The New York Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1872, Page 6

— NEW YORK AFRATY BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR, All business or news letter and telegraphic Gespatches must be addressed New York Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Volume XXXVIl.ssseessesscsscssssessesssNow 11 | DY this caucus? We suppose that the demo- AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEAT! Bowery.—' we i vases, wery.—Tue House Doe— OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bi ——' * ‘ToMusE or HUMPTY Dower Pe peneee Fay BOOTH'S TREAT! a xe Fae ‘RE, Twenty-third at., corner Sixth av. GRAND OPERA ond No amore corner of 8th ay. and dd at. woo! ances MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 33th at. moon and evening.—BEAUTY AND THR BRABT. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, s wil JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and Broad- FIFTR AVENUE Tar New Drama or Drvoror. ee WALLACK'S 11 r" wk Jou Gan 'HEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. AIMEE'S OPE! rt on banee eens BOUFFB, 720 Broadway.—OPEna NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, BRE et RE PEST Mtreen owe and MRS. F. B. MonTE CBisTo. 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New York, Thursday, January 11, 1872. = CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, — Advertisemon @—Adveriusements: 3—Washington: The Spanish War Feeling Cooling Down; The Coinage Bill Debate; Conkhng's Attack on the “One Term” ‘Amendment; Hal- leck's Death No Promotion to Hancock—The State Capital: Spay Green’s Amended mn Passed by the Legislature; The Credit of the Metropoiis Assured; A Convention to Frame @ New City Charter Pro) d in the House; Senator Wood Rises to ‘xplain; The District Attorney's Office To Be Overhauled by te Judiciary Committee; Reforms in the Jury Law; Railroad Measures and Kallroad Raids; A Free Library for Every Village, Town and ee al cancion et lompany to Reduce Their Capital to 10,000,000 On the Ocean Wave: Lous sorage of the Steamship Oceanic — Liverpool—Opening of the Jewish Li- 4—Congress: Civil Service Reform on Its Constitu- tonality; the Six Noble Japs and West Point; the Coipage Bill in the House; New Members Admitted—State Legislatures—City Complext- ties: Action of the Sachems of Tammany; General Cochrane as acting Mayot—Brooklyn fo rt Sale—A Plea for the Life of Mrs. icholy Suicide in Hoboken, $—Modern : Revolting Scenes in the Louisiana ture; the Corry snd Cow. m’ Seasion: T ardly Lawm: Attitudes of tr ments end V sonal foo singtion 1 American (iGucn rebellion Bxle ‘vyolution fn 1 s; What 4 tion fade. Projes- Fisk Mansfield g bone tye 4 ‘Tuc Domocracy Forthcoming Con- Prospect!’ -—AMUSe- —Movement ' Al Amusement 1 of His Neat ms--! ary Condition of jon of the Board vlad : len ysrery-—/ ompin; At Raliroa t Rok. trick. « Dark 09) commer. i hey .v and Havaus Mo. kets— Jciflages wad Deaths. <Mra, Wharton's Defence: Great Crowd in the Court Room; Cross-Examining Professor Whyte; Dr. #F Declares. General Keichum Was Not Poisonsi—The Run on the Third Avenue Savings are a Contract—The Nevraska Legislature—Ship- ing Intelligeuce—Advertisements, siaJonennan Hamilton's Confession: Particulars ‘of @ Twofoli Homicide in Newroundiand— Jeeboat Carnival: The Annual Regatta at Poughkeepsie—A California Murderer sen- tenced—Racing in California—The Twenty. second Ward Stabbing Affray—Advertise- ments. , 19~Advertisements. Tue Brivis PARLIAMENT will soon as- semble in session, This fact is made still more evident by our cable despatches report- John Pakington’s conservative address tochdale and the initiation of a grand me rule” political agitation in Ireland. aame old story; like effects from similar * tALD SPECIAL LetTERs FROM MEXICO. — m Mexico we havea special correepond- ‘tue, published in the Heratp to-day, which reports the situation of affairs as it existed in the republic at the close of 1871. President Juares’s Message to Congress is given in ez- (nso, with a variety of other matter relating to the progress of the revolution, and the many |plots and counterplots, military and which were fe onder the government. _” wphibit is gloomy eoon;h, but perhaps f 16 Mexicans, partio.‘arly to the con- je tinkern « oom y and the mili- fy caterers foreign, who ¥ the e i ROLIB ‘OLDERS bave “efbed to « nel the State % dligat seeting of the Movs of f 8 ht, where four- fous preven) represeotce two hundred * dotlers’ worth of tock, it was iy conceded that Governor Scott, the Treseurer, ood Kempton, tbe agent!) New York, were responsible wmmount Issued imittee being te.wuut up tbe Loud. slders all over , We May 800n expect to hear some artillery firing at Columbia, THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street. — |° NEW YOR [ Tae Democracy sud ‘Tee the Presttency ceriecommg Vengresmunal vnecus ase the Prospect. We are informed from Washington that on Tuesday: evening next, on tho call of Mr. Fernando Wood, there will be a meeting in the hall of the House of Representatives of the democratic members of both Chambers, to consider the political situation in reference to the line‘of action of the democratic party in the coming Presidential contest, but that an address