The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1871, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON ‘BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. JHE HOLLAND TESTIMONIAL, —Performances thie A ac Nibio’ jooth's, Fifth avenue, Cg Wood's Museum, Lina k's dwin's, Bowery, Wallac! ow 4 "ond Brooklyn nay of Music, and Park theatre, NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, 45 Bowery.—TAMING or TUE Sunrw. NIBLO'S GARDEN, TRE BLACK CRrooKk. Broadway.—Ta® SPROTACLE OF MWALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 18th street.— Paint Hrant Never Won Fair Lavy—Usep Ur. LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, 720 Broadway.—His Last BAZ REY, GRAND OPFRA HOUSE, corner of Sth av. and 234 st.— La Penionorr. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—TOR PANTOMIME OF Wee Wine Winair, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Vipocq—Tae Lost SUILLING- Tar REOLUSR. WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform- ances every afternoon and evening, @LOBE THEATRE, 228 Broadway.—Vaninty ENTSR- TAINNENT, £0. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— BABATOGA. BOOTH'S THEATRE, 284 Bromine. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—ORATORIO~ Tuw Messin. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— VIOTIMG—SOLON SHINGLE, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Va- RIETY ENTERTAINMENT. THEATRE COMIQUR, 514 Brosdway,—Comto Vooate 18m, NXGNO ACTS, &C.—TUE FIRE FIRND. .vetween tb and 6th avs.— BAN FRANCISCO MIN! Nr@no MINSTRELSY, Fano! HALL, 885 Broa iway.— BunirsQues, &0. EW OPERA HO! SE, 204 at, betwoon 6th BRYA) and 7th KORO MINSTRELSY, ROORNTRIOITIRG, £0. APOLLO HALL. corner 98th street and Broadway.— DR. Couny's DIORAMA OF IRELAND, NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth strect.—SoxNRs IN tu RING, Acnouats, do. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUS ELLY & Leon's MUNSTRELS. Brooklyn.—HOOLEY's AND BROOKLYN OPERA HOU: Warre's MineTne.s. -Carery —WRLOH, HoouEs & News To Many. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SOMENOK AND Rr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— S0IRNOK AND Anr. New. York, Thursday, January 19, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. Pace. 1—Advertisements, Y—Advertisementa. 3—Advertisements, “ar a O—Editorials: pnaing Articie, “Down With the Kes! —! res ie pec Survey- ing Exped ioe Masty and the Drama—Fer- Sonal Intelligence—A Coriplimént from a Con- temporary—Amusement Announcements. “S—The Bombardment of Paris—inside the Doomed Ctty—The Retreat of Chanzy's Army—Bour- baki's March—Bismarck Dying The European Poparess—Misoel neous Telegrama—A fairs In thd ‘State Capiial—Obituary—Views of the Past—Business Notices. “6—The Double Marriage is Ep Strange Story— The Taylor Will Case—Financial and Comumer- cial Reports—Real Estate—News from Jamaica aud St. Thomas—The Savannah Revenue Troybles—Court Calendars for To-day—Mar- riages and Deaths. 7Y—Olearing of the Criminal Calendar—The Freed Fenians—The Albany Express Robbery—Ad- Vertisements, S—News from Washington: Interesting Proseed- ings in Congress—M. T. Brennan Coterte— Shipping Inteluigence—Advertisements. in Orntorio. The favorite prima donna of America ap- pears this evening, for the first time in this city, in a new and higher ficld of music than any she hus hitherto essayed. Judging from her signal! triumphs in opera and concert, and the genuine enthusiasm she awakened in Cin- cinnati on Christmas Eve, when she first sang the sublime music of Handel, there is every reason to expect for her a grand success in the “Messiah” to-night. Miss Kellogg’s name has been identified for years past with everything that was meritorious in Italian Opera on our boards, and on her for some seasons its very existence depended in this city. Her engaging appearance, high dramatic «bilities and beau- tiful voice, trained in the best schools and capable of reflecting every shade of expres- sion, made her a welcome favorite at the Academy, and box and parterre shone with particular brilliancy and fashion on the nighis Miss Kellogg sang. Oratorio is the highest form of music, and the ‘‘Messiah” stands alone in this particular. A triumph in it before such a refined and critical audience as the metro- polis of America can furnish will add the crowning jewel to the rich chaplet that encir- cles Miss Kellogg's brow. We trust that she will be the means of reviving a taste for such music in this city since incompetent managers and artiste have long weaned the public from it. THE recent burning of the steamer McGill is likely to call forth very stringent measures for the safety of life on the Mississippi. No more “‘niggers” to be strapped down on the | afety vaives, : A Brit Has Been Noriorp in the Senate to authorize Brooklyn to maintain public baths. She will need many of them to wash her hands of the Fenian exile celebration, as her or proposes she should do, ars - a Tox New Court Hovsy.