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“THB HERALD’ ROMAN. NEWS, Our Cable Report of the Preconization of the New Cardinals Two Days Ahea of the European Press. [sPzZCEAL DESPircH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE.) Loxpoy, March 18, 1875. Renter's agent telegraphs from Rome, un- der date of Tuesday, the 16th inst., that the Pope's allocution for the preconization of the new cardinals would be given to the public on Wednesday, the 17th inst. HERALD ENTERPRISE REWARDED. [This news, it will be remembered, was published by uson Tuesday, the 16th, inat., ina letter from our correspordent in Rome, dated Monday, 15th tnst., so that it was in his hands forty-eignt hours before it was known to other correspondents and ‘was given in the columns of the HeraLp the same period in advance of tts appearance in the London Papers.) THE KAISER AND THE POPE. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT GRANTS WITH- | DEAWN FROM CATHOLIC BISHOPS—BISMARCK’S PRONOUNCEMENT AGAINST THE PRELATES. BERLIN, March 18, 1875. In the Lanatag to-day the main clauses of the | Dill withdrawing the State grants trom Roman Catholic bishops were passed by overwhelming majoriti An ultramontane member, amid loud protests, fead the Papal Encyclical. BISMARCK’S INDICTMENT OF THE PRELACY, Prince Bismarck took part in the discussion. He insisted that it was the “imperative duty of the State not to pay fomenters of insurrection.” FRANCE. THE ASSEMBLY TO TAKE A RECESS—VERSAILLES THE SEAT OF THE SENATE—A LOOK FOR THE LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS. Paxis, March 18, 1875, In the Assembly, to-day. @ motion to adjourn on March 20 to May 5 was adopted and provision was made for the appointment of a permanent com- mittee of twenty-fve deputies to sit during the recess. PARIS SHORN OF A POWERFUL INTEREST. Amotion that the Senate hold its sessions in Versailies was debated, M, Brisson, radical member tor the Department of the Seine, made a strong appeal for the restora- tion of Paris to its position as the capital of France; but the motion was adopted by a vote of Bil yeas, to 312 nays. PARTY TACTICS IN THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, ‘The proposition to suspend the supplementary elections to fill vacancies in the Assembly was in- troduced and referred to a committee. The Ministers declined to express their yiews on ‘the question ot dissolution. SPAIN. Panis, March 18, 1875. Genera) Cabrera, after holding along conference with the Spanish Ambassador, hi gone to Bayonne. WARLIST OFFICERS APPROVE OF DESERTION OF THE CAUSE. LONDON, March 19—6 A. M. The Paris correspondent of the Times telegraphs | that General Cabrera holds letters from some of the highest officers in the Carlist army approving of the course he has taken. A FRENCHMAN SHOT BY THE ALFONSISTS. A legitimist journal of Paris asserts that a Frenchman, named Sermon, editor of the Carlist oficial journal, has been captured by the Al- fonsists and sbo AUSTRIA AND SPAIN. Lonpon, March 19—6 A. M. The Spantsh government has requested Austria pot to permit Don A)phonso to reside in Austrian erritory. Among the crimes of which he is accused and 3n which Spain bases her demand on Bavarta for bis extradition are murder, arson and rape. LONDON ’CHANGE. FAILURE OF A SOUTH AMERICAN BANKING COM- PANY—HEAVY LIABILITIES, Lonpon, March 18, 1875. The failure of the General South American Banking Company is announced, ‘The abilities of the company are estimated at $1,500,000, THE MOODY-SANKEY REVIVAL, FUMULTUOUS SCENES DURING THE PREACHING IN LONDON. Lonpoy, March 19—5:30 A. M. There was much confusion at the revival meet- ing in Agricultural Hall last night. The crowd ‘Was so great that order could not be preserved. The pressure was tremendous, people were ‘badly crushed, and there was some fighting. PRESS ENCOURAGEMENT. The Times this morning favorably reviews the ‘Wission of Messrs. Moody and Sankey. THE ENGLISH TURF. Lonpon, March 18, 1875. The Liverpool spring meeting, commenced on ‘Tuesday, wag continued yesterday and to-day and loses to-morrow, thus giving four days’ racing under the Newmarket and Grand National rules. ‘THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASK—AN BXCIT: ING EVENT. ‘The most notable event of the meeting is the grand national steeplechase, which took place to-day and for which nineteen startea out of eighty-six subscribers, twenty-two of whom were declared out, and each paid five sovereigns forfeit. THE FAVORITES NOWHERE—FATAL ACCIDENT TO 4 HORSE. ‘The result of the contest provea most disastrous to the favorites, the winner being found in Path- finder, against whom 16 to 1 was laid at the start. Yatnty, who took the second place, received very litle support in the betting, being rated at 50 to 1. la Veine, a French bred mare, who scored twelve victories last your in France, was backed at 7 to 3, and came in third. The favorite was Jackal, who started at 6 to 1, but only succeeded,in getting home fourth. In taking one of the jumps Laburnom feil and broke his leg. THE RACIN The following is a summary :— THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE Of 1,000 vs., added to a nandicap of 25 sovs, each, 15 for- eit, and 5 only (to the fund) if declared by noon 'Tnesday, Fevruary 2; the second receives 100 sovs, from the stakes; the third saves stake; winners of | any steeplechase u(ter danuray 28,7108. ; 0f 250 sovs. Sit 1 500 SOF: 11 Ibs. 5 Of 1,000 sovs., 14 Ibs ex: | tra; closed with eighty-six subscribers, twenty-two | vr whom pay 5 sova, cach to the fund. The hueh- est weight cepted being 164 Ib it has been raived to 17) Ibs, and the ovhers in proportion, 8. Grand National Course, about four miles and a half, Mr. H, Bird's b. h. Patnfinder (lave the Knight), aged, by Knight of St. Patrick, dam Fisher- man’s Daughter, 151 Ibs. ‘ . Lord Stamford’s b. m. Dainty, aged, by Leyda, dam Tit Bit, 154 los, + see Rarou J. Finav’s ch. in. La Veine, 5 years old, by Ventre St. Gris, dam Valeriana, 196 Ibs..., 3 Mr. Baltazzi's eh, a 1, aged, by Caterer, ‘am Maggiore, 16 . Captain Machetl’s be he Li Ns La! oy King Tom, dam Blooming Heather, 166 lbs. 0 THE POSTAL CONVENTION. £1. PETERSBURG, March 18, 1875. ‘The Czar Of Russia bas ratified the Berme Postal @onvention, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, WasHINGTON, March 18, 1875. THE HAWAIIAN TREATY APPROVED BY THE SEN- ATE—CAUCUS DISCUSSION OF FRELINGHUYSEN’S LOUISIANA RESOLUTION—DUBATION OF THE SESSION. The