The New York Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1872, Page 5

NEW ORLEANS “Meeting of Capitalists and Prop- erty Owners and a Dele- gation to Washington. Further Action of the United States District Court.. ‘Tho Popular Excitement Seething Like a Volcano Fire. ‘A QUIET SUNDAY IN THE CRESCENT CITY. *Warmoth Legislators in Caucus Preparing for the Dreaded Issue—Fears of Violence and ‘Tumult—The Local Press on the Situation. New OrvEANS, Deo. 8, 1872, “Phis evening prominent capitalists and property held a largely attended mecting, at which dt was resotved that a detegation of representative Smen of the city be at once despatched to Wash- Jogton to represent the exact status of this com- guunity to the government. The committee was Puthorized to pledge THE FEALTY AND SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE to the President in any measure it may be the ‘policy of the government to acopt, and merely ask je bo relieved of self-constituted agenta who claim ad represent the general government, THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT ‘to-day issued a writ of certiorari in the cases of the notions granted yesterday by the Eighth Dis- let Court against the Custom House Returning Board. + The day has been @ remarkably quict one, Avith but few people ou the streets, The War- oth legislative representatives met in caucus ‘tnig morning. All parties are very reticent th regard to future intentions, The radical aders affect to be in fear of personal violence, ut, BO far as your reporter can judge, without the lightest cause. Judge Durell's house was guarded last might by a posse of marshals. Scoretary of State Bovee was BSGORTED HOME BY A SQUAD OF SOLDIERS, Packard's house was also reported garrisoned and Follogs entrenched at the St. Louis Hotel. None Mf these gentlemen move out without a strong rd of marshals, and the most sensational Btories of conjured-up fears are constantly circu- Jating among them. The opinions of the papers, xpressed this morning, vary with their dis- Inotive political complexions. The two repub- cans ate not only jubilant but indulge in much fidloule al the expense of the people, evidently Tutt yA DESIRE TO PROVOKE OVRRT REAISTANCE. ‘The Picayune handles the affair with velvet @ioves, but condemns Durell’s action. The Bee #5 much more outspoken and decided to the same wfect. The Times is bitterly denunciatory of Purelt @nd the radicals. It calls him “the pliant tool and instrument of the corrupt and unprinei- pled ring of partisan tricksters,” and says “we worvéntly hope he will be constitutionally - ‘= SIBBETED BEFORE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE i vs watho object oftheir eternal scorn and detestation. Noman go recreant to his true duty as a judge and had false to freedom can retain in the slightest degree the respect and confidence of a liberty loving peo- ple.” The same paper also contains a dignified yes ‘pointed letter from De Ponte, one of the enjoined Returning Board, addressed to Senator Kellogg, whom he openly charges with being wilfully guilty ot falachood and perjury. As might be expected, hese press utterances have not tended to allay the constantly increasing excitement, which seethes ike volcanic fires, ‘Whe Issue To Be Precipii.ted To-Day— Intense Anxiety in the City. New ORvgEAnNS, La., Dec. 8, 1872, ‘The committee of the fusion Legislature 1s yet ‘in session, and expect to remain so far into the Might. They have not determined precisely upon what course to be pursued to-morrow. The policy -of Warmoth in revoking his call tor assembling the ‘Legtelature is now under discussion, If this is not -done the Legislature will probably convene at a very early hour in the morning so as to get the start of the Kellogg party. The Kellogg Legisla- rtnre have agreed to meet at noon at the Mechanics’ Instituto, Their first action will be the appoint- “ment of A STRONG BODY OF SERGEANTS-AT-ARMS, “who will proceed to arrest and bring in as guilty - ofan overt act of contempt all absent members, numbers of whom are in the other Legislature, ‘This will precipitate the issue. They are confident -ofsettling the whole affair to-morrow. The War- ‘moth men gay that they intend to exhaust every lawfal and constitutional power of resistance to -arbitrary power, but that in no event will they «De gulity of or countenance any violence. Intense anxiety exists throughout the city with sregard to the events to-morrow, but otherwise everything is quiet. THE SITCATION AT MIDNIGHT, ‘The city is comparatively quiet. The restraining order granted yesterday by Judge Durell, plac- ing the whole matter of organizing the Legislature in the hands of the Custom ‘House party, is the general topic of con- wwersation. Even republicans express astonish- ment at its sweeping character. As the matter mow stands the Custom House party have won the fight. They have thus far been supported by the Federal Court in every demand. THE TWO LEGISLATURES : ate expected to meet to-morrow, The impeach- sment of Governor Warmoth by the Custom House Legislature and the deposition of the Governor's j sLegtalatare