The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1873, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1873—TRIPLE SHEEY. ~MARS HEAD. Diving for the Dead of the Lost Atlantic. FIVE BODIES RECOVERED YESTERDAY One Hundred and Seventy Tons of Cargo Brought Up. DANGERS OF THE COAST. What Should Be Done to Prevent the Recur- rence of Like Calamities, THE BRAVE MINISTER Caring For and Burying the Dead—An Un- seemly Local Quarrel for Possession of the Recovered Property. Hawirax, April 9, 1873. The cloud of affiiction and mourning still hovers over. Halifax—in fact, it is doubtful if anywhere in the world where the particulars of the Atlantic dis- aster are known there is not a universal feeling of profound sorrow, The men who are here from the States, mostly from New York, seeking the bodies of brothers, sisters and relatives, go about the strects in a despondent mood, all hoping that they may, at least, have the sad consolation of paying the last sad tribute to the inanimate forms of Joved ones, even though they may be distorted, bloated, stiff and stark in the cold embrace of @eath. The people of Halifax are very kind, and give such comiort as they can, but it does not bring back their dear ones who are lost and are Row floating around in the broken cargo of the sunken steamer. THE SCENE OF THE WRECK from the shore is very little if any changed trom that described in the despatches yesterday. Divers were at work almost at daybreak this morning and did not cease their labors until the departure of the HERALD tugbeat at twilight this evening. The weather was fine, the water calm and placid and everything combined to favor their efforts. The result of their labors, briefly told, was the recovery Of five bodies; four of them the remains of steer- age passengers, and the other the corpse of one of the crew. Not a single cabin pas- wenger, in addition to those reported, has been found. The total of the cargo recovered during the day was about ahundred and seventy tons, consisting largely of machinery, dry goods, crockery, and now and then acase of silks and other valuable drv goods. An effort was made to cut into the saloon, and after fifteen iron boits had been drawn and a large plate removed it was found that the portion of the wreck which the divers took for the saloon was only a part of oue of the coal bunkers. Among the broken fragments of the cargo and débris Noating below the subma- rine workers can discover the distorted and muti- lated corpses staring at them and drifting here and there with the wreck at the mercy of the roll- ing sea, all forming A HIDEOUS AND REVOLTING SPECTACLE which it is almost impossible to describe. Captain Williams, the commander ef the ill-fated steamer, viewed the wreck carefully to-day, and reports to the HERALD correspondent that he has no idea but that many of the stateroom locks were 80 dislo- cated by the shock when the steamer struck the rock that their occupants were unable to open the doors; and he therejore concluded that their bodies will be found within when the divers are able to get at them. It is well known that some of the rescued were obliged to smash the panels before they could get from their rooms, and one ef these marrow escapes has been told in the thrilling expe- rience of Mr. Brady, the third officer. The ex- pected divers from New York, Boston and Lake Superior have not yet arrived, but are hourly ex- | pected. Wher they do come tke submarine force will be more than trebied, and probably the saloon Will be speedily reached. THE HERALD DIVER is at the scene of the wreck, anxiously awaiting | the opportunity te go below, and when an entrance has been effected to the cabin, the public wall be | promptly advised of the terrible spectacies which Probably exist, and which the most fearful and vivid imagination must fail to contemplate. The scene on shore where the bodies of the poor victams are being consigned to their last resting Place are most harrowing and revolting. Some of the corpses it is positively sickening to gaze upon. | They are in many cases bloated, bruised and dis- figured ina most terrible manner, and in ether instances their appearance denotes as if they were enjoying a peacetul slumber rather than lying in the sleep of death. THE GRAVES OR TRENCHES where they are consigned are abeut twelve fect wide, thirty or forty teet long and four er five feet deep. The rude coffins centaining the unfertunate victims are placed in these four abreast and two deep, and then covered over with twelve or fiiteea inches of earth. Such have been the rude cere- monies over the hundreds of human beings who went down in the ill-fated Atlantic. There have been no obsequies, no friends near to shed a part- ing tear over their graves, and the only requiem Which will be heard will be the dashing surf along the coast where they met their untimely fate. The Collector of the port of Halifax has increased his means at the scene of the wreck for the PROTECTION OF THE PROPERTY RECOVERED and the valuables found upon the bodies of the un- fortunate victims, but he has net as yet managed Maire in person. He gees down to Prospect to- morrew, fer the first time, en the Dominion cut- ter, which nas been lying here almost from the moment of the disaster. The magistrates are very indignant at being compelled to give up the prop- erty which they have taken from the bodies of the victims, and one of them came up to the city yesterday to consult couasel as to whether the Collector had the autierity to cemand thetr delivery, The Collector in ail that he has done or failed to do says that he is acting under instruc- tions from the Dominion goverument, and the prop- erty retamed in his possession will be held one year, and if not reclaimed up to that time will be appro- priated towards defrayiug tie burial expenses of all the bodies. THE BRAVE EPISCOPALIAN MINISTER. ‘The Rev, Mr. Ancient takes charge of the burial Of allexcept those who are identified as Catholics and taken to the Catholic cemetery at Terrence Bay. He assists at grave digging, conveying the bodies in boats and reads the burial services. The Court of Inquiry will be postponed until Sat- urday. WHAT BHOTLD BE DONE TO PREVENT LIKE TERS ON THE COAST. Although Captain Williams has not as yet shown | himself blameless for the appalling calamity, it must be admitted that his is but a divided respon- sibility, and other causes and other means con- tributing to the disaster must not