The New York Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1876, Page 5

THE STATE CAPITAL, Governor Seymour's Plea for Low | Canal Rates, COMPTROLLER GREEN AND PARTY POLITICS. | The Police Bill Before the’ Committee on Cities. THE CASTLE GARDEN TROUBLE. | A Spiey Debate on the Rights of Husband and Wife. Tilden and Kelly Once More at! Peace. | i ALBaxy, March 30, 1876, Ex-Governor Seymour appeared belore the Joint | Canal Committee to-day and made an argument in favor of Jow tolls on the canals, He said that the great ques. tion of the day was that of cheap transportation, It would be ruinous, he said, to hundreds of men who | made ,their living on the canals, and who were so useful to the State, to inereaso the tolls, He knew that hundreds of boats would have been laid up | Jast year had the tolls Wwen higher, and even as it was, the forwarders and others on the canais barely | made a living, When he was Governor he advocated in | his messages the policy of wnaking tho canals free, | The canals bad been for a time burdened by a contract | tystem which impoverished many. He then showed | how important the canals were to New York and other | cities in the State, and claimed that it was the duty of | every citizen todo wil that be could to add to the greatness and prosperity of New York, for the result was increased prosperity to the entire State. “The | tanals,” gaid he, in closing, “did not bring about the | corruption that has prevailed to such a disyracetut | extent duringthe past eightor ten years, It was treated by your predecessors in these halls.” THE NEW POLICE BILL. General Smith, of the Police Commission, and John {. Davenport had a hearing before the Assembly Com- mittee on Cities on the new Police bill this alternoon. They argued in favor of the passage of some bill con, taining the best features of the Booth and Fish bills, and stated that such a bill would, in their opinion, be A very advantageous one in every respect. It is prob- ible that the Senate bill amended slightly will be re- ported favorably and that it will pass both houses, Assemblyman Killian and Sheriff Daggett, of Kings tounty, started for the capital on the “Ow! train’ froin New York last night. When they Jett the Grand Cen- tral depot they each had a costly gold watch and | plethoric powketbooks. When they woke up this | morning on the train the watches were gone. AMENDMENT OF THE CHARTER, Woodin’s bill to amend the charter of New York city, changing the financial and contract system of | doing public business was made the special order for | Thursday next, i WICKHAM AND GREEN. | The Committee on Cities neld another meeting to- | day on the bill extending Comptroller Green's term | fixty days, so asto take away irom Mayor Wickbam the opportunity of appointing bis successor, On the | question of reporting the bill the committee stood | be ‘the instruction In. sue schools, in the branghes of element- | State now and wilt continue to bold it for three years NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. latter place. He had offered besides to draw up, in | the presence ofthe committe, and did draw up before them a contract with the railroad company, agreeing | to take 100 tous of coal, if delivered for seventy-five cents per ton, transportation charge, and that Hea- cock bucked out, finally, and would not sign the con- tract.’ As Mr. Hanson denies having suggested the resolution, and asthe member of the Railroad Com- mittee who said that the suggestion was made by a democrat whose bill had been reported adversely the same night as the *-No Seat No Fare” bill, and as Mr. Killian and Mr, Fallon deny that they made any such suggestions, and the ouly other democrat whose bill | was reported adversely that night was Mr. Hanson’s, | there seems to be a question of veracity somewhere, | Why tho member of the Railroad Committee alluded to who contends that “several members” made the sare Suggestion to him is unwilling to give their names | is rather difficult to understand. At all events, the | prospects now are that the Rairoad Committee wiil | k tor an investigation into the accusations mado gainst then by-‘one who knows,” THR MARINE COURT QUESTION. The message of the Governor in response to a res- olution of the Senute relative to the appoinunent of J. | P, Sipnott as wudge of the Marine Court was cailed from the table by Senator Bixby, who proceeded to 4 answer its saligat points ina speech’ of some length. He. said the Governor declared in bis mes- fage that he based his action on the pro- visions of the law of 1849, which empowers the Governor to fill vacancies whenever no otherprovisions | for tilling such vacancirs had been provided, but the | Jaw provided her and « diferent method for tho filling of the vacancy, and the uction of the Governor was therefore wrong. By the act of 185%, in relation | to the Marine Court, it 18 provided that any vaceney | occurring in the Court ‘shall be filled in the manner | preseribed by law for filling vacancies in the offices of | the Justices of the Superior Court of the State of New | York.”’ In this Jaw no change has been made. Subs quent legistation provided that the Justices of the Superior Ceurt shall be appointed by the Gov with the consent of the Senate, if the in session, When this vacancy happened | the" Senite was in session, and no one | would claim that if it had occurred in the Superior, in place of the Marie Court, that the Governor could fill | the vacancy witboat the consent of the Senate, aud yet the law and the only law on the subject prescribed | that vacancies in the Marine Court shall be filed in | the same manner as vacancies in the Superior Court, In connection with his remarks the Senator offered a resolution referring the specia! message of the Gover- | nor, in regard to the Marine Court Judzeship, to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to report whether apy legislation was necessary to make more definite and certain the authority to appoint Judges of the Marine Court in case of vacancies, TUK SCHOOL AMENDMENT IN THE SENATE. When theconcurrevt resolution proposifg an amend- ment to the constitution relative to the common schools came up*for discussion in committee of the whole of the Senate, Mr. Schoonmaker offered the fol- lowing as an addition to the proyisions of the amend- | inent:— Common schools, in which instruction shall be free, shall be maintained forever. ‘The Legislature shall provide for ary education for the period of at least twenty-eizht weeks in every year, of all persons between the ages of five aud e ars, by annually raising therefor b; property in the respective counties, Jess than $3,009,000, LEGISLATIVE XOTRS, The committees of the Senate reported quite a num- tax upon ‘sum of not ber of bills this morning, the Judiciary Committee, us | { usual, reporting adversely on the majority of those re- ferred to it, Mr. Bixby introduced a useful bill to prevent the or- | anization of lufe and health insurance companies on a gus basis im regard to names and capital. Senator Tobey asks. “Is any man in that. delegation of seventy likely to go against Conkling in the Con- vention when he holds tne federal patronage of the longer? Is it likely 2”? | Mr. Hammond Offered a resolution i the Senate | authorizing the Secretary of Stato to cause all the gen- | eral and special laws relating to the poor in force in } Uhis Stave at the close of the present session to be com- | piled and published