The New York Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All bosiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must “be addressed New York Herarp. * Letters and packages should be properly wealed. . Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVIL. 0.000 cee ceseeceeeseepersNOe 2B —= AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bi “al . ‘TOMINE OF HUMPTY Deu mar anete f4e snt* OPERA BOUFFE, 72% Broadway.—BaRuE BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty. v - aunive Cpean: > Twenty-third st., corner Sixth ay, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner of 8th ay. and 284 At— Eurorzan HirrorHeaTKicaL COMPANY. Matinee at 2. FIFTA AVENUE TIIEATR T ral - Tur New ‘Duatia or Divouor, “veayfourth street WOOD'S MUSLUM, corner 3 —l ances afternoon and evening.-O8 HAND. nt Perform WALLAOK'S THE. i - Seon. 'HEATRE, Broadway ani 13th street. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston street Biace Goons’ owen Prince and BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—T1GRr OF THR SEA— Zir; OR, A Live's DEVOTION. 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New York, Tucsday, January 23, 1872. oo —s { CONTENTS OF TO-DAY?S HERALD, co Advertisements, 2—Adverusements. 3—The State Capiial: The Bill tor a Board of Ap- Fortoament and Audit Ordered to a Third uding in the Assembly; Victory for the Fentonites; the Alleged Gravel Frauds fin New York City; Explanation of Senator Husted— Vice Vanquished: Kelso Clearing out tie Con- cert Saloons on Broadway; Doings in the Dens; Breaking up an Infamous and Dis- gosung, ‘TraMlc; The Charge of the Police; enes Within anit Without the Tawdry, Tin- sel Temples of Shame; Sixty-six Women and Five Men Arrested and Locked Up; All but One Discharged by Judge Dowling, 4—Congre: The amnesty Bill and Its Amend- meuts; the Arlington Estateand Mrs, General Lee; Shipbuilding and import Duties in the House; Receiving the Noble Japs; the New Orleans Troubles and tne House Commit. tee—The Syndicaie: Boutweil’s Negotiation or the New Five Per Cent Loan; Examination of the Secretary of the Treasury before the Ways: aud Means Cominittee; Oficial Interpretauon of the Law; ‘Report of the Committee; the ee. Acquitied and Sustained ia His no. 5—The synateate (Continued from Fourtn Page)— Imniigration: A New and Important Measure Before Vongress—The Trentou Bank Robbery: One Milion of Money Almost in the Hands of the = Thieves — Pergu's Views on Pigeon Shooting—Tammany’s Tribulations— Richard 8. Convolly—The Hepworth Depart- ure—Rev. Mr. Bradley’s New Departure— Affatrs in Canada—A Stock Jobbing Rumor— A Plague-Stricken Family—Swallowing a Fatal Draught—mysterious Disappearance— Miller's Reveuge—A Hypocrite Caged—The Giass Costello Butehery—The Harbor lavesti- gatiou—Lecture by Mark Twain, 6—Editortais: Leading Articie, “President Thiers— The Congratulations of the Diplomatic Corps— Order in France and the Peace of Europe’— Amusement Announcements, ‘7—Frauce: President Thiers Congratuiated by the People and Foreign Ministers—Miscellaneous European gy oe egies War in Mexico: Disaster and Defeat Dogging the Forces of Juarex—News from Washi n—Alexis: in- cidents and Ovations on the Route Between Kit Carson and Topeka; Buffalo Shooting from @ Rushing Train—the Russian Fleet—Busi- ness Notices, 8—The Custom House Committee: Leet on the Witness stand for Seven Hours; His Own Account of What He Wanted and How He Got It; the Profits of the General Order Business— ‘The Courts; Interesting Proceedings io the United States, New York and Brookiyn Courts; the New York Printing Bankruptcy Case; Heavy Sentence in the Court of General Ses- sions—Important Question of Jurisdiction. 9—Board of Aldermen: Importaut Meeung Yes- terday—The Shaky Savings Banks—stabping the Statue—Naval Intelligence—Financial and Commercial Keports—Domestic Markets— Marriages and Deaths. 10—Mrs. Wharton: A Day of Great Excitement at Appapolis; @ brilliant Assembiy of Ladies; Country People from Far and Near Rushing to Withiess the Proveedings; Mr. Steele’s Third aud Last Effort; the Last Argument for the State—the Louisiana Anarchy: The Presi- deut Orders General Emory to Prevent @ von- , Mict—The Postal Telegraph Bti—Shupping in- ce— Advertisements, ere 11— Advertisements. 