The New York Herald Newspaper, January 28, 1873, Page 7

Geclaration of the British government that they ‘‘would refrain from all interference with Bussian progress along the Amu and Sir, so long as it does not menace Afghanistan or the principalities on the’ Upper Amu and others Bituated between Khiva and Afghanistan, ‘claimed by the Ameer of the latter country.” Such was insisted on asa sine qui non in the ‘preservation of peace. It is quite clear that England in this matter has set down her foot with more firmness than she has been wont to ‘do tor some time past. It is also manifest that while Russia is bent on conquest and the extension of her territory sho is anxious, as far as is possible, to conciliate England. Yesterday morning we were made ‘ware that Mr. T. Mitchell, Assistant Secre- tary of the British Legation at St. Petersburg, ‘had just left London for the former city, bear- ing with him important despatches. If the cable despatch of this morning is correct the work of Mr. Mitchell is anticipated, and the difficulty is ended for the present. We aro not, however, fora moment allowed to think that Russia is disposed to halt in her move- ment against Khiva; for it is authoritatively stated that the Grand Duke Nicholas is about to proceed to Jurched, with a view to join the expedition. Evidently the big fellows are not ‘yet disposed to test their strength. The little fellows Russia is determined to punish, while England locks on. The big fight, we fear, snust come, and that at no distant day. Tue Goxp Boanp, at a special meeting of its members yesterday, abolished by a large vote the privilege of doing business through powers of attorney. This change places the Gold Exchange on the same footing as the tock Exchange, where the transaction of business is confined exclusively to regular members in good standing. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. "Wice President Colfax is prepared te receive en- fagements for lectures on the virtue of temper- ance. ‘The fruit bud killer has made his annual visit out West. General J. Eciols, of Virginia, has arrived at the Astor House. General N. B. Forrest, of Memphis, is at the St Nicholas Hotel. Isaac H. Bromley, of Hartford, is stopping at the Aloffman House. Rochefort will be transported with the next ‘batch of convicts, Ex-State Prison Inspector F.S. Laflin, of Sauger- ties, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Edwin C. Bailey, formerly of the Boston Herald, is spoken of for Governor of New Hampshire. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Jour- nal, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House, Colonel S. M. Mansfield, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Caroline Rogers, a Liverpool savage, was con- victed of biting off and eating another woman's ear, St. Luke Poland has declared with reference to the Crédit Mobilier slaughter that he mever such War-saw. Justice Jonn G. Mackey, half brother of Dr. Albert G. Mackey, died in Charleston, S. C., on the #4th instant. ‘The credentials of Senator Cameron for six years from the 4tn of March next, were presented in the Senate yesterday. Admiral de Rohan yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel from Washington. He will sail for Europe te-morrow, Mr. J. M. Bellew is not the guest of Archbishop McCloskey, a8 has been reported, but 4s residing at the Brevoort House, Colonel Sam. Tate, of Memphis, President of the Memphis ana Little Rock Railroad, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General White, our new Minister to the Argen_ tine Republic, will start for Buenos Ayres to-mer- row. Heis now at the Hoffman House. Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, has gene, or is about going, to Savannah tor the benetit of his health. He is to remain two months, General J. D. Webster, of Chicago, is mentioned in connection with the Commissionership of Indian Alfairs—and Chicago rejoiceth thereat. Anew way to ‘Lay up fora rainy day.” Aman named Lay, in Illinois, got drunk, fell down and broke his neck. His widow obtained $1,200 damages from the man who sold him the liquor, A Spanish gentleman frequents the Paris boule- ‘vards in thin alpaca clothes and straw hat. He is earning @ bet of 50,000 francs to dress in that way all Winter. He is lucky not to have undertaken it in New York. Negroes in Indiana are calling indignation meet- ings and demanding the repeal of the law under ‘which one of their color has been sent to prison for marrying a white woman. It is only a matter of taste after all. The benefit of advertising was recently illustrated in Boston, where a merchant advertised for “a boy wanted” in a morning paper, and on going home in the evening he was presented with two babes of the male persuasion. Colonel M. C. Cluskey, of the Louisville Ledger and formerly of the Memphis Avalanche, died in the former city on the 11th instant. He wasan oficer in the Coniederate service and a writer of con- siderable reputation. A new Western leading literary star is described as “a tall, pale-faced young man, with wandering eyes, a graceful figure, adeep bass voice, and the polish of a gentleman.” For a Western crayon Picture this is pretty well drawn. