The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1873, Page 6

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AFFECTING RE- CEPTION OF THE YOUTHFUL NAPOLEON 1V.—Tairp Pace. AN AWFUL BOILER EXPLOSION! THE LARGEST \ IRON WORKS IN THE UNION BLOWN TO ATOMS! EIGHT HUNDRED MEN IN THE BUILDING! SEVEN KILLED AND OVER THIRTY BADLY INJURED! IMMINENT PERILS AND MIRACULOUS ESCAPES !— SEVENTH PAGE. A STILL MORE FATAL BOILER CALAMITY! EIGHT PERSONS KILLED OUTRIGHT AND THIRTEEN WORKMEN FATALLY INJURED BY THE BURSTING OF A FOUNDRY BOILER AT CONSHOHOCKEN, PA.{ DE- TAILS AND NAMES OF THE VICTIMS— SEVENTH PAGE. WRESIDENT GRANT AND HIS CABINET TO MAKE A SOUTHERN TOUR! SHALL WE RECOGNIZE CUBAN BELLIGERENCY ? POLYGAMY AND THE GOAT ISLAND JOB DOOMED—SEVENTH PaGE. . A FLOOD OF LIGHT ON THE MODBILIER VIL- LANY! WHAT BECAME OF THE $126,000! GENERAL DIX AND MR. FULLERTON “PLACED” IN A BAD LIGHT! WORKING THE LOBBY! THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE CHARTER AND THE FIRST COM- PANY—FovurtH Pace. MURDERERS' ROW TO COME FORTH TO TRIAL! A PROMPT ARRAIGNMENT OF TOMBS IN- MATES DEMANDED BY JUSTICE! JUDGE BRADY'S CHARGE! SCANNELL ON MON- DAY! KING ON MONDAY WEEK—Firra Page. FERRETING OUT THE ELYSIAN FIELDS MYS- TERY! A CAR DRIVER ARRESTED ON CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE! HIS BLOOD SMEARED CLOTHING AND SWITCH-BOOK! WHO IS “H. BROOKS ?'—Fourtn Page. “STEERAGE SEPULCHRES! MR. McDONNELL REITERATES ALL HIS FORMER CHARGES! THE ENORMITIES MORE FULLY STATED! THEY ARE WORSE THAN AT FIRST GIVEN—THE MUNICIPAL BOARDS—ELEv- ENTH Page. ABOMINABLE CONDUCT OF LOUISIANA OF- FICIALS! THE WAY IN WUIICH ELEC- TIONS WERE CARRIED BY “MEN OF STRAW!” SYPHER FALSELY FIGURING AS AN “M. C.”—Tentu Pace. AUSTRIA'S PROMISE OF AID TO NAPOLEON! THE DUKE DE GRAMMONT REPLIES TO COUNT BEUST—MARITIME INTELLIGENCE— Trento Pas. A LADY MURDERED ON THE NIGHT OF HER BRIDAL! THE HEARTLESS FIENDS AC- COMPLISH THEIR DAMNABLE WORK UN- DER COVER OP A SERENADE—SgventiL Paar. REDEEMING FEATURES IN THE GREELEY WILL STRUGGLE! MISS IDA NOBLY VINDI- CATES HER FATHER'S MEMORY BY REFUSING TO BE A PARTY TO FURTHER LITIGATION! MISS GABRIELLE e ENDORSES HER ACTION: IMPORTANT POINTS IN YESTERDAY'S L BUSINESS | THE STOK TIONS ARGUED | MADA AND ESTATE: THE DE LAINSHIP FIGHT! f JUMEL’S WILL UTY CHAMBER- GREEN AGAIN MAN- DAMUSED—Firti Pace. ACTIVITY IN THE MONEY MARKET AND STOCK EXCHANGE ! THE SYNDICATE’S SUCCESS | GOLD DECLINED AND RAILWAY BONDS ADVANOED—NINTH Pace. Turner Dreaprot Borer Exprostoxs.—It is seldom we have such a series of horrors at one time as is presented in our columns else- where to-day. At Pittsburg a battery of four boilers exploded, in one of the largest iron mills of the West, causing the death of seven employés and the wounding and burning of thirty others, The force of this explosion must have been terrific, destroying the build- ings, burying the unfortunate workmen and causing death and destruction on every hand. Eight hundred workmen were engaged in the works at the time. At Conshohocken, some- thirteen miles from Philadelphia, about one hundred men were engaged in an extensive iron foundry, when the main boiler burst, killing eight men and maiming and seald- ing thirteen in addition, several of the latter not being expected to recover. At Syracuse also we have to record a casualty similar in | character to the two above mentioned, though somewhat less severe. In each case the victims were horribly mutilated, being almost beyond identification. It is stated that a few moments before the disasters the general indications of the boiler attachments were that there was no danger of the catastrophes that followed NEW YUKK HEKALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Last Scene in Napolco What Will tory. We print in this morning's Herarp the final chapter of the life of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, commonly called Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, We have said s0 much upon the career and destiny of this extraordinary man that a return to the subject may be read as an old, old story. But it is not fair to one who has filled so vast a spaco in the history of the world to dismiss him, especially in the chapter which records tho last circumstances in his career, without con- sidering what place he will occupy in the world’s Pantheon. Of the men who have governed Europe for a generation, he who lies so quietly in tho dingy chapel of Chiselhurst was the young- est. With a Pope and the rulers of France and Prussia verging upon eighty, wo cannot call him an old man who dies at sixty-three. And yet in incident and circumstance, and opportunity and achievement, he was an older man than Pius IX., or the Kaiser or President Thiers.. The Revolution of 1848 was the wave that washed Napoleon to fortune, and it was the wave that washed the Pope to defeat, the Kaiser to exile and Thiers to ap- parent obscurity. And yet Napoleon dies an exile, while the exile William is Emperor of Ger- many and the banished Thiers master of France. So truly do we learn in every phase of histori- cal teaching that every statesman and every party has a to-morrow, no matter how dark the day may be. Nor has any party more need of the consolation which this lesson brings than the. followers of Napoleon. It is the