The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1871, Page 4

NEW YORK HERAL BEOADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXVI.......sccccscecseeeeseeesN@, 9 =— ms AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tas SPECTACLE OF Tum BLAOK Cnoox. Matinee at Lig. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway ana 18th street.— ‘Tur Heim at Law. Matinee at Li. LINA EDWIN's THEATRE, 730 Broadway.—H1s Last —MazRrra. Matinee at 2. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sih ar. and 384 st— La Pantowo.e. Matinee . OLYMPIC THEATRE, Br Weer Wruim Winxir. Matinee BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rromaep III.—Mor™ DERED WATERMAN AND His Doa, &0. Matinee at 2. mm PANTOMIME OF WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner 80th st.—Perform: ‘ances every afternoon and ¢ GLOBE THEATRE. 7% Brosdway.—Vaniztr Entree. TAINMENT, £0. Matinee at 234. NEW YORK STADT THEATRE, B he J mops 45 Bowery.—Srapaou FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! ‘Twenty-fourth street.— BAaRaTOGA. Matinee at 1}4. was i BOOTH'S THEATRE, 33d st.. between th and 6th avs,— Love anp Lorauty. Matinee—RIOHELIBU. ACADEMY OF @IUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Turz Hou LAND PE ch Matinee at 2 MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn. — Viorims—SOLON Sutxeue. Matinee at 2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 2M Bowery.—Va- RIEIY ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 23g. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Gouro Vooat- 18M, NEGRO AcTS, &C.—THE Fint Firnp. Matinee at 235. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL HA! 585 Broad —— Neouo MINSTERLSY, Fanoes BUBLECQUEE, nen ey BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 234 at., between 6th and 7th ave.—NeGRO MINSTRELSY, KOORNTBIOITIES, &O, APOLLO HALL. corner 28th street and Broadway.— De. Coury's Diokawa OF IRELAND. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—ScENES IN ‘THE RING, AonoATS, &0. Matinee at 23. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HOOLEY's AN: KELLY & Leox's rescence, . 1 pany BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE——Weica. HucHEs & Warrs's MinsTrEs. —C. YY THE News TO Mary. DR. KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway.— SCAENCE AND Att. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScrgNor AND Axt. Z New York, Saturday, January 21, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, PacE. 1—Advertisements. 2—Advertisements. 3—Advertisements. 4—Editorials: Leading Article, “The Imperial Crown of Germany—King Willlam’s Proclama- tion”’—Personal Intelligence—Amusement An- nouncements. S—The Great Bombardment: Continued Advance of the German Battertes—Bourbaki's Cam 3 Three Days’ Desperate Fighting Near Belfort— Chanzy's Army: Operations in the Nerth— Imperial Germany: The Kaiser William SS aaa +5 ee Na- ion — ropean Congress—The. Albany Express Robbery—The Pope and the Prus- sians—Amusements—The Belgian Crowo— Fire in Nassau Street—Holland Memorial— Views'on the Past—Business Notices. €—Congress: The Income Tax Repeal Strongly En- c in the Senate—The State Capital: The» New Tax Levy Creates a Growl—Lectures by A. Oak and Minnie ©. Swayze— Venezuela: Closing Scenes of the Fall of Mara- caibo—The Burning of the Steamer McGill on the Mississippi—Taxes Limited by Law—The Methodist Muddie—Earnings of Brooklyn Cor- . porations—Another [ong Island Mystery—Wo- Man Suffrage— Murderous Marketmen—Jersey City Public Schools—Phitadelphia Items, ‘7—The_ Galiows: Execution of Henry Welcome, the Vermont Murderer—New York City Courte— The Case of Annie Lee—The New Census of New York vity—A Tricky Traveller—Kelly’s Head—Financial and Commercial Reports— Marriages and Deaths. S—News trom Washington: The President’s First Reception; A Gorgeous Display of Diplomatists and Uther Distinguished People—?he Irish Exiles—Annexation—Shipping News—Adver- tusements. Tue Usvaty BeLuicose Boston Post seems inclined towards the Pacific. Tax Income Tax repeal will come up in the Senate again on Tuesday. It ought to be passed uncoaditionally, without any smother- ing amendments such as were tacked into the bill last session. Tue Demovrats still scout manifest destiny. They persist in decrying such a fine old demo- cratic measure as the annexation of St. Domingo. Their own manifest destiny is de- feat if they do not change their ways. ° Toe Younc Murpgrer, Welcome, who killed an old man named Russell in Hines- burg, Vt., a year ago, was executed in Windeor yesterday. Executions are not very frequent in Vermont, but the Sheriff and his assistants conducted this one with a precision and carefulvess that ought to serve as an ex- cellent model for our local hangmen. Tue Lonpon ConFERENCE for peace between France and Prussia stands adjourned, as we are told by cable telegram, to the 24th inst. Prussia is anxious, s0 we are informed from Berlin, for