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The New York herald., 1872-12-26
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO.Day's Contents of the
-tEfa. Herald.

us THIS REPUBLIC AND IS LOUISIANA ONE
OF THE UNITED STATES sn-LEADING
EDITORIAL ARTICLE-FoURTH PAGE
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE LATEST RAIL-
ROAD SLAUGHTER THE KILLED AND
WOUNDED: CAUSES OF THE DISASTER
FIFTH PAGE
SANTA CLAUS MAKES THE WORLD AKIN /
CHRISTMAS OBSERvANCES BY CHRIS
TIANS, FAMILIES, PLAIN AND FANCY
SKATERS, BENEFACTORS AND BENEFIT
CIARIES EVERYWHERE A HAPPY
CHRISTMAS FOR THE LITTLE ONES:
BOREAs MAKING MERRY-SIxTH AND SEW
ENTH PAGES
EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS SERIOUS ILLNESS
OF THE RUSSIAN CZAROWITZ: CARLISTS
REFUSED SHELTER IN FRANCE: SPANISH
SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION OF CUBA
FIFTH PAGE.
LATEST AUsTRALAsIAN NEwSl oMINoUs
DISPUTES BETWEEN NEW ZEALAND
s SAyAGES: AN AUCKLAND CONFLAGRA-
TION: SHIPWRE0K AND LOSS OF SIX
TEEN LIVES: EMBRYO REBELLION In
FIJI-FIFTH PAGE. tM EH
BELOW ZERO SEVERELY COLD WEATHER
PREvALENT-BOATS SUNK IN THE OHIO
RAILROAD ACCIDENT In INDIANA -
FIFTH PAGE
THE CONFEDERATION ERA THE CENTRE
STREET HOLOCAUST SIX GIRLS MISSING I
SAD SCENES AT THE STATION HOUSE
BARNUM'S FIRE BoX-THIRD PAGE.
FIRES ELSEWHERE IN THE CITY-INvEsTIGAT-
ING CHARGE OF ARSON-RESUME OF
OPERATIONS IN WALL STREET.-THE
O'HARE HOMICIDE-THrRD PAGE.
CHINA AND JAPAN THE CELESTIAL EN-.
PERoR PREPARING TO ASCEND THE
THRONE: NEW FLAG FOR THE
CHINESE NAVY: PROGRESS OF THE
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS: RELATIONS BE-
TWEEN JAPAN AND COREA-EIGHrH PAGE
NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL-GEN-
ERAL TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE =
FIFTH PAGE.
NAVAL INTELLTGENCEl OUR ASIATIC SQUAD
RON-IS IT PRIAM'S TROYp-OBITUARY-
MARINE NTELLIGENCE-EIGHTH PAGE.
JOHN BULL DESCRIBES BROTHER JONATHAN
REV. HUGH STOwELL BROWNS NOTES
BAD BOSToN-sEvENTn PAGE.
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

