The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1874, Page 3

» ‘WASHINGTON. E oR / Action of the House on the Currency Question. THE INFLATIONISTS AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. Probable Passage of the Senate Bill To-Day. The Effect of Governor | Dix’s Message. f WASHINGTONN, April 9, 1874, The Question of Inflation In the House= Stupid Management of the Chairman of the Finance Committce—Coup d’Etat of the Massachusetts Explosionist. The House, at half-past three this alternoon, closed the open doors of debate on the financial bill and resolved itself into a jury on the merits of the bill reported by the Committee on Banking and | Currency with the accepted amendments and the Senate bill, passed on Monday, known as the Merrimon substitute. Mr, Maynard, of Tennes- gee, is chairman of this important committee, ‘With associates from Illinois, New York, Connecti- cut, Indiana, New Jersey, Michigan, Mississippi, Penpsylvania, Wisconsin and Kentucky. And here it may be noted that the Senate Finance Committee, composed of seven members, repre- sents Ohio, Vermont, Jowa and Delaware and three States, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New York, also represented in the House Com- mitt2e, making in ail @ representation of the Bupposed fluancial views of fifteen States, It will be seen that Vermont and Connecticut are the only New England states on the lisi, while New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, of the five Middle States, assert their influence over Kentucky, Tennessee and Missiasippt, of the South- ern States, the remainder being Western States, The time has been when the composition of im- portant committecs and the ability of men on them was regarded with deference by both houses of Congress, The resultof the struggle in the Sen- ate when Senator Sherman fought gallantly for nearly two weeks to save some portion of the bill Feported to that body by bis comunittee, is still fresh in the memory of the country. This depart- ure from the tradition of the past in annihilating a unanimous report, could not be allowed without every Senator putting himself on the fecord. The tall, willowy form of the Ohio Senator gracefully yielded to the last sweeping vote which buried bis bill inan ocean of waste paper and Hfted the substitute of the Bald Mountain erup- tionist on vo the calendar of bills passed by the Senate. Well, it happens that Mr. Maynard is also tall, but not willowy and gracefal like Sherman, talking with the skill of an ancient mariner, and better acquainted with shoals of the Tennessee and Cu:nberland rivers than with the channels of trade and the departments of finance; but to his lot had fallen the management of the House finan- cial measure. Early impressed with the impor- tance of his office, he called the previous question, and accepted several amendments alreauy sug- gested by members of the committee, when to his great dismay he .discovered nis associates on the committee only formed a rebellious crew. Rendall, Merriam, Mitchell, Farwell, Hunter—all had peculiar notions, while pas- Sengers, so to speak, and wanted to sink | the bill, with their amendments and substitutes, | In the outer row of seats were Senators Mofton and Logan, watcning progress. The Speaker pa- tiently heard the Parliamentary questions and en. lightened the members to the best of nis ability as to the exact condition of things. Aiter a dozen or more amendments had been offered Mr. Maynard called the previous qnestion, and, to his utter con- Jusion, iound himseil floored by a vote—124 against 76—in tavor. Goodby tne last of the Narragan- Betts. One hour’s management of that bill was remarkable confirmation of Speaker Blaine’s judg- ment in jorming the Banking and Currency Com mMittee, who said at the beginuing of thc session it ‘Was not good policy to have too much wis | dom on this committse in the Forty-third Congress. On the Speaker’s table, with but two or three bills in the order of precedence, lay the Senate bili awaiting action. Itis not always an easy matter to get at the Speaker's table, but North Carolina had triumphed in the Senate, and somehow the members were singularly impressed that North Carolina was to doubly triumph in the House, not only by passage of the inflation measure of the Baid Mountain Corruptionist, vut also by the leadership of some one identified with the glories of the Tarheel State, | ana lo! it came to pass that the hero of Fort Fisher took the floor, and with his long range on the Speaker’s table, moved to postpone the further Consideration of the pending bill and amendments till Tuesday next at hall-past one o'clock. The | House recognized the leadership of tie gallant hero, and the eternal fituess of things in having this ex- | Plosionist at the fort join hands with the erup- | tionist in the Mountain district; and here the | lamentations of the “hard money” men could be heard all over the House articulating something like, “All we like sheep have gone astray,” or words to that effect. ‘The hero counted his force, and above the din was heard to say, “I have got votes enough to carry the Seuate bill.” So he had, and the House, by a vote of 153 to 121, so de- clared itself in favor of deferring jurther con- sideration of the pending bill, It was now five o’ciock. The members were hungry, and those who | get their dyspepsia at a distance from tne Capitol were anxious to adjourn. ‘The Speaker’s tabie was. still in view, like the nappy land of Canaan, and beneath the Speaker's gavel was the milk and honey bill of the influtionists. 1t suddenly.occurred | to une hero that it would Ye better to move to | reconsider the vote and lay that motion on the table, which he did, and the adjourn- ment, at half-past five, left this motion pending as unfinished business and subject to come up after the reading of the journal to-morrow | morning. All hope of restraining the bill wiih amendments providing for specie payment, re- demption of national banking currency, accumula- | tion of coin or any other proposition indicative of | @sense Of honor Isat anend. The House will un- | doubtedly vote to lay the motion to reconsider | the vote Jor postponing on the taple, Alter the | | | morning hour the same majority can move to Buspend the rules which give Friday to private Dills, and the House can then go to the Speaker's table. A few executive documents will be speedily referred and ordered to be printed. Then the House bills, three in number, returned from the | Senate, with amendments, will be referred to the appropriate commuttees, and five minutes after business on the Speaker's table is reached the Senate Finance bill will have been read twice and | the motion will foilow to put it on its passage, and on