12—Advertisemcnts, The News trom Mexico, The revolution in Mexico is assuming more and more formidable dimensions. Our special despatch from Matamoros, based upon infor. mwion from revolutionary sources, represents the goveroment of Juarez as being in the ost pitiful plight imaginable. This version of the situation is, perhaps, not characterized by an overscrupulous regard for veracity. But if the revolutionists exaggerate their suc- cesses it is also evident that the federal government tampered with the truth when it announced that the back- bone of the rebellion had been broken. Still, conflicting as the statements of the con- tending parties may be, it is pretty clear that the government of Juarez is in a most despe- rate condition. Pronunciamento follows pro- nunciamento in rapid succession, The re- volted Generals Trevino and Quiroga are at the head of formidable forces. In Northern Mexico the government troops have been almost invariably defeated. Diaz has not been crashed at Oaxaca, as rep- resented by government. accounts, while Escobedo, the foremost military chief in the republic, has declared in favor of Lereda— another candidate for the Presidency, Even now a battle is reported to be going on be- tween the revolutionists under Quiroga and the government troops commanded by Cor- tina, with the chances in favor of the former. Benito Juarez, with all his Indian stoicism, must be thoroughly disheartened by this time. For the American people the bloody spectacle of fratricidal strife in a neighboring country has become so sickening that nothing short of armed interference on the part of the United States government will answer their legitimate demand for tha ahatamant of the nuisance, NEW: YURK HEKALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1872.~TRIPLE SHEET. Congratulations of ia Fa President Thiers—1ne the Diplomatic CorprOrder and the Peace of Europe. We are informed by our latest despatches from Paris that President Thiers receives gratifying evidences of public confidence from all quarters; that the diplomatic representa- tives of forelgn governments waited on him in abody on Sunday last and presented their congratulations on his determination to remain at the head of the government, and that the greeting received by the President from Count Orloff, the Russian Ambassador, was no- ticeably warm and cordial. Now, we are strongly inclined to the opinion that while these “evidences of public confidence from all quarters,” in President Thiers, signify that his continuance at the head of his government is necessary at this crisis to the maintenance of law and order at home, these diplomatic congratulations indicate that peace in France is necessary to the peace of Europe. But how is it that peace in France and the peace of Europe now depend upon the con- tinuance of M. Thiers in his present position of a de facto Dictator? We think this some- what startling and important quesiion may be readily answered, The venerable Thiers bas resolved upon a certain line of financial measures for the deliveraace of France from her heavy German indemaity. As one of these measures, he submits a bill throngh his financial Minister, M. Pouyer-Quertier, for a tariff upon a variety of raw materials used in French manufactures, Taxed as are the French peo- ple already, of all classes, almost to the iimits of their strength, under their terrible losses and exhaustion from their late ruinous war, there came up from them a universal remonstrance against this new exaction. Their representa- tives in the Assembly, sympathizing with their sufferings, rejected this tariff bill of the Execu- tive, But he had no substitute to offer. With him it was this bill or nothing; and so with its rejection he submitted the resignations of himself and bis Cabinet. But this terrible announcement dropped like a bombshell upon the Assembly, President Thiers, it may be said, is without a party in that body,- and be- tween its Bourbons, Bonapartists and repub- cans the only bond of cohesion is the fear and distrust with which each of these parties re- gards the others. They all saw, with the re- tirement of Thiers, that a conflict for his place must follow, which menaced nothinz less than a bloody revolution and all the horrors and confusion of civil war, from Paris to the ut- most boundaries of France. Hence these ap- peals and apologies to their cruel President from all sides of the Assembly, and hence these “evidences of public confidence from all quar- ters” in his government. With the Assembly, the men of property, the men engaged ia active business operations and the men of law and order throughout the country comprehended the dreadful conse- quences which must follow the retirement of the indispensable Thiers trom the head of affairs, and they made haste to avert the dan- ger. But whence this great danger of civil war? It comes from the revolution, the humiliations, the heavy disasters and the over- whelming debt and exactions resulting from the war with Germany.and from the Com- mune and the International, The idea is still widely entertained in France that in the chap- ter of accidents among the European States France will escape a great part of this merci- less German indemnity, and in the chapter of accidents, we apprehend, Germany may yet be driven to the