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4 Mn ’ ’ “ j 4 é . , F 7 ‘ amount of this diversion, but the utmost that fs expected from it is to prevent an election by the people and give the choice of the Gov- ernor tothe Legislature. It seems to be con- veded by the republicans that the Legisla- ture will be democratic, which will secure to that party both the Governor (if there should be no election by the people) and the United States Senator. The election is expected to be close, and the actual result may not be known until nearly all the returns shall have been received. Don't Let Us Fight Without a Flag! South Carolina, and especially the city of Charleston, has reason to be proud of her Revolutionary record and may well celebrate its principal events. There will bea ‘Cen- tennial Fair” in Charleston on the 18th of April, at which the Irish military of the State will take charge of a table to be known as the “Jasper Table,” the proceeds of which will be used for the erection of a monument in commemoration of ‘the first victory gained during the war of American Independence.” On the 28th of June, 1776, Fort Moultrie was bombarded by the British fleet and the colors were shot from the flagstaff. They did not long remain on the ground. An Irish soldier, Sergeant Jasper, leaped over the parapet of the palmetto fort, seized the colors, and, under the fire of the enemy, nailed them to their position. The brave soldier turned to his comrades and said, “Don’t let us fight without a‘ flag!” Itis proper to honor such a memory as this, and the Irish military of the Palmetto State are right in appealing to their fellow country- men for assistance in raising the monument. The Executive Committee are:—James J. Grace, Captain Irish Rifle Club ; John Burke, Captain Irish Volunteers ; P. Fogarty, Cap- tain Irish Volunteer Rifle Club; A. G. Magrath, Jr., Captain Montgomery Guards ; P. Slattery, Captain Emmet Guards; and eontributions may be sent to Mr. Simon Fogarty, No. 96 Broad street, Charleston. “Don't let us fight without a flag!” has its écho in American hearts, though a century has passed since the Irish hero uttered the glorious words. ‘Tue Szrmons YEsTerpay were not of that ‘prilliant order which makes the page whereon. they are printed flash with corruscations of religious fire at every line, but they are well worthy of study, for under the penitential ashes of the Lenten season the Christian searcher will discover the incandescent em- bers, To the Catholic Church it was Passion Sunday, and doubtless the influence of the solemn days preceding the Passion of Christ was felt in churches that no longer divide the year in the Roman fashion. Mr. Beecher preached a sermon, subdued in tone, on the Immortality of the soul; Mr. Hepworth, in praise.of the Bible; Mr. Smith lauded the revivalists ; Mr. Gunnison criticised coldness in worship; Dr. Reid bade an interesting farewell to the old Methodist house of wor- ship in Greene street ; Dr. Howland pleaded for singleness of act and purpose, and other divines whose sermons are reported con- tributed in their way to the upholding of the lamp of the Gospel for all mankind. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Red currants in Texas. Moulton and Butler are seen much together. ‘The Chicago base ball clubs bave clected their asinines, ‘The Philadelphia Times prints in largo letters “Dam Disasters.” That's so; darn ’em. P A subterranean cataract has been discovered in a mammoth cave of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Von Biilow, tho Saxon, says that the only popular vane he plays is “Liszten to the Mocking Bird.” Thirty thousand scals crawl up on the rocks of the Palifornia coast and wonder whetber people are happy. Emerson bates interviewing, limits strange callers to len minutes, and thinks a man a thief who stays longer. The Boston Journal says:—‘‘ ‘You have lost your little hatchet’ is the polite way of telling a man what he is when he is one,” Lotta says sho has a lot o’ money, and will hereafter live within the gray-biue sea-fog that bangs over San Francisco and Oakland. Dio Lewis says that wine is worse than whiskey. How many times have we warned Mayor Wickham to give up wine? A Sacramento men feeds his rats on yeast cakes and then on flour, and by tho time they begin to ‘raise’ they are very well-bread rats. The bonded debt of the city of Augusta, Ga, is $2,000,000 or over, and it consists mainly of bonds for yelping canal and railway enterprises, In Newburg, N. Y., over the shop ofa dyer, is a tign, “I dyo to live and live to dye.” That man ought to have been a blacksmith or a proof reader. The cotton mills of Georgia and South Carolina pay from filteen to twenty-six per cent on inyosted capital, which is better than cotton planting or sugar growing. In Colorado they speak about their Italian climate merely because when a man gets up in the morning he eels as it he were going round with a lot of plaster mages on his head. Mr. Watterson compiains that there won't be many spples in Kentucky this year, but he is hopeful that ast year’s distilleries, with a little watering, will tide tim over till next season, This is the time of year when a fellow has to go around looking at new seventy-five cent whitewash brushes, and wondering whether he will buy a Stein- way or a Chickering. Secretary Alphons> Taft, of the War Department; General William T. Sherman and General Orlando M. Poe and Colonel Joba E. Tourtellotte, of the General’s staff, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Washington. * The Cincinnati Saturday Night says:—‘‘Sappho was about the first woman who struckalyre, There may have been other women as able as herself, but the lyres. were scarce.’ Sappho could have struck a heap of them in Congress assembled. Ben Butler ought to know that if he tries to get the nomination for Congress in his district the friends o* Dana will oppose him. Butler does not believe in catching fies with sugar. He tries to scoop ‘em in by the handfal, and sometimes slowly opens his hand to find that he basn’t got a single fly. Two professors at Basle have succeeded in collecting & series of manuscripts in the original handwriting practised during the Latin era of Cwsar, Virgil, Horaco, Augustus and the beginning of the Christian Gissemination. But what America needs is a man who can make bis mark in a No. 11 shoe. Brown told his neighbor on the car that this puff of sweet spi weather made him wonder whether he Would spend the sumrrer in the White Mountains or ruralize with a bit of Adirondack landscape. Then he went home and carried sixty-eight pails of water out wf the cont cellar and crawled to bed with the rheumatism, The Washington correspondent of the Alfa California says that Senator Booth’s particular gad-a-bout in Washington is General Nelson, ex-Minister to Mexico; that Booth never strikes twice in the same place; that Sargent’s practical sense beats him every time, and that in foto Booth 1s theoretical and not practical in politica, ‘The Oneida Community, with its Wallingford sub- sommnunity, has issued the first number of The Ameri- san Socialist. The idea promulgated is that God made ul things equal; that men and women should possess il! things in common. Though these communists have @any human qualities and many doctrines of life that waken admiration, their theory of the sexes, however conservative in practice, is shocking and worse than NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL CABLE NEWS From All Parts of the World. WAR IN MEXICO. Porfirio Diaz in Possession of Matamoros. AMERICAN NAVAL MOVEMENTS. Queen Victoria to Negotiate a Surren- der to the Kaiser. BRAZIL AND DENMARK. Premier Disraeli Likely to Coneede a Point of the Titles Bill, ‘MEXICO. GEXERAL PORFERIO DIAZ IN POSSESSION OF THE CITY OF MATAMOROS—THE RBEVOLUTIONIST ADVANCE AND DEMAND—A PARTY OF LERDO'S SOLDIERS PRONOUNCE AND JOIN THE REBEIS— UNITED STATES MAVAL ACTION—FAMILIES IN FLIGHT TO AMERICAN SOIL, Browssvitie, Texas, April 2, 1876, At five o’clock this morning General Porferio Dias presented himself with his army ot about a thousand men to attack Matamoros, General de Ja Barra, incommandof the garrison, sent out a force of some 300 men, under General To- ledo, to attack the enemy. THE SOLDIERS ‘‘PRONOUNCE”? AND JOIN DIAZ, This force “ pronounced’? when out of tho city and came back in the ranks of Diaz, The National Guard, 1,000 strong in the city, and the artillery, refused to fire a single shot when ordered by de la Barra, and the revolutionists kept advancing. On this all the government troops turned over ex- cept the Ninth Cavalry, which held Qrm. BETRAYED ON THE BATTLEFIELD, After some fighting, General de la Barra, seeing that he was betrayed on the sbattlefield, left the city with a aquad of the Ninth Cavalry for Brownsville, ‘THE PARTY FIRED UFON, At the sentinel station on the river opposite Brownsville the guard fired a volley at the party, thinking they were enemies. SAFELY OVER, ‘The General crossed over, finally, and is now here, NAVAL PROTECTION. ‘The United States ganboat Rio Bravo is in front of Matamoros to protect American and foreign citizens. DIAz’S RECEPTION, General Diaz is in Matamoros and has been received with great rejoicing. STILL FIGHTING, At the present writing fighting is going on at Forts San Fernando and Casa Mata, a fortification in the suburbs of Matamoros, by a remnant of the govern- ment troops, under command of Colonels Cristo and Parrott, who retuse to surrender, The artillery is roaring and the contest is uncertain. FAMILIES IN FLIGHT. Hundreds of families from Matamoros have been pouring into this city for a week past in anticipation of the battle, and the greatest excitement prevails on both sides of the river. DISARMED UNDER ORDERS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘The officers and troops who crossed over to Texas have been arrested and disarmed by General Potter and taken to Fort Brown, under the orders of the Seo- retary of War. ENGLAND. THE TITLE OF EMPRESS LIKELY TO BE ABAN- DONED BY THE CABINET—ARISTOCRATIO ‘‘wHIPB” HUNRING UP LIBERAL PEERS— CAMERON LANDED. Loxpox, April 2, 1876. ‘The Observer to-day says it is reported in political circles that the government intend to announce to- morrow the abandonment of the title of Empress, but ‘wilt persevere with the Royal Titles bill. THR ARISTOCRATIC LIBERALS IN ACTIVE OPPOSITION, Parliamentary ‘“‘whips’”’ have been sent out to urge the liberal peers to be in their seats on Monday to sup- port the Earl of Shaftesbury’s motion for an address to the Queen praying her not to assume the title of Empress. i, CAMERON LANDED PROM AFRICA. Lieutenant Cameron, tho African exploror, arrived at Liverpool to-day in the steamer Congo. A large crowd was at the steamer dock to receive him, and he ‘was warmly cheered on landing. GERMANY. ‘WHAT QUEEN VICTORIA MAY CONCEDE TO THE EMPIRE. Benurx, April 2, 1876. The Vossische Zeitung publishes a rumor that the forthcoming interview between Queen Victoria and the Emperor William is for the purpose of concludii + treaty for the cession to the German Empire of the right of the Duke of Edinburgh as heir presumptive | to the Duehy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE ARMY LIKELY TO RESIGN. Lowpos, April 3, 1876. The