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8 that the city might be rescued from the corrupt ele- ments in politica peeches were also made by A, W. Tenney, Cor. per “anver, Joba A. Taylor, Bugene D, Berri T. 0. im and others. BROOKLYN CANDIDATES. county, justice Sup. Court..Calvin kK. panty Judge...-. Henry A, Moore... wuriet Wiuciiesier Britiai. istrict Attorns jounty Treasurer. &. Powell . Mortimer ¢ ‘am anty ++eeMauriee Fitzgerald Chauucey M. it. jupervi'r-ab- La Samuel Guthrie D. Dumont, ‘Char. , 3d dist, Moses Kessel wr, Bth dist. w. D. . “Thos, 5. Henderson. be ‘Juba F, Kavanagh, Piggott,.....uilb's H. Wickbar, city. li, Jr. Jobn F. Henry. L. May saat ames F. Pierce. s—John 0. Jacobs. Dist. Dem. 1—John M. Clancy a _paniel Bradiey, ind. —John B, Mevenborg. 3—John J. Shanley... 4—Charles J. Henry. John M. Golden, 5—George B. Abdvol iam H, Waring, 6—Charies H. Tro Jacob Worth. Jonn i, Zindel, tnd, 7—Maurice B. Flynn.. Charles i, Russell, 8—Jobn Douglas ‘Adrian Suydam, v—Jobn it. berget John F, Stinsoa. “ALDERMEN. 0. P. O'Rourke, ~ W. J. Petry. ‘AB Gailivi, ind nan, Ind... F06' agh ee tee “4 i Aa Pict sepa 20—Henry J. Hubbar john neh, ide ‘J, L. Bonnett, tnd. 22—C. R. B. Krogsguard. Wo A. Frita. 24—George Jenuison... ob Wm, C. MeKinnoy, Ind.. °C, Sim: ‘SUPERVISORS. . 0. Wi 1—Renominatior nitip Heinri olin Cuile: 7—Edward 3. _—Jobn J, Ladley Vi—Jamos Hyde... 13—William ff. Manni £5—Peter Culliman., 17—Hugh Zable. 19—Alfred Kemp. 21—George W. An Claudius Beatt, 25—Philip Sullivan JERSEY CITY POLITICS. A committee waited upon the Third District German Club in Germania Hail, Jersey City, yesterday for the purpose of securtng ite support in bebalf of the repub- lican ticket, The officers of the club promptly re- jected the proposition and stated that the club would support McClellan. An effort was then made to secure the support of the club for the republican nominee tor Director-at-Large, Jacob Ringler, but tbat was also re- fused, nm Hazleton. rnst Nathan. . Peter Van Cott. A LAST LOOK OVER THE FIELD—THE DEMO- CRATS EXPECT TO CABRY THE STATE—DIs- SATISFIED REPUBLICANS—THE TICKETS. Parapevruta, Noy, 3, 1877. Of the ten States {n which elections are to be held pn Tuesday next Peunspivauia may be considered one pf the most important, The contest is interesting be- fause it will be very close, aad the democrats, for jhe Orst time in many years, expect to carry the Btate and elect their ticket, This probability results mainly from causes that must be every- where known because they bave been every where manifest over the country, namely, the disaffection and division among the republicans as to the policy of President Hayes and the benumbing ey fect upon the republican politicians of the Presideut Jamous ant-political assessment order to the govern- meut oflice-hoiders, There bave also by local queg- tions that bave made differecces in the party ju this State, uotably in this city, where the greed, misgovernment and corruption of ring ot so-called republicans bave go disgusted respectable men, that they were likely at least to make an effort to defeat them at the poils, It may not be successtul this year, but it will at least largely diminish the 15,000 majority of the republicuns last year, Outside of this city the Stute will be almoi certain to go democratic, and it is doubttul if the usual republican majority here can be counted on to off¥et the democratre gain elsewhere. THE STATE TICKE There are four tickets tu the eld nominating the three State officers to be elected—Judge of the Su- preme Court, State Treasurer and Auditor General— only one of which offices may be said to be of much importance, Tue nomiuces are as follows:— REPUBLICAN, Judge of the Supreme Court , State Teeasurer.. Auditor General, -James P. Sterrett, William B. Hart. A. M. Passmore, DEMOCRATIC, Judge of the Supreme Vourt, Bate Treasurer. Auaitor General John Trankey, -Amos C. Noyes, Wiliam P, Sebel, LABOR-GKEENBACK, Judge of the Supreme Court, B. Bentley. State Treasurer. teeeee, James L. Wright, Auditor General. . -.Jdames E, Kmerson, PROWIBTION, Juage ot the Supreme Court. A. H. Winston. State Treasure Samuel Curnett, Auditor General, A. A. Barker, NOMINATION DECLINED. Noxwicu, Conn, Nov. 8, 1877, Ex-Senator L, F. 8. Fosver, who waa nominated for representative from Norwich in the State Assem bly without consultation with him, is obliged to decline Ou account of business and personal engagements. GENERAL POLITICS, Tho Cincinnati Commercial says that the only way torender the American money market in the least degree independent of that of London and to prevens a chronic recurrence of ‘Black Fridays” whenever gold is made scarce is to restore and maintain at once and forever the legal tender value of silver as money. Springfield Repubucan:—*So far as the silver cur. Tency itself 1s concerned the slowness with which it would be coined would give opportunity tor the popular rejection of st to become apparent before it had gone far, but the vitiation of a standard once fixed is an act ot legts- lation, not of mechanics; once done it cannot be easily undone, and it ought never to be done against the counsel of the great commersial and capitalist sec- tions of the country and against the experience and Purpose of the chief nations of the earth, ‘Tbe Harrisburg Patriot agrees with Mr. Evarts that the republican party ‘has served out its enlistment, All the issues around which it gathered have been settled, Nothing remains for its leaders 10 their Gespair but to form alliances with the now organiza- tions that have sprang up to make war upon existing political and social institutious, The Commuve is nothing except in the bargains which ambitious aod reckless republican leaders torm with 1 Consery- Alive citizens of all parties must recognize the danger of this tendency.” The Cincinnati Commercial remarks:—‘‘The Presi- dont’s so-called Southern policy is not irrevocable, Lt 1s based conditionally upon the respect paid in the South to the rights of all classes of the people, with- Out regard to race, color or previous condition. ‘vhe Springfield Republican says that Mr. Evarts will take care not to leave any more valuables around within reach of the Cameron family, The Davenport Gazette, im speaking of the recent selection of a Minister to England, says jn making this choice President Hayes has honored one of tho purest men and one of the truest philanthropists of the age, while securing to our representation abroad a gentleman of fine culture, rare ability aud uoimpeach- ablo totegrity.'’ Cincinnati Commercial:—"An affectation of igno- france of John Weish, of Phiiadeipbia, argues un- common ignorance of public men of respectabio standing.” Bt. Louis Republican:—“Speaker Raudall’s treat- ment of Gonerul Ulark, of Missouri, In the formation of bis committees is scandalousiy indecent, His man- agoment of the important trusts committed to bis care as chairman of tho Committee ou lost Offices ana Post Roads in the last Congress won him much de- served commendation, and it isan unmistakable sac- niice of the public interest to romoyo him from that position,’’ a The Keokuk Gate City —The only problem for the republican party pow is whether (tenn main- tain popular sympathies, wuether it can keep itself in accord with the democratic tendency and at the samo time keep the government and its own conduct to the support of sound, healthy, aofantastio and prudent measures." Chiengo Tribune:—“'Mr. Randall has evidently Ignored experience and ability and apportioned bis cominittecs so as to give the Southern democrats and hus own Northern faci she control of all the busi- | pees of tho Howse,” NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, WASHINGTON. Desperate Straits of the House Inflationists. MONDAY’S PROGRAMME. How Ewing's Bill May Get Out of the “Nine Hole.” YESTERDAY'S AMUSING - DEBATE. The Silver Coinage—Proposition for the Metric System. Navy Department Accounts To Be Investigated, ————_+____ FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Wasuinctox, Nov. 3, 1377. MB, BUCENER WILL ATTEMPT TO EXTRICATE EWING FROM HIS AWKWARD POSITION— PROBABLE FAILURE OF BOTH MONEY BILLS, Mr, Buckner, chairman of the Banking and Cur- rency Committee, means to try to push bis silver pill toa passage on Monday {f he can get the House to suspend the rules, Suspension of the rules requires a two-thirds vote, Thero are a large number of mem- bers absont, Probably the House will not bave more than two bundred and twenty-five members present on Monday, and most of the absentees will be Eastern mon, but most of, if not all, those are paired, 60 that their absence will not belp Mr. Buckner. It 18 not probable to- night that hecan get the rules suspended, and if he fatis then his scheme will suffer the delay of a week, because a motion to suspend the rules is in order ouly on Mondays. There scems to be n0 doubt that the infationists on the commitiee, republicans as well as democrats, are determined to push through their two schemes—that of Mr. Ewing and the Uniimited Silver bill—if they possibly can. There is also little doubt that they will fail They themselves admit that if they get their measures through the House they will feil ip the Sen- probably to ate, and in this they are Both bilis woula be sent the Senate Committee on Finance, This consists of Morrill, of Vermont; Dawes, Ferry, Jon of Nevada; Allison, Howe, republicans; aud Wallace, Bayard and Kernaa, democrats, Of these, all, except porhaps Mr. Ferry, would oppose the Ewing bill, and the allver bill would be supported only by Messrs, Jones, of Nevada; Ferry, and perhaps Allison, All the rest are undoubtedly sound, But this shows that the inflationist and silver Jeaders in the House are kicking up this great tuss mainly for consumption in the home market, They cannot believe themselv ngaged in practical legis- lation. The silver bill is almost certain to fail in both houses. The Ewing bill will fail if it is debated, and it now appears certain that Mr, Ewing cannot get out of the morning hour without agreeing to submit the bill to general debate in the Committee of the Whole, This is the position of these bills to-night, right, GENERAL WASHINGTON | DESPATCHES, Wasuincton, Nov. 3, 1877, METRIC SYSTEM FOR GOLD COINS. The bill introduced in the Louse to day by Represen- tatives Muldrow, of Mississippl, to promote the estab- Nsbment of the metric system of coinage in the gold coins of the United sta provides that the gold hereafter coined by the United States contain for each dollar of denominational value one and one-alf grammes of pure gold and ghall weigh for each doliar one and two-thirds grammes, the proportion of alloy to the entire weight being thus kept as onetoten. It further provides that such coins shall be legal tenders in payments arising from contracts made at any ume after the 4th day of July, 1878. DIRECT VOTING BY THE PEOPLE, The joint resolution introduced iu the House to- day by Representative Finley proposing an amend. ment to tue coustitution of the United States pro- poses that the President and Vico President shall be elected by a direct vote of the people of the several States; that electors in each State shall have the same qualifications electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature, and that if two or more persons shall each receive an equal and the greatest number of votes tor President, then the House of Representatives shall from such persons immediately choose the President. The resolution further proposes that the election sball be held at the ume now provided vy law for choosing the Presiden- tal electors; that the returns be canvassed at the time and in the manner now provided, and that the two houses of Congress shall be the judges, each house voting separately; and in caso of a disagroe- ment of the two houses, then the matter sball go to the Supreme Court for Gnal decision, SILVER COINAGE, The bill introduced in the House to-aay by Repro- sentative Buckner, of Missouri, authorizing the coin- age of the standard silver dollar and restoring its legal tender character, is a auplicate of the bill which the Committee on Banking and Currency yesterday au- thorized him to report for passage at the earliest op- portunity, and it was referred to the Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures. The bilis introduced by Messrs, Townshend, of Lilinois, and Clark, of Mi souri, were of a similar cbaracter, and were referrod to the same committee, AN INVESTIGATION OF NAVY DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS. The Committee on Lxpenditures in the Navy De- partment (Mr. Wiilia, of New York, chairman), calied upon the secretary of tue Navy this morning and in- formed bim of their purpose to make a thorough in- Vestigation of the accounts of the department uuder the administration of Secretary Robeson, and espe- cially into transfer of funts appropriated tor the pay of the navy into other chaunels, Secretary Thompson assured the committee that he would cheerluily give them every tucility at his command to assist the prosecution of thoir inquirtes. The committee also informed him that they desired to recommend a re- duction of expenditures of the department whenever it may be found practicable and the Sceretaay re- sponded that he would be happy to co-operate with them in this direction a: A conflict of jurisdiction In regard to the proposed Investigations is likely to arise betweon this commit. tve and the Committee on Naval Affairs, of which Mr. Whitthorne, of