The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. fhe Repudiie tm Spain—Govermment by the WIll of the Peopio—Juatice te Cuba. When the history of this latest Spanish revolution comes to be written the impartial historian will proudly admit that among the words of cheer which came from foreign nations _..Wo. 49 | the first, the warmest and the most encouraging came from the great Republic of the Western World. The American people, whose senti- ments have been so well oxpreased by the government and the press, have honestly and earnestly rejoiced at the success. which has attended this fresh republican effort in Spain. It was our duty to rejoice and give expression to thoughts fitted to inspire with courage the young Republic, and Sofior Figuoras did no JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth etreet.—Davip Garmick. OOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avouseoTicast or Leave Man, THEATRE COMIQBE, No. 51¢ Broadway.—Srantanns; on, Tux Lone Stan or Cuma. BOWRRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Paxtous or Witt 188. oe, eo more than justice to the United States aGERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third | whep, in reply to our Minister, he said :— “If the United States is indebted to Spain tor the discoverer of the Amori- can Continent, Spain is indebted to the United States for the founder of the new social order. Spain will remember the worthy example set her by the United States.’ Tho good feeling is mutual, and the good feeling has been well and tastefully put. ted sorry, however, to be compelled to say that we wae eek eotadeh ih lenis begaklinan far as the purpose and intentions of the men now in power are known to us. It was our hope and belief that the Republic would honor itself by promptly doing justice to the long GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Bovcuina Ir, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—AuxE "s road’ corner Thirtieth st— Guisde ie New YoRe in ias Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. 585 Broadway.—Granp Vasterr Ex- ‘TRRTAINMENT. "8 GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Hioumon marcela “Lae AnD LovOs /EATRE, Broadway. between Houston and'Bloocker streets —tloxrrr Dower. TON WARE THEATRE, Union square, between prosdway aad Fourth av.—Ons Hunpasp Yeaas Op. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THBATRE.— Diana; on, Love's Masque. STEINWAY amp Lrsrauenta. Conozrt. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-th! st. corner 6th ay.—Nxcro Minsrazisy, Eccentaicity, 4c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. No. 21 Bowery.— Vanity Entertaivuert. Matince at 2}¢. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 2th st. and Eroadway.—Erniorian MiInstRELsy, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— FCiENCE AND ARt. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1873. — THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. WALL, Fourteenth street.—Gaanp Vocat To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE REPUBLIC IN SPAIN! GOVERNMENT BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE! JUSTICE TO CUBA”—LEADER—Sixtn PaGE. PROGRESS OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIQ! FRENCH RECOGNITION! CARLIST BAT- TLES FOR SUPREMACY—SEVENTH PaGR. A SUCCESS FOR THE FRIENDS OF FREE CUBA! MEN AND WAR MUNITIONS LANDED AND SAFELY CONVEYED TO THE STRUGGLING PATRIOTS |! WAR NEWS FROM BOTH SLIDES—A PRINCELY OFFER FROM A CU- BAN—SEVENTH PGE. DISASTROUS FRESHETS IN THE PENNSYL- VANIA RIVERS! THE ICE GORGES! THE ALABAMA RIVER AT FLOOD HEIGHT! THE VIRGINIA RIVERS RISING RAPIDLY— SEVENTH PaGE. _ AMERICA THE MOST DESIRABLE MAIL ROUTE BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND EU- ROPE—THE VIEN) WORLD'S FAIR— SEVENTH PaGE. EUROPE BY CABLE! BISHOP MERMILLOD | EXPELLED FROM SWITZERLAND! ULAR OVATION TO VICTOR EMMAN : THE SEIZURE OF THE ‘ITALIAN RE- LIGIOUS HOUSES—Serventn Pace. MORMON SAINTS PROTESTING AGAINST A HASTY DOOM! HOW THE HOUSE OF REP- RESENTATIVES PROPOSES TO PURIFY | ITSELF! THE ARMY BILL! SPECIAL WASHINGTON ITEMS—Turrp Pace. THE BATTLE WITH CORRUPTZ0N! POMEROY, | THE “CHRISTIAN STATESMAN” FROM KANSAS, ARRAIGNED! HIS COUNSEL | TRIES TO CUT YORK UP—TurD Pacr. WHAT CALDWELL PAID FOR HIS SENATORIAL “HONORS | THE SENATE COMMITTEE UN- EARTH SO MANY UGLY FACTS THAT THEY WISH HIM EJECTED—FirtH Pace. PATTERSON'S POISONING! MORTON, BLISS & CO., THE BANKERS, HOLD TELL-TALE 0. M. SHARES BELONGING TO THE IMPLI- CATED SENATOR ! GRIMES' TEMPTATION— Firra Pas. ‘LOBBYING AMONG CONGRESSMEN! A BROKER TELLS SOMETHING OF THE CORRUPT PRACTICES RESORTED TO! JUDGE SHER- MAN’S STATEMENT—FirtH Page. WEWS FROM ALBANY—FUNERAL OF THE LATE MARTIN KALBFLEISCH—MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO GLINTINGS—Tarep Page. THE ITALIAN WIFE MURDER IN NEW JERSEY! LUIGI LUSIGNANI MURDERS HIS WIFE THROUGH JEALOUSY, AFTER HER DE- SERTION OF HIM—Firra Pace. ‘BUTCHERED GRAHAM! THE