custom to think that with the Empire dics his party. So it seems tous. Not because we feel that the death of any mere man will of necessity overthrow a party, but because there was that in Napoleonism as a system which did violence to the moral sense of this generation. We cannot understand how a system like Na- poleonism can be endured by any nation. It certainly could not be endured by France un- less there was as great a man as the First Napo- leon for the master and ruler. If France is to be ruled as an empire, and so wills it, it will little matter whether the Emperor is the son of Napoleon III. or one of his cousins. But she does not so will it. The last Empire reigned through terror, and fell in a night, or, rather, vanished. Twenty years of Napoleon- ism, under the lead of one of the most patient and skilful princes of that house, were oblite- rated by afew resolute men like Gambetta. Surely if France had felt the Empire neces- sary to her salvation no crowd of pavement orators could have driven the Emperor into exile. While, therefore, we regard him as the last of the Napoleons, let us sce what place he will hold in history. Those do him wrong who see simply the contriver of the coup d'état driven to empire by a gang of adventurers like St. Arnaud and compelled into courses foreign to his nature by a resolute young army officer named Fleury. Those do him wrong who fancied that he was after Solferino the great ruler of Europe—a second Czsar— greater in many ways than the first. He was something more than the midnight conspirator of the Elysée, who strangled the Republic in a night and did massacre on the boulevards, and Career— Be His Place in His- | insure he was very far from being even an imitator of Cesar. While the coup d'état must ever be regarded as the dark and damning stain upon his memory, and even as a political expedient for which there was no real necessity, his friends can say that France, by electing him Emperor, endorsed the act. The coup d'éta; was peculiarly a Napoleonic ¢rime. If Napo- leon was necessary to France, then it was right that he who bore that name should take France, bridle and curb her and bid her do his bidding, even if he was compelled to spur her until the blood began to flow. We cannot accept this principle as be- fitting any nation, and especially France. Franco was great before Napoleon. She will be great under any ruler so long as her people are worthy of their history. The world shares this opinion. When France was prostrate and Germany held the sword at her breast de- manding a severe indemnity; when even Frenchmen themselves, with their sanguine, hopeful temperament, feared their country had been overwhelmed and seemed to be in the Niagara whirl of irremediable destruction, Europe came to her aid and gave her money to pay the indemnity. If this had been done under the Empire it would have been hailed as a triumph of Napoleonism. But Europe simply said:—‘‘We believe France to be greater than Napoleon, as we have found hor to be greater than Orleans and Bourbon, and it is France that we thus trust and know.”’ The ruling principle in the policy of the Emperor, and what has been to his great ad- vantage in the public opinion of the world, was his devotion to England. This is the more singular because, during the Empire, England never wholly trusted him. He seemed to feel that the rock upon which his uncle ruined the Empire might be made a tower of strength to himself. And soit was. In the whole alliance England regarded Napoleon as a dependent, tributary power. When anything was to be done for the interest of the British Empire—a war with China to her supremacy against advancing Russia, a war with Russia to protect her route to the Indies—Napoleon was ready with his armies, his fleets and his money. When England took offence at the capture of Mason and Slidell, and was about to make war upon the United States, Napoleon was with her, and would, no doubt, have been her ally. But when Austria was to be humbled, or the Rhine was to be recovered, or an ad- venture was to be taken in the Mexican coun- tries, England gave Napoleon no aid. When he annexed Savoy England was more angry than any other Power; and he never made a step towards the realization of any of his favorite Napoleonic ideas—he never made the first advance towards the aggrandizement of France—that England did not protest and threaten. It was an alliance, therefore, that added to the power of England, as the com- mercial treaty gave her enormous wealth. Why Napoleon should have clung to this idea we cannot understand. It has been said that, while he gave her aid and material strength, England gave his throne respectability. This, we need hardly say, is an English view of the subject. We rather deem it an evidence of that paucity of intellect and political resources which seems to be a striking element in Napo- leon's character, He wanted the English alli- ance, Itsaved him from any anxieties about another Waterloo. It made him comfortable. So he paid England the price of being, in everything concerning the Queen, a practically tributary power. If the alliance with England was one in which France gave all and received nothing, what shall we say of Napoleon's course towards Germany and Austria and Italy? Since the time