The New York Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Pa BN THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volume XXXVIII. "AMUSEMENTS THIS. EVENING, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth strects.—Atuxatky Court. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Broturk Sam. RBOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenuc.—Ricuarn 11. THEATRE COMIQUE, 5i4 Broadway.—O'Connor's Cum. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Bro: and Bleecker streets.—La Bx. BOWERY THEATRI on, Sxcrets or City GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth stroot, near Third ay.—Eink Keanna Pawinte, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Tux Fastest Bor in New Yous. Atlernoon and Kvening? way, between Houston ; HELEN, Bowery.—Two Sronts—Crimn; AGADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Granp In- sreoarntat Concent. GRAND OPERA HOUSK, Twenty-third st, and Eighth a@v.—Bounp tux Crock. ATHENEUM, No. 585 Broalway.—Tas Devi Auona tux Tarions, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo anv Lotos. MES. F. B. conway's BROOKLYN TIEATRE,— Divorce. BRYANT’S OPERA HO! @th av.—Nxono Minstre1s' EB, Twenty-third st.. corner CCENTRIcITY, &c, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— A Munun’s Lire, pishs SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and roadway.—EruioriaN MINSTRELSY, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Fcimnce AnD Ant. New York, Friday, Jan. 10, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON THE THIRD!"— LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—S1xTH PAGE. NAPOLEON DEAD! THE EX-EMPRESS ALMOST ALONE WITH HIM: A THIRD OPERATION DECIDED UPON, BUT DEATH ESTOPS THE DOCTORS: PERSONAL SKETCHES OF THE BONAPARTES—Tuirp Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE URGES A SPEEDY SETTLE- MENT OF THE ALABAMA DAMAGES: PLON- PLON’S -LAWSUIT: FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN GERMANY—SkvENTH Page. WASHINGTON NEWS! SPAIN, THE EAST AFRI- CAN SLAVE TRADE AND THE CREDIT MO- BILIER THREATENED—SEvENTH Pace. LOUISIANA’S POLITICAL TURMOIL! PINCHBACK ENDEAVORS TO EXPLAIN: WHAT HE SAID AND BELIEVES ABOUT GRANT: THE CITIZENS’ MEMORIAL—MURDERED WHILE INTOXICATED—SEVENTH Pace. AFFAIRS AT ALBANY! THE NEW BEORE THE LEGISLATURE SIT; JUDGE PRINDL ASH: REVISING THE CONSTITUTION: SKETCH OF THE RE- ENDORSED SENATOR—Fourra Paar, MRS. WHARTON’S RETRIAL! THE LAWYERS i AN IM- CHARTER RAPID TRAN- —Firvtn Pace. INTERESTING 1 PMENTS IN THE CREDIT MOB: ALEXIS HIGHLY HONORED IN ‘a E-COREAN COMPLI- A RMER AID OF THE EM- POLEON DROWNED-— Firt PacE, INTO THE INDIA! THE i: A GLITTERING PERO! EAST INDI ORDER OF TE BIGAM MADE A PAGEANT—VOURTH PAGE. JERSEY CORRUPTION! TRIAL OF THE JERSEY CITY BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS: A PO- LICE JUSTICE ARRAIGNED—E1cuta PacE. LEGAL! NO JURY YET IN THE TWEED CAS ARKEST OF COLONEL BLOOD AND IN MENT OF WOODHULL & CLAFLIN'S WEEKLY—SUPERHEATED STEAM—ELEv- ENTH PAGE. ON 'CHANGE! MONETARY EASE STILL A FA- BLE: STOCKS TUMB! | NAPOLEO. DEATH—Ssi' a | ARSON CASE—NINTH PaGE. BROOKLYN'S HEALTHY MORAL STATUS! GAM- BLERs, PANEL AND PROSTITUTION HOUSES WEEDED OUT: DOG AND GAME- COCK PITS TABOOED—NEW YORK AND | BROOKLYN CITY ITED AGB. MRS. WOODHU TURES DESPITE THE MARSHALS—A COUNTRY LANEOUS TELEGRAMS— IN OUR PUBLIC G OF LIBERAL REPUB- | TOMS COMPLICATIONS— COLLEGE REFORMS—E1ntn Paor, HENRY WARD BEECHER ON COMPULSORY ED" | UCATION—. W TEMPERAN PARTY | IN CON T—THE UNION LEAGUE— Fourrn Pace Tae Deata or te Ex-Empenror of the French had but a trivial influence upon the Paris Bourse, and none whatever upon quo- tations in London and New York. Curiously enough French rentes, after an opening de- pline, closed last night a few centimes better than they started yesterday morning. How Wifferent would have been the effect upon Bnt- §sh consols and American gold had the scene at Chiselhurst been enacted in the Tuileries Your years earlier! \ Tue Creprr Mosier. —The Crédit Mobilier Suvestigating Committee moves with sus- Picious slowness since its doors were thrown Dpen to the public. The books have been palled for, but an excnse is sent instead, and Yhe books are not to be produced until next week. They ought to have been in the posses- Bion of the committee long since, for who will Guarantee that the delay in their production is not for the purpose of altering and falsifying the entries? Why does not the committee subpoena Dr. Thomas C. Durant, who seems to know a great deal about the operations of the “ring.”’ It would seem that the commit- tee could do better service in the investigation they are pretending to make than by adjourn. ing over from Thursday till Monday, just after @ prolonged recess. Avex. H. Sternens is appealed to by the colored orator and bivalvist, George ‘T. Downing, to lead off in the work of cultivat- {ng friendly relations between whites and colored people in the South. Mr. Stephens is Jikely to troat the proposition as “aolemaly os | | vigorous and practical teacher. | his advent to power. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY ‘10, 1873.-TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Death of Napoleon the Third. | Empire. If he yiolded to popular clamor and | Dying im Exile-A Story of Five Seldom has the submarine cable flashed acroas the ocean such intelligence as it did yesterday when it announced the death of the ex-Emperor of the French, Napoleon the Third. It was not wholly unexpected. We had known for days that the Emperor was sick, that he was in the hands of surgeons and undergoing a series of painfal operations, and that his situation was really critical; but it was not our opinion when we went to press yesterday morning that before our readers had time thoroughly to examine the columns of the Hxnatp the exiled Emperor should have breathed his Inst. It is fair to say that his death was a ‘surprise. London, ac- cording to our latest news, was as little pre- pared for it ns was New York. On Wednesday night it was admitted that the condition of the imperial sufferer was critical, but not by any means hopeless. Yesterday morning his phy- siciaus were so well pleased with his condi- tion, and so satisfied with the rest which he had enjoyed, that, after a consultation, they de- cided to perform another operation at noon. At the time of consultation the pulse was strong and regular, at eighty-tour beats por minute. It was not until twenty-five minutes past ten o'clock that the pulse began to show signs of weakness. The sinking was rapid; ‘and at forty-five minutes past ten o'clock, in spite of all that the most skilful medical as- sistance could do, the Emperor was dead. To the last, it is said, his consciousness re- mained, and, as the dimness of death dark- ened his vision, he knew that, although he was away from his much-loved France and dying in the land of the stranger, he was sur- rounded by warm friends who would care for his memory and cling to his cause. The death of Louis Napoleon will to-day be the subject of much conversation, the. theme of innumerable newspaper articles and a world-wide sensation. That it should be so is not matter for wonder. No ono man for the last twenty-five years has figured so largely before the world. He was the head of a great nation, the acknowledged chief of a great people. Forty millions of Frenchmen recog- nized his authority, anda million of bayonets were ever at his command. Since 1848, but particularly since 1852, his word has been law to a great nation—a nation which has prided itself in being the pivotal Power of Europe. It was a favorite saying of the deceased Em- peror that when France was contented the world was at rest. His knowledge of the French character was profoundand thorough ; he knew how to humorit; and hence he was strong. It was natural that the wrath of such | a man should be dreaded, and that his favor should be courted. For twenty years, it is fair to say, he was _ belioved to be the umpire, the arbiter and the master of Europe. It was his own belief, it was the world’s belief, that he was the favorite child of fortune. He was, in some respects, even more than his uncle, the Cxsar of the modern world. He seized power and he held it for many years with a vigorous hand. His elec- tion as President of the Republic in 1848 was somewhat of a surprise to the world; the coup d état was an insult to France ; but the world got over the surprise and France forgot the insult; and the result was that France found prosperity under a Second Empire, and the world learned invaluable lessons from a new, For a time, even after France accepted him as chief, he was laughed at, ridiculed ani caricatured as a lucky parvenu, asa fortunate imbecile. But the man had faith in himself and bided his time. His first grand revelation of strength was when, in connection with Great Britain, he snubbed the aggressive spirit of Russia and added the Crimea to the other numerous names which gave glory to France, glory to the Empire and glory to the house of Bonaparte. The Cri- mean war established him on his throne, the French people adored him and the crowned heads of Europe did him homage. The fall of Sebastopol and the peace which followed made the name of Napoleon for the second time a power in Europe, and from that time all idle talk about the parvenu and the imbecile ceased. The Bonaparte dynasty was by universal con- sent re-established ; France was again the mis- tress of the nations, and Paris was the fash- ionabie capital of the world. It is not our business in this article to enter into all the de- tails of the late Emperor's public career since In another place in