The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1873, Page 6

' 4 2 NEW YOUK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY. 15, 1873. TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES. GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. Pog al THEATRE, Bowery.—Stasaer AND Cxasnen = Twatve Teurrarions. ‘WOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st— damming. Aiternoon and bvening. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rounn tux Croce. ATHENEUM, No. 85 Broadway.—Granp Vanisty Ex- Qmetainmenr. Matince at 23. NIBLO'S oeane™, Broadway, between Prince and Houston street.—Lxo anp Loros. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between ‘Thirteenth and Fourtecnth strects.—Aruxniey Court. ‘WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Baotuar Sam. BOOTH’ THEATRE, Twenty-third street, cornor Sixth avenue,—Ricuarp III. Maer; ing THEATRE, Fourteonth street, near Third av.- THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broad Uw Bato m Matinee ar Be, ans |ASCHERA. eS fd iC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston or strecta—ALuampns. Matinco at 2. MRA. F, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Hove. ‘lus axe eae WS SRYANTS orate. HOU: Twenty-' wn at. comwrnicity, &0. tb av.—Nuoao Misrerisy, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Anounp run Biocs. corner FRANOISOO MINSTRELS, cornor 26th st. and pandwercbemorus Ricerca, ko. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Ecimace AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the HMerald. “SOME PLAIN FACTS ABOUT THE CREDIT MO- BILIER OORRUPTION! WILL THE IMPLI- GATED CONGRESSMEN RESIGN?""—LEAD- ING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—Sixtu Pas. STANLEYIZING CUBA! MR. HENDERSON’S LET- TER EXPLANATORY: HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH THE SPANISH LEADERS AND SUD- $ DEN DEPARTURE: MR. O'KELLY’S NEWS TOUR: THE SPANIARDS PUZZLED—Firta Pacs. EUROPE BY CABLE! LIMITING THE FRENCBR " BXEOUTIVE: RAPID RISE IN RENTES: THE AUSTRO-FRENCH WAR ALLIANCE AGAINST PRUSSIA: MORE SPANISH TROOPS FOR CUBA: A CARLIST DEFEAT— SEVENTH Pags. NAPOLEON! DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS FROM FRANCE AND LONDON AT CHISELHURST: QUEEN VICTORIA TO VISIT THE EX-EM- PRESS—SEVENTH Page. HE PERSIAN SHAH’S TOUR! HE WILL VISIT EUROPE IN APRIL: THE RELATIONS BE- TWEEN ENGLAND AND PERSIA—SgVENTH Paas. ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE JOB: THE OREDIT MOBILIER UNEARTHING: THE LOUISIANA AND MISSOURI SENATOR- _ SHIPS—Tup Page. FIAT JUSTITIA! PROMPT PUNISHMENT TO BE METED OUT TO ALL CLASSES OF CRIMI- NALS: THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY RE- SOLVED UPON REFORM—RAPID TRANSIT INSURED—FourTH Pags. NEWS FROM ALBANY! THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES: THE LEADERSHIP OF THE HOUSE: A SHORT SESSION PROBABLE— SEVENTH PaGE. MRS. WHARTON'S SECOND ARRAIGNMENT! STRANGE STORIES OF THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS LIQUORS PARTAKEN OF AT HER HOUSE: VAN NESS’ FEELINGS—Tenta Paas. CREDIT MOBILIER PLACINGS! ANTE-ELECTION DENIALS OF COMPLICITY AND THE SWORN TESTIMONY BEFORE THE CONGRESSION- AL INVESTIGATORS: THE AIMS OF THE WOLVES AND THE DUPED INNOCENTS: THE WILSON COMMITTEE AT WORK— FoustH Pags, BOUTWELL’'S POWER OF INFLATION! REPORT OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE DENYING THE SECRETARY'S RIGHT TO ISSUE THE $44,000,000 OF GREENBACKS— THIRD PaGB. A JERSEY WAR! PROSPECTIVE RIOT AT COMMUNIPAW AGAINST THE CONTINU- ANCE OF THE FERTILIZING FACTORY NUISANCE! THE ABATTOIR COMPANY CUT OFF THE WATER SUPPLY—Tuirp Page. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION! THE OFFICER'S ELECTED—THE MUNICIPAL BOARDS—BUILDINGS INSPECTED BY SU- PERINTENDENT MACGREGOR—TuiRD Page. OUR FILTHY STREETS! WHAT THE STREET- CLEANING BUREAU SHOULD DO, BUT HAVE NOT DONE: WADING THROUGH “THE DEMD MOIST, UNPLEASANT” SLUSH—Firtn Pace. ON 'OHANGE! THE MONEY RATE LESS THAN SEVEN PER CENT: ERIE, UNION PACIFIC AND GOVERNMENTS UPWARD BOUND: THE JANUARY STOCK SPECULATION— Ninta Page. TEN MILLIONS OF CONVERTIBLE ERIE BONDS TO BE ISSUED! IMPORTANT BUSINESS MEETING OF THE DIRECTION—FINE PROS- PECTS IN NEW YORK REALTY—ANOTHER AMENDMENT—NInTH Pace. BETTLING TWEED'S RESPONSIBILITY! DEPUTY CHAMBERLAIN PALMER NONSUITED AND MR. FOLEY ENJOINED! LITIGATIONS IN THE OTHER TRIBUNALS—E1cutu Pace. Howons To tat Dzav Emprron.