The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1874, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD] "93,20 Stuhr ortee: BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR THEATRE. P.M; closes at 10% RDEN, 1 Houston pM; THR closes at 10:30PM, NIBL Broadway, hetween ROMBO JAPPLER JE OF THE KITCHEN, Vokes Family, Mr. Letlingwell an ats M5 Woop’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner tbirtivth HUSBAND TO ORDER, ” 14:0 Mg SPREETS OF NEW YO pses at UP, BM. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Fighth avenue and Twenty-third street.—HUMPTY DUMPTY ALL OAD, at 745 POM.; closes at 10:8 P.M. Mir. GL. Fos. Fie’ AVENUE THEATRE, cet.and MAN AND WIFE, ces atll 2. M, Mr, jarkins, Miss Ada Dyas. ONWAY’S BROOKLYN THEATRE, et, Brooklvn.—LITTLE SUNSHINE, at atl P.M. Miss Lilian Conway. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—A MAN OF HONOR, ats P.M. closes at 10:00 P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Annie Deland, BOUTH’S THEATRE, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third strect.—KIT: OR, THE ALKANSAS TRAVELLER, at 745 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 y.M. Mr, F. 8, Chanfrau, Miss Bella Pateman. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broad » between Houston and bieecker streets — GCABRIGL GRUB, at 8 P. M.; closes at il YM. Majilton- Raynor Family. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—JC GARTH, at 8 P. M.; closes at ll P.M. Miss Annie Pirmin, Mr. John Jack, BOWERY THEA’ Bowery.—CATARAC’ OF THE G ‘closes ai 11. P.M.” Miss Kate Fishe: GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—WILBELM TKLL, at 8 P.M. ; closes @cll:! TONY PASTOR'S OPE: No. 2M Bowery.—VAKIETY ENTE M.; closes at 1) P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Be ‘Twenty-third street, corner of sixth averiue.—CINDER- ELLA‘IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c., at 8 P, ML; closes at 0 P.M, ROBE’ Sixteenth street_—MAG LAUGHING Gas, at 8 P. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, corner Latayette place.—THE PIL- ; Closes at 9:30 P.M GRIM, ats P.M. No. a Broadwa WITH NT. UPP Q LEME New York, Tharsday, January 8, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S MARRIAGE! AN ALLIANCE OF ROYAL AND IMPERIAL FAMILI AND A MUTUAL ASSURANCE AGAINST REVOLUTIONS” — LEADER — FousTH Page. BRIGHTER PRUSPECTS FOR CUBAN LIBERTY! Ss R MANUEL QUESADA DECLARES THE UNALTERABLE DETERMINATION OF THE | PATRIOTS AND THEIR HIGH HOPES~ | Fira Pace, SERRANO CONSOLIDATING HIS POWER! A N SPAPER AND TWO REVALCITRANT G SRALS SQUELCHED AND VALENCIA | DECLARED IN A STATE OF Si1EG Cas- TELAR HOLDS ALOOF FROM THE PLOT- TERS—Firtu Pace, NSOLENCE! TAE 5 ‘ISH PRESS RS IN A FRE OVER THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON | THE VIRGINIUS CASE—Tuirp Pace. THE BRIISH, THE FANIEES AND THE} ASHANTEES! A MASTERLY RESUME OF THE WAR ON THE AFRICAN GOLD CO. THE NON-WISDOM SHOWN IN ITS CONDUCT AND THE PROSPECTs! WEST COAST COLONIES—Ininp Pace. DIRE RAVAGES OF CHOLERA AND OTHER EPIDEMICS AMONG THE DUTCH AND | THEIR NATIVE ALLIES IN AC THE LATTER’S LOSSES y FTH PAGE, SWISS CATHOLICS PROTEST ‘ST THE EXPULSION OF THE 10) AMBASSA- DOR—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—Firra Pace. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS HEARKENS TO THE PUBLIC OUTCRY AND REQUESTS HIS NAME TO BE WITHDRAWN! RE- TRENCHMENT! THE HOWARD CASE— Firta Pacz. HEAPING HOT COALS UPON WILLIAMS—AN- OTHEK FATAL NEW YEAR’S ROW—SixTH PAGE, ZOLEY’S ANCIENT 4NDREW! £ OVERZEAL- OUS ECONOMIST IN SMALL BILLS SHOWN TO BE GUILTY OF GROSS EXTRAVA- GANCES OTHERWISE! THE FIGURES— Sixt PaGE. BUTLER, OF THE BAY STATE, DECLAR 3 THAT THE O D TROOPS FOUGHT NOBLY AND DE 8 EQUALITY! THE NATE STILL THE SALARY REPEAL— SixTH PAGE. UR CANALS AND CHEAP TRANSPORTATION! HOW THE REVENUES OF THE STATE ARE COLLECTED AND DISBURSED — E1uuta PaGE. A POLITICAL NEW DEPARIURE BY THE RE- PUBLICANS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE! A FARMER NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR! THE PLATFORM! THE DEMOCRATS LAYING THEIK WIRES—TENTH PaGe. BURGLARIOUS BRIGANDS! NEW ROCHELLE, WESTCHESLER COUNTY, INTENS“LY AGI- | TATED—FIrTH Pac: CURIOUS REVELATIONS IN THE CASES OF THE MaSKED BURGLARS! FURTHER CLEWS TO IDENTITY—BUCHU MASKED MEN Pace. * Wriuuums Wrrapraws.