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WASHINGTON. Another Financial Measure To Be Launched. © THE REMNANT OF HOPE. The Pacific Mail Inquiry Delayed by the Chief Witness. Senatorial Penance for the Enactment of the “Gag Law.” FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. WasHINGTON, Dec. 15, 1874. A Republican Financial Scheme Matur- ing—Mr. Farwell’s Banking Bill—The Inflationists Conciliatory. ‘The republicans are still engaged in the private Preparation of a currency bill, which shall be adopted as a party measure. Meantime the bill introduced yesterday by Mr. Farwell seems to gain & good deal of iavor, and some of the Western Ainflationists are beginning to think that they can Not afford to split the party, even in the interest of “more greenbacks.” Mr. Farwell believes that Senators Logan and Morton will not oppose his measure, and that he can infuence other leading Men in ita favor. His bill, thereiore, though not an administration measure, assumes for the mo- ment considerable importance. It removes all Mmitations upon the number and circulation of national banks, and provides that bank nores snall be issued to the extent of ninety per cent of the iull value of bonds deposited; that from the 1st of July next a million @ month of greenbacks shall be withdrawn and cancelied, to continue until the greenback 1s at pur with gold, and that the Secretary may, if necessary, sell bonds to get funds for retiring the greendacks, Mr. Farwell, in case nis bill should pass, means to Introduce two other measures, one of which 1s to Teheve the panks of all national taxation, They pay now about $7,000,000 a year in taxes on circu- lation apd deposits. Another of them is to ex- ‘empt irom the action of State usury laws all bank paper having less than four months toran. It ‘will be seen that Mr. Farwell is not without enter- prise, The “Gag Law” Plaguing Its Inven- tors—The Senate Exercised About Its Proper Interpretation. ‘The so-called “gag law,” like Banquo’s ghost, “will not down.’”” Yesterday the House relerred it, in haste, as the best way of getting tempo- Yarlly rid of it; to-day the worrying thing turned up in the Senate. resolution, ‘‘1hat the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the extent and meaning of the act oi June 22, 1874, entitled, ‘An Act conferring jurisdiction upon the Criminal Court of the District of Coiumbia, and for other purposes,’ and particularly whether under or by its provisious persons charged with or indicted | Jor libel or other crime im said District of Colum- bia can be brought from a State or other place within the federal jurisdiction to said District to answer therefor.” Senator Edmunds approved of tae resolution, and Senator Conkling Jd it ‘was necessary becuuse the law had been = mis- Tepresented. He asked to have added to 1tthe words:—‘‘And also whethér suid act has any ap- Plication to prosecutions or indictments ior the Grime of libelin any case.” Senator Bayard re- marked that it was not the futy of Congress, but of the courts, to declare the meaning of a law, and that such @ resolution was uvusual and almost ‘Without precedent. In a few words he showed that if the law was bad it ought to-be repealed: IC it was obscare jt ought to be amended, 80 as to PxDress-cleariy the méaning and intention of Con- gress; but that to construe the meaning of the law was the business of a@ court, and it was doubt- $m if tne Supreme Court, if the matter were broughi before it, would pay attention to the re- port of a Congressional committee, but would feel bound to take the law itself as its only guide. The resolution, as ameuded, was adopted, Some of the Senators as wellas members are very sore about the “Gag jaw.” They do not mean to suffer its repeal li tuey can help it, Whe District of Columbia Bill in the Senate—Indifference and Absence of Senators. ‘The Senate was occupied two hours and a half yesterday and two hours to-day in listening to the reading of the new District of Columbia biil, Very few Senators, however, took the trouble to remain during the reading, and tor an hour or more to- @ay Mr, Morrill, of Maine, who reported the bill, baa the solttary pleacure of hearing its dreary pages droned over by the almost exhausted Clerk. ‘Qhe reading of the bill was completed this aiter- Doon, and to-morrow it will come up for general discussion, Mr Morrill, who is the father of the bill, will have a tougn time in defending it. The Suffrage feature is distasteful to all tne District people, and will be bitterly assailed. Tnose who Want suffrage say that it is a mere delusion, as the members of the Boara of Education, who are Made the only eiective officers in the District, will reaily have no voice in the government, Those who oppose suffrage Tecoguize that this provision was inscribed in the bill as a tub to the whale, ‘Dut they think it is utterly useless to put the Dis- trict to the great expense of a most cumbersome election machinery, merely for the purpose of going through the farce of an election. The select committee, when the bill was reported, had some | tdea of having it acted on belore the hoiidays. This hope is now entirely abandoned, ana it will Probably be toward the close of the session beiore action by both houses can be had. There is a growing feeling that it will be no harm to have the present District Comunissioners continue to control its affairs until next session, when there ‘will be more time to periect a measure for tue | Permanent government of the District. It time Presses as the session advances this may be the result. Whe Efforts to Secure a Subsidy for the Southern Transcontinental Railroad. Colonei Thomas A. Scott is very active in pres: ing his Texas Pacific Subsidy bill. Hes now pay- ing court to the democratic Senators in tne hope of inducing some of them to support nis scheme. It was said ameng Senators to-day that among the democrats in the Senate who could be counted on by Mr. Scote are Mr. Bogy, of Missouri, and Mr. Kelly, of Oregon. Some of the Southern demo- cratic Senators are not at ail sound, ina party point of view, on the question of internal improve- ment and subsidies, and it is from these that Mr. Scott expects to gain support. A Senator, bow- ever, said to-night vhat he did not believe that all Mr. Scott’s eloquence would conquer any demo- crats beyond Messrs. Kelly and Bogy, and perhaps one other, although, as the Senator said, Mr. Scott had been very javish in promising to take up and lead counecting lines