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the purpose if necessary, and leading to a e + dumping place. The Twenty-third and. fifty thousand dollars for its franchise. It would have Deen far more profitable to the city if the com- pany had been bound to keep the street all the time free from obstructions by snow and slush. Such a system adopted with all city 1 taeda tina hae The horse railroads at present seem to, be the only means of transit we are to enjoy for some years. If capitalists will not invest 4n undergrounds and viaducts, and if the city ‘is not to give us rapid transit, the best thing ‘we can do is.to improve our horse railroad travel as much ag. possible; and by the plan we “suggest, of compelling the street railroad com- ‘panies to keep clear the whole streets through which their tracks are allowed to run, we shall obtain the double advantage of regular trips ‘ J i The Pulpit to the Pew. Notwithstanding the disagreeable walking yesterday the clear and beautiful weather voverhead induced many hundreds of persons to attend church who, as they retired on Sat- ‘ urday night, did not design to go. The ser- vices were, therefore, generally well attended and the congregations comparatively large. + Such was the case in Steinway Hall, where ‘Dr. Hepworth preached; in St, Paul’s Metho- . dist Episcopal church, where Dr. Dashiell Aliscoursed ; in the Cathedral dnd other places ~of worship whence our reports come to-day. Ifa man is entangled in a wilderness his “first thought 1s as to the way out, The Israel- ites were in just such a strait as that when . they left Egypt and came to the Red Sen. “The sea was before them and Pharaoh’s host *qwas behind and the wilderness around them, and the question of vital importance to them was how they should escape. Taking their -condition and surroundings asa fair type of the human soul trying to escape from the ‘bondage of the world ond sin, Mr. Hepworth yesterday pointed out ‘the only way out of the wilderness’ to every such soul—namely, through the atonement of «the Lord Jesus Christ. There may be no *pillar of cloud or of fire now to guide and to encourage the faith of the penitent soul. striv- sing after liberty; but there is with us a better ovenant than they had—a covenant of grace *“ordered in all things and sure’’—so that we ‘may walk by faith, and not by sight, as they did. - We have so often heard the “naked truth” described and talked about that doubtless ‘very many have come to think that all truth ds nude. Not so, however. Mr. Frothingham finds that truth is often clothed, as nature is Pften clothed, in garments of richest beauty. Trath in nature is never unadorned. We wake in the morning to see the twigs glittering avith diamonds, . Even where nature has the feast chance, over the roughest rocks she aveaves fibres so fine and delicate that they can pnly be discovered by the finest lens, The naked truth of man 1s, according to -Darwin, that he is the descendant originally of an ape. But the original ape is now so cov- ered up with dress that you cannot see him. Ho- stands now on two feet, up- tight, instead of crouching down. The miser in Paris who hoarded up his money and died Jeaving a fortune to found an orphan asylum presented the naked truth to the world in his niggardliness, but the clothed truth was that he was wrapped about with human sympathy. So also the man who lived a miser in a down- town garret of this city, and died not long ago leaving a chest full of money to the ‘‘So- tiety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.”” Thus can we clothe truth and make it beauti- ful to the world: Anglo-Saxons and Americans are as much given to self-glorification probably as any sther people. They have good reason for it ; but, as Dr. Dashiell showed yesterday, the great dignity and honor of thoso nations and of this generation ,consist in their having the’ financial and religious ability to send the Gospel to the heathen and to be the means in God’s hands of the world’s conversion. And the Doctor believes that this work is to be done very largely by the Methodist Church of the two countries. Hence the faith of the American Methodist Mission- ary Society in appropriating over eight hundred thousand dollars this year for missions and the Doctor’s appeal for increased subscriptions to the Society’s treasury. The condition of the Mexican people and their readiness to receive Protestant Christi- anity and the duty of American Christians to send the Gospel and the missionaries to them, were ably presented last evening in St. Anne’s Protestant Episcopal church by Rev. Henry C. Riley, who has spent years in that country, and has helped to organize over a hundred societies in various parts of that Republic, Yesterday was celebrated in the Catholic churches as the festival of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, and, as such, appropriate sermons were preached. In the Cathedral Father McNamee dwelt particularly on the name ‘Jesus.’’ It is the title of honor of the fon of God. It is the title of His victory—the mame acquired by his blood. It isthe all- ‘comprehensive name of faith, and there should be no heart so cold and frigid that it will not be melted into sorrow and pity by the recol- lection of the love that Jesus bore to mankind. Dr. Henry A. Brann, discoursing upon the “Sectarian Clamor’’ against the Catholic Church, last evening showed that it arose either from prejudice, ignorance ors want of discrimination. Taking each of these causes separately, he further showed that each had a hand in causing and in maintaining this clamor. Dr. Brann’s address was illustrated from history, poetry and the records of daily life in the newspaper press. If we were asked to define the character- istics and to name the form of religion which degerves the name of ‘the ‘religion of humanity” weshould instinctively describe and declare that Christianity is the thing beyond a peradventure. According to Mr. Hume, however, it is quite another and a dif- ferent thing altogether. But as Mr. Hume, in defining his “religion of humanity,”’ left out of view the first and last words of the quotation, . his discourse will probably be acceptable to those who “look with contempt upon the atonement” of Jesus Christ for humanity's sins, and it certainly will not Hurt those who put their trust in the Nazarene for salvation. No man cares to be forced into religion. ‘He would rather enter voluntarily, or not at all. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1878—WITH We who have volunteered have scarcely | other way; but | ‘is, and chow’ | thought that there wag Mr. Beecher shows by Oe’ a ianoae us also the aitferente between forced religion and freereligion. But the freedom of religion ia not the liberty to live and do and say as you please. Love is absolute liberty, and living to please Ged because we love Him, and not because we fear His wrath, is free religion. The opposite can readily be understood by the contrast, “The preciousness of the individual human soul’’—the soul which so many persons in this and other Christian cities and lands count as of very little value—was the theme of Dr. Eddy's discourse yesterday in Brooklyn. The Doctor showed historically and experimentally as well as Scripturally in what estimation human souls are beginning to be held now, and have been held in other ages; and as a part of the cur- rent history of the day he cited the Hzratn's expedition to Africa in proof of the truth that a man had become more precious than fine gold, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Colonel Jonas H. French, of Boston, is at the New York Hotel. General James A. Hall, of Maine, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander W. H.-Downs, of the United States Navy, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Baron Brin, of the French Legation at Washing- ton, js in town at the Albemaile Lotel. Congressman William Wililams, of Buffalo, yes- terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain W, 8. Marshall, of the United States En- gineer Corps, has quarters at tie Hoffman House, Ex-Kevente Commissioner E.H, Rollins, of New Hampshire, yesierday arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. William A. Pile, our Minister to the Republic of Venezuela, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, where he arrived yester jay. Dr. Beke is going to the East, with a view to Bib- lca! explorations. He expects to find “The Mount of God” in the country east of the Gulf of Akaba. Cardinal Cullen, in a recent speech in Dublin, congratulated his hearers on the progress of tie Roman Catholic religion, whose only enemies, he declared, are governments. Father Wolter, one of the Jesuits who were driven out of Germany, is now being sought for by the agents of her government, It wishes to deco- rate him for serviced during the late war, but he won't come out of his retreat. Mr. Gladstone having appointed the Rev. Dr. Wallace to be Professor of burch History in Edin- burgh University, he is now being clamored against for having violated his expressed opinions on ra- tionalism, as Dr. Wallace ts considered to be in 8ym- pathy with the most negative and coioriess the- ology. During the recent tour of His Excellency the Viceroy of India he was attacked with Sind fever, which induced him to give up his intended visit to Jacobabad and hurry on to Sukkur. The gentle- man must have been in poor condition; laid up at Jacobabad, and with Sinned fever! A bad business all round; but it fs to be hoped that he got Succor in the shape of a good doctor. Bradlaugh, the English republican, writing in the Gentlemen's Magazine, denies that he is the chief of the republicans, but confesses “that I have am- bition to rise in the pol'tical strite around me, until I play some small part in the legislative assembly of my country, is true. It live, Iwill; but I desire to climb step by step, resting the ladder by whose rounds [ascend firmly on Parhament-made laws, and avoiding those appeals to force of arms which make victory bloody and disastrous.” WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasmINGTON, Jan. 20—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, ‘The barometer has risen over the Atlantic States with low and falling temperature, winds veering to light and fresh westerly and clear and clearing weather; it has decidedly fallen from Tennessee to the Upper Lakes, Lake Erie and the Northwest, with fresh to brisk and occasionally high southerly