in pamphiet form, | Mr. Gerard gave notice that be would move to sus- | pend the rules to bring about a reconsideration of the | Battery Park bill, This becomes necessary owing to | the fact that the time for @ reconsideration had ex- pired whoa the motion to recall tho bill was made, Itis stated to-pight on pretty good authority that Governor Tilden and yobn Kelly have agreed not to disagree, and that they have come to an amicable un- derstanding, which will be favorable to Tammany at ‘S IN CONVENTION, FINE ARTS. a MR, SANKEY’S TALK UPON CHURCH MUSIC YES- TERDAY. AND MR. MOODY'S ANSWERS TO PREACHERS’ QUESTIONS. CHRISTIA EXHIBITION OF THE ALLEN COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS AT LEAVITT'S. A private view was given yesterday, at the Leavitt Art Rooms, of a collection of paintings belonging to The Christian Convention of ministers and laymen | Uriah Allen, of Jersey City. Quite a change has been continued its session at the Hippodrome yesterday | made in the appearance of tho gallery since morning. Whon the meeting opened, at ten o'clock, | the Iast exhibition, The halls and ceilings have there were, besides the 3,000 mimisters, about 30% heen newly frescoed and the walls and door- other persons—men and women—in the Madison ave- | ways artistically hung with rich dark drap- nue ball, Mr. Sunkey spoke on ‘How Can the Ser- erjes, Tho pictures m the present collection viee of Song be Conducted Successtully?” He said, comprise a large number of figure paintings pleasing ‘The power of sacred song 18 laying hold of thisnation, | yy subject and technically good. The landscapes are 45 well as of other nations, and bas been forsome years. | generally very good specimens of the artists repre: I would not have artistic quartet singing. 1 donot ob- | sented, Oue of Carol's atmospheric landscapes; a Fou- Ject to the people who sing, but to that manner of | tainebleau scone, by Guillemmen; a Mediterrancan } praising the Lord, I would have a choir composed of © geaport, by E. Verrier; a landscape, with cattle, by as large a number as possible, but 1 would like tobe | Cart Siebels; three uncommonty fine landscapes, by | assured they were Christians, I do not believe im Harvey Young; a seene in Normandy, by ©. B, Cow- | having them away off in the back of the church. Let | ans, and examples of Inness, Bristol and others. A | them be near the minister, Iet the minister be in | good example of the Spanish school is “Tho | | sympathy with the choir and the choir in sympathy | Promenade,” by G Taeschi, “Preparing for | with the minister, The minister never Knows what is | the Party,” a highly finished going on way back in the galleries. Members of choirs now get to that point wnen they | Castagnola, pass notes and chat with cach other, Now, as tothe | (Applause. ) picture, by M. Casstman, ‘'The Stolen Interview" is by | arity,” by 1. Alvarez, represents an | DON CARLOS. An Interview with the Fallen Spanish Pretender. WHEN HIS CHANCE WILL COME AGAIN, The Conduct of the War—The Republic Com- | ing—The Fueros—The Brave Basque Mountaineers. Loxpox, March 15, 1876, After four yoars’ fighting. the Basques of the north have been reduced to submission; Don Carlos has been | figure | obliged to sheathe the sword; the war in Spain is | over. Finally beaten on all hands the yoang Pre- tender gave up the contest and crossed the frontier | The question drawer was then opened and Mr. | Moody read and answered the inquiries, Some of tho instrument, the large organ, in my opinion, drowns the peopic’s voices, though, of course, it could be played softly, There is no music, after ail, like the human yotce. Iwould not sing’ the old bymns always, would mtroduce new ones once in a while; but exclude operatic music altogether. Leave that to the opera, (Applause.) As to Suzday sebool singing, there is not much to be said; for the Sunday schuol singing in this country is better than in any other under the sun, Open and close meeting with prayer, but let the meet- ing be interspersed with good singing in which the con- gregation as far as possible shonid join, | One of the delegates stood up and said:—Would it | not encourage congregational singing to abolish the | choir and have one singer!” | Mr. Sankey replied ‘Few men could lead 3,000 | people. It would wear a man out.” A food of other questions succeeded, among them the ‘ollowing:— | “Should the leader of a meeting pitch the tune?” | “If he were a singer it would be right enough; but, | now, you would have a hard time with Mr. Moody to | get him to piteh the tune,’” Broleaed Jaughter.) ! ‘Would you recommend solo singing.” | +1 would not as a ruie.”” | Mr. Moody (breaking in)—I would if I were Sankey. | (Laughter.) i Mr, Saukey—I believe in preaching the gospel in song and explaining the reference of each song vo the | cd, Taylor, of the Broadway Tabernacle, said — many aman was converted by'a hymn who would not | be converted by preaching. Singing 1s often our | solace in aitlietion, | | questiors and reponses were as follow: Q. What 18 the best book for inquire! | written by a man named John, |. Q How will you wake up a congregation? A. The best way is to wake up yourself, Q Our church is sadly in debt, would you not advise achureh fair? A, I cannot; the devil always gets | into these church fairs; they are my abomination; I A. A book | remember seeing one ina Western city, where a man was allowed to kiss tho handsomest Woman in thg | room Jor twenty-five cents. Christ would never sanc- | tion such work as that. Q. What is the best book on revival? A. The Bible. | This session of the Convention was then adjourned alter the singing of the hymn, “I Need Thee Every | Hour.” | At threo o'clock they met again, and after the sing- | ing of the hymn, “The Great Physician Now is Newr,? Dr. Armitage spoke on the subject, “How to Deal with | non-Churebgoers.”” He said there was only one way, | and that was preseribed by Jesus Christ himself, “Go | ye into all the world and’ preach the Gospel to every | creature,” and preach in earnest, | _ Dr, John Hall said he believed that the work of Mr. Moody would not pass away, and that it depended on’ the exertions of the mimsters how long It would last, The next subject discussed was “Our young men, what more can we ao for them t"* Mr. Wannemaker, of the I’hiladelphia Young Men's Utica, The majority of the delogates elected thus far in the country districts to the District Conventions are openly jor Tilden, and this fact, | | no doubt, has done much to bring out the declaration | of peace between the two, and it is understood now | that the Utica Convention will not be asked to even | Christian Association, and William E. Dodge, Jr., ad. dressed the meeting on this suoject. | by Louts Lan | Sheep Frightened by the Report of a Gun is by Otto | | “Eve,” by Powers, with revolving marble pedestal, old woman seated at the foot of a flight of steps—ap- | !nto France. He was not allowed to stay there long, parently of a convent or church—down which are pass- | however. His presence would have given rise to le- ing groups of children and Sisters of Charity, “The | gltlmist demonstrations, which might not only have Wayside Spring,” by J. C. Thom, is one of bis best | been considered unfriendly by Spain, but which would, | ebild pictures, ‘The woodland, illuminated with the | 10 official language m France, have been of a nature to picture, “Aid | excite “hatred and contempt toward the French gov- summer sunlight, 1s in itself a and Protection,” by J, Verhas, is one of ernment.” He was theretore bustled across the coun- the most pleasing in the collection—a boy | try to Boulogne as fast as a special train leading his little sister = down aw flight ' " a ‘of steps This is trom the Shepherd Gandy collection. spam carry bim, and pails men as “Punch and Judy,” avother picture of child life, isby | were, to the door of France, le was Charles Peuit. “Another group of children, playing } not allowed to stop in Paris, I did not have ith an old trunk of a tree for a hobby horse, is by ©, | Farner. “the Spy” le & military pours, by ©. | 2 oPporvanity of seeing him there, but I took the next | Sell, “he Armorer’s Forge” is by Vaarberg.’ “Alms. | tam to Boulogne and was not long in obtaining admit- giving? is by E. Aler. “At the Point of Death” | tance to him. He received me in the same friendly, cordiat 16 ot Sarcasm on auicidal inteutions, by He: | manner as of old. Dut his time was so taken up with is an uncommonly — strong piece of _ color, | Visitors and he was so worried with various things at- “he Relue “Belated Party on Mount M landscape picture by Jerome Thompse nt Scholar’’ is by Lasaile, field’? is a figure and “A Flock of | | tendant upon his hurried Journey that he could not tpen collect his mind to talk connectedly on the subject of his defeat and the war, or, in ovher words, to arrange an “interview”? for publication, | We had along, though somewhat desultory, conver- Gebier, “The Old Farmyard,” by Tait, “A Mother's | Care,” by Dretet Deprot, 18 a pretare full of nature and well drawn and punted. It represents an ola | hen “whose fatily of ducklings have, for | sation, which he did not wish given to tho public, and tho first time found their native element | it was not until he arrived in England and got fairly and are swimming away, regardless ol the | settied down that I could induce him to talk to the consternation of their foster-mother, ‘Tho Combat’? 18 a spirited composition, by Fritz Lang; a cattle pic. ture 1s by Verboeckhoven; ‘a fino still lite study is by | Milne Ramsey; a little fruit girl is by ©. P. Ream; a asket of grapes, by Marston Reum Iconoclast,” | by J. H. Beard, aud many other ‘examples of other | artists, both native and foreign. The pictures will be gold on the evenings of Wednesday and Thursday, | April 5 and 6 THE WEBB COLLECTION. BEATEN BY FATE, ome | He sald:—"I have done my duty. I am fulfilling my The conclusion of the Webb collection sale took | qessiny, If I have not been successful it has not beon Place last evering, with the following result:—Copy 00 | yy fauit, I have the sitisfaction of fecling that I porcelain of Rembrandt's “Crucifixion,” $40; “De- | ‘ seent {rom the Cross,” $49; Guido’s “Beatrice Cenci,” $40; Murillo’s “Old Woman and Boy,” $55; Rubens? | “Castor and Pollux,” $150; enamelled Japanese vases, from $10 to $85; bronze figures of Rembrandt and | Albert Durer, by A. Carrier, $180 each; marblo bust of | world through the medium of the Henan. His arrival im England and his reception at Folkstone and London have already been described by cable, and it only remains to give his views about the end of the war und the prospects of Spain, He evinces no bitter- ness with regard to his defeat, and does not seem to be in the least cast down in spirits, reproach myself with, and await events.” lasked him to what causes he attributed his defeat, A GOOD MANY WANTS. “Want of money,” ne replied, “want of munitions, want of men.’? We were beaten because we had Ican now only bide my time $500; “Venus,” by Professor Halbig, full length, lilo | Aidinbowd ’ NWhite | Overpowering numbers brought against us, No size figure in meee $3, wf Wr — hite | army can hold out long against such odds Lady of Avenel,” Mozier, $3,000; “The Peri,”” Moz as wo bad to contend with—one to five, $3,000; marblo bust of Washington, Powers, gu7i | | The ibtary, consisting of twenty-three works, Was sold | Not that we were really beaten in any one last | as Sollowss Ailton’ Sp nkeruer tare $13; “Hlistory | pitched battle, Wo were not. We were really vic- | of Painting in Italy,’ 6 vols, per vol jas ‘ x by terpicces of Karly Printers und Engravors,”? $9 60; | torous tu the battles of Pena Plata, Vera, Mendichor- | “Gallery of Distinguished Americans,’ 4 vols, $6 per | Titz, Mavoru, and held our positions against the most | Yok; “Masterpieces of Italian Art,’ $26; “Antiquities | desperate attacks. But these victories cost us dearly, In the loss of mon and munitions that they caused us | tionary of Fine Arts,” 2 vols, $13’each; “Selected Pic- made a good fight for the right, and I nave nothing to | At the evening mecting, Mt which 8,000 people were present, Mr. Moody introduced to the audience Rey, | Dr. Plummer, of South Carolina, who answered a tures from british Galleries and Private Collections,” each; “Florence Gallery,” 4 vols | ot Athens,” 4 vols., $6 50 each} vbaas ania Dic- they were almost equivalent to defeats. Alter these | battles we bad not 100 rounds of cartridges left, And | never enoourage any movement for the overfhrow@ her son, That eventunlity is not to be teken into com sideration fora moment, Nevertheless itis possible | that ber partisans, if they ever come into power, may make her a pretext for measures that woald render the young King very unpopular, and this might help the republican agitation and do Alfonso much barm.” “Is Isabella very unpopular in Spain?” “No, 1 do not think she is asunpopular as people ; Seem to think; because, after all—though I have no personal reason for saying 50, baving never received at her hands—lsabella was very good vas very charitable, very generous and a good woman at heart, The people know this and ro. member it in her favor, Besides it is natural that, after having been on the throne as long as she was, she ) should bave a strong party of adherents in the country, so that I do not think she is at all so unpopular as te generally beheved. Many unpopular things were done by her Ministers in her nate for which she was not in the least responsible, She was a woman, and was powerless for good, surrounded as she was by unscrupulous and ambitious men who had only their own selfish aims to accomplish, without the slightest regard for the ingerests of the country, She Was net as uch to blame us people think.’ THE PRETBNDER'S CHANCE, “In what way do you hope, sire, to profit by the revolution which you foresee coming?” “Thus:—Phe tide of republicanism will go on grows ing strenger, rising higher and higher until the throne of Alfonso will be submerged and swept away, Then, when they see the cuirent too strong for them, | when they sco it is carrying them away, they will | appeal to me as their last hope, and the very men who have placed Alfonso upon the throne—Martinos Campos, | Canovas de Castilla and the rest—will come to meand offer me the seeptre torn from the feebler hand of my little cousin,” She PRIM'S OPPER. “But, sire, did you not once refuse to accept the sceptre atthe hands of the revolutionists? Pid not | General Prim offer you the crown?” | “Yes; but that was under very different circum: | stances from what it will be offered to me next time, | Then I was asked to go to the revolution, to compro- mise with it, to become apart of it, Of course I ree fused, Butthe next time I willbe asked to crush the revolution instead of taking it by the band. No mat | ter whence such an offer comes Lam ready now as I ; Was then Lo accept, ‘That the offer will be made to me | sooner or later | have not the shadow of adoubt, This is why Ihave refused all compromise. ‘This is why have neither surrendered my sword nor brokew it have returned it to its scabbard to be uoshvathed agaim when tbe time comes. ut est perdu hors Chonneur, That L have preserved intact, e have been beaten, but we have at least tallen with glory, with no stain op our honor,” i THE BASQUE PRIVILEGES. It may be well to state here, for the information of | the reader, that the fueras of the Basque provinces and | Navarre which are in question in the preceding con- versation are a number of old provincial rights ene Joyed by these people during a thousand years, among which were local taxation, local self-government as | we have it in America, and freedom trom conscription, | They acknowledged the King of Spain as their seior or | lord only, and not as king, and accorded him n | Migbts; nor, to tell the trath, did they ai any right but that of protecting them, “in return for | which they paid hima very slippery kind of allegi- ance that’ was allegiance only in the name, Ho was to protect them in case of foreign invasion, but he could not demand in return cither money or troops. They | gave of their own tree will whatever they could | spare, much money and as many men as | they thougnt ho ought to have and ne more, These provinces, in short, governing themselves, apportioning their own taxes, conducting their own cryil administration, and permitting no in | terference on the part of the King of Spain, formed ¢ little republic within the monarchy that was thorougly republican in everything but the hame. They merely | looked to the neighboring monarehy for protection and paid ita kind of tribute. ‘They were net only repabli- cans but Communists in the fullest acceptation of the word, I, of course, use the word Commune in the Frene& three to three, Woodin, Wagner and Morrissey for | present Governor Tilden’s name tothe St, Louis Con- | number of questions relating to Faith, Hope and jor nases, OF the Alps, by Brockedon, | you know that with breechloaders 100 rounds do not | sense, meaning local seli-goverument, With the abe the bill, Booth, Baaden’ and Tobey against. Jacobs | vention as New York’s first choice, but thathis adminis- | Charity. Rev. Dr. Plommer isa gentleman, as Mr, | 2 Fh pnd bathe vd Pent | surd ‘idoa of property in common, which has beew was absent and is gaid to have changed his | tration will be heartily indorsed and aresolation passed | Moody said, who rmight be called a patriarch, and gravings, 3 rele. $6 Maroy caeyy sey se hatin | jast long. sprain caaieaacs mechen: | attributed to the French Communists by peoply whe mind, feeling that his attitude in opposition | instructing the delegation to vote on every ballot ns a | looked like one, and he was followed throughout with | laneum,” 10 vols. $3 ren ude Lorraine's | | understand neither the French language nor French | ideas, we have nothing to do. By degrees, however, these rights were taken from urtly by force, partly by corruption, until just works, '3 vols., $21 ea trations of the Albam- |} gaw tbat further resistanco would be useless, that | Xiotaontt great work on Egypt, 23 vole. 30.0 each; | it Would oniy result in hundreds and thousands of | ‘Musée Royale’ and “Musée Francais, 6 vols. $53 | brave fellows being killed to no purpose, and | them, | majority will dictate. Tilden’s friends believe that this | the utmost attention, plan will secure a delegation for him on the first ballot | at least and that between April 26 and June 27 influences to the bill might be construed as being adopted in the interest of Cornoll and the Custom House party, who have sworn to bave the bill slaughtered at all hazards ‘MR. BOWEN'S CASE. in order to carry out the arrangements made with | can be brought to bear on the delegates that will make : - hl b vie | belore Isabella ascended the tbrone there were scarcely, Wickham, Kelly and Tammany Hall. Me Booth re. | them even more heartily in bis favor than if they were | ak bie | each etary oad) PLS Coating pee although the army was still willing to fight on | any of them left, and the civil administration of the pels the charge that he acts at the dictation of Cornell | instructed at Utica. It is sald that Governor Seymour | | The special committe of Plymouth chureb, formed | den Gallnry.”’ $05; hes Arie “Turner's Picturesque | t0 tho last, I issued orders that tho troops should | provinces was centered in Madrid, | This caused a groat and Company and says the bill never originated with | does not like this arrangement, and that he is quietly | to investigate the charges preterred against Henry C. Views in Ei gland and Wale: ve vols., $2750 each. A | abandon the conflict without further fighting and re- | be oc mancanielty 06 ihe boiae ie graben Preps him, but was sent up from New York and introducea by Him asa matter of courtesy. Woodin says that whether the bill passes or not Wickham has no speci- fied authority to appoint a successor to the Comptrol- Jer, that officer aud others, including the Commissioner of Pubuc Works, being very curiously excepted in the provisions of the charter. The Mayor appointed Campbell as Commissioner of Public Works, but that was to fill an office made vacant by a resignation. He claims he bas no taba to appoint a successor to any of the officers excepted by the charter after thoir terms of office lapse and that the Legislature must provide for the contin- gency. Section 25, of the charter of 1873, declares as fol- lows :— ‘The Mayor shall nominate, and by and with the consent of the Board of Aldermen int the heads of departments and all commissioners si mumissionors of Public Inst tion and alo save and except the following named Com: sioners and 8 whe held office as such on the ist day of Jannary in the year 1X73, that ix to say:—The Womptrol- | ler, the Commissioner of Public Works, the Counsel fo the | Corporation, the President of the Department of Public Parks, the’ President of the Department of Public | and the President of the Department of | Comptrolier, — Commissioners, | resid, until the expira: of office, for which they were enase as herein provided. HUSBAND ASD WIFE, Alongand in some parts a spicy debate filled the | lime of the Senate this evening, on the bill to allow the testimony of a wife as against her busband tn cases of criminal conversation. The bill is supposed to have been suggested by tho position occupied by Mra. Tilton ip relation to the Beecher trial, Senator Colo rode a perilous series of arguments and illustrations in favor of the measure, and kept a large audience of Jadies in a perpetual state of tittering. A SUSPICIOUS TRICK. ‘There is a strong suspicion that somebody in the As- sembly had something to do with the Battery Park bill when it came down trom the Senate, which was anauthorized by any known rule. Itwas received on Monday evening and referred to the Committee on Railroads, but bo member of this committee ever saw she bill, It was asked for on Tuesday, but no ono could tell what had become of it, aud when Mr, Maller, | at the meeting yesterday; called tor the bill the clerk | stated that it had never been sent to him or any member of the committee. Yet this morning the bill | turned up in the Senate in answer to the request for it sent to the Assembly yesterday. The friends of the measure contend that the mysterious disappearance