The New York Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1874, Page 6

INEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR ‘Wolume XXXIX AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, - mrs. CONW) BROOKLYN THEATRE, AVashington street, Prooklyn.—LED ASTRAY, at 8 P.M. ; Closes at LL P.M, Mr. Frank Roc rs. F, BY Conway. WALLACK’S THEATRE, a Thirteenth street.—A MAN OF HONOR, Br eMt EY eg at low P.M. Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Aaunie Delsnd, HoOTHS THEATRE, | ixth avenue an’ Twenty-third street — MME DE Pate erect M.; closes at P.M. Mrs. J.B, Booth. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker strects.— Pro TeL CHUB, ats P, M.; closes at LP. M. Majilton- Raynor family BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE: site City Hall, Brookly: ; OR, THE QO TRAVELLER, at 8 P. ‘8. Chantrag, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—LIGHTNING BOB, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P. M. Mr. Marius Turck, POLITAN THEATRE, VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at W330 P.M M No. 385 Broad 7 4oP. M.; ek NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston. streets. — ROM+O JAFFE! NKINS, at SP. M.; THE BELLES OF THE KITCHEN, at 9 P.M.; closes at 10:30 P. M. Vokes Family, Mr. Letfingwell WOOD’? MUSEUM, i Broadway, corner Thirtieth street. PERFECTION, at 2PM. ; closes at 4:2 BEN McCULLOUGH, at P. MM. closes at ALP, M. . Byron. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, it Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street—HUMPTY DUMPTY ABROAD, at7:45 P. Mo, closes at 10:45 P.M; Mr. G. L. Fox. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty-eighth street and Broadway.—SARATOGA, at 8PM closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Harkins, Miss F. Da- venport. GERMANIA THEATRE, Pourteerth street.—GRAND DUCHESS, at 8 P. M. ; closes @C 11:15 P.M, Paulino Canissa. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARI£TY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P, ‘BM. ; closes at 11 P.M, Matinee at 2:30 P.M. - BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, wenty-third street, corner of Sixth avenue. TUM IN BLACK’ NEGKO MINSTRELSY, M., closes at 10 P, M. CINDER- fc. ars P. HOOLEY’S BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, opposite uy Hall—HAPPY WORLD at 8 P. M.; closes at 10:15 P. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—THE PICCANINNIES, from London. Aiternoon, at 3. Evening, at 8. TRIPLE SHEET. F- New York, Tuesday, January 13, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Mo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. RECONSTRUCTION IN TEXAS! THE PRESIDENT WILL NOT ASSIST THE USURPATION OF GOVERNOR DAVIS’—LEADING ARTICLE— SixtH Pace. “SEVEN SPANISH PROVINCES DECLARED IN A “STATE OF SIEGE!” BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF A GOVERNMENT BATTALION BY THE CARLISTS—SEVENTH PAGE. ADMIRAL SCOTT AND STAFF HOBNOBBING WITH CAPTAIN GENERAL JOVELLAR AND $$ i B Reeonstraction tm Texas—The President | in Louisiana. Or is the President's enlighten- | lative body, notwithstanding the opposition, WIL Not Assist the Usurpation of | ment on the subject of the proper course to | passed a vote of confidence in the Ministey by Governer Davis. General Grant has had at last one good inspiration. His refusal to furnish federal troops to sustain in Texas an authority ex- actly similar to that which he formerly fur- nished troops to sustain in Louisiana, his indisposition to assume once more a responsi- bility as dangerous to himself and his party as it is threatening to the rights and liberties of the people, are worthy especial note at a moment when the Executive seems on the verge of placing himself in a position of direct and definite antagonism with his party. Bad surroundings have been the ruin of rulers in every age as well as in ours; but in the case of General Grant they have threatened not only to ruin him, but to ruin him ridiculously—to tumble him into that particular gulf hitherto occupied only by the soreheaded and obstructive Andrew Johnson. becoming also an a reason even less worthy of respect. Jobnson may have had _ glimmerings of magnanimity in his fancy, and he clearly bad a bold ambition. He was at the head of a conquering people, and he endeavored to lighten the catastrophe of the conquered. Many an Executive has tried the same course before, but never successfully, and in John- son’s case it became practically a mere at- tempt to scold and browbeat Congress into opinions in accordance with his own. But Grant's obstructive facts resulted not from his having opinions of his own to insist upon against the will of Congress, but simply from his confusing and confounding the respective functions of two bodies that are near him. One of these bodies is the Cabinet; the other is the coterie of his personal associates and boon companions, He was evidently