in the South in case his biil was put through. It is said among raiiroal men here that the recent capture of the Northern Central Railroad by Colonel Scott isa part of the ‘scheme to give him a continuous line irom New York and Philadeiphia through the Southern States to the Pacific coast. Tne Illness of the Principal Witness in the Pacific Mail Case Continues—What He Will and Will Not Testify. Irwin remains il, and this evening even his counsel were forbidden by the physician to see him, a8 he was in a highly nervous condition and required absolute rest and quiet, if he appears betore the committee he will probably, under ad- ‘wice of hia counsel, acknowledge the receipt of the money, refer to the resolution of the Board of Directors under which he received and agreed to disburse it as his authority and justification, make oath that he paid no member of Congress money and refuse to tell whom he did pay. The books of the Pactfic Mail Company are here in charge of Theodore LV. Johnson, iis bookkeeper, Two ot the clerks and Roundy, a former bookkeeper, as well | Senator Wright introduced a | | of Vermont; moved | called, merely | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, 28 a Wall street broker (Musgrave), have, it is said, been summoned to testify, the latter to con- tradict Hatch’s testimony. Irwin asserts that the resolution under which the money was given him to use will be found in the books now here, and that this resolution will also sumciently de- scribe the purpose tor which the money was to be used. He holds aiso recent letters from the Managing directors, which he thinks will prove that the directors were very recently ready to settle quietly all differences between himself and the company. Irwin to-night telegraphed for his mother to come on to Washington, His coansel will not be permirted to see bim until to-morrow morning. A New Special Committee on the Affairs of the Southern States. The Speaker to-day announced the names of the special committee appointed to take into consider- ation that portion of the President’s Mes- sage regarding the condition of affairs in Southern States. It was understood that General Frye, of Maine, would be made chair- man; but the name of George F. Hoar was read first, Mr. Frye following next atter Mr. Wheeler, of New York. The other republican members of the committee are Charles Foster, of Ohio, and W. W. Phelps, of New Jersey. Mr. Robinson, of Illinois, and Olarkson N. Potter, of New York, are the democratic members. It is not as yet agreed when the committee will leave for New Orleans. The Coming Vicksburg Investigation— Personnel of the House Committee. The committee appointed by the Speaker to-day | to visit Vicksburg and report upon the condition of affairs in Mississippi will leave Washington next week. ‘The Chairman, 0. D. Conger, of Michigan, says that he will go to the bottom of the affair. Gener) Huribort, of Illinois, and 0. ©, Williams, of Wisconsin, are both republicans, and | are known as efficient workers in political nar- nese, The democratic members of the committee are Mr, Sveer, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. O’Brien, of Maryland. ; Power and Jurisdiction of the Southern Claims Commission. The Senate Committee on Claims will meet to- morrow for the firat time this session. It is ex- pected that the Orst bill to be taken up will be the House bill extending the powers and jurisdic- tion of the Southern Claims Commission. There was much opposition to this bill in the House, and it passed by @ very small majority. Ifthe Senate should amend it the probability 1s that it will fail altogether. There are before the committee 226 cases yet unacted on aggregating $6,000,000, The Licensing of Commercial Travel- lers—Its Compulsion Unconstitutional, An agent of the Soctety of Commercial Travel- lers of New York visited Senator Morrill to-day to protest against a law passed last year by the local Legislature of the District of Columbia forc- ing merchants who do business by sample or card to take out a license. The com- mercial travellers fought such legisiation, mm tne case of Maryland, through the courts two years ago, and the Supreme Court de- cided then that all such impositions are unconsti- tutional. and Virginia have recently enacted similar laws. Nevertheless, the District of Colombia | Senator Morrill replied to the commercial travel- | ler that the law of the District is undoubtedly un- constitutional, and that be would take care that it should be abrogated by the new constitution of the District, now before the Senate, He gave the fullest assurances that the law would become ex- tinct on the passage of the District bill. | Probable Mournful Fate of the “Little Tariff Bill.” The conference committee on the “Litrle Tarif bill,” which went over from last session, has not yet met. It 1s believed that it will fatl to agree, or | that ig@t reports a bill it will bo killed either in | the House or Senate. Confirmation of Postmaster General Tewell’s Appointment. 4 The opposition to the confirmation of Postmaster General Jewell’s appointment succeeded in stav- ing off an executive session until to-day, when the New England Senators made an tesue of it and determined that the matter should be held in abeyance no longer. It has been understood tor several days past that the few Sonthern Senators who have been threatening to defeat Mr. Jewell were not su boastful as tney had been be ore the meeting of Congress. To-deyyiwhen Mr, Morrill, to @0 into executive sessign no objection was made. Mr, Jeweli’s nominati»n for Postmaster General was the first one made by the President at the opening of | tre session, and was consequently the first mame on the executive calendar. favorably by the Committee on Post Ofices. single objection 1 pone the consideration of a nomination till the next execative session. An objection came from Mr. Spencer, and che nomination was accordingly laid asile. Subsequently several Senators went to Mr. Spencer, and at their solicitation he with- drew his objection. The nomination was then confirmed witnout the yeas and nays being The Postmaster Generai was congratu- lated to-night, It was reported back A GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPAT! WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 1874. The Pacific Mail Investigation—Irwin Too Nervous to Testify Before the Com- mittee of Ways and Means—Hinted Charges of Dissimulation. The Ways and Means Committee assembled this morning at