The New York Herald Newspaper, January 22, 1873, Page 7

EGYPT. Marriage Contract Betrothal of the Hereditary Prince. Wourt Ceremonial and Big Presents to the ‘ Foreign Consuls—Congratulations from Constantinople, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Caro, Jan. 21, 1873. _ Acontract of marriage between the Hegeditary Prince of Egypt and the daughter of Elhani Pacha ‘was signed on the 16th inst., in the presence of the Khedive, the Cabinet, the bighest officials of the rviceregal court and the representatives of the foreign Powers. ; Each Consul received the present of a Cashmere Bhawi and a dromedary. On the 18th inst, there were races, and in the ‘evening a grand ball was given. The Sultan of Turkey sent congratulations and honors to the Khedive and the members of his family, RUSSIA AND BRITAIN. Count Schouvaloff’s Mission to St. James’—The Proposed Alliance for Central Asiatic Progress, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, Jan. 21, 1873, The Dafly Telegraph of this morning has a Bpecial despatch from Brussels contradicting the ‘statement that Count Schouvaloff failed in his mis- sion to secure the co-operation of the British gov- ernment in the measures contemplated by Russiain Central Asia. THE BONAPARTES. Prince Napoleon Visits Her Majesty Victoria. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERAL®, Lonpon, Jan. 21, 1873, Prince Napelcon Bonaparte, accompanied by his ‘wife, Princess Clothilde, of italy, paid a visit to Her Majesty Queen Victoria yesterday. FRANCE. ‘Parliamentary Debate on the Public School Question—M. Thiers’ Policy Sustained—Com- munists To Be Led to . Exeoution— The Russian Minister Returned. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Jan. 21, 1873, In the Assembly to-day, after a noisy and undig- ‘ified discussion, M. Christophies’ motion approv- ing the circular of the Minister of Puolic Instruc- tion on educational reform was adopted by a vote -@f 420 yeas to 35 nays, ‘The members of the Right abstained from voting, ‘Dut in vain, and the vote was declared valid. COMMUNIST CONVICTS TO BE SHOT TO DEATH. Fenouilly, Decamp and Beust, three Communists ‘Under sentence of death, will be shot to-morrow ‘morning at Satory. In the cases of ten other Communists, who were nto have been executed about the same time, the President has commuted the sentences to imprison- gaent for life, RETURN OF THE RUSSIAN MINISTER, His Excellency Prince Orloff, the Russian Ambas- ‘Bador, has returned to Paris. THE FRENCH BOURBONS. The Orleans Princes in Commemoration ef Louis XVI.—Legitimist Hopes in Paris. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, Jan. 21, 1873, ‘The Orleans Princes to-day forthe first time at- “Gended a massin commemoration of Louis XVI. at the Chapel of Expiation. The circumstance excites comment and is regarded by some of the journals ‘as an indication that the union of the Legitimists ud Orleanists has been completed. ALGERIA. wee Se TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Pais, Jan. 21, 1873. The French War Office has received despatches ifrom the Governor General of Algeria, which report that the army court martial sitting at Algiers has condemned to death eight of the perpetrators of ‘the Palestro massacre and sentenced thirty-seven thers to various terms of imprisonment, AUSTRIA, Preparations for the Opening of the Vienna Exhi- bition—American and British Manu- é facturers i Competition. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS, . Lonpon, Jan, 21, 1873, The World’s Exhibition at Vienna will open in May. The American Commission is very active in securing space and providing accommodations for exhibitors from the United States, A sharp compe- tition ts expected between British and American manufacturers of mowers, reapers amd other im- proved agricultural machinery. CUBA. Insurgent Penitents Promoted—The United States Naval Flag in Port. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS, HAVANA, @an. 21, 1873, ‘Pedro and Juan Verquiza, insurgent leaders, whe surrendered some time ago, have been appointed, the former captain and the latter lieutenant, in the Spanish army. UNITED STATES NAVAL FLAG IN PORT. The United States steamer Nipsic arrived in the harbor of Guantanamo yesterda: Movements of the United States Fleet im the Waters of As Sinearore, Dec. 1, 1872, Yesterday the Colorado ceased to be flag- ship of the Asiatic fleet. At one o'clock all hands were mustered on deck—eMcers with Swabs, swords and so forth; men in their best ‘muster clothes. There was the usual amount ot bowing and saluting, but no parting drinks. To-day, though Sunday, has been ene of the busiest days of the week, All the sick are sent on the Colorade for ortation home. Mess stores are brought on board jor all the officers’ messes, but mowing for the biue shirts but their daily ration of tough beef and small potatocs. ‘The cutter barge Daring was lowered to-day from the davits, where she has so long and trium- phantly huag, and sent to the new flagship Lack. wanna, Her crew, who have borne off the palm of victory in many well contested trials