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auillions from the Treasury by an agency that is unnecessary. The Syndicate is the fifth wheel to the Treasury coach and is an enor- mously expensive one to the people. We call the attention of our readers to the Washington etter referred to. “The City Deposits—The Custedy of the City Funds and the Interest Question. Comptroller Green last week addressed a fetter to the City Chamberlain, expressing a want of confidence in the Tenth National Bank, in which was deposited two million one hun- dred thousand dollars belonging to the city of New York, and requesting the Chamberlain to “make immediate arrangements to have the same transferred to some banking institution of the city of recognized standing and means.’’ This letter reached the Chamberlain at four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, and on Monday morning early that officer drew a warrant for one million eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars on the Tenth National Bank, and sent it to the Comptroller for his signature, for the purpose of drawing out that amount of the public deposit. Tho Chamberlain, in his reply, to the Comptroller, states that he thus withdraws all but two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the Tenth National, ‘without any notice,’ in order to show how unnecessary are the Comptroller's apprehensions in relation to the safety of the publio moneys on deposit in that bauk, but adds that he does not by this action waive his right to exclusive direction in regard to the custody and safety of the public moneys, If Comptroller Green had any good grounds for believing that the Tenth National Bank is n unsafe depository of the city moneys he did perfectly right to counsel their withdrawal therefrom. No person else shared his fears as to the solvency of that institution, which is supposed to stand in as good credit as any bank of its capital in the city, and its prompt payment of nearly the whole of the large deposit at sight will probably remove even Comptroller Green’s apprehension. If the fequest made to the Chamberlain was prompted by less worthy motives it has only recoiled upon himself, for it has afforded the Tenth National bank an opportunity to prove its strength, and has fully justified the discretion of the Chamberlain in selecting it os a bank of deposit, Indeed, the ‘‘alarm’’ of the Comp- troller must have been of recent origin. No portion of the deposits can be withdrawn from the Broadway Bank and placed in any other bank without the ccountersigning of the warrant by the Comptroller; hence that officer must have had full confidence in the solvency of the Tenth National when he consented, by his signature, to the transfer of so large an amount of the city moneys to that bank. The Chamberlain is right in protesting against any intermeddling on the part of the Comptroller with the custody of the public funds. - The present financial system contem- plates the entire separation of the two offices. The Chamberlain is the treasurer of the city, holding custody of its moneys, responsible for their safe keeping, and giving bonds in a heavy amount—one million two hundred thousand flollara—for the faithful discharge of his fluties’ The object is clear. It would be an anwise policy to allow the Comptroller—who gives only twenty-five thousand dollars bonds—to draw warrants and pay them himself; to hold the custody of the city funds in one hand and to disburse them with the other. Whether the law regulating the Chamberlain’s powers and prescribing his duties does or does not need amend- ment is foreign to the subject. The principle of separating the offices of Comptroller and Chamberlain is a good one, and the rest is matter of detail, The Hzratp long since advocated a law compelling the banks holding the city deposits to pay interest on the same, and, in its absence, approved the action of Chamberlain Sweeny, who, on his own respon- sibility, required the depositories to allow four per cent interest, and paid the amount over to the city, thus creating a fund of between four and five hundred thousand dollars for the benefit of the taxpayers up to the time Chamberlain Palmer took office. Comptroller Green thought proper to prohibit this arrangement. Like much of the Comp- troller’s official conduct this action savored more of personal spite than of public spirit. The city