The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1873, Page 6

6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ‘gtreet.—Bromuen Sam. ROOTH’s THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Bvenue.—Buvtus, on, Tue Fate or Tarquin, THEATRE COMIQ) ‘Loro. Matinee at 23. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—ALuamara. Matinee at 2. . $14 Broadway.—Kxno np BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—SLasueR AND Cuasuen ‘Tux Tweive TEMPrations. \ WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Wu Oar. Atternoon and Evening. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- dwray.—Auixe. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth wev.—Caranacr or THE Ganaxs. UM, No, $85 Broadway.—Gnanp Vaninty En- peuAtainuenr, Matinee at 2%. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and batouston streets,—Leo an Loros. \ GERMANTA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third V.—- CHRISTIAN k, \ UNION. SQUARE TITRATRE, Brondway, between Prnirteenth and Fourteenth strocta.—AruxnieY Court. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— WManoue Heaxr. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner hens av.—Nxocro Minstretsy, Eccentricity, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Wanuerr Ententarnwxnt. \_ AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and peroadway.—Emmorian Minstreisy, &c. i \_NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— A crence ann Arr. “TRIPLE SHEET. TRI " New York, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1873. ‘= WHE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ITo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ‘SPANISH BLOODHOUNDS AND THE HERALD'S CUBAN COMMISSIONERS! AMERICA AND THE SPANISH POSITION’’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—SrxTH Pace. 1A FEARFUL FRESHET AND ICE GORGE IN THE ' SUSQUEHANNA | THE TOWN OF PORT DE- POSIT SUBMERGED! TERRIBLE SCENES OF DESTRUCTION! HOUSES DESTROYED AND FAMILIES MADE DESTITUTE !—Snv- ENTH PaGs. HORRORS OF THE NORTHWESTERN WINTER! ' A SNOWFALL THAT LASTED FIFTY HOURS! DRIFTS HIGHER THAN HOUSES! SAVAGE NATURE'S RELENTLESS DEEDS! INFANTS FROZEN IN THEIR MOTHERS’ ARMS!—FourTH PAGE. x MORE MURDEROUS WORK! ONE DRIVER SHOOTS ANOTHER BECAUSE HE DOES NoT MOVE OUT OF HIS WAY! THE MURDERER CAUGHT WHILE PREPARING FOR FLIGHT! A TWILIGHT TRAGEDY IN CHATHAM SQUARE—TENTH Pace. WHE LOCKWOOD-MAGRUDER SHOOTING AF- FRAY! 1HE VICTIM NOT YET DEAD! HIS ANTE-MORTEM STATEMENT! THE MUR- DERER COOL AND CARELESS—Fovrtu Page. {FIGHTING THE MODOCS! THE BATTLE IN A FOG CONFIRMED! HEAVY LOSSES OF THE TROOPS! REINFORCEMENTS TO BE SENT—SgvENTH Pace. (MOBILIERIZING CONGRESS! UNEARTHING THE SECRETS OF THE ENORMOUS JOB! Dv- RANT IN A_ FRENZY! MR. BROOKS! EXPLANATION! “KIND-HEARTED” AMES’ EXPLANATORY ELECTION LETTERS—FirTu Page. )CHAPTYAS OF CORRUPTION IN CONGRESS! THE FACTS BROUGHT OUT BY THE CALDWELL INVESTIGATION! THE BOGY JOB! OAKES ‘ AMES AND THE HONORABLES—Tuirp Pac. FAVORING THE SYNDICATE! THE WAYS AND MEANS REPORT TO THE HOUSE! BOUT- WELL NOT TO BE OPPOSED IN THE BE- STOWAL OF THE $300,000,000—Tarrp PaGE, ‘PRIM FAVORED FREE CUBA! THE OVER- OPPRESSED GEM OF THE ANTILLES LOSES FREEDOM AND PEACE THROUGH HIS DEATH! THE TREATY WITH SPAIN |— THIRD PaGE. ‘SPANISH PROMOTION TO SURRENDERED CU- BANS—LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—SgEv- ENTH PaGR, ‘NEW YORK WANTS THE SECRETARYSHIP OF THE TREASURY! THE “TAIL END OF DIPLOMACY!” ANOTHER BIG JOB IN A BUREAU @F COMMERCE! POSTAL TELE- GRAPHS—Tuirp Page. BY CABLE FROM EUROPE! SPECIAL CONTRA- VICTION FROM BRUSSELS OF THE FAIL- URE OF COUNT SCHOUVALOFF’S MISSION! PUBLIC EDUCATION IN FRANCE! COMMU. NISTS PUNISHED! THE VIENNA EXPOSI- TION—Skventu Pace. WY CABLE FROM AFRICA! EIGHT OF THE PALESTRO MURDEKER® SENTENCED TO DEATH! A GRAND EGYPTIAN CERE- MONIAL! ESPOUSAL OF THE HEREDITARY PRINCE—SEVENTH PAGE. ‘BOURBONS AND BONAPARTES ! PRINCE NaPO- LEON BONAPAKTE VISITS QUEEN YVIO- TORIA! THE ORLEANS PRINCES UNEX- PECTEVDLY HONOR THE MEMORY OF LOUIS XVIL—SgveNTn Page. BENATOR ROSCOE CONKLING RE-ELECTED AND JUDGE CURTIS ACQUITTED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE—SEVENTH Pace. FOSTER’S LAST HOPE GONE! THE COURT OF APPEALS WILL NOT GRANT HIM A NEW TRIAL! DEJECTION OF THE PRISONER! HISTORY OF “THE CAR-HOOK MURDER"— Firta Page. ON 'CHANGE! EFFECT OF THE SYNDICATE AU- THORIZATION BY CUNGRESS! GOLD GOES UP STILL HIGHER! ERIE ADVANCES TWO PER CENT—NInTH Pace. GARVEY AGAIN TESTIFIES AS TO WHAT HE KNOWS OF RING MANIPULATIONS OF CITY FUNDS! JOHN FOLEY TEMPO- RARILY ENJOINED! UNIFORMING THE UNION SOLDIERS! OTHER LEGAL BUSI- NESS—E1cHTH Paar. \_ Dectton my tue Deputy CHAMBERLAIN’S Case.