—-The important in- formation caine from Washington last night, in confirmation of a prophetic intimation published heretofore im the Henratp, that Attorney General Williams has requested the President to withdraw his nomin- ation for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from the consideration of the Sen- _ ate. Among the speculative rumors which | have already sprung up in the capital as to the question of who will now be nominated ffor the office, is the one, of an event hitherto feported as possible upon the withdrawal | of the nme of Williams, that the Hon. Caleb Cashing will be designated to fill the honored | place of the lamented Chase, and that Solicitor General Bristow will be offered the mission to - (Madrid. President Grant has done well to heed the evidences of public feeling which | have been so abundant regarding the vacant Mhief Justiceship, in hinting to his nominee ‘the acceptability of the request which he has tardily made, and the country will undoubt- Adly express apvroval of this Baxacious course, Families and a Mutual Assurance Against Revolutions. At a time when a federation of British capi- talists is being organized to resist the trades unions of workingmen some interest attaches to the seeming federation of sovereign tami- lies, to which one more link will be added by the approaching marriage between the Duke of Edinburgh and the Emperor of Russia's only daughter. When this marriage shall RTAINMENT, @§ 745 | have been solemnized the royal and imperial houses which rule over the three countries of Europe whose governments are most opposed BECLES to the democratic current of the age will be closely knit together. Great Britain and Prussia are ullied by the Princess Royal Vic- toria, wife of the future Emperor of Germany; Prussia is connected with Russia by several intermarriages in the past between the houses of Hohenzollern and Holstein-Gottorp, and notably by that of the late Czar Nicholas with the sister of the present Kaiser Wilhelm, who is thus Alexander IL’s uncle. England, again, will shortly be bound to Russia by the twofold tie of the Duke of Edinburgh’s marriage and by the future | Czarina Dagmar, who is sister to the Princess of Wales. Now, itis worth while observing that Russia represents in Europe the principle of absolute monarchy; Prussia that of divine right kingship, bulwarked by a military nobility, and Great Britain that of govern- ment by a territorial aristocracy. In every European State, save these three, democracy has got the upper hand. Even in Austria, where despotie rule so long prevailed, here- ditarism and absolutism have died out since Sadowa ; Italy is a kingdom only in name ; France and Spain are republics, But in Eng- land, Russia and Prussia democracy has not only obtained no ascendancy, but has been kept in resolute subjection. On the other hand, there are unmistakable signs that democratic troubles are brewing in each one of these three States—in Russia through the socialism of the peasant districts, in Prussia through the operations of the Inter- national among city workmen, in England through those trade unions, against which prudently resolved to declare war. * It may seem fanciful to draw long-sighted inferences from a royal marriage, for it is much the fashion to treat these events as yn- important. But royal marriages are never unimportant. They are not entered into with- out anxious thought as to the possible results of the contracts; and if, now and then, these results disappoint expectation this is only be- cause sovereigns have to reckon with their peoples, and because the interests of peoples often clash with those of their masters. Thus, from a popular point of view, alliances be- tween Great Britain and Russia, or between Russia and Prussia, are difficult. The Enge lish must end by quarrelling with the Russians about Indian frontiers, and the Germans will, soon or late, be brought into collision with the Russians about the Baltic provinces and about Poland. The intermarriages of the sovereign houses may avert hostilities for a time, but they cannot allay them finally ; and those, therefore, who argue that the Duke of Edinburgh’s marriage with the Princess Marie must not be regarded as an earnest of Anglo- Russian concord are, to this extent, right. But ‘there is another aspect to this question—namely, the amount of money which is represented by an alliance of three such houses as those of Guelph, Hohenzol- lern and Holstein-Gottorp. Now, money means power, and power in royal or imperial hands signifies a determined war upon the principles which, as above said, are every- where animating populous communities. It is no mere supposition to say that there will soon arise in England, Russia and Prussia a democratical movement more dangerous than any which have beer. witnessed in past revolu- tions. Hitherto when the working classes have rebelled it has been to obtain political rights ; but they have learned now that the privilege of voting for this or that politician leaves them no better off materially than they were before, and their future revolutions will tend to socialistic changes. European working- men living in overcrowded cities are begin- | ning to question the right of certain men to | be superabundantly rich while the multitude are famishing. There