The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1872, Page 6

8 NEW YORK HERALD .| ROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXVII..... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON ANB EVENING. HEATRE, Broadway, between Houston er tice Pirit Pause. Matinee Bt 2 Fourteenth street, near Third GERMANIA THEATRE, av.—Der VERLORENE SOK BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Mazerra—Frencn Srr ow Horsepack. , corner Thirticth st.— ' wooD's MUSEUM, Broadw pn dud Evening. Bases ix tux Woop, A ' GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Rounp tHe Croce, Mutinee at 1g. ’8 GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and eee AERTS AnD LOTON’ Matanee at 136. between ‘UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway betwe Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. —AGNxs, \ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street — Bou StRoKK YOR 4 Huswann.’ Matinee at 134. WALLACK'S THEAT! etreet.—Buorurr Sai THEATRE COMIQUK, 51 LivinGsTONE AND STANLEY. ,. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twe: svenue.—Tax Litty oF France. hey rg and Thirteenth R Matinee at 13s. Broadway.—Arnica: on, nee at 234. hird street, corner Sixth Matinee at 2, \_ MRS. F._B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATRE.— ‘Mipwigut Warou—Dox Casan pz Bazax, Matinee. Twenty-third st.. corner BRYANTS OPERA HOU! ‘Matinee, th av.—Naano Minstarisy, Eccunteiciry, &¢. ( ee : AT@ENEUM, No. 58 Broadway.—Srienpip Variety or Novuuries. Matinee at 2). 1 ( CANTERBURY VARIETY THEATRE, Broadway, be- tween Bleecker and Houston.—Vanizty ENTERTAINMENT. , \ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Guanp Vaniery Enrentainmxnt, &c. Matinee at 245. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Eruioriax Minstux.sy, £C. | BARNUM’S MUSEUM, MENAGERIE AND CIRCUS,— ‘Fourteenth street, near Broadway.—Day and Evening. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Gaanp Com cert. \. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— \Sciswom anv Arr. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New Yerk, Saturday, Dec. %1, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. *Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE CREDIT MOBILIER SCANDAL AND THE ACCUSED CONGRESSMEN! 1S THE INVES- TIGATION TO BE A FARCE?’—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXTH PAGE. FRIGHTFUL DISASTERS IN EUROPE! ENGLAND SWEPT BY A TERRIBLE STORM! THE TRENT AND THAMES OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS! ENTIRE TOWNS AND LARGE SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY FLOODED! HEAVY LAND SLIDES! PARIS BRIDGES ENDANGERED! HURRICANE 1N NAPLES !—SEVENTH PAGE. }DROWNED AT SEA! 449 LIVES LOST BY MA. RINE DISASTERS DURING TEN DAYS— NEWS FROM INDIA AND CUBA~PERSONAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. ADB NEW ORLEANS TIMES SEIZED BY UNITED STATES MARSHAL PACKARD! THE CITIZENS' COMMITTEE 1N WASHINGTON: REVIEWING JUDGE DURELL’S ACTION: JUDGE CAMPBELL TO PREPARE AN AD- DRESS TO THE NATION—THIRD Pace. BY CABLE FROM EUROPE! AN ERIE EXCITE- MENT IN LONDON: VICTOR EMMANUEL ILL: THE FRENCH COMMITTEE OF THIRTY: THE SPANISH CABINET REORGANIZED— SEVENTH PAGE. XOAVATING BURIED TROY! DR. SCHLIEMANN’S: OPERATIONS: TROJAN HISTORY: THE WONDERS AND SITE OF THE FAMOUS CITY: THE GREAT ARION SYMBOL: THE CROSS: A THEORY EXPLODED—Fovurtn Pags. A MAP OF THE EXPLORATIONS AT ANCIENT TROY! THE RESULTS OF THE RE- @®EARCHES OF DR. HENRY SCH LIEMANN— Fourtn Pace. WA REPUBLICAN ALLIANCE IN FAVOR OF CUBA! ' SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS COMBINING AGAINST SPANISH MISRULE—THE AMUSE- MENT FEATURES—Tentu Pace. PNEWS FROM WASHINGTON—PEEPS WI1HIN THE STUDIOS: WHAT OUR ARTISTS ARE ABOUT—THIRD FAGR. JAY GOULD’S SURRENDER TO ERIE! SIX MIL- LIONS TRANSFERRED—BURNING OF THE ANDREW FLETCHER—MARINE NEWS— TENTH PAGE. ‘CREDIT MOBILLER STOCKHOLDERS! TRE DIvI- DENDS AND ALLOTMENTS TO REPRE- SENTATIVES, EX-REPRESENTATIVES AND EX-SENATORS: AN OFFICIAL EXHIBIT— Firtn PacE. ‘THE POISONING OF EDWARD 0. ANDERSON! ‘ ARSENIO TO POISON CATS: THE RELA- TIONS BETWEEN DR. IRISH AND MRS, ANDERSON—AFTER THE SNOW—ELEvENTH Page. TUE MONEY MARKET WEAKENING THROUGH FEAR OF THE USURY LAWS AND (uN- GRESS! ERIE EXCITED AND HIGHEK: PACIFIC MAIL: DECLINE IN GOLD—THE ERIE EXCITEMENT—Ninta Page. PROCEEDINGS IN THE LEGAL TRIBUNALS! THE STOKES AND JUMEL CASES: MATRIMO- NIAL INFELICITIES: DUTCH HEINRICH GRANTED A NEW TRIAL—ELEVENTH PaGE. \AUSTRALIAN IRON-CLAD TRIALS—TwsirTu Pack. ‘MOMUS, THESPIS AND THE DUELLO! A PRAC- TICAL JOKE THAT WAS NOT ONE TO THE PERPETRATORS: PISTOLS AND BOWIE KNIVES USED AT A BANQUET—ErcaTu PaGE. AMERICAN INDUSTRY AT THE VIENNA EXII- BITION! AN INSUFFICIENT APPROPRI- ATION—RAILROADS CONSOLIDATED—THE MUNICIPAL BOARDS—E1cure Pace. ‘WHY OUR DOCKS ARE NOT PUSHED TO COM- PLETION! PINCHING ECONOMY OF THE CGMPTROLLER: GENERAL McCLELLAN'S VIEWS—FIFTH PaGE. JOHN MITCREL’S LECTURE ON FROUDE—LIT- } ERARY GOSSIP—ST. THOMAS’ DAY—HIP- POGRAPHS—Firtn Pace. Toe En Serriemenr wirn Jay Goviy.