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4 CONGRESS. Significant Vote on the Question of Franking Public Documents. A STEP BACKWARD. The Civil Rights Bill Discussed in the Senate. THE DATE OF ADJOURNMENT FIXED. ATE. Wasuinoton, May 20, 1874. The morning hour having expired, Mr. FaELiva- HUYSEN, (rep.) Of N. J., moved that the Senate take up the Civil Rights bill. Messrs, StocxTon, (dem.) of N. J., SACLSBURY, (dem.) of Del, and MoCresry, (dem.) of Ky., objected, and asked ‘that consideration of the bill be postponed until the return of Messrs. Steven- son, Bayard apd others, who were necessarily absent and who desired to speak upon it, Upon a division a majority voted to take up the bul. Mr. SAULSBURY called for the yeas and nays, and said he desired to put on record those Senators who favored the consideration of a measure when other Senators who desired to speak upon it were absent. He thought the dominant party in the Senate, which fixed up the order of business in caucus, should have some respect for the minority, and not refuse toextend the courtesy to absent Senators of allowing them to express their views. Mr. HaMLrn, (rep.) of Me., said he was very glad to have an opportunity to record his vote in | favor of taking up a bill which nad been discussed to the greatest extent year in and year out. The motion to take up the bill was agreed to, yeas 37, nays 13, Mr. INGALLS, from the Committee on Indian Af- fairs, reported with amendments the bill intro. duced by Mr. Buckingbam on the 2d of April, con- ferring exclusive jurisdiction over Indian reserva- tions upon United States courts, and tor the pun- ishment o! crimes committed by and against Inai- ans. Placed on the calendar, Mr. FLANAGAN (rep.), Of Texas, addressed the ae im favor of the passage of the Civil Rights Le ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ASPROT. Mr. THURMAN (dem.), of Ohio, said he knew the bill was to pass, though not because of its merits, He not believe that one-third of the senate, if left untrammelied by outside press- ure, would vote for the bill. There were and their demands had more power in this chamber than tne constitution of the United Svates itself. If the fate of this measure depended upon its own merits it would require very little ability to show that it should not pass. He at some length as to the constitutional power of Congress, and said this bill did not propose to deal ‘With the States, but it dealt with individuals, so ‘that the States could provide punishment to secure civil rights, and the federal government, by this Dill, could seize the citizen and punish a second time. In the State of for in- stance, every offence mentioned in this Dill was = by State law, yet it was proposed to ve a second punishment by the strong arm of the federal power. The effect of the bill would be to break up the common school syste result would be that both white and gen would go without education, THE ADJOURNMENT. The resolution of the House, providing for an adjournment of this session of Congress on the 22d of June, was received, and, on motion of Mr, EpMUNDS, \Tep.) Of Vt., was agreed to. Mr. Sargent, (rep.) of Cal.; Mr. Morrill, (rep.) of Me., and Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va. were ap- pointed members of the Committee of Conference = a t of the Senate on the Naval Appropria- ion le The House bill to amend the Customs Revenue laws and to repeal moities was referred to the Committee on Finance. Pending the discussion on the Civil Rights bill the Senate, on motion of Mr. WEsT, (rep.) of La., proceeded to the consideration of executive busi- ness. At five o’clock the doors were reopened aid the Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WasHINaTON, May 20, 1874, Mr. Dawes, (rep.) of Mass., asked to have the Senate resolution for finai adjournment taken up and passed. Mr. Kasson, (rep.) of Iowa, said he must object until some disposition bas been made of bills affecting Western interests. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, moved to go to the Speaker's ert and take up the resolution. The SPEAKS® siid that while the resolution itself was a privileged question the motion to go to the Speaker's table was not. Mr. CxgssNa, (rep.) of Pa.; Mr. DUNNELL, (rep.) of Minn.. and others, objected. Mr. Dawes then qffered as a privileged question aresolution similar to that passed by the Senate. Mr. COBUEN, (rep.) of Ind., moved to adjourn. Negatived. Mr. Kasson moved to lay the resolution on the table. Negatived—yeas 67, nays 136, The resolution was then agreed to—yeas 143, nays 49. THE SANBORN REPORT—GENERAL BUTLER ANXIOUS. Mr. Foster, (rep.) of Ohio, called up the report on the Sanborn contracts. Mr. Dawes announced that he had received a letter from his colleague, General Butler, stating jored citi- that he was Ill im bed, that ne desired to speak | upon the system of moieties in connection with this report, aud asking, as @ favor, that the com- mittee would consent to postpone the discussion until to-morrow. Mr. Foster said that if it were @ matter personal to himself he would consent at once, but as tt was @ matter of great public interest he preferred to | take the sense of the House. On motion of Mr. Dawks the postponement was | W! agreed to. | THE POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL, The House then, at bali-past twelve, went into | Committee of the Whole on the Post Office Appro- | Priation bill, Mr. Parsons, of Ohio, in the chair, | Mr. Hous. marks of Mr. bate yester (dem.) of Ind., criticised the re- . H. Roberts at the close of tne de- y tm regard to the merit of the repub- lican party in purifying Itself, and contrasted that claim with the strenuous effort made to-day to shut off devate on the Post Office Appropriation bili. He called attentron to the fact that the ag- gregate amount appropriated by this bill exceeaed the appropriation ior the same purpose iast year by $3,224,224. be commented apon the system of straw bids for mati contracts, and referred to the exorbitant rates charged by railroad companies for the transportation of the mails, Mr. LAWRENCE, (rep.) of Ohio, asked him what remedy he wouid apply. His own remedy would be to prescribe rates, Mr. HoLMAN replied that that was the trae remedy. Congress was the only power that could restrict those railroad companies and prescribe reasonable rates for the periormance of a public service. Mr. LaWRENOR aaked him whether he would vote for @ proposition prescribing such rates, and if so | how many of the members on the democratic side | Of the House would do it? Mr, HoLMan replied that he would, and he pre- —— that no democratic member would refuse to 0 80. Mr. Woon, (dem.) of N. Y., commented on the large annual increase of expenditures in the Post om: epartment, and criticised the boast | of his colleague (E. H.’ Roberts) yesterday as to the purification of the republican erty, “yn that and the | | Mr. Mills, making the agricultural report free of | visitors won the toss and sent the St. Georges to NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1874. : BE ‘i ‘ i i ir o iY i i tr i : i 428 j Pees i ie i . gs 4 § F i RE gS; bit HH § i he showed, taking i A u sé : i THE PRANKING PRIVILKOR AGAIN, Mr. MILLA, (Gem.) of Texas, offered @ substitute that ali printed an by order of either of Congress, « be transported through the mails free of cl or Ono, made the point of order | Mr. GARFIELD, that the substitute was pot ¢ to Mr. Hoar'’s | amend which hat been made in order last Monday by @ suspension of the rules, and the | of the NEW YORK CITY. The second party of Mennonites, from Russia left New York for Dakota by the Erie Railway last Ascension Day wil! be celebrated to-day st the Greek chapel, No. 951 Second avenue, near Fiftieth | at ball-; ten i oy HE ar a o'clock A. M. The chape! The snoiversary of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the St, James Lutheran church in remeensh street, between Second and Third ave- ues, takes this evening. ard M. ‘The remains of a male child were yesterday found im the vault at No. 361 Madison street. The body was sent to the Morgue and Coroner Croker not- fled to boid an inquest, None of the inmates of ‘Thomas Cavanagh, @man who was employed at the Commercial Hotel, Park row, while shaking carpets on she roofon the 16th inst., fell off and | was fatally injured, Deceased was thirty-four years of age and a native of Ireland. An inquest ‘was beld On the body by Coroner Woltman. Mayor Havemeyer yesterday signed the ordi- nance relating to “vault coverings.” Six months’ notice must be given to owners of property whose i H [ H Atan election held last evening at the head- quarters of the Second Brigade, corner of Fourth street and Btoadway, by the line officers of the fourth regiment, N.G.8.N.Y., Charles rm ‘confi, ornery Adjutant, was "uiected Major it, to Mil the place of Major Law- promoted. Un Sanday morning last Francis Morgan, 8 lad nine years of age, who lived corner of Sixty-first street and Ninth avenue, jumped upon a horse to brain and death subsequently ensued. Coroner Donead to handen inguest, Yesterday afternoon the dead body of Thomas Bowen, a lodger at the New Engiand Hotel, Bowery, | was found in his room, and the impression pre- vailed that death ensued from asthma. As de- ceased, who was about thirty of age, had no Iriends to take charge of the it was sent to and ap inquest will be her by Coroner the Eick ‘The Burean of Charities think it.right to caution Chairman sastained the point of order and ruied out the substitute, ‘Mr. RANDALL qmengm ent by makit iree ! Mr. Haus, Lm g of N. Y., begged members were in favor of the restoration of the rst — todo it by @ straigntforward vote. He had been opposed to the abolition of tne | franking privilege; t he would not, under | guise of fav 4 particular interest, neip to do indirectly what the had tailed todo directly. Mr. (dem.) of N. Y., thoagnt it might as | weil be made free of semen 6 > bane ane ane | een yore He favored the avo- | | lition of the franking privilege. He thought it o great deal better, and fairer, and juster to have these books delivered at cost price to those who | want to buy them. A bill for that purpose was | now pending in the Senate. li there was an: of the community which ought not to be iavored regard to postage it was the agricuitural which was better able to pay postage any | other class. He was glad to see this proposition, for he Ln it was the entering wi to ge } tang all | Tree of bhi = agrical forty cents, and there was as much reason for op- posing the reduction to ten cents as the reduction to one cent. A FAVORED CLASS. Mr. GARFIELD, of Obio, regretted that the sition had been made, and asked the House | sider in what ridiculous attitude it would be pre- | sented in selecting one of the dozens of documents | published by Congress and making an exception | in its favor, and for the sole reason that the | Jarmers ought to be made a specially favor class. He represented as mi farmers in proportion to the whole number of his constitu- ents a8 any other member im the House. He | would not insult the intelligence of his constitu. | ents by saying to them, “We treat you as a lot of aupers, that come here and ask peculiar privi- , feces in the mail” If a schoolmaster received the report of the Bureau of Education he nad to pay forty-two cents postage for It, and if @ miner re- ceivea the Geological Report he had to pay Ofty | cents for it; but the farmer would have to | only one cent for the Agricultural Report. | asked the House, as a matter of fair, manly jus | tice, whether it would in this indirect way vote to | Festore the franking privilege. Mr. G. F. Hoar replied to Mr. Garfield, and de- fended the pro| tion as exactly right. Mr. MyERs, (rep.) of Pa., the Lene x | sition, and ci Garfield with having voi against the proposition to extend the same privi- lege to other public documents, He (Mr. ers) had voted against the humbug of abolishing the franking privilege, for he believed that it would | Dot effect any saving to the government, and it bad not done so. Mr. CaNNON, (rep.) Of IIL, favored the amen ment, and argued that the postage on newspape: ‘was now very mach less the postage on puo- lic documents. AN BLECTIONEBRING PROVISION, Mr. Smita, (rep.) of Obio, opposea the amend- ment, Ce ge to be the only practical farmer in | the House. He scouted farmers In the country, the most numerous and the richest class of the peopie, wanted tais small pittance of benevolence and iavoritism. This document was to be, pubiished as an electioneering document. He begged the House not to put this insuit on the farmers of the country. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., twitted the last speaker 28 a farmer “pure and simpie,” and intimated that he (Mr. Smith) nad left office for the last fifteen | years and was ready to come back to Congress by | the aia of the iarmers. He was in [lavor either of maintainimg the abolition of the franking privi- | lege in toto or of breaking it down tn toto, | Mr. ELDREDGE, (dem.) of Wis., denounced the | abolition of the [ranking privilege as a piece of tne | most cousummate demagogism and humbug- | gery that was ever got up, and he charged the | Fostmaster General (who was occupying @ seat on | | the foor) with having got up the public sentiment whicn led to it. Alter further discussion by Mr. WILSON, (rep.) Of | Towa, Mr. HeReForD, (dem.) of W. Va., and Mr. O’Brien, (dem.) of Md., thé amendment offered by )Po- con- postage, Was adopted by a vote of 110 to 68; and then Mr. Hoar’s proposition, as thus amended, ‘as agreed 10. Without getting throngh the bill the commitree rose, und Mr. O’NBILL, (rep.) of Pa., from the Ap- | propriation Committee, reported the Pension Ap- | propriation bill, appropriating about $30,000,000, The Mouse then, at @ quarter past five o'clock P. M., adjourned. CRICKET. ee St. Georges, of New York, vs. Merion, of Philadelphia. The cricketing season in New York was inaugu- rated yesterday afternoon by a match between the 8t. Georges Eleven, of New York, and the Merion Club, of Philadelphia. The Merion Club | sept but seven men, who arrived by an early train | from Philadeiphia. After lunch in the club house the game was commenced, the threatening weather having cleared away for o while. The the bat, the latter sending in as first men Bance | aliases, Be represents himself as ® musician in | im the river foot of Adams street. the public against giving money toa young man, calling himself A. H. Hall, but who .has other | want of help, to immediate sepement. recel| plications from him for help Shoud apply to the ¥ Men's Christian | Associa! Wy Branch, or to the Bureau of Charities, 66 Third avenue, > The Grand Temple of Honor and Temperance of the State of New Yurk, which held its annual ses- | sion in this city yesterday, celebrated its twenty ninth anntversary last evening at the Jane street Methodist church, Joho F. siding. Rev. Mr. Hamtiton, made the opening ee of which Commodore Simonson alone caught 400 in his gill net, The price advanced yesterday. —— At a meeting of the Trustees of New Brighton yesterday Mr. Tompkins Westervelt offered a reso- lution recommending the Governor to sign the bill abolishing the Richmond County Board of Heelth, on the ground that the bill establishing it was so badiy drawn that it took away all powers conferred by the village charter, tion of Mr. Westervelt excites considerable comment, as he is understoad to be the author of the bill The resolution, however, was passed. It is understood that the new People’s Ferry Company, which proposes to ran boate trom Dey street to the north shore of Staten Island, nas ac- tually commenced work by electing # board of di- rectors, prominent among whom are Mr. J, H. Starin and a gentleman formerly connected with the Staten Isiand Railway. [t is also stated that the steamers Arrowsmith and Thomas Collyer have been purchased, and are now altered to double-enders, the, design being to commence running on or jt the ist of next month. A number of romors in regard to the enterprise are afloat, but cannot be traced to any trustwo: source, those interested declining to give insor: tion for the present. A notice posted at the foot of Dey street atates that boats will commence ran- ning On the 1st of June, but at present there are no signs of preparation there. NEW JERSEY. ‘The Grand Jury at Jersey City were investigat- ing, yesterday, the alleged malfeasance of the member of the Town Council of West Hoboken in appropriating $300 lor private lobby expenses at enton. The large property owners in the Fourth dis- trict of Jersey City are getting up an agitation for annexation to Hoboken. Their grievance is tha! they pay a large portion of the city taxes bat re- celve no corresponding benefits. The Newark Common Council has passed suit- able commemorative resolutions, draped the chamber in black and lowered the city fi at half-mast in memory o! the lately deceased Al- derman, Mr. N. J. Fredertcks, who died on Tues- day morning in his sixtieth year. One Henry Buntle has been arrested in Newark under peculiar circumstances, Edward Wade was first arrested charged with larceny committed seven years ago. It turned out that he was in- sane and that his insanity was caused, as now alleged, by a blow from Buntle some months ago. Hence Buntie’s arrest. The annva! Convention of the Episcopal diocese of New Jersey, to be held next Tuesday, at Grace church, Newark, promises to be a lively gathering. The Low church and High Church delegates will | have a contest for the appointment of the bishop of thenew diocese. The salary question, which is so deeply interesting to the poorer clergy, is also to be reported upon, The Young Men’s Christian Association of New- ark have been carrying on for a week or 80 past & cheap show speculation called “The Bazaar of All Nations,” Last nignt was the most attractive, the occasion being the visit of a detachment of