The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1874, Page 8

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New York, Tuesday, April 7, 1874. From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be rainy. Dr. Lrvixestone.—In a special cable de- spatch we print a short account of a friendly jetter trom Dr. Livingstone to Mr. Stanley, | written at Lake Bangweolo, Central Africa, several months, apparently, before the Doc- tor'’s death. He reiterates his gratitude for the assistance received and gives a hasty view ot his geographical labors, a tuller account of which, it is hoped, we shall soon receive. He seems to have been at the moment of writing in the full enjoyment of ordinary health. Tux Assistant ALDERMEN join the Alder- men in urging the importance of Legislative | action on the subject of rapid transit this ses- sion. The legislators must be blind who do not see that the people of New York are in earnest in demanding of them a rapid transit commission, and will mark the unfaithfal representatives who oppose or obstruct such a | aeasure. There is a rumor that the Vander- | bilt bill is to be withdrawn. It will be well | tor all parties concerned if the rumor should | prove to be correct. | Tar Emionant Commisstoy.—An OEY astic and excited meeting of Germans was | held last night, as reported elsewhere, to pro- | te»! aguinst the management of Castle Garden | by A 8, the people of that objection- | able nationality being so notoriously ignorant and dishonest that it is looked upon as an outrage that the honest strengers from Ger- | many shonld fall into their hands. It all ap- | pens to be a political fight, in which the Ger- | mans haye, for the moment, the worst of it, | and denounce their opy | 2ents as people who | e of Castle Garden. =| | wish to make polit Tux Porsce Justice Conrroversy,—The General Term of the Court of Common Pleas | yesterday sustained the decision in favor of | the constitutionality of the law which tnrned | the elected Polies Justices of the city of New York ont of office and geve the appointment | of their successors to the Mayor. The principal pot of the opinion ot Chief Justice Daly is | that which declares that the Police Justices are not Justices of the Peace, and hence are | not included in the constitutional provision which declares the latter an elective office. ‘The case will now go to the Court of Appeals, and as it isa ‘preferred canse”’ a judgment _. . be reached in May. There be no unnecessary delay in the final settlement of this important question, Boriprxe om THE Crry appears to be checked in consequence of the uncertainty that has prevailed about the currency and the difficnl- ties oxisting between employers and laborers. The first cause will soon be removed, for Con- gress will, no doubt, take final action on the peuting financial measures. The currency inflation will rather tend to stimulate busi- mess, whatever may be the ultimate disastrous result. And it is to be hoped the builders and the workmen may come to some com- promise, and that building will be actively susumedas the spring opens, Feet eatin nat \ THEATRE, RIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at | *- | was not confined to the early fathers. The | currency discussion. | currency is one of the greatest of political | and overwhelmed his recklessness and tem- YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APKIL 7, 1874. | aararce ta a a ‘The Mam Whe Leughs—Old-Fashioned Statesmen on Inflation. Senator Logan is the man who laughs. He laughs in derision, and, as our Washington report puts it, he laughs broadly im that sense ; and he is excited to it by the notion casually expressed im the Senate that the President might not accept the prairie clamor for ex- pansion as a final word on the subject ; might have such a perception of his duty under the constitution and such a sense of national honor as to veto the financial! bill. This seems ridiculous to Mr. Logan. I[t seems to him such a crowning evidence of semi-idiocy on the part of the person who uttered it that he does not deem a word of reply necessary ; a laugh of “broad derision” is his only answer to the utterance of a patriotic hope. This is the Western style of debate. It is evident, however, that Mr. Logan knows the President's mind; perhaps he knows | it even better than the President himself does; and, for aught that appears to the contrary in the wisdom of many of the Presi- dent’s acts, it may be that Mr. Logan even instructs him as to his constitutional duties. If Mr. Logan has this time instructed the President in the full gospel of Western wis- dom our financial honor as a nation is in a bad way, for the President is the only hope that remains against the votes inflating the currency by an addition of ninety million dollars of paper money, which addition will run gold up very near to what it was justafter the war, and will correspondingly postpone the possibility of the resumption of specie payment; that is to say, it will keep the country in the region of financial quagmires until repeated calamities enforce the use of a desperate remedy to save us from the wise men of the West. There have been some men in the country who did not laugh derisively at the