The New York Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1873, Page 10

6 INEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. SAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription Price $12. Volume XXXVII ® - ne se eeeeeeeeeens No. 42 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- eway.—ALixk ‘WOOD'S NUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st— au. Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Granp Vaniery Ev- AINMENT, 4 NIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway, between Princo and Tiouston streets.—Lxo axp Lotos {UNIO} THEATRE, Union square, between pprondway ar fouren ‘ay.—Onx HuxpRED Y¥ARS OLD. | WALLACK’s THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ptreot.—Davi Gaunice. 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OH, POLISHED PERTURBATION!” POSSIBLE ABDICATION BY AMADEUS OF THE SPAN- ISH THRONE! REASONS AND PROBABLE RESULTS! THE ISSUE DISCUSSED BY THE PRESS, OABINET, ARMY AND PARTIES! THE KING’S NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS! THE CARLIST CAMPAIGN—SEvENTH PaGE. \pITTING OUT THE FLORIDA AS A SPANISH GUNBOAT! A MYSTERY FOR GOVERNMENT SOLUTION! A STARTLING RUMOR—TuIRD Page. $SEVERE FIGHTING IN MEXICO! THE LOZADA INSURRECTION BECOMING FURMIDABLE— CUBA AND PORTO RICO—SEvsENTH Paas. IGUINARY SAINTS! EXCITEMENT IN UTAH! THE MORMON ORGAN WORKING ITSELF INTO A PASSION! SAVAGE DENUNCIA- TIONS—SEVENTH PaGE. WHE DIREFUL MURDER MADNESS! THE BUTCH- ERY OF JAMES GRAHAM, THE LITTLE NECK SHOEMAKER! THE AFFAIR AN IM- PENETRABE MYSTERY! THE DETAILS AND THEORY—FIFTH Pace. ®LUODTHIRSTY JEALOUSY! A GALLANT DOC- TOR ESCORTS A FRIEND'S WIFE HOME FROM A PARTY! THE LADY'S HUSBAND AND THE GALLANT INDULGE IN A RUN- NING REVOLVER DUEL! SERIOUS RE- SULTS—Firrn Page. SUTTING OUT THE MURDER CANCER! THE Jv- DICIAL DOCTORS WITH THEIR SLEEVES ROLLED UP! § ANNELL ARRAIGNED! TWO JURORS SELECTED—FirtH Pas. \WIFE MURDERERS! A JEALOUS ITALIAN AND A DRUNKEN, RELIGIOUS IRISHMAN TO BE TRIED IN THE SAME COURT——Firra Page. ®WEATEN OR KICKED TO DEATH! AN UNNATU- RAL FATHER KILLS HIS OWN SON! HE IS HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION BY THE CORONER--FourtH Pag. WHE JERSEY CITY BARROOM MURDER! DORIS’ TRIAL BEGUN—THE HOBOKEN MYSTERY— THE SEVENTH’S ARMORY—Firra Pace. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS—LATE TELE- GRAPHIC NEWS—Srvenru Pag. ‘BOLEMN INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE LATE FATHER STARRS! IMPOSING RE- LIGIOUS RITES! GRAND MUSICAL TRIB- UTE—Tuimp Page. ‘NEWS FROM ALBANY! THE CHARTER TO BE REPORTED ON WEDNESDAY! THE CHANGES—PORT DEPOSIT STILL SUB- MERGED—Turep Pace. EPECIAL NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—MARINE INTELLIGENCE—TENTH PAGE. MR. GREELEY’S 1872 WILL REJECTED! SURRO- GATE COFFIN DECLARES THE VENERATED SAGE TO HAVE BEEN INSANE WHEN HE WROTE IT! FINALE OF THE BARBAROUS FIGHT—Turep Pacer. RECORDER HACKETT THINKS ROSENZWEIG SHOULD BE INDICTED FOR MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE! THE JUMEL AND OTHER LITIGATIONS—E1cutTn Pace. FINANCIAL BUSINESS AT THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES—E1onra Paar. Tae Tatar or Joun Scannext, indicted for the murder by shooting of Thomas Donohoe, An Johnson's club room, on the 2d day of No- vember, 1872, was commenced yesterday, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, before Judge Brady. There was a very large attendance Yhroughont the day, principally of the rowdy Blement, and their unseemly conduct forced a Poution and a threat from the Judge that any disturber of the decorum and dignity of the Court would be severely dealt with. At the adjournment only two jurors had been ob- tained. Tue Mexican Insvnecrionany Commumistic Movement, under command of Lozada, appears bo have assumed somewhat formidable pro- portions. There has been severe fighting Jately between the defiant secessionists and Uhe government forces, The reports of the Fesult are conflicting, as is usual in Mexican warfare. There is little doubt, however, that the peace of portion of the Republic hag deen disturbed to a very serious extent, Gzorou Paytxo Ur.—The lower House of ‘the Georgia Legislature—and there is said to be no doubt that the upper branch will con- cur—has passed a bill Oppropriating three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars to pay off an old privat score, with interest; also appropriating six hundred thousand dol- . to pay the interest on the State debt, is the right way for other Southern States to liquidate their indebtedness. If they ‘ely upon Congress for relief they are likely to be disappointed. Neither Congress nor people are in a humor to wink at plunder- the ing Jobs just now. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1873—TRIPLE’ SHEET. a Criste im Spain—The Abdication of King Amadous and Its Probable Bitect. The news from Madrid, published in to-day’s Henatp, if it does not excite surprise, will, nevertheless, be found deeply interesting. King Amadeus appears to be desirous of abdicating the throne of Spain, to which he was called about two years since, not by the voice of the people, but by the exigencies of the situation and through the intrigues of the politicians ap- posed toa republican form of government. The immediate cause of the royal resolve is re- ported to be the determination of the Zorrilla Ministry to stand by Don Hidalgo, who, in November last, was appointed Captain General of the Basque provinces, and against whom the urtillery arm of the military ser- vice appears to entertain an irremovable pre- judico in consequence of his participation in the execution, or, as it is called, the massacre at the San Gil barracks in 1866. A majority of the artillery officers resigned on the occa- sion of this appointment, and the opposition was 50 marked and embarrassing as to induce Don Hidalgo to throw up his command, whereupon the officers withdrew their resigna- tions. Subsequently, however, the Ministry appointed Hidalgo to an important post in Catalonia, whereupon tho artillery officers renewed their protest and again sentin their resignations, indicating their unwillingness to serve under him in any capacity. The Zorrilla Ministry resisted this last manifestation, and on an appeal to the Cortes on the issue that had grown up between themselves and the military, received a nearly unanimous vote of confidence. Strongthened by this vote they resolved to adhere to Don Hidalgo and to re- sist the demand made by the artillery arm of the service for his overthrow. King Amadeus, who sympathizes with the military, is opposed to this course, and has chosen to make tho quarrel an irreconcilable one between himself and the Ministry. Hence he insists upon abdication, and only consents, upon an urgent appeal, to postpone his final determination for twenty- four hours. Meanwhile the country is natu- rally thrown into a condition of intense excitement. The Carlists, taking advantage of the dilemma, aro pushing their risings in the provinces with réiiewed vigor, and appear to have admirable sources of information within the enemy’s lines. Sefior Zorrilla, called upon for an explanation of the situa- tion, announces that all is yet uncertain, and that the Ministers are not at present in a con- dition to make any proposals or to ask any vote from the Congress of the Kingdom. The Congress, despite the protest of the Prime Minister, who can see no good in a protracted meeting, resolves to hold a permanent session, and at half-past ten o'clock ‘last evening the Cortes had not adjourned. While the Don Hidalgo story is “a good enough Morgan’’ to account for the determi- nation of King Amadeus to return fo his own country and to relinquish the attempt to rule over the Spanish nation, it is beyond doubt only a convenient excuso for a very discreet act. The young King has evidently been disappointed in his expectations in regard to his foreign throne, He believed that he would find in Spain a chivalrous, warm-hearted people, ready to receive him with open arms and to follow him with enthusiasm in his gallant efforts to revive some of the brilliancy of the Spanish monarchy. His intentions were donhtleas good. but his youthful imagination led him to Picture a future for himself and his adopted country which experience would havo taught him could never be realized. Ho found the chivalry of Spain, upon whose support he had principally relied, either luke- warm in his cause or indignant at the idea of being ruled over by a foreign Princo. Probably in earnest in his professed desire to conciliate and benefit the people, he bent towards tho republicans and made conces- sions to popular sentiment, only to dis- cover the insurmountable obstacles in the way of o sincere union of the dem- ocratic and monarchical elements. Eager to prove that his sympathies were with the masses and that he was ready to entrust him- self to their honor, he went among them only to encounter risk from the bullet of the as- sassin. Driven to chango one set of ad- visers for another before any well-defined policy could be fairly tested, he has been constantly in a state of suspense and un- certainty, ignorant of the real wishes of the people and without any really devoted follow- ing. At home, he has seen the suppression of one revolutionary rising only the precur- sor of another. Abroad, tho Ouban insurrection bas been a constant source of anxiety as well as a reproach to his govern- ment. Destitute of the stubborn Spanish pride which revolts against the idea of a ro- linquishment of the Queen of the Antilles under any circumstances, ho hag geen in the miserable Cuban war only a humiliation to Spain and a scandal to humanity, and he would doubtless