The New York Herald Newspaper, March 13, 1876, Page 5

CABLE NEWS From All Parts of the Old World. SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE. An English Marquis Runs Of with Another Lord’s Wife. i: NM SLADE ARNIM’S TREASON. The British Islands Swept by a Terrific Storm. DISASTER IN EGYPT. ENGLAND. @CANDAL IN HIGH LIFE-—THE RECENT ELOPE- MENT IN ABISTOCRATIC CIRCLES—-NAMES OF ‘THE PARTIES IMPLICATED—A GRAND SENSA- ‘TION IN THE CLUBS, [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLY, } Lonpon, March 12, 1876, The rumor of the occurrence of a serious scandal in high life which has been prevalent here during the past few days, as reported to the HeRaLp by cable on Saturday, has now taken shape and name. THE PARTICULARS. In verification of the rumor I am enabled to state ‘that Lord Aylesford’s wife has eloped with the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duke of Marl- Dorough. THE HERO OF THE SENSATION. ‘The Marquis of Blandford is notorious for his social escapades, and the Marlborough gems have been, it is said, sold to pay his debts. He is the brother of Lord Randolph Churchill. THE UNHAPPY HUSBAND. Lord Aylesford, the unfortunate husband, was called home from India on urgent affairs some time ago. THE CLUBS EXCITED. ‘The elopement is the absorbing topic in the clubs, SKETCH OF THE MARQUIS OF BLANDFORD, The Hon. George Francis ChurchilJ, Marquis of Blandford, who has carried off the wife of Lord Ayies- ford, is the eldest son and heir presumptive of the Right Hon. John Winston Spencer-Churchill, seventh Duke of Marlborongh, by bis wife, Lady Frances Anne Emily Stewart, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Londonderry. The Marquis of Blandford was born in Vhe year 1844, and is consequently in the thirty-second | year of his age. He was educated at Eton, entered the army and bears the commission of lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, He is also lioutenant of the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Yeomanry cavalry. . LORD AYLESFORD, The Right Hon. Heneage Finch, Earl of Ayles- ford, is the eldest son of the second earl of that title by his wife, Lady Augusta Sophia, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, The present peer was born in the year 1824 and succeeded to the title in the year 1859. In the year 1846 he married Jane, only daughter and heiress of the late John Wightwick Knightley, Esq., of Offeburch, Bury, in the county of Oxford. He is descended from & common ancestor with the Earl of Winchelsea, Lord and Lady Aylesford have a son, the heir to the title—Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey—who was born in 1849, $HE BRITISH ISLANDS SWEPT BY A FURIOUS STORM, Loxpoy, March 12, 1876. NEW fORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1876--WITH SUPPLEMENT. CENTENNIAL RAILROAD FARES. RATES DECIDED ON BY THE CONVENTION OF TICKET AGENTS. Puavetrma, Pa, March 12, 1876. At the Convention of the General ‘Railroad Ticket Agents of the United States, held at New York on the 8th inst, to Ox the rate of fares for the Centennial, it was decided that from the territory east of Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Crestline, Columbus and Cincinnati, and west and north of (including) Binghamton, Elmira, Corry, Pittsburg, Wheeling and Parkersburg EXCURSION TICKETS to Philadelphia and New York be made good for thirty Gays from date of issue; that a reduction be made of not more than twenty five per cent from convention rates to Philadelphia for round trip tickets via direct routes; that the rates on tickets to Phiiadelphia via New York, returning bes the same route, be $2 more than the rates to Philadelphia by the direct or short ine, and that the rates on tickets to Philadelphia via New York, and returning via a direct or short line, and vice versa, shali be $1 more than the rates by a direct or short line to Philadelphia. THE RAIN OF FLESH. DISSATISFACTION OF THE PEOPLE WITH PRO- FESSOR SMITH’S THEORY—A VARIETY OF PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS—TRACES OF BLOOD ON TREES AND FENCES, Lovisviuie, Ky., March 12, 1876, People here and in Bath county do not, as a general thing, accept Professor Smith’s theory about the fall of flesh, and many are the solu- Mons of the seeming miracle . People who are not scientific say the substance 18 not spawn of batrachian or any other reptiles as Professor Smith would have them believe. They inclino rather to be- Net that the particles came over from Bremerhaven after THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION, @dvancing, as an argument to prove this, that if cur- rents of wind can carry spawn, as Dr. Smith main- tains, why giant powder can certainly, by reason of its superior force, send flesh across an ocean or two. ANOTHER THRORY ofthe people ia that poor Donai:dson's remains were wafted over to Bath county after the great aeronaut had peed his respects to the man in the moon. Pious people are somewhat alarmed over the matter, par- Uoularly as it occurred on Friaay and in Lent, they not knowing whether it is intended the Friday last should be abolished or that meat should be cast out on that day. An enemy of the State has been base enough to insinuate that a tornado has passediover one of those counties where a family feud or vendetta was in _prog- ress. Most certainly the occurrence is very wondertul. THE SPAWN THKORY EXPLODED. A Bath county man, who gathered a bucketful of flesh, says the idea of its being spawn of batrachian or any other reptiles wont do, as their ova has no blood, traces of which were left visibly all over trees and fences. Dr. 1. P. Yandell, Sr., of Louisville, remembers A PRETIOUS PALL of flesh in 1841 at Lebanon, Tenn, and will give par- ticulars as soon as possible. MINERS’ STRIKE, Cinveran, Ob{o, March 12, 1876, On March 1, in accordance with the notice given last February, the coal operatives of Tuscarawas Valley re: duced the price for mining coal to ten cents per ton. Nearly all the miners refused to work