hall-past ten o’clock and proceeded to ll that is necessary to post- | hold a brief secret session, at which it was decided | to recommend an adjournment of Congress from the Wednesday before Christmas to the Tuesday alter New Year's, Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway reported having exe- cuted the order of arrest of Irwin In New York and the Jatter’s presence in this city; also that Irwin was said by his attendants to be notin a condition to appear before the committee to-day. The commitree then ordered the Sergeant-at- Arms to bring Irwin at once to the committee room if physically able to appear, and the doors were opened shortly after eleven o'clock. Mr. Rufus Hatch obtained permission to correct a statement in bis testimony of Saturday, that he had never met Irwin except once, when in con- versation with Mr. Sage. He now remembered that he was introduced to Irwin in 1872, in the banking house of Musgrave & Uo, Gardiner J. Hubbard stated that he had an in- terview with Irwin last evening, and although the layter was apparently well when they met, yet ho soon exhibited symptoms of extreme nervous- ness and excitable state of mind, which made it apparent to Mr. Hubbard that be ought not to go betore the committee to-day. Mr. Hubbard said Irwin was au officer in the army during the war, when he contracted @ long filness and had never since known a perfectly well day, Moreover, about a year ago, he had been thrown from @ carriage in San Francisco, and his skull broken on a street car rail. He had known Irwin fora number of years, and knew him so well that he feit sure Jast night that Irwin would run a risk of his ilie by attending the meeting this morning, and 80 advised Irwin; but the latter, although by that time almost unconsctous from headache, replied that he must and would appear for examination to-day. In reply to an inquiry by Mr. Beck, Mr. Hubbard said that Irwin saw no one else last evening ex- cept Mr. Chapman, his regular counsel. The latter corroborated Mr. Hubbard’s account of Irwin's physical and mental condition, ana the strong de. sire to give his testimony without unnecessary delay. Whereupon Mr, Beck suggested that the committee had better instruct the Sergeant-at- Arms to keep Irwin's counsel away from him and give him a chance to get well. To him (Beck) the whole thing looked like playing fast and loose, In hia opinion counsel ougnt not be heard or allowed for witnesses, and he did not be- lieve Irwin would be balf as much excited by an examination by the committee as by his own counsel. Mr. Kasson thought the statement of physicians as to Irwin's physical condition would be more in order than those of lawyers, Chairman Dawes stated that Mr. Center, @ pri- vate ciork of Irwin's, was present and might bo examiued, if the committee wished, while await- ing Irwin's arrival; but Mr. Wood and otuer mem: | preparing the roll of members elected to the | | proclamations to forward their individual certifi- bers objected to examining any one in advance of the main witness. some forty-five minutes nce, the hour for the meeting of the House arrived, and the committee adjourned to meet to-morrow morning at ten o'clock, unless sooner Called togetber by the chairman, who said he should make the call whenever the Sergeant- at-Arms arrived with the witness, Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway returned to the Capl- tol at a quarter past tweive o'clock and reported that he left Mr. irwin at bis lodgings apparently too iil to appear before the committee to-day. Mr. Ordway reported as above to Chairman Dawes and recommended that Irwin's physician be sent for to give the committee professional in- formation on the subject, The. Committee was accordingly again convened. William P, Jonnson, Mr. Irwin’s physician, teati- fied before the Committee on Ways and Means this | aiternoon that Mr. Irwin was greatly prostrated, suffering ‘rom headacne and pressure on tne brain; but thought that perhaps to-morrow he might be able to appear before the committee. Modification of the Obnoxious Pro- | visions of the Civil Rights Bill. The subd-Judiciary Committee, consisting of Messrs. Butler, Polaud and White, reported to the foll-committee to-day in favor of amending the Civil Rights bill so as to omit the mixed schools | proviston and require merely that equally good | educational Jaciiities shall be provided for both races, The sub-committee also recommended that the penalty of $500 fine imposed by the bill for the violation of any of its provisions be omitted, leaving the pecuniary punishment of offenders to consist in their liability to be muicted in $600 damages at the suit of any individual who ts de- nied equality of accommodation, &c. Tnere was | @ general discussion of the subject, but no definite action was taken, there being a wide difference of views. Salaries of Postmasters in Large Cities. The House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads to-day agieed to recommend the passage of the bill introduced last February by Mr. Platt, of New York, providing that from and after the 1st day of next January the annual salaries of the va- rious postmasters shall be as foliows:—At New York, $6,000; at Philadelphia, Cnicago and St, Louis, $6,000 each, and at Brooklyn, Baltimore, Cincinnati and San Francisco, $5,000 each ; provided that such salaries shail be paid irom the moneys | received at the Post OMices at said cities trom box Tents, sales of postage stamps and from other sources in excess of the expenditures allowed and | made thereat for rent, cierk bire, fuel, ights, furni- ture, statiovery, printing and necessary inciden” tals. It will be noticed that the amounts fixed by the committee are respectively $1,000 or $2,000 | less than those named tn the bill as introduced, Prize Money Claimed by Admiral Wor- den and His Crew for the Capture of | the Merrimac. Admiral Worden was heard to-day by the House | Naval Committee in aavocacy of the bill to pay | him and the officers and crew of the Monitor who participated in the action with the Confederate | iron-claad Merrimac sucha sum as shall be duly | found to have been the actual value of the Merri- | mac and her armament at the date of the action, the value to oe fixed bya commission of three | naval officers, te be appointed by the Secretary of | the Navy, to be distribaged to the officers and | crew attached to the Monitor on the 9th of March, 1862, according to the payroll of the ships, to be in lieu of the