eiy Agitator, WITH SUPPLEMENT A. F. FIARIZZB, EALTOR TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2', 1878 THANILSGIVING PROCiAMATIONS.' Drecvilin 3faxeloi4 , . • I - 1 Ws-lhineton , .Oct. 11. 1373. f Dg tis Prvilident of the Dinisat Sid:err:l America. ' A. P 111001.674 ..1.T101.1., . - The approachingVlose of another year brings With it the occasion for repewad thtmkettic lug audtchnow ledge:nazi:it to the Mt t highty llulef,pff, the 'Quivers° of the nyhtimbereil Mercies which lehas . betowed upon us. Abundant harvests have bee' among therewarae of industry. With local except! ens,aralth has-beat , among the blessings enjoyed, Tranquillity L et home had ponce sith other nations have prevailed. Frugal industry fa regaining its merited recognition and its merited rewar3a. Gradually, but miller the provi dence of (led purely, as we trust, the nation is recov• ering from he lingering result of a dreadful civil :strife. Vei: heso and all the ether mercies vouch , salad, V. bet._ tilts us as a people to return heartfelt and gratefed aelmowl• dguients, and, with our thanks ghing, ice Mai unite prayers for the cessation of local said truipoAary sufferdig. 1 theref-,4, ree.ommeitd that on Thursday, the 27tb day of Somber neat. the people tueet in their ro i spectirsplace 5.4 wocsaip to mike Anowtedgmest4 to AllurlY-God ior II Whom/ilea ant His protection. and to :ter to Him pi a.:. ors cor Odell outirtwitice. In,Atitrit s,i whereof I nave" h , reunto set my have: altaused the seal of the United states to be affixed Do eat the city of Washington - this 14th day of Octot her in the ear of our Lord 1373, and of the indepen dence of the United States the 97111. U. S. fiIIASZT. By the President: ' fieuthrot; Visit, Secrettry cr State. Governor's ,Proclargati9n. • writiEks, The President of the ignited States, by late proclamation, has appointed the twenty•seventh day of November next, as a day of public thanksgiv ing. I do. therefore, recommend that the people of Penn sylvania. in itcrortiuw.e with said Proclamation, shall inset on said clay, in ) their r,speotive places of wor ship, to return thank to Almighty God for the man ifold mercies lie has `vouchsafed to us during the past year, and to implore a continuance of ma faVuT. and to pray that the afflicted, people of other of these Ilnitv.d States may be deliVered from the pestilence lxhich is within their borders. Given under my hand and,the Great _Seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this Seth `'day of October, in-the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and, seven ty-three, and .of the Commonwealth the ninety eighth. By the Governor - Af, S.' QUAY, SaerCtary of the Commonwealth All Americans will be glad to learn that the tepott of the execution of the third batch of pri=oners at Santialro was without foundation. No such executions took place. This - fact is important in itself, for it redu ces the death roll of victims by fiftyseven; and it is also important , as indicating that the orders from -Madrid'were not entirely .disregarded. It shows that the blood-thirsty volunteds in Cuba still have some little re spect, for 'the nominal authority of the home government. -____- ,-- _ Every honest man, not only in America, but in nll countries, should rejoice to hear that outraged justice has at last .overtaken William M. Tweed—the " Bess" of the Tanitnany Ring of New York city. The conviction-of this man is the most resound ing blow yet struck at the evil of political corruption. Of this vulgar corruptionist it might have been said, as Edmund Burke said of another, " his equipages gleamed like meteors; his palaces rose like exhala tions." And now, in spite of his stolen millions and his crowd of fawning folloW ers, he is recd to the level of a common jail-bird, his Orl age blasted with infamy; and his memory made, hateful for all come } Ong time. IL: was, on Saturday, sentenced by Judge Davis to fourkeen year.' imprison mentr in the Penitentiar on Blackwell's Isl and and to pay a fine. o $12,750. ---='- - Nf "ewspaper real:Teri - were svmewnat ex cited last Saturday by some sensational dis patches Irvin Madrid to the New York Her ald to the effect .that an attempt had been made in the Spanish capital to mob and as sassinate our Minister, and that -the gover ment of Spain had replied to his represen tations with insults. Saturday's telegrams: showed the baseless character of most of this "news," however, and left the question pending between the two countries in,sub-• stantially the .same' shape as the week - be fore.., It seems plybrilile,l from all the re ports/ that the Spanish Cabinet is -disposed to aceeed to all our just demands; but it is possible that it may not be strong enough nt horne-to maintain itself In that position in the face of a violent popular opposition. The fact that the intemperate language of the Monarchical journal of Madrid has al ready been silenced by the threat of pun' islanent is at'once'a striking evidence of the feeling of - the Castalar Cabinet toward our government and of the factious opposition that Cabinet must encounter at home in carrying out a policy of reparation. • it would be hardly poislble to over-esti mate the importance of the election tb take place in this State three weeks from to•day —Tuesday, December 16th. Surely this generation has never been called' upon to pass' upon any question of more vital im portance to the Commonwealth and td'eve ry interest of its citizens than the done to be RubirAtted on that (fay. The true question