that the previous question will be called and sustained. The only evidence to-night aguinst tts tinal passage to-morrow is the filivustering motion; in which the yeas and nays can be called and time consumed. But unless there is better generalship among the “hard money” men in the flouse than there was to-day, | to-morrow, the 10th of April, 1874, will be remem- bered in the annals of Congress as the “Black | Friday” of the nation’s disgrace. Procecdings in the Senate=—The General Incorporation of Railronds=A Job Scented—The Senators Trying to In- fluence the Representatives on the Currency Bill. In the Senate the day vas occupied in the dis- cussion of the bill tor the general incorporation of railroads in the ‘Territories, and, while it has not excited any suspicion at the commencement of the debace nor developed any jobbery at | the ‘start, it occasioned considerable argu- ment to-day, and towards the close of the session ‘t was being looked into more closely, ond more than one Senator shakes his head rather omnously to-night. and has deter- mined to scrutinize it very cautiously to-morrow, | pay such | gravated by the delay in disposing of the Financial | | bill, and the strong tendency to contraction and | of republicanism says. that | the sweeping aside of parties trom this time and | in order to protect hoiders of bridge bonds, pro- | who | Abused State of Louistana is now in iull biast. ,When they were presepted to the President at | Eads’ plan, and that it calls for an expenditure of 1s here be any latent plot im it to obtain legisla. |" tion for improper purposes, it is 80 well concealed that only those identified with the Territories, and who, not being interested in the success of it, are, of course, not here, could discover it. The Senate was in a-feverish condition all day, owing to the interest felt in the pending final issue in the House on the Merrimon substitute, which recently passed that body, and Senators were fitting to and fro between the House and the Senate, making visite to Representatives, so as to see what could be done with them in the way of txing their votes. This, however, 18 @ dangerous experiment and ill ad- vised, unless the practice works better on the House than it did recently on the Senate when the Louisiana question was up, “ The Centennial Celebration—A Majority in Both Houses Said to Favor an Ap- propriation. vs The Senate Committee on Appropriations at thelr meeting to-day postponed action on the Rouse Centennial bill for one week, on motion of a mem- ber of the commitfce friendly to the management. It 48 understood that the Senate committee is awaiting the action of the House on the bill to be reported from the Select Committee on the | Centennial, recommending an appropriation of $3,000,009 to id in the Centennial celebra- tion and exhibition. This will simplify the whole business, It is stated that the majority of the Senate Appropriation Comittee are of opin- jon that Congress is too 1ar committed to the international feature of this affair to abandon it, It Is the impression that in both houses of Con- gress there Is a majority in favor, not oniy of the international feature, but of a fair appropriation, The Bill Facilitating the Export of | Distilled Spirits in Bond. The Senate Committee of Finance to-day re- ported favorably ‘the House bill facilitanng the export of distilled spirits in bond, It changes the yeeulation as to the manner of bonding, and allows the destination to be changed without for- Jeiting the bond given to the Custom House au- thorities. With the facilities accorded by tis bill there is believed to be no reason why the | United States should not be enabled to supply the world with aleonol, ‘ihe West is largely inter- ested in this trafic, and the trade has been in- creasing very largely. The difference in cost of transportation will be in favor of the smaller bulk * packages, Which the spirits will make, in contrast to the corn, which heretofore has been obliged to heavy tolls as to make the farmers find 1t more expeQJent to use their corn for fucl rather than send it to market ior consumption as*| one of the necessaries of life. This bill will be apt to stimulate manufacture of the article in the West, and will propabtyJn- | crease the revenue of the governmentslightly. * | The Connecticut Election and What It Indicates—The Sweeping Aside of Par- ties and the Organization of One Hav- | ing the Spirit of Righteousness Pre= dicted—The Rats Manifesting Their Usual Sagacity. | The loss of Connecticut is attributed here, by* some of the foremost men in the republican party, to the fact that there were a great many men out of employment in the State, owing to the effects | of the panic. They also contend that it was ag- | economy evinced on the part of many of the re- Publican leaders, One of these said the thing has | been raukling for some time, ‘and an increasing spirit of fault finding and dissatigtaction with the | administration has grown up among stanch re- publicans, who, ont of sheer vexation and disappointment, voted ontside of their old almost life-long party lines. One of the veteran campaign orators and dyed-in-the-wool adyocates | the events which transpired in Connecticut on Tuesday and in the | United States Senate on the preceding day argue the organization of one in the near future which will have the spirit of righteousness in it. In | other words, he spoke pretty much as if the repub- lican party was gone, and he would, therefore, be obliged to cast about to select something which, in the near juture, would give him a reiuge in the Winning party, which was to take the place of the present republican clique machinery and of the | aMiliations with which he had been identified in the past. A Elll té Put a Stop to Extra Charges for Freight and Passengers by the Union Pacific Railroad. . | Representative Houghton has been authorized | Paid s by the House Committee on Pacfiic Railroads to report @ bill requiring the Union Pacific Railroad Company to operate the bridge across the Mis- souri River at Omaha asa part of its continudus | line of road. This bill is designed to put a stop to | = id the present extra charges passengers exacted for transferring them | acroas the river by this bridge. Ten dollars per car 1s now charged for bridge tolls, and much inconvenience is occasioned to passen- gers by compelling them to change cars. The bill, for freight and vides that the Union Pacific Railroad Company shall pay the interest on them, ana shall also set apart annually an amount equal to four per cent of the amount of the bridge bonds as a sinking fand ior their redemption at maturity. Expedition of the Palestine Exploring’ Society. The House Committee on Military Affairs had yesterday under consideration