The New York Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1872, Page 6

W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, +-No. 27 (Yetume XXXVIL.... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Teenty-fourth street, — ‘Tux New Duama OF Divorce. Matinee at 13g. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner 36th st.—Perform- ‘ances afternoon and evening.—ON HAND. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — Joun Gartu. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston strecis.—GLack Cxoox."Matines at 2 BOWERY THEATRE, Bor —ZIP; " ‘vorion—DeR Furiscuore “aunt hog cae aah 8T. JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-cighth street and Broad- ‘Way.—MONALDL OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tne BALLET PaN- ‘TOoMIME OF HUMPTY Dumrry. Matinee at 2. AIMEE'S OPERA BOUFFE, No. 72) Broadway.— Baicanvs. Matinee at 2 sf cnsaibanisiae +, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av. — Jurive Casan. Matinee at 1. 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KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 745 Broadway. — SOIENOE AND ART. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SomumNcE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Saturday, January 27, 1872. oe CONTENTS OF TO-DAYS HERALD. Advertisements, 2—Adverusements. ‘Washington: The Adjournment Question Set- tled in the Senate; the Legisiative. Ap- Propriation Bill iu the House; the De- Mocracy to Swallow the — Presidential Candidates of Kepubiican olters; the ‘Transatlantic Mail Service: The Wiliams and Guion Line Obtain the Contract—The Reforin Democratic —_Primaries—Obituary—Miscellx- neous Teegrams—burgiars Arrested: The Police Cleaning Out a Den of Thieves—Locul Intelligence. justice: Execution of George Botts for the Murder of ‘Pet’? Halsted; A Territie Tragedy in Three Acts; Penitence, Prayer and Forgiveness at the Gallows—Proceedings of Congress—Hooting ‘Josie’? Mansfleid—Row on @ Ka lroad—Literature: Criucisms of New Books; Literary Cnit-Chat—New York City News—Fatal ShootingyAccident—Police Trans- fers—The Unpaid City Oficials, S—Who Murdered Panormo? Four Men Arrested on duspicivn; ‘the’ Mystery Still Unsolved; Funeral of the Victim; Particulars Elicited at Coroner's Inquest—Tne Sickly Savings Banks: The Afairs of the Market Bank in a Wretched Conditioa; The Run on the Third Avenue Bank Decreasing—The New Charter: Hints for the Legisiature—‘“Stnk the Track:” Meet- ing Of the East Side Citizens’ Committee and Plans Submitted—vontesting Freai’s Seat— Steeplechasing in Engiland—Suffering in the Philippine islands, G—Euitoriais: Leading Article, “The Savings Bank Question and the English System of Postal Savings Banks’—Amusement An- nouncements. ‘y—Important irom Spain: The Legislative Ses- sion Dissolved Amid Tumult and Disorder; Violent Scenes in the Senate; King Amadeus Gharged with Betrayal of the Country; Barricades Recommended as barriers 0! Safety for tne People—A Steamsnip Burned at Sea and Eighty-five Lives Lost—Interesting from France, Ger- many, England and Brazii—The Wer in Mexico—Afluirs in Utah— Miscellaneous ‘tele- is—Personal Intelligence—Music and the rama—Weather Reports—Pigeon Shooting— A Williamsburg Trageay: A Married Wowan Shoots Her Employer—Business Notices. 8—Prison Keform: “A Wail ot Iufuence Stronger Than a Wall of Granite; Meetng at Steinway Hail; The Present Criminal Code Defective; Interesting Addresses by Dr. Wines (Unites States Commussioner on Prison Reform), Ex- Governor Seymour, #x-Lieutenant Governor Wayland and Others—The Custom Hoase In- vestigauion: Another Instalment of Mudgett’s Revelations—Art Matters, @—Caleb Cushing: The Hon, Caleb Cushing En Route to Geneva; What He Thinks Will Be the Result of the Geneva Confereuce—Educational Matters—League of the vaughters of Cuba— Drunken Row im @ Porter House—Political Movements and Views—Fisk’s Last Hotel Bul—Finaucial and Commercial Reports— Domestic Markets— Marriages and Deaths. @O=—The State Capital: A Rehash of Yesterday's Legisiation; the Senate Amendments to the Bill Providing for the Payment of Claims Against the City and County of New York Concurred In by the Assembly; Btair’s Bil on Barrels; Gas Monopoltsis To Be Overbauied by the Senate; the Gilbert Pneumatic Railroad; Adjournment of Both Houses Until Monday Bvening—Buipping Intelligeuce—Adveruse- ments, At—The Murderers of tne Hostages: Trial of the Assassins Of the Paris Hostages; the Prisoners Brought to the Bar of Justice and Charged with their Crimes; How archbishop Darboy and the Priests Met Their Death; Dying For- ving Their Murderers; List of the Assassins; mg Scenes in Court—The Courts: The Jumel Estate Case; the Post Ofice Upenin: Leiter Case; Alieged Violation of the Invernal Revenue Law; Decisions—The Yorkville Police Justivesmp: Disagreement of the Jury—The Tomvs Police Court—A Colored Man Killea by Rail —The New York Printing Company. 