The New York Herald Newspaper, January 2, 1873, Page 4

4 Pe EC nce eee UnLELASInADEA UaRSIRNADRRGIRASRRRER Inn anDetanamnenameRRRAEDINATIE NETRA) oan the Treasury Ring, Syndicate and Debt NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Hess edly Wiad ae THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the | One statement was that he would resign about tear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume AXXVIIL............ccceceeeeees No. 2 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—GxeNnevizve pe Branant. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtiéth st.— Jacn, tax Giant Kitier. Atternoon and Evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Np Mus. Peter Wuitx. Bowery.—Swamp ANGELS—Mr. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth fv.—Rounp tHE CLock. ‘ NIRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, betweem Prince and Flouston streets.—Lx0 axd Loros. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway. between Thirteenth and Fourteenth sts.—Sow oy tux Sort, &c. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—BnormEn Sam, Boorn's THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avcnue.—Ricuanp II. TUEBATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Ding Doyo Bru. GERMANIA THRATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—Dern MeincipsavEr. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Somze or Cramere Music. RROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Granv IystrumentaL Concert. ATHENEUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Tus Tarex Hoxen- BACKS. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Divonce. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner €tb avy.—Nxcro Minstreisy, Eccentricity, &c, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— “Mowery Duurry, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—EruioriaN MinstTRELsY, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science AND ART. New York, Thursday, Jan. 2, 1873. HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “RUMORS ABOUT MR. BOUTWELL, THE TREAS- URY RING, y) ATE AND DEBT-FUND- ING SCHEME !”—LEADER—FovrrtH PaGg. THE CONFLAGRATION ERA! BURNING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE! HEROIC AO- TIONS: ORIGIN OF AND LOSSES BY THE FIRE—EiGutu Pace. |THE CENTRE STREET GLOOM! _ FIVE CHARRED BODIES FOUND AND IDENTIFIED! TWO ADDITIONAL VICTIMS REPORTED—THE CORONERS’ RETURNS! 1,471 DEATHS: THE CAUSES—Tarep PagE. NEW YORK'S NEW YEAR'S! A FINE DAY AND GENERAL OBSERVANCE BY YUUNG AND NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873, Rumors About Mr. Boutwel!, The Washington correspondents and news- papers have been busy of late in publishing rumors about Mr. Boutwell resigning ond other changes in the Treasury Department. the middle of February, and by doing #0 give himself time to go home.to Massachusetts to work for the position of United States Senator, and at the same time to give his friend Mr. ‘| Richardson, the Assistant Secrotary of the Treasury, an opportunity of occupying the position of Secretary for a few weeks previous to that gentleman going abroad as tho partner of Monroe & Co., bankers, Paris, and as the chief agent of the Jay Cooke Syndicate. We confess this appears to bea feasible arrange- ment both as regards the aspirations of Mr. Boutwell for the Senate and for carrying out the Treasury Ring scheme of manipulating the debt. Still, these rumors cannot be relied upon, for Mr. Boutwell has stated that there would be no Cabinet changes till after the inaugurafion of the President in March for a second term. But, whoever becomes Secretary of the Treasury, the old Ring—the Jny Cooke | Syndicate _ Ring—expects to hold its privileges and to control the financial policy and operations of the government. The men who have become gorged with wealth through manipulating government securities and handling government money still hover around and keep a keen eye on the Treasury Department. From the revelations made in our Washington despatches, recently pub- lished, it appears that a powerful combination has either been made or is under consideration to realize a vast sum of money by another turn over or rehash of the national debt. Mr. Chase, when Secretary of the Treasury, brought prominently forward Jay Cooke and his brother as the financial agents of the gov- ernment. The ‘father of the greenbacks,”’ as he has been called, raised his Ohio friends from local obscurity to great wealth and Prominence. They became bankers and financial agents of the governmont and had the national securities to dispose of as well as vast sums of money from the Treasury on deposit. In the course of a few years they rose from poverty to be among the very richest men in the country. Thoy have managed to maintain the same intimate rela- tions