of speed, remain and go home victers in tke old Colorado, She sails to-morrow at ht. Naval Orders, WASHINGTON, Jan, 21, 1873. Commander John G, Walker is ordered to the Navy ‘Yard at Boston, Lieutenant George R. Durand was ‘detached from the Nipsic on the 7th instant and Co under waiting orders. Chaplain W. R. Cobb a8 been ordered to the Mare Island Navy Yard. ARMY ORDER, WASHINGTON, Jan, 21, 1873. Lieutenant Colonel M. 0. L. Simpson, Chief Com- Missary of Subsistence in the Miltary Division of the Pacific, has been ordered here to conier with the Commissary General regarding affairs of the Subdsisicace Department gp the Pucilic coast, PORT DEPOSIT DELO. A Whole Town Inundated at the Mouth of the Susquehanna. Six Feet of Water in the Main Street. SCENES OF DESTRUCTION. Houses Deserted, Washed Down and Crushed While Floauag Away. Hundreds of Families Made Destitute. A TERRIBLE FRESHET. Ice Gorged in the River Thirty Feet High. Port Derosit, Md., Jan. 21, 1873. The people of this little town are suffering under an aggregation of woes. The ice in the Susque- hanna is banked up solid in front of the town, and the water has come in on the inhabitants and Nooded more than half the town. Yesterday was the beginning of their troubles, and the ice is still collecting, the water flowing through the town with unabated force. At this writing the channel on the left bank of the river has been opened by the action of the increasing volume of water, and some of the ice is moving off. Tne cause of all this trouble is traceable to the carelessness of the peo- ple who are now suffering from its effects. About two miles below the town and one mile from Havre de Grace is a lumber boom, which is used to hold back rafts until such time as they are required. This boom is left closed the year round, and in Win- ter the ice gathers and is held tight. AS THE FLOATING 1CE comes down faster and faster, it {s piled in great masses high above the surface ef the water and ex- tends downward to the bed of the river, There is now at least six miles of this ice in the river at this time, solidly packed and extending irom one shore to the other, and presenting to the eye a grand and awful exhihition of the power of the elements. Agreeably to your instructions I left Philadelphia last evening and arrived in Havre de Grace this morning at three o'clock. I crossed over to Perry- ville at an early hour and found, to my extreme surprise, that the trains could not RUN TO PORT DEPOSIT on account of the freshets. I was informed, how- ever, that for the slight consideration of a $1 50 I could get to my destination by hack conveyance. The distance by ratlread is four miles; by the route we were required to take it was seven miles, and I“thanked my lucky stars’ that I got there safe and sound, for we went over & mountain, down ice covered hills, and whirled around corners with unabated speed until the vehicle halted at one of principal hotels in the town. The whole front of the town, for overa mile in length and extending backwards an average distance of five hundred feet, was submerged. Houses had been deserted, and in the hasty flight of their occupants articles of household use and luxury were left to the MERCY OF THE RUSHING WATERS, Stores, houses, lumber yards, offices, railroads, coal yards and docks shared a common fate; and in two hours after the water began crowding into the town the work of destruction was complete. Hun- dreds of men, women and children were fiying, in their mad haste grasping in their hands whatever they could save in their hurry; clerks and store- keepers, their feet encased in great rubber boots, hurried hither and thither with vafious articles of “storo truck,” as they term groceries and provi- sions in this country, and all around was a scene of desolation and horror such as seldom visits our American riverside towns. All the time the water gathered strength, and the great masses of ice piled themselves in giant heaps in front of the town. “The public wharves were submerged, then the cellars of the storeheuses overflowed. Silently and swiftly the waters deepened; lumber floated out against the mass of ice, where its progress was stayed, and the main strect of the village being finally reached the PANIC BECAME UNIVERSAL. One foot of water coursed rapidly through this street from one end of the town to the other; then another foot, and another and another, until finally there. was six feet of waterthere. A railroad track was covered to a like depth, and the waters were only stayed in their madness at the centre of the town, AS soon as tle people could collect their senses they endeavored to estimate their losses, but even now there can be ne correct estimate made, for no one knows whether the destruction has only commenced or will extend further and engulf the whole town. At present the losses are estimated all the way from sixty to one hundred ana fifty thousand dollars. Of course there is no insurance, and the loss, what- ever it be, must be a “dead” loss, The telegraph office was inundated, and the operators were re quired to move back inte