12— Advertisements, We ang Grav To Report that the small- pox, from the first day of this week, has been daily decreasing, not rapidly, but with a steady dimunition in the number of new cases, indicating thet the disease, as an epidemic, is passing away. Tae Guszva ConFERENCE.—The venerablo Caleb Cushing (of counsel for the United States before the Geneva Conference on those Alabama claims), sails for Europe to-day. ‘We wish him a prosperous trip out, good re- sults from bis labors at Geneva, and a safe return home. Paris Witt Mourn over the act of French capitulation to the Prussians with closed doors to-morrow, the anniversary of that solemn event. The feeling of sorrow is natural enough, but civic grief, when nursed ‘and expressed behind barred doors, is un- wholesome for the body corporate. Better for’ Paris to show » cheerfal front, and, mayhap, “bide its time.” Taz Mormon Poxiricat Crisis is rapidly approaching. According to our despatches from Salt Lake, published to-day, Governor Brown's veto of the measure, passed by both branches of the Legislature, providing fora delegation to draw up a State constitution, is hourly expected, and as soon as it has been received the Council will organize a convention ‘and begin upon the work of choosing delegates, notwithstanding the protest from the Execu- five. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUAKY 27, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Savings Bank Question and the Eng- Mish System ef Postal Savings Banks. There can be no fitter time to thoroughly ventilate the savings bank question, and to pre- pare the way for establishing some sound, general and perfectly safe system for deposit- ing the savings of the industrious classes, than the present, The collapse of some of our savings banks and the doubtful condition of others show that the poor depositors ran the risk of losing their hard earnings in these in- stitutions. Looking, too, at the extraordinary increase of savings banks, with no other capi- tal, for the most part, than that furnished by the depositors, at the lavish expenditure of most of them, and at the army of bank presidents, directors, employés and agents ‘hat live, flourish and get rich upon the money furnished by those who make deposits, there is reason to fear that many of them would not stand the pressure of a financial crisis. In a matter of such vast importance as giving the utmost secu- rity to the savings of the working classes the law cannot be too explicit and stringent. But itis hardly possible to frame laws to prevent the misappropriation or mismanagement of such trust funds in the hands of private companies or individuals. It is in the nature of men to speculate and to study their own interests, and bank officials are too apt to run risks with the sacred trust committed to their care. To avoid the dangers of the present savings banks @ government system of postal savings banks similar to that established so successfully in England should be established. The introduction of the Postal Savings Banks into England has been attended by a marked increase in the economical habits of the people. When it was first proposed in Parliament to encourage the poorer classes to become more provident by providing for their use places of Geposit of absolute security, the idea that good would result was ridiculed by a large class of politicians, There were, however, a sufficient number of representatives who thought the scheme a good one and worthy of trial; and so a law was passed which turned every Post Office in the kingdom into a bank of deposit for the benefit of the working classes. Profiting by the experience of the most successful of the private, savings banks, the hours of business were extended till eight o'clock P. M., in order to afford every facility to those employed during the day to place their spare money in a place of security. No high rate of interest was offered to induce deposit ; in fact the rate was rather nominal than real, not exceeding at any time two and a half per cent. But on the other hand the advantage of absolute security was offered to the poor which they could no where else obtain, and which, in their estimation, was above all others. This had been the great want of the country; there had been at no time a want of places of deposit where fair interest could be secured even on small sums, but as the poor felt they had no guarantee that these banks would not waste their hard-earned money there was a want of confidence which deterred the thrifty and ‘cautious from imperilling their savings, Owing to this feeling