the assemblage to take place. The diplomatic idea appears to us to have been cloudy at the very moment of its inception; but the fire of the Prussian guns on Paris may dissipate the Ministerial mist before Tuesday next. People live a good deal in the space of four days, just at present. Tae Presipent's reception last evening—the first he has given this winter—was a most decided success, in the matter of crowd and crush, of fine toilets and lovely women and distinguished men. Every room was filled to overflowing with the people from all the States of the Union, and diplomats from all the countries of the giobe and heroes in all the grades of life, come to tender their first hearty and formal congratulation on the new year to the President. Our lady readers will be delighted beyond measure to read our corre- spondent’s description of the dresses of some of the more gorgeous of the ladies of our republican court. Gesgrat Von Montke “‘Arrer” JvLes Faves.—A special telegram from Versailles, forwarded tothe Heratp by way of London and through the cable, compels us to place General Von Moltke and M. Jules Favre in opposition on a question of honor and veracity ; atleast by implication. M) Favre has excited a considerable amount of outside sympathy for bimself by his recital of his forced isolation in Paris at a moment when he wished to repre- sent the French republic in the Buropean Con- | ference, and again attracted a good deal of admiration by his independence of spirit io refusing to accept a Prussian army pass. General Moltke dispels both illusions by stating briefly that M. Favre's application in his own handwriting to the Prussian com- manders for such a pass is now in the hands of the Emperor of Germany at Versailles. Pacts are stubborn things, and Von Moltke is @ very matter-of-fact maa NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1871. Tee Imperial Crowa ef Germaay—Kiag William’s Proclamation. Now ts Germany one; like the breath of the storm Now, Simperor, fise from thy tomb hgain; ravens are underground. In another place in the Heraup of this merning will be found King William's procla- mation, dated Versailles, and embodying o formal acceptance of the imperial crown of Germany. The proclamation is in every sense werthy of the great eccasion, It is brief, yet exhaustive. It is full ef gratitude, but it is also full of dignity. Yielding to the appeal of the German princes and the free towns, the King considers it his duty te accept the responsibility of the imperial dignity and to restore the German empire, defunct since 1806, The new Emperor religtously re- cognizes a Power higher than his own, prays for help, and, in the premises, makes fair promises. We know no man stupid enongh not to be willing to join in the bope that Ger- many may reap in lasting peace the fruits of her bloody battles, and that King William and his successors may be able to protect the re- stored empire, not by warlike conquesta, but by works of peace, freedom and civilization. The restoration of the German empire is one of the grandest events in modern times—we had almost said in the history of the world. It is scarcely fair to call it a restoration, for the reason that Germany was never before, onder any form or forms of government, what she is to-day. There has been a German empire, a Holy Roman empire; but the German or Holy Roman empire always was a heterogeneous and incoherent mass from the days of the First Otho to the days of the Second Francis. To-day, if we except the Austro-German States, Germany is one as she never was one before. Up swells the Belt, the Baltic Sea; Up swells the German wave; Elbe runs to battle merrily wk aes Walt are And Main flows eager on! All old disuaion is forgot— German race is one. > * * * * . What fs the German's Fatheriana No one need ask to-day. What Charlemagne and the Saxon Othos and the Franconian Cwsars and the Hohen- stauffens and the Hapsburgs vainly attempted the Hohenzollerns, one of the youngest of the royal houses of Europe, have, in the person of King William, been able to accomplish. The German empire is not s0 much an old institution revived as a new institution which has been sprung upon the world. In one sense it is a giant awakened from his slumbers ; for in the person of King William the simpler minds among the German people recognize the resurrected Frederick of the Red Beard. In another sense it is a new giant created afresh and flung upon the world with powers mightier than any the world has known before. This power is reflected from the Hall of Mirrors of the palace of the Kings of France. The restoration cannot be properly under- stood without a reference to the past. The German empire some would date from the year 800, when Charlemagne received at the hands of Pope Leo the Third the imperial crown—a crown which in the estimatien of the Holy See had not been worn since Constantine abandoned the ancient Rome of the West for the new