Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1874 — Page 7

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1874.

AN OLD CHRISTMAS CAROL. So, now is come our Joyful feast, Let every man be jolly; Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churl at our mirth repine, Round your forhead garlands twine; Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. Now every lad is wondrous trim, And no man minds his labor; Our lasses have provided them A bag-pipe and a tabor; Young men and maids, and girls and boys, Give life to one another's joys; And you anon shall by their noise Perceive that they are merry. Ned Squaah has fetched his bands from pawn, And all his best apparel; Brisk Nell hath bought a ruff of lawn With dropping off the barrel; And those that hardly all the year Had bread to eat, or rags to wear, Will have both clothes and dainty fair, And all the day be merry. Now kyngs and queens poor sheep cote have, And mate with everybody; The honest now may play the knave, And wise men play the noddy, Some youths will now a mumming go, Some others play at Rowland-ho, And twenty other gameboys mo, Because they will be merry. Then wherefore in these merry daies Should we, I pray, be duller? No let us sing some roundelayes, To make our mirth the fuller, And, whilst thus inspired we sing, Let all the streets with echoes ring, Woods and hills and everything, Bear witness we are merry.

MISCELLANEOUS DRIFT. NEWS AND GOSSIP. Boston boys are called hub-bubs. Does love in a cottage have any reference to war in Ashantee? Full many a turkey is now a ghost that one short week ago was a goblin. Raleigh hasn't a public school in the city, but there are thirty-nine saloons. The Baltimore oyster war promises to continue so long as the shells hold out. Beside the great consistory on the 22d, at Rome, there will be another held there about Easter. Difference between a tube and a Dutchman: One is a hollow cylinder, and the other a Silly Hollander. Corn cribs, cows and choirs contribute to the holiday entertainments. They furnish mush, milk and music. There were something like 10,000 weddings Christmas eve. The divorce statistics have not been prepared yet. President MacMahon and bis wife have contributed 5,000 francs to the sufferers by the Ville du Havre disaster. A distinguished Irish gentleman, visiting Vermont, said he never before saw land so plenty that it had to be stalked. A clear inconsistency -- When a man's circumstances become most crooked and twisted, they are said to be straitened. Chicago wishes to be considered the metropolis of art on this continent on the strength of numerous valuable importations. A Wisconsin school teacher fell a distance of eighteen feet, and ten minutes after was hearing the class in geography recite. The stockholders of the National Trust Company offer $5,000 for the apprehension of R. J. Grier, the absconding cashier. The Indians around Omaha have a fondness for putty, and chew great quids of it -- probably to prevent their lights from falling out. The Fair flower of the Pacific Slope is getting ready to develop another pistil. In other words, Laura D. Fair is again married. The snow is very deep on some sections of the Central Pacific Railroad, requiring, in the Sierra Nevada section, five engines to draw one train. They have been converting the Baltimore sinners at the rate of 400 per day for a month. Well, the oysters are put up in better shape than they were. An obituary notice in a Western paper contained the touching intelligence that the deceased "had accumulated a little money and ten children. When Shakespeare made his observation about patience on a monument, he didn't allude to doctors' patients. They are all under a monument. The Rev. William V. Feltwell. rector of Grace Church, West Farms, N. Y., having joined Bishop Cummins, has been compelled to resign his position. All the Chicago newsboy has to do, is to bawl "communist" at the top of his voice, and then the old ladies and editors in hearing scamper off in a fright. There is a town in Massachusetts where there has not been a wedding for fifteen years. It is the place where good bachelors and old maids go when they die. The Cleveland Plaindealer says: "Does Tweed hold a trump card?" We can not way, but there is no doubt that Blackwell's Island holds a "knave." -- Toledo Blade. A Baltimore paper speaks of a boy who was bitten by an alleged mad dog. This is to avoid hurting the dog's feelings should he merely be laboring under a temporary aberration. The