The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1873, Page 6

NEW ‘YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume bei danni seteteeeesereerees NOs OB AMUSEMENTS NTS THIS (WANING, UNION FOUARE THEATRE, Union square, beorenn Broadway and Fourth av.—Oxx Munprxp Yxans 01 WALLACK’S THEATRE,’ Broadway and Thirteenth bireet.—Davip Gannicn. POOTH'® THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—No Tuoxovaurany, THFATRE COMIQUE, No. 51¢ Broadway.—' vax Monper at tux Fan. POWEFRY THEATR Wurre—Witt 0’ tux W! GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth av.—Bovanine Ir, i NEW FIFTa AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALixR, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadw: Neox anp Nxcx. Afternoon ai —'98; on Bowery.—Ma. anv Mus. Parse corner Thirtleth st— évening. GERMANIA THRATRE, Fourteeath stront, near Third ay.—Honx Pouition. ATHFNFUM, No. {65 Broadway.—Granv Variety En- ‘PRRTALNMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and loustom streets,—LKO AND LoTOS, ST JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st—Bun- Lesaue OrEna—Masxs AND Facns, & OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humrry Duurry. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Diana BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Rr Van Winkie. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Ky Twenty-third st. corner ‘th av.—Nxcro Minstretsy, 4c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vanurty ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 2'4. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Lecrurs, “Taz Anconaurs or '49.”" NFW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Screnox ann Arr. Now ‘York, Tuesday, March a, 1873. THE ‘NEWS: OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE BEGINNING OF PRESIDENT GRANT'S SECOND TERM AND THE END OF THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS""—EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixt Pagz. PREPARING FOR PRESIDENT GRANT'S REINAU- GURATION! A GRAND DAY FOR THE CAPI- TAL CITY! EDMUND YATES AND DON PIATT LENDING A HAND! THE MAGNIFI- CENT BALL ROOM! THE VISITORS AND THE PRELIMINARIES—Tutup Page. CONGRESS HURRIEDLY CLOSING UP THE BUSI NESS OF THE SESSION! RUSHING THROUGH THE JOBS! THE MEMBERS TICKLED ABOUT THEIR INCREASED SAl+ ARIES! MARINE NEWS—‘estn Pace. GOOD NEWS FOR CUBA! AN EMANCIPATION DECREE AND A PROCLAMATION BY THE SPANISH CORTES OF A LIKE RESULT MAY BE LOOKED FOR AT AN EARLY MOMENT! GREAT BRITAIN WILL NOT RE- COGNIZE THE NEW SPANISH REPUBLIC— SEVENTH Page. AMADEUS BIDS FAREWELL TO PORTUGAL! THE ROYAL FAMILY ACCOMrANY HIM ABOARD THE ROMA AND SALVOES ARE FIRED IN HIS LONOR—SEvENTH Pace. FREE SPEECH DENIED TO SPANIARDS IN CUBA! THE AMERICAN CLAIMS FOR DAMAGES BY THE REBELLION—SsvENTH Page. QUEBEC GUARDED BY THE MILITARY AND CONSTABULARY! THE ELECTIONS IN PROGRESS! A MOB OF ROUGHS SEIZE UPON AND DESTROY THE ELECTION BOOKS, BUT ARE DISPERSED BY THE CAVALRY! THE RLSULTS—SEvENTH PAGE. EUROPEAN OABLE NEWS! THE GENEVA AWARD BOTHERING THE BRITISH LION— SEVENTH PaGE. AMERICAN FINANCIERS MOBILIERIZING THE FRENCH CAPITAL! MAJOR GENERAL FREMONT AND OTHERS “TAKING IN” THE PARISIANS ON MEMPHIS AND EL PASO BONDS AND OTHER SPECULATIVE STOCKS! ONLY $6,000,000 INVOLVED— SgveyrH Page. DEFRAUDING THE BANK OF ENGLAND! LON- DON ASTONISHED! THE PROBABLE LOSS $1,000,000! AN AMERICAN SWINDLING RING—SEVENTH Pages. PANICKY PACIFIC MAIL! A GRAND SENSATION AMONG THE WALL STREET CLIQUES! THE TREMENDOUS LAPSE IN THE SHARES! HEAVY LOSSES OF THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER OFFICIALS! FACTS AND RUMURS— Firri Par. ON ‘CHANGE! THE FLUCTUATION IN THE MONEY RATES! THE “BEAR” CLIQUE JUBILANT OVER THE PACIFICO MAIL PANIC! A THREATENING OUTLOOK—LIFE INSURANUE—Fourtu PAGE. NEWS FROM ALBANY METROPOLIS MOUN ROSTRUM! THE Accot 'S OF THE COMP. TROLLER AND FIRE BOARD TO BE OY HAULED! $15,000 MISSING IN THE LOBBY— SEVENTH PaGE. THE CAR-HOOK MURDER! WILLIAM FOSTER'S FATE DISCUSSED BY THE GOVERNOR AND THE APPEAL JUDGES! NO DECISION! PREPARING FOR THE FATAL DAY—Tuimp Page. BURNING OF THE UNITED STATES TEA HOUSE! HEAVY LOSS! NARROW ESCAPES FROM DISASTERS—Tuirp Pace. PRESIDENT LERDO CONGRATULATED BY PRES- IDENT GRANT! MEXICAN NEWS—Suyentu Paar. AND YET ANOTHER BORGIA! THE POISONING OF JOHN PARKER BY HIS WIFE! A FIENDISH SCHEME TO OBTAIN WEALTH— FirrH PGE. THE SCANNELL TRIAL! TESTIMONY ON BOTH SIDES AS TO SANITY! “RING” SUITS! IMPORTANT ALIMONY DECISION! