The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Volume XXXVIII... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, WOOP'S MEGEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtteth st— Acnoss Tux Continent. Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. [85 Broadway.—Gnranp Variety En- reetainuent, Matinee at 259. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lro asp Lotoa OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—liumesy Duarty. Matinee at 2. bse R THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and fourth ay.—Oxr Huxpusp Years Ov, WALLACK’S THRATRI, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davin Gamnice. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Bvenue.—TickK? or Leave Ma‘ THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Prurtr Diox furrin. Matinee at 23. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Nicut on 4 Steam Boat—WILt o' Tux Wise. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Rovenina Ir, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street. near Third av.—Das MiLcumaxpoukN Avs ScHOENDKRG. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—ALIZE, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Aux BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner Oth av.—Nxonro Minstretsy, &0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowoery.— Vanunty ENTERTAINMENT. FAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Ezuiorian Minstretsy, £0. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brondway.— ScumNon AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, ‘Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OPENING OF THE CREDIT MOBILIER TRIAL IN THE HOUSE! WILL PITILESS JUSTICE BE DONE?" —LEADER—SixtH PAGE. CORRUPTION LAID UPON THE NATIONAL ALTAR! THE HIGH PRIESTS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES READY FOR THE EX- PIATORY SACRIFICE! EXCITING SCENES! AMES' DEFENCE! POLAND VS. BUTLER! MERRICK’S POWERFUL APPEAL FOR JUS- TICK! PERSONAL SKE1CHES—Tairp aND FourtH PaGEs. POMEROY’S PLAGUE! THE DEFEATED SENA- TOR DID NEVER, 'PON HONOR, BRIBE ANY MAN! HOW HE CAME TO GIVE YORK THE MONEY! THE TESTIMONY AGAINST HIM— TENTH PAGE. CHARTER MANGUVRES AT ALBANY! A SHOW- ING OF HANDS! THE BILL SENT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE! THE CAUCUS—TuiRp Pace. REFORMERS EN MASSE AGAINST THE CHAR- TER! THE MAYOR MUST BE MORE THAN A MERE FIGUREHEAD! THE POLICE ESPIAL DENOUNCED! 1HE MEATS WANTED IN THE CHARTER PIE—Turmp Pace. CAPTAIN JACK WANTS NO MORE FIGHTING! THE SQUAWS RETURN FROM THE LAVA- BED STRONGHOLD WITH OVERTURES FOR A PEACE TALK! A MODOU CHIEF BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS—SEVENTH PGs, THE DISGRACEFUL PARTISAN FIGHT IN QUE- BEC! SANGUINARY SCENES AROUND AN ELECTION BOOTH! WHISKEY-MAD OUT- THROATS SHOOTING DOWN FRIEND AND FOE! THE VICTIMS! GOVERNMENT PRE- CAUTIONS—SzvENTH PaGs. THE GRAND CARNIVAL OF THE “MISTIG” MO- MUS! NEW ORLEANS, MOBILE AND MEM- PHIS IN A GLARE OF GLORY! THE PHILA- DELPHIA FETE—SEVENTH Page. SPECIAL NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! THE LOUISIANA MISRULE—SEvenNTH Page, EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! THE ORISIS OVER IN SPAIN! THE NEW MINISTRY! AN UNCHANGED PROGRAMME—Sgventa Pacs. A CENTRAL ASIAN FIZZLE—LATE NEWS DE- SPATCHES—SgvENnTH Pace. THROUGH THE ISLAND IN FIFTEEN MINUTES! THE GILBERT RAPID TRANSIT PLAN— FOSTER AND STOKES—Firtu Paas. MANIPULATIONS OF THE CLIQUES IN THE MONEY AND GOLD MARKETS! A DECLINE IN STOCKS! OUR SAVINGS BANKS—NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN REAL ESTATE OPERATIONS—Nintu Pace. SOANNELL'S SANITY! HIS SISTER'S TESTI- MONY! A SCENE! WILLIAM M. TWEED INDICTED FOR FORGERY! “DANIEL” BROUGHT UP ON THAT ERIE SALE AT 55! THE OUBAN-SPANISH LIBEL! OTHER LITIGATIONS—Firtu Pas. STATUARY ON VIEW—MUSICAL AND THEATRI- CAL TWINKLINGS—NinTH Par, NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA PITTED AGAINST EACH OTHER! A GRAND GAME- COCK BATTLE! VICTORY FOR PHILADEL- PHIA—MARINE NEWS—TENTH Pacz. Tae Coorer Instrrore Mass Mrerina last night, a report of which will be found in an- other part of this issue, was quite a success, both in numbers and respectability. All the shining lights of metropolitan reform were present. The vow populi, as expressed by the orators of the occasion, was loud and clear, and the enthusiasm was “‘immeuse.” Called for the purpose of protesting against the pas- sage of the Custom House charter, its resolu- tions will, doubtless, have some weight with our Legislative tinkers; but whether sufficient to turn them from the bad practice of displeas- ing their political opponents remains to be eeon, What is our later Boss going to do about it? Tan Starz Leomiatrvne—The Assembly ‘was occnpied yesterday in the discussion of the City Charter bill, and, contrary to the expectations of the republican leaders, it was ordered back to the Committee of the Whole. The republican country members showed o strong desire to give the Empire City such a charter as it ought to have, and with this end An view refused by a two-thirds vote to hurry the bill through, and thus give cause fora future accusation that the charter was passed by “whip and spur.” The democrats very pru- dently refrained from participating in the de- ‘ate, throwing all the responsibility on the majority of the House. All things consid- cred, it is not likely that the republicans will quarrel seriously among themselves over tho bill, though from the independent spirit manifested by membets of the party yester- day it is plain thatthe so-called leaderg do yot nie by thelr oa absolute dhotagion, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1873.