Senate continued in executive session to- Gay, discussing the Hawaiian treaty, and about four o’clock the vote was taken on the final ques- tion, ‘‘to devise and consent to the ratification in the form agreed to,” resulting in the concurrence of the two-thirds requisite to carry the aM™rma- tive, which now disposes of the treaty favorably as far ag the Senate ts concerned. After adjournment, which occurred immediately when this result was reached, @ second caucus was held in continuation of one held this morning upon the question of adopting the resolution offered by Senator Frelinghuysen, approving the | action of the President in recognizing the Kellogg government of Louisiana. The discussion hes been long, varied and persistent on the part,of the Senators favoring the polley of making this declaration before their final adjournment. Their counsels are not, however, harmonious, for they could not finally agree in the adoption of the measure, and another caucus is to be held to-morrow morning to hear the re- port of the committee of five appointed to con- sider in what form the resoiution shall be pressed. The members are Senators Morton, Conkling, Sar- gent, Christiancy and Patterson, representing all the various shades of opinion of the republican party. Morton is the champion of Pinchback, who left for New Orleans to-night. Conkling dodged the vote on the Louisiana question. Sargent ts opposed to any further consideration. Christiancy has expressed personal frienaship for the Prest- dent, but does not approve the course of the ad- ministration, while Patterson warmly supports the resolution. If this committee can agree the resolution reported will be adopted by the caucus, The serious objection to pressing the reso- lution in any form is that it will. pro, tract the session and detain those who have business elsewhere and are anxious to leave Washington. The democratic Senators are re- Solved to exhaust discussion, If the subject is pressed, otherwise the business betore the Senate can be finished to-morrow. It is contended that definite action of some kind should be had now to Keep the snbject as far as possible out of the tall campaign. If brought up the first motion will be to lay 1t on the table, on @ point of order that the Senate cannot take cognizance of tt in their pres- ent called session, just as was decided on the Clayton resolution for a select committee to visit the Indian Territory. The President is very anx- fous to be sustained by the approval! of the Senate in the action he bas taken upon Louisiana affairs, and cays he aoes not want any doors le(t open. The Judiciary Committee, whence the inspiration of the resolution is said to emanate, are, how- ever, divided in their support or approval of it. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PINCHBACK SUBTERFUGE— PLOTTINGS IN LOUISIANA. It is said that tne postponement of the Pinch- back case has defeated a plan of the comserva- tives and the Kellogg faction in Louisiana. The present Lieutenant Governor, Antoine, was to have been appointed to a lucrative position in the New Orleans Custom House. A State Senator from the New Orleans district wastoresign. D, B. Penn was to be elected to his place and be sub- sequently chosen President of the Senate, which would make him Lieutenant Governor. Kellogg was then to be elected to the United States Senate in place of Pinchback. This, with the adoption of the Wheeler compromise, would | have given the conservatives practical control of the State. They would have had tne Governor | and lower House absolutely, and they believed themselves possessed of sufficient resources to | control the balance of power in the Senate. Tho Motion of Senator West to postpone the Pinch- | back resolution has in this view a deeper signifi- cance then at first supposed. INPORTANT JUDICIARY NOMINATIONS. The change in the nomination of Judge Lowe from the office of Commissioner of Pensions to that of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah, vice McKean, removed, was made at the request of Mr. Lowe. He was an aspirant for the appoint- ment of United States District Judge of Kansas a year ago, but the President said he did not deem it wise to appoint members or Congress to federal omMces. Judge Parker, of Missouri, appointed to the Position of United States District Judge of Western Arkansas, is regarded as an able lawyer, was frequentiy called to the Speaker’s chair by Mr. Blaine, and will be remembered as addressing the chair in behall of civilizing the gentle savage, while a colored member held the gavel. Judge Parker is in perfect accord with the administra- tion upon the reconstruction laws. THE ENFORCEMENT ACT AND THE SUPREME court. The Supreme Court has decided not to render a decision on the *‘Entorcement act cise” this term of the court, but will embrace the “Grant parish | case’? inthe opinion to be delivered at the next term of the court, A SOP TO EX-SENATOR CHANDLER. Ex-Senator Chandler has not ceased to have in- fluence in Michigan politics, having to-day se- cured the nomination of one of his supporters, Henry B. Browning, to be Unived States District Judge for the Eastern district of Michigan. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, WASHINGTON, March 18, 1875. THE DEBATE AND VOTE ON THE HAWAIIAN TREATY—AMENDMENTS OF THE SENATE. The Senate was occupied over four hours 1m | executive session this afternoon on the Hawaiian Reciprocity Treaty. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, ‘was the first speaker and opposed the ratification | on financial grounas, arguing that the loss of customs revenue involved therein would more than counterbalance the political considerations advanced in its favor. Senator Booth, of Cali- fornia, also spoke in opposition to the treaty. He contended that it would not cheapen the price of sugar, as only some 15,000,000 pounds are now Imported annually from the Sandwich Islands, but. would cause a considerable loss to the revenue—% loss that would grow larger from year to year with the increase of the pro- duction of Sandwich Island sugar which ts to be expected under the stimulus of this protec- tion for the planters. He also argned that the Tatification of the treaty would affect the Call- | fornia sugar refiners injuriously, by admitting high grades of brown sugar to compete with the refined article. He also belteved that the ratifica- tion of the treaty would lead to dimculties and complications with foreign governments. Senator