The New York Herald Newspaper, March 6, 1872, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD. corr j= Advertisement S—Aaverisements: M 3—The State Capital: The Great Erie Battle Begun in the Legislature; An Amendment to the Board of Audit Act; A Bill to Regulate the Managewent of Insurance Companies; Ex- wnsion of One-Legged Ratlcod Track; ‘the Pacific Mail Bill Favorably ried ; Dexter C.” Hawkins and His | “Mito™y Influence as a Lobbyist 5 Talk About the Seventy’s Charter—Washington: Cameron Springing a Mine on the “Serehead” Faction; Tne French Arms Inquiry Committee Balloted for; Toe Deticiency itll; How a Colored Congressman Knocked Cox lato a Cocked Hat; ‘Tne New York Central Taxable Seri utled—Ovitaary, 4—UCong: rench Biunderbuss Committee T Appointed at Last; The Deficiency Appro- priauion Hill in the House; Rainey stands Up jor His “Cuiled Bredern;?’ The Yerba Buena Land Gr ‘The Custom House Inquiry—New Hampsh: ‘The Democratic and ubiican Sachems ming the Campaign--The Cam- paign in the South; The Feeling’ in Virginia and Norta and South Caroiina—Poittucal Movement nd Views —Miscellaneous Polt- Ucal telez ‘ne First Political Gun tor Judge Bediord—Art Matters—ihe siisiorical Society—Aquatics—National file Associa: ton—Cock Fighting— The French War Devt— Journalistic Notes—Quite a Difference, G—Mayor Hail: The Case Brought to a Dead Stop; Arguments to be Made To-morrow to Close the Case—Interesting Proceedings in the New York and Brooklyn Courts—Making Miller a Martyr: Mysterious Moteties Paid by Insurance Companies—The Hawkins Mite—Lhe Subject Of Pilotage—The Judiciary Commttee—New York City News—Killed on the Hudson River Ratiroad—Suggestions for Car Companies. bie Leading Article, “Our Pacitic Hail- way System; Let the Mistakes of tne Past Teacn Us Wisdom in the Future’—Amuse- ment Announcements. y—Telegrams trom France, England, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Rome, Sprin end India—Alexts in Havana—ihe swamp Out laws—The Cold Snap—Business Notices. S—Army Intelligence: The Irreguiar Promotions in the Quartermaster's Department—Sectari- anism—Naval Intelligence: New Rating of Our Vessels of War—The Alabama Claims— The Methodists—Ketribution in Jersey City: The Ring in the Meshes of the Law—Commit- tee of seventy—The Jury Laws—st. Vincent's Hospital—Lhe Port Morris Murder —Another Ratlroad Victim—Alleged Death trom Vio- Jence—More Libel Suits in Jersey—The Death of Mr. Gerhardt—The Alleged Short Weight in Coal—Burying a Corpse in the Cellar—The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. 9—Financial and Commercial : A Tactical Demon- stration } ; Massing tne Reserves; Stocks C) tT Broox- lyn Aifairs—Mu Mystery Soived—licket-of-Leave Men—Police Matters—Marriages and Deaths. 10—The Bar Association: Important Proce ings— The Missouri Bond “Ring’—European Markets—Shipping —_Intelligence—Advertise- ments. 11—Vontinental Racing Goss}p—advertisements, 12—Advertisement: A Tovar Jos—The reconstruction of the Society of Tammany, They are rot in sight of land yet, and yet they appear to be bard aground, Stanp ‘From Unb A rumor prevails at Albany that the Erie Ring is financially shaken and will not pay. the interest on the Erie bonds becoming due. It is time for the responsible directors of Erie to ‘‘stand from under.” A crash is evidently cominz, and they may find themselves held individually responsible for all the Erie robberies and misappropria- tions, and live to see Gould and Lane laughing at their ruin, Tne “Inisn Home Rue” member, wio was lately returned to Parliament for Kerry, has introduced a bill providing for the purchase of the Irish railways by the government. This is the mouse in the meal tub. Purchase our railways at our own price, or else we will turn to and rule ourselves, **There’s money” in the movement; but England can get along very well in Ireland without the railways, They don’t pay, and Chancellor Lowe knuws the fact. Tne Assassination oF Hueyry Berry Lowery, the chief of the North Caro- ling “Swamp Outlaws,” is reported in a despatch published to-day in our columns. According to the vague infor- mation forwarded he was murdered by his brother, Stephen Lowery, but the details are not given. The murderer is alleged to have given himself up to the police authorities at once and confessed the whole matter. If this should be corroborated the people of Robeson county may at once render thanks for their deliverance from the trammels and persecu- tions of such a bloodthirsty ruffian, and the next thing to do is to organize and capture the remainder of the gang. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, Our Pacific Railway System—Let the Mistakes of the Past Teach Us Wisdom in the Future. Our advices from the West continue the old story about the Pacific railways. There is another drift of snow on the line of the Union Pacific, and we have no idea when we shall have another mail from California. The exact nature of this obstruction is unknown, and something must be conceded to the in- clemency of the weather. We have an uou- sual season for March, but there is no reason why we may not have a series of winters like the one now taking its furious departure for twenty years to come, If ships were madc for summer seas and the economy of society contemplated only pleas- ant skies we could understand how this virtual division of a continent would be regarded as a dispensation of Providence. But this isa world for summer and winter, for storm and sunshine. Our ships are meant for burri- canes, our houses to keep out the rain, our railways to drive through snow and hail. When we build ships-of-war we expect them to sail all the year round; otherwise our pleasure yachts and the gorgeously deco- rated barges on the Hudson would be an all sufficient navy. Enterprise and science only do their work when they overmaster nature—when they bridge streams, and lay a speaking cable in the ocean caverns, and tunnel the Alps, and dig the Suez Canal. So when. our government in its wisdom yielded to the general demand and endorsed a Pacific railway it was expected that we should have a railway for winter and summer. The unity of the country seemed to demand this railway. The discovery of gold in Cali- fornia had suddenly attracted a Commonwealth to the Pacific coast. A climate of unusual mildness, scenery that surpassed the Alps, agricultural resources of incredible extent, and, above all, the supreme temptation of gold, had made California the El Dorado of the young American, Thither went our friends and brothers, by the tedious passage around the Horn; through the narrow, miasmatic isthmus, and now and then in some of the caravans that covered the Plains, A Commonweulth arose as far from the East as we are from Australia or Buenos Ayres, and grave men feared that time and intrigue and restlessness would weaken the political ties that bound the Pacific and the Atlantic. The telegraph was the first strand in the new bond of union; the railway came after. In building the railway Congress acted with a generosity that became reckless through ignorance. We had been taught to believe that the railway route to the Pacific was beset with unimagin- eble and insurmountable difficulties; that Nature, in her moods of volcanic fantasy, had so upset and tumbled around these inner West- ern regions—had strewn the way with so many canyons and precipices and mountains and lakes and streams—that a road could not be built untess at four times the cost of a road in the older States. The money was given and the road was built, The country in time came to see that the cost was four times as much as it should have been; but the fact that there was really a road, that the two oceans had finally been united, was too pleasing to the American mind for us to ask many questions. If questions had been asked it would have been found that this Paciflc Railroad scheme, with the various phases with which it has since blossomed, was | the most stupendous fraud ever perpetrated ona free country. Instead of using the funds and lands granted to them to bnild the road the men who held the franchise formed a Ring, put the government endowment into their pockets, and made as shabby a road as the government could be brought to accept. The audacity, the foresight, the intrepidity of this Ring was Napoleonic, {t carried everything. Presidents of the United States did its bidding by appointing commissioners to examine the road who would make satisfactory reports. President Johnson had no better appointments in his gift, according to the market quotations of the lobby. Vice Presidents made them- selves advertising agents of the Ring. Speak- ers of the House, like Colfax and Blaine, ap- pointed Pacific Railway committees who would be acceptable to the Ring. Newspapers were subsidized here and there, and members of Congress amassed large sums by having a knowledge of the movements of the Ring. As the representative director of one road admit- ted, he had spent a half million of dollars in Washington upon a business so ‘‘confidential” that he declined to give the Board the items. Even with this enormity we should have been patient, despairing of any proper or practical remedy, had the Ring given us a railroad to the Pacific. Such a road does not exist, We have a summer road—a pair of indifferent fron tracks that will answer in midsummer. Otherwise we are as far from San Francisco as from London, and the midsummer accom- modation cannot in these altitudes be de- pended upon fora day. Travel to the Pacific is an experiment, And yet money enough was paid to have laid a steel double track the whole way, and cover every exposed point with snow sheds. In this period of investiga- tion the time has come for an outraged and robbed nation to ask questions, If Mr. Sumner and Mr. Schurz mean to have investigations worthy of the name, let them order an inquiry into tue building of this Pacific Railway, the establishment of the Crédit Mobilier, the names of its members, the dividends it paid and the reason why a road was accepted by the government which is Incomplete and un- | worthy. Let them report how much money was paid to build the road, with the amount that it cost. ‘The information is easily attain- able. There are men in Congress who voted for these measures, and who know all abont the building of the roads, We shall at some future day go over the record and dig