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EAST AFRICA. Fort Mozambique Bombarded and Captured by ths British. Slave Ships Captured—Hundreds of Slaves Made Free. Loxpow, Feb, 22—5 A. M, Advices frém Zanzibar report that # fect of British men-of-war have bombarded and captured Fort Nombazique, on the island of Mombaz, off the East Coast of africa, The engagement lasted five hours. . TROOPS OF THE GARRISON KILLED AND WOUNDED. Seventeen of the garrison were kiiled and fifty wounded. SLAVE SHIPS CAPTURED. Two slave ships were captured with 300 slavos on board. FRANCE. THE. SENATE BILL RENDERED ALMOST SECURE BY THE PARTY DIVISIONS OF THE OPPOSITION- IsTs. . - PaRIs, Feb. 21, 1875, Tho Extreme Left, ata meeting yesterday, re- solved to support the new Senate bill, after a wpeech by M. Gambetta, who showed the danger there was that tne Bonapartists would take ad- vantage of a prolonged provisorium. Only ten members dissented from the action of the meeting. BONAPARTIST TACTICS FOR USE IN THE ASSEMBLY. The Bonapartists contemplate offermg an amendment to the Senate bili, proposing that the Senators be elected by universal suffrage. They hope by this means to break up the majority. But the Left has agreed to oppose all amend- ments. They will support a demand for ‘“ur- yenoy,” move that the bill be @dded to that for the drganization of the public powers and then vote for the entire project. SPAIN. a COMMISSIONS IN THE ALFONSIST ARMY. MavriD, Feb, 21, 1875, General Laserna has been appointed aid-de- camp to the King; General Quesada Commander- In-Catef of the Army of the Nortn; General Echague Commander-in-Cbief of the Army of the Centre, and General Echeverria Commander of the Second corps of the Army o/ the North, ENGLAND. FATAL EXPLOSION IN A FACTORY. LONDON, Feb, 21, 1875, An explosion occurred in the Safety Fuse Works, at Redruth, Cornwall, yesterday. Five girls were killed, There were many escapes which are regarded as being almost miraculous, IRELAND. JOHN MITOREL AGAIN A CANDIDATE FOR THE BEPBESENTATION OF TIPPERARY. DvsLin, Feb, 21, 1875, John Mitchel has issued an address to tha elec- tors of Tipperary, presenting himself again as a candidate for Parliament, A monster mecting was held in Tipperary to- day, at which it was moved to support Mr. Mitchel. It 1s believed there will be no opposition, THE TRANSIT OF VENUS COMMISSION. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 1875. Telegrapbio orders have been sent to Captain Ralph Obandler, commanding the United States steamer Swatera, having on board the Transit Commission, to return to New York oy Cape Horn, instead of goingto San Francisco. She will be due about May 1. A CATHOLIC TOTAL ABSTINENCE UNION. CONVENTION OF THE STATE ORGANIZATION AT NEWBURG. Newsvna, N. Y., Feb, 21, 1875. The Metropolitan Catholic Total Abstinence Union of New York State hold their fourth annual Convention here to-morrow. President Alexander Patten, Secretaries M. F. Holaban and Murphy, Treasurer Quigley and other central officers ar- rived here at noon to-day to take part in a mass meeting of St. Patrick’s ‘1emperance and Benevo- lent societies of this vicinity to-night in St. Patrick’s chureh. ‘thomas J. Cronan, Vice President of the New York County Union, ulsoarrivea, Delegates trom local societies of New York city, Pougikeep- sie, Huason, Elmira and Ithaca aud the Mattea- wun Society arrived in a boay. Bishops Ryan. of Buflaio; Nierney, of Albany, and Vicar General uinn and Father Dunphy, of St. Josepn's, New ‘ork, ana otuers sent letters of regret ai their in- auiity to be present, having to celebrate nigh mass at their several places to-morrow tor the vatholic Union. ‘the mass meeting this evening will be ad- dressed by prominent speakers, among others President Patten, Jonn F. Walsh, the cviebrated controversialist; Secretary Huiahan, Vice Presi- dent Cronan apd others. One hundred und fitty delegates irom all parts o! the State and many irom other temperance orders will be. nere to- are ‘The session will probably close Monday | evening. : TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION IN BALTIMORE. BALTrMore, Md., Feb, 21, 1875. Av immense Catholic temperance demonstration was held at the Maryland Institute to-night. The Rev. Edmund Didier read a letter from Archbishop Bayley, urging all to temperance. The Rev. F. X. Boyle, of Washington; Rev. Father White, of Baitimore, and Dr. Waters, o1 tne Catholic Mi . delivered addresses. Father Didier delivered the pledge to 300 mem. hers oi the St. Vincent’s Socicty, the audience; | numbering 3,000 people, rising to their feet as it ‘was adminDintered. | The Catholic societies uf 1! with banners and regalia, and the meeting, in zeal, bas not veen equalled by anything oi the kind heid in this city since Father Mathew was re, Mr. William Daniel, President of the State Tem- fed Alliance, and other prominent Protéstant mperance advocates were on tue platform. THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. he city were present, RicuMonp, Va., Feb, 21, 1875, ‘The friends of the Southern Pacific road in the | House of Delegates yesterday bad a conterence with Judge Ould, Chairman of tne Committee on Kauroads, The Judge and nearly every leading | Man in the House favored the vill now oeiore Con. | gress and expressed willingness to instruct our | Senators and request our Kepresentatives in Con- | gress to vote aid to the road. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. CHICAGO, Feb. 21, 1875, 4n acotdent occurred on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad on saturday night near SheMeld, Il, by which a sleeping and two other coaches were thrown | from the track. One of the couches eli down ai bankment fifteen feet. Avout tiltven | re injured, but no names can yet be Only one person was killed, 4 school teacher residing ut Tiskilwa, He jumped trom the car as it was running on the sieepers, A broken rail was the cause of the accident. BaurtMore, Md., Feb. 21, 1875. | James Dougherty, a nagman on the Baltimore and P tomac Raiiroad, was kiiled at Bowte station yesterday while attenaing a switch, He sipped On ice and Jeli under a passing train. CANAL GRIEVANCES. Berrato, N. Y., Fev, 21, 1875, The advocates of jow tolis, abolition of wah locks, &c., can have a hearing peiore the Canal Board at Albany on Wednesday next, ani beiore tee of the Senate Esha A nambers, on oursda: Will send @ committee. NEW YURKK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1875-—Wi1TH SUPPLEMENT’. COLOMBIA. | THE GOVERNMENT LOAN SUDSCRIBED FOR IN | LONDON—NATIONAL TEDRESS FOR AN IN- SULTED BRITISHER. PANaMa, Feb. 13, 1875 The loan solicited by the Republic of Colombia bas becn subscribed for in London to the amount of $3,000.00, and is issued at eighty-one, with an annual interest of seven per cent and two per cent inking fund. Tne contract has been sub- mitted fur approval to the Nasional Executive at Bogota, The rent paid by the Panama Railroad to the Colombian government, to the amount of $210,000 a year, has been offered as a guarantee to cover the interest on the loan. NATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF AN OUTRAGE ON AN ENGLISH SUBJECT. The case of the recent outrage perpetrated on Dr. Piggot, an English subject, by the Alcalde of Aspinwall, being reported to the naval authori- ties at Jamaica, brought over tne Britisn man-of- war Dryad to Aspinwall, where she arrived on the 7th inst. The Captain, on having the case ex- plained to nim, considered that the Consul was fully justified in doing what he did toward pro- curing the release from jatl of Dr. Piggot, as well as sending for @ war vessel to be on the spot, Dr. Piggot bas made a sworn ststement beiore the English Consul, Mr. Crompton, giving the bis- tory of the case and bis treatment by the author- ities throughout, When the Dryad hove in sight a Jamaican, liv- ing in Aspip will, hoisted the Eng! flag over nis house, An officer and two soldiers of the State militia immediately came, hauled the fag down anu sent the Jamaican to prison. OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS. AD interview took place on the 12th inet. be- tween tne President ol the State, Mr. Miro, and the English Consul, R. CO. Crompton, Esq., accom- panied by Vaptain CO. £. Domville, of the ‘Dry: a, 1 reference to the Piggot affair. No definite understanding was arrived at, though the meeting and interview were cordial enough. THE COMMERCIAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE DARIEN Fi INDIANS, The question with the Darien Indians, in regard to the collectora of Caucho 1m the forests, ts not yet settled. ‘Tne forces promised by the geueral Government are anxiously waited ior, especially by the merchants concerned, Caucho being the principal exoort of the Isthmus at the present ti THE PANAMA ISTHMUS CANAL. PaNnaMa, Feb, 18, 1875. The survey for @ canal route across this part of the isthmus is progressing favorably under the direction of Captain Lull. A much lower summit level than that of the railroad has been found, which is only 262 leet. Captain Lull is reported to have said that the Tesult of the survey, so jar, had been more favor- able than was expected. NICARAGUA, PRESIDENT QUADRBA’S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. PANAMA, Feb. 18, 1875. ‘The Message of President Quadra has been pub- shed. He statesin it to Congress thatthe re- lations of Nicaragua are /riendly with all nations excerpt Costa Rica, but thinks matters can be ex- plained so as to avoid any serious quarrel between the two countries, TRAGEDY AT TRENTON. & QUABREL ABOUT DOGS AND WHAT IT LED TO-— AN OLD MAN FOUND IN AN ALLEY MORTALLY SHOT IN THE HEAD. TRENTON, N. J., Feb, 21, 1875, This city was startled this afternoon by the oc- currence of @ tragedy of which an old citizen, named Thomas Hingeley, about fifty years of age, wasthe victim. It originated in a quarrel about dogs, in the house of 8 woman named Martha Jane Margerum, between a son of the deceased and a young man named Thomas Diamond, It seems that Mrs. Margerum's dog and one owned by Diamond get fighting, when young Hingeley interfered, which Ind to Diamond calling him some vile names. Hingeley soon afterward told his father that Diamond had insulted him, whereupon old Mr. Hingeley armed himself with a revolver and went in searcn of Diamond to have revenge, threatening, it is said, at the same time, that he would kill him, But a short time elapsed after this when the ola man was found in an alley- Way prostrated and suffering from the effects ofa pistol vall wound in the forehead. He was con- veyed to his own home, where he lingered but two hours when death released bim. No one saw the deed committed, and whether he was the vic- tim of bis own band or not remains a mnys‘ery to be solved by &.V@roner’s Inquest, which will be held to-morrow. — Mrs. Margerum Was arrested and placed under heavy bonds to appear at the investigation. ‘Ine decease’ Kept a dry goods store, and was a repu- tabie citizen. ‘Toe affuir has given rise to much comment and has created great grief in circies where the vic- tim was best known. FIRE AT BINGHAMTON. Binawamton, N, Y.,Feb. 21, 1875. The Democratic Leader newspaper office, Joost’s steam bakery, Gilmore & Co’s photograph gal- lery and A. D. Turner’s dental rooms, Nos, 68 and 70 Court street. were destroyed by fire at eleven o’clock On saturday nignt. R. W. Mosher’s drug store was badly damaged. The+total loss 1s esti- + mated at $15,00l, on which the insurance is $12,000, About the same time a barn in the Fiftn ward, belonging to A. Haraing, was burned and a valuable horse perished in the Names, INCENDIARISM AT ELMIRA. Exar, N. Y,, Feb, 21, 1875. Yesterday morning a fire was discovered ina barn in the central portion of this city. It was extinguished, however, before any serious damage was done. Frank Sherman was arrested on sus- picion ot baving fired the buliding, and ackuowl- euged having done so. He is about twenty-two Yeas ol age and tne sun of respectabie parents. SUICIDE IN BOSTON. Boston, Feb, 21, 1875. Oliver Whitcomb, an ex-polico captain and for twenty-flve years connected with the police force, committed suicide to-day, at bis residence on Ap- Pleton street, by taking poison. He had been out 0: einployment ‘or some montis and had become despondent over the prospective foreclosure of ao plaids on his property. He was flity-three years of age and leaves a wile and two children, A SAD STORY. Newburg, N. Y., Keb, 20, 1875. Two weeks ago @ ycung woman arrived in this city in search of housework, she said, and applied to a German, a saloon keeper in Front street, tor asituation, He declined at first, but she besought so euruestly that he at length consented to employ her She gave ber name us Mary Palmer, and Sata she bewnged in Fisukill and was uamarried, The girl broughs with her, in bundies anu valise, some very flue clothing, evidentiy more suitaole Jor One above ber Station 1D Ic, and her appear- ance was that of one unaccustomed to work. She worked faitifully, however, in her new employ until Tuesday, On that uight she gave virth to a cold, Yesterday mother wad child were removed tothe Almshouse. She refuses 'o give any account Of, herseif, but irom a lerter found in her eftects 16 13 Supposed that she is from West Eleventh street, New York city, Efforts are being mide to discover her relatives, She isin the deepest distress over her sad fate and weeps almost continualiy, RAITROAD BONDS COUNTERFEITED. PORTLAND, Me., Feb, 21, 1875. Considerable nncasiness exists over the dis- covery of some counterictt bunts of the Le ds and Farmington Railroad, Investigation shows that the counterieits must ve been printed from the Origin | pidtes. the signatures o1 the odicers only bemg counterteited. ‘hese, with the exception of tie treasurer's, are pronounced to ve excetient. About $3,000 have tius lar been discoveree, bur ic cannot be estimated yet how many vi the bonds are afloat ‘The gengine were printed | Continental Bank Note Cumpany of New Yo | ‘cheers fa a a | OBITUARY. | REV, FATHER JON J. conn. Rev. FatuerJonn J. Corr, one of tie assistant priests at St. Bridget’s church, died yesterday atter @ lingering tilness. Father Corr was cut dow I tue very biosseul Of his youth and useiul- bess, being only twenty-three years of age, but Ins decease wil be regeetied by a large nuNiver of parisn.ouers, WLO had grown to lean upon wis kKindiy counsel anda avvice A soleun requiem | Did-s Will be offerea up for the repose vi his soul, | at St. Bridyet’s church, Eintn street aud avenue Bat ten A.M, on Wednesday aext, February 24. | MISS STEWART, Miss Stewart, of Philadelphia, a pupil at Vassar Conlege, died at the institution yesterday of pneu- mou. | the person whom Judge Campbeil eaid it was | THE WASHINGTON. | Will Congress Reassemble Early or Late? PARTISAN UNCERTAINTIES. |, Political Measures and Appropriation Bills _Untinished, FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.; WASHINGTON, Feb, 21, 1875, ‘TIME OF CONVENING THE NEW CONGRESS—AN EARLY SESSION NOT DESIRED BY EITHER PABTY—STATUS OF THE LEGISLATIVE BUSI- NESS—POLITICAL MEASURES AS IMPEDIMENTS. The Senate caucus, which met on Saturday, con- Sidered the order of business, but came to no definite conclusion, Ihe oraer ot business be- comes an important matter just now, for if the republican caucus should decide to pay no atten- tion to the appropriation bills antil the Civil Rignts bill, the Pinchback question, the Louisiana and the Arkansas matters are settled, they would at once decide the question of a callofthe new Congress. As matters stand now it Is not im- Probable that the new Congress may be called, The wise apd moderate men in both parties do not desire it, and if may be discerned that the democratic leaders dread it. They are not sure of their own men and fear some Dbiunders which would injure the party. The repubiican politicians would like, on some accounts, to see the new Congress called together. They say the democrats will make extensive and probably damaging investi- gations whenever they do meet, and that it is better to have these finished this year than car- Tied over into the next. They have also a strong belief that the democrats will blunder and thus nelp the republicans before the country. On the otber hand, there is some reason to believe that the President does not desire to see.the new Con- gress meet. fit is called together soon after the 4th of March it may quietly pass the necersary ap- Propriation bills aud adjourn or it may continue its session, In the latter case it would probabiy prove a thorn in the President’s side. lt is not, therefore, a clear advaniage to the republicans to call the new Congress together, and it is not at all probable that they can be united in a course which would make the call necessary; but only ten days more remain of the session, and if the Senate goes on in leisurely discuesion of even the appropriation bills it will not complete its work, It 1s pretty certain, however, tnat efforts will be made tocall up the Civil Rights bul, to renew ihe struggle over Pinchback, and even to procure some action on the Arkansas Message. Judge Poland's Arkani non-interfer, ence resojution, which comes up in t..e House on