The New York Herald Newspaper, February 14, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ERED pa All business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York HERALD. Letters and packages :hould be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. APVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY HERALD and the European Edition. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- Auping and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- culed at the lowest rates, Volume XXXVIL AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Box Detsotive—Ovr on THE LOOSE. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Twenty-oighth stroet and Broad- way. MARRIAGE. FIFTH AVENUE THKATRE, Twenty-fourth street. Tux New Dkama oF Divoxcr, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tar BALLET PAN. ‘TOMIME OF HUMPTY Dumpry. 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S—Another City Charter: The Offspring of the Apollo Hall Democracy and the Repudiican Factions; ‘the Heads of the Finance and Law Departments ‘to be Chosen by the People; Stringent Rules for the Police; A Check to Patent Pavement Speculators; Important General Provisions, Powers and Limitations. 4—Proceedings in Congress—Proportional Kepre- sentation: Important Opinion as to the Con. stitutionality of Proportional Representation, Proposed 1n the New City Charter—The Annual Reception of the Union League Club Last ¥vening—City lia Atfairs—our State \ ‘City Charities—rhe Sins of Erie—The National Convention—The Debtor Prisoners—A Window Smasher—Literary Chit-Chat—A —_ Scnool Teacher in Trouvie—Funeral Honors two the Remains of General Anderson—Naval Intelit- gence—fhe Corrupt Aldermen of Chicago— Filthy Condition ot the Streets, GeS!. Vualentine’s Day: The History of the I Love in High Lifo and Below Stairs; ‘rhe Verses for Scullery Maids and Aristocratic Fiunkies— The British Livingstone Expedition: Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society; The Government Will Not Do Anything to Rescue Dr. Livingstone—Life Association of Meeting of the Trustees; Excitement Debates—Lecture on Ancient day: The First Day How Ash Wednesday Was Observed in Ut Olden Time—Forty Hours’ Adoration—fhe International Copy- Tight Quesuon—An Actress’ Agent In Lrouble— Preservation of Game—St. Francis Xavier Coliege Examinatiou—Ball of the Knights Templars—General McDowell Robbed. G—Kuitoriais: Leading Article, “The Dimecuity with tJ ind on the Alavama Claims—A Sug- gested Compromise on Thirty Millions in Gola” —Amusement Announcements, 7—The Alabaina Ciaims: Gladstone's Ministerial Difficulties in Relation to the Treaty of Wash- ington; British Prejudice Agaiast an Unde- fined Bill for indir Losses; The Question in the House or Lords—Miscellaneous European 'y 14, 1872. of Fasting and Asne: and Domestic Telegrams—Mardi Gras; Bril- | « i m i liant Processions ‘an High Tictteats ai Hew sub-Alpine government of Victor Orleans; the Grand Duke Alexis and Governor | Emmanuel. It: is a case which ar- Warmoth Going Kound Together—Slupping t oat ea noo Business Notices. Salaaie raigas the British government before ‘okes: Another Day oi Quibbies, Objections ae ivilize i ‘and Challenges: Tao Jury Complete; The Grand | “&2¢ bar of the civilized world, as guilty of a Jury hat Indicted Stokes ‘Ihemseives Put on | systematic course of double-dealing, treachery ‘Tral—A Sixt 1 Homicide—A Schoolboy Homicide—The Sieepy Hollow Murderer—The dersey City He ide—The Port Morris Mur- der—Anotier Street Car Grievance—Political M 4 Views—The Richmond County and Conklingites in dings in the Courts—Judge Rosanna Rooney's De- 1A, Wells: Is It Right Lo Gvertax Ki +—THinois and Michi gan Canal Navigation—Ono Legistature, P—The Broken Uanks-—Kulings of the Treasury Deparunent--The Prize Riug—A Man Eater— Financiai and vom Jal Keports—vomestic Markets—Marriages and Deaths, 4O—Another City Charter (Continued from Third Page)—News trom Wasmiuziou—Adveruse- ments. arnard on fence—A (in 11— advertisements. 12—Adlvertisements. In tae Enorisu House or Lorps some of the Peers are anxious for the British people to have an opportunity for discussing the Alabama claims case outside of Parliament. They ask that all the papers be made public by the government. The ministerial party has, so far, refused. The Peers who are with the multitude are right, and may be found on the right side when the repeal of the law of patail in property is agitated in Britain, ‘Toe Pacwic Raitroav SNow Brockape.— Whe difficulties of getting the trains through ve snow thi “winter on the Union Pacific “allroad he the necessity of other ralirohd ines of “communication across the Continent. We must have the noythern route, where the “snow does not lie so deep, and the southern conta where there is no snow, but perpetual Bpring or summer. There will be business enough for all, and each will have some apecial advantages, pha Arron Tue Savinas Bank PecvLators.