The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1873, Page 7

\ 6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. AMUSENENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston and Bleecker streets.—ALHAMKRA, Matinee at 1)g. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Baosex Sworp—Nick or tux Woovs—Snow Binp, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Wup Cat. Afternoon and Evening. NEW FIFTM AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALise. Matince. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth @v.—CATARACT OF THE GaNcxs. Matince at 134. ATHENEUM, No, £85 Broadway.—Gnanp Vaniery Ex- TERTAINMENT. Matinee at 2) Broadway, between Prince and Ko; pr Matinee at 13g. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Houston streets.—Lxo TA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third See coumanocuen Avs ScuOKNDERG. UARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Heth SAU Pourwenth strecis.—Armunuer Couns, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Broturx Sam. Matinee at Ly. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Avenue.—Baurus; on, Tuk Fats or Tauguix, Matinee, THEATRE COMIQWE. 5i¢ Broadway.—Kxno np Loto. Matinee at 2}; MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Incomar—Rovou Diamonp, Matinee. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st... corner av.—NxGRo Minstaxisy, Eccentaicity, &c. Matinee. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vanurtr Enrerrainment. Matinee ut 234, 8AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Ermiorian Minstextay, £c, ASSOCIATION HALL, 234 street and 4th av.—After- oon at 2—Granxp Conckrr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— SCIENCE AND Art. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “MR. BOUTWELL’S FUNDING POLICY AND THE NEW SYNDICATE!""—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SixTn Pak, A SPANISH STEAMSHIP SAID TO HAVE BEEN THE GAUSE OF THE NORTHFLEET CA- LAMITY! PUBLIU EXCITEMENT! A BEIL- @IAN CONSUL CLAIMS THE REWARD FOR DISCOVERING THE NAME OF THE STEAMER—S&VENTH PGE. RUSSIAN CONQUEST IN CENTRAL ASIA! THE | OFFICIAL GAZETTE OF ST. PETERSBURG SURPRISED AT THE TONE OF THE ENGLISH PRESS! DISAVOWAL OF UNFRIENDLY ENCROACHMENTS UPON AFGHANISTAN.— SEVENTH PaGE. ‘MORE ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS BY THE CON- GRESSIONAL HOAXER! MR, KELLEY’S DISTRESSING EFFORT AT PLAYFULNESS! QUESTIONS OF VERACITY RAISED BE- TWEEN AMES AND THE VICE PRESIDENT— THIRD PAGE. CHINA THREATENED WITH THE RINDERPEST— LATE TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS—PERSONAL NEWS—SEVENTH Page. BY CABLE FROM EUROPE! EXCITEMENT OVER AMERICAN BONDS IN LONDON! SARDOU’S “LIONCLE SAM! GERMAN AGITATION IN REGARD TO EMIGRATION—SkvgxtTa Pace, LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS—ART MATTERS— / A INE NEWS—TeEntu Pac re PERILOUS SNUWf HARROWING RECORD Qh. % FATALITIES AND SUFFERINGS FROM THE GREAT SNOW HURRICANE IN THE WEST! ALL THE PASSENGERS IN A STAGE FROZEN TO DEATH—FovrtH Pace, JUDGE POLAND'S COMMITTEE TEARING OFF “C. M.") MASKS! MIDEOUS REVELATIUNS OF UGLY FEATURES! KELLEY, OF THE KEYSTONE, SECURES HIS STOCK! THE HOAXER TRYING TO SHIELD THE SMILER—Firtu Pace, DISTRIBUTING THE ALABAMA CLAIMS INDEM- NITY! REPORT OF THE HOUSE JUDICLARY COMMITTEE! HALVING THE DAMAGES! BEN BUTLER WANTS A FURTHER DIVIS- ION! HOW TO OBTAIN THE MONEY—Ei¢nTu PaGE. STRONG TESTIMONY IN THE TWEED CASE! MR. TILDEN FINDS SOME DISAGREEABLE EVIDENUVES OF CORRUPTION! A BROWN- STONE SUIT AGAINST A. J. GARVEY! TOM FIELDS’ BONDSMAN ASKS TO BE RE- LEASED! OTHER LITIGATIONS—ELEVENTH PaGE. WILLIAM FOSTER, THE CAR-HOOK MURVERER, TO BE HUNG ON THE 7TH OF MARCH! HIS FINAL SENTENCE! “Il NEVER IN- TENDED TO KILL HIM !"—FourtH Pace. ON ‘CHANGE! THE MO) MARKET AGAIN ACTIVE! GOLD, 114.4%! A REMARKABLE JUMP IN GOVERNMENTS! ERIE AD- VANCED—NINTH PaGu. SCOTLAND'S POPULAR POET! “RABBIE BURNS’ DAY” CELEBRATED WITH ALL THE HON- ORS BY THE ST. ANDREW’S SOCIETY, THE CALEDONIANS AND SCOTS GENER- ALLY—TENTH PAGE. @AUSES OF REAL ESTATE APPRECIATION ON MANHATTAN 1SLAND—A BIG BURGLARY— BOARD OF SUPERVISORS — BROOKLYN'S WATER WASTE—Firtu PAGE, COLFAX LECTURES ON TEMPERANCE— LITERARY JOTTINGS — MURDER — ST. PATRIOK'S DAY—Fourtn Pacr. GUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES— THE STEAMSHIP BRISTOL—Tweirtu Pace. ur No Murper for three days. Tae Presment anv His Caninet.—Rumor now has it that the President intends to make no change in his Cabinet for his term, on the Ath of March, beyond a new appointment for the Treasury in the place of Mr. Boutwell, whe, it is expected, will be elected to the Senate in the place of Wilson, who takes the place in March of Colfax, as Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. Mr. Fish, Madam Rumor will have it, is to remain where he is. If so, we suppose we must wait a little longer. Rarw Transcr.