Newburyport baby show was a success. A young lady, aged twenty months, took the prize. It has not been ascertained, whether according to the laws of her State, she can hold it or not. A Liverpool hospital refuses to accept a gift of a thousand pounds until the donor gives his name. That hospital won't flourish until it is put into the hands of a competent business man like Dawes. Gail Hamilton says: "Not the least of the many benefits wrought us by the clergy is the sweet somnolence which so gently and benignly broods over a weary and happy congregation on a sultry Sunday alternoon." It is rumored that Geo. W. French, general freight agent of the E. and C. R. R., has tendered his resignation, to take effect on the 1st of January, and that he will be succeeded by E. S. Babcock, Jr., general agent of the St. Louis and Southern. A Green Bay woman, whose husband kicks her down stairs every second night, says she likes to Iook over his old letters commencing with: "My dearest, darling little anzel Minnie, Heaven alone knows the depth of my love for you." 'Have we a Bourbon among us?" asked a public speaker of a Kansas City audience. Wall, I reckon, stranger, said a long-haired man, neatly arrayed in the Terean costume; I've a bottle of the red eye hyar. Will you have a nip? The lecturer was sorry his meaning had been misconstrued. American army officers have been employed by the Khedive of Egypt for five years. This is to build up his army on a solid basis. While in the Egyptian army the officers will be paid in gold at the same rate of remuneration as in the United States

army for a similar rank, and the terms and date of payment will be promptly carried out according to the specifications of agreement. Among those who will leave during the next ten days are Colonels Reid, Martin, Rogers and Bassett, all well known as having been connected with the United States service in various parts of the West and Southwest. It is understood that General H. H. Sibley, of Sibley tent fame, has resigned his connection with the Egyptian service, but the cause of his resignation could not be ascertained, although supposed to be connected only with domestic or family matters. AN IMPORTANT LEGAL QUESTION UNDER THE TEMPERANCE LAW. A case, involving an important legal question, is now on the docket of the Supreme Court for hearing. It is the case of Casper Reinhard vs. the State of Indiana, brought from Jefferson Circuit Court. The original case was that of the State against Casper Reinhard, for selling intoxicated liquors without a permit. Reinhard was a bar-keep-er of one Johnson Conway, and was prosecuted individually for having sold spirituous and intoxicating liquors without a license, in violation of the statute. Being convicted of the charge he was sentenced by Judge Allison according to law. A motion for a new trial was made by the defendants counsel, setting forth that the finding was contrary to law and the evidence, and that the court erred in permitting the plaintiff to introduce a judgment against Conway, for selling liquor to an intoxicated person. The court overruled the motion, holding that the judgment against Conway forfeited his license to sell liquor, according to the temperance law. The points in the affidavit in reference to the sale of intoxicating liquor by the defendant Reinhard are admitted by the defendant, but the permit of Conway's is produced. It is also admitted by the State that at the time of the sale of the liquor, Reinhard was a barkeeper of Conway's, the owner of the saloon. But it is claimed by the State that Conway was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors on the 15th of September, 1873, to an intoxicated person, thus forfeiting his license. The legal question involved is whether the act of selling liquor to an intoxicated person forfeits the liquor

