The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1872, Page 6

6 EW YO RK NERALD BROADWAY AND "ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROVRIETOR, ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third at., corner Sixth ay.— JULIUS CASAR. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of Sth ay. and 23d st— Tux COLLEEN Bawy. AIMEE'S OPERA BOUFFK, Boorre—Le Pont prs Sovurins, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broa) ances afternouu and eveniny 720 Broadway. —OPERA corner S5th st. Perform: TOF THE Vane, FIFTA AVENUE THE, Twenty-fourth trast, — Tur NEw DRAMA OF Divoro WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ant Vth street. — Joun Garry. ACADEMY OF MUS Foarteent Orkea—Locia pr LAMMERMOOR. street, ALIAN NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston streets. —BLACK CROOK. prow! RY THEATRE, Bowery.—i'eprsvin—Tur Two Obs, heiween Prince and ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-eighth street and Broad- way.--MONALDL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—tuk BaLier PAN- TOMINE OF HUMPTY DUMPTY, Matinee at 2, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN 1 Monte Cristo. ATRE.— PARK THEATRE, | opps Hail, Prooklyn.— Fark; Tur New York THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Brosdwar,—Costte Vor asus, NEGKO ACIS, 40, Matinee at dig UNION SQUARE THEATER way. NEGRO ACTs—Be ourteenth wt. and Broad. BALLET, &0. Matinee, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. — NgGRO LOOENTHIOITIES, BURLESQUES, &0. BRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 2h at, between sith ond 7th avs.--BRYaNt’s MINo' SAN FRANCISCO ML EL WALL, 385 Broadway. Tuk San FRANCIKCO MINSTRELS. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fonrteentn TUE RING, ACROBATS, 40, Matinee al -SUBNES UN NIXON'S GREAT SOUTHERN CIRCUS, 728 Broadway.— SOENES IN THE RING, &O, Matinee. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— So1kNOR AND AxT, i DR, KAHN’S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — BOUNCE ARt, New York, Wednesday, January 3, 1872. CONTENT OF TO-DAY'S HERALD, Tacs, SENSES SMT? “y 1—Advertisements, 2—~Advertisements, %—The State Capital: Opening of the Session of the emisintares Urganization ot Both House: Important Special Message on the Financ Condition of the Metropolis: ‘The First Blow at £ Memorial of Comptroller Green Asking Immediate Appropriation of Money— from Washington: The Spanish War a + Departure of the Congress for Port au Prince with Sealed Orders; Spanish Defiance at Havana—Another Mine Disaster—Prophet or Murderer: Brigham Young surrenders to an Indictment for tho Killing of Yates in ‘“ BS Canon, -The Governor's Message: The State Finances; the Entire State Debt han $30,000,000; New York City and It at Wrongs 4 the Governor Would Avout Hints to Quarantine Grumoblers; Ominous Sutence on Federal ‘topics; a Clever Record for the Year, 5—The Governor's Message (continued from Fourth Page)—The Stare Finances: Annual Report of Comptroller Nichols—The Legislature: Orgaul- zation of the Two Houses; Speeches of the Presiding OMe he birst Blow at Erle—Po- litical = Moveu 18 and Views--A Drunken shooting Afiray—Burglary in a Liquor Sa- joon—Cheap Opera Ticket Vild Ducks. 6—Editoria! ry reg Article, man'g Message She State Legislatyre— The HERALD Aad Be i iwgatoke-Weathor Neport-—-Amusement Aunouncements, VeThe Alabama Ciaims—fLuropean Cable Teie- grams—The Rochester Riot: Public Indig- nation Against the Negro Howard—Bergh After the Pigeon shooters—Movements of t Graul Duke Alexis—Amusements—Miscel- laneous = Telegrams—Who Poisoned — Bur: roughs ’—The Paterson Mystery Approaching @ Solution—Business Notices. 8—Mupicipal Reform: Progress of the Triumph of the People Over the Folly and Trickery of the Ring; How the News was Received at the City Hall: Public Approval of the Action of the Mayor—Connolly at Home—Meeting of the Na- uudnal Rifle Association—Priest ys, Cardinal— Priest va Bishop—State and Religion—Gen- eral Shermau’s Voyage—Curling—skating— The Fourth Avenue Raliroad Perll—A Dead International—Ladies’ Day: How the Ladies Made New Year's Calls Yesterday—New Year's Day in Halifax—How Our = Streets Are Cleaned—The Colored Dictators—The Newark Jourts—A Scotch Volony for Kansas—Escapes xtraordinary. @—More Savings Bank Troubles—The Financial Condition of Virgtnia—The Public Debt state- ment—George Hudson, the Raliway Kin Brooklyn Afairs—The Williamsburg Curl mas Tragedy—Woman’s Board of Missions— Staying Away and Death—The Homicide on Shipboard—Financtal and = Cominerctal Reports—Domestic and European Markets— Marriages and Deaths, £6—The Wharton Trial at Annapolis, Md.