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Dts _ ee FRANCE. The Political Situation Ex. cited and Serious. THE MINISTRY IN DANGER. MacMahon Defiant of Party Coalitions. PaRIs, July 6, 1874. ‘The political situation 1s serious, The Legitimists have resolved to make an attempt to unseat the Present Ministry on the interpellation in regard to the suspension of Z’Union, which comes before | the Assembly next Tuesday. They are negotiating with the Leit to obtain its ‘support. A counter coalition of the Left Centre with the Right Centre in favor of M. Casimir Perier's Con- | stitutional bill 1s also proposed. MACMAHON SUPPORTS HIS MINISTERS. There is ground for tie belief that Marshal MacMahon has intimated to the Leg.timists that he will not accept the resignation of the ministry, even if it ts defeated; and it 1s reported that he will send @ message to the Assembiy on Tuesday. WHERE I8 CHAMBORD? Arumor ts current that the Count ae Chambord ‘has been in Versailles several days. AMERICANS STILL MORE FREE. Le Francais says passports are no longer re- quired of Americans, who are placed on the same footing, in this respect, as subjects of countries ad- jacent to France, SPAIN. General Zabala’s Address to the Army of the North. “he National Army Blessed by the Pope. Maprip, July 5, 1874. Genefal Zabala has taken command and held a review of the Army of tne Nort. Me has informed his oMicers that he “comes to fight the insurgents, nd intends to sink all political symputhies and opinions in the struggle.” Generals Echagne and Martinez Campos have resigned, THE NATIONAL BANNER BLESSED BY THE POPE. Tne Pope has telegraphed his benediction to the National army in response to congravulations for- warded to Rome on the anniversary of his acces- ton to the See of St. Peter. Carlist Operations Against Bilbao. BAYONNE, July 5, 1874. The Carlists have again invested Bilbao on all | aides except towards the yea. Royalist Generals Repluced by Radicals. Lonpon, July 6, 1874. A special despatch from Madrid says:—The two Generals who resigned from the Army of the North ate well known supporters of the preten- sions of the Prince of Asturias. Generals Moriones and Lagerna, radivals, have een appointed in their places. GERMANY, + «fetholic Effort for a Free Church. LONDON, July 6—5:30 A. M. A special despatch to the Daily Telegraph trom Fulda says the Roman Catholic bysvopa seek a settlement of the issue with the Prussian Goy- ernment in a total separation o1 Church and State, THE “FOURTH” iN EUROPE. Lonpon, July 5, 1874. The anniversary of American Independence was eolebrated at St. Petersburg with a dinner at the United States Legation, Minister Jewell presiding. In Lisbon a séte was given by the American ‘Minister, whose oficial residence was handsomely decorated, At Paris there was a liberai display of American flags at the Legation and elsewhere, but no formal Celebration took place. TANGIERS. Lonpon, July 6, 1874. ‘The revolt at Tangiers has been suppressed and vorder is restored, SENEGAMBIA. Lonpon, July 5, 1874. ‘The attack on the Portuguese possessions in “Senegambia was made by one o1 the native chiels in the neighborhood, not by the convicts, as was at first reported. The natives are said to have captured 300 pris- oners, IULNESS OF MINISIER AVERY, SAN FRANCISCO, July 5, 1874. Hon. Benjamin P. Avery, the newly appointed Minister to China, has been confined to his vhouse for several days past by a seri- ous illness, which has caused his triends much alarm, but his condition was more ‘hopeful to-day. It is hardly possible, however, that he will be able to saii on the 15th inst., as was previously intenaed. THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION, ‘Its Progress Toward the Unknown Land— General Custer’s Orders. Sr. Lovts, July 6, 1874, A special from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, says: “A courier (rom, Custer’s expedition reports the | command twenty miles west of the Missourt River at noon yesterday, No Indians had been seen. Custer’s orders prohibit firing on the Indians unless they show umistakable signs of hostility. Five soldiers and one teamster were eunstruck yesterday. §8AD DROWNING AT BUFFALO. Four Persons Lost from a Capsized Boat. BurFALo, N. Y., July 5, 1874, About five o'clock last evening eight persons, four of each sex, hired a boat and went Jor a sail on the lake. After being out about an hour an attempt was made to jibe around to return, when the boat capsized and the party were thrown into the water. The following were drowned:—John Langley, of Chicago, and William Forrest, of Port Stanley, Canada, first and second mates ot the steamer Annie Vought; Mary Kurtz, of Erie, Pa, and Lizzy Glass, of this city. The others held on to the side of the boat, and, after being an hour and a half in the water, were rescued by the tug H. L Smith, returning from a moonlight excursion. DROWNED IN THE BOSTON FROG POND, Boston, Mass., July 6, 1874, The body of a weil dressed man, apparently thirty-five years of age, was found drowned in the Frog Pond on Boston Common yesterday morning. The water was not over two feet deep. He proba- bly fell in while intoxicated. His name is un- known. & WOMAN DROWNED AT COHOES, Conors, N. Y., July 6, 1874. The decomposed body of a female was found Goating in the Mohawk Kiver this afternoon, The Gress consisted of lavender silk, and she had green kid gloves, a gold ting and black bracelet lined with folds Coroner Fieming has guarge of the GREAT WIND AT WASHINGTON. Immense Damage Done to Property—Large Number of Houses Unroofed, Stecpies Buined, Trees Uprooted and People In- jured—Lives Supposed To Be Lost. WasuINaton, July 5, 1674. A tornado of unusual severity passed over this city (ast evening in & southeasterly direction, un- roofing whole blocks of houses, uprooting trees | scattering Vegetation, snapping tron awning frames like slender bits of wood, and completely destroying all telegraphic commuaication with other parts of the country. APFROACH OF THE TORNADO, ‘The