CENTRAL COUNCIL TO THE LABOR ORGANIZATIONS OF THE | UNITED STATES. We appeal to the organized workingmen of ev lage, town and city of the Union to hold a mass me on Monday evening, May 18, 1874, in conjune: the workingmen of this city, which will be held at the | Cooper Institute, for the pitpose.of demanding the re- | moval of the corrupt agents of the governentconcected | with the Departmen: of Architecture trot oullce, on the | ground that instead of eniorcing they flagrantly violate | the Bight Hour law, by extendiug the contract system in every department of buildi ontracts are given | to special favorites for pt purposes, as hus be clearly proved by the Central C ie Congres: | sional Comtittee who were authorized to investigave | the violation of the law on the new New York Post ontice. | We appeal to the secretaries of all labor orgamations | to at once communicate with their representative: Congress and especially request their attention to this | subject, and insist tor further legislation in order that the working people may derive tne benefits originally in- | tended by the tramers of the la | We appeal to the labor organizations of this city to at | once appoint committees and assist in arranging the de- tails for a mass meeting such as never Was witnessed in this city, and let the voice of the working people be heard in thunder tones throughout the length aud breadwa of the land. We propose to fearlessly expose the corruptions exist- ing inal departments of government, and the manuer in which the claims and rights of the Working people are | ignored by the powers that be, and we shall propose a proper remedy. Itis hoped that orgamations ontsde of this city will | make no delay in making arrangements tor ings, ‘The New York resolution will be sent upon application. Chairmen ot mass mi 1g8 please communicate with us by telegraph. By order of the Standing Committee, | R. K, WILLIAMS, | Chairman, No. 22 Kighth avenue, New York. . B—All committees when appoinied Will report at | once tothe Standing Commitioe every sunday, at three | o'clock P. M., at Munziger Hull, No. 147 West Thirty- | second street. ‘Naw Yous Crty, March 3), 1374. The possiditity of a new issue of inconvertivie paper I regard with amazement and anxiety, and, in my judgment, such an issue would bea detri- ment and a shane. at Weavers at Methuen and Waltham Turn Out—Strong Objections to Arbi- | trary Rules and Low Pay. Boston, March 31, 1874. The striking fever has broken out among the mill operatives in some of the manufacturing towns of this State. In Methuen, only a few miles from Lawrence, about 300 women and chilaren em- ployed in the jute mills have strack for ap advance ofpay. Soon alter beginning work tots mornmg | they all suadenly suspended, and, forming a pro- | cession, proceeded to one of the corporation boare- ing houses, where they secured a large sheet, hav- | ing painted thereon “More Pay or No Work!” They then proceeded to the woollen mills, with a view of getting a delegation trom that establishment, but were temporaily unsuccessful, the superintenlent driving them away. The pro- | tendance, | question to vore away hundreds of thousands to THE STATE CAPITAL. Van Nort’s Resignation Re- garded as a Ruse. COERCION FOR NEW YORK EDITORS. Diseussion of the Supply Bill—Local In- | | provement in New York. | The possibility of a new tssue of inconvertible paper I regard with amazement and anxety, and, inmy judgment, such an tssue would be a detri- ment and @ shame,—CHARLES SUMNER. ALBANY, March 31, 1874. Many here believe Van Norv’s resignation is a | ruse, that he has no notion of resigning, but hopes to Irighten the republicans of the Senate into | passing his Riverside Park bill by suggesting the dreadiul results contingent on his withdrawal from | the position of Commissioner of Pubite Works. It | 1s the penaity he threatens to inflict on the whole party for the offence of ive of its members in the | Senate, who refuse him their support, He cal- | culates that, by the time nis bill comes up for reconsideration, the republicans in opposition will | have recanted, The prospect of having so influen- tial a department thrown into the hands of the | democrats will produce the desired result, It appears a silly policy to adopt, but the manage- ment of the Riverside Park bil from the start has | been a series of silly blunders, and this threat of | resignation ts the climax, The