The New York Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1873, Page 7

NEW YUKK HERALD, WKDN KSDA Y, FEBRUARY 1%, 1873.-TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD] "tice Sport rou3emgr BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXVIII. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth strcet.—Davip GannicK. POOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth a OTM Tout OF L¥AVE Max, Matinee at EATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway. —Srantannsj ome Los Stax or Cuna. Matinee at2i;. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Paxto%uae or Witt o tux Wise. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third Av. —FERNANDE. GRAND OVERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rovoninc Ir, NEW FIFTH AVENUE TH ay.—ALIAE, EATRE, 726 and 730 Broad- at. — WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirt ning. Gianor at New Yorx ty 164% Afternoon and ATAENEUM, No. £85 Broadway.—GRranp Vaninry Ex- ‘TERTAINMENT. Matinee at 236. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, betweon Prince and Houston streets—Lxo anv Loros. “OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humrry Dunrty. Matinee at 2, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Oxe Honpesp Years Oxp. MRE, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN’ THEATRE,— ALIxE. STRINWAY HALL, RxAvings. f BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third. st., corner Cth av.—Nroeno Mixstaxisy, Eccentuicity, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Vantery ENTERTAINMENT. Fourteenth street.—Bruurw's FAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 2th st. and Broadway.—Emmiorin Minstreisy, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. fCENCE AND ART. i TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. «THE CREDIT MOBILIER INFAMY! A WHITE- WASHING REPORT FROM JUDGE POLAND'S COMMITTEE"—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIATH PaGE. : . JUDGE POLAND'S WHITEWASH BRIGADE! A TAR BRUSH USED UPON AMES AND BROOKS! THE MOBILIER RESUME! EVILS OF GIGANTIC CORPORATIONS! BROOKS! DEFENCE! TUESDAY NEXT THE FIELD DAY—Tarrp aNd Fount PagEs. OAKES AMES AS A STORY-TELLER! CALD- WELL TO BE WASHED WHITE BY HIS FELLUWS |. 8PECIAL WASHINGTON ITEMS— Sevenrn Page. EXCITEMENT IN THE S2ATE LEGISLATURE! No ERIK INQUIRY DESIRED! THR CHAR- TER > CHANGESs THOUGHT OF BY GOVER- NOR DIX! A DOUBLE TRACK FOR THE CENTRAL—Tarep Paag. POMEROY BRIBE YORK? THE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMMITTEE TO THAT » EFFECT! THE WAY IT WAS DONE! SENA- TOR CONKLING SNAPPING AT THE GREAT EXPOSER—TENTH Paar. MAYOR HAVEMEYER OBJECTS TO THE CHAR- TER! HE COMMUNICATES HIS VIEWS TO TUE SEVENTY! REPUBLICAN ACQMON DIs- CUSSED—Tuep Page. REDSKIN BUTCHERIES! THE KICKAPO0S AND COCHISES ON THE WARPATH IN ARIZONA AND TEXAS! MURDERING MALES AND OUTRAGING FEMALES! NEITHER YOUTH NOR AGE SPARED—Ssventu Page. INCESTUOUS ESSEX! THE NEWPORT BEAST ARRAIGNED | HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTERS. WILL NOT TESTIFY AGAINST HIM! AN EXCITED CROWD CLAMOR FOR SPEEDY PUNISHMENT—SBVENTH PAGB. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN KHIVA—FUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS—SEvENTH PAGE. . SPAIN'S REPUBLICAN EfFORT!* AMNESTY TO CARLISTS! THE RELATIQNS WITH FRANCE AND AMERICA—SgveEntH Pag. AMUSEMENT FEATURES—PERSONAL NEWS— Sixra Pace, NO STATE GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA! RE- PORT OF THE COMMITTEE! A NEW ELEC- TION—SEVENTH Pagar A RAILROAD KING DEPOSED! EXCITING SCENES IN THE JERSEY LEGISLATURE “DOWN WITH MONOPOLIES!” THE LU- SIGNANI WIFE MURDER—Fourtu Pace. QUICK TRANSIT FOR THE PEOPLE! TIE MASS MEETING FOR ITS PROMOTION! FROM THK BATTERY TO HARLEM POR THREE CENTS! STIRRING ADDRESSES BY PROMI- NENT GENTLEMEN! A LEGISLATIVE DELE- GATION—TENTH® AGE, DIREFUL RESULTS OF DISREGARDING A DAN- GER SIGNAL! A COLLISION BETWEEN A SPECIAL AND AN EXTRA TRAIN ON THE HUDSON RIVER ROAD! AN “IRON HORSE” WITH “THE BIT IN HIS TEETH!) HEART- RENDING SCENES—Furrp Pace. DID TRYING TO SAVE THE “TWIN RE ” SE- CRET WORK OF THE MORMON ALOTS! FIERCE DENUNCIATIONS BY THE SALT * THE BAR AND THE VENTH PAGE, A SECOND PISTOL AND MONOMANIA TO SCANNELL'S DE ! SUITS AGA TWEED AND 1 RSOLL! THE J AND OTHER LIT ONS—Firtu Pace. BE BUSINESS IN THE FINANCIAL BOARDS! THE FEATURES OF THE MONE STOCK AND GOLD MARKEIS! UNRAVELLING ERIE MYSTERIES—E A CRISIS IMMINENT MOVED TO TI Fir Pace. REAL ESTATE MATTERS—GOULD'S RESTITUTION—THE LITTLE NECK ROR—EionTs Page. TH PAGR. CUBA—SIMMONS RE- TOMBS—ART MATTERS— RUMORED HOR- ‘Tut Mempers or tae Extreue Lerr in the French National Assembly refuse to con- fratulate the Spanish republicans on their successes. How is this? e We Cannor Unpenstanp why Oakes Amos should be considered by Poland's committee as more guilty than Judge Kelley. Kelley “bought stock in the Crédit Mobilier, and pretended to repay the dividends he received by giving Ames a check, though the latter refused to take it by tearing it into, two pieces and” handing it back to him. The country will hold the one as guilty as the other. A Romor rrom tnx East.