license under the temperance law. THE WEEK OF PRAYER. PROGRAM TO GUIDE THE DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES OF NEXT WEEK. The services and subjects for the coming week of prayer will be as follows: Sunday, Jan. 4: Sermons -- The Unity of the Christian Church; the real oneness of all true believers; hindrance and motives to union; the blessings to be hoped for from the union of believers in prayer -- John xvii., 21-23. Monday, Jan. 5: Confession -- Our common unworthiness and guilt. Thanksgiving -- For national, domestic and personal mercies, temporal and spiritual. Supplication -- For special blessings on the Week ol Prayer. -- Dan. ix., 7; Mal. iii., 10. Tuesday, Jan. 6: Prayer -- For the Christian Church; for our increase in faith, holiness and love; for persecuted and suffering Christians; for Christian liberty; and for the more abundant outpouring of the Holy Spirit. -- Col. i., 9-11; Heb. xiii., 3; Heb. iii., 2. Wednesday, Jan 7: Prayer for Families. -- Home and parental influence; sons and daughters; the absent, the sick, the erring; inmates of prisons; all educational institutions. Ps. cxv: 12-14: cxliv: 12. Thursday, Jan. 8: Prayer for Nations. -- For peace among men; for public virtue and righteousness; for the banishment or intemperance, dishonesty, infidelity and superstition, and for the effusion of pure and Christian literature. Is. lx: 17, 18. Friday, Jan. 9: Praver. -- For the evangelization of all nominally Christian countries; for the conversion of Israel; for seamen; for missionaries; for the spread of the Gospel in Mohammedan and heathen countries; for the conversion of the world to Christ. Ps. xxi: 31; cxxii: 6; Heb. xiii: s. Saturday, Jan. 10: Prayer. -- Prayer for Christian ministry; for Sundry Schools; for revivals. Matt, ix: 38; Deut, iv: 9; Heb. iii: 2. Sunday, Jan. 11: Sermon. -- Subject: Christs's kingdom universal and everlasting. Ps. xcvii: 1, 2. Results of the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance. NECROLOGY OF 1873. THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD. The illustrious dead of 1873 foots up a long list. The following is a tolerably complete catalogue. January. -- The ex-Emperor of the French, Napoleon III.; Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton; the Rev. Adam Sedgwick; the Dowager Empress Amelia, of Brazil; the Honorable and Rev. Baptist W. Noel, and James Hannay, the English novelist. February. -- The Dowager Empress of Austria Caroline Augusta, widow of Francis I.; J. W. Geary, of Pennsylvania; Caroline Chesebro, and Gustave Richard, the eminent French artist. March -- Bishop McIlvaine, Judge H. H. Leavitt, Viscount Assington, Speaker of the British House of Commons; Charles Knight, the Marquis Chasseloup Laubat, Amadee Thierry, Domenico Donelli, and Prince Nicholas, Brother of the King of Sweden. April -- W. C. Macready, Justus Von Liebig; the wife of President Figueras, of Spain; George Bliss, Earl De la Warr, who committed suicide. May -- W. H. McGuffey, the Earl of Zetland. Chief Justice Chase, Oakes Ames, John Stuart Mill, Joel Parker, The Rev. John Atwood, Daniel Pratt, Thomas Robinson, Alexander John Couza, Prince of Moldavia and ex-Hospodar, and Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author. June -- Count Venuille, Mansfield T. Walworth, Ratazzi, Prince Adelbert of Prussia, F. L. G. Non Raumer, Horace F. Clark, Lewis Tappan, Hiram Powers, President S. Talbot, of Dennison University Ohio, and Jesse R. Grant, father of the President of the United States. July. -- J. G. Wilison, member of Congress from Oregon; Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester; Lord Westbury, ex Chancellor of Great Britain; Baron Wolverton, and Mrs. Clive, author of "Paul Ferroll." August. -- R. S. Storrs, D. D., of Braintree, Mass., Gardiner Spring, D. D., of New York; the Rev. John Todd, D. D., of Pittsfield, Mass., and Solomon Howard, D. D., exPresident of the Ohio University, at Athens. September -- Count Charles Esterhazy commuted suicide at Vienna; Gen. Ed. S. McCook was murdered at Yankton, Dakotah. The wife of Prince Bismarck; Dr. Aug. Nelaton, the French surgeon; J. J. Coste, the French naturalist; F. Guerrazzi, Dictator of Rome under the Republic of 1849; Prince Croney Chanel, who claimed to be the lawful King of Hungary; and Clara Mundt, known under her nom de plume of L. Muhlbach. October -- Sir Edwin Landseer; Robert Bigsby, the English antiquarian; Silas Totten, LL. D.; King John of Saxony; Sir Henry Holland, and Cyrus Wakefield. November. -- Sir William Bovill, Lewis Gaylord Clark, of Knickerbocker fame; John Early, Laura Keene, General W. J. Hardee, H. C. De Rham, Mrs. R. E. Lee, Daoud Pasba, the Turhish statesman; General Delafield, James H. Lucas, L. R. Bischoffsheim, ex-Senator John P. Hale, Constantine Costi, Governor Richard Yates, of Illinois. December. -- Bishop Armitage, of Wisconsin; Charles McAlister, one of the Peabody trustees; James W. Johnson, Equity Judge of Nova Scotia; Ambrose White, Louis Agassiz, Samuel Nelson, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; John S. Hopkins, Frederick Dent, father-in-law of President Grant; Francois Hugo.

THE SUNKEN STEAMER.