Boutwell, of Massachusetts, next took the floor, and supported the treaty on national grounds. thoroughly examined the that there could not be w# loss tu the revenue of more than $300,000 by its ratincation; but, as a for this, goods of equal aggregate value would be admitted free in the Hawaiian ports, and besides, the Hawaiians exporting their products to the United States would take their payment in goods instead of money, Senators Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, and Bogy, of Missouri, supported the treaty, and Sena- tor Jones, of Nevada, also advocated the ratifica- tion in ashort but carnest speech, setting forth both the commercial and the political benefits offered to the United States by this treaty. Senator Sargent, of Catifornta, closed the de- bate. He showed the necessity of taking advan- tage of the presemu proposition if this country wished to obtam control of the Sandwich Islands and prevent ‘their passing into ihe grasp of foreign nations, a8 overtures had already been made to the Hawaiian government by th fe colonies of Great Britam for a similar reemprocity arrangement, which the necessities of the subject and When Secretary of the Treasury he | — | husband and wile in civil proceedings, The speaker | compensation | | in its interest. sugar which {s used on the poor man’s table and in the mining camps of the Pacific coast. Reply- ing to an argument advanced by Senator Booth that we were not likely to need the Sandwich Islands for purposes of defence or naval opera: | tions, as this country had never had but turee years of foreign war, Senator Sargent said the argument might as well be used to advocate the dismantling of our furtifications and the dis- | Dandonment of our navy. He insisted that the | Sandwich Islands are of the utmost value, not only as coaling and naval stations, but as a point of strategic importance, commanding the entire commerce of the United States on the Pacific Ocean. The vote was then taken on the amendments proposed by the Committee on Foreign Relations, adding tobacco, leather and all manufactures of leather to the list of articles of American produc- tion or manufacture to be admitted to the Hawaiian Islands duty free: also providing thut during the pendency of the treaty the Hawalaa government snail uot cede or lease any port, bay or naval station to any foreign government except that of the United States, or grant any special privilege to any foreign nation which ts not now granted. The amendments were agreed to, as was also an amendment proposed by Senator Sargent, striking out the word “ fruit” from the list of Hawaitan products to be admitted free of duty into the United States, and merely substituting tne word ‘bananas. The object of this amendment was the protection of oranges and other semi-tropicat products of California, The treaty, as thus amended, was then ratified by the following vot Yeas, 51; nays, 12, The majority was larger than was anticipated, a num- ber of votes having been gained during the jebate. THE EXPEDITION TO ACAPULCO. Tne mission of the United States steamer Saranac to Acapulco 1s merely to ascertain the ¢ircumstances of the massacre of Americans some weeks ago, and to protect the interests of Ame! ican citizens at that and other ports on the west- ern coast. No hostile movements are contem- Plated. THE STATE CAPITAL. A MINOBITY REPORT AS TO THH MUTILATION OF THE FILES OF THE HOUSE—THE FIFTH AVENUE PAVEMENT AND LIVELY DISCUSSION THEREON— PATRONAGE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS— PROGRESS OF THE MRS. TILTON TESTIMONY BILL. ALBANY, March 18, 1875, Governor Tilden to-night completed his Message on the Canal matter, and it will be sent to tne Legislature to-mo:rrow morning. Facts and | figures are given which will very much surprise those who have paid any attention whatever of late years to the Canal contracts and contractors. THE RIVERSIDE AVENUE, | The Committee on Cities have agreed to report the Riverside Avenue Dill favorably to the House to-morrow. | The principal measure before the Assembly to- | day for discussion was the Fifth Avenue Pavement bill. Immediately alter the reading of the jourval @ majority report was handed in from the Investi- gating Committee as to an alleged forgery and | tampering with the files. This report exonerated | from all blame any official of the House, and gave | an opinion that no responsible person was to | blame in relation to the alleged interpolation. A MINORITY REPORT. Messrs. Da!y and Hess made @ minority report, in which they differ very materially with the gen- tlemen of the majority—Messrs. Seward, Alvord and T, J. campbell. This document reads as fol- | Island, | Were cordially receivea. on each emigrant # large sum was annual, raised, aud yet the companies had fot ove word to say in its expenditure. The Commission was Strictly a State institution, and 1t should be sup- Ported either by the Staic or couaty of New York. Commissioner Lynch replied that he was a mem- ber of the Board by virtue o: his position as President of the Irish Emigrant Society. He followed the Commission through its workings tor various years, sbovane that when the surplus was large, from $2 50 each tor head money, they came to the Legislature, on the request of the steamship companies, and the head money was reduced to $1 50, This sum bas been Jound to be far too madequate. With rete: ence to salaries Mr, Lynch said he woula be ashamed to offer any clerk 1u nis employ the beg- garly salaries paid at Castle Garden and on the | Mr. Bernard Casserly said he had been con- nected with the Board of Emigration Jor twenty- seven years, and that he understood its workings better than all the present Commissioners. With head was quite sufficient. He never knew a more extravagant Board than the present one, i er had been paid $6,000 a year as Superintend: jormer years, while other offtcers were also samme Work was now being as well done lor $3,500 per annum. into executive session and postponing further ace tion until next Tuesday. caretul management the present sum or $1 60a commissioner Lynch replied that Mr, Cs i t in paia larger salaries, agaregating nearly $30,000, Tne Here the bearing rested, the committee going THE MARCH OF SCIENCE, THE AMERICAN OBSERVATIONS OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS—THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNI— A CHAIR OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE. A distinguished