The New York Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERAL BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVITI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLOS GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and louston streets, —Lro anv Loros. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thirteenth “eh Fourteenth strects.—ATurRtey Covar. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Buoruen Sam. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Ricaaxp 11. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5l¢ Broadway.—Dixe Done Bru. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Lxs Bricaxps. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Two Sronts—Cniat; on, Seoners or Cry Lirx. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteonth street, near third ay.—Drm MuiwerDpaven. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st. — Tux Fastest Box 1x New Yous. Atternoon aud streect.—Taw ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Duama—Tux Aruna, £0. GRAND OPERA HOUS! ay.—Rounp THE CLOCK. ATAENEUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Tux Time Huxen- BACKS MRS, F. Divorce, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. 6th av.—Nroro Minstaersy, § NTRICITY, &C. Fourtegnth wenly-third st. aud Eighth B, CONWAY BROOKLYN THEATRE,— | corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA A Miner's Lirx. Matinee at 24. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Froadway.—ETmiorian Minstretsy, XC. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ATOMY, 618 Broadway.— t, No. 201 Bowery.— | TRIPLE Ne ‘ik, Tuesday, Jan, 7, 1873. nr York; Pueotey. 30m),013 Bi vs bee oy THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE CREDIT MOBILIER CONSPIRACY! LIGHT AT LAST! THE POWER OF THE HERALD” — EDITORIAL LEADER—Srxtu Pag. A CREDIT MOBILIER EARTHQUAKE! THOROUGH EXPOSURE OF THE SECRET WICKED- NESSES OF THIS MOST MONSTROUS OF SCHEMES: THE HERALD’S CALCIUM IL- LUMINATING ITS INTRICACIES—Tarp PagE. A SECOND SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERATION UPON THE FRENCH EX-EMPEROR! SE- VERE PAIN AND RESTLESSNESS OF THE’ PATIENT: FAVORABLE PROGNOSIS OF | THE DISEASE—SEVENTH PAGE. 4 BOSTON SHIP BURNED IN TORBAY HARBOR ! NARROW ESCAPE OF THE CREW—THE STEAMSHIP HOLSATIA ASHORE NEAR PLYMOUTH—S&vEnTH PAGE. LOUISIANA’S FUSION LEGISLATURE DULY ORGANIZED! GREAT CROWDS ON THE STREETS: NO BREACH OF THE PEACE: PINCHBACK “KEEPS DARK”—SEVENTE Pac. EUROPE BY CABLE! CARLIST INVASION OF | SPAIN AND PROJECT FOR A BRISK OAM- PAIGN: FURIOUS GALE IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL: IRISH CATHOLICS VISITING THE POPE: THE FRENCH CENSUS AND | VITAL STATISTICS—SgVENTH PAGE. ARCTIC EXPLORATION! THE GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN WILL NOT ASSIST THE | ROYAL GEOGRAPHERS IN FITTING OUT AN EXPEDITION—Sgventi Page. BROOKLYN'S NEW ALDERMANIC BOARD! AFTER THE RING ALREADY: MESSAGE OF MAYOR POWELL: OFFICERS ELECT- ED—TentH PAE. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS IN ALBANY! THE AGREED | THE FEATURES OF GOVERNOR FORTHCOMING MESSAGE—SEVENTH OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES UPON CORONER'S INVESTIGATION OF THE CALAM- I1’OUS CENTRE STREET FIRE—MARITIME INTELLIGENCE—TEntu Pace. STOKES TO BE HANGED ON FRIDAY, THE LAST DAY OF FEBRUARY! CLOSING TRIAL SCENES : THE PRISONER’S SPEECH : HIS | OPINIONS AS EXPRESSED TO A REPORTER | AFTERWARDS—Fourtn Pacr. THE BOLIVIAN PRESIDENT KILLED BY HIS NEPHEW! TRAGIC SCENES: THE RESULTS: CONGRESS CHOOSES A NEW GOVERN- MENT—FOURTH PacE. MESSAGE OF THE NEW MAYOR OF NEW YORK! EXTENSIVE REFORMS URGED: EX- ECUTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY: THE COMP- TROLLER’S OFFICE LOOKED INTO: COURT HOUSE AND OTHER JOBS—CAPTAIN CAMERON—FiFTHu Page. Y ACTIVE! AVERAGE RATE SEVEN PER CENT COIN: GREENBACKS FROM A BRITISH STANDPOIN' THE “JANUARY THAW" IN STOCKS PREMONISHED—E£1guTo PaGE. BRUTAL MURDER IN AN EIGHTH WARD GIN MILL—CONSCIENCELESS COW ARDICE— ROBBERY—Eicuta Pace. THE Tne Purmaperruia Age regards the convic- tion of Stokes as one of the results of the great | movement in New York to purify the admin- | istration of justice. We hope soon to be able | to say a similar thing in behalf of “the City of Brotherly Love.’’ ‘Tne Ex-Empznon Naroteon.—The ex-Em- | peror Napoleon underwent another operation | at Chiselhurst at noon yesterday. The patient | was put under chloroform. According to our despatch the difficulties encountered in the | course of the operation were unusually great; | but the physicians in attendance were on the | whole satisfied with the result. The Emperor, it is said, suffered much; but his strength holds out well. It is quite manifest from the wording of the cable despatch that the im- | perial patient is in a somewhat critical con- | dition, Cononess Yesterpay.