the proposed reso lution authorizing the Secretary of War to detail | | an oficer to command the second expedition of | ‘ the Palestine Exploring Society, soon to take the field on the east side of the Jordan, committce was addressed by J. Augustus Johnson, late Consul General in Syria and now @& member of the New Yor« Bar, stated that nearly $20,000 had been pledged by individuals and Sunday schools | to defray the expenses of the expediuon, and that all that was asked irom Congress was autnority to detail an officer of scientific attainments as com- mander, The object of the expedition was stated to be the examination of 15,000 square miles lying east of the river Jordan, which hagnot hitherto been accompiished. The precedent relied on by Mr. Jounson’was the expedition of Lieutenant Lynch, which was fitted out im 1847 by Secretary of the Navy Jonn Y, Mason. The Committee, after hearing Mr, Johnson, voted to report in favor of the proposed resolution, The New Minister to China. Benjariin B. Avery, to-day nominated as Minister to China, vice I’. A. Low resigned, is editor of the Overland Monthly aud Secretary of the Pacitic Division of the Centennial Commission. He is about lorty years of age, and has ior years been an active and prominent journalist of the Pacific | const, He was the founder of the Marysville Ap- | peal, and subsequently took charge of the editorial , Staff of the Sen Francisco Bulietin, The appoint: | ment was made at the request of Senator Sargent. Mr. George F. Seward, of New York, at present Consul General at Shanghai, was cordially sup- ported for the position vy a large number of prom- inent merchauts and bankers of San Francisco, but the President said the appointment belonged to the Pacific coust, and deciined to nominate Mr. oward, The Improvement of the Mouth of the Mississippi—The Action of Senator West, of Louisiana. Another grand commotion in regard to the much Bat this time it is not as regards a fixed order of | things, but as to an innovation which is about to be made in the action of her representative, Sena- tor West. It 1s contended that he is about to favor the plan proposed by a Captain Eads for the im- provement of the mouth of the Mississippi River by the projection of jetties. There has been quite a row created in regard to the scheme by the Unitea States Engineer corps, and also by General He- bert, who did the honors for the Mexican veterans rhe their late celebration in this city, It 1s alleged that there is a stupendous job in the bill which Senator West Is going to present, favoring between $10,000,000 and $11,000,000, ‘1t is argued that the conditional manner in which Senator West worms into the bill his plan for getting at some- thing worth while 1s only of & kidney with @ career which hes marked BUM Wii) AUgh GBARIDS | | Tesponde 's | Total amount collected from Ai 18/4 ddatteness a8 to be called the “Talleyrand of the South” in derision, Senator Sherman, who ts on the committce and who gave. notice at the first of the session that he would not vote for any bill call- ing for an appropriation without the greatest scrutiny and most absolute necessity, is expected to look into it and give this job, if jop it be, as it looks, @ pricking that will collapse the bubbie part OF it. Nominations. * The President sent the following nominations the Senate to-day :— i Benjamin P. Avery, of California, to be Envoy Ex- tegremnery aad Minister Plenipotentiary to China, vice F, I, Low, resigned, Frank P, Norton to be Surveyor of Customs at Jefferson, N. Y. Llewelyn Davis to be Recelver of Public Moneys at Ironton, Mo. Currency Balances, ‘The balances in the Treasury at the close of bust- ness to day were as follows:— Currency $3,182,916 Special a u demption of certificates 52,665,000. Coin... dnt 88,570,467 Including com certuficates,. 37,345,100 Outstanding legal tenders + 882,000,000 THE MOIETY INVESTIGATION. ae Sanborn Upon the Stand—Amount Re- celved by Him and Items ot Expendi- tures—A Convenient Memory—Advice of an Attorney to His Clients. ° * Wasuinaton, April 9, 1874. Committee on Ways and Means had anotrer heariag to-day in the Sanborn matter. Mr. San- born was examined and furnished a statement of his rec¢ipts und expenditures under vis contract 4s appended. Upon ‘being called to the stand his examination was commenced by Mr. Foster, and is as follows: Has anyugnug been paid by you for obtaining con tracts 4 No, sir. ‘Or in connection witn legislation? Qo, sir. Or'in connection with the allowance of claims at the Treasury Deparuncut? which you can make? No, sir; Lido nov Know of any. y Kasxon— * In view of the yn in Rurope, can you teli how much was real- izod to the ‘treasury abd yourself as the result of that Information? Nothing as ret, overnment has gained nothing in the way ason of that cisbursement by yout r; but if L were allowed to pro could tarn in over $5,000,0) irom that intermauon. Mas it arrived ata condition where you are prepared to uiilize it now? Yer, sir, about ready, By My. Foster— Who is the secretary referred to in this account? Mr. Stine: Who is Mr. Stiner? He lives in New York. He isa newspaper correspond- ent. ftas he any officil connection with the government? Not now. ‘He wed to have. He was Assistant Assessor. neat ze not some position in the New York Custom louse: Not that I know of, He js a regular newspaer cor- tb belie he reports the Custon’ House items. J know that when I wanted to get at lum I sent Woe either to the newspaper office or to the Custom ‘Ouse, What part of the Custom House did you send to? Mr. Putler, a clerk there. old stuit olticer of General Butler? y You pald him $200 a montii as your private secretary? eS. What services did he render you? He kept my books only in re(erence to these contracts. Was not (hat pretty good compensation tor those ser- vie 1 offered him $150 and he said he must have more. Did you help to procure’ Mr, Jay his appointment as a speciat aventin isnropet did. 1 _ Lrecommenaed him. Who joined in that recouimendation? Tdo not recoliee: Are you uot @ little conveniently absent minded just nowt . tam not. Lreatly do not recollect. I wi go abroud to see my Man Morrison, to take m apers tO him mt ww ask him to hurry up his matters astast as ssible. elicited from Mr, Sanborn, dienry EK, Davies, Jr., ol New York, was next ex- amined, He stated that as a lawyer he had been consulted by clients who had receivea notices to pay legacy and succession taxes; that he bad ad- vised them that they Were noi liabie, aud that even if they were Sanvorn and these parties had no right to collect them, ana that receipts .rom them Woula net uct as a bar to proceedings that might be brought by the goverment; that he notified the District Attorney’s Office that his clients declined ge amount which you have paid for | dT think I | | for hold firmiy to what we have, not in order to Nothing. else of interest or importance was | Celebration of His Seventy- seventh Birthday. He Speaks to His Generals—Fears of a Crisis— “The Probable Fate of the Army Bill. piiiec Se South Germany—The Growth of Frankfort + Under Prussian Rule—The “Lord of Frankiort’—Bismerck’s Denial of the Jokai Interview. FRANKFOR?