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SPAIN. WRENCH REPORT OF THE COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE CARLISTS—DON CARLOS S4ID TO HAVE FLED. Panis, Feb. 4, 1876. The Bien Public of this evening says it has received Antelligence of the complete defeat of the Carlists, It ig stated that Don Carlos has fled, and he is ex- mected to take refuge on French territory, “GOVERNMENT REPORT OF CARLIST DEMORAL- IZATION, Maprip, Feb. 4, 1876. The government has advices that the Carlists have y@estroyed their cartridge manufactory at Vera, and ‘nany have fled to Franée. ANOTHER BATTLE LIKELY TO BE FOUGHT. Heyparn, Feb. 4, 1876, The Alfonsists are concentrating in the neighborhood “ef Oyarzun in order to effect a junction with Martinez Campos via Arechelequy. A battle is imminent im the vicinity of Vera and Le- Baca, FRANCE, ‘WHE PRESIDENCY OF THE SENATE—A NEWSPA- PER PROSECUTED. Panis, Fob. 4, 1876. It is thought very probable that the Duc d’Audiffret- ‘Pasquier will be elected President of the new Senate, ‘A prosecution has been commenced against the jour- pal La France for publishing false news. The action is ‘based upon the statement that M. Buffet had tendered ‘his resignation and declared he would only accept the governorship of the Bank of France as compensation. 1A GALLANT COMMANDER A CANDIDATE FOR THE ASSEMBLY, Panis, Feb, 4, 1876. ‘ Colonel Denfert, the defender of Belfort, bas re- signed his commission in the army in order to stand ps a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies, GERMANY. Benuiy, Feb, 4, 1876. Herr Reichensperger’s pamphlet which has just een made public, argues that ecclesiastical laws franscend the State’s right to invade the sphere of Hnner ecclesiastical life, and that the resistance of pishops and priests is not only commanded by Phristian doctrine and good sense, but fully justified by the express determinations of Prussian law. The {pamphlet is temperate in tone, but unyielding. In substance, he declares that a modus vivendi is possible only by the reinsertion of the eliminated clauses of the Prussian constitution, or by an under- Btanding with the Vatican, or the complete separation vot Church and State. . CARDINAL LEDOCHOWSKI IN THE CAPITAL. Cardinal Ledochowski is here and is the guest of the Prince of Radzvill. He is completely unrestrained, par in the matter of the interdiction from returning his diocese. . } | QUEEN VicTORIA’s COMING ViSIT TO THE EMPIRE. Nothing is known here of the reported visit of Aueen Victoria to this city. It is considered unlikely Bhat she will come here, because the main object of the Queen’s journey is to visit the tomb of the Princess Hohenlohe, her half-sister, in Baden. { She will also visit the Duke of Saxe-Coburg. RATE OF DISCOUNT REDUCED, The Imperial Bank of Germany has reduced its rate - pf discount to four per cent. VISITING PRINCES OFF FOR PRAGUE. Beruiy, Feb. 4, 1876. \ Cardinal Ledochowski and Prince Radzivill have lef for Prague. ®@RESS AND PARLIAMENTARY FEELING IN THE + CHURCH AND STATE DIFFICULTY. Bsruix, Feb. 4—Evening. All the journals in this city agree that the tone of Reichensperger’s pamphlet is moderate and free from provocation, but deciare that a settlement of the peclesiastical question according to its proposals is Impossible. S ULTRAMONTANE HONOR TO LEDOCHOWSRI, +, Cardinal Ledochowski received visits from all the jAlsatian and ultramontane deputies of the Reichstag awhile he was in this city. TURKEY. WHE HERZEGOVINIANS LIKELY TO REJECT THE ; GREAT POWERS’ PACIFICATION PLAN. Vienna, Feb, 4, 1876. The New Free Press of this city says advices from jerzegovina state that the measures taken by the im- -perial Powers to induce the insurgents to cease hostili- Bes will most likely be unsuccessful. BBRUSSIAN OPINION OF THE ‘‘cOMEDY” AT CON- STANTINOPLE. St. Petersncre, Feb. 4, 1876, The Russki Mir, commenting on the proposals of loons Andrassy, says the comedy now being performed t ConMantinople will terminate to the satisfaction of pil concerned except the Sclaves, and partly, therefore, ussia, WLHE SULTAN ENGAGED IN DIPLOMATIC BALANC- ING. t Views, Fob. 4, 1876. According to feliable advice the Porte is convinced What the rejection of the Austrian note would cause overthrow of Andrassy’s Cabinet. The Porte does mot fear military intervention as long as Andrassy re- smains in power. It will therefore accept his proposals, imply seeking to do so in a form which will not ‘weaken the Sultan’s authority in the eyes of his Mus- Bulman subjects. EGYPT. Loxpo, Feb. 4, 1876, ‘The negotiations of the French capitalists in Egypt for railway aud other monopolics bave failed, leaving ‘tho way clear for English proposals. ITALY. JUDICIAL DECISION ON THE GERMAN APPLICA- TION CONCERNING VON ARNIM. Rome, Feb. 4, 1876, . The Opinione to-day announces that at a sitting held esterday by the Council of State it was decided to ac- ‘cede to the application of the Prussian government what the judgment of the Prussian tribunal sentencing ‘Von Arnim*to aterm of imprisonment should be tati- amated to the Count by the Italian judicial authorities, Von Arnim is now staying in Florence. The Opinione remarks that this intimation is merely necessary legal formality, and the oxtradition treaty tween Italy and Germany cannot be applied to Arnim’s offence. ‘4 ENGLAND. Loxpos, Feb. 4, 1876. ‘The English Foreign Office bas rece:ved the thanks the German government for the protection of the by the commanders of British ships during the @lection disturbances in Peru. SOT TO MARRY THE PRINCESS. The Daily Telegraph this morning says the report of | fehe engagement of the Princess Beatrice with Prince is of Battenberg ts unfounded. |. PARLIAMENTARY GAIN FOR THE CONSERVATIVES. An clection for ® member of the House of Commons Dorsetshire occurred to-day, and resulted as {ol- ws | xy Edward H. T. Fowler, { Mafority........ ibpehdaea siacrevrevveh Ne ¢ Captain Digby te @ son of Lord Digby, and a con- Pervative in politics, WEATHER REPORT. The weatnor to-day is fair, « peti dDestecnscGir POT INDIA. mm _. Aona, Feb. 4, 1876, Prince Louis of Battenberg was yesterday severely, not seriously, injured by fali from bis horse pig sticking, Digby. 3,060 fr 11,866 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 56, 1876. ROME. 4 Roun, Feb. 4, 1876, Hohenlohe, the German Envoy, arrived here last night and was immediately received by the Pope. 4 CARDINAL’S THANKS. It is reported that Ledochowski sent along telegraphic despatch to the Pope yesterday, thanking his Holiness for his elevation to the cardinalate and announcing that he will come to Rome as soon as he has made some arrangements in his diocese, COMING PRINCES OF THR CHURCH. Only the prelates, Monsignori Nina and Serafini, will be created cardinals at the next Consistory. ‘THE CHURCH IN BRAZIL. The Bishop of Olinda appears to be indisposed to vacate his see, He has proposed a fresh compromise on the pending ecclesiastical questions between the Vatican and Brazil, which will be examined by the Sec- retary for Ecclesiastical Affairs. HOHENLOHE TO SEEK TO RECONCILE THE PAPACY AND THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT. Lospon, Feb. 4, 1876. A Router telegram from Rome says it is reported that the’ Cardinal Prince Hohenlohe, besides settling the differences which hitherto prevented his going to Rome, wil! enter upon negotiations to remove the enmity between the German government and the Roman Catholic episcopacy. CARDINAL ANTONELLI. Lonpon, Feb. 4, 1876. The Morning Standard’s Rome special says despite the numerous denials Cardinal Antonelli is sertously ill. RITUALISM AND ROME, noteniamtnntanactleetiontes. « Lonvon, Feb. 4, 1876, Rey. Alexander H. Mackonochie, the curate of the noted “high church’? St. Alban’s, Brooke street, Hol- born, sends to the newspapers to-day a document signed by about 100. prominent ritualist clergymen, fairly representative men, including most, if not all, who have been subjected to ecclesiastical prosecution, disclaiming connection or sympathy with any move- ment looking to the subordination of the Anglican ritu- alists to Papacy; declaring the basis for such a negotia- tion impossible until the Vatican decrees are retracted and repealed with as much formality as they were promulgated. A MERELY PERSONAL OPINION. ‘The author of the original letter to Cardinal Man? ning which first gave color to the report writes to the Morning Post to-day over the same pseudonyme—“'Pres- byter Anglicanus’’—saying that the letter originated with himself and that he spoke only for himself, A HALP-AND-HALF CHURCH NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW, Renewed attention and discussion of the subject have been awakened by Lord Penzance’s decision yesterday in the Folkestone ritual case—the first suit under the Public Worship Regulation act, The decision declares illegal the use of the crucifix and the stations of the cross and solitary communion. The Rev. Mr. Ridsdale, the unsuccessful defendant, is one of the signers of Mr. Mackonoctie’s manifesto, CARDINAL MANNINGS PLAN FOR UNION IN ENGLAND. Lonpox, Feb. 4, 1876, A Reuter telegram says:—It is asserted in clerical circles in Rome that certain English ritualists having some time ago adopted the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Manning, to whom somo of the lead. ing ritualists applied, conceived the idea of leading them to Rome by allowing them to retain certain priv- fleges. The Cardinal came to Rome to defend this scheme, but the Congregation of Rites persistently op- posed it, . Cardinal Manning has recently informed the Vatican that there was grave discord among the ritualists, and the time was opportune to make the dissatisfied party some concessions in order to induce them to join the Chureh. Manning’s proposals were merely referred with some outward formalities. It is not believed that they will be accepted. FINANCE AND TRADE. CHURCH RE- Lonpox, Feb, 4, 1876, Speculation at the Stock Exchange has been almost ata standstill during the past week. Investment se- curities have been quiet and steady, while the market has had an upward tendency, - AMERICAN SECURITIES. American securities and consols, which at one time were weak and lower, close strong atan advance of one-eighth on the week. SPANISH AND RGYPTIAN. Spanish stocks have displaced Egyptians as a specu- lative medium and show an advance of one to two per cent, chiefly on Continental buying. Egyptian secur- ities also show a slight improvement, but the scale of operations is small compared with that of the previous fortnight. PARIS MONEY MARKET. The Paris market has decidedly improved in con: sequence of the favorable settlement. The disposition of political doubts seems to have given a decided up- ward tendency to French securities. RUSSIAN, TURKISH AND EGYPTIAN. There have been some purchases of Russian, Turkish and Egyptian securities here for Continental account, which saved the market from absolute stagnation. RAILWAYS. English railways are weak and lowor on further un- satisfactory dividends. Money is a drug in the market, DIscoUNT. During the early part of the week there were pre- dictions in some quarters of a reduction in the Bank’s minimum rate of discount from from four per cent, but the regular weekly bank return showed a decrease in the reserve of £310,201, and an increase of £1,000,000 in “other deposits’—the proportion of reserve to liabilities being about one-half per cent less than last week. In the open market rates have hardened accord- ingly. The probabilities seem to favor the mainte- nance of present rates. Money from day to day has been sustained by the requirements of the monthly set- tlement for consols. ON THE CONTINENT, The Continental exchanges show no material change. THE CORN MARKET. In the London corn market there has been a limited trade of adull and unsatisfactory character. Values have not varied materially, but such slight changes as have been made were in favor of buyers. At the leading provincial markets on Tuesday Wednesday and yesterday wheat was a sixpence toa shilling lower. The imports have been fairly good—say 245,000 quar- ters, The arrivals of maize have been moderate—85,000 quarters, The deliveries of English are rather above the average, and include 52,500 quarters of wheat, 74,500 of barley and 4,500 of oats, PRODUCE MARKET. \ At Mark lane business is quiet, holders being a shade | less anxious thanon Wednesday and Monday, but transactions are difficult and discouraging in all branches. IN PARIS. At Paris the weekly report shows the market is lower for flour and some sorts of wheat, ON THE CONTINENT ORNERALLY. The Continental markets generally are slow and duil. It is observed that the quantities of wheat, barley and maize now on the passage to Great Britain are consid- erably smaller than a year ago. THE COTTON TRADE, Liverroon, Feb, 4, 1876. The Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Association’s circu- lar says cotton hag been only tn moderate demand throughout the week, and, with a dujl market, prices have generally declined again. considerably, American descriptions have been in moderate request. Holders are still pressing stocks for sale, Prices have shown some irregularity, and close fully an eighth below last week. Futare transactions continue toa fair extent, but prices have fallen about three-stxicentha, Sea island is quiet, but full prices are realized, ‘The decline of other descripwons ranges from enc- sixteenth of a penny toa farthing. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Pants; Feb. 4, 1876. The International Commisston on the Channel t nel have assembled here. It is expected they will sign the first protocols to-morrow. | being made to influence General Brady. INTERNATIONAL SPORTS. Lowpvon, Feb. 4, 1876. Captain Mildmay has not yet heard trom Sir Henry Halford about the rumored break in the arrangements for the international contest. ‘The Captain says he has received no orders to call the council of the National Rifle Association, as the answer from New York to the resolution adopted on the 22d of January is. still aited, Captain Mild- may thinks, and he bas heard Sir Henry Halford say, that if New Yorke decides to admit separate teams from England, Scotland and Ireland the National Associa- tion will not send a team, COLLIERY EXPLOSION. Sr. Etienne, Belgium, Feb, 4—Evening. WASHINGTON. The Foreign Affairs Committee Looking After Slaveholding American Citizens. pS CEE PROPERTY COMPLICATIONS IN CUBA. Alarm of Small Politicians Over _ the Whiskey Trials. An explosion of fre damp took place to-day inthe | THE LOUISIANA SENATORSHIP. Sabin colliery. The men were at work in the pit at the time to the number of 230, Of these only twenty-six have been taken out, two of whom were dead. The earth is falling in in immense masses. Conster- nation prevails throughout the district. IRELAND AND HUNGARY. HOME RULERS’ CONDOLENCE WITH DEAK'S COUN- TRYMEN. Lonpoy, Feb. 4, 1876. A meeting of the Irish Home Rule Association was held this evening, Mr. Mitchell Henry presiding. A message of condolence was telegraphed to the Deak FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. PLEA et a Wasuineton, Feb. 4, 1876. THE QUESTION OF SLAVEHOLDING AMERICAN CITIZENS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES—LETTER OF SECRETARY FISH TO THE COMMITTEE ON 4 FOREIGN AFPAIRS. The Committee on Foreign Affairs is inclined to col- lect material for a valuable and conclusive report on the bill of Mr. Springer, referred to them last week, prohibiting American citizens from owning or using slaves in foreign countries, They have begun their in- vestigations of the subject by asking the Secretary of Club, of Pesth, deploring the death of the illustrious | State for any information he may have bearing on the defender of his country’s independence, and declaring the result of his labors ‘‘an eternal example of the power of nationality against foreign aggression.’’ THE REVENUE FRAUDS. THE BABCOCK TELEGRAMS READY FOR USE AS EVIDENCE—EXTRAORDINARY ORDER ISSUED BY JUDGE TREAT TO PREVENT THEIR PREMA- ‘TURE PUBLICATION. Sr, Louis, Feb. 4, 1876, A messenger of the Western Union Telograph Com- pany arrived this morning from Washington and deliv " ered into the hauds of the Clerk of the United States Circuit Court am immense pile of despatches from Bab- cock, some of them bound in book form, Judge Treat, who seemed to be very much afraid that the contents of any of these despatches should leak out, thereupon made the Picwins oxtranedinn ord “And it ts further ordered t! said papers and books be retained in the exclusi ossession of the Clerk of this Court, subject to the inspection thereof or by an attorney ot cither party, only in the presenco of the Clerk or his deputy; said attorneys not to disclose prior to the production of said: books and papers in the trial of said cause the contents or character thereof."” District Attorney Dyer spent two hours in examining the despatches in the presence of Mr, Price, the Clerk. Mr. Storrs, Babcock’s counsel, will examine them to- morrow. Judge Porter, of New York, will not be here until Sunday. ROGER SHERMAN IN ST. LOUIS AS ASSISTANT GOVERNMENT COUNSEL—IS THE LIGHTNING TO STRIKE IN NEW YORK?—RUMOR OF CIVIL SUITS TO BE BROUGHT AGAINST M'KER AND MAGUIRE. St. Lovrs, Mo., Feb. 4, 1876. Emory A. Storra, of Chicago, of counsel for General Babcock, and Benjamin Campbell, his father-in-.aw, have arrived here. The General himself will arrive to- morrow morning, accompanied by a number of friends from Washington. It apperrs that Roger Sherman, whose arrival here was announced on Wednesday night, is not one of General Babcock’s counsel, but is Assistant United States District Attor- ney at New York. His business here is said to be to look ap evidence against parties in New York who are 8 (se of having received ‘crooked’ whiske m St. Louis and of having been in collusion with the “ring” here, It is also stated that Mr, Sher- man has been engaged in looking a ben hic corre- spondence between Babcock, McDonald, Joyce and others, and that be will be retained as a witness to iden ind verify the despatches. The k case is expected will continue much longer than either of those preceding it. The number of witnesses will be greater, and there is a great mass of documentary evidence to be introduced. Reports were published this afternoon that a civil action will be brought against Mr. McKee after Mr, Babcock’s case 18 concluded for $700,000, on a basis of Tevenue on 1,000,000 gallous of spirits at seventy cents per gallon, and that suit will also be tnetitated against Constantine Maguire and his bonds- men for $200,000, These reports are denied by Dis- trict Attorney Dyer and others, who are in a position to know the facts, and are pronounced baseloss fabrica- tions. C. W. Babcock, brother of the General, fs here and attending to some preliminary arrangements regardin; his brother's arrival. . SOMETHING LIKE A GUY FAWKES PLOT DISCOV- ERED IN MILWAUKEE—PEKSONS INDICTED FOR CONSPIRING TO DESTROY RECORDS OF FRAUD—THE DIABOLICAL MEANS SUGGESTED. MinwacKer, Wis., Feb. 4, 1876. Aldermen Julius Jonas and Philip Goldberg, of Chi- cago, were arrested at Tivoll, near Chicago, at noon to- day, and brought here to-night, They are under in- dictment with a third individual, who has escaped, owing to premature publication of some of tlie facts by the Associated Press. They are charged with conspir- ing to destroy the records of the whiskey prosecution | in this city. The evidence presented to the Grand Jury was to the effect that in July last these’ men, afver preliminary negotiations, came to Milwaukee and proposed, for the sum of $60,000, to.break into the Federal Building and Prosecuting Attorney McKinney's rooms, in the Newhall House, and steal therefrom ail the records of the whiskey prosecution. Several distillers, among them Leopold Wirth, Leopoid Heller and Lowis Rindskopf, were, it is alieged, made acquainted with the outlines of this plot, but the matter was considered unsafe. Various plans were roposed, atnong them one to blow up the Federal Building and Newhall House. Finally the men offered to do the job for $30,000, but by tirts time the prosecu- tion Lege dk sq far that the project was abandoned, copies of all the records having been forwarded to Washington. The men will be brought into court in | the morning. Aiderman Peter Maber, of Chicago, came | on with the party, presumably to ‘give bail. Being asked to make a statement, the prisoners stoutly as- serted their innocence and claimed to have been mis- taken for others. , THE NEW ORLEANS “‘RING” AWAKENED TO AB- JECT TERROR—TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES TO BE PRODUCED, New Ortrays, La, Feb. 4, 1876. The Whiskey Ring is awakening to the fact that the government is in earnest, and strenuous efforts The scare is 80 great that unless matters assume a more favorable turn in favor of the “ringsters’’ there will be few to risk a trial,-even before a Louisiana jury. Mr. E. W. Barnes, manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was before the United States Grand Jury to-day, having been summoned to produce despatches between parties implicated in the crooked whiskey frauds here and at other points. Mr. Barnes stated he did