have rejoiced at its termination even at the alternative of the loss of the colony. At heart a monarchist, he has had no genuine sympathy with the men who have recently been his advisers and who could only be faithful to him by being false to the real sentiments they professed. Treated with coldness by the class to which he is natu- rally attached, and with suspicion and hollow friendship by those to whom he is naturally opposed, it is no wonder that he should seek any favorable opportunity to rid himeelf of his irksome duties and to abdicate a throne to which, had he enjoyed the wisdom gained by experience, he would never have aspired. We are told that the capital is quict and peaceable notwithstanding the exciting event, and that steps have been taken to proserve law and order until the government to succeed that of King Amadeus (if his desire to abdicate should be carried out) shall have been determined upon. We do not re- gard the crisis as one at all alarming to Spain, provided the people have the good sense to turn it to their profit. We have never supposed that the reign of the Italian King would be a long one; we have never believed that it would be conducive to the permanent good of the nation. The one thing that now appears certain is that he can have no successor on the throne of Spain. The son of Isabella would not be accepted as a ruler by the peo- ple, or, if temporarily made the figurehead of the decaying monarchy, would be certain to have @ more troubled and a briefer reign Gan Bot of the forvign prince bo would succeed. A successful Carlist revolution is not to be thought of in the present age. Tho only form of gov- ernment that can now have any stability in Spain is that of a republic, under a President to be chosen bya free vote of the people. Zorrilla and his associates have the’ game in their own hands if they only have the skill and the boldness to play the cards. The people aro ripe for a republic, and their desire for peace—their disinclination to interfere with the existing order of things until achango shall have become inevitable, has alone induced them to submit loyally to the rulo of King Amadeus. In the event of his abdica- tion the proclamation of the Republic would be hailed with satisfaction should it be boldly made, and would, we believe, unite a large majority of the citizens in its endorsement. If the question as to the form of government to be adopted should be submitted to the people there could be little doubt of the result. With the experience of France before them the Spaniards could not hesitate to decide in favor of republican insti- tutions, Standing together in the bonds of fraternity the two nations would be a power in Europe. ‘The financial success of ro- publican France, her rapid recupera- tion, her continued peace, her solid credit, aro all so many lessons, which Spain cannot afford to disregard. The proclamation of the Spanish Republic should be accompanied by the proclamation of tho freedom of Cuba. Tho Spanish troops, the agents and representatives of oppression, should be withdrawn from the island, and the Cuban people should be told that they are at liberty to govern themselves for the future. Such an act would not only be just, but it would be a rebuke to monarchical institutions and a lasting glory to the youngest Republic of Europe. If these should be the results of King Amadeus’ resignation, the es- tablishment of a sister republic at the side of republican France in Europe and the ces- sation of the war of oppression on the Island of Cuba, all the world would rejoice at the retury of the Prince to his native land, and wish him Godspeed in his future career. = cr ee Countng the Electoral Vote=—A System Full of Dangers. The vote of the Electoral Collego for Presi- dent and Vico Prosident of the United States will be counted to-morrow in the presence of both houses of Congress. The disturbed con- dition of Louisiana and the seeming impossi- bility of securing an honest election in that State invest the occasion with an interest like that which was felt in the question of counting the vote of Georgia four years ago. Taking the ground that Georgia was unrepresented in Congress, General Butler was in favor of throwing out the vote; but ho was overruled by the majority, and it was counted, because it did not change the result. Now Louisiana comes with two returns—ono representing that the State voted for Grant and the other that it voted for Greeley. In either case the general effect would be the same, for Grant’s election does not depend upon the vote of Louisiana. But, like the point which was raised in the case of Georgia, these diverse returns are likely to be the occasion of some trouble to- morrow. With an immense republican ma- jority in both houses there is no danger that the voice of the people will not be respected; but under