— One of the alleged defaulting officers of the Bowling Green Savings Bank has been arrested and held to bail in fifty thousand dollars to answer certain charges preferred against him. It is also stated that indictments have been found against others of the same class of spoliators upon the earnings of the poor, In the midst of the works of reform now in pro- gress there is none more worthy of encourage- eo than that which will place the manage- sent of savings banks in the hands of upright pnd responsible men ond thus protect the lepositors from the depredations of unworthy erwonsy NEW YUKK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1872.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Difficulty with Esgland on the Aln- bama Claims—A Suggested Compromise on Thirty Millions in Gold. We submit to our readers this morning a very interesting despatch from a special cor- respondent in London on the latest phase in tbat quarter of our new difficulty with Eng- land on those exgeedingly troublesome Ala~ bama claims. Thus it appears that no Eng- lish government, in adhering to the Washing- ton Treaty as it now stands (i. ¢., in ref- erence to the American case as submitted to the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration) could hold office for twenty-four hours; that this is absolutely certain, and cannot be too em- phatically stated; that should the peesent government of Gladstone go out upon this issue its successors, from the very nature of the case, would be equally debarred from a recognition of our claims, and that the oppor- tunity for an accommodation may be lost un- less some mutual understanding, modifying the point of indirect damages, shall be agreed upon, Furtbermore, we are informed that England, having heretofore definitely refused the proposition for a settlement in a lumping of our damages, she cannot very well advance it now; but that the United States might re- new it, according to the protocol of the Joint High'Commission of the Sih March last, and that a settlement on this basis might be arranged. Finally, we are assured that to settle this business England will pay the highest sum in gross suggested by the United States—viz., thirty millions of dollars in gold. Now, if the treaty were still an open ques- tion this proposition of thirty millions in gold would doubtless be accepted by our govern- ment, in view of the great advantages to us, to England and to all the world of a complete adjustment of all outstanding disputes be- tween England apd the Untied States, and the establishment of relations of perfect. friendship between the two countries. But the treaty has been ratified, signed, sealed,and delivered, and the United States, as in duty bound, has undertaken to carry out its provisions in refer- ence to the fisheries, the navigation of the St. Lawrence, the San Juan Island boundary dis- pute, certain British claims and these Ala- bama claims. Our case on these clalms, in pursuance of the treaty, is submitted to the arbitrators provided, and the case of England is also laid béfore this tribunal, and neither party, with proper respect for the other side or for itself, or for the chosen tribunal or for the solemn obligations entered into, can ask for the modification of the contestant’s case as a condition of submitting to the arbitration. Upon what ground, then, is it that Her Majesty’s government advances this condition, this ultimatum, as it now appears to be, against our case? Upon the ground that our demands for consequential damages are unau- thorized, extravagant, offensive, preposterous and intolerable. But this is a judgment upon them, and judgment belongs not to the plain- tiff or the defendant, but to the Court. But are there not certain limitations laid down in the treaty for the government of each party in the submission of its case to the arbitrators? No. The treaty provides for the settlement of all existing differences between the two countries, and for the submission on our part, to the chosen arbitrators, of “all claims” direct and indirect, for losses resulting from the depredations on our com- merce of the Alabama and other Anglo-rebel confederate cruisers, There is, in reality, no justification for this demand from England for the modification of our case. We suspect that the offence involved does not lie in the claims submitted for indirect and consequential damages, but that it lies in the acts, the facts, the indict- ment, specifications and testimony, and in the scorching and merciless argument establish- ing the perfidous character of England's neu- trality and belligerent rights throughout the war of our great rebellion, It is a fearful indictment from one great nation against another in the processes of peace making. It is a case which reduces to milk and water the case of Bismarck against France, and to soft complainings the heavy accusations and condemnations of the Pope against the and false pretences, to an extent which digni- fies the proclaimed piratical system of old Algiers and the uncertain diplomacy of the Chinese. The British government, we there- fore suspect, has put on this face of injured innocence and honest indignation in order to neutralize, as far as possible, before the world, the terrible indictment of the American