The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1874, Page 9

CONGRESS. The Consular and Diplomatic Appropria- tion Passed the House, REFORM OF THE SERVICE. New Schedule of Salaries and Expenses. ECONOMY AND EQUITY. WASHINGTON, May 16, 1874, Mr. Houtman, (dem.) of Ind., from the Committee on War Olaims, reported to the House a bill ex- tending from the 30th of January, 1874, to the 30th of January, 1875, the time for fling claims for ad- @itional bounty. Passed. PUBLIC LANDS, Mr. Lows, (rep.) of Kansas, {rom the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill extending the time for the payment for lands purchased by ac- I. settlers in Kansas belonging to the Miami and New York bands, After explanation the bill ‘was passed. Mr. TOWNSEND, (rep.) of Pa., from the Committee on Public Lands, reported a bill to legalize entries ®f public land under the Homestead laws in certain cases. Passed. THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR BILL, After a conflict for precedence between the Con- sular and Diplomatic Appropropriation bill and the bill to repeal moieties the former prevailed, 94 to ¥3, and the House then, at twelve o’clock, went jato Committee of tne Whole (Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Diplomatic and Donsular Appropriation bill. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., addressed the House ‘wn the cost of the diplomatic system of the govern- - Ment. He declared that the people would not sigh if the whole diplomatic system were upturned. There would at least be a prayer of gratitude to the American Vongress if it would dispense with one-half the foreign missions. He read some lu- Morous ¢xtracts trom the diplomatic correspond- ence and alluded to the class of roving commis- sioners Who travel at the expense of the govern- ment. In this connection he referred to the Rev. Dr. Newman as probavly standing on the Dhinese Wall investigating that remarkable Structure for the beneflt of American architects and as ready to skip off clear over to Spitzbergen, from which be would write that there were dogs im the United States who came from there. Thence he would probably jamp to where ‘Chimborazo stands, a landmark to the sea of time.’’ He also vailed attention to a pamphlet printed by the Btate Department, and prepared by a remark- mole man, calied Steinberger, giving descrip- tions of the location, topography and natural his- tory of the Navigator's Islands and of the religious notions of their inhabitants. The extracts which be read from it elicited bursts of laughter. And this, he said, was the sort of information tor which the government was paying over $200,000 a year. Andihese were the islands that this roving commissioner wanted to have annexed to the United States. He thought that the government Bad had enough of such propositions in regard to St. Domingo and the flowery mead- ows of Alaska. One advantage of annex- ing these islands, 7,600 miles from San Francisco might be that they would serve as a new Botany Bay ior the outgoibg administration in 18%. ‘Alter further ridiculing this Steinberger’s report, he declared in a wore serious :@ne that he Would not vote to give a contingeut fund of $218,000 tor any such absolute nonsense. , A BOLIVIAN DEBT. When the item for the Minister resident at Bo- livia was reached Mr, Schumaker, (dem.) of N, Y., galled attention to the failure of the Bolivian government to pay & — constitu- ent of his, Mr. Joseph H. Colton, tor executing a map of the Bolivian Republic, for wuich tt contracted in 1858 to ey him $25,000, The amount due for principal and interest was mow $41,580. He said he did not propose any par- ticular remedy, but submitted the matter to the Cammittee on Foreign airs, Mr. ORTH, of Indiana, stated that that committee had received a letter from Mr. Colton’s attorney requesting the committee to take no action in the matter until alter the month of May. Mr ScHUMAKER sent to the Clerk's desk and had read an official paper ot the Bolivian government, acknowledging the debt and promising payment. Ma., who has charge of the State Department to coliect the unliquidated debts of private citizens with foreign govern- ments. Alter some further discussion the subject was @ropped without apy action being proposed. THE PARAGUAYAN MISSION. Mr. Porter, (dem.) of N. Y., moved to strike out the item of $10,000 tor the Minister resident at Uruguay, who is also accredited to Paraguay, and ed that there Was no possible use lor main- ing such a mission except to furnish sume Politician with an ofice. There had been only one occasion since the great war of Paraguay when an American representative visited that country. After discussion the motion was rejected. REVISION OF THE CONSULAR SERVICE, Mr. Ortu, (rep.) of Ind., Chairman of the Com- Mittee on Foreign Affairs, offered a substitute for ‘the paragraphs relating to consulates, the substi- tute being the bill reported from that committee two months ago, and containing almost an entire revision of the whole consular sys- tem. He explained the necessity fur tnis re- vision, the present being a mere patchwork. The first object of the revision, he said, was to equalize the compensation of ‘consuls and to do so without increasing the aggre- gate expense. In fact the aggregate expense was diminished by over $18,000, He himseif believed that the representatives of the government abroad ought to be paid higher rates of compensation; but he yielded that opinion of his own 10 deterence to the known sentiment of the House and country in favor of retrenchment and reiorm. He reminded the committee that the consular service was the only branch of the government that was actually remunerative. Thus the amount O! fees received at the diferent consulates and accounted for to the Treasury during the past ar was $746,694, while the expense under the posed amendment would be $392,500, PROPOSED SCALE OF SALAKIES, The salaries fixed in Mr. Orth’s amendment are are a8 iollows:— Consul General at Cairo, $4,000; Consuls General at London, Paris, Havana and Kio Janeiro, $6,000; at Culcutta and Shanghai, $5,000; at Melbourne, 600; at Kanagawa, Montreal and Berho, 000; at Vienna, Frankfort and Constantinople, 000; at St. Petersburg, Rome and Mexico, | 000; the Consul at Liverpool, $6,000. All the other consulates are divided into seven classes, | with the following salaries :—Class 1, $4,000; Class 2, $3,500; Class 3, $3,000; Class 4, $3,500; Class 5, $2,000; claxs 6, $1,500; class 7, $1,000, Class 1 con- sists Of Hong Kong ana Honolulu; class 2 consists of the eight Chinese Conzuiates and Callao. Class 3 consists Of Manchester, Glasgow, Brad{ord, Havre, Matanzas, Tripoli, Tunis and Tangiers, Nagasaki and Osaka, Vera Cruz, Bangkok, Panama and As- wall, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso. Class 4 consists of Birt ‘e and ‘Tunstall, Marseilles, Lyons and jeaux, Trimdad ‘de Cuba ‘and San- tiago de Cuba, Antwerp and Brussels, St, Thomas, Hamburg, Bremen and Dresden and Hakodadi, Class 5 comprises Leeds, Southamp- ton, Dundee, Leith, Cork, Dublin, Clilton, ‘toronto, Hamilton, Coaticook, Halifax, Kingston (Jam.), St. John’s (N. B.), Nassau (N. P), Turk’s Istand, Car- auf, Demerara, Port Louis, Mauritius, Odessa, Amoor River, San Juan, Porto Kico, Lisbon, terdam, Sonneberg, Nuremburg, Burmen, C gitz, Leipsig, Alx-la-Chapelle, Trieste, Prague, Basle, Zurich, Smyrna, Beirut, Tamatave, Aca- pulco, Matumoros, Pernambuco and aiontevideo. All the other consulates are embraced in classes 6 OTHER EXPENSES. jotllowance for clerk hire 1s also made as fol- WS — Consuls General at London, Paris, Havana and Shanghai, $2,000; Consul at Liverpool, $3,000; Con- euls at Manchester, Birmingham, Bradiord and ShemMela, $1,000; Consuis at Sonueberg, Chemnitz, Beltast, Montreai, Hamburg, Leipsig, Lyons, Dres- pe Marseilles, Nure@burg, Bordeaux and Jnterpreters are allowed for Consulates at Shang- ) Tientsin, Foochow and Kanagawa at $1,600, Hankow, Amoy, Canton and Hong Kong at $750, and ior other Consulates in China or Japan at sho. Consular clerks who have been continu in the service ior five years ave to have $1,500 a year. Ir, SWANN, Of Maryland, moved to amend the amendment in regard to clerk hire by allowing the Consul General at Havana and the Consul ab Liverpool clerk hire to the amourt of $3,000 rear; Consuls General at London, Paris, Shanghal, 000; Consuls General at Berlin, Vienna, Frank- ort and Montreal, and the consnis at Hamburg, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Beltast, Bir- mingham, Bradiord, Chemuitz, shemeld, Sonne- berg, Dresden, Havre, Maiseilies, Fayal, Nurem- bery, Leith, Naples, Stuttgart and’ Tunstall, $1,500, Mr. Swann’s ainendment was adopted in lieu of that portion of Mr. Urth’s amendinent in regard to interpreters, by making the compensation of ine terpreter the consulates at shanghal, Tientain, soy ht Kanagawa $3,000 instead’ of $1,600, rr , Mi, WARD; (Fep.) Of 11, moved to increase by am, SheMeid, Beliast, Singa- | Rot- | hem- | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1874—QUINTUPLE SHEET. twenty per cent all ecasular & year, and spoke in’ support Mr, OgTH moved to ame! in regard to consular cie who re remained continuoasly in the service for five years by mak- ing their salary $1,250 inatead of $1,500, Agreed to, “Mr. Orth’s general amendment as thas amended ‘was adopted. REFUND TO THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT, Mr. ORTH then moved to insert the followin; item For repaying to the government of Brazil money erroneously claimed by and paid to the United States— $57,600—or as much thereof as may be necessary. Mr. EF. i. Hoar, (rep.) of Mass., explained the amendment and gave @ history of the transaction which led to its necessity. It arose out of the con- demnation, in a Brazilian port, of a Peruvian ves- sel which had been insured in New York and Philaaelphia. The condemnation was unjust, and aciaim was mage on the Brazilian government. General James Watson wee then Minister to be gooey ‘under $3,000 that proposition, his own amendment ha Brazil, had been directed not to presi the ‘claim on Brazil, dut while that government was involved in its war with Paraguay, and just before the departure of a steamer for Europe, Mr. Webb informed the Brazilian government that he would break off diplomauc relations uniess the claim wag immediately paid, and the sum of $14,252 was paid under protest. Adrait Jor. $5,000 was sent to the Srate Bepartmene as being the entire amount received, and that amount was invested pending an investigation, The result of the investigation was a decision by this govern- ment that the Brazilian government had not been liable in the first instance, and that the amount should be restored with interest, and then it was discovered that the amount paid had been $14,252, aud not $5,000. Mr, Webb had declined to give any explanation, and he was now abroad and not under the jurisdiction of this government, The item was to make up the difference to the Brazilian government. Mr. HoaR regrettea to have to spread on the record the bistory o1 this disgraceial transaction, ‘The amendment was then agreed to, The bill was tnen laid aside to be reported to the House and THE POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL was taken up. The bill appropriates $35,653,391, of which $5,624,842 is to meet the difference between the Tevenue and the expenses o! the department. Without making any progress in the bill the committee rose and reported back the Consular and Diplomat.c Appropriation bul, which was thereupon passed, THE MOIETIES QUESTION. Mr. E. H, Ropurts. (rep.) of N. Y., trom the Com- mittee on Ways and Means, reported the bill to repeal moieties, and gave notice that he would call 1t up on Tuesday next, Mr. SENER, (rep.) of Va., asked and obtained leave to have printed and recommitted the testi- mony taken hetore the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice in regard to the ex- penses, disbursement and general management of the Western District of Arkansas, The House theo, at half-past four o’clock, ad- journed. THE SANBORN TRANSACTIONS. Unsuccessful Efforts of the Committee on Ways and Means to Get Information from Sanborn’s Lawyer. WaAsHINGTON, May 16, 1874, The Committee on Ways and Means this morning examined F, A, Presgott, of Boston. He testified, Mr. Foster, of the committee, propounaing the in- terrogatories, that bis occupation is that of a law- yer; he had oficial connection with the Internal Revenie Bureau, having been a clerk there from May, 1865, until January, 1867, since which time he has been.a practising attor- ney. He had an office at No. 12 Hamilton square with Isaac D, Morse. In reply to a question as to what member of Congress had an office in the building, the witness said he believea General Butler had an office there. The witness had had more or Jess business with Mr. Sanborn since 1869 in various eases and was his lJegal adviser. He had received considerable sums of money from Mr. Sanborn, both for his own use and other expenditures. Witness did not recollect that he had anything todo with a man named Dickinson in the settlement of @ claim under the Sanborn contract. Question—Will you tell us how much of the $28,000 which Sanborn said he gave you was for your legal services, and how much for your ex- penditures outside ? Answer—I have paid my own expenses at vari- ous times and places and have received different sums of money, in short, having kept a private account of the transactions. Question—Can you approximate the amount? Answer—I can; I received from $26,090 to $30,000 from Sanborn. Question—Can you tell us how much you re- ceived for your fees ds attorney? Answer—I cannot separate what I have recetved as fees and as personal expenses, which, perhaps, were large—say $12,000, Question—This leaves $16,000, Answer—I have no detailed account of the ex- penditures. I think the moneys | have disbursed apart from my fees are entitled to be considered as contidential between my client and myself. Question—You thiak so? Answer—Yes, Mr. Beck, of the committee, here read to the Witness from the testimony 01 Sanborn, in which the latter said Prescott knew