—Judge Barbour yesterday decided the ‘Deputy Chamberlainship case in favor of the ight of Chamberlain Palmer to appoint his ‘own deputy, and granted a perpetual injunc- dion against Mr. John Foley, the appointee of Comptroller Green, restraining him from in- fading into the Chamberlain's office or in any manner interfering with its business, This ends the controversy for the present. It is Btated, howover, that, Mr. Foley will still fur. ther contend the matter in the Courts, ‘ . ‘Tur Revetations which have been made in ‘Wegard to Senator Harlan and the Crédit Mobilier, when taken in connection with Dr. ‘Newman's circular recommending Harlan’s Jre-election on account of his piety, show the A7poreaiia of, eepesation.of Church and Stata “TW @ NEW york Spanish Bloodhounds and ¢ht Cuban Commissions—Amer) the Spanish Position. s When the first special Commissic Henatp to the Island of Cuba was i in Havana the Hznaxp uttered cer! of warning, telling those highost i authority to take their hands off it to take the consequences. We spok we knew, and the result was shown the liberation of our correspondent, ond, in a series of actions on th those authorities about which, for the we choose to be silent, Our second sioner, Mr. O'Kelly, has not been im) His letter to Captain Genoral Cebe that officer's reply have settled that pe question satisfactorily to us. While, } a niggardly show of official “condese has been made in telling him to go ‘ery “at his own risk’’—a condition from hi he has not shrunk—the bloodhounds + ‘h Spanish press have been endeavoring press upon the regulars and voluntee { of the phrase of Ceballos means accoré their light. This “dog in forehead an’ ‘0: in heart’’ policy is one in which we ; Bi from confounding all. press writers wm So) ©" Spanish side in Cuba; but its secor pearance in the columns of a Spanish in Havana we do not propose to overiook. When the Diario dela Marina writes fourteen editorial columns reviewing the report of Mr. Henderson to the Heap, it exercises a fair right of criticism; but the Constancia, in its treatment of the Henaty having dared to send a second commission to Cuba, steps out into the position where the bloodhound is found in the hunt. Having called to mind the Captain General's phrase that Mr. O'Kelly would be free to travel in Cuba ‘‘at his own risk,’’ we give the words of the organ of the volunteers, the Constancia. We wish first to present them in all their naked savagery and to comment on them afterward. Here are its questions: — “When, in any country, thore are parties en- gaged in war, can not a foreigner be shot by one of the belligerents ? “Do not officers of these parties vory fre- quently shoot unknown persons found near them who appear at all suspicious? “Is not suspicion of being a spy of the enemy sufficient cause to be shot ; and would not # stranger found with the enemy's pass or safe-conduct be considered a spy and shot accordingly? “What is there to prevent the insurgents or Spaniards from arresting and shooting Mr. O'Kelly? “Could not Mr. O'Kelly, although in the character of an envoy from the Hzratp, be an agent of the Cuban laborantes? “Would not the Spanish party, on meeting him, consider him one of the few foreigners, survivors from the piratical expeditions? And could not the insurgents, after an interview with him, bring him into the vicinity of the Spanish forts and there give him ‘four bul- lets’ in the head in order that his death might be attributed to the Spanish soldiers or volun- teers? “But what should occur if any of these sup- positions should take place? “*Nothing,’ adds the Constancia. ‘Affairs would take their usuzl course, and peace be- tween Spain and the United States still be preserved.’ '” The cowardliness of all this is shown in the fartive traculence of its mode of putting tho question. It knows in its heart that it dare not say, ‘Shoot him, because he will tell the truth.” It, therefore, slinks back and says, with a cross-eyed leer, ‘Don't nail his ears to the pump."’ To set the Constancia or any other paper that aspires to be the counsellor of assassination right, might provea thank- less task. To tell all whom it may concern that the impartial writer for an independent journal like the Heraxn is not to be frightened by the baying of muzzled bloodhounds is something more to the point. For the Hzratp Commissioner to undertake his mission “at his own risk” is sufficient for the Captain General. The gasconade of the Constancia is, therefore, a piece of impotent impertinence which carries its label on its face. There is one question asked by this Spanish journal which it answers for itself. Suppose, it says in effect, that, acting on the Constancia’s sug- gestions, the Spanish troops did shoot O'Kelly ; what then? “Nothing,” it re- plies. ‘‘Affairs would take their usual