is much nonsense in their theories ; but it is specious nonsense of | the kind which deludes the ignorant into the belief that a victory of labor over capital | would result in general plenty, and _be- fore they discover their mistake the masses | may plunge into exploits of which the doings of the Paris Commune were fair samples. But as reigning houses would be the first to suffer from these exploits they may be de- pended on to make a grim fight of it so soon as they feel themselves in actual danger; and here we come to the influence which the dynastic alliance of England, Russia and | Prussia may be made to wield. In whichever of the three countries the socialistic move- ment first takes an active shape the sovereign houses will certainly combine in opposing it. | the maintenance of their thrones depends on | the utter extermination of socialism, and they will enter upon the contest, notin the half- hearted spirit in which they might resist po- | litical innovations, but with the desperate since subsidies in men and money were con- tinually being given by one royal family to difficulties. Perhaps subsidies of yore; but money is as potent an agent as ever it was in fomenting anti-popular intrigues and in preparing coups d'élat; nor must we imagine that any court—even that of England, which shallow observers think to be impotent and apathetic because it has never been roused to action by peril—would hesitate to make the sternest uses of money if need were. An alliance between such dynasties as those of Russia, Prussia and England must, in fact, be looked upon as likely to become at any moment a royal and mutual assurance against revolutions; but whether this assurance | | could ever succeed in its objects is another mat- | ter. ‘The last historical league of royal houses— that made in the eighteenth century by the Duke de Choiseul between the Bourbons of France, Spain and Naples—proved a con- spicuons failure, It was called Le Pacte de Famille, and the Duke de Choisgul, then French Prime Minister, calculated that by its instru- mentality the Kings of France, Spain and They have a common interest in so doing ; for | energy which terror begets. It is not so long | Naples might become invincible abroad and be able to stifle all manifestations of discon- tent among their subjects at home. But the three kings, feeling themselves strong, in- augurated a policy of bigoted resistance to all popular demands and bequeathed this policy to their descendants, with this consequence, that the Bourbons are now outgasts, having ceased to reign anywhere. The State Comptroller's Report. Comptroller Hopkins reports the funded debt of the State to be $36,530,406; the sink- ing fund, $2,744,400, and the canal debt, $11,241,420. The tolls received on the canals for the season ending September 30, 1873, were $3,012,527, and the disbursements, $3,197,551. The bounty debt, after deducting the unapplied balance of the sinking fund, amounted to $10,966,665. This debt falls due in 1877; hence but four years’ taxes can be contributed, including the levy for the current year. The Comptroller thinks that with care- fal management a rate of two mills on the present valuation will pay the interest and af- ford ample means to redeem the principal of this debt at maturity. There was expended during the last fiscal year for educational purposes $3,012,533, of which $2,610,784 were the proceeds of a direct tax of one and a quarter mills for common schools, The asylums and hospitals for the deaf, blind, insane and idiotic cost $369,690. At the end of the fiscal year 1868, five years ago, there was a surplus revenue of $1,850,000. Since that time liabilities have been created, chiefly by appropriations made by the Legislature, largely in excess of the revenues and tax authorized to meet them, which had made, at the meeting of the Legis- lature in 1872, a deficiency in the canal and general fund of some six and a half millions. To remedy this growing evil, in part at least, the Comptroller calls attention to the irregularities of taxation and to the many schemes for*depleting the Treasury. He says compensation for many unauthorized and unaudited claims find their way among kindred items into the Supply bill, which has grown to. be a formidable instrument to increase the taxes and deplete the Treasury. He denounces this as corrupting and demoralizing, and as an in- yitation to all jobbers and dependants—and their name is Legion—to present and urge claims. He is very severe, and properly, in his language on this matter. The canals oc- cupy a good deal of the Comptroller’s atten- tion. The importance of facilitating trans- portation by these is pointed out. In doing this the Comptroller shows the comparative cost and advantages of transportation by the Canada and St. Lawrence route