The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1871, Page 4

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KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUS! 1,7 — Botgnow® anv Arr. hich ta rh ted burg. —BLIND Tow, THe \_NEW YORK MUSE! F ANATOMY. a Bolten on CR MCSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway. Now York, Saturday, cember 23, 1871. CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Pace. mre 1— Advertisements, Adverusements. ‘3—Finaucisl and Commercial Reports—The Career ol a Fast Young Man—Boutwell's Financial Poltoy—Quarantine A ffairs—advertisements. 4—Eilioriais : Leading article, “Our African Ex- ploring Expedirion—Dr, Livingstone and the Sources of ive Nile’—Personal Intelligence— Aflairs 11 Ciuh—Another Railroad Accident~- f Amusement Announcements, G—Cable Telegrains irom France, Austria, Italy, Spain, 4 Holland and Engiand—The Prince of Wales’ Healtu—The Erle Ratlway: Joy Among the Stockholders in London at News Recetved from New York—News from the West indies—The Cases of the Hornet and Forlda—Afairs in Venezuela—Riot in Cura- 0u-—Canada—The New nil Society: An- rsaty Bahquet at — Pelmontco’s—The Weather—Virzinta Finahces—Miscellaneous Telegrams—Buziness Notices, G@—Burope: Mati Details—Murder im Newfound. tand—Pouluical Movements and Views: Radical Delinquencies—Viavolical Outrage ou a Young School Giri—News from Cuba—Nilsson's Lover Agatn—Obituary—Tne “Black Crook” Ballet Giris—Police Triais—HKorse Notes—Pigeou Shooting—An Unlucky Game of Silhards— ‘The Lake Village Uutrages—A Money Grabber Come to Gries. 9—The McGehan- My : Poor Vallandig- ection Frauds 1 a r ‘Trial of Miner, the Alleged Counterfette: je Public Offices: ‘The City aud county Vebt—City Chambertain Bradiey’s Reply to Compirolier Greeu—The False Charge Against Judge Bedford—Comp troller Counoliy’s Case—Views of the Past— Marriages and Deat:s. @—News from Washiugton—Mrs. Wharton's Trial at Annapolis—Aiexis Leaving Canada—>* ews from the Pacific Coast—Miseries Atiending Riopement—The Veteraas of 1812 and 1861— Locat News—Shipping Lntelligeuce—Adver- tivements, : Tux Ixrerest ON THE VirGinia Svate Dest is not to be paid on the Ist of January, According to our despatches from Richmond both bouses of the Legislature have adopted & resolution to suspend the payment of the {Interest to the bondholders pending investiga- Yions. Tax Dirricutty BrrweeN GERMANY AND * Brazit.—Some time ago a Brazilian judge or justice got into a equabble with some Prussian paval officers in a hotel in Rio Janeiro, and, the affair having been treated seriously by the German government, to the extent of ordering men-of-war to the Brazilian coast, the latter government has given notice that the act of the justice has been disavowed and the _ pffender dismissed from office. This, we pre- ere: will be sufficient apology to King Wil- iam, and the matter will drop. Tur Granp Duke ANp QureNn Vicrorta.— As the Russian Prince was on bis way from Toronto to Niagara yesterday the train bear- Ing bis party alighted for a few minutes at Mamilton, partly by request and partly of ne- Ceasity. As be stepped into Hamilton station ® longihy despatch was handed to him from Her Britannic Majetty, announcing the gratifying intelligence of the progress- ing convalescence and probable recovery of the Prince of Wales. According to our de- fpatch in another column the Grand Duke was highly delighted ai this plece of courtesy on the part of the Queen, and be immediately telegraphed a reply, thanking the royal sender and earuestly desiring that her wisbes in respect to the Prince's recovery might be Bpeedily realized. YORNET AND FBroripa difficulties @ peaceably settled, or, as far as ‘essel is concerned, ure in the way settlement After all their blus- ving the Spanish authorities st these two American ves- tien government having ve demands for the sur- itling «f the Hornet, the NEW YORK H#ItADD, SATURDAY, DECEMBEK 7%, 1871, Oar Afrione Kxploring Expedition—vr. Live | the clvilized world by the same outlet from ingstone aad the Sources of the Nilo. Wherein { spoke Of most disastrous chances, or moving accidents by flooa and dent 3 Wherein of antres vast ana desercs idle, vf Rough quarries, rocks, and nulls whose heads touch iy Waker Bi to speak—such was the process; And of the cannibais that each other cat— ‘The Anthropophagt, and men whose heads Do grow beneath thelr shoulders. ‘this to wear Would Destemona seriousiy wecliae. — Othello, When General Sherman, on the verge of the winter of 1861-5, siruck