other circumstances, as, for in- stance, if the liberal and democratic, instead of the republican party, had been triumph. ant in the elections, there might be endless trouble, and, perhaps, revolution. The vote for President and Vice Presi- dont might not be counted at all by a factious majority, defending itsolf behind technicalities and quibbles, and the day for the inauguration of the Executive would pass without his election being officially declared, or, even worse'than an outrage so flagrant, his unsuccessful competitor might receive the sanction of Congress in assuming the Presi- dency. The machinery for tho election of our Prosidents, as it is prescribed by the con- stitution, is not only exceedingly cumbrous, but it opens the door to great wrongs in times of agitation. Evena conspiracy on tho part of the messengers who carry the votes of the States to Washington not to deliver the re- turns into the hands of the President of the Senate, or the refusal of the Electoral College to vote, might be made an excuse for overturn. ing the law and the constitution and defeating the will of the people. In other ways could like results be accomplished. These recent instances, Georgia four years ago, and the scenes which took place at the Capitol at that time, and Louisiana now, and the incidents which may ensue to-morrow, show the neces- sity of a change in the method of electing the President of the Republic. Sooner or later we shall have to resort to the direct vote of the people, and Congress ought to mature the plan at once and make it a part of tho organic law. A Dury ror Gexenit, Borten.—The ne- cessity of the punishment of the guilty Con- gressmen in the Crédit Mobilier bribery has taken a deep hold upon the country, and tho American people will not be satisfied unless Congress acts wisely and sternly in the matter, No man in the republican party can s0 well perfarm the duty which the country imposes. He is freer from the party whip than any one else, He has the requisite ability and courage. It rests with himself whether he shall under- take and execute a duty, unpleasant, it must be confessed, which the country imposes on him. Tae Irattan Orgna Company has had avery successful season at Chicago. Lucca appears to have been agreat favorite there, foron Wed« nesday night, when she appeared in “Faust,” the receipts were $5,500; on Friday, in the “Marriage of Figaro,"’ the receipts were $6,500, and at the matinée Saturday $4,300, The whole week's receipts were over $23,000. The company will return to New York and commence a season of four weeks on Monday, the 24th of this month, Tux Trin or Ins Roman Carson Cuxrormmn, indicted for tho oxercise of spiritual intimidation on voters and other cor- rupt practices during tho recent Parliamentary election for Galway, was commenced yester- day in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, Lord Chief Justice Whiteside presided. The indictment is founded on the celebrated report of Justice Keogh, and ite issue after trial may produce more decided consequences on the course of government and politics in Ireland, Jay, ecclesiastical and educational, Congress=Senatocr Pcmeroy’s E£xplana- tion—Senator Wilson’s Resi ation= General Butler's Bill—The Louisiana Difficulty and Other Qaestions. The proceedings in both houses of Congress yesterday were very interesting. In the Senate Mr. Pomeroy, of Kansas, charged with bribery and corruption in the matter of the recent Senatorial election in that State, put in a general and specific denial, and said that tho conspiracy which accomplished his defeat was ‘a villany unparalleled.” He concluded by offering a resolution for a special committee of five to investigate the subject, and the resolution was adopted, and Vice- President Colfax announced as said commit- tee, Messrs. Frelinghuysen, Buckingham, Al- corn, Thurman and Vickers. Thus Senator Pomeroy bravely faces the music, and it is to be hoped that his protestations of innocence will be established by the able and distinguished Senators of the committee. Tho Vico President submitted a letter from Henry Wilson, Vice President elect, announc- ing that he had transmitted to the Governor of Massachusetts his resignation as Senator, to take effect at the expiration of tho present Congress—that is, on tho 4th of March next, Tho Massachusetts Legislature, thorefore, with Mr. Secretary Boutwell and other candi- dates for Wilson’s Senatorial shoes, being re- | lieved of all doubts upon this issue of the Senator's resignation, will now know what to do in reference to this impending Senatorial vacancy. As for the Treasury Department, it is probable that tho present Secretary will hold fast to the bird in the hand till he secures the bird in the bush, fe vs On the Louisiana difficulties Mr. Morton, of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, sub- mitted