The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1874, Page 7

THE POLITWAL OUTLOOK. The Gubernatorial Contest in Re- lation to the Presidency. THE UNITED STATES SENATORSHIP, A Little Breeze Among Tammany Sachems—Coming Events and ‘heir Shadows. THE WMAYORALTY AND REGISTERSHIP, Now that the last days of the Legislature are closing upon that body, Senators and members and politicians generally are beginning to cast the State’s political horoscope, The present Sen- ate, of course, holds over for another session, and 80 Will aid the Assembly to be returned in the fail in electing a United States Senator for six years, tm place of Reuben E, Fenton, while the hopeful among the retiring members will come bome to pre- Pare for the campaign, upon the result of which their dearest aspirations will turn, Already there are unmistakable evidences of the PLAN OF CAMPAIGN which will be fought out thia summer and up to the first week of November next. On the selec- tion of the candidate for Governor by either party will depend the combination that will follow, and majnly the fight over the United States Senator- emp. Party lines for atime promised to become more distinctly and clearly drawn than in former years, when opposing Jeaders came before the people on their respective party tickets. Late events, however, bid fair to make the campaign for the Governor an easy one for the party in power, and relatively, no doubt, for the United States Senatorship. Governor Dix, in conversa- tion with a friend the other day in the Executive Mansion, admitted that if REQUESTED BY THE PARTY to allow himself to be renominated he would yield to the wishes of his friends and constituents. “How do the Governor’s prospects look for election for another term?” queried the HERALD, colloquist. “Couldn’t be better,” was the response. “He is old, but nia motto yet is, ‘No surrender’ He has pat himself right for another term, sure, through- out the State. f HIS MESSAGE AGAINST INFLATION ‘was second only to the President's veto im the re- sponse it met with in the hearts of the merchants, farmers and manufacturers from one end o1 the State to the other.” “Has Governor Dix, after all, any higher ambi- tion than being Chief Executive of the great State of New York?” “Ab! thaw’s a shrewder question and nearer the mark than perhaps you deemed,” replied the HERALD informant. “I have it from the best au- ‘hority that he hasan eye upon the White House. 1 kmow not how the truth may be, But I'll tell the tale as 'twas told to me, The President’s veto of the Inflation bill and Gov- ernor DiX’s previous well-timed message to the Legisiatare on the same subject have made the republican party & unit throughout the State. Here comes tne sequence. The Custom House party undoubtedly controls the republican element im this city and throughout the State. The Custom Aouse is looked upon as the headquarters of the party, and the controlling power there, under the administration, the Collector and the tederal chiels of departments, the recognized leadere of the party. Governor Dix recognizes the position and he is in perfect accord with the quartet that rules ere—lom Murphy, General Arthur, Buss and venport. THE PROGRAMME I8 THIS:— Governor vix will be reuominated and re-elected, Ex-State Senator Robinson, of Westchester, 1 Spuken of to Jollow on the ticket as Lieutenant jovernor. Then comes the tug of war. Governor Dix will be the first and last choice of the repubil- can party for United States Senator, and there 18 ttle doubt, as the Senate is now constituted and the complexion to which the Assembly can be brought in the coming election, that he will be sent to Washington to iil the place of Reuben E, Fenton in the national Legislature.” “Will this bring him nearer the Presidency ?”” “Undoubtedly,” was the response, ‘He will be in active political life, He will, as United States Senator, be prominently before the people of the whole country;. he will be at the national capital, and thus be available to whatever national party may desire to select him as a Presidential staudard bearer. Ofcourse, this programme is subject to the reverses which sometimes happens to the best laid schemes of inice and men; but itis neverthe- less the one the Governor and his {riends favor and have drawn up _ for their political action. if Governor Dix was the candt- date of the republican party per se, if he came before the poche. as & partisan candidate he mignt be defeated, and all these plans and Presidential aspirations might vanish at the polis like the “vaseless fabric of a vision;’ but with his past and present record, he stands booked to win the two first events—his re-election as Governor, and his election alter thut to the United States Senate. ‘The third event can only be chronicled in the fu- ture. On that point it may be said, as he himseif feels, ‘His years need scarce @ thought employ.’ ? ‘THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNON, where are severa candidates named on the Gemocratic side for Governor, the most prominent of whom is Chief Justice Sanford E. Church, of the Court of Appeals; tien follow Jarvis Lord, Senator Johnson, of Seneca; the venerable Samuel J. Til- den and Senator Jonn Gansen, of Buffalo. Of these the most available—the only one, indeed, who would have @ ghost of a chance against Dix—is Mr. Church. The party could not think of putting their former candidate, Francis J, Kiernan, @ sec. ond time against the victorious Dix, thoagh the moves on the political checker board may bring them face to face as rivals for the United States Benatorship, Mr. Kiernan being spoken of as the Candidate of the democratic party ior that im- portant oftice, THE MANHATTAN CLUB AND A DEMOCRATIC BANQUET. The Manhattan Club held a special meeting Tharsday night last, when the whole situation was reviewed, and at which it was resolved to cel- ebrate the late democratic triumphs in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut by a banquet, to which the magnates Of the party at the national capital will be invited, This will be .ollowed by the adoption of a line of political action, consolidating the whole strength of the party in this city and State in the selection of two standard bearers for the Governorship and the United States Senatorship next year. 4 ROW AMONG THE SACHEMS, The Tammany people had a littie breeze of their Own on Monday night last on the occasion of the annual election by the Columbian Order of sachems aud officers. The usual secrecy was onserved at the meeting, though there was more than the usual opposition on the nomination of the warri- ors to be sacheuis for the current year. In fact, there was an opposition ticket