—A bill has been introduced in the Senate by Harry Genet to raise two hundred thousand dollars by taxa- tion to complete our new Const House. If the taxpayers felt sure that would complete It they would raise it promptly enough; but Shey koow that two bundre thoysand {s not the “be all and the end all here.” Tue Sr. Domixco Expepition—Tur Necro Question Anoarpv.—The good United States ship Tennessee is on her way to St. Domingo with the expeditionary party sent out to inves- | tigate the island, or, in other words, to “‘spy out the land.” The party includes statesmen, politicians, geologists, meteorologists, botan- ists, entomologists, icbthyolozists and jour- nalists, Best of all for Si. Domingo, the ex- pédition is represented by the Caucasian and the African races, Fred Douglass, Sr., 1s assistant secretary to the commission, and Fred Douglass, Jr., is private secretary to Mr, ! are Burton, the secretary of the commission. No | doubt Geveral Grant, in this mixed commis- sion, wished to illustrate to the mixed Domini- cans the equality of all races and colors in the United States—a shrewd iden, looking to NEW YORK * HERALD; THURSDAY, JANUARY 19," 1871. Down with the Taxos. Is there nobody in Congress with eyes sharp enough to see and brain weighty enough to win the eminent position that lies waiting for the public man whe will lead a successful attack upon the giant Taxation? For some time past we have been peering about with our lantern for some statesman with a tengue and a head, a decent knowledge of arithmetic processes, a modicum of oare for the public good, and a large share of ambition, who will see aad use this fine opportunity, Weare surprised at that chronic default of ambition and arithmetic which leaves us without champions of the people's cause in this question of purse and pocket; and more surprised are we at the patience of an outraged, oppressed and de- frauded people. Camels can and do rebel and bite when they are overloaded. Elephants depesit their drivers and their burdens in the river or the mud when those beasts, more intelligant than our taxpayers, it would seem, are of opinion that the burden has been unfairly adjusted to the back, Yea, even cows sometimes kiok over the milkpail, and the milkmaid in the bargain, when they consider, after due reflection, that their emt and useful teats are too vigor- ously and exhaustively drawn on. But what will wear out the slavish patience of our tax- paying body? What extremities of fiscal oppression will they submit te before they emulate the judicious camel, elephant and cow, and administer kicks to our dull financial tyrants that shall compel them to reform their blundering ways? We have run through the negro question, Beginning with the abolition of the slave trade and the slave pens in the District of Columbia in 1850, step by step all the legal wrongs of the black man under our late Institutions and con- stitution of African slavery have been righted ; and in the recent ratification of the fifteenth amendment we have made Uncle Tom ‘‘a man and a brother.” The Southern reconstruction question, which, pending the coafiict botween the policy of Congress and the policy of Andy Johnson, threatened along agitation and a world of trouble, has been substantially settled by Congress and General Grant. The social and political disorders which still afflict the South are but the natural consequences ofa political and social revolution tearing out the old established order of things by the roots. These disorders can be cured only by time, although the idea still seems to prevail in Con- gress that they can be cured by another dras- tic purge or two of reconstruction, But he who looks at the recorded revolutions of the whirli. Big of American politics for ike Tast tity years will find that the two it revolutionary issu_s of the country have been ‘‘the almighty nigger” and the “‘almighty dollar,” and that when the nigger question has been temporarily pushed into the background the question of the almighty dollar has come into the foreground. Thas, if Southern slavery was the great agita- tion of 1820, the money question was the ruling issue of the country from 1830 to 1850, when the negro again came to the front and threat- ened to tear the country to pieces. After twenty years of sectional agitations and con- vulsions thus excited, including our terrible civil war, the negro question is settled, and now, with all the accumulated financial diffi- culties of these twenty years, the ‘‘almighty dollar” is again the all-absorbing question, and especially in reference to our heavy and need- lessly heavy burdens of taxation. This question of taxation is rapidly becom- ing the foremost practical question of the hour for all of us. The reaction of prices from the inflated condition of the war has now set in with intensity, and the gloomy political condi- tion of the O!d World, reacting so powerfully as it does on all the values of our staples, threatens to precipitate alarmingly the fall in values. Our profit margins are being abridged in all directions. Yet the tide of taxation still