LITTLE NECK HORROR DIVESTED OF SOME OF ITs | MYSTERY! THE BODY INTERRED—Firra Page. JUHN SCANNELL ON TRIAL AT LAST! THE | SHOOTING OF DONOHOE! THE NEW JURY | LAW DECLARED CONSTITUIIUNAL! A | LAWYERS’ GOBBLE! GENEKAL LEGAL | F POP- | | man in France. BUSINESS—Fourru Pace. MONEY ACTIVE AND EASIER! GOLD AD- | VANCED BY THE CLIQUE! THAT $25,000,000 NOT TO BE ADDED TO THE | CURRENCY! STOCK SENSATIONS! GOV- | ERNMENT BOND EXPORTS—EiGurn Pace. | BUSINESS IN THE MUNICIPAL BUREAUS—THE BOWLES BROTHERS’ INDEBTEDNESS— | REAL ESTATE MATTERS—E1GHTH Page. Representamve PoLaNy, “of Green Moun- | tain State integrity, must not hesitate to | brand the Orédit Mobilier criminals with their | deserved infamy. Let the report he presents | be a vindication of the insulted honor of the | country. Every officer of the nation within the reach of the House who has soiled his hands | with the money of which the people have been defrauded through the Crédit Mobilier must be punished. Colfax, as Vice President, is accountable to the House, and to the House only, as much as Ames, Tue Tractan Question oF THE SUPPRESSION | oF Rewicious Corporations and the aliena- tion of the property of the institutions to pur- Poses of State is likely to prove very embar- rassing to King Victor Emmanuel and his government. The action of the Parliamentary committee which has had charge of the sub- ject ia reported to us by cable from Rome. The general legislative debate will be com- menced at an early day. struggling and patiently enduring Cubans. In this, it seems, we are doomed to bitter and painful disappointment. “Respect for right,’’ the new Minister of Finance tells us, isto be “the motto of the Republig.”” Yot Sefior Castelar, the gushing orator, the high priest of Spanish republicanism, and now Minister of Foreign affairs, in acknowledging the receipt of the congratulations of tho South Americans in Paris, says: —‘‘They must withdraw their support from the Ouban separatists, now that the Antilles aro under @ republican form of government.’ The article in the New York Henatp calling on the new Republic to do justice to Cuba has been telegraphed to Madrid and has created there a considerable sensation. Sefior Castelar causes the announcement to be made in reply | that, “notwithstanding the very important matters pressing upon the government, their attention has already been given to the sub- ject of maintaining the authority of Spain in Cuba." In other words, the bloodless revo- lution that has given liberty to Spain is to bring no change in the bloody struggle now being waged in Cuba, This will never do. It is not what we expected. It is not what a Re- public means. If liberty is good for Spain and the Spaniards liberty ought not to be bad for Cuba and the Cubans. Such a policy as that which Castelar announces is an insult to the name of liberty. How differently did France act in the first moments of her glorious en- thusiasm in the days of the first revolution? By one bold stroke the shackles were struck from the slave, and ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity," which became the motto of the Republic, secured for the slave in St Domingo all that it gave ie " ‘eZ had pts the Spanish republicans had learned something from the lessons of the past. No nation of Europe has made so many attempts in the direction of liberty; no nation has so uni- formly and so ignominiously failed. Looking at Spain from our republican standpoint it has not been unnatural for us to conclude that her revolutionary failures have been due to the influence of monarchical reactionista. This delusion, it seems, must at last be abandoned. Unless some sudden change takes place we shall have no choice but say that the misfor- tunes of Spain are due not to the corrupt notions of any one political party, but to cer- tain radical defects in the Spanish character. Must we come at last to the conclusion that the vitality of the Spanish race is exhausted ? To such conclusion we shall come most un- willingly. But it does seem as if we should be compelled to say, ‘Spain is wedded to her idols; let her alone.’ It was long the scandal of Great Britain that, while liberty was loved and secured at home, liberty was persistently refused to all her colonies. It was this radical vice in the British government, this despotism in her colonies, which led to our War of Independence, that resulted in the estab- lishment of the United States of America. It has been because of the same vice that Spain has lost one by one her numerous American dependencies. Great Britain has grown wise; and a better and nobler policy permits her colonies to prosper and to enjoy the sweets of liberty, while they are not unwilling to maintain their allegiance to the parent government. This freshly announced policy of the Spanish authorities shows that Spain, after all her bitter experiences, has learned nothing in the matter of colonial gov- ernment. This determination to adhere to