the hill yesterday after- noon, A DOOMED FAMILY ON CARR'S ISLAND. There was a rumor here yesterday and this morning that a family—of husband, wife and five children—were cooped up on Carr's Island and en- tirely helpless, Although myself and a gentleman from Philadelphia offered to be of a party to ge to their rescue, no one of the inhabitants seemed willing to risk his life in such an endeavor, “Dy'e reckon, mister, we could walk on the ice from here to the island?” said a tall, greasy moun- taineer to my friend. “Of course we can; or, at least, we can try,” ‘was the reply. “Well, then, I reckon that man and his family can walk ashore,” and the mountaineer’s wit was received with general laughter by the bystanders near by. We were forced by the apathy of the people to glve up our trip to the helpless and stary- ng people. It would have been a dangerous un- dertaking, but with generous spirits and willing hands in suMcient numbers I think we could have made a successful trip to the ‘is!and and taken off the family in safety. At last advices they were still there, and their chances of relief and assist- ance very poer indeed. DWELLINGS THAT RSCAPED INUNDATION. There are two or three heuses in the town, the best here, that have escaped injury of any kind. One of them was the birth-piace of Postmaster Creswell, and his venerable mother could be seen at the window to-day calmly toeking at the ruin at her feet. The residence of Jacob Tome, a million- aire of the place, is uninjured. Mr. J. J. Abraham's house is also intact. Each of these houses liter. ally built on @ rock, and a little higher elevated than the surrounding houses. I went into the cupola on the roof of "a store this after- noon, to take BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE ICR-GORGE. The cellarsof this store were submerged, and I found it necessary to climb over several ice-coated iles of lumber and indulge in some ground and forny tumbling before | effected an entrance intothe building through s door in the second story. The view was 5i ly grand and impressive. Up and down the river almost as far as the eye could reach stretched one unbroken mass of piled-up ice. In places it was fifteen feet above the usual level of the water, and great cakes of it would occasionally tumble into @ newly-formed chasm with a crash that echoed to either shore, BUILDINGS WRECKED AND WASHED AWAY. Below me the waters of the river whirled and eddied through the principal streets of the town, at times gathering in its rapid current an outhouse or shed, and dashing it against the storehouses on the wharves, shivering its frail timbers into a thousand pieces. In s iew moments the tragments would disappear under the ice, and that would end the entertainment until another shed, or office, or tle of lumber was whirled iorward to destruction. 0 the scene is kept up, and the excitement of the people is kept constantly alive. One scene of de- struction passes to another constantly, but I am glad to be able to A ge that no lives are known to have been lost as yet. 10K PILED THIRTY PRET M1Gt. Advices from McCall's ferry represent the ice as piled up there toa height of thirty feet and gorged tight between either bank of the river, The town of Port Deposit is situated on the cast bank of the Susquehanna, about ten palles from it mouth and about six miles above the towns of Perryville and Havre de Grace, on either side ot the river, where the Philade'phia, Wilmington and 1@ Railroad bridge. rm crosses its great ze. It is a very old town, built upon the edge of the river, within bend making 0! to the West, eontains between four hundred dwellmgs and stores, nearly all of e, and was a popula- tion of about two thousand. The pees trade of the place is tm lumber, @ railroad to Philadelphia, the Maryland Central Railroad, in ad- dition to the connection with the Wilmington and Baltimore road, and the vessels by thie river, afford- ing ready transportation facilities, and the opera- tions annually are very large in the lumber trafic, 28 also in granite, whici is quarried in large quan- tities from the hills near the tewn. PREVIOUS DISASTERS, It has been several times badly damaged by the river freshets, but the trade attractions have al- ways kept together a fair population, despite the dangers, In 1357 the lower town was nearly de- stroyed, there being both loss of life and of prop- erty. Since that time no such destructive treshet has ovcurred until now, when similar scenes of de- struction are presented. Although the people represent their losses as amounting to over one hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, | think it doubtiul if the total will reach that sum, yet the people who have lost their all are dependent on their daily exertions for their bread, and their sufferings wilt prob. bly appeal more strongly to ihe sympathies of our people than the language I can find to tell you, and the first im- lenge would seem to be that immediate help should rendered such as need it. There are at least two hundred and filty families in this place now in actual want of the necessaries of life. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. SS EEnIEReEEEEEieel Port Dgrosit, Jan. 21, 1873. The river commenced rising here on Saturday and rose about ten feet, and on Sunday ail the houses on the lower side of tne strect next the river were completely flooded, and the occupants obliged to seek refuge in houses in the upper side of the street and on the hill, Monday there was @ great destruction ef prop- erty, and the river was still rising, causing great loss to the lumber merchants, particularly Davis & Pugh. To-day the water ts falling. There are great quan- titles of ice in the river firmly gorged. It is hoped the crisis is past, but we cannot tell much about it at present. The ice is gorged for miles above and below the town. The loss is variously estimated from $25,000 to $50,000, THE MODOC VICTORY. top ” Confirmation of the Befogged Bat- tle of Friday. THE TROOPS COMPLETELY ROUTED. Fourteen Whites Killed and Twen- ty-three Wounded. Reinforcements Ordered to the Scene of War. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 1873. Oficial despatches have been received at Army Headquarters from General Canby, dated Portland, Oregon, January 20, giving an account of the attack of Colonel Wheaton upon the Modoc stronghold on the 17th inst. The details are substantially the same as contained in the regular press report. The fight lasted from eight o'clock in the morn- ing until dark. A force of artillery and infantry has been ordered from the Department of Co- lumbia into the district of the lakes, and a com- pany of cavalry was ordered into the district for the protection of the Surprise Valley. Reports reaching General Canby from the interior pests as to the disposition of the Indians are en- trely satisfactory, although they appear to be fully apprised of the dificulty with the Modocs, Additional Particulars of the Fighting— Desperate Accuracy of the Indian Sharp-Shooters—Picking Off the United States Troops from the Rocks. San FRANCISCO, Jan. 20, 1873. Additional reports trom the scene of Friday’s bat- tle with the Modoc Indians represent that ten of the white troops were killed and thirty wounded. Lieutenant Roberts, of Fairchild’s command, can- not live. The Modocs fought naked, and with the greatest desperation, springing from rock to rock, picking off the seldiers and obliging many of them to hide themselves till darkness afforded means for their escape. The troops made several charges along the line of the lava beds, but were repulsed. The howit- zers could not be used to advantage owing toa dense fog. Captain “Jack” has the strongest natural posi- tion in the country. THE LATEST. — > Reinforcements of Cavalry, Infantry and Artillery &m Route for ptain Jack’s Stronghold—Another Attack o the Warriors Imminent—The White Soldiers Left to be Scalped—Fourteen Soldiers Killed and Twenty-three ‘Wounded. San Francisco, Jan. 21, 1873, Four companies of United States troops—two of artillery, one of iafantry and one of cavairy—started for the theatre of the Modoc war te-day trom this city. The artillery will take the field as in- fantry. The total number is about three hundred. Later intelligence from the scene of the battle with the Modocs shows that fourteen whites were killed and twenty-three wounded. The troops were obliged to leave their dead on the field. The volunteers will leave for home in a few days, ‘as their term of service will expire, Arizona Merchants Fearful of the Hos- tile Reds, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20, 1873. All the principal business firms in Nerthern Ari- zona have signed @ petition, addressed to the Sec- retary of War, representing the unfitness of the town of Tucson as the general and only depository of the government funds on account of its remote- ness and the fact that it can only be reached by roads through a hostile Indian country. The petitioners desire that Prescott be made the Place of all deposit, or that Sam Francisco be selected for that purpose, as was the case formerly when two paymasters made altermate trips from that city into the Territory. Before the Battle—Letter from One on the Spet. {From the Jacksonville (Oregon) Sentinel, Jan. 4.) We have been permitted to copy the followin, letter, written to his wife by Uaptain Kelly, date Willow Creek, Cal., December 27, 1872, He say: * * © We have been Moke | from ony, to day for the ready to act with us. General general of the United States thi can to get ready for the final . He ious, and has strongly insisted that I remain with ay, forces until the 6th or 8th of January, that being the day on which he expects to make the tack. He says he expects to be ready by the 6th ,and will Rot be later than the 10th. He has been waiting on tl howitzers that are now on the road between this pla and Jacksonville, and thinks that it is not safe to mal the attack without the aid of the one to shell the fc tifleations, The Imdiat ily fortified ii and rocks on south end of Tule Lake. Ferry, of the United States forces, and myself ha gontioltred the Indian camp, under orders of General he Indians have about one hundred war- think they can whip the world .. General Wheaton thinks that itis not ‘attack them without first shelling them itis doubefal whether we could whip them with our present force. The regulars and the yolunteers num- ber about two hundred and fifty m all, We are all well, and as soon as the battle is over I will leave for home of double-quiek tune. WALES, The Iron Miners’ Strike Abating Toward a Close. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Loxpon, Jan. 21, 18%. There is reason to hope that ¢he strike of the iron miners ia sae south of Wales will soon | terminate, / NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2%, 1873—TRIPLE THE STATE CAPITAL. Election of Roscoe vonkling to the United States Senate. The Court of Appeals Seals the Fate of the Car-Hook Murderer. A Reckless Use of a Weapon May Be Mur- der in the First Degree. ALBANY, Jan, 21, 1873, The Court of Appeals to-day affirmed the judg- ment of the lower Court in the case of THE CAR-HOOK MURDERER, FOSTER, and remitted the proceedings for further action in the Court below to carry the judgment into effect, In other words, the prisoner has been refused a new trial, and <5 HIS ONLY HOPE FOR LIFE NOW LIES WITH THR GOVERNOR, which, it is scarcely necessary to say, is no hope atall. The Court were unanimous in their deci- ston that the conviction in the lower Court of the wretched man of murder in the first degree was a righteous one according to the evidence, The law- yers whoare now here attending the Court, many of whom are among the most eminent in the State, ex- press the opinion that this decision will goa great way toward preventing other appeals of a like character, based on which some lawyers call AN ABSENCE OF INTENTION TO KILL. The opinion o! the Court, which has not yet been obtainable in full, it 1s said, considers it murder in the first degree for one man to kill another by the violent and reckless use of 8 weapon which is likel: to cause death, and considers the party so using it is reckless of human life, in other words, takes his chances as to whether he kills or not, and that this recklessness as to what may be the result of his violence constitutes murder fn the first degree. ACQUITTAL OF JUDGE CURTIB, The decision of the Senate in the Curtis case seems to excite no surprise, although there are whoae who incline to the belief that, being a dem- ocrat, HIS ACQUITTAL. WAS A SORT OF OFFSET to the acquittal o/ Prindle, a republican. It is gen- erally conceded, however, that the prosecution fatled to make out their case, not because they did not WA to, but as some say because the witnesses they depended upon, for some cause or other, did not come up to the scratch when they were called upon to make good what they had beforehand! claimed to be able to testify about, There are QUEER STORIES AFLOAT to-night about this particular feature of the case, but ag the Judge hag been adjudged not guilty of the charge brought against him it would only be doing him injustice, probably, to repeat them now. HIS FRIENDS here are naturally very jubilant over the way the matter has ended and are making merry accord- ingy 6 hearing of parties in favor of and against THR CORNELL CHARTER, which is to take place to-morrow before the Joint Committee on Cities, is all the talk this evening among the members of both houses. A desperate effort is to be made by George Bliss and his party te show that the bill ought to pass in its present shape, and to that end Bliss, Hugh Gardner, Gen- eral Arthur, Tom Murphy, Lafliin and a host of fed- eral office-holders, it is said, will be on hand to do thelr level best to convince the committees that that they are correcting their views. THE COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY on this occasion will make its first appearance at Albany for this session and will come represented by Rufus Choate, Jackson 8, Schultz and Dorman B. Eaton, Join Wheeler, Professor Dwight and others, ‘The three first mentioned are coming as republicans TO OPPOSE CERTAIN OBJECTIONABLE FEATURKS IN THE BILL, which they look upon as non-republican. The others are te appear as the friends of the people, Tegardless of party, to argue against itas not being in reality a reform measure, THE DEMOCRATS, as faras the hearing is concerned, are to act the part of lookers on, They will make no demonstra- tion and let the republicans have all the taik to themselves. A large number of prominent re- form Tammanyites are expected te be present simply to listen and be edified by the discussions, What action they will take about the bill and what pipes they will lay aiterwards to make it havea hard road to travel, if it is finally tabled into the two Houses with its ‘radical’ retorms uueradi- cated, will probably be decided upon before they go home. NEW MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION, Hon. Lysander Farrar, of Rochester, was to-day appointed by Governor Dix and Secretary of State Scribner a member of the Constitutional Commis- sion in place of Hen. David Rumsey, Judge of the Supreme Court. NOMINATION CONFIRMED. The Senate