The New York Herald Newspaper, March 24, 1879, Page 7

LATEST CABLE NEWS. The Fingoe in the South African Pie. ANARCHY IN BURMATI. ps EL as Another Storm Raging on the Theiss. THE KHEDIVE’S FINANCES. The Turko-Greek Boun- dary Question. SPAIN AND CASTELAR. {BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpon, March 24, 1879. The German Ambassador, General Schweinitz, declared energetically, at a banquet given at St. Petersburg on Saturday by the German resi- dents in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm’s birthday, that the friendship of the Rugsian and German Emperors is firmer than ever. A Pesth despatch to the Standard, dated last night, says that a furious storm has again damaged the dikes protecting Csongrad, Szentes, Vasarhely, Zombor aud Tittel, which the in- habitants have been making every effort to streugthen for twenty days. The famous Dreher brewery at Vienna has been burned and several lives lost. LORD CHELMSFORD'S RESIGNATION. The Post aud imes state, apparently on authority, that Lord Chelmsford’s _ letter has been. gencrally misinterpreted. It does not imply that either Lord Chelms- ford. or Sir Bartle Frere is eager to cast off ‘his responsibility. In consequence of the prevalence of sickness it was Lord Chelms- ford’s duty to provide against a contin- gency which might leave the army without. a responsible chief, and as the Com- mander-in-C holds a dormant comission, to come into force on the death or incapacitatien of Sir Bartle Frere, Lord Chelmsford pointed out that the officer sent to the Cape as his second in command should be competent to undertake both the military and civil administration. The Post declares the report that Lord Chelms- ford has been superseded is unfounded, BURMAH AND THE BRITISII. Complete anarchy prevails at Mandalay. The bulk of the inhabitants, says the Calcutta cor- respondent of the London Standard, would welcome British troops. The hopes that, an explosion will be averted are growing The Times’ Calcutta despatch says: seems yet no good ground for interfering with Burmah. The King is tortifying Mandalay, probably through fear. “War, however, may be forced on the British at any moment. It is suid the King has despatched secret emissartes to Calcutta to assassinate the claimant to the throne, who resides there.” . RUSSIA AND TURKEY, (The Zimes’ Vienna despatch says:—“It is announced from St. Petersburg that in conse- quence of representations of Lord Dufferin and Count Schouvaloff concerning the views of Eng- Jand and Prince Bismarck, anew conciliatory line of policy has been decided upon. Rus- sia is now giving orders to her troops in ‘Turkey to commence evacuation in the middle of April and terminate it within the périod pre- scribed by the treaty, and is ready even to pro- pose a mixed occupation of Eastern Roumelia for a limited ti General Todleben has’ ar- rived at+Odessa.” THE GREEK BOUNDARIES. The Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs has sent a circular to the Powers invoking their mediation on the frontier question between Greece and Turke ‘The froutier comimission- ers of Greece have returned to Athens. The Turkish Commissioners have signed a docu- ment stating that the Porte admits the principle of rectification of the frontier, but declares the line indicated by Greece inadmissibte. Mukhtar Pacha has been ordered to return to Constantinople within a few days. THE KHEDIVE'S FINANCES. The London Observer publishes the text of a joint note of the English and French govern- ments, which was telegraphed to Egypt March 8, recapitulating the terms which had already been agreed upon for the settlement of the crisis. These include the right of Ministers De Blignieres and Wilson conjointly to veto all Measures they may disapprove. The note con- eludes:—“The Khedive will understand the serious responsibility he has assumed by giving rise to these new arrangements and the gravity of the consequences to which he would expose himself if he should not -prove able to insure their complete execution and if difficulties should arise interfering with the progress of the government or if public order should be dis turbed.” SPAIN AND CASTELAR. Sefior Castelar and 103 former Deputies of the Spanish Cortes have issued a manifesto to the demecratic party. They announce as their programme a sincere return to the constitution of 1869, which proclaimed religious and educa- tional liberty, freedom of the press and lib erty of meeting and association. The mani- festo also declares in favor of universal suttrage, inviolability of Spanish territory and payment of the interest on the publie debt, and recommends a policy avoiding alike reactionary excesses and demagogic utopias, At the ban- quet given by the advocates of the abolition of slavery, at Madrid, Saturday night, it was re- solved that the Society for Promoting the Total Disappearance of Slavery from the Spanish Colonies should be reorganized: THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. THE LOYALTY OF THE FINGOES QUESTIONED— SICKNESS AMONG THE ENGLISH TROOPS, (py caBLE To THE HERALD.) Lospox, Mareh 24, 1879. The correspondent of the Daily News at Cape Town says there is much suspicion as to the valty of the Fingoes, who constitute a’ large aud powerful tribe, The sickness among the soldiers of the garrison of Helpmakaar is de- plorable. Of fifty-six carbineers eleven only are fit for du The negotiations to detach Cetywayo's brother and followers