this morning’s issue this ground will be found completely covered. We cannot, however, in this connection refrain from mentioning his Italian campaign in 1859-60, when, placing himself at the head of his armies he crushed the power of Austria at Magenta and Sol- ferino, at once giving emphasis to his theory of the unification of nationalities and paving the way for the practical unity of Italy. This, again, was great personal triumph; and it was a8 finttering to France as it was gratifying to himself. It was not unnaturally felt that the star of Austerlitz shone over the destinies of the Second Empire. In 1860 what monarch in Europe was so powerful as the Emperor of the French? His nationality theories found fresh expression in his Mexican campaign ; but his Mexican campaign proved a failure, and with that failure began his troubles, The tide had reached its ebb and was now receding ; it never turned again in his favor. He began to yield to popular | clamor, and the French people, with their usual fickleness, proved ungrateful. France had now 4 Parliament and the press was unchecked, and Parliament and press compelled him to seek the rectification of frontiers. The Rhine boundaries question resulted in fresh failure. Prussia would not yield and the Emperor would not fight. The late war, it is now well known, was undertaken against his will ; and with the results of that war the reading public is familiar. France wasingloriously defeated, the Bonaparte dynasty was dethroned, and now the exiled Emperor is dead. His death to-day does not affect values in any money market in the world. His death any time be- tween 1852 and 1870 would have produced not only national but world-wide financial ruin, Now that the Emperor is no more all man- ner of things, just and unjust, will be said regarding him. It will be held by not a few that he was a fraud and a failure. It is not our opinion that he was either the one or the other. His ability, so long doubted, has long since been established. That for twenty years he ruled France well and gave France pros- perity not even his enemies can refuse to admit. The condition of France to-day is the best possible proof of the wisdom of the Lpolicy nursued in tho easlior veags of tho | granted to the French people more liberty than they knew rightly how to use, the blame, if blame their was, was more theirs than his. In most difficult circumstances he did what seemed to him best. If he has left France in chaos he has left the world a legacy of good. It was he who more any other man mado Italy a unit, and we know no unprejudiced mind that will refuse to adrpit that the unity of Italy hasbeen 'a gain to the cause of pro- gressive civilization. It was he who, by his teachings and by the persistent and practical development of his theories, brought about the unification of Germany; and, although the unification of Germany implied the temporary humiliation of France, German unity must be regarded as a world’s benefit. In the council room and in the field of battle this man, who is now no more, proved himself great; and it is not unfair to say that his “Life of Julius Ceesar’’ furnishes abundant evidence that, while thinking of himself, of his family and of France, in all that he did and in all that he wrote he thought even more of the destinies and of the welfare of mankind. No ruler in these times’ hasfigured 80 prominently ; no one has told so much on his day and generation, nor has any one ve- vealéd so much searching and far-reaching thought. If he failed, he failed only as his uncle failed, as Cesar failed, and as hundreds of great men have failed before him. He is gone, but his works remain, and in the great future we feel satisfied that while his faults will be forgotten his works will be regarded as the best and most enduring monument. What France thinks of his death we only begin to learn ; but, unless wegreatly mistake, his death will produce deep and genuine sorrow. France wronged the Emperor by the déchéance, and France will yet see and confess her error. The restoration of the Empire is rendered more certain by the death of the Emperor. Senators Conkling, Cameron, &o.