LAST OF THE VIRGINIUS. ARRIVAL OF THE SANTIAGO PRISONERS -- RETICENCE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE OSSIPEE TO IMPART INFORMATION -- THE VIRGINIUS GOES DOWN IN A GALE NEAR CAPE FEAR LIGHT-HOUSE. New York, Dec. 9. -- After the landing at the yard last evening, of the surviving members of the passengers and crew of the steamer Virginius, they marched in an irregular line to the Fulton Ferry, taking the boat there to New York, and thence proceeding to the Cuban restaurant, in Pine street, where they were hospitably entertained. They were clad in navy uniform of the United States, and marched through the streets, showing no signs of the recent suffering. When transferred to the tug boat from the Juniata, which carried them to this port from Santiago, they gave rousing cheers for their several benefactors, leading off with three for the commander of the British steamer Niobe, to whom they feel indebted for the preservation of their lives, When the United States steamer Ossipee was boarded after her arrival here, the absence of the steamer Virginius, which vessel the former was commissioned to bring into port, was explained, and the startling intelligence communicated that the Virginius, which, being all along in a leaking condition, had, when off Cape Fear, and in sight of land, in spite of all the efforts of the crew aboard her, settled and gone to the bottom. The Times further adds that the officer of the deck of the Ossipee said he had strict orders not to communicate with anybody in relation to the circumstances attending the foundering of the Virginius. He would not give the date of the occurrence, or the place where it happened. However, he made no attempt to deny the accuracy of the report as to the FOUNDERING OF THE SHIP. The Captain of the Revenue Cutter Grant, who boarded the Ossipee, is reported saying that the captain of the latter vessel informed him the Virginius had been lost off Cape Fear. Although no official announcement has been made of the loss of the Virginius, no one doubts the truth of the statement. A dispatch from Wilmington, North Carolina, reports a sunken vessel, supposed to be the Virginius, nine miles south of the main bar. The Herald has a special dispatch from Wilmington, North Carolina, saying that Captain Wiltbanks, of the steamer Tonawanda, which arrived Sunday, reports passing a sunken vessel nine miles south of the main bar, with only the top masts or the top gallant masts out of the water. A steam tug subsequently visited the spot, her officers concurring in the opinion that the sunken vessel was undoubtedly a square rigged steamship. A pork barrel was floating about the wreck, attached to it by a twelve inch hawser, the hawser having evidently been used as a tow rope. Pilots at Bald Head, at the mouth of the river, state that Friday last they observed near the spot where the vessel lies a large steamship in tow of a full rigged ship. The above facts taken in connection with the telegram that the steamer Georgia, from Charleston, had spoken the Virginius in tow off Cape Romain on the 24th inst., at two o'clock p. m., renders it tolerably certain that the sunken ship is the world-renowned Cuban filibuster vessel "Virginius." The pilot boat from Smithville visited the spot Sunday evening, and the men who were on her fully agreed in the opinion that she is the steamship. Only a few feet of the main mast is VISIBLE ABOVE THE WATER. It is thought that when she was abandoned the pork barrel was placed as a buoy to mark the spot where she went down. Lieutenant Commander Haswell, of the Ossipee, made the following statement today concerning the loss of the Virginius: The Ossipee left Tortugas with the Virginius in tow on the morning of the 15th inst. They had fair weather until the afternoon of the Saturday following. On that day a gale sprang up, and they continued to have bad weather, and the Virginius signaled that she was leaking badly. Captain Walter therefore determined to shape his course for Charleston, S. C, but as they got into smoother water the Virginius behaved better, and the water was kept out of her fire room. On the morning of Christmas day, however, the severe weather having continued, the Virginius was again leaking badiy as ever, and the vessels put into Frying Pan Shoals, about ten miles south of Cape Fear light-house, where smoother water could be obtainee. Here the vessel came to anchor, Capt. Walter hoping the Virginius would ride out the gale. Before daylight the next morning (Friday), Commander Woodrow signalled with lights that the Virginius was leaking rapidly, with the fires out and the pumps