—Yesterday several distinguished persons arrived at Chis- elhurst for the purpose of attending the fune- tal of the ex-Emperor. Among these were Marshal Leboouf, General Froissard and Gen- eral Do Failly. It speaks well for these men, who were wont to bask in the sunshine of im- perial favor, that they have the courage in these dark hours to show their attachment to the memory of their decensed chief and to sustain by their presence and their sympathy The surviving relatives and friends. Asa @ark of respect to the memory of the de- Ceased the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, where the Prince Im- perial is @ cadet, has forbidden all entertain- ments at that institution until after the funeral of the Emperor. All this is very well, and it is not improbable that at some future day the kindness will be amply repaid. Eam Ramwar Arrams are assuming fresh one livelier interest under the latest of the »,@overal régimes which succeeded that of Fisk | and Gould. Yesterday the Board of Directors authorized a new loan of ten millions of dol- lars (which shall not be disposed of at less than par) for the purpose of more fully ~@quipping the road, inclusive of a double track, ond procuring its gradual alteration to the narrow gauge system. Some Plain Facts About the Oreait Mobilier Corruption—Will tne Impli- cated Congressmen Resign t It is about time that the people of the United States should understand the true character of the Crédit Mobilicr transactions, in the investigation of which the Congressional committee, presided over by Judge Poland, is now engaged. The testimony taken by the committee yesterday, and the comparison of the statements made by the implicated Con- gressmen bofore and after the recent election which will be found in to-day’s HenaLp, must be sufficient to satisfy every impartial mind that the whole business, from first to last, has been foul with corruption, and that the exposé is one of the most disgraceful ever known in the history of dishonest legislation, We are told that the ostrich, when it buries its head in the sand, belioves that its whole body is successfully concealed from view. Tho Con- gressmen who were debauched by the Orddit Mobilier Ring have displayed o voracity and a power of digestion equal to those of the ostrich, and it is possible that, following the peouliar characteristics of that singular bird, they im- agine that the olaborately prepared confessions which they have, one after another, read before tho committee, will blind the eyes of the poople to the true character of their acts. They will find themselves de- ceived. No amount of sophistry, no special pleading, no ingenious attempt to conceal the revolting features of bribery and corruption behind the mask of pure business transactions, will cover up the fact that they wore tempted by the offers of Oakes Ames and the prospect of large pecuniary advantago to betray their trust as representatives of the people. Look at the plain facts of tho case. The Union Pacific Railroad is a corporation aided by the government of the United States and responsible to the government for its honest and proper management. To guard tho pub- lio interests in the corporation a cer- tain number of governmont directors are appointed on the Bosrd, in addition to those duly chosen by the stockholders. Theso representatives of tho government in the direction are in fact trustees acting on behalf of the people. A ‘ring’ of directors is formed, and its members, as stook- holders and directors of the Crédit Mobilier, let themselves the contracts for building the road at a price enormously above tho just cost of the work, and in other ways plunder the Union Pacific Company out of millions of dollars. In order to carry out this conspiracy successfully it is necessary to secure the friendly co-operation of the active government directors and the friendly silence of Congress. An exposure of their plot would inevitably be its defeat, for they are in the power of the gov- ernment and Congress of the United States. Tho active members of the “ring take cer- tain shares of the Crédit Mobilier stock, worth eight or ten times its face, which are entered to their credit on the books as ‘‘trustees,"” and these shares they sell at par to the mombers of Congress in the most prominent positions or likely to be the most troublesome as ene- mies on the floor, When a Oongress- man has no money they advance him the amount of the nominal payment or take it out of the heavy dividends, which are made almost as soon as the ‘sale’’ is com- pleted. The members thus favored beeome the warm friends of tho Crédit Mobilicr. In the unsophisticated language of Oakes Ames it has become their interest to “look into the business,’’ and they are so well satisfied of its merits that they can be relied upon to puta parliamentary quietus upon all inconvenient inquiries that may be started by outside par- tlea, This is. the plain English of the transac- tion, and there is no manner of question or doubt that if no quarrel “had taken place be- tween the members of the ‘‘ring,’’ if no law- suit had been commenced which was