a report in relation to the electoral vote of Louisiana for the Presidential succession, and the report was ordered to be printed. From this report it appeared that the election of Greeley electors was certified to the Governor (War- moth), but that the election returns were not counted by the Board created by law. On the other hand, it appears that the election of Grant electors is certified to by the legal Board, but that this Board did not have the returns before them, and that their report fg not endorsed _by the _ Govemcr, as required by act of Congress. The committee, thorefore, recommend that the State of Louisiana be thrown out in the counting to-morrow, in the House, of the electoral votes of the several States cast in the recent elections of the Electoral College for President and Vice-President, and doubtless Louisiana will be thrown out accordingly. The committees have still the question to con- sider whether the Warmoth or the Pinchback concern is the legal government of the State, or whether both are illegal. We should infer, however, from the decision on the electoral vote, that both these conflicting State govern- ments will also be thrown out and a new clec- tion ordered. In the House of Representatives, we are sorry to say, General Butler’s bill, providing for an increase toa respectable figure of tho pitiful salaries now paid the President, Vice- President, Cabinet members, United States Judges and members of both houses of Con- gress, was defeated. We apprehend that the members of the House have become so badly demoralized by the Crédit Mobilier exposures that they are afraid even to vote for a measure of justice and sound economy which appears like helping themselves from the publio Treasury. This squoamishness is simply ridiculous, touching a measure which the pre- vailing good sense of the country will surely approve. But let General Butler pick his flint and try it again. He, at all events, is not afraid of his own shadow. A large number of bills was introduced in the House and referred. The unfinished busi- ness before the Senate was the bill providing for the distribution of the fifteen millions of dollars awarded to the United States against England by the Geneva Tribunal for damages inflicted upon our commerce on the high seas during our late civil war by certain Anglo-rebel cruisers, The debate on tho bill was con- tinued. For particulars of the day’s proceed- ings in both houses see our special despatches and Congressional reports, Another Tammany=—The Washington Board of Public Works. From the speech of Mr. Robert B. Roose- velt, one of the Representatives in Congross from this city, on the operations of the Wash- ington Board of Public Works, after the man- ner of the late Tammany Ring, it is evident that this republican conclave at the capital bids fair to eclipse in frauds its democratic prototype of New York. Mr. Roosevelt, after going through the various items of overcharges for work, charges for work not dono or that had been unted for before, and analyzing the misrep: tations and thimble-rigging of figures by the Board of Works, sums up one portion of tho frauds by saying: —4The skill of these gentlemon in manipulating figures does not seem to be equal to their skill in managing the public property in this District.” It appears that the Board make the debt they have ocon- tracted for street paving, grading, sew- ernge and other improvements amount to six millions of dollars, but Mr. Roosevelt shows the debt incurred is sixteen millions, in- stead of six. Congress appropriated, a fow weeks ago, one million two hundred and forty thousand dollars as the share which the United States should pay for improvements in the Dis- trict of Columbia. This amountis based upon the theory that the national government should pay five-sixths of the cost of the work along the public property, and a statement of such work was submitted by the Board to the President. As an example of the way in which this Board has cheated the government Mr. Roosevelt gives some figures. They charge for twelve-inch tile sewer one dollar and forty conts, and yet they demand of the United States government in every one of their speci- fications five dollars. ‘Five dollars in place of one dollar and forty cents a foot!’’ Mr, Roosevelt exclaims. ‘Nothing is too great and nothing is too small with this Board of Works.’’ Curbing they put down at one dol- lar and twenty-five conts, while they charge the United States one dollar and fifty cents. They paid fifteen cents a yard for removing the cobble-stone pavement on Pennsyl- vania avenue, and charged the govern- ment twenty conta. Tho United States is charged thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars for concrete pavement gn Fifth street along tho square, and thore is no concrete pavement there. The pavement is blue stone, and was paid for long ago by the government, There are numerous other frauds noticed by Mr. Roosevelt, and he, as he remarks, passed over many items in order not to be unnecessarily tedious. He adds :— “When the Board want to got as much as pos- sible from the United States they present their operations in one way; when they want to extract a little more from the people they put them in a very different one. They make the amount small when talking to the people, but when they come tous andask us to appro- priate money they make it three times as large.” It is clear the affairs of the District of Columbia, and of the Board of Pablic Works in particular, need overhauling. Thero is a corrupt ring that needs exploiting. Will Con- gress undertake the work? Thero must be no more shirking of duty or whitewashing, whether the members of Congress or their |' friends be involved or notin the frauds. Let us have a thorough investigation of the frauds Mr. Roosevelt has touched upon. Thorough Reform for the Criminal Code=The Bourbons Must Abdicate. * Senator Robertson has introduced a bill about jury challenges. Assemblyman Deer- ing has submitted another upon some distinct branch of criminal law. These are not the modes of reform desired. Nearly all Ameri- can legislation is based upon expediency or to meet exigencies, In the English Parliament it is otherwise, British fawyers logislate in pursuance of system. ‘They not only redress newly discovered mis- chiofs, put prepare against contingent ones. All the confusion in our criminal laws proceeds from legislative skirmishing with defects, which is aptly termed by the lobby as “tinkering.” In stopping new gaps old ones are usually reopened. One scheme clashes with another. All this may suit the Bourbon Bar, who wish to preserve their cob- webs from reform brooms or embalm their traditions in aged calfskin. But the pro- gressive spirit of the age demands the cleanli- ness of simplicity for statute books. What the people require from Albany Solons is a thorough reformation in the criminal system, and not patohwork. ie gs on days ago We pointed ont tothe Bar Association and the Judiciary Committees of both houses that since 1850 a full code of criminal procedure, and since 1864 an ex- haustive code of crimes and punishments hed been yearly crying ‘Open Sesame’ at the cavern door of the Bourbon lawyers. The first was the work of David Graham, Arphaxad Loomis and David Dudley Field. The latter gentleman participated also in the preparation of the Second Code, and was associated therein with William Curtis Noyes and Alexander W. Bradford. All of these gentlemen, with the exception of Mr. Field, are dead. So toall appearance are the contents of the two bulky volumes whose compilation and printing must have drawn from the State Treasury at least fifty thousand dollars. They are studded with elaborate notes, minute references and apt decisions. But notwithstanding their prepara- tion was expressly authorized by well con- sidered statutes, and although the codifiers were most eminent lawyers as well as practical men, nevertheless neither of these codes, pre- pared at such sacrifice in professional skill and public money, has even been reported from a law committee or called up for discus- sion in either branch of the Legislature. Surely they exist upon the shelves of the Bar Association library. And even if time has destroyed much of their efficacy, or if yet fresher reforms to the criminal law are needed, those codes must afford excellent foundations for the Judiciary Committees in Senate and Assembly to build upon. Ah! but wo forget again. The chariots of the Bourbon lawyers bar the way, and of County Court practitioners from rural dis- tricts, and of ancient gentlemen from the large cities, whose law books, like their Madeira bottles, are only valuable when covered with the dust of ages.. Who will get these chariots off the track? We hear of Counsellors Dwight, Choate, Bliss, Davenport and Eaton active in the Albany lobby after fresh charters and new bills to turn out boards and justices. Theso gentlemen are not Bourbon lawyers. One of them is a professor in a law school, and no- table for progressive notions; another is the United States District Attorney; a third is a Federal Police Justice, and all of them are scholars in criminal jurisprudence. While they are protecting charters and fostering municipal reforms, can they not at the same time nurse these codes and use their undoubted influence in promoting their passage in some satisfactory form? Had these compilations been long since adopted it is clear, from perusing their pro- visions, that the lawyers for the people would have been spared the mortifying admission that they were compelled to prosecute the Ring robbers for misdemeanor only, and tho public saved many postponements and delays in homicide cases that were caused by lack of apt statutes or appropriate criminal procedure. Upon the whole, the Bourbons must prepare to abdicate. But who will head a coup d'élat to extend the empire of criminal justice? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant Read, of the United States Navy, is at the Astor House. Beer. Tweive pints. An hour, Cotton-spinner, Of Bolton, England. Bier, Byron improved—“Hell hath no fury like @ wo- man" whose false hair don’t match. The Duc d’Aumale is said to be engaged to be married to the widow of the Duc de Luynes, General G. B, Marshall, of the United States Army, is in unmartial array at the Stortevant House, The Prince of Wales will attend the opening of the Vienna Exhibition as chairman of the British Commission. J. B. Frierson, a Grant elector in Tennessee in the late campaign, and President of the state Sen- ate in 1865-6, 1s dead. ‘The Ozar’s birthday is to be specially celebrated this year, and the Emperor William of Germany ts expected to visit St. Petersburg at that time, The Shah of Persia has conferred upon Car! Sie. mens the order of the L'on and Sun for his eMctent arrangement of the ‘eiegraph 4, stem of that coun- try. Lancaster Hodges, born in Danvers, Mass,, of slave parenta—think oi that tor Massachusetts !|—is now living near Fryeburg, Me., in the 103d year of his age. “Rheumatism Discussed” ts the theme of a Western editor. A neighbor suggests that he drop ‘the firat syllable from the last word and go on with his barangue. Lieutenant Lallier, the Communist, who is now on his way to the convict settlement of New Cale- sonia, used to be ® renowned duciiey Bye M. 2 Paul de Cassagnac was deterred by his reputation from accepting a challenge from him. A Western editor says of a contemporary that “4€ he had written the inscription on the wall in Babylon Belshazsar would have been a good deal more scared than he was.” Another wants know “what poor Daniel would have done?” Herschell V. Johnson, formerly Governor of Georgia, and United States Senator, &c., and who ran for Vice President on the Dougias ticket, is running bis old plantation in Jeferson county, Ga., with some notion of again running for office. Itis announced in England, as his own state- ment, that the iate Emperor Napoicon was born in the Rue Ceruti (Lafitte). As all the obituary sketches of him say that he was born in the Tai- leries the correction has some historical am- portance, The Prince of Wales will probably shortly viatt Ireland and will be installed President of the Order of Chivalry, a new grade recently established or revived in Masonry, aud the event will be cele- brated by a grand Masonic entertaiument and ball in Dublin, Jacob Zeigler, of Pennsylvania, sold thirty shares of what was once the Crédit Mobilier for $275. It had another name then, something that the Dutch members of the Pennsylvania Legislature could understand before they passed the bill iucor- Porating the concern, The Arizona Territorial Legislature has passed & bill divorcing the Governor Trom his wife, The Governess haa already sued for a divorce from her husband, and the case, we believe, is before the courts. The Governor, or the Legislature, or some- body is accused of indecent haste in the business. It 18 not a case of “getting married in haste,” &¢., but rather one of getting unmartiod by the double quick, nes : THE HERALD COMMISSIONER TO CUBA, fechas he eg +e" (From the Steubenville (Ohio) Herald, Fob. 8} ‘The New YORK HERALD’ special correspondent {a Owda, Mr, J. J. O'Kelly, was sent to the island by that enterprising journal to learn the true facts in reference to the rebellion, The Spanish authorities not only refused to grant Mr. O'Kelly protection when he called upon the Captain General and made known his mission, but treated him with con- tempt. He, like a true American, very pluckily told the shoulder-strapped Spantard that-he would pursue his business without his sanction. The great military man said he could go where ho pleased, but if known to visit the camp of the insutgents and captured he would “be shot as a spy.” To this bombast the HERALD replies:—“Our response to General Morales and to the government he repre sents shall be equally concise and distinct:—‘It the HERALD Commissioner receives any injury at your hands without violating the laws of your country you will be held to stricf accountability; and willbe made to suffer the penalty of the out- Tage, not in the island of Cuba alone, but on every inch of soll that owes allegiance tothe Spanish flag.’"” This reply to the uncourteous Spaniard has a smack of Yankee in it that Is good to see once in a while. If a correspondent ts to be “shot asaspy,” when following his legitimate calling, and not violating the law of a country or giving aid and comfort to the enemy, then it is time to teach civilization to the party