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

6 ‘ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. THEATRE COMIQVE, No. 51¢ Broadway.—Tux Pano- pana oF Cuicaco. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston wot Bleocker streots.—ALuamana. GERMANTA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ay.—Das Srirronarest. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Burraro Bitit—Stacs Sravox YaNKKR, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth fgv.—CaTanact OF THE GANGES. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALxe D'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— on Anxansas THAVELLER, yh Mernoon und kvening. ATAENFUM, No. £85 Broadway.—Granp Vaniery En. ERTAINMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo 4ND Lotos. Tnion squal between UNDRED Yuaks OLD. UNION SQUARE TH! Broadway and Fourth @ WALDACK'S THRATRS, Broadway and Thirteenth etreet—Bromnin Sam: One” ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venue.—Ticxst or Leave Man, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S: BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Diana; on, Love's Masguz. . BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner $th av.—Nxcro Minstarisy, Eccentaicity, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanity ENTERTAINMENT. fAN FRANCISCO MINST! 8, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Etmorian Minstrxisy, £c. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d strect and 4th av.—Lacrugs, "Joan or Arc.” YSRR te NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Fone anp Aur, sm iets RIP HEET. New York, Thursday, Feb. 6, 1873. LE § THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “A FOLL REVIEW OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER INVESTIGATION! WHAT SHALL BE THE ACTION OF CONGRESS ?”—EDITORIAL LEADER—SixtH Page. PECCAVI! CONGRESSIONAL SEECHING PERE POLAND FOR ABSOLU- TION! A SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS AND OF THE DIVERSE VIEWS OF THE “HONORABLE” SINNERS—RECENT PUBLI- CATIONS—Fourtu Pace. JEALOUS OF RUSSIA! THE ST. PETERSBURG PRESS ON JOHN BULL'S INDIFFERENCE AS REGARDS AMERICA AND FEARS OF RUSSIAN PROGRESS! THE ANGRY BRITONS! THE RUSSIAN FLEET ORDERED TO THE MEDITERRANEAN—SEVENTH PAGE, CHOLERA RAVAGING RUSSIA AND HUNGARY !— COOLIE SLAVES FOR CENTRAL AMER- ICA!—POLYNESIAN SLAVERS SEIZED— SEVENTH PAGE. & HOARY-HEADED FIEND TO RE HANGED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE! POOR GEORGIE LOV- ERING'S HORRIBLE FATE—Turrp Paar. ONE OF THE “MISSING! FRAGMENTS OF A MAN FOUND.IN HIS DESERTED HOUSE! HIS DOG DEVOURS THE BODY! A SOUL- SICKENING HORROR—THIRD PaGE. ALLEY'S FEARFUL CRIME! TRACING THE BOS- TON BUTCHERY! MAKING THE CLEWS OF CIKCUMSTANCE INTO.A ROPE FOR HANG- ING! THE COLD-BLOODED FIEND—Turrp Pace. EUROPE BY CABLE! C. ‘LISTS ROUTED, WITH GREAT LOSS, IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN! THE EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE! ROBERT BOWLES ACQUITTED! THE MURILLO'S OFFICERS TO BE PROSECUTED — NEWS FROM ALBANY—SEVENTH PGR. SLAVE-CURSED CUBA! THE SPANISH SLAVE- OWNERS MEET IN THE INSULAR CAPI- TAL! THE PRESS EXCLUDED! COOLIE SLAVERY PROPOSED! THE LATEST ABOUT THE INSURRECTION! SPANISH FINANCE— NintH Pace. GOVERNOR DIX’S SKIRTS CLEAR OF CREDIT MOBILIER FILTII! A STRAIGHTFORWARD BUSINESS TRANSACTION! THE GENERAL SWINDLED IN HIS STOCK! Nu NEED TO REFRESH THE HOAXER'S MEMORY—Toxp Pace. SPECIAL ITEMS OF WASIINGTON NEWS! THE IGNIS FATUUS OF SPECIE PAYMENTS! THE IMPLICATED CONGRESSMEN ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT—SEVENTH PAGE. THE BLEECKER STRELT TRAGEDIES! A SAD HISTORY OF ABANDONMENT AND STRUG- GLES AGAINST STARVATION, ENDING IN ORIME--THIRD PaGE. DETESTABLE SECTARIANISM! REPREHENSI- BLE CONDUCT OF BROUKLYN OFFICIALS! ASSAILING A PUBLIC CHARITY FOR PRI- VATE GAIN--TENTI Page, KILLING NIC DURYEA! SIMMONS INDICTED FOR THE CRIME BY THE GRAND JURY! THE SINGULAR VERDICT OF THE COR- ONER’S JURY RENDERED NUGATORY BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY—Nintuw Pace. BUSINESS AT THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES! MONEY ACTIVE! SYNDICATE OPERATIONS! Pi THE GOLD CLIQUE ON THE QUI VIVE— Eroutit Page, LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE VARIOUS TRIBU- NALS! MURDERERS' ROW TO BE GIVEN SPEEDY TRIALS — CALDWEL PuR- CHASED SEAT IN THE SENATE—FirTit Pas. PENITENTS BE- Queen Victor's Sreecn to the Barrisn Panwiament has been reported to us by cable, in synopsis, in advance of its delivery, and appears in the Hxnatp to-day. Her Maj- esty speaks of peace, the commercial relations with ‘France and a prompt payment of the Alabama award. ‘There does not appear to have been any allusion to the Khiva-Afghanistan difficulty, The work for the suppression of the slave trade on the East coast of Africa will be prosecuted vigor- ously, with the co-operation of the other great Powers, Russa anp Exotanp mm Asta.