-ON-THE-MAIN, Sermany} March 23, 1874, The seventy-seventh anniversary of Kaiser Wil- | liam’s birthday was celebrated in Germany yester- | day in all parts of the North with banquets, | military displays and divine services, and in many | cities of the South with much display of oficial | loyalty and some amount of popular rejotciugs. | Birthday anniversaries are in Gerinany indicated | with red marks in the faintly almanacs, and can | no more be overlooked or their celebration | | Omitted than the due observance of Christmas or | Easter or Kirmes. In Prussia proper the day was | loyally kept—that is to say, the Protestant portion of the community; the Catholics conid hardly be expected to do more than | observe strict neutrality in these, to them, | very trying times, Berlin, as our telegrams inform us, was as gay in bunting asia possible in | black and white, and the crowds gathered as | usual in Unter den Linden, betore modest | mansion of the Emperor, to cheer the old soldier | a8 he went and returned trom divine service held | 4m the palace of the Crown Prince, There was the | y expianation further thau that statement | U&¥al reception at the palace of princely visitors | | with congratulations, and of military and civil depurations, and members of the imperial family, | In the evening the city was illuminated ana festal | periormances were given in the theatres, as is | customary on such occasions, Perhaps the most | important item connected with the anntversary | ‘was the Emperor's reply to General Von Wrangel and the deputation of generals, “Accept my | thanks,” said the Emperor, “for your kind wishes | for the improvement of my health. I receive | them with especial gratification this year and | trust that they may be fulfilled.” ‘Turning from Von Wrangel to the generals, he continued, “And to you, 1 express my thanks for the sentiments which the General Field Marshal has | expressed in your name. Since you appear before me as the representatives of my army, I cannot conceal from you the fact that again does a crisis hang over it (the army). That which for four years, from a feeling of duty and conviction, I strove for and attained, iound its reward in the unanticipated Successes of my army and those of my allies. This feeling gives me courage to endurance even now; Carry On war, but to secure the peace of Europe.” THE PROBABLE FATE OF THE ARMY BILL. These words show how deep is the interest which Kaiser William has in the fate of the military law now under discussion in the Reichstag. “More light!” was the cry of Goethe, as he closed his brilliant career. “More men,” will be William's | last thought when he 1s called by Odin to the halls | of Walhalla, The feeling which the Emperor ex- | pressed is perfectly natnrai, properly consideren. For nearly halt a century he has bad a seat and voice in the Ministry oi War; he has taken an ‘active part inall the changes and Improvements in the organization of the Prussian (German) | army, and the last reorgantzation is essentially ns | | work, But the crisis of which the Kaiser spoke | to pay and would defend any suits that might be | brought to recover, and that no suci suits were ever brought, : SANUORN’S STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES. The 1ohowing is Sanburn’s statement of expendi- tures in iull:— ‘The tollowing statement ls substantially correct, | Dut has beon made up irom such data as { have here with me:— st, 1872, to $427,035 49 213,518 25 213,018 24 the 3d of tebruary, Government shar Received by J, D. 3. Paid for ae of offices trom August, 1872, 10 $2,500 00 4,000 09 noe 2878 36 Morrison aud assistants in Lon- don, Paris, Beriin, Frankfort, Lyons, &¢.. 43,875 00 Paid ‘to Umied <tates wistriet Auorney Bits, about... a 3,220 00 J.D. s 63120 00 y and others. 4,800 00 services, expenses a Paid C. B. Uiderwood, at ¥ March, 1873, to January 1, 18/4, for counsel tees, expenses and disburséments on account of infornauon regarding certain railroad companies and income and legacy and suc-« cession taxes, in Tull....... Amounts due ahd unpaid, about To-al Leaving... Memoranduin. late triai in brooklyn and pon my ay om.ng to Washingion are not | included in any of the toregomg amounts. THE WORKINGMEN’S OENTRAL COUNCIL. Meeting at Masonic Hall Last Night— Down Upon Contractors—Uphoiding the Bight Hour Law. The Worktngmen’s Central Council met last night in the rooms of the Paper Hangers’ Associa- tion, No. 48 Kast Thirteenth street. Mr, James Allen was in the chair, The committee that had becn appointed to investigate alleged violations of May be considered as over. The government has | come to an understanding with the Reichstag, and } it is confidently asserted that the former will ac- | cept the conservative proposition to maintain a peace army of 385,000 men. Count Moltke pleaded, you Will remember, ior an army of 401,000, which | he urged that Germany would need for the next | fifty years, until the Alsatians shail have become | “Germauized.” Itis likewise pretty certain that | ‘the que of actual military service will be reduced | from three to two and a half years, whica is, we imagine, half a year too much. The illness of | Prince Bismarck prevents the Bundesrath coming | to any oficial decision, however, and the Military | bill wil hardly be considered again until a:ter the Easter holidays, I THE CELBBRATION IN THE SOUTH. The birthday anniversary of the Emperor was | celebrated in South Germauy i a respectful but | not enthusiastic manner. Here in this city, which | the patriciaus love to remember as “imperial Frankiort,”’ the lestivittes were contined to a loyal | outburst of pacriotism by the military aud the oM- | cials, Frankfort may be considered a good type of | Soath Germany. 