by United States troops seems to be the . brogramme, The Warmoth contempt case comes up in the vFederai Court to-morrow. To-morrow's Republican will contain full returns ~@f the November election as canvassed by the Custom House Returning Board, showing Grant's majority in the State to be 14,624, Kellogg's ma- jority.18,861, and the election of the entire repub- lican State ticket. The Legislature stands:— 73 republicans, 33 fusionists; the Senate, 27 re- publicans, 6 fusionists. The Custom House mem- vers of the Legislature to-day, in caucus, decided to take STRONG MRASTRES against their opponents. All the members re- turned by the Custom House Board who do not take their seats, but act with the other body, will pe diamiased, and if the Governor refuses to recog- _nizo buem articles of Lmpeachment will follow, MEXICO. President Gerdo Proclaimed in Formal Official Control of the Constitu- tional Government, Digtomatie Baty and Citison Fealty—Porfirio Diaz's Presence in the Capital—Soientifio Exploration in a Congenial Field—Tele- @raphs, Railroads and Const Lights. Crry oF Mexico, via HAVANA, Dec. 1, 1872. His Excellency Lerdo de Tejada was declared elected President on the 16th November, and on the 18th a decree to that effect was published, whon the Diptomatic Corps visited him in an un. omicial capacity, ‘To-day the new President took formal possession of his office, and to-morrow the Diplomatic Corps will make an oficial visit, Preparations are making for a series of feativi- tles in honor of the election of President Lerdo, MINISTERIAL RECONSTRUCTION, Several changes in the Cabinet will be made im- medtately aiter the adjournment. of. Congress, which will take place on the 16th inats PRESIDENCY OF THE SUPREME COURT: An-election for Fresiident of the Supreme Court has been ordered for the second and fourth Sun- days of February. Generals Anza, Iglesias and Riva-Palactos are candidates, CHARGES OF CORPORATE COMPLIOITY IN ELEOTION FRAUDS, The Mayor and several Aldermen of the city of Mexico, who are charged with an attempt to com- mit fraud at the recent muntetpal election, have been suspended by order of the Governor from their functions, PORFIRIO DIAZ AND THE PRESIDENT. Porfirio Diaz arrived in the capital on the 17th utt., and had a satisfactory interview with the President. His presence in the city caused no excitement, PROMINENT PERSONALS, Matias Romero has returned from Guatemala, He now devotes himself to agricultural pursuits, Generals Guerra, Barrego, Jiminez and Ortega are expected in the capital soon, NATURE IN REVOLUTIONIST UPHEAVING, A number of shocks of earthquake were felt in Ucares, Lower Michoacan, A new volcano was forming and the ernptions wore frequent, Several scientific gentlemen have gone to the place. ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION WITH THE LAND OF MORSB. Telegraphic communication between the city of Mextco and the United States has been re-estab- lished, and the members of the Associated Press of the capital will meet to-morrow and celebrate the event, and at the same time honor the memory of Professor Morse. AMERICAN ENTERPRISE. The General Rosecranz railroad project, as modi- fied, has passed Congress and been sent to the Exccutive for approval. LicHT, A new lighthouse -has been established at Vera Cruz. 4 WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFIOR OF THE OHIRF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasninaton, BD, C., Dec. 9—1 A. M. Synopsts Jor the Past Twenty-four Hours, The thermometer has rapidly risen in the North- west and over the Upper Lakes and Michigan and thence to Arkansas and Tennessee, with northerly winds and _ clearing and cold Weather; in the Guif and South Atlantic States southwesterly to northwesterly winds, partly cioudy and cooler weather, with higher Preggures; on the Lower Lakes and in the St. Law- Dy ape gna thence “Gvéi the Middle ana Eastern ‘tates southwesterly to northwesterly winds, cloudy weather, occasional light snow and rai, with low barometers and high temperatures Probabilities, For the Northwest and thence to Lake, Huron and southward to Arkansas and Tennessee, clear- ing weather, low temperatures, rising barometers and northwesterly winds; in the Gulf and South Atlantic States, winds shifting to northwesterly, with reduced temperatures, increased pressure and generally clear weather; ‘over the Lower Lake region aod ia Canada rising barometers, colder and cloudy but, clearing weather, with light snow; in the Middle Stutes and New England, increasing pressure, southwesterly to northwesterly winds, occasional light rain and snow, followed in the afternoon by clearing weather and lower temperatures. Warning signals con- tinue at Duluth, Milwaukee, Chicago, Grand Haven, Detrolt, Toledo, Buffalo, Cleveland, Rochester and Oswego. The Weather in This City Yesterday, ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's armacy, HERALD Building :— 872, 1871. 1872. wi “4 1871. 