from the caucus to the people is not contemplated. What, then, is contemplated crats of Congress intend to meet together to compare notes on the present condi- tion and prevailing views of the party, North, South, East and West, on the Missouri passive or ‘‘possum policy,” on the question of a new democratic departure embracing all the great issues settled by the war, and on the question of an early national convention for the purpose of relieving the party of all the dead issues of the war, and of placing it diatinctly in the foreground on the living issues of 1872. The Missouri policy of sinking the demo- cratic party in this approaching contest, in a fusion with the anti-Grant republican party, though still agitated in Missouri and there- abouts, is generally repudiated by the old- liners throughout the country as a cowardly surrender to the enemy in advance of the battle. The prevailing views of the party upon this subject are no doubt those expressed by Mr. Pendleton, of Ohio, ina recent philo- sophical letter on the subject to a democratic committee of Wooster, Ohio, inviting him to their celebration of the 8th of January, the anniversary of General Jaoksvaw-victory at New Orleans, of 1815, upon which the demo- cratic party under Jackson came into power. In this letter Mr, Pendleton says of the unter- rified democracy:—‘‘If I understand their feel- ings they will neither disband their organiza- tions nor flee the field before the contest com- mences. Either course they believe would give undisputed sway to the present adminis- tration, which could then give undivided at- tention to deserters from its ranke. An ad- vancing army, with the enemy dispersed or in flight, never loses divisions or regiments, or even companies, and is generally able to pick off or pick up treacherous or thoughtless stragglers.” This is doubtless the general democratic view of the Missouri policy—the policy of sinking the democratic party in a bolting republican faction. Mr. Pendleton insists that the cart shall follow the horse. He says:—‘“‘If there be, as is claimed, many members of the republican party who disap- prove the ideas which dominate the adminis- tration of President Grant, and are prepared to oppose his re-election, they should declare their purposes, organize their party, develop and manifest their strength, and, if I may predict the future, they will have no just cause, even the most sensitive and timid among them, for refusing to co-operate with the democratic party.” In other words, Mr. Pendleton holds that these anti-Grant republicans must come out, show their hacds and show whether they can or cannot control the balance of power between the two parties, before the democrats can enter into any negotiations with them for & Presidential coalition. Now, from all that we can understand of their movements, the anti-Grant republicans intend, first, to defeat General Grant, if they ean, in the regular party convention, and, fail- ing in this, they have had their eyes fixed upon Vice President Colfax as an independent anti-Grant republican candidate. But Mr. Colfax, who for some time was supposed to be @ consenting party to these anti-Grant tactics, has fecently, with becoming modesty, indi- cated bis readiness to run again for Vice Presi- dent with General Grant; and this, perbaps, will be the regular republican arrangement. What, then, will the malcontent republicans do? Will they form a third party, or fall into line, or join the democracy, or retire from the field? We sball have a definite answer to this question with the renomination of General Grant by the regular republican convention, which will probably be held early in May. The democrats, in the expectation of a bolt, will doubtless await the action of the republican convention before they hold their own for the nomination of their Presidential ticket. This point of action appears to be generally under- stood as the fixed purpose of the democrats, As the offensive party in the coming contest, they want to know the defensive position of the administration and the development of its weak points before they form their direct line of attack. Meantime, however, while the administra- tion party !s an organized and disciplined army, with its recoznized general-in-chief and subordinate officers regularly established through all its divisions, the democratic party is in the condition ofan army demoralized and disorganized, without any recognized general leaders, and without any systematic plan of operations, offensive or defensive. This approaching democratic Congressional caucus, therefore, will have the Important question first to consider of the reorganization of the party. In this matter what can this caucus do? Itcan do nothing better than to agree upon a resolution inviting Mr, Belmont and his National Committee to issue a call fora National Democratic Convention at an early day, for the single purpose of a reorganiza- tion of the party upon a new platform, adapted to the new order of things established with the fifteenth amendment. This is neces. sary in order to harmonize the Northern and Southern democracy, As matters now stand between the two sections there is more dan- ger of @ bolting democratic faction in the