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wa stock of French, German and Spanish gram- @ers and dictionaries in order to be able to fully ‘joy the venetits of tho scheme for the in- \woduction of international postal cards. The German Postmaster General will shortly propose to the Postal Union the introduction of postal caras serving for all countries in tho Union at the rate of oue penny each. PARDONS FOR THE CARLISTS. A despatch from Vitoria reports that the Carlist leader Mendiry has appliod to General Quesada for Smnesty, and many Carlist officers are claiming am- Resty daily. PROM THE ETERNAL. CITY. The tong contemplated works for the improvement Of the Tiber will be begun to-day. It is believed tho Roman Senate will reject the Clerical Abuses bill, PAIR WEATHER. The weather yestorday was fair. RACING IN ENGLAND. ‘HE CROYDON GRAND INTERNATIONAL RURDLE BRACE WON BY SCAMP. Loxpox, March 6, 1877, ‘The Croydon Grand internatioual Hurdle Race took Place to-day and brought out a field of nineteen horses, Scamp, who started with 10 to 1 agaiust him, won the Face by eight length, with Lottery, at 50 to 1, second, and Woodcock, at 16 to 1, third. Broadside, who started the fuvorite at 9 to 2, Mnished fourth. The fol- lowing is a summary by grand international handicap burdle race of 25 euch, 10 sova. forfeit, with 500 sovs added, tho owner of the second horse to receive 100 sove. out of the stake, any winner after the publication of the weights (Decem' Ber 14s ton A. M.) to carry seven pounds extra; entrance, 3sovs. each, to go to the fund, which will be the only lability if forfeit be declared by the first Tuesday in January, 1877; two miles and a quarter, over nine flights of hur- dles (120 subscribers, 61 of whom deciared forfeits). The highest weignt accepting being 11 st. 2 Ibs, it has been raised to 12 at, 7 Ib., and the others in pro rtion, ie “ D. Astley’s br. h. Scamp, by The Rake, out if Lady Sophie, 6 years, 11 at. 11 Ibs. Bins. L. * + ‘ Katherine Log: = 2 Lord rie | ay ‘oodcock, by —- —-, 8 years, 12 st. teense 3 Mr. Padwick’s br. c. Broadside, by Brown Broad, out of Jane syre, 4 years, 10st, 13 Ibs..... o- O MEXICO, GENERAL CORTINA SENTENCED TO DEATH BY A MILITARY COURT. Matamoros, March 6, 1877. The military court before which General Cortina w: tried have found him gulity of kidnapping, the penalty attached to which in Mexico is doath. Tho finding of the Court bas been sent to General Canales, military commander of Northern Mexico, for his action. It ts Delieved that the finding of the military court will be pei and that Cortina will be executed in a fow Mena prevails on the frontier and commerce is grad- a reviving. ihlly Le ae communication with the City of Mexico 1s being speedily restored and the mails re-vstablished, THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. Ouana, Neb,, March 6, 1877, General Sheridan, accompanied by Colone! Sheridan, of his staff, arrived here to-day, and proceeded West, on a Union Pacific train, to Cheyenne, whither tho General goes to pertect the spring campaign against phe hostile Indians, A SIOUX VILLAGE DISCOVERED. Drapwoop, D. T., March 6, 1877. A courier in from the front roports that scouts have discovered another Indian village containing between fifty and sixty lodges located about sixty miles north ot Deadwood, Captain Vroom’s battalion, consisting of companies B,C find L, Third cavalry, augmonted by civilians, will proceed to attack at o1 THE OLD STORY. ANOTHER FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT TO POINT THE DANGERS OF CROSSING AT GRADE. Putvape vata, March 6, 1877, Another illustration of the fatal consequences of allowing a steam railway to cross the streets of a crowded city on the pavement level, at express speed, ‘was to-day added to the long list already on record, Early this morning as tho outgoing train, on the Ger- mantown brapch of tho Readiug Ratiroad, was crossing Broad street, in the extreme northern part of the city, aterible collision occurred with a small, one-horse street car of the Germantown division of the Thir- teenth and Fifteenth Street Railway which crosses the steam railroad track at this point. THE VICTIMS. Five police officers of the Second district wore the only passengers in tho strect car as it approached the crossing. Of these three, Officers Lingart, Hunter and Seaton, fortunately got out just belore the accident occurred, The remaining two. James P, Boyer, of No. 1,007 York street, and Henry Lucas, of No. 1,001 Arizona Street, remained in the car. Just as tho rear of the car was crossing the tracks the train mado its appear- ance, dashing across the strect at full speed. Tho driver whipped up the horse and tho two police officers ran to the rear door toescape. The engine struck them both, hurled tho car over, tore off the placform and carried the car with the driver insiao over to the gutter near the sidewa'k, Tho horse Deeamo detached and escaped injury. Boyer w struck on the forehead by the coweatcher and horribly mangied. He picked up some uistance ay @ moment alter the collision, but he had been in- stantly killed. L.ucas was terribly injured ana will die, Both thigh benes and one arm were broken, and be was otherw: wyjured, The driver, William Bu ton, u young man, but a careful apd sober man, wi thrown from the platiorm to the inside of the car, whence ho was taken out unconscious, He was badiy bru:sed on the forehead, cut in the back of the head and bruised on the mght leg from the kuec to the hip. Uniesa also injured intervally he will probably