— ‘The settlement of the suits between the Erie Railroad and Jay Gould by the payment of | mine million dollars by the ex-President created quite @ sensation in London as well as ‘on our own market, and the stock rose rapidly, although declining a trifle later in the day. The general impression prevailed that Mr. Gould would make a large profit out of the transaction through the rise in the stock, and his settlement was pronounced one of the greatest financial coups ever accomplished, and as casting the famous Northwestern cor- ner into the shade. One excited broker de- clared that the American operator would clear ‘twelve millions by the transaction, Ag all ‘parties thus seem to be benefited we do not ‘see why the settlement should not be pro- nounced a good thing all round, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Oredi¢ Mobilier Scandal a the Accused Congressmen—Is the Investi- gation To Be a Farce! Campaign charges are generally put for- ward for political effect, and suffered to dio out with the close of the election they are designed to influence. Such, however, does not appear to be the case with the singular disclosures familiarly known as the “Crédit Mobilier Scandal,’’ which have outlived the allotted term and promise to prove a serious source of trouble to some of those embraced within their scope, When the Oakes Ames letters were first brought to light, with the accompanying memoranda by Colonel Mec- Comb, alleging to give the names of certain Congressmen who had been corruptly inter- ested ig the Crédit Mobilier stock, we were in the holt of the Presidential struggle and the story was generally regarded as one of those canards with which the country is certain to be flooded at such a time. Some of the Sena- tors and Representatives implicated in tho charge broadly denied its truth, and branded the statement as a wholesale forgery from beginning to end. Not only had they never been possessed of a single dollar of tho stock, but Mr. Ames had never written the letters purporting to be his, and the names had been selected by the opposition at hazard for political purposes. The republican organs heaped the foulest abuse on those who had ‘concocted’ this “wicked slander’? and endeavored to divert public attention from its revelations by rais- ing the familiar shout of ‘‘Tammany thieves! Tammany thieves!" This general denial answered the purpose for which it was in- tended ; butafter the election was over, tho evidence on which the charges of corruption were based was still in existence, and certain politicians, whose aspirations for the future are knoyn. be high, felt that something inere tha Be disclaimer was needed to clear them from the suspicions that attached to them. Speaker Blaine brought the subject before Congress in a motion for an investiga- tion, and, after declaring that he had never owned a dollar of Crédit Mobilier stock, de- manded a committee, to be composed of a majority of democrats, Congressman 8. 8. Cox had been called to the Speaker's chair and to him the selection of the committee was left. Hoe appointed Messrs, Boland, Banks, Beck, Niblack and McCrary, but as Mr. Beck declined to serve his place was filled by the substitution of Mr. Merrick, of Mary- land. Now all this virtuous indignation and appa- rent fuirness may have had a favorable effect upon those not familiar with the management of such affairs at the national capital, but, unfortunately, enough is known to shake the faith of the initiated in the honesty of the in- vestigation. It is notorious that Congressman Cox was aware of Speaker Blaine’s intended motion three or four days before it was made, and of the fact that the Speaker would assign to him the duty of naming the committee of investigation. Mr. Cox had, therefore, ample time to reflect upon the subject, and to select from the whole House the members best fitted for such work and the most likely to prosecute it fearlessly and faithfully. As a lawyer, an experienced representative and a shrewd ob- server of men, he was in every way qualified to make a good choice had he been disposed to do so. He will not seriously pretend that a full and fair investigation was likely to be pro- moted by handing over the committee to the friends of the Union Pacific Railroad. Yet; out of the five committeemen named by Congress- man Cox, four are members who have voted steadily in favor of every legislative act de- manded by the promoters of the Crédit Mobilier and engineered by.their friends of the lobby, who are implicated in the charges, to be exam- ined by the committee. Independent of this fact, no