the Seventy-ninth Highland regiment (N, Y. 8. N. G.), der the command of Major Laing. The tities” delighted a large attendance with games cullar to “Auld Scotia’! pe BUSSIAN DIAMONDS. The Arrest of the Grand Duke Nie! a Importance of the Act in a Dynastic Point of View—Romanof Trouble in St. Petersburg and Poland—Why Alex- ander Is Consulting with Victoria and E fle. There is an old saying that whenever anything schools, The hall was crowded im every part by | the parents and friends of the not a seat telag "vacant, ‘The concers, cpattettd of & weil | selec! succession of choruses and solos given by the different interspersed ‘with several recitations. Rev. Father Farrell of Bt Rev. Father Boyce of St. Teresa’s, Rev. | fees. h. Mebonsid” D. By, of Ologher,, ireland, v. J. i ireland, | were On the platform. At ‘the conclusion of the exercises the Rev. Father Farrell made a few re- marks on the present educstional system. coat emerecinn There are 478 paupers in the Kings County Alms- bouse. The Fire Department is constructing a self-pro- pelling steam engine, intended to relieve the jorses in going up grade. It will be completed in the course of a few days, ‘The Commissioners of Charities met yesterday and appointed Dr. Charles A. Cook assistant physi- cian in the Lunatic Asylum and R. R. Re lumber jor the county institutions, at a of 100 per month. Mayor Hunter has demanded the names of the employés of the Park Commissioners whose salaries amount to $1,090 per annum and upward. Mr. Stranahaa, iedtios Stave ‘board, promises to transmit the desired iniormat James Riche and John Whalen were committed by Justice Delmar, on complsint of Captain | rh chi pe Ag ‘org deputy sheriff's badge, No. 630, The annual meeting of the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum was held yesterday. The receipts for the , Tee peonnten. fa The balance on Rana $3,051. The inde! Of the society is | but $6,363, to meet which $1,426 has been The Coroner was notified yesterday afternoon to | hold an inquest over the body of Mary Lunney, thirty years of age, who was found dead, seated in | @ chair, in her apartments at No. 715 Dean street. | ee an wet to be the cause of | eat | Dennis Brison, a pedier, fifty years of age, swallowed a quantity of arsenic at his home, No. | 40 Flint street, yesterday. He was removed to | the City Hospital, where he now iles in « critical — condition, Brisson has beem drinking very hard for some time past. There will bea meeting of the Ladies’ Flower Union of Brooklyn thia evening in the basement of the Mercantile Library Building, Moatague street. Neat 1,000 bunches of flowers and plants have thus far been distribated among the hospitals and | otaer charitable institutions of the City of by this society. ‘The estimates of nearly all the departments of the municipal government have been received by | the Board of Estimate. The amounts sought to be Placed in the budget for 1875 are excessive and the work of cutting down has commenced. It ts sala that the items of $90,000 for normal school and 000 for free books asked for by the Board of jucation will be cut off. Several people visited the Morgue yesterday, bat were unable to identify the vody of the un- | known woman who was foand the night previous ae, hed ona block alpaca suit and s dark trimmed with lace and beads. On fhe left hand were Cl ss rings, wed inside one of which was January i, 1850." and Whelan. These gentlemen by good batting managed to earn @ score of 2% runs each. Bance being the first to fall, Moeran took his | lace and suon afterwards Whelan was bowled by | Fox. The second wicket thus fell for 62 runs. Sleigh succeeded Whelan, when Moeran in cutting @ ball to point, got caught out witha score of 11. Palmer was’ sent in, but in the same | over Palmer was bowled by Ashbridge, Grainger | then went in, but soon retir te el connection he referred to the fact that sixty oMiciais in the New York Custom House, who had been reported for fraudulent collusion with tm- porters, were allowed to retain their positions, and that one official, whom District Attorne Davis had sacceeded in varias dismissed for fraud, had, within three weeks afterwards, been ap- in! by the Republican State Treasurer of Rew York, to the post of Assistant Treasurer, in ‘which posite’ he had committed extensive frauds. Mr. 6. H. Ropers, (rep.) of N. Y., asked his col- league to state that that State Treasurer was a “POLITICAL Mi Mr. Woop denied that the Stare Treasurer Ww: tement, and said that republican. He admired the moral co of any man who could compii- ment the party im power on tts probity and public im ity. The history of no country, ancient or rn, had ever shown in 80 short @ period such and deterioration as the nis- ‘an utter degeneracy = fw fem of that party W. tempted tu Perea Mr. £. H. Kos genie: ir about ERTS to his coll e, and yn ns aiking. abou! morelity and ended his cwn remarks made yester- the republican party as having veen tement of ina making @ sin; tun, Lemmon irain- ger, and during his snort occupancy of the bat he | Inade a brilliant hit for a 5, bat was soon put out | “leg before wicket.” Satterthwaite was next sent | in, but Sieigh gave an easy catch to Dis bowler, | and he was succeeded by Talbot. The latter was | Soon taken at wicket. e score thus stood for | eight wickets, $6 runs, The Merion sent in G. | asnbridge and Fox, but Ashbbridge soon retired, | having scored but one run. Stone succeeded him, | Dut was soon put out. R. Ashbridge then went io, | and some exceedingly good piay ensued, Fox earn- | ing @ score of 27 and Ashbridge one of 23, when the stumps were drawn. The game wili be con- tnued to-day. ‘he following is the score :>— | Pape en Sayers Runs, %. ene. Bance,b. R. Ashbridge.. Ashbridge, ¢, Grain- Wheian, b. Fox....... b, Whelan. 1 | Moeran, ©. Fox. b. Fox, not out, Ashbridge Sleigh, c. and ridge b. w., b. Fox | Lerom ; ‘aite, notout... batverth Pere: Tota 6 RUNS SCORED AT THER PALS. 0} 7 su George. ih ie uy My Ot OK TiR Ik 00, Merion..... 