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CABLE NEWS From All Parts of the Old World. SCHENCK AND _ LYON. The Minister Hastening Home to Refute His Emma Mine Enemies. DON CARLOS’ ROUTE. Biscay and Navarre To Be Obliterated as Spanish Provinces. ARNIM’S TREASON. Professor Tyndall Married in Westminster Abbey. FAMOUS FORGERS. Gordon’s Reasons for Return- ing from Africa, Latest from France, Rome and Other Quarters. ENGLAND. MINISTER SCHENCK AND HIS EMMA MINE ENEMIZS—THE MINISTER TO PERSONALLY REFUTE LYON’S TESTIMONY BEFORE THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE—A GRAND IMt- BROGLIO IN PREPARATION. {From the Evening Telegram of yesterday.) Lonpon, March 1, 1876, . The Times this morning has a despatch from Washington, three-quarters of a column in length, giving the gist of Lyon’s testimony yesterday before the legislative committee appointed to inquire into the Emma Mine scandal. MINISTER SCHENCK TO REPLY. We have the best authority for stating that Minis- ter Schenck will to-morrow publish a letter denounc- ing Lyon’s evidence as a tissue of infamous false- hoods and announcing his intention to sail for New York in the steamship Abyssinia on Saturday next. TO COME HOME. It is also understood that the Minister has ob- tained a leave of absence for the especial purpose of exposing Lyon and vindicating himself before the committee and the world. One of the Minister's daughters will accompany him on his return to America. f ENGAGING COUNSEL. Minister Schenck this morning telegraphed his at- torney to proceed to Washington immediately to re- tain the services of Mr. William M. Evarts, and to have Messrs. Park and Stewart re-summoned to ap- pear before the committee for re-examination. THE TEXT OF MB. SCHENCK’S REPLY TO LYONS’ TESTIMONY. Loxpox, March 1, 1876. Mr. Schenck, the American Minister, publishes tho following card:— Loxpox, March 1, 1876. “In some London papers this morning were published telegraphic despatches purporting to give a report of Lyon's testimony before a committee of Congress. I denounce his whole statement concerning me as a tissue of infamous falschoods, Having obtained leavo of absenco from my government for the purpose, | shall sail in the next steamer for tho United States, to confront my calumniators and vindicate my repu- tation.”” BARON GRANT'S DISCLAIMER, [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Lonpow, March 1, 1876. Baron Grant has telegraphed to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in Washington that the statement is absolutely false regarding what he (Grant) told Lyon. YHEsPAPERS FOR WINSLOW'S EXTRADITION READY FOR JUDICIAL ACTION—PROFESSOR TYNDALL'S MARRIAGE. Loxpox, March 1, 1876, Mr. Dearborn, the officer from Boston who has the papers necessary to extradite Winslow, the forger, tived in London yesterday. the American Embassy, and the papers wili be officially placed in the possession of the Enrbassy this afternoon or to-morrow morning, in ample time for presentation to Sir Thomas Henry, the chief magistrate at tho Bow Street Police Court, when the prisoner is brought up on remand. A WEDDING IX WESTMINSTER ANREY, The marriage of Professor Tyndall to Miss Louisa Claud Hamilton, recently anticipated in your cabie néws, took place yesterday at Westminster Abbey. The rite was performed by Dean Stanley. Among those present wero Thomas Ci sor Huxley, Dr. Hooker and Sir F. Pollock. LORD LYTTON ON HIS WAY TO INDIA, Lord Lytton, who has recently been appointed to snc- teed Lord Northbrook as Governor General of India, left the Charing Cross station of the Southeastern Rail- way this afternoon en route to Naples, where ho will embark for India He was accompanied by Lady Lytton. THE DIRECT CABLE. lyle, Profes- YRIALS AXD VEXATIONS OF THE COMPANY— MEETINGS OF THE SHAREHOLDERS IN LON- DON—THE PROJECT OF SALE OR AMALGAMA- TION WITH THE ANGLO-AMERICAN COMPANY, Loxpox, March 1, 1876. On the 11th of January last Messrs, Learoyd & Co,, solicitors, of Finsbury place, issued a circular in the interest of cert: parties, not specified, calling for meeting of the shareholders of the Direct United States Cable Company for the purpose of promoting the sale of the direct cable to or the amalgamation with the Anglo-American Company. For some reason that Meeting was not hel’, Messrs. Learoyd & Co, issued a second cirenlar, dated February 22, #8 follows :— To Tae Snaxenoipers oy THe Dinect Uniten STATES Cance Compaxy, Loxvox :— Sin—Relerring ‘to our circular of the 11th of Janu- ary lest, We bave to state that a communication has been made to the Directors of the Anglo-American Tel- egraph Company on the subject, who, in reply thereto, Mate that they are willing to consider carefully any proposal laid betore them by authorized representa- wives of the shareholders. We are now instructed to call amecting of the shareholders of the company lavorable toa sale of the company’s property on the terms pro posed, s meeting to be held on Wednesday, the Ist of Maret: neXt, at tweive o'clock noon, at the City Termi- aus Hotel, Cannon street, in order to appoint a com- mittee for the purpose ef conducting 1 tow sucerssiul igsue. Should you be u we shail be obliged by your signing and return. as the accompanying form of approval. We are your obedient servants, LEAROYD & C0. MERTING OF STOCKHOLDERS, Loxpox, Feb, 22, 1876. To-day about fifty or sixty shareholders, representing a yospectable minority of tho stock of the Direct Com- | pany, went to attend the meeting in Cannon street, bat only about a dozen were admitted. Iam tnformed s that the reagon of this exclusion was that pach share | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, “MARCH 2, 1876.