case, Well, the diplomatic propriety of making up a case for war in carrying out a treaty of peace maybe questioned; but we find no interdict against this course in the treaty. The American case is the work of Mr. J. C. Ban- croft Davis, Mr. Fish’s able Assistant Secre- tary of State, and one of the two secretaries of the Joint High Commission, Lord Tender- den, being the other. But this case is before the Geneva Arbitrators as the case of Presi- dent Grant, the American government and the American people; and it is endorsed as cor- rect by those learned men in the law, Mr. Caleb Cushing and Mr. William M. Evarts, of counsel for our cause before the Geneva Tribanal. That most amiable of all diplomats, Mr, ex-Secretary Seward, in making up this case would no doubt have drawn it in its tone tnd temper as mild as a May morning. But Mr. Bancroft Davis belongs to a different school. He is a bellicose peacemaker. We think, now, we can detect his fighting pro- clivities in Mr. Secretary Fish’s Motley corre. spondence, which shut the doors of peace between Senator Sumner and General Grant ; and we are moraily certain that this same trenchant Bancroft Davis is responsible for the wrath of Prince Gortschakoff touching the fearful details of the unfortunate Minister Catacazy’s derelictions, Allowing, then, something for the astonish- ment and indignation of bluff John Bull to the remorseless treatment of England’s neu- trality and belligerent rights by the belliger- ent Davis in making up our case, the question recurs, What prospect is there for the lump- ing of our bill of costs in thirty millions in gold? England will not plead guilty in plead- ing to our case as presented. General Grant will not recall it in order to soften it down. It bas gone before the world; it is according o the treaty, aad it cannot be recalled. At of the 8th of March last the American set be- fore the British Commissioners, in general terms, our losses during the war of our rebel- lion, direct and indirect, from the depreda- tions of the Alabama, &c., ‘including the heavy expenditures {ncurred in pursuit of the rebel cruisers, the transfer of our merchant ships to the British flag, the enhanced rates of insurance and the prolongation of the war; and they proposed a specific sum in satisfaction of all these claims, Our Commissioners dis- tinctly stated that, in hopes of an amicable settlement, they bad made no estimate of our indirect losses, ‘‘without prejudice, however, to the right to indemnification on their account in the event of no such settlement (a settle- ment in the lump) being made.” Here, then, we have the treaty, and it completely covers our case, the proposition of lumping all these claims in a specific sum being rejected. But England now, in order to settle this difficulty, will pay the highest sum in gross heretofore suggested by the United States, which, it appears, is thirty millions of dollars in gold, And why cannot this settlement bo arranged? Because, we apprehend, it comes too late. As we understand the position of General Grant on this subject, itis fixed, He has submitted our case, he is ready to abide by the judgment of the arbitrators chosen ; he accepts them as intelligent, just and impartial men. Hedoes not expect that England will be called upon to pay off our national debt or anything like it; but he does expect, and the American people expect, that England will reconsider her present untenable position and stand by the treaty, and he and this people can wait a little longer, in the hope that Her Majesty’s government will come back to this wholesome frame of mind. We are in no hurry, because the case, yea or nay, is in our hands, Congress Yesterday—The Naval aod Civil Appropriation Bills. Both houses of Congress were engaged yes- terday on the most legitimate business of the session, namely—the consideration of appro- priation bills. The House had up the Naval bill, and the Senate the Legislative, Executive and Judicial bill, Mr. Hale, of Maine, who had charge of the Naval bill, made a most doleful exhibit of the condition of the navy, and showed how contemptibly inadequate it was to meet any sudden emergency of war. He made, also, some very serious insinuations against the integrity of Mr. Welles’ adminis- tration of the Navy Department, declaring that out of the large number of vessels that were in service at the close of the war scores and fifties of them had disappeared and faded out of sight, leaving no more trace of what had become of them than if they were se many Flyiag Dutchmen. He had tried to follow them up and ascertain what disposition had been made of them, but had absolutely failed to make any discovery. Ohio, opened a broadside upon the adminis- tration in all its departments, accusing them of cooking up their accounts so as to confuse and bewilder Congress and the public, and so as Then Mr. Morgan, of to conceal enormous discrepancies, which he, however, professed to have discovered. The House passed, after considerable dis- cussion, a bill appropriating three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a government building