The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1873, Page 2

‘“\ gnents for her person and NEW YEAR'S DAY. —-—_——_ Gotham’s Favorite Fes- tival at Hand. —_+—__—_ CITY SCENES YESTERDAY. How the Old Year Was Tucked Up and Laid Away. © The Custom of Making New Year’s Presents. Services im Catholic and Epis- copal Churches. ee Weel may we a’ be, Ill may we never see, Here's to the lassies And the gude companie. + New Year's Day has come at last, and all the fes- tive boys of Gotham will be abréad, Mail, rain or Snow, and all the girls, dressed to kill and to con- uer, will be at home ready to receive them. Char- acteristic weather fell upon us yesterday, 1% wus ‘all gloom overhead and all slippery slush under- Yoot. It was the most abominable day of the year, ‘but thousands were out, paddling through the mire, and yet they somehow seemed happy. The ‘close neighborhood of New Year's made them for- wet the discomforts that environed them—the jdrizzlc, the perilous walking, the’ overcrowded wars, The principal business concentrated around ithe markets, the grocery stores and the drink- fing saloons. The old year received a pay “send off ;? but the newcomer, as the rising Bun, will be accorded the principal honors and his Dhealth will be toasted in half a million bumpers be- Wore night. A great number of people postponed oing home last night till an immoderately late jour. They were busily engaged hunting up tur- ee and demijohns, as if the city was about being sieged and the laying up of supplies against pos- ‘Bible famine was the imperative necessity of the jhour. Many of those who went home last evening, specially by the ferries, well provided against the Qhorrors of starvation, grew absent-minded on the ‘way and left their supplies behind them. Such as ‘these cannot say “turkey” to-day, and their condl- ‘tion {8 much to be pitied. When the snowfall turnea to rain yesterday aud made the SIDEWALKS AS SLIPPERY AS GREASED GLASS ‘there were many gloomy forebodings that the great event{ul occasion of New Year's would turn ‘out a bitter mockery of enjoyment, that the walk- ing-would be as “parlous’’ as navigating a tight Tope, and that nothing short of a fifty-dollar sleigh vor carriage would fetch a fellow through his des- ‘tined list of calls. Achange, however, came over ‘the situation before night, and while there was an dncrease in the slush there was a corresponding diminution in the risk of breaking one’s neek. But ‘before midnight it changed again, and if everybo “who goes out paying visits to-day gets home safe ‘and sound of limb before morning Providenee will Mave proved exceedingly kind. The services to-da: nthe Feast of Circumcision, will @ confined to the Catholic and Episcopal churches, hese will be brief, and sermons will generally jtabooed, { The custom of m: calls on this day has al- a8 been alluded to. It isa very commendable joclal practice and receives its fullest development 2 New York, The other cities of the Union copied it from us, and now tne thing is observed almost everywhere throughout the country. In spite of Bome abuses which have arisen since tt was ori; mated, and which hav judi iY. cele against it, the custom is hardly ever ikely to die out. It has a powerful hold on the social instincts of Americans, and will be apt to flourish jor all time. They have some- thing similar in Paris, but it is of a less muscular character than our own, Speaking of New Years, Charles Lamb used to say that no one of whatever rank can regard it with indifference. “Of all Bourtds of all bells,” says ke, “most solemn and /touching is THE PEAL WHICH RINGS OUT THE OLD YEAR. I never hear it without a geshenng up of my mind to a concentration of all the images that have been diffused over the past twelve months; all I have done or suffered, performed or neglecte du that regretted time, I begin to know its worth fas when a person dics. It takes a personal color; wor was it @ poetical flight in a contemporary ‘when he exclaimed— I saw the skirts of the departing year. ‘The merry-makings of New Year's Day are of very ‘ancient date in England. The head of the house assembled his family around a bow! of spiced ale, comically called lambs’ wool, from which he drank their healths, then passed it to the rest, that they aight drink, too, The word that passed among ‘them was the ancient Saxon phrase, wass hael— tuat is, your health. Hence tis came to be recog- nized as THE WASSAIL OR WASSEL BOWL, ‘The poorer class of people carried a bow) adorned with ribbons round the neighborhood, begging for something wherewith to obtain the means of filling it, that tl ey too, might enjoy wassail as well as ave rich. In their compo rat joe they had son; sultable to the occasion, Of which a Gloucestersiire example has been preserved :— Wassail, wassail over the town, ‘Our toast it is white, our ale it is brown; Our bow! it is made of the maplin tree. We be good fellows all; I drink to thee. Here's to Filpail and her long tail. God send our measter us never may fall Of a cup of good beer; I pray you draw ncar, And then you shall hear our jolly wassail. Be here any maids t 1 suppose here be some. Sure (hey will not let young men stand on the cold stone. Fing hey, O matds, come troll back the pin, “Abd the iairest maid in the house let us all'in, ‘The custom of making prosents on this da; apcugy almost obsolete in England, flourishes vigorously ‘mong ourselves, The custom was, no doubt, de- zived trom the Romans, Suetonius and Tacitus Doth mention it. Ciaudius prohibited demanding presents except on this day. Brand, in his pee “Antiquities,” observes, on the authority of Bishop Stillingfleet, that the Saxons kept the festival of fhe New Year with more than FEASTING AND JOLLITY, and with the presenting of New Year's gifts to each other. Fosbroke notices the continuation of the practice during the Middle Ages, and Ellis, in his additions to Brand, quotes Matthew Paris, to show that Henry Hl. extorted New Year's gifts from his subjects, The New Year's gifts presented by indi- viduals to cach other were suited to sex, rank, situation and circumstances. From Bishop Hall's “satires” it appears that the usual gift of tenants in the country to their landiords was a capon, and Cowley, aduressing the same class of society, eays:— When with low legs and in a humble guise Ye offered up a capon sacritice Unto his worship at the New Year's tide. An orange stuck with cloves was a common present, and is explained by Lupton, who says that Ube flavor of wine 18 improved and the wine itself preserved from mouldiness by an erange or lemon Stuck with cloves being hung within the vessel so @s not to touch the liquor. GLOVES AS PRES! Gloves were customary New Y were formerly a very expensi much a6 from five to ten dollar ally a sum of money was given ins! , Which was called “glove money.’ Presents were of course ‘made to persons in authority to secure favor, and roe often were accepicd by mugistrates and udges. “ Sir Thomas More having as Lord Chancellor de- cided @ cause in favor of a lady with the unattrac- live name of Croaker, on the ensuing New Year’ Day she sent him a pair of gloves, with forty of t! gold coin called angels in them. Sir Thoi re turned the gold, with the following note Mi tress—Siuce It were against good manners to re- fuse your New Year’s gift I am content to take our lores, but as for the liningI utterly refuse .) When ping were first invented and brought dnto use, about the beginning of tl century, they were @ New Yea acceptable to ladies, and money for purchase of them was eailed “pin money,” ‘expression which has been extended to ® sum of money secured by a husband on his marrit: Wor the private expenses of his wife. During ‘tho weign of Queen Elizaveth the custom of presenting (New Year's gilts to the sovereign was carried to fan extravagant height. The Queen delighted in gorgeous dresses, in jewelry, in ali kinds of orna- aiaces, and in purses ‘filled with gold coin. In the reign of James L abe money seem to have been continued for wome time, but the ornamental articles presented appear to have been few and of small value We 2 ne) + ce ‘beam J ena sete x" AA practice of giving receiv! resents on jay. Sait NEW Yuan's IN PARIS. : In Paris it 18 b; 8,000 oF 10, cs @ year to make presents on New Year's Day which cost hima fifteenth part of Ais income. (0 person able to give must on this day pay 4 visit empty-handed. The day commences with the Parisians at hay i gl gras inter change of their visits and bon-bons, The nearest ns are visited first, until the furthest in Bioo have had their calls, then friends and ac- quaintances. The conflict to anticipate each other's calls occasions the most agreeable and whimsical mer among those proficients in polite attentions, hese visits and in gossiping at the confection- ‘9’ shops, Which are the great lounge for the occa- sion, the morning of New Year's Day is passed, & nO means Uncommon for a man 0 | NEW YORK Ginner ts given by some membor of the family to all the Bette the evening concludes, like Ohrist- mas Day, with cards, dancing or any other amuse- ment that may be preferred. Such is the way thoy have abroad of celebrating this particular day, THE EVE OF THE NEW YEAR. pe Saar Wine Scenes in the Streets, Markets and Stores—Half a Million People Pur- chasing Presentse—The Promise of the Feast—Honoring the Old Year. The eve of the New Year darkened on the world with a peculiar sadness in the aspect of nature, in keeping with the melancholy thoughts which usually come when we are forcibly reminded of the rapid flight of Oid Father Time on his endicss course, The streets of the city, covered by a deep mantle of snow, that bas in the Inst few days been rutted and worn by the usage of tramic and travel, were lust night filled with slush, mire and water, The condition of the weather was strikingly similar to that of the same date last year, only that there was then no snow. It may bo remembered that what ilttle of that element had then fallon, was al: ready entiroly melted, and che pedestrians who moved down Broadway in & great throng to listen, to the chimes of old Trintty as THE TURN OF THE TID was rung oa her melodious belis splashed through an ocean of mud and were enveloped in a falling mist that seemed to dampen both their garments and their hearts. Last night the atmos- phere was also full of a humid vapor, and the Melting snow dripped from eaves, awnings and sign-boards in every street on everybody's head Whv sed ventured to nerambulate from the home fireside, if they happened te possess such a retreat. And everybody was in the street, or the stores, or the markets, excepting, perhaps, a few invalids and cripples, THE AVENUES up town were crowded by the moving, mixing and surging multitude, and it was composed of all sorts Ol people. If the stranger coming to New York wishes to see something of the character of the in- habitants let him oe nis eyes open on the eve of one of her at holidays. No other cityin the world so unbosoms herself on these occasions. The throngs present pictures from every caste of life, from the high to the low or the low to the high. Let us stop ona corner, and, watching THE PASSING PROCESSION, remark what most Sey: in its constitution impresses itself upon our brain. That must be, par excellence, the big roast turkeys that by, safely stowed away in great baskets. It cer! is. But, then, e secondary point worthy of attention next strikes the mind. It is the fact that, despite the lugubrity of the weather, and the mournful memories that always attack frail hu- manity when brought to almost a compulsory re- trospect of the past, every one whom one meets looks as happy as a weddi est, eX- cepting, perhaps, the crouching an irty 01 women, who sit grinding out their si ballads and their pitiful prayers for bread under the shadow of the churchyard palings. But the common levity of expression, gait and talk make the scene more than ordinarily vivid by the con- trast. Thousands of people are buying LITTLE KNIOK-KNAC! for their little ones, to make thi ‘ly dawning of the New Year as bright to them as bie ; and while they are aoing this they cannot help but joke and laugh and smile in the face of ill-tempered nature. You see here a young gentleman purchasing a ring, with amethyst or ruby or diamond adorning it. Be isa fine, bright fellow, and blushes when he pays the clerk, who smiles to himself. ne littie fower girl on the corner has no cause to complain of a dearth of pennies. ‘The pure white blossoms that she has ready jor sale, done up in little bunches with green leaves, please the fancy of many ® passer who at any other time, even in the midst of the country fields, would never in his rosaic mind have given their kin @ single thought, Te We as pure as these, and will THE PETALS OF THR OPENING YEAR remain as white and fresh unto the end without withering or soiling ? One traditional custom of New Year's Eve was net forgotten. Boys soon after sundown trav- ersed the streets blowing their horns, which com- prised instruments or sorts of tones and all de- grees of discordancy, But no livelier scenes conld have been observed yesterday after the bour of five in the afternoon until late tn the evening than those which took place in the various popular markets. Such an array of RAW EDIBLES is never scen in the whole course of the year except neon Now Years Eve. Great glowing red shoulders of the ox and pale pink carcasses of hogs, in all their hice attractiveness, decorated with ribbons and rosettes, hung suspended from tne hooks in the