bounty autnorized by the act regu- lating prize proceedings, approved June, 1864, The Roll of the Forty-fourth Congress. The Clerk of the House of Representatives 18 Forty-fourth Congress, with their post office ad- | drees, and he requests members residing in the States in which the Governors do not issue cates of election. Diplomatism of the Navojoes. The delegation of the Navajo Indians, of Mexico, | in taking leave of the President to-day, presented | him with a rich and variegated blanket of their own‘manufacture. Appointment of Indian Agent for Oregon. The President to-day appointed James Brown, | widely known as “Une-armed Brown,” to be | Indian Agent for the roving bands of Indians in Oregon, with a sAlary of $2,000 annuully. Nominations by the President. The President sent to the Senate the following mominations 10-day :— James W. Marshall, to be First Assistant Post- Master General, velng a reappolnimen' . Be Axtell, to be Governor of Utah Territory; George A. Biuck, to be Secretary of Utan Peres Charles H. Chamberiin, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at San Francisco; Charies McDonald, to be | Receiver of Public Moneys at shasra, Val.; John S, | Ward, to be Register in the Land Ofice at Susan- | ville, Cal.; David B. Wilson, to be Pension Agent | at Fairfield, lowa; Jacov Parmenter, to ve Collec- tor 01 Customs in the district of Champlain, N. Y.; George B. Patterson, to be United States Attor- | ney tor the Soutnern distriet of Florida; Francis . Godwin, to be Marshal tor Arizona. To ve Con- | suls—Robert J. Saxe, of Vermont, at St. Jonus. Quebec; Robert Y. Holley, at Barbadoes, and | Augustus Van Cleef, at Laguayra. Confirmation of Nominations by the Senate. The Senate, in executive session to-day, con- firmed the following nominations:— Marshall Jewell, of Connegticnt, to be Postmaster General; Charles F. Conant, Assistant Secretary | of the Treasury; Benjamin Moran, at present | Secretary of the Legation in London, to be Minister | resident to Portagil, vice Charlies H. Lewis, re- | signed; David ‘Thompson, of Ohio, Interpreter to the Lega‘ion in Japan; Thomas Hillhouse, Assistant Treasarer, New York; W, F. Bonzano, Superin- | tendent of the Mint at New Orleans; Wickoam | Hoffman, Secretary of Legation at London; Robert R. Hitt, of lmots, Secretary of Legation at Paris. OBITUARY. William Combe. William Combe, of Jordan, a veteran of the war of 1812, well known in Central New York, dieda few days ago at the residence of his son, at ar- lington, Mich. Mr. Combe was born at Springfleid, in Otsego county, in 1796, His father was Samuel Combe, of Revolutionary fame, The Coubes were conspicuous figures on the border in the early days of the Northwest, all of the six sons of | Samuel Combe mingling in the conflicts of that period, One of them was @ giant, who disap- peared after an affray with the French, near De- troit, flity yeais ago. Only one brother 1s now known Co survive, Charles, a resident of Brooklyn, who was two years older than William. In the war of 1812 Wiliam Combe was very active, He entered Captain Harris’ company of ligat dra- goons early in the war and participated in the atties of Chippewa, Lundy’s Laue, Fort George, Niagara, Queenstown Heights, Sackett’s Haroor and Sandy Creek, At the close of the war he settled at Jordan, in Oncndaga county, but he was always | Ol a restless disposition and often said he would preier to die atthe point of the bayonet. Atfier the breaking out of the revellion his sons entered tue army, when he too, though an old man shouldered hig musket and sought in the great battle of Antietam, as he said, to throw his lite away. But he survived every danger and died in his ved at a green old age. Rev. Father T. E. O'Keefe. Rev. T. E. O’Keete, a clergyman of the Catholic Church, died suddenly, of heart disease, at the house of a iriend near Niagara Falls, on Saturday, the 12th inst, He went out after supper tora walk, and during the moments of exercise became faint, and having been taken back to the nouse expired in a few moments. For the past six years, until @ short time since, he was the pastor of St. Agnes’ Cathulic church in Avion, Livingston county, N. Y. His health failing him, he went to Europe, where he remained about three montns, returning @ few weeks since, It appears that his journey did not have the desired effect. Huis health has been very oor since his return, and he was obiiged to rest ‘om active pastoral duty, The reverend gentier man was very well known and greatly esteemed in Rocoester and the surrounding neighborhood. Louis T. Foote, Louis T. Foote, paying teller of the City Bank in Wall street, came to his death by jamping from a car on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, near Elizabeth, It is supposed he oversiept himself, passed his station and jumped frum the train ve- fore being tuily consctous of the speed at which tt was going. The deceased was the son of F. W. Foote, editor 01 (he Kiizabetn Journal, and brotner ot F. W. Boote, Jr., ® memmer of the house of Jonn J. Cisco & Son, As a business man he bad an excel- | December lent record. , DECEMBER 16, 1874.-TRIPLE SHEET. AMUSEMENTS. The Musical Season. There has been quite » lull in musical matters since the departure o1 the opera company, but the Prospects are bright for the holidays. First comes Theodore Thomas and bis unrivalled orchestra with @ classical matinée at Steinway Hall on Saturday and @ Brooklyn Philharmonic concert in the evening. A musical entertainment will be Presented the same afternoon at Association Hall of @ popular character. ‘The Messiah’? will be sung on Christmas night at Steinway Hall by | the Oratorio Society of New York and tne Handel and Haydn Society of brooklyn, the chorus numbering five hundred voices and the orchestra eighty instruments, under the direction of Dr. Leopold Damrosch, The solvists will be Miss Abbte Whinery, soprano; Miss M. B, Faxon, contralto; Mr. George Simpson, tenor, and Mr. 4. E. Stoddard, basso, We have heard the most satisiactory accounts o/ the jong, painstaking course of study to which both these socteties have been subjected by their distinguished director, | aud certainly the entire musical puvlic of the metropolis will be interested in the resuit, Every one must rejoice in the organization of an oratorio society wortny oj the great city local interest will be the concert of the pupils of tne New York Conservatory of Music. which wil take ae at the Academy on Sunday, Max Maretzek. under the