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. holder was required, as a preliminary to admission, to | sign a form of approval of the movement for sale or amalgamation, and that between thirty and forty de- clined so to pledge themselves without having the scheme expiained to them or knowing the terms and conditions of the proposed sale or amalgamation, Tho latter were excluaed from the meeting. A ber of them then went to the offices of the Direet Cable Company, in Palmerston Buildings, Bish- opsgate street Within, and organized ameeting, whereat the subject of the Learoyd circular was discussed and the following resolution was adopted :— The undersigned shareholders in the Direct United States Cable Company (limited), assembled in meeting, desire to record, for the information of their fellow shareholders, that they attended at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon street, Wonder, with a view of being resent at the meeting called by Messrs. Learoyd & ee but upon declining to pledge themselves belore- hand, without explanation of the scheme proposed or assurance of its likelihood of being carried ent, they were refused admission to the meeting; and they recommend their follow shareholders to await the re- port of their directors of the general mecting to take place this mont. Ashareholier who attended the mecting at Cannon street states that only about twelve were present, and that the meeting was adjourned sine die without any resolution having been passed. THE RESULTS. The results of these mectings seem to render a sale or amalgamation of the direct cable more improbable thanever, In fact the managers of the Direct Com- pany give the strongest assurances that their memo- randum of agreement as an organized body will not permit them to sell or amalgamate, and they declare their determination to carry on their business as an independent company, in accordance with the pledges they have givem to governments, companies and indi- viduals with whom they havo relations. THE WORK OF THE REPAIRING SHIP. To-day the steamer Faraday compicted the repair of the Torbay (N. H.) section of the direct cable, which was broken on the 23d of January last, The following is a copy of a telegram received by the company from its representative on board the Fara- day :— The end of the eastern piece was picked up at four- teen minutes to one this morning in latitude 42 deg. 45 min., at a depth of nearly 100 fathoms. The damage ‘Was caused by cutting with an axe or hatchet, and there are marks of three or four blows. The cable had apparently been raised up on an anchor and subse- quently severed. There was no natural chafing; the wires are abraded on the under side of the bend, and eight of them cut through evenly and two broken after being weakened by hacking. The condition ot the cable is excellent. The compound is off ior twelve inches from each end. Malice or wanton recklessness is un- questionable, for when the cable was raised it might easily have been shipped without damaging it, The officers of the Direct Cable Company state that arrangements havo now been made to keep the Fara- day on the coast of Nova Scotia as a police and repair- ing ship until another vessol can be sent to replace her, SPAIN. DON CARLOS ON HIS WAY TO EXGLAND—BIS- CAY AND NAVARRE LIKELY TO LOSE THEIR PROVINCIAL RIGHTS AND DEMARCATION. Paris, March 1, 1876. Don Carlos left Pau yesterday evening for England, Count Caserta bas gone to Cannes, CITIZEN AVENGEMENT AGAINST THE CABLIST CENTRES, Mavrip, March 1, 1876, Several Doputies intend offering a resolution in the Cortes that Biscay and Navarre cease to exist as sepa- Tate provinces, and calling upon the government to ap- portion the territory among the adjacent provinces, ‘THE EX-QUEEN MAY DRAW NEAR TO MADRID, Loxvox, March 1, 1876, It is stated that the ex-Queon Isabella of Spain will go to Caravanchel, near Madrid, immediately after King Alfonso’s return from the north. CARLIST LEADERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN ASSAS~ SINATED, Sr. Jnan vz Lvz, March 1, 1876, A rumor fs current that several Carlist leaders, in- cluding Cavasa, have been assassinated at Labayen, DON CARLOS’ ROYALIST RESERVATION AND CLAIM OF RIGHTS. Paris, March 1, 1876. An official Carlist document ts published here, ing that Don Carlos bas not relinquished his claims to the throne of Spain. .*‘He was not vanquished, but en- tered France voluntarily. He gave up his arms neither to France nor to the Alfonsists, but voluntarily jaid them down after a heroic struggle, thus com- pletely reserving the future which belongs to him.” PORTUGAL. NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AMERICAN EXHIBITION. Loxpox, March 1, 1876, A News special from Lisbon says the extensive col- lection of objects for the Philadelphia Exhibition is nearly ready for embarkation by the steam transport India, ITALY. THE GREAT FORGERIES OF THE FINANCIAL CON- FIDANT OF THE KING. Loxpox, March 1, 1876, The Times’ Rome special to-day contains further de- tails of tho great forgery. NOW A NOBLE MARQUIS OPERATED. The Marquis Mantegazza was always hitherto re- garded as a gentleman worthy of all confidence. He was a director of the Modena and Mantua Railway. Some assert ho bas been employed by tho King in financial operations, and taken advantage of the op- portunities offered by that confidence, In March of last year the Marquis Mantegazza