and by our State canals to this city. This is a subject calling for the serious consideration of the Legislature; for it is evident a large portion of the trade with the West will be diverted from this com- mercial metropolis if increased facilities for transportation be not made by our canals and railroads, and especially by the canals, which carry freight much cheaper than the railroads. The Comptroller's report, on the whole, is a practical and sensible document. The Park Department—Let Us Have Light. The facts and figures supplied by the official records of the Department of Parks do not show to the credit of that department or of Comptroller Green. They prove that a Commission which has been supposed to be serving the city without compensation has been made the means of enriching at least one of the members of the Board, and they naturally suggest the question whether any other of the Commissioners has been enabled to deplete the treasury in a similar manner. It appears, from the commu- nication published in the Heraxp to-day, that Comptroller Green, while acting as Park Com- missioner, drew from the pockets of the tax- payers, in one shape or another, in ten years, the large amount of over one hundred and ten thousand dollars, or more than eleven thou- sand dollars a year. Some of the claims made against the city by Mr. Green appear to be especially objectionable and in direct violation of the spirit, if not of the letter, of the laws in relation to the Central Park. We repeat our demand upon the present Park Commissioners for an official statement showing the exact amount of money drawn by each Commis- | sioner from the treasury of the Park Depart- ment from the creation of the Commission to the present time. The Foley disclosures render this information important ; for there has always been a suspicious mystery about the affairs of this department, and the people have a right to know how far the laws regulat- ing it have been abused by the Commissioners, Congress. In the Senate yesterday the discussion of that | difficult and disagreeable subject, the repeal of the ‘‘salary grab,” was resumed and prosecuted for some time, and is to be continued. What they will ultimately do with it no man can conjecture. One thing, however, is settled: Mr. Flanagan will hold on to his money. The great feature of the day’s proceedings in the House was Mr. Butler's speech in support of the Supplementary Civil Rights bill. It ap- pears to have made a sensation, being received | with enthusiastic manifestations of delight by our numerous colored fellow citizens in the | galleries and with considerable applause on Planagan, of Texas. When Edmund Burke wanted to emphasize the disappearance of chivalry from Europe and to show what kind of thing the French Revolution had brought, he flourished a dagger before the English House of Commons, which he was then addressing. As a piece of dra- matic effect it told upon the House; cheer after cheer resounded as he waved the weapon in air. Claptrap or not, it was successful for the moment, and success, we all know, is a generator of imitation. So, from Burke we come down to Flanagan; from the votary ofechivalry to the idolizer of greenbacks; from the impassioned idealist to the sordid salary grabber. We have been searching for a type of the salary-grabber, and we thought that in General Butler wo had him; but it seems not. There is, it would appear, @ mountainous andacity which Ben Butler, piled on Pig Iron Kelley, would not equal in height. That steep individuality is Flanagan, of Flanagan's Mills, Texas. No dagger did he flourish in the face of the astounded Senators; no weird terror of Jacobin mobs, laying unclean and bloody hands on anointed kings and queens, did he summon up; no vibrating appeal for ten thousand swords to leap from their scabbards to avenge the de- capitated Autrichienne did he make. Oh, neo ! Flanagan was as original as he could be. Clearing his melodious throat, he made a speech on the salary grab, which, despite its briefness, shall live beside Burke on chivalry for the delight of generations to come, Senator Flanagan, as he cleared his welodious throat to make this speech, was a picture for the pencil of an artist. Like the Knight of Lx Mancha, the creatures of his visions crowded around and thickened the air in his vicinity. The sheeted ghost of Crédit Mobilier jibbered on the back of his chair; the disembodied spirits of railroad, land and claim jobs flitted circling around the cham- pion salary-grabber as he cleared his melo- dious throat to begin. He was about to speak in behalf of the meanest and most furtive piece of legislation which Congress had ever passed, and what more appropriate than that he should scorn all: the subterfuges, dodges and shifts under which his predecessors on the same