direction of Several artists o/ the Strakosch and the programme will cou- tabat Mater’? and selections from the sacred works of Handel, H opera during the week alter Christmas, and the management, we understand, pruposes then to } give “Lonengrin,” with all its grandeur oi effect, at popular prices, Then will ioliew, later, a sea- son of Englisn opera by the Kellogg troape, whica have met with uniform succeas in their Western twur, Miss Keliogg proposes to introduce Balie’s celebrated opera, “Che Tausman,” during this season, M. Louis Dachauer will continue his in- teresting perormances of the great requiem masses @t St, Ano’s church, ' Musical and Dramatic Notes, “The Sphinx’! has failed in San Francisco, Miss Neilson will appear in San Francisco tn March. They piay in German as well as Chinese io San Francisco. Charley Reed gives an entertainment of his own, cauied ‘The Uninese Laundry.” The word “concerto” was first used in the six- teenth century by Scipione Borgogua. Tnuraday, December 11, is the one hundred and fourth anniversary of the birth of Beethoven. George W. Morgan will preside at the fifth organ concert at the Onurch of the Holy Trinity this aiternoon. Olive Logan denounces an Indianapolis editor who ventured to write too ireely about her as “a hopeless vulgarian.” When an actor wants to attract public interest, his friends circulate a report that nis sight is Jall- ing or that he 1s going to retire, Jonn Brougham, wnose genial face is missed by New Yorkers, is playing at Rovinson’s Upera House, Cincinnati, in the “Lottery of Lite.” The Carrols are playing to good houses at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, They haye made a marked success throughout the provinces in the “Orphans.” Miss Edith Abell met with immense success at a recent performance of the Kellogg troupe in Washington. She replacea Mme, Van Zandt as Marguerite in “Faust.’? John McCullongh will play @ round of Shake- Spearian characters at Sun Francisco. The plays will be produced with # completeness never hitherto witnessed on the Pacific coast, General Kilpatrick is going to write a real mili- vary drama.. Relays of actors will be provided, as the dramawWc personnel are to be killed off in real earnest. Wnat an entertainment for the gods! A Baltimore critic thus speaks of Mile, Anna Drasdil’s singing at Professor Rosewald’s second symphony concert in that city :—“ organ of singular purity and depth—a genuine contralto, with a decided ring of the true metal. Her school 1s incomparable, and her style graceiul and finished.” There’s war in Cincinnati about the right to play ‘The Streets of New York.” Manager Ham- lin asserts that the playis from the French, and ‘was produced in New Yor« before Mr. Bouci- cault touched it, Mr. Mayo has purchased the right of the play from “the dramatist of the age.”” The matter wili go to the courts, UBASSY AND C. DION. Ubassy Makes a Big Run and Leaves | Of Ahead—A Close and Interesting | james The match of 1,000 points at the three-ball game between Cyrille Dion and Ubassy for $500 was com- menced last evening in the private room attached toa billiard nall on Fourteenth street. Guyreaud officiated as releree, and about filty spectators Were present, The game was played ona five by ten table, with 23% balls, By the | | mately acquainted with the subject are aware terms agreed upon they were to play until one of the players counted 500, and then he would have to finish his run, which would stop the game tor that evening, letting the other take tne first shot on the next day. They strung for the lead shortly after eight P. M.,and, Ubassy winning, failed to count, After a couple [rom Cyrlile, Ubassy made 1, In the first seven innings Ubassy made 8 and Cyrille 22, Ubassy . then ran 29 and both played very badly for the next four or five innings. On the thirteentn and tourteenth Cyrille livened up a little and counted 12 and 11, and on the fourteenth Ubassy added 31 to his score, At the close of the four- teenth inning the game stood— UBASSY 73, DION 47. Ubassy then began to play very badly, asin the next thirteen innings he only added 21 to his score. In the meanwhile Cyrille had peen improving his time, as he managed to roll three very pretty runs of 24, 43. and 31, that gave him a good lead. On the twenty-cighth inning Ubassy made 13 and vyrille followed on the twenty-ninth inning with 18. tots the close of the thirtieth inning the game stood— DION 197, UBASSY 108, After making 11 on his thirty-first Ubassy only counted 5 in the next nine innings, but to his credit let it be recorded that in the thirty-seventh ining, after scoring 2, he maJe a miss cue, but could have played again, as Cyrille was away from the table and not hing the game, but sat down and left the two object balis with a certain score for Cyrille. The professional billiard player of the present day 18 not oiten apt to make such amistake. In the torty-first and forty-second in- nings Ubassy played well and counted 26 and 27, leaving the game— DION 244, UBASSY 177. Nothing very brilliant, with the exception of 18 from Cyrille, Was exhibited in the next seven or eight innings; but on the flity-third inning Ubassy added 26 to his score, and on the filty-iourth Cyrille rolled up 21, which he lollowed with 22 0n the fifty. | faith. in the fiity-sixth Ubassy went to work again and played quite a lively inning, that gave him 37 more on his string. At the close of the sixtieth inning tue game stood— DION 374, UBASSY 270, Ubassy then failed to count in the next three innings. On the sixty-iourth Ubassy made 20and Cyrille 29, the latter repeating on the sixty-ftth with 35, Ubassy made & pretty run of 84, witen the balls froze, and he failed to make the opening shot. Uvassy was evidentiy getting nervous, as he missed 81 very easy shots. On the sixty-ninth imaing Dion rolled up 22 and Ubasay followed with 13, bringing his score up to 364, while Dion had 481, Dion then added 3 and 8 to his count, and Ubassy followed with 11. On the seventy- second inning Cyrille got the bails running bia way, and alter counting 5 missed a very easy one, when he wanted only 8to go, He tett the balls of the sit. together and Ubasay, taking Cleat) uation, Dursed them very prettily, taki! round the table, and at 65 made a deli mass6 shot, which caused an appeal from Cyrille to the referee, but as the latter decided a count Ubassy continued playtog, and, still manipulating them in the same corner, soon passed the hundred and kept the marker busy until