The New York Herald Newspaper, January 3, 1873, Page 4

aes 4 !NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— ' el ‘tas Giant Kinier, Anernoon aud Evening. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Swaur Axasis—Ma. ‘anv Mas. Perex Warr. a OPERA ROUBE, Twenty-thira st. and Bighth av.—Rousp rux NIRBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, betweea Prince and ‘Houston streets.—Lxo axp THEATRE, Broadway, between ruirieeath Ro Vourtocntn sts, —Bow ov rHx Sort, &c. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ROTHER SAM. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ‘avenue.—Rrowarp II. THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Diva Doxo ‘Bau. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. the Republicans Do with Their Vic- tery? The unprecedented triumph of the republi- cans last November not only secured to them another four years’ lease of power in the fod- eral government, but placed in their hands nearly all the great States of the Union, in- cluding the most important of all, the State of New York. With the commoncement of the new year thoy begin to enjoy the substantial fruits of sheir victory, and to take upon them- selves also the responsibilities it entails upon tho victors, ‘They havo been go liberal in their promises of reform that the people have been led to expect at this time the inauguration of a new era in the history of the country, and to look for a more sweeping and complete re- formation, both in the national and local ad- ministrations, probably, than they are likely to secure, There is to be no political change, no personal ehange, even, so far as the Presidency of the United States is concerned, it is true; yet the issues made in OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston fad Bloecker sta—La Pinicnoue. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third By.—Den Maineipsaven. STADT THEATRE, Nos. 45 and 47 Bowery.—OrER4— Tue Hogvenots. STEINWAY At, Fourteenth street.—Grann Inetav- ‘munear Concent. ATAHENBUM, No, 585 Broadway.—Tas Tunes Huxca- maces. MBS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Divonon, eh OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner ‘av.—Neoro Mixsrarrsy, Eocentricity, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Hourrr Dourrr. = SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 26th at. and Broadway.—Erniorias Meenas: iC. @ NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science AnD Aut. WITH SUPPLEMENT. New York, Friday, Jan. 3, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE POLITIOAL OUTLOOK! WHAT WILL THE REPUBLICANS DO WITH THEIR VIC- TORY * — EDITORIAL LEADER—Fourta Paas. i THE OVER-OPPRESSED GEM OF THE ANTIL- LES! SPANISH REINFORCEMENTS FOR HOLGUIN ! ELECTING A PRESIDENT VICE CESPEDES : FIGHTING THE DONS : SPAN- ISH DENIALS OF INSURGENT SUCCESSES— Firra PAGE. “DEATH TO SPAIN!’ INSURRECTION AGAINST SPANISH AUTHORITY IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS! MANY REBELS SLAIN: A FATAL STORM—FirTH Page. CUBA AS A BELLIGERENT! DON MIGUEL DE ALDAMA MANUMITS 1,800 SLAVES AND THINKS THAT IF THE GREAT REPUBLIC RECOGNIZED CUBA OTHER NATIONS WOULD FOLLOW: THE CUBAN ARMY ABROAD: ANTI-SLAVERY—TarRD Pace. MR. FISH TO LEAVE THE CABINET! POSITIVE DECLARATION BY THE PRESIDENT FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM M. EVARTS AS HIS SUCCESSOR: BOUTWELTL'S SENATORIAL ASPIRATIONS—FirtH Pace. WROKEN ON THE ROCKS! A BOSTON SHIP STRIKES OFF THE GRAND CANARIES AND GOES TO PIECES! EIGHT MEN LOST—THE GREAT BILLIARD MATCH—Firra Pages. YHE BURNING OF THE FIFTH AVENUE THEA TRE! VALUABLE ARTICLES SAVED: TELE- GRAMS AND LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE FROM PROMINENT PERSONS—TEnTH Pace. IRE ON BOARD 1HE STEAMSHIP MINNESOTA !— NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN! A STARTLING EXPOSE TRADE—FI1FTH PaGE. TUROPEAN NEWS PER CABLE! COMMUNISTS: A PAPAL ANATHEMA: RUSSIA REASSURING ENGLAND: ENGLISH FARM HANDS EMIGRATING—FirTH PaGEs. MEXICO PREPARING FOR THE GRAND RAIL- WAY FETE! A NEW LOAN: RAILROAD ENTERPRISES TO BE FOSTERED—GEN- ERAL TELEGRAMS—Firta PaGs. RAPID TRANSIT, UNDERGROUND AND OVER- HEAD! VANDERBILT STILL STICKS TO HIS UNDERGROUND SCHEME: THE UP. STAIRS ROAD—ANOTHER RAILROAD MAS. SACRE—TuInp Pace. FINDING OF THE REMAINS OF JAMES BEVAN, THE LAST OF THE CENTRE STREET UN- FORTUNATES! NOTHING LEFT BUT THE BACKBONE AND SOME FRAGMENTS—SixTH Page. MURDERS COMMITTED IN 1870-71-72! THE NAMES OF THE SLAIN AND OF THE SLAY- ERS AND THE CAUSES OF DEATH—EIcHTa Paar. STOKES’ DEFENCE CLOSED! IMPORTANT TES- TIMONY: THE TWO-PISTOL THEORY ES- TABLISHED: LEGAL BUSINESS IN THE VARIOUS TRIBUNALS—THE BUILDING QUESTION—E1cnTH PAGE, MONKY, STOCK AND GOLD MANIPULATIONS! THE BUS 88 AND QUOTATIONS