35 3:30 P. 38 (OP. 42 4 9 39 12M » 43 44 12P, 87 Average temperature yesterday. wocceee 40% Average temperature ior corresponding date last year. 37; OONCERT AT ST. FRANOIS XAVIER'S CHURCH, Aconcert was given last evening at the church of the Jesuit Fathers, in Sixteenth street, for the benefit of the poor ofthe parish, The church was crowded before the concert began, and the chari- table object for which it was given received ma- terlal benefit, over two thousand dollars being turned into the treasury. Dr. William Berge officiated as organist and conductor, and a large number of soloists and chorus singers assisted. The concert opened with the overture of “Gazza Ladra,” which was played in @ most brilliant man- ner by the eminent organist. Next followed the beautiful chorus from St. Paul, ‘How Lovely Are the Messengers,’ which received full justice at the hands of the choir of the church, as did also “The Hallelujah Chorus.” Mr. Lefebre played a melange of popular airs on the saxophone, an instrument rarely heard outside the orches' and he gave ct to an “Ave Verun” of nor Tamaro, Which was sung by the composer, The saxophone obligato to this cnarm- ing melody enhances it,considerably. Mr. Eben played some brilliant flute variations on the theme of Chopin’s “Marche Tanebre,” and Mr. Sachse added a trumpet solo to the other attractions of the concert. adagio of Mozart was very fincly rendered on the violin by Dr. Damrosch, MI Teresa and Mary Werneke and Signori Tamaro and Bacelli were the solo vocalists, and fully sustained the reputation attached to the choir of St. Francis Xavier's charch. It was a thoroughly en- joyable concert from beginning to end. MUSIOAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, M. Gabel has left the Almée Opéra Boutte Com- pany. His loss will be severely felt, but people who profess to know say that itis not more dim- calt to get along without him than with him, It is remarkable how the value of some singers’ services increase with success in the smaller cities. For instance, Mr. Jacob Muller, the baritone, writes from San Francisco that he will sing in concerts in this city for $400 pernight. Nothing could be More absurd than this offer except its ac- ceptance. Ajsingular society has been founded at Minden, in Wi halia; ita object is to give its members “a mm 1 faneral.”” : Some timé ago Mr. Daty offered to refund the money for tickets to a Sunday concert at the Grand Opera House because Mile. Carlotta Patti was sick and could not sing. It is ncediess to say that this generosity was not accepted by the public, but the Swiss Times declares that the audience declined to attend, and calls the supposed refusal “the wor- ship of a prima donna.” One of the bits of acting which attracts general attention as excellent of its kind is Mrs. Yeamans! representation of Five Points Sal, in “Round the | Clock.” It is nota pleasant representation, but, lke Mr, Stoddard’s Abet Murcot, in “Our Ameri- can Cousin,” it ya siogularly vivid picture of the drunkard, WASHINGTON. Startling Developments Expected from the Credit Mobilier Investigation. Senator Hamilton on the Ala- bama Muddle. Indications that the Senate Will Restore the Navy Bill to Its Original Shape. Secretary Boutwell and Wilson's Seat in the Senate—The French Spoliation Claims— Proposed Senate Alteration of the Internal Revenue Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 1872. The Investigation inte the Credit Mo- bilier Scandal will show that some Congressmen accepted for # time the enormous dividends of that concern, which they devoted to political and charitapie par- Doses, But they will attempt to show thet they weré not identified with the managemont of the affair or with the ‘egisiation which made\it so Profitable. The inquiry here now is what Con- gressmem. were permitted to take the different kinds of Pacific Railroad stock, as well as that of the Credit Mobilier, at the original par value. At- temptsjare being made to hush these investigations, butit is rumored that startling developments are to be made from an unexpected quarter. The Alabama Muddle—Intervicw with Senator Hamilton. The dual delegation of the dual Legislature of Alabama, which lately arrivea in this city, are striving, with all their main and might, to defeat one another, each being anxious to obtain the sup- port of the government. Your correspondgnt gave yesterday the result of his conversation with the republican delegates. For the sake of fair play he called this evening on Senator Hamilton, one of the three democratic delegates who represent the Capitol faction of the Legislature. Mr. Hamilton was elected from Mobile to the present State Senate of Alabama. He is a gentleman somewhat past the middle age. His countenance and bearing impress one quite favorably, having all the ap- Pearance of honesty and frankness. Senator Hamil- ton at first did not wish to discuss the dificulty, but being assured of the impartiality of the HEBALD.he entered into the following conversation with your correspondent, who began :— “Well, Senator, I have had the radical version of this muddle; now please give me yours,” Senator Hamitron—The whole contest is simply this :—The General Assembly at the Capitol is com- posed of a majority in each house of members holding