The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK NERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, pala Volume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPFRA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth say.—Uncie 5am. BOWERY THEATRE, Destiny, &0. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Burvesque any O110, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—ALIxE WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Exnant. Afternoon and Eveu Bowery.—An Intsu Farce— ATHENEUM, No. {£0 Broadway.—Granp Vanrery Ex- ‘SERTAINMENT. Aes ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Iratan Orsra—Cuinp oy tay Recrnent. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third V.—Das SriFTUNGSFEST. NIRLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston streete.—Leo any Loos, fT, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st—Bun- ursqur OrsRa—Lucrnsta BoKGia. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Hroudway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Hivsrry Durty. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—A Businxss Woman. ' WALLACK’S THEA? Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Garnicx. UNION LEAGUE THEATRE, Madison ay. and 26th st— Americans In Panis, &c, ROOTH’s THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth tavenue.—Dappy O’Dowp. MRE, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— WMonrx Cnisto. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. th av.—Nucro MinstRKLsY Cc. corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Fvantery Entertainment. \_ STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Rx pines From: Buaxsrzarz. v YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— AND Arr. Bes monensin — 7 'TRIPLE SHEET. New York,¢Friday, March 21, 1873. = 7 oer THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. )Lo-Day’s Contents otf the * Herald. “THE CITY CHARTER AND THE SENATORIAL SOLONS! MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING’— EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXxTH Pag, PROGRESS OF THE BILL OF VESTED RIGHTS FOR THE EMPIRE CITY! IT IS REPORTED IN THE STATE SENATE! ,CUSTOM HOUSE STRATEGY! DENOUNCING CONGRESSMEN! DEFEAT OF THE BOND AND MORTGAGE TAX EXEMPTION BILL—TuirD PaGE, CHARTER AMENDMENTS! THE SENATE COM- MITTEE RESOLVE UPON THE RETENTION OF THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN AND THE BESTOWAL OF THE APPUINTING POWER UPON THE MAYOR AND THE ALDERMANIO CHIEFS! THE AMENDED ARTICLES—Tuimp PAGE. MR. GLADSTONE ANNOUNCES, AMID A STORM OF APPLAUSE FROM THE COMMONS, HIS REASSUMPTION OF THE PREMIERSHIP! STATING THE SITUATION! DISRAELI EULOGIZED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS— SEVENTH PaGE. CUBAN ASSAULT UPON THE TOWN ON LARO- JAL! THE SPANIARDS REINFORCED FROM HOLGUIN! CONFLICTING CLAIMS OF VIC- TORY—SEVENTH PaGe. EUROPE BY CABLE! CARLIST COMPLICA- TIONS ARISING BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN! CASTELAR HOLDS THIERS' GOV- ERNMENT RESPONSIBLE! PROBABLE RE- NEWAL OF THE WOLVERHAMPTON RIOTS— SEVENTH Pace, 4 SPECK OF WAR! THE BRITISH VICE CON- SUL’S HOUSE ILLEGALLY ENTERED BY THE AUTHORITIES OF PORTO PLATA! AN EX-GOVERNOR AND HIS SONS DRAGGED FROM THE SHELTER OF THE BRITISH FLAG! A WAR SHIP SENf FOR! INTENSE AGITATION! SAMANA SUMMARIZED— Fourt Pace. FOSTER TO BE HANGED TO-DAY! GROUNDLESS HOPES AND A FINAL ENDEAVOR! 1HE SCAFFOLD AND THE AWFUL NOT) OF PREPARATION—SEVENTH PAGE. M'ELHANEY, THE BOSTON WIFE MURDERER, TO BE HANGED TO-DAY! THE STORY OF THE CRIME! GETTING READY FOR THE VINDICATION OF OUTRAGED LAW— SEVENTH PAGE. STARTLING EXPOSURE OF THE AFFAIRS OF A | “BANK CLOSED!” THE BULL'S HEAD BANK ROBBED OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF ITS FUNDS! A SYSTEMATIO AND MOST SUCCESSFUL PECULATION! HOW THE BANK HAS STOOD AND STANDS NOW— Firti PaGE. JUVE FORGERIES UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND! ARREST IN THIS CITY OF THE ALLEGED PRINCIPAL! HE JS HELD FOR TRIAL BY THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER— Fieri Page. §VABASH AND FORT WAYNE! AUSTIN'S MANIPU- LATION. OF THE CONTINENTAL BANK! ARREST OF THE CHIEF OPERATOR! THE WAY THE SWINDLE WAS WORKED— Firta Pace. SPECIAL ITEMS OF NEWS FROM THE FED- ERAL CAPITAL—ARMY AND NAVY NOTES— Tarry Pace, (NEW JERSEY REDEEMED! THE GENERAL RAILROAD BILL PASSES THE LEGISLA- TURE! THE SCE IN BOTH HOUSES! NO LOCAL OPTION. TO BE PERMITTED— ErouTa Pace. WHY NOT APPLY SHERIDAN’S REMEDY? IN- DIAN RAIDS UPON MEXICO FROM ARIZONA | COCHISE’S CUTTHROATS MURDERING AND DESPOILING WITHOUT INTERFERENCE FROM THE UNITED STATES AUTHORITIES— FounTH PAGE. AMERICAN FASHIONS FOR SPRING! A BRIL- LIANT SHOWING OF GORGEOUS COS- TUMES! THE STYLES, MATERIALS AND TRIMMINGS—FirTu PaGE. GOLD ADVANCING! THE CLIQUE AND THE GOVERNMENT SALE! STOCKS DECLIN- ING! FAILURES IN BUSINESS IN 1872— REAL ESTATE—MUNICIPAL—EIGHTO PaGE. Paemren Grapstone’s STATEMENT TO THE Barrsn Paruament.