The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1873, Page 6

6 'INEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘Volume XXXVIII... No. 21 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, N SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between ruucath sor Fourteenth iséetnonhvmneeey. Count. WALLACK’S THEATRE, broadway ‘and Thirteenth street.—buoTmen Sam. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Avenue.—Buvutvs; o8, Tax Faun or Tarquin, THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Kzxo np Loro. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets ALHAMBRA. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Stasuer anp Caasnzn Tux Tweive TEMPTATIONS, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: Wi Cat. Atternoon and Ev ABW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- way.—AUxE, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth av.—Cararact oF THx GANGES. ATAHENEUM, No. 685 Broadway.—Gnanv Vanrerr En- ‘(GERTAINMENT. * rand ‘Thirtleth st— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston streets.—Lxo axp Lotos. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ‘ev.—OnmRIstIANE. is MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— (Time any tax Hovr—Ginarpa. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. -eorner ‘ib av.—Nxono Minsraxisy, Eccenteicity, &c. \_ TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Uno. Anrosy. Matinee at 2, BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28t} st. and »Broadway.—Etuioriax MinstREtsy, £0. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th ay.—Lzo- yuns on Rosent Burns. COOPER UNION WALL.—Lxcrvuns, “Tar Brau ann Seon Paxsent S01mntiric Asrect or Pukxno.ocr.” > -NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— | €crzNcy AnD Art. TRIPLE SHEET, ———————eeeeee New York, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1873. CT pe ee enernemnnnee arenes sommes ‘HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘Ko-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “FRAUD AND CORRUPTION FROM A PARTY STANDPOINT! THE USEFULNESS OF AN INDEPENDENT PRESS"—LEADER—SIxTH Paar, (THE VILLANY OF IT! THE TESTIMONY GIVEN AND TO BE HAD IN THE CREDIT MO- BILIER FRAUDS! THE MODERN URIAH HEEP VISITS DR. DURANT—FourtH Paqs. IGHTING IN A FOG! MODOC BRAVES UNDER CAPTAIN JACK DEFEAT DOUBLE THEIR NUMBER OF THE TROOPS SENT AGAINST ‘ THEM! A FIERCE BATTLE! FORTY SOL- DIERS HORS DE COMBAT—SgvenTu PaGE. PRINTER SHOT BY A GAMBLER! A MADI- 80N STREET BOARDING HOUSE TRAGEDY! HISTORY OF THE ORIME FROM ITS IN- CEPTION—SgwENTH Pags. WIRE IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 2! NARROW ESCAPE FROM ANOTHER HOLOCAUST! A DANGEROUS BUILDING! HALF AN HOUR LATER, AND TWO HUNDRED ‘AND FIFTY ' INNOCENTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAURI- FICED—FourtTH PacE. \A TERRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE OIL REGIONS! THE TOWN OF PARKER’S LANDING ALMOST CONSUMED! A HUN- DRED FAMILIES WITHOUT HOMES! HEAVY LOSS—SEVENTH PaGE. EWARDING A SUCCESSFUL CUBAN! TESTI- MONIAL TO GENEKAL AGUERO BY THE CUBANS RESIDENT IN KEY WEST! THE HERALD THANKED—SEVENTH PAGE. EUROPE BY CABLE: THE RUSSO-BRITISH IMBROGLIO! PUBLIC.” EDUCATION IN FRANCE! THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT AND THE EMIGRATION SWINDLES—Sgy- ENTH PAGE. WAKES AMES PROMISES A SENSATION IN ’ CREDIT MOBILIER! THE BANKRUPTCY ACI REVOKED! SPANISH SLAVERY! MR, SICKLES’ MEMORANDUM! ANOTHER SUIT AGAINST EBIE—TuHIRD PAGE. ANVESTIGATING THE CALDWELL CORRUPTION— THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES—CONGRES- SIONAL DOINGS—Tuirp Pace. (HE DISASTERS BY FLOODS AND FXESHETS THROUGEOUT THE UNION—LATE NEWS TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH PAGE. #70E AMUSEMENT FEATURES—OBITUARY— MARITIME NEWS—TENTH PacE. WELAYING SPANISH REFORMS IN PORTO RICO— HEAVY RAINS IN CUBA—SEVENTH PGE. THE FRENCH PILOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LOS3 OF THE STEAMSHIP GERMANY— ; HONORS TO THE MEMORY OF NAPOLEON II].—SEVENTH PAGE. JBECRETS OF A SENSATION! A PLAY THAT F NEITHER THE JESUITS NOR THE REDEMP- TORIST FATHERS ESTOPPED! A SHABBY ADVERTISING DODGE—TentH Pacr, §ARRIVAL OF AN MINISTER TO THE ‘ COURT OF ST. JAMES! ENGLAND AND THE EUROPEAN PRESS FAVOR FREE QUBA! PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE MINIS- TER—Fovrtn Pace. {LOCAL WAR UPON KING ALCOHOL! ATTEMPTED PROHIBITION BY LEGISLATIVE MEAS- URES! WHAT HAS BEEN DONE HERE- ‘ TOFORE! GROWTH OF THE TASTE FOR AND TRAFFIC IN BEER—E1cHTH Pace. JFIRE PRECAUTION! THE RESULTS OF YESTER- DAY'S INSPECTIONS BY THE BUREAU OF COMBUSTIBLES AND THE FIRE DEPART- MENT—EionTH Pace. jANDREW J. GARVEY TELLS A LONG STORY ABOUT HIS PLASTERING FOR TWEED! WHAT CAME OF IT! THE JUMEL AND OTHER LITIGATIONS—MUNICIPAL—Firra PaaE. x wA MYSTERY OF BLOOD! A DYING MAN FOUND IN JERSEY CITY—HOW MRS. SHEFFLIN WAS KILLED—EicntTu Pag. GOLD AND STOCKS ADVANCING! A NEW ISSUE OF WABASH! MONEY ACTIVE! THR LON- DON MARKETS DISTURBED BY FEARS OF ANGLO-RUSSIAN TROUBLES—Ninto Pacs. A LIVELY CORPSE! BOYD'S BOGUS ASSASSI- NATION! TOURING “UNDER AN ALIAS! RECOVERED UNDER THE EXTRADITION TREATY — SMALLPOX CAUGHT — Nina Pace, ‘Tae Rvussun Apvance Acamns? Karva has, ‘we are told from Calcutta, completely failed, seed of a severe and bloody defeat troops of the Czar by the U; le, ‘allies of the Khan. . =— ——_____.. 