Rome of the East. Others again, and, as we think, with better reason, date it from the year 936, when Otho the First was crowned by Pepe John the Twelfth. Certain it is that the em- pire of Charlemagne crumbled to pieces under his feeble descendants. The Bard, the Stam- merer, the Fat, the Simple Were unequal to the task imposed upon them, and the mighty fabric reared by the great Charles fell, and the fall was great. The restoration, or, rather, the re-establishment of the empire—which then unquestionably became German as well as Roman—under Otho proved more enduring; for, in spite of the change of dynasties and the social and political revolutions which marked the interval, the empire established under Otho virtually remained until the year of our Lord 806. During all those years the German and Holy Romaa empire was a grand, living fact, and a mighty Power—the associate and companion ofthe Papacy. The history of the world fer well nigh ten centuries was the history of the German or Holy Roman empire. In the year 1806 the successes of the First Napoleon and his ruinous innovations in Germany—innovations which culminated in the act of the Confederation of the Rhine— Francis the Second bowed to fate and by a declaration dated August the 6th resigned the imperial dignity and retired to the government of his hereditary dominions as Emperor of Austria. The crown then let fall was the crewn of Augustus, of Constantine, ef Charles, of Otho of Barbarossa, of Maximilian; eight hundred and seventy years after Pope John had crowned the first Saxon, one thousand and six years after Pope Leo had crowned the Frankish monarch, eighteen hun- dred and fifty-eight years after Cmsar had conquered at Pharsalia, the Ger- man, or, as we must again call it, the Holy Roman empire, perished. From that day Germany became less a unit than ever. The German people, however, believed in and loved the same Fatherland, as they spoke the same language, and their desire of natienal unity was strengthened, not weak- ened, by the fall of the empire. Their poli- ticians schemed and worked for this unity ; their philosophers dreamed of it ; their poets— Korner and Arndt and Ruckert and the rest— sang of it; their historians read and inter- preted history in favor of it; their soldiers have ever been willing to fight for ‘it. Hitherto,dynastic jealousy has been too strong for popular sentiment and desire. The year 1848 seemed for a moment to have brought about the realization of German dreams; but the year 1848 in Germany, as elsewhere, proved a year ef revolutionary failures. The year 1866 startled Germany herself. It tore her asunder, but it revealed to her her strength. The Hapsburgs were found to be weak, but the Hohenzollerns were found to be strong. The war which still wages has done more for German unity than all the dreams and schemes and projects of all the past. The war is not ended; but the French ravens have disappeared from the brow of the hill underneath which the Great Frederick so long has slept; the Emperor himself lives again; the resurrection is complete, and Germany is ose. In this year of our Lord 1871, and just one hundred and _ seventy- Hohenzollern becomes Emperor of Germany. After a lapse of sixty-five years the empire of Otho and of Charlemagne is revived; but the new empire is not and will not be in any sense Roman or holy. King William has made a very sensible proclamation. Let us hope that the German empire will prove blissful to the German people; and let us also hope that the German people, united, will be powerfully instrumental in advancing the great cause of human civilization. They have yet an unfinished task on their hands. The result is not doubtful. Privilege and responsibility are both great with them. It will be well for them and well for humanity if, in the hour of their triumph, they remember mercy rather than judgment. A great people greatly fa- vored can afford to be magnanimous. The Military Operations in France. Darker and darker grow the prospects for France. ach suceeeding day brings us nearer to the climax of the war, which, almost without a possibility, can only termi- nate in the humiliation of the once powerful French nation. As if disaster begot disaster, failure after failure has so succeeded each other throughout the whole campaign that nothing short of a miracle can now stay the tide of German victory. Chanzy’s defeat at Le Mans was a sore blow to the French cause. Great expectations, based upon its imposing strength, buoyed up the hopes of the French people that the Army of the Loire would not disappoint the belief of the country, and that the task it essayed would be successful. How have these expecta- tions been satisfied? Certainly not in victory. No. Defeat has supplied the place of triumph, and the latest news we have from France informs us that even now the move- ments of the Duke of Mecklenburg in his march en Rennes by way of Mayenne will not only compel