which each voter should consider and be' .prepared to answer at the polls is, whether be prefers to Dye under,thaold Coastitigion or under the propose& new one. / , And in "deciding that point he should net allow a feeling, of disli , lte for some particular elame of either document to turn' he scale, but tdlould consider caelt as, a whole . . We be lieve, after earefai ietleetion..t hat the new constitutioni muyli' preferable to the pres• cnt one, Itudweorge the voters of thecoiut ty to qtaly dm-document—which we print an a'st i fpple4fent to dny—with care nod with. out passion or prejudice. Above ttll, we urge them to two out on cketicinClay owl vote according to their honest convictions - 7 -wbiehlve believe will be, nine cases in ten, for the new 6usthution. ?r. Evartes Opinion it Is proper that the President and mem bers of the Ctibluet should keep silent as to the position of the Government in relation -- to the affair of the Virginias until the ex -I,,et .facts of the ease are ascertained and 'weighed. Enough is tdready Isuoiyn to jos• tify the strong sense of intUguation and hor ror felt by the authorities as well as by the people of the United Statesat the indecent brutality of the' Spanish officers. And that feeling would be excited even it there was no utwstlon of American citizenship or Spanish accountability it;volved in the case. Itois the natural revolt of ?very brave 'an& humane heart at an exhibition of needless end barbarous cruelty. - .put tlnough is not yet known to enable tis to 'determine to what extent we are justified in holding Spain accountable to ourselves for the halm. man acts of hef agents. Under these eir cuinstances,the only course to be pursued by the Goveinment is to prevent, if possi ble, any further bloodshed in Cuba, to gati.- or all the facts bearing upoi the case, aid to make rapid preparation to enforce vigor -*wily whatever demands for reparation, the law of nations and out treaties with Spain ' may justify. It is evident that nil these points are being diligentlYnttended to,, and -"we may expect on the meeting of Congress next week that the policy, Of., the Govern- Mont in its treatment of the nffair will > \ 7 . ;- • pretty clearly indicated if _not bully devel oped. - , But:in the inemstimo there is sunlit-Ay- t greaLdeal of diseusshin to the „prui.-a fts to the position s of our GovernMent, and much conflict of opinion ;as to 'our Night to de•. mend any reparation whatever; OneAlsi patch from Madrid rePorts,the.Spardsh Sec. rotary of Foreign Affairs us saying to our Minister that the whole ma ter was simply a municipal question lictwet Spain - and "the Virginias pirates," and that - Spain would not tolerate American interference, and sense American jotirnals of considera ble pretensions seem to agree with this view of the case, It is evident, however, that it • is not the opinion lield-by the authorities at , Washington, nor by_ of. the most emi nent students of iatetnational I iTM. • Mr. William 314.‘1.rts it well 'known rts one of the first lauirmis at the American bar. Ile las been tuoreethau once urged as a can didate for Secretary of State, and he is re garded by a large portion of the bar as the lawyer best ed by attainments and char; acter to till to post of Chief Justice of the United S es. Ile was one of tthe men se"- lectcd to represent our Gorermuent• in the Alabama case at Genev,a, and his reputation. as a sound international lawyer may be psi ly said to be as ividely l known as that of any other American; The opinion of such a Man upon the case of the Virginias is enti tied to great weight. It is truft hat opinion was set forth at a public meeting held in New York a few days since to express Pop id it indignation at the seizure of that yes. sel; but it was' evidently prepared with date, , and Mr. "Evans has since, after ample time for reflection, avowed that he adheres to , it as his view of the law of the easel After stating the facts of the case, Mr. Eyartsyroceeds to consider each pos'sible prdtense of - Justification. lie shows that the Viiginius was not an armed ship, and that she did not offer resistance to hey captors; that she was not furnished with_ an expedi Lion which was to make a predatory eat on the coast of Cuba and make, e , k by a ith what booty could be gathered; ttiAL the vic tims were note killed in the hot 1.4—pl of combat and hi the earnestness of selitle fenSe. They were completely within the power of their captors—unresisting prison ers. If they had violated the laWs of Spain, and if the authorities hall jerislietioa over them, they were liable to trial, conviction, and punishment. But we have a tre a ty with Spain which guarantees to every Atuer jean citizen a fair trial according tn—the:-or derly process of law for any offense cop- - Mile(' within her jurisdiction—a trial in which the accused shall be accorded the right, of having his advocates to — ffefend him. It may be cldimed that these men were prisonerd of war; but there are no laws of war whiOh permit the visitation ,of summary vengeance upon unarmed, unre sisting prisoners ot, war. Spain is either at peace or at war with Cuba; there is no in tertnediate state that the public law tecog nizes. She chums to be at peace, and if she is, it is evident she has violated her treaty with us in the punishment of these men. So much for the butchery of the prison ers. As to the capture of the Virginius, Mr. Evans is equally clear. Spain calls'the yessel a pirate, and some of our own writers follow her lead in that respect. The speak er admits that if the Virginius was a pirate, !heti Spain or any other nation 'had a right to capture the ship and punish the crew.