The New York Herald Newspaper, January 15, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR beanersandl xXxxXXEx. UMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, — BOOTH”: 5 THRATRE, Si wenne and Twenty-third stree EU att 45 P. M.; closes at P.M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. OLYMPIO THEATBE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets. — any sir GRUB, at $ P. M.; closes at ll P.M. Majilton- Baynor (amily. BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, vopposite City Hall, Brooklyn. —KIT; OR, TH SAR TRAVELLER, at 8 P. M.; closes at 10: 8. Chantrau. BOWERY THEATRE, ywery.—LIGHTNING BOB, at 5 P. M. Mr. Marius Turck, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, io, $6 Broadway. VARIETY ENTERT AINMENT, at P.M.; closes @t 10:30 P. M. ? closes at 11 P.M. NIBLO'S GARDEN, a Dele ROMEO YarPERE SENKING w arse, ha eit BE Be bigs KIT Voxes Fa Me LAhuswell’ * ZIMMERMAN BEE: ‘FIT, at Toe x 3 suis WOOD'S MUSEU: Broadw: re ed ‘Thirtieth street. ot PERFECTION, at (2P. M5 cl 964:30P.M. BEN McCULLOUUH, ats P "M.; closes at ll P.M. 0. D. Byron. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, bs zie ayenue and Twenty-third strest. HUMPTY MPTY ABROAD, at 7:45 P.M. ; closes at 104) P.M; ‘Mr. G. L. Fox. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, (FER cighih street and Broadway. —SARATOGA, at P.M; closes at 10:30 P.M. Mr. Harkins, Mise F ‘Da- poco GERMANIA THEATRE. wPourteenth street.—DIE JOURNALISTEN, at 8 P. %; pcloses at il P.M. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, (Washington street, Brooklyn.—LED stRay at 8PM; Rea eT ear Prank Roche, Sirs ¥-B! Conway. a ALLacE” s THEATRE, pe sBroadw: Thirteenth street. —. vac8 P. Me, closes at 10:0 P.M. Mr, Lester Wallack, Miss va TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, ®No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. ‘MM. ; closes at 11 P. BRYANTS or pOURs. cia: ‘wenty-third st: corner of Sixth avenue.— Ween BEACK, NECKO MINSTRELSS, Ac. at8 P. AM; closes at 10 P. M. HALL, fRixteenth AMNNIES, from London. nm, at Wivarie ate ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New ¥. York, Thereday, Ja ry 15, 1874. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Valea Sa IE To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP! THE PRESIDENTS SECOND FAILURE! THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE OFFICE AND THE CONDITIONS OF THE SENATE”—LEADING ARTICLE—SixtH Pace. THE TRICK OF THE PARTISANS! MR. CUSH- ING’S NOMINATION TO THE SUPREME BENCH WITHDRAWN AT HIS OWN RE- QUEST! MR. SCHURKZ ON THE NATIONAL FINANCES—SRVENTH Pace. THE CAPTORS OF CARTAGENA TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO THE CARLISTS! INTRAN- SIGENTES FLYING IN ALL DIRECTIONS! PURSUED BY A FRENCH WAR-SHIP—SEv- ENTH PaGE. BEINFORCEMENTS FROM SPAIN TO BE IMME- DIATELY FORWARDED TO CUBA! THE LABOR STRIKES IN HAVANA! CUBAN FINANCES AND THE CUSTOMS TARIFF— SEVENTH Pace. DISTRESS OF THE VIRGINIUS SURVIVORS— FUTILE INTRIGUE FOR THE BETRAYAL OF A CUBAN PATRIOT LEADER—ART SALE—FoURTH PacE. FRENCH ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF NOMINEES—THE TICHBORNE OASE AND LADY RADCLIFFE’S HONOR— SEVENTH Pace. M. BAZAINE IN PRISON! HIS RECITAL OF OPERATIONS AT METZ IN AN INTERVIEW WITH A HERALD SPECIAL! PIRM RE- LIANCE ON HISTORY! TERRIBLE RE- | SULTS OF HIS TREASON—HOLIDAYS IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL—FourtH Pace. STRONG OPPOSITION DEVELOPING IN MEXICO AGAINST PRESIDENT LERDO’S POLICY | REVOLT AND PILLAGE—SEVENTH PaGB. SOUL-SICKENING MATRICIDE! THE UNHOLY DEED PERPETRATED IN PRESENCE OF A SISTER! THE WIDOW’S “WILD” BOY— TENTH PaGE. MURDER RESULTING FROM A FRACAS OVER CARDS IN A BROOKLYN SAILORS’ BOARD ING HOUSE! A SWEDE BURIES HIS KNIFE FIVE TIMES IN COMRADE’S BODY—FirtH Pace. @ BROOKLYN POLICEMAN K HIS WIFE IN THE FATAL BELIE! AT SHE 18 A BURG- LAR—THE RYAN MURDER MYSTERY— Firta Pas. CARL SCHURZ FAVORS RETRENCHMENT AND EARLY RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS! ALARMING DECLARATION OF ‘MR. 8S. S. COX! IS NEW YORK DEFENCE LESS AGAINST [RON-CLADS ’—FrrTH PaGE. THE HEROES OF TWO WARS CALLED TU COM- MINGLE IN CONVENTION AT THE FED- ERAL CAPITAL! LEADERS IN THE “LATE, UNPLEASANTNESS” TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SESSIONS—THE CRUEL TRAFFIC IN ITALIANS—Fovnts Pace. THE PROHIBITED PROCESSION OF THE “WORK- INGMEN!” THE REASONS POR THE RE- FUSAL OF THE AUTHORITIES TO PERMIT THE TOMPKINS SQUARE MEETING! THE MAYOR ON THE MATTER—WHO ARE THE LABOR LEADERS!