—Notwithstanding the all-absorbing subject of the Crédit Mobilier investigation in the lower House of Congress yesterday, a fair amount of legislation was mapped out for future tinkering. The “most important of the measures introduced was the bill prepared by Mr, Hooper, of Massachusetts, providing | for the conversion of United States Treasury notes into gold coin before May, 1874, The bill will have to take its chances in the Com= mittee on Banking and Finance. In the Sen- | ate the Goat Island job was referred to the Military Committee, where, under management of Cameron, it favorably considered. Morton threat. | ened a specch on the question of the best way to elect our future Presidents and Vice Presidents, and the usual appro- the | will be priations for the wild wards of the nation, or | ‘rather the white friends of Lo, who mostly profit by the Indian moneys, were put ina faig woy of pearing. | league, Oakes Ames, NEW YURK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1873—TRIPLE SHWET. The Credit Mobilfer Conspiracy—Light | institutions. It attacks the life of our govern- at Last—The Power of the Herald, A great moral victory has been achieved for the independent press through the success of the Henatp in forcing open the door of the Congressional Committee inquiring into the doings of the Crédit Mobilier. From tho hour when that committee voluntarily cast a suspicion upon itself and the member who appointed it, by closing its doors upon the public and conducting its proceedings in se- crecy, the Herap has demanded that this mo- mentous matter should be treated in the full light of day and under the scrutiny of the public eye. It seemed, indeed, ab one time as if the palpable endeavor to smother tho scandal would succeed. Witnesses were examined in private, and the committee ap- peared to take no heed of our demand. It looked, too, as if fear of the revelations that might ensue had gagged the utterance of those who should, from their interésted and chal- longed position, have been the first to ask an open, fearless and full investigation. Here, then, was acase in which the independent press alone could strotch forth its mighty arm and tear down tho barriéra that intercepted the vision of public justice. A résumé the evidence of Coloncl McComb suddenly appeared in the Hzratn, to the dis- | may of the conspirators, They felt thoir insécurity at onee, but still the committee kept the doors closed, or rather they shut them tighter, as if to stop the leak. A mem- ber of the House from this city, Mr. Brooks, however, found reason in the Hezrsip's résumé for a denial on his part of having held the stock. It. was only his son-in-law. But the leak had not been stopped. The startling table of stockholders of the Crédit Mobilier, with the enormous dividends they had received, next appeared in the Hzraxp. The ront of the ‘ring’? was com lete. The Congressional 1 recess followed an gave the committee time to think over the error they had committed in closing the doors. Revelation after revelation followed in the Henatp, and, with the reassembling of Con- gress yesterday, the committee discovered that the edifice of concealment they had built was hurled to the ground. With a child-like naiveté they declared their sessions henceforth to be open. Now that the Hznarp has accomplished this task for the public good, we insist on having this sink of jobbery searched until those who have. guiltily fattened in it are held up to the scorn of the world. We need not here repeat what we have already said in reterence to the plan on which this systematic plunder was carried on with all its compensatory balances like a delicate machine. The control which it obtained over the Union Pacific Railroad, the manner in which the shareholders of that com- pany and the government were victimized are known through the Heraup and will be ventilated still further until it full iniquity is known, The portion of the inquiry at present more directly before the country is that which pee the sitectis of mem- bers of Congress with the scheme. When it is remembered that any member intcrested in this company had the power of directly in- fluencing by his vote the spending of public money in its aid, or the stifling of inquiry on the sinister doings of the Ring, the enormity attempted will be manifest. The testimony of Oakes Ames, a member of Con- gress during the greater part of the scheme’s manipulation and its prime plotter, will be found highly interesting. The unerring sa- gacity which led him to ‘approach men of in- fluence on public opinion’’ naturally selected his fellow members as appropriate subjects for his blandishments. He put the bait into swallowable form by making it a purchase and not an out-and-out gift, with also the easy condition that it could be sold back at any time. It may, perhaps, be some tribute to Congressional self-respect to say that these precautions were adopted, just as Rochefoucauld defines all hypocrisy to be a tribute to virtue, Are we, however, called on to believe that the keen- eyed members who “bit’’ were the gudgeons which an ignorance of something beyond what “a bona fide transaction’ would