from the Zulu Chief have apparently failed, TUE FINGOKS AND THEIR COUNTRY. [The circumstances attending the revolt of the Cafir tribes in the rear of the’ British forces now operating in Nataly render the movement extremely important. A linc seems to be drawn from the headwaters of the Orange River toward the coast of the castern extremity of the territory -of Cape Colony proper, which separates Natal and Caffirland here- from the settled: districts of the col- ony. It completely closes communications by land and opens two fronts for the Cattir raiders on the territories which the British may now be called on to defend with all their resources, As the army in Natal and along the Tugela must largely draw its supplies from locul sources, a native insurrection that threatens to involve all the territory eust of the twenty-tifth meridian may swallow up the supplies and leaye the army wholly dependent on communications by sea. The Fingoes num- ber about forty-seven thousand, probably fifteen thousand being warriors. Until recently they were the most valued and aétive of the native auxiliaries to assist the British, The territory of the Fingoes is situated between the Great Fish River and the Kieskumma River, The principal towns are East — London, Alice and Fort Beaufort. Grahamstown, south of the Great Fish River, is threatened by any insurrectionary movements in Fingoe Land. To the north and west’ there are ranges of high mountains, ‘Indecd, the whole country is very broken and difficult for military opérations.] "THE POSITION OF COLONEL PEARSON, Advices from Cape Town to the 5th inst. men- tion a report that Colonel Pearsow had made a raid and burnt Cetewayo's old kraal. Other advices of the same date, however, do not ‘give the impression that he is in a position to undertake an offensive operation, aud state that the Zulus have de- stroyed the road from Tugela to Ekowe, and seem determined to do their utmost to. prev n relief from reaching him. All idea of attempting to send him relief before the arrival of further reinforcements secms to be abandoned. RELIEF FOR SZEGEDIN. A meeting of Hungarian, Austrian and German residents of New York was held yesterday afternoon at the Hotel Hungaria, No. 4 Union square, for the purpose of organizing a relicf committee to gather subscriptions for the Szegedin sufferers. ‘Che fol- lowing organization was effected:—President, Os- wald Ottendorfer; Vice-President, 8. D. Sewards; ‘Treasurer, August Belmont; Secretary, Dr. A. J, Villanyi; Assistant Secretary, Wilhelm Loew. ‘The official headquarters of the committee will be in the Staats Zeitung building, where all c6mmunica- tions are to be oddressed. The nucleus of an executive committee was also formed, composed of the above named ex officio members and Messrs, William Steinway and Adolph Heller. ‘The com- mittee is to be composed of twenty-five gentlemen in all, and the names of the other members will be pub- . Subscription lists will be cir- culated, headed by the following appeal:— AID FOI SZEGEDIN. Ary of distress, wlmost unparalleled in the history of cnlamities, comes from Hungary. Ba in, the second city of Hungary, is in ated and usands of her inhabitants met with thei ods of the wild river Theiss, and the ec venutiful ‘ity, with ity 8000 inhabitants, has fablon 1» victim to the indomitable elements. Those who were for- tunate enough to save their live il the heartrending shrieks of th neloss and stitute widows and orphans fill the air. where but a few vs before prevailed the pulsation of a stalwart life and tive commerce. Is there a heart that could help sympathizing with thoso unfortunatos, and is there any one who would not willingly contribute to alleviate such prevalent dis But individual aid herefore, combine that we may bi afflicted people of Sxegedin, and let o the wide world the giorivds face of liberality which knows of no bounds and no disti A committee organized at the gity of New Yo taken charge of the collection of “subscriptions, and the undersigned ure direeted to rece ecount for and for- wurd the funds 80. received to the authorities of Austro- Hungary, for the benefit of the afl Subscribers are respectfully r ed to sign their names and addresses opposite to thy respective amounts they subscribe, and whenever checks are drawn to do it to the order of August Belmont, treasurer. Receipts to individual subscribers will be published through the press. Mr. Samuel Pollack, of No. 3 Wooster street, headed one of the lists at yesterday's meeting with $100. The Copetpious Lodge of Masons, of Williams- burg, sent a check for $25, The other contributions were mostly of smaller amounts. Dr. Gardini- Gardner dropped in and asked that one of the lists be sent to his wife, Mme. Etolka Gerster, who de- sired to subscribe for the relief of ber sufferin, countrymen. fuel Bein that a concert fol the benefit of the sufferers is to take place at the At- lantic Garden on the 27th. The singing society, “Frohsinn,” will also give’ @ concert at Terrace Garden next month, the of which are to be forwarded to edin. It is hoped to raise at least $20,000 for the Hungarian sufferers. CUBA, PEACE THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND. Havana, March 21, 1879. By royal decree the honorary title of Superior Chief of Administration has been conferred upon Sefior Ricardo Galbis, actual Secretary of the govern- ment. The interior of the island is reported quiet. The marauders in the neighborhood