not know that such despatches had been sent. If they bad it would require a week’s time and much labor to look throu, the messages | sent, aggregating several funares thor and get out those required. The jury the matter under consideration. It is they will order the messages required to be produced by the telegraph managers. Judge Woods stated that an order of Court would be iss if required, compel- ling Manager Barnes to comply with the demands of the Grand Jury. Loss of books or tailure to produce them, District Attorney Beckwith states, delays the in- vestigation, but the chain of evidence can and wili be completed and produced without them. The process is | slow but cortain. The Grand Jury bas been discharged | until Monday. MOTION TO QUASH THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST HESING, REHM AND HOYT OVERRULED. Cmcaao, Feb, 4, 1876. Jadge Blodgett this morning overruled the motion which was argued before him yesterday to quash the indictments against Hesing, Rebm and Hoyt for com- plicity in the whiskey frauds. The trial was set for March 6 THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. Mavem Cuvsk, Pa., Feb. 4, 1876. Yesterday and last night was a busy time at the po- lice headquarters throughout the coal regions, The result was the arrest of six of the leaders of the Molly Maguires, and the murdovers of Fe K. Wost, a Tamaqua wife was shofSmthe Sth of Jaly iastandJobn Tacte fe, osmew oul bosses during the last re One of the three priso’ with the murder o Jonn P. Jones, has made sion, and this in connection with other important evi- dence hag disclosed the names of many prominent Molly Maguires. Other arrests will soon follow. Many of the secrets of the Molly Maguire Order are already in ramet Asgotel I Met passe once eed mal it is confidently believed that peaceand order again reign im the coal regions, ownership of slaves by Americans, and Secretary Fish has at once replied in the letter below, which shows that Americans are probably interested in such Property in two ways, first, as the owners or lessees of estates which are worked by slaves, and, second, as mortgagees who have advanced money on such property. Mr. Fish also points out that in me Grant has on several occasions called the attertion of Congress to this matter, In the Message of 1871 he ‘used strong language on the sunject, saying:— I desire to direct your attengion to the fact that citi- zens of the United States, or ‘persons claiming to be citizens of the United ‘States, are large holaers in foreign lands of this species of property, slaves, for- bidden by the fundamental law of their alleged country. 1 recommend to Congress to provide, by Stringent legislation, a suitable remedy against the holding, owning or dealing in slaves, or being in- terested in slave property in foreign lands, either as owners, birers or mortgagoes by citizons of the United States, In the next Message, 1872, a similar reference to American slaveholders was made by him, and this is quoted in the letter of Secretary Fish, In 1873 the Message makes no reference to the subject, but the em- bargo of American estates in Cuba is made a cause of complaint against Spain. The Message of 1874 contains no further allusion to the matter, and the President, finding Congress indisposed to act upon the question, seems to bave dropped it, But in the last Message, ad- verting to the recent abolition of slavery in the Portu- guese colonies, he says:— Tam of opinion also that it is the duty of the United States to provide, by suitable legislation, that no citi- zen of the United States shall hold slaves as property in any other country or be interested therein. At the same time he complained that:— ‘The property of our citizens in Cubats large and is rendered insecure and depreciated in value and in ca- pacity of production by the continuance of the strife and the unnatural mode of its conduct, Apparently he alludes here to estates in Cuba which are worked by slave labor, No doubt the President will be pleased to see the Present Congress taking up and thoroughly disposing of this question, for the losses of American slavehold- ers in Cuba have been a fertile source of contention and trouble here, The committee will, (t is said, in the course of their investigation summon before them a number of citizens, some of them well known capital- ists of New York and Philadelphia, who are believed to bo interested in Cuban slave property either—to use the words of the President, 1n 1872—“as owners, hirors or mortgagees.” It is believed that, besides those Americans who own or lease sugar and other slave estates in Cuba, and who are, probably, in the majority of cases, Spaniards who have caused themselves to be naturalized as a means of avoiding the obligations of Spanish subjects in Cuba, and, as 4 sort of insurance against loss, there are others, some of them Americans by birth and residence, who have invested large sums of money in Cubaas loans, the security for wnich consists in mortyages upon lands and slaves. Such persons, if summoned before the committee, will probably be asked to exhibit thoir mortgages, which, it Is here re- ported, in some cases contain the names and personal de- scriptions of slaves, who are thus pledged by their own- ers as security for debts due to American citizens, It