negotiated a loan of $1,200,000 for the municipality of Napies, and received the money under his own control from the Paris bank- ers who placed the loan "ROME. AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE—VATICAN RE- LATIONS TO THE SWISS REPUBLIC. Rome, March 1, 1876, M. Mermillod has had an audience with the Pope and Cardinal Antor It Is positively asserted hero that the Vatican is | seeking fora means for settling the differences with Switzerland, FRANCE. BEPUBLICAN PARTY RESPECT FOR THE PRESI- DENT. Pants, March 1, 1876. M. Gambetta, in his speech at Lyons, promised that the republican Deputies would treat Prosident Mac- Mahon as adovo all party attacks, REPOBTED DEATH OF A NOTED COMMUNIST. Panis, March 1, 1876. It ts reported here that the noted communist, Biapqni, is dead. GERMANY, EMPEROR WILLIAM REFUSES VON ARNIM'S AP- PEAL—CHARGES OF HIGH TREASON AND IN- SULT. Loxpox, March 1, 1876, The Pall Mall Garette’s Berlin special states that | the Emperor William has refused Count Von Arnim’ application for a safe conduct to visit bis son, who 1s il in Berlin, that the bill authorizing the sale of the Prussian rail- ways to the Empire will be introduced in the Landtag during the present session. DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE FLOODS, Loxvox, March 2, 1876, The Standard’s Berlin special despatch reports that the inundations in the castern provinces are increas- ing. Many persons have been drowned near Posen. The railway from Posen to Thorn is threatened with total destruction by the floods, TURKEY. DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST OW A GOVERNMENT LOAN. Lonpoy, March 1, 1876, Messrs. Dent, Palmer & Co., of King’s Arms Yard, Moorgate street, announce that for the payment of the interest and drawn bonds due to-day on the Turkish loan of 1858 they have only received $231,925 of the $603,590 required. i THE HERZEGOVINAN INSURGENTS BECOMING DISCOURAGED. Constantixorim, March 1, 1876. Meekbtar Pasha telegraphs to the Porte that the Herzegovinans show signs of discouragement and many of them have submitted. Refugees are beginning to return to their homes, AFRICA, COLONEL GORDON, THE EXPLORER, ABOUT TO RETURN TO CAIRO—THE EGYPTIAN EXPEDI- TION NOT HARMONIOUS OR IN DISCIPLINE, Toxpox, March 1, 1876. The Times to-day has a letter from Alexandria con- taining tho fgllowing:— It is stated on good authority that Colonel Gordon, the African explorer, is returning to Cairo. REASONS WHY, Various reasons aro assigned for this step, among which ara the following:—‘‘Harassing struggles with the rebellious tribes have thinned his forces; the Egyp- tian troops do not thrive at the Equator; biacksare not always readily recruited, and also a want of harmony between Colonel Gordon and the Egyptian administra- tion for the permanent control of Equatorial Egypt." It ts probable that Egypt will temporarily abandon the development of her equatorial possessions. CUBA. A SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION AND LOSS OF PROPERTY. Havana, Feb. 29, 1876, A fire occurred a few days ago in the town of Rogla, opposite Havana, and destroyed seventy houses and shanties, The loss is estimated at $150,000, THE SIOUX QUESTION. SUGGESTIONS OF GENERAL SHERIDAN TO THE HOUSE MILITARY COMMITTEE—THE INDIANS SHOULD BE SETTLED ON THE MISSOURI—TWO MILITARY POSTS NEEDED ON THE YELLOW- STONE TO PROTECT BLACK HILLS SETTLERS-— AN APPROPRIATION OF TWO HUNDRED THOU- SAND DOLLARS ASKED, Cucaco, Tl., March 1, 1876. The Military Committee of the House of Rep- resentatives having requested Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan to supplement his testimony on military affairs recently given before that committee, that officer has made the following additional suggestions, It will be seen that he has cut down the appropriation required’ by the bill introduced by Mr. Maginnis from $300,000 to $200,000. In view of the emigration to the Black Hills and the present military expedition this communication of the Lieutenant General has pecul™r interest :— Heapquarrers Mitttary Division or Tar Missovnt, CuicaGe, Il, Feb. 26, 1876. The necessity for two military posts on the Yeliow- stone has been apparent to me lor two years paat, and I have recommended their establishment in my annval reports, So strongly have | been convinced of this ne- cessity, that I have, without any expense to the gov- ernment, made an examination of the Yellowstone River and selected the points at which they should be built. THE INDIAN QUESTION in the Black Hills must now be settied by the establish- ment of the Indians o1 jssourt River, and in the accomplishment of purpose the tioned will have to be located, om mouth of the Big Horn River, the other at or near the mouth of Tongue River. Those posts can be supplied by steamboat up the Yellowstone, and can be constructed of material found in the vicinity of the points selected. 