-- "No nation puts. forth defense of its flag or its' nationality . to save a pirate." But he defines piracy as " the crime of plunder up on the sea or plunder upon the land," and 4, proceeds, 1 need. not sfty to you that there, is no trace, no pretense in this voyage of the Virginius, that she was a pirate upon! dition intending to make plunder upon the land." The conclusion is ihevitable that if the Virginius was entitled to sail under our flag—and it was admitted by her captors that her papers were regular—then Spain has been guilty of a gross violation of the law of nations in her treatment of that ves -‘,. And even if Spain can justify the cap ture of the Virginius, she has been guilty of a no less ostrageous violation of her treaty obligations by Jibe summary—execu tion of American citizens tyithopt even the form of a trial. Respecting the operations of the officers of Spain in Cuba, Mr. Evarts well says:— " The true position of these Cuban authori ties is this: That as they conduct their mode of suppresSing, the rebellion, or insurrec tion, as they call it, everything is lawful / against rebels, and everybody that acti4ly sympathizes with and aids the efforts and the arnp of those rebels shall beforibtxtitted to the fiolence` of Cuban power/ as if they were subject to the laws of Spain. Against any such proposition as that all civilized na tions must cry.aloud." / ,.A.nd he lays down these propositions of>publie law, which are rules of common sense as well: " " If our citizens in to the laws of Spain, they are to be , dealt with according to treaty and international obligations. If in time of war t;fey aid war, they are to be dealt with according to the laws of nations and the laws of war. If any of them become the enemies of the human race,'and scour the seas as pirates, no summary execution -of any one of them is to be justified to us except upon the mere necessity that there is no power to deal with them otherwise."— These points cover every possible feature of the case pf the Virg,inius, and leave Spain without ojustification for the bloody acts of the butchers of Santiago: OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. TILE CtBAN OUTRAGES AND TIMM 'RESULTS -ARRIVAL OF IMMIGRANTS AT Los-J:ON-- TUE CHIEF JCz:TICESILIP-SINGULAIt ij I C rut—MILNER AND SCIIIIRZ COUCILVNT \VEST VIRGINIA CONGRESSMEN -.VOLUN TEERS FOR CUBA. WASEIINGTON, NQV. 1873 Considerable excitement exists here sinee the last exhibition'of brutality on the part lof the Cuban officials. The shooting of four men, some of whom were American' citizens, Wore receiving orders from Spain fur a delay of action was bad cncugb, but the wholesale slaughter of the captain, crew, and passengers on board - MrAt-irginins after receiving these orders, end in violation. of them, has established for the Cuban lobal government the unquestioned reputations of arpiratical power. 'he barbarity and inso lfnce of such an unkuthorized butchery de (fiends prompt redress, and must receive it. If Spain does not, upon demand of our Government, immediately arrest and pun ish the parties instrumental in these mur ders, and if the Castelar Government shall prove unable, for any reason, to give the re. quired satisfaction, our Government will proceed to such extreme measures as may L,be necessary to obtain it. The proceedings a cabinet conference just held _on_ the an je k i ct are tb be kept entirely secret, but sn cient has cropped out to show that the 1 Adm ' istrati c on means business, and that n \\ no tins, thorizecl pretense of a Government can be p rmiqed to perpetrate acts of bar barism up 7. American citizens with impu nity. Thera is a calmnOs of l ezasperatioo among our Irepln that is far more portent. Gus than mere *.nly indignation. In the city of New York alone 0,000 men could be obtaine# in threeAsys, Oyu, ld our Gov ernment call for volunteers tolpiundsh Puban outrages. 2 Pacts in this case of assault up , of our flag will be presented to Congress by the President Within one week of the time that this will be - read.A44430410 every , preparation foi the worst will be nracle.;— Our fleets ate already orilertql to the Gulf, and 'no time *ill - be lost iu putting ‘our,Lary . • . timltmlyint! contlitiott:,m, meet taly Otera, thfitga 16t-mny be:tutitiwtte4._, H .- . Oftle.is retoras-,ttv.ide •to -the littreati ii Stailitles. show -11;4 there.. - tir;yed, at the por lof Boston: timing the , quarter ending - Bep tember 80 . , 1878, 9,2s4itaini - grants,Ol whoa 4,650 .weretnitleS' au tl_ . 4,704: females. trade fifteen years of ttge, 2,075' fifteen and ,un 'der for IS. yeara"of age, , 0,0 'l9; forty years o , -age and over, 1,113: Friar Eaglatai, 2,920 1re1and t .„2,727: .Seatittia, '271; - Wales, 8 Nova Seiitia, 1,954; Azores, 758;- Germany 470; Su'etlea, 818; Pilate .I.ldwarl" Island 272; NewfOnailland, 150; Itussia, 88;' Cap deVerde,:lslands, 27;,NorTay, 28; Pplatall 20; - , lsiw Branswick„22; A2ustria, , .2o; Den' mark, 29; and the balance scattering. Thes,i Mmi rants represented 1.33 ufrc•lCllt U(3;111 cMons. 01, twenty nod over of these titer] were: eervant,.l2 males and 1,120 females laborers, I,o3l,rnales and 18 females; met chants, 76; clerks, - 35; carpenters, joi erg, blacksmiths, 20; engineers and - et gineArivers, 29; .cotton 'weavers, 20; 'wetly era not specified, 45 males and 3 females. Jailors, 41 males and 4 females; spinners 23 amles and '5 females; shoemakers, 2 printers, 22-„sesiuten, 1132; in Only tive passengers tliedon the voyage. New stories Nitre just been btart,ed to tl effect that President Grant bad been kite viewed by en inliniate friend, who had di covered that Hon. 