be overlooked. While the Dominion authorities are investigating, im & manner somewhat novel aud extraordinary, the cause of the terrivie disaster which re- Buited in such a fearful and unprecedented loss of lifeand preperty, it would be well for them also to turn their attention to the neglected condi- tion ef a dangerous coast and ascertain what additional means of safety are necessary. It is considered that the interests of commerce and of British and American underwriters, apart from what is due to the cawse of humanity, im- peratively proves that romething should be imme- fliately done. The HERALD correspondent has ken pains to inquire irom various sources what fs absolutely needed to remove existing dangers and relieve life and property from the perils of DISAS- Navigation along an extended coast. First, at Sambro, where the Captain ef the unfortunate steamer supposed he was heading, there is a light- house and a fog trumpet, whicb can only be heard in erdinary weather about two miles, and in a heavy blow probably mot more than one mile. Now this terrible calamity shows that what is re- quired at Sambro, in adaitien to the lighthouse, is * A STEAM FOG WHISTLE which can be heard at least five miles, And, far- thermore, in the vicinity ef the scene of the dis- aster there should be placed @ lightsbip wits a steam whistfe which can be heard at least four or five miles distant. Had these means of safety ex- isted when the ill-fated Atlantic was approaching Halifax harbor in ali provability this heartrending disaster would never have occurred. Again, at Prospect, near the scene ef the wreck, there should bea station or coast guard, with lifeboats and prover appliances for saving life aud property. With these the movements of the Dominion rev- enue cutter at the time ef the calamity would not have been so lamentable, At Little Hope, a little rock island about sixty miles from Prospect, there is a red revolving light, but a fog whistle is also required which can be heard half a dozen miles, At Cape Sable, also, there is @ bright re- volving light, but in addition a steam fog whistle is absolutely required, for the approach to it is the most dangerous along the whole coast. On Seal Island, seventeen miles from Cape Breton, in ad- dition to the fixed light there is a sert of fog whis- tle, but the safety of navigation requires that there should be placed a steam fog whistle which can be heard.at a much greater distance than the one new there, About three and @ half miles from Seal Island Light there is THE BLIND ROCK, which at low water can be partly seen. Besides this, seven miles from Cape Sable, 1 the Brazil rock, on or near which there is nothing to indicate its location or existence to mariners. This rock at lew water is twelve feet below the surface. If the HERALD can be instrumental in directing the at- tention and influencing the action of the Dominion government to supply the needed requirements for the protection of life and property along the Nova Scotia ceast it will have conferred benefits, not only upen the people of the Dominion, but upon ‘the friends of humanity everywhere, British and American underwriters and all classes of ship owners will especially feel grateful for oontributing to lighten their responsibilities, and at the same time promoting the interests of commerce, in which all countries are interested. Thirty of the Atlantic Chicago. CHIcaGo, April 9, 1873, Thirty of the ill-fated steamer Atlantic passen- gers arrived here this morning. THE HERALD AS THE BEARER OF GLAD TIDIN ae An Incident of the Atlantic Calam- ity—Joy Over a Rescued Brother. [From the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette, April 6.) The news of the great calamity of the year, the sinking of the steamship Atlantic, given in the Gazette last Wednesday morning, was freighted with grief for one family in Davenport. It was grief with agonizing suspense—for there was no knowing whether the object of the painful solici- tude was lost or saved, but the probabilities were that he was among those who found a watery grave, The person most interested in the news was Mrs. Mary Foley, who tives in East Davenport. Her brother James was among the passengers on board the Atjantic. On Wednesday and Thursday she was unable to get any iniormation concerning her brother, by telegraph, and so she was forced to wait until the publication of a full lst of lost and saved—her heart being loaded with mingled sor- row and anxiety toa degree that threatened her health, if not her mind. She was at the Post Office on the arrival of every mail, to look for papers from a distance. Morning and evening she waited for the city dailies witn hope and fear, only to have her fears enhanced. Yesterday morning she appeared at the Post QMfce, where Assistant Postmaster Teale was ready to greet her with glad news. As she approached the delivery he held out a New YorkK HERALD of Thursday morning, which contained a complete list of the persons rescued from the rocks and wreck to which they clung 80 long, and in the list was the name of James Foley. The good woman was nearly beside herself with joy. She clapped her hands, and wept and laughed; she kissed the paper again and again, and was in an ecstacy that would not allow her to be quiet. Mr. Teale says her countenance was the happiest in en he ever saw at that place of expres- the ladies’ delivery. The spectators were touched by her conduct, and several gentlemen congratulated her on the receipt of the geod news, The next thing will be a letter from the brother, if, yndeed, he does not appear himself. G@LOUOESTER FISHERMEN DROWNED. GLovCESTER, Mass., April 9, 1873. Benjamin Carpenter and Archie Beaton, of the fishing schooner Sarah P. Ayers, of this port, were lost In a dory off the banks, and Michael Carleton was washed overboard from the scheoner Aaren Burnham, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Flat necklaces are much worn by ladies with short necks, They were introduced by the queen of opera bouffe—Mile. Schneider, M. Hervé’s “Veuve de Malabar” has been de- layed at the Varieties, owing to the illness of Mlle. Devéria, who bas the principal part. The Count de Waldeck, who just celebrated the one hundred and seventh anniversary of his birth, is building a theatre in Paris, of which he is to be the director, Six mew theatres are being built in Vienna for the Great Exhibition—City Theatre, Opera Comique, Court Theatre, Residence