recover A NEGLIGENT WATCHMAN. A man is detailed by the ratiroad company to watch this crossing and, when a train 18 coming, to flag all epproaching vehicles on Broad street, which is a ta. yorito drive and often crowded with carriages, ‘Ibis flagman was on duty, but the car driver asserts post- luvely that he gave no signal of danger, as he watched bim closely and saw no signal and accordingly arovo abeadslowly. The flagman, William Bartlett, assorts that he did givo the danger signal, Several wituosses, however, declare that he did not, and one neard him Gall out to the cur driver, “Come on.” POWDER MILL E PLOSION. Portsvinus, Pa., March 6, 1877, An explosion occurred this afternoon in the Laflin & Rand Company’s Mill at Crossona, The building was badly shatiered and a large quuntity of powder destroyed. Itis not yet known whether any person was in the building at tho time of the explosion. The Juss cannot be estimated at | sds BURNING OF AN OPERA HOUSE, CLEVELAND, Obio, March 6, 1877. At Fosturia, Ohio, this morning, Leopard’s Opera House was wtally, and Robbins’ Block partially, de- stroyed by fire. The Josson the Opera House is esti- mated at $10,000; insurance, $5,000—$4,000 in the Home, of New York, and $1,000 in tue Muivilie, of New Jersey. The loss on the block will reach $5,000; ine surance, $3,000—§$1,500 in the Homo, ot New York, And $1,500 in the Phoenix, of Brooklyn. The origin of the fire 1 unknown. THE KARNS CITY FIRE, Pittsoure, Pa, March 6, 1877. Atelogram from Karns City gives the following addi- tional particulars of the fire ut the Bateman House Yesterday. Up to nino o'clock this morning Gve bodies had voen taken from the ruins. The remains of N, Brown, Jr., of No. 230 Chestnut street, l’hiladelphia, have been identified by a key check. Charlie Bateman, Aged tweive yours, who was rescued from the flames by his father, died of bis injuries this morning, Mr. Bateman, tho father, and only survivirg member of the fanntiy, lies in a very critical condition. CARING FOR THE POOR, A MEETING OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE POOR--CODIFYING THE POOR LAWS OF BTA ALWASY, March 6, The committee appointed at the state ‘Convention of | Superintendents of the Poor, held at Saratoga, last dune, is catied by Thomas 1” Norris, the chairman, to | Inect bere to-morrow at two, o'clock in tha rooms oi tho Stute Bourd of Charities, for consultation on the ques- tion of codilying and revising the Poor jaws ot the Suute, A large number of influential gentlémen trom ali ts of the State Will be present, Dr. Norris will read ily prepared paper on the necessity tur a re. und the incongruity of the Inws on the statute A BULKGLARIOUS “CHARL kOsSs.” Bostox, March 6, 1877. Jimmy Blanchard, who created such a soneatiun at St. Albans some timo ago in the character of Charley ‘Boos, has beon arrested at Milford, N, H., for burglary, WASHINGTON. President Hayes’ List of Cabinet Officers Complete. AN INDICATION OF HIS POLICY. Evarts, Sherman, Schurz and McCrary. THE POLITICIANS ON THR INAUGURAL, Effect of Blaine’s Sensational Speech in the Senate. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Wasuixorox, March 6, 1877. PRESIDENT HAYES’ CABINET—ATTITUDE OF SENATOR MORTON, ‘The Cabinet is completed to-nignt, It includes the names of Evarta, Sherman, Schurz, Key and McCrary. The two names selected for the War and Navy depart. ments are unknown, but they are harmonious with tno rest of the Cabinet, The list will be sent tn to- | morrow morning. General Charles Devens and Mr. Rice, both of Magsa- chusotts, are named in connection with the Navy De- partment late this evoning, and most reports centre on Mr, Richard Thompson, ot Indiana, or General Joseph E. Jobnston for tho War Department, Mr. Koy arrived to-night and visited the White House atonce, Lt is understood that ho declared him- selfin harmony with the President’ viows, aud ac- cepted the Post Office Department. The pressure for office has had no effect on the Presi- dent, who has selected bis men without the help of delegations and claims and has formed a Cabinet all parts of which will consistently represent the policy announced th his letter of acceptance and rejtorated tn his tnaugural Message, [tis understood this evening that Senator Morton does not join in or approve of tho attack on the President made to-day by Senator Blaine, and that he will support the President’s Cabi- lenet nominations when they come before the Senate to-morrow. The affairs of South Carolina and Louisiana will have the early attention of the President, ard their settlement will bo comploted at an early day, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasuixetos, March 6, 1877, BLAINZ’S SIGNIFICANT SPEECH—-SENA10R BOOTH ON ITS CAUSES AND EFFECT, Senator Booth, of Caliiornia, says that the speech of Mr, Blaine was a great surprise to him, and, be must add, wholiy unexpected. He voted against the reso- lution to adjourn offered by that veteran in the Senate, Mr, Anthony, believing that the object for whica tho exccative session bad been called ought to be promptly Tecognized, but he did not anticipate such a step as Mr, Blaine bad taken, He regarded Mr. Blaine’s re- marks more as an appeal to the country than an argu- ment, Remembering that the new President bas but recently arrived in Washington after a journcy that must have had its anxieties and excitement, as well as the fact that the inauguration was but a matter of yosterday, it would have been more gracious on the part of the Senator from Maine to have had regard for the