all about the pay- ments of money, but had never given him any ac- count of them, and that Prescott would come be- fore the committee himseli, ‘The witness still declined to answet the ques- tion, not considering what Sanborn said in his tes- timony as authority or permission to him to answer the question. Mr. Dawes, 01 the committee, then took the wit- ness in hand and asked :— Do you know tor what purpose you came here? Witness—I do not. 1 never said to Sanborn that I would or would not come before the committee, Alter turther questioning, Mr, Dawes asked :— Then you decline to answer on the ground that Sanborn had not Ho ogg you to do so? Answer—Not exact! as ageneral proposition thatit would nardly be proper for me to answer unless with the consent, or at the request of my client. Judge Woodbridge, counsel for Sanborn, who was in the room, asked to put in a word, but Rep- resentative Beck objected to his being heard. Pending the examination of the witness, the witness, in further answer to questions, said | to the $28,000 came | $15,000 or $16,000 additional Into his hands from Sanborn at sundry times. He doubted whether at any one time more than $3,000 were paid to him by Sanborn; he remembered being in Boston when Sanborn paid him $3,000; he was not in nis office; he thought the money ‘was paid in Adams’ Express office ; he did not give Sanborn a receipt; a@ part of this money was tor personal services, but he thought not ail of it. Question—What did you do with the balance of | the money? Answer—It may have all been used for personal expenses or may not have been so used; I do not know that | have a receipt for anything; I never keep Dooks. Question—And yet you received trom Sanborn $43,000 in a year and a half? Witness repeated that when he recetyed the $3,000, to which reference is above imade, te was in Adams’ Express oitice; he went tnere to see Sanborn; he made a request :or money, both for his services and expenses of another kind, Question—how much of the $28,000 did you re- ceive previous to this $3,000 7 Answer—I cannot tell; perhaps $4,000 or $5,000; at the tme I received the $3,000 from Sanborn i | wanted $4,000, but he he said, “Tuke this much,’ and gave me the $3,000, Question—You make @ good witness, carrying all | these things in your head, me not if I do not carry them ere. Question—Where did you lodge this information, then, about the $43,000? Answer—I kept no books; it was my general course; if a man asked me to attend to a case and I did #0 I would receive from him my fee or L would send my client a bill for services rendered. Question—Do you sa@y that inthe transactions between you and Sanvorn there is not a scrap of paper ? nswer—F do not know of any papers; so far as Tam concerned I never kept any accounts. Witness was asked the naines of tue persons to whom he paid the money, but he begged to be ex- cused from answering on the ground of confiden- tial relations between client and attorney; he had no doubt, however, that he recollected the names and the amounts paid. Mr. Dawes, addressing himself to Judge Wood- bridge, as counsel for Sanborn:— Question—Do you consent that the witness shall answer the question? Judge Woodbridge—{ do not under the circum- stances, without being allowed to explain. Question to the witness—of the sum of $16,000, to whom were you accountable jor its disburse- ment when you received it? Answer—I received it as a part of the $28,000 for specific purposes; Sanborn never calied upon me to render an account; I presume he knew what use | made of the money; I have received from him large sums of money for confidential purposes, but, as his lawyer, [| cannot tell tor what, Mr. Beck then read the following from Mr. San- born’s testimony: “(Question—State more definitely the item of $28, to F. A, Prescott for legal services, expen- sesand disbursements; state the nature of tho disbursements and expenses and to whom made, “Answer (by Mr. Sanborn)—He paid for informa- tion I gave him, 0 much money for his own ex- penses and then he has patd others, “Question—Have you had a detailed report from him as to the amount which he paid? “answer—No, sir; I prevuine, however, that he make Lhe statemen' oar. Beck now asked Mr. \ ages peat not this ive you consent to answer . VAhewer—No, gnless Mr. Sanborn said so direct in person to me.” ‘the committee than adipurned until ten o'clock ‘supervision, I verily believe (but, as I say, 1 do as you put it; butI claim | Monday morning, Mr. Dawes remarking to Mr. Prescott in the meanwhile to see Mr. Sanborn op the subject. THE DISTRICT INVESTIGATION. Senatorial Explanations—Testimony of the Engineer Expert. WASHINGTON, May, 16, 1874. The testimony taken before the Joint Special Committee investigating District of Columbia a(fairs, yesterday, apart from that referring to the saie burglary, has been made public. Senators Edmunds and Bayard testifiea that they had accepted the cancellation of the assessment made against their property in lieu of damages because both were desirous of getting entirely free from the Board of Public Works, be Senator Edmunds said:—If we could release on both sides ali claims and get upon an entirely in- dependent footing I would do it, although in aomg solIshould lose whatI feel as sure now as I did then I should have obtained, if I had chosen to in- sist upon my rights, not only not to pay any as- seasments, but to recover $1,500 or $2,000 damages. | But when I got my judgment, how 1 was to collect the amount of that judgment was a slight puzzle tome. Theresore thé s2ttlement was made in the way it was. In satisfaction for de- | mands tor damages of $3,000 1 took what they call | the amount of $425. The work that haa been done | in front of my property, which, if done upon a just | principle, would not have cost, under my own | not wish to do them any injustice or to speak as an expert)—I verily beiieve would not have cost half the sum—that is, my one-sixth ofit, And L accordiugiy gave them that quittance, and took trom them a discharge of all claims for assess- ments upon me.” Mr. Blickensdorfer, the engineer, testified that | on making his measurements he did not get any explanations wnich were volunteered. He had to | get what he wanted by asking. A good idea of nis | opinion of the way measurements were made is | expressed in the following replies to interroga- | tories :. Mr. Wilson—Have you found any case where the charge against the government is correct? Answer—Not according to my views, Question—Have you found any case where the charge against the government is less than it | should be? Answer—No, Bir. Question—Invartably more? Answer—Yes, sir, The arguments of Judge Merrick and Mr. Shella- berger, counsel on the part “of the memo- rialists- before the Joint Special Commit- tee investigating the District affairs, have both been completed and were sent to-day to the Government biabela Office to be printed. Itis expected that the printed copies wiil be in the possession of the committee, as well as the counsel for the District government, on Monday, By previous arrangement counsel for the District will reply thereto in writing. After which, if deemed necessary, she memorialists have the privilege to reply. CREEDMOOR. Last Match for the Amateur Club Badge—Captain John Bodine the Win- ner. The sixth and last match for the Amateur Rifle Club Badge, the first shot this season, came off yesterday afternoon. Two matches were shot, the first being won by Mr. J. S. Conlin, of the Broaa- way pistol galery, making @ full 28, the first tiie that number had tili then been made in a match in Creedmoor, It was followed immediately, how- ever, in the second match by another 28, made by Captain John Bodine, which makes him the final winner, he having won 1t twice before. The rain | ceased in time not to mar shooting, as the scores | show. The following 18 the result, distance 500 vIRST MATCH, Score. 