them out, but the most efficient way would be by a committee of investigation. This refers to the past. The future requires further legislation. Every railroad that bas an acre of land or a bond from the government must be under direct government supervision, Here is the Northern Pacific, with a territorial endowment as large as the European area of France, and what guarantee has the govern- ment that it will be built properly? May we not see in the future that we have paid our rich acres as carelessly as we paid our good money, and no one the better but the Ring who divided the construction profits? How about the Southern Pacific and Mr. Pomeroy's Kansas roads, and the twenty schomes which have received a subsidy? We ‘have been blind and hasty, and some of us, we fear, very wicked in this railway business. Tho time has come for us to turn over a new leaf. President Grant can do the country no better service than to instantly examine this whole question, Let us see how much has been robbed in the past, and how much we may improve upon the experience in the future. President Thiers’ Threat to the French Parliament. France has just made another of those ter- rible heavy payments of war indemnity money to Prussia, President Thiers appears to be, naturally enough, perhaps, in bad humor after affixing the Executive signature to the Trea- sury draft in favor of Emperor William. In such a state of mind—it must have been so— the Chief of the republic of France appeared before the Legislative Committee on the Budget yesterday and complained of ‘‘its in- activity, which embarrassed the government, particularly in the War Department.” The President announced at the same time his in- tention ‘‘of bringing the matter directly be- fore the Assembly.” This is a very serious course of action indeed, particularly when adopted deliberately by a statesman of such vast experience as M. Thiers towards the members of a legislative committee. It is a threat to the parliamentary function. Each member of the committee is in his own person a constituent part of the Legislature; his in- dependence in the discharge of bis duty secures the independence of the whole. His independence once subjected to Executive control or. terrorized over by government power, and the health of the body corporate comes impaired; its vitality may decrease to gangrene, Such is the essential theory of constitutional government. President Thiers knows the fact. He should not permit his temporal power necessities to impel him to abnegate it. An appeal to a wounded Parlia- ment cannot give animation to the State gov- ernment. It may lead Thiers from bad to worse. He has himself recorded the ominous order of First Consul Bonaparte to his grena- diers in the hall of the National Convention when he said, ‘‘Let all the refractory mem- bers leave the hall.” The bayonet obeyed him; the imperial purple, Waterloo, and the France of to-day ensued. Congress Yesterday—The Ivjured Innocents from Kansas—The Committee on the French Arms SaleeYerba Buena. As fine an exhibition of injured innocence as can rarely bo seen outside of a police court took place yesterday in the Senate, when the two Senators from Kansas, who have been shown by the report of a legislative joint com- mittee of that State, which was published in the Heratp last week, to have secured their election by the most unblushing frauds and corruption, went through the make-believe farce of inviting investigation and asking a suspension of public opinion until after trial. The “junior Senator, Caldwell, whose onge is the most recent, having occurred only about a year ago, declared that the whole proceed- ings against him by the Legislature of his State were instigated by malice and with a political design; and his unctuous colleague, Pome- eroy, who is supposed to owe his seat to simi- lar practices, put in operation four or five years previously, offered a resolution to refer the matter to a committee, which was to report what action should be taken. Edmunds, of Vermont, however, who seems to have a special aversion to investigating committees, came to the relief of this pair of Kansas doves and indignantly spurned the idea of taking any action upon mere newspaper reports, the proceedings of the Kansas legislative commit- tee not having been officially transmitted to the Senate. Messrs. Carpenter and Hamlin shared in Edmunds’ views and indignation, and the result was that the resolution was laid on the table. Butall that doves not get rid of the effect of the report as published, which shows that one, if not both, of those Senators owes his position in the Senate to the Kansas Pacific and other railroad companies, whose interests were to be specially served in the Senate. The committee to inquire into the sale of arms to the French government was selected by ballot yesterday, and resulted in the choice of Messrs. Hamlin, of Maine; Carpenter, of Wisconsin; Sawyer, of South Carolina; Lo- gan, of Illinois; Ames, of Mississippi; Har- lan, of Iowa, and Stevenson, of Kentucky As three members of the committee, at least, were most resolute opponents of the proposed investigation, and as none of the promoters of the inquiry are represented