Chanzy to retreat southward, but will effectually prevent the reinforcements gathered at Cherbourg from forming a junction with the Army of the Loire. Indeed, it seems as if Chanzy’s army is rendered almost help- less from assuming further offensive operations. Brave as the French soldiers may be, their lack of discipline and organization tells sadly against them when they meet in battle the vet- erans of Germany. Following on the heels of. Chanzy'’s .defeat comes Bourbaki’s repulse near Belfort—another disaster to add to the many that have already preceded it. With Bourbaki, as with Chanzy, great achieve- ments were expected. In his defeat another hope has been destroyed. We are told he is retreating; but we have learned long since to know what a French re- treat nowadays means. In the north Faid- herbe advances cautiously on Amiens; but as he approaches the city his dangers multiply, and the German army, we feel assured, is pre- pared for him. Besides, Faidherbe has not got an army which can impress General Von Goeben with fear. The struggle in the north, when that struggle comes, will but add another to the many failures which have already attended the Freneh armies. The very act of sending Manteuffel to the east to oppose Bourbaki while a comparatively un- tried general was left to watch the French Army of the North is of itself sufficient proof to show that Faidherbe’s movements were not dreaded by the German Commander-in-Chief. The end draws near. Chanzy’s forces are checkmated ; Bourbaki’s army repulsed; Faid- herbe is moving, but moving, possibly, to his own destruction, and Paris, suffering, replies but feebly to the German bombardment. Secretary Boutwell nd His Balance. According to the latest statement of the Treasury balances Mr. Boutwell now holds about one hundred millions of dollars, even after deducting the value of the outstanding coin certificates. Strictly speaking, the ac- crued interest on the public debt should also be deducted, but for all practical purposes we may take the general figures of the resources of the Treasury as above stated. Here is an enormous sum lying idle inthe government coffers, the distribution of which would quicken life in the channels of trade, start freslt business enterprises and give employ- ment to thousands who are now in want of work. Can we wonder that’ there are com- plaints of dulness and depression in trade when the money of the people, which is to the nation what the blood is to the man, lies stagnant in the vaults of the Treasury? Mr. Boutwell can find no pretext, certainly, for withholding this money from circuléfiov. Here in our own city a great government enterprise—the new Post Office—is lying a mass of abandoned stone and derricks, awaiting the loosening of the national purse strings. The masons, me- chanics and other workmen, who would be employed were the edifice progressing in con- struction, are idle at the most rigorous season efthe year. This is only one instance where the gevernment money might be usefully dis- bursed, It is the masses of the people who make business. Their individual wants are the little currents which go to form the great stream of wholesale mercantile traffic. Were they all idle our great houses would soon close their doors. But the hoarding of this sum is a great loss in another respect. It draws no interest whatever. With the people it would earn at least ten per cent; but with Mr. Bout- well it fails even to gather the conventional six or seven per cent. Some energetic protest should be made against this policy of the Secretary of the Treasury. General Grant’s broad common sense ought to see that his Finance Minister is not discharging the trust reposed in him when he thus elogs the wheels of trade by holding these unnecessarily large balances of money idle in the government vaults. ‘Treasury Tse Liz Direct was given between the rural gentlemen in the Assembly yesterday during the discussion on the Whitehall and Plattsburg Railroad ferry scheme, across Lake Champlain. These railroad matters, like the tariff, seem always to be fiery subjects of dis- cussion. It is unsafe to go into them as heartily as these countrymen do, but there must have been something unusually blood- curdling about this ferry scheme. A But was Presentep ia the Legislature yesterday to make the State pay some twelve thousand dollars for equipments, &c., for the Seventy-ninth regiment. It would be better nine years since the coronation of the first | first to furnish the regiment with some men. Prussian king, the head of the house of 1 [t hae a very slim roll at present. Congress Yosterday—A Territorial Govers- ment for Washington—Woman Suffrage Defeated—The Ku Klux Committeeo—The Income Tax. The House of Representatives was engaged yesterday in the consideration of business re- lating to the District. of Columbia. The only very important measure was a bill, which had already passed the Senate, to organize a sort