—The British Ministerial crisis is ended and Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet difficulty conciliated. The Premier detailed all the circumstances connected with its incep- tion and close to the Parliament, amid an exciting scene, yesterday. The rival chiefs were saluted with loud cheers on their entrance into the House of Commons. Disraeli was not prepared to constitute n Ministry ; his party was not equal, just at present, to the Stateemergency. This is the plain fact of the case. The members of the opposition approve of his course in refusing office, with Ireland, Central Asia, the Alabama award and the budget estimates positively hostile, in con- fusion, unsettled, or uncaleulated. Gind- stone has gained a point, The ballot box qoust tell the remainder, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The City Charter and the Senatorial Solons—Much Ado About Nothing. After a long and vexatious delay the Senate Committee on Cities has at last reported the New York city charter, with such amend- ments as it has seen fit to make to the bill as passed by the Assembly. We publish else- where in to-day’s Henatp a full and complete account of these amendments, except such as are merely of a verbal and technical charac- ter. Some of them are desirable; others are of doubtful expediency ; but they are not alto- gether of sufficient importance to warrant the long hesitation of the committee, and we may therefore conclude that the bone of conten- tion has been the appointing power. For some reason best known to themselves a majority of the committee felt dissatisfied with the plan for the distribution of the city patronage agreed upon by the Assembly, which provided for nomination by the Board of Aldermen and confirmation by the Mayor, and, in the event of a failure of the Executive to confirm, for election by the Mayor and Aldermen in joint session. The committee has therefore reported a new method, by which it is proposed that the Mayor shall nominate and the Board of Aldermen confirm; but if the Mayor shall neglect or refuse to nominate within the time designated in the charter for filling vacancies, or if the Board of Aldermen shall fail to confirm within five days from the date of nomination, then the Mayor, tho President of the Board of Alder- men and the President of the Board of Assist- ant Aldermen shall, within three days there- after, meet together and make the appoint- ments by a majority vote. The three officers are required to be present when the appoint- ments are made; but if, after proper notice, either of them shall absent himself from two consecutive meetings the other two are em- powered at the third meeting to appoint by their own votes alone. The Board of Assistant Aldermen is, of course, retained under the Senate amendments. It will be at once seen that the Senate amendment is no change in principle; it is nothing more than a shifting of the appointing power from one source to another, to suit some personal views or interests. There are some persons who insist, upon principle, that the Mayor should have the unrestricted appoint- ing power, and others who contend that the Mayor should appoint and the Aldermen con- firm, trusting to public sentiment to prevent a deadlock between the two. The Senate's prop- osition is neither of these. While intended to be as partisan as the Assembly plan, it is neither so safe as a party measure nor so well justified by precedent. It gives the Mayor no more power than he would enjoy under the Assembly bill, and if the Governor is really opposed to the system of appointment determined upon by the Assembly he must certainly disapprove the substitute proposed by the Senate com- mittee. Two republicans are associated with the Mayor as the appointing power, Alderman Vance and Assistant Alderman Wade; hence there is no. pretence at non-partisanship in the Senate's plan. At the same time the Board of Aldermen, or the Assistant Board, might at any moment change its presiding officer and elect a democrat or a liberal who would act with the Mayor and cast the patronage of the city against the republican party. To provide against this danger it would be necessary to give the power to the ‘present’ Presidents of those Boards; thus, in fact, making desig- nated individuals, and not public officers, the dispensers of the city patronage—a proposition that would be more unprecedented and more unjustifiable than any that has yet been made. There is no possibility of misunderstanding the meaning and intent of all these proposed amendments to the charter. The contest is wholly over the city offices. The twenty-fifth section of the Assembly bill was undeniably passed with the express object of giving the patronage resulting from the republican victory in this city to the republican party. Those who have sought to change that section in the interest of Mayor Havemeyer have done so with the open and honest avowal that the patronage shall not be used in the interest of- the republican party. The Mayor himself has not disguised his real objects. In fact, with the great political ends he has in view as to the future of the reorganized democracy and as to his own political advancement as its leading spirit, he could not afford to conceal