The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1869, Page 4

er oO ees 1 SN Ried (SR PER. SSSR Tee 1 3ete [ee re ee ee eee eee ee NEW YORK HERALD |“{.uzuns BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, pubdlishea every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. _————— EEE Volume XXXIV...... +++-No. 2 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th sireet.— Money. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway,—A?TEB DaRK ; on, LON- DON BY NiGHT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Yankee Jack—LiTTLE Kary. Matinee at a a, OPERA HOUSE. corns er of avenue and street.—La GuanpE Ducurese. M: ata FRENCH THEATRE. Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- nue.—GENEVIRVE DE BRABANT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humrtr Duwrry. ‘Wit NEW FEATURES. Matinee at 1}y. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway.—Tat EMERALD RING. Matinee at 1}. NEW ‘YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuz BURLESQUE OF BARBE BLEUE—BELLE HELEN®. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and jroadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. MRS. F. B. 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BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlan . ton sts.—SioNoR Biitz, Matinee at & sh aaa NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SCImNOE AND ART. oe roneens New York, Saturday, Jauuary 2, 1869. Europe. The cable telegrams are dated January 1. Mr. Burlingame and Lord Clarendon, the English Minister of Foreign Affairs, had an interview yester- day, when the following articles for future negotla- taons between China and Great Britain were agreed to:—That it was necessary to observe existing treaty stipulations; that all negotiations snould be con- ducted with the central government and not with the local authorities; and that before the inaugura- tion of war disputes should be referred to the home government. General Caballero de Roda issued a proclamation to the insurgents of Malaga to lay down their arms, and on their refusing to submit he fought them in the streets of Malaga with his troops and compelled them to surrender. The city is now quiet. ‘The Sublime Porte was yesterday invited to send @ representative to the conference of the great Powers on the Eastern question. Fuad Pacha, it is suid, will be the representative. The Emperor of the French, at the usual New Year's reception to the foreign diplomatic corps, spoke in a congratulatory. manner of the concilia- tory spirit of European governments during the past year, and confidently hopes for 2 continuance of peace during the ensuing one. The King of Italy in his New Year military sia‘?, alluded to the present Italian nation and his reliance on © patriotism of the army in the sustenance of peace and the main- tenance of national honor. The Greek government is actively engaged in com- pleting the armament of the national troops. The announcement is made of the arrest of the directors of the banking conce f Overend, Gurney & Co., of London, on charges of fraud. Mr. Ashbury, after objecting to yac the tonn: t Dauntless, says he will race 33 the Atlantic, and thus give th Miscellancous, An unueually large crowd of distingu |. vent the repeal of the Tenure of Office law, shed visitors alled upon on, ¥ to tender dium the usval r comp » The aiplo- | ‘watic corps attended in the brilliant uniforms of their respective courts, forming a striking con- | trast with the plain attire of American citi- | vens who thronged the White House. Among | most prominent visitors was Gen- | who paia his respects to the Presi- | dent in the most impresaive manner, expressing the | heartiest cstcem and friendship for the Chief Magis- trate. John T. Hofman was inaugurated Governor of the State of New York yest y at the State Capitol. Notwithstanding the furious storm ®& large concourse of citizens was present, ‘and the Sixteenth and Twenty-fifth regiments and @ company of artillery paraded and escorted tne Governor to the State House. The retir- ing Governor, Fenton, made a feeling address upon laying off his gubernatorial honors and wel- comed his successor to the Chief Magistracy of the State. Governor Hoffman made a most happy rep:y, closing with the hope that all present might live to see both their State and country attain a degree of peace and prosperity which has no parallel in their past history. The sixth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States was celebrated in Boston yesterday. The old anti-slavery leaders were present in fuli force. Several speeches were made and poems recite by colored persons, after which Wendell Phillips delivered an address, in which he expressed his doubts of General Grant and pronounced negro suffrage at present a humbug. He was followed by Senator Wilson, who congrato lated the colored people upon the substantial ad- vantages they had gained and the great improve- ments made in the last eight years, and predicted | that Congress would do its duty by securing to the colored men equal rights and privileges with the whites. He vouched for General Grant as a Presi- dent who would see equal justice done to ali, irre- spective of condition or race, and