Tuesday, and will probably pass, will occupy the Senate. Mr. Coburn means to bring up the Habeas Corpus bill 1f ne can, and that wiil take up at least two days in the House. Senator Morton threatens, if he can get up the Pincnback matter again, to debate it till the 4tn of March rather than let it be lost, In short, unless the republicans hurry up business, the new Congress must meet, and {t 18 Im their power to decide the question. The democrats gave notice some time ago that they would at any moment give way and suspend debate to take up and pass necessary business: It a sufficient number of republicaus in the Sen- ate unite with them in expediting business it can easily be Anished by the 4th of March; but if they dwelt on bills too long, or if they bring up two or three obnoxious political bills, they cannot hope to getthrougn. Personally, those memters of the } present Congress who are to serve in the next are almost without exception opposed to the meeting of the new body, cither now or before December. Jt would expose all of them to grea! inconvenience and discomfort. Those who are not re-elected are indifferent. THE ARKANSAS QUESTION AND THE SENATE. Itis said that an attempt wili be made to-mor- Tow to oring the Arkansas Message before the Senate and passa resolution in, favor of seating Brooks. The object 1s to forestail the action of tne Honse on the Polaud resolution for non-interfer- ence, but it wili have no effect, even if it couid be accomplished, and 1 1s now thought probable tnat the Senate will vote cown any measure looking to interierence in Arkansas. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, WASHINGTON, Feh, 21, 1875, THE DELAY IN CONFIRMING JUDGE DURELL’S SUCCESSOR—SENATOR WEST'S CANDIDATE AND HIS RECORD. How little the republican members of the Senate realiy care {or Louisiana, apart from what 1t fur- nishes for political discussion, is noted in the manner in which the Judiciary Committee have treated the nomination o1 Don A. Paraee to be United States District Judge, vice Durell, resigned. It ts nearly a year since Judge Durelt vacated his seat on the Bench, and since then the whole busi- ness before the United States €ircult Court for the South and the District Court of Louisiana nas fallen upon Circuit Judge Wood. The nomina- tion of Mr. Pardee, aside from the personal incorsement the President has given it, nas been further indorsed by the Loutsiana Investi- gating Committee. Those, too, who are supposed to have the confidence of the repudlican members of the Judiciary Committee have recommended bis confirmation, Senator West, who has not the confidence of the members of the House delega- tion from Louisiana, and wnom the President did not deem it advisable to confer with in the ge- lection of a successor to Judge Durell, advo- cates the nomination of E, C. Billings. His principal recommendation for the position is that he was tne confidential friend of Judge Durell and | necessary to have as an associate counsel in all important cases if a favorable decision was to be hoped for :rom Judge Durell, The question is now generally asked, ‘Does Senator West control the Senate Judiciary Committee, and, if 80, how?” CURTAILMENT OF THE ARMY EXPENSES—A NECESSARY MEASURE OF ECONOMY. Senator Logan, who has been importuned, as Chatrman of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate, to open the doors for promotion in the Quartermaster staff of the army, so as to provide | an additional number of officers of the runk of colonel and major, to-night expressed nis deter- mination to restst any such legislation even | should it pass the House. He adds that he will | favor such action in the Senate as will secure ad. ditional economy by reducing the number and rank of quartermasters, and adds that, on account of ineMciency and disqualification, many of them should be eliminated from the army. Great abuses and incompetency have been brought to his attention from various parts of the army. Though the President has been in consultation for some days past with him on army matters, he aoes not seem to have been able to remove his objections, No legisiation in regard to the army stafs will pass the Senate this session, unless in the jurtherance of economy it should b for their reduction or for surther limita- tion. An effort will be made in the Houre to-mor- row to suspend the rules so as to introduce a bill favoring a limit m rank and numbers in the Quar- termaster Generai’s Department. This, if tt has General Logan's support, may pass the Senate, SLIMAX OF NEGRO FELICITY IN ARKANSAS. It is ascertained that more than four hundred colored men now hold ofices of different kinds in Arkansas, under tne Garland government. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. —e-—__— WASHINGTON, Feb, 21, 1875. THE TELEGRAPH BILL—PROVISIONS AGAINST MONOPOLIES, The bil! recently reported by Senator Dorsey, as explained by the report accompanying it, limits ‘and one news association. the operation of every telegraph company traue- acting business among the States to the transmis- sion of telegrams, and pronibits ry telégraph | company irom being interested, directly oF | inairectly, in the collection, purchase or sale of commercial or other news, Tne bill provides that the charges that one com- pany shall make to another connecting with it shall not exceed its local rates for similar service, and tnat’no company shall give any preference to one connecting company over avother, and, tn the language of the committee, the bill is intended to give equal rights to new asso- clations and to remove the discrimination in javor of specials to members of the Associated Press, and thus to free the press Jrom dependence upon a single telegraph company The committee