—Maine papers give currency to a rumor that Governor Per- ham is to resign the Governorship of that Stato at on carly day to accept a federal ap- pointment in Washington—that of Commis- sioner of Pensions. In the event of Governor Perham retiring from the gubernatorial chair he will be succeeded by John B. Poster, of Bangor, now President of the Senate; and the Bangor are already 80 rejoiced at the Prospects of having a Governor, from their saga that they ‘are simost beside YG land’s Committee, The report of Judge Poland's Crédit Mobi- lier Investigating Committee was presented to the House of Representatives yesterday, and its full text will be found in to-day’s Herap. It is a singular document, and one which will be read with equal surprise and disappeint- ment by the honest portion of the community. ‘To sum up its results in a few words, it con- viots Congressmen Brooks and Ames of cor- rupt practices and recommends their expul- sion from the House ; makes a special plea that would do credit to a sharp criminal lawyer in behalf of Dawes, Scofield, Bingham, Kelley and Garfield, all of whom it whitewashes to the ex- tent of its ability; justly exonerates Speaker Blaine, and suppresses the evidence against Vice President Colfax. It may be that the conclusions the committee have reached have been arrived at honestly and that they have been able to find distinctions between the briber and the bribed which the people will fail to discover. But their actipn will be regarded with suspicion, and it will be diffi- cult to remove from the public mind the im- pression that they have acted in the interests of the majority in Congress, and that, while offering up Messrs. Brooks and Ames as a.sac- rifice to outraged public sentiment, they have sought to shield others who are equally de- serving of condemnation. The case against the two convicted Con- gressmen is clearly and convincingly stated, and there will be no disagreement with the report so far as its judgment in this respect is concerned. Oakes Ames has been the Mephis- |.topheles of Congress, and there is evidence leading to the belief that Crédit Mobilier stock is not the only bribe with which he has tempted the representatives of the people from the path of duty. The man who “wanted more friends in Congress,’’ and who placed his shares where they would do most good, could not have been held guiltless by the most unscrupulous committee that ever undertook a legislative investigation. It is time that he should go, and the country will be well rid of him. The case of James Brooks is without palliation. He sold him- self to the Crédit Mobilier Company when he was doubly bound to expose its fraudulent character and to protect the government, and the subterfuges by which he endeavored to evade the consequences of his illegal act only serve to render it the more reprehensible. His expulsion is called for by every considera- tion of justice. But the keenness with which the committee detect the fraud. and weakness of the defence set up by Messrs. Brooks and Ames, and the firmness with which they insist upon the punishment of those members, only render more conspicuous their singular failure to discover any impropriety in the conduct of the other purchasers of the Crédit Mobilier stock and the earnestness with which they plead in behalf of the meaner cflprits. Let us see what sort of a case the report makes out for the whitewashed Congressmen. The evidence shows that Oakes Ames com- menced dealing out the Crédit Mobilier shares to his fellow Congressmen in December, 1867. At this time the stock was worth more than double its par value, and in January and Febru- ary following it’had reached, according to the report, three and four times its par value. When a Congressman had money Ames sold him this valuable stock at par. When a Con- gressman was penniless Ames ‘‘carried’’ the stock for him and paid himself afterwards out of the dividends as they became due. On the 9th day of December, 1867, Washburne's hostile legislation began by the intro- duction of the bill to regulate by law the rates of transportation over the Pacific railroads. The Congressmen who re- ceived the shares of Crédit Mobilier from Oakes Ames all voted against this and similar measures. Dawes, of Massachusetts, received hig shares in’ December, and on January 3 drew from Ames his first dividend in Union Pacific bonds and stock. This dividend is ‘stated in the report to have been eighty per cent, but the official record, published. in the Heraxup of December 21, 1872, shows it to have beeh one huadred and twenty per cent— sixty in first mortgage bonds and sixty in stock. Scofield, of Pennsylvania, procured his ten shares in January, 1868, and received at the time of purchase his January dividend, stated in the report at eighty per cent, but really one hundred and twenty per cent. In June following he received o sixty per cent cash dividend. Subsequently he became anxious to get rid of the stock, and made a settlement with Ames, who returned him the amount he had originally paid, leav- ing Scofield a clear gainer of over seventeen hundred dollars on a five months’ transaction. Bingham, of Ohio, bought twenty shares at par in February, 1868, when the stock was four times its par value, and received .all the dividends, only giving up the stock in February of last year, when exposure appeared inevitable. Taking the official list published in the Henatp last December we find that the dividends on