untried position to which Mr, Hayes had been called, and al- lowed him time tofet comfortably in the Presidential chair, Jt was ovident Mr. Blaine bad availed himselt of this early opportunity to throw down the gauntlet and challenge the attention of the republicans of the North immediately to the fact tmat a great issue was before them. More than that, the reticence which custom mado it the duty of new Senators to observe had been entifely’overlooked by Mr. Blaine, and he thought he already saw 4 disposition on the part of tho former leader in the Houso to dis- regard this custom and to begin at once an aggressive debate on overy question, Such men as Messrs, Dawes and Beck could not be restrained, and it would not be surprising if the talked of extra session would find the Sonate im executive session still uiscussing issues that it is almost certain will now Do precipitated upon the Senate. Mr. Booth went on vo say that the amendment of- fered by Mr. Bayard to the resolution regarding the admission of Kellogg gave him the floor to-morrow, and on both sides of the Senate the discussion must take a wide range, As to the motives which inspired Mr. Blaine he could not speak, but it struck him as the effort of a man who bad been to the Executive Mangion and had failed in his purpose, He was certain of the intention. The full and wide pub- licity which the remarks would receive Mr. Blaine un- questionably counted upon to check the recognition of oth Hampton and Nicholls, and at least the new President was entitled to the sympathy of his country- men in entering upon tho duties of the office embar- rassed by no ordinary difficulties. PBESIDENT HAYES’ IN\UGURAL— HOW IT STRIKES THE POLITICIANS--SENATOR WEST ON THE SOUTHERN QUESTION, The following reports of interviows had with leading men in Washington will serve to Illustrate the opinion entertained here of President Mayes’ inaugural and of the policy whieh it foreshadows will be pursued by him im his administration of pablic affairs:— Senator Spencer, of Alabama, regards with high dis. favor the idea of a Southern democrat in a republican Cabinet.and the notion that President Hayes will recognize the Nicholls and Hampton governments in Louisiana and South Carolina, “The policy of conciliation,” proceeded the Senator, democrats to office to appease the democracy has been tried in almost every Southern State since the war without avail, Republican governors have tried it repeatedly. Governor Smith, some of them to the most important places, When he came up in 1870 for re-clection the very democrats wrom he had put in oftice voted against him ond so did the numerous repubjicans whom he had disappéinted and estranged. He was consequently defeated by his democratic opponent, Lindsay. Lewis, the next republican Governor of Alabama, elected in 1872, attempied to conciliate dem- ocrats In the samo way, The attempt was adeplorable failure. Mr. Hayes will neither pacify the South nor draw toward him the Southern demoe- racy by adoptivg a similar course at this juncture, He will by the venture alienate both demo- cratsand republicans. No democrat who should ac- cept a Cabinet position under him could take a hundred votes along with hin If the Presidont,” continued Senator Spencer, “eclines to recognize the Chamberlain and Packard State governments, people will haven right to ask why he recognizes his own title to the Presidency. If be ts President Packard and | Chamberiain are the Governors respectively of Louis wna und South Carolina him elected them; the The same votes that elected tes forthe members of the Packard Legislature, In Senator Morton says that so faras the rumors are concerned that be is not satisiied with the policy of | President Hayes, it will bo ime enough to conjecture his opmwions 48 soon ag tome manifestation has been made of what President Hayes’ line of policy will be Me does not wok geo bow he can be supposed to find fault with him in regard to the course to be pursued by his administra tion until there is something to find fault with, Senator Conover, of Florida, expressed nis warm ap- proval of the policy of conciliation in the South tore. shadowed (n tho inaugural address, “but,” sant he, “L don’t think Hayos is going mm the right way to work atit, His best course would be to put toto his Cabinet, nota Southern democrat, but a native Soath- | ern repubican, General Johnson 1s ab oxcelient man,'| be releasod, being in a (reo State. Mr, Evarts appeared | | to be j In | practice and good ability. “that isto say, tho policy of appointing Southern | of Alabama, elected in | 1868, made a great many democratic appointments, | me Returning Board which | | returned hima inajority in Louisiana returned majori- TAY | | my judgment, President Hayes should recognize the | Packard and Chambertain governments tortbwith,”” NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1877.~TRIPLE SHEET. 80 ig ox-Senator Key. 1 would vote to confirm either of them.’