at the redaction and many of them are now idle. A similar reduction was made last week in tho other coal districts of the Stave and resulted in a strike of the miners. An effort to compromise matters accomplished nothing and the prospects are that the mines will bo idle fora longtime. No violence is reported, SHIP STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ON FIRE—ESTIMATE “OF DAMAGE, New Ortxans, La., March 12, 1876, ‘About three o'clock this morning, during a thunder storm, the ship Majestic, Captain Gibbons, owned by Thayer & Lincoln, of Boston, and her commander, and loading for Liverpool, with 3,500 bales of cotton on board, was struck by lightning. Her cargo was set on Ore d_all of it more or less damaged by tire and water. The damage to the vessel is estimated at $500, The damage to cargo will probably exceed $50,000, THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT, HEB CARGO SET BUILDINGS BURNED IN MASSACHUSETTS—THE 1088 AND INSURANCE. Postox, March 12, 1876. A store and dwelling house at Newburyport, owned by F, L. Tophen and occupied by Parker Roberts, wero destroyed by fire last night, The loss is $25,000; in- sorance on building, $3,000. A fire broke out at three o'clock A.M. in Morey’s block, at. Taunton, Mass., de- ing four stores and their contents ‘tially. Tho A violent storm provailed throughout the British | fare’unGuildings is $3,000; insured; and the loss on Isles to-day. The telegraph lines in various directions | stock is $5,000; insured for $5,000, sre prostrated. pastiche st Rigs CALEDONIA FLOURING MILLS BURNED, GERMANY. Canxponta, Ont., March 12, 1876, COUNT ARNIM TO BE INDICTED FOR TREASON. Berury, March 12, 1876 The High Court of State has decided to indict Count von Arnim for treason on the charges established by the preliminary inquiry just concluded. THE PROPERTY OF THE ACCUSED COUNT TO BE SEQUESTRATED. i Loxvox, March 13, 1876, The Sfandard’s Berlin despatch reports that, in con- sequence of the indictment of Count Von Arnim in the High Court of State for treason, his property will henceforth be sequestrated. AUSTRIA, A HERZEGOVINAN REFUGEE PATRIOT ARRESTED IN THE TERRITORY. Loxpox, March 13, 1876 A telegram to the Standard, from Vienna, announces that Ljubobratich, the insurgent leader of Herzegovina, was arrested on Saturday on Austrian territory, EGYPT. AN EGYPTIAN TROOP SHIP EXPLODES HER ROII- ER—TWENTY-FOUR MEN KILLED, Loxvox, March 13, 1876. A despatch to the Standard says, while the Egyptian steamer Samanoud, with troops on board for Masso- wah, was at Suez, her boller exploded and twenty-four mn were killed. SOUTH AMERICA. THE PRESIDENCY OF URUGUAY VACANT—A DIC- TATORSHIP IN PROSPECT. Moyxtevinxo, March 10, 187 Via Rio =a 9 } Pedro Varela has resigned the Presidency of Uraguay, A meeting has been held in favor of proclaiming La- torre, the present Minister of War, Dictator, A PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER. AN OLD GRUDGE BETWEEN A MASON AND A BLACKSMITH SETTLED. Textox, March 12, 1876, A prize fight took place at Morrisville, Pa, this morning between John McDonald, a mason, and Michael Hogan, a blacksmith, both of this city, The | participants and their friends crossed the river in boats, thus avoiding the chance of suspicion by the | »ridgo keeper, and had the mill without interruption | st Edge Hilt Grove. THE FIGuT. | At the end of the third round Hogan showed signs of | distress and wished to discontinue, but, encouraged by his friends, again went to work, and alter ten roun he knocked his opponent out of time. The fight lasted forty-five minutes. McDonald, bemg terribly punished, was led away, botu eyes being closed, while Hogan got off with a few scratches. After the fight all parti turned quietly to this city unmolested. There ike, the encounter being solely to satis grudge existing between the parties. DEATH FROM KEROSENE. Bactione, Md., March 12, 1876, Mrs. Temins, residing at the corner of Collington aud Eastern avenues, fatally burned yesterday while attempting to kindle a fire with coal oil, Her pect, weed child, aged eighteen months, was also dread- fully burned and died suortly alterward, THE HUNTINGTON BANK ROBBERY. Sxpatta, Mo,, March 12, 1876. B. F. Keeny, a well todo farmer, living six miles wost of this city, baying received by express last month a package containing $8,000, sont by his brother, . from nm ‘ nt a beige portion of thet tee feo tae ne, ington Bank last September, was arrested last night, | died on Saturday night, at his residence in Harrison, Afire here to-day destroyed the Caledonia Fiouring Mills, owned by McQuarrie, Thorburn & Munro, The mills contained 30,000 bushels of grain, Total loss, $50,000; insured for $29, EVENING WEATHER REPORT. War Derarrurnt, Orrick ov Tun Cuikr SiGNaL Ovricen, Wasumncton, March 12—7:30 P. M. Probabilities, For New England, rain and snow, with increasing easterly to southerly winds, falling barometer and rising temperature. For the Middle States, rain and snow, falling barom- eter and easterly to southerly winds and rising barom- eter, followed during Monday by southwest to north- west winds and colder weather. For the South Atlantic States, areas of rain, with southwest4o northwest winds, and during Monday fall- ing temperature and rising barometer. For the Gulf States, clear or partly cloudy weather, with northerly to westerly winds, rising barometer and lower temperature east of the Mississippi and con- tinued high barometer and cold weather in the South- west, For Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the lower take region, rain and snow, followed during Monday by partly cloudy and decidedly cold weather, north to west winds and rising barometer, For the upper lake region, partly cloudy weather, northerly or northwesterly winds, rising barqmeter and slight changes in temperature. For the Upper Mississipp: and Lower Missouri val- leys, during Monday clear or fair weather and slightly rising temperature, winds shifting to easterly and southerly and rising followed by