gotten up to the regular Tammany ticket. The names of the braves on the former indicate the strength that may be applied to the formation of a new parcy to con- test with Grand Sachem and Chief Kelly the control of the democracy of this city. The borer braves vad a triumph by the election of their ticket on Monday nigut, inasmuch as the Tammany Society owns the wigwam where the council's fires ever burn, and which none but those in periect accord with the great medicine man and chiel, Kelly, and his thick-and-thin supporters can ever approach. It was this control of the wigwam, by Tweed when the young democracy rose in re- Volt against the Tammany Ring that more than anything else tended to the dissolution of the young braves as a0 organization, A NEW PARTY. Of course Brennan, Waterbury, Loew, Develin and other malcontents wili nov succumb to one defeat. They will form the nucleus of a new party, Mot so much with the “rule of ruin” policy of the Apollo Hall faction of last year, but to make condi- tons with the Tammany magnates for a share of the patronage and spoils of office that will fall to the Victors in this campaign. ‘The movement in Tammany Hall the other night was the first indi- Cation of a purpose of opposition to the Tammany lers On & new basis. HAVEMEYER ON THE SITUATION. The Mayor is having a stormy time ol it with the Board of Aldermen. Tne Police Commissionerstiip vacancy is the great bone of contention, and meither party seems inclined to Yield or compro- mise. Havemeyer’s compact with the Custom House ring and what was to come of it was seen in the abortive attempt of Senater Toby to pass hus bill witharawing the confirming power trom the Aldermen, and making Havemeyer master of the situation by giving him the rignt to appoint to all important vacancies at his own sweet will and pleasure, aud justas the Custom House quartet might dictate, pe tion Cam, MAroRazry, @ question of the Mayoralty is loom nto & importance in view of the powers tint ine incumbent for the next two years will wield in conjunction with a harmonious Board of Alder- mei There will be extensive patronage in the hands 01 those powers that may control municipal affairs {rom 1876 to 1877, and the party who secures: the Mayoralty prize next fall will avsurediy control we political Machine o/ the city for some time, THE TAMMANY CHIEF, John Kelly will be strongly urged by bia friends NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1874.-QUINTUPLE SHEET. w accept ‘The reason: Hr wl last week why ‘ur. ly could pot weil secure the ton Rimscit whe belloves in'tne political taxtas ot the late Dean Richmond, that the leader ot a great ought never to accept office under the part, att ry Matt tor active teadership in it was near expiring. Kelly's not Mr. Ke! tion, Among otner candidates 4} of in this connection the name of John K. tt, Recorde: prominent. Then son-in-law of Peter Cooper, democrat of the reform tripe. Chanler is another available man. He belongs to the Astor family, and is at present Chairman of the Tammany General Committee. John McCool, ex-Register and idate for Sheriff lan rea ig talked of up town, With nis late Apollo afta. tion asa drawback. ‘THE REGISTERSHIP, For this position General Martin T. McMahon will in the tulneas of time accept the candidacy; but, in view of the Green-Havemeyer combination with the Custom House party, the gallant General’s chances ate not altogether as as perhapa they ought to be, Shandiey isa trong candidate among his triends, and they are ei Besides this it 18 said that he stands well with Ke who knows no friend, sng ig only guided by X-Postmaster General ofice and will certainiy, make @ big fight to gain the prize. His competitor will have to be a popu- lar man, sustained by his whole party, to succeed inst the General. ‘te Mayoralty and Registership are the only twow offices to be contested for this fall, but a great deal of apes nee im important offices 1ollows in their Ww Meeting of the Total Prohibitionists, The temperance people who are in fav or of total Prohibition, and who are seeking to establish a Political party whose platform shall be. in accord. ance witn the most ultra temperance doctrine, met last evening in De Garmo Hall, Fifth avenue and Fourteenth street, ©. C, Leigh presiding, the Weather being so inclement the atrendance was very small, and the Chairman announced that the business would be conducted in a conversational style. A few brief addresses were then made, Mr. Levi Dederick, who said he was an old temperance man, advocated that the first effort ot the Semperance men ought to be to secure the repeal of laws licensing the sale of liquor, and that then the local option plan ought to be put in operation—total prohibition to be the last thing demanded. Mr. Daniel Woodford sug- ee that public meetings should be held in vari- jus parts of the city on Sunday afternoons, espe- cially in localities where it was least likely that young men would hear temperance doctrines ex- lained to them. The Chairman and Mr. Stephen lerritt, Jr., also spoke briefly, uttering encourag- ing sentiments as to the ultimate result of thi temperance crusade, and the meeting then ad journed, A POLICEMAN SHOT. Fatal Resalt of a Political Dispute. Within fifteen minutes of midnight, last evening, 8 serious tragedy took place at the new dock, pler No. 1 North Kiver, in which OMicer John Gibney, of the First precinct, was wounded seriously, and, to all appearances, fatally. It appears that the officer, who was on post at the Battery, had formed anaciueintance, too in- timate, as it proved for his interest, with a private watchman named John Given. Last night the two men were together and were drinking in the private watchman’s office, which belongs to the Dock Department. An altercation arose, which resulted in the policeman knocking down the watchman and the watchman shooting the policeman. Both men were, 1t is said, con- siderably under the influence of liquor. The police- man is not expected to live, The watchman was arrested by OMcer George Conners, of the Second precinct (Captain Lowery’s), and evinced decided symptoms of inebriation, He dia not seem to realize the terrible position in which he was Placed. According to the accounts given to our reporter last night both men were in the habit of indulging in practices very discreditable to per- sons placed in responsible positions. The ball from Given’s pistol passed tufough the eye of the Policeman, causing injuries Which will very proba- Diy prove fatal, The cries of the wounded police- Man brought.a second watchman, the partner of Given, to the scene, and he seeing what | had occurred called assistance. Oficer Conners of