with the successive Secretaries of the Treasury since the time Mr. Chase held the office. As soon as Mr. McCulloch retired from that office he became closely connected with the Cooke firm, and went to Europe in that connection. This was another important ad- dition to the Ring. Now it_is reported that Mr. Richardson, the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and, as has been said, the brains of the Treasury Department, is to become an ac- tive and influential member of the combina- tion next Spring, when he retires from office, OLD, METROPOLITANS AND COSMOPOLI- TANS—SIXxTH PaGE. MAYORAL COURTESIES AND THE NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION AT THE CITY HALL—SUDDEN DEATH OF POLICE CAPTAIN JOHN CAME- RON—ORGANIZING THE WELSH NATIONAL SOCIETY—SIxTH Pace. REGULATING THE SANDWICH ISLANDS! THE WASHINGTON AND LONDON CABINETS! PACIFIC INCLINATIONS—Firtn Page. OUR FEDERAL CAPITAL IN A BLAZE OF NEW YEAR GLORY! RECEPTIONS BY TARE PRESIDENT, CABINET SECRETARIES AND OTHER OFFICIALS: WHITE HOUSE RE- CEPTIONS VIEWED THROUGH THE VISTA OF TIME: CHARMING “DOLLY MADI- SON'—SEVENTH PAGE. EUROPE BY CABLE! GENERAL VON ROON SUCCEEDS BISMARCK: THE FRENCH PRESIDENT RECEIVING NEW YEAR'S CALLERS: BRITISH TREASURY EXHI- BIT: A NEW RUSSIAN LOAN—FirtH Pace. SOUTH AMERICAN NEWS! AN INDIAN RAID AND DEFEAT—MISCELLANEOUS TELE- GRAMS—FirTi PaGE. INAUGURATING THE NEW, SPEEDING THE ‘PARTING GOVERNOR! GENERAL JOHN A. DIX INSTALLED AT ALBANY: WARM DEMONSTRATIONS TOWARD MR. HOFF- MAN—FIrTH PAGE. A FINANCIAL RETROSPECT! THE FLUCTUATIONS IN PRICES AND BUSINESS AT THE MONEY CENTRE—OFFICIAL CHANGES AT SING SING—A NEWARK MYSTERY—Tuirp Pace. DANGERS FROM SUPERHEATED STEAM—GEN- TLEMEN OF GENOA—WILLIAMSBURG ‘TRAGEDIES—OBITUARY—SEVENTH PAGE. ‘Tue Sem-Orrrcran Misston of General Schofield to the Haiwaiian Islands and the presence there of an American fleet seem necessary in view of our increasing trade in the Pacific and the complications which may arise in consequence of the death of King Kame- hameha. It is not impossible, however, that annexation to the United States is one of the objects President Grant has in view. Apart from this, which is a question which only time can determine, the President is right in keep- ing the country informed of British schemes in the Pacific, as to a great extent the develop- ment and trade of the United States depend upon the conditions of our intercourse with the islands of those seas. Tar Bopres Fousp.—Five more bodies of the unfortunate victims whose lives were lost in the Centre street fire were found yesterday. After lying a whole week under the ruins the missing girls were discovered huddled together, so burned as scarcely to be recog- nizable. A few scraps of dress and ornaments were all that enabled the relatives to identify their dead. Only the body of the boy is still sought, and the search is to continue till that is recovered. May many years pass before our city shall wifness a similar sacrifice of life to # danger which cau beand ought to be fully guarded against. Avornzn Item ror Mn, Frovpe.—Here are the latest Irish agricultural statistics. Three thousand eight hundred enumerators, elected from the Royal Irish constabulary andthe Dublin Metropolitan police, having ‘visited six hundred thousand holdings, de- clare a decrease of 134,915 acres in the extent of land under crops in the present year. The decrease in cereal crops is 33,361 acres. The returns of emigrants from the several ports of Ireland for the first seven months of 1872 record an increase of | 5,840 persons over the same number of months in 1871. In 1861 the number of fourth-class “houses in Ireland, each of which had but one room for the entire family of every age and sex, was 89,374. These were occupied by half o million of human beings. Mr. Froude thinks that home rule would be the ruin of Ireland. Is she not ruined already? and that he will go to Paris and join a banking house in that city for the purpose. Thus stronger and stronger the Ring becomes. Mr. Boutwell is its shield and defender, and will, no doubt, continue to be, whether in the Treasury Department or United States Senate. The great object or prize aimed at, for which all the parties appear to be acting harmo- niously, is refunding the national debt. To the millions already made by handling it the Ring expects that turning it over again will yield a larger profit still, and probably not less than fifteen to twenty millions. Scarcely a day passes that something is not telegraphed from Washington to the news- papers about the Syndicate business, what Mr. Boutwell thinks and proposes to do with regard to it, and what Jay Cooke or some one else of the Treasury Ring has said. There is a remarkably oracular style in all this, as if intended to impress the people with the aston- ishing financial ability