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—NIGHT SOIL— ElouTn Pace. MAYOR KALBFLEISCH’S WILL—THE MUNICIPAL BOARDS—A PRESBYTERIAN PASTORAL TROUBLE—FirTa Pag. ‘Tae Casr oy raz Mevpnts anp Ex Paso Ramoay bonds fraud, by which some six taillions of worthless secnritics were nego- tiated in the French market several years ago, comes up for investigation in the Paris Courts to-day. It will be remembered that the com- pany pretended to have the endorsement of the United States upon these bonds, and that the name of General Fremont was freely used to help their negotiation. General Fremont is among the parties cited to appear in answer to the indictment. A history of the whole matter will be found in another column, in a special cable despatch from ie French capital, | Vorens shoul] bear in ocd remembrance | very Congressman who voted in favor of ac- quitting the Orédit Mobilier culprits. Then pha investigation will not have been fruitless, NERALD| The Beginning of President Grant's Second Term and the End of the Forty-second Congress. | The rejoicings with which the city of Wash- ington will rosound to-day will waken an echo all over the United States. The people will be glad, not only that the governmont of the nation passes again into the hands of General Grant for another four yeags, but also that tho curtain falls on the Crédit Mobilfer’ longress and on some at least of the men who have figured in its disgraceful scones. There is a general hope that the present inauguration of the re-elected President will mark the com- mencement of o new and better era in our public affairs; that with the close of his first term of office the President will shake from him the advisers who have not added ‘to the honor and credit of his past administration, and will enter upon a more decided policy than he has pursued since his inauguration four years ago. It is true that his success has been the success of a party which has lost public confidence with startling rapidity since last November—a party whose corruption has now become notorious; but as General Grant carried the republicans to vic- tory instead of owing his triumph to republi- can strength, the people do not recognize him as a republican President, but as the President of the whole nation. They have confidence, therefore, that he will rise above faction in his new career; that he will correct the errors into which inexperience in public affairs and the bad advice of unscrupulous men may have led him; that he Will assert his independence of all the cliques who have hitherto claimed exclusive control over him, and that his am- bition will be to make such a mark on the pages of American history in his second and last term of office as the Chief Magistrate of the nation as will leave his fame equal only to that of Washington and Lincoln. No public officer has ever enjoyed a better opportunity to win the laurels worn by the patriot and the statesman than is now at the command of General Grant. The corruption of official life, which has become s0 offensive to the nation and so threatening to the very existence of republicanism, lies at his mercy. By a firm stand against those loose practices which have unhappily become common in the civil service of the country, he can purify the public departments, and by asserting his in- dependence of Congress, he can prevent a re-" currence of such disgraceful exposures as those which have recently scandalized the na- tion. . The dishonest policy which prompted the oppression of the Southern States, which handed their treasuries over to the greed of carpet-bag plunderers and placed their local governments in the power of depraved and ignorant negroes, can be re- versed at his will. By a fair treatment of the educated citizens of the South; by respecting the will of the people of Louisiana and other Southern States, instead of attempting to thrust usurping governments upon them; by removing from them the offensive and arbi- trary bayonet law, the enforcemest of which is discretionary with him; by treating the whole Southern population, white and black, with equal consideration and fairness, the President can restore order in that whole sec- tion of the country, and can put a stop to the evils that have been done by the Warmoths and the Kelloggs, who have preyed upon the South ever since the close of the rebellion. The weak and temporizing policy which has marked our treatment of foreign questions, and the experiments and vagaries of our finan- “cial policy, can be changed at his bidding. The popular sentiment in the recent campaign pointed unmistakably to a remodelling of the Cabinet that should relieve us of the present Secretaries of State and of the Treasury, and the people will trust to President Grant to respect their wishes in this direction. Tho inauguration to-day may thus happily prove the inauguration of an era of reform in our civil service and in Congress; of peace and justice: for the South; of sound financial policy at home, and of firmness and dignity in our relations with foreign nations. In this