imply? The case of Vice President elect Wilson is one which we would not willingly misrepresent. The story of his connection with the Crédit Mobilier, as told in the testimony, will explain itself, It forces, unfortunately, conclusions of a curious nature. On thd occasion of his ‘silver wedding’ a purse of two thousand dollars was presented fg his wife. This was invested in twenty shared of Crédit Mobilier. On the breaking out of the Me- Comb lawsuit in Philadelphia Mr. Wilson caused the stock to be returned. The posses- sion of the atock may not be criminal in itself; it is in the bearing which that possession may have had upon legislation the harm lies. Mr. Colfax paid for some stock; it was never transferred to him. Why? Mr. Ames may not remember having paid over dividends to Mr. Colfax; but were they pnid? Does the stock still stand in his interest? Has the payment of money for stock by him influenced legislation in any way? Senator Patterson paid for thirty shares, but never had them transterred to him. Why? He received dividends. Is it a sin against piety of exterior to ask, Did he always vote against increasing those dividends? Mr. Bingham took twenty shares, and paid. for them. Ames took the stock back in 1870. Was it uninfluential in the inter- val? Mr. Dawes bought ten shares, but became alarmed and gave them back. Ames says that oat Mr, Gar- field’s request he kept ten shares for him until he could pay. He did not pay. Did even that slim understanding have no weight in determining legislation? Speaker Blaine and Secretary Boutwell, to their honor be it said, are proved blameless in the trans- action, They owned no stock. The testi- stock’ in all directions is a pretty piece of innocence, for which all concerned should get the eredit. John B. Alley, who appears to have acted as a reference for his col- in the Crédit Mo- bilier stock, shows in his testimony how neatly the parts fitted into each other, The work of the inquiry has only begun, The | Scrutiny of the votes upon all questions re- lating to the Union Pacific Railroad will be some test of the innocence or criminality of the gentlemen who stumbled into sharehold- | ing under such profitable circumstances. This | question of Congressional bribery and cor- ‘suptivn goed tight yo tho how of aus mony of McComb regarding “the placing of | ment. It must bé trampled under the fect of an indignant, outraged people, or it will tram- ple out the life of our freedom. Whether it be with a rowdy Alderman in New York or a sainted hypocrite from New England, wo are equally interested in crushing out villany in our public servants. To this work every citizen who loves his country should address himself. The resolutions of Mr. Randall and Mr. Wilzon, adopted by the House yesterday, aro evidences of the spirit which is aroused. The Louisiana DiMcultics—Great Ex- citement but No Bloodshed, Yesterday was a day of unwonted excitement in New Orleans. All the various meetings and organizations supporting the McEnery gov- ernment having agreed ‘‘to see the legally elected Legislature and State officers regularly inaugurated and installed,’’ and having issued a call to the citizens to close their places of business and assemble yesterday, in Lafayette square, to assist in the movement, no appre- hensions were entertained that a conflict of arms would be forced upon this assemblage by Pinchback’s militia; but there was consider- able anxicty as to the probable action of Gene- ral Emory, under his latest instructions from Washington, Yesterday, however, in a note addressed to Pinchback, as “His Excellency the Governor of Louisiane,” Gengral_ Emory says that ‘‘in accordance with my instructions Ishall hold troops in readiness to preserve the peace of the city.’ The instructions re- ferred to are from General Sherman, and to this effect:—‘You are authorized to use the troops under your command to preserve the peace, if, in your judgment, it becomes necessary.’’ The whole matter, it may be inferred, in thus left to the disorarfon of Gemeral Emory; but as he officially recog- nizes Pinchback as the Governor the whole falter in reality rests in the discretion of Pinchback. If réaonably forbearing he may preserve the peaco ; but if unreasonably over- bearing he may provoke a sanguinary riot in carrying out his proclamation of Saturday. The particular object of the opposition ele- ments in carrying out their programme set down for yesterday was stated in a despatch of Sunday from H. A. Ogden, as ‘Attorney General of Louisiana,” to the United States Attorney General, Williams, at Washington, to the effect that ‘the members of the Legis- lature returned elected by the State Board rec- ognized by Governor Warmoth are compelled to meet (on the 6th) in order to preserve their status.” ‘They trust, therefore, that the gen- eral government will discountenance the armed interference threatened by Pinchback ; and in any event their peaceable assemblage is urged upon them by their Governor elect, McEnery. In a spirited address McEnery urged his friends to adhere to their purpose, to mect as proposed, but to be calm and dignified. The public excitement was considerably allayed when it became known that General Emory had received instructions _ from President Grant ‘not to interferd ‘with the peaceable méeting of the Legislature, that the citizens hada right to meet, that they must be pro- teoted in the exercise of that right, and that matters should be held in abeyence until a judicial investigation sho. ld take place.’ The meeting was held cccording to appoint- ment, and at a late hour no disturbance had taken place. The meeting was large and en- thusiastic, the stores were closed and the great thoroughfare of Canal street was deserted. It would thus seem, while we write, as if this 6th of January trouble had been got over. It will be well if both parties now seek to make anend of their differences by peaccful and legal means. The Sentence on Stokes. Yesterday morning Judge Boardman passed sentence of death upon Edward 8. Stokes, naming the 28th of February as the day for the execution. The proceedings in Court were brief but solemn, as are ever those to the thoughtful mind wherein the life of a human being is the stake. The die, it is true, had been cast, and what was there done was simply one step in the direction of paying the penalty. A speech from the prisoner, in a subdued tone, denying, as might be expected, the justice of the verdict, and with a tinge of the bitterness of disappointment, such as a man of his temperament would impart to it, preceded the remarks of the Judge. Ina few well-chosen words that functionary spoke the customary admonition, and then the formal. words of doom wore Pronoynced. _ It did not occupy tiany minutes} but it fur- nished an illustration of the truth which many. had doubted of late, that a murderer could be convicted; that a jury could find guilty as well as disagree or acquit. The dignity of justice, which’ should be alike above the influence of wealth or the breath of popular passion, demands no insensate howl for blood to come to its aid in carrying out its decree. Painful and bitter enough without that wolfish cry to those whose guiltless lives must be shadowed by the condemned one's crime will be the doom of one they have loved, neither asking nor knowing ‘‘if guilt’s in that heart.’ Sufficient for the most burn- ing disciple of the lex talionis will be the carry- ing out of the law. There is a “bill of ex- ceptions,” and these and other resources are within the reach of the prisoner. It might be unbecoming to forejudge what they may be worth; but in the words of the Judge the “ancertain hopes of pardon or clemency” now are delusions if built upon by the pris- oner or his friends, What we reiterate, what we wish to impress upon the minds of the people, is the awful spectacle which the life of this well-reared man, ‘so young, so attractive in person,” pre- sents. The criminal, the murderer in the ranks of the poor and ignorant, because of his narrowed chances of moral divination, seldom impresses the mind as a fearful exam- ple; but a man of Stokes’ opportunities at the foot of the gallows by the successive stages of unchecked passions should strike a thrill of terror into all who may only have taken a first step in the seductive path he has trod to its fatal goal. If all the murderers in the Tombs were taken out summarily to-morrow and hanged upon one broad gallows the effect upon the community would not be as lasting as the contemplation by all of the misery, misfor- tune and shame which (his man of wasted op- portunities has brought upon his family, as well as the degrading death now declared in store for himself. This is the general lesson. ‘To the votaries of the knife and pistol it needs RO WeKde. io Kenola ita UDpacte Mayor Havemeyer’s Message—Good and Impracticable Suggestions. Tho message delivered by Mr. Havemeyer as Mayor of the city of New York, appears in the Herat to-day. It is undeniably a well written document, and charncter- istio of that blunt and honest civic states- man. We imagine that we can discover in its sound democratic doctrine of self- government and independent legislative and executive power the hand of that thoroughly reconstructed Tammany Sachem, Counsellor Tilden, while there are evident traces of Comp- troller Green in the liberal puffing of the Finance Department and in two or threo mali- cious little ‘flings’ at other city departments objectionable to the financial head. Apart from these the Mayor makes some good suggestions and others that might be good if they were not utterly impracticable at this time. He takes occasion to express his freedom ‘from any trammels or affiliations of a partisan charac- ter” in consequence of the peculiar circum- stances attending his election; but in his free and interesting conversations with our re- porters the Mayor took more distinct ground on this subject, and avowed his unshaken faith in democratic principles, including