rises around the weakening foundations of our house. Both in the federal and the State departments of our public affairs there is a constant tendency to increase in the publio burdens, And impudence reaches a height unparalleled in history in some of the projects submitted te our legislative bodies for fleecin the people. We read the other day of ® project placed before Congress for sub- sidizing mining companies to the extent of millions of dollars, What we need is a finance minister who shall have the management of our finance system as a whole both before the legislative bodies and in the department. To put it as shortly as possible, we have no budget and no Minister of Finance who draws it up and bas to answer for it. In all coun- tries governed by a parliamentary system the revenue and expenditure of each year stated by the responsible minister to the representative body. Thus the taxation and the disbursements of the country as a whole are presented to the representatives and the public as a coherent, intelligible thing, which has, like a building, its responsi- ble architect. It is obvious that by this method it is possible to have real financial policy und to control it by public debate and opinion, But our plan of propounding tax bills through committees of the House is one which never can by any possibility introduce logic, coherence, prudence and justice into the Gnancial system of the country. This is a poiat about which ft is of no use to foster illusjens, Such committees will néver pro- ice bills whieh represent anything but the conflicts and compromises of private feelings and: interests. The question of the public advaniage and of the reason of the thing will be always as mearly as possible suppressed. If we are ever to get economy and rationality properly represented in our fiscal affairs we must do it throngh the medium of a minis- ter responsible to the legislative body, sitting in it, talking to it face to face, and exposed to receiving direct blows right between the eyes from skilful opposition hands. We must cry on and cry aloud until we get the modicum of justice possible in the reduc- tion of the taxes. It is a short, simple and easy thing to reduce the federal taxa- tion by a huadred million dollars or so, and the people will be satisfled with nothing less. There must be an end put td annexation by a plébiscite; bat how will it | this conspicuous folly of treasury hoarding, work on board ship? We hope there will be | ation, which takes out of thelr hard-working the harmony of ‘jhe happy family” on board lands the money they so sorely need and between the two races, for otherwise the main | boxes it up idly to eat its own head off in in- Objeot of tho exvedition may be snoiled. terest in mouldy treasury vaults, Have we really no use for money in this land of bigh interest, s¢anty capital and boundless terrl- tory, that has to be roaded, bridged and towned, that we suffer the very men elected by our- selves to wring it from us.and lay it by, like an infatuated old woman who knows no better than to put her surplus cash into a stocking or & teapot? We think these inquiries pertinent at this time, because Congress has as yet given no intimation of moving in behalf of a reduction of the taxes, Our Washington reports tell us that the Finance Committee of the Senate, in seeking suggestions from the Revenue Depart- ment, was met with the assurance that nothing in the way of new legislation is needed. Yet the country Is demanding a change in the gov- ernment’s financial policy, Who will be the Moses to lead the people to thelr deliverance? The Situation Within and Without the Walls of Parts, We can readily perceive, from the telegrams of the Hzrarp special correspondent at the seat of war, -what prominent parts dissensions, jealousies and lack of discipline are playing in the French armies, both in the field and within the walls of the doomed capital. What little German strategy, skill and ability have left undone French incapacity, political influence and jealousy are supplying. In the face of the threatened destruction of Paris, even while the German batteries are throwing their missiles of death and destruction within the very walls of the city, reports of treason, rumors of disagreements and empty threats of future vengeance on the Germans come to us from Paris, General Trochu in bis proclama- tion speaks plainly of an abominable plot which “‘seeks to encourage the suspicion and belief that certain gonerals and other officers of the Army of Paris are about to be. arrested on a charge of giving the enemy information.” That it is necessary for the Governor of Paris to be compelled to issue a proclamation of this nature at this time denying such alle- gation is a misfortune in itself, and too plainly proves that a dangerous and insiduons under current has for some time been at work undermining, impairing and tending to destroy the efficiency of the army. An open, power- ful and determined enemy in front is not all that the Governor and the forces under his command