1 think I can have them buiit for $100,000 each; in other words, I will try to build both for $200,000, instead of the $300,000 mentioned in the bill. The Black Hills country will probably be covered with towns and villages during the next five or six yenrs, Its status wil cause the extension of the North- ern Pacific Railroad on the south side of the Yeliow- stone as far as the Gallatin Valley in Montana, and will also build another railroad from North Platte station on the Union Pacitic Railroad to the Black Hills, 1 am of the belief that THE LARGEST DEPOSITS OF GOLD are further west than where the miners are now work- ing. The head waters of Wind River are gold bearing. The Owl Creek mountains are gold bearing. The Big Horn Valley is gold bearing. Powder River is gold bearing, also Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone, Besides this, the Black Hills have abundance of d timber for the treeless country south ot them and west of the Missouri River, The success of these interests de- | pends upon the establishment of the two posts named. Military operations ha now been commenced against the hostile bands of Sioux by request ot the Interior Department, and I consider tis appropriation 80 necessary that I ene requ-st immediate ao- tiononit, =P. - H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant General THE REVENUE FRAUDS, THE DYNAMITE PLOTTERS IN .MILWAUKEE—IM- PORTANT CASES POSTPONED. Miwauxne, March 1, 1876. Tho argument in the dynamite plot cases, in which | two Chicago Aldermen and merchants are charged with | a plot to destroy the records of whiskey frauds, com- menced today on a demurrer to the indictment, which charges conspiracy, N. 8. Murphy, counsel for do- fondants, argued.ghat the law requires the com- mission of am Overt act to constitute eon- spiracy, and & mere offer to desiruy records for a certain if! of money 1s not an overt act. McKinney, for the government, took the ground that the coming to this erty, making proposals and holding meetings, having for their object the destruction afore- said, was conspiracy, He would present a review case to the Court to-morrow. The cases of ex-Supervisor Munn, ex-Collector Erskine and ex-Deputy Weissart to-day were con- tinned to the 27th of March and the 34 and 10th of April, good cause being shown. PIGEON SHOOTING TOURNAMENT. New Onveaxs, March 1, 1876. In tho pigeon shooting tournament, the fourth day, the first contest was for the Diamond Badge for tho amateur championship of the United States, valued at $300; four single and four double birds, There were nineteen entri the badge was won by J. W. Babcock, of M , Pa., Who made a clean score. The second event was a sweepstakes, single birds, thirty-one yards rise, miss and go out. had twenty: ono entries, including Capt Hogaran &. T. Man- ning, of New Orleans, won, killing twelve straight birds. The third and last contest was a s' Jo birds, twenty-six yards and entries. T. 4. Shatter, a F. 8, Harris ot THE JOHNSTOWN ARSON CASE, Jonxerows, March 1, 1876. The examination of Frederick Smith, before Justice Pike, on acharge of arson, was continued to-day. Tho prosecution ¢losed their case at 1 o'clock P. and the counsel for the defence then ofered in evidence Ko REPLY, The Emperor has not yet answered the petition of Count Von Arnim’s family for the pardon of the Count. He was summoned to appear before the High Court of State on the Zist day of February, but he disregarded the summons, which was delivered to him by the Ger- man Consul at Florence. SERIOUS COARGES AGAINST THE RX MINISTER, To-day’s papers say that the Foreign Office has pre+ ferred an accusation, embracing the charges of high treason, and mesalting the Emperor, Prince Bismarck and the Foreign Office. THE GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT FOR POSSESSION + OF THE RAILWAYS. Beauty, March 1, 1876. which ruling the defence excepted. The prisoner de- clined to any statoment and waived his right to a personal exams manded back to | the custody of action of the | Grand Jury. the minutes of the Clerk ot the court, containing the verdict of the jury in the murder case, which was ox- cluded on objection by the counsel fur the people, to | THE SALT LAKE BAR. Saur Laxe Crry, Utah, March 1, 1876. At a meeting of the Salt Lake Bar last evening reso- lutions were passed indorsing Judge Emerson, of the First Jacdicial district, as a gontioman and as a Judge, and a committee was speek ted to Wait upon Governor Emory and request bis “tempor: Appointment as Judge of the Third district of Salt during the ab- sonce of Chief Justice White, and the appointmont was The Provinsial Correwondens confirms the ranart | J to-day made by the Governor. | plaints of its fall in valine, and it is proposed to intro. WASHINGTON. Serious Accusations Against the Secretary of War. TIS IMMEDIATE RESIGNATION PROBABLE. ee ed Preparations for the Substitution of Silver for Fractional Currency. eS aE ARETE | A MISCHIEVOUS PURPOSE EXPOSED, FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, pa ESRC o wit Wasntxctox, March 2, 1876. THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND THE FOST TRADER- SHIPS—HE BREAKS DOWN BEFORE THE COM- MITTEE—HIS RESIGNATION EXPECTED TO- DaY. Secretary Belknap will probably offer his resignation to-morrow. Discoveries have been made by the Cly- mer investigating committee which aro of such a na- ture as to make his remaining in the Cabinet impossi- bie. Thecommittes are still in session, and, it is understood, are preparing @ statement which will be oMcially and publicly mate to the House, probably to-morrow. The transactions which have been brought | to light are of so serious a nature that the committee have been extremely close about them, Mr. Belknap was called before the committeo to-day, and it is understood that the proofs against him were of sucha nature that he broke down and gavo up at ence. The diseoveries as understood involve him in transactions goucerning post traderships, The Clymer Investigating Committee held three mectingg to-day, the first at ten o’clock inthe morning, the second at three and the last this evening, which is | still In session. Secretary Belknap was summoned before the enrlior | meeting, where the facts discovered were revealed to him, They were, it is said, of such a nature and with such proofs that he at once Stood convicted and the peculiar nature of the charges and the persons involved, besides himself, forced him to plead for mercy, and if possible, for secrecy. Re- garding others than himself the facts, however, are not of a kind to be concealed and the committes, itis un- derstood, only promised secrecy until they should have | Prepared their statement to lay before the House, Attheafternoon meeting Mr. Belknap was again present, and again, it is understood, pleaded for delay. The prolonged meeting of the committee this evening 1s probably to put the matter into shape for presenta- tion to the House of Representatives to-morrow. Later.