and statesmanship of Mr. Boutwell, the Cookes and that well-known Ring with which they are connected. It is a sort.of advertisement of the firm to hoodwink the uninitiated and the mass of the people. This Ring has not shown that genius or ability in national financial matters which it pretends to claim, though it has been cunning enough to make vast sums of money out of the gov- ernment, It has taken advantage of tho ignorance of Congress and mere ex- perimenters in national finance. The Cookes always come to the front in these outgivings about the Syndicate and rearranging the debt. Can not the Treasury Depurtment march along without the assist- ance of these gentlemen? We are told now that Mr. Boutwell intends to carry out his | policy of funding the debt by the aid of the Syndicate, as heretofore, and that the Cookes have decided that no change whatever in the arrangement is necessary. They propose to go on as before—to convert the debt. How very accommodating! They are willing to take ten or fifteen millions or more without do what the Treasury Department could do itself. Of course thoy bring in the name of the Rothschilds, as they did before, to fortify their pretensions; but we cannot see why the Rothschilds should not negotiate directly with our government if they desire to make a loan. The truth is there is a determination on the part of the Ring to use the Secretary and the Treasury, as: heretofore, to add millions to the wealth already acquired from that source. We protest against the perpetuation of this gigantic job, and call upon Congress to com- pel the Treasury Department to do its own work without the intervention of speculators and costly agencies, The two paramount financial questions now are,fundoubtedly, funding the debt at as low a rate of interest as possible and bringing the country to a specie basis. Mr. Boutwell has failed to bring about these measures. Hoe has been Secretary of the Treasury during four years of peace and prosperity, and the country had been at peace nearly four years previously, and yet but two hundred millions of the debt is funded at five per cent interest—the highest rate provided for by the funding act—and that after great efforts, a heavy and unnoces- | sary cost, and the national banks being forced | to take sixty-five millions of the amount. Of the fifteen hundred millions of five-twenties bearing six per cent gold interest there re- mains thirteen hundred millions unfunded— that is to say, three hundred millions to be converted into fives, five hundred mil- lions into four-and-a-halfs and five hun- dred millions into fours, Mr, Boutwell led Congress and the country to believe, when he asked for the Funding bill, that he could investing any money, and simply, asagents, to | fund the debt on these terms. He has failed from incompetency and by yielding to the ‘Treasury Ring speculators who wanted to pro- long the job and make the most money out of it. He has had a hundred millions or more, and that principally in gold, at his command dur- ing the whole time he has been in office, but he has not used that to strengthen the credit of the government, Ask any able financier or statesman, here or abroad, if the United States debt is not as secure an investment and as sure to be paid, both interest and principal, as any national debt in the world, and he will say, yes. In fact, there is no debt so certain of being paid. It only required proper skill and management to convert the whole fifteen hundred millions of five-twenties into securities bearing a lower rate of interest, as provided by the Funding act. Indeed, we do not see why the whole amount could not have been funded at four anda half or four per cent, The American debt at that rate ought to stand as well, at least, as the British debt, which bears only three and three and a half per cent interest. The failure comes from not. using the resources and credit of the country properly, and from. employing speculators to do the work of converting the debt instead of the Treasury Department doing’ its own business, ; be cave There is no doubt that the great obstacle to specie payments lies in gold gambling, and this the Secretary has promoted by keeping so much gold in the Treasury and by being him- self the principal operator in the market. While he has held between fifty millions and a hundred millions in the Treasury one or two men, or a small clique of men, in Wall street, with only a few millions in their hands, have been able to keep the premium on gold up and to disturb values to the amount of many hundreds of millions. To say that this state of things has any reason for it or could not be avoided is absurd. Some legislation might be necessary to remedy the evil, but the Secretary should have known what that should be and have given Congress the information. Suppose, for