stopped, and that the crew wished to be taken off. The boats were lowered from the Ossipee at daylight, and by seven A. M. all on board the Virginius WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE FORMER VESSEL. As a heavy sea was running, the work of removing the crew was one of much danger and difficulty, and therefore no lives were risked in endeavoring to save their personal effects or any other property on the Virginius. The hawser of the Virginius was cut and a buoy attached to it to mark her position in case she sank out of sight. The Ossipee remained at anchor during the day, and at a quarter past four P. M. the Virginius, which had been gradually settling, went to the bottom. She sank in eight fathoms of water, and her top masts re mained above the surface. The Ossipee then resumed her voyage to this port. The naval officers were very reticent to-day, and the above statement was not obtained until the United States District Attorney was communicated with and removed the seal of secrecy. The released captives of the Virginius remain at the Cuban restaurant on Pine street, and the scene there this morning was one of the greatest enthusiasm. Resolutions were adopted giving thanks to Captain Braine of the Juniata, for his kindness, and expressing sympathy with him in the loss of his son. The ex-captives also resolved to attend the funeral of the child. The released Virginius prisoners to-day passed votes of thanks to Commander Braine and the other officers of the Juniata. Engineer, Knight of the Virginius, said the original sentence at Satiago was that the entire crew should be hung at the yard arm, but the Captain of the Isabella Catholica did not wish a gallows made of his vessel, and obtained a change of sentence to death by shooting and a commutation of sentence of seventeen of the crew to the chain gang. Knight, the Quarter Master and one or two others were accordingly sentenced to the chain gang for life, and the other thirteen, all of whom were boys, to eight and four years hard labor on the gang. A life sentence of this kind was regarded as worse than death. STORY OF THE CALAMITY. Lieutenant David C. Woodward, who was in command of the Virginius at the time of her sinking, says in his official report, that when he took command on the 17th at Dry Tortugas, the vessel had water in all her compartments. Stores were receieved on board, and a working party from the Ossipee coaled the ship all night. Next morning she stopped coaling, and put the hands at work pumping and bailing, the water having gained two feet during the night. At eight o'clock in the morning the water was up to

the grate bars in both fire rooms. The forward compartment had a depth of four feet, and the after compartment two feet and six inches of water. At four P. M. she was so much reduced that fires were started under her boilers. Capt. Whiting expressed himself satisfied that the Virginius was in a fit condition to start north, and about two o'clock she went to sea in tow of the Ossipee. As long,as the sea was smooth everything progressed favorably, but the storm arising, the vessel leaked so badly that he had to plug up the timber holds in the forward bulkheads to keep the fire rooms clear. On the 22d he threw overboard part of the bower anchor and all heavy weights in the hold, and shifted the coal to lighten her forward. On the afternoon of the 23d there was eight to ten feet of water in the forward compartments. The men were worn out, bunks drenched, and no place to sleep. Under these circumstances, Woodward advised the captain of the Ossipee not to go further north, but to take the Virginius into Charleston, where there was a dock. On the 24th the boiler was in such a wretched condition that it was impossible to carry more than five pounds of steam. At five A. M. on the 26th the water gained so fast ss to put out the fires, and Woodnow signalled to the Ossinee to take the cre crew off the Virginius immediately. At this time the forward compartment was full of water, and up to within a loot and a hait of the spar deck; five feet water in the hold, and water over the grate bars in the fire room and the after compartments. The sea was very rough and it was blowing a gale When the boat from the Ossipee came under the Virginius' bow the landsmen were put in first. It took fine work to take all the officers and men off the sinking vessel. At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, the Virginius sank, the bows first, in eight fathoms of water. For four days the men in the fire room worked in water up to their knees, and at the time they left the ship, were nearly exhausted.