in Albany, and which was ander- stood to be the pioneer of a batch of similar bills to be reported for various cities and towns all over the country. Sucha log-rolling measure was, of course, irresistible, and Mr. Garfield’s efforts to impede or prevent its pas- sage were utterly futile. The Committee of Ways and Means, in obe- dience to the resolution adopted by the House on Monday, was prepared to report a bill re- moving all import duties from tea and coffee, but Mr. Dawes, its chairman, being refused consent to make a speech hostile to the measure, withheld the report. General Sherman—From the Crimea to the Caucasus. General Sherman is about to leave Rome and proceed to Naples. From this point he will travel to the Crimea and extend his tour thence to the Caucasus, So says our cable telegram. The General will thus stand at ‘the fountain-head, whence Europe spread.” He will find plenty of matter to moralize over, and for reflection, by the way. Inthe Crimea he will again behold the monuments of a mighty war struggle; the graves of heroes who were stricken down in the death grip of battle while yet “full of lusty life,” and also those silent mounds in which “rider and horse, friend and foe were in one red burial blent.” In the Caucasus he will stand on the great Russian mountain line which divides Europe and Asia—on the boundary closing the isthmus which separates the Black from the Caspian Sea. Here he will see the location of the parent’ homes of many of the great warrior races, both of the Old World and the New, and may perhaps ask himself what manoer of primal man could have dwelt in the region, who, from his sim- ple wanderings to the plains, gave forth a progeny so persistent, so warlike, so destruc- tive, and yet so indestructible? Points of grahd idea, particularly when they are toned and softened by the Christian assuagement which will flow to his mind from the consola- tions of a visit to Rome, the centre from which Christianity has struggled for the regeneration of humanity from the consequences of its earliest demoralizations. A Suicat Dirrerenck or OPixiox.— Caleb Cushing says the ‘‘American case,” a: prepared by Mr. Bancroft Davis, is, in his opinion, ‘‘a most able, thorough, complete, learned and effective exposition of the claims of the Unfted States against Great Britain.” Mr. Evarts says he is “‘satisfied of its ability and completeness.” Per contra, Reverdy Jobnson says, in effect, ‘the tone of argument employed in the case is too acrimonious; that much of its statements of history is cumula- tive and might be dispensed with without detriment; that the claim for indirect or con- sequential damages cannot be sustained under the clause in the treaty upon which Mr. Davis rests his judgment.” Who shall decide when doctors high in the law like these disagree? But perhaps Mr. Johnson's views on the sub- ject have been slightly soured or prejudiced by his failure to consummate a treaty with Great Britain when he had the matter in charee, the conference of the Joint High Commission | The Seventy and Their Experimental Char- | General Sickles as a Mediator—“Let Us ter—The Wisdom of Our Legisiators. Mr. Alvord aptly illustrated the present condition of the pretended charter reform movement when, in last night’s debate on the experimental scheme emanating from the Committee of Seventy—after several vain attempts to elicit an explanation of some of the prominent features of the bill— he drew attention to the fact that out of the twenty-one representatives from the city of New York not one knew anything about its provisions or its operation. ‘‘We look in vain for information from those for whose city this charter is in- tended,” he said in substance, ‘‘and all we can learn from the whole twenty-one members is what one or two of them-have heard from other people.” This remark exactly hits the cause of the present muddle at Albany. No soand, practical proposition is before the Legislature, and the puzzled representa- tives are floundering about in the midst of the muddle of cumulative voting, minority representation, mottled boards and mixed commissions spread before them by the seventy wise men of Gotham. It is an instructive sight to sce the legislative chambers filled with Gefman dreamers and venerable theorists, whispering in the ears of members explana- tions of their curious propositions, and to find a body of one hundred and twenty-eight apparently sensible men _ gravely lis- tening to section after section of a bill not one of them understands, and prepared, prob- ably, to bestow it upon the great metropolis of the United States as a fundamental law under which a city of over a million inhabitants is to live and prosper. The As- sembly considered the charter all day yester- day, at the morning and evening sessions, and adjourned before it had been read through by sections, to attend a party atthe Executive mansion, At the close of the session Mr. Brown, the member from Cayuga, wag com- 9 méhcing a written address,in which he declared that a Church in New York—meaning, of course, the Roman Catholic Church—had divided the