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NEW YORK HERALD. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1879-—TRIPLE SHEET. ~ WASHINGTON. TheBrazilian Subsidy Passed by the Senate. POSSIBILITIES OF AN EXTRA SESSION. Alaska, Its Inhabitants and Resources. BASY WAY OF CONTROLLING THE NATIVES. The Florida Contested Election Case’ Settled. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasurxaton, Feb. 20, 1879. HE FEDERAL ELECTION LAWS—HOW AN EXTRA SESSION MAY BE RENDERED NECESSARY. Some of the republicans pretend to fear that an extra session will be caused by the failure of the Legislative Appropriation bill. There is, however, no need of it. The democrats in the House are de- termined to put themselves on the record in favor of repealing the federal election laws, but it is well understood that when they have carried the measure through the House they expect to see it de- feated in the Senate by democratic votes and elimi- nated from the Legislative bill by the Confer- ence Committee which will follow. If the republicans should commit the blunder of pro venting the passage of the bill through the Howse by protracted filibustering, that might make an extra session necessary, but it is not probable that they will do this. Southern conservative democrats here say that in some States, such as Louisiana, their people are not in favor of a repeal of the federal election laws, as they believe themselves to have been wronged by the straightout democrats in ways which these laws, energetically executed, will prevent. But the same men cay that they desire the repeal of the test oaths, because these limit the choice of jurymen and the formation of. intelligent and upright juries. THE FLORIDA CONTESTED ELECTION—ONE OF THE SCANDALS OF THE HOUSE. The House to-day, to the disgust of Mr. Atkins, ehairman of tho Appropriations Committee, dropped the Legislative bill and took up ‘the contested election case of Finley against Bisbeo from Florida. There are two more of these contested election cases to be settled yet, and it is one of the scandals of the House that such cases are left so often to be settled in the closing Gays of the Congress after hanging nearly two years. In 1875 the House, then strongly republican, decided two contested elections on the very last night of the’ session, seating the republicans and giving them the pay of two sessions for three or four hours of duty, just as the democrats to-day scated Finley to serve until the 4th of March. THE ALASKA TROUBLES—CHARACTER AND LOCA- TION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES AND THE BEST MEANS OF GOVERNING THEM. In regard to the so-called Indian troubles in Alaska ®@ gentleman who is thoroughly familiar with the re- gion and the Indisn population, by visit and resi- dence in Alaska, gives your correspondent thefollow- ing details :— In the first place it should be understood that nearly nine-tenths of all the Indian population of Alaska are living on the islands of the Alexander Archi- Erisee, and the coast line of the ‘thirty-mile strip,” tween Cross Sound and Lynn Canal on the north nd Dixon Sound and Fort Simpson on the south. In this region they ure: all cssentially alike in appear- ence and habit, but they aro divided into twelve or fifteen clans or settlements, as, for instance, the Stt- kas, at Sitka, where the present trouble is said to exist; the Chileats, on Lynn Canal; the Kahiegans, on Princo of Wales Isiand, &c. The entire aggrezate number scattercd thus over this region will not include more . than seven or eight thotsand. The remainder of the Indian population in the whole Territory will not exceed threo or four thousand at a liberal estimate. ‘Then, we have between four and five thousand Aleu- tians and Kodiak natives, who are all Christians, liv- fg with and supporting churches in every one of their villages; and, finally, the fay Latina) igen | on the Alaska coast from Bristol Bay around north and cast to the mouth of the Mackenzie River—not over eight or ten thousand souls. With the Aleutians and the Esquimaux we never have had the least trouble and never shall have, both on account of the inhospitable character of tho country in which they live aud their peaceable, inof- fensive disposition; but with the Indiaus we have need of the show and use of power—a great deal of showing and very little action. A glance at the map will satisfy any one instantly that tho only means of travel threughout the Alex- ender [tern is by water; that there is, owin, to the excessively rugged, mountainous character o! the coast and isian: bsolutely no travel by land; and, furthermore, that all these Indians aro ob! to build their villages by the sea shore. There is no settlement anywhere there that is not located at the edge of tide water. This they are compelled to do in order that they may procure food, such as fisk, shell- fish and marine animals, without which they would miserably starve. In this way every Indian settlo- ment—tor they have to settle, they cannot rove in this country—is within the reach of the guns of a small revenue steamer, and her crew and armament form the most effectual agent that the government can employ in reducing these savages at any and all ints to the most abject submission. Such a vessel, necessary, can shell out and destroy the entire Indian popuiation of Alaska in a single season, and, what is even more important, the Indians fully understand it, and they will never invite the conse- quences. f The posting of a squad of one hundred or a thou- gand soldiers at Sitka would be absolutely no protec- tion to the vast area elsewhere in the Alexander Archipelago wherein our people are constantly rang- ing on smell trading schooners and in canoes pros- pecting, &c. But the cruising of a small revenue steamor, with a bright twenty-four pounder on her deck, in these waters will not fail to kecp the Indians under perfect control, and if the officers of this ves- eel could be clothed with such judicial powers as are vested ip the office of a justice of the peace then all minor offences would bo settled at once wherever they aro detected by convening @ court on tho deck of the cutter. ‘This is all the government Alaska needs to-day. @he has no claim for any other founded upon reason. be agreed Dee ie syogeoat el puptas ofa staple crop snd pro! stock raisiug. Her best foreste—that is, those of tho Alexander Archipel- jo—are much inferior to those cf the British Colum. coast and of no value whatever when contrasted with those of Puget Sound and the Cascade Range of Oregon and Washinyton Territory, and her much vannted cod fishing banks are simply insignificant when compared with those of Newfoundland and Labrador. A plump reminder of the imferiority of the Alaskan banks for cod fishing our own people give us this year in the shape of Sees state. ment of the 1,140,000 codfia brought into the port of Sau Francisco for the year 1878 by American fishermen, tor 666,000 of