—The ‘Committee of Seventy—Local News—Shapping Intelligence—Advertisemen' ¥i—Dead, Lost and Missing: United States Army During 1871- in the Courts—Advertisements, 22—Advertisemen “Governor Hoft- ities In the Proceedings Hornei—That Will it Size oF A Spanish war cloud at Port au Prince. grow? ONLY TUR Tor Posiio Deer has been decreased nearly four millions and a half during the month of December. Since March 1, 1871, it has been reduced nearly seventy-seven millions. The White House people are proud of these suma of subtraction. Ix Rerraintne PROM Discussing FeperaL NEW Goveruor Hoflman’s Message to the State Legivlature, The Message of Governor Hoffman is pub- lished in fullin another part of the paper. It will prove highly interesting to our citizens just now, as we have recently passed through something like a revolution in our city gov- ernment and affairs, and as we are about to have another important change made in tho organic law and administration of the munici- pal government, Both the events that have transpired during the last few months and the destiny that awaits us from the hands of the Legislature at Albany are full of interest, The views of the Governor, whether in accord with those of the dominant party in power or not, will be scanned closely by the people. The Message is long, and lacks that terseness which is characteristle of the writings of the ablest statesmen; but {t is smooth, argumen- tative, in good temper, representa fairly the state of things, and contains valuable sug- gestions for legislative action. The Governor bas nothing to say about federal affairs, which is ratber unusual in such documents, but confines his remarks to matters concerning the State, The reason given for this is expressed in a neat and sensible manner. ‘‘Mindful,” he says, ‘‘of the fact that the majority of the Leglalature and of the Executive are of opposed political parties, I refrain from discussing questions connected with the administration of the fede- ral government, upon which our views would widely differ; hoping that, in dealing with the home affairs of the State, we may be able to work together, earnestly and heartily, for the promotion of the general welfare of our people.” We hope the Legislature will be as judicious, practical and patriotic, and will act with a single eye to the wants and interests of this great State of New York, regardless of who may be President, who control the patronage of the Custom House and the féde- ral offices, or what men may be foremost in the future. State politics and interests have been too much involved in federal affairs, This new departure of Governor Hoffman is commendable, and worthy of being followed, The most important matter treated of, and that fully, by the Governor is that relating to the government of this city. Adverting to “the recent exposure of great wrongs in the administration of the local government of the city of New York,” which ‘thas aroused pub- lic attention, to an extraordinary but whole- some extent, to the necessity of a reform in the conduct of affairs,” and upon which “the people have spoken in a way not to be misin- terpreted,” he says there isa demand for an improvement in the local government through legislation, which should have neither party nor personal ends in view, but the general welfare. He does not enter into a lengthy dis- cussion of the causes which fora long time have been contributing to these disastrous results. He does, however, trace them back, with good reason, to the tnterference of the Legislature with the local self-government of the clty and to the frequent changes that have been made for political aud partisan objects. ‘*At one time governed,” be remarks, “‘under local laws, which failed to fix responsibility any- where; at other times under varied, discon- nected and Irresponsible commissions, created to enable political minorities in the cily to exert political control, confustou, mismanage- ment and extravagance wera apparent to every one; but the responsible authors thereof were concealed under the complicated ma- chinery which was unwisely substituted for a single government of the people.” Then referring to the existing charter, under which ‘the great wrongs” in the administra- tion of our city government culminated, he says these arose not altogether from the de- fects in that instrument, but from the bad con- duct of individuals and antecedent cireum- stances as well. The charter, he asserts, was agreat improvement on the former state of things, and he notices the fact that It was hailed with favor by the people and press and passed by nearly a unanimous vote of both houses of the Legislature, ‘‘Lt broke up the irrespousi- ble commissions in which the city government proper had been substantially merged.” It restored to the people their constitutlonal right of local self-government. Still the Gov- ernor thinks the charter bas proved defective in some respects and might be improved. The great defect he regards is in imitating the mistaken doctrine of the Congressional Tenure-of-Office law, whereby a subordinate in administrative duties is made independent of the appointing power or chief executive. Here the Governor argues at length, and centralized wisely, on the necessity of a power in the head of the city govern. ment and of making him