—They Have Their Reward. Roscoe Conkling, by the unanimous vote in caucus of the republicans of our State Legisla- ture, has been nominated for another term in the United States Senate, which is equivalent to his election by the overwhelming majority which the republicans in both houses com- mand. In the same way, by the almost unani- mous vote in caucus of the republicans of the Pennsylvania Legislature, Simon Cameron, as one of the United States Senators from that State, has been nominated for still another Senatorial lease of six years. These results, together with the re-election of Senator Morton from Indiana and a Legislature in Illinois which secures an administration republican in place of Senator Trumbull, were determined in the elections of last October and November. The October Pennsylvania election was as much a coalition between Curtin, McClure and Forney and their liberal republicans with the democrats for the defeat of Cameron for the Senate as it was for the benefit of Greeley and Brown. Indeed, while that contest was fought by the opposition as a State fight, and against the alleged corrupt affiliations and corruptions of Hartranft and Cameron, it was fought by the republicans as a national affair, involving nothing less than the re-election as President of General Grant or his defeat. Senator Cam- eron threw his whole strength into the canvass upon this issuo, and the people, accepting it as the real issue before them, have given to Cam- eron, with Grant, the most decisive political victory of his long and successful career as the Warwick of Pennsylvania. If Cameron car- ried Pennsylvania for Grant, Grant carried it for Cameron, and thus the re-election of Cam- eron to the Senate became a question of loyalty to the national administration. Indeed, Cameron, apart from his active services in the Pennsylvania October campaign, in supersed- ing Sumner as Chairman of the Senate Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, had become a part and parcel of the administration cause with the republican party, as against Sumner, Curtin, McClure and Forney, and as against Greeley and Brown. Hence this victory of Cameron becomes the most decisive of his whole political career. The same judgment will apply to the defeat of Senator Trumbull in Illinois, to the re-elec- tion of Morton from Indiana, and to the re- election of Conkling from New York. From the moment of Senator Fenton’s fall from grace with the administration, from the mo- ment that Conkling was given the key to the private door of the Custom House, Fenton and all his confederates and liberal republican fol- lowers devoted themselves to the shelving of Conkling, Murphy and Grant. With the nomination of the lamented Greeley at Balti- more, it did appear, too, that Fenton had flanked Conkling ; but behold the crowning result! The republicans, as in the cases of Cameron and Morton, recognize the re-clec- tion of Conkling os the redemption of an obli- gation to him and to General Grant against which mo personal preferences will apply. And so Conkling is renominated as the very | head and front of the New York republican | party. With the marked abilities which Mr. Conkling possesses, with the high distinction | he has already attained as among the leading | debaters of the Senate, and with all the advan- | tages which his re-election will give him, he will be unfaithful to his opportunities if he shall fail to fix his name among the highest of the distinguished statesmen of the Empire State. Barttsa Manwest Destrsy.—The London Standard advocates the extension of British sovereignty over the Fiji Islands, making them scolony. Suppression of coolie kidnapping in the Polynesian groups and their sale in the Fijis is the excuse proffered for this forcible annexation, and, so far as the United States is concerned, there will be no serious objection if the mother country thinks she has not al- ready too large a family of such expensive and unsatisfactory children os her colonies. But what a howl would we hear from the Brit- ish press if we should undertake to protect the interests of our citizens in the Sandwich Islands bya similar process? It makes all the difference in the world whether manifest destiny tends to extend our territory or that of Albion, Tae Tra. or Wu.1am M. Tweev.—Up to the time of the adjournment of the Court yes- terday ten jurors only had been chosen on the ‘Tweed trial. Only three passed the ordeal yesterday, At this rate another day will be consumed before the full number is obtained, and hence the trial is not likely to commence before Monday next, French Crowned Heads. The ‘Man of December’ having gone out with the enow of January, it will get people thinking about those “best laid plans of mice and men” which “gang aft a-gley.” Royalty in France, since De Launy surrendered the Bastile to the mob, has been very unfortunate. Indeed, since that day French kings and em- Perors have done well to provide places of refuge for themselves on foreign shores, where they might die in peace in case of accident to the machine of government. The fate of Louis XYI. furnished them with & proper incentive to this course ; for kings as well as commoners can sacrifice ® good deal to be spared personal acquaintance with the guillo- tine. Louis XVI. indeed once tried to escape from France in disguise. He made one night's journey from Parisin a coach, but ‘was recognized and arrested at Varennes. He wanted to die in exile; but they brought him back a