notion of saving the land from the scourge of paper money. Our Washington correspondence this morning brings to our attention some additional views on the question of inflation which may | not be without interest as throwing light upon | the debate that is now over. We yesterday pointed out what Washington and Franklin, Jefferson and Hamilton thonght on a subject which, no doubt, was far above them, and could only be comprehended by the breezy statesmen of the present | time—-our spontaneous productions of the Rocky Mountains and the prairies, our divinely gifted and prescient Logans and | Mortons. The opinions of these venerated, if sadly-out-of-date statesmen, were singularly harmonious on one point—that the issue of inconvertible currency would be a folly and acrime. This doggedness and obstinacy are startling evidences of the darkness that rested upon the souls of men whom we are accus- tomed to honor as singularly gifted and wise. But it is painfully apparent that, whatever these early fathers knew about liberty and the constitution and human rights, they were ignorant of the true methods to ‘‘develop the country.”’ We have the still more painful duty of show- ing this morning that this ignorant obstinacy | great men of the second generation of the Re- | public seem to be as emphatic as their ances- | tors. Let us take Henry Clay, the pride and darling of his time. Henry Clay. was not a | profound man like Jefferson, or with a mind | of the philosophic breadth of Franklin, but he had a singularly accurate and honest percep- tion of what was due to American honesty | and the good name of the Republic. “The emission of paper,”’ said Clay, ‘constituted the very worst of all conceivable species of currency.’’ The opinion of Clay is strength- ened by that of Jeremiah Mason. The fame of this man, never noisy in its character, has grown dim in these lurid days of blood and flame, but in his time he was conspicuous among our ablest men. Well, Mr. Mason was rude enough to call the author of ascheme for a paper bark a mountebank—an epithet that must grate rudely upon the souls of our Mortons and our Logans. There are many men, even in the present Congress, who re- member the pride with which they followed Daniel Webster. Even war has not shattered the stupendous influence of his name and genius. There is something gigantic in the earnestness with which he enters upon the “A sound currency,’ said this gifted but, unhappily, effete states- man, “is an essential and indispensable security for the fruits of industry and honest enterprise.”’ ‘‘A disordered evils.” ‘It is against industry, frugality and economy.’’ To crown all, and show at the same time how indiscreet and frenzied these obstinate men became when excited upon questions which they could not under- stand like our Camerons and Spragues, we find him making this most intemperate declara- tion: —-‘Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that whith deludes them with paper money,” And, again, this most inconsiderate and extravagant statement: — “Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive tax- ation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of the community compared with a frandulent currency and the robberies com- mitted by depreciated paper.’’ As we read these extravagant sentences how the mind turns to our dear and fluent Logan and wishes that he could have been for a single hour in the Senate, to have bearded Webster per! Somehow, as we read these old debates, | we constantly miss our Morton, our Harvey, | our Sprague. The freshness of debate does | not exist; there are a tameness of rhetoric and | subservient adherence to history and facts which show how benighted our middle gen- eration of statesmen really were. We are more impressed with this when we come to read the views of the sturdy and strong-minded Andrew Jackson. We find Jackson laboring under the strangest delu- sions on this question of developing the re- sources of the country. In one Message he even went so far as to declare that it was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention to establish a currency composed of. precious metals. Why, even Flanagan would not make such a statement; and we aye quite certain tha there is not 4 Dismal Swamp or Pine Forest statesman in the capital who could not demonstrate the folly of Jackson's fallacy that such an issue would weigh hardly upon the agricultural gnd manufactnring classes. Martin Van Buren was a more accomplished man | to whom the relinquishment of any office ap- than his stubborn and oarrow-minded prede-| The Conneeticat cessor, and one would expect from him a largeness of view not unlike what we delight to observe in our Spencers and Brownlows. But even Van Buren, supple and conciliatory on all other points, a willowy statesman, who bent and swayed with every political zephyr, was stiff-necked on this currency question. William H. Oraw- ford, for nine years Secretary of the Treasury under Madison and Monroe, and supposed to have some knowledge of finance, entertained opinions which will pain a Spencer and a Cameron, and actually denounced ‘‘the want of stability, morality and intelligence in the government which undertakes to substitute a paper for a metallic