4 ‘Tam Nationa Assempzy oy France debated 8 peg of public education and the man- of the common schools during the Bitting at Versailles yesterday, The discus- ‘Bion ‘was warm and tended to excitement in fhe Parliament. The members of the Right {and the representatives of the clerical party ‘nasailed the position and policy of the govern- ‘ment with rogard to this important branch of the public service, but they wore unable to jmake any damaging impression against the arguments of M. Jules Simon, Minister of JP ablic Instruction, and his friends. . .cepting from him NW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, Fraud end Corruption’ from a Party Standpoint—The Usctulness of an In- @ependent Press. The recent dovelopments of official cor- ruption at Washington have brought into Prominence the singular plasticity of tho Political conscience in regard to violations of public trusts, The partisan and the partisan Organ can discover fraud in a political opponent with astonishing facility ; but their scuteness in that case does not exceed their obtuseness when their attention happens to be called to malefeasance on the part of their party friends. During the reign of the Twoed Tammanyites in this city and occasionally in the State we were accustomed constantly to hear ‘eloquent democratic denunciations of the official dishonesty of the republican national administration, and we were taught to believe that in the republican ranks was to be found all the rascality that ever disgraced @ profligate government. Everybody remem- bers tho zeal with which the virtuous democ- racy hunted up and exposed the notorious revenue frauds, when millions upon millions were stolen from the government, and when the Baileys of the whiskey ring—the “Old Baileys’ they might hava, been appropriately called—were lording it over the Internal Reve- nue Department. At that time few, if any, re- publican organs could discover any irregu- larity in the conduct of their friends in office, and their voices were silent on the subject of the wholesale plunder, unless when the flight of some over-gorged robber compelled them tospeak. Atthe turn of the tide, when, through a quarrel among themselves, the boldness and magnificence of the Tammany thieves burst upon the astonished world, the republicans were rampant over the disclosures, and from the tone of their organs it would have seemed that up to that period official robbery had been a crime unknown. The democrats were as slow to discover the criminality of the New York ring as the republicans had been to de- tect the guilt of the whiskey ring, and if many of the leading democratic politicians subse- quently made up their minds to run with the crowd, and actually led the chase after the Tammany plunderers, it is a noteworthy fact that these honest members of the party were in all cases leaders who had been snubbed or ignored by the deposed magnates. ‘i We are now in the midst of startling devel- opments implicating members of both politi- cal parties, but especially the most shining lights of the republican household, in offences as gross and more dangerous to the Common- wealth than those for which the Tammany corruptionists have suffered dethronementand disgrace, and for which they have still to an- swer atthe bar of justice. But although little more than a year has passed since the whole country rung with denunciation of the acta of Tweed, Ingersoll and Garvey, very little in- terest is manifested in disclosures which show that’ the fountain-head of our republican in- stitutions, the Congress of the United States, is foul with jobbery and corruption. Senators and Representatives are shown to have hung around an agent of the Union Pacific Railroad and Crédit Mobilier rings, seeking informa- tion as to how they could invest money, ac- stock at a fourth or fifth part of its value—sometimes borrowing of him the money with which to pretend to pay for the shares “placed” to them; and the people are asked to believe that these hungry, purchasable legis- lators were ofily engaged in an ordinary busi- ness transaction. Senatorsand Representatives are proved to have consummated their bargains with the Crédit Mobilier lobbyist under the mask of their wives or sons-in-faw, and to have run like frightened sheep to get rid of the stock as soon as it became evident that expo- sure was inevitable; and yet the people are asked to believe that these dodging, skulking operators never dreamed that they were com- mitting an improper or illegitimate act when they accepted the pecuniary favors of the shiny Ames, Some of the tainted legislators‘ come boldly forward and justify their specula- tions in the Crédit Mobilier stock, declaring that they had as much right to become