was of such persons that the President probably spoko in bis Message of 1872. If the committee can procure the exhibition of such chattel mortgages the exposure will attract @ good deal of attention, especially if it shall prove that some of the holders of such slave securities are prominent persons in the communities in which they live. The following ts the letter of the Secretary of State referred to above:— Department oF State, Wasminotox, D. C., Feb. 2, 1876. Hon, Tuomas Swany, Chairmau Committee of Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives :— Sin—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 3lst ult. requesting me to ish you with any information which the department may able to afford your committee in relation to the question of citizens of the United Statos holding slaves in foreign countries, and also as to what complaints have been filed in the department from American citi- zens in Cuba on account of wrongs suffered or losses | sustained in their business in that island; whether | such business is carried on by slave labor, and what complication may arise on account of American citi- zens holding slaves in foreign countries, As you desire the information for the use of the committee at their proposed session to-morrow (Thurs- day) morning, I must content myself with making a very general statement in regard to each of the ques- tions which form the subject of your inquiry. With reterence to the inquiry in regard to complaints filed in the department from American citizens in Cuba, . is to be observed that these complaints are of two classes :-— First—The claims of citizens of the United States for losses suffered on account of wrongs and i{uju- ries to their persons or property, commitiod by the authorities of Spain im Cuba since October 1, 1868 Claims of this class are in pursuance of an agreement entered into between this | | government and that of Spain on the 12th of February, fen, submitted to the cognizance of the mixed commis- sion created by that agreement, and which is organized now and holaing its sessions at this capital Of this class of claim: find from a report made by the advo- cate of the United States to this department, now be- fore me, that there has been presented to the commis- sion since its organization 115 cases; of these, 57 have been disposed of as follows, namely :—Dismissed for want of jurisdiction, 9; «dismissed tor want of prose- cution after notice under the rule, 35; judgment in | tavor of Spain is not liable on the proots, two; with drawn, two; decided in favor of the claimants, ninety- one, giving an acgregate amount of $878,016, leaving now pending and undecided fifty-eight cases. With reference to the cause of complaint in this class of claims, it may be stated generally that they are com- prised under the following specifications, namely :— Illegal setzure of property and consequent damage to ge to property by military officers and troops jn the Spanish service. Lid Illegal arrests and Imptisonment; violence done to the person by oflicers and troops under color of mili | tary authority, | The claunants In these cases are in most instances naturalized citizens of the United States, who were | orginally subjects of Spain and natives of Cuba. The | property, of the injuries to which the complaints are | predicated, consists largely of sugar plantations, ani | while the de ment is not in possession of spect | God exact information on the subject, it may eihly be stated that the working of these plantations is carried on by slave labor, that being the normal status of plan- tation labor on the island. In some few cases the claimants are native citizens of the United States, im- porting merchants who have advanced money to sugar planters and Mortgages on the plantations. Of course in such cages the parties claimant may be said | to be, however unwillingly, indirectly connected with | the continuance of slave labor in the island of Cuba of claims consists of eases in which and summ: confiscations have on the estates of American citizens. These been made the subject of direct diplomatic r mn, but in to the relations of the claimants with slavery and slave labor, the remar! which I have made in reterence to the frst class are made equally applicable to these. With reference to your last inquiry, as to what com- plications may arise on account of American citizens owning slaves in fo tries, it i dificult to answer that inquiry in sac! y a8 to impart any in- formation to the committee of which Congress is not pathy with the other Powers of the Christian ctvilised World. Within the past few weeks the regulations for carry~ ve been an! oh Yom foc'the Roller ang the justice of a m ition of the great evil which de a race and conti & bl nud ‘destructive costest, close. 