out from the ruins of Atlanta on his famous “march to the sea,” and when, being cut off from all com- munication with the outside world, we had not heard from him for many days, a visitor at the White House in search of information on the subject was answered by ‘‘Honest Old Abe" to this effect: ‘‘ No, sir; we have no news from Sherman. We only know that he left Atlanta to shift for himself in the enemy's country. We know where he went in; but we don’t know where he will come out. Still, we think he will come out somewhere, and we are waiting to bear from him.” So had we been waiting and hoping for many days for tidings from our exportenced Orientat traveller charged with the bold enterprise of an. expedition into the heart of Eastern’ Equatorial Afrioa in seardh of Dr. Living- atone, when the welcome letter came to hand which we had the hoaor to lay before our readers yesterday morning. General Sher- man came out at Savannah, and his first de- spatch from that point was the present of the conquered city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift. It was a bappy thought, and we adopt it in submitting the opinion that a more acceptable Christmas offering to the readers of the New York Hgrarp could not have been devised for thei than the exceed- ingly interesting letter from our African explorer which we have laid before them, dated “Kwihara, District of Unyanyembe, July 4, 1871.” An African exploring expedition is a new thing in the enterprises of modern journalism, and in this, aa In many other great achieve- ments of “the third estate,” to the New Yore Hraxp will belong the credit of the first bold adventure in the cause of humanity, oiviliza- tion and science. The idea of this costly and hazardous undertaking was suggested from the success of our Abyssinian adventure accom- panying the memorable expedition of General Napier; and from the admirable letters of our commissioner in this present under- the heart of savage Africa, Our theory is that when our traveller reaches Ujiji he will learn that Dr. Livingstons has gone north- ward to join an expedition that had come up to that other big lake from Egypt. We refer to the splendidly equipped army expedition sent up the Nile, a year or more since, by Ismael Pacha, under that king of African ex- plorers, Sir Samuel Baker, to annex the whole valley of the Nile, including its great lakes, to the viceroyally of Egypt. We havo a report that Sir Samuel was shot in a mutiny of his troops on the Upper Nile; but we think it a fiction of the Arabs. He may have finished his upward journey and may have been at Laks Albert N’Yanza in time not only to rescue Dr. Livingstone by an expedition sent to hunt him up, but we hope that Sir Samuel was still within striking distance of our Afrioan traveller from Ujiji. Should this theory be confirmed, especially in reference to the outlet of Tanganyika Lake, the enter- prise of the New York Herarp in this African expedition will be associated, in the solution of the mysterles of the Nile, with the names of Bruce and Speke and Grant, and of Baker and Benton and Livingstone, In any event, we may, without vain boasting, claim that our example in this African adventure can bardly fail to give a new impulse to such enterprises in that vast and interesting Conti- nent, with its abounding resources awaiting the developments of civilization. The British government, in our judgment, bas been too slow and too penurious tn its feeble attempts in behalf ‘of Dr. Livingstone, From what our representative in this African Journey has already accomplished with his }bmall force wo are sure that a properly equipped exploring expedition of five hundred men from the British government could traverse without difficulty the whole breadth of Equatorial Africa from séa to sea; and we are confident that an expedition of this character would soon be followed by the active development of the boundless resources of savage Africa, East and West, compared with which those of Australia are few and scanty. It may be months before we hear again from our courageous African traveller, but we are strong in thehope not only that we shall hear from him again, but that we shall hear of the complete success of his great undertaking, both in regard to Dr. Livingstone and the out- let of Lake Tanganyika, And ao, from year to year, we gather in the bounteous harvest taking, published from time to time, from Ezypt and from different countries of Western and Central Asia, back to the traditional site on the Euphrates of the Garden