he passed the 600 und Lay down op his 188th shot.» The following is SUMMARY, First part of a match for $500 between Cyrille Dion and Francois Ubaasy, 1,000 points, three ball game, 2% inch balls, on a xu tavle. Cyrille Dion—2, 0, 0, 10, 1, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 12, 11, 3 BA 0, 48, 31,050, 2,7, 12, 0, 1, 28, 8, 0, 0, I, 4, 5 1 8 0, & 105 6 5 1.228, 170, 5," 2, 4, 6,2, 8, 8, 10, B 1, 9, 0, 0, 29, 35, 9, 3, 0, 22,°3, 8, 6—407. rancols Ubassy—0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 1, 1,2, % 0, 4, 0, 0, 1, 81, 0, 2 2, 0, 5, 0, 6, 0, 1,'0,'0, 6, '1,'13, 6, 1, 11, 0, 0, 1, Oy, 0,0, 1, 26 2 9, 3,0, 9, 1, 2 1, 0, 10, 6 26, 6, 0, pg 5, 0, 0, @ 0, 20, 12, 84, 0, 8, 2, 13, 0, Li, 137— GHRST RUNS, a Dion—24, 43, 31, 21, 22, 22, Vousay 2081.26, 24, 90, Ste '20, 34, 137. ERAGE, av! Dion, 6 65-72; Ubassy, 6 64-73, ‘Time of game—i'wo hours and fifty-six minutes, The game will be resumed tis evening at eight o'cl00k at the sume place, them all Anotier event of | Mr, | do and} Mendelssvubn. ‘there will be three nights of Italian | Isidore | j, can be no_ better THE ODONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Continuation of the special Meeting— How the Dentists Differ—Three Ses- jo and Interesting Papers. ‘The Odontological Soctety continued vhetr special meeting by holding three sessions yesterdar, the moroing and alternoon ones in the pariors of Rev. Dr. Crosby's church, Fourth avenue and Twenty- second street, and the evening one at the resi- dence of Dr, Lord, No. 34 West Twenty-eighth street. At the morning session Dr. Northrop presided, and the papers read were on ‘‘Materiais for Filling | Teeth.” Dr. Cutler's (of Memphis, Tenn.) paper gave the result of various experiments he had made of all metais which could be used for amalzams for filling teeth. He | gave a minute measurement of the shrinkage | and expansion of the metals, and spoke | of the little prejuaice that existed against rubber plates. The secona paper read, that which had been prepared by the late Professor Thomas B. Hitchcock, of New York, detailed the results of years of experiments relative to the expansion and contraction of various amalgams, The de- ceased gentleman’s opinion was that gold, stlver, |. tin and platina were the best materiais. The third | paper was by Dr. Bogue, of New York city, and this paper gave the result of experiments made during the past three or four months, designed to answer the question frequently asked, “Are the amalgams used »y dentists injurioas to health ?? He did not believe thas mercury was given off from the amaigams in use. The experiments he had made were so severe as to nearly dissolve the teeth subjected to them, but in no single in- stance was mercury found, He had taken the so- jutions to Professor Chanler, of Columbia College, for analysis, and the Professor agreed with him that no mercury was discerinble, At the afcernoon session Dr. Kingsley, of New York city, read a paper on the ‘Causes 0! Irregu- larity in the Development of Teeth.” His opin- tons were based on investigations made in this country and in Europe, and the subjects were per- D8 of all nationalities, sane and insane, and of 1 classes. of society. The conclusions he had arrived at were that irregularities of the teeth Were @ symptom or @ proof oi a-cerebral or brain disturbance which had occurred at some period of the eariy life of the individual, or of a like dis- Ordered mental condition at some period in the history of the patient’s ancestry, and that the in- evitable tendeucy of such @ condition, if trans- mitted, would be mental degeneracy, imbecility and idiocy, Another paper, tuat of Dr. Black, of Jacksonville, Lil, was also read, the subject being “Gold,” aad the doctor believed that gold was the best material for Pied bie leg At the evening sessidn three pavers were read on the sudject of “Vental Education.” The first | paper—Dr. Truman’s, of Philadelpbia—was aito- | gether in favor of having dentistry an independa- ent profession, without any alliance with tne medical projession. The Doctor was very severe on the quacks, and wauted to have a thorough | test established before any candidate be- come a dentist. He regretted. toat the etandard of mental culture was so low in the protession ; but, instead of pursuing a selfish course, they shoui educate, and in time to come the lethargy of the | past would be thrown aside. Dr. Garretson, of Phila- delphia, addressed the meeting next, saying that dentists ought to drop their distinctive titic and le consider themselves specialists in medicine. thougat that for dentistry there should be a qu: fication in medicine, and that the medica! dipio having been obtained, then there should be a Special study made of dentist: if the dentist was unwilling to do thia he (thespeaker) belleved that the titie of doctor ought to be dropped and the recusant snould consider himself to be a | mechanic. The next speaker was Dr. Chanler, Dean of the Harvard Dentist School, who thought that the field of dentistry was suficiently large “to occupy any ma who gies to enga fn the work; bal elieved in qualtiying the student in every branch of medicine that bore directly on the Special branch of dentistry. The dentist should be proficient in anatomy, special surgery, ptiysl- ology and chemistry, but beyond this he did not think that the time spent in the stady would be spent most advantageously. At the conc’usion of the papers several gentle- men participated in the discussion, which was in- vited by the chairman, Dr. Lord. ‘Lhe society will meet again to-day. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. The reception at the Metropolitan Art Museum last night brought together the wealth and beauty | of the metropolis, Year by year these receptions are growing into an institution which promises the best result for the art culture of our pecple. The loan coliection 18 a real blessing to the general public, because it places the private treasures of the wealthy at the ser- vice of the community. In most cases these works from private galleries are gemsa of art, ana they are especially valuable as educators of the public taste. We find here works of contemporury mas- ters that just ily the fame they have acquired and | make us wonder where the numerous wi rks sold | in thelr name by unscrupulous persons posst- | bly come irom. ‘Chat numerous” class among | ug Who purchase works ol art on the repatation | of a name can visit the Metropolitan Art Museum | with advantage, as they can there examine au- thentic re no Serato swii they ie Sen By acquaiating ten 5 t 6. 