The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1874, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET, Loutsiana Case and the Presi- NEW YORK HERALD aaete t attmmane. ane BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. li THE DAILY HERALD, pubdtished every day in the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henacp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re turned. ea LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING METROPOLITAN THEATRE, No. 585 Broadway.—VARIETY ENTER!AINMENT, at 745 P.M, closes at 10:3) PM. Matinee at 230 P.M. RDF Ti Houston streets. seen P.M. way, be FOG, at 8 Vokes mmily. Matinee at 130 P.M ACADEMY OF MUSIC, fourteenth street, corner of Irving pl Fi Mer Ts OPERA TROUPE—FAUST, & oses at 10:30 WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, sgorner Thirtieth street —NAIAD QEEEN, at ard M. NIMBLE JIM, ats P.M; Gioces at IPS GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Ei and Twenty-third street.—HUMPTY ig he nite bewery ABROAD, at 745 Mr G.t Fox. Matinee at 1:30 FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Trenty-third street and Broadway. —FOLLINE, @ 5 P. es at 10:3 P.M. Mr. Harkins, Miss Ada Dyas Maiutce at 1330 P. Mj closes at 10:45 2. M. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—BARBR BL&U, Offenbach’s opera Douife, at 3 P. M.; closes at 1 P.M. THEATRE COMIQUR. ‘4 Broadway.—WENT DAY, and VARIETY ENTER. West, acs P. M.; closes at 10:30 P.M. Matince at Mw. No. sig BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenag and Twenty-third street—LA FEMME DE vil, ac 745 F. M.z closes at 10:40 P.M. Mrs. J. B. Booth. Matinee at 130 P.M. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brondway and Thirteenth sireet,—MONEY, at 8 P. M.; clows at UP. M. oltr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jetireys Lew's. Matinee at 1:3) P. OLYMPIC THEATRE, ‘ePetween Houston and, Bleecke LE and N ENTERTAIN losea at iP. Me atzP. M. streets. — MENT. ace Broadway, VALDIV BROOKLYN PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hall, Brooklyn.—OLIVER TWIST, at 8 P. M. closes at 45 P.M. Miss Lucille Western. ‘Matinee JONWAY’S BROOKLYN THEATRE, va treet, Brooklyn —Pertormancs begins at 8 y loses at iT Matinee at 2 P.M. Edwin Dott BOWERY THEATR Bowery.—SCUUTS OF THE SIERRAS, at 8P. M. ; closes atiiP.M. Mr. I. Frank Frayne, Matinee at? P. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.—VAR(ETY ENTERTAINMENT, at 8 P. M.: closes at P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. BR Twenty-third st KLLAIN BLAC M. ; closes at 10 BAIN HALL, Great Jones street and Lafayette PROGRESS, at 3 P, M.; closes at 9 P lace.—PILGRIM’S . Matinee at 2:30 STEINWAY HALL Fourteenth street.—CHARLUTTE CUSHMAN’S READ- INGS, at? P.M. COLOSSEUM, Broadway. corner of Thirty-fitth street. rye so OF LONDON BY DAY. at loses at 4 P.M, BY sree at7 P. M.; closes at 10 P. M. TRIPLE SHEET. York, errr Jan THE 1 NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS! RADICAL AND CONSERVATIVE VICTO- RIES! HOME RULE FIZZLES—Sevenin PAGE. GOVERNMENT NEUTRALITY ADVOCATED IN THE ULTRAMONTANE STRUGGLE—IM- PORTANT LATE NEWS—SEVENTH Pace. THE DISSECTION OF THE MONSTER OF MIS- RULE! A BITTER SCENE IN THE NA- TIONAL SENATE—TENTH PaGE. MISRULE IN LOUISIANA! SENATOR CARPEN- TER DENOUNCES THE INTERFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE! A NEW ELECTION PROBABLE! GENERAL HOW- ARD’S TRIAL RIGHTS—E1cutH PacE. CONSTITUTIONAL ANY TREATY RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA! THE DUTY OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE A REPUBLI- CAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT FOR THE STATE! THE SPECTRE OF REPUDIATION— FIFTH PAGE. THE WAR ON ASHANTEE! CONTINUED HER- ALD SPECIAL HISTORY OF THE GLOVER EXPEDITION THE CRUISE OF THE DAUNTLESS—Fovurra Pace, THE FIGHTING IN CUBA! STARTLING NEWS FROM MANZANILLO! PAIL! OF THE “PACIFICATOR” OF THE CLNCO VILLAS — FirTH PAGE. THE NEW YORK CHARTER HANDS OF THE PROBABLE DECAP'1 THIRD Pace. AGAIN IN THE ISLATIVE DOCTORS |! TION OF OF FICIALS— STRE GTH Dv OF THE BOURBONISTS AND OF NAPOLEON IV. AND EUGENIE—Fovurtu Pace. GERMAN FREETHINKERS’ ING LAST NIGHT! A BOISTEROUS THRON IN THE COOPER UNION HALL! EXCITING SPEECHES! THE ANTI-POLICE CLAM@R— THIRD PaGE. GARNIER AGAIN DEFEATS UBASSY! SPLENDID PLAY FOR THE SILVER BOWL AND CHAM- PIONSHIP—SEVENTH PAGE. BURNING OF THE STEAMSHIP GLAUCUS, AT STON! THE VESSEL SUNK! LOSS AND INSURANCEK—Tuinp Pace. DRILLING THR AMERICAN FLEET IN WEST INDIAN WATERS! THE TACTICS AND PROBABLE © ON OF THE SQUAD- RON—Fovrti Pac THE Aw Awnvat Arrack is made on the Capitol Commissioners at