has had to contend against, The secret and hidden enemy close by has preven almost as geyere a foe. What the pernicious effect of this influence may be we niust judge from the comparative efficiency of the armies in the provinges and the armies im the gapital. Trochu bas had niaiy advan- tages on his side in the organization of his forces, which General Paladines, Chanzy, Bourbaki_or Faidherbe 4 xt poa- sess ; and if after months of organi ait, adil. ling and préparation, it will eventually tirn out that this great Army of Paris can do néthing but capitulate, the magniffeent de- fence, the privations of the Parisians, tho uncom¥laining manner in which the horrors of the slege were borne, will go for nought when placed side by side with the final achievement of German success in the capture of the capital. Still retreating, Chanzy has no desire to again meet the forces of the Red Prince. Falling back. The old, old story. Every day sees him farther from Paris, As yet we see no chance of his making another stand. Advancing on Belfort in the east, General Bourbaki steadily moves on. So threatening have his movements appeared that the proba- bility of the raising of the siege is spoken of. A short time will settle the question. Man- teuffel is hurrying on to Von Werder’s aid, and with such an opposition Bourbaki has hot work before him. The Holland Testimonial. The theatres all over the city this after- noon will give special matinées for the benefit of the widow and children of George Holland, the actor, and én memoriam of the merits of that kindly old gentleman himself. Mr. Holland had served so long and so faith- fully on the American stage, and was, withal, so hearty a favorite with his audience and his professional friends, that the occasion will be & great Incident in the annals of our stage. The Wallacks, Fechter, Booth, Jefferson, Miss Glyn, Miss Leclercq, Mme. Seebach, and an innumerable caravan of other brilliant stars now in the city—stars of tragedy and of comedy, of melodrama and of burlesque, the professionals of the sawdust arena, of the east side temples of robust art and of the more re- fined uptown homes of the legitimate—all combine to pay this tender tribute to the memory of a genial associate, whose pleasant quips and gibes have amused them and the New York people for nearly forty years, begin- ning when the chief theatre of New York was in Park row and the most gorgeous operatic hall was in Castle Garden. The outpouring that will testify its respect for the memory of this kindly old gentleman will therefore include not only the profession itself or even the theatre- goers of the present, but will count among it many of those time-honored old citizens whose youthful nights were spent listening to Burton, in Chambers street, or devouring with open mouth the young rantings of those Bowery braves who long ago strutted their brief hours upon the stage. . We do not care to touch again upon the Phariseeism of that minister of God who did Ake to say kindly words over the play- 4 re dead body. hit in the fight which has been given to every modest Christian there can remain no question as to which of the two—the actors to-day or the preacher— more faithfully fulfils ail the teachings of that charity which is greater than faith and hope. Taz TEHUANTEPEO SuRvEYS appear to be going on very satisfactorily. Captain Shu- feldt and his party are in the mountains east of the Tarifa, and Lieutenant Commander Bartlett is at the head waters of the Almoleya river. The problematical supply of water at the spot which Captain Shufeldt is now sur- veying isthe great drawback to the success of the canal route, and his present explora- tions will doubtless decide the point. Tue Case oF YouNG Crosa, the bigamist, is a rather startliag one, and yet there may be and probably are cases hidden ander the thin surface of city society where men with less sensitiveness than Cross have compla- cently carried on two or three housekeeping establishments simultaneonsl« for veare, ‘Tho Reported Dangerous Mines of Count Bismarck, This morning we pablish, in our special despatches, the exact text of a statement which, should it be confirmed in e' articu- lar, and followed by news of the of the great Prussian statesman, whose serious ill- ness it announces, is, in view of its probable consequences, the most important Intelligence that has been received for many a day. We have not been hasty In magnifying the certainty of this news, because the guns of the Paris bombardment are most likely at this time to scare up whole flocks of canards, of every kind of plumage, from the banks of the Seine. Moreover, we can all recollect how the Prussian Crown Prince has been mortally wounded (by French pens) more than once; how Prince Frederick Charles was spirited away (by the same agency) in a splendid leaden coffin, secretly by night, into Germany for interment, lest his army should be demo- ralized by knowledge of his death, and how Von Moltke, tho strategist, has been ‘‘settled” in various similar ways upon