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| | ] THE UNITED STATES SHIP POWHATA! (SPEcTAL DEsParcH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.) Lonvow, March 2, 1875. The United States steamer Powhatan has wrived at the Canary Islands. SPAIN. MAIL COMMUNICATION WITH CUBA FACILITATED. MaDRID, March 2, 1875, Additional mat! communication bas oeen estab- \ishea between Cadiz and Cuba. FRANCE. M. BUFFET IN CONFERENCE WITH THE FRES- IDENT. Panis, March 2, 1875. M. Buffet has returned to Paris from tne Vosges and conferred with President MacMahon, ENGLAND. SPECIE SHIPPED FOR NEW YORE—A RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND SEVERE INJURIES. Lonpon, March 2, 1875, Seventeen thousand dollars in specie were shipped to New York by the steamship Hermann, which sailed from Southampton to-day. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON A RAILWAY. A railway accicent occurred near Lichfield, Staf- jordshire, to-day, by which thirty persons were imjured. REVIVALIST PREACHERS LOOKING FOR A PLACE OF MEETING. The managers of the Kensington Hall have refused the use of that butiding to Rev. Messrs. Moody and Bankey. Itis reported that the latter have en- Baged Her Majesty’s Opera House in the Hay- market. 4 SNOW STORM. A snow storm prevails in the southern portion Of this country to-day. THE ENGLISH TURF. WROSTY WEATHER AGAINST RACING AT CROYDON. Lonpon, March 2, 1875. The*Croydon March steeplechases, which were to bave commenced to-day, were postponed on a count of the frost. BREADSTUFFS SUPPLY EUROPE, | / IN Lonpon, March 2, 1875. The Mark Lane Evpresé says the weather during the past week has been rough, The general aspect of the wheat markets Is firmer. In the Continental markets prices have improved ashiiling. It is | thought that the lowest prices have been reached everywhere, JAPAN. THE EUROPEAN SOLDIERS MARCH FROM YOKO- HAMA. Lonpow, March 2, 1875. Advices from Yokohama announce that the European troops have been withdrawn from that place. CUBA, CAPTAIN GENERAL CONCHA EMBARKED FOR | SPAIN—THE CONDITION OF THE ISLAND PRESENTED IN A PROCLAMATION. Havana, March 2, 1875, Captain General Concha satled to-day for Spain, He issued a proclamation before his departure, in which he says:— “leave you less prosperous than you were in 1852 and 1859, a8 the insurrection still devastates extensive, although principally barren, portions of the isiand, I did not promise you on my arri- val to liberate you from this evil, for I said the | war had lasted and might be prolonged, owing to its peculiar conditions. But the character of tne war has changed.” The Captain General refers to the foreigners sommanding the enemy, terms the insurgents bandits and declares their plans in tne Cinco ‘Villas aistrict have been frustrated. He closes by telling the people that in order to restore peace in the island it will be necessary for them to sacrifice part of their fortunes, pay the public debt and maintain tne army and navy in an emeclent condition. The soldiers, volunteers and firemen are complimented for their patriotic ser- vices. THE ACTING CAPTAIN GENERAL, General Figueras remains in command of the tsland as acting Captain General. WEATHER REPORT, The weather ts hot. HAVANA MARKETS, HAVANA, March 2, 1875, Spanish gold, 230 a 231; American, 232. Exchange easier; on the United States, sixty days, currenc; 90a 91 premium; short sight, 93 a ¥4 premiam; sixty days, gold, 120 a 121 premium ;1 short sight, 1258 124premium; on Lonaon, 145 a 147 premium; | on Paris, 128 a 124 prem Sugar nominal; No, 12 Dutca standara, 1435 reals per arrobe. REDUCTION OF ‘THE PRESIDENT’S SALARY. Covumnus, March 2, 1875. | In the House to-day a jd@nt resolution request- img Congress to reduce the President’s salary to $25,000 u year was adopted, A DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD. | j THE CITY OF KNOXVILLE INUNDATED BY THE OVERFLOW OF THE HOLSTON RIVER—TWENTY- FIVE BREAKS ON THE RAILROADS—IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND SUFFERING AMONG THE POOR. | KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 2, 1875. | On the 25th of February the water in the [Holston River at tois point had reached its highest since 1867, and was within two feet of the flood of that year. Since then it began to fall rapidly, | but to-day alone it rose five feet and the | residence of Mr. Barry, the oldest typographic: employer in the State, was entirely submerged. In the afternoon of the 28th ult. the water com- menced falling, On Sunday it was witnin the banks of the river, until the second rise, which this time came to-day. The loss of property in | Knoxville is very heavy, Jalting chiefly on indl- | viduals and amounting to about $40,000, The gas works are badly damaged and the city has been in total darkness since Thurs- | day = last. From every part of East Tennessee comes news of disaster and damage, | but the means of communication are so limited that the worst is not known, Houses—-perhaps with their inmates—bridges, barns, fences, corn cribs, grist and saw mills have all been swept Away by the raging waters. he loss 1s estimated here to be irightiul, and it falis chiefly on the farming community, who are less able to year tt than any otuer. In Cocke county atone the loss {8 estimated to be over $200,000, So lar but Jew lives are reported to have been lost. Rain las been constantly jalling since yesterday morning, | ond the river here has risen over twelve tect dur | Ing the past twenty-lour hours, and is stil rising. Great fears of turther damage are entertained. There are not less than twenty-five breaks ou the Kast Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia lt road between ‘this “point and Chattanooga. | The news from that city to day ts