his policy. He has, therefore, wisely placed himself on record as avowing that if given the power he will appoint democrats to office. It is om account of this declaration that Tammany Hall and the liberal republican organization so strongly denounce the Assembly plan, and that the organs in their interest have railed against the attempt to retain the twenty-fifth section in the interest of the republican party. Of course if they can succeed in breaking down the republican movement and in de- priving the republicans of the fruits of their victory it would be a fair party gain. But the opposition to the Assembly plan on the part of republican Senators can only arise from considerations of personal interest and from a desire to make a market for themselves and their friends with the appointing power. As between the propositions of the Assem- bly and the Senate, the former appears by far the least objectionable. Under the Senate plan, in case of the rejection of the Mayor's nominations by the Board of Aldermen, the officers who would be subsequently appointed by the Mayor and the two Presidents of the Boards of Aldermen and Assistants would be unknown to the people until their appoint- ments had been made. Their merits could not, therefore, be publicly canvassed in advance of their appointment. Under the Assembly plan the Aldermen would in tho first place nominate officers who, if not con- firmed by the Mayor, would be elected by the same power that nominated them, and between the time of their nomination and the time of their election the citizens and the press would have ample opportunity to discuss their quali- fications and to bring public sentiment to bear against them should they be unfit for the positions assigned to them. In the first amended charter passed by the State Legisla- ture April 7, 1830, it was provided in the twenty-first section that the Common Council should appoint all the departments for the executive business of the city. Mayor Havemeyer has himself testified that when the Common Council nominated officers to him, and he, as Mayor, confirmed or rejected for reason such nominations, the system worked | wel , The Assembly proposition was, pot therefore, an innovation on any principle af- fecting the city government. Itwas approved by many on the ground that the Aldermen represent the people more directly than does the Mayor; that they are constantly brought into contact with and exercise a general supervision over the acts of the several departments, while the Mayor is fully occupied with his other official duties without being hampered with the sole respon- sibility for all the appointments, or even with the task of originating pominations, The Mayor's duties are certainly onerous enough. He signs, on an average, two hundred warrants aday, and the physical exertion of writ- ing his name is great, to say nothing of the labor of that supervision which Mayor Have- meyer has declared his intention to exercise over every warrant placed before him. He is amember of the Sinking Fund, of the Board of Health, of Revenue and Assessments, of the Quarantine Board and the Board of Emigration. He is bound to examino all measures passed by the Common Council, and either approve or reject them. If these are good reasons why the Mayor should not be hampered with the duty and responsibility of dispensing the city patronage at his will they are also good reasons why he should not be put to the trouble of originating nominations, as the Senate Committee propose, especially since such nominations would in all proba-~ bility be rejected, and his time and labor thrown away. Since this charter discussion commenced it has been argued by some that the city govern- ment should be modelled on the plan of the State government; that as the Governor ap- points and the Senate confirms, so the Mayor should appoint and the Aldermen confirm. In fact, that the Aldermen should have no greater power than the Senators. The comparison between the State and city governments @il not hold. The Governor represents the con- tinuing power of the State, always in office and always exercising his functions, while the Senate is a temporary body only, limited to a one hundred days’ session, called for a special purpose and without any general powers ex- cept those pertaining to legislation. The city of New York is a municipal Corporation, with corporate rights, powers, property and fran- chises. From time immemorial the power of government was vested in the city as a Corpo- ration, such power being exercised by the Common Council as the representative of the Corporation. The Common Oouncil of a municipal Corporation, like the di- rectors of any other corporation, is the governing body, exercising authority over all its affairs. The powers of the Board of Aldermen are continuous, When the Sen- ate is not in session the Governor necessarily exercises the appointing power alone; but the Common Council is always in session, and hence there can be no fair comparison be- tween the two governments. Indeed, the arguments used against the Assembly system of appointments