Tennesseo, 1s chairman, and which several days ago voted to Investigate the causcs of the lack of available funds for the payment of navy oflicers during last April, May and June. Messra, Whitthorno and Willis are both members of each of these commit- tees, The Committee oo Appropriations may also claim jurisdiction of the same subject, as a preliminary to tuking action on the deficiency estimates which, of course, bave been referred to them. The matter of jurisdiction was discussed In the Committee on Naval Affairs gtbis morning, without any action being taken upon it, and there is considerable probubllity that tt will be brought before the House for the decision of that body, STEALING GOVERNMENT TIMBER. The special agents of the Interior Department, de- tailed under the direction of Mr. S. A. Protora, of the General Land Office, to detect timber trespassers in the Statv of Minnesota, bave collected testimony BLOWINng tbat 61,708,504 lect (board measure) of white pine logs have veea cul and removed from the vacant public lands in that Stace, which, at an average of $5 per 1,000 teet, would make @ total vaiuation of $308,542 62. W. W. Billson, United States Distriet Attorney, telegraphs to the Commissioner of the Gen- oral Land Odlce in regard to the recent legal proceedings against the trespassers that twenty-aine civil suits were instituted at the lust term of the United States District Court at St, Paul against tres. passers, 604 that the Jury returned verdicts in nine. teen cases in favor of the government for the value of the logs ta the booms Io siz other cases demurrers to complaints were overruled, with leave to an! Of the remaining four three wore too late for the term, and one was continued on motion of the United States District Attorney, Twonty-tive indictments were found by the Grand Jury, Trial and conviction was bad in one case, pleas of guilty were entered in three cases, and all the rest have been transferred to the United States Circuit Court, which convenes next December. Most of the transfers were ordered by the Court on account of various difficult questions of law which were raised. For the same reason sentence of those convicted was suspended until after the term of the Circuit Court. Fourteen civil actions are nearly ready for trial in December, with more to be commenced. Four of the District Court cases were taken to the Circuit Court on writof error, In several instances bave surrendered the logs without suit. ner Williamson is also in receipt of a re- port from his special agent in Arizona, showing that Umber is being extensively taken from the public lands in that Territory to make charcoal for smelting purposes, THE SOUTHERN MARYLAND BAILROAD. ‘The Circuit Court whicn recently closed tts session at Marlvoro, Prince George county, Md., passed an order rescinding the order of June last, which directed tne sale ofthe Soutnern Maryland Ratlroad, now being constructed between this city and Point Lookout, Md. The order for the was issued in June by Juage Magruder, at the ingtance of C. J. Harrab and others, of Philadelphia, in combination with the creditors of the road, Subsequently Chief Justice Brent granted an {pjunction, upon the application of Van Riswick, Daihng and other stockholders, restraining the sale, and the case coming before the full Bench at Marl- boro, the order of sale was rescinded as above men- tioned, This decision sustains the glaim of certain stockholders and Colonel Samuel 8, Smoot to $700,000 of the securities of the road under the contract of that gentioman with the company. “AFFAIRS AT TAHITI The Department of Stato bas receiged a despatch from the United States Consul at Tahiti announcing the death of Queen Pomare IV,, which occurred on the 15th of last month (September), On the 24th of the same month Aritape, her eldost son, was pro- claimed King. Owing to the sudden illness of the Governor and his expected return to France, Rear Admiral Sevre, commanding the Frenca naval squad- ron in the Pacific, bas assumed direction of the affairs of the Protectorate until the home government can be beard from, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, CONGRESSMAN EWING TRIES TO EXPLAIN HOW HIS BILL GOT INTO THE “NINE HOLE”—A DISCUSSION ON THE BEMONETIZATION OF SILVER, Wasuixcrox, Noy, 3, 1877. Mr. Prices, (rep.) of Towa, asked leave to offor a resolution providing for the remonetization of silver. Ubjected to, TUE RESUMPTION ACT. The House then juined consideration of tho bill for tho repeal of the Resumption act. Mr. Keucey, (rep.) of Pa., said that this was prob- ably the most important question that would come before the House, and that it should be tully ais- cussed, He» therefore suggested that Mr. Ewing let the Dill be made a special order, either in the Com- mittee of the Whole or in the House itself. Mr. Buckyer, (dem.) of Mo,, Chairman of the Bank- ing and Currency Committee, said that there was no disposition on the part of the committee to force the Dill to a vote without ample discussion, The commit- tee believed that every ipterest required that the country should be got out of suspense and anxiety, but they had no Intention to rush the biil through without ample discussion. Mr. Ewing, (dem.) of Onto, also stated that the com- mittee had no objection to allowing full timo Jor dis- cussion, He thought that the proposition of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr, Kelley) was a tar one. Mr, Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., said that the question had been very fully discussed already, and ho did not see the necessity for further discussiou. The gentle- man from Ohio (Mr, Ewing) had made a mistake in getting it into the peculiar morning hour. He wouftt heed a new chairman to bis committee to got the bill out of i. (Laughier.) Mr. Keuvey, of Peunsylvania—Or an old one, Mr. Cox stated that he was the oply New York member who haa voted for the bill, but that be saw no need for further debate, as the Senate would be very likely not to pass the bill, Mr. KELLEY—1 but is out of order. Mr. Cox—I witudraw it, but 1 see no way of getting out of tue difficulty, except by electing a new Speaker aud «new Chairmaa for the Banking aud Carrency Committee, (Laughter,) Mr, Ewing suid that the bill was lodged in the morn- ing hour througt bo inadvertence of the Cuairman of the Committee or bimselt (Mr. Ewing), but vy the tac- tics of the opponents of the bill ‘The SrrakkR—' ler the rules of the House, Mr, Ewing proceeded to explain the inanper in which the bill had been caught in the morning hour. He had been instructed to report the bill, to have it printed and recommitted, and to withdraw the motion to reconsider unul after the morning hour, in order to De at liberty to cai! the