course, and peace between Spain and the United States still be preserved.” If any commet is negded on this it is simply what we said in the case of our first Commissioner, that we should hold the Spanish government accountable. The Span- ish government in Cuba knows that the very worst investment it could take in death would be that of the representative of the Henatp, whose mission is to throw light upon the dark struggle waging in the island. It has other reasons to know why the life of the Henatp Commissioner will be as sacred as in its power to make it. The strongest reason of all is the exact reverse of the Constancia’s answer to its own question—i. e., affairs would not take their usual course ; peace between Spain and the United States could not be preserved. It is in the first instance a question of the liberty and life of the unoffending citizen ; in the second, of the rights of the independent press; in the third, of mighty civilization against sporadic barbarism. Leaving this phase of the matter, we turn to the wider question of the present attitude of the United States government towards Spain. That which is indicated in the despatches of last November between Secretary Fish and our Minister at Madrid would show either a desire to take strong American ground or to throw dust in the eyes of the American people by simulating » manly attitude only to aban- don it at the first exclamation of approval. The Secretary of State himself, by his alter- nate silence and spasmodic utterance, does not enlighten the world much, and leaves everything to be imagined. If his indecisive action leaves room for the machinations of a conspiracy in the republican ranks for his re- moval, such as is indicated in our Washington despatches, he has himself to blame for it. That the financial men of New York should prefer a Secretary of the Treasury from the Empire State instead of a (to them) useless Secretary of State, will not surprise many. A republican evening journal of this city, the Mail, in an article entitled “Mr. Fish’s Last Blunder,’’ makes an attack on the Secretary, and, while admitting some minor traits of official usefulness, character- izes his Cuban diplomacy as “awkward. wa- : MLAS WA Wav nl ids 2 oe J WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEK#T. ee jiy of an American,” and | “I Will Shoot You for This To-| 0 it is in earnest whon it prescribes the mc ng an@ sei, contradictory. ibo-ate republican ps” atthe press of the party »- ‘onounce- “Te Mocrow.” ~ And now wo havo anothor murder. lawless ruffian, with no fear of the gallows pad for the “firm policy” wo | before his eyes, has satisfied his fancied yard of, or are they the key- otk of the conspiracy to oust ©? The peculiar bias of the rty’s interest heretofore would the latter. Cortain portions 2 would, on the other . he former. For instance :— J ully come when the Cuban treated on its own merits, in ho sympathies of the Ameri- th the full recognition that Juba, and that to this war arties, both of whom are the beneiits of our neutral- 3 very close to the language many occasions, but we are ‘ © «(ag its way into the partisan vk the interests of humanity or 1t may in the end, without » humanity. } f yesterday was published f he London Morning Post, ynending tho enterprise of AnD iz cminating this tragic war in ays Waal at the design of President Grant was ‘‘to use this information for the purpose of justifying to the American popular mind the project of intervention which he is sup- posed to cherish, he could have nothing to suit his purpose better than the report of the Naw York Heraxp’s special Commissioner, pub- lished in that journal on the 19th of Decem- ber.’’ The mind of England is evidently awakening in a Very significant manner to the atrocity of this war, of which no man can fore- tell the end, a war involving, as it does, Eng- land’s pet anti-slavery theory in its results. This sudden attention to Cuban matters would seem to evince a determination on the part of England not to have its’ moral influence out of the scale should America humanely devise some measure to stop the flow of blood in Cuba. Tho assist- ance, moral or otherwise, of England should, however, be no criterion by which to decide American action. It may have its weight, however, on the timidities of the State De- partment. The publication at this period of an alleged draft of a treaty between Spain and the Re- public drawn in 1870, and printed in another column, will indicate, if there isno other truth in it, what honorable bases of settlement yet remain for Spain. A settlement of the whole question is imperative, and in the cause of civilization Spain cannot be allowed to post- pone it much longer. As for America, in the language of the Morning Post, ‘the United States have a peculiar duty in the premises—a duty which can no longer be evaded without national disgrace."’ Let the government, then, leave off its faces and tatt us what is to be its course, Captain Jack’s Fight from a Finan- cial Point of View. The Modocs, under the redoubtable Captain Jack, have immortalized themselves. They have not only put hors de combat some four or five hundred of Uncle Sam’s regulars and volunteers in a fair Indian fight—tair for the Indians—but have also laid a train to burst open the iron bars of our good old Uncle's Treasury and deplete it to the amount of mil- lions. How lucky it was for the Oregon speculators in army stores and supplies, and in Indian blankets, brass buttons, knick-knacks and haberdashery (meaning whiskey), that the regulars were defeated in this first pitched battle—that is, the first battle in which they were regularly pitched into by the renowned Chief of the Modocs! If Captain Jack had been whipped by .the blue-coats, that prob- ably might have put an end to this famous Indian war and all visions of fat contracts been in consequence dissolved into thin air; but, as the boot hap- pens to be on the other leg and the government troops were repulsed, the “entire resources of the country’’ must, if necessary, be brought to bear to wipe out this diabolical stain on the national escutchecn and to put a summary quietus upon Captain Jack and his ragged band of marauders. Here, then, we are likely to have a second edition of the Black Hawk war, or, to come back to more modern times, a second act in the elongated melodrama of the Seminole war, with Captain Jack in the réle of Billy Bowlegs—a perform- ance that cost the people of the United States many millions of dollars. And, now, while we hope that prompt measures will be taken to crush this Indian outbreak in its incipiency, weatthe same time expect, inasmuch as we have in the Presidential chair one who knows something about the business of using brim- stone and saltpetre by wholesale, that due vigilance will be exercised to prevent im- proper and fraudulent raids upon the Treasury on account of this speck of Indian war in the Modoc country. Tae Prstor Acarn.—The ink is hardly dry on the record of onc murder when we are compelled to take notice of another. Last evening a man riding along Chatham street was shot and almost instantly killed by the driver of @ wagon, because, as the first report of the occurrence stated, he refused to take his horse out of the way of the wagon. The driver justifies himself by saying the man on horse- back threatened to strike him with a whiffle- tree he carried in his hand. The exact char- acter of his justification will be better esti- mated after the evidence is received by the Coroner. Enough for us now to know that the spirit of murder is like an epidemic in the airand that the pistol is called upon with an appalling recklessness to settle the most trifling differences between men, Tae Terrie Storms Ovr West.—In an- other column of the Hrratp will be found a graphic account of the awful tempest that swooped down on the prairie State of Minne- sota. It lasted without intermission tor over fifty hours, As many as two hundred lives were lost, and the snowdrifts mounted higher than the houses. Babies were frozen stark at their mothers’ breasts, and the scene presented after the hurricane ceased was altogether more appalling than any ever yet witnessed on the tornado-swept plains of the West. Goop News ror tix Two Orrres,—The news of a competent company organized, and an active movement on foot for the building of a new and independent railroad between New York and Philadelphia, Go a head, gentlemen! Competition is the life of trade. Wrongs art quenched his petty vengeance in human: blood, This latest atrocity is of so cold-blooded a type {kat the people of New York must at last begin to ask thomselves if law and justice have not become 6 mockery and a tradition. We exaggerate nothing in saying that for almost every murder committed within the past throe years the mode of admin- istering the law is directly responsible. So wholly weak and contemptible has justice grown that capital crimes have become the ambition of the lawless, since it is safer and brings a larger measure of notoriety to out- rage the most sacred inhibition of both human and divine law than to violate in the lightest degree the simple code of larceny. The cruel, cold-blooded murderer lives in luxury at the Tombs; officials court his favor and beg his pardon for being com- pelled to proceed against him on behalf of the people; Judges issue a stay of pro- ceedings to save his neck from a well- deserved loop of hemp, and when public ex- citement has died away he walks abroad among ws