would carry out the principles of the party that elected him. ‘The rumor that the New York and Erie Railroad Company had purchased the Ohio and Mississippt Katiroad, connecting Cincinnati and St. Louis, is denied. An agreement between the two companies bas been consummated, however, by which a broad- gauge line will be formed from New York to the Mis- sissippl river and cars passed over the New York and Erie road and tts connections, via Cincinnati, to St. Louis without breaking bulk, George S. Twitchen, of Philadelphia, was yester- day conv “i of the murder of his mother-in-law, Mary KE. Hill, The scene in the court room apon the rendition of the verdict was very impressive, and the prisoner was greatly atfectea when he heard his doom. Gus Holmes, 2 mulatto, wae executed at Tarboro, N. ©., yesterday, for the murder of Nethan King in 1867, He made a fall confession of ths crime and of a number of others which he had commuted, In Greenville, N. C., at an election for Constable yesterday, an altercation occurred between the rival candidates, Denis and Hoel. The latter, becoming jucensed at his opponent,,drew his knife, where. upon Denis pall out @ revolver and shot Hoei, killing bim instantly. No information has been recetved at General Sher- mao’s Lead quarters in St, Louis in regard to the late The City. New Year's Day was duly observed in this city yesterday. Business was/ wholly suspended, and New Yorkers forgot their cares and toilé and devoted ‘who wished to escape the pelting of the storm. Two young men ambitious for fame essayed to make their round of calls upon velocipedes, but their novel mode of locomotion proved unfit for snow drifts, and they were soon obliged to abandon the idea in despair. ‘Mr. Rogers, of No. 42 East Twelfth street, who Was mortally stabbed in front of his own house on Thurs- day by an unknown ruMan, was still alive yeater- day afternoon, A man named James Tolland was suspected of being the assassin, and learning that the police were upon his track repaired to the Fif- teenth ward station house and gave himself up to the authorities. Upon being confronted with Mr, Rogers the wountled man said that Tolland had no hand in the outrage, and he was at once discharged. An affray occurred at the corner of Thirtieth street and Eleventh avenue, about three o’clock yesterday afternoon, in which a boy named William Devine stabbed Willtam Concklin, inflicting a wound of a very serious character. Henry Freeman, a resident of Greenpoint, yester- day afternoon attempted to jump aboard the ferry- boat as it was leaving the slip foot of Twenty-third street, East river, but miscalculating the distance he fell into the river. He was rescued almost unharmed trom his dangerous bath by officer Burden and sent home, a wetter and @ soberer man. The steamship Erin, Captain Hall, of the National line, will leave pier No. 47 North river at noon to-day for Liverpool, calling at Queenstown to land passengers, &c. The steamship Gulf Stream, Captain Spencer, of ©. H. Mallory & Co.'s line, will leave pier No, 20 East river this afternoon for Galveston, Texas. The steamship Rapidan, Captain Mallory, for Havana and New Orleans, will sail from pier 36 North river at three P, M, to-day. The steamship George Washington, Captain Gager, will leave pter No, 9 North river at three P. M, to-day for New Orleans. * Stn The Black Star line steamship Montgomery, Cap- tain Lyon, will sail from pier 13 North river at three P. M. to-day for Savannah, Ga. The steamship Manhattan, Captain Woodhull, will leave pier No, 5 North river at three P.M. to-day for Charleston. The steamship Virginia, Captain Drew, of the Express line, will sail at four P. M. to-day from pier No. 15 East river for Alexandria, Va., and Wash- ington and Georgetown, D. C. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge Noah Davis, of Albion; Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut; E. Poulson, of Philadel- phia; General George L. Real, of Maine; Congress- man N. P. Banks, of Massachusetts; General C. B. Fiske, of St. Louis, and J. W. Winter, of Philadel- phia, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel D. Parker, of Baltimore; H. 8. Chandler, of Oswego, and J. Coles, of Kentucky, are at the Me- tropolitan Hotel. Judge F. A. Jones and Major J. J. Kamp, of Gal- veston, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Colonel Clapp, of Cihcago; L. H. Redway, of Philadelphia; C, Durand, of Connecticut; H. M. Adams, of West Point, and J.C. Blair, of St. Louis, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel W. H. Barnes, of Pennsylvania, and James Cain, of St. Louis, and Colonel C. S. Jones, of New York, are at the Hoffman House. President Grant, the Tenure of Office Law and the Congressional Rings. The schemers who are endeavoring to pre- because it will leave the executive power in the hands of General Grant, as it was designed by the founders of the republic, and tend to conirol the present corruption which festers in every branch of the public administration, have become alarmed at the awakening of | popular opinion on this question, and are call- | ing for a caucus of their friends in Congress, to take place on the 4th of January, at Washington, the eve of the reassembling