of Territorial government for the District, The bill abolishes the present municipal corpo- rations of Washington and Georgetown and substitutes for them a Governor and Legisla- tive Assembly. The Governor is to be ap- pointed by the President and to hold his office for four years. The Legislative Assembly is to be composed of a council, consisting of eleven members, to be also appointed by the President, and a House of Delegates, consist- ing of twenty-four members, to be elected by the voters. The District is also to have a dele- gate in Congress. The great objection made to the bill was—and, strangely enough, it came from the republican side of the house— that It was an’attack upon the great American principle of popular representation, and that the Governor and members of the Council should be elective officers; and, still more strangely, it was a democratic member from this city, Mr. Fernando Wood, who defended the principle of the bill, and contended that it was for the interests of the District that the selection of its Governor should not be left in the hands of the voters, but should be entrusted to the President, who would be responsible to the whole people of the United States for the proper exercise of that power. Mr. Wood's position, however correct it may be in a prac- tical, common sense view of the matter, does not exactly square with the democratic princi- ples expounded in Tammany Hall, and we must congratulate him on the progress he has made ia the problem of municipal reform. To be sure he does not admit that the same prin- ciple should apply to*this city. He thinks there is no analogy between the two cases. We are not so sure, however, that it might not be applied with advantage even here. A sys- tem of municipal government which practi- cally takes the control of affairs out of the hands of the taxpayers and gives it to those who, owning no property, have really no interest in the financial affairs of the city, is one which cannot be defended. The Prussian system in operation in Berlin appears to be one that reconciles the interests of the taxpayers with the political rights of the general public. There the municipal body is divided into three equal parts. One-third is elected by taxpayers paying more than a cer- tain amount of yearly tax om their city pro- perty; another third is chosen by the tax- payers paying the next highest amount of taxes, and the other third is chosen by all the small taxpayers and voters generally. The body thus constituted, and thus representing all classes of the population, chooses the Mayor and his deputy, the School Commis- sioners, the Commissioners of Public Works, the law officers and all the other officers of the municipality. Sucb a plan as that might be introduced with great advantage in our atro- ciously misgeverned cities, that are now plun- dengd under our much vaunted democratic system. To connection with the bill for the new gov- ernment of Washington the question of woman’s suffrage came up, and had a square vote, on a proposition offered by Mr. Julian, ef Indiana, to strike out the word “male” in connection with the qualification of voters. Mrs. Victoria Woodhull was in the Capitol, encouraging and urging on the supporters of woman suffrage, and almost irrepressible in her efforts to get on the floor bodily ; but this time, at least, the movement was defeated. ‘The woman suftrage amendment was defeated by 117 against 55, and thus the city of Wash- ington is saved from this experimental abomi- nation. It should be said, to the credit of the democratic members, that not a single one of them voted for the proposition. The bill for the new government of Washington was then passed. In the Senate there was a discussion on the subject of the Sutro Tunnel bill, which pro- poses to pay out of the Treasury fifty thousand dollars for every five hundred feet completed, and on the bill to refund to the States the interest and discount paid by them on money borrowed for the purpose of raising, equip- ping and forwarding troops during the war; but both bills were laid aside without action. Another aspirant to represent Georgia in the Senate—Mr. Foster Blodgett—had his cre- dentials presented and referred. A resolu- tion for the appointment of a select com- mittee on telegraph legislation was introduced, and is to be voted on next Monday. The new Ku Klux committee was appointed, in the persons of Senators Scott, of Pennsylvanig; Wilson, of Massachusetts; Rice, of Arkan- sas; Chandler, of Michigan, and Bayard, of Delaware. Finally, a bill for the repeal of the income tax was made, by the encouraging vote of thirty-two to twelve, the special erder for Tuesday next. After that sensible vote the Senate adjourned till Mon- day, but a few members of the House will go up to the Capitol to-day and go through the dreary farce of reading essays to one another, to be afterwards embalmed in the Congres- sional Globe. one Gopsrep THE Irish ExiLes Arrgr ALL— Sweeny. cue eso Lue Tak Hasrines-Brooxs ControvERsy.