su; gest that it would be easy to classily the pape: and establish @ scale of prices based on the cir- culation, THE LOUISIANA CONSERVATIVE COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE PRESIDENT. The Conservative Committee from Louisiana, consisting of Messrs. Zacharie, Burke and Leonard, will meet Mr. Wheeler, of the Congress- lonal Select Committee on Louisiana Affairs, to- morrow morning at nine o'clock, to determine definitely the basis of an adjnstment of the Loutsiana election of 1874, excluding the questions growing out of tile election of 1872, when it was claimed Kellogg was ciected Gov ernorof the State, The committee will also call upon the President at eleven o’clock to-morrow. The committee claim the results of the election of 1874, which gave the conservatives a majority of twenty-nine in the House of Representatives and ten members of the Senate, which leaves a majority of the latter body to the republicans, and, in ad- dition to the majority in the House, gives the conservatives the State Treasurer. But they leave to the Congressional Committee the terms of ar- bitration under these circumstances, their object being to pacify the Stats: and prevent further in- jury to its material tuterests. THE PACIFIC MAIL REMONSTRANCE. The memorial of the Pacific Matl Steamehip Company has just been printed, making fitty-elgnt pages. It remonstrates against the repeal of the subsidy, and prays fer an appropriation to carry it into effect. The memorial concludes as iol lows: Large sums of money were fraudulently ad- atracted from the treasury of that company dur- ing the years 1871. 1872 and the first five months Oo! 1878 by Alden B, Stockwell, then the President of the company, without the knowledge or approval of the Board of Directors or of the stockholders of the company, which abstractions were covered and concealed Jrom the knowledge of the board of «irectora by faixe and irregular entries on the books of the company, and that the who'e transaction revesls a stupendous robbery of the company, and not in any sense a bribery of Congress, TRAGIC STATISTICS OF INDIAN WARFARE. It appears from official data that the number o¢ Indians captured by United States troops in 1873 was 227; Indians killed by United States troops, 405; citizens killed by Indians, 44; soldiers killed by Indians, 48, and during six months of 1874 the number of Indians capturea by United States troops was 73; Imdlans Ellled vy United States troops, 158; citizens killed by Indians, 36; soldiers killed by indians, 3. The Itst of captured Indians embraces 159 Modocs, men, women and children, and from 109 to 150 men, women and children of the Tonto Apaches, being @ part of over 900 who left their reservation and were killed by United States troops sent out vy the post commander to bring them back to the reservation, which attempt they resisted or evaded; also the killing of 193 inep, women and children, Apaches of Camp Verde (tne detaiis are not given), and also tho killing of 53 men, women and children, of the Apaches. Es- kimingin, an Apache chief, San Carios agency, Was arrested and putin the guard nouse by order of the officer in command at that post. He escaped and fled to the mountains, and his example was followed by a large portion of the reservation Indians. United Staves troops and Inclan scouts, under the orders of the oMoer incommand, pursued and attempted to bring them back, and the Indians resisted, with the above result. THE CONFEDERATE INVASION OF LAKE ERIE—A BILL FOR DAMAGES REJECTED. The Committee on War Claims nave acted onthe bill directing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay indemnity to the owners of the Philo Parsons and the Isiaud Qneen ior losses occasioned by the unlawful seizure of those steamers by a piratical expedition on Lake Erie in September 1864. It will be recollected the refugees from the so- called Confederate States domiciled in vanada Planned and organized warlike expedition for the forcible seizure of private steamers on Lake Eric and using them jor the capture of the tron steamer Michigan belonging to the United States Davy then stationed on Lake Erie, near Johnson’s Island, where about 3,000 prisoners were confined, intending by the possession of said steamer to ob- | tain control of the lakes. The committee report adversely on the.claims, holding the government not liable for the losses sudered. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Hoffmann’s Wagnerian “Frithjof? symphony met with great favor at Lubeck. Leopold do Meyer, the “lion pianist,” is at Bu- charest with that wondertu! hat. Miss Edith Abell was tne principal feature at the Jast Peabody concert in Baltimore, The musical societies of Cologne offer prizes for the best compositions of local writers, Mme. Bentham Fernandez is the reigning star at Cairo and a great favorite with the Khedive, Tue Imperial Theatre is the name of a new London honse on the south side of the Thames, Theodore Habelmann has been giving German } opera at St. Louis with Miss Roemer and Carl Formes. Mr. Van Maanen is the new bandmaster of the celebrated band of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin. Can he be a Monaghan? Queen Isabelia’s piano, which cost poor Serrano such a heap of trouble and inoney to hunt up after she left the Escurial, 1s hopelessiy out of tune. Wagner has decorated the front of nis Nibelun- gen Theatre at Baireuth with black and white Irescoes, 10 imitation of an old Italian custom, St. Louis accuses Cincinnat! of having iright- ened Albani away irom this country. The jeal, ousy existing cetween Western cities is remark: | able. “Musical moral drama, suitable tor Christian au- diences,” is the’ latest proposition in this city, Then goodby to