? Senator s.ogan, of {\linols, said he was not prepared to express an opinion tn regard to the Presiden! Southera policy at this time. “I cannot read in the message,” said the Senator, what be intencs to do, Vil wait ull IT see his Cabinet, then I can teil and form a more accurate judgment.” Senator Authony, of Ruodo Island, who was reported this morning to bave criticized tho inaugural address pretty severely and to havo charged President Hayes with *Jobnsonizing” denies this wniug that he ha criticized tt atall, He says he thinks it 1s a very good Mmaugural address and that, as far as the President’s Policy 18 concerned, he refrains from discussing it in advance, Ex-Senator Weat says the inaugural of the President can be twisted any way you choose. In regard to the Vackard government in Louisiana, be says the oaly benefit to be derived from sustaining 1t would be to keep tn position tor four years more a bandful ot office- wolders, and these would of necessity have kept in power by the bayonet alone. | the meantime the blacks would continue to suffer abuse. He says the recognition of tbe Packard governmont involv continuation of the autagonism between the two races, with such sac- rifices on the part of the weaker aa they have made during the past tour years, By its recognition a prin- ciple will apparently be vindicated at the cost of the suffering of its upholders and to the detriment of the nationa! republican party. The maintenance of such @ government could only bo upheld by the bayonet The American people aro tired of this. Its atiempt = will drag down President Hayes’ administration, defer the era of good feeling and the dissipation of sectional issues to an overwhelm:ng reverse in the Gongressioaal elec. tions of 1878 and the complete and final ovorthrow of the republican party in the noxt Presidential election. Republicanism in the South must take a new departure, Ita division upon tho color line has be- come #0 attenuated as to render it incapable ofselfsupport. Corruption, venality and almost bar- barism tn comparison with tho popular idea of self- government have rendered it an absolute farce in tho conduct of republican institutions. To-day jt 1s de- feuted and overwhelmed. If it recognizes the fact opportunely it may recover itself through tho neces- sities of the elements of opposition, lis need is the recruitment of new material, its consciousness the Toalization of the fact that it has becotae exhausted, Senator West says all the evils, wo may almost say horrors, of Louisiana of the past four years must fol- low any attempt to sustain upon the point of the bayo- net the government of Packard for the next four years, Let President Hayes and the Senate bold their hand, avoid sharp and irritating issucs, leaving to time and events such an adjastment as may be peaceabio in lieu of any forcie blo contact of opposing ioterests, The peace policy cannot be enforced. lt must germinate from interest and become perfect through disinterestedness and the weltare of the people concerned, Bx-Senator Cragin, of New Hampshire, says that the speech of Blaine has the right ring, and may be ac- cepted as the keynote of the campaign in New Hamp- shire, where the republican party 1s more united to: than ever, GOVERNOR HAMPTON’S REPRESENTATIONS TO BE RECBIVED BY THE PRESIDENT—A REMUNIS- CENCE OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN BATTLE, General Kershaw, Judge T. J. Mackey, ex-Governor K. Scott and J. H. Ryan, of South Carolina, arrived here this evening, deputized by Wade Hampton to present to President Hayes Governor Huamp- ton's claim for recognition. The com- mittee wilil be given an interview with the President to-morrow at ten o'clock, when the Jettor prepared by Hampton will be presented to Pres- Ident Hayes. It is the understanding that there will be no argument or statement beyond the written aoc- ument which asks that General Ruger may be In- structed to withdraw the troops quartered in tho Stato House, where the public records are kept and which at times It is difficult to get access to, thereby obstructing | public business, while it does not define the existence of the Chamberlain faction any better than if the Court records wero accessible by all parties, Accom. panying the letter {s an attested copy of the judgment of tho State Suprome Court recognizing Wade Hamp- ton as Governor of South Carolina, The chairman ot the committee, Genoral Kershaw, is personally known to President Hayes, he having encountered the di- vision commandei by General Hayes at the battle of Cedar Mountain, in July, 1864, in Virginia, It 1s expected that this moeting of tho President and General Karshaw will promote more plensant relatioms, and though no decision is hoped tor immediately tho committeo to-night fecl assured that their visit and the succinct manner in which Mr, Hampton has pre- sonted his argument, will eventually be followed by at least the withdrawal of the troops from the State House, The death of Chief Justice Moses, of South Carolina, Judge Mackey, of Abat State, says, to-night, may add to the trouble already existing there, Under the law the vacancy must be filled by the Legislature, {tis also tke fact, be says, that the opinion delivered by Judge Wright In the Tilda Norris caso cannot be changed. The Judge has come to Washington, where he may remain for some time, THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE DEMOCRATIC NA- TIONAL COMMITTEE, Senator William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, has been elected chairman of the Democratic National Committes, in the place of Mr, Hewitt, of Now York, who resigned the position last week. THE NEW CABINET. WILLIAM M, EVARTS, SECRETARY OF STATE. William Maxwell Evarts, whom President Hayes has chosen to be his Secretary of State, is, like his prede- cessor in that office, u resident of Second avenue in this city, and {8 the peer in every way, and in legal learning and ability more than the peer, of lus dis- tinguished neighbor. It is little more than a quarter of acontury sinco Mr, Evarts caino to this city and was admitted to practice in tho courts of