bill up in the House any day aiter the morning hour. Accordingly, when the mo- tion to recommit Was made, an opponent of the bill (Mr, Conger, of Michigan), observed that he (Mr. Ewing) was withholding his’ motion to reconsider, in order to gain contro! of the bill, bat be (Mr, Ewing) was then recognized by the Chair, and theu made that motion, which the gentleman irom Micuigau moved to lay on the table. (he Spkakek remarked that this was not a new 1 stance of such a situation. Civil Rights bill in exactly the same position, except that sides were changed, but the rules governing both were exactly similar, Mr. Conger, (rep.) of Mich., said that whon the gen- tleman from Ouio reported the bjil everything would have gone swiminingly in @ genial and agreeable man- ner but for the perversity of the oman from Michigan (meaning bimseil), who did what the com- mittee bad no a to expect be would do—availed himeeli of bis rights under the rules, Tne untortu- nate result of this conduct was to piace the gentleman from Obio and the commuties in a false position, iH (Mr. Conger) had simply 4 whether amendments would be allowed, There was no great presumption in that, Kven vis friend from New York (str, Cox), who, when he presided over tue Commitice on Banking and Currency, forced everything torward with ease and rapidity, and, with the grace peculiar to bim, always allowed amendments, Tbe goutioman trom Ohio had refused to admit any aMendinents, except that of dir. Fort (IIL). He (Mtr. Conger) had been told that t committe bad tu three days afier appointment per- lecied 4 bill and made itso exact that to permit an amendment co be oflered Would endanger tue country. He admitted the superiority aod excellence of te commitiee, but otber members mizht bave some humble views which they might desire to bring for. ward. (Laughter.) The opponents of the bill had pat it*in the pyne bole,’ and intended to keep it the: until Jaruess and fair play and ample debate were lowed. put by le?” bet: Mr. Ewing stated that the bill had been the gentleman from Michigan tm the “ni ho! 4 word by anybody bad been suid about Mr. ConGex—tne geutieman refused then even to aduiit Mr, Fort's amendment, Mr. Ewixg— have made no refusal whi have siated the Whole course of proceedings prior to the motion to reconsider. 1 wish to say further that 1 did not at any time state to the House that the Com- mittee on Bauking and Currency hud instructed me lo admit no amendments, 1 stated that I bad 20 instructions trom the committee whatever, except to admit the amendment to be proposed by the gentleman from Liinow (Mr. For The proposition made by the gentioman trom M ner) Was to Chrow iue bili open vo any and al amendinents, thus seeking to commit mein the mun. tof the bill to keoping it open tor amendment end of the gessivn i! necessary, 1 could not, ot make any such agreement. ‘The question amendment must be left \o the considcration of the Iriends of the bill, Who mast move the previous ques- Hon at some stage. Mr, Ke.iey reduced bis proposition to the form of a Tosoiution, which he asked the unanimous cousent to offer, as follows Resolved, That the Dill be made a spect alter the moruing hour, th, wt three o'elock, d upon it ai desultory discussion the Sp whother (here Was any objection to the offering of the Fesolution, Mr. Wiit1s, (dem.) of N. ¥.—Understanding that the pe is “in the nine bole’? and cannot ve gut out of tt, object. on KeLLEY—Why should you object to ite discus- sion Mr. Wittis—Because I think that the bill ts an as- Sault upon the navional credit and should be kept out of the House, Mr. KRULRY (@ eally)—And the gentieman’s Judgment binds the people of the United States Me Wits (mpetuousiy)—I act upon my own Jucgment, not on that of the gentioman irom Peon- syivania, ‘he Sreaker—Does the geutieman from New York objevit Wy the revolution Mr, Wi114s--1 do absolutely. The SPrakun— Chair will state to th man from Unio (Mr, Ewing) that bis only mo het will be to move on Moaday to suspend the rul and adopt the resolution, The romatnder of the morning hour was used up in voting ou motions vo adjourn, and the bill went over Uli the next moruing bour. REMONETIZATION OF SILVER, Mr. Cran, (uem.) of Mo., introduced a bill for the fomonotization of silver aud the recoinage of the jtandard silver dollar. Referred to tne Banking and Currency Committee, Mr. Bockwun introduced a bill to azthorize the free coinage of the standard silver dollar, and to restore 118 al lender character, ir. STRPHENS, (dem.) of Ga., objected to the refer. ence of the latier bill to the Committee on Banking and Currency, contending that % belonged of next and specifically to the Committee on Coinage, Weights jeasures, aud be moved that it be reierred to the latter committee. Mr. Keuves controverted Mr. Stephens’ argument, and cluimed tbat the jurisdictien of the Committes on Commage was restricted to the question of dies, de- signs, &o. oe Matsa, (dem,) of Pa., asked Mr. Kelley whetber he bad not bim Jast session introduced a similar billand hud it referred to the Committee ou Coinuge? Mr. Keuusy thought not, for be bad always borne in bis mind the distinction between the duties of 1 Committee on Coinage and those of the Banking Com- mitice or the Committee on Ways and Me Mr, Matsa said be bad just learned from the Clerk ‘that he was rignt in his suggestion. Mr, Kxtuxy—Then the bill went there nd mistake, because 1 bave siwuys carried in my mind the distince tion, * Cox—That 1s a mere matter ad hominem; tt goes to the man, vot to jubject. Mr. Kurtxy—I am glad that you translate your Latin, (Laughter.) Mr, Cox—I thought that the gentleman was a scholar; | now beg bis pardon, (Laughter,) | can rgia (Mr. Stephens), the e on Cotuage, rather than Rew fangled notions or new men, and | hope and trust that the House will send this bill to the Committee on Coinage, for I can see that the Committee on Banking and Currency 1s utterly overweighted to-day with business, (Laughter) < Sir, BLAND, (dem.) of Mo, argued that inasmuch as the constiution of the United States declared gold and silver to be the money of the country, Congress had no power over the subject, ana that, therelo all considerations as to whetuer silver snould be ie; vender oF not were wholly unne ry and uncoi tutional. Gold and silver wore the only money ot constitution, and it had been heid by the judges of t! pupreme Court that, when the coin was struck at the muut, it thereby became a legal tender, and Congress could not, in law, demonetizo it, ‘The act demonetiz- ing silver was, tnerefore, unconstitutional, There was uo power in Congress to demonetizo the mouey of the constitution. When the Committes on Coinage, Weights and Measures reported a bill providing that @ coin sbould be a dollar of so many gratus, it mat- tered not whether it made ita logal Lender or not; if the constitution was tobe maintained it would be a legal tender, ‘The bill was finally referred to tho Commitiee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, BILLS INTRODUCED, The following bills were introdu and reforred;— By Mr. Fivpuey, (dem,) of Ohio—For amending tho constitution so as to elect the President and Vice President by the direct vote of the people. By Mr, CHatmens, (dem.) of Miss. —Estavlisbing the western district of siississippi. By Mr. Munprow, (dem.) of Miss.