More vtctims OF Crimfnal Neglect.
The Centre street FIRE was far more disas-
trous than was at first supposed 1t now ap-
pears certain that five or six of the operatives
in the upper stories Of the building, where
the fire began, have perished in the flames.
Following SO soon after the sacrifice Of q
dozen scrubbing girls in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel 1t breaches an impressive sermon and
points to what seems an inexcusablo fault
We have here high house, admirably con-
strueted to burn, filed with paper and primed
with benzine In its lofts hundreds Of girls,
boys and men were employed II was
provided with fire escapes. They had been
condemned, it is said, as unsafe, and
an order had been issued that new onesshould
be put up. This order, it is' asserted, had not
been obeyed. The FIRE broke out, and in an
instant all was commotion and terror. Frantic
girls in scores pressed to the insecure stair
cases, by which many managed to reach the
street with their lives. Others tried the de-
fective FIRE escapes, and, aided by the noble
exertions Of the fremen, were enabled to
safely clear the tottering walls. But those in
adequate ladders proved the road Of death to
some half dozen of the industrious youth
who earned their bread at the risk of life in
that tinder-box high up above the ground
While several were slowly clambering down
the walls FELL and since then the friends Of
six young girls and one boy seek them in vain
and make inquiry for them at the
police station without avail. The cir
cumstances will, of course, receive. off,
cial investigation. Possibly there may be no
fault, no omission of requisite precauhon on
the part Of the owners or occupants Of the
fallen building; but if the facts are as stated q
fearful responsibility for the death of these
seven young victims rests somewhere. 1t il
possible to make buildings freproof. Ger
tainly it is sacred duty of all who employ
operatives in buildings liable to be burned
that they provide ample means for their escape.
We have officers whose business it is to see
that these are provided Fires are of daily
occurrence. Can we afford to kill our labor
ing people in our burning houses ? This
question came with fearful force from thou
sands who yesterday looked upon the ruins in
Centre street.
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bcrhood Of the now Post Oalcs = now ono of
the most important and valusble localities
in tho metropolis, or, indeed, in any city in the
world The HzEALp Building. the Park Bank,
the now iron building on the Nassau Fulton
and Ann street block, are Ill handsome stxuc-
tures' and thoroughly Areproof. There ID
nothing in them to burn, and hence they are
safe from the flames and barriers against their
spread The Times and Syuats Zsitung build
ings are worthy of the locality But how
are all these buildings surrounded2 BY shan
ties and shells unfit to stand in such neigh
borhood Ann street Is now one of the most
important streets, and should be made one of
the greatest thoroughfares in the city; yet
the buildings between the HERALD on
Broadway and the great iron build
ing on Nassau street. and those on the
opposite side of Ann street. between Park
row and Nassau, are old, ruinous, unsightly
tinder-boxes that ought to be swept out Of ex-
istence. Lawyers, bankers and insurance
companies who locate in the new Nassau
street iron building may rest in confidence
that their own property is entirely secure
against fire; yet o confagration might at any
moment rage all round them and find food to
feed it at every step. What New York now
needs is a comprehensive and vigorous system
of improvement, and the neighborhood Of the
new Post Ofice-the business heart Of the
city-should be the first to feel its influence
There is no more valuable property for rent
ing in New York, from the Battery to Harlem
Bridge, than that in the immediate neighbor-
hood of the City Hall Park, Park row, Spruce,
Ann, Nassau and the neighboring streets.
Money invested in the widening Of Ann
street and in the erection of such buildings as
that now progressing towards completion on
Nassau street, between Fulton and Ann, would
bear large immediate interest and larger
prospective increase There ought to be
public spirit enough in our city government
and enterprise enough in our capitalists to
place this portion of the city at once in it's
Legitimate condition. es IA.
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allowed to exist in Cuba If iii right 10 carry
out emancipation In the ono Island IL cannot
be night TO allow slavery to continue In ths
other Exceptional Legislation will bat aeprs-
vate the Cuban difficulty. It is doubted By
some whether the Spanish government Is really
in earnest in this matter Of emAncipatioa. Il
is not the first time that q beginning has been
made in the same direction. All previous
efforts have failed. Whether this new effort
shall result in another failure time will soon
tell I-Mr.. ----..- - IL. ...a
The New York herald., 1872-12-26
The Spanish Government and Eman-
cipati0n I'm the Colonies.

The Spanish government seems at last re-
solved to do something towards the emancipa-
ton of the slaves in her colonies. A bill has
been introduced in the Cortes providing for
the abolition Of slavery in Porto Rico; and on
Monday Sehor Martos, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, announced that the government had
taken measures TO prevent persons purchasing
slaves in Porto Rico and conveying them to
Cuba. In answer to o question as to whether
it was intended to indemnify the slave-owners
for the property they would lose by emanci-
patton, the government asked that the ques-
ton be deferred until the debate on emancipa-
ton was opened. We are we'll pleased to see
that beginning has been made; but we doubt
whether any lasting good will result from
emancipation in Porto Rico SO long as it is
The New York herald., 1872-12-26
Death OF the King OF the Sand ~ich
Islands.