ON %CHANGE—THE HEALTH OF ARCHBISHOP BAYLEY—NINTH Page. DANGERS FROM SUPERHEATED STEAM! VARI- OUS THEORIES: THE FIRE MARSHAL | PROPOSES A PUBLIC TEST—MACGREGOR AND THE BUILDING LAW—SixtH Page. Secrerany Detano, of the Department of the Interior, is, we are glad to say, to return from the island of Cuba, with his health rein- ‘stated, and we hope that after his return he will have something to say concerning the yestoration of the health of the island. A Convict Risrra ann Buioopy Revort against the Spaniards in the Philippines, fol- Jowed by its suppression in blood and slaughter, goes to confirm the old saying that misfortunes seldom come singly. As Tax Sroxms Tran Draws To a Crose the interest naturally becomes greater. Yesterday important testimony was brought forward | the defence in support of the theory of a | peoond pistol. There are now, including the | er, four persons who have sworn to see- | this mysterious weapon with the ivory | bandle, while » similar number on the other | wide say Fisk bad no pistol at all. It must be | admitted that the defence hag made a much better case for the prisoner than on the first trial. It is expected that the testimony will | close and the forensic part of the drama begin to-day. ve Tax Questios or CaurcH ann Stare is about to be solved in a very simple and satisfactory manner in Japan. The govern- ment of the Mikado has just declared that the Dopartment of Schools is to be henceforth ranked alone and the Department of Religion abolished—an easy solution of one of the difficult problems which at present distress | the Christian mind. The Japanese ruler virtually says, the primer first aud the prayer book afterwards. IN THE COOLIE | DEPORTED | the Presidential contest, the pledges given by General Grant and his supporters, and the clear expression of the popular sentiment in regard to the past policy of the republican Congress, occasioned the expectation that in many important respects there would be as complete a revolution in Washington after the 4th of next March ‘as in Albany or New York after the 1st day of the present month. The bayonet law enforced over the Southern States was not only not defended by the ad- paign, but impliedly it was condemned in the plea put forth that‘the President was not re- sponsible for its enactment. The charge made by the opposition that the Southern States were held under the political control of the federal authorities and virtually deprived of self-government, was indignantly de- nied by the republicans, and it was declared that the South was as free from federal interference as the North. The well-founded complaints of a lack of firmness and dignity in our foreign policy were met by the argament that we had at least secured the best of the bargain in our treaty with the Brit- ish government, and that it was desirable to free ourselves from our complications in that direction before taking a more decided atti- tude in regard to foreign questions on which it might soon become necessary to act. The position taken by the supporters of the President on all these questions, and the con- stant appeals made to the people to trust their proper solution to the honor and patriotism of General Grant, warranted the popular belief that if re-elected he would signalize his new term of office by a constitutional treatment of the Southern States and by a radical reform in our foreign policy. To this end it was con- sidered as settled that the political ring surrounding the White House during the past four years would be broken, and that the Cabinet would undergoa complete reconstruction. The recent unfortunate events in Louisiana have not given much encournge- ment to the hopes raised by the apologetic tone of the republicans during the campaign, so far as the treatment of the South is con- cerned ; nevertheless the belief is still enter- tained by many of those who supported Gen- eral Grant that he will not disappoint their ex- } pectations, but that the 4th of March will see the commencement of a new national policy | as honorable to the President as it will be gratifying to the country. The reported in- tention of the present members of the Cabinet to retire at the close of the present term will certainly afford the opportunity for such a change, and the replacoment of Secretaries Boutwell and Williams by statesmen of broad, national views will be hailed as the | first step in the new departure. We already have an instalment of this popular reorganiza- tion in the positive announcement of the selection of Mr. William M. Evarts as the successor of Secretary Fish. In many of the States the republican party was in power prior to the last November elec- tion, and hence the change of administration will be only nominal. In