49 onr borde: yell as tl © expediency and the justice of con- coding retoems, of which the propristy A quea Deoply impressed with the gonviction of slavery is one of the most claiming to tis there cl ot the spirit of our own law: ance of this distressing aud si saxo I referred to thi ich logislation as may be prope: unce and, if prevent, at least to discourage American citizens from ves. not to holding or dealing in Similar sentiments have been expressed by the Presi- dent in his last M: to Congress, December, 1875, and in pursuance of these expressed convictions of the President, in cunformity, as it is believed they are, with the sentiments of the people of the United States, and with whic! my own convictions accord in the fullest measure, no op- poruaty has been omitted by the department to let it known to all who are directly or indirectly interested in the question that it was believed by this government that the existence of slavery in Cuba tended in a great 5 MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Derantuanr, Orvion oF Tue Cnte¥ Sicxat. Ovriorn, Wasuinoton, Feb. 5—1 4 In the South Atlantic and East Gulf States, northeast to southeast winds, stationary to rising tomperature, cold and clear or partly cloudy weather will prevait, with high, followed by falling barometer. In the West Gulf States, Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the lake region, falling barometer, easterly to southerly winds, rising temperature and clear or partly cloudy weather, with occasional snow im the last district, For the Middle and Eastern States high, followed by falling barometer, northerly winds shifting to easterly and southerly, colder and clear or partly cloudy weather Succeeded in the first section by rising temperature. The Mississippi River will continue slowly rising at Memphis and Vicksburg, where it is aproaching the danger line, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. bey to retard the restoration of peace in that island. have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servan' HAMILTON FIS POLITICIANS BECOMING ALARMED OVER THE RESULT OF THE WHISKEY TRIALS—A CALL FOR “HIGHER STATESMANSHIP” AND A GEN- ERAL LETTING UP. As the trial day of General Babcock draws near there is evident here a subdued but increasing excitement, The great number of convictions in St. Louis, the suc- cess of the government in Indianapolis and Milwaukee in not only exposing the local whiskey rings} but con- victing the principal offenders, and the large interests involved in Chicago, whore the government nas ob- tained confessions implicating influential local politi- cians of both parties, have alarmed the meaner kind of politicians. These mutter, that ‘This thing has gone ‘about far enough; they fear that “the party’? may suffer injury; they talk about “‘higher statesmanship,”” which would not impert} the interests of the country by such ruthless exposures and convictions; they ex- claim cautious!y against the ‘‘rage for economy and re- trenchment, this craze for reform,’’ and talk about people who seek to become great as reformers and de- tectives; they suggest that if these whiskey trials go on they must strike in inconvenient places; that if tbey could be stopped the American people, who forget everything so quickly, would forget all about them before the Cincinnati Convention meets, and nobody would be hurt. With all this talk there are growls of vengeance against the troublesome people whose injudicious passion for detecting revenue frauds have brought so many conspicuous persons to grief. That is to say, there is a formidable influence here in Washington in favor of so managing the remaining whiskey trials that nobody of any consequence shall be hurt. This power is too strong to be made light of. It consists of politicins, some of them prominent and influential men; some of them, unfortunately, able to have free access to the President, and shrewd enough to seek to prejudice his mind and to alarm him by suggestions that the party may be fatally hurt and that the rigid and straightforward prosecution of the whiskey thieves, without regard to their standing in society or their political influence, may in the end help the democrats to a victory in the Presidential election. There is as yet no reason, so far as can be ascertained, to believe that such suggestions influence the President He still says, “Let no guilty man escape.” But itis known that efforts are making to put prosecutions in some places in the hands of weak or incompetent men, and in other inconspicuous ways to cripple the attack and secure immunity to influential men. Thecry of ‘persecution " 1s raised tn favor of sush persons, and tt is said that there is no sense in dragging everybody down, “FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasuryaron, Feb. 4, 1876. SENATOR MORTON'S DEFENCE OF PINCHBACK. When the Pinchback case came up to-day in the Senate Morton spoke of an old accusation against Pinchback, that he had been sentenced to and confined in the Workhouse, used then as a penitentiary, in Now Orleat ‘This story has been tn circulation for some time, and Mr, Morton brought forward documents whieh show that the offence for which Mr. Pinchback was condemned was assault and battery, arising out of family disagreements and in self-defence; that the Provost Judge who sentenced bim had no authority to do so; that there was no jury trial, nor was Pinchback allowed to cite wituesses in his favor; that after two months’ confine- ment he was released by the same officer who con. demned him and on the order of the military authori- ties by whom the circumstances of the caso had been Investigated; that shortly afterwards he recruited a company of Louisiana volunteers and was commis- sioned as Uaptain; was later honorably discharged at his own request and raised a company of cavalry under authority from General Banks, but was refused his commission as Captain on the ground that he was a cojored man. All this was proved by documentary evi- dence, and as there have been assertions that Mr. Pinchback had been sentenced for some infamous crime, itis just to him to make these facts public. 