The New York Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1878, Page 9

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ee From All Parts of the World. SHERE ALI’S LETTER The Ameer’s Version of the Afghan Question. AN AMERICAN IN TURKEY. Rumors About the West of England Baik Probably Exaggerated, eae (By caBLE TO THE HERALD.} Lospon, Dee. 8, 1578. The reply of the Ameer of Afghanistan to the Viceroy of India’s ultimatum has been receivcd by the Indian government. It is dated on the 19th of November, but not | having reached Dakka before the 30th of that month, it is quarters the receipt of the news of the capture of Ali Musjid. The Ameer, in acknowledg- ing the receipt of the ultimatum, criticises the professed friendly intention of the British government and refers to its action believed in official to have been rewritten after in the past, especially its intercession in behalf of Yakoob Khan, as contradictory of such intentions. The Ameer explains that his refusal to receive Gen- eral Sir Neville Chamberlain’s mis- sion was not intended to be hostile, but arose from a fear of the loss of his in- dependence, an apprehension which was confirmed by the reference in the ulti- matum to protection being given to the Khyberees who had been en- gaged in escorting the mission. ‘The Ameer declaresd that no enmity exists between Afghanistan and the British government; that he desires to resume the former friendly relations, and, finally, that he will not resist the visit of a small tem- porary mission. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The Times, in its leading editorial article yesterday, said:—“If the leaders of the opposition are prepared to support such unreserved censure of the govern- ment as is expressed in both Lord Hallfax’s and Mr. Whitbred’s they be prepared to resolutions selves. To move that the House dfsapproves the conduct of Her Majesty's government is to propose as direct a vote of censure as can well be conecived, and the responsibility of moving such & vote of censure ought not to have been left to a pri- vate member. However, it is gratulation that we shall hay last in so plain and straighfforward a‘ form. resolutions, the ought to move them- matter for much con- the issue raised at, The resolutions which have now been moved cover the whole ground under dispute and touch the heart of the question.” AN AMERICAN ARRESTED. An American has been arrested at Constantinople on acharge of conspiring against the Sultan. The American Legation immediately demanded his re- lease, The charges are serious, and it is believed the representations of the Legation will prove fruitless. TURKEY'S NEW GOVERNMENT. The new Grand Vizier, Kheireddin Pacha, has drafted a law proclaiming Ministerial responsibility. Eheireddin, ryplying to the congratulations of the Armenian Patriarch, declared that to all Ottoman subjects equal justice would be administered impartially, and all government posts would be filled without reference to religion, In conclusion, he said:—“We all pray to the same God; we in mosques, you inchurches.” ‘The rumors of a new political treaty between England and Turkey originated in the fact that Minis- ter Layard recently submitted to the Porte various clauses, treating in detail the three chief points of previously adopted reforms. A rumor is current that the discovery of a conspiracy caused the fall of the late Ministry, but this has hitherto been unconfirmed, as well as a rumor that Server Pacha had been exiled to Siwas and Reouf Pacha to Bagdad. The Republique Francaise, of Paris, ex- presses great dissatisfaction with the new Turkish Ministry. AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN AND ITALIAN APPAIRS, The Standard’s Vienna despatch says:--' ‘The pro- posed motion in the Austrian Delegation at Pesth for avote of confidence in Count Andrassy’s Ministry has been quietly dropped. Count Andrassy’s victory is confined to the rejection of the report of the Budget Committee,” A Royal reseript was read in the Diet yesterday announcing that the Cabinet will remain in office, General Szapary has been ap- pointed Minister of Finance and M, Kemeny Minister of Commerce, In the Italian Chamber yesterday Signor Crispi declared that yesterday's ministerial statements were unsatisfactory. He presented a motion summoning the Ministry to execute existing laws in order to pre- serve tranquility. The debate was adjourned until Monday. ANXIETY ABOUT THE BANKS. ‘The Manchester Courier's correspondent at Bristol telegraphs