-TRIPLK SHEET Opening of Credit Mobilier Trial in the HousgeWill Pitiloss Justice Be or Yesterday in the House of Representatives were witnessed the opening scones of a play whose character we shall bost be able to state when the curtain falls. Yesterday tho report of the Poland committee came up for debate and judgment, and from that judgmont alone shall we be able to tell whether the whole pro- ceeding has been farce, burlesque or tragedy. It will be farce if the insulted honor of the country is blinded with whitewash and then hold up for a jecor to the nations of the earth It will be burlesque if the House stultifies itself by whimsically striking dead one or two of the offenders and robing the rest in the whito of innocence. It will be the tragedy of supreme justice if every man implicated in the briberies be slain morally, so far as branding upon his forehead the death of his reputation henceferth and forever. From the report pre- sented by Judge Poland and his associates we have no indication that the courage necessary to the latter great act of national vindication exists in the committee. With the House the question now lies, and yesterday's debate opened the matter for final decision one way or the other. é Tho interest in the debate depicted in the struggle for seats in the gallery or on the floor of the House by those present in the capital yesterday was, on 0 small scale, a picturo of the anxiety of ihe entire nation to note the action of its ropresentatives in Congress. Not since the day when the impeachment of President Johnson was begun in the Senate has there been such a strained attention turned to the action of our national legislators. Then the heat of politics and parties was felt through all the inquiry. Andrew Johnson could then count his friends outside of Congress by millions, and the feeling that partisan warfare was the soul of the contention robbed the solemn oo- casion of the tinge of moral dignity that otherwise should have pervaded it. Yester- day, however, the House sat in judgment upon men of high functions, accused, not of sins against party faith or tampering with the constitution, to serve ty ends, but of offences against honor, ae ee and so of conspiring against the life of the nation itself. Dishonor belongs to no party platform. No party professing dishonesty or bribery as its creed could exist an hour. Hence the men charged with corruptly giv- ing or owning Crédit Mobilier stock stood in that awful moment outside of party altogether. They were before the House of Representatives as accused criminals, not as criminated partisans. Never, perhaps, has the necessity for dignity, solemnity, high impartiality and stern justice of judgment made itself so manifest in our national coun- cil. Every attribute that could confer a sense of lofty responsibility was there, urging the House to be worthy of itself and its glorious traditions, and of the national future, which loom up like gigantic wonder-dreams before us. Such were the weighty circumstances under which Judge Poland rose yesterday in his seat to defend his lame and impotent report. We are glad to note that even he called the transactions he was about to discuss by their proper name—bribery. He brought the case home against the only two whom he and his fellows marked out for destruction. It was clear and direct. But he had not gone far before the crying sin of evasion, which has beset his committee's work from the beginning, made itself palpable, Its introduction may be plainly noted when, in fortifying the case against Ames, he said:—‘The law did not require the intent to be known to the person to whom the present was made.’’ All innocent as this may appear, it is part of the deliberate plan to whitewash the receivers of the bribes. The presumption which it puts forward of a ridiculous ignorance of mun- dane affairs on the part of the members who received stock is seriously upheld by Mr. Mer- rick when he says that there was no evidence ofa corrupt knowledge on the part of the re- ceivers, It is a grave matter, this, and not one in which weak sympathies for offenders should be allowed to obtrude. It is doubly scanda- lous when these special pleadings are intro- duced under the cloak of alleged fearlessness such as Mr. Merrick ostentatiously donned for the occasion. The flippancies of Mr. Farns- worth, of Illinois, who had the temerity to de- fend the barter and sale of honor as a pure business transaction, we do not care to notice. The ,slippery tongue which talks so glibly of what ‘every judicial tribunal in the land” would do under the circumstances gauges its own weight by its wagging. We can lay Judge Poland and Merrick and tho rest aside and happily take up the strongest argument for the prosecution in the written defence of Onkes Ames. In his own extenuation it ad- vances