certain to bring all the transactions of the company before a Court, if no facts had been brought to light during the campaign, every dollar of the Crédit Mobilier stock ‘‘placed’’ by Oakes Ames would have remained in the pockets of the Congressmen to whom it was assigned. The consciousness of guilt was upon every Senator and Representative who had re- ceived stock at the hands of the “zing,” and it was this alone which made many of them run like frightened sheep ag soon as exposure was threatened, and return to their tempter the stock which he had “placed’”’ to them. The disinclination to be involved in a lawsuit is a bald pretence. The suit feared by these holders of Oakes Ames’ tempting shares was a suit in the court of public opinion. The judgment they dreaded was the verdict of the people declaring them to be the agents of a corrupt job, bribed to do its work on the floors of Congress. Why else did they shrink ‘ing the richly-pay- ing investment they had made on the very first inkling that the secret history of the close corporation would be exposed in a court of law? Why else did they positively deny dur- ing the campaign all knowledge of the Crédit Mobilier stock and lead the people to believe, by their solemn asseverations, that they never had any connection with the corporation, directly or indirectly? Why else did they induce Oakes Ames to publish before the election the letter which is now proved to have been false by his own testimony before the committee of investigation and by the testi. mony of every other witness who has been examined ? The whole story of the implicated parties from beginning to end is a fabric of deception and fraud. It is not usual in an honest business transaction to purchase stock and allow it to stand in the name of a ‘trus- tee,’ drawing the dividends through him. It would not have been necessary in an honest business transaction to conceal the truth or to cover up a single act connected with the affair, The testimony of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Crédit Mobilier, given before the Committee of Investigation yester- day, is alone sufficient to establish the char- acter of the whole proceeding. ‘I deny that the general public hase lively interest in this matter; only a few newspapers care any- thing about it,” says this pert official, and he proceeds to testify with impertinent indiffer- ence that “the books went travelling about the country to prevent people from seeing them who had no interest in them ;" thet “the stock transfer book has disappeared,” ond that he has no information or belief as to thé whéreabotts of the missing books, A nice condition. truly, foran honest company to be in, and a nice secretary and treasurer for an honest company to be represented by before a Con- gressional committee! In the light of such evidence it is easy to understand the value of Congressional: silence’ to the Orédit Mobilier. “We wanted no legislation,” says the bland Oakes Ames; “I never asked a single member with whom I ‘placed’ stock to vote for any measure connected with the Crédit Mobilier."’ This was the cry of Tweed and Fisk and Barber, and this is the cry of every corrup- tionist who buys and sells legislators like eattle at so much a hond. ‘Let us alone,” said the old Erie direction whon they paid over their money to Sonators and Assembly- men at Albany. ‘Lot us alone,’ echoed the old Tammany Ring when they thrust their bribes into the pockets of the thieves at tho State capital. “Let us alone,” whispered Oakes Ames, as he “placed”’ his valuable stock ‘‘whore it would do most good."" So, when the corruption is unearthed, the plea of the corrupted is univer- sally the same. ' Their profitable" negotiations are all pure business transactions, and: they never promise to give any consideration in legislative services for any favor .they may re- ceive. Can theso Congressional ostriches and their apologists ‘hope to persuade the people that men who enter into honost, bona fide business transactions involving large amounts of money ere so careless and indifferent as to keep no accounts, and to be utterly unable to tell whether they have paid or received dividends on stook at all, what amounts they have paid or received, and at what dates they pur- chased or relinquished the securities? Do they think that all their carefully pre- pared and nicely dovetailed confessions will blind tho people to the fact that an honest tale needs no such elaborate caution, can be told by word of mouth, and does not require to be drawn up in writing with legal cunning and precision? Do theyimagine, in fact, that plain, sensible men do not know that every one of them would have had his Crédit Mo- bilier stock in his pocket to-day, like Mr. Charles H. Neilson, but for the