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, maintained, are not necessary conditions ‘to salvation. What will the Bishops and the Pope say to this? Mr. Beecher has let up a little on philoso- phy, and yesterday treated his large congre- gation to a little more of Christ and His Gospel than they are wont to get. We hope he will continue, and fight it ont on this line all the Spring, and Summer tuo. Dr. Clarke treated of repentance, true and false, und presented some illustrations of the sad effects of the latter. Father O'Reilly gave some reasons why Catholic youth should be religiously trained, and why Erin’s sons should make this day religious festival and strive to Spread the taith abroad in all the earth. Oar Republican Court Costume, The story told in another column oi the re- cent visit of the Diplomatic Corps to the ‘White House, to congratulate [lis Excellency the President on his second inauguration, will ‘be read with intense interest by a wealthy and powerful portion of our citizens. It settles vexed’ questions of etiquette, and distinctly Jays dowu the rule as to court dress. Here- atter no saan or milliner can pretend ignor- ance of the right kind of coeked hat, breeches and braid to wear in the presence of the head of the ‘nation, and therefore the unseemly dis- plays of democratic broadcloth, which have so frequently in the past thrown a gloom over our repnhlican Court, will not be permitted. We felicitute the country and congratulate’the tailors on this happy resuli. ‘The comments of ouc correspondent on the manifested desire of oar diplomates to equal, if not excel, the representatives of the Old World in gorgeous- ness of dress and stateliness of deporiment we cannot approve. While we are permitted the pleasure of maintaining a batch of putriots as Ministers Ordinary and Ministers Mxtraordi- nary, we should also be allowed io dress them in the most attractive manner. We certainly have the most extraordinary Ministers abroad andat.bome of any country, and they should never appear out of character for want of but- tons, gold lace and straight swords. [f an extraordinary Minister of the United States in Europe is compelled to make way for an inferior and less extraordinary being in a cocked hat, then, in the name of the Appro- priation bill, let our man have the tallest busby that dollars can buy. And if Resident Ministers of kings in Washington are arrayed in purple and fine linen, let us assert the yreatuess of our country by adorning our diplomates in gorgeous attire. It will never do to permit the movement to stop at Washington. Once started it must go the ronnds of our embassies und consulates abroad. And perhaps the best representative of our altered condition of mind on court costume we couid find just now would be His Excellency Jim Nye, of Nevada. Jim is underlined to appear at Pekin at an early day, and it would be a judicious and a wise act to clothe him in garments of such splendor as would at once open the eyes oi the Brother ofthe Sua to the immense resources of the Great Republic. Then, as ordinary and ex- traordinary Ministers wear straight swords only, Jim could carry a pair of ‘toothpicks’”’ end a “‘navy’’ as significant of his weight and standing in the diplomatic world. Clothed in the usuab *‘go-to-meetin’s,"’ neither Jim nor any other extraordinary Minister of the United States could make half the sensation as in full court costume. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General P. B. Starke, ef Mississippi, is at the Fifth Avenve Hotel. \ Judge Charles Daniels, of Buffalo, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel, Generai J. 1. Wilder, of Tennessee, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotcl, Vongressman J. M. Thornburg, of Tennessee, is at the Metropolitan Hetel. Andrew Low, British Consul at Savannah, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Henty (. Kelsey, Secretary of State of New Jersey, 18 staying at the Mctropolitan Hotel, General McMillan and ex-Governor Pinchback, ef Louisiana, contesting United States Senators, have returned home, the Senate not intending to con- sider the question during the present session, Colone! Blanton Duncan, of Lonisville, the wheel horse o! the Bourbon democracy, is ou a visit to Texas. Joun J, Van Allen, tie tandem ana quon- dam jéader of the same democracy, is in Watkins. Both lamed. Mr. Niciolas Wood, a famous newspaper cor- Tespondent at the time of the Crimean war, has left England to accompany the Russian expedition to Khiva, in the interest ef one of the prominent London journals. The Gazzetta dlalia, the oficial journal of the Kingdom ot Italy, gravely anneunces that the Em- peror of the French was attended in his last mo- ments by the Engtish priest “Goddam."” And the Rev. Mr. Goddard feels llvelled. The London Globe, noticing the receptions of English celebrities in this country, suggests that Messrs. Witalley and Herbert, the members of Par- liament, would be glorified as martyrs in the Cause of Tichborne were they to ceme here. It was a woful disappointment to Prince Arthur and other eminent persons teat the game they chased ‘or hours over