Albany, but no evidence of mismanagement or improper action hag yet ‘been found against them. The assaults come from those who would rather be commission. ers themselves ; but whether they would do guy better fox the State is an oven cuestion, | flict. i. senciiis without any war, without pretence from any party of a necessity or of authority to put aside the regular political machinery so familiar in every State, there is government in power that was notoriously not elected by the people. Not only is a gov- ernment not chosen by the people of that State in power over them, but this govern- ment has the countenance of the United States officials, has received their effective assistance and counts upon receiving it again if needful ; and consequently there is no organized open resistance to its authority. These are altogether new facts in the his- tory of our country. In nearly a hun- dred years’ experience of the States of this Union it is observable that the political practice has been so uniformly true to the theory of the laws that there is searcely any precedent of absolute violations of the constitutional compacts of the people. Once upon a time it was thought that systems of government written on paper were utopian moonshine, and that States could not practi- cally be kept from anarchy and ruin by these paper schemes of political possibilities, as ships were kept from the gulfs and shoals by the navigators’ charts. But the experience of all these free States coming into existence one | after another, and each one governed on a prearranged constitutional scheme, was a convincing evidence that practical govern- ments could be organized as well in that way as by a thousand years of strife and con- It was furthermore an evidence that States could be governed better originating in this way than by the old system of growth, for the true objects of government were kept more distinctly in view, the true interests of the governed made the only changes effected in the law, and the will of the whole was evenly and uniformly the common inspiration of power, so that in a hundred years, in a little union of States that has grown to a vast empire, although there have been charges of fraudulent practices at elections, there is scarcely an instance of absolute defeat of the will of the people; and there has been only one great revolution, while in countries of far less ex- tent, governed by the stable and conservative systems of antique type, revolutions are do- mesticated and anarchy has its seasons of reg- ular recurrence. But now we have the new fact of a govern- ment set up and sustained, not by the will of the people, but in defiance of that will; and not as an act of superior force, deriving its authority from war, for there is supposed to be peace. How is a government thus established to be accounted for? And why is it that the system which operated so well tor three or four generations seems to give out finally? Is the apparent failure of government by the people in Louisiana dependent upon causes that are of common application over the whole coun- try, and, if so, must we apprehend that popular government is in sucha condition with us that the presence of a few political sharpers in any State may endanger the liberties of the people of that State? Is the nation politically sound when a few Pinch- backs, with unscrupulous colleagues in au- thority, can neutralize and overcome all those principles that are in the charge and keeping of the people for the protection of the sov- ereignty of every State? It is our opinion that the causes which have been most efficient in giving success to political scoundrelism in Louisiana are strictly local; but also that other causes, also very effective in the case, are national and of common and universal appli- cation in every State. The strictly local causes are the consequences of the war; the others are the consequences of the supremacy of the republican party. Rebellion and war, which apparently no political wisdom can avert, make sad havoc with those liberties for whose defence they are invoked; and these are of course the primary causes of the trouble; for the events which disfranchised and displaced from their leadership the superior classes of the Southern people also gave political power to great numbers of men scarcely possessed of human intelligence, and thus an opportunity was gra- tuitously furnished to the worst types of political adventurers. Persons who would be card sharpers and confidence swindlers 1m wealthy capitals take to politics in commu- nities where there is nothing to plunder but a State treasury. If defeat and