disposed to govern by the advice and aid of this latter body, and to permit the other, as a matter of formality, to register the decrees of acts already determined upon before they met the President. Naturally the personal associates of the Executive are not under a sense of grave responsibility, and the acts they inspire indicate the loosest possible notions of moral and political obligation. So Williams was nominated for Chief Justice, not because it was gravely considered that he was qualified for the post, or that it was an appointment likely to reflect credit upon the party to which the country might be indebted for an addition to the roll of our great jurists, but simply because some person interested in Williams more than in the fame of the Supreme Court had the ear of Grant or the ear of one of Grant's intimates, and insidiously inspired him with an amiable and foolish impulse. It is a8 great an evil, however, for the President to be feebly amiable, like Grant, as to be obstinately wrongheaded, like Johnson. No doubt Grant's dreadful blunder in Louisiana was a result of the same drivelling good nature. Parties who organize the seizure of a State government can afford to bribe the friends of an Executive if the Executive is known to be always ready to yield to his friends’ opinions and to ‘frame his official acts as his friends may desire, and thus, without personal corruption, without a taint on his fingers, he comes to govern cor- ruptly. But the determination not to sup- port the fraud in Texas is a good sign that a THE SPANISH ADMIRAL IN HAVANA! * . COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED—SEvENTH painful experience has not been lost and that better counsels have been listened to, PaGE. @HE FRENCH ASSEMBLY DECLARE CONFI- DENCE IN THE MINISTRY BY A.MAJORITY OF 58! THE MINISTERS RETAIN THEIR PORTFOLIOS—SEVENTH PAGE. @HE DUTCH LOSS IN THE VICTORY OVER THE ACHEENESE—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEvVENTH Pace. ANOTHER ACT WORTHY OF HIS GREAT OF- FICE! PRESIDENT. GRANT REFUSES UNITEV STATES TROOPS TO GOVERNOR DAVIS, OF TEXAS! WHOLESOME AD- VICE—SEVENTH Pacz. MHE FACTIOUS OPPOSITION TO CALEB CUSH- ING FOR CHIEF JUSTICE! BACK PAY SHELVED! RETRENCHMENT THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THE DEPARTMENTS— THIRD PaGE. ‘WARM COMMENDATION OF THE CUSHING NOM- INATION BY THE AMERICAN PRESS! DEMOCRATIC AND INDEPENDENT JOUR- NALS THE SOLE OPPOSERS—FocrrH PAGE. THE POLICE REFUSE PERMISSION TO AS- SEMBLE TO THE WORKINGMEN! THE TUMPKINS SQUARE MEETIN THE CEN- TRAL LABOR COMMITTEE DENOUNCED— TENTH Pace. GOVERNOR ALLEN’S INAUGURATION AT UO- LUMBUS, OHIO—RAILROAD EXHIBITS— TENTH PaGE. THEATRICAL AND TERPSICHOREAN EVENTS LAST NIGHT—THE VACANT SEAT OF THE FUGITIVE GENET—SEvENTH PaGE. OUR CEREALS AND THEIR TRANSFER TO TIDE- WATER—AFFAIRS IN M JO AND CEN- TRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA—FirTH PaGe. THE ASSISTANT ALDERMEN AND THEIR PRESI- DENCY! THE MAYOR ON THE MUDDLE! HEATED WRANGLES—THE SUPERVISORS AND THE ARMORIES—Fovrtu Pace, YACHTING VOTES OF PREPARATION—FINE PIGEON SHOOTING CONIESTS—Fovrra Page. CUAL PROSPECTS AND STATISTICS! THE IN- CREASED DEMAND AND THE MEANS OF SUPPLYING IT! BITUMINOUS COAL—NintH PAGE. @HE METHODIST PREACHERS ON PREACHING— “NO LAGER” IN NEWARK—NixtuH Pace, THE BENON] HOWARD AND JOAB LAWRENCE LITIGATIONS! A QUEER MIXTURE OF MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES ANOTHER DRAUGHT OF THIEVES—Firru Pace. STABLE FINANCE! WALL STREET TIONS YESTERDAY—THE PRODUCE &. CHANGE MEETING—EleuTH Page. ART SPECIALITIES—THE GRANT POISONING CASE—FIFTH PAGE, Tue Sraxiso Insuroznts at CaRTacENa are anxious to negotiate a plan of surrender with the commander of the government forces. ‘They proposed terms which were rejected by the officers of the Republic, but it was re- garded almost as certain that the plan of capitulation or submission would be perfected yesterday evening, Serrano is thus likely to enjoy his opportunity, and it js more than likely that the troublesome radicaly will soon experience the var viclis. Tae Prussian Exection Returns continue to show large gains for the party of nation. | alist liberals in the Reichstag. Bavaria, Wiir- temberg and Baden strengthen the voice of | the reformers and democrats materially, and | to such an extent that the imperialistic policy, | Particularly on the Church question, may be compelled, constitutionally, to relaxation when 7c North German Parliament weets in ses ‘ov, | OPERA- | . | the usurpers have called upon the general But the decision not to support Governor Davis is scarcely enough. Texas has not at this moment that kind of government which the constitution requires the United States to guarantee to every State of this Union. It has not a government elected by the people ; but, on the contrary, the last popular vote has been nullified, and the government it elected is excluded by a usurpation that, apprehending