wearing a look of injured innocence. The poor, puny hand of Justice can nowa- days accomplish no greater effort than to drag some friendless, wretched vagrant to its bar on @ charge of larceny, and send him with pompous ceremony to the Penitentiary. It is safe to speculate that if the present batch of murderers in the Tombs had been promptly tried and hanged this Magruder, who so deliberately took the life of Lockwood on Monday night, would have reflected twice on the peril to his neck, and put his pistol away. Of course he read in the papers that proceedings were on foot to obtain a new trial for Stokes. All the present and prospective murderers are watching that case with pro- found interest. With Stokes granted a new trial the pistol and the knife will come into more active use, and murderers of the type of Magrauder will increase and multiply. If that strict enforcement of the law that elsewhere protects society and strikes terror into evil-doers prevailed in New York it would be hardly possible to relate such a story as that which appeared in the Hznaup yesterday concerning the murder of Lockwood. Magruder, who was sober, received a slap in the faco from Lockwood, who was ine- briated. Magruder did not immediately re- taliate, but said, “I will shoot you for this to-morrow.’’ He was as good as his word. The next day, missing Lockwood at the sup- per table, he proceeded straight to his room, threw open the door and fired at Lockwood's head. The bullet. missed its mark, but, as the report says, ‘‘with the greatest coolness and deliberation the murderer lowered the muzzle of his weapon on a line with the middle of his victim's body and fired a second time. This ball took effect in the abdomen, and Lockwood tumbled over on the floor in a heap.’ Further on the account states that ‘‘while Magruder was standing in the station house the wounded fan was brought in on a stretcher and Ma- gruder, with a cynical smile, turned around to look at him. ‘Mac,’ said Lockwood, from the floor where he was lying, ‘what did you do this for?’ ‘Itold youI’d shoot you,’ coolly answered the other, ‘and I did it, didn’t 1?'”’ We submit that if our batch of murderers now in the Tombs had been tried and exe- cuted long since this man Magruder would not have dared to exact such a fatal ven- geance on such trifling provocation, nor would he have indulged the flippant bravado in the remarks we have just quoted. As usual, we shall havea ripple of popular exoitement over this latest deed of blood, and in the course of nine days oblivion will super- vene and the murderer will be forgotten. It was 80 in the case of Foster, in the case of King and also in that ef Simmons. To ap- pease popular indignati¢gn, which, unfortu- nately, is too easily lulled to patient compos- ure, we are told smilingly by our new reform District Attorney that a vigorous enforcement of the law may be expected. We are not quite so sanguine of this, and we are prepared to find the promise made to the ear only broken tothe hope. We must look to the Legisla- ture for some means of relief—for some arrangement by which all these red-handed scoundrels may be tried at once and disposed of forever. It is pitiable that, with all our expensive law machinery, we cannot secure retribution in behalf of an outraged commu- nity in evena single flagrant instance. The Court of Oyor and Terminer is given up to the trial of a case which may occupy its attention for the entire term, and the prosecuting agent of the people tells us we must wait till that is over before the murderers in the Tombs can be arraigned. How fervently the murderers must pray that Tweed’s trial may last forever! It should be the province, as it is within the power of the Legislature, to come to the rescue and order a special term of some other Court for the exclusive trial of all criminals now charged with capital offences. Ifthe District Attorney has too much work in his office for one man to discharge let him call in all the assistance he requires, and the people will cheerfully foot the bill. And when these crimi- nals are convicted let us ask, once more, that one day be set apart upon which they may all hang together. This is no laughing matter nora mere sen- sational suggestion. To our new public prose- cutor it may seem a good joke to suggest the prompt and speedy trial of our murderers and their prompt and speedy execution if proven guilty. It may seem “beyond the range of probability,” but we can assure him we do not so regard it. We are terribly in earnest in the suggestion, and the sooner Mr. Phelps penalty of death against the murderer. We Another ; €an far better afford to have a dozen of the culprits How in the Tombs speedily hanged than to continue the sickening chronicle of