Daily Telegraph's special trom Berlin intimates that General Von Moltke wil probably resign his office as Chief of Staff of the Army at the conclusion of his furlough, and be succeeded by General Wartensleben. RUSSIA. THE CZAR's JOURNEY—TO MEET EMPEROR WILLIAM—DOM PEDRO TO VISIT THE IM- PERIAL FAMILY. Sr. Prrenssvec, April 2, 1876, ‘The programme ot the Czar’s journcy is officially an- bounced, ‘ TO MERT THE KAISER. His Majesty goes to Ems e end of April, sojourn. ing at Berlin a few days on the way. From Ems he goes to Jugenheim and afterward returns to Russia for the military mancuvres, IN THE SUMMER AND ACTUMS. During the summer he will go to HM gfors, and next to Warsaw. After reviowing the troops im various places he will accompany the Empress to Livadia, whence he will return to St. Petersburg late in the autumn, EMPEROR AND KING. ‘The Emperor of Brazil and the King of Denmark will visit the imperial family during the summer, ‘THE EMPEROR SAID TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH. Loxpox, April 8, 1876, The Rossian Telearsohic Agency declares that all j “sports of the ill health of the Czar, his journey to Malta and so forth, are wholly unfounded, FRANCE, ‘THB PRESS REGULATION LAW MODIFIED BY THE MINISTRY. Loxpos, April 3, 1876. The Paris despateh to the Times reports that the gov- ernment has sent a circular to the Pretects cancelling j the instructions issued by the late Minister Buffet, | whieh granted the arbitrary power of withdrawing licenses from newspaper agents if they sold papers Bot approved of by the autnorities. | ITALY. 4 WELL KNOWN PARLIAMENTIST DEAD. Loxpon, April 3, 1876, A @espatch from Rome to the Daily News ai Bounces the death of ex-Deputy Lobbia, the attempt to assassinate whom excited the whole ef Italy some years ago, TURKEY. PAYMENT OF RAILWAY BONDS INTEREST POST- © PONED, Constantixorie, April 2, 1876, The postponement until July of the payment of the April coupons of the loans of 1869 and 1873 railway bonds is officially announced. The reason given tor the postponement is that the government does not wish to have recourse to onerous loans, GREAT POWERS LIKELY TO INTERVENE IN THE HERZEGOVINIAN DIFFICULTY. Loxpox, April 3, 1876. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin despatch says the ne- Rotiations for the pacification of Herzegovina are now regarded as having fallen through. The Powers seriously contemplate armed interven- tion. If this should prove unavoidable they will give notice of their intention to maintain the peace of Europe PORTUGAL. 4 STEAMER OUT OF PORT WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE AMERICAN EXPOSITION. Loxpox, April 3, 1876, A telegram to the Daily News trom Lisbon an- nounces that the steam transport India has sailed from the Tagus with a cargo of exhibits for the Phila- delphia Exhibition. The steamer is to touch at the Azores for additional contributions, SPAIN. THE MINISTER OF MARINE RESIGNS HIS PORT- FOLIO. Manrip, April 2, 1876, Admiral Durau, Minister of the Marine, has re- signed, and is succeeded by Senor Autequera, + CUBA. 4 MARQUIS SHOT FOR INSULT TO A GENTLEMAN. Havaxa, April 2, 1876 In one of the courts yesterday, after an angry con- troversy over a claim, the Marquis of Argudin, as he was leaving the court room, struck Senor Sanchez Isnagua. The latter pulled out a revolver and shot the Marquis, who died this morning. The parties are wealthy and well known. ASSAULT ON A BUFFALO EDITOR. Burrato, April 2, 1876. At fifteen minutes to three o’clock this morning a gang of roughs aasaulted J. B. Adams, editor of the Sunday Leader, while on his way, in chargo of the | forms of the Leader, to the office where the press was, to have the paper printed. An assailant struck tho forms three times with an iron mallet, leaving holes in the face of the type, but as the forms were resting on aframe they did not “pi.” Mr. Adams escaped injury. | Four well known ‘prison birds” and roaghs have been arrested for the offence, atfd tho names of the others areknown. Mr. Adams claims the attack was insti- gated by enemies, whom he knows, who hired the gang, and says he shall proceed against them. RAPE AND MURDER Witxesparns, Pa., April 2, 1876, Bridget O'Donnell, a woman about thirty-five ycars of age, was found dead this morning ina ficld on the marks of violonce, andit was evident from tbe sur- roundings that she bad had a desperate struggle. A post- mortem examination was held, and it was shown that her peraon had been violated and then she had been choked to death. There is, as yot, no clew to the mur- derer, but the police are in search of atramp who was seon in that neighborhood last evening. OPENING OF THE DELAWARE AND HUDSON CANAL. é Port Jervis, N. Y., April 2, 1876, Navigation on the Delaware and Hudson Canal will open on the 15th of April. Eighty cents per ton will be paid for the transportation of coal from Honesdale to Rondout, BANK FAILURE. Mitwackeg, April 2, 1876. The First National Bank of Lacrosse closed its doors yesterday. Its assets and liabilities have not been as- certained. . FATAL ACCIDENT. New Onteaxs, April 2, 1876. The hoisting apparatus ot a grain elevator on the Sixth district f mas way, farally injuring | ind Thomas Hayes, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War Deranturst, Orrics ov tHE Curer SiGxAL Urricen, Wasmixcton, April 3—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the South Atlantic States, stationary or falling barometer, warmer, cloudy and rainy weather, with northeast winds veering to southeast. For the Eastern Gulf States, rising barometer, south- ‘west to northwest winds, partly cloudy weather and Stationary temperature, For the Western Gulf States, variable, followed by | north and west winds, partly cloudy, cooler weather | and rising barometer. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, westerly winds, Stationary or rising barometer, partly cloudy and clear- ing weather, with slight changes in temperature. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val- Jeys, rising barometer, stationary or lower tempera- ture, southwest to northwest winds and partly cloudy weather, For the upper lake region, falling barometer, easterly followed by westerly winds, cloudy weather and rain or snow, with stationary temperature. Yor the lower lakes and Middle States, falling barom- eter, increasing southeast to southwest winds, and slightly warmer, cloudy and rainy weather. For New glaad, falling barometer, southerly | winds, warmer, hazy followed by cloudy weather and falling barometer. The Mississippi River continues stationary or rising and above the danger line from Cairo to Vicksburg. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in compari- | son with the corresponding date of last year, as indi: cated by the thermometer at Hudnat’s pharmacy, Henaup Building: — | 1875. 1876. 1875, 1876. 3AM. 48008280, MOF oa M. 3 6PM « 6 42 9AM 39 9 P.M « 2 39 12M. 46 127, M :8 3 Average temperature yesterday. Average temperature for correspon SUMNER'S ALLEGED FORGERY, The case of Perrine H. Sumner, the alleged Call, fornian forger, is not yet ended in the New Jersey courts, Am order, returnable to-morrow, has been issued by Judge Knapp 8 rule to show cause ¥ why wes 39) date last og } stances, Her musical accomplishmonts were displayed northern outskirts of this city. Her person bore | | zart, Rossini and Auber, Weber and Meyerbeor pos- { MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Wagner, at lust accounts, has been hard at work with | “Tristan ana Isolde’ in Berlin. An evening of English glees will be the attraction at | Chickering Hall on Thursday aext Miss Gertie Emmanuel, contralto of St. Mark’s church, gives a concert at Chickering Hall on the 2lst inst. On the Ist of May Mr. Sheridan Shook will open Gil- more’s Garden with Offenbach and an orchestra 100 strong. Nilsson will not be engaged at the Academy next season, because her terms—$1,000 per night—are con- sidered too high. The French comedy company will give its last per- formance in Philadelphia to-night, and will play “La Maitresse Légitime.”” Miss Clara Louise Kellogg and other artists appear at Chickering Hall, on Saturday evening, for the benefit of the New York Homeopathic Hospital for women. Hans Von Bilow plays in Boston to-night. He Foturas to this city for eight recitals in May, when he will play enirely new piano works—now, at least, tothe American public. Mme. Jule De Ruyther, an American artist of great culture and rare musical ability, will give a grand con- cert at Chickering Hall on the 19th inst, at which she will be assisted by several eminent artists, Mile, Belocea, the Russian contralto who has | achieved many enviable successes in Italian opera in Paris and London, will commence a geason at the Academy of Music, under Strakosch’s management, after Titiens’ departure, Signor Operti, the masical conductor at Booth’s Theatre, where his numerous compsitions have fre- quently been performed with success, and more par- ticularly during the representation of “Julius Ccesar,’? will direct in person a loug series of grand garden con- certs tg be given by a monster band during the Cen- tennial Exposition, An English company from London has made its appearance in Philadelphia with a dramatic perform- ance introducing startling optical illusions in the shape | of ghosts and goblins. The effects are something like | Protessor Pepper’s ghost, but much more wonderlul, The phantoms are not only made to gradually appear and melt away before the eyes, but float in the air with- out visible means of support and do other uncanny tricks, Mr. Max Pinnor, a New York pianist, and at present thie favorite pupil of Liszt, has met with wonderful success in Surlin, He was introduced there to Rich- ard Wagner and bad the good fortune to sce the manu- script of the overture written for the opening o! the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia, for which the | composer will receive $5,000, Hi ‘sabout it:— “The work is in the style of tho *Kaiser-Marsch,’’ but even | more brilliant and effective. Toward the end the sounds of artillery and distant musketry firing will be intro- duced,’? Not long since Miss Neilson was ruddenly indisposed quring her engagement at a London theatre, and, as she was unablo to appear that evening, the manage- ‘ment was obliged to hastily procure a substitute, An ambitious young American girl, just finishing her studies for the stage, was allowed to take Miss Netlson’s Place with much trepidation on the part of tho stage manager. Colone! Forncy, in his letters to the Phila- delphia Press, describes how astonishing was the suc- cess of this daring débutante, who ventured a com- parison with Miss Neilson herself in her great charac- ter, as Juliet. The nameof the American girl was Miss Beatrico Strafford, of San Francisco, who, having | completed her studies, will make her first appearance | in her native country at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, on the 10th inst., in the part of Juliet in Shakespoaro’s sentimental tragedy. The London Ezaminer thus speaks of an American artist in connnetion with the recent production of ; Listz's oratorio, ‘Die Heilige Elisabeth,” in the English | metropolis:—“‘Considering the difficulties of their | parts, one and all deserve our fullest approval. But especial praise is due to the impersonation of the heroine by that charming American artist, Mrs. Osgood. She did, indeed, tully impersonate the part, identifying herscif with the subtlest changes of emotion Indieated by the music. Her sympathetic voico greatly assisted her in doing justice to the meck saintliness of the Hungarian maiden. A slight tendency toward senti- mentality was quite pardonablo under the circum- to greatest advantage in the death scene of Elizapeth— fn exceedingly intricato picce of musical declamation, In tho last sentence, ‘And unto Thee, my Father, my | spirit 1 commend,’ the voice is left almost without any harmonic support; but Mrs, Osgood’s intonation re- mains perfectly pure and unembarrassed.”’ ‘Sixty distinguished masicians, including three who have obtained reputation as composers, have signed a memorial for presentation to the Senate of the Univer. sity of London, pray’ wat body will exercise its | power of “granting the faculty of music,” Neither Sir Julius Ben ct nor Sir Michael Costa nor Mr. Arthur Sathivan appears to have taken a musical degree, anid it is quite certain that Beethoven and “Mo. sessed no right to designate themselves doctors or even bachelors of music. Some great composers were, it is true, less fortunate than theso, since, having -ventured to England, they were here caught, and whether they liked it or not, dubbed ‘‘doctor.’’ Haydn did not, wo beheve, oscape this humiliation, though it is by no means correct in the present day to speak of the old master as Dr. Haydn. Mendelssohn, however, was not only madoa doctor, but is often called one. In Englisn editions of “Elijah” the composer 1s called on the title page Dr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Thore is no more harm perhaps, 1n offering to a distinguished musician the | degree of doctor of music than there was In making the Emperor Nicholas a doctor of civil law, Offered | to Rossini the compliment would have been not with- out irony, and it would doubticss have been accepted by the witty composer of so many beautiful operas which the musically learned have always despised as an excellent joke. It may be of advantage to « teacher of music to bear the title of doctor, though, as a matter | of fnct, it would be difficult to name many celebrated | teachers whose names have been so adorned. It will | be remembered that neither Sir Sterndale Bennett nor Mr, Macfarren took the title of doctor until long after their fame had been established, and then only with a view to or im connection witha universily professor. ship NOTES OF CIVILIZATION. An oar factory has been established at Corry, Pa, A Mormon revival is in progress in Lilly Dale, P@rry county, Ind. A Chinaman at Auburn, Cal., recently found an old tin can containing $248 in gold coin. Extensive farming operations are going on in Kan- sas, ground will be brought under cultivation than in any other previous year. ‘A school for shepherds has been established at | Rambouliet, France, where young men over fifteen are | instructed in the science of husbandry. The course is for two years. 3, 1876.—TRIPLE SHEET. | to one of them, 4, INSPECTING THE. PORTS, Secretary Taft and’General Sherman Make a Tour Down the Bay. INCIDENTS OF THE TRIP. General Sherman’s Opinion of Bel- knap and Babcock. SECRETARY TAFT’S FORTHCOMING ORDER. a Panted by the General of the Army, General Sherman, and General Hancock, made an informal visit to Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth and to Sandy Hook, The party left Washington on Saturday night, and arrived in Jer- sey City about half-past six yesterday morning. They | at once went on board the steamer Henry Smith, which | was lying at Jersey City waiting for them. Of General Sherman's staf there were present Gencral 0, M. Poe and Colonel Tourtollotte; General Hancock was accom- panied by Generals Fry and Sawtelle and Captain War undertook this visit, informal as it was in charac- the writer that tho present exigencies of his po- sition in Washington are such that Sunday is about the only day upon which he could absent himself; that he was anxious to form the personal acquaintance of the officers at the various stations at once, as the length of their stay at any one place is so uncertain, and those who are at present within casy distance might in a week or a fortnight be faraway. It was tho express desire of the Secretary of War to mark his mindfulness of the Lord’s Day. 1n consequence orders were issucd that the ordinary Sunday parade at the forts visited should not be departed from, and that the usual salute of guns should be omitted, This order was strictly adhered to, It may be further remarked that in order to | emphasize this respect for tho day, all visiting officers, including General Sherman, were in civilians’ clothes, TAFT REGULATIONS, It is generally understood that tho Secretary of War will, ina few days, issue an order defining the powers and sphere of action of the General of the Army, and that for this reason, as well as for the one given above, he was anxious as far as possible to make himself ac- quainted with the working of the present system at some of the chief stations of the army, that system having under tho late Secretary widely diverged from what it originally was and from what the best interests of the army seem to demand. It may, too, on this oc- casion, be said that the reasons alleged by somo jour- nals for General Sherman's removal of the headquar- ters of the army to St. Louis, although true, are by no means the only or the strongest ones, Long previous to General Shorman’s move to St. Louis it