example, the banks should be prohibited from loaning money on gold, as they are on legal teriders, or from in any way fostering gold gambling—the Gold Board and outside operators would soon | find their occupation gone. A few of the principal banks combining then could resume specie payments, probably, without danger; for as soon as the people should know that they could have specie they would not want it, and would prefer paper money as being more convenient. Mr. Boutwell, as we have said, has done nothing to accomplish these great objects, and it is to be hoped that his succes- sor after the 4th of March will be a man more suitable to the position and will place the na- tional finances on a sounder basis. The Condition “Of Pariic mn France. The letter which we printed in the Hznatp of yesterday, giving an account of the debate on the petitions for dissolution, reveals with considerable clearness the actual strength of the two great parties in the Assembly. After a vigorous and protracted debate, in which the leading speakers on both sides took part, the Assembly decided by 483 against 196 “to take no notice of the petitions for dissolution.’’ After such a vote it is impos- sible to doubt the overwhelming strength of the conservatives in the Assembly. This triumph of the monarchists, however, with the ministerial changes which it rendered necessary, is not to be regarded as a final solution of the difficulties of the situation. It proves that in the Assembly the monarch- ists are strong; but it does not prove that the Assembly as at present constituted repre- sents the French people. This latter is the question which, sooner or later, must be solved, and until it is solved France will not be at rest. We do not blame the majority for holding on to the power which they possess ; we do not see much virtue in the minority demanding a test, which, if it does them no good, will at least do them no harm; but we cannot refuse to.admit that Gambetta made a good point when he said that in June last out of one hundred and thirty-four elections republicans were returntd in one hundred and fifteen cases. As soon as the Assembly meets after the holidays we are likely to have fresh trouble from the report of the Committee of Thirty. Tue New Year's Ferstiviriis m New York anp Wasuincton.—It was a lovely day for the ladies in New York and Washington—in our political and commercial metropolises—yes- terday, the brightest New Ycar they have had fora long time. In New York the queens of the anniversary, arrayed in all the charms of nature and art, were ‘‘at home,”’ and the lords of creation, en masse, in obedience to the agreeable and attractive duties of the day, were out in imposing numbers from the bright morning till the new moon went down, But in Washington during the forenoon the ladies, as usual, were out on Pennsylvania | avenue en route to the White House, like shoals of shining butterflies among the banks ot bright flowers which, in the early Spring, illumine the valley of the Sacramento, We give a report of the social festivities of the day in both cities, which will serve our. fair readers asa silver lining to the clouds of fire and death and destruction which, up town and in the dreadful unearthings among the ruins of Centre street, darkened the closing enjoy- ments of the great social festival of New York. Lirz-Savisa Apparatvs.—Recent events display a lamentable deficiency in the equip- ment of our admirable Fire Department for the special service of saving life. At the Centre street fire, where seven persons per- ished, all that the firemen could do in helping the imprisoned girls to escape from the fifth floor was to run up a ladder which proved too short, and before it could be lengthened it was too late. Certainly some more efficient and more generally applicable apparatus could be adopted. Even a rope ladder would be better than the heavy, inflexible ladders which are good and necessary for other portions of a fire- man’s duty, With a single line and a mattress to drop upon some might have been rescued. In some cities a light ladder is used, having a canvas lining running beneath it through which a person can slide safely from any height, the ladders being jointed so as to be quickly adapted to reach the highest roofs. We have seen other contrivances apparently well adapted to the purpose, and “it certainly seems that a small outlay by the Department could be made of the utmost value in prevent- ing such terrible sacrifices as we have lately Leen called fo mourn, Our Opening Fire of the New Year— The Burning of the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The “happy New Year’’ for this city, though a day of surpassing beauty for the season, had @ gloomy ending in the clouds of smoke from the ruins of that pretty little jewel box known as