—A bill for rapid transit was introduced in each house at Albany yesterday. See our legislative reports. Gznerat SHaren on Anmonies ror Our Vouunrexns.—The General in his military capacity addressed a note to the Supervisors .yesterday wherein he expressed a belief that it swould be just as cheap for the county to own its militia armories instead of renting them. Four millions, the sum on which he computes we pay interest in rents, would, he believes, cover | the cost of erecting suitable structures, which, he justly claims, the present rented drill rooms are not, The idea looks plausible if reform is whatit professes to bei. ¢., a cheap NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Boutwell’ ding Policy and the New Syndicate. The Committee of Ways and Means having failed to recommend any change in Mr. Boutwell’s plan for funding the debt, after having taken a vast amount of evidence on the subject, and Congress not being likely to interfere, the Secretary fing deemed this an approval, virtually, of his operations with and threugh the Syndicate. Properly enough, therefore, he has proceeded to carry out the scheme to the extent of converting the remain- ing three hundred millions of five-twenties out of the five hundred millions that were to be converted into new five per cents, in accord- ance with the Funding act of Congress, through an agency similar to that which he employed before for the-conversion of the first portion of this part of the debt. The operation is pretty well understood, as it has been fully discussed in the pressand Congress. Jay Cooke & Co. were the Syndicate engaged, as is known, to dispose of the one hundred and thirty-five millions out of the two hundred millions of new five per cents, the balance of sixty-five millions having been taken by the national banks, or, we might say, perhaps, having been forced by the govern- ment upon them. In the fresh arrangement for placing the three hundred millions other parties have been engaged to share the busi- ness and profits with Jay Cooke & Co, These are Morton, Bliss & Co., and Drexel, Morgan &Co. The Jay Cooke party claim to have the Rothschilds with them, and it is said the others represent Baring Brothers and other firms in Europe. The two parties are to have one hundred and fifty millions each to manipu- late. No more respectable names. or efficient banking establishments could be found for the business. So far there is nothing ob- jectionable. It is natural that these bankers should advocate the Syndicate plan and make what money they can in the regular course of business. If there be any blame for adopting this costly mode of funding the debt it rests with the Secretary of the Treasury. It will be well, perhaps, to revert to the Funding act of Congress. Fifteen/ hun- dred millions of the five-twenties, ax per cents, were to be converted, withoutAany in- crease of the debt, into three classes of bonds bearing five, four and a half and fourper cent interest. Five hundred millions pf these were to be converted into fives, threg hundred auillions into four and a haifs, and sven hun- dred millions into fours. Mr. Boptwell led Congress to believe he could fund the debt on these terms. He found, however, that that was not as easy to do as he hail imagined. Either on account of the difficulty, or because he wanted to favor certain pafties with a profitable job, he employel the Jay Cooke Syndicate. Congress had limited ‘the expenses, including ¢pmmission, of converting the debt to/ one-half of one per cent, not imagining, ye suppose, that any additional cost would or efuld be incurred. But Mr. Boutwell discovered/a way of getting round the law without dirptly violating it. In addition to the one-half of one per cent allowed by Congress, whigh he granted the Syndicate as commission) he gave three months’ interest on the bonds, upon the as- sumption that this periodof time was neces- sary to effect the negotiafon or change of se- curities, thus making tle commission really oneand three-quarters per cent. But, besides that compensation, the Syndicate, while draw- ing three months’ interst on the bonds, had the use of a hundred afd thirty-five millions for three months. What was made out of that weedo not know. The same operation is to be repeated for placing the remaining three hun- dred millidms of five per cents by the new Syndicate. The actual cost, therefore, to the government,\ reckoning the interest given on the five per cent’ bonds, will be five millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If we reckon the interest on the six per cents ib, would amovat to six millions. Whether all or.the greater part of this will-be clear profit to the Syndicate must depend upon the state of the market and the skill of the agency. The same may be said as to the use of this vast sum for three months. We admit that it is desirable to convert the present