had been, among officers high in command, what the Germans call a public secret, that Belknap eral of the Army over the army almost nomiual. As will bo seen below. General Sherman states this cato- gorically, aud gives it as one of the main reasons why he concluded that, with the powers left to him, he could exercise his command quite as well at St. Loui: as at Washington. This, added to cogent family rea- sons, determined the General in favor of St. Louis, Now, it would seem that the cen:ralizing policy of the Belknap régime is hardly approved of by the present Secretary of War, and that a distinct departure from that policy will bo marked in his forthcoming order. But of this more anon, ‘THK IN8PKCTION, On their arrival at Fort Hamilton the illustrious visitors were received by General Getty and the offl- ata little alter ninc A. M. The weather was all that could be desired. The light battery of ariillery, com- thanded hy,Major Sinclair, was first inspected. This occupted but a short time, and ended by the battery filing past the Commander-in.Chief, who, noticing that one of the teams consisted of four instead of six horses, drew Major Sincl: The latter said humorous! the horses down.’ rejoinder was: | “Keonomy.” Then followed 1 inspection of the whole command on tho parade ground of the fort, During the parade it was easy to sec how quickly Gen- eral Sherman’s Uetecied the veteran, Walking up the extremo leit of a company, he asked him how long he had been in the service, “Twenty-three years,’’ said the artillery man. “How do you like this?’ said the Goneral, laying his hand upon the new sealskin knapsack of the soldier. “Not so well as the old one, General.” “Why not? “Because it deags one down more than the old one, and bumps against the loins on the march.’’ ‘The Secretary was listening, and possibly making a mental note of the objection, when sonvrous Voice of General Hancock was heard:—*That does not matter very much, Mr. Secretary ; they do very well i ue of Peace, and in time of war the soldiers put ai Cy ali difficulties by not carrying them."? A smile trom t new Secr was recorded tu the credit of the soldier’ sagacity. Alter the men bad been dismissed, the Sec- retary of War was shown through the men’s barracks, and, though evidently struck by the admirable order and neatness apparent in every detail of Genoral Getty's command, atill made the soldiers’ reading room the subject of especial rema: the writer, observing that he was giad thi: Ty material point of the soidiers’ wellbeing and possible means of improvemeut was itably cared for, After the inspection of the fort the officers were received at General Getty'’s house by the Secretary and the Commander-in-Chief, The steamer ‘was then boarded, as the next point to be visited was Fort Wadsworth. THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESR, A council of war waa held upon the writer in the mid- die of the little pier. The Henanp man had re- quested General Getty to pero A tell General Sherman that, if Dot an imadmissible request, he, the Heratp man, would esteem it a great courtesy to be allowed to accompany the party, Upon hearing tho prompt “Where is het’? The writer stood vefore the poaker, “What do you say, Mr. Secro- 8 one of the irrepressibles."” The exalted court of cne thas appealed to smiled ben! ntly upon the culprit and bowed urbanely to him the case back to the General. Upon the Hrnato m: at he would use necessary discretion, hi kindly wed to join the party, and was svon on boara the Henry Smith, The run to Fort Wadsworth was quickly accemplished, Uvon nearing it the ravazes of the late heavy rains could be seen very marked upon the steep carthworks. Dcep and numerous onder channels gaped in strong con- trast to the faded green of the grass covering the rest ot the works, while the quantity of gravel carried down to the base of the fort showed how strongly the fingers of the storm king had been drawn down its Precipitous sides. A flight of wooden steps, trying to weuk lungs and obesity, led to the top of the first trav- erse; thence tho interior of the fort was reached by a gentle incline. AT FORT WADSWORTH. It should be stated that the party was met at the A Williamsburg (3. C.) justice tried a case some time since, involving the larceny vf a ciay pipe, valued at one cent; a mistrial was ordered in the tirst instance, | and a new trial ordered; the proceedings cost the county $32 Protesaot cAffee, of the Jowa Agricultural College, | says that “away back In the years lowa was cov by an arid sea, and this sea deposited what is known the lowa Potsdam sandstone, which underlies 1 whole of lowa.’? “ The colored Christians of Augus' ligious ceremony which they call Feypt. The worshippers meet about nine in tl evening, and, amid solemn chanting, march around tn acircle boar alter hour. Thoso who hold out until daybreak are considered the choxen ones destined for heaven, but those who fail by the wayside are not in a state of grace. The Augusta Journal says that thero wero several large sales of we made at Gardiner, Me., on rate 8 and at-good prices. The Oaktand Ice Company sold 6,000 tons to parties in New York; the nebec Ma- tual, 7,000 tons to the same partie 6,000 tom land to the same parties for a less sum. Centennial Company, of Gardiner, have sold to the pee ker Company, of New York, 20,000 tons at PICKPOCKET CAUGHT. Last evening while Mra. Margaret Graham, of No. 43 North Third street, Williamsburg, was crossing the East River in company with her husband ona H on street ferryvoat, William Ryan, thirty-one years of age, was seen tolift her overskirt and insert his hand into her