the Roman Campagna in the belief it was a fox sheuld tyrn out te be a nearly starved, wholly irightened and stub-tailed cur, John N. Bernard, aged eighty-two, died in North- borough, Mass., on the 10th inst. Mr. Bernard was Once connected with the Federal Street Theatre. For the last twenty-five years he lectured success- Tully on temperance of the “moral suasion” stamp, Some of the English papers should learn that it Was not Hon, James Brooks, of New York, who a ee ean | text is published. beat Senator Sumner with @ gutta percha cane, | but @ young fire-eater of South Carolina, named Preston S. Brooks. The latter died some years ago. William W. Vaughn, Congressional Nepresenta- tive from the Eightn district of Tennessee, is to have @ public reception from the citizens of Mem- phis, Mr. Vaugun pleads an aiimi on the salary | grab. he not being in the House when thé yote was | taken, ‘Two young men, named Andrews and Morton, Says the Louisville Courier-Journal, have been sen- tenced by a velaware Court to receive fijteen lashes each for “‘burking’ another young fellow named Hamm. Of with their shirts! So much for burking Hamm !—Shakspeare. Au old lady named Glackin was burned nearly to death in Philadelphia by some thing called a “co; bination fuid.” It is dangerous eneugh to con tend with these burning fluids singly, but who is safe against a combination ei them? They must be worse than an eight-hour strike. Rev. Enock Reddall, of Uolchester, England, got drunk and incapable, was arrested and fined. In revenge he armed himself with two knives and knecked the constable down with a bludgeon. On being remanded he sai@ he would plead not guilty, @3 he was insane. It is to be hoped he will net emigrate hituer, We have too much insanity with- at Eaves, ‘The deat is announced of M. Armand Godard, One of the proprietors of the great glass works of Baccarat, Meurthe—a distinguished amateur in painting amd the owner of the two fumous bulls of Baccarat, for which an American recently offered him $10,000, but which he has bequeathed, togetiter with a fine work of Jacaues. to the Muse- a of the Louvre, | With marked effect. NEW YORK HEKALD, MUNDAY, MAKCH 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET S P ALN. |THE BRITISH CABINET CRISIS Herald Special Reports from Bar- celona and Madrid. eR President Figueras and an Official Party on Board United States War Vessels, — + “All the Honors” by the Brook- lyn and Shenandoah. Fraternity and Sympathy Between the Peoples of the Republics. Ant Hh Beat Sanguinary Battle with the Car- lists and Defeat of. the Bourbonists. —e The Retreating Royalists Severely Pressed After the Rout. TELEGRAMS TO THE MEW YORK HERALD. . The following special despatches to the Hrratp have been received from our cor- respondents at Barcelona and in the Spanish capital: Barcetona, March 16, 1873. His Lixcellency Seftor Figueras, President of the Spanish Council of Ministry, accompanied by the Civil Governor of the Province of Barcelonz and Mr. H. Rugeles, American Consul, visited the United States squadron anchored in the port of Barcelona to-day. AMERICAN NAVAL RECEPTION. He was received with the full honors due to his rank and position on board both the war ship Brooklyn and the frigate Shenandoah, INTERNATIONAL TOASTS AND REPUBLICAN INTER- COMMUNION. | Seiior Figueras aud the members of the visiting party were entertained at lunch on board the Shenandoah. Captain Andrew Bry- son, United States Navy, proposed as « toast, “The Health of the President of the Spanish Republic.’ President Figueras responded in compli- mentary terms, honoring the memory of George Washington and thanking the Ameri- can people for their sympathy with Spain and the government of the Spanish Republic. Bleody Battle with the Carlists and Severe Defeat of the Bourbonist Army— The Pcople Indifferent to the Invaders in Retreat. Mapa, March 16, 1873. The Spanish government has received a despatch which reports tothe Ministry for War that a force of Carlists, numbering three thousand men, which was concentrated at Vera, thirty-nine miles northeast of Almeria, near the Mediterranean, had been routed by the government troops, under command of General Nordas, after a sanguinary battle which was continued during several hours. CITIZEN AVOIDANCE OF THE RETREATING REAC- ‘TIONISTS. The retreating Carlists sought refuge in the village, but were badly received by the inhabitants. THE ARMY IN ACTIVE PURSUIT. General Nouvillas, Commander of the Army of the North, presses the Carlists actively. FRANCE. The Evacuation Treaty with Germany Promul- gated-Neutrality and Diplomacy Toward Spain. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, March 16, 1873. The new treaty between France and Germany, providing for the evacuation of the French pro- vinces, was signed at Berlin yesterday, and the The German forces are te evacuate all the piaces they now hold in France by the Ist ef July, with th tion of Verdun and vicinity, (rem whieh they are to withdraw on the 5th of September. DIPLOMACY TOWARDS SPAIN. Troops have been sent to the Spanish frontier to assist the local autiorities in the execntion ef the order requiring that ali Carlists crossing inte France be “interned.” It is announced that Sefor Rios wiil succeed pr Olozaga as Minister of Spain to France. “PORTUGAL. National Demand for Reparation from Brazil. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lisbon, March 16, 1873. In the Cortes yesterday the Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that the Portuguese Consul has been instructed te demand immediate satisfaction of the Brazilian government jor a late eutrage to the Portuguese fag at Para. SWITZERLAND. — Pere Hyacinthe’s Broad Church Mission in Geneva. TELCCRAM 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD, Pants, March 16, 1873, Pére Hyacinthe has begun to preach in Geneva His congregations are very jarge, and he is fast gaining adkerents. THE HERALD ALMANAC. N.Y.) Sentinel.) “HERALD ALMANAC.”—This annual compendium I, commercial and political facts and sta- been issued for 1873, It embraces a very great variety ef information, valuable to politi- cians, Mariners, farmers, lawyers, bankers and business men generally. Its cost is not to be com- pared with its value. Price, twenty-five cents, Address “ ‘HERALD Almani New York city.” {Ransas City (Mo.) Daily News.) ‘The “Almanac” published by the New York HERALD is just such @ work that the public had a right to expect from the greatest newspaper in the werld. It contains much useful information, and as a financial, commercial aud wolitical regis- + ter it has no equal, Be aa lal Herald Special Report from London. The Ministerial interregaum Maintained. > Parliament on the Point of Reassem- blage, with the People and the Crown the Chief Powers. raeli Stil Deelines and Gladstone Likely to Resume Office, - e Bix-Premiecr Again at Roya 1 Audience. TELEGRAM TO TRE NEW YORK HERALD. The following Hxravp has been apdeial despatch to the received from our corre- spondent in the British metropolis. :— Gonpon, March 16, 1873. The Cabinet crisis which was induced by Mr. Gladstone's resignation of the Premier- ship of England continues. Alihough Parlia- ment will reassemble, afler the temporary adjournment, to-morrow, 10 plan of solution of the national difficulty has beon, as yet, found. *DISRAKLE DECLINIS AND THE LIBKRALS LIKDGY a TO BESUMT. Mr. Disraclti still refuses to assume the responsibility of office, and the probability is that Mr. Giadstone—who bas bad another interview with Her Majesty the Queen—will return to power, with his Cabinet unchanged. ‘THE LEGISLATURE MAY BE FURTHER ADJOURNED. It is probable that a further adjournment of Parliament will bo asked for during the session to-morrow. THE HERALD ANTICIPATING HISTORY. [From the Steubenville (Ohio) Herald, March 14.) The dangerous Captain General of the Span sh forces in Cuba has reconsidered his threat tp shoot Mr. O'Kelly, the NEw York HERALD’s spunky cor- respondent. If Captain Ceballos wants to shoot there are plenty of those termed rebels on the “Gem of the Antilles” fighting for their freedom to draw triggers upon without threatening death to a mao in discharge of his pro- fessional duties. it is a ridiculous and ig- norant notion that a press correspondent cannot report to the world what history must inevitably doatalater aate. The HERALD anticipates his- tory by spreading reporters like fibres in all direc- tions, grasping all that is of interest with hghtning rapidity and giving the worid’s doings in such an incredibly short space ef time that the Old Werld looks on with amazement. American journalism is too far im advance of the Old World fer slow thinkers, so the stupid threat of the doughty Captain General Ceballos to sheot the HEKALD’s correspondent must in a measure be excused. Ceballos should have lived in the past eentury or gone back te Europe. American news- papers are too far in the {future for him to compre- hend. Ceballos has already been ordered home by the Spanish government, and a general of less antiquity is to succeed him. It is expected the Captain General will go in a sail vessel, HORSE NOTES. On Monday, February in the House of Lords, the following noblemen were named as a select committee to inquire into the subject of the scarcity of horses in and :—The Duke of Cam- briage, Lord Halifax, the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Earl of Portsmouth, the Earl 6f Malmesbury, the Eart of Lucan, EarlGrey, Viscount Falmouth, the Earl of Bessberough, the Marquis of Water- ford, Lord Redesdale, the Eari of Rosebery, Lord Kesteven and Lord Blachford. The Earl of Rose- bery moved, on Tuesday, that the. Prince of Wales be added to the select committee, and the motion was agreed to. On Thursday Lord Strathnairn was added to the committee, which will probably commence its sittings immediately after Easter. At the sale of General Buford’s thoroughvreds last Monday the horses did not bring the prices that were expected. In fact, the prices were so low that the best horses were withdrawn, There were very few bidders from a distance pres- ent. The General got rid of a number of weeds t were of no use to him. D. Swigert, of Spring Station, Ky., has bought of Mr. E. H. Lewis tne brown mare Psyche, by old Mambrino Chief, out