—A Washington correspondent of ours, ia certain remarks of bis im a late despatch on this basiness, seems to give credit to a rumor that ‘Hastings’ friends begged Brooks to let up on him,” and soon. We have reason to believe that Mr. Hastings simply declined to show his hand in Congress in the matters in dispute because he preferred the usual tribunal in such cases. We think, too, the result in, the House shows that for all parties concerned he acted wisely in this decision. The House has certainly acted properly upon the subject in dropping it, and the belligerenta will do well to follow this example. We are rather sur- prised that a journalist of the long experience of Mr. Brooks should carry a mere newspaper quarrel of this sort into Congress, and we are gratified for the sake of both parties at the action of the House. Neither party has any- thing to fear in letting the matter drop, and it is only due to Mr. Hastings to say that he has no time to waste upon such foolish things as this needless and useless personal newspaper quaccel. while in his general conduct of one of the very best evening journals of these tins he is winning golden opinions from all parties end all classes of the community, The Proposed Menument to Mr. Tweed— The Spleedid Iden of a New York Walhalla. ‘Tis strange there should such difference be ‘Twixt tweediedum and tweediedee, But the difference exists, and it is just the difference that we find bet ween— Here I go up, up, up, And here I go down, down, down. And it was made manifest at that famous gathering at Tammany Halla year ago, at whioh ‘the Young Democracy” were squelched. Tweed, with six hundred policemen, more or leas, took possession of the Wigwam, and the door was shut, That was tweedledum. O'Brien and his posse were left out in the cold, and that was tweedledee. And so now the faithful followers of the ‘‘Boss” are going to build him a monument. Committees, we un- derstand, have been appointed in the several wards to raise the money, and, modest enough, fifty thousand, they say, is the figure. The site selected is the new Tweed plaza, at the junction of East Broadway and Grand street—a generous recognition of the claims of the east side of the town. And the design adopted for the monument, as we are kindly informed, is the happy conceit of a colossal hollow figure in brass of the ‘‘Boss” as the big Indian, seated in an arm chair, holding in his right hand the scroll of our new city Char- ter, and in his left the pipe of peace. Exquisite design, this. Oouldn’t be better. Mark how harmoniously it blends the majesty of the Grand Sachem with his starting point to grandeur and glory—that ‘‘old arm chair,” bearing the inscription :— T love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving this old arm chair. This is the design selected. Among others submitted there was one intended to repre- sent the ‘‘Boss” inspecting a group of fast horses in front of his splendid stable; but it was rejected as trenching upon the superior claims of Bonner's Dexter and Jo Ellioti. Another plan, representing our hero in a standing position, holding up his new tax levy, was declined because it too nearly resembled the melancholy statue of ‘‘Honest Old Abe” at Union square. Lastly, a very, elaborate design—intended to perpetuate in a railway train, under a full head of steam, that famous night trip of the Grand Sachem, from the squelching of O’Brien at Tammany Hall to the souffing out of Genet at Albany on the Char- ter—was rejected, because the general idea, and more, too, is embodied in the Vanderbilt bronze on the top of the railway depot in Hud- son street, Is there anything in the world to compare with that Vanderbilt bronze? No. We approve the design adopted for the “Boss” if Mr. Tweed, of all the big Indians, is alone to have the honor of a contemporaneous monument. But we have a much grander idea te propose, an idea which embraces all our City Fathers under the new dispensation. The brown stone figure of General Cass, which was for years a puzzle to the bummers of the City Hall Park, suggested this idea, to wit— Have all our city officials done in that style in brown stone, and have them arranged in the form of a grand circle or “ring” around the. sheep walk of the Central Park, with the “Boss” in the centre, on a pedestal five hun- dred feet high, and in his unrivalled act of opening a bottle of champagne. But a still better plan would be that of the Pantheon of Rome or that of the Walhalla of Bavaria. Let it be the Walhalla; and if it must be on the east side of the town let it be in Tompkins square. Let it not be a plan that it will take as long to complete as the Cathedral of Co- logne or our new Court House, but something which can be carried out rigat off, and which our reigning city authorities can see for them- selves in its perfection before it is too late for them. Life is