an ancient and barbarous policy is all the more wonderful that the present government of Spain is based on the principle that every man | has a right to say how and by whom he shall be governed, Sovyapent of the people, b: the“people “and for the Teanle miele Tete principle of the present government in Spain; and yet this so-called republican government has the impudence to tell the Cubans, who for four years have been fighting for their lib- erty and their independence, that they have no rights which Spaniards are bound to re- | Spect unless they continue to submit to that ignominious chain which binds them, vassal- like, to the mother country. This, we say, will never do. It is an insult to Cuba. It is an insult to the United States. It is more It is an insult to the name and spirit of liberty. It is time now to say that it is impossible for Spain to carry out this policy. The proclama- tion of the Republic has burst asunder the bands which bound Cuba to the mother country. The Cubans owed allegiance to the Crown of Spain, not to the Spanish people. The chain of vassalage has been broken, and it will be the fanlt of the Cubans themselves if that chain ever again fetters their liberties, The Ses Tr “Seren Lives."—The Chicago Tribu says the Cincinnati (liberal republiciz) hove ment appears not to be so dead as it wag sup. posed to be, and it may receive a considerable icapetus from any lethargy or laches on the part of Congress in treating with the Crédit Mobilier scandal. The Tribune thinks it will | “not do to expel the man who paid the money and exonerate those who received it.” One way or the other the people will finally settle scoounts with their derelict representatives, whether Congress does or not, Cubans have now a full and fair right to do what the Spaniards have done in the mother country—to proclaim themselves free and independent. What republican Spain ought to do is plain. The Cubans ought to be officially informed of the change which has taken place in the home government, There could be no objection to the expression of a desire on the part of the men now in power that the Cubans of all classes might see their way to remain Spanish subjects, and so con- tinue in federal relation to the mother coun- try. All this, however, should be coupled with tho request that an armistice bo pro- | claimed on the island, and that through a plédiscite a decision be arrived at es bo whether the Oubans desire to remain in con- nection with Spain or profer to be free and in- dependent. If this is not volunteered to Oubs by the Spanish authorities then Ouba must demand it, refusing to be satisfied with any con- cession short of such demand. It is her right, and she will foil in her duty toward herself if sho does not insist upon it. Should Spain not rise to the high requirements of the situ- ation, should Ouba make her domand in vain, it will be the duty of tho government of the United States to step in and say, “No more Spanish brutality in Ouba. We havo had enough of it.” Wo do not understand the character of President Grant if, in euch a crigia, he would not prove himself equal to the demands and expectations of the American people. As the friend of Cuba the Henarp asks all ranks and olasses to unite and take full advantage of the opportunity which is offered them. Let them forget their differ- ences and unite for the common good. Only by ao doing will they command the respect of the nations. Continued division and strife will weaken their cause and make the timely interference of friends impossible. Let them take advantage of the presoncs in the Inidst of them of the Hunaxp Gonitnisalotier, who is the friend of both parties—of the insurgents and of the men in power. Let them, through him, attempt to bring about an armistice ; and 80 let the entire population go heartily to work to take full advantage of an opportunity which, so far as tho highest interests of Cuba pre concerned, may never be repeated, pager wen ee Ber Shey “Stal tires The Rising Rivers. The telegraph confirms tho intelligence that the Ohio River has rapidly risen and that the snows of the Alleghanies have been rapidly dissolving. A very rapid rise in the Ohio and its tributaries was reported yesterday morn- ing by the weather bulletins, and the river at Cincinnati in the afternoon was stated to have reached the depth of thirty-seven feet. Tho destructive freshet in the Monongahela shows that all the rivers formed by the drainage of the Alleghanies are likely to be flooded, es- pecially since the rain and double storm of Sunday, which, combined with the warm sun of yesterday, have begun to take effect. The Monongahela was rising rapidly at least up ‘to noon yesterday, and the Susquehanna at Port Deposit showed an increasing volume. Three or four days of mild and pleasant weather, followed by the present temperature, will suffice to dissolve and precipitate much of the Winter snow, and if the descending waters do not remove