—TROUBLES ELSE- WHERBE—FirTa Paz. THE NEW LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES! ANX- 10US EXPECTATION AND DIRE DISMAY! WORK OF BOTH HUUSES YESTERDAY— Tap Paes. THE SNOW STORM AND OBSTRUCTION TO TRAVEL IN THE METROPOLIS AND AT “THE HUB’—THE TROUBLED LABOR SIT- UATION—THIRD PaGB. TMPORTANT LEGAL SUMMARIES—SUEZ CANAL OBSTRUCTIONS—THE SHIPOWN ERS’ MEET- ING—Eigurn Page. Beurer ror Uxemrworep Worxmen. —The proposition to spend some millions of dol- Jars on public works in order to give occu- pation to our distressed and penniless laborers was yesterday considered in the Assembly and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, with the understanding that it should report early. As the case is urgent delay would, of course, do harm. It is a good (proposition and should be practically acted upon ; for relief must be given by the public iim one form or another, and to give it as pay \for labor is the only means of depriving it of Gemorslizing effect. It is odd to see, how- vever, that one wise member of the Assembly ‘believes the State should pay out money only jm order that the recipients should be able to “pay taxes, and that thus the ‘financial strin- gency” bereabouts might be overcame, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1874—-TRIPLE SHEEL, TRe Chief Justicoship—The President's of the United States at Geneva, there can be Second Pallure—The Requirements of | no impassable barrier between him and Gen- the Office and the Conditions of the Senate. Caleb Cushing, the second nominee of President Grant tor Chief Justice, has failed to pass the ordeal of the Senate, and, as in the case of Attorney General Williams, the 13 | President's first choice, the name of the dis- appointed favorite has been withdrawn. In the one case the professional attainments, capabilities and experience of the man were LA rEMME pg | held by a Senate largely composed of able lawyers as insufficient to moet the high re- quirements of the office, while in the other case the obnoxious political antecodents, opinions and affiliations of the individual were held by a Senate overwhelmingly republican as utterly disqualifying him for a loyal interpre- tation of the thirteenth, fourteenth and ff- teenth amendments of the constitution, As a republican the record of Williams was all that could be desired ; but he failed upon his de- ficiencies as a lawyer and a jurist. Asa law- yer and a jurist the qualifications of Cushing were undisputed; but he failed upon his record as @ party politician. Had Williams been as learned in the law as Cushing, or had Cushing possessed the party record of Williams, the one or the other, as the first choice of the President for Chief Justice, would doubtless have been promptly con- firmed. The professional requirements of the posi- tion and the political conditions demanded by the Senate will have, then, to be considered by the President in his third choice for the important office in question. Failing with an orthodox republican who is not a first class lawyer, and failing with a first class lawyer who has not the record of a genuine republi- can, General Grant is required by the Senate to cast about him for a sound and reliable radical who is a first class lawyer, who will supply th® deficiencies of Williams and be free from the objections to Cushing. Really this duty is very perplexing. It places General Grant between the two horns of o dilemmas from which we can only hope he may have a lucky escape. We apprehend, however, that during the last six months he has not given that thoughtful at- tention to this matter which its high impor- tance should have exacted. Otherwise the friendly hints, warnings and suggestions from the public press, thrown out from time to time since the death of the lamented Chase, in reference to the President’s duty in his selection of a Chief Justice, would have borne better fruit than Williams or Cushing. ‘The frequent and earnest discussions of the subject submitted to the readers of the Hznap through its editorial columns, for months past, were not given in any spirit of idle van- ity or foolish presumption, but from an hon- | est desire to assist the President in escaping | the shoals and rocks upon which, haphazard, he has drifted, with Williams and with Cushing. The President, in his Message of yesterday to the Senate, says that since the nomination of Caleb Cushing for Chief Justice “information | has reached me which induces me to withdraw | bis nomination for the highest judicial office in the government.” And what was this in- formation? Some two years ago a Southerner of the name of Pickett, who had secreted somewhere in Canada three black trunks of “rebel archives,” with the safe keeping of which he had been charged, was seized with the brilliant idea that as whatever the disposi- tion he might make of those papers, it would be all the same to the defunct government of the ‘lost cause,’ they could fairly be dis- posed of as merchandise. He entered into negotiations accordingly with the govern- ment of the United States for the sale of those three black trunks aforesaid and their precious historical contents, and finally sold and deliv- ered them to the War Office for the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or twenty-five thousand dollars per trunk. Among those archives papers have been found of great value, such, for instance, as have served to defeat a number of Southern war claims brought in against the government; and lastly the “information” in