of i that body. The true meaning of this move- ment is the formation of aring in Congress to | control its action and save thd whiskey ring | and all the other rings which to-day fatten on their stealings from the public Treasury, and every inducement that favor or fear can bring to bear will be pressed upon the members of both houses to force them into the new | awangement. i It is « well known fact that the annual loss to the public revenue through the operation of | the whiskey and other rings, operating in the | sphere of the internal revenue system, to the enormous sum of one hundred millions | of dollars. The yearly saving of this money | to the Treasury would of itself, under proper | management, pay off the twenty-five hundred | ng of the public debt in fifteen years | at the imposition of a single dollar in | new taxes upon the people. But such a con- | summation, although it would relieve every | industry in the country and bring back the old | times of light taxes and thriving trade, would | spoil the business of the rings and drive the | plunderers from their prey. Therefore it | must be prevented at all hazards, and the | safest way to all concerned is to form a ring in Congress which shall continue,upon Presi- dent Grant the shackles which have been put | on President Johnson. This is revolution in its worst form. It is revolution in favor of the plundercrs and not of the people. When the founders of the republic established the government they wisely separated the executive from the legia- lative power, and erected an independent ju- diciary to hold the balance between them. The checks and safeguards. established in the con- | stitution by this system of coequal powers in | the government made it for eighty years the wonder of the world and the pride of the | American people, These were desiroyed when Dongress, by the passage of the Tenure of ounts | with Office bill, reduced the President from the po- | sition of a coequal branch of the State, whose ultimate appeal was the good sense of the people, to the position of a tool in the hands of any clique that might obtain a temporary cont.ol of Congress. Sach a clique now ex- ists, and its aim is to perpetuate its power. could nevet have obtained power had its trae aims been seen; but these were covered with the pretext of restraining an unpopular Presi- dent, who was londly accused of treason to the constitution, and hence the country acqui- esced in the temporary establishment of the law which chains the Executive. Under this law the rings have had an unlimited swing in the Treasury, and the contest between Presi- dent Johnson and the Commissioner of the In- ternal Revenue has brought impunity to the thieves and disgrace to the country, It is this condition of things which the peo- _ of an Industrial School on Hart's [sland. It | ple look to General Grant to remove, but which he will be powerless to attack unless the Tenure of Office law is repealed. That law must pass away with the obnoxious officer against whom it was directed. On Congress rests the respon- sibility of opablipg the Executive todo the to perform. We have no reason to believe that all the members of the republican majori- ty are interested in the vile practices to which we have referred. Many of them may be led to oppose the repeal of the act in question from other motives than such as are purely vile. Allegiance to party ties; a disposition to obey that spirit which leads every corporate body to cling to power and privilege, whether rightly or wrongly acquired; the solicitation of implicated friends, and a thowsand motives which influence human action, will all be brought to bear upon them by the unscrupulous men who are interested and who now aim to create a caucus which shall shield their plun- dering schemes from destruction. These we warn against the atiempt at revolution by de- stroying the power of the President. It isa revolution destructive of the rights and inte- rests of the people; it is an attempt to perpetu- ate the power of the oligarchy, which, since the passage of the Tenure of Office bill, has ruled the government and plundered the Trea- sury without fear or hindrance. The Charities of New Yor. We published on Wednesday an account of the charitable institutions of New York, which demonstrates that, if this city has more poverty than many others, it has more wealth, and, moreover, that a large amount of this wealth is annually and profitably devoted to the relief of the poor. The Citizens’ Association, after carofully investigating the whole field of philanthropic labors in New York, includ- ing private as well as public charities, finds that not less than five million dollars have been expended during the past year for differ- ent charitable and philanthropic objects. This fact leads the Citizens’ Association rather sweepingly to conclude that if the expenditure of so large a sum was made uponéhe sound business principle of enabling the recipients to help themselves—that is, to place them in such improved surroundings that they would be able to gain their own livelihood, and thus be con- verted into producers—‘“‘the great burdens of pauperism would soon be removed.” The Citizens’ Association is evidently as