debt into one bearing a lower rate of interest, even at the cost of one and three- quarters per cent, if that be necessary, forthe saving of one per cent a year will reduce the burdens of the people. But there are other considerations not to be lost sight of. First, then, could not the five or six millions given to the Syndicate, or the greater part of it, be saved by the Treasury Department transacting its own business? Unless the object be to force the conversion of our securities in the market, which would be a very questionable policy, we cannot see why the Secretary of the ‘Treasury could not use all the means of adver- tisement and agencies in different parts of this country and the world as well as the Syndicate, and that without incurring such a cost. The greater part of people who desire to invest in United States securities would prefer, probably, to deal directly with the Treasury Department. The utmost cost, then, would hardly amount to a third of that paid to the Syndicate. If the whole fifteen hundred millions should be turned over to this agency for conversion the unnecessary loss to the country will not be less than ten millions. Our New York financiers would give Mr. Boutwell a useful lesson if he would take it. They will make negotiations for large sums for a less percentage than on small sums, or, at least, relatively 30, ‘They know how to make money from handling it, or while it is in their hands, independent of any commissions, Mr. Bout- well, however, seems disposed to increase the compensation with the magnitude of the amount he gives the Syndicate to handle, The Secretary is so eager to fund the debt that he will risk the questiqnable experiment of forcing our new reduced Securities upon the market. Of course, it will be to the intor- est of the Syndicate to get rid of them as fast as possible. The bankers composing the Syn- dicate have great influence, no doubt, but in their desire to make profits they may stimulate speculation, and thereby damage to a cer- tain extent the credit of the government. It may dispose of should afterwards fall below when the Syndicate operation was completed. They look only to their profit in the transac- tion, The Secretary should first look to the credit of the country and to placing the funded debt in the hands of bona fide invest- way of doing desirable things. ors. ‘The best holders are our owa veovle and will not matter to them if the new bonds they | par, as the new fives already disposed of fell | those who have trust funds. That class are leas likely to be reached than speculators through the manipulation of the debt by the Syndicate. The absorption of the new re- duced per cents, as provided tor by the Fund- ing act, would take place through those seek- ing such an investment as rapidly as is de- sirable for the public credit if other and proper means were used by the government for that purpose, Hastening to make changes, disturb- ing the debt continually and employing specu- lating agents must have an unfavorable effect. The proper policy to pursue would be to deliberately fund the whole interest-bearing debt in interminable securities, or consols, of a uniform character. These would readily be taken at a low rate of interest, and lower, we think, than five per cent, on account of their interminability. Various institutions—those who have trust funds and many others who want @ permanent security—prefer such con- sols for investment. The value of safe govern- ment securities, such as those of the United States, is augmented in proportion to the tame they have to run. Nor can a government lose anything by giving its debt that character. Though the securities may be interminable the government is not precluded from redeoming or extinguishing its debt, for it can enter the market at any time and buy as much as it pleases, The credit of the Republic would be more enhanced by such a disposition of the whole debt than by anything else, and there would be no opportunity for the successive jobs in manipulating the debt which we have geen during the last ten or eleven years. We are sadly in need of a comprehensive financial policy and of statesmen capable of inaugurat- ing one. Our Second Great Snow Storm—Disas- trous Record of a Terrible Winter— What Next? Our second great snow storm of this terrible Wintor has passed away. As rain in the Gulf States and as snow from those States far up into the Canadas, it has swept the Continent, from the Great Plains to the Atlantic Ocean. Our Russian storm of December pursued the same general course and covered, we judge, nearly the same area; but while the full force of the December storm fell upon the Northern States east of the Alleghanies, this January snow fall has been heaviest in the Northwest, the storm having partially lost its full strength before reaching New York. Thus throughout Illinois this snow fall is