9 iil ne gles tery Ur % Vinten aod Brewster, A burglary was committed at an early bour yesterday morning at the millinery store of P. T. Prankard, No. 671 Fulton stree:. Laces, velvet and silks, to the value of $1,000, were stolen. The thieveé made their way into the cellar and then broke the panel of the door leading into the store, where they packed up their plunder at leisure. / The ourglary ‘Was not discovered untti the sales- men had entered the swore in the morning. LONG ISLAND. thimaiensihlpislpatinin ‘There is promise of an abundance of fruit of all kinds on Long Island this season, as the trees are heavily decked with blossoms, and the usuel May “blossom storm” which occurred last week Was #0 mild in Character as HOt in the least to damage In spite of the fact that numerous suite ere pending against the village of Edgewater for the recovery of money paid for property soid for un- to wa 4 blished for three or four weeks, is that, ander the circamstances, the number of buyers wili ve very few. Yesterday Willfam Bedell, of Stapleton, caught in his morning haul, in a drift net, thirty-two fine ahad and a sturgeon ten feet long and weighing upwerd of 400 pounds. e sturgeon was taken into the village and placed on exuibition as the largest one over taken in the Staten Island waters. ‘The total catch of shad yesterday morning was oan is wrong in Russia Poland is sare to be at the vot- tom of it, The application of this axiom to the arrest of the Grand Duke Nicholas would seem to point less to the diamona story as true cause thereof than tne circumstances through which Constantine, the Emperor’s brother and father of the inculpated Prince, has become a suspected man, and with him his relatives and retainers. DYNASTIC POLICY. It is well known that the present Emperor, Alexander, as wellas his predecessor, Nicholas, were always anxious to remove a danger that threatened the Empire by emancipating the serfs. ‘This was not a diMcult measure in some parts of Russia. Already, through the absenteeism and extravagance of the nobles, their estates and serfs, which were inseparable, were heavily in- dedted to the Crown for advances of money. When the Emancipation act took place the Stare had already foreclosed these mortgages to the ex tent of $152,500,000, But in Poland the case was different. ere agriculture had advanced rela- tively mach farther than in the Eastern provinces the Empire, and the no! who did not scru- vo deprive the seri even of the soil be bad tilled his own benefit and reduce him to the con- dition of a landiess bondem: were themselves better off than their peers elsewhere in Russia, SES: measures, with the exaction of some- sometimes five in the week, had serfdom to them a profitable institution, Crown wasjanxious. Minute inquiries as condition of the seris were made in ‘alations established dreadful condi- ing for such & measure, the Crown issued a in 1857, ordering the appointment of a “committee of preliminary in- provinces of Wilna, Kowna and Grodno, to draught a law with this object. The Emperor ‘that this law should, while t vided for the retention of the Dice woes. rights of the nybles over the soll, afford the peas- ant the right of purehi with his extra lavor his homestead and en tend to support him; at the same time his pe nary obligatvann to the lord and the State were not to Cautious as was this its proposition was the signal for mmeral expression of dissatisfac- tion irom thi and the so-called Russian or pro-siavery party crystallized itself into shape. CONSTANTINE, whewe abilities marked en for a leader, and sympathies were with the nobles, was looked upou as its head ; and the humane and pro- gressive, but mild ALEXANDER ‘was contem: stigmatized as a German. — while 4 perce tenn ed party was knowo e Rassian, ral and progressive was called the German. But thou wy mild Branhored Man the Emperor was none the less resolute con- ‘Was established at St. Petersburg, under his We dd immediate supervision, cuarged with the important and delicate duty of considering an act of general emancipation tor the seris throughout Russia. The chairmanship of this committee waa pe ean! Begg pete by his Majesty to bis brother e, douvtiess in the hope of molliy- ‘mg his anfraternai inimicality and bring- 4 him ww see ~ the urgent necessity (cr lay 4 procrastination. and the danger that Butto no purpose. Constantine remained steady in the attitude he had taken, and thro his influence, it ts be- lieved, the Ba i law was opposed by a majority of members of the Plenum of the Im- rial incii. In this emergency the Emperor, the exercise of his legal powers, voted with the 1 ene act oF Emaxctra oraary (3d of Sara deta u Gates sina v m, 8 ‘and | not Mine Polish it Russia slaves but on of seris became free. This greatest of Ql acts of legisiation was Jollowed, in 1863 and 1866, by other acts which liberated the crown and Ve and Russia delivered nerseif ‘the great stain and the great danger of ll PREJUDICED AND UNYIELDING. this whole time Constantine remained ted him Viceroy occurred in 1562, hia obduracy by bring: with But he resigned shortiy and, though continually honored by the rs attachment attitude to-aay, and directly or through tus ¢on Nicholas, an ambitious army . vende himself to the anima- the conservauves, Western provinces, profitable coutributes it ie thus with we iv hardly affords & Step as tbe arrest tember of the imperia! (amily, while other well-known cireumstances iurnish more like, ones. T wit i & g 3 H 3 2 Engiand, point to dynasticai troubes ia, rather than to the shetraction of some frumpery diamonds, as the true cause of the late bigh-banced treatment of Constantine's eldest sun. ROBBERY OF JEWELS. Lowa.t, Mase, May 20, 1874. About $2,000 worth of jewels, precious stones and other valuavies belonging to Mr, 4. ©. ayer, left io the Vault of his office some months since for sate have deep stolen. The safe was vo ey ae. iD the office. is BO clew as vet \o Lhe roboers impaired. | the