of Mrs, Caudle (the dam of Ericsson), being a full sister of Ericsson. Psyche was i@aled in 1860, and is the Kind of breod mare that is seek at any price, for her bloed is scarce and desirable. General A. Buford, of Medway, Ky., the ewner of the retired race horse Enquirer, by Leamingtot took the horse to Lexington Jast week and had hi weighea. Enquirer pulled the 1,200 pounds, ° AQUATIC NOTES. — At the last meeting of the Nautilus Boat Club the constitution and bylaws were amended, and the offices of Captain, Lieutenamt and Coxswain were created. An election for these positions resulted in the iollowing choice :—Captain, Richard Neville; Lieutenant, Charles Christal; Coxswain, William J. Kenny. A few days since a new boating and sporting club was organized in Hoboken styled the Meteor Spert- ing Club, The members will devote themselves to rowing, hunting and fishing. Their new barge Meteor will be completed about May 1, giving the asseciation three boats, including the Hattie and the Flyimg Dutchman. After that peried the Meteor ¢ will accept challenges from amy juntor organization. The officers are:—President, William T. Hopkins; Sey Richard Gerner; Treasurer, F. EK. Walter. ‘Re elegant house of the Argonauta Rowing A sociation at Bergen Point, N. J., will be tormaliy opened on Tuesday, April 1. Messrs. Roach, Sweeney, Neville and Weich, of the Nautilus Club, went up the Mariem as tar as MacComb's Dam, last Sunday weck. They were the Pioncers of the seasen. Doctor Russell Withers has declimed te accept Mr. Edward Smith’s challenge—in jact, he won't Tow anybody just now. It is said that Mr. William H. Haley, of Pittsburg, will match William Scharff to row any man in America a three or five mile race for $1,000 a side, the contest to take place in June, near the above city. If Scharf’s backers fail to match Bim within two months, they will take him to England. NATIONAL GUARD NOTES. The Tweaty-sccona are contemplating a renewal of their camp at Leg Branch. Military circles wave fully recovered from the effects of the late great national display, and the various corps are aow settling (own earnestly to | work. The Xty-ninth will parade to-day in honor of St. Patrick, In the evening the “non-coms.” give their annual bail at the armory, when a hand- some pertrait of the late General Thomas Francis Meagher will be presented to the sen of the General, who is nowa Paver in Company K, which his la- mented jatect organized and led, as its captain, te the war, in 1861. The occasion will probably be most interesting, and will be, umdoubtedly, well attended, RESOUING A PRISONER. cinct, was assaulied last night by a crowd of roughs while conveying a pris- oner to the station house. They attacked him at the corner of Thirty-sixth street and Eleventh avenue beat him severely and res- 4 the prisoner. O'Halloram was mded at the station house by the surgeon Of the district Od ant to Ula Lem. beam down to | Omcer O'Halloran, of the Twentieth pre- | ROBBERY OF THE MAILS. T St. Louis Mails to the Kast Robbed ef $65,000 im Checks—The Job “Put Up” in Buffalo. yr. Lovra, Mo., March 16, 1873. It has transpired here that the mails from St. Louis te the East have been robbed several times during tie pasi two months. Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of draits, sent from sere by the Third National Bank to the Na- tional Hank of mmerce, @f New York, ‘on the night of January 31, failed to reach their destination, but have not since been presented; therefore the bank is mot a loser, The mails of the iith and 2itn of February were also robbed, but if i pot Known that any dratis from here were presented or negotiated until # few days ago, when information came from Bufalo that a drast for $15,000, issued by a bank here in favor of J. Ayres & Co., of New York, had been aenied tO au express company in Butaio, with the name of that firm forged. 1 fergery waa not discovered till after the draft bad been paid. Upon receipt of this information General Swith, Postmaster, immediately com- menced investigations, and ascertained that the mail’ of January 31 did not go through, and that the mail box was robbed of several ictters, apparently between — here and Indianapolia. There ia no cive yet to the robbers, but special Post Ofice Detective Shartley is working up the matter, The payment of drafts is said to have been brought about as fol- lows man, supposed to be engaged in these robberies, came to Builaie, accempanied by a lady dressed in the height of fashion, whem he represented as his wife. je rented elegant apart- ments, and formed business relations with an ex- Press company, Be sent several drafts by this company for collection, and one for $4,000 on @ St. fouls Bank, which Was genuine. In this way he gained the confiaence of the company, who supposed him to be wealthy. It is understood they cashed the $15,000 dratt for him upon his emtrusting it to them for collection in New York. ‘THE APAQHE WAR General Crook's Policy Approved—India (o Answer Roll CallmA Claim by Mexico for Damages. SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 1873. Advices from Arizona, state that General Crook is at Camp