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CONGRESS. The President Asked for the Arkansas Correspondence. THE MISSISSIPPI LEVEES. Petition from Pennsylvania in Pavor of In- ternational Arbitration, PROSCRIPTION OF ELOQUENCE. SENATE, WaAsHINGTON, May 15, 1874 The Senateemet at eleven o'clock, but only twelve Senators were present and no business Could be transacted for lack of a quorum, After ‘Waiting a short time Mr, SARGENT, (rep.) of Cal, moved a call of the Senate, and forty Senators an- swered, Mr. CAMERON, (rep.) of Pa., moved that when ‘the Senate adjourn to-day it be to meet on Mon- @ay next, Agreed to. ‘THE MISSISSIPPI LEVERS, Mr. ALcorN, (rep.) of Miss., presented a memo- Fial of citizens Of that State praying the govern- Ment to take charge of the levees on the Missis- sippi River, Relerred to the Select Committee on Levees, ‘Mr. SPENCER, (rep.) of Ala., presented a memo- Fial of colored people of Georgia complaining of the unfair distribution of arms to military orgapi-' gations, which they claim ts in violation of act of Congress. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMASIO BILL. ° Mr. CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., moved that the vote by which the bill ament August 18, 1856, to regulate the diplomatic and @onsular system of the United States, was indef- Ritely postponed a few days since, be reconciaered, ‘and that the bill be recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, Agreed to. H'nis is tue bill forbidding the absence of certain consular officers irom their posts oi duty for more than ten days; and also forbidding them to corre- Spend in regard to the public affairs of any foreign government, or accept lavor or title.] Mr. WINDOM, (rep.) of Minn., presented the reso- tions of the Legisiature Ol that State fur the erec- on of @ public buiding at Duiuth. Kelerred to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds. ir. HirCHCOOK, (rep.) ef Neb., presented a Memorial of the citizens of that State against the extension o/ patents, Reijerred to the Committee on Patents. Mr. DENNIS, (dem.) of Md., presented a mem- oriai of the citizens of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mar’ Jand and District of Columbia, asking lor the ex- tension o1 tue Chesapeake and Ohio Canal to the Ohio River. Referred to tho Committee on Commerce. HB AKKANSAS CORRESPONDENCE, Mr. OLayTOn, (rep.) of Ark., called up a regolu- tion submitted by him a few days ago, calling tpon the President tur copies of the correspondence Felative to the troubles in that State, which was amended so as to provide for the transmission of ‘that which has taken place since. Copies of the resolution were gent to the House. ‘It was then passed, THE NATIONAL PARK, Mr. UGLESBY, (rep.) of Ill, from the Corbmittee on Public Lands, reported with an amendment the bitl amendatory oi ana suppiemeutary to tue act lo set apart a certain tract of land lymg near 2 herria al of the Yellowstone River as a pub- ark. . Placed on the calendar, Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, from the Commit- tee on Uivil Service and Ketfenchment, reported Javorably on the House joint resoiution providing ‘Chat in all cases under civil service examinations for positions under the government when a dis- abied United States soldier, his wife or widow of @eceased svidier, or who is lving sick of wounds or diseases contracted 1n line of duty, or his orphan calid, shail pass such examination at the standard fixed by tue rules, such person shall have prece- Gence .or appointment to any existing Vacancy. Placed on the calendar. PUBLIC DOOUMENTS, Mr. ANTHONY, (rep.) 01 K, L, from the Com- mittee on Printing, reported a bill to provide tor the sale of extra copies of public documents, and m4 repaints the distripution of the regular ediuion ered. Placed on the calendar. He gave notice that he would call it up for con. sideration at the earliest opportunity. Ob motion of Mr. Scorn, (rep.) o! Pa., the vote . by which the resolution requir the Southern ms Commissioners to report ali claims decided by them up to April 1, 1874, was indefinitely post- ed, Was reconsidered and the resolution was Fecommitted to the Commitiee on Claims, THE INFLATION VETO, Mr. CHANDLER, Of Michiga! order the other day by the Chair, while in the middle of a senteuce, when speaking of the veto On the Finance bill, He now called the Chair to order, and desired to say if he (Chandler) had been Jet ulone he intended to say that the policy which had been annouuced in the veto message would suow that it wus extremely douhtful that the President would sauction any bill jor the inflation of irredeemuable paper currency. The CHaik (Mr. Carpenter)—The Senator trom Michigan was out of order tuen and ts out of order now. Mr. CHANDLER—Then the Senator irom Michigan Wil take his seat, (Laughter.) Mr. FERRY, (rep.) of Mich., irom the Committee on kuies, reported, with amendments, the rule re- centiy submitted by Mr. Edmunds, declaring that debate shall be german to the question before the senate at the time. Laid over, ESTABLISHMENT OF A MILITARY PRISON. Mr. LoGaN, (rep.) of 111., called up the House bill gmendatory oi the act to provide for the establish- — o> military prison and jor its government. ussed, On motion of Mr. Scort, of Pennsylvania, the Senate then proceeded to the consideration of bills from the Committee on Clams, and several of them were passed. Mr. Scorr offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a copy of aby opinion given by the Attorney General upon the legality of @ sale of pine timber belong- ing to the Chippewa Indians to A. H, Wilder, of Minnesota, jatory of the act of | aid he was called to |" Mr. SARGENT Offered @ resolution, which was | agreed to, directing the Secretary of tate to take such action as will secure, i! possible, the return: to the Senate oi the fag manufactured of Cali- fornia silk heretofore presented to the Senate, but Joaned for exhibition at the Vienna Exposition. Mr. EDMUNDS introduced a bill to amend the fith @ection of the Mining law of May 10, 1872, so as to provide that the time for the first annual expendi- ture of labor and improvemerfts on claims located Et to the passage of said act shall be extended the 1st day of January, 1874, A BUREAU OF INTERNAL COMMERCE, Mr. WiNnDoM introduced a bill to, establish a bureau oj internal commerce, to be attached to the Treasury Depar'ment and be under tue direction of # cummissioner of internal commerce, who shall be appointed by the President and conirmed by the Senate. The duties of the bureau shall be to gather, collate and annually report tu Congress atulistics and facts relating to commerce among tne States, and especially to railroads and their Charges, mavagement, &c. The bill provides that it small be haved | on all corporations to make annual reports to said bureau, giving iuformation