falling barometer, The Upper Mississippi and Lower Ohio rivers will rise slowly. Cautionary signals continue at stations on the New Jersey coast and are ordered for New York, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in co! parison with the corresponding date of last year, as in- dicated by the thermometer at Hudout’s pharmacy, Herato pa Average temperature yesterday ., . Average temperature for corresponding date last pit OBITUARY. HON. SIDNEY A. BUNCE. Atelegram from Clinton, N. Y., under date of 12th inst., reports:—Hon. Sidney A. Bunce, ex-member of Assembly from the Second district of Oneida county, died here at six o'clock this morning. DR. GEORGE W. DOUGLAS, Dr. George W. Douglas, a well known physician, N.J., aftera short iliness. Dr. Douglas was Deputy County Physician for Hudson county. He was quite prominent as a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders in Hudson and Essex counties, He was torty- tnree years of age, and was greatly beloved by the poor because of years of gratuitous medical attendance, HON, SAMUEL AUSTIN, Atelegram from Hartford, Conn., dated yesterday, 12th inst., reports thus:—Hon. Samuel Austin, of Suf- field, died to-day of pneumonia, He wasa prominent farmer and tobacco dealer; was in both houses of the Legislature, and was a Presidential elector on the Lin. coln and Hamlin ticket in 1860, He was sixty-seven years old, ‘ GENERAL J. D. WEBSTER. A telegram from Chicago, Ill., dated on the 12th inst, reports:—General J, D, Webster, Collector ot Internal for this district, died of pneumonia at bis res- his city ab nine o'clock this morning, in his | necessary in the course of the investigation for the WASHINGTON. The Slow Progress of the Impeach- ment Proceedings, MYSTERIES REQUIRING EXPLANA“ION, Additional Testimony To Be Taken by the Committee, THE INVESTIGATIONS ELSEWHERE. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONENT, —+—____ Wasuinerox, March 12, 1876, 4 CHANGE OF TACTICS ON THE PART OF MR. BELKNAP'S COUNSEL—THE MISMANAGEMENT OF THE INVESTIGATION BY THE COMMITTEE— ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY TO BE TAKEN. There is the best authority for saying that it was the Intention last night of ex-Secretary Belknap to send into the House of Representatives, through coun- sel, @ request for an investigation into his official discharge of duty in the disburse- ment of more than $300,000,000, and that the various officers of the subordinate departments be ex- amined to show his honesty in this particular. But during to-day a change of programme has been decided upon, and the request will not now be sent in. What has caused this change of programme is wrapped up in the knowledge of counsel, but it is supposed that some new phase of the case has been discovered, or that it is best to go no farther in the direction of acknowledging anything even by implication, An acute lawyer here remarked to-day :— “The House ought to instruct the Belknap commit- tee to go at once before the Grand Jury. it is the Greatest nonsense in the democratic members to pre- tend that they ought not to be examined there, On the contrary, the ends of justice demand that they shall give their testimony freely to the Grand Jury and that they shall be at once examined by a capable District Attorney. The Belknap matter has created such an excitement that everything else has been overlooked, but it is possible that the Grand Jury might gain somo valuable information from some of the members of the committee bearing on uther matters where the in- terests of justico may be seriously concerned. I wish the House would, to-morrow, instauct the whole committee to go before the Grand Jury.” “Since the day when they brougnt in the impeach- ment resolutions,’”’ added this gentleman, *‘some im_ portant new matter has been contributed to the history of the committee’s inyestigations—none of it very sat- istactory, but consisting mainly of hints and glimpses, which excite curiosity and which in some way the pub- lic will seek to have cleared up. The committee's ro- port itself contains a singular admission. Its first entry is dated Tuesday morning, February 29, when it stated Mr, Marsh, a witness, being present was sworn and examined by the committee, But the state- ment of Mr, Blackburn alludes to an interview he was induced vo hold with Mrs, Belknap on the previous ‘Thursday, February 24, and in this interview reports her as speaking of Marsh as then before the com- mittee,” “The Heraup,” he continued, ‘was the first to mako publ the singular story of an interview in Mrs. Marsh’s room between that person, Mrs. Belknap and others, Tho democratic members of the committee met this with furious general denials, but Mr. Clymer, the Chairman, in the course of his speech admitted that he had heard there was such a meeting. He said, ‘If there was such a meeting I certainly was not present,’ and take notice this the Heratp did not assert. ‘But,’ Mr. Clymer continued, “If matters were discussed there in reference to another crime I could only and did only hear it by ramor.’”? So far Mr. Clymer himself confirms this remarkable tale, which must have at- tracted his attention had he not been very naturally engrossed with,the Belknap affair, but which he ought to have immediately mentioned to the republican mem- bers of the committee, who were so blunderingly kept in ignorance of all that was going on. It would be in- teresting to know on what day Mr. Clymer heard this report of the meeting in Mrs. Marsh’s room, and of the other crime, as he says.’’ “Bat,” continued this lawyer, “having heard, as he admits, of the meeting and of another crime, and not ouly that, but having, as he also admits, beon told that there was a record in the War Department— these are Mr. Clymer’s own words, very vaguo but also very suggestive—what happens? From the report of the committee and the uncon- tradicted, and therefore admitted, testimony of Mr. Bass, it appears that Marsh was dismissed by Mr, Clymer at the close of the meeting, which opened at half-past ten; that Clymer offered to go with him vo get his fees, Marsh having said he wanted to leave on the one o'clock train, that Clymer further offered if Marsh had not time to get his fees, ho would rend them to New York, and that Clymer also prom- ised Marsh to send him the contraet between Marsh and Evans by mail, Marsh, with Clymer’s help, did actually leave Washington with bis wife in the half past one o'clock train. But now mark, the committee took a recess to meet at half = past twelve, and after a recess and after one o'clock, according to the official report, that is to say when Marsh was already on his way to the depot, Judge Blair appeared, and asked on Lel- knap’s behalf leave to mak: worn statement, which was granted, and another meeting was appointed for three o'clock for this purpose, The committee met again at three o'clock, and fortunately for them Mr. Belknap and Judge Blair failed to appear, and they, after a reasonable delay, made their report to the House, Bat suppose Judge Btair had submitted a Statement contradicting and invalidating Marsh’s testimony, what would have been the position of Mr. Clymer and his committee with Marsh on the way to Canada? All this does not impute wrong to Mr, Cly- mer, but it shows very gross mismanagement, incred!- bie blundering, and it gives hints of mysteries which the committee ought to explain, and some ot which, it | ‘6 not unreasonable to guess, might be very important to a Grand Jury and a District Attorney.” The committeo are atlast happily on the trace of new testimony, and have summoned several witnesses who are expected to give important evidence on mat- ters not relating to the Fort Sill transaction. General Boynton will probably appear betore the | committees on Tuesday. The witnesses he pro. | poses to introduce will testify after the committee is done with him, and it ts now said that Mr. Pendleton will follow after these, and Mrs. Belknap will be summoned alter Mr. Pendleton has given his evidence. ‘It may become | committee to ask Mr. Clymer who it was that, ashe admits im bis speech, told him of the meeting in Mra. Marsh’s room and of matters discussed there in refor- ence to another crime, THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS ACTING 48 A CHECK ON EACH OTHER. The benefit to the public of having two houses op- posite in politics will probably be shown on nuinerous occasions during this session. The House, for instance, will hardly pass the enabling act making New Mexico a State, which the republican Senate has just passed with the view of securing two more republican Senators, and itis to be | hoped the Senate will reject the preposterous House Dill ordering the printing of 300,000 copies of the worth- less agricultural report, a piece of inexcusable ex- | travagance, | GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasuincrox, March 12, 1876, THE PROGRESS OF INVESTIGATION IN THE VAKI- OUS DEPARTMENTS—THE DELAY IN THE BELKNAP IMPEACHMENT— WITNESSES EX- AMINED BY THE COMMITTRE ON NAVAL AFFAIRS. Some days must necessarily elapse before tho Com- mittee on the Judiciary will be prepared to report arti- clos of impeachment against Belknap, no material tes timony, if any at all, having been taken sinco that of Marsh, which, under present ¢ircumstances, is of no avail in support of the charges which the House bag | | Jostefy the monstrous statement made in | obedient servant, already informed the Senate it will make good. It is said that more than a week ago six or seven persons in the vicinity of Marsh and Evans’ Into trading post were summoned, and that their arrival may therefore soon be expected. In response toa question recently toa member of the Judiciary Committee, he said that proof could be procured independently of that of the witness Marsh to abundantly support and prove the charges already made, Nothing has been heard of Marsh apart from what bas appeared in the newspapers, but some mem- bers of Congress express their belief that Marsh will return if Congress passes the bill securing him from arrest in connection with Belknap’s offence. Since the investigations generally have commenced many letters are daily received here—not a few from anony- mous sources—designating alleged frauds and the names of persons charged with committing them in dif- ferent branches of the public service. The Committee on Expenditures in the War Depart- ment have thus far made the most startling discovery in the person of Belknap, The Chairman, Mr. Clymer, has received much voluntary information in letters ad- dressed to him by persons who seem to think that he is the chief investigator of all the wrongdoing now charged to public officers, Those not pertaining to matters before the committee are sent to the other committees for their information, The Committee on Foreign Relations expect to exam. ine ex-Senator Stewart on or before the 28th of the pres- ent month concerning his connection with the Emma mine, and it is expected that ex-Minister Schenck, who left Engiand for America more than a week ago, will appear before the committee as soon as he can reach Washington. The Department of State has not yet answered the note of the committee asking for the ac- tual date of the resignation of General Schenck and all notes and telegrams in the same connection, George H. Pendieton was anxious yesterday to be ex- amined defore the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, but as on Friday the committee adjourned until Monday morning he will appear to- morrow, The members of the Committee on Naval Affairs say there 1s an implied obligation to keep their present proceedings from the public; therefore but little can be learned concerning the exact points now betore them. It is not concealed, however, that the examina- tion 1s general as to contracts and as to the allowance by Secretary Robeson of claims which had been re- jected or disallowed by Mr. Welles, his predecessor, The latter gentleman was before the committee several hours on