pur- chasers of shares in that corporation and voting upon legislation in regard to it as they have to buy sheep and vote on the tariff on wool, and their party organs approve their position or quietly pass it over as reasonable enough to satisfy the public. Oakes Ames, the serpent in the Congressional Eden, avows that he had no idea of ‘‘influenc- ing’”’ the votes of members when he ‘‘placed”’ his valuable stock where it would do the most good ; the Congressmen who have made their written confessions {6 the committee are emphatic in their declarations that Oakes Ames never sought an equivalent for the pecu- niary favors he showered upon them; and tho party organs accept this evidence as conclusive proof that the transactions were innocent ones and that no corrupt bargain was made between the liberal lobbyist and the benefited Con- gressmen.' But nothing is said of the necessity of stopping the mouths and shutting the eyes of the Senate and House of Representatives to the fraud of the Crédit Mobilier and to the swindling of the government in the Union Pacific Railroad business, and the shrewd inquiry of Oakes Ames when a resolution of inquiry received a parliamentary smothering, whether the investment in the Speaker of the House did not pay, is passed over by the party in silence, ‘e remember to have heard 4 great and just outcry against the Tammany Ring and the Erie Ring for their notorious interference with legislation and for the bribes with which, both before and after elections, they were accus- tomed to purchase legislators. It is now ahown that a democratic President of the“Union Pacific Railroad and a director of the Crédit Mobilier paid ten thousand dollars to Senator “Harlan, a republican, while he was a candidate for United States Senator, and all we hear from the party organs is that this is not cor- ruption and cannot be taken as evidence of improper conduct against Senator Harlan, be- cause it occurred prior to his election. In the oase of Senator Caldwell, the evidence that he purchased his seat in the United States Senate by a free and unscrupulous use of money is conclusive. Thero is something revolting in the coarseness with which the bribery and cor- ruption were conducted. The bargains for «votes and influence were made with as little delicacy and as little attempt at contealment as would be displayed by two Western drovers haggling over so many head of cattle. Yet the party papers can discover no \ offensiveness in the transaction, and are only calculating upon the political effect that would follow the expulsion of Caldwell ‘from a body | Congress Misgellancons Proceedings two-thirds of whoso members owe their posi- tions to the same influences that were used to seoure the success of this Kansas Senator. Tho usefulness of the independent preas has never been more conspicuously shown than during the progress of these Washington in- vestigations. Congressional corruption is the most dangerous evil with which the nation is called &pon to struggle, and but for the inde- pendent press there would have been no expo- sure of this Crédit Mobilier business and no warning for speculative legislators in the fature. There is no doubt that every Senator and Representative who soiled his hands with Oakes Ames’ bribes did so with a cor- rupt motive in his heart, The attempts to evade discovery; the frightened sur- rendering of the stook when expo- sure was threatened; the first broad denial of the story and tho subsequently care- fully-prepared confessions; the unaccountable lack of memory evinced by every person im- plicated on all matters connected with the transactions, are one and all an acknowledg- ment of guilt, The Beraup, as @ newspaper for the people, caring nothing for parties or facts before the world in their true light, re- gardless who might be implicated in the offence. We are equally indifferent whether the principal offender bea democrat ora re- ‘publican, a liberal or a radical. They are all alike corruptionists, and as such we hold them up to publio odium. It is probable that be- fore the next election the people will forget these disclosures and exposures, and neglect to place upon the guilty parties the brand of condemnation; but nevertheless we have a duty to perform which cannot be evaded, and we shall continue to expose official turpitude wherever wé may discover its existonce—in the highest or the lowest, without regard to par- ties, cliques or factions. Defeat of the Troops ‘by the Modoo Indians. The Modoc war is again teaching us that when the Indian expects to die he will die game. Tho telegraphic accounts from the Pacific coast give us the outlines of a battle fought on Friday last between the troops and the Indians on the shore of Tule Lake, in Oregon, which ended certainly in the defeat of the civilized combatants. Captain Jack, the Modoc Chief, appears to have simply posted his two hundred men behind rocks along a line two miles in length and awaited attack. The position must have been singularly well ehosen, for, although the troops outnumbered the