srequent assassinations. Let the majesty of tho law strike terror into the hearts of the rockless men who avenge their own quarrels by the uso of deadly weapons. A dozen executions might prevent a hundred butcheries and make New York again a safe city. Let us see the boasted season of reform bring with it such desirable fruits as security for life, protection for prop- erty and respect for lav, Sanctity an@SinJ in tne Senate. Polifiqal.corngte’, du. a ‘© murder, is certain to distgover itsei""iner or later. Last year the whispérinys’of shameless bribery among Senators and Representatives in ‘Congress were only an intangible scandal; but in tho past few weeks exposure has so quickly fol- lowed upon exposure as to indicate an utter lack of public virtue and private integrity. Indeed, so lost to all sense of honor and de- cency have many of our politicians become that they think themselves wronged because their crimes have been exposed. Governor Carney gogards his treatment as peculiarly hard—hard because things which should have been concealed were openly told before all the world; his consent to withdraw from the can- didacy for the United States Senatorship in consideration of money paid to him by Cald- well or hig friends appearing to him a per- fectly legitimate transaction. Caldwell, too, 1 Vis upon his. treatment as extremely cruel, and Harlan is as indignant as his pious soul will permit. The Senate, we are told, participates in Harlan’s indignation regarding the conduct of the House Committee in- allowing a witness in the Crédit Mobilior investigation to tell things damaging to the Senator as a flagrant breach of privilege. Just here we have a word to say. If Harlan had been as good a man as he always pretended to be, and as Parson New- man, the chaplain of the Senate, endorsed him as being, there would have been no occasion for indignation, for then there would have been no bribery and, consequently, no exposure. Dr. Newman, in a circular which was distrib- uted all over the State of Iowa, recommended Harlan’s election because of the Senator's high moral character. It now turns out the Sena- tor, so far from being a ‘‘great, good man,” was not only among the sinners of the par- son’s Senatorial flock, but one of the vilest of the lot. Ex-Senator Thayer, of Nebraska, stands in the same relation towards the coun- try as Harlan, not because his piety was ever considered sufficient to speak of, but owing to the fact that he made up his lack of sancti- monious irreligion by blatant patriotism. Then comes Powell Clayton, of Arkansas. We do not know that Clayton ever claimed to be particularly patriotic or singularly pious, but we know that some damaging facts were proved against him last year, and yet he con. tinues to hold his seat in the Senate without the investigation being pursued to its conclu- sion. Senator Robertson, of South Carolina, is another man whose election it is openly alleged was procured by a lavish outlay of money. Other Southern and Northern Sena- tors are as openly accused of having procured their seats by bribery. Both of the Senators from the largest and the smallest States in the Union are spoken of with disrespect by their constituents because of allegations of a like character. If the revelations of the past few weeks continue two-thirds of the Senate may be shown to have been elected by bribery and fraud. The incoming Senators seem to be no better tban those who are already in the Senate. Patterson, of South Carolina, is accused of the offences of which Caldwell and Harlan and Thayer are such conspicuous examples. Bogy, who is tobe the new Senator frem Missouri, is similarly charged. Jones, who is to suc- ceed Nye, of Nevada, is also in a like category. Political affiliations seem to make no difference among political corruptionists. Republicans and democrats are both willing to buy or to be bought. Tho Senate is a body which shows every appearance of sanctity on the surface, but an unlucky investigation reveals the sin which is beneath, There may be honor among thieves, but there no longer seems to be honor among Senators. How long are their crimes to continue? When is the day of punishment tocome? Unless the honest and honorable men who yet remain in the Senate take hold of the culprits in that body and ‘expel them from the Senate Chamber, few of them will get even Parson Newman to endorse their hereafter. Harlan could scarcely get another circular from him now. Not only the igno- miny of expulsion, but the ignominy of the Penitentiary, must follow crimes like these. No station is too high to make it but a step from proud official position to the cell of a prison. If a few of these debased and de- praved Senators are taken from their seats in the Senate to the cobblers’ stalls of the Albany Penitentiary we shall hear less of political corruption, and the purchase of Assemblymen by Senatorial candidates will be discontinued. Tue Syxvrcare Enporsep.