twenty shares amounted to ten thousand nine hundred dollars. W. D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, took ten shares of Ames in December, 1867 ; but, Maving no money to pay for them, they were ‘“‘carried’’ by Ames. In June following, Ames having received two dividends on these ten shares, which realized one thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars, paid himself the purchase money at par and gave Kelley a check for the difference—three hundred and twenty-nine dollars. After that Kelley re- ceived all the dividends, and besides borrowed of Ames seven hundred and fifty dollars in September, 1868. Garfield, of Ohio, also pro- cured ten shares of Ames in December, 1867, without paying for them, and received in the following June his balance of three hundred and twenty-nine dollars, after deducting fie purchase money from the dividends, The report admits that these Congressmen at first denied the receipt of money from Ames and that in some instances their denials were met by the production of checks and receipts, The evidenc® of falsehood is conclusive against all or nearly all of them. In allusion the case of Mr. Brooks the committee y:—‘In December, 1867, the i of the Crédit Mobilier was abana ny those familiar with the affairs between the Union Pacific and the Crédit Mobilier to be worth very nivch more than par.” Yet the report scquits Messrs, Dawes, Scofield, Bingham, to | iaproner net on the following grounds: —First, Kelley and Garfield of any cdrrapt motive of’ because there is no evidence to show that they were aware of the great value of tho stock they received from Oakes Ames ; second, be- cause they did not appear to know that the dividends would be paid in Union Pacific stock, and as the Crédit Mobilier was a State corporation they had a right to invest in it; third, because it is not proved that any cor- rupt consideration was asked of them by Ames, that they were only seeking legitimate investments, and that it does not seem that they voted for any measures favorable to the Crédit Mobilier while they held the stock. It is true that the committee believe the favored Con- gressmen must have felt ‘there was something 80 outof the ordinary course of business in the extraordinary dividends they were receiv- ing as to render the investment itself suspi- cious,’’ and that they attribute to this feeling the anxiety of some of the purchasers to get rid of the stock; but the report declares that it can find no evidence of corrapt intention on the part of any of these mombers. The committee argue that if the whitewashed Con- gressmen had known of the large dividends they were ,to receive, or if they had been aware that tho dividends would be paid in Union Pacific bonds and stock and thus have given them an interest in a corporation de- pending upon Congress, for legislation, they would then’ have beén guilty of corrupt and illegal conduct in accepting the shares. But failing to discover that the Congressmen possessed this knowledge the report says:— “The only criticism the committee feel com* pelled to make on the action of these members in taking this stock is, that they were not sufficiently careful in ascertaining what they were getting, and that in their judgment the assurance of a good investment was all the assurance they needed.’’ A single fact sweeps away in an instant this whole mass of false reasoning and fraudulent pleading. The stock was taken by some of the members in December, 1867, and by others in January and February, 1868. In some instances at the very mofMent of pur- chase, and in all cases within two or three weeks after purchase, these whitewashed Con- gressmen received eighty per cent dividend on their shares in the first mortgage bonds and stock of the Union Pacific Railroadd If they .did not know that they were bribed at the instant ‘they completed the transaction, the guilty knowledge must ‘have come to them very soon afterwards. Judge Poland and his associates stultify themselves when they argue that the knowledge of the amount and charac- ter of the ‘dividends weuld be proof of guilt, and yet justify the men who held the stock and received the dividends in some cases for months and in others for years. They stultify themselves also when they pronounce Oakes Ames guilty of bribery, and find that he has bribed no person! Bribery is the giving or receiving @ reward for a violation of official duty. Could Oakes Ames have committed this offence unless he gave this stock or sold it at a quarter of its value to these Congress- men, for the purpose of inducing them to violate their official duty? Andif he did do this, can the men he bribed—the men who re- ceived his valuable gifts—be innocent? As well might Judge Poland and his committee tell us that their report is fearlessly and impartially made in the cause of truth and justice alone. The committee stul- tify themselves further when they sup- press the evidence against Vico President Colfax and shrink from the responsibility of making an allusion to his case. Their ex- cuse is that Mr. Colfax is the presiding officer of the Senate, and as such is beyond their jurisdiction. Yet the keen and sub{Jy-renson- ing lawyers of the committee must be familiar with the constitution of the United States; they must .know that the Vice