—For the establisn- ment of a motte system o1 coimage. By hr. Townsuxnp, (dem.) of llL—Authorizing the dollar, trust the gentleman trom chairman of the Comin: @ quarter to two P, M., adjourned until Monday, THE STORM ON THE COAST, A NIGHT IN A LIFE SAVING STATION—THE SPECTACLE OF A STORM AT SEA FROM LAND—WHY ARE NOT THE LIFE STATIONS MANNED ? Loxo Branon, Nov. 3, 1877. The storm which visited this coust yesterday was pronounced by old coast men to be the severest thay has visited the Jersey shores in many years, and were it Dot that toward night the wiad changed from south- east to northwest there is no doubt but that somo noble craft would have stranded upon these shores, as, owing to no precautionary signals being dispiayed at Saudy Hook, many vessels who were hurbored in the Horsesnoe over night lett for their destination in the morning. The HexaLD correspondent, through the courtesy of Captain Valentine, passed the day and oight in Lite Saving Station No, 4 and witnessed the grand spéctacle of the storm's fury. je drst intimation that the *oyclone” was coming the jull and heaviness of the air, which increased 80 strangely and closely as to scem almost porteutous, and the well practised eye of the Signal station man tracing, in many littie things unseen to landswep, the slow but sure approach of a fearful storm, This was atten A, M. and the precautionary signals were displayed from the thir.y-five stations which line the coast, As the storm approached a jong, hoilow biast moaned and shivered round the station house, followed by the roar of a mountainous wave bursting on the beach, and an exclamation broke forth trom one eturdy wrecker, “God, huve mercy on all exposed to its tury!’? As noon drew neur the storin increased, and atone o’clock its jury became appalling. Blasts, jong and loud as the reverbation of cuunonry, succeeded one another with awlul rapidity, tearlug up buge trees by the roots and tiles ir.m roots, Toward night the ocean, lashed to wildest fury, rolled in high mountains of troubled water strangely with the darkness of earih and heaven, aud bursting witb asound that deadened for 4 time even the wild roar of the blast. About tive o'clock, how- ever, the wind suddenly veered and lulled, only seud- ing Jorth now and thea @ loug, sovbing wall, as it re, groiiul thas its work of destruction was ever checked; Dut the sea raged with equal tury, aud gave no ap pearance of acalm, As the storm pussed Sandy Huok at two o'clock station No. l reported the wind to be trave)ling fly miles an bour, At alue o’ciock the wind was west-northwest, and blow a perfect tornado, All the telegraph wires suuta of Long Branch on tue shore live were prostrated, and, although imiormation cume ol much damage on tne souiuern suore, uO news coud ve received by telegrapu. Ail nigut did the gale on land prevail, the wind never changing for a moment ‘The morning crowds of fishermen snd townsmen cvagreguted on the beuch ivoking Out lor aby Vaiuadivo or pivces of wreck that might be washed up on tue sands, On jooking Lo the wiuuward oue bebeld the grown mugses Ol water that were rolling in toward the iaud wilt a violence that seemed irresistible, crowned with ridges of loam; aud there Were moments Wueu the air appeared fillea With sparking gets, a8 the rays Ol the rising suu fell upon the spruy thal Was swept from wave to wave. Yoward the land the view Was suit more appalling, ‘Tue diuils Were at umes neariy hid trom the eye by the pyramids of water, which the furious element, so suddenly restrained 1p jts violence, cast High into the air, as i seeking Lo overtop the boundaries that na- ture bad aflixed to 146 dominion. ‘THE STORM KING'S VICTIMG, At Wiuslow, om the Wareiowu road, the Episcopal Church lust its rool, und ut Deuside, ou Buruegat Bay, & Dew hole: iu bbe Course Of erection Was unrvoled at the first stuge ol the storm’s jury, wud during ihe westerly gule last night the frame wail of the bulidiug Was Diown ito the sea Between Heightstown aud Bordentown, on the Camden and Ambvy ulvisiou, tue greatest dauia,e was done by the wind, At Heights. town the steeple of the Methodist Church came dowa with w crash, aud during the wight the rool Was biowa off, Huge trees were soupped like pipe stems and bent lke whip cords, Searcely an outhouse or bare in the vicinity escaped the tury Oi the Lurricave, At Oceanport part of the teuce about the Monmouth Park raging track Was blown down aid aloug Lue pine tree regivb on tus line of the Now Jersey soutuern Ranway wuch damage 18 ree porteu, During the month of Uctover three of the weVerest Doriueast gales (bat bas been kuown for twenty years hus raged along the Jersey shores, and not one vf she lilo saving siauions bus yet Veen manned, bor will they be upbii November 16, lt is true buat such’ daring fellows 48 Captain Valentine, of etution No. 4, and (he Captain of station No. 3, on such wights as lust night, muster a sma.) crew and remain in the Stauions, but there 18 no life saving var or mortar ready, avd should 4 Vessel Come ashore tueee Lrave feilows would aimost ve helpless to loud aid to the ua jortuuate mariner, as they have wotbing but tishiog bouts, Which could not live iu the heavy sea that rolled in shoreward during the gale last might, FREAKS OF The great cyclone of Friday last blew off tho root of Leppo’s Centennial House and about ove hundrod feet ofthe roof of the Atlantic Garden at Coney I#land, Owner buildings along the beach were also damaged, but wone seriously, HEAVY STOKMS ON SHE ATLANTIC. THE CYCLONE, A SUCCESSION OF GALES IN FULFILMENT OF THE HERALD’S PREDICTION. [From the Anglo-American Times, Oct. 19.) The White Star steamer Celtic reports frightful weather on the Atlantic, She did not reach Quvens- town tili Tuesday evening, detained by the g dur- ing the last three or four days. She had encountered the galo predictea by tuo New York Henatp due about the lit. The message sent from New York to the London oflive med to be alter rather than before the event, #0 literaily was it veritiod;—"Suocession of depression probably four, auended by heavy winds and rains, wil reach British coasts, During next ton days briet periods of tine weather will aiternute with these dis- Lurbances; iirst of jatier will arrive about 16th’? Tho cyclone of Sunday nigut was @ volt out of a clear sky. The weather was Uonaturally bright and warm for tio soasou, and we bave had bard blows allernauing with very fine wouther since, INDIANS KILLED, San Francisco, Nov. 8, 1877, By tho trawler schooner Leo, from Alaska, it is ascertained that the killing of some fifteen natives at Cape Prince of Wales, recently reported, was done by toe crew of a Honolulu whaling brig. The natives | boartied the brig ana demanded liquor, and, being ALASKA Felused, attacked the crew, who obtaimed arms from the cabin and beat off the assailants, turowiug up showers of snowy foam, contrasting | 1877.