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6 ‘NEW YORK HERALD STREET. BROADWAY AND ANN JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘Wolume XXXIX.. = AMUSEMENTS TO-NORROW EVENING, ND OPERA HOUSE, th wremes ‘ent Twenty-third street HUMPTY Boutey ABROAD, at 7:45 2. M.; closes at 10:45 P.M. ; ir. G. L. Pox. Twe Tre ind Brogdway EARATOGA, at -elghth street and Broadway,—: a Re eee Siw? M. Mr. Marking, Miss f. Da “venport. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Washington street, Brooklyn.—LED ASTRA), at 8 P.M. ; “Moses at 11’ M. Mr. Frank Roche, Mrs. F. B: Conway, . WALLAS ‘HEATRE, ‘Broadway and aes sy street.—A MAN OF HONOR, atest. M.; closes at 10:50 P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Annie Deland, BOOTH’S THEATRE, ‘Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street LA FEMME DE YEU, at 745 P. M.; closes at 1 P.M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Brosaway. between Houston and Bleecker streets. — GABRIEL GRUB, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M. Majilton- Baynor family. fall, Brooklyn.—KIT; OR, SASTRAVELLER, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:15 6. Chanfrau. ARKAN- Pr. Fr LIGHTSING BOB, ate P A ch P.M rery.—! a ‘NIN OB, at 3 .; closes at . M. fr Marius Turck. POLITAN THEATRE, VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 10:30 P. M. ME No. Broadw: WASP. M.; close: NIBLO’S GARDEN, . between Prince and Houston streets.— R JENKINS, at 8 P tHE BELLES HEN. at 9 P.M; closes at 10:30 P. M. ily, Mr. Lefingwell. WOOD'S MUSEUM, roadway, corner Thirtieth stmeet.—PERFECTION, at P.M. ; closes at 4:20 P.M. BEN McCULLOUGH, ati P. ‘M.; closes at ll P.M. 0. D. Byron. a] HOOLEY’S BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, opposite Cray Hall—HAPPY WORLD, at 8 P. M.; closes at l0:15 P. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. ‘M. ; closes at 11 P.M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, ‘Twenty-third street, corner of Sixth avenue.—CINDER- ELLA IN BLACK, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, dc., at8 P. ‘M. ; closes at 10 P. M. ROBT N HALL, ‘Rixteenth street.—THE PICCANINNIES, from London. Afternoon, at 3. Evening, at 8 BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, corner Latayette place.—THE PIL- GRIM, at8 P. M.; closes at 9:30 P.M. TRIPLE SHEET. iNew York, Sunday, January 11, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “CALEB CUSHING FOR CHIEF JUSTICE: THE OBJECTIONS OF REPUBLICAN POLITI- CIANS! IS THE PRESIDENT TRIFLING WITH THE SENATE?’—LEADER—SIxTH Pas. 4GAIN DOES A _ SPANISH MANDER INSULT THE DIOUS” STARS AND SIRIPES! GRAVE NEWS OF DIS- ASTER FRUM PUERTO PRINCIPE! A MAMBI RAID—SEVENTH Pace. THE TRAITORS OF THE VIRGINIUS HELD UP TO THE PUBLIC SCORN—THE EXTENT OF THE BROUKLYN TAX DEFAULT—Tuirp PAGE. INTRANSIGENTE REVOLT IN BARCELONA, SPAIN! A FORT FIRING ON THE CITY! THE CARLIST SIEGE OF BILBAO! A RE- PUBLICAN ASSAULT ON CARTAGENA RE- PULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS—SEVENTH Pack. MaCMAHON’S MAYORALTY APPOINTMENTS! THE ASSEMBLY TO RESUME THE DISCUSSION OF THE BILL ON MONDAY AS A MARK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT— SEVENTH PAGE. . HARRY GENET IN IRELAND! HE ESCAPES ARREST THROUGH LAX WORDING OF THE EXTRADITION TREATY—SEVENTH PaGR. NOTABLE ECONOMY! MR. COMPTROLLER GREEN'S GOLDEN HARVEST FROM THE CENTRAL PARK FIELDS! HEAVY RAKES! MR. FOLEY GIVES A FEW MORE FIGURES FROM THE RECORDS—Fovetu Pace. THE STEAMER SHERMAN WRECKED ON THE CAROLINA COAST—THE AMERICAN INTER- NATIONALISTS WARNED! THE LENGTH OF THEIR TETHER—THIRD PAGE. POISON ON THE DELAWARE—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. RULE BY THE BLACKS IN AMERICA! MR. PIKE'S BOUK ON SOUTH CAROLINA'S NEW DEPARTURE—THIRD PaGR. A GAME BATTLE IN HUN POINT ! LONG ISLAND AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN THE ARENA! THE STAGS OF THE FORMER WIN THE FIGHT! BERGH TO THE RESCUE—TENTH Pace. “HEAVY BUSINESS” FOR THE DETECTIVES! THE TRIAL OF THE HOUSEBREAKING MASQUERADERS BEGUN IN WHITE PLAINS—SEVENTH PAGE. RASTORAL APPOINTMENTS AND SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY! THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS BY THE EX-RABBI CONVERT TO “THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURUH! RELIGIOUS NEWS—Fourtn Pace. OBSERVANCE OF THE WEEK OF PRAYER IN THE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT—TRUE SCIENCE AND TRUE RELIGiON—Fourru Pace. MR. WAVE DECLARED PRESIDENT OF THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN! CURPORATION COUNSEL SMITH’S OPINION—Etcutu PaGE. ENCOURAGING BUSINESS PROSPECTS IN THE AMERICAN FINANCIAL CENTRE! OPERA- TIONS YESTERDAY—Firtn Pace. UONBOAT COM- Spanise Navat Insvtt to THE AMERICAN Frac.—By telegram from Havana, under date of the 10th instant, we are informed of the perpe- tration of another insult against the American flag by a vessel of the Spanish navy. Captain Blakeney, of the brig Margaret, from New Orleans for Havana, reports that his vessel ‘was overhauled and boarded by a Spanish gun- boat when ten miles off the Morro, that he was required to show the papers of bis vessel, and that the Don requested to have the hatches of the brig opened. The latter do mand was refused by Captain Blakeney, and the man-of-war’s man left. Important mw Trvr.