have only one real meaning—they are pleas against giving the city patronage to the republican party. There is no middle course to be pursued by Governor, Senate or Assembly. The charter is either to be republican or it is not. If that party cannot be trusted with the local govern- ment of the city then we must either give the patronage to Mayor Havemeyer and the dem- ocrats or go without a charter. This is the choice the Senate is called upon to make If it rojects its com- mittee’s amendment and returns the charter in the shape in which it left the Assembly it decides in favor of giving the control of the city patronage to the republi- cans. If it sticks to its committee's proposi- tion it will probably lose the charter alto- gether and run the risk of throwing away the fruits of the recent republican victory. The State of Relations Between Spain and France. The two Latin race republics do not, to all outward appearances, at least, fraternize very cordially in sentiment or policy. They are either too near to each other territorially or not sufficiently intimate in their democratic communion. The governments at Versailles and in Madrid have just concluded an important correspondence relative to Carlism and its revolutionist efforts. France com- plains of outrages which have been perpetrated against French citizens by officers of the government of the Spanish clerical Carlist chief, the curé of Santa Cruz. Sefior Castelar replies in a circular expressive of his regret at the occurrence of the facts enumerated by M. Thiers, and then takes point against France in the argument that most of the Carlists are equipped in France and derive the bulk of their supplies, in money and commissariat, from French terri- tory. The curé of Santa Cruz sojourned at Bayonne, passed thence into Spain, and was not interfered with when on French soil. Carlist troops in great numbers wear the uniform of French mobiles, and many Frenchmen of high rank are serving with the Spanish insurgents. The Madrid government has taken measures to put a stop to the commission of outrages against foreigners and neutral travellers in Spain. The mother and sister of the curé of Santa Cruz have been seized as hostages. Tux Portianp Press, referring to the ap- pointment of ex-Senator Sawyer as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, thinks it is a “good point in his favor that the reckless rascals who have involved South Carolina in debt have been his foes.” Let us see how he will fight the “reckless rascals’ in Washington when they make their assaults upon the Troasury. We trust he will prove a foeman worthy of their steal. We Punwtsn o note from Mr. Charles T. Chester denying that the firm of which he is the surviving member ever proposed to ac- cept any amount less than the full sum of their claim against the city for the construc- tion of the fire alarm telegraph. The pay- ment of the claim was resisted by the Comp- troller until a mandamus compelled its settle- ment; but as the claim was a just one not a dollar less than the full principal and interast would at any time have been accepted. Tur Boston Globe, referring to the report that Senator Sumner would revive his oblit- eration resolves next Winter, suggests that he had better let the subject drop. Not until he is wound round again in the robes of martyr- dom prepared by the, Massachusetts Legisla- ture. The Dominican Outrage on the British Flag. A cloud of misfortune hangs over the bur- lesque Republic of St. Domingo. The goy- ernment of Baez has committed an act which must surely result in serious difficulties with the British. Tho letter from our special cor- respondent, who was commissioned by the Henaxp to Visit and describe the Samana Bay Company’s purchase, published to-day, con- veys the highly important information that the residence. of the British Vice Consul at Porto Pluta was forcibly entered by ® civil ana military force, under the direction of the Do- minican Minister of Finance, and three citi- zens, enemies of Baez and opponents of the Samana sale, taken therefrom and thrown into a dungeon. ‘The Consul acquainted his superiors of the outrage, and a British man-of-war was expected at Porto Plata to protest, in the Palmerstonian fashion, through the mouth of her big guns. In the meantime it appears that Baez has approved the conduct of his people and has ordered the prisoners of State to be brought to St. Domingo City. Our corre- spondent gives both sides of the story, the ex- planation of Governor Gonzales, who ordered the arrests, and the statement of Mr. Ham- burger, the British Vice Consul, and from these it will be seen that the Dominican gov- ernment has not only committed a grave offence, but a graver blunder. Of all the Powers having Consular representatives in the Republic England was about the last that should have been offered an affront. Not over-pleased with the coquetting of the United States with the Dominican government, the hints of annexation and the Samana Bay ac- quisition, it will, no doubt, be a pleasant duty for the British Foreign Office to exact from Mr. Baez