of Santi Spiritus have been dispersed, THE LATE GENERAL SHERMAN. A TRIBUTE TO THE DEPARTED SOLDIER'S WORTH FROM HIS PASTOK, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Newronr, R. I, March 23, 1879. Rev. G. J. Magill, who officiated at General Sher- man’s funeral, took occasion to-day in his sermon to speak as follows of the deccased, who was a mem- ber of hischurch. He took his text from John, ix. 4—“The night cometh, when no man can work.” He said :— It is no merely graceful panegyric to say that the brave soldier whom we laid to rest the other day with military honors was uiso a noble Christian hero, deserving of those higher honors which the Church accords m Christian burial. It may have been his natural temperament which led him to reduce his religious lite to an Ch topee system, conducting his spiritual campaign with all the carefulness and pro- cision that he gave to military duty. At all events it was so regulated, He was most fwithful in at- tendance ut services of the Church, coming even when, owing to physical infirmity, he might have claimed exemption—when the weather kept strong, active men at home, his private lite, so far was admitted to ‘an inti- macy with it, I found # deep and tender pitty, which was ull the more conspicuous and meritorious because of the strong and almost stern nature where it resided, Such a man, you may well suppose, did not leave his spiritual work undone until the evening of his lite. ‘To him indeed the Master said, Behold, I come quickly, and he was ready. new comforting it is to visit the dying Christian and find all things peaceful, trustful, hopetul, the work ot life completed, the reckoning fuithtuily kept ‘up to the last hour, with an abiding faith in Christ us the way, the trath and the lite. Such was the end of him of whom this brief notice is quite unworthy, but whose example we shall do well to follow. TELEGRAPH ARRANGEME. (By TELEsRAPH TO THE MERALD.) Porrsvittx, Pa., March 23, 1879, Arrangoments havo been perfected by which the Western Union and Philadetphia and Reading Tele- graph Company's business in this region is consoli- dated, Hereafter the Western Union Company will undertake no business on Philadelphia and Reading territory; in other words, where its railway extends and meets with no competition. The Western Union* Fo ‘ut this place, Mr. D. K. Teter, will go to Philadelphia as soon as he has settled the business of his ae here, and from the Ist of April until further not the hte business of the region will be done by the Phitad ia, Reading and Potts- villo Telegraph Company, of which Mr. UC. M. Lewis, dr. is manager. FREIGHT RATES. Sr. Lours, Mo., March 23, 1879. The Vandalia, Wabash, and Chicago and Alton, three of the five pool lines running east from here, resolved at a meeting yesterday to restore freight rates, and from to-morrow (Monday) the rates to New York will be on grain, flour, bran and mull stuff, twenty-three cents, and on fourth class freight ty-nine cents, ‘ne Ohio and Mississippi and Indianapolis and st. Louis have not yet signified what they will do, TOWN FARMHOUSE BURNED. Nonwicn, Conn., March 23, 1879, Tho Town Farmhouse, at Willimantic, was burned Saturday morning. Loss, $10,000; insurance, $6,000, FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS. New Onueans, La., March 24, 1879, Three houses or Jackson street, near Annuncia- were destroyed by fire to-lay, The loss ts os. timated at $15,000, The fire is supposed to have been of jucendiary origin. NEW YORK AERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1879:-TRIPLE SHEET. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. THE DISEASE FOUND TO EXIST IN NEW JER- SEXY—MEANS ADOPTED TO PREVENT ITS EX- TENDING, * (BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD.] ‘Taxnron, N. J., March 23, 1879. Colonel W. H., Sterling, of the Now Jersey Com- mission on Pleuro-Pncumonia, in answer to letters of inquiry directed to various parts ot the State, has received numerous replics which indicate that the disease exists in certain localities, but so far only in 4 form which may be controlled by a system of quar- antine. Examinations will be made at the principal ints of entrance of cattle trains—Jersey City, renton, Phillipsburg, &c.—with a view to prevent its introduction Ly cattle from other States, When- ever @ case is reported within this State a careful examination is to be made by a competent veterinary surgeon, and if the disease 18 1ound to exist the re- quirements of the act will bo carried out in a man- ner to canse ay little trouble as possible. ‘There is uo intention to harass any one, and it will only be ; in well authenticated cases that the power given in the act will be used at all. The disease exists, und several deaths have oceurred in Yurdleyville, Va., four miles from this city. CONDITION OF CATTLE ALONG THE HUDSON— STATEMENT OF DEALERS-—-THS PLEURO-PNEU- MONIA SCARE A GREAT HUMBUG--GENERAL PATRICK'S ORDER DEPRECATED, Povenxrerste, March 23, 1879, Cattle dealers along the Hudson River are severely criticising General M. R. Patrick's proclamation rela- tive to the conveyance of milch cows and other store animals by railway and by water. Judging from all reports the pleiro-pneumonia scare is a colossal humbug, especially so far as any county on the Hud- son River is concerned, and cattle men do not hesi- tate to openly and boldly denounce it as such, add- ing that the unwarranted publicity given to cases in New York