alternative of the appropria- tion of a few more of the Eastern departments of France in the way of a foreclosure of her mortgage. With the thousands of millions lost by the war, with the consumption or destruction of her articles of subsistence by hostile armies, with the prostration of her agricultural and manufacturing industries and her foreign trade, with the general de- rangement of all her fioancial and business affairs, ‘Spoor France” was compelled to ac- cept the peace terms of her conqueror in the sacrifice of two of her favorite depariments and two of the strongest and most beautiful of her cities, and to bind herself to the con- ditions of a German occupation contingent upon the payment of an indemnity of four thousand five hundred millions of francs, or olne hundred millions of dollars, From an effort which astonished the world, under these depressing circumstances, in June last, France paid o& to Germany one thousand five hundred millions of francs of this indem- nity, leaving three thonsand millions still to be paid up to 1874, On tie Ist of the present month of January was to begin the payment of the fourth half milliard of francs, or five hundred millions of the indemnity, and the one hundred and fifty millions of the interest upon the remaining three thousand millions. These moneys—and what appalling figures !— are to be paid in fortnightly instalments of eighty and ninety millions. But the funds have not been forthcoming, though they must be obtained somehow, or the German armies will return to the desolated depariments they have lately vacated. Hence the desperate efforts of President Thiers, including his tariff bill, to “‘raise the wind,” and hence, with the failure of his bill, the convincing rebuke and warning to the Assembly of his resignation. All the factions in the Assembly saw, and intelligent men throughout tbe country saw, that civil war and chaos would follow the retirement of Thiers, and that, worst of all to the French patriot, of high and low degree, the terrible armies of Germany would return and spread themselves again over ‘the land, and for an indefinite term of occupation, We can, then, understand how it is that peace in France depends upon the venerable Thiers remaining for the present, and for some time longer, at the head of the State, From the calamities of her German war, the terrors of the Commune and the almost in- supportable pressure of the debt to be paid to Germany, France is in that critical condition of wretchedness and desperation which, in a sudden change of her present government, leaves the issue between a Napoleonic coup @ état and a Jacobin uprising. But how, even in the event of a civil war extending from the British Channel to the Mediterranean—how, in her impotent demoralization, can ‘poor France” now disturb the peace of Europe? Through the Commune and the International and their red republican affiliations in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain, to say nothing of the British islands, A sort of com. pact has been constiered, if not definitely agreed upon, for the suppression of the Inter- national, between Austria and Germany; the suppression of the International societies in Spain has been decreed by that government; labor strikes are approaching the ugly form of revolutionary risings in Belgium, and after Victor Emmanuel in Italy, we are told, will come the republic. Nor have the European States forgotten the lessons of the French revolutions of 1789 and 1848, That of 1870 was a mere incident among the incidents of a foreign war, and is a question still to be settled, We hold that these diplomatic congratula- tions of President Thiers on Sunday last were recognitions of the fact that as the head of this transitional government of France he is an important security now, not only for order in France, but for the peace of Europe. But “the greeting received by the President from Count Orloff, the Russian Ambassador, was notice- ably warm ‘and cordial.” Why not? Even Ruasia has nothing to gain from another Euro- pean revolutionary convulsion at this time. From the very amicable relations existing between the Czar and (he German Kaiser it is evident that the present European policy of Russia is peace. She is prosecuting, mean- time, her grand designs in Asia, southward acd eastward; she is reorganizing and equip- ping her army ‘‘with all the latest improve- ments.” She fs in no condition now to grapple with the superior armies of Germany, strength- ened by the Austrians on the Danube; but she is arming according to the new require- ments and opening new railroads in the direc- tion of the Black Sea and the Bosphorus, She is preparing for future contingencies, and a year or two hence France may be in a position (if restored to the Bonapartes, for instance) to