both limited and disheartening. No Western mail has veen re- ceived here sine ysday, the wd ult, and only mall jor a@ week, Chattanooga fs how compietely isolated and cut of from the outer world. ‘ihe only teiegraph Wire between that city and Knoxville was Swept away to-day at noon, with toe trestle work over Chickamauga Creek, | Which succumbed to the devastating waters at taat = hour. the latest irom Chattanooga 8 contained im a spectal to the Laity | Chronicle to-ay, which states chat the water | reached {18 nigh rise being filty- Sport vais morning, the te Wo and & hali feet. ‘The w was then two leet deep In the Vost Oillce and four fect deep on the market square. A strong current was runuing through the Read Rouse anu in some places it had reached tne lower wires on the West- ern Union telegraph poles. ‘The city authorities were issuing rations, the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and citizens of means were re- lieving the poor and needy, and a great deal of sugering prevailed ’ | moted and retired. | to will effect a reduction of over NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. The Defeat of the President's Arkansas Policy. TRIUMPH OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES. Proposed Reduction of the Sundry Civil Ap- propriations, FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, —————E WaAsuIncton, March 2, 1875. SIGNAL DEFEAT OF THE ADMINISTRATION IN THE HOUSE—THE RESOLUTION FAVORING NON- INTERFERENCE IN ARKANSAS AFFAIRS ADOPTED BY A LARGE MAJORITY. Mr. Scudder, of New York, opened the debate on the Arkansas resolutions in an admirable speecn, in which be very clearly stated the ctr cumstances of the case, and, what was of equal importance, the question itself, which, he said, was whether the Congress of the United States could overthrow a State government, republican 1n form, fully installed ana now peacably exercis- ing its authority. He proceeded to recite briefly and very clearly to the House the different ways in which the Baxter government had been recog- nized by the courts, by the President and by the people, and then showed that the constitunon was aproper coustiiution, adopted by the people as their own, under which they were content to live, Mr, Scudder’s speech arrested the attention of the House and hau the great merit of placing before it in concise and intelligible form the facts ofthe case. Ward, of Illinois, wno made the re- portin favor of Brooks, tollowed Scudder ana made an impassioned harangue, which did not apparently strengthen his side. He was followed by Milton Sayler, a member of the Spectal Com- Mittee, who ciaimed that there was no authority in Congress or the Executive to determine the re- sult of a State election; that this contest of brooks | and Baxter was decided by the Legislature of Arsansas, which, under the constitution and laws of the State, constituted the only tribunal for that purpose; that this decision of the Legislature was final and exclusive, and consequently that Baxter was both de sacto and de jure Governor of the State and was properly recognized as such bythe President; that the proceedings to frame the new constitution were entirely regular and entirely in accord with the laws and usages of the country; that the constt- tution was republican in form, and that Mr. Gar- land 1s as much entitled to recognition as Governor as any executive of any other State. Judge Tremain, whose ineffective volubility has got for him the name of Sergeant Buzfuz in the House of late, followed Sayler, and thinned the galleries very rapidly, and when he sat down the House took a recess, Judge Polana opened the debate after the recess, and in a really great speech—a speech which produced conviction and did what very few speeches in Congress do, changed votes presented the question in all its aspects, AS chairman of the committee and author of the non-interference resolution, he closed the debate and carried the day. The first vote on & Motten to substitute Ward’s resolution for Poland’s was taken amid deep excitement. It was a test vote, id, to everybody’s surprise, it showed that the House was not inclined to think with the President. Ward’s resolution de- claring Brooks Governor of Aykansas was de. feated by 153 to 80. So greata majority against the administration amazed everybody and the faces of the moderate republicans brightened at the unex- pected completeness of their success. Next came @ motion to lay Judge Poland’s resolution for non- interference on the table and this was promptly defeated by 147 to 95, Then came the final vote and the Poland resolution was adopted by the handsome majority of 149 to 80. “That's the worst blow Cerarism has got fora long while,” said a republican as the vote was an- nounced. On the final vote General Butler did not vote at all. Of the eighty republicans who voted against the adoption of the non-interference resolution, the greater number are men not re-elected to the next Congress, and who, as it 1s said here, have no visible means of political subsistence. Une colored member, James T. Rapier, voted for Poland’s reso- lution. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, oS AN WASHINGTON, March 2, 1875, BEGULATION OF THE RANK OF RETIRED OFFI- CERS OF THE ARMY. A bill now before the President, known as the Crawford bill, puts every retired oMcer of the army on the rank which he actually held when wounded, except those who have been in the service twenty-five years or those who have lost | an arm, leg or both eyes, and those who had no rank when: wounded and have since been pro- This bill restores Daniel E. Sickles to the roll of retired oMfcers of the army and gives General Crawiord the rank of brigadier. CUBA UNRECOGNIZED—THE ASIAN TELEGRAPH BILL LOST. Senator Cameron, chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported adversely the resolution recognizing the independence of Cuba, and also adversely the bill to promote telegraphic communication between America and Asia. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCH. STORE WASHINGTON, March 2, 1875, IMPORTANT AMENDMENTS TO THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL IN THE SENATE. The Senate Appropriation Committee propose numerous amendments to the Sundry Civil Appro- priation bill, reported this evening, which if agreed 2,250,000 in its total. They diminisn the items for public pulldings as Jollows :—For Chicago, from $760,000 to $500,000 ; Cincinnati, from $600,000 to $400,000; St. Louis, from $750,000 to $500,000; Hartford, trom $10,000 to $5,000; Philadelphia, from $750,000 to $550,000; State Department building In Washington, from $750,000 to $400,000, A reduction of $175,000 is made in the House appropriation for repairs and miscellaneous expenses of public buildings throughout the country. The item for repairs at the navy yards is reduced from $500,000 to $200,000... The tollowing items are stricken out altogether:—§191,000 for sur- veying Mdian reservations; $50,000 for the purchase of Gatling guns; all items tor new vessels for the lighthouse and coast survey service, amounting In the aggregate to over $300,000; $50,000 for the pubileation of the recoras of the rebellfon; the appropriation for paying Montana war claims; for sites of forts in Texas, and numerous items for improvements of various kinds in Washington city. The committee recom- Mend the insertion of an item of $100,000 for continuing the Custom House building at New Orlerns, and $265,000, gold, to pay the interest on the District of Columbta bonds guaranteed by the government. The section known as “the Keliogg bili,” for the reorganiza- tion of the Treasury Departmont, is stricken out. The clause relating to government securities is changed so as to make it obligatory inst ot | discretionary that two of the three printings shall be executed outside of the Treasury, and it 18 also required that the work, when thus con- tracted for, shall be done in the District of Uo- umbia, THE CIVIL RIGH ENACTMENT, HOTELS CLOSED IN ALNXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 2, 1875, In consequence of ‘he Civil Rights bill, and fear- ing trouble, both of the principal botels here have | cancelled their licences and closed, EVASION OF PENALTIES IN BALTIMORE. BALtTiMong, March 2, 1875, Wiliam 8, Redgrave, owner and proprietor of | | | | | ‘The vote was large at the charter election here | | | the Park Hotel, immediately opposite the Camden street depot of the Baltimore and Onio Rai!road, closed his honse to-aay to the public to escape 1R- curring the penaities of the Civil Rights bill. NEGRO JUBILATION, SaRatoGa, March 2, 1875, A meeting of colored citizens was held here last night to congratulate the colored race on the adoption of the Civil Rights biil, Resolutions were adopted acknowleaging the obligations of the colored race to Charles Sumnér and the re- Dublican party lor inis great bocn. THE FIRST BITTER YRUITS IN RICHMOND. RICHMOND, Va., March 2, 1875, The negroes bere are beginning to exercise thetr privileges under the Civil Rights bill. During the day several of them have visited varidus restau- rants, including the barroom at the Exchange Hotel, and im one instance a barber shop, and de- manded to be waited upon. ‘They were retused in every instance and ordered out. Nothing 1s yet known asto what the partes thus treated will do, ARKANSAS COMPLICATIONS, EXCITEMENT AS TO THE FORCE BILL—SPECULA- TIONS AS TO THE PRESIDENT'S ACTION—AN INTERVIEW WITH GOVERNOR GARLAND—EDI- TORIAL OPINION AS TO THE FUTURE. LitTLe RocK, March 2, 1875, The excitement over the passage of tne Force bill ana prospective adoption of Ward's resolu- tion by the House continues, Both sides are con- fident and are anxiously awaiting further news, Governor Garland is in receipt of advices trom Washington, which indicate that the Arkansas question cannot be called up during the present session, A CAUCUS OF CONSERVATIVES, Acaucus of leading conservatives was held at the State House at a late hourlast night. It 1s supposed the Arkansas case Was @ sudject of dis: cussion, but its conclusions cannot be obtained, THE GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST. The Gazette, of this morning, convains an edi- toriai on she gubernatorial contest, which it sums ‘up as follows :— First—tThe President will not interfere in Ar- Kansas aflairs unless both houses of Congress indicate that he should do 80. Second—He could only interfere on behalf of an establisned governinent. Third—Mr. Brooks cannot establish such a gov- ernment on the soil o1 Arkansas, Fourth—The iriends of une present government need not be alarmed. All 1s weil. The articie asserts that if the President should recognize Brooks on the simple passage by the House of Ward’s resolution, the next Congress would Impeaon nim, AN INTERVIEW WITI GOVERNOR GARLAND. In an interview to-day Governor Garland de- clined to give his views on the passage of the Force bill or information as to what course he would pursue in the event of the President recog- nizing Brook®as Governor. He said@ that any opinion of bis would be merely speculation, and what his opinions were he aid not desire to make public, ARKANSAS AND THE OENTENNIAL, A clause in the General Appropriation bill, mak- ing appropriation for the proper representation of Arkansas at the Centenntal, which was under consideration, was stricken out on constita- tional gr@nds. A separate bill, making appro- priation, has been introduced and will probably pass before the