The New York Herald Newspaper, January 6, 1873, Page 5

‘going to the Post Office at all, thereby saving much valuable time to the Department and to the newspaper publishers. New Year's Sermons, The first Sabbath in this new year was sig- alized yesterday by ministers and people with a new departure. Grand purposes for the future were outlined and the progress of the past served as motives to inspire greater faith and more diligent labor in the year to come, Sermons especially appropriate to the new year were preached in St. Paul's Prot- estant Episcopal church, Yorkville, by Rev. W. BR. Carroll; in Seventh avenue Presby- terian church by Rev. S. H. Graham; in Trinity Baptist church by Rev. Dr. Holme; in Twenty-fifth street Presbyterian church by Rey. J. 8. Stewart; in the Church of the Dis- ciples by Rev. George H. Hepworth, and in the Catholic churches, wherein the festival of the Epiphany is to be celebrated to-day. Mr. Hepworth's sermon was a thanksgiving to God for the progress of his congregation during the year past, and a pledge of greater Prospect through greater devotion to Jesus Christ during the year to come. He would have his people keep step with Old Time in ‘his march, and let every year carry them nearer to God. Time should be measured by expe- rience and by duty well performed. No man, said Mr. Hepworth, is sure of Heaven who is simply passing pure. He must save others. He must go forth into the world, lifting tho down-trodden and speaking to the erring and the wayward with the authority of God to win them to Christ, without whom our lives would be spiritual Saharas without an oasis. How strangely these truths fell upon many ears and many hearts’ a year ago! How sweetly and comfortingly they come now from a heart made green and beauteous by the overflowings of the pure river of water of life beside which this minister of Christ has sat now for a year. May not 1874 bring with it a richer and holier experience in the things of God to both pastor and people? It will if the consecration is per- fect and complete. Mr. Stewart recited some of the strange things which the world had witnessed during ‘the years past, such as the progress of civiliza- tlon and Christianity in China; the emancipa- tion of serfs in Russia ond of slaves in the United States; the position which woman is taking, not only in this country but in every other ; the creation of a public sentiment in favor of mercy to our dumb friends, and the death of eminent representatives of the pro- fessions of journalism, art, the drama, his- torians, sacred and secular, and ministers of the Gospel. While Mr. Stewart gave its meed of praise to this progressive age he feared that the Church is drifting too much towards lib- eralism, But he preferred liberalism to NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY ‘6, 1873—WITH SUPPLEMENT. several of them lodge their servants at the top of a high house, whence there is not the ghost of a chance to escape alive in case a fire should occur in the one staircase leading to the loft. It certainly behooves the keepers of hotels to make those provisions which humanity requires for the safety of servants as well as guests, ond the Fire Marshal and Superintendent of Buildings owe it to the community and the travelling public to enforce strictly the law, which requires ample fire escapes, especially on buildings liable to be thronged with lodgers. If the burned child dreads the fire it is time for New York to institute prompt measures to prevent tho recurrence of the ter- rible scenes of the past month. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interlor, is visiting at Matanzas. Mrs, Harrison G. Otis, of Boston, is in a preca- rious state of health. George A. Edes, Collector of Customs, District of Alaska, has resigned. Moses D. Handy has been placed in the position of managing editor of the Richmond Dispatch. The trial of Mrs, Wharton for attempting to poison will commence to-day in Annapolis, Md, Over one+half of the members of the Kellogg Leg- islature of Louisiana can neither read nor write, Ex-Governor L. B. Church, of Montana, ana-N. C. Gussett, of Texas, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ebenezer Coggswell has tolled the church bell in Derry, N. H., for two thousand funerals in thirty- two years. Major Pauline Cushman, one of the heroines of the rebellion, is lying quite sick at Virginia City, Nevada Territory. William H. Aspinwall, of this city, ia in Egypt, with bis family and several friends. They are about to ascend the Nile, The opinion is very prevalent that Dr. Cornelius A. Logan will beat Samuel ©. Pomeroy in the race for the Kansas United States Senatorship. Governor Smith, of Georgia, will refuse to be in- augurated for his second term until after the Leg- islature raises the salary to $10,000 a year. ‘2 H. Conquest Clarke has resigned his pesition as Secretary ot the City Council of New Orleans, Mr. Clarke was formerly a reporter in this city. Fred Douglas calls J. Sella Martin a miserable subterfuge for a colored man, and Martin calls Fred a cross and crazy old nigger. “Pot calling kettle black.” n General Francis P. Blair, Jr., left St. Louis on Sat- urday last for the State capital of Missouri, to look about the election of his successor in the United States Senate. Rev. John Erell, pastor of the Macedonian Baptist church, near Lewiston Springs, Spartenburg county, 8. C., has gone to Albany, N. Y., where he | has been recommended to sojourn for five years in order to get cured of an attack of Ku Klux. Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, who was married to Jerome Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napo- leon Bonaparte, on the 24th of December, 1803, sixty-nine years ago, is now lying at the point of death in Baltimore. She is now about eighty-eight years old. Ameng the passengers for Cuba on the steam- ship City of Havana, that sailed on Saturday, were the Earl and Countess of Caithness, Count de Po- bigotry ; and so do we. Better, far better, to live in an age like the present than in any that has preceded it since God made man ‘upon the earth. Mr. Carroll considered man physiologically and spiritually and intellectually, and pre- sented his case to invite his hearers'to con- sider the destiny to which they are hurrying. The past is constantly teaching the future, and the congregation were directed to the mortuary statistics of the yoar, to the facts which indicate an increase of crime, and, in view of these things, they were asked to remember the days of old, and to exert them- selves still more than they had in God’s ser. vice in the time to come, itera > 2 ae, Bee rf bee ie . Mr Graham’ believed that thé past year was O06 fraught with events as marvellous as any that he could remember, and yet it had brought many blessings with it. Looking over the past he saw a great deal to be done in the future. The great evil of the times he conceived to be a lack of faith and morality based on the true principles of Christian doc- trine, without which religion is only a myth and morality an imaginary thing. Dr. Holme saw life as a railroad and men as engines running along it and driven by the force of habit and character on the road to heaven or to perdition according to the direc- tion given to their character, and with an ever increasing momentum. But even engines have stopping places, where they take in fuel and water; so have men stopping places, and the New Year is one of them. The young were, therefore, warned and urged to consider their ways and to cease to do evil and learn to do well. Dr. McGlynn preached an admirable ser- mon on the Epiphany and its lessons, and urged this as an excellent time for the mil- lions to come and worship their God. He re- gretted that, as in the days of old, too few avail themselves of the guiding star which leads to the manger and to the cross, and too many, while they know where the Saviour is, tarry in coming to prostrate themselves before Him. Too many there are who would stifle the heavenly infant for the sake of retaining the poor, perishable things of this world. Dr. “Starrs also preached an Epiphany sermon. He looked upon Ohrist’s manifestation of His divinity as one of the most important bene- fits conferred upon man, Creation itself can- not be compared with it, The Doctor elabo- rated this thought, and showed the impor- tance of this fact in its relation to others, and then called upon his hearers to examine them- selves and to follow the Saviour more closely this year than they had followed him in the ag a philosophical examination of the facul- ties of the human mind Mr. Beecher yester- day endeavored to illustrate and to demon- strate how we may at length come to know the love of Christ which passeth the lower knowledge of our nature. We come to know Christ by allying ourselves to His nature. Just as much as is Godlike in us responds to that which is Godlike, so that we become as sensible of the presence of God as the ba- rometer is sensitive to the pressure of the atmosphere. Mr. Beecher sees unmistakable signs that this age is drifting toward atheism. But bas he done what he could to stay the drift? Do not those philosophical and semi- scientific essays and sensation sermons that wo hear and. read so often in many pulpits tend to draw men away from the simplicity of the Gospel and into atheism or deism or nothingism ? Dr. Ormiston preached to Brooklyn con- gregation yesterday on tho divinity, pricst- hood, triumph and reign of righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. These discourses may be read to-day with profit. Crry Horers anp Tuer Dancers FROM Frers.—A reporter's tour of inspection among the hotels of New Yoz's reveals the fact that mar and Lady Fanny Sinclair. ‘These notables. had been in this city for the past six weeks. They stopped at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where the Earl was an active assistant of the firemen during the late fire. The Earl of Caithness, who is a Scotchman, is a man of science and an inventor, whose practical mind is highly appreciated “over the pond.” The term of service of Hon. Thomas W. Osborn as United States Senator from Florida will expire with the present Congress. Among those who as- pire to the position are Chief Justice Randall, brother of ex-Postmaster General Randall; Horatio Jenkins, Jr.; Harrison Reed, the present Governor of the State; Jonn Tyler, son of the late ex-Presi- dent Tyler; General Sanford, and F, A. Dockray, formerly Collector of the Port of Jacksonville. All these are_y white men. Among the nefrd éandl- dates are State Senator Meacham, of Jefferson, and Assemblyman’ Scott, of Duval. There are other portions of the State yet to hear from. SSS eaon Eee TEE LOUISIANA TROUBLES. Business to be Resumed To-day—The Attorney General to Take All Proper Steps to Maintain Peace. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1873. A private despatch from New Orleans states that business wi!l be suspended to-morrow and that the conservatives or fusion Legislature will as- semble. A number of prominent citizens of Louisiana, now in Washington, apprehending danger of col- lision between the contending political parties, called on the Attorney General to-day and en- treated him to initiate such measures as would po against such a result. They were informed in reply that the subject was now under considera- tion by the executive authorities, and that all proper steps would be taken to preserve the peace. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, The London papers have discovered that Mr. “George” Emmett, who is playing Fritz in that capital, is a grandson of the brother of Robert Emmett, Maile. Devries’ success in Paris as Ophélie, in M. Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet,” has become even more decided since her début jn the part, The name of M. Sardou’s play, the scene of which is laid in this country, is “L’Oncle Sam.’ We wonder whether our French friend won't wish he had let his uncle alone before he gets through with him. Mr, Charles Mathews will not appear in London until Monday, June 9, when he will play at the Galety in “The Liar’ and “Patter vs. Clatter.” At M. Gounod’ first choir concert no less than eight of his compositions will be performed for the first time, including a pater noster, a requiem, a chorus, “Omnipotent Lord,” besides secular works, M. Offenbach has, itis said, bought the Théatre de ta Gafté for 280,000 francs. It will reopen under his management as a Taéatre Lyrique. LEATHER FRAUDS IN NEWARK. Henry Helfrecht and Otto Bender, two German shawl strap makers of Newark, are now in the City Prison there on very grave charges, From statements and affidavits made before Justice Mills, it appears they have procured by false Tepresentations about their business sol- vency large quantities of leather from va- rious manuiacturers, who are now in the be- lef that they have been barefacedly swin- died. Mr. Ichabod W. Dawson, member of an old leather firm, on whose complaint the accused have been arrested to answer a charge of fraud, states that they came to his place and represented that they hada Perfectiy solvent business, $5,000 being involved in it clear of all obligation. Besides this they had, they said, some real estate, Hence they were given leather on credit to the amount of $570, Subsequently they disposed of their business, and, about the time they got the leather, as 1s believed, also the real estate. A Mr. Cohen, who @ fancy store on Broad strect, is their credit iso to the extent of The authorities expt up as creditors as well. Al are considered by the au! dence of intentional fraud) the prisoners. They are held i fault of $2,000 bail each, Messrs, Dawson and @ohen had already commenced civil suits agal them to recover their monies, ele HAVANA MARKETS, Havas, Jan. 4, 1878. Sugar dull, owing to the new export dutlés and the hok idays. Sugdy at Havana and Matanzas—Stock in ware- House, 23,000 boxes and 2.90 hhds. ; receipts of the week, 6,000 hoxes and 1,00 hhids.; exported during the week 12,500 boxes sind "6,000 hhds. Bacon firmer at $16 i] per owt. Butter per, nuintal. Flour giiiet wind thrm pL, Hams irregular. $: t 315 a gis Pp Lard quiet and firm; in kegs, $16 62%; in tins, $19 9) a 22 per quintal, Potatoes in fair demand at $6 26. Tal- Tow buoyant at $14. $14 50 per quintal. Coal oil in tins in fair demand at 53 a 5% reals per gallon. Empty Hogaheads quict but Grn atg8 7094. Lumber— fair demand ; er M. Shooks—Box, a pond, 25 reals; molasses hogsheads, urpentine quietand nominal. Tar in talr de- ‘a $8 per bbl, Rosin quiet. Hoops—Long ve at $03 per Freights quit and firm, iriner; on United States, sixty days, Wallis 16 premium; sixty dars, ort sight, 25% i pitch pine in t 337 a mand at shaved ac Exchange premiuin; short sight, 13 0! a prewinm prem jm ¥ 4 00)4 premium; on Baris, 19 & 19)— pre. WASHINGTON. The President and the Cabi- net in Accord. NO CHANGES CONTEMPLATED. General Schofield’s Mission to the Sandwich’ Islands of No Consequence. IMPORTANT EXECUTIVE ORDER. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1873. President Grant and the Cabinct—No Changes to Take Place and None De- sired. President Grant yesterday, during a conversa- tion with the writer of this article, when he was asked whether there was any truth in the pub- lished statement that William M. Evarts was to take the place of Mr. Fish as Secretary of State, replied positively and distinctly that nothing what- ever of a change was at this time known; that there was no member of the Cabinet whom he wished to change or specially desired to leave it. If, how: ever, Mr. Boutwell should be elected to the Senate of the United States, and in that event resign his present pssition, of course the vacancy would be Promptly filled. Although Mr. Fish had intimated his wish to retire at the end of the present ad- ministration the President hoped he would modify his desire by consenting to remain as Secretary of State until the questions growing out of the Treaty of Washington were entirely settled, General Schofield’s Mission to the Sand- wich Islands. The President conversed freely on the subject of the Hawaiian Island affairs, saying that, in view of recent publications concerning them, it was proper all the facts should be known, and which are briefly as follows:—The government had sent a United States vessel to the Hawaian Islands to bring the King to San Francisco, he having ex- pressed a desire to travel through the country amd thence go to Europe for the benefit of his health. About the time the vessel arrived at Honolulu the King died. This intelligence hav- ing been received by our government, the com- mander of the Pactfic squadron was instructed to send a vessel to the islands in addition to the one already there, simply to protect the rights of American citizens in case of emergency and to see that other nations should take no undue advan- tages under a new government. General Schofield, who had been very sick, and whose condition fora time was considered critical, telegraptied the President that he would like to take a tripona national vessel, and was ready to