of suspicion the private savings banks were almost solely patronized by the least wealthy of the middle classes, or those who had no absolute need of such insti- tutions, The vast body of the people derived little or no benefit from them, and even if the working classes had had sufficient confidence to use them they were too widely separated to meet the requirement of a national savings insti- tution, and the cost of extending this system so as to place the benefits equally within reach of all would have swallowed up all the profits which could be realized in many years. To fact, it would not have paid at any time to have maintained branches at reasonable dis- tances in the rural districts under the old pri- vate organizations, nor would the results have justified the expense, whatever benefits might have been conferred in the great centres of population. These difficulties were estimated at their proper value by the originators of the Postal Savings Bank scheme, and they pro- posed that the existing organization of the Post Office should be utilized for the purpose of the savings banks, Postmasters were turned into bank clerks and every Post Offize in the country became a bank of deposit which was within easy reach of every man in the com- munity. This arrangement had anotuer advan- tage—it allowed the deposits to be made with an amount of ptivacy that had never before been sécured, and people were enabled to transact their monetary business with- out attracting the attention of the busy- bodies of their neighborhood. This, in itself, was a considerable advauce on the old system ; but the chief cause which led to the rapid advance of the Postal Savings Banks, in the good opinion of the people, was the knowledge that no speculator could waste their money, and that every shilling they put in the bank would always be at their call, sub- Ject to the rules laid down for the management of the institution, The result has astonished even those who were most sanguine of the suc- cess of the project. Men who never thought of saving a shilling under the old system have become depositors; but perhaps the most happy influence is to be noticed in the spirit of economy which the institution has begotten among the rising generation. It has become fashionable with the apprentice class to have money in the bank, and the contagion of ex- ample has spread among the men and women employed in large establishments, so that it is now very rare to meet unencumbered mien of the working class who have not something laid aside, Thus, in a few years, the instita- tion has more than fulfilled the expectations entertained by its originators, and were edu- cation and intelligence more widespread among the English millions there can be no doubt that still more important results could be achieved. The manner of organization has the great merit of being remarkable for simplicity. Every postmaster acts a» manager of a branch bank, and reports daily to the central bureau in London, to which all moneys are trans- mitted. When depositors desire to withdraw their funds, or any portion of them, they give notice at the local office, and after a delay of some days the required money is placed to their credit in the local office, and is paid to them on application, In order to prevent fraud all applications to draw funds must bear the signature of the original depositor. The precautions against embezzlement are also very effective. Each denositor. when onenine his account, receives a bank book, in which all sums that he pays in are entered, and each entry is signed by the postmaster and stamped with the office seal, as a guarantee of authenticity. In addition to this receipt the central bureau sends to the depositor a notification that the amount of his deposit has been paid in by the postmaster to hiscredit. If this notification fails to reach him he at once makes inquiries, and if there has been any dishonesty on the part of the postmaster itcan be immediately discovered. By this arrangement the eyes of the whole body of depositors are turned on the postmas- ter, so that any extensive embezzlement on his part is rendered almost impossible. The encouragement which this system gives to men of small means to cultivate habits of economy, by assuring them against loss, can- not fail to have a most beneficial effect on the mind of the working classes. It makes them realize the possibility of improving their condi- tion by sobriety and industry, and gradually wins them from the thoughtless extravagance which characterizes the industrial proletariat in all countries. By inducing a more intimate acquaintance with general business the sum of popular intelligence is increased and the foundation laid for still further advances in the road of