The New York Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1876, Page 9

. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1876.—QUADRUPLE SHEET, ; Pees SERS hae the year has been nearly a third greater than that of 1875, the increase being principally in silver. The Director seems fully com- mitted to the double standard, and argues in its favor with a directness which, will delight the silver producers ; he would have the legal tender limit of silver increased to ten dollars, and make it, after resumption, a legal tender to any extent, excepting for cus- toms. He recommends that the trade dollar should at once be made equal with gold to the extent of fifty dollars or one hundred dollars, and not only laughs at the idea that we can have too much silver coin, but seri- ously wonders where wo are to get enough metal from which to make it in case we resume specie payments. South Carolina’s Legislative Trouble. The democratic House in South Carolina seems to be in a good position to @in a very decided advantage over its rival, through secessions from the latter body. A sufficient number of republican representatives has already gone over to the democratic side to give Speaker Wallace sixty-two members at Carolina Hall, bearing the certificate of the Becretary of State, and exclusive of the members from the counties of Edge- field and Laurens who were rejected by the Returning Board. A single addi- tional accession will give the Wallace House sixty-three members, all duly accredited by the Secretary of State and declared regularly elected by the Chamberlain Returning Board. It is confidently expected that the required member will be secured, and then the position of the democratic House will be impregnable. The ground taken by Governor Chamber- lain in an interview with a Hgratp cor- respondent foreshadows the course that will be pursued by the republicans in. this emergency. They claim that when their House first assembled they had a quorum, excluding from the count of Yhe full House the members from the re- jected counties of Edgefield and Laurens; that no member who took the oath in the Mackey House had a right to join the demo- cratic body afterward, and that with a quorum, as the judge of the qualifications of their own members, they had a right to idmit the defeated candidates from Edge- jeld, Laurens or any other unrepre- sented counties. Of course the origi- oni position taken by the -Chamber- lain party is untenable. A quorum of ® legislative body means a majority of the number of members of which it is composed. How is the presence of a quorum ascertained in legislative business? Simply by calling the roll, and proving whether or not a major- Ity of the whole body is in attendance. A majority bill passes the House only when a majority of all the members composing the House vote in its favor. ‘There aro oe hundred and twenty-eight mem- bers of the New York State Legis- lature, of whom sixty-five are a quorum. Does any one suppose that if there should be half a dozen vacancies in the Assembly through deaths or other causes less than rixty-five would be a quorum of that body? To state the case is to prove the shallowness of the claim of the Chamberlain House to have ever had a legal quorum, and to have aver done the first legal legislative act. This is so plain that it gives color to the reports of President Grant's alleged utterances on the subject. Nevertheless the republican Benate and House proceeded yesterday with the business of counting the votes, and pf course declared Governor Chamberlain elected. PERSONAL INTELLiGENCE, Halstead has hazel eyes. Jobo Bright is at Llandudno. M. Thiers is now in good health. Mvody will have a lady to sing for him. Diphtheria may be conveyed by kissing. Paris is to have a journal of Spiritualism. There are white deer in the Tennessee woods. Georgians who emigrated to Texas are returning bome. A young Iaay of Paris sneezed for twenty-seven hours, Engligh travellors do not like Prussian soup and ebops. Harriet Prescott Spofford wiil aot spend the winter in Washington. Lord Lothian thinks that Edinburgh should have fefensive works, General Ruger is a Wisconsin man, and he votes the tepublican ticket. Big Bonanza Fair says that his home wi!! continucto be in Virginia City. Senator William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is at the Fifth Avenve Hotel, The Vicomtesse Pernetty, daughter of Baron Hanss: mann, has broken her arm by wfaliina Paris skating rink. Horace White dots not beliove that Governor Hayes will accept the Presidency on an intimidation plat- form. The pilot Osh will not eat a morsel dropped into tho Bea, but will wait for its companion tho shark to take 1. Palins, notwithstanding their woody stem and shape of leaf, have flower and fruit resembling somowbat those of rushes, ‘Tho Chinese are overrunning the Sandwich Islands, They area more respectable people than the Chinese of New York or Sau Francisco. Mr. Caleb Cushing, United States Minister to Spain, arrived at the New York Hotel yesterday from Wasn- ington, ana will sail for Europe to-day in the steam ship Parthia, Captain Burnaby was askea by his Turcoman guide which an Englishman loves best, his horse or his wife; but the author answered diplomatically, ‘That de- pends on the woman.” General