the Fifth Avenue Theatre, to say nothing here of the awful discoveries made among the dismal ruins of Centre street, Ah! what a story of man’s cupidity and inhumanity lies there! But we were speaking of our pretty little theatre which now lies a heap of smoul- dering ruins, save the fragments of a wall or two. We give on another page of this paper a full report of the burning and the history of this popular place of amusement. Roasting furnaces under a mass of combustibles sud- denly flashing into a consuming fire is, in a few words, the story of this misfortune. It is another warning against the construction of buildings of masses of inflammable materials over roasting furnaces, Red Cloud could not be made to excuse the stupidity of this policy of persisting in the erection of costly inflam- mable buildings on the general rule of trust- ing to luck. The ruins of Barnum’s Museum, of that Golgotha of Céntre street, of the Fifth Avenue Hotel holocaust, of Mailfard's ‘establishment, and of the Fifth Avenue Theatre, however, while they all proclaim, the folly and wicked- ness of still piling up more food for fires, testify at the same time to tho efficiency of our Fire Department. It is certainly a faith- ful and most efficient organization, and it was inspiring to see how those brave firemen yesterday worked against the snow drifts on coming into line, and against their more powerful. enemy, the fire, and how they hemmed him in and grappled with him and strangled him. But if these fires are to con- tinue at this rate we shall need large reinforce- ments to these brave and faithful firemen. We must do one of two things—we must either proceed to a systematic overhauling of all the buildings in the city liable toa sort of spontaneous combustion, including the es- tablishment of a fire police force, or we must largely increase the force of our working Fire Department. It is criminal folly to trust to luck, it is folly to expect miracles of our brave firemen. Give a fire in New York at the dead of night a fair start, under a freezing sky and a high wind, and even ouy efficient firemen may fight against it in vain. Reform! Reform! What a field for city reform is here! The Inauguration of Governor Dix. In reading the proceedings at Albany yesterday in the inauguration of Governor Dix we are almost persuaded to the conclusion that the “era of good feeling’ of President Monroe's time is coming back again, The official courtesies interchanged ‘between the retiring Governor, Hoffman (democrat), and the incoming Governor, Dix (republican), were altogether in that broad and generous patriotic spirit which recognizes the faithful perform- ance of a public trust without regard to party distinctions. Honest men of all parties, however high the respect they may have en- tertained heretofore of the public services, abilities or accomplishments of Hoffman or Dix, will entertain a still higher respect for them after reading the graceful, compli- mentary parting official address of the ont- going to the incoming Governor and the graceful reply which was thus elicited. The day was fine; the ceremonials of this in- auguration were impressive; the constellation of the fair women of Albany in the State House made the scene especially charming; but the crowning charm of the occasion was the graceful and grateful interchange of official courtesies between the two Governors, each, as events have proved, the most popular man within the lines of his party throughout the Empire State. We are reminded by this pleasant affair of the scene which particularly marked the first inauguration of President Lincoln. Danger was in the air of Washington; bold rebellion was afoot; General Scott was so fully con- vinced of the peril of the day that he had his handful of troops posted along the line of the inaugural procession, from the White House to the Capitol and around the Capito], so as to be ready to resist an attack upon President Lincoln at any point. It was in the midst of this danger that President Buchanan, by the side of President Lincoln, in the same open barouche, rode up to the Capitol, and held his post by the side of his successor in office till the inaugural ceremonies were over. Here Buchanan showed himself the patriot and the aceomplished gentleman; and on both sides the same qualities were exhibited yesterday between Hoffman and Dix. Let us hope that the good example which they have set will be the general rule for such occasions hereafter. Mayor Havemeyer’s Inavovration.