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:—“M.C.'s are worth $329, a piece or ‘ten per cent,’ but the testimeny of Oliver Ames indicates that a first class railroad commissioner is worth $25,000, That is, that's the ‘way they've been going.” That's not exactly the ‘way these M.C.’s have been going lately. They had a more downward destination. Proudly proclaims the Fall River (Mass,) Herald «democratic, of course), touching the conduct of public men:—“Witness the vituperation heaped upon Senators Sumner, Schurz, Fenton and Trum- bull, yet who has dared to connect either of their names yth the Crédit Mobilier or any other fraud? No one,” They had no “tar on their heel,” not they. “a BROKEN BRAKE.” Derxort, Mich., Jan, 27, 1873. Two coaches of the Eastern day express train on ‘the Michigan Central Railroad were threwn from ‘the track at Chelsea on Saturday evening. Sev- eral passengers were injured, including Mr. Cap- real, of Toronte, who was cut about the face t head, and Mr. Bradley, of New York, who had his ibs broken. The accident was caused by a broken brake dropping down under a coach. MURDEROUS KENTUCKIANS IN COMBAT, . LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 27, 1873. On Friday, at Piney Branch Statien, Rockcastle county, on the Knoxville Branch Railroad, George ‘W. Murray quarrelied with Walker Bledsoe, Bled- @oe'’s stepfather, Lee Arnold, accosted Murray about it a few minutes later, when Murray drew a istol, but threw it dewn, and the two commenced ghting. Finding Arnold overpowering him, Mur- Tay reached for the pistol shot his adversary through the stomach. Arnold sprung up, seized a handspike and lite- rally beat out Murray’s brains with it, killing him instantly. Arnold still lingers, but his physi say he cannot live. have families. THE HORSE DISEASE IN NEVADA. Virornia Crry, Nev., Jan. 27, 1873. Every furnace in the Eureka mining district nas suspended work on account of the epizooty, and also every mine bat two, and these only employ a email force prospecting. Netwithstanding the prevalence Of the disease ne fatal cases have occurred. The treighting between the ratiroad and points in daacvern and Western Nevada ts contined to ox keaus. 3 Both men were married and | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. CENTRAL ASIA. ——_.-2__. Bussian Project for Territorial Definition and Neutrality. A Royalist Romanoff to Campaign Against Khiva—Prospects of Imperial Success and of Serious Issues—Grand Duke Michael's Post in the Caucasian Territory. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Jan. 27, 1873. The latest report with reference tothe Angio- Russian trouble in Central Asia is te the effect that Russia has made a proposal establishing a neutral zone and guaranteeing the independence and neu- trality ef Afghanistan. A RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE EN ROUTE TO THE FRONT. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of His Majesty the Ozar, is about to proceed to Jurcked, in order to participate in the Khivan expedition. THE GRAND DUKR NICHOLAS. Nicholas, Grand Duke of Russia, isin the forty- second year of his age. He is a man of great expe- rience in military matters, a3 also in diplomacy. He is a General of the Russian army, Aide-de-camp General of the Imperial Statf, and Commander of the Corps of Army Conscription of St. Petersburg. He is, besides, chiet of a regiment of grenadiers, colonel of a regiment of Astrakhan dragoons, and, still more appropriate just at present, chief of the Battalion of Sappers of the Caucasus. He will, most likely, in the first instance, take advice with his brother, the Grand Duke Michael, who is Governor General of the Caucasus, Grand Duke Michacl’s Poi nm as Seen by the English in St. Petersburg. A St. Petersburg special letter to London, pub- lished in the English capital on the lst of January in the present year, supplies the following inter- esting facts:— “The question is no longer whether England shall oppose the progress of Russia in Cen- tral Asia, but how England is to strengthen herself in the position she aiready holds, 80 as to counter- poise the enormous influence which Russia will possess when her frontiers have reached their natural limit. The Khiva question hus lately given rise to much speculation and argument in this di- rection, and the gradual extinction of the indepen- dence of the States that lie in the Russian path naturally stimulates to serious reflection. The an- nexation of Khiva has not yet been determined in the Council of the Grand Duke Michael, the Lieu- tenant of the Caucasian provinces—Khiva lying within his jurisdictton—still it is probable that the Khan will not retain his position much longer, un- ess, indeed, the Russian government should prefer to accept him as a vassal. The fact is, the pent and constantly increasing expense incurred in the administration of the newly-acquired Asiatic provinces hangs like a dead weight on the Minister of Finance. The revenue is very trifling; and the cest of maintaining troops, not only of soldiers, but of onicials alse, in those distant regions, to which few are inclined to go except on very ad- vVantageous terms, is @ matter of no small moment, when we consider how for many years Russian financiers have been struggling in Vain to make