the ice gorges in the Eastern rivers the evil consequences resulting when they finally give way will perhaps be less fatal. The Weather Bureau reports, care- fully read, will give all the cautionary tidings necessary to the inhabitants of the districts threatened by inundation. They will do well to keep a sharp eye upon these monitions, Harwan, THE Expretna Senaror oF Conven- rent Meyory, in his capacity as editor of the Washington Chronicle, takes up a » stuffed, club in defente of hig brother Congressmen of the Crédit Mvblie hee To is intervals of attempting to account for that ten thousand dollars he received from Durant he finds time to say:—“It is about time for the Hzratp to discover that the people are heartily sick of this cry about the corruption of those mem- bers who were inveigled into the purchase of a little Crédit Mobilier stock.’’ It is true that people are heartily sick of this cry about the corruption of Congressmen who take bribes, but it is because the bribe-takers, the short- memoried, the prevaricators and the perjurers are allowed to hold up their heads in the soci- ety of honest men. ‘Inveigled” is good, and “@ little Crédit Mobilier stock’’ is better. Harlan and the rest try to sustain themselves in the hope that they can live down their shame. It is likely to be hope deferred. Tue Missovnt Senator, Briery Inves- tTraation is developing some odd ways of doing business. The democrats on the legislative committee, who aro in the majority, white- washed Bogy, the Sonator elect, but failed to examine a Mr. Dorris, who was also a candi- date. Mr. Dorris is evidently o man of small sensitiveness, for he sent on an affidavit alleg- ing that he attempted to bribe two members. The democrats in the Legislature who voted the reading of the document were in a quan- dary. The St. Louis Democrat says of them: — “But there was Dorris’ ugly affidavit before them. It was now a public document and a part of the legislative record. What were they to do with it? Ignorantly supposing it to be a whitewashing document, the boobies had in the first instance sustained the chair in ruling that it was a proper paper to be read in the House, and now that it had been read, they were more anxious to get rid of it than they had been to have it read.’’ They, how- ever, had it taken off the record by a dodge. To what base use can a Legislature come at | last? Tue Prorosep New Stagg or East Ten- NESSEE —The Asheville OS tae ing stated that quitea formidable movement has been for ame tins on foot among the people of East Tennessee to form a new State | (embracing likewise the border counties in North Carolina), the Nashville Banner says its North Carolina contemporary is 4 little mistaken about the size of the movement in East Tennessee, agg that the question has been at a comparative standstill for some time. The Banner objects to letting East Tennessee loge its share of that “blessing in disguise,"’ the State debt; hence, on the new State question, it cries, “No, no, we can’t spare East Tennessee now or ever; we had father take in the whole of North Carolina than surrender a square inch of ‘Little Swit- zerland.'’ "’ So far as the State is concerned, no doubt the people of East Tennessee are willing to surrender their portion of that little inconvenience for a consideration. But now that the’ question of a new State out of Ten- nessee is again mooted, let us see what strength or bottom there really is to the moves ment, Representative Bangs should allow no sophistry to induce him to join in a white- washing report on the Crédit Mobilier scandal. The implicated should all be made to pay the cost of betraying public trust. General Banks will close his Congressional career for the present ina few days, Let an act of sweeping jastico on the Orédit Mobilier officials, from Ames to Colfax,. signalize his withdrawal, A Busy Day in Congress, Tho members of the two houses areevidently resolved to save themselves the extra expenses of an extra seasion of Congress. As the law now stands the new Congress which may be called together on the 4th of March will not be convened till tho first Monday in December next. For the long intervening recess the regular appropriation bills, at least, must be passed, and these, with some other bills necessary to carry on the execution of the laws, will, it is now supposed, all be worked through before ‘the glorious fourth’ of March. In the Sonate yesterday Mr. Morton sub- mitted the majority report of his Committee on the Kansas Senatorial Election case of Caldwell, closing with the resolution that Sen- ator Caldwell, in his recent election, ‘was not duly and legally elected,” which is mild form of expulsion on account of the briberios and corruptions in said election, of which he appears to be proved guilty. We infer that there is no hope for Caldwell; and from the appearances of the investigation in the case of his colleague there is no escape for Pomeroy. The judgment