all the messages of Jackson and Jefferson, whose graphic sentences had made a well-stored pin- sashion of his mind. Tho system of govern- | ment which Mayor Hayemoyer desires to seo established in New York is one which will give to the Common Council ample and exclusive logislative powers, including the raising, appropriation and expenditure of money, and to the Mayor full and unrestricted authority over all the sub- ordinate departments of the city government, including the power to nppoint and removo at his will, “he Mayor, tio doubs, will find ear- nest advocates of the first portion of this proposition in Alderman Barney Bruiser, As- sistant Alderman Striker and their associates ; but we much question whether the Legislature will be equally favorable to the change. As to the principle of a concentration of patronage and arbitrary power in the Mayor, we do not believe that either will receive the sanction of a republican Legislature, which has won power in the city for the first time in many years, and which will not be very likely to neglect the opportunity to destroy once and for all those enormous majorities which the political friends of Mayor Havemeyer have been accustomed to roll up in the metropolis, and with which they have so often swept away the republican preponderance in the State. For these reasons we regard the Mayor's suggestions of a model government as imprac- ticable at the present time, and hence it is not worth while to waste criticism upon them, or to examine whether they were not better suited to the condition of affairs twenty-eight years ago than to the New York of 1873. We regret to find Mayor Havemeyer the champion of Comptroller Green in his ill- judged crusade against the City Chamberlain and in his reprehensible neglect to receive the interest on the city and county deposits. We should have supposed that the Mayor would have been among the first to recognize the impropriety of giving the Comptroller the supreme control over the deposits in addi- tion to the powers he already possesses, and to approve the time-honored policy of keeping the two offices of Comp- troller and custodian of public moneys separate and distinct. In his con- versation with our reporter, published in yes- terday’s Heraup, Mayor Havemeyer de- nounced the idea of the head of a city de- partment holding also a seat in the Board of Apportionment and passing on his own requi- sitions. He doubtless alluded to the fact that Comptroller Green, as Park Commissioner, not only passes upon his own requisitions, as a member of the Board of Apportionment, but also pays all his own demands as Comp- troller. In fact, Park Commissioner Green, on one side of Broadway, adopts a resolution calling upon the Comptroller in his discretion to issue bonds to the Park Commission to the amount, say, of two hundred and ten thou- sand dollars, and Comptroller Green, on the other side of Broadway, considers this request and agrees to give the Park Commission two hundred thousand dollars. If» laudatory article should appear the next day in some city journal praising Comptroller Green for saving ten thousand dollars to the city by the transaction it is all natural enough ; but we agree with Mayor Havemeyer that the prin- ciple is altogether wrong. How much more objectionable, then, wouid it bg for Comptro!- ler Green to hold the city moneys in iis own possession, without check or restraint, and to draw warrants with one hand and pay them with the other. The proposition of Mayor Havemeyer to give this improper power to Comptroller Green will, however, be no more likely to meet with favorin the Legislature than the proposition to place all the patronage of the city in the Mayor's hands. The republicans have the full responsibility for the future government of the city, and they will not fail to use the power given them by the people to manage that government in their own way. Mayor Havemeyer complains that the utter- ances of President Grant, unlike those of Jef- ferson and Jackson, pass out of memory and are forgotten; that they do not, to use the Mayor's own language, “stick a pin in the mind.’’ He must, however, have overlooked one sentence spoken by General Grant—«I'll fight it out on this line if it takes all Summer." We imagine the republican Legislature has made up its mind to fight it out on the repub- lican line if it takes all Winter, and we do not think Mayor Havemeyer’s Message will divert them from their purpose. Tue Srreers.