on it, there was some excuse for Tipton’s unparliamentary de- claration that it was a ‘'packed ticket”—a phrase which he subsequently explained as meaning that the ticket had been previously prepared. As there was nothing to be feared from the most thorough investigation, the friends of the administration would have shown more political discretion, not to say decency, in giving a place on the committee to Mr. Schurz, as Mr. Sumner’s health would prevent him from serving on it. The House spent most of yester- day’s session over the Deficiency Ap- propriation bill, on which a Ku Klux and political discussion sprung up, wherein a colored member from South Carolina (Rainey), undertook to break a lance with Sunset Cox, to the apparent discomfort, if not discom- fiture, of the white democrat. There was a good deal of interest mani- fested, also, in a bill reported from the Com- mittee on Pacific Railroads, granting to the Central Pacific Railroad Company the use of one-half of the island of Yerbe Buena, in the bay of San Francisco, now owned and ocen- { pied by the government of the United States, There is likely to be a lively discussion over that bill to-day, as it opens np the whole ques- tion of railroad subsidies, on which there is a good deal of feeling in the House, as there is in the country. The House this morning is to be the scene of the grand ceremonies attendant on the re- ception of the Japanese Embassy. The mati- née will be attended by the élite of Wash- ington socie Aut Rient—The American case on those Alabama claims; for if there were anything wrong about it it would have been discovered by Mr, Sumner, Mr, Trumbull or Mr, Schurz a month ago, They are silent on the Ameri- can case because here they find they have not 8 single trump to olay against it, MARCH 6, 1872.—-TRIPLE The Legislature’ and the Erle Ring—Let the People Know Whe Are the Corrup- tionists. The bill to repeal the Erie Classification act and to provide for a new election of direc- tors of the Erie Railroad, in July mxt, under such regulations as will secure a fair vote of the bona fide stockholder$’ and an honest canvass, is before the Judiciary Com- mittee of the Senate and the Railroad Committee of the Assembly. The for- mer is composed of Senator James Wood, William B, Woodin and L, L, Lewis, repub- licans, and Senators Henry ©. Murphy and Jacob Hardenburgh, democrats; the latter, of Assemblymen White, Smyth, Whitbeck, Lewis, Burns, Greenhalgh and G. W. L. Smith, republicans, ahd Assemblymen A. Hill and Chambers, democrats. The Erie Ring and lobby have hitherto been working upon these committees, rather than upon the whole Legislature, for the reasons that it is easier and cheaper to buy a dozen votes than a hundred, and_ that 8 favorable report from a committee is sup- posed to be more than half the battle, The game has been to hold back the bill in the Senate Committee, and to suffer the Assembly Committee to report a substitute for the O’Brien bill, based upon the Husted stratagem of a simple repeal of the Classification act, with a few sham provisions sounding like re- form, but in reality framed in the interest of the Erie Ring directors, It is evident that the lobby have secured at least one of these committees. James Wood, the chairman of the Senate Ju- diciary Committee, holds the O’Brien bill in his hands and refuses to report it to the Senate. We invite the attention of the Committee of Seventy, of President Grant, who is doing his best at Washington to secure civil service reform, of Senator Conkling and of Surveyor Cornell, the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, to the spectacle that is here pre- sented to the view of the honest reformers of the State of New York. Senator James Wood, who is recognized as a representative ad- ministration, Custom House republican, has been charged with having heretofore received bribes for his votes in the State Senate, and his conduct has been under investigation by a committee of that body, of which Senator Ames is chairman. The investigation has now been closed for some time, and although the report of the committee is unac- countably held back by Senator Ames, enough is known to render it certain that Senator James Wood, while holding a seat in the State Senate, placed himself under heavy pecuniary obligations to two of the Erie Railroad direc- tors—Gould and Tweed. And this is the Senator who now sits af the head of the Judiciary Committee of the Sen- ate and smothers the bill that secks to destroy the evil power of the Erie Ring, to which he has made himself a debtor. There is nothing more disgraceful than this in the history of the Tammany frauds. When the dividends on the fraudulent vouchers against the city of New York were traced to Tweed’s ‘banking account he pleaded that they were simply payments of borrowed money—advances made by him to the city con- tractors. But he ceased to exercise his former powers and soon retired from the position be held under the municipal government. When the money of the Erie Ring was traced to the banking account of Senator James Wood he pleaded that he had only borrowed the amounts from the Ring directors. But Senator James Wood continues to