of the bill was brought about by some one in the Assem- | bly who is very much devoted to the interests of the | Elevated Railroad, and who managed to have it stuck | away in some drawer which was kept locked until the Benate’s message came down. The object of this, doubtless, was to prevent the passage of the bil in the House before the Senate could recall it. Even though the bill was an atterly bad one that is no reason Why any person should be allowed to pocket it for days in order to prevent a vote being taken upon it. if this kind of trickery were to go tnrebuked ft would be in the power of even an ordinary attaché of either House once a bill had passed on: louse to pre- vent its consideration by the other until some little game of his own bad been won to his satisfaction. The jnestion is, who pocketed the Battery Park bill from Hlonday until Thursday morning? THR EMIGRATION COMMISSION, Tho recent decision of the United States Supreme Court on the head money question has completely up- set the calculations of the Commerce and Navigation Committee of the Senate and Assembly. A bill was some weeks ago introduced in the Lower House in- creasing the head money, and another reorganizing the Emigration Commission, ped geyer nothing tan now be done with the first, a 18 unlikely that the second will receive any further consideration. It is understood that the Emigration Commission are very anxions that the Legislature should do something ‘hat will protect the emigrants, but how to go about it ts just now the problem that is puzzling the members here, who are desirous that sume law | should be speedily passed that will be effective, Mr. Muller, of New York, has come to the conclusion that the two houses should put their heads together so that a good understanding can be arrived at between the senate and Assembly in order that whatever action | 18 decided upon shall be commenced with the a, | of the two houses guaranteed beloreband. He, there- | fore, introduced the foliowing concurrent resolu. Hon, which went over under the rule:— State requi he nited States Supreme inconstivutionnl the laws, of thie the necessary Feguit of the declsions State eimigrint system, which im based. o " such head money; and whereas, It is of the. ut to provide tor the immediate weltare and satety of tho | ell an to protect the inhouiteate of eho olny “sual Sate iro | oS | ine inconvenience and dunger inetdent to such arfivaley tion of their rexpectiv appointed unless removed ost iinpor= Resolved, That a joint committee of the Senate and As- Siow of accivthg ellen conlgvanieneal te eaters Reatioes i Hhews of all persons Interested In tho suljoct. ne’? 8 THAT STRANGE RESOLUTION, Mr. Hanson denies that he was the party who en- deavored to get a member of the Railroad Cou | to introduce a resointion of the character Saberived 10 the Herato to-day, He states that he did have a con- sation with chairman of the Railroad Commitice bout his bill, #hich the committee reported adversely against the 16th inst, but he did not during this conversation or at any time afterward suggent the resolution, As to his statement that a railroad company im his district had charged $2 per ton for the transportation of coal he charges that in Heacock, the president of the road, and Rosen! the superintendent of the coal company of which Heacock 1s a director, told a deliberate lie when they said that the road had never charged over seventy-five vents per ton for trevsportation. Jtis true, be | he did not appear before the committee when Mr, | Beacock first went before Hand made hiv statement, | dut he says be did attend a subsequent meeting, and showed that while eval could be purchased at Fulton. ville, twelve miles from Gloversville, for say $6 60 per tom, $8 60 was churged for it when delivered at tho | fluids of a temperature less than 110 Fahrenheit, under | application is signed by amajority of the Judges of the working for Chief Justice Church and with an eye te the main chance himsell.. NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE, TAXING THE RAILROADS ONE-HALF OF ONE PER CENT ON THE COST--MERCY TO PRISONERS CONVICTED OF MURDER. TRENTON, March 0, 1876, ‘A report was made to-day in the Senate by tho Judiciary Committee, of which Mr. Magie, of Union, 1s chairman, upon Senator Abbett’s Railroad bill imposing | a tax of one-half of one per cent on the cost of ail | railroads in the State, An important amendment has | been agreed upon in committee by which the State of New Jersey agrees to credit the $40,000 tax now paid by tho branch lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad ta this State to the $208,000 annually paid into tne Treasury us tax upon the main lide, Thi is 10 continue until the joint tax on the main stem and the branches aggregate $298,000, when the tax is to be paid pro rata with all other roads, The County act, | providing for the government of the counties soas to | conform to the new constitution, and defining tho | manner of election and daties of freeholders, passed the House. Tho General Election law also passed the | Senate, having previously received the indursement of | the House. It makes few changes in the present law, | which tt is intended shall operate more smoothiy, Mr. Hill's bill prescribing definite rules ior the gov- — erninent of the insane of the State was introduced. | The bill for dammmmy the Delaware was laid over. ‘ In the Hoase Mr. Rabe introduced a bill making it ; unlawful for-any person to keep or sell inflammable | ualty of $200 fine or SiX months’ imprisonment. | a This afternoon in the Senate the biil requiring jus- | tices of the peace to give $4,000 security and to have a | certificate of legal qualification was lost, In the House Mr. Canningham introduced a bill | making it lawful in cases of conviction for murder in the first degree for the jury to recommend a prisoner | to the mercy of the Court, aud jor the Court to sen- tence him to imprisonment for Ife. In such cases the | Court of Pardons shall not grant a pardon unless the | Supreme Court alter reviewing the evidence, Mr. Griges introduced a bill requiring all State officers to be actually residents of the State, and no man holding an office shall be absent more than thirty days at, one time, unless on account of sickness. A bill was introduced empowering towns of between 2,000 and 10,000 population to construct waterworks. Both houses adjourned to Monday next, FRANK P. BLAIR'S FORTUNE. [From tho St. Louis Republican. } There are only three lines, but they are worth read- miei Letters of administration were granted to James L. | Blair on the estate of Francis P. Blair, Jr., deceAsod, valued at $500,” To live fitty-four years and die worth $800, is not | making the most of one’s opportunities, as times | 60. Francis P. Blair was evidently not the man for | the times as times go, that if aman is to be meas- | ured by the moncy whieh he makes out of the times. He ought to baye been arich man—a very wealthy | man—and would have been if he had followed suit with many ether public men, He had the opportuni thousands of them, but he seems to have missed them | all or passed them by—for he ifved to be fifty-iour years | old and died worth $500. - He was the bratns, blood, bone, mu life, of a | great political party inthis State tor y: } it Was the supreme power im this city and county. does not appear, however, any money by it He was three times a member of Congress, and at the