be useful as an ally or dangerous as an enemy. And so we submit to the reader our opinion that the events of the last few days in Paris show to the world that at this crisis in Freuch affairs the continuance of that venerable states- man, Thiers, in his place as de facto the Dic- tator of France is necessary, not only to the cause of law and order in France, but to the general peace of Europe. oo Secre:ary Boutwell Whicewashed. The report of the Committee of Ways and Means on Mr. Boutwell’s Syndicate operations, to which was assigned the investigation of these operations by the House of Representa- tives on the resolution of Mr. Cox, is pub- lished, together with the evidence taken, in another part of the paper. It will be seen that the committee finds there is no founda- tion for a charge or cause of complaint against the Secretary. In fact, the report praises as well as exonerates him. Now, it is clear that: Mr. Boutwell bas strained the law io giving a job to and putting moncy into the pockets of a few favored bankers, properly called the Treasury Ring, if he has not violated the letter of the law. Whatever Mr. Boutwell bas said in his evidence or the com- mittee bas reported, it is evident there was no necessity to pay something like two millions of dollars for the conversion of a hundred and thirty millions of one class of bonds into another. Calling this process a loan, or speaking of it as a money or cash transaction, is allfudge. If the strict letter of the law has not been violated there has been a great and unnecessary loss to the government. This beginning of the Syndicate business was in- tended, no doubt, as the basis of much larger operations in manipulating the debt for the benefit of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co,, by which tens of millions might be made by them, Though Mr. Boutwell has been whitewashed it is to be hoped that the investigation may lead to breaking up of such stupendous jobs of the Treasury Ring. Can New York Support Operat An emphatic response has been given to this question during the present season, not only in the case of the Nilsson engagement, but also in relation to the Parepa-Rosa Eng- lish opera, the Wachtel & Fabbri German opera companies and Aimée's opéra bouffe. Madame Rosa, by bringing the best English opera elements that could be obtained in America or Europe before the metropolitan public, had.a three weeks’ season of unexam- pled prosperity at the Academy, while the genius of Wachtel drew crowded houses to the unsavory Stadt Theatre for thirty nights, Nilsson and Capoul succeeded by their talents alone in placing in the treasury of the Italian opera one hundred and sixty thousand dollars during a season of forty performances, not- withstanding the poor support they received from the company and management. Aimée undertook to revive the faded glories of opéra bouffe at the ill-starred Lina Edwin's Theatre, and has been rewarded for her pluck and energy by the liberal patronage of the public, These facts will tell whether opera can be sup- ported in this city if there is real, first class talent in the company. As for Italian opera, which ranks first in the lyric drama, we pre- sentin another column a review of the past season and of the career of opera in New York and London for the past twenty years. It will be seen from this sketch that the most essential article required for Italian opera is a competent, experienced and trustworthy manager, who can handle its mul- tifarious and delicate details with discretion and firmness. The repeated failures of troupes here and In London cannot be charged upon the public nor the artists, but rather on the in- competency or the unreliability of the mana- gers. Tho operatic prospects for the spring are very bright in an artistic point of view. The Academy of Music will be occupied next month by the Parepa-Rosa English opera troupe, now strengthened by the famous bari- tone, Santley, who will appear in the operas of “Zampa” and “Fra Diavolo.” Mlle. Nilsson will then give a farewell season, dur- ing which the long promised opera ot “Hamlet” will be brought out for the first time, At Easter another short season of Italian opera will be given—the principal art- ists being Mme. Parepa-Rosa, Mrs, Jenny Van Zandt, Miss Adelatde Phillips, Herr Wachtel and Mr. Santley, ‘The musical season of 1871-72 will have a brilliant conclu- sion in the World's Peace Jubilee of Gilmore in Boston. ‘irhcicainincainticsais te Keer It Ur.