busy stalls, and were inspected by half a million of anxious matrons and pater Jamitias, But the fowls formed the hugest piles, and “the naked truth,” divested as they were of all their feathers, conjured up dreams of the coming feast, which were by no means dis- agreeable. The old, rickety Washington Market looked jestive. Evergreens adorned the ancient beams and rafters, and the golden lights con- tributed A GLMAM OF GLADNESS to every eye, so cheerful did they make the scene. Manhattan Market was crowded more than it has ever been before since its opening, and the dealers prospered. The other markets presented similar pictures, and there ts no doubt that to-day will wit- ness a8 huge a consumption of the good things of the earth as any former anniversary of the opening of the year, and of course the good cheer and goo4 feeling will therefore not be lessened. TRINITI CHIMES, Ringing the Old Year Out and the New Year In. There is a fanciful idea connected with the Chimed that always suggests a merry time and a reason of some special joyfulness. Sad chimes never ring, and if the bells ever are tolled in a melancholy Strain it must be because there is no other way to get at mournful melody, and the church steeple is profanated by the invasion. Pocts all sorts of music from the chimer yarns have been spun to the tune of them, and in @ general way chimes are something very pretty, merrily religious and highly mysterious in their doings. In this city we have only the one set of chimes, and, as everybody knows, Trinity church possesses them. On Sunday mornings, all the year round, they make pleasant music for wayfarers on Broad- way, and on @ few other special occasions they may also be heard, delighting everybody who hears them. The grand occasion, though, for the Trinity chimes is New Year's night, when every- body 18 looking out for them, they being now the acknowledged means by which New York is rung out of the old year and into the new. It is a very pleasant thing to be thinking of getting rid of the poor old year, as if it gave harder knocks than the year before it had given; but we are a selfish lot of individuals, and yet angry with the web that old Father Time continues to coil around us to bring us down, though the New Year is sure to be neither better nor worse than all his brothers were, who are “dead and gone.” Any- how it isa good thing to be in good humor, and if the bells can ring usintoa state of serenity and complacency they are a biessed institation that we ought at once to get supplied with, all over, for every night of the year. Siushy as were the streets last night, and ardu- 0Us as were the efforts made by very many people to get down town to Trinity church, a large num- ber of people surrounded the sacved edifice twelve o’clock to hear the New Year's chimes, Up along Broadway, on eicher side, pow of men and women Were collected to hear the first muaic oftheyear. The night was pleasant, even though the snow was wet ard deep, and “Happy New Years” were not quite such @ sarcasm as they have been, at times, witnin the memory of man. The chimes did not in the least bother themselves with any funereal notes over the departed year, nor, indeed, did they m the slightest distinc- tion between the and the living. They were in bound to sing joyously OW, might be reasonably supposed to be all cneenee in @ jolly chorus at Pha IL hour, content t weeping and wailing or dirging could do no more harm than they could do good. With commendabi ae triotism they began their jollifcation with fail Columbia," and then, out of respect for the ladies, Hes | “God Save the Queen."’ ‘his being 8 slow air in achurchyard, they proceeded to “Yankee Doodle,” being — particu ry, sharp at the “doodle dandy, and did immensely ali through. Then, for fan e, admirably chimed “We're @ Nodding,” after which, in @ rush, they went at Mag ig os Charley.” This evidently made some of the Us @ little sentimental, and the result was that “Annie Laurie” was now rendered in a most exquisitely athetic manner, reminding one of the fact that 873 was very strong for his age. Once more tl all brightened up again and relieved tremscive: by chorussing ‘Shoo Fly,” which was intended, perhaps, to scare all the religious people in the vicimity; but they soon made up ter thie by out the ‘Red, White and Blue.” This ‘was foliowed by “Put Me Im My Little Bed" and “Captain Jinks,” both of whieh pretty and select airs had the effect of making some of the chorus to wag behind a little; and then they dis- posed of the “4 ~ Mia the “Gyps, arning,” the “Mabel Waltz’ and a few other sen- Umental melodies. By this time the listening people had begun to get “a little under the influence of the weather,” and by degrees the erable pile was left to its OWD ‘solitary grande: The New Year Ly | thus been rung in, it now became the property o! everyboiy, and the chimes, i¢ must be said, did their annual duty, without anything having oo curred to disturt the harmony of the event But HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1873.—WITH before the crowds eee a long, joyous and Nilartous cheer waa given for 1875, and as the peo- ple came up Broadway on their way home there was a mingled clatter of “Happy New Years" and “Dear me's” and ‘'Tis awful wot at the crossings” that was afl mght, WATCH NIGHT SERVICES. “Couldst Thou Not Watch With Me One Hour!”—Observance of an Ancient Custom. *To man, a8 to God, existence is an eternal now. The present is the point at which two eternities meet. The present alone is ours. The flight of time, bearing with it us and our destinies, is sub- lime.” SO writes the Rev. Dr. Went- worth, who also declares that it is no wonder that men have set apart eras for the contemplation of this solemn subject. So early as 1742 Wesley began to hold watch-night serviges for’ the special contemplation of this theme, and in twenty years they had become a regular institution, and for more than a century New Year's Eve has been a festival of the Methodist Guuron. Wesley characterized. it as "A “SOLEMN WATCH NIGHT," THE LOUISIANA RETURNING BOARDS, ‘To THE Epiror or tae NeRALp:— In reading the fragmentary accounts of the pro- ceedings in Loniatana, which culminated in the overthrow of the State government and tho sac- ceaon thereto of the Pinchback régime prepara- toryto the installation of the Kellogg organina- tion, under the decision of Judge Durell, the public are perplexed, and, to some extent, baffled, by ref- erenées to four different sets of persons, claiming at diferent times to be the returning officers of the State. I propose to remove this difficulty by show- ing the origin of these various boards and the au- thority under which they claimed official existence and recognition. The circumstances which lea to the original