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6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD irene BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, fe aaa JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ee eee Volume XXXVIIT se Noe 87 : AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Broxxn Swonp—Nick jor tax Woops—Sow ie Woon's MUSEUM, way, corner Thirtieth st.— Kat, tax Agxaysas Tuavetien, Asternoon and Evening. NEW FIFTH AVENUE 1 Yway.—ALIKx. ath GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth hev.—Catanacr ov Tar Gancrs. RE, 728 and 730 Broad- ATHENEUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Gnanp Variety Ex pesseammeae, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and \Houston streets.—Leo axp Loros UNION SQUARE THEATRE ‘hirteonth and Fourteenth sti WALLACK’S THEATRE, \etreet.—Broturr Sam. ROOTH'’STHEATRE, prvenac,—Brotvs; on, T { THEATRE COMIQVE, OR, Kroadway, between THERLEY COURT. roadway aud Thirteenth urd street, corner Sixth iy Tanguiy. 514 Broadway.—Larsa } OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston sand Bleecker streets.—ALuAMmRA. ; co MRS. FB, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Wax Inon Mase. 4 BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twonty-third st.. corner YOtb ay.—Nugno Minsraxiay, Eocuntuicity, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Wanuere ENTERTAINMENT. \,.SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and eroadway.—Eraiorias MinstResy, &c. COOPER UN Kxow.xpas or rue Sun.” NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘CLENCE AND ART, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Mon = 2 jisssues se THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. /To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. i 27, 1873. **THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN FRANCE! M. GAM- BETTA AND HIS POSITION’ —LEADING EDITORIAL THEME—Srixtu Paas. A OONVERSATION WITH THE EX-DICTATOR OF FRANCE! M. GAMBETTA FURNISHES A HERALD COMMjSSIONER WITH HIS VIEWS ON SUMNER, GRANT AND GREE- LEY, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, PARTIES AND PARTY LEADERS! THE REPUBLIC AGAINST BONAPARTISM—Tarep Pace. ‘pussia MOVING! CAPTURE OF A FORT IN CA- BOOL! THE GOVERNOR SENT A PRISONER TO RUSSIA! SHERABAT SUCCESSFULLY STORMED! ENGLAND SENDING CABINET DESPATOHES TO RUSSIA—SEVENTH PAGE. \AN INSOLENT SPANISH ORGAN! THE VOZ DE CUBA AND THE MODOC WAR! ‘MR. GRANT’ TO RECEIVE COUNSEL FROM “HIS MOST CATHOLIC MAJESTY” AMA- DEUS—SEVENTH PAGE. BYEERAGE SEPULCHRES! AN IMPARTIAL STAMPMENT OF THE WRONGS TO WHICH TRANSATLANTIC PASSENGERS ARE SUB- JECTED, BY ONE WHO MADE THE PAS- SAGE! THE ABOMINABLE, INHUMAN, IN- DECENT AND DISEASE-BREEDING “ACCOM- MODATIONS!""—ELEVENTH PAGE. JEUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—LATE TELEGRAMS— THE WEATHER REPORTS—SEVENTH PaGE. HE CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON THIRD! OPINIONS OF MEDICAL EXPERTS! THE EFFECT IN PARIS AND THROUGHOUT EUROPE—1ENTH PaGE. WABORANTES CUBANOS AND THE HERALD— LARGE FIRE—A BOY'S ADVENTURES— THIRD PaGE. AVASHINGTON NEWS! THE ASSASSINATION CANARD! THE MOBILIERIZED CONGRESS- MEN! AMES’ HONESTY VS. EXPULSION— MARINE INTELLIGENCE—Tentu Pack. SEARCHING ANALYSIS OF SOCIETY AT THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! WHAT A NEW YORK GENTLEWOMAN THINKS OF IT! HUMBUGS EXPOSED—FirTn PacR Y ROMANCE OF HUMAN MISERY! SUFFERINGS OF A FAMILY ARANDONED BY A MONS- TER! THEIR REUNION AFTER HIS DEATH! AN INSANE MOTHER AND A FORTUNE— Furr Paor. QABINET POLICY OF THE MEXICAN PRESI- DENT! REVOLUTIONS AND THE ROBBERS OF THE ROAD! HONORING THE MEMORY OF MURSE—THE SANDWICH ISLANDS— ELEVENTH Pace. WUNDAY LESSONS BY THE PROMULGATGRS OF THE GOSPEL! THE DISCOURSES LISTENED TO BY CROWDED CONGREGATIONS YES- TERDAY—Focrtn Page. GEORGE LE BARRE, THE OLDEST MAN IN AMERICA! SHAKING HANDS WITH THE “FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY!" FIFTEEN YEARS MORE THAN A CENTURY OF LIFE— Fira Pace. AVEEKLY RESUME OF THR WALL STREET MARKETS! A DRAIN OF THE PRECIOUS METALS TO EUROPE! GOLD AND STOCKS ACTIVE—COURTS—ARTILLERY TO BREAK ICE GORGES—Nintu Pace. AULIZING THE SEWERS! CITY WASTE AS A FERTILIZER! FIVE TO EIGHT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR HIM WHO SHALL WORK i The Republican ” new YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1873—TRIPLH SHEET. Party in France—D!. Gambetta and His Position. Mr. Carlyle, in one of his essays, makes this quaint, ‘‘moral reflection’’-—*‘That neither thou nor I, good reader, had any hand in the making of this Mirabeau; else who knows but we had objected in our wisdom. But it was the upper powers that made him, without once consult- ing us. They and not we, so and not other- wise.” If there be any conservative readers who object to tho reappearance of M. Gam- betta in the columns of the