Saturday, and may be recalled. Ex-Assistant Seeretary of the Navy Paxon will also testify. Much of the present inquiry relates to the subjects which were before the committee of which Mr. Sargent was chairman four years ago. THE RELATIVE RANK OF LINE AND STAFF OFFICERS IN THE NAVY—AN EFFORT TO RE- PEAL THE SIX YEAR CLAUSE. A differenco has existed for a long time between the oflicers of the line in the navy and the officers of the Medical, Engineer and Pay corps. In the Naval Ap- propriation bill of 1872 the relative rank of these offi- cors was fixed, it being provided ‘‘that in estimating the length of service for this purpose the several offi- cers of the staf corps shall respectively take prece- dence in their several grades, and with those officers of the line of the navy with whom they hold relative rank who have been in the naval service six years longer than such officers of said staff corps.have been in said service.” The object of this clause was to put the officers of the staff corps on a footing with the line officers whose entry into the sorvice dates from their original entry into the Annapolis Academy. It seems that the line officors consider themselves aggrieved by the action of Congress in relation to other officers, and therefore they propose a remedy in the manner set forth in the following ‘confidential’ circular, which appears in to-day’s Washington Chronicle:— Navan Acapemy, Anxapouis, Md., Feb, 28, 1876. Sim—At a meeting of the line officers of this station it was proposed to request each oflicer of and above the grade of lieutenant to contribute $5, and each officer below that grade $3, to enable the committee to employ counsel, defray expenses, &c., in uttempting to secure the repeat of the six year clause. Those who may desire to assist the purpose will please send the amount mentioned above to the committee. Shouid there be anything remaining after the contest it will be reserved as a permanent line fund, or will be returned pro rata to the contributors. The committee will thank contributors to state which plan they prefer; or, if the amount is not sufficient we would be pleased if you will permit the committee to call on you again for an amount equal to that men- tioned above. The commitiee will keep stations in- formed as to progress, and request the heartiost assist- ance {rom every line officer. Very respectfully, Address oné of the committec, W. SCHLEY, Commander, COOPER, Lieut, Commander, ; V. GRIDLEY, Lieut, Commander, Committee, * EXPORTS OF PROVISIONS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics furnishes a statement of the exports of provisions for the month of February, from which it appears the total exports from Baltimore were $289,000; Boston, $1,248,982; Philadelphia, $1,025,930; New York, $5,241,000, and New Orleans, $43, THE EMMA MINE. LETTER OF PROFESSOR SILLIMAN TO THE COM- MITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS—POINT BLANK DENIAL OF LYON'S TKSTIMONY—THE FAMOUS TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. New Haves, March 12, 1876, The Palladium of to-morrow morning will contain the following letter from Professor Siiliman tothe Committee on Foreign Affairs:— . Anka 8, Hewitt, Committee on Foreign House of Representatives, Wasbington :— Sin—I have occupied myself since returning from Washington with an investigation into the alleged telegraphic despatch, to which my attention was called by your committee on the (th inst., as forming part of the testimony of James E. Lyon, Considering myself still under oath, I now desire to add’ to my previous testimony as follows :— First—I never signed or authorized any party to sign for me the despatch cited by Lyon on pages 16 and 32 of his printed testimony, Second—No such despatch was ever sent, and the statement of there being such a despatch 18 false, Third—I Have caused search to be made by the Séerctary in the oftice of the Western Union Telegraph Company in this city for a cable telegram of any de- scription on or about April 1 to April 6 bearing my signature, but all the despatches of 1872 have been de- stroyed so thatall evidence from this source fails, Fourth—| have also examined a properly authentica- ted record of all the meetings of the directors of the Emma Silver Mining Company (Limited) irom March to May, 1872, and no allusion to any such despatch a pears thereon, nor is there any reference to any ciret jar or other publication of the company of a simil tenor, although the records have apparently authorize and directed the official publication of all communie: tions made by me, individually or jointly with others, to the company; and I will add that my letter of April 2 to the company from Salt Lake is directed to be published by the meeting on the 20th of April. of this last named letter I Jodged with the committee when 1 was before them, 1 will farther add that Lhave examined the published statements of the price of Emma shares as contained in the LondonMining World and London Mining Journal between the 17th of March and the 13th of April, 187z, and I find that be- tween those dates the quotations did not fall below £24 nor rise above £24 per share. It is, therefore, plainly evident tbat no alleged despatch or ‘authorized report of mine could have materially affected the price { Emma shares during this period. Jn the London Mining Journal, of April 6, 1872, oc- curs the following copy of a telegram received in Lon- don, April 5, 187: Very great improvement since last report. On 7th, fh drifted 120 feet, and on 1h floor 40 feet, all in ore: ai tom winze, 70 feet below old workings, drifted 40 feet, a ore. ple assnys 28 percent. load and #2,000 silver. serves discovered sinve Inst report uver 8,000 connected with the mine is lnjhly satisia ty report. Canyon road still bad, class ore furtiw Have 65 tons bull Vropose selling here, Arranged all other Will report fully on return. WILLIAMS, SILLIMAN & HUSSY, You Will see that there 1s nothing in this des in Re- ns. Everything y. Mailed «up. Shalt forward