spoils of the city with the Tam- many Ring, whose greatest strength had been derived from this community of interests. In such intolerance and bigotry and in the midst of a profound ignorance of the work they are performing, the State Legislature is to manu- facture a charter for the city of New York. There appears to be some probability that the bargains and bickerings now going on between the members and some of the parties in office in the city government are destined to defeat all legislation in regard to the municipal charter, and that affairs will be permitted to remain as they now are—at least until another Legislature convenes, This cer- tainly would be preferable to a passage of an experimental scheme so arranged as to render corrupt combination not only easy but certain. General Sickles, who is now in Albany, and who has had experience in New York city government, might give the Legislature some useful advice, if they were honestly disposed to pass a good law with an eye to the single interests of the people and the prosperity of the city; but at present there seems to be no organization to prepare such a law and no disposition to enact it, Hence, we repeat, it would be better to leave matters as they are than to force upon the people a wild experiment which they do not understand and do not desire at the same time. A splendid opportunity exists for a practical, sensible man to make himself a reputation as a statesman. Let him draw a charter based on the Heratp's frequently re- peated suggestions, in which New York shall be joined with Brooklyn and other suburbs in one grand municipal government, and in which concentrated power and direct respon- sibility shall be the simple but effective features. Such a bill would stand out in striking contrast to the muddled, incompre- hensible trading and bartering scheme pre- pared for us by the German theorists, the effect of which would be to crucify New York between the thieves of the two great political parties. rene “Reform within the Lines of the Repub- lican Party.” In making his obeisance to his brethren of the press on his return to active editorial labors Colonel Forney, of the Philadelphia Press, says:— ‘vhore are various theorles as to the cause of his voluntary, glad retirement irom the paintul position Of a placeman; but none are so true as the recog- nition of the fact that he comes back to his editorial chair with an earnest purpose to serve the public and to co-operate in the great work of reform within the lines of the republican party. This is something like the declaration of certain democrats during the war—to wit, that they were “‘willing to fight for the rights of the South within the Union, but not out of it.” The Southerners did not appreciate the force of this sort of quasi friendship, and preferred an open and above-board fight for complete separation. How the editor of the Press is to ‘co-operate in the great work of reform within the lines of the republican party” and appease tho angry elements now disturbing its vitals, is a problem the solution of which is not readily attainable. If Colonel Forney intends to support or to oppose Grant why does he not come.out flat-footed and say so? But perhaps the time for declaring war or effecting » treaty of amity and peace has not yet arrived. Tne Pore on Pustic Epvcation.—Pope Pius the Ninth is about to issue an encyclical letter on the subject of public education and its relations to the Church and to the State. The matter is of the highest importance to the Christian world. It was debated in the Vatican Council and embodied in the Pontifi- cal declaration of the dogma of infallibility. This announcement was accepted at the moment as an authoritative definition of the position of the Roman Catholic Church towards public schools and the system of mixed educa- tion as it is administered by many, the majority, indeed, of the Christian govern- ments. The first view of this portion of the Council manifesto did not produce any very pleasing impressions on the mind of the populations. Perbaps His Holiness will, in his forthcoming letter, supply a per- sonal, yet Papal, explanation of many of the poinis which remain still in dispute. If he can do 80 satisfactorily—to his own con- science, to the College of Cardinals and to the cosmopolitan lay communities—he will have accomplished a noble work. Pio Nono is, however, a great worker, and a charitable, aa wellas venerable. man, Have Pence.” General Sickles is at Albany on » special mission of peace, love, good will and the Governorship. He comes to our State capi- tal fresh from the national capital, and is said by our correspondents to be armed with authority to say to the squabbling fac- tions that the President desires them to cease their unseemly brawls and behave like decent men, It is hinted that he has also a more personal object in view, and that as he intends to retire from the Spanish mission in August next he would not object to taking possession of the figurative Executive mansion at Albany on the 1st day of January succeeding. However this may be, bis acknowledged mission is