abundant satisfaction for the affront committed. But with this matter we have and should not have anything whatever to do, Baez has mais his bed of trouble, and he can now lie init. If he imagines that the United States will protect him in his arbitrary acts he is much mistaken. Tho party of Ameri- can citizens who have paid one hundred and fifty thousand dollars down for a year's rent of Samana Bay represent themselves only; and while they have, undoubtedly, reserved rights, Mr. Baez must not for a moment sup- pose that the terms of their purchase imply, if they do not specify, an American protecto- rate over the Republic. If any such idea pos- sessed him when approving the conduct of Governor Gonzales, as it seems to possess a large number of his followers, the sooner our Secretary of State dispels it the better. The Second Equinoctial Gale. The second equinoctial gale of the season put in its appearance promptly yesterday and extended over a large section of country. The first attempt ata Spring storm last week was not a success; but this seems to have been very general in its scope, and to have been attended with widespread driving and heavy rains and strong winds. The report of the Weather Bureau yesterday betokened rough weather over the Middle and Eastern States, and also in the Alleghany sections. The storm expanded itself over the lower lakes, with some snow, but its violence was it most on the seaboard and along the leghanies. The result will very probably be to occasion a Spring freshet in the Ohio River, and possibly in some of the Eastern rivers, as it is almost too late for them to be sealed up again by cold. The dissolution of the snow and ice on the slope of the Alle- ghanies cannot long be delayed, and this rain storm may—probably will—set them all in motion. The telegraph tells us that the storm was attended with heavy snow from Chicago to Maine, and with hail, snow and rain in the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania. _ To-day, according to the almanac, the sun, which has for three months been on his north- ward course, crosses the Equator, making the night and day of equal length. One may now consider Spring fairly opened. As the days grow long and the warmth increases our streets show a resumption of activity, while the business quarters of the city exhibit indi- cations of an unusually lively trade. With the advance of Spring and approach of Summer our city authorities should display greater vigor in the necessary work of cleaning the streets and putting them in condition to pre- vent all unwholesome smells and disease- breeding exhalations. Winter and its incon- veniences being past, we should also by every means “hasten on those projects for rapid transit which promise in the future to remedy the evils of snow-choked streets and buried railway tracks, and make the daily journey from the uptown home to the downtown place of business a smaller tax upon time than that we now so unwillingly pay. Let Them Pay Back the Money. Tho Hon. Clarkson N. Potter says that by a refusal to sign the warrant for his back pay the amount remains in the United States Treasury, where it honestly belongs ; but he had no occasion to tell us this. The point we made was, that unless Mr. Potter directs the Sergeant-at-Arms to pay the money into the Treasury of the United States he can hereafter change his mind, sign the warrant and pocket his back pay. According to the act of Con- gress the money still stands to his credit on the books of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the mere refusal to sign the warrant now will not place the five thousand dollars where he can- not reach it hereafter. We do not want to see Congressmen evade the issue, though wo acquit Mr. Potter of any such intention. Let them pocket the money or pay it over, so as to make a final disposition of it, that the public may know where the money went. There is another point about this retroactive pay steal which is worthy of attention. As soon as it became known that some of the. members of Congress would refuse to take the money, the charity beggars began to. over- whelm them with letters. begging them to give the money to churches,or to the Washington Monument. In another column we print one or two specimens of those letters, that our readers may see how the integrity of Congress-~ men is constantly besieged. If the Washing- ton Monument is to be benefited by money taken from the Treasury of the United States, let the amount be appropriated by Congress, and expended in a way that the people may know that it was not thrown away. It is gon- erally understood that the monument is sinking. If this be true it is scarcely honest | to ask anybody to contribute towards its com- pletion, The churgh-puilding schemes arg worse even than the monumental suggestion, because they give Congressmen an excuse for keeping the money by supplying them with the pretence that they have given it away. Nothing will do except to pay it back into the Treasury, after the example set by Colonel Roberts. The Price of Gold. We are evidently going from bad to