—The story that a- shopkeeper was bound and gagzed while five men robbed his shop, at nine o'clock ip the evening, is doubted by the police, but is not incredible, and does not involve any incom- prehensible daring on the part of the burglary. Many little shops are tended by middle-aged men and many by women, and just at closing time they might offer an easy spoil to resolute robbers. If the masked burglars have given up the suburbs for this new field shopkeepers quust have their eyes open: NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. Cateh Cushing for Chief Justice—The Objections eof Republican Politi- ciame—Is the President Trifing with the Semate? The nomination of Caleb Cushing for Chief Justice is not satisfactory to the republican Politicians. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate, to which this nomination was re- ferred, promptly reported in favor of a con- firmation. They were so well assured of the qualifications of the man for the office that their consideration of the subject was re- duced toa mere formality. Senator Sumner expressed his approbation in emphatic terms, anda number of other Senators were equally prominent in their approval of the President's substitute for Mr. Williams. In a word, the nomination, though a surprise, was received in the Senate with marked satisfaction. The action of the body upon the confirmation was arrested by an objection from Mr. Mor- ton, and, consequently, the consideration of the subject went over to the next executive session. by From this point—Mr. Morton's objection— we have the development of a party move- ment against Mr. Cushing for Chief Justice, and the line of attack adopted by the Wash- ington Chronicle indicates a vigorous party re- sistance to his confirmation. The Chronicle objects to the democratic and pro-slavery an- tecedents of Mr. Cushing, and says that as Chief Justice he might, at the ripe age of seventy-four, reverse opinions given as Attor- ney General (under Pierce's administration) twenty years earlier; but that ‘‘what is bred in the bone may not come out in the flesh in his case,"’ and that “if the Senate, three- fourths republican, should confirm him for this exalted position we advise the democrats to nominate him for President in 1876.” Fi- nally, says the Chronicle, ‘between this and the next executive session of the Senate it is expected that the question of the possibility of finding a republican lawyer in the United States fit to be the Chief Justice will be ma- turely considered.” The republicans of the Senate, then, will be called upon to resist the confirmation of Mr. Cushing upon these grounds—that his pro-slavery opinions of twenty years ago and his past democratic affiliations disqualify him for the office, in the judgment of a republican Senate; for that in view of the maintenance in and through the Supreme Court of the Southern recon- struction acts of Congress a republican lawyer, of whose loyalty there can be no ques- tion, must be exacted of the President for Chief Justice. It is certainly a singular event in our politi- cal history that the man who was President of the famous Charleston Democratic Convention of 1860 has in 1874 become the second choice of a*republican administration for the second office in the government in its dignity and its high responsibilities. But this is only one of many strange surprises in political transformations which have come to pass within the last ten years. General Butler, for instance, no less than General Cushing, was distinguished as a pro-slavery democratic magnate in the Charleston Convention; and yet he is to-day a republican leader from Mas- sachusetts in Congress. However, as upon the test of loyalty to the republican party and its Southern reconstruction measures Mr. Cushing is to be arraigned and tried in the Senate, it is possible that he may fail to run the gauntlet. Reduced to this test of party loyalty and subserviency Williams was, doubtless, one of the best nominations that could be made. Yet, from a want of Senatorial confi- dence in his professional capacities, experi- ence and attainments, the President was con- strained to withdraw him. Under his annoy- ance from this defeat General Grant, we suspect, has been playing with the Senate the réle of Jupiter with the frogs of the fable :— “Very well, if King Log will not satisfy you, perhaps King Stork will be acceptable. If capacity for the office is all you want, you will surely be delighted with Caleb Cushing.”’ Bat a man of the largest capabilities without loyalty to the party is quite as objectionable to many of the republican politicians as a nominee who has nothing but his party loyalty to recommend him. The republican radicals want a genuine republican lawyer, if one can be found in the United States fit to be Chief Justice. . But, supposing that Mr. Cushing is laid on the table by the Senate, where are we to find this genuine republican lawyer qualified for the office in question? You cannot have Senator Conkling, for he was the President's first choice, but he declined the honor. The office is not quite up to the mark of his expec- tations. He looks higher. Senator Morton is professionally qualified, but is physically dis- abled. Senator Edmunds has been mentioned asa proper man, but he is too little known. Charles Francis Adams would be an emi- nently proper man for Chief Justice, but he to the regular orthodox republican is an apostate and a heretic. Mr. Evarts is fully qualified, but he was ona memorable occa- sion a counsellor for Andrew Johnson, and so Evarts is not the man for General Grant. Senator Frelinghuysen might pass the ordeal of the Civil Service Examining Bureau, but he is apparently content with his present position. General Butler is one of the ablest of republican lawyers, but the Puritans of Massachusetts would make Rome howl if he were nominated for Chief Justice. We give up the task of finding a genuine republican lawyer whose capabilities and fitness for the office will compare with those of Cushing. Nevertheless, as upon the pro-slavery party affiliations and professional opinions of Mr. Cushing, his confirmation will be stoutly re- sisted in the Senate. We know not to what extremity in this matter the President may yet be driven. With two strings to his bow, in the appointment for Spain and the nomina- | tion of Chief Justice, the venerable gentleman from Virginia is secure in any event. Still, we think that in contemplating his occupa- tion of the two offices at the same time the President seriously weakens his case now be- fore the Senate. We are informed from Washington that upon his confirmation as Chief Justice Mr. Cushing will resign the Spanish mission, unless the President should still desire him to go to Madrid before assuming the duties of Chief Justice, and that he could do this without a violation of the law, as John Jay, for exam- ple, our first Chief Justice, while holding this office, was appointed Minister to England, and that thus, holding both offices, he fulfilled the appointed duties of the mission, and then resumed his jndiaial functiona, Hence it is concluded that if the President, even after the confirmation of Mr. Cushing as Chief Justice, should see fit still to send him out as Minister to Spain and as Chief Justice, he can do so, The inference follows that General Grant meditated doing so, and upon this sug- gestion the Senate may teach him a new lesson in civil service reform. And, if called for, why not? Why should Mr. Cushing hold these two important offices, when, for the proper discharge of the duties of either, the incumbent cannot be involved in the duties of the other? And has it come to pass that in this man, though in the sev- enty-fourth year of his age, General Grant has found the only man in the United States qualified for Chief Justice and the only man believed to be competent to relieve Mr. Fish of his Spanish embarrassments? There is trouble brewing here. When there are so many hungry and patriotic republicans, whose ambition would be fully satisfied with either office, and who, as laborers in the party vineyard, have borne the heat and burden of the day, what can General Grant expect but a party revolt in the Senate if it'is understood that his purpose is to send out Chief Justice Cushing as Minister to Spain? Allowing that this man of rare accomplishments and diplomatic and judicial experience is admirably qualified for either position, he is certainly not qualified to dis- charge the duties of the one office in Wash- ington and of the other at Madrid at the same time. Nor can the Chief Justice now be spared on a foreign mission, as in the early days of our government. Nor‘are competent and willing men for the public service so few and far between as to justify the bestowal of two important public offices upon any one man at the same time under any protence of expediency or necessity. In the nomination of Mr. Cushing for Spain the President dealt fairly with the Senate, and his nominee was promptly confirmed. If in his nomination of Mr. Cushing for Madrid the Senate had suspected that the President was acting for a double purpose the Judiciary Committee would, doubtless, have held the subject in reserve for a thorough examination. As it is, these two nominations of Mr. Cush- ing, so rapidly following each other as to con- fuse friends and adversaries, apparently involve 'a foolish game with the Senate, which, if per- sisted in by the President, must result to him in another mortifying defeat. Mr. Cushing is qualified for either of the offices in question; but he is not qualified to fill both at the same time. In the event of his confirmation for Chief Justice, which of these offices, then, is he to take? This is a question which should at once be answered to the Senate. The party considerations suggested against Mr. Cushing as Chief Justice are entitled to no considera- tion, He is as free, no doubt, from arty ties or prejudices as any man in the country; but he cannot with any propriety