—The result of the Congressional investigation of the opera- tions of the Syndicate will be a grand surprise to those who fancied the inquiry meant a rebuke of the Secretary of the Treasury for his complicity in the stupendous job of refand- ing the five-twenties at so costly a rate. The Ways and Means Committee, having heard all the testimony, went into deliberation upon the subject and yesterday announced by resolution that they had no suggestions to make in the way of new legislation affecting the operations of the Treasury in ‘negotiating bonds of the United States.” In other words, the com- mittee have no better plan than Mr. Boutwell’s shares the same feeling the better will it be for himself and the public interests. Neither he nor his assistants must suppose that the people will shut their eyes to the manner in which their duty is performed. We must have earnesthess and singleness of purpose on the part of the prosecutors for the State. No necessity of politics must enter into the one vital consideration that the public of New York demand an example to be made of the manslayers. Nowseems the opportune time to perform this work. The Court of Appeals yes- terday sustained the decision of the Oyer and Terminer in the case of Foster, the car hook murderer, and directed the execution of the sentence of death, Murder, safe, popular murder, has had a long and eventful inning. Its charm is now broken. Let us see that the jaw bas power to protect life, and that in doing | plan of a Syndicate for negotiating the new loan. Congressional sagacity is surpassed only by Syndicate rapacity. Tue Bnooxtyx Powtce. — The property owners of Brooklyn are by thousands signing a petition for increased pay to their police- men, All right; but the force should be increased at the same time, for the life of the citizen or stranger in the streets of Brooklyn after nightfall has now only the security of one policeman against three or four gangs of ruffians, ANOTHER MISSING VESSEL. Hawirax, N. 8., Jan. 21, 1872. Anxiety is felt here for the safety of the troop ship Himalaya. The report’ of her arrival at St. John's on Saturday was incorrect. Nothing has been beard of her ajnce she left England, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Colonel Forney, of Philadelphia, ts at the Astor House, . Mayor D. J, Johnson, ofCohoes, is at the Metre politan Hotel, Professor G. L. Andrews, of West Point, is at the Hoffman House. Judge J. G. Abbott, of Boston, has arrived at the Brevoort House, Judge 1. Royer, of Cincinnati, is stopping at the Grand Central Hetel, Ex-Congressman Truman Smith, of Connecticut, is at the Astor House. General W. C, Wickham, of Virginia, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild 1s visiting the ex-Queen of Naples at I’au. Mr. William H. Aspinwall, of this city, has re- turned to Paris from Egypt. Ex-Congressman J. E. McDonald, of Indianapolis, is stopping at the St, Nicrolas Hotel. Congressman John Rogers, ef Black Brook, N. ¥., is in town, at the Metropolitan Hotel. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. Professor Forsyth, of West Point Military Acad- emy, is sojourning at the New York Hotel. Jude T. W. Bartley, of Washington, D. ©., ia temporarily sojourning at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Bernard ©. Molloy, of the Middle Temple, has, it is said, been appointed private chamberiain to the Pope. Allyne Otis, youngest son of Harrison Gray Otis, of the ancten régime of Boston, died recently im Newport, sixty-five years old, | President Thiers has received the patent con- ferring the title of Daimou of the First Class im the Japanese Order of Tehet, Major General Hancock visited Norristown, Pa. his birthplace, on Monday last, and was serenaded at night at the residence of J. E. C. Chain, Baou Shama Charn Mallik, the well known Cal- cutta millionnaire, has just died from carbuncle. This time the shining gem was in the wrong place— on his back instead of in his pocket, Forty-four missionaries, of different religious de- nominations, arrived at Bombay, India, in one vea- sel, a short time since. The sailors report an agreeable voyage, after a few squalls, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, M. P. for Oxford (Historicus), the London Glove says, is “the big gooseberry of our contemporary,’”’ the Times, whose prolix periods it uses when less turgid matter fails. Tne Swedish Minister, Olof Stinerson, whe hae been at the Hoffman House for several days, will go to Washington to-day. He came on to witness the marriage of Mr. Christian Bors, the