that he has seen the sub-manager of the bank—the West of England and South Wales District Bank—whose alleged difficuities caused the. uneasi- hess in the London Stock Exchango referred to in these despatches, and is assured by him that there fs not tho slightest degree of tenth in the rumor. “it is,” he says, an old rumor that originated six weeks ago, and he had hoped that it had been lived down. Frida: rumor, though not confirmed, was reiterated on London Stock Exchange yesterday, where it is per. aistently asserted that the bank will fail unless up- held by outside arsixtance, : RUMORS OF FINANCIAL TROUBLES. All the newspapers of yesterday mentioned rumors ot commercml and financial troubles, but did not give names, They merely said that up to the close of the market the rimors were not confirmed. The Manchester Guardian's don tinaneial report saysi—"A rumor that there has been a mn oon an important provineial bank was the chief reason for the — uneasiness, bnt it appears, however, that the depositors and others interested have been needlessly alarmed, the London agents of the bank having shown their con- fidence by paying all drafts presented to them,” ‘The Guardian's local commercial article says nothing about the ramors of financial troubles in that city. A gentleman who was on ‘Change in Man- chester on Friday says that he heard nothing of the alleged difficulties there. The new four per cent Canadian loan of £3,000,000 was tendered for yesterday, Only 61,619,000 were ale lotted at an average of £96 128, 6d, CADLE TEMS, A telegram from the captain of the British troop slip Urontes, dated at Malta, December 6, says there is no truth in the report cabled from Halifax that a NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1878.--QUADRUPLE SHEKI—WITH boat's crew from that ship had been lost in attempt- ing to reseue a man who had fallen overboard, ‘The Freeman's Journal of Dublin has published a letter from John O'Connor Power (home ruler), mer Der of Parliament for Mayo county, denouncing Isaac Butt (home ruler), member for Limerick city, as a traitor to the home rule party in Ireland and to the Irish cause. The Danish Volkething at Copenhagen will proba- bly be dissolved on Monday in consequence of its refusal to pass the subsidy to indemnify the losses caused by the lute negro iusurrection in the Island of Santa Cruz. ‘The Spanish Ministers are considering a project for laying a cable between Manila and Hong Kong. DIPLOMATIC CHANGES. PROBABLE CHANGE IN THE GERMAN MINISTRY AT WASHINGTON—MR. TAYLOR TO CALL UPON THE EMPEROR TO-DAY. {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) Beruiy, Dec. 7, 1878. An apparently well authenticated report asserts that Prince Lynar will, within a short time, replace Baron Schloessen, the German Minister at Washington, who will be promoted. Prince Lynar, of Darmstadt, was married, it will be remembered, in 1871, to Miss May Parsons, of Ohio. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EMPEROR. ‘The Emperor William receives Mr. Tay- lor, the American Minister, to-morrow (Sunday), he having expressed a desire to present h‘s congratulations upon His Majesty’s safe return to Berlin. PRESIDENT ALCANTARA. DEATH OF THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF VENEZU- ELA—GUTIERREZ THE ACTING PRESIDENT-— HISTORY OF THE DECEASED STATESMAN. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) , 1878, A cable despatch was received here yesterday by John Dallett & Co. at four P. M. stating that Presi- dent Alcantara, Chief Magistrate of Venezuela, died on the evening of November 30, and that J. Gutierrez, Chief Justice of the High Federal Court, was acting President. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. All was quict in the State. SKETCH OF ALCANTARA'S CAREER, General Alcantara was a gallant soldier of the lib- eral party in that country, who bore a prominent part in the revolutions of 1863, 1868 and 187 In the first named year the unitarian party, headed by the brothers Monagas, was overthrown by ,the fed- erals, under General Juan Crisdstomo Falcon, and a Confederation of States’ with large local powers was formed in place of the previous centralized govern- ment. This change was sanctioned by the constitu- tion of March 28, 1864, and General Falcon became President for the term of four years, beginning March 18, 1865, Before the expiration of his term, however, many of his = sup- porters became dissatisfied, and in 1868 a fusion of the chief elements of opposition was effected under