Hzraxp as 4 radi- cal, an agitator or destroyer of society, or in any way representing these elements of chaos and disorder, which so often unsettle the policy of France, then we say it was the “upper powers’? that made M. Gambetta, without once consulting us—that he is among living Fronchmen one of the most considerable, and his opinions are apt to direct the opinions and actions of many millions of his countrymen. Nor can we well understand the interesting problems now solving in that strange country without noting carefully what M. Gambetta and men like him have to say. M. Gambetta might, without injustice, be called a boy in politics, He is now about thirty-five years of age, and two years ago ho was master of France, or, at least, as much of France as Prussia did not occupy, Public men do not, as a general thing, reach their growth at thirty-five, and in Europe especially, where the three most conspicuous living rulers are each verging on eighty. Young men have risen to eminence in history—men like NION WALL.—Leoruas, “Our Puxsest | Napoleon, Lord Clive, Hoche, Alexander Hamilton—but their success was in a measure ® political phenomenon. Revolutions are like earthquakes, and men unknown and young are thrown up conspicuously and capriciously as in a night. The French Revolution was the work of young men, and there is a pain- ful interest in recalling the leaders of that extraordinary movement and seeing that they were nearly all under forty. Is it that youth welcomes change, opportunity, new ideas, conflict, and grows impatient with consery- nism and form? . Oris it, as may bo reason- ably argued, that the men who really belong to a generation know its temper and respon- sibilities instinctively and are better leaders— better as reformers and teachers than those who have gone before? Gambetta showed that he possessed this instinct whon, in the glory of the Empire, he struck the first blow at Napoleonism. That incident—occurring in 1868—recalled Mirabeau’s famous oath in the tennis court. From that day, whether for good or evil, Gambetta became o power in France, The men of the Revolution, between whom and Gambetta we see a resemblance, wore, like him, uncertain and erratic. The world admires but does not follow them. They preach the gospel of destruction—a thing well enough in its way, but which must in time give way to the gospel of reconstruction. But their char- acters have often irregularity and rugged- ness. Aman can only live so many events and opportunities, whether his years be thirty- nine or ninety-three. Napoleon was a young man when be became ruler of France; yet what centuries rolled into his single life! Napoleon paid the penalty which young men who come suddenly to greatness too often pay. They challenge the envy of mankind, and envy in time will do its work. Napoleon lived long enough to make his followers great; he was left to fade away and die in exile, while they welcomed the new comer who permitted them to enjoy in impunity what their benefac- tor gavethem. Lord Clive died young, having offended England with his wealth and his glory, and died, too, with his own hand. Many Frenchmen believe that Hoche was murdered by those who envied him his fame. We sometimes question whether Alexander Hamilton could have carried to old age the power and glory that rested upon him when he fell before the pistol of Burr. The young men of the Revolution in France were in nothing so sincere as in their efforts to destroy each other, Young men like Vergniaud and nis party were destroyed by still younger men like Danton, who, in their turn, were overwhelmed by a party—one leader Robespierre, aged thirty- four, and the other St. Just, aged twenty- five. ,So that even this law in history, like other strange laws, has its compensations; and, while glory and power sometimes come to youth, youth must in return encounter all that is precious and desired in man’s early days. M. Gambetta is learning this lesson. At thir- ty-two he was master of France. At thirty- four France regards him as an emblem of inquietude and disorder. The nation applauds his vivacity and courage, but gives its money and its votes to the venerable Thiers, It is difficult not to see, also, in the charac- ter of Gambetta, especially as shown in the interview with our correspondent, ah mpirteal quality. For instance, he {ives us his: plat- THE MINE! THE ENGLISH SYSTEM! HEALTH PROMOTED AND EPIDEMICS, AVOIDED—E1ontu Paar, jt 987 BOOKS RECENTLY PupListitD—sERsEY OFFICE HUNTERS--Firra Pag. Discovery or A Brritant Wrr.