currency.” There was another Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander J. Dallas, who will be remembered by Mr. Cameron, no doubt, and who, in a spirit of | people, and that blind fatuity and insensibility to the growing Bloction—Defeat of the Republicans. From the results of the election in Connecti- cut yesterday, so far as known, there is little reason to doubt that the democrats have swept the State. It is thought they have not only shown their temper towards the respec- tive parties by voting the democratic State ticket, but that they have also made a Legisla- ture so definitely democratic as to insure the choice of a democrat as Senator. Although the temperance vote, which is so much with- | drawn from either side, is unexpectedly large, it is believed that this will not defeat an | election by the people. This result is in the highest degree significant. Coinciding sub- stantially with what we have -seen in New Hampshire, it indicates unmistakably that the republican party is in bad odor with the the constituencies have sympathy with the men who | lost all wants of the country, prophesied that the | nominally represent them in the govern- time would never come when an honest and enlightened statesman would venture upon the desperate expedient of paper money as a legal tender. There is scarcely any use in quoting Thomas H. Benton upon this question, as all the world knows his stubbornness of faith in gold and silver. more liberal in his views, and, as the antag nist of Benton and Jackson, would have more enlightened opinions, werthy, per- | haps, of ‘his illustrious successors, Robertson and Patterson. While Cul- houn did favor such a currency he im- posed limitations upon the issue, so as to make it virtually the representative of gold and silver, and even went so far as to speak of the corrupting influence and the spirit of specula- tion which had been generated by the friends of an irredeemable currency and unrestrained banking. Altogether these studies of the fathers, the great men of the two generations of our his- tory, are not enccuraging to those who see in But John Vv. Calkoun was | ment. Out of New England come, no doubt, many of our political sharp- ers, yet the public mind of New England is honest. Butlers and Simmonses are acci- dents only, and the honest and thrifty Down Easter, who believes in his country and wants to see it honestly keep its promises, can- | not stand a party that flaunts fraud as its grandest achievement. Inflation legislation may not have been necessary to insure a vic- tory to the democrats in Connecticut, for there was enough before to make that result well nigh inevitable ; but it came in time to somewhat intensify the outburst against a party that has ceased to care for the country | and its honor, or the people and their will, and that holds on to power only as power is plunder and as it assists the unscrupulous poli- ticians to play prettily into the hands of their financial friends. New Hampshire and Con- necticut are sure forerunners of a great change. our Mortons and our Logans the full fruition ot American statesmanship. We are pained | beyond messure to note the divergence be- | tween the two classes of thinkers, the Jeffer- sons and Franklins and Washingtons, who | shuddered at the very idea of irredeemable cur- | reney, and the Camerons, the Brownlows and | the Spragues, who see in the Treasary print- | ing press and reams of decorated paper the sure means of ‘relieving the national dis- | tress’’ and developing ‘the resources of the | country.’’ But histofy is history, and what is written is written. Let the people judge be- | tween the men of the past and the men of the present. A Few Specks of Trouble in St. mingo Again. The President elect of St. Domingo, Gon- zalez, has not yet been installed in office, as the Convention manufacturing a new consti- tution had not finished its work. We judge, however, he is exercising power, directly or indirectly, for the provisional government had arrested a batch of Baez conspirators, who are charged with complicity in a scheme to restore the ex-President to power. Two of the Baez family were among the arrested, but were released subsequently through the inter- cession of the French Consul. Another piece | of news is that the Samana Bay Company has come to grief. It had organized a sori of government, with Dr. Howe as acting Gov- ernor, under the concession that the company claims to have been made; but the present provisional government of St. Domingo will not recognize the claim and declares the Samana Bay convention null and void. It is said the Dominican government has been - incited to this course by the British Consul General at Port au Prince and the Haytian government. The alleged motive is that England and Hayti want to overthrow the American settlement and influence at’ Samana. It is even said that a treaty has been proposed at the instigation of the British Consul General between the two republics for adjusting territorial disputes, and including the annulment of the Samana Bay convention. Of course the Samana Bay Company talk of appealing, as citizens of the United States, to our government; but we suspect a great deal of smoke is raised for the purpose