the auspices of General M. A. Rojas, and by the Con- vention of Antimano, May 10, 1868, General Brgzual was designated as Acting President and General Rojas as Commander-in-Chief. This agreement was soon violated by Bruzual, who displaced Rojas from the command, THE BLANCO REGIME, Meanwhile the public dissatisfaction with both the contending chieftains took form under the veteran ex-President General José ‘Tadeo Monagas, who headed the “Blue Revolution,” composed of the mal- contents of all purties. After a sanguinary battle at the gates of Caracas, June 26, 1868, that capital was taken, and on August 15 Puerto Cabello, the last stronghold of Falcon, was surrendered to the Blue Revolution. Monagas was elected President October 4, but died November 18, and was provisionally suc- ceeded by General Venancio Pulgar, Governor of the State of Zulia. In February of the following year ‘ongress deposited the Executive power in the joint hands of General José Ruperto Monagas and Dr. Guillermo Villegas until a new election could be held, General Pulgar soon broke into rebellion in Zulia, aided by Domingo and Gregorio Monagas and by the partisans of Falcon generally. After winning a vic- tory near Coro, Pulgar was defeated at Maracaibo October 21, 1869, when that city was stormed and Pulgar thrown into prison in Fort San Carlos. The triumph of President —Ruperto Monagas was of short duration. During the winter of 1869-70 a powerful organization of the old federals was effected under General Antonio Guzman Blanco, a former partisan of Falcon, who after three days of fighting took possession of Caracus, April 27, 1870. Guzman Blanco was chosen Provis- jonal President, with extraordinary powers, by the Congress at Valencia, July 18, 1870, and three years later was clected President for the term of four years, beginning February 20, 1873. ELECTED PRESIDENT. The federal constitution of 1864 was restored and General Alcantara, who had figured prominently ut the side of Falcon and Guzman Blanco in the cam- paigus above narrated, was appointed, May 16, 1873, “primer designado,” or first substitute, an office equivalent to vice president. At the expiration of the term of Guzman Blanco, no election haying been made by the people General Alcantara was chosen, by the Congress over his two competitors, Zavala and Acosta, for the term of two years only, beginning ‘bruary 20, 1877, im aceordance will the isions of the new constitution adopted Niay 27, 1874, General. Alcantara was a very young. ‘man for the discharge of so high an Office, having been little above forty yeara of age at his death. He wi native of the State of Aragua, of which he had been “President’’ or Governor, while act- ing as Vice President of the Republic, He was simply a soldier, having littie education, and seemed to take Guzman Blanco as his model. At his own solicita- tion the Venezuelan Congress conterred upon him the honorary titl “Gran Democrata,” or great democrat. His cabinet consisted of Dr. Leandro Villanueva, Minister of the Interior and of Justice; Dr. Anducza, of Foreign Affairs; Dr. A. Urdaneta, of Finance, and General J. Crespo, of War and Navy. At the outset of his term of office and as a condition of his recognition he was obliged to sign, with his competitors, the “compromise of Macuto,” February ai, IT President Alewnt ‘s term of ot- fice was disturbed by several revolutionary movements, chiefly proceeding from malcontents of his own party, such as General Venaurio Pulgar, Dr. Diego Bautista Urbancja and General José Ignacio Pulido, the two latter being especial friends of Guz- un Blanco, Urbaneja is at the present time at the tof a revolutionary fo: while Puido is a a prisoner in the dungeons of Laguayra. JUSTICE GUITERREZ, The Chief Justice of the High Federal Court, Gen- eral Jacinto Gutierrez, who tion of 1874 has assumed and soldier of the Stat Minister under Guzman & lawyer who was Finance and hus been He is above seventy Blanco Governor of his own State, years of aye and is 4 man of some administrative ability, but is not likely to candidate for the Presidenc: all . Falcon is dead, abandoned politics and Guzman Bianco is Minister i Paris, but there is no lack of competitors for t vacant post, The most prominent of the friends of Alcantara is perhaps his Prime Minister, Dr. Villa- nueva, while Urbuneja, Pulido and the restless Pul- may be depended on to press their own claims. fie chances arc that (itzman Blanco will ultimately caray off the prize, Visitors to the Centennial Ex- position