Jobn tT. Morgan, United States Senator-elect from Alabama, 18 fifty-two, was born in Tennessee, is a lawyer, was in 1560 a Breckinridge elector aud was a Confederate brigadier. Ex-Senator Milton S. Latham, of California, who was Andy Jobnson’s particular (riend, and who during the summer was not expected to live, has regained his health im the neighborhood of New York. A man, ragged, yruised and penniless, who was sent to jail at Boston as acommon drunkard on Saturday, ‘was oncearich and prosperous citizen, an honored Alderman and a candidate tor Mayor of the city, is it possible that out of tne imponding war in Europe there wiil arise strong nations now in subguga- tion, but destined tu be free; that there will bo an in- dependent Hungary, an independent Poland and an independent Servia? Evening Tetegram bill of fare for minstrets:— Qrececersseoncesererecerecererersce rete revere rtae-re@ sour, 3 ; Chicken soup, made vig the hen’d man. ; FIs ; Black Osh, cooked: 10 Birch bark, 3 3 EXTRERS, © 3 3 Eggs of the “last jay’—devilled bones, 3 he Roast. ; 3 Unthe audience, when the old Christy story is 3 My Mmausarded, 3 ; VEGRTAULES. 3 Fiddle string beans, with banjovy sauce, 3 GAME, 3 ; “Jim crow,! 3 3 DESSERT. 3 Filip flaps--stumps peaches, +3 3 DRINKS, SERVED HY BACKS. 3 3 Plantation bitters—Anything with a cork ; about it penebereee tt OOrbbe 10 LO HOE COLOLO LOTTO DOH LEN ED This can bo got through with without a “break- down,” TELEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE UNSETTLED EAST. Another Speech from the German Chancellor. THE EMPERORS UNITED. Working for Peace, but War Inevitable. THE EXTRADITION TREATY. Brent Arrested and Winslow Looked For—Is the Treaty Remodelled ? THE FRENCH CABINET CRISIS. Trouble Brewing in Northern Spain— Royal Marriage Gossip, THE UNIVERSITY OARSMEN. [BY caBLE TO THE HERALD.) Loxvos, Dec. 6, 1876, The principal topic of conversation here is the speech of Prince Bismarck 1n repty to the interpellation of Herr Richter in Parliament. It is almost the samo as that delivered at the Parliamentary dinner last Friday, but fuller and more explicit. The best in- Jormed people here have been waiting anxiously for some such pronouncement from the German Chancel- lor before making up their minds ou the question of peace or war in the East, and now the most sanguine lovers of peaco—those who hope almost against hope— have finally mado up their minds that war must come, The conviction has been pretty general here all along that in Bismarck’s hands really lay tho de- cision of the question of peace or war; and, notwith- standing all his pacific professions, the one littie sen- tonuce, that ‘‘war is, perhaps, inovitable,”’ is taken as au expression of consent that Russia should peur her legions into the Turkish provinces, BISMARCK’S PARLIAMENTARY SPEECH. All the London papers contain a synopsis of the Chancellor’s speech and devote lengthy leaders to it, He began by giving tho assurance that the govern- ments of Germany and Russia would remainon the most friendly footing. The alliance of the three Em- perors still exists in its 1ull integrity. This does not, however, in the least preclude cordial friendship with Englend. Friendly relations with Russia are estab- nsbed by long traditions and Germany values them as highly as those with any other Power, SOME SLIGHT HOPES OF PEACE The Chancellor apparently expressed greater hopes of a peaceable solution of the present crisis, even should the Conterence not achieve its full object. He has no doubt that the differences now apparent between Enghsh and Russian interests will be com- posed. The endeavors of Germany continue to be directed to the maintenance of peace, THE THREE EMPIRES STILL UNITED, He repeated that the alliance between the three em- pires is close and firm, and said, ‘The hopes of ts enemies that it may be broken aro absolutely ground- less.’ He Also repeated his former assurance ot German neutrality. Should the Conference fail to achievo unanimity between the Powers and roform in Turkish administration, Germany cannot disapprove of Russia’s attempt to carry the latter measure on her own responsibility. YRIENDSHIP FOR RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. There 1s no prospect whatever of a rupture between Germany and Russia. The German Emperor, as well ag the State governments of the Empire, value and re- spect the friendship of Russia, which has stood the test of 100 years. He assured the House that, notwithstanding assertions to the contrary, boliy put forward, the relations between Russia «and = Austria. «sare. of Ss the ~—s most friendly character, But there is no menace to any other Power in the three Emperors’ alliance, Ger- many 1s attached to England by ties of long traditional friendship, and wishes to preserve that iriendship quite as much as the cordial relations with Russia. That friendship has likewise stood many a test, and the future will show it will continue firm and cordial as heretofore. y GERMANY WILL NOT INTERFERE. Prince Bismarck regards Germany and France as the two Powers loast directly interested in the present Eastern question. Germany, he satd, will, therefore remain perfectly neutral, It will not stake a single bone of a hardy Pomeranian landwehrman upon the issue. The reserve hitherto