reference to Caleb | Cushing to which General Grant refers was fished out of one of those black trunks. It was found in that unfortunate letter from Mr. Cushing of March 21, 1861, to Jefferson Davis, the production of which on Tuesday night last caused such consternation in the republican Senatorial caucus to the supporters ; of Cushing that they immediately abandoned | him. Next the Committee on the Judiciary, which in the outset had promptly reported in favor of his confirmation for Chief Justice, were required by the caucus to wait upon the President and to submit to him this awful discovery, and the resulting necessity of with- drawing this obnoxious nomination. The President explains to the Senate and withdraws the obnoxious nomination; Mr. Cushing explains in a masterly manner to the President and asks to be withdrawn; and the awful shadow of the Southern Con- federacy, which lowered upon the Senate, being thus removed, all is comparatively quiet again upon the Potomac. The question recurs, who will be or who should be General Grant's third choice for Chief Justice? The Senate demands a nominee who, with the requisite qualifications in the law and the dignity of character befitting the great office, possesses an unblemished record as 8 republican. Where is the man who can meet these conditions? Charles Francis Adams, from his reputation as a lawyer, diplo- mate and statesman, and in his dignity of c! acter, is eminently qualified for the chair of the Chief Justice ; but his political record car- ries hs, not into the orthodox party tabernacle of 1872, but into the hostile camp of the Cin- cinnati Convention. Jadge Curtis, another worthy man of Massachusetts, would be, no doubt, » satisfactory nomimation to the Senate in every respect. Agaia, William M. Evarts, of New York, has the highest reputation as a lawyer, with a clear and unexceptionable record as a republican politician. It has been given out, however, that his services to President Johnson as one of his counsel on his impeachment trial have placed an impassable barrier between General Grant and Mr. Evarts. We do not think go, in considering the confidence be- stowed upon Mr. Evarts in his appointment 86 one of the counsellors of the United States before the Geneva High Tribunal of Arbitra- tion. From that appointment, and from the Great abilities in the law displayed by Mr. Evartain hebalf of the cause and the caiman eral Grant. ‘There are doubtless many other men in the United States who possess the professional, personal and political qualifications called for by our exacting republican Senate to fill the office of Chief Justice. The task of making 4 selection belongs to the President, and from the deficiencies brought against Williams and the drawbacks which swamped Ousbing the President is perhaps sufficiently instructed. to meet the demands of the Senate. If not, and if Cabinet consultations on the subject are profitless, it would, perhaps, be well, in order to avoid further trouble upon this matter, if the President were to invite the republicans of the Senate to join him in a consultation at the White House upon the nomination of a Chief Justice. The Executive makes this appoint ment, as he m&kes many others, ‘by and with the advice and consent of the Senate;” the republican majority is, de faclo, the Senate, and why, then, should General Grant hesitate in such 6 diffioult case ag this in asking the “advice” of the republican Senators in making the nomination, particularly after he has shown in two cases within a week that in acting 1pon «his own jndgment he cannot secure the ‘‘oonsent” of the Sonate? But if, in having to pass the ordeal of a Senate over two-thirds republican, the President in his third nomination for a Chief Justice must look to the party record of the man tho para- mount consideration should still be the pro- fessional qualifications and that sterling inde- pendence of character in the nominee required for the impartial discharge of the high daties of this important office. Proposed Restoration of the Senate in France. Evidently the project for the creation of a second Chamber is shortly to come forward in France in a somewhat positive form, as the response of the Duke de Broglie to the Oom- mittee on the Constitutional Bills indicates that some consideration of the subject will be embodied in the report of that committee. De Broglie assenta, on the part of the Minis- try, to the appointment of membors of the Senste either by the government or by the Councils General, and this may be taken as the latitude within which the committee will confine itself in fixing the mode of creating Senators; for to have the approval of the government to this project is a necessary con- dition of its adoption, inasmuch as the repub- licans, though committed in a general senso to the system of two chambers, have reason to apprehend that a Senate created at the present time would be inimical to them and would be simply the organization of one of the greater foroes of public