received the money, but the Chamberlain obtained credit for the arrange- ment, The intorests of the taxpayers were sacrificed to gratify petty jealousy. How- ever much it may be the fashion to applaud Comptrollex Green’s honesty, these are plain facts, known to every citizen, and the commu- nication from Chamberlain Palmer on the subject only renders them more clear and undeniable, The Drama and Socicty—English and American Manners. When an American ‘‘society’’ play is pro- duced it isat once decried as a mere carica- ture of what it pretends to represent. We confess we have little sympathy with this carp- ing criticism. It is oftener the result of bad temper than good judgment, and serves no worthy purpose either in its social or artistic American ladies frequently say “gwful,'’ and the best of them are sometimes rude in manner and speech. It is not much to their discredit except upon the stage. No- body talks about ‘‘propriety’’ where the want of it is not attended by criminality, unless the impropriety is seen in ‘‘Saratoga,” or “Divorce,"’ or “Diamonds."’ Then everybody cries out as if the picture were positively hurt- ful. Yet the same people regard the visit of the Viscountess de Thonnery to the dressing room of a ballet girl and the ‘first offence’ of the Baroness who writes a letter to the adven- turer in “Agnes” as domestic episodes fit to be contemplated by everybody. In the latest English comedy, Mr. Frank Marshall's “False Shame,’’ one of the young ladics addresses her father as a ‘greedy old wretch.” Miss Constance Howard submits to be kissed by her lover, and then tells him his kisses are much better than those of papa ond mamma. American crities do not complain of these things, and English criticism regards them as faithful pictures of | manners and behavior in ‘Merrie Old Eng- land."" We see no renson to deny what all Englishmen accept; : but if this play is the por- traiture it affects to be, England is in a worse condition socially than America, Wo have o murder neatly every day jn the year and a dixoful disnater at least onge in a fortnight; NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. but no American family having pretence to culture and fine feeling would shake hands with an exposed thief who had attempted to win the affections of a young girl by treachery and fraud, Our’ people are no longer angry with Mrs. Trollope and Charles Dickens for exaggerating our foibles and peculiaritics. Why we should be angry with a playwright for doing the same thing passes compre- hension. Americans have never been drawn so faithfully or so kindly as by American dramatists, and it is mere ‘false shame" to deny the truthfulness of the picture. If we turn from this singular revelation of English life and manners—a revelation in which the English seem to delight as if it did them honor—to the English ideal of what is American, we are forced to the conclusion that the English understanding is as feeble as Eng- lish taste is degraded. Tho same Englishman who writes, ‘Thank you, Mr. Frank Marshall, fora very nice play,"’ speaks of Mr. J. K. Emmett’s ‘Fritz’ asa piece that would be “beneath notice were it not that in it are por- trayed certain scenes of American private life which must presumably be endowed with a tinge of truth, since they were relished, as the playbill tells us, ‘upwards. of a thousand nights in the principal cities of the United States.’ '’ This shows the average Englishman to be as deficient in humor as he is incorrect in his notions of what is “nice.” Everybody in America knows that ‘Our Cousin German’’ is a bundle of incongruities which are laugh- able only because they are incongruous. We have always been inclined to accept Mr. Soth- ern’s Lord Dundreary and Dundreary's “Brother Sam’’ as incongruities of the same kind; but this logic forces us to regard them as portraying certain scenes of English private life which must pre- sumably be endowed with a tinge of truth, since they were relished upward of a thousand nightsin England when the great actor returned home, some three or four years ago, to show his countrymen what fools they are. For the same reason everybody ought, to see ‘False Shame."’ Many Americans cannot make a trip to England to see what a pert, flippant, ill-bred people the English have become. Thanks to Mr. Frank Marshall for a play which saves us the journey. In the ‘School for Scandal’’ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, a century ago, showed that the English gentry were backbiters and common slanderers. But even American criticism asks us to regard Lady Teazle and the rest as people of culture and refinement. English and Anglo-American criticism puts the same estimate upon the Earl of Dashington and Lord Ohilton and Earmest Bragleigh. Let us look a moment at this gentility. The Earl insists upon his son fighting a duel witha fellow that he shakes hands with soon afterward; but not in this respect only, but in his entire conduct in regard to the ‘“af- fair,"’ he shows that English earls are no longer gentlemen. Lord Chilton risks the honor and happiness of a young girl that he may receive an insult with equanimity and toy with a blackguard. May Atherleigh and Constance Howard are young girls whom no gentleman would care to marry. Most won- derful of all is the ease with which a captain in the Royal Buffs writes himself a liar and a thief. Eveu Dogberry did not write himself down an ass more readily. This is English society—a society which Englishmen applaud. Rude as Americans sometimes aro, there is nothing in American society to equal it in degradation. What, then, is the lesson to be learned from this new play, so acceptable on both sides of the Atlantic? First, evidently greater charity toward our own playwrights, and less sensi- tiveness as to what is done and what is not done in good society. Secondly, the reception ot English plays like ‘False Shame’’ as pic- tures of English society, to be seen and studied as such, but not to be copied in American homes. While we should not refuse to see ourselves on the stage as others see us in real life, we need not neglect seeing the vul- garity of other lands which would clothe itself with the specious attributes of gentility. Tax Sroxes Tru. Sr Proceens without novelty or increased interest, As regards the matter brought forward in evidence, while of the same gencral features as on the first trial, there is less of it. The medical part has not been reached, so the doses of morphine ad- ministered internally and sub-cutancously are yet, we suppose, to be wrangled over, as well as the story of the probing of the wound. It is probable that by the anniversary of the deed, the 6th of January, a deliverance between the people and the prisoner for the shooting of Fisk will be nearly reached. THE MISSISSIPPI. The Latest Reports from Memphis=The Ice Rapidly Diminishing—A Gorge at Randolph Thirty Feet High, Mempnis, Dec. 30, 1872. A steady rain fell during the night, which has softened the ice, causing large quantities to slough off and sink, greatly lessening the danger to boats. The river ts rising steadily, The foating ice is di- minishing rapidiy. The officers of the Belle Lee, which arrived from below this morning, report that they met a large number of coal boats comparatively uninjured; and that they also rescued a man named Harvey, with his wife and child, from a dredge boat at the mouth of the St. Francis River, LATER, The ferryboat Excelsior has sprung aleak and is sinking rapidly, Sheis vained at $7,500 and will probably be a total loss; uninsured, Parties who leit Randolph yesterday morning, state that the ice gorged there thirty feet high, and that a fatboat containing seven persons was drawn under it and all on board perished. This news causes great excitement here among steam- boat men. The river is rising rapidly. Almost Another Disaster Near Memphis. Memruis, Tenn., Dec, 30, 1872. About eight o'clock this evening a large portion of ice in the river above Jefferson street broke away, carrying off the eabin of the Belle Pike, and at the foot of Monroe street struck the P, W. Strader, causing her to list #0 badly that it was feared she would capsize; but the ice svon passed and she righted again. At eleven o'clock to-night the weather was and a stiff breeze was biow- ing from the southeast. But little ice ts running. The Ice Gorge at St. Louis, Sr. Lous, Mo., Dec. 30, 1872, A driazling rain set in this morning, continued all day and has increased to a heavy storm to- night. All the snow has disappeared and the ice in the river is rapidly melting. The tow- boat Fisher began to-night to break the gorge of ice in the river below South St. Louis, aud to- morrow the steamer Marble City and one or two other boats will assist and cut @ passage through to the be liy The ice gorge above the ridge stilt continues, but if the rain does not cvase it will probably be abandoned, to-morryw 98 a roadway OF LAADIS, : EAST AFRICA. Herald Special Report from Zanzibar. The ‘United States War Steamer Yantic in Port After a Run Though the Suez Canal. Imperial ‘Accord of Audience to the Aimerican Officers. Courtesies ot’ State by His High- ness the S.ultan and Inter- nationat Speeches. ee Grand American EWort for the Aboli- tion of the Stave Trade. ‘ steiner Neem Highly Important ana\ Most Affecting Declaration by ti \e Sultan. Solemn Abolitionist Pledge o€ the Potentate to the American Pe vple. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK f ERALO, The following special despat th to the Heparp has been received from Ur corre- spondent at Zanzibar, East Africa, ‘vy way of London:— Zanzwar, Deo. 18, 1872. Tho United States steamship Yanti % com- manded by Captain Wilson, arrived a ¥ this port on the 10th instant, after a voyage from Norfolk and through the Suez Canal. THR AMERICAN OFFICERS PRESENTED TO 1 UE SULTAN. On the next day, His Highness the Sultar\ being duly notified, Mr. John F. Webb, United States Consul, and Captain Wilson, accompanied by the officers of the Yantic, paid a visit to Burghash, Prince of Zanzibar and Peneba, and the African const from the Jub to the Mozambique. SALUTE TO THE UNION FLAG. As they advanced near the palace the Sul- tan came forward to receive them through lines of body guards drawn up in front of his palace, and the first salute fired in honor of an American vessel during fifteen years was given by the water battery. BEFRESHMENTS AND INTERNATIONAL compri- MENTS. After o cordial interchange of compliments Prince Burghash conducted Consul Webb, Captain Wilson and tho other officers of the vessel to the divan. AMERICAN EFFORT FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE BLAVE TRADE. The usual Oriental courtesies of coffee and sherbet being given and accepted, Captain Wilson, through Consul Webb, expressed the sentiments of the American people as regards the East African slave trade, and the hope that he would consent to the abrogation of the clause which permits slavery to Zanzibar and to British dominion territory, contained in the treaty made with England in 1840. Tho Sultan, in reply, promised that he would consult with his Vizier, and give his answer in @ few days. A MOMENTOUS STATEMENT IN REPLY. On the 17th inst. the reply of Prince Burg- hash was received in answer to the demands of Captain Wilson for the abrogation of the slave clause. The answer was briefly as fol- lows :—‘‘Thirty-three years ago I was forbid- den by my father, Seyd Seyd, to export slaves to the territory of Muscat. Since that time the only slaves that arrive at Muscat from East Africa are conveyed thither surrepti- tiously without my knowledge or consent. The chiefs of the tribes of Owan along the Persian Gulf despatch their ships to Mom- bas and Kilwa for slaves and return to their own coast with cargoes unknown to me, But since the American people, whom I love, wish me to exert greater efforts for the sup- pression of this traffic, I give you my promise that such efforts will not be wanting, for it is my own sincere wish that the slave trado should be stopped.”’ NAVAL PREPARATION FOR THE RECEPTION OF SIR BARTLE FRERE. Her Britannic Majesty's war steamer Briton arrived here on the 12th instant. She waits the arrival of the British yacht Enchantress, carrying Sir Bartle Frere and suite. Two other English cruisers are expected. The United States ship Yantic will also wait the arrival of Sir Bartle Frere. THE STEAMSHIP GERMANY. French Charity for the Relief of the Rescued Passengers, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HEAAL®. ——~ paris, Dec. 28, 1872 A money collection was taken up {n the churches of Rochelle yesterday for the relief of the passen- gers who were wescued from the wreck of the steamship Germany, and 1,000 francs were obtained for the chority. RUSSIA. His Highness the Czarowits Hopeful of Con- valesconce. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB, St. Peterssura, Dec. 80, 1872, The medical bulletin issued at the palace this morning announces that His Highness the Czaro- witz slept six hours last night, and that the fever haa diminished, GERMANY AND ROME. Prussian Presa Cantion Concerning the Vatican Insult Publication—Borlin Diplomacy with the Holy See Closed. TELEGRAMS 10 THE NEW YORK HERALB. Bexwr, Dec. 30, 1872. The journals of Ksnigsberg and Posen have been threatened with immediate confiscation if they publish the insulting references to Germany in the recent Papal allocution. The Chargé d’Affaires of the German Legation to the Vatican will probably be inatructed not to attend the reception of the diplomatic body by the Pope on the 1st of January on account of the allo- cution, Imperial Diplomatic Relations with the Vatican Broken Off- Rom, Dec. 80, 1872. The German Chargé d'Affaires informed Cardinal Antonelli last week that he had been instructed from Berlin to take unlimited leave of absence. He has since closed the Legation and quit Rome for Berlin, ENGLAND. "Change Rates for Money—Bullion on Balance to the Bank—American Cotton Supply. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Dec, 30, 1872, The rate for money at the Stock Exchange om government securities is—two o’clock in the after- noon—higher than the bank rate by % per cent. BULLION ON BALANCE TO THE BANK. The amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day ia £52,000, THE COTTON SUPPLY. Six thousand six hundred and forty-eight bales of American cotton were landed at Liverpool from two vessels to-day, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Speaker Blaine arrived in Augusta, Me., last evening. General J. A. Williams, of Iowa, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge J. G. Abbott, of Boston, is stopping at the Brevoort House. Senator Schurz is the guest of Governor Jewell, in Hartford, Conn. Judge W. S. Lincoln, of Washington, is staying at :the Grand Central Hotel. Arthur Cheney, proprietor of the Boston Theatre, ip at the Hoffman House. The City Council of Macon, Ga., have elected Rev, J. W. Burke Mayor of that city.. General N, P. Banks is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. He is on his way to Washington. Captain R. J. W. Bristow, of the steamship Oceanic, is at the New York Hotel. Congressman James W. Tyner, of Indiana, yester- day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Dr. W. David, of Boston, has been lecturing tn Geneva, Switzerland, on Asiatic travel. Miss Harriet E. Walker 1s a new lecturer in Iowa, She is talking about “‘Men, Women and Politics.” ‘The report that Senator Morrill ts seriously ill is untrue. He is enjoying as good health as usual. Six of the signers of Jef Davis’ bail bond are dead, but Gerrit Smith, who headed the Lst, still lives. Senator Sherman {s in bis committee room at the Capitol every day, at work on matters referred to the Committee on Finance. Senator Carpenter was entertained at a banquet in Milwaukee Iast night, by the Young Men's Republican Club of that city. Senator Lyman Trumbull is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he arrived yesterday with his son Walter, who is his secretary. The report that Hon. James F. Wilson, of Iowa, had three ribs broken has been contradicted. He declares the report to be a ribald one. The oldest inhabitant has formally announced that the late cold snap was more severe than at any former time within his recollection. Professor Agassiz expects Lake Erie to dry up in about twenty thousand years. Quite likely he may himself be pretty well desiccated sdoner. Governor Hoffman will stay in Albany until after the inauguration of General Dix. His family, how- ever, arrive at the Clarendon Hotel to-day, J. Turner, bellringer of Brixlegg, in the Tyrol, for nearly torty years, lately hung himself from the cross at the top of the steeple. Crossed in love. Lord and Lady Hobart have taken up their resi- dence at Madras, India, for the cold weather, and have begun their hospitalities with a grand ball. At the Smithfield Christmas cattle show Her Maj. esty Queen Victoria took “frst honors’ in pigs, and the Duchess of Athol was frst in Scotch cattle. e Assistant Attorney General C. H. Hill yesterday arrived at the srevoort House from Boston, where he spent Christmas, He will go to Washington to-day. An Englighman and a heathen, Ah Sin, recently got into a fight in San Francisco becauee the latter said that China burned more powder in fireworks than England did in war. Death has vacated the seat in the Prussian House of Lords till now held by the hereditary Prince Maurice Casinier de Bentheim Tecklenburg, who had attained the age of eighty-seven. Miss Sophie Barney was awarded the premium