of again bringing this St. Domingo question into the foreground. The movement upon Samana Bay was made originally with the expectation, if not intention, of dragging the United States into intervention. The British dodge is an old one. If our bond fide citizens have a just claim and have been wronged it will be the duty of the government to protect them, but it should not be made the catspaw of specu- lators in doing injustice to a weak people. Do- The Van Nort Resignation. There has been a great deal of discussion among the politicians as to whether the threat- ened resignation of the republican Commis- sioner of Public Works was genuine, or only designed to bring his party to a sense of the importance of retaining the only ‘‘anti-Tam- many’’ hold they now possess on the patron- age of the New York city government. The Commissioner himself gives a simple explana- tion of his intention. The emoluments ofthe position are not sufficient to compensate for the labor and annoyance of fighting the whole city government, which, he claims, is run in the Tammany interest, especially when his party friends refuse to stand by his side, and hence he intends to resign. The politicians, pears to be an absurdity, contend that the res- ignation will never be made. property owners woke up to the importance of keeping the Public Works Department in hands that will at least do all that can be done to-promote the prosecution of the various pub- lic improvements, and held a meeting yesterday Meanwhile the | Condemnation of the Bishop of Olinda by the Brazilian Courts. The question whether mankind is to be ruled by Church or State is being. debated as angrily in Brazil as in Germany. In the case of the Bishop of Olinda and the Brazilian government the struggle is not between Prot- estant and Catholic, but between the lay and clerical elements. In the exercise of functions which the Bishop regards as within the scope of his religious authority he infringed on the rights which belong to all citizens alike, without difference of religious belief, and the law steps in to protect the citizen. The question raised is a delicate one, and it is by no means so easy as it might seem to decide where the line of spiritual authority should terminate. The Brazilian courts, how- ever, have wisely decided that where any doubt exists the spiritual authority must be so exercised as not to lessen the liberty of the citizen in any way. The cause of trouble with the Bishop of Olinda was his effort to suppress certain Catholic associations which admitted Freemasons to membership. His quarrel was, therctore, not directly with per- sons outside his flock, but with those who claimed to be within. The law, however, has decided that the measures he thought fit to | adopt against the Catholic organizations were | calculated to interfere with the freedom of action secured by the law to the citizens of the Empire. As the Bishop refused to ac- knowledge the right of the civil tribunals to interfere in a question which he claimed was strictly one of conscience, he was condemned by the Court. Though he refused to admit the legality of the proceedings, two coun- sellors were allowed to plead his case; but, notwithstanding the plea put forth that the question was strictly a question of Church discipline, the Court, with one dissenting voice, condemned the prelate to four years’ imprisonment, with hard labor. This sen- tence will not, in all probability, be rigorously carried out, but it evinces a determination on the partof the civil authorities to put down any attempt on the part of the ultramontane element to override the civil power. The extreme pretensions of the Vatican party in the Church do not seem to be favorably re- ceived by Catholic governments, and we should not be much surprised if they should prove a source of weakness instead of strength to the clerical element in the Church. The world has grown too old to be ruled by a re- ligious caste. Assassins of uw Protestant sionary Condemned to Death. Mexico setting a good example to New York is something new under the sun. It appears that the same sentimental notions as to the sanctity of the lives of murderers has not yet taken root in the neighboring Republic. At least we should judge so from the telegraphic The Mis- from our special correspondent. From it we learn that six of the fanatical mob that assas- sinated the Protestant missionary, Mr. Ste- phens, have been condemned to death. The priest Ochoa has also been brought to trial on the charge of inciting to murder, but his case has not as yet been decided. It is pleasing to notice that the religious fanaticism of the ignorant Indians and half castes who make up the lower stratum of society in Mexico does not extend to the official circles, and that in Mexico the man who takes lite, even under the delusion that he is serving God, will be punished with the utmost severity of the law. Indeed, the Mexicans seem to be rather in advance of our boasted civilization in their regard for the sanctity of life, for if a mob | were to killa man here, from whatever mo- | tive, if would be difficult to obtain so severe a sentence as the Mexican courts have pro- nounced against the guilty parties. If the same severity could only be introduced into the administration of our own laws life would to protest against the threatened resignation as calculated to embarrass matters generally and to depreciate the value of real estate, The meeting was largely attended, some of the largest property owners in New York being present, and, although some attempt was be much more secure among us than it is at present. Laxe Navication is opening, and the large trade dependent upon that will now revive and have a happy effect upon the markets and the laboring classes. The news from Ogdensburg made to bring about a different result, resolu- tions were adopted indorsing the management of the Public Works Department and request- ing the Commissioner not to resign, Sanporn.