nothing worthy of weight; in taking up the work of the committee where its incom- pleteness began, and carrying it out to its proper logical conclusion, it is unanswerable. The three points which he considers should be proven before he is adjudged guilty, which, to be more exact, should exist in the charge before he is called on to plead, are : first, that the stock was sold palpably below its value ; second, that the stock should be such as to create in the holder a corrupt purpose to in- fluence legislation in favor of the seller ; and, third, that some specimen of such legislation should be adduced. The first bas been proved partly from his own mouth and more strongly by other valuations of the stock, and, strongest of all, in the fact that several mem- bers paid nothing at all for it. The second he must be forgetful or over-confident to bring forward, for he himself is responsible for the phrase of put- ting stock “where it would do most good,’ for the phrase of members looking after things better when they had an interest, and a dozen other proverbs which the lobbying shovel-maker invented in his sinister Solomon wisdom. The third point follows the second into inconsequence when it is remembered, as dwelt upon by Judge Po- land, that what Ames needed was not so much grease upon the wheels of the legislative ma- chine as the placing of clogs therein, should it happen to commence grinding up his ‘pet lambs" with the black wool. No, we need not occupy ourselves with that part of his defence and still less with others. To an attorney of the Union Pacific Railroad is given the credit of preparing the defence of the shovel-maker. which was read by thy Clark It bears this out in many respects, for Ames is left to the tender mercies of the House, while the attorney makes the defence the vehicle of an elaborate puff for his employers’ railroad. Little have the risk of laying down the rails, the state of the country, the natural obstacles, the ourrency inflation, the price of labor and the scalp-socking Indians to do with bribing members of Congress. The case, indced, will be tried by another standard than these, much against the percep- tions of right or wrong which come to Ames or the attorney. That he can even find time to descant on tho probable extinction of polygamy through the building of the road for which the company contracted with tho Crédit Mobilier, for which in turn Ames assigned shares to members of Congress, that enormous profits might be securely kept as well as made is pitiable. It is a statement all through in which wo can see no good to anything but the bepuffed Union Pacific Rail- road. We have said that if this dofence did not help Ames it proved logically what the duty of the House is to those who took the shares. ‘The man or his alter ego, the attorney, feels that for him security there is none. As he slips and tumbles into the gulf at his feet he raises a cry of anguish which should go to the heart of justice, He is cast out himself, and he calls incxorably upon the Houke to deal with all others of his like as they have dealt with him, If there is one right, one vindica- tion which Amos can call prescriptive, it is the punishment of those who haye sinned against national honor with him. It will be understood from the following that ho cries for himaelf. Read it in the light of his con- demnation, and it becomes the most powerful ory for ites ell round that could be formu- lated. He says: — ,; Exh oo Ue For the first time in the history of any tribunal this body has before it an alleged offender without an offence. Any person accused in the Courts of the country, under like circumstances, might well, when called upon to plead to the indictments, in- sist that it failed to charge a crime, I am charged by the committee with the purpose of corrupting certain members of Congress, while it, at the same time, declares said members to have been uncon- scious of my purpose, and fails to indicate the subject of the corruption. In other words, the purpose to corrupt is inferred, where the effect of corrupting could not by possibility be produced, where no subject for corruption existed. No lawyer who values his reputation will assert that an indict- ment for bribery could stand for an instant in a common jaw Court without specifgally alleging who was thé briber, who Was bribed, and what pre- cise measure, matter or thing was the subject of ribery. There can be no soterape to bribe without the hope and purpose of corruptly Influencing some erson or persons in respect to some particular act. Jntil, therefore, it js alleged and shown not oaly who tendered a bribe, bit who accepted or refused it, and what was the specific subject-matter of the bribery, any conviction which may follow the al- leged offence must rest upon the shifting and un- stable foundation of individual caprice, and not upon the solid rock of justice administered under the restraints of the law. The answer to his call for evidence of the legislation he sought to carry by bribery we have placed further back. The answer to his call fur the Congressmen he has bribed must be made. It is a pertinent question to ask and one imperative to answer. Brooks, who will merit his fate, did not receive the stock from