Theatre, Academy The- atre (for French plays of the higher order) and International Theatre, The New York Minnercher give a concert at Ter- race Garden on Easter Sunday evening, at which Miss Henne, contralto; Mr. Graf, tenor, and Mr. Bergner, ‘cello, appear, The orchestra will be un- der the direction of Mr. Reinhard, Mr, A. Grant, the banker, has purchased frem Mme, Ressini her husband's inedived works for the sum of 100,000f, They wiil now be published, and tne prodts will be handed over te the Royal Aca- demy of Music and the Society of Musicians jointly. Acurious resuscitation of a poetic drama, the music by Bach, has taken place at the Salle Pleyel, in Paris, at a concert devoted specially to the great tone-master’s works. Itis called “The Quarrel of Phoebus and Pan.” The great Bach had in bis days only the tinkling harpsichord to write for, In the score of the classic opera he does not use horns, bassoons or trombones; but the instrumentation is confined to the string quartet, three trumpets, two oboes, two flutes, drums and cymbal, Theodore Thomas announces @ grand festival week of oratorios and concerts at Steinway Hall, cominencing on the 22d instant. The festival will consist of four evening and matinée perferm- ances, The first will be ijah"? and the second Mendelssohn’s “Lobgesang” and selections from “Israel in Egypt.” The Beston Handel and Hay- den Society, with Mrs. West, Mrs. Smith, Miss Carey, Mr, Varley, Mr. Whitney and Mr. Rudolph- Sen, as svloists, Will take part in these oratorio perfermances, On the 25th a concert will be given With Thomas’ orchestra as che main feature. Ru- binstein, Mills and Mason will play a Bach con- certo for three pianos, and the orchestra will pre- sent & new overture (MS.) to “Tannhauser.’ On the 26th the immortal choral symphony of Beet- een Ade form a crowning attraction for the festival. BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A DESPERATE CON. VICT. Passengers in Boston, April 9, 1873. A tragedy took place in the State Prison at Charlestown this morning, which threatens to prove fatal. As the convicts were marching in line, as usual, from breakfast William Patterson attacked John £. Shaw, @ prison eficial, one ef the escort, and deait him two terrible blows with ‘a large knife, which he had = secreted about his person, Shaw’s hand was nearly cut oi, and his face laid ofen with @ gash eight inches long. He was removed to the hospital in a pre- carious condition, Patterson was at once secured, He was serving a ten years’ sentence for burglary, having previougly been a convict Jor twelve years, THE FATE OF O'KELLY. An Appeal to President Grant by the Cubans of New York. Why the Spaniards Would Silence the Herald Commissioner. THE PRESS ON THE ARREST. An Impartial Journalist and Not a Rebel or Spy. Last evening tre following communication was transmitted to General Grant :— To His EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES :— Intelligence has just been received from Cuba, by which it appears that Mr. James O’Kelly, the Com- missioner delegated by the HERALD to gather facts cencerning the war pending on that island, has been arrested by the Spanish authorities and is now liable to trial by court martial. This news has naturally produced @ well-founded alarm among the Cuban residents in this country. They under- stand the spirit that animates the Spaniards in Cuba, and they fear for the life of an American citizen, wko, imbued with the free spirit of this great people, accepted the mission of studying and investigating and communicating to the world, through the medium of the press, the facts con- cerning this war, which for four years has been WAGED BY LIBERTY AGAINST DESPOTISM. The citizens of Cuba have had no share in the mission entrusted to Mr. O'Kelly, but when @ man with a brave heart, representing one ef the great journals of this city, undertook the painiul and dangerous task referrea to, they could not but feel @ deep interest in his undertaking ana in his safety. They felt assured from the outset that the result ef his investigations would be favorable te them; that the testimony of an impartial witness must and would show the meral and physical re- sources of the natives of the island, which entitle them to BECOME INDEPENDENT OF THE SPANISH NATION. That nation has never recognized their right to interfere in their own affairs. It hasruled them with a rod of iron for the most selfish purposes and committed without hesitation the most flagrant acts of injustice. All improvement has thus been shut out from a people all the more entitled to feel and appreciate the regenerating influence of lib- erty because of their proximity to this great Re- Public and their consequent superiority over their oppressors. The world will then be able to learn and under- stand that in that island there is now organized and established a republican government with a constitution of unsurpassed liberality and freedom. PROOF WILL BE OFFERED, OF A CONCLUSIVE CHAR- ACTER, showing the existence of armies that are struggling against, and able to meet on equal terms, the best and most experienced troops of the Spanish gov- ernment; and, above all, and what is most impor- tant, the world will be satisfied that it is the ceter- mination and unalterable resolve of Cuba to be free and independent. It is evident that on all these suojects the inter- ests of Cuba and of Spain are diametrically opposed to each other, and that the Spanish authorities in the island will USE EVERY EFFORT TO DROWN THE VOICE OF MR, O’KELLY, and to appropriate to themselves all the notes, proofs and memoranda that he may have accumu- lated; and, as the most expeditious and familiar method that they are acquainted with, applicable to such cases, is the infitetion of summary capital punishment, no one need wonder if, under pre- tended forms of justice; employed for the mere- sake of saving appearances, they should resort to that course in the present instance. NOR NEED ANY PERSON WONDER IF the first intelligence that reaches us should apprise us that Mr. O'Kelly has disappeared from this world, A VICTIM OF SPANISH CRUELTY AND STATE POLICY. Under these urgent circumstances, permit us, Mr. President, composing, as we do, the Directory Committee of the “Society of the Friends of Cuba,” to direct our feeble voice to you, the Chief Magis- trate of this great people, and respectfally ask your intervention in favor of a man now in great peril, and whese only