444444 444343 834443 443443 Ww. V1 444242 16 gigi R. Omani 2 2 P. G, Santord 233233 J. P.M. Richards . 043344 A. B. Cantield. 243328 Thomas Hoyd. Os39 53 G. Crouch. 2 G. 304223 20240 020230 SKCOND MATCH, Score. 444444 443444 443433 44253344 ‘Thomas Lloyd... 434432 G. W. Wingate. 3338442 L. L, Hepburn 402444 R. Omand. 444322 424242 32423 3842322 24033 34020 42022 ¥. G. Santor 200042 STATE AND CITY POLITICS. Parties and Their Candidates— The Gubernatorial Contest. General Dix and Samuel J. Tilden in the Field. ona THE CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDACY. Municipal Contest—The Mayoralty and Not the least significant of the signa of the times is the active reyival of politics among the people. An epoch of commerctal depression—of panics and inflation—has happily passed away, and now a | period of industry, restored in all its branches, and public confidence reinstated reigns in its stead. But the lesson of the past remains; it has | been written and conned by rote for use in the | future. The popular mind throughout the whole country is aroused to the nevessity of arming early for the political skirmishes which always precede the great contest for the Presidency, and, therefore, the note of preparation is heard on every hand. In times of general prosperity the politicians have the fleld all to themseives, The people lapse gradually into a state of apathy, too much «bsorbed in the pursuit of business to heed the dangers into which their legislators and the host of political ofice-holders that fatten at the public cribs would lead them. ‘There has been @ rude awakening from this dream of confi- dence and security. The people are now alive to a full sense of the important part they have to play in the great drama thatis “lined” to keep the Political boards for some time. The cry for re- trenchment and reform arises from the people of every section in the land in tones that will brook no denial and no delay, Already the campaign has been triumphantly inaugurated in other States, | and New York is preparing for a success in Novem- | ber next that will be the prelude of a grand national victory in the campaign of 1876, the cen- tennial year of Americdn independence, Political Bald Mountains are breaking out in every State, and a complete upheaval of parties is threatened. The overthrow of the republicans in New Hampshire, followed by the loss of Connecti- cut tothe same party, gives encouragement to the democratic masses of New York, and they have taken “heart of grace” with a will anda deter- mination that presages defeat to the present dom- inant party. The despotic rule of political com- | missions and boards, the creatures of Custom House intrigue and legislative venality in this | great city of New York, has alarmed the people to the danger they are incurring in perpetuating the system by which they are but tne tools which fashion and create the instruments of their own punishment, and their armor to follow Bh up the necticut and New Hampshire. feated party, however hopeful and resolute, to wrest these spoils and become masters of the situ- ation. The republicans in this city and State, flushed with victory in the past, having the federal patronage at its command, as well as being in possession of almostall the political offices in the municipal government, are not likely to yjeld an inch or surrender a single advantage in the com- ing contest. Accordingly the most strenuous ex- | ertions are to be made to preserve the statu in the State in November next, and to this end all the resources of the Custom House and the admin. tration of the repubiicanized departments and officials in city and State will be brought into active operation. Last year the election was decided by the cross-bar ticket the great parties by the Liberal Republican Junta, that the day for INFLUENCE | Im the politics and statescraft of the nation was not far distant. In the last campaign they were There wil! be two matches during the coming | weex by contestants from tne Seventh and Twelfth | regiments; also on Saturday week, ior a new | badge, by the Amateur Rifle Club; distances 800, 900 and 1,000 yards, THE UNSAFE BUILDINGS The Building in Broadway and What ‘Will Be Done With I1t—A Building Falls in Tenth Avenue. The unsafe building No, 598 Broadway, about which a full report appeared in Friday’s HERALD, is still in the same, if not a worse, condition than when the threatening appearance was first dis- covered. During the past two days the walls have been discovered to have “given’’a little more, and, to such an extent was a disaster feared, that yesterday the Department of Buildings deter- mined to take further precautions against an casualty, and men were employed to put up an additional number of joists against the building both on the Broadway side and on the northern side, towards Houston street. It 1s believed that had it not been for this ad- ditional number of joists the pressure would have | been such that the wall could not have failed to | have fallen. It is also said that there is a great | pressure from the lower ends of the joists upon the foundations of the Revere House, and no workmen had been found since our last report to remove the foundation of the building, which has been in the course of demolition | the past few weeks. Indeed, to take | away the ioundation woulda no doubt be | mevitable destruction to the house in danger. | ‘The tact that the walls of this building were not safe is stated not to be anything new, for report has it that when the building was in course of erection several years ago the Department of Buildings objected to them; but such an absurd protest gs this was overcome by reference to some Other more potent authorities, Certain it is that @ portion of another building erected by the same owners in Broadway, hear Astor place, came to gtiel a few years since. As matters at present stand It has been decided that there is but one course to pursue, and that is to tear the building down. Nothing but the wall or the edifice next door seems to have kept the present one up, and now that the prop exists no longer it must come down. The work will prob- ably be begun on Monday. The building in Brow Way seems not to be the only one that is safe in the city. At ten o'clock on day evening. a