—Senator Harlan, of Iowa, has won for himself a repu- form for a form of government in Franca, and ‘sketches his plan for a constitution. This is the first publication of his views on this sub- ject, aitd will have 9 deep interest in France as well as Amerioi,’ But it is disappointing, and “= *"T Joed Hot show an original mind. He wants a President. This President, however, must ‘ ‘ have as much power as an Emperor; for Ration for wit that any man, even Sunset Cox ink 4 or Lord Dundreary, might envy. It is doubt- Franos, he thi te caniiov Moye along without Yul if Brinsley Sheridan, or George Selwyn, or Donglas Jerrold, in their happiest mo- ments over an inspiring bottle of Nurgundy, ever achieved anything so brilliant on the a strong government, Well, as ler 0! France was more despotfé and absolute than the yotiig Gambetta himself in his day, this means that he wants a machine to suit his own gpur of the moment as did the Iowa Senator in | 14¢8s when he assumes the Presidency, After the smoking room of the White House when this his plan is ogly a reflex of the American he said, apropos of the bogus rumor about system, with the exception that he would have President Grant's asaassination, “If one were a stronger Assembly than our House and a really dead it would be embarrassing not to weaker Sonate. We cannot understand, for Know it.” A gem like this deserves the honor of being embalmed. ( ‘Tae Covan Gnaxpees Reswrxe Reronu.— instance, his second Senate chamber. It is to be as large as onr Senate. One-half of the members are to be appointed by the President, the other half by the Assembly. {ft has been &commop remark that there is | Like our Senate, it will have a voicein execu- power above the throne, meaning thay the | tive appointments and the direction of foreign f Will is superior to that of & monarch, | affairs, as in the confirmation of treaties, But iit may be said in the same way with regard to | it does not seem that there can be honor’ of Wuban affuirs and the much-talked-of reforms | even dignity in a Chamber which has no rep- An the Spanish colonies, that the slaveholders | resentative charactor, which certainly does not ‘and their allies—the grandees of Cuba and the represent France. Give any chief magistrate fimplacable volunteers—are stronger than the | power to nominate one-half of his Sonate, King of Spain or the Spanish Cortes. Our | and it becomes a kind of additional staff or fetest news from Havana informs us that legislative body guard. In other words, the several Cuban noblemen have asked and | head of the State on one side and the repre- obtained of the Captain General permission to sentatives of the people of the other, being join in the manifestation of the Spanish | afraid of certain latent infirmities of charac- grandees against reforms in the Antilles. | Hore is the power that will prevent, probably, | | the Spanish government from carrying out any pau for abolishing slavery or making | other reforms, if even that government be | Bin! in its reform professions, ter that rulers and assemblies alike possess, figree to separate themselves by @ barrier. We have seen this principle in science and engi- neering. Two trains of cars avoid collision by having a side switch for emergencies. ‘This is W be the function of M, Gambetta’s Son- , | and that the official party left Vera Cruz on raps ee te ate, It atrikes us as being a worse contrivance than the old Council of Ancients, with their gray beards and Roman cloaks, which young Bonaparte, Murat and attendant grenadiers sent scampering out of the windows one frosty 18th of Bramaire, When we come to Gambetta in his character a8 a politician we like him better than in his character ag a statesman. And certainly he has shown, beyond any man now visible in France, the beat qualities of the politician— coolness and tact in his relations with Thiers; wonderful'patience and skill; the quality of waiting, which one go rarely sees in French- men, and which may come to Gambetta with the Italian blood which makes him a descend- ant of Machiavelli. His sketch of the present condition of the republican party in France is brilliant, vivid, and, os we think, from all information, perfectly true. Gambetta leads ® party groater than himself. France sees no peace but undora republic. ‘We have but one throne,’’ says Thiers, ‘‘and three princes fighting on its steps.'’ There is no royal party in France. fight, not for the idea of divine right, but for some descendant Bour- bon, Orleans or Bonaparte. As for Napoleon- ism, we do not see how any one can make it possible as a system except a Napoleon. We do not mean a Napoleon like the one who died the other day, but one like the founder of the house, whose genius dazzled mankind and whose brain comprehended the world. Nor does it seem probable that France, which exiled Napoleon IIL. with all his eminent qualities, will submit to be ruled by a lad not half through his studies at Wool- wich. No, it required Napoleon I. to found anempiro and France will never consent to surrendering her destinies to Napoleon IV. Nor does it seem to us that France will throw henself into the hands of Gambetta. It is evident that the