opinion against which they have to struggle. If the appointment is placed in the hands of the government it will bea return to the system of the Empire, but in conditions more favorable to the creation of a Senate possessing attributes that might en- title it to the respect of the country. Under the Empire the appointment of Senators was one of the functions of executive authority that was exercised with the least regard to the intention with which the power was conferred, and, instead of being an assemblage of the chosen political wisdom of the country, the Senate was a mere hospital for admirers and servants of the ruler, retired from more active spheres of devotion or flunkyism. At the present time there are on the stage many men of political capacity brought forward in the years oftrouble through which the country has passed, of whom the Duke d’Audiffret-Pae- quier is the type. Out of this sort of material the Senate would be made by the present gov- ernment, and the result would be good, for it would save to political life the acquired ex- perience of the recent conflicts, which might be otherwise lost in the dissolution of the Assembly. If the sppointment is placed with the Councils General the system will be very nearly analogous to our own, for the Councils General are in the various territorial departments of France very much what our legislatures are in the various States, They are a local governing and administrative body. Thus a Senate appointed by these bodies and an Assembly elected directly by the people would be nearly identical in their representative character and in the distinction between them with our Senate and House of Representatives. Perhaps the government vote can carry the creation of a Senate, though it may need a little assistance from the mod- erate republicans of the Left Centre, which can be easily obtained by some delicate hints as to who the government will probably ap- point from that particular political quarter if the appointment is placed with the govern- ment. But the republicans will, in all likeli- hood, oppose the present re-establishment of the Senate, because it will be an addition to the so-called conservative forces that resist their propaganda, and because its creation, though it may lead to the dissolution of the present Assembly, which the republicans de- sire, will further lead to the postponement, perhaps indefinitely, of the elections for another Assembly. PreseNTATION TO THE Misses Greeiey.— The interesting ceremony of presenting to the family of the late Horace Greeley the illu- minated album, containing the proceedings of the Common Council on the occasion of the death of the late philosopher, took place yes- terday st the present residence of the Misses Greeley, in Cottage place. Mayor Havemeyer made the presentation address, and Mr. White- law Reid responded on behalf of the Misses Greeley. It is a befitting testimonial in honor of departed worth, and will undoubtedly be retained in the family as an heirloom, never to be willingly parted with. Bazarsz.—The interview of a Hzratp cor- respondent with the condemned Bazaine, which we publish this megning, again recalls the fate of a veteran soldier ‘qpised to a posi- tion beyond the grasp of hia futellect, and which he degraded by political intrigue | in the hour of terrible national calamities. If ghis impartial] estimate of his character and mille tary life has any moral it is that a soldier should devote all his energies to the army. BRerrexcs, Rernexca, Retneycn.—Now, Messieurs of the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, that you have been shorn of your salary grab, let the merciless shears of retrenchment snap over the departments. At every clip let an abuse be laid low. The tiger robbed of its prey is the hungriest and most vicious tiger, Cut down, then, witha will, ‘The United States Nayy—Legisiation of » Negative Character. We have often deplored the incomprehen- sible manner in which Congress treats every maritime question that comes before it for legislation. There seoms to be neither a ca- pacity for distinguishing the demands of the public nor a disposition to consider the re- quirements of the navy. When the Virginius excitement was at ite zenith an indignant press and people pointed to the feebleness of our squadrons, but took comfort in the fact that Seoretary Robeson had opened all the naval dockyards on the Atlantic seaboard, and had exerted himself evon beyond the limita permitted by the letter of the law to put the navy in a fit condition to maintain the honor of the country in Cuban watera. ‘Oh !"’ was the ory of everybody, “when Congress meots the navy will be placed on a respectable footing again, and Santiago massacres will not be repeated.” We confess that we participated in this onthusiastic credulity, and were glad to note the prompti- tude with which the Honso acted on the bill to provide the oxtraordinary appropriations to cover the war preparations. But no sooner did the ‘Northwestern Empire’’ members perceive that the Virginius difficulty had been settled by diplomacy than the navy estimates were attacked, and a notorious “economist’’ from this city undertook to assail that arm of the servico whioh has re- flocted oredit on our people since tho Revolu- tion of '76, Some appropriation bill must be condemned; some pressing public necossity must serve for the subject of a dyspeptic diatribe; members must defend the Treasury. What do they care for the navy? It is not an engine of political power. It cannot control primaries, It has no offices that can be filled by the ward statesmen or Mississippi flatboat men, and hence there is no political spoil to compensate for » generous outlay. If war breaks out a navy will spring up in a day; ships can be built of green wood and Pennsyl- vania iron, and cannon be adapted by our clever Yankeo carpenters; and as for seamen, the Western member evidently believes they can'be shipped on the Western plains or down in the coal mines; and this is the method we are to adopt in order to maintain any little prowess that may remain to us on the sea. We ure not exaggerating the sentiment among our Congressmen; we call attention to the debates for proof. Now, is it not time that this kind of “legislation” should cease? Has not the moment arrived when a careful scra- tiny of the necessities of the navy and a proper estimate of our relations with Spain and the South American republics should impel Congress to take an intelligent view of our naval deorepitude? Throughout the proceed- ings, which we have watched with a keen interest, we have noted but one member who would appear to be in harmony with public opinion on this question. We mean Mr. Archer, of Maryland. He has ably and clearly presented the case to Congress, and we hope that he will not weary of well doing. Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, presented a joint resolution, day before yesterday, providing for the ap- pointment of two Representatives and two Senators, two naval officers not be- low the grade of commander to form @ commission to report on the condition of the navy at the next session. This action will be altogether too tardy. What we need is immediate and thorough investigation, appro- priations for an iron-clad fleet, the passage of a bill which will provide for carrying into effect Captain Luce’s able plan for manning the navy and educating a class of lads who in the hereafter of the service may become seamen and petty officers. At any moment the United States may become involved in a warin the American tropics, and the policy which condemns the navy to continued inac- tivity is as shortsighted as it is penny wise and pound foolish. The Newly Elected Senators. The newly elected United States Sen- ators from Virginia and Ohio do not change much the political complexion of the Senate. Thurman, a democrat, has been re-elected. That is neither a loss nor a gain to the repub- lican administration party. Withers, of Vir- ginia, is | democrat, or conservative, which means the same thing, in opposition to the administration and dominant radical party. In bis case, then, the administration loses and the opposition gains one. There was lately, too, an opposition Senator elected in Cali- fornia, Mr. Booth, though he was not a pro- nounced democrat and had been # republican. He was chosen by the anti-railroad ring and by a combination of democrats and dissatis- fied republicans chiefly. These are healthful signs of a change in reducing the heretofore overwhelming radical majority in the Senate. There are forty-seven republi- cans, considered in the past administra- tion republicans; but, in view of the late hostility to General Grant’s norhi- nations for Chief Justice, it remains to be seen how far their loyalty may go. There are twenty democrats and seven liberal republi- cans. The latter may be classed in the oppo- sition generally, The elections referred to will reduce the number of administration republicans to forty-six. The opposition, reckoning the liberal republicans, will num- ber twenty-eight. There is still a large work- ing majority, though not two-thirds, of administration Senators, if they remain Joyal to the President. It takes many years to alter the political character of the Senate, but it is evident the process has commenced, Good results may be anticipated. Larzst rnom Spaix.