short and power is‘fleeting, and we have no time to lose in monuments intended to curry favor with living men or reigning potentates. To have this New York Walhalla, then, finished within a few months, let it be made of wood, iron and glass, and painted in all the colors of the rainbow; and let the lower floor be appropriated to sculp- tures in wood of all our city officials; for have we not among our unemployed ship sculptors the artists who can do the work? and are not their tobacco signs equal to anything we have inmarble? Secondly, let the second floor be devoted to paintings of the triumphs of ‘the Boss” and ‘‘the ring” over all their enemies, including the presentation of those ten tons of silver plate to ‘‘Hank Smith” and the upsetting of “Jimmy O’Brien’s” coal cart in the Seventh ward. Let the third floor be reserved for the storage of the torches, transparencies and properties of democratic processions, and let the building be crowned with a dome like a balloon, and ‘‘Big Six” as in the act of ‘‘going up in the balloon” while waving his ‘Stars and Stripes” to the admiring crowd below. If we were quite sure of an admiring posterity for a Tweed monument we would go in his behalf for a pyramid of Cheops or a Pompey’s Pillar. But, remembering the bad luck of the mighty monument of Louis XIV., in 1792, and the shabby treatment, in 1870, in Paris, of the trademark of Napoleon, we go for a monu- ment for Mr. Tweed which he and his living hosts of admirers can enjoy. We go for it now because now is the time to strike, while the iron is hot, and because Napoleon at Wil- hemshohe is a sort of warning that delays in monuments to reigning dictators are dangerous. Finally, we go for a Walhalla, and right off, because, with a tax levy at the discretion of “the Boss,” as they propose to make it at Al- bany, it will be all the same whether one mil- lion or five or ten millions, are taken from the city Treasury to foot the bills, and because we don’t know how long these inviting facilities will last. Let Mr. Twombly, then, bring in a billfor a Walhalla. Ong ov tHe Romanoss or Crty Lirs is re- vealed in the case of Annie Lee, the young, handsome and respectable wife of a burglar, now confined in the Tombs, She was before Judge Bedford yesterday on a charge of smug- gling arope in to her husband in order to assist him inescaping. In her affidavit the young wife states that she never knew that her hus- band was engaged in any unlawful business until after his arrest. released her. Wrspow—The determination of the Irish exiles to have uo at Sweeny's. The Judge promptly | ‘The Fenian Exiles in New Yort:* O'Donovan Rossa and his companions exile, who have been so warmly received their conn! en and by others of Hil lineage extraction, deserve credit compliment for the good, sound sensé modest, manly dignity with which they have turned deaf ears to the voice of the political charmer, and have waived extravagant publid demonstrations suggested by over-zealous friends. The ardor and impulsiveness of the Irish character, while they give {atensity to success, also add bitterness to failure. The enterprise in which Rossa, O'Connell, Devoy, Mulledy and McClure and their companions were active resulted in disastrous defeat. The consequence was terrible suffering to these men and their immediate friends and much discouragement to all who were enlisted in the true cause of Ireland’s regeneration. For them, after they had been brought face to face with the stern reality of British power, and had felt the weight of British chains in the gloom of British prisons, there were no more illusions. Being men of Intelligence they recognized the colossal truth thus forced upom them and ground inte their very souls by the iron contact of penal fetters, and they come forth chastened into a wise unwillingness te be made the instruments of further deceptions, such as heated fancy fosters amid the fictitious enthusiasm of mere political meetings and banquetings. In this attitude they are more likely to be of use to their mative land, through prudent counsel and by imparting practical in- formation to their countrymen in America, than in any other way at present open to them, It needs no prophet to foretell, from a study of the political horoscope of the Old World, that an hour is rapidly approaching when Iree land will emerge, with the rest, from the gloom that has so long overhung the popular life of Europe. All the Western races, the people of America included, are evidently in the midst of a mighty transition, amounting, in effect, to a dozen revolutions of the more antiquated kind rolled into one. The United States are in the centre of this political cyclone, and therefore enjoy comparative calm. But all around us, on whichever side we may look, are angry skies and tossing bil- lows. The really most formidable trial for Europe is to come when. Paris shall have sure rendered and the London Conference shall have closed