of Frederick the Great nothing has been more certain than German unity. The Ger- man heart yearned for it, and there was no more reason why Germany should not be united than that France and England should not be united. Napoleon, by an alfiance with Prussia, could have foundedshis dynasty. If he did not seek the alliance and preferred to found his throne on an independent basis, then, certainly, his natural alliance was Austria. But he severed Austria himself, and then stood by while Prussia deprived her of certain provinces. So when Prussia was ready she struck France, and completed the unity of Germany by overthrowing Napoleon. Even Italy, which he served and whose armies he commanded to victory in 1859, was held from his aid. His policy, so bright and golden, and astonishing the world with its radiance, fell to ashes, like the apples of Hesperides, when touched by tho rude hands of Bis- marck. It certainly seems that if Napoleon had taken half as much pains to be friendly towards Austria or even Italy as he did tow- ards England—if he had even recognized the national wish of the German heart and re- spected it—if he had admitted, for instance, upon ‘Napoleonic ideas,"’ that German unity was as righteous and inevitable as the unity of France—his empire would have outlived his own time and he would have died in-the palace in which he was born. As it is, he goes to his grave in an humblo village of Kent, mourned by English trades- men, followed by the adventurous statesmen who served his hazardous fortunes and loved him for his amiable, pleasing, generous quali- ties; regretted by English statesmen, who fear that France will not always be ready with money and men to aid their schemes; pitied by Germany, who ‘would rather have seen him her friend than her foe; his house in exile and divided; his name a name of ill-omen in France, and esteemed by the world as a mysterious, uncertain character, which history can only fathom. Tous he seems what M. Guizot described him to a corresponent of the Herap in Paris—a mind filled with commonplaces. Do him all the honor that should be paid to an amiable gentleman, and we see him a man who walked with feeble, enceifain steps the path made by others, and, when he was at last confronted by a danger and a duty of unusual character, he fell. His fall left nothing be- hind him. He was not great enough for the system bequeathed to him in his name and birth, and we, who believe in France and wish her well in all things, are profoundly con- vinced that France is too great for the Napo- leonic Imperial system, or, in fact, for any system which proposes to put upon the necks of a great people a yoke like that in which Tartar rulers have enclosed the necks of the patient, unresisting, inefficient, docile tribes of China, The Steamship Murillo. A despatch from Lisbon says that the Span- ish steamship Murillo, which, it is now no longer doubted, is the ship which sunk the emigrant ship Northfleet off Dungeness, in the English Channé, had been sighted off that port. It is thought that she had been ordered to leave Cadiz. If such is the fact the Span- ish government ought to be called to immedi- ate account. The testimony given before the British Consul at Cadiz by passengers on board the Murillo concerning the circum- stances attending the collision in the English Channel is most damaging to the officers of the Spanish vessel. They testified to the fact of a collision, to hearing loud cries for ‘Help !"’ and to having entreated the officers and crew to lower the boats and lend assistance to the unfortunate crowd who were going down in the other ship. To their earnest entreaties no heed was paid, the inhuman captain of the Murillo appearing totally indifferent to the despairing appeals which continued to come from the direction of the sinking ship, Fora moment the engines were stopped ; but, with- out lowering a boat or making any effort to find out the name of the unfortunate vessel, the engines were again put in motion, and the Murillo steamed away, leaving the victims of the collision to their fate. Nothing so hor- ribly cruel as this has happened on the high seas for many years. The Murilio may have found her way out of the harbor of Cadiz; but it will be difficult for her officers to escape the punishment which is so justly due. In such a case vengeance should be swift and sweeping. Srneet Creanrnc—Goop Worxk—Kerp THE Bart RouinG.—We take pleasure in con- gratulating the street cleaning authorities upon the energy with which they have prose- cuted their labors for several days past. Huge ridges of snow and ice have been removed from several of our principal highways, and arrange- ments made for the general thaw that usually oceurs about this season of the year—if there be any such word as ‘thaw’ in the vocabulary of the clerk of the weather this Winter. But the good work must be kept up, the bail must be kept rolling. The gutters and all passages to the sewers should be kept clear of im- pediments, and the snow not allowed to ac- cumulate over one nightfall. By this means we shall prevent the recurrence of blockades in our streets, like those that have already oceurred, much to the inconvenience of indi- vidual pedestrians as well as creating vexa- tious delays in the transportation of merchan- dise. By the way, talking of cleaning the street gutters, are there not muncipal ordi- nances covering that matter which property- holders are required to respect? The atten- tion of police officers is called to this point in their patrols. Toe Late Severe Gares—Disasters at Sra.