THE WORKER'S APPEAL The cold winds whistle through the leafless trees. The snow flakes fly before the chilling gale, While affluence, with rich, luxuriant ease, No pity shows, nor hears the worker's wail. Oh God ! I ask not tor the beggar's bread; These willing hands are ready as before; But starving eyes stare 'round my 'wildered head, And wintry frosts creap thro' my lowly door. The dear ones of a mother's tender care, With shivering limbs are gathered near her form, Alas! with them she's naught but want to share, And turns to view the unrelenting storm. Compassion have, ye great ones of the land, A pittance give from out your ample store. Extend to honest toil the helping hand, None can be very rich where none are poor. Now howls the bitter, piercing blast again, The dear ones closer to their mother cling; In vain fell from her eyes the burning rain, She weeps do more, yet silent sorrows wring, Oh! can it be that here in freedom's home, Such scenes as these are coldly looked upon? Is there no spot 'neath heaven's arching dome, Where justice reigns or mercy has begun? Must still the world in love of hell-born gain, Hug close its gold, while brothers starve around, While writhe their souls with hunger's maddening pain, And north winds pierce with cheerless, hopeless sound. PERSONAL. If John L. Samp, of Joliet, ever has a son, won't he be Samp-son? Mr. Samuel Wire, the Sheriff of New Haven, is the oldest Freemason in Connecticut. Dr. Mary Walker is not sick as reported. Ah! there are many bitter disappointments in this life. Mrs. Williams would never do for the Goddess of Justice. Her eyes are too bright and wide open. Ben. Butler's cross and crabbed temper is said to have been aggravated by his failure to ride a velocipede. A highwayman said "Git off'n that ere hoss" to Mr. Thomas, of Basco, Iowa, and Thomas died of fright and dropped off. Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian Chancellor, is at his desk every morning at six o'clock. It is a habit which he ort t' shake off. Gov. Beveridge was selected to deliver the dedicatory address at the opening of the Champaign County College in Illinois. All very appropriate. A sawmill was stolen the other day up in East Saginaw, from a man named K. K. Kerchoff -- dreadful time for a code in the head. -- Cincinnati Times. Susan Gray, of Iowa, was tied up by the thumbs for disobeying the rules of school, and after her brothers got through shooting the school was closed for want of a competent teacher. Rev. Lang, of Fremont, Ohio, has had charge of a congregation in that place for thirty years. His father kept tavern, and the sign board far and near was known as the original Auld Lang sign. Mr. Richard Grant White passes a whole dust heap ot provincialisms and equivocal words through his critical sieve, and shows himself a most accomplished and judicious literary chiffonier. -- Ed. Galaxy. "Who is John Bard?" asks the Boston Post. That's it, who's John Bard? When one reflects that he may go to his grave without knowing John Bard, it makes the strings of his heart curl up like straws on a hot shovel. Christine Nilsson has erected an enormous cow shed on her land at Peoria. She will doubtless thank the author of the following from the bottom of her pail for the information he so pleasantly places before her. The author it may not be necessary to say, is a Chicago bard: "Christine, Christine, thy milking do, the morn and the eve between, and not by the dim religious light of the fitful kerosene. For the cow may kick and the lamp may 'bust,' and the fire fiend ride the gale, and shriek the knell of the burning town in the glow of the molten pail." Poor old Dan Rice has come to grief. After a successful summer tour, he rented the Louisville Exposition building and fitted it up at great expense. But it didn't pay. Prices were reduced in vain. The whole concern has been attached and sold, the celcelebrated blind trick horse bringing only $126. The performers, musicians, and all the employes were minus their wages, Dan not having a dollar left to pay them. During the summer Dan himself, with his blind horse, etc., was traveling with another company in Canada at $1,000 per week, and that, too, went up, leaving him minus $26,000. The Evansville Journal reports that quite a serious accident occurred on the E. and C. R.R.on Saturday evening. Col. Sharra's train, which left here at four forty P. M., was the sufferer. The accident occurred about a mile this side of Princeton, near what is called Relief Switch, and was the result of a broken rail. The locomotive and tender passed over safely, but the baggage car and first passenger or smoking car were ditched. There was but little damage done to either, and no person was injured.