McDowell with nis entire command of twelve companies. His policy towards the hostile Indians gives great satisfaction in Arizona, Ibis thought that General Howard's treaty with Cochise wil reanit in a claim by Mexico on our government for tive or six millions ef dollars as special damages, The horse disease is spreading so rapidly in Arizona that it will seriously affect military move- ments. General Crook has established a rule that every Apache Indian at @ military post must answer tke roll call every day. Nothing is yet knowm concern- ing the future movements of the troops in Arizona, EXTENSIVE FIRE IN OHIO. Part of the Town of Elyria Burned Down—Loss $200,000—List of Insur- ances. CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 16, 1873, A terrible conflagration occurred at Elyria, Ohio, on Saturday night, by which the finest busi- ness portion of that place was destroyed. ‘The fire originated about midnight in the dry goods store of Starr Brothers & Co., in Ely Block, corner of Mill and Broad streets, and 1m an almost incredibly short time dames were bursting trom every window. ‘The wind was blow- ing a periect gale at the time, and itdrove the fire through the entire block of ten elegant stores, stopping enly at Washington avenue. The two engines m use were found inade- quate to cope with the flames, whitch, aided by the wind, leaped from store to store with ter- rible fury. Telegrams were sent to Cleve- land for aid, and a steamer arrived about three o'clock A. M., at which time the danger was mostly over, though it rendered etticient service in pre- venting the further spread of the fire. It is prob- ably sale to say that the total loss will $200,000. The fellowing persons were insured A. Ely, on the block, $25,000; Starr Brothers & Co. stock, $30,000; A. H. Pomeroy. $5,000; T. H. Gin- nell & Co., clothing, $2,500; Hoyle Brothers, grocer- ies, &c., $25,000; W. Johnson, law library, $10,000; J. Manville & Co., drugs, $5,000; Sampsell, Clarke & Co,, confectionery, $10,000; T. &. Sanford, boots and shoes, $2,000; the Elyria Library, $10,000; J. C. Hatter, phetograph stock, $10,000; Masonic lodge, furniture, &c., $135; J. Mungevern, hotel, liquors, &c., $3,700, and some others not ascertained, The losses of insurance companies, as far as ascertained, are as follows:—Atna, of Hartford, $30,000; Underwriters’ Agency, of New York, $10,000; Home, of New York, 95.000; Continental of New York. $7,000; Phoenix, of Hartford, $9,500 Phoenix, of Brooklyn, $5,000; North British and Mercautile, 00; National, of Hartford, $1,000; Suu, of Cleveland, $6,000;' Royal, of Liverpool, $5,700; Hartiord, of Hartford, $750. FLOURING MILLS BURNED. Cuicago, March 16, 1873, Todd's fouring mills, at La Salle, DL, owned by Maurice Henstadt, were burned on Friday night. The loss is $22,000, Insurance, $2,000. Todd & Son, in addition, lost 1,500 bushels of wheat; un- insured, AGRICULTURAL WORKS BURNED. , Mo., 3 ‘The Qu last nigit, with a large amount of stock and some two nundred corn planters. The loss is about fifty thousand dollars; insured for $35,000, AN OLD MAN AND A CHILD BURNED TO DEATH, CHIcaGo, March 16, 1873. in the township of Worth, near Chicago, on Fri day morning, u house occupied by John Simmons, a farmer, was burned, and Simmons’ father, aged eighty, and hus child, aged two years, perished to the flames, A thousand dollars in bank no’ crevice in a wall of the house, wer secreted ina consumed, SUSQUEHANNA ICE GORGE. Immense Quantities of Ice inthe River— The Water Overfiowing the Banks— Work and Travel Suspended and Much Excitement Prevailing. CoLumata, Pa., March 16, 1873, An immense ice gerge formed here last night, extending from Columbia Bridge, half a mile up the river, toa point opposite Chickies Rock. The ice is packed solidly from the dam tothe point, but the gorge extends across the river oppesite Chickies, This morning the water was eighteen inches eep on the Pennsylvania Railroad, detain- ing all the treighbt trains, east and west. At noon | to-day empty trains ran through the water, and in | tho afternoon loaded trains followed. At six o'clock this evening the water receded entirely, | but at seven o'clock the track was again cevered to the depth of fifteen inches. The Henry Ma Furnace 18 compelled to suspend eperations. The channel, which was open along the eastern shore duriag the past three days, gorged this morning. Observations with a glass from Chickie’s Rock reveal a channel along the west shore, and it is belleved the current williorce a passage on that side before morning. The Pennsylvania Canal is badly damaged, hav- ing heen broken at three places, and the force of the current tearing away whole sections of the bank. Last night, when the gorge formed, a man was observed walking on the towpath, out the water backed up so rapidly that it is supposed he was swept under by the current, as be Was not scen again. The river is reported free of ice irom Ma- rietta to Harrisburg. Taousands of visitors viewed the gorge from Chickie’s to-day. There is much excitement, but the lumbermen here do net jee! alarmed, LAKE NAVIGATION. MiLwavker, Wis., March 16, 187: The river and