popular improvement. Nor can the effect on the material interests of the country fail to be most ad- vantageous, as large sums of money, hitherto spent in idle or criminal dissi- pation, will be turned into productive indus- tries, and by this means the general as well as the individual interests will be advanced. The advantages to be derived from a system of savings banks which, offering absolute se- curity to the working classes, brings the place of deposit within easy reach of every indi- vidual in the nation, have been placed beyond question or cavil by the success of the experi- ment in Englaad. There can be no longer any doubt of their utility or effectiveness in developing among the poorer classes an un- wonted and healthy economy. And as the well-being of the nation depends upon that of the individuals who compose it other nations will no doubt soon follow in the track of England, by establishing some system which may be in keeping with their peculiar institu- tions, but having the common aim of en- couraging industry and thrift among the masses by guaranteeing absolute security to the savings of the poor, The Japanese Banquet in San Francisco— Plain Talk to Penny Politicians. At the banquet given to the Japanese Em- bassy in San Francisco the other evening Governor Booth, republican, presided, and ex-Governor Haight, democrat, made a wel- coming speech. But the cream of the pro- ceedings was the speech of the Rev. Horatio Stebbins, who ‘‘spoke right out in meet- ing” against that California demagoguism which both parties have played there against the “heathen Chinee.” Said the Rev. Mr. Stebbins :—‘“‘While we are here to-night woo- ing the commerce of the Old Empire, your Governor (pointing to Governor Booth), as the head of one political party, and ex-Gov- ernor Haight, as the representative of the other, are committed to a policy to exclude those people from our shores. The position is absurd and ridiculous. As a'policy it is nonsense; asa principle it is nowhere. Be- ware when you put that penny in your purse, lest the eagle on she reverse side of your gold coin sticks his talons through and scratches the face of Liberty.” Well said, Parson Stebbins, We are next told that this plain talk raised the wildest excitement in the meeting, and round after round of applause; that Governor Booth got out of the scrape as well as he could, and that ex-Governor Haight judi- ciously kept quiet, But the main point is that this Japanese Embassy has developed a great change in public opinion in California on the subject of Asiatic immigration, including the Chinese with the Japanese ; and that the Cali- fornians are beginning to understand that the mighty commerce of those industrious nations is an object to be cultivated, even to the extent of tolerating in a civil way the immi- grants from Japan and China. Those were capital shots of Parson Stebbins at the dema- goguism of the leading California party poli- ticians; and it is to be hoped from this hence- forward that they will cease to grovel in the dust at the feet of those senseless rufflans whose greatest feats of heroism are cowardly persecutions of the defenceless Chinese. Commerce is king, and these brutal prejudices of race and color in our party politics must give way to the king. These stupid persecu- tions, even of the poor Chinese in California, must be stopped, says Parson Stebbins; and we second the honest parson, The trade which the Pacific Railroad has opened between China and Japan and our Pacific coast is opening the eyes of the Californians; but the trade is but a bagatelle compared with that which in a few years, with any eucourage- ment, will pour from Eastern Asia into San Francisco. Frenon AGENCIES AND THE INTERESTS Waion Move Franog.—France is moving or being moved, either towards another change in the form of her government or for a solemn ratification of the democracy of the republic, Napoleon's agents are actively employed in circulating pamphlets in the army advocating an imperialist restora- tion. Communism is about to be natural- ized on the soil on a new basis of fede- ration, The new Education bill of the Thiers government has been condemned by the for- Jnal protest of fifty-one bishops, with, we sup- Pose, ‘‘other” dioceses ‘‘to hear from.” With Bonapartism on one side and Communism as the horrible foil, or™t‘terrible example,” on the other, and the hierarci\y and Thiers interme- diary on the dividing line ct popular conserva- tism, we expect that somethin,” permanent will be done for the French people at 0 early day. Tue Borsixa or a Sreamsnip on he® Way from Rio Janeiro to Montevideo is a nounced by our cable despatch from Lisbon. What renders the disaster most appalling is the great number of lives lost, eighty-seven