at Pifiladelphia will remember the three statues of that General there exhibited, one being of colossal size and another an equestrian bron: They have ail been erected at Caraccas during the present year, ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION, THE DEVONSHIRE TROUBLE YET UNSETTLED— WHAT I8 THE UNITED STATES GOING TO DO? BUENOS Aynes, Ovt. 31, 1878, A telegram from Santiago, dated soth, says the Chilian government was waiting for an official report a the seizure of the United States bark Devon- shire Lefore replying to the notes from the Argel. tine government and the United States Ministers, ‘The Devonshire was cleared from Buenos Ayres for the Falkland Isles, and the Chilian authorities allege she was smuggling the be a suecessful ‘The outlook is not at lonagas has long since VICTORY OF LIBERAL CONSERVATIVES. Havana, Dec. 7, 1878, ‘The municipal elections began yesterday, No dis. turbances oceurred, ‘The liberal conservatives were victorious in Havana and the neighborbood, and also in Vuelta Abajo, The result in the rest of the 3! ene wn ‘he troops captured and killed the bandit Ma druga near Colon, THE LOST POMERANIA paseo BL Captain Schwensen Tells the Story TRIBUTES TO MANLY COURAGE, ee A Passenger Who Was Not Careful of Life. SCHWENSEN TO BE_ REINSTATED. (By CABLE 10 THE HERALD,] Hansure, Dec. 7, 1878. Captain Schwensen, of the Pommeranina, publishes in a newspaper of this city a statement of the events relating to the catastrophe of midnight He says:—‘‘When the was sucked down into the vortex. I did not have on a life belt, and only gained the surface after a desperate struggle, where, most fortunately, I en- countered a spar, by which I floated for an half. I seemed to be utterly alone on the surface of the water until at last the lights of a steamer, that proved to be the City of Amsterdam, came insight. I shouted. I was heard. A boat was sent and I was taken on board the steamer unconscious state. 12:08; thus I am able to fix the time exactly,” November 25. steamer sunk I aided hour and a in a semi- My watch stopped at HIs ILLNESS. The captain will remain for the present at Hamburg on account of his serious illness growing out of the great shock to his nervous system. His physicians encourage the hope that he will soon be out once more, restored to health. Captain Schwensen details the events following the collision which oc- curred while he left the bridge for a few moments to visit the chart house order to examine the course. He exoner- ates First Ofticer Franzen from blame. ‘‘Re- specting the conduct of the officers and crew after the collision,” the captain continues, “I can only’speak in terms of the highest praise. My orders ‘were carried out calmly and ‘efféctually. The report that some ‘of the créw attempted to save their personal property and neglected to attend to the proper equipping of the boats or to the safety of the passengers is, according tomy observation, utterly unfounded. Into the last boat that pulled away I saw a passen- ger hurl an iron cornered coffer clear from the deck, Knocking a hole in the boat's bottom and endangering the life of every passenger in the craft. AT THEIR Posts. “Chief Officer Franzen was on deck dis- tributing life. belts and superintending the lowering of the boats until within a few seconds of the sinking of the Pommerania. Doctor Schneiding, the surgeon, was also distributing life belts. Chief Engineer Helms assured me, soon after the col- lision, that the steam had been shut off in consequence of there being so much water in the engine room that nothing could be done. Second Officer Fokkes was on deck to the last and declined to enter the boats, refusing to leave his captain. Third Officer Zanrow was at his post till the sink- ing of the ship, firing rockets. Thus it will be seen that the first engineer, second and third officers and the surgeon perished while doing their duty. say nothing, only that I was saved by a miracle.”” TRIBUTES TO THE DEAD AND LIVING. The words of praise which the captain speaks in behalf of his officers’ conduct in the moment of trial are touching and gen- erous, coming as they do from the lips of a in Asto myself, I commander who lives to hear it said of him that he went down with his ship avd would not leave her while floated. In conclusion, Captain Schwensen says:—‘‘I do not wish to be understood as singling any one man out for more praise than another. I do not know a man of the ship’s company who did not do his duty, ‘The Pommerania’s decks were only