both ends meet. The Russian Campaign Against Khiva— Power and Prospects of the Forces of e Czar. A Calcutta journal, speculating on the possible consequences of the Russian movement in Central Asia, writes as follows:— The Russian campaign can have but one result— Bokhara must fall, and then Khiva. The remnant of Khokand left to Khodayur Khan will, of course, be absorbed. The Russians will then possess the vast.Doab of the Oxus and Jaxartes, studded with cities containing & peace-loving population, read) and willing to welcome their sway. if the whole population of the Khanates be- longed to a single tribe, or even to cognate tribes, the physical features of the country would enable them to offer an invincl- ble resistance to the invaders. Composed, as it is, of different races, conserving their own pecu- Hararities with jealous care, the Russians find they have enly to deal with the dominant tribes. Con- sidering that there is no temptation to convert Turkistan into another Poland, that the Sarts or Taajiks are sure to take advantage ofa settled power, and some degree of settled laws to develep their passion for traficking and for os suits, and that the possession ef Khiva and Bok- hara by she Russians must of necessity put a stop to the Turcoman slave trade; considering all these things, we think Russia may be as fairly congratu- lated on her siiccess in Central Asia as England en hers in Central Africa, But compiaisance should stop here, England while giving her rival her felicitations should draw a moral from her own conduct in Abyssinia and warn Russia against ad- vancing toe far—say beyond the line of the Oxus, SHIP WRECK. “Broken in Pieces and All Hands Supposed To Be Lost. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERAL®. Lonpon, Jan. 27, 1873, A despatch from Bordeaux says a vessel, sup- posed to be British, went asnore last night on the coast near that city, and this morning appears to have broken into three pieces. Allon board are paobably lost. FRANCE. The Treaty of Commerce with England To Be Completed. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YBRK HERALY, Panis, Jan, 27, 1873. President Thiers will to-morrow sign the new Treaty of Commerce between France and Great Britain. a The New Charter of Colonial Liberty and Reform Ready for Cortes, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. MADRID, Jan. 27, 1873. The report of the Committee on the Abolition of Slavery and other reforms in Porto Rico will be read to-morrow in the Lower House of tle Cortes. | The Marquis de Mendigorria, Minister of War in the Spanish Cabinet, is invalided and confined to his bed by illness. OBITUARY, Robert 5. ‘anston. Robert B. Cranston, who was a Representative in Congress from Rhode Island from 1837 to 1843, and again from 1847 10 1849, died in Newport yes- terday. Ale was born in Rhode Island, and was eighty-two years of age at the moment of his decease. He was a Presidential elector in the year 1864, B. H. Norris. B. H. Norris, ex-member of Congress from the Third Alabama district, died in Montgomery, Ala., yesterday. Luther Tucker, a well-known writer and ac- knowledged authority on agricultural affairs, died at Albany, im this State, on Sunday, the 26th in stant. He had attained an advanced age. It is alm forty years since Mr. Tucker commenced the publication of the Genesee Farmer, in Roches- ter, and about 1847 became connected with the Agricwturalist, which afterwards became known as the Country Gentleman, He was tor nearly thirty years Secretary and Treasurer of the State Agricultural Society. THE SEPARATE TROOP. An invitation ball by the “Separate Troop of Cavalry” of the First division of the N. G. 8. N. Y., given at Teutonia Hall in Third avenue, was last Bight attended by a select company. Not only the usual congregation advented, but even from that staid and sober city, the home of tne Quakers, which is laid out upon tne square, came hordes of the invuinerable*“State Invincibles" of Pennsylva- nia. They were under the command of Captain J. W. Ryan, with whom Were Captains L, R, Renz, J. W. Divany, Charles Rentz aad R. M. Topham. There were also about twouty privates, tn with the Cameron Club, of New York, and the cordia Singing Society, of New York, were euter- tained at the ball, VESUVIUS. Premonitory Symptoms of a Volcanic Upheaval— Fireside Alarm After Sad Cause. . TELECRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. NAPies, Jan. 27, 1873, There have been slight cruptious from Mount Vesuvius during the past few days. No damage has yet-been done, but the residents of the villages situated at the foot of the volcano, who suffered so severely from the last eruption, are greatly alarmed, ENGLAND. aa ESA ah Se The Cotton Famine Relief Fund Balance—A New Charity To Be Founded. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALY. LonpDon, Jan, 27, 1873. A meeting of the trustees of the fund raised for the relief of the operatives during the cotton famine was held at Manchester last night. The amount on hand was reported to be $620,008 ‘The Earl of Derby ofered a resolution that the funds be applied to the foundation of a hospital for convales- cents, ‘The resolution was adopted: THE MODOC WAR. Nothing Further. from the Camp Captain Jack. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 27, 1873, There is nothing new from General Wheaton’s camp in the Modoc region, The California troops, en route from this city to the scene dfaction, under the command of Colonel Throckmorton, are flity miles from Redding. Accompany of troops from Portland, Oregon, under the command of Captain Miller, is at Grove Creek, being past the worst part of the road. Gene- ral Gillen, who supercedes General Wheaton, will arrive at Yreka to-morrow by stage. CONFLAGRATIONS. poms SRA A Fire at Barre, Mass. Wonrcesrsr, Jan. 27, 1873, The large two story building on the grounds of the Worcester Wesi Agricultural Society, at Barre, was, with its contents, entirely destroyed by fire early this morning. The building was owned by the Society, and was valued at $4,000; insured for $3,000. The contents consisted of hats, placed there for storage by various parties. lessrs. Moore, Smith & Co,, of Boston, lose $2,600; Mr, Powers, of Greenwich, $1,600, and other parties smaller amounts, The fire was the work of an in- cendiaro, and the Selectmen have offered $500 reward for his apprehension. of A Paper Mill Destroyed. WESTFIELD, Mass., Jan. 27, 1873. A manila paper mill, two miles west, owned by the Pultz and Walkley Paper Bag Manulacturing Company of Pleasantville, Conn., was burned last evening. Loss $20,000; insured tor $14,000. ‘The stock was partly saved. A Fire at Madison, Ind. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan. 27, 1873, A fire which broke out at half-past one o’clock this morning at Madison, Ind., destroyed the Wal- nut street brewery, owned by John Butz. The loss is $35,000, on which there is noinsurance. The cpl Sleeping in the building barely escaped vie their lives. The fire originated in the malt a. Serious Conflagration in South Carolina. CHARLESTON, Jan, 27, 1873. A large fire occurred in the town of Kingstree, S. C., this morning, and destroyed stores and dwellings to the value of $50,000, about one-fourth of which was insured. The Fire Fiend in Michigan. Derkort, Jan, 27, 1873. A fire at Lapeer, Mich., on Sunday morning, destroyed the drug store of Vincent & Cary, with its contents; also the American Express and Western Unien Telegraph offices, with a large amount of express goods; the jewelry store of D. W. Hinman, and the drug store of Cannon & Bristol. The stocks of the last two mentiened stores were mostly removed. The loss is $20,000 and the in- Lig $7,000, The fire was the work of an incen- ary. FIRE IN EIGHTH AVENUE, Fire was discovered at a quarter past nine o’clock last evening in the frame store of Aaron J. Stern, 199 Eighth avenue. Loss to stock, $7,000; to building trifling. Insurance unknown. THE SEVENTY. Session of the Solons—Further Amend- ments to the Charter—The Assistant Aldermen Doomed=—A Spring Election Recommended. A meeting of the Committee of Seventy was held last evening, with the paternal-looking President, Mr. J. 8, Brown, in the chair; but at which, ow- ing to the storm, no doubt, there was not a very full attendance “ of members. The principal business was listening to the report of the Sub-Committee on Legislation in relatien to their efforts and success at Albany last week. The report was not very lengthy,and embraced only those points with which the readers of the HERALD are already familiar as discussed before the Com- mittees on Cities of the Senate and Assembly. The committee then took up several sections of the “Custom House” charter which is now before the Legislature, and canvassed their import as affecting the interests of the city. The discussion was, to a certain extent, informal; but the con- clusions arrived at were unanimous, The sub- committee, which will appear at Albany again to- day, Was instructed to urge most forcibly the wip- ing out of the BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN onthe grounds that the Board was of no possibile or practicable benefit to the city; that in none of the chief cities of this country or of England was such a Board as that of Assistant Aldermen ; that the Board was composed generally of tae worst class of politicians, who are “run’’ in districts solely for the purposo of subserving the interests of some ambitious and unscrupulous omMcial and would-be leader; that the last election showed very plainly that all idea of impraving the city government was ignored, and that the highest offices were traded olf and bargained away in almost ail the disvricts for the election of an Alder- man or Assistant Alderman; that the continu- ance of the Board will be an enormous and unnecessary expense, and finally, that receni events have shown certain members of the present Board of Assistants to be as great a disgrace to the city a8 any of those who figured under the recent “King” régime. In rela- tion to the BOARD OF ALDERMEN, the committee recommended that the number be increased irom fifteen to twenty-one, twenty-two or twenty-five, and to be elected, as at present, on ageneral ticket. It was decided, however, that pi aa not be pressed should any opposition be evinced, It was further decided to oppose strenuously all attempts to take away trom the Mayor the power of ci liagtgl g the heads of departments, and, finally, it was determined