WASHINGTON. OFFICIAL NEWS FROM THE VIRGINIUS -- DISCHARGED FROM CUSTODY -- THE NEW MINISTER TO SPAIN AND HIS PROBABLE INSTRUCTIONS. Washington, Dec 30. The appointment of Mr. Cushing to be the successor of Gen. Sickles as Minister to Spain continues to excite comment concerning the character of the instructions he will receive from the Department of State after the confirmation of his nomination by the Senate. Although usage is opposed to an open declaration of the line of diplomacy to be pursued, it can be stated with truth that one of the subjects to which Mr. Cushing will give his attention will be the policy of political and administrative reform in Cuba, as the best means calculated to restore peace to that island, and promote its prosperity, and among those reforms is inctded the abolition of slavery in the Antilles. These views have respectfully been enforced both in the President's annnal messages, and in the official correspondence of Secretary Fish, have been often communicated to the Spanish Cabinet. It will be recollected that several years ago our Government tendered its good offices to Spain, in the hope of Cuban pacification, but these were respectfully declined. On the basis suggested, it is not improbable that a similar tender will again be made by the new Minister, as the administration will resort to every proper expedient for the purpose of restoring peace, and of protecting American interests in Cuba and adjacent waters, and there can be no doubt that an effort will be made to conclude a new commercial treaty with Spain of friendship, limits and navigation. The Secretary of the Navy this afternoon received a dispatch from the commander of the Ossipee, announcing that the Virginius sank on the night of the 26th, off Wilmington. SOME SPICY CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN SECRETARY FISH AND GEN. SICKLES RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION OF THE LATTER. The following is the telegraphic correspondence between Secretary Fish and ex. Minister Sickles concerning the resignation of the latter: Madrid. Dec. 6, 1873. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, Washington: It is publishei semi-officially that the Government disapproves of my conduct in

the case of the Virginius. If, in the opinion of the President, my resignation would facilitate a satisfactory termination of the question, or be otherwise advantageous to the public interests, such resignation may be considered as hereby respectfully tendered. (Signed ) Sickles. Washington, Dec. 16. Gen. Sickles, Minister at Madrid: -- The alleged publication of disapproval of your conduct is entirely unauthorized. No dissatisfaction has been expressed or intimated, and it is deemed important tnat your resignation at this time would not be accepted, as it would interfere with the prospects of an accommodation. Signed, Fish. Madrid, Dec. 16. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, Washington: -- I respectfully request that my telegram of the 6th instant tendering my resignation and your reply of the same date be now published. [Signed] Sickles. . Washington, Dec 17. Gen. Sickles, Madrid: Your tender of resignation was only hypothetical, and your telegram referred it to alleged publications unknown here, attributing a dissatisfaction which had not been expressed. Under these circumstances, the publication is not deemed necessary, and cannot be authorized. Madrid, Dec. 20. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, Washingion: -- I respectfully renew the tender of my re signation, which I trust may be accepted now without interfering with the prospects of an accommodation. (Signed) Sickles. Washington, Dec 20. General Sickles. Madrid: Your resignation will be accepted. Letters of recall, with instructions, will be forwarded by next mail. (Signed.) Fish. THE VIRGINIUS. THE VIRGINIUS TO BE SEIZED AND LIBELLED -- THE REPORT THAT SPAIN WILL CLAIM THE RETURN OF THE VESSEL NOT CREDIT. Washington, Dec 29. -- It has been ascertained from an official source that on the arrival of the Virginius at New York she will be seized by the Collector of the port and libelled by the District Attorney in accordance with instructions. If, on Judicial investigation, it be shown that the vessel's register was obtained by fraud, she will be sold, and the proceeds paid to the United States. Spain can make claim to the vessel; but if she should, it is positively certain our Government would not entertain such a claim. The report that the Spanish Government requires ot the United States the restoration of the Virginius and the payment or indemity is not believed in official quarters, no authentic information naving been re- ceived here to that effect, and besides such requisition would be contrary to the terms of the protocol between the two nations. The reference of the Spanish affidavits and other papers by the President to the Attorney General was known only to those present and to Secretary Fish, the matter having been kept perfectly secret until the opinion of the Attorney General was delivered to the last named gentleman on the day of its date, namely, the 17th inst. The first intimation of such an opinion was furnished the press four days later, and the full text obtained next day from the department of justice. LETTER FROM JOHN F. PATTERSON, OWNER OF THE VIRGINIUS. New York, Dec 29. -- John F. Patterson, of this city, has sent a letter to Secretary Fish, dated the 26th, declaring that he is the registered owner of the steamer Virginius. He protests against the opinion of the Attorney General, by which he and the vessel were condemned on ex parte testimony furnished by Spain. He states that the Solicitor of the Treasury gave him a bill of sale of the steamer. Therefore he, Patterson, truly swore that he was the owner, and the Government gave her an American register, which has ever since