this number wero taken in Asiatic waters, 2,000 niles further off than jaska, What the future may develop in Alaska as ag mines and salmon a are concerned is Bn open question, is a hope for the former snd a certainty of success in thé latter, but neither those industrics will be promoted a hair's breadth sending soldiers to Alaska or attempting to en- graft s Territorial form of government upon it when BO population sufficient to suit or appreciate such a movement can be found within its borders. es GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasutsatos, Feb. 20, 1879, RAILROAD TELFGRAPHS—A COMMISSION VOR EX- AMINATION AND INVESTIGATION RECOMMENDED DY THE SENATE COMMITTEE. ‘The Sonate Committce on Railroads to-day decided to report to the Senate the following proposition, with a recommendation that it be incorporated in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill: — That a commission of nine persons, composed of two Senators, to be appointed by tho Vice President; threo bers of the House of Representatives, to bo appointed by the Speaker, and four citizens of tho United States, not members of cither House of Congress, to be appointed by the President of the United States, shall created on or before March 15, 187), whose duty it shall 2 to make a th hh examination into and vestigation of the relutions existing between the Western Union and other telegraph companies and the public, us affecting interstate commerce; also the relations between such telegraph company or companies and the New York Astociated Press Arto- ciation and other pross aseoviations of the cowntry, Buational and local, in so far as the interests of the ered cae ondee a the public generally ere al thereby, an report to the Preeident of the United States on ot betore the Ist day of De- cember, 1879, the result of such investigation, to- gothor with the testimony taken, and aleo their ro- commendations as to what legislation, if an, expedient and proper as affecting the business of telegrapuie communication between States in the interest of the public generally ant of interstate commerce in particular, and espe- cially to report their conclusions and recommend- ations as to the constitutionality and policy of the creation by Congress of a postal telegraph system, under the direction and control of the zeneral gov- ernment, and as to the right and duty of Congress to regulate the rates of existing telegraph companies on interstate lines and to prevent such companies from according exclusive or exceptional privileges to the press associations, national and local, of the coun- try. The commission shall meet in Washington on or before April 1, 187, and organize by selecting onc of their number as president and another as secretary. ‘he commission shall have power to sit at any ace within the United States, issue subpcnas, send for pessons papers, administer oaths and take testimony. Each member shall receive his actual expenses while engaged in the service of the same, and those members who are not members of either House of Congress shall for the time actually en- gaged in such service receive the same per diem as the members of Conees. Senators Mitchell, Dawes, Dorsey, Teller, Matthews, Ransom and Barnum were present at the mecting to-day and agroed to the foregoing proposition. Senators Windom, Saunders, Lamar and Shields were absent. THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL AS REPORTED TO THE SENATE, The Army Appropriation bill, as reported from the Committee on Appropriations to the Senate to-day, is entirely divested of the House sections which pro- vide for army reorganization, and the committee have also stricken out the Hewitt amendment prohibiting the presence of troops at the polls. The Butler amendment authorizing railroad com- panies to use their telegraph lines for government and general commercial purposes, at rates to be fixed by the Postmaster Gencral, is retained in the Dill, subject, however, to further consideration in committee before the biil is reached for action in the Senate, i SENATOR LOGAN'S RECEPTICN, Senator-elect Logan, of Illinois, was met at tho depot, upon his arrival here this evening, by a very Jarge coneourse of friends, who, amidst great en- thusiasm, escorted him to his hotel, where speeches of welcome were made, to which General Logan ro- sponded. PROCEEDINGS, OF CONGRESS. BENATE, Wasntnoton, Feb. 20, 1879. + Mr. Voonnzes, (dem.) of Ind., in accordance with previous notice, called up the resolution submitted by him on the 10th of April last, instructing the Committee on Pensions to report @ bill making pro- vision for placing tho nemes of the surviving soldiers of the Mexican war on the pension rolls, in order that Mr. Shields, of Missouri, might address the Sonate on that subject. 4 SPEECH OF GENERAL, SHIELDS. Mr. Suixips, (dem.) of Mo., said hoe thanked the Senato for giving him an opportanity to speak a few words for his old comrades of tho Mexican war. He hoped Congress would paas the proposed bill and do generous justice to the Mexican veterans, The soldiers of the last war had been treated with just and very commendable liberality. The reason why the bill granting pensions to Mexican soldiers . had not been passed was on account of calculations of the Pension Bureau. That bureau had reported to Congress a larger army of Mexican veterans alive to- day than ever stood on Mexican soil at one time with arms in their hands. The wonder was that any in- telligent Congress could place confidence in such a report. Throughout. the whole Union to-day there were not over eloven thousand Mexican veterans alive, Scott, Taylor, Pillow and Cushing were all gone—all dead; and he (Mr. Shields), the humblest of them all, was left to make this appeal to Congress to do something, and do it speedily. If action should be deferred a fow more ges- sions it-would be too late to pass the bill. There was one regiment from South Carolina which reached Mexico with 1,100 men, At the close of the war it numbered 220 men, and thero were but eight membors of that regiment livingto-day. Ho referred to the victories of our army in Mexico and said it had been said they had nothing but Moxicans to fight. That was true, but there were plenty of them. Ask the soldiers of France, as brave men as ever lived, and they would tell you that no men were less afraid of death than the Mexicans. If this government should ever undertake to walk over Mexieo again with tho same expectations of the same results as before it would be Ce cee He argued that Mexican property and Mexican honor were as well protected dur the oceupation of Mexico by tho erican erm: had been before or since. y as ever He spoke of the bravery of the American army in Mexico and gave nal reminiscences of that war. He did not believe a single soldier who served in the Mextean war could be found in the peuitentiary. He je of the value of tlic territory acqnired by the fexican war, the rich gold and silver mines