adjournment. NEWS OF THE ADOPTION OF POLAND’S REPORT. A despatch has just reached here announcing the adoption of Poland’s report on the Arkansas case. Notwithstanding a severe storm of snow and sleet which is now prevailing, the streets are crowded with jubilant democrats, who shout ror Governor Garland, making the welkin ring witn their rejoicings. The resuit was entirely unexpected by the republicans Up to seven o'clock tnis evening they were sanguine that Ward’s resoiation would be passed by trom ten to twenty majority, All the republicans are desp ndent ang practically give up tne con- test. ‘Ihe opinion prevatis among them that the vote rings out the deatn knell of republicanism ta The leadera claim that under the present State administration tuey Gare not preserve their party organizauon nor make another canvass, Promi- nent colored men are announcing their determi- Nation to leave the State at once. THE MALCONTENTS TO TAKE THEIR SEATS TO= DAY—REASONS FOR THIS STEP—APPROVED BY GOVERNOR M’'ENERY. New ORLEANS, March 2, 1875, It is generally admitted that a majority, if not all, of those members of the conservative caucus who have most strenuously opposed the Wheeier compromise, numbering about twenty-five, and who reiuse to sign the protocol or be bound by tne action of the majority, will take their seats to- morrow or the next day. ‘They hold that since it has been determined by the majority, forty-lve members, to go into the Kellogg House, it is oetter for them to go unfet- tered and untrammeled by tne individual pledge exacted by the Wheeler proposition. Warmota 18 in Javor of compromise, and is a candidate for the Senate. A goou deal 0! specula- von Is indulged in about the motive of the eight conservaiive Senators who joined the Keliogg Senate to-day. ‘Their motive 1s to preserve their status two years hence as noiding over Senators, and by going im im advance of the Wheeler com: promise, to avoid implicetion with it. Governor McEnerv approves 01 their action. | Governor Kellogg this morning sentin a veto of a bill which had passed the Legisiature Jor the reliel of the Louisiana Levee Company, asserting that the bill was an attempt to legalize $1,000,000 or more of illegal alleged indeptedness, in viola- uon of the Funding law and constitutional amend- ments. jt is said that a strong ring has been 1ormed to pass the bill over nis veto. CHARTER ELECTIONS. CITY AND CHARTER ELECTIONS IN NEW YORK STATE—DEMOCRATIO AND REPUBLICAN GAINS— FOUR DEMOCRATIC MAYORS ELECTED, ROME, March 2, 1875, At the city election to-day Samuel B. Stevens, democrat, was elected Mayor by 669 majority. The democrats elect jour of the five ward officers. The Common Council will stand ten democrats to seven republicans, ROCHESTER, March 2, 1875, At the Charter election to-day General Williams, cemocrat, was elected City Treasurer by about 2,000 majority, and Mr. Staples, democrat, Justice of the Peace by about 500 majority. The demo- crats elect twelve Aldermen and the republicans SIX, Making the Council democratic by eight ma- jority. Of Dine School Commissioners elected seven are democrats, and tucre will bea tie in the Board of Education. visors 18 probably democratic. The city elects eleven democratic and tive republican Supervisors, @ gain to the republicans of one. OswEGO, March 2, 1875. At the charter election to-day Poncher, demo. crat, was elected Mayor by about 200 majority. ‘The republicans elect five of the eight Aldermen, Irmaca, March 2, 1875, The charter election to-day resulted in a great falling off in the democratic majority of last year. In every ward the republicans gain one member in the Board of Trustees, ‘ AUBURN, March 2, 1875, Mr. Theodore M. Pomeroy, republican, was elected Mayor of this city to-day ty a majority of 250 over William J. Moses, democrat and temper- ance. NEWBURG, March 2, 187! At the charter election here to-day the demo- crats elected J. J.S, McCroskey Mayor, by about 600 majority. They also elected three out of five Aldermen, and have now a majority in the Com- mon Counc. The democrats also elect te Vol- lector, Water Commissioner and three of the four | jorities, ‘The res us elect botn School Trustees, | Supervisors. all by mcreased mi publica Conors, March 2 1 At the city election to-day the democrats elected three out of four Supervisors, cil and school Board are equally divided. Urtca, March 2 18%5, to-day, The democrats elected Charies W. Hutch- inson Mayor by 276 majority and elected nine out of tie ten Supervisors and six out of the ten Al. | dermen, | Mr. Fdaward T. Barcett, of New York, counsel se for the vacific Mail Company, 18 now here. He ELMIRA, March 2, 1875, | ‘ Colonel Howard M. eae republican, a | has caused asuit io be commenced on behalf of eiected Mayor of this city to-day by 200 majority. | the company against William 8, King to recover ‘yhe Board of Supervisors stands—Repubiicans, | $126,000 patd tne iatter by Richard B. Irwin. An 11; democrats, 7. Last year the city went demo- | attachment has been levied on w large amount of oratic by 860 majority, Arkansas aud that the party will be disbanded. | The Board of Super- | The Common Coun- | THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, | Work of the American Expedition at Pekin. THE OBSERVATIONS IN CHINA. Professor Young on the Great Problem. ‘The Celestial Empire Pho- tographed. Professor C. A. Young, who was chief of the United States expedition to Pekin, China, for the- purpose of o)serving the transit of Venus, and whose return to this country was announced In yesterday's HERALD, delivered a lecture on the nature and object of the expedition in the Ste- vens Institute, Hoboken, lastevening, While the parties were stationed in China the Professor re, ceived a letter from