—Our news columns for the last two days have been full of details of the storms which have been visiting both hemispheres and working destruction in all directions, In ad- dition to the details which we published yes- terday it will be seen that the Cunard steam- ship Olympus, which has arrived at Boston, reports having encountered heavy gales on her passage out, The storm was terrific, heavy seas repeatedly breaking on board, staving in her bulwarks and doing other damage, She lost four of her boats, and her chief officer, Mr. Hill, was thrown by a heavy sea from the saloon deck to the main deck, breaking one of his legs in two places. We are likely to hear of other and serious disasters. It has been a hard Winter on the insurance companies. It has been harder still on the brave men who go down to the sea in ships. The Harvest of the Gallows To Be Gathered at Last. One portion of to-day’s, news will be read _ with gratitude and satisfaction by all citizens of New York who value their lives and the lives of their relatives and friends, and who believe that peaceable men have some rights which murderers are bound to respect. From several sources come indications that at last the gallows is likely to gather in its legitimate fruit; that the long-delayed justice is about to stretch forth its hand and fasten its deadly grip on the throats of the assassins who now choke up the cells and passages of the Tombs. First, we have tho charge of Judge Brady to the Grand Jury of the Oyer and Terminer, in which the evil effect of delay in the prosecu- tion of criminal justice is set forth, and the jury is told that “if necessary all the power of the State should be brought to stay the hand of crime.” The Judge comments on the free and reckless use of the knife and the revolver, and declares his readiness to sit continuously until July if necessary, to clear the City Prison of the criminals whose long exemption from pay- ing the penalty of their offences is an encourage- ment to the ruffians whose rule has continued too long in this city. Next we find the cheering news that the stone is at last to be rolled back from the Tombs, and that Murderers’ Row is to give up its vile tenants to justice. John Scannell, who, after hanging on the track of Thomas Donohue for months with murder in his heart, at last shot down his helpless victim in a saloon, and poured bullet after bullet into his prostrate form, is to be put on his trial on Monday noxt. Tho following Monday the dastardly William C. King, who took the life of O'Neill because the latter testified to King’s abuse of his wife, is to be placed at the bar. The Stokes case is still under argument, and the probability appears to be that the polished assassin who waylaid his victim in a narrow passage way, from which there was no escape, and in which he could be shot down as easily as a rat in a trap, will be left to meet the fate his cowardly murder merits. Even the singu- larly protracted inquiry into the circumstances attending the butchery of Duryea by Simmdns is progressing, and must soon be brought to a close. Thus the chain is tightening around the crowd of blood-stained wretches now hang- ing on the public hands, and soon, let us hope to hang upon the gallows. In addition to this gratifying intelligenco wo learn from Albany that Governor Dix has refused to commute the punishment of the murderer Gaffney, who now awaits execution in Buffalo, and that he accom- panies his refusal by a decisive declaration of his intentions in like applications. “If the expression of my purpose in similar eases,’’ says the Governor, ‘‘will have the effect of deterring evil-minded persons from committing this highest of crimes, I am will- ing to have it understood that circumstances of a very extraordinary nature will be needed to induce me to interpose for the purpose of annulling the deliberate and well-considered determinations of juries and courts.” These words are well spoken and will strike terror to the hearts of those criminals who have entertained a hope for Executive clemency. The convicted mur- derers may as well shut out hope’ from their hearts and prepare to meet their offended Creator. The assassins who await trial may as well make up thoir minds to receive stern justice at the hands of judge and jury. The yarn is spun that will hang them all, and their well-merited fate will be a warning to ruffians for a long time to come. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J, Safford, of Topeka, Kansas, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ’ Colonel Isaac H. Bromley, of Hartford, is at the Hoffman House. Genera! F. C. Armstrong, of Texas, is stopping at the New York Hotel. General S. E. Marvin, of Albany, is stopping at the New York Hotel. President Thiers censiders Bismarck “one of the greatest men of the century.” Captain Jehn Mirehouse, of the steamship City of London, is at the New York Hotel. Judges H. A. Nelson and G. P. Pelton, of Pough- keepsie, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General ©. W. Meade, manager of the Northern | Pacific Kailroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel S. E. Temple, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. General Trochu has applied to be placed on the retired list. Public opinion placed him there long ago. “Bleeding Kansas" 1s no more, The genius of political phiebotomry must feather its nest else- where, Blessings from the Dominion of Canada—Tie epizooty and the bitter weather. Talk of annexing such @ country. Preposterous! The Cincinnati Commercial makes the mysteri- ous announcement that “the name of the coming man doesn’t begin with a J.” The Rev. J. R. Madan, M. A., Oxon and late Principal of St. Boniface’s Missionary College, Warminster, England, has become a Roman Chtholic. Marshal Bazaine is anxious for his trial. His wife lately visited President Thiers to urge him to hasten it; but was informed that the date of its beginning could not be foreseen. Mr. W. J. Horn, an eminent Sheffield merchant, recently deceased, has bequeathed £17,500 to va- rious charitable institutions in SheMeld and Lon- don. He was a cornucopie of the right sert. It is a strange question, but a rather pertinent one to ask, whether or not some of the homicides now so frequent are not gotten up in order to ad- yertise the patent revolver they are committed with. When you see a United States Senator going around begging testimonials of character from prominent divines, yon may exciaim, in the words of Shakspeare and the Kansas Legislature, “York, you're wanted.” Ex-Governor James L. Orr, our new Minister to St. Petersburg, will remain at the Grand Central Hotel until Saturday, as the steamship Cuba, on which he had intended to sail for Europe to-mor- row, has not yet arrived. A Philadelphia paper actually credits the report of @ Western journal that General Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky, has taken a bath every morning for the last twenty years, and ‘‘mever wore an overcoat during this time,” 4 The New Orleans Picayune publishes reports of proceedings in the rival legislatures there under the headings of “Louisiana Legislature” and’*‘Bay- onet Legislatare.”” The seats in one body are said to be more comfortable than those in the other. Professor Spencer Baird, of the Smithsonian In- stitute, at Washington, is stopping at the Fiith Avenue Rotel. Being a member of the National Commission charged with the stocking of our riv- os With salmon spawn he is awaiting the arrival by steamer from England of several boxes contain- ing eggs of that fish. General Butler is charged with keeping his Crédit Mobilier cauldron boiling and bubbling in order that prominent republicans may be killed eff and himself become the leader of the House. Every- thing in Washington at this time, including the Coming inaaguration ball, seems to be of the “babble, bubbie, toil and trouble” order. - BELLEW’S SECOND READING. Mr. John M. Bellew was greeted last night at As- sociation Hall by a crowdea audience, “in spite,” as the phrase runs, “of the storm without.” The word “genius” has been freely showered upon actors Who, in the rendition of characters, have shown themselves capable . of seizing and pre. senting individualities of the highest type and stamping them with renewed vital- ity, In this it must be acknowledged that the truth of a character must be reached by inter- preting accurately the ideal of the wniter; for, no matter what excellent points an actor may squeeze .. outof the text, they will fall into the rank of whimsicalities if they do not fit in with this idealas & whole, Of all characters on the English stage Hamlet has absorbed the deepest study of eminent men, scholars as well as actors, and the result has been the most extraordinar, diyergenc es ot wee ture and utteraié in the interpretation of art. From Colley Cibber’s time to the present day he has been a bone of contention among play- ers and commentators, He has been studied in the light of archmology as well as metaphysics, and the ingenious have endeavored to square the anach- Tonisms of Skakspeare with the actualities ef a time of which he knew very little, What Ruskin ‘Buys of Rafaelie's cartoons has been said of Shaks- Peare’s) Danes, If Raffaelle’s Jews were Greek philosophers, Shakspeare’s Danes were Englishmen; but the noble touches ef nature in each will defy such unkind criticism forever. Mr. Bellew, therefore, in addressing him- selt to this task of retouching “Hamlet,’’ deserves at least this credit, that he searches in an olden reliquary, where, if he finds agem at all, it is cer- tain to be one of the brightest lustre, and almost merits for him the name of diseoverer as much as Livingstone, only in a different line. Last night, in the closet scene between Hamlet and the Queen, Mr. Bellew came before an American audi- ence to prefer his claim to a new read- ing of “Hamlet.” He had hitherto avpeared as a reader in the usual sense of the term, In “Hamlet” he proposed todo something more. Ofcourse he lay under the disadvantage of explaining before- hand the supposed stage accessories much as they had to do in Shakspeare’s time, but by force of em- phasis and gesture in the reading he overcame this drawback surprisingly, He discards the old stage “business” of the miniatures of the