diMcaities that | —TRIPLE SHEET. THE BRINCKLEY DIVORCE suUIT. Mr. Brinekley’s Account of Unmatrimonial Blise;-Mrs. Brinckley’s Troubles in Hotels How He Introdueed Her to Friends How The Brinckley divorce sult was resumed yester- day morning in the Supreme Court, Circuit, Part 2%, before Judge Van Brunt. Mr. W. H. Anthon ap- peared for the defence, and Messrs. W. 4. Beach and F, U. Brown for the plaintif. Mr. Hugh L. Brinckley continued his testimony tn regard to his relation with the plaintiff. He in- formed his father in November of the same year tn which he first became acquainted with her of the affair: they removed to Fifteenth street under the assumed name of Lawson; be might have spoxen Of her as his “wife,” but did not remember it; to acquaintances he spoke of her invariably as Mra. Lawson, and to familiar friends as Lizzie; this rule he also observed on their trip to Philadelphia; sub- sequently he went to Memphis, and whiie there he received letters from her from New York; when he returned she hved at Mrs. Lewis', in Thirty-fres street; the witness contradicted the testimony of the plaintiff and Mrs. Lewis in regard toa con- versation which he had with # servant girl, and to whom he did not announce himself as the “hus- band,” but as “Mr. Lawson,” and stated that he always introduced her as Mra. Lawson, and never as his wife; he never registered her as “wife,” but always as “H. Lawson and lady; he gave dinner parties when in New Orleans, inviting several married gentlemen of high social position to dine with bim; the. plaintiff was not present at those dinners, but remained in her room in the hotel; the young gentlemen who dined with him when she was present WERE ALL FAST YOUNG MEN, and to them he introduced her as Lizzie; Mrs. Nash, of New Urleans, made the acquaintance of the plaintiff at that time, and always called her Mra. Lawson; at the Commercial Hotel, in Mem- phis, she lived alone, he staying with his father; she informed him that she, was not permitted to stay any longer at the hotel on account of his late visits; he generally rode with her late in the even- ing in the company of a couple of ‘fast’ friends of bis; she removed to Schwab’s restaurant, and he lived with her at that place; she then went to New York without bim, as her health was bad; she stopped at thes Albemarle Hotel, and when he jotnea her there they passed as friends only; she lert the house, as the proprietor’s wife requested her to do so because of bad rumors in regard to her character; the St. Nicholas she had to leave for the game reason, the plaintiff telling him that some person—Mr. Woodward, of Memphis, he thought—had given a wrong report of her character to the detective of the hotel; she then went tothe Metropolitan; he left her at the Albemarle in October, 1866, nd did not see her again until February, 1867, when she stopped at the Delavan Hotel, in Al- pany; subsequent his father interfered and wanted her togo to Europe; witnese resented this interference, and said to her that he would not like to break up the connection with her just then; that this was his business and not bis father’s, and that he would settle it tosuit him- self; she was perfectly willing to go to Europe, and only objected to the amount which had been proposed as not being large enough. The witness contradicted all the testimony of the plaintiff and other witnesses tending to show that he had re- cognized or treated her in any way as his wife. He was positive that he never toid Dr. Alexander B. Mott that he was married; he denied BVER HAVING RRAD BER DIARY until he saw it on the first trial; the particular passage in which speaks of herself as his wile, of his Wishing that she might have a child, of her being brought in contact with the drunken liber- tines who were his friends, were instanced by Mr. Anthon, and the witness denied having discussed them with the plaintiffat the time they were writ- ten, or having ever seen them prior to the last trial. Mr, Anthon read part of a letter of the wit- ness, in which he stated that Lizzie would always have a “protector” in him, and asked him if it was true that she ever objected to this term, to which he replied in the negative. He denied having | broken open her trunk to take out her letters, but had taxen @ letter from’ her table, in which one Dumont made an appointment with her; in Louis- ville and other Seago he was registered as Mr. Brinckley and she as Mrs, Lawson; at Bowlin, ; Green he registered as “Hugh L. Brinckley an: lady.” [r, Anthon—Under what circumstances did you leave Louisville t ‘Witness—Sne left because the proprietor of the hotel asked her to, and Lileit because sue left. (Laughter.) Mr. Brinckley went on tostate that they returned to Memphis, where he took a cottage in a seciuded part of the city for her. She removed to the Gay- ssa Hot where he visited her at night. She went to St. Paulin July or August, 1867, while he remained in Memphis. He received a despatch from her tn which she told him that she was in trouble ana wanted some money. ' ‘Mr, Anthon asked whether he had ever written a letter to her in which he nad called her his “wife?” or whether sheihad ever written to him as her sane tae ” but both questions were excluded as ing improper. The witness continued :—They next met in Louts- ville, and there at the hovel he registered as Mr. Brinckley and she as Mrs. Lawson. At the White> more House tn Memphis they took different rooms, HE VISITING HER IN THE EVENING as if he were going to call on her, and came out next morning as {i he had just called on her a lit tle before; the proprietor used very harsh lan- gasge about her and she had to leave; ne made in r presence an arrangement witn Mr. Patterson, one of the proprietors of the Hardwick House, take her there, but Mr. Hardwick objected sub: quently, ased very harsh language and said she could not remain in his house; he did not say that she was his wile, but asked Mr. Hardwick whether he could tell that she was or