day had been remarkably pleasant, gentle | breezes making the July heat tolerable. Toward | evening the northern heavens were banked with | heavy clouds, deepening to @ stormy blue, when | suddenly, about eignt o’clock, the base of the vaporous formation became intensely | red, the sky suddenly darkened, and | in an instant, without warning, the tor- nado had struck the city. Its advent was | in the northern central part of Washington, in the neighborhood of the State Department. The first | row which disputed the Jorce of the angry wind is | located on Connecticut avenue, not far from the boundary, The rin roofing cormice and boarding were swept up and let down in contusion flity feet | from the dwellings. On T street, corner of Fil- | teenth, ts a block of two story dwellings. . Eight ot the houses parted company with their roofing, while the chimneys were tossed off as though but a feather’s weight. Passing in still a soutbeust- erly direction vne-nalf of the roofot a brick dwell- tng was suddeniy huried against the plate gluss of the parior windows of a dwelling on the opposite side of S street, smashing the glass and sash to pieces. The inmates were hardiy aware of the terrifying event when the whole block of fliteen residences in the row was unrooled, Continuing in its mad career one-haif of the fine dwellings in Corcoran street, next be- low S street, were mace roofless. Tin rooting rolled up like paper, and was left to rest in the street or the back yards of the unlortunate prem- ises, The wind gratified it-elf by a flank move- ment, and made a# three story house two stories high with greater promptness and neatness than | any work done by the Board of Public Works tn ita tornado ravages through Washington. TUE PATH OF THE FURIOUS WIND next lay against the State Deparcment. The fencing was ruthlessly toru from its base and strewn about the ground like driftwood, but the building escaped unharmed. Down Fourteenth | street, with more fury than a wild bull, the tor- nado took deligut in playing pranks wita the pa- latial mansions on Vermont avenue, disregarded the hallowed precincts of the Lutieran Memorial church, crossed over to the house of Senator Mor- rill, of Vermont, tore the brick facing irom his dweiling, darted down @ Darrow pathway and | made a lumber pile of the ro0.8 of ex-Mayor Bow- en’s and Kear Admiral Bailey's, Dr. Bliss’ and Jobn 0, Evans’ residences, The wind then veered to the northeast, passed along N street, un:oofing | many of the finest dwellings in that iocality, until it reached the central part of the city, paying its compliments to the elegant residences of Justice Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court; Juige McArthur, of the District Supreme Court, and us reckless career did not omit its spite against tie residence of J. G. Holland, of the Associated Press, ‘The path oi the tornado then changed to g souti- westerly direction, ripping off the tops of houses cleaner than @ planing macnine does the rough side of a boara, until it struck the lofty Kelso spire on the Metropojitan Methodist church, where the President worships. It must have been a violent struggle between THE POWERS OF DARKNESS and the finger of devotion. The latter would not ! bend nor break, but the wind succeeded in top- pling its base enough to make it unsaie, so that the loity spire will have to be torn down for | Safety's sake. Along Pennsylvania avenue neither | awnifgs, housetops nor bay windows were ex- empt from damage. In South Washington the | wind skipped 9nd played fantastic tricks with a hundred roois, and thence to Capitol Hill, where the finest dwellings in the eastern section of the | city were uncovered, DAMAGE OUTSIDE THE CITY. The path of the tornado was about twelve miles wide, but owing to the severity of the storm and the interruption o! telegraphic communication | until a late hour to-day bat little is. Known of the damage done outside the city. The Episcopal church was totally destroyed and the Methodist church at Beltsville, Md., pariially destroyed. The former 18 but a pile of bricks, Between that | point and Washington vegetation and the truit trees are totally lost, and so all along the path of the wind storm. Down the Potomac the excursion steamers were struck between one and ten miles from the city; but all arrived safely, though far be- hind time. How many sail and pleasure boats were capsized no one has been able thus far to as- certain, The tornado passed into Virginia across Alexandria, doing much damage to tie shipping and dwellings, and sped its way southward, sttil | carrying destruction in its path. The steamers | which leit Baltimore yesterday for Point Lookout, tu remiorce the Sixth Maryland infantry encamped at the place, were tossed about like tiny boats and compeiled to keep astream, fearing to land, THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION. With the storm came sudden darkness. All the | the dust and loose dirt about Washington were | suddenly caught up in a cloud and hurled over the city. It swept down the principal avenues and streets, knocking down broadchesved pedestrians, upsetting venicles and making the credulous be- lieve the comet's tall had realiy struck the earth, | In Uniontown, near Washington, great trees were twisted off in the middle of their trunks and thrown against frame dwellings, crushing in the roofs and tearing down chimneys. Following the tornado came A DELUGE OF RAIN. So to the loss sustained by the tornado came the double loss of having the ceiling and walls of the dwellings ruined by water, to say nothing of tue extensive dagnage done to furniture. As yet there have been no REPORTS OF LOSS OF LIFE, though many persons’ were more or less injured by the falling of timbers. To-day hundreds of me- chanics have been employed in making the shat- | | tered houses tenantable, Careful estimaces have , been made of the damage done in this section and the loss is put down in round numbers at A MILLION OF DOLLARS. This appeared as extraordinary when first an- nounced, but a survey of the field and the extent of the damage done by water in connection with that done by the wind fully justifies the estimate given. Storm at Lewistown. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 6, 1874. The storm at Lewistown yesterday was more of the nature of a tornado, The roofs of the Coleman House in the town and the lower hotel at the de- pot were blown of and several other houses were damaged, The steeples of the Lutheran and Pres- byterian churches were blown down. The total number killed, so far as heard from, is seven, and five are injured and several others are missing, The Mifin boys Lt as base bail with tae Lewistown boys, and had taken refuge in the railroad bridge from the storm. ‘Travel on the main line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road will not be interrupted by the fall of the bridge at Lewistown, The main line runs on the south bank of the Juniata, Lewistown is on the north bank and the Lewistown and Sunbury Ratl- road crosses the bridge. The telegraph wires are all down between Harrisburg and Lewistown, and no news can be got that way to-night, AN EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON. Hailstones the Size of Oranges. One ..of the most extraordinary phenomena ever witnessed in this country took place on the Fourth of July in Bergen County, | New Jersey. About a quarter of six P. M, in the village of Westwood, during the | celebration of the day, a sudden darkness came | over the village, and, before the aiarmed inhabi- | the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, | He has not yet been found. | Locust | with him. NEW YURK HERALD, MUNDAY, JULY 6, 1874—WITH SUPPLEME iz Hailstones two inches and a half in diameter, and @s hard and heavy as cobble stones, came down in @ furious shower, Hens and chickens were killed in large numbers; cows and horses were stunned. The frightened populace ran in every direction, seeking sheiter in sheds, beneath trees and in every available spot. Fortunately the majority escaped without injury, A young lady named Miss Bogart was, however, struck on the hand by one of the bailstunes and ber wrist and arm fright- fully lacerated. At the Ridgewood House, in the village, an enormous amount of damage was done. Nota single pane of glass was leit whole in the building, and, incredible as it may appear, the hailstones actuaily broke through the slate roof, a8 i they had been caunon bails. The storm cov- ered an area of vbout twenty-five miles, str ing trom Laine Valiey to Kinder Kamack. storm prevailed at its utmost at the stations of Pascack and Ridgewood, whwh are on the Hack- ensack branch of the Erie Raiiroad, and the depots were compietely riddied, a8 though @ battle had | been tought in the neighborhood. As late as s1x o'clock yesterday morning hailstones were picked up at the station the size of Walnuts, Through the section of the country where tue storm raged & most perfect sceve of desolation can be witnessed. very tree is stripped o: its fruit, grain fields of | rye and corn laia jow, and the hope of bay this tall | ig utierly gone. The sensation created in the vi- | cinity was, as might be imagined, tremendous, in | | one sewing muchine factory, just above Ridge- | | wood, over 1,000 panes of glass Were broken and | the siate roof damayved. The suower cont'nued ior | Just thirty minutes and in this suort space of time | damage to the ay.ount of many thousands of dol- | lars was done, The hailstones, op an average, were the size of turkey eggs and of every conceiv- able shape, with snarp corners and edges that cut | like knives, During the continuation of the suower | the thunder and lightning was incessant, and with the screaming of men, women and children and | the shrieks of afrighted cattle, the scene was one truly awtul. STORM ALONG THE HUDSON. PouGHKEEPSI£, N. Y., July 5, 1874. There was a heavy thunder storm along the | Hudson last night. Aland slide on the HudBon River Railroad at Coxsackie threw an emigrant | train from the track. No person was injured. A | land slide at Spuyten Duyvil detained the freignt | express one hour andatall, A heavy hailstorm at Dudiey’s Grove did considerable damage. WEATHER REPORT. fen iat Bee War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuineron, D. C., July ¢—1 A. M. | Probabilities. For New ENGLAND AND THE MIDDLE STATES CLEAR OR CLEARING WBATHER WILL PRBVAIL, | WITH NORTHEAST WINDS SHIFTING TO EASTERLY AND SOUTHERLY, RISING TEMPERATURE AND RISING FOLLOWED BY FALLING BAROMETER, For the South Auiantic and Gulf States generally clear and warm weather; in the tnterior, light i rains; near the coast, port or west winds; eust | of the Mississipp! River, east or south winds; in | the Western Gulf States, rising temperature and | high barometer. | For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley partly cloudy Weather, south or west winds, high temperature and slight changes in the barometer, For the lake region and the Northwest gener- | ally clear weatuer, except near Lakes Superior | and Huron, southeast to southwest winds, station- | ary or rising temperatare and falling barometer. Northeasterly gales will prevail off the middle and east Atlantic coasts. c The Weather in this City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building: . 1874. 1873, 1874, 70 3:30 PM. 4 69 6 P.M. 12 . 