prisoner, to die a year and a half later on the scaffold. The people gazed at the captive King in silence, which must have been very difficult for Frenchmen. But there was & reason. Placards were posted everywhere with the laconic inscription—‘*‘Whoever applauds the King shall be whipped ; whoover insults the King shall be hanged.” The obliterating wave of the revolution soon flung one man on the rock of power who had the ability to stay there until the storm subsided, and who then ruled the new France after the deluge with the cold iron of his will and the glitter- ing steel of his military genius. The citizen Consul became the citizen Emperor, and Napoleon Bonaparte, adored by the French and hated and feared by all else, was the arbiter of Europe. Then came the decadence. ‘France could not fight all Europe forever. Knocked out of time in 1814, Napoleon was sent in exile to Elba. Agnin he rose to try conclusions. Waterloo was where the last terrifio round was fought, and the sound of the great gladiator’s fall awoke an echo which reverberated as far as the rock of St. Helena. There it died out, and Napoleon I. died an exile along with it. Thisis No.1. Here we may look back to the line direct. The son of Louis XVI, like his father, would not be per- mitted to die in exile, sd the poor Dauphin, the phantom Louis XVII, disappears from prison or dies there in 1795—blotted out any- how. ‘The son of the Corsican, the young, sickly King of Rome, is taken to- Vienna after Waterloo, is made a phantom Duke, and pines and dies in exile in the gloom of Schinbrunn. This is No, 2. Louis XVIIL, who came into France when Napoleon went to Elba, in 1814, ran into exile again for one hundred days, when Napoleon returned in 1815, and the wayward fates, on account of this thorough scare, perhaps, allowed him to die in Franco in 1824. He was the only French monarch of the century who got the chance, and he availed himself of it. Charles X., who succeeded his brother, was sent kiting after ‘‘the glorious days of July’ in 1830. He went to Holyrood, in Scotland; then to the Castle of Hradchin, in Prague, and then to Goritz, far away in Illyria, where he died, in peace and piety, in 1836. This is No. 3. All this while ‘‘pear-headed” Louis Philippe, the citizen King, was working his way along to 1848 in the odd manner which has made him in his zenith and his eclipse always seem a comical figure. The year 1848 was a shaking- up time all over Europe, and when the barri- cades were shaken up in Paris he found that his crown was shaken off his head. Glad that his head did not follow the crown, he fled, and another of the ‘‘anointed” was added to the list of Gallic sovereigns whose light was snuffed out in exile. This is No. 4. He died quietly at Claremont, in England, in 1850, about twenty miles from Chiselhurst, where Napoleon IIL. died, in pain and exile, yes- terday morning. - This is No. 5. The two men who wore their kingly or imperial crowns for about eighteen years each had many expe- riences in common, early hardships, later luck and final disaster. We can, therefore, count up five monarch- ical wrecks from France alone in this nineteenth century—three Napoleons, one Bourbon and one Orleanist. Who shall be the next? Government by the people is denounced by monarchist and imperialist alike as unsafe; government by the anointed seems, however it may be for the people, rather unsafe for the kings. Carlyle celebrates the First Napoleon’s ‘whiff of grapeshot;”’ Hugo tells us of the Third Napoleon's coup @ dat. Were Waterloo and Sedan, St. Helena and Chiselhurst, merely results of these two events, it may be fair to ask? We can only point to the succession of events and leave the question to Providence. We can be sure, however, that the sardonic spirit of history is just now counting on one hand the names of the five French crowned heads that ended their uneasiness in exile, «Then happy low lie down.” Congress. In Congress yesterday the proceedings were somewhat interesting, particularly in the House. Inthe Senate Mr. Ramsay reported the franking privilege, with amendments, and he moved its immediate consideration. Mr. Vickers, of Maryland, however, objected, and so the bill goes over for a day or two, or, per- haps, for a week or two or a month or two. The House bill to amend the act establishing the Department of Justice was passed, and the rest of the day’s sitting was expended on the Indian Appropriation bill. In the House Mr. Lynch, from the Com- merce Committee, reported a bill to amend the twelfth section of the act for the appoint- ment of shipping commissioners, by making it apply to our coasting vessels and to our trade generally with American ports. Mr. Wood, of New York, objected to the amend- ment, and denounced the original bill as op- pressive and unconstitutional. It was