hope the people of the whole Union will rejoice with the gay crowds at the national capital over the ceremonies that mark the commencement of General Grant’s second Presidential term. Quite as hearty and.sincere will be the joy of the nation at the final close of the Forty- second Congress. The scenes which were en- acted yesterday will be tolerated because they are the last in which the Crédit Mobilier op- erators in their present combination ean hope to figure, and because they terminate the career of some of those who have been impli- cated in the offences condoned by their asso- ciates in corruption. - But whata record do those scenes present! The Senate could not find time to expel the convicted corruptionist and falsifier Patterson or to censure his Crédit Mobilier companions, but could whitewash the pious briber Pomeroy and protect Caldwell from the punishment he merited. The House of Representatives re- mained in session rushing through all sorts of jobs, with Crédit Mobilier Dawes acting on appropriation committees that voted away millions of the public moneys, and Crédit Mobilier Bingham giving the last touches of the law to judicial questions. At one moment Crédit Mobilier Garfield appeared on the floor, making a conference report on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Ap- propriation bills. At another moment Cor- ruption Limitation Butler presented himself at the bar of the Senate chamber, armed with articles of impeachment ngainsta Kansas Judge, to be tried by the Senators who had white- washed Caldwell and Pomeroy. In the Senate a bill to relieve the United States Treasurer from responsibility for defalcations which have occurred in his office was appropriately passed, but the Louisiana bill was leit lying on the table, and the suffering Stato was left to relieve herself as best she may. With the expiration of this debauched and degraded Congress passes away the republican party. No continued professions of virtue and reform can save the political organization whose leading members, with a large majority in both Houses of Congress, have shielded corruptionists and perjurers and thus made themselves responsible as a party for the offences they were too cowardly or too | base tocondemn. During the debate on the Poland whitewashing report, when a fierce | attack was made by a democratic Congress- man on one of the Crédit Mobilier corruption- ists, it was met by an open ‘threat from a republican Representative that the conviction of the inculpated members might be the sig- nal for a general exposr+e of matters, in which the democratic side of the House might find themselves involved, Yes- terday, in the closing hourg _of the sesrion, a democratic Representatlve on the floor of the House in debate boldly denounced the Senate as a disreputable body, and when taken to task for the remark, justi- fied it re declared that the House of R:pre- ta Was g more 08 dy at that matali wat A Sonate of the United States. The party which thus stats branded as disreputable and _ self-convicted of cor- ruption cannot hope to escape public con- domnation. No professions of honesty and virtue will save the politicians who still clasp Colfax to their hearts and make common cause with Patterson and Harlan, with Pome- roy and’ Caldwell, and with Kelley, Garfield and Bingham. The fall of republicanism may, however, prove a blessing to the newly inaugurated ad- ministration. President Grant must now see more clearly than ever the wisdom of making himself the President of the people, and not of a disgraced and decaying party. His policy will be the more likely to be shaped on independent views, since he has seen and “known the selfishness and dishonesty of those whose advice he has heretofore felt disposed to follow. Recent de- velopments must have removed all doubt as to the unworthy purposes of the Congressional majority who have shaped the treatment of the South and controlled the general course of the administration. It was very well for President Grant to declare on his first inauguration that he had no policy of his own, while he felt his inexperi- ence in State affairs and his indebtedness to the party which had elevated him to the Presi- dency. But such an intimation now would sadly disappoint popular expectation. Con- gress and the party it represents have for- feited public confidence, but the people still trust and honor the soldier President and look to him _ to redeem the national character from the stain left upon itby their dishonored rep- resentatives. There is every reason, therefore, why the President should, with his new term of office, cast off the ‘‘no policy’’ he has here- tofore professed and take upon himself the responsibility of a new departure. The nation will stax, by him now