a few teet above the water when the last boat lett the ship’s side by my express orders, and just in time to escape the terrible vortex that followed the sinking of the vessel. It seemed a Niagara in the ocean.” TO BE REINSTATED, It will be gratifying to the friends of Captain Schwensen in America to know that the Hamburg Steamship Coinpany has declared its full confidence in the uniortu- nate commander and has offered him the command of the Westphalia, now building, and expected to be ‘ready for sea in the spring. pied italy Ait as, EDISON'S ELECTRIC LIGHT. she ASHTNGTON, Dec The application for a patent made by Thom Faison for his electric light was favorably passed upon yesterday by the Patent Office, and the patent will be isstied on Luesday ne RARUS AND SWEE% te, SAN Fraxctsco, Dec, 7, 1878. At Sacramento, to-day, Rarus (the trotter) Sweetzer (the pacer) had a race at mile heats, best three it five, in harness, Rarns won in 218%, 2:18 and . The track was rather heavy aud a keen wind was blowing during the race, RESUMPTION. Coe’s Address on the Specie Paymen Mr. George 8. Return of A PROMISE OF PROSPERITY. How the Change Ix To Be Efferted Without Violence or Exeitement, HAPPY BANKERS. (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) Boston, Mass., Dee. 7, 1878, The Merchants’ Club of this city held its regular meeting’ this afternoon, which ran far into the evening. The guests of the club were, among others:—George S$. Coc, President of the Ameri- can Exchange Bank of New York; Benjamin B. Sherman, President of the Mechanics’ Na- tional Bank of New York; William L, Jenkins, President of the Bank of America, New York; William Dowd, President of the Bunk of North America, New York; George F. Baker, President of the First Na, tional Bank, New York; W. A. Hall, cashicr of the Oriental Bunk, New York; the committce of the Clearing House of the Boston associated banks and prominent bankers and bank presidents in Boston and New England. The meeting was considered to be entirely informal, but there wax ovidence of an effort to get these amen together to discuss the pros- pects of restumption, Eustis C. Fitz, of Boston, pre- sided, and after the tables had been cleared intro- duced as the first speaker George 8. Coe, of New York. ‘MR. COK ON THE BLESSINGS OF RESUMPTION, Mr. Coe, after reviewing the cause of the issuance of currency by the government during the war, said:—‘We may review the case and see whether any mistakes were made of a radical nature. The pay- ments of $50,000,000 were made weekly in sums of $5,000,000 cach, and it is a curious financial question that in one week, I think an average of eight days, the whole sum that we paid out was returned upon us, and we had only to pay the same money back again, In other words, the coin in the banks did not diminish during the opera- tions of the war, but the ordinary transactions upon acoin basis were conducted with great facility; but as coin went out it became, as it were, considered in- evitable that the government should issue legal ten- der notes from the Treasury. It seemed to be a fore- gone conclusion, arrived at all over the country, that that proceeding was inevitable. But the way in which it was entered into was not in such a degree as to make it inevitable. So soon as $50,000,000 of these irredeemable notes came into circulation the suspension of specie payments became inevitable, be- cause’ when — $5,000,000 went out from the banks under the Treasury, $10,000,000 of the other kind came into the banks through the disposition of the government, and we found ourselves in possession of another medium than that which we paid out. Consequently, the better medium was preferred and the poorer became the currency of the country. In other words, the entry of the government into currency of an irre- deemable character became, — by” necessity, the cause of the suspension of — specie payment, and, spe ments once arrested, there was no possible remedy for the evil except to with- draw the cause which produced it, and so we have reached this day, and now weare approaching the first day of January, when we sincerely hope to find that resumption is a fixed fact and that it will be practical, safe and the best for the interest of the country. (Pro- wed applause.) A RETURN TO PROSPERITY. How shall we come to it? Must it not be by the return to the cause of suspension—a return to the place where it originated, and a change from the thing which we have to that for which it was substituted 2? In other