extract from it, that these 8,000 tons of a value of $2,000, that the despatch above quoted gives to the rese any specific value what- ever. [also believe you will find nothing In this tele- gram inconsistent with the more detailed statements of | my letter of April 2, upon which, so far as any respon- sibility goes, it was based. IT b&ve the honor to remain, with high esteem, rour B SILLIMAN. New York, March 11, 1876, THE SPANISH CENTENNIAL PARTY. Colonel Juan Marin, Colonel Lopex Fabra and the Spanish working party remained indoors at the Grand Central Hotel nearly ali day yestoraay. In the evening | they attended an entertainment given at the residence of Mr. Ferrer de Couto, editor of El Cronista. Tho | 3 soldicrs went in plain clothes to mass at the Church of the Nativity, in Second avenue, Juan Morphy, tho Spanish Consul at Philadelphia, arrived at the Grand Central Hotel yosterday afternoon. This morning, under his escort, the party will take the seven o'clock train for Philadelpoa, where they will be roceived by two regiments of the militia and escorted to *heir quarters, s J A copy | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mme, Judic sings in St. Petersburg next month, ; twenty-five performances, for $10,000. Verdi's “Requiem” was given forthe first time in Dublin on February 21, and was a grand success. Mile, Cora Adriana, the danseuse, has become an immense favorite at the Italian Opera, San Francisco. “Alda” has been enthusiastically received at Nurem- berg. Its success in Germany has been of the strongest kind. | Miss Lutu Prior, who was one of the most popular of our dramatic artists, is about to return to the Brook. lyn stage, Some hopes are entertained of the recovery of Rubinstein, although his eyes are in a precarious con- dition, He is in Paris at present. Signor Gobati’s operm “La Luce,” has deena dis- astrous failure in Milan, ‘*! Goti’? sent him up like a rocket and ‘La Luce’? is the stick. Mile, Titiens will appear as Leonora, in “Il Trova- tore,’? on Saturday atternoon noxt, for the benefit of the Women’s Centennial Union of New York. Dr. William Berge, organist of St. Francis Xavier's church, proposes to bring out, as a novelty at Easter, Zingarelli’s grand mass, written for the coronation of Napoleon I. Mr. James W. Morrissey is making arrangements for & series of grand operatic coacerts to bo given im Chjcago early in May in which many leading artists will appear, A reception was given Mme. Titiens at the Revere House, Boston, on Saturday night last by the Papyrus Club. Governor Rice responded for Mme. Titiens, The aifair was a brilliant one, Jerome Hopkins’ orchestral and choral Easter Vesper service for three choirs, solo voices, priest, organ, harp and grand orchestra, will take place at Trinity chapel on April 20, A correspondent writing from Nice, Savoy, says:— “Mlle, Albani has produced a deop impression here, Her rendering of Amina and Lucia has roused the en- thusiasm of those who were fortunate enough to hear her, The theatre was too small to accommodate all who wished to do so, Every single piece—nay, nearly every single phrase—was the signal for long-continued applause. In addition to this showers of bouquets and numberless recalls testified to the delight of the audience.’? M. Louis Dachauer presented Gordigiani’s “Stabat Mater’ last evening at St. Ann’s church, in Twelfth street, Mile, Corradi, Mlle, Gomien, M. Ro- meyn and Herr Blum were the solo- ists, The church was donsely thronged, Luigi Gordigiani, the composer, has been termed by his admirers the Schubert of Italy, The ‘Stabat Mater’’ in question is a collection of sacred melodies. The themes are of the most soductive Italian kind, and the solos give a good opportunity to display tho indi- vidual merits of the solvists of the choir and the ar- tistic playing of the organist. Some of the melodies are suggestive of Bellini and Donizetti, and one, a tenor solo, 1s strangely like the Rose Song in ‘Tho Talisman,’” although written years before Balfe’s opera. Coccia’s “Stabat Mator’* will be given next Sunday evening. THE BOY HAMLET, To tae Epiror or tax Heravo:— Your caustic criticism of ‘Hamlet,’ as presented at the Lyceum Theatre on Friday evening, has elicited a reply from that aspiring youth, in which he attempts to excuse his failure by blaming the amateurs (without one exception) who supported him. We had supposed that your article would put a quietus on “Hamlet”—at least fora while; but since. in his communication, he has shown himself so ungratetul to those who sacriticed theinselves lor his benefit, wo wish to make the fol- lowing explanation:—Mombers of several. ama- teur organizations of this city were invited to assist the boy Hamlet; and, as *it was reported that he was a youthful prodigy and had played the character successfully elsewhere, they ac- cepted, but after they had once seen his rendering of the part, knew that they wero “booked” for ridicule, but still were too charitable to desert him at the eleventh hour. Matters were made still worse by the negligence, penuriousness or impecuniosity (we know not which) of Hamlct or his managers. The company were unable to get the theatre for rehearsals, accord- ing to promise, never having but one complete ro- hearsal before presentation, hence the failure of the performance. That the mistakes made were many and grotesque, wo must confes-, but that some of the play ers evinced some merit must also be admitted; that Hamlet was incapable of rendering the part was known beforehand, but his education was. certainly improved by his short association with the amateurs who, although they may not possess the “knowledge of the text, the situations or the neces- sary dramatic talent,’ were kind enough on rehearsal» to fot down his mispronounced words and make them known to him; but some, it seems, escaped notice, We would have liked this performance to have passed into immediate obliyion, but think it unkind and unjust of this boy Hamlet to attribute his failure entirely to amateurs