The New York Herald Newspaper, March 1, 1873, Page 6

6 INEW YORK HERALD ‘BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Wolame XXXVIII.. * OoOoooOOOOnhMhaOaO4aaSa>\>_<_ © AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON ARG EVENING, NINTO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince gisenoe strects.—LEO AND prtted Matinee at 1. | OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleecker streets.—Huurrr Duurrr. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Eroadway and Fourth av.—Omez Hunpuep Ysans Ox. ‘ WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirtecnth sireet.—Davip Ganaice. Matinee at 2 , .ROOTH!S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Tickgr or Leave May, Matinee at 2 4 ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect—Tratian Prsas—Afiernoon at 1—Don Giovanni. § qHEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Pastrr PrcK Tuarim. Matinee at 2s. * ERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Nicut on 4 Steam eon Wie o' sax Wisr. Matinee at 2, and RA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth { GeRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth streot, near Third \av.—Houx Powition, \_ NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALIxm Matinee at 13, i WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad: , corner Thirtieth st.— Across ‘tus Contingent. ‘Shernean and Evening. { arMENEoM, No. 585 Brondway.—Gnano Vanrerr Ex. Sentauaxnt. Matinee at 2 MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— . PF eth OPPRA ROUSE: Twenty-third st.. corner ae, By.—Necro MinstRELsr, 1 TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, Napure Eorenraunucnr. at No. 201 Bowery.— Matinee at 234. 4 fAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Esuioriax Mixstnersy, £c. i street.—G: Toys * STEINWAY WALL, Fourteen! \axo Tanrwouxntay, Concent. isthe ABSOCIATION HALL, 234 street and dth av.—After- ‘at 3—Mas. G. Vanpennorr’s Reapincs. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, March 1, 1873. bru NEWS OF YESTERDAY. }ro-pay's Contents of the Herald. ¢ Y'AMERICA IN PARIS! WHAT ONE OF OUR LOST TRIBES IS DOING! FRENCH CRITI- CISM ON AMERICA” —EDITORIAL LEADER— SixrH Pace. MECCA OF AMERICANS! CONGRESSES AND COLONIES OF PILGRIMS FROM THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF THE WEST IN THE GAY OAPITAL OF FRANCE! PASTIMES AND OPINIONS! “L’ONCLE SAM!) WHAT THERE IS IN SARDOU'S INTERDICTED PLAY—Fovrra AND Firra Pars. ARRANGING FOR PEACE! TRE MODOC WAR- RIORS LEAVE THE LAVA-BED STRONG- HOLD! PEACE A’ DESIDERATUM! THE PEACE MEN JEALOUS OF THE HERALD COMMISSIONER—SEVENTH Pack. OPERATIONS OF TRE MODOC PEACE COMMIS- SIONERS! THEIR MENTAL CALIBRE AND PREVIOUS CAREER! THE HERALD COR- RESPONDENT IN THE COUNCIL! MODOC WARRIORS AVERSE TO MEACHAM—FirtTg Pgs. M AFTER THE BATTLE! SKIRMISHING ALONG THE MOBILIER-UNION PACIFICO LINE! A PERTINENT QUERY! LOUISIANA MIS- RULE! ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL—Tump Paces. WONGRESS IN A HURRY! THE DEBATE ON i LOUISIANA! DEFEAT OF 1HE SALARY- INCREASE BILL—Tuirp PaGe. \ FLORID ACCEPTANCE OF THE NEW SPANISH REGIME! THE CUBAN PRESS ON THE NEWS! PORTO RICO—SevznrH Pages. PABLE NEWS FROM EUROPE! NON-RECOGNI- TION OF SPAIN! THE CARLISTS ACTIVE! THE RUSSIAN TROUBLES! AMERICA AND THE POPE! THE GENEVA AWARD AGITA- TION IN THE ENGLISH HOUSE OF COM- MONS—SavenTa Pace. WEGISLATIVE ‘DOINGS! A DISAPPOINTMENT t FOR “THE SEVENTH!” THE EXCISE BILL 2 PASSED—MARINE NEWS—TEnTH Pace. THE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE! THE TELEGRAPH ‘ FLEET WiLL SAIL IN MAY! THE CABLE Tu BE WORKING BY THE 1ST OF JULY— SgvenTu Pace. PROGRESS OF THE GILBERT RAPID TRANSIT ‘ RAILWAY! THE PROJECT EXPLAINED BY THE PRESIDENT! IN OPERATION BY , OCTOBER—Exevenra Par. ‘A CONVICT CONFESSES HAVING COMMITTED A MURDER! IT IS PROBABLE PROFESSOR PANORMO WAS THE VICTIM—REAL Es- TATE MATTERS—NintH Pace. FOSTER HOPES FOR A COMMUTATION OF HIS SENTENCE! THE PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR! STOKES “AT HOME!” CON- ‘ DITION OF THE TOMBS—NintH Paar. DUR COMMON SCHOOLS! THE BILL TO RECON- STRUCT THE SYSTEM! UNFAVORABLE RE- SULTS ANTICIPATED! THE DANGERS— ELEVENTH Pace. PACIFIC MAIL ON A “FLYER! OTHER STOCKS HIGHER! THE FEATURES IN THE VARI- OUS MARKETS—Eicurn Page. EXPERT TESTIMONY AS TO SCANNELL’S MEN- TAL STATE! A RETIRED ACTRESS SUES FOR THE ESTATE OF A “D. D.!. OTRER LEGAL BUSINESS—ELEVENTH Pagm, CUBA CELEBRATES WASHINGTON'S BIRTH. DAY! THE PROCLAMATION OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC! THE WAR NEWS— THE NEW CUBAN COMMITTEE IN NEW YORK—NinTH PAGE. ae DETAILS OF THE CALAMITOUS FIRE AT THE HUB! THE BODIES OF TWO GIRLS EX- HUMEP! A GHASTLY SIGHT! AN IN- * QUIRY ON FOOT—Firrm Pacs. ~ SS Sram, --It is a matter of common report In Europe that the great Powers have unitedly resolved not to recognize, for the present, the existing Spanish government. What does this mean?) We know that the great Powers are @onarchical and that they cave. not for the success of the Republic, Is this resolution the result of a feeling against the Republic and its chances, or is it the fruit of a certain knowledge that the Republic cannot last? After oll it must be admitted that Spain is not the best country to make a republican experi- qent It is deoply troubled just now by Ostlism, military desertion and citizen affight, ‘ Get A New Taaxsemiantio Casuz.