certificates of election prescribed by law. In the Court House Assembly they have less than ®@ majority in each house of members holding such certificates. The only evidence that the law pre- scribes to entitie aman toaseat in the General Assombly is this certificate furnished by the Seore- tary of State on the returns made to him upon the several members. Ifany Assembly {s organized without these certificates it is organized outside | Of and in deflance of the law, and the simple ques- tion is wiether the lawAll certificates shall 69 ke- ceived as evidence till set asiae by the tribul . appointed for that purpose, or whether a parcel 1 men may get together without the evidence o| right required by law and declare themselves the Legislature, and unseat members who have the evidence which the law directa, #icre is the whole controversy. CoRRESPONDENT—What do you think about tho action of Governor Lewis in this matter ? Senator Haminton—Governor Lewis undertakes himself to judge of the rights of members to alt in the Legisiature, when the constitution that each house shall be the judge of the rigtity of its members, and the Governor is expressly forbid- den to exercise any power confided to any other branch of the government. If the right asserted by those men and attempted to be exercised by Governor Lewis be sustained, on precisely the same principle and with preciscy the same right the President of the United States could unseat as Many members of Congress as he pleased to ob- tain @ majority for himself. The Assembly at the Capitol stand upon the elementary principle of good order; the others stard upon the revolution- ary principle of organizing in defiance of law. On the part of the Assembly at the Capitol it is simply a question of principle. For the sake of harmony they have been willing to yield in things where it was possible for them to yield consist- ently with self-respect and the principle on which they have been organized, CoRRESPONDENT—EX-Governor Smith, of the re- publican delegation, says that you have offered to make & compromise on condition that you retain a majority of one in each branch of the Legislature ? Senator HamiLroN—We have made no such com- promise at all. No other compromise has been agreed to and no other proposed. Owing to the double returns in the Secretary of State's office as to the Barbour county seats the democrats have been willing that the republican members of that county should take their seatsin place of the demo- cratic members. That would give the democrats a majérity of one in the House and three in the Sen- ate, but they have offered no compromise upon any condition of their retaining a majority in either House. Their proposal to effect a settlement was based upon the assertion of the principle, while they were willing to yicld in matters of courtesy and when there could be any well-founded doubt as to the rights of their mem- bers. The gentlemen from Barbour county of the democratic party have never demanded anything but that the law in their case should be applied to them. But the Capitol Legislature will not concede any of the contested seats for Marengo county to the republicans unless it be by decision of the tri- bunal appointed for that purpose. CORRESPONDENT—Is ‘there any truth in the report circulated by the republican delegation that a democratic member had declared the Capitol Legis- lature was backed by 49,000 ex-Confederate troops in case of any conflict? Senator Hamitron—In all our proceedings we have governed ourselves strictly by the law, and all reports of our resorting to violence or seeking the aid of ex-Confederates or Ku Kluxes fs the merest fancy of excited politicians. I do not know that there have been at any time 500 Ku Kiuxes in all the State. CORRESPONDENT—EX-Governor Smith says that democrats want to secure a majority in the Legis- lature, in order to be able to disfranchise the ne- groes and the poor whites ? SENATOR HamiuToN—Oh, this is the merest non- sense. Itis not worth while to answer such an absurd assertion. CORRESPONDENT—‘‘The republican delegates say that the Capitol Legislature is already giving way, that the House has no quorum, and some of the democratic members had already gone over to the republican side. They expect that the whole Capl- tol Legislature will melt away, as it were, and give ‘up the fight. Senator HAMILTON—It is false. The Capitol Legis- lature is not giving way nor melting away. They will remain firm to the end. There has been a quoram all along, except one day, when one of the members was suddenly taken sick. In concinsion, Mr. Hamilton sata that his inter- view with Attorney General Williams was quite satisfactory to him, but he could not divulge the particulars of the conversation, The Navy Increas To Be Returned to the House=Ten War Ships To Be Insisted On, There are positive indications that the bill pro- viding for the construction of six steam vessels-of- war, which was passed in the House, will be re- turned by the Senate with an amendment author- izing the Secretary of the Navy to build ten vessels instead of six, as the bill was