—The inauguration “of Mayor Havemeyer at the City Hall yesterday, like that of the new Governor at Albany, was marked by an agreeable interchange of official courtesies be- tween the retiring and the incoming officer. Ex-Mayor Hall is always the agreeable gentleman, and always, like Mercutio, ready with his joke, and there is no difficulty in the matter of friendly official reciprocities with him. Mayor Havemeyer is a venerable and amiable gentloman of the old Knickerbocker school, and has been too long in times past identified with the democratic party to believe that no good came out of Nazareth. And so, between Mayor Hall going out and Mayor Havemeyer coming in, it was no very hard task to ‘clasp hands over the bloody chasm’ of the defunct Tammany Ring. The new Mayor comes in with a good record and a promising flourish of reform trumpets, and we trust that in his case the old adage, that “a new broom sweeps clean,’’ will be verified. Barmsn Revenve Income.—The revenue receipts of Great Britain for the quarter ended on the 31st of December amounted to seventy- eight million dollars—an increase of five million dollars over the income of the pre- ceding three months. The Treasury exhibit for the months of the English financial year, running from April 1 (its commencement) to the close of 1872, presents a very solid, sub- stantial picture of the result of the com- mercial and manufacturing industrial re- sources of the nation, and also goes to give hope that the Geneva award in the Alabama claims case will be discharged long previous to the termination of the twelve months which wero allowed by the arbitrators to Her Majesty for its payment, The ‘East Africam Slave Trade—Sir Bartle Frere at Adon. The British steam yacht Enchantress, with British government to in- report on the slave trade as particularly as Governor of Bombay from 1862 to 1867, Sir Henry Bartle Frere has had large opportunities of making himself familiar with the slave trade carried on on the east coast of Africa and on the waters of tho Indian Ocean. While Governor of Bombay all his power was exerted to put down tho inhuman traffic, and as @ fierce opponent of slavery ‘his name is well known at Zanzibar. When the result of the Huraup expedition into Central Africa- awoke the public mind of Great Britain to the horrors of the slave trade, and when the government decided to send out a commissioner to Zanzibar to make its wishes known Sir Bartle Frere was, by univorsal_ consent, admitted to be the man best qualified for the mission. Among his many qualifications is this one—he is a friend and admirer of Dr. Livingstone. The readers of the Hrenaup are familiar with the saying of Dr. Living- stone—that he would deem it a greater honor to make an end of the slave trade, as carried on on the east coast of Africa, than to dis- cover the sources of the Nile. Sir Bartle Frere thinks with Dr. Livingstone on this subject, and it is evidently his opinion that the wiping out of slavery is more important to the general interests of humanity than the mere solution of a geographical problem. The mission could - not have fallen into better hands. The United States steamer Yantic, com- manded by Captain Wilson—who has already had an interview with the-Sultan—awaits at Zanzibar the arrival of the Enchantréss. Let us hope that the united representatives of Great Britain and the United States will stir up the Sultan to a sense of his duty. The Sultan, as was shown by a Special despatch to the Hzraup two days ago, does not consider himself much to blame in the premises. It will be the business of Sir Bartle Frere first to dis- cover and then to disclose facts. An official ex- posure of the situation is necessary. Sosconas such exposure is satisfactorily made the guilty parties will be known; and the voice and force of intelligent humanity will put down the evil, no matter how great the effort or how costly the sacrifice. The attention which is now directed to Eastern Atrica ought to be a warning to Spain, and Spain will do well to be wise in time. What Spanish Rule in Cuba Means, Not the least of the evils resulting from Spanish rule in Cuba is not only the perpe- tuity of African slavery in a form of awful barbarity, but a continuation and increase of the coolie trade, than which none can be more opposed to moral sense. We have it on the best authority that the steamer Fatchoy, from China, recently brought over to Cuba nine hundred coolies ; the steamer Irurac Bat will bring nine hundred more. Other vessels now in China are engaged in the same inhuman traffic that yields enormous profits to all en- gaged in it. And how was the cargo of the Fatchoy obtained? And what was its ulti- mate treatment? The vessel went from point to point kidnapping Chinese, some being in- veigled by speculators, who receive thirty dol- lars for every victim. Upon arriving on board these wretched creatures were “‘safely stowed” inirons until the full complement was ob- tained, that complement being ten times greater than the capacity of the vessel. Is it strange, then, that three mutinies and an at- tempt to fire the vessel occurred during the dreadful