as it stood by him in the days of the rebellion, if he will only fight the battle out on his own line. A change in the Cabinet such as will meet popular commendation ; a liberal, generous: and constitutional treat- ment of the South ; an honest effort to reform the civil service; a bold, dignified attitude toward forsign nations, and a firm effort to secure full justice for the Cubans from the Spanish Republic, will mark President Grant’s second term of office as the equal in usefulness, honor and patriot- ism to those filled by Washington and Lincoln. Can the President hesitate in his choice between such a career and a mere political association with a degraded organ- ization? He has the opportunity before him to become in truth the President of the American people. Will he sacrifice that for the sake of remaining the President of the Crédit Mobilier lier republican party? i Tae Mzanest Tatnc Ovr—To demand more wages for doing less work in a worse manner.— Vide the Forty-second Congress. Our Commissioner in Cuba—A Plee biscite Necessary. The achievement by our Special Commis- sioner, Mr. O'Kelly, in reaching the insurgent lines in spite of all opposition, has placed him in a position to challenge the sympathy of the whole civilized world in his work. On the very day of his leaving Santiago de Cuba the Republic was proclaimed in the island. The Captain Generw!, who in his former capacity of the servant of an absolutism may have found the refusal to give our Commis- sioner a safe conduct one of the necessities of holding his place, can now have no such reason, for he is the Executive in the name of a republic. What applies to him applies with equal force to the commander of the troops at Santiago, who used a brutal threat with, doubtless, a similar place-holding object. He had to do what absolutism everywhere de- mands—namely, endeavor to suppress all questionings of the right or the wrong of its action. He is now the servant of a republic whose fundamental basis must be free thought, free speech, liberty of the press and no opposition to any endeavor that seeks by honest, open means to ameliorate mankind, Spain professes republicanism and the con- sent of the governed. Spanish partisans de- fend the right to put down the insurrection on the same ground that the Union claimed to put down the rebellion. The comparison is not apposite. While Spain wasa monarchy it had the will of the King for a law, and in the interest of his throne and his revenue he could order war to be waged for the preserva- tion of his personal dominions. On the proclamation of the Republic that condition of things ceased. Spain could then only claim the allegiance of Cuba by taking her consent. It was not divine right but popular right that was to rule. Freedom for Spain and: tyranny for Cuba cannot be upheld to- gether, or the freedom becomes a lie, The condition of affairs between Spain and Cuba * enlightened age. now resembles closely that which existed when our Republic was federalized. It lay with the States to say whether the union should take place or not Spain, if it would preserve its Republic, must give the same opportunity to Cuba as was given to our States. Every Cuban has a right to say whether he is willing or no that his country should remain linked with Spain. Our Special Commissioner is now among the insurgents. His duty, becomes still greater now than he could have dteamed at the out- set. Both sides can safely trust him as a man of honor, impartiality and intelligence. Let him be, then, the negotiator of a lasting peace, on the basis of a free plébiscite. It is the only outlet from the present impasse which the sad struggle has reached. Spain cannot con- quer in this fight to-day any more than she could five years ago. The Cubans cannot win under anything like their present strength. A full and unconstrained expression of the public will in Cuba is the only means by which the effusion of blood can be stayed. Let our Special Commissioner be charged with the negotiation of a truce, and then let a plébiscite, fairly token, proclaim the desire of Cuba. Whether this should mean the resplve to stand as a sovereign State under the Spanish Republic or to erect an independent republic of Cuba, it will be equally honorable and profitable to Spain. One thing is certain that the Spanish Republic cannot exist if it attempts the réle of liberator at home and tyrant in Cuba. ; alte z Ir Now Arpzans that Coliax was what is called Nesbitt’s ‘hired man," in his inter- fering to obtain for Nesbitt an extension of his “Gontract for’ ‘stamped envelopes without public competition. If the Forty-second Con- gross had had a few more days to live what would have been left of the reputation ot the great prevaricator of South Bend? The