beginning | of the war was in such a position as Chairman of the Military Comrbitiee of the House as to have commanded the pick of contracts and his own selec- en of war siush. cularly remiss, however in making hay sun shone. Then he wi made @ general; but there was not much money in | being a general ‘euch as be was, ior he was always pounding away at the front, getting ‘more kieks than | halfpence.”” He did not make any money by being a | general. Some generals did; but somehow he bad not, the knack of it, Then he it to the Uuited states Senate, Here was another golden opportunity, Some men e been known to m: jandsome fortunes by going to the Senate—to go in poor, in fact, aud come out wealthy. [twas not Blair's way. While other public were bariding fortunes in their way, and according to the way of the times, he never appeared to care tor money. And so he di After living fifty-four years, and toiling, toiling, toiling as few men have ever done, he died leaving si. ny that he ever made OVER A HUNDRED. The Morgantown (W. Va.) Post tolls of the death of | the oldest woman in West Virginia, Mrs, Jane Frazier, djed in the poorhouse of Monongalia county, on | ‘the Ist of March, in the 110th year of hor age. j On the second floor ot a five story apartment house | on Third avenve [found the oldest man in N Coptam Frederick Lavrbush, aged 110 years, veteran of Waterloo, The old gentieman had lait down tor an al lerboon nap, and did not chonge his posivon durin, | my short slay, He was wide awake, bow epors | courteous to the last degrec,—New York Vorrespond- rangement | | wife, Which was net unusual, and went out About | | He had on an ol | wHO GOT THE MONEY AT LAST? Bowen, held another secret meeting last evening, at | number of miscellaneous articles and a few picturos | the residence of Mr. Pratt, on Orange street, Brook. | were sold after those catalogued for very low prices, \ lyn, Mr, Bowen, however, failed to ap; dager rearentens \ lyn, . 5 , pear, but for- sere warded a commnntcation in which be stated the reason PERSIA AND RUSSIA. why he refused to be present. Mr. Thomas G. Shear- man informed a HeRatp reporter late Jast night that Mr. Bowen's absence was not owing to any til. sion being the reading of two papers, under the auspices ness of himself or Jus family, and although a 7 Mr. Shearman did not. definitely” stato” what | Othe American gph ae at tle witerd ee dikes Mr. Bowen's communication contained, at is | eight o'clock, Mr. Henry lentine, a commerctal supposed that the Jatter gentleman decli l toappear, | traveiler took his place at the little desk on the because, at the previous meeting, Mr. Andrew Brad | form, and, from the manuscript in front or him, gave shaw was not permitted to testity M® his bebalf, ond | an account of his trip through the interior of Persia to | also because, by this ruling of the committee, all other | St, Petersburg. After an address by one of the savans, testimony of a similar character would be excluded as | who occupied a prominent position on the platform, well, The committee tramed an answer to Mr. Bowen’s Mr, Charies Harris Phelps, A. M., gave an account of letter, which will be forwarded to bim to-morrow, | after which the members adjourned without deciding | | exactly when they should meet again, | A BROOKLYN MERCHANT MISSING. The Brooklyn police have been notified of the fuct that Ehjah W. Nichols bas been missing since last Tues day morning, under circumstances which create alarm | the prospective release of deported French Commu- cassia, Stereoptical views illustrated the word descrip- hous, COMMUNISTS EXPECTED. A mecting of French refugees was held at No. 123 in the minds of bis family and friends. On the morn. | nists, under tho operation of the general amnesty | ing in question, about cight o’clock, he left his house, _ proposttion in the French Chamber of Deputies, Those | No, 189 Livingston street, for the avowed purpose of | present were mainly men of the Paris ouvrier class, going to bis business, His store, which is an extensive | who were concerned in the Commune uprising willow ware and house furnishing. establishment, is gituated at the corner of Fulton and Pineapple streets, On his way be stopped at his butcher's and ordered | Which were briely reviewed by several speakers. meatior the dinner, That ts the last his family have | heard of him. Before leaving the house he appeared to be in good spirits, He gave his wateh and chain to his It ‘was proposed to form an association of such former | members of the Paris Commune as may hereafter a rive here, A © plan of organization to be submitted ata fature m: ing. It was stated that 2,661 of the © is are yet prisoners on the Isle of Pines, while 222 have been granted permission to locate themselves on the main island of New Caledonia, and 750 others are held in close confinement within the fortifications, where, ac- five weeks ago Mr. Nichols was slightly affected men- | tally, but since that time he has been rational, [tis | said that he : of the anive: hat he is in debt to the amount ot about $14,000, for winch his creditors oe his notes, There was to have been a meeting of creditors held on the day on which he dis- | ° i 1 * appeared, but they deterred action, expecting his re- | isSuar Shey com be aAipwed be settle anywhere in turn. He was at one time very well off and was a pop- | 2 r ber of the Brooklyn Club, He PV SHOCKING INHUY 1 waes'hat any money eth him. Me'Sehentess | SHOCKING "INHUMANITY, is forty-throo years of age, 15 five feet ten inches in height, He basafull brown beard mixed with gray, | Investigation into the cause of death of James P. colored sack overcoat, | Curry, a prisoner tn the Penitentiary of Hudson county, New Jersey, reveals an alarming state of things. Curry , was violently attacked with pneumonia on the 13th , and Dr. Eady, the resiout physician, prescribed a Sete | remedies, The prescriptions were presented to the ALDEBMEN MAY FIND AN ANSWER FoR. | storekeeper, Mr. Sullivan, who refused to furnish tho Tho special committee of tho Brooklyn Board of | nod Chickering Hall was well filled last evening, the occa- | his journey from Finland to Persia, Dagestan and Cir- | “Nor am Taccountablo for the war itself, 1¢ was the | people who made the war and who called me there to | | Houston street last evening to take action in view of | | of the 18th of March, 1871, the memorable events of | cording: to the sentence, they have to remain for five | es, acting, he said, under instructions from tho | turn to their homes, 1 did this as soon as I saw the contest was hopeless, I did it only because I did not | wish to have upon my hands the blood that would have | been uselessly shed in prolonging the conflict. A CLEAN CONSCIENCE. “On this point my conscience 1s clear. 1 have no blood upon my hands, I have never condemned a single man to death, nor ratified the death sentence of single soldier. I have pardoned every case that was | ever submitted to me, and only in a fow instances were | men shot without my having had time to inter- | fere, Iam blood guiltless. The blood shed in battle | Lam, of course, not responsible for, ata time when Spain was withouta king and without a government. People seem tothink that it was for my pleasure that I put myself at the head of an army and led the life of the camp for four years among the mountains, when I might have been enjoying a life of | Juxurious ease in Paris aad Vienna. 