South than there is of a bolting republican faction in the North. The threatening atti- tude of Alexander H. Stephens and his unre- constructed Southern old liners deserves more the attention of the Northern democratic lead- ers than the wrath of Mr. Sumner, the bitter- ness of Mr. Greeley, or the vengeance of Mr, Schurz against General Grant, We would recommend, therefore, to Mr. Wood and his Congressional caucus the call of a National Democratic Convention at an early day to reorganize and harmonize the party on the fixed facts of the present political situation, Let the Convention, after effecting this reorganization on a scale broad and liberal enough to attract all the floating ma- terials of the country, adjourn, to be called together again after the republigag conven. Kk AERALD, CfHURSDAY the nomination of 4 Presidesti Ucket, and the democracy, ih tbeir new armor, may make a splendid national fight next November. The downfall of Tammany, with the loss of New York, has thrown the party upon its beam ends. Its stronghold, with its citadel, and its base of operations, is in the enemy's hands. A general reorganiza- tion, then, is the first necessity to the bewil- dered democracy ; and, dispossessed of their power in the East, they are oalled upon for a reconstruction which will command the float- ing balance of power in the West and the South. To this end there is no device that will meet the case but that of an early re- organizing national convention, ! tion for The Reported Rothschild, Cooke and Mc- Oulloch Loan, There seems to be littie doubt now that a Proposition has been made to the government by Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., in which the name of the Rothschilds has been mentioned, to take six hundred millions of the United States new four and a half per cent securities, There was an impression that this report was something of an advertising dodge, and was put out also as a feeler to ascertain how good @ bargain could be made with the Treasury Department. It appears, however, that Mr. Boutwell has been approached by the old Syndicate, or by a new one with some of the old Syndicate connected with it. Still, we; have yet to learn how far the Rothschilds have moved in the matter, and what the oon- ditions of the proposition are. It seems a little strange, too, that if these famous Rothschild capitalists are dis. posed to take six hundred millions of our securities, they should use any intermediate agency. Vast as the sum of the proposed loan is the Rothschilds are able, no doubt, to take it; but why they should not act directly with our government and without the ald of others we do not well understand. It is a very important proposition and will be carefully considered, doubtless, by the admin- istration and Congress. It is said that one of the conditions is to have the interest ona portion of the securities, at least, paid in Europe. To pay the whole of the interest abroad might be inconvenient, as that would cause a great and constant drain of specie from this country. In the event of returning to specie payments this might place us at the mercy of foreign capitalists. Still, it is a question if a portion of the interest could not safely be paid abroad. The saving of six or seven millions a year in interest on the debt is & great temptation to accept such a proposal. Then, again, we have to consider, in view of our improving credit abroad, the prospect of making a better bargain in the course of a year or two. Above all, let us have no more Syndicate jobs by which many millions would be given as a bonus to mere agents. When we know all the conditions of the proposed loan we can judge better whether they are ac- ceptable or not, A New Proposition for Our Charter-Mon- goers. Mr. Mackay, of New York, has introduced a proposition in the Assembly for a charter convention, to be composed of three delegates from each Assembly district in New York, numbering sixty-three in all, whose duty it shall be to frame a charter for the city, to be submitted to the Legislature for approval and enactment. It has been said that in a multi- tude of counsellors there is wisdom; but we question whether Assemblymin Mackay would find this to be true in the case of his proposed convention. Just imagine what intelligent and disinterested delegates would be returned from some of the districts famous for their Tweed majori- ties, and what brilliant ideas would be advanced in the remarkable body on the pria- ciples of corporate government! The Com- mittee of Seventy, with oll its intelligence, honesty and business capacity, proved itself but little better than a debating club and utterly failed in the labor of drafting a practical charter for the city. What, then, could be expected of a bear garden of sixty-three elected by the characters that figure most prominently in our political primaries, The fact is, there would be no difficulty in drafting a desirable city charter, provided those who set about the work would discard from their minds all political considerations, all complications and tinkerings to secure a party advantage in this or that direction, and concentrate their atten- tion upon the best interests of the people and the splendid future of the