under thought in the mind of this able and daring young man is that there can bo no republicanism without a strong executive and that no executive would be ad strong ad Gambetta, Republicanism can bea name, as the world has well seen, and Gambetta, under the flag of freedom and the Republi, has shown that he can be as severe and absolute as Cmsar. What we see in France is a growth of that healthy, honest, self-respecting pub- lic opinion which makes any political system impossible but France governing France. M. Thiers, with his many good qualities, has marred his administration by faults of absolutism as marked as those shown by Napoleon. We desire a government in France which will be afraid of no French- man, be he prince, priest or social dreamer. Napoleon banished the radicals. The Bour- bons banished Napoleon. The Republic banished all but its followers. But the happy thought is that this spirit, though not dead, is dying. M. Gambetta will be worthy of leadership when he learns tolerance. He does not, on the whole, impress us a8 one of those wonderful men who come with an age and stamp upon it their individuality, but an eager, studious, shrewd, cool-minded young leader, who will learn discretion and charity as years grow upon him; who served France faithfully in her time of agony and fleep despair, and who may again, under some well- grounded republic, servo it again and show the sincerity of his avowal that he is at heart a cdswervative, and that he sees no questions in France but questions of .government and politics. Mexico—An Attempt Upon the Life of President Lerdo de Tejada, The eompletion of the railway from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico was, on New Year's Day, officially proclaimed on the inauguration of the line, but the festivities attending the joyful event lasted a whole week. The Presi- dent, the Cabinet, members of Congress and other officials and principal citizens and stran- gers participated in the celebration; business ‘was suspended, and, indeed, the affair was a national jubilee. The delighted Mexicans, no doubt, in seeing the iron horse from Vera Cruz snorting over the lofty table lands of Anahuac and down into that glorious valley of the “Halls of the Montezumas,’’ Tenochtitlan, shouted in exultation:— It must be now de kingdom am a coming, And de year of jubilo! But even in their festivities our Mexican neighbors are menaced with the elements of conspiracy, assassination and revolution. On the Ist instant, the opening day of the rnil- way celebration, President Lerdo de Tejada left the capital in a train which was preceded by a pioneer locomotive. At Tepexham, the first station outside of the capital, some des- peradoes had placed threo boulders across the track, but, with the exception of breaking the gowcatche® of the pioneer locomotive, no damage was done. Our report then goes on to say that at all the stations en route the President was received with enthusiasiifi that United States Minister Nelson met the President at Orizaba and returned with him to Vera Cruz; that on the 3d the Prosident and {he Spanish Minister to Mexico took breakfast off board the Spanish war ship Isa- bel la Catolica, at which complimentary toasts were interchanged between Spat and Mexico, ‘7th and arrived back in the capital on the Sth instant, seen emp But what was the sbfeat at one icone does in placing those boulders on the track at the first station outside of the city? Clearly their object was to upset the train, and per- haps with the hope of killing thd President in the general wrecking of the anticipated. Doubtless, too, the wise. precaution of that detached pioneer locomotive prevented a catas- trophe which might otherwise have involved the death of the President; for while the mo- mentum of the detached engine, ag‘we infer, was sufficient to remove the obstructions, the engine with the train of cars attached would most likely have proved unequal to thevtask, and, if so, the inauguration of this railway opening might have been attended by a fear- fal tragedy and bya revolution. The ink is hardly dry on our issue giving the details of the conspiracy to blow up President Pardo of Peru, while entering Lima on a railway train, before we have the report of this apparent attempt upon the life of the President of Mexico. Still it is probable that the desperadoes con- cerned in this diabolical experiment bad no higher motive than plunder. They were probably highwaymen inaugurating a new system of operations on the road. They, per- haps, thought that as their ocenpation was cone of robbing stages on this hitherto profit- | able highway to their profession they would lose no time in adapting their tactics to the locomotive. But the general opinion seems to be that these villains were but tho tools ofa revolutionary |conspiracy secking the life of President Lerdo, In