to obtain, if possible, an amendment providing for A SPRING CHARTER ELECTION, 80 that it Cr hp be separated from the real party issues which affect State and national eleetions. By this meana it was claimed the people would he brought to consider only the interests ef the city and the obtaining of a good government by electing only honest and competent men to office. It was decided to have the last-mentioned amendment 80 worded as to provide that the election for Mayor be held in the Spring, some eight months previous to the expiration of the term of office of Mayor Have- meyer, and the person then elected not to take | oMice until the close of Mr. Havemeyer's term. The committee, CN eine Messrs, John Wheeler, Rosweil D. Hatch, Jackson 8. Schultz, D. B, Eaton and others, left for Aany on the eleven o'clock train ast night, THE FLORIDA SENATORSEIP, TALLATASSER, Fla., Jan. 27, 1873, The Senatorial contest still continues, both houses bailoting daily without result. Public inter- ests are suffering and all legislatien is blocked un- til the contest is decided. General Henry 8. San- ford, Minister to Belginm under President Johnson and recalled by General Grant, is working ac- tively, but it is not probable that he can be elected. THE FRANCHISE IN ARKANSAS, Litre Rock, Jan. 27, 1873, The Governor has issued a proclamation ordering an election for March 3, at which the pending amendment doing away with the @isfranchising clanse of the constitution shall be submitted to the people for ratification, “THE BEAUTIFUL SNOW.” + Again has the “beautiiul snow” (’)—beautiful dotheration—“like a thief in the night,’” come down upon us poor, bewildered Cothamites with all its concomitant woes and annoyances—only, like a “thief in the night,” it did not vanish with the approach of “the orb of day.’ It completely hid said “orb,” and didn’t seem to care a button— or rather fake—for its, presence, but continued to “come down” thicker and thicker, until even “the oldest inhabitant” began seriously to believe that it was never going to “let up.” All night and all day this ‘beautiful snow” before alluded to flaked away at us,’ until it really seemed a8 though all the “little cherubs aloft’? were shaking the “pin feathers’’ out of their wings in the exuberance of their joy at seeing the'streetsor this goodly city assume, for the time being, atibast, an immaculate appearance, which was truly assum- ing a virtue though they had it not) And’ this “beautiful snow” hovered all around us, over us, under us ana onus, until forbearance ulmost ceased to be a virtue, patience a something almost un- known, and pedestrians looked like nothing but elongated, animated snowballs. But, in the words of the Western Diogenes, What mast be will be, And what has boen—was. And it ‘‘was’’ yesterday one of the most disa- greeable days of this very disagreeable winter, ‘The car teams were all ‘doubled up,’’ and most of the unfortunate passengers in the cars were like- wise “doubled up” with cold, though some few of them managed to hang from the straps like so non condemned smoked hams, and were deupt- less longing to be “doubled up” in their comiorta- ble beds at home. Upon the whole, however, Gotham has often been visited before by smaller storms which were much larger: in the wee, misery and annoyance caused than was that of yesterday. Travel was not altogether brought toa standstill, though many stood still till they almost perished waiting for conveyances to travel home. A large number, no doubt, reached home, and perhaps quite a large pumber didn't, Maybe the wives of those luckless wights who didn’t may know the cause some day or another; but as for us, “40's one of those things which no fellah can ever find out.” The Detention of the Mails. The recent snow-tfall has so interfered with the regularity of the mails that many of them have been, during the past two days, exceedingly be- hind time. At eleven o’clock last night the acting, Superintendent of the Post Ofice made the follow- ing report of arrivals and detentions of mails during yesterday :— The Boston evening mail, which, unless in very severe weather, is generally up to time, was over one hour late, Being due at a quarter to six in the evening, it did not arrive until seven o'clock. The Central New Jersey mail, which was due at ten o’clock P. M., had not arrived at eleven P. M., and the Superintendent expressed his doubt about its arrival during the night on account of the severity of the evening storm. Only one Erie mail arrived during the day, and that at twenty-five minutes of seven in the even- ing, several hours behind time. The mails on this line have been coming irregularly during the past two weeks, but on yesterday and the day previous there was such manilest irregularity thatat was not without much dimculty that a distinction could be made, There can be no other explanation elicited for the detention of these and other mails running irregularly in a similar manner than the obstruc- eee by the snow drifts on the railroad tracks. The Snow in Southern New York. Kinaston, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1873. Another snow storm set in last evening and has prevailed since, There are no indications of a change this evening. The snow, however, is