city and its environs, where cows are fed upon swill mi:k and poisonously aduiterated food, is gradually undermining tho cattle trade of the coun- try for no cause whatever. Catt:e of all kinds come to this city from the western part of the State by the car loads and are herded in cattle yards in Eust Poughkeepsie. Thither a reporter proceeded to haye a talk with the cattle dealers in regard to the mattcr. STATEMENTS OF THE DEALERS. Harvey, H. Owen, of the Bull's Head Hotel, said that the average arrival of cattle there daily is about thirty-five head, and they come from Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties, ‘here has not been a single case of pleuro-pneumonia nor any other disease among them for a yearor more. He has talked with farmers far and near about the matter, and he has yet to find one of them who has heard of a case of pleuro-pneumonia in Duchess, Ulster, Sullivan or Orange countics. Leander ) ung has just arrived at Bull’s Head from Sullivan county with a drove of milch cows, working cattle, kc. He says the dealers in Sullivan have handled five or six thousand head the past winter, and there was nota single case of pleuro- pneumonia among them. On the contrary, the cattle never looked better nor healthier than they have the past winter, A. Clow, of Oneida county, is also at Bull’s Head with a drove of cattle, twenty-one head in all, having arrived about a week ago, The heaviest dealer in Oneiga county is D. G. Drummond, and all ot his cattle are thrifty, not a single case ‘of pleuro-pneu- monia having ok com: amoung them. Mr. Clow had also been through Jefferson county, and there, too, cattle never looked better, there being no signs of any disease whatever of any kind. Inclosing the in- vw he said This pleuro-pneumonia scare is the biggest hum- bug Lever heard of. Why, you can go three hundre 1 miles from here and get ‘off at every station you come to, and I defy you to find a single case. It is hurting the business seriously, ior the silliest reason ee stump-tail cows around New York have been sick.” Mr, D. Alverson is here with a drove of cattle from St. Lawrence county, He has been inthe business over three years and he is yet to see the first case of pleuro-pneumonia. “Why,” said he, ‘ourcattle everywhere are thrifty and well doing, with no show of ‘any disease what- evet.”” He too’ deprecates the order of General Patrick, and thinks if the whole matter is investigated hon- estly and fairly the result would be such that Gen- eral Patrict would quickly recall his prociamation. A BIG HUMBUG. ‘The heaviest dealers in Duchess county, not only men who buy and sell cattle, but also well-to-do farmers who raise fat cattle on their tarms for home conswaption all vgtes that the pleuro-pneumonia acere 18 a big humbug, ulated to do a vast deal of mischief, Farmers from Ulster, Sullivan and Putnam counties who were in town yesterday term the pleuro-pneu- monia scare as 4 tovlish panic, for which there is no foundation. From Rockland, Greene aud Columbia counties reports show that there are no cases of pleuro-pneumonia in those counties. All agree that General Patrick's order prohibiting and forbidding the conveyance of any inilch cows or other store cattle from the counties of Patnam, Duchess, Rock- land, Orange and Ulster, should have been ‘issued with the names of those counties omitted. As it stands, it is not only a useles blow at the treighting business on the Hudson, but also affects seriously thousands of dollars worth of business in a channel where the taboved disease shows no signs whatever of existence. No cattle are shipped up the Hudson, nortor that matterdown the Hudson to any great extent; but as soon as the droves trom Western New York reacn tidewater they go cast into Massachu- sctts and Conuecticut. THE FLETCHER-BAILEY ELOPEMENT. APPEARANCE OF THE DERELICT NAVAL OFFICER IN PHILADELPHIA—HE IS ARRESTED AND PLACED ON BOARD A RECEIVING SHIP—AN EFFORT AT FEZIGNING INSANITY—COURT Mah- TIAL ANTICIPATED. : (BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) = * PHLADELPHIA, March 23, 1879, Lieutenant A. H. Fletcher, of the United States Navy, who eloped with @ Miss Bailey, the daughter of his boarding house mistress in Baltimore last month, has suddenly turned up in thiscity, Last ‘Thursday a week he entered the Mercan- tile Hotel, @ very small and quiet estab- lishment on Tenth street, above Chestnut. He registered in his right name and asked for a room fortwo days. He was unaccom- panied by the fair partner of his flight, and had but little inggage. In the evening he wrote a letter to Secretary of the Navy Thompson reporting his whereabouts, saying that he was very ill, and asking that orders be given for h’s admission to the hospital at League Island. He complaincd in his letter of pains in @e head and conveyed the idea that he was not altogether right in his mind. Notwith- standing these declarations, however, it is said that Fletcher showed no signs of mental or bodily ill- nes# as far as the hotel people saw, and after writing this letter spent the rest of the evening until after midnight at a concert hall of rather questionable repute. The next day he showed much uneasiness about some letters which he said he expected, and anxiously but vainly watched for the arrival of the’ postman, On Saturda, League Tala was temporarily absent. alleged sic nervous and un- easy at sight of the bulance, but after writing mailing ® postal card he hastily got