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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
Tho Cabinet Changcs-The Secretary Of
tho Treasury.

tho Treasury.
A despatch from Washington represents that
President Grant denies any present knowledge
of the desire Of any Cabinet member to retire
except the Secretary of the Treasury, or any
present intention on his part to make changes
save in this instance, and that only should it
become necessary. Very general dissatisfac-
ton will be felt should Mr.. Fish continue in
the Office of Secretary of State. The people
look for change in that office. As
to MIR. Boutwell,, his policy has been
80 eccentric that the commercial COM
munity will feel relief when he retires
His contraction policy now is as singular as
his expansion policy before election. Then
the Secretary of the Treasury was the friend
of the bulls; now he is the hope and main
stay Of the bears. boarding greenbacks, he
now appears in the role of an official 'locker-
up Of currency, and those who a short time
ago relied upon him as the prop of speculative
stocks now fear that he is about to bring about
their ears the temple of sand he has helped to
build up.
We would just suggest that possibly some
good may grow out of the rumor that Bout
well alone is to retire. If no Secretary of
State is to be taken from New York this city
may furnish Secretary of the Treasury If
Governor E. D. Morgan should hope to be
Mr.. Boutwells successor, then Senator Roscoe
Conkling might find the Senatorial race the
easier to win. There are all sorts of singular
'ifs" in politics.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

PRESIDENT THEIRS AND THE PopE.-M.
Borcelles, the representative of the French
Republic at the Papal Court, will, it is said,
soon return to Paris. In some quarters this is
regarded as an evidence Of the continuance of
the difference between President Theirs and
the Holy Father 1t is perhaps more natural
to conclude that the President has resolved to
discontinue an embassy which is no longer of
any use. One representative in Rome Presi-
dent Theirs may think is quite sufficient to
attend to the interests of France. By universal
consent the Pope has ceased to occupy the
position of temporal prince.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
The Recent Fatal Fires-The Duty
OF the Grand Jury.

1t is very we'll known that the Coroner's in
quiry into the cause of the deaths of the VIC
Tins of the Fifth Avenue Hotel fire was unsat
isfactory to the people of New York. The YER
dict of the Jury was not such as had been ex-
pected, or such as the terrible event seemed.
In the opinion of large majority of our citi-
zens, to warrant Nine unfortunate girls were
roasted and charred in their horrible
prison chambers, left until too late without
warning of their deadly peril, barred in by
grating from escape by the roof, driven back
by the cruel flames and smoke from escape by
the stairway, shriekng in their terrible agony
to the annoyance of the hotel clerks until
death put stop at once to their cries and their
sufferings II should be ascertained positively
and beyond doubt whether any respon-
sibility for their awful fate attaches to any
living human being; whether the owner of
the hotel in the slightest degree neglected
those means Of escape from fire required by
the law whether the lessee by any act rem
dered escape impossible whether while the
guests were warned of the danger these poor
young girls were left UNDECIDED to their fate
whether, in fact, any act was done or omitted
to be done by any person which aided this
miserable sacrifice of human life and for which
the law can exact punishment
The duty of this inquiry devolves on the
Grand Jury of the Court of Special Sessions,
and Judge Sutherland, who will now take his
seat on the bench of that Court, should charge
the Jury to that effect. AS District Attorney,
and as Supreme Court Judge presiding at
the Oyer and Terminer, Judge Sutherland
will fully understand the importance of
an investigation into the causes of
the deaths at both the Fifth Avenue
and the Centre street fires, and the propriety
OF instructing the Jury on the subject. He is
not likely to neglect this duty because the
victims in both cases were poor Irish girls
who came here to seek an honest living by
honest labor For centuries burning to death
has been looked upon as the most awful
suffering the human frame can undergo, and
the surroundings in both these cases have
added additional horror even to that most hor-
rible fate. The people will not be satisfied
unless thorough investigation by Grand
Jury is made, and no person should be allowed
10 sit on the Jury CHARGED with the duty who is
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