Ames. It will not do to point to him. The men implicated must be named and must be punished, or Ames will have convicted the House of as great a crime as that of which they have convicted him. In all this business, from the time the revelations began, Ames has furnished continual surprises by floundering into positions that, while ex- hibiting himself in still more pitiable plight than before, always showed his quondam friends dragged down beside him. This time he is in the most impressive of all, for he has put the House on the defensive. He asks impassionedly for pitiless justice to others as well as himself. Will the House shrink from the challenge which the shovel-maker throws down? Dawes, Kelley, Garfield, Scofield, Bingham, are the men for whom he shrieks to Justice. Is party above honor? Will the House shield the corrupt receivers and stamp its heel on the corrupt giver alone ? The Agricultural College BilleA Stu- pendous Grant. After giving away hundreds of millions of acres of land to railroad corporations and making other enormous grants and subsidies for other purposes it is not surprising that Congress should propose to donate half the public lands that remain and about a million and a half of dollars a year to the Agricul- tural College scheme. Since the republican party came into power, at the commencement of the war, it has gone into plundering the people, privately and collectively, on the most stupendous scale, upon the pretext of pro- moting the general welfare. This Agricultural College bill is in keeping with the monstrous extravagance of all its acts. When the bill was taken up in the Senate Mr. Windom said it would dispose of forever one-half of the public lands. Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, ro- marked ‘Yes, throe-quarters.’’ But Mr. Win- dom adhered to his statement of one-half. He added, however, that even upon that basis—for the government, we believe, is to furnish the money on the basis of the public lands—the bill would in effect pledge the government to these colleges for the sum of ninety-four millions of dollars, and he did not think the country could afford that. All the opposition to the measure appeared to be unavail- ing. Every motion to postpone or amend it was voted down, and it only passed over on Monday night because upon a count of the Senate there was found to be no quorum. Mr. Morton said, during the debate, “that it was evident the bill would pass, and predicted that its passage, like the passage of the Fugitive Slave law and the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, would leave behind it a feeling that absolute injustice had been done— an element that must in its nature fester.”’ The words of the able and veteran leader of the administration party in the Senate seemed, however, to have no weight. Education, no doubt, is a good thing, and should be encour- aged, but this wholesale grant of public lands, by which a State or Territory with a hundred thousand inhabitants will get as much as New York, with four and a halt millions, and that not for general education so much as for special and limited education, is, as Mr. Mor- ton designates it, absolute injustice. It is squandering away the public domain—that precious inheritance of the American people. Should the bill pass Congress let us hope the President will veto it. If agricultural colleges are to be established—and we do not say they should not be—let us have, at least, a less extravagant and sweeping measure, and one that will be more just and equal in the distri- bution of the laud grant, according to popu. lation, Important Advices from Spain. News from Spain, dated in London six o'clock this morning, alleges that Carlos’ commander, Soballo, is marching on & pletely aloof, and, even although Germany not just now mentioned, there prevails evi- dently a premonition of the formation of new combinations on the subject of the Iberian peningular question, There has been 4 re- arrangement of the Ministry by vote of the Assembly. This official movemont is desig- nated a Ministerial orisis, but it is exceedingly difficult to make out the exact point of incep- tion of the change or the moment of its posi- tive termination, The list of Council repre- sentatives, as published to-day in our columns, shows that General Cordoba had resigned the portfolio of the Ministry of War and that the commission was voted to Sefior Acosta by the National Assembly, but beyond this we fail to perceive that the Parliament has accom- plished anything of a radical or remarkable: character. Minister Figueras announced that the policy and course of administration by the reconstructed: Cabinet will be just the same as before. The party politicians are quite active. The leaders keep seeking about for something definite to do. There are, it is safe to presume, the usual griefs of the ‘‘outs,”” with a doleful repetition of charges against the ‘‘ins;'’ but, speaking in o national point of view, Bonin da, -roolly, cyaiting © Sor Set. diay turn up. “among the Spaniards, and in this Spain is in unison with all tho civilized world outside the Spanish territory. The very latest reports from Madrid, to hand this morning, represent the condition of affairs in the capital ag gloomy and. calculated