his Inggage, and, jumping up beside the driver, ‘was conveyed to League Island, He is now under guard aud medical attendance on board the receivi: ship St. Louis. Fletcher has been closel; watched since his arrival there, but the naval officers have failed to find any mental derangement in the dis- graced officer, and he is suspected of shamming, PLETCHER'S AVPRARANCE. } He is a nan of about forty years, slender in build, of middle height, partly bald, and nervous in his manner. He is taciturn, and does not 4] of his singular elopement from a wite and child to whom he appeared so much attached, At the time of his running away Fletcher was under suspension for two ears tor deserting from the unfortunate Huron just before she started on the voyaye Which ended in her terrible loss, After the wreck Fletcher pretended that he failed to report on board the Huron because he had a premonition of her coming fate. His claim, it is said, is regarded in official cireles as de- eidedly thin. After the physicians have pronounced upon Fletcher's sanity he will probably be court: martialled for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. He is wlso liable for disobedience of orders in leaving the boundaries of the State of Mary- land, to which he was restricted by the order of his suspension, Meantime he is under arrest, “THE HOMEWARD BOUND, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.) OckaNn Brac, N. J., March 93, 1870, The position of the bark Homeward Bound is un- changed. Her topmasts and yards have been taken down, bu@no attempt has been made to-day to lay anchors or cables, There isa hole in the forward part of the vessel through which the water freely ebbs and flows. Captain William Merrit, says that her condition is siutiar to that of the ship Hafna, taken off the beach at Long Branch, Mareh 4, and that itis probable that a bulkhead will have to be built in her bow before she is removed from the Jer- sey shore, Hundreds ot rustics from Long Branch, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and Squan visited the avene of the wreck to-day, TAKEN TO THE NAVY YARD, au ambulance from the navy yard at drove up to the hotel while Hieteher When he returned the | its: chairman, WASHINGTON. Fair Prospects for a “Short Ses- sion of Coneress. GOMPROMISE ON POLITICAL M@ASURES. —_ ---—-_- The Formation of the House if Committees. HOW THE WORK IS DIVIDED. Movement for the Abolition of Ex- ecutive Sessions. FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. HINGTON, March 23, 1879. THE COURSE OF LEGISLATION IN CONGRESS— FAIR PROSPECTS FOR A COMPROMISE AND AN EARLY ADJOURNMENT. Influential and well informed Represent itives and Senators ogpoth parties think it probable this even- ing that there will.be a friendly settlement of the differences on the Supervisors and Marshals’ law; that Congress will not go into general business, and that it will adjourn within three weeks from this date, It is understood that the Army bill will be reported with the clause appended at the last session repeal- ing the clause of the statutes which allows troops to be kept at the polls, with an addition that troops Within two miles of any polling place shall be kept within their barracks on election day. To this, it is understood, the republicans do not object. During the exciting Presidential election of 1864 General Butler, who then commanded in New York, and who had been instructed to take the utmost pre- cautions against disorders and to promptly put down riots, managed so carefally that not a soldier was seen in either New York or Brooklyn on election day. It was then understood that he had consid- erable bodies of troops so disposed as to ve able to concentrate rapidly at any necessary point, but it was not thought proper to allow troops near or in sight of the polls and they were carefully kept inside of their quarters. The clause repealing the test oath will be in the same form as before, and will follow the appropria- tions for tie cxpenses of courts in the Legislative and Judicial bill, and there will follow a clause ealing the laws authorizing the appointment of chief supervisors and of deputy marshals of clec- tions, The local supervisors are continued, but the law will be sv changed as to make the report to the Circuit or District courts. Deputy marshals of elections are, as the law now stands, allowed to be appointed only in cities of 20,000 inhabitants or over, and it is believed that the republicans will agree to dispense with them eutirely as the demo- crats propose. ‘ It is understood that the President does not care whether the repealing clauses come to him in separate bills or appended to the Appropriation bills; he will examine them in either caso and sign or veto according to his judgment of their merits. There is a fair chance of an agreement and carly adjournment, but it remains to be seen what number of democrats and republicans will endeavor by dilutory motions and otherwise to defeat the object of the moderate men of both parties. Amendments and repealing clauses are now being drawn by a member of the sub-committec of the caucus committee and will be submitted to-morrow to the committee, and whatever that body may agree on will be laid before @ joint democratic caucus on Tuesday. FORMATION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTZES —IM- PORTANT CHANGES PROPOSED—HOW THE WORK HAS BEEN DISTRIBUTED IN THE PAST. The Speaker needs time to form the committees, and