72 OPM. 68 12M. 79 74 12 PM, 68 Average temperature yesterday. Average temperature for corresponding date last year.. MELANOZOLY AGOIDENT, A Boy Shot Dead by the Firing of a! Patriotic Salute. PATERSON, N. J. July 56, 1874. Yesterday afternoon, four boys at Passaic went out rowing on the river. At the same time some of their young friends on shore begun firing off a salute irom a smal cannon loaded with ball and cartridge. One of the boys im the boat fired of a pis- tol similarly loaded, and a ball from some one of | the weapons penetrated the throat of Willie, aged ; tuirteen years, son of Wiillam 8, Anderson, vue of the jeading merchants of the place. The boy leaped Up, jumped in the river, swam tu shore and ran about forty jeet, when he Jell .ead. One of his companions, the son of another lead- | ing citizen, 1m fright ran off and hid in the woods, | FATAL ACCIDENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS, Worcester, July 5, 1874. Frank Hibbert, of South Boston, feli trom a der- rick used in the construction of the soldiers’ mon- ument in this city, Friday night, and died from the injuries Saturday morning. Mrs. Micuael Kerns was shot inthe neck Satur- day by some unknown person, and cannot re- cover, The ball entered tne back of the neck, aud s3e was completely paralyzed, FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY IN OINCINNATI, CINCINNATI, July 5, 1874. At Ripley, Ohio, last night, Jonm Coslett and his son Taylor were shot, the latter killed, by Charles Swisher, who was visiting Coslett’s daughter . against her father’s consent. An altercation en- sued in Coslett’s house and ended tn Swisher shoot- ing him in the thigh, Swisher fed, accompanied by Coslett's daughter, when they met Taylor Cos- lett and another brother op the street, who pur- sued them in order to pring back tne girl, Knowing nothing of the afray at home. Swisher fired at his pursuers, striking Tavior in the abdomen, causing death in one hour, arrested, ey A DRUNKEN SOLDIER KILLED. Sr. Louis, Mo., July 5, 1874. Oscar Gueasky, @ soldier of the United States Ordnance Department, stationed at Jef ferson Barracks, encountered Andrew Brai- ley a corner of Sixth and | 8, last night, and got into a quarrel Gueasky received two stabs with @ ocket Kuife and died almost instantly, Bradley ias been arrested, Both men were drunk at the time. on it street: BURGLARISM IN PROVIDEKOE. PROVIDENCE, R. I., July 5, 1874. Last night a burglar entered the house of tie Hon. Wm. Chase, in the northern part of this city, which was occupied only by two old people, A noise was heard, and a search made without any | result, After the family had retired the burglar | pag the room of Abbott Eddy, brother of Mrs. hase. On hearing the burglar Mr. Eddy raised au outcry, When he was attacked, and badly, if not | fatally, hurt. Mrs. Chase heard the outcry, and | being greatly alarmed died immediately, either | from rupture of a blood vessel or disease of the | heart. She was a daughter of the late Judge Eddy, | and aged seventy-one years. The burglar escaped, leaving behind him his hat and boots, BALLOON ASCENSION IN RHODE ISLAND, PROVIDENCE, July 5, 1874, Independence Day was celebrated here with More spirit than for some years past. The city was filled with people and the exercises passed off pleasantly, with a very few slight accidents, Lieutenant Governor Van Sandt delivered the city oration. The exercises also included military and PEW petra fed aregatta on the Seekonk River and a batloon ascension, Mr. J. K. Allen went up in E and landed ly allen’s father made an ascension from Boston | Common ar@ his brother Ezra trom Wrentham, Mass, the latter landing in Medford. Rain set in about dark and rendered the evening very quiet. THE OHIO RACES, CoLumBus, Juiy 5, 1874, The races yesterday brought together an im- mense audience, ‘The first race, for a purse of $1,000, was won by Mattie Lyle taking the third, fifth and sixih heats in 2:56) 2:36 and 2:37, The first and second heats were won by Catskill in 2:34 and 2:35. The foarth heat was given to Jean Ingelow; no time recorded, Ten horses started; three distanced im the first heat. ‘The second race run was for thrve-year-olds, for | A purse of $400. ‘The first heat was won by Nellie Bush in 1:46, and the next three heats by Tow | Boston in L:4odq, 1:46 and 1:53, In the next race, a iree for fl trot, for a purse of $1,500, three started. Red, Cloud took the first heat in 222845; Huntress “ok the second heat, | Neilie the third and also th fourth heat, by hal! a | Tengih, th 252454. | | tants could seek shelter, a violent storm of nail- ( stones descended upon tue heady of the crowd, Night coming om ‘the, race was postponed tiil Monday, | thirty-seven days of careful and laborious investi- | Ordnance, the President approved both the find- | ance of the law 18 no excuse, Swisher is not yet § WASHINGTON. The Report of the Howard Court of Inquiry. THE PRESIDENT’S ACTION. Revised Regulations Relat- ing to Patents. WASHINGTON, July 5, 1874. The Court of Inquiry in the Case of Gen- eral Howard—Opinion of the Judge Advocate General. ‘The order in the Howard Court of inquiry was promulgated by the War Department yesterday. it contains the findings and opinions of the Court and the approval of the findings only by the Presi- dent, The Court reviews ali the points presented in the letter of tne Secretary of War to Congress, and in nearly all mportant matter makes a very favorable showing tor General Howard. The Court adopted the opinion by a majority of one, Sher- man, Meigs, Keynolds and Miles voting for the opinion, and McDowell, Pope and Getty dissent- ing. The review ofthe Judge Advocate, General Hoit, is adocument of over 100 pages, and is tn many parts severely condemnatory of the Court. Following the findings is the opinion of the Cuurt, which is as follows:— First—The Court is of opinion that, in the mat- ters referred to it for imvestigation, General 0, 0. Howard has not, with kouowledge and intent, Violated any law of Congress, reguiatioa of tne army or any rule of movais, and hat he is not guilty upon legal, technical or moral responsivility in any of the offences charged, Second—The Court finds that General Howard, When charged by his superiors with @ great work arising out of the war, devoted his whole tine and all ais faculties and enecvies to the execution of that work. In this he employed hundreds 0 as- sistants and dealt with hundreds of thousands of men. lo regard to the expenditure of money it appears that his accounts are closed and settled to the satisfaction 01 the accounting ofticers of the ‘Treasury, Whose decisions in such matters are Ly jaw the highest