ob- noxious to our merchants. It was enriching two men, particularly the Commissioner of New York, who, in connection with his office, has established a large savings institution and boarding houses, and was taking possession of ‘(Poor Jack’’ and his earnings, and clearing a hundred thousand dollars a year. If so, this lucky gentleman must look sharp, or they will be after him next with a committee of investigation. Mr. Roberts, of New York, sustained Mr. Wood's objections; but the bill was passed. The House next took up the bill fer the sdmission of Colorado os a Blala, Mr, Hooper, from Great Salt Lake, moved to amend by providing for the admission of Utah as the State of Deseret. Mr. Sargent, of Cali- fornia, moved to amend by a stringent provi- sion against bigamy, polygamy, or plural marriages, Other amendments were offered, 80 that when the bill was laid aside it was loaded down to the water. Not much chance for any more new States, least of all for Deseret, during this session. Next.came a very important bill on emigra- tion, providing an Emigration Bureau and regulations of vessels carrying passengers to the United States. The object of the bill is to encourage emigration from foreign ooun- tries, and we conjecture that it will become a law. Facts About Newspapers—What the Sub- seribeors of the Herald Get for Their Moncy. An article in the Kansas Magazine, written by Mr. D. W. Wilder, on the labor and enter- prise of the newspaper press, has attracted very general attention. Mr. Wilder, it appears. has measured a quadruple edition of the Heratp, and has found that it contains 960,000 “ems,” while an octavo book of 591 pages—Mark Twain's new work-—contains only 836,000 “ems."" This one copy of the Henarp would, therefore, make an octavo of eighty-nine more pages than are contained in the book in question, witile the price of the book is three anda half dollars, and of the Heratp four cents. The inquiring mind of, the writer has further discovered the fact that “three copies of this quadruple sheet daily Henavp would contain a fourth more matter than the common English Bible, Apocrypha included.” It is not surprising that this state- ment should astonish those who are accus- tomed to skim lightly over a daily newspaper, and cast it aside without bestowing a thought upon the labor employed in its production and the mass of valuable information it con- tains, This Henaxp “volume of six hundred and eighty pages," sold for four cents, which Mr. Wilder has been at the trouble of measuring, carries news to its readers from all quarters of the world—from Europe, Asia, Africa and all parts of the American Continent. The move- ments—political, social, commercial and finan- cial—in.all civilized nations on the globe are to be found in its columns. The mysteries of the wilds of Africa and the intrigues of politi- cal parties in New York, the gayeties of courts and the last barroom murder, every descrip- tion of intelligence to be gathered on sea or on land, and every species of information that can instruct or interest the people, are grouped together in its pages. Its advertising columns are a perfect directory for all who have wants to be supplied, and afford equal facilities to the millionnaire who has half a dozen fortunes to invest and to the poor ‘girl who seeks em- ployment as a maid of all work. The actual amount of matter contained in a daily Hznaup is astonishing enough, but it is not half so wonderful as the varied, valuable and exhaust- ive character of the information contained in its columns. The Park Commissioncr—Comptroller Green’s Resignation of His Additional Office. Comptroller Green has resigned his position as Park Commissioner, which he has held during his whole term as Comptroller; but the resig- nation has not yet been acted upon by Mayor Havemeyer. It should be accepted, and the vacancy should be filled without any delay. The Mayor has himself called attention to the evident impropriety of double office-holding under a reformed city government, and has deprecated the practice of the head of a de- partment passing upon his own requisitions and paying his own accounts, Mr. Green’s resignation was a tardy one. We could have wished it had been tendered before the Henanp felt called upon to demand it in the name of the people of the city; but as it is now in the hands of the Mayor it should be acted upon at once. It is discreditable to a ‘reform’ gov- ernment that any of its members should adhere to the Tammany ~ policy of double office-holding; much more that the practical head of a department which spends an enormous amount of the public moneys should fill also the offices of, Comptroller and member of the Board of Apportionment, thus in the latter capacities approving his own estimates and paying his own bills. Besides, the Park Commission has now