assemblage of graduates of Col- umbia College met in Delmonico's last evening.” The attractive feature of the occasion was a dis- course delivered by Mr. Leonard Waldo, who ac- companied the American expedition to Hovart Town, Tasmania, to observe THE TRANSIT OP VENUS. The gentleman’s aduress pertained chiefly to the voyage and labors of the scientists, Hespoke substantially as follows :— GENTLEMEN OF THE ALUMNAL ASSOCIATION—AN old family Iriend said to my father, “By the way, what has become of your oldest Bax. 2) “He has gone to look atter Venus!” And then came the rejoinder, “Weil, itis not an unusual thing with young men of his age.” Ifyou will bear wiih me, gentlemen, we will follow for an hour the young man who Went to look after Venus, and we will meet again the weal and woe wich attended the good ship Swatara in ber trip tothe far south, carrying her living freight of young men and old, all bent upon the same mission of lvoking aiter Venus. Alter the months of weary rehearsal at Washington, on the morning of June 8, 1874, the Switara, with her full complement of men and means, took her departure irom Sandy Hook. ‘rhe sun came up out of the sea upon the lett, mounted the sky and sunk toward the west, nsing higher every day, until at length we passed directly beneath his rays, SOUTM AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. On July 10 we sighted the Brazilian port of Bahia, whose white-sanded coast loomed up beau- tilully before us, aud we entered the exquisite Bay of Ail Saimis, We surveyed tis hulls, its | joliage. the city’s mouldy walls, the churches topped with gilded crosses on every emr heuce and the strange people of that clige. For a city of 250,000 inhabitants the postal service 18 @ small affair. We repaired tu tue office in hopes of hearing news trom ome, when we were offered the whole mail of the district to | sear through, This consisted of only two small bile Mt of letters, none of which was for us. cverything there ts lazy and unprogressive, the warm climate having told upou the energies of the population, After a briel stay the Swatara again put to sea, and on the Sth of August signted | Tabie Rock, Cape Town, ‘There the Americans | The population is a mix- | ture of Dutch, native Africans and Malays, who were formerly siaves. There is a magnificent public library there, whichis extensively patron- ized. The Suez Caual naving cut out Cape Town as a landing station for vessels en route irom England to the Bast the place 13 not the scene of much activity. Yet there 1s ao abundance of wines, iruits, gold and diamonds, tne latter lows :— | ‘The undersigned, a minority of the Select Committee, | appointed pursuant to the above resolution, dissent | from the majority report and respecttully present the | tollowing:—Your comumittee find in the mass of contra-. | © co the ample reply t solution under which they were ap- | pointed, without at all entering upon the comparative | Veracity of the witnesses—viz., that, as was alleged, th tiles ot embers nad been tampered with on tl ot March 8; that the falsified bill, No. 106, w trom Weed, Parsons & Co. on order ral | Averill and substituted for original printed copy, with- | out any mstruction trom the House: that yo mittee, on comparing the printed bill with th manuscript, as discussed in the Committee on 2ldiscrepancy, amounting in the a: 260,00, but Which is claimed to ha rtently ‘omitted: that the irregularity «to use an | dinzly mild word) which characterizes this whole alfair was brought about through the agency of one Charles Watiers, then in the employ of General Averill, | but whom your counmtttee thus iar have been unable to, flud; that "while your committee no evidence of crimimal intent on the part ot the advocates ot the bill, or coltusion on the part of the officers ot the House, you there is suMecient to show thatin this case a well estab- | lished rute of the House has been departed trom and an i ited which the Assembly should not ntenrnce and condemn. Were it not that your cominittee deem comment on,such tacts un- necessary it might, perhaps, have been pertinent to add their regret that the officers of the fiou-e permitted on its floor any person whose reputation was so surpass- ingly unsavory as they assert Walters’ to be, or that the Legislative printer should have considered himself at linerty. on a private order, to print for any purpose a fac simile of an Assembly bill with three entire lines in- | ‘terpolated. A HEATED DISCUSSION. | These two reports gave rise toa heated and | angry discussion, A motion of Mr. I. C. Campbell | was ‘then offered, whicn ‘was to print both re- | ports togetaer with the testimeny taken. This Was lost. Ata late hour of the day, Mr. Seward movea that the bill be taken srom the table and reported | for action of the Committee of the Whole. This | caused angther torrent of eloquence and bitter | ee rom both opponents and advocates of | he bill. Mr. Daly denounced Tageous jobs that had came betore the Lezisiature | tor some time. He argued against the constitu- tional right of the Legislature to pass such a law, and suid that a powerlul lobby was now working | The real estate of New York city, he contended, should not be assessed, at large, tor any such poultice pavement scneme. Mr. Seward, Mr. Alvora and ovhers remarked thac this was no time to discuss the merits of the bill, They simply wanted to bring it up reguiarly , on “general orders” before the House, and then | its merits or demerits could be pointed out. Mr. Daly then moved the substitution of the mt- Nority report from the Committee on Cities ad- verse to the passage of the bill im place of the fa- | yorable majority report. | The motion was put and lost vy a vote of 74 0 28. | The bill will now take its reguiar course in pro- | ceedings belore the House. During the devate Speaker McGuire cailed atten. | tion to the fact that he had given emphatic orders | not to admit any man to the floor of the House | Without his special sanction. It appears that Mr. | | Walters entered the Chamber a short time previous | to an evening session, MORE PATRONAGE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, Senator Booth to-day introduced a bill, which, | if 1t becomes law, will give the Department of | Docks entire control as to regulating charges for | wharlage and dockage of vessels. The rates for canaldoats are not to be increased. The bili also provides that the vepartment can appropriate any wharves, piers, bulkheads