in executive session to-day confirmed the nomination of Nathan Bishop, of New York City, to be Commissioner of Public Charities, NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. Senate. Aupany, Jan, 21, 1873. NOTICES OF BILLS. Mr. Apaas gave notice of a bill to amend the Quaran- tine laws. Mr. Cock gave notice of a bill to establish a suspension bridge between Staten Island and New Jersey. BILLS INTRODUCED, BY Et Baxen—To establish & Kensselaer police dis rict. By Mr, Romtxsox—To exempt the Home for Incurables, in Westchester county, trom taxation, By Mr. Jounson—An' act providing that no railroad company doing business in this State shall, after the pas- gaze of this law, charge any greater sum for transporting freight over any portion of their roads than they charge for carrying the same class of freight over the entire line of their road; for every violation of this act the com- pany so violating shali be liable toa penalty of $100, to be ed for and collected by any person who is #0’ over: ‘ged. Mr. Jounson moved to refer the bili to the Canal Com- mittee, as the Railroad Committee of last year had failed to report a similar bill. Lost by # vote of 9in the affirmative and 15 in the neg- ative, and the bill went to the Railroad Committee, The following bills were put on THE THIRD READING AND PASSED -— Ladhepiy 8 the term of the Commission of Pere In jon to the disposition of causes on the calendar ot the Court of Appe: to appropriate $50,000 for the purchase of a steamboat for quarantine purposes. ‘The following bills were ‘THIRD READING PROGRESSED TO A DI Legafizing the bonds of the towns of Chili and York; issued to aid in the erection of the Rochester and Nevada Railroad; to authorize a double session of the Court of Sessions in New York ‘act relative to the Constitu- tional Commission, allowing it to act on the Judiciary article. Recess for ten minutes. SPECIAL ORDER. The Paxstpent stated the hour of twelve o'clock having arrived, agreeably to a resolution herctotore adopted, the Senate would proceed to the NOMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE OF UNITED STATES SENATO! for six years from the 4th of March next. The vote was taken, resulting as follows For Roscoe Conkling, 20; Charles G. Wheaton, 5; Henry R. Selden, 1; William M. Evarts, 1. ROSCOR CONKLING ELECTED. The Presrpenr decided that Hon. Roscoe Conkling, having received the highest number of votes was duly declared the choice of the Senate for the office of United States Senator, Assembly. ‘Ausany, Jan. 21, 1873. NOMINATING A UNITED STATES SENATOR. ‘The Speaker here announced that the hour of twelve M. had arrived, and the House would proceed to name a candi for United States Senator. The roll was called, and Mr. Roscoe Conkling was named by 92 members. Mr. Charles Wheaton was named by 2% members. ‘The Speaker then announced that ROSCOK CONKLING WAS DULY NOMINATED ot the House, The election in joint session to-morrow. ‘on the takes plac The consideration of the rales was then resumed, when mwas non retaining Oa Me BI To create » Board of By Mr, Back cor which makes Ly n jays after the passage of this act to appoint —— Commisioners of Emigration, who, together with the Mayor of the city of New York, ihe President of the German Emigration Society and the President of the Irish Emigrant ‘who shall be Commissioners ex-officio, shall constitute a, Board ot Commissioners of Emigration ot the State. TI powers and duties now Imposed oh the Commissioners shall be exercised by this Board. By Mr. Pxit—To Incorporate the PALMER ELEVATED RAILWAY COMPANY of New York. It ni ‘as incorporators William Palmer, Charles H. Ward, William Walton, 8. T. Streeter, Kobert Cleneghen, Morris R. Williams, Thomas M. Walton and Edward Baker, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, the gen- eral railway powers to be granted. Beginning at the Battery the shall ran northerly along West street to Tenth avenue, thence to Thirty-first street. The company ests COMPENSATION TO THE CITY of New York for rights granted, to be determined as pro- vided in the General Railroad act. By Mr. Prit—To construct a RAILROAD IN haaaaeaih’ 5 jy AND OTNRR STRERTS 1X 7 mes as incarporators John ¥. Henry, Samuel F, Pottengill, Aaron Brinkerhott, Harmon 0. tall and Flisha'T. Teneyck. The road is to begin on Bast Thirty- h street run to Lexington avenne, thence Forty-second street, thence to Sixth avenue, thence to West Thirty-fourth street, thence to the Hudson River, Adjourned, Constitath 1 Commission. ALBANY, Jan, 21, 1873. At the session of the Constitutional Commission to-day, Mr. Rosinson, from the Committee on State Offices, reported in favor of electing a Comp- troller at the same time the Governor is elected 4 for the same term. The State Treasurer to be Sected by the Legislature on joint ballot, and the Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Engt- neer and Superintendent of Prisons to be ap- pointed by the Governor. The remainder of the morning session was taken up in debating ques- Uons of special legislation, / aur, COMING CHARTER. —— THE Discussion Upon It im