go. The Prest- dent telegrephed to him in reply that, as his health had been bad, and as the voyage would be beneficial to him, he was authorized to accompany the commander of the squadron, and that if he could render the commander any assistance by his counsel he would be pleased if he should do so, Nothing more than this was thought of by the President. He repeated he simply authorized General Schofield to accompany the commander, and said if any report should be made to him by General Schofield it would be altogether voluntary. The Humbug of Civil Service Reform. It may not be generally known that the civil service'rules ,require that all persons entering the service shall be appointed, in the first instance, for a probationary period of six months only, dur- ing which their conduct and capacity shall be tested. If, at the end of that time, the Board re- ports that they have proved themselves deserving of @ permanent appoitment they are reap- pointed, otherwise their names are summarily dropped from the roils, It is the intention of the Treasury Board to make a thorough examination into the capacity and behavior of probationary ap- pointees and ascertain their fitness before recom- mending their continuance .in office. It will be ‘ved that no unfavorable report is required to 1 incompetent appointee, but that the mere failure of the Board to make a favorable report is all that is necessary. _ «. ed Important “Executive Order—Federal Officers Not to Hold State Offices. The President has directed the Secretary of State to prepare immediately an executive order in ef- fect prohibiting persons holding United States cemmissions from occupying ofMice under State authority. Law Business in the Departments, Spme yeeks ago, upon a conference and ex- change of views betwee Mr, Garfleld, chairman of the House Committee of Appropriations; Attorney General Williams, Postmaster General Creswell and Mr. Abbott, Commissioner of Statute Revision, rel- ative to the inconveniences and inconsistencies incident to the present system of conducting the law business of the departments, it was agreed that a bill should be presented to Congress providing for an amendment of the law. Sucii 4 bill has been drafted by Mr. Abbot and introduced by Mr. Gar. field, and will doubtless come up fer action early after the recess. Should it be passed the gen- eral result wiil be that, besides the Solicitor of the Treasury and Solicitor of Internal Revenue and | Naval Solicitor, whose duties remain unchanged, there will be a solicitor for each department, whose duties will be to advise the head of the de- partment upon questions of law, and to assist in the performance of duties requiring learning in the law. Such solicitors will be strictly associated with the departments respectively ; butall proceed- ings in courts of justice in behalf ot the United States will be subject to the general control and di- rection of the Department of Justice. At present the department solicitors are by law subject to the Attorney General, but in practice they are at- tached to the departmenta which they serve, and the Attorney General is without convenient means of controlling their course; and several of the de- partments are without legal advisers, The New York Surveyorship. The President has accepted the resignation of Alonzo B, Cornell, Surveyor of the Port of New York, to take effect on the 3ist inst. New Readiag of an Old Telegram. The telegram received here on Saturday from an oMicial source at New Orleans stated that “all the Custom House employés who are members of the Legislature have resigned, been removed or st pended,” and did not, as seems to have been mis- apprehended, say that they bad resigned as mem- bers of the Louisiana Legislature. Charred Remains of $200,000 Recov- ered. Mr. L. Hazen, agent of the express company, ar- rived here yesterday with the express safe taken from the wreck of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road disaster, at Bowling Green, Ky. The safe con- tains the charred remains of $200,000 in United States bonds, which will be examined by the Trea- sury Department for redemption. Mr. Hazen had | to use the utmost care in the transfer from train to train in order to prevent the remains from being jolted into dust. European Salmon Eggs for American Waters. Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute, United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisberies, has just been informed by telegraph that 750,000 salmon eggs will be shipped from Bremen by the steamship America on the 1ith of January, and will, consequently, be due jn New York about the 26th, They will be in charge of Rudolph Hessel, an eminent German fish culturist, and on their arrival will be distributed in greater part to the State Commissioners of Fisheries for introduction into the waters of the great lakes and the Atlantic coast. One-third of these eggs area present from the German government; the remainder were pur- chased in Freiburg. | ‘The funeral of the boy James R. Bevan, who was one of the victims of the Centre street horrar, took place yesterday, at the Attorney street Methodist churcli. ve = 7 Jacob Nathan, 500 West Forty-third street, was held to bail in. the sum of $500 yesterday, at Jel- SLEET AND SLUSH. New York Assailed by a Terrible Tem- pest of Ice, Snow, Rain, Hail and Concomitant Misery. BOREAS ON A “BOZAAM.” The City Mantled in Frost and the Streets Flooded with Half-Frozen Water. Telegraph Wires Snapping and Theologians Slipping—The Work of the Police and Fire Departments Deranged—Remedial Measures—Mounted Messengers Instead of Electricity. THE SIGNAL SERVICE. Americana are accustomed to rail at and despise the climate of England, but if anything in the shape of weather more utterly detestable than that which reigned in New York yesterday could be produced by Old Albion she ought to have paid “consequential damages.”” The memory of “the oldest inhabitant” is supposed to be very retentive, asa rule,and even that sage hermit asserted it was“‘the worst he ever seen.’ Saturday night was bright and fair, the cloudless sky was spangled with scintillating stars, but as dawn approached a misty curtain came and veiled the heavens from the view of mortals. It was bitterly cold, and those persons who consider themselves weatherwise, or aspire to a relationship with . “OLD PROBABILITIES," thought that perhaps a little snow might fall; but the elements would not be suMictently sacrilegious as to deter devotees from going tochurch. The last panier had been adjusted, the cadence of the last peal of the church bells had died away upon the misty air and orisons were fully under weigh when Jupiter Pluvius, after lengthy considera- tion, determined to usurp the elemental throne and reign fora little while. And he did rain with @ vengeance. Down came special torrents, half snow, half water, which on touching the paye- ments and roadway froze hard and slippery. Not even @ French dancing master could have skip- ped lightly over the frozen flags without imperilling shis precious littie neck, and it seemed as if earth's surface was converted pro tem. into a gigantic looking-glass to enable ladies to learn the latest modes in feminine undergarments, The poor po- licemen, who on sunshiny days beam conspicu- ously as the chaperons of the fair sex over cross- ings and perilous parts of the streets, were too UTTERLY WRETCHED to be gallant. Their waterproof coats and leg- gings were frozen stiff, and they stood on one leg” at the street corners, wherever there was a friendly awning to shelter them, like barn door fowls longing for their roosts. The perspicacious individuals who retail seventy-five cent umbrellas on wet days reaped @ harvest of fractional currency when the church services terminated, for even the most niggardiy Strephon could not refuse to furnish his Phyllis with “a gingham.’ The car horses, poor beasts, trotted along the swampy, slushy streets with drooping ears, looking the perfect personitication o1 misery, and probably wishing that the epizootic had terminated their equine existence last fall. Drivers were profane, conductors anything but urbane and passengers unmistakeably cross, To spoil one’s best suit, get wet feet, acquire a cold and be late for dinner all through going to church is rather too much for even the most pious Christian to stand without grumbling. Yet to ‘as usual and then proc fire company's Guarters with the forme, ‘Me nearest KELSO'S REMEDIES. ‘The following is the ise of Superintendent Kel- arrangement of the police force at his com- mand, given by him last evening to a HERALD re- porter :—He has given strict orders to each police- man to be more than usually particular in the dis- charge of his duty during the absence of telegraph communications, The patrols are in some cases doubled where the neighborhoods are dangerous. At every precinct station south of Fourteenth street he has ordered # mounted policeman to re- main on patrol, who ts instructed, in case of any emergency, to give the alarm as soon as the nature of the occurrence, whether fire or otherwise, ia detected and be used by the captain a8 @ messenger to the headquarters or to other Stations if necessary. At headquarters a reserve of seven mounted policemen is detained in case of necessity of their services. In reply to a few questions put by the HERALD representative to Mr. Kelso he stated that he felt quite confident, however, at half- it seven o'clock last night that he had made all necessary provi- sions, Both the policemen and the firemen were to work amicably together in case of an emergency. ‘The communications to and from each bell tower he thought would be secured to-morrow, but there the Dace a in procuring men experienced in the business of rep! wa the wires, and he thought the effects of the terrible sleet storm throughout ae: nied could not be remedied for some weeks THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IN A QUANDARY. ——+——_ Confusion in the Tolegraph Bureau— Only One Wire Standing the Test of the Storm—The Arrangements for the Safety of the City. At the office of the Fire Department there was almost a total overthrow of business, In the Tele- graph Bureau the wires commenced to break one after another at ten minutes to twelve o'clock, and were all (twenty-six in number) broken oefore the expiration of a quarter of an hour, with the ex- ception of one communicating with the bell tower oft Marion street, which was still in working order. Superintendent Kelso was on a visit to Mr. Smith, Chief of the Telegraph Bureau, between two and three o'clock. Both, with Mr. Hitchman, President of the Fire Department, despatched messengers to Brooklyn and to different parts of the city to secure men who would take the contract of restoring the broken wires, All who were applied to had, unfor- tunately, made yearly contracts and refused. It will cost $150,000 to repair the wires and poles, which may be seen in almost every street in a broken and deranged condition. ‘This morning at sunrise the work of replacing the wires communicating with the bell towers will be undertaken. Commissioner Blair is to produce ten riggers and place seven gangs of three men each under the direction of Superintendent Smith, with five additional laborers under the direction of Mr, Otto, These will be instructed how to replace whe ites and put them all in working order by to- night, OTHER ARRANGEMENTS—THE