disgrace the head of the Judiciary Committee of the State Senate and aids in doing the work of the Erie Ring to defeat a measure of juatice and reform, The members of both the Senate and As- sembly committees before whom the Erie bills have been considered may be certain that the smothering of those measures, or thelr mati- lation in the service of the Erie lobby, will be disgrace and ruin to the men who are impli- cated in the act. There are some honest men, no doubt, in both bodies, and we call upon them to clear themselves of the suspicion of being in the pay of the Erie lobby by explaining on the floor of the Legislature, ona question of privilege, their positions in the committees. Especially we advise Senator O'Brien to insist upon the motion he is said to be prepared to make, compelling a report from the Judiciary Committee on his bill. Let him put.such a resolution to the test of the yeas and nays and we shall know the Senators who have the money of the Erie lobby already in their pockets or secured to them in the future. There should be no further delay in the matter. The trick of the Ring is to force through the Assembly a bill in their own interest, and to send it to the Senate before any action is taken in the upper house on the O’Brien bill. This strata- gem can he defeated by such action as we now recommend to Senator O’Brien. Enough time has been lost, and every day’s procrastina- tion is in the direct interest of the Erie Ring. Let the Senate be brought to a vote at once, so that we can see where its members stand, and especially whether Senator James Wood will venture to pay the debt he owes the Erie Ring by further services in the Legislature of the State. Corn inv Eayrr.—We hear that there are some good citizens, respectable merchants, men of character and wealth in the Erie Board of Directors. Who are they? Let us hear from them. They cannot sanction and endorse the practices of Gould and Lane. They cannot approve of the reckless manner in which bribes are paid out for the most disgraceful purposes, on false vouchers, charged to “advertising” and “law” accounts. They cannot become partners in the corrup- tion of Legislatures. Who will separate the wheat from the chaff, the good men from the vultures, the saints from the sinners? Tue Maisg Town Execrions.—Although the election in the city of Portland shows a small and about equal falling off in both the republican and democratic vote, yet the general result of the recent town elections in Maine indicates that the republicans have not only held their own since last year, but in some places have changed democratic for re- publican ascendency. This result will, no doubt, be made a feature of by the republicans in the pending New Hampshire and Connecti- cut campaigns, SHEET, The Very Sharpest Cold Sunp of the Season. Yesterday, the 5th of March, 1872, will long be remembered among the people of this city and throughout our Northern States as the day of one of the most rigorously cold snaps they ever experienced, and in this city particularly from the freezing to death of a poor milkman in his wagon, At six in the morning at the Heratp office, in the open air, the thermometer marked six degrees above zero. At the upper end of the island and in the immediate country round about the mercury was down to zero; at Pough- keepsie it was three degrees below, at Troy fourteen below, at Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence, thirty-two degrees below, and at Watertown two degrees lower still, or thirty- four below zero, which is about the average at Upernavik, in Greenland, for the month of December. We have no recollection of a colder report from the highest point on the Pacific Railroad in the Rocky Mountains at any time this winter—twenty degrees below zero being most frequently the report from Sherman, Cheyenne and others of the most elevated points along said road during its late protracted snow blockades. This Greenland cold snap which came upon us on Monday night, and which was developed into the general cold of yesterday, over all the North, from the Mississippi to the seaboard, was a visitation from the immense snow fields of the Rocky Mountains and the intervening one thousand miles of snow-covered prairies and frozen rivers and lakes. Hence these cold snaps in March are nothing extraordinary. Last March, for instance, was the coldest, in fact the only cold month of last winter, the month which secured us a fair ice crop, after we had given up the season asa failure. March is the month of the vernal equinoctials, when the sun, coming back to us again, crosses the Equator and begins to make his daily circuit on our side of the line; and not till we get a few days beyond the 21st of March can we count with any certainty in New York upon the closing of the winter. On the Pacific coast they have the spring upon them now, because the prevailing winds of North America are from the West, and they bring to our Pacific coast the soft warm air from the great equatorial current of the Pacific Ocean, while to us they bring the freezing atmosphere from the snow- covered Rocky Mountains. To be sure it is not often that a milkman is frozen in his wagon while