it is not probable that they will be ai nounced under two weeks. The House contains an unusual number of new members, and lost @ considerable number of members of thé more important committees. Some of the old members also desire to be changed to other committees, and all these circumstances taken toyether make the task of forming the forty-seven or forty-eight committees one of uncommon labor and responsibility, the more so as the democrats now control both houses and are directly and solely responsible for legislation. ‘There are two important propositions before the Speaker and the House for changing the duties of some of the committecs. One of these proposes to enlarge the Appropriations Committee trom eleven to twenty-one members, so that it may be divided into sub-committees for the special consideration ot various branches of the expenditures, In defence of this proposition it is urged that the work of the committee 1s too great for eleven men to do; that with twenty-one members no one Will need to serve on two sub-committees, and that the expenditures can be thus more carefully guarded and the bills prepared and reported at an carlier period in the sess:on. ‘The other proposition is by Mr. Springer, and was submitted to the House on the opening day, It proposes to refer the appropr-ation to the committees having charge over the different departments. Thus the Army bill would be prepared by the Military Committee, the Naval bill by the Naval Committee, the Indian biil by the Committee on Indian Affairs, the Appropriations Committee being left in charge only of the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and the Sundry Ctvil or Omnibus bills. It is objected to this that thechange would cause au increase in the expen- ditures, because each committee, having only its own, department in view, would be apt to provide hand- somely for that witMout regard to the others, ocon- omy being, like benevolence, a virtue most casily practised at the expense of others. ‘The change proposed by Mr. Springer would only be aretura to the former custom of the House, and it has long Been urged that the Appropriations Com- mitteo was overworked, end that it dwarfed the other committees by assuming their most im- At present the Appropriations Committee considers the estimates of expendi- tures presented by the deparfments, and frames all the bills granting money except the River and Harbor bill, which for some unkn wa reason has been kept within the control of the Committee on Commerce, and the Ways and Means Committee frames tho revenue bills, Originally the Ways and Means Committeo performed both these fuuctions, and until the year 1802 this committee con- sisted of one member for each State, It was then reduced to seven members, but parts of its former duties were divided among four other com- mittees, The Ways and Means Committee, however, grew in importance until in 1865 the Appropriations Committee was created, as also the Committee on Banking and Currency. These two com- mittees relieved tho Ways and Means of many of ifs duties apd deprived it of some of its importance, and since then the Ap- propriations Committee has gradually become the most important in the House, although the Chair- man of Ways and Means still keeps his tradttional place as leader of the House, The character of the committees so largely con- trols the action of the House that in his selection of them this time Speaker Randall will in effect preseribe a policy for his party for the next two years. For this reason the list is looked for with great curiosity, the question whether the Ways and Moans will be formed in the interest of extrome protection or of a mor» liberal tariff, and whether the Banking and Cur” rency Committee will be for hard or soft money, weing the most attvactive subjects of dis- cussion, The Banking and Currency Commit- tee of the last House contained, besides Mr. Buckner, who was a silver Man, but opposed ina mild way to legal tenders, ; four soft money democrats and two soft money republicans, with two hard money democrats and two hard money republicans, The committce was simply asmall mov. It did no good thing, and th etforts of the hard monoy mn prevented from doing much havin, but it was of, no use to the House or the country, Kesumption being now achieved, it is hoped that Speaker Randall will frame the new committer in uccordance with ac- complished facts, and especially that he will put some hard moaey Wester: democrats on it, for the friends of sound money in the West and South com- plais: that they have received no sort of encourag ment trom the Eastern branch of their party, aithough they have battled for a sound currency | under many difficulties, and this complaint, it must be said, is well grounded. EXECUTIVE SESSIONS——A MOVEMENT ABOLITION. Among the reforms talked of on the democratic side of the Senate is a feeblo movement to abolish executive sessions, When the President sends nominations of public-ofticers to the Senate for confirmation this body refers them in the first instance to appropriate standing committees, and these report to the Senate in what is called executive or secret session, and they are discussed with closed doors, Tuis custom, which has, as everybody knows, led to many abuses, is defended on the ground that it would be unfair to a person nominated to office that the discussion of his charac- ter and fitness should be held in public and made a, matter of