a com- mendable one. As he tersely remarks, when he left for Madrid he left Senator Conkling sulky and out in the cold, and when he comes back from the city of the Hidalgos he dis- covers Senator Fenton in a similar uncomfort- able position. He therefore tenders bis well known diplomatic skill to heal the difficulties, and has set about to convince Senator Fenton that General Grant is not in terror of him as a rival candidate for the Presidency, and next to remind Senator Fenton’s friends that all men cannot hold office at the same time and that their hour for enjoying the loaves and fishes may not be far distant. We fear that even the persuasive Sickles will fail to bring the factions at Albany in accord and to puta stop to the scandalous proceedings of the ma- jority party. It is true that the operations of a reform Legislature, if the close of the session should be such as the open- ing indicates, are calculated to seriously damage the republican cause in the State of New York; but the rings and the lobbies are all powerful at the State capital, and, as they make their bargains for cash, it is not easy to circumvent them with promises, even made by one of the diplomatic corps and backed by the President himself. The quarrel of the outs against the ins cannot bo settled by soft words. However, it is very well for General Sickles to make the attempt, and if he should not succeed he may at least be instrumental in furnishing the republican party an availa- ble candidate for Governor on the Grant ticket next fall. A British Per PropounpIna AN ALA- BAMA FinaNolAL PropteM.—Lord Redesdale is troubling his mind in the matter of the future division of the Alabama claims indemnity money between the Northern and Southern States of the United States when England pays the American bill of damages. His lordship has placed the subject before the House of Lords in the shap2 of an arith- metical problem—a puzzling form, indeed, for his aristocratic brethren, The quod erat demonstrandum of the question may be safely entrusted to President Grant. Let Britain forward the cash; Grant will use it equitably. Lord Redesdale is, perhaps, liable to become confused in the matter of international accounts and balances, inheriting, as he must, from his father—Chancellor of Ireland at the period of the union with England—an idea of the terribly muddled manner in which the money matters of the two countries were at the time of the amalgamation of the public ledger. Gamperra.—The unhappy condition of France at the present time attracts universal attention. A storm approaches which may prove terribly disastrous to the nation, The radical republican element in the South is ready for work whenever the watchword is given. The government of M. Thiers is not over strong, and, what is more, it knows its own weakness. Itis preity clearly understood now that Gambetta is the head of this dan- gerous element, which only awaits an oppor- tune moment to launch the country again into the dreadful struggles of a civil war. The apparent inactivity of the ex-Dictator of Tours is regarded with suspicion, How suddenly he rose from obscurity in the early days of the republic until he exercised the influence of a dictatorship over France is already a matter of history. If the chance again presents itself there is little doubt but he will attempt a similar 7dle. Personal Intelligence. Judge R. OC, Parsons, of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator William Windom, of Min- nesota, has arrived at the Hoffman House, Colonel Thomas A. Scott, of Philadeiphia, Prest- dent of the Union Paciiic Railroad, is at the Brevoort House. Lieutenant Governor Webster Flanagan, and Colo- nel Tom P. Uchiltree, of Texas, have arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. sudge B, M. Corwin, of Washington, 1s among yesterday’s arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Captain G, Ethiolen, of the Russian Navy, and the Baroness de Waliten, of St. Petersburg, are at the Hoffman House, The object of Captain Ethtolen’s visit to this country is rumored to be to wed the fair daughter of one of the most esteemed of the oficers of our Navy. The Count de Foresta, of Paris, and General Emile Bonnemant, late of the French Army, yesterday ar- rived at the Grand Central Hotel. Tue former ts to make a pleasure tour of the country; the latter has been for some time travelling on this Continent and 1g now about to return to France to arrange for the transfer of his permanent residence to Canada. OBITUARY. Peter G. Wasbington. Colonel Peter G. Washington died in this city on Saturday night, or Sunday morning, in the seventy-iourth year of his age, after a few hours’ {liness, from pleuro-pneumonta, Colonel Washing: ton was a native of Virginia, but was reared and | educated and passed almost his enure lifein New | York. When almost a lad te entered the civil service of the United States government and continued In it, with but a short imteryal, until 1857, When he retired from the office of Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury. He was chief clerk of | the ofMice ol the