PATROLS. ‘The fire patrolmen have been doubled in num- ber in each company, and the whole Fire Depart- ment, with the exception of two superannuated individuals, were on duty all last night. Orders have been given to the captains of each company how to act in case of fire. The first Conn that gets the alarm shall first notify all the companies due at that district, meantime despatching two extra teams, with two extra horses to each. Each assistant engineer is prepared with a horse and wagon if necessary for a second alarm, while a messenger is to be immediately sent to the bell tower, the number of bellringers there in attendance being also doubled. The superin- tendent of each department was on patrol last night. The Chief and his assistants were also on duty all night. ‘The recess of twenty-four hours afforded to the fremen has been revoked, and all have now to work steadily day and night when required, Each company below Fifty-ninth street detailed four men to act as street patrol at the request of President Hitchman. THE ALARM BELLS. The following orders have been issued to the dif. ferent fire companies by Mr. C. K. Smith, Chief of the Telegraph Bureau: Orricy ov Sureminrenpent ov Fink ALARM ‘Txtxorarn, Nxw York, Jan. 5, 1873, SPECIAL ORDERS. The beliringers will, until further orders, sound alarms for all stations wherever fires occur without waiting for the usual signal trom Central Oflice, and will strike (5) five rounds of the station. Increased vigilance on their part will be necessary un- those who have appreciative eyes for the pictur- esque and beautiful this wintry day presented Many scenes worthy of note. The long lines of telegraph wire which stretch along and across the streets of Gotham were coated with A PREITY FRINGE OF ICE, the weight of which caused them to hang in fen- toons that seemed ijke spans of finely textured lace, The leatlcss trees, which have lately resem- bled gaunt exeletons from whose limbs tlie virent foliage of iife had been plucked, yesterday were decked by nature in chaste and taseful garb, The rain, treezing as it fell upon every sprig and branch of thegé monarchs of the soil, coated them in an |. armor of ice, and they stood out stately against the leaden sky Uke virgin brides of hoary Winter, their pensile fronds oscillating in the chtlly breath of Bo- reas, Who wooed them. Mishaps were frequent, and edestrians who had any considerable distance to ravel onsidered themselves lucky if they did not feel dat sehsation of pain in thé region of their heads’ antipodes when they gained their desting- tions. Dame Nature ig 2 os te Tas, RIGHTFULLY SATIRICAL " sometimes, nd occas iy rivals Hogarth or Guray as a carcaturist, e@ might have lorborne to practise her fun upon ‘Poor Richard,” but per- haps the temptation to make old Ben a butt was too great to be resisted, and there in Printing House square was the great Franklin, and pendant from his protuberant peoroas Was @ glittering icicle a foot inlength, The artist was sadly remiss when he neglected to supply the distinguished pni- losopher with a mouchoir, The enormous MOUNDS OF SNOW which gird the sidewalks did not visibly decline in bulk yesterday, but the frightfully sloppy state of the streets ought plainly to point out to the Com- missioners the desirability of at once carting away these hillocks of dirty stu, The telegraph wires were in many places broken either by the weight of the ice upon them or the contraction caused by the cold, and the poles which support them wero bowed like pliant reeds, Taken altogether yester- day will not be pleasantly remembered by many whose business or _ religious tenets called them from home, for more miserable weather, even in midwinter, it would be impossible to conceive, and siippers, siestas and sunny smiles in the warm Costpess of one's own abode were the only things that could in any way tend to reconcile humanity to existence. At the signal station en the summit of the Mutual Build- ing, Broadway, the storm flags were displayed at eleven A. M.; but they became so cloaked with ice that the police feared the masts would he unable to stand the strain and by snapping endanger the lives of passengers in the street below, The signal officers were requested to haul down the flaunting CRIMSON AND BLACK WARNINGS and they dic after telegraphing to Washington for instructions. None came, however, the line being probavly broken somewhere, The anemo- | meter was coated so thickly with ice that it ce to work at noon, when the velocity of the nm eastern wind was twenty-four miles an hour. it would be well to have new masts properly stayed, as these storm signals are now regarded as a | valuable “institution” among those who “go down to sea in ships’ and also they who have to go down to ‘the office,” nilly-willy, in wintry weather. ‘The following circular was in the evening sent to the HgexALD office by the Signal Service Oficer stationed here :— Sioxat Service Orrice, New Yore, Jan. 5, 1873 No weather reports this evening. Wires all down. Can- not get any commune: with the Chief Signal Office. Mr. Baker, chiei opera Franklin Company, and my- are going down to the cable house, West Thirty-ninth to see If we can get any communication with the Chies Signal Oftice, M. F. TIGHE, Observer, At about seven o'clock the wonder of the oldest ant was greatly increased by the appear- of a dense gray fog, which settled over the while the sleet continued to pour and the At eleven o'clock, however, the The storm ance city, wind to blow. fog lifted and the moon began to shine. had ceased and the air was clear and bright. HOW THE POLICE ARE AFFECTED. — + Superintendent Kelso’s Orders—The Old Style of Communication Again Re- ted to—Mounted Messengers and