four story buildin, which stood on ‘Tenth avenue ‘and 128th street fell to the ground and was totally destroyed. It contained 15,000 tons of ice, and no doubt people will feel sorry for the ice. ‘The buildin , as Well as its contents, was the property of Mr. William Maach, owner oi the Boulevard Brewery. His loss 4s $50,600, on which there Was no insurance on the property and no life was lost. “THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF LIFE,” The solution of the problem of domestic service may probably be found in the workings of the “Cooking School,” recently established as an im- portant department at the Free Training Schools for Women, No. 47 East Tenth street. No women are received for training in household labor with- out references, which are verified before they are allowed to enter the schools, They are then taught and placed in_ situations, If they jail to heed the good advice given by the managers, to make themselves valuable to their employers by taithfal, respectful and will- ing service, they are not again suppited with | places. If a servant has just cause for complaint against*her employer, as being unkind or unjust to her, the place cannot again be filled through the agency of the schools, These conditions seem periectly equal in justice to both employers and servants, and the attempt here made to bring together those two social classes—extreme in terests of home comlort—promise to be fruitful of good results, THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAMSHIP PEREIRE. In yesterday’s HeRALp there appeared an exclu- sive account of the seizure of the steamship Pe- reire, at the hands of Messrs. Noel & Saurel, agents of the St. Gobain Society of France, to en- force a claim they had of $1,200 againat the said vessel, for three cases of glass the agent of the General Transatlantic Company, states that the claim has never been acknowl- edged by him at any time, and claims that the damage in quegtion was done on the French rail- leged to have | been broken on board the steamer. Mr, Mackenzie, | but reviving from the effects of the reform move- ment; they bad hardly regained their feet, aud while the leaders were gallantly supported by the rank and file there was a strong body of Apollo Hall secessionists who went over to the enemy on a@ bargain ana sale contract that the other side didn’t even keep. But for this division here in the capital the State would have given a better ac- count Of itself on the State ticket. This 1s all past; the democracy, like FABLED ANTEUS LEAPS TO THE COMBAT, with serenaes over and over again renewed from | i its repeated overthrows, and will encounter its op- ponents with a front and bearing and strength that will require ali the prestige, the tactics, the partisan devotion and the blandishments of office and place and patronage of the Custom House leaders to combat. THE GREAT DOUBLE RACE—GOVERNOR AND UNITED STATES SENATOR IN ONE CANVASS, The great double event—/or, in fact, the result of the cauvass for Governor will also indicate the selection by the next Legislature of a United States Senator—will invest the fall State election with an importance and an interest second only to that of @ Presidential race. A Governor to suc- ceed General Dix; a Senator of the United States in place of Mr. Fenton; a fresh Assembly—the State Senators holding over this year; a Mayor of this city, with power of appointing all heads of departments without let or hindrance on the part of factions or captious Aldermen; eight Congressmen and a county Register presents a rize for contention that may weil incite ambi- ton, and biow into fiercest heat political rivalry and partisan zea}. It is pretty evident that force of circumstances will compel the republicans to NOMINATE GENERAL DIX FOR GOVERNOR. He, almost alone of the whole party in the State, seems able to breast the storm that threatens the | continued stabillty and dominance of the party in the State. With the organization as a whole, and | independent of expediency, ex-Judge Robertson, of | Westchester, is the man whose relations to Conk- | ling and the Custom House party would dictate his nomination, But the fear of throwing Dix into | the opposition compels his selection by the party to | contest for Wid dered prize—the Governorship in | the present, and prospectively for the United States | Senatorship and the Presidency. ‘The leaders are very reticent in speaking as to any result but the more immediate one, the Governorship. They ad- mit they select Governor Dix as @ party necessity, to enable them to carry the State; but as to the Senatorship, that is a “horse of another color.” That lg business, The next Assembly will deter- mine that, and when the time comes some big pibetaying and log-rolling has tobe done. K. D. organ, the opponent of Senator Fenton in the election six years ago, will like to try bis hand again in dealing with the Legislature for the United States Senatorship, notwithstanding his | previas costly experience; and, besides, Ed. | Phetps and A. D. Barber will take care of that rich pie which, when Ky vg) will allow all the | “little birds to sing.” ‘The leaders say, “Let us carry the State first, and then the other load will be easy enougn to carry.” FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ex-Judge Robertson is prominently named, but as yet he has given no sign that the nomination would be acceptable to him, as other conditions collateral thereto are to be taken into considera- tion, ‘The princtpal of these would be the nomira- tion of the principal on tne gubernatorial ticket, General Dix, tor United States Senator, which would place the Lieutenant Governor in the Execu- tive chair for almost the whole term. As Mr. Robertson is now a member of the State Senate, | and its leader ana President pro tem., the adde title of Lieutenant Governor, without a vote or | voice in debate, can be no object of interest to | nim, and he will provaby bide his time and allow | his side partner, Speaker Husted, to take the flela on the Dix ticket as Lieutenant Governor. This Ja Saher 1s, in fact, already declared by their | Joint adherents in their Westchester stronghold, and it seems to toreshadow the republican ticket, DIX AND “*THE BALD EAGLE OF WESTCHESTER’? for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. The re- publicans enter on the race with the conviction and resolution of one who has ‘staked his fortune sper the cast and will stand the hazard of the die.” It involves in the result the Governor, the Assembly and the United States Senatorship. | | The leaders’ great ob a it their conditions, yet closely bound by common in. | ty SRneien atioh tore ne ossible, the State Senate, in which body they ave but One majority, and the vote in the Senate of a democratic Lieutenant Governor would make @ Ue Yote, and, in effect, leave them delenceless to the avalanche of a democratic majority and a democratic State government in all its branches. THE DEMOCRATIC SWEEPSTAKES. And what will they do about tt—the successors of the Hons and his worthy compatriots of tne Tam: a