against Caldwell is softened by the Committee on Eleotions with the remark that Re wag a novice in the business of elect- ing Senators, and was as much sinned against as sinning; but Pomeroy is an old sinner, for whom even this poor excuse cannot be ad- mitted. In the House a motion to suspend the rules and put upon its passage a bill authorizing an additional issue of twenty-five millions of national bank notes, to be distribafed among the States which havé not thoir just propor- tion, was defeated—yeas 121, nays 73—not two-thirds in tho affirmative. From the large majority, however, in favor of the proposition, it is probable that the increase will yet be passed in some shape before the close of this Congress. A bill was passed by a large majority reim- bursing to the extent of sixty-five thousand dollars the College of William and Mary, in Virginia, for the destruction of its property by the United States forces during the war—a fair caso of indemnity and for a good object. For the various othor matters before the two houses yesterday see our Congressional reports. Meantime the Crédit Mobilier and Senatorial corruption investigating committees are pegging away at their heavy and disa- greeable work. The French Assembly and the Span- ish Republic. The manifesto of Sejior Castelar, the new Minister of Foreign Affairs in Spain, has reached Paris and been put in the hands of President Thiers. It is not expected that there will be any delay on the part of the French government in recognizing the new order of things in Spain. President Thiers will, in the first instance, at least, acting, of course, in conjunction with and with the con- sent of his Ministers, recognize the new gov- ernment. There is no good reason known to us why he should act otherwise, and we may rest assured that he will not go out of pis way for the mere purpose of making himself offensive to the infant Republic, Trouble may come afterwards with the Assembly, which is not as 3 yet yery strongly republican ; but that is a Question’ for the future. The divided sentiments of the Assembly are in- dicated by the fact that the members of the Moderate Left have declined to sign the address of congratulation to Spain, which has been drawn up by the Extreme Left. It is not at all unnatural that the monarchists in Spain should feel that the promising success of the Republic in Spain is a bad blow to the cause which they have so much at heart. Representative McCrary is chairman of the House Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions, where he has obtained a character for fairness in his reports. Rumor plays with his name as anxious to whitewash the Crédit Mo- bilier Congressmen. He cannot afford to spare Colfax any more than Ames, Tux Bu Rerorrep by the Military Com- mittee of the House, amending the Army Ap- propriation act for 1870, provides that vacancies in the staff departments of the army shall hereafter be filled by details for four years from the officers of the line after competitive examination. At the expiration of four years’ staff service the officer may be transferred to other staff duties, at the end of which he shall return to regular service in his regiment. This offers the desirable positions in the staff corps as prizes to be aspired to by meritorious and capable officers of the line, and promises to fill the staff corps with men who will honor the service and the country. A retrench- ment is also proposed in providing that after the expiration of the term of present in- cumbents the heads of certain departments shall not rank higher than colonels. Pro- vision is made for increasing the efficiency of the several arms of the service—artillery, cav- alry and infantry—by the detail of a chief charged with the supervision of their condi- tion, These measures commend themselves to the approbation of all as promising in- ey 2: the anay, and affording | fo'mérit, tn whatever rank or arm, an oppor- tunity to win proper recognition and reward. Swrrzzrtanp at War wita Tae Vattcan.— The Swiss authorities of State, particularly the Genevese Cantonal lay powers, have com- menced their war with the See of Rome in a very decisive manner. Monsignor Mermillod, Roman Catholic Bishop of Geneva, has been exiled from his diocese and forcibly ejected from the soil of the Republic by being for- warded to the French frontier under escort. The Genevese magistracy asserts that the Bishop's claim and exercise of episcopal functions is an usurpation by the Church of rights.which belong only to the State. The causes which more directly tended to induce the crisis—one which may have very important regults—are given in the Hrrazp, Exectina THE Prestpent sy THE Peorrs.