—A cable despatchof this morning informs us that the Great Eastern has now on board two thousand five hundred and sixty-seven miles of cable, The telegraph fleet is to consist of the Great East- ern, Hibernia, Edinburgh and Le Plata, The fleet will gail the last week in May. It is ex. pected that the new cable will be in working order before the first day of July. We cannot have too many transatlantic cables. The more the merricr, and the more the better for mankind NEWYORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Brosdway.— poe 4mD Agr. 4EW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873,—TRIPLE SHEET. America tm Paris—What One of Our Lest Tribes Is Doing—French Criti- clom om Amorica. Burns has a quaint conceit that if men and Women could see themselves as they are seen by others they would escape many blunders and foolish notions, It is not » grateful func- tion, this acting as # moral mirror to our friends and acquaintances and showing them their little faults and embarrassments, There is an old frontier story of two sinners who, having experienced a chango of heart, resolved upon a change of lives. Not being in the range of Gospel ministrations, they resolved to confess their sins and amend their ways, “Now, Tom,"’ said Joe, ‘you know you have been wicked.” ‘I know,’’ replied Tom. ‘You know you were drunk. recently.’ “Alas! many times,’’ said'Tom. ‘You know you tell lies.””. Whereupon Thomas grew vio- lently angry, committing assault and battery upon his confessor and postponing—indefi- nitely, we fear—the day of regen- eration and religious self-denial, There is another story of the same character that comes to mind. ‘Do you know," said the village gossip, ‘that Smith, the village sinner, has got religion.” ‘Has he?’ said the deacon. ‘Yes; he does not go around on Sunday with his axe over his shoulder to cut down trees. He waits until church is out and carries his axe under his coat-tail.” All “America in Paris’’ isin an excitement of a similar nature over the new play of Sardou. Our American friends are about to be shown their weaknesses—their sins of commission— and France will be told that if now, in our days of reform, we do not carry the are on the shoulder we carry it und gur its, Now, it is notorious that n9 feople claim to welcome agitelgey mt paraenty than Americans. M. Sardou had taken them at their word, and they reply, we fear, in ‘the spirit of our frontier friend, who terminated his confession of sins by an assault upon his monitor. We sympathize with the emotion of our exiled brethren and fellow countrymen. We trust we love and honor our dearly beloved compatriots; but if there is one section more cherished than another it is that absent colony of free and independent citizens that we call “America in Paris,” We are afraid our sober stay-at-home people—who see no spire higher than Trinity, and find in the new Court House the sum and glory of architecture, and believe Central Park the only breathing ground worthy of the name—know very little , about their exiled brethren, and forget, if they ever really knew, that we have a colony in Paris who exercise a large influence upon France and the French people. In that catholic spirit which ani- mates the Hzratp our readers will see that we have not forgotten this precious remnant of the American race. Our commissioner, em- wlous of the fame of the discoverers of the Swamp Angels, the Cuban patriot army and Dr. Livingstone, boldly set out in search of the colony and found it. He says nothing of the dangers he encountered, but leaves them to our imagination. To be sure, they are not like those confronting the commanders of other expeditions, but still they are not to be underrated. There are perils in Paris far ex- Geeding, We fear, perils on land and sea, from land rate and water rats and pirates on the main. There is the Latin Quarter—fatal to so many noble “spirits from the time of Abelard to that of young Duval, who shot himself for Cora Pearl. There are the boulovards, whero heedless travellers find traps and pitfalls; the Palais Royal, where any one who enters with a full purse must leave all hope behind. There are legends of Mabille and the gardens of the Luxembourg and the chestnut trees at Sceaux. But our commissioner braved them all in the performance of his work, and his report is now before the world. It will be seen, as a general thing, that our colony is in a