Verdi’s queer iibretti and Wag- uer’s heathen legends, The dramatic sensation of the coming week will | be the reappearance of the great tragedienne, Mme. Ristori, She will no doubt receive the warm | and enthusiastic reception watch her merits de- | serve. Mr. Toole, the eminent English comedian, ap. pears this evening as Buziaz in the great trial scene of “Bardell versns Pickwick.” It is one of the most humorous of Mr. Toole’s impersonations, On Weanesday he wiil appear in “The Steepte- chase; or, Toole in the Pigskin.” WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY. The anniversary of Washington’s birthday will be very generally observed in the city to-day. The courts, banks and public offices will be ciosed en- tirely, and the Post UOMice and Custom House after | ten o'clock A. M, he Eighth regiment (Wasbing- ton Greys) and the Seventy-first regiment will hoid their annual drilis at their respective armo- nies in the evening, and two rifle matches, under the auspices of the American Rifle Association, will be decided at Mount Vernon during the day. | ‘The comes at Trinity courch will be rung, com. | mnencing at noon, and there Wili Le other jeatures | 0! toe ovservance which Were lully detaiied in yes. | terday’s iikRALD. | ‘The pubic ofices and Courts of Brooklyn will | be closed tu-day. The theatres and other places of amusement will give matiuce and evening per- formances. Every dancing ail in the city has been engaged for the evening, When balls Will be held, A dramatic entertamment will he given m the val, 01 St, Peter’s Academy, Hicks street, near Warren, under the wuspices ‘Of the Catholic Lite erary Association attached to that parish. The Navy Yara will be ¢ oved, and the Vermoat anu flagship Roanoke will be docked with buating, A | grand salute will be tired trom Fort Greene at hoon, and the recelving ship Will aiso honor tac occasion In) stmular manner, A tair will ve held in aid of the Indusertal school, | theref ro every vrecaunon should be A BRIGHT SUNDAY. | Suggestions of Winter's Retreat Before the Sun and the South Wind of Spring. SCENES IN THE STREETS. AS EEE CS Thawing Out of the Imprisonel Croton and Clearing of the Rivers, “A lovely day!"* “A glorious day!” “It’s the ad- vent of spring! These and kindred expressions were universal yesterday. And no wonder, for the day previous, with ‘Its cheericss and murky atmosphere, its pitiless rain and dull gray jog, cast a gloom over all and made existence almost intolerable. Indeed, it scemed as if nature in its meteorological aspect had undergone another complete revolution. The biting frost, the freez- ing north wind, had been compelled to give way to an almost balmy breeze trom the southwest. “The face of all tne earth was gladsome,” there was a Joyousness in the air that was recolent of singing birds returning and of crocuses-and cowslips on the hiliside and In the meadows. Visions of green fleids, of nodding violets, of mnrmuring brooklets, floated through the memery and asso- ciated themselves witn the not Jar distant ature, And all this in contrast to the Arctic experiences of the past low weeks, with its snow- bound ond impassable streets, its elds of Noating ice obstructing the rivers on either side o! our island city, making le. ry travel probvlematical ana tion dangerous. It was aim- lize such @ sudden cnange, and more diMicult still to drink in the tull measure of its benefits. : 4 LOOK OVER CITY, RIVERS AND BAY. From the top of the Kquitable Building, in the observatory of the United States Signal station, the writer obtained a magnificent bird’s-eye view of the bay, the Narrows, the rivers and all the country round, Almost within his grasp the spire of old Trinity towered upward, and with its symoolic cross pointed toward heaven. As jar as the eye could reacn, across the Bay and down through the Narrows, the water was periectly free from floating ice. Scarcely a@ ripple distarbed the surface, aud the little tugs ana other steam craft moved as easily along as on a July day. Away of toward the Narrows the puff of blue smoke ris ng upward told of some incoming ocean steamer, which alter a tempestuous voyage had at last reachet our welcome land-locked haven, On the uplands of Staten Island were little patches here and there of snow, which giimted and sparkied in the bright sunlight like jewelson the frozen earth. On the New Jersey side the dome of the Monastery of Jesuit Fathers stood out against the horizon in bold reltef, while further up the trees on the Palisades were waving their barren branches, as though beckoning to the south wind to bring them swelling vuds and green leaves. On the east side of the North and East rivers there was some ice collected, but not enongh to interfere with ferry travel. Down to- ward Communipaw and opposite Governor's Island there stil remained an onbroken field. All the rest was clear but this one spot alone, which in the imagination was hke a remuant of the winter’s shroud which had been dropped in its final dissolution. The scene was vuid of that flood of golden light and autumnal tints which are the heritage of September; but it was none the less beauti(al, for the clear blue sky, the daucing rays of sunlight and the bracing, in- vigorating air told of lifeand health and hope. Looking down irom the observatory on that por- tion ut the city devoted to trade and commerce the thoroughfares were almost entirely descrted. Counting house and store were closed, and that Portion of the great metropolis which 1s the King- dom of Mammon was ina deathiike sleep. The streets which on week days are crowded with hurrying, money-getting men, and jammed witn vehicles of travel and traffic, were hushed and Silent, the busy hum of multitudes astir bad died out with