—Yesterday offered a golden opportunity for a display of vigor in cleaning up our streets, To those who see them to-day it is needless to say it was thrown away. Mild weather and a bright sun reduced the slush to that semi-fluid state in which it could have been best removed, either by carts or by scraping it into the sewer openings. It is true the bureau had a few industrious Italians plying broom and hoe, but the energetic effort to relieve the city from the nuisance, 80 imperatively demanded by the public, was utterly neglected, and to-day, as for so many days before, we can venture out of doors only under the penalty of wot feet and draggled clothing. If the ‘‘new broom,’ which was to be such an improvement upon the old contract system, can do no better than since the snow- } fall ous citizapa wilh. aoom ria it swept fu, power, and its place filled by men who better appreciate the requirements of the city and have more executive ability to meet.them. More Troubles in South and Central America—The President of Bolivia Killed. . The news from South and Central America which we publish to-day shows a disordered state of affairs there. A revolution had broken out in tho State of Cauca, Colombia, against the administration of General, Mos- quera, and Cauca was declared to be in a state of war. The trouble appears to have arisen chiefly from the priests, who were dissatisfied because the management of the schools of Colombia had been taken out of their hands. The political state of the Isthmus of Panama was also unsettled, arising from divisions in the liberal party and the struggle between the liberals and conservatives. Then there had been an invasion of the territory of Colom- bia by two Vonezuclan generals, Meza and Lopez; but it was believed this act was unknown to the government of Venezuela, and that it would be repudiated. There had been damaging floods at Bogota and disasters elsewhere ; but the most serious news is that of the killing of the President of Bolivia, Gen- eral Augustin Morales, on the night of the 27th of November, in a personal conflict which he provoked while under the influence of "The despatch shows that Morales, while in this condition, went to the halls of | Congress for the purpose of influencing the members to sanction certain measures relative to some mines in which he was personally in- terested. Failing in his object, he became | violent and used insulting language. After he had been induced to withdraw, and while the members were discussing the behavior of the Frosident, an officer and some troops made their appearande atthe doors, Finding that Congress would not be intimidated atid disgolye Morales in a rage threatened to have his chief min- ister shot. The Minister found refuge, how- ever, at the United States Legation, and then Morales proceeded to the capital with his troops and declared the Legislature at an end. On the following day the President was greatly excited in the streets. In the evening he received an anonymous letter, warning him that his aides-de-camp intended to make him a prisoner, whereupon he became furious, rushed at theaides-de-camp, insulted and struck them. One of these was his nephew, La Faye, who, after begging the President to desist without avail, drew his revolver, fired upon Morales several times and killed him. Such is the tragic intelligence from Bolivia. The people remained quiet, and Congress immedi- ately elected Don Adolfo Battiesan President of the Republic. It was asad end for the Chief Magistrate of the country; but he seems to have provoked it by his intemperance, tyranny and brutality. Itis onlya few weeks since the President of another South American Ro- public, Peru, came to a violent death through his “Wsurpation and violent conduct. How- ever much we may deplore the killing of any one, and particularly of men in high official station, these events are not without a lesson to usurpers and tyrants. The Spanish-Ameri- can Republics have been too fruitful of dis- orders and political revolutions—that, in fact, seems almost to be their chronic condition— still there is some public spirit and love of in- dependence among them. A more agreeable supplement to the disastrous news from South America referred to is that of the action of the people of Peru in favor of the Cuban patriots. Enthusiastic meetings to aid the Cubans had been held in Lima. Let us hope the Repub- lics south of us will settle down to peace and regular government. ee W. B. Alison, of fowa, is registered at the Bre- voort House. General Kilburn, of the United States Army, isav the Astor House. Major General McDowell is at the Wellington House, Washington. General J. T. Owen, ef Philadelphia, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Richard Busteed, of Alabama, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. _ Ex-Congressman C. ©. Chaffee, of Sprinfield, is sojourning at the Albemarle Hotel. General Osborne, of Chicago, will be appointed on the Mexican Border Commission. The Pope's niece, Donna Maria Pia Mastai, has taken the veil as a Benedictine nun. Colonel J. Schuber, President of the Panama Rail- road, is stopping at the Grand Central Hote: The Governor General of Canada will go to Mon- treal on the oth inst., and take Winter quarters, Generglg Burbank, Denny and ©. FE. Jones, di thé Enited states Army, have quarters at the Sturte- varie Bose + It is intimated that tie late “Carpenter” ba- quet in Milwaukee, Wis., bad something of a “Cabinet” savor. Miss H. G. Britten, @ well-known missionary