in detail on these and cognate subjects, Mr. SAXGENT submitted an amendment to the River and Harbor Appropriation bill, appropriat- ing $100,000 tor the improvement of Uakland Har- bor, Cal, according to the plan reported by the government engineers, Referred to the Committee on Commerce, Mr. Epmunps, (rep.) of Vt. gave notice that on Monday the Senator trom New Jersey (Mr. Fre- linghuysen) would ask the Senate to resume the Consideration of the Civil Rights bill and dispose Of it beiore taking up any otuer measure. A COMMITIRE ON THE ARKANSAS TROUBLE, Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, gave notice that on Monday he would call up the resolution introduced I 5 him on Tuesday to provide for the appointment of @ commitiee of the Senate to proceed to Arkan- oe to investigate as to the condition of affairs ere, Mr. Morritt, (rep.) of Me., from the Committee on Appropriations, reported with amenaments the Legislative, Judteti d Executive Appropria- tion bill, and gave notice that he would ask the Senate to proceed to its consideration on Monday. Placed on the calendar. The CHAr® laid before the Senate a communica. tlon irom the Attorney Gereral uel a letter Of the United States Attorney for West Virginia in regard to the sale of the Harper's Ferry property. cierred to the Judiciary Committee. At jour o'clock, on motion of Mr, HAMLIN, (rep-) Ol Me., the Senate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, after which the doors were Teupened and the Senate adjourned, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, May 15, 1874. A SAVAGE AND ORUEL SCHEME, Mr. DonNaN, (rep.) of Lowa, from the Committee on Printing, revorted back, with an amendment, the Senate joint resolution prohibiting the publicas tion in the Congressionat Record ot speeches or parts of speeches not actually delivered, The amendment of the committee 18 to add to it as fol- lowa:—“Nor shalt it be lawful for any member of either house 0: NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. hour on any question, any agreement or consent @ the contrary notwithstanding.” He remarked that 1! the original resdlation were in the interest of economy Congress should go a step further and provide that members whe speak two or three or four hours abouid be at least com- pelled to 80 Cot t their remarks as to bring them withio ” it of ae hour. That would be means of economizing. bs Me GARPINL (rep.) OL Onno, intimated that each honse bad by the constitution control of its own rule Nr. DONNAN admitted that, bas found tp the ar- Taugement as to the gem | of extra copies of documents 4 Loy pect fara - ng the rules of both i & joi jution. nr HAL ON Y., @ member of the Com- mittee on rrinting, advocated the amendment, but said rhat even if adopted he would vote against the resolution. ‘THE SPRAKER’S PRBROGATIVES. Mr. Cox, (dem,) of N. Y., said he never believed i the previous question or in the one honr rule. All that matter might safely be left in charge of the Speaker, who always ruied co! ly. Re- cently, at the instance of the gentleman from Massacouset! . G. ¥, Hoar), the Speaker had taken command of the (vi Record and ruled that no note should be made by the re- porters of such aoe as “laughter,” “sensation,” ‘appiause on tha iloor,” or ‘applause in th leries.” Ii the Speaker could 4o that, why could ne Dot aiso limit the length of reports, The reporta of toe French and Engligh and other parliamentary bodies recorded everything that transpired, so that all she pedple might know whether their 4 resentatives were decorous or indecorous, He paged that the Speaker would retrace his steps, in order that simpile-nearted members of Congress who sometimes tried to enliven the procaeanes by something vivacious, might have the chance be heard or read by tie people. There were some members who =— Wisely rest content with sober sense, Nor make too dangerous wit a vain pretence. He was one of thoge close common sense business members. (Laoghter.) He believed in what was ordinarily calied “‘gumption ;” but he did pot want these gay and festive members like the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. G. F. Hoar) to be go re- Ported us not to be known by the people, The SPEAKER remarked that the Record was instituted to contain the proceedings of Congress, and that applause being forbidden by the rules was not within the limits of the proceed- ings. Thereiore, be had ordered the reporters to coniorm to the rales, Iftie gentleman (Mr. Oox) was aggrieved by it, or if bis speeches were short- ened vy it, the Chair regretted it, DING-DONG BLOQUENCE. Mr. Cox suggested that the Speaker should do as was done in the Spanish Cortes and French and lialian Parliaments—bring in g bell and use it to repress disorder; but, he added, that at times it ‘Would be necessary to use @ fire alarm bell, Mr. ELDRIDGE, (dem.) Of Wig,, hinted that there Was always a good deal of ding-dong 1n the House. Mr. Cox retorted that nobody made such an in- Sora eS ding-dong-dell as the gentleman irom isconsin. After further discussion in the same vein Mr. CONGER, (rep.) of Mich., moved to lay the resolu- tion on the table, The motion was agreed to and the resolution Was laid on the table, The House at one o'clock went into Committee of the Whole, Mr. Ford, (rep.) of-1)L, in the chair, on the private calendar. Several private bills were passed. Mr. MYERS, (Tep.) of Pa., presented a petition of citizens of Pennsylvania in favor of international arbitration, The House then, at five o’clock, aajourned. THE YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION. Details of the Fighting and Skirmish- ing With the Sioux—The Expedition Returning—A Rich Country and Valu- able Mines Discovered. Bozeman, M. T., May 1, 1874. In reference to the Yellowstone expedition I take the following tull details from the extra of the Avant Courier of this date:— From the 1st of April the expedition was con- stantly attaeked and harassed by the Sioux in bodies of from 100 to 1,000. Mr. Z. Yates, of Boul- der, was killed, and Mr. Bostick, of Deer Lodge, and Mr. Gallatin slightly wounded. The command Teached the near vicinity of Tongue River, but on account of the CONSTANT INDIAN ATTACKS but little prospecting was done, and the expe- dition was obliged to retreat. On the 26th it was near Pryor’s Gap, slowly returning, probably out of danger, and all well. The stock was run down, feeding having been almost impossible; the horses had suifered greatly from epizooty; the roads were very muddy, and the rain bad tallen in torrents, Rich prospects are reported on Big Horn, Tongue River, &c, During the trip sume twenty horses were lost, but reprisals restored the complement. In no atruck, however, were the Indiuns successtul, and many Sioux and horses were Killed. A private letter states that “rich mines exist in the Big Horn Mountains, 8unth of the Big Horn; that