foar of the ex- posure that has now come upon them? If they do, the sooner they take their heads out of tho sand and look about them the better. They will then see that the poople havea lively interest in this matter, and that tho best thing they can do is to resign their po- sitions in Congress and _ retire from public life. During the campaign it was well enough to cry down the charges brought against them as elec- tioneering slandors, but this plea is no longer available, The people have no more confidence in. any Congressman con- nected with this miscrable business than they have in the Tweeds and Ingersolls and Gar- veys of the old Tammany Ring, and resigna- tion is the only atonement the tainted mem- bers'can make for their offence. Woe have no hope that Congress will have sufficient fear- lessness and independence to expel them from Senate and House. We have po confidence in the investigating committee, But the cause has been tried before the people ; the popular verdict has pronounced the word “Guilty,’’ and the best thing the defendants can do is to throw themselves upon the mercy of the Court and retire into private life, The Dofeat of General Blair. After seventeen ballots in the caucus of the democrats and liberals of the Missouri Logis- lature Lewis V. Bogy, of St. Louis, was nominated for the place, in the United States Senate, of General Frank Blair, the present in- cumbent. The decisive vote was—For Bogy, sixty-four; for Blair and others, forty-seven. There were a baker’s dozen of candidates in the contest, including a liberal proportion of ex-Confederate army officers. But the essential point in the case is, that among all these can- didates General Blair has been defeated, and so, on the 4th of March next, he will retire, at least for a year or two, from public life. This is a remarkable case. General Blair and Governor Gratz Brown were, in fact, the chief contrivers of the liberal republican move- ment of the Cincinnati Convention and of the Presidential coalition ticket of Greeley and Brown. The fusion of the democrats with the anti-Grant republicans in Missouri, 1870, had been so successful, in the election of Brown for Governor and Blair to fill the remnant of an unexpired term in the Senate, that these men, with Carl Schurz, really believed that their Missouri coalition might be ex- tended over the whole Union with the same success. Hence the Cincinnati Liberal Con- vention and the co-operating Baltimore Dem- ocratic Convention on the liberal ticket of Greeloy and Brown. From the general ship- wreck of the fortunes of this coalition hardly a man has been left to tell the story. We had supposed, however, that in a democratic Ingislature General Blair, as a democrat, would escape the shoals and breakers and come safely into port again. But he, too, goes down, and the Missouri democrats, in abandoning him, have evidently had enough of the ‘passive policy’’ of his ‘new departure.”’ Tae Dervry Onampentarnsarr.—In the application for an injunction against John Foley, who claims the office of Deputy Cham- berlain under the assumption of the power of appointment by Comptroller Green, the Court decided yesterday that Deputy Chamberlain Palmer, in whose name the application was made, had no standing in Court, the proper person to complain being the Chamberlain, and not his deputy. Thereupon the applica- tion was made in the name of the Chamberlain, the temporary injunction against Mr. Foley was continued, and the final hearing set down for to-morrow. As yet the attempt of Comp- troller Green to force upon the Chamberlain a deputy to whom ho objects has resulted only in entailing a needless expense upon the city. A Proposition made in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention to remove the State capital from Harrisburg to Philadelphia is ob- jected to by some of the country press on ac- count of the temptations that would surround the verdant rural members in case the change should be made. But, then, lobby accommoda- tions would be hugely augmented and back- hand operations greatly facilitated. It would, therefore, be the same in the long run, Tae Dears or Naro.zon continues to have an ota, ter J effect upon the Paris Bourse, ich rentes yesterday were quoted at 5497-0 sdvence of forty-five centimes since the night provious to tho fetal event at Chigelburet. The Tribute te Independent Journal- fom in the Banquet te Stanley. To those who do not habitually look be- neath the surface of things the gathering on Saturday at Washington to do honor to Mr. Stanley will not assume the importance we propose to show inheres to it. A good deal of the popular wonder that would have sur- rounded the circumstance, had it happened forty or fifty years ago, has been worn off by the progress of