found therein, and, in conclusion, appealed to Congress to ve to the Mexican survivors the pittance they asked for to help them on the downhill of life. Give them por era to help them on that last march to that field trom which no warrior ever returns. (Ap- plause.) THE BRAZILIAN MAIL SUBSIDY. - The Senate then resumed consideration of unfin- ished business, being the Post Office Appropriation bill, the pending question being on the amendment of Mr. Bailey, ot Tennessee, to limit the contract for Bremtien mail service to five years instead of ten, as reported by the committee. After some discussion the amendment of Mr. Bailey was i—yeas 25, nays 31. Mr. Eatox, (dem.) of Conn., moved to amend so as to strike out the words requiring that the vessels be “American built and owned,” and insert in liew thereof a clause requiring that they be “own comm: and manned by citizens of the Uni States.” In support of this amendment he argued that the contract should be open to competition, and not left for John Roach. The Pacitic Mail Steamship Company had eight vessols, the Philadelphia and Liy- erpool line five, the Garrison line three, the Clyde Une three, while John Roach had but two. There were four ships suitable for this service for sale now. In reply to a question of Mr. ,of Arkansas, Mr. Eaton said he meant by his ment that citi- zens of the United States might buy foreign ships and compete for this contract. Mr. Buarne, (rep.) of Me., asked, ff it was well to tako a ship built by foreign mechanics, why not have it manned by forcign sailors? Mr. Eaton replied that the most brilliant victories ever achieved on water under the American flag had been by Americans upon foreign built ships. Mr. Buare said that under the amendment of the Senator from Connecticut any British ship in New York Harbor could discharge her crew, ship an Amer- ican crew, have American officers and do the work, while British capital would reap all the benefit. Mr. Eaton said the Senator had no right to place such a construction on his amendment. It vided the ships should be owned by Americans. How did the ~ rege from Maine know Mr. Roach owned his whi) 4 ir. BLATNe replied that he did not care. The; were byilt in an American yard where $15,000,000 had Deon paid to American mechanics, which money an- the Senator of Connecticut would ir. Katon was rejected—yeas BOTH LINES OR NEITHER, Mr. Eostis, (dem.) of La., submitted an amendment viding that neither contract should be considered in force it the service on either linc be abandoned or discontinued. - s Mr. Hitt, (dem.) of Ga., said he was supporting this bill for the benefit of the whole country, and not for the benefit of John Roach, whom he did not know. He felt that he was instructed by his people to vote for the bill. It had received very general ap- proval throughout the South. This wae the begin- ning of @ new era in the South. The who © mdustrial system of that section had been changed. The South expected to become @ inanufacturing sec- tion, She looked forward to tho day whon the would be manufac- tured there, forward to the time when the manutacturing capital of New Engl would be transferred to the South. Tho* Sc wanted a market. She believed South America, Cen- tral America and the West Indies would afford such & market, and a very large commerce might be built wy The people of the South wanted some help, Hoe would be frank. Help the New Orleans line and it would soon be profitable. The amendment of Mr. Kustis was aareed to—yeas 85, nays 15, Mr. Kennan, (dem.) of N. ¥., sabmitted an amend- ment to insert the word “nautical,” so that it should read ‘‘snch mail carriage to be paid for at not exceed- ing $99 per nautical mile,” ed. it. MonniLt, (rep.) of Vt., submitted an amend- ment to pay $10 per mile instead of $30 per mile for the service. Nejocted—yeas 29, nays 30, EXISTING TRADK WITH BRAZIL, Mr. Wavtx, of Maryland, paid the Senate, having adopted amendmet providing fot two lines o« stoatehips and indicating dts purpose to pay out of the Treasury of the United Status large sums of money to up our commerce, he desired to call attention to tho tact that the great trade of Brazil horctofore had been carried on between three por- tions of the United States and Brazil, Last year Now York imported from Brazil’ 1,057,000 bugs of coffer, Baltimore 513,000 bags and New Orleans 21,00 ‘Tho constitution further declared thatno preterence should be given to one port over anpther; but the Senate proposed to give New York New Orleans advan over Baltimore, The of Baltimore, without any subsidy—without any hetp from the government—hed built up @ trade with Rio, and now, in behalf of the people of Baltimore, he would submit an amendment to have the York line run alteruately between New York snd Baltimore m Rio, though he was o to the bill on principle, and wou! vote | againat it evem it the amendmont should be adopted. Ho was gled to sce tho North and south. ng 19, nays 34. ! hands over the bloody chasm and giving the kiss of but he did hope that his poor city might not Bo'ground betweon the upper and nether millstones of this reconciliation, After the war, when tho South was destitute, when the ploughshares lad been turned into implements of war, his dear old State stretched out her hands, full of benefaction. to aid in building up that country. He waited to-day to see that State injured’ in the House of her friends. He then submitted the amendmentof which he gave notice, providing that the New York line shall run alternately from New York and Baltimore. ‘Ir. CocKRELL, (dem.) of Mo., inquired if the Senate would support the bill if thi endment should be adopted. Mr. Wate said he was opposed to the bill on prin- ciple, and: nothing would indvee him to vote for 1t and forfeit his self-respect, The amendment was rejected—yeas 19, nays 25— as follows:— Xvas—Moosrs, Bailey, Bayard, Beck, Booth, Edmunds, ¢ 1 ford, Howe, Jones of Florida. Me: orrimon, Morgan, Morrill, Oglesby, Wadloigh—19. ony, Barnum, Burnside, Cameron of ¢ Wisconsin, Conkling, Conover, Kellogy, Kirkwood, McMillan, Matthows, Muxey, Paddock, Paterson, Plumb, Koltins, Shields and Speacor—25. Messrs. Davies, of Ilinois; Dennis, of Maryland, and Whyte, of Maryland, who would have voted inthe affirmative, were paired with Messrs. Mitchell, of Oregon; Ferry, of Michigan, and Sargent, of Calt- fornia, who would have voted in the negative. Mr, Wuyts, of Maryland, submitted an amendment 80 as to provide that the mail carriage to Brazil shell be paid for at a rate not to exceed $15 per mile for the first three years, $10 per mile for the second three years and $5 per mile for the balance of the time. Rejected—yeas 24, nays 28. Mr, Morkint, of Vermont, renewed his amendment to reduce the amount from $30 to $10 per mile. ‘MM. CONKLING IN FAVOR. Mr. ConkLtnG, of New York, said this was an effort to achieve our portion of the South American com- merce. A committee of the Senate had reported $30 Loaf mile as the proper