New York the democrats retire not alone from the State gov- { ernment, but also from the government of the metropolis, which, in point of patronage, is even more important than the State, and re- publicans step into their places. It so hap- pens, however, that the republicans found it expedient to place in nomination for the two principal offices—those of Governor and Mayor of New York—gentlemen who, while acting with the republican national administration, had been formerly adherents of the demo- cratic party, It is immaterial upon what grounds this policy was adopted, whether through the bad influence of the Cameron- Hartranft corruptions in a neighboring State, or with the object of secur- ing some democratic support for the nominees; the tickets were repub- lican tickets and they were elected by | republitan votes. This fact is shown by the complexion of the Congressional delegation | and of the State Assembly, which latter body is more than two-thirds republican, thus, in connection with the equally large republican | majority in the Senate, placing the whole re- sponsibility of the State and city government on the shoulders of that party. | Since election a curious question has been raised. While General Dix recognizes and | acknowledges in his first official remarks that | “the decided expression of popular opinion” in the recent election was ‘‘a strong declara- | tion in favor of a marked line of policy” —or, | in other words, that the people resolved to place the power and responsibility of govern- ment in the hands of the republicans as a party—the old sssociates and more recent friends of Mayor Havemeyer who are of the democratic faith, and who supported him in the election, are putting in their claims to a share of any patronage he may have to distribute. The Committee of Seventy—the self-consti- tuted agency of the reformers—protests against the republican absorption of the Mayor, and insists upon controlling his appointments in the interest of ‘‘reform."’ As the Committee of Seventy also nominated and supported Mr. tion for this latter claim ; but in order to test | its justice it is mecessary to recall the position of the committee before the election. The gentlemen who composed that body professed political independence, and avowed themselves as simply desirous of holding a restraining hand over the political parties in order to compel them to make good nominations. ‘They did not sock office for themselves—of | of sugar, coffee and other tropical products, | able to our commerce. Havemeyer, its late presiding officer, there | action of General Grant, and hope from it may at first appear to be some good founda- | | dents and intelligent natives to do now, per- The Political. Oatieok—what wit | course not—but simply said to the party | Tne organizations, ‘Wo insist that you shall give us as your nominees men of established character for integrity. and capacity. If you all do so we shall ‘stand aloof. Ifany of you put forward improper New Secretary ‘Evarte te Go Inte the Cabinet, Our- special despatches state positively that Mr. retire from the Cabinet, and that Mr. William M. Evarts, of New York, is to be his of State—mr. | other facility for egress should from Washington | Possible to make it, But it is Hamilton Fish is to oeabfean 9 caly Sap rinse that human life be made as secure direo- gac- | There is one aspect of this Fifth Avenne candidates we shall oppoas them.” The can- | oomsor,. The retirement of Mr. Fish will be | Theatre Gro which demands consideration. didate of the republican party was made in obedience to this demand, and was endorsed by the committes) There the province of these seventy reform champions terminated, and they have no further pretence for inter- fering with ‘the policy ‘of the new Mayor or with the distribution of the municipal patronage. They did not say to the political Organizations before election, “You must nominate candidates who, if elected, will give us half the offices or whose appointments we shall be permitted to control,” and hence they have no right now, after their demand for an honest and satisfactory candidate, to intermeddle with the course of the successful party. To tho democrats, now thoroughly disor- ganized, it is of course of vital importance that Mayor Havemeyer’s administration should be made as ‘independent’’ as possible, or, in other words, as nearly democratic as may be. The November contest, although ending in the defeat of the democracy, really gave sub- satiafactory to the American people. We say this in no disparagement of Mr. Fish’s ser- vices, and we are quite willing that our present Secretary of State should enjoy all the compli- mentary courtesies extended to him by the Presi- dent on his retirement. In the