the Twenty-seventh precinct, answered the summons, and as he entered the shed where the tragedy had occurred Given was leaving, saying as he went, “There ia man shot in there.” With admirable presence of mind Connors took hold of Given, saying, “If that’s the case, you come back with me.” He arrested Given, and the second watchman informed him be was the man who had shot Gibney. A boy who had heard the shooting and then learned the result ran to the First precinct station house and in- formed the sergeant at the desk of wnat had hap- ened, A roundsman was despa:ched to the jouse on the dock, but When he t there the prisoner had already been conducted to the Twenty-seventh precinct station. He ordered the policeman he found there and who had arrived from the Twenty-seventh precinct station house to take the pisto! and the wounded policeman to the station house where he himself belonged. This conflict of authority was owing to the fact that the watchman’s house is situated between the two streets and each was desirous of the honor of the case. Gibney belonged to the First, but the police from the Twenty-seventh were the first on the scene, It is said tne policeman was in the habit of going into the nut to lounge, and the watchman and_he were always on the most inti- mate terms. The physicians at the hospital pro- nounced his case a dangerous one this morning. OHRYSTIE STREET TILL-TAPPERS. About eleven o’clock last night five men entered Mr. Schulder’s lager beer saloon, No, 52 Chrystie street. Three of them went into the back room and called for cards and beer. The others remained im the front saloon. Shortly afterward the men in the back room got upa fight, Mr, and Mrs. Schulder ran to quell the row. The two men sprung over the counter, | and, seizing the money drawer, wrenched it out | and ran away. When Mr. and Mrs. Schulder en- tered the front saloon again they discovered that they had been robbed. Mr. Schulder was wild, He ran to the door and shouted “Murder! watch! thieves!” A policeman ran uy) and Mr, Schulder told his story, He said that the drawer contained a large sum of money and also valuable letters, deeds, checks and insurance papers. The officer was watching about the place about an hour afterward, when he saw two men steal up toa covered wagon near by and reach in their hands as if to take something, He crept around in the shadow and seized both. One, how- ever, eluded his grt ut the other was secured. Feeling in the wagon, the officer found the money drawer that had been stolen from Schulder. He took the prisoner and the drawer to the Eldridge street police station, There he gave his name as James lurray, but refused to give his residence. Both Mr. and Mrs. Schulder {dentified the prisoner as one of the robbers, Upon searching him the officer found $175 and a knife. He was locked up. CITY AND OOUNTY TREASURY, Comptroller Green reports the following receipts and disbursements of the Treasury yesterday :— DISBURSEMENTS, Claims pala (number of warrants: 63), amount. ing to. $2,083,701 Payrolls to, 3,196 Total.. $2,086,897 Receirts. eee From taxes of 1878 and interest......... siedesendsy | OLE From arrears ot taxes, assessments and interest 9,183 From collection of @ id interest. ‘B23 From water rents 467 From market ren 352 From permits to build vaults. 5818 From licenses, Mayor's Office... 66 From fees and fines, District Courts. . 6 From sale of condemned property, Fire Depart- ment. The Comptroller paid yesterday, ugh Pay- master Falls, laborers on docks to 18th inst.; laborers on ‘small pipes,” to 16th inst., and pavers on streets to 15th inst., amounting to $37,734 82. ENIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, PITTSBURG, Pa, April 25, 1874, The Supreme Lodge of the World Knights of Pythias 14 still in session, but expects to ‘close its labors to-night, To-day several appeals were heard, among others those of Rathbone Lodge, No. 1, of New York, which was referred back to the Grand Lodge of that State, Final action was taken on the new constitution, which was adopted. The thauks of the body were also tendered to Repre- sentatives Divine, of the District of Columbia; Lewis, of Baltimore, and H. Stewart, of Washing- ton, for their services in connection with the case of 6, M, Barton. The next annual session will be held in Balti- more. THE OOTTON OROP, MEMPHIS, April 25, 1874, Of 136 estimates of the cotton crop seventy- three were opened at the Cotton Exchange to- day. The highest was 4,287,000 bales and the lowest 3,801,000, average 4,182,000, WASHINGTON. WAssInoToN, April 25, 1874. The Report ef the Comptroller of the Currency to the President Concerning the $4,000,000 of the National Bank Currency—Statement of the Comptroller. ‘The letter addressed to Representative Beck by Comptroller Knox, dated to-day, and read by Mr. Beck in the House, commences by saying that his attention had been called toa statement in a morn- ing paper, said to have been made by Mr. Beck in the House on Friday, as follows:— Mr, Beck favored the motion to strike out, because Was opposed to the srepiion. of 80 many bureaus on which no reliance could be placed. He suid the: had = made Comptroller of the Currency who nad deceived the President and led wim. to id a false . message, misicading the House country. lo =~=had represented to wut that $4,000,000 of the national bank cur- Segoe me hates aat ewes ¢ President and held the circula- tion to save the $26,000,000 to his friends in the East ‘The Comptrolier in reply says:— T understand you called upon the Deputy Comptroller on Thursday, and regret you did not Bad is convenient at the saine time to call upon me in the adjolming room, when, I have no doubt, I could have easily satisfied ‘ou that my course in’reference to the distribution of currency has been in exact compliance with law. From the — alight acquaintance f have With you, 1 believe you are incapable of doing an in- tentional injury to any one, and f theretore request, Anan not of Jusilee to myself, You will cause to be re 1m the House the following extract from my last annual report, showing the difficulties tion of the act of July 12, 1570. The substance of the extract is that under the act of July 12, 1870, the Comptroller is required, after the $54,000,000 is taken up, to make requisl- tion upon the banks of New York city, Massa- chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut for $25,000.000, and if these requisitions are not com- piled with within one year thereaiter he {s author- ized to sell the bonds and deposit the legal tenders in the Treasury; but there is no provision in the act for the return of the national bank currency to the Treaa- ury for redemption, and