—QUINTUPLE SHEET. WEST POINT. General Sherman at the Nursery of American Heroes. WANTS OF THE MILITARY ACADEMY, Drilling in the Assimilated Tactics of the Three Arms. West Poixt, Nov. 3, 1877. arrived bere yesterday at one o'clock, when the storm was at its beight anda drenching rain falling so as to render ttextremely dis. agreeable to be out of doors, The General was ac companied only by Colonel Audenried of bis staff, and reached this famous nursery of military heroes as un- ostentatiously as though ho were merely a subaltero officer instead of the commander of the United States army. He was met tn Garrison’s by Major Wherry, General Schofield’s assistant adjutant general, who e: corted the great ‘‘marcher through Georgia’ 10 the headquarters of the Superinteudent of the Military Academy, where he will remain a guest during bis stay here, The usual artillery salute due to the Gen- eral’s eminent rank was ordered, but as he did not arrive by the earlier train, on which he was expected, the cadet gunners had no chance to burn powder, and when the General did arrive be would not allow the men to be turned out.again. As the ulternoon advanced tho weathor grew brighter and cleared off about hal{-past three o'clock, at which hour your correspondent bad the honor of some conversation with the General, who is, to all ap- pearances, stout aod healthy as ever, notwithstanding the fatigues of bis Jate tour of inspection in the indian country and on the Pacific slope. He and General Schofleld were both standing on tho ‘stoop’” of the latter's quartera, The veterans were coajoo- turing woat might be the opinion of “Old Probs” as to the chances of having fair weather, Sherman cast bis sbarp glance over the mountains, across the glens, and apand down the river. The scenery, notwith- standing the marring effect of the abated storm, was lovely. The rich autumnal lines of the golden and brown foliage, mixed bore with spots of obstinate evergreens which adbored to their colors with the truthful constancy, were strikingly beautiful. “You graduated here, General,’’ | remarked, The great commander paused a moment and replied, somewhat thoughtlully “Yous, 1 graduated here from the Academy.” Here bis eyes dwelt upon the green osplanade whereon he had so often in his boyish days partici- pated in scenes of mimic war, whose bare recollection flied bim with ao affectionate gratitude for the place of hig youtbtul studies, “It is a lovely spot this; quite equal, I should say, to anything in Europe.” “Yes, indoed, 1¢ 1s beautiful,” rejoined the General, and unsurpassed by the Rbine scevery or anything I have seen inthe old Continent; yet it is not by any means so lovely gs the scenery of the Columbia River, That ig charming. I have never seen it surpassed, nor perhaps’ equalled.’? “1 expected to see, Gonoral, a more imposing atylo of buildings nere for the accommodation of the person. nel of the Academy, They do not strike one as being #0 spacious milar establishments in Europe,’? “and yet they are as large as the Polytechnic, They are roomy enough for the purpose, and answer weil enough at present.”” IMPROVEMENTS BADLY WANTED. Major Wherry, who is thoroughly acquainted with the requirements of West Point, 8 that addi. tional barrack room 18 required for the cadets; three of whom sometimes now ocoupy rooms that were originally intended for two, Major Wherry, im connection with numerous iriends of the Military Academy, regrets the paucity of Congress in granting such sume of money us are required by the present condition of uffairs in the college, Graute ure grudgingly made at irregular in- tervals, and the result sa patchwork style of urchi- tecture that does but little credit to the country. The new hospital, ob is greatly wanted, ties Half fine ished, deteriorating from the effects of the weather, There is no room to spure in the old hospital, aud should any epidemic unfortunately visit the Acadomy it would be necessary to put some of the sick in tne barrack rooms, The water sapply is inadequate to the wants of the establishment, Last year tuis necessary element wi 80 short that for several Woeks some of it had to hauied trom a distance in order to make up the de: ciency, and th aiso there were about ten deys in whieh the same laborious operation bad to be per- formed, If a tire should break out it would be very disustrous, for there is uo Water that could be mauve ayatiavle in sufficient quantines to extinguisn it, An estimate amountiug to some $12,000, for the purpose of bringing water from the ‘Round ‘oud, a) mile and a bulf distant trom Wost Point, lingers before Congress, 1# no saying When, if ever, it will be acted upon. Bi sides the want of water there is also » great want of drainage on the northern Here, for the jast sixty or seventy years, it has been tl practice to dump cartings 1nt0 neighboring cesspools, fitting them up that way and then coveriug the whole with earth. This practice must, in time, breed al digeuses thut will be very injurious, In this Connection it may be remurked that during the last couple of years there have been more cases ot tever and ague Lban were ever known betore in the same space of time, FAMILIAK OBJECTS AND TROPHIES. On the way to General schofield’s quarters your cor- respondent could not fail to see many objects worthy of wote that ure tumilar to those wuo know West Point. Going westward vy a pathway from the hi aba short distance is the rifled gun battery, overlook- ing the river toward the north. It 18 a teldwork, ri eted with gabior ad jucines, traced and executed in a Munner which retlects credit on the engineoring skill of those Who constructed it. A short way 1m tue rear of this is the elm grove, Where there is a number of bronze and iron guns, trophies of the War of lndepen- dence, the Wars 011812, of sexicu and the late rebellion, A portion of the great chain which once belonged to the huge boom that was intended to ciose the ifsdson agatust British vessels during the days of the Royo- ‘here is also o ly (English) yuns, once mounted in Fort Pulaski; two carronades trom Hilton Head, eigut-inco Blakely gua trom Fort Morgan— all taken irom tho Confederates—aud pieces of Gil- more’s thirty-pouader Parrout gun, which discharged 4,606 projectiles against Charleston, There is a variety of trophy guns, among tiose from Vicks- burg being the weil known “Wuoistling Dick,” an English Whitworth piece, und a fine Armstrong rifle captured at Fort Fisuer. Not the Jeast remarkable among thes@ engines of war 18 the gun from Eide: Daitery, which Ured the iast shot previous to the su reuder of Lee’s army. The Museum of Uranance aud ‘Trophies contains many relics Of tue past that are ex- ceedingly noteworthy did time admit of describing them. Une of the most remarkable objects nere 1s the colors of the Fourth regiment of United states infantry, ‘These compr: first fla ried, 1794; retained at’ reorganization, Tippecanoe,’ 1511; Gaines? Pen, 1346; alos 36; ‘Okeechobee, 1837; Valo . 