His Majesty Kamehameha the Fifth, King of
the Sandwich Islands, died at Honolulu on the
18th inst He had been ailing in health for
some short time past, but the exact nature of
the disease by which he was finally removed
from life is not stated. The monarch was
childless, and the question of succession to
the vacant throne becomes an open one
between the Polynesian people and what re-
mains to them of free constitution, which has
been made aristocratically reactionist under
British promptings and for the benefit of Eng
lish commercial interests. The people of the
islands-which have been justly termed, in
group, the Cuba Of the Pacifo-incline already
toward self-government under free democ-
racy. It remains to be seen what diplomacy
the Washington Cabinet will pursue under the
circumstances. Kamehameha the Fifth was
anti-American in tone and sentiment As
Prince Loo he travelled in the United States
some few years since. When ascending the
Connecticut River, on o steamboat the future
King sat down to the dinner table in company
with the other passengers. His rank was not
generally known. An impetuously attentive
waiter, native of the Green Isle and DOM
ocrat in politics, after observing him mo-
ment said, unceremoniously, to the royal
stranger, "Nagurs aren't allowed to ate with
white folks at this table" The matter was
explained to the Prince. but he never forgave
what he resented as a deliberate insult, and
poor Pat thus became the innocent cause of
oaendiug fast ally TO his hereditary enemy
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

The EXTREME PRICE OF FooD in England
is naturally calling public attention to the
great extent Of unproductive land in the
kingdom. Conventions of laboring people
ask that the parks and game preserves be de-
voted to tillage and feed for men instead of
merely affording sport to the wealthy class.
Difficulties Of alternating land, its gradual abb
sorption from small into large estates,
and especially the vesting of titles by
mortmsin in religious and other cor
porations, which do not make it pro-
ductive to its fullest capacity, are the grounds
of very general demand for legal reform A
strong attack by the London Times upon the
endowment of churches, schools, hospitals and
other corporations with land, urging that
these trusts should be converted into money,
has called forth spirited rejoinder from the
defenders of the old system. 1t is probable
that this subject will be fully discussed during
che coming session of Parliament, the Minis
Try being considered as pledged to propose
measure of reform which will facilitate the
purchase and sale of real estate, and perhaps
testrict tie tying up Of land in endowments'
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

deshpot How is Il possible, then, for the
that the wrong onea Let ~ be grateful that
he leaves the matter with Congress. 1fS
The Attorney General declares with Delphian
wisdom that "whst IL past is past; it is only
the future that can bs controlled" 1t
remains to be seen how much weight an in
dignant public opinion can have over its
representatives at Washington. Judging by
the past we are not particularly. sanguine
about what is TO como. On December II Mr..
s. s. Cox, of New York. offered the following
resolution in the House of Representatives -
That the President OF the United States be re-
quested to inform the House ct the earliest pos
sible date why the Executive Of the United states
s S rneT q 70
House all the information he has relative TO the
conduct Of Judge Durell one Or the Judges % o. the
may determine what steps II any, ought TO De taken
IN consequence OF his interference In the political
affairs OF said State. .r s ,s..f -#rag .er
The resolution was received with the same
partisan animosity that characterized the re-
oeption of Senator Summers generous PROPOSE
ton to strike from all regimental 6ags the
names Of battles fought with conquered
brothers. We repeat the oracular language Of
Attorney General Williams in saying that
'swhat is past is past General Grant
asks for peace, and we contend that
peaceable union is utterly impossible so
long as there is usurpation in any part of the
country. Northern republicans disbelieve in
the sincerity of Southern Unionists, and
hence are ready to support carpet-beggers.
We assure them that no disbelief ever had less
foundation in fact, that no people were ever
more ready to accept the situation, but that
the best way to foster hatred and revolution is
to carry out the guerilla warfare of adven-
turers like Pinchback. II is quite possible
for negro or Northern man to be rascal
1t is quite possible for q Southern man to be
honest. Let honesty prevail and good gov
ernment will ensue. Let Congress demand q
thorough investigation, appointing investiga-
tors without fear and without reproach, and
Louisiana will be satisfied Her best people
are not SO much averse to Kellogg as they
fear his Legislature Let the election records
be closely scanned. Attorney General
Williams admits that there may have been
irregularities in the registration and cleo
tion." irregularities is mild term for
tampering with the ballot box, the egis of
our liberty, and comes with rarc grace from
the Attorney General Of the United States !;
but the admission is alone sufficient for
action. and if, upon reassembling, Congress
does not hearken to the voice of press and
people we shall believe that there are things
far more rotten here than in Denmark.
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

FmE AND SHIpwREcK ON THE SHORES OF New
ZRALAND.-From the antipodes comes news of
death and financial disaster the results of
shipwreck and fire. By dispatches from New
Zealand we are informed that the ship New
castle has just been wrecked off Cook Strait,
and that sixteen persons were swept from life
to eternity by the disaster. The Pacific Fire
Insurance Building in Auckland has been
totally destroyed by fire. Several stores,
which Immediately adjoined the structure,
were also demolished, as was also a magnifi-
cent building occupied by the post, telegraph
and provincial government Offices. 1t looks as
if special judgment by fire were already on
the peoples, and that the avengement is uni
yersal without respect to geographical limit.
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