sanguine as was Louis Napoleon Bonaparte when, as “representative of the people,” he published a treatise entitled ‘‘The Extinction of Pauper- ism.” The New York Association for Improv- ing the Condition of the Poor, aware of the fact that less than five per cent of the indi- gence aided by our city charities consiatsof able-bodied pergons, does not profess to be equally sanguine. Nevertheless it has accomplished a great deal during the past year. It has visited 93,293 per- sons, administering relief to 27,528. It has received $71,096, and disbursed $72,559, leaving a balance of $1,082 due to the treasurer. Other societies, such as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, ‘the Ladies’ Missionary Society, the society which manages the Five Points House of Industry, and many other societies, have liberally co-operated in the same noble work of ameliorating the con- dition of the poor. Meanwhile the public charities of the city have continued in their regular channel of operations, and the Alins- house, the Bureau for Outdoor Poor and the Bureau for Outdoor Sick at the Bellevue Hos- pital, are steadily progressing under the official management of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction, Among other im- provements must be mentioned the formation The Working Women's Home, in Elizabeth street; the Newsboys’ Lodging House, in Park place ; the Children’s Aid Society, in Bleecker street; St. Vincent de Paul's Orphan Asylum, in Twen- ty-sixth street; the St. James Industrial School, in New Bowery, are among the chari- table institutions which have made sp vision for dispensing alms to the nee during the sever inger weath Private individual charity will, trust, respond 0 the appeals which all these charit- able enterprises make to the public. ner. we John Brigit at Court. The English provincial journals give minute and interesting details of the cordial reception ofthe Great Commoner by Queen Victoria when John Bright went to Windsor to take the oaths of office. At the instance of her Majesty the ceremonies of kne g and kissing bands were omitted in the presentation of the Quaker courtier. The Princess Royal of Prus- sia expressed a de that he should be presented to her, and assured him that she herself and all the members of the royal family were greatly indebted to him for the way in which he had spoken of their mother, She said she had herself read all his speeches and she was very much pleased to see him. | In his very polite reply he told her what Mr. Buchanan, the American Minister, when last in London, said of her to him—‘“that wherever her Royal Highness went she shed sunshine over all her path.” John Bright is already as famous at the Court of Victoria as William Penn was at the Courts of Charles Il. and James I1., and Benjamin Franklin, with his plain costume, at the Court of Louis XVI. The friendly reception of John Bright at Windsor is a significant recognition by royalty of the popular sovereignty of which | he is the exponent. Tae Espsnor Navorgon’s Appress To me = Divtomario = Corrs.—The Emperor's address to the diplomatic corps yester- day was quite what we hal eo led to expect. He recognized with j \.sure the conciliatory spirit now animating the different governments of Europe. It was one of the encouraging signa of the times that international animosities, through the friendly intervention of neighboring Powers, were smoothed down as fast as they arose. Il was his confident hope that the year 1869 would be os satisfactory as its immediate prede- cessor. It is well enough so to hope; but the political horizon in Europe cannot be said to be clear and satisfactory. We are willing to echo the Emperor's wish that “the course of events may dissipate unfavorabl apprehensions and consolidate the peace s¢ necessary to the welfare and progress of civilized nations and peoples. Turkey Any Greror.—After suppressing, the Cretan revolution Turkey threatens to) gobble up Greece, that home of classic art, dear to every scholar. The only hope for the Greeks is in a contemplated flank movement of the Keniagy. battle with the Indians and tho captare of the cniefs | great work which the people have called him | The Crusade Against the Grocers and Traders of New York. The shameless effrontery exhibited by a local newspaper in libelling the fair fame of the grocers and traders of New York has been somewhat abated in view of the prospect that the authors of these outrageous calumnies are likely to be punished by due process of law. It would certainly present a remarkable spec- tacle if the probity of the principal tradera in New York should be wantonly assailed and there be no recourse for those who are made to suffer by such malignant attacks. Whether these libels are actuated by motives of politi- cal jealousy or personal spite, ‘or whether they spring from the natural instinct of Bohe- mian iniquisitors to levy blackmail or to obtain an ephemeral notoriety by startling the com- munity with some dreadful but imaginary apparition, the instigators of them are equally to blame, andshould be held amenable, not only at the bar of justice but at the bar of public opinion. An inquisition so outrageous and abominable should not be tolerated in. any