recoi d that many objections made in sceret session without injury to the character or feclings of the pe:son under discussion would be needlessly hurtful if made openly. But those who oppose thes: executive sessions reply that this defence, though plausible, is not sound, because the nominations are first considered in committee meetings, which are secret, where all such matters may be brought up as would not prop- erly be for the public, and because further, wh: men are nominate. to office by party con’ tions, their qualifications and character are immedi- ately and thoroughly discussed in the most public manner, which is thought to be proper and nec sary. But, say they, if 4 man nominated to Le Goy- ernor of a State, or mayor or alderman of a city, may and onght to be freely criticised and discussed, why not if the same man is nominate1 for Minister to Timbuctoo or Postmaster in Snake Hollow? It is added that the executive session is used mainly to perpetuate one of the glaring abuses of the civil service, the swapping of offices amoug Senators, popularly knowa as the ‘courtesy of the Senate,’ and that to abolish these executive sessions would be a decisive step in real civil service reform, FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. POR THEIR WASHINGTON Mavch 25, 1879, RAINEY, THE COLORED BX-CONGRESSMAN, TO BE THI2p AtprTo! Ex-Congressman Ramey, the colored Représentae tive from South Carolina, who became so justly popular with both parties in tho last Congress, has been strongly recommended by Loth democrats and republicans for a Presidential appointment. He will, it is suid, be nominated to fill the vacancy in the office of Third Auditor of the Treasury, the recent incumbent of which, Mr. Horace Austin, has betn MR. - from the United State appointed to the xeceivership ot the lund office at Fargo, Dakotah, ‘M>. Alexander H. Stephens was among the number who recommended Mr. Rainey’s appointment to a position of prominence. Mr. Rainey is regurded as the ablest colored man who ever sat in Congress. THE WIDOW OLIVER'S SOIT. HOW THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CASE WAS UN- DERESTIMATED—IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS PROMISED. [BY TELEGRAPH To THE HERALD.) WASHINGTON, March 23, 1879, The long delay in getting to trial in the Oliver- Cameron case is ascribed to tle general beiief which had been entertained among the Judiciary and at the Bar here that the suit was one like the Biggius case against General Grant, with which it stood side by side for quite awhile on the calendar. It was not until the second day of tho trial, indeed, that the lawyers and the public rubbel their eyes and began to sce that it was no trivial uffuir, and that there was more than method in the buxom widow's madness. One of the plaintiff's attorneys, speaking of the case, says that there will be fun in the ¢ row. Naturally he declines to say why, but the im- pression exists that some testimony concerning the wtter containing the alleged promise of marriage will afford the expected amusemen NEW YORK GOVERNORSHIP. HOW MR. SLOAN'S DECLINATION IS RECEIVED BY THE FRIENDS OF FRANK HISCOCK —STOCK OF THEIR CANDIDATE RISING, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Synacuse, N. ¥., March 23, 1879. The card of Mr. George B. Sloan, published throughout the State yesterday morning, announe- ing in unequivocal terms his determination not to be acandidate for Governor, was read here with a good deal of astonishment by politicians and friends of Mr. Frank Hiscock, The question immediately raised was, Docs Mr. Sloan mean what he says? There was no mistaking the language used, and, looking at this and also at Mr. Sloan's record as a straightforward man, the conclusion has been reached that he is honest in his declination and is now absolutely and unequivocally out of the way. Itis urged that if this were not so the letter would do Mr. Sloan more hurt thun good, as in the event of hix consenting to become a candidate he would disclose a dup.icity that would seriously damage his interests. MR. HISCOCK'S POSITION, Mr. Hiscock is unquestionably a candidate for Governor. It is thought that not only Central and Western but Northern New York can be consolidated in His favor. ‘The western part of the State was not pleased with Mr. Sloan's low canal tolls. Mr. Hiscock #8 no entanglement of that kind, but is at liberty to do what he conceives to be best for the entire business interests of the State. His friends express themselves with some degree of confidence that his candidacy has received a decided impetus by the Sloan letter. THE PLANET LETO. ABHINGLON, March 23, 187 Professor Foerster, of Berlin, announces that the planct observed by Professor Peters in cleyen hours ifty-eight minutes right ascension, &c., is Leto. ST. STEPHEN'S COLLEGE TROUBLE. Povonkrerste, N. ¥., March 23, 1879. Sixty-five of the cighty students who were given & forced vacation from St. Stephen's College have re- turned. Parkinsen, who put a fellow student under the pump, has gone to Hobart College, Geneva, with several of his classinates who left St. Stephen with him, Rc ee ei FOUR ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE, [From the Charleston News, March 20.) About half-past six o'clock yesterday afternoon the little ex-Confederate sol lier, known as Major Pick- ling, made another attempt to end his lite by jump- ing from the pier at Boyce's wharf, He was seen by some gentlemen, who