to westerly winds, cloudy weather, rising temper- ature and areas of light snow; clear weather has generally prevailed over the Gulf States, with winas veering to easterly and goutherly, falling barometers and rising temperature. Probabitities. For New England clear weather, but winds backing to southerly and westerly on Monday afternoon and night, rising temperaturg, increas- ing cloudiness and probably light snow; for the Middle States falling barometer, rising tempera- ture, fresh and brisk westerly to southerly winds and cloudy weather, with, very proba- bly, snow over the northern portion ; for the South Atlantic States light to fresh westerly to southerly winds, rising temperature and probably increasing cloudiness: from Tennessee te Lake krie and the Upper Lakes rising temperature, fresh and brisk southerly to westerly winds, cloudy weather and snow, ex- cepting possibly light rain from Tenuessee to the southern portion of Ohio, Indiana and lilinois, The midnight telegraphic reports from Canada, the Western Gulf, esota and Dakota have not been received. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following .record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's naimucy, HERALD Building:— 1872, 1873, 1872, 1873. 3 A.M. 30 26 «8:30 P. M.... 23 6A. 29 2 6P. 20 9A, 33 20 OP. 40 18 12 M. 40 22 12P. 42 16 Aver’ mperature yesterday.. coves M1, Average temperature for corresponding date last year... eee BOWLES BROS,’ FAILURE AND JOSEPHINE MANSFIELD. Boston, Mass., Jan. 19, 1873. Josephine Mansfield, through counsel, has at- tached the/property of Nathan Appleton, at New- rt, R. 1, to the amount of $20, for loss of 313,300; which she deposited with Bowles Bros, ast before their failure, A hearing of the case will had in April. * AN IMPERIAL PRESENT. ; A Fort Wayne Priest Receives a Gold and Silver Chalice from Louis Napo- leon, Crxcrnnatt, Ohio, Jan, 19, 1873. A Catholic priest of Fort Wayne, Ind., bas just received as a present from the late Louis Napoleon @ magnificent on jd sliver chalice, to be used in the Cathedral in that city. It is enamelled in four different colors and bears an appropriate inscrip- tion in Latin. An autograph letter accompanied the gitt, The priest was a persona! friend of the ex- Amperor in his early days, HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD, PovanxRerstE, N. ¥., Jan. 19, 1873, ‘The Stockport bridge, on the Hudson River Rajl- road, which was washed away by the freshet, has been replaced, and trains are now running direct to Albany. ILLINOIS. A Railroad Track Laid in » Harry. CAIRO, Jan. 19, 1873, A petition, signed by about two hundred cltt- zens, was presented to the City Council last week praying that the Cairo and Vincennes Railroad be Tesirained from laying their track on Commercial avenue below Twentieth street. The officers of fearing an injunction, at one o'clock this mor commenced to extend their track to Sixth street, finishing the work befure dark this evening. The dis out One MLic. MISSOURI LEGISLATURE, St. Lovrs, Mo., Jan. 19, 1873. The committee appointed to investigate tne charges of corruption and bribery in the late Sena- torial election has been in session in Jefferson City two days. The meetings are secret and nething is madg known regarding the testimony taken. A memorial has passed the Louse asking Con- gress to appropriate sufficient money to remove ail obstructions to the navigs of the Missis- sippi and tributaries, and ly to improve the river between St Louis aud GERMANY, Tho Sraiis gf Potsdam Charoh Decorated with the Captured Flags of France—Emperor Wil- liam’s Thanks to His Triumphal Troops. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS. BeR.in, Jan, 19, 1873, A grand national German display, partaking unitedly of a religious, military and corporate oiti- zen character, was made at Potsdam to-day. Their Majesties Emperor William and the Em- press Augusta, accompanied by the imperial Princes ana the chief Generals of the army, at- tended in the garrison church of the city—one of the most remarkable and celeb:ated buildings in Potsdam—while the walis of the edifice were sol- emnly decorated with eighty-six flags, wiich had been captured from the French during the late war, The scene’was of a very imposing character. Immediately atter the conclusion of the ceremo- Dial His Majesty the Emperor of Germany thanked the army for its heroism, the results of which, he said, were eternally engraved on the tablets of history. CENTRAL ASIA, The Russian Special Mission to the British Court—Imperial Project for an Allied United Advance—The St. Petersburg Plan Rejected at St. James’. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Jan. 19, 1873. The object of M. Schouvalof’s mission from the Russian government to the Court of St. James has been made known. He came to England to obtain the co-operation of the British government in the meusures contemplated by Russia in Central Asia; but Her Majesty’s government reiused to change the attitude taken by the Cabinet and Crown when the first reports of Russid’s intentlons were re- ceived. England’s declaration of her determination to secure Affghanistan against attack if Russia annexed Kniva opened the whoie question of Anglo- Russian relations in Central Asia, . Russia now proposed to England. that they should deal with the Khiva and Affghanistan dif- ficalty as part of the general Central Asian ques- tion, M. Schouvalof was unsuccessful in effecting an arrangement with Her Majesty's government and has returned to St. Petersburg. Anglo-Asiatio Alarm at the Russian March and Its Intent. The important intelligence which is conveyed in our cable despatch trom London relative to the Position which Great Britain is likely to assume towards the Russian imperial armed advance in Central Asia will not take the readers of the HERALD by surprise, We have already supplied evi- dence in these columns in support of the position that Englana’s interests in Affghanistan would not be exactly secure after Khiva and the other Asiatic Knanates had fallen before the northern troops. It a: rs irom Our despatch to-day as if Queen Victoria’s government entertains the same conviction. The mind oi England was not lect unprepared for the news of tie failure of the Russian special mission. A Lope rt journal, writing on the news {rom Central Asia, during the WASH middie oi the month of December last, said:—“We are informed by our corres; ondent at St. Peters- burg that the announcement made by the Russian World tuat the Khivan ex- pedition had met and routed a de- tachment sent to check its advance, and, following in close pursuit, had entered and. plun- dered the capital, is generally accepted in the best iniormed quarters as correct, and that whether the information be correct or not no other termination te the enterprise under Colonel Markosoffis expect- ed in Russia. We may truly add that mo other termination is expected in swgland. The capture of Khiva may be said to have been discounted, ‘The true meaning and significance of the appropria- tion of Khiva is thoroughiy weil known in Russia, as is evideuced by the unusual stir caused by the question. The fact is that the subjugation of that pa at ES really almost the crowning o! the policy whieh for so long @ time been patiently ana steadily pursued, @espite all dificuities, by Kussia. As Step aiter step has been made good the interest in the problem bas becume intensified; and as the hour jor the most important of the concludin; steps arrives the excitement 1s augmented until 1 displays itseli by outward signs. BRITISH COMMERCIAL INTERESTS SLIGHTLY ALARMED, Just previous to the present mission from the Czar to the Cabinet and Court of Victoria, the jour- nals of St. Petersburg and Moscow announced that a commercial treaty had been conciuded between Russia and Yakoob Bek, the Badaulet or Khan of Kashgar. A treaty 0: this kind nad long been de- sired by the goveriment at St. Petersburg, but the Khan always reiused to agree to one of its stipula- tions, which provides for the free transit through his couniry, not ony of Kussian mercoants and caravans, but also of Russian troops. At length a large Kussian force was sent to the frontier, with orders to occupy the country if the Khan persisted in his refusal. This immediately had the desired eifect; Yakoob Bek not only signed the treaty, but sentan envoy to meet the Kussiam Governor Gen- eral at Taschkend. On this occasion Yakoob toid the Russian envoy, Baron Kanbas, that he pre- ferred the iriendship ef “the great Czar to that of England, and that ve had therelore reiused all the offers of tue Queen’s Indian government.” The Russian Governor General, on the other hand, as- sured the Khan's envoy, in the name of the Em- peror, that “the Russians have not come toCentral Asia ior the purpose o1 making conquests, but to lay down a secure basis ior civilization, commerce and freedom.”” MATAMOROS IMPORT DUTIES, New ORLEANS, Jan. 19, 1873, A Matamoros despatch says:—The question of the duties of five per cent on imports into the Zona Libre has been decided in favor of the merchants of this city, and the arbitrary measures taken by Collector Justo -have been severely condemned. It was not the intention of the Minister of Finance to make the collection of the additional duty retro- active. The peeves has been granted merchants to import under the old tariff of 1856 for a period of four months, THE VETERANS OF THE MEXICAN WAR. An Organization Effected—Congre: Be Asked for Pensio PrttssuR6, Pa., Jan, 19, 1873. At a meeting of the Veterans of the Mexican War last evening, permanent organization was effected and steps taken to secure the co-operation of survivors elsewhere in the movement to present their claims to Congress for pensions. It is under stvod that General Negley has signified his willing- ness to bring the claims of the Veterans before Congress, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT PARKER'S LAND- rf ING. PA, Stores, Hotels and Offices Consumed— Loss $75,000 to $100,000. Prirrssura, Pa., Jan, 19, 1873. A destructive conflagration occurred at Parker's Landing, Pa., this aiternoon. The fire originated at four o'clock in the Opera House Saloon, and the flames spread with such rapidity that all efforts to subdue them were for a while wnavailimg. The following buildings, with their contents, were destroyed: —Wallace House, Oil Exchunge Hotel, ily Transcript, Union House, Greeley House, Spencer’s Opera House, Chaifant & Graff's hard- ware store, A