various occasions. As for King William himself and his Prime Councillor, they have been shot at, and missed! since they entered Versailles, but with pellets of {nky paper only, an’ the truth were known. But tu the present case our despatch is from first hands and by direct channels, and has the authority of the British diplomatic agent, Mr. Odo Russell, to lend it confirmatory color. Nothing is more probable than that Mr. Russell should seek and obtain an inter- view with the great Prusstan Premier on the eve of the London Conference. This he appears to have accomplished on Saturday night last, and he speaks of Count Bismarck as then exhibiting ‘‘death in his face.” The despatch adds that great pains had been taken by the German authorities to suppress all mention of this (for them) most untoward tidings, but that it may, nevertheless, be credited. Now, Mr. Odo Russell may have mistaken the effects of fatigue and Incessant anxiety, combined with some temporary attack of disease, for symptoms of dissolution; but we can hardly think, on the other hand, that ho would use so strong an expression as the one ascribed to him unless there were some most portentous fact to justify it. oa _ Acceptin the, Statement {hus givon in its fulf fores, the case of Germaa walty and the newly strengthened pride and power of Prussia are gravely menaced by the dangerous condi- tion of their chief-architect and champion. Carl Oito Count Von Bismarck-Schdnhausen, among the statesmen, councillors and political origiiators of Fathéiland, oe & we weer toreee’ Above the rest. In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood uke a tower. erate Hig record sigeg hig appearance in the convé- cation of the Thrée Estates, in the first United Dlef basembied at Berlin in 1847 by_ King Frederick William IV., has been the history of Prussian renovation and progress to the dignity of a first class Power, in the highest sense, and of the elevation of the German alliance to imperial dignity as the arbiter of Europe. For twenty-three years, and in spite of the confu- sion of 1848-49 and the desperate oppesition of his jealous rivals and spiteful enemies, from 1860 to 1864, his star has steadily ascended, not by the suddeo dashes which rarely mark enduring fame, but by those regular, and yet not slow, gradations that accompany tho ripening of a great intellect and exalted character. The comet which flashes athwart the heavens, visible to us with baleful splendor, illuminates them for a period only as brief as it is startling ; but the new luminary that endures and serves to guide the calculations of science for ages rises upon the ken of the observer, phase after phase, and with growing degrees of light, until it poises there, full-orbed as the centre of another celestial system or the harbinger of an approaching constellation yet to be re- vealed, The rémarkable abilities and influence of Count Bismarck—for who knows him or cares for him with the new-fangled title of ‘‘Duke of Strasbourg ?”—have shone out step by step ashe marched on from the rostrum of the Diet in 1847 to the embassies at Frankfort in 1851; at Vienna in 1852, when he diplomati- cally bearded the famous Count Rechberg ; at St. Petersburg in 1859, where the Czar so favored him that he conferred upon him the Order of St. Alexander Newsky, and at Paris in 1862, when Napoleon III. pinned the Cross of the Legion of Honor to bis breast. Next beheld asthe Minister of the Household of his King and of the Foreign Affairs of Prussia, he begins to shape the destinies of Europe, rising above all op- position, however virulent, at home and abroad, until, after having inspired the faith that won Sadowa, he dictates the sub- mission of Austria in the treaty of Nikolsburg, dated 1866, and prepares an answer, whose thunders trembling Paris now hears at her threshold, in response to Napoleon’s boast that his imperial mandate had arrested the victori- ous Prussians under the walls of Vienna, And now survey the work of this master mind at the moment when the workman is summoned from Inbor to rest. Anstria and Scandinavia humbled; Russia securely allied ; England checked ; France crushed ; Fatherland united, with Prussia at her ‘head and King William an Emperor overshadowing Europe. The brain and soul of all this grand achievement was unquestionably the Pomeranian ‘mad Bismarck,” who was, as it seems, but the other day a mere lieutenant in the Landwehr, but who, even then, if the story of his early cha- racteristica be true, earned the eulogium, so tersely summed up in the sentence of Horace, asaman, “gui nib mokitur inepte’—who at- tempts nothing but with successful skill. Therefore, while the death of the great Prus- sian mentor, should it now occur, would pro- bably not alter the position of the German armies in France or postpone the fate of Paris, it would, beyond all question, impede and vary the deliberations of the London Conference and profoundly affect the future diplomacy of his country, When Cavour expired all Italy felt the pang, avd her politioal skies