bill had an excel- lent intention in the start, but the greedy gang that finally fastened on it thought they might as well make the most of it, and in place of the original $2,000,000 for improvements they sought to’ have the expenditures unlimited, ranging anywhere from $10,000,000 to. $30,000,000, It 18 a mistake to suppose that the influence of Comptroller Green’s lobby broke down this job, The republican Senators who took the attitude of | Opposition saw the whole scheme for themselves, ‘They saw oo benefit for the party, but much for the gang of nungry speculators who urged on Van | Nort. Comptroller Green’s lobby is too weak to affect legislation to any extent. Dexter Hawkins, Who gets $100 aduy by universal repute, ts not worth ten cents per diem to anybody who employs him, He ts here, it is true, every day, but he mght as well be at the North Poie, for he has lost any influence he ever possessed, and is simply an | Object of contempt. The Riverside Park bill will | be revived beiore the ist of May, and should tt | pass Mr. Van Nort will be sure to reconsider bis | tragic purpose to resign. A STREET CLEANING COMMISSION for New York, the Cominissioners to t by Governor Dix, is in the minds of the on Ciues, Messr: volving the proj this week. ppointed Committee | Bastman and Cougiilin are re- | vt, and intend tv put it in shape | | the fire in the kitchen was very low. | tn the house when the fire broke out, but the COERCION FOR THE EDITORS, Tom Alvord says if the New York editors don’t Muke tueir appearance within days trom the | date of his polite circular he will résors to the | dread power of coercion and haul them up to | Albany, whether they like itor not. Everybody | Wants to see the editors, and, to gratify this natural curiosity Alvord 1s resolved to compel at- Oid Salt says he wouid die happy if he | could only have a talk with the subject of Her | Majesty Queen Victoria, Who interprets the poiliti- | cal scriptures and points out the path of salvation | for the republican party of America. He is no longer connected with the organizatian himself, but he feels curious to see the man irom abroad who proclaims himself the newspaper prophet of the party of great moral ideas, WASTE OF TIME IN THE ASSEMBLY, The Assembly met at ten o'clock this morning, an hour earlier than usual, to resume the discus- sion of the Supply bili. Two hours were con. | sumed debating whether a lew page boys and | doorkeepers should receive extra compensation | for the remainder of the session. When it ts a public buildings, canal and lobby claims generally, | # hall hour or $0 1s sutticient, Every member of any prominence took a hand in on the debate | whether iitue Jonnny Smith or Tommy Jones | should have $100 more to take home at the end or | the session to his “widowed mother.” 'Tnere ts no | page boy Without a widowed mother and no door- | keeper Who has not been in the war ‘fighting for the flag of the Union.” A lot of idle, good-for- nothing bummers haug around the Capitol during | the whole session, hoping to get a slice off tie | Supply bill, and they generaily succeed. Every member appears to have a page voy, clerk or door- | Keeper for whom he wants an appointment. On | the principle that one good turn deserves another they vote for each otner’s little appropriation, and thus there is a fair deal all around, THE SARATOGA MONUMENT, It took two hours to settle the small amount con- cerning the page boys, but only hult that time was consumed voting away $50,000 for a monument at Saratoga to commemorate a battle of the revolu- tionary war. 1is monument, like every other puolic undertaking in this State, will cost the | treasury $500,000 before it 1s completed. A great deal of irothy nonsense was talked on the subject, | Mr. Waehuer, of New York, woo has a voice like the heavy villain in a tragedy, opposed the appro- priation, and was interrupted by Mr. Houghton With the remark, “Perhaps the gentleman’s grand- father was a Hessian.’ to which Mr. Waehner re- + plied that he was glad he could boast of at least an ancestry, Which he doubted the gentleman from Steuben could, The gentleman from Steuben im- mediately stood up and retorted, “My grandfather carried & musket at the battle of Bunker till” “Ef | suppose he did,’? responded the tragic Waehner, | “with a red coat on his back.” This little episode enlivened the tedium of the debate, but the | “patriots’’ triumphed, and Saratoga is to have the monument and somebody is to have a snug por- tion of the $50,000, A FUNNY DODGE, Another pmendment to the Supply bill was to | cession then paraded through the principal streets, | stopping at the corners and more public places, listening to harangues from some of the leaders, | Mr. Nevins, the manager, was met at the railway | station by the strikers, who demanded more pay. The manager quietly told them to call at the oi- fice the next day, when they would be paid of and The manulacture of jute calls for a ass of help, and a large portion of the employés are Scot with boys and girls from tweive to twenty years of age. It is represented that the weavers of the woollen milis will also strike. Some 500 hands of the | Boston Manufacturing Company in Waitham | have also struck for an advauce and made a | public demonstration im the town. About 300 of them marched to the upper mill and endeavored to | call out those employed therein. The proceed- ings were quite orderly, considering the number. | The object, they state, tor which the strike ts made, is to have the old price restored, whic ten percent more than they are now receiving. Notices were posted over the town last night which read, “On a strike, &c. All those con- nected with the movement who wish to attain their object are requested to stand firm.” This turnout has caused an excitement among millhands and others interested or in sympathy | with them, and what the result will be can ouly be conjectured. The female weavers who were discharged from the employ of the Boston Company without being paid off have left their demands with an attorney, who will bring suits against the company at once in the Superior Court. He wiil endeavor to have the matter judicially decided whether or not the rule which the company have established, requir- ing two weeks’ notice from the operatives belore leaving, and in failure thereof to retain two | weeks’ wages, is valid, Inasmuch as the company do not in any manner bind themselves to give the operatives a like notice before discharging them; also if the company have a right to impose such penalties, Futy ragpickers employed in the mill of the | Whiting Paper Company, at Holyoke, also struck | this morning for an advance of a half per cent on their wages, and marched in a body trom mill to | mill, endeavoring to induce otuers of their craft to | join th At last accounts, however, they had | not succeeded, The possibility of a new issue af inconvertible paper [regard with amazement and ancziety, and, tn my judgment, such an issue would be a detiri- ment and a shame,—CHUARLES SUMNER. HORSE DISEASE IN BROOKLYN, | There are upwards of 100 horses sick with the eguine infirmity known as the “Pinkeye”, in the stables of the Brooklyn City Railroad Coxspany. | ‘The disease does not last more than three or iour | days, although it is a very painful complaint and | causes Serious inconvenience to the company. The Superintendent, Mr. Suilivan, is of the mapression that the disease is passing away, and that no ap- prehension need be feit as to the spread of the malady, ~ FIRES A fire broke out last night in the attic of the | three story brick house No, 228 Hudson street and caused a damage of $2,500. The house was occu- pied by Bornett & Kenny, furniture dealers, and owned by Dr. MeVicker. All the, property it con- tained was insured in the Peopfe’s and Stuyvesant insurance companies. At ten minutes past nine o7clock last night a fre broke out in the fourth story of the five story Damage amounting , | stands in front of the new Capitol, seriously bloc | pavement known as the | this evening the tear down Congress Hall, which is now a hotel and | ing up the view. It was passed, and the tearing | down 1s to take place after adjournment, but there | is no likelihood of this, In fact some waggish folks | declare t it is only adedge to make the pio- prietor o1 Congress Hall reduce the price of board to members of the Legislature, as they are running down in funds and seriousiy thinking of repudiat- ing their wash bilis, STONE F WOODEN PAVING, | The Senate was occupied all the morning with | third reading of bills. Mr. Gross introduced a bill | providing that as the Commissioner of Public | Works fies been compeiled for the past two years | vo spend large amounts in repairs to wooden | pavements, Without materially improving their | condition, he is now authorized, whenever