responsible, Therg gaa good govert ment ja aby « munity, large or Small, ig the administration Marrers, when the executive and legislative branches of the State government are of a opposite shade ti Politics, the Governor ac wisely and shortens his Message considerably. Tae Pork aNp THE Kino at New Year,— His Majesty, the King of Italy, despatched a special ambassador to the Vatican on New ‘Year's Day, charged with the duty of convey- ing to His Holiness, Pope Pius the Ninth, bis ‘congratalations on the advent of the season, ‘and so forth, In this the ruler of Ttaly maine tained his reputation as the Re Galantuomo. The charity of the Church was not sufficient to cover the temporalitics’ sias of the Crown, however. Cardinal Aotonelli met the Jtallan Ambassador and informed him that the Pope was “‘indisposed and unable to receive yisits.” That royal message was not delivered fo the Pontiff according to our interpretation ‘Of the etiquette prevailing at courts, If the Pope is really ill the fact is to be regretted, although natural, He could scarce excuse himself as being ‘unable to receive visits” mn the ground of want of space, when we lect that the “prison” Vatican contains jeleven thousand apartments, and has grounds ‘attached to it equal in extent to the area of xd clty of Turin in the year 1800. IfCar- inal Antonelli merely framed an excuse he \pust look for the do veniam in the proper quarter, Tuk Remark of Governor Hoffman, that “Merchants and others who fail to do their uty when any of them pay a bribe ton pub- lic officer or neglect to expose and bring to Justice whoever demands or accepts one,” is worthy of record among the sound political uaxiins of the day, of a State, city or a family wgith divided and MTAPoAsible Executive auihority. What we srant.ig.a fundamagtal, law, fixing 166 power and responsibility in the Mayor, which shall be permanent and not subject to belug sub- stantially repealed by “‘the surreptitious in- sertion of a clause ina tax levy” or by any other political device, This great city of a million of inhabitants should not be used asa football for successive partisan Legislatures or scheming politicians, Our citizens have proved their capacity, as Governor Hoffman properly says, to manage their own affairs and to redress their own wrongs. They are the most intelligent aod influential community in the country, and to deny them self-govern- ment or to attempt to rule them from Albany would be an outrage and contrary to the spirit of republican institutions, The Gover- nor gives an outline in hia Message of the principles upon which « charter for this elty should be based. [0 this he is in accord with the views we have expressed. But we regret be did not extend his vision to the future of our great metropolis and recommend the extension of the city limits, the tncorpora- tion of the surrounding populations and the creation now of one vast metropolitan gov ment over all, closely connected with New York, The financial condition of the State is flat- tering enough, The entire debt is 4 little over twenty-nine millions of dollars, in process of liquidation, and is not at all bur- densome. The details and the recommenda- tion of the Governor to pay both the principal and Interest in gold, except the war bounty debt, which was contracted to be paid in legal tender curreacy, will be found [n the Mosgage, ‘This is | This war bounty debt, amounting to nearly seventoen millions, will be paid undor the existing provisions of law in five years, leaving the residue of the State debt less than thirteen millions, The remarks of the Governor on the efficient management of Quarantine are worthy of no- tice, especially as the Quarantine officials have been savagely attacked by the partisan press and certain ship agents, The Governor shows that with all the peril that has surrounded the olty and country by the number of ships bringing yellow fever, cholera and other dis- eases, our people have been happily preserved from contagion by the watcbfulness and ability of the health authorities. Ilis suggestions about our moneyed inatitu- tions, and particularly the savings banks, are well timed, Charters have been granted for them too readily and indiscriminately. They have multiplied beyond necessity, and, from the shaky condition of some of them, there is evident danger that the people may run great risk of losing their hard earnings. In referring to the Orange procession of last July and the action he took then, Governor Hoffman ably defends the right of all our people, of whatever race, color or religion, to the same privileges, while, at the same time, he submits to the judgment of the Legislature the question of regulating processions by law, which should be equally applicable to all. He recommends, too, the passage of a joint resolution requesting the Senators and Repre- sentatives in Congress to use their efforts to have the constitution of the United States amended so as to bave federal Senators elected by the