division are suMciently well known; but it will Rot-be inappropriate to recapitulate the facts aa they appear in evidence. The three members. of he original Board who were competent to act (vere the Governor, Senator Lynch and F. J. Her- yon, then discharging the duties of Secretary of tate in of Bovee, removed by the Governor, gests ESD Pree | Atter these three members had met and organized and such to a very great extent it is in many} churches, The deeds of the past are recalled in th religious experience of the worshippers, aud many, @ solemn vow is made on Now Year's Eve whose, record is placed in heaven for weal or for woe. It fs tho, starting. point for revivals in very many of our city churches, and handreda data Boer etons impressions if not their conygr tm, festivalannually. The services in, Generally adapted to solemnize + careless frame of mind may aw. | The addresses or sermons which way delivered call up the judgments and the mercies of God during the year past, the vows made and broken, and appeals are made by motives which cannot so weil be presente at an; other season to the. sinner to jorsake his way an the unrighteous man his thoughts and to fun unto the Lord, who will have mercy, and to our (od, who will abundantly pardon. ' THE COLORED:CHURCHRS, | are uspally crowded on watch nights, not alone by sable brethren and sisters, but Pale faces, yho some times go to mock but remain to pray. {er- vices were held in Sullivan street Methodist Epis- copal church last night, but the phce was 80 crowded that when the HERjLD representative called there the doors were jar- ricaded and a crowd of white and black nen and women stood without, awaiting a chanc) to enter that they mighthave some fun. The HESALD man knocked and asked to be admitted, but the request was answered by a pair of black eyes and & row of white teeth—about all the reporter could see—and @ voice which said, ‘’Tain’t no use you tryin’ to get in ere now. ‘Ihe elder says you can’t, and ’tis no use tryin’. “Bend the elder here a moment,’’ said the HERALD ain’t @ goin’ to do nothin’ of the kind,” re- sponded the row of ivories. Further delay was of no avail, and the reporter departed. Not, how- ever, declaring, as some of the young gamesters resent declared, they would publish them in the ERALD. Services were held in THE WHITE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CRURCH, in Forty-third street, where Dr. King made a brief address, presenting a few facta which had come under his ex rience during the year touctiing the death of Christians and unbelievers. He sppealed, 6 therefore, to the latter class, who were well represented, to begin the new year with a new fife, In Thirty-flith Street, Thirtieth street, Bedford street and other churches on the west side of the city; and in Twenty-sevyenth street, Seventeenth street, Sev-~ enth, and a few more on the east side, similar ser- vices were also held. Very few, indeed only one or two, of the respectable churches kept up the watch-night service. They could not spend the midnight hour in prayer together for the blessin; of God on their churches and their impeniten neighbors and friends, At the closing moments a few of them were spent in silent prayer, and the ped generally ended with the consecration ymin — Come Iet us anew our Journey pursue ; Roll round with tho year, And never stand still till the Master appear. “THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW().” An Attempted Thaw Yesterday—Slush in All the fitreets—The Sleighing Badly Damaged. The thaw has commenced with a new yoar inatal ment that threatens to limit the jollity and render wretched the locomotion attendant upon the great social festival, The slight fail of snow on Monday night was succeeded by a slight drizzle of rain yesterday, which, not being heavy enough to sweep the snowbanks in a deluge down our streets, suc- ceeded only in rendering them slushy and unfit for riding or walking. The warm weather that ensued has precluded the possibility of freezing the wet snow in ita place again, unless a cold snap shall have intervened during the early hours of **« morning. As @ result of the tne snow on the house tops has eowmenced melting, and from every cornice ‘#ere 18 a ceaseless dripping, making « +°fy effectual rainiall of its own upon exc heads of the paasers by. Little rivelets take their rise in the base of the mountainous snow- banks, and meander through the partially opened gutters and along the car tracks, SLUSH Splashes plentifally to the footfall in crossing the streets. Carriage wheels fling dirty snow upon the pine IF BG and, except in favored spots, the le gleight St 10K the present But the horse fat ii # val barer uA ‘taster, a iiree @ additional infux of passengers unwilling to wade in the mud fills them to such an unwieldy extent that four horses are still needed to pee one car. Early in the day the water froze on the sidewalks, eT ae pedestrianism a thing of skill and science; but this evil rapidly gave way betore the warm temperature to the worse evil o: slush, ON BROADWAY the slush is unfathomable, and the stalwart police- men who pilot ladies across are considering the expediency of establishing Jerries at their posts or making ferries of themselves, The day before New Year is one on which all shopping creation must be out, however—no postponement on ac count of the weather. Broadway was crowded consequently with ladies yesterday, looking, some of them, wofuily bedraggied and forlorn, and others, with that innate tact peculiar to the sex, maintaining their neatness in deflance of mud an bundles, The moistening of the snow rendered snowballing possible amd to the other jollities or discomforts of the season, according to the tem- perament with which one views them, was added ‘the additional sensation of a snowball back of the head or down the coat coilar, and only the sight of @ fleeing urchin for compensatien. ON FIFTH AVENUR the snow had been cut Into little hillocks and ravines, and rendered too soft for good sleighiug. The noble thoroughfare looked like a Virginia dirt road in the middle of Winter. here were only a few sleighs out, deterred ea Le the unpromis- ing surface and somewhat, doubtless, by the threatening dampness of the weather. IN THE PARK the sleighing was no better and the skating was execrable. The snow is in such acondition that @ good night's freeze may render it endurable, and, as tho temperature freshened up somewhat last pesky it is probably suitable ior jolly visitors to-day. TYNDALL’S LAST LECTURE. Professor Tyndall on Spectrum Analysis. Professor Tyndall delivered his fiith and last lec- ture last evening at the Cooper Institute, The entire hall was packed, every seat being occupied by an audience of the greatest apparent intelligence and