person is better aware than Mr. Cox of the unfitness of Judge Poland to manage such an investigation as that which has been placed in his hands. Judge Poland is an amiable, fussy old gentleman, who is pre- pared to do anything for his party and friends; but be is the last man to sift out the truth from 8 mass of corruption and falsehood, even if he should be wholly uninfluenced by his former warm sympathy with the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit Mobilier. Gencral Banks has been one of the strongest champions on the same side, and is moreover scarcely a desirable member to be assigned to the duty of investigation at this particular moment. Mr. Niblack and Mr. McCrary may both be honest men; yet there hangs about them that intangible suspicion of jobs so familiar to those who have had experience in Washington life, and their names have always been found recorded in favor of the extraordinary legisla- tion asked for by the Union Pacific Railroad. The names of Messrs. Kerr and Holman, of Indiana, were both before Mr. Cox during his three days’ cogitation over the com- mittee. Can Mr. Cox honestiy pretend that either of these members would not have been preferable to Mr. Niblack, if a full and impartial investigation had been designed? Mr. Merrick, of Maryland, is no doubt a gen- tleman of integrity; but Mr, Cox could not have selected him for the characteristics of sharpness and stubbornness, so essential in a member of a committee who may find himself in opposition to all his associates. We are unwilling to believe that this singu- larly chosen committee was agreed upon in advance of Speaker Blaine’s motion, but cer- tainly its action has not served to gain for it the confidence of the public. Its first act was to form itself into a Star Chamber inquisition and to sit with closed doors, The charges it is investigating have been publicly made, and forma portion of the records of a suit now pending inthe Pennsylvania Courts, They involve the integrity of prominent public officers; of Senators, of Representatives in Congress and of others in high positions in the government of the United States, and the people are certainly interested in knowing whether they are true or false, The mere con- | clusions of such a committee as Congressman Cox has so generously bestowed upon the suspected members will not be satisfactory to the public. The press should have been afforded an opportunity to report from day to day the whole testimony adduced before the committee, and then the” people would have been in a position to judge of the justice of the ultimate decision. At present the case wears an unfavorable aspect. We publish in the Heraxp to-day an official list of the stockholders in the Crédit Mobilier at the time of making the Oakes Ames contract, from which the valuo of the stock may be judged. Although the list contains the names of some Congressmen and relatives of Con- gressmen, it does not of course show the transactions involved in the “placing” of stock by Mr. Ames ‘‘where it would do the most good.” The developments before the committee render it certain that a number of Senators and Reprosentatives fell victims to the seductions of Ames and Alley, and that they received both the shares and the large dividends either through thomselves or near relatives, notwithstanding the positive denials made by them during the Presidential can- Vass. Some of the Congressmen implicated in this disgraceful business boldly admit that they took the stock, but they claim that it was not assigned to them for improper consider ations and did not influence their votes in Congress. Onkes Ames plants himself upon this plea. The fact is undeniable, however, that all the mombers of either house who either in thoir own persons or through their wives, sons-in- law and other relatives became largely inter- ested in the stock voted loyally for every legislative act, however extraordinary, de- manded by the Union Pacific and ita offshoot, the Crédit Mobilier. ‘The people will not be- lieve that their votes were caat disinterost- edly any more than they will beliove that the Crédit Mobilier managers were 80 generous as to bestow hundreds of thousands of dollars on certain Congressmen, without expecting or asking an equivalent. It is just as clear that these Senators and Repre- sentatives sold their votes for a consideration as if they had received the monsy in green- backs at the moment their votes were re- corded. If they had not known that thoy were doing a corrupt and dishonest act when they allowed themselves to be debauched by Ames and Alley they would not have en- deavored to hide the transactions behind, the persons of their rolatives, and thoy would not have got rid of their shares in terror as soon as the exposure was threatened. These are plain facts which