much-discussed Treaty of Washington, leaving out of question the humiliation of our advancement of in- Had it not been for the immense masses of is responsible for the condition of the streets, claims and our retreat from the demand | #24 this, as well as the cause of the fire, is a in the teeth of repeated declarations of our determination to insist upon its enforcement, weare willing to admit that the leek caten by England must have been much moro dis- tasteful than that we were ourselves compelled toswallow. If our enormous Alabama claims were settled at a price about sufficient to build @ new Court House in New York, provided the expenditure was not in tho hands of a muni- cipal ring, we do not forget that Eng- land was compelled, by the judg- ment given against her, to admit the wrongs she ‘did us during the rebellion and to make atonement in damages for her offence. stantial strength to the now Tammany or | Wo concede the victory won in the San Juan Tilden branch of that party. Mr. Tilden has been the. close friend and adviser of Mayor Havemeyer in the whole reform movement, and in conjunction with him secured the re- tirement of Mr. Connolly and the appointment of Mr. Green.as his successor, Mr. Tilden, who is a shrewd politician, sees now a splen- did opportunity to reorganize the respecta- ble portion of the democratic party, and hopes, with Mayor Havemoyer as the candidate of the purified democracy for Governor in two years from the present time, and with Comp- troller Green as the candidate for Mayor, to regain the power lost in the State and city. This ia certainly a broad and comprehensive scheme, and if the patronage of the city can meanwhile be nullified through the adoption of a ‘non-partisan’ policy in the municipal appointments and the concentration of power in the hands of the democratic Mayor and Comptroller, it is one very likely to prove successful. The republican Legislature and the republican managers, h appear to think with Governor Dix, that & ‘decided line of policy” is justified by the large majority | mind and legal knowledge, unfit for diplo- ti cast for their party candidates in the State, and hence they are prepared to take the whole certainly have the whole responsibility, of the city government upon themselves. They will therefore place all the great municipal depart- ments by legislation in the hands of republi- cans, and will so clearly define their several powers and duties as to prevent any chance of @ continuance of the present inharmonious condition of the various branches of the gov- ernment, so injurious to the best interests of the city. They will probably create. a Reve- nue Department, embracing the raising, col- lection and disbursement of all the city revenues from every source, of which depart- ment the Comptroller's office, now so un- wieldy, sluggish and obstructive, will be an auditing bureau. No doubt they will continue the services of Mr. Green in this bureau ; but it is rumored that Tax Commissioner Andrews or Sub-Treasurer Hillhouse will probably be at the head of the new Revenue Department. The Police Commission will be reorganized, retaining only Henry Smith, whose services in the campaign conduced greatly to the ‘republican victory. The Fire Department and all other departments which are not now filled by republicans will be recon- structed, and the city government will be run as a ropublican government in accordance with the will of the people. This is what the re- publicans intend to do with their victory, and as they will be held to the strictest responsi- bility for the future government of the city, we do not see who will have the right to com- plain. Mission of General Schofield to the Sandwich Islands. Although the announcement made through our special Washington correspondence, of General Schofield having been sent to the Sandwich Islands, is given in a sort of diplo- matic phraseology, there is, no doubt, a serious purpose on the part of our government to prevent any undue foreign interference in the affairs of the islands in consequence of the death of King Kamehameha, and to protect American interests there. General Schofield is the highest military officer on the Pacific coast, has the friendship and confidence of the President, and he goes in the frigate Colorado. The first statement, that he takes the sea voyage for the benefit of his health, is supple- mented by the significant remark that the State Department avails itself of this oppor- tune occasion to charge him with secret and important instructions, by telegraph, to watch closely the course of events in the Hawaiian Islands, to co-operate with the American Minister, and to be care- fal that nothing be effected by foreign influ- ence inimical to American