—The Ras- sian Official Gazette of St. Petersburg published , Bu article yesterday commenting on the posi- tion which the British government has as- waumed with reference to the policy of the Czar and the progress of Russian national in- feresta im Ceutral Asia, Judging the publi- sation by the points of its argument which have reached us by cable, it appears as if the Muscovite writer has said to England, Why object to the imperial plan of civilization in Asia when you do not remonstrate against the general progress of the United States? We vnay perhaps find, when the Russian press ar- + is completely before us, that the query is ‘utended to cover taunt directed “nglish. As it appears to-day it ™ effort on the part of the racy of the Czars, ’ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. A Fall Review of the Credit Mobilier Investigation—What Shall be the Action of Congress? The investigation into the conduct of cer- tain members of Congress, in regard to their transactions with Oakes Ames in the stock of the Crédit Mobilier, has developed so many facts touching the matter at issue that a clear understanding of the whole case is now pos- sible. In another part of the Hzranp we print a letter, which sums up, in a comparatively brief space, the salient facts so far proved be- fore Judge Poland's Committee ; but our let- ter goes further, and exhibits the causes and motives which controlled some of the accused Congressmen in taking the course they chose toadopt. It wasa singular course for men guilty of the offences charged against them— so singular, indeed, that the earlier offence is overshadowed by the later crime. The specu- lations of our correspondent in regard to the blind following of Speaker Blaine, when he initiated the policy of denying any destings in the stock of the Crédit Mobilier, are ingen- ious, to say the least of them. Thinking Blaino as guilty as themselves, it was natural that they should follow his example and depend upon his great power and ability in extricat- ing them from their troubles. It was this blind following of their leader in the beginning which has overthrown so many eminent men, and our Washington advices inform us that Blaine does not escape their resentments. In one respect the developments in Con- gress are very remarkable, for while the press has commented upon the actions of Senators and Representatives with much severity and sometimes with bitterness no member of either House has yet had the courage to make a personal explanation. At other times slight charges usually resulted in an answer upon the floor. Harlan has not dared to appeal to the judgment of the Senate and the country upon his dealings with Dr. Durant. The ses- sion is slippjng away, and his term as a Sena- tor will soon expire, and yet he seems in no hurry to open his mouth in his own defence. Caldwell acts upon the principle that the least said is the soonest mended. Pomeroy is likely to come and sit down meekly and submissively till his term ends. Patterson and Wilson ask forno judgment from their peers. Colfax, seeking to cast dust in the eyes of his country. mon, has not the cournge to demand a trial from the Senate. Dawes, Garfield, Kelley and the rest have not dared to controvert a single statement in the newspapers. There have been times when reporters were excluded from the gallery for reflections upon members. That day seems to be past, and members have no longer the courgge to stand up against what would be abuse wero it not so sorrowfully true. The Henatp’s review of the Crédit Mobilier exposures shows a lamentable condition of public morals. The pretence that members of Congress had a right to deal in the stock of the Crédit Mobilier is the best defence yet put forward in behalf of the accused Congress- men, and it falls to the ground at the slight- est touch, Admitting the speculative rights of Congressmen, which at best are very ques- tionable, it is plain that no honorable and conscientious man would speculate in the stocks of a company formed to defrand the government. The hasty and sweeping denials of the men who speculated in it show that these persons felt their actions to be dis- honorable, and entirely disposes of the hollow pretence of Oakes Ames when he affects to regard these transactions as just and proper. A frank and free statement of the case would have followed the consciousness of inno- cence, but instead there has been much equivo- cation and some apparently unmistakable false- hoods. The cases of Patterson, Colfax, Kelley and Garfield are especially inexcusable, and de- manda swift and terrible retribution. Their offences are not offences.to be readily forgiven or easily forgotten. An honest jury could not fail to convict them on the testimony already adduced. Why, then, should an honest Con- gress fail to punish them? The country will demand this of Congress and the republican party, and there is no way to evade the duty. If this duty is not performed without fear and without favor the result will be the dissolution of the party in power and the punishment of all who withhold punishment from the guilty. The question of the hour, then, is, simply, What shall be the action of Congress? The necessity of the punishment is apparent, and its character is the only thing to be deter- mined. This ought to prove no very difficult problem. The American people recognize a difference in the guilt of the accused persons, and consequently there ought to be a difference in their retribution. In the courts the criminal charged with his first offence who pleads guilty is not so severely dealt with as the more