Senators and Representatives whose wives,
sons-in-law or other near relatives were 30
favored as to be given ten thousand dollars
for one thousand by the Credit Mobilier ring
have been just as guilty Of bribery and
corruption as if they had taken 80
much cash for their votes These
singular opinions will not have been
changed, or modified even, by the course pur-
sued by the tainted legislators who have been
blatant in their denunciation of those instru-
mental in exposing the scandal, or who at one
time 30 boldly and so untruthfully denied all
connection with and all knowledge of the dis
graceful transaction. 1t is for the committee
who entertain these views are correct in their
judgment Thanks to the HERALD the men,
bers of the committee have now plain sailing
before them. The denials are all or nearly all
Withdrawn, and pleas of justification or restitu-
ton have taken their place. The names
of some of the fortunate stockhold-
ers in the Credit Mobilier have been
supplied, and it will not be so
difficult to discover for whom Cakes Ames
and others held large amounts in trust"
But all this the committee must now inquire
into with open doors. There must be no more
tampering with this loathsome disease; its
seat must be reached and the knife Of the
operator must cut it from the body polite.
The people must be cheated and hoodwinked
no longer. Already an uneasy feeling is
abroad as to the integrity Of the committee,
and the fact that most of its members have
been steady supporters of the Credit Mobilier
and the Union Pacific Railroad is not calcu-
lated to reassure the public mind. Let the
committee look to it that the faint already on
their associates in Congress does not extend to
their own garments
We call upon the investigating committee
to remove the suspicious seal of secrecy 80
unwisely placed upon their proceedings and
to throw open their doors at once to the
people of the United States. We demand in
the name of the people that these Investigators
shall stand forth in the light of day and let the
truth be known, no matter who may be dam
aged by the disclosures. Let us know if men
in the highest and most responsible positions
in the government are mere purchasable
jobbers, ready to violate their oaths and betray
the public interests for price, It is too late
now to cover up tracks and protect friends.
Will the investigating committee do its duty
fearlessly, or stand branded as partner in the
infamy it fears to expose?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
The Rain Fall Yesterday-Damagc to
the Telegraph Lines.

tho Telegraph Lines.
The few unfortunate ones who were COM
PEELED to be out yesterday to answer
the calls o. duty or of business, and
the few pious ones whose Christian love
was proof against the weather, and who
if salvation came by works would deserve
well of the Almighty, had some sensible
experiences of what the Storm King can do
when he martials his forces. Beginning feebly
about church time in the morning, the rain in
creased in volume and fell with vigor, freez-
ing almost as rapidly as it fell, until
walking was penance if not an
impossibility. All the ingenuity of
Puck could not keep the telegraph wires in
their position, nor in their relations to poles
and persons. Loaded with icicles, they yielded
to the weight, broke from their fastenings,
and to-day they hang listlessly and uselessly
across streets and avenues and sidewalks of
our city. Our police and fire departments
have gone back to first principles, and mounted
men do the work of the wires. There is
necessarily more or less confusion among
these guardians of our peace and safety, but
greeable and arduous as it is, faithfully and
well.
Our neighboring cities are in the same
plight and telegraphic news, limited as it
necessarily is was forwarded in many in
stances by the old fashioned "pony ex-
press" In the upper part of the city large
limbs Of trees have been broken off by the
weight of ice; the telegraph poles have been
inclined in some places several degrees from
their perpendicular position, and the Storm
King did his work SO well that in some
churches up town people were compelled to
stay in the house of God from the morning
till the close of the evening service. We know
of at least one such case Last evening there
seemed to be q change in the weather from
sleety rain to dry and moderate frost,
so that locomotion to-day may be
more comfortable for pedestrians But
does not this almost general breaking
up of our telegraph lines suggest the expedi-
ency of having some underground wires, as
European cities have them? If some great
disaster should befall us we should be almost
helplessly tied up by the present inability of
the wires to obey us. An effort is to be made
to-day to restore them to working order, but we
ought to be insured against repetition of such
loss, ifpossible, in the future. In another COL
umn will be found some interesting facts con-
corning the ravages of the Storm King yester-
day, whose track was followed by our repre-
sentatives. We are getting through this
Winter pretty roughly. And the end is not
yet.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
WITH SUPPLEMEN T.
New York, Monday. Jan. 9, 1879.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO-Day's Contents Of the
Herald.