the people will understand; and they will understand, too, the dishonesty of those pretentious brawlers for reform who have no word of denunciation for this, corruption because it involves the leading members of their own party. The invostigation by Con- cana Cox's dark-lantern committee is ely to prove a failure. We have no faith either in its desire or ability to revenl the whole truth. Nevertheless, the people will be convinced that the leading politicians in Con- gréas ate just os corrupt a3 the members of our most infamous Albany Legislatures, and that the votes of the majority in the recent election were cast for some candidates who have forfeited all claim to be regarded as honest men. Congress Adjourned Over to the Year of Our Lord 1873. The two houses of Congress were engaged yesterday in mere routine business upon a va- riety of subjects. In the Senate Mr. Conkling presented the petition of the New York and West India Steamship Company (Monsicur Tonson come again), asking an annual sub- sidy of one hundred thousand dollars, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. These enterprising steamship men are making hay while the sun shines; and, as Congress appears to be in the humor for subsidies, we would advise all our owners of ships, whether steam, horse power or sailing craft, to put in their claims on the principle of fair play and equal. rights. Mr. Rice, of Arkansas, on a motion fora Committee of Investigation, discussed the late Arkansas elections, contending that the republican party in said elections were guilty of outrageous frauds and that all the facts oaght to be brought to light. We think so, too ; but if Congress is to undertake the inves- tigation of these alleged Arkansas frauds, why not those of South Carolina, and Georgia, and Alabama, and Mississippi, and Louisiana, and Texas, and the rest of them? Our idea is that the overhauling of the figures, facts and ras- calities of these elections and the rectification of the abuses proved are matters which belong to the several Stats concerned, and that the two houses can be better employed upon the business affairs which properly belong to them. In the House Mr. Shanks, of Indiana, in- troduced a bill for the more efficient adminis- tration of Indian affairs in the several Terri- tories, from which it may be inferred that under the Quaker system of bribing instead of punishing ‘‘ye refractory savages’ our Indian affairs in the Territories are not as efficiently administered as could be desired. General Sheridan is of this opinion ; but as General Grant's policy, when he undertakes anything, isto keep hammering away, we suppose he will hammer this business into a good shape by the time that Jumping Bear is ready to re- sume the warpath. Mr. Porter, of Virginia, proposed an amend- ment to the constitution, providing not only for the election of President and Vice Presi- dent, but of United States Senators, directly by the people. Mr. Porter, we apprehend, by this side issue of the election of Senators, is weakening the main question. Let us first have this amendment in reference to the Presi- dent and Vice President, for public opinion demands it. As for this Senatorial proposi- tion it can be postponed until the people call for it. The two houses stand adjourned until the 6th day of January, 1873, in order that the members generally may have the opportunity to spend their Christmas and New Year's holi- days at home. And, according to the letter and the spirit of the constitution, without dis- tinction of race, color or previous condition of servitude, we wish them all “A merry Christ- mas and a happy New Year.” Nove Jurors Onty Were Srcvrep in the Stokes case yesterday up to adjournment, It would seem that the difficulty increases rather than diminishes. @ An additional juror was secured, but one of those previously selected was excused because he knew a man who was closely related to the prisoner. Tae Parncreie or Commerctan Prorection iN France has been sustained and affirmed by a very decisive vote of the National Assembly, taken after the conclusion of an anxious de- bate yesterday. This result will prove very | consolatory just at present to President Thiers ; but whether its publication will tend to the restoration of national harmony and the recuperation of the home industries of the Republic is quite another question, and remains for reply, The ite of Homer's Troy—Dr. Schife- mann’s Excavations. Tho deeply interesting letter to the Hrratp from Dr. Henry Schliemann, respecting his vast labora in search of the olden Troy, and which we print in another column, needs but little introduction to our readers. The Ger- man scholar and archsological enthusiast tells his story with clearness and simplicity. If he does not exhaust the subject in all its bearings he explains