ambuscaded Indians two to one, they were repulsed with severe loss, Whatever plan the leaders of the troops had agreed on, it seems to have been very imperfectly carried out, as we learn that in consequence of Captain Bernard, who commanded one detachment, having prematarely given battle, General Wheaton ‘had no alternative but to move to the aid of Captain Bernard without the fire of the howitzers." The troops fought an in- visible foe from eight o'clock in the morning until dark under a terrific fire. It is evident that, from the broken nature of the ground among the lava beds, the troops could not advance with any rapidity, and the folly of exposing and wasting valuable life throughout an entire day, without any prospect of success, seems at present a most reprehensible blunder. If the movement was a reconnoissance in force it was vory clumsily executed. It is now an- nounced that it will require a force of one thousand men to dislodge the Modocs from their strong position, and that the operations until reinforcements arrive will be confined to beleaguering Captain Jack. There should be no delay in sending for- ward sufficient troops to make the reduction of this band certain. A loss of forty in killed and wounded, including two officers of the regular army, is a high price to pay for such a barren result, and we hope to hear of no more such experimenting. In the present state of Indian affairs we cannot afford to allow the bad Indians to score a victory against the gov- ernment. The peace policy humanitarians may be expected to emit a series of bowls at the advisability of this course. They gen- erally do on such occasions, and this one is too good to be passed by. Tho extermination of Captain Jack and his band is a disagreea- ble necessity. It will stand as a warning to other tribes who wish to follow in the foot- steps of the Modocs. It is cheaper to feed than to fight them, say the peaco policy men. Granted. But when the Indian gets it into his egotistical head that he can command regular rations, as well as full opportunity for bloodshed, it will require a larger expenditure still to keep him quiet. What the peace policy people forget is that a red man should be punished for murder just as much as a white man, and that in the strong arm continuously keeping him in subjection lies the only chance of the good nurses to spoon-feed him with their philanthropic pap. The defeat of last Friday makes it imperative on the government to teach all the savages a lesson through their Modoc brethren. The New City *Charters=Tactics of the Opposition, In view of thé sweeping changes proposed by the various charter amendments urged upon the Legislature it need excite no wonder that théy meet strenuous opposition from the friends of the threatened officials, Our representa- tives at Albany owe it to themselves as well ag their constituents to study patiently, weigh impartially and decide prudently upon the several projects for the administration of this city, which pays nearly half the taxes of the State. It is not certain that every change would be reform. No one should be adopted without full discussion. We are told large lobby deputations, representing the several city departments and commissions, are at work for the retention of the several organizations, Be- tween them they would probably be glad to compromise, by killing all legislation for the city. This its urgemt wants forbid. Various sections of the municipal machine now work at cross purposes, thwarting, complicating and retarding public bustness of great and pressing importance. Let the Legislature clearly define the powers and duties of each city officer and department, and so frame a new charter that every branch of the Corporation shall work in harmony. No other mattor more justly needs legislative action, and it is most carnestly to be hoped that this duty may be promptly and honestly discharged, 1 First Gum On the Grand Scheme of Trans-Alloghany and Seaboard Canals, The proceedings in the Senate yesterday were opened by a petition from Wendell Phil- lips and others ‘for a prohibitory liquor law. Having exhausted the nogro question Mr, Phillips has gone into woman's rights, labor reform and temperance; but in asking for a prohibitory liquor law from Congress he is somewhat wide of the mark. Mr. Wright, from the Judiciary Oommittee, reported a new bill in relation to the bankrupt law. Two re- ports were submitted from the Judiciary Com- mittee—one in favor of and one adverse to re- lief for the sufferers from the Boston fire, from which we infer thata bill of relief for those sufferers from Congress is doubtful. Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, moved for an in- quiry by the Post Office Committee into the costs of construction, equipment, franchises and market value of the telegraph lines now in operation throughout the country. We sup- pose that Mr. Ramsay, of the Postal Commit- tee, will cheerfully take up the inquiry, in sup- porting his bill for the purchase of these lines and their annexation to the public service of the Post Office Department, where they properly belong. Mr. Conkling, however, having an amendment to offer to the resolu- tion, it was laid over. The Houso bill author- izing the building of six sloops of war, ‘with all the modern improvements,” was then taken up and debated, the question being on the amendment to increase the number of these vessels to ten, according to the recom- mendation of Secretary Robeson, who seems to have an idea that at some day not far distant ' they may be needed in the Gulf of Mexico. In the House, Mr. Cox, of New York, by re- quest, introduced a bill to aid in establishing a mail steamship line between the United States and Venezuela. Another subsidy, Very good; the more the merrier. Let them all come in; for why should Congreas make fish of one of these lobby jobs and flesh of another? Mr. Perce, of Mississippi, introduced a little bill to refund the cotton tax collected in the yeara 1865-’ 66-67-68, on the ground of the uncon- stitutionality of the tax. A good ground; but then, as these taxes collected amount to some seventy millions of dollars, and as the bills have been largely bought up by speculators, this refunding bill will hardly get through this session. But, with so much money in it, it will keep. Next we come to the grandest scheme of the catalogue. On motion of Mr. Negley, of Pennsylvania, it was ordered, by a vote of 146 to 30, that on the 13th of February the Com- mittee on Commerce shall be authorized to report a bill relating to lines of water internal communication. What does this mean? We have some hints as to its meaning in the President's Message of December last, in which he’suggests the advantages that would result to the country—first, from an inside line of ship navigation by a system of canals connecting the various sounds and inlots along our whole Atlantic coast; second, by the con- struction ofa number of Trans-Alleghany canals connecting the eastern seaboard with the Ohio and Mississippi rivers—including a canal across Georgia to the sea from the north, a canal westwardly through South Carolina from tidewater, ond the completion of the James River and Obio Canal and the Pgtomac, known as_ the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Next, ag Mr. Negley appears az,qa advocate of the general scheme, we supports that the Pennsylvania Trans-Alleghany Canal may be counted in. Of course, if these projects are entered upon by Congress, New York cannot deny herself the pleasure of the assistance of a few millions from the national Treasury for the enlarge- ment of our Erie Canal. Lastly, the President likes the idea of a Niagara ship canal on our side of the river; and what are twenty or thirty millions for this object? Here, then, is the budget of internal im- provement schemes in the way of coastwise and inland water communications upon which we may expect the initiatory bill from the House Committee on Commerce on the 13th of February. Only a million of money or leas may be required at first for the costs of the preliminary surveys and estimates of these canals and canal extensions; but if the two ‘houses venture into this business of digging canals they will probably not touch bottom short of the expenditure of two or three hun- dred millions of dollars, The vote of 146 to 30 on the motion for the preliminary bill indi- cates a strong current in the House in favor of this stupendous system of canals. Of course these enormous jobs, as we go on, will require enormous additions to our taxes or the aban- donment of the national debt. But with the report from the Committee on Commerce wo shall probably have more light on the subject. Opening ef the New Fifth Avenue Theatre, in Broadway. The new French play of ‘‘Alixe” is to be produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre this evening under circumstances that are as promising os they are unusual. Broadway reclaims one of its comedy theatres and ‘down town’’ shows that it has not yet agreed to let go its hold upon the amusement business, It is question in which most people aro inter- ested as to what is, indeed, the theatrical centre of the city. Perhaps the answer is that the contre is where the entertainment is most artistic. At any rate it is fair to assume that Broadway has not yet yielded to other and less important streets in its influence upon theatre-goers, and, consequently, the class of entertainments given by the very strong comedy company which still clings to its name of the Fifth Avenue Theatre Company is as likely to prove acceptable in Broadway as in Twenty-fourth street. It is only twenty days since the old theatre was burned, but in those twenty days what, was formerly the dingy New York Theatre has been so com- pletely overhauled as to be, in fact, a new house. Its patrons will meet with @ most enjoyable surprise at the complete transformation which has been effected in its appearance. The opening piece, too, is likely to prove auspicious. ‘“Alixe”’ is a play of “singular emotional power,”’ according to the singularly emotional