reported at from ten to twelve inches, while here it was less than six. But if deficient here in the volume of snow discharged, this visitation exceeded the storm of December in the furious wind attend- ing it through all the night and morning, and such appears to have been its character from the Nortern Mississippi to the seaboard. © The inevitable consequences—the blockad- railway trains, East and West, and the deten- tions of travel ond transportation in every direction—have followed. What next? in the fearful ordeal of this remorseless Winter, be- comes now a somewhat startling question. With our rivers embanked from point to point with ice gorges from ten to sixty feet in height, with the stresms full, with the soil saturated, and with the plains, valleys, hills and mountains covered with a foot or more of snow, from the East to the West, what will be the consequences to life and property should the next chapter in tho severe vicissitudes of this stormy season be another general thaw, accompanied by heavy rains and sweeping in- undations? We can only hope that the country will escape a calamity so appalling to contemplate; that the intervention of cold, dry weather, followed by a gradual dissolu- tion of the snow and a gradual reopening of our inland streams, will avert the general disasters otherwise to be apprehended. Mean- tims, where danger is to be feared, the needful Precautions required to meet it or to avoid it, as far as possible, should be considered in season. At and for many miles above its mouth, for | instance, the Susquehanna River is gorged with enormous accumulations of drift ice. Let us suppose that this general snow storm is to be followed by a reaction from the north- west, giving us several days of clear, sharp, dry, freezing weather ; that the ice drifts in the Susquehanna will not only be thus locked fast, but that a new body of ice will be formed along the whole line of that great river and its tributaries. But, if next we have a general thaw, with flooding rains, all these ice accumulations will be broken up, and, drifting down on the swollen stream, they will carry general destruction to all the low- land towns and hamlets, as well as to all tho mills and bridges, in their course. This is the danger to be feared from a sudden break- ing up not only of the Susquehanna, but of the Upper Hudson, the Delaware, the Poto- mac, the Ohio, the Mississippi and their affluents. By all, then, exposed to these possi- ble consequences this is the danger to be consid ed. In this view of the subject our Signal Ser- vice Bureau can be of signal service, indeed, in keeping o vigilant watch for alarming changes in the weather and in giving specifle and timely warnings of impending mischief. Mr. J. C. Bancnorr Davis, of the Joint High Jommission and the Geneva Tribunal, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of State in place of Charles Hale, resigned, from which we infer that the sharp diplomatic correspond- ence of the style of that in the Catacazy im- broglio will shortly be resumed by Mr. Fish. Usrren Senatons Evect—Art Apoarp !— That our country is getting along with railroad speed, in one respect at least, is easily demon- strated. We refer to the United States Sena- tors elected this Winter to take their seats on the 4th of March next. Among them are General Stephen W. Dorsey, a native of Ver- mont, but bails from Northwestern Ohio, elected from Arkansas, President of the Arkan- sas Central Railroad Company; Senator Jones, from Nevada, a thrifty railroad operator; Sen- ator Patterson, from South Carolina, a railroad man in grain; Senator Mitchell, from Oregon, a railroad man per se; Senator Bogy, from Missouri, if not precisely a railroad man, he pushes things onward on the railroad princi- | ple. With this infusion of the ‘go ahead” element it will be no wonder if legislation should commence in earnest with the Forty- third Congress, But take care! Don’t let the government locomotive get off the track, nor the Congressional boiler burst. Every new man should enter the next Congress with @ patent Ames’ slut-of in his pocket, ing more or less of city thoroughfares and of | The Credit Mobilier Shame. Whether we turn from the Poland to the Wilson Committee or from the Wilson to the Poland, the result is equally depressing. Crédit Mobilier and Union Pacific appear to be convertible terms with corruption and fraud, and contaminating everything they come in contact with. Judge Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, yesterday learned, it would be made to appear, for the first time, how much wealth he owned in the Crédit Mobilier. It is an in- vestigation pregnant with surprises, and it is only due to Mr. Kelley to say that he pro- duced one when he boldly claimed his stock in the becursed company. That extraordinary old man, Hoax Ames, was equal to the emer- gency, and helped out the matter by handing over the certificate. Then Mr. Kelley, with a dramatic flourish, asked the venerable Poland to hold it subject to his order. The moral philosophy of this proceeding is past finding out; but it was a surprise, and that covers a multi- tude of sins. Mr. Ames and Mr. Colfax en- deavored yesterday to get the better of each other ina vague manner, and both seemed deeper in the slough than ever at the end. It is clear that Hoax has the advantage of the Vice President because of the heavy. respecta- bility with which the latter is obliged to carry on the war. Thus Mr. Colfax says, ‘I deny it,"’ and Hoax ejaculates, with light, sardonic insinuation, “I am sorry to hear you.’’ The business of the investigation is conducted in a thoroughly slipshod manner, and although this has its disadvantages it brings to light certain peculiarities of character that are among the curiosities of the deplorable affair. There isa check tor twelve hundred dollars alleged to have been given by Ames to Colfax, but for the present it seems lost in the mazes of Congressional memories. Curious things those receptacles must be! In the Wilson Committee we learn of one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars apparently to be used as a bribery fund, of whose disposition no man will say he knoweth. Oliver Ames delicately says on this point:— “If any part of the money was employed wrongfully, then I would not wish to know it.” What a contrast to Hoax of that.ilk! He knew where everything went. All he has to do is “refresh his memory,” and, presto! figures, which, we are informed, cannot lie, uncoil themselves, like stinging serpents, before the committee. Cannot Oliver take a refresher also? A Mr. Wendell, a govern- ment inspector, is notedas having received twenty-five thousand dollars for reporting cer- tain portions of the road as finished before such was the fact. As we have entered on the examination let every culprit receive his proper share of odium. How to Drvmwx tae Geneva Awarp is the subject to which a report published in another column of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives devotes itself. The report embraces the whole question as to the tntent of the Board of Arbitration in making the award, so far as that intent governs its ultimate distribution. It is accepted by the committee as a fair induction that the award was given to the nation in the shape of indem- nity, and that all remaining, after the claims for actual, not speculative, losses arising from the depredations of the Alabama, Florida. and Shenandoah have been paid, should goto the Treasury. This, by the committee's computation, will leave five to five and a half millions for a salve to Uncle Sam’s wounded susceptibilities. Perhaps the best feature of the report is the argument against the appointment of a com- mission for the purpose of deciding the claims of individuals. General Butler's touch of nature on the matter will repay perusal. The United States District Courts will serve as the medium through which the claimants may collect if the bill embodying the committee's views and recommendations becomes law in its present form. Prusstan Promises or Harpy Homes 1N Germany.—The Prussian Parliament is con- siderably exercised, and apparently excited, over the emigration question and the fact of the continued exodus of exiles to America. The Minister of the Interior proposes to natrow the volume of the current by the adoption of a general plan of liberal, en- lightened and tolerant legislation, so that the homes of the people will be made more happy and the population be thus induced to remain near the native hearth. This simple plan of cure comes at an hour which is almost fatally late for the present realization of the govern- mental intention, The Prussian emigrant knows that he can, and with certainty, enjoy in the United States all that is now promised him at home,,and, like unto the Irishmen who rush away from’ the reform allurements of modern England, he prefers to begin life under the transatlantge baptism, and thus be enabled to die, at ieast, a freeman. “Maze No Lona Onarions.'’—General Gordon, United States Senator elect from Georgia, and Alexander H. Stephens, who will, no doubt, be elected to the lower House— where he will be the oldest member by many years—from the same State, have been making long spedches. The time for long harangues about the South is over. Her wants demand action, not words. When these gentlemen get into Congress we hope they will address themselves to the work of recuperating the energies of the South and recall a quotation, slightly altered, occasionally used by Daniel Webster: — Ye solid men of Georgia, drink no strong potations. Ye solid men of Georgia, make no long orations. Lay good old Tom Jefferson, State rights, buncombe and all that sort of thing on the shelf for a season, and see