side of the argument had disguised their intentions. ‘If there was any ilt in the grab, I am guilty.” Here is no humbug. Flanagan, of Flanagan’s Mills, Texas, has put himself clear on the record. He voted for the increase because it was bringing more grist to Flanagan’s mill, and the floor of the House. Finally, on motion of | | crous side, and may be useful to the sanitarian Mr. Butler, the bill was recommitted to the | committee on the subject, to be overhauled | | cian, M. Blattin, has discovered the deadly another to assist it in surmounting home | in men), are more difficult to bestow now than | and amended, after the fashion of the honest Dutchman, who got down from his horse to get on better. Excepting certain petitions for women’s rights, for the prohibition of liquor drinking in the Territories and a petition from Ohio, presented in the Senate by Mr. Sumner, nine hundred and fifty-three fect long, against a theological amendment to the constitution of the United States, there was nothing else in the day's proceedings in either , house calling for a special notice. Viraistos Documents.—In the copy of the papers relating to the Virginius sent to Con- gress we find nothing of interest or value not already given in our telegraphic summary. A considerable portion of the document is taken up with the depositions and testimony taken before Mr. Sidney Webster and Mr. George Bliss, which established to the satisfaction of Mr. Williams that the ship was not entitled to call herself an American. More reliance could have been placed on this testimony if counsel for the accused owners had been pres- ent when it was taken, his only regret at the time was that it did not bring more. Many a weak-kneed Senator and Representative who has become sorry for taking back pay will admire the firmness of Flanagan. Flanagan was on the lookout for Number One, and he never changed his opinion regarding what would benefit that primary numeral. Therefore he says it was out of the purest motives he voted for the salary grab. The age of grabbing he had reason to tear was gone; for he was left alone to champion it. Laying his left hand upon a bulging spot over his heart, then placing his right hand inside his coat he drew forth like a lightning flash his back pay in genuine greenbacks. They made a goodly pile, and as he shook them under the noses of the more squeamish Senators they looked like the pictures of lightning in the hands of Jupiter. ‘Here they are, sir; this is my pay ; I am going to fight for it to the last.’’. Such were the fiery words of Flanagan. He went on to say that the people objected more to the Crédit Mobilier thieves than the salary stealers. He thought Oakes Ames a good enongh man, ‘‘one of the best he ever knew,” which will not be taken as a very valuable certificate of character for the rest of his acquaintances. It was the demagogues, he thought, who preferred the indictment against the stealers. We need not take his word for this. Senator Carpenter said it was the voice of the people which frightened the money in his pocket. Be that as it may, Flanagan, of Flanagan’s Mills, Senator from Texas, has stepped in a striking position into the niche kept vacant for the ideal salary grabber. The Physiology of Fog. The medical papers of London are much exercised over the discovery they have made that the late fog in the metropolis very seriously affected its health. The Medical Times says :—‘‘The recent fog will long be remembered as one of the most disastrous this generation has known.” It also states that to persons with heart and respiratory disease, in numerous cases, the fog proved fatal. The death rate during the days of its prevalence ‘was unprecedentedly high—in fact, higher than it has ever been since the Charing Cross Hospital was established. The London Globe contains the remarkable announcement that the toughest rhinoceros in the Zoological Gardens died after suffering dreadfully during the fog. The savans in charge of the gardens ministered stimulants freely to the distressed short horns, and one poor beast which was greatly oppressed by the dense and humid air was taken intoa yard and encouraged to drink old ale out of a tub, when he revived and was able to resume his place in the show and ‘‘suffer himself to be admired.’’ Many of the cattle had to be doctored with bottled stout, brandy and sherry before they could recover from the effects of the suffocating atmosphere. ‘These facts have a serious as well as a ludi- and practitioner. An eminent French physi- effect of tobacco smoke on the patient suffer- ing from asthma—an effect doubtless largely | due to the fog-like air in which he is envel- oped. The excessive humidity of the at | mosphere, especially when it suspends large quantities of dust and coal smoke, must be highly noxious to the bodies of man and beast. Sometimes, as in the Lon- don fog of 1814, the air is loaded with particles of freezing water, such as in a higher region would condense into snow, and beauti- ful rimy incrustations are formed on every exposed object. But many of these vaporous visitations are charged with solid matter, per- haps vegetable, undergoing chemical decom- position. One of these fogs, of a most offen- sive odor, hovered over France in the last century, and a similar one in England in the year 1755, at the time of the Lisbon earth- quake. In 1831 dry fogs were prevalent in England, and were supposed to have ushered in the simultaneous epidemics of cholera and influenga, In 1846 and 1847 dry and offensive fogs produced epidemic influenza in Scotland, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1874.—WITH SUPPLEMENT, and our great epizootic epidemic of last year was undoubtedly connected with frequent and dense mists produced by northeasterly winds on the Atlantic seaboard. The subject is one of great sanitary and scientific interest, and our medical investiga- tors will do well to follow it up and unravel its mystery. The Hxnatp has before called attention to the kindred subject of the predic- tion and prevention of fogs, and we are glad to see it has been taken up on the other side of tho Atlantic. Masked Robbers. Robberies by armed bands in the vicinity of New York have become the order of the day. It is not so very long ago since depredations of this character were confined to remote places and wild and un- frequented ocalities. No one was very much startled at hearing of robbery and murder per- petrated at some lonely ranch. The occa-' sional rumors which from time to time reached the metropolis of deeds of violence and bloodshed accomplished by marauders upon the occupants of some solitary homestead | were recognized as something to be expected’ when the character of the locality where such events happened was taken into considera- tion. But the burglars of to-day and the enormities they are committing present themselves under very different conditions. These crimes, which defy every law enacted for the protection of the citizen, are committed under the very noses of those who are sup- posed to be watching over the lives and prop- erty of the citizens. These masked burglaries prove that we need a more extensive and thoroughly efficient mounted police. But, since s0 many of these masked burglars are |' now in custody, the most effective mean of preventing a speedy repetition of such outrages would be the prompt and very severe punishment of the criminals. The series of offences has been perpetrated with so high.a | hand, with such audacity, it has been con- ducted with such eminent success and on so large a scale, that no punishment that can’ legally be inflicted will be too severe. Speedy and rigorous retribution is the cure under whose operation the public will be apt to feel most safe; and if to this measure be added that of a more numerous mounted police force two very valuable steps in the right j, direction will have been taken. Happily these masked burglaries do not belong to the order of crime over which maudlin sympathy is apt to be wasted. They strike too obviously at all our practical interests for the most senti-: mental of us to refuse to look at the matter in the severe light of common sense. Punish the villains severely and increase the mounted police force, and both burglary and brigandage will soon be put down. The City Finances. In one week from to-day city bonds mature and must be paid to the amount of nearly four millions anda quarter. The invitation for bids for the consolidated stock to redeem these bonds has brought offers for ‘less than half the amount at par. On the Ist of Febru- ary, but little more than two weeks afterwards, nearly four millions more will become due, making together a little over eight millions. Where is the money to come from to meet this indebtedness? Mayor Havemeyer asks aid of the Legislature. Some quack financiers pro- pose to authorize the Comptroller to peddle out bonds of the amount of fifty dollars each, for the purpose of inviting investments by small capitalists, But it is very clear that our bungling and incompetent financial manage- ment will prevent us from raising the money at all, except at a heavy sacrifice to the city. While the country is prosperous and rich and while all values are rapidly going up our city credit is in a worse condition than under the most corrupt days of the corrupt Tammany rule. Our honest debts are unpaid, and our bonds as they fall due are extended by the Comptroller. Is the city bankrupt? If so, what remedy can we expect unless we change the blundering financial policy that has brought upon us this disgraceful and unneces- sary discredit? Tue Dvurcx in Sumarra.