offence lies in this, that, having been educated and accustomed to the practice of republican institutiens, he has undertaken to disclose to the world, after persenal investigation and upon positive proofs, the actual condition of Cuban affairs, THE ADMINISTRATION WILL DO ITS DUTY. We well know, sir, that Mr. O'Kelly, being an American citizen, active in discharge or a duty of an eminently American character, the government to which he belongs needs no stimilus to urge it to that course which the exigencies of the case so imperatively demand. Of this we are fully con- vinced, and we cannet remain silent, even if our appeal should be utterly useless and uncalled for. But we ocesire, at least, in advance, TO GIVE SOME PROOF OF OUR GRATITUDE to the man who, by the mere public exhibition of the simple truth, will essentially contribute promptly and effectualiy to stop this terrible effu- sion of blood and to put an end to the terrible dis- tress and suffering that have accompanied the struggles of a neighboring people on their way to | liberty. J. G. D. DE VILLEGAS, President. FRANCISLO AR’ GA, Treasurer, HILARIO CISNERO: VICENTE MESTRE. VICENTE BUENO. JUAN JOSE DIAZ. PEDRO M. RIVERO, Secretary. THE HERALD IN CUBA. French Views and Comments on the Herald’s Cuban Expedition. [From the Courrier des Etats Unis, Apri 9.] There can be but one opinion as to the fate in re- serve for Mr. O’Kelly, the Commissioner of the HERALD, who has been arrested in Cuba by the Spanish anthorities, and that is that his life is not in danger; itis also highly probable that he 1s more secure where he now ts than where he was re- cently, or where he might have been, either among the insurgents or the loyal! The Heratp has had every possible information upon the subject, and it publishes several reports from its reporters which agree on these points, viz., that if Mr. O'Kelly has done nothing but fulfil his mission as an observer, that if he has neither acted in convert with the insurgents, given no aid or assistance to their cause, carried despatches or information on their behal/, nor done anything else that might cause him to be regarded as a spy, he need have no fear for his life, and that the only verdict arrived at will be that he shall be politely shown out of the island, with a request never again to place lis feet on the soil’ There is one way, however, in which | evil might befali him, and this would be in case hey by chance or surprise, should fall into the hands of a band of volunteers, who Would kill him without waiting for instructions from the authorities, Ac- cording to a report of the regular correspondent or the HERALD im Cuba, transmitted by him to Key West, it appears that in ap interview with Captain General Ceballos he reminded the latter of his previous promise that if O'Kelly were caught after returning from the insurgent lines he would be sim- ply expelled. “This is true,” replied the General, “bat on the condition, implied, that O'Kelly was not found guilty of having been in concert witli the in- sargents, and that he ptoved neutrality during his sojourn among them.” This restriction is, ac- cording to the mind of the correspondent, but the result of an afterthought, and causes him consider. able anxiety. The anxiety of the correspondent 18 Very natural; nevertheless it is quite clear that the Captain General, who, at the time he was speaking, knew very little, if anything, beyond the information in possession of his inverrogator, could not in advance guarantee the safety of the prisoner before being assured he was not placing himself in @ compromising position, According to the same correspondent O'Kelly has already been subjected to an investigation, at which he has refused to answer any questions. The Captain Genera) on being censuited telegraphed immediately that the Court should pursue the in- vestigation conformably with the prescriptions of the law and not consult him further, This would indicate that Sefior Ceballos desired the Court to freely interpret the instruction, proceed with the discussion, and, if necessary, pronounce his arrest Within the statute, following which, policy or hu- Manity would dictate to them the method of exe- cuting the sentence. He seems to desire that ful! light be shed on the whole affair, that the conduct ef O'Kelly may be perfectiy understood, but not that the correspondent of the HERALD, whether guilty or innocent, be purely and simply released as being placed beyond the law by the mere au- thority of his patrons, it is apparent, moreover, that the Captain Gene- raibelieves that he woula be held to account by ea opinion, that if he were to do this 1t would considered an act of liberaliam, and that he would not fail to be reproach- ed for so doing untess able to support his action with the best possible reasons, In the excited state of the public mind in a country so agitated as Cuba there are not wanting fanatics who clamor fer chastisement, of which we have an example in the following article published April 6 in the Diario, of Havana, under the head of cor- Tespondence from New Yor! T have the moral conviction that the Shlantas O'Kelly's ion misai to carry advices to the insurgents and post them regarding the Hlibustering projects. concocting, in this country. ‘This is nothing more than to continue what Henderson began, and it will be observed, that after the interview the ‘latter held with Agramonte the insurgents have shown more activity and per. tihacity in their operations. To leave’ the island ts easy enough; but to reach the rebels offers many dificul- ties. Only on such a pretext as that of Henderson and O'Kelly can verbal counsei and plans of action, which study of the question in the United States gives rise to, be taken with impunity to the insurgents, in order that their movements may be in concert with’ the plans of the laborantes, It is fair to presume that these are simple sup- positions, and, besides, if there were any founda- tion in them, a man in the pesition ef Mr, O’Keily wouid net be so foolish as to allow them to see any- thing that might be put in evidence against him. But, on the other hand, the Captain General would certainly be accused of a Cae complaisance and ot exhib erate humiliating pusillanimity if, instead of awaiting from a regular inquiry the proof of his innocence, he were to take upon himself to declare his innocence without being able at the same time to prove his convictions to the public, ‘The correspondent of the HERALD in Washington has made several visits upon distinguished gentle- men in reterence hereto, but did not ascertain a great deal. Mr. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, had nothing at all to say; a call was made upon Mr. Caleb Cushing, another on General Butler and the last on the Spanish Consul. All were agreed that uniess he had committed acts in concert with the insurgents 0’Kelly ran no serious danger. Mr. Caleb Cushing, whose opinions en foreign affairs are considered as authority, thinks that the Cuban insurrection has breught about a crisis more danger- ous to Spain than herself, who, im the midst of the internal divisions at home, requires all her forces, and must be greatly perplexed to supply the constant reinforcements necessary for Cuba, Caleb Cushing remarks on this subject that the revoiutions which have separated Spain from her American colonies have always imme- diately followed a revolution in the metropolis, It would be dificult to find it otherwise, ror in Spain they are always on the eve of a revolution. What Will Become of O'Kelly? [From Le Messager Franco-Amercain, April 9.) We learn that Mr. O’Kelly, the HERALD cor- respondent, was arrested at Manzanillo on March 31. The prisoner has refased to respond to any ques- tions put tohim. The Captain General, consuited by the authorities ef Manzanillo, has declared that the inquiry must take its course, and that the laws must be executed without further reference to him in Havana. The investigation is ordered upon the ground that Mr. O'Kelly has taken part in the im- surrection during his stay nm the Cuban camps. If it is true that they lave foun upen him despatches from the insurgents intended for their agents in the United States, his position as correspondent of the HRRALD cannot shield him from the conse- finences of the act. Hesides, the government organ in Havana affirms positively, that Mr. O'Kelly was commissioned to act as an interme- diary between the insurgents and the Cuban refu- gees in New York, with the view of preparing for landing additional cargoes of arms. It 1s to be hoped, in the interest of Mr. O'Kelly, that this grave accusation 1s false. THE HERALD AND ITS QUADRUPLE AND QUINTUPHE ISSUES, “ “[From thélexanania (¥a,yGazette, April 7.] The New York RALD “appeared on Sunday morning in a quintuple form, containing twenty pages, one hundred and twenty celumns, of which seventy-eight are devoted to advertisements and forty-two to news and general intelligence. The HERALD is ‘printed on five Hoe rotary eight and ten cylinder presses and two Bullock perfecting presses, being seven in all, issuing the edition at the rate of one thousand sheets per minute, taking twe hours and a half to print its edition of one hundred and fifty thousand copies. The HeraLp has just cause to be proud of its unprecedented success, {From the Doylestown (Pa.) Democrat, April 8.) HURRAH FOR THE HERALD!—THE NEW YORK NONPAREIL! which is winning new wreaths for its triumphs typographical Ahead always, it is now bidding bye-bye to all rivairy by distancing all cempetitors, and stands alone, itself its only paralicl! Itisa pleasure to praise it, because it never solicits puffs, but prefers to stand upon its own merits as the acknowledged head and jront of American news- papers. Admiration and wonder are the proper terms to express our surprise in looking over the number for Sunday, March 30—quadruple sheet, with supplement—comprising eighteen pages, a perfect paper, containing 108 columns of printed matter, of which sixty-seven columns are made up of advertisements, {From the Home Journal, New York, April 9.} A MARVEL IN JOURNALISM. The HERALD on Sunday published what it called a quintupie sheet—twenty pages of six columns each, one hundred and twenty columns in all, seventy-seven of which were occupied with adver- tisements. A single newspaper issue has never been so successful nor profitable in this country, certainly, and we doubt if it has ever been equalled anywhere. {From the Norfolk Journal, April 8.) Thousands of enterprising men in New York and elsewhere have reduced advertising to a science, pertect and complete in all its parts. They esti- mate not upon assumed premises, but upon facts and figures wherein there is no deception. They pay eut thousands upon thousands (may we not say millions, since the HerRaLp took in $35,000 cash ina single day last week for advertising) to the publishers, not a8 @ mere speculation, but with the full assurance that they are placing it where it will do the most good, THE HERALD IN THE SOUTH. Forest, Miss., March 25, 1873. To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD:— As a Southern man I feei that Iam placed under special obligation te you for the article that re- cently appeared in your columns on the South, As an American, feeling an interest in the advance- ment of the whele country, I thank you for it. Not because, from the high position the HERaLp holds in the estate of journalism, I might not look to it for broad and catholic views on matters of great national interest, but because the south has been solong, 8o uniformly and persistently underrated in the journals North that such utterances fall upon our ears here a pleasant surprise. If they could enly carry conviction to the financial head nd heart of the North, and lead to more earnest, ven though selfish, sympathy on the part of that section with as, restiting in permitting us to re- build the South, Untrammeled by the interference oi parties alien to us, and not understending or caring to understand the mutaal dependence of the south and the North, they would constitute a gospel of reconstruction, by the side ef which the cold, naked and flerce enactments of the past legal reconstruction would sink into insignificance— nay, contempt. Yours respectiully, i A SOUTHERNER, FIRE IN BROADWAY. At a quarter to eight o’clock last nighta fire broke out onthe third floor of the three story rear brick building 337 Broadway, occupied by Ma M. Traubman, jeweiry; damage, $1,000, The fire extended to the third Moor, front building, oceu- ied by Mr C. A. Bedell, manufactor @f corsets; jamage by fire and water about $1,000, The second floor was occupied by M. Lippman & Brother, ciothiers; damage trifling. The first floor by Thadmesnigs & Co., dealers in station- ery; damage slight. The building is owned by the Moffat estate; damage, about $500, The cause of fire agd the amount