respectability. The Professor was in evening dregs and wore his intaliible white necktie, The first part of his lecture was devoted to a vivid and beautiful illustration of the manner in which illusions and bands of color can be produced by a mixture of metals, minerals and alloys. The sec- ond part of the lecture was read from noves and root sheets and Was a sort of a valedictory warn- Ing to the American people that they must encour- age, foster and cultivate science. The lectures will be yee in Brooklyn, at the Academy of Music, for six nights, beginning on the evening of the 4th of January, and ending on the 20th of January. The lecture was listened to throughout with Profound attention, and his closing re- marks, in which he reviewed the tri- umphs and discoveries of genius and science, were heartily applauded. In conclusion it Must be said that nearly every lady or delicate person who sat in tho Cooper Institute last even- Ing may expect a terribly bad cold to result jrom the prolonged stay of two hours in a iarge room without any heatii ing the body comfortable. apparatus er mecns of keep- In fact, the manage- ment was scandalous that permitted such an out- rage. RAILBOAD COLLISION. Cc Full of Somerset—A Lady and Two Children Seriously Injured. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 31, 1872, A collision occurred early this morning in the indianapolis yard between a freight train on the Indianapolis aad St. Louis Railroad and a through passenger train from Cincinnati to Peoria, Ill. The passenger coach was thrown from the track down fn embankment ten feet. The car was filled with passengers and turned over on its side. One lady and two childrea were seriously burt, but none fa- tay injured, it became necessary to All the two vacancies, since the law required the Board to be composed of five Members, and authorized the rematuing members, in case of the diaqualification’ of any of tit num- ber, to choose substitutes. At this point Coionel Wharton claimed to act in virtue of a, commission from the Goveraor appointing him to discharge the euties of Secretary of S*rse, vice Herron. re- 'v vote Governor and * « Mesars. r > ware nen » fill the ¥ * be Lynch and Hes voted * motion to appoins agetreet- and Hawkins velore leaving the room; but their testi- mony i. not corroborated, and they are contra- dicted on this point by seven different witnesses. Nevertheless, assuming still to act as Secretary of State, and pretending that the election of Long- street and Hawkins had really been made, Herron met at another place with Lynch, Longstreet and Hawkins, organized a separate board without the Presence of the Governor and asked for an injunc- tion from the Eighth District Court (Judge Dib- ble’s) _ restrali Messrs. Hatch, Wharton and Da Ponte m acting Pending a suit under the Intrusion act. ie piuncbon Was granted, and on the subsequent trial oi the rule Judge Dibble made it perpetual on the ground that the Governor cou.d not remove Herron, and that Herron remained de sucto Secretary of tate in spite of the mpuera isnt of Wharton. He ex- pressly declined to consider the testimony on the int of the election, although he assumed the elec- ‘ion as the basis of his decision recognizing Long- street and Hawkins. In the meantime the returns remained in the possession of the Governor, to whom the law requires that they shall be transmit- ted, to be by him opened in presence of the Board of Keturning Officers. It may be proper to state that the Eighth District Court had exclusive juris- diction in cases of injunction, mandamus and con- tested election, and that Judge Dibble, then pre- siding in that Court, was a candidate at the elec- tion and was known to have been defeated by more than ten thousand votes, It is also charged that on the day on which he gave his decision he was in caucus with Kellogg and Packard at the Custom House, However this may be, he assumed to sit in judgment in a case in which he was per- sonally interested; to issue an order preventing the canvassing of the votes except by his own friends, and, in de‘ault of such canvass, perpetuat- ing his own tenure of office by attempting to pre- vent the installation of his elected successor. Fearing that the Herron-Lynch Board would at- tempt—what they subsequently effected—a sham canvass and count, without returns, the Governor asked and obtained a temporary injunction, restraining them from doing any official act. This suit and the original suit were subsequently dis- missed by Jud imore, Judge Dibble’s successor, for reasons which will presently appear. Judge Elmore, having obtained ym Mr. Blanchard, Su- pervisor of Registration for the city of New Or- leans, @ certificate showing the number of votes cast tor him at the election, according to the offi- clal count, was commissioned Judge of the Eighth District Court by the Governor; and the same course was taken with reference to the Sheritts and other Juages ana Clerks of Court whose elec- tion was matter of public notoriety, About this time Kellogg commenced a suit in the United States Court, before Judge ie prepara- tory, as he alleges in his bill, toa suit which he in- tended to bri under the Enforcement act, to test his right, to, the omfce of Govertior. ‘The Stut whies oc Tougnt—ws Btit With has never been supplemented by the action to which he declared it to be preparatory—was de- scribed by Judge Durell in his decision as a weil- known chancery proceeding —to wit., @ suit for the perpetuation of testimony. Kellogg alleged that the returns showed his election, and asked the Court to restrain the Governor, Waarton, Hatch and Da Ponte from canvassing them, on the ground that those persons would mutilate, falsify and de- stroy them, He alsoalleged that Lynch ct al. con- stituted the legal Returning Board of the State, and made other allezatious which are irrelevant to the case aa we aie presenting it. The injunction asked sur was granted by Judge Durell, Consequently the position was this:—The Board com- josed of Governor Warmoth and Messrs, | Match, Wharton and Da__— Ponte had 4 possession of the ‘returns, but were | restrained from conv aening. them and rO~ |; claiming the result. The Board composed of | Messrs, Lynch, Hawkins, Herron and Longstreet, could make no canvass—first, because they were notin | seagate of the returns, and, next, be- cause the law required that the returns should be ne : Behe of the and he de- clined to recognize Lynch et gl. as such officers, It happened, however, that th Leulslagure, at its last session, had passed a new election Jaw, Which law abolished the Board, as then constituted, and provided fora new Board of five members, to be elected by the Senate. The Governor signed that bill, promulgated it, and thus made it a law, in accordance