'Roscoe Conlding, of Is7e York, will be surely nominated' for the v cant Chief Justieeship of the 'United Stat Supreme Court, and that his name will I promptly sent to. the Senate at tht, °pad; of Congress. The President is always re. cent with his friends 3 4 egarding importa appointtnents, and it is MA that there is any found:lo.in Var the rum Many think that Justice ;Niftier will be not butted, and he certainly has many hien' and advocates. Even if Mr. Conkfing w nominated, it, is doubtful that he would n i cept, - and saeritice his place in the Sena fur judicial retirement from politics. The, are many leading Southerners who chil l . that a seat on the bench, as Justice, is d to their section. These Igenefally favor t promotion of justice Miller to Chief J tire, with a view to filling his present pia, : with, a leading Southern Republican. The suicide of - Mr. Destor, one of wealthy banking tiun of Itigg,s this city, u•:i& a !Ai n* . ttlat ratir. lie way w uti auiti lu every u•ay cumfortoble, but 111 been hatbject to ttyPpq.ii , itt for tome ti pu s '. 'Without any previous signs of a sanity, when called at seven o'clock the ft 'st euld'utorning, V% hick was last Wednesd-y, -„ toixo to tuaiket, he preferred to end lie's ills, and so, instead of dressing, shot h !In set!' dead. If, in addition to the discomf trt of n chilly morning, he had no way of p . /5- curing the means for marketing, there would have been a better reason for the desperate deed. It is a fact, however, that the very necessity of daily exercise for the necessa ries of life keeps off the blues and prevents sneh melancholy thoughts from turning p'eo ple's heads, lie left a family and a comild erable estate, and had always borne a godU reputation in this comMunity, of which he was unc of the old residents. Some officious newspaper-meat:ller has if• Calated tt rumor that Senators Sumner t nd i i Schurz sill be tendered their former ph Ices on leading committees of the Senate to which other Senators have been regulgrly elected. It is alleged that since the collapse Of the Liberal patty these gentlemen deire to return to their old love; that their freh i.igs and instincts are all in opposition to the old Democratic par ~ and their pre: cot isolated condition wig in nee them to It eel, their old friends half way, if they can Le restored-to favor in the lit-publican pa-ty The restoration to favor is veiy easily di., with their consent; but the re-instalimen Senator Sumner in the control of the (4 IlitiSVA: e persOnal opposition to the Prebitlent Secretary of state exists, is au l utter fin' sibility. It is more than likely thatita gestion is a sensational emanation fynn brain of a correspondent who wife fur want of an item, and that iybas no tlier foundation. "Alas! pc7r Yorick. The split iu the Deino4acy of West ginia has been consider7ly widened by recent action of the Legislature of State. Gov. Jacob .has refused to ce to any legal electi6 of Congressmen lot coining session/from West Virginia. anti-Jacob ijause of .Delegates have, t fore, passed a bill which requires the Il of Pahlle Works to step_ into th§ Gov 'or'spfficial bdots—for the spOial i)urpol and certify that the anti-Jacob Democt ,eandidates, Messrs. Benjamin Wilpott, 1 jamin !rfartin, and Prank Hereford I dulyelected to,Congress last October. 7 electiOn was specially called by no on thorized to do so, and against the inter tion of the Governor, who is the onlyl son empowered to call elections. In than one-third of the State no election was either advertised or held in October. The Governor will veto the bill, but it will rob ably pass over bis veto. The object of i it is to secure the recognition of the Bonbon members named and to defeat Hon... J. Davis and 3.. Marshal Regatta, who 'were elected at the general election, according to the new Constitution; in August, 1872. To show the war spirit of our citizens, a little game was practiced on Saturday last on Pennsylvania Avenue, near the CaPitol. A large bulletin was. posted on 'an unoccul pied store bearitig the following aunt) nce ment: " $3OO in . goldt Men wanted for bree months' service. Office open at-10 a. .to 2:30 p. m. November 18, 1873. ALVARADO D]s GAL/e M. A crowd soon assembled, among which were a large number waiting to enlist l l who were very-anxious to head the list of C ban invaders, It proved a sell, but at the same time it illustrated the willingness of our people to carry their belligerent spirit into practical demonstration. Lr E. THE ACQUISITION OF i CITHA—HEGISTRA, lON FEE HEDUCED—TAXES PAID TO NONtIIES IDENTS—TIIE PNEUMATIC TUEE s TUE DOUOLASS"—DISTRICT POLICE MATTEHS. WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 181'3. There is a pretty well-settled general im pression that Cuba is to be punished ok' the island to be taken possession of by our Gov ernment, As there is no prospect ofpain punishing the Cuban authorities undercpres ent circumstances, therefore an Intent' n to demand punishment means practical! the 4., acquisition of tuba by the United Stats.