interests without giving timely warning and full information to | the government at Washington. By far the greater part of the foreign population in the Sandwich Islands is American, and it has done most in civilizing the natives. The business and improvement of the islands have been car- ried on chiefly by Americans. In fact, the active and governing population is an Ameri- cancolony. Then, the Hawaiian Islands, from geographical position, importance to our com- merce in and across the Pacific, and with a view to future telegraphic communication under that ocean, have a peculiar and special | interest for the American government and peo- ple. The best thing for the American resi- | The haps, is to establish a republic, and, if neces- sary, to place it under the protectorate of the | United States. The islands have great natu- | ral resources, and particularly for the growth and must become at no distant day very valn- We commend the good results, | Ice Gorces on the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers are committing fearful havoc among steamboats, flatboats, &c., this Winter. Every day brings some new disaster from the breaking of ice gorges, and we fear that the | worst from these crushing fields of drifting boundary dispute. In short, we are willing that Mr. Fish should’ retire ina grand pyro- technical display at the’ expense of Great Britain. Still weare aware that our foreign policy'under our present Secretary has not been such as Americans feel a pride in review- ing, and we regard the peculiar relations be- tween the State Department and the agents of the Spanish government as unfortunate, ata time when our relations with Spain are of so delicate and critical a nature. The appointment of Mr. Evarts at least dis- poses of the rumorsin regard to the selection of Mr. Boutwell’s successor. Neither Mr. Henry Clews nor ex-Governor Edwin D. Morgan will the finances of the nation for the next four years. Whether this will make any alter- ation in the programme for the United States Senatorship remains to be seen, Mr. Evarts iss lawyer of ability find an Socomplished gentleman. He may find the duties of the position he is about to assume novel and irksome tohim. He may even find himself, despite his well-trained matic service. be new to him, At all events its intricacies will and it may be discovered that Power, -a8 they | at the present moment a strong, positive, prac- | |, tical business man would have been more desir- able in the State Department than a chamber lawyer, however brilliant and learned. So far as the social requirements of the office are concerned, they will be as well illed by Mr. Evarts as they could be by any other gentleman ; at the same time we should have felt more ~satisfaction in recording the appointment of Minister Washburne os Mr. Fish’s successor than that of any other peraon. We should rather see his plain, blunt honesty and true Americanism brought to bear upon the Cuban question than entrust it to the settle- ment of the keenest lawyers and the most polished of debaters. The Destruction of the Fifth Avenue Theatre—Another Warning. The calamity which befell the Fifth Avenue Theatre on New Year's Day was one of those occurrences. which surprises nobody. Yet this was a theatre as safe as theatres can be made by precautions against fire in buildings as inflammable as are most of our New York structures. Everything which foresight could give was provided by the manager, and Mr. Daly felt as secure in his theatre as any gen- tleman feels in his own house. Even now it is not easy to determine why his confidence in its security received this signal refutation, unless, indeed, every house with a furnace beneath it is built upon a smouldering and threatening volcano. The only logical con- clusion at which we can arrive is that the fire originated from the heating apparatus. Other theories might be advanced, and it ig not ak together impdssible that it was dred by some miscreant intent upon its destruction. The suddenness and completeness of the confla- gration—the whole front part of the theatre being a mass of flame almost as soon as thefire was discovered—give some color to this view of the calamity. But, after turning every other theory over and over and examining it inevery aspect, we must come back to the first con- clusion, that the fire origiuated from the | furnace. Still, we cannot poss over the probabilities of fire by design without a | word of caution. So many public buildings have been burned recently without apparent or adequate causes as to suggest extreme watchfulness on the part of the managers of theatres, the proprietors of hotels, and the janitors of churches and other publi¢ buildings. If this fire originated from the furnace or