—It appears from our news of this morning that the intransigentes sought and found a means of escape in other vessels than the Numancia. One of these veseels, the name of which is not given, has been captured with alarge number of refagees onboard. The Mendez Nunez, however, well laden with insurgents, has been successful in reaching a port of France. ‘These intran- sigente fellows, in spite of their principles, command admiration. They fought well and resisted bravely, and it must be admitted that their defeat has been the reverse of inglorious, "Those Who have found refuge on French soil are saf@xand it is to be hoped that Serrano will be genesous towards those unfortunates who have fe into his hands. Another item of news is that considerable portion of the forces recently employed before Cartagena have been sent north to aid in putting down the Carlists. Wo take this‘ evidence that Serrano is resolved to put fosth his whole available strencth eopinat the northern rebels, The Carlists will no doubt makes stabborn resistance ; but it does seem as if fortane hed once again decided against them. Their op- portunity has gone by. Murders. ‘Two murders are chronicled this morning, one of which occurred in Jersey City, the other in Brooklyn, The Jersey crime was the murder of a mother by her son—a pendent to the Walworth murder, and perhaps in some degree a consequence of the doctrine of that case that to kill one’s parents is some- times excusable, if not praiseworthy. If society once admits that there can be any palliation for such an atrocious crime it must admit that the palliation may differ for different cases, and thus, instead of the definite barrier of the law, we place only the opinion of a boy as to whether or no the provocation he has received is one with which a jury can be made to sympa- thize. But we believe this J murderer will experience to his cost that fhe did aot shoot his mother on this side the river. The other murder is one of the old standard sort—one of the typical class that can be found by the hundred in the New- gate calendar and similar records. Two sailors quarrelled in thoir cups, and one stabbed the other and was soon after caught. There, however, the parallel will probably end, for in the old fashioned cases there would have been in two or three days a trial lasting balf an hour and an execution on the following Friday. Now there will be months or years of litigation, and the murderer at last may slip away through some quibble of the lawyers. Tos Assemety Sraxpiva ComMITTEES.— The principal work done at Albany yesterday was the promulgation of the formation of the standing committees of the Assembly. There was a great deal of disappointment among members, as there always is, because all the members of a body numbering upwards of a hundred cannot be put in one of the half dozen important places. But at Albany the attractive element in certain places on com- mittees is a financial one. Places are good'or bad according as they are or are not on com- mittees worth buying, and as gentlemen are not sent to Albany principally to sell out their law-making power their dissatisfaction with the places assigned them on committees is of small moment to the public. Warez on tHE Baz.—In Congress it is held this city is safe from damage by foreign iron- clads, because they all draw too much water to get over the bar. Hereupon Mr. Cox re- marked that our harbor had been filling up for years with ashes and refuse; but Mr. Crooke, of Brooklyn, rapped Mr. Cox's knuckles with the observation that there was the same quantity of water on the bar now | that there was two hundred years ago, and that New York members ought to know it. Brooklyn members, in their turn, ought to know that members from this side have a better acquaintance with everything else on the bar than with the water. Boanp or Enucation.—This body met yes- terday for the first time this year, and heard ‘the report of its President, Mr. Neilson. An ineffectual attempt was made to oust the pres- ent Clerk of the Board, which came in the form of 2 vote for proceeding to the election ofaclerk. This was lost by one vota The present incumbent, therefore, continues in office, but it is the opinion of some members that the Board is not legally organized under the present law without a new election of all officers. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge P. B. Hulet', of Rochester, is at the Metro- politan Hotel. General John Love, of Indiana, is quartered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mayor Charles A. Otis, of Cleveland, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman John H. Rice, of Maine, is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Colonel John W. Forney, of Philadelphia, is reg- istered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Henry G. Parker, of the Boston Gazette, 18 gazetted at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-State Senator A. W. Palmer, of Dutchess county, is agam at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor H. H. Wells, of Virginia, is among the late arrivals at the Hofman House. Miss Charlotte Cushman and Miss Stebbins, the Sculptress, have apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Robert H. Pruyn, formerly United States Min- ister to Japan, srrived from Albany yesterday at the Gilsey House. The Boston 7ranscript states that Mr. Sumner has failed in his efforts to nave a friend confirmed as a Judge of a Massachusetts State Court. Chief Justice Church and wile, accompanied by his daughter, Miss Nellie, left the house of Mr. EB. v. Perrin, Seventy-ninth street, for Albany yes- terday. A political murder