journalism itself. The notable fact, however, remains that the representative of a thoroughly independent journal receives the greeting and the praise of men high in the leadership not merely of party but of thenation itself, That hundred interests and number- leas points of etiquette would have prevented such a gathering in the long past days of the reign of the party press is as patent as that the party press could never have originated the enterprise which the assembly met to honor. It was asimplo act of justice to the independent press, and as such we wish it to be appre- ciated. We can fancy the surprise which wonld light up the ghostly features of an old- time editor could he haven rise from tho gtave he has tenanted for forty years and: looked in last Saturday evening upon tho ‘gathering at Willard’s. His surprise would beasgreat as that of the most conservative mandarin in the Ohinese Empire who would witness the Emperor and his Ministors rowing en eight-oared race with the Harvard craw upon Lake Quinsigamond. The disciple of Confucius might console himself with a whiff or two of opium and then die; the resurrected party editor would hurry back to his grave and nover leave it until Gabricl’s trump roused him up for hia iast great earthly sur- prise. The Speaker of the House of Repro- sentatives, the Vice President elect, the Com- mander in Chief of the Army, half a dozen United States Senators—tliberals, democrats and republicans—the leader of the House of Representatives and half a score of his fellow members of every shade of party and inter- est, the Seoretary of the Treasury, two As- sistant Secretaries of State, Judges, Gov- ernors, Generals and Commissioners were present, and warm notes of apology were read from the President, the Secretary of State and other distinguished personages. The hosts of the occasion—the journalists of Washington-— too, must be taken into account. They repre- sented, collectively, as much intelligence, as much influence and as much patriotism and high sense of official responsibility ag those we have previously enumerated. It would be difficult, indeed, in the capital of our country to collect a number of gentlemen of whom it could more truly be said that they represented that great tangible giant of unmeasured force called public opinion, And yet the object of all the kindly outpouring of well-worded welcome was merely tho representative of an independent American journal. Verily, if the ears of the dead editors of the party press could hear the force of that welcome their bones would rattle in protest. Now for the reason. In the palmy old days when party patronage anda partisan subscription list were the only legs under editorial chairs no great repre- sentative of a political party would daro to publicly honor the man who represented a journal opposed to that party. Assoon would the Captain General of Cuba makoa com- plimentary speech over a glass of post-prandial champagne to the editor of Ia Revolucion. The feelings of the editor of the Diario de la Marina would, on such an oc- casion, be ona par with those of the resur- rected party editor. In honoring the repre- sentative of the Hzrarp Secretary Fish paid respect to a journal which, in its fearless independence, has found grave fault with his official career. This instance alone will suffice to point our meaning, although in the persons of almost, if not quite all, of the public offi- cials present at the banquet the instances could be multiplied wherein we have from time to time felt called upon to pass censure upon public acts of theirs. But their presence or their written compliments testify that the journal which, through its heroic representa- tive, they honored, is one above party, and, therefore, in a position, without loss of dignity or party standing, to be treated in a friendly way. It is, in fine, the triumph of the inde- pendent press, signalized in the most emphatic and impressive manner. We would further mark that its especial fitness arises from the congentrated compli- ment being paid to the Hifuzn in the new field of journalism of which it is proud to be the pioneer—the field of action. It tells unequivocally that the new departure in jour- nalism has in its myriad paths of public good the assurance beforehand of manifold appre- ciation, increased dignity and material profit. There is a key to all this, which will be found an easy means of solving what appears myste- rious at first sight. It is that the Henatp holds before itself a reliance on the people as a whole and a consideration only of the gen- eral good. In carrying out a course guided by such conditions it is natural that condemnation of the acts of a man, no matter how high his position, or a party, no matter what its pro- tensions, must have its place, as well as the approval which at other times creditable deeds may call forth. Itisin the certainty of this high impartiality in criticising and un- ceasing activity in collecting facts that a truly independent paper like the Hraxp finds its influence and its power. It is a lesson that those who run may read, and we heartily commeng it to all. ‘Tum Recent Sevesx WEATHER 1 Muvve- sota.