only two members in service—not a quorum of the whole com- mission; for we do not suppose Comptroller Greon will ever desire to sit with the Board again. It is desirable that the commission should be filled, especially as the Department demands a larger appropriation for the coming year than it asked for last year. It is uncer- tain what the State Legislature will do with the charter, and asit is not likely, under ex- isting circumstances, that the Comptroller will continue to act as Park Commissioner, the Mayor should at least give the Board from | which Mr. Green retires a quorum of its legal number of members. Tae Leortarvne,—The business dono by the Legislature yesterday, being void of all definite and final results, cannot be said to be especially important. Tho groundwork was laid, however, for future action, and three most important matters of local interest were presented in an initiatory stage. The Speaker introduced the new city charter; Mr. Burns, a bill providing for rapid transit in this city, and Mr. Patterson a bill for the abolition of the present Department of Public Instruction and the creation of a new Board of Education. A bill to provide for rapid transit in this city scarce needs any comment, and it remains to be seen how far Mr. Patterson may succeed this year in ousting the present Board of School Commissioners, remembering that he has once failed. The Senate yesterday, in open session, did little more than adjourn over to Tuesday next, but as a court of im- peachment the charges against Judge Prindle were finally disposed of, the Judge being re- tained in his position by a vote of seven- teen to seven. The House passed a con- curring resolution with the Senate for adjournment to Tuesday, to give time and facility for the appointment of the standing committees. Viscount Darv, ono of Napoleon's aids during the war with Germany, has just lost his life by drowning in the Japanese waters of Asia. The melancholy circumstances attend- ing the sad event are reported in our special correarondenca from Yokohama . PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ie ie het a Homer A. Nelson, of Poughkeepsie, is at vne Fitts Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor John Evans, of Colorado, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander ‘William B. Cushing, of the United States Navy, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Hon. Frederick Walpole, M. P., is going to Meso- potamia to pursue his studies, Comte de Montebello and Baron Brin, of the French Legation, are at the Albemarie Hotel. Adjutant General James A. Cunningham, of Mas- sachusetts, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator George FP. or Vermont, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The Parliament of Jersey has voted £1,000 for # moaument to General Don, who was twice Gov- ernor of the island and who planned its splendid road system. The Prince Ge Lynar, the new German Secretary of Legation at Parir, was for some time in this country, where he was married, last year, to & Western .ady. Mrs. A. Priestley, of Des Moines, has recovered $2,500 damages from a liquor dealer who sold whis- key to her husband. This is the first case under the new Iowa liquor law. The St. Louis Democrat says:—‘General Blair has gone to Jefferson, He can’t walk very far, but he thinks he has locomotive power enough to beat any other man at running when the United States Senatorenip ia the goal.” * A young lady in North Fryburg, Me., on one of the cold nights of last week, took 4 furnace full of live coals into her sleeping apartment for the pur- pose of warming it.. Relatives and friends were respectfully invited on the following day. A woman in male attire was arrested in Knox- ville, Tenn., a few nights since, She gave as am excuse that she could more successfully find her missing husband tncog., especially as she believed him to be pretty well soaked in cog-niac, In changing its name from the Missourt to the St. Louis Democrat the proprietors did a sensible thing. Missouri is somewhat more of a State than it was twenty-one years sago—when the Democrat was started—and St. Louis a slightly larger city. Kaiser William has been called by ® staymaker at Ulm “an eater of cumin, a vampire, a vagabond and a leader of brigands.” For this extravagance of speech and an offer to shoot His Majesty fer fifty Norins, the staymaker is to make a stay @f three months in jail. Dr. Goulburn, Dean of Norwich, cannot consent to serve as select preacher at Oxford with the lately elected Dean Stanley, of Winchester, on ac- count of the broad church views of the latter. He has resigned the place, which has no salary, bat retained his deanery, which carries an ample stipend. The celebrated Corsican brigand Suzzoni, who was killed last month in a fight with gendarmes, was