hardened offender who traverses the issue and takes the chances of judgment. But the plea of guilty is only a mitigation of the punishment, and justice must be done in any event. As regards the Congressmen who have admitted their dealings in the stock of the rédit Mobilier the country will be satisfied with their resignations. This much, at least, is due from them to the constituents whom they have misrepresented. Anything short of it will not satisfy the people. This is appar- ent from the feeling in this city, where the proper person to succeed James Brooks isa subject of general conversation and almost open action. Already a number of persons are spoken of as Brooks’ successor; among them one of his colleagues who is not in the next Congress. Brooks is not o man to resign if he can help himself, but it must be impossible for him to resist the necessity. He and the other persons who stand in the same relation towards the Crédit Mobilier in which he stands must be made to feel that the only alternative for resignation is expulsion. With this necessity staring them in the face they will yield to fate and quit the halls they have disgraced. This punishment may seem severe to the men who yielded to the temptations of Oakes Ames; but, with propriety, it cannot be allowed to pass with less severity. The other Congressmen—the persons who have made their offences more heinous by denying them— can be adequately punished only by expul- sion. Perhaps, so far as the popular estimate of all of these men is concerned, neither resignation nor expulsion will add to their disgrace. Their downfall is irretrievable, even though they should continue in Con- gress for two years longer. Their country- men can no longer regard them with respect. Their constituents can no longer be deceived with the idea that they are honoring them- selves in honoring them, The future is black before them, even without this last sign of a nation's wrath. The resignation and expul- sion of these unfaithful public servants is necessary only because it is the only filting expression of a nation’s wrath. As regards the ease of Senator Patterson, we have no suggestions to offer. He is the worst of the offenders—worse, if possible, even, than Vico President Colfax; but he is beyond any national punishment. The Senate of the United States, as itis now composed, can- not be asked todo any great act of national jus- tice, Aman like Harlan could not be expected to vote for the condemnation of his associate. ‘To give Harlan an opportunity of voting for his associate's acquittal would be only adding one disgrace to another. Pomeroy and Cald- well ought not to have it in their power to de- cide the fate or determine the guilt of an- other Senator. Other men in the Senate aro equally unfitted by their own acts or by the grave imputations which have been preferred against them to take upon themselves to be the judges of others. Ifit were otherwise, and the Senate wero as wise and good and pure as it has been in times past, thero would not only not be a question of this kind, but Patterson's fate would have been decided beforenow. Tho charges against him would not have gons -un- challenged, and he would have been quickly tried and as quickly punished. Nor would Golfax have had the temerity to have presided over a body among whose presiding officers are named some of the best and greatest names in the history of the Republic. Impeachment for him would be equally fruitless; for, though the House of Representatives would make the charges, the Senate alone can pass upon them. Just now the Senate is not a jury which. will do honor to the country in the trial of offenders, and it is better ‘that the cases which cannot be tried by a body whose members are so unworthy should be committed to the courts, and deter- mined as similar cases would be determined if the alleged offenders were not men of high official ppsition. We think we have clearly indicated the duty of Congress in this crisis, but what course Congress will adopt remains to be seen. Tho review of the investigation to which we have ready roferzed shows that our judgment in rs "iktter, ‘though @ oye oie, fails not short of the requirements of the case as it has been developed before Judge Poland's Committee. It only remains for us to urge upon the committee a speedy report, an honest judgment and such recommendations as the demands of justice require. What these are the country has already determined. If the committee fails in its duty to the country its members wii.’ share the fate of those they aro seeking to absolve. TT nn Further Developments in the Ring” Frauds. We are promised more developments in the ring frauds—not the live, existing Crédit Mobilier Ring, but the outlawed and defunct Tammany Ring. The aggregate plunder secured by Tweed and his associates will, it is said, reach nearly twenty-five millions, all told. The share of Tweed in the audit steal is declared to have been one million anda half, instead of ono million or thereabouts. The figures are to be put in tabular form, new indictments against the parties impli- cated in the frauds are to be found, and the public is to be once more astounded by the disclosures that are to be made. Well, let us by all means have all the facts, and let the