authority, fnai and conclusive, upon the executive branch ot the government and su oject to revision only by Congress or the proper Courts, Lhird—in relation to the investment of certain Public money in United States bonds, while the Court does not hold that such investments were justified by existing laws, yet in view o1 the fact that these investinents were made only under the opinion and advice of the Second Comptroller, the Court attachés no blame to Generai Howard there- for. The investments oi portions of a similar Jund—viz,, the ‘irregular bounty fund,’? had pre- viously been authorised by express law. Fourth—Some questions arising out of the sud- den termination o1 the operations anc organiza- tion of the Freedmen’s Bureau yet remain to oe settled with those who were tormerly subordi- nates and assistants to the Commissioner. Jew erroneous payments made by honest suborai- nates, and some others made or not made by otticers now dead or Cashiered for fraud remain to be adjusted, The adjustment of these matters be- longs properly to tne successors of General How- ard inthe Bureau, and in taese matters, as m all others brougnet to the notice of the Court during gation, the Court finds that Gencral Oliver 0. | Howard did bis whole duty, and belteves that he | deserves well of his country. ‘rhe toregoing report and opinion having been submitted, with the proceedings, to the President, the following are the orders thereon:— The finding of the Court of Inquiry is approved. U.S. GKAN' Tn the last Court of Inquiry of any national im- portance, that of General A. B. Dyer, Chief of ing and opinion of the Court. The action of the President in approving only the finding places the Court, the majority of which always constitate the opinion of the whoie Court, in an unpleasant posi- tion, The Judge Advocate General, in concluding his opinion, alter giving at great length what appear to him the vulnerable points of the proceedings, saysi— The foregoing is believed to present an impar- | Iwo New Lighthouse Districts To Be Es- Position, print, cut, engraving, photograph, paint. ing, drawing, chromo, statue, statuary or model, r design intended to be perfected and completed as a work of fine art, by inscribing upon some visible portion thereof, or of the substance on which the same shail be mounted, the following Words:—“Kiatered according to act ot Congress, in the year —-, by A. B., in the office of the Li- brarian of Congress, at Washington,” or, at hia option, the word “copyright,” together with the year the copyright was entered, and the name ot the party by whom it was taken out, thus:— “Copyright, 18—, by A.B.” For according and certifying any instrument of writing for the as- signment of copyright the Librarian shall re- ceive trom the persons to whom the service is rendered $1, and for every copy of an assignment $1, said fee to cover in either case a certificate of the record, under seal of the Librarian of Con- | gress, and all fees so received sali be paid | into the Treasury of the United States, In the construction of this act the words “engraving,” “cut and ‘print’? shall ve applied only to pictorial tilustrations, or works connected with the fine arts, and no prints or labels designed to be used for any other articles of manufacture shal! be entered under the Copyright law, but may be registered in the Patent Office. The Commissioner of Patents is | chargea with the supe.vision andicontrol of tue | entry or registry 01 such prints or labels, in com- formity with the reguiations provided by law as to copyright of prints, except there shall be paid for recording the title of any print or label not @ trade mark $6, which shall cover the ex- | pense of furnishing* acopy of the record under the seal of the Commissioner of Patents to the | party entering the same. This act is to take eifect on and after the the Ist day of August next. The District of Columbia Government. The District of Columbia Commi:sioners, having organized, will commence the transaction of busi- ness to-morrow, The event affords general satisfac- ton, the community being satisfied with the good character and executive abilities of the Commission- ers, The joint select committee to frame a gov- ernment ior the District have not yet formally en- | tered upon their duties. They are required to re- | port at the next session of Congress. Citizens who | have permanent interests, including the heaviest taxpayers, do not desire that su‘Trage shall ve restored, as matters concerning the District are merely local, mainly confiued to taxation and the expenditure of money, and have no intimate connection with party politics. Apart from tne condemnation by Congress of the late Board of Public Works, the way that elections to the Legis- lative Assembly have been conducted and the re- Suits have disgusted the more orderly portions of the community with the abuse of the ballot. The reflecting citizens express their gratification at the indication that Congress is disposed to provide such form of government for the District as will | separate tt from party politics, that body having | appointed two republicans and two democrats to frame an organic law. And they say that the District, as the national metropolis, thus separated from party politics, will secure more friends than heretofore, when every party for the time being in posse-sion of the gen- eral government so acted as to turn the District In favor or the administration in order to influence politics in the several States by pointing to public sentiment here as indicative of its popularity at the seat of government, The Military Headquarters in St. Louis. The staff of General Sherman includes six om- cers—namely, General Whipple and Colonels Bacon, Auaenretd, Tourtelotte, McCoy and Poe. It is not certain the two last named will accompany the General to St. Louis. The Pope property in that city has been engaged as tne headquarters. The National Executive Business. It is the intention of the President to return to Washington every