number of other business houses and Syens-Sye or thirty dwellings were also con- sumed, The loss is estimated at from $75,000 to $100,000, with but little insurance. At mine o'clock the fire was got under control, and no further dan- ger is apprehended, FIRE IN TOLEDO, Saw and Planing Mills Destroyed—Loss $30,000. TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1873. The saw and planing mills of the Mitchell and Rowland Lumber Company were destroyed by fire this afternoon, A large quantity of lumber, both Tough and “ressed, was consumed. The 108s is estl- mated at from twenty-five thousand dollars to thirty thousand doliars, which 1s covered by insur- ance about equally divided between Cincinnati and Eastern companies, LARGE FIRE IN PROVIDENCE. A Block of B Destroyed—Loss $22,000. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Jan. 19, 1873, A fire in Pawtucket this morning destroyed Miller's block and did considerable damage to the adjoining block, owned by G. L. Spencer. Amon the losers are &, Fifleld & Co., $5,000, insureds H. 3,000, partially insured; J. L. Anderson 1,000 in the Firt Na- HL. Sager, & Co., $1,800, insured tor tional, of Worcester; H. porsey, $6,000, imsured; the heirs of Joseph Mille 4,000, Uninsuted; G. L. «| Suencer. $2,000, Total loss about $22,000, I nem in meen GTON. General Sickles on the Zor- rilla Ministry. TWO SYNDICATES JN THE FINANCIAL FIELD. The Cotton Tax Refunding Bill and the hobby. CAUCUS OF SOUTHERN CONGRESSMEN. Refusal of the Ways and Means Committee to Favor the Job. The Postal Telegraph Bill .and Its Enemies. Phelps, Dodge & Co. Not To Be Prosecuted—New Regulations for Collectors of Customs— The South Carolina Congres- sional Election Case. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 1873, Minister Sickles and the Spanish Gov- ernment—Sharp Comments pn the Zorrilla Cabinet. General Sickles does not appear to have had, from the very commencement of the existence of the Zorrilla Ministry, @ conviction that it could prove itself equal to the emergency. On the day aiter the Cabinet crisis Gencral Sickles wrote thus to the Secretary of State:— Itremains to be seen whether the radical Minis- try, summoned at the eleventh hour to the coun- cils of the King, can deal with a situation so grave, and for which they need not only statesmen, but Military talent of no common order. ‘he main current of public opinion runs im their favor. The aga of the crown is once more on their side.. ‘hey lose no time 1n taking advantage 01 an oppor- tunity afforded by the resignation of nearly all the incumbents 01 the principal oitices to fli up the vacant places. witn their partisans, thus securing the large and rotitavle patroneee of the Spanish government. ‘ney promise through their newspaper organs to put in operation at once a serics of reforms, em- racing & large reduction of expenditures, the sup- pression of useless oitices, the separation of Church and state, the abolition of conscription for the Tegular army, trial by jury, te emancipation of slavery and the extension ‘of the Spanish constitu- tion to the colonies. Whether these promises will be kept; whether, if fulfilled, the resistance sucha development oi the programme of tie revolution 1 1868 must encounter will be overcome by the support it should bring to the party that has the courage and the constancy to undertake it in earnest, | shall not venture to predict. In later despatches Mr. Sickles expresses himself more favorably concerning Zorrilla and his radical associates, but it is evident that he does not re- gard them as possessing the highest degree of firmness and moral courage. To shield them in theirfear of offending the known Castilian pride General Sickless doubtless contented himself with reading to the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs the long despatches of Secretary Fish on Cuban affairs, and did not officially, communicate a copy. But should not this have been stated when the despatch was made public ? Two Syndicates Offering for the Loan— Nothing to be Done Until the Commit- tee of Ways and Means Render a De- cision. The propositions made to Secretary Boutwell yes- terday were from two distinct Syndicates—one by L. P. Morton, representing Morton, Bliss & Co., and Drexel, Morgan & Oo., of New Yerk; Baring Bros, & Co., J. 8. Morgan & Co., and Morton, Rose &Co., of London, for either $100,000,000 or all of the remaining $200,000,000 of five per cent bonds, The other proposition was by Jay Cooke & Co., who are reported to be associated with the Rothschilds, for $100,000,000, The Secretary reserved a definite decision until after a meeting of the Ways and Means. Committee, called for Tuesday next, when the subject will come up for final actions secre- tary Boutwell says that he is not willing to place more than $100,000,000 at a time. The Cotton Tax Refunding Bill to be Pressed=A Combination to Rob ‘the Treasury of Sixty-cight Millions. The Southern members of Congress held a caucus yesterday to take into consideration the scheme for refunding the cotton tax. Thirty members were present, and it was proposed to have con- certed action on the measure whenever the Com- mittee on Ways and Means could be induced to lend a favorable ear. On Tuesday next the