the first nght occurred near the mouth of the Rose Bud, and that Mr. Vernon abandoned the command twenty-iive miles above Pompey’s Pillar.” The country is said to be very rich, and it is rSeigueaton that 300 men can hold it without trouble. The committee under whose direction the expe- dition was sent out, while admitting the uniortu- nate present result of the movement, by no means despair of the ultimate success of the attempt to open the lower country. Another Account. The Avant Courier has the following special correspondetice :— PRyor’s GaP, April 26, 1874. Eprror CourigR:— At this point the expedition isin camp for the Dignt, ali in ares health, save two wounded men (Bostick and Woodward), who were shot by the Indians, but are doing well. Tnis opportunity will not permit my writing at any lengt, or giving many particulars of our trip, only that we have been fighting Sioux Indians since the 1st of April, and have bad FOUR GENERAL BATTLES; one four hours, ove three, one five and the other about two hours, with several skirmishes. In all the general fights we have got away with their hair. We have invariably igi ea them badly. We tought about twenty-live the first fight, the second about 400, the third about 600, the fourth about 800 or 1,000 Indians. We suppose we killed and wounded about 100 Sioux. We have had the misfortune to lose one of our best mien, Mr. Z. Yates, of Radersburg, who was shot through the heart during @ charge in the third battle, on the Little Big Horn River. We have been constantly annoyed with Indians for more than 100 miles, There have been none in sight for several days past. The first big fight tue boys scalped eight of the red devils, but they killed and wounded about twenty-five head of our stock betore they could be disiodged. The 16th they charged upon us, waile moving, in two columns o! about 200 each, one in in the front and the other inthe rear. The boys met them as they came IN FULL CHARGE ON HORSEBACK, having only about 500 yards to run beiore reach- ing the train, and fired such deadly volleys into them that they turned their course and made tor the ravines. At that time the men charged iuriously upon them and dislodged them, leaving Many dead and wounded. In this fight there must have been in the charge upon us and near by 1,000 Indians, We hau the luck to get no one hurt, Only @ few horses shot. Taking all into consideration we have had a hard trip. Our stock has had tne epizooty badly and are dying yet. There is no use talking—give us a few more such men a8 we have and we can clean out the whole Sioux nation. Only twenty minutes to write, as the courier is going to leave. DELEGATION PROM THE FRE CHUROH OF SCOTLAND, A welcome was given last night at the Rev, Dr. Hall’s church, Nineteenth street and Fifth avenue, to the delegates en route to St. Louis trom the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, ‘The delegation consists of the Rev. Dr. Woodside, of India; the Rev. J. H. Wilson, of Edinburgh; the Rey. William Burns, of Kirkleston, Scotland, and Mr. George Gordon. fhe reverend gentie- men were introduced by the Rev. Dr. Hail in a few impressive words, in which he reminded the congregation of the active and zealous labors of one well known to them, the Rev. Willia! Burns, a relative of one of the delegates, who: name was revered in Canada, Scotland and eise- where, ‘The Rev. Mr. Burns, & solid and pious clergy- man of the old parochial type, in measured sen- tences, paid a tribute to the clergyman who had honored his name in the Free Church annals, aud then made the gratiy- ing statement to the congregation that the Piety of Scotland, at the moment, was something that, jadging from the experience of thirty years ago, he could not anticipate. Sunday schovis were better attended. There was a healthier religtous tone in the better es, heretofore too mucn ven to worldiiness; and the revivals, formerly ane at, Were now regarded with religious ven- eration. Rev. J. H, Wilson, the junior member of the dele- gation, delivered a iervid address, and, atter the ‘usual formatities, the delegation leit the church With the good wishes of all present. MASTER MECHANICS’ CONVENTION, Curcago, May 15, 1874. At the morning session yesterday the master mechanics discussed locomotive pollers, valves, valve gearing tiles and axles. A paper opposed to the metric system in machine shops on account of the enormous cost was read. In the alternoon the members took @ drive around the city. In the evening session the question uf patent brakes was discussed. It was resoived to postpone the elec- tion of oMicers for one year. The Convention then Congress to speak longer than one ' adjvurned, tu meet next year in New York. | SEASIDE AND COUNTRY. Over 8,000 trees have been planted in Conanicut Park, Newport, ‘The great drawback at Narragansett ie that it has Not s decent hotel. Next week -ecretary Fish’s family are expected at their estate at Garrison's. Company H, i regiment N.G. 3, N. Y., will encamp this summer at- Whitestone, General and Mra, Lioyd Garrison will occupy their country seat at Tarrytown next month, Mr, Loring andrews and /amily, of No, 139 Fifth avenue, will be among the early visitors at New- port, Excellent bathing, pure alr, fishing and. boating can be had at the Premium Point House, on the Souna. The Alleghany Springs, Montgomery county, Virginia, opens June 1, with Major Jobn T. Wilson as manager. The Mansion House, Long Branch, bas been- pur- ehased by Mr. Gawtry and will be conducted by Mr. Mcintyre. Mr, and Mrs.8. L, M. Barlow, of No. 1 Madison avenue, leave jor their country seat at Glen Cove in about two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Finley, Jr., of No. 11 East fwenty-second street, will have rooms at Sand’s Point for the summer. Mra. A. G. Jerome and family, of No, 39 West Twentieth street, will, in June, occupy their coun- try seat on the Hudson. The Beach House, on Lake George, Caldwell, N.Y., opens May 16, and offers extra inducements, A- Beardsley 1s the proprietor. Major General W. 8. Hancock and family, St. Cloud Hotel, have rooms engaged for August at the West End, Long Branch. ’ Mr. George W. Childs and wife, of Philadelphta, will take possession of their cottage at Long Branch the second week in June. The Dean House, Lake Mahopac, the Herald says, With its beautiful grounds and Bernstein's orches- tra, will take a leading position this summer, West Haven, Vonn., is the point to which New Haven belles are turning their affections, The Seaside View House is getting in order for them. A new hotel, to be called the Grand Central, is to be erected at Savin Rock, Conn., by Boston par- Wes. It will be on the site of the old Rock House. The President’s Long Branch cottage this season will be “the Executive Mansion by brevet.” A new “drag” is being built to receive guests at the depot. ‘ A new book on