of Eden. A traveller of this varied and extensive experience, we were satisfied, was the very man to detail on the perilous search in the wilds of Africa for Dr. Livingstone, It wilt be observed, too, that in the necessary men, carriers and equipments of his expedition, our commissioner exhibits the sterling qualities of an old African campaigner and the careful atteation to all essentials of a sagacious mill- tary leader. We are sorry that, from the slow pace at which all things move in Equatorial Africa, our faithfal agent was delayed in his departure from the coast until on his march he was caught in the rainy season, and that serl- ous attacks of sickness to himself and his company were the consequences, in crossing the dismal swamp of Makata; bat we rejoice to know that the brave chief of the expedition and his followers, all things considered, accom- plished the roughest part of their appointed journey in pretty good condition, We are thus encouraged in the hope that this expedi- tion will settle all doubts in reference to Dr. Livingstone, and we hope, too, that it will accomplish something more than the solution of the Livingstone mystery. From Bagomoyo, on the east coast of Af- rica, near Zanzibar, to Ujiji, on Lake Tangan- yika, where Dr. Livingstone is supposed to be, the distance is some nine hundred miles, straight into the heart of the Continent. At Kwibara, in Unyanyembe, our expedition had accomplished five hundred and twenty-five miles of this distance. It had reached that vast and lofty tableland which stretches from the great equatorial lakes of the Nile down to the diamond fields of South Africa—that ele- vated plateau from which the rivers flow east- ward into the Indian Ocean, westward iato the Atlantic, or northwardly into the Nile. But this tableland abounds in lakes, like the plateau of Minnesota wiih ils countless lakes, which are the sources of the Mississippi, flow- ing south, and the Red River of the North. The African lakes of tbe region at the head of | the Nile and southward are not so numerous as those of Minnesota, but they are larger, approaching in their dimensions our great lakes. Lake Tanganyika is indeed reported to be from six to. seven huodred miles in length, with a width varying from twenty to sixty miles. And bere we come to the question which it has been the special object of Dr. Livingstone to settle in this long sojourn of his at Uliji and thereabouts on Lake Tanganyika. It is the question whether this lake is dis- cbarged through the Nile into the Mediterra- nean or through the Congo into the Atlantic. Dr. Livingstone has expressed the opinion, we believe, that said lake is discharged into the Nile. If so it adds six or seven hundred miles to the already ascertained length of that glorious river, and makes it the longest in the world. The great lake in question has an outlet somewhere, for it is fresh water. If it had no outlet It would be salt water. . If its outlet, then, is through the great Lake Albert N’Yanza into the Nile it is probable that our explorer will come out by that route. Writing at Kwihara on the 4th of July, bis informa- tion concerning the Doctor is in support of the theory that he still lives and is at or near Sheikh Amir Bin Sultan says that “*. the Doctor “‘crossed the accompanied some ‘ably the Albert | vory great ska.” Ourh ‘octor is at ad I shall | home will . agar more of bim, or old man face to face, I bid ut wherever be is, be sure I - the chase.” Good words, mea. a idea that Lake Tan- ‘y the Nile, we have ingstoae and our dU come back into for our readers ‘from the rivers to the ends of the earth.” Judgo Bedford Vindicated—A SInnder Re= futed. The attack recently made upon Judge Bed- ford, by a New York journal professedly aa advocate of municipal reform, has been made the subject of inquiry by the Grand Jury, and has resulted, as evéry person. who is acquainted with the official record of the City Judge: supposed it would, in his thorough and complete vindica- tion, The Grand Jury say that, ‘having, at the request of Judge Bedford, investigated the charge made in a public newspaper of this city against him for obtaining $5,500 in a fraudulent manner from the City Treasury, they are of the opinion that said charge is unjust and unfounded, and that Judge Bedford was justly and equitably enti- tled to this amount for extra services rendered as Assistant District Attorney, from 1864 to 1869.” When these charges were first brought against Judge Bedford he immediately de- manded the investigation that