practisea vy Germany has been geuerally appreciated. It devars Germany trom pressing her advice at the present juncture upon other Powers. There is nothing whatever in the pres- ent phase of the Eastern crisis to preciude the pros- pect of the maintenance and even the contirination and strengthening of peace. To this end the exertions of Germany are directed, STILL TO WORK FOR PEACE, Even should the Conference fail to achiove its direct object, it is probable that the existing differences be- tween England and Russia will be satistactorily ad- justed. The Prince deciimed to enter upon the subject of tho future policy of Germany. Once moro he explicitly assured the House that ft is his strenuous er to preserve a friendly feoling among the great Powers, and that the imperial government will never consent to the aggrandizement of one triendiy Power at the expense of another. RETICENCE AS TO THE FUTURE, ‘The speech concluded with the following sentence :— “Our task, in the first instance, is to maintain peace; second, to medinie between the Powers in order to remove diflerences and localizethe war which is per- haps inevitable, Should wo not succeed things would assume a different aspect aud would allow of several combinations; bat upon this point I cannot yet give any information,” THE TIMES ON BISMARCK’S SPERCH. A leading article in the Times of yesterday, com- menting on Prince Bismarck’s speech, concludes as follows:—"The notion that he seriously suggests to England = sen var, like that of Russia in Servia, ig too absurd for discussion, On the conduct of England the peopie of the Contment may set their minds at rest. We shall not carry on war like that of the Russians in Servia, nor any war atall, The bellicose ovtery of a month ago has suak into silence as the lecling of the country once more manifested itself”? ‘ THE ENGLISH PEOPLE AVRRSR TO WAR, “The government ts aware,” the article contunues, ‘if all its adulators are not, that to go to Parliament with projects of war would be to court destruction. The meotings which we report aro evidence of the feelings which everywhere prevail, and it would be manifested ten times more strongly if there were any real danger that the government could thrust us into war,’’ BRIGHT AND GLADSTONE ACTIVE AGAINST TURKEY. Jobn Bright made an elaborate speech to a large meeting at Birmingham jast might agaist the govern- ment’s Eastern policy or any support of Turkey. Mr, Giaustone will participate in a conference on the Eastern question at St. Jam Hali next Friday, Many prominent liberals ond well known philan- thropists are promoters of tho affair, The object is to inflaence public opinion against supporting Turkey, BALISHCRY IN CONSTANTINOPLE, A spocial despatch from Constantinople says the Marquis of Salisbury arrived in that city at nine o'clock yesterday morning. ROUMANIA'S DEMANDS, A Paris despatch says that Roumania will submit to the Conference her programme drawn up last summer, which ts formulated with much emphasis, asserting her claim to independence and the possession of the mouths of the Danube, NICSIU NOT YET REVICTUALLED. A despatch trom Ragusa say: Notwithstanding the armistice the insurgents refuse to permit Nicsic to be revictualled. The garrison are at the last extremity. ‘The Turks are preparing to revictual the place by force. TURKISH VIOLATION OF THR TRUCE. Adespatch from Belgrade reports that a Turkish battalion has attacked a Servian outpost ata village, which had been assigned to the Servians by the Do, marcation Commissioners, The ambassadors at Con stantinople have becn notified of this violation of the truce, THE EXTRADITION TREATY. T learn that the London correspondent of the Liver- pool Courier has telegraphed to that journal as follows “Lam informed that the American government have virtually secepted the revised extradition yreaty be- tween Great Britain and the United States drawn up by England.” REVISING THE TREATY. The Crown lawyers have been for some time en- gaged in remodelling the clauses of the present treaty and drafting new clausea defining more explicitly the conditions under which extradition may be granted, The araft when completed was submitted to Mr. Fish, and although the new treaty ts not yet signed 1t has in subsiance been accepted by the Washington gov- ernment, Negotiations have progressed so far that the British authorities felt justified in rearresting the persons who owed their liberation to the late diffi culty. BRENT ARRESTED. Charles Brent, the Louisville forger, was appre- hended on Monday, and will be brought up at the Bow Street Police Court during the present week. APTER WINSLOW. E. D, Winslow, the Boston forgor, and William E, Gray, the New York forger, have not yet beon found, Iv is supposed that they received some inkling of the rearranged treaty and decamped. MR, PIERREPONT WILL SAY NOTHING, A correspondent took the foregoing to United States Minister Pierrepont, He seemed surprised to sec it in print, but said:—‘I am not in a position to say any- thing about it, one way or the other,’” ENGLISH OFVICIALS LIKEWISE RETICENT. ‘The correspondent then went to the Home Oflice, and was informed that the order for Brent's arrest was transmitted through that office, and the tact of his ar- reat was confirmed. The official could give