HIS IMPERIAL HIcHNEss THE CzAREwITcH
ALEXANDER Of Russia is invalided by severe
attack of typhus fever. The medical bulletins
issued in st. Petersburg indicate that he is
seriously ill. The patient is twenty-seven
years Of age-a period of life which, in an
otherwise robust constitution, almost invites
fatal congestion and internal gangrene from
typhus.
The New York herald., 1872-12-26
Christmas and II. observ.neo..

Cnr1stmNS ana It's OOs0rvanccSs
Christmas Day, 1872, will doubtless long be
remembered in New York and throughout
the Northern States as ono of the coldest
Christmas days within the memory Of the old
it q chill as from ~
The pitlless coast OF Labrador,
if it was ''an eager and nipping all" it was
still wholesome and bracing in the sun. And
never before in this metropolis and its sur
roundings, on the islands and the mainland,
was the day SO generally observed as social
holiday and day Of religious Thanksgiving
and of the good works Of Faith, Hope and
Charity. From the reports which we give on
other pages of this paper of yesterdays church
decorations and services, of the happy re-
unions at our various benevolent institutions,
of the merry multitudes in the Central Park,
of the professions of target companies-not
forgetting the mirth-provoking fantasticals-
&C., &C., the stranger within our gates
will perceive that the city of New
York is eminently cosmopolitan, city
representing the four quarters of the
globe and the islands of the five oceans. So
far, too, as reported, it appears that through
out the United States our people, without dis
tinction of nationality, creed, race, color or
previous condition of servitude, have had q re-
markably '.merry Christmas !" that even in
the most boisterous of our reconstructed South
ern States they suspended for the day their
political quarrels to join in the general rejoic-
ings of the blessed anniversary of that glorious
morning when, over the starlit skies Of Pales-
tine the angelic host proclaimed the glad tid-
ings of salvation and of ''peace on earth, good
will to men," Throughout all Christendom,
we doubt not, peace or war, this Christmas
Day of 1872 has been observed more generally
by the people, in one form or another, than at
any time since the general peace of 1916. Is
it because, excepting here and there some
local disturbances, general peace now prevails,
or is it because the Christian world against
the powers of darkness is rising with renewed
strength to the work before it2 In any view,
our hopes are strengthened that the time is
coming when the universal faith of mankind
will be ''peace on earth, good will to men,
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Broadway, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth s-ScHooL ron SCANDAL.
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

NIpLOs GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince an.
streets-Lko AND Loros.
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

Britain, BY his mot being able to recognize .
monarch while engaged In executing the
honest duty of serving potatoes Fcr
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. Twenty fourth street.
NfW YEARS EVE.
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lutely without Jurisdiction, seizes State
House and seats Legislature, the members of
which have no other claim to their seats than
the finding of Returning Board, whose sole
authority is the recognition of this usurping
federal Court, and which processes to act solely
upon the statement or returns made by certain
United States officers who are entirely un-
known to the laws of Louisiana. ''The rest
is silence" Now, that Louisiana has griev-
ance is beyond question; but that her delega-
ton to Washington was wise in selecting
Judge Campbell as spokeman is doubtful.
Judge Campbell is clever lawyer, but Judge
Campbell is a controversialst, and wrangling
with General Grant and Attorney General
Williams on federal usurpation was not the
way to find favor in the eyes of those already
prejudiced against his cause. Under such
circumstances of what avail was it for Judge
Campbell to tell the President that if Judge
Cartier, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of Columbia should undertake to count the
votes for President and Vice President and
declare who was elected to these offices, with
the power Of the government to support him,
the act would be no more legal than the course
pursued in Louisiana, under the opinion Of
the Court, supported by the federal power?
We do not believe, nor do the committee be-
Leve, that the President desires to tyrannize
over the South, but the effect is quite as bad
as though he we're intent upon despotism;
and this effect is produced by an evil which
cannot be removed too soon, and which has
already injured General Grants reputation.
His fidelity to his friends is SO well known
as to render it forcgone conclusion that
with every desire to learn the truth, he would
take his coloring from his brother-in-law, Col
lector Casey, who is the leader of the Custom
House party against Warmoth. Now, Collector
Casey wishes to be nominated for the United
States Senatorship, nomination easily Sc
cured under the iacile reign of friendly
| Piuchback, who likewise haukers after similar
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