pocket. An alarm was at once given, and Mr. Grabam seized and held the thief, Ho was gi to the charge of an officer as soon as the boat reac! he foot of Grand street, Mra. Graham lost her pocket book, which contained some small change ree reached the station house it was not found on he lived in East New York, He was the order to hola to bail should va. cated. Several writs of it against Sumner are now jhe Sheriff of Hudson county, im the bands of landing by Col Gibson. The troops wore found m- ide the fort up ready for inspection. outset a rather touching episode occurred. The thira tan from the extreme left of the first company in- spected was bate-headed and divested of arins and accoutrements. As the Secretary and General Sher- man were passing him he stoud torward, saluted and petitioned for a commutation of tne sentence he was undergoing. “What was the offence ?’’ said the Secretary. sertion,”’ replied the soldier, and, as he sald so, his face bleached and his lip quivered, It was impossi- bie not to feel for the man. “and the sentence ?”’ rejoined the Secretary. “Eight months anda ball imprisonment and $120 fine,” said the artuleryman. “You K the renten spection ton, Colonel Gibson, however, drew the Secretwry’s ention to the fact that several of the cusemates At the extreme end of the fort drawn up, made conspic- g trowels which oveupied the upon their rifles, General Hancock ion of the Secretary to these Masouic ‘pon being appealed to for his hese now armaé the General emphatically pro- nounced against them as replacing the bayonet. He thought that the idea ot the suidiers carrying a trowel for the purpose of throwing up earthworks was an ex- cellent one, but that it should be carried at the side, and pot on the rifle, He ‘concluded by saying, with quiet humor, that the time was whon the people wanted to oust General McClellan from the command of the army because he threw up earshworks, and now they want to sive every soldier a trowel. “Old soldi said General Sherman, dryly, to the honing 2 ‘alwa' oppose novelties, One din tinguished officer percussion musket.” the ‘Thi sally produced a laugh in which General Han- cock heartily joined. “The question must be decided by you young men,”’ emid the General to the officers by whom he was sur- SOUTH CAROLINA'S ORDERLY—AN EPISODE. of Gen. an More episode indicative 7s the ee oe Yesterday the Secretary of War, Judge Taft, accom- } Muchell. It may bo stated here that the Secretary of ter, on Sunday with much reluctance, He told | had succeeded in making the control of the Gen- | cers of the fort. The usual Sanday parado took place | General, you have cut | request the General immediately turned round, with a | really do not know what to say to 11,” | t referred | looking, but stalwart orderly sergeant in ome of thé cusemates and, walking up to him, said:— “How old are your’? “Twenty-three, General,”? “You are a very young man to be an orderly sere geal Is this your first enlistment?” General.” Then, remember,” replied the General, “that tt te such men as you that Congress is going to pake lieve tenants. Do you know apy mathematics”? “Very litle, G: ” “Then get books and begin at once, It is just such pe you that we want, To what State do you bee jong?" “To South Carolina.” “South Carolina!” said the General, musingly, as be turned and left. The little steamer's bow was next turned toward | Sandy Hook, where the visiting party was met by | Colonel Crispin. Major McKee extended the heartiess welcome to the now considerably increased party of visitors. AT SANDY HOOK, It is needless here to describe the symmetrical desert of granite forming the huge radiments of a fort om Sandy Hook, Upon bemg asked when it would probably be tinished, General Hancock glanced a colossal note of interrogation at the writer, The examination of the Various guns occupied a considerable time, but it was shorn of some of its inserest by the fact of the Sutelifia | three and nine-inch breech loaders and the Thompson | twelve-inch gun having already been sent on to t! | Centennial Exhibition, Major MacKee kindly explain | to the writer that the experiments pow being carried ; on at Sandy Hook hed im view the uti! ig of our present ordnance, by the economical conversion of the | Rodman guns into rifled pieces by the inset. | tion of a rifled tube. ‘lhus stated, the | Work sounds simpie enough, but the array | of mathematical calculations required to determi | ininal velocity, dead impact, accuracy. &c., | ts enough to appal even an enthusiastic mathematier Alter the inspection the party was invited to a colla- | tion by Colonel Crispin, Afier an intel a | adieus the Henry y tou, where General Getty and party were landed, an@ | the steamer’s bow pointed to New York. | SHERMAN ON BELKNAP AND RAUCOCK, | On the way up the writer nad an opportunity of" eliciting General Sherman's views upon some matter® | which have of late engrossed the public mind, | “It is held, General,’ said fe writer, “thet | reasons given for your removing the headquarters the army from Washington to St. Louis were not omy | partial, but were not really the main ones, Masy | Maintain that the inharmonious relations. bet yourself and the ex-Secretary of War, resulting from | his encroaching upon your domain, was the chi | cause,” | General Suxemax—My relations with General Belknap were not inhurmonious, but it is a fact that he had a sumed to himself so much that of right belonged to t duties of the General of the army, that 1 found what was left me to do. could be as weil done in St, Lour in W: Having, too, strong family reasons for 0 St, Louis, and preierring it residence to Washington, I