harbor are now free from ice, The steamer Sherman has arrived trem Chicago, and the prepeller St. Joseph left for Chicage this | morning. A BARROOM MURDER. Fatal Stabbing Affray in Syracase, Syracuse, N. Y., March 16, 1873. About midnight on Satur four men engaged in playing cards in @ saloon in this city when a dispute arose and they went into the street, and one of the party, named Smultz, was stabbed and died shortly after. Two brothers, named Andrea, have beem arrested for committing the deed, and they admit it, bat claim that they acted in sell-defence, MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREB. SAN FRANCISCO, ., March 16, 1873. The jury in the case of Charley Mortimer, on trial | in Sacramento tor the killing of Sarah Gi pn, bas brongnt in a verdict of guilty of murder iw the first degree. ATTEMPTED ARSON. An attempt was mm: last night to burp the residence ef Police OMicer Vaughan, 52 Myrtle ave- nue, Broeklyn, by an unknown man. He had fired a hogahead Mied with paint, paper, kindiiag wood and rubbish, that was meat ne stairway of the youse, CHARTER CHOWDER AT ALBANY, ‘The New York City Charter at a Standstill. ae THE POLITICIANS IN A'‘FLUSTER. oe Mysterious Midnight Visit of the Republican Managers. RL eDe ney cessor eon Commissioner Van Nort, Collector Arthur, Tom Murphy, Bliss, Davenport and Others at the State Capital. oe A NEW COMBINATION IN THE FIELD. ened Aida da The Fight Over the City Spoils—The Father of the Lobby at Work with the Governor and the Mayor—An Executive Veto Threatened. ALBANY, March 15, 1873. Dark and mysterious have been the doings of the Politicians here at the State capital during the week that has just closed. In the halls of the Deis- van, in the intricate passages of Congress Hall and in the lobbies of the Senate and Assembly cham- bers. men have glided hither and thither with thoughtful brows and compressed lips, aa thoug bearing in their heads some weighty se- crets and fearful lest they should escape through the ordinary channels of communication, Midnight trains huve brought to the city prominent politicat leaders, who, with eyes hidden by down-pulied hats and with chins buried in upturned collars, have plunged out of curriuges into the hotels and rushed up to rooms already prepared for them, without looking to the right or to the left, The doors that opened te let them hurriediy in have been closed and locked after their entrance, and thenceforth have been as jealously guarded as were the doors of Poland's committee reoms in the early hours of the Crédit Mobilier investigation. The next morning's light has seen these birds of passage again on the wing, and anxious correspondents, who had just obtained news of their arrival and hoped to catch them ia their nests, have been met by the startling intellt- gence that they had already flown. Collector Arthur, ex-Collector Thomas Murphy, Commis- sioner Van Nort and Hugh Gardner have been the Most prominent of these mysterious visitors, and what they came for and why they came in such a secret manner have been the anxions inquiries of all who were not favored with an insight into the | workings of the inner circie, THE POLITICAL JOURNEYMEN AT WORK. In addition to these fugitive leaders other promi- nent managers, whe do the rough work of the party, and who are always to be seen darting about in the political ocean like sword fish in ad- vance of the skark, bave also made their appear. ance in Albany during the past week, and have been less reserved than their associates, both in their actions and in their conversation, Chief among these Commissioner Davenport has been observable, active, vigilant, dashing and confident | asever; ready to take responsibility, prepared to maintain his own side of the question against all comers, deflant of oppesition and bristling all over with fight in what he believes to be the just cause, which means republicanism, pure and simple and == straight-out administration republican- ism at that. Hugh J. Hastings, the editor ef the sparkling Commercial Advertiser of your city, has come next, plain and practical as usual, leoking steaditv at the main chance and ad- vising any policy, no matter what, that is the most certain to accomplish the object sought, openly by some and covertly by ethers, but sought just the same by all—to wit, the gathering in of the harvest of municipal spoils to the granaries of the republi- can party. Ex-United States Assessor E. D. Web- ster, a3 sly as old Joe Bagstock himself, has been present, of course accidentally, and has been shrewdly questioning Senators and prying about generally in a manner which plainly indicates that something is afloat and that somebody's pulse has 1o be felt. THE OPPOSITION AT WORK. In addition to these and many other republican politicians of the same stamp we had jast weck in this city, a large and significant attendance of the opposition or anti-administration element, evi- dently drawn together by the rumors that some- thing was wrong in the machinery of the dominant party, and that the wheels had suddenly come to a standstill, Rutus H, Andrews was prominent ameng the busy crowd, and with him