at the same time be Chief Justice and Minister to Spain. Foley Still -After Green. The bucolic innocence which should dis- tinguish a Tityrus piping at the foot of a Dbeechen tree does not seem to have had place in the bosom of Andrew H. Green when he was singing his economy eclogues as President of the Park Commission. The picture of Mr. Green’s pluralizing offices in his own person and grabbing after salaries as furnished by Mr. Jobn Foley is a dark chapter of dealings of the order of Ah Sin rather than those of an honora- ble, upright Park Commissioner. To be Pres- ident, Treasurer, Superintendent and Archi- ‘tect-in-Chief at the same time was “coming it strong;”’ yet Truthfal John ‘‘states but the facts.” He finds on the books that when Mr. Green had journeyed to Europe he had resolu- tions passed by the Commission paying his expenses to the amount of sixteen hun- dred dollars, for sixty days’ absence, thirty of which were passed, it appears, on board steamers, by which, Mr. Foley alleges, the Green man travelled free. If the broad term swindle cannot be applied to doings of this nature we are sorry for the English lan- guage. The ‘Allen’ House arrangement is another pretty piece of work, for which the retrencher of scrubwomen’s salaries mulcted the taxpayers of some thirteen thousand four hundred dollars for his own benefit. This raid on the treasury was carried without the slightest attempt at justification. If Mr. Green had desired the city to furnish the “Allen” House with complete sets of the most costly Parisian furniture, and had then furnished similarly the houses of all his hangers on, his offence, in this respect, might be more glaring, but morally no greater. It was one of the weaknesses of the ‘Ring’ to furnish private houses at the expense of the city. It is something to have pierced the callous moral skin of a man like Mr. Green and to find him trying to hide his doings by shut- ting, where possible, the door of inquiry into his salary grabbing past. The manifesto of President Wales on the matter is a miserable petitio principii and not wor- thy of a public officer who pretends to honesty. The total of $111,623 reached by Mr. Foley as the sum of Mr. Economy Green's city treasury raids will startle a great many. The rank hypocrisy of the creature who docks the salary of a poor scrubwoman of a day’s pay when her work was performed, yet who pockets thousands of dollars himself in the manner indicated in Mr. Foley’s letter, should secure the unmasked hypocrife’s re- ward—universal disgust. Srosporn CanraGena.—Cartagena still fights bravely, and as yet there are no indica- tions that the forces of resistance and endur- ance inside the city are exhausted. On Fri- day, we are told, the government troops made an attack on Fort San Julian, but, repulsed with considerable loss, they retired, and after- wards withdrew to the camp. At the latest firing was vigorously kept up on both sides. It is undeniable that Cartagena has fought well. Pity it is that she does not fight in o better cause. The men who now control that city are not satisfied with Serrano, as they were not satisfied with Castelar. There is too much reason to believe that Cartagena is filled with the dregs of the Paris Commune. Their fight is therefore the fight of despair. If we knew more of the suffering’ of the inhabitants we might wish more intensely for the cessa- tion of hostilities. Unless he can put down the Cartagena revolt Serrano cannot remain in power. It is not fair, however, to expect Serrano to put forth his full strength all at once, Time must be allowed to test him as it lisa tosted his predecessors = The Keligious Press Upon Current Topics. ‘The Observer affirms that the history of the Church of Christ presents no more remarkable phase than is this moment drawing the eyes of the world toward the city of Brooklyn, popularly called the ‘City of Churcheg.”’ “The air has been loaded for many months,"’ remarks the editor, “with unwholesome odors, and the speech of people and the multi- tudinous tongnes of the press have given utterance to rumors that widely and injuri- ously affect the honor of the Christian re- ligion.”” The Observer seems disposed to take the anti-Beecher view of the situation, and concludes that as Congregationalism, if not Christianity itself, is on trial, “it remains for Drs. Buddington and Storrs and their people, having pat on the armor, to go forward, trusting in the great Head of the Church, who has promised to be with it to the end of the world.” The Observer suggests that whereas there are more than sixty thousand Protestant churches in the United States and only three thousand Roman Catholic churches, these are ‘facts to think of when estimating the power of religion in this country.” The Christian at Work might as well be called the Christian at War from the manner in which it takes hold of what it terms ‘‘De- nominational Earthquakes,’ declaring that it seems as if all denominations of Christians are to split, For example, the Episcopal Church is divided into high Church and low ; the Baptist into close communion and open