1.-THE CREDIT MOBILIER CORRUPTIONl MORE
LIGHT FOR THE INVESTIGATING COMMIT
TEE OF CONGRESS"-LEADER-FO
PAGE.
THE CREDIT MOBILIER VICE PRESIDENT SETS
FORTH SOME FACTS! WHAT THE CON-
GRESSIONAL COMMITTEE MAY FIND OF
FRAUDS UPON THE UNION PACIFIC: A
PUBLIC EXPOSE OF CONTRACTS, AFFI-
DAVITS AND lNJUNCTIONS-SECoND AND
THIRD PAGES.
MAYOR HAvEMEYER'S MUNICIPAL VIEWS
AND "REMINISCENCES AN INTERESTING
CHAPTER FROM A WELL-INFORMED CHIEF
MAGISTRATE: FOSTERING RINGS--SIxru
PAGE.
SAN FRANCISCO PROTESTS AGAINST THE GOAT
ISLAND SCHEMEl SPEECHES OF PROMI-
NENT CITIZENS: THE DANGERS FROM
THE PACIFIC RAILWAY-FIFTH PAGE.
NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL-TELE.
GRAPHIC AND LOCAL ITEMS OF NEWS
FIFTH PAGE
STOKES IN THE TOMBS, HOW HE SPENT
YESTERDAY: HIS DOOM: IN murder
ERS' ROW." COUNSEL RISING TO EX-
PLAIN-TENTH PAGE
HONEST JOHN CAMERON ENToMBEDl impress.
SIvE CEREMONIES AT THE CHURCH AND
THE CRAVE MASONIC AND POLICE TIES.
TIMONIALS OF ESTEEM-MARITIME INTEL.
LIGENCE-TENTH PAGE.
'LES MISERABLES!" BITTER BOREAs SPREADS
AN ICY MANTLE OVER THE METROPOLIS
AND CUTS OFF THE ELECTRIC CURRENT:
THE POLICE, FIRE AND SIGNAL SER.
VICES-FIFTH PAGE.
GREE LANCE'S" APPRECIATION OF Dun
DREARY'S BROTHER, THE WEATHER AND
FIRES THE NEW CURE FOR ENNUI:
BLESSINGS OF OUR TEMPERATE ZONE
SIXTH PAGE.
A QUARANTINE EXHIBIT WHAT HAS BEEN
DONE IN THE EXTIRPATION OF CON-
TAGIOUS DISEASES: THE DEATHS ON
SHIP AND IN HOSPITAL: THE FACILITIES
OF THE SANITARY OFFICIALS-EIauTH
PAGE.
RESUME OF THE MONEY MARKETS FOR THE
WEEK. THE FLUCTUATIONS AND FINAL
RATES-THE NOTED DEAD-NINTu PAGE.
DOCTRINAL POINTS DISCUSSED BY THE PAS.
TORSi THE SLUSH AS BAR TO DEvO-
TON: A BOUNTEOUS RELIGIOUS SPREAD
FOR THE HERALD READERS-EIGHrH
PAGE.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
The Provision OF Fogs and tho Ad'
vancing storm.

The Provision OF FoEs and tho Adj
vancing storm.
Our great fogs have usually been made the
subject Of jest and joke, but if meteorologists
are to be believed they are very suggestive and
important phenomena. The late fogs which
so thickly mantled this city extended many
hundreds of miles southwark, and have proved
the occasion of more disaster than q severe
storm; 80 that it becomes as necessary for our
former as of the latter. In descending
the Danube in 1918 Sir Humphrey
Davy noticed that mist was invariably formed
during the night when the air on the banks
of the river was as much as six degrees
colder than that overhanging the stream. The
densest fogs are known to form during the
winter months, and especially in the vicinity
of large rivers and large cities. The famous
London fog owes its November thickness to
the comparative warmth of the Thames bed
and the artificial heat of the metropolis at o
season when the cold Polar and soft
equatorial winds overlap each other and COM
mix. The intervening mist lying between the
two great air currents is premonition of those
terrible gales, originated by the rapid condens-
alton of the warmer and southerly wind, and
too often serves as veil to conceal the deadly
designs of the gathering storm. The Gulf
Stream coming in contact with the hyper
borean Labrador stream on the Newfoundland
Banks is scarcely less certain of causing the
notorious fogs which prevail there. There
is the conflict of the two opposite aerial streams
Equatorial and polar" to occasion the vio-
lent disturbances Of the atmosphere which
make the Gulf Stream the terror of
the mariner. Humboldt and others have
observed that when an oceanic current meets
a shoal in its course the spot is indicated by
the shroud of fog which is Immediately and
permanently formed.
With such indications our weather guides
may be enabled to give much earlier and surer
representations of the storms that must now
be looked for during the later Winter and
boisterous March. The region over which the
late fog was SO Dense and, in some instances,
so disastrous, is the Middle Atlantic seaboard,
and we may justly infer that it is ut
present the area of active conflict be-
tween the boreal and southerly winds
great disturbers of the atmospheric peace.
We shall do well to be on our guard against
the early recurrence of severe gales off the
coast and severe rain and snow storms on the
land. The great Royal Charter gale Of 1859
on the coast Of -Anglesea, of unsurpassed vio-
lence. was preceded by just such weather as
we have recently had-hail, snow and sleet in
the north and heavy rains in the south, with
dense fogs and other indications of conflicting
currents. Even while we are writing this the
Signal Office reports storm in the Ohio
Valley, moving northeastward, and orders its
warning signals to be displayed at this post
and along the seaboard.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