1 did it only be- cause duty called; and in these days when people in | general talk only of their rights it is necessary for | somebody to think likewise of daty.” MIs AUMY LOYAL. T asked him {f he had observedany signs of treachery | tm his army. | He replied that he had not. He believes that “om. | cers and troops, with very few exceptions, were true | to the last and that they were incapable of treason, { | interior grade of insubordination, désaffection and what | might be called constructive treason, but they were ex | ceptional. The mass of officers and men remained faithful to the ead, There was much tneapacity, but no treason.” PATAL SLIPS. I asked him if he did not think that the great op- | portunity was ‘missed after the battie of Abarzuza. | If tmmediate advantage had been taken of that vie, | “That was undoubtedly a grew occasion,” he re- | plied, “but it was not tne only one. | or jour others which a great general might have seized, | but which were allowed to slip through our fingers. Jead them only after it had been fairly begun, aud that | | There may have been a fow cases among officers of an | tory might he not have marched straight to Madrid? | There were threo | | open flame, \ THE FIRST DOT CARLOS. | Don Carlos, the grandfather of the present prince, brother of Ferdinand VIL, who was Isabella's luther, was, according to the'Salic law, heir to the | Ubrone of Spain, and when, through the intrigues of | Christina, the old King gaye his crown to his daughter Isabella, and the Cortes Tatiued the will, Don Carlos | determined to assert his rights by th Looking about him be soun | Basque provinces were only waiting tor a leader to riso | in revolt, and he immediately seized the occasion. He | promised that if they would help him gam the throne | he would restore them all their old rights. They ac- | cepted, and this is bow Carism became mixed up with | the question of the fueros, an this is bow the Basques bave come to associate the name of Don Carlos with their ancient free dom. To show how tevaciusly they eling to these | rights itis only necessary to stato that whenever, during the present war, any attempt was made by the | generals of Dor Carlos to take the control of the army | out of the hands of the juntas or provincial assemblies, the latter rendered such attempts aboruve by quiely stopping the rations of every battalion that was thug | taken from their control, The batiahon of the King, | which General Dorregaray had lormed 4s a body guard | to Don Carlos and placed under bis direct command, | had to be dissolved because the junfas would not sup: | ply rations. They likewise retused to turatsh rations | lor the artillery aud cavairy because these branches 0} the army were at first centralized and placed beyond tne control of the juntas. The result was, of course, that the arullery and cavalry had tv be apportioned ta the different provinces and pat on the same looting ae | the jntantry. Then, and not till thea, were the rations forthcoming. WHO MADE THE WAR, It is, of course, generally supposed vy the world at | large that Don Carlos was respousible for the war, that | he began it, that he carried 1 on, and that brs was the spirit, the lite and soul of tae conflict This is am Don Carios had, in truth, very little He could not levy | erroneous idea, | to do with the conduct ot the war. | taxes; he could not order a conscription; he could not | appoint a postmaster nor Custo use oflicer nor Justice of the peace nor a constable nor 4 road supery sor, And so far n carrying on the war, he could not requisition even a sheep nora single rauion. Alt of these things were done by tne juntas. Don Carloa | Was nothing more than atigorebcad, a standard, DIVINE RIGHT. | But thisis notall, These people do not recognize his clans to divine right as regards themselves, and ey never did. -They simply fought to pat hun on the throne because he promised to secure them in | enjoyment of their ai freedom. If he could, the sume time, induce the of Spain to acknowled; his claims to divine right they were quite willing fe should do so, But tor themselves they scoured the idea. A PARADOX, | Common Council Chamber, Aldermen, appointed to investigate the charges made by some of the Brooklyn liquor dealers, that they had been blackmailed through the agents of the Temperance | Brotherhood, as they supposed, met last night im the | Joun Yager, who koops a saloon at No, 114 Myrtle | avenue, testified that he was complained of for selling Nquor on Sunday; William Jacobs told him that he represeuted Mr, Cotter, the agent of the Temperance Brotherhood, and would have the case withdrawn for $10; he paia that sum and nothing bad been done with | the case since. . | Ludwig J, Stillwogen testified that he was com: plained of, but Jacobs told, he would have his case | withdrawn; the witness money, and the cuse | was withdrawn; Phillip Koch called’ on him after- | wards and told him he could get his cases settied for | less than Jacobs; ho never agreed with the Temper- | ance Brotherhood not to sell liquor on Sunday. Max Berger, of No. 19 Fulton street, had his licence revoked ou the complaint of Oliver Cotter; he reiused to pay any money to have his case settled; Koch told him he could setile the matter for $15, B, F. Buehner, who keeps a saloon at No. 228 Myrtle enue, was complained of by Cotter; he paid Koch $15, and had no jurther trouble. Severa! otber witnesses were examined, who also testified to having paid money to Koch. The com- mittee adjourned aout Monday. ANOTHER DISHONEST COLLECTOR. | Last night Captain McDonnell and Detective Murphy, | of the Kighth precinct, arrested Jobn H, Meyers, of No, 84 Amity street, a collector in the employ of Henry Walsh, liquor merebant ot No. 104 Thompson | street, on acharge of having embezzled several sums | of money, amounting to about $2,000, The prisoner admitted guilt and was locked up in the Princo | Street station house, He will be orraigned at the Wash- ington Place Police Court this morning. MUSIC IN THE WEST. | (From the St. Louis Republican. | Professor Hans Balatka, of the Liederkranz and the Orchestral Union of Chicago, and the famous director ot eight or ten great musical festivals, saengerfests, &e, 18 DOW on @ Visit to our city in the interests of musical art. His chief purpose is to collect materia & history of the development of music in Western citivs, and he has come here to take a survey of oor situation and histurieal grade im music, He finds an abundance of good materials, but no completed structure of even perfected des He is a musteran, a voted conductor and ap experienced organizer, Let those who have our musical tuverests at heart seme upon bim—it he can be had—to bring order out of chaos, and found and conduct a musical organization that shali yleld us both profit and bouor, | tion embodying Director-at-Large of the Board of frecholders, Mr. | Halsted, who, it is alleged, entertains strong personal , animosity toward Dr, Eddy, The patient was allowed to remain all mght and next day without any | medical relief, and when County Physician Stout ar- | rived he was too late to stay the progress of the mal- ady and Corry died on the i6th mst. A commanica- the facta of this extraordinary caso was sent by Pr, Eddy tothe Board of Freeholders at its last meeting, but it was suppressed on the ground | that it contaimed reflectives on the Chairman of the Hoard. The relations of Curry are preparing evidence | in the case to be submitted to the