to keep the people in a state of excitement and alarm, A Narrow Escape. At six o'clock last Friday morning a citizen discovered that his colored servant girl lay apparently lifeless in her bed. He informed Coroner Young, made the requisite affidavit of death and received a permit for the removal of the Gdkpée to the Morgue, About two o'clock in the afternoon the Bellovue Hospital ambu- lance arrived, but when the driver prepared to lift the body he distrusted the seeming death. Medical advice being summoned, the driver's opinion was confirmed and restoratives were persistently applied. No decided effect was produced till four o'clock on Saturday morn- ing. Meanwhile the Coroner and his Deputy went to the Morgue to make the legal post- mortem examination, and were disappointed at finding nobody upon whom a jury could sit—no subject for the dissecting knife. When the girl returned to consciousness she experienced an epileptic fit, after which she rapidly recovered snd was soon restored to her usual health. She says she has had several similar visitations of apparent death, once before having remained insensible forty-eight hours. But for the extraordinary acuteness of the ambulance driver she would doubtless have died in the dead-wagon ride to the Morgue, or her flicker of life would have been extinguished as she lay among the piled corpses in that ghastly storehouse. This case should teach our Coroners the propriety of making sure that death is present before they search with saw and scalpel for its cause. Very lately « gentleman fell insensible in the strect, and before his friends had been in- formed of his prostration an autopsy had been made in the Park Hospital by one of the Cor- oners! It is said the brain was removed be- fore the corpse had assumed the rigidity of death. What if the subject were not dead, but in a condition similar to that of the seeming dead girl whose recovery has cheated the Cor- oner? How Government Desrors Make it “Square” nN Japan.—A native Japanese merchant named Yamashinya, a resident in Yokohama, but with business houses in Jeddo, Osaka and Nagasaki, committed suicide a short time since. He was indebted to the government for a sum of $200,000 by non-payment of duties and other finan- cial defaults. Officers were sent to ar- rest him, but, knowing his fate as a dis- honest trader, he anticipated the action of the law by making out a statement of his liabil- ities and future intentions, which he person- ally left at the War Office, and then returned to his house and disembowelled himself. Hardly was he dead when the officers, sent in haste by the department, arrived to seize him, but, balked in their object, took his keys and books, and placed guards in the posses- sion of his property. The Japanese Gazette, which records the case, adds, very naively:— «We hear other instances of self-destruction rumored.” This is really a terrible tale of the result of twinges of conscience. It is to be hoped that neither the failing nor its remedy will extend in or to our Christian land. What would the Coroners do in the matter of fragmentary evidence? Shocking, even, to think of it. Tue Count pe Cuamnorp and Drvinz Ricnt.—It was for a time believed that the Count de Chambord was not unwilling to make such a compromise with the Orleanists as would unite the monarchists in the French Assem- bly. At his death the Count de Paris will be the heir and representative of both branches of the Bourbons in France. The Count de Chambord is now in his fifty-third year and is without issue, and it was hoped that in the interests of his family, as well as in the in- terests of his party, he would make a com- promise. But no. DeChambord stands by the hereditary principle and says:—‘‘Without it I am nothing ; with it I can accomplish every- thing.” This decision of De Chambord was made known to the Bishop of Orleans, through whom it was communicated to the Committee of Thirty. The result, it is said, has divided the Right of the Assembly, the Right Centre having broken with the Legitimists. Now that the Empire is dead and that the mon- archists cannot agree, why should not the Republic prosper? Never was there so fair a field for the Republic in France, Grrmaxy axp Francre—Tax Fourta Mn- 1aarD.—How nobly France has paid up her indemnity! Never was so painful and heavy @ fine so handsomely paid. Fivo milliards was the full sum, Of those fivo milliards month. In July the paymont of the fourtn milliard will be completed. It is understood that with the payment of the fourth milliard France will ask Germany to evacuate Belfort, and, with the exception of Alsace and Lor- raine, which are hopelessly gone, to restore Franoe to herself, What Germany may do in July is doubtful. Bismarck wants his last penny before France makes any change in her form of government, Until July France will wait with patience, In July there may be trouble: if Germany is not gentle and con- siderate, Darosrrogs m Savas Banas will be interested in knowing that the deposits in these institutions throughout the State of New York amount to the enormous total of over two hundred and eighty-five million dollars, against which the banks hold assets of about three hundred and five million dollars. Further particulars