FRENCH COURTS hold railway companies
strictly responsible in damages for accidents
to their employees as well as to passengers
and the general public. Relatives of an en-
gineer and fireman killed year ago have just
recovered against the Lyons line large verdicts,
which, besides capital sum, include yearly
income to the widow, mother-in-law and
children Of the persons killed. If our law
inflicted such penalties it would soon be found
the wisest economy for the roads to have few
broken rails and misplaced switches.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

New POSTAL REGULAr1oNs-Goo FOR THE
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS. This week the new
postal regulation goes into effect whereby the
newspaper mails will be made up and labelled
in the publication Office and sent directly to
the steamboats, aud railway depots without
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

REMEMBER THE INFANT AsYLUM.-It is not
often charity takes so pleasing form as that
of the Infant Asylum ball, to be given on
Thursday evening, JANUARY 49, at the Academy
of Music. worthier object could not appeal
to charitable hearts or generous pockets, and
if the rapid sale of tickets and boxes tells no
fattering tale the occasion will be one of the
most brilliant of the season. To matron and
maid, paterfamilias, bachelor and beau, we
soy Go"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

AN HONEST EXPRESSION OF GRATITUpE--The
thanks to q merciful Providence from the Pres
ident of a horse car line that the epizooty and
our big snow storm did not come together
upon the city.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

in any manner, directly or indirectly, con-
nected with the owner or lessee of either
building. We trust that Judge Sutherland
will give these suggestions proper considera-
ton, and that the inquiry we demand will be
made without fear and without favor.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

THE SANDWICH AND FIJI ISLANDS. Our
friends across the water are evidently much
exercised about the future of the Sandwich
Islands. John Bull sees quite as clearly as
Brother Jonathan that manifest destiny points
to the annexation of these islands to the United
States. We have no desire to enlarge our ter
ritory BY the annexation Of any of our imme-
date neighbors What we wish to see is a
Gordon OF separate and prosperous republics on
this Continent and in our Immediate neiphbor.
hood. But the Sandwich Islands are necessary
to us as halfway station between China and
Australia, in view Of our great and rapidlv
growing trade in the Pacific. We need tbem
and we ought to have them at once, either nv
direct annexation or through the establish.
ment of protectorate. We can have no
objection to the suggestion made bv the
London Standard, that in order to maintain tbe
equilibrium, should the Sandwich Islands fal,
into our hands the FIJI Islands should 10
annexed to Australia We had supposed that
Great Britain had already on her hands too
many colonies. In a matter of this kind
however, she must be allowed to Judge for
herself
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

CHARITY AND ENJOYMENT CAN Go HAND IN
HAND before those who purchase tickets for
the various balls in aid of charitable institu-
tions in the city. On Wednesday, the 22d
inst, the ball in aid of the Roman Catholic
Orphan Asylum will be given at the Academy
of Music. 1t is pleasant way to be char
liable; and where youth and beauty can WOO
their way heavenward in evening dress and, to
the light strains Of 'LAllegro" soften the
lot Of s.n Penseroso'' it should be done.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty -third St and Eighth
av.-RoUND THE CLOCK.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

NJBLO's GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and
Houston streets-LEo L0ros
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-06

UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.-ATHERLEY CoURI
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-13

, The SPIRIT OF DIscoNTENT.-The other
day we stood by o cooper who was play
ing merry tune with his adz round a
cask. ....l ... |''o
dj "Ahw said he, mine is hard lot
forever trotting like dog-driving a
hoop" .ra# :. mona
,d "Hsighho!" sighed the blacksmith
on . hot summer days as he wiped the
perspirstion from his brow, while the
red iron glowed on the anvil; this ia
life with vengence-melting and fry
ing ones self over q hot fire." e.. .a-
i.i sob! that I was carpenter" ejac-
ulated the shoemaker az be bent over
his lapstone. Here am day after
day, wearing my soul away, making
soles for others-cooped up in this lit
tie seventy mine room. Hi-ho-humr'
y 7" I'm sick, Of this out door work.
exclaimed the brick-lsyer -" boiling
under the sweltering sun or exposed to
the inclemency Of the weather, wish
! were q tailor ''-'I' ~. i;'i'''",
% =. This s. TOO badr' petulantly cried
the tailor" to be compelled to sit
perched up here plying the needle all
the time. Would that mine were q
more active life '", o..,, - r,.,',T
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-13
HOME.