--This remarkable person, who is a farmer on a large enough scale to have a grange all to himself, was yesterday inter- viewed by the committee investigating his contracts, and his answers are interesting as showing some remarkable discrepancies with the anewers of Mr, Bichardson to the same commitwe. shows that navigation is open at that place ; that one steamer left yesterday for the lake ports ; that the craft in the harbor are rapidly fitting out, and that the Northern Transporta- tion Company would start their boats to-day. Winter has been prolonged into spring, and the consequent check to business and guffer- ing among the working classes have been ex- tended, but there is now a prospect that relief is at hand. We should not be surprised to see as sudden and as great a revival of business and industry as was the depression at the commencement of winter, despatch which we publish in another column | Chief Justice Chase's Diaries, Wo reprint this morning a few extracts from the private papers of the late Chief Justicy Chase, as they appear in the forthcoming work of one of his biographers. They confirm our fears in regard to the impolicy of their publi- cation. The purely personal matters, like Mr. Chase's earlier impressions of his first wife, Catherine Garniss, are mere twaddle—such wretched twaddle that we are surprised Mr. Chase should have writien it, in the first in- stance, or that any biographer should have had the bad taste to print it. Still, the diary of a man like the late Chief Justice cannot fuil to be very interesting to most readers, though its publication is almost equally certain to do in- justice. to its author. Like writing letters on matters purely personal, keeping a diary is both foolish and dangerous—foolish in reveal- ing that which ought not to be told and dan- gerous in the loss of respect which is almost sure to follow. Mr. Chase, in the published extracts, is only another illustration of this truth. The extract dated September 12, 1872, is in every way discreditable to his memory. If it bad been published by misdirection one could excuse his unjust reflections on Mr. Lincoln, General McClellan and others as a hasty opinion, jotted down in some moment of exasperation; but it is given to the world by his ‘chosen biographer,"”” to whom, with other matters like it, it was committed for publication. True, it 1s a solemn warning to Congress to-day, which is pursuing a like policy without the excuse of the war period; but, opposed as we are to the issue of United States notes, we can have no sympathy with opinious so harshly expressed. To accuse President Lincoln and all his counsellors and the General commanding the army with an utter disregard of the good of the country is inexcusable. Nor will the country believe that either Mr. Lincoln or Genoral MoClellan rushed from expense to expense and defeat to defeat, without heed, to the abyss of bank- ruptcy Mr. Chase seemed to think himself alone capable of seeing. Neither is it credit- able to Mr. Chase that he should report Mr. Stanton’s dissatisfaction with the President for “humiliating submissiveness’' to General McClellan while so bitterly finding fault with the issue of paper money, in which he was allowing himself to become so active an in- strument. The same view of sneering dissat- isfaction is found in Mr. Chase’s report of the Cabinet council at which the Emancipation proclamation was adopted. There is nothing in this report discreditable to Mr. Lincoln, while its undercurrent is far from doing honor to Mr. Chase. The disgrace, however, is not in the jotting down of these hasty opinions, but in their publication. The Chief Justice could never have intended that such use should be made of them. These were essentially the private opinions of a man who was not ina position to express them publicly; but if they were to be published at any time the only proper time for their publication was tlie au- tumn of 1862. We desire to hold no one re- sponsible for the Legal Tender act, but to avert as much as possible the consequences of that disastrous measure. It would have been a pleasure to learn from his biographer that Mr. | Chase was always opposed to it, and that his de- cision as Chief Justice was in harmony with all his feelings as Secretary of the Treasury, but to get the proofs in such shape as this is immeasurably painful. It was because we be- lieved that hastily formed opinions like these would be thrust upon the public that we dep- recated the publication of