he finds | a street paved with wood and in a rotten condi- tion, to contract for the repairing with tne stone ‘det improved stone ement of such streets, avennes and pubiic | ces, from which wooden pavement shall be re- | moved, and algo of such thoroughfares leaaing to- | Wards Central Park as are in an unsafe condition, SUPPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW YORK. In the Senate this evening Mr. Woodin, irom | the Committee on Cities, reported both biils.rela- tive to the estimates and appropriations for tie support of the government of the city and county | of New York, with amendments. The amendments provide that nothing in the city bill shall be con- strued to authorize the Board of Estimate and Apportionment to reduce or transfer any appro- priation heretotore or hereatter to be made tor the purposes of carrying out the ‘provisions of the acts mentioned in the bill, All the provisions of chap- ter 702 of the Laws of 1872 are coufirmed and con- tinued in full force and effect. The county bill provides that the aggregate amount of the esti- mate for the year 1874, to be made by the said | Board of Estimate and Apportionment, shail not | exceed the amount of the estimate heretofore made by the satd Board as aforesaid, In the esti- | mate so to be made no sum shail be tueluded ex- | cept the same be appropriated for a specified de- partment or purpose, and no sum shall be appro- propriated ior special contingencies. fhe Senate Judiciary Committee had a mecting | this evening and heard arguments trom the Com | missioners of Lunacy in lavor of the bill coduyumg | Ube lunacy laws. The Senate Comumittee on Cities will give a hear- ing to-morrow vu ree ill regulating the Directory ol the Brooklyn Bridge. ‘There was 8 caucus of republican Senators this evening, at which it was agreed to support the bill making the ae Education ap- ointive in place of elective, a The. ‘Goriniivee on Cities will report to-morrow in favor of Mr. Fox's Exeise bul, maxing the salary , of the Commissioners $9,009 a year and takiig away the lees. RVANING BOSC of the Assembly of the sessi0 ’ r pon the Le ii wan taken up. an y Spencer's motioa to insert $90,000 to Dr. Sonn wi Inburne yor expenses tucurred by While Health Omicer, Was carried, The bill to exempt Women from taxation was re- ported adversely and, agreed to, ‘Tue bill to exempt bonds ana MOWTGASIS YEOH TARANTO 3 also adversely, reported. A consierable de- Date followed, in which Mr, Alberger, Mr, Wachner and others took part, The report was Mnally agreed to and §o the bill was rejected, THE NEW YORK HOSFITAL, In the Assembly Mr, Healey introduced the fol- lowing preamble and resolution, Which were luid over, under the tule :— Whereas by the aid of the Legislature and contribu. enabled to erect buildings tor the of the sick and tions thom humane citizens, the New York Hospital was | 2 ‘Wom be erected, but that J have neglected to ereng ony, builds furnish the required accow- tuedatidve for the sick and maimed: therelore, ‘hat the Committee on State Charitable Ime ‘restigate the matter and report to the Legia ‘tion is necessary in the prensises. ture wi ALLEGZD INCENDIARISM. Arrest and Judiew} In vestigation Touchs ing the Recent conflagration st Bure lington, N. J. BuRINGTON, March 81, 1874. Ever since the fre waich ccurred here oa Mote day night, the 23d inst., our liuie city tas been full of rumors in regard to the cause of the conflagra- tion, a veil of mystery hanging over the affair ae deep that It has taken a judictal investigatin (gow in progress) 10 uncover it. The property turue@ Was situated on West Union street, between Tylbow and Elis, and although in a new part of the city, tt is but a few squares from the mam street and is in the neighborhood of Sy Mary's Protestant Episcopal church on tha’ one side and St. Mary’s Hall and River- side (the Episcopal residence) and Burlingtow College on the other, The bells of St. Mary'e church were not rung to give the alarm, water Was scarce and fire plugs seemed to be uselesa ornaments. The rope of the town clock bell wa rotten and lasted only a few minutes, A full sup- ply of chemicais was not on hand to make the ex- unguishers able to cope with the fire, although they kept the fames under tor two hours before they had the assistance of the steam engine, The Delaware River was so low that tt was with dim- cuity the “Hope” engine got water from it to sup- ply a