— The Detroit Free Press hopes that the late Presidential election will be the last in which the counting of the electoral vote of a State will depend upon the current action of both houses of Congress. It is perhaps too late in the session to expect any legislation on this subject by the present Congress, although Senator Morton's bill, making the President elective by a direct vote, is now before it; but it is the almost universal desire of the people, as expressed through the press, that some action shall be immediately taken in the premises. pthus far, with greater impunity.’’ NEW) YORK | HERALD, ‘TUESDAY, FEBRUARY (18, 1873.—TKIPLE: SHEET. Tho President's Proposed Tour Through the Southern States. We are glad to learn from Washington that, direotly after his inauguration for his second | Presidential term, General Grant will set out onan extensive tour of observation through the reconstructed Southern States. It is ovi- dent from this that he does not anticipate any act from the present Congress providing for an immediate meeting of the now Congress, and that he does not contemplate the call of an extra session. Assuming that the annual sppropriations necessary to carry on the gov- ernment will all be passed before the 4th of March, and that for months to come no great and weighty matters are likely to rise to the surface requiring the presence of Congress, General Grant has considered the opportunity which will thus be offered ® good one for the contemplated expedition, and has wisely re- solved to avail himself of it, in order that he may see and hear for himself in this journey mong the Southern people what aro their wants and grievances, and what line of policy within his Executive disoretion will be best adapted to secure a complete restoration to the Union and reconciliation with the general government of the reconstructed States. This tour, in this important view, comes from a happy inspiration. The visit of the President among the disaffected Southern poli- tical elements, if any yet remain, will be to them the approach of a flag of truce inviting 8 parley, and by all parties it will be accepted as 6 flattering oi his desire to re- tual confidence between their people and the national administration, not by coercion, but by conciliation. Considering, too, the Southern results of the late Presidential election, in which soven of the eleven States of tho late rebellious Confederacy are recorded for Grant and Wilson—namely, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas—while (throwing out Louisiana) only three—Georgia, Texas and Tennessee—voted the opposition ticket, we may safely assume that General Grant will meet with a cordial welcome at every point in his progress from Virginia to New Orleans, and thence up the river to Memphis, and thence to Nashville, and the same to the end of his journey. The season—the opening of the Spring in the cotton States and the Spring work on the Southern plantations—will also be favorable for this tour of observation. In every view we are confident that, in the spirit of fraternity and good will, it will do more towards the reconciliation of the South to the loss of their ‘lost cause’ than all the bills of coercion that have been passed since the sur- render at Appomattox Court House. The Filthy Streets. The unweleome visit of the ‘beautiful’ snow on Sunday, after we all thought that our unfortunate streets had doffed their robe of white for the rest of the Winter, brings up again the vexed question of the Bureau of Street Cleaning. No one who was obliged yesterday to navigate a foot through those temporary canalg brnching off from the main reservoir, Broadway, can have but the gne opinion of the shameful misman: cement of this Rhy Beto atlossl ie. main intact, or melt just as it fell, without any interference, worth speaking of, on the part of those Mulberry street Solons who pro- fess to know so much about street cleaning. A few forlorn-looking men are set to work in the most prominent parts of Broadway, and they seem to entertain the same idea of labor as did Rip Van Winkle or Mr. Skimpole. There is no earnestness, no management, no concerted action, and the present Bureau of Street Cleaning may be set down as incom- petent and as indifferent to the requirements of duty asany of its predecessors. Pedestrian- ism yesterday was by no means a pleasure or a labor of love. Slush of the vilest de- scription made the crossings as disagreeable as possible, if mot in some cases impossible. With the genial thaw as an assistant any well-organized bureau might have relieved the hard-taxed citizens of no inconsiderable por- tion of their sufferings yesterday. Can any- thing be expected from our Reform Legisla- ture on which to ground a hope for clean streets in the future? Representative Nipiack should not be able to face his democratic constituents in Indiana if he signs a whitewashing report in the Crédit Mobilier scandal. Colfax is Vice President of the United States, and onsible directly to the House of Representatives. Shall his hailing from Indiana prevent Niblack demanding his | impeachment? Pamaperpaan Anti-Fravp ExciteMEnt.