the results of popular indignation, calls upon the general government to sustain it against the wrath of a people upon whom it has com- mitted the grossest political outrage. All has been done, it is true, in the name of justice ; but the use of that name to cover pclitical crime is only an additional iniquity. The decision of the Texas Supreme Court, which set aside the results of the recent election, was procured for the purpose upon a fictitious case. Ig was the last ruse of desperate players for place and power, and judges of the sort that rendered it are the loaded dice of political gamblers; they turn up any way to gait the game. Under the law, which had received the assent of Davis as Governor, all parties went into the canvass ; but when the republi- cans were beaten by a great majority and saw | they must go out, they preferred to declare unconstitutional the law under which they have been outvoted and to set it aside and take no heed of the election they had joined in, but to hold on to their places. Is this any more honest than our thieving city can- vassers who, when the election is all over, count one man jn and another out by diregt falsifica- ttomi of the returns? Does the fact that {t was ; done by legal machinery relieve this act of i outrageond characte? f§ £ Haiduent™ cor- ruption of the véry fountain of political fife? If the people of this country cannot stand by the results of a clearly pronounced judgment Lat the polls, if that judgment is to be set aside of one pretext or another by anybody | who may seé a chance for success, popular government is a fraud and a sham. In order apparently to make the case an exact copy throughout of the Louisiana case i government to support them with troops in | their attempt to throttle the State. In an- swer the President says:—*‘The call is not made in accordance with the constitution of the United States and the acts of Congress under it, and cannot therefore be granted.’’ It appears that the difference the Executive sees between Texas and Louisiana is in the form of thé call for troops. No essential difference exists in the principles at issue. In both cases the beaten party disputes the valid- ity of an election, and, having conveniently disposed judges to call upon, covers usurpa- tion with a gloss of legal formality and ap- plies to the government for force to sustain its villany. We are not disposed to inquire too curiously into the motives for a good act. It is a great deal to have the President do right, no matter for what reason, and for his tetusal to stamp out the political vitality of the State of Texas the country will be thank- ful; yet it naturally suggests considerations of the case in which the President did not re- fuse to send troops, and of the peculiar posi- tion in which his refusal to aid usurpation in pursue in such difficulties sufficient to effect his acta beyond the limita of the Texas case, and may we hope to see him withdraw his support and countenance from a political crime not, in any particular, different from the one he now declines to abet? The Unconfirmed Cushing for Chief Jastice—The Opposition and the Prospect. Mr. Caleb Cushing, the second nominee of President Grant for Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, still remains unconfirmed. The Senate refused to go into executive session yesterday, and therefore we are unable to state whether the chances of the venerable jurist are better or worse. We only know that the excitement over the nomination has become more intense and that the discus- shown—that about two-thirds of the news- papers are for Mr. Cushing, and the balance, mainly composed of the most slavish organs of republicanism, are unqualifiedly opposed. We draw this inference from an examination o: our exchanges as they happen to come in, & very tair and impartial method of gathering the public opinion of the country, and we find moreover that nearly all the non-partisan newspapers praise the nomination in no un- certain language. It does not follow, however, that the honor- able Senators share in the public opinion as reflected by our exchanges, and we only refer to the fact to disprove the assertion of a few ‘of the partisan journals that the second choice of President Grant for head of the national Court of last resort has already met with as much opposition from republican newspapers as his first choice. The un- doubted fact was that three-fourths of the entire press of the country, if not a larger proportion, condemned the nomination of Attorney General Williams, while, perhaps, less than one-third oppose ex-Attorney Gen- eral Cushing. None of these base their oppo- sition on the ground of unfitness, and only a few—a very few indeed—venture to question his honesty ond patriotism. They quarrel with his antecedents as a democrat; they are wroth because some pure out-and-out repub- lican lawyer was not selected; or they pre- tend to apprehend