—The Wor Department Investigating Commit- teo aro still in seasion at half-past twelve o'clock, pre- paring their report for to-morrow, which will make a sensation throughout the country, The republican | members of the committee concur with the democrats in the main facts and in tho conclusion that it is necessary for Mr. Belknap to retire at | once. The facts are understood to concern the galo of post traderships, and to involve other mem- bers of his family besides himself. The report when presented will make avery great sensation. Wild rumors are flying about the streets at this late hour concerning the developments which are to be made, The committee have been extremoly reti- cent, but the Gase is said, on good authority, to be very bad. THE SUBSTITUTION OF SILVER FOR FRACTIONAL | OURRENCY—ECONOMICAL CALCULATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE—THE ABUNDANCE OF SIL- VER AND A MISCHIKVYOUS PROPOSITION BASED ON IT. The Secretary of the Treasury and the Appropria- tions Committee have substantially agreed that itis prudent to begin the issue of silver coin in place of tho Paper fractivnal currency, and the former will begin as soon asaproper billis passed by Congress, He has now $12,000,000 of silver coined and $4,000,000 in bullion on hand. Tho Mint can coin $2,000,000 a month, and he has, of course, authority under the Resumption act to goon buying buliion for four anda half percent bonds If the Mint works’ full time hoe can have $20,000,000 of silver change coined by the 30th of June, but aceording to the estimates of the Treasury he will tocatve but $16,000,000 of wornout fractional curtéeiey for exchange and redemption, as thoy call it, bét#een Bow and the 30th of June, So-that, ifthe natural rate of return of wornout currency be not accelerated, he could very safely begin to give out sliver for mutilated currency at any tine, The calculation is that so long as gold remains below 120 the silvef coin will remain in circulation. Under these circumstances the committee show the following figures asto the slightly superior economy of using silver rather than paper as fractional currency :—We have now $87,000,000 of {ractional currency afloat, These petty notes aro said to run less than a year before they are sent in to be exchanged for new, and it costs the considerable sum of $1,410,746 per annum to reproduce them, which 1s, the commit- tee say, an annual charge. Bat the bullion contained in $37,000,000 of silver coin would require a sale of $31,030,000 in bonds, the interest charge on which would be $1,395,600. The coinage of the whole amount will cost $555,000, but the silver coins will last fifty years, the Director of the asfint eays, and this charge must be divided over that period, and will thus amount to, say $10,000 a year—that is to say, the Treasury will save nearly $100,000 a year by substituting silver for paper, The economy is not great, but it is something | to get any part of past due obligation out of the way. | The new silver is to be a legal tender for suns under | $5, and there 1s a proposition, sound enough, and | which may be aaopted; to abolish one and two dollar But there js another proposition, as yet ouly talked of, | which is very mischievous, and ought to be exposed at once, It is to make these silver coins legal tender for | sums ap to $100. Several circumstances have recently happened calculated to permanently depreciate the valuo of silvor compared with gold. The immense and continued productivenees of the Comstock lode and the | constant and rap'd increase in the silver product of | | | bills and place the silver com in their places alsa, | | Colorado, whenee there are reports just now of the development of a silver vein as rich as the Comstock, come at a time when the German Empire is engaged in demonetizibg silver and thus throwing a prodigious sum out of use and de- mand as coin. The coincidence of these events begins to cause a kind of panic in the silver market, In Cali- tornia silver has fallen until snopkeepers have pro- tested a, titk overabundance, In India, where tho | rupee has been the money of account, there are com- | duce a gold coinage. It is not unnatural that tho producers of silver in | this country should take alarm at the threatened glut, nor strange that they should conceive a project which would help them fora time, by forcing the use of im- mense qnantities ot silver com upon the people of this country, to make silver a legal tender up to $100, Among $0 greats population as ours this would bea very serious wrong and calamity, It would be simply a now kind of inflation, and put us anow out ot har- mony with the general mercantile world. If this pro- ject comes up it will be vigorously opposed. THE CANAL BOARD. | APPOINTMENTS BY