will be found in the money article in another column, Winter Quarter SHoars,—An editorial par- agraph in the Heratp a few days ago noticed the need of a light on Winter Quarter Shoals. This has prompted letters of thanks from coasting shipmasters, who spoak of the place’ 8. source of much dread, not alone to our own coasters, but alse to foreign vessels scek- ing to enter Cape Henry. Only about ten tect of water covers these threatening shoals, which lie seven miles outside tho nearest land, and nine miles east by north from Chingoteague light, whose bearings fan ‘scarcely be seen when mos¢ feeded. Two vessels wore lost theze last winter, besides many deck loads | washed overboard by the breakers, No time should bo lost by the Lighthouse Board in effectively marking this hidden danger. - PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General S. E. Marvin, of Albany, is at the New York Hotel. Dr. Pusey is gaining in health, and will remain all Winter in Genoa, Ex-Congressman 0. R. Griggs, of Illinois, is stop- Ping at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Colonel Cochrane, of the British Army, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant W. 0. McGowan, of the United States Navy, 1s at the Hoffman House, Colonel ©. E, Welling, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel, Henry Ward Beecher meets the merchants and business men of St. Louis on Change to-day. Ex-Congressman Thomas H, Canfield, of Ver- mont, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman-elect John H. Burleigh, of Maine, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, en route to Wasning- ton. Robert 0. Winthrop delivered the dedicatory ad- Gress at the Brookline (Mass.) Town Hall on the 23d inst. Mrs, Frances Greenleaf Sparrow, wife of Rev. Dr. William Sparrow, and ntece of the lexicographer, Dr. Noah Webster, died in Baltimore on the 20th inst. Charles Bradlaugh, @ ponderous English repub- lican, said to be a cross between Henry Ward Beecher and Robert Collyer, is coming here to lec- ture next season, The Japan Gazette of the 23d of January pub- lished the following announcement :—Benrikoshi- Uyeno-Kaganori has been appointed Minister for Japan at Washington. Henry Taylor, who for thirty years has rocked the “Cradle of Liberty” in Boston (that is, has been Superintendent of Faneuil Hall for that period), has declined reappointment, General James Shields was in St. Joseph, Mo., on the 19th, in good health. A bulletin of General Shields’ movements is nothing unusual, for in his war experience he has had many a bullet-in. The Newburyport Zerald hints that the “H. G,”” the reporters saw at the alleged haunted house in that city was not Horace Greeley, as first stated, but Holland gin, or some other spiritual Hob-Goblin. An inventory taken Of the late Edwin Forrest's personal estate shows that he had property valued at $320,386; over $100.000 in securities on deposit, stocks, &c.; jewelry, $4,071; paintings, $47,000, and 7,857 books. Over a hundred members of the Boston Lancers will visit Washington in a body to attend the in- auguration ceremonies. Among the honorary stat will be ex-Captains Guild, Jipson, Wilmarth, Fel- lows and Hull. President Cheney, of Bate’s College, Me, has secured in Boston a subscription of $100,000 for the benefit of the College, with the condition that other friends of the College increase the sum to $200,000 within five years. A common epitaph in Arkansas cemeteries is:— “We will meet in heaven, husband, dear.”” Accord- ing to a Western paper, this explains why the men of Arkansas are generally conducting themselves 80 as togo to the other place, Paul May, last June, attempted suicide in Lon- don with a young companion who succeeded. When Paul’s wounds healed he was tried for as- sisting in hiscompanion’s death, Acquitted, he was returned to Berlin, and has now been convicted of stealing the money with which the two started on their spree. Edmund Yates has been prevented by the severe weather from resuming his lecturing tour in Canada. He intends to go to Washington on Saturday and to remain there until after the in- auguration ceremonies. Mr. Yates will remain here after his return from the capital until the 12th prox., when he will sail for home. Master Edward Pindar, of Duxbury, Mass., a colored youth about nine years of age, by the death of an uncle has just fallen heir to some thirty thou. sand dollars, Master Pindar ta said to be are- markably bright youth, attending a private school patronized by the élite of Duxbury, and ranks among the very first scholars there. THE BETHLEHEM ASSASSINATION. BETULENEM, Pa,, Feb. 25, 1873. The Coroner's jury in the Monroe-Snyder murder case has been reassembled by District Attorney Moser, of Lehigh county, to listen to newly dis- covered evidence. FATAL BAILROAD AOOIDENT, Norru East, Md., Feb. 25, 1973, Messrs. Hasson Lynch and John T, Abrams, citt- zens of Cecil county, were killed by the half-past eight o'clock A. M. train from Philadelphia this morning, while walking on the track. Two trains were passing in opposite directions. They stepped out of the way of one and in front of the other. A Coroner's ingest was held, at which the jury rene dered a verdict exonerating the company. DESTRUCTION OF