trial for the present term of the Alleghany (Maryland) County Court—It is that of John M. Risley for the murder of Lloyd L. Clary, one of the editors of the Cumberland Times. Sothern, the actor, has been buying eligible sites for building purposes near Chicago. The 7rivune, ofthat city, says he likes Chicago better than any other city in America, For building sites, per haps—for any other purpose Sothern himself will probably say, “Not by a darned site.” Colonel Boudrot, in company with School In- spector H. B. Perkins, visited the Normal College on Tuesday last. After being shown through the building and seeing the various classes and modes of inatruction prevalentin the college, allthe pupils were assembled in tbe chapel. Here the visitors, having been entertained by recitations and singing by the scholars, made brief and pertinent ad- dresses. The truth of the adage that “there may be some good under an old coat” may be adducea from the fact that in the pocket of an old coat of Jonn Hop- kins, a deceased millionnaire of Baltimore, was recently found a will of his nephew, Arundel Hop- kins, deceased (a man of wealth), which was filed for probate in Baltimore on the 12th mst. It was made and duly authenticated in Paris in March, 1872, and seems to have been long carried in the coat pocket of the uncle. FUNERAL OF — BIGELOW IN NEW. The funeral services of the Jate ex-Mayor Moses Bigelow took place in Newark yesterday, at his late residence, in-presence of a large gathering of Officials and noted citizens. Owing to the inclem- ent Weather the interment was postponed, All the City flags were at halt mast. Rev. Drs. Stearns and ‘Wilson conducted the services, NAVAL INTELLIGENOE. Lieutenant De Long Detached from the Janiata, WaAsHINGTON, Jan. 14, 1874. Lieutenant George W. De Long is detached from the Juniata and ordered to the Brock e ea nnd aut R. G. Peck from the Brooklyn and placed waiting orders, SUDDEN DI DEATH. ConconD, N. H., Jan. 14, 1874. Calvin Katon, s prominent horttoulturist of this city, was found dead from heart Gleease in s shed near his house last might, He waa syeate oC age aud leaves a famuy. mn ap Derenneans, OPFIOR OF THR one SIGNAL OFFIOBR, Wasninogon, D. 0., Jam. L6—1 A. Mi FoR THE SOUTHERN roRTION OP Naw ENGLAND AND THENCE SOUTHWESTWABD OVER THE MIDDLS AND SOUTH ATLANTIC STATRS DECIDEDLY OLD AND GENBRALLY OLBAR WEATHER WILL PREVAIL, ‘WITH FRESH AND BRISK NORTHERLY TO WASTERLY WINDS. For the lower lake region and thence nortt» eastward to Maine partly cloudy and cold weather, with areas of light snow, For the Gulf States and thence northward over the upper lake region and the Upper Mississippt Valley continued cold and generally clear weather, with northeasterly to northwesterly winds, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes is the temperature for the past 24 hours, in compart- sf ae 1873, 1874, at 3 gon with the corresponding day of lsat indicated by the thermometer at Budaue’ macy, HERALD ‘a ie BROOKLYN TAX OFFICE ROBBERY. —— Deputy Collector A. W. H. Gill Held te Await the Action of the Grand Jury. ‘The examination of the charge of embeaziement against Deputy Collector Captain A. W. Gi. Gill was concluded betore Justice Morse yesterday. The only testimony taken was that of Robert McOhes- Dey, who testified that he was one of the clerks in the Tax Office on the 14th of February, 1873, im charge of the tickler; am acquainted with the various handwritings appearing on the book that day; they are Flanagan's, Brown's and mine; these are all I can recognize; there are no others; my entries were of bills received from Captain Gil between the hours of nine and twelve; these were receipted bills; no other amounts than these received from Osptain Gill were entered by remember that Captain Gill took in the money that day; the manner of transacting business thm, day was as usual; bills were passed through @ window to the Deputy et aa beth if the money was found to be right stamped oe Herma him at once; this money was handed t to the tickler; we all keep the okies when wor ere not busy; this money then entered, in the cash book while the bill being entered 5 the money was in the hands of Captain Gill; in the evening we see that the tiokler corresponds with the cash in hand; Badeau might Pi fot joney with Captain Gill on the 14th of Febra- G gro = day; we sted Over $66,000 5, one root cas ok aa gene by Captain Gill; Onarles Bad Captain Gill to count money sometimes: "don't bebe fe any one else; ),000 18 a ‘good day ;”” $200, 000 would e & ROB Ty Oa meter compa pated so verge of rece te e mnt ‘the year there were ceneraiy four ante eg gece FM the office who kept the i lanagan, Brown, Keenan and mivmalst ere these clerks; busy days, Mr. Oawthorne rou ‘write on this book ; no others ke Hen ot to my knowl. soee: ej have no special recollec! ion of ek ‘of cept what the books sho tee tent hry wit thin an arm’s Tengtto of the the Deputy Collector; on very ry heavy dsya Oe ptain receipt ils; bills are often retained ne the ofice