— The Philadelphia Press waxes enthusiastic over a new election and registry bill proposed in the State Legislature by Senator McClure, and reported affirmatively by a committee of three republicans and two democrats. The Quaker City is to be purified thereby and everything made beautiful in the ballot box line. If it can accomplish this i Will deserve all the Stcomrums of the Press, We thought the case was hopeless. REPRESENTATIVE Menrntck has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Co lumbia. He cannot afford to stultify himself by sparing a single one of those implicated in the Crédit Mobilier briberies. ly ae ne Tax Patcapairmta Age expresses its honest conviction that the Philadelphia ‘‘Ring”’ is as corrupt and knavish as any that ever existed anywhere; “the amount of the thefts and pec- ulations is not as large as in New York, but they are perpetrated with like audacity and, When the “City of Brotherly Love’ thus confesses its wickedness what may be expected of cities that do not make such lofty pretensions to sanctimoniousness? The “Puritan City” May come next. Tax Atpany Journal believes that the ‘“‘other | relic’ of barbarism, polygamy, will be extin- guished under General Grant's second admin- istration. He is going the right way to work to secure that end, certainly. Corrupr Ramzoap Rives.—The San Fran- cisco Morning Call avers that there is scarcely oman to be found in the whole country who does not realize that members of Congress have been purchased to do the bidding of rail- road monopolists, Pacific Railroad jobs and all the rest. It wants this corruption ring deprived of their power for evil, That is what investi- gation committees have been appointed for in Washington—with what success we shall prob- ably ascertain in a few days. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge O, B. Beagwick, of Syracuse, is at the Fite Avenue Hotel. Colonel J. D. Entwistle, of Washington, is at the St. Denis Hotel. i Thomas Carlyle has mamed Mr. Froude his Uterary executor. General George B. Cookhill, of Iowa, ts stopping at the Metropolitan Hotei. Governor ©. A. Hadley, of Arkansas, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Henry G. Parker, of the Boston Advertiser, te staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel A. Moore, of the United States Army, te in quarters at the Sturtevant House. Herr K. Schiozer, the German Minister at Wash- ington, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. General Sheridan, who arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on Sunday, left for Chicago Inst evening. There are no Washington lo\byists invaliding ia Florida this Winter. Cause—there is not a dollar in the State treasury. George W. Milter, of Albany, formerly. Superin- tendent of the State Insurance Department,-is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Sir Alexander Cockburn has received the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (tab”. Tho Washing-tun Troaty had somothing to do with it. The St. Louis Democrat propounds the folowing ponderous conundram :—s there an honest man in political life in the State of Kansas.” Give it up! Queen Victoria has granted a pension of $260 a year to the widow of the gallant Captain Knowles, of the Northfeet, who lost his own life in exertions to gave others, ers Ket aaah Te Weila pier. allegea that under Governor’ Brown's administration certain democrats actually stole four stone wal:s, valued at $10,000. This ta the heaviest job of the season, The trial of Senator-elect Patterson, of Soutu Carolina, has been postponed one year. Thatis just the time they allow condemned criminals in New Hampshire before they are executed. This is the way they keep up the balance of power in Kentucky :—To the wife of James Bradley, of Fayette county, a son—Jeff. Davis. To the wife of Robert Ritchey, of Fayette county, a son—U. 8. Grant.” Patrick Joyce, an old orange hawker in Liver- Pool, was knocked by a passing cart into the open manhole of a sewer, fell thirty feet and was swept away by the current so quickly that his body was not found. Mr. Charles de Boleslowski, for two years at- tached to the Austro-Hungarian Consulate in this city, and for a time connected with the Austrian Legation in Washington, has been appointed to the charge of a diplomatic agency in Tunis, Africa. The St. Louis Democrat intimates that Senator Bogy is to be put into the fleld as a competitor of Governor Hendricks for the Presidential nomina- tion in 1876—hence, it thinks, he ought to start fairand demand another investigation at Jeffer- son, or submit the case de novo to Senator Mor- ton's committee at Washington. Aman lately fell into a canal in Brussels. After being fished out insensible, ordinary remedies were tried in vain for three hours, after which Dr. Joux applied iron plates at white heat to the upper parts of the body near the vital centre, which soon set the drowned man squirming. He haa recovered from the drowning, but complains of the burns. a An Iowa paper thinks the Mormon