has now been made, and in a bold and manly letter in- vited the closest scrutiny into his of- ficial conduct. In this respect his action stood out in striking contrast to that of other officials who have been made the object of newspaper attacks. He had no record that he desired to conceal from the public, and he defied the most hostile criticism of his public career, As a general thing there is no credit due to a public officer who does his duty in a straightforward, honest manner; but, unfortunately, official integrity has of late years been the exception and not the rale in our municipal government, Judge Bedford is yet a young man, but he has filled offices of great trust for seven years, and for four years has been the leading criminal Judge of the city. Every person con- versant with our municipal effairs kaows how important a position that is, and bow intimately it may be connected with the evil doings of dishonest public officers. It is, therefore, gratifying in these corrupt days to find that the first and only assault upon the official purity and integrity of such a man is so thorougbly refuted. It has been rumored that the uncalled-for attack upon Judge Bedford by the Custom House organ was dae to the friendly support he has hitherto received from the HgRap, We can scarcely credit such a report. We supported Judge Bedford for the position of City Judge because we believed in his capacity, hisintegrity and his fearless impartiality, His career has fully justified the opinion we then formed, and we certainly should uphold him as strongly as we now do, after our experience of his official record, had he been the special candidate of any journal in the city. We believe that the Grand Jury have only done their duty in thus fully vindicating him from a gratuitous and -unwarrantable attack, The result of the in- vestigation will serve to raise Judge Bedford still higher in the estimation of the public, and the citizens of New York will congratu- late themselves that one of the most impor- tant judicial positions in the city is filled by so honést, competent and fearless a man, “Can We Pay rar Inrarnsr on tar Pusiio Dest?" asks the Richmond Hnguirer, reter- ring to the State debt of Virginia, Try to. If you fail once put your shoulders again to the wheel and “‘try, try again,” Honesty is the best policy in States, as well as among individuals, Tux DiAMono Frerva or mk Care oF Goov Hors are still more productive, The Kastern Province Herald (Port Eiizabeth) of the Bist of October says:---‘'The diamond fields continue to yield as richly as ever, and the migration thitherward from the colony has again began. A traveller who has lately re- turaed from the diggings states that he counted over three hundred and fifty wagons between tho elds aod Qrahaw’s Towa.” Our Shippiug Interests Bofore Congress, | Tae Bele Railroad Rins— The menthers of Congresa who are most ac- tive in the matter of providing some remedy for the depressed and declining shipping inter- ests of the country. begid at the wrong end. Instead of giving the utmost freedom to our capitalists and merchants to buy ships wherever they can get them best and cheapest, and thus add to the tonnage of the United States, as well as giving the profits of the shipping busi- nessa to this country, they are intent on pro- moting some little interest of a few individuals or of some small section of the republic, The bill which Mr, Lynch, of Maine, bas just sub- mitted to Congress, and which has been re- ferred to the. Committee on Commerce, bears this character, The State of Maine, or a por- tion of it, is interested in shipbuilding, and, therefore, Mr. Lynch, who is a Repre- sentative in Congress from that State, proposes to tax every ton of foreign shipping that enters our ports, and to pay four dollars a ton per year upon all American vessels engaged in foreign trade. A tonnage tax of thirty cents a ton on foreign vessels, as pro- posed by Mr. Lynch, would not amount toa vast gum in the aggregate—to not more, prob- ably, than a million and @ half dollars a year; but it would bear heavily on a certaln class of veasela, A‘ four thousand ton steam- ship, for example, would have to pay a tax or duty of twelve hundred dollars every time she entered New York or any other United States port, All this would tend to restrict com- merce; and, after all, the American con- sumers of goods brought in these foreign vessels, and American passengers and emi- grants carried in them, would have to pay the tax. Besides, it is doubtful if this