or slips along the North and Kast rivers to the sole use of special kinds of commerce, Leases can be granted for a term not exceeding ten years and renewals made not ex- ceeding tifty years. All such leases, excepting | wharves ani plers appropriated foc special pur- | poses, must be let out at public auction. EXYENSION OF THE MARINE COURT. Senator Moore presented a biil toeday which al- lows the detailing of one of the Justices of the Marine Court to the Twelith ward in New York, 80 as to accommodate iltigants living in the upper part of the city. THE MRS, TILTON BILL. During a lullin tbe proceedings of the Senate to-day Senator Jacobs, of Kings, called attention to the bill introduced by Senator Cole, which, it passed, Will aLow Mrs. Tilton to testify in ta se now pending. The bill being in tne hands of the Judiciary Committee, he (Mr. Jacobs) wished to know when those gentlemen intended to report so miporiant @ measure. Senator Cole said that the bill had not been in- | troduced particularly to cover the B:coklyn case, | but to purge from the statutes of the State a relic ot | barbarism, regarding tne admission of evidence of had noticed an article in @ late issue of a news- paper condemming the Jact that the bul had been Introduced by a country member. rather than by the Senator Irom Kings county. No doupt existed | thatthe bili would be reported in due time from the Judiciary Committee, . Senator Laning remarked it was the custom of | | the Judiciary Committee to take up bills in order, | aud the measure Im question would bave an equal | of bills belore them. islanders would certainly compel them to accept | if we rejectea their pending offer to make ar procity treaty with ourselves. He admitted that {t would not cheapen the price of refined sugar, but insisted that it would lessen the cost of the chance with otners. Knowing the modesty o1 the chairman of the Judiciary Committee (: Robertson) the Speaker deemed i pruc make the explanation, Senator Rovertson stimulated the little br udiciary Committee were notin the habit of stating in advance What disposition they proposed to wake IRATION COMMISSIONERS, A hearing was given py the Assembly Com. mitice on Commerce this afternoon oa the Head Money Bill, Messrs. Forrest. 5 and Lyneh, | with Secretary Jackson, were present for the Commissioners of Emigration, and the Messrs, Casseriys and Frank Rudd for the steamship com | panies. President Forrest, of the Coumisstoners, | | sail he was present lo auswer any qttestions whieh the committe might make. The Commis- stoners Had answered in Writing all the Interroga- tories sent them, Which replies were betore the comrmitice In writing Mr. Rudd made an elaborate argument, charg: | ing Xtravagance oa the part of tne Commission, | and arguing thatthe Legisiature should nop tin+ pose additional burdens on the steamship com- panies, or commerce would be driven from the port of New York. At the present figures of $1 50 as one of the most out. | } monopolized by the veritable ‘Wandering Jew.” | There we met the English observers who were | destined for Mauritius and with whom we ex- changed the customary courtesies. On the 17tn | of August the vessel turned toward the Indian | Ocean, bound for Crozet Island, and by the 23d | our party reached the paraliet known as “the | roaring forty,”? witn a long, rolling swell irom the | southwest, When we signted Hog Island, the | westernmost of | THE OROZET GRouP on the 29th, we found that the islands were | markea wrong to an extent of filteen miles on the | charts, Storms vi snow, raiu, hailand wind roar | constantly around these shores. ‘Ihe cuast is rock bound witn a few invermissions Of suri, aud | the saiiors say that no boat is ever landed there without being stove in. After laying to all night we jound we had ariited thirty miles, and owing tothe fury of the weather it was imposzibie to Jand. We ran in four days, The chart of this tslana is also wrong. With immense difficulty tne appliances Were got ashore and & site for the observation Was soon selected, at a height 01 400 1eet. Bidding | goodby to our brothers there we sailed for Tas- mania, ‘ne narbor of Hobart ‘Town was eotered by Us on tne 30th of September, Lt is the finest | harbor In the world, being ¢ ed by hills and mountains nearly a mile high. The air is bracing and there is a luxuriant supply of traits, liquors | and game, The Governor piaced the Custom | ide at our disposal, and alter two weeks’ toil a THE OBSERVATORIES | were up. We exclanged longitude observations | With navigators irom Chatham Island aud with | Pekin and Melvourne througn the aid of Professor | Harkness, On the morning of the transit the rain ; feil heavily, and ail hope of success vanished. The | contacis were not Observed, but 113 photographs | of the planet before and ulter the third contact | were secured, and they will prove of great value. | The natives were greatly amused on reading the | telegram irom our astronomer on the following | morning:—"“We have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Dr, H. J. Anderson, whoin we aiterward met at sydney, contributed mucn to the comiort of the party. The American ne ws- pnsively circulated im Australia RK HERALD, (2) the Scientijic (3) the American Agriculturist. American, and When the observatious were at an end we em- | barked on the Swatara and procecued to New | Ene Where we had the pleasure of joining fessor Peters’ party. ‘Lue lecturer, having concluded his discourse, threw upon @ screen several photographic pic- tures of the places of interest travelled over by | the members of the expedition. Tasse were | Bahia, with its picturesque terraces bie Rock, | on Whose summit the ooservers set an American | flag; Kerguelen, Hobart Town, peopled by quon- | dam convicts and ticket-ol-leave men; a monu- | ment at Hobart Town to the memory | of soldiers who perished in wars against | the natives. Te the central pomet of | tols monument all the astronomical observations of the American party are reierred, The speaker | conciuded by saying that asa nation the Amert- | can astronomers have been more successinl tuat any other in the trans't iavors, and the observa- tions of our scientists will be used oy foreign cal- culators 1a the lack of data which the latter could noi obtain, POLITICAL AND SOCTAL SCIENCD. After the passage of & vote o1 thanks to Mr. Waldo a resolution was oifered that the Board of Trustees of Columbia College be petitioned to es- tablish @& professorship