Patrolmen. At the Police Headquarters yesterday there was no small share of excitement as well as anxious deliberation, No telegrams to warn the officials there of whatever crime might be committed within the city limits could possibly be despatched, »| ‘The result, judging from the condition of things as early ay two o'clock in'the afternoon, appeared to | be discouraging in the extreme. Superintendent Kelso. was heading his battalion at Captain Cameron’s funeral, and in his absence little provision could be made in ease of any serious emergency. Mr. Kelso, however, arrived between two and three o’clock dripping with rain and | spattered with the mire of the slushy streets. He quickly conferred with Inspector McDermott, Presi- dent Hitchmen, of the Fire Department, and Com- missioner Blair on the proper measures to be adopted, and sent 98 many men of the force ashe could find near at hand to notify the mounted | police to be in immediate attendance, As soon as the latter had arrived at headqua ‘8 he sent special messengers to each police station with tue following orders feraon Market, to auswer the charge of violating. the lottery law. ‘The police and fire telegraph wires are broxen down throughout city from the efeets of the storm. You | will Cinploy your Command incase ar Gre tg yall (he box ti the telegraph is put in order. ©. K. SMITH, Chief Telegraph Bureau, The following explains itself:— Ossenvenr’s € Stewan Service Unitxp States ARMY, ew York City, Jan. 5, 1573. To tx Eprron or tHe Henauy Tam directed by the Chief Signal Officer of the Army toinform you that the cautionary signals displayed at his station to-day were lowered by order of the city po- lice, ana not by order of the Signal Omi T have to say turther that the order was given by the volice in consequence of a portion of the apparatus hav- Ie been broken by the force of the storm, thereby ren- dering the further display of the signals dangerous to persons in the street below, By notilying the public of the above fi fer a favor upon the Signal Oltice. your obedient servant, c. R. you will con- y respecttully, * ESTABROUK, ‘Obverver Signal Service, U. 3. A. OTHER EFFECTS ON THE WIRES, E NER: The following notices have been received from different quarters relative to the. _ distressing ettects of the sleet storm and its detriment to tele- graphic Cotiitititicatio ‘The Western Union Telegraph oMce notified the Heratp at 84 P. M. that their lines in all direc- tions in this city have been prostrated by sleet and and that little or no report of any kind could be received or sent last night. ‘The Western Union Telegraph Company at 9:30 P.M. again notified the HexaLp that they were then i ongeg | despatches from Washington at their office in Jersey City, from which point copies and despatches had to be forwarded to New by mesaenger. OLD BOREAS IN BROOKLYN. silicone ‘The very heavy cold northeast rain storm which set in just before church hour had a most dampen- ing effect upon the usual Sabbath zeal of the church-geers, There were hundreds, however, who were not to be deterred from paying their de- yotions to God by the inclemency of the weather, and these truly good people did penance by trudg- ing through the deep slush beneath the pelting- rain to church, Returning homeward, between noon and one o'clock, the condition of the streets and sidewalks was far worse than in going. The rain froze almost as fast as it fell, and the trees ork were covered with icicles, which gave them a very beautiful effect. In many instances the ice formed in sueh great quantities upon the timbs of the trees as to cause them to break off under the weight. The frost caused the police telegraph lines of the eastern and western sections to give way. This cut off communication between the station houses and Police Headquarters, and the operator, Mr. Wil- liams, found “his occupation gone” for the time being. Under the direction of Superintendent Flanly the “continuity” was in established and messages were despatched and received as usual last evening. Several cellars were flooded in differ- ent parts of the city. Lf of the sewers in the lower part of the city backed water at high tide and formed quite.a serious addition to the many dim- culties and annoyances which beset travel yester- day. THE STORM ELSEWHERE. ee ad Rapid Rise of the Shenandoah River. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1873, ‘The following reports have been received at the office of the Signal Service :— Harpers’ Ferry, W. Va., Jam 5—9:40 A. M. HE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER OF THE ARMY :— Tore Shenandoah has risen thirty-eight inches since last rere s, towap A still be ag ‘be bulk of ¢ occurred since four o'clock, bi 3 BROWN, Observer. Harper's Ferry, W. Va., Jan, 6—3 P. M, To THe Culey SIGNAL OrFiceR, Washington, D. O.: ‘The Shenandoah River rose three inches between nine and ten o'clock; has since subsided, and ts now twenty inches lower tham the level reported this morning. Condition of the Potomac River. WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 1873. ‘The condition of the Potomac River at Harper's Ferry was reported at four o’clock P. M. as station- ary, and twenty inches lower at ten o'clock A, M. to-day. This seems to indicate that the dangez tobe anticipated here must come, if at all, from the movement of the ice now filling the river, which may happen when the swell from the Upper Potomac and Shenandoah valleys reaches Wash- ington, The time required for a rise at Harper's Ferry to reach Washington is estimated at twenty- four hours. The greatest rise reported at Kar- | per’s Ferry was three and a hail feet at ten o'clock to-day. TCLEGRAPHING EAST AND WEST SUSPENDED, ae ASSOCIATED Press Orrice, Jan, 6—A. M. | ‘To THe Eprror or THE HERALD:— Telegraphic communication is still snspended | with the East and West, and no de spatehes have been received to-night from those quarters, The wires connecting with the Atlantic cable being also interrupted, no European | telegrams have come to hand since midnight Satur- 8 —t ‘Washington had not reached us at the hour of close ing the office, f OFFICIAL WEATHER REPORT, ———-—___ War DEPARTMENT, OPrICR OF THE Citixr SIGNAL Ovvicen, WASHINGTON, D. C,, Jan. 5—8 P. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, Two areas of low barometer have moved caste ward over the Lower Mississippi Valley and = apparently coming over Tenneasen and Kentucky and now, pfobabiy, central over the "Middle States, accompanied by fresh to very brisk winds; heavy rains have fallen over the Southern Stat and the southern portion of the Middle States; cloudy weather and snow over the northen portion of the latter, and from the Ohio and Lower Missouri Val- leys to Lakes Erie, Huron and Michigan. The river has fallen two feet at Pittsburg. Probabilittes, For New England winds shifting to fresh an@ brisk northwesteriy and westerly; on Monday clearing weather and falling temperature; for the Middle States rising barometer, falling tempera- ture, fresh and brisk northerly to westerly winds, and clear and clearing weather; from the Eastern and South Atlantic coasts to Lake Erie and tne Upper Lake region north- westerly to westerly winds, diminishing in force, falling temperature, rising barom- eter and generally clear weather, excepting frone New Jersey and Pennsylvania southwestward to Florida and Alabama. The afternoon telegraphic reports have not yet been received. Cautionary signals continue at Norfolk, Cape May, New York, New London, Boston and Portland, Me. The Weather in This City Yesterday, The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last pean, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s ‘harmacy, peat Building :— 8; 72. «1873. 1872, 1873. 35 28 «3:30 P. M. 43 33 . 36 27 6 P.M cay 36 2 OP. aL a4 30 1P. 39 mperature yesterday. sees BLM Average temperature for corresponding date last year. THE GOAT ISLAND JOB. Indignation Meeting in San Francisco and a Protest Against It. ——— Speeches by Governor Booth and Others—The Central Pacifie an Overshadowing and Dangerous Monopoly. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 4, 1873, The Chamber of Commerce was thronged to-night by a crowded assemblage of the most wealthy and intiuential men of the city and State, to give gen- eral expression to the overwhelming popular sea- timent adverse to a bill pending in the United States Senate, ceding Goat Island, in our harbor, to the Central Pacific Railroad Company. The meet- ing was thoroughly representative in every re- spect, embracing men of all shades of politica’ sentiment and all classes of the community. Mr. Newton Booth, republican Goveraor of the State presided, supported by Mr, Alvord (indepen dent democrat), Mayor of the city, and by G Adolphe Low, President of the Chamber of Com- merce. Governor Boorn made a very powerful speech, which was repeatedly and vociterously applaud2d. In the course of it he said:— It is my deliberate conviction that the public sentiment of this clty and State is.as nearly unanimous in oppost- tion to the Goat Island bill as it ever can be on ny ques- tion where two opinions are possible. Reterring to the position of the Central Pacific Ratlroad in present hands as ERSHADOWING AXP MOST DANGEROUS MONOPOLY, mit alroady holds or controls 20. acres in Mls sion y (San Francisco), much of it ceded to it by that city, in the full faith that its actual terminus would be focded there and Would be reached by continuous rail It owns or controls nearly the entire water-tr Jand and Alameda point (on the bay from San Francisco, in the rear ot the landing at Vallejo, and tt has almost of the landings at Sacramento and Stockton. Having bought up and absorbed all other means where by “the people hada. choice of conveyance tor their persons or produce, the Central Pacitia Railroad Comp eujoys '@ practical — monopoly of steam communication — wit! all the great contres of Calliornia population and business, There is nothing more In the whgle range of possibilities for the company to get, except Goat Island, to make their power ove} ye peonle complete, This Goat Island bill, he said, Wasa pistol held at the head of San Francisco bY the company pacity, many {9 compel still further concessions ts its Fa- eld that the people pre tully justised im their’ (can Stet tne Gonstructiot otand. bridge from Goat Island fo the inaid Jand epg £8 Pt ° harbor in. jome places and sweep out Its bottom In Sthers as, per- Rips, bo destroy ft. Upon this point he cited the opinions of eminent élvil engineers. The effort now making to Create the false impression that public opinion in this State has undergone a change and now favors TILK GRANT OF GOAT ISLAND ig to the railroad company is pushed in Cot present time because the company fears that any post. ponement of nt will resull, as it ought, in the detea Pr the measure. They well know that the proportion of Our people who favor the bill 1s as one to 5, The rail- road company have admitted what we all know full Wall that thelt use of the island Is not a public necessity, for they have offered to abandon the effort to pass the Goat Island billit the city of San Francisco would make them a donation of $2,600,000 and give them certain ade concessions in Mission Bay, such as would make aiyPruture competition with them by that route practl cally impossible. SPEECH OF MR. C. A LOW. Mr. U. 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