on his morning round in this city in the month of March; but still it will be remembered that a few years ago, near the middle of March, some of our firemen were nearly frozen to death on that terribly cold night of the burning of a Broadway museum. No doubt some of our photographic establish- ments have their pictures yet of the strange appearance of the shell of the building, thickly encased in ice and icicles from the freezing of the water poured upon it by the engines. In view of our summer peaches and cream, a freezing March is a good thing, for it prevents the blooming of the trees too early, and gives them so much security against. the dangers of a nipping frost; while your fruit trees— In blooming too soon may be caught by Jack Frost, = hen cherries and peaches and plums will be Change in the French Ministry. It will be seen by the telegram from Paris, published in another part of the paper, that M. Pouyer-Quertier, Minister of Finance, leaves the French Cabinet. This gentleman had given offence to his colleagues, and par- ticularly to the extreme conservatives, by the testimony he had given in the case of M. Janvier de la Motte, the ex-Prefect of the Department of Eure., The charge against M. de la Motte was misappropriating funds con- tributed for the relief of French sufferers, and the evidence given by M. Pouyer-Quertier was in favor of the accused. In this M. Pouyer- Quertier appears to have been right, if the judgment of the Court of Rouen, before which La Motte was tried, is to be accepted as just, for he was on Monday acquitted and honor- ably discharged. But there was undoubtedly @ question of politics as well as of fact in this case, and hence the excitement and the minis- terial crisis which sprung from it. After a protracted discussion in the Cabinet over the conduct of M. Pouyer-Quertier this gentle- man solved the difficulty by presenting his resignation to President Thiers. It is re- ported that Casimir Perier, the Minister of the Interior, will probably be appointed to the place vacated by Pouyer-Quertier. As the financial policy of the government seems not to have been involved in this ministerial trouble we suppose there will be no change io consequence of the appointment of another Finance Minister. Missouri Bond Frauds. A Missouri bond fraud story comes to us from Cass county in that State. Some fifteen years ago, it appears, the good people of this county thought they would help the Missouri Pacific Railroad to the extent of $100,000, for which they issued ten per cent bonds; but, believing that the company had not kept its engagements, only $5,000 of them were delivered, the remainder being returned to the county safe. By the fortune of war they fell into the hands of the unsophisticated General Schofield, who, believing they be- longed to the railroad company, presented the bonds to them. The company now claimed the full amount of the bonds, with accrued in- terest for fourteen years, and were indignantly denied by the citizens. It seems, however, that the railroad company’s claim wae declared valid, and new bonds at eight per cent were issued for the amount of $229,000. Some of the County Court officials, it is now alleged, formed a “ring” on crude principles, rushed the bonds through, carried them off, and sought to dispose of them. It was bunglingly done, for some of the parties soon after found their way into jail. Missouri is evidently get- ing on, and need not be discouraged at this clumsy failure. Why didn’t they think of a Syndicate, or consult with Mr, R. B. Connolly, our ex-Comptroller? Serrine 17 RatoER Hien.—The New Haven Palladium (republican) thinks that ‘over twelve hundred millions reduction of the national debt in February is not a bad record for the republican party.” We should think not, At this rate the entire national debt will be swept off before the Repnblican National Convention meets in June next, and leave an enatmoug surplug in the Treasury besides. F him to be a fit person to occupy a seat in the Legislature of the State, and to the people, if he had been proved guilty of any act unbecoming the position he occupies. It was especially desirable that no delay should occur in the publication of the testimony and of the conclusions of the committee, since Senator James Wood now occupies the im- portant position of Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, before which must come the most important measures of the session. The report has not yet been made, and Senator Ames, the Chairman of the Investigat- ing Committee, is alleged to be sick, and is at all events absent from the State capital. This is given as a reason for withholding the re- port, but it affords no sufficient explanation: of the delay. Senator Ames can as easily and as properly make his report through one of his associates on the ' committee as in person, We call upon him to do so at once, or he will rest under the sus- picion of keeping it back from unworthy mo~ tives. The report is freely circulated that Senator James Wood, while a Senator of the State, did actually receive large sums of money of Gould and Tweed—his explanation being that the amounts were borrowed of those’ persons, and were not