Professor Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute, requesting him to lecture in Hoboken on his return. Profes- sor Young acquiesced, and this exposition of the work done by the Pekin party 13 the first that he has made since his return home, The hall was comfortably filled by an ap- preciative andience. Professor Young does not seek to popularize abstract science. He interests his hearers by a cursory résumé of the mathematl- cal features of the work, and giving graphic episodes incident to the progress of the observers, THR DISCOURSE. The lecturer began his discourse by expressing his regret at not being able to speak as carelully ashe would wish, owing to his excessive and arduous duties, He would be compelled to address them extemporaneously. What, said he, is this transit of Venus? The planet Venus simply passes between the carth and thesun, This passage would take piace at the recurrence of every revolution of Venus were it not that her path does not he in the same plane with the path of the earth. Ordt- nartly Venus, on passing between us and the solar globe, appears either above or below the sun, but once ina while she comes directly vetween the earth and the sun, looking like a black spot pro. jected on his disk, slowly crawling over jor a few hours and thence disappearing again into space, The passage itself is a very insignificant phenomenon, but the calculations whica can be based thereon are of vast im- portance to the astronomical and the entire civilized world. From a careful observation of the planet’s track, as seen {rom two north and gouth stations on the earth, we are enabled to de- termine the parallax of the sun, This parallax (the size of the earth’s radius as viewed by an imaginary observer at the sun) once determined, we can calculate the distance between the earth and the sun, our distances from all the planets, their weights and sizes as well as our distances from the fixed stars. Any error artsing in our ob- servations of tne transit PERMEATES ALL OUR COMPUTATIONS as to the other neavenly bodies, The Professor proceeded to illustrate by diagrams on a screen the two apparent tracks of Venus across the solar di3k as viewed from two distant stations on the earth, ‘he lines resemble two black parallel threads streched im proximity across a sitver plate. The angular distance between the lines was the key to the solution, It 18 needless, per- | haps to further repeat the lecturer's explanation of the nature of the calculations, inasmuch as this has already been extensively treated in tne HERALD. The descriptive portions of the discourse | were extremely pleasing. The Professor projected upon the screen a ground plan of Pekin with its Moats and towers and gates and the encasing | wall against which British cannon had thun- dered long in vaio. The American observers were domiciled in the court atrachea to the Episcopal mission; the French remained at the French Legation. the Temple of Heaven and tnat of Agriculture were depicted, and also the site of the Observatory erected there by THE JESUITS, in which are to be found many old fashioned astro- nomical instruments and some glasses of great power. A Map was shown, illustrating the post- tion taken up by the American astronomers during their observations. The locations of the equsetorial telescope, the photographing apparatus, the helio- Stat, the transit pier and every appliance used by the Scientists in their observations Were accurately pomted ont. All the equipments, including the very sheds and houses used during the observa- tious, Were carried across tne seas by the Aleri- cans, and borne from the lho ed to Pekin on the shoulders of couriers. he appliances weighed ten tons, THE CAPITAL OF CHINA presented many a strange scene. The sky is clear by night and the heavenly orbs tremble much less vban they do when viewed from our own shores, The air, however, ts filled with dust; tho streets are always crowded with pediars, story-tellers and | hewsmongers, Tne imperial palace is a magnitfi- cent edifice of marbie, Attuched to it are artificial pleasure grounds, lakes and retreats among trees whose antiquity 15 shrouded in mys- tery. There aiso ts to be seen a vast marble bridge 600 or 600 years old. The Confucian Temple of | Heavenin one quarter of the city is visited at the | Winter solstice by the Emperor. Within 1s a spacious chair for that magnate aad several others for the spirits 0! bis ancestors, ‘rhere 1s @ large white board bearing @ projusion of traditional in- scriptions. In another part of the capital is AN OLD BUDDHIST TEMPLE to which thousands of devoted followers have re- course. It is a pile of white marole ninety teet high, The life of Buddha 1s encausted on the wails. At a distance irom Pekin stands the ce.e- brated mauso!eum within which rest the bones of the great emperors. Untortunarely there are only two dynasties represented there, because when- ever a strong cieltain usurped the place ol. the reigning priaces, he took good care to destroy the reiics of their ancestors, lest spirits of the latter might give annoyance, The grim repository is sandwiched between two hilisin a dark recess studded with shrubpery and trees. The astrono- mers made AN RXCURSION TO THE GREAT WALL, The conveyance, which 1s considered aristo- | cratic and a great luxury, resembles a New En- | gland ox cart, With no springs and drawn by & | mule. There was no seat in it, and the passen- gers had to squatin indian fashion, The wall was buiit 200 years before the birth ot Christ, ts 1,500 miles in length, iorty feet high and forty feet in thickness. 