words, must not the Treasury dispense the coin ‘and take bac its notes? Must not the same condition which characterized the times prior:to the war return again before the same results are here? Must we not retrace the steps by which we reached this place? We have learned from the war that this one medium has functions which we never before suspected. Can we say we have learned to lean upon it ss a substantial basis? I feel certain that the effect of resump- tion will be simply to gradually return to the same condition which existed before the war and return to the prosperity which we knew then. I believe that the legal tender notes will even- tually go in and specie gradually come out; that the one Will be substituted for the other without violence being done to our monetary interests or embarass- ment being occasioned, and that by degrees the gov- ernment wil find itself relieved from the necessity of making fiat money, which is simply the flat of the government and not substantial. MEANS PROVIDED. The way to reach resumption is very simple. The government has already provided $10,000,000 of gold tor resumption. We believe that that will answer the uurpose for a considerable time to come. We be- Kove that for '® long time, during the course of coming years, without’ violence, without difficulty, this change, this return to the old condition, will gradually go forward until the whole . object is accomplished, and like the dawning of the sun we will never know how it was accomplished, It will accomplish itself. The door is open, let the light in and everything will re- turn to the healthy and natural condition of peace. (Applause). » “Now,” said Mr. Coe, “I believe that we have started in the right direction. All natural forces come to help us; industry will return to its accustomed chan- nel and its reward will come. When we undertaks do this all nature helps us. (Prolouged app! I believe there will be no rush of people on the Treas- ury for gold when specie payment ix resumed. The difference between one medium and the other is ) almost insensible now, and on the Ist of January it will be obliterated. The work will go on by the natural course of things, In this way the banks in Boston must have what they had in former times, a certain amount of coin, It consti- tutes, as you may say, the furniture of the bank, the furnishings of the business of banking, the in which it proposes to deal. Every city must pro- vide itself in the same way, and that need not be done hastily. It makes no difference whether it be on the Ist or 5th of January or July. If] am travelling around this country and haye in my pos- session a check, I reach St. Louis or Chicago, and it is necessary for some purpose that I should get it changed into coin, [must have the option of taking coin or its equivalent in @ check, so the pauks must have a supply to give — their ccistomers that option. I believe that resumption is the crowning uct of the war, and with it pass away all the consequences ot the struggle, and peace and prosperity will enste—such peace and prosperity as it has never seen before.”” The speaker then discussed the progress of our country, its increase in wealth, population, railroad facilities, &c., and painted in glowing colors the Dlessings of prosperity and hap- piness which a solid financial basis would be sure to bestow. aa ‘As this was a pretty long speech the New York gen- tlemen who accompanied him did not address the meeting, except to concur in. Mr. Coe's views. Brief addresses were made by J. H. Beale, of the Boston Clearing House, who merely said that he con- ratnlated the merchants of Boston and the kers on the prospect of an carly settie- ment of all our financial disturbances. Mr, Dowd New York, returned hist ks nerely ; also Messrs. P. Kidder, of the banking house of Kidder, Peabody Jenkins, Asa Potter, of the Maverick ; Henry 'D. Hyde and John Cummings, of the Shawmut Bank, ‘The mecting wes very important and interesting. It Wasted till nearly ten o clock. NAVAL ~ INTELLIGENCE. DETAILS OF THE TRIAL TRIP OF THE QUINNE- “ PAUG-—ORDERED TO THE ST. MARYS. Wasutxoton, Dec, 7, 1878. The United States steamer Quinnebaug, which left Norfolk on the afterno6n of the 4th inst. for a steam speed trial, under control of a board consisting of Chief Engineers H. Newell, D. B. Macomb aud William H. King, anchored oft the Wolf ‘Trap, in the Chesapeake Bay, a distance of 105 miles from Annapolis, and made the distance between the two points in eight hours, being an average of over