communion; the Presbyterian into strict and liberal constructionists of the stand- ards; in the Reformed Church are those who have introduced responses into ordinary wor- ship, and the Congregationalist Church is, at this time, divided on the subject of discipline. With these internal commotions among the sixty thousand Protestant churches is it not fair to assume that the consolidated Catholic churches, with their auxiliaries in chapels and stations, should be regarded as something of a power in this Christian land? * The Tablet (Catholic) pays attention to the subject of the ‘Forty Hours’ Devotion.” The Freeman's Journal (Catholic) invokes ‘friendly discussion on State schools.'' This is about the first time the editor has desired a discussion of the kind on any topic in which Catholics were interested since his paper was established. His friends should congratulate him upon his prospective realization of the Scriptural injunction, ‘Peace on earth; good will to all men.”” The Catholic Review urges the Fourth of July next as the day upon which the proposed American pilgrimage to the Vatican and other Catholic shrines in Europe should be started. Archbishop Manning, of London, has written a letter assuring the head of the American pil- grimage that ‘the Catholics of England will give a hearty and timely welcome to the Catholics of the United States.’’ The Evangelist (Presbyterian), touching on the Plymouth church imbroglio, remarks that, “historically considered, Congregationalism has had numergus types, Connecticut Oongre- gationalism being at times almost identical with Presbyterianism, and those who with- draw fellowship from Plymouth church will hardly be able to deny it still the right to the Congregational name.” The Independent, referring to the Plymouth church muddle (in which the editor has no little personal interest), avers that it grows more interesting; but the ‘‘interest it excites has come to be that in a game between chess players." There has, it must be confessed, been a good deal of checkmating in this con- nection; but it is to be earnestly hoped that all parties will be mated for the best at last. * Church and State presents some causes for Bishop Cummins’ movement, and treats upon the Rev. Orbey Shipley’s article in the Con- temporary Review on the subject of confession and the bishops. The Baptist Weekly wants forty thousand dollars immediately for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. There should be no trouble in raising this small amount among the wealthy Baptist congregations in this vicinity. The Jewish Times gives a comprehensive obituary upon the late Dr. Isaac Lowy, rabbi of the ancient Jewish congregation of Furth, Bavaria. ‘(Max Muller in the Pulpit’’ is also the subject of an editorial article in the Times. The Jewish Messenger announces in an ar- ticle we reproduced in yesterday's edition that the Hebrew portion of the American people will learn with satisfaction that the earnest efforts they inaugurated some three years since in behalf of their oppressed race in Rou- mania are about to meet with a gratifying reward. The Christian Intelligencer, remarking upon the latest phase of the prayer test, as pro- nounced by scientists lately in Sion Hill Col- lege, England, asserts that these men are prayerless because they are Godless. ‘‘Verily,” says the editor, ‘the words of the Psalmist are as true to-day as when he wrote in the fourteenth Psalm, ‘The fool has said in his heart, No God.’ Meanwhile the unstified voice of prayer is continually rising from every Christian heart and church and land. ‘It is time for Thee, Lord, to work, for they have made void Thy laws.’” The Christian Union (Henry Ward Beecher) insists upon the individuality of Congrega- tionalist churches, asserting that, while it is proper to say the ‘Presbyterian Church of America,” such language cannot be applied to Congregationalism. “It is the Congrega- tional churches of America.” The Liberal Christian believes that the Inde- penderd should be independent, for that is its name, But what's in a name? Oxp Sr. Pavt’s to Remarm.—It is said that greedy trade and hungry speculators have ac- tually set their eyes on St. Paul's church and the graveyard immediately adjoining. The new Post Office has made the neighborhood already sufficiently gloomy. We cannot afford to lose St. Paul’s, We are glad, therefore, that hungry speculators have this time failed of their purpose. One million dollars, and a site for a cemetery somewhere in Westchester, were, it is said, offered and refused. Two mil- lions of dollars, said the speculators, The two million offer had the effect, we are told, of making the Trinity Corporation deliberate, After deliberation it was decided that the property should not be sold. The thanks of the downtown population are dut to the Corporation for this wise and manly decision, If it is intended that the city of New York is to have a future, ita breathing spots ond its beauty gnots must be gered for in time, As well dispense with Trinity as dispense with St. Paul's. Our old city landmarks, especially where these are devoted