consequent chagrin coincide with repressive laws to drive from public life all the men who have the confidence and respect of a people, and the ignorant and newly enfranchised are induced to support the vultures of political craft, a premium is practically placed on the success of these latter, and the’ State becomes their prey. These causes apply only at the South, and there they are not restricted to Louisiana. But the dangers due to the supremacy of the republican party are general. Success is proverbially more difficult for both individuals and nations to endure than many reverses; but there never was before a success that, like that of the republican party, seemed to have thoroughly debauched the moral sense of all who had a share in it. Nearly every man prominent or conspicuous in that party seems to have regarded its success less for its likeli- hood of giving effect toa certain line of politi- cal action and of impressing certain political principles on the life of the nation than as a direct means of putting money in his personal pocket. From the distinguished Senators who | accepted their Oréait Mobilier gratuities with philanthropic grace to the least ambitious gauger of whiskey stills all were the same in purpose and character, and so it happened that a party inspired in the days of its glory with a grand patriotic purpose, and which saved the country from an armed enemy, be- trayed it to universal corruption—a foe not less ruinous and destructive, Thus the whole nation was degraded in its political vitality; and where there is not a high sense of duty and of moral obligation a republican system is not safe, or is but temporarily safe, and then only by drift and accident. It happens now by singular chance that the man who was so greatly instrumental in say- | ing the country from armed enemies is in a position to save it also from the consequences of political corruption. General Grant is far too calm and clear a judge of any case that comes to his notice to miss the main fact of political events. He has considered well the relations to hia adminiaiation of the party that was forced to nominate him by the popu- jar demand and through the apprehension that if he became the candidate of another party that other party would triumph at the polls. He cannot suppose that any sense of fealty on his part requires from him that he should regard the interests of the country as secondary and sub- sidiary to the interests of party. He has shown that he understands clearly that his party is now a packhorse for dead weights; that it does not carry great principles and great purposes, but only the luggage and plunder of a few leaders; and in the answer made yesterday in the Senate to Mr. Car- penter by Mr. Morton he will see the degrad- ing view that the strictly party voice takes of the Louisiana case. Mr. Morton's answer to the call for a new election is that ‘‘the republi- can party does not demand it,”’ and that “the republican party regards the call for a new election as a movement to give the State to its enemies.’’ Never mind for the justice of the case--for rights, liberties or aught else—but do always, right or wrong, what suits the programme of your party. Such is the spirit and disposition of the men who are unfortunately the constitutional and personal advisers of the President; but we cannot believe he can stultify his heroic his- tory by accepting that view, or by failing to | oppose it wisely and energetically at the proper moment. Cuban = Insurrection—Portilla’s Pacification Measures. The letter we publish in another column gives us the measure of Spanish violence and outrage in Cuba. The valiant General Por- tilla, the pacificator of the Cinco Villas, went down to Puerto Principe with great flourish of trampets to effect the immediate extermi- nation of General Gomez and his gallant in- surgent bands. The successes of Portilla were, however, confined to saving part of his baggage and getting himself safely behind the fortifications of Puerto Principe, while the insurgents carried off cattle and men within sight of his headquarters. If he could not conquer the fighting men this chiv- alrous Don Whiskerandos could show himself a terrible and ruffianly enemy to helpless women and children, He could not face Sanguilli’s cavalry, but he could seize and im- prison the unfortunate relatives of the fighting rebels—old men, women and children could be seized and deported to the Isle of Pines. This outrage, worthy of the worst atrocities of Russian tyrants in Poland, was not beyond the valor of the Spanish General. Fortunately, this new outburst of cold-blooded cruelty has had the contrary effect to that sought. Num- bers of the surrendered Cubans, encouraged by the recent successes of their comrades, and unwilling to allow themselves to be butchered in cold blood, have gone out to fight again. ‘We may, therefore, look forward to a still more vigorous prosecution of the War of Inde- pendence. Now is the time for the Cubans outside of Cuba to aid their countrymen. The Tae Asnantrez Was.