was not his wife, when he replied, “The hell is full of such wives; he remembered having said that whether she was | his wife or not, she was under his care and he | would protect her; he had some words with Mr. Hardwick, but denied having threatened him with | an Irishman o! gigantic proportions, who wus to pummel him (igughter) ; did not remem- er whether the gentleman who went with him to ace Mr. Hardwick was an Irishman or not (laugh- ter). is then took rooms for her in tbe Adams Block. The rooms above hers were occupied by two ‘‘pro- | tected” women. This was in the fall of 1868, and she stayed there till March 1869, Mr. Anthon asked him it knew of any criminal proceedings which were pending against him at that time (arising from their way of living), but Judge Van Brunt ex- cluded the question. ‘The witness continued that during the whole period of thetr acquaintance the laintif was never recognized by his family. He introduced her in 1867 to his father as “Lizzie.” In’ March 1869 they separated. He nad told her that the connection had existed as long as he could stand and that he felt he could not hold up his head in the community any longer. it had become ‘80 VERY NOTORIOUS AND SCANDALOUS wo se- that {t really could not continue any longer; i | from. the time he had brought her back to Mem- | phis he liad repeatedly spoken to her of a settle- | ment and 4 fina! sepa romised her that in any case, whether sbe leit bim or he left her, be would provide for ber and he thought it right to do so after she had lived with him so many years; he made two alternate proposition: she could have either @ house and lot or $100 month (or the rest of hertife, whichever she chos sne first accepted the $100 a month, then declined It and preserred to accept the house; he had plans drawn up by an architect, which she approved, but declined also this siterwards, saying that she would not have # house anless he occu- pied it with ner; she insisted upon the payment of & sam of money which he did not choose to and then she threatened him with this suit; told her that she had np claim inst him in truth and she replied, ether true or not she Would win the case anyhow; in regard to the house, she said thatif he did not live with her she would get somebody else to live with her; he de- clared that he did not want to start a nouse of that kind in the commanity in which he lived, and 4 that was her intention she had better not have the house; he then saw that she had determined Upon this conspiracy against him and told hat in that case ide the cunsequen They bad questior separation for some time previously ; in fact she saw his uncle, Mr. Lee, about {t; she had said that she coul make aciaim against him under the laws of the State of New York as she had lived long enougo with him; e did not succeed to her claim she would, at all events DRAG HIM DOWN INTO THE DUST and disgrace tim forever. She said she had al- ready flied a bili against him and wanted him to leave ber, as she did not want to bave anything more to do with him, She presented a letter drawn up by her attorney, acknowledging ber as his wife, and said al) Would be might uw he would vee it, He declined, and-called her a fool. She ry # chancery suit againat him in Memphis in March, ter be beld # conversation with 1, and be said to her on that e could never forgive her for filing such ao “infamous, dirty dill!’ in chancery against him. She said her tawyer bad inserted some things wrongly and wished to know i he thought any wore of her, and if tt could not make it u; between them! He replied that he never coul think any more of her aiter the ‘dirty oil” she had filed against tim; thavshe had chosen her course and tnust abide by the consequences. Mr. W, A. Beach croas-examined the defendant in the most searching manner. He rather von- fused bi on the question Oo! the exact date of his | Ores @ommg to the theatre with the plainud, aod Cortina Ousted from the Mayornity ef Matamoros—Present Peace on the Rie Grande. Correspondence of @ very recent date from Northern Mexico shows that General Juan MNe- Grande, chose for their Mayor, has been ousted from the office by Colonel Servando Canales, whe styles himself Governor of the State of Tamaulipas. The following is an extract of @ letter from Nueva THE oes Gone: ts to make Laredv his headquarters. At present he resides in San Antonio. Iisa strange saing that with an extradition treaty in full force between the United states and Mexico Cortina should be to. the right bank of the RioGrande. Have our citi- zens a8 well as the government forgotten that in the criminal courts ‘of Brownsville there are no less than seven indictments for murder and rob- bery hi over the nead of Cortina? Do the} remember the Sheriff of Cameron county ant other worthy citizens were shot down by nis band in the streets of Brownsville? Is there no au- thority siong the trontier who will ask for the ex- tradition of the Mayor of Matamo) General Juan N. Yortina?t Have our representatives in Washington lost signt of Don Juan’s last notabie actin that of offering to extradite a Jersey City defauiter for a consideration, Isiling to receive which he declined to give up the fugitive from justice? Appeal from the Death Sentence in Bee half of the Marderers of Rev. Mr. Stephens—A Little Religious War in the Newspapers. Peper’ wexico Urry, May 1, 1876 ‘The sentenced murderers of Rev. Mr. Stephens were to have been shot on a morning of last week, but a legal question was raieed by their lawyers as to the competency of the Court which convicted them. They were remanded to prison, and the re- ligtous services with which they were being pre- pared for death were suspended. Day before yew terday the Monitor, @ liberal paper which has heretofore sustained the Protestant movement in Mexico, appeared with a brief article, of which the following is a translation:— THE METHODISTS, ; AD individual, supposed to be a preacher, spoke on Sunday in the church on Gaute street, an fer to