protected her. Any statement charging perjury on his part is false. He has hitherto kept silence by the advice of counsel, and because he has not been notified or called upon by the Government to testify or defend himself in relation to the matter. He requested that a copy of the evidence upon which the Virginius and he were condemned by the Attorney Genaral, be sent to him, and that he be notified of the time and place for the examination of any other witness. A copy of the letter has also been sent to the Attorney General. THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. GOVERNOR KEMPER'S MAJORITY OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED -- THE MESSAGE -- THE NEWLY ACQUIRED RIGHTS OF THE COLORED RACE TO TO BE DEFENDED AND MAINTAINED. Richmond, January 1. --The Legislature convened at noon to-day. After organization, both Houses went into a joint secret session to canvass the vote of Governor. Kemper's majority is officially stated at 27,239; Withers, 27,546. The. Governor's mes-

sege was then received and read. Of the relations between the races he says: I do not hesitate to affirm that so encouraging and decisive has been the progress in the last four years, and so clearly developed by the past are the obligations of to-day, that if we are but guided by prudence, if we go forward with courage tempered with forbearance, and if no federal legislation shall intervene to disturb the relations between the races, we can not fail to bring our great experiment to a successful and prosperous issue. Recent events prove how futile and how disastrous to its authors must be any future attempt to array the colored race as a political combination upon any principle of antagonism between the races, and further, that non residents, whatever their claims to eminence, ability, or philanthrophy, can never understand the character and circumstances, or wisely administer to the want of our colored population. Ourselves, and none oth-

ers, are qualified to perform the task assigned to us bv Providence. Not restrained and thwarted by superior power, we will perform our duty resolutely and effectually by promoting the best interests of both races. We intend to perform it by scrupulously guarding the newly acquired rights of the colored man. The Lafayette Courier says : Shortly after the passenger train on the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad, which was due here at fifty-five minutes past six this morning, had passed Wabash on its down trip, the engineer sighted an engine just in advance of him and going in the same direction. The engineer of the passenger train whistled down breaks and reversed his engine, while at the same moment the engineer of the "wild" locomotive became aware of the danger and opened the throttle of his engine, thus increasing, his speed, just in time to avoid a serious collision. As it was, the engines struck with such force as to shake up and alarm the passengers considerably. The engineer and fireman of the passenger train leaped from their engine, the latter receiving a considerable shock but no serious injury. A circular from C. W. Bradley, Assistant Superintendent of the Toledo, Wabash and Western railway, announces the following appointments on that line: Mr. W. Kirby, Train Master, first district, Toledo, Ohio; Mr. Stephen Ball, Train Master, second, third, eighth and ninth districts, headquarters at Lafayette; Mr. W. S. Lincoln, Resident Engineer eastern division, Toledo, Ohio; Mr. R. A. Houghton, Road Master first district, from Toledo to east switch, Fort Wayne, headquarters at Defiance, Ohio; Mr. A. Adams, Road Master second district, from east switch, Fort Wayne, to east switch, Peru, headquarters at Huntington. Mr. H. S. Dewey, Road Master on second district from east switch, Peru, to east switch, Lafayette; headquarters at Logansport. Mr. R. S. Miner, Road Master of the third, eighth and ninth districts, from east switch, Lafayette, to West Danville, also of Bloomington division. The Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette road have paid up both the Lafayette and Cincinnati divisions to December 1, having but once failed to pay on the 11th of the month, their usual pay day, since the panic commenced. The J. M. & I. R. R., during the year ending November 30, 1873, shipped over their line from Madison 499,325 bushels of coal, 32,945 barrels of flour, 4,905 casks of ale and beer, 89,494 packages of starch, and 2,193 bunches of saddle-trees. The total exports during the year was 57,651,619 pounds; receipts, 49,746,030. The above is a handsome showing by itself, were the exports and imports by river added, the sum totals would be very largely increased. A Mr. McMahon, agent and operator at Tunnelton, on the O. & M. railroad, was assaulted by a man named Gosling and killed Thursday night. A vigilance committee from Medora came to Tunnelton for the purpose of lynching Gosling, but could not find him. He had not been arrested. The murder, it appears, was of a very brutal character. It is the opinion of the Kokomo Democrat that the new regulations of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis railroad, compelling passengers to show theit tickets before getting on the cars, has already destroyed much piety. The grand footing up of the profanity sheet, caused by this rule, at the end of the year, will be fearful indeed. $20 SAVED! To meet the urgent demand ot the times, the Florence Sewing Machine Co. Have determined to REDUCE PRICES, And will hereafter sell their $65 Machine for $45, and other styles in proportion. THE FLORENCE Is the only Sewing Machine that feeds the work backwark and forward, or to right and left, as the purchaser may prefer. It has been greatly improved and simplified and is far better than any other machine in the market. IT IS NOW THE SHEAPEST. 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