sum to aid in this enterprise. e was in favor of trying the experiment. Looking at the action of other nations, he believed in it with so much confidence as to warrant him in trying the ex- periment, and he proposed to try it fairly with a proper appropriation. He believed the amount recommended by the committee would fairly try the experiment. Nothing was more delightful than the economical moods which sometimes prevailed in Congress. Millions on millions of dollars had been voted away this winter, much of which, in his opin- ion, should not have been appropriated; but when it was proposed to restore our commerce to the seas then the gerins of economy presided. He was glad to sce the thonghts of the Senate wirned to saving money, but he would not apply it to a scheme look- ing to the advancement of American commerce, and especially with a country on the same hemisphere with us, the trade of which belonged to us rather than to other nations. Mr. Brarxg, of Maino, in the courso of some re- marks said it he could be sustained by the majority he would yote to compete for the great North Atlan- tic traflic. ‘The amenément of Mr. Morrill was.again rejected— yeas 18, nays 26. Mr. Wuyre of Maryland, then submitted an amendment providing that the vessels should be of 1,500 tons instead ef 3,000 tons, and said this would open the door to competition, and, besides, they could cross the bar st Galveston. After a brief dis- cussion Mr. Dorsey moved to lay the amendment on the table, and the motion was agreed to. At a quarter to seven o’clock, in taking @ vote on an amendment, the Senate was found to be without @ quoruin, ° ‘ there was an intermission of business, and, at twenty minutes past eight o’clock, Mr. Oaixspy, of Tihnois, inquired how the Senators were to ascertain whether a quorum was now present. ‘The Cuarn replied that several Senators had just come into the hall. Mr. Wuyre, of Maryland, with a view of ascertain- ing whether a quornm was present, moved that the Senate adjourn. This was decided in the negative— yeas 5, nays 37. A quorum was now present. Mr. Jo&es, (dem.) of Fla., advocated his amend- ment to include the Bay of Mobile and Pensacola as stopping places of the line. Galveston, he said, was the outlet of only one State, while Pensacola was the outlet of several large, growing States, Mr. Monaax, of Florida, withdrew his motion to indefinitely postpone the bill, when the Senate, at half-past eleven P. M., voted on and rejected Senator Jones’ amendment to include the bays gf Mobile and Florida. Yeas, 30; nays, 20. AMENDMENT AGREED TO. The Senate agreed to the committees, amendments in relation to Brazilian mail line—yeas 23, nays 17, as follows:— Yras—Messrs. Bruce, Burnst Butler, Cameron of Pennsylvania, Coekroll, Coke, Ctnover, Dorsey. Teunting Gordon, Hamiin, Hill, Ingalis, Kellogg, Kirkwood, Maxey, Patterson, Rollins, Suundérs, Sharon, Speucer, Wiudom and Wither . rs. Bailey, Beck, Davis of West Virginia, le Eaton’ Ferry, itorotora, 3 CF ‘aton. Ferry, Horofora, Jones, of Flo ernan” Me: shy, Paddock, Millan, McPhorson, Merromon, Morgan, O} Teller, Voorhees and Wadleigh—17. Numerous pairs wero announced, thus accounting, for the absence of Senators, ‘The other amendments of the committee were a to. re Peuny offered an amendment authorizing the Postmaster General to readjust the compensation for carrying the mails by raflroads and substitutin; ‘6 for weight, with the addition of speed, the classification of mail matter, dividing it into four parts, with specific definitions. Mr. Ferry said this amendment was desired by the Post Office De; erent sod had received some con- sideration by and Appropriation com- mittecs. ee ie bend to ss He publishers of newspapers and other printed matter, The amendment was agreed to. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wasumeror, Feb. 20, 1879. The SpzAKER announced the appointment of Messrs, Covert, of New York; Warner, of Connecti- cut; Saibpson, of Iowa, and Sinnickson, of New Jerscy, a8 additional members of the Committee on Enrolled Bills. Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. ¥., asked that » session bo ordered for to-morrow night, for the consideration of reports from the Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. ATKINS, of Tennesseo, objected, and stated that he would object to everything until the Legis- lative Appropriation bill was disposed of. So many members, however, appealed to him to yield that ho did so, but Mr, Hale, of Maine, objected to any busi- ness, and moved to go into committee on the Legis- lative bill, stating that his side of the Mouse was anxious,to go on with that bill. Mr. Sournanp, (dem.) of Ohio, suggested that the republicans would not vote wnen they did get into Ger f Mo., replicd that they Mr. Hae, (rep.) of io. at ti had voted every time during the last three days. Mr. Cons, (dem.) of Ind., riring to a question of the highest privilege was recognized by the Speaker, and called up the Florida contested election case of Finley vs. Bisbeo. ; Mr. Conarn, (rep.) of Mich., raised the question of consideration, but the House, by a vote of yeas 135, pays 122, determined to proceed with the election case, This was @ strict party vote, with the o: tion of Mr. Turney, of Pennsylvania, who voted wit the republicans in the negative. Previous to the announcement of the vote Mr. ited that, according to the agreoment made some 0, the election cage was not to be taken up until the islative bill was dis- posed of, and he appealed to the gentlemen on tho other sido to change their votes and stand up to that agreement. Mr. Conn, of Indiana, dented that that had been the understanding on his side of the hall, and in- sisted on proceeding with the election case, TH FLORIDA ELECTION CASE. The House then proceeded to the consideration of the election ¢ase. . Tho resoiutions of the sissy of the Committee on Elections declare that Jesse J. Finley (tho con- testant) is, and Horatio Bisbee (tho sitting member) is not entitled to a seat as Representative from the First district of Florida. These resolutions were supported by Mesars. Williams of Alabama, Candler of Sores, and Cobb of Indiana, while . Hiscock of New York, Lapham of New York and Bisbee of Florida, su» ported the minority report, declaring Mr. Bisbeo en- titled to the seat. The minority resolutions were thon withdrawn and the vote was taken on the majority resolutions, and they were agreed to—yeas 131, nays 122—a strict vote, with tho exception of Mr. Harrison, of Mnots, and Mr. Turney, of Pennsylvania, who voted with the republicans in the negative. Mr. Finley thon — atthe bar of the Honse and was sworn in, taking the modified oath, Notice was given that the South Carolina contested election cases would be called up next ney Mr, Wiunts, dem.) of Ky., asked consent to have the Senate amendments to the Anti-Chimese bill taken from the Speaker's table for action. Mr. Wutre, (rep.) of Pa, objected. The House then took @ recess, the evening session to be for memorial services in honor of the deceased members—Messrs. Welsh, of Nebraska, and Williams, of Michigan. The democratic caucts called for this evening was postponed until to-morrow evening. EVENING SESSION. In the evening session resolutions wore offered and adopted expressive of the reapect in which the mem- ory of the deceased members is held and eulogics upon the life and public character of each were de- livered, after which the House adjourned. Ganrire.p, of Ohio, sugy IN THE HANDS OF THIEVES, White Henry Hyame, a Jerssy City justice of the peace, was standing on the stoop of the City Hall on ‘Thursday night ho was accosted by two young men, one of whom asked him to go with them to perform ‘a marriage ceromony. ‘The Judge consented, and the young man called acab which was near by and the threo jumped in, Atter driving around for some time the driver, who appenred to know the two men, stopped ina lonely spot in Thirteenth street. The dudge, thinking they had reached their destination, arose from bis seat to get out, but he was seizol by one of the men and pushd back to his seat while the other attempted to rob him. The Judge managed to et out of the cowh, and pulling out his revolver or red the driver to get down from his sent and assist him to arrest the men, The driver, instead of got- ting down, lashed his horse and drove off. Tho po- Ree were notified and aro looking for the cab and the young men, ] Cc. W. ANGELL. ARRIVAL OF THE DEFAULTING SECRETARY OF THE PULLMAN PALACE CAR COMPANY—RE- SUME OF HIS, TRAVELS, HIS ABREST AND SUR- RENDER TO THE UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES. The American bark Shooting Star, Captain Sholl, from Lisbon for Philadelphia, arrived off the Capes of Delaware yesterday afternoon, bringing a8 a pas- senger the deraulting secretary of the Pullman Palace Car Company, Charlies W. Angell. It will be remem- bered that Angell decamped from Chicago in July last, taking with Lim about $120,000 in money and bonds belonging .to the company by which he was employed. He told his fellow employés that he intended to go to New York to met Mr. Pullman, who was then expected to return from Europe, Mr. Pullman landed in this city on August 7, 1878, An- gell did not meet him. At first it was suggested that the sécvetary had gone to Saratoga, Newport, or some other summer resort, and his brother was sent in search of him, After waiting several days Mz. Pull- man communicated with his company in Chicago, and soon learned that his former secretary had be- trayed the contidence reposed in him. ANGELL'S ARREST AND SURRENDER FOB TRIAL, Angell sailed for Europe under an assumed name, After visiting London and Paris he went to Lisbon. Photographs and circulars @escriptive of him had been frecly distributed ig Europe. A reward of $5,000 was also offered for Angell’s arrest. All the information concerning the defaulting secretary was in the office of the United States Consul in Lisbon, When the fugitive arrived there he put up at the Hotel Central, on the Plaza del Sul. I¢ was remarked that the stranger, who gave his name as John Sey- mour and carried the passport of an English mer- chant, avoided public places and kept in his apart- ments @ good deal. His exelusivencss occasioned comment, and the police soon had him under sur- veillance. The American Consul saw in the strauger Seymour a strong resemblance to dog’, and nine days after his arrival in Lisbon Seymour was arrested, acknowledged his identity’ and gave up some $80,000 in money and bonds which been placed to his credit in one of the banks ot the city. Ppp cation was made to the Portuguese Minister at{Washington to have Angell de ivered up for trial. There being no extradition treaty between Portugal and the ‘United States, the Portuguese government surrendered the fugitive as an act of courtesy, and Angell will now go to Illinois for tri WRECKS ON THE JERSEY SHORE. CONDITION OF THE SHIP HANNA—THE CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT OF HIS METHOD OF USING THE LIFE SAVING BUOY. Loxe Branca, Feb. 20, 1879. ‘The ship Hanna, which stranded on this beach during the severe snow storm of Monday. is still lying in the breakers with her broadside to the shore. The Coast Wrecking Company’s men wero busily engaged yesterday in removing her sails and rigging. The storm which brought the Hanua ond Sadie ashore coutinued until nine o’cloek this morn- fug, only inthe meantime moderating slightly du- ring short intervals, Last night a fresh north- east gale set in, accompanied by 2 dense snow fall which covered the ground to the depth of several inches.. Tho continuous breaking of the heavy seas against the broad side of the Hanna has opened her seams, through which tho tide ebbs and flows. After the stotm abated to-day the wreckers resumed the lowering of her sails and yards. They will next remove her ballast, after which, weather permitting, they will attompt to haul’ her off the sand. HOW THE LIFE BUOY LINE WAS WORKED, Captain Lutken, in conversation with the Henazp correspondent, stated to-day, as an important fact in connection with life-saving work, that the reason ho fastened the line on which the breeches buoy was carried between the ship and shore to the foot of the mainmast was because the ship was rolling so heavily that the higher the rope was fastened in the rigging the more slack there would be to submerge the buoy and its living freight, and the ship roiled toward shore, and as the hawser was attached toa telegraph poie on shore without a running tackle he was id, with the roiling aud the sudden tightening of the rope upon which the buoy travelled, the rope would be broken. The Cap- tain says that under the circumstances it would have Been injudicious on his part to atrictly comply with tho directions on the tally board. AN OCCASION FOR THE EXERCISE OF JUDGMENT. Had the shtp been further off shore the directions on the tally bozrd could have been complied with more safely, aa the bight of the line in that caso would have been so in. proportion to the dis- tance, He says that no arbitrary rule can be made for fastening the life lino on a stranded vessel. It must be governed by circumstances. Captain Valenttne, of life saving station No. 4, was present, and coin- cided with Captain of the ship, and stated that in this cago, ho believed he did what was proper, ané that had he been placed in the same position ho would have done the same. The crew will lesvoe for New York on the morning train. This week's storm has caused the breaking up of the hull of the bark Itala. The oyster sloop which was ashore off Staten Island has been. taken off. THE BARK SADIE STILL SOUND, Squaw Braca, N. J., Peb. 20, 1879, The position of the bark Sadic remaine unchanged. At low tide the vessel {fs entirely out of water. Cap- tain Young, of the Coast Wrecking Company, arrived last night and made an examination to-day. The ves- sel is badly strained, but perfectly sound. The com- pany’s steamer Relief has beet’ summoned and is ex- pected this evening. The eand ballast will be thrown overboard, after which an attempt will be made to haul her off. The crew have been discharged and to-day departed for New York. The wrecked mariners expressed much joy at the prospect of reaching the city. One of them, an old salt, remarked that their last mishap was most fortunate, as another day at sea would have entirely exhausted their provender. “A fourth of & barrel of beefand a ‘k of beans was all we had when she struck, the third time since leaving New York on the outward passage.’ PERILS OF THE DEEP. ‘Tho captain, mate and a seaman belonging to the crow of the American schooner Helen A. Hoyt, reached this port yesterday forenoon on the steamer f Atlas, Captain Horatio Law, from Kingston, Jamaica, Tho Hoyt, which went to pisces off the Hatteras Shoals on the 19th of last month, was bound for Wey- month, Mass, from Charleston, 8. C. Captain ‘Thomas Crane, of the wrecked vessel, gave the follow- ing account of her loss:— On the 15th ult. we got under way from Charies- town, bound home for Weymouth. Bearing on our course off Cape Hatteras we fell in with heavy weather of the 19th, and were overtaken by fearful gales from the nortbeast, which obliged us to steer seawardly course $0 as to keep clear of the coast. A noon, While the storm continued to rage, the vessel sprit aleak. Everythi that the crew could do was) to find whore the timbors had started and keop down the inflowing water, but ot no avail. Soon after one o'clock we were driven on & shoal, and three-quarters of an hour afterward the schooner filled. We were obliged to take to the longboat and abandon her. The fol- lowing forenoon, January 21, Ira J. Baker, the steward, who had all along borne himself bravely, died of cold and fatigue. In the small boat we had only two gallons of water and no food, and as the weather was frightfully cold our sufferings were in- tense, We sighted a small two-masted steamer about ® quarter of a mile to the windward of our boat, and made signals which she either did not see or did not heed. She was steering north, We scuddea bo- fore the wind, with the dead body of the steward tn the boat, for we wanted to bring him ashore if we contd. In the afternoon of the 2ist, when the boat had been driven 150 miles or more from the placo where the Hoyt was wrecked, we saw the schooner F. A, Hayer, and at sbout four o'clock she took us on board, the body of the steward was also taken from the boat and buried at sea next day. The Hayer car- ried us to Salt River, Jamaica, where we arrived Feb- ruary 4. In Jamaica I sent John Branen, Charles Kolly, Christian Peterson and James Mitchell, sea men, who had been frostbitten, to the hospital at Kingston. TROUBLE IN THE COUNCIL, Unton Hill, N. J., is excited, The Councilmen held a meeting last night and Chairman Hausenstein went for the Board of Education without gloves. The Council are afflicted with the reform mania, and at tho prior meeting @ communication was sent to the Board of Education requesting them to reduce the salaries of the teachers, The Educational Board re- turned the communication with their compliments. This incensed the chairman of the Council, who offered a resolution requesting the Board of Kauca- tion to resign and locate cleewhere. The resolution recetved u tic vote. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. William Garty and Charles Perry, two boys, were held in default of $1,000 bail cach by Justice Smith, at the Tombs Police Court yosterday, charged with having appropriated the proceeds of a chock for $100, the property of L. D. Crossmond, ot No. 25 Liberty street, by whom Garty has boon employed as a cterk. The boys had purchased the gambling machine known as “the wheel of fortune” with a portion of the money, and were about taking a Charleston steatner when arrested. it was thet intention to travel throngh the South and win money from the ungophisticated youth of that country, HAVE IN REVOLUTION. Landing of the Insurgent Chiefs from Jamaica. TWO TOWNS TAKEN. Canal Repulses a Night Attack. PORT AU PRINCE UNDER MARTIAL LAW. Port-av-Prrxcr, Hoyti, Feb. 11, Via Krxestos, Jam., Feb. 18, 1879, An outbreak in Hayti has been imminent for several months, but one crisis after another has been successfully passed until the members of the government party had begun to hope that the The signal for the up- rising was given on tho 1st inst., however, through- out the northern and western districts of tho island, and was promptly responded to by the followers of the three pretenders to the Presidency—General Morency Benjamin, General Tenniso and General Solomon. The latter person (stall, burly, gray- haired negro) has for the last two years lived at Kingston, Ja., whence, as the nominated successor of the cx-President, Fabre-Geffrard, and with the assistance of a faithful henchman named Dumbar and a firm of Spanish Jews, he has disseminated revo- lutionary proclamations. In fact, 8o little secrecy was at last attached to the preparations of the con- calamity would not como. spirators, and so openly circulated were the thou- sands of proclamations thrown off at De Cordova’s press, that the Haytian government compiained off- cfally to Sir Anthony Musgrave, Govern of Ja- maica, that Kingston was being used as the asylum of enemies to Hayti, and that compensation would be claimed from the British government for the in- jury sustained by the Republic of Heyti by cruisers hailing from Port Royal. sal THE GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION. His Excellency instantly proclaimed the provisions of the Forcign Enlistment act to be in full force in the island of Jamaica. At almost the same moment alarge steamer laden with arms and equipments, ostensibly cleared from New York, was shipping pro- visions at Morant Bay for the intended raid which General Solomon's adherents had organized. Their indiscretion had almost been disastrous, Defore all who had notice to embark were on board the English Admiral had information of the suspicious vessel's movements, and de spatched the Sirius, twelve guns, 2,334 horse power, and Plover, gunboat, three guns, 744 horse power, to seize her, Secretly informed by telegraph of this fact the stranger disappeared with the first contin- gent of insurrectionists beforo ‘the war vessels showed themselves at the entrance to the bay. For the body of leaders left behind further means of” transport had to be provided, and this was found in a smal! schooner, the purchase of which was nego- tiated for by Mr. Dumbar, despite the Governor’s proclamation, and in this vessel the rest of the ad- venturers quitted the port to seek their fortunes on these Haytian ebores. TRE LANDING. Snugly sheltered under the lee of Gonaive Istand, which gives its name to the great bay on the west coast of Hayti, the revolutionary leaders found their predecessors awaiting their