the ablest of the brigands of that island. He had four times been sentenced to death, yet his favor among the poor people and his daring cour- age bafied the attempts of the gendarmes to catch him for five years, Three persons from Yokohama, one of them @ lady, lately made the perilous ascent of the great volcanic mountain of Fusiyama, in Japan. For four miles they traversed the surface of frozen snow, and for the last mile and a half to the sum- mit had to cut or dig for every step into the ice or snow. The only ill effect of their enterprise was snow blindness, which affected the adventurers for several days, Anthony ‘Trellope, the novelist, a8 a result of his journeying in Australia, has, since his return to England, proposed the construction of railroa@ across that continent. The project is pronounced novel, though its execution would shorten the dis- tance between Europe and the large cities of Aus- tralia, by way of the Suez Canal, several thousand miles, and would open to settlement a vast coun- try, whose mineral wealth would be likely to repay the cost of the necessary work. WEATHER REPORT. os Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICER OF THE CULEY SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHInoTon, D. C., Jan, 10—1 A. M. Synopsis Jor the Past Twenty-four Hours. The barometer has risen in the Middle and Eastern States, with diminishing temperature, northerly to westerly winds and generally clear weather; in the South Atlantic and Gulf States northwesterly to northeasterly winds, partly cloudy weather, with increased pressure; in the Northwest northwesterly winds, increasiny pres- sure, generally clear weather and low temperature prevail. i Probabilities, For the Northwest and thence tothe Missourt and the Lower Ohio Valley northwesterly winds, clear and very cold weather; for the region of the lakes and thence to West Virginia and Kentucky, high pressare, southwesterly and northwesterly winds, clear weatner, with low temperatures; for the Eastern and Middie States, genefally clear weather, northwesterly winds, increased pressure and lower temperatures; in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, high barometers, northwesterly and northeasterly winds, with generally clear weather, except on the Western Gulf, where light rain is possiblo. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes ig the temperature for the past twenty-feur hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HER ee Eeueine _ 7 a Average temperature yesterday. eeeee average touperature for corresponding di last year... eereerrrrett. 5 J ILLINOIS. % R. J. Oglesby, the Governor Elect, Unanimously Nominated for United States Senator, SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 9, 1873, The republican caucus of both branches of the General Assembly to nominate a United States Sen- ator, to be voted for on Tuesday, January 21, was held this evening. R. J. Oglesby, Governor elect, was nominated by acclamation. As this nomina- tion was equivalent to an election a committee of three was appointed to wait upon the Governor to inform him of the action of the caucus and invite him to address the caucus, which he did with much force and power in @ speech ef about fifteen min- utes, He was greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. ARKANSAS. The Incoming and Retiring Governors Deliver Messages to the Assembly Con- vention—The Harrison-Hadley InjJunc- tion Case. LittLe Rock, Jan. 9, 1873. Gevernor Hadley, the retiring, and Governor Baxter, the present Executive, both delivered messages to a joint Convention of the Assem! to-day. The messages were very conservative were well received. The argument in the Harrison-Hadley injunction case before Judge Caldwell closed to-night. THE PAOIFIO COAST. Safety of the Disabled 8 Rica. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9, 1873, The disabled steamer Costa Rica has just passea San Diego in tow of the steamers Constitution and Gypsy. All are well on board. The Eastern racers St. Elmo, Rosaiind and Dan Voorhees are at the Agricultural Park, and are from the etfect of their overh fey ee ey are training daily for the coming Coa. the trial of Charles A. Russell for the murder of James Crotty, @ notorious character in this city, has commeaced, Owing to bountiful rains in ali sections of the State the farmers are making greater preparations than ever before. Sanguine persons estimate the next big Sd Wheat at 40,000,900 bustels, Since October 1, last, 409 centals of wheat were be from Portland, Oregon, to England, e preliminary survey of the Texas Pacifte Railroad _is completed from San Diego to Fort Yuma. The surveying my, going east, is to join Colonel Scott's a ae ing expedition from Texas, The practicability of the route from Sau Diego te ork Kuma Li UquNORytrabade mer Costa