the act is there- fore inoperative, and under its provisions no con- siderable amount of national bank currency Would be returned for distribution for eighteen months after the requisition is made, Lalso request you will read the following copy of a letter addressed to Hon. W. W. Phelps. of the Connmittes on Banking and Currency, transmitted to him on the 3d day ot February last, in “Which was inclosed a bill pre- ared by me for the purpose of promptly withdrawing 325,000,000 of national bank circuiaiion'trom the Ke fioha sp and distributing the same 10 the Wes! ‘TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Ornice or rae ComPrroLure uF THE CURRENCY, Wasninaton, D, ©., Feb. 3, 187%. Sir—In accordance with your verbal ‘request [ enclose, herewith a copy ot a bill to ame an act entitled an act to provide for the redemption of three per cent tempor- ary loan certificates and for an increase of national bank Prepared at the request of the Hon. and transmitted to the Finance Com- Senate yesterday. In ord provisions of is will be necessary to withdraw from the Staves which are in excess as loll about $729.00; Vermont, about $755, sett about $15,783,000; Rhode sree tia gener acts japant S4Ce5 01 000; Pennsvivania, about §),; tol, 000, A table showing — th 8 in the way of the execu- SStatee ; tes excess and the amount of the excess will be found on; paxe seven of my last annual report. The amount of circulation now outstanding of National banks which hi iled or hi pope into liquidation, under section wo of the act. 451, By reference to section ty: i ‘two of the proposed bill you will ‘find that it p He ek ae Ad sabe med for the reiui ese = notes. = sary for redemption. So that the effect oe iy will be to place at my disposalsn ail more than. $40,000,000 for re-distribufion to the. States which are deficient in their. proper Yerhaps. @ better title for the bili will be "A Bill Authorizing the Re-distribution of $25,000,000 of National Bank Currency.” Very Tespectfally. JOHN J, KNOX, Comptroller. To Hon. Wirttaw Water Pustrs, of the Committee on Banking and Cutrency, House ‘of Representatives, ‘Wash- ington, D. ©. I will thank you also to have the bill read for the In- formation of the House, and you will further oblige me by inteoducing the bili in order that it may be printed end considered. Very renpectiully, JOHN JaY KNOX, Comptroller. Hon. Jaurs B. Becx, House of Representatives, Wash: ington, D. OC, The bill of the Comptroller requires the national banks in the States named in the letter to Mr. Phelps to deposit legal tender notes in excess of | $800,000 of their circulation with the Treasurer, and requires the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer and depositories of the United States to assort the | circulation of these banks #nd return it! to tne Comptroller for destruction, and authorizes the latter thereupon 40, surrender to the. banks the bonds held .a8),security for such circu- latiom: §=The of the notes of banks which Jailed and are in liquidation are also to be assorted and returned to the Comptroller for de- struction, and immediately thereupon the amounts destroyed are to be reissued to the banks in the West and South. 4 The Comptroller {s confident that within sixty days after the passage of the act he can supply every application from the West and South for the next two years with currency withheld from other States, The Sanborn Investigation—Testimony of a New York Commission Merchant— How Suits were Withdrawn. The Committee on Ways and Means to-day ex- amined Simon Herman, who, being sworn, testl- fled that he was a general auctioneer and commis- sion merchant in New York. During his examina- tion by Representative Beck, of the Committee, he said thatin April, 1872, he was indicted in the United States Court for the alleged selling of liquor on which the tax had not been paid, although he was perfectly innocent of the charge. sums of money to have the case dismissed, Hearing of the indictment he went to the court and gave bail, A. Goodrich Fay soon came to him and said he could have the case dismissed by the payment of $2,000, which money was to be divided between Fay and Sanborn. He also paid $1,000 to Judge Davis, at that time District Attorney. He was not aware that Assistant District Attorney De Kay gave orders that the matter of settlement should be keptsecret, Being interrogated by Representative Foster, of the committee, the witness said he never met Sanborn on the subject, His conver- sation was with Fay alone, and he paid the $2,000 demanded to get ridof the scandal, although he was entirely innocent of the charge. He did noy recollect whether anything was said about the probable use of any of the money in Washington. In answer to Representative Dawes, of the committee, the witness said the checks tor the money were given on the same day, the understanding being that this was all one arrangement and in accordance with instruc- tion from Washington, There were present in Mr. Fay’s office when he wrote the checks, Mr. Fay himself and a man named Yates, who is now in the Tombs. He had spoken to Judge Davis on the subject, who said to the witness, “You had better let the matter rest.’? He did not tell Judge Davis that he had given $2,000 to other parties. When he went out of Fay’s office he met De Kay, Assistant District Attorney, who said, “Judge Benedict is on the beach and the cage hag been dismissed, in accordance with orders from Washington.’ Wit- ness then gave the check to Judge Davis. Richard E, Stilwell, Deputy Clerk of the United States Circuit Court, New York, produced the two indictments found March 3, 1872, one against Simon Herman and two others, and tie second against Simon Herman and filteen others, charging con- spiracy, all for the same alleged offences, The cases were nolle prosequi only so far as Herman was concerned, the indictments against the others remaining. The motion was made on the part of the District Attorney, the witness thought, by Mr. De Kay. In further reply to interrogatories the witness thought something was said about keeping the settlement secret, so that the reporters should not hearofit, He thought this request came from Mr. De Kay, but his recollection on this point was not clear. Such requests are made sometimes, but not often. He did not know of any order coming from Washington to settie the case. Such order would not come to him, but to the District Attorney, Mr. Foster—Do you know De Kay’s antecedents, or by whose influence he was appointed ? Answer—I do not, except by common rumor. Question—Well, what 1s the common rumor ? Answer—That De Kay obtained his position through the influence of General Butler, but 1 do not