President can be impeached and removed from office on con- viction of treason, ‘‘bribery’’ or other high crimes and misdemeanors, and that in the House of Representatives rests the ‘‘sole power of impeachment.” The report is now the property of Congress, and the House of Representatives can do with it what they will. But outside and beyond this incompetent or unfaithful cdémmittee stand the jury of the whole people of the United States, and from them will come a ver- dict different to that rendered by Judge Poland and his assoeiates. That verdict will affix the brand of guilt upon every man im- plicated in this infamy, and the whitewashing committeemen will not escape. The punish- ment of Ames will be approved by this higher court. The expulsion of Brooks will be en- dorsed. It is proper that both these dis- honored heads should be bowed in shame. But the jury of the nation will not suffer the escape of Colfax, Dawes, Scofield, Bingham, Kelley, Garfield or any of their fellows in cor- ruption. They will not permit such a mock- ery of justice as the conviction of the high- way robbers of the Crédit Mobilier infamy and the justification of its sneak thieves. Nor will they be content with a mere ten days’ expulsion from a seat to be soon re- sumed by those of the offenders who have unhappily been elected to the next Congress. The people are just now properly severe on murderers. In this era of ruffianism and assassination they insist that the full penalty of the law shall be inflicted on those who wilfully take human life. A conviction for manslaughter will not satify the community. The commutation of the death sentence of a convicted murderer to imprisonment for life would now be rer garded as an offence against society. On the same principle the people will demand that the cutthroats of the country’s honor, the men who have murdered the nation’s reputa- tion and made the highest positions in the Republic a byword throughout the world, shall pay the extreme penalty of the, law. Expulsion from the offices they have degraded is not enough. It is not sufficient that the trusts they have betrayed shall be taken out of their soiled and dishonored hands. The law, which should be sacredly enforced, prescribes the punishment for their crimes—a fine not exceeding ten times the amount of their bribe and —_ imprisonment in ® penitentiary not exceeding ten years, From the Atlantic to the Pacific a cry will go up for the full measure of justice against these faithless public servants, one and all, taat they may be made to disgorge their | ill-gotten gains and to put qn the felon’s garb, so that all the worldmay know them for what they are. No whitewashing report from | an unfaithful committee will be permitted to shield thé Wédnest of the Gilprits from the public condemuation they all merit alike The Spanish Republic and the Carlists. The Oficial Gazette of Spain, 80 we are told by a cable despatch which we print this morn- ing, will on Thursday next contain a procla- mation offering an amnesty to the Carlists now in insurrection in the Northern provinces on the condition that they will within two weeks lay down their arms and submit to the au- thority of the government. If this offer is not accepted it will be war to the death against the rebels, The proclamation is reasonable and just. We are willing to hope the best for the Republic. When the now men do well they will obtain our praise ungrudgingly. When they do not well they must not blame us for pointing out their mistakes. ‘The factions in Spain aro still strong, and the new govern- ment may find it difficult to put down Carlists ayd Alphonsists and Montpensierists and the rest. Right in the long run, however, must prevail. It is now some years since friendly relations between Spain and the various. South Ameri- can republics were suspended. ‘It is gratifying to know that the question of sending represent- atives to the South American republics, and so resuming friendly relationship with them, is under the consideration of the Spanish gov- ernment. ‘This is well. Republican Spain ought to be on friendly terms with her repub- lican children. Oy Waar Orrence was Mr. Brooks guilty that he should be more severely punished than Garfield and other Congressmen who ‘invested”’ in C. M.? Telegraph Progress—Passage of tho BU for a Pacific Cable.: The House Committee on Foreign Affairs having reported a bill to Congress authorizing the East India, China, Japan and American Telegraph Company, which has been chartered cable between Asia and America, it came up for action on” Monday and was passed. No subsidy was-Asked or granted. But the bill provides that the United States shall furnish the vessels to make the necessary soundings and for laying the cable. This will put the government to little or no cost, as our naval vessels on the Pacific side can as. well be doing” that as cruising. They will at the same timo be contributing something to science while sounding the Pacific Ocean. The bill was unanimously passed by the Senate. The cable from America to Asia will be the last link to encircle the globe by the magnetic tele- graph. It must prove of great value to Ameri- can commerce with the rich and populous countries of Asia, and will go far to diffuse our Christian civilization over half the human