1t is more cosmopolitan tnan | Berlip, and its people are equaily as loyally Ger- | man; but they do not love tue Hohenzollern, nor | do they hate him. ‘I'hey are, it is true, somewhat , inclined to exmibit some ill feeling toward the | Prussian gvverninent for retusing to grant the | lature to endeavor to elect a Senator, Hesse and Tharingia; Margrave of the Upper Lower. pte be sto Gree eae ‘Of Kat Friesland, of Padervorn and Perment of Halberstadt, Minster, Minden, Osnabruck tnd Moor? Soubt" af heintbty, outs ‘yas Mark and of Ravensberg, of Hohenstetn, en- burg and Lingen, of Mansj(eld, SI ar m and Beringen, and L Lord of Frankjort. "ine r ttle es the Viennese journals at the time much food for comment. They said that only one title was warts to make the series complete—namely, iat KING OF JERUSALEM, which ts at present borne Lg Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. They told the story how the Emperor Fravcis was once traveling through his Austrian dominions and came finally to the town ol Brody, which ig mhabited principally by Jews, Seeing them by hundreds in the streets as he passed, he exclaimed to his adjutant, “Now, in- Geed, T can understand why I bear the title of King of Jerusalem.” With unpardonable taste the Vien- nese journals urged Kaiser William to adopt this title, with that ot Lord of Frankfort. The anniversazy day was, as usual, a busy day for the Prussian editorial writers and poets. Nearly every Berlm paper brings a big-typed poem displayed at tne head of the first pi across the entire sheet. Some one took the trouble some time ago to make a list of designations applied to the Kaiser. fe had been styled by poet. and pro- saist the Hero Emperor, the Hero Scion, .the Bat- tle Guider, Kaiser Whitebeard, William Barba- Tossa, the Imperial Zollern, the noblest branch of the Zollern wee, William the Brave, Wiliam the Victorious, Imperial Protector, Germany's Safe- Hee age Lord of War, Witham toe Firm, Wil- lata the Warrior, and so on ad tnginitum. We are not furnished with those designations applied to hun by the south Germans previous te the year 1879, nor those of the 1848 era, Of one thing we are sure, however, that the Germans are not a whit behind the French in the tulsome admirstion of their ruler. And the two peoples are equall; ood, asx you know, at calling hauies. The Frenel have hitherto styled the Germana clock stealers, | modern barbariaus, and M. de Quatreiages desig: | nated the Prussiuns as % separate race, different | irom the Germans, as the sian race,”’ whose | basis, he said, was Slavic, The French assert to this day that Bismarck is of Slavicongin. There- fore Bismarck’s attempt to turn the tavies in his | Conversation with the Hangarian novelist Joka, | When he said that alter wkimg away trom the | Freuen their cooks, their tailors and triseurs only | the Red Indian was lett, Now, however, Bismarck denies ever having said these Words lo Jokal, and M. Jokal, being a writer of the highest standing both in Hungary and Austria, wil! hardly allow the imputation to r upen lim of having invented the interview. The Norddeutsehe Algemeine Zeitung reviews the Emperor William’s labors during the year past, aud believes tuat in his journeys to meet the various monarchs he has given great security for the iutiure peace of Europe. The solicitude ior the imperial life is universal in Germany, and all Ger- | many approacies to-day with cohgratulanons, The weather was beautiful—‘Hohenzollern wea- ther,” as it {s called—and, being the opening day, of spring, formed a good text for the preachers and journalists, The Hohenzollern eagle was per- mitted to spread itself out to 118 ipil extent, and its flight was historically tollowed from the rock of Hohenzollern in the Suabian Alps to the amber Coasts ol the north—‘from the Alps to the sea.” The rumor is current and pelieved in Frankfort that Kaiser WILLIAM'S DISEASE IS DROPSY. Ihave, indeed, no further authority for this than that it is simply a rumor, but am inclined to be- lieve it, the more so as it has never been men- tioned in the journals. WANTED—A SENATOR. ps ae A Helpless Attitude of the Actors in the Farce on Beacon Hill—Balloting and Joking as Experts—“Now You See It; Now You Don’t See It.” Boston, April 9, 1874, It was the general expectation that to-day there would most certainly be a bitter contest upon the part of all iections in the Massachusetts Legis- With ths | expectation a general rush was made towards the | State House. THE EIGHTEENTH BALLOT. Precisely at noon President Loring: called the Convention to order. Voting at once began, the result being as follows :— Whole number of votes cast. Necessary to a choice Henry L. Dawes.. k. R. Hoar.. B. R. Curtis Cc. F. Adams. 4. W. B. Washo: J. Alter the vote ha’ been announced the crowd in the galleries and in the hallways were suddenly suprised to see Senator Learned, the leader of the Dawes men, Move “that the Convention do now adjourn.” What it meant was a mystery to those not in the secret. The motion prevailed, and with this single batiot to record the Convention adjourned till Friday noon, A PITIABLE “SELL.” Seeing Senator Learned siortly aiterwards, your reporter said :— “Senator, why was it that you moved an ad- journment, especially as your candidate has been from the start of this contest far ahead of his com- petitors ? Senator LEaRNED—Well, 1 received a despatch from Philadelphia stating that three gentlemen, Messrs, Kingsley, Hyde and Chapin, were en route to Boston with some sort of an arrangement whereby we can settie this question. I therefore THE PATTERBURG EXPLOSION. Thg Result of the Coroner’s Inquest—The Four Men Killed by Accident—Three Condemmed Boilers in Use When the Explosion Oo- curred—“Greenhorn” Firemen and Bue ginecrs in Charge of Boilers Sur- rounded by Hundreds of Men. PAaTTENBURG, N. J., April 9, 1874 Yesterday there was an inquest held on the bodies of the men killed at Jugtown Tunnel, some dimculty was experienced in obtaining a jury, but finally twelve citizens Were collected, and the inquest was begun and finished in about the same time as it took to provide the subjects for the Coroner. Several of the jury did not seem to take | Much interest in their work, and sought to | palliate their indifference by saying “they didn’t | know nothing about flues,” a tact which Is said te | have had much to do with their presence on the tribunal. The verdict of this jury was that “tha men came to their death by the acc dental ex plosion oi a boiler at the Pattenburg end of the | Jugtown Tunnel.” The number of sins that | that word “accidental” covers will never be known, and as the jury made ne effort to find out the cause ic i8 probable’ No one else will take any trouble aboutit. Noex~ cuse can be made vhat information was not ob- | tainable, for the men who were working tm the tumnel know and tell some ugly iacts, among whic, are those contained in the following sketch of the engine room and its guardians previous to the fatal accident :—Of the five botiers in tie room two | Were said to be new, having lately beea brought | trom Erie, Pa.; the other turee, which look suspiciously like locomotive boilers, were condemned some weeks ago by the boiler inspectors, who seem to have taken no mesures to stop their use, as they were in full | Work atthe time of the explosion. Four weeks | ago a brother o: John Bower, one of the men killed, drew the fire fromthe number two con- demned boiler, saying he did not intend tobe blown up. Mr. Kelly, the “walking boss,’’ noticing | this, asked why it was done and Bower gave him | his reasons, Thereupon Mr. Kelly is reported to have told Bower that it he did not Antena to keep her going he could leave, ; a8 there were “lots of men around | Rot afraiu to run the machine.” As proof of this it ts only necessary to state that Bower left the boiler has been working ever since, with a slight interruption caused by a hole beg burned in che fire head, through which the water AP ad, extinguishing the fire. “She got a patch al boiled again.”’ Jt is asserted that this boiler an | its two wortnicss companions are to be placed in | position to work again as soon as the débris is cleared away; and as there is naught of condem- nation in the verdict of the jury there seems to be no reason to doubt it. Of the guardians of the boilers, “they make a fireman in nine days out of a Castle Garden ‘gree! horn,’’’ said one of the men to the reporter of the HERALD, and before he had time to express his sur- prise a bystander put in, “Shure any oue that can _ shovel coal, is fireman enough for them.’ THE FATAL BOILER. The boiler which caused all the mischief was one Of the so-called new ones, and had 1t been properly treated the probabilities are it would have out- lasted the one With the patch. The iron of which it was composed ig of very poor texture, but no iron would have withstood ‘the pressure put upon | it, It uppears, from the position in which Thomas Irving was iound, and the Condition of tne stop cocks on.the water injector upon which he had his hand, that water was injected into the bursted boiler against the heated flues. ‘the theory based on these facts is that Irving discovered low water, ud immediately went to the injector and turned it on. ‘The water coming In contact with ‘the red hot flues, steam was instantly generated | in such large amounts that the safety valve could atford no relje!, and the sheeting gave way. ‘Thus, ; it will be seen, ignorance and tncompetency were the inuirect causes Of the fatal catastrophe.. New Jersey ts not behind New York in its provisions for the protection of laborers. WHERB’S THE CORONER? Some six wecks ago @ Man named James Heguey | was killed at the Bethlehem end of the cunnel and the Coroner apprised of the fact; but he held no Inquest, and the man was buried and nowning has been heard o/ the case since. Several others who were injured oa that occasion and maimed for lite cannot commence actions against the contractor, ag there 15 no official record of the accident, THE DEAD AND WOUNDED. The body of Thomas Irving was taken to New- burg thus alternoon, and the bodies of Bower, Mc- Gerity and Goughan await the coming of their relatives. Dr, kdward Powers gives it as his opinion that Mrs, Simms will die, as she Bis See | tained mternal injuries caused by the wagon hav- ing passed diagonally across her body trom the | Tight. shoulder to the left tmgh. Father ONeill, | who has been at the scene of the explosion twice | @day since 1% occurred, has administered the rites | of his church to Mrs, Simms, who is not expected to survive. : n= A MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR. SS Se : Sudden Death of a Mother Fifteen Years of Age in Childbed. NEWBURG, N. Y., April 9, 1874. For some days past revolting rumors have been | in circutation in the little village of Washington. | ville, Orange county, regarding the disappearance two months ayo and sudden death on Monday last | of Miss Anna M. Place, the daughter of’ ; Mr. Isaac D, Place, a well known resident of the village and one of its “solid men,’ It seems that she left the place in com- | pany with her mother, ana nothing was heard of | : usual annual subsidy of 50,000 guidens or the races; | desired to see these Representatives, and moved | herundll Monday, Wiett, sdespasoR: Wam stones they still remember with bitterness the treatment | | thev received at the nands o1 General Von Manteu- | fel in 1866, and lament with Homburg, Wiesbaden | and Baden Baden the closing of the gambling ta- bles. There are two antagonistic parties. ‘The one, the patricians, will die wit their hostility to | Prussia unquenched; the other, the younger gen-~ | eration engaged in commercial and iidustrial lite, are more favorably inclined, For since the annex- ation, eight years ago, the city has developed in @ wonderful manner; it has expanded on ail | sides; new broad streets and squares have sprung up within a short space of tme, and building goes | | on at a rate which would do no dishonor to any of | our young, pushing Western cities. Old streets | are disappearing—old historical spots are falling | | under the advance of the contractors. The Jews’ | the Eight Hour law by the officials in the New York | Post Office reported their inability to enforce the enactinent in consequence of the contract system in use py the departinent, Resoluuons were adopted thanking the Hon. 8, 8, Cox for his services In procuring the appoint- ment by Congress of an investigating committee to inquire mmto reported abuses of the Eight sour Jaw by the Post ODice authorities in this city. «A set of resolutions were passed for the purpose or <pressing sympathy with the attitude of trades connected with the building interests in the city in the attitude assumed on the Eight Hour law by the workingmen composing them. Resolutions were adopted to petition Congress that the contract system might be abolished in all | dition on which hung the fate o1 Europe. the departments of government, and workmen and | otbers employed in public buildings, &c., be en- gaged directly by the government, A committee ‘Was appointed to wait upon the Board of Alder- Tien and ascertain if it might not be judicious and Wise to abolish the contract system of jabor i ail the branches of the municipal government and have workmen and others employed directly un- der the city authorities. Mr. James Blair was appointed a delegate to the approaching Rochester Labor Convention, THE MURDERER LOWENSTEIN. ALBANY, N. Y., April 9, 1874. Another effort was made to-day to prevail on | Governor Dix to reopen the case of Lowenstein, Who 1s to be executed to-morrow, but he declined. He also declined to grant a reprieve of one week. The prisoner to-day sate utterly. broken down in spirit. The scanold is to be piaced inside the jail aud was erected this aiternoon. The vic im is to be hoisted by a weight of 200 pounds. execution Will take place between one aud two o'clock P, M, ' BRUTAL MURDER OF AN AGED COUPLE. TOLEDO, Onto, April 9, 1874. A special despatch from Ottawa, Onio, says that John W, Goodwin murdered an aged man and | Wife