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

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII..... .No. @ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Swaur AnGEts—Car- ‘Taw Spruce. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and E av.—Rounn rar CLocs, Matinee Stig nd Bighth NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince Houston streets.—Leo anv Loros. Matinee at ee po UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, betwee 15th and Mth sts.—Son or tHe Sort, &c. ‘Mativee at Te ed WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Bromer Sam. ROOT: avenue. THEATRE, wenty-third 10HARD II, Matinee THEATRE COMIQ) Bru. Matinec at 23. street, corner Sixth at2, » 514 Broadway.—Dine Doxe OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts—La Graxpx Duciixssx. Matinee at Uy. WOOD'S MU: Broadway, corner Thirtloth st— Jack, THe Giant Kunier. Atternoon and Lyening. GERMANTA THEATRE, teenth street, near Third av.—Den Meiwerpace STEINWAY HALL, Fonrteenth street.—Gnranv Ixstru- MENTAL Concenr. Matinee at 139. ATAHENTEUM. No. 585 Broadway.—Tae Tues Hoven: Backs. Matinee at 244. MRS. F. B. CONWA Pizanto—J ack anv Jack's Bromucr, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner 4th av.—NeGRro Minstaensy, Ecckn ticity, &c. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Houmety Dompry, Matinee at 234. _ nha ERAligia00 MINSTRELS. gormer 23th st. and NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. | The Federal Tyranny im the State of Louisiana—The Overthrow of Repub- Mean Government, The inauguration of the Governor of Louisi- ana elected at the general election in Novem- ber last takes place at Now Orleans on Monday next. The election passed off in an orderly and peaceable manner. Despite the excited condition of party feeling, the closeness of the contest and the irritating division in the repub- lican party, not a single act of violence of any important character occurred at the polls in any district in tho State. On the counting of the votes by the proper election officers it was found that the Greeley electoral ticket had carried tho State, and that the fusion Stato ticket, headed by McKnery for Governor and a majority of the fusion candidates for the Legislature had also been duly elected. Tho result was announced by all parties, agreed in by all parties, and not a voice was raised against it. It is certain, therefore, that, so far as the votes actually cast are concerned, Mr. McEnery is the regularly elected Governor of Louisiana, and the fusion Legislature is the legal Legislature of the State. Our special despatches from New Orleans, published in to-day’s Hxnaup, represent that the people of that city and of the State are re- solved to inaugurate their duly elected State officers in accordance with the constitution and the law, and that the present usurping State government—a ‘“‘pinchbeck’’ govern- ment in good trath—is as firmly determinod to prevent the inauguration by violence, and to complete its outrage upon the rights and liberties of the people by installing United States Senator Kellogg, the minority candidate _ XEW.YORR MUSEUM OF ANATOM 'Y, 618 Broadway.— WITH SUPPLEMEN New York, Saturday, Jan, 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE FEDERAL TYRANNY IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA! THE OVERTHROF OF REPUB- ICAN GOVERNMENT’—LEADER—Fourta Page. A RIOT APPREHENDED IN NEW ORLEANS ON MONDAY! THE PEOPLE DETERMINED UPON AN ASSEMBLY OPPOSED TO PINCH- BACK'S—STATE AND PROBABILITIES OF THE WEATHER—TENTH PAGE. ENGLISH OPINION OF THE AMERICAN PROTEC- TORATE FOR THE SANDWICH ISLANDS— ANOTHER TERRIBLE GALE IN EUROPE— INDIA—FirTH Pace. MAN'S INHUMANITY? AUSTRALIAN AUTHORI- TIES DETERMINED TO BREAK UP THE KIDNAPPING OF POLYNESIANS—EURO- PEAN CABLE NEWS—GENERAL TELE- GRAMS—Firra Pace. A RIGHTEOUS WAR! UNITED STATES TROOPS ATTACK THE ARIZONA APACHES, WITH BRILLIANT SUCCESSES! BOMBS TO BE USED AGAINST THE MODOC STRONG- HOLDS—Tentu Page. ‘WASHINGTON NEWS! OUR RELATIONS WITH THE SANDWICH ISLANDS: THE FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS—MARINE AND TELE- GRAPHIO TIDINGS—TenTH Pace. 4 RAIL BREAKS AND THROWS A TRAIN OVER AN EMBANKMENT ON THE PITTSBURG AND ERIE ROAD! THE CARRIAGES ON FIRE! LIST OF THE INJURED—Firra Pace. c DESTRUCTION BY THE BROKEN ICE GORGES IN THE OHIO AND MISSISSIPPI!—MORE OF THE WORK OF THE POTENT FIRE GOD—PERSONAL NEWS—Firtu PaGE. WRAPPEp IN A FOG BANK! THE TURBID SLUSH KNEE DEEP IN THE STREETS: PERILS OF PEDESTRIANS AND OF PA. 5ENGERS BY THE FERRIES: NO FEAR OF A WATER GORGE IN THE SEWERS—Turrp Paap. WIND-UP OF THE EVIDENCE IN THE STOKES TRIAL! MR. TREMAIN SUMS UP FOR THE DEFENCE: LEGAL BUSINESS IN THE VA- RIOUS TRIBUNALS—EI1GHTH Pace. THE DILEMMA OF THE SEVENTY WISE MEN} A ROW IN A CEMETERY OFFICE: A “STRICTLY PRIVATE” CIRCULAR PUB- LISHE! GOW ABOUT A CHARTER ?