any event, as in the case of the vonspiracy against President Pardo, we suppose there will be a thorough investigation of this affair, and a full exposure of the parties concerned and their designs. We congratu- late Prosident Lerdo and his fellow passengers on their escape, and on tho fact that their cel- ebration was not marred by any serious acci- dent or disturbance. We have great hopes that under President Lerdo’s administration the opening of this important railway will mark the beginning ofa new career of internal Peace, enterprise and prosperity to our sister republic. Justice to Hoax Ames—‘Honest, Honest Tago!” It would be a grievous wrong to tho subject of this article if his exact position in the scale of badness is not without delay assigned tohim. Unrecognized demerit is a serious in- jury to the ambitions of certain sinister minds, and when a man courageously erects a pedestal of infamy for himself he should not be con- demned to stand on it under a cloud, As a great garish sunflower holds up its yellow face to the noonday sun, so does the man of defiant turpitude challenge the fiercest glance that the world can bestow on his brazen effrontery. The fiercer the better for him. It is with feel- ings of profound awe that we approach the task of posing the man of the Crédit Mobilier on his pedestal, and graving beneath his feet the damnatory lines which will be sufficient to gratify his vanity. He might in the excess of this spirit of vainglory desire them to be printed in large letters on a placard upon the stoop of his back or stamped in high relief upon his forehead, About that we do not yuch care, leaving the final decision in his hands. At first glance, as the story of his terrible alluring temptations of the Congressmen and his success in catching so many with his bait roll before the mind, Hoax Ames seoms dis- solving from his outward shape into the weird | personation of Mophistopheles—fresh as when new-born from the brain of Goethe, The specious attractiveness of the bargain for which he demanded a Congressman’s body and soul, the delights of dividends of the national Fausts, their remorse too late and the harsh, sardonic laughter with which he triumphs in their desolation, are all brought | - vividly forward. We would dub him the Mobilier Mephistopheles and leave him there with the devilish leer of that triumphant moment wrought upon all the lines of his face; but even Mephistopheles is not sufficient to fill the bill. The leer is too perceptible, the tread too firm and he is altogether too rollick- ing. There should be more unctuonsness in the tempter’s smile; the gait should be more gliding, as if he could steal upon it intoa man’s soul and never be felt getting there on account of the lubrication of that oily smile. Then he should appear to torture his victim unwillingly, but, at the same time, stab and flay malignantly and mercilessly. Ah! we have it. He is there—‘Honest, honest Ingo.”” Was Shakspeare a prophet, looking down the mists of three centuries to find in Hoax Ames the incarnation of the human fiend he built with such subtle skill ftom all the smooth-faced deviltry that ever wortned i's way above the earth? There may be some, wo admit, who will deny to Hoax Ames this conspicuous dis- honor. They will plead’ that he was what he was because of circumstances and beliefs, as they will plead the honesty of Judas Iscariot. They will say that any man almost might have been as bad it he had had similar opportunities; they will, in fine, endeavor to rob him of the discredit of his steady purpose so artistically carried out to delude and in the end denounce those he wound within his toils. Idle objec- tions! Let ustake the first scene between Roderigo (Mr. Kelley) and Ingo (Hoax Ames). How glibly the lines run in counselling the anxious Roderigo to conceal his thought !—and then the scorn of outwardly seeming what one is at heart. . Bat I will wear, my heart upon my sleeve For Dawes to peck at. ‘The iteration of ‘put money in thy purse’ becomes painfully fitting until Kelley so re- solves, Then, as the victim walks away, how the face wrinkles into smiles as Hoax hisses after him— ‘Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. Of Roderigo more anon. We can feel the plot advance under the pressure of that one relentless hand, behind which is the face, serious, impassioned or seductive, of Iago Hoax. We need not worry through the acts. We can come tg the thrilling time when the pitiless snarer of innocence (!) is about to begin the slaughter. Cassio Colfax has been denounced, and be mourns his good name. Does not this consolation fit the lips of Hoax? Reputation ts an idie and most Lan bat Nand ad oft got thot mers of lost without deserving. You haye iost tation at all, unless you re- yourself such @108@hy | cee cyigamnn th bey vo © honest, honest Iago! how well thon Dearest out thy maxim, for does not thy ghost even now claim to be the honestest in Con, ? If Judge Poland had been Othello Sahl aot what followed sound as if Colfax had truly been Cassio? " OTHELLO—Is he not honest? = “x, TaGo— Honest, my Lord > OTHELLO— Ay, hotest. 