the hot-air flues it is only another warning added:to the many unheeded warnings which went before it. Furnaces ought not to be allowed in any building where, by any possi- bility, the safety of the structure is endangered. They must be placed under the streets or in positions where insecurity does not result from their presence. Again, the buildings in great cities must be made absolutely fireproof, This is not a new remark, but its recognition and application would be new indeed. We go on building inflammable structures as if nearly every day did not add to the list of con- flagrations. While the frequency of the fires suggests some malign agency the lesson is un- heeded. The new Masonic Temple in Twenty- third street is a building which is even now | being covered with a wooden tinder-box. The Rev. Mr. Hepworth’s church is another of the new buildings in which the Fortunately, the first of Commodore Vander- neighborhood will shake it down, and that will be the end of it. If every other loosely con- structed building in the city was in as great | } danger from misguided engines we might ex- | tellects to work out our salvation, bend be og pect immediate reform, This not being the | of the period becomes so demoralized as to | | case, we call upon the Superintendent of | cry for blood as it now “cries for soothing in- | | flammable material courts the flames. | subject for searching investigation. In a word, we ask that the freqaent reourrence of fires in this city be taken up in all its aspects, so that this lateat of warnings may be the last of pub- lic calamities resulting from the ill” construc- tion of buildings and other causes. Cuban Struggles and Ouban Hopes. The affair at Holguin, in the Eastern De- partment, has shown itself of more eonse- quence than at first believed. It is now thought necessary to send there four hundred troops from Havana, being the entire available force of Spanish regulars in that city. This would seem to indicate that the rebels are making unusual efforts; and that the Spaniards have been caught napping. The capture of the regimental chest at Holguin, as well as the capture of the fort, will be made the subject of an investigation on the plan adopted by the French of late. It is aurely bad enough to be beaten and robbed without being punished by court martial afterwards, In another column we publish an interview with # prominent Cuban sympathizer, Sefior Aldama, who has lately arrived from Europe. The gist of his opinions appears to be that the only one thing wanted to achieve Cuban independence is the moral support of the United States government—in other words, the recognition of Cuban belligerency. If the “revolutionists cannot succeed without this they may have to endure many another year of horrid struggle, unless the temper of the gov- Bniient at Washington changes to an exira- ordinary degree. He takes a very gloomy view the chances of our Special Commissioner, Mr. O'Kelly, We admit that’the course of the Captain in refusing a safe conduct has the appearance of a want of friendly inten- ions ; but when the sinister word assassina- tion is uttered in connection with the Span- ish authorities and our Commissioner do not give it much weight. The Spaniards know that the neutral repre- sentative of the Hunarp, an independent journal, is the most unprofitable subject on which such a crime could be committed. In dealing with open enemies such things may occur; but ghosts of that kind were not in- vented to frighten men with an honest pur- filling impartially their allotted tasks. They are men whom it is wise to assist, or at least safer to let alone. The Spaniards are intel- ligent enough to be aware of this, as well as the Cubans. The South American Republics, according to Sefior Aldama, are awaiting the action of the United States before investing the Cubans with belligerent rights. It is curious they should hit on this excuse. As things at pres- ent stand it is a cruel one. The strongest hopes of the Cubans appear to be founded on Spanish weakness, present and prospective, and the agitation against slavery in England. They both promise to be very slow cures for the Cuban malady. The Augustan Age of Murder. Not a hundred years ago there was founded “The Hell Fire Club,” having for its object the promotion of vice. To England belongs the glory of its birth, as to England belongs the later glory of originating a society for the suppression of virtue. Club and society have secretly disappeared from the mother country to become the more firmly established in New York, where an elective judiciary and igno- rant, unprincipled juries Jend themselves to the noble task of making republican institu- tions a synonym for everything that is vile. We make this