Treasurer of the United States, from which he Was transferred to the chief clerk- ship of the ofice of the Sixth Auditor of the Treas- | ury, and on the Auditorsnip becommg vacant he | was promoted to that siuation, The great satis- faction he gave by an abie and faithrul discharge of duty directed attention to him, on tne advent of General Pierce to the Presidency, as the proper person to fll the office of Assisiant seo reiary of the ‘Treasury. He made many changes tn the manuer of stating aceounts, requir- ing short and prompt settlements and holding alt receiving a3 Well as disbursing agents vo a rigid accountabuity. His officiai integrity was unsullied. Colonel Washington had received @ liveral classical education; bis mind was clear apd discriminaung, his faculty for investigating intricate Matters amounted aimost toa passion and his application and i.dustry untiring, He presented a fine, manly personal appearance. At the time of his decease e was one of the Vice Presidents of the Asso: tion of the Oldest Imhabitants of tne District of | co-operate with the commustee tm layini Columbia and one of the members of tne Washing: ton Nauonal Monument Society. Eliphalet A. Bulkely- Hon, Eliphalet A, Bulkely, of Hartford, Conn., President of the Atna Life Insurance Company, died in that city on the mgnt of the 12th inst, aged sixty-nine years, He has been twice a member of the Conneducut Suave Semate and once Speaker ot] the House AFFAIRS IN UTAH. Efforts to Forward the Mails in Coaches—A Gentile Mass Meeting—Proiest Against the City Election—McKean to Conter with the President on the Territorial Deadlock—Dep- ation in Washington with the Attorsey General Yesterday. Sat Lake, Feb, 13, 1872, Arrangements have not yet been completed tor the transmission of the mails eastward in coaches, but the negotiations sre still going on, There 1s to be @ great meeting of citizens to-mor- row night to protest against the illegal manner in which the city election was carried on, and in which more votes were alleged to have been cast than were ever known tn the county before. Ademand for a United States Registry law will be made, Judge McKean has been granted leave of absence by the President to cousult personally with him and with the Avtoraey General on the situation tn Utah. Anumber of persons leave here to-morrow for New York, via San Francisco and the Isvnmus of Panama, believing they can get through sooner than by rail, owing to the present condition cf the Union Pacitic Railroad, Reports tnis evening state that snow-bound trains are still near Creston, but the weather is warm and Pleasant. The snow shovelicrs are working day and wight. A Deputation of Salt Lakeites and Pennsyl- vanians [aterview the Attorney General Concerning Utah. Wasninaton, Feb. 13, 1872. A number of gentlemen, citizens of Salt Lake City and of Pennsylvania, deeply interested financially in the peace and welfare of Utah, called on the Attorney General to-day and had a conversation with him im regard to the complications in that Territory, and asked that such acourse be taken by the authorities in Wasaington as will lead to the reconcilement of matters which now have a tendency to retard the developmeat and disturb the harmony of the people there, The interview was a pleasant one. The visitors were received courteously, and we Attorney Gene- ral promised to give their suggestions a carefal con- sideration, ENGLISH OPERA—“DON GIOVANNI” A performance must be possessed of extraordinary’ Powers of oftractton to draw people from their houses in such a rain storm as that which deluged the streets lust nigit. Yet there was a fair sized audience at the Academy, the parquet being well filled and a respectabie sprinkling in the boxes. Mozart’s immortal work was an appropriate one to succeed the more giltvering, yet weaker opera of Herold, since in “Don Giovanni’? and “Zampa” we have almost the same story of impiety and unbridled passion and the punishment thereof, But as strong contrasts serve to heighten beauty and power in any form, so the ches d’auvre of the most gental o all composers becomes more attractive when sand- ‘wiched bevween the two perlormances of ‘Zampa.’? The cast was the same as appeared last October, comprising the chie! members of the company. 16 is neediess to speak in detall al this late day of Mme. Parepa-Rosa’s Donna Anna, walch 1s unques- tionably vhe grandest and most fintsned of her operatic impersonations, An unformed voice Which tme 13 constantly strengthening, but in which traces ol crudeness are still per- ceptible, and an excellent conception of the ex- igencies of the role were the qualities brought by Miss Doria to the role of Donna Elvira. Mrs. Van zandt 13 a charming Zerlina, and extubits the re- quisite spirit and vivacity for the part. Messrs, Karl, Cook, Seguin and Ryse played their respective roles commendably. Un Friday night Mrs, Zelda Seguin’s first benetit in New York takes place, ie which occasion she will appear in her lavorite ré/e of Nancy, 1n “Martha.” CHURCH MUSIC ASSOCIATION—SEOOND CON. CERT. Under the above meaningless title, which woult be more