Homes not merely four square walls,
Though with pictures hung and gilded,
Home is where affection calls,
Filled with shrines the heart has builded
Homel--Go watch the faithful dove
Sailing in the heaven above usi
Home is where there's one to lOvei
Home Is where there's one to love us2
Homes not merely roof and room,
1t needs something to endear IL.
Home is where the heart can bloom
Where there's some kind lip to cheer 1t.
What is home with none to meet
None to welcome or to greet us?
Home is sweet, and only sweet,
Where there's one we love to meet u.s."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-13

# - The wealthsst man in Russia,
excepting a very 6ew Of the nobility, is
M. Stsiglitz. merchant. and banker, who
retired . few years Sgp from business,
after accumulatipg Mty Millions Of dol.
!ars. Z Probably there Are not Afty men
in the world who are worth fifty mil
lions Of dollars each. The western hem.
!sphers has three OF these, residents of
New York - Astor. Vanderbilt, and
stewart. bLG %NfHHt.{ 8ll] IcIadV
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-13

AN EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED.

am not sure whether did right
or not. I am sure that I meant right.
It was on this wise: -
Believing implicitly that the bending
of little human twigs should be accom-
plished during the early stages of their
growth, I concluded to commence on
We've. Accordingly I filed box with
chestnuts, and placed it within her
reach, saying: Now, We've, dear,
you must not touch them without my
permission. hir- ~ !, ~lHpV -
"Well, den, I dess III not," was
the reply, while the brown-eyed three
year-old gazed wistfully toward the
sweet temptation. I gave her six or
eight. 30 '-5 - ..'
"In my dear title pottit-tank 90. "
went to my work, and labored with
all the cheerfulness of an inventor who
is pretty sure his machine will be q
success. t..r .....f ..s~ ..,i..e-t a.
During the afternoon it occurred to
my mind that those eight nuts were
lasting remarkable long time. As
suming my blandest tone for the occa-
sion, l asked: , aai @1' i.'
"vieve, have you eaten all your
chestnuts?' ........., ..
"No; I fink not"
you get SO manyP" go ~ .l ell .
'"Oh! diets 'em out of my potit."
=" Well, but here are more than I
gave you at first, said 1, examining the
dainty receptacle. ooh, Vievel have
you been disobeying me, and getting
more out the box q
81 'spect pr'aps I have"
"Put are you sure p
" Yes, Use pity sure" "' ..
"Oh, dear Vieve!' I cried, with the
feelings of one who discovers his inven-
ton to be failure, /" this makes poor
mamma feel so sad, I do not like to pun
ish you, but what must doT I must
have my little girl to obey me. Oh!
what shall do!'' g.. a''4ia a.l
The small sinner looked reaectively.
".Well, mamma" she presently said,
in solemn tones. "I dess 90 had bet
ter pray" ...
Believing her suggestion to be o
wise one, embodying about oil the wis
dom Of the entire affair, I acted upon
it. ...' 'r'. III 'l" .'''. .s''r., "0
Returning to my occupation after
our session had adjourned, the first
thing that caught my attention was q
scrap of old newspaper, containing the
sentence. 3 -.!
che who through intention or neg
lect throws before another tempta-
ton is, il be be overcome, equally gull
ty." ......r...L 4:,.......;.,s .
put away the box Of ohestnuts, and
am waiting for further light--Natiossol
Baptist.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-12-13

- One could take down a book
from the shelf ten times more wise and
witty thenl almost any mans conversa-
Sion,, Bacon is wiser, Swift is more
;V T i meet with; but they cannot chime
;ip, ,Nihl the exact frame Of thought in
which No happen to take them down
j.. from. .aQArs shelves. and therein lies the
luxury, Rf a, 'nyersation; and when q liv-
ing speaker n oes not yield us that lux
Jury, he ,Ree9Mes only q book On two
legs. w.