problem will be solved by Congress passing a bill not distur). ing the present domestic relations, but, Rhsolutely and ungualifiedly prohibiting the contraction, under Whatever guise, of any further polygamous marriages, | What. Wil) become of the Mormon Angels how on the wing irom Europe to the “happy land?” a x 2 rer ‘1 Kansas paper givos the following explanation of a certain member’s vote at the late Senatorial | election jn Topeka :—“Tom, how did you vote when Pom. was busted! “How did T'yote? I don't know. I can’t remember. I think I was inmy seat. Idon’tknow. It might have been on the fleor. A fellow got up and said J’ingalls, and then another said J’ingalls, and they kept on saying J'ingalls, and then they called my name and I said J’ingalls, too." “ART MATTERS, Brooklyn Art Association. Upon the evening of March 17 (three weeks from next Monday) the second reception of the thir- teenth season of the Brooklyn Art Association will be given, in the new Art Building of that city, and in the adjoining Academy of Music. The Exhibi- tion Committee is composed of Messrs. R. W. Hub- bard, M. F. H. de Haas, J. M. Falconer and J. A. Parker, Jr. F. 8S. Gutierrez. Sefior Felipe S. Gutierrez has opened, in rooms 21 and 22, at 23 Union square, quite an interesting little coliection of studies and pictures. Among them are included portraits, historical, mytho- logical, biblical and national themes, landscapes, marine views and frescoes. Most of these are in oul. The studio 1s open free every Saturday from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon, and Sefior S,- Pre: who is associated with Sefor Gutierrez and wiio “pean English with facility, will be found an intelligent and courteous exposi- tor and medium of communication with the prin- cin artist, who has not yet mastered our tongue. Almost all the works on View are original. A tew are’ copies, in gee the latter is a copy of Muril- lo’s “Virgin and Child." There are about fifty paintings in all, a large proportion of which were executed in Madrid and Rome. Somervilie Art Gallery. Last evening was the first of the sale at the Somerville Art Gallery of the collection of pictures brought hither from Boston by Williams and Eve- rett, The second and last evening will be to-night. The attendance was large, and the interest prom- ises to be repeated thisevening. We append the prices realized:—Sad Thoughts, $20; Coast of Nor- | mandy, $75; Lanascape and Sheep, $8); The Hague, | $15; Antwerp River View, $90; New England Scenery, $105; After a Quarrel, $125; Fruit, $190; | Of St. Helena (Marine), $120; Taking Toll, $110; | Fording the Stream, $110; Maternal Solicitude, | The. Trial of Skill, $455; Study, $16; Spring, | ars. Feeding the eese, $110; The ipyorite of the ; Chateau, ¢ ; Compinion, The Toilet, $1,160; The Favorite Horse, $375; Banks of the Ooise, $250; Anxious Watchers, $280; Good Friends, $350; In the Stable, $400: Interior, $1,000: Landscape and Sheep, $1,375; Feeding thé Rabbits, $z40; Coast of California ¢00) Landstape ahd Deer, $125; The Let- ‘ayside Devotion, $505; Landscape—sun- H e, $55; Meditation, sally MUTH, $2,650; St. t, $1,400; The Morni Tollet, $300; Troublesome Pets, $130; The Fad 0 the Chase, $115; The Secured Treasure, $270; ty Household Guard,” $1,225; The Vintage, $2,500; Vases of Roses, $70; e Konigesee, Bavaria, $310; Chickens, $90; Oregon, on the Wil- Hamers River. $560; Cus at Newport, R. L., $125; @ Desert Table, $: tudy irom ‘Lite, $95; A Cavalier, $100; The C on a Wintry Day, $200; Narr: sett Beach, $260; #udy from Nature, $65; The Antiquary, 20; The Adiou, $170; Shooting the Dove, $330 The Favorite ie Surprise, $345; Scene During $150; The Garden Stroll, $145; $95; In the Forest, $300; On i | the Seine, #190; Sunset ‘on the Ooise, $125; Scene in Bavaria, $215 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The, United States steamer Worcester, Magship of the North Atlantic squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph F, Green, arrived tn Havana, Cuba, on the 1lih instant, having sailed from Ma- tanzaa the same morning. First Assistant Engineer James H. Chasman has been ordered to special duty in New York, and First Assistant Engineer J. J. Barry fias been de- tached from the New York Navy Yata and ordered to the Juniata, BOGY WANTS ANOTHER INVESTIGATION, St. Lours, Feb. 17, 1873, A letter in the form of a petition from Senator. elect Bogy was read in the House to-day, asking that the Senatorial bribery investigation be re. opened, and an opportunity given to every one who may know anything in connection with the charges of bribery to make his statement. Mr. rH that ail persons who acted as nis friends au he contest will promptiy obey the sum- mons of the committee, and that be wiil waive all questions of right on the part of the committee to examine his bank account or the omcers of any bank with which he has transacted business, ‘The petition weat over under tue rnie. Luttich, $30.