1t is topped at Intervals by strong para- pets and towers, The Americans took great in- | terest in the stupendous work, The surrounding country abounds with antique stone monuments and coiossal statues of maii-clad warriors and my- | | thological beasts. The Proiessor then described | the routine pursued by the astronomers. | 1t was necessary to determine with the | transit mstrument the precise longitude and latitude ot the place, then the rate of the astrono- mical clock, In order to accomplish this the ob- | servers visited tne observatory every nignt to view the stars wheeling across the sky. Filteen hundred observations of transits of stars across the meridian, and 150 transits for determinauon of latitude, Were made in this way. On THE MORNING OF THE TRANSIT the clouds began to thicken, and it soon became evident that the spectroscope would be useless, ‘The electric circuit was accidentally broken by & junctionary who Was born under the constellation of Aquarius, accumulating diMicuities as the | eventiul moment approached. Every:hing was ; remedied, however, and at the decisive period of the | lirst contact, satisiactory observations were made. No black drop whatever was visible, nor was the plauet seen beiore 't came into collision with the sun’s Tim, At some stations, where the SKY was ciear, Venus was distinctly visible long betore the | occurrence of the first contact. Une hundred | photographs were secured, ‘The four contacts | | Were signatied with probavie accuracy, although | there Was and /is a marginal error of thirty sec. | onds in the estimate o: the first coniact. ‘The results, on the whole, were satisfactory, and when the next transit takes place, im 1882, we will have the advantage of witnessing it trom our | own country, and it will be scanned by eyes | already experienced, F | AN UNEXPECTED PHENOMENON | was noticed ajter the second contact at Pekin, Several fingers seemed to intervene between the { planet and the sun's rim—due to the action of enus’ atmosphere, Proiessor Young portrayed | the observatories and instruments constrocted im | Chima lone ago by the Jesuit missionaries, a: which have scarcely been snrpassed in our own times. He described some of the rude astrovomical | | implements 11 vogue three centuries ago; among | them an equatorial ima periect state of preserva. | ton. On conclucing bis interesting discourse the | | lecturer was warmly applauded. He proceeds to | | his home to-day, and wii then return to his col- | lege. elaith ee “BILL KING'S” PROPERTY ATTACHED, MINNEAPOLIS, Ind., March 2, 1875, King’s real estate, AMUSEMENTS. MME. RISTORI—“ELJZABETH” AT THE LYCEUM. Mme. Ristori could not have wished and New York could haraly have given her a more enthusi- astic and hearty welcome than she received last night at the Lyceum Theatre, The audience was worthy of the artist, which being the highest com- plument we could pay the audience we shall not insist further upon its merits. At the end of every act the famous tragédienne was called out repeatedly, the curtain being raised three times at the end of the fourth act. We saw but one bouquet thrown to her, but that was worth scores of those floral avalanches under which a vulgar custom secks to hide the smiling actresses of the period. It was only a simple banch of violets, but it was a charming tribute to an artist who is already crowned with the laurel, The purpose of Gtacomettt in the play of “Eliza- beth” was to exnibit the inconsistencies of Eliza- beth, and in the strong contrast of these he nas unquestionably distorted the character. It is not only untrue to the historical Queen, but untrue to nature, for such abrapt and violent changes of mood and thought are not often seen outside of hospitals for the insane, The descrip- tion of the Queen given by Burleign in the play may be true enough for the purposes of a drama- tist, but his realization of it in action is false, Elizabeth, as shown to us by the author, is a fan- tastic, extravagant, disjointed, impoasibie figure, whose motions resembie those creatures who, Shakespeare said, were made by Nature’s journey- men, they imttated humanity so abomtuably. In- deed, when the character is compared with the Shnakespearian analyses of eccentric beings, such as Hamlet, 1t seems almost like a burlesque. When Elizabeth suggests in open court that Essex shouid be one of the English snbjects to be con- sidered as candidates for her hand, It ts unnatural. ‘When she tells the Spanish ambassador, *Marquts, we never lie,” it 1s coarse. When she dictates the two letters it 18 pure farce, suitable to the “Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.” When she restrains her anger because her doctor only allows her the privilege of passion once in twenty- Jour hours, it is absurd, uniess we arbitrarily assume that it 18 tronical. Nor are the other characters of a bigher degree of dramatic merit. Bacon, “the wisest, brightest, meanest of man- kind,” appears as the meanest only, a kind of Baradas or Rosencrantz, though, of course, it was no particular purpose of the drama to reveal Bacon in his full strength, Essex is bet ter; but Burleigh is ilke the Polonius of which tradition say he was the original. All the people of this brilliant and intellectual court—in @ reign distingulsed for 1ts famous up- holders, giants on whose mighty shoulders rested an empire’s burden—seek the favor of the Queen by the grossest flattery, which she belteves with the most unreasonable readiness and without any discrimination, In tne praise of Essex, however coarse, sne might believe, ior she loved him, but even a vain women is not blind to the flattery of those to whom they are indifferent. Giacomett: has evidently made a close study of the time of Elizabeth, and deserves credit for his knowledge of the subject, if not for its treatment. But his characters are English only in name, and the play presents