metropolis, Half a dozen intelligent men might perfect such a law better thana hundred. The Committees on Cities and the Judiciary might each delegate two of their members for this special duty, and we have no doubt it would be well and honestly performed. Mr. Mackay’s idea is simply another of the many impracticable, tinkering notions to which our recent city complications have given birth, and should be treated accordingly. Let the charter be pre- pared by the Assembly Committee on Cities, or by such a joint committee as we have sug- gested, and we have no doubt that we shall secure a good and permanent law under which to live for the next twenty-five years; but the less meddling and muddling we have from unwieldy volunteer committees and mixed conventions the better and the more promptly the work will be done. officers in the Russian army isa matter of the Czar. Since 1869 there has been a notice- able falling off. At the close of that year there were 1,918 officers required to fill vacancies; at the close of 1870 the deficiency November, 1871, these figures were swelled to 2,663, Itmust be remembered, however, that during the time specified the Russian army has been largely increased and recruiting has been exceedingly active of late, The discrepancy can be accounted for in this way—that the government finds it much easier to fill the ranks than to supply officers, Tae Coat Miners’ Strixe has been happily terminated without any particular loss or in- convenience. The men yesterday accepted the terms of the Wilkesbarre Company, on the condition that powder and oil should be sold to them at a fair reduced price, The arrange- ments being mutually agreed upon the men org to return to their work on Monday next, Tax RvssiaN ARnMY.—The deficiency of some concern to the imperial government of was increased to 2,045, while on the lst of JANUARY .U,. 1872,- | Woumtess Yesierday—shail We Here owe +s wu poivtors fe Politios tn tho Lowe. The Senate of the United States was en- gaged yesterday in the discussion of the very grave and momentous question embraced io the above caption. The Committee on For- eign Relations had reported a bill authorizing the admission and education of six Japanese youths at our Military Academy up the river atthe expense of the Japanese government. Few of our citizens would discover that aoy- thing very dangerous to our tnstitutions was embodied in that simple proposition. As a matter of international courtesy this thing should have been done in the most graceful end courteous manner, and the six young Japanese might even have enjoyed the privi- loge, s0 dear to the Senatorial and Reprosen- tative heart, of being deadheaded at that in- stitution; but Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, and Mr. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, fought and struggled against and came well nigh strangling the measure, as one that would be setting a dangerous precedent, and that would, in one sense, be establishing a Japanese aris- tocracy at West Point, That military school has already been considerably revolutionized by the admission of colored pupils, who did not turn out very creditably, and certainly could not be very much deteriorated in char- acter by the immixture of a half dozen princely Mongolians, who would probably introduce the much needed elements of Oriental sobriety and reserve, Seriously, we regret very much that such an opportunity of. complimenting the Japanese government in a graceful and ac- ceptable manner should have been spoiled by the ill-considered objections and small politi- clan captiousness which were interposed against the passage of the bill, The measure is still pending, but it has been already made un- acceptable by striking out of it a provision de- signed to relieve the young Japanese students from regulations which their position or thelr religion might have readered it impossible for them to observe, The House of Representatives had two sub- Jects before it yesterday—namely, the bill to revise the Mint and Coinage laws and a con- tested case from Texas. In the discussion on the first Mr. Fernando Wood, speaking of the necessity of elevating the grade of official ability and integrity, instanced the reform re- cently inaugurated in this city, and called upon the leader of the House to try and in- duce his party and administration to go and do likewise. Mr. Dawes, in reply, made the point that the distinction between the two parties in that respect was, that republicans sent their thieves to the Penitentiary, where- as democrats sent theirs—meaning, we sup- pose, Boss Tweed, Tom Fields and other worthies of the same stamp—to the Legisla- ture. That home thrust appears to have been greeted with applause and laughter by the republican members, while the democrats crowed in their turn over the retort made by Mr. Wood, that if all the republican thieves were to be sent to prison there would not be prisons enough in the country to hold the one- hundredth part of them. Mr. Dwight Town- send, of New York, then elbowed his way into the fight, and after asserting that the result of @ popular vote, if taken, would be to send members of Congress back to their ordinary avocations, he moved to strike out the enacting clause of the bill. He came very near carrying his motion, and did actually get a large majority for it on a division of tellers; but when it came toa vote by yeas and nays the recalcitrant republicans got back into the traces and voted pretty solidly against it. The bill, however, was so much damaged that its author, Mr. Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, was very glad to be able to take it back into port to be overhauled and repaired. Tn legislative phrase, it was recommitted to the Committee on Coinage. After that question was got rid of the case of a contested election from Texas came up, in -which the Governor of that State, while 2 pa giving the certificate to one of the claimants, inserted in it the expression of his opinion that the election in the district was so tainted by fraud and irreg- ularity as to render it proper that it should be annulled, The Committee on Elections, how- ever, adopted the certificate, discarded the opinion and reported in favor of the person holding the certificate, Mr. W. T. Clarke, who, after a waste of three hours’ debate, was eventually admitted to a seat and qualified as amember, The House was probably right in this action, and it would be still more right if it would follow the precedent in all cases and admit only such persons as held the Govern- or’s certificate of election, leaving the contest- ant the right of disputing the matter before the Executive and Judiciary of his State, This would banish from Congress the unmiti- gated nuisance of contested elections, which are now invariably decided from partisan con- sideration, Tue Fittny Street Cars of this city are a disgrace to the public that tolerates them as well as to the authorities that permit such conveyances to circulate without any attempt being made to enforce cleanli- ness. The Brooklyn city government have taken a step in the right direction on this matter, and why should not our reforming City Fathers follow their example? The vermin-infested vehicles should be over- hauled, and if there is no help for our being obliged to hang on by the straps for an hour at a time, why should those straps be the greasy strips of leather that defile the fingers and elude the grasp? In our present posi- tion, at the mercy of grasping corporations and brutal conductors, we are almost afraid to protest against overcrowding. Tug Emperor oF Brazit as A Mzpta- TOR.—The correspondent of the Pal! Malt Gazette in Rome relates that during the stay of the Emperor of Brazil in the Eternal City he had a number of audiences with the Holy Father. At one of these, it is stated, he ap- proached Pio Nono on the subject of a recon- ciliation between him and the King of Italy. His Holiness affected surprise at the position taken by the Brazilian monarch and appeared very much irritated when the latter promised to bring Victor Emmanuel to the Vatican privately in order that he might have an audi- ence with the venerable Pontiff. As might have been expected, the attempted mediation ended in failure. Pio Nono still maintains his opposition to Italy’s King, and the breach between thom la ae wide as ever, ioonces and the Powore of Comptrolicr Cireom. The Legislature yesterday acted upon the suggestions made in the Heraxp in regard to the bill conferring extraordinary powers upon Comptroller Green, and passed simply that portion of the measure which authorizes that officer to raise and apply the funds necessary to meet the city bonds and interest now falling due, It is tobe hoped that no attempt will be made to revive the discarded provisions ; they have already been generally condemned as creating a violent revolution in the city government when no such extreme policy is demanded by the public voice or for the public good, and recent events have removed all pretence for their enactment. We have now a Board of Aldermen in which our citizens repose confidence, and the elec- tion of John Cochrane as its presiding officer gives us an Acting Mayor, during the with- drawal of Mayor Hall from his official duties, whose capacity and sterling integrity are un- questioned. The Departments are in the hands of good and efficient men, the affairs of the city are well and economically managed; in the Departments of Public Works and Parks, in the several courts and city offices, the expen- ditures have been materially reduced by the removal of all drones, sine- curists and incompetent employés; the finances are administered by an honest man, There can be no cause for making any further changes or any experiments at this time in our municipal machinery, and the wisest and most prudent course to pursue is to suffer the city to remain in its present con- dition until the Legislature shall have care- fully matured a new charter, under which we can re-establish an efficient and permanent municipal government, It must not be supposed that our opposition to Senator Benedict's bill, as originally intro- duced, implies any want of confidence in Comptroller Green. As the head of the Finance Department of the city, he should be afforded every facility necessary to disem- barrass the government, to pay the honest creditors of the municipality, and to maintain the public oredit untarnished. No power or