—We are toll by the farmers that abund- ant snow is admirable protection for the Win- ter wheat and promotes plentiful harvests. In that view Minnesota may anticipate prosperity in the coming Summer; but that can hardly compensate for the hardships of the present season, as detailed in our telegraphic de- spatch. So severe has been the cold to many settlers exposed to the blasts which sweep over the wide plains from the fer distant mountains to the northwest that the polar air wave hes benumbed their limbs and stopped their heart- flow even when screened by thick buffalo robes. Railroad work has been checked and teamsters were frozen to death on their jour- neys. Never before since settlement in that region began has such terrible storm been known as that of last weck. With the advance of cultivation there will be more opportunities for shelter, and if is safo to believe, a8 we poor er ps or never in hear of such fa Ma in’ tae theiving State at tho headwaters of the Mississippi. ‘somewhat presentable, at i A Welcome Thaw—The Bonutics of Rotorm Street Cleaning. After the cheerless and blustering weather that followed in the footsteps of Santa Claus and ushered in the Now Yoar yeaterday’s thaw was decidedly weloome. It was more efficient than even the formidable brigade of Italians belonging to the Bureau of Street Cleaning, Beneath its balmy breath hillocks of frozen snow and mud became beautifully less, and in the principal thoroughfares vehicles did not present the appearance of vessels in a heavy sea, rolling and pitching about as they have done fora fortnight, The condition of the streets since the memorable snow storm on the 26th of December needs no extended com- ment, as tho suffering pedestrians from the Battery to the Park can testify. Here comes a snow storm of unusual rigor and inolemency, granted, but lasting only one day. Nearly three weoks have passed since this winding sheet onveloped Manhattan Island, and what has been done by our much-vaunted Reform Bureau of Street Cleaning to remove tho piles of snow and frozéun mud that threatened to puta stop to all business and travel? Of course Broadway received the first attention, and force of- men began to operate on our principal thoroughfare. Aided by the stage companies and many private firms they stc- | ceeded in a fow daysin making Broadway Teast, as fer as Union square, But after this effort the reform broom was hung up and thu rest of the city was left to get along as well as wind and weather would permit. All the high- sounding promises which inaugurated the new bureau wore forgotten. The heavily- taxed, long-suffering ond patient citizens hailed with delight last year the change of brooms, innocently thinking that the millon- nium of street cleaning hadat last arrived. The new bureau seemed to pray for some terrible storm or unnatural fall of snow to have the op- portunity of showing what might be done by a municipal broom and shovel proporly directed, The opportunity came nearly three weeks ago, and the famous broom and shovel have not effected any more than when the brawny arms of tho irresponsible Brown wielded them. The consequence is that business in many respects has been completely paralyzed, the streets have been impassable and reform street cleaning has proved to be a delusion anda snare, like its predecessors, If there wasa lack of funds some excuse might be made, but the Reform Bureau costa double what former contractors were allowed. How easy it would havo been, immediately after the snow storm, to have gone earnestly and honestly to work and to have accomplished the same results in other streets ng made a portion of Broadway navi- gable! It isa very simplo matter to keep the streets clean in the Summer and Fall months, when sun and occasional showers assist in the work, butat the very time that the efficiency of areform bureau undergoes a real test down tumbles the entire fabric, and the too credu- lous and oft-deceived public find themselves wallowing in the Slough of Despond, like the desperate pedestrian running the gauntlet op- posite the now Post Office, or a hard-worked horse floundering in West street. The princi- pal sufferers are those whose homes are in Jersey or the City of Churches. The ap- proaches to the ferrics are, if possible, many degrees worse than other portions of the city, even where the dingy tenement house