Newport, taking the place of “Newport and How to See It,’? will be issued the present season. A grain of honesty would be a blessing in all such gushing productions, Lord Massey has left the country, and the beau- ties who last year at Cape May grew sentimental under his influences will shed bitter tears of re- gret until another iraud appears to turn their heads again. The Chiton House, at Niagara Falls, opened on the 16th inst. The hotel, which ts under the same Popular management as during the past two sea- sons, has undergone a thorough renovation, Every- thing indicates an unprecedentedly fine season. The family of Henry Remsen, of No, 44 Fifth ave- nue, will “summer” near Sing Sing; that of B. L. Solomons at Woodsburg, L, I.; that of W. E. Dodge at Tarrytown, and that of Mr. Beckwith, corner of Fifth avenue and Eighteentn street, at. New- port. i Manchester, nestling among the Green Moun- tains of Vermont, 1s the popular resort of the Ver- montese, The Equinox Honse is the favorite sum mer home of large numbers of our best New York | families, as well as many from other cities, It opens June 1. A correspondent of the Boston Herald grows en- thusiastic over the splendid sport offered the dis- ciplesof Ike Walton in Saxton’s River, Saxton’s village, Vt. The speckled trout are abundant in the river and all its tributaries, and visitors are not made to pay tribute to avaricious landlords, as the doors of the farmers are open gratis to all callers. ( The Howland House, at- Long Branch, will be | formally opened on the 6th of Jané, although guests will be received as early as the 1st of the month. Everything promises an unprecedentedly brilliant season at this popular watering place. The driv@has been regraded and gravelled, the Tates of commutation tickets’ have been reduced and the steamers will make more frequent trips than heretofore. Fenwick Hall, at Saybrook Point, is a popular resort for Hartford and Springfield people, and, though it has been in operation but two years, is already widely and favorably known. The Wada- wonnock House, at Stonington, is cool, quiet and fashionable, and further east is Watch Hill, with a perfect village of hotels and the best of surf bath- ing. All the places which we have named are easy of access from the great cities, and we pre- | dict for them a prosperous and briliiant season. Excellent points near tne city, where rates are low and comiorts are to be had, are Patchogue, filty-four miles out on the South Side Rallroaa; Bellport, fous miles east of Patchogue; Bayport, close by Sayville, forty-eight and one-half miles from South Seventh street, Wilhamsburg; Club House station, the home of the Sportsmen’s Club, Bay Shore, forty miles out on the South Side Rail- road; Babylon, Amityville, on the Great South Bay, and South Oyster Bay. Were the South Side Ratiroad to issue half-fare tickets for the season they would, no doubt, attract to all points along the line hun- dreds of New Yorkers, who would spend the day in the city and the evenings with their families on the line of the road. A LO8T OHILD, Twelve Hundred Men and Boys Scouring the Mountains, and Valicys. HAZLETON, Pa,, May 14, 1874, The residents of this village have been very much excited since Monday last, owing to the loss ol a bright boy of six years, a son of Mr, Soltz of this place. It seems that the father had gone into the woods with the child, and had left him in or- der to return to his house for a moment, caution- ing the littie one to remain where he was. The boy wandered away, however, and on arriving at the spot where he had been leit Mr. Soitz searched for him in vain, The citizens were at once noti- fled, and turned out to the number of about 1,200 men and boys, scouring the mountains and valless in every direction, but without effect until this morning, when the good news was brought to the sorrow stricken parents that the child was found. When discovered he could not speak. He hud lost his shoes, and his feet were ina dreadtul con- dition, bruised and swollen. He had wandered seven miles irom where his father lett him, aod, as the country about here is tull of deserted coal sShalta and as fires are raping. on all sides, his re- covery seems littie short of a miracle, IOEBERGS AND NAVIGATION. A Scientist’s Plan tor Escaping Collision with a Berg at Sea. At the last sitting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris a paper was received from M. R. F. Michel On ‘an apparatus recording automatically tho vicinity of an iceberg. The recent loss of the Europe, said to have encountered a block of ice, led this gentleman to consider whether there might not be some reliable way of avoiding such contingencies, which are well known to be most frequent in the present season, when detacied ioebergs come down in shoals from the North Pole, and are a real danger to ships plying between Europe and North America, In the daytime those huge masses are seen irom enormons distances when there is no tog and when the sun shines upon them; ee then easily avoided. But in the vicinity of Newfoundiand, where fogs are 80 intense as to require constant’ ringing of the bell and even firing of gans to avoid collisions in a sea literally swarming with ships, other means must be Mong ot de to ascertain the vicinity of au ice- berg. is 18 always accompanied by a great fall in the temperature of the water within a very ex- vensive radius, and it is on this circumstance M. Michel founds Bae which consists in having & bé-metailic nelicotd thermometer fixed to the side of the ships. When the temperature of the sea falls below a certain limit the needle that marks the son is stopped by striking against a small ic screw, whereby am electric current is in- Btantly closed, causing @ bell to ring, which will at once Warn the officer on duty. THE HOOSAO BOBE, Boston, May 15, 1874. The Joint Special Committee on the Hoosac Tunnel, of which Senator Verry, of Worcester, is Chairman, have agreed on a report, which sub- stantially recommends the appropriation of 3, to be expended upon the Troy and reendeld Rallroad and the tunnel apnroaches, POLITICS IN THE WEST. Views of a Western Inflationist—Prob- al Disrupiion of the Demecratic Party. CINcINNATI, May 12, 1874, The Constitutional Convention, which has been in session in thie city for several months, voted w adjourn next week, having completed its labors. It numbers among its memvers many of the brightest and ablest men in the State, and has de voted itseli sedulously to business during its entire seasion. In a conversation to-day with General James B, Steeaman. elected a member of the Convention some weeks ago from the city of Toledo to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Chief Justice Walte, I asked him his views on the late veto of President Grant. He said he had no hesitation in saying that the masses of the people Of Ohio condemned