two or three weeks to transact such business as may require his presence here. | tablished. Congress having appropriated $50,000 for new | lighthouse surveys, two new districts are to be es- tial summary of the evidence in the case. In pe forming this duty of revision prescribed by la and devoiving upen this office by order of President, the It has been found necessary to ampliiy very concise avstracts of the facts renderea by tuis Court. The statement exhibited in tho re- | port ts the result of a thorough examination of tue evidence on the record, ‘the case presents very little conflict of testumony, and it is believed that | the acts stated are only those respecting which there ia no question. Tue provisions of | the law which are regarded as governing these iacts have been likewise plainly set forth as they appear upon the statute book. Mf, therefore, this report indicates any conclusions diferent from those reached py this Court, the issue thus raised can be readily derermined upon the facts and legal principles applicable to them, The Court finds that General Howard has not, with knowleage and intent, violated any law of Congress, regulation of the army or rule Ol morals. So far ag this deciares that he has not acted ina spirit of deflance or contempt of law, or from | any corrupt, ser eeeking motive, no reason is found in evideuce for any dissent irom this opinion, His conduct, must, however, ve | further judged by the Jamiliar maxim that ignor- and that @ man is presumed to cuntemplaie the natural conse- quences of his own acts, When the Commissioner ofthe Freedman’s Bureau was intrusted by Cou- gress with the duty ol taking better care than Jormerly that pay and bounty should be faithtully paid to the colured people, he not only failed to | provide an eificient system for the execution of this trust, but adopted one which rejected sateguaras, which had been previously ob- served a8 wholly inagequate and productive of mistake and ignorance of jaw. Many duties or inexperience in administration, though com- bined with good intentions, ure matters of pal Liasion, not of justification. ff, with oulv some ex- cuse, General Howard sanctioned and used a sys- and method of accounts which failed to truly show the discharge of trusts from which they erved to acquit him, some jadgment must be pro- nounced. Ji, when General Howard, desirous of increasing the revenues uf his bureau, conceived the idea of converting public money into bonds, and dia not report tuis scheme to his superior otticer, the Secretary of War, but, upon the mere verbal advice of one accounting officer of the ‘Treasury, effected such conversion in violation of | positive law, his ignorance of that aw is no ex- cuse that can be saiely recognized under suca a form of government a8 ours. li investments of puptic money, for which by law General Howard ‘was responsible, haviug been made by his orders, as above stated, he fatled to require a proper ac- count of the fact to be rendered, so that his subor- dinate constantly for nearly two years reporied tat money thus invested as cash in the Treasury of the United States; and, further, if General How- ard jailed to cause a report to be made of the In- terest of these investments for a long time aiter the period prescribed by law, so that tne fact vl one investment of a sum so large as three hun- dred thou: doliars for 4 whole year was not known to the Secretary of War until nearly three years alter ithad been recopverted into money, and no account was rendered of this interest ior ue same period although such an account ts ad- mftted to have been placed in General Howard's hands more than two years beiore it was given to the Treasury; and, if, When the account Is made, it 19 ound to cover a charge to the amount of six- teen thousand dollars once beiore paid out of other public money, then the serious question arises Whether this delay, contrary to law, in ac- counting for the expenditure, by which a deficit iay concealed for three years, 18 not due to gross neglect of duty on the part of the Com- missioner, @nd this question is not answered by the mere excuse that the conversion of was sanctioned by the Second 4 public money Comptroller, and that for the management of this investments and its profits, there Is a subordinate of a commissioner who can ve held responsibie, If General Howard, upon assuming personally this duty of disbursing officer, upon relief therefrom of his assistant, recetved from him the alleged bal- ance of a fund of whick the Commissioner was by act of Congress lawiul custodian and trustee, failed to take any measures to secure any vouchers of the remainder, go that there is no compiete account extant of the disbursement of some $120,000 of the fand, ana did further neglect to account for or transier said balance until six months after he was relieved from duty: then, for ali this, pressure of other public business and forgetiulness are also matters of palliation and not of excuse, It 18 deemed unnecessary to pursue \his train of illustration at greater length. ina much as the facts, Lully set forth m this report, in | connection with ruies of law governia¢g them, are not deemed to call for further comment. It 18 to be observed, in conclusion, that with whatever induigence or commendations the pres vailing spirit wnieh characterized General How- ard’s performance of his arduous and responsible duties may be regarded, it is believed that tn an expression of sueh induigence or commendation, | care should be taken to give no sanction, express or implied, to manifest violations of law whiclt this investigation has prought to light. and which have hereinvefore been fully commented on. The New Regalatiens for the Issuance and Holding of Patents. The new law relating to patents, trade marks ahd copyrights provides that no person shalt Inaintain an actton for the Infringement of, his copyright unless be shall give notice thereol by inserting in the several copies of every Qdition | port for their arguments tn favor of reducing tablished, having jurisdiction over the Mississippi | and the Missouri. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “ayaa” is promised for Pesth next winter. Herr Johann Strauss has returned to Vienna after his Italian tour. Nilsson’s “Edith Plantagenet,” mano,” is much praised. bf Herr Herbeck, of Vienna, as recetved from his Emperor the Iron Cross and a patent of nobility. Through the efforts of Mme. Gortschakoff, and at her expense, Glinka’s opera, “Life for the Czar,” was brought out at Milan. Mme. Arabella Goddard has created unwonted enthusiasm in East Indian musical circles by her wonderfal powers as a pianist. A prevalent report that MM, Strakosch and Ferri are the new directors of the Russian opera houses | is inexact. The new impresario is Signor Pollini, who ts now im London making engagements. During the past Italian season at tne San Carlo, Lisbon, “La Favorita” was given fliteen times; “Matilda dai Shabran,” fourteen times ; ‘“Faust,’’ eleven times; ‘“Dinorah,” nine times; “I Purl- tani,” eight times; ‘La Forza del Destino,” eight times; “Poliuto,” seven times; “Rigoletto,” five times; “Saffo,’’ five times; “Il Trovatore,” twice ; “Lucrezia Borgia,” twice; “Il Barbiere,” once and “Lucia di Lammermoor,” once. The advocates of cremation may find some sup- ia “fl Talis- deceased persons to ashes ,with all convenient | speed, from the fact reported by a foreign journal that the skull of Donizetti has been found in a posi- tion which cannot but be most painiul to the ad- mirers of departed genius, It appears that the physician who made a post mortem examination of Donizetti's remains asked leave to keep the | upper part of the skull, which, as long as he lived, he duly preserved as a venerated relic of the com- poser. The physician died, however, bequeatbing his property to a nephew of utilitarian proclivities, who, finding the prectous skull among his uncle’s treasures, and being in business as a grocer, con- verted it into a scoop for the reception of coppers paid over the counter. The municipality of Ber- gamo, where this shocking desecration took place, became aware of the fact and claimed the memento mori. } —————— ates a LE. Appeal to the Goverucr Decided On. THE MAYOR'S MUDD An | Proposed Action by the Aldermen. The announcement, published exclusively tn the HeRALD of yesterday, with regard to the course of action which the Board of Aldermen havo dec ded to take in order to bring about the impeachment of the Mayor aud his subsequent removal frora onice by the Governor, together with the report of 4 meeting Of @ Dumber of prominent citizens with the Deputy Attorney General. at which it was de- termined to bring the question of the right of the | two convicted Police Commissioners to hold office | before the courts for decision, and at the same time test (he constitutonaiity of their reappointment, ‘ormed the subject of general conversation in alt piaces wherever two or three politicians were gathered together. THE POLICE PAY. Another subject which appeared to be 4 matter | Of universal comment was the manner in which the members Of the police force are likely to be the sufferers by the existing condition of affairs, luasinuch that up to the present time no arrange- ments have been made looking towards the liqat- dation of the pay-rolls tor the past month. A re- port was circulated a few days since that certaim banks had agreed to advance funds suMcient to pay off the men, but this has been ascer- tained to be incorrect. The patroimen and others will therefore ha walt yet a while loager. COMMISSIONER DISBECKEK JSES TO ACT WITH GARDNER. The management of the business affairs of the Police Department is now at a deadiock, such @ state will continue to exist until definite aud decisive action on the part of the Gow. evnor or the urts of law bas been rendered whereby the status of Messrs. Gardner and Chur- lick shall be determined, Commissioner Disbecker bas distinctly refused to attend any meeting fur the purpose 6; organization with the reappointed Commissioners until suck time as he has obtatned the opinion of his legal adviser upon tne constitutiouality of the Mayor's action, and the right o Gardner and Charlick tw act as Police Commissioners, As his counsel has already expressed himself as opposed to the action oi Mayor Havemeyer, and that they (Gardner and Charlick) were by reason of their conviction inelt- gible jor reappoiatment, it will readily be under- Stood that the deadlock 1s likely to be continued. WHAT IS TO BE DONE. A meeting was heid yesterday aiternoon at the Hoffman House by the same parties referred to im yesterday's HERALD, among wiom were Mr. John Kelly, Mr. George W. Wingate and Mr. J. KR. Fel- lows, who represent Tammany Hall, the Political Reiorm Association, and others, and Mr. Henry Le Chnton, who 1s to actin the interest of several prominent citizens whose names tt is requested shall not be published tor the present, aad Deputy Attorney General Fairchild, jor tne purpose of finally consid action — which consultation was had, extending several hours, during which the papers in the matter were ail gone over and revised ta order to revent any possivility of mistake. It was finally determined, as the quickest manner in which a de- cisive result could be obtained, for the coun-el mentioned above to proceed to Albany on Tues- day aiternoon, and on their arrival on Wednesday morning to present a petition, with their argu- ments in support tf necessary, to the Governor, asking for the suspension of the Mayor for thirty days, pending an investigation, on the groune that he has VIOLATED HIS OATH OF OFFICR on the following occasions, viz. :— In retusing to take action with regard to the complaint oi the Board o1 Aldermen as to the re- moval of certain Inspectors of Election by Police Commisstoners Gardner and Charlick as substan- tially contained in the charges preferred aud proved by the late trial. In retusing to take any action upon the resolu- tion adopted by the Board of Aldermen