no further information. At the Bow Street Police Court, Sir James Ingham, who has been transterred there from the Wandsworth Police Court stnce Sir Thomas Henry’s death, had issued stringent orders that no information on the subject should be made public. The corre- spondent learned, however, that Brent was in fact brought to Bow street with great secrecy, and ar- Taigned before Sir James Ingham in his private room yesterday, The proceedings are unknown, A REPORT PRORABLY TRUE. From all that could be gathered it may be inferred that the Courier correspondent’s statement is sudstan- tially correct, and that acceptance by ph of the new treaty has been ratified and that Great Britain, on faith thereof and in anticipation of the presentation of the treaty tothe United States Senate and its gain- ing publicity, have ordered the arrest of the throe accused partes, BRENT REMANDED, When discharged previously Brent enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Lancers, and was with that regiment when arrested yesterday. On an order of the Home Office Mr. Mullins, Solicitor of the London Bankers’ Protective Association, appeared for the prosecution. Brent's arrest being unknown he was not defended, Sir James Ingham will not pormit the affidavits to be inspected, but they are probably the same on which Brent was previously arrested. Brent ‘was remanded to the House of Detention, where he will remain until the treaty is ratified. PRESS CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORT, The Standard this morning states that Sir James Ingham, the Bow street magistrate, says secrecy con- cerning the arrest of Brent is observed at the request of the government. Tho Standard confirms the report that the government ot the United States has, by tele- graph, signified its acceptance of the new Extradition Treaty. THE FRENCH MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Tho ministerial crisis in France is still unsettled and the Soldier-President is soro straits to finda Prime Minister who will be sufliciently conservative and will- ing to undertake the difficult task. A despatch from Paris says:—“It appears certain that the Duke d’Audifiret-Pasquicr has positively declined to form a new cabinet. Negotiations are now pending with members of the Left and Left Centre. M. Duclercis most prominently mentioned amongst those likely to enter the new Silnistry. MACMAHONS DILEMMA, Later Paris despatches say that in consequence of the reiterated refusal of the Duke d’Audiffret-Pasquier to undertake the formation of a Cabinet, President MacMahon will hold a conference with the Presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies to-morrow. It has been ascertained that the Marshal 1s anxicus to retain General Berthant in order to establish the prin- ciple that the War Ministry will hereafter not be af- fectea by parliamentary changes. The Left has re- solved to demand the dismissal of a certain number of anti-republican functionarics, TROUBLE BREWING IN SPAIN, Thero is evidently moro trouble in storo for Spain, The troublesome Sasques are still clamoring for their cherished fueros, and do not seem disposed to submit quietiy to their abolition. A despatch trom Bilbao says there is considerable political excitement here. The Junta of Biscay have assembled in an extraordi- nary session, and it is fonred that tho Governor will dissolve it. The rewspapers recommend the people of the Basque provinces to remain quiet. ROYAL MARRIAGE GOSSIP. Its stated by some of the London papers that the obstacles to the marriage of the King of Spain with Due de Montpensicr’s aaughter have been removed, DEBATE ON THE CUBAN WAR LOAX. A special despatch from Madrid says:+'In the Son. ate yesterday debate was resumed on Marshal Concha’s motion disapproving the Cuban war loan, The Minister ot Fereign Affairs said the insurrection in Cuba, by rea- son of its attacks upon property and the atrocities which characterized it, was awar of extermination, Both Europe and America were interested in repudi- ating all sympathy with such a war, which could only result in the absolute and final triumph of Spain, THE UNIVERSITY OARSMEN, It is reported here that the Cumbridge Universjty Boat Club has declined the challenge of Yale and Cor- nell univers{ties to a four-oared race on the Thames from Putney to Mortlake iu August, 1877. * THE TROUBLE WITH DAHOMEY. Advices trom Cape Coast Castle by way of Madeira to-day state that the Dahomians are growing more threatening. Two Portuguese morchants wero stripped, flogged, carried to Abomey and their facto- ries plundered, for saying that the King ought to pay the British fine. Soven natives have been shot tor talking about yielding. According to other accounts received here, the King of Dahomey is said to be anxious to communicate directly with the British cov- ernmont and has sent Jotters to Little Popo. THR BANK OF GERMANT. The weokly statement of the Imperial Bank of Ger- many shows an increase of 3,453,000 marks, THE WEATHER, The weather to-aay is wet. THE POWDER RIVER EXPEDITION. RETURN OF GENERAL CROOK TO FORT RENO— TRE COMMAND TO SET OUT AFTER CRAZY HORSE'S BAND-—-WITHDRAWAL OF THE SHO- SHONES. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Castoxmext Rexo, Dec. 2, via Mepicine Buv, Wy., Dec. 5, 1876. The Powder River expedition returned » Fort Reno to-day, and sets out after Crazy Horse’s band in the morning, Our course will be in the direction of Little Powder River, northward from this point, Generai Crook's impression being that Crazy Horse has left tho Rosebud and 18 moving in the direction toward which we go. We carry about thirty days’ provisions. THK SHOSHONES go home tomorrow. They found the hand of a Shoshone girl and several scalps ot their people in a bostile village. More Sioux and Arrapahoes from Red Cloud are ex- A MINISTER SUSPENDED. Axuurnst, Mass., Dec, 5, 1871 The Hampshire East Mui rial Association at its weg ai'd session to-day voted to suspend indefinitely ke 0, D, Lovurop on a charge of crueity to bis family, WASHINGTON. Criticisms of the Politicians on the President’s Message. ee THE REVIEW OF HIS ADMINISTRATION, Why Nothing Was Said on the Political Situation. THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Nebimaotiieoeeeete ate Preparations for Investigating the Elections in the South, + FROM OUR SPECIAL .CORRESPONDENT. Wasuinerox, Dec. 5, 1876, COMMENTS AMONG POLITICIANS ON THE PRESI- DENT'S MESSAGE, The President caused a serious disappointment to everyboay by his silence on the events in the disputed States. It was expected that tho Message would either defend or at least report his action there. The beginning of the Message, in which the President Spoke of his inexperience in civil affairs, teuched a good many of his opponents, but when at the close be once more brought up the off Sy Domingo job, and showed his soreness over his first defeat, it must be confessed that he lost the sympathy he had before gained. It was remarked by one of the older Senators that in this Message the President showed some of the marked traits of his predecessor, Andrew Johnson, tn the apparent humility united to a stub- born determination nover to give up what be had once ‘undertaken, an inability to let a question drop no mattor bow dead it is. It was thought by some shrewd democratic politicians that the first part of the Message was well calculated to catch tho sympathies of the country ana that it would strengthen the President with the maas of the people. Some surprise is expressed that he made no recommendations and but the slightest reference to the financial question, and, when the passage was read in which he praises the management of Secretary Robeson and gives him a “character,” there was a general smile, THE DEBATE ON SENATOR EDMUNDS’ RESOLU- TION FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN FIVE SOUTHERN STATES—BLUN- DER OF THE DEMOCRATS. Inthe Senate to-day Mr, Edmunds’ preamble and resolutions tor an investigation of political affairs in five Southern Statos caused a somewhat acrimonious debate. The democ demanded that Mr, Edmunds should specify what States the constitution or laws violated the fourteenth amendment, and he seems to have been undble to do 80, They opposed tho first resolution, very properly, on the ground that an investigation should not be ordered unless specific charges were made, The first resolution was adopted by a strict party vote. On the fourth the democrats blundered. It provides for an investigation into frauds, intimidation, &c., charged in the disputed States, and is substantially the samo as the democratic resolution in the House, though it covers somewhat more ground. It was pushed to a yote, and cleven of the democratic Scnaiors foolishly voted agaisnt it. Senators Randolph, Maxcy, Wallace and a number of others, however, voted for it, and thus saved the credit of their side. MR. HEWITT'S INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESI- DENT—ALLEGED MISREPRESENTATION OF WHAT OCCURRED—THE INCONVENIENCE OF A GREAT SECRET, It is now said by republicans that Mr. Howitt must have misrepresented 1o the fourteen gentiemen whom he took into his confidence what the President said to him in the Sunday interview; also that Mr. Hewitt sought this interview, and that the President miscon-» ceived the drift of somo views, problems and sugges- tons ingeniously presented by Mr. Hewitt, and that the President did not mean what Mr. Hewitt meant It is believed that .@ memorandum is drawn up of what passed, with the fMtention to obtain an agreement upon the facts of the interview if possible, Meantime the fourteen unhappy democrats who became Mr, Hewitt’s moro or less un- willing confidauts are upon the verge of bursting, and most of them are held together with great difficulty, It is reported that one of them, a fastidious, honorable member, boing offered a share of another secret, hur_ riedly but firmly declined, saying that he could not hold any more. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasutsarox, Dec, 5, 1876, DISAPFOINTMENT OVER THE PRESIDENT'’S MES- SAGE—HIS CURT DISPOSAL OF THE PRESIDEN- TIAL CONTROVERSY AND THE REASON ASSIGNED THEREFOR. General dieappointment is felt at tho President's curt treatment of the Southern qyestion in bis Message, which document was to most readers what the play of “Hamlet” would be with the part of Hamlet loft out; As usual, nobody heard the Message when it was read in the two hoazes of Congress this afternoon, and it ‘was not until it appeared at Jongth in the evening papers that it was read and discussed. The discussion, however, was very short, just as the reading was with- out satisfaction, Surprise was expressed everywhere that the Presidential coutroversy had been dismissed in a few commonpiace sentences, when the expec tion bad been that it would form the gist of the Message. It is said to-night that at the special mecting of the Cabinet yesterday tho President's original and some- what lengthy comments aud recommendations were gone over in detail, and the decision was reached that it would be best to with- hold them until after the electoral colleges bad met ant until occasion was given for sending them to Congress in the shape of a speeial messcgo, Those who say that the Message was cut down derive their information, it is conjectured, from an *examina- tion of the document as it came from the President's hands, the sheets showing the withdrawal of seven out of nine of the pages originally devoted to the subject of the Presidential election, The contents of these seven pagos are the subject of much speculation, COUNTING THE ELECTORAL VOTE—JUDGE kKD- MUNDS’ PAOPCEED AMENDMENT TO THE CON- STITUTION—SUBSTITUTE OF SENATOR acid RIMON. At the close of the proceedings in tho Senate to-day, upon the resolutions in regard to the alleged denial and abridgement of the right of franchise in the Soath- ern States, Senator Edmunds gavo notice that he would offer for the consideration of the Senate tho resolution introduced by him and reported by the Jadiciary Commitice in May last, proposing an amend- ment to the constitution providing that tbe counting and declaration of the result of the electoral votes shall be performed by tho United States Supreme Court, to- gether with the following amendments :— 10x 3. This article shall, if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States ot or before February 1, 1877, operate upon thy opening and counting of ‘the votes and th declaring the result by the Supreme Court, and in of “such ratification the President of the Senate shall deliver all of the lists of voters, certificates, packages and papers 1 his posses- sion relating to the election of President and Vico President for the term beginning March 4, 1877, to the presiding Justice of the Supreme Court, to be proceeded with ag in this article provided. ‘The features of the original resolution are substan- Wally a8 tollows:—It provides for the immediate submission of tho amendment to the Legisia- tures of the several States, with @ recom- mendation for the speediest action possible. It further provides that the present twelfth article of the consti tution of the United States be abolished, and Uhat in ite stead a new article be adupted, ‘Ibat article pro- vides that the electors for President and Vice President shall meet Ob the respective State capitals on a give; day and cast their votes vera voce for candidates for these two offices respectively aud shall sign their own names to these votes; that they shall then trausmit the certificate of this balloting to the presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; that the Supreme Court on a day | Certain shall, in the presence of the Court, publicly, open and count the certificates of these electors so re- ceived, and shall examine into the real intent of the electors in 60 voting, and the Court shall disregard errors of form, and be guided by the evident right ofthe matter. If the Supreme Court shall not be able to flag, from the condition of the returns, that an election of President and Vico President has been effected by the lack of a majority of votes or from any dofect, then they shall report this fact, with the condition of the vote, to the House of Represen- tatives in the case of the President, and to the Senate in the case of the Vice President; that then these two latter bodies shall respectively proceed to elect Presi- dent and Vico Presiaent. Senator Mé@rrimon, of North Carolina, offered for consideration, to lie Lemporarily on the table, a bill to provide that the election for President and Vice Presi dent shail take placo*hereafter on the first Tuesaay in Octover, after which the electoral vote shall be counted by Congross, to meet on the first Wednesday in Jan- uary, THE INDEPENDENT ATTITUDE OF MR, SEELYE, OF MASSACHUSETTS—HIS VIEWS ON THE DUTIES OF AN ELECTOR. Mr. Seelye, of Massachusetts, who has become so much of an independent that he voted yesterday ali alone tor Mr. Hoar tor Speaker and sided with the democrats in the adoption of Mr. Hewits’s resolution, was interviewed to-day concerning his reported independent views of the duties of the Presidential electors, aud the lollow- ing colloquy touk place:— CorresroxpENT—It ts reported that you are 1m favor of independent action by members of our Electoral College to end the existing dispute over the Presi- dency ? Mr. Seetye—I will say this:—If 1 were an elector I should not be at all clear that it was my duty to vote asamere machine. I conceive that circumstances may arise, and have in fact arisen, im which it may become the duty of an elector to vote without regard to party, An elector may say to himself, “Here 1s a great exigeney in our aflairs, if the present contest 18 continued. Whoever may become President his ad- ministration will interfere exceedingly with its power, ’’ 1 wish I were an