1ago—My Lord, for aught I know, OTHELLO—What dost thou think ¢ s lago— Think, my Lord ? That would do for the first examination of Hoax Ames; but as the desperate moment comes to decide who shall be sacrificed see how well this reads with the character: — Mr. Conrax inquired of Mr. Ames why he did not ‘amine him about that check when he gave his mony. Mr. Amas—I did not want to bring it out; Tf wanted to let you off as easy as Teourt; Iwas in hopes it would not come out, * * * * * * * _* Mr, AMES—I ask you if! did not Me you @ state. ment showing @ credit derived from’ the sale of these bonds t Mr. CoL¥ax—I deny it, Mr. Auxs—l am worst iA bear you. Mr. Co.rax—You told me some dividends had been earned, but were a justed. Mr. Amxs—If he denies it, and says he did not, I don’t want to ask him any more questions, That 1s enough for me. Mr. Couvax read from the former testimony of Mr. Ajnes, and asked him what he meant when he Said, “1 do not know whether he or I own the stock ? Mr, Amms—I understood you owned it and wanted me to own it. O honest, honest Iago! We said above we should revert to Roderigo Kelley. Hereupon we must note that Hoax Ames out-lago’s Iago. The wily plotter in the play has extracted gold and jowels from Rodgrigo tor a bad pur- a pose, and stabs him when he is already wounded for a quittance. In the Mobilier tragedy Iago, when asked in thunder tones for the stock, gives it back and then stabs home. A hint to revisers of Shakspeare will be found below, ? How soon can you deliver my ten shares of A. (ur. Awse penne it the certificate of Orsait . (MP. ny 16 certitica: Mobilier stock from his ‘ket)—I can deliver ES ‘Row, sir, and the dividgnds you can have Mr. KELURY—Hand them to the Chairman, with the list of dividenda, for my use. Mr. Amms (handing the certificates to Judge Poland)—Il you creed fa don't own then I don't see how you are entitled to the dividends, Mr. KELLRY—But you see ldo own them, and I intend to make use of them, =» Mr. Ames—Certainly, sir; that is what I agree to perfectly, Tago himself could nothing to damnation add greater than that, Perhaps in all this strange history nothing will dwell more in the public mind than the so-called efforts of Hoax Ames to “refresh his memory.”” There is a quaintness in the popular idea of this old mnan rummaging his recollections as if he was not sure what he would find. But the oddity is removed on observation that he slways manages to produce just what is wanted for his purpose. Look from Hoax Ames to Iago, and take a hint on that refreshment business. Iago, fired with his plot, becomes dazed for a moment over the details. He slaps his fore- head and says: — 'Tis here, but yet confused; Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used. Iago we now take, as, the destruction done, he rises toa demoniac stature. All has been told, and the consummate villany denounced in every superlative. He bites his lip, sets his teeth and gays:—‘Demand mo nothing. What you know you know.’ Here, again, Hoax Ames beats Iago, for in the teoth of everything he tells and tells, and as the curtain falls upon a stageful of slaughtered reputatiohs, though dying fast himself, he still is -seen killing. “At every word a reputation dies.’’ We think we haye made out our case. Whether the victims were guileless as Cassio or guilty as Roderigo we do not care to examine. Our business is with the colossal figure of honest, honest Iago. We place him on his pedestal, and call the world to look upon him with what feelings it may. Ours would be tq Put in every honest hand a whip To lash the rascal naked through the world. But are there honest, cleanly hands enough to set about it? or must we look with feelings only of wonder on ‘honest, honest Ingo?’’ The Aagustan Age of Marder—A Voice from the Tombs. We convict the metropolitam authorities of murder in the second degree of every man and woman detained in the Tombs beyond the period of six months. “We convict these same authorities of malignant designs upon the health of all persons incarcerated within the Tombs for even the short space of an hour. The world is fall of misnomers, but the Tombs is not one of them. Were we called upon to illustrate the eternal fitness of things, we should triumphantly point to this prison, which is at once our safety and our pride, and, throwing down the gauntlet of argument with the fervor of Mrs. Micawber, ‘bid so- ciety to pick it up.” If society knew any- thing society would let that gauntlet alone. It does not, however; therefore we propose to enlighten its apathetic mind. Were not Edward S. Stokes a