King dependent from the Queen’s neck and that of his dead father from his own. He supposes two full size aintings of his father and his uncle io hang over either side ef the room. ‘This is not altogether new, for it has been so produced before; but in the close ef the scene he makes use of the disposition to develop a reading of the lines which 1s very forcible and telling—we might say electric, The scene throughout was rendered with rene intelligence, and with @ distinct individual- zation of the Queen, Hamlet and the Ghost. It is first notable that when he stabs Polonius through the arras and returns to the Queen that the question, “Is it the King? is deliv- ered in a@ hoarse, wondering undertone, with a convulsive clutching at the Queen's arm, and two fingers pointing to the arras, very different from the demoniac shout with which Edwin Beoth yells it as he flings away his sword. It is not a stunning “nit” as Mr. Bellew renders it, but it is better art. In the comparison between the two brothers, where the pictures are first used, the advantage over the miniatures im opportunity for sweep ot action and display of the lines is marked, and maintained thenceforth to the end of the scene, In inting to the picture of his father, tor instance, te gives @ new force and real meaning to the ines :— And when you are desirous to be blessed, T'll blessing beg of you. It may be here stated that he makes Polo- nius fall under the picture of Hamlet’s father. That of his uncle is then on tke opposite side of the stage. The Queen departs remorse-stricken, and in rendering the much-abused line, Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind, he points first to the corse of Polonius and next threateningly toward the portrait of the King, This is exceedingly effective, and pom his purpose of revenge with admirable felicity. seems, after all, a small matter, this question of upholstery; but yet, incorporated into the conception of the aetor, it is to the specta- tor a useful ward in the key to the author’s mean- ing. The effect of this scene alone is to cre: a strong desire to hear Mr. Bellew read the play en- tire, or, better still, ifhe could find a company that would meet his expectations, to play himself the title role throughout. We cannot say what objec- tion Mr. Bellew might raise to this last proposition, ‘The line between his impersonations on the plat- form and playing them on the stage is only a matter of stage Carpentering, We have dweit at length on this one feature of Mr. Bellew’s reading because it was the most am- bitious and effective. He read eight pieces in all, intended to display his versatility, which isas great as the range of his wonderiul voice, ‘The Yarn of the Nancy Bell,” by W. S. Gilbert, a quaint burlesque of the “Ancient Mariner,” he gave, for the most part, in @ boatswain’s croon, which was very laughable. In picturesqueness and poetic effect Pope's “Vital Spark,” with an organ accompani- ment and a@ chorus, sung by boys, was again suc- cessful last night. Mr. Bellew gives a matin¢e on Wednesday after noon at Association Hall, with a new programme MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. The annual bail of the ‘Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks,” whose jolly members are almost all minstrel or variety actors, will occur ate Irving Hall on Thursday night. A large attend- ance is certain. Tom Taylor's drama, “The Ticket-of-Leave Man,” was brought out at Booth’s Theatre last evening, and a large audience gave Mr. W. J. Florence en- thusiastic evidence that his impersonation of the character of Bob Brierly was pleasing, in despite of its familiarity. M. Faure-Nicelay, a renowned French professor of the “black art,” gave a very pleasant exhibition of his skill at Robinson Hail, in Sixteenth street, last evening. His many deft feats evoked applause, but the most telling was that of getting enough ice cream from a gentleman's hat to serve all the ladies in the large audience. At Mrs. Conway's Brooklyn Theatre the tragic play of “Love's Sacrifice’? was produced last even- ing, with Mrs. Conway and Mr. Frank Roche in the principal parts. Though Mrs. Conway gave to the part of Margaret its full degree of pathos and Mr. Roche seemed relieved of his usually intense desire to declaim, had not Mr. Lennox and Mrs. Farren infused comedy into their parts the play would have been painfully heavy. To-night Bul- wer Lytton’s play of “Money” will be periormed, and “Diana, or Love's Masques,” will fill the re- mainder of the week. Dramatic and musical entertainments will be given, under the auspices of the Faust Club, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this afternoon and evening. Their object is to procure money for the erection of @ memorial bust of John Howard Payne in Prospect Park. Several of Payne's dramas are to be performed by companies -selected, by permis- sion of the managers, from Wallack’s, Booth’s, Niblo’s and the Union Square theatres. It is hoped that the performances will be successful, as it 18 meet that the hapless author of “Home, Sweet Home,"’ should be commemorated, ART MATTERS, The Palette Club Reception. The periodic Palette Club reception was held last evening, at the rooms of the club, 126 Second ave- nue. Despite the bad weather the attendance was large, and nothing marred an entertaiument that e of a pleasant series. The collection of formres alsplayed was small, but many of them were excellent, and among these were contribu- tions by Shattuck, Holberton, Fitchsel, Kraus, G. Courbet and Casilear. Mention should also be made of an exquisitely fine Nl by (contributed by Schaus) ef Karl Muller's ‘Holy Pamily.”’ THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. The members and pupils of the National Academy ot Design are vigorously prosecuting their attempt to place the institution on a basis that will render its future as useful and honorable as have been the career of similar institutions in Europe, and that Will give us @ school for the development of home talent, which our young artists have hitherto been driven abroad to find, ‘The “Album of the-Antique Class of 1871 and 1872," which ts relied upan to com- mence a fund for the accomplishment of, this com- mendable purpose, has just been issued, and is really a gratifying specimen of native, talent. copies whick are now atthe princiyal art reper- tories have attracted much gttentign, and are Uni- versally admired, tet tt nr THE STATE CAPITAL. Reform Speculation Dull on the Charter Topic—The German-Ameri Central Reform Association Big w! a Recom- mendation—The Old Warchouse Rail- oad Bill of Course—A Double-Tracks Horse Railroad for Broadway. ALBANY, Feb. 3—Evening. There was not a quorum in either the Senate or Assembly this evening, and the consequence was that no business of any real importance was transacted. IN THE SENATE Senators Woodin and Johnson did their best to create an excitement by engineering a ‘call of the House," but the youthful Lieutenant Governor sententiously decided that such a call was not in order, His own words were, ‘It can’t be done.'? It is almost needless to say that this decision BROUGHT DOWN THE HOUSE IN A ROAR OF LAUGHTER that the President's gavel was unable to subdue. Senator Johnson remarked that, although he had the good fortune to be one of the minority in the Senate, he wanted everybody to understand that he as a Senator had certain rights which even the military power was bound to respect. The Lieu- tenant Governor was fireproof, however, against Weodin’s and Johnson's attempt to ruffie his good nature, and the “call of the House” was made @ “call of the Senate,” and then came : A VERY SUDDEN AND GOOD-HUMORED ADJOURNMENT of the fourteen Senators present. This was not accomplished, however, before the yeas and nays were called on & motion to adjourn, and the Olerk, in the excitement and confusion that ensued, got’ flurried, and, for the first time since January, 1871, CALLED OUT, “MR. TWEED.” The audience had an idea that the Boss was on hand somewhere near by, but it useless to say that ne did not at the call put in an appearance, and has not yet been secn at any one of the hotels. The charter, it is quite unmecessary to state, ia Still the great topic of discussion among the mem- bers of both houses. There are no now deelop- Ments about the changes which the leaders con- template making in the bill before and after it ia reported, and THE SITUATION generally, remains at present just as it was lasv riday, when all the changes the leaders propose to make were detailed in the HERALD. To be sure, the members of the Joint Committees on Cities af fect the total ignorance policy as to what the final action of the committees may oe, but it is pretty certain that THK MAJORITY DO NOT INTEND TO BACK DOWN from the position they have already taken in rela. ticn to the bill. It was generally understood, up ta @ late hour this evening, that the bill would be re- ported simultaneously in both houses on Wednes- day, but it is said that on Thursday next a hearing is to be given to : THE GERMAN-AMERICAN CENTRAL REFORM ASSOGIA- TION of New York, who have, through the agency of one George Kuster, an employé of the Tax Office, and who has been sent up here to-day, it is alleged by Comptroller Green, scattered copies of a memorial for the heseing all over the town. They claim im the memorial that the Mayor ought to have the sole appointing power, and that they can convince the two committees that their views are the only correct views of the appointing power, and that consequently all other views of the subject are of no account. If the hearing takes place, which E am inclined to doubt, the committees will, it is safe to say, not change their policy as tothe ap- pointment of the heads of departments. THE WAREHOUSE RAILROAD BILL introduced in the Senate to-night is the same ola bill that has showm itself here regularly for yeara past. Gardner, who is the only ostensible backer of the measure, evidently thinks that the only way he can drive the Legislature into the belief that his bill is a good one is to make it . A PERPETUAL BORE TO THE MAJORITY AND MINORITY ALIKE. If Gardner would go home and promise to leave Albany alone for a year or two, the bill might be made a law even this year. The bill introduced by Van Valkenburgh in the Assembly, and which gives George 0. Jones, the self-stylea “‘ex-corruptionist and lobbyist,” the power to run 4 HORSE RAILROAD ON BROADWAY and other streets im New York, is a peculiar one. It only names Gest: as an incorporator, but gives him power to pull