—A rumor has been made current that the Ashantee King wishes to accept the olive branch. However this may be, the Hzzanp correspondence pub- lished this morning will not be read with diminished interest. The London Times said of Mr. Stanley that he was a man of amazing industry and that he could paint a matchless pen-portrait ; and another English criticism was that he belonged to that class of men to whom experience brought,a judgment which careful observers would not only re- spect, but which the public would court and always look forward to with anxiety. Since the death of Livingstone, if we may except Burton, Mr. Stanley has become the first living au- thority on Africa. The letter which we print this morning from his pen will, we feel sure, command the attention of the reader. The letters which he has been writing from the Gold Coast for the Hznanp have united the three qualities spoken of in England—industry, graphic pen-portraiture and knowledge—and we need no more than invite attention to his letter this morning to enable the reader to recognize in its matchless style the man who discovered Livingstone, “dying on his feet.” THE Buawino OF THE GLAUCUS. ~The de- struction of the steamer Glaucus, while lying in her dock at Boston, furnishes another ex- ample of want of due precaution in prevent- ing fires. Although discovered before it had taken any serious hold on the ship, the fire, owing to the dangerous nature of the cargo, defeated the efforts of the firemen to extin- guish the flames. The practice of carrying a highly inflammable freight in a general cargo is very reprehensible, and there certainly ought to be some regulation to prevent it. If it had not been for the presence of kerosene oil among the cargo the fire would have been conquered by the efforts of the firemen. As @ measure of public safety freight of such a dangerous nature as kerosene ought not to be carried with a general cargo, as in case of fire it is almost certain to cause the destruction of both cargo and ship. The loss of mer- chandise and the damage sustained by the Glaucus from the fire are estimated at one hun- France and the Bomapartes. In another place in the Humarp of this morning we print a very readable, instrac- tive and suggestive letter on French politics generally, but having a special reference to the position and prospects of the House of Bonaparte. Our correspondent is familiar with the “ins” and ‘outs’ of French politi- cal life, and his letters from time to time reflect the growing sentiment of the hour. A letter in the Hzrap of yesterday, giving an account of the solemn religious ceremonies held in Paris on the anniversary of tho Emperor's death, conclusively established the fact that the Napoleonic idea is far from being dead in France. An idea is not dead which can bring in France ten thousand people to one place of worship—these ten thousand people representing the prominent members. of society during a twenty years’ reign of comparative peace and almost unparalleled prosperity. Tho letter of to-day enters more minutely into the actual situation, and its presentation of facts leaves us little room to doubt that, unless some unexpected turn of events places the Republic on a more hopefal basis, the Empire will be restored, and that at no distant day. Wo should like to see the dred thousand dollars. Tue Dmecton GENERAL or THE CENTENNIAL Expostrion declares that he has been asked by eight newspaper correspondents in Washing- ton for money for their influence with Con- gress in favor of an appropriation. The story looks incredible; but is important, if true, at least to the journals whose correspondents are for sale, Tue Contest IN THE Kansas LroGIsLaTURE for a United States Senator, which has now been going on for several days, may be con- tinued several days longer. Candidates are plentiful, but not one of them appears to pos- sess the popularity or the currency required to carry off the prize. It was not so under the tactics of Pomeroy and Caldwell. Tux Scnoo. Commirrez Women in Boston, notwithstanding Massachusetts is the home of most of the female suffrage shriekers, have not been very fairly or gallantly treated by the men on the Board. After being chosen