originally presented by the Chairman of the Naval Gommittee, The Committee on Ways and Means, and particularly one of its ablest members, Mr, Rui Roberts, ad- vocates the original proposition of constructing ten vessels in view of the condition of our navy, which is small enough and rotten enough to invite the attack of affth rate Power. Gemeral Banks said, in @ conversation this evening, that he thought the Senate will also atrike out the amend- ment added by General Garfield, which would delay the construction of these veasels for an indefinite period, as it provides that the work shall not be commenced until the plana and estimates shall have been submitted to and the appropriations passed by Congress. Seerotary Boutwell and Wilson's Shoes, Boutwell'schances tor election as the successor of Wilson in the Senate are said by Massachusetts men who come here to diminish rather than brighten, and he may consequently remain at the head of the Treasury Department. Wilsou will Not resign undil the 4th of March, which will give two months for the respective triends of Loring, Hoar and Dawes to work on the Legislature. The French Spoliatton Bill and@ the Ap« propriations. Senator Vickers is prepared to speak at length in favor of the French Spoliation Olaims bill if Mr. Cameron can get the Senate to take it up this week, Representative Hale, of Maine, is pre- pared to report the Navat Appropriation bill, which, 4 agreed upon in committee, calls for about $18,200,000, This is about $200,000 less than the Secretary of the Navy asked for. The Internal Rev: eo BIL. Leading Senators hayo expressed the opinton that the Senate will amend the Internyl Revenue bill, to the effect that all the coltectors, as well as the assessors and assistant assessors, shall be dis- charged when the old law expires, and that the vacant collectorships under the new act shall be filled by selection from both the former collectors and assessors in order that there should be no un. just discrimination, and the men of merit of the latter class should have a chance of reappoint- ment. An amendment to this effect was presented in the House by Mr. Leonard Myers, but defeated, Diplomatic and Society Jottings. The Marquis de Noatilles, the new French Mints- ter, expects to occupy his new house, or rather connected houses, on K street, about Christmas when he will commence a series of dinner parties and dancing receptions, Spcaker Blaine gave a dinner party last night in honor of Minister Wash- burne, who left to-night for Maine, to visit his relatives prior to hia return to Paris, Jefferson School—The School System of Japan. At the dedication of the new Jefferson school yes- terday the principal address was delivered by the Hon. B. G. Northrop, Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, on a comparison of European and American schools, He strongly condemned the prevalent fashion ‘of sending the boys of this country to foreign schools, Professor Tyndall fol- lowed, cordially approving of Mr. Northrop’s war- ring against that practice. Mr. Mort, the Ja- panese Minister, said he nad just received the de- tails of the new educational system of Japan, which embraces the organization of eight colleges, 256 high schools and over fifty-three thousand public Schools, at which the attendance is to be compul- sory for all children above six years ofage. The Jefferson is one of the tnest schoolhouses in the country, Efforts to Save a Murderer from the Gal- lows. Strong efforts are being made in behalf of Charles Johnson, colored, who ts sentenced to be hung on | Tuesday next for the murder of his wife, his 4 friends desiring his sentence tobe commuted to imprisonment for life. Clayton and His Sympathizers. Strangers who visit the Senate Chamber and ask the name Of a tall, soldier-like man, with an empty sleeve, are told that it ts Seuator and ex-Governor Clayton, of Arkansas, and they then ask if he served in the late war, and when told that be rose from the rank of captain to that of brigadier gen- eral they mentally sympathize with him on the Joss of his arm, and wonder what battle he was wounded in. Now, he wasin the war, and he did fight bravely on several occasions, but he lost his arm after peace had been declared by the acci- “dental discliarge of his gun witile he was shooting ducks. Just now he is the head of the administra. tion republicans in Arkansas, while his colleague, B. F. Rice, who also served in the Union army as captain, was switched off at Cincinnati from the republican track. Of course they are to use the Senate as a ring for their verbal set-to's, and Friday they had several rounds on a resolution, in- troduced by Rice, calling upon the President for the reasons which made him order troops to Arkansas. Aiter some hard raps on both sides Edmunds stepped between them and referred the resolution to the Committee on Military Affairs, which was a decent way of killing it dead, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Movements of the American Fleet in the Chinese Waters. By special correspondence from China, dated at Shanghai on the 26th of October, we have tie