o! political and social science. The proposition met with great lavor and sul probably be adopted by the Governing Board, THE ‘THIRD AVENUE CAR DRIVERS. Yesterday the officials of the Third Ave- nue Railread Company reduced the wages of drivers and conductors about thirty cents per day per man; or, in other words, took seven and a half cents off the rate paid for each round trip, making the rate fifty-one and a hail cents per round trip. Last evening the drivers held a meet- ing at Landman’s Park, Tnird avenue, near Fifty. | ninth street, to take action in regard to the matter, About one hondred drivers | were present, but no conductors attended | the meeting. Alter some speeches ad been mare by the leaders, during which there was loud cheering and much enthusiasm, the follow- ing mantiesto was unanimously adopted :— Resolved, That we, the drivers of the Third Avenue Railroad Company, respecttully ask ior our old rate o¢ wages. The reasons for this request were then stated. A committee of three were appointed to callupon | the President and Superintendent of the Ratiroad Company and have a conierence with them in the matter. A strike ts possible. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with tho corresponding date of last year, as Indicated by the thecmometer at Audnuv’s Pharmacy, HERALD Butiding:— 1 5 M12 V3 | Average temperature yesterday Average temperature for co | date jast year. ‘The weather throughout the Northwest is exe coedingly cold at midnight. ‘The temperature at | the wndermentioned points was follows :—Bis+ from there to Kerguelen | © | ton of the spirty tf not the lect Dakota, 9 dex zero; Duluth, 1 degr 3 Fort Garry, Manitoba," S aegrees be! Fort Sully, Dakota, 2 de- grees below ‘oO; Pembina, Dakota, 6 degrees | below zero; Yaneton, Dakota, 2 degrees pelow zero; Escanaba, Mich, zero; St, Paul, Minn, zero, UNIMPROVED UPTOWN. Indignant Citizens who Have Paid For What They Have Not Received. THE WEST SIDE PARKS. Meeting at Harvard Hall to Diseuss the Fail- ure to Constrnet Morningside and Riv- erside Parks and Avenues, A public meeting of the West Side Association Was held last night in Howard Hall, at the corner of Sixth avenue and Forty-second street. The purpose of the meeting was to evoke the sense of owners of property onthe upper west side of the city as to the delay which ts persisted in by some of the city authorities in reference to the con- struction of city improvemevts which have been projected tor a long time, ‘Tne hall was crowded with interested per- sons, and the speeches of the several orators were listened to attentively, their best points receiving loud applause. Mr. William T. Blodgett presided, and the speakers were Messrs, Dwight H. Olmstead, Fernando Wood, Wheeler H. Peckham, John W. Pirsson and Simeon E. Cnarch. In calling the meeting to order Mr. Blodgett sald:—The objects of this mecting I suppose are well understood by those present, as they were alluded to in the invitations to the meeting which were sent to the owners of property north of Fifty-ninth street and west of Central Park. They are, briefly, to present the views of sproperty hboiders in regard to the completion of certain im- provements for which assessments nave been | levied and paid, and in regard to the laws now before the Legislature for providing the means of securing rapiu transit, dc, The West Side association bas lately been reorganized, its object being to protect and advance the interests of property owners in this city, and particularly the interests of those owning property in what 1s | commonly known as the west side, being that por- tion north of Fifty-ninth street and west of the Eighth avenue. At a recent meeting o! the Ex- ecutive Committee a sub-committee was ap- ape to draib resolutions, to be presented to his meeting, upon the subjects belore relerred to. Mr. Olmstead, the chairman of that com- mittee, will present to you the resolutions, The present 18 an exceedingly important time for the property owners, in which they should not fail to act, THE RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Blodgett, in closing his remarks, introduced Mr. Olmstead to the assemblage. ‘Tne latter gen- tleman, upon rising, read the follewing preamble and series of resolutions Ata recent mecting of the Executive Committee of the West side Association, the undersigned having been ap- pointed a committee to express. m the fori ot resolu- tions for the action of the Asxecutive Comniittee relative to uptown # assessments, rapid transitand the resig: Willlam kK. Martin, beg lew rovements, on of its winx report:— Whereas severul years since certain public improve- ments were initiated vy the authorities of this city, and assessments levied theretor upon adjacent property, tor | the benefli supposed to be derived trom such improve ments, which ussessinen' Iten upon the lan ereas the improv were levied have not stopped. under the specious bu and retrenchment, and that the the burden of advancing the mone: ani whereas the local assessors have, ) creased tic assessed Valuation oi such ‘property 10 purpose of taxation, upon the assumption that the prop- erty 40 assessed hax been beuetlted by these improve ments and its vatue thus greatly enhance ve per cent interest; and which such assessments ¢, but the work thereon sound plea ol economy ity is unable to bear to pay for the | Resolved, That thi octation Gemands, | of right and common justice, that the public in | menis, for which assessments have already been im- | posed, shall be completed without further delay, and particularly that Morningside Park and ave Riverside Park and avenue be completed a the designs and plans adopted by the Dep: enue and Public Parks, Resol (hat the best administration of our munici- al affairs would involve not only fidelity and economy nthe public expenditures, but the prompt, vigorous and effective prosecution of all the great public im. provements so wisely plan the completion of witch would add largely to the accessibie value of all uptown propery, and thus reduce the tax rate in the entire That in view of the present low price of 1a- bor, the needy of the workingmen and the excellent credit of the city it is both the interest and duty ot the to Resotyed, That this association recognizes the absolute Necessity of soute tinmediate means ot rapid transit. re- tal to the continued prosper: u » and respectiully o thorities to devise some means for its a the city au- | ecomplishinent, | heheving