people, instead of by the Legislatures of the several States, and gives good reasons for tho change. The proposed amendment and his argument are worthy of consideration, Harter AT Tew 5 His propositions to antand the State constitu. tlon.ang the election and registry laws ought flot to be feglected. His views are sound on this subject, as well as on somo others which we have not touched upon, but which will be found in the Message. On the whole it is a statesmanlike document, though, as we sald, lacking in terseness and brevity. If the Legislature will act upon the broad, liberal and non-partisan spirit and views shown by the Governor we shall have a good city charter, and our great State will stand as pre- eminent in government as ft is in wealth and influence. The republican party of New York is all-powerful for good as well as evil, and the people will hold {t responsible for what- ever may be done at Albany during the pres- ent sesslou of the Legislature. Iv Re@arv to Harsor Masrers, the Gov- ernor hits tho nail on the head when he says that “if extra compensation is paid to them {t may be too often due to the eagerness of owners and consignees of vessels to get the advantage, one over another, in the occn- pancy of wharves.” Hence the defeated party should be no more entitled to grumble than a YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1872.-TRIPLE SHERT. Tho Financial Condition of Now York—#luia Facts A Figments, [rior to the recent election the partisan agitators of reform endeavored to make politi- cal capital by representing the city of New York to be in a bankrupt condition, The people were told that their total debt would reach four or five hundred millions, and that the real estate of the city was in reality mort- gaged to the amount of forty or fifty per cent by the public liabilities, This practice of assailing the credit of the city for political purposes was denounced by the Herarp, and certainly was not needed to induce the better class of citizens to rise against the notorious corruptions and frauds of the party in power in the muicipal government, Its mischievous effect was felt in the depreciation of city securities, both at home and abroad, and at Political Governor Hoffman deemed it advisa- ble, under the circumstances, to re- quest a competent and disinterested person to investigate and report upon the ac- tual condition of the metropolis in reference to its condition and resources, Mr. David A, Wells, who was selected for the work, has now communicated to the Governor the result of his inquiries, and his report was yesterday communicated to the Logislature by the Exec- utive, It is a most important and interesting paper, and will afford gratification to every citizen of New York who has the real interests of the metropolis at heart. It will set at rest the croakings of the Rip Van Winkles who are alarmed at the rapid development of our wealth and progress, and the misrepresenta- tions of unscrupulous partisans, and will afford our citizens an intelligent insight into the splendid prospects that lie before us iu the Immediate future, niet It appears from the report that the total prosent linbllitieg of the, city of New York, including funded debt, floating or temporary debt and estimated claims, are not in excess of $100,000,000, while the valuation of the public property of the city, as estimated in August last, was $243,000,000, On the other hand, the real estate of tho city and county of New York was returned and confirmed in 1871 at a valuation of $770,000,000; but this, says Mr. Wells, does not in all probability tepresent more than forty per cent of its true market value in private ownership. Henco he comes to the conclusion that the real estate, public and private, which may be fairly re- garded as an available security for the liquida- tion of city and county debts, cannot be of less value than $2,000,000,000, upon which the present total debt would be equivalent to a mortgage of only five per cent. This is, of course, exclusive of the personal property of citizens, which is assessed at $307,000,000 for last year, but which, says the report, is well known to be $1,500,000,000, When it is remembered that, with all the drawbacks due to want of public enterprise, lack of the proper means of swift transit, &e., our population has increased nearly man who had been outbid at a pawnbroker's sale in Chatham street. Brigham Young Commitied Charge. Tho arrest of Brigham Young, at Salt Lake City yesterday, on the charge of being con- cerned in the murder of Richard Yates, in Echo Caifion, proves that the United States officials in the Territory of Utah are doing their duty with determination. The painful weakness of these officials in face of the deep- rooted fanaiical system lies in the fact, as made known hero from Washington a few days since, that they are without jails to accommo- date their prisoners or money to support them if they had. This lends rather a Iudi- crous light to these