the Joint Committee on Cities of the Legislature To-Day—Views of New York Members in Brief. ALBANY, Jan. 21, 1873, The new charter for New York city, introduced by Mr. Weismann in the Senate and by Speaker Cornell in the Assembly, will come before the joint Committee on Cities of the two houses of the Legislature to-morrow. The document was pub- lished complete in the HERALD several days ago, and has been in nowise altered or amended since it was referred to the Com- mitte on Cities, It proposes to make a more radi- cal change in our system of city government than has been known since our city affairs became leg- islative business, ana it is therefore a subject that our people should be thoroughly informed upon. In advance of THR ARGUMENTS AND PROPOSITIONS likely to be presented to-day in the joint commit- tee a canvass of the New York members ot the two houses upon the subject gives the following re- sult:— The Senators, SENATOR WRISMANN, from the Sixth district, @ republican, introduced the'charter in the Senate, atid unqualifiedly com- mends all its provisions, He is willing, however, to accept judicious amendments, SENATOR TIEMANN, trom the Eighth district, is a democrat, and has in- troduced a charter of his own, which proposes to abolish commissions generally, and restore to the city its almost forgotten privilege of self-govern- ment. He is satisfied with some of the minor pro- visions of the charter, but objects to its genera! principles, SENATOR BENEDICT, from the Fifth district, is a republican and has not yet formed anopinion upon the subject. He wants to hear the argument before he decides, SENATOR O'BRIEN, from the Seventh, is an Apollo Hall democrat, and says that if the charter means reform of Tammany misrule he will favor it. The Assemblymen, MR. PELL, republican, from the Ninth district, thinks many improvements might be made in the new charter, and proposes himself to offer some amendments when it comes up for discussion. There ought to be two Boards of Aldermen for in- stance, and “I have gne thing,’’ said he, “that must get in.” MR. OPDYER, republican, from the Twentieth district, thinks that the charter is an improvement on the present system, and holds that it should be more reform and less republican. In other words, where ought not to be a strictly partisan charter where munici- pal reform for citizens of all politics is intendsd. As the case stands at present he hopes the charter Will be thoroughly discussed and amended, MR. BIGLIN, from the Eighteenth district, is a strict republican of the order of the Custom House and sees nothing but a highly desirable party measure in the pro- posed charter. He thinks that the wishes of demo- cratic citizens throughout New York must, by the Tuling of the last election, be subordinate to the wishes and needs of the republican party. He is anxious to have the charter discussed and amended if the majority think It necessary, but om party principles he favors it. MR. BLACKIE, FROM THR FIFTRENTH DISTRICT, is rather a republican than a reformer. He, too, is daubed with the Custom House brush and looks upon a Custom House government in New York city as the eniy safety of the municipality. MR, CLARKE, FROM THE SEVENTH DISTRICT, is for the charter because it is republican and means reform, MR. PATTERSON, FROM THE TENTH DISTRICT, is of the same way of reasoning. Mk, WOODS, FROM THE SIXTEENTH DISTRICT, is a democrat and rejects the charter entirely. believes in Senater Tiemann’s proposition, MR. BLUMENTHAL (reform democrat endorsed by the Committtee of Seventy), from the Fifteenth district, states that he is not in favor of the republican charter in its present sbape. He says he is not op- posed to it simply because it happens that it was ‘epared by republicans. He does not oc in the idea of legislating partially in a charter, and if a clean sweep is to be made of the present heads of departments he thinks no person should be made an exception He says that he wants the Mayor to have the power of absolute appointment and removal, with- out consent of the Board of Alaermen or of any other board or authority whatever. MR, BURNS, democrat, who hails from the Second district, is strongly opposed to the charter amendments. He says that the Mayor should be given the exclusive power @/ appointment and removal. He wants the responsibility to be centred in one man, and then he believes the people can tell who they can biame or praise, a8 the case may be. He says that during the palmy days of Tammany the great cry of the reformers was centralization of power, and now that they have the “grip” to try the experi- ment by in New York he is willing to give them all the chance they want. MR, COOK, DEMOCRAT, FROM THE TWELFTH DIS- TRICT, states that he is out and out against the charter. He says that it aims too much at the accomplish. ment of the schemes of a politicai clique. He be- lieves that if we are to do everything under the re- jorm banner New York should not be dealt with in a niggardly way. He is ready to go for a charter that looks to the welfare of the people and the fact that New