guilty parties be compelled to restitution and held to punishment in accordance with the law. Let the prosecutior be carefully con- dncted, so that no loose practice and no lack ‘of shrewdness and diligence may leave a loop- hole for the escape of the criminals or render possible the empanelling of an improper jury. Let there be no more bargaining and intrigue ; no further condoning of crime for the accomplishment of political ends. The people have a right to demand that the money stolen from them shall be restored and that the public robbers shall be brought to justice. But the Tammany thieves are now out of office, shorn of their power and incapable of working additional mischief. The Crédit Mobilier corruptionists—the men who have betrayed a sacred trust, sold themselves like cattle to a grasping and dishonest corporation, and added perjury to the offence of official bribery—are still in power and in a position to injure and degrade the nation. Let us not in our continued outcry and indignation against the dead Tammany Ring forget the living Crédit Mobilier Ring, whose members are still befouling our halls of national legis- lation and filling offices next to the highest in the gift of the American people. It is very desirable to follow up Tweed, although he is out of power, for the sake of justice and ex- ample; it is far more important to pursue Colfax, Wilson, Garfield, Dawes and the rest who are still clinging to the trust they have betrayed, for the protection of the country | against their practices as well as for the sake of justice and example. When we have driven a poisonous adder from our house we may follow him to his hole and kill him if we please, although we need fear no danger from him; but if the reptile remains coiled up in our bed, we must take his life for our own protection. Let us have these additional Tammany dis- closures and be astounded at them if we will; but when the partisan journals which are suppressing the damning evidence of the Crédit Mobilier corruption, assailing the character of any witness who may prove the guilt of their political friends, and endeavor- ing to persuade the people that Wilson and Harlan are saints, that Colfax is an injured | innocent, that Garfield and Dawes and Patter- son are all pure as the snow, raise a fierce outery over these new ‘‘startling Tammany developments,’’ let not their clamor distract public attention from the Congressional pariahs who still disgrace the halls of legisla- tion. Tweed and his gang are disposed of, so far as their power of public mischief is concerned. Now let us deal with Colfax and his fellow corruptionists. Tae Pvusiic Heavrn.—The Legislature should be on the alert about the patent pro- jects that may be laid before it in regard to the preservation of the public health in this city. What are wanted here are a good, thorough, ramifying street cleaning system and a more perfect plan of sewerage and drainage, These are prerequisites to health in a city like this, and without them all the deodorizing schemes that may be sug | will prove ef but little actual benefit, End of the Wicked Litigation Over Mr. Greeley’s Will. Twice have we related how Miss Greeley ac- cepted the compromiso suggested by the excc- utors of the will of 1871, and yesterday we published Mr. Whitelaw Reid's letter to Mr. Storrs, wherein Miss Greeley made her final offer, only to have it rejected. These execu- tors did not think the last will ought to stand because it did not sufficiently assure to Mr. Greeloy’s younger daughter one-half of the property; because it did not properly provide for the other heirs; because under it the set- tlement of the estate would probably be left to Miss Greeley, whom they considered unequal to the management of the property; because the guardianship of her sister might also be left with her, or in other hands regarded by thom as equally unsafe. Enduring all thiags, anxious to avoid further scandal, Miss Gree- ley, through Mr. Reid, volunteered to moet every objection advanced by gentlemen so deeply interested in the welfare of their old friend’s children. Sho would execute to her sister any absolute title to one-half the entire property which any reputable lawyer might de- vise. She offered the absolute release of all claims-by the other heirs under the will of 1871. She also offered the.declaration of the Secretary of the Children’s Aid ° Society that they had nothing to do with the contest—a declaration which later events prove to be false, and place Mr. Brace in an awkward position. Miss Greeley would accept Mr. Storrs as an associate in the execu- tion of the will, or any business man chosen by the editors of the Heraup, World and Tribune; or she would leave it entirely to any two business men named by them. She would accept Mr. John E. Williams os tho guardian of her sister, or any guardian chosen by these same editors. Thus every objection was met; nevertheless Messrs. Manning and Storrs—the third executor, Mr. Sinclair, hav- ing withdrawn—rojected Miss Greeley’s singu- larly generous offer; nor can we see that these gentlemen, though it be assumed that they act from the most exalted motives, justify them- selves to “the many long-time friends of Mr. Greeley’’ in their letter written to the editor of the Tribune