were clonded ina day. The decease of Bismarck would send a shudder through all the bounds of the now vast German empire and every off- shoot of the German race, for, although he ts not, in the ordinary sense, a liberal, the work that he bas done haa, by the inscrutable pro- vidence of God, laid broad and deep the foun- dations of vrozveas and freedom. dézeal as he was {n combination and keen In foresight, he yet ‘builded more wisely than he knew,” and the uplifting of bis voice in the counoils of natlons has unsealed the Ups of millions to the united cry, “Mit Gott und Vaterland!” Congress Yestorday—Preparations for the Next Presidential Election—The State of Utab—End of the Brooks and Hastings Conflict. The Senate yesterday spent the chief part of its session fn a debate upon political affairs in the South, It was started by a resolution offered by Senator Morton, of Indiana, to refer* toa select committee the papers and documents sont to the Senate by the President relating to outrages in the Southern States: The dis. cussion showed how completely the question of the next Presidential election has taken possession of the politiclans, The resolution was represented by its friends as simply pro- posing a necessary and proper investiga- tion, and by its enemies as an attempt to pave the way fora new reconstruction of the Southern States—or, rather, for recommit- ting them to martial law, and so coercing thelr electoral votes in 1872 for the republi- can party, or elss excluding them from the count. Senator Warner, of Alabama, cham- ploned the resolution, and was the most bitter denouncer of the Southern people; but his bit- terness was imputed to the defeat of bis further Senatorial aspirations. Senator Wil- son, of Massachusetts, talked in his pious, God-fearing way, of the atrocities of Ku Klux organizations, at the same time making a bid himself for Southern support by referring to his General Amnesty bill, and declar- ing his readiness to pardon John OC. Breckinridge, whom he looked upon as a bigh-toned, honorable gentleman, Sena- tor Casserly, of California, regarded the movement as an attempt to fan into new life the embers of the late civil war. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, defended the republican party from the charge of desiring to make capital by such means, while Senator Bayard, of Delaware, accused the President of having in this matter and on the St. Domingo ques- tion deliberately violated his policy of ‘Let us have peace.” And thus the debate went on tillthe hour of adjournment, each party giying and receiving hard knocks. It is rather early to enter on tho Presidential cam- paign, but “coming events cast their shadows before.” The only other matters of interest in the Senate were an adyerse report from the Finance Committee on the bill, passed by the House on Tuesday, in relation to foreign werohandise Jmported gn the Sut of of the December, “and the discharge of same committes from the further consideration of the question as to the liability of the New York Central Railroad Company to pay the five per cént tax on its new issue of stock or interest certificates, as being in the nature of a dividend. Senator Sherman stated that the committee regarded the question as one for the deciston of the courts, not of Con- gress, In the House two of the General Appropria- tion bills were disposed of. These were the Legislative, Executive and Judicial bill and the Post Oifice Appropriation bill. Tbe latter was rashed through the Committee of the Whole and afterwards passed by the House withont question or comment, The former had been under consideration for more than a week, and many amendments agreed to in committee had to be voted oa in the House, Of these the most important was that increas- ing the salaries of the Chief Justice and Associate Judges of the United States Supreme Court to eight thousand five hundred dollars and elght thousand dollars respectively. It was carried in the Honse by a vote of one hun- dred and twelve to seventy, and then the bill was passed. A bill for the admission of Utah into the Union was introduced by Mr. Sargent, of California, and referred to the Committee on Territories. But the Utah whose admission is contemplated by thia bill is not the paradise of the Latter Day Saints, but a State regener- ated and disenthralled of the Oriental institu- tion of polygamy. What do Brigham Young and his bishops and elders care for a state of things that would bring them back to the hum- drum, monotonous existence of common- place Christian communities? We may as- sume that so far as they can impede the admission of the State under these conditions they will do so; and, indeed, there seems but little anxlety on the part of Congress for the admission of new States, particularly where there is a doubt about their political com- plexion. The Brooks and Hastings controversy fizzled out in the House yesterday. Hastings re- fused to go on and try to support the allega- tions which he made against Brooks’ reputa- tion as an honest and