the preceding night and a Sabbath still- ness reigned over all. THE TIDE OF FASHION, In contrast with the siumberous aspect of the lower portion of the city Filth avenue, the Mecca of Fashion, presented an unwonted scene of brill- fancy, The pavement irom Fourteenth street to Central Park was lined with @ moving throng of wealth, beauty and fashion. The sun had during tne day melted the ice and snow in the middie of the avenue and in the cross streets, so that there was less driving than usual; but what was lacking in the way of equipages was more than equalizea by the increased number of pedestrians. The display of toilets by the ladies was more than ordinarily rich and elegant. Attired in silks and satins and velvets of every hue they floated gracefully by like visions which were too bright to last. In many instances tne gentlemea had discarded their Ulsters and great coats and were dressed in English walking suits in order to obtain greater free.iom in their movements. some of the tar ones carried tneir missais daintily to theirhands asa of material reminder that the Lenten seazon was but just inaugurated. Bat it they were devotionally ‘inclined it was nov to be aiscovered in tneir faces, tur thetr,rosy cheeks and jaughing eyes were evidence that their re- ligion was nos Of the gloomy or sombre kind, Upon reaching some particularly bad crossing they would put ths rignt nand back, ana gatuer- mg up thelr costly trains pasa Over, unspotted by the mud, thus executing @ movement of peculiar grace aud veauty which only well bred ladies can eftect. Looking out irom the window of tae Union Cluo the scene was like a kaleidoscopic pic- | ture; it was made up of the same component parts—bits of humanity—but ever changing into new lorms aud designs, aud, consequently, ever new. ‘Tne side strects and avenues were rivulets, over which the horse cars rolled as on briages, and through which the pedestrians picked their way. A SKATING SPOILED, Karly in the day tne cars leading to the Central Park were Dlled with skaters, bent on havinga good time. ‘fhe ball was up, and there was evi- deutly nvthimg to interiere with their pleasure, But “Ola Sol’ had issued bis fat, and King Frosé ‘Was compellea to suomit. The surtace of the lake, whica all along has borne the weight of merry thousands, became weak under the influence of the sun’s rays, “danget” sigos became more and more irequent, until, about two P. M., when the superintendent 10 cnarge gave orders to have the | lakes cieared aud to pronibit skating for the bal- | ance of the day. Then the crowd dispersed, and, wandering throogh the Ramble and the bypaths, talked of the time when the hawthorn heages would be in blossom, when tne meadow would be common and of moontignt nights in the Carrousel. THE THAWING PIPES, The milder temperature of the past two days has exercised @ much needed influence in bringing about some little amelioration im the trouoles of housekeepers wuich had arisen irom the complete sealing up of the channels through which they had usuaily drawn the supply of water for daty use. But even yet there 1s widespread annoyance in this regard, for the irost has penetrated the ground 80 deep that tt will be some time before suMctent heat can be absorbed by the eartn tv act on the frozen ptpes leading irom the mains to the houses. Where 1 was ooly the pipes in the basements or other places within the house that were frozen the original difficulty has ulmost disappeared, and the water 1s again to be hadin the usualabundant quantity. In fact, mn | many cuses this very abundance has beena new source of trouble, for the precantion of overhaal- ing the pipes willie they were filled with ice nad too Irequently been negiected. As a consequence o1 this neglect there was many a iumuy yesterday who had to pewall their carelessness iu this re- ard by having their houses and apartments sud- feniy and without warning deiuged with the stream that poured from bursted pipes. Many a housekeeper to-day will gaze with rueini eyes upon dresses, hats and Other Mneries that have been 8) otled by THE DRIPPING WATER which has found its way into her apartments. The lessen learned now, however, will doubdtiess have the efect of making people more cautious in the tuture. here are still thousands of hotfses in the city whereta NOt a drop oi water can ve obtained, the immates being ovlged to go sometimes as iar as hall a biock betore they can obtain water tor their immeaiate aug pressing needs, Such a state of things cannot be expected to last very long now; taken to prevent a flooding, by the eXamination and REPAIR OF PIPES where a defect is ound to exist, By doing this much money and prop rt, as well.as time and patience, Will be saved, Lo say notary of one’s per- uMiort, Which tO Must people is a macter of No small consideratio ‘fhe agampness whien | Wwust result aNd be 1e.t over the honse irom a flooding of the cellar, or any other portion of the buitomg, can thus be prevented. Health will be preserved and doctors’ bilis ne saved, The break- mg Up of & long continued Irost 1s the tine that a | Keen and constant watch should be kept on the E ir pines, jor it is then that the grea’ danger ior 1acn the Water Which previousiy would Dt run at wil becomes @ nuisance in the oppose direction by flowing too ireety, TAR YIRE HYDRA In the »prown districts of the city the effect or the warm rain 01 dbaturaay and the comparatively warm suosnine of yesterday has been to some. Wha; relieve the tiozea fire bydiants. Down town, where the streets are narrow and tne butld- ings high, the condition of affairs remainea much the same. Along the water ironts, such as ou routh and West streets and other exposed situa- tions, the barrels of the hydrants were Jound im