with the constitution of the State, Judge Elmore then dismissed the pending suit, and the cross-injunction founded upon it, for the sufMicient reason that neither of the litigating Boards could have a legal existence after the pro- mulgation of an act, not only vacating the offices but abolishing them. Concurrently with the pro- mulgation of this act the Governor called a session ofthe ‘islature (the body just elected), to meet on the 9th of December, in order that the Senate might elect the returning officers, as provided by the new law. In the mean tine, under. the authority of an article in the constitution, which gives the Governor power to fill vacancies, he aj pointed five well-known citizens of the State to act as returning officers until the Senate should elect. This was known as the De Feriet Board. The gentlemen composing it were not restrained by any injunction or other process issued by the United States Court. They met, organized and canvassed and compiled the returns as to members of the Legislature, and their canvass and compila- tion were duly promulgated. The persons thus designated as elected to the Legislature, ora quo- Tum of them, subsequently met and organized, and the Senate, in discharge of the duty prescribed by the new election law, chose a board of returnin oiticers, composed of Senators Todd, Hunsacker an Thomas, and Messrs. Archibald Mitchell and B, R. Forman. These gentlemen received the returns from their predecessors of the De Feriet Board, compiled the returns for Governor, Lieutenant Gov- ernor and members of the General Assembly, and promulgated the result. It is remarkable that Judge Durell, in his dect- sion, while recognizing the vaildity of the new elcction law, totally ignored the existence of the board which had been appointed under it. He maintained that Longstreet, Hawkins et al. had been the legal officers, and that they must hold over under the constitution until the pong and installation of their successors. Apart from the monstrous assumption of jurisdiction im this decision was manifestly absurd. An oMicer holds over only in case hia office continues exist. But the new law abolished the offices, and there could therefore be no such thing as holding over. These were origin?! vacancies, and they had been filled by the Governor under the provisions of the State constitution. It is likewise remarkable that, when Judge Durell decided that Longstreet, Hawkins et al. constituted the legal Board, those persons did not even apply to the Governor for the returns, Their certificate appended to their proclamation of the result declares that they act by authority con- ferred by the law of the State. Now, the State law under which they professed to act declares that the Governor shail open the returns in presence of the returning officers, by whom they shall then be canvassed aud compiled according to the pr visions of the statute. Longstreet, Hawkins et al. never applied for the returns after Durell’s decision; they never asked him to open the returns in their presence; they never had the returns; they made out a list of persons whom the: believed to be elected, without Raving a singie cial docu- ment of any kind im their possession. composed, in utter defiance of the law under which they professed to act; in utter contempt and defi- ance even Ce urelvs decision, and of the duties which that person confided to them, they handed to the United States Marshal as the list of raons legally entitied to enter the State House; the Marshal it was handed to the oMcer in on of the United States troops occupying the building, and by that officer the so-called General Assembly of Louisiana was constituted and stalled. TRI to the Governor in- STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF IOWA. Curcaao, Dec, 31, 1872, The deficiency in the accounts of Samuel EF. Ran- kin, the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the lowa Agricultural College, will be nearly thirty- eight thousand dollars. The Board had not re- ba him to give a bond, He has, within the last lew days, conveyed to the Board some furs thousand dollars’ worth of eras be Rankin ts iso State Treasurer of lowa; but his accounts with the State are sald to be vorfectly straight, 2S BS ES eee aes Stile GR“. eae eb SUPPLEMENT. DISASTERS AT SEA. Loss of the Charrucea on Her Passage to Lreland. ‘ The Steamship Costa Rica Disabled Off the Coast of Mexico—The Fearful Voyage of @ Bremen Bark—Arrival of the Steamship Cuba After Passing Through Terrible Gales. LOSS OF THE CHARRUCCA, oe Te Another Graim Laden Steamer Gone Down—Description of the V: and Her Cargo—No Tidings of the Scanderia or Commander. A.short time bagk the HxnaLp chronicled the loss of the English steamer Scanderia, which sailed from thia port with a crew of some sixty men, for Great Britain, laden with grain, and which, like the ill-fated City of Boston, has gone to the ocean's bed, leaving no vestige behind. Since the loss of tne Scanderia, the British steamer Commander, of over a thousand tons burden, which sailed from Montreal on the 2d of November, with a full cargo of grain, has doubt- less followed the Scanderia into the depths, for no tidings have been received from her from that ‘«ytosthis, Tho HzrkaLp has now to record the veo Ore~other English steame:, grain tader, vhile on her voyage from this pert to Wate ve! Ireland. On the 29th of October last the Cho wened by Messrs. R. Mcan*rews & Co., ad employed in opening a line of st¢ aicp- tion for that house between Spai ada, 4r- rived in this city from Havanain © » She was commanded by Captain Egusqui:, ad her crew were exclusively Spanish, exc: ing th tional Scotch engineer. Alter discharging her bi last she commenced taking in a grain cargo tor New York house tor Waterford, in Ireland, consist- consisting of 37,757 bushels of wheat. DESCRIPTION OF THE VESSEL, The Charrucca was three masted, schooner rigged, had five bulkheads, 905 tons gross measure- meut and 672 tons net; ath, 230 feet; breadth of beam, 27 feet 6 inches; depth of hold, 17 feet 9 inches. She was built by Bowdler, Chaftin & Co., of Seacombe, England, inthe year 1871. Her ma- chinery was good end of about 150 horse power nominal, She carried no passengers, The vessel and cargo were insured in London. The belief that she was lost existed in that city a month ago, for the London Review of December 1 says:—‘‘Heavy insurance rates have been paid on the undermentioned vessels. * The Char- rucca, New York to United Kingdom, sailed 2d November; Bae guineas paid.” Last night a HERALD reporter called at the office of the agents, but got no particulars. ACCIDENT TO A STEAMSHIP. The Pacific Mail Steamship Costa Rica Disabled in the Gulf of California— The Steamer Walting Off Manzanillo To Be Towed to San Francisco, A