— The present time of action is most attspi clonal for it cannot fail to benefit republi can Spain as well as satisfy ,11 naturalesire of our people. The Castelar Govern ent in Spain is doubtle., earnest in the 0 ban il t.i cause, but the protection and care of ba is the greatest drawback on the peacefl set clement of the Spanish Republic. A. war with this country and, perhaps, En land : also, or at least the' active alliance:Of 'Eng; land with our Government for the overtbruW of a political Power that disregards the law ful rights alike of British subjects and of I American citizens, will be a short, sharp, and decisive one. Spanish factional will unite with the present Government of Stain, and will be more easily pa r e i lfied, per aps, by this merging of minor istuiPa In a gene'- ral national outburst than in any other way. In this country a similar reStilt i will ful- i low, though to a somewhat less , ixtent coin. paratively, The ilisaffected leaders of the South will heartily join the administrt4ion party in taking Cuba. They are genel desirous of annexing the island, and will y la] inerge their minor differences with General Grant if they are allowed to share in I the . dangers and the spoils of pelt a war. Teleirima p4lctteril Wiflielit riSlMb.9ll44 E daily received - the , Seerettirlea - cot.,Wer and Navy - fican - volunteer tailleei*.irrthalate war offering. their . .*x-Confederates_ IntVe „tilreatlY":Wrlttinalior• leaVe to serve t4GovernitiOtt"-;aliettld..ditils culiies atise.:: President Graitt,,desplie the wretched weathers Ante_ heen ,, crferWheltued with anxious inqUiters whose wish is father to the thought we may-futie 'Rouble with' Spain about Cuba., Ile,aaYs little, as usual, but what Tic does - says:lndicates 'that ith means business.' un - agreeablt Burs prise that fill ,of.the • :London papers Dtahi featly accept ititultauce the Conclusion that the'conduct, of Cuba has forfeitetlythe island to the United 'States, -into Whose hands it 'must speedily fall. Such a propoSitiOn'only ti.fear years since would have &wised the, envy and animosity of the half-of Europe, whereas it would now lie looked upon with equanimity as iuevitable fatality. 'The 'world moves, and even Spain will try in vain to stop it. • The Postmaster General yesterday issued nil order reducing the fee for registration on domestic letters and 1=10%6; from fifteen SO eight costa each, commencing on New Years day. P,Oreiga registered..letters have been `charged this rate, and the reduction on all wilt priive a great nonvenieneete the peo ple- The advantage of the registered-letter system is being yearly more fully apPrecia ted as it becomes better understood. Let money or valuables are re specially watched at every mail, and a receipt is reloaded to the sender by the party addressed free of extra charges, su that in a few days he will know it has arrived at its _proper destina tion. The workings underthe present General have been most satisfactory. The citizens of Washington, at the pres ent juncture of finances and at the approach of winter, are inquiring into the alleged em ployment of numerous ! contractors, 'super intendents of ,work, and workmen from other localities, by whibh means the money raised by taxation, ste.; is sent out of the city. It is not likely that the Board of Pub lie Works intend that the four million loan shall be used is a way to discriminate against the residents of the city. who have into pay. Governor*Shepherd and the active ruembers of the board are all interested in preventing Pauperism among our own 'people, where it can be done consistently. The late pros peritY,, however, has naturally: rendered strict scrutiny in these matters less regarded in giving out centracts and employing men than our present necessities demand. There is doubtless some justice the complaint that outsiders, who are attracted here mere ly for speculation in jobs, being residents of other localities, take away from our city large sums of money ;;that should be made to circulate here; to the great detriment of business men 'of our city, and to the pau perizing of numerous citizens who are will ing to work but cannot get employment.— This matter should and no doubt will be promptly looked to, and a list of actual res idences of employees should be made out by the board. It is stated that the laying of Mr. Brig butte's pneumatic tube is expected to be completed during the present month. , It is / a little singular that the work should 'ha •e been allowed to be postponed during's° many months of suitable weather to e re newed near the end of November. aving received *1?,000 on hiScontract r $13,000,, it is presumed that he will p rry up so us to secure the balance. lyshether he has started the work again withousection being taken on the recommeodation of the arch itect of the Capitol z fir a modification of the contract and a/change of material for the tube from w ut.l to iron, has nut trans pired. It will b remembe'red that the object of laying this tube is to try the experiment of earryipig minted initer nmi-Oufier packages and / ttrtiers to and from the. Capitol and the g7Vernment printing office by the alleged "••fluitg.l l 4+ 1%40 ..c o, stassse forced through 0 tube in uhicti a vacuum is formed by exhausting the atmosphere from it at either end. If successful, the plan could be extended in other directions, as, for instance, to the different executive departments with which Congress is required to be in cnimouniention, and it would expe dite business and prove a wonderful conve nience. It is to be hoped that a- fair trial will be made without the delay Of another session, and that if iron is better than weed, it will be employed at once in constructing the tube. 1 lue, tuf ug the ing ur- Fred. Douglass, the colored orator, is an