such shells as those recently destroyed in
Brooklyn and New York. The company claim
that they can construct buildings wholly of
corrugated iron-that is to say, with brick
walls sufficiently thick to withstand heat
thin iron floors, with roofs stairways, shutters
and inside finish all of iron.
The menagerie building on Fourteenth
street was probably one Of the most danger
GUS ever allowed to be put up in the city Of
New York for the past ten or twelve years
Rev. Mr.. Cramer, the rector Of the Church of
the Redeemer, furnishes an interesting state
ment of it's character. He watched the build
was exceedingly hazardous, advised the church
corporation to increase its amount of insu-
rance. The corporation examined the neigh
boring building and followed the rector's pru-
dent advice. The attention of the Inspector
Of Buildings was called to the fact that mere
tinder-box-a magazine of danger, rather
was being constructed in the heart of some of
the most valuable property in the city-the
Academy of Music, Tammany and Steinway
halls, the Church of the Redeemer and other
costly buildings. But no notice appears to
have been taken of the warning by the re-
markable public functionary who 10 supposed
to exercise supervision over such matters,
and in report of unsafe buildings recently
made by the superintendent the menagerie shell
was not mentioned. The truth is, we have many
such fire-tnps in our midst, and we need strin-
gent laws and their fearless enforcement to
sweep them away before we are visited by
confagration such as the people of Chicago
and Boston have recently experienced. The
character Of our principal buildings has
greatly improved of late years; but they are
only scattered at intervals on our principal
thoroughfares. Behind them and at their
sides stand buildings fit only to feed the
aemes in great conaagration. The neigh
The New York herald., 1872-12-26

wALLAcK's THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth
- Ga
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THE MORMON WIFE

Now the time for Agents 10 secure Territory iof this
thrilling and fearless book Il comprises the Adven-
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for years the wife of Mormon Prorheld closing
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music poetry true stories for young old saints and
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Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-02-13

81. Martins hall, Flfteenth street, was
crowded last night TO IT. utmost capacity by
the ellie and mnslc-loylng portion Of our col
ored cilksns, the occasion being q concert
given by the ladies aud gentlemen attached
TO the choir Of St. Martins (R. CO church
for the benefit OF the same. The singers Ae-
quilted Themselves handsomely. Solo, "when
the Corn Is waving," by NJ. W. 7. BenjA-
min, was well rendered. "Muslc at Night
fan," (dueiD was well sung BY Mrs. w. J..
Smith and Miss A. Martin; "Joslahs Court
ship" was effectively rendered by Miss N.
Smith; ''shut the Door Softly" by 'Messrs. T,
Locyyn, II. A. jackson, 7. II. Williams and
Mrs. W. J. Smith, was handled with artistic
taste; "CharrAing Widow" by I. II. VII.
llans, esq, was given with true conception
and effect; waiting" (solo) by Mrs. John
smallwood, was decidedly combination OF
art and culture, the lady possessing q voice
Of considerable power, blended with natural
sweetness; "Tassels on the Boots" by Master
@. jackson, was deserving Of the tumultunus
applause which crested H. There were other
choice selections well rendered, but want OF
space preclndes an extended notice. The
training and culture eVinced by the singers
reflect credit upon Prof. Esputa, who has
given much time aud attention TO their tuition.
Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-02-13

Departed this life on the eth instant, Ben
JaInin Henry Clements, In the $50 year OF his
age, leaving a wife aud three children TO
mourn his loss. Having emgrated to this
city when a small boy, from Kentucky, he
made this his home. Through industry aud
attention to his business, and being always
honest and Just 10 his fellow-lnan In his deal
lLgs, he had gained host OF friends, who
deeply deploru his loss, aud who deeply sym
pathlse with bis afflicted family 10 this their
hour OF need. hut God, who knoweth all
things for the best, has removed him from all
bis earthly pains aud troubles, aud taken him
10 a brighter home, where all Ia peace aud
happiness. None knew him but 10 love him,
none met him but TO respect him.