lady from Calcutta, arrived in good health on Saturday evening in New York. Sub-Lieutenant Tribe, late of the Ninth British Lancers, having deserted, may now be named as an addition to the “lost tribes." The press banquet by the Washington corre- spondents to Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the HERALD’s African explorer, will take place at Willard’s on Saturday next, the 11th instant. Marshal Bazaine is impatient tobetried. He be, lieves that enough time has been had by those col- lecting evidence for the eulightenment of the military court before which he is to appear, Father Tom Burke arrived in New Orleans Satur- day evening and received @ grand ovation on Sun- day, being escorted by alarge procession of Hiber. nian and Catholic societies to St. Patrick’s church, where he inaugurated a two weeks’ mission. Ten thousand people were congregated im and around the church. The London Daily News on the Burke-Froude controversy is not satisfied with the historian’s championing of England's cause. It deplores that he “left the victory with Father Burke” and started O'Donovan Rossa and his fellow Irishmen with a fresh fever of Fenianism. It supposes, as an ex- cuse for its doubt on the matter, that “there was a sort of chivalry” im tke undertaking. Both the historian and the Dominican could tell there was money in it also. ACCIDENT TO BX-MAYOR HALL, A singular and painfal accident befel ex-Mayor A. Oakey Hall on Sunday evening. The rain and frost of the day had rendered the strect pavements quite slippery and uneven, and as Mr. Hall was walking on Sixth avenue, near Forty-second street, he fell very suddenly and violently to the sidewaik, ‘Phe resuit was the breaking of some of the bones of his right ankie and @ severe strain of the liga- ments and tendons about the joint, Mr, Hail was speedily conveyed to his residence, in West Forty- second street, near Fifth avenue, and medical as- sistance was promptly summoned, Dr, Carno- chan responding. Under the surgeon's skilful operation the broken and misplaced bones and | parts were adjusted, but the pain was so acute that | it was dcemed necessary to anwsthetize the pa- tient, It is more than probabie that the ex-Mayor will be confined to his residence for @ month or six \ WANK FCQMA WG CAEGIA CA Hg ADLUETe , a oe * Wak DEPARTMENT, OFvICR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL Ovvu } Wasningron, D, C., Jan, 6—3 P. Me Symopsis sor the Past Twenty-four Hours. The storm Sunday afternoon, central over the Middle States, has moved northeastward over and beyond New England, accompanied by fresh to very brisk winds, Heavy rains have fallen from Now Jer- sey to the southern portions of New England; heavy snow over northera pertions of latter and Middle States, Lower Lake region and St. Lawrence Val- ley; clear and clearing Weather has prevailed over the Southern States, with northerly to westeriy winds. The pressure has diminished over the Northwest, with southeasterly to southeasterly winds, and now extended over the Upper Lake region, Indiana and Western Kentucky. ‘The river has risen at Pittsburg, nearly four feet at Nashville and almost eight feet at Cincianath Probabilities, For New England westerly winds, gradually backing to southerly, and clear weather, but in- creasing cloudiness on Tuesday night. For the Middle States southeasterly to southwesterly winds and increasing cloudiness, with probably light snow over the Lower Lake region, For the South Atlantic and Gulf States east of tne Mississippi generally clear weather and. risiag temperature; from Tennessco to Lake Erie and the Upper Lakes south- easterly to southwesterly winds and rising temperature, With generally cloudy weather, and with light snow over the Lake region. For the Northwest winds veering to westerly and nerth- westerly and rising barometer, and exten® east- Ward oh Tuesday afternoon and night over the Upper Lake region and to the Lower Qhio Valley. The Weather In This City Yesterday. The following reeord will show the changes im the tempsratuié for (id past twonty-ieur hotirs tn twa comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indies ed by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HE! 1 85 & Average temperature yest: Average [emperature fo. MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “Les Brigands) was produced last evening by Mile. Aimee’s opéra bouse troupe for the first time this season. The “whispering” and “laughing” chorus were both rendered in & way satisfactory enough to call fora double encore. Aimee was in good voice and in her usual geod spirits. The production of Mr, John Brougham’s latest play, “Atherley Court,'’ at the Union Square The- atre last night was not a success as a mere piece of playwriting. Founded upon F. W. Robinson's “Bridge of Glass,” it is even heavier than the novel. It is lacking in all the lighter shades and tints which make life lovable, and drags heavily in Farmer Grace's kitchen and in the drawing room of Atherley Court. The