would have any perceptible effect in stimulating ship- building. The principle is wrong, contrary to the spirit of the age, and opposed to the inter- ests of this country generally. So, tod, ts that other proposition in Mr, Lynch's bill to give a onus of four dollars a ton from the Treasury on all Amerioan vessels engaged in foreign trade. This, in round numbers, would amount to about five millions of dollars a year, and, therefore, would be a positive burden upon the taxpayers and the Treasury of about three millions and a half a year over and above the receipta from the tax on foreign tonnage. This is all wrong. It is a peddling way of meeting the shipping difficulty, And if the people are to be taxed to pay @ gratuity toa few hundred shipowners and shipbuilders why not for other kinds of business? Why should not the farmer, the planter, the shoemaker, the tailor and others be favored in the same way? While this scheme of Mr. Lynch would put money into the pockets of a few and tend to restrict commerce it would not have the effect needed. It would do little or ngthing in the way of increasing the tonnage of the country. The only way ig to abolish or amend the reg- istry law so as to permit our citizens to buy vessels everywhere and to place them under the American flag. At least the present reg- istry law might be suspended for a few years wntil the result could be seen. We have no doubt that if this law were abolished or suspended the tonnage of the United States would in the course of ten years rival that of the first maritime nation in the world, and place this country in the same relative position it occupied just before the war in shipping interests. The yearly profits on such increased tonnage, and the other advantages to the country, would be worth far more than all the shipyards in Maine. Our peddling Congressmen are look- ing to small things—to petty local interesta— instead of to those that are large and national. Shipbuilding will be restored in this country in due time, as taxation becomes reduced, living cheaper, labor more equalized, mate- rials produced with greater facility and at less cost, and as population and commerce in- crease. That must be a growth. Our ton- nage, however, we can restore and increase by simply acting upon the principle of buying in the best market. Most of the great ocean steamships coming here under the German, French or other national flags, and carrying the profits of their business home, were built in Great Britain. Here is an example for us. Notbing but a broad, liberal and comprehen- sive policy, and a change in the registry law, will restore our tonnage and give this country that maritime position which it ought to hold among the nations. Ferenon Rerry To Bismarox's Mutitary RerauiatioN TuHreat.—Prince Bismarok’s official pronouncement of a threat of military retaliation against the fnhabitants of the French territory which has been hostaged to Germany, on account of the perpetration of out- rages on Prussian soldiers serving in the army of occupation, bas excited France deeply. It is just as we anticipated in the HzRatp's com- ments on the subject yesterday. France writhes under the painful oppression of the force of the ve victis. She breathes the spirit of revenge. The national feeling is expressed in the words, ‘The silence of the vanquished is the only fit reply to the insults of the victors; a river of blood has divided us; we (France) learn to suffer and to walt.” A nation’s wrath is always terrible; a warlike people, pressed and struggling under the heel of the conqueror’s boot, is ‘dangerous, and very sad to contemplate. Europe may be on the eve of a very great trouble by war, Sowme tHe Sezps or Disoorp Down Sovurn.—A black lecturer has been address- ing the colored people in Mobile, and, accord- ing to the Tribune of that city, stirring up their bad passions against the whites. It is alleged that this lecturer is an emissary from the radicals in the North, who, by inciting disturbances between the whites and negroes, hope to make political capital for use in the next Presidential campaign. If that be the case the operation is likely to redound to the injury of the colored race and prove damag- ing to the republican party. There should be some means of stopping this practice of stir- ring up bitter blood between the whites and blacks just about election times, Its fruits ate being seen in the recent Ku Klox raids in Arkansas and Texas, aad have already attracted the attention of the local as well as national