advertisements that have been printed in regard to it, from which the inference is a fair one that it is after the ‘Frou-Frou’’ and “Fernande”’ class of comedy. These French plays have a strong fascination for American playgoors, perhaps because there are many things in common between French and Ameri- can sentiment, and hitherto the Fifth Avonue ‘Theatre has had almost monopoly of Parisian comedy. It is fortunate for the manager that French plays are so well received by the class of playgoers to whom he caters, for acceptable English or American comedy is not'to be had every day, and it is more especially fortunate because the fire has deprived him for the present of his facilities for producing standard playa The admirable manner in which Mr. Daly produced ‘“The Merry Wives of Windsor’’ will be long remembered as a triumph of stage decoration, and as tribute to the devotion with which he gives himself to his dramatic work. , After this ‘The Inconstant’’ and ‘The Belle’s Stratagem" made the deepest impres- sion, and indicated the really excellent acting we are yet to have from this company. In his new home Mr. Daly will be able to realize more fully the ambition which is to him at once an inspiration and a business. The suc- cess which has crowned his efforts hitherto was something in itself worthy of recognition, but the pluck which gives him a new theatre almost within a fortnight of the loss of his old one makes the occasion of his renirée in the very building where he began his career pecu- liarly fitting for » kind word of the young American manager who has brought so much dramatic good out of his own energy and intellect. Though he has not yet shown us actors of such great ability as Mr. Lester Wallack and some others’ we have had in standard comedy, his work has been on the whole well done and is worthy of. much sin- cere respect and appreciation. The Necessity of Flood Warnings. The late ice freshets, which have done so much damage in the Delaware, the Susque- hanna and their tributary rivers, prove the neeessity for river observations in the gorges of the Alleghanies, whence these floods have been precipitated upon the seaboard. The Delaware rises in the Kaatsbergs of south- eastern New York, and is about three hun- dred and twenty miles in length. An observe? stationed at or near its headwaters might have given notice of the late rise two or three days in advance. The Susquehanna, rising in Otsego Lake, in this State, runs nearly four hundred miles “before it is lost in the Chesa- peake Bay, and an observer stationed in its upper course might give timely notice of im- pending inundations in Winter, Spring and Fall to the country endangered. The same is true of the Schuylkill, the Lehigh, the Poto- mac and James rivers, since the rate of propa- gation of floods does not often exceed fifty miles a day. On the great Western waters the Signal Office has established a few stations for watch- ing the rise and fall of the rivers for the pur- poses of navigation, and they have been ex- ceedingly useful dm preannouncing those severe floods which convert ‘the gentle water- course of to-day into the expansive and turbu- lent inundation of to-morrow. It is evidently of great consequence to the Middle and Eastern States, as well as to the West, that such river observations be increased, and that upon the. present organization of the Signal Service there should be engrafted a system of daily reports for all the principal rivers. Ina month or two we shall have our great Spring freshets, with which the late river floods are scarcely comparable; and no time should be lost in providing for such service. If, as we apprehend, the reason this has not yet been dono is the insufficiency of the means provided by Congress for the meteorological department, and the inadequacy of its appro- priations to meet the necessary expenses of additional stations, the difficulty cannot be too soon removed and the money appropri- ated. We are sure that if the Signal Office will only ask for the assistance needed to carry out our suggestion it will speedily be extended. Coxruption in THE Bopy Porrric seems to be spreading like the smallpox in some Eastern cities. Besides the Crédit Mobilier abomina- tion, the various land grab jobs in Congress, the developments in our own city, the election ofa United States Senator from Kansas and the five and ten thousand dollar checks in connection therewith, we have now calls for investigation into the manner of the election of a United States Senator from Missouri and one from Nevada, each of whom, it is alleged, owes his success to the distribution of large sums of money among members of the Legis- lature, the figure in the caso of the Nevada Senator elect reaching, it is said, the snug amount of three hundred thousand dollars. Verily this is an era of corruption, and the searching brooms of investigating committees ought to make clean sweeps all round. Down with whitewashing committees ! PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. A son-in-law of Ole Bull is a State