18 artists’ work they wit casas to Ye af the mercy of the class of sharpers who at present trade on their simplicity and grow rich on their ignorance, There invescment than the | purchase of authentic works of genius, and! no worse investment than the purchase oi bad or fraudulent art works. Only those intt- oi the immense amouut Of fraudulent works that ave paimed off on persons whose defective taste and want of the higher art educa- tion renderg them lable to imposition. It will, for instance, be imstrnctive to the possessor of works by Von Bremen to study attentively “Industry,” & painting by that artist, lent by the Hon. E. Morgan, which exhibits the artist in his best style, without the hardness and Metullic effect that we tind in the usual run of trade p.ctures that flow, or ure supposed to flow, trom his prolific easel, Troyon, too, is represented by canvas of no pretension, bat of immense worth, It representa a Cow and Sheep,” and ia the strength and masterly breadth of its handling Teveals at once the touch oi genius. There are a number of other works equally deserving of at- tention, but it 18 simply our aim to givg an ex- ample in order that the public may appreciate the ull value of @ collection like that which is now placed on exhibition. We regret to-say that equal care has not been exercised in the admission of the sculpture. ‘There were several works on exhibinon which, trom circumstances connected with them, ought never to have found @ piace in the Museum. But this we feel has been simply an error of judgment on the part of the managers, arising irom want of correct information. @ have every confidence that, ouce the attention of the trustees is called to this error, it will be immediately rectified, THE INTEROOLLEGIATE CONTEST, Meeting of the Committee of Arrange- ments. A meeting of the Committee of Arrangements of the Intercollegiate Literary Association was held yesterday at No. 21 Waverley place. It was re- ported that the Academy of Music had been en- gaged for the 7tn of January for the contest, and that William M, Evarts had been invited to pre- side, The entries for the contest closed yesterday. bix colleges. only contormed to the con- ditions, the others refusing to join because they had not sufficient time to make the necessary preparations for a successiul competition. ‘Ine following are the names o/ tue colieges and their representatives and the order in which they will speak:—Lafayette, N. H. Lar- welere, Easton, Pa.; William: . D. Edmunds, Utica, N. Y.3; Rutgers, James Kemio, Brooklyn, Y.; New York University, J. C, Tomiinson, New York; Princeton, W. D. Nicnols, Philadelphia; Cornell, James V. Cluck, Niagara Falls. It bas been decided to allow each of the Colleges two ora- tors, owing to the small representation, and in response to such notice Williams Coliege has chosen ©, B. Hubbell and Princeton 8. M. Miller as second representatives. he value of the prizes that are to be given will amount to and it is the intention to make the first prize a one, aud, accordingly, it will be & wreath, and the successiul competitor known as the “Wreath Mid DISEASE IN NEW YORK. At the regular meeting of the Board of Health yesterday the Registrar of Vital Statistics made his report, as follow: Buneav ov Virat. Startstics, Dec. 15, 1874, ‘The total number of deaths reported in'this city tor the week ending on Saturday, the lth inst. was 478, of which 9 were in public institutions, 196 were ot children under five years of age, aud 80 weré of persons seventy years old and upwi Bronchius and pneumonia were charged with 8 deaths last week and 861n the previous week, Phth sed 159 deuths in the two weeks. Diphtheria wai yed with 57 and 47 deaths in the successive weeks, sinalipox with 29 and 27 successively, scarlating with § and 12, membranous croup with 10 and in the re- spective weeks, ‘The death rate in the week ending on the ain inse wax equal 40 30 per M0) aniiualy, and last week was at we 1, Por MYELISHA HARRIS, M._D., Registrar of Vitat Statistica, The following is @ comparative statement of contagious diseases reported jor the two weeks ending December 12, 1814:— NEW YORK CITr. ‘The National Associalion of Amateur Base Bail Players will bold their apousl meeting as the Astor House to-day. At @ meeting of the managers of the Charity Ball the ball of the twentieth season has been fixed for Tharsday, February 4, at the Academy of Music* as usual. Night Inspector of Customs McCost seized yea~ terday on the bark W. E. Anderson, from Havana, One barrel of rum and 90) cigars, intended to be janded without payment of duty. Jobn Weiss’ lecture this evening, at Steinway Hall, will no doubt attract a large audience, His Subject, “Irony and Humor,” is one in which his fine ability as @ lecturer will have large scope. ‘The graduates of Dartmouth College resident in New York, Brooklyn and vicinities, are requested to send their address to Edward De Forest, Secre- 7 ea Association, box 654 Post Oftice, New The Yale Alumni Assoctation will hold its sec- | ond soctal meeting for the present winter: season at Delmonico’s, Fourteenth street, to-morrow evening, on which occasion Mr. E. C, Stillman will read @ Lew poem. The Joint committee of the Common Council, appointed to make preparations for the reception of King Kalakaua, held a meeting yesterday. They merely organized and adjourned over to nalf-past one o'clock to-day. Thomas Callen, aged thirty years, a seaman on the steamship Canima, lying at pier 3, North River, was dangerously injured internally last evening by falling through @ hatchway irom the deck into the lower bold, He was removed to the Park Hospital. On Monday evening Mr. John Hannon, aman seventy-one years of age, while visiting some frienas living at No. 810 Madison street, was taken suddenly ill and expired soon aiterward. The removed to the late residence of , No, 102 Kast tl0th street, where Coroner was notified to hold an inquest. Coroner Woltman was yesterday called to the Charity Hospital, Biackwell’s Island, to hold an Inquest on the body of Dennis Hendrie, twenty- two years of age, born in Scotland, and @ book- keeper by occupation, who uied on Monday. je ceased was serving out a twelve months’ sentence On cooviction for an attempt at grand larceny, Coroner Kessler yesterday held an inquest in the case of James Wilson, who was killed on the 29th ultimo by the giving way of a floor in