family. No nation is so favorably situated as the United States for commerce with the Asiatic world—that commerce for which all the great marittme Powers have been contending tor ages. The telegraph and steam power, across oceans are supplementary to each other in developing and extending trade, and of the two the telegraph is perhaps the mOst impor- tant. We hope that within a year or two we shall bé able to speak instantaneously with the Chinese, Japanese and other Asiatics, as we now de with Europe through the wonderful agent of modern progress and civilization. Dawes is one of the men who “carelessly” entered into negotiations with Oakes Ames and bought Crédit Mobilier stock with that thou- sand dollars of his which was waiting invest- ment. Poland’s committee would have the country believe that he was an innocent but ignorant dabbler in improper speculations. Putting aside the apparent fact that he did not have @ thousand dollars in the hands of the Sergeant-at-Arms, the country will not be satisfied that the operation was innocent. The chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means and the leader of the House of Representatives is not likely to dip into impurity with pure motives. Tue Hupson Rrver Rartroap Accrpent.— Carelessness or stupidity seems to have been the occasion of what came near being a terri- ble railrgad slaughter at Hastings, on the Hudson River Railroad, yesterday morning. It is reported that an engine on a siding near Yonkers struck one attached to’ a freight train, uncoupled it from its train and started it fying up the road in the wake of a passenger train. This it overtook near Hastings, smashing a car, fortunately empty, and severely, perhaps fatally, injuring a con- ductor and brakeman and slightly bruising two ‘or three passengers. If the results inf the present case prove fatal there should be a searching inquiry into the origin of the disaster. Luckily the runaway engine went north instead of following full trains towards the city, in which case the chances of slaughter would have been fear- fully increased. Brooxs 1s TO BE Expe.iep from the House not because he is guilty, but because he ise .| democrat. Ames is to share his fate, because it was necessary to find a scapegoat for the republican rascals. Tae Crxcisnat1 Commercial thinks General Banks is a very great man, but he was guilty of a very stupid thing in objecting to a joint resolution congratulating the Cortes and peo- ple of Spain on the establishment of a repub- lie because it would ‘ recognize slavery in the colonies of Spain.’’ If the United States had waited for recognition from foreign nations until slavery had been abolished on our soil what a precious long time the Great Republic would have been obliged to have laid out in the cold! The Commercial’s estimate of Gene- ral Banks’ objection as above is about correct. Tur Potanp Committee or Isvgsticatron will share the infamy @ Patterson, Dawes, Colfax, Garfield and Kelley. Tue Sprinorietp (Mass.) Republican shows by a tabular statement that its circulation has ingregged since itp declaration of independence of party trammels. The amount of ease of conscience is not calculated in the estimate. Ir Ames anv Brooxs Axe Guruty is it p¥s- sible that Colfax is innocent? Why was not the impeachment of the Vice President recom- mended to the House by Judge Poland’s com- mittee? Tur Inpranarotis News pronounces Senator Patterson's attempted explanation of his con- nection with the Orédit Mobilier ‘miserable, cowardly, lame and impotent." This is a | phort but pertinent way of putting it, by the State of New York to lay a telegraph: We Protest—No More Stealing of Our Parks. “A numerously signed petition is now wend- ing its way to the classic halls of our immacu- late Legislature at Albany for the purpose of obtaining a new armory for the Seventh regi- ment in Reservoir square. Now, we aro per- fectly willing that tho gallant Seventh should have @ new armory up town if good reasons can beshown that the prosent place of drill if beyond the comfortable reach of its, stal- wart members ; but what we do most seriously object to is the selection of Reservoir square for its site. The bane of New York is the absence of open squares, Parks are a city’s lungs. The enormous London population is kept alive because of a wise foresight which establishes numberless oases ina Sahara of houses. Here little provision is made for either the relaxation of children or the very necessary function of breathing. Rows upon -rows of buildings, unbroken by @ single ‘‘terrace,"” ‘‘circle’’ or ‘‘green,’’ attest the criminal ignorance of our rulers in all laws pertaining to health. And now intelligent citizens are asking for the partial annihilation of one of the few breathing places accorded to a stifled com- munity! It passes understanding, and to find thenames of two physicians among the published list of petitioners strikes us with amazement, for they at- least ought to know better. We beg the Legislature to observe that the petitioners are all taken from one class—the class that can afford to leave town in May and not return until November. Were the poorer taxpayers living in the vicinity of Reservoir squire asked for an opinion we think that the Seventh regiment would obtain a different’ verdict. In the name of these humbler taxpayers, in the name of little children, in the name of working men and women, we protest against the meditated desecration. To benefit one regiment of militia at the expense of an army of souls would be the most reckless extravagance ever indulged in by this Tammany-ridden me- tropolis. Tue Report or Jupcx Pouanp's ComMrrrEe is more disgraceful than the charges it was appointed to investigate. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Horace Porter isat the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Wendell Phillips yesterday arrived at the St. Denis Hotel. Ex-Mayor H. G. Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Wedderburn has resumed his connection with the-Richmond Enquirer. aA Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Canfield, of Vermont, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas Cornell, of Rondout, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel, General Witliam A. Pile, our Minister to Vene- zuela, who is at home on leave of absence, yester- day arrived at the Astor House. . The temperance papers down East are making quite a point out of the remark of General Grant that he did not like to use glasses. Franklin T, Ferguson, of Massachusetts, lately appointed United States Consul at the Cape de Verde Islands, 13 at the Astor House, A confidence man in St. Louis has arrived at the conclusion that there is one honest man out of Con- gress and one “white one” in St. Louis. Ex-Attorney General William M. Coleman, of North GSroling, is at the Astor House, while at tending the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. There has been a little castigating affair in Wash- ington between two newspaper people. A party called “Brown's Young Man" seems to have been the victim, some way or other, iol “Disraelt, how can you live with that old woman, your wile ?’ brutally asked an MP. of the ex-Pre- mier, after having liberally dined. “Because,” an- swered Disraeli in his most cutting manner, “I possess a virtue of which you are incapable—grati- tude.’? 4 “What do you think of the Emperor?” asked Eu- génie, some months ago, of a friend who had not seen Napoleon fora year. “I think he looks and appears remarkably well,"’ was the reply. ‘Do you indeed?” answered the ex-Empress, “Mot, je le trouve imbécile! Mr. Thomas Winans, whose inventive genius is as great as his wealth, employs his leisure mo- ments in,constructing a musifal instrument which is to be played by steam from the top of his house forthe benefit of Baltiqiore, far and near, Mr, Winans’ house 1s the centre of an unbounded hos- pitality. Thongh more than three score years and ten, Mr. Ross Winans has lately written a book of much research and thought, entitled “One Reli- gion, Many Creeds."" It is a clever family that has suiticient material to furnish both father and son with brains, It is not often that anything is done quietly in thiseountry, yet the original ‘small painting of Paul deja Roche’s ‘I.’ Hésnycille” bas actually been here for several months without baving been her- alded in the newspapers. secured during the up- heaval of the Paris Commune, itis now the prop- erty of a wealthy Baltimore merchant, Mr. Walters, whose gallery of modéfn French art is one of the finest on this Continent. Nothing can exceed the quiet elegance of taste which Mr. Walters has dis- played in the accessories of his gallery, and to say that there are not six indifferent pictures in it is to say much, yet not more than the truth. This De la Roche is particularly valuable, showing in reality much more of the master's hand than the painting in the Beaux Arts, which was largely the work of De la Roche's pupils. We congratulate Baltimore upon the possession of so excellent an art connois- seur as Mr. Walters, and we congratulate Mr, Walters upon the possession of his gallery. SHOCKING AFFAIR IN BROOKLYN, ee netprcantienions |. Fatal Fire in a Sackett Street Tenement House—Two Children Burned to Death and a Woman Fatally Injured. A shocking casualty occurred yesterday in a » South Brooklyn tenement house, involving the loss of the lives of two little children and the probaple fatal injuring of a young woman. The sad occur- rence was developed through the thoughtless inno- cence of two children who were playing with matches, which set flre to themselves and the bed | clothes in an apartment on the third fidor of 177 Sackett street known as a dark bedroom. The alarm of fire was sounded for station No. 2, the location of the fire, at half-past twelve o'clock, and a hasty response was given by the Fire Department. On looking into the bedchamber where the fire | raged the. charred corpses of Willie Smith, aged three years, and Joseph Smith, aged one year and four months, were discovered and taken out by the firemen. During the excitement attendant upon the discovery and progress of the fire, Sarah Taylor, a young woman who resided on the fourth floor of the house, fearing that communf€ation with the outer world by the stairway was cut of, crazy 3) Glan juraped out of the win- dow, iajuring nérBeli in & shocking and, it is feared, fatal manner. She was conveyed 1 the Coboge Hospital by the Third precinct police. Cigince Farley, upon reaching the burning room, hastily seized the dead bodies of the burned