this State, Dut in that time, short as it ts, be has earned the first pince, not only at the Bar of New York but of the country, He was born in Boston, February 6, 1818, his father, Jeremiah Evarts, being a lawyer of tatr die entered Yale Col- eve oat an early age and was graduated in 1837, Sudsequently he studied tor two years at the | Harvard Law School, and im 1541 he came to tnis city, where he immediately entered upon the practice of his | profession. In a few years bis industry and Adelity, | ‘as well as his ability ag an advocate, gained hima large ciientage, and before be was thirty years of age he beld ahigh position in bis profession. In 1891 bo was ap- pointed Untied States District Attorney for thie district, and the same yoar be was also ono of the commis. | stoners of the Almshouse, now known as the Commis- sioners of Charities and Correction, He was perma. neutly urged for United States Senator in 1861, but was defeated by Ira Harris, who was made the compromise candidate, rom Jaly 18, 1863, until the close of President Jonson's admin- istration he wi®,Attorney General of tho United States, and imp TAL be was selected by Prosie dent Grant as the [hding counsel of the United States at the Geneva arbitration, Last year he was prom. inently advocated for the republican nomination for Governor of this State, bat the same spirit of com. promise whieb defeated tim for the United States Senate in 1861 contributed to deprive Lim of the nomination for Governor in 1876. These are the onty | public positions which he has ever held, or to which he was supposed to aspire, and it 18 at the Bar where | he gained his most consprenons and distinguished | honors, When Mr. Evarts retired trom the District Attorney's ofliee in 1863 was formed the law firm of Butler, Evarts & Southmayd, vow known as Evarts, | Soutnmayd & Choate, and it was as a member of this | place as a lawyer and | | firm that be gamed tis bigh pabiiewt, While be was United States District Auiorney bis most prominent ease was that which grew out of the Cuban or Cleopatra expedition, Karly in 1851 au expedition was Otted out by John 1. Sule hivan, a well known journalist, whiel was to sail tn the Cleopatra ty aid in an insurrection to be begun in Cuba. Warrants of arrest wero issued to prevent tho sailing ot the expedition, and were served when the Cleopatra bad steam up ready to sail, The trial of the filibusters lasted a month, but the jury failed to agree, Mr. Evarts’ next famous case was the colebrated Lem- | mon siave case, in 1853. A vessel containing slaves belonging to Mr. Lemmon was driven by a storm into this harbor, and thereapon writs of habeus corpus were obtained to have cause shown why tho siaves should hot to represent the State of New York, and the caso was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, where ho finally succeeded in obtaining a verdict against the claimant, He was counsel im the great Parish will case, tn which an attempt was made to break the will of Henry Parisk on tue ground of tho mental incapacity of the testator, A still later case 1m which Mr. Evarts was engaged was one in which the will of Mrs, Gardner, the mother of the widow of ox- President Tyler, was contested on the ground of undue | influence on tho part of Mrs. Tyler to obtain the making of the will, Although a Staten Island jury found against the will Mr, Evarts tnally gained bis case before the Court of Appeals. When articles of impeachment were brought by the House of Representatives against the late President | Johnson Mr, Evarts was called to Washington as counsel for the defence, and bis effort on that occasion 18 almost as fresh in the minds of the people as his arguments in the Tilton-Beecher case two yi ago, For his legal champ:onship of President Johnson he was rewarded with a place in the Cabinet, as his recent ebamptonsbip of Hayes belore the electoral tribunal | gives bim the first place in the Cabinet of the new President. In person Mr. Evarts 1s tall and slender; he 1s fragile almost to attenuation, and, so far from suggesting the idea of a vehement orator, bo im, presses one asa man of retired scholarly tastes, gentlo manners and academic belongings. Tall, thin, angu- lar, long headed, with a square and prominent fore- head, dark haired and cark skinoed, with a fa perfectly smooth but thin, cadaverous, shrunken, deep-set gray eyes, a prominent nose, and a square, decisive, fizely chiselied chin—such is William M. Evarts, the new Secretary of State, In none of his Ways bas he the magnetism of a great speaker. He hasaclear, sharp, ringing voice, though it is not powerful or musical, His action is sparing, but effective. In making his points he Is lucid, precise and cogent, seldom rhetorical or ornamental He has an easy, colloquial way; he {8 never im haste and never hesitates, His style is classic in tts correct- ness. His sentences are long and faultless, and freighted with words which show that profound thought is selecting felicitious vocabulary as it goes along. He hasafine humor, but it isthe humor of cultivation, not the coarse tun of the vulgar. His appeals to the intelligence of juries are the highest in their tone, the broadest in their scope and tho deepest in their power of any made in modern times. Webster ‘was not more logical, Story was not a more thorough lawyer, Choate not a more brilliant verbalist, nor Sum- ner a firmer believer in pure moral power. His argu: ment ip behatf of tho election of Hayes was the strong- est In the late campaign, and to his subtlety of intellect, his