called a policeman, by whom the Major was taken to the station house. This is pana i attempt of the kind that tho Major has made, EFFECTS OF THE CATTLE EMBARGO. (From the Halifax (N. 8.) Herald, Maren 19.) ‘The embargo on the cattle trade between England and tho United States is already beginning to pro- duce somo results, The Dominion line steafier Quebec, which arrived yesterday from Liverpool, after proceeding to Portland and — discharg: ing her cargo for that port, will retora here to load cattle for Liverpool. The steamer Texas, of the same line, is expect here on the 24th inst. for the same prrpose, and we understand the com- pany are negotiating for the charter of two much larger steamers to put on the line between Liverpool and Halifax in the same trad A HUSBAND IN AMERICA, {From the London Times.) In the case of Vanner vs. Conner (otherwise Van- ner), im the courts yesterday, the parties were mar- fied at St. George's Church, Borouzh, on the 1th of February, 1874, and the husband now petitioned for @ decree of nullity of miarriage on the ground that the respondent was not a widow at the time, as sho had represented, but had a husband then Iving at Brooklyn, Mi the United States, The evidence offered not being sufficient to satisfy the Court as to these facts the case was adjourned that further proof of them might be yives. “3 THE BLACK HILLS. {Correspondence of Boston Jourual.) They are culiel black becwuse covered with pine trees in contrast to the bare plains around them, and cover au area about equal to the State of Maasa- chusetts at an elevation of from three thousand to seven thousand feet. POLAR EXPLORATION. {from the Woonsocket (I. I.) Patriot, March 21.) We had come to the conclusion that “dwellers oa the deep” were tired of Aretic research, and that even scientific men had about abandoned the theory of “an open Polar Sea.” But we are soon to see another expedition—an American one—start out to explore a northwest passage, which since the begin- ning of the present century has been attempted by VYarry, Hudson, Franklin, Kano and other brave sea men. The problem of that passage, if ever solved, will not satisfy us that it will be worth what it has already cost, in both money and human sacrifice. In 1850 Captain McClure claimed to have discovered ¢, Yet was unable to navigate it icc. He then left his ship at the western entrance und travelled about sixty miles, by sledges, to another vessel on the eastern side—a section which was probably traversed by Sir Joha Franklin after abandoning bis fleet. Some dozen ard Dr, Rac went over a portion of thia ry in search of the gallant Franklin, and from the Exquimanx obtained some undoubted relics of that untortunate expedition. ‘The p: Arctic experiment of penctrating the unknown regions of the North Pole will be under the nominal patronage of the United States, which will furnish a commander and part of the officers, We hope for its success. Ex-Senator William H, Barnum, of Connecticut, and William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, are at the Fifth Avenue, Congressman John Hammond, of Crown Point, N. Y., is at the Park Avenue. State ‘Treasurer A. C. Noyes, of Pennsylvania, is at the Hoffman. President M. B. Anderson, of Rochester University, is at the Everett. State Senator Henry Butteriield, of Pennsylvania, is at the Albemarle. Ex-Congressman A, M, Waddell, of North Carolina, is at the St. Nicholas. 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They do so by following letter h they append the certificate of the world-famous Professor Virchow, of Ber documents will satisfy every reasonable mind, and leave any future slanderous ting [Coy TREASURY D. Ore Wasuixetox, D. € Messre. Fuxpurick pe Bary & ¢ aurtiment is in receipt of your lettor ults of the investigat the condition of A, ted States, with sare natural m to the que: ty eral waters entitled to exem, been frequently claimed, substantially. « waters, subject to the duty provided by the statute in such case Tn conformity with was asked to cause a thorough inquiry to be made matter by our Consul at Coloxne, copies of documents on file in this department, whi tained statements re= F the manner in which such Apollinaris Waters pared for shipment to the United States, were fur- » the Consul. voluminous report upon the subject has been rew ith accompanying documents, from scientists and have made the matter a study, and who bi pected the spring. Tho Consul states that the allest opportunity was given tall its surround: a cture of urtificial he premises, and inory. igus was found on or near nocesnity existed for the manufacture of such kas for use in bottling the waters, f¢ eayon that the spring itself supplies far more gas than is nocessary for the purpose of bottling Her and proserving the din the wa Ai report as follo that it is my opinion, formed after what T ful and painstaking’ Investigation, that the Wark, bottled at the Apollinaris Spring, a United’States, is beyoi na natural mit s the Consul’s daspatch seus to abundantly sustain his conclusion that the Arou- Lixatis Wark, as heretofore imported, isa natural mineral water, entitled to exemption from duty. Very respecttully, wy.) Water of the Apollinaris line gaseous water which able water, Its pleasant t rbonie acid. favorably dis tinguish it from the other similar mineral waters, [Signed. PROFESSOR DR, VIRCHOW. BEKLIN, December 24, 187%. 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