raises its multitudinous stories. Surely, something might have been done to keep these lines of travel in passable shape; but Reform regards them with the same indifferent eye as it does the commonest purlieu. It is useless for the delinquent bureau in question to seek for ex- cuses in the magnitude of the work of keeping the thoroughfares unobstructed after a heavy storm. The work can be done; the funds are always at hand, and will and honesty are the only requisites with which street cleaning commissions in this city seem to be unac- quainted. Ifthe present bureau declares its inability or unwillingness to do the work en- trusted to it let us try another broom, and another, until, sooner or later, wo hit upon the right article. A Cotorep Unrtep Srates SENATOR From Lovistana.—Th:re is trouble in the Kellogg camp in New Orleans. The federal bayonet Legislature has elected the shrewd nogro Pinchback to the Senate of the United States, and the slate of the Kelloggites has been broken to pieces. The bargain had been made to send a carpet-bagger from New York to Wash- ington as Kellogg's successor, and ‘it is said that this programme was bargained for before Judge Durell’s famous decision was rendered overthrowing the State government. But Pinchback proved too smart for the leaders and wireworkers, captured his colored breth- ren in the Legislature and carried off the prize. The people's Legislature will elect and send forward their Senator, and then the contest must come up in the United States Senate, The chances are that the colored aspirant, Pinchback, will be admitted to the seat, al- though his chances are probably not so good now as they would have been before election, Tae Suan or Pensta’s Prosectep Visit to the great courts of Europe and to Constanti- nople denotes the arrangement of a diplomacy which will be very likely to lead to important consequences in the management of Eastern affairs. His Highness, having concluded the Seistan arbitration with the special commis- sioners of the Queen of Britain, has become, no doubt, anxious, although at an almost fa- tally late moment for his own interests, to as- certain how the arrangement is likely to work. The causes which tend to disturb his mind are eet forth in our news telegram. Tur Pennsrivanta ConstiturionaL Conven- tion have granted the use of their hall in Phil- adelphia to the Women's Rights Association for two evenings, for the purpose of discussing the subject of female suffrage. The Aye thinks the advocates of women’s rights are entitled to a hearing without ridicule or prejudice, but suggests that at present the public appeal lacks backing in private, ‘so far as the women of Pennsylvania are concerned. Tar Morvar Lers Insunance Company.—We have seen no refutation by the management of this company of the very damaging charges made in our columns by a policy-holder in this company. Silence in such a case is gen- erally taken ag an admission of guilt. The trustees owe it to themselves that specific charges of a grave nature shall not pass unno- ticed. Tho policy-holders will not be satisfied without a thorough ventilation. Affairs at Albany. In the State Senate, yesterday, tho standing committees for this session were announced. They are substantially the same as last yoar, excepting the three liberal republican Sena tora—Palmer, Allen and Harrower—whe are removed from the chairmanship inte the back seats of their several oom mittees. Having bolted from the regu- lar republican church, they are by it classed as ‘‘assistant democrats.’ As now constituted the Senate Committee on Affairs of Cities is Mesara- Woodin (Chairman in place of Palmer), Perry, Benedict, Adams, Weismann, Palmer and Tiemann, The name of Senator Tweed appears nowhere in the list of the committees, and, from the fact, per- haps, that he has not reported in person, he is not recognized at all, and his district remains unrepresented. His engagements in this city will probably prevent his going up to Albany for some time. Indeed, it is surmised that he has no idea of going up this session, having no further igtorest in city charters, Tammany republicans or legislative schemes of any sort, Ho simply says to the Senate, “I romain here in New York, and what are you going to do about it?" Mr. James Wood, who received large money favors. from Tweed and. the old Erie Ring while: Senator, and who supported all their measures, “is continued ‘as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Bills were introduced in the Sonate giving power to juries to find a verdict of murder in the second degree on an indictment for murder in the first degree; providing for two terms per month, excepting July and August, for the Court of General Sessions, and that no witness in a criminal case shall be