4 Senator Morton’s own former objection against the legality of the Legislature which elected Pinchback is the strong point against his admission. Mr. Morton concluded his remarks in behalf of his friend Pinchback tn good season to-day, and the repub. licans, seeing that several of their members were ab- sent, moved an adjournment until Monday. This was done to prevent the democrats from taking advantage of the slim attendance on the republican side and defeat -the colored gentleman from Louisiana, Pinchback was on the floor atan early hour, but he looked care- worn, and his smile lacked its usual serenity. The democrats aamit that he will win if the republicans are united in their support of Mr. Morton. THE CENTENNIAL APPROPRIATION IN THE SENATE. It was expected that the Centennial bill would!be brought up in the Senate to-day and passed, Senator Morton giving way with the Pinchback resolution, but {t will be brought up for action on Monday in the Sen- ate, Senator Morrill, of Maine, who as chairman of the Committee of Appropriations, has the bill in charge, will then press it, and if the Pinchback resolution shall lead to debate he will antagonize it with the Centen- nial. He says the bill bas gained inthe Senate and will pass with but slight opposition, unless the Southern Senators should become irritated by the Louisiana quarrel and get worked up against it, General Hawley is satisfied of its success. RUMORS OF A DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY BRISTOW DE- NIED. The rumor mongers are busy again circulating stories about disagreement and high words between the President and Secretary Bristow. One such story in a Philadelphia paper relates that on the 2d of Febru- ary the President and Secretary of the Treasury had an open quarrel at the White House, in which General Grant was said to have used ‘‘strong terms” in speak- ing of tho whiskey prosecutions and to have been so ir- ritable that Attorney General Pierrepont was obliged to {nterfere, and was in turm reproved in a “loud and angry one.” There is the best authority for saying tbat there 1s not a word of truth in this story. THE ADMISSION OF PINCHBACK AND THE WHEELER COMPROMISE. A statement was recently telegraphed to New Or Jeans to the effect that it was the purpose of leading democrats in Congress, through Speaker Kerr, to an- nounce to the republican Senators that the admission of Pinchback to a seat in the Seuate would be regarded as a violation of the Wheeler adjustment and as a justi- fication of the violence in Louisiana. The printed statement, which came back to Washington to-day, caused much surprise in political circles. As leading democrats were improperly involved in the story, it ‘was thought necessary to pronounce it wholly untrue, and therefore this public denial is authorized and re- quested, already posse send. The Presiden’ his annual Mes- medi yor pteprore ont Pty referring to the suljecr of UKs emanate with the then exist- ingstate of Caba, say: T cannot doubt that the continued maint die Race Toomer 5 The abolition of slaver serribi or other reforms in admii Caba could not fail to ance the restoragion tof data wilt voluntort ort pt this view. was THE LANDIS TRIAL. Brroaetos, Feb. 4, 1876. ‘The jary in the Landis trial came in this morning for further instruction from the Court, after receiving which thoy retired. Two ballots have beea taken, the first of which showed 8 for acquittal and 4 against and the other 9 for acquittal and § against, to one o'clock this afternoon nothing farther had been heard from the jury. Up to a late Sour to-night nothing was heard from The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- Parison with the corresponding date of last yeat, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's: pharmacy, © Hexatp Building:— 1875, 1876, ~ 22. z P. PM oP. M 2PM Average temperature yesterday... Average temperature for correspond = ing date last HOTEL ARRIVALS. Congressman Chester W. Chapin, of Massachusetts, and George M. Landers, of Connecticut, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator Sherman S, Rogers, of Buffalo, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening from Alvany. Ex-Governor William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode Is- land, is staying at the Albemarle Hotel, Ex-Governor John C. Brown, of Tennessee, and Judge Lawrence 8. ‘Trimble, of Kentucky, are sojourning at the New York Howl. Horace White, of the Chicago Tribune, is reg- istered at the Brevoort House. Assemblyman Town- send D. Cock, 6f Queens county, is stopping atthe Sturtevant Houge. Mrs, Scott-Siddons is residing at the Clarendon Hotel. Senator William B, Woodin, of Auburn, N. Y., and Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyl- vania, have arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, TO INSURE THE ERADICATION OF ERUPTIVE complaints wash daily with Grkan's SuLPRUR Soar. “Hitu's Hain xp Wrisken Dyk,” binck or brown, 508. 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