com. mittee has agreed to hear arguments in favor of refunding. The Secretary of the Treasury is opposed to it, but notwithstanding the op. position the lobby is confident of carry- ing it through, One of the leading demo- cratic members characterizes this job as the most stupendous attempt at highway robbery ever recorded, The career of Turpin and Mike Martin is honorable compared with this project to rob the Treasury, for out of this $68,000,000 claimed not one-twentieth will ever reach the planters. The question now is, not whether the tax was consti- tutional or not, but whether the Treasury shall be robbed of sixty odd millions fer the benefit of a horde of lobbyists, speculators and unprincipled cotton factors, It is claimed that the people of the United States, as consumers, paid this tax, and that Congress has no right at this time to defraud the Treasury of any portien of the amount claimed. ‘The billfor refunding this tax is pending before the Ways and Means Committee, and will be ad- versely reported. The members say they will do all in their power to defeat it. Phelps, Dodge & Co. Not To Be Prose- cuted=New Regulations tor Collectors and Consuls, The papers in the case of Phelps, Dodge & Co. are still before the Solicitor of the Treasury, and will not be acted upon for several days, The opinion expressed at the Treasury Department is that there will be no prosecution, the government asking only the amount claimed to be due. Secretary Boutwell will issue revised regulations for the guidance of collectors of customs, and our Consuls will be instructed to have a special care in reporting the ruling prices of all the goods exported from the countries in which tney are located, Activity of the Lobby in Pressing Schemes ef Plunder. “Now or never” is the motto of the hungry horde of lobbyists who are swarming in the lobbies of the Capitol and at the hotels. Claims for extra pay for building war steamers, land-grab- bing railroad schemes, subsidies for rotten steamers on the Pacific, renewals oi expired patents, per- sonal war claims, and @ hundred more little demands on the Treasury are being presented and pushed by crafty men and unscrupulous women, The Postal Telegraph and the Compa- ies—mFransancisco Newspapers to be Panished. ‘The advocates of the postal telegraph assert that the argument pon that question which were so generously furnished the public present’ no new points for disgussion, and only perpetuate tne errors wilfally put forth by the friends of the tele- graph lobby im its previous stgtements. A pre- cisely similar: argument, every senvence of which has been fully refuted by the testimony of experts or by the contradictory statements of the compa- nies’ own officers, was made here four years ago and telegraphed all over the country. It is stated that Mr. David A. Wells, who is under- stood to have received @ heavy fee for that part of the argument appearing over his! sig- nature, admits that his figures are furnished en- tirely in the interest of the telegraph company, and disclaims all responsibility for their accuracy. The report of the late proceedings before the Appro- priation Committee is unautvorized and incorrect, especially with regard to the statements of Mr. Lines, the Postmaster General's secretary, which have been published here in full, and which convict certain telegraph oflic.als of the grossest blunders UPPLEMEN’ id misstatements. Informatica: | meen eenewwes mms DOOM Feceived | ox, nev that the movement of ti San Francisco mér- Chants and newspapers in favor @f % posta! tele graph ig about to be rebuked by an advance of tele- graph rates, st least for press despatches. This course, it may be remembered, was pursued in 1868 towards the San Ffancisco Herald, whose rates Were advanced 400 per cent, resulting in the ruin of that paper. The postal telegraph will come up in the Senate this week, and will occupy two or three days in the discussion of its claims. Tree and Forest Culture in Sweden—A ©. C, Andrews, our Minister at Stockholm, is evi- dently a man of practical good sense, and while other diplomatic representatives send long de- spatches about courtly ceremoniais and intrigues, he has forwarded to Secretary Fish a long and valuable report on the tree and forest cul- ture in Sweden. It comprises a practical description of the manner of growing and the economical management and use of forests, a8 well as atransiation of some of the principal laws on the administration, care and preservation of public forests, Just now, when the planting of forests on the prairies and the preservation of what timber has escaped the woodman’s axe isa subject of great interest, this report will be of immense value. If Seoretary Fish Wants to go out with fying colors next Summer be will at once order other foreign Ministers to cease intriguing and foliow Andrews’ example in obtain. ing information of practical value. Rejected Statesmen from South Carolina, The report of the Committee on Elections in the case of Ouristopher C. Bowen, contesting the seat of Rebert C. Delarge, from the Second QOon- gresstonat district of South Carolina, says the com- mittee find, upon the whole evidenee, that neituer Delarge nor bowen is entitled to the seat. No Apprehensi: of a