local sensational drama entitled “Crime,” was revived last night at the Bowery Theatre be- fore a large audience. ‘Ihe piece is entirely of the Bowery order. Mr. De Jong, of Manchester, England, talks of coming to this country next Spring with his or- chestra, It weuld be a mistake for him to come at @ ume so inopportune, and perhaps at any time. The benefit for the sufferers by the fire at Bar- num’s takes place this afternoon and evening a8 the Academy of Music. The Harlem Mendelssohn Union, of which Mr. George F. Bristow is the conductor, give the frst concert of their second season at Harlem Hall to- morrew evening, The programme comprises selec» tions from “The Messiah” for the first part, clesing with popular pieces. Tamberlik denies that he made overtures for the entire opera company recently at the Academy ot Music, his proposition being only fer Madame Lucca, to whom he offered $8,000 and a benelit for @ month’s engagement, FLORIDA LEGISLATURE. Session To-day—Uolored Purlia- The mentists in Caucus—United States Property. TALLAMASSEE, Jan. 6, 1378. The Legislature convenes to-morrow. It is now positively known that the Governor elect has tendered positions to the following gentlemen :—Dr. Cowgill, to be Comptroller; C. H. Foster, Treasurer; 8S. B. McLine, Secretary of State; Judge jt Cocke, Attorney General. The nominations given rise to great dissatis{ac- tion among the republicans, The colored members of the Legislature held a caucus to-day and determined to nominate J. F. Walls (colured) for the United States Seaate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1873, Attorney General Williams has directed the United States Marshal at lene oleh not to per- mit the United States court rooms in that city to be used hereafter by any members of the Legisia- ture for the purpose of State legislation. BATTLE BETWEEN THE PAWNEE AND SIOUE INDIANS, Oman, Neb., Jan. 6, 1878, A hunting party of Pawnee and Sioux Indians is said to have had a severe fight within the last few days on Republican River, south of North Platte, Neb., in which several Sioux chiefs were killed. It is reported that troops have started irom North Platte to preserve peace and protect the settiers. “THE ITALIANS. No more Italian emigrants are expected to ar- rive until the latter end of next week. Many of those who came on the steamship Denmark, om Saturday, purchased tickets and weng to Chicago, Sihers went at ont Into the city dnd hate since been taking care of theméelves, Superin- tendent Casserly states as his opinion that the im- misrarion will fali off and not revive till Spring. Heé 54S8S his opinion upon the despatch sent by Secretary Fish to the American Minister in Ital warning Italians of the severity of the climate an the little demand for labor in our Northern States: From Mr. Henry J. Jackson and Colonel Coonan it was ascertained that 130 of these people were sent to Ward's Island on Saturday and four yesterday. ‘There now remains but about thirty-five at Castle Garden. FIRE IN LEXINGTON AVENUE. Ata quarter to eleven o'clock yesterday morn- inga fire broke outon the top floor of the four story brown stone building 669 Lexington avenue, owned and occupied by Henry J. Burchell as a dwelling. The loss on the furniture and carpets i about two thousand dollars; fully insured, Cause o1 the fire unknown, THE HATOHET MURDER. An inquest touching the manner in which Joho O'Hara received the fatal injuries on the night of Christmas last, in the house No. 303 East Forty-sixth street, of which he subsequently died, was yester- day held befere Coroner Young. Alter taking tes- timony the following verdict was rendered :— “phat John O'Hara, of No. 303 East Forty-sixth atreet, came to his death by meningitis, the resnis ofa wound or wonnds inflicted with a hatchet tn the hands of John Fitagibbons, at No, 303 Bast Forty- sixth street, on the moruing of December 26." ‘The prisoner was then committed to the Tombs, the Grand Jury. without bail, to await the action of NEW YORK CITY. The Army and Navy Club will give Major Generat Hancock a reception at their club house \o-morrow evening. ae ‘Tne public schools of this city reopened yester- day, atter the Christmas vacation, aud were all largely attended. An adjourned meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce will be held this day, at hali-past two P. M., to recive and act upon the report of ita special committee on the buls pending tu Congress lu pro mote immigration to the United States. The Fire Commissioners, during the preseut week, will makegan inspection of the theatres, schoolhouses, factories, &c., for the purpose of as- certaining the means of protection aguinst fire, of extinguishing fire and the means of escape, The regular monthly meeting of the Tammany Society was held last evening in Tammany Haii. Augustus Schell, the Grand Sac Aiter transacting the regular bust vers elected 4 ham and Ay e Sachens of ries O'Conor and im did not quality, Ny vides Gusiuess of duporlauge Wed WMMsAK Le