very light and causes little additional inconvenience on the roads and railways beyond increasing the bulk of the Immense quantity 6f snow already lying on the ground. WHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Jan, 27, 1873. A severe snow storm has prevailed here all day and continues to-night. This, added to the snow of the previous and late storms, measures over two. leet deep on the level. Strong fears of a disastrous freshet iollowing a thaw are entertained and pre- cautionary movements are urged, All the trains are behind time. The Snow Storm in the Quaker City. PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 27, 1873, We are having another heavy snow storm. It snowed all last night, and has been snowing the whole of to-day. The street cars are ‘doubled up” (running with tour horses), and find it diticult to proceed at that. Raining in Delaware. Lewes, Jan, 27, 1873, Rain fell here during the whole of last night. There are forty schooners and an unknown bark from Liverpoo! in the Breakwater, The Storm in the National Capital. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 1873, Snow commenced falling last night at seven o’clock, alternating during the night between snow, rain and hail, aad continued so during the day. Itis now snewing severely, Snow Storm in Maryland. Port Derosit, Jan. 27, 1873. A heavy snow storm prevails here to-day, Rain and Snow in Virginia. Ricumonp, Jan, 27, 1873, Snow and rain fell here nearly all day. Snowing in Massachusetts. Boston, Jan. 27, 1873. @ Steady, light snow has been falling since early this morning, and is now from two te three inches in depth. Snowing in New Hampshire. MANCHESTER, Jan. 27, 1873, A severe snow storm is prevailing here, Severe Weather and Snow Storm in Arkans: LittTLeE Rock, Jan. 27, 1873. The weather is unusually severe here to-day, the thermometer registering only five degrees above zero, Five inches of snow fell on the 25th inst. There was splendid sieighing yesterday. The pres- ent is the heaviest fall of snow since 1855, Stormy in Nevada. Vinoista City, Jan. 27, 1873. Asnow storm of thirty-ix hours’ duration, with a fall of three feet of snow, has occured at Ham- ot. 2%, ilton. The weather here is warm and pleasant. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Jan, 28—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The low barometer on Sunday night over Northern Florida has rapidly moved northeastward preceded by brisk and high winds algng the Middle and Fast Atlantic coasts, and is now central east of New England; fresh northeasterly to northwesterly winds, cloudy weather and snow are now prevailing over New England; light to fresh northwesterly and southwesterly winds and generally clear weather over the Middie State; rising barometer, falling temperature, fresh and brisk northerly to westerly winds and gener- ally clear Weather from the Ni over the Upper Lake region, and southeastward over the Olio Valley to the South Atiantic coast. Prohabilities, For the New England and Middle States rising barometer, decided fall of the temperature, fresh and brisk northerly to westerly winds and clear weather, excepting, possibly, areas of light snow; jor the Lower Lake region, from Kansas, Missouri and the Ohlo Valley to Minnesota, the Upper Lakes and Lake Erie high and rising barome- ter, low and falling temperature, fresh and brisk northerly to westerly winds and generally clear and very cold weather; from the Onio Valley | to the South Atiantic coast rising barometer, low temperature, fresh and*possibly brisk northerly to northwesterly winds and generally clear weather. ‘The midnight telegraphic reports from the Gulf States and @ portion of those from Georgia, Tennes- see, Lower Michigan and the extreme Northwest have not been re The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the ctanges in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Pharmacy, HeKaLp Building — 18 1873, P 3:30 P. M Pi 6P. M.... 7 oP. M.. 2 12P. M Average temperature yesterday jas Average temperature for corresponding date last years... seveceeevcevesees OOM rthwest eastward | | enjoyed the dinner, sipped the wine, and BURNS’ BIRTHDAY. The One Hundred and Fourteenth Animiver- sary Celebrated Last Night at the Grand Central Hotel Festivity, Geniality and Good Feeling. Tie. Memory of Scotland's Bard’ Honored Anew by Sootland’s Sons.” eee SONGS, TOASTS AND SPEECHES, The'Burns’ Club celebrated last night the 114th anniversary of the birthday ef Robert Burnes, the favorite bard of bonnie Scotland, by a dinner at the Grand Central Hotel. The tables were spread in the south dining room, which was decorated with the American and Scottish flags, and at about eight o’clock the members and guests of the club marched in order from the re- ception parlor, headed. by Mr, Lawrence D. Robinson, whe, ona. veritable bagpipe, played one of Scotland’ favorite marches. Mr. John Reid, President ‘of the Club, sat at the head of the table: The notable persons present were :—Judgeé Samuel Jones,"Mr. Hosea B. Perkins, Mr. James Nelson, Mr. . Robert Anderson, Mr, Charles Place, Mr, John Stratton au@@olonel Flagy. Grace was said by 'R. G. Millard; an¢@ after the first course of the dinner the Chairman called upon Mr, ©. G, Nicholson