many instances to be flied up with ice. The Fire Depai tment took advantage of the Sabbath quiet and deserted streets to thaw out the hydrants be- Jow Canal street. ‘The time occupied io thawing out each hydrant belore the water would flow was irom five minutes to half an hour. A handful of salt was thrown into eaca hydrant barrel when it nad been thawed. The lesson of this winter will, it is hopsd, be of benefit ro the city. Toat a possibility exists, un- Ger the present system, of tne tire hydrants be- coming 80 trozen up as to be practically useless ip case of the oreaking out of a large fire is not pleasant or creditapie to the energy and public Spirit of the metropohe, especially as it 1s believed science Cau lurnish «cure for this evil, The ex- perieuce gatned during the recent icy period should be acred upon vefore the cold weatner of the next winter sets in, and our city placed be- yond the recurrence of this starting danger. THE TEMPERATURE. The following record will snow the changes in the temperature during the twenty-four hours, as recorded at Hudnut’s Drug store, No, 218 Broad way :— 1874, 1875. 1874. 1875, 400 (T 533k last year, SOUND NAVIGATION. THE STEAMER OLD COLONY VENTURING A VOYAGE TO NEWPORT—THE HARBOR STILL FROZEN. Newrost, It. L, Feb, 21, 1875, The steamer Uid Colony lett New York at half past one o’clock P. M. to-day for this port with treight, but no passengers. Shouid she come through all right the company will resume their regular trips to-morrow night. The Empire State, belonging to the same comrany, which nas been laid up af this port, nas been got in readiness and loaded with freignt, and will leave ior New York upon the arrival of the Old Cotony, The fretzht trom Boston and the East is rapidly accumulating here, and the company sce tne necessity of lur- warding It as soon as possible. This narbor re- mains !rozen up, the raion and fog ot yesterday not having the eect to break tt up, as Was sup}- posed. During the night the wind vee: northwest, and the sudaen cold s: hi ice even more compact than it was betore. Ves- slr ca find clear and sate anchorage in the upper arbor, THE ,ICE-BOUND FISHING FLEET. Boston, Feb. 21, 1875, Of the ten ice-bound fishing vessels which bore South of Wood End Cape, Cape Cod, on Friday, only eight remain in sight this morning. allot which were further to leeward and more firmly fastened in the ice than before. It 1s not known what has become of the other two vessels and it is thou,ht the crews of the former might reacn the shore to-day, as if they remain on boarang assistance can reach them and they will be ex- posed to great suffering. The revenue cutter Gallatin was at ancnor unaer Long Point thie sorenoon, A HORROR OF THE COLD. THREE LITTLE BROTHERS PEDDLING BASKETS DIZ OF THE COLD IN THE ROAD—PARENTAL CRUELTY. OvzonTa, N. Y., Fob. 20, 1875. The particulars of a sud case of death by freezing have been received in this place from the town of Exeter auring the intensely cold weather that pre- vailed bere ali of this week. The victims were three boys, named Patrick, Martin and Michael O’Brien, the first aged eight, the second ten and the ¢nird eleven years. They were brothers, living with their parents in Exeter. Tne father and mother are lazy and dissipated people and live on the fruits of the labor of their children, who were seven in number. The four oldest made baskets and the three others just named travelled on foot about the country selitng them. On Tuesday last the thermometer in the town of Exeter marked twenty-five degrees below zero. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien toid their three little cbil- dren that they must start out with a los of baskets. The boys begged to be allowed to wait until the weather moderated. They were poorly clad and were barely able to keep warm inthe miserable house in which the family lived. DRIVEN INTO THE COLD, The brutal parents torced them with threats and beatings, however, to go out with the baskets, They starteu in the direction of Westville, some miles distant, over a bleak and desolate road, hilly and in some places badly drifted. Each baua number of baskets tied to him reaching above his head. When last seen alive by any of the family they were straggling up the bill away from the house, two of. them weeping bitterly. They never reached Westville. Wednesday morning & gentleman who was driving trom Westville over the Exeter road saw the bodies of three children ising in the road. Each naa numoer of baskets tied around hia body, and the largest of the three had his arms around the neck ol the smallest. It needed but a lance to enable the gentleman to see that the ys Were dead, and had doubtless been srozen te death. There were FROZEN TRACES OF TEARS on the cheeks of each one. Tne boates were taken to Westville, where they Were recognized as those of the three little basket pediers who were well known throughout the section. They were tak home, and when it was learned that the ht sieilows had been driven out in the cold to seil their baskets the popular indignation was intense against the parents. If there js any legal pun- ishment tt will be invoxed on the uunatural Jather and mother. SNOW STORM IN NEW ENGLAND. Concorn, N. H., Feb, 21, 1875. From eight to ten inches of snow fell in this city and vicinity last night and yesteraay, Ahigh wind prevailing at the time, the snow Was drifted so aa to make the roads almost impassabic. All the trains to and from the city have been delayed, some of them for eight hours. THERE'S NOTHING IN NATURE MORE HEAT ing, soothing and genial than the ingredients ot Hate’ noxey or HoreHouxp aNp Tar, our national specific for Coughs, Colds, Influenza and Bronchitis. 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