on the 4th of thismonth. They deliberately state that ‘‘no man with an ounce of legal acumen doubts the invalidity of the will of 1872." We as deliberately state that many men with many ounces of legal acumen maintain that the validity of this will can be proven. The executors assert that the evidence conclusively shows this invalidity. We assert that when evidence is advanced 6n one side only # case has no fair hearing. If the contest terminates before the counsel for Mr: Greeley’s daughters bring forward witnesses to counteract the statements made by those marshalled in opposition, it is not because of inability to produce them, but because Miss Grveley, whose health bag been impaired by the disgradoful coiiflict over her father's grave, can no longer bear the desecration, and also because she divines her opponents’ intention to indefinitely prolong a litigation, the entire expenses of which devolving upon the Greeley estate, would absorb the little property still remaining. In sustaining the claims of the Children’s Aid Society, Messrs. Manning and Storrs state that “there is enough and more than enough left to pro- vide amply for Mr. Greeley’s orphans ;’’ why, then, should not ‘his memory be fragrant with the odor of this generous deed to the poor waifs of our city?’’ This touch- ing reference to ‘‘poor waifs’’ is truly affect- ing; but will the executors be kind enough to inform us what they call “more than enough?’’ A few hundred a year may be enough for two women to live upon in a back room of an odorous boarding house, but this is not exactly the position in which the public would like to see the daughters of a great man whose statue is to cost forty thou- sand dollars! The executors affirm that Mr. Greeley’s orphans are ‘‘amply provided for,”’ and their urbane counsel, Mr. Williams, who, to employ their own language, ‘‘has conducted the case with ability and with as much for- bearance and courtesy to the opposite counsel as human nature could be expected to exhibit under circumstances of so much provocation as he has been subjected to,’’ believes that the estate ‘‘will probably go over two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.’’ Far be it from us to tell Mr. Williams that he does not believe what he believes, but we know that the editor of the Tribune is right in declaring that ‘with the exception of six shares of Tribune stock there is scarcely a dollar of available moncy or an acre of productive real estate belonging” to these orphans who are so amply provided for as to warrant ten thousand dollars being handed over to ‘poor waifs!’’ Mr. Wil- liams mistakes what ought to be for what is. Horace Greeley’s estate ought to be worth three hundred thousand dollars, but os two hundred thousand dollars has been loaned to ‘‘friends’’ whose promises to pay will be made good about the time that the millennium sets in, the most ardent optimist, Mr. Williams excepted, entertains not the shadow of a dream of seeing Mr. Gree- ley's orphans in possession of two-thirds of the amount rightfully theirs. Perhaps it may interest our readers to know that eight thou- sand dollars is due the estate from the for- mer publisher of the Tribune, himself an executor of the will of 1871, and that Mr. Williams, who pronounces the will of 1872— “away with that will!'’ he exclaims, dramati- edges his indebtedness of two thousand dollars, while friends of Mr. Greeley intimate that this gentleman’s farm at Chappaqua was bought with money borrowed from his gen- erous friend. Of this we know nothing; but, as Mr. Williams values his legal services in the harmonious settlement of this case at two thousand dollars, we congratulate him upon no longer being a debtor to the ‘amply- provided for’ orphans of his over-confiding friend. It is a singular coincidence that Mr. Williams’ indebtedness to the Greeley estate and the Greeley estate’s indebtedness to Mr. Williams should balance each other. With all our desire to see the will of 1872 acknowl- edged we are forced to think Mr. Greeley’s daughters right in rescuing their meagre patrimony from the hands of disinterested lawyers, We have always taken a lively interest in the Children’s Aid Society, 80 lively as to view with pain the action of its managers in this miserable business. Much good may ten thousand dollars belonging to orphans do them! ‘There are waifs and waifs. To rob a * | Peter to pay Paul is not our idea of Christian cally-—to be ‘‘a child of conspiracy,’’ acknowl- | virtne, and the wretched sectarianism mani- fested by the President of the society proves him totally unfit for his charitable position. The Board were willing to retire from the Greeley contest, but when their President heard that Miss Greeley was a Catholic he manfully persisted in maintaining the society's claim. Now the fact is, Miss Greeley is not a Catholic, never having been baptized into the Church. Every effort, however, has been ‘made to prove her ove, and to thereby make it appear unwise for her to be given the guardianship of her sister, to whom she is devoted and who is devoted to her. Mr. Greeley, of his own free will, placed his elder daughter in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a school which her sister has also attended, although this has been ignored by