Grand Jury, | ph Sic catia wa eaat | FIRES LAST NIGHT. } About seven o'clock yesterday evening a fire broke | out on the third floor of tho five story brick build- ing No, 15 Dutch street, “The first floor, occupied by | Hawley, Foote & Co,, clothiers, was damaged to tho | extent of $1,000 by water. The second floor, occupied | by J. & Smith, dealer in military goods, was also dam- | aged by water; loss, $2,002 The third and fourth floors, occupied by G.. Alt, brass manufacturer, were damaged; los, $10,000. ‘Tho trout part of the filth floor was G F. Reynolds, | dealer a) for artificial flowers, His lors wus The rear part of the same floor was occupied by Mr. Santell, printer, whose Joss was $2,000, The building, owned by J. 5. Smith, who occupies the second floor, was damaged bo the ex. | tent of $5,000, The insurance on the damaged goods and the cause of the fire are not known, 1 At hall past seven last night a fre occurred tn the gentiemen's furnishing store of Jacob >usse, No, 233 Greenwich street. Damuge to stock $1,000, fully ime | sured, Cause unknown. | INDIANS IN, THE DOMINION, {From the Toronto Mail.) The total number ot Indians in the Dominion js re- turned at 91,010, Of these 15,000 (roughly speaking) ' | are im Ontario; 11,000 im Quebec; 25,000 in Manitoba | If they had persistently refused I would have been and the Northwest Territories ; 5,000 m Rupert's Land, | and 31,000 in British Columbia; Nova Scotia and New | Brunswick each containing less than 2,000, while | Prince Edward Island only returns 302, These figures, | especially those relating to the unsettied and set | nomadic tribes of the Northwest, can only bo taken | as somewhat approximating to the truth. With regard to these latter no attempt can be made to compare theit presons with their past numbers, for all such statis~ tes inst nevessarily be of litie value. Baton the more Seite Provinces sone Approwcts to accuracy may bo rewsonably looked for; and #0 we find that wmong t Omari tribes the Merease during the past year os noted as 200, and the decresse us 42; mm Quebec, tha Jaerease te 22, and the decrease 128, ‘In Nova Scotia, increase 16, aud the decrease 4, iu Now Brunswick, ja- crease 24, decrease 36, if | the same absence of a general, the same want ofa | without any display of military skill.” | and tm At Abarzuza the enemy was allowed to retire without | 91. Ga ug see b sa dls tho slightest annoyance trom our side, when x resolute | ous tpectaclo of 'repuolicans highiing, tor. sie divine attack on the retreating army would have @ompletely | right ot kings, of Communists tghting for the Catholie broken it up and dispersed it, it was our mistortune | Churen! | They have been conquered, The old rights, the that we had no general capable of seizing an oppor- | cient ireedons that has. bera theres 1oF more than & tunity when it was presented and striking a decisive | thousand years, will again be taken from them, They blow. Our generals were brave, faithful and devoted | Will be crushed beneath the dead uniormity of a cen: | tralized government; the tide of oficial jovbery and to the last, and, although excellent brigade | corruption streaming out from Madrid will slow over commanders, they were incapable of band- | and bring them beneath ts putrid current; the spirit ling @ large army. To tell the truth, one | of liberty will be crushed out; the purity of political | lite, honesty and | administration of their own affairs will disappeat little Republic will become another Cuba, in shor the world will applaud aud say it was weil dove, What right had these people 1 be honest in ihe present age of corruption aud political jobbvery Why should they refuse to follow the custoin of the | times and alow themselves to be plundered by the political jobbers of the capital? It is contrary to the spirit of the nineteenth century, The day of local self. gvvernment 1s past; centralyzation is the orJer of the aay, aud a people Who bave maintained their liberty & thow Years must submit to the common hat they made & gallant tight for their ancient freedom, For four years the lite Repub ic detied the whole power of Spain and its little army kept at bay a force ponomy they had established im the enemies showed the fame délects as ourselves, 5 th i head eapable of directing operations on a large scale, They only crashed us in the cnd by mere brute force, Tuk “PURROS, “Do you think,” I asked, “that the present goy- | ernment will take away their fueros from the con- querod provinces?” “f do not know what their intentions are with re. | {fT gard to this question, They will certamnly not allow | the provinces to retain all the rights and privileges | Pow nt apne ly pragharton famaginadben 3 | enjoyed under my reign, but "hey will hardly be fool- | jut thoy have earned our Teopoet and admiretion. ish enough totake them all away. The result would be | reins A continued state of aesultory, irregular mountain | THE OW PLOUGH MEN, [From the Virginia (Nev.) Eoterprise.} warfare that would Inst for years,” “What would you have done with regard t6 tho Sucros in case you had been snecess(ul?” The men who run the svow plough trains io the “1 could have dove nothing but leave them intact, 14 | Sierras deserve kind thoughts frow ull travellers, Iv ts would have tll become me to tnterfere with their ancient | a touching sight to seo them, at a signal, take their honored rights. I would have endeavored, | stations Behind the plough are ten, or a dozen hoavy howover, to introduce a régime in the other provinces | freight locomotives. Shoald a rail break under the of Spain so much better in every respect that the | Srst engine, of course the others would be piled 1 Basques, 1 hoped, would bave asked of their own | !distinguishable heap in a moment, and yet through accord to come into the general plan and adopt the | 48 and nights these men keep their places. Last same laws and institations as the rest of the country. 4 Week, Without a moment's rest or relaxation, one ) these trains fought jor twenty eigtt hours bank of show, ouly two miles a in length, betore 1 was obliged to allow them all their ancient laws and | broken. One white man and two Chinamen were | crushed to death, but, ax in bactle, tho fallen were car- ried to the rear, and the fight against the storm never retwxed until the way was cleared, To ride through the snow at Emigrant Gap and Bine Canyon is ike floating at the bottom canal the banks of which | are twenty leet high, Tats slows how patiently an persisienily the work ha gone on, Against storm, the cold, the avalanc the tire and sseam ao iron these men have toned, flanking and conquering | winter in his very stronghold, though hacked by every | one of his prime ministers, Men on pattie telds tight | ior glory and for the kind remembreaces ef thele countrymen, Mew make saperiumen exertions rights” THR REPUDLIC COMING. As to his own hopes, he said, he had by no means | abandoned them, | “The present government," he said, ‘cannot last long. The Red Republic is fast approaching, My cousin will be in hi torn overthrown, and the state of | anarchy whieh existed in Spain for the last ten years will be renewed. Then will be my opportanity. | ISAK tte “Do you think the fevolution will come trom pe aye ., eeu te eyo motes be i publicans or the partisans of Isabella?” their beroie and self-sacrificing acts, we will ery “From tho republicans, of courte Isabella would | we understand their reward is $2 por day,