know that this is so, The committee adjourned until Monday at ten orclock. Movements of Secretary Richardson. Secretary Richardson will leave here to-day for Baltimore, where he will take a steamer for Charleston on a brief trip tor his health, He will visit several prominent ports during his absence from Washington, which will, however, be of short duravion, He paid several | THE ARKANSAS CONFLICT. Brooks Refuses the Proposed Compro- mise—Ne Improvement in Affairs—Bax- ter’s Assignment of General Officers— Martial Law in Jefferson Country. Littis Rock, April 26, 1874, Yesterday Baxter, through his representatives, made & proposition to Brooks to leave the fina) solution of the question toa competent tribunal, and in the meantime, that both forces should be retired, except a bedy guard for each. These pro- posals Brooks last night refused to accede to, whereupon ail negotiations were ended and mat- tere remain how where they did a week ago, ex- cept that Baxter has convened the Legislature, to the meeting of which Brooks ts opposed, General T. J, Churchill was to-day assigned to the command of the middie division of Governor Bax- ter’s jorces and Brigadier General Ira MeL. Barton has been promoted to be a major general, and has been assigned: to the command of the Eastern division. Brigadier General W. D. Blosher nas been assigned to the immediate com- mand of the forces on duty at Little Rock, Neither party has dismissed any of their forces during the past twenty-four hours. ‘The iederal troops are stationed at the Metropoll- tan Hotel, at the City Hall, and at the corner of Main and Fourth streets, with two pieces of artil- lery at the intersection of Louisiana and Second streets. Governor Baxter bas increased his force by one or two companies, Secretary of State Johnson has not yet received any reply to his communication to Brooks order- ing bim out of bis office. At the State House preparations are still going on to resist an attack. ‘There are more stores pan to-day than since the 15th inst. and less display of armed men. At the merchants’ meeting for protection against the impressment of go: by were given jor supplies. There are large quanti- ties of freight in the railway depots and mone have been taken out iia whiskey, as the merchants are afraid it will be seized by Baxter’s men, Baxter’s right, abutting the river, is protected by a barricade of wagons and barrels on end, joined by boards. A band of Baxterites surrounded McClure’s post to- day and captured his brother, thinking it was he. | | McClure escaped and safely reached the State | House. Sheriff O'Brien's house was shot into the other night. He was not there, the house being occu. Died only by bis sick whe. It is rumored that the regulars have captured Johnson, the Baxterite ‘Who 80 persistently fired six shots at Rose, and that he is now a prisoner at the arsenal. Brooks’ | men have been artiling all day. News from Pine Blut to-night states that Briga- dier General H. King White, of the Baxter forces, to-day declared martial law in Jefferson county and took possession of the Court House at that place, He has taken possession by force of the tax books and $40,000in currency under protest from the County Collector. fired on Colonel Rose, and went to Pine Bluff to see if they had arrived there op a run, LAW STENOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION. Second Annual Dinner at Delmonico’s. The second annual dinner of the Law Stenog- raphers’ Association las* evening at Delmonico’s, corner of Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, for gental sociality, quiet, solid enjoyment and all the wathetic elements that give to a dinner a genuine noctis ambrosiane character, was a most thorough and complete success. Including invited guests some fifty sat at the table, which, it ig unnecessary to state, came up to the stand- ard usaal at this establishment. But the feast before the coffee Was nothing to the feasting that followed. . For racy speeches, exuberant wit and humorous sentiment these gentlemen, though dai accustomed to the dryness of law courts, showe @ marvellous aptitude, and continuously kept the table in@ roar. They took down all alter dinner orators. After a most happy opening speech by Mr. Mun- son, the President, Judge Jones responded to the toast of ‘lhe Judiciary,” and a most apt and telling speech it was. Next followed a most humorous poem by E. F. Underhill on “The Ambi- tious Orator,” the principal feature of which wus expressing disgust at the blunders made in printing his speech, S. P. Andrews, the pioneer of phonetic reform in America, was the mext speaker. Proverbtally phtlosophi- | cal, he rose into the regions of grotesque humor. Mr. David G. Croley spoke to “The Press” in his usual happy vein. “Tne Kar of New York" found | @respondant in Mr. Annan. W. L. Urmaby, Jr., G. R, Bishop, Colon)! Sheridan, Mr. Robert Bonynge and others fo," lin brief and apposite speeches, | Mr. Bird gave some dramatic recitations of unique character. Mr. Underhill gave some of his rare humorous songs, It was late when the festivities closed. seldom enjoyed. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, ForTRESS Monnor, Va., April 24, 1874. The annual examination of the class on duty at the Artillery School has been concluded, and the graduating exercises were held in one of the barrack rooms iast evening. Diplomas were distributed to the following officers ot the graduating classy :—Second Lientenant C. 0. Howard, Second artillery; First Lieutenant W. R. Quinan, Fourth artillery; Second Lieutenant R, Barnett, Filth artillery ; Second Lieutenant H. Reed, Second artillery ; First Lieutenant C. P.Milier, Fourth artillery; Second Lieutenant ©, L. Best, dr., First artillery; Second Lieutenant J, D. Hoskins, Third artillery; Second Lieutenant ©. Whipple, Third artillery, First Lieutenant J. Wilson, Second artillery; First Lieutenan, J, M Giloray, Second artillery; First Lieutenant ©. F. Humporey, Fourth artillery; First Lieutenant E. ©. Knower, Third artillery; First Lieutenant E. 8. Chapin, Fourth’ artillery; First Lieutenant E. K. Russel}, First artillery; Sec- ond Lieutenant John Pope, First Lieutenant J. F. Mount, Third artillery; First | Lieutenant A. Day, Fifth artillery; First Lieu- tenant J. Keefe, Fifth artillery. The class of enlisted men, iifty-three in number, consisting of sergeants, corporals and privates, were presented with certificates by General Barry. Their course of studies embraced mathematics, history, geography and writing, Corporal A. L. Scott, of company C, Fuiith artillery, who gradu- ated at the head of the class, also received a handsome book as a reward of merit. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. WASHINGTON, April 25, 1874. Lieutenant Commander Frederick Pearson has been ordered to duty at Hartford, Conn.; Liea- tenant William @. Parker to the Saranac of the North Pacific station; Midshipman Charles W. Bartlett, to special duty at Annapolis; Commander William B. Cushing has been detached from the orders; Lieutenant E. 8. Houston from the Ticon- derogo and granted sick leave, with permission to leave the United States; Paymaster L. A. Frauley from the Wyoming and ordered to settle the Worcester and ordered to report his arrival, when he will regard himself on leave of absence for one year. Lieutenants J. G. Eaton, C, C. Todd, A. R, Conden and Wiliam. Everett, Master R. G. Peak, Midshipmen Jacob Medary, A. H. Cobb, A. Vail and R. H, Cakins, Surgeon Thomas Hilan | assistant Surgeon William 8. Dixon, Cutef Eng { eer George D. Simmons and First Assistant En- gineer L. D. Taylor have been detached irom tne Wyoming and placed on waiting orders. The Frigate Wabash To Se Paid Off. Boston, April 25, 1874. The United States steam frigate Wabash went out of commission to-day. Her crew will be paid on Monday. STRIKE ON THE SHORT LINE ROAD. Lovisvinue, Ky., April 26, 1874, All of the track men on the Short Line Railroad have quit work. Reports were received last night that two pump houses were burned on Thursday night and several rails torn up near Bagdad. The trains were somewhat delayed last night, but the passenger trains will go out as usual to-day. rails removed from the track on the Short Line, near Caverna station, The parties wno removed the rails evidently had no intention, except to delay the train, @s they placed red flags at that eo eph only half en Lay ton delay was caused by the Obstruction, as the Mails were easily replaced. ported. the road yesterday, and another pay car to-day. Passenger trains are running as usual, and ireight trains Wiil be running on Monday. THE DORCHESTER CHILD MURDER, Boston, April 25, 1874. Jesse Pomeroy, the supposed. murderer of the boy Horace H. Miilin, was arraigned in the High- lands Municipal Court to-day and sully committed without bail. SV a EAPC A BOILER EXPLOSION, CIONCINNATT, April 25, 1874, ‘The boiler at Jessup’s sawmill, near Richmond, Ind., exploded yesterday, killing Jonu Alexandet and injuring four other emoloyés, xter, guarantees | There is much excite- | ment there. White commanded the: negroes who | An evening of such rure entertainment is | R. A. lves, Fiith artillery; Second Lieutenant ©, | Jr., First artillery; | command of the Wyoming and placed on waiting | Rr | his accounts; Chaplain George A. Crawford from | The morning train from Cincinnati found two | No other disturbances have been re- | One month’s pay for the trackmen was sent up | THE STATE CAPIT. An Act to Make a Republican Police Commissioner. UNHAPPY FATE OF RAPID TRANSIT. The New York and Brooklyn Bridge Bills. THE FINAL ADJOURNMENT. ALBANY, April 25, 1874, The Custom House republicans, headed by Mr. George Bliss, come in at the tail end of the session to dictate to the Legislature an amendment to the charter, Their bill was reported to-day to the Senate, reducing the number of the Board of Police and of the Park Commission to four members respectively, This might do no harm, but the animus of the bill was @ clause to take away the confirma- tery power of the Board of Aldermen and give full scope to the playful Havemeyer to nominate whoever he pleased to fill a vacancy. Ex-Collector Murphy and District Attorney Bliss having impressed the republican mind of the Sen- ate with the extreme party importance of this par- ticular measure, it became a party question at once, Senator Fox moved to recommit the bill, and said, in support of his motion, that he had received three telegrams inside ofan hour from prominent citizens of New York, requesting to be heard before the Committee on Cities in opposition to the bill. He thought the bill out to be entitled an act to place a friend of Collector Arthur and mr. Buss, named How- land, tn the Police Commission, He insisted that, while Mr. Howland may be @ reputable ana excellent citizen, it was a questionable trick for the republican party to seek this means of placing any man in a position in contravention of the law laid down in the charter of 1873, Jt was stultifying themselves, and in upsetting the local laws of New York to gain this miserable notoriety they were playing @ game that would bring them neither honor nor profit. By their proposed action they announce that they have no confidence in their own party, who have a majority of the Board of Alder- men, He appealed to the Senate to allow those citizens of New York who desired to be heard on this important measure an opportunity to do so. The motion to recommit was loat by a strict reading, PASSED AT LAST. The bill to consolidate the city and county of New York was finally passed by the Assembly with- out amendment. THE ONE-LEGGED RAILROAD The Greenwich Elevated Railroad bill giving the somes payee to extend its line along Ninth ave- nue, and laterally to the Central Park. passed the | Senate. It must now goto the Assembly for con- | currence, and tf there be notuing leit of the $10,000 | brought to Albany to grease the wheels of legisla- ' tion in behalf of this road, the Black Horse cavairy wiilput on their spurs and charge down upon it | itke one man, TO SAVE THE CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS. A great effort will be made in the Conierence ; Committee on the Supply bill to save the new Cap- | itol Commissioners. That they deserve to be | Kicked oat no one will question wno has read the testimony in the investigation into the building of | the Capitol, but there are party considerations far above any thoughts of public interest | and morality, The Commissioners have patronage | Which is politically useful, ana that is paramount. The Conference Committee on each side 1s so » organized that the pur of saving this derelict Commission is not unlikely of being attained. The worst of the brawl, however, over the Supply biil will come on the slaughtered appropriations, The clerks and officers of the Legislature must get their | extra compensation or the heavens must fall, | THE FATE OF EASTMAN Poor Eastman has dwinded into.ingignificance. He started off with glorious prospectg and with the preas and people of New York, ap le many times declared, im the rear of bim and on eitner flank, He appeared equal to any » but he | blundered sadly. He stirred up the pile of the As- | sembly, ana kept on stirring until he alai \ 3 mono; with at. eagle screams eve! wey nim, Pine “ to his relief and | Fy step) helped him fence. Next came | Wight, of Westchester, to soothe him with a sub- } stitute and between all, poor Eastman to-d: | hardly knows where he stands. His original rapi | transit plan 18 lost and the substitute of Wight | 1s, according to Wight himsels, in danger of being | defeated in the Senate. Did Wight so word the | bill. as to make sure of this result? The ; Wish, I suspect, is father to the thought. | In this substituted bill is a clause that no road selected by the Commission shall occupy more than twenty-five feet of the street in width, In consequence of this restric- tion the design would be nothing more than that intended for the Third avenue, which would be | both an eyesore and an obstruction, Vanderbiit and the Third Avenae Company—neither of whom | seriously intended to buil rapid transit road— | May now withdraw. They have killed off East- | man, and Wight’s substitute will do them no harm. THE CURRENCY QUESTION. _ In the Assembly to-day Mr. Davis offeréd a pre- | amble and resolutions on’free banking and with- drawal of fractional currency, in which our Sen- { ators and Representatives are requested to cast their votes and use their influence lor the passage of such laws as will permit free banking to all who | | can give periect.security for the protection against loss by the holders of the circulation so uttered, such currency to be based, as it now is, on a pledge of the property of the entire nation for its ultimate redemption. Said laws to be so formed as to el- | fectually prevent any combination, monopoly or ; concentration of privileges on the part of those | who are permitted to enjoy them. ‘that all stat- utes creating unjust discrimination against the currency of the country suould be repealed, and | farther, that on or before the 1st of January, 1865, provision be made for the redemption of the frac- tional currency in silver, and that as fast as such \ fractional currency be redeemed it be destroyed, THE NBW YORK BRIDGE BILL, The following is the New York Bridge bill as passed in the Senate yesterday :— An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the New York Bridge Company, for the purpose of con- | structing and maintaining a bridge over the Kast River between the cities of New York and Brooklyn,” passed j Apel as aan and to provide for the speedy construction | of sal Ke. : The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :— | 1.—When ilie cities of New York and Brooklyn, by vote of the Common Councils of | section of th | the owners of two-thirds of the pi | the New York Bridge Company shall accept the p: | sions of the second section of act and shail | cede wo said company ali their right, title and interest | | in the capital stock of said company, then and there. | | after tne Board of Directors ot the Now York Bridge | | Company shall consist of twenty members, to be ap- | Poin! tollowt ‘he Mayor and Comptroller of the city of New York shall appointeight of such directors, and the Mayor and Comptroller of the city ot Brooklya shall appoint eight of such directors. The Mayors and , Somptroliors of said cities, respectively, shail, by virtue of their offices, be directors ofsaid compaiiy, and, with the | persons appointed as atoresaid, tk constitute the Board of Directors of the said company. Any va- cancy occurring in said Board by reason of death, resig- | nation, removal from the city from which appointed, or by neglect to attend the regular meetings ot the Board | for a period of three months, unless prevented by sick- ness or excused by a vote ot the Board, shall be filled in the sane manuer as the director whose piace shall be- come vacant was appointed. Directors appointed to hall hold their places tor the unexpired Appointed. The 4 appointed in ct | . section shall oo Cd places until aid bridge is completed or open for travel. See. 2.--Whenever any private stockholder of the New | York Bridge Company shall give ‘his assent to act by an instrument ta writing, signed and acknowledged | lfne title, smua iG, betes eonnars july reco! 1 the city ‘of New York and of the county of part of the | ont | the city and county | Kings respectively, the directors to be appointed under i behall of the cities of Brook- | the provisions of this act, on Hes of Brook lyn and New York, are ligeby autho: | Whe tights ov the private stockholders inthe. satd ‘come any and to provide for the payment thereof upon such rms as they may be able to agree upon. ‘sec. 3. The said bridge isdeciared w be a public hist way for the purpose of rendering the travel betw« cities ot New York and Brooklyn certain and sat ‘Umes, subject, nevertheless, to such tolls and pra | and police regulations as the said Board ot Directors shall from time to time establish Prescribe, and tor 90 of completing the same the cities of New | York™*"ona Brooklyn, respectively, in addition to the amounts alreaay subscribed | are authorized to issue bonds bearin: d seven per cent per annum, ai tp sald compe the manner he = Aye for arose ‘the capital atock. of sald company shall by virtue of such payment increased Hisense thereof from time to time a the same shall be paid. ‘8x0. 4.—The said company shall hai Comptroliers of the cities of New Poet nd Brookioy re spectively with all interest on the issued by then under this ee one the sure required to pay such inter- eat shall be withheld by ‘nem annually from the poeta: i receding section, and shall riation proened for in the pi art of the cost he ex netrostion ot said a 01 of said briage the: income jorm @ completion the sae by th sine of new Work snd Brooklzp. at rincipa bonds Vhavned by” the eal ciies be appli for their srock in said bridge. In the year 1879, Party vote, and the bill was ordered to a thira | i Sepe eomanneniien ively $180,000 for Ravina nd maturity, and any MOUnT pal or interest anu ae raised in the annual taxes of this Bec. hereby repealed. his act shall take effect immediately. SPEER’S KAPID TRANSIT, Pd dae oo omy Senate the bill to Oras irs mageeae Transit Company wus by THE STATE PRINTERS, Weed & Parsons, the publishers, did better toe day than all the Black Horse cavairy put together. One resolution alone, out of gli g similar ones, to rint the agricultural report, will net them trom }10,000 to $15,000, ADJOURNMENT. The House adjourned till Monda; ten o’clock A.M., and wili hold three sessions a day during next week, The final adjournment on Thursday is certain, A CARD FROM MR. DELMONICO, nieneeosinagieeieaa To Tue EpiroR OF THE HERALD:— The general interest taken in the system of soup houses assigned to my care during the recent season of unusual and severe distress will justify me in making to you, and through you to the public, a brief report reiative