the road through by the aid of “his associates.” Who these associates are is at present, at berg ye re finding out. George ts not @ capitalist, but he says that “his associates" are, and that when the time comes they will show their hand. The bill incorporates Mr. George 0. Jones and his associates to construct a double track rail- road, starting at South ferry, through Whitehall street, Broadway, Union place and the Blooming- dale road to Kingsbridge. Returning, it connects with nearly every ferry, The company 1s to pay A REASONABLE COMPENSATION TO ALL STAGES which shall be displaced, and it shall pay into the City Treasury all earnings over ten per cent after all expensés are paid. It also requires the com- pany to keep the streets through which the road runs Clear of all ice and snow. THE MURDERER GAFFNEY TO DIE. ET a Governor Dix Denies the Application for a Commutation of Sentence—An Omin- ous Voice Into Ears in the Tombs, ‘The following letter has been transmitted to the Sheriff of Erie county by Governor Dixin reply to an application made to him to commute the sentence of death to imprisonment for life in the case of John Gaffney, the murderer of Patrick Fahey :— State or New York, Execorive Cuamnrn, rAuoaNy, Jan. Sl, 1978." $ Groven Crevetaxp, Esq;, Sheriff of Eile Coutty :— Dear Sik—I have'considered the application for a com- mutation of the sentence of death pronounced upon John GatMey for the murder of Patrick Fahey, in the city of Buffalo, and, on a critical examination of ‘the case, Laird No reason to interpose the Executive authority of the State to shiela him from the punishment awarded by the law. The jury, after a protracted deliberation upon the ‘estimomy, found him guilty of murder in the first degree; e Court of Appeals, on @ review of the record of his trial, discovered no error of law in the proceedings or the verdict, and he has had, in all the steps taken tor his de- fence, the benefit of able and devoted counsel. ‘A large number of the citizens of Bulfalo, including Supervisors, members of the Common Council and the jurors, have petitioned me to commute his sentence to mprisonment for life. While participating in the sym- pathy felt by his fellow townsmen tor the young family of the condemned criminal, [ cannot forget that our sym- pathy is equally due to the friends of the victim. who was hurried without a moment's warning into eternity, and to the orderly members of society whose lives are in. daily peril from the alarming prevalence of murder. Nor can I forget that such an exercise of clem- eney as is asked of mo may, by inspiring in brutal viol f the law the hope of escaping punishment, be- come an incentive to new crimes. In this caso’ the criminal was playing cards ina drinking saloon, armed with a murderous weapon, and ready to use iton'the first Tovocation: and after an interchango of opprobrious janguage with a young man who had entered the room, ‘fired at the latter three’ shots, one of which proved fatal. Tean find no justification for defeating the execution of the law by the interposition of my authority; and if the expression of my purpose in similar cases will have the effect of Saar eat evil-minded ecuen from committi: this highest of crimes, I am willing to have it unde that circumstances of a very extraordinary nature will be needed to induce me to interpose for the purpose of annulling the deliberate and well-considered determina- Hons of juries and Courts. Iam respecttully your pees y ‘DIX. WEATHER REPORT. War Daranranwr, OFFICE OF THE CHTEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasuinoTon, D. C., Feb. 4—1 A. M, Probabilities. For the Southwest and extending eastward over the Upper Lake region, Ohio, Kentucky and Ten- nessee, rising barometer, falling temperature, fresh to brisk northerly and westerly winds and clear and clearing weather; for the South Atlantic and Gulf States, east of the Mississippi, light ta fresh southwesterly and westerly winds and partly cloudy weather; for the Middle States, winds veer- ing to fresh and brisk westerly and clearing weather; for New England fresh to brisk south- easterly and southerly winds, cloudy weather and rain, the former veering to westerly on Tues- day afternoon and night, with clearing weather. Midnight telegraphic reports from Michigan to Min- nesota not yet received, The Signal Oflee reports that at eleven o'clock to-night it was raining at the following places Buffalo, N. Y.; Detroit, Port Stanley, Port Dover, Pittsburg, Memphis and Nashville. It was snowing ligntly at Toronto, heavily at Saugeen, also sleeting at Rochester. The Weather in This City Yesterday, The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding hy ih last ear, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HERALD Building :— . 1872, 1873. 1872 187%. 13° 3:30 P. M. 2 30 1 6PM a 2 0PM 33 26 12 P.M 3 Average temperature yesterday... ~ 2% Average temperature for corresponding a: last year... MBS, WHARTON, — The Jary Disagree and Are Discharged. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb, & 1873, The jury in the case of Van Ness against Mra Wharton have been unable to agiwe and were dia~ charged, The defendant gave bail to a rat the April term of the Court on the charge of attelape ing to poison Mrs, Yau Noss, i calicd upon. F