strength of character and bis firmness and recti- tude of purpose will the new administration owe much of whatever success it attains, JOHN SHERMAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, John Sherman, the new Secretary of the Treasury, bas been for many years tho chairman of the Sonate Committee on Finance, and is, perhaps, more familiar than any of our public mon with the financial history of the country since the beginning of the “greenback” era, Ho was born at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823, bis father, Judge Sherman, being ono of the pioneers of Central Obto, who died in 1829, leaving a largo fam- ily and very little property. His brother, Geaeral Sherman, secured tho advantages of a West Point edu- cation, but Jobn was less fortunate. For him only the schools of his native county were open, and he quit them at fourteen years of ago to begin the earnest work of life. For some years he was attached to the engineer corps of the Muskingum im- provement. He afterward removed to Mansfeld, where he studied law and was admitted to tho Bar in 1844. He s00n won a lucrative practice, and attained, while quite a young man, a leading position, both at tbo Bar and in politics. In 1848 and 1852 he was a delegate to the Whig National conventions, aud was a warm sup- porter of both General Taylor and General Scott for the Presidency, During the political excitement of 1854 which followed the repeal ot the Missouri Com- promise he became u candidate for Congress from tho Thirteenth Ohio district, and he was clected in a dis- trict which had previously boon democratic by the aia ot whiga, democrats and {reesollors, Ho was sub- sequently re-elected to the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, and in 1859-60 he was the republican candidate for Speaker of the House of Rep- resontatives. Tho contest was a memorablo one. For nearly six weeks the House spent day after day in voting for a presiding officer, the republicans in solid body saying his namo over and over again when the ballot was called, until it was said that you could not ask a republican member even what he would have for breakfast without his shouting, ‘John Sherman !’? Inthe end, however, Mr. Pennington, of New Jorsey, was chosen a compromise, Sherman lacking only one or two votes to secure his election. During tho Thirty-sixth Congress he was chairman of the Com- mittee of Ways and Means, then a more powertul coin- mittee than now. Previously ho had served on the committees on naval and forcign affairs, and gained distinction in cach. It was claimed tor bim that his defence of Commodore Paulding’s course at San Juan was conclusive against the reflections of the Navy Department, and during tho Kansas-Nebraska troubles he gained great distinction as a bold and skil- ful partisan, In 1861, when Senator Chaso resigned to accept a place in Prosident Lincoln's Cabinet, Mr. Sherman was chosen to succeed him, and he has ro- mained ta the Senato ever since, serving chairman of tho Finance Committeo and as a member of those on the Pacific Railroad and the Judictary. Although an activo partisan he has never al- lowed himself to be misled by party, and he has generally been rogarded as one of the fair-minded men of the Senate. As a speaker Mr. Shorman is chiefly remarkable for bis calmness, lucidity, qaict vigor and manliness of statements, his rhetoric pos- sossing no ornamentation and bis real power resting in the good judgment and good sense of his utterances. Ho 1s very tall, very thin, lymphatic in temperament, with brown hair turning to gray, blue eyes, a fair com- plexion and a thin beard ot sandy gray hair, only shaved on the upper lip. He {scold and roservod in | manner, but his friends say that he is cordial and bearty, and nis experience in tho Senate certainly fits him for the new duties to which be bas becn called, CARL SCHURZ, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, Carl Schurz, the new Secretary of the Interior, isa German by dirth, having been born at Siblar, near Cologne, March 2, 1829, He was educated at the Gym- nasium of Cologne and the Untvorsity of Bonn. His | carly life was somewhat varied, und be figured suc- cessfally a8 a soldier, newspaper correspondent, editor, lawyer, &c, He Joined in the revolutionary outbreak tn 1848 and assisted General Kinkel in the publication of a liberal newspaper, but alter the unsuccessful attempt at revolution at Bonn in the spring of 1849 both were compelled to feo, As adjutant he partici- pated in the defence of Rastadt, aad on its surrender made his way to Switzerland. In 1850 he rescued Kinkel from the fortress of Spandau, and then took passage im a schooner tor Leith. In 1351 he was Paris correspondent of some German newspapers, and in 1852 a teacher in Loudon. In tho latter year ho married and came to this country, first residing, for three years, in Phila. dolpui. He afterward settled at Madison, Wis. In during the Fremont campaign, be became noted orator, and delivered his first English speech in 1858, at the time of the famous con- test between Lincuin and Dougins for the United States Senatorship, For some time he practised law | at Milwaukee, and in 1859-60 he gained consideravlo | aistinction as alecturer, Inthe Republican National Convention of 1860 he exercised great influcace, and his political services were recognized by President Lin- cola im 186L by his appointment as Minister to Spain. There was opposition to him in the Spanish Cabiwet owing to tis revolutionary antecedents and.be | resigned to