appropriate if applied to a Sunday school, 1s known the very best vocal society in New York. We say the best, because on no other musical or- ganization do wealth and fashion bestow such un- pounded liberality, and nowhere else can such emiuent urtists be found in achorus. The chorus and orchestra are both large, well balanced and trained by constant rehearsals to a degree of perfection unattainable by other concert bodies, and in the conductor, Dr. James Pech, te society possesses & painstaking, accomplished and con- Sclentious musician, Stetnway Hall was crowded last night almost to suffocation, and the suggestion given on the tickets of full dress was attended to in every sense of the word, The bill was one caicu- lated to enlist tne attention and sympathy ot every lover of music, a3 it consisted of the following grand works:— The admirably written brochure by Dr. Pech, which was the Dill of the evening and which con- talued an elaborate and analytical descripuon and criticism of the works performed, enabled each or the audience to follow the thoughts of the composer Inteliigioly, is a feature in those concerts which alone would tendto make them eminently popular. The performance was very creditaole, the chorus and orchestra doing their wying work bravely and with due spirit and unanimity. Tne soloists were Mrs, Gulager, Madame Javoorska, Miss Henne, Messrs. Leggatt, Remmertz and Herman, With the exception of Messrs. Leyggat ana kem- mertz, Who are deserving of much praise, a bigher grade of excellence for the interpretation o: such music would be desirable in the ladies and geptie- men entrusted with the solo parts. The next"con- cert takes place on May 2 MRS, MOULTON. This gifted artist, who was compelled, by reason of her husvand’s sickness, to suspend her concert tour, reappears again on Saturday next in Phila- delphia, Mr. Moulton having sufficiently Improved to warrant the step. The troupe 1s under the able management of Mr. George W. Colby, and inc.udes Messrs. Bowles and Fossat!, and the pianist, Mr. Went, They will make a Westera tour, appearing in Pittsburg, Wheeling, Dayton, Cincinnat, Lexing- ton, Louisville, &c. The immense success achieved by Mrs. Moulton in the East and South we are sure will follow her in the West, PROGRESS OF THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL. ROAD. WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 1872, General Banks, having yesterday introduced a re- solution directing the Commiixee on Pacific Railroads to quire into the present condition of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, he was to-day interro- gated by gentlemen representing the interests of the company and t explanation of the object of the proposed investigation sald he was impelied to take this step to satisfy his constituents, who write to him for the purpose of ascertaining what security there may be for the ultimate payment of the Northern Pacific gold bonds, which are having large syes tn the United States, and in which petsons of moderate means are, in some instances, investing their money; that he can- not answer these inquiries because there has been no inspection. of the finished part of the road. No application. has been made by the company for government lands and no showing has been made of the condition of the corporations. He did not ofler the resolution in any spirit df hostility to the: company, bus merely for the reason stated. In re- sponse to this resolution the representatives of the Northern Pacific one aay oeaae s the; stated to General Banks that ‘etone a4 yUDIIC All the facts as to its present c ton, re- sources ‘and the prospects for the early completion of the road; that they have nothing to conceal; that they have about three hundred miles of the main trunk completed and fully equipped accoming to the requirements of @ first class road; that commissioners have heen appointed by the Secretary of the Interior to inspect this finished ‘of the road now thorougnly batlasted and reoallasted, and vey will pentorm the service in a lew weeks; that the company has had suflicient money arising from tae sales of bonds by Jay Cooke & Co. to pay for the onstruction of the road thas far, and therefore has not sought the warrants for the land to which they are entitled from the govern- ment. The compeny requesis an immediate, thax. ouga and impartial mvestigation 100 its aifairs, THE FANORMO TRAGEDY. Chief of Police Campbeil was put in possession of a letter a few'days since which was picked up on Henry street, and which at first was supposed to be a slignt/elue to the assassination of the murdered = Panormo. ‘There were nates men- tron in, i but upon investigation it was discovered that the parties mentioned were highiy respectaolc and knew nothing what. ever of the affair, The letier was not addressed, but, ‘was signed “Ellen,” and Ue autnor advised ‘Mill’ to leave the city, a8 she knew of his crime ‘and he was one of the wicked people. The lewor was undoubtedly written by some school boy, Who was anxious to see fis productions in print and adopted Luis method to accomplisu bis purbode. a