of the passengers having either been burned or drowned. A fire at sea, past, control, with hissing, scorching death within and a watery grave without, is the culmination of horrors, and the anguish of those poor victims must have been such as to beggar description, Congress Yesterday—The Adjournment Re- | Amadeus’ Coup Against the Spanish Cortes=Legislative and Citizen Indigea-| The classical spectator who assists at the solutionThe Apportionment and Appro- priation Bills. It appears to be the settled determination of a large majority of Senators—thirty-six to twelve—that the final adjournment shall take place this session much earlier than it ever did before, The long session usually runs into July or August, and even then much of the Important business before Congress has to go over without action. The Senate has now fixed the day of adjournment for the 29th of May. It is difficult to assign any motive for this unusual haste in shutting up'the Congres- sional shop other than a desire to evade the great questions of civil service reform, reduc- tion of tariff and internal revenue, universal amnesty, the restoration of our shipping and the revival of our commerce. It may be said, of course, that the four months between now and the end of May is sufficient time within which to dispose of these and all other necessary measures of legislation. That is true enough, provided the Senate would cure itself of its inveterate propensity to talk, and go to work like a body of practical, common sense men, But it is too much to expect such areform in that branch of the civil service, and therefore the action of the Senate yea- terday, in fixing such an early day for adjourn- ment, may fairly be regarded as the announce- ment of the determination of the Senate to do nothing in the directions we have indicated. It is pretty apparent that this early adjourn- ment is an administration measure; but it will not meet with such an easy success in the House, where the free traders and revenue reformers will make a bitter fight against it. We do not know a less fruitful theme of dis- cussion than the bill to fix the number of Rep- resentatives and to apportion them among the several States according to their population; and yet the Senate has already spent two days over that dry subject. The question is, shall the number be two hundred and eight-three, as fixed in the bill passed by the House itself, or shall it be two hundred and forty-three, as pro- posed in the amendment reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee? There is nota constitutional point in it, not a question of politics, or of negroes, or of Ku Klux—simply one of a choice between two given numbers; and it might well be supposed that in any other assembly the vote would be taken and the matter decided in the space of an houe or two. But not so inthe Senate. The tide of talk still rolls on, and no one can venture to say when it will cease. The House set a good example yesterday in the way of prompt transaction of business. Two important appropriation bills—the Logis- lative, Executive and Judiciary bill and the Pension bill—were considered and passed, under the able management of Mr. Garfield, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, in addition to a large batch of private bills, and all in a session of only three hours. The simple reason for this promptitude is that the House, by its business-like rules, gives no encouragement to mere idle talk and twaddle. What is said is always direct and to the pur- pose. When it is desired to afford members a vent for the pent-up wisdom and eloquence of their souls the House sets apart a day for that purpose, when no business of any kind is transacted, and when the gushing orators in question, who are generally new or uninfluen- tial members, and who only want to let their constituents know that they are actually in Congress, have the arena all to themselves, To-day one of those sportive occasions is pre- sented, and we hope the Congressional fledg- lings will make the most of it. During the consideration of the Civil Appro- priation bill yesterday, and as pertinent to a proposition to restrict the volume of public printing, Mr. Garfield illustrated the immensity of the operations of the government printing office by the statement that the quantity printed last year would constitute a library of one hundred and twenty thousand volumes of five hundred pages each. The payment of the famous Chorpenning claim, which was so thoroughly vented last Congress, to the disrepute of the Post Office Department, was guarded against by a pro- viso to the item to pay judgments of the Court of Claims, directing that no part of the amount should be used for that purpose. Mr. Dawes has the credit for this Chorpenning checkmate, Snow Storms, Norra, Sours anp West.