community. If allowed to be continued there is notatrading house, store, counting room or any other place in which business is trans- acted, or even a private dwelling, secure from the visits of these poke-nose Bohemian libellers, Having moused out the fact that grocers’ scales are not, to a fraction, the same in all parts of the city, and ignorant of some of the commonest laws and usages of trade, by which trifling irregularities may be readily explained, these fellows proceed to the congenial employ- ment of smelling out and testing adulterated liquors, taking good care to speak well of those places where they are dead-headed and injuriously of those where they are not. Why don’t they.carry out their espionage by going into private carriage houses, and ascer- taining with what materials vehicles are lined, whether the cushions are not filled with some deleterious stuff, whether the harness is not oiled by some poisonous compound, and whether the poor horses are not suffering from eating hay that has been tampered with, or oats that have been doctored, or bran that has been adulterated? Perhaps they would were it not from the fear that if they went into some respectable stables the horses would kick them out for their impudence. Just now they seem to have the confectionery busi- ness under ban, and are making a great hue and cry about what has been well known ever since bon bons became an article of com- moa.use—namely, if you eat too many of them you are likely to ‘suffer, the same as you would by indulging to a surfeit in any other commodity of questionable benefit tp the human system. No one can tell into what hole or corner these Bohemian inquisitors may not next enter. We may find them penetrating into the boudoirs of ladies and testing the composition of their perfumery and cosmetics ; or spying into family refrigerators and larders, smelling out the age and wholesomeness of haunches of venison or rounds of beef; or scrutinizing the feathers of the bed upon which you sleep, or the soap with which you perform your morning ablutions; in short, peering into and snuffing out every little movement of your domestic life. No place is secure against their audacious visitations; no threshhold too sacred over which they, in their unparalleled assumption, dare not tread. Having themselves no reputation to lose, they do not care how many honest men they bring down to their own level, and in this infamous cru- sade against our merchants they not oniy assail private reputations but the credit of the city itself, Merchants from a dis- tance will not come to New York to make their purchases if these mendacious Bohe- mians keep up their infamous attacks. The country press is filled with reports of these libels, with comments which show that the impression is beginning to prevail that it is dangerous to buy certain articles in New York, and it will, no doubt, be made to | appear before long that it is dangerous to come to New York at all. This feeling the merchants in Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other large places where the dealers strive to keep the trade of their own country districts as much to themselves as possible, wiil un- doubtediy encourage, so that the business of the city is in great danger of being per- manently injured by these libels. Therefore it is the duty of those who have the honor and prosperity of the metropolis as well as the private reputations of her merchants sincerely at heart to see that these atrocious libels are suppressed and the libellers punished accord- ing to law. Petrifed Skeleton of a Gigantic Minnesotan—Other Human Fossils, The late Edgar A. Poe could construct a hoax so ingeniously as to make it amusing even to those whom he could not deceive by it. But his skill has not been inherited by his most recent imitator, the author of an account of the exhumation of a gigantic antediluvian skeleton near Sauk Rapids, in Minnesota. No geologist is liable to lend credence to this queer story of ‘‘a quadrangular grave dug out of the solid rock,” ‘‘a sepulchre over which was placed a large flat limestone rock that remained perfectly separated from the sur- rounding granite rock,” ‘‘a sarcophagus in which the remains of the unknown dead were deposited prior to the formation of the present strata of rocks that now abound there,” The narrator has manifestly drawn upon his imagi- nation for his facts. Even his pathetic phrase, “the last sad remains of this antediluvian giant,” cannot establish a link of sympathy between living Minnesotans and their colossal prototype. If it can be proved, however, that the latter was really buried ‘‘on the square” in a quadrangular grave it may be conjectured that he was one of those primeval Masons who laid the foundations of the earth. On the whole, this apocryphal account of his exhumation was scarcely needed as additional evidence of the unquestionable antiquity of the human race. The prehistoric existence of man has been sufficiently attested by the discovery of « human skeleton in 1853 by M. Ami Boué in the lower oot of a deposit of loam or loess eighty fect thick, at Lahr, in the right valley of the Rhine; by the discovery by the late Dr. Schmerling of parts of human skele- tons and of flint