nounced to lecture hero on "John - Brown" at the Fifteenth street (colored) Presbyteri an church. The lecture is said to be his last effoit, and one of his best.. Mr. Doug lass is immensely popular with his race, and there will be a lush of humanity to hear him. His mabtle 41 greatness and popular ity has not fallen on hi's son Louis, Who was recently defeated for our District Legisla ture, though he represented the /nixed-school faction of our colored citizens. He had himself been a little "mixed while in the. Colored School Board, and the Republicans here take that Sumner pill of mixed schools with caution. They see no necessity for a change while the hest opportunities are of fered to both races under present imp for a common school education. e-- at i c ben- bat nu die- per- I ore The report of the Board of Pollee Com missioners to the - Attorney general•.for thd District of. Columbia has just been' made._ It is unusually interesting and suggestive.— Four-fifths of the crime and pauperism of the District is attributed to the unlicensed sale of spirits, arid the Board suggest that the illicit sale of spirits bo plaCed on the same footing under the law as the suppress ion of houses for gambling and prostitution now are: It proposes to increase the police force from 238 to LLOCI. It commends the detect• ive corps, and attributes to its energy and efficiency the fact that professional thieves us a class do not exist In the District. 11,781 arrests were mr.de during the past yell., of whom 1,828 were females, and 4,227 cut ld not rOUCI and write. 4,115 lines were imposed, -- amounting to ,',23,788 50. 164 lost children were reported, 367 estrays, 169 firee, 40 dead infants exposed, 157 accidents, 2 suicides, and 250 pauper burials. Amount of property lost or stolen, $113,683 57, of which 08,857.55 Was turned over to own ers. LIFE. The Law of the Cue. The application' of certain rules of inter . national , law to the case of the Virginius seems to be better understood by.the Presi dent than by some professionatjurists whose opinions - we have always been accustomed to regard with great respect. In it conver sation reported by the A. , 4oeiated Press Gen. Grant declared the other day that. "this Government did not recognize any. right oh the part of Spain in the present state of ei . - fairs to interfere in any manner with our merchant ships upon the seas,_ except the usual right in her own ports and within one marine league of the coast of any of her 'dominions? And this 'is exactly, right..-- It makes no difference whether the Virgin ' ids was carrying : aid to the insurgcete or not. .According to ex-President Weolsey, "If, the Virginius, though salting' under ; the - United - States flag, was 'engaged in-traf , : ficprohibited by the -law of 'nations, then , the United States Government cannot make the transaction any ground for war, or, in fact, of complaint." And he assumes that supplying the Cuban rebels tvith arras and ammunition and conveying passengea to swell their' army is "traffic prohibited by• the law of nations." Thi ' view however is 'not suitehied by the m st rinaecteble authorities, and has never teen accepted by otir Doverttraent.- - ThegPt to interfere with the shipi.-ix? " .. t . other ration on the right seas is - a 'belliger ent ri ht Bowing out bta state of war.— But where there Is no war there,nan be no contraband of war, pnd no righrot search or seizure except that Which municipal law may confer within the territorial juilsilie• lion of the seizing party. Now., Spain has never recognized thy abidance of alftnte of War; itfc uha; her has 'the Tithed' Strttes.—L., When the Spa iiishtutiboati i4re.Sniza in, New. York -in Tad% it Was argbed by the - 800 ds. at'asj the tibatit .4.1 t ere, net be Igere Os the s ot -ernied vesSeli .t i `wits a.legi(intat t rit!1141: State Depart. -1 [tient.: aequieSeect hi this - 'petition; and tllOl 'vessels 'Were Spithr must' new stand byher own' MO. .11- we can: sell gunboats to her we can 'o.4l,gtftis the' in-'t surgents, anti ship them. on American Ve There;ie hot:tat:o vow bat bans' Which Pro , . titbits such a Foferneree, r or gives SPain any . 'tight whatever over the ship or the cargo itntii she finds ibenci'within Spanish .wntas. Then they come under the 80-dial 14)0,- and we cannot complain If they arc earth*, chted.- In his - protest _ against the.now' fax mons decree of Captain General tie flottis, in 1889, SecretaTy Pith deelared that if path purpottd to recognize the existence! of war in uha,,the 17tiitecl Stateafwould cheerfully etunply.willi the duties toward the two holligereute imposed:upon a neutral by the law of nations; but while recogtd tion of, belligerency:wits withheld we could not ulio,W -our veSs.els on the high setts, " whattWer might 1.)0 their cargo," to be.' " emhaprassed (A . fered 'Pest is Gen. Girant's_deelaration now, and be is sus tained in it nut only by the sentiment of the country but by till the best authorities on 14tertuttional law, it seems to us of the highest importance that this ease should - be Sully understood. Our complaint itgainst Spain is two-fold—not only that she has barbarously massacred American citaens, without a fair trial, but that she has unlaw fully seized tin American ship on the high seas. No rephratiou will lie sufficient which does not cover both offenties.