a served apon bim asking for an investigation inte the affairs of the Street Cleaning Bureau, which was shown should be subjected to a rigid investiga- tion by the report of the committee of the Legis- jature, In that he had reappointed Commissioners Garener and Chariick to office in contravention of the statutes and the charter, whereby they were debarred from occupying any oficial posi- | tion by reason of their conviction bejore a com- | petent tribunal and subsequent sentence. Separate cliarges are also to be presented by Mr. Henry L. Cunron looking towards the same result, embodying substantially the same point; and, im addition thereto, the complaint that Mayor Ha’ | meyer has violated tvs oath of office and should be removed in refusing to investigate tue alfuirs of the Bureau of Charities and Correction upon cer- tain specific charges against that department hav- | ing been made to him; and further, that his con- | duct in reappointing men to ofice js calculated te produce a demoralizing influence upon the comma- nity, While at the same came he acted to violation ot the law in making such reappointments of mea who have been convicted of a misdemeanor, whic necessarily involves a Violation of their oMciat oaths and of his own oath of office. THE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. In case the Governor should not promptly act tn the matter and speedily render @ decision (of which, however, there appeared to be little doubt), everything has been prepared and the papers are ready drawn up for action in the courts and need but to be presented. The form of action, if a resore tothe courts should be found necessary, will be | by mandamus, calling upon the Muyor, or the Acting Mayor, if Mayor Havemeyer is suspended, to suow cause why he should not appoint two Police Commissioners on the ground that there is no ae, constituted Boaid now that in existence, an t there are two vacan- cies existing py reason of the conviction of Garauer and Charlick, and that reappointment of these parties ts tlegal and vout by the operation of law as aeclared by tue Gov- ernor. He the Governor desires to remove or sus- pend the Mayor, then it was decided to make ap- plication to Mr. Vance, who would by virtue of his position be Acting Mayor, to art two Com- missioners, and, m case Of his refusai, to act in the same manner by mandamus, This is, it was con- sidered, the best and quickest mode of procedure. In any Case, should Messrs. Gardner and Charlick endeavor to exercise any legisiative functions ap- pertaining to the oillce of Police Commissioners 1 was decided to take legal steps to restrain them. MORE INDICTMENTS. It was also decided to go beiore the Grand Jury during bhe present week and bring to their notice evidence in certain very bad 3 of @ further violation of the Election laws by Messrs. Gardner and Charlick, Some ten or twelve fresh indict- ments will, it is expected, result from such action. Tae meeting adjourned shortly atter five o'clock, | and the Deputy Attorney General left for Albany | on the six P.M, train. THE PROPOSED ACTION OF THE ALDERMEN. At the meeting of the Board of Aldermen to be held on Tuesday next it ts pyapored to adopt resolutions and present them to the Governor ask- ing for the suspension of the Mayor from office and his subsequent removal if the causes of complaint are sustained. These will embody substantially the samme charges a contained in the petition re- ferred to in the report of the meeting at the Hof- DROUGHT IN THE WEST. Danger of the Crops Failing in Ohto— Fears of a Dearth of Corn and Pas- bert CuNcINNATI, Ohio, July 5, 1874. The severe dry weatner that has prevailed in Sastern and South Eastern Ohio for several weeks 1s resulting in considerable injury to the farming interest. The pastures are brown and bare. Ponds and streapis are almost dried up. Along the rail- road lines fires prevail. A great deal damage along the Panhandle road ts being doue by the fires consuming wheat in shock and fences. The at- est extent of damage is between Steubenville and Columbus. Corn 18 preety, badly curled but is of a good color, and if rain falls soon, Will make a crop, Old residents fatl to recall any seasom when the heat was so severe and projonged soearly. They greatly tear that uniess relief comes in the way of Tain soon the corn crop will fail and cattle be Artven to starvation tor Want of grass, WHEAT FIELDS ON FIBRE, CINCINNATI, Ohio, July 5, 1874. Wheat flelds east and west of Chillicothe were on firelast night, having been ignited by sparks from jocomotives. The woods in various parts of the country ate on fire and great damage is threatened. FATAL ACGIDENT ON THE ERIE RAILWAY. Port Jervis, N. Y., July 5, 1874, Thomas Driscoll, an employ¢ of the Erie Rail- way at Pond Eddy, while intoxicated yesterday, was run over by a train, His head was completely severed irom his body. THE SORROWFUL STORY. New York, July, 1874. To THE Eprror oF THE HERALD:— In your article of the 2nd instant, entitled ‘A Sorrowful Story,” reference is made ta “clap-trap barristers,” which, tf allowed to go Nincorrected, | man House, That the resolution calling upon the Governor for thts action on his part will be adopted is beyond doubt, for with but scarcely an exception the members of the Board now in the city bave expressed themselves tn strang terms against the outrage which has been perpetrated by she Mayor against all sense of public honesty and decency. ‘The call for the meeting has been already drawn up and will receive the necessary signatures this alternoon at the meeting of tne. Board of Supervisors, YACHTING NOTES, ‘The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Yacht Peerless, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. J. KR. Maxwell, from Oyster Bay for Brooklyn. Yacht Vindex, N.Y.Y.C., Mr, Carter, from, Oystee Bay for New York. Tact Perdita, Mr. Higgins, 8.Y.C., from, Cold Spring or Flushing, nm Behold the Most city in the United States. 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