Senator in Wisconsin. A domestic Potsdam demonstravion—Calling, the kettle black. Commander F. De Bunce, ef the United States Navy, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Isaac H. Bromley, of Hartford, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Ex-Mayor Ezra Millard, of Omaha, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Edward Lee, of Montana Territory, ts at the Metropolitan Hotel. Paymaster W. W. Williams, of the United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House, Judge Volney Spaulding, of Nevada, yesterday ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Wm. H. Barnum, of Connecticut, is in town at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. William Newell, of Chicago, President of the Mill- nois Central Railway, is stopping at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Congressman John H, Ketcham, of Dutchess county, yesterday arrived from Washington at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The Infante Don Alphonse de Bourbon, brother of the Duke de Madrid, has assumed command of the Carlist forces in Catalonia, Hen. William F. Gilmore, republican Senator from Sumter county, Alabama, died yesterday at Montgomery of congestive chilis. ‘The marriage of Miss Rothschild and Hon. Eliot Yorke is to be celebrated at Lord Hardwicke’s estate, Cambridgeshire, England, on the 9th of February. The Chicago Inter-Ocean mildly insinuates that in case Hon. F. W. Palmer should become con- nected with that paper there will be no change in the management thereof, Count Bjoernstjena, recently Swedish Ambassa- dor at St. Petersburg, has been named by King Oscar II. Minister of Foreign Affairs, vice Count Piaten, who had resigned. The Ames Shovel Works, at North Easton, Mass., are running on reduced time. The Ames’ works in Washington seem to have been making pretty fast time among Congressmen, Catharine Hanlon, who was lately sentenced to death in Liverpoo! for murder by stabbing a boy, whom she charged with stealing an apple from her stand, has been repricved. Major Elwell, a magistrate, while on the bench at Stafford Quarter Sessions, @ few days since _ dropped while speaking and died atmost instantly, though ho appeared in sound health, Princess Dora D'Istria is Vice Presdent.ef a Women’s meee erp bvaariation in Greece. The President is Helene Skonse, niece of Oap- salis, the brave defender of Missolongh!. A bill has been introduced into the Indiana Legis- lature forbidding the marriage of persons of differ- ent colors. Blonde and brunette engagements are considered “off” until the fate of the bill s aecer~ tained. The Indiana divorce law is to be made moro stringent, actual residence for two years being re, quired. Hence those who are anxious to shufMe off the matrimonial coil, under the present easy law, must “hurry up.’? Mrs, Mary A, Walker, widow of Robert J, Walker,, died in Washington yesterday. She was a sister of the late Professor Bache, of the Coast Survey; a granddaugnter of the late Alexander James Dallas and a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin, Rev. Vynyan Henry Moyle, vicar of Eston, Eng- land, is charged with forging share certificates to the value of $110,000 in an iron manufacturing cor- poration in which he is an officer. He 1s sus- pected of similar ‘4rregularities” in other stocks. i The St. John (N. B.) Globe states that although no Organized body of annexationists exists in the Deminion, the number is very large and rapidly increasing. The Glove says leading annexationists are about starting a daily paper in St. John ant another in Halifax. Mr, John Foley's ‘efforts in the causé of munici- pal reform” have awakened the stmiration of Gov- ernor Dix, William M. Evarts, Peter Cooper, ‘thur- low Weed and other reformers, and they lately tendered him a dinner, at which they inteuded to publicly express their feclings, Mr. Foley has, however, declined the proffered banquet. In his reply to thelr noto of invitation John modestly states what he has done in the “good cause,” but declares the endorsement of the gentlemen whom he addreases to be sufficient for him. Colonel Robert Tyler (son of the late President Tyler) denies tn toto the statements in the Histort. cal Record about his father, who, he asserts, was nota bankrupt when he became President; he dit not husband his means while in office, and saved nothing from his salary when President. He never received, directly or indirectly, a dollar from his second wife's estate. He happened to own some Kentucky coal lands which became profitabie after his retirement from the Presidency, and enabled him by judicious investments to live comfortably during his latter years, JOURNALISTIO NOTES, La Independencia, a journal in the interest ot Cuba Libre, commenced its existence on last Satur- day in the wide fleld of metropolitan journalism in New York. The first number présents @ good ap- pearance and has an interesting variety of matter and news, especially for the Cubans and the South and Centra: Americans speaking the Spanish lan- guage. Mr. Ignacio