following interesting report of the movements of the American fleet in the waters.of China:—The United States Navy is just now well represented in Shanghai. The Co'orado flagship came down from Cheefoo, the Monocacy from Chewang and the base of the gest wall of Mortge the Palos from Tient-sin, the Iroquois from Hong Kong, the Alaska irom Corea, and the Lackawanna from Nangasaki, Japan. The vessels met at the Woosung anchorage, twelve miles below Shanghai. They met down there because the Colorado can never approach ony, nearer—she is too big for any but Japan waters. The above-named vessels stayed here for a week, exchanged salutations and cul- tivated friendships with the American, English and French residents, not to say the 700,000 Chinese residents of the city. The Alaska started for New York on the 25th Oc- tober via Hong Kong, Singapore and Cape of Good Hope. She left amid rousing cheers from all the sailors of the feet, much burning of powder and the playing of the bands. The Chinese navy joined in the Jestivities and sent her two Mandarins, com- manders of two gunboats, on board, The Iroquois, Commander Adams, and the Palos, Lieutenant Commander Roland, would remain at Shanghue until Spring. The Colorado and Lackawanna were to leave Singapore December 1—the former for New York and the latter as flagship for Penang, Calcutta, Madras, Point De Galle and Bombay. The Ashuelot was at Tientsin, Naval Orders. Assistant Paymaster W. W. Barry has been de- tached from the navy yard at New York and placed on waiting orders. ARMY INTELLIGENCE. Colonel J. H. Simpson has been ordered to trans- fer his present duties and works temporarily to Cuptain A. M. Damrell and to proceed to St. Louis and relieve Lieutenant Colonel F, Raynolds of the works and duties in his charge. Lieutenant Col- onel Raynolds, upon being relieved, will proceed to Mobile, Ala, id relieve Captain Damrell of tho works turned over to him by Volonel Simpson. NATIONAL PRISON REFORM, From a ciroular now before us over the signature of “Dr, E. C. Wines” we learn that the National Prison Association of the United States will hold its second annual meeting at Baltimore on tne Zist of next month. She session promises to be an interesting one. Horatie Seymour will deliver the opening address, and Dr, Wines intends to give afull account of the International Peniten- tiary Congresa held in London during the present year. Dr. Wines claims that the latter will prove one of the most useful international gatherings the world has ever seen. The several standing committees on criminal law reform, prison discipline, care. of discharged secre juvenile delinquency, &c., will also hand In their reports, The at ieature of the Con- gress at Baltimore will be the special reports on preventive, reformatory and penal institutions und work of the different States. After earnestly requesting co-operation and savicg. from all parts of the country Dr. Wines says:—‘When the work of the National Association is fully organized we want not only @ prison discipline and @ juvenile reformatory department, but also @ criminal law réform department and a police department; for our aim embraces everything which has to do with the prevention and repression of crime. It is our convicti earnest, energetic and, ion, a telling tinpression ie on the criminal ranks.” FIRE IN MIDDLETOWN. MIppLeTowN, Pa., Dec. 8, 1872, A fire here this morning, at one o'clock, de- stroyed a boarding house, liquor store and cigar store, near the railroad depot. Thero was no in- surance on the real estate, but a small insurance ou the Lauor, The Loss 1s catimatga at #12 400, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1872—WiITH SUPPLEMENT: ep, ‘THE EXPRESS BURNED ou at Bac Destruction of the Edhrial, Com- Posing and Press — 5 LARGE PITRE IW ST. LOUTS, Extraordinary Efforts of the Firemen—& Terrible Conflagration Prevented. Sr. Louis, Dec. 6, 1672. The furniture warerooms of J. F. Comstock & Co., Nos. 409 and 411 North Third street, were totally destroyed by fire this morning. Loss on stock, $75,000. Insurance, $42,500, of which the Royal, of London, People's, of New Jersey, Liverpool, Excitement in the Newspaper Officos toa Park London and Globe each lost $5,000, and the Bow—Tho Loss $40,000—Reminis™ ~. cexces of the Paper, At forty-Ave minutes past ten o'clock last night *_ a fre broke out at 13 Park row, m the building oc- cupied by the Avening Brpress, The fire origi- nated on the fourth floor, near the top of the stairs, and before it was extinguished the edi- torial, reportorial and composing rooms were com- pletely gutted. Five minutes after the alarm was sounded a stream of water was playing upon the building, and the fremen, under the command of Assistant Engineer Monroe, actively at work. A large police force, under the command of Captain Caffrey, of the Second precinct, were upon the ground, and a line was formed en- closing the entire block, The fire, which at first Was supposed to be @ slight one, rapidly gained a headway, And at ten minutes past eleven flames, accompanied by dense masses of smoke, were bursting from the windows of the