came a host of liberals, all bent upon mischief. It was whis- pered that Rufus had a double mission—te look after the interests of liberalism in general and of Comptroller Green in particular. ‘The gay and gal- lant Dan Conover was present, evidently leoking | % out for chances, and prepared te strike in at the opportune moment. Colonel Jones, the ex-Captain of the port of New York, was looking en in the ex- ectation of someting useful turning up, and | ast, but by ne means least, Oliver Charlick sprcaten upon the scene, ostensibly to look alter the interests of his railroad, against the attempt of the Unien College people to get back irem him the land they sold him some years ago, and to open a road through his depet and over his track to the terry, but in reality to watch matters tor his friend Mayor Havemeyer, and see how the lind lay for a coup de légistation over the New York churter. A few well-knewn 1 were also to be seen, quiet, confident and smiling, evidently laboring under the Mmpression§ that | something Serviceavle to themselves was going on, | and hepeiully awaiting the moment when they could return to the metropolis and carry the pews | to Sammy. WHAT WERE THE MIDNIGHT VISITORS ABOUT ? Of course the principal interest centred in the inquiry, What was the meaning of the sudden, like appearance and disappearance ef tho: ertant dramatis persona, Van Nort, Arihur, Tom Murphy and Hugh Gardner’ What basiness had they to transact that ceuld be done in s0 brief atime ? Why should they “come like shadows, depart,” without leaving the lebby even a plau: ble guess as to their errand? It was kmown that certain Senators had been seen by them—I do not | mean the word “seen" to be taken in its ustal Albamy acceptation, They had been smuggicd into a sleigh and driven off frem the Delavan to | Senator Woodin’s rooms at Congress Hail, and had been closely closeted with that useful legisla who has been laid up @n the dry dock for repair: for a few days past. Other reliable membe i the upper House had been captured and ried to their rooms, and the Speaker of the Assembiy had made one of the number in the consultation, what- ever might have been its subject. All this was | ascertained, but nothing could be learned of the nature of the conifer and hence there was a U ny wil @uisiders, and the ut less belle ‘Se T AFTER GREENBACKS. Probavly on the principle that th ish ts the erof the thought the report that @ large sum ol money bad been haha up in the carpet bags of Van Nort, Murphy, Arthur and company, for the purpose of persuading the Senate of the many vir- wes of the twenty-fifth section @! the chartey, was the most readily credited, and every aungry lobby - man and representative was prepared ferthwith to commit himself irrevecably in favor of the Assem- bly mode of appointment in the New York © ernment. ‘Ol course they were all reckon out their host, for the reason that no m be used by the republican managers to ¢ charter through, even though it should neve! come a law, While Commissioner Van Nort ht right to use such means, even i! he had the disp sition to @o so, inasmuck as he is master ol the situation already, and, as he cam contre] the Sen ate, is sure to whichever side may in the end No combination can pessitily be success- does not include issioner @f Pu lic Werks, fer the leading spirit of th Weodin, as well as the Jess reliable repul are all positively in his inte a fight im his cause at any moi WHAT THE VISIT TO ALBANY DID REALLY MEAN. ‘The truth ts, the vist the leaders te the State capital in such a hurried and mysterious manner was necessitated by the damaging rumors that had get afeat in regard to changes and bargain- ings in New York, and the presence of Van and the rest Was needed vo set these atrest as well as to caution their followers against certain intrigues which are going on in the ranks of the | opposition growing out of a reported alliance be- | tween the opponents of the charter and Governor | Dix. It is said that Tom Murphy, coming tresh from Washingten, brought with him letters from President Grant strongly urging the importance of a republican government in New York and pledg- ing the federal administratiom to an active sup-~ port of the municipal authertt im case of me- cessity, even to the extent of the sup given to Kel in New Orleans, These letters and the actual peewee Of the leaders ip Albany (even, THE LOBBY @N THE SUE formed Tammany democrats | 7. thongh for a few momenta) were considered of the last sear sane at the present moment to the hopes of the republican “regulars,” and hence the hurried joereer. the mysterious conierences aad the sudden flight, A TRIANGULAR DUR. In order to render all these mancnyvres ander- standable to the general reader it is probably well to give a brief acceunt of the interests iavolved in the new charter aad of the positions wich they severally take, First comes the tnterest of the Committee of Seventy, those patriotic and ambi tous individuals who ‘desire 0 Go all the public work for the purpose of ensuring that it shail be competently and houestly periormed, Many of these sturdy reformers find themselves stil with out