what he has achieved in a manner which cannot fail to awaken keon interest in the continuance of his labors. That the subject matter might be better understood wo present a map of the locality where the patient savan has labored so successfully to find the Ilion or Troy of Homer's great epic. It isa fitting phase of this progressive, inventive age, that amid the mighty struggle for light upon tho subtle secrets of physics and tho applica- tion of knowledge thus acquired to the daily wants of life, so much interest can be centred in the dim past. In this growing desire for a knowledge of epochs beyond the reach of those we term historic, the modes in which the hunt for information is pursued ate character- istic. The records on which the learned: for ages relied for their lnowledge of these remote times are now merely the often unreliable guide books which the scientific searcher uses to indicate how and where to set about his work. Tho hugo mounds by tho banks of the Tigris, that Xenophon passed in his flight twenty-three centuries ago, without knowing any more than the Arabs of Mesopotamia of twenty-three years since, that they contained the ruined palaces of Nineveh, were reserved for the spades of Botta and Layard. Ina few years of persistent excavation more of the glory of the Empire of Assyria was made known than in all the twenty-three cycles that preceded, After the pioneers of the spade %mes tho more profound labor of the com- parative philologists who learn to decipher cuneiform inscriptions and read from them the stories of the peoples who graved them thousands of years before. The same diligent inquiry and work have lately led to the disen- tombment of the Ephesian marbles from the great buried temple of Diana. From the same spirit and the same toil we see appear before us the sculptured treasures from the island of Cyprus. Among the greatest of these per- formances will rank the triumph of Dr. Schliemann in fixing the site of Troy. For ages the enthusiasm of cultivated minds has found an abiding place in the land made sacred to poetry and heroic glory in the Iliad and Hneid. Byron could wander among the marshes of the Scamander and dream of Ilion in its glory. Even the soldier of precision and mathematics, Von Moltke, could find tima to speculate upon its military strength. But the scientist did not let his dreams or his speculations interfere with the digging of his trench, and, asa result, the sceptics, who pronounced the wars of the heroes upon the plain all but a myth, are brought up against the great tower of Ilion itself after it had hidden its head for over three thousand years. The settlement of this question is not, however, the only contribution to our knowledge. In the process of laying bare the remains of ancient Troy Dr. Schliemann dis- covered successively the traces of four suc- ceeding peoples who had dwelt on the same spot, and whose cities were destroyed by fire, as Troy had been. ‘‘Peoples in regular strata!’’ It is a curious thought, wherein science and sentiment may meet. More than this, by the relics of pottery, arms, implements and symbols, he is enabled to state of what race were the men and women who dwelt in those cities. The widespread and unmistakable religious symbols of the Aryan race, the cross, simple and crotcheted, were there. The sun, the stars, the mystic rose and the holy soma tree, each told their tale of race and belief. Refinement in the heroic age he found suc- ceeded by rudeness in the next, then rudeness by semi-barbarousness, and then by almost ab- solute barbarism. Next he traces in the rub- bish the coming of the Hellenic colony, which is called historic, but which must have com- menced existence twenty-four hundred years ago. He traces backwards from the present inch by inch, instead of year by year, and finds heroic Troy upon the virgin soil or the solid rock some forty-six feet below. There is ® suggestiveness in this idea of a century of history in a foot and a half of rubbish far deeper than the thought of ‘Imperial Cesar, dead and turned to clay.’’ While the deci- pherers of the arrow-head writings of Nineveh are discovering corroboration of the Bible story of the Deluge it is curious to find proof of the foundation in fact of Homer's epic coming to light at the same time. A work of the character of Dr. Schliemann’s requires that patience and perseverance which nothing but enthusiasm can supply. There is, however, something moré needed, and that is money. Dr. Schliemann has carried on the vast work thus far at his own expense, and now appeals for help. For reward he asks nothing beyond permission to rebaptize the scenes ef his labor with the names which Homer gave them. We heartily recommend to our readers his unvarnished narrative, of the search among the ‘‘mournful monuments of a nation whose glory is immortal."’ Avoruer Unsrrtiep Bovnpary.—The Lon- don Globe is worried about the northwestern boundary of British Columbia, which impinges upon Alaska, Fear that the line is not so accurately defined as to preclude misunder- standing is the basis of a pathetic appeal to the Foreign Office to look closely into the matter. There would seem to be little danger of a collision between our own and the British government in that frozen quarter, and since we won the San Juan case we might willingly release all claim to whatever portion of Mr. Seward’s Russian purchase our English cousins may covet. | Tae Gas Stoxers’ Strixe, and its dismal effect of shrouding London in even excep- tional darkness, is dolefully described by the metropolitan journals. All agree in condemn- ing the spirit of the men who went out, not upon any question of wages or hours, but on ® point of discipline, in which they were clearly wrong. Citizens used every endeavor to make the best of the deprivation, and the companies were soon able to supply the places of the insubordinate laborers, The work is not intricate, is easily learned, and the pay is quite tempting. Beyond the inconveniences of a brief deficiency of light only the strikers and their families will be the aufferers by the strike, The New Orleans Usurpation. While President Grant is denying at Washing- ton any intention or desire to tyrannize over the people of Lonisiana or to interfere with the free government of the State, the federal au- thorities in New Orleans are committing out- rages to which no people with a spark of man- hood in their breasts can patiently submit. The State government overthrown, State Courts abolished or the rightful judges driven by force from the bench, and now the suppres- sion of the independent press, are the out- rages that mark the progressive steps of this infamous violation of the constitution and the laws. The New Orleans Times, having been bold and free spoke in its denunciation of Judge Durell’s action, has beon seized and suppressed by a United States Marshal on a trumped-up charge of fraud involving fifteen hundred dollars, for which four times the amount was offered as security, while a hun- dred times the amount would have been forthcoming if necessary. Wo trust that Prosi- dent Grant will now seo the wisdom and prudence of adopting some method to undo the evil done by the superserviceable zeal of the Attorney General, and to compel the United States authorities to respect the constitution and the liberties of the people. Tho Presi- dent, by his eagerness to disclaim any inter- ference with the Louisiana State government, has shown a proper appreciation of the limit of his powers and duties, Itis to be hoped that Justice Bradley will at once proceed to New Orleans to supersede Judge Durell. This may accomplish much good, although we be- lieve the most effective remedy for the present troubles in Louisiana would be the suspension of both State governments and the temporary substitution of a military provisional gov- ernment until the question at issue between the contending factions could be settled by the Gourt of last resort. France—The People and the Assembly, In the Henarp of yesterday we printed a long and most interesting letter from one of our correspondents in France regarding the gene- ral situation in thatcountry. The letter justi- fies al] that wo have said of the growing sen- timent of the French people and of the char- acter and composition of the Assembly. Our correspondent, who has had ample means of finding out what are the opinions of the French people in town and country, comes to the conclusion that the masses aro in favor of the Republic. The Assembly, however, he admits, as at present constituted, makes the Republic impossible. The Assembly cannot be dissolved but by a coup d@élat; but as the coup d’ élat has twice over made the Republic an Empire, it is, in present circumstances, a most doubtful experiment. ‘The future of France is very much in the hands of the Com- mittee of Thirty. Since our correspondent’s letter was written the Assembly has most un- mistakably revealed its strength. Nothing but a revolution can break down the power of the Assembly, and a revolution is the special terror of all ranks and classes of the French people. The French National Assembly, during the session yesterday, unanimously voted the gov- ernment supplies for the year 1873-as esti- mated in the budget prepared by the Minister of Finance. This patriotic act is highly com- plimentary to the Thiers Cabinet, and also of great importance to the outside nations, as being demonstrative of the fact that France, despite her political party feuds and legisla- tive divisions, holds fast to the faith of the democracy, and is not likely to have aught to do with the kingly crowns. The