THE BOARD OF SUPERIN- TENDENTS, COLLECTORS AND BOAT IN- SPECTORS. Atpasy, March 1, 1876, Ata meeting of the Canal Board, to-day, Mr. Van Baren offered a resolution requesting the Attorney. Geoueral to advise the Board at its next meeting as to the rights of the State in matters of certain lands lying along the Oneida Creek feeder, in the village of Oneida, for which the State has paid considerable sums, bat which are occupied by individuals. Adopted, On the same subject Mr. Wairath offered a resolution | requesting the State Enginoer to extend: his inquiries as to ali parties now occupying State lands and by what authority; also as tothe water privileges enjoyed by private parties to the detriment of the canal naviga- tiom, and how much the State receives or ought to re. | cove for such privileges, reporting the result of bee inquiries at the next meeting of the Board. Mr, Ven Buren presented a petition from Horaco j at Ui | stoad; North Hempstead and Oyster Wa Candeo asking the Boara to cance! his contract for ro- Moving wail beaches and sabstituting slope walls side of the Jordan level, Erie’Canal. TI Petitioner claims he has not been paid for the work as Stipalated in the contract. George E. Mann, City Engineer of Buffalo, was heard Telative to the sewerage ol t The Board then * session, At half-past six o'clock the doors were reopened and the following appointments were announced :— Superintendents—| Arene: 4, Janal, section 6, Chapman D. Drake; section 9, William Eljan n 10, Ebene: Canal, section 2, Hiram Fox Canal, James A. Flanagan. Collectors’. New. ¥ Edward A. Lawrence; at West Troy, James Hamil; at Schenectady, George 'W. Mariette; ‘at Fultonville, Abraham Van Epps; at Little Falls, Addison R. Root: ica, Bernard J. Smith; at Rome, Theodore F, Com- at Syracuse, Jacob Pinkerton; at Montezuma, ‘olan; at Palmyra, M. C. Finley; at Rochester, H. E. Rochester; at Brockport, T. J. Jewett; at Albion, H. Burleigh; at Medina, 3. Wt. Zimmerman, at Lock rt, I. A. Spaulding; at Watertord, 3. Badgely; at Fort fi BheBy 9 H, Gantry; at Whitehall, Joua ‘Wat. kins; at Sema, G M. Norton; at Geneva, E. M. Kogers. Boat Inspectore—At Albany, M. J. Van Schaack and Timothy Dwyer; at West Troy, M. Bowler and 8. Shanghnessy; at Utica, Patrick Purce! it Syracuse, John Campbell; at Rochester, M. Heavy; at Wintehal Hi. Waters. A large pumber of weighmasters aud assistants were also appointed, Adjourned. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. BEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON OFFICIAL SALARIES—A GREAT REDUCTION RECOM- NENDED—THE FIVE. COUNTY ACT. Tuxytox, March 1, 1876. In the House to-day Mr. E. Drake, as Chairman of the Special Committee on Fees and Salaries, appointed “to investigate and report upon the propriety of pro- viding by law for the compensation of all State and other officials by fixed salaries rather than by fees and perquisites,” submitted their report. The report of the com:nitteo closes as follo The salar Any case oxe of the State ‘ommitter to be in that of the Keeper es $4000, while the ion is one of much yreater impor. receives only The latter financial operations of the prison, contracts, all purchases of supplies, pays all bids erally is the t the ft State in that insti 5 i Pie: and the eastody of the con at hay the €o-ope erens the Supervisor perlorms personally all ns of hisafiice. Your committes, in view of all the facts, recommend that the salary of the Supervisor be asibilit 1, he committee recommen | th As make the Treasurer and © State Pris the State o! much of existing Im affecting adirect saving to the public service, now hey als» recommend that the duties erformed by the supervisors be hereafter performed by cent that ity aud responsibility of the Id be taken ty select men of Srst class intecrity as inspectors, tork in Chancery and Clerk in the Supreme Court, the committee make a recommendati which they cannot doubt will receive the assent of ture, After careful consideration of all the ded to repo: these oiflcors Jatter office care sh capacity and consp As to the offices o reduce net ko the er limits. Un ere can be no a h the clerks of these two saible Justification of the prosent system under whi courts receive at least fifty er cent more compensation fave nt Joast $16,000 to litigants in these courts A further report as to the salaries af the judiciary and the logislation necessury tv cost of justice in our courts will be presented at a later day. EXECUTIVE. SESS! ‘ The Senate in executive session confirmed the follow- ing nominations made by the Governor tor Trustees of the Normal School:—Messrs. Charles E. Elmer, John MacCleon, Bi ajimin Williamson, Thomas Lawrence, John M. Howe, William H. Steele and Benjamin Randolph, 4 Loth houses adjourned until'to-morrow morning. NEW JERSEY REPUBLICANS. Trextox, March 1, 1876, lican State Convention The republican electors and all othor voters of New Jersey are invited to meet at such times and places as the several county executive committees may here- after designate, to select delegates to a State Conven- at Taylor Hall, in Trenton, on Wednes- y 17, at 12 o'clock M., ior the purpose of elect- Senatorial and fourteen district delegates to the National Convention, to be held at Cincinnati on the 14th day of June next, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States and for the transaction of such other business as may prop- erly be presented for consideration. The basis of representation under this call will be one delegate for each 200 republican votes cast at the last