held more than fourteen days in custody, and providing for testimony de bene esse. Senator Tiemann gave notice of his inten. tion to introduce soon his plan for a new city charter, giving the Mayor absolute power over the heads of departments in their ap- pointment and removal respectively. The Board of Aldermen is to be informed of the fact in the case of a removal or appointment; but they are to have no voice in the matter. During the week the House Committees, with the Senate Committee on Cities, will hold a meeting for the purpose of hearing arguments on the various new charters proposed for thia metropolis. We dare say, however, that that of the Republican Central Committee of the city will be adopted substantially by the com- mittees on the subject and by the Legislature, Still, let every reformer who has prepared a new city charter for us go up to Albany and hand it in and expound it to the committees on the subject. In a multitude of counsellora there is wisdom. In the House the standing committees were promptly announced. Mr. Fort, of Oswego, is the Chairman of Ways and Means, and hence the nominal leader of the House, al. though he is not likely to be so practically, Mr. Prince, of Queens, heads the Judiciary. Mr. Pierson, of Albany, has the important po- sition of Chairman of ‘‘Affairs of Cities," and with him are associated Messrs. Patterson, Opdyke, Blumenthal and Deering, of New York; Cocheu and Higgins, of Kings; Al. berger, of Erie, and Gere, of Onondaga. Of the other important committees the chairmen are as follows:—Of Canals, Mr. Batchelder, of Saratoga; of Commerce and Navigation, Mr. Alberger, of Erie; of Railroads, Mr. Hea- cock, of Fulton; of Insurance, Mr. Tobey, of Essex; of Banks, Mr. Burritt, of Monroe; of Federal Relations, Mr. Woerth, of Kings. The selections appear to be good ones; butse they did last year, and yet the session did not justify the great expectations raised at ita opening. Let us hope fora better result this year. The French Parliament and the Presi- dential Power. The sub-committee of the Committee of Thirty, which was recently empowered by the National Assembly of France to report on the constitutional relations and privileges which should exist and be exercised between the Executive Chief and the Parliament and by the two branches of the government towarda each other, has just presented a project of law at Versailles, The plan is simple and likely to be effective. The President may communicate with the Legislature, but by mes- sage only. He may, however, be heard per- sonally, provided he previously announces his intention of exercising the right of speech. The debate will be adjourned after the con- clusion of his address, so that the vote shall not be taken while the Chief of State is in the chamber. A prompt promulgation of all urgent laws, when passed, is insisted upon, and suggestions are made for the drafting of an election and registration law and the defining of the period for the crea- tion of a second chamber of legis. lation. M. Thiers spoke on the subject. He expressed himself suspicious of the in- tent of the checks and balance system, but was, it is apparent, unable to say much in op. position to the planasa whole. This moderate and sensiblo action of the French committee is highly creditable to the democracy of the nation, to their representatives in the Chamber and to their Chief Magistrate. They have eliminated the essentials of a modern Magna Charta—one applicable to the wants of the people of every country in Europe. They have accomplished their work at a very critical moment in the history of their country—a moment when the latest representative of the “gloom of the glory’ of war, which induced their ancestors and themselves to perpetrate so many fatal mistakes in the policy of their country, lies dead in exile in a foreign land. Governor Ociessy’s INAUGURAL ADDBESS on Monday shows him to be in accord with that enlightened public sentiment which demands such law reform as will make intelligent readers of newspapers eligible as jurymen in criminal trials. He also suggests that prices of produce, which in Illinois means wheat, corn and pork, should be subjected to legisla- tive inquiry. As no State can make valid law which will overrale the great trade law of de- mand and supply governing price, it is likely Governor Oglesby will call the attention of the Springfield Solons to plans for cheapening the freight on their breadstuffs and meat ta market—a most sensible subject for their action, and one in which our own State and city are deeply interested. As long as West- ern farmers find corn ears their cheapest fuel there will still be room for improvements in transportation between the regions of the bread-growers and thoue of the bread-caters.