by the Montgomery (Ala.) fair, as being the most capable of making the best wife for a poor man, Are there any Sophies of her kind In Gotham? Ex-United States Senator and ex-Minister to Spain John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, went to the polls and voted oni election day, and has not been out of his house since. He has been sick for overa ear. 4 General Gibbon, of the United States Army, who yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel, isto assume the place of General Jeff C. Davis in this department. General Davis has been ordered to Arizona. Signor Lanza, Italian Minister of the Interior, has directed the Prefects of the Kingdom to expel all gypsies. He says, “They are nuisances in the cities, dangerous in the country ana indecent everywhere.” Senator Chandler has returned to Washington from a trip to his home at Detroit, bringing reports of very celd weather and the utter demoralization of the Austin Blair seceders from the republican ranks last Fall, The funerals of Mr. Wilbur F. Rice and his wife, who were married on the 5th inst. an’ killed on the 24th by the recent railroad accident, took place at West Henrietta, near Rochester, on Sunday last. They were buried in Mount Hope Cemetery. The police of Bombay have received orders to request the wealthy Parsees and natives to discon- tinue the practice of dressing their servants and jollowers in scarlet livery, which tn India is re- served for the followers of Governors of provinces. The ex-Emperor Napoleon is reportea to have expressed pleasure at the late doings at Versailles, “M. Thiers,” he added, ‘1s playing my game, and he is doing it so well that I shall be recalled to France even sooner than I could wish.” J! saute pour mieux reculer, perhaps, The marriage of the Duchess de Persigny with M. Lemoine appears to encounter some opposition from the lady's own relatives. Her mother, the Princess de la Moskowa, has lodged a formal oppo- sition to the union, and the daughter las appealed tothe French tribunals to obtain the removal of the impediment. Mr, Willam ¥. Havemeyer will assume the office of Mayor for the third time to-morrow. He will, immediately after entering upon his dutie%s, administer the oath of office to the new Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. From twelve M, to one P. M. he will receive Lis oMcials and the pwolic in, the Governor's Room. Mr. Havemeyer will lave yo recoption at his home on account of the regent .Gcath of his brother-in-law, Mr, Jas. J. Craig. SPAIN. walla Madrid in Opposition to Amadeus—His Majesty Excited—A Bourbonist Insur- rection Expected. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, Dec, 30, 1872, Via Lonpon, Dec. 31—6 A. iu. The citizens of Madrid are opposed to King Ama- deus, who is greatly excitea, A rising of the Alphonsists is expected. The government is prepared to suppress it. WEATHER REPORT. pee baie WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICR OF THE CHIRK SIGNAL Orie Wasninarton, D, C., Dec. 31—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer continues highest, but falling, over the Atlantic States, with clear weather, ex- cept over the Middle states, where cloudy weather, with areas of snow and rain, is now prevail- ing; it has risen over the Northwest, with northerly to westerly winds, clearing weather and falling temperature. Areas of light rain have prevailed from Tennessee to Ohio, Indi- ana, Illinois and Missouri and thence northward; over Lake Erie and the Upper Lake region, cloudy Weather and light snow. The temperature nas risen from the Lakes to the Gulfand South Atlantic coasts, Probabilities, For New England easterly to southerly winds, cloudy weather and snow; for the Middle States easterly to southerly winds and cloudy weather, with rain, except for Northern New York, where snow is probable; for the South Atlantic States easterly to southerly winds and increas- ing cloudiness; for the Northwest increasing Pressure, northerly to westerly winds, falling temperature and generally clear weather, these conditions extending eastward and southward into the Upper Lake region and Obio Valley; but midnight telegraphic reports from Nebraska to Southern Ohto and southwestward to the Western Gulf have not yet been received, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record shows the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- pies with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Phar- macy, BERALD Building :— 1871, 1872. 