of insurance are unknown, | THE STATE CAPITAL. The Never-Ending Grasping After the Spoils. MORE ABOUT THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. Comptroller Green’s Crisis a Very Severe One. HE IS YET TO LIVE A LITTLE WHILE. The Familiar Buncombe About Parties and the City Government. Assembly Discussion on the Po- lice Justices Bill. ALBANY, April 9, 1873, The Senate Chamber was crowded to-day to hear the battle of words and votes that the charter war presaged, and every Senator except Madden and Ames was in his seat. On calling up the charter question Senater D. P. Wood moved to strike out all in section 2 relating to the retention of THE BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN, He thought the uriversal voice of New York city was in favor of its abolishment, and did not doubt that it would be cheaper to repay members their election expenses than continue the present Beard to the end of its term. Mr. Weismann thought the Board ought to remain until the expiration of its present term. Mr. Benedict said in his view it was the universal desire of New York city that the Assistant Alder- men be retained, He thought the next Legislature would take steps further upon this matter, but ne would not himself accept the respon- sibility of abolishing it now. use for forty years, and had been established by a convention of wisdom and worth unsurpassed in similar bodies since, Its abolitien 1s a project of the Committee of Seventy in order that cumula- tive voting might be put in use. Senator Tiemann favored the Board. Every Sen- ator here whe has been a member of the Common Council isin favor of retaining beth Boards, and he was in hepes they would be retained. The motion was lost. Ayes 5, nays 21, as fol- lows—Mr. Cock having paired with Senator Mad- den, who has gone home on account of a death m his family. Yxas.—Messrs, Lowery, McGowan, Wager, Wiesman, D.P. ul—5. Nars—Allen, Baker, Benedict, Bowen, Chatfield, Dick- inson, Foster, Graham, Harower, Johnson, Lewis, Murphy, OBrien, Patiner, Perry, Robertson, Scoresby, Tiemann, Winslow, J. Wood, Woodin—2i, (Democrats aud liberals in Italics. | Senator Murphy proposed his amendment making THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE ELECTIVE, as follows: The head of the finance department shail be called the Controller of City of New Yerk, and shall be first elected on the first Tuesday in June, 1873, and take his office en the 1st day of July succeeding, and hold such office until January 1, 1878, Thereafter the Comptroller shail be elected every four years succeeding, commencing at tie general election in 1877, THE HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS ALL ELECTIVE. Senator D. P. Woed amended by making also elective the offices of Commissioner of Public Works, President of the Board of Police, P: dent of the Department of Parks and the Corpor: tion Counsel. Senator MURPHY Opposed putting the purse and the sword in the hands of one man. He thought the Comptroller stood on peculiar ground apurt from .all other heads of departments. Senator Lowery did not doubt the truth of his statement, but he saw no reason why the Comp- troller should not retain his place as well as the ether heads of the departments, and he saw no reason why the amendinent made by the Senator from the Twenty-second (Mr. D. P. Wood) should not be adopted as well as that of the Senator frem vue Third (Mr. Murphy). Senator D, P. Wood sald he favored keeping the Comptroller an independent oflicer; but when yeu put him in the CAULDRON OF ELECTIVE POLITICS you make him dependent upon the most tyran- nical of masters—a veting population only one in ten of whom have an interest in the strict guardian- ship of oy Pri treasury. Senator Lewis said he had not been consulted outside the Chamber regarding this matter, but he desired to suggest the propriety of electing the Comptroller of New York just as we do the Comp- troller of the State. Senator Tiemann said it was only a few years ago that all the heads of departments were elected. Senator Woodin said he thought the Senator from the Eighth (Mr. Tiemann) ought to be better informed than any of us, but he was mistaken in this matter, He then read a synopsis of statutes relative to the methods of selection of such heads, shewing that the Croton Aqueduct Board and the Comptroller had been elected, but the ether heads had never been elected, except once, | under the laws of 1849. He thought Messrs, Flagg and Hall, who were elected, were the best Comp- trollers New York city ever had. Tiemann pny promptly’ ry and he was the vi . Pe three votes. Senator Murphy said there were nine. Senator Palmer thought the suggestion a good one. Dick Connolly was the last Comptroiler elected, but it seems he an bis Stealing after he was appointed, There can ve no check where the Mayor countersigns the warrauts drawn by his own appointee. every day, and the little close Corporation, in- cluding the Mayor and Comptroiler, have the sole jurisdiction over them. He favored the retention of Mr. Green, but he also favored the elec: tion ef the Comptrolier. A great princi»le was in: volved in the question. Senator Benedict thought that the Comptrolier should not be elected any more than a cashier of a bank, for he is cashier of the city of New York. This proposition never presented itself te me until it was suggested by tne Senator from the Third. I have;heard of the Custom House Senator Murphy said he had not had any con- sultation with any one about this proposition, and certainly not with that gentleman of high char- acter trom the lobby whom the Senator irom the Nineteenth (Mr. Lewery) mentions, Mr. Lowery—If the Senator will allow me, I left the “high ciiaracter” out. Mr. Murphy—The Senator from the Twenty-sec- ond says the Comptroller, if the office were elec- tive, would have to go down to the people. And has it come to this? Is it going down to receive the snffrages of our free people? How came tie Senator himself here?’ Did he go down, descend to base uses, as I understand it, to secure his return to this Chamber? No, sir. The people know where worth and honesty is concerned, and if the baliot box is ‘And Connolly was worst, NOT TAMPERED WITH they will secure henesty and worth in their oMcers. Ihave not presented their suggestion in view of any dificulties pending in the dominant party, but 1 have presented it solely in obedience to the democratic principles of my whole political life, Senator D. P, Wood thought as the Senator from the Third was so eloquent over the rights of the pore in regard to the election of one officer, that e would favor the extension of that right to the election of the four other oficers included in his (Wood's) ame: THE VOTE, The vote was then taken on Senator Wood's amendment, adding the four departments to the list of elective oficers, and Was lost by 15 to 9, as follows (democrats and liberal republicans in Italics) — Yeas—Messrs, Allen, Harrower, Johnson. Lowery, Merphy, O'Brien, Scoresby, Tiemann and D. P. Wood—9, Nays—Messrs, Adams, Baker, Benedict, Bowen, fled, Dickinson, | Foster, qitaam,, Lewis, Mc ‘aliver, Perry, Robertson, Wagner, Wiesu 3.'Wooa and Woodin—is CLOSING IN. Mr. D, P. Wood then further amended to make the election of Comptroller take place only at the expiration of the term of the present incumbent, in 1875, He said there was no reason why any dis- tinction should be made against the present able incumbent, and he was willing to suppose that this was not a personal attack upon Mr. Green. While the vove was being taken it was seen that it would be very close, and Senator Johnson re- quested that the Sergeant-at-Arms be requested to invite Senatous in, The Lieutenant Governor im- mediately gave the requisite order. Mr. Winsiow—The roles give the President no authority to require the attendance of Senators, Mr, Johnson—If the Senator from the Eighteenth would read the rules he would learn ditferentiy. The Senate has the right to require the attendance of its Senators if it wishes, and courtesy would in- dicate the advisability of informing absent mem- re that there is an important question before the ouse, Mr. D. P, Wood—Mr. President, we have the Tight not only to send the Sergeant-at-Arms for absent members, but we have the right to compel them to vote. That has been the rule here longer than the years on the Senator's head. The Sergeant-at-Arms at once posted through Hy i, Winslow, | the cloak and ante rooms, but without making any important capture. The lobbies were fille by members of another House, The joliowing is ... THE VOTE ON MR. WOOD'S AMENDMENT. Yeas—Messrs. dilen, Baker. Foster, Harrower, Johnson, only It had been in’ Wood said, nevertheless, it only got | iilions of dollars are drawn | 3 Murohy, Palincr, Perry, Scores)», Tiemann, D. P. Wood, t. Wood—13, wrnayigMenere. Adams, Bowen, Hatfield, Dicks son, Graham, Lewis, McGowan, .0'Bric Wagter, Wiesmann, Winslow, Woedin tae eobertson It was declared lost. Senator Lewis proposed to make the election take place at the general clection in November, AN ERROR IN THE COUNT. This amendment was lost by a vote of 14 to. 14; but the Clerk having made an crror in the count, Senator JonNson asked that it be reconsidered. He said the extra election would cost $150,000, and he believed some arrangement would be ebme to between the Mayor and the dominant party before the general election which may obviate the neces- sity for any special eleetion, The amendment of Mr. Lewts was then carried by a vote of 17 to 10—Messrs. Adams, Aven, Chat- fleld, Dickinson, Graham, O’Brien, Wagner. Wins- low, J. Wood and Woodin atone voting against it, and the following gentlemen having changed their original votes froin uay to yea:—Bowen, Foster, Lowery and Murphy. Senator Tiemann moved to amend so that all the oflicers elective under this charter, Mayor in- cluded, be first elected in next November, and the terms of all such elective oificers now in oilice ex- pire in January next. SOME SHARP DISCUSSION ensued om @ point of order raised by Senator Bowen, that Senator Tiemann’s amendment had not. been suggested in Committee of the Whole, and the Chair deciding that the int was not well taken, Mr. Bowen appealed to the Senate from the decision, He was so cempletely cornered, however, by sharp parliamentarians on the other side that he flaally withdrew his appeal. Mr. Tiemann was waked up to 4 startling condition by the sparl in which he had uninten- tionally got the Senate, and although, like a Trojan, he refused to back dowa, he tried various desper- ate remedies to relieve the vexed body. Tue most desperate of these was a wild attempt to “recom- Benedict, MeGo mit the amendment to the Committee of the Whole, with instructions,” which was too palpably impracticanle to admis of en- tertainment for a moment even by Lieutenant Governor Robinson, who does not generally allow such idie rubbish as parliamentary requirements to interfere with his conduct of the business, and had not, Bowen withdrawn his appeal there is positively no limit to the desperation to which the Koman Senator from the Eighth might have been driven. THE SWEEPING AMENDMENT OF TIEMANN was finally rejected vy the very close vote of 12 to 15, a8 follows :— . Yras—Messra, Allen, Foster, Harrower, Johuson, Lordy Mur} O'Brien, Palmer, Perry, Scoresby, Tiemann and Dy P, Wood—12. Navs—Mossre, Adams, Baker, Benedict, Bowen, Chat- fleld, Dickinson, Graham, Lewis, Lowery, McGowan, eh Weismann, Wipsiow, J. Wool’ and Wood- in—! MURPHY’S AMENDMENT. The question then recurred upon Senator Mur- phy’s amendment, which being redrawn to accord we the amendment adopted to it, reads ag fol- lows :— The head of the Finance Department shall be called the Comptroller of the city ot New York. Me shall be elected at the next general election in that city, and at such elect years thereatter, Ee shall take his office o ary alter his election, and hold the same oui nd ‘until his successor shall r year: be elected and duly qualified, herein provided, nless sooner removed as A RECESS, Two o'clock having arrived, however, before a vote was taken, the Senate went into executive session, and on coming out took a recess until half past seven o'clock this evening. The early hours of THE EVENING SESSION were taken up in a dull discussien of a resolution introduced by Senator Lewis, requiring the Canal Cemmissioners te refrain trom repairing the recent damage to tug aT | lateral canals until steps May be taken by the Legislature looking toa permanent closing ef such canals, The resolution was adopted, The Industrial Exhibition bill re- cently passed by the Assembly was received, and, on motion of Senator Marphy, was reterred, in- stead of the Judiciary Committee or Cities Com- mittee, to the Senators frem New York. THE CHARTER THEN CAME ON as the special order. No Custom Heuse men were yet visible, but the galleries and floors were crowded, Senator