implements contemporaneous with some of the earliest extinct species of ani- mals in several caves near Lidge, and by simi- lar discoveries by Dr. Falconer, Mr. Pengelly and others in the Brixham eave, near Torquay, in 1800, ond trom 4847 to 1869 by M. Boucher The de Perthes, Dr. Riggollot and Mr. Prestwich in the drift of Abbeville and Amiens. Certain portions of our Western Continent entitle it better than most of the European Con- tinent to be called the “Old World,” and re- mains of specimens of the extinct human races who once inhabited it may yet be discovered. But for the present, at least, we must content ourselves with the numerous specimens of old fossils imbedded in our political strata. There is, indeed, no lack of these, and what is pecu- liarly remarkable about them is the fact that they don’t know yet that they are fossils. President Johnson, Mr. Seward, and even that Ancient Mariner, Old Father Welles, not to mention thirty or forty antediluvian ‘‘politi- casters” in Congress and many more out of it, including that superannuated king of the lobby, Thurlow Weed, Reverdy Johnson, George W. Curtis, Henry A. Wise, e tuéti quanti, both North and South, must be classified among our American fos- ‘sila. The leading republican editors of this city, who are now busily nominating each other in advance for high positions in the Cabi- net or in the foreign diplomatic service or else where, under the incoming administration of Grant, seem to be totally unconscious that they are all likely to be petrified and fos- silized long before 1872. The reported ex- humation of a gigantic skeleton reminds us that for calling the “great Michigander,” the late Lewis Cass, a fossil, the notorious George Sanders once lost a comfortable government office, George is now himself a fossil, and, like the politicians of higher degree to whom we have alluded, he must patiently wait longer than the pre-Adamites for a joyful resurrec- tion, peas Tae Twironet, Case—Tue Vervior oF vHE Jury.—Last night at nine o'clock, after the summing up of the Judge, the jury in this case retired to deliberate, returning in twenty-five minutes with a verdict of murder in the first degree. We have no hesitation whatever in saying that this verdict will be received with universal satisfaction. The trial has been unusually protracted. The court and the prosecution have been singularly patient. The counsel for the prisoner mani- fested great daring in conducting the case, but the defence they set up was lame and impotent in the extreme. In the circumstances no other verdict was possible, WENDELL PaILiirs AND LIBERTY OF THE Prxss.—Wendell Phillips, remembering bit- terly what Bowles has said of him and other “true men” (meaning abolitionists), is glad that Fisk had the editor imprisoned in Lud- low street jail. “Seryed him right,” he thinks. Wendell forgets all his own fine phrases about liberty of the press. Tue Spreirvat Sisters.—Brigham Young admits the Pacific Railway to his dominions at last, considering it an advantage. This will be the end of Mormonism; for when our sturdy backwoodsmen pour into Utah the spiritual wives of the prophets will disappear with a rapidity in proportion to their beauty. THE STORM. Remarkable Haii Storm Yesterday—Tie Con- dition of the Streets and Ferries. Astorm of @ very unusual description visited the metropolis and adjaceat towns on Thursday night, continuing without intermission throughout the whole of New Year’s Day and up to @ late hour last night, with probabilities of lasting until this morn. ing. The storm was unusual in point of duration, severity and description, and much anxiety is felt jest it may prove to have been very disastrous in its etfects, ‘Thursday had been an unusually uncom- fortable, -‘dirty” day, and as night fell the air, which had been murky, moist and chill, became perceptibly cooler, Light drizzles of rain had fallen once or twice during the afternoon, and about ten o’clock at night a chil, fretful rain, accompanied by a raw, gusty wind, made the situation anything but agreeable for such persons as had procrastinated the purchases of their New Year’s dinners and gifts. People shrunk away into their homes from the damp streets and must-diibbling air; and the great city, that usualiy preseats a scene of varied entiusiasm, bustle ana diligence during the waning jours of the old year, Was almost deserted so far as its thoroughfares con- tritmted to those general characteratics. Shop- ‘3, Who usually keep tieir places o busines open until midnight, pat up thelr siuttera one or two hours earlier and went home, mentally conning thew balance sheets, and retired to awake at the of another year, A few mumMed loiterers strolied along the streets, with hats pulled over their brows and handa thrast into their pock: jooking in vain for the attractions of the ideal New Year's eve, and clambering imduiter- ently Into tae street cars, slouched down into their seats, atuered bie siraw around their feet and were trandied oi to their homes. A few hacks, with raia- i drivers and teams, splattered along the streets al tervals through the icy siush, and roys- tering Volces witain the vehicles tola of revellers who were determined to “do the city,” even at the cost