— On Thursday last her had the severest snow storm at Buffalo and along the lower great lakes and the St. Lawrence that they have had up there for several years. On the same day they had the coldest weather of the season at New Orleans, Icicles from the rain gath- ered on the trees and telegraph wires. On the same day they had snow in Savannah, Ga., for the first time in thirteen years. On the same day, at Selma, Ala., the weather was intensely cold, and they had their heaviest snow of the last ten years. On the same day, from Omaha, we had the intelligence that, from Cheyenne westward, the Pacific Railroad at nymerous points is badly blockaded by snow, and that the cold, at some points thirty-six degrees below zero, was along the whole line intense. On the same day, in the latitude of this clty, and for hundreds of miles north and south of this line, from the Atlantic westward to the great Plains, the skies were bright and the air was sharp and fresh, like that of a dry, dusty, blustering day in March. Yester- day, however, the Signal Service Bureau gave warning that this fair weather for us had nearly run out; and so, we suspect, it will be our turn next for snow, sleet or rain, and, perhaps, for all three. After two or three weeks in January of continuous sunshine we may reasonably expect a great change. Tne Possum Potioy—which is the policy of turning over the democratic party to the anti- Grant republicans—does not go down even in Missouri, where it was started. For instance, the St. Louis Republican, a leading demo- cratic paper, says :—‘‘Victories are never won in that way, and never should be,” and that “gach follies deserve defeat and disgrace,” In short, we are afraid that General Blair and his fellows will have to give up the possum policy, for the old birds are not to be caught witht@uch chaff, So Muon Any How—The thirty per cont, dividend secured by the creditors of the Ocean National Bank, and the receiver thinks they are good for the rest. This is much better than was generally expected. ten—Symptoms of Revelation in Ma- arid. A Heratp special telegram, dated in Ma- rid yesterday and published in our columns this morning, supplies news of a most serious character from Spain. The capital of that country appeared to be on the verge of revo- lution in consequence of the royal coup, which was accomplished against the inde- pendence of the Cortes by the sudden promal- gation of the decree of dissolution of the Par- liament. King Amadeus placed himself at direct issue with a very large number of a great majority, it would appear, of the legislators by this exercise of the prero- gative of the Throne. Even more, it looks as if the Crown has been brought into contempt before the people. A scene of tumult pre- vailed in the Senate just previous to the recep- tion of the King’s missive. Speeches, violent in tone and emphatic in denunciation of any act which would cause a cessation of the func- tions and privileges of the Parliament, were freely delivered. Seftor Arbuzuga asserted that “King Amadeus had betrayed the country, and that nothing was left for the safety of the people but barricades in the streets.” The citizen tone which prevailed outside sympathized with the representative de- claration. Public sentiment was in unison with the opinion of the Cortes, so that when the throne Message declared the Assembly dis- solved indignation took the place of surprise, and the feeling of opposition became univer- sal. It was evidenced inside the hall and in the streets, The King relied on his authority—had faith ia the solemn unction by which the Divine Right was ac- corded to him by the Spaniards. He refused to accept the Cabinet resignation tendered by Sagasta, but resolved to dispense with the Parliament. The military were placed under arms and kept ready to meet any emergency which may arise. An opportunity for the testing of their fidelity ap- peared to be near at hand, for the HERALD special telegram correspondence concludes with the statement that intense excitement prevailed in the Spanish capital yesterday evening, and that the “‘breaking out of actual trouble was feared.” This foreshadows the probability of the occurrence of positive con- flict between the people of Madrid, supported by the Cortes, and theconstituted authorities of Spaia. King Amadeus is thus placed in a vety un- fortunate position. His subjects are almost equally unhappy in their political demoraliza- tion. The King enjoys nerve and personal “pluck,” without a doubt. If he lacked these qualities he would not sit on the throne of Spain to-day. He is a true son of the House of Savoy, and evidently inherits a consider- able amount of the courage of his ancestor’ of the Hardhead as well as of the caution of him of the Hundred Eyes. But what does it avail him? His more prudent course would be to abdicate, to untwine the ‘‘garland of olive” from his brow, to bid farewell to the Spaniards and to seek the consolations of Rome. ‘Poor Spain” has not recovered from the effects of the bruises which she received when her soil was made the battle fleld of the mighty armies of France and Great Britain. The glories of Talavera, of Barossa and of Albuera brought nothing of substantial benefit to her people. They have in- herited only themes for political discus- sion and nursed ‘political rivalries. This has been done to such an extent in the strife for party power trat the chicanery of mere party politics has been reduced to a science which is almost common to Spaniards, which dulls their sense of patriotism and blinds them against the light which should illumine their citizen path towards national regeneration. Should King Amadeus be able to tide over this present difficulty his government will go on, no doubt, during the period of the very lengthened vacation of Parliament under his favorite plan of executive centralization of authority. Then we shall have news of tha occurrence of another ‘“‘crisis” in Madrid, and again of another, and another, and so on to the ex- treme point, at which the Spanish people must either undertake to rule themselves as demo- crats or fall under the sway of a foreign Power which will be strong enough to ex- tinguish every spark of European conflagra- tion which_may be still smouldering on the Iberian peninsula, A eres ois Taz Wretonugp Gzorae Borrs yesterday suffered the extreme penalty of the law, and the unfortunate ‘‘Pet” Halsted was avenged, so far as hanging can satisfy the vengeance of society on those who take human life. This is New Jersey's idea of dealing with vulgar murderers, The cause of the sad business was a double intrigue with a bad woman. One paramour shot and killed the other; the shooter was hanged yesterday. In the Tombs a number of convicted assassins are patiently waiting for society to get tired of detaining them and let them out once more, Oh, for some Jersey justice! THe TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS OF THE PARIS Hostaces as reported in the letter of the Herawp’s correspondent from Paris, and which is published on another page of this morning’s issue, is most interesting and con- tains many facts relative to the fearfal reign of terror which prevailed in the capital of France in the dying days of the Commune, Tue PanorMo Murper.—The more light that is thrown upon this terrible deed of blood the more apparent it is that the Brooklyn police are an incompetent and useless force. Their incompetency has been fully demon- strated in the case of Mr. Panormo. The only facts of value yet presented concerning the murder have been furnished by the re- porters of the press. Tue Riewt Sort or A New Departore— That recommended by B, H. Hill to the people of Georgia, to wit:—‘‘Blot out the spirit of in- tolerance, recognize and obey the constitution as amended, and go to work and get control of your own affairs,” . Worsk AND Worsg—In numbers and vil- lany, the cases of bigamy, trigamy and polyg- amy or Brighamy reported east and west, So much for the agitation of women’s rights, free love, spiritual affinities ard other abomi- nations. ‘The Homan and Tammany Kings. scenic splendor and ornate oratory of the Roman play which is now rampant upon the boards of the Booth Theatre can easily draw & parallel between a Roman and the Tammany Ring. As in these latter days, so in those immediately preceding the Christian era, there was a political triumvirate parcelling out power and riches, There was a Roman forum and there was a New York Court House. In the former Cesar was an original Tweed. In Gaul Cesar conquered and vaunted himself, as Tweed used to in the Knickerbocker country round about Albany. If Casar wrote commentaries, did not Tweed pen charters? If Cesar conquered Brennus, did not Tweed come it over Brennan? Then in the Roman triumviate there was a Connolly. This was Crassus, who made Syria his fiscal hunting grounds, and thence collected the spoils whose possession made him forfeit popular confidence. Finally Crassus was killed by a Parthian arrow, as was Connolly by one from the bow of Judge Learned. Of the Roman triumvirate Pompey was the solid brains. He, however, met his fate on the grassy slépes of Pharsalia, as Pompey Sweeny encountered his amid the evergreen glades of Central Park, when, upon last election day, Casar Tweed triumphed at the polls; but Pompey Sweeny fell by bis own suicidal act of resigna- tion, Of the Roman Ring Marc Antony was the Fisk. His Erie was Egypt. His Mansfield