Hubbard Postal Telegraph Bill, The bill which Mr. Ramsey reported to the Senate from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads for a postal telegraph system is said to be substantially what is known as the Hubbard bill. The Congressional abridged report says, however, that there are sundry modifications. We are not informed explicitly what these modifications are ; but from the outline of the bill given the principle and general features are the same as those of the Hubbard bill. While we urge the necessity and value of a government postal telegraph to the country we must denounce this scheme of Mr. Hubbard. It is not a government postal telegraph at all. It is a stupendous job to give the control and profits of the tele- graph to a private company under the guaran- tee of the government. It is, in fact, to place this important public service in the hands of a monopoly and to make that mo- nopoly superior to the government itself. Nothing, it appears, can be proposed at Wash- ington on a grand scale for the public benefit without making a job by which members of Congress and their friends are to be given the power and the profits. The gist of the bill, or, as the late Senator Benton would have ex- pressed it, the matter in the belly of the bill, is the provision that ‘the Postmaster General is authorized to contract with the Postal Tele- graph Company for the transmission of cor- respondence by telegraph, as his agent, and the said company shall have the right to con- struct lines 6n all post routes and provide lines of telegraph to every postal telegraph office.”” Now, why a company at all? Why can not the government conduct the business in connection with the Post Office, without all this complication of a government within a government and an enormous stock-jobbing speculation which would rival the Crédit Mo. bilier and Pacific Railroad in corruption? Let us have the postal telegraph, but not with this monstrous job tacked on it. Tur Froops m Exauanp.—The floods which have worked such ravages along the line of the Danube, in Upper Italy, later in France and Belgium, have now appeared in England. The Trent and its affluents have risen above their banks, and large portions of Leicester, Derby and Nottingham have been submerged. So heavy are the floods that in some sections only the tops of the trees and hedges are visible. Near Dover landslips haveoccurred, and railroad communication has been interrupted. The town of Peter- borough, in Northamptonshire, is flooded, and such is the deluge of water that the resi- dents have in many instances been compelled to take refuge in the upper stories of their dwellings. It has been a most unusual season, and the floods have not, as we know, been wholly confined to Europe. Tue Boanp or Arrortionmunt yesterday passed a resolution in regard to the distribu- tion of a per capita donation of six dollars from the excise moneys for the pupils of certain free schools of all denominations, Nearly twenty- four thousand scholars will be benefited by this payment, wee Bave Horace Gresley from Hts Pricads. ’ There are more things on earth, particu- larly in the vicinity of the Tribune office, Horace Greeley, than were dreamed of in your philosophy when, trustfully listening to the advice gratuitously administered by the pres- ent publisher of your journal, you allowed yourself to be nominated to the Presidency. With the guilelessness of your simple nature you had faith in those who seemed to have profound faith in you. You believed that tha Augean stables of the government needed cleansing. Your publisher declared that you were called upon to be the Hercules. For six months you gave, night and day, brain and muscle to the stupendous task. You labored for the Tribune more than for yourself. You know that your success would be ita greatest triumph, and when State elections foretold defeat, when aspiration lost its silver lining of hope, your great intellect lost its balance— not because of personal ambition, but because of too terrible a strain; because of the ruin, which you fancied you had brought upon your unselfish -advisers. You tmaginod that they would be ds true to you in adversity as you had been to them in the hour of battle. You fancied that they would brave the consequences of fidelity. You died in thig childlike faith, and lo! when the tomb closes upon your mortality, your good friends turn tragedy into burlesque! You, Horace Greeley, founded a journal. No sooner did the Presidential contest cease than you pub- lished a card in the Tribune, declaring that henceforth it should be your endeavor to make your journal thoroughly independent; treating all parties and political movements with ju dical fairness and candor, but courting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one. We hailed the Tribune's