statement deliberately, with the intention of proving it by the logic of events, taking for our premises the murders of the last three years, a list of which will be found in another column. Forty murders in 1870; sixteen Irish, ten Germans, ten Americans, three English and one Norwegian. Forty-five murders in 1871; twenty-three Irish, nine Americans, four Eng- lish, four Germans, one Italian and one | Swiss. Fifty-six murders in 1872; twenty | Irish, nineteen Americans, eight Germans, | three English, two Swedes, one Italian and one French. Five more murders in 1871 than in 1870; eleven more murders in 1872 than in 1871—an increase of sixteen murders in two years { if crime progress in this frightful ratio, who, within many months, will deserve | to escape hanging? is fe not about time for those still alive who neither aspire to murder nor be given in murder to inquire whether self-preservation, which is supposed to be the first law of nature, does not exact that more heroic treatment should be administered to artists in human butchery than now seems fashionable? Is it enough to mildly rail against total depravity in reading details of the very latest homicide with one eye while the other gazes complacently upon # cup of the very best coffee? When life has grown to be such a ghastly joke that people wake up in the morning and congratulate themselves upon pot having had their throats out from ear to ear by friends, bosom or otherwise, is there not | something rotten in the body politic? Does it not behoove ns to seriously ask why this | murderous orgy has been so long tolerated and | what means shall be employed to bring it | bilt’s locomotives which goes astray in the | toan end? Would it not be well for those | very estimable gentlemen, known as the Com- | mittee of Seventy, to whom we anxiously look | for all good things, to set their ponderous in- Buildings, the city authorities and the State | syrup? If the carnage do not soon cease, Legislature, to make it impossible that any other than fireproof buildings shall be erected. The means of escape are quite as important as the other considerations, especially in | hotels and theatres. Many of both are mere man-traps. A few are admirable in this re- spect at least. ‘The windows, as well as wide ice in the Ohio and Mississippi, the Tennessee and the Cumberland, is yet to egme, stairways and entrances should afford a way of and shooting have set in, i Every | would be well to tear a leaf out of Colifornia’s exit in gase of a gudden calamity. “Give us this day our daily murder’’ will bo the popular form of prayer; and that such » state of things should transpire under the reign of the “Seventy” ought to convince confiding citizens of the necessity of doubting even the divine right of this immaculate coun- cil. Words mean but little after blows, stabbing and perhaps it pose in the service of a great journal from ful- ’ eee history, imitating in the civilized East the vigilance committee of the barbavio Wost.. When friends of « man murdered in the moat shockingly brutal manner put so little faith im the ultimate triumph of jugtice as to lay a plot for the forcible removal and “lynching” of his murderer, is it unwise to suggest that what “goughs" dare do to revenge a dead comrade respectable citizens ought to do to rescue law from the harpies now preying upon it at. the expense of our good name and our depleted Pockets? Readers of the Hxnarp, ponder over the bloody catalogue and know that you will be yourselves to blame if it be repeated im the year 1873. A H y Tex on Time. Ona of our city contemporaries makes a computation that during the last year the city horse cars carried one hundred and twenty- five millions of passengers, of whom forty mil- lions rode two miles or more, wasting at least thirty minutes in each trip, as compared with what would be required if we had a decent rapid transit railway. This certainly ia a very moderate estimate of the loss of time entailed upon our business population by the inade- quate means employed in this grostest and wealthiest of American cities in necessary transit from one part of the island to another. Think of a man, whose time is money, throw- ing away an hour each day beyond whatshould be ocoupied in the journey between his shop or store and his home, By this primitive, jog- trot, one-horse arrangement, instead of using the nineteenth century motive power of steam, he wastes fally éne-tenth part of the working day, or more than a month out of each year. In other words, the failure of New York touse improved methods of propulsion defrauds hee of the labor ot one-tenth of her working population, increasing the cost of products im the same ratio. The imperative necessity of the city is ability to pass