offending. (From the Richmond Whig, Feb. 10.) The New YoRK HERALD 18 about to take posses. sion of Cuba and thrash Spain. Its “Cuban Commis- sloner’ made application to General Morales for facilities to pass the Spanish lines on his mission to investigate the condition of the Cuban insur- rection, and received the following response:— “You can leave Palma and go where you like, om the understanding that if the Spauish troops find you among the insurgents, or if you afterwards appear within the Spanish lines, you will be treated as @ spy and shot immediately.” The HERALD says:—‘“‘Our response to General Morales and to the government he represents shall be equally concise and distinct :—If the HERALD Commissioner receives any injury at your hands without violat- ing the laws of your country you will be held to a strict accountability, and will be made to suffer the penalty of the outrage, not in the island of Cuba alone, but on every inch of soil that owes allegiance to the Spanish flag.” Good for the HERALD. {From the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, Feb. 8.) Tue New YORE HeRatp is hot for war with Spain. Its special correspondent, J. J. O'Kelly, who is in Cuba for the purpose of ascertaining from both sides the status of the rebellion, applied for facilities to pass the Spanish lines and received the reply from General Morales:—You can go where you like, on the understanding that tf the Spanish troops find you among the insurgents, or if you afterwards appear within the Spanish lines, you will be treated as a spy and shot immedi- ately.” The HsgaLp dares the Spanish forces to harm its correspondent, and threatens vengeance in case of the attempt. {From the Utica (N. Y.) Observer, Feb. 8.) The New York HsRatp breathes brimstone at Spain. The commander of the Spanish forces at the front, in Cuba, has informed O'Kelly, a corre- spondent of the HERALD, that he ts at liberty to go where he likes in search of the rebel army, with the understanding that if the Spantsh trobps after- wards find him among the insurgents, or if he afters Wards appears within the Spanish lines, he will be treated as a spy—that is to say, he will be shot or garroted. The HERALD vouches for the firmness and courage o! Mr. O’Kelly and devotes the greater portion of an editorial page to imploring the Dons to tread on the tall of the Dublin Collegiate’s coat. {From the Rochester Express, Feb, 8.) The HERALD now calls its foreign correspondents “Commissioners.” The next thing they will be wearing livery and will be denominated Ambas sadors or Ministers Extraordinary, Thereis noth- ing like enterprise and heralding it abroad. The tone of the HERALD’s late article concerning the directions of General Morales in Cuba to the cor- respondent of the New York paper ts decidedly belligerent, and before we know it the Hgratp will have initiated a war against Spain on its own account, and Uncle Sam will be appealed to to help his ’cute journalistic nephew out of the scrape. {From our fanny contemporary, the Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 10.) These are dreadful times. Earthquakes, cy- clones, wild cavortings of ‘Old Frigoriac,” calam- itous happenings by land and sea, and now the Henatp asking—‘Dare the Spaniards touch a hair of James J. O’Kelly’s head?” As God is our wit- ness, we don’t know whether they would or not; but, rather than run the risk of involving bis adopted country in a devastating war with Spain, let Mr, O'Kelly waive lig neutral rights and get his head shaved. i {From the Washington Chronicle, Feb. 6.) The New Yore HERALD has a correspondent who ig cavorting around in Cuba seeking information. He has been admonished of his danger by the Spanish authorities, but prefers to take hia chances of being shot asaspy. The HERALD threatens the vengeance of the American press if a bair ot the correspondent’s head ts pulled out, ARMY ORDERS. Wasuinaton, Feb. 10, 1873, Captain John Eagan, of the Fourth artiliery, is detatied as a member of the general court martial appointed to meet on the 18th instant at gh Point, N. ¥., vice Captain J. 8, Conrad, o| Bocond infantry, relieved. Pay Director J. H. Wat- maugh is ordered as general inspector Of provi- sious and clothing on the Ist of March, vice Fay Director H. Bridge, detached and placed on wait tng orders. DEATH OF MBS, ORITTENDEN. 8. Louis, Feb. 10, 1872, Mrs. Crittenden, wife of the late Senator Crit tenden, of Kentucky, died here yesterday at the residence of her son-in-law. A TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION, St. Louts, Mo., Feb. 10, 1873, The boiler in the agricultural works of Yates Brothers, near Havana, lll, exploded Saturday af ternoon, demolishing the building tn which it stood ‘and some others adjoining. One of the was forced Browse a pisae partion ra Rerrtony hea 1 Weiter ls expected to recover, "