that the people will hold them strictly respon: | sible for their fatiure fo do so. | | | Kesolved while this association resrets the | Tesignation of its late President, Willam K, Martin, rendered necessary by his appointment as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public | Parks, it desires to record Its approval of such appoint: | meu? and its high avpreciation ot connected with this associauion, and ‘of his ability, ergy and wise judgment im all which concerns the interests or this city. strnton DWIGHT H, OLMSTEAD, W. PIRSSON LARK, Committee. Dwi GHT H. OLMSTEAD, Mr. Olmstead then spoke for some time, sub- stantially as follows:—'lne late President of this association, Mr, Martin, in bis recent report to the Department of Public Parks, has shown concla- sively the benefit to accrue to the city at la trom the completion of the projected improve- ments particularly referred to iu the resolutions Just presented, ‘The tWo most imporcant projected | improvements not yet finisned, tor which assess- Ments have veen levied and collected, are the Morningside and Riverside parks. The report ior opening the first was cone firmed July 28, 187, and that for opening the second was confirmed August 2 1872. ‘The assessment tor opening Morningside Park and avenue amounted to $1,720,192 40, 01 which sum $823,499 40 was assessed upon the city at large and $896,093 upon the adjacent property owners. ‘The assessment for opening Riverside Park and ave- | hue amounted '0 $6,173,960 80. of whica sum $3,069,481 $0 was assessed upon the city at large and $3,104,479 upon the adjacent property owners. ‘Thus the whole amount to be paid by the city was $3,892,981 20 and by the property owners $4,001,172, being im ail $7,894,163 20. Very little | work has been done up to this time on either of these parks or avenues, except to survey them, grade a short portion oi tue south end or Rtv side avenue, bulid a sewer in Morningside Park and grade (o some extent the avgnues bordering the latter park. The avenuo on” the west side of this latter park, known as Morningside ave- sociation, the views of the | commence and finisao the public works | Jet all this pe done—with a feral for one hand, and with a wise economy on t! and it 1s sate to predict that i the not distant suture, o bi justly be proud, as the fairest, the freest and most prosperous in the world, FERNANDO WOOD'S REMARKS, After Mr. Ulmstead was through Congressmas Fernando Wood was 1utroduced and said:—I have had no time to collect my thoughts upon sach sud Jects a8 are presented to the consideration of this meeting. After further prejacing he satd:—Th can be no such thing as @ division of the interesta of tne people of thiscity. We are togetner upon every question. If a knowledge of New York tor fifty-five years entities one to say something about the matter of public improvements | have that recommendation to your notice. it to have been a property owner jor more than a third of @ centnry entities one to a bearing upon this subject of public improvemeat ave that commendation. It is now twenty years since 1 was the chiet magistrate of your city, and before that time I knew sometning about public improve. Ments. Mr. Wood then went on to sbow that when he, while chief magistrate, advocated the laying out of Central Park, he was walied upon by property owners whose land was below Four- teenth street, then the chiet residential section of the city, who argued with him that the Park Would be a hindrance tu tneir good. Though Mr. Wood's remarks were meant to sliow that very often property owners could not see wherein lies their good, he said the men tn this city most persecuted by assessments are the real estate owners, ‘Ihe Wall street brokere and capitalists are not persecuted for the wealth they have locked up in their boxes, He weni on to declaim against the burdening of real estate owners with assessments. He considered that che city committed a breach of faita im not doing those works, for whose compietion it had coliected the money from the citizens. He woulda hike to know what was the cause for the difvfer- ences among the city departments, which dider- ma} the | ences stood in the way of the completion of | the Morningsice apd Riverside Parks and avenues, whether they were caused by a desire for patronage or not? It becomes every citizen to hasten every public improvement, because no improveinent ts restricted to a section of the city. It redounds not only to the benefit of the city but to that of the nation. The Central Park di@ not enhance tbe value ot only a part of the city; tt increased the value of the property throughout the metropolis. The speaker sketcned glowingly the position and scevic value of Riverside Park, and said tiat it must be made, not alone as an ornament to the city, but also as one to the na- tion. New York must to a certain degree sustam thenatiou. Mr. Wood continued to speak in Javor of the things which New York must Rave and to denounce the withholding from the people those improvements for which they have paid. He re- ferred to the necessity for rapid transit. ‘Time is money, said he, New York, and we must not waste money. His remarks upon this subject of rapid transit were too general to be fresh or important. He said, in conclusion, that the real estate owners who have paid assessments for public improve- ments which have not been made sbould nos de- in | Mounce all the public authorities because such works have not been completed. He kuew tie things that hamper the action of an honest and earnest oMctal. He continued to talk of the cbar- acteristics of public officers and _ their effect upon pubiic works and expenditures. He considered tuat though an honest but enthusiastic oficial migut sometimes be less valuable than a shrewd, cau- tious, but thievish, functionary, a cold, heartiess and brainless oflice-hoider 18 the most pernicious that ever heid power. Mr. Wheeler H. Peckham followed Congressman Wood, and made a clear exhibition of tne faitn- lessness 01 the city towards the real estate own- ers from whom it has taken assessments for works which 1t has not completed. Mr. Jonn W, Pierson also made a speech, some- what rambling in style, but with the same totent as that which pointed the remarks of 1s preue- cessors, Mr. Simeon made a speech upon rapid transit aud uptown improvements. His words were Vigorous, but only useiul as backing up the asser- tions Of the other speakers, aod as helping to keep alive the