it. He went on to say that the veto of tne bill providing for a mode- rate increase of the currency had the merit of con- sistent adherence to the policy of the republican party since the war, and that that policy had been to manipulare the currency and bonds of the country 80 88 to enrich creditors and impoverish deptors—to starve the workers and jatten the | drones of the hive, The Genera! remarked that an increase of the currency makes the dollar cheaper and @ decrease makes it dearer as compared with labor and property. Hence such increase lightens the burden of all depts by making the money needed to pay them obtainable for a less mount of labor or its products, On the other band, @ decrease of the currency increases the burden of devtors because it rises tue value of the dollar a8 compared with labor aud its products, and thus makes money to pay debts harder to get, What the debtor class loses by contraction the creditor class gains, and what tae debtors gain by expansion the creditors jose. He said that the war had necessitated a large 1ucrease of the currency; that the opening of the south to commercial intercourse @t its close greatly increased the de- mand for it @nd operated practically as a great contraction. ‘that with tims contraction the government shouid have stopped and let the growth of business have tie euect of gradually Teducing the currency go as to bring us by degrees | to specie payment. Justice to the 1,250,000 soldiers | entering Dusiness anew and to the producing and | laboring classes, demanded tuat no Tay contraction of the currency should take place, But (said General sSteedman) the Cookes, Mevullock, John Sherman & Uo, within 2 Jour after the war reduced the currency 300,000,000, and each year have tightened the screw, until the country now struggles under the | biows O1 such @ contraction in nine years as the world never saw belore. ‘The resuit has been dis- astrous to the business classes yeneraliy, who are more largely debtors inan creditors, and espe- cially destructive to enterprises connected with the development of the West and Souta, General Steedivan declared that tne cause of ex- sion «Would =be appealed to the peo- ple. He suid that the clamor of the it~ ern orgaus of tie bondholders and usurers will pot alarm the Western masses, nor will the fact that prominent men ot botn parties are wrong on the question prevent decided action vy the peopie. Lhe democratic party of Ohio are, lie de- clares, practically a unit in favor of expansion, and will speak in its August Convention in no un- certain sounds on the subject. He said that the democratic party would reaffirm the bational platiorm of 1868, which was its last autboritutive exposition on the faanctal question. On askiog him what prominent democrats sus- tained taese views he mentioned the names of Mr. George H. Pendleton, General Thomas Ewin; and a large numver of others, embracing the posi- tive strength o! the party in the State. General Steedmin had no hesitauon in declar- ing that if the votes or the Eastern democrats in, Cougress were an expression of the views ot their people the democratic party was denationalized already, and that he iavored a convention that would rub out New York, New Jersey and the tastern States. Indeed, there 19 nodoubt thata radical and incurable disruption of the Eastern and Western democracy has taken Place on this question of the currency, and I] have no idea they will ever again agtend the same national convention, Senator Taurman, who an- | tagunizes these views and sustains the veto, has | @ meagre foliowing iu Obio, as the August Conven- tion will demonstrate. ‘Luere is but little room for qnestion that tue democratic inflatiomsts will have their own way and go into the tilt tuis fall | io every Congressional district wita ‘More green backs” as thetr shibboleth. OPPOSITION TO GOVERNOR DIX, ALbany, N, Y., May 15, 1874. A second conference of temperance republicans hag been decided on, to be held at the Remington | House, in Syracuse, the first week in June. The objects are not fully stated, but itis understood that one purpose is to systematize the opposition an effort is being made to secure tne attendance of representative and induential temperance ‘ol temperance men to the renomination of Gov- | | ernor Dix. About 100 invitations are issued, and | NEW YORK UNDERGROUND. The Cellars and Basements of the Metropolis. What Business Is Done and Who Do Business in Them. WEALTH, WITHOUT AIR OR SUNLIGHT. ———_—_— Basemem Stores and Saloons, “Lodging Cellars” and “Double Deckers.’ History informs us that man originally dwelt in the ground or under it, tn caves and rocks; and even civilized man seems never wholly to have forgotten hus original dweliing place, for even to this day, in all great centres of population, there is ® large proportion of the population who exist “underground.” The “underground world” ef great cities may be divided into two parts—one which is innabited, the other which is not. To the latter portion be- long the sewers (which, as in the case of Paris, are oitem the scene of activity and fecundity in the lower forms of life, and whicn are in themselves well worthy of investigation and description, while the sewers of London are likewise, from their very vastness, notab.c), or such excavations as the famous catacombs at Rome; while to the former, or inhabitable portipn, of the “under. ground” belong THE BASEMENTS OF NRW YORK. These basements or cellars of the American me- tropolis are Much more pumerous and more popu- lous than any would imagine previous to investi- geting the subject; for, from the very nature of the case, our underground population docs not appear on the surface, and is, therefore, over- looked and unappreciated altogether in any super- ficial survey. Yet it will be proved in the present article that the city of New York comprises a larger underground population, tn proportion to its size, than any city in the world. The basement, cellar or underground population of New York may be divided imto four different classes of persons— classed according to the great impelling cause or motive which compels them to seekan under- ground existence. UNDERGROUND LIFE FHOM" A) KUSINESS::OrNP OP We First, the high price of space in this city, the tremendous rents and tie terrific demand for room tn which to transact business, have compelled @ large number of business men to utilize cellars and basements throughout the city. For these a | Jarger rental is paid relatively than for the upper parts of the buildings, but then the real amount of money demanded is smaller. Besides, a cellar in a good location is better for business purposes than a palace in an out of the way locality. In con- sequence of all this it {s found that not only many of oar poorer and smaller tradespeople, but also not a few of our leading bankers, brokers and