Modoors—Prospect or Peace—Tho Power of the Press Recognized ‘by the Indians, Our telegraphic correspondence from the lava beds up to the Ist of March, published yesterday, inspires hope of a peaceful solu- tion of the Modoc difficulty. Through the agency of Mr. Steele and the good senso of General Canby the Peace Commissioners will be able, probably, to make conditions with the Indians for their surrender and removal to & suitable reservation. But there is another influence that has had an effect both upon the Commissioners and the Indians—that of the independent press of the country. Had it not been for the presence of the Hznraxp corre- spondent a ‘different and less happy result might have been decided upon. The stupid agents who went to parley with Captain Jack did not realize the power of the press when they refused permission to our correspondent to accompany them to the camp of the Modocs. The sturdy Indians who have given so much trouble showed more sense. Limited as their knowledge of the power of the press is, they knew enough to hail the presence of our correspondent as pro- pitious. They felt, if they did not see very clearly, that there was a light thrown upon them and their condition which would be dif- fused over the country and compel the Com- missioners, the military and the government to act justly. The visit of the Heraup corre- spondent, they said, ‘‘had given them confi- dence that the white people meant well,’’ for he had not been afraidto go among them and to trust them. Ignorant as they may be, they were aware that he had no connection with the government, was perfectly independent of it, and ‘was only there to get at the truth and to enlighten the American people. This they could understand and had confidence. We do not say that the Modoc difficulty would. not have been settled peaceably had there not been such an influence at work, though tho secrecy with which the government agents wanted to act did not look well ; but we are satisfied that the presence and determined course of our correspondent made these offi- cials more careful to deal fairly and justly with the Indians. General Butler or othera in Congress, and the Crédit Mobilier black sheep may denounce the press and af- fect to be indifferent to what it says; still it is the great power in thy free country and When governments cannot or will not get at the truth the mission of the modern press is to penctrate the obscurity and to enlighten both them and the public. The Modoc trouble is a caso in point, as are also the revelations of our special Cuban correspond- ents, and as was the discovery of Dr. Living- stone. With regard to the Modocs, the most sensible proposition to make them peaceable and contented, with which they seem to be well satisfied, is that of Mr. Steele, to remove them further south and to give every family a little farm on which to live. We have no sym- pathy for the turbulent and red-handed In- dian, but it is evident these Modocs havé besn as much sinned against by the whites as they have been sinners, and the strong government of the United States can afford to be lenient under such circumstances. We recommends the administration at Washington to telegraph at once to carry out the proposition of Mr. Steele. Tue Inavavnation.—All the world will be looking anxiously to-day and to-morrow for the accounts of the inauguration scenes and festivities at Washington. The great event, in all its varied aspects—its politics and pleas- ures, its fun and confusion, its gayeties and growlings, its dinings and dancings, its attractions and distractions—will be the theme on every tongue to the exclusion of Congressional corruption, Cuban insurrections, Samana bubbles and lava-bed battles. In the Heraxp will be found full and graphic pictures of the proceedings at the national capital, and of the doings of the people, from the President down to the pub- licans and sinners. They are sketched by the pens of artists whose views will be tiken from different standpoints—the one an Englishman, the other a native American. The names of Edmund Yates and Don Piatt are sufficient guarantee that they will both be interesting and exhaustive, and their full accounts of the actual proceedings to-morrow, like their amusing and pleasant sketches of the antecedents to-day, will, no doubt, prove attractive to all classes of readers. Tur Barris Government Rurvsrs To Rec- oonize THE Spanish Repusiic.—During the session of the British House of Commons yesterday evening the Right Honorable the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs steted, in reply to a question put by Mr. Whitwell, member for Kendall, that it is the unanimous opinion of Her Majesty’ Cabinet that ‘no government admitting of recognition had been established in Spain.’’ This official declara- tion is of the utmost importance, and its publi- cation must tend to bring the Spanish question to a speedy ond definite point of crisis, Tre Avanama Damaces Awarn.—Premier Gladstone explained the English position to- wards the Alabama claims award at Geneva, and the first demand bill of the American goverisuent, to the House of Commons yester- day, iv reply to the question of Mr. Julian Goldsmid. The House cheered the Prime Minister loudly; so it is safe to presume that honorable members deem the whole thing right and ‘‘on the square.” EAE Is rr Nor a Lrrruz Sunrnistne that we hear .of no arrangements for public receptions of quite a number of ex-Congressmen who are now plodding their dull way homeward or enjoying the luxury of a free ride on the Union Pacific or some other railroad? Exit Forry-st00 ND Conaness, ss, —Would that some of its proceedings might be blotted out from the pages of future history ! The Mosenzwesg URse, Tho judges, lawyers and Grand Jury seem strangely confused about the merits of the Rosenawoig case. Tho Gran] Inquest having had the matter before them failod to find a bill for _yourder, And this against the charge the Jet: “Yot, if Rosonzwoig, this wholesale butcher, did not commit murder, we strangely mistake the facts and the law applicable to the horrible transaction, as they were mpnifosted upon a former trial. What Wore these? Oue Alice Augusta Bowlsby parted in gNowark, on a cortain Wednesday, from her mother and sister, stating that she intondod to visit Now York. She then had upon her person clothing and jewelry, and in her hand a filled portmanteau, all of considerable value. Upon the afternoon of the ensuing Saturday her nude body, cramped into o trunk and enveloped in a coverlid, was discovered at the Hudson River Railroad depot. Tae unimpeached carman who conveyed it there swore that the trunk and contents were assisted upon his truck by the prisoner, from the basement of the laiter's house, on this day of discovery. An under- taker testified that on the morning of the same day the prisoner had been asking of him ques- tions about the manner and expense of in- terring a deceased servant girl. The prisoner's domestic gave evidence that the enveloping coverlid in the trunk belonged to the prisoner. In his house, hidden in the cellar, the police found a breast pad of peculiar construction that was unmistakably identified as Miss Bowlsby’s” property. They also dis- covered a handkerchief marked with her ini- tials, and the marking stamp, when produced by her mother in Court, exactly fitted the form of the letters. Hor travelling bag, jewelry and clothes were converted to some one’s use. Against this testimony the prisoner inter- posed his naked denial that he had ever seen the girl or that she was ever in his house. Under this denial and these facts certainly the extreme presumptions of law as to malice and consequent murder ought to attach to Rosen- zweig. It would have then been pertinent for him to prove that she died a natural death, or, by showing her the victim of his medical arts, to reduce his crime to manslaughter. Yet, having denied any connection with or knowl- edge of the affair, he was left liable to the worst presumptions. If the Boston prosecutors of Professor Webster were keen enough to procure his con- viction upon the mere discovery of tho disjecta membra of Dr. Parkman in the chemi- eal laboratory of the former, without any par- ticular signs of violence, and with the slight evidence of a promissory note andsome anony- mous letters to connect the unfortunate savant with the possession of the body, surely our new District Attorney possesses the acumen to furnish Rosenzweig with a popular gallows upon the trunk, coverlid, handkerchief and larceny proofs. Time was when the unexplained possession of a body, either suffocated in a trunk, or packed, as was Adams’ body in the Colt case, for concealment, would have stamped such possessor, in all civilized Courts, as o mur- derer. Then, when and where has this law ever been changed? All the constituents of the District Attorney feel that he now has a chance to win golden spurs in waging a shrewd and ingenious battle against a criminal with whom no one dare sympathize in any jury recommendation to mercy, or pressure upon judges, or pious appeals for Executive clem- enc. Tae Satany ‘ ‘Swearers Orr.’’