authorities, Tae Cnanteston News refers to a ‘field day” in the South Carolina House of Repre- sentatives. The most curious part of it fs that the work was mostly done by those who were onde ‘field hands.” Auatety of the English Stockholders The Englisti stockholders of the Erig_Ralt- road are watching with a great deal of anxléty the progress of the efforts being made here to overthrow the present Erie Risilroad ring, and, according to the Henaxp’s special cable despatch, they receive much consolation from & report transmitted over the cable to London, from their agent in Now York, stating that the Attorney General elect ‘proposes in his official capacity to break up the whole combi- nation of the Erie Ring without respect to per- eons.” Tbe Attorney General elect can only hope to carry out his advertised good intentions through the instrumentality of the State Legis- lature, and If the bona fide stookholders and the public had only the State QGapitol to depend upon for a reformation in the manage- ment of the most important line of traffic between New York and the Weat, the prospect before them would not be very promising. The recent action of Judge Blatchford affords much better -ground for anticipating a speedy overthrow of the present combination than is furnished by the promises of State officers: and State Legislature; Besides, the psople will desire to be protected from the simple displacement of one “ring” by another, It is just as necessary to guard agalost the plots of foreign stockholders, aided by & fow designing and unscrupulous Americans, to obtain contro! of the management of the Erie Railroad, as it is to labor for the overthrow of the present combination. Let us have reform in the direction of this great artery of com- merce, so that it may be run, notas a huge stock jobbing machine, but in the Interests of the people, and it will not matter whether the relief comes from the United States Courts, or from the Attorney General elect and the legis- lle patria of Any. _But.de ot it vt suffer the gontrol of the road to pass into the hands of foreigners, or of Americans who aré ‘88 Notorious as the famous Flak himself {9 rail- road stock jobbing. The Relations Between Fraacy and Italy. France and Italy do not appear to main- tain that exact feeling of cordiality towards each other which should characterize the diplomacy of the two advanced national representatives of European freedom and progress, The Thiers Cabinet is not pleased with the tone adopted by King Victor Em- manuel in his reply toa French communioa- tion requesting the recall of the Chevallier Nigra from the Italian Embassy in Paria, The Italian Parliamentary Committee on the Army Budget Appropriation has approved the gov- ernment estimate for military purposes, The Minister of War announces that the army re- quirements should be fully provided for, al- though there is ‘no reason to fear aggression on the part of their neighbor France, for an aggressive policy is opposed to her interests,” The Minister added that the Italian oation should always be prepared for the “evil” of war, although there is ‘‘ao danger” of its occurrence just now, Proceedings euch as these betoken the existence of a ruffled course of diplomacy between the two countries, to say the least, It is difficult to explain the cause. Perhaps the Italian Minister has been merely experimenting on the patriotic senti- mont of the Parliament in order ‘to carry his army bill of estimate—a difflcult work in the present condition of the Italian treasury and under the existing rate of taxation in Italy, Mere Frauds—Tho Peer Ledians the Vic~ thes. We seem to have fallen upon a time for a general exposure of frauds in the governments of the cities, States and nation, and by officials and agents in every direction. One of the latest of these unearthed rascalitles is the robbery of the Cherokee Indians of their pen- sions and bounties coming to them from the United States government, by a combination of federal officials and others, whose duty it was to protect these poor people from such wrong. The Department of the Iaterior ap- pointed lately a special commission to inves- tigate these frauds, and the report we pub- lished yesterday, over the signatures of the special agents sent to the Indian Territory to make the examination, shows that the Indians have been shamefully swindled. Tho aborigines have been the victims of uoprincipled traders and agents. for a long period in our history, Not half the liberal appropriations, allowances and supplies made