hand engine. ‘he fire went out, but two frame dwellings, valued at $8,000, were burned, | Valuable property was saved, and the citizens ree jotced to think that they were spared from wit nessing the destruction of their little city. % Of one fact the citizens of Burlington felt com Vinced, and that was that the fire was the work of an incendtary, and that the incendiary'’s plan must have been to destroy the whole row of brick dweilings to tue east adjouming. The owner of tho property had goue to Philadelphia on Monday morning, expecting to return home the same nigit; Lut was detained there. His wile, being an and unwilling to remain alone tn the went to the house of ier Lusband’s father, between nine and ten o’ciock, and had gone to bed when the alarm was sounded, at eleven o’ciock, She got up quickly and uniocked the front and rear doors of the burning building to let the firemen in, and states that when she leit She house to go to her father-in-law’s dweiling No one was frame dweiling adjoming was occupied by Mr. Philip Welsh, the brother-in-law of Captain W liam W, Kane, the owner of tie property, and caught fire very soon afterwards and was totally destroyed with the other nouse and insured for the same amount, $5,000, tn the Hibernia Mutual Fire insurance Company of Newark. There is rumor that the fire was started in severat ph and that rags and paper saturated with. coal ou were found in the partitions and that one of the floors had the appearance of coal oil poured upon it out of acan, but there ts no telling what truth there is in them until aiter the investigation (which has been postponed until three P, M. to-day) has been concluded. Mr. Kane returned home a day or two after the fire ana seemed couvinced that bis property had been fired | by an incendiary. ‘The policy was patd up fully and would have expired some time in April next, Last night, between seven and eight o'clock, &. Warrant was issued for the arrest of William W. Kane, the owner of the property destroyed, apd his brother-in-iaw, Mr. Philip Welsh, who were at once taken into custody on the charge of arson, which, according to the laws of New Jersey, is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and im- prisonment, Section 1 of supplement and act approved March 15, 1859, says:—‘*if any person shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to, or burn, or aid, counsel, procure or consent to the setting fire to or burning of any building, &c., which suallat the tune be insured against loss or damage by fire, with intent to prejudice such insurance, whether the same be the property of such person or any other such. person or persons 80 offending snail be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment at hard labor for @ term not exceeuing ten years, or either of them.” Section 30, act of April 16, 1846, “‘makes arson a high misdemeanor, and pun- ishable by tine not exceeding $2,000 and imprisou- ment at hard labor for any term not exceeding fiiteen years, or either of them.” Ifthe parties charged with this crime are com- mitted to jail no bail will be allowed, and the court of Quarter Sessions will meet at Mount Holly, the county town of Burlington county, om the third Tuesday in April, where they will be tried, The possibility Qf a new issue of inconvertidle- paper Iregard with amazement and anxiety, and, . in my judgment, such an issue would be a detre. ment and a shame.—CHARLES SUMNER. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Java will leave this port on. Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office | at half-past twelve o'clock P, M. Tne New York HeeaLp—Edition for Earopa— will be ready at half-past eight o'clock in the morning. Single copies, cents. Corns Removed for a Lifetime for 3% cents. Buy and use the JAPANESE CORN FILK, ot aay druggist or shoe dealer. in wrappers for mailing, six A.—For a First Class Dress or B HAT, go direct to the manufacturer, ESPENSO} Nassau street. A Sworn Cure for Rheumatism, Neural— ia and Nervous Diseases. —Dr. FITLER'S RHEUMATIO: REMEDY, <1 John street and druggists. Artificial Teeth—Extraordina PROVEMENT. This beautiful Denture, ch wondertully DURABLS, light, cool, using It are DELIGHTED; referenc tion guaranteed: Diploma awarded Di SON, 37 West Twenty-third street. Esti Im~ emically PURE, a thine Thoms and satisiac- M. LEVETT & lished L from Rupture. 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