who on other occasions have rendered highly creditable performanc AN AMATEUR, New York, March 1876, MUSIC SELLERS AND BUYERS. THE ENORMOUS PRICES OF FOREIGN MUSIC—A PROTEST FROM A MUSICIAN—ADVICE TO AMER- | ICAN STUDENTS. To tux Epitor or TAR Heratp:— You have shown a desire to right some of the wrongs of music loving and music purchasing people as far as is in your power by disclosing them and their reme- dies. Allow me to call your attention to one that we have endured for years. Now, as the subscribers of your paper and of all musical papors are music buyers and not music sellers, 1t 18 about time that they had some one to present their side of the case on the ex- travagant outrageous prices that they are com- polled to pay for foreign music. We had to pay enormous prices for foreign music, both for non-copyrighted as well as copyrighted music, until about 1870; then the Litolff and Peters editions, and Novello’s, of London, began to be in ported in considerable quantities. It is true the Holle editions and Novello’s also were sold here before 1869, but they were not known as generally then as now. These cheap publications of Peters and Litolff are non- copyright works of composers who have been dead from ten years and upward, or ther own copyrights, In this country all music copyrighted abroad is non- copyright here. I must add here that American pub- lishers contrive to copyright translations and titi pages, and tike very well to have the consumer under- stand thatthe copyright covers everything; but the American copyright law gives a diflerent version. | Many of our music publisbers have made fortunes by reprinting foreign music, never paying a cent to the author, and selling at a price a little less than the foreign edition, but only enough lower to compete in price and thus control the sale without any reference | to the composer’s rights or the American consumer. As it is necessary that all m tudents should pur- | chase some considerable portion of the classics apd | also some of the compositions of modern foreign com- | posers belore they give any attention to American copyright works—th: © by American authors— it Will be greatly to advantage of American com- | | posers if they Will imterest themselves in any move- | Inent that promises to cheapen foreign music, and thus enavle the music student to devote some of his | funds to purchasing American copyrightunusic, i ‘Yo show at what price music can be sold, I will quote Ditson’s edition of ‘Don Giovanni,” which contains 300 pages and retails at $1—or three pages for one cent, and Novello & Ewer’s edition of the opera of “William tell,’ whieh contains 420 pages, and which I bongnt for $1—that makes four and one-fifth pages for one cent. ‘The arrangement of the overture to this opera is the Dest ever yet printed, and, at the above rate, would cost three cents. Several editions of the overture are printed in this country, not by any means equal to this arrangement, and they cost, not three conts, but sixty, eighty, $1, &e, Now, let me come to wholesale rates, and give some figures showing at what rates music can be printed aud | furnished to the trade, ‘The prices are Novello & Ewer's, London; and il the fame music that they publish and retail here at $1 can be printed ju (his country and sotd the same—that It is done when’ the competition demands it compure Novetlo’s edition of the opera of “Don Giovanni’ with Dytson's, of Boste id you will find the same thing at the same pr here is ho reason the American pub- he should pay any longer such extortionate ices, If thoy will demand music at these raves and support the publisher that prints it they will get it | Novello & Ewer will furnish 5,000 copies of a book | containing 320 pages, aud requires no translation, In the | | style of their octave editions of operas, for the rate of | twenty-five cents apiece, they owning the plates. With | these vet volumes of music of 320 pages retailing at $1, we could have the complete compositions of Wag. | ner, Lizst, Rubinsterm, Raft, Sullivan, Mactarren, Bet- | Hott, St, Saeus, &e, ia uniform editions at less than | $20 cach, while now they cost anywhere from $200 to $500 each. Who wouldn't, at the above prices, own | the complete works of the best living composers just as fast a8 they appeared, while now it is simply impos- sible for any one unless worth thousands of dol- lars? Full scores can be printed at the same rates. | | Just think of the symphonies of Spobr, Mendelssohn, mann and others, full scores, fur less than a dollar each! wonder, comparing the prices given above be ce, that one fri to contrul largely the music trade of the United 84 and that poor C. M. Von Weber, when ushered int handsomely turpisned parlors of his publisher, looking hed and to himself, “Ah! I see it is much be! to print music than to compose it,’” Now, a few words about the immense percentage charged by the importers of foroiga music and lam | abroad; done. Takes e of music of a German publishing Price two marks (this is a little less old), you will (ind it priced at $1—that- 1 double the retail price in Germany. It costs the im- porter twenty cents, with all the duties and frejght im- ciuded; so be makes 250 percent when he sells the piece of music to the country dealer and 500 per cent when he retails it on Broadway. In these “bard umes’! it seems rather too bad that the “poor musician” —and we are all awfully poor—should have to pay such prices, A UONSTANT READER OF THE HERALD. THE VOICE OF THE BELLS, Rev. Henry Morgan delivered « lecture last evening at Cooper Institute entitied “The Voice of the Bells,” The Grst bell rung last evening was the church bell, said the lecturer. There was something in its tone that told the world church disciplino was too slack, Churches are the bulwark of a nation. Some stay away from chureh because they can’t smoke, can’t chew, can't eat peanuts, These may seem trivial reasons, vat they express an idea, The peanut eaters aro the Street boys, The church is no place for