bribes paid to him for his votes. Should this rumor prove correct there will be but one opinion as to the course that should be pursued by the Senate. Senator James Wood should no longer occupy the position of chairman of a committee before which bills affecting the in- terests of the Erie Ring, whose debtor he is,, are considered, There will be those who will insist that he should not occupy a seat in the Senate Chamber of the State. Let Senator Ames make his report at once, in justice to the suspected Senator and to the people. Our Arpany Reports state that Assembly=. men G. W. L. Smith, of Washington county, and William Lewis, Jr., of Delaware, intend to cast off the trammels of the Erie Ring and vote. in the cause of honesty, justice and the people. ; Let them do so, and they will win ‘golden. opinions from all sorts of men,” which will prove more valuable to them than the gold of the Erie lobby. Tae Lasor Rerorm Tioker IN CALIFOR+ NiA.—The Sacramento Reporter (democratic) hoists the Davis and Parker, or labor reform, flag; but says, if the Democratic National Convention shall present a straight-out ticket it will strike its labor reform colors and battle under the old democratic standard. That “possum” is beginning to show its head, : ASSEMBLYMEN Wuire, of Kings ; /Whitbeck, of New York, and Greenbalgh, of Schenec- tady, are said to be honest reformers, in favor of a thorough uprooting of the Erie Ring. They are not candidates for the HenaLp Black, List. The people will honor them as true té their reform pledges. Ir 1s Statep in a Cincinnati paper that of the delegates selected to represent Covington, Ky., in the Republican State Convention, there is but one Grant man. This indicates that all the palaver about the undue influence exercised by the father of the President—for Covington is his home—in local politics is idle and groundle: Personal Intelligence. Judge Howlett, of Syracuse, is domiciled at tne Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Caldwell, of Wisconsin, 1s among the late arrivals at Earle’s Hotel. Senator William Windom, of Minnesota, 1s 80- Journing at the Brevoort House, General H. L. Robinson, of Binghamton, has quar- ters at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Senator Stanford, of Schenectady, yesterday arrived at the Astor Bouse. General Merritt, of Potsdam, is a guest of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senator W. H. Russeli, of Kansas City, sojourning at the Hoffman House. Ex-Congressman Kingsbury, of Philadelphia, 1s stopping at the St. Denis Hotel. Colonel Jonn D. Whitford, of North Carolina, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Woodbury, of Alabama, is at the New York Hotel. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, 1s at the Astor House, Judge Putnam, of New Hampshire, yesterday ate rived at Earle’s Hotel. Senator William B, Allison, of fowa, 1s a sojourner at the Brevoort Honse. Generat J. C. Robinson, of Binghamton, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. General Clinton B, Fisk, of St, Louls, ts domiciled ‘at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Commander E, E. Preble, of the United States Navy, 1s stopping at the St. Dents Hotel. William H. Seward, Jr., of Auburn, 1s sojourning at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General John Marshall Brown, of Maine, is quar- tered at the New York Hotel, Colonel James W. Singleton, of Litmois, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Emory Upton, of the United States Army, is atthe Glenham Hotel. The General is the com- mandant at the West Toint Academy, and the au- thor cf the system of tactics now In general use in the regular army and by the mila of the country. Rear Admiral E. ©, Inglefleld, of the British navy, isattne Westmoreland House. The Admiral has for along time been out of active service, and is now Navai Attache of the British Legation at Wash- ington, KINGS COUNTY POLITICS. Democratic General Committee. ‘The Democratic General Committee met last nigirt court and Kem- at their rooms, corner of gon streets, Mr. Robert McCoy m the chair, After the roll had been called Mr Williag B. Lewis arose and sald:—Since our last meeting, Mr. Chairman, we have Jearned with nd regret that the companion of the life of Be OwOrthy Chairman fas been called from our midst, Whte It may not be proper for us to offer! any resolutions, f weald move that out of respect to our Chairman unis commitvee do uow adjourn for two weeks. Tne motion tvas carried and the meeting ad- Journed, i The Republican General Committee, ‘The Republican General Committee met last night at their rooms in Commonwealth Hall, Mr. 8 B Dutcher presiding. The majority and minority ree ports of the committee appointed to investigate the charges against Jacov Worth and Hd. ward Terrier, of conduct unbecoming mem- vers of the committee, in having been found guilty by the Court of violating the Election laws, were submitted, Mr, McLane contended that the members should be expelled, while Mr, Cook argued that the committee had no right to put taem out, A vote upon the question being taken, resulted im the adoption of the minority roport, allowing them to retain thelr seats,