named Haywood, in the eastern part of Putnam county las’ nignt. Goodwin was arrested, snd was with great diticulty saved irom being lynched by the in.uriated people. BREAKS IN THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEE, 'w ORLEANS, April 9, 1874. The river has fallen two inches and 1s now flush with the highwater mark of 1871, The sbreak in the levee below Carroliton is closed. The low places within the city limits have been filled and the weak polnts strengthened, dispelling all ap- prehensions of an overflow, Two serious breaks in the levee occurred last night—one at Bohemia Plantation, fonr miles below the Plaquemine Court House, and the other at Verbos Plantation, twenty-five miles below the city, both on the left bank ot the river. A break is reported tnis morn- ing, sixty leet. wide and five deep, at Stackhouse Plantation, on the right bank, about fifteen miles below the city. It is understood that steps have brew taken lor closing al the aboye mentioned | | | | | | | | red as hereditary, he finds that the bluest blood | Rothsehilds sprang from is a thin, | promise to the family dignity. Thus commercial | prosperity, the bestowal of royal favors and the Aliey, where such sad cliapters of Jewish persecu- tiou Were written in blood: where Boerne and the ot the past, and | the Jews have long since deserted their old prison homes and occupy the best villas of the city, and pour out their gold tor the building of the river embankinsnts, the building of railways and the canai which is soon to put the city im direct navig- | able communication with the Ruine. The 1866 war roused up these people froma Rip Van Winkie | sieep. The oid Fraukforters believed that the in- dependence oi their city was a gt con- ut, ime | stead of being narrow-minded patricians, wiiose ideas never extended far beyond the walls of their city, they have been compelled, as it were, to be- come earnest, industrious, pusning merchants, with connections in the whole civilized world. The | old men still moan over the past, the younger do well in business, the city grows in size and wealti and, with prosperity, developes a certain patriot- isiN—a regard ior the rulerspip under which they attain maverial welfare, ‘TITLES AND PATRIOTISM, And yet the patrician element is open to royal flattery, A royal tavoror decoration, the gilt of nobility to an old Pegi family here—whose name is appreciated wherever good champagne flows—iias gained Prussia the good will of perhaps 100 families, for in these oid cities families are related to such an inordinate extent as to necesst- tate the new members adding the name of the wile to their own, in order to distinguish them from the many families bearing the old origtual surname. Herr Schmidt marries Friuein Muller | and thenceforth calls himseif Herr Schmidt-Muller, so that ler iriends may be able to distinguish him from his tather’s iamily. Herr Schmidt's brother marries a Fratilein Schulz and takes the family name of Schmidt-Schulz. Now, supposing Herr Schmidt to be a banker who has made a fortune of $4,000,000 or $5,000,000 out of American bond: isrich, but not happy. Aristocratic society 1s a sealed book to him, and he has two beautifal daughters and is urgently desirous of marrying them to titles. To have them received he must at Jeast be a Baron ora ‘‘Von.’’ How pieasant it is then to the rich banker or wine merchant to be sndaenly lifted from burgherly life into the nigh regions of nobility—to have his blood purified by a process infinitely more preferable than by doses of Zodiac’s pills or potions of buchu, «Herr Banker Senmidt finds that the aristocratic society receives him with oe arms as soon as he can be announced in their drawing rooms as the Herr Banker Schmidt von Geissenheim, and if the distinction be conier- in the province will not hesitate to ask for the hand (and the millions) of the Baron’s gracious daughter as soon as she can be received without any com- military system are together fast making even the people o! Franktort Prassians. As I spoke of titles, it may be of curious interest to you, and 1 give the series of tities borne by Kaiser William, ‘The Prussian escutcheon has fiity- one fields, some additions having been made in August of lust year—namely, those of Duke of Lineberg, Holstein and Schleswig, Prince of East Friesland and Nassau and 1ORD OF FRANKFORT, Besides bey eye a ol Germany and King ot Prussia, he is Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg. Count of Hohenzollern, Sovereign and highest Duke of Silesia, as also of the county of Glatz, Grand Duke of Lower Khine and Posen, Duke of Sacusen, Westphalia and Engern, of Pom- erania, Lineberg, Holstein ana hieswig, of Magdeburg, Bremen, Geldern, Eleve, Jilich and Berg, as well as o! the Wends and Oassut of Crossen, Lauenburg, Meckienburg. Lander: an adjournment, which was carried. It now transpires tuat the democrats “put up a job” on the Dawes men to prolong the fight. Rep- resentative shaw and Senator Getchell, both deme ocrats, ave received the credit of its tception, wile (ue Hour men are credited with the expense of such aliuge sell upon the Dawes men. Kspe- cially to Senator Learned does the joke apply, | since he telegraphed Dawes at Washington for par- ticulars concerning this comuittee of peace- makers, and Dawes pronounces it a fraud. This continued waste of vaiuable time does not meet with approbation from the public. ‘The Legistature has now become the laughingstock of the country, especially 80 When it has an impor- tant task before it. However, the Dawes men seem determined to “stick.” and whether to-morrow wul show the same stereotyped remark of “No choice” it is hard to say. It is impossible to anticipate when the straggle will end. ‘The sup- porters of both Hoar and Dawes are more loyal tnan ever to their favorites, and as ior the demo- crats they do not fora moment entertain an idea | of deserting Mr. Curtis. In the contingency of a break in the ranks of either of the leading can- didates there is ® possibility of some sort of a union of the democrats upon some such man ag Banks or Speaker santord. An event of this | hature, however, has been regarded as probabie | ever since the contest commenced. A SHOWER OF RUMORS. Since the adjournment “sell” at the State House rumors have been gotug the rounds both thick and numerous, principal among whici is one that Mr. Dawes has been offered the Secretaryship of the Treasury in place of Mr. Richardson, In view of the rumor the vournal of this-eveming has the tol- lowing editorial comments :— It is simply a shrewd surmise that the friends of the two prominent candidates in Wastimgton have tor some days been attempting a solution.ot the Senatorial prob- lem, and have perhaps reached a conclusion which may