D. P, Wood moved as un amend- ment to Senator Murphy’s proposition that the heads of departments retained at present be also elected, At the same time Senator Bowen, who raised a similar ay of order in the morning, was, strangely enough, in the chair, placed there by Woodin, who 18 President pro tem., and he imme- diately demanded if that amendment had been in- troduced in Committee of the Whele. Senator Lowery offered an amendment soon after to reconsider the vote on which the proposition to retain Green was deleated, ana upon this Mr. Bowen similarly raled. A soméwhat bitter remonstrance was made against ‘THIS “RIVETING” OF THE STRAIGHT JACKET, but without effect Mr. Bowen unflinchingly dee clared the motien to be out of order. Senator Murphy’s amendment was then carried by the fol- lowing vote :— Yras—Messrs. Chat! |, Johnson, Lewis, Lord, Me- Gowan, Murphy. O’Brien, Palmer, Perry, Robertson, Scoresby, ‘TMeniann, Waguer, Weismann, Winslow, J. Wood and Woodin—i7. Nays—Messrs. Adams, Allen, Baker, Bowen, Dickingon, Foster, Graham, Lowery and 'D. P, Wood—9. Senator Lowery then called for a reconsideration of the vete by wnich the amendment retaining Comptroller Green in office was lost, and 1t was so reconsidered ‘and again defeated by the following vote :— Yras.—Mesers. Allen, Baker, Chatfield, Foster, Hare fewer, Jolinson, Lord. Larwerg, Murphy, Palmer, Perry, Scoresby, Tiemann and D. P. Wood—I4, Nays—Messrs. Adams, Benedict, Bowen, Dickinson, Graham, Lewis, MeGowen, O’Brien, Robertson, Wagner, Wiesmaiin, Winslow, J. Wood and Woodin—I4. Senator D. P. Weod renewed his motion to strike from the twenty-fifth section the clause retaining the four heads of departments. Senator Lowery hoped the Senate would see the propriety of adopti- ing this amendment. He did not think singling out one head of a department in New York for DECAPITATION SIMPLY BECAUSE HE IS A DEMOCRAT Was in consonance with those pledges of reform made before the election, and recognized alter- wards. It was not the business of the Legislature ee that Mayor Havemeyer appointed repabli- or democrats, It was solely its business to New York city an organic law by which it may govern itself. Seuator Woodin admitted that the republicans had made pledges to give New York a reform government, but tt was as a party, and it had given that city a reform government asa party in wresting it from the democratic party; but as a party it could not piace the ' opera- tion of that reform in tie lands of a man whe has. announced himself eutside the republican party. Mr. Lowery replied that he was a republican and in favor of putting a republican in every ollice ; but he could not do a meaa action as proposed to be done in the charter as it now stands, He believed it possible to gi he people ot New York a charter which would give the repuvlican party a majority of fifty thousand this year; but sheuld you try to force upon the city of New York A- MEAN CHARTER, You lose ten votes in the country for every one you gain in New York city. The Superintendent of the Police, Whom this ¢ ‘ter proposes to continue | in office, ‘tried to break up the State Republican Convention only twe years ago, and he was not dis- posed to defend ana support such conduct. He did net believe governing New York etty in divans. Mr. Johason in reply asked when Mayor Have- meyer fad put himself outside of the pale of the Republican patty. and quoted a letter from Thomas Murphy, chairinan of the Republican County Con- vention, pledging that party to his support. Since the Mayor had refused to appoint to the Health Departinent @ man holding three public oMces the Custom House officers have cried for his blood, Mr. Lewis could not understand on what grounds any Republican Senator could vote to put out of office his own [riends. One of the strongest points in the Democratic party was that it re- warded its friends and put them in office, In reply to Senator Lowery he said he was in favor of voting to KEEP “HANK” SMITIT in oMce because he knew of nothing against nis character. ie would terminate the Comptroller's term of office because he was a democrat, and the office should be filled by the people. He would vote for this charter because the people want a charter. in the city of New York to-day there are scores of men holding offices who wiil be legislated out of them by the passage of this charter, Mr. Perry called for a division on the question, and THE VorE was taken on the continuing of Public Works. Mr. D. P. od felt that ne was only loyal to nis party in acting as he does. He re- gretted that in doing so he would have to vote contrary to the wishes of some of his warm per- sonal friends, ADJOURNED. The hour of eleven being near, it was resolved to make the charter the special order for to-morrow morning. TAR POLICE JUSTICES BILL was the special order in the Assembly to-day. Mr. Opdyke, in explaining the scope of the bill, satd that at present there Was great distrust of the Police Justices in the public mind, They were ignor- ant, incompetent and negligent of their duties, They were @ shame and @ disgrace te the city. This was gemerali: conceded among good men of both parties. They took office simply to further their own interests and the views of certain political factions. Life and property was not saie in New York while the present judges are in power. They were of a character that no good man could sustain, and the republican party owed it to the pete that a change should be made. The bill Would meet with universal ef pede in New York by every man not blinded by partisan- ship. AS matters now are, the incumbents are fellows who are always ready to listen to the be- hests of party leaders, centrol party conventions and discharge @ man, no matter how guilty, 80 long as the leaders demand tt. FIRB IN OHI0AGO. Carcaco, April 9, 1873. A fire broke out early this morning on Canal Street, between Maxwell and Liberty, which de- stroyed Sach’s Hall and 572 and 574 Canal street. ‘Tie’ tatter. was occupied by Isaac Abranams as a liquor store, and Patrick Bail as @ ery; R. Berger, boots and shoes, ali of whose stocks were nearly @ total joss. The aggregave losses the building and stocks will reach ‘The msurances are as follows :—Ademania, Pittsourg, $3,000; Ger- mania, St. Lo $1,000; Franklin, Philadelphia, $2,500. Abraham, Whese loss is $4,000, has no in~ surance, and Sach, ewner of the Uall, lost $6,000, He had only $2,500 of imsurance, f the Commissioner