corporations have taken refuge in what may thus be styled the business basements of New York. In asingle block, at the junction of Broad and Wall streets, ranning along the line of Broad street, there are twenty-six basements or cellars occupied by business men, chiefly by men engaged in transactions “on the street.” In Wail street, on the block between Broadway and Nassau street, there are twenty cellars, or basements, similarly occupicd; between Nassau and William, on Wall street, are fourteen cellars devoted to business, and on Wall street, between | William and Pearl streets, there are twenty-two | basements occupied chiefly by respectable brokers, | insurance companies, 4c. Here, then, ina small area of four short blocks are eighty-two cellars, or basements, devoted to trade and finance, In these eighty-two cellars over 500 men are employed from morning till night, anda millions of doliars of business transacted weekly. Yet in the majority of these cellars the lignt of day 18 like X in algebra—“an unknown quantity”—cer- ‘Workers irom all parts of the State. THE SUPPLY BILL Allcged Tampering with Its Provisions. ALBANY, May 15, 1874, Mr. Smith M. Weed, of Clinton, a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, bas written | a letter to George S. Batcheller, Chairman of the committee, insisting that the Supply bill has been | tampered with after it was reported by the Con- ference Committee, and points to the fact that the salary to the propose Superintendent of the new Capitoi Building Was leit to the Commission to fix, whereas, the sum of $10,000 has been in- serted in the billas such salary. it is thought the bil has otherwise been changed. OUR NATIONAL GAME, A Good Game Between the Boston and Atlantic Clubs. The Boston und Atlantic clubs played a fine game of ball on the Union Grounds yesterday aiter- noon, in the presence of about 800 spectators, the threatening aspect of the weather operating to keep many away whe would otherwise have been in attendance, The game was close ana decidedly interesting up to the eighth inning, when the vis itors took @ decided lead. The pitchers were ex- cvedingly eifective, a8 the score 01 base hits ainply testifies, Pearce was very weak at svort ficié, makog five very bad errors. ‘he following 1s the score :— BOSTON. mC. RiB.POA.E 4K1B.PO.A.E, izoe.1 Ovasi 21252 00060 200 0016 O11 o1t olioo oul 02245 400 211241) 1601 11000 100 oLrd0d! a2. 00205 WM 6 2 6271713 INNING: . Ud, Sd. Ath Wh, Oth. Th Bh. 9th, O° 2 0 3 0-8 0 2,0 0 0 0 0 OB ‘Boston, 3; Atlantic, 0. ‘Time of game—One hour and filty minutes, Umpire—Mr. Bardock, of the Mutual Ciuo. Base Ball Note. The Bostons play the Mutuals this afternoon on the Union Grounds. ORIOKET IN CENTRAL PARK, New York, May 14, 1874, TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD:— Your editorial of to-day on the subject of the parks being @ popular delusion, or that they were established to afford easy situations, as you say “the persons charged with these breathing placea seem to act on such a notion,” induces mé to ad- dress you on the subject and solicit your afd in de- ciding whether the game of cricket be allowed in the Park. A club was formed two Bd ago by the boys of the grammar sctrool in Filty-first street, between Lexington aod Fourth avenues, Their petition was filled up by the requisite numver, signed by the principal of the school, and in dua course received the oameures ot the Commission- ers; but, on making application at the Park, the Sec- retary, Mr. Ryan, reiused permigsion, on the eaine that the game was dangerous, Last summer the Spplication was repeated, with the same result. As all reasoning with Mr. Ryan seemed useiess, [ see no other alternative than applying to tne press for @ solution of the question. ‘The small ground is 80 crowded with baseba‘l players that it would be hopeless to expect a 8 there, but the large ground would accommodate twenty or thirty cluos at a time and might be used ac stated periods. New Yorkers who wish to par- ticipate in or establish the game can find no avatle abie spot to play without going nearly ball a day’s journey out of the city. READER, THE EXILES IN S{BERIA. Professor J. Kaderly gave a lecture last night in the lecture room of the Young Men’s Christian As- sociation before a small audience. His theme was “The Exiles in Siberia,” and very interesting tho address was as to its matter. Unfortunately the Protessor’s English 1s arpcgnced qgnite like the harsh Swiss German, which is his mother tongue. ‘The lecturer gave a lengthy description oi Berezom, the Brincipar piace of banishment in Weatern Si- berta, Where tue sun in Decemoer rises at nall-past eleven and sets at hal.-past twelve. The cold is 50 intense that the human nose frequently is de- stroyed by its effects, ‘There 15,000 exties live, and of their abject condition Prolessor Kaderly gave a startling picture. He also described at some length the great amelioration in the condition of the 60,000 exiles in Siberia, Which the present Em- peror's humane policy has effected iii | other basement, still larger, occupied by a tailor. tainly @ comparative straager, and business is done chiefly “under the gaslight.” The ventilation | 48 as imperfect, as tne light, and the results alike | upon the eyes and the general health of the par- | ties employed are very unfavorable, Cases are quite common in which the sight of brokers and clerks has been seriously injured by these condi tions, but the demands of business and of space | are Imperative. ‘The lower portion of Broadway also abounds in cellars or basements devoted to the purposes of commerce or finance. Some of these Broadway basements are tremendonsly deep, very dark and unmistakably damp as well as dirty. But, never- theless, men, rich men, plod their Jtves out down in their dark damp depths from Ménday morning to Saturday evening, with rare breathing spelis, MILLIONNAIRES UNDER GROUND. In one of the largest of these basements, occu- Pied by @ leading firm, it is so dark tnat only on the brightest of days do taey dispense with gas lignt in the front of the store, while the rear of the Owe 18 Liuminated by cn and gas oniy, from one ear’s end to another. Yet the ousiness transacted this cellar exceeds $50,000,000 annually. It is generally assumed that-only the wretchedly poor live in the “basement dene” of New York, and that only the very dregs of the community are Hable to the ills which arise irom foulness, damp- ess and simtiar causes, But, in reality, quite a | percentage of our respectable classes are liavie to what Dr. Stiles has suggestively styled “the archi- tectural causes of disease,” Several of the basements in which a large trade is carried on are of tron or stone, are chill and have a tendency to check perspiration. In one | cellar, devoted to a thriving shoe trade, several of | the clerks have contracted neuralgia, rheumatism | and similar diseases irom the dampness. In an- ing establishment, the proprietor has been an invalid ior years from diseases arising from the unhealthiness of nis cellar, and simiiar instances could be multiplied, The Board of Health are owerless in this matter. Its offivers can only pro- fest against this state of things, as they have al- ready done, while all the public press can do 1s to record the facts of the case, whica are that a | large, too large, portion of “business New York’? is “underground,” and that proprietors, finan- | clers, tradesmen and clerks are constantly falling | victims to blindness, rheumatic disorders, ay, and even ultimately death itsel', in consequence. it ts calculated by those who have given some attention to the matter that between tne Battery ahd Fourteenth street and between tne North and East rivers there are about 600 basements devoted to business purposes. Bach o1 these basements will ave! from three to seven people employed in it the greater portion of the time. This would give wnat might be called a basement business or underground trade population of about 3,000 per- sons Who seldom see the sun, save in the strects, and who are exposed to ail the evils of lack of light and Isck of ventilation, Ee scribed by our local sketch writers: yet no scription can ever do full jnatice vo tue Fh baaitps THE LODGING DENS OF NEW YORK, the “Basement Hells,” us they have been fore eibly termed. The existence of these pest centres, these dens of misery and in:quity, has ever been a di iu blot on our civilization, and of late zens every effort has been made to reform this evi Some idea of the extent to which these ‘Nodge; ing dens” and dens 01 nameless iniquity were scattered over the city will be derived from the following official Ggures:—Last year 132 of dens were forcibly closed by the Board of Health in the Fourth ward alone; 82 were ciosedin the Sixth ward; 74 in the Seventh ward; 27 in the Eighth ward; 321n the First ward, and 113in the Filth ward. These were all lodging cellar—dens, in which men, women children cat, drank, (when they could get anything to eat and drink} and slept or tried to sleep. -In some of toese dens of cellars there Were packed a6 many as twenty or thirty men and women and children at a time,, and the eu Bumber of people toa ty den was four. ever, these basement dens closed the’ decreased, _ as [480 or a pope reer = opened ‘fain, or sometimes their ‘nel $50 as the penalty for not closing, tnd thus gaia a temporary imurupity. By the by, the” roprietors ol these lodging cellars are generally A recent tour of inspection along James street, Cherry street, &c., has convinced the representa- lation of the lower wards ol New York is still some- thing terrible to contemplate. 1g one in James street, kept by a Mrs. Follen— REDDY THE BLACKSMITH’S SISTER, y lodging den of the lowest, dirtiest and Ee crowded sort, ig @ back yard, full of garb: w bed and a sink in fittingly filthy companionship. In tnese cellars, ndescribably vile, live four or five in James street is quite an aristocratic lodg- Ing cellar. It consists of a kitchen and tour etacll of the Kitcuen and the kitchen is oul with the effluvia irom the sleeping roo is, But ita ten on airs”? over their less fortunate neighbors. In Water street there is a terrible basement carpetiess, with tumble dewn walle, with the flip irom sinks lowing through it as @ rivulet, and yet women. An this street also there is an indescribably vile With ail Kinds of garoage and filth, aud yet this i¢ the abode of one man and four women—their And literally hundreds of dens ot this sort are to be sound in the city of New York atthe present . It is not the fault of the police; they can only arrest the lodgers when they disovey tae they can only close the cellars when their ceilings are less than two feet above the guriace of the soon opened again. lt is simply @iact. In some cases parties who own their own houses have one undertaker in Cherry street, and in this case 1t seems the law is powerless to suppress the evil, But vile as are tuese lodging dens, “THE DOUBLE DECKRES," man who could do {ull justice to the horrors of these institutions 18 dead—his name was Unaries Dick- cellars or double basements, one basement under another, and both basements occupied as human’? anaglasely, no natural light and no veutilation at all, of iniquity inthe Fourth ward, and both of them are owned by one man, wno is quite rich aud who punity, paying the trifing fines imposed upen bin with nonchalance and persisting in doing as he One of these D. D.s, as they are styled, is lo- cated in Willan street. You enter a barroom, three or four littie holes of bedrooms, without any possibility of air. do the rear of these is a winding maies, tives of the ‘yea that the underground -popu- Ove of the worst basement dens in this locality ‘To the rear of this front basement, which the rear of which, again, is a cellar in which 16 @ wonen and aman, bedrooms and eight beds. ‘The sleeping rooms or 80 inhabitants ave quite proud of it and “put den—toul, damp, narrow, not six feet bigh, with four beds in it, and the “living piace” oi four basement, dark as pitch, dirty, damp, pul:ated “home, sweet home,” tinfe. laws. Itis not the fault of the Board of Health ; ground, and even when tuey close them they are turned their basements rato iodging dens, notably as it deals only with tenements or rented lodgings. as they are called, are worse, Really the only ens, ‘hese “double deckers” are in realtty double habitations, Of course the under basemeut bas There are two ‘double deckers” now in full blast defles the Board of liealtn and the law with im- pleases, filled with drunken women. Back oi the bar are stair, descending which yon find @ kitchen ana | three bedrooms of the vilest sort, absclute,y dug out oi the earth and without the slightest possi- bility of air or sunibrut. Vile as this piace is, the Board of Health are not able to touch it, because the law is 80 worded as to apply to “cellars whose ceilings are less than two. feet above the suriace o1 the ground,” and here the ceiling of the front cellar happens to be a little | higaer than this aroitrary point, in North William street is the locale of the second D, D. Tus is larger and Viler than its com- anion in iniauity. The first basement contains Barroom and a piano, back of which are th dens o1 airless, ligntlessbedrooms. Below this is a basement, the ceiling of which is six feet under ground, which contains a kitchen, @ foul sink and. four foul bedrooms. The whole place reeks with filth and ts literally alive with corruption. It has. been denounced vy the police and condemned by tbe Board of Health, and yet the rich proprietor | laughs at the law. Cannot public opinion do something in this matter? But, passing f\om cnis disgusting portion of our theme, let us glance at SOME CHARACTERISTIC BASEMENTS, Perhaps the largest cellar or basement in the city o1 NeW York js that of tne Windsor Hotel, on Fiftn avenue. ‘I'nis immense cellar occupies nearly @ block, and is @ city of mest, groceries, wines and provisions initself. Perbaps the most sug- gestive basements are those which contuin the Presses Witch print the leading newspapers of the metropolis. These cellars and their contents are “works of art’ in themselves, triumpns of mechanical ingenuity apphed to intellectual pur- poses. The sugotiug galleries form cellars sus ‘is, ‘They are long, dark, rather gloomy look- ing, and quite pecniiar, absolutely destitute of 1ur- niture an Supplied with murderous looking: ine struments, Which, aiter all, are very harmless, Here all sorts of characters—sporting men amateurs, men about town, &c.