— E1onra Pace. RELAXATION OF THE NEW YORK AND LON- DON MONEY MARKETS! GOVERNMENT BONDS AND ERIES UPWARD BOUND: DE CLINE IN GOLD: THE BEAR PHALANX IN MOTION—SixtH Pace. OPINIONS OF EXPERTS AS TO THE DANGER FROM SUPERHEATED STEAM! PROS AND CONS OF THE QUESTION: A FIRE INSU RANCE HINT—Ninta Page. WHY THE BRISTOL COLLIDED WITH AND SUNK THE BESSIE ROGERS! TESTIMONY OF THE PILOT AND CUSTOMS AND HARBOR OFFI- CIALS—OUR USELESS NAVY—THIRD PaGE. WHAT SHALL BE DONE WITH THE ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS? STATEMENTS OF THE MEN — COMMEMORATIN THE DEAD BISHOPS OF THE NEW YORK AKCH- DIOCESE—DOCTORS DISAGREEING—MvU- NICIPAL—EIGUTH PAGE, AND THE ARTISTS—LITERARY GOSsIP— CENSURING A HARLEM LANDLORD FOR A FATAL RANGE EXPLOSION—LOCAL ITEMS—SEconpD Pace. DISPENSARY DEMOCRATIC REFORMERS—A “LO” SLAYER—NEW ORLEANS—OBITUARY—THE COAL STRIKE—TuIRD PacE. ART An Importinr Apmissiox.—The London Times in an editorial yesterday, commenting on the situation brought about by the death of the King of the Sandwich Islands, confesses that the Americans will eventually people those islands and make them a valuable colony be- tween San Francisco, China and Australia ‘The Times, however, is opposed to filibuster- ing, and questions the right or propriety of any nation taking possession of the Sandwich Islands by such means. It is quite manifest from this that while the London Times sees and admits the force of manifest destiny, it regrots that manifest destiny is not in this case on the side of England. A Fontovs Storm in Gurat Brrrary.—The people of the British Islands have been alarmed by the furious assault of a terrific storm, which spent its violence to a very great extent over Birmingham and Southampton, Queenstown, Ireland, and the surrounding country. The wind tempest was accompanied by thunder and lightning of unusual severity and vividness, It raged during the night from the 2d instant to yesterday morning, gausing great terror to the population. The ‘wind was blowing 4 gule yesterday and gnow ond sleet falling. The year 1873 thas certainly been ushered in after the very sort of fashion. Let us hope that the advent of an early and genial Spring will bring Jhope end consolation to the many hearts and homes which have been grieved and desolated at the election, in the chief executive office. To accomplish this the Pinchback party have emptied the State armory of arms and ammu- nition and placed them in the hands of negroes, while from three to four thousand federal troops, including cayalry and artillery, have been concentrated in the city to back up the armed negroes, if necessary, in their assault upon the new State government. A mass meeting of the citizens of New Orleans, with- out regard to political divisions, was. held on Thursday evening, to express the indignation of all honest and law-abiding people at the revolutionary and criminal action of the usurpers and at the cruel tyranny of the federal administration, without whose aid the regular State government could not be over- thrown. Yesterday it was evident that the feelings of the masses had been deeply stirred. A ‘dangerous undercurrent’’ was observable in the rolling waves of popular indignation, and it is believed that there is a stern deter- mination on the part of the best citizens to brave every danger—even death at the hands of federal troops and infuriated negroes— rather than to see their constitution trodden under foot, their laws disregarded and their rights and liberties destroyed, without oppo- sition. A ‘physical conflict’ is seriously ap- prehended, and men who are not apt to indulge in exaggerated fancies are earnest in the expression of their fears that the inaugu- ration of the officers peacefully elected will be marked by a fatal collision between the federal forces and the people. We desire, in advance of this disgraceful and cruel butchery, to warn the federal authorities that they are treading on perilous ground. There are facts which no amount of plausible sophistry and no bold falsehoods in partisan organs can alter or conceal. The republican State Convention in Louisiana was presided over by the head of the federal Custom House at New Orleans; its members were, three-fourths of them, federal office- holders; its doors were guarded by federal murshals and their deputies. The nominees for Governor and Lieutenant Governor were a United States Senator and a United States Custom House Collector, anda large portion of the legislative candidates were federal officers. When defeated at the polls a federal judge, in violation of law, overrode the State courts, issued orders sweeping away the legitimate State government, placing a bogus Returning Board in authority, scattering the State Legislature and