that he may upset all the reconstruction work, North and South, that has been accomplished since the rebellion of Jeff Davis. They admit that Mr. Cushing is learned in the principles of the law, from its lowest to its highest branches, that in his experience in and knowledge of the law he is unsurpassed in the profession. But then they say that he has been a Tyler man, a pro-slavery democrat, @ secessionist—everything by turns, and ples upon any question or thing, except the the principles that will serve him for the passing hour; that he has system- atically sold his opinions to the highest bidder, and that he is stillin the market ; that in his public career of the last thirty years he has been, as a politician, an adven- turer; as a diplomat, a time-server, and as a lawyer, a Bohemian. The republican radicals further denounce him, as consistent in nothing go much as in his pro-slavery antecedents and opinions ; 08 a political outlaw from Massa- chusetts; as an unwelcome carpet-bagger in Virginia ; asa man of endless intrigue, equally at home with Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson or Grant, and cariig nothing for either of them beyond the profits accruing to Cushing. Such is the war of the republican implaca- bles against Cushing ; and yet there must be some extraordinary merits of a solid character in this vigorous old man, when Mr. Fish found in him, of all men, the very man re- quired for Spain, and then, after his confirma- tion for this mission, the President found in him the man who most amply supplied the deficiencies of, Williams for Chief Justice. Bat his loyalty as a republican is not satisfac- tory to the radicals, and upon this test it is very evident he is to stand or fall before the Senate. We venture no prediction as to the final re- sult. Butis it not a little singular that the President should display his independence of mere party dictation so suddenly in two ‘notable cases—the nomination of a non-parti- san candidate for Chief Justice and the re- fusal to interfere in the internal affairs of Texas at the call of a carpet-bag Governor? What does this mean? Vane Potttisal HEvelation in % he Politica! ‘olation in Ohio—The Governor’s Inaugural. The recent political revolution in Ohio culminated yesterday in the inauguration of William Allen as Governor, at Colum- bus, being the first time for twenty years that a democrat has been honored with that distinction. Governor Allen, in his in- augural address, which was admirably brief, refers to jibe Constitutional Convention now assembled, rétominends the reduction of the public taxes in proportion to the reduced abilities of the people to pay, and suggests that th&expenditures of the State government be reduced down torthe very last dollar compati- ble with the maintenance ot the public credit of tia, State and the efficient workiag gf the% State government. He asserts that he oes not mean “that vague and mere verbas economy which public men fre so ready to pro*ees With regard to public expenditures,”’ but “that earnésy and inexorable economy whic} proclaims Ate existe ence by accomplished facté&. ‘In the p.-2gi- cratic Governor of Ohio, “you*.will tind abundant reason for frugality in the fatares? ) Governor Allen ignores national topics alto- gether in his inaugural, modestly concluding, perhaps, that it being the first time a demo- crat has filled the Gubernatorial chair of the Buckeye State for so long a period, the Legisla- ture should take the initiative in expressing the sentiments of the people of the State upon federal matters of pressing moment. But the democratic revolution in Ohio is a fait accom- pli, and the labors in Columbus yesterday at- test its certainty. Tae Frenca Government ann THE Assem- biy.—The members of the French National | Assembly indulged in a lengthy and stormy debate yesterday on the subject of the Minis- terial policy towards the municipalities by the | appointment of Mayors. M. Picard assailed the Executive violently, accusing the adminis- Texas places him with rogard to wuroation | tration of monarchical tendencies. The lewia- & majority of fifty-eight votes. The result of the decision goes to show that the French opposition to monarchism remains healthily strong, and, also, that France estimates and approves the system of confederative demoo- racy which has beon initiated by President MacMahon. No Additions1 Taxation or Increase of the Debt Necessary—Retromonment Sufficient. The Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives at Washington is doing good work in probing the extravagant expenditures of the different departments. Our special correspondence shows what has been done already in exposing the numerous hid- den drains upon the Treasury and the earnest effort made to bring the government to a Grant was sion has grown more bitter and spicy. Bas system of comparative economy at least. We obstructive, but for through all