voyage? To fire upon the Chinese, knock them down and literally keep them in hot water by scalding them is no more than ought to be expected from men trading in human flesh and blood. If eighty coolies died on the voyage, what wonder? The marvel is that any should have remained alive. This is what we may expect as long asthe Spanish flag waves over the Queen of the Antilles. Surely we should do all in our power to perpetuate so beneficent a rule. A New Terror Added to Visiting Brook- lyn. There is really no safety for man, woman or child in this well-regulated city or in Brook- lyn. Who escapes being murdered is likely to be burned alive. Who escapes either fate and braves the dangers of the deep by driving to Brooklyn is doomed to be run away with to a watery grave. Having lost confidence in both legs and horses, humanity now sits at home tremblingly expectant of earthquakes, tottering roofs and yawning floors. With a lifeboat anchored out of our back window, a fire extinguisher under the bed, a life-preserver above it, a pistol under our pillow and an umbrella and arctics by our side, we retire nightly to dream of the Flood, of the destruc- tion of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Belshazzar’s feast, of the North Pole, of chaos, of hiring a hack and going to Brooklyn, which last night- mare is the most trying of all to ride, because it is the most ignomini- ous, ‘There is a certain amount of consolation to be derived from a heroic death, but to be drowned like a rat in a trap or a fee- ble kitten in a bag is revolting even to as mean- spirited creatures as respectable New Yorkers. Therefore, in the name of these defenceless animals, who have no rights which rascals or corporations are bound to respect—who have | not even a Bergh to recount their long and moving tale, we call Brooklyn’s attention to the fact that at the foot of Washington street there is no protection to prevent horses and vehicles from going off the dock. This star- tling revelation has added new terror to visit~ ing Brooklyn, and if its citizens desire to re- main on speaking terms with the metropolis they will see to it that runaway hacks aro not precipitated into the river. Already one un- fortunate woman has been drowned. Thenext person will be some fair young girl arrayed in tulle going to or returning from 4 ball. Who will accept an invitation to Brooklyn? Tae Beavtirun Sxow is very nice for sleigh riding in the country and useful In poetry, but in our streets it isan abominable nuisance. Has the Street Cleaning Bureau sufficient J energy ta abate ik? SUnineneeeee The Inauguration’ of the Vera Cras and Mexico Raihoad and a New Era for the Mextean:. The completion of the railway betweon'Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico™will shortly\be celebrated with festivities aloug the whole line, and especiallyat’Vera Oruz, the’ starting point, and at the Halls of the Monte- zumas, the present western terminus of the line, Tho newspaper press of Mexico have invited their brethren of Havana to join theur in these festivities, and a large delegation of | Habafieros are going over. The New Youre Heznaxo has its representatives on the ground awaiting the great event—for the opening of this road will be a great event, as the inaugu- ration of a new industrial and political epoch in the history of Mexicu. The distance from Vera Cruz to the capital is two hundred and fifty miles, and thence across the mountainsto Acapulco, on the Pacific, it is some three hun- dred miles, and the road is to be pushed for- ward till the line is completed from sea to sea. And to a great and rich country like Mexico, without a navigable river to speak of, and em- bracing immense interior table lands, cut off fromthe water on both sides by great chains of mountains, the value of even one railway cannot be overestimated. : But this half-finished line between Vera Cruz and Acapulco is only one of the railroad enterprises comprehended in the internal im- provement programme of President Lerdo de Tejada. Within a few years we expect a line will be completed from the capital northward to the Rio Grande, connecting there with a line they are now building from the Rio Grande to Denver, in Colorado, thus giving ® continuous line of railway connections between the city of Mexico and the city of New York. Again, General Rosecrans is pushing his pro- ject for a line between California and the city of Mexico, and doubtless he will succeed in it. By this line when completed, with others now in course of construction on the Pacific slope, a traveller will be able to go from New York by rail, via Texas, to the Mexican capital, and thence northward by rail to San Francisco, and thence to Oregon, and thence, by our Northern Pacific road, back to New York again. Within a half dozen years, too, we dare say, some