the slaughter house No. 772 First avenue. The jury found that the accident was unavoidable, De- ceased, who was forty years of age and born in Ireland, Jived at No. 317 East Forty-third street, Rev. Dr. de Sola Mendes, pastor of the Forty- fourth street synagogue, will lecture in Lyric Hall, Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street, this even- ing on Jewish music and musical instruments, with organ illustration. The interest of the sub- Ject and the recognized ability of the lecturer ‘will doubtless secure a large and select audience. A fire occurred last evening on the second floor of No, 823 Broadway. M. A. Tyenberg’s turnisbing goods store on the first Noor sustained a damage of $2,000. Deutsch & Davis, turnishing good: where the fire originated, suffered to the extent o} $6,000. The butiding is injured to the extent of $2,000. The origin of the fre and amount of jn- surance are unknown. Michael Vickeries, a ‘longshoreman, residing No. 422 East Eleventh street, while working on the Helvetia, at pier No. 44 North River, yesterday afternoon was struck on the head bya heavy box of bacon that accidentally fell a distance ol twenty leet, sustaining some very ere contusions of the head and neck. He was removed by ambu- lance to Bellevue Hospital. Commissioner of Sailors’ Boarding House Keep- ers Mr. G. W, Blunt has prepared a printed list of the licensed and unlicensed keepers of sailors’ boarding houses in this city, which he intends sending to the various police captains in the city. They number about filty-seven licensed and Mfty unlicensed. Mr. Blunt claims that the law bear- ing on this matter bas not been enlorced for the past eight years, The body of an unknown woman, about thirty- two years of age, was yesterday found floating in the basin off the Battery by officer Carrigan, of the First precinct, and removed to the Morgue to await an investigation before Coroner Woltman, Deceased, who had a luxuriant head of brown hair and @ full set of teeth, wore a dark dress with | brown stripe, cloth gaiters and a scant supply of under clothing. Deceased had been but a hours in the water. At @ meeting of the Trustees of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, held on the 6th day of November, 1874, it was voted to present an honorary certificate to Captain Charles Thomas, of the British steamer Greece, in testimony of his humane conduct in rescuing James Austin and George M. Roberts, belonging to the schooner Mar- athon, of Gioucester, on the 14th day of October, 1874, ‘and in recognition of his services to the steamer Europe, brought to this country on the 2d day of April, 1874. In consequence of repre- septations by the society mave. to the State De- partment at Washington a curonometer will be resented by the government of the United States to Captain Thomas in recognition of the same services, BROOKLYN, A fire last night in Libby & Clark’s oil works, at the corner of Dikeman and Ferns streets, caused damage to the amount of $600. Aship carpenter, named John Maloy, while at work yesterday on the schooner Mabel Dent, lying in the Atlantic. Basin, fell into the hold and frac- tured his skull, His injuries are probably fatal, =~ NEW JERSEY. With the cold weather the prowling sneak thieves commence their incursions into Hudson county. Two boxes of tea were snatched from a grocery store at the corner of First and Madison Streets last evening. The Germans of Newark are moving again in the matter of the Sunday liquor law, and want the: beer gardens opened. A large meeting was held. on Monday evening tn favor of revising the Sun- day law. In Elizabeth aiso there is much indigna- tion among the Germans about an ordinance Clow. ing saloons on Sunday. Abhorse and wagon were found under strange. circumstances in Hoboken fast evening. The ami mal came by the Paterson Plank road, and 16. would seem as if the occupant had been dragged out on the hillside, and perhaps waylaid. Tne animal and conveyance are in charge ot Chief Donavan, of the Police force. During the heavy gale of Monday evening the Hoboken ferryboat Chancellor Livingstone, as she was about to enter the slip at the foot o/ Cnris- topher atreet, was swept out of her course ana hurled against the pier, smashing the oulwarka and bse! the iorward part of the cadin. ‘The stroug ebb tide then carried her against the pier of the French steamsilp dock, where she was similarly shattered. Aithough the femal popes gers were much scared there was nobody Among the members of the ‘longshoremen’s association grave disputes are arising. It will be remembered that many men left the union re- cently ahd went to work on the coal docks near Weehawken. In the meantime the treasurer of the union continued to pay out money to suchas were in destitate circumstances. ‘The coal men were alarmed at seeing the 1unds they bad helped to accumulate thus disappearing. They applied to Judge Bedie, who issued an injanction restrain« ing the officers from disbursing further sums, There yet remains $1,650 in the treasury, Up- Ward Of $2,600 has been paid out. OITY FIRES AND AQOMDENTS, A fire occurred late on Monday night in the basement of No. 97 Watts street, occupied as a grocery store by Michael Roach. The losson the stock 18 estimated at $600, while that on tne build+ ing is $300. Some children playing with matches in a room on the second floor of No. 124 East Broadway set fire to some bedding. The flames and water damaged furniture to the value of $100, and the building in the sum of $150, Early yesterday morning 8 fire broke out in the oy of Messrs, Wilson & Hinkle, publishers, at (0. 28 Bor \ Bein teams fans AO alt Ey damage vo the bua is estimated ‘The water pipes tn the tenement No. 350 Pearl Street became irozen yesterday, and the occu: Pants of the dwelling undertook to thaw them with lghved papers, i fire caught some wood: work around the pipes, and caused a damage of 100, John RB. Williams, a homeless man, was foun lying sick in a vacant store at No. 42 Bowers. yew beng aiternoon. He was sent to Bellevue John Garvin, aged thirty-two years, was te larklug” with soue iriends fa a brick wagon, the corner of Fliteenth street and avenue When he fell to the pavement and cut nis ne He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, Christian Jacobs perched himseli on a fence at No, 442 Pearl street yesterday aiternoon, but di not stay there long enough vo sing Out “1m sit ting on the Stile, Mary.’ He fei one the pave meut sad iractured his thigh and wrist,