return to independent journalism with all the heartiness that a ship sailing in calm waters salutes the approach of ofe supposed to have been wrecked. You, Horace Greeley, meant what you said; but you are gone, and to preserve the traditions of him whose only and highest ambition was to be remembered as the ‘Founder of the New York Tribune’ seems not to enter into the cal- culations of those who have mounted to for- tune on your broad shoulders, You are a lion, Horace Greeley, but you are dead, and a live fox is worth a wilderness of dead lions. As your friendg show such devotion to your daughters and your principles, perhaps it is as well for them that you are dead; for, by kindly retiring to another world, had not your life policy on- riched your well-beloved Tribune one hundred thousand dollars? Have you not benevolently opened the way to reconciliation with the ad- ministration? You are dead, Horace Greeley, and need not be sacrificed personally, but somebody must be, and what more in conso- nance with your desires than to make a scape- goat of the man who at your request occupied your vacated chair, serving you loyally and well? With his head decapitated partisan wrath is appeased; with Schuylor Oolfax wielding your pen, Horace Greeley, the world would assist at the sublimest summersaulé ever executed in the political arena; and if the journal which for six months hurled thunder- bolts at the administration, which for a few weeks has been true to ita best instinots, does not become the smiling slave of the party is power it is simply because the Vice Presidgnt of the United States places a higher valyé on his services than do they who would eniploy him. Do you aspire to be the founder of such a Tribune, Horace Greeley? Do you know that this conspiracy against your journalistic faith began before you were buried? And did you dream that your own wills could be turned against those nearest and dearest to you? The subscription fund for the benefit of yous daughters was declined by them, and the Tvi- bune, with commendable generosity, declared it tobe the intention of your associates to pro- tectand provide for your heirs should your property be inadequate to their requirements. Mark how well this promise is fulfilled, Horace Greeley. The combinations by which your daughters can honorably retain your stock in the Tribune are frustrated, and your final will, unreservedly leaving to them the remains of your not too large estate, is con tested. And why? Is it in obedience to the desire of your daughters? No; they are both satisfied. The elder, to prove her good faith, has made over to her minor sister all property justly her due. Isit to satisfy your sisters, whom you have befriended for years?—your brother, upon whom, according to his own publio statement, you have spent thousands of dollars? By ne means, One andall have released your daugh- ters from the obligations of the will of 71. Your own friend and former counsel, Horace Greeley, rivalled Pecksniff when he attempted to defend the interests of your injured brother from the rapacity of your unnatural daughter. This injured brother declares that he had never been applied to either by the counsel of the executors of the will of 1871 or by the executors themselves. Who then, Horace Greeley, is making a byword of your name? A few days ago we gladly published Mr. Samuel Sinclair's card, in which he stated that he had done all in his power to harmo- nize the interests in your will, and that your friends, so far as he knew, were acting har- moniously. We received the announcement with rejoicing. We are assured now that the executors of the will of 1871—Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Manning and Mr. Storrs— are the contestants of the will of 1872; yet they asserted that all disagreements might be avoided by a deed from Ida L. to Gabrielle M- Greeley and an arrangement with your brother and sisters, This has been done ; yet war still wages. What does it mean, Horace Greeley? Is it done for personal pique? Is it done to lift the veil of respectful oblivion that should fall upon your last weary, wandering days? We stand appalled before the spectacle of dis- section, at which the world unwillingly assists. ‘We know that‘you were a prey to melancholia, Horace Greeley, in those last weeks of your life, believing that you had ruined your friends and yourself ; but you were sane enough to compose brilliant editorials after having written the contested will—sane enough to remember that your first duty was to your children. But evidently, Horace Greeley, you were crazy, for Mr. Williams produces a will dated September 21, 1857, to show that your last will was not in harmony with your well- known ‘expressed wishes, A man may not change his mind in twelve months por yot in fifteon yeara without boing