what can be done in a practical way, under present political exigencies, to replace the South in a position of influence in the councils of the nation. Tur Repvsiican Heapsman wirn His Lrr- t:¥ Harcurr has made his appearance in the County Court, House and dire effects are to follow. The party executioner is as little a respecter of condition as the public hangman in civilized countries. He will chop off the head of a poor democratic washerwoman with as much gusto as he will slash off the demo- cratic head of a department. A clean sweep was ordered yesterday by the Board of Super- visors among such ground game as the jani- tors, engineers and cleaners of the new Court House and the neighboring public buildings. Fosren, tux Can-Hoox Murperer, was Resenruncen yesterday, He is to be hanged on the 7th of March neat, Liat Justilial An English Opinion of American Of ficials, The London Telegraph in generous terms compliments the patriotism and states- manship displayed in positions of extreme difficulty by our Ministers at the French and British capitals, Mt. Washburne and Genera Schenok. During the recent long and often threatening negotiations between the two great Anglo-Saxon peoples our representative in England is credited with working heartily and with assiduity to heal differences and pro- mote concord, piloting the Treaty of Wash- ington through rocks and shoals, when a less -sagacious negotiator would have shipwrecked it among angry recriminations about in- direct claims and the rights of neutrals, Mr. Washburne is equally praised for his masterly representation of the Great Republic at Paris during the two sieges, when the Star-Spangled Banner marked the sanctuary of safety, re- spected by mad mobs, which scarcely recog- nized any other emblem of sanctity or privi- lege. While it is pleasant to Americans that their representatives abroad should be so lav- ishly praised by a prominent organ of English opinion, it is matter tor regret that the same journal finds it impossible to approve the policy of our Secretary of the Treasury, though it credits him with sincere belief in unsound dogmas of political economy anda pure ad- ministration of the national finances. That a coat or pair of boots cost in New York thrice their price in Montreal, and that we abstain from buying and fSationalizing cheap foreign built vessels, while foreign fleets monopolize our commerce and our merchant navy is swept from every sea by the competition of free trade, are by this critic esteemed ample proof that Mr. Boutwell has yet to study the simplest elements of national prosperity. Un- fortunately this opinion of the utter incapacity of the financial head of our government is fully endorsed by many who view him at closer range than his English critic. Irom-Built English Snips. ‘We know that the sailor, from the first day he makes choice of his profession or occupa- tion and appears on board ship, is put on his mental and moral mettle, He must accommo- date himself to the narrow limits of bis place of living, to the varied motions of the ship on deck and aloft, and most if not all of the duties he is called on to discharge demand address and skill and involve danger. ‘The soldier, on the other hand, from the day he enlists to the day when discharged, may have little more to do beyond the manual of arms, to square his toes, square his shoulders and often use his legs mechanically. When Jacky, besides what is referred to above, finds himself upon the “‘briny’’ in one of those new iron steamships built in England, he will do well to know that to all his risks is added in a fearful degree the danger of foun- dering should anything like the heating of a journal, valves deranged, cylinder defective, a crank pin break or any accident render the engine useless for a time. Some one may say, “Why, there are the sails, and the steamer will sail into port.” Alas! sad is the day when those on board any one of the lean, Tong, lank English steamers have to depend upon her sails, auxiliary to such an extent that they are but little beyond ornamental and add to her symmetry aloft, and little to her efficiency except to run before the wind. Suppose with disabled machinery she meets one of fhe fearful gales which have swept from the ocean so many steamers in the last two months, the undoubted probabilities are that she will join the Scanderia, James Mary Church, Charruca, Shannon, Devon, E. 8. Judkins, Cresswell, Dalmata, Reindeer, Flag and Annie Broughton, to swell the list of lost at sea, England builds ships of lean, long, lank models, to wit:—218 feet long by 26 feet beam and 22 feet depth of hold, or 400 feet long by 40 feet beam and 35 feet depth of hold. They lack stability, and when compelled to rely upon their sails they founder. They are hurriedly constructed, besides, and when they spring a leak they founder. Now, on behalf of the sailors and officers that risk their lives in them, we protest against the late English steamer models, but more particularly do we protest on behalf of the passengers who em- bark in the iron coffins, ignorant of the re- quirements of model or equipment of a sea- going steamer, and thus jeopardize their lives. Txose Horr Srazets Acamn.