HORSEFLESH YESTERDAY, The Cause Attributable to the Slippery Condition of the Streets. A Noticeable feature amid the traffic of yester- day in this city was the number of dead horses which could be seen on many of the streets. The greater number had been instantly killed by being driven incautiously over the uneven and slippery thoreughfares, Two horses were lying dead on North Moore street, one opposite the store on the corner of Beach and Washington, two on West street, twoon Canal street, one in Sullivan and one on the east side of Spring street. On the principal thoroughfares leading to the North and East River ferries a num- ber ef horses were reported to have been killed. The cause of this destruction to the poor dumb brutes was universally attributed to the slippery condition of the streets and avenues, Horses carrying Reavy loads could be scen strug- ‘ling in vain to gain and maintain a footing while ey endeavored to pull their cargo; and, boing frequently driven too cruelly, they plunged in Many instances and were killed immediately by falling. It seemed almost impossible for teams to pass over frozen mounds of snow without falling, and the hard, uneven condition of the ground on which they fell was almost invariably the cause of their destruction, The streets were never 80 wretchedly obstructive and dangerous to man and beast as at presemt. When ath een EEEEEEE aneeeeT Executive Message on the Louisty ana Difficulty. Passage of the Army Appropriation Bill in th Senate—The Agricultural Colleze Bill Re- ferred to a Conference Committes— Caldwell to Stick—Senator Sumner Ont of Danger. WASHINGTON, Feb, 25, 1873, The Senate, after having wasted two sessions yesterday and one to-day over the House Agricul- tural College Subsidy bill, referred it, with a bilr Passed by the Senate giving the proceeds of lands instead of money, to a committee of conference, ‘The more the bill was discussed the more apparent it became to Senators that it would be unwise ta thus fnrther endow the so-called agricultural col~ leges scattered over thecountry. The prospects of the bill were also injured by a score or more of the Professors of these impecuntous institutions, whose. importunities for votes were so imperious as to dq hari rather than good, Loulsiaua was the real topic of discussion in the mate to-day, and there was a sharp triangular skirmish debate between ‘Trumbull, Carpenter aud) Morton—a keen trio, Trumbull denounced the President for his interference, and advocated the establishment of the McEnery State government; Morton defended the action of the President, and eulogized the Kellogg government as altogether lovely, and Varpenter pitched into both State gov< eruments, advocating a new election. It is hardly, Probable that any action will be taken at the pres» ent session, especially if there is legislation con? cerning Utah, which will consume a deal of valu. able time, Caldwell's case is to go over to the executive season, whieh eyulralent oh retaining ha seat undisturbed. one a The Senate considered the Army Appropriation bill this evening, and, after many amendments bad been added to it, passed it, Message from the President on the Louisiana Anarchy—What the Execu< tive Will Be Compellied to Do if Con< gress Take No Action. The President to-day sent to Congress the fol- lowing 12portant Message on the state of atfairs in Louisiana = si yam or Representatives :-— To mur Suxare ann Hovstaty invited to the condition of affairs in tho State of na, Grave complications have grown out of the electiou, thers on the 6th vember last, chiefly attributable, it 19 belcved, aan ranized attempt on the part of those controlling the leg ion officers and re.urns to defeat in that ¢ ection Hp wil of @ majority of the electors of the State. rent popions “are” claiming the executive ofMeed, | fwa! odies are claiming to he the Legislative. Assembly ofthe State, and the confusion and uncertaint Produced in this way ‘fall with paralyzing effect upon a ts Interests. Controversy arose as soon asthe election occurred over its proceedings and results, but I dectined to interfere until a suit, involving thig controversy to some extent, was brought into the Circuit Court of the United States, under and by viriue of the act of May 1570, entitled “‘An act to enforce the right of the citizeng of the United States to vote in the several States of the: Union, and for other purposes.” Finding that RESISTANCE WAS MADE TO JUDICIAL PRocESS in that sult without any opportunity, and in my jude- ment, without any right, to review the judgment of the Court upon the jurisdictional or other questions. arisingt in the case, I directed the United States Marshal to en- force such process, and, if necessary, to use troops for that purpose, in accordance with the thirteenth sectiom of said act, which provides that it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to employ such part of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the militia, ‘fasshall be necessary to aid in the execution of judiciak rocess under this act. Two bodies of persons claimed to: c the, Heturaing Board tor the State, and the Cireulg Court in that case decided that the one to which Lynch belonged, usually designated by his name, was the lav ful