—Ben Butler will, of course, be the first to step up to the captain’s office and sign the pledge against increased salary as a Representative. It will bea refreshing sight to see. All those who voted against the meusure will feel themselves morally compelled to follow the lead of this man, who can defend such honesty os that of Hoax Ames. Tue Cutcaco Tribune states (and it is a humiliating fact) that three United States Judges—namely, Judge Delahay, of Kansas; Judge Sherman, of Ohio, and Judge Durell, of Louisiana—have been put in disgrace within twelve months, while during the pre- vious eighty-three years of our government but two United States Judges had been im- peached. Ah! but there were no Crédit Mobilier temptations and no Oakes Ames tempters in those days? Senator Nyz anp THE CurnzsE Misstoy.— The distinguished lawgiver from Nevada, whose constituents have permitted to retire into private life, has diplomatic longings. It is said he wants to go to Austria, but America will have enough objects on exhibition at Vienna without him. China is the place for Nye. There his frontier English will pass for good grammar, and he can teach draw-poker to the Emperor, his suite and the diplomatic corps generally. Lethim ‘go for’’ the Heathen Chinee. Marx Tew !—The Commissioners of Emi- gration are Richard O'Gorman, Emanuel B, Hart, James B. Nicholson, Alexander Frear, Willy Wallach, George J. Forrest, Andreas Willmann and Henry L. Hoguet. The ce ficio members of the Board are Mayors Havemeyer and. Powell, James Lynch and Sigismund Kaufmann. The two latter, as Presidents respectively of the Irish and German emigrant societies, are especially bound to protect the emigrants from the sharks who are always ready to prey upon them. The Commissioners are to decide to-day whether to grant or refuse admission to Castle Garden, as the ticket agent of the Erie Railway, toa Tammany politician who has made living as on emigrant runner and boarding house keeper and has been convicted and suffered a term of impris- onment for violation of the Emigrant laws. Which of them will vote in favor of placing emigrants at the mercy of such a person? Which of them will evade voting against such action? srlae al Tue Exrrrine Senator Cone Lonos ror THE Dvtcn Misston.—He would not object to going to Belgium as Minister. There he could put all Brussels through a course of sprouts. We do not desire this. Let him go as Minister to Samana Bay. They have everything there but Cole. The new Republic might be abolished in time, and if the Samanans looked about for a sovereign they might, in case King Carrot was not acceptable, make Old King Cole their figurehead. Ho for Samana! “Tue Cuntams Has Fauuen,’’ says tlie St. Lonis Globe, ‘on the long and exciting drama (Crédit Mobilier), and, whoever has gained by it, tho verdict of history will be that the good name o/ the United States has sufferod.”” Tho Conscience fund of the United S‘ates Treasury ought to have gained a g01 deal by tho ox- posure, but it is very doubtful if it has. The Approaching March Frost. Wo aro again threatened with another attack of Arctic weather. This may be re garded as the March frost, which appears to be as rogularly rocurring a phenomenon as the January thaw. Tho weather reports of yesterday niention intense cold, more than thirly degrees below zero in the central parta of the Northwest, and the usual sea of Polar air, descending thence southeastwardly, may, no doubt, be expected to-mcrrow. The great March frost last yoar inflicted its terrible bite on the whole Iake country and the States adjacent, and did not abate till it had savagely invaded New York and New England. On the 5th of March the mercury read at Troy, Ogdensburg and Watertown (in this State) from fourteen to thirty degrees below zero. It ranged near fifteen degrees below zero at Albany, and very much lower in Canada. We may, therofore, expect some of the coldest weather of the Winter within the next twenty-four hours, and ‘put on our warmest wrappings to prepare for the bracing blast. Experience teaches that such terrific cold is invariably followed, after the lapse of three or four days, by the snow storm along and off the coast, and our port craft coasters and outward bound seamen must be doubly vigilant till the danger is past. May we not with reason hope that the approaching cold snap is the last of the expiring Winter's desperate, dendly efforts to retain its icy do- minion over us, and that before the Ides of March the Spring may obtain the ascendancy over the whole country? Tux News rrom Spary.—The news de- spatches relative to the progress of affairs in Spain which appear in our columns to-day are not of an encouraging character for the cause of the republican democracy. The ad- vices indicate a gradual advance of the Car- lists towards the capital, with an in- creasing fervor among the population at certain important points in support of the Bourbon cause. We are also, told of the occurrence of mutinies among divisions of the army which had been sent out to operate against the monarchy men. President Thiers maintains, or apparently en- deavors to do so, a strict Fronch neutrality. It must be borne in mind, however, that the great bulk of the present allegations have buen circulated in France and at centres of Carlist influence in Spain. The Republic remains in forcein Madrid, but is evidently vastly troubled in its efforts for the complete realization of popular fraternity. “Tue Rervpuican Party,"’ exclaims a Western Senator, ‘‘must be honest.”” We have had a good deal of preaching from that text. Suppose now we have a little practice? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, President Thiers will not visit the Vienna Expo- sition. General Burnside is registered at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. Ex-Congressman Dennis coed of Syracuse, is at the Gilsey House. Judge John Bermond Austin, of Texas, has ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Colonel E. A. Page, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Commanier G. W. Coster, of the United States Navy, is stoppitfg at the New York Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, yes- terday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Wells, of the United Stutes ship Shenan- doah, is ill of smallpox at Villafranca, Italy. W. H. H. Russell has been appvinted honorary commissioner to represent Missouri at the Vienna Exposition. , Hiram Fuller is again at the surface. He is now forming in London an American Club, of which ladies may become members. Messrs. William Bowles, Stetson, Keith and Sulll- van, the minor members of the firm of Bowles Brothers, are living quietly at San Sebastian, The Prince of Lichtenstein wants to give refuge in his Principaiity to the Jesuits and nuns driven from Germany, pee the Landtag won't sanction hia desire. “God made the country,” saysCowper. “But He never made such @ miserable specimen of a scrub oak opening as Ben Butler,” adds a Western ex- change. The democrats of Kentucky are called to meet in State Conveniion at Frankfort, May 1, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Stata ‘Treasurer. The new United States Senator, Bainbridge Wadleigh, the successor of Patterson, C. M., waa at the Astor House yesterday while en route to Washington. The police of Rome have discovered and arrested the members of a society of thieves that had been organized and disciplined by a hideous dwarf, wha acted as recetver of the plunder. Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, who ~ is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, has been given to private life, and the House of Representatives will know him no more from this day, The St. Louis Democrat says the great dificulty in forming anti-horse-thief associations in Kansas is the diMlculty of finding anybody who is not in the equine appropriating business himself, The Washington Chronicle (Rev. Mr. Harlan), speaking of York's bribery story, says “upon its face it proved its author guilty of the most shame- less lying and duplicity for virtue’s sake.” Ament This being rather @ bad season for monarchs the Philadelphia Age suggests that it would be a good time to behead “King Caucus.” A revolu- tion for that object has commenced in Philadel- phia, Prince Youssouf Izzedin will shortly be pro- claimed heir to the throne of Turkey, and will probably act as regent of the Empire during his father’s absence at the International Exhibition in Vienna, Ex-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, is suggested as Mr. Boutwell's successor in case of @ vacancy in the Treasury portfolio, Further particulars after the Congressional swallows home- ward fy, Advices from Nassau, N. P., state that Mr. Mahion Chance, the United States Consul at that port, gave @ brilliant reception in honor of Washington's birthday, and that most of the British oficiais at- tended the reception. The Louisville Courter-Journat thinks Blaine the. coming man of the republican party. All the old leaders having been knocked over by the Crédit Mobilier ten-pin ball, why net? “All down but the boy" in the Speaker's chair. , Nathan Cleaves, democratic candidate for Mayor of Portiand, is said to be identified with the young democracy. The democracy of Maine has been in avery juvenile ite for a number of years. It is unnecessary to classify its candidates as either | young or old democrats, Bunch them all together they would not make a decent peripatetic political corpse. Louisa A. Boyce, imprisoned in Chicago on a charge of “involuntry murder,” has been detected in stealing @ Set of false teeth belonging to a sym- pathizing female friend. , According to the molaria law, a8 administered in Chicago, the charge of murder will probably be “drawn,” and one for larceny Inserted, under the Mosaic law—t. @, @ “tooth tora tooth,” &e, The case is eschewed be all respectable lawyers in Chicaga