to religious purposes, should be touched with gentle hand. We have already too few of them. We ought to preserve religiously those we have. Judge Durell Taking Time by the Forelock. He does not think it prudent to continue in office and run the risk of impeachment, The telegraph informs us he has resigned. Before the Congressional investigating committee had finished its labor of inquiring into his con- duct he was urgent to get an appointment as Minister abroad. This would virtually have whitewashed him. No doubt he thought that much was due to him for his subserviency to the administration and the republican party in the infamous affair of overturning the legiti- mate government of Louisiana. But the Pres- ident seemed to be afraid of granting this reward in the face of the damaging charges against Durell. Asa last resort, now that the investigating committee is about to report, he follows the example of Judge Delahoy, of Kansas, and Judge Sherman, of Ohio, and re- signs. But can or will the President accept his resignation until the report is made and justice be done? Party services should not shield him. While the republicans are sing- ing pmans over the conviction and punishment of democrats in high places they and the ad- ministration cannot afford to let prominent and notorious offenders in their own party escape. The party has enough odium to bear already without shouldering such an addi- tional and crushing weight. Ovr Crry Priwson.—The presumption now is that the Tombs will continue to be for some years to come our great city prison. It is now found out that the place is not so badly suited for its purpose as some months ago we were led to believe. The Grand Jury have given it as their opinion that the Tombs only needs a few alterations and some enlargement to be equal to all requirements, A bill was on Fri- day introduced into the Legislature to repeal the act of last session, which provided for the erection of a new city prison, and Comptrol- ler Green is now of the opinion that the Tombs, with some improvements, may, after all,do well enough. Retrenchment is the order of the day. Wise economy for its own sake is always worthy of praise. . It is possible that already our criminal population is costing us too much. Tue Assistant AtpermeN.—The inscrut- able persons who get themselves elected to the Board of Assistant Aldermen in this well robbed city have got up a row that seems likely to concentrate upon them some small share of public attention. They are in a state of schism with two presidents, one of whom must necessarily be bogus, and their case is calling out from the legal authorities opinions and arguments as to which of the presidents and adhering members constitute the real Board of Assistant Aldermen of the great metropolis, If they go on at this rate the Assistant Aldermen will make themselves public characters and people may become familar with their names. : Oven vee River Tureves,—Brooklyn seems disposed to keep her end up in the matter of municipal thievery; but her thieves operate in a poor and suburban spirit. They steal in sums of from six hundred to a thousand dollars—which is disgraceful. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Baron Valentine de Trivis recently died in France at the age of 98, Senator W. M. Stewart, of Nevada, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander B. T. Smith, United States Navy, is staying at the Irving House. Ex-Congressman John Lynch, of Maine, yester- day arrived at the Hoffman House. Governor Henry Howard, of Rhode Island, has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Paymaster Arthur Burtis, United States Navy, has quarters at the Hoffman House. General J. L. vonaldson, United States Army, is quartered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. George H. Stuart, of the Indian Peace Commis- sion, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Chief Justice Sir William Henry Doyle, of tne Bahamas, 1s temporarily residing at the Clarendon Hotel. Samuel S. Fisher, of Ohio, formerly United States Commissioner of Patents, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, ar- rived from Washington yesterday at the West- moreland Hotel. Yeh Shoo Tung, Tung Chow and Ah Chu, of the Chinese Educational Commission, are again at the Sturtevant House. Mr. H. Garretson, late Chief Commissioner to the Vienna Exhibition, intends to remain in Italy during the winter. Postmaster General Saul Samuels, of Sydney, New South Wales, is among the recent arrivals at the St. N&cholas Hotel. M. Marc Pietrie, formerly Napoleon’s Chief Po- liceman and lately private secretary to the Empress Eugénie, has just aied of consumption. Mark Twain figures exteusivety in Figaro (Lon- don), He is expected to retarn homeward soon, after reaptng a rich harvest from the Londoners, Mrs. Sarah Aldridge, said to be the widow of Tom Sayers, the pugilist, was lately fined at the Marylebone Police Court, in London, for neglecting the education of two of her children, Mr. Gladstone’s latent humor the London Globe conceives to be the motive for the elevation to the peerage of Mr. Bruce, Sir John Duke Coleridge and several other supporters of the liberal policy. Mr. John Hampden and Mr, Alfrea Wallis, of London, England, had a controversy and made a bet as to the shape of theearth. The decision of the referee that the planet was round angered Mr. Hampden, though it did not fatten him out. He persisted in his theory. He wrote letters denouncing Mr; Wall as @ cheat and aswindler. He is now in jail. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 1874, Lieutenant Commander Charles H. Craven has been detached from the Independence and ordered to the Kearsarge. Lieutenant Commander John J. Reed, from the Kearsarge, is ordered to the Richmond, Captain Whiting, Lieutenant Marix and Engi- neer W. H. Harris; of the Navy, reported to-day to the Court of Inquiry, in session at the Navy De- partment, investigating the causes of the sinking of the Virginius, Tne Court is holding daily ses sions. ee Work To Be Stopped on the New Sloops. PortsMovru, Va., Jan. 10, 1874. Orders were received at the Navy Yard to-day directing a general discharge of the working forces of the yard on account of the reductions in the Naval Appropriations bill by Congress. Five sioops-ol-war are building here, and the order creates no little consternation. About 1,600 men are employed in all the depart- ments, A delegation of republican politicians and work- men left Portsmouth to-night for Washington, to urge the Navy Department to have an tron-clad sent here for repairs, and to continue work on the new sloops. The Gaiena {9 two-thirds finished, and orders were received yesterday to build her five com- pound engines Delore the fiscal year Guida VIRGINIA. SSERnEEEERaEEEeee! No Nominee Yet for the United States Senatorship—Nineteen Ballots Without a Choice, RICHMOND, Jan. 40, 1874, ‘The conservative caucus to nominate @ candi- date for the Untted States Senate met to-day a'ter the adjournment of the Legislature and ballotea through the entire evening in 9 fruitless effort te agree upon their man, They are now AS MUCH AT SEA 4S EVER as to who is the coming man. 1x ballots resnite® in varying successes, Hunter reaching as high as 61, Withers 46 and Walker 29 These dgures were all on different ballots, and are no indication as to the final result, Altogether 19 ballots have been taken. The largest total vote polled to-day was 126; necessary to a choice 64 On the last two ballots James Barbour recetved @ vote of 25 and 23, Jonn Goode 28 and 22 and Judge Christian 8, NO TALKING ALLOWED, Mr. Riddlebarger, who is one of the young members irom the valley, aud one of the most pro- gressive, made a strong appeal in favor of marae nominating speeches of 10 minutes, which prot tion was defeated by a vote, Riddiebarger is un- derstood to be an ardent supporter of Governor * Walker, whose interest it would unquestionably be toe provoke a discussion and ventilate the po litical antecedents of his opponents for the nomi- nation, but tne combined forces of the opposition were too powerful and ali speechifying was pro- hibited, WALKER’S BACKERS WAITING, The Walker strength is yet scarcely developed, and go long as renominations of candidates who have been dropped by reason of the smallest vote is allowed no candidate will be chosen. The caucus adjourned untiy Monday, at one o'clock, when in all probability a new man will be sprung and will sweep the field, ‘On ‘uesday, the 13th inst., the General Assembly will begin to ballot fora United States senator. MAYORALTY OF PHILADELPHIA. Colonel John W. Forney Positively De= clines the Union Nomination—His Paper the Best Office. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 10, 1874. Great excitement. prevails here concernving the Mayoralty of this city, and at present the indica. tions are tnat the contest gril be the most oxcitiag and bitter ever known iu the Quaker City. Itie understood that prominent members of the reforna and democratic parties are anxious to selecta single candidate, who will receive the votes of both organizations and gather about him sufficient support to overthrow the re- publicang now in power, Colonel Johm W. Forney, of the Press, has been the one ear- nestly brought forward as the favorite person upon whom all the minor political elements could agree, and as one who could fill the office during the Cen- tennial celebration with the greatest dignity and grace. THE HONOR DECLINED, WITH THANKS. By means of a private letter, written by Colonel Forney to-day and received by @ Warm personal friend this evening, your correspondent is enabled to be the first to announce his absolute and downright refusal, in his own words, as follows :— “On the subject of the Mayoralty let me now say to you that there is no consideration and no con- tingency, near or remote, that could tempt me ta accept the position of Mayor of Philadelphia. THE BEST OFFICE. Ihave a better office in ay newspaper than any the politicians or the people could give me, and I owe something to my health. To take the place would simply be to break me down, and it would also destroy my business. “Tam heart and soul in the Centennial, but I cannot afford to sacrifice everything, even in 60 good a cause.’ LOUISIANA, Action of the Rival Legislatares—The Kellogg Senate Enacting a Funding Law to Cover All State Indebtedness. New ORveans, Jan. 10, 1874, The McEnery Legislature to-day adopted a reso- lution authorizing all members who may see fit to do so to absent themselves until such time as the Legislature sball not be prevented by federal au- thonity from proceeding with its legitimate bust- ness. In the Kellogg Legislature the funding scheme recommended by Governor Kellogg, with the com- currence of the Chamber of Commerce, passed the Senate to-day, by a large majority. The bill pro vides for the funding, at the option of the holder, at the rate of 60 cents on the dollar of the indebtedness of the State, in ven per cent inter- outstanding consolidated bonds bearing a est, the exchange to be in ndon and Europe throngh agencies to be appointed. A taxof five and a halt milisis to be annually levied to meet the interest on the new bonds, without further ap- propriations, The total taxation for all State pur- ses peeerats to 12% mills, and the debt is fimited the amount of the consolidated bonds, All the existing contingent liabilities of the State are repealed. The bill is expected to pass the House on Monday. Judge Durrell’s Case. New OBLEAnNS, Jan. 10, 1874. The Congressional committee appointed to in- vestigate the charges against Judge Durell have els their labors and will leave to-day tor Wash- THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, GALveEston, Jan. 10, 1874, The News of this city has the following special despatch :— Austin, Texas, Jan. 10, 1874 The belief ix general that the Legisiatire will meet, though their action afterwards is not deter- mined on, as nothing can be ae, known until a meeting of a majority of the members, whe have not yet arrived, shail have been held. The following despatch has been received from San Antonio:— SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 10, 1874 It is positively known that General Augur, come Manding in this district, has no instractious im regard to the late action of the Supreme Court from higher Lape sory A General Augur gave it as me impression that the military would not inter- ere, OHIO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. | CINCINNATI, Jan. 10, 1874, In the Constitutional Convention to-day the committee reported an article toconfer the right of suffrage upon women, the article to be sub- mitted to a separate vote of the people. The Con- vention retused to adjourn over to attend the in- guguration of Governor Allen, at Columbus, om Tuesday. OBITUARY. Moses Bigelow. About two o'clock yesterday ex-Mayor Moses Bigelow died at his residence on Broad street, Newark, after quite a -protracted illness, He was about 73 years of age, a native of Essex county, being born near Lyons Farms, and from his boy- hood up has been identified with the business in- terest of Newark. For full ya third of a centary occupied a prominent part in local politics. Fot ‘reat many years he was the knock down candi- fate of the democracy of Newark for the Mayor- alty, until finally, in 1857, he was triumphant, and was thereafter reguiarly re-elected for seven ears. in 1871 he arain led a democratic forlorn Hope and was defeated, Mr. Bigelow was & man of large wealth, and was prominent in many local industrial institutions and ‘associations. He had hosts of friends, who will consider his demise as @ cause for personal grief. Benjamin C. Franklin. Judge Benjamin C, Franklin, one of the founders of the Republic of Texas and the chiefest opponent of General Houston, died at Galveston on the even- ing of the 25th of*December, Judge Franklin arrived at Velasco, in the Mexican province of ‘Texas (Galveston then having no existence), some forty years ago; took part in the revolutionary counsels of the colonists; jomed the Texan army under Houston, and carried a rife in the famous little battle of San Jacinto, an engagement which was at once the overthrow of Santa Anna and of Mexican power this side of tie Rio Grande, The rifle being set aside the lawyer returned to his pleadings, and to the close of his lite kept well up ‘with the front rank of his profession. THE REVENUE MARINE, WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1874. The revenue steamer Levi Woodbury has been ordered from Boston to Portiand, to perform wine ter cruising duty on the coast of Maine, in piace of the revenue steamer McCullough, undergoing ree pairs. ‘The Hamilton, now having her headquarters at Philadelphia, has been ordered to Boston to take the place of the Levi Woodbury, ‘The repairs on the steamer W. H. Crawford hav- ing been completed, she has been designated to perform winter cruising tn aid of vessets to dis- tress, in addition to those heretofore designated, and has been oraered to Lewes, Del., with cruising: ground from Great lee Harbor to Chincoteague. THE TRIAL OF POSTMASTER MOULTON. i pine, Jan. 10, 1874 ‘The jury in the case of J, J, Moulton, late Post- master in this city, has been discharged, having Deen upadle to agree