to their positions under the law they have been excluded from any participation in the delib- erations of the School Board and compelled to establish their rights in that body by an ap- plication to the Supreme Court. The legal question would have been settled in a worthier manner if the ladies had not been compelled to demand their logal rights at their own expense, Republic live and prosper, believing as we do that the masses favor it, and that if the masses were properly educated it is the best torm of government for the French people. But facts must be looked at; and every dispassionate mind must admit that the facts are not encouraging as to the continu- ance of the Republic. The legislation of the Assembly is essentially anti-republican in its character. We cannot say that it has been carried on in the interests of the Empire ; but what it has done leaves the door open for the Bonapartists quite as much as for the Bourbons. Paris is the world’s capital, and the Parisians know it. A state of things which robs them of their profits. and robs them of their pleasures the Parisians will not much longer endure; and Paris, in spite of all that has recently happened and notwith- standing all teaching to the contrary, is still France. The restoration of Paris to her former proud position means the restoration of a Court, and, as the Bourbons must now be counted out, Napoleon the Fourth begins to be more than an early probability. Sucha restoration would most certainly have the ap- proval of England, and it would not be disa- greeable to Germany. It would thus mean peace, and peace is what France needs for many years to come, Unless all the indica- tions of the moment are deceptive, the Napo- leonic Empire will yet be a living fact. Tae New Crry Pron Jos.—The bill for the repeal of the law of last session authoriz- ing the building of anew prison in place of the Tombs should be passed by the Legisla- ture for many reasons, The city debt has in- creased over forty million dollars in the last two years. The rate of taxation has also heavily increased, and we have, besides, a float- ing debt in the shape of unpaid claims, &c., the amount of which no person has yet been able to discover. The present City Prison, which has been good enough up to this time, will be good enough for some time longer. As improvements progress down town, when the present obstructions to all improvements are removed, we shall be better able to decide than now on the most desirable location for a new prison. The people need above all other im- provements some means of rapid transit, and no expenditure of a dollar of the public money not absolutely necessary should be sanctioned until this shall have been secured. The talk about an ‘honest commission” and an ‘‘unsal- aried commission”’ in connection with the new prison job is all claptrap. An honest com- mission can be created at any time, and we have practical experience of the humbug of ‘‘unsalaried’’ commissions in the fact that a Central Park ex-Commissioner, who is also a New Prison Commissioner, managed to make the former ‘‘unsalaried’’ office pay him over ten thousand dollars a year for ten or eleven years’ service. Narozat Enoven.—The Governor of the District of Columbia memorializes Congress, objecting to any further investigation into the affairs ot the District. His pleas are curious. He claims the right to be let alone because the District government was whitewashed by a Congressional committee last year and has been sustained ‘‘by every election in the Dis- trict.’’ Well, Tweed and his Tammany asso- ciates might have made a similar plea. Every- body knows what a committee’s report is worth, and how a ring of corrupt officials can manipulate local elections. New York in especial can speak {rom sad experience on the subject. Honest men demand the fallest in- vestigation when any breath of suspicion touches their reputation. The memorial of Governor Shepherd and the indiscreet zeal of Senator Conkling will only convince the people that a thorough and an honest investi- gation into the affairs of the District is im- peratively demanded. Taxne 1s Auways Somzzopy to reopen old sores. Governor Woodson, of Missouri, in his Message to the Legislature, endorsed what is known in that State as the Papaw militia as having rendered excellent services during the war. Now the republican papers are assailing both the Governor and the militia, on the ground that the latter were, in fact, mere rebel bushwhackers. It is time this idle talk Mopest Parmaperrau.