1346; 'Resaca’ de la Puitna, 1846; Moniorea, 1s46; Vera Cruz, 1847; Cherubusco, Moiimo del k Coupuitepec, City of Mexico. In the rebellion: Yorktown, Gaines’ Mill, datvern Hill, Bull kun, No, 2; Antietam, Fredericksburg, Cuanceilorsville, Gettys- burg, Wapping Heiguts, Wilderness, Spottsyivania, Norto Apna River, Po-Potmati Creek, Coal Harbor, Petersburg, Leo’s turrenaer, I! any dther regiment, whether American oF foreign, can show a more honor: able aud glorious record tau this it would be inter. esting to hear trom it, THE ASSIMILATED TACTICS, Goveral Sverman is here tor the purpose of infors mally inspecting the condition oi the Academy, In Lhe exercise of Luis duty he takes great ploasure, par. Heularly as it affords him ap opportunity of witnessing the efforts that are being made to assimilate the tace tos of the threo branches of the service, Uni within «a few years buck the purato arms were drilled to tactics so dissimilar that an tlantry officer could hardly be expected to manage & squadron and & cavairyman would have found himself unacquainted ‘with the details of an intautry battalion movement, while tho artillery+ man wag not at home tw either of the other arms. The introduction of Generai Uptou'’s new tactics is doing much toward breaking down the old barr Which, 1b & tactical sense, separated the di Drauches from each other. One of the greatest provements that came into use with his frat text bo was the bew method o/ changing front to rear by th wheel of fours wbout, disregarding the imversion caused by this movement, without reierence to the original right or left of the Hoe, und saving Lue old com- plicated way of duing it by the countermurch of companies, &, The adoption of the column of fours, although only a moditication of the colamn of threes that was used by the British before the death of the Duke of Wellington, has done much, in wi hands of General Uptou, to simplify the evolutions of tactical units, He now proposes, and bis system ts on trai in the army, tv make the me word of command and the same method of executing the tactical mancuvres sorve alike for infantry, cavalry aud artillery. In this plan the battalion 18 considered (ho basis for the tactical unit; two squadrons of cavairy are counted as a vut- talion of tuis arm, and @ maximum battery of artillery (eight pieces) is susceptible of being worked in har- mony with th stom, Which Is deservedly growing I an acknowledged fact that in tactics is as much @ necessity to posse: a unitor calibre for small arms, and as livres ag possible of great nited mr Of tactics Lhe Cadets turned out op dress parade ot tnfantry. The cavalry drill demonstr: ® considerable knowledge of equitation command over their horses py the young soldiers, who have had about two months of this sort of ex cise during the present season. The horses, however, are any(uing but good; they are of soversl colors aad Sizes; sometimes employed to move ibe material of a battery of Held artillery and sometimes mounted by one cadet and sometimes by another. The all this naturally is that as avalry ! the animals are good for noting. They are disobeds hard-moutned, self-willed aud don’t know their places, They do not look as If the gtuble call ever brought them much of a grovming) and this neglect is perhaps one reason tor tueir de fective tempor. The irons of the bits, bridles and saddles, as well as the sabre scabbards of the riders, were dirty and rusty to an extreme 1! might aston. ish the beholder, As the horses are thus put to double duty they cannot be looked upon aa fit for cavalry men, therefore it would be unjust to too severely criticise either the riding or manner of executing the battalion move- ments which were performed. The force was divided into our companies of twelve men front and went through skeletun drill tn this form. General Shermat who Was accompanied by the military commanda: and Colone! Audenried, watched the walk and tr past, the ployments, deployments and changos of trons with much interest, THE DRESS PARADE. At balt-past four o’clock the cadet battalion (four companies) turned ous for dress parade, The maguiil- cent Weot Point band beadea force. The appear- ance of the young men un I Was exceedingly fine, and ther marching and manual of arms per- formed 1ike clockwork, Hore al: the commanding General evinced much interest and expressed bis satis- faction with what had been done. In the morning the visiting General went through the class rooms wad listened to the recitations, The mathematical demonstrations, illustrations at ti bluckboard and studies in the drawing department were of a bigh order of merit eral Sherman aud his chiet of stuff, Colonel A: deureid, lets hero tor New York shortly af five o'clock. The Geueral purposes remaining in the cy til Tuesday. MURDERED BY A WOMAN, MICHAEL KAVANAGH 18 STABBED DURING & QUARREL WITH HIS PARAMOUR—THE ASSAIL« ANT’S CUNNING ATTEMPTS TO SHIELD HER- SELF FROM EVIDENCE, A serios of quarrels between Michael Kavanagh and bis mistress, Bridget Cruso, culminated last night in a tragedy. In the street where they lived the man was stubbed almost to the heart, and with so sure a band did the woman deal the blow that almost immediate insensibiiity sealed the lps of the victim jand lett the motive of the deed to be perhaps never revealed, The murdoress, althouch apparenuy’ acting under sudden passion and, perhaps, heuted by liquor, dispiayed a marvellous cooiness in the despatck of her bloody work, and afterward took such steps t¢ efect her escape and conceal the evidence of her guili as might not in such a moment nave beea expected al her hands, When arrested, too, she botrayed in na way ber coneciousness of guilt, and, what is seldom ‘he case in women of hor stamp, she refused by thd utterance of any hasty word to criminate herself. PARTIES TO THE