—Our latest news from Acheen is to the effect that cholera and other dangerous diseases are prevailing toa feartul extent in the Dutch camp. The native allies are, we are told, the greatest sufferers. The news does not at all surprise us. Sumatra is a tropical climate and directly under the Equator. In such climates dangerous diseases, cholera included, are inseparable from large “congregations of men, At Mecca year by year, on the occasion of the annual pilgrim- ages, cholera is a most faithful visitant. In tropical regions, especially where rain is prev- alent, cholera has always been more destruc- tive than war itself. In spite of disease, how- ever, the Dutch must win the day and become masters of Sumatra. We cannot but wish them success, for they are doing in Sumatra what the British are doing in South Africa— they are widening the area of modern civili- zation. Tue AsHantre War.—We print in another column a long and valuable letter from the special correspondent of the Heraup with the British army moving on Coomassie. This correspondence speaks for itself and requires no extended comment. We venture to say that no journal has before published an ac- count at once so complete and graphic, giving in condensed form the curious history and ; customs of the Ashantees and their less numerous neighbots. It is particularly inter- esting as presenting in vivid language the features of a rich tract of territory, which ultimately may be incorporated in the British Colonial Empire. A Recess at Atpayy.—The Legislature has | adjourned over to Tuesday next, in order to | give the Speaker of the Assembly and the President of the Senate time for the appoint- | ment of their standing committees, There is some curiosity to know whether these com- mittees will be formed in the interest of cer- | tain rings and lobby cliques or for the protec- tion of the State and the people, and particu- | larly in reference to the committees of the | Assembly. There is an old maxim which says | that ‘‘a new broom sweeps clean;’’ but there | is another which informs us that ‘the tree is known by its fruit.” Governor Moses, of South Carolina, is accused of stealing Macaulay's essay on Milton and dovetailing it into his Message. O, Moses! Has official roguery come to this? The idea of stealing the livery of Macaulay to serve Sambo in! Shameful! Colored Oratory. Only a few years ago the men who asked for political rights for the colored people were looked upon as impracticable fanatics, and the idea of a negro standing in the place of John C. Calhoun would have been scouted as im- possible. Nature, it was deemed, had erected a barrier between the white and black races that no legislation could break down, The inferiority of the negro was assumed tolie, not so much in his difference of color as in his de- fective mental organization. Experience is, however, rapidly exploding this favorite theory, and the men who still cling tena- ciously to their old prejudices find themselves met in argument and overthrown by the very negroes whose inferiority they love to pro- claim. It was a strange scene in Congress, and brought the wondrous change in our institutions strongly into relief, when a col- ored representative rose to reply to Mr, Stephens, ex-Vice President of the rebel States. Mr. Elliott spoke well and pointedly in defence of his people, and was listened ta attentively and respectfully by the House. His speech as reported bears no evidence of the mental inferiority charged against the colored race. It is keenly argumentative, and! the cutting allusions to Mr. Stephens’ course of action were as telling as they were free: from coarseness or vulgar invective. In view of the provocation to which\the éolored mem- bers had been subjected by the unparliamen- tary conduct of Mr. Harris, the dignified re- buke given to the white Representative showed that Mr. Elliott possessed self-control os well as oratorical ability. In future the worshippers of a dead past will be more careful how they attack the negro in Congress. They have no longer the field to themselvés, and their assumptions of superi- ority are strikingly disproved. by the logic of: facts. Colored oratory contrasts favorably with the vapid nonsense talked and written by the men who advertise their contempt for the so called inferior race. Not a few of the white representatives must have felt their mental ‘inferiority to Mr. Elliott while the black orator was castigating the ex-rebel Vice President and his friends. The character of colored oratory is impassioned, keen aud argumentative. It naturally attracts the sym- pathy of the nation, because it speaks in behalf of the downtrodden and oppressed. It aime at the final overthrow of caste and the conquest of the right to equality for all men, and recommends itself by its moderation ag well as ability, Coon Even*ror Maprip—The comments om President Grant’s Message. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Donaldson, of Pennsylvania, is at the Windsor Hotel. Judge Israel &. Spencer, of Syracuse, is again at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain W. K. Mayo, United States Navy, is quar- tered at the Astor House, C, Carleton CoMn, of the Boston Journal, is stay- ing at the Windsor Hotel. Senator John P. Stockton, of New Jersey, has apartments at the Astor House. General B. F. Brace, of Madison county, N. ¥., has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Ex-Congressman John F. Benjamin, of Missouri, is temporarily residing at the Astor House. Chief Engineer William W. W. Wood, United States Navy, has quarters at the Union Square Hotel. Assemblyman D. S. Lynde. of St. Lawrence county, 18 among the late arrivals at Barnum’s Hotel. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Allen ©. Beach, of Watertown, N. Y., arrived yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hotel. At the meeting of the Bengal (India) Social Sel ence Association Sir George Campbell was elected President for 1874. The Thakore of Rajcote and the heir presumptive of the Jam of Nowanugger, accompanied by Captain Lowther Nutt and a large retinue, who havé started on a tour through India, are in Bombay. Colonel Count Charles Edward Stuart has re ceived in London, trom Don Carlos VIL, of Spain, the Cross of Kmght Commander of Isabella tne Catholic for distinguished services rendered to the Carlist cause, On New Year's Day Judge Jackson, our consulat representative at Halifax, N. 5S. was treated with marked consideration, He was called upos by distinguished officers of the army, the Ohiet Justice, members of the Dominion Parliament, members of the Provincial government, the Mayor and Common Council, several clergymen anda wealthy business men. Judge Jackson and his amiable lady are very popular in the Province of Nova Scotia and are held in high esteem by the Dominion government. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, The Powhatan fer Key West with Naval Supplies. NoRFOLE, Va., Jan. 7, 1874, The United States steamer Powhatan, Captain J. 8B, Beaumont, left the Navy Yard to-day, at noon, for Newcastle, Del., to tow the monitor Ajax to Key West. The Powhatan carried from the yard a quantity of torpedo fixtures, booms, &c., and other naval supplies for Key West, Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1874. Commander J. E. Garrett is detached from the command of the Dictator and ordered to duty as a member of the Board of Inspectors. Captain W. S. Spencer is ordered to the command of the Dictator. Lieutenants George T. Wilkins aud Wo C, Gibson are ordered to the Roanoke. QAUTION SIGNALS AT OAPE HENRY. NORFOLK, Jan, 7, 1874, To-day cautionary sign@s were hoisted at half past two o’clock A. M. at Cape Henry for the first time. Ten carpenters have left Norfolk for the purpose of erecting 11 life stations between Capes Henry and Hatteras, ‘The new telegraph line for the United States Signal Bureau between Norfolk and Cape Hatteras reached a point to-day 12 miles below Cape Henry, and is being pushed rapidly to the dangerous coast of Hatteras, THE THIEVES’ HAUNT IN JERSEY, The two noted desperadoes, James McCann, alias “Cooley Keyes,’ aud Harry Pugh, ahas “English Harry,” who were arrested in their Jersey City nest by the Hoboken police on Tuesday, were ar- raigned yesterday, before Recorder Bohnstedt, ta Hoboken, Mra, Pugh appeared as coun- sel jor her husband, avowing that all the vaiuables found by the officers were her own prop- erty. She intends to secure the services of law- yers on behalf of the prisoners. The men were re- manded to await further developments, Mean- time dozens of plundered citizens [rom all the sure rounding districts arrived at the police station, but failed to identify any of the articles. The thieves are confident of release to- day, and avow their determination ta wreak vengeance on the man whom they suspect of having disclosed their whereabouts. It is highly probable, however, that their expecta- tions will be baffled, inasmuch as they can in- dicted for having burglars’ tools in Lica aa sion, and it hardly seems likely that such danger- ous characters will easily be set at liberty. The Hoboken folks breathed more freely yesterday, and heaped compliments on the officials, notwithstand- ing that the latter receive lett-handed epithets from local Bohemians, whose obtrusiveness frua trated their efforts to obtain possession of the facta that appeared exclusively in yesterday's URRALD. BANK DEFALOATION, Boston, Jan. 7, 1874. F. 8, Bacon, Cashier of the Holyoke National Bank, is a defaulter to the amount of $4,670. ‘Iie bank ia secured by Bacon's bonds, .