children and bore them out. The fire was speedily extnguished, The loss on huilding, which is owned by Gunther unday, 18 $500. Insured in the Phoenix Insurance Company for $5,000, The charred remains were laid upoh a settee in the room adjoining the cham- ber in which they met their awful death, and there- upon returning to her homé the wretched mother yeneld children whom but a short time previous shé had leit im the enjoyment of health and in- fantile happiness. The grief of the poor woman Was excessive, and of such a depth. that none among the many neighbors who crowded about her could assuage her sorrow. ‘The door of the fatal apartment was unlocked, and it is remarkable that Bridget Gavin, who occupied a room on the same floor and heard the pitiful cries of the burning babies, did not enter the chamber and extricate them from the fire, | street that caused a damage of $5,000, ‘ AMUSEMENTS. “Roughing It” at the Grand Opera . 3 House. The “folly” of “Round the Clock” at the Grand Opera House met with such goed fortune that Mr. Daly determined to try the same fleld once more, and last night he produced “Roughing It,” which had been promised for some weeks. The new piece is as lively asthe circus and as natural as the opera. No acrobat ever needed such agility as is required of the eloping lover of Miss Antonietta Macdufle. No prima donna ever found nerself sur- rounded by such @ wonderflecompany. Every- thing was as new and fresh and sparkling and vivacious and true to nature as the market scene in “Humpty Dumpty.” It is net “high art,” of course, but it does not pretend to be anytning but a ‘rattling “iolly.” It wouid be impossible to peste Mt inany artistic sense, and yet it would e ridiculous to condemn it, it will not heip to “elevate the drama” unless the cant of criticism should preach against it as hurtful to dramatic art, it has only its pungency and palpable satire and extravagant situations and excellent scenery to make it peur, We wouid like to “pitch into” it, to show its crudity, its incousecutiveness, its ab- pariah ar a word, we would like to call it tie rubbish it is; but we knew wnat happened to Don Piinote when he undertook to fight the windmill. dverse criticism has its choice. only between the knight and the windmill. We, therelore, recegnize it simply as a ‘‘olly,”” and, like the solemn man who refuses to commit himself against a broad joke which makes the crowd laugh, we say, with the extremest gravity, “Well, yes, it is rather good.” Indeed, we can say nothing else, for the acts are a succession of farces, showing some fine acting and a good deal of un- mistukable caricature, and the auditorium is as uproarious as the stage. Mr. John Brougham played the part Denis MacduMe, the fathor of “the Rose ol Carmansville,” with grace and skill, but without the overfowing humor of which the parr iscapable. Mr®. John Wood, on the other and, paren daughter without tae grace that she might have given to the part, but with an ex- travagant hamor and @n exquisite caricature of what we usually call sentiment that were irresist- ible. The eminent firm of White & Black, the de- tectives, represented by Mr. J. K. Mortimer and Mr, Owen Fawcett, is a whimsical idea, with a good deal of truth at the bottom, and the parts were fairly done, Miss Annie Deiand as Mrs. Jobn Wood, the ae of Comedy and Song, acted with great amiability under the aMiction of having her bills paid by her new servant with the money rocureg by the sale of her sweetheart’s jewels; and the accownts which were given of the qualities of the queen aforesaid, especially that of the “bell boy” at the Metrd- litan Hotel, were very amusing to the audience. r. Chapman played the bell bey, doing it with a good deal of the genuine and @ little of the con- ventional nigger. If it was not for the contradic- tion in terms we would tell him that it is better to have niggers rare than welldone. On the other hand, the same fear of a contradiction in terms almost prevents us from saying that Miss Louise Voimer’s Slipsnod was not siipshod atall, The Amiable of Mr. J. W. Jennings was a funny picture of the Arkansas gentleman who is always Spoiling fora fight. Some of the other parts are verv well represented. The play ends in San Francisco, with a realistic vision of Chinese opium smokers, the lew pages irom Mark Twain, which give the’ name to the piece, being utilized in the last two acts. Musica: and Dramatic Notes. Mme. Nilsson-Rouzaud will sing for the first time in Brussels on the 15th of April. Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault are under an engage- ment with Mr. B. F. Lowell to play the first two weeks in March in the leading cities of New Eng- land, beginning at Providence. The entertainment at Booth’s Theatre this after- noon for the benefit of the Masonic Hall and Asylum Fund comprises a varied programme, in- cluding acting, ventriloquism and wax-works, . French critics, reviewing Dumas, fils’, “Femme Claude,” declare that it is not wonderful that Sar- dou should go to America for his subjects and types, as those exhibited from French society are simply disgusting. The engagement of Mr. W. J. Florence, at Booth’s, has been extended two weeks longer than under the original contract and he is to appear as Captain Cuttle, Burton’s great part, m “Dombey & Son,” and as Obenreizer in ‘“‘No Thoroughfare.” It seems to be settled that neither Patti nor Wachtel will come to this country next season. Faure may come, but probably will not agree to sing hereon anything like fair terms. The rival prime donne then will be Nilsson and Lucca, and itis probable that Campanini will be the tenor of the Strakosch company. . * THE BAR ASSOCIATION. seaeeectepep sane Re-Endorsingg the Report of the Jus diciary Committee—A Very Noisy Meet. ing. An adjourned meeting @f the above-named dissociation was heid last evening at their rooms for the purpose of reconsidering the report of the Judiclary Committee presented on Janu- ary 30, in the case of David Dudley Field. At the last meeting of the association it may be remembered , that severely agdinst tife report of the committee in moving a reconsideration of the vote by which the report bad beep previously adopted. ‘The com- mittee recommended that no action be taken, showing that it would be impracticable and against © the constitution of the association to proceed in any Way other than by beide y 4 the subject go regu- larly before and be reported by the Co: ttee on Grievanees. At the meeting last evening there was a very full attendance of members. The’ rooms, hallway and even the stairs were crowded, as it seemed to be generally anticipated that some sharp talk would beindulged in. The elder and more solid look:ng members eccupied the back room, while the younger ones crowded around the doors and near the front windows, after the usnal preliminaries had been gone through with, opened .by presenting @ series of resolutions declaring that “fhe association dissented entirely trom the report which had been previously adopted, and that it be committed to a mines committee to report in two weeks any and all iacts of which they have knowledge, from any source implicating any members of the Bar in corrupt and improper con- duct.”” In moving the resolutions Mr. DARLING made a most emphatic speech, quoting from Dogberry, and asserting that the report of the Judiciary Commit- tee showed that Dogberry had apreng again into existence. At the conclusion of every sentence he was loudly applauded by the young men at the far end of the room, who also indulged in most immoderate laughter at every point he made against the committee. Ex-Judge Fitnian asked if it was treating the committee with respect to now overturn the action previously taken. This question was re- ceived with shouts of derisive laughter from the young men. Mr. CoupERT undertook to speak in favor of ad- hering to the former action of the Assoctation and was laughed down. Mr. CARTER, of the committee by whom the report was made, explained at length the action of the committee and the dificuities in the way of doing what Mr. Darling wanted. The debate grew quite lively, several members taking part in it, and was wound up by an able address-from Mr. W. M. Evarts, who took the ground in favor of the action of the Judiciary Com- mittee, and showed that while a person might be suspected, and perhaps rightly, on general grounds, it weuld be found a dificult matter to secure proof when the question was reduced to actual facts. Mr. DARLING, The question was then puton the adoption of , Mr. Darling's resolutions seriatim, and one by one they were voted down, the young men doing their utmost in the Way of shouting, 80 that at one time it seemed as if the vote would be only a question of lungs. On a division, however, and a count of hands, the vote stood largely against the fedglings. ‘The original report of the Judiciary Committee was then adopted by a large majority, alter’ which the meeting adjourned, A MASSACHUSETTS MURDERER RESPITED. “Boston, Feb. 18, 1873. Governor Washburn, in the case of McElhany, who was to be hung for wife murder on Friday, has been granted a respite until the 2ist of March. The eommittee of the Legislature to whom was re- ferred a petition for a law whereby he might be granted a new trial reported adversely to-day. Pending the atceptance of the re- vort in the House, Mr. MeDaniell, of Cam- bridge wiil probably introduce a general bill pro- viding that any time before the execution of tha sentences of death in a capital case the Supreme Judicial Court, for the county in which the triai of the convict was had, upon good cause shown, shail lave power to open and set aside the judgment rende upon the trial ant to hear a fo, a new tri in the Bia Waaael, subject to the same rules of law an rack «ge is with the same a! if the judgment had not been entered; pad that whenever there i8 any motion pending for a new trial under tite provisions of this act the Governor and Councils shall forbear to issue a war- rant jor the execution of the sentence, or, it such warrant has been issued the execution thereot shall be respited until the final determination of the matter by the Court. aed FIRE IN SOUTH STREET, A fire broke out at half-past eleven o'clock last night in the four story brick building 43 South The house was occupied by War Tevet as a ship chandiery and aLoutit store, ‘This firin suffered a loss of $2,500, ‘The building was injured to the extent of 3500, The other losers by tne fire were Brett, Sor & Co. and the Exi¢ Busia Sectignal Lock Compas, Mr. Darling spoke very © ae