oMice, and they know that they are likely to re Main so should the appointing power Of the inuat cipal government pasa inte tie hands of the repubiican organization, The leading members of the committee are, therefore, working gallantly to defeat the republican programme. Lawyer Choat WhO desires to serve the city aa Corporation Coun sel, and Who Was selected ior that position by Mayor Havemeyer, is prominent among the de- nouncers of the famous twenty-fifth seckion. He is ably backed by B. Baton, who would consent to resume tus: oid place us ¢ el to the Heal Hoard, with its innumerabie s its heavy taxed costs amd its [at connsel foes; by John Wheeler, who feels that lis calling is tie head of the Depar- ment of Puble Works in bis own and the city's iterest: by Judge Emott, who would not object io he public service to continue iis x to the use of retorm us # special counde ckson Sy Schuitz, who could no doubt be prevailed upon to fill the position of Chamberlain er Coimptrover, aa ihe case migut be, Or even to resume his old pl 43a member of the Board of Aealth, All th gentlemen are no doubt actuated by the proinpt, ings of patrionsm and self-interesi—two very potent mo! powers in tue cause of reform, THE REG REPUBLICAN INTEREST. Second tn order comes the regular repubiican Mp terest represented by Hugh Gardoer, Tem Mur- phy, Collector Arthur, Bliss and Davenport, whe ure not only the icaders of the republican organ- ization mm this city, but may be considered the le- gitliuute reprpsehtatives ot tae national admins tration at Washington. Their object is to obtain entire control or the patronage of the New York city government, for-the purpose of converting the Metropolis into a sirongheld of republicanism, oof ouly for ite votes im our State elections, but also ad S$ of providing material ngth to help party in elections 10 otier | oo) aliies. WEED AND THE NEW COMBINATION OF DLX, GAVE ME’ ‘the third in tred in a new combina tion, said to ha made through the eiforts of the ven able Father of the Lobby, 1 and toembr, " r Dix and Mayor Hi in its ciret Those gentlemen have dite ) fives, but a common object. Thuriow Weed haa hecome hostile to the coutroi of Murphy Davenport and their associates, because been riled out int Ounseis and does not see ) how his old friends ave to be provided tor in their distribution of the patronage. He hus been too persistent, it ts said, ius clamor for patronage, } and has manifested a spirit of dictation to which | the party is disinclined to yield, and hence he makes lis bed with the opposition, Governor Dug | and Mayor Havemeyer ure, on the otler han thought to favor a programme ier the rebuilding a reformed aemocracy in connection with Messrs. Tilden, Kelly ad purified Tammany, before the next Pr ntial election comes round. There are many who doubt that the Governor is in sympu with this combination; but it is urged that his recent censultations with Mayor Have- meyer and his reported course on the charter question point in a contrary at jon. itis of the utmost importan combination that the charter, which, in its present shape, would give all the appointments to the ' Aldermen in the interest of the regular republican managers, should be defeated at all hazards. Thus it has been given out, apparently by authority, that Gev- ernor Dix will veto the char at hazards, if passed agit left the Assembly—a very unusual, if not an unprecedent vement, 1b ts certainly of questionable propriety to atte de eat legislation by means of the threat of ag executive veto. Indeed, when iv is remembered that Governor Dix has declared hi mn that the people demand a decisive r icun policy, and that he entertaims the old democratic notion that no bill should be vetoed that has received # large majority ef votes trom tke people's repre- | sentatives, except On constitutional objections or in cases of corrupt or hasty legislation, the story of bis participation in the alleged threat cao scarcely be credited. COMPTROLLER GREEN TO BE CAST ASIDR. As a striking feature of this new programme, t may state thet it is currently reported, on good authority, that Mayor Havemeyer ha: to throw Comptroller Green aside, himself of a dangerous embarrassment. ‘he Mayor sees that Mr. Green is not big enough for the post- tion he new fills, und he believes that he can himsel select a Comptroller just as honesi as Mr. Greem and much better qualitied to discharge the dutiea of the office. As the Weed combination contem- plates dividing the offices between Weed republicans and Havemeyer democrats, it would, of course, give the Mayor the opportunity to exercise his ji the Comptroller. It 18, however, very questions: | ble whether the Legisiature i be got to sune- | ion such a plan under any circumstances, for at present it does not appear that Mr. Weed has any positive strength in either branch, or at least not sufficient to control in either House with the aid or all the deme tie voles, This, however, ts a brie: sketch of the present position, and it will afford insight into the intrigues at albany and inte present flutter among the politictans. 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