arrival, flying the Hay- tian flag of blue and red. Promptly resolving on a decisive coup they landed at the town of San Marcos. Here the men who presented themselves in the triple character of the enemies of the existing despotism of Boisrond-Canal, the friends of the late ex-President Goffrard and his fellow sufferers under the persecu- tion of the bloodthirsty Domingue, were cordially welcomed. The flag that fluttered above the solitary battery that threstened the harbor was promptly replaced by the revolutionary emblem—that white star on a blue field. Some misguided adherents who could not discern readily the proper time for political conversion were disposed of. ‘Then, after vivas and a good night's rest, the expedi- tion proceeded on its way up the River Artibonite, leaving a small detachment to hold Saa Marcos, The forces of the main contingent were hourly swelled by incoming recruits until they had reached San Miguel, which speedily capitulated, its defenders surrendering st discretion to the invading force, which now announced itself to be under the com- mand of General Morency Benjamin. At this spot they ha'ted to gather strength and await tho arrivals expected from St. Thomas, to be disembarged at Jacmel, and there head a movement in the rear of the seat of government. THE DEFENCE OPENED, Meanwhile Boisrond-Canal, who was only elected in 1876 as successor to General Michel Domingue, was not idle. The telegraph has not yct reached this island, but overland couriers had warned him of the arrival of the expected filibusters, and he at once set about repelling their invaston. The malcontents in the south, unhappily for themselves, rose to arms prematurely; and finding the conspiracy so gen- erally spread, it is alleged that the President dcter- mined, in the fashion of his predecessors, Sal- nave and Soulouque, to make an example of those nearest at hand, marched against them, overpowered them, and spared none alive who were unfortunate enough to fall into his power. The rest took to tho woods which clothe the hills surrounding Lake Azuey, His dispo- sition to be merciful was not probably increased by the tidings which runners brought from the north that the towns of St. Mark and St. Michael of the North were not only in the hands of the insurrec- tionary party, but that the entiresurrounding coun- try had doclared in favor of Morency Benjamin. Notwithstanding tho fact that Port-au-Prince had made no public response to the proclamation dif- fused throughout its bounds by the emissarics of Solomon, yet its fidelity is dubious. Although a ma- jority of its inhabitants voted for the election of their present ruler, the times havechanged much since. So, declaring the town in a state of siege and under martial law, Canal embarked his troops on board an old steamer (christened the 1804)" in memory of the achievement of Haytian liberation from France), and left the capttal on February 7 for San Marcos, whither, after a consultation with the British Minister (Major Robert Stuart), the French Consul has despatehed a French man-of-war for tho pro- tection of the liyes and property of fore!qn residents, remembering thet in # similar crieis the shelter of the British Consulate had proved no protection to the fugitives from the fary of Salmave, and that to avenge tho violati m of ite sanctuary had cost the royal navy tho lose of the Bulldog, and the vain and useless bombardinent of the chief city by the G#latea and Lily. for THE FORCES AT RAY. Landing his troops on the night of the 9th at the foot of one of the collinos, between the spurs of the densely wooded mountains that trond down to the shores of Gonaives Bay, the order to advance was given, and through the night the troops progressed slowly in skirmishing order np the corries. Their advance was concealed by the dank white mist which filled the defiles inti) they struck @ rough mule track or cross-road on the crest of the hill neat that which dominates tho river bank, whereon San Miquel is situ- ated. Hore the alarm was given by @ rebel vidette, who retreated on the outposts, and the opportunity was taken by General Boisrond-Canal to form his detach. ment, which then advanced and occupied the village of Haut Terre, whence could be seen, as the sun rose and dispersed the morning mists, the insurrection- iste in activo motion in the town beneath the ad- joining hill to that on which the village is situated. Mules laden with ammunition and provisions were seen ascending the mountain's slope to the spot where the main body of the rebels evidently lay. The order was given by President Canal for a reconnois- sance in force, and 300 skirmishers scattering among the brush soon drew upon themselves a sharp fire from the crest of {he hill on which the rebel flag was now raised, as well as at the Place Nationale in the town itself. A NIGHT ATTACK, Satisfied that the enemy were in superior force the skirmishers were withdrawn by the General to await the arrival of a fresh detachment from the south, for which the “1804” had been despatched as #00n as the Jast ot her previous freight had left her. During the night an attack was made by the enemy, under Lamotte, and, in the endeavor to repulse them, some severe fighting took place, the loss on the side of the government being thirty-five killed and ninéty odd wounded and missing. The rifles with which the iusurrectionists are armed feem mainly Sniders, but two Remington breech- loaders 4vere found among the arms lost in the attack on the village by the rebels, who left on the field over a hundred of their adherents. No prisoners were taken by the government troops, and it is ane ticipated that the next battle will be decisive of the immediate future of the island. If such is the case it will be greatly to the ease of mind of foreign mer- chants on “the fsland, many of whom have their whole capital locked up in advances on coffee, cotton, tobacco and cocoa plantations, and therefore dread seeing the dull glare in the night, so familiar in 1872, which told them that fire was aiding the sword in the strife of those so-called patriots who for eighty years have kept the island in turmoil. WHAT THE HAYTIAN MINISTER SAYS—HOW THE LANDING WAS MADE—NO OFFICIAL NEWS OF TRE FIGHT. Stephen Preston, the Haytian Ministér, has re- ceived the following information with regard to the troubles in Hayti:— On the 2d of February General M. Benjamin, who has resided in the Dominican Republic during the last two or three years asa political exile, at the head of a few partisans crossed the fronticr and took pos session of tho village of St. Michael. The military governor of the district, General St. Pierre Paul, having joined the rebellion, the other villages, Hinche and Ennery, forming tho district of Marme Jade, also took part. General M. Nicholas, Governor of the Department of the Artibante, at the head of the militia and troops of tho locality, all loyal to the government, marched to the seat of action. On the 