accept a commission as brigadier general of volunteers, He rose to be a major general, and distin- guished bimselt in the battles of Buil Run, Fredericks. burg and Gettysburg. In 1865-6 he was the Washing. ton correspondent oj a New York paper, and im 1867 he | assumed the editorship of the Wertliche Post at St. His report as a Commissioner to examine into ihe condition of the South and especially on the Freed- man’s Bureau was exceedingly distastetul to President Jobnson, General Schurz was a member of tho National Republican Convention of 1368, of which be was temporary chairman, le labored zealously in tho Convention for the vommation of Gen- eral Grant and subsequently was one of the foremost advocates of his election, In January, 1869, he was chosen a United States Senator from Missouri, and soon gained bigh distinction in that body, He beeamo alienated from the administration, however, and with Senator Sumner was violent in his opposition to the San Domingo scheme, and led in the famous at. tack 1m the Seuate on tho I He also assisted in the organization of the liberai re- publican party in that year, and presided over the Convention at Cincinnati which cominated Mr, Greeley for the Presidency, His arraignment of General Grant and bis administration during that campaign was the most scathing and bitter of all the violent attacks which were made in the last eight years upon the man who has just ceased to be President of the United States. In 1875 he vistted Europe, where ne was received with | great personal distinction, and tn both England and Germany he was treated with such marked courtesy and kindness as haa been shown only to such eminent Americans as Mr. Everett and Mr, Sumuer, In tne | Spring of 1876, Mr. Schurz returned to this country, aod at once took partin the canvi supporting the election of Hayes with all bis old time vigor tn the | cause of the republican party. In person, Scbura | 4s spare but not thin, his lace is stroug!y marked and ‘bis intl beard and piercing eye givé bim somewhat of 4 mephistopbelean aspect, Few Americans are better | informed as to the real needs of the country, and atter al! it is not surprising that the German revolu- tontst should be avked to take care of the Home De- partment in an American adm nistration, GEORGE W. M'CRARY, ATTORNEY GENERAL, George W. McCrary, the new Atiorney General, isa native of Indiana, where he was born August 27, 1835. His early educational advantages were not great but he studied law and came to the bar at Keokuk, Lowa, in 1856. In 1857 be was elected to the State Legisla- | ture, and ip 1861 he was chosen State Senator, In 1868 he was first elected a Representative in Congress from lowa, and he has since been re-elected to each succeeding Congress, Mr. McCrary is a quiet, me- thodical worker, and since 1870 he has held the post- tion of Chairman of the Committee on Elections while his party was in the majority in the House, DAVID M. KEY, POSTMASTER GENERAL, David M. Key, the Southern member of the Cabinet, and the new Postmaster General, is a native of Ten- nesaee, having been born in Greene county, in that State, January 27, 1 He worked on his father’s farm until he was twenty-one years of age, alter which he entered Hiwassee College, from which he was graduated in 1850, He subsequently studied law and practised his profession at Chatta- nooga, Botore the war he held no political office farther than to serve as a Presidential elector in 1856. During that contest he was a colonel in the Con- foderate service, but he was one of the first to resume his citizenship when the war wasover, In 1869 he wasa member of the Tennessee Constitutional Con- vention, and he was ciected Chancellor of the State in 1870, In August, 1975, he was appointed a Senator in Congress to succecd his old friend, Audrew Johnson, and distinguished himself for bis conservative course while he was in the Senate, but was not elected to be- come his own successor, FOOLS AND POOLS, HOW THE BOSTON SPORTING MEN'S MONEY HAS MELTED AND DISAPPEARED—TWIGG & CO, WANTED, (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Bostox, March 6, 1877, The sporting men of Boston and vicinity who bought pools on the Presidential election and allowed them to remain on until the contest was decided now find themselves on the verge of bavkruptcy through the perfidy of $he wicked pool sellers on Bowdoin square, Tho firm of Twigg & Co., or Twigg & Jones, carried on tho budiness, and sold alarge number of pools, be- sides holding private bets, and it ts estimated that at ono time the pool box contained $70,000, Those who made the bets trusted implicitly jo Mr. Twigg, and those with whom he was best ac- quainted assorted that It would bo ‘unsafe for him to do anything crooked,” by reason of the fact that they were in the box’ as well as those who were not his intimates, Pending the excitement incident to the dee cwion many bets and pools were settled by with- drawal of the stakes, the porcentage, howover, being retained, THR UNRETURNING OARD, In tho Interval between election day and tho crea- tion of the electoral tribunal Twigg & Co, dissolved partnership deoan of a disagreement, and Mr, Twigg Aassumod the power of holding the money and paying the pool Tiebets. Tho money was kept tn the sate of the Revere House, and called for whonever re- quired, Tho grand total rapidly diminished, and soon at was all withdrawn trom the safe, Whien'1t became amatter of certainty that Hayes was to bo the next President, those ‘who proposed to let their pools stand cailed in at