to the results of the work, 5 In the first place, the reports made to me by the different captains of poltce and others who aided m the work show that but for the aid thus given there would have been the widest possible dis- tress, especially among the helpless and ex- tremely poor, The interference with indus- try im many of our surrounding manu- facturing towns turew upon New York in mid- winter a large number of the unemployed, who came in search oflabor and subsistence. | can give you, perhaps, a-better idea o. the exact success of these operations by quoting from the report of Captain Kennedy, the Captain of the police in the Sixth precinct:—I have not,’? writes the Cap- tain, “the ability to properly aescribe the grea good that has been accomplished. Taking the Sixth ward as a very fair example of the amount of suffering entatled on the families of the artist, the mechanic and the laboring man during the past winter all over New York, I am sure your soup houses, and the various arrangements as- sociated with them, have prevented an amount of suffering and actual destitution that would havo otherwise beena lasting disgrace to Mombattan Isiand.” 1 may also, as a matter of interest, showing mora particularly the extent of the relief afforded, quote from the report of the same officer a daily statement of the number of poor relieved in ono ward alone. fhe statement, you will see, begins February 18, the date of the opening of the houses, and closes April No. of Persons Reevete s PREREEERE pees EL 5288 Tora! an It may not be amiss for me to give you my own observations during the existence of this service. It seemed that this was favorable time to ex- amine the whole question of charity in New York, and to learn how far the munificence which had prompted the work assigned to me was really a benefit to the city. I visited frequently the kitchens and the houses for the supply of soup, and my own judgment coincides with that of the various police Captains and expressed in the quo- tations I have made trom the report of Cap- tain Kennedy. I saw few, if any, of those who were present at the soup kitchens asking relief who did not seem really to be needy and deserving. And in conversation with dt- 4) ferent officers and those in authority there was the unanimous expression of opinion trat one 3 | effect of the winter charities, and more especially those under my care, was to prevent @ recurrence of disturbances and panics and demonstrations Sgainst the public peace which seasons of want and suffering 80 1requently bring forth, Talso think that the plan of giving the police charge of the soup houses was an admirable one. The police are the natural custodians and almo- ners of such acbarity—they who are the really needy, who are the deserving and the undesery- ing. [am quite sure that, if at any future time it should be deemed best for any of our citizens or societies to establish a system of charity like that placed under my charge, the most economical and in all respects the most satisfactory plan would be to entrust the whole administration to the police, I cannot conclude this brief announcement oy the close of this work without expressing my thanks to various persons tor their generous and prompt aid in carrying out it successfully, I ant very much indebted to the various officers o1 the police for their invaluable aid. Mr. Jordan L. Mott, of the Jordan L, Mott Iron Works, supplied us with the caldrons at cost price. Messrs, Licht enstein & Cos vegetable dealers of Wasnington Market, and the Fulton Market Fishmongers Asso- ciation acted with great generosity, and the man- agement of the soup Kitchens ts due to the tact and good sense of my excellent chef, Mr. Charles Ranhoffer, whom I also thank. Very respectfully, L, DELMONICO. New Yor, April 25, 1874. YACHTING NOTES. —_——_—_+—____ A schooner yacht is now being built by James T. Marsh, of Baltimore, tor General W. W. Sanford, of the Crescent City Yacht Club. She will be a centreboard schooner of the following dimen- sions:—Length on deck, 65 feet; lengtn of keel, 5¢ feet; breadth of beam, 18 feet 6 inches; draugnt of water, 4 leet 6 inches, and cabin head room, 6 feet 2incnes. She will have three staterooms and six berths in the cabin, which ts 14x8 clear, She ia built of locust and chestnut timbers, planked with Virginia white oak with a view to great strength. She will be sparred and rigged somewhat like the schooner Agnes, and her owner expects she will turn out a good heavy weather boat, The Manhattan Yacht Club have just completed their new club house, which is built on the bluffs at tue foot of Bast Eighty-ninth street. It isa handsome, commodious building, surrounded with a large veranda, which will make @ pieasant wonging piees during the heated term. ‘The schooner yacht Clio (Messra, Asten, Brad- hurst & Platt), of the New York Yacht Club, now being overhauled and put in trim for the coming season, She has her bottom planed and covered with bronze varnish, and will shortly be fitted with a pair of new topmasts. The Clio means business this year, but will have to look ous for the Eva, as the latter wants her revenge, no& fara ae led with the resuits of the ocean race tall, There 1s every probability of the Madeleine hav- ing plenty of matches to satl this season, as there are three or four boats think bp beat ber twenty miles to windward und bac The schooner Konig Eva, General E. Burd Grubb, N.Y.Y.G., is still iu Southern waters, but will re- ta mye month, calling at Cobb’s Isiand for a few s' shooting. ine schooner yacht Resolute, A. 8. Hatch, ¥.Y.0., will not go into commission this year. The sloop yacnt Vision, J. J. Alexander, N.Y.¥.C., is being overhauled ‘Preparatory to the coming season, Her owners think they own the /astest sioop afioat, And ‘Will sail anything that waats @ race. ihe schooner yacht Ibis, Mr. Brown, Lab So} Dnilt last fall on the Delaware, will make her déva ‘this season in racing colors. ciclo atibiasimaeilacene A MURDERER SENTBNOED, WELLAND, Ont., April 25, 1874. Michael Finn, charged with assaulting his wife with intent vo kill, on the 6th of November, at Tharold village, wes found gullty of murder in N @ legal sense at the Assizes just ol sentenced to death by Justice OoRiclty, renin of July being the Azad for the execution, Hs at nd serament M4 fa cone stances serait. The prisoner thanked Lordship, and expressed a wish that the Cat oe | would be carried out. Finn was mainly convicte on the evidence ot bis wife, who has recovered. ‘The agsanit was caused oy jealousy on the nart af annually thereafter, there snail be paid into the sinking the orisoner. . inci ly. ‘ ‘Ali acts and parte of sets inconsistent wits ™H