worse as regards the gold premium, if, indeed, the approach to specie payments and a consequent decline in the price of gold is to be considered a blessing or desirable, The gold quotations are now fretiy steady between 115 and 116, being from 115} to 115§. On October 31 last the premium was 112} to 1123; November 30 it was 1123 to 112§; December 31 it was 1113 to 112}; on January 31 it had gone up to 113} to 1133; at the end of February there was still an advance, and now it nearly touches 116. Here is an important fact which our busi- ness men, the government and political econ- omists would do well to consider. What is the cause of this steady rise in the face of our surprising prosperity, profound peace and strength of the national credit? It can- not be attributed to Wall street cliques, specie-locking-up-speculators, or to any such extraordinary combinations as have existed at times heretofore. There is certainly a general cause independent of them, and, we think, independent of the government, though we by no means look favorably upon the finan- cial policy of the Treasury Department. The administration and its controlling majority in Congress may speak exultingly of the financial policy, or success, as they are pleased to term it, of the government ; but that does not pre- vent gold going up and the prospect of specie payments becoming less and less every month, Without going into the subject further at present we simply state a fact for the consider- ation of business men and those economical philosophers who love to ventilate their ideas on financial problems. Is Nzw Enauanp Insensmiz 10. Corrvp- tion?—The St. Louis Republican avers that ‘the New Hampshire election is not very satis- factory to anybody,” and adds that “if it proved anything at all, it is the little impres- sion which the corruptions of the repub- lican party at Washington have made on the masses in that New England State.” Ina matter of dollars and cents morality it is safe to say that the masses of New England are encased in armoras pregnable as the people of any other section of the country. New England has almost exclusively furnished the South with that pestiferous class of public plunderers, the carpet-baggers, and it would be strange if there are not some samples of the same race of political leeches still living at home, ready to wink at corruptions at Washington or elsewhere. But we should be sorry tosee it affirmed that New England is insensible to official corruption ond that she halts in a resolution to properly rebuke those of her sons who have perilled her honor by their connection with the scandals developed the past Winter in Washington. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Congressman James M. Ashley, of Ohio, is at the Astor House. Judge H. Sturges, of Cooperstown, N. Y., is regis- tered at the Sturtevant House. Alonzo M. Viti,. Italian Consul. in Philadelphia, is in town, at the Hoffman House. A Robb family in Missouri have falien heirs to an estate in Scotland worth two millions. Commander William B, Cushing, of the United States Navy, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Ommanney, of the British Army, arrived yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. D. Mclnnis, Managing Director of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, 1s at the Brevoort House. B. F. Torreno de Barros, of the Brazilian Lega- tion at Washington, has arrived at the Hofman House. Lieutenant Comm@der J.. H. Tinkham, of the United States Navy, is registered at the Hoffman House. Congressman E£. L. Acker, of Pennsylvania, says he has a distinct recoection that he voted nay on the back-pay question. General William ‘1. Clark, ex-Congressman from Texas, and Congressional Delegate J. B, Chaffee, of Colorado, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor William E. McMaster has returned to this city after a successful Western tour with his Tecture on ‘Dante and Michael Angelo.” Ex-Congressional John Lynch, of Portland, Me., has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. His friends are going to banquet John on thy 25th inst. The widow of Sir Alfred Joseph Tichborne, whose estates are the plum for which the claimant fights, ‘was married a few days since to a Captain Wick- ham. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury F. A. Sawyer was born in Bolton, Worcester county, Mass., in 1822, and graduated at Harvard in 1844, It is stated that he has some family relationship with Judge Richardsen, the present Secretary. The Hon, Alexander Temple Fitzmaurice, son ef the Earl of Orkney, is soon to be married to a Mrs. Riddell, The gentleman is twenty-eight, while the bride-elect is fifty-two years old. The lady being very rich, the gentleman can’t be expected to give that Riddell up. President Thiers replied to a French politician who, in speaking of Spain, called her “a sister re- public’’ of France :—‘You may say what you please, but she 1s @ younger sister that may cause her elder to miss her marriage and prevent her from ever finding an establishment.”’ Mr. O'Sullivan, of the British Museum, was re- cently arrested.as a lunatic in London. A pair of boots, carried under his arm, proved to the “bobby” his identity with an insane fugitive, ag the latter had an aversion to wet feet and always had with him a pair of pedal coverings to put on when those he had on became damp, Augustus Schell, being about to end his bachelor days, will resign the Presidency of the Manhattan Club. A very proper action will say all good wives whose bane is “the club.” Those particular cronies of ‘Gus’ Schell, Samuel J. Tilden and John Cochrane, are still bachelors, and are said to re- gard his matrimonial venture with anxiety. About fifteen years ago an Italian named Michael Cancemi.was tried in this city for the murder of Eugene Anderson; He was tried fear different times, and finally convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to the State Ptisan for life. Through the persistent efforts of his counsel, the Messrs. Blankman, however, he was. pardoned in 1864 by the Governor of the State, and he at once returned to his mative. Italy, where he joined the army and gradually obtained one promotion after another unti; now he holds @ colonels commission and is acting general. His case lasted seven years altogether, and his counsel avow that they have. never doubted his innocence. BURNING OF A GOTTION SHIP, NeW ORLEANS, March 20, 1873. The American ship Europa, hence on the Tth inst. for Liverpool, with a cargo of 3,476 bales of cotton, 500 tierces of lard and 2,000 staves, was totally destroyed by fire on the 15th, 300 miles oi southwest Pass, The loss is estimated at $375,000. Captain Fulton and the crew o. che Euopa were brought to Southwest Pass by the British ship Sharkenloe. The Europa belonged to Houghton Brothers, of Bata. Me, and was registered 1174 \OLie The Legislature and State Authoritice Yield to the Supreme Court in Refer emce to the Funding Bill—Bond Coupons Now Reecivable for Taxes— A Blow Aimed at Northern Bondhold- ers—More Politica] Strite Ahead. . RIcuMonp, Va., March 20, 1873. The General Assembly of Virginia, after resisting for three months the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals, thus setting an example for law-breakefs to violate any statutes which do not meet with their approval, have at last consented that coupons made receivable for taxes under: the Funding bill of 1871 shall be so received by the col- lecting officers of the Commonwealth. The Andi- tor of Public Accounts to-day issued imstructions to these officers informing them that they might now proceed to ebey the law, as a bill had been passed taxing State bonds at the rate of fifty cents on the one hundred dollars, market value: This last was the expression of the vengeance which the General Assembly feels against Northern boudholders, who are charged with proceeiss vhe passage of the Funding bill by privery an corruption, for it is etlective only as against them, as the Virginia holder of State bonds is exempt from listing them in the assessment Oo! his property. and so only pays one tax. But the jorthern ponudholder must pay the tax upon his Virginia bonds as personal property in the State Where he resides, and then submit to have thom taxed here also, This tax is to be deducted at the Treasury when the interest is paid, or retained in the hands of the collecting officers where coupons ure taken ler taxes, but the holders of bonds with coupons receivable for taxes still have the upper hand, for they will get all, or nearly all, the inter- est due taem by passing-their coupons into the fiands of collecting officers, while all others will only get four per cent this year and what the State pleases to Pay herea(ter. Governor Walker weuld not approve the bill taxing bonds, on account of this feature, but allows it to become a.law in erder that no further opposition may be made to the de cision of the Supreme Court. LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR POLITICAL*TROUBLE. ‘The General Asseinbly to-day proceeded tothe election of county judges, to serve for six years from January 1, 1874, ‘he repuolican members entered their protest against the election, as a violation of the spirit of tae censtitu ion, an un- warrantable and violent assumption of power and an act destructive of the principles of free government. If the republicans suc- ceed in electing a General Assembly at the election to be held this Fall they will unJoubt- edly elect a new set of judges who will be of their own way of thinking. Promment conservatives were oppose to this. General assembly antictpating and perlorming the work which properly belongs to its successor, and the result of it, ina certain contingency, will be two sets of county judges, and chaos and conft n in all parts of the State. WEATHER REPORT. Wark DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, March 21—1 A. M. Probabilities, For Friday, throughout the Gulf States, cold, northerly winds will continue, with generally clear weather, In the South and Middle Atlantic states northwest winds, increasing to Brisk, with falling temperature and partly cloudy weather. For Northern