----.N. ,Vib. NEWS OF THE WEEK. The latest dispatches received by theßrit ish War Office _from Sir Garnet Wblsely, coturnandiog the expedition against the Ashantees, give favorable accounts of its progress, and express strong hopes of suc cess. The General writes exultingly of the excellent moral effect on the troops of the recent skirmishes with the savages. A dispatch from Aden says the Turkish Government has withdrawn its troops from the scene of the recent conflict in Arabia, and peace has been restored. ' The report that Cabello Blanco, the noted Mexican bandit, had crossed into Texas and with a party of marauders was robbing and plundering the country has been continued. A Washington dispatch t l epresents Sena tor Sherman as saying that notwithstanding the demands of the South and West for au increase of currency, there will be no infla tion of the currency unless a war should render it necessary. The Canadian government steamer Napo leon has arrived at Quebec from Anticosti, and reports about 600 Newfoundlanders ou the island, only 100 of whom are supplied with provisions. . 'Warner, the expert, employed to investi gate the books of the New Yolk State Leasurer's office, has tiled an elaborate rc• port with Governor Pix. The amount of Phelps'; )bezzleroo- - - • between $310,000 and $3l present indications there s( . )ce of the state re• coverin: !rt funds. The remonsi pastors, doting 1 Stt mini fled? the German:Diet shall early e New Granada insurgents have been oy rcome and scattered, and the rebellion is Amsidered at an end. And now the mem bers of the administration nre beginning to quarrel among themselves. The Arum lean filibustering steamer Gen. Sherman- entered the harbor of Aspinwall on the 3d instant under the name of Gen, lA.riza, and nes at once seized by Captain . Cushing, of the United States steamer Wy oming, for using illegal ship papers and sailing under the flag of Honduras while it is claimed that she is an American vessel,— Her case will be decided by the United States courts, Martin Lewis, Consul at Baltimore for Denmark and Sweden, died in that chi, Ist,t l'ufsday morning. Mas. E. M. Stnnton d widow of Hoe. E. M Stanton, ex 1-3ecro sty of War, Mei) I,IH Tuesday at Chestteat ltill, near Pttit phia. She had been sit k for a long t Mr.. Stanton 405 a moire of Pdi.,),,, 1 0 ) ,,1 and NVZIS there initialed to the furore Wari Fiecretary, then a prosperous hos) er of tuat eit2,'-' mi J..,,rrit.,1 rl,l was i tiles‘ed with four children, tut, sons aild tail daughters. A Washington dispatch says that tbel Navy Department hiss ordered that recrnit-i ing,offices be opened at various points in the countty, and the navy is to tie recruited to the titmos,t capacity allowed by Jaw. , Hon. W. P. Millen, who was supervi-nof, special` agent of the Tieasury ttiO S scer.',7. l tart' Chase, died on the 17th in Cincinnati, By the burning of II tenement house t t t, Worcester, Mass., on Monday !tight, the' 17111 instant, fifteen poor fatuities ‘ ere turn ..l ed into the street in a furious rain storm. George B. Fanning, a tea dealer, died at.l his home in Brooklyn a few days !ago from poisoning, occasioned by impregnfiting system with the parts of k-ad usedqn ping tea while chewing and tasting tea, and which became oxidized by the fiction (' water. ' On Monday evening, the 17th instant,) three men with drawn revolvers entered the, house of a family named_ Ford, 'at Lenox,l Mass., and while two stood guard over the family the other robbed the- house of 700 iu money and several government bonds..l" They made their escape. Senator Sumner's letter to . the Cuban digital ion meeting in New York did not nr rive in time to be read, and probably would not have been received with much favor had it been read. He favors conciliation—but is not very clear just how—and denounces the warlike preparations now being made by the Government. Lost Tuesday morning Robert Porter, the eleventh juror in the Stokes case, was w rested for bribery on an indictment found by the grand jury. He was held to bail in $O,OOO. Hunt, the officer who had charge of him, was committed in default of $2,000 bail. Centre, the eighth juror, was also to I)6_4l'i:tamed on the charge of bribery. 4 - convention of the colored voters of Louisiana assembled last week at Niew Or leans. The object of the convention is to present, through delegates, the Lot isiana ease to Congress. - The Philadelphia Pros: says: " There ap pears to be no longer any doubt of the fact that Senator Conkling, of New York, will• be appointed Chief Justice. There is good anthority to-night for saying that Mr. conk ling has signified his intention to accept the position. The friends of Justice Milier, who has been a formidable candidate; con cede now that Mr. Conkling will be lip. pointed." The National Trust Company, of Pitts burgh, snsperkled payment lost Tuesday.— Thetssets of the bank are believed to be amply sullielent for the payment of its lia bilities. An order has beeu received at Sing Sing prison to place Stokes - in the nest draft of prisoners for Auburn prison. He is at pres- ent too illto be moved, and is yet continua in the hospital. . . Prairie fires along be central branch of the Upton Pacific ita troad in Kansas, and j along the Atchison, opeka anti Santa Feroad , road, have caused se lions damage to e those railroad, and to , far buildings and the en g there'd corn mops. An arrangement has been entered into be tween the United States. and Germany for au exchange of postal cards between the two copuiries,-to go into ellect on ttit first of December, 1878. The arrangement is preciscly situilar to that with the Qauadian Government. Thomas Kinsella, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, gave bail last Wednesday in 00,000 to answer a suit against him by Thomas W. Field, %Superintendent of Public, Instruction Of Brobklyn, to recover fifty thousarkn lars for an alleged misleading of the wife of ihytaintiff. Kinsella denies the charge. on. 