eloctor. CoxResvoxpENT—Do you hold that if tho vote of a State ts thrown out the election muat then goto the House of Representatives ? Mr. Skerye—Yes; I hold that Mr. Tilden or Mr. Hayes must have 185 votes. If neither one receives this uumber of electoral votes then the election goes to the House, Mr. Seelye added that he thought the republicans were behaving very foolishly concerning the investi- gation in the disputed States, He said:—I have told them 80, the objectionable feature of his resolution, which wi that the committees might report by bill in favor of throwing out tho votes of the disputed States, with that provision omitted, I could see no objection to his resolation.”” Mr. Seelye hopos that somo elector in Massachusetts will be bold enough and brave enough to vote for Mr. Tilden aud settio the Presidential dispute. — WASHINGTON | GENERAL DESPATCHES, Wasiinctox, Deo, 5, 1876, THE REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR—THE LATE BUREAU OF REFUGEES AND FREEDMEN— REPORT OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL— THE SOLDIERS’ DEPOSITS. The Secretary of War. in bis annual report, says tho short space of titne that has elapsed since ho entered upon his presont duties has barely suiliced to familar- ize him with the affairs of the department, and there, foro he confines himself toa summary of the reports of the General of the Army and chiefs of the various bureaus, The following are extracts from the report referring to points not already published:— The aflairs of tho iate Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands are now by lawin the War Department and their settlement is progressing under thedirection of the Adjutant General, Tha Judge Advocate General's report contains an in- teresting table classilying the offences of which per- sons in the military service have been convicted before general, garrison and regimental courts martial during the past year, Of the total number of 11,941 cases about twonty per cont were for serious oflences, such ag desertion, drunkenness on duty, assault and bat- tery, &c, The rest are for comparatively trivial offences and seem to prove that the soldier's legal rights are fully protected and that he is punished not by the arbitrary acts of his officers, but only after fuil and fair trial. ‘The ‘indebted railroads” in the South are gradually settling their indebtedness, There aro now eightecn national cemeteries, the appropriation for maintaining wich for tho current year is $125,000, The expenditures tor the last ycar were $146,945, Tho heatth of the army during the year has been good, and the mortality from disease (eight per 1,000 of tho mean strength) unusually small, Gn the other hand, the number of deaths from wounds has been exceptionally large (fifteen per 1,000), Tne mortality been avout the same. The soldiers’ deposits during the year aggregated nearly half a million dollars, The success of this gcheme—a government savings bank for the benefit of soldiers—and its excellent ¢Mect upon the morale of the army induced him to give his hearty support to the annuity scheme, particularly at this time, when the news of the disaster to Custer’s command is still tresh in our minds, and when we have seen the officers aud soldiers of the army generously subscribe a purse of $10,000 for the benefit of tho widows and orphans of their comrades slain in that battle, The success of the Signal Service, after more than six ycars of trial, is now an assured fact, and the time has come when tts organization should be made per- minent, and not as now, subject to tho vicissitudes of | other military necessities in tho detail and relief of aeiing signal officers. OUR EXTRADITION TREATY WITH Great BURITAIN—PROBABILITY THAT THE AMERI- CAN VIEW WILL PREVAIL. The extradition treaty between the United States and Great Britain is not known here to have been reviseed as stated in London advices, Our government adberes to its former position en the subject expressed in the correspondence with Lord Derby. There ia, how- | over, reason to believe that the foreo ot the treaty wil be revived by the action of the British government itself, the first step of which has been tho rearrest ot Brent, the Louisville forger, and warrants for the rearrest of Winslow and Gray. The delivery of these men to the United States will accomplish all our goverument has asked with regard to them, In other words, it ap- pears that the British government is now desirous to undo its acts discharging fugitives, thus restoring ng former bia ht vf the treaty. GOVERNOR TILDEN AT ALBANY. A RECEPTION LAST EVBNING—A LAnGR AND DISTINGUISHED ATTENDANCE—WHAT THE GOVERNOR 84¥S ABOUT RUNNING FOR THE PRESIDENCY. (By TELEGRAPH To Tit” HERALD.) Atmasy, Dec. 5, 1876. Governor Tilden arrived here to-night at seven o'clock, accompanied only by Mr, Hance, his secre- tary, and proceeded at once to his residence. During the evening, in accordance with previous invitation, a reception was giver? to the members of the Electoral College and various prominent gentiomen at present in the erty. The gathering was very distinguished, among them being a number of indies. The Governor was congratulated very heartily upon his near accer- | sion to the Presidency and upon his remarkable reten- ton of health and spirits under the unusuaily depress- jng circumstances of awaiting one vote co be elected President. that he had never felt better in bis life, aud he believed that running tor the Presidency rather improved bis health, The reception was fully attended and ended at a late hou | SALE OF A RAILROAD, AtLaxta, Ga, Des, 6, 1876. ‘The Atlanta and Richmond Air Live Railroad was sold to-day vd ges “hac ae tr was Paes by the bondholders $1,600,000 I induced Mr Howitt to omit what | deemed | trom disease among the white and colored troops has | He said, ia reply vo these congratulations, | FLIGHT OF AN OFFICE-HOLDER, MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF MR. MARSH, THE CLERK, OF NEWPORT-—THE IN- TENSE ASTONISHMENT OF HIS FRIENDS-—AN APPARENT ADSENCE OF MOTIVE. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1 Nuwrorr, R. L, Dee. 5, 1876. Tho all-absorbing topic of conversation in this city ia the mysterious disappearance of Benjamin Marsh, Jr, wh hus been City Clerk for upward of tea years and who bas heid several important offices of trust. He Was at bis desk at the Cy Mail upto noon yesterday, when, just before dinner timo, be proceeded to the Post Oflice, thence down Commercial wuarf, where he purchaséd a ticket tor Providence, via Wick- ford, and then took passage on the steamer Eolus for = the -~— latter place, When he lett the Cy Hall + the safe door was open and his books were left on the desk, At Wickford Junction be was seen about 3 o’clock, and a few moments later the express train came through from Providence. Me has a daughter residing in Providence, and as he was 1n the habit of going to see her frequently it was supposed he had gone there, but a telegram received from her to-day states that he had not arrived there. Mayor Doyle, of Providence, at once (Marsh being a personal friend of his) ‘set orry to work to seo if he could find any clew to him in that city. This atternoon he telegraphed to tho missing man’s son Q answering his father’s description got on = express train, mentioned above, at Wickford Junc- but, as the conductor dtd vot go any further than London, he lust all traco of iim, Up to a late to-night this is all the clew that has been gained the direction in which he went. He evideutly ut the ticket lor Providence to mislead his Iriends. clives in York have been ordered to do all they can to ind him. He bears an unimpeachable wracter among all who know him, and his mysterte $ disappearance nas, therefore, astounded and con. fused his Iriencs, In addition to bis duties as City Clerk, ho was clerk of ail tho joint standing committees of the City Coun- cil, Commissioner of several States and administrator nd trustee of no less than thirty esta io this city, it is tervently boped he will be found, and those who him best are confident that ho bas not betrayed the trusts rey him. At all events, upor iry ab the Proba , wo learn that his bonds emore than enough cover everything, His ab- sence 18 peculiarly embarrassing to the city govern- ment, as it would be difficult to find any one who ts able to till his position at this Important period of the municipal year, He has a wile live children who have the 53 mnpathy of the entire community. A MURDERER CONVICTED. 7 San Francisco, Deo, 5, 1876, H. H. Grantee, who killed Edwerd Madden, editor of the Merced Tribune, two years ago, was yesterday found guilty of murder in the second degree. He has been tried ta several courts, and the case will prob- abiy be appealed to the Supreme Court, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. War DEPartMest, oF THK CHIR SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasnixetox, Dec, 6—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the New England and Middle States, clear or partly cloudy weather and rising temperature, with light westerly to southerly winds and stationary or slowly falling barometer during the day. For the South Atlantic States clear or fair weather, light variable winds and slowly rising temporature, followed by falling barometer, For tho Gult States slightly warmer, partly cloudy or clear weather, easterly to southerly winds, high, but falling barometer and local rains in Texaa, For Tennessee and tho Ohio Valloy, warmer and clear or fair weather during the day, with southwest windsand falling barometer. For the lake region, partly cloudy weather, fresh southwest to northwest winds, temperature near froez- ing and falling barometer east of Michigan, For the upper Mississippi and lower Missour! valleya, southwest to northwest winds, clear or partly cloudy weather, and stationary or cloudy rising barometer, with slight changos in temperature. Tne Central Mississippi river will fall siowl” Orrice THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show tho changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in come parison with the corresponding dato of last year, as to dicated-by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, eRaLD Building:— a isth, 1876. 1875. 1876. BA. Mavesevee 30 24 «3:50 P. M. 39 38 24 6PM 7 coy 27 9PM 35 30 35 12 af. 35S Average temperature yesterda: moccees Average temperature for corresponding dato last YAP. eeeeee COMMODORE VANDERBILT. Commodore Vanderbilt seemed to be a little better yesterday. 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