its session. Tho great ship called “France” will not sink without carrying down other neighboring systems in the eddy and the vortex of her descent. This the statesmen of the older Continent know full well, and the hour of their most intense anxiety is by ne means past. It is only approaching. The shadow of the coming year rests on their council tables, broad, black and heavy. Their wisdom is everywhere revealed, not in vaunt- ing, but in preparation. Strange, indeed, if the people cannot profit by this conspicuous example. We may well believe that they are doing so in Great Britain, in Germany, in Italy, in Spain, and that 1871 may be ren- dered for their cause as decisive as Prussian foresight made 1870 for the plans of the Berlin Cabinet. In this view of the future the patriots of Ireland prefer, no doubt, to counsel quiet, moderation, instruction and watchfulness te all who desire to stand arrayed under the ban- ner of truth when the bugle shall sound the grand réveillé, and not to waste their forces, pbysical, intellectual and financial, in such tricks of local politics as bear no more relation to the dignity of an earnest purpose than do the squibs and firecrackers of a schoolboy’s holiday to the guns that cleared the path of independence at Yorktown, and in later years swept back the Stars and Stripes to the bat- tered ramparts of Fort Sumter. Tue Farr Sex hada fair showing ia the House yesterday, and polled a vote of 55 for woman suffrage to 117 against it, Let them take courage. Ten years ago negro emancipation could not possibly have shown such a full hand as that, Personal Intelligence. Governor Hoffman ts at the Clarendon Hotel. Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell, of Hartford, among the latest arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General F, T. Dent, of Washington, catae to the city yesterday and put up at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge H. A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Hon. Isaac Livermore, of Boston, is sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge A. Green, of New Jersey, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge R. D. Rice, from Maine, has arrived from Vancouver's Island. On the 30th December last he saw roses in full bloom in Puget Sound, The Judge 1s now at the Brevoort House, Hon, George B. Loring, of Boston, has apart- ments at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. F. W. Seward, son of ex-Secretary Seward, is temporarily at the Coleman House. General N. H. Davis, of the United States Army, is +] quartered at the Grand Central Hotel. He sails toe day by the new steamer Alaska for the Mediterra- nean. General Von Schmidt, the celebrated engineer of San Francisco, has returned to his apartments at the Metropolitan Hotel. b General W. N. Coler, from Illinois, is at che St, Nicholas Hotel on a brief visit. State Senator J. H. Ramsey, of Albany, is sojourn. ing at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. B. ©. Piper, of Bostou, Assistant Secretary ot State of Massachusetts, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge Dwight Foster, of Boston, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on a brief visit. George D. Lord, member ef Assembly, of Roches- ter, ta stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Walker Harriman has taken quarters at the Fifch Avenue Hotel. Commander Meade, of the United States Navy, ta alse at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. WAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Lieutenant Commander George H. Perkins has been om dered to an examination for promotion; Maste: Cha. les O. Alltbong bas been ordered to the Ticonderoga; Lleutensat ". De Long has been detachad fri Lancaster: and pinced on walling ordert. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. The Superintendent of the General Recruiting Serrica & New York is ordered to prepare a detachment of eighty re- cruits to be sent at once to Fort Monroe. ‘Major J. M. Wilson is relleved from duty at Atbang, N. ¥., and ordered to Oswego, N. Y., to relieve Major N. Bowes of the charge of the fortifications, river and harbor improve- menta and all surveys and other duties of his charge. Major Bowen, on netng relieved, is ordered to San Feancinco, Cal., to relieve Major H. M. Robert of his duties xs engineer offi. cer on the staff of the commanding officer of the Military Division of the Pacific. Major Robert is to t Telny of the rensury fr Guay in tho ighinoase enabis 16 coast gecond Kgootenant M. G. Wilkinson, of the Third infantry, 4s detauod Bor duty ae aide-de-camp on the Malt of General, “A board of officers to consist of C Fi of the Third arullicry;Asstant, Surveom Jone eta and First Lieutenant Thomas H. B: 7 of the Twenty-f Infantry, {a ordered to convene in this city ‘on the 2a tat. to ine into the qualifications of certain persons for ep- tment as superintendents of natiopal cemeteries,