wesee one fact, pretty distinctly are gratified to see also that a portion of the press is coming to our aid in demanding such retrenchment as will obviate the necessity of increased taxation or an augmentation of the national debt, In order to encourage the committee in its patriotic work and to enlighten the public on the subject of government extravagance, it will be well to compare the expenditures of former years with those of late years and with the estimates just submitted to Congress. In looking back at the report of the Secre- tary of the Treasury, submitted to Congress December 4, 1860, we find that the current expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1860, amounted to $59,848,478. There was in addition appropriated, however, to the public debt $17,613,628, that is, for interest on the debt, which then amounted to $45,679,263 ; and for redemption of Treasury notes apart from the sum required for this purpose, which was $17,613,628, the current expenses were, as was said, $59,848,478. We will give the items. For civil, foreign and miscellaneous services, $27,969,870 ; for In- terior Department, including Indians and pensions, $3,955,686; for War Department, $16,409,767 ; for the Navy, $11,513,150. The total estimated expenditures for the fiscal year, from July 1, 1861, to June 30, 1862, were $68,363,726. There was included, of course, the interest on the debt. The Secretary remarked “there is no reason why the expenditure for the present or next fiscal year should exceed that of the last year. Allowing, however, a margin for an increase, it may be safely stated that the expenses for the two years will not exceed $60,000,000 for each.” Such was the cost of government thirteen years ago. This even was considered by many as an extravagant expenditure, especially when compared with that of a few years previously. The country is at peace now as then, and .| nothing long—and that he has no fixed princi- | 5... 5 stipence for nearly nine yeara, yet the expenses, exclusive of the interest on the pub- lic debt, is, in round numbers, about $216,000,000. The interest on the debt isa little less than $100,000,000. The estimates call for $316,000,000, and for the fiscal year of 1874-5, $319,198,736. Deducting $30,000,000 for pensions and $29,000,000 fora sinking fund to liquidate the debt—in all $59,000,000— which is an expenditure growing out of the late war, we still have current expenses amounting to $157,000,000. Let us give the items as estimated by the several departments. The civil, foreign and miscellaneous services call for $66,577,293, a sum in itself over $6,000,000 more than the whole government cost in 1860. For the War Department the amount is $47,795,053. In 1860 it wis a little over $16,000,000. The Navy expenditure has gone up for the same pe- riod from $11,513,150 to $27,792,451. For the Indians we have $8,508,715, while in 1860 the sum was $3,955,688. The civil, foreign and miscellaneous item has jumped from $27,969,870 to $66,577,293. The population has grown from 31,443,744 in 1860 to about 40,000,000 in 1873. The census of 1870 gave 38,115,744. While the population has increased less than thirty per cent, the current expenditures of the govern- ment independent of interest on the debt, pensions and a sinking fund, have augmented nearly three hundred per cent. There is nothing in the condition of. the country to justify such outrageous extravagance. Making the greatest allowance for increase of popula- tion and business of the government, the cur- rent expenses, apart from interest eats Me. p pensions and the sinking fund, oug! exceed $90,000,000 a year. A less sum ought fos ample. In short, the estimates could and should be reduced $70,000,000. Mr. Richardson asks $40,000,000 additional taxation. The reduction of expenditures we propose would, therefore, leave him a sur- plus. There would be no necessity to draw upon the legal tender reserve or to increase the debt in any way. In- deed, a margin for reducing taxation would be left. The President knows no more of financial affairsthan he does of international questions, and, consequently, he leaves them to the Secretary of the Treasury, just as he does foreign matters to Mr. Fish. He is ina position to take the responsibility when any credit is to be obtained from doing so, and to shift it on to the shoulders of his subordinates when there is any difficulty to be met or discrédit to be endured. The difficulty with regard to the national finances—between supplying the administra- tion with the money it demands and avoiding taxation, or increasing the public debt—lies between Congress and the departments. An appen! was made to the departments to revise gality of the past,” wisely says the new demo-¥] thgir estimates; but they could not do so, exces 28 stall way, and not at all commen- vs che niquirements of the Committee country. ‘They were . war expenditurés and ex had not learned