flourishing condition. The pic- ture of the home-sick patriot sitting alone in the courtyard of the Grand Hotel, musing over his fifth bottle of pale ale and hoping fot some friendly face to come and partake of his hospitality, is cad enough. When a thorough- bred American is lonely and away from home he is the loneliest of human beings. The Englishman has his beer and the Times, the German his pipe, the Frenchman his red wine and his picture of Napoleon, to remind him of his nation’s glory; but the American needs society. He craves sympathy. Our country- man abroad is usually seized with a desire to give his views on politics and society. He becomes talkative, would instruct mankind upon the reasons which lead to the decadence of France, and, indeed, of all European na- tions, as well as upon the facility with which England could be invaded. As a general thing, he likes Bismarck ond will ‘tell you what Bismarck is about to do. He. believes in Russia; but, somehow, never goes there on account of the wolves, which are known to make travel dangerous. His special antipathy is the French people, especially if he cannot speak the language. He admires the Bonapartes and thinks the French pecu- liarly unfit for republicanism, He resents the universal impression that- all Americans abroad are in the sewing machine business, snd delights to buy igaitation jewelry and ~ Present it to the servants. He becomes a critical reader of the Naw Yor Hzaitd, be- ginning with the marriages and deaths, The days when no mail comes are dark indeed, and he lingers with astonishment and grief cver the amazing French journals, with their perplexing iiéws Aespatches—which contain no news—and their coy, sly jokes which no dictionary will explain. If he ean gain ad- mission to the Washington Club he finds o great comfort in looking at home faces and talking politics, differing with his fellow countrymen on all themes but one—the utter worthlessness of the French people. Some- times, in despeir, he will find consolation in ten or twenty thousagd francs at French | games of chance. es tT We ore afraid all is not harmony in the colony. Our compatriots abroad, one would think, would find pence and rest in each other's society. But it is painful to be in- formed that the general business of every American abroad is to discuss every other American. A few have ribbons of honor from the French and German Courts, and these are severely assailed. They are unpatriotic, say our brethren, who, we fear, would give up every comfort in life but Cavendish plug to- bacco and the Henatp to have the same red ribbon and the tiny, dangling cross. There are new comers and old residents. The new comer svends most of his time in looking for American oysters—a taste despised by old residents, who like the mineral copper flavor of the Ostend or Armorican. Now and then there are charming little dinners, when tho old resident astonishes the new comers by having on exhibition a real count with an ap- petite. Our commissioner darkly hints that some of our enterprising countrymen really koop 4 count in reserve for dinner purposes; but this wo hesitate to accept. In Sum- mer the colony has accessions, when tho old residents with tho reserved count come out bravely in the dinner way. These Summer hegiras aro sometimes curious. A fow years ago we sent delegates from our highest petroleum and shoddy circles, who emazed the waiters at Bignon’s and Vefour’s by the quaintnoss of their customs. Then came the Tammany emigration, whon the Americus Club heroes swarmed on the boule- vards with glaring oravata and diamond pins, and gave the waiters gold pioces for foes, This was, however, in our suany Tammany ‘days. There has been a Tammany hegira since then, but mainly to other countries, where, happily, there remains no treaty of surrender or extra- dition, This Summer we do not know who will go, unless it be our Committee of Seventy or the well-satisfied followers of Boss Tom Mur- phy’s new ring, or the bulls and bears of Wall street, headed by Henry Smith, Jay Gould and Daniel Drew. The Committeo of Seventy would make a fine impression in Paris, for Paris has seen before in its history patriots whose virtue culminated in a place, reformers who grew rich on their professions of reform, and hypocrites who served their country only as they served themselves, We our_belo nd brethren GU Peer EW machen ihe plop which is to tell the world. what a French writer thinks of our own dear native. ‘‘Marquis,’’ says a young lady in Fifth ave- nue—the lady and the Marquis are discussing an honorable proposition of matrimony— “Marquis, how much are you worth?” “Pardon, Mademoiselle, I do not under- stand?’’ “I mean, are you very rich?’’ ‘Oh, yes, very rich; eighty thousand francs a year."’ “Well invested?” ‘In shares, lands and vineyards.’ ‘Bordeaux vineyards? None of your Catawba !’’ “Yes, but my dear Sarah ——” ‘Do you receive your rents regularly?” &., &. This is an extract from the play that excites ‘America in Paris,’ and is supposed to be the way a damsel in Fifth avenue would consider an offer of marriage froma French nobleman. We really see no harm in this—no reason why M. Sardou should not write plays all his life filled with similar “hits at American society.”” If he says nothing more we shall be content; nay, we should be more than contented if we did not feel that there were true phases of Amer- ican society more vexatious than this which M. Sardou or any satirist would do well to put upon the-stage. It is not long since a character rivalling the Count of Monte Christo flashed over our New York society—since we had a quack driving six-in-hand to salute the President—since the chief of Tammany dis- pensed his wealth like an Oriental magnate in the buying and selling of Legislatures—since some of the first men of the nation were shown to_be merely purchased hirelings of a vast railway corporation who v0 their votes for money. Menand brethrcu, whether here at home, or far off exiled in dear, seducing, romantic Paris, while these things are’ so— and we all know them to be true—let us not grow angry because a French dramatic Bo- hemian puts Uncle Sam intoa comedy and plays him on the Parisian stage. The Louisiana Dificulty=—Let Us Have Peace. coasel There is reason to fear from the character of the debate in the Senate on the Louisiaua difficulty, and from the few hours that remain to this Congress, that the whole matter will be left to the Executive to settle. In that case we are informed in advance by the President what the settlement will be. He will recognize the usurping Kellogg gov- ernment. Perhaps this is what Congress, or the Senate, at least, desires. As in the Crédit Mobilier case, Congress has not, it seems, the moral courage to grapple with a great evil when the republican party must suffer by such action. The wrong has been done by that party and by the administration which it has made and is its representative; but neither Congress nor the President has the moral courage to admit that by throw- ing out the usurping Kellogg faction. But let us have peace at any rate. Let civil war be averted and the dangerous state of things existing now in Louisiana be promptly cured. If Congress and the President will tiot recognize the proper State government of McEnery, and the people will not submit to the usurping one of Kellogg, let us have immediately a new election. Anything to avoid civil war or the pretext fora military despotism. Only let not the election be put off. Let it be held at once. This, we are sotry to say, seems to be the only solution of the difficulty. The Alabama Fs a at Ges eal va. saga gli Mr. Julian Goldsmid, s member of the British House of Commons, has intimated to the Parliament, in an indirect manner but strictly legislative form, that he is convinced that-there was some sharp, if not positively dishonest, practice on the part of the United | States With regard to the make-up of the bill of claims for compensation in the Alabama case presented at Geneva, and that the award of the arbitrators in favor of the Americans is faulty and erroneous in our favor by being based on this bill. Mr. Goldsmid will ask Queen Victoria's Ministers, on the 3d instant, ‘whether it is true that the actual losses of the United States were two million five hun- dred thousand dollars less than the award made at Geneva, and whether the American government will remit the amonnt?” The reading of the question moved the House to cheers, whether of approval or the reverse is not stated. The notice involves many serious issues. Coming from s man of Mr. Gold- smid's-reputation, the heir presumptive, if not already so in fact, to the position and wealth of the eminent financier, Sir Isaac Lyon Gold- smid, one of the principal founders of Uni- versity College, London, through inherit ance from his son, Sir Francis Henry Gold- emid, the legislative innuendo will attract moro than usual interest anfl attention. Itis to be How the Farce Was Planned, Played and Ended. . Now thst the curtain is well dows, the lights out, the benches empty and the unives- sal verdict of “damnation” accorded by the critics is endorsed by the entire people, we may tako a final gtance at tho Crédit Mobilier farce itself. We cannot well shrink from the task ; but it is a very disagrocable one. Of all the horrid, hideous sounds of woe— Hore, ate than screech-ow! on the midnight ast— Is that portentous sound, “I told you 80," Uttered by friends—those prophets of the past. And we did tell the public so; and if any- body doubted what wo said he is rightly served. “I am tho honestest man in Con- gress ; they will not dare to expel mo,” said old Hoax a couple of weeks ago. Tho shovel- maker, it must be admitted, in saying this, showed that he had not much to brag about on the honesty