authority that he could ask in this direction should be withheld from him. But it is no part of his duties, as an appointed officer himself, to create offices or to make appointments in the several departments; and we are convinced that he cannot desire any such responsibility, especially when no public interest is to be subserved there- by. The executive power is vested in the Mayor, and should there really be any neces- sity for further changes in the subordinate executive departments the temporary power to remove, appoint and create should be vested in President Cochrane, and not in Comptroller Green. As we have already said, we can see no present necessity for further temporary legislation, unless it should be such as a financial emergency may require; but if it should be deemed expedient to bridge over the time that must elapse before a new charter can be enacted and an election under its provisions can take place, the Legislature, by a simple amend- ment of the existing charter, should confer upon the President of the Board of Aldermen, while filling the duties of Acting Mayor, the power of appointment and removal throughout the whole city government. Such power would be as faithfully and discreetly exercised by John Cochrane as by Comptroller Green, and the executive and financial branches of the city goveriiment would both be confined to their legitimate func. tions. The principle of conferring greater authority upon the Executive is one for which the people contend, and hence the course we recommend would not be open to the objec- tions urged against Senator Benedict's bill, which was condemned as a departure from all our ordinary ideas of a sound municipal gov- ernment, and as creating a violent revolution in our city affairs only as a temporary expe- dient to meet a questionable emergency. Tae Faction Fiantina in NEw ORLEANS continues as bitterly as ever. According to our despatches the death of Wheyland is attributed to Carter, inasmuch as he was an accessory before the fact, though it is not stated whether he ordered the shooting or not. After the verdict of Coroner Creagh had. been made public Warmoth intimated that he had ordered Carter’s arrest, The New Or- leans press stigmatizes the whole affair as disgusting in the extreme; and while on the one handa call for federal intervention is raised to prevent further bloodshed and cripple the power of the rowdies, who are now violat- ing every law known to civilized communi- ties, on the other side the merchants cry aloud for help, and demand the immediate restora- tion of order, that they may prosecute their business without interference from corrupt and cowardly politicians. j Tae TRIAL OF THE Frexon Hostacxs,— The trial of the French hostages for the mur- der of German soldiers in the occupied dis- tricts of France has commenced, That crime has been committed by French desperadoes and fanatics is, no doubt, true, but the arrest of innocent people as hostages is no less a crime because it is done in what appears to be a legal form. No good will come of it, The example of the Paris Commune is hardly a fitting one to be followed by the empire of Ger- many. It will only help to intensify the bitter feeling already existing between the French people and their conquerors. Let the guilty be punished; but for the sake of justice and humanity let us not have, even at the hands of 80 great a man as Prince Bismarck, indiscrim- inate punishment, Tne Cosine or TAMMANY Hat against the newly elected Democratic General Com- mittee will recall forcibly the time, two years ago, when by a bold flank movement the “Boss” succeeded in crushing the Young Democracy. Tammany Hall was filled with policemen, and rebellion against St. Tiger lay stifled fora time on the steps of the Wigwam. There is not a tithe of the strength now there was then in the ‘Big Injun,” and this attempt to play the game of bluff is not likely to be very successful. He has become so thin of late that every- body can see through him, The pretence on which the new General Committee is repudiated appears very childish, and since the hall is to be closed against the demooracy of the city, for whom it was intended, tho pragtega had better goll it off wh omeee Agessiz’+ Maxploriog Expedition. The exploring expedition under Agassi, whioh recently left our shores has gottes into the field of its labors, and, as our readers are aware, we are beginning to reap some of the first fruits of what promises to ~ be a fine harvest of science. In the recently published letter from the commanding savant of the expedition to Professor Pierce he seome much elated over the discovery of a curious nest of fish secreted in a ball of floating Gulf weed, picked up by an officer of the Hassler, the steamer which bears the investigating party. The marine life so carefully stored away ia this ball of sargassum is so precious that the eggs are ‘wrapped up with the materials of which the nest itself is composed, and as these materials are living Gulf weed, the fish-oradle, rocking upon the deep ocean, is carried slong as an undying arbor, affording at the same time protection and afterwards food for ite lving freight.” Small and insignificant as this discovery may appear to be at