1871, 1872, 30 u 32 25 ‘ag perature yesterday Average temperature for corre: last yea MORE “BEAUTIFUL SNQW.” The Wet Storm of Last Night—Its Effect Upon the Sleighing. and the Enjoyment of New Year’s Day—Sloppy Streets—The Weather Yesterday. A snow storm began at ten P. M, last night which had the effect, as will be seen from the appended record, of ameliorating the frigidity of the weather, The fall of the fairy elenent—which was at frst #0 unprononounced that one could not tell whether to expect rain or a continuation of the snow—soon resolved itself into a genuine snown storm, From ite beginning it slowly increased in violence, until it gave promise of being the child of what was ex- perienced on last Thursday. But the incidents of its birth and progress are in striking contrast with those of Thursday's storm; the thermometer, in- stead of failing as rapidly as it did on that occasion, fell only from twenty-five to twenty-one degrees in the space of nine hours, and the snow was of a very different character, inasmuch as it was a damp, soft snow, which is easily melted, and is not shiited about by the action, of the wind. Should to-day be @ warm one, the hopes Of Mamy an expectant metropolitan who contem- plated visiting his friends on New Year’s Day on runners, will be cruelly blasted, for in such an event Heghing will be rendered next to impos- sible. Itis tobe hoped that such will not be the case and that the realized. The flakes fell in fine, misty clouds, and, as soon as they touched the sidewalk, they straightway melted and rendered the passage of the streets for the night VRB ea a indeed, much more 80 than during the day. The only salvation now tor the many bright dreams that have been formed of a New Year's sleighing must be in a sudden falling of the mercury and a ireezing of the snow, which is now in a condition, should this occur, to become inthe city amd “out on the road” as hard and smooth as glass and as slippery as the ice on the Central Park lakes. Let us pray for this consum- mation, so devoutly to be wished. jopes Of many days will be COLD WEATHER NORTH AND EAST, Boston, Mass., Dec, 30, 1872, The extreme cold weather continues. The ther- mometer at Concord, N.H., this morning was eight degrees below zcro; at White River, Vt., twenty-four degrees beiow, and at Lewiston, Mc., eleven degrees below. "UTAH. Eleven Men Buried in the Cottonwood Snow Slide—A Citizen of Salt Lake City Recommended for Governor. SALT Lake Crry, Dec. 30, 1872. It has beon ascertained that eleven men were buried in the Cottonwood slide, some of them being strangers from the East. Three bodies have been recovered. It is reported that three more slides occurred on Sunday last. One man was carried down by one of them, but was rescued without receiving severe injuries. The smallpox scare hag proved to ne a false alarm. Only one or two cases are known as yet, The Tribune of to-day strongly advocates the ap- ointment of the senior member of the firm of Walker Bros. for Governor of Utah, upon the prin- ciple that citizens of the Territories should hold the oficial positions. George Q. Cannon has reached home for the hol- jays. A week of rain and snow closed last night, MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamship Wisconsin will leave this port on Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at the Post OMce at five o'clock A. M. Tus New York Heratp—Enition for Europe— will be ready at half-past four o'clock in the morn- ing. Single copies, in wrappers for mailing, six cents, Burnett’s Miniature Toilcts.—EKlegant ASSORTED COLORED BOXES, containing a complete Toilet Appendage, admirably adapted to the Toilet Table gnd traveller's portmanteau, ACCEPTABLE HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Wholesale by drugyisis’ sundry men every- where. A.—Espenscheid’s Festival Hat for the New Year is the most dashing and novel speci- men of a full dress visiting HAT ever submitted to tho taste and judgment of the young men of New York. has been recognized and endorsed by them a: supreme style of the season, and although the price nts aswell as exqu A a “f WESPEXSUETD, a FES, ix ornor of Murray street. A.