thirteen knots an hour, During this trial trip no sails were allowed to be used, the speed of the ship being due to the power of the ma- chinery entirely, A PAST SATLOR. Captain Farquhar and the officers were much pleased with the success ot the ship, and consider that she will surpass in speed, under all conditions of and wind, any foreign ‘man-of-war, ‘The ma- hinery Was manufactured inthe Washington Yard from the designs of th: yineering, but was placed in the ship in Phil Jt is thought that tne vessel will join the Mediterra- nean squadron. Commander R. L, Phythian has been ordered to special temporary duty on board the nautical sehool- ship St. Marys, at New York, THE TALLAPOOSA AT NEWPORT, Newront, R, L, Dee, 7, 1878, ‘Tho United States steamer Tallapoosa, from Boston, arrived at the torpedo station this morning, She leaves for Norfolk this afternoon. UPPLEMEN'. FRANKLIN SEARCH EXPEDITION. ADDITIONAL NEWS PROM THE SCHOONER BHOTHEN —COURTESIES IN THE ARCTIC SEAS THE, EXPLORERS AT WORK PROGRAMME FOR THIS WI i [BY TELEGRAPH YO THE HERALD.) New Loxbox, Coun,, Dec, 7, 1878. Further information concerning the schooner then and the Franklin search party has beon guthered from Captain John 0, Spicer, of the bark Nile, of this port, and just returned, On the 18th of August, 1878, Captain Spicer boarded the Eothen while the latter was at Whule Point, on the west side of Hudson Bay, lati- tude 63 deg. 12 min, She was then cruising for whale, under command’ of Captain Barry. Lieuten- ant Schwatka, the Hrnatp correspondent, and Esqui- man Joe were.on, Depot Island at the time, engaged in & search for ‘traces of’ the lost schooner, John Franklin, and also prosecuting scientific investiga- tions, expecially geographic and hydrographic. Many errors in the churts in that locality had been discoy- A and corrected by them, and valuable additions to the general kuowledge of the country were made. CAPTADN BARRY'S STATEM: . Captain Barry said he should cruise in the vicinity of Depot Island until winter set in and then proceed to Marble Island, where he would winter. He thought it probable that Schwatka and the scientists, who had then been absent from the vessel several days, would winter at Repuise Bay, 240 miles from the winter quarters of the Eothan, No sickness had visited the ves- sel since her departure from New York, and harmony and enthusiasm prevailed among the officers and crow. The Eothen was then “clean,” that is, had taken no whale, though the captain had seen two on the day he was spoken by the Nile. Captain Spicer received from Captain Barry several letters for the masters and crews of ‘vessels from this port then in Arctic region, but brought no letters from the Kothen to parties in the United States. ‘Che Nile win- tered at Hudson's Straits. ‘THE WINTER OF 1877 VERY MILD. Captain Spicer says last winter wes the mildest of any of the sixteen seasons he had passed in the Northern seas. Very little ice was secn during the early part of the season, and the Nile was not frozen in until the middle of December, He left New- gumitute Noyember 8 for this port. The homeward voyage was marked by an almost entire ab- sence of pack ice, and but very little “young” ice was seen, The fall was unusually open and characterized by the prevalence of light south- easterly winds. This indicates that the present win- ter will be mild, perhaps warmer than the last. Dur- ing the entire cruise of the Nile in the north no severe gales were encountered, ‘The Nile brought home 360 barrels of oil and 6,000 pounds of bone. DEATH'S DOOR STAN! for those suffer a OPEN until the b Bi + nO far from being th aro universally laude jain, While the tor their virtues, ‘The ple's wea er clanx steal the dead reason is bodies of our loved ones to submit them to the dissecting knife, these only rob the graves to restore the living vietims to our hearts and homes, ames—Du. 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JUST THE THI ITTLE ON! _ Have yon seen the J dren's Fuestres way? pon Tor and x, at THONET BROTHERS’, 808 Bi E CURTAINS “CLOSING STOCK MANUFAC- . Importer, 76 Duane st. WATER.—THIS GREAT of the kidneys and wladd NEW INVENTION! | BLUE, PATENTED — 1878. MPLE, ECONOMICAL and NE for bluein V ASK YOUR a SU RTT. PERIOR sky bine color, AND ROCK CANDY red hy ourselves from Humgardner's Virginia rye the, BF wi the best in the United tates; $1 Her bot per gallon, Compare it with all others. | Pull diseonata te the trade, 1. BORERK & CO. 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