—If ‘every rose has its thorn,’’ we sincerely believe that every pedestrian on our thoroughfares devoutly wishes that every street crossing had its Cap- tain Thorn. By the snowfall of Thursday night our sidewalks and streets have been again rendered almost impassable for foot pas- sengers and vehicles. It is all very pretty for the poet to compare something to A snowflake on the river, A moment here and gone forever. But when snowflakes fall in our streets and on our sidewalks they do not immediately dis- solve into thin air and go about their business forever. No, they stick. They become part and parcel of the pavement and cobble stones. Should rain fall, they assist in the general coagulation preliminary to a transcendental (heels up!) stage of slipperiness, and render locomotion to man and beast both dangerous and damaging—particularly damaging. Men (sic teamsters) swear now who never swore fore, And those who swore before now swear the more. Now do, Captain Thorn, come along with your shovel and broom and cart brigade, and remove the slush and stuff, and snow and ice and dirt, before you have occasion to mourn the loss of temper among many of our most worthy citizens. State Leorstaturr.—Governor Dir sent@to the Senate his nominations for Captain of the Port, Port Wardens and Harbor Masters, but the Senate grumbled a little over thom, and adjourned without confirming them. New York is well represented on the list, though a few names from the country districts are among the Governor's select. Mr. Opdyke introduced in the House the long-threatened bill to sweep out of sight the present Board of Police Justices, and to put in their places a new set of men, who are to be appointed by the Mayor, with the advice of the Superior Court. A sturdy fight is expected over this measure of reform, though the effort to preserve the magisterial relic of “old times’’ is doomed to certain failure. Mr. Crawford introduced a bill to hold sellers of rum responsible for the “consequential damages’’ of the ‘fusil,” and Mr. Worth presented a petition signed by ten thousand Brooklyn citizeas asking that ‘lager beer” be erased from Excise law—now being rigidly enforced in the City of Churches. Resolutions of respect to the memory of the Inte Mr. Cassidy, and of sympathy with his family in their bereavement, were passed by the House. Moke Unsaya Buriprmas.—Each additional report from the officers and agents assigned to inspect buildings in the city furnishes fresla proof of the terrible indifference to the ex- posure of human life to risk from buildings improperly constructedend niggardly furnished with means of escape. Scores of manufac- tories in which large numbers of operatives are employed are no less liable to a sudden outburst of fire and offer no better promise of a way of safe escape than did that tottering shell in Centre street, whose fall sacrificed seven young lives on Christmas Eve. Hotels are not lacking where, in case of a fire, dozens of guests and servants might be sealed up to the doom of suffocation, as were the scrubbing girls at the Fifth Avenue. Churches, schoola and places of amusement have peculiar ele- ments of danger, and some of them fail of the fullest possible equipment to put out fire and facilities for the prompt and safe egress for the crowds they contain. It is tobe hoped that these inspections will not be allowed to flag while an unsafe house remains on the island. No man has a right to expose others to unnecessary perils, and the severest penal- ties should be imposed upon those who neglect to place the prescribed safeguards between the public and threatened danger. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor Charlies M. Reed, of Erie, Pa., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J, B. Stonehouse, of Albany, has quartera’ at the Astor House. To say Victor Hugo is poor may be proper, but to call him a poor author is hardly so. Erastus Partridge, president of the First National Bank, Seneca Falls, died on the 21st instant. M. M. Green, of Columbus, Ohio, President of the Columbus and Toledo Railroad, is at the St Nicholas Hotel. J. N. McCullough, of Pittsburg, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel, He is the General Manager of tha Pyttsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad, ‘rhe Washington Star says Oakes Ames “has re- covered his memory with a vengeance.” Very likely—for the purpose of getting his revenge. Achemist of Allahabad, India, is under arrest for haying sent by rail a box containing matter tbat exploded, killing a native