interest in rapid transit, THE NEW POSTAGE RATES. Under the new Postal law an unexpected result has been found to follow the provision that third class matl matter should be paid for at the Tate of one cent per ounce. This, it is claimed, was only intended to operate against the practice of passing merchandise througb the mails, but thatit would reach a mach wider class of mail Matter ts shown by the foilowing extract trom a circular recently issued by Postmaster Jaines:— Post Orricr, New York, March 15, 1875. By act of Congress approved March 3, 1875, the follows ing rates of postage on mailable matier of the third class have been established: DOMESTIC, On pamphlets, occasional pubtications, transient news- papurs and magazines. unsealed virculars, prospectuses, books, book Ranuseripts, proof sheets, maps, prints, sheet’ music, sampies, photo engravings, patterns, | graphs, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots and scions and alt suci articies of merchandise as are not excluded by Law fram the mails, one cent per ounce of traction thereof. Weight of packages limited fo sour pounds and postage to be tully prepaid by stamps. in consequence of the lack of general informa- tion cn this subject a large quantity of mail mat. ter has arrived at the New York Post Oflce op which the prepayment has been made at the old rates. In reference thereto the tollowtng | despatch was received yesterday, which has got | Hon. T. L, Jawzs, Postmaster, New Yo! 18 past services while | Taw. e | charge of Postmaster James out of his dilemma, but leaves the stupid clause of law as one ci the snameiul mementoes of a Congress:onal session galloped to @ close: rch 18, 1875. Forward all third class mail matter, fully prepaid, at old rates until the pubiic 1s fully advised as to the new: JAMES H. MARR, Acting tirst Assistant Postmaster General, The old rates are one cent. per two ounces of the kinds of matter enumerated above. Wasnincton, ALLEGED FORGERS ARRESTED. Detectives Sampson and Doyle arrested Thomas Grabam and Edward Davidson last night on the forging the frm name of Hamil: ton & Warren, o1 No. 34 Broad street, to a check for $46. ‘The check Was cashed by White, Morris & Co,, of Wall street. The prisoners were locked up at Police Headquarters. — IY HAS BEEN CUSTOMARY IN OLD COM. munities to suspend pieces of stick sulphur around the necks of children as a protection against contagion in epidemics. A thorough washing with GLENa’s SULPRER Soar has been found a innen better preventive. Sold everywhere. Depot, CRITITENTON’S, No. 7 Sixth av. ALL KINDS OF BOOTS AND SHOES AT RE duced prices. Neat, serviceable Smors for gentlemen, 3 CANTRISLL, 241 Fourth avenue. “SIGNS AND BANNERS order by RAHAM, 97 Duane street. ALL KINDS WIR! made, packed and mupped, HOJER & A.—PATENT WIRE SIGNS, ENGRAVED METAL and Brass S16xs, Stone, Orrick and S1GN Pantie. UPHAM & CO.. 399 Broadway. AN OFFER WILL Bi RECEIVED FOR TWO Tey anv Tarex Eicnt Cyiinner how Rotary Presses; WILL BE SOLD Low. Add NEW YORK HERALD, nue or drive 1s, bowever, so. far com- A SPRING FRESHE' ‘HE TIDE IS RUNNING pleted ax to require only $200,000 to | Knox-ward, his spring style of GENTLEMEN’s [Lats finish it, aud 1s so situated that tne delay of | hi iK caused a rush to his stores, No. 212 Broadway another season in Its construction will be likely to render useless the labor already bestowed upon it, and ly ils entire rebuilding. For this reason the Mayor in his message recommended its immediate completion. OL course its rebuilding, in that case, Would be wholly at the expense of the city. The larger proportion o1 them have been also long since paid. } The Jollowing are approximate estimates re- cently iurnisned to me by the Department of Puo- lic Works and the Department of Public Parks:. ‘To finish Morningside Park and avenues, not to exceed . +$1,000,000 To finish Riverside Park and avenue. 003,000 Motal....s0050 » ++ -$9,00 000 ‘The account against the property owners is as follows :— Morningside Park Interest trom Jul: . $896, 693 12 553,689 . es $4,942,978 ‘This last amount, said Mr, Olmstead, may be | taken us the representative of the loss of assessed property owners. Since Morningside Park and avenue Were taken by the city nearly five years have elapsed. Three years have almost elapsed | since Riverside Park and avenue were taken, and still there are some few prominent city officials (few, Lam happy to say) who, with ali these facts before them, throw the weight of their infinence against te completion of the improvements. ldo not propose to argue this subject as a ques tion ol Jaw, but if any one 18 curious in such mate ters, lev jim consult the case of Stuvvesant vs. ‘The May ce ol New York, reported in Lith Paige’s, reports 414, which Was an action brought to compel the city to Improve Stuyvesant square, | it haying been ceded to the ¢ on condition that it should be thus improved. Hon. Hamilton Fish, who argued the case betore the Chanceilor, for the plaintiff, insisted that because the deed of grant ‘was on Condition, that fact should make no aiffer- | ~ ence m the application ot the generallaw; tnother | words, that tf the city received or took land for a park 1 must be inciosed and improved as a park, whether there was or was not an express agreement on the part of the city to that effect. | ‘Tone fact is, Mr. President and gentlemen, that the mooey which you paid so many years ago to the cit} you forcibly, nuder the threat of coniiscation, it has Kept without any recompense to you, in violas of ine constitu. Vions both of the State of New York and of the United States, whieh deciare im the same language that private property shall not “be taken for pube lie use withont just compensation.’ For one | nave Twi iatth in the growth and prosperity of the ety of New York which no tewporary circumstances can the faith that its promises would be | 4 mifiled; nay, the money whicn the city took from | lessen, Bulld, then, Its parks and streets, complete | its improvements, planned with so mucus judgment Skill, render i convenient, attractive and heatthy ior residence, afford 1 aaditional business facilities, give 1% rapid transit roads, extend its tunnels and bridgas to those who on the west, the east and@ the north stand impatient to vse thei; 1 and in the Fitth Avenue Hotel. No disaster anticipated, but quite the reverse, as Knox's patrons are univer. sally delighted with lis Intest production. 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