of the readers of this article will make this magnificent journey. But to Mexico the building of these rail- roads will be regeneration, peace, progress and prosperity. These railroads will develop her vast mineral, agricultural and manufacturing | resources; they will enlarge her old cities and build new ones; they will disperse and drive to honest pursuits the bands of robbers which now infest all her highways; they will dis- perse and disband the fighting revolutionary factions of the now widely separated Mexican States, by bringing them all into direct rap- port with the capital; and thus, in giving law, order and security to the Mexican people, and ready markets for their products, and im bringing Northern enterprise and capital among them, they will indeed set out upon a new march of progress and prosperity which the wisest of them little-dream of to-day. And so we wish success to President Lerdo de Tejada and his magnificent programme of Mexican railroads. Epvcation 1v Irary.—U nder the educational system introduced by the Italian government in 1871 the boys of the middle classes are to be instructed at the public expense in the tech- nical school, gymnasium and lyceum for eight years, with the option of entering a university after quitting the lyceum. Italian, Latin, Greek, French, history, geography, mathe. matics, drawing and gymnastics are embraced in the course of studies. One of these public schools in the city of Rome has proved so suc- cessful that a second has recently been opened by the State, and a third is soon to be added by the municipality. Most of the cities and large towns of the Kingdom are making similar educational provisions, prompted by the universal wish of the people, and there is reason to hope that in the land of Cicero and Horace learning will be as generally diffused as it is in our own Republic. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. The St. Louis Republican has eight girls employed im the office. The family of Senator Carl Schurz are sojourmers in Jacksonville, Fla. Paul Morphy, the great New Orleans chess- player, is practising law. Rey. Father Hickey, of Orange, N, J., is lying dangerously sick with diphtheria, * Lord Romilly, Master of the Rollsin the Eagilsh | Court of Cuancery, will soon retire from omece, Captain Jack, who manages the Modoc war on the pars of the savages, is sald to be the Lest shot on the Pacific slope. J. S. Adams, the governmeat oficial reported as missing from Taylor's Hotei, Jersey City, is Collec- tor at Jacksonville, la, ? Hon. Richard Yat»s, better known as Dick Yates, of lilinols, will accept a Territorial Governorsnip at the hands of the President. Buttwlo Bill (William T. Coly), who has been elected a member of the Nebraska Logisiature, says he is and always will be a democrat, M. Victor Lefranc, on being succeeded as Secre- tary of the Interior by M. de Goulard, at once re- sumed the practice of the law in Paris, General Hartran(t, the Governor c'e ‘tof Ponte sylvania, will be inaugurated, with considerabie pomp and pageantry, at Harrisburz, next Tuesday. David Bailey, of Cambridge, Somerset county, Me., Is the oldest postmaster in Now England, He was appointed under the administration of John Quincy Adams in 1823, zacharius Basilius Zackurof has been arrested in London for defrauding M. Hiphestides of Constan- tinople, Besides this he had stolen Prince Gort- schakof’s name. There are some fancy names amoug the:c! §2f3 of the Modoc Indians in Oregon, the most prominent of which are Scar-faced Quariey, Shack Nasty Jim and Bogus Charley, Elijah Somers, of Crisfeld,. Md., has. been a mem- ber of the “‘cullerd persuasion” for 15years, Itie said he can swear and drink whiskey equal to any man in the State, black or white. M. Kistof has a claim against wealthy Madame Kronglikof, of Koslof, in the Russian district of Tambof, He went to her house late at night, and forced his way to her bedroom, whence she drove him with a revolver. He prosecuted her and she was fined fifty roubles, She appealed, her daugh- ter appearing as her advocate, whereupon Kislot was sentenced’ to prison for two months, au Madame went free. Women have rights in Russia which should tempt some of our am itious sisters=4 Queon Victoria has made the jollowing nomina~ tions:—To the Most Distinguished Order of St./ Michael and St. George—ro be ordinary member of, the Second Clasa or Knights Commanders of the said order, Henry Ayers, Esq., CO. M. G. First Mint ter of the Government of the Coloay of South Australia. To be ordinary membergof the Third Class or Companions of the said, Ordor—Francis Stacker Dutton, Esq., Agent General in England for the Colony of South Australia, and Charice Todd, Ksq., Postmaster Genstal and Superimteud-. cnt of Teletepla ia Wet Colony: across the heart of the country from sea to sea