us with a picture resembling some littie Italian duchy in the sixteenth century,’ an operatic duchy, where the passions ure mo- tives for musical duets and trios more than the court of Bacon, Raleigh, Drake, Sidney, Essex and Elizabeth, Yet though the play possesses these historical faults and has the special weakuess of being with- outa plot, it nas sterling merits. Some of the principal events of Elizabeth’s reign are boldly sketched and warmly colored. The situations are forcibie, tne aialogue is effective, and the more poetical language is fervent and picturesque. Elizabeth herself—an 1magin- ary or Itallan Elizabeth, it may be—is displayed witn mach dramatic power, and the rdle gives to such an artist as Ristori splendid opportunity. She lifts that which is low to the level ofher own gentus, and raises the high still higner. The play seen through the medium of her acting is transfigured tnto something more beautt- ful than tt truly 1s. The trivial vanity she makes charming, she gives nature to that which ua- natural and hides with her art the imperfections she constantly encounters, itis the same Ristori we knew seven years ago who returns to us now; the same majes figure, expressive and intellectual features and impas- sioned voice, This was evident in the: earier acts of the play, when she represented Eliza- beth in comparative youtn, in the speaking eye and Movement all grace and ease, and not less clear in the close, when the full resources of passion and strength were demanded by the sita- ations. The progress of the Queen, Jrom maturity to age, was made by changes startling in their verisimilttude; and, though the char- acter is consistenuly preserved, its differcat stages of development are contrasted with mar- velluus power. ‘The ladies in the audience might Dave eastiy stadied, if study of such a subject were advisable, how women grow old. The pic- tures of the Queen are varied. The first, an ex- hibition of her vanity, Der disposition to almost sport with her sceptre, and make ita play- thing to reward a dramatist or a weapon to sirike down afoe. The close of the first act leaves the Queen in the attitude of asserting the authority which she had resolved none should dis- pute. The second picture reveais her in mere moods, in the scene in which Essex without rebuke discloses his love for ms sovereign. The manner in which Ristori gave the ring to Essex—a pledge of her pardon jor ali offences that he might commit—was exquisite in its ardor and Jorgetiuiness, and was followed by a superb Gelivery of the soliloquy in which sne resolves never to sacritice the ride of empire to love. Then Joilows a remarkable study ot profouad dissimulation in the scenes which pre- cede and Jollow the death of the hated Marte Stuart. The affected grief! of the Queen when she announces her intention to seek par- don in & convent was finely succeeded by the burst of real joy with whicn the arrival of Sir Francis Drake was received, ana the deflance of Spain, which ends the second act. Contrast the duplicity of that remorse for tne royal rival’s execution with the real remorse for the death of Essex in the tourth act and see how subtle is the skxiil and how vast the resources of the artist. Her simmated anguish an inferior artist might have been glad to express a8 @ substitute for sin- cere emotion, It was not until the fourth act that tne real greatness-of Ristori was fully disclosed. All before was preparatory, and made interesting more by her art than her genius, It had elements of comedy which justified the descriptions we have read of her early career, when she dazzled the Itatlan stage with her briliancy and humor. But when Essex is sen- tenced real scrrow becomes an elementof the drama, and the cannon that announces bis death sounds tne Knell jor Elizabeth. The delivery o1 the final speech of this act was tremendous in its in- tensity and in the wonderful manner in which agony was entwined with rage, mad scorn mith cvild remorse, passion straggling with passion, like the human figures and the withering snakes in the group of the Laocoon. In the filth act Ristort rose to tragic heights not less sublime, but terrible in their reality. ‘Tne spectacie of the lonely Queen in her old age, clinging to her power, her vanity, her crown, unable to shake off the memor! ol jove the presence of remorse, and dying with a divided allegiance to earth and heaven, would have been as painful as it was awful had it not been Jor the supreme art which subdued its horror. It was like tne head of the Medusa which was made beantiiul by the genius of the painter. Tas engagement of Mme. Ristori in New York wili be her last,and it promises to be her most 5 tal. -nignt she will appear as Marie Stuart, in @ lay which deals with the same subject as “Elizabeth,” but treats itin avery different style. The difference between the genius of Schiller and Giacometti makes some diferense to Ristori and a great deal to the public, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Jananschek has played @ very successful engage- ment at Buffalo. Agnes Booth succeeds Janauschek at the Buffalo Academy of Music. Clara Morris played Nancy Sikes during her Calttornta engagement. Maccabe Will bring his monologue entertainment to an end this week. He moves to pastures new. Strakosch of Paris says he has found a musical star of the first magnitude tn Mile. Anna de Be- locca. Madame Ristori appears to-night In the rdle ot Mary Stuart. On Thursday she plays Elizabeth lor the last time, Miss Cushman and Janauschek played simul- taneously in Chicago at different theatres. It was too much honor for that Western city. Miss Genevieve Ward’s representation of Re- becca, in Halliday’s “Ivanhoe,’? which has been revived at Drury