Freshet at Har- per’s Ferry. The Signal Bureau reports that the apprehended danger of a freshet at Harper's Ferry has passed, as the Potomac River 1s {alling and ireezing weather is coming on. Plans for Lite-Saving Apparatus, The Supervising, Inspectors of Steamboats in session here have received a number of plans for We-saving apparatus of various character, which have been appropriately referred to committecs, WASHINGTON ELITE. A. Week’s Record of Events in Fashion- able Soclety—Big Wigs of the Law as Bon Ton—Liquid Ballast at the Navy Yard—Select and Succulent Suppers in Genteel Georgetown—Female Lobbyists Coddiing for Votes—Satusday Recep- tions at the White House. WASHINGTON; Jan. 18, 1873, ‘The gay season {s here at last, and a revue de la semaine now drawing to a close shows that there has been an abundance of “receptions,” to which all who want to be invited to gay and festive enter- talnments to come have industriously repaired, leaving their pasteboard reminders in the hails, The going through a bushel, more or less, of these cards is a perplexing task, and itis then equally difficult to select from those of persons known to be in society a list for invitations. The week’s re- ceptions begin: with those of the wives and daugh- ters of that ponderous body, THE SUPREME COURT, which puts on great social airs and claims: “pre- cedence’’ on all, occasions, The Chief Justice is domiciled this Winter at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Sprague, and Justices Clifford, Swayne, Miller, Field, Strong and Bradley, are each accompanied. here by their wives, daughters or other ladies, Capitol Hill is the favorite camp- ing ground of these judicial braves, whose better halves are ‘at home’? on Mondays, dedicated in other households to the week’s wash. Those who make these solemn calls, at which Cushing, Evarts, Carlile, Pashal and other black-coated disciples of Blackstone appear like undertakers’ men, go aiter- ward to the Navy Yard and to the marine Var- racks, where the defenders of THE RED, WHITE AND BLUR get up little dances and trot out excellent Madeira, which never paid duty, having been brought home as “ballast.” Pay Director Cunningham, who is everybody's friend, is now the directing genius of nautical festivities, while the gallant Goldsborough does all in his power to sustain the reputation of the anchor buttons for hospitality. The next day of the week is devoted to visiting away over in Georgetown, where Governor Coeke, General Dent, Admiral Radford, Major Poore and a lot of other people, whose houses are pleasant wien you once get there, will persist in living. Then there are the old remnants of the first families of Virginia and Maryland, who live in mouldy looking houses and lament the loss of their colored chattels, but whose suppers are hard to beat even by the caterers of Washington. Such hams! such oysters! such can- yas-back ducks! and such turkeys! Why, Soyer or Dr. Kitchener could not have equalled the George- town cookery, seasoned as itis with growls about the Yankees, Who are actually grading and paving the streets of tiie old. forough, THE CABINET LADIES, as they like to call themselves, are at home: on Wednesdays, when they have the services of the department messengers to open their doors and to announce visitors. Nowadays these messengers are‘ail of the African persuasion, but in ante-beLum times they were of the Celtic race, and one of them, who prided: himself on his c matical knowledge, on being told to announce Se Foote and the Misses Foote, roared out, ‘Senator Foote and the Misses Feet !’? Mrs. Fish is stately and condescend- ing, Mrs. Williams chatty and cordial, Mrs. Bout- weilis cold and cautious, Mrs. Creswell is an in- valid, Mrs. Delano is away, leaving her daughter to receive in her stead, and Mrs. Robeson has not yet leit the nursery, where that blessed baby reigns. Mrs. Speaker Blaine also receives on “Cabinet Ladies’ Day,” and she is soon to have with her that pungent personage, Miss Nabby Dodge, better known as Gail Hamilton. THE CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTIONS are held on Peeraseye. Mra. Senator Stewart's are the most elegant, as she has just returned from a five years’ residence in Europe, where her daughter, who is just out, has been educated. Mrs. Cole, of Calltornia, attracts the Pacific Coast eople, while the belles of Ohio cluster at Mrs. hurman’s; and Mrs. Hamilton has always at her side some’ of the famed Baltimore beauties. Mrs. Fenton has had to go to Florida, but Mrs, Conkling receives callers and congratulations, aided by her charming daughter. ‘The three Miss Frelinghuysens make the home’Of the Senator from New Jersey attractive, and no lady is better versed in the art of receiving and entertaining guests than Mrs, John Logan, whose littie child, by the way, is becoming quite a noted amateur performer. Vermont hospitality is to be found atthe houses ot Senators Morrill and Edmunds, while Mrs, Banks, with. her stylish daugater Maud, attracts the attachés to the parlor of Willard’s, where they are for the Winter. These Congressional receptions are always attended by THE FEMALE LOBBY of character, who think that by “ploughing with the hellers”’ they can control the votes of the