—Mr. Kellogg, of Connecticut, has introduced a bill to repeal the income tax. Keep up the fight until the odious law ia eradicated from our national statute books, Congress Yesterday=The Louisiana Trou- bles—The Japaueso Embassy—The New District Government. The most interesting part of the proceed- ings of the House of Representatives yester- day occurred at the hour at which that body usually adjourns, and arose from a simple resolution to defray the expenses of the select committee which was appointed a week ago to proceed to New Orleans to investigate the troubles there in connection with tbe organiza- tion of the State Lezislature. Mr. Farns- worth, of Illinois, always practical and fair- minded, could not see that any good was ‘to be attained through the proposed investiga- tion, and suggested to the House whether it was worth while to proceed any further with the matter. From that sprung up an excited discussion, which lasted a couple of hours, and which took in the whole field of the reconstruction of the Southern States. Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, depleted with great force and feeling the terrible condition to which all the Southern States had been reduced by means of reckless, chieving Governors and corrupt Legislatures. He characterizod the governments of all the Southern States, making some exception in favor of Virginia, as the worst governments on éarth, and imputed the blame largely to Congress, which had placed the pyramid on its apex instead of on its base—in other words, had given the control to the ignorant and the debased classes of so- ciety, while it disfranchised the men of prop- erty and of intelligence. Mr. Beck, of Ken- tucky, followed in the same strain, and in- veighed against Governors Bullock, of Geor- gia; Scott, of South Carolina; Davis, of Texas; Browalow, of Tennessee, and Clayton, of Arkansas, as men who had tried to escape the Penitentiary by get- ting into the Senate of the United States, For this remark, disrespectful to the Senate, Mr. Beck was called to order by the Speaker. The other side of the question was upheld by Messrs, Shollabarger and Stevenson, of Ohio, who defended the recon- struction policy and denied the extravagant estimate of Southern State debts, Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, and Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, the chairmen of the two leading committees of the House, took a more dispassionate and less partisan view of the matter, and both favored a full and impartial Investigation, no matter what party or officials it might reflect most upon, The debate, without being acrimonious, was able and exciting, and the final result was that the resolution was passed without a division. It was thus settled that the select committee should go to New Orleans. We understand that it is the inten- (fon of its members to leave Washington for that city on Thursday next. Another p@tter on which some discussion arose in the House was a bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the Japanese Embassy. A demo- crat from Illinois, Mr. McNeely, raised some objection to it, but an able and convincing review of the whole matter was made by the chairman of the Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs (Mr. Banks), who pointed out the propriety of showing such a “mark of courtesy to these Oriental Ambassa- dora, who were on their way to the great courts of Europs, where they would be sure to receive the most ostentatious and lavish hospitality. He had not much trouble iu con- vincing the House that the proposition was, in all respects, judicious and correct, and the bill was accordingly passed without its opponents being able to have the vote taken by yeas and nays. The bill introduced some weeks since by Mr. Hale, of Maine, looking to the revival of American shipping through the remission of duties on all. materials entering into the con- struction, repair and use of ships, came up again yesterday, and after a short discussion the friends of the measure, who wished to have it passed without farther formality, were vanquished, and the bill was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means, The new Territorial government established last June for the District of Columbia appears to have got ahead of all competitors in the race for the priza of a bad reputation. Mr. Farosworth yesterday offered a resolution for ap investigation of charges made against it in @ memorial signed by the principal citizens and taxpayers of Wasbington, and in the de- bate that ensued it did not appear that the new Territorial Freedmen’s Bureau, young, Christian government of the District had a friend or defender on either side of the House, except its own Dele- gate, who, in an apologetic sort of man- ner, asked a suspension of judgment till after trial. From the present temper of the House, and from the contempt in which the new government is held by all the decent classes in Washington, {t would not be at all surprimng if conviction would follow close on the heels of a trial, and execution follow con- viction in the shape