QUARREL, The victim, Michael Kavanagh, was a man who had worked some time since ag a printer, but who has lately becume debauched, and from his low associa. tions been regarded with suspicion. For the last fow years he has lived with Bridget Cruse as big wifo at No, 46 Thomas street, The woman was an abaudoned creature, noted even among her not very reputable neighbors for het excosses; the man a weak-minded mortal whose fondness tor liquor was his chief crime and who led a wretched Ile, Several times the police of the precinct bad heard from bim, but it was generally after a quarrel, in which be was the victim either of his mistress’ passionate acts or of hia neighbors? equally intemperate violence. What occasioned the quurrel last night cannot be determined, The occupauts of the house where the pair resided, as it appears 1s usual on Suturduy nights, bad drank to excess, and were not in a condition to be conscious of ny broil occurring = in their neighborhood, ad the devatn of tho victim has secured sileuce which the woman's reticence rofuses to break, Words, however, were exchanged in their room ; the womaa, 16 would seem, became earaged aud Kavanagh to avoid her vetook bimeelt to the street door, From that he crossed to No. 47 Thomas street, a shabby abode where gome boon companions lodged. He was loiters ing shore when Bridget Cruse, who had followed bim down stairs, stole across the way and belore he waq aware of it appeared betore him in the duorway of thé ‘other house. . A BLOW IN THR DARK Thero was no puriey betwoen them here, Th¢ woman was bent on mischief, and raising a carving knile she carried in her hand she plunged it into Kaw aoagh’s breast, She was away in a moment, aud hot Victim, staggering into the atreet, nad ouly ume t give one cry of agony belore he fell upon the pave ment uaconscious, Officer Finnell, of the Hitth preciuc’, Was at the corner at the time, but in=«sthe—=—s darkness_= Gould, «Ss bot BO what was occurring turtner down tho street, The loud cry, @ convulsive attempt to articulace “Sure der,” be says, caugut bis car aad be burried toward it, "ln 4 moment be came upon Kavanagh’s body, # retched in front ol No, 47 howas street, where a wouan, who saw the uffray, was standing. Tbe man Was breaching with diflicuity, aud irom the wouud in his breast the blood was spurting and streaming over the pavement. Ho spoke to him, but it was cleur that he was utterly ducouscious, and so the oliver rapped for assistance, Captain Kakius, who was vear at vand appeared at this juncture and had the dying man litted up und carried to the Chamvers Street Hospital, Tuere an effort was made to stauch bis wound, vut at was | ciual, Ho lay im & comatose slate, sourcely breatuing, for nearly an hour, when he expired, Tne hospitul surgeon who uttended him says the blow which inflicted the wound was strong aod steady, The wound Was about an tuch inieugth, just upou sue Dreast bone, which the knife penetrated and broke, and probably entering the lungs, on the way to which it severed a number of large arteries. Deuth was duo, it 1g thought, to iniernal homorrhuge. SEARCHING FOR THE MUKDERESS, Meantime Bridget Cruse bad made off, and when gan making inquiries it was Jound that of the place, being stupetied vy driuk, were utterly unit to give avy information, even had they been disposed to. The house where Kavanagh and the woman lived wag entered, Lt is & mean, tumole-down tenement, as fithy und dilapidated as it well can be, ‘The room where the pair lived was desolat bare and with hardiy an article of iuruiture leit in it. Noevi- dence of the quarrel appeared in it olwer than some broken bottles, Wich migut or might not have @ bearing on th: case, The next room was fliled by a haif dozen inebriated wretches, who huddied against the door and denied the police admittance vill it waa broken open. The search of the house was made from top to bottom without any tra being found and the police were about to continue their quest in some other quarters, when Cuptain Eakins, who bad being exploring the cellar by the precarious light of some luciler matches, came upon the woman crouched im & corner aud shrinking among some dévris trom the sight ot ber pursuers, She submitted quietly to arrest, aud, without any word of explanation or inquiry, or any show of emotion, she went with the pulice to the station house. ' The knife with which sbe bad inflicted the fatal blow was wanting however, No sign of it could bo found in either the street of house, but it (ually was learned that Bridget Cruse had stolen across the way on striking Kavanagh, and, in the excitement, coolly accosted a notghbor (June Campboli), who resided at No, 44 Thomas street, and given her the weapon, with directions to dosiroy tt. Jane dened this, and persfated in ter dectaration of ignorauce when the house was searched; but famoug the ashes of her stove was tuund a sbapeless piece of bone and metal, which proved to be the knife, The handle was consumed, the steel was bent and blackened, but into the biade the fire had burned the traces of the blood. Bridget Cruso 1s in custody in the Fifth precinct station house, and with her, held as witness ° dane Campbell, who took the weapon from hor, and Catharine Upton, who saw the deed, FATAL ACCIDE. Jauustows, N. ¥., Nov. 3, 187% Tho senffolding of tue New Catholic church in Ware ren, Pa,, {ell this afternoon, burying six workmen, one of whom was killed. The others were danger. ously injured. The accident was caused by the giving away of tue rafters, OBITUARY, MB, EZRA HALL, Mr, Ezra Hall, « prominent member of the Hartfor4 bar aud widely kuown 10 political cirojos throughout the State of Connecticut as an earnest republican, diced in Hartford, yesterday alternoon, from inflammation of tho bowels, after a brief iliness, He was a native of Mariboro, Conn., and was forty-one years ol age He was graduated at the Wesleyan University and soon afterward engaged in legal practice in Hartford with eminént success, Politics claimed his attention to some extent, und at the age of twenty-sevon bho wag elected to the State Senate and again in 1871, While there he served as Vresident pro tem, during the exciting controversy over the olectiou of State ollicars, Ho w Hosen by the Senate as one of the Fellows of Yalo College to roprescnt the Siaie in that corpuration and as such Voted ior the election of Noal Porter to the Presidenoy, [n 1867 he served in the Republican State Central Committee, and during thas year united with Mr, Marshall Jewell aad eury fT. Sperry in the purcvase of the Morning Post and Avening Press, which wore subsequently cousolidated under the name of ti Three years aga ho was admitted to the me C D . that tribu: cance vp inal by arguing several important iueuranc¢