general election, and one for each fraction of the same over 100; provided, however, that cach ward and town- ship shail be entitled to one delegate, Tho four Senatorial delegates are to be chosen from tho following names:—A. J. Cattell, J. Wyman Jon J. A. Potts, George A. Halsey, Jobn Hill, Courtiandt Parker and Garrott A. Hobart. EVENING WEATHER REPORT. War Derarturyt, Orrick oF THe CuiKy SIGNAL Orricen, Wasuinctox, March 17:30 P. M. Probabilities. For Thursday, in the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States, warmer southwest winds and rain, proba- bly followed by cold and possipty brisk north and west winds, rising barometer, partly cloudy and clearing Weather, For the West Gulf States, Tennessee and the Obio, Upper Mississippi and Lower Missonri valleys, rising barometer, stationary or lower temperature, northeast to northwest winds and partly cloudy weather, For the lake region, northeast winds, backing to northerty, falling followed by rising barometer, cooler, partly clondy weather and possibly snow, For North Carolina and the Middle Atlantic States, falling barometer, easterly winds, changing to opposing northeast and southwest, warmer, cloudy weather, with rain, or possibly snow, attending a storm centro. For New York and New England, falling barometer, northeast winds, cloud and snow, or possibly rain, with stationary temperature. The Ohio, Upper Mississippt and Lower Missouri rivers will probably rise slightly, and the Lower Mis- sissipp! fall somewhat. Cautionary signals are ordered for the Middle and South Atlantic coast, THY WEATHER YESTERDAY, Tho following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, im com- parison with the corresponding date of last year, asin. | dicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's pharmacy, Herato Boro 1375, 33 #2 29 fs 23 Average temperature yesterday... + 30, Average tomperature tur corresponding dat year, . 19% THE PROPOSED NEW COUNTY. It appears that the promoters of the new county scheme on Long Island nave neglected to comply with certain requisites established by the statutes in such case, and that the consequence must necessarily be adelay which may prove fatal to it, It was first pro posed to establist a county which should comprise only the threo enstorn towns of Queens county—Hemp- ut after the introduetion of the bill for this purpose in the Legis. | Jature it was found that these towns lacked the requisite population by some 4,000. Now, | since tho introduction of a new bill, made to incinde the towns of Babyion and Huntington, in Sut- folk county, a new difficulty i# encountered. Sec- tion 1 of title 3, chapter 7, part 1, of the Kevised Stat utes provides that when it is proposed to divide or alter the bounds of a.county or to erect a new county, notice of application to the Legislature for the pur- pose must be given by advertisement, at Icast six weeks successively before appheation, or before the first day of the session, in a newspaper published in the county or im ‘cach of the which territory ts proposed to be taken, 1 and 2 of title 6, chapter 2, part 1, make it necessary also to procure an accurate survey and map of the tor- ritory designated in the application, verified vy the oath of the surveyor, and to be Inid before ine Legisia- tore before the ication can be acted upon. These plain provisions of the law hare not been complied with, and the delay in conseqnence will probably pre- ton at the present session of the Lewislatare, tis thought, may eventuate in the ultimate ae- feat of the measure, a8 there isa growing opposition ty division in both Queens and Suffolk counties, SAILORS AS TEETOTALERS. The fifth anniversary of the Soamen's Bethel Tem- perance Society was held last evening at No. 34 Vike Street, The annual report was read by tho Secretary and showed that 313 rarlors had aigned the pledgé ‘The rooins were well lied and i with fags and mottoes. Eloquent ‘ered by Hon. W. Tf. Parsons, J, A. Fauikner and Dr. Law; and children from the oes House of bey r) ny Rig Mr. Bankey's songs very sweetly. meet. ings for seamen at each Wodnesday evening under the direction of Mr, Joba Wiliams, rt D. Willams; Oswego | Cayuga and Seneca | increased to $4,000, and that of thé Keeper be reduced to | ‘any possible detriment to | than the heads of the courts—the Chancellor and Chief Jus- | tice. Under the bill reported by the committoe the officials | named will each receive about $10,000 per year upon the | basis of the business new in ‘their offices. This will had to seenre a reduction in the | The following call was issued yesterday for a repub- | counties from | Sections ST. DOMINGO. GENERAL CONFFRENCE PRECEDING THE OVER THROW OF GONZALES, Advices by mail, to band from St. Thomas, of 17th February, say :— | The Tidende publishes a letter from Puerto Plata, dated February 6, stating that the overthrow of the | power of the government of President tiouzales, in the seaport town of Puerto Plata, is complete. The Governor of the place, Ortea, capitulated to the force under the command of General Luperon, and after waking shelter for a cay or two in the British con- | sulate and establishment of Mr. Heinsen sailed for Turk’s Island on the Sd inst. | GREATLY IN DOURT. | The movements of the President since he reached La Vega are unknown. Some suppose that he ts gather ing forces and will either fall back to the city and act on the defensive or make a sortie on the interior town of Santingo, His action, however, is only a matter of Speculation, | COMING TO TRE LAST BATTLE. Since