ecutive chatr on the shoulders of the Committee of Seventy, suthmoned from their politi- cal tombs, im whica they had Iain quietly Inurned, by the trumpet call for reform which sounded over the land, They formed the great political Sanhe- drim at the time, ae 4 little more to do than carry out the popular for the time being, Who can jay confront the candidate of the “seven. ty"—shemselves, all but one—anotugr executive— they are girding on fall election the successes of their brothers in Con- But it 18 easier for @ victorious and reliant party to retain possession ; of the spoils of conquest than for a previously de- endorsed and selected from the nominces of both the ‘result exhibiting so close a taily that there was but a difference of 3,000 or 4,000 votes—the | liberal strength on a division of the whole popular i} ror This was suficient to satisly the democrats THE RESTORATION OF THEIR OLD PRESTIGE AND Ring of a few years ago. Dix was elevated | to the Ex Bate one resolved Into ther original can be named against bim with an: cess? Who is he with his dedied, with none oi the clinging to theme Who is leader, the Moses Of this new departure children of Tammany to re as themselves of Which they have been so long expelied? Scho answers, SAMUEL J. TILDEN, It ls admitted that Samuel J. alone commands the situation from a democratic standpoint. Has nos Seymour, for the four hundredih time, from home in I rqey) Utica, notified all om it may concern that he is out o1 the race for Gover- hor, and refuses “to be a candidate for any oMece in the git of the people’ Tilden, the ig the coming man, sik stoc! brecenes and all, Foremost in retorm, fore Dix, before the Committee of Seventy, the great ZI! None to question wis precedence or convest his claims tn the democratic ranks. He would not be only the Moses to bring the democracy back to their native Canaan, but he would be still th» great relormer in State and city polities—the re- constructor upon sound and durable prin ciples of our monetary, railway and com- mercial polity. Mr. Tilden has been recently to Europe and returned with restored heaith and vigor of mind. He isthe only man who can check and hold in hand our rampant Comptrotier Green or keep before the wind the unmanageanle and ever biundering Mayor Haveweyer, Mr. Tidea has already secured @ solid delegation irom this city, and, in acertain event, his nomination im the State Couvevtion will be nailed and eadorsed with acclamation, « | CHIEF JUSTICE CHURCH, OF THE COURT OF APPRALS, is the only other possibie candidate of the democ- racy. ‘fhe gubernatorial figit will measurably de- cide the Presidential contest in 1876, The demos racy of tnis city and state will stand like one man to their colors in the coming fight. The masses in the city, when @ few matters of merely local imter- est are amicably settied, wili upboid the Tammany standard without wavering, There are no faine lights to tempt or allure the weak or the unwary, With @ strong man ou the State ucket for Gev- ernor—a Church or a Tilden—the leaders are pretty sanguine of success. With Tilden’s nomination tue liberat republicans have a first choice, as he was thetr most trustworthy and reiiabie ally in their late struggle for tue Presidency. ‘The name of Congressman Whitehouse has been spoken of as the candidate for Lieutenant Governor on the democratic ticket; but if the liberal republicans present the name oj @ man of weight and infu- ence as their choice the democrats may yield the position. Mr. Tilden has consented to run, and the race between him and Dix will be memorable | 12 State and city politics, MUNICIPAL POLITICS, The great event in municipal politics is the with- drawal of the contirming power trom the Board of | Aldermen. Apart from the superficial contest tor office and spoiis this move of a republican Leytsla- | ture is significant of the tact that the party sur- renders all hope of a popular foothold im the city, and that the reform douge will no longer serve them before the peopie. Seeing this they tall back upon Albany and the chances of a divided demo- cratic contest for the mayoralty and city patron- age. IN THE CANVASS FOR MAYOR the Custom House leaders are laying pipes all round, bargaining with the heads of departments here and there; but as yet without much success, for Jono Kelly is ot the war path and ts am- bushing them, attacking and routing them in every direcuion, An important iact in connection with the canvass for Mayor is the appointment of Disbecker to the vacancy in the Police Board, On this point a veteran democrat—one who carried Tammany colors in many a contest—was inter- viewed, and to the request that he would give his views on the situation he said:—Well, you see, Dis- becker is anatom in himself politicaily. He may or may not be in the Custom House interest. He is peculiarly placed at present. He is the triead of Havemeyer, of course; ditto of Charlick, and, tirst and last, of Senator Woodin. He will serve Have- Ineyer by keeping Matseil as Superintendent of Police; he will serve Charlick by standing by im in thé street cleaning contract affair (“an ugly business, you know), and that litue dumping job, and he will serve Woodin if he can fix tue republican delegation solid for the Senator in the next State Convention, who has an ambition to | be Governor. If the latter faiis m getting the | nomination then Disbecker, to grgtiiy Wooudin’s enmity to Dix, can so co-operate with the democ- racy under cover, in relation to the appoimtments O1 Canvassers and inspectors of election, as to se- cure them such & preponderance of votes on the State ticket in the city that Dix would be utterly routed at the polls. This would be Woodin’s re- venge, and in that case. satd the “veteran,” Dis- becker could afford to toss the Custom House Ring overbourd and in due time take an honored seat | within the toner temple of Tammany. But what | about Havemeyer’s chance of a renomination? ‘Weill, you see, since the Legislature gave him facenancene power of appointment without confirmation by the Board of Aldermen, all the small fry politicians are buzzing around him like flies around a sugar hogshead, and his | venerabie head ts almost turned with the adula- tion he receives. Tammany even 1s appealed to | in his vehal, so that he may be renominated by all | parties, The remains of the Seventy are rallying around their old chief once more, led on by the that post taking a back seat. THINGS ARE WOFULLY MIXED, | cal checker board. expulsion scurity, with head, And faith, Van Nort's political out- | look is no better than Green’s. He accomplished nothing in Albany, and his bogus resignation and | request to hold on for the good of the people at large exploded him. Neither of these Commission- ersare any louger candidates for Mayor. But as to Havemeyer getting the ‘'ammany nomination “THAT IS ALL MOONSHINE.” You see 1 know Tammany tactics just as wellas Most men. The principle is settled in Tammany tnat all the nominations shall be ntade strictly in- side of the organization tnis year, and the party | Keptsolid. This brings John