De Armas, formerly an editor in Havana, ts the director. Considering there are Journals in almost every language and represent- ing many nationalities and interests in thiacity, there is no reason why one making the popular cause of Cuban independence its specialty should not succeed. Spain has its organ here and why not Cuba Libre? No doubt we shall see the tur fy between the paugiy Spaniards aud. patnot Cubans through the press antagonism thus in- augurated. A MISSIONARY FOR MEXIOO, Rev. William Butler and Wife Going on Missionary Work to Mexico. Boston, Jan. 20, 1873. Farewell missionary services were held to-day at the Bloomfeld street Methodist church pending the departure of the Rev. William Butler and wife for missionary work in Mexico. Bishop Simpeon, Rev. Dr. Clark and Rev. 8. F. Upham took part im the exercises, which were numerousl: tended. at Butler was for many years a lomary in be THE LATE GENERAL LEB Celebration of the Birthday of the Rebek Chief—Parade of Military. SAYVANNAG, Ga., Jan, 20, 1873, Lee's birthday waa celebrated with great éclat here to-day, on which occasion the first parade of the military since the war took place. The First Georgia volunteers, the Eighteenth battalion, the Cheatham al, battery and the Georgia hus- sars paraded in uffform. General Wade Hampton delivered an address, The day was generally ob- served as a holiday, and resembied the Fourth of July before the war. ARMY ORDERS AND CHANGES, A general order issued from the War Department te-day says :—First, that the battalion of engincera and engineer post depot and establishment of Wil- lett’s Point, New York harbor, are under the direct orders of the Chief of Engineers, ana independent of the command o! either department or division commanders, Second, the inapections contem- platea in general orders dated October 5, 1872, ‘om the War Department, so far as relates the battalion of engineers and its post engineer, estab- ments, officers and agents under the direct orders of the Chief of Engineers, wiil not be made by in- spectors acting under orders of either departinent or division commanders, Lieutenant Commander George W. Armentrout has been ordered to the Hydrographic Office. Lieutenant Vinton A. Goddard, of the Sixth cav airy, has resigned. ‘ FLORIDA LEGISLATURE. Federal Office-Holdcrs Not Willing te Give Up the 8 TALLAHA! lan. 20, 1873. In the Senate to-day a resolntion disqualifying federal office-holders from holding State oftices was indefinitely postponed. The Civil Rights bill, which passed in the Assem- bly on Friday last, was read a second time, Sena- tor Knight offered an amendment to the effect that nothing in the bill should be construed as inter- fering with the "sy et of private citizens, which was laid on the table by a strict party vote. The bill will come UR to-morrow on @ third reading and will be passed. Deagan has been confirmed a Commisstoner of Land and Immigration, J. C. Gibbs as Superin- yadent of Pyblic Instruction and General John arnuit 44 Adjutant General. The ballot for United States Senator will be taken to-morrow in each House separately. MAINE LEGISLATURE. . A Complaint Against the Heil Gate Pilot Laws. _Avausta, Jan. 20, 1873, A resolution was reportéd in thé House to-day authorizing the Governor to call the attention of the authorities of New York to the unjust Hell Gate Pilot laws, which are @ great detriment to Maine commerce. THE LOUISIANA MUDDLE. Ballotiag for Senator—Fusionists Ex- peliéti.by the Kellogg NEW ORLRANS, The fusion Legislature to-day bali tor unsuccessfully. In the Kellogg Legislature Senate to-day Messrs, Jenks, Swords and Warrail, who withdrew on the 10th, taking seata with the fusionists, were ex- pelied. Resolutions were introduced expellin; nine members of the House on 5] grounds ‘and ‘were postponed until to morrow. THE ALABAMA DEADLOOK, Refasal of the House of Representatives te Recognize the Senate. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan, 20, 1873, In the House to-day @ motion to inform the Sen. ate that it was in permanent organization was op- sed by the republican members the ground hat it would be a recognition of ti mate as now organized. This is the same resolution that they have fonght since the 2ist of December last, No action was taken. In the Senate Mr. Dereen, republican sitting Senator from Marengo county, was confirmed by» unanimous vote. The case of Miller, republican, against Martin, w days. Indications democrat, will come up in a fe are that Martin will be successful, which will leave the Senate de: tic eretofore, THE PENNSYLVANIA SENATORSHIP, HaRnispuna, Pa., Jan, 20, 1873, In tho Senate to-night Messrs. Cameron, Waila and H, B, Wright were nominated for United States Senator, and in the House Messrs, Cameron Wright, Randall and Phillips were nominated, BETTING ON THE GEORGIA SENATORSHIP, ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 20, 187% General Gordon was the favorite and sold three to one in the Senatorial pools to- it; Stephens brouglit the next lighest price and Whit the ‘west