'John F. Hale died last Wednesday night at Dover, N. H. Sharkey, the condemned unirderer, es caped from the Tombs in New York last Wednesday in woman's clothing, supposed to have been furnished by a Dirs. Wesley ' from Baltimore states that the A' dist— --siAtitizers in that city ixieeting Cuban ay..., Ruth last Wednesday night was the ering of the kind since Kossuth's reception. Mrs. Joseph Belleck, a widow, owning aztt occup,yiag alone a small place , in Neiv Cannon, ut., vi'll:!l 4 nrclered last Wednesday morning with au axe. Mt 4 0ti4ng was saturated with kerosene, her - body nearly consumed, and the hogs() was on fire when. it Was discovered. The trial of "Boss' Twet3d ,C4ttle to an Old 144 Wednesday IA New YoOraeou tr - big in aVerdiet of 'guilty on all the counts ftt'lliolatlictinent: The pristMer, was at ,onee oirderedl4o:puStmly lt,y the (',Dart. --A , Purls disPitelt of 'tlte of ptlys,:' "At. I ti, ttuntiltuetts sassion' of the. - Assontbly . las,t , .Diglit 11,.•„Deyi,e, a melnlier of I he'-laght, 1 pawed lin,nminidinent to the .report of the Committee on 'Prolongation provlding•that: I 1'1'0 '4 1(10k linelittibtin ' a powers'be prolonged" t seven years independently, of the ,adoption iof - constitutiorat bills. Af. Laboulaye, -;_lic- I ry, and Otherkopposcil the oinctidraent, but u, was adopted:by a Majority of Oil A-rate' li°l3 Was th,en; mil, de on the part of , the Right t {bat a committee of three he appointed to report on the'constitutional bills. Carried by a majority of OS votes. 'There is much excitement in Paris over the result." J.H. Horton, the bank - forger, ices been convicted At Laneaster, , Pft.,'nud senteneed t two year;': imprisonment: He has' re. stored nineteen ituitteand dollaK4 of the mon ey Obtained:by hie fOrgeries. lioher,t. 'Pinney, Seeretriry' of the, Eareka and Boatman's Marine Fire Insurance-pow pany at Pittsburgh, Pa., is a defaulter to the 'extent of $175,000.. ' , Tom Fields, the fugitive, is in London. • Wa!worth is reported us rapidly - breaking clown at Sing Sing. The wife of P. T. Barnum died In New York on Wednesday 'night. A. Gloucester, Mass., dispatch says the last few vessels of the Gloucester fleet are now on their way home, and even if they all arrive safely, the season will go o'i fee ord as the most, disastrous to life since the terrible year of 1802, while the lms of prop erty has been much greater. Twenty-four vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 1,287, have been 6t. 'Pitch value was 1'3110,000, and 15;.3 lives were sucrili cecl. Arthur Foster, a medical student at the Boston City hospital was Called in the night to prescribe fo a Miss Pfyiler, and mistook her symptoms for those of hys eria, anti up on: her death he \ was so chagrined at his failure to recogdize the indications of opium, that he intibediately went to a bath room and killed' himself by opening the femoral artery. Between Utica and 'Vest Troy there are at /east 125,000 barrels' .of apples, 75,000 barrels of potatoes, besides nearly two million bushels of groin, detained by the sudden clotting of the Erie Canal. On the 20th it Wits estimated that within fifteen miles; on each side of Utica there were four hundred canal boats detained by the block aded condition of the docks at Frankfort. The blockade is.caused by the snow which has been blown into the canal in such quantities as to fill up the channel. Gold closed in New York last Saturday at 1.10/, . . I) The standing committee of the Diocese f Kentucky have forwarded to Bishop Smit ), at. Hoboken, N. J., a eertifiegte of Bishcp olle Cumniin's withdrawal from the Di se and Protestant Episcopal Church.. "he next step is the formal deposition of Bit) lop Cummins front his Episcopal functions_ The British Parliament will re-assemble on the fifth of February. Charles Livingstone, brother of Dr. .I.liV ingsto le, the African explorer, is dead. A. (i/ atent was granted last week to ex- Presi Oat Andrew Johnson for a combina tion plane. Angx . plosion took place in a colliery at Virimini England, last Friday. Twenty-live miners were killed and injured. .. The steamer Deutschland which nrrived last Friday at New York, brought .210,000 sterling from London and 70,000 marks from Drenten.. Don Al Monzo, brother of Don Carlos, has been mpointed _Generalis , ,imo of the Carlist fo ces in Spain. Pour hundred Republica s are reported killed or captured by the Car ists. The con positors on every paper in Pitts burgh hay struck in consequence of the discharge of the society men front the alive of the Leadei% The various Offices ge ou rut) by non-Union no-u, so that at tiresent all the newspaper offices in that eity'ate in dependent of the Union. A mass meeting of Irish citizens w;‘s held at Chit ago last Friday tii"lit for the purpose of I Xpitp.sjog ~ 1,1)11),lt1ty tlili) It , - lOttlrh illtprkitltitf , t 11,till‘a,. A Iliiinlwr of tititirezi`sea k‘ t rl. dellVe/cd,llll rc , uiui i.un to ;tectird,ifiett M. ii h tile (Aleut of the ineeifir_l %%ere sloped. nt has addressed 11 account of the ;hops of Nancy or :overt' itf 3Etty,iucl Council has -deci =lSMl=lll2ffilffMl i , .foNrtILY JUVP.NAI„ 1113 TO is TUC M. - EL lA. A gE.I . IiEbI.:NTATIYE tin) CLIANLY/ON OF 4111./lICA.Ii TASTE. 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