prosecutions, important as they are, in asserting the supremacy of the national government, stopping red-handed, Chureh-directod murder, and blotting out a vile stain upon our clyilization. Brigham returned voluntarily to Sult Luke City, and the arrest of the old Archmormon was accomplished with about as much harsh- ness as was shown Mr, Tweed in bis durance vile at the Metropolitan Hotel, It seems that his flight to St. George was at the instigation of some of his friends and against the remon- strances of others. In obedience to the desires of his counsel he returned, and the heglra of this modern Mohammed ends prosai- cally in a few minutes at the bar of the Court, a farcical commitment without bail, and a prison in the walls of Zion, where he will be free to receive visits from his numerous and interesting family. To whatever result it leads, whether con- viction or acquittal, the conclusion forces itself that Judge MeKean, with all his zeal lity, has a while elephant gu on a Murder The very allusion to the age of the shows how diflicult it is to deai with alleged criminals whea they are at the head of & buudred thousand people and in tt P er pits " the Aes ids of Utah. eee of course, ~rémembers that we pad with bigger criminals thaa be: int he alsd knows the strength of his position, and would not hesitate to use any means to rid himself of his adversaries if he only saw the way. ress, however, has encircled him, his people and their desert with civilization, and they know that their “peculiar institvtion” mast succum, There is little fear that the crash- ing of his subtle power will be brought about with unnecessary severity ; the necessity is to see that itis done firmly aud effectually as well. If, then, this policy is determined on, why not arm the authorities there with something more than the name of power? At present the position of the prosecutors looks like a game of bluff between a few officials and a wily, easy-going old sinner of seventy-one. Murder is a grave crime even in such a one, and we look to see the law vindicated in his regard and that of his fellow Mormon fanatics, Accorpine To THR GovERNor's Massage the total yleld of the State tax is a little over eleven millions six hundred thonsand dollars. It requires a tax nearly double that amount (about twenty million dollars) to govern the metropolis alone~under Tammany rule—and give over five millions to the State beside, Prog- Governor Horrwan saggests that the federal constitution be so amended as to pro- vide for the election of Uni States Sena- tors by the people fustead of the State Leg! tures, That amendment and the one term principle might be waxed togethor, aud thus two birds be hit with ove atoge, ’ twenty-seven per cent during the five years from 1865 to 1870, inclusive, and that the fncrease in the valuation of the property of the city and county for assessment purposes during the ten years from 1860 to 1870, includ- ing the stagnant period of the war, has been between eighty-two and eighty-three per cent, it will not be wondered at that the report should arrive at the conclusion that in com- parison with the actual accumulated and tan- gible wealth of the city of New York, any liability on account of the indebtedness which the city has as yet incurred, or is prospectively likely to incur, “is very insignificant,” Ia refernce to the great Improvement of the Central Park construction, which at the time of its inceplion was denounced by many short-sighted economists as a measure of in- detensible extravagance, the report shows how important an influence it has bad upon the increase in the value of city property, In 1856, before the Park was commenced, the total valuation of real estate for taxation in the immediately surrounding ward, was twenty-six million dollars. In 1866, when the Park bad been practically completed, the valuation of the same property was returned at eighty millions—an increase in ten years of fifty-four million dollars. The additional teve- nue received from taxation on this increased valuation afforded a surplus of three million dollars after paying ont of it the in- terest on allthe city bonds issned for the pur- cbase and construction of the Park, or “a sum suflicicnt, if used as a sinking fund, to pay the entire principal and interest of the cost of the Park in less time than the Park was in the course of construction, These facts show the practical value of those broad schemes of in- | ternal improvement which have glways been ocaied, by the HE! and which alone are needed to make our cily the leading me- tropolis of the world, ina few years, in wealth, population and commercial importance, The completion of sufficient means of rapid transit through the city; the consolidation of I aii the Suburbs into” one grand mu- nicipaliiy; thé liberal “ConsfraclioN — or new parks, squares and boulevards; the general improvement of all our streets and avennes; the building of magnificent docks along both our river fronts, should be the immediate