by the goverament for them have been properly applied. Igno- rant as they are, they have been conscious frequently of the ‘swindle practised upon them, and this has been one of the most fruitful causes of bloody con- flicts between them and the white settlers and government. To rob these wards of the nation is like robbing orphans. We hope the government will bring the guilty in these Cherokee frauds to punishment. We advise the Quaker philanthropists who have under- taken by authority of the government to pro- tect the Indians to look sharp after the agents and traders who have too long plundered these people and have been the cause of most of the wars and troubles between the two races, Tae Porioy or THE New OntaRIO Gov- ERNMENT was yesterday explained in the Legislature of the Province by the newly elected Premier and Councillor of State. He advised that the Provincial govern- ment should take a neutral position in regard to the Dominion government; that there should be neither alliance nor hostility. He maintained the necessity of the government having full control over the pub- lic fands ; that there should be reforms in the courts of law,and equity, and that the scholastic and other provincial institutions require thelr attention, 5 Tar FLANK MoveMENt oF Governor Svorr, in the South Carolina’ House of Representa- tives yesterday, bas quite disconcerted the Bowenites, who had a resolution pending to impeach him, On Thursday the friends of the great carpet-bagger managed to hold the floor all day, determined to postpone the vote watil after the Christmas recess, and ex- pected to be able to employ the same tactics yesterday. The Governor out-manwuvred them, however, by sending « proclamation to the House convening am extraordinary session at noon to-day, his friends forced on a vote, and the impeachment scheme was soon pro- nounced non ost, there being a majority of thirts-one lo favor of ite retection, > Slogutar Condect of a Police Justice, On Wedaosday last a prominent citison of policeman’ for fast driving, © Although be | provedted, against tho ‘arrest, and explained, that his norsdd god for the nome got the upper hand!” gt ~ iske drive, the poliod gonstable insldted on driva:tt- carrlage and the owner to the Police Court. On arriving there the’ pre@iding genius, Judge Cox, and bis seoond in command, the clerk of the court, were both Absent, “re fresbing the inner man, perhaps with solids, more probably with ~ liquids, The gentleman under arrest was thereupoa thrown Into a cell in company with a drunkea lunatic—a man raving under the effects of deliriam tremens—and kept there for twenty minutes. At the end of that time, His’ Serene Highness Ohief Justice Qox, having satisfied his appetite, appeared fn Court, and the socused was brought up and discharged. On the next day he visited the Police Court to complela of the treatment to which he had been aubjected, but was abruptly and rudely, informed by the judiclal Cox that it ‘ser ; him right,” If any person, high or low, riot or poor, commits an offence against the ta he should bo dealt with, accordingly; but w: would suggest that if horses happen to “‘pull” and travel at & rather fast pace through the streets, lt is scarcely necessary to treat him as a felon, ang more than it is needful or becoming for a magistrate to display Ill-feeling and ill-breed~ ing on the bench. f Important To Hotvgrs of Live [Nsurayow Poutorgs, —Judge Blatchford rendered an iate- resting and {mportant decision in the Ui States Circuit Court yesterday. It is to the eff thata holder of a policy of life tasurance, who ~ or be cen iar fe at time, yntil the agéncies of the Ipsurance cous pany Werd withdrawa from the South, in oon: sequence of the war, should not be debarred , from the benefits of the insurance by reason ‘oh, non-payment of the premiums Ri oe 3 the, period covered by hostilities betwoen th North and the South. Within that time {t waa impossible for the holder of the policy to have paid the premiums. The holder, under thd Judge's decision, is secured in his rights, but’ the insurance company is to be allowed credi¢’ for the amount of the unpaid premiums. The facts of the case will be found fa our law report, Toe ATLANTA Sun states that the “radical crew” ali over Georgia are predicting military - interference in the political affairs of the State, “A prophet is without honor ia his own country.” We do not believe the govern- ment Intends any interference of the kiud, Personal Intelligence. Congressman Qunton