be satisiactory. “Tt must be, ot course, in the nuture of an’ understanding; ‘for there can- not be @ bargain or even an agreement which amounts to anything, for the men who have votes to give this year may have none a hence, republican party to yield the short term to Judge Hoar it would be @ gracious act on his part, and one which his friends might be inclined ty sanction, 1¢ would cer- | tainly indieate on the part ot Mr. Dawes @ desire to con- solidite the party, and his withdrawal when leading all others would be a vindication of his past course. Of course no pledges can be given, but such an adjustinent of the resent deadlock Would’ be satisfactory aud would give | o Mr. Dawes a strong hold upon the repubileans | of the State. This is a speculative view of the case, but At is suggestive of what might take place it the members of the Convention are disposed to harmonize. At the present writing there is no coufirmation of uh appointment of Mr. Dawes to the Treasuryship. port is not received at the State House as reitable. Ttis | ‘Well known, perhaps, that Mr. Dawes is not @ White Honse tavorite, but President Grant has-been known to take the bits before this and to do juss what it was ex. pected he would notdo. A few days,as we have pre- dicted, will settle the Senatorial question, ana we hope | Tee puridcation of the political atmosphere | all round. , WILL SENATOR BOUTWELL OBLIGE ? Another ramor has gained extensive circula- tion to-night; in fact it gains more credence than that concerning Mr. Dawes, as Secretary of the Treasury. itis that Senator Boutweil has deter- mined to resign his seat in the Senate to-morrow. | Tne report comes irom Washington. ‘fie basis tor this rumor 1s the recent “annibilations” he has re- ceived irom the press of the State, as well as the bitter speeches made at the Faneutl Hall meeting last Saturday by Boston’s best merchants, and the silence he has evinced in the Senate of late has caused him to become unpopular with his constit- uents. It is also rumored that he is mixed up in the Sanborn matter with Secretary Richardson. Aside from this aspect of affairs, so complicated ag to be puzating to every one, the situation is one of peril to the administration, Unless some defi- nite line is laid down, and that shortly, the re- publican party of Massachusetts will consist of two factions. he longer the contest tne worse matters grow. ‘To-morrow will, no doubt, wityess ee hag Cit ee ig and ae choice. .In the méan- e shusetts considers hersel! vi i dead in tie United States Senate, sibeeaee! SUPHEMB COURT CALENDAR, Roongster, N. Y., April 9, 1874, The following ts the General ‘Teri ealendar for Frid: rat Eagay) Apr ‘NOS, 19, 20, 20, 45, 46, 20, 49, 51, y' Should Mr. 4 Dawes dé content in the interest ot the harmony of the | announcing her death at Millbrook, Dutchess county. The rumors on the street increased, the most intense excitement prevailed and an tuvesti- wation was demanded. Twenty-iour of the leading citizens o1 the place signed a paper asking Coroner A. RK. Wright to bola an inquest. The remains | Were brought to esnneee on Wednesday jor juterment. Voroner Wright, in obedience to the notification, empanelled a jury and proceeded 1o hold an inquest. ‘The only witness placed on the stand Was the father of the girl. He was not present at the time of her death, aud mos¢ of nis Statement was mere hearsay evidence, but the Jury allowea him to tell his stcfy, without 1ormal questioning and without excluding anything ne wen say. His statement was in Substance as [o]- lows :— I was not present at Apna’s death, and all f | Know about it is what they told me; she died of | congestion of the brain; Ihave got the doctor's | Certificate to that effect, Certilicate produced, signed by Dr. Thorne, of Millbrook, Dutchess county, and shown to the jury; also doctor’s receipted pill ior his attendance. : She was sick irom Saturday till Monday; she Was at’the house of Mrs, Kynus, a cousin of my wile; she was pregnant before she weat away from home; she was delivered of a child on Saturs | day; 1 discovered some time in January last that she was pregnant; the child is still iiving, and I saw it, | _ Witness then left the room, but returned imme- diately atterwards and stated, in the most em- phatic maaner, tuat he knew nothing whatever as | to the pavernity of the infant, tumors and gossip | to the contrary notwithstanding, ‘ ‘rhe girl was filteen years o! age last month. The jury decided to send for Dr, Thorne, who had | attended the girl in her illness, and also ior Dr. Case, the consuiting physician, and Mrs. Rynus, at Whose house she was, The inquest was t adjourned unul Friday to give the Coroner time to secure the attendance of these witnesses, Per- mission was given to bury the remains, it appear- ing Irom the iather’s testimony and the physician's certificate that she died a natural death. ‘The estab- lisnment of this fact by the witnesses trom Dutchess county will, of course, conclude the labors of the jury. The question of the paternity of the miant 1s to be settled atterwards, THE UNION LEAGUE OLUB, The Action of Congress to Inflation Denounced by the Club. At the regular monthly meeting of the club, held last evening, the following resolutions, presented by @ commitiece consisting of Messrs. John A, Weeks, J. C. Jackson, N. P. been William H, Fogg and Joun H. Huil, were adopted :— Resolved, That the Union League Club of the City of New York disapproves ot any action of Congress which will tend to intlate the currency of the Umiued States, as unjustifiable by exigencies of commerce, ay & Violation es of all the rules of nance and ag contrary to the expre: Pledges to the peopie of this nation. Resolved, T! we cordially approve the action of the Governor of this state in prompe ly and clearly present- to the Legisiature and to the people the great perils, he proposed infation of the currency, and Kdorse and sustain the sentiments ex- Cneng, se. ‘ed, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded without delay to the inembers of both Houses of Com ress, ' SALEM H. WALES, Vice President, QGrorcE H. B, HiLL, Secretary. PRODUOE EXOBANGE. ‘The Board of Managers het @ special meeting yesterday, and the applicatiops of sixty-four per- sons for membersbip were approved. It was re- solved that all who applied for membership prior to the 8th inst., when the initiation leé was must compiy with the rules on or before the inst. . Mr. Phillips, one of the delegates from the Ex- change to Typose the passage of the Vanai Fund- ing bill, reported that they, together with the delegates trom the Chamber of Wommerce, ap- Bienen, hg pcmmmmue Gemma, updyke, Houlton and William ind M. Be ol Mani O02 Motion, unan! guected “ut. varie an honorary gember of tie