7th of February President Canal, with a few troops, went to Gonaives, the nearest city on the coast to St. Michacl, about one hundred miles distant. The steamer Atlas, which brought this news, left St. Marc on the 7th and Port-au-Prince on the 9th, When the steamer left Hayti for New York via Jamaica there had becn no battle between the two parties, and it was expected that the rebellion would soon be crushed, as the rebels were without forcign eid. HOW HAYTI WAS INVADED. With regard to the invasion of Hayti by filibusters from Jamaica, the facts are as follows:—On the 224 of January the British schooner Undine left with about sixteen Haytian refagees, Atter having tried to effect’a landing near Jacmel, at 1'Ansas-a-Pitre, and not having found sympathy on shoro, the refugees were conveyed by the schooner to the island of Inag- ua, a British possession, where they were left on the sands without means. The Undine then returned to Miragoane, Hayti, where she delivered to the authori- ties the arms, ammunition and all papers belonging to her ex-passengers. She is now loading acargo of logwood for the United States. This expedition was under the command of B. Laforest. As for the other expedition, which was to start on the 20th ult., under the command of Tennise, its agent, a Mr. Dumbard, took the English mail steamer Medway for St. Thomas, where he was to charter a schooner ora steamer; but before his arrival at that place the financial agent of the concern, Munez & Fils, had failed, owing the Haytian rebels ebout $15,000, and had to jeave the city. Vessels with a draught of more than sixteen inches cannot navigate the River Artibonite. St. Michael ta about one hundred and fifty miles from the mouth of this river, but is not situated on its banks, JAMAICA. NEW CRIMINAL CODE PREPARED BY THE BEITISH RULERS OF THE ISLAND--EDITORS TO BE FLOGGED*-LAW WITHOUT REASON OR JUSTICE, Krnasron, Jam., Feb. 13, 1879. ‘The air is filled with mutterings ot diecomtent. If there was any possibility of success an open revolt against British domination could be organized to- morrow. In the panic of 1866 the people of Jamaica foolishly “gave up ( their cherter, granted them by Charles IZ. Thus the island lost its constitution’ and became a “Crown colony,” like Ascension and tho Falkland Islands, goyerned by # “Captain General.” Of tho Legislative Council eight members are officials commissioned by the Queen and four are non-official residents, nominated by the Governor, without whose sanction no measure can be introduced and no question de- bated. ‘The common law of England, which replaced the statutes of Jamaica when the constitation was surrendered, was found ineffective for negro ment, and the Colonial Office, therefore, Henry Taylor, instructed Mr. R. 8. Wright to pre- pare for Jamaica a penal code and a criminal pro~ cedure code, under which public prosecutors should enforce the provisions of the former. THE SECRET CODE. One hundred copies of each only were printed for the use of the home guthorities aot | the Colonial islative Council, so that the no oppor- tant of secing the law bills afore they were read @ second time, but on the assurance of the Attorney General that the Code was that which had beem adopted in India and would be enacted in England, they expressed general approval of its provisions. Uniuekily for the bills, however, the editor of the Kingston Gleaner secured a copy and convened next morning st the commercial rooms meeting of the journalists and printers of the city to discuss a sece tion under which any editor, printer or publisher of a newspaper who tncautionsly admitted a libel into his paper was amenable to five years” penal servitade and flogging with a cat o' nine tails, no option being left to the Judge to impose a fine. SLAVERY OR WORSE. After a bricf discnssion they appointed acommit- toe to petition the Council to delay the bil and hear them at the bar of the House against this tad clause, hinting that otherwise they would petition the Throne itself directly. On this the Council held its hand and stayed it still longer, ax, day ay, the editor, in a series of leading articles, analy: and held up to ridicule the nature of thecodes. Under their provisions a man might be accused, tried, bon- victed and sontenced and have his property confiscated during his absence; or, if he were apprehended, com- mitted for trial without preliminary inquiry and tried by a jndge without a jury; it wrengty convicted, sentenced on appeal fo greater log ment or for another crime than that for which he was convicted, and, at tho option of the Governor, imprisoned for longer period than the term of his sentence. might be made to give evide ainst himself and the proceedings be conducted with closed doors, be- ing commenced, continued or removed to any place the judge or public prosecutor chose to direct, DAD LAW FOR ANYBODY. But the public amazement at these infringements on the rights held sacred by British lawmakers wae succeeded by greater indignation when the ‘“conside erations” by Sir Henry Taylor on whteh the Code had doen drafted were next reviewed. It was found that he rejected the maxims t the benefit of a doubt and cont until proved guilty—the prisoners” ought) not to be required to criminate thomselves and are not to be tried twice for the seme offence. On the contrary, he declared hanging s man by mistake @ inatter of indifference, so lony as he was a notorions villain end had almost deserved hana ingg on other grounds, He preferred to imprison habiti thieves for life to seeking to reclaim them, and pro- wed that their list of former comvictions should read over tothe jury before they returned their verdict, because if they found a man guilty and he was not he was probably guilty of some undetected crime, These views were implicitly followed by Mr. Wright, with the result that the Council have row ferred the execrated clause back to England, despaire ing, in the face of the united press, ability to pass @ code so utterly opposed to the spirit of British legis- lation. RIOTS AT ST. VINCENT. The riots at St. Vincent have been qnelied, un- happily not without bloodshed. It seens that, like the bamnboula dance, for which the backs of St. ‘Thomas used to entertain such a passion, the blacks of St. Vincent rejoice in an equally repulsive inde- concy in masquerade garb during the week of St, Vale entine. Strict orders were this year given to Te} the custom, and the police, in endeavoring to were resisted, stoned and driven buck to thei tacks, the mob thteatening to burn down the town, Arvon is a favorite amusement of the negro, as the very recent experience of more than one planter in Rarbodos can testify. Kingston is strivi pad Aided by the mivice ond supervision of in Low, of the Atlas Steamship Company, York, tho first steamboat ever built in Jamaica was stecesatully latinchea recently at the yard of Mowers, Vorley & Robinson. She will be employed in the comating trade. hipbuilding s