work of our law-makers. How- ever heavy might be the apparent cost of such a comprehensive plan of internal im- provements, it would be repaid with magical rapidity by the increased busi ness resources of the city and the enhanced value of public properiy. The people of New York desire to see this policy of enterprise and wise expen- diture tully carried out, and the lesson tanght by the experience of the Central Park should not be unheeded or neglected by those who #re now entrusted with the responsibility of shaping the future destinies of the metrop- olis. Re@arpDIng Savines Banks, the Goveraor, in his Message, says he has already vetoed sixty-eight bills concerning them. Pity he had not made it a baker's dozen more, and then poor people might have been able to have saved some of their hard earnings, Wuen Governor Horrman refers to the “great wrongs” that New York city has suf- fered he speaks upon a subject whereof he should be well informed. That portion of his Message may do vory well to supply the place of the annual address the Mayor did not make on New Year's Day to the new city govern-, menat—it he were obliged to make any, tuo City of | The New Speaker of tho Atate Assom- bIy—A (00d Beginning. Speaker Smith {s young and comparatively inexperienced in political life. Ho bas, prob- ably, yet to learn the extent of the influences and appliances that are brought to bear upon & public officer who evinces a disposition to occupy am independent position and to dis- charge his official duties a3 an honest man rather than a8® partisan. He has made a good heginning on assuming the Chair, to which he has been elected by the better por- tion of the republican members of the Assem- bly, in expressing his determination to confine hia appointmenta to the limits prescribed by law ; and, if we now remind him that the prom- ises of politicians are not always to be relied upon, we do so only In the hope of strength- ening his resolution to initiate a very desira- ble reform in our hitherto debauched halls of legislation, For the past eighteen yeara the evil of pen sfoning a small army of partisan pimps and paupers upon the Stats ducing the legislative session has been steadily on the increase, The clerks’ desks have been crowded with the worst class of petit larceny lobbyists, under the title of assistants, who have been obstructing, instead of facilitating, the business of legisla- tion, and whose most useful employment has been to do small jobs for lobbyists or tainted representatives at paltry geices, from five dollars upwards. For each conceivable door, gate and passage way in both chambers a stal- wart officer has been appointed as doorkeeper or assistant doorkeeper, whosé main business has been to lounge about the lobbies, doing errands between the members and thelc agents in the third house or acting as messengers be- tween tho floor and the gallery, The floors have been covored with pages, AOL unfrequently the sons or other relatives of members, whg have blocked up the alleys and run against each other, to the delay and confuston of business, when a quarter of the number would have been four times as efficient. In fact, the Capitol has not only been made the temporary refuge of the worst political va- grants in the country, whose names have swelled the Supply bill year after year, but has been as much disgraced and debauched through the agency of these superfluous clerks and doorkeepers as from auy other cause. As an Albanian Speaker Smith is familiar with this evil, and he has done well in announcing his determination to suppress It. If he re- mains firm and succeeds in his effort he will have accomplished one important step in the direction of legislative purification. His pro- gramme was declared {n good time, for the Siate Capitol bas been swarming for days past with the old leeches who have been hanging on to the Legislature in one capacity or another for the last fifteen years, Five assistant clerks and as many doorkeepers are all that are really needed for the business of the session, and every addi- tional appointment that may be made is a fraud upon the State. Speaker Smith, if true to his voluntary pledge, will speedily prove to these political vagrants that their occupation in Albany is gone. When they sball have taken their flight it will be well for the Speaker to turn his attention to other reforms needed in the Clerk’s desk. The expense ‘of tegisla- tive printing has of late years reached an exorbitant sum. The items have been pur- posely scattered throngh different accounts and under separate heads and appropriations in order to conceal the aggregate amount, There have been regular contracts for State printing and fegislative printing ; but an illegal custom has prevailed of allowing the clerks of the two honses to order jobs on their own ac- count, The Clerk’s printing has been regarded asa sort of perquisite of that officer and he has made his own bargains and arrangements in relation to it. Under the