Mr. Chase's diaries in the beginning. We regret it now more than ever, for the injustice done to others is only a tithe of the injustice done to the mem- ory of Mr. Chase. The ‘inner life’ of the man has been revealed with a wantonness un- known in history, and the Chase diaries will long remain a monument of human folly. The Spring Exhibition of the Acad- emy of Design. There is among art circles considerable speculation as to the quality of the coming spring exhibition at the Academy of Design, owing to the avowed intention of the direc- tors and artists to make an effort to render this season's exhibition worthy of the metrop- olis of America. During the last few. years personal jealousies and professional rivalries have prevented many artists from giving that support to the National Academy without which its value as an art teacher must be im- paired. It is now some tine since we called the attention of the artists to the mistake they were committing in lessening pub- lic respect for the National, Acad- emy, and so bringing American art into disfavor and disrepute with the | general public. The selfish policy of some | of the more prominent members of the pro- | fession in withdrawing their countenance from the Academy exhibitions was for a time profitable; but the feeling soon began to grow in the public mind that the higher class of art was only to be met with in Europe, and that whatever was American must necessarily be mediocre. This impression has inter- fered so much with the sale of works painted by resident artists that the error we pointed out is now generally recognized. A strong effort has been made during the past winter in most of the studios to remedy the evil, and it is confidently predicted that the spring ex- | hibition will contain more works of real merit than have been seen on the Academy walls | for years. We know that many of our best men will be represented by works of great vigor, and we hope to see works from men who have been long strangers to the Academy. Most of the prominent artists have done their duty on this | oceasion and striven to farnish works of more than ordinary merit; but much will depend on the action of the directors. One of the great evils to be contended against is a maudlin sympathy with the struggling mem- bers of the profession. There are among the artists a number of immature geninses, who will insist on sendihg pictures of no artistic merit to the Academy exhibition; and the tender-hearted persons who compose the hanging committtee have never been able to screw their courage up to the point of refusing 8 place to the appalling productions of unripe genius. This weakness is the bane of the Academy of Design. It is allied with a belief in the necessity of covering the walls with a certain number of square fect of canvas, ir- respective of the artistic value of the works. This is supposed to please the public and to prevent an outery being raised by the slaughtered innocents sesinst the exclusivencss and tyranny of the academicians, However, the oxperionce of the past fow years ought to teach the hanging committee that no mere spread of canvas will enable the Academy exhibition to sail inte public favor. The people of taste, who draw the crowd after them, are sure to prefer a small number of good pictures so disposed that they can be seen and admired to a heterogeneous collection of pictures in which the mediocre and the worthless swallow up whatever is peeps looking at. The interest of American art, as well ag that of the Academy of Design, demands that this fact should be kept in mind by thoge responsible for the admission of pic- tures. We warn the committee in time that it they, by a weak exercise of compassion for mediocrity, expose worthless daubs on the Academy walls in the forthcoming exhibition the public will not be likely to condone their fault or hesitate to express its condemna- tion of a policy which seriously damages the interests of American art. Tre Liquor Crusapess are not very suc- cessful, according to the statement of one ef the largest distillers ot the United States, Mr. Brooks, of Cincinnati. This gentleman avers that there has been more business in whiskey during the past two months than for the corresponding period last year. We sup- pose he speaks for his own business and that coming immediately under his observation more particularly. Still, he makes the as sertion that the wholesale branch of the whiskey trade in the West has not been crip- pled by the women’s crusade. It is admitted, however, that the ale and beer brewers have suffered. This seems to indicate that the wompn grogshop raiders have exercised more influence over the comparatively temperate than over the hard old topers, who avoid beer and stick to whiskey. Portce Facts.—Two men, who pounded a policeman with his own club, are to be pun-+ ished. A policeman who brought a boy out of a second story with a brick will probably be promoted as a good shot. . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Mayor J. G. Berret, of Washington, i at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, ia staying at the Windsor Hotel. - Professor John F. Weir, of Yale College, is stop- ping at the Albemarie Hotel. Ex-Governor Thomas C, Fletcher, of Missouri, has arrived at Barnum’s Hotei, Major Join R. McGinniss, United States Army, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Clayton McMichael, of the Philadelphia North American, is registered at the Hoffman House. Judge William L, Larned, of Albany, who was & member of the recently dissolved Commission of Appeals, has apartments at the Westminster Hotel. Ex-Congressmen J. H. Rice, of Maine, and Hamil- ton Ward, of Belmont, N. Y., are among the recent arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge George A. Hardin, of the New York’ Sa- preme Court for the Fifth Judicial District, is tem- porarily residing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “El Libro Taionario’? (The Checkbook), @ comt- eay by Sefior Echegaray, Spain’s present Minister of Finance, is drawing crowded houses at Madrid. Tae government creditors probably want to get a hint as to how they can draw their checks so that they will be honored by Sefior Echegaray. Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia, intends to start on a tour around the world in July, and ex- pects to be away from Berlin about a year and a hall, His route will be across Russia and Siberia; thence to Japan; thence to China, from where he will come to the United States, A Prussian war vessel will convey him from New York back te Germany. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The United States steamer Monongahela was at Rio Janeiro February 24. The United States steamer Gettysburg sailed from Aspinwall March 25 tor San Juan del Norte. THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATORSHIP. Eleven Ballots and No Choice. Boston, April 6, 1874. Owing to the numerous absentees there was merely a repetition of the old form of going through the show of casting the eleventh ballot in the Mas- sachusetts Legislature this morning, without the least expectation that it would contribute to bring about a decision on the senatorship question, But it 1s said by those who are in a position to know what transpires in the secret meetings of the friends of Mr. Dawes and Judge Hoar, which are heid so frequently, that both factions have determined to go into the business with vigor to-morrow, and in the event of there being no choice, “to make a day or it’? on Wednesday. In the joint Assembly the following figures were inscribed on the Clerk’s journal:— Whole number of votes cas Necessary to a choice. ss Henry 1. Dawes. :o7 J. si 1 B. K. Hoar oT W. B. Washburn 1 B. R. Curtis. . & HL. Pierce... ~1 Charles F. 8 Wendell Phillips _t N. P, Ban! 6 ANOTHER BANK DEFALOATION. An Oficial of the Brighton (Massachw setts) National Bank Deficient About $70,000, Boston, April 6, 1874. A well authenticated report has been going the rounds of State street and the banks to-day that a recent examination of the books of the National Bank of Brighton revealed the startling fact that the accounts of one official were short to the amount, as variously stated, of from $40,000 tc $75,000. The oficial was called to account, ac- knowledged the deficiency and consented to sur- render his property, which, it is said, 18 sufficient to save the bank from loss. To smother the name of the official from publicity and everlasting disgrace there will be no prosecution or publicity, so far as the directors are concerned, which does not seem to meet the approbation of the bank om- Cials of this city and others pecuniarily interested. ‘The causes leading to this defalcation is stated to have arisen by the use of the funds of the bank im numerous unprofitable real estate speculations, ‘The President’ of the Bank, J. L, Ord has re- signed his position to take a position if New York city. Mr. Horace W. Jordan has been appointed temporary President of the bank. As any further particulars cannot be obtained at present it may be safe to predict that in & day or two more de- velopments regarding this defalcation and the secrecy on the part of the bank officials will find their way to the public. psidisiars enieartaowh Sse A. & W. SPRAGUE, Provipence, R. L, April 6, 1874. It is now understood that the proceedings im bankruptcy against the A. & W. Sprague Manufac- turing Company will be discontinued on Wednes- day. To-day a general assignment under the State laws was executed to Z. Chaffee, the trustee under the mortgage. This does not supplant the trust mortgage, but is simply auxiliary or supplementary to it, and operations will be continued as hereto~ fore, and suspended paper will still be exchanged for three year notes, agreeably to the provisiona of the original trust. ‘ HIGH CHUROH DIFFICULTIES, PHILADELPHIA, April 6, 2874. ‘The First Reformed Episcopal church was orgam ized yesterday at the Falis of Schuylkill by the mem- bers of the church of St. James the Less, who se- ceded from that church on account of the intro- duction of ritualistic practices. All the secedera have joined the Reformed Church, with Rev, Wal+ ter Windeyer as rector. COLORED CHILDREN IN PUBLIC SOROOLS, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April 6, 1874, In the Supreme Cotirt to-day Judge Perkins de- cided that colored children have the right to at- tend the public schools of the State in town. waa” separate schools are not provided fot a