of a repeal of the organic law. The new government has no friends except among corrupt officials, thieving con- tractors, subsidized newspapers of Washing- ton and the colored people, whom, for its own purposes, and to retain it in power, it keeps employed in grading streets and other costly and useless works at the expense of the unfortunate prop- erty holders, The investigation was or- dered, Besides the usual batch of miscellaneous bills, the introduction of which {s one of the features of every Monday’s proceedings in the House, there was a resolution referred to the Committee on Commerce for inquiry as to the quarantine and harbor regu- lations of this port, and there was & report made by the Committee of Ways and Means exonerating the Secretary of the Treasury from all charges of impropriety in connection with the Syndicate and the funding of the new loan, The report is to be called up for action on a future day. In the Senate the Postal Telegraph bill was reported from .the Post Office Committee, with an intimation that action on it would be asked at an early day. Afterwards Mr. Garrett Davis, of Kentucky, got up for discus- sion a resolution of his which originally pro- posed an investigation as to whether the President had conferred offices upon persons who bad made him presents or gratuities, but which he modified so as to suggest the passage of a law forbidding any United States official to receive a gift or to appoint a relative to office. Mr. Davis led off in support of hia reaglution, ‘bitious hunter and the lover of the sports of and appears to have said many pungent and witty things, for the report is interspersed with brackets indicating laughter. Mr. Davis is by no means a poor speaker, but he can rarely induce the Senators or the audience to remain in their seats when he takes the floor. The only other matter needing notice in the Senate proceedings was a resolution offered by Mr, Blair, of Missouri, directing the Presi- dent to open negotiations with Spain for the acquisition of Cuba, This also was laid over for future action. An Idyl of the Plains—The Grand Duke Among the Buffaloes. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis will carry back to Russia one idyllic memory. The din and bustle of New York, the many balls and dinners, the successive “popular demonstrations,” were agreeable, no doubt, and showed a hearty American friend- liness. He has been accustomed to these things in his life. The incense of adulation and flattery hovers over the princely journey through the world. Alexis has eaten dinners as savory a8 any given him in New York. He has been hustled by mobs as gay and inviting as those which marched through the clumsy dances at the Academy. He has reviewed sol- diers certainly as martial and attractive as the jaded militiamen who swarmed up Broad- way in his train, Our city evidences of friendliness have gratified the young sightseer, even if they have bored him. The pains of lionizing have never been recorded. They are among the most acute of physical miseries, no doubt, and we can fancy the vast comfort and the sense of relief and respite with which Alexis welcomed Phil Sheridan's invitation to the Plains, Many of us whose lives have not passed even beyond the midsummer years will remember the black, forbidding, shady lines which swept over the maps of the Western Territories in the school geographies. Here was ‘‘ihe Great American Desert,” and to the young imagina- tion it had as many terrors as Equatorial Africa, There were wide, sandy reaches, alkali plains of stunted sage-bush; trees would not grow and the rain rarely fell; the wild beasts found a dominion which was only unchallenged by tribes of Indians, whose ferocity was told in many a “thrilling romance” of frontier life. At times we heard of an adventurous trapper who had returned alive to tell an impossible story of hairbreadth escapes and goul-barrowing adventures, Again we heard how nature in her angry moods would sweep the prairie with a flood of devastating fire. Now and then we saw the pale, devoted Jesuit, with his crucifix and robes, quietly pass into the desolate, nnknown land, to seek out the Indian and teach him the holy mystery of salvation, We knew that.