of the itinerant shelters which the Jehus afforded for compensatory fees. The street lamps thekered and threw dull, quivering shadows over puddles and mud iurrows, and the tittle flames of the gaslights shivered and grew faint in the buffetis wind, Tae night was miserably unpropitious and omened & comsortless morrow, ‘The first hour of the dawning year was greeted by iacreasing wind and cold, and the ridges of dirt in the sireets, the sidewalks and awnings were soon clad in @ covering of glistening shin crusty ice. So it continued until! about daybreak, when an in- tenser cold set tn, and the rain, which was now fall- ing much heavier, began to congeal and clatter on window panes with a cheerieas rattle, broken only by the occasional crooning of @ tin horn or the re- port of firearms, all and sundry of which discordant sounds were intended by enterprising watchers as salutations to the year el 1969. ‘The rain storm had turned to sleet, as it the to 2 and with the clash of the fall- ‘The wind whirled the icy sho’ with most fant juisit and a ty “so bod the city was = ina ot white, ropolitans began to as Mepped into the streets they putied ett. cont col Jars over their cars, contracted their ties aes Find om me Ls age gpd and A, shuttling dog-trot along sidewalks storm. Locomotion became, howe' question of probability, to be determined among the sibilities Only by experiment and caution. ice on the pavements, from the rain of the pre- ceding night, was just covered with @ layer of sleet, and walking was found to be dificalt in the extreme, owing to the ail state of the ground, The hard hatistones slipped under pres- sure of the foot like a lot of peas, and had there been no ice beneath would have been unsafe enough for the most sure-footed, Down came the wiiazing storm for rey drifting into miniature sferras everywhere, and occasionally & corung cust of wind caught up the accumulation of how dashed it with tlinatured violence into the roadways below and broomed it in the faces of pedestrians. ‘The latistones were angular and i ue lar in form, and pattered with Nagin: stinging effect upon exposed portions of the “human iace § ee se ee Karson 4 and grins that seemed more suggest ogres and diablerie than form of benignity or atty holiday smiles, It was like a volley of gim- let points set in motion ty @ screw hurricane. At noon four of five inches of hatl lay on the level, and embankments of treble that barred the streets intervals, Snuw ploughs were brought into requisition and the street railways were soon marked by frozen walls of pulverized for it was not snow, and did not resemble it ex: oy color and the mode of it solidification. teame were harnessed to the street cars, and, save @ few sleighs, other vehicles were, “iike angesi’ visits, few (very few) og i al iain we slaguering, slipping, heavy treading citizens patie py aaa ior & Walk of @ few in the cara When they were convenient; and it probable that, considering the ion of ‘on the streets, the ay ratlways received & 4 rete dna. Everybody rode who had six odntn twel ret le who ‘ angers “huddled into th cabina end Wugned che sven heated Qants COM. ne for some time at Lake Village. wr storm We have had a heavy snow storm past twenty-four noure, # ising snow is drifting badly. the re yet clear. avid CHcaao, Jan. 1,' 1860. The old eee expired amid tie most violent snow Jan. 1, 1869, re during the storm of the season. All tie raflroads are blockaded, most of the trains being six and seven hours behind time. So stormy was tie weather that few New Year's calis were made untii the weather moderated in the afternoon. Poipapenpata, Jan. 1, 1860, bad sleet and rain have made tie day quite unpleas- ant EMANCIPATION ANNIVERSARY AT BOSTON. PSUS neuer rey Great Gathering in Tremont Temple--Ad= dresses by Colored Oratora—Wendell Phil- lips Pronounces Negro Suffrage a Mockery Grant’s Radicalism Doubted—Spoech of Senator Wi pierre cs onator Wilzome 322” Rosron, dais 1, 1800 ‘the advent of the now year was not marked by any particular holiday demonstration in Boston. A. few wholesale houses were closed in the nelghbor- hood of the wharves; but generally business went on the same as usual, all the banks, insurance and other public offices keeping open and transacting about the same amount of business as upon ordinary days, A terrible severe northeast snow storm pie- vailed all day long, and very few ventured out un- less business absolutely required. It was, im fact, the first snow storm of any importance, and for the first time of the season wheeled vehicles were generally displaced by runners. ‘The only positive demonstration consequent upon New Year’s was a jubilee gathering in Tremont ‘Temple on the part of the recently emancl) race ae ae a alg el as oe Se emancipation femons proclamation by President Lincoln, and it was im every an worthy of the anti-slav spirit cl teristic of Massachusetts. The mi ‘was called to order by Mr. Willlam Wells Brown. Some appropriate pas- of Scripture were then x which the ge i gs i, ly Spi a &c. kev. J. offered @ prayer. ‘A. ray, of Freedom,” some ‘of which were colored inevitable woman’s rights champion, also read a poem on ‘Moses,’? the intent of which was toshow in arhyming sort of way that