—The Philadel- phians’ eyes, in the Centennial Exhibition matter, have been larger than their pockets. They have desired to make the Exhibition the means of securing for them splendid public buildings which they may put to practical use after the glorification is over, and they now find that Pennsylvanian economy stands in the way. They are short of cash; so they modestly propose that the United States gov- ernment shall pay five-sixths of the sum needed for the affair, exclusive of the cost of the permanent park building. This is cer- tainly a moderate request—for Philadelphia. Why not saddle the whole expense on the United States and pay the Philadelphians a liberal recompense for their trouble besides? Senator Woop, Wo Smarep THE Ovrom of last year’s protracted session at Albany, appears resolved that the present session shall be a short one. He has intro- duced and will press a concurrent resolution to adjourn on the one hundredth day. Such a resolution would teach members the danger of leaving their “little bills’ to the fortune 96 the fow last days of the apajian, The Great Naval Drill. Fifteen of our best naval vessels are now in rendezvous at Key West and are to havea naval drill at the Dry Tortugas, and, as our correspondent at that place observes, the exer- cises will consist of sailing in squadron, de- ploying in order of battle and other minor evolutions. Landing in surf boats, howitzer drill in boats and on shore will be carried on; the marine corps will be exer- cised in battalion drill, and the mysteries of torpedoes, as discovered and taught at New- port, wiil receive due attention, as we are in- formed that ‘a large schooner has just arrived from the North bringing an assorted cargo of the very latest patterns of torpe- does.”” ‘Away, all boarders!”—a command which has seldom been heard from the horse block since the dark hours of the last war, will be sounded from the decks of our few remaining frigates while the batteries are supposed to be engaging the enemy; and at the very moment when the boarders—pike, pistol and cutlass in hand-—are secreted behind the bulwarks and hammock nettings the proper appliances will be fitted to prevent the enemy's boardeis from execut- ing a counter movement, All of these exer- cises will simply prove the value and efficiency of rival systems ; for rival systems exist on the sea; and, as they also exist on shore, target firing—a feature in wartare to which Captain Luce called attention in his exhaustive treatise on “Manning the Navy’’—will be practised by all the assembled batteries, and, we are convinced, in a manner which will show that our naval ordnance, such as it is, is well handled by our gunners, whether they be officers or men. Fuses, the charging of shells, great-gun exercise, the internal police of a man-of-war, fleet tactics, signals and the steam enginery of our naval service will be thoroughly tested. At no time in the history of the United States has any moment been more important than the present one seriously to contemplate our position asa naval Power. Either we need & navy or we do not needa navy. Inland legislators maintain that transportation, pub- lic buildings, the Great West, the Great South and railways are the only interesta of the American people. Those who contem- plate the future with foresight can see that there is no issue in our national politics of a domestic character upon which parties can divide ; nor is there any possibility for the growth of such an issue while financial and tariff questions are pending. A republican does not know whether he is a republican or a democrat, and a democrat faces the same dilemma. But as we are organized—as American society is organized—a question must excite and divide the people, and that question, we believe, will be a foreign one— one that will require a large and efficient navy during its discussion and as essential to its ultimate decision. Will that question be «The Fisheries,’’ ‘‘The Annexation of British North America,” “The Liberation of Cuba,” “The Cutting Through of an Isthmian Canal” or ‘The Annexation of the Sandwich Islands?’’ We leave time and Congressmen to determine. General Howard’s Case in Congress, There seems to be some difficulty in obtain- ing a court of inquiry from a republican House of Representatives against a ‘Christian soldier and gentleman.” The case of General Howard and his conduct in the Freedmen’s Bureau have been so very generally ques- tioned and accusatiofis of so grave a nature have been so often made against him that a soldier with a delicate sense of honor, though he was not a pious Christian, ought to have long ago insisted on a full and searching inquiry into charges which cast a stain on his honor. The friends of General Howard are evidently not people with very tender sen- sibilities or the scene in Congress yesterday would not have taken place. ‘They pretend to desire an investigation, but they say that it must be a fair one, so impugning the veracity and honor of the army officers, and intimat- | ing a belief that they would do a grave injus- | tice to their own comrade and use a court of justice for the satisfaction of private wrongs. Even the President of the United States is not above the pious suspicion of the Christian friends of General Howard. The proceedings in the House on the case were undignified, and no confidence can be attached to a court which is organized to whitewash. What- ever services General Howard may have ren- dered his country in the past, he can have no claim to the creation of special courts in his favor, and the efforts of his friends to obstruct honest inquiry will only strengthen popular belief in the charges made against him. Tas Brooxiyn Trovsivs.—A delay of which the Brooklyn people (not without rea- son) complain has followed the trial of the charges against District Attorney Britton. The decision of the case on its merits ought not to require long consideration. Indeed, the principal plea of the friends of Mr. Brit- ton appears to be based upon partisan grounds. The delay with the Executive, however, is said to have arisen solely from the determina- tion of Governor Dix to select a thoroughly unexceptionable person as Mr. Britton’s suc- cessor, so that Kings county may secure real reform in a most important branch of its goy- ernment. The honest reformers of Brooklyn ought, therefore, to ignore all personal prefer- ences and unite in recommending for the District Attorneyship a gentleman whose character and qualifications will command at once the popular endorsement of their choice. Onxtxy Joun tHe Barrist.—Yesterday’s Congressional reports made Mr. Nesmith utter some words that had a decidedly blas- phemous flavor. He used—so the reporter said—the name of the Almighty in what seemed to us a very improper juxtaposition to some reflections on the disposition of certain Indians to interfere with the hair of anybody who came in their way. It is explained now, however, that he said, “If John the Baptist had gone preaching the Gospel in that wilder- ness he would not have kept the hair on his head twenty-four hours,”’ A Goon Svagzstion vor Lovrstana.—The latest feature of the Louisiana complication is the report that Governor Kellogg has issued his requisition upon the Governor of the Dis- trict of Columbia for the person of ex-Gover- nor Warmoth, now in Washington. If Kel- logg could imprison Warmoth and Warmoth The German Labor Mecting in tho Cooper Union. The hall of the Cooper Union was crowded last night by an enthusiastic audience com- posed of German residents affiliated to the Iuternational Society. They came together to denounce the conduct of the police in dispers- ingthe Tompkins square meeting. Several very inflammatory speeches were made by the speakers while asserting their right to free speech and to assemble in public. One gen- tleman uttered words of awful warning to the community, and, being in a prophetic state of mind, announced that the day might not be far distant when Communists, like abolitionists, would cease to be despised, and their principles, mew so universally condemned, would be ax saving truths, The ‘Fifth avenue rabble” were warned that the Republic is on the edge of a terrible volcano and that an eruption may be looked for at any time. It appears: that we are in danger of having free speech destroyed by the police. This news, if true, is very important, but it needs comfirmation, However, the assembled Germans were quite agreed that in the police we have the germ of an overshadowing tyranny which imperils the safety of free institutions. The meeting wae very enthusiastic, and when the oratory was exhausted the audience quietly dispensed. Tue State Senate Comuretee Wrut report favorably the bill to consolidate the city and county of New York. This bill should meet with no opposition. It will eimplify tho gov- ernment, and ought to lessen the expense of its administration. Rarw Transrt.—Thore are several.sohemes before the Legislature for rapid transit: between the lower and the upper end of this island; but, between this company, that company and the other, all these schemes, as usual, will fall through. ‘The only resource for this people is a bill authorizing the city to do the work, and providing the ways and means for doing it speedily, for time is more valuable than money in this business, and time and money can be saved in the ill suggested. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Richard Coke, the new Governor of Texas, is a Virginian. Judge Charles T. Sherman, of Ohio, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. State Senator D. P. Wood, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor W. P. Blake, of Yale College, has‘as- rived at the Albemarle Hotel. General John A, Gibbon, United States Army, Ras quarters at the Glenham Hotel. Colonel G. W. Schofield, United States Army, ftas quarters at the Glenham Hotel. Judge B. Platt Carpenter, of Poughkeepsie, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Hon. Marvin H. Bovee will deliver sixty tectures: in Tilinots against capital punishment, Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel last evening trom Utica. Ex-Lieutenant Governor William Bross, of [inoia, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General G. J. Magee, formerly of Governor Hom- man’s staff, is residing temporarily at the Metto- politan Hotet. Franklin B. Gowen, President of the Philadelphia. and Reading Railroad Company, is again at the Brevoort House, Joseph Price, general manager of the Great Western Raiiway of Canada, has apartments at the Brevort House, Judge Potter, who is classed as a reformer, is trying to have the opening prayer in the Ohio State Senate dispensed with. General W. F. Bartlett, having removed out of the State of Massachusetts, has resigned his poal- tion upon Governor Washburn’s staff. “Miss Sallie Kilgore, Attorney and Counsellor at Law,” ison a sign at Noblesville, Ind. Sallie graduated at the Michigan Law School. The Assembly Committee on Elections—compris- ing Messrs, Alberger, Sloan, Batchelicr and Dew niston—arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor H.C. Warmoth and General W. L. McMillen, the Senatorial aspirant from Louisiana, arrived from Washington yesterday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—1 A. M. Probabilities. For New England fresh and brisk northeasterly to southeasterly winds and cold weather will pre- vail, with increasing cloudiness and probably light snow. FoR 1HE MIDDLE STATES AND THE LOWER LAK® REGION CONTINUED COLD AND CLOUDY WEATHER, SHIFTING TO NORTHWESTERLY, AND: SNOW NORTH OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, For the South Atlantic States easterly to saath- erly winds and clear or fair weather during the day, with rising temperature and falling barom- eter. For the Gulf States east of the Mississippi River and thence northward to the Ohio Valley colder and partially cloudy weather, with light to gentie winds, For the upper lake region, thence southward to the Missouri Valley, cold and generally cloudy weather, with northeasterly and northwesterly winds, high barometer and probably light snow near Lake Michigan. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the chamges in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HeRaLp Building :— 1878, 1874. 1873, 1874. olf ‘ature yesterday... Average ee for corresponding, diate last year.. THE KANSAS SENATORIAL JUGGLING. $1. Louis, Mo., Jan. 30, 1874 A caucus of the opposition members of the Kansas Legislature was held late last night, but no definite dction was taken. A majority of the caw cus agreed to support J. K. Huason, of the Kansas Farmer, and the vote for him to-day may reach thirty-five, ‘The straight republicans will hold a meeting to- night. If they unite on a man it is said the can- test will be decided to-morrow. If they do not, no one can now predict when it will end, The End Not Yet. Topeka, Kansas, Jan. 30, 1974, ‘The Legislature met in joint session again, vo- night; but, alter considerable filibustering, ad- journed wit oad taking another peer for Senatar, THE GRANGERS' CONVENTION, “Sr Louis, Jan. 30, 18%, ‘The annual Convention of the National Grange ofthe Patrons of Husbanary will convene here next Wednesday, Dudley W. Adams, President of the National Grange, has already arrived here, and the committee appointed by the last convention to revise the Ve ay composed of 0, Ii. Kelly, General Secretary ; T. A. Thompson, of Minnesota; J. Re ‘Thompson, of Washington; Generai Wilson, of low: and D. H. Robertson, of St. Paul, were expect here yesterday, but they failed to arrive, ‘The principal business of the Convention will be the revision of the ritual and the perfecting of the or- Ganization of the Grange. President Adams states that there are between 12,000 and 12,000 granges | could retaliate by locking Kellogg up in jail, what « blessing it would be for Louisiana | in the country, with nearly 1, membera. ae a ot the Gonventon mil probaply be