from ons section to another at a rate of speed equal to going from the Battery to Harlens bridge in twenty minutes. No man whose time has any value can afford to go slower, and what is true of individuals is equally true of the unjty. Our long, narrow jpland is advairably situated oe aff Fa RA gra commercial purposes, Orig §ich abund-, ance of water frontage, but i saint tends to a monopoly of-the south end by business, while residences must be at the north. Unlesd we have rapid transit this isa tax and draw- back upon our business of every kind. With full provisions to carry our people quickly from one end of the island to the other our peculiar shape would become a vast advantage over that of other cities whose water front ia emaller in proportion to area. New York must have some kind of quick railway transit. We do not insist on the advantage of this or that plan, but some provision we must have. We cannot afford to throw away a tenth part of our time, not to speak of extraordinary de- tentions in consequence of storms, epizootics or other unusual hindrances of travel. The uation in Mexico, President Lerdo de Tejada closed the session of the Mexican Congress by the delivery of a hopefal, progressive speech. The Republic is about to commission embassies to Spain aad Germany, and, also, to enterinto more intimate diplomatic relations with the States of Central America. He informed the members that the work of the Rio Grande Commission was one of the greatest importance to the interesta of Mexico, and that if it is concluded ina satisfactory manner the result will enable the Executive to discharge an agreeable duty in preventing international complications with the United States. The President asked per- mission to issue a new goverement loan, and promised that the State would deal fairly and neutrally towards all projects for building railroads. The perpetration of a stage rob- bery, after the old-time Mexican fashion, served to remind the people and foreign capi- talists of an era in Mexican history which is now being rapidly brought to a close, while the preparations which are being made for the inauguration of the Vera Cruz and Mexico City Railway give hope of the near advent of a moment in which the ‘Stand and deliver’* of the professional bandit and the ‘ribbons’ and riot of the stage driver will be among the echoes and things’of a forgotten time. Rumor of a New Russian Loan. One of our latest cable despatches from London has it that a new Russian loan is aboug to be put on the English market. It was not unnatural to connect this loan with the cam- paign which Russia is making preparations to undertake against Khiva. It is undeniable that Russia is in need of money and that a campaign against Khiva will render a loana necessity. Should the loan be put on the London market it will be satisfactory proof that the war against Khiva is not in any sense to be prosecuted in a spirit of hostility to British interests in Asia. This view of the case is confirmed by a cable despatch, which, we print this morning, t6 the offtct that the Russian government has, with the ! Hfeatest frankness, communicated to the gov- ernment of Great Britain ite plen for the cam- paign in Central Asia, and has ven gone 80 far as to invite British officers to agcomipany | the Russian troops in their operations. It may now be as certain that Khiva is doomed, and that Russia, by this fresh cam- paign, will make herself undisputed mistress of the entire line of the Oxus. Afghanistan is not to be touched, and hence Great Britain will not interfere. It is well, we think, for the general interests of civilization that the policy of suspicion should be ended, and that’ Great Britain and Russia should arrive at an understanding as to what it is best to do with, the barbarous tribes of Central Asia. Paizz Association Swinpies.—We are con- stantly in receipt of letters like one just re- ceived from a gentleman in St. Louis, asking whether the Mercantile Prize Association of New York is a swindle, and referring toan advertisement of the ‘association’ quoting the Hxpaxp's alleged testimony to the fair dealing of its projectors. We cannot tell whether projects of this kind are or are not swindles ; but whenever a gift concern quotes the Herap ns endorsing it it is fair to assume that it is as unfair as it is untruthful Tho Heraxp endorses no institutions of this kind, and in the present instance there was not a line in our advertising columns even in rela~ tion to the “association” or its business. Every person who wishes to invest in prizo drawings does so at his own risk, and after the’ many lessons which the public has beon taught, by “bogus’’ concerns it would be idlo for tha Heravp to undertake the dotective bowiness.