the nogro mind is as oe of as much culture as the Anglo-Saxon Wendell Phillips, who was next introduced, said it was the first time he had been present on one of these anniversaries, and added that, as he did not like to hurrah until a battle was won, he free to confess he had no cular heart in this j= tion. He was @) that Abraham Lincoin had emancipated the negro from slavery, bus there was still a dark cloud over him and his rights were nar- row and limited, and he, therefore, had more anxiety about the future course of the government than he had joy on these 1st of January occasions. In the Southern States, ifthe negro has even the right of suffrage it isa mere mockery, for he had no pro- tection, either in the matter of itis property or ita, andthe same may be often said oi loyal whites, What he looked to the country for was a force be- hind the law. He did not wisn to be understood as. being despairing, for he thought that justice would some time triumph, but he was not absolutely certain that it would come under a single flag. In fact, he would sooner expect to see Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate within ten years than to see colored men in the South have the same rights as they have in Massachusetts. He thought a great opportunity was lost at the close of the war in not puting a cord around the necks of rebels which could be tightened whenever tley made any show of disloyalty. Referring to Grant, ie said that he might civilize the South and become the great constable of peace, which many believed he would; but he him- self would not be disappointed tm hun, “whatever his course might be,” for he had never promied anything, He could not tell until the 4th of March what could be expected from the ciection ot the great military chief, and his election he also regarded as too numerically close to jump ata too early conciusion of the wili of the people. In brief, he would rather look forward than backward, for the great duty is now to put a guarantee upon negro suffrage, and that depends upon Geueral Grant and tue support by the people oi all the radt- cal elements of the republican party, He would not pot too much confideace in Grant until he opens imseif on the 4th of March, and if he is worthy of being upheld, then he should be, most heartily; but if he is not worthy of support he should be dealt with accordingly. He did not feel like wasting laurels upon Abraham Lincoln, for lustory wili do him jua- tice; but what they should do is to compiete the work which has been begun, and which even the republican Congress does not seem to be in @ very industrious mood to carry forward. The great thing God is teaching us is the danger of race hatred, and that we shouid, like the Indian, fo race and remember man. Congress structed before the faith becomes absoiute that jus- tice 1a safe and that there should be no political differences on account of race, and that 5 = antee should be anchored on tie constitution itself. He then gave a deplorable account of the condition of tl in the South, and in caustic terms rebul Grant for his silence and inactivity in listening to the outrages and nothing to vent them. “If,” he ad “U. 8. Grant said but a single word or @ sentence a final and compiete stop could seat, rages, but doing nothing whatever to check them. He bi “ay country and he blushed for Grant, for it showed tho ire of the bg and he id listen to things and qui at the head of the 19 his = jon he could sit in the thal ‘and do @ great many worse thit He hoy he right of voting and bein; which was pledged to man and God to pro- ie of the South in their civil and political rights, and knew these matters; but he nevertheless had strong cor- fidence that in the long run the people would come out my el and that they would adopt a constituttonal amendment signifying the truth of “Do unto others as ye would that they should do unto you,” and make the Unitec states a land where every man of every race and color can enjoy equal rights and privileges. The evening seasion was not largely attended, on account of the storm, and some of the speakers failed to at in an appearance for the same reason. During the proceedings the “Shaw” guards, a co- lored militia company, came in with a band of music and added greatly to the spirit of the meeting. CENERAL GRANT IN PHILADELPHIA, From the Philadelphia I, Jan. t a phia Ledger, Jan. 1.) In with @ resolution of the Councils on Predneeday tae committee appointed to nder the hospitalities of the to General U. 8, Grant, President elect, informed him by letter you terday morning of their desire to wait upon him at his earliest venience, A 4 received that he was then to receive them ‘athis rooms in the Continental Hotel, the committee pi there and formally aa him of the purpose of their appointment, General Grant returned his thanks Mor the honor conferred upon him, and ead that his time was almost fally occu, ies revious engagement, but thought he could two to three o'clock to-day, Friday) to A ‘ae rece| Uon of the citizens in [nd lopendence After tie reception to-day the President elect will dine with George H. Stuart and pasa the evening with Jonn Rice, He will leave the on Monday next. ‘The Genera! viewed Girard roaverday