and doing much damage to property. Sufferers by the ice gorge at Columbia, on th Susquehanna, have ceased swearing at the event. The gorge there is above the dam, and their gorge rises at it, That's all, Lr One of the most remarkable signs of the times~,. for Massachusetts—is to see one of its most gifted orators come out in opposition to prohibition and in favor of beer-drinking 43 a preventive for intem- Perance, \ Ex-Revonue Commissioner £. H. Rollins, of New Hampshire, was at the Fifth Avenue Hotet yesterday. He was on his way home from Wash- ington. Wonder if this ‘rollins’ stone” is an ex- ceptional gatherer of moss, Captain Danebrog, of the Belgian General Star, has written a pamphlet showing that in the event of a war between France and Germany Belgium will be the battle-fleid, unless her system of tron- tier defence, be strengthened, h “Aleck” Stephens, who has been but “poorly” for a long time, made a two hours’ speech in Ata- lanta lately. Like Richelieu, he is recovering his health and strength as the period of his restora- tion to political power approaches, About a dozen years ago a boy of fifteen, named Ambrose, without friends, was arraigned at Weat- the in minster, committed toa reformatory and subse- | quently sent to Australia. Inquiry is now made for him on account of heirship to a fortune, Mr. Charles Town Fowler, & London reporter whe died 1ately, had given his attention during thirty years singly to the writing of accounts of fires. He pursued his peculiar line of reporting with so much earnestness that, it is said, he literally lived upon a fire engine. A French statistician, who vouches for the facts, states that Paris contains 1,450 hunchbacks, 1,224 individuals with only one arm, 1,145 with one leg, 110 cripples, 17 without noses and 3 without either arms or legs. Oh, if they could only be collected in one crowd. Miss Berncastle, aged fifty-four, went into Brill's baths, at Brighton, some days ago, and ordered a warm bath. As she did not come out of the room in a reasonable time the door was broken openand it was found that she had cut her throat witha large table knife, and bled to death. Henri Rochefort has greatly modified his political opinions during his residence in the prison of St. Martin-de-Ré. He considers himself as having been the dupe of adventurers, who prudently allowed him prominence when danger menaced, while they hid themselves from the storm of defeat. He pays very strict attention to his clean shirts and works hard at bis literary works, seeing none but his chil- dren, ARMY INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1873. The President has accepted the resignation of First Lieutenant Duncan Sherman, First cavairy. WAVAL ORDER, WASHINGTON, Jan 24, 1873. Commander George Dewey has been detachod from torpedo duty at Newport, R. 1, THE NEW DOMINION. Now Appointments in the Cabinct—Nova Scotia’s New Lieutenant Governor. Orrawa, Ont., Jan. 24, 1873. flon, Mr. Archibald, ex-Governor of Manitoba,.is totake a segt in the Dominion Cabinet. Hon. Joseph Howe, the present Secretary of Stute, is to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Mails Destroyed om the Grand Trank Railway. TORONTO, Ont., Jan. 24, 1873. The baggage car of a trait on the Grand Trunk Railway, going eastward from Toronto this morn- ing, caught fire near Grafton and the English mait matter en route to the Canadian steamer was all destroyed. The Canadian mail was saved, ‘ BUNKLE SENTENCED BY A COURT MARTIAL LOvisvitne, Ky., Jan. 24, 1873, It has transpired here that the recent court martial in the case of Major Benjamin P. Runkle, late Superintendent of the Freedmen's Bureau in Kentucky, on trial charged with iraud inst colored soldiers and similar allegations, nt him guilty and sentenced him to be cashiered, to pay a tine of $7,000 and to be imprisoned im the enitentiary for four years, and in case the fine was not paid at the expiration of that term, im- risonment for another four years to be added. Rune was Brevet Brigadier General and was placed on the retired list witn the rank of Major. THE DREWSHERBURNE TRAGEDY. ConconD, N, H., Jan. 24, 1873, A post-mortem examination of the body of Jo- sephine-Drew was made this morning at Fisher- ville, The examination is not yet completed, but bly will be in a day ortwo. A public imneral Prene irl took place this afternoon (rom the Metn- odist church at Fisherville. SENTENCE OF A CONNEOTICUY MURDERER. New Haves, Jan, 24, 1873. John RK. Johnson, a Swede, was sentenced to-day to be hanged on April 10, 1874, fur the murder of Johanna Hess, of Meriden, The State law does nok ‘mit a sentence of death to ve exeented under 4 ih r. This 1s the first deatn sentence pronow New Haven for twenty-two years. AN INTERNATIONAL SOULLING MATOH HALIFAX, Jan, 24, 1878, The $2,500 required to back Brown awains® Sadler, tue Kaglisu scuiler, Las been subserived, vs , |