the assassination of Mr. Stephens, was tuil of improprieties and complaints against Mext- G cans in generni. He ought to understand that ic was not all the Mexicans who perpetrated the assassinations of Ahualalco, and tbat those who have perished at th for being Protestants have been Mexicans. Tne autborities have al: begun to punish severely the criminals, and the liberal press asks toe chas- tisement of those who have not been Jndead ta they should have been, ao that the exaltation of the preacher conid not be nore inopportune. In Massachusetts, which belongs to the tolerané nation of the United States, several Catholica have been assassinated for being so, and the American authorities have not prosecuted the criminals with the necessa energy and activity, and nobody has found fault with the American people theretor. ber Methodist preacher took the trouble to say that was not known in Mexico what a confederation is that neither was the independence of States an- derstood, and that he would explain all and would show up the errors which are committed. Thig Methodist ought not to mix in other people's ess. Let him preach evangelism in his own , but not occupy himself with matters that do not belong to him. In Mexico we do not require mentors of this Kind. PRESS OPINION. Upon this article several of the city papers have commented favorably, one of them suggesting that the police conduct the insulter to the prison it he repeats such remarks, ‘thereupon the pastor of the said church, the Rev, Dr. William H. Cooper, formerly of Chicago, addressed the following letter To tn” Eprror or Ta® Moyrror:— in the Monstor of I find some ill-foundes Observations upon the sermon of Sunday last in the Church of the Holy Trinity. The preacher te whom you refer was in no way whatever ull of impropnieties and complaints avainst the Mexi- cans in general. It seems to me that any (mpar- tial persou would have reflected that the object of the orator was solely to say that Mexico is an un- fortunate country, iaasmach as occurrences still Been themselves aiter the style of Ahualuico. ith reference to myself, as the pastor in charge of the above mentioned church, permit me to say that i do not require any mentor, On tha occasion referred to it was sald (Speaking only of the great majority, which Consists ‘of Romanists) that in Mexico many did not yet understand what ia the fundamen idea of every republic; that ia tO say not that of a monarcay, nor of a despotism, but of a government Of the people tor the people, in which we all have snherent Fights, among which is the right to think and the right to worsuip God, each one according to his own conscience. In saying this, Mr, Editor, 1 understand that 1 es expression to the same sentiments which you ave 80 many times seemed to favor in the cok umns of your appreciable newspaper, and that, therefore, I can in n0 manner be accused of mix- ing, in my preaciing, in matters which do not be- long to or interest me. These are principles which seem to me to tnterest the whole human Trace as mach 4s your iriend and obedient servant, ° WILLIAM H. COOPER. Mexico, April 29, 1874. REPLY. This letter of Rev. W. Cooper's the editor of tht Monitor did not insert tn bis paper as requested, but, reserving its contents from the public, he at tempts a warfare by publishing the following para graph in this morning's issue :— THE METHODISTS. The pastor of the Gaute street church has directed to as @ letter in which he says that Mexico ts an unfortunate country, because crimes like those of Abualuico are still committed here. We want that sainted pastor to inform ag what nation of the earth is Py, then, judged, by the commission of crimes such as that which the Methodists lament and with them all Mexicans. Admitting the basis of this Provestan who pretends to compare us with the Unit States, we declare at once that this last mentioned Republic must be exceeding! happy in view of the virtues of ite Ko Kiux as well as excellences which daily regale the columns which ali the pa- pers of the Union dedicate to the chronicle of crime. With reierence to religious tolerance the United States are not to be envied. What does he say in regard so the fight (we call tt @ pronuncia- mento) of July, 1871, in the very streets of New York between the Orangemen and we do not member what other fanatics? ‘The truth is, to an derstand what a republic ts we had onl the arrival of our good Meth it seems, is a perfect wel The Monitor ta for tolerance in virtue of reasong which the pastor of Gaute street may not under- nd; but we are not for fanaticisin, which we attack, whether among Catholics or Protestants, or, finally, among any kind of ignorant peopie after tue style of the prescuers of Sunday, BOSTON AROUSED, Effort to Retain the Cunard Line of Steamers at That Port—Resolutions in Favor of a Reduction of Railroad Freights. . Boston, May 20, 1874. An adjourned meeting was held to-day of thé conference committees of the Boston Board of ; Trade and the Boston Commercial Exchange, whe are considering the subject of the contemplated witndrawal of the Cunard steamers from this port. A series of resolutions was offered and ado} earnestly requesting the Boston and Albany road Cece (Which, with ite connections, at the present time constitutes the main line of commu- cation between Boston and the interior) to es tablish its rates of freight and guarantee of weights to and from Boston, and maintain them In good faith for atleast one year on the sate basis aa may exist (rom time to time to and (romNow York. The committee further asks that no, printed tari be taken as a guide sor the arrangement, but actual contracts, ‘The attention of the company ts called to condition of the export business here two years ago When this arrangement substantially existed, and When the charges on grain at the Kas ances | clevator were what (t is aow suggest viet only be again. At vhat time bustiess by the capacity of toe elevator and supply of tom Dage avalable