@ band of fanatics, driven from civilization, had made an exodus to Utah and wero practising. the -rites of a barbaric faith, We knew that far beyond, by the calm Pacific seas, a few strag- gling Mexican and Spanish settlements were Castile. Beyond this all wasdark, What we knew was terrible, and we cared to know no more. Enterprise and zeal, the energy and courage of pioneers and the road builders have dis- solved the sombre vision of the school geo- graphies. ‘The Great American Desert” is valued by us as the garden of the Continent. America has no fairer domains than these countries of the Plains. Colorado is our Switzerland, and towns as inviting and beautiful as any in New England nestle at the base of mountains as majestic as Mont Blanc. It is not necessary to cross the seas to find the Alps. The broad, apparently end- less Plains, which look like the boundless, swelling ocean, and which were supposed to be as barren as Sahara, are bursting with fertility. Droves of buffaloes, outnumbering, as good judges have told us, the horned cattle of the country, wander for hundreds of miles. The railways have favored the Plains with invigorating streams of life, activity and wealth, Every year pours thou- sands of settlers from the North, from the East, from the older nations beyond the seas to become tillers and laboring men, and found new States and Commonwealths, and this generation will probably see the Great Ameri- cau Desert as populous as Illinois or Wis- consin, The royal traveller and his gallant and merry retinue saw a phase of American life more fascinating and instructive than anything an Eastern civilization vould boast, The am- the field find a profusion of opportunities for amusement and recreation on our Plains that no other country can afford. The wildest phases of nature are face to face with luxury and wealth, By our rail- way system we go to the buffalo herds in pal- ace cars, Science has taken Delmonico and the Irvis Freres into the heart of the Arapa- hoe and Cheyenne reservations. We step at once from the luxurious and enervating atmos- phere of the Fifth Avenue Club into the very heart of the wilderness, The philosopher could not but have had his own thoughts about this when he saw Alexis and Spotted Tail greeting. The son of a mighty potentate, born to power, splendor and command, with the blood of kings in his veins, claiming to go back and mingle with that of the Cxsars— a prince, but no less a prince than the swarthy, stolid, blanketed savage who did him honor, Was there not something of royalty in the greeting? This painted and greasy Spotted Tail, craving beads and colored garments, had only to raise his hand to make war. Could any king do more, or could any king have been more royal in his courtesy than the red chief of the Plains to the white chief of the Russias ? Our readers have followed Alexis in his merry adventures. No Grand Duke could of course be allowed to kill buffaloes on our Plains without a HERatp correspondent attending him; and as the tired groups of hunters sat around the evening camp fires and told of the day's adventures—far off in the heart of the Plains, alone with the stars, as it were—the HeERaxp correspondent, riding at a gallop over the pralrie, sought the lightning to do its errand, so that the world might have its part in the day's sport. How thoroughly this teaches us what science and enterprise have done! America was watching her young guest with eager and kindly eyes, Where he went, and what he did and what he saw, his joys and adventures and experiences, were our concern; inspires we should find a more striking fact and one fuller of meaning in the presence of the Heraxp correspondent, The group was complete and the fitness of the meeting made striving to rival the glory and splendor of for we felt that all honor was due him and every gratification that tae country could give was alike a pleasure to us all. That pleasure the country owes to the Hxraty's inspiring geal. If we were to pursue the philosophical thought which the meeting of chief Alexis of Rassia and Chief Spotted Tail of the Sioux, manifest. Monarchy was there in the descead- ant of the Cwsars, nature in the rude chief of the savages, the republic in the correspond- ent, Alexis has had ‘one idyllic experience, which will probably live longer in his memory than any that America has given him, . Audit Bill—A Significant Vote. The Assembly last night, by the very decisive vote of 71 to 41, rejected the bill introduced by Colonel Hawkins and reported favorably by the Committee om Cities, giving to Comptroller Green the power to audit and settle, by his sole decision, all salaries and claims against the city of New York, and adopted in its place and ordered toathird reading the substitute offered by Mr. Twombly. The latter bill creates a Board of Apportionment and Audit, consisting of four members—the Comptroller and the Presi- dents of the Boards of Aldermen, Public Works and Public Parks. Tho Board has power to apportion the amounts to be ex- pended by the several departments in the city of New York from the time of the pass- The New York age of the bill until the Ist of May next, and also to audit~ and allow the several claims outstanding against the city and county for labor, services, materials and supplies. It is properly guarded. The sessions of the auditing board