pretence of extra bills for the use of Members and Senators, and by means of resolutions ordering digests of claims for the past twenty or thirty years, the useless index business and the worthless civil lists, the Clerks of the Senate and Assembly have been enabled, session after session, to roll up extravagant amounts against the State for extra printing until the swindle bas grown into gigantic propor- tions. The Speaker should at once put his foot down upon this fraud, and as he has made up his mind that no resolution to ap- point extra employés of the Assembly can be in order, so long as the law restricts their number, he must, in like manner, decide that no extra printing accounts can be legal, even for a single dotlar, so long as a legal contract covering all the legislative printing is in exist- ence, We purpose to show of how much the State has been plundered wader this head for the past fifteen or twenty years. In the mean- time we call upon Speaker Smith to crush with ay unsparing hand the first attempt to open the door for a renewal gible barefaced robbery, a3 he hag alroady indicated his in- tention to root out the gang of beggarly cor- rapt and characterless hangers-on by which the State Capitol has been so long Infested, _ Governor HorrMan thinks that the Gover- nor should be empowered to appoint the Healih Officer, Harbor Masters and Captain of the Port, without the consent of the Senate, and to remove them at pleasure. That would be a good thing provided we could always have a good Governor; but a poor one—one from the country, for instance—would, we fear, make a bad business of it when he began to touch such salt water matters. Tue Governor wants to make a short cut to amend the State constitution by appointing a commisston of eminent citizens for that pur- pose, We hardly think this plan will do. A man may be an “eminent citizen” one day and an inmate of Ludlow Street Jail or a candi- date for State Prison the next. Eminent citizens are rather an uncertain class of citi- wens about these days. In Reaarp to Streer Proogssi0ns, Gov- ernor Hoffman suggests that whatever laws the Legislature may pass on the subject “should secure equal privileges to all men ot whatever religion, of whatever politics, of whatever race, color or creed.” This is the fair thing, from curb to curb. A Syv@ Litt.e Exerre must that be which has nearly a million of children going to school and receives over ten million dollars for edu- cational purposes within a year. Such is the condition of the Empire State of New York according to Governgr Hofuaa’s Measaca, ——— Tur Opraags ON THE CimLy IN RoougeTER, of which we yesterday published an account, has greatly excited the inhabitanta of that place, who are determined to avenge the death of the child, which was reported yesterday afternoon. The first impulse of the infuriated mob was to take the negro Howard from the City Prison and lynch him, but they were baffled in this by the Sheriff, his aids and the military. They next fell to punishing all the colored persons they met. Not discouraged by the repulse of the authorities at the prison, or the angry aspect of the militie holding ft, they lingered about the place until about nine o'clock last night, when, as our de- spatches state, somo stones were thrown at the soldiers, who quickly replied by a volley, killing two men and woundiag a man anda boy. This is a sad story altogether—the death of the child and the subsequent killing of her would-be avengers ; but the latter could ex- pect nothing else in their attempt to supersede the operations of the laws, Governor HorrMan insists that the amount of the State debt contracted before the war, im gold—about twelvo millions five hundred thou- sand dollars—the State is bound ta honor to repay in gold coin, Upon this question there is but little division of opinion among good oiti- zens. Besides, gold is getting so cheap now that any one who can muster eleven dollars in greenbacks can obtain ten dollars in gold. Arrér ALL THE Hug ann Cry that have been raised about the Health Officer at Quar- antine, it seems that brit-omd complaint. has/ been made to the Governor against that offi- cial, and that will be duly referred to the Legislature, Wind westerly at Quarantine, THE HERALD AND DR, LIVINGSTONE, {From the Memphis Appeal.) Tnree parties of explorers are now in Ventral Af- Tica—one conducted by Dr, Livingstone, who has been absent several years; another sent out by the King of Egypt and government of Groat Britain, led by Sir Samuel Baker; and the third, of seventy men, by the New YORK HERALD, The main pur- pose Ol the two last is to find Dr. Livingstone, aud determine whether the great lakes of Centrai Africa fow into the Mediterranean through the Nile or tuto the Atiantic through the River Niger, The power of the press tu this extraordinary undertak- ing of the Hunan 1s exerted in a new direction. fo control public opinion nas hitherto been the mission of the press, but now we have the gveat