Returning Hoard, and this decision has been repeat, edly affirmed by the District and the Supreme Courts of the State. Having no opportanity or power to canvass the votes, and ‘THE EXIGENCIES OF THE CASE demanding an immediate decision, I conceive it to ba my duty to recoenize those persons asclected who ceived and held then appeared to me to be, and been _ decided the State to be, the Conformably to the decisions of ize tl their credentials to office ron what a3 sinc Cou: “t yi jowers of government; but opposed to this hag been another government, claiming to control the affaira of the State, and which has, to some extent, beon forma organized. Recent investigation of the said elec- ‘tion has developed so many FRAUDS AND FORGERIES ‘as to make it doubtful what candidates recetved a ma- ee of the votes actually cast, and in view of these facts a variety of action has been proposed. I have no specific recommendation to make upon the subject, but it there is apy practical way of removing these difticul- tles by legislation, then Iearnestly request that such ac- tion eke e taken at the present session of Congress. [1 seems aivisable that I should state now what course shall feel bound to pursue in reference to the matter in the event of no action by Congress at this tim ubject al satistaci arrangement tha’ ae be made” by 18 parties to” the contros yersy, which is of all things the most desirable. It will be my duty, so far necessary for me to act, to adhere to that government heretofore recognized by me. To judge of the election and qualifica- tion of its members is the exclusive province of the Sen- ate, as it Is also the exclusive pee, of the House to judge of the election and qualification of itsmembera, AS TO STATE OFFICES filled and held under State laws, the decisions of the State judicial tribunals, it seems to me, ought to be re- a as It may be spected. am extremely anxious to avoid any appearance of undue interference in State aftuirs, and if Congress from — me as rs eo Mikomediate Qetision to thatemect. Otherwise, shall feel obliged, as far as I can by the exercise of legitimaia authority, to put an end to the which disturbs the peace and pros! Louisiana by the recognition and suppor! ment which is recognized and upheld by the cour! State. U.S. GRAN’ Exgcurrve Mansion, Feb, 25, 1873. Brilliant Reception by the Freneh Mine is The first card reception of the French Minister and the Marquise De Noailles took place at their splendid residence to-night. There was a full representation of foreign Ministers, together with members of the Cabinet, Judges of the Supreme Court ana many other persons of distinction. ‘There has never been areception in this city of a more brilliant character in all its features, Committee of Ways and Means—The Pacific Mail Investigation. The Committee of Ways and Means had before them to-day Mr. W. 8S. King, Postmaster of the House of Representatives, who testified that some time during the last session of Congress Mr. Richard B, Irwin, agent of the Pacific Mail steamers, called upon him and solicited his aid in securing additional subsiay for that company, which wit- ness gave to the full extent of his ability. He alsa testified he had spoken unreservedly to members of Congress upon the subject, urging the legisla- tion desired; that he knew of no other agent of the company than Mr. Irwin in the matter; was never offered nor patd one dollar by Irwin or any other party for services, and had no knowledge whatever of any money having been patd to any member of the House or Senate to secure legisla- tion or for any other purpose in that connection, When asked whether he had heard of money having been used in that matter witness answered he had. During the debate on the subject he hat heard members of Congress charge that money was being used. He had no other knowledge or what he had just stated. Day. Captain L. L. Dawson, Lieutenant Henry ©. Coch rane and fifty marines from the Philadelphia Navy Yard; Lieutenant W. G. Goodsell, with fifty more from the Navai Academy, and L. W. F. Zeilin, with the guard of the frigate Constellation, arrived at tne headquarters of the marine corps te-night to join a battalion being erganized jor the inaugura- tion parade, Pardon of Ku Klux Prisoners. President Grant to-day pardoned Charles Howard and James Blanks, of Alabama, convicted of Ku Klux outrages and sentenced to imprisonment im the Albany Penitentiary. Senator Sumner Pronounced Out of Danger. Senater Sumner’s health has materially improved, and he is now prenounced ont of danger. The Great Naylor Steel Case is to be tried in April, and Ben Butler, who last Fall won a similar case for the government, as an assistant of the District Attorney, 1s now to be on the side of the defence. ‘War Department Order. ‘An order has been tssnead from the War Depart ment providing that the payment of rent or any allowance for Senuaat or fuel of officers’ servants ig hereby prohibited until more specific legislation shall sanction It. Treasury Balances, ‘The following were the balances in the Treasury: at the close of business to-day:—Currency, ~ redemption of certificates of deposit, $20,050,000; ol 65,556,243, imoluding coin certificates, | se special deposit of legal tenders for the