Lane, 1s said to be very meri- tortous, The presentation of Rogers’ group of “The Shaughraan” will be made by the Boucicault Tes | Ance, Steamship, Vommercial, Theatrical or Legal. wi imate from 7 timonial Committee on Saturday evening next af Wallack's Theatre. Adelaide Neilson bas added “Measure for Messe ure’ to her répertoire, She is the first actress who bas attempted the réle of Isabella since it wae played by Sarah Siddons, Hollingshead, the London manager, has been attacked by the classical fever, “Midsummer Night’s Dream," “Sne stoops to Conquer” and Beaumont and Fletcher’s “Maid’s Tragedy” are Presented at the three theatres under his man- agement. The Strakosch Italian Opera Company will give thetr final performance tnis season on next Fri- Gay forthe benefit of Signor Muzio. A strong bill Will be offered, including “Lohengrin,” the third act of “Crispino e 1a Comare,”’ two posthumous works of Rossini, The performance will conclude with the siuging of tne “Marscillaise’ by M’lle Hetlbron, With such atsractions there ought not to be @ vacant seat In the Academy, CANADIAN MONEY MARKET. 4 SEVERE CONTRACTION IN MONEY IN THE DO MINION—THE SEVERITY- OF THE WINTER THE PARTIAL CAUSE. Toxonto, Ont., March 2, 1875. The Globe, in its money article this mornin: says:—‘‘A severe contraction in the money marke! of the Dominion has been going on fcr a couple of weeks past, and has considerably damaged com- merctal matiers, A tighter time for money hase not been seen in Canada for along while, and a good deal of suffering and alarm have been the natural consequence. To the unparalieled severe ity of the present winter in Canada may, no doubt, be attributed in @ large degree the sharp charac. ver of the present monetary pressure. Large rec: ttons of the country have been blocked up with snow for weeks, the roads impassable, the rail- roads kept open with great dimiculty ana the coun- try trafic almost stopped. Vast stores of grain ang cattie and other farm produce which usually hud ‘the casiest way to market in the winter months are still in tue barns o1 the larmers and the ware houses of country dealers. The bank notes which the sale of these products usually circuiatea throughout the land are still in the vaults of the banks, and the want ol foreign drait which their Storage at shipping points usually secures has caused serious inconventence in monetary circle, Another cause o/ ints sudden pinch is to be found in the working of the iegal tenaer system o! the government currency that has been in existence, lor sume years past, the effect of which hus been to reduce the specie reserves in the vaults ot banks and substitute legal tenders as the matin relia Jor the redemption of bank notes and deposits. Va- rious incidents united to create a demand for goid. for foreign shipment, and the stores o1 legal tenders in the vauits of the bauks were made use ol, The gold reserves teld by statute in the gov- ernment treasuries were consequently in danger of being reduced below the proper amount. Tha ‘Treasurer necessarily called in a portion of thi government deposits in the hands of banks, To place What had been drawn out the vanks, in their turn, called 10 their loans and discounts to the public, and a scare followed. Thus lar no pere manent general injury bas resulted. The pressure has caused two of the smaller banking institutiona to seek momentary assistance (rom the other banks which, both being perfectly sound, they got as once. It has entailed heavy loss on individuals by Teduced value of stocks and heavy rates ot dts- count, and it has for the time deranged the orat- mary course 01 business, but with forbearance on the part of the large monetary institutions, the present troub‘e wil soon pass away.’ THE DOMINION PARLIAMENT. TOKONTO, Ont., March 2, 1876. ' In the House of Commons Hon. Mr, Miller brought up the motion for the reconstruction of the Senate. The main principle, affirmed by reso. lution, 1s that Senators shall be elected by the local Legislatures instead of by the Dominion gov- ernment. A long debate ensued. The resolution was carried—77 to 73. It proposes that the pres- ent Senators hold thetr seats lor life; that Ontano and Quebec each elect twelve, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia each five, and Prince Ldward island, Manitoba and British Columbia each two Senators, Each member of tne Legislative As- semblies 18 to have only one vote, and the meme. bers of such assemblies are to be eligible fom election. The Senate is to elect its own Speaker,’ Who is not to vote except in case of tle. A POWDER EXPLOSION. A MAN INSTANTLY KILLED—GREAT DAMAGE TS PROPERTY. WatERsURY, Conn., March 2, 1875, This entire community was startled this morn) ing by a terrible sound, resembling a discharge of cannon. It proved to be an explosion in the American Flask and Cap Company, where vast quantities of powder are used and where @ large number of men _ are employed. The real cause of the explosion is not known, and probably never will be explained. The building was completely shattered. Tne sad- dest part of the occurrence 1s the absolute annk mlation of @ man named Ogcar F. Atwood, wha was blown to atoms, scarcely‘a particle of his body being left to indicate that he had been an inmate of the shop. The windows of houses in the imme diate viciniky, and even for smile distant, were broken by the explosion. RAILROAD FARES REDUCED. BALTIMORE, Md., March 2, 1875, The officers of the Baltimore and Onto Ratiroad Company announce that on and after March 3, they will reduce the fare from New York to Colum- bus from $17 50 to $15 25; to Zanesville from $16 50 to $15 25, and to Indianapolis from $21 to $17 25. MAILS FOR EUROPE. 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