and sent to the taxpayers; I don’t know that bills have been receipted after office hours; i know they have Deen Syeret Po ys on tlokier and then handed back to be a ceipted; any time after two o'elook ne alter office hours; sometimes Mr. Finoaga, myself or Mr. Cawthorne would foot up the ler; the mekier, clerk announced the amount of his footings to Captain Gill; this announcements was not made until Captain gu had his money counted and both were ready; Captain Gill always entered the amount of the ‘money on @ ticket, which was left on the desk until the amounts were entered; & taxpayer could not hand in a bill to Gill without the tickler clerk seeing it; Gull put some aoe in his drawer, but money done up t as was ust the was "ald of the tickler; these of $60, $250, $500and $1,000; have “jeen them. as a $2,003 Gill was 2 practically in Jn charge of the ry id there are three rooms in the Gill was frequently called away row hl his echt out out- siders would occasionally come in; rn keep them out; Captain Gill ‘complained of bs ease, much; have known cash fail small amount; during bus: any ‘aaa rie gees kept money on a table at hi this tab! Lace all the clerks, out of their sight wor! ‘The accused was admitted to bail in the sum of $5,000, Messrs. George Wallace and A. B. Lindsay entering into bonds for his appearance. He is held for the action of the Grand Jury. A TRAGEDY IN INDIANA. —_—-——— > Killing of Mr. Thomas N,. Stillwell by John E. Corwin—The End of an Old Feud Between Prominent Citizens— Drawing the Pistol and Perishing Thereby. ANDERSON, Jan. 14, 1874, A most painful tragedy took place here this afternoon, at about the hour of five P. M., result- ing in the death of Thomas N. Stillwell by a pistol shot at the hands of Jobn E. Corwin. ‘The facts are substantially these :—Stillwell has been for a number of years past a prominent polt- tician in this place, having successively beem elected to the State Legislature and member of Congress. He was appointed by President Grant Minister to Venezuela. BANKING IRREGULARITIES. Since his return from South America he has beea actively engaged in banking, holding the responal- ble position of President of the First National Bank at this place. Some few weeks ago the First National Bank suspended, and for certain irrega- larities the Grand Jury saw fit to find bills of in- dictment against Stillwell, ss president, and A. ee Kline. as cashier, for embezzlement, ‘The mai go preyed upon Stillwell’s mind that his Mende te ine duced him to take a trip 10 the country. Upon his return certain paragraphs in the Brave, papers ‘were shown him, which appear to have censed him, and he proceeded to the office eof A FE. Corwin, between whom and Stillwell there has igted an old feud, and charged him as the insti- gator of the Pag E ARGUMENT OF PISTOLS, The altercation had not assumed the cigetee et @ quarrel when Stillwell drew a revolver an “7 “This hag to be the last of you or me,” fring Corwin, the snot taking effect in Corwin’s we Corwin instantly drew a pistol and fired two shots at Stillwell, each taking fatal effect 1a the the deceased, both shots penetrating the near the right ear. ‘The First National Bank, of which Stillwell was lately President, has been in the hands of @ re- ceiver, and Stillwell’s bonds upon the cl aforesaid had been fixed at $10,000, STILLWELL’S DEATH A PUBLIC LOSS. The affair has cast a general gloom ree te the community, a8 both parties to the pied the highest, Position in society. In hiwel'e death the city of Anderson loses one of its = userul and energetic citizens, he having in the last other one Place. on # few years contributed more than ? citizen to the re prosperity of JAY COOKE & 00, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14, 1674. A general meeting of the creditors of Jay Cooke & Co. will be held in Assembly Buildings here to- morrow, Full statements showing the one of the firm’s affairs will be Geo te aed of the register and ver. Withe exnibits ‘will show the total aseets of the frm, zclasve of sto not yet sppraised, $5,688, 335 spite jes, a Foun whieh is dean M eTebt, &e., by cepaivers Coat aad aneparate lab a &e., red PAOIPIC STEAMSHIPS OVERDUB. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 14, 1874, ‘The steamships China and Colorado, both over due from Hong Kong and Yokohama, have neither of them been heard from yet. ‘The report that the steamship China was spoken all well, December 19, has done much te Shay auxtety tor her 81 ny but the Chinese here, who have on board a outhit of idols for their new temple of worship, are constantly at prayers for her arrival in port. FIRE IN PINE STREET, A fire broke out last night on the third foor of the five story brick building No. 83 Pine street, occupted py A. Bedrossian as a tobacco and Ccigat manufactory, whose stock was damaged $2,000. oy GiHenken, Wo keeps @ liquor store on the frst oes $800 Oy water. 5, W. tod "tne second ry om | the sues ae was Sheldon wi ra hol oly tamara, ie to the owuse of Whe ire.