prisoner we might re- frain from giving gratuitous information; but as Mr. Stokes is supposed to be related to so- ciety, and as, now that the epidemic of murder has set in, no one can tell what highly influ- ential member of its lofty circle may feel in- clined to playfully shoot or deftly hack to pieces his life-long friend, it is the duty of society to realize that its most cherished ornaments may be slowly murdered, though the hemp of the gallows should never know them for its own. ‘ Learn then, Society, that the Tombs is built not only upon aswamp, but upon what was originally a lake seventy feet deep, so coin- modious as to float vessels that passed through a canal connecting it with the river. Seventy feet of water! How thoughtful of the great intellects that first decided to provide a watery grave for every human being brought within the clutches of the law! We marvel that they did not write an essay, entitled ‘Death Made Fasy,”’ to show what a blessing it would be to society were every prison and penitentiary— particularly the latter—so humidly situated as to guarantee certain, though not too im- mediate, dissolution. That this was not done is an oversight ; but we see wonderful acumon in the long delays so frequent between the examination and trial of prisoners, and juries may be saved the bother of sitting upon cases if sufficient time be given for damp walls to settle upon weak lungs and crush the life out of miserable sinners. It is well enough for the prayer book to ask the Lord of Heaven to have mercy on them, but why should the lords of earth ? Days, weeks, months pass by before prisoners in the Tombs are brought to trial. This is an admirable arrangement for those guilty of murder, for the greater the delay the greater the certainty of cheating the gallows, Buthow is it with such ag nro in- n08eal of crime and only require the decision of an impartial jury to be restored to their suffering —_ families? “Look at theso walls,’’ said a prisoner the other day, drawing his hand over the white- washed wall and holding up to gaze fingers as heavily coated as thongh they had been dipped in fresh: paint, ‘This is what we have to endure. We are always cold. The hydrant leaks, Sometimes there is a foot of water on the floor, Our feet are never dry. Louk at the carpet."” The carpet was as wet as thoughrys bad been laid down in the middle of Broadway! m sure of being acquitted. All I ask for is'@ tral, but if I stay here much longer do you think I can work at my trade ? I'm getting used ty fast. It’s enough to kill a horse.’ Ay, it is, indeed, and we congrat- ulate New York upon her‘living cemetery. It is well to be original, and certainly no other city can boast of so novel a possession. Long may it cast o damper upon the spirits of the innocent! Of course it is an axiom as immntable as any in Euclid that poor prisoners have no rights to decency that authorities aro bound to respect, and in the demonstration of this axiom the Tombs seems to be as «successful as im the taking of nnoffending life. Society is accustomed to regular and frequent supplies of clean sheets and pillow-onses ; therefore society will be shocked to hear that there are prisoners in the Tombs to whom a change of theso articles is as rare ad angela’ visita, “ve beom here since the first of January,” said the man ia the dripping cell, ‘‘and we've had one clean sheet and one pillow-case in three weeks. De you consider this decent? And, what's worse, there’s vermin in the bed. Tell that in the Henaxp, please.’’ And we do tell it ; not with the expectation of producing any effect upot the powers that rule the Tombs, but to givo society a slight idea of what to expect should its gentility ever be so reduced as not to be able to bribe attendants. There are many texts hung upon the walls of the corridor, but we fail to discover that ‘cleanliness is next to god- liness,”” Will not an immaculate society supply the deficiency? And now that murder- ing and giving in murder is the chief end of man will not society bring New York to trial for a wilful and prolonged attempt upon the lives of thousands of human beings, many of whom are guiltless of crime, and all of whom desire to be housed as decently as one would house dogs? " Important Wews from Central Asia. The telegrams from Bombay and London which appear in the Heraip to-day leave no room for doubt concerning the fact that the Central Asiatic territory which borders the British dominion in Afghanistan is very seriously disturbed by the war movements of several native contending chiefs. It appears equally plain, judging from the same sources of intelligence, that the warring Powers look towards Russia as a great armed arbitrator, if they are not, indeed, moved to hostilities at her instigation with the view of affording an efouse for a direct interference by the officers of the Czar. Fort