determired, with the concurrence of the President, to go there. RevorteR—Rumor now has it that it is probable you will, under the new state of things, return to Wash- | ington. General SuxrMax—I cannot speak positively as to any such probability; but I shall certainly go wherever the best interests uf the army, as indicated to me by those who have a right to do so, may require me, But in any case, my family will reside in St, Louis, because Tlook upon it as, in many ways, a more desirable place of residence than Washingto' Revorter—Do you not think, General, that the case of ex-Secretary Belknap and of General Babcock will do something toward clearing the atmosphere of Wash- ington ? General SuxrMax—It certainly ought to have some such effect, Those who know the state of things in Washington well were not much surprised. Matters had to culminate, and it 18, perhaps, as well they did at the present as at any future time. Rerorter—But the public look at General Babcock’s case with feelings different trom those with which they regard General Belknap's. General Suxnmax—With regard to General Belknap I would simply say that 1 think nis fall is mainly attribute | able to the fact that he wished to assume duties and re- sponsibilities for which he was not qualified and which Properly belonged to others. General Babcock's tall, as you have observed, struck home to the heart of the American people, inasmuch as he is a West Point mao, and bas clouued the high repute in which graduates of West Point are held. But we must expect, in every | army, to find some woak men, and General Babooel | lke others who have at times to be dismissed the ser. | vice, merely proves the rule by the exception, nothing more. RevortER—Do you think it likely that a military | court of inquiry will be held in his case, in view of the | fresh evidence accumulating against him ? General Suxamax—Under present circumstances ¥ do not seo what a court of imquiry could effect, If could only pronounce as to whether there wus ground for inquiring into given charges or not. Such a cours can only be held either by order of the President of on the demand of the accused; and, as it has no power to punish, I do not sec whatit could do, especially aa Congress has the case in hand. POST TRADERSMIPS. Revorter—Would you allow me to ask you, General, what is your opinion with regard to the post tradete ships? | General Saxrwax—There have undoubtedly been | great abusos in the appointment of the post traders, or, | as they used to be called, sutlers. It is clear to me | that officers in commaud are the best judges of the fit- ness of applicants, and tne post trader ought to be selected by a board of officers and his name simply | submitted to the Secretary of War for approval. Ie | case of an unfavorable decision on the Secrotary’s | part, let the Board go on selecting and submitting | patil an applicant acceptable to both parties has beem found. Rerorter—How do you look spon the transfer o } the Indian Bureau to the Army Department? | General Suxrmas—I am ot opinion that it will be ia | every way beneficial to the Indians, No men in the | country are better acquamted with the Indians than Mcers on the tronticr, nor are there any in whom the | Indians have so much confidence when once thetr | word ia pledged. The transfer will be the solution of @ } long and weary ing difficulty. | Rerorter—Do youn incline to believe that the Indiay | war will be as long and bloody as many people sup 80? | PeGeneral Suaxaax—I do not. It te probable that many Inglians will cxcape, but 1 do not here th¢ | elements fora tong war are, The Indians aro really | not strong and can be readily dealt with. | The Heravp man refrained trom troubling the new ! Secretary of War with questions, and the conversation was ag 6 conventional; in fact, the new S had but itttle time for talking. bis attention being | monopolized in taking mental notes of what he saw. Upon tho arrival of the steamor at tho foot of Twenty-fourth street Secretary Taft's party at onoe went to the Fifth Avenac Hotel. To-might the Secre: tary returns to Washirgton, General Shermat expected to remain ip the city a day or 60 longer, AN INSANE WOMAN'S FREAK. About noon yestorday Mrs. Bridget Dawis, of No, 256 | Division avenue, Williamsburg, while laboring undor » | fit of insanity, attempted to throw herself from the second story window of her residence, after smashing the sash with her arms, The cuts sho received are very severe. Her husband was compelled to take hor | to the station nouxe on Fourth street, where her | wounds were dressed by Police Surgeon Feeley. She | was then taken home, very weak from loss of bl HOUSE ROBBED. Tho new building in the course of erection om the corner of Ewen and Ten Eyck streets, Williamsbarg, was robbed yesterday of all the brass cocks, a quantity | of lead pipe and the plumbers’ and carpenters’ tools had been left there. Mr. George Weber, the con! Bays the loss will aggregate $20u, HOTEL ARRIVALS, Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock, of Nebraska, ts re, siding at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Congressman Frank Jones, of New Hampshire, is registered at the Windsor Hotel, Captain A. G. Porter, of tne steamship Repub- | lie, is at the St. Denis Hotel, J. A. Oulmet, M. P., of Montreal, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Massachusetts, is so- journing at the Brevoort House, Colonel J. A. and, United States Consul at Havre, i at the Fil | Avenue Hotel. William Hunter, Second Assistant S¢o | retary of State, 1s at the Astor House, \ DIED. 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