proclaiming a State canvass without having a single official return on which to base it. To enforce these orders a federal Marshal called in the aid of the federal army, cannons were pointed on the peo- ple from the State House grounds, the halls of legislation were made the camping ground of federal troopers, and the doors of the Capi- tol were guarded by federal bayonets, so that none but the usurpers and their friends might enter. These are stern facts, and no American wor'hy the enjoyment of a free government— no Christian man who loves justice and hates oppression—can afford to ignore them or to hold blameless an administration that lends its | authority to sanction such treasonable and | tyrannous acts. The people are slow to move, but it would not be safe to brave their indigna- tion in such a case as this Louisiana infamy. Should any bloodshed occur in New Orleans on Monday next—should the federal troops be ordered to fire on defenceless citizens, who seek only to do those acts warranted by the constitution and the laws of their State; should the federal power attempt to decide by brute force a contest that belongs to the Courts and that must be settled by the test of law—the American people will exact a reckon- ing from all, however high in authority, who may incur responsibility for the outrage. ‘The assurances given by President Grant to the representatives of the people of Louisiana evince his sense of the impropriety of federal intermeddling with the affairs of that State. His subsequent determination not to allow federal office-holders to become candidates for State offices shows that he understands the extent of the mischief done by the Custom Honse clique in New Orleans. But the Presi- dent is responsible for the official acts of his Cabinet officers, and it is well that he should recall the singular course pursued by Attorney General Williams in this unfortunate matter before the bloody issue threatened on Monday is reached. Tho Attorney General's first despatch to New Orleans approved tho use of the federal troops in dispersing the State government and holding armed possession of the Capitol for the use of the bogas Legisla- ture foisted upon the State by Judge Durell’s orders, When the negro Pinchback had seized the Executive office Attorney General Wil- says the federal Attorney General, that the President of tho United States recognizes you as the Governor and your creatures as the legislators of a free and sovereign State, and let them accept that as settling the question of their State government, or submit to the con- sequences of their rebellious defiance of federal power! Governor McEnery, elected by the people of Louisiana as their Governor, and desirous of protecting the rights of the State that had thus honored him, telegraphed to the President, in response to this pronunciamento of the dictating Attorney General, a respect- fal prayer that neither State government might be recognized at Washington ‘until a commit- tee of the people had been afforded an oppor- tunity to be heard in defence of their freedom as a State, and to lay the facta in the contro- versy before the administration. To this de- spatch the Attorney Goneral forwarded the fol- lowing pert reply:— Your visit with a hun- dred citizens will be unavailing, so far as the-Prosident is concerned. His decision is made and will not be changed, and the sooner it is acquiesced in the sooner good order and peace will be restored."’ No matter whether you were elected by the people or not, Mr. McEnery ; no matter how strong the proof, how convincing the facts with which the out- raged people, cheated out of their rights, are prepared to back up their appeal for justice, the President of the United States has decided how the Stato of Louisiana shall be governed and who it shall be governed by, and as you cannot change his decision the loss fuss you make about the usurpation the better for your- selves! And how, according to Attorney Gen- eral Williams, was this decision so momen- tous to the people of a free State; this deci- sion which changed the whole complexion and policy of a State government; this deci- sion which affected the progress, prosperity and happiness of nearly eight hundred thou- sand people ; how was this decision reached ? The astute Attorney General himself fur- nishes us the answer:—‘The President's de- cision as to recognizing Pinchback was based upon the conviction and belief that there was a majority of the voters in favor of the repub- lican ticket."’ The President certainly had not canvassed the votes in Louisiana ; he had his information, no doubt, from the Custom House party; yet his ‘conviction and belief’’ is, in the opinion of the United States Attorney General, better than official returns and sufficient to settle the question of the contested election! Probably the At- torney General himself helped to create this “conviction and belief,’ and the unbiassed and impartial character of his judgment can be understood from his allusion to the Governor of @ State as a man who had appointed ‘‘a fellow by the name of Jack Wharton’’ to the office of Secretary of State, and from his general con- duct towards Governor Warmoth, whom he treats no better than if he were the keeper of a Baltimore penitentiary! We invite the attention of President Grant to these facts. We believe him to be anxious to do justice to the people of Louisiana and of the South generally; but he has certainly been already placed in a false position by bad ad- visers, Let him look to it that the same men do not involve him in the crime of using federal bullets and federal bayonets to butcher the loyal people of a free State, who are en- gaged in a peaceful and constitutional act. The Erie Enlargement and the Chamber of Commerce. Our merchants in the Chamber of Commerce have passed a series of resolutions asking Con- gress to aid this State in the improvement of the Erie Canal. Very properly they allege that the interests of the whole Western grain, lumber and mineral producing country, as well as the Eastern consuming and manufac- turing sections, are concerned in low tolls and cheap freights by the Erie Canal between tide water and the Western lakes. Still we hold, as we have repeatedly urged, that the best pol- icy points to the thorough improvement of the canal by our own State, whose wisdom planned and whose energy built it, and made it the highway of a national traffic, which has done much to build up the Empire State and the commercial metropolis. As the merchants so forcibly say, the canal should be put in the best possible condition by widening, straight- ening and deepening, and the remaining single locks be doubled, so that it could be navigated by steamers of 600 tons burden, which might safely make short coasting trips both on the lakes and along the sea coast. ‘This would so cheapen the cost of transit as to greatly reduce the cost of commodities to consumers, while the producers would be en- abled to demand a better return for labor than now. New York and New England would have cheaper breadstuffs, and Illinois would not use corn ears for fuel. We want this ef- fected by the State, yet if Congress is going into that business, we join our merchants in urging the first claims of the Erie Canal to federal aid. We know that its route is in the track of trade, and can form an estimate of the cost to be incurred and the returns to be expected, whereas we can only speculate on those matters in connection with other pro- posed works which are being urged upon the national lawmakers. News Trrumpus spy THE Conquest oF Exec- tricirr.—A news despatch from Australasia, dated in Melbourne, Victoria, yesterday, reached London at three o'clock in the morn- ing to-day, and was repeated through the At- lantic cable to New York and delivered at the Heratp building half an hour after midnight. The telegram appears in our columns. Its publication pronounces the complete conquest of the subtile agent electricity to the uses of civilization by the instantaneous diffusion of knowledge and the consequent annihilation of space—almost of time. The intelligence which is conveyed in the despatch, the second on the subject, is of great importance. The Australian colonial authorities will take active measures for the punishment of the parties who are still engaged im the Poly- nesian labor kidnapping traffic. It is mel- ancholy’ to know, however, that the cause for the exercise of the humane resolution still exists in a very aggravated shape on and off the coast of the antipodal dominion of Victoria, Canal Tae Ricumonp Enquirer cannot certainly have a very high opinion of West Point when liams telegraphed him as follows: —‘‘Let it be understood that you are recognized by the President as the lawful Executive of Louisiana, and the body assembled at Mechanics’ Institute as the lawful Legislature; by the visitations of Old Boreas during the ‘Winter, and it is suggested that you make proclama- tion Wo bank eilich’’ Pigslai t9 the epeele, it affirms that ‘‘a third of the students there at this time are the appointees of a gang of carpet-baggers, who are properly excluded from respectable society in the South.’’ The Enquirer has evidently taken no stock in tho “next war,” which some of its unrecon- struotad Giguda are said te by contemplating The Streets of New York. The Impending Elections for We have had some evidence of the efficiency United States Senate, of the Street Cleaning Department within} ‘The members of tho United States Senate the past few days. The immense quantity | under the constitution aro so classified that of snow left by the storm of the 27th and 28th | ono-third of them retire with the expiration of ult. may have been too, much for them, but | each Congress, the object being the infusion they have achieved a great deal, It is more | of a new element in the body fresh from the than ever necessary that the work should be | people with the beginning of each Congress. pushed on, and with increased energy. The | To fill the vacancies which will thus occur in rain predicted by the Weather Bureau has | the Senate on the 4th of March most of tho come, and slush, knee deep, will be our lot | elections required have already taken place, unless the masses of snow at present remaining | including the re-election of Sherman, of Ohio; on the ground are in some manner disposed | Morton, of Indiana, and Ferry, of Connecti- Of. Give us more shovellers and more carters, | cut, Among the places to be filled with new then, without delay. Tho mistake which bas | elections for the new Congross are those. now been mado by the Department lies in not | held by Conkling, of New York; Cameron, of having attacked the snow while fresh fallen | Pennsylvania; Trumbull, of Illinois; Blair, with an army of laborers and carters at least four times as numerous as those they set to work, Four men on the first day after a snow storm could clear away more than one man working for ten consecutive days. It is the same thing exactly as a householder who the first day of the storm can clean his footpath in fifteen minutes. Two days later it would take two hours. Ip order to assist the city authoritics in the work of preparing fora thawing rainfall all owners of houses should be obliged to keep the gutters in front of their property clear of snow. By this means the water will have a good chance to run into the sewers, and thus not only rid the strects of an inconvenience, but, by flushing the sewers, carry off the seeds of pestilence which during the cold weather may have accumulated there waiting for a spell of warm weather to make their presence disagreeably felt. In former years the citi- zens gazed tranquilly at whatever the heavens sent—snow, sleet, hail, rain or wind. It was all the same tothem. They were obliged to wait for a change of weather before they could dare to hope. The contractor who rep- resented ‘the authorities’ did nothing; the citizen grumbled and followed the example. The contractor was a philosopher, believing that whatever was was right. If it snowed, he stopped work and saved money. If it thawed, he waited with the patience of Job for a» week or two, no matter how much the beslushed pub- lic raved, until the sun had dried the streets and saved money for him. If it rained, he let it have the city scavengering all to itself, while he received the money. In perfectly fine weather he swept Broadway. If there was a storm of wind he thought it better than a million brooms for removing dust, and saved money by not interfering with it to the extent of » gallon of sprinkling. From the contractor's point of view the philosophy was perfect. It was the laisser aller of the sluggard transformed by the wand of Tammany into the Golconda of ‘masterly inactivity.’ Sad to say, things are changed. Man, proud man, with his usual presumption, has taken the scavengering business out of the hands of Providence. We are to have Italian brooms instead of Arctic Boreas to sweep away our dust; shovels will take the place of showers and water carts are to simulate Jupiter Pluvius when he is out of the way in the Summer months. The citizens are bold enough to approve the almost blasphemous innovation, and are prepared to pay for it. The promises have been fair enough, and now let us be treated to a little more performance. We must not rely too implicitly on the De- partment. Eternal vigilance is the price of cleanliness as well as of liberty. If the De. partment is energetic citizens should do their share of the work. It would, just at present, bea good idea for the Street Cleaning Bureau to frame a few clear, simple rules, setting forth the duties of householders in this respect under the law, and circulate them widely in the city. | There would then be no excuse for infractions of the municipal ordinances anent clean footpaths and open gutters. Amother Bank Scheme and Raid on the Treasury. It is given out, and by way of a feeler we suppose, that leading bankers in Boston (Bos- ton is put first), New York and Philadelphia are urging upon the Secretary of the Treasury to deposit with them the coin belonging to the government, in order, as they say, to liberate a large amount of greenbacks, which they are now compelled to hold as a reserve. The pre- tended object is to relieve the pressure for more currency for business operations, though the real purpose