upright legislator, and 80 the House exonerated Brooks from the charges and discharged the select committee from the further consideration of the subject. So the war will be henceforth carried on in the respective newspapers of the combatants, who will keep moving on each other’s works in ser- ried column. That is better than to eccupy Congress with such nonsense, The London Conference Dificultios. By a special cable telegram, dated in Lon- don yesterday, we are enabled to report a telegraph letter from one of our correspond- | entsin Paris on the subject of the proposed European Congress, or London Conference, its diplomatio entanglements and difficulties. This special telegram assures us that Earl Granville’s circular of invitation addressed to the French government was duly considered and debated by the members of the Ministry of National Defence at two separate meetings of the Cabinet. Difficulties of inception, difficul- ties of communication and difficulties of repre- sentation presented themselves. Lord Gran- ville’s letter had been delayed in passing the Prussian investing lines. It did not reach Paris for twelve days after its moment of date. Then M. Jules Favre, the French envoy, could not get out of (he beleaguered city. “Even if once out he would incur personal danger in passing the German sentinels. Uhited States Minister Washburne here came ‘to the aid of the French people. Bismarck acknowledged the friendly intentions of the Amerfcan repre- sentative and communication waa re-estab- lished between the belligcreysts by flags of truce. M,. Mavre could ibe come forth and journey with his fuce ‘oward the British icapilsl, Ae did vot sngar to be in baste to - Mr J.P, Newcomb, Adjutant Genera! of the State- do so, The Parisians pressed bim to go. citizens Were moved, however, merely by hope that his presence in the Conference would be tantamount to a recoguition of the republic by the great Powers. M. Favre was, it may be, painfully aware both of the inutility of technicalities in such serious cix— cumstances and of the fact that although struggling nations are sometimes strangled. out of existence by means of royal diplomacy the representatives of the monarchies never | attend at the birth or baptism of a free demo- | cracy. The Conference difficulties remain, although we were assured bya second de- spatch from London; which reached us yester- day noon, that the Conference would meet and adjourn almost immediately, awaiting the arrival of M. Favre. Governor Ciayroy, of Arkansas, has been waiting two months and a half before giving the Congressmen elect of his State their certificates. Probably be wants to be sure that they won't ‘“‘go back on him" after they get them. Tr Is Proposep in the State Senate to abolish bone-boiling and fat-melting establish- ments in New York city. Some of the political fat offices in the city might be abolished too. THE TEHUANTEPEG SURVEY. Progress of the Expedition Under Captain Shufeldt and Lieutenant Commander Bartlett, d Captain Shufeldt, United States Navy, and the ex- Ploring expedition under his command, were at Tehuantepec on December 20, Up to that date their explorations and surveys had only been preliminary. The natives are extremely anxious for the coming of the party under Mr. Simon Stevens, of New York, anticipatiag great results from the report of their explorations; but, as many boxes of reports on the isthmus Gow lumber up the departments at Wasn- ington, it is feared that Mr. Stevens’ will be but an addition to those heretofore made. The Kansas encountered a terrible hurricane in going out, and had to remain ashort time in Key West to lana the instruments, which were all water- soaked. They were fully, readjusted while the Kati- sas was undergoing the necessary repairs, The tug Mayflower proved rather a drawback to the expedition, having been sent from Norfolk with: her boliers in such bad condition that about half the time has been spent {n repairing her. She has also been a source of great anxiety, causing delays and stoppages at Minititian which were very vexatious, On the 28th November the surveying party, tn charge of Captain Shufeldt, started up the Coatza- e in four canoes, towed by the steam launch, for La Puerta, on the Jumacapa river. Forty miles up the river thi iné of the launch oke down, and the par vo noes. Having iio pilot, Captain Shuleldt to oie to a a Ad he Jannot ee Sin It overtool aa. on e e rd Deeenbeh Rod sone oe Gj e par a ved on the Beco “Mh duu Inced “the tiouse and ¢ haglenda ak point 1 ouse and al belonwing vot as avea coeides aspen, Wh6 he®S Sstablisnéd his neadquarters, After . day's reg work was commenced by the civil engl- ‘who are men of undoubted capacity, and the of of them speaks the Spanisn language Segre 3 IRA, 9 regio. erto unexplored, exce een by Sevor Morro in 1843. Here the whole secret of the protNeim of an interoceanic canal lies hidden. It is estiniated that if water can be ob- tainod thero for the supply of the summit level a canalcap be built ata ssqscost than by any other