impartial lawyers. Neither girl is Catholic; but, assuming them to be such, we should like to know why the President of the Children’s Aid Society persists in demanding a pound of flesh, the right to which he would waive were the Misses Greeley avowed members of a Church savory to Presbyterian nostrils? We thought this a free country and the days of the Inquisition over. We thank the President ofa charitable society for bringing us to our senses. Mr. Williams’ witnesses persist in | declar- ing Mr. Grecley hopelessly insane. Now, is it not possible to prove temporary aberration of the-mind on the part of some.of: these wit- nesses? Mr. Alvin Johnson would have us believe his dear friend mad in September! Please remember, readers of the Hrnatp, that many of Mr. Greeley’s most memorable speeches—speeches that have excited the ad- miration of two continents—were delivered in October, when, according to Mr. Alvin John- son, the brain that conceived them was in- capable of coherent thought! This looks like insanity, doos it not? ‘The will of 1872,’’ states Mr. Whitelaw Reid, ‘‘was written by Mr. Greeley of his own motion. Miss Greeley never saw it—never heard of it until after it was written. It was the natural im- pulse of a man who found his estate impaired to assure to his orphan children all he had to bestow; and when he wrote it, and for some days afterwards, he was in such mental condi- tion as to be writing editorials for the Tribune, which any of us who are left would gladly give our right hands to be able to equal’’ Mr. Reid but reiterates what we have affirmed again and again; but, as Mr. Reid and ourselves are not the Children’s Aid So- ciety, are not executors of the will of 1871, are not counsel for that will, are in no way in- debted to the estate, and do not pretend to be so devoted to the memory of Horace Grogley ag to pergecute his | daughters out of their ‘peace and property, we think Messrs, Manning and Storrs are correct in assuming that the ‘attacks’ upon them which have ap- peared in the papers ‘have been written for the purpose of making public opinion.” Were it in our power we would make public opinion so strong as to force justice out of law, when, on Monday next, the Surrogate Court of Westchester county busies itself for the last time with the wills of Horace Greeley. Then we shall bid farewell to Mr, Isaiah T. Wil- liams. “A good man struggling with adver- sity is a spectacle for things in general,’’ exclaimed Charles Dickens, in his inimitable reading of that paragon of teachers, Wackford Squeers. He was right. Like Squeers, Mr. Williams is a good man. He has been strng- gling with the adversity visited by destiny upon two defenceless orphan girls. He is now a spectacle for things in general, and as a spectacle we leave him to his own conscience. The Comptroller and the Park Com. mission. ‘We desire once again to direct the attention of Mayor Havemeyer to the importance of filling the office of Park Commissioner, made vacant by the retirement of Andrew H. Green, the present Comptroller of the city. We understand that Mr. Green regards his resigna- tion as not taking effect until he has been notified of its acceptance by the Mayor, and that he: still acts with the Park Board as a Commissioner. While the resignation of a public officer is occasionally accepted by the appointing power for the purpose of compli- menting the retiring official, the acceptance is not necessary to make the resignation com- plete. The vacancy actually exists; it is very questionable whether Mr. Green has o legal right to act any longer as a Park Commis- sioner, and his assumption of such right might possibly lead to embarrassment and litigation. But there is another reason why the vacancy should be filled and all doubt as to Mr. Green’s position removed. Mayor Havemeyer is the especial representative of municipal reform, and it is a scandal upon his adminis- tration that his principal adviser and associate should continue for a single day to hold two offices under his government. One of the principal charges mede against the Tammany politicians was that of double office-holding. Mayor Havemeyer himself called attention, in his recent Message, to the gross impropriety of allowing s commissioner of a municipal department to pass upon his own estimates in the capacity of a member of the Board of Apportionment, Mr. Green has held for over a year the double positions of Park Commis- sioner and Comptroller, and as a member of the Board of Apportionment has passed upon estimates made by himself involving very considerable portion of the annual expendi- ture of the city government. The accession of Mayor Havemeyer to office was sufficient rebuke to a continuance of this old Tammany practice. Mr. Green resigned one of his two important offices. Can Mayor Havemeyer, as 4 conscientious reformer, hesitate to recognize the propriety of filling the vacancy without further delay ? EXAMINING THE BOOKS. The Great Transactions of Credit Mo- bil jack and White To Be Pat Under the Inquisition Tests. Boston, Mass., Feb. 5, 1873. Hon. J. M. Wilson, chairman of the Union Pacific and Crédit Mobilier Committee No. 2, began the examination of the books of the Union Pacific Com- pany, inthe oMce of the treasurer, at four P. M., having