fourte door, A BECOND ALARM was then sounded; but, notwithstanding the offorts of @ large number of firemen, the continued to. spread. The ground floor, which is occupied by Bundt & O'Donnell as an oyster, liquor and billiard saloon, was deluged with water, and everything the saloon contained was irretrievably ruined, From the fourth floor the fire extended to the fifth, and penetrated through the roof. The building was an old and frail one, and offered but little resistance to the flames, which looked at one time as if they would spread to the adjoming building, Freese’s Hotel. The wall separating the hotel from the xpress office is a very frail one, and the agenta at the former place were at the first seriously alarmed for their safety. Inless than half an hour after the fire broke out the fourth floor, in which were the ofices of James and Erastus Brooks and the rooms of the dramatic and art reporters, and of some of the editors, WERE TOTALLY RUINED. ‘The library of Mr. Brooks was one of the first tn the country, containing many rare and valuable books, In statistical works it was particularly rich, and the loss to its owner—who isa man of well known literary tastes—is very severe, The li- brary was situated between the rooms. of the two brothers, and from its situation it could not be saved. ‘The com} sing roo! on the fourth floor, withstood the fire for some time, but they had to succumb, and a large quantity of type was de- stroyed. Inthe corner of the building adjoining the hotel was an elevator, used for lowering the type when set up, and through this the fire burned fi ereely cleat up to the roof, The peculiar position of the building rendered the work of the firemen extremely dificult, a3 the water, to be serviccavlo, had to be brought to bear from THK INSIDE OF THE BUILDING, The second, third and part of the fourth floors were occupicd by W. H. Gelderslee, paper dealer and printer. The rooms: were formerly known ag O'Brien & Go's “Our House” Ale Vaults. The damage caused by water on these floors wag very great, a8 a constant stream was kept up for moro han an hour. At half-past eleven, when the fire- men found their efforts to extingulah the fire from inside of the building futile, the exten- sion .ladders were brought into requisition and two or three streams brought to bear upon the building from the outside, which had the effect of ch the flames tn the direction of the hotel. When the fire wag almost subdued In the front part of the building it sud- denly burst out im the rear, and. % SHOWERS OF SPARKS tagued from the rear walis, extending to the rear of an establishment on Ann street. In about twenty minutes this fresh outbreak was oxtin- guished, and by half-past twelve o'clock the flames were ‘completely under control, and the reater part of the firemen were taken off, Gencrat Shater arrived a little after twelve o'clock and took charge of the proceedings. A dense crowd assembled in ie Btreet, which patiently waited until the excitement was completely over. The night clerk at tho hotel awoke the guests, and fora time there was great consternation, but everybody quietly returned to bed when the danger had passed. The Express building has been FREQUENTLY CONDEMNED as a regular trap, and the wonder ts that it has not long since disappeared. ‘Tne losses, a8 hear as can be ascertained, are as follows :—The loss of the proprietors of the billiard and oyster saloon, $3,000; moinsurance, H. L. Gilderslee, $10,000; Insurance could not be ascer- tained. Loss ‘of James Brooks, $40,000. ‘The in- surance of Mr. Brooks could not be ascertained last night, cout Reminiscences of the Express. The Erpress is one of the oldest papers tn the city. In 1836 it was founded by Mr. James Brooks, who has ever continued its chief editor and pro- prietor. Eighteen or twenty years ago it was the champlton of the American or Know Nothing party ofthis State, and as such had many a tilt with the late Archbishop Hughes, of the dlocese of New York, who defended the rights of naturalized citizens to place and power in the nation as stoutly in his own paperas the Express contended that Americans only should fill the offices, In the proprictorship of the paper Mr. Erastus Brooks be- came a partner soon after tts establishment. The two brothers are natives of Portland, Me. Mr. James Brooks i8 a graduate of Westerville College, and betore he came to this city to reside had been elected to the Legislature of his native Stato. New York has, since then, repeatedly honored him with a seat in the halls of Congress as well as in hor State Legislature. Mr. Erastus Brooks studied in Brown University, but did not graduate. His jour- nalistic talents were, however, saficiently a; nt revious to 1836 to give him the editorship of the javerhill Gazette, which he left in 1836 to unite with hig brother in the conduct-or the He became a Washington correspondent for several New England and Ney York journals at the same time and attracted such attention as to give him a seat in the State Senate in 1863, Both brothers have travelled in Europe and on this Continent. The facilities for