—congregate, and occasionally @ lady descends into their depths just. vo try her hand. Other “characteristic” basements are those occupied, in dif. jerent tions: of the clty, by district telegraph messengers, ese cellars are ag bare looking and as uuinviting as the sioot- ing galleries, but are full, night and day, of the | baman element, waiting to be summoned at any moment to any rrand of a of the city upot life or death, Here and there is to be seen sume fragrant basoment—some garden o! a cellar—some cellar filled with lowers aud @ basemeut vccupied by a florist. Several of our largest and rovmiest basements are devoted to literature and the news business, One basement on Broadway has jor years been half a drinking saloon and half a dra- inatic agency, the resort of wandering “stars.” Other basements, deeper and darker, are care jully guarded night and day, by men prepared for any emergency, and contain within their re- cesses vast sums of treasure and docu ments worth far more than their weight in gold—being “the safe deposit vaulte,’? where our wealthy citizens deposit the most precious portions o. their, wealth, Then there are other basements or ceilars whica are a3 tree to all as Chose jast mentioned are closed to all; basements which are the haunts o: Bohemians, cellars which are devow to cheer and good jei- lowship. Of these perhap’ the mist noted is one on Broadway, which was in its day the most noted resort of the once famous “Bohemians” of his city, ere tae days of tne Lotos and the Arca dian clabs, It ss oniy a long, narrow, rather dirty, uninviting looking, deep cellar, entered by a very precipituus staircase, with a little attempt at a dining room in front, right under Broadway; but, such as it ts, it Was tue favorite haunt of Clapp, Frank Wood, George Arnold und others of that clique, long since dispersed, almost forgotten, but very brillant and quite tuduential in their day. Among other characteristic basements must be in- cluded such as “the rag cellara” in James street and other kindred localities, These are filled with reuse and rags, and sometimes men pass the night here among the litter. hat may be styled “che miscelaneous' base- Tents” must not be forgotten. ‘The ceilar of No. 65 | James street ts a good specimen of these. It is an re curiosity shop under ground, 1t is a combined store, Shoe ultry ishment store and boarding bouse, with. ba, bout through the whole essab- 7 At must not be forgotten that, as there is Las ate is within the trath, considerably | a bright side to everything else, 80 there is even This esti! legs than the exact figures, probably, but, even a8 | such @ thing as cleanliness and comiort eyen mn @ it stands, it is startling enough. ‘This estimate, it | cellar i ing house. [i any one doubts this musé be borne in mind, ts outside altogether o1 the | let him him visit the basement of No, 70 basement restaurants or wine cellars, which are | James street, where he will find @ family even more numerous and which ai ttered all | living in @ state of almost periect neatness, the over the length and breadth of the metropolis. presiding rte of the cellar bell & Swedisn These wine cellars form what may be regarded | woman, a Copatriot oi Nilsson’s, and aM enthusi- a8 the second class or division of underground life, comprising that division which is devoted to pleas- ure and reiaxation. “PRSTIVITY UNDERGROUND.” It is calculated that there are avout 1,100 cellar restaurants and wine rooms, or underground saioons in tne city of New York, Of these about 600 are German, 150 are French, Swiss, &c., and avout 450 are irish or American, These restau- rants and saioons employ about 5,000 people from morning till midnight (some all night), and these 6,000 people literally live and eat and drink, even i they do not all sleep, under ground, Some of these underground saloons have been quite noted .n their time, some being al'uded to elsewnere, A cellar not far from the present Lyceum (then the French) Theatre was, in its day (or rather night), the haunt of the minor actresses and singers ot the opera troupes of Bateman and G ‘There a French cook, with a very pretty wile, presided over a which which w: wont to be patronized about midnight by some scores of the manages’ ‘and a young men and women in the metropolis, devoted to re Cigarettes and absinthe, ¢ ohio ‘here are at the present moment quite ta number Of underground saivons where “supper rooms” for “ladies and gentlemen”: are patron. ized by the dissipated and licenttous, Many of these places have been closed, but there are at Jeaat ity too many of them in the metropolis at res a ‘fhe great majority, however, of our underground saloons are repatable places, and are patronized | by @ large and respectabie class of our citizeits, | especially foreigners, ‘hore are two remaining classes of ceilars or basements to pe consiaered— | those which are devoted to vicious parposes and those which ave mnavited by hopeless, wretched, astic countrywoman of Jenny Lind’s, These are curious | thanking tpelr imenits th both houses of the Having thus stated the facts concerning cellar lile, iet this article conclude with some BASEMENT FIGURES, suggestive, and, havi y be nere bitedy” suinmed been aiready given, mi upi— Basements devoted Fourteenth street, Dusiness purposes, below to about....... 4 OBUSADE IN HARRISBURG, HannisBvrd, Pa., May 16, 1874, The temperance Jadies in this city have made their first crusade, They visited the National Hotel and were kindly received by the proprietor, Their request to hold & religious service was granted, and the sale of liquor was suspendea during their visit. Alarge temperance meeting was heid in the Baptist church last evening, Acidresses were made by Senators Couper, Ander- d Chaliant, and Representatives Stranahan wo Wolle. A number of Wiiamspore ladies were present and submitted appropriate resotuuons jature lor their edorts in preventing a repeat of the Local Option law. Mrs, Diewicn made an homeless poverty, ‘This variety of ‘‘cellar life hag often been de- elonuent address