waited all day for tie arrivai of the docu- ments from Washington, Messrs. H. C. Crane and B. F. Ham were present to aid in the review of the matters at issue; but they found that little progress could be made until another set of books, now in the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, were im their possession for comparison, and they have been telegraphed for. ‘The investigation will be pursued in other direc- tions, however, until they arrive. But the chief object of the seareh, the cost of the road, cannot bo made up betore Friday night, when the books are expected, i] detraction among Srtists, ‘PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General T. L. Rosser, of Minnesota, is at the New York Hotel. Admiral Emmons, of the United States Navy, is at the Astor House. Arthur Cheney, proprietor of the Boston Theatre, is at the Hoffman House. John B. Alley's ghost, from the Crédit Mobilier vaults, it the Astor House, Ex-Lieutenant Governor George W. Hendee, 0! Vermont, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Congressman John A. Peters, of Maine, yester= day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Arinori Mo:i, the Japanese Minister, left the Bree yoort House for Washington yesterday morning. General J. S. Casement, of Panes-ville, Ohio, ia behind one of the windows at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “ William A. Pile, our Minister to Venezuela, who is now on leave of absence, yesterday came on from Washington to the Astor Hous», M. C. Waite, of Toledo, Ohio, who was one of the counsel of the United States before the Geneva Tribunal, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Seior de Moncada, Spanish Consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico, is at the Grand Hotel, with his bride, the daughter of the late Edwin Smith, of this city, to whom he was united by Bishop Lynch, at Arch- bishop McCloskey’s residence on ‘uesday. Mr. Stephen H. Knapp, a mechanic of this city, finds an unpleasant notoriety accrue to him from the alleged embezzling operations of is namesake in the Post OMmee, and wishes it to be understood that he 18 a reputabie citizen, with ucither the de- sire nor opportunity to become a defauiter.” He wishes it also to be understood he is not the “Nap” who was buried at Chiseihurst lately. .He 1s not St. Stephen, the proto-martyr, we may add, MOVEMENTS OF PRESIDENT GRANT. WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 5, 1873. vresident Grant, with one or two companions, will arrive here at noon to-morrow, to spend the remainder of the day in this city. The Governor and members of the State Legislature will meet him here, with other distinguished guests. The alternoon wil be spent visiting the industrial cs- tablisnments and other places of interest, after which tne city authorities will give a banquet to a party of 300, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN- seen Yesterday evening at eight o’clock a private view was given of the pictures included in the sixth Winter exhibition of the National Academy of Design. The view included the sixth annual display of the American Society of Paniters in Water Colors, and an interesting corollary in the way of some English water colors and sketches occupying the South room, The North, East and West rooms and the small chamber known as the sculpture room were devoted to the American Society. The periodic opening of the Academy generally fills the exhibition rooms with several of those ‘ elements that conspire to constitute what is calied social success. Perhaps the proportion of those there who understand much about art is rather small contrasted with the large number of smat- terers who anoint their lips with Ruskin an@ fancy that they have thus inspired themselves with the divine breath of criticism. Perhaps there is a certain per centage of scandal and ists, gnd pn appreciable’ amount of sinall talk and amiable ignorance among professional critics. Possibly the auctioneer’s! touter may sometimes be seen there, slyly spying out the wsthetic nakedness of the artistic land. Paradoxes and contradictions occasionally stare one out of countenance from the walls, but at the bottom of these little infelicities let us acknowl. edge that there is much valuable talent, sound, taste, nice discrimination and disinterested mutual acknowledgment of merit. Last evening, at the Academy of Desigm, witnessed mach the same mixture of the few who reverently follow art and the many who ignorantly talk its jargon—a mixture of which descriptions have been given for 80 many consecutive years, But beneath the cream-laid surface of social small-talk might be discerned the flash of bright ideas and keen analy- sis. To the two sets of pictures we purpose return- ing from time to time. One of these, as before inti- mated, comprises the contributions of the Ameri- can Society of Painters in Water Colors, and the OMNET AN asaomblage of Dearie ren tes, enlnrs on sketches, brought hither by Mr. Henry Blackburn, In the reterences made this morning we do not pretend to do more than briefly summarize those which presented themselves to our attention during @ not too protracted visit. J. U. Nicoll has @ finely interpreted coast view, entitled “A Calm Morning,” and . Te. Boricher