rumor gained credence yesterday on the street that the Pacific Mail steamship Costa Rica had been disabled in the Gulf of California, and from this rumor Pacific Mail stock declined quickly, to the consternation of some speculators and to the great Joy ot others, A HERALD reporter was sent to the office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which is located at 59 Wall street, inthe building of Brown Brotn- ers. The reporter asked for information from a blonde clerk, who was seemingly quite busy, and he was directed to ask the Vice President—a Mr. Bellows—who sat at a side desk, up to his neck in business. Having waited a few minutes politely, the Vice President said in a very gruff and dis- pleased tone, in answer to the question if there ‘was any danger for the Costa Rica:— “{ know nothing about it, sir. Nothing more than what you know yourself at the HERALD office. I suppose you have got the same news that we ntve. “Do you know, Mr. Bellows, if there are many Passengers on the Costa Rica, or how much she is worth??? Mr. BELLOWS (still more grufly) —No, sir. I know nothing but what you know yourself. The axle of the propeller of the Costa Rica has been broken in the Gulf of California, according to the despatch which we have received, and she is lying off Man- zanillo waiting to be towed to San Francisco, her destination. She left Panama for San Francisco, and that is all I know. A HERALD reporter has been here already on the same errand. Here Mr. Bellows threw an angry glance at the reporter, who bowed with suavity and left. DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTA RICA. The Costa Rica is an tron sprenelise, classed as Al, having a draught of 20 feet, and was built at Wilmington, Del., in 1868. Her consignees are the Panama Kaliroad Company. The Costa Rica is 1,457 tons burthen, and her dimensions are‘2z9 fect in Las breadth 35 feet, and 21 feel depth of hold. Her saloons are on deck, and she has four bulkheads and two boilers. Her beam is 67x7. The value of the vesse] apd Cargo, the number of passengers on board, the ofiicers’ las} pad the insurance, if any, could not be ascertained, owing to the Feticence of the officers of the Pacitic Mail Steamship Company. It ig to be hoped that at this particular time, when dreadful storms are ravaging our coasts, that the vessel is well Finger with all necessary means either for getting safely to port or else, in case of disaster, for saving life, AN EVENTFUL VOYAGE. ‘ eee Twenty-two Deaths on Board a Bremen Bark—A Terrible Atlantic Voyage— Children Dying Daily. The Bremen bark Columbus, Captain J. Helder, arrived at this port yesterday morning, after a long and eventful passage. She sailed from Bremen on the 18th of October, having on board 300 passengers, of which number 150 were children under eight years of are. Early on the voyage she met with bad weather, which continued during the whole of her passage across the Atlantic. Captain Helder says that he never encountered a continuous series of such VIOLENT GALES during his long experience afloat. The wind blew with tremendous fury, and the sea rose up in great angry waves that breached over the vessel, threat- ening her every moment with utter annihilation. It was impossiole to carry much sail. and head winds retarded the vessel’s progress. Deaths soon became very prevalent among the younger passen- gers, ior their parents became exhausted and were unable to supply them with suficient nourishment. The waves breaching over the vessel and bursting upon her decks rendered it absolutely necessary to keep the hatches battened down and the houses upon deck securely closed for days together, the foul air generated thereby doubtiess tending to produce sickness among the enervated children, Though the Columbus was amply Lg with provisions, having been super- vised by the Bremen officials prior to sailing, it | was frequently found impossible to do any cooking aboard, the crew and adult passengers BRCAMB BXHAUSTED,' the former by their laborious exertions and the Jatter by the sudden difference between quiet life ashore and the miseries they experienced afoat, parents could not care Properly for their offspring, and the result is the sad fact that twenty-one of these little sufferers died during the pas Diphtheria was the cause of tho demise of many. There were two births on board, and the mother of one of these tempest-born chil- dren expired just prior to the vessel reaching Sandy Hook. The infants were buried at sea, The woman’s corpse was landed for interment at Staten Island yesterday. Messrs. H. Koop & Co., the consignees of the Columbus, sent fresh provi- sions down to the luckless immigrants yesterday, and the vessel, released from quarantine, as no epidemic prevailed on ber, will come up to the city vo-day. THE STEAMSHIP CUBA. — She Encounters Heavy Westerly Gales— Abstract from Her Log. The steamship Cuba, E. R. Moodie commander, from Liverpool, arrived at her dock in Jersey City last evening. She experienced heavy westerly gales on her. passage to this port and had to put into Halifax on her way for coal, having nearly ex- hausted her supply from the long passage. The following is an ABSTRACT FROM HER LOG. December 14.—9 A. M. received mails; 10:15 A. M. left Liverpool, 8 moderate breeze blowing at the time; wind easterly. December 15.—8 A. M. arrived at Queenstown; 9:36 P. M, received mails; 4:04 P. M. leit Queenus- own; wind the same, December 16,—Lat 5115 N., long. 14 13 W.; light Rak nh winds and cloudy, Distance made, 250 miles. les December 17.—Lat. 50 48 N., long, 18 33 W.; fresh N. W. gale and a heavy head sca, Distance made, 165 miles. December 18,—-Lat, 60 81 Nw loud, g2 02 W.; winds | steamship Siberia in doc:"s” 8. W. to N. W., niowing N.W. sea, Distarce m. December 1 me wind at. heavy northerty gale blo Distance made, 4? miler December 21.—Lat, 45 N. E, gales, with ahigh miles. December 22.—Lat. 445 westerly breeze, with ha 217 miles, December 23,--Lat. 4 breeze blowing fom the increasing with iard 54 miles, December 24,—Lat. 4 heavy westerly gale blo a Distance made, 133 miles, December 25.—Lat. 43 ale blowing from the V iptance Biade, 145 miles, FG xacember 26. —Lat. bs 45 No. lon, 08 W, hard |. W. gales with e very bigh nce ma 188 pee y bigh sca. Distance a December 27.—Lat. 42 7N., lon. 62 34 W., winds strong, and variable with & heavy cross sea. AS o Was changed and the steamabip hors an Joe Halltax, N. a mber 28,—Sighted Cambro Light; ati Finds end malty at the time, Ato 4 M. receiv 4 pilot, Wad at If 715 a, M. arrived at Halifax. cember 29.—At 7 A, M, left, Halifax; 8:18 A. M. discharged pilot. Breeze strong and coming from the W.N.W. December 30.—Lat, 40 44 N., long. 691. Bree blowing fresh from thed¥, N, W. tance rm” 254 miles, December 31.