for the ‘Address: to the Haggis.” Tn response he recited. very humorous poem about the favorite Gmlic dish in the broad Scotch accent, which excited a deal of laughter. “THE DAY WE CELEBRATE,” The PRESIDENT then read the toast of “The Day We Celebrate,” and responded to it himself, as fol- lows :— GeNTLEMEN OF THK BuRNS CLUB—Tne day we celebrate is remarkable, not because on it we might celebrate great victories won by force of arms; remarkable, not be- cause on that day we might’ celebrate the decla- ration of a nation’s Independence; remarkable hot for any great triumph of physical sct- ence like the laying of ocean cables to link together the ends of the earth, or the opening of Suez canals or Mont Cents tunnels tor the convenience of commerce, but remarkable for th fact thaton this day was born ‘into the world one ot nature's noblemen, whose name is not sullied or compromised by tities, which are usually the reward of sycophancy, in those who receive them. “Fame spread her wings and blew, Great Burns is come, what pri isdue ? What title shall he have? She paused, and said, Not one; his name alone strikes every title dead 1” Hils‘advent was not heralded by salvos of artillery, the beating of drums or the flaunting. of banners; no'gor- geous payeants marked his approach, pomp and circum: stance did not usher him 3. Yet, to«lay, this unerowned monarch has a wider ‘realm and reign more royal than any of earth's potentates, His empire is found wherever truth and manly inde- pendence are acknowledged; he sits enthroned i the human heart. ‘Tis true the’ poor and lo yin every country cherish his 'y and dearly love his name; but they are not alone a ‘ine. Around that sacred Place we find renowned sta sweet poets, great heologians, eminent, lawyers, learncd philosophers and great editors, all paying homaye to his fmm and proud of the privilege of thr wing a pebble has risen mountain high o'er his pration of matt! upted by our hetter natures. Honest poverty, in gray, feels in Burns a champion and a friend, The rehgious man fecls that the bard inspired honesty, truth and. justice; the literary man ix charmed by the gems that sparkle in his poctry ; the patriotic Scotanan— and what Scotsman is not patriotic’—teels that even in that glorious old land, hoary with histo emories, our bard wreathed everything he touched with immortallty. Suen being the case, the wonder would be, should Buras be forgotten and his natal day not be celebrated. “THE GENIUS OF BURNS.”’ In response to the toast of “The Genius of Burns” Judge Jongs said :— At about this season of tl orld where there were & few Scotsmen asse meetings of, this character were held. They wero commemoration of the boy into whose heart the con- templation of nature sunk deep ; who still later in lite gave vent to that which he had drunk in in those sweet songs which are immortal—a name, wherever it re oa that opens the fellow feeling of a heart for a hear No high sounding phrases, no heroics were his, but the pure, the simple scotch melodies. Wherever they are heard there they eall forth a response and awaken the best feclings of the heart. ‘The memory ot Burns speaks to you as aman and speaks to you in roldage. Itis this that makes his name so wel inajl the world, Applause.) It is this ly year, in all part: ether and makes elcome every whe Robert Burns speaks mot to any particulng class of mai kind, but to the whole universe! (Applaute.) Mr. Charles Reekie gave an eloquent recitation on Burns, which was enthusiastically applauded. Mr. Charles MacGregor then sung the ‘0’ a’ the airts that win’ can blaw.”” “AMERICA,”? The next toast—of ‘‘America’—was received with cheers and a “tiger.” In consequence of the absence of Judge Courtney Mr. samuel Patterson responded, He said that when he thought of the liberality and equality in our country and heard the name of Robert Buras, it was always with those words of his running through his mind, “A man’s a@ man for a’ that’—(applause)—and closed by say- ing that Scotsmen would not be last in wishing that the tree of liberty might grow until it should sur- round the whole earth. (Applause.) anh Henry Spear sung the “Sword of Bunker Mr. James MacGreggor sung a comic Irish song on General Washington with this tor the chorus :— With sword in hand He did command he British fly, them independence on day of July! “SCOTLAND.” The PRESIDENT then proposed the toast of “Scot- land,” and Mr, Robert Anderson, of the Caledonian Club, rose and responded in an eloquent speech, Alter the applause which followed Mr, Ander- son’s address had subsided Mr. J. Linklater sung with fine eifect “Where has Scotland Found her Fame *’ In response to repeated clapping of hands he again arose and gave the stirring ballad of Burns—‘‘A man’s a man for a’ that.” A recitation of one or Lowell’s comic poems was given by Mr. George H. Bowilard, into which was thrown an immense amount of Yankee humor, and it was received with roars of merriment, where- upon, as @ second effort, he repeated the poem of Father Prout on ‘The bells of Shandon ‘That sound s0 grand on ‘The pleasant banks oi the river Lee, “SCOTTISH CHARACTERISTICS.” When quiet ensued Hosea B. Perkins, in re- sponse to the toast of the Burns Club,’? said :— Mr, Presipent—It