the necessa. times of peace, and imagined tha. are only the fit victims, in the way ot sv of some taxation, of an enormous bureaucrar, *«. office-holders, Each department, being desia ous, too, of maintaining its force of employés and exhibiting efficiency, wants the largest appropriation it can get. Besides, there is always a reluctance to reduce the number of employés or the patronage once conferred. It rests with Congress, and at first with the Committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means, to force upon the department that which they are unwilling to do. But there should be no mere nibbling at superfluous ex- venditures. A thorough reform is needed, ~travagance. “t the people arate with .. ase - - <x the expectation of the of Appropriation. Fy sea with the ideas of They “ey economy of * burden- NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. It is caid the Committee on Appropriations contemplates cutting down the expenses of the departments, in the way of salaries and unnecessary labor, $10,000,000. This would be 8 good beginning. But $10,000,000 many times over has to be saved. Congress seems to be thoroughly impressed with this idea, for on the motion of Mr, Holmes, cf Indiana, yesterday, +6 suspend the rules and to adopt the xesolution “that in the judgment of tie House there is no necessity to increase taxation or to increase the public debt by a further loan if there shall be economy in the public expenditures, and that in view of the | condition of the national finances the House will reduce the appropriations and public ex- penditures to the lowest point consistent wi! the proper administration of affairs,’’ the House suspended the rules and passed the resolution by the extraordinary vote of 221 | 857 years to 3 nays, Ifany dependence can be placed upon this remarkable and apparently decisive action of the House the government is about to enter upon a new era of retrench- ment and economy, The Parade of the Agitators. less of their political faith, Among the yeas we find Cameron and Scburz, Conkling and Saulsbury. The millennium of the lion and lamb has come at last. Landaulet Williams. One of “the floodgates of calumny’’ opened on Landaulet Williams had for ita keeper the First Comptroller of tha Currency. It seems that a Congressional spy—an M. C.— went up to the Treasury Building to find out something about the expenses of the Department of Justice. Tho keeper opened the floodgate and the dark stream floated out some vouchers which cover that mysterious and expensive pieco of th | administration paid for under the bill of “eontingent expenses.’’ Our Landaulet ju- rist did not think that the Comptroller had business to open the floodgate, and went to him and complained of the proceed- ing, whereupon the Comptroller hinted to Mr, Williams that the public representatives, as well as other people, were interested in know- ing how the public money is disbursed. The Comptroller could not, therefore, refrain from opéning the floodgate, as he was paid to The parade of the so-called Labor League | deluge the people with information as to his is appointed to come off to-day. If the self- operations. Hence the victim of slander and appointed leaders keep their promises they | popular projudice, who had his intellect dis» will lead legions of unemployed through our | paraged and his integrity called in question, thoroughfares. The object to be served by | has, probably, like Bazaine, resolved to com- the monster demonstration is not very appar- | mit his reputation to the cool judgment of ent, and probably the ideas of the men who | posterity and to the better appreciation of will make up the rank and file are not very | that great people that never errs. Happy clear on the point. We do not charge any | man! such cloudiness of aim against the leaders ; they know very well what they are about, and are keeping a close watch on their own in- PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Horace Greeley’s birthday. terests. So long as these men keep within Postmaster John F. Smyth, of Albany, is at the the law they have the right to travesty the | Firth Avenue Hotel. language of European socialists; but when Rev. Chandler Robbing, of Boston, has arrived they pass or threaten to pass from the mere at the Windsor Hotel. enunciation of unwelcome opinions to the exercise of terrorism over the city govern- ment they come into conflict with the law. Now we, in common with all well-disposed citizens, will insist the letter of the law shall be strictly observed by all parties and all persons, whatever be their rank or station. It appears that the agitators of the Labor League were not satisfied with the route laid down for them by the Vice President Henry Wilson arrived last even- ing at the Astor House. Judge W. F. Allen, of the Court of Appeals, ts staying at the Hotel Brunswick. Collector James F, Casey, of New Oricans, is that | #¢ain at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Ex-Senator H. W. Corbett, of Oregon, is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Revenue Commissioner David A. Wells has apartments at the Albemarle Hotel. Lieutenant W. 0. Gibson, United States Navy, has quarters at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General ©. H. T. Collis, of Philadelphia, is tem- police, and intimated their intention to march porarily resiaing at the Windsor Hotel. down to the City Hall without permission, and even in defiance of the orders of the police, It may be well for the more violent of the agitators to remember that by law the Mr. Radcliffe Baldwin sails for Europe to-day, carrying important government despatches. General R. F. Stockton, of New Jersey, is ameng the late arrivals at the Ficth Avenue Hotel Assistant Adjatant General J. B. Stonehouse ar- police have the right to regulate, and even to | rveq trom albany yesterday ot the Hotel Bruns- prohibit, the march of processions through the | wick. streets of the city. This power is delegated to the Police Commissioners, with the under- standing that they will use great discretion in having recourse to their extraordinary au- George Anderson, member of Parliament for Glasgow, Scotland, has returned to the Brevoert House, Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United States Coast Survey, occupies his old quarters at the Bre- thority. It would be a grave error on the part | voort House. of the Poli¢e Commissioners to adopt meas- ures that might appear unduly harsh towards the promoters of the proposed demonstration. T. B. Blackstone, President of the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis Railroad Company, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major W. J. Twining, Captain A. A. Harbach, and The leaders of such movements profit by | yjenjenant J. &. Gregory, United States Army, are unwise efforts to suppress them. They be- | quartered at the Glenham Hotel. come important in proportion to the severity of the measures adopted for their overthrow. Minister Bancroft intends to leave his post im Berlin in July. He will return to this country and reside tn Washington, where he has just bought @ Whatever might tend to give these men the | nouse, air of martyrs ought to be avoided. If they violate the law, of course they must be pun- ished as the law directs; but the authorities should be careful to avoid any action which might show a disposition to treat these men with exceptional severity or deprive them of any supposed right which other citizens would be allowed to enjoy. The best way to deal effectively with agitators of the Labor League class is to treat them with contempt. If any riot or violence should be attempted the police may be trusted to restore order. Wanted—An Opinion on City Govern- ment from the United States Attorney General. oe In those days, when King Buchti exercises such despotic power in high places and fulmi- nates on every possible occasion portentious ukases, it is usual when any knotty question presents itself to appeal to him as the modern oracle. Where the validity of a State or mu- nicipal government is in dispute the Delphian shrine to which the contestants have recourse is an important department of the potentate in question, generally known as the Attorney General’s office in Washington. Thither re- resorted the warring goveriment- of Louisi- ans, and, like Jack Bunsby, the potent chief who has so narrowly escaped the onerous position of Chief Justice gave inion ‘as is an opinion.” The city” of New York is now in a similar quandary. There are two Presidents to that ornamental body of self-sacrificing patriots, the Board of Assistant Aldermen, and it is not yet decided which is the legal one, The Corporation Coun- sel gave his views at length in a letter to the Mayor that the gentleman chosen as President of the Board for the past year is entitled to the position for the present. The Mayor sturdily controverts this opinion in a very em- phatic document, which we publish to-day, and says that the gentleman in question is not entitled to his position. Now, where such great luminaries fail to agree, what remains for the perplexed people of the metropolis but to throw themselves upon the mercies of the Buchu department of law at the national cap- ital? It is not necessary to explain to the in- spired genius of that legal temple the exact condition of affairs. He is above such petty, commonplace weakness as examining into the merits of a case. Only ask his opinion on any subject, however abstruse and complicated, and, presto! it is given. By all means, Messrs. Assistant Aldermen, apply to him for advice. Tue Satary Gras still continues to monop- olize the attention of the Senate at Washing- ton. Disregarding the grave questions which the country and the times demand, the dis- tinguished Senators have wasted valuable time in squabbling