York is a democratic city. While recog- nizing the force of the argument that to the victor belongs the spoils he contends that the minority should have some representation, He is in favor, also, of giving the absolute power of appointmen' and removal to the Mayor, MR. BLESSING, democrat, from the Seventeenth district, belleves the charter to be too much of & good thing for the republicans. He is willing that the Mayor snould have full power to appoint and remove at will or jor good cause ‘all the heads of departments, He decries the idea of trying to make reform the hobby for partisan triumph, and claims that the charter, a8 it stands, in his epinion, is nothing more nor less than @ political machine to foist upon a democratic city an army of officials repug- nant to their wishes, and who have little, if any, regard for their rights whenever they interfere with their plans of aggrandizement, MR. HEALEY. Mr. Healey was elected last year from the First district on the reform ticket, in opposition to the regular Tammany candidate. At the last election he was elected as the Tammany candidate, Mr. Healey states that as a New Yorker he wants to see the city well gover! and the people prosper, At the same e@ he does not think that because the republicans have ot = into ower ignore the ct = that they should jew York ‘ity is, look at the last election as you will, overwhelmingly democratic. In case of & direct fight between the two parties on any bill he says he will be always on the side of his own party, and is dead against the charter presented, because it is partisan. MR. HAYES, democrat from the Third district, will, he says, stand firm at all hazard to the party. He will vote for any charter that will be brought up, but as the Custom House charter attempts .to override democrats in every way and place the city under the control of the republicans he will op- pose it stoutly. He believes that the best policy the majority should follow would be to conciliate the democrats, not to foolismly at- tempt to so fix things as to crush them out o! every department of the gevernment. Mr. Hayes con- tends that all ke asks for is that New York city should have a fair show, that her welfare in every respect rather than the benefit of any one party or faction of a party should be the first consideration. In case the republicans act honorably he believes they will have no trouble in the matter of setting good charter through; but he says that he, Ii every other good democrat, will fight the Custom House charter im its present shape against all oads and inducements, TIMOTHY CAMPBELL, democrat, from the Sixth Tict, holds the same views as Mr. Hayes. He he is going in for genuine reform this session, and wants none of the shilly-shally stuff called reform which he heard so about last 3 As to the charter he will op- pose it because {i purely a republican one. He says, however, that he intends to keep his weather eye open and if he finds that the democrats will be iven some say in the way the offices will be distri- uted he will mot be ugly. He wants to give the pone full powers and likes Tiemann’s charter very much, XR. DEERING, Apollo Hall democrat, is not satisfied, he says, with the mew charter, It has very many objection- able features, which he, as a gt democrat and a reformer, will not countenance. He does not bde- lieve in partisan legisiation and will vote against the charter as it nds, if the fact is not reco; nized in amendments made to it that New Yor city is a democratic city and has a right to be gov- erned by men of her choice. He believes that the Mayor shouki haye untrammejied power of appoint- ment and removal, MR. 0, G. CORNELL, democrat, from the Fourteenth district, ts opposed to the chaxter, and is strongly im favor of that in- troduced by Senator Tiemann, as being more in consonanee with the rights of the democrats, who are in ® majority tn the city. He heartily supports the proposition in Mr. Tiemann’'s bili to give the Mayor full and absolute control in making the ap- pointments of heads of departments and m ye- moving ull officials he appoints, MB. NOKTON, | democrat, from the Fifth district, does not Velieve that the charter is what Lt ought ta be Jur New ‘ — 7 York. He concinites that tt is “tn of ” that there is very \MUCH in it that cannot Se plained of; but, as @ Whole, he thinks it tvo li for @ good reform democrat to swaliow. herefore says he will pote against it uniess it is bill, ner aero rae oe and applauds the ving the power he Mayor of absolute appetn anens and Temovak " YAN, ! democrat, from the Fourth district, ls opposed the charter and in favor of Temann’s measure, ‘4 thinks the republicans claim teo much in their bill. He, too, wants the Mayor to be supreme and wholly responsibie for the government ot She city i she | matter of appointments and rerroval of oficial MR. A. B. CORNELL, from the Eleventh district, is head over heels ig love with the Custom House charter. In his opra-\ {on it is the acme of reform and needs onty to be’ tested, not to be detested. 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