the pool room to ascertain whether or uot the funas were all right But tho attachés of the establishment ut which the pools wero sold could only give the information that Mr. Twigg had not been seen for two or three weoks. Lust week was thought by many to be a good time for settlement, and they prosenied ves at the pool headquarters for payment of mount called for by their ticketa On being in- formed of Twigg's ubsence, they shook their heads wisely and disappeared, as if they had expected to hear Just such a story. Weil, Twigg was out of town, no one knew whore, and he has failed to turn up, not: withstanding tho calls of those who trusted their money to fis keeping. Investigation develops the fact that the amount unpaid by him foots up bigh among the thousands. A MATRIMONIAL PRESUMPTION, Twigg was last beard trom about three weeks ago, when he obtained a marriage licenso and presumably was bound in wedlock. He left bis home with the re- mark that he ‘was going and might not return for two or three uays.””? This was on the 9th or 10th of Febru- ary. Since that timo his relatives say they nave neither seen nor heard from him. Those who know him best have no hesitation in saying he bas gone for good and will not come back, at lvast lor the present, MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT, Wan Der Orrick or tie Cuiny Si Wasmxertox, March Indications. For Wednesday !n the South Atlantic States, falling of stationary barometer, southeast to southwest winds, warmer or partly cloudy and bazy weather, For the Gulf States, falling barometer, southerly winds, and ip the Kast Gulf warmer, hazy or partly cloudy weather, but in the West Gulf stationary, fol- lowed by lower temperatures, cloudy woather and possibly light rain, For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley falling followed by rising barometer, southwest veering to colder northwest winds, and light rain or snow followed by clear weather. For the Upper Mississippt and Lowor Missouri val- loys colder northwest winds and rising barometer, veering to northeast, with clear or partly cloudy woathor. For the upper lake region, colder northwest, posst- RIMENT, 1. Orvicer, —1A. M. clear weather, except partly cloudy on Lake Huron. For the lower lakes, falling barometor, southwest winds and rain or suow, followed by coldor northwest winds and rising barometer. For the Middle avd East Atlantic consta, falling barometer, increasing southeast to southwest winds, stationary of higher temperature, The rivers will generally fall. Cautionary signals continue oo the New Jorsey coast and on Lake Michigan, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY, The following recora will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in come. parison with the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Mudnut's pharmacy, Herato Building :— 1576, 1876, 1877. as 8 4 3 ob 41 50 46 aa Average temperature yostorda . 30 ‘Average temperature for corresponding dave last JOT. ese vee HOTEL ARRIVALS. Governor Person C. Cheney and ex-Governor Fred- erick Smyth, of New Hampshire; Judgo George F, Comstock, of Syracuse; Judge Charles Wheaton, of Poughkeepsie; ex-Congressman Henry L. Pierce and Jobn M. 8. Witlhame, Knapp and John G, Priest, of St Louis, Fitth Avenue, Ex-Senator Thomas M. Norwood, ot Georgia, 18 at the Windsor, Ex-Senator Join W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, is at the New York, Jobn M. Forbes, of Boston, is at the Brevoort, Licutenant Governor George G, Sill, of Connecticat, and General Israol Vogdes, United States Army, aro at the Hof. man, A. J, Cassatt, Vico President of the Penn vania Railroad Company, is at the Albemarle, are at the Ex- Congressman Josiah G, Abbott, of Boston, ond Miss Adelaide Neilson At the Clarendon, Commander Lester A, Beardsive, United States Navy, and ex-Con- bly backing to southwest, winds, rising barometer and | threatening weather and possibly rain or snow, with | of Massachusetts, and Jobn | 7 MAILS FOR EUROPE, The steamship Abyssinia will leave this port o@ Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpoot ‘The mails for Europe wit close at the Post Office ss eight o'clock A. M. 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(pun NEW YORK HERALD A ALMANAG FINANCIAL, © es OHA AR; POLITICAL REGISTER Tals invataable Aimunde 16 agw réedy. 10 immense importanes of w work recognized thansih siperatinug ‘oMllcinl wore for the Presidency in ail th it absolutely neces delay its to secure tue fullest a rete issue Contains, a8 a special featare, the full ELECTORAL BLL. “Te provide for aud re ulate the counting of the vot for President and View resident,” dee, The pr text ofthe 1 of Represeutati Jens and nay: he n nil Judges of t Court of Arvitration. ‘RALD ALMANAC FOR 1877, its pages are replete with luvaiunble tables aud Statistionl Const compose this spectat ing the Hig feature of th Keturas ov Kinases, with Daily Quotations tor Guld lve i jovernmmant Boady of Cho various isos; Kates of nsvis; Kailroad Shares and Stock: American Securities on the London market; Bank of England itate of Mscounts Crstom OR ITT 1 the Presidential Voto tion; fil Lists of Sone jibe Cor oftice Adit a Ministers ad; Foreig All ths interestins spe make the VAC Valuable as 8 Work Of ret shed | are continued and amplified: fie Mariners? wae: | Heirs, with nantes and widresses; Chronoloztedl | nomical wud kindred tables: the itu iectsaiion an | Be f Times Tide Tauie 8, rt i? gressman Stephen Sanford, of Amstordam, N. 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