W. Chanler to the front again as the conventional nominee for Mayor a the real candidate is decided on, They say | that | SMITH ELY, JR., is that man; that ne is favored by Kelly, com- mands immenge influence among all classes, has the German support, and, indeed, is the most available man the party can present, if Mr. Kelly himsell is not playing aSeymour dodge in pretend- ing to decline @ nomination now that ne can com- mand at the right time, The banter about back pay, indulged in at Mr. Ely’s expense, is only a shrewd ‘ruse of his friends to bring out the fact pubiicly, that he led the movement against the “steal” and returned to the Treasury his supposed share init, There will be other candidates talked | of—Bob Roosevelt or Waterbury—on an Mdepend- | ent or skirmisning ticket; but, said the “veteran,” there will be but one democratic ticket for Mayor, | and tnat ticket will be the winning one. HOW MR. KELLY IS RUNNING THE MACHINE. On this point the veteran hadn’t much to say. Mr. Kelly’s task with Tammany is no sinecure, you see, Every day Dean Richmond's question comes up to him in one shape or another, “Can you hold veo men togetuer ?”” Tne strain in this regard as Oeen greatly increased since in the Mayor has been concentrated ail the city patronage by the recent act of the Legislature. There is a swarm of candidates tor the office and there is no_ telling at this stage what Brennan, Loew, Hayes, McCool, Waterbury, Roosevelt and other prominent men may not accomplish before the summer is out. | But one thing 13 certain—that party discipline never was so strict—Tammany counc! never so secret ag at the present time. THE REGISTERSHIP, In addition to the parties already named as can- idates for tne office the German democratic or- te Mu wili press upon Tammany the name of . W. Guntzer, who will have the whole German support, and, with the German claim upon recog- nition, the probabilities are that a German wii succeed a German in that important and lucrative office. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDACY. Fifth district: First to sixth wards inclusive, with Kighth and Fourveenth wards.—William R, Roberts is the probable candidate of Tammany. Jonn Fox is against him, and tf James Hayes tails in securing the nomination for Register he may seek the nomination, Congressman Roberts re- turned his back [0 Sixth district: Seventh, Eleventh and Thirteenth Wards.—Sam ‘Cox - desires to be nominated in this district, @ portion of which he now represents, In this district there Is also a candidate for Register, Judge Shandiey, who may be soothed, if dis. pel sete velit | nominated for Congress. Cox returned his back fe Seventh district: Tenth and Seventeenth wards.—In this district, which 18 pecultarly Gey man, the Tepublicans propose to run ex-Govern Solomon. ‘The democratic nomination will be given to ex-Congressman Chanler, or ex-Congress- man Maclay, with a possibility taat Congressman Creamer m: jain secure It. Eighth tnstrict: Ninth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth and art of Eighteenth ward.—The republican majorit; R this district is about 800 and the democrats will robably nominate a liberal republican, either eneral Conkung or General Cochrane. No chance for a straight-out democrat, Ninth District: The west portions of Twentieth, Twenty-second and Twellth wards.—In this dia trict there are already three democratic candi- dates in the tleld—Assemblyman Blumenthal, John Hardy and Fernando Wood. The old teud between Wood anjl the Tammany leaders is substantially healed and it 1s probable that he will secure tne regular nomination, fenth District: East portions of Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twenty-lirst wards,—Among the numerous aspirants for Congressional honors in this district those most promMently named are Henry Clausen, Dr. Theodore Mierson and Assem- biyman Peter Woods. If Ex-Congressman Smith Ky, Jr., fails to secure the nomination for Mayor he may be the Congressional candidate from this district, Mr. Ely returned his back pay. Eleventh District: East portions of the Twen- tieth, Twent; cond and Twelith wards, and west portions of the Nineteenth and Twenty-first wards.—As this district has fully 4,000 Tepubitcan majority the candidate of that party will walk over bax ne It will be Thomas Murphy or William » Daring. Twelfth District, Westchester, is now repre- sented by Clarkson N, Potter, who positively de- [men OO ee cba The democratic nominee 8 doubtinl, Tepublicans will nominate James Heated, Speaker of the Assembiy, impeacher of the King judiciary, there can be j gallant Colonel Steboins, who has been recalled to (he presidency of the Park Board, Green’s man in you gee, on account of this last move on the politi- Green, whose term of office expires under the next Mayor, is greatly depressed in spirits, and laments him of his past arrogance and oppression, as he contemplate his coming ‘rom office and consequent ob- anathemas showered upon his What Northern and Southern Journalists Think. Qemmmanee “ONDER WHICH K(NG, BEZONIAN 1" ee What a Southern Scribe Sees in Washington. (From the Lonisvilie Courter-Journal.) The last fortnight bat developed an onusaa) . liveliness among political thinkers and theorists, General Grant's retation to a third verw is freely discussed, and, wong with i, the claims and chances of other aspirants, for it ts not doubted by any Wateniul, well-intormed observer taat General Grant ts ap aspirant. TOOMBS AND THE PRESIDENT. The Visit of General Rovert Toombs Wo the Prest- dent Was douttiess me nt to be & simple courtesy 4 nothing more. It wast received in alt ligell- hood in the Way of a corioas good nature charac teristic of General Grant But when it is remem. ered that General Toombs is aa earnest and out spoken «imperialist, whe does not claim Silegiance to thit Country, and seeks noth ing #0 ardentiy a8 @ ton whieh shall give it & Master, the cordiality which he met at the White House and the pleasure whieh a call, protracted much beyond the conventional Umit, gave to the ovo White House, may be worth making wote of, 4 straw white: the existence of a small, bul, in cases of emer- gency, a resolute body of men, who, worn out and disgusted by partisan misgovernment and matig- nity, regard & third term ae the beginning of the | end of both, This class fas oo personal il wil toward General Grant. It recogmges the many soldierly acts which marked his conduct In the closing of the war and the many accessivie and complacent ieatures of His disposition as @ man. It thinks, miggakenly, tn y chenge would be for the better, not seeing (hat wader the personal government it would set ap eneral Grant the Present abuses would be magnified. TOOMBS AND THE UNION, | General Toombs ts but the spokesman of this ele | ment. He is atonce a most intrepid and a most brillant man, and, however a so od ration republicanism may detest bis destruct, cies, Lam not prep to set him down eckless person he is deserived to be. thirty years he has been as rashly advanced opinions and utterances as he 1s to-day. 18 NOt now #0 dangerously