—Herald Branch Office, Brooklyn, corner of Fulton avenue and Boorum strect, Open tron as A: 3 to 8 1 Java Coffees, or t he New Year's tal 0. ANGEVIN £'8 popular TEA (established 1341), 437 and $31 8th ‘avenue, corners 01 82d and 50th streets, 3d avenue aud ‘ditith st., and 2,360 X1 av., near 12th st. 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Extra Dry Cabinet if MOET AND CHANDON at ERRALL & ad wi K CoNDIT"S, rty-secontl #6 Francis & Loutre! supply at low price Blank and Printing. ra—Choice Stock at Manufactarer’s Prices. Call before purchasing, BURKE, Manufactures, 210 Broadway, corner Fulton sireet. 5 Maiden Lane, Books, Stationery, Diaries Dry Monopote SiLLE MUMM'S DRY VERZUNAY IMPERIAL. All others equally ° all standard brands imported in casks lent Madeira $3 50 per gallon. Goods, Table Luxuries, Fancy Gr sold in quantities to suit the trad town prices, Agents for the Pte pany, whose sweet tor holiday us actnit V Wine Catawba is very desirable nud choap 69 Fulton street B. KIRK & CO., rth Establishes 1858, Holiday Hats and Seal Skin Caps ac manufacturers’ prices. P. ERNENWEIN, 143 Nassaw street, near Spruce street, Half Horse and Half Man.—Rheamas tism, Swellings, Lameness and any kind of flesh, bone or muscle allmentupon man or benst are cured by GHN- TAUR LINIMENT, the most wonderful discovery of an- cient or modern times. Neat Holiday Goods. (CTRCULAR,) To those engaged in mercantile pursnits any inventiom that will facilitate their labors 1s highly worthy of votice as weil as of extensive patrona t poreant inventions of the present age is that of a hat, posse hecessary qualities of firmness esses the mark and durability in use, Pre-eminently such are those of JOHN FOLEY, mann- facturer of fine Gold Pens and Pencils, No. 2 Astor House. Their superior value iy tested py the ‘long time he has been engaged in our city in their manufacture, Wo, the subscribers, Who know the value of FOLEY" Pens from constant tse of them a number of years, rfully recommend them to those who wish for the nd most perfect Gold Pen ever made. d by the following gentlemen and over 1,008 . B, Williams, President Metropolitan National Rank Geo, 3. Coc, President Americ: Exchange Nationa Bank. J. tional Bank of Nortts Amerie 'm. A. Falls, President Corn Exchange Bank. Beardesley, Cashier R. H. Lowry, President National Bank of the Republic. F. DT President Gallatin National Bank, ©. F. Timson, Cashier Continental National Bank. Isaac G. Ogden, Cashier New York Vounty National Bank. Wm. L. Jenkins, President Bank of merica, u |. Cox, Cashier Mechanics’ National Bank. James Buell, President Importers and Traders’ Nationa® ni J. M. Crane, Cashier Shoe and Leather National Bank Geo. W. Willett, Cashier Bull's Head Bank, Clarke, Dodge & Howes'& Macy, White, Morris & Co. Vermilye & Co. Winslow, Lanter & Co. Goo. D. Arthur & Oo. ., Raymond & Dally Times, . Gordon, Cashier New" York Herald, T. Ketcham & Co. prow Co, 8. B. Chittenite: Adams Express Co, Johnson & Higxins. Chas, Demnis, Vice President Atlantic Mutual In. Co. Daniel D. Smith, President, Commercial Mutual Tis. Gos Elwood Walter, President Mercantile Mutual [i:s. Co, A. F, Wilmarth,’Vice Presitlent Home Fire Ins. Morris Franklin, President New York Life Ins. Co. Sold by all the principal stationers and jewellers. JOHN FOLEY, Gold Pen Manufacturer, No.2 Astor Hottie, opposite the Herald oftiee. Pimples and Cutaneous Affections Re= moved by uaing JUNIPER TAR SOAP manufactured by CASWELL, HAZARD & CO,, New York. The Great Attraction.—The Great Ate traction ot this we tk ts the magnificent new rooms of the Wilson Sewing Machine Company, at the corner of Sup Flor and Bond streets, Crowds of people may be seen. and about the place at any hour of the day or eventn; Kazing at the saper carpets, the treacoing, the gilt chy lcliers, the wonde)stally carved counters, and the general. elegance of everyt'sing about. A prominent business of this city remark ed after going the rounds of the p! that, “This is up to the style of the Erie Railway offices in New York." Thw lady visitors, almost without excep- Hon, sit down and, try one of the machines and slware condlude that the, Wilson Underfeed Sewing Machine is. the nicest feature of the admirable concern. And they are not mistaken. Tn beauty of form and finish, in.ease and precision of ‘work, and in perfect capacity for an} kind of sewing ths Wilton machine 1s unsurpassed. | Calh at the new rooms aud see it work.—Cleveland Daily Lead Balesroom at 70i! 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