is to profit by the release of the legal tenders, which yield the banks no interest, and by the use of government gold in their place. This would be, undoubtedly, a very convenient arrangement for the banks. That they should make, or contemplate making, such a proposition is the coolest thing of the season, and shows both their as- sumption and confidence in Mr. Boutwell’s stupidity. Why do they not at once, and with- out mincing the matter, ask for the control. of the Treasury and power of taxation over the people? -They might just as well do this as to ask for the use of the specie wrung from the people by heavy and unnecessary imposts. This is one of the evils and temptations of keeping in the Treasury a vast amount of sur- plus and unprofitable gold. There ought to be no such surplus gold in the Treasury, nor any system of revenue that brings it there. But as long as the government collects it the proposal to give the banks the benefit of the use of it is about as monstrous a scheme as ever was devised. These institutions are not satisfied with a profit of twelve to fifteen per cent on their capital, half of ita gratuity on their circulation, but want the revenue of the government as well, The fact that Mr. Bout- well has taken this proposition into considera- tion and has not repudiated it at once shows how utterly incapable he is for the position he holds, Tue Ramnoap Accent at Moravia yes- terday happily did not result in a wholesale slaughter of the passengers, According to our despatches published elsewhere to-day the Northern express on the Pittsburg and Erie Railroad struck a broken rail, and the whole train, consisting of a baggage car and of Missouri; Kellogg, of Louisiana, and Nye, of Nevada. Tho election of Senator Wilson as Vico President makes a vacancy for Massa- chusetts on the 4th of March, and this case, as the most conspicuous of the lot, we will first consider. The leading candidate for the seat of Sonator Wilson is Mr. Secretary Boutwell. He has noti- fied the President of hisintended early resigua- tion of the Treasury, and has evidently caused it to be understood among his friends in Mas- sachusetts that he resigns the Treasury with the. expectation. of being returned to the Senate. No very formidable competitor has yet been announced against him, though it appears that the opposition or anti-Boutwell elements are actively canvassing the chances for his defeat. We think, however, consider- ing the distinction which Mr. Boutwell gained as a member of the House, and the high favor in wh'ch he stands with the President as head of the Treasury, that he will, without a contest, be transferred to his friend Wilson's place among the Conscript Fathers. As a ready, able and experienced debater on all the public questions of the day we think, too, that he is much better qualified to achieve a solid reputation as a Senator than as the head of the Treasury Department. We have no doubt of the re-election of Sena- tor Conkling. The republican majority in our new Legislature is so thoroughly divested of the Fenton element and so entirely in ac- cord with the administration or Conkling ele- ment that the re-election of Mr. Conkling may be considered as morally certain. His services to the administration and his party in the late campaign, to say nothing of his marked abilities in the debates of the Senate, settle the question. We are not so well satis- fied of the re-election of Senator Cameron, although his recognized services im securing the decisive administration victory in Penn- sylvania of October last against the combined forces of the democrats under Buckalew, and of the anti-Grant republicans under Curtin, McClure and Forney, ina party view of the subject, entitle Cameron toa re-election, The Pennsylvania politicians, however, are very uncertain, and rumor is afloat of various schemes afoot for a combination to defeat Cameron. Still, as Curtin, McClure and Forney are “‘down among the dead men’’ for the present, the chances are heavily in favor of Cameron. : Senator Trumbull, as a liberal or anti- Grant republican, has given up the idea of a re-election, being in the condition of Morley, “dead as a door nail.”” The November. elec- tion in Hlinois settled him. A Grant repub- lican will succeed him, and General Oglesby is mentioned as most likely to be the lucky man. The case of Senator Blair, of Mis- souri, is considered doubtful. By the coali- tion of the democrats and anti-administration republicans of 1870 the State was revolution- ized, and General Blair, for his services in working this coalition, was rewarded with the unexpired half of the term which ends on the 4th of March next. By the same token, for his services in bringing about the opposition Presidential coalition of 1872, General Blair is entitled to