prophet) stroyed the whig party to make himself the democratic party. He destroyed cratic party to make himself a leader of vhe sion party. His destructive predilections prowess manilested themselves forthe third “ime ust as the Coniederacy was on the eve of its inke- rent destruction. He is by bo means too old to come again to the front as a destroyer of the Repnbite, which, aiter mis failure to destroy un Vato, seems to be a sort of second choice with him, is perfectly logical 19 bis Views and aims: and, if the fignt for the old traditions ot liberty = lost ip 76—for those sentimental traditions whose tinction will be the forerunner of a practical progressive revoluiion in the government—we may see Toombs once more the leader of a party, supporting a court and squaring tue ola accoual at last by the agency of a coup @etat, The talists want a third term, In the meantime Gen- eral Grant is backed by the italiste, who dread | political changes ol every kind and feel that they can rely on him, and by the office-holders, whe | ought to be strong enough to command the forme | of a third nomination. This secured, he can (rust to luck, as he has always done, for the issae, and, in short, will be the candidate to be beaten. | As time moves us up nearer and nearer to the | field, unknown and unexpected objects may reveal themselves. But in the midat oi the prevailing fog | these outiines appear—the repub) is | ruled by the office-loldera, and the President rules | them by the common law of rectprocal interest; | there is no one republican strong enough to anite the party against its organizers; each of the re- publican leaders is just strong em to make | Way with his next door rival thus, tf the | election were upon us, we should find General | Grant master of the only compact body in bo 4 | litical field, equipped with munitions and in abundance, with a dispirited South, a det ized North and a divided opposition to stand be- tween him and his ambition. “ALL HAIL TO THE EMPIRE"? The time may come when the South will Gnd ne escape irom malignant legislation and niagovern- ment but by following General Toombs en masse into the imverial camp, But it should, at least, make one more fight for the old free-born signals. The people of the North were not conscious of the | wrong they did themselves when they put the South in irons, and they do not at heart support the scandalous outbursts of hate which every pow and then appear in Congressional legislation and may be heard every time such malignants as Conkling and Hoar open their lips. The trouble | has béen that the South had no audience at the North, The people of the North have re ceived most of their impressions from protes- | sional Iibellers of the South. Lamai's §| | on Sumner surprised New Engiand, as it rebuked ; the hypocrites who, detesting Sumner, would bave made @ vincictive radical juvilee over his coffin lid, I dectare, without the least tear of contradic- | tiom, that the only really sincere euiogies on sum- ner were those of Lamar, who represented tne eee hes ofthe South, and Schurz, who waa umner’s private friend, and neither contained a syllable offensive to any patriotic national senti- ment. One day—let us hope at a day betore it is too late—New England will learn that sucn men a¢ Hoar and Hawley are her worst enemies, The South snould also know that the people of New | Engiand are as liberal as the South- ern people are and as willl to reach @ good accord. Boston would welcome Lamar with honors, and yet Lamar only spoke in | the name of the Souti, obtaining by his eloquence | and address the audience which ts often denied to men of less genius. Both sections should consider the circumstance. It may, or it may not ve of | good omen, but one thing is certain, if tt is not—it | the missionaries of ruin who walk abroad tn Con- | gress and out of Congress, fomenting strife and | Taising up mutaal distrust, are not supplanted by better men, we may as well bid goodby to the Re- public and say ali hail to Toombs and the Empire. ‘The Effort for the Third Term. {From the New York Sun.) Every consideration of patriotism, therefore, de | Mands that the effort now cautiously going for- ward to elect Grant for a third term be brought to @ full stop at the earliest moment, GRANT CAN BE RBNOMINATED, It is idle to imagine that Grant cannot be re | nominated if he and his backers determine upon it, provided all the appliances for achieving suc- cess are left in their hands and the current is al- lowed to flow quictly along without early and | strenuous resistance within the ranks of the re- | publican party. With the immense army of office- holders on the side of the administration the re- nominationists hold the vantage ground. Add to these a decisive majority of the republicans in the next Congress and they cam carry the day in the nominating couvention. Provably Grant might be defeated at the polls, but that is not so certain, | aud, moreover, if it were, would it be desirable | for toy republican party to commit suictde in this way i LET REPUBLICANS WATCH. If independent republicans, instead of wasting their energies upon impracticable issues, will de- vote themselves to exterminating the renomina- tionists root and branch, while at the same time dealing @ side blow at the Crédit Mobilierites, the | back-pay grabbers and dodgers and the Congres- sional beneficiaries of the District robbers and | moiety plunderers—and toa considerable ee they are the same persons—these Pe bape! will accomplish a patriotic work whi is entirely ‘Within the reach of their exertions, LET NOBODY BE LULLED INTO APATHY, Let nobody be lulled into apathy by gentle whise Perings that Grant’s renomination Is quite out of the question. He himself is dumb on the subject, If he had wished to relieve the republican party. of a@ heavy load just as it | upon a Congressional camp; would have declined to run agatn in explicit terms. Such of his household troops and ofice holders as speak at all advocate his renomination. Not a republican news ‘k has de-~ clared one it, Now and then a powerful leader like Butler, who sims to shape events, or a smirk- ing sycophant like Woodford, who wants to fawn on the dispenser of patron: comes out more or less openly in its tavor. nting republicans should therefore avoid being taken in a snare, and at once enter upon the duty of so conti the elections of this year as to'make the reno! of Grant impossible, TOO SAD TO BE TRUS. [From the Chicago [nter-Ocean.] It is allegea thac Genera! McCook lays the death ¢ bis Wile at the door ca oer aaeine or i nicago morning paper, circulatin: ‘infamous Peports concerning at correspondent comes out ina Frasnington papet denying the tion, but it is satd that K will not accept the denial, and will take the chastisement of the man into his ow; We do not know the truth of the chi Ee, bus weil founded there is no punishment severe for the scoundre! wno would thas malign an inno- cent woman, This shows what that e; x smartness and reckless and defamatory style writing which 80 many people admire will accom- phish im the end, (