over a bill which the coun- try has emphatically repudiated, and which has since proved o very Pandora's box in Congress. The repeal of the obnoxious bill presents in its salient features most re- . | markable combinations of apparently opposite nolitical elements. The most interesting t nter in the history of the United States is cha, “~grdinary grand and lofty tumbling in- the exts. by the United States Senate dalged in ‘\of the obnoxious salary in the repea.», ean be more surprising grab bill. Nothi.e, ‘wig occasion, which than the final votéd}on =. ~~n, It would may be found in snothe” colu... ~ay and be well for the American p,Ublic to stu. , iy, weigh well the votes. andy she names of tu. Senators who voted on this) ootasion, regard- | The St. Louls Times thinks that {t would be a good idea to send Mr. Williams as Minister to Ma- Grid, because the Senate has given him such a fine lesson in ‘‘walking Spanish.” Chief Justice Church bas been to Washington for a brief relaxation from official duties. He was ac- companied by his wife and daughter, Miss Nellie Church, and Miss Hattie Leland. “Many people of Massachusetts,” saya the Bos- ton Transcript, “fondly hoped that Judge E, RB. Hoar would be made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.” ‘Twas ever thus, from childnood’s hour,” &c. tine The last speech Caleb Cushing made in Bos' was at the banquet given to Mr. Burlingame and the Chinese Embassy. On that occasion the Chinese Ambassador spoke in broken English and Mr, Cushing in broken China. Acurtous fact is related in an Eastern paper. In an old family homestead in Essex county, Massa- chusetts no death had occurred for 60 years, Alter the spell was broken eight persons died within its walls the next dozen years, “The sudden appearance of ‘the man on horse back’ would not have excited more surprise in Massachusetts than the nomination of Caleb Cush-+ ing.” Has it not come to some republicans much’ like “Death on the pale horse?” Among the prominent survivors of Mr. Cushing’s class at Harvard may be named George B. Emer- son, Stephen Salisbury, Alva Woods, Charles H. Warren, Samuel E. Sewall, J. D. Green, David Lee Child, Stephen H. Tyng and George Bancroft— quite a strong list for 57 years after cullege days. The Emperor of Germany has conferred upon Miss Anna Thacker, of Wolverhampton, the War Medal, with riband, and the insignia and diploma of this decoration, for services rendered to the sick and woynded in the hospital at Cologne. Thia is in addition to the cross already received by Miss Thacker. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, Ordered Transfers. Wasuinaton, Jan. 12, 1874. Commander Henry Wilson ts ordered to com. mand the Frolic; Paymaster W. F, A, Torbert, to the receiving ship Potomac at Philadelphia; Chap- lain James J. Kane to the Roanoke; First Assist- ant Engineer E. Olson to the Dictator; First Assist- ant Engineer George W. Sensner to the Navy Yard at Washington; Lieutenant Commander A, T. Snell detached from the command of the Frolic and ordered to the iron-clad Roanoke as executive otfcer; Paymaster A. D. Bache has been detached from the receiving ship Potomac and ordered as Naval ait Sel at Villa Franca, France (per steamer of March 10), pM Paymaster James Hoy, who is ordered to return home and settle ac- counts; Ohief Engineer Thomas J. Jones has been “detached from the Dictator and placed on waitt orders; First Assistant Engineer Levi T. Saffor from the Florida and ordered to the New York Navy Yard; Second Assistant Engineer J. 5. Ogdea from the Naval Academy and ordered to the Wabasa at Key West. THE GRANGERS. Andy Johnson Among the Patrons of Husbandry. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12, 1874 Deputy of the Patrons of Husbandry, giving the re- sult of an interview with ex-President Johnson, Will appear in to-morrow’s Press and Herald, Mr. Jonmecn declares himself in full accord with the Grange movement and says the time bas arrived 1or good men of all parties to associate and bring about such a reform as the exigencies of the coun- try require. NO NEW ELEOTION IN LOUISIANA An Opinion by the Attorney General, NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12, 1874, The Evening Times says:—'‘We have seen a late despatch from Attorney General Williams tn which ves it as his decided opinion that Congress Mulnot order @ new election ior Louisiana.” IMPORTANT INDIAN COUNCIL, Parsons, Kansas, Jan, 12, 1874. Acalled session of the Indian Council will con- vene on the 19th inst., when important action 1# expected to be had relative to a Territorial govern ment for the Indian ‘Territory, allotment of their lands, granting equal rights to the negroes in that sgt hed och A UU! THE GENERAL TERM'S DAY CALENDAR Syracuse, Jan. 12, 1374. ‘The following 1s the day calendar of the Generat Toe OL January 13:—Nos, 44. 45. 64. 63. 64 TH 82 6a, Letters from Colonel ©. W. Chariton, General | } | |