them, The Smoker represents the Sunday amusement class, The chewer represents the working class—the brawny, Learty, robust, hard fisted working man, with strong Passions and will, Methodism once courted this clase and won them to its worship. The church now-a-days, however, has (oo many carpets. Churches are too ex- elusive; they are elegant p . Kitchens are more useful than “parlors. Churches should be workshops for saving men. But with velvet cushion gaudy trappings ana dress parade, no hat working sinner could venture, no old bonnets would be allowed. The dinner bell has a more attractive ring urch bell “Pita cook against @ parson, Ss every time,” Men are martyrs—not to the stake, but to the palate; not to the fiery stake, but to beefsteak. Some belis are mutiled and give an uncor- tain sound, Some ministers are like mufiled bells, They warn in such delicate tern id picture the ob- Jects to be shunned in such glowing colors, the sin ase sailed becomes the sin admired. THE HILDISE BUND. ‘The members composing the central body of the Hil- dise Bund of the State of New York met yesterday at Dramatic Hall, Houston street, Mr. KE. Herriein, the President, ocenpied the chair, and Mr. Julius Amnal acted as Secretary. The chief business before the meeting was tho discussion of the better administering of the sick fand, Several ‘members spoke at grea length_on the subject and gave their views witt clearnéss and precision. At the next meeti which will take place on the second Sunday April, the financial and other statements for the yeat will be submitted. The chairman announced in- formally that the sum of $140, had been expended for the venelit sick fund account for the year 1875, In adaition the sum of $139,000 had been paid for the yeas to widows of deceased members. This comes out of the insurance account. The bund isin a most flourishe ing condition, as will be shown when the reports are submitted. THE STRATH-CLYDE DISASTER, THE FRANCONIA’S SIDE OF THE STORY. None but English reports having appeared in the press of this city concerning the sinking of the English. steamer Strath-Clyde, after being in collision with the Hamburg steamer Franconia, of Dover, the following evidence, giving the German side of the case, will be read with interest at the present moment, The story is from an eye witness of the sad catastrophe. Many lives were lost, it may be remembered, and the captaiy of the German vessel has been severely censured iy England for a lack of humanity in not rescuing th¢ passengers of the sinking English steamer, The fok lowing is the statement :— On the 17th of February, about four o'clock P. M., we steamed along the English coast, having ght winds and hazy weather. Off Dover we saw an English steamer going about the same speed as oursolves, steer- ing in about the same direction and remaining abreast of the Franconia on her starboard side for about tiv minutes, Suddenly, either for the sake of bravado te try to pass the German steamer’s bow or in conse- quence of a wropg command, the steamer headed toward the Franconia under full speed. When our captain, who was on tho bridge, saw that it was im- possible to avoid a collision in any other way he ordered the engines to be reversed at full 5} which command was executed with great promptitude. On the English steamer neither was the engine stopped nor her course changed, and with full headway she ram into the fore part of our steamor, tearing away our bow and receiving herself a hole at least four feet wide just’ forward of her mainmast, The confusion on the uniucky vessel, which commenced to sink immediately, was beyond descrip. tion. After we were clear of her she kepton at full speed, command seeming to have entirely ceased, as n¢ change in the speed of the engines seemed to ha taken place. One of the steamer’s officers saved himself by jumping over to our ship, stating afterward that he did not know how he got there. All hands were busy at our boats to go to the assistance of the people o# the sinking steamer, without at first thinking of our selves, when the English pilot on our steamer called out to the captainon the bridge to run toward the shore, as our ship was also sinking. The ord ol obeyed and the existing leak thoroughly examined, when it was fortunately found that with the exception of the fire compartment, which had filled, water in the ship. In this respect we nothing to fear, therefore, for the momont, at the iron bulkheads proved to be sufficiently tight. During this time the awful catastrophe of the sinking vessel was taking place. In the coarse of at most, four minutes, nothing but the tops of the mast¢ were to be seon above the water. We coula not tell f anybody had been saved. Two boats filled with mem drifted in the sea, and were probably rescued by the Dover steamship, which had meanwhile arrived upos the scene of disaster. A bark in the vicinity might, we thought, also have rescued some people. We proceeded to the Thames, anchoring previously during the night off Deal, and the following day pro. ceeded to Lonaon, The presence of mind and the good Judgment of the captain of the Franconia, as well ag the discipline and prompt execution of his commands on the part of the officers and crew, cannot be suffi: ciently praised. [t was reported upon our arrival is London that the Franconia was to bo libelled for the sum of £40,000, the computed value of the sunkes Strath-Clyde. HOME FOR INFIRM HEBREWS. The annual Purim reception of the lady managers of the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews took place yea terday at the Home, No. 822 Lexington avenue, Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen, Jews and Gentiles, availed themselves of the invitation, Almost all of th¢ visitors left a memorandum of their visit in the shape of a donation ranging from small sums to $100. This ine atituuon, which was originated abeut three years ago by the late Mrs. Henry Leo, is presided over by Mrs. P. J. 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