Samp- sons at the Capitol. It is amusing to see one of these artiul dodgers purring around the wife of a Senator or Representative, and talking tashions or religion, or politics or literature, a6 the. most ac- ceptable topics. Some of them are ‘connected with the press,” and give Flowing descriptions of millinery and mantua-making, in return for which there will be a plaintive appeal THe a 00d husband’s vote on that small amend: While thia eminently geo class of lobbyists is m capital with the wives and dau of Congressmen at their houses another division of the grand army, much handsomer, but with no re- putations to lose, are invading committee roems and ingratiating themselves with the husbands. Eh bien! The reco! angel has no jurisdiction over this District, and M. C.’s enjoy other privileges besides that of fran 7 ae Coen Fae or musty garden seeds, up by Wat name, ‘There is a Congressional demt-monde here, and it is no secret who keeps the fair members thereof in place at the departments, receiving in retarn such services as copying speeches or directing weather ag Leaving these domestic affairs we pass on OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS, which can but be harmonious while sach entertain- ments are given by the Secretary of State as that of Friday night of x, When the Governor Morgan house, which he occuptes, was th: ene of genuine Knickerbocker hospitailty. The visit of the President and his family, with the best dancers of the beau monde, to Annapolis, where the middies had their annual ball, deprived the gay scene of this attraction, but the Vice President jelect was there, and evidently felt that he made up the de- ficiency. Mrs. Fish isa stately dame, who would appear to advantage among the pecresses of Queen Viecoria's Gourt, aud who was on this occasion be- comingly arrayed in a tavender silk dress, trimmed with white point applique lace. At her side stood her ‘anughter, Mrs. Rolonel Benjamin, who is fast at- taining the matronly proportions of her mother, ra. Bancroft Davis, the wife of “the dog ‘a Conference. Of , witha lew army men in their new uniforms and a (ew navy men looking curiously at them. Congressmen were abundant, and one from the Far West was so de- Mehted that on taking bis leave alter supper be 5 imed, “This is all frst rate, Mr.) Secretary, and auch @ Fish ag you ain't no ” The Secretary smiled grimly, but saw nothing te Taugh at, THE SATURDAY BRCEPTIONS | are at the White House, where Mrs. Grant and her Gavzhter receive irom three-until 1ve tapos and the gathering of those wujours jdve oa at the ouse of Mrs. Carlisle, whose first fought and fell in defence of southern riguta. And so endeth the week. SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC. Alarming Increase of the Loathsome Dis ease im Boston—Over ‘Fhree Thousand Cases in the City—The Hospitals Crowded With Patients and the Death Rate Heavy—Judge Colt Down With the Disease. Bostoy, Jan, 19, 1873. The smallpox epidemic in Boston and vicinity ig beginning to create grave apprehensions among the people of all classes. For months the discase has been on the increase, and the feeble efforts of the autuorities to prevent tts spread have amounted to nothing. The new eity government has grappled with it with an apparent determina, tion to check its progress, but tho disease bas ob- tained such a firm toothold that it will bes long time before it can be wholly eradicated. It is probably no exaggeration to say that 3,000 cases now exist in this city, and the per centuge of deaths is much larger thas by ali other causes combined. Nearly al the burlale are made in the night, and from midmyght until daylight there are very busy times m the various: cemeteries surtounding the city. Two fespitale have been es‘ablisued for the treatment of Boston patients, and within two days after ti ready they were filled to their iuil pits 2 ‘a8 yet there are acconmodutions tor only a ir: O1 the cases now existing and rapidly multip! ‘The authorities, of courso, endeavor to the real state of affairs, and, until a@ day or two, they have partially suo eceded. The alarm now, however, is becoming general, and @ great many families whose means ailow it have removed irom the city. There is probably not @ single hotelot any ciass in the who.e city but has had its quota of cases, bat: of course the patients have in every ivstunve been prombey removed, and thereiore ne deaths have occurred in the padlic houses. Ouly last night Judge Colt, of the stpreme Vudielal Court, was taken witu the disease, and at midnight was takom from his hotel to one 01 the hospitals in the High- land district, His condition to-night is very critl- cal, And it is provable he cannot recover. The ept- demic has already vegzun to alfect business, and its damage to the commercial interests of the ct aier ise8 to be scarcely less than that-oecasto: yy the November tire. Of the suburban cities most aflicted Chariestown is the most prominent, 4 VEXATIOUS SUIL SELTLED. — HARtrorD, Conn, Jan. 19; 1873, The suit of David Clark, of thas city, against the Rev. Dr. Scudder, presiling elderin the Methodist Church for the East New York district, and involv- ing the ownership of a cottage at. 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