question. What is moro, he has no idea of what honesty is, and so that part of his declaration will have little weight with the public. The secret history, however, of the connection between that honesty cry and the subsequent refusal to expel him is well worth writing inch-deep on the tablets of history. Hoax, when he uttered this memorable prophecy, was fresh from a rehearsal of the farce that has since been played to such studiously barren conclusions, It was after dark under the gaslight in the committes room of St. Poland. The dramatis persona: were selected by Butler, forthe simple reason that he had the ‘‘cast’’ already in his oye. St. Poland was told to shine up his brass buttons and paint in the V wrinkles of a terrible stage frown between his eyebrows, for he was to play the resound- ing part of “‘Indignant Justice." There was no necessity to tell Brooks to whiten his facg ; it looked pale enough. All ho had to do waa to rub some blanc de perle over his soiled hands, and get his son-in-law to exhibit his with a requisite amount of dirt upon them. He was to play ‘Injured Innocence,’’ and at every opportunity was to hold up his whitened hands and emit a whine. Hoax him- self was to play ‘Old Honesty,” and for this purpose Dawes lent him some of the ‘“‘prop- erties’’ he used when he played the part a long time ago. Among these was a flowered waistcoat, which on the stage is the badge of rural simplicity. Hoe was also to wear a shovel hat, To Bingham was assigned tho part of ‘Shameless Sinner.’ He was to be dressed ina yellow jaundiced suit and glory in his stock of Crédit Mobilier and waspish impertinence. Dawes was to play the part of “Howling Simplicity,’’ with a spoonful of baked beans in his mouth. Banks was to play “Buttered Thunder,” with 4 quart of sweet oil trickling between his bolts of denunciation. Kelley was to play ‘‘Pig-iron Virtue’ and to talk from the bottom of a Pennsylvania mine, soasto give his utterances a ghostly hollow- ness as wellasa delusive depth. Butler re- served the leading réle of ‘‘Ben the Buffoon”’ for himself. It was a wise selection. He looked the part thoroughly and had no neces- sity to ‘make up” for it. His speech upon “Honest Hoax Ames,’’ with his indescribable grimaces, convulsed the actors so at rehearsal that, although they were sworn to secrecy until the day of the performance, Hoax could not help blabbing out in a chuckle his prophecy, with its remarkable comment on his honesty the BExt day. . On Tucsday the performance began. to a crowded house, and people ‘not in the secret never dreamed that they were acting. "St. Poland talked his lines with all the senten- tiousness of a man really seeking what he was praying for. The V wrinkles looked in- flexible justice itself, ‘Ben the Buffoon” spPaig Tato the taog"ind kicked up the saw- dust with a resolution to hand ‘‘Old Honesty’ over to his pantomime policemen. This was flouted according to arrangement by the old man with the brass buttons and V wrinkles on his forehead. Then Hoax himself stood up and got the ‘‘call boy’’ of the House to read his lines. During the recital he drew forth a huge “‘check’’ pocket handkerchief and wept bucketsful into it. The audience were swin- dled into weeping, also, along with the old man artful. This ended the first act. On Wednesday ‘‘Ben the Bufioon’’ came forward for his trick scene. Hoax and Brooks were beguiled of their sorrows in lis- tening to his daring deviltry. The appear- ance of the Buffoon alone gave point to his in- sults to decency. Hoax looked so astonished at hearing himself called an honest man in public, and by such a being, that he almost forgot the diabolical irony of the Buffoon. He almost believed it was real, and oh! how Brooks wished it was. Brooks all the time whined to order and flung up his whitened hands and cried like the maidens at the Bowery:—‘“Oh, I am__hinnercent! Spare me! spa-hare me!" The Buffoon reached the climax of his part when he de- elared he was made by God and not by the press. Well might every reporter in the gal- lery throw up his hands and say thank Heaven that the Buffoon took his paternity off their hands. Much as they might believe the Buf- foon to have made a mistake in the exact supernatural being to whom he ascribed his origin, they rejoiced to hear him disown, fhe press ‘peel eae moi stroslty. The Shameless Sinner,’’ as played by Bingham, was also a Yemarkable success. That in this character he assailed tlic press we take as the highest compliment in his power, Oddly enough, Ames shuddered rather at the cous: pling jngham paid him, and for which Hoax kneW he had paid so handsomely in Mobilier favors beforehand. He would not have shuddered any more than one of his own shovels if he was not aware that the audience knew the exact price. But when he had wel- comed laudations from the Buffoon it was no wonder he accepted them even from Bingham. Why, he would