was Cleopatra. And if the Egyp- tion correspondence did not live in history it was probably for want of reporters and the plain sailing in the sea of letters that no craft of hieroglyphics ever managed. At last the breaking up of the Roman Ring left Cassar Tweed dictator of the Latin Sachems, despite all their struggles for inde- pendence. But Roman reformers soon after- ward began to agitate. Casar Tweed had risen to power upon the ruins of Marius Mozart and Sylla Sickles, yet only to encoun- ter the distrust of Cato Cooper and Cicero O’Conor. The power of Cesar as dictator was broken when Brutus O’Brien and Cassius Tilden struck hands and agreed to destroy it. Brutus gave Cesar, on the day of the Luper- cal, the last blow, as O’Brien gave it to Tweed, not in the ides of March, but in the Kalends of last November. Well might both Cmsars pathetically exclaim, under the respective cir- cumstances, ‘Zt tu Brute/” The dagger of Cassius Tilden, however, deprived Tweed not only of power, but of wealth. The indignant Sammy performed a Cmsarian operation which smote Tammany hip and thigh, even as the daggers of the Roman conspirators extirpated the old despotism. Cresar fell in the Senate chamber, as it is said Tweed’s destiny is to be at Albany, when Casca Hardenburgh shall makean envious rent. All that remains in discussing the parallel, or in remembering how truly history repeats itself, isto ask if it be reserved for Cassius Tilden to fall by his own sword, in consequence of disagreements among the reform generals, or if Cato Cooper is to be exiled by his own Citizens’ Committee of Roman firmness, or if Cicero Q’Conor: is to be made a victim of by any Fulvia among the committee of old women aged ‘‘Seventy,” or thereabouts? Yes, there are one or two more important queries which the theatrio spectator of to-day, as witnessing the Shakspearian play of ‘‘ Julius Cesar,” may put himself, Will Augustus Schell come in at the general death to enthrone himself in Tam- many war paint over the débris of the past as Grand Sachem, just as Augustus Cxsar consti- tuted himself Emperor in imperial purple? And will the poet Bryant resume his old réle of Virgil to the democratic Mecenas of the day? The Murray-Coulter Suit. As was generally anticipated, the protracted litigation for the possession of the office of Justice in the Yorkville Police Court resulted in a disagreement of the jury. No twelve men could possibly decide between two such great authorities in law. The action was to decide whether Coulter, an immaculate magistrate, or Murray, a terrible warning to evil-doers and a light to the bar, should dispense justice and pocket fees in the disputed district. It has been frequently stated that a great deal of public interest was attracted to the case; but it was notso. This is not the time for popu- lar excitement to be manifested in such a case. The public is indifferent between such con- testants, and is disgusted with the adminis- ration of the law in ike. lower Ooatty, 1 does not signify the value of Sir Robert Peel’s historic “row of pins” which “popular candidate” for a magistrate’s position and emoluments succeeds in obtain- ing the suffrage of his friends. The result is the same to the general public. It fs not a matter of surprise that the jury in this case’ have disagreed. If any party to the legal tilt is deserving of sympathy it is the jury who had to listen to the miles of evidence presented. The result of the suit will prob- ably put an estoppel on any further prosecu- tion of the Stemmler-Maguire controversy, As to the civil justiceship, our reform Legis- lature cannot do better than take this case of disputed right to administer justice according to Cocker, as a text fora useful law on the subject of Civil and Police Justiceships, Mrs. MANSFIELD MosBED.—Some indiscreet persons yesterday hooted and jostled Mrs, Mansfield at a railroad depot in Boston. This is in bad taste. A woman is entitled to con- sideration from the male kind all over the world. Atthe same time women placed in the peculiar position of Mrs. Mansfield should keep themselves screened as much as possi- ble from public observation, PassaGe OF THE CLatMs Birt.—The Board of Audit bill, on the fate of which so muca interest «centred, finally passed the Legisla- ture yesterday, and now awaits the Governor's signature to become a law. Creditors of the city and county, be of good cheer, the day of Jubilo is at hand. Tue Rerorm MOVEMENTS IN THE Leatsta- TURE are all humbug, according to Mr. Gree- ley, while Terwilliger (a friend of Thomas Murpby) remains Clerk of the Senate. To have genuine reform you must put in a friend of Mr. Greeley’s as Clerk of the Senate, That's all, ——______., Tae Jumet Case is getting to be very ine teresting,