L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., 3 at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Juage J. G. McConnell, of Pittsburg, ts at the Grand Centrai Hotel. Major R. A. Hutchins, of Brandon, Vt., las quar ters at the Hiverett House. General N. P. Banks yesterday arrived trom} Wasn- ington at the St. Nicholas Hotel. . Congressman John Lynch, of Maine, was at tue Astor House for a short time yesterday, while ou hug Way to spendthe Christmas season at home. dadge A, Edward Suffern, of Haverstraw, 14 90- journing ar the St. Nieholas Rotel. Untted States Senator Thomas F. Bayard, of laware, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. &. McUullum, of Penusyivania, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Oakes Ames, of Massachusetts, wag at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. United States Senator Matthew H. Carpenter and Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Wiscousta, ace at the Hoffman House, General H. E. Valentine, of Hartford, ia among: the recent arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Ex-vongressman James M, Ashley, of Ohio, was at ‘the Astor House for a short time yesterday, ‘ Hon. J. Lesiie Robertson, a British goverment oft- cial, from Belize, Honduras, has arrived at the Grand Centra! Hotel. Captain William Watson, of the Royal Mall steam snip Cuba, which arrived yesterday, has taken quate ters at the Hoffman House. Governor Marshall Jewell and Congressman 8, W. Kellogg, of Connecticut, have apartments at tue Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captains R. U. Churchill and James R, Wasson, of the Untted States Army, have quarters at the Hom man House. Adjutant General James P, Newcomb and General W. T. Clark, of Texas, aro at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The later gentleman was formerly a member of General Sherman's stat, He was a candidate for, and received # certificate of election to Congress trom the Third district of Texas. His seat, however, has veen contested by Giddings, his demooratic op- ponent at the polis, wo claims to have received @ large majority, Mr, R. Waite, of Toledo, Obio, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Being one of the counsel for the United States atthe coming conference on the Alabama claims, he ts immediately to leave for Geneva, Switzerland. General Daniel E. Stokles, United States Minister to Spain, atrived yesterday, with his young bride, on the steamship Cuba, and took apartments at the Brevoort House, He is reported to have been sum- moned from bis post that he may render at Lome more important services to the administration, UTAH TERRITORY. The Widow of Rebinson to Testify Against Her Hosband’s Murderere—Ex-United States Dis. trict Attorney Baskin to Assiet ia the Prose. cution of Brigham \ oung. Sav? Lake Orry, Utah, Veo. 21, 1971. Mrs, Robinson, widow of the murdered Dr. Rovine Son, 18 expected here to-morrow from San Francieco to testify in the examination of the alleged assassins of ner husband, Ivis said that eightcen persons passed through the secret initiation ceremontes of the Mormon En- dowment House on last Mon Rovert N, Baskin, late acting U isa States Dis- trict Attorney, has been employed by the Attorney General of th Fated States to assist tne prosece- SS tam Young, ‘ells, rout aad Heavy storms prevail all over the B cecoe ie much rain and snow here. The Mormons sav i is the severest weather experiences {or many years, ANOTHER RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A Mail Train Leaving the Track Near Mor. ristown, Ind.—Three Men Killed and a Gront Many Officers aed Passengers In ’ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Deo. 22, 1871, ‘The matt train bound west on the Cincinnati and Indianapolis Junction Ratiroad, due here at 1:20 P. M., was thrown from the track by @ broken rait About five miles east of Morristown. The engine and trait ran about thirty yards after they lat ihe track antil they struck a briage, where they were huried over 4 distance of fifteen feet, engin Goce. side of the bridge aud in aa James Hamilton, engineer; M. B. Fie! i ° ductor, and P. Kilkany, foreman of that wsclion, wore killed. L. Gaiden, ba; Daas a Lar Hasaott, train wan, wore neverely uj A, ona ome twouty passengers more or tess {nj haps fe weet me> Jonductor fenoer and Runany, man, wore tn the oaggage car at the time atte ac- cident, ‘The lormer was Killed by the oxpresa aale and the latter by the stove fallipa Qa him: Now York was arrested by an over-nealous # 4 @ gentlentan’s . y ' Fr ‘