heve taken them from Colfax or Patterson, Then Banks came in as ‘But tered Thunder,” and such unctuous rumbling was never heard as rolled over the mosquito piping of Bingham. This ended the second act, The third act was short. Dawes, as “Howling Simplicity,” and Kelley, as “Pig- iron Virtue,’ met with moderate success. The votes were counted and the farce was over. But when we turn away, saddened and dis- gusted from the deplorable exhibition, with the triumph of corruption ringing in our ears, and ponder what must be the effect thereof on public morals, we are startled at the prospect. A sweeping majority of Con- gress is found indifferent to honor and honesty, and the sneers of an unscrupulous hoped that it will be met promptly and re- | Buffoon at public opinion, at justice, at moved jn @ satisfactory manger, morality apd gt itself are hailed by Co with applause. Men convicted of bartering | their public trust for the shekels of a shovel- maker are allowed to sit in the places which should be sacred to unsullied charactor. It is worse for the Republic than as many re- bellions as there are tainted Congressmen who ciel beon whitewashed. With euch an exam] Congress every village in the land will furnish its secret rebels, who will take their cue for conspiracy against the national life through the mazes of corruption from it. Worse a thousand times than flat rebellion will be this insidious cancer, eating to the heart of our free institutions. Itis melan- choly to think that but two or three men like Shellabarger, of Ohio, rose to the height of the occasion, who could say that public opin- ion demanded something, and that the cause of good government was on trial as well as these dishonored Congressmen. Good gov- ernment has received a deadly stab in the shameful result, Congress—The Unfinished Business— Prospect of an Extra Session, From noon to-day to the hour of noon on the 4th of March there are threo days remain- ing to the present. Congress, including the intervening Sunday; but, as Daniel Webster remarked on a similar occasion of @ heavy Pressure of urgent business on a very short remnant of the session, “there are no Sab- baths in revolutionary times.’ Doubtless, therefore, the two houses, day and night, Sun- day included, will work like Chinamon on a wager to accomplish the heavy task before them within the three days still remaining to this Congress, If they fail to pass the regular appropriations necessary to carry on the gov- ernment, or certain other measures declared by the President to be urgently demanded in behalf of peace, law and order—such as a bill - settling or providing for the. settlement of the Louisiana entanglemont, and the bill recon- structing the Territorial government of Utah— an extra session of the new or Forty-third Congress will, we apprehend, be the next thing in order. The Senate, after an exhausting session (which, with a brief recess or two, lasted from Thursday morning, through the day and the night, to Friday morning), threw all its labor away in the rejection of the. Louisiana bill it had been considering and in proceeding then to other business. Meantime the Utah bill, passed by the Senate in deference to the Preci- dent’s earnest representations and suggestions on the subject, hangs fire in the House, while that body is working away upon a budget of miscellaneous subjects which could just as well be postponed to the first Monday in De- cember next. With the covering up and hiding away of the Crédit Mobilier scandal by the House we had supposed that nothing in the line of offi- cial high crimes and misdemeanors could be produced deemed worthy of impeachment by that dignified body; but it appears that, on motion of Mr. Butler, of the Judiciary Com- mittee, yesterday, Mark H. Delahay, a United States Judge for the District of Kansas, is to be arraigned before the Senate on articles of impeachment from the House, based upon charges of habitual intoxication and his con- nection with the mysterious disappearance of some thirty-two thousand dollars of the public money, for which he is held responsible to the government,’ General Butler, however, could not forego _the opportunity for the encourigtig “observation that the House, having purified itself, ought to purif the judiciary a bit, It would appear, never- theless, that the Judiciary Committee is not satisfied that the Crédit Mobilier purifica-" ae of the House ig all tho purification re- quired in ng nm for, 6n- motion of Mr. Wilson, of said committee, an amend- ment was admitted to the Legislative Appro- priation bill, providing for a general judicial overhauling and rectification of the affairs of the Union Pacific Railroad Company—an amendment which Mr. Dickey, of Pennsylva- nia, warned the mover, if admitted, “Your appropriation bill is gone where the woodbine twineth."’ This appears to us a warning that this Pacific Company and the Crédit Mobilier are still a power in the House, Next, on the amendment raising the com- pensation of the President and Vice President, United States judges and members of Con- gress there was too much of superfluous twaddle and.of mock heroics for buncombe. It struck Mr. Farnsworth, for example, that the spectacle of this Congress voting an in- crease of salaries, commencing with the Presi- dent and ending with itself, was. a more shameless spectacle than any that had been ex- hibited before. But it did not appear to strike Mr. Farnsworth that Congress, and Congress only, is invested with the power and the duty of regulating these official salaries, as in the judgment of the two houses may be deemed proper and expedient from time to time. We think, however, that éven Mr. Farnsworth will admit that the pitiful eompencation of the members of Congress has had much to do with all these corrupting outside Congres- sional affiliations, asin the Crédit Mobilier and other schemes and jobs of bribery and corruption, Give the member of Congress at least 4 Compensation that will enable him to make both ends meet in Washington without borrowing, begging, gambling, lobby schem- ing or stockjobbing and there will soon be less of Congressional bribery and corruption than we have had at any time since the de- nioralizing war of our late rebellion. How- evef, ie amendment having been defeated by a degisive vole of tise House, the subject ma; as well be prambady Soya Ae The dettily of yesterday's proceedings in both houses, as given in our se peg 1 reports, show that, while the House and the Senate at the eleventh hour are working des- perately to save their distance and avoid an extra session, the probabilities of the unequal struggle appear to be so heavily against them fas to render an extra session almost inevi- table. France—Tue Comsurrer or Tamty.—The Committee of Thirty has gt last made its report to the Assembly. The presumption is that the report of the committee will be adopted. M. Dufaure, speaking for the gov- ernment, said that the government unre- servedly accepted the committee’s recom- mendations, It does not scem, however, as if the recommendations of the committee would settle anything. The Marquis de Castellane urged the Assembly to proclaim a constitutional monarchy at once. In his judg- ment delay in this matter meant rain to by fox i} would make the county hot-bed of A prominent Bone- partiat at the eamo time demanded a pl@iscite on the three questions, whether France showid be @ republic, a monarchy or an empire. All this seems to imply that in France, as ix Spain, nothing is settled. “Avren tHe Dawvox,”—‘‘Ridiculus mus nascitur—e little mouse creeps out of the laboring mountain,”" is the conclusion a classi- cal evening contemporary arrives at in regard to the action of the House onthe exprision matter. ‘‘‘A most lame and impotent con- clusion’ will be the verdict of the American people’’ upon the same subject, is the opinion of the Evening Mail. ‘Just as we predicted,’* gays our amusing friend of the Commercial. “The Crédit Mobiliers have escaped. Tho impoging proceedings in Congress have come toa lame and impotent conclusion,” affirms the Philadelphia Age “Crédit Mobilior is so odious in the sight of the people,” says the Albany Argus, “that in Rochester the repub- licans have ebandoned the con- test on the city ticket on Tuesday.” Tho Crédit Mobilier botheration has 80 long en- listed publio’ attention that it will be a relief tohave the subject disposed of at last. If “nobody has been hurt’’ it was more by good luck than by good management on the part of the accused. “‘After the Deluge” let the ark rest, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Two birds killed with one stene—Pomeroy an® York. “and Oakes Ames wept.” What made Oskea Ames weep t Judge F. Dunleavy, of Chicago, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, It was the Morrill Committee that struck Bulp Patterson, after ail. General John Croxton, new Minister to Bolivia, is at the Metropolitan Hotel, Dr. E. P. Vollum, of the United States Army, ie at the Metropolitan Hotel. Count Bernstor?, of the German Legation, salled in the Cimbria on Thursday. Colonel E. R. Biackwell, of Philadelphia, is stay- ing at the Grand Central Hotel. ° Ex-Oongressman Homer Ramsdell, of Newburg, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Congressman 0. D. Macdougall, of Auburn, N. Y., has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. E. 0. Banfield, Solicitor of the United States Treasury, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, One of the Japanese Ambassadors is about to marry the daughter of a Paris financier. Prince Arthur Patrick will preside at @ 8% Patrick's Society dinner om the 17th instant, Simon Brown is dead. He was Lieutenant Gov- ernor of Massachusetts in Know Nothing times. Lieutenant Governor Morris Tyler, of Conneo ticut, is among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan: Hotel. Lieutenant Commander James Butterworth, of the United States Navy, is registered at the West- minster Hotel. C. 0. Gilman, ef Iowa, President of the Central Railread of Iewa, yesterday arrived at the St. Nichelas Hotel. The Pope, conscious of the needs of prelates at- tached to the Vatican, has decided to pay them ® full menth’s salary. Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, fell, when leay- ing his: house in Indianapolis yesterday morning, and severely injured himself. Wipe away your tears, poor innocent Ames. You can let your lachrymose pumps go as dry as & tinder box for a generation to come, Madame Napoleon Bonaparte, the wife of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, whe killed Victor Noir, is en- gaged in dressmaking in Bond street, London. Several French bishops are urging tho Pope to protest against the actions of the Italian govern- ment, and then, seeking asylum elsewhere, to “leave Rome to its fate.” Pegles aed shat counter a ha hak est manner. He promises to frank to them all the Congressional pub. docs. * Captain Novosailsky and Engineer Alexandroy- sky, of the Russian Navy, aré at the Hoffman House, having arrived on Thursday from Europe, on the steanship Atlantic. Governor Washburn’s chances as the successor of Senator Wilson in the United States Senate from Massachusetts are said to be improving, while Boutwell's are diminishing. Mr. Ramon Cespedes, ceusin of the President of Cuba and resident in this city as diplomatic agent of-free Cuba, received the sad tidings yesterday that his sen had met a patriot’s death while fight- ing in the Cuban liberating army. Sir Charles Bright, of London, who planned and superintended the laying ef the West India tele- Graph cable, arrived at the Brevoort House from the Seuth, late on Wednesday night, Professor William Biagham, of North Carolina, a distinguished scholar and “educator,” and author of several text books on the classics, died lately in Fiorida, whither he had gone for his health. Ellery A. Hibbard has accepted the liberal re~ publican nomination for Congress from the New Hampshire first district. Be is a democratic mem- ber of the present Congress. Election March 11. Lord Dunraven and Dr. Kingsley, of England, who have been travelling in this country and the Canadas since last Fall, have arrived at the Bre- voort House from Washington. They gail for home on Wednesday. Old topers in England feel themselves to be patriots and bear a becoming port since the Earl of Derby has said, speaking about the tax on liquors, “We have drunk ourseives out of the Ala- bama difficulty during the past year.” The Delaware peach growers honestly admit that the prospect for a good crop this year 1s as favor- able as last year, whem an immense crop was har- vested. The “eyes of the world are o2 little Dela- Ware;” so far as early peaches go, at any rate. THE HERALD COMMISSIONER TO CUBA. —_>—_—_ (From the Austin (Texas) State Journal, Fen. 20.) The Cuban special correspondent to the New LD, Mr. James J. O'Kelly, applied through the American Comsul to General Morales, commander ef the Spanish forces in the Eastern Department, for permission to pass the lines, 80 a9 to investigate the situation of affairs, to learn the truth and make public all the information he could obtain, in answer to which ne received the follows, ing cool reply :— She ie geomet ea General Morales tells me that you can leave Paima and go where you like, on the understand- ing that if the mish troops find you among the inst ots, or you alterwards appear withia RHR, Sted del Se eager In view of ¢ edie ae In which both the Cuban Aad Spanish troops have conducted the War, it 1s needless to say that O'Kelly is threatened Witn death. So serieus does the case appear that the Hanats gives General Morales the following ea roa Tes he HERALD Commissioner ek any, inion, #3, of your country, and your nation wil pay the penalty: The stupidity of Morasies is contemptible. He little comprenend’s the power of the American press compine@ ever the American nation, for it is the direct representative of the people, and is greater than the government itself If Morales is eager to cross sabres with Tnole Sam he has only to execute his threat against O'Kelly, and the storm of indignation that will sweep over this land, like® prairie on fire, will startie monarchs on their thrones and shake Cuba from centre tocircumference. Such a spec- tacle as a combined press has never been known since the discovery of the art of printing; but such an occasion as the threat of Merales conrempiates ‘Would unite all parties, fects, creeds and shades, and, althoug® distinct as the waves, they would be one aa the soa tm thundering the voice of a nation roused to revenge. O'Kelly need not lose an hour’s leep; he ta backed by a power greator thag all we Waxenes an earta,