are re- quired to be open to the public, and claims, except for salaries and labor, are to remain unacted upon for five days after reception, in order to afford opportunity for remonstrances or objections; and the Board is prohibited from allowing any salaries above the amount fixed by law, or any claims for work or mate- rials above the price called for by the cuae tract. The measure is a careful and good one, and is far preferable to the proposition to vest arbi- trary power in the hands of a single officer. In one respect it might be amended by the Senate. The bill, as ordered to a third read- ing in the Assembly, requires that the vote of the Board sball be concurrent or unanimous before an apportionment can be made or claim paid. The legislation asked for by the Comptroller, in regard to the auditing of accounts and the apportionment of money, tothe several departments, was urged upon members as of immediate necessity to meet am emergency. It seems injudicious, therefore, in acase of urgency, to risk the tying up of a Board by requiring a unanimous vote before any business can be transacted. If any mem= ber should differ in opinion with the reat, or desire to obstruct business, the emergency, could not be met. As the people have entire confidence in Messrs, Cochrane, Van Nort, Stebbins and Green, it would be as well for the Senate to guard against such a difficulty, as we have suggested, and, in view of the urgency of immediate action in the auditing of accounts and the apportionment of money, to allow a majority of the proposed new Board to decide on‘all such questions, , The vote last night takes significance from the fact that Colonel Hawkins and his friends insisted on regarding it as a test vote as be~ tween the Conkling.and Fenton factions of the republican party. In ameagure they were right; but it was impolitic of them to invite the issue. Other interests have been at work to make the combination that was so success- ful last night ia the Assembly entirely outside the factional fight jn the republican ranks, There is now but little doubt that the Alvord men and the democrats will strike hands in both houses for the remainder of the’ session, and the result may be a curious one so far as the city of New York is concerned. It is very certain that the charter of the Committee of Seventy will find but little favor in Albany, and it will not be surprising if the action of the Legislature in relation to our municipal affairs should be confined to the amendment of the present charter in one or two particulars, with but little interference with existing officers, at the present moment, at least. The Greeley and Hank Smith repub- licans appear to have the upper hand, and it is possible that before the close of the session they may have secured sufficlent power in New York to insure the restoration to power of their original organization. The Senate has yet to be tested, and should it be found to be of the same temper as the Assembly we may safely calculate upon a blockade of all legislation adverse to the canal and railroad. rings, and probably upon an open declaration against President Grant and Senator Conkling from the Legislature of the State of New York, Tae INTERNATIONAL AND THE SPANIBH GoveRNMENT.—The Spanish government, which has professed to take an advanced position in the liberal and democratic move- ments of the age, thought proper to issue a decree against the International Society, The most despotic government in Europe—ao, not even that of Russia—would have gone further. Acircular was issued requiring tho govern- ors of provinces to break up the International organization and to suppress its meetings. We learn now by telegram from Madrid that protests are pouring in against, this action of the government, Considering the strength and numbers of this society and that some of the ablest members of the Cortes are cither members of it or sympathize with it, among whom may be named Castelar, the greatest orator of the time, it is evident Kiog Ama- deus and his advisers are treading upon dan- gerous ground, MISSOUBL The Temperance Bill Opposed Outside the Legistature—Governor Brown Likely te Veto a Joint Resolation of Both Housrs. St, Lours, Jan. 22, 1872 The Tomperance bili, now before the Legisiature, which closely resembles those passed in Olio and Illinois, making saloon keepers and owners of prop- erty rented to liquor seliera liable for any damage done by persons to Whom liquor Is Sold, ts a with determined opposition. In various parts the State meeti are being held and lengthy pe titions prepared for presentation to the Legisiature, strongly protesting against 1s passage, It is expected that Governor Brown will veto the Joint resolution passed last week, directing Was Maturing State Youds pe paid in ourreacr,