first, it may lead to the solution of some of the most important prob- lems of marine life. It is the opinion of some naturalists that the larger animals of the deep, such as the whales, are mainly fed by the food transported from the tropics to the Polar Ocean. For the right whalo of come merce the tropical ocean is as impassable as a ‘*sea of fire,” and it is known that his habitat is far towards the extremer latitudes, It is a yet unexplained mystery how the icy ocean can support in its chilly depths such swarms of whales and other marine fauna as have been seen in it, It would seem highly probable that the discovery of Agassiz proves that the tropical basin of the Atlantic isa great storehouse and granary of vegetable and animal food, and that the hosts of marine life marshalled around the Pole are supplied with it through the channel of the Gulf Stream. In this case the hot current of the Atlantic, in its now much disputed and widely discussed volume and extension as an oceam current, is indirectly brought under the lens of Agassiz. But a more immediately important dis» covery is announced by the exploring party in the nature of the Gulf weed, in which are deposited the stores of animal life. It has heretofore been a vexed question with scientific men whether this Sargassum was indigenous to the ocean or grew only upon the rocks which rise out of its foam. Agassiz distinctly states:—‘‘Our ob- servations favor the view of those who be- lieve that the floating weed is derived from plants torn from the rocks upon which sar- gassum naturally grows. I made a very simple experiment, which seems to me to settle the matter. Every branch of the sea- weed which is deprived of its floats at once sinks to the bottom of the water, aod these floats are not likely to be the first parts developed by the spores.” After examining a large quantity of the Gulf weed he says he did not see a branch, “thowever small,” which did not exhibit dis- tinct marks of having been ‘‘torn from a solid attachment.” The important conclusion the explorer draws—viz., that the sargassum can- not multiply while floating, and that what is met with in the West Indies has been torn from the rocks—very clearly establishes the old view of Humboldt, that the Gulf Stream is supplied by the vast flow of waters from the Antarctic Ocean, which moves off the Cape of Good Hope and the west coast of Africa. If the sargassum was a native growth of the Sargasso Sea, and did not bear the marks noticed by Agassiz, we might con- clude that it was washed from the Sargasso Sea by the North African current and drifted westward by the trade winds. We, of course, cannot, as yet, fully interpret the few results reported from this new expedition; but the facts already published by Professors Pierce and Agassiz may prove of great value to hydrographic science. It was through the observations of the habits and habitat of the whale that the Gulf Stream was discovered—a discovery of inesti- mable value to commerce—and we apprehend much more may be learned even from the ani- malcule of the sea than is now dreamed of in our philosophy. The whole public are deeply interested in such investigations, and it is of the utmost importance to the interests of science and commerce and navigation that the limits of the trade winds, the laws of storms in the tropics, the volume, velocity and temperature of the equatorial current and such like practi- cal problems, be settled by the new expedi- tion, Personal Intelligence Count Philippeus, Russian Minister to Japan, ia staying at the Hoffman House. General Owens, of Philadelphia, is quartered at French's Hotel. Inspector General James McQuade, of Governor Hotfman’s staf, 1s domiciled at the Gilsey, Willia Seward, Jr., of Auburn, is among the late arrivals at the St, Nicholas, General J. B. Gorden, of Georgia, is registered at the Grand Central. General W. B. Tibbitts, of tne United States Army, 1s at the Glisey House. Bishop Pipckney, of Maryland, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House, Judge Israel 8. Spencer, of Syracuse, is again at the Fifth avenue, Volonels Kilpourne and Stocking, of Washington, are domiciled at the Metropolitan, Generai E. F. Beals, of California, yesterday ar- Tived at the Fifth Avenue. A. J, Bruyn, of Kingston, is registered at the New York. Ex-Congressman 0, B. Matteson, of Utica, is at the Fifth Aven THE HERALD AND DR, LIVINGSTONE. (From the Atlanta (Ga.) Sun, Jan. 7.) It these rumors be true we have only one more source from which to hope for the rescue of the ‘African explorer. The enterprise of the HaRALD, one of the boldest individual undertakings on rec- ord, we trust may be abundantly successful. Should the reports of Sir Samuel Baker's death be un- founded and the two expeditions unite and yet res- cue the herotc adventurer, it will be an immortal record for Europe, America and Africa, and a last- ing monument to the authors of the hazardous ea- en cei TRENT GENERAL HALLEOK. The Remalas of the Late General to bo Re- moved to New York, LOUISVILLE, Jan. 10, 1872, ‘yhe romaine of the late General Halleok will oe plaged ina vault at Cave Hill Cemetery until re- move d to Greenwood Cometery, at New York, Tae waved tary hongrd Will ve Dald ta Ue dead.