New England winds will back to the west, with clearing weather by Friday afternoon; for the lake region generally westerly winds, cloudy and clearing weather. Cautionary signals continue at all stations om the Middle and East Atlantic coasts. The Weather in Th ity Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding oar of last, ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD building :— 1872, 1873, 26 «40 Average temperature yesterday... eee Average temperature for corresponding date last year... MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES. At the first representation of the burlesque of “Don Giovanni,” in London, one of the acters apostrophized a very pretty girl as “my spotted beauty,” instead of ‘“‘my spotless beauty.” Miss Jennie Lee, who has not ‘had an important part in any of the plays produced at the Union Square Theatre this Winter, appears in ‘Cousin Jack” on Saturday evening, in a part which gives scope to her abilities, The programme of a choir concert in London wag almost entirely filled with the works of early Eng- lish and Italian composers. The selections included examples from Luca Marensie (1550-99), G. Con- verso (1580), Salvator Rosa (1615), Giovanmd Croco (160), Corelli (1653-1713), Tartini (1692-1770), Fer- Tetti (1575), Pergolesi (1710), C. Festa (1541), Samuel Wesley (1765-1837), Ward (1608), Wilbye (1609) and others. The Vienna theatres are making preparations for gratifying visitors from all nations by perform- ances peculiar to the countries represented. Among others a Russian Theatre is to be opened under the direction of Prince Oblensky and Count Markoff. The fellowing pieces are to de periormed in the course of the Summer :—‘The Death of Ivan the Terrible,” “A Russian Marriage,” ‘The Boyard of the Sixteenth Ceatury,” ‘The Grave-@f Askold” and “The silver Prince." Every effort is to be made to give an accurate and lively representation ef Russian costumes, songs and dances at this theatre, JOURNALISTIO NOTES, The Charleston Courier, the oldest journal, with one exception, in the South, is to besold at publis auction on the $d of April. ; Samuel Fabyan, late of the Bostom Commercial Bulletin, 1s about to start a paper im Worcester, to be called the Daily Press, E. B. Cooke, founder of the Waterbury (Conn.) American, is just eighty years old. A SWINDLING DETECTIVE. A Bogus Philanthrepist—New York and Philadelphia Mulcted of Two Hundred Dollars a Week—Forged Petitions from Switzerland and Elsewhere. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 20, 1873. Detective Blom was arrested to-day in West Philadelphia on a charge of a long-practised impo- sition upon the people of thatreity, When arrested & paper was found upon him purporting to be @ certificate from a Swiss Benevolent Society, signed by Rudolph Koradi, Consul, and Augustus H. Wirz, Secretary, which gave authority to blem to collect money for the relief of distressed people from Switzerland. Upon another paper was.@ list of subscriptions that had, been collected to the amount of three hundredior four hundred dollars, Investigation being made it was discayered that the names to the certificates were forgeries, and the ‘evidence was. conclusive that whatever funds Blom had colleeted had been applied to his. own use. He admitted. that he had played the same game in New: York, and had earrted it on here very successiudly for some months without exciting suspicion, and during thes-time had ¥ol- lected from one re@ and flity totwo hundred dollars per week. Had. he not confided his secret to another, in the hope that by increasing the number of impostors the proceecs would be cor- respondingly augmented, the schame would proba- bly have not been discovered for time to, come; but this configant informed the officers of the law, and the impostor came to grief. He de~ clared that he had a family to support, and though that as. good @ Way as any to secure the necessary means. OBITUARY, Stephen H. Webb. Stephen, Hi, Webb, who formerly served a8. major in the United States Array, § son Of the late General Webh, of the Revoinpionaxy Army, died at Jacksonville, Fla., om the lath instant, Joseph F. Randolph. Joseph. F. Randolph, an, eminent American jurist and, one of the most promjsent oitizens of New Jersey, died, alter @ long Mness, at his home in Jersey City, on Wednesday, the 19th instant. He was a Judge of the Supreme Court for seven years. From 1837 to 1843 he served in Congress irom New Jersey, Me was a.member of the State convention o! 1844‘that made the present State Constitution, He als figured prominently in the Peace Congresa of 184, THE NEW ORLEANS TANGLE, New ORLEANS, March 20, 1873, ‘The report of the Committee of Two Hundred to their constituents will be submitted to-morrow. The telegram of Mr. Casey to President Grang forms a conspicuous feature in the report. The cammittes refer to Mr. Lowell's recent threat to expose M sey. The testimony in the report. the Senate Committee awakens inquiry, and the Citizens’ Committee urge the necessity of a most searching mvestig&tion into the New Orleans Cus+ tom Housé { } I 35