Swedish Consul in this city. Rev. O. B, Frothingham is opposed to the gal- lows, and believes that poisons are the better way of taking the lives of criminals convicted of capi- tal offences. Connecticut might furnish a frst class executioner in this line in the person of Mrs, Lu- crezia Borgia Sherman, Henderson, accused of the murder of Nimroé Jarrett, of Macon county, North Carolina, was trie® recently in the’ Jackson Superior Court, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged on the 25th of this month, Appeal to the Supreme Court has been granted. Bad times for the homicides, President Thiers has given the Cross of Officer of the Legion of Honor to Colenel Kodolitsch, military attaché of the Austrian Embassy in Paris. Colonel Kodolitsch served with distinction in Mexico. He is now in England ill, from the effects of a fall from his horse while hunting with the Prince of Wales. A Connecticut boy, just learning to read, asked his father what Crédit Mobilier was. “It’s our na- tional game, my boy,’ replied the father, who, With the shrewdness of a native of the nd of Steady Hapits,”” was looking ahead. “You'll be able to play it when you get big and go to Con- gress.” Mrs. Sarah McCord Cake, one of the oldest ladies in Northumberland county, Pa., died on the 2ist inst. She left a large family. Joseph W. Cake, late Collector of the port of Philadelphia, and General Henry L, Cake, late representative in Congress from the Schuylkill district, are her sons, She was the oldest resident of Northumberland borough. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Jan, 22—1 A. M. Probabilities. The low barometer in New York will move east- ward with clearing weather, lower temperature, northwesterly winds and occasional snow on the Lower Lakes, and in Canada and New England; for the Middle States generally clearing weather, northwesterly winds, diminishing temperature and occasional fogs on the seabeard ; for the Guif and South Atlantic States light winds, partly cloudy, and colder weather; for the mid-Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys, and thence to Kentucky and Indiana, southeast- erly winds, low pressures, threatening weather and occasional rain and snow; for the Northwest and the Upper Lakes, increasing pressures, lower temperatures, northwesterly and northeasterly winds and occasional snow. 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 year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building:— 1872, 1873, 1872, 1873, 37 33 2 33 3 A.M. 3:30 P. 3 33 «6 P.M. 38 3T 36 35 9 P.M 36 wu 39 38 12 P. M. 34 a“ Average temperature yesterday... Pr Average temperature for corresponding date last year... eoeeeeee PENNSYLVANIA \ Inauguration ef Governor Hartranft— Re-clection of Cameron to the United States Senate by a Majority of Twenty- two on Joint Ballot. HaRRispvra, Pa, Jan. 21, 1873, Governor Hartranft was inaugurated to-day. The weather was very inclement; nevertheless a great crowd of people congregated, military organiza- tions from Philadelphia and other points taking part in the procession. The Governor's address covers substantially the same ground as that of the retiring Governor Geary. Both houses balloted for United States Senator to-day. The oficial vote stood thus:—Senate— Cameron, 18; Wallace, 11; Wright, 1; Marshall, 1. House—Cameron, 59; Wallace, 37, Governor Geary, before vacating his office, par- doned Mary Ridey, who was sentenced to twen years’ imprisonment for killing two men in a tav- ern about five years ago. . NEVADA SENATORIAL ELECTION. Virornta Crry, Jan. 21, 1873, ‘The Legislature this morning, the branches vot- ing separately, elected John P. Jones Senator by majorities of 8 in the House and 11 in the Senate. There will be a joint session to-morrow, when the vote will be officially promulgated. WISCONSIN, Election of a United States Senator. Maptson, Wis., Jan. 21, 1873, Hon. Timothy 0, Howe was to-day re-elected United States Senator. THE GEORGIA SENATORSHIP, ATLANTA, Ga., Jan, 21, 1873. The following is the result of the vote for United States Senator on the first bailot in the Generai Assembly of Georgia te-day :—Gordon, 93; Stephe: $6; Benjamin Git sus Melder, 17; ‘Akerinan, 13. ‘Phe indications favor the election af Gordon to- morrew. THE POLITICAL SUIT IN UTAH. Saut LAR Cry, Jan. 21, 1873, In the Maxwell-Cannon contest case to day, Mrs, Governor Woods testifed that she and Mrs, May attended the polls, and cast their votes for George R. Maxwell, and that she thought, from what ehe saw, that the election was conducted ina very fair, quiet and impartial manner, A meeting of citizens was held here to-night ta co-operate With others at Be: in the sascrib- ing lor a monument at the scene ol the Mouncain Dinadow massayre, Steg