newspaper of America entering a new fieid Of enterprise, that commercial and geographical facts may be ascertained and deflued, The HBRALD stands gloof from the press of the country, it ts sut generis, defying men, parties, news assocta- Uons and polltical combinations, and now tt sup- plants governments and enters upon a task a8 novel 8s 1ts conception was daring and original, Give the HeEraty Its due. The London Times may well represent the steady conservatism of the Old, aa does the HERALD the irrepressible spirit of progress of the New World, From all the information thus far gathered by the H&eaup's corps of explorers, there is every reason to believe that Dr, Livingstoue is alive, and though age, fatigue, hardship and want have laid their marks upon lim, ye. he lives, and the labors of his years will yet enrick science and add to the general tnformation of the worid. Tne work of the expedition, however, is not yet completed, the journey not yet ended. The point, however, has been reached from which a new departure will be taken. Onward is stilt tli ery and deeper still into the wastes must the journey stil be carried. The mission so favorably com- menced, so energeticaliy persevered In, 80 dourage- ously tipneld, must crown its enterprise with suc- cess ere the announcement can be made to tae World tuat the goal 18 won, and that the great trav- eller whose name is @ home word throughout the universe has beon saved or has sunk to a lonely grave among the wlids of Africa, {From the Frederick (Ma.) Herald, Dec, $9.) THE GREAT JOURNAL OF THE AGE, ‘The greatest achievement of modern journallatic eriterprise that has ever been recorded, we fanoy, ts the sending by the New YORK HERALD of @ special agent or correspondent into the wilderness and swamps aud among the savage tribes of Airica tn search of Dr. Livingstone, the great traveller, Some two years since the HERALD wrote:—“Find Dr. Liv- ingstone; draw upon this office for the necessary mands." On these words, addressed to one of its correspondents, was founded a thoroughly equipped expedition, wuich from that time has with wonder- ful sagacity and patience beon following on the trait of the great African explorer, the results of which, down to July 4, are embodied in a letter to our great contemporary of that date, from Kwihara, District of Unyanyembe, and published inthe HgeRaLD of Friday, December 22, Expeditions into foreign and unknown countries have heretofore almost always been organized and seat out under the government patronage of some nationality; but here is an expe- dition, penetrating into the wildest and moat un known tand of the earth, inhabited by warlike and ferocious cannibals, sont out, cared for aud pro- tected alone by the power of the press, {From the Colambus (Ohio) Statesman, Dec. 20.) ‘The HERALD expedition in search of Dr. Living- stone is an unequalled bit of newspaper enterprise. It took upon itselr a duty that the English govera- ment hesitated about, There is something realiy wondertut In this. {From the Paduecan (Ky.) Kentuckian, Dec. 30.) In another column will ve found a graphic ant most interesting account of an expedition organizea by a correspondent of the New YORK H&RALD to go in search of Pt. Livitigsione. This furnishes tie Tuost Mfnarkable and commendable {nstance ot newspaper enterprise on record, Ovvice ov THA Curvy Stanai, OrricaR, WASUINGTOS, D. C,, Jan, 3—1 A, Mf, Synopsia sor the Past Twenty-fow Hours, AR DEPARTMANT, { Tne barometer has risen since Mon- day night throughout the Atlantic States, but has fatlen during Tuesday frou tho St, Lawrence Valiey to Arkansas and northwest, with easterly and southerly winds, threatening weather and occasional light rain. The lowest barometer has advanced northeastward into Wis- consin, Easterly winds, with threatening weather, have continued in the Southern aud Guit States, aud extended to-nigit northward ba Pennsylvania, ‘The rivers have risen, espectaily at Pittaburg, Nashville and Memphis, and fallen slightly ai st. Louis. Reports have not yet been received from ti Northwest and Rocky Mountata stations, Probabilities. The barometer will probably rise on Wednesday trom ‘texas to Kentucky with clearing weatner; cloudy weather continue from the South Atlantic to the Mississippi; an area of high baromeret with failing temperature and © nortnwest winds advance eastward into Missourl and Wiscon- sin; the lowest pressure move northeast, with clowl and rain, into Canada; falling barometer, with caat- erly winds and threatening weather, prevall from Virginia to New York; clouay weatner in New Eng- land, Dangorous winds are not anticipated to-nigat, The Weather In This City Yesterday, ‘The following record wili show the changes (n tne temperature for the past twenty-four hours ta com~ parison with the corresponding day of last year, ae ‘by the thermometer at Hudunt’s Pharmacy, ‘aware corner of Ann street: — 1. 1812 Utaup BUudIng, Is7L, 1972, 3PM ae) to voy 0e SUNG ralure for correspondtn, egret tr