known isthmus route, ‘mere are no en; dificulties in the way that cisgnot be surmounted, and it 1s believed that harbors cd be constracted at either end of the canal at a comparatively small ex- nse. i bart party of officers of the navy, under Lieutenant Commander Bartett, are making explorations at the head waters of the Almoloya river and the other streams to the west of Tarifa. The surgeon of Kansas and his assistant are exploring the genet rouse C2 eos proposed oes on the aio elope = eo! ical purposes, &c. ‘Lhe commanding officer fio Kansas ane Mayflower, Lieutenant Commander Farquhar, is surveying the bar at the mouth of the Ugatzacoalcos river, examining into the character of that and adjacent rivers and defining the coast line. The work is all veridied by another party sta- tioned at Uhivila for astronomical purposes. Tous ail hands are busily employed and the work gees on energetically and harimontous'y, the result of which ‘will be to bring about a final decision in regard to the practicability of canal. The party will report very promptly and not waste any time in making out minute maps, the main object Leing to fad a supply of water to feed acanal. It is greatly feared, how- ever, that au adequate supply cannot be found, in which case What would otherwise be the most de- sirable route for a canal yet discovered will have to be abandoned and the party will proceed to Nicara- gua. No news has been received of the arrival of a ship-of-war at Ventosa, Which was @ part of the plan proposed when the expedition left the United States. Ir water 1s found to supply the summit level of the proposed canal then the want of a ship-of-wer wilt be felt, as it will not otherwise be possible to survey ay cr atyee at the proposed exit of the canal at the Pacific. It 1s much feared that the Navy Department will withdraw the Kansas before the work is finished, in which case the surveys and explorations will neces- sarlly be very luacompiete, All the party are in the enjoyment of excelient health. The isthmus is 10 & state of revolution, and bands of rebels, or ‘tnche- tecos,” roan through the country. So far, however, they ‘have offered no obstacles to the progress of the work. On the contrary, the chief of the revolutionary party has called upon Captain Shuteldt, and, witit assurances of protection, did hitm the honor to ap- potnt him mediator between the revolutionists ank the legitimate authoritles, which appointment Cap- tain Shufetdt declined, Personal Intelligence. £x-Senator Alexander H. Rice, of Boston, is 80 journing at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. J. N, McCultough, & prominent railroad man, of Pittsbarg, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel,. Judge Spaulding, of Cleveland, ts at the Firtn. Avenue Hotel. General 8. KE. Marvin, of Atbany, has taken. quar- ters at the Brevoort Honse. 4 Mr. James Henderson, owner of the Anchor line: ol steamers, 18 among the recent arrivals at the St. Dents Hotel. Colonel B. H. Rogers, of the Thirteenth United: States infantry, is stopping at the Metropolitaa: Hotel. Colonel H, Brownson, one ofthe directors of the Union Pacific Ratlroad, is at the Coleman House om 8 brief visit. of Texas, is among the latest arrivals at the Fifti. Avenue Hotel. Mr. Guy C. Underwood, Superintendent of Public. Iusuututions of Boston, Is-at-the Grand Central Hovele A COMPLIMENT FROM A CONTEMPORARY. (From the New York. Standard, Jan. 18.) It is impossible not to feel pride and admiration: for the New YORK HeRAvD, especially durieg. the: . last few weeks, It was never more sprightly, avla._ and Inastractive; never so enterprising and intrepid... ' It is the great newspaper or America, aud, wits some improvements, which will no-doabt comet time, it must become the great newspaper of, tf world. As it now looks, the Journalism of the tatu rests with the HERALD and the Mandara— HERALD chiet among the four-cent presa, Is Standard leading the cheaper press, both. jpurfroia being to New York what the Timex and ‘Leteggaphe are to London. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA, Matinées wit! be given far the Hollaga benefit to. day at the following theatre< i Fifthy Avenue, Wal- lack’s, Boota's, Nidio's, Oixmpic, Wood's, Lina Kawin'’s, New York Circus, Paik and Brooklyn Academy @f Music; Bowery, Chestayt, Puladeiphia,, and Holiday, Baltimore, “The Messiaii” will be given at ‘Stelyway Hall tals eveaing, under the direc! 4 the Telebrayed oom, poser afd conductor George Bristow. Misg Kojtogy Mrs. Kempton, Simpson and Whitney arg the sid. ists, and the chorus 1a setected tm the Moncalysonn, eeliteaeen nnn toate ate vine, U 5 “Ontonbach’s very popway work, “La ferchoto,? Was reproduced at tie Gragd Oper,” flouse last light, with new and splondid sconery dng ¢ fand, ‘hanks t0 Mile, Aimee tty gfe Ness Stuccess almost equal to its tt ¢epresentution by the famous Bateman troupe On eng atin of January, 1869, : ‘The third of the popular Gon of Mr. Bris: tow took place at Zion chu; = aan aupreciative audience, Cc last eveutag belore s