the above was published the Spanish steamer bas arrived from Puerto Plata, bringing dates to the 15th inst., which onnounce that President Gonzales, | who had stationed himself in the interior town of La | Vega, had determined not to sabmit, and had marched | with what troops he could assemble against the revo- | lutionists of Santiago and Puerto Plata, | Several encounters had taken place with varying re | sults, and a quantity of blood had been shed, | TRADE AND FINANCE. | Business in St. Domingo ts at acomplete standstif j and money frightfully scarce. DOMINION NOTES. Protection is the nightmare that excites the Cana dian politicians just now. The residents of Toronto petition the Commonalty to offer a bonus of $150,000 to capitalists to establish a roiling mill and furnaces for the consumption of Cana- | dian ore. A firm in Guelpb, Ontario, export beef to the English market. The Grangers are extending their organization in Canada In Middlesex, Ontario, thero are twenty-two | ranges, | Helen, a daughter of Senator McPherson, of Toronto, was married on Monday to Major William M. Bankes, of the British Army, ‘Among the gnests wero ail | leading officials of the Ontario government, including His Excellency, D. A. McDonald, the Lieutenant Gov- ernor. The St. John Globe says, it is probable that if the race between Calderbead, of Scotland, and Boyd, of England, comes off at all it will be on the Kennebecasis or some Water in the neighborhood of St. Joho. Mr. | Thomas Masson, of Halifax, bas been deputed to select the place, und he is now in St. John for that purpose, Work js to be commenced on the Montreal, Ottawa and Western Railway on the Ist of April. | A Halifax man has prepared a collection for the | Centennial of stuffed birds and animals to Nova Scotia hatched and born, The largest agricultural manufacturing works in On- tario, located at Oshowa, and 1 by an American named Hall, has gone into bankrupt ARREST OF A BLACK BURGLAR. | Captain McDonnell, of the Fighth precinct, and De- tective Murphy Jast night arrested a notorious negro ex-convict named Charles Best on suspicion of having committed a burglary in the distillery of Henry J. | Welch, at No. 104 Thompson street, on the 7th inst., and stealing about $100 worth of property. He was | jocked up in the Prince street police station, | FINE POLICEMEN, j pO SARS: Yestorday apreliminary investigation into alleged improper and unoflicer-like conduct by six or seven policemen of the Brooklyn force, including Sergeant Van Wagner and Roundsman McCarthy, was beld before Inspector Waddy ond Superintendent Campbell. The officers were present at the Olympic Theatre, Fulton on Tuesday night when a disturbance ocearred roughs nnd tho performunce was interrupted. ndsman flouristed his revolver, men shouted perlormance on the stage was temporarily interrupted, but no arrests were made. The oflicert will be tried before the Commissioners for dereliction of daty. A BRUTAL GRANDSON. Justice Delmar yesterday sentenced a stout youn | man named James Garrity, ving at No 16 State street Brooklyn, to the Ponitentiary for six months for turn + ing out of doors his grandmother, agea eighty years, | and for brutally assaulting he | THE JERSEY POLICE OUTRAGE. The trial of Sergeant Beeler, of the Third precinct, | Jersoy City, for an indecent assault on a young married | wpitiam, named Mary Russell, who had recently ur- | rived in this country, and who had obtained lodging in the poltee station while Beeler was on duty, took place | before the Police Commissioners evening. Mra. Rusgell gave her evidence in avery straightiorward and convincing manner and Beeler was heard in bis own defence. He denied the charge and controverted neatly every statement of the complainant. The Com- m’ssioners amazed tho audience by dismissing the case. | Beeler is, however, held to await the action of the Grand Jury. HOTEL ‘ARRIVALS. Judge Amasa J, Parker, of Albany, arrived last even- , Ing at the Windsor Hotel. General John M. Harlan, of Kentucky, is staying at the Brevoort House. William D. Bisnop, President of the New York, New Haven ané | Hartford Raslrond Company, is at the Everett Housa | Wil Carleton, the poet, is sojourning at the St. Nicho | las Hotel, Rev, Dr. J, Ireland Tucker, of Troy, + | pogistered at the Hoffman House. General J. J. Aber crombie, United States Army, is quartered at the Astor Houso. General Anson Stager, of Chicago, and Rev | Thomas H. Skinner, of Cincinnati, are at the Firtt | Avenue Hotel. Rev. Dr, Magee, of Albany, is among | the late arrivals at the Sturtevant House. Isaac Hinck- ley, President of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, 1s stopping at the St Nicholas Hotel, Albert Bierstadt, the artist, returne to the city yesterday und is at the Brevoort House, MOVE THAN TO HIDE COM ‘s Stnenve Soar, nd IT 18 BETTER TO ploxional blemishes. cos LDIN IKE PROOF, SAU, ANN AND FULTON STS <D WELL-HEATED OFFICES BLE TERMS, 1B OFFICES | ON NA ' LY LOCATED HANDSOME |x IVE SILK COMPANY, | iP res comfortably vill eured, ED); SILK HATS, A $3 HAT, $1 90 (M ties. St 80, worth $F, | A.—WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY I8 4 plonsant and effiencions remedy for Coughs and Colds. 94 | cents and $1. BARKER'S AURORA CHANGES enor, Harker's Human sale and Wig ENUINE Worererensnine Savce. PERCIVAL’S PANACE, Sart Rewepy tor the and ulceration of the throat, langs, kid impurities of the blood; 61. Depot, 115 5 SODA WATER APPARATUS FOR MAKING ALL rated Beverages. 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