contributes several very excellent works. Mr. T. Richards, the Philadelphia artist, is aiso lavishly adedepch cl) his landscapes almost inva- riably being filled with that quiet charm of whic Smuilie, sends in a very animated view of the pre- of her radiant Spanish studies, and Bellows has a drawn by oxen wading ugh a shallow stream. bites these are a set of peculiarly picturesque torn’’ and ‘Hard Times” are fair exponentd ing subject skilfully treated by George Harvey, most powerful and attractive pictures in its exhidi- toclaim that the American society has enriche understand, when it admires a picture, to whom tion are Killingworth Johnson's “Rival Florists’ ket seene and is, unquestionavly, & ndid that it is almost as shadowless as Peter Schlemihl But the general effect is delicious and the treat- and red rescs clamber up the side of the his “Wissahickon,” now at Goupll’s, is so full. The President of the American society, Mr. James G. liminaries of ‘‘A Horse Race in the Yosemite.’ Mrs. Elizabeth Murray graces the collection with many host of delicious landscapes, his principal work being “the Willow Uh ay the vehicle being v Many pictures are visible to which attention wag asked during their progress in the studio, and Algerine studies by Tiffany. “The Queen of the vill ‘7 is a happy effort by William H. Powell. and of tl potentialities of T. W. Wood's brush, “A Gleam of Sunlight on Snow-Clad Hilis” is an invit- It is no disparagement to the American society te point out that two of the tion are by English artists, and, though this give neither Mr. Blackburn nor any one else the right its collection with English works at the expense American, it is as well that the public shoald j the credit belongs. The two English works we allude to as finding place in the American collec« and J. Skinmer Prout’s “Frauen Kirche, Nurem- berg.” The Nuremberg picture reproduces a mar- architectural drawing. The ‘Rival Florists” ig exquisite in many respects, its only faults bein; and thatthe horizontal edge of the sward in the foreground gives it & suspicion of uncouthness. ment is masterly. The scene is just outside a red- brick house in the middle of a warm Summer day. Ww house. On the left stands an old gentleman, with powdered hair, purple coat and knee-breeches, earnestly arguing with @ friend of hig own age, who remains seated. The middie of the picture is occupied by two young girls. Ona of these, attired in white, and wearing @ white flac, sits leaning back in @ chair, watching the old gen tleman with an expression of puzzled imterest. Beside her crouches the other girl, dressed im light green. and listening with amused animation, At the girls’ feet nestles & little child, absorbed in its play. To the right is @ gardener, filing nis bar- row and lending a half attentive ear to the discus- sion, The picture is brilliant, rich and sweet, and ‘ girl in white is treated with the most the yo it id airy tenderness. ae shows the effect of a strong yellow light n the water in contrast to a huge black eee a e middle foreground. In No, 49 are seen some flowers, exquisitely painted, by Rivoire. Swain Gifford centributes several of those Moorish atudies to which we have drawn attention more than once during the last two months. A girl, with @ pitcher, the sheulder and @ portion of tue Tipe bust exposed, is sent in by Eaton. Thera are one or two fine contributions by Hayes, the well-known animal painter, and the ‘Tomb of a Moorish Saint,” by Swain Gifford, is fall of a rich and picturesque mournfulness, Nearly every mem- ber of the American ides finds representation, and future opportunities will permit us to do ali of them whatever justice lies within our power. In the smail sculpture reom are found, excinsively, works by American artists, in black and white; drawings by Lamley, Bush, Darley, Smillie, Fen and others. It were puer policy to treat with injustice the col. lection of English water colors and sketches made by Mr. Blackburn and occupying the south room, and the same chances which will previde a return to the American group will also impel! us to revisit these. Certainly many delightful specimens are ta be seen. Among these we merely touch at preseng on “The Tuileries Gardens,” by Collingwood Smith} the “Old Tower and Bridge at Lucerae,”’ by the sam@ artist; my Rlizabeth’s Bedroem,” by Harding Smith; “Ine Entrance to the Library at Rouen, by Burgess; ‘Sunset on an Algerine Tomb,” by Severn; some frait, most enchantingly painted, by Hough; “An Old Vineyard,” by Collingwood smith; “English Cott Life,” by Marian Croft; “Town Hall at Brussels,” by Callow: “English Mountain Scenery,’ probably near Cumberiand, by Bell; twa fine pictures forwarded by Skinner Prout himself, and contributions of more or less excellence b: Henry Warren, Baker, W. L. Thomas, Mogiord John Richardson, G. [. Hall, the late Sir'Thomag nee, Copley Fielding, Mortimer, Marlowe, in, Haseltine, Armstrong, H. Patterson, well, Pugin, Thornycroft, Pennefatner, Du Maurier, G. Bowes, J. D. Linton ana C. Green, ‘The Academy of Design has never since the day of its first be hon a | been seen in cleaner or fresher { condition. tevening’s reception was genial is feeling and large in attendance, ‘The general [eubilc is adimitted o@ and alter to-day, '