gathering news in those uot very distant times were very mach less than they are to-day. News of three or four months old from Europe was relished in # way that we hardly relish our daily sunny, of news to-day. And this lack of facilities and the great cost of gathering the news and presenting it iresh from day to day, led the Express, Sun, Journal af Commeree and other papers to combine in what is now so well known as the Associated Press, 80 that the burden of ex- pense might be divided, In 1858 or thereabout the Express moved into the quarters which it has occupied until to-day. Its building stands on a site which would seem to be a favorite with the fire fend. For, in 1821, the old Park Theatre, which stood there, was burned out; and after it had been rebuilt and was in suc- cessful operation, again in 1843, it was re- bed and fh ay the ae have ae licked uj @ an aper and e valuable Tirary witeh the ‘editors had in their department. Soon after the breaking out of the late war Mr. James Brooks took a decided stand in his paper in favor of the South, which so enraged the loyalists of the city that they iieneres arouad his office and threatened to “gut” the place unless he flung the Stars and Stripes to the breeze. Tho policy of the paper, too, at that time and subsequently involved it & lawsuit with Mr. Stephen T. Clark, its financial editor, who owned an interest in it, and who saw that money was being lost every year by adherence to the “Jost cause” and who sought thereby through the courts to prevent the ruinouspolicy. ‘The suit con- tinued over three or four years, from 1863 to 1867. Mr. Clark retired from it, and the Express has been run ever since by the Messrs. Brooks as a thor- oughly democratic journal. And as such its tem- porary loss will be felt. PIBE IN DEY STREET. The upper floor of Messrs, Myors & Underhill, flour merchants, 78 Dey street, took fire last night during the progress of the Park row fire. [t was speedil, Ue eta the amount of damage uot exceeding $: BUBSED TO DEATH. Horribte Doath of Mrs. Catherine Barns— Seorched to Death in a Sea of Ignited Kerosene Ol}. At about half-past ten o'clock on Saturday night @ fire was discovered in the house of Mrs. Catherine Burns, at Rockville Centre, L. I, Mr. Stiner, a resident of the town, broke into the lady's apart- ments to extinguish the fames, When he had forced the door @ heart-sickening and terrible sight met his gaze. There, on the floor, lay Mra. Burns, enveloped tn a mantic of fame and a broken Kerosene lamp in one of her hands. He aocceeded in extinguishing the fire, but notin time to save the woman's Iiie. an inquest was held yesterday morning, at which it was learned that the woman was subject to fits, and the general opinion ts that she fellina fit while she had the lyghted lamp in ler band, and was thas burned to death. The jury rendered a verdict ih ACCONAARCE Wily (Ug fACly BbOVE stated. flames }, Watchman's bat. On the Atalay was found ac batance tm home companies, The buildings were owned by J, 0. Nulsen and valued at $25,000, Insured in the Gicnn’s Falls, of New York, for $4,000; Hibernt, of Cleveiand, for $2,000; Mutual Fire, of New York, for $3,000, and $13,000 in St, Loals companies. The tobacco factory of Hammer 4& Hosman, tho liqror store of Nulsen, Freeman & \Co., aid the olland Consesuo Galvanized trom Works, adjointhg were’ damaged by fire and water to the amount Of several thousaad dollors, The fire engines, al ug? hauled by men, were Promptly on the spot; but it was only ‘by tho Sa treoe iimary exertions of the firemen that one f the most digas milage: t) IT trous couflagratioss Was pres INCENDIABIES IN BOSTON. An Attempt to Burn the Heward TPicatre Frustrated, Bostow, Dec. 6, 1672, On Saturday might, ag @ private watchman at the Howard Theatre was going his romds, ho came upon two men supposed to be incendiaries and ordered them off, They refused t6 go and he used his club upon one of them, when the other drew w pistot and fired, the batt penetrating the rim of the of burning Quid, with which, t6 intended to fire the building, made, apposed, the ‘arrosta were FIRE IN HARTFORD. A Woollen Mill Destroyed—Loas $60,000. Harrrorp, Conn,, Dec. 8, 1672. Thd woollen mili of Mr. U. Reynolds, of Wintsor, was burned at about stx o'clock this evening, The main building, together with all the machinery anda portion of the stock, was consumed. The total loss is catimated at $60,000. TT re was an Insurance of $40,009 on the building and machine: and $12,600 on the stock. INOENDIARISM IN NEWARK. Early yesterday morning, between midnight an@ ono o'clock, the grocery store of Jacob Koch, cor- ner of Jackson street and South Market, Newark, was entered by burglars and robbed. The mis- creants, in leaving, tried to set fire to the store, They turned on the faucet of the kerosene cask, and threw an ignited box of matches into the mid- die of the Guid. Marvellous to state, the Nuid failed to ignite. Yesterday, on suspicion of being implicated, a notorious character, named John, allag ‘“Plug’’ Riley, was arrested and is held, Died. 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