Hissar, a dependency of Cabool, has been -captured by one of the chiefs, The Governor of the place was made prisoner. He has been handed over te the Russians, for safe-keeping, we presume, so that a sort of informal commission as high constable of the district has been already accorded to the Muscovite Emperor. This example was repeated in a second case of executive capture. Fort Hissar consti- tutes an excellent central point of advance for Russia should she decide to march on Afghan-Turkistan, and that she may do se is not at all unlikely, if merely in the réle of a grand imperial pacificator. The British government entertains, it may be, the same opinion. Special Cabinet despatches of an important character, addressed to the English Ambassador in St. Petersburg, were forwarded from London to the Russian capital yester-” day, g0 that itis quite probable that we shal! learn, within a few days, something definite astothe exact state of the relations which exist between Russia and Great Britain om the Asiatic question. Our Great Atlantic Steamship Linesw The Miseries of the Steerage Pas senger. In another place in the Henaxp of this morning will be found a long and able letter from correspondent, reflecting gravely on the management of one of the largest and most respectable of our great At- lantic steamship companies. We print the letter with some regret because we feel satis- fied that it must give pain to the managers of the National line. We are satisfied, however, after proper inquiry, that our correspondent is a man of honor and integrity, and that he writes in the intertsts of the public, whom it is our business and our duty to serve, We shall be glad to learn that the evils com- plained of are really not so bad as represented. In the meantim@however, we have no choice but give our correspondents letter to the pub- lic; and if the managers of the National line feel aggrieved we beg to assure them that our columns will be as open to them for explana- tion and defence as they are now to Mr. Mc- Donnell for the statement ot his complaint. It requires to be stated at the outset that the charges made in Mr. McDonnell’s letter are of a special character; they relate only to what happened on one voyage of the Erin; and it is quite possible that the grievances com- plained of were due to exceptional causes, the statement of which may go far to vindicate and justify the general management of the National line, According to our correspondent the steam~ ship Erin, of the National line, on which he had taken passage, was to sail from the Victoria Docks, London, on the 30th of No- vember. On that day, when the passengers came on board, they were made aware that the vessel would not sail until Monday, the 2d of December. ‘The sailing was again deferred until Tuesday, and finally until Wednesday, the vessel, however, not leaving the dock till four o’clock on Thursday morn- ing. It is but just to the company to add that for each day they were detained every adult person received at the rate of eighteen pence a day. Weare willing to be as just to the management as possible; but, all things considered, we cannot in the first place justify the detention, nor can we in the second in- stance commend them for the grandeur of their liberality. Any one who knows London and ‘is familiar with the Victoria Docks can conceive the misery which these poor peo-, le, some of them women and chijdrei, inust Biv éndured during those four days of the. gloomiest season which London knows, At Havre, where the vessel called, soma eight hundred additional passengers Were taken on” board, and for these, it appears, the most wretched accommodation was provided. To this portion of our correspondent’s letter we' * specially call the attention of our read- ers. We cannot in this place repro- duce all the disgusting details; but if the one-half of what he states is true it is high time that the horrors of the steerage passage should be proclaimed to the world and that an indignant public on both sides of the Atlantic should unite for the purpose of making an end of an iniquity which recalls all the worst features of the slave trade, when human beings, without regard to age or sex, were huddled together like so many cattle, and, in circumstances of impurity disgusting to think of, were transported across the seas. We have done much to make an end of tho one iniquity ; the other cannot be tolerated. It is in the last degree necessary that on board passenger ships there should be a suffi- cient number of stewards and satisfactory medical attendance. In both these particulars the Erin on her last voyage to these shores seems to have been at fault. When the vessel left Havre there were only three regular steerage stewards, and of them the moat obliging and intelligent was shortly afterwards removed to the sailory’ quarters, Some of tha