is very well known tothe members who are present that for several years past [have taken ® somewhat active part at our annual dinne: tt will not, I presume, be regarded as a stretch of the * imagination my part when say that 1” have done my full share of the talkin; Tcame here to-night Fhad resolved in my own mind not to speak, but toeata good dinner, drink @ little good wine and: be a good listener. Vell, ve listene the most ' unbounded pleasure to able and eloquent addresses thave heen made. No @ with this, but call upon me tor to the most important toast of the even ‘The Burns Club and Scottish Characteristics.” No one present will make it av dispute with me when f say that New Y with eminent in many of i of life, Poets, orators and and in social lifefor, atter all has been said. it is social qualities that Feally elevate him in the scale of cing and stamp him as # creature of heavenly origin— they are unsurpassed by any club in this city. In | club can you find so” much and x00 lite, or t A under Power's blac i drinking ail th homes Dertectly res to their families. n wit With their tee lec sube er tempera vho, Mr. on these festive occasions; but when | Laughter.) ‘ President, ever heard of a | Seotchman that was not prow. of the land of his Dirth; that did not love mountains, wild and ‘rugged, her mirror-surtaced ing streams; that did not cherish a regard for the dear old spot where repose the ashes of his ancestors; where he revelled in the bright dreams « his boyhood, and where “nature itt hears upon its face the m Ni of bis manhood's laborious” toil! No matter partof the globe his lot may be es with him the di ish jannish nature; ut hI him t#particpate still more eageriy pure joys of social lite, He has an intense merry gawnes and manly sperts of old’ Caledonia, and is never more at home than when flinging the hainme dancing & reel or indulging In. the luxury ot sack race, Your true Scotchman reads his Bit Often, and’ not untrequently makes long prayers: h cherishes all the domestic virtues, and never tails {0 F cognize the fact hat “From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, hat makes her loved at home, revered abroad. Princes and Lords are but the breath of An honest padaing race,” tonal drink. "(bs Thave allotted to me, Mr, Chairman, wsumed, and I candy but little m eat gratification in joining with to the immortal memory ot Robe of thought and culture, rig where, have rer been prompt to o extraordinary huinan endowment, espe. cially togreat poetic genits. whether saining in the splendor of Shakspeare's plays or singing in. Burns melodions notes, Well has Goethe said, in speaking oa poets, that “the hero listened to ther songs and the conqueror of the earth aid reverence to a poet, for he teit that without nocts his own wild and vast existence would pass away ke a whirlwind and be forgotten forever. The lover wished that ne could feel his longings and his joys as vurledly and as harmoniously a4 the poets in- apired Hips hed Skil to. show. them forth, und even the rich man coud not of himself digcera such 7 cosfiiness in fix idol crandneass, as whe: Presented to him shining in the splendor of the poets spirit, sensible to atl worth and exalting all. (Applau One word more ot the gifted Burns am have done, At one period of his bricl but eventful life was undecided in hia own mind whether to become poet farmer or a West In dia slave driver. He resolved, however, to take up the muse, and she threw her golden mantic over him and called him hers—(appiause) and from that moment unta his he has been singing bis way ina stream of music into millions of warm aml loving hearts. | (Applause,) ‘The crown under which he lived and died may be aside or be trampled by the rude heet of the populace in its wildness and fury; its government may change from generation to bat the name of rt Burns Eng land’s Kings and queens shall have been forgotten for his works belong to wo age, to no country, but to al lands and to all ages. May the matehless splendor of hw genius, the maniiness of his character and the intense love of country which pervades his writings ever stimu late the hearts of his countrymen to deeds of virtue, valor and patriotism. And while the reputations of many of his contemporaries have already passed away, hisnow “shines, like the tixed stars, with imperishable’ lustre."* (Applause.) The toast of “Poetry” was spoken to by Mr. M. J. McKenna; that of the “Bar and Bench,’ by Judge Samuel Jones; “the Press,"’ by a talented member of that profession, and “the Lasses," by Vaptain ‘Thomas Sampson. s#urns’ sweetest and saddest song, “To Mary ia Heaven,” was re: red by Mr. Linklater; “Tul- lochgorum,” by Mr. Malcolm Taylor; ‘Highland Mary” and ‘Mary of Argyle,” oe Charles McGregor. Mr. Bowlend recited “The Heathen Chinee,” and the exercises were closed at about one o’clock by the singing of “‘My Nannie’s Awa’'* by Mr. Linklater, LEGAL CONFLICT IN UTAH. Judge Hawley and the Probate Jas tices=The Probaters Likely to be Ar- rested for Contempt—All Talk and No Work in the Mormon Courts, Satt Lake Crry, Jan. 27, 1873. The conflict of authority between the federal and local courts is evidently approaching a crisis. 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