a Senatorial re-election. But the democrats of the Missouri Legislature, it is. said, are beginning to think of dropping the liberal republicans, in order to fall back again under the old democratic flag. So it appears that the chances of General Blair as a coali- tionist are rather cloudy, though the Mis- sourians in their choice of a Senator might go further and fare worse. Senator Nye, of Nevada, the irresistible light comedian of the Senate, we fear, will retire with the present Congress, A certain Mr. Jones, q Nevada millionnaire, and a very enterprising, liberal and popular man, has, they say, stolen the hearts of the republicans of the Sage Brush State from Nye. And they say, too, that the sovereigns of Nevada have got the notion into their wise heads that | “Jim Nye’ is a brother of that unfortunate “Bill Nye’’ who permitted himself, at draw poker, to be “cleaned out by that heathen Chinee,’’ and that something of the popular disgust for ‘Bill Nye” has accordingly fallen upon the Senator. If this is true the fair play men of Nevada are not acting fairly with their Senator; for has he ever been defeated by that ‘heathen Chinee?” That is the question for the Nevada Legislature. Seri- ously, however, the pressure of the doctrine of rotation in office is so powerful in our far Western States that he is, indeed, a lucky man | who secures a re-election to the Senate. The contest for the Senatorial succession in Louisiana to the chair of Kellogg is likely to result in the choice of two Senators ; one by the regularly elected McEnery government and one by the Durell-Pinchback govern- ment, It is probable that both will pre- sent their credentials at Washington, and that the Senate itself will thus have to settle this Louisiana entanglement. In any event we apprehend there will be more trouble in New Orleans before we have a settlement of this controversy, From all these Senatorial con- tests, and from all others since the war, the fact which is brought out into the boldest relief is the enlarged importance which the politicians on all sides attach to a seat in the Senate, Under Johnson's administration this body proved itself the master. of the govern- ment, and this is the idea which among the three coaches, was thrown down an embank- | politicians still provails, though in reality ment thirty feet deep, There were twenty-one | under General Grant it has ur its force, as, persons injured, but none killed. As usual, | for example, in his defeat of Sumner as the however, fire completed the disaster by con- suming two of the coaches, and had there been the least difficulty in extricating the frightened passengers a recurrence of the re- cent Goose Oreck horrors would have fol- lowed, Will railroad o that steam, if used in tions never learn | by United States papers. conches, word | other name may smell as sweet; but would ‘Thunderer of the Senate. Tag St. Jonn (N. B.) Tribune is very in- digannt because the puissant “Dominion of €annda’’ is called merely the “New Dominion’ A rose by any sensibly lessen thy, gerrors of mishaps 8h as | not the title of the “Republic of Canada’ suit, fas pesaenh? our indignant conjemporary 4 litle betters the | Manufactures and Agriculiare im the South, The Norfolk (Va.) Journal touches a key- note when it declares that a revolutio’ in the manner of managing agriculture and manu- factures in the South is demanded: Wha* tho South wants, it says, isa full development of its agricultural strength and the establis:\- ment of manufactures. ‘The time has,passed* for big farms and broad plantations, YJnder the new system of labor there should be anew system of husbandry, and the extengive fia 1ds of the South subdivided and thrown opem, to small farmers from the North and Europ ® The advantages of the soil and climate, th? low price of lands and their proximity to mar kets, should be freely advertised in thot papers of the North and West, and, we might .add, in view of the pressure of foreign immi- gration, in European journals. In regard to manufactures, the South wants them as they have them in Old England and in New England, and the way to accomplish this is to invite capital from all parts of the world to come to the South and assist in de- veloping her vast manufacturing and mineral resources, And the best way to bring about this desideratum is for the people of the South to set themselves diligently at work to re- store their sunny clime to the reputation for law and order which the mischievous Ku Klux have so sadly damaged, and to assure thoso who come among them to settle that they and their property shall be protected by every means within their power, and that their rights, political, personal and industrial, shall be guaranteed to the fullest extent. Georgia has taken a step in the right direction