—At 2:22 P.M. received * »/\ ~ at Fee P.M. arrived at Sandy lisok und ©) 9 0) 2 / three at Quarantine, VESSELS SIGHTED AT SEA BY THB “ili The commander of the Cuba reports having om December 16, at fiiteea minutes past twe o% A. M., passed a Cunard steamer, bars rigges bound east. December 30, ten o'clock 4. M., a four-masted steamer, boundeast. December 31, at thirty minutes past one O'clock P, M., eleven sailea east of Sandy Hook, ee a Ue showing ‘w. HN. G RB, hound in, geporss Cunan: COehDg. THE WES" © RIVES ¢q The Ice Steamer Mogntain Boy Sunk—The Propel- ler Messenger and Grey Eagle Badly Damaged—The Mississippi Gorge at Randolph Dispersing. . Crvotnnatt, Dec. 31, 1872 Early this morning the ice broke the steamera Mountain Boy, Messenger and Grey Eagie loose from the foot of Wainut street and carried thems down on the Mail line wharfboat at the foot of Vine street, sinking the Mountain Boy and damaging the other two boats. The Mountatn Boy is sunk to her boiler deck, an@ 1s held up by the ico; she is now being wrecked. She is owned by the Cincinnati and Chillicothe Packet Company, and valued at $9,000; insured here against fire only, The Messenger is crowded between Mountain Boy and Grey Eagle, and has both sides and her afterguards broken in and her cylinder cracked. She is in a bad condition, and it is doubtful ifehe can be saved. Four hundred and fifty tons of cargo are on board the Messenger. The Grey Eagle has her guards smashed, and fs crowded on the whar{boat. The Leonora, owned by the Louisville Mall Line Company, was landed a mile or two below the city, and is fast in the 1ce, No coal of any amount was lost here, though several empty barges were car- ried away. ‘The ice stopped moving before seven o'clock, and has not gorged siuce. As it 1s still raining it is feared the ice will move again at any moment, when greater damage is expecte®~ Au J WOaty have steam up. E THE MISSISSIPPI, The Monster Gorge at Randolph Broken— No Further Damage Apprehended. Mewyruis, Tenn., Dec, 31, 1872. All the shore ice below Wolf River disappeared during last night. A large quantity of ice ts running in the river, and it is believed that the gorge at Ran- dolph has broken, but the ice has softened so muck that no further danger is apprehended, The boats at the levee are loading and preparing to leave. GERMANY. The Catholic Charches Closed in the Grand Dycny of Posen—Arbitrary Action of the Prussian Government— The Archbishop of Posen Suubbed and Closing Consceration Services, Denied the Polish Population. {From La Liberté, Dec. 14.) Our readers will remember having read, in one of our recent numbers, a despatch afnouncing that ail the Catholic churches in the Grand Duchy of Posen were closed onthe 8thof December by order of the Prussian government, We have since received from our own correspondent fur- ther details on this subject, and which com- pletes the information, somewhat vague as we then gave it. Within a month past Monsignor Ledochowski, Archbishop of Posen, addressed a circular letter to all the Seer ® membera of his clergy, ordering the celebration, on the 8th inst., in all the churches of the diocese, of a solemn mass and prayers that all would be placed under the protec- tion of the Heart of Jesus. He commented on the principal features of the persecution to which Catholicism was subjected thronghout the whole of Germany, declaring, besides, that the conflict be- tween God and Belial had entered on @ phase of severity unknown up to tho present time, He protested in the most indignant terms against the violence done to the conscience and legitimate liberties of the Catholics as clilzens and fathers of families, The Prussian government threatened to take severe measures against this, which it designated as the beginning of sedition, At Posen and Kénigsberg the priests were forbidden to follow the prescriptions of the Archbishop. The directors and rofessors of the Gymnasium and of the Seminary ave been beld verte Ge the first for having permitted the reading of the circular and the others for having attempted to obey it. The clergy Of these institutions, secing the impossibility of conforming to the desires of Mgr. Ledochowskt, gave orders to their followers to go through with the usual religious exercises only in their respec- tive parish churches. Then the government forbade the above-named directors to send their followers into the churches where the consacration to the Heart of Jesus was to have taken place. Nevertheless, the Catholic population, without allowing themselves to be in- timidated by the threats of the authorities, who had not yet recetved precise instructions, congre- geted in great numbers at the churches, But on this same day (December 8), important despatches were received by the various local authorities. Orders were given to listen neither to claims nor prayers of the clergy and Catholic opulation. ‘All the churches must be firmly closed fore the hour fixed for the consecration eee and, if mecessary, public force would be furnishes for the execution of these orders. The govern- ment had hoped, doubtless, that the indignation of the Catholics would give rise to acts of repression and disorder, but the Polish people received the news with the greatest calmness. The proscrip- tions of the government were everywhere received with silence and resignation; but the words of the Archbishop had received their complete concur- rence and con‘ormation. AID FOR MER. TOWNLEY’S FAMILY. To THe Eprror OF THE HERALD:— Mr. Townley, journalist, was buried to-day. He leaves a wife and four children in other than com- fortable circumstances, it is said. During his com neetion with the press as a critic he always had® kind and encouraging word for struggling artists, and many of them, who are now on the road to success, are indebted. in a measure, to him for their good fortunes. Mr. Townley was & member ot the Arcadian and Palette Clubs. These organt- gations are principally composed of newspaper people, artists and other professionals. ey should see to it that the silent, yet none the less eloquent, appeal of the widow aad chil- dren of their deceased friend sah, uponee eee not go without fitting, generous give this pnblication, that action leading to mate- Tial results va Be nae HARDEN New York, Dec, 31, 1872 pesteheetnn ee THE WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS, Susan B. Anthony and Foarteen Other States m Refuses to Give Bail. Rocugsrer, N. Y., Deo. 31, 1872. Yesterday afternoon fourteen of the women held for illegal voting at the late election in this city ave ball to appear in tne Albany Court. Stsan B. Anthony refused to furnish bail and waa remanded to the custody of Deoutr Uuited Statet Marshal Keeuoy, ye Onie Broken—The © \d which he ehded by” Miss’ *