in regard to developing her re- sources. The ‘Committee on Direct Trade and Immigration” have held a meeting in Macon and resolved to ask the Legislature to pass bills establishing a Bureau of Immigra- tion, preparing maps showing the agricultural, mineral and commercial resources of Georgia, to be translated into several European lan- guages, and grantinga subsidy of one hundred thousand dollars per annum to any steamship company that will make a’ satisfactory con- tract with the State to establish a line of steamships between some Enropean port and Savannah. It would be much better if the matter of a steamship line were left to private enterprise, for these subsidies, whether State or national, are likely to lead to abuses and eventuate in a failure to attain the object which it is aimed to secure. But if Georgia is deter- mined to try the experiment, let her go on, and may those she has dealings with treat her im good faith, and not, after squeezing her treasury to the last dime, drop the undertak- ing as unfeasible and impracticable. The Slushy Period. In another column is told the condition: of the city yesterday, the visitation of the fog and the perils of ferry navigation on the: North and East rivers. The weather nover before proved itself such a nuisance. It brought all manner of unpleasant things. with it,such as chilly, drizzling rain, dense and! dismal fog, slippery walking, damp feet, splashed clothes, &e. The fog is likened to that with which Londoners have from time immemorial been familiar—something 60 dense and all-pervading as to hide every ob- ject from sight save what is within an arm's length of the organs of vision. Such fogs: are rare with us. The one that thought fit to descend upon us yesterday was of such extreme density as to bewilder the oldest inhabitant and to fill the breast of the bravest and most skilful North River pilot with dismay. On the rivers the fog was a mon- strous nuisance and the passengers on the ferryboats trembled at every shadow. of a collision. As for the walking, it was of the most deplorably miserable character; Men and women alike were compelled to plunge into morasses of muddy snow at every street crossing, so that dry fect and even tempers must have been at a premium all over New York during the eventful thaw of yesterday. The Street Cleaning Department, while effect- ing some improvement in the condition of Broadway, might have accomplished more. It should have had a larger force of men at work, for it is well reimbursed out of the people’s taxes, and for once it might have earned the gratitude of the citizens. Let us see if it cannot make a better effort to-day to give us clean crossings on at. least the entire length of Broadway. Tux Brooxtyn Riva are in eager anticipa- tion of a return to power through the aid of some of the Aldermen elected in the cause of reform. There are said to be some men among the regular democratic members whoare really friends of good government, and who deplore. the frauds of their associates. But these men: find it difficult to vote against their party, and. hence hesitate to act independently for the good of the city. They must remember, how- ever, that, if they help to organize the govern- ment in the cause of corruption, they will be held responsible equally with the most guilty for all the future rascalities that may be com~- mitted by their friends. If the corrupt trade now contemplated should be consummated it will be a good argument in favor of the con- solidation of the two cities under one charter. Ix toe Sroxes Tr Yesreapay the greater portion of the time was taken up by a lucid and powerful address of Mr. Tremain on behalf of the defence. Although not ornate in character, it did not lack plentiful appeals to the sympathies of the jury, and was. characterized as much by attack on the quali« ties of Fisk as on the sufferings of Stokes. He-will continue to-day. The evidence ad duced in rebuttal yesterday was of no con- sequence. The case may begiven to tho jury to-day. Procness or THE Wag Acatnst THE APA curs.—General Crook, is, pushing the Winter ; campaign against the wild Apaches, who have, broken away from. the Arizona, reservations, with vigor and decided success, His troops have just routed the savages in several actions, killing quite a number of the war- tiors, destroying ‘their camps, and capturing: their women, children, animals and supplies. ; As he conducts the business it meana exter- mination or surrender to the hostile braves, who prefer hunting, plunder ond the warpath to honest labor im their reservations, They have dug up the tomahawk which their whits brother had buried with them, and if they perish by it they have but themselvos ta thank. Civilization demands the waste lands | of this Continent for tillage, If te Apache