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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-21
TRIPLE SHEET.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO-Day's Contents Of tn e
Herald.

ITRAUD AND CORRUPTION FROM A PARTY
STANDPOINT THE USEFULNESS OF AN
INDEPENDENT PRESSn-LEADER-SN
PAGE.
tTHE VILLANY OF TIL THE TESTIMONY GIVEN
AND TO BE HAD IN THE CREDIT MO-
BILIER FRAUDsi THE MODERN URIAH
HEP VISITS DIR. DURANT-FoURrH PAGE
TIGHTING IN FOG MODOC BRAVES UNDER
CAPTAIN JACK DEFEAT DOUBLE THEIR
NUMBER OF THE TROOPS SENT AGAINST
THEM A FIERCE BATTLEi FORTY SOL
DIERS HORS DE COMBAT-SEvENTH PAGE
y PRINTER SHOT BY A GAMBLER I A MADI-
SON STREET BOARDING HOUSE TRAGEDY
HISTORY OF THE CRIME FROM ITS IN
CEPTION-SEvENrH PAGE.
FIRE IN GRAMMAR SCHOOL NO. 81 NARROW
ESCAPE FROM ANOTHER HOLOCAUSTi A
DANGEROUS BUILDINGi HALF AN HOUR
LATER, AND TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
NNOCENTS MIGHT HAVE BEEN SACRI.
FICED-FoURTH PAGE.
"A TERRIBLY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE
OIL REGIONsl THE TOWN OF PARKER's
LANDING ALMOST CONSUMEDi A HUN.
DRIED FAMILIES WITHOUT HOMES HEAVY
LOSS-SEyENTH PAGE.
REwARDING A SUCCESSFUL CUDANi TEsTI-
NORMAL TO GENERAL AGUERO BY THE
CUBANS RESIDENT IN KEY VEST THE
HERALD THANKED-SEvENTH PAGE.
EUROPE BY CABLE: THE RUsso-BRIrIsH
MBROGLIOi PUBLIC EDUCATION IN
FRANCEi THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT
AND THE EMIGRATION SwINDLES-SEv-
ENrH PAGE.
OAKES AMES PROMISES SENSATION IN
CREDIT MOBILIERl THE BANKRUPTCY
ACT Revoked SPANISH SLAvERYi MR..
SICKLES' MEMORANDUM ANOTHER SUIT
AGAINST ERIE-THIRD PAGE.
INVESTIGATING THE CALDWELL CORRUPTION
THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES-CONGRES-
SIGNAL DOlNGS-THIRD PAGE.
nHE DISASTERS BY FLOODS AND FRESHETs
THROUGHOUT THE UNION-LATE NEWS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PAGE.
THE AMUSEMENT FEATURES-OB OBITUARY.
MARITIME NEWS-TENTH PAGE.
DELAYNG SPANISH REFORMS IN PORTO RICO
HEAVY RAINS IN CUBA-SEvENrH PAGE.
THE FRENCH PILOT RESPONSIBLE FOB THE
LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP GERMANY
HONORs TO THE MEMORY OF NAPOLEON
H.-SEvKNTH PAGE.
SECRETS OF A SENSATION PLAY THAT
NEITHER THE JESUTTS NOR THE REDEMP-
T0RlST FATHERS ESTOPPED A SHABBY
ADVERTISING DODGE-TENrH PAGE
CARNIVAL OF THEqoUBAN MINISTER TO THE
COURT OF ST. james, ENGLAND AND
THE EUROPEAN PRESS FAVOR FREE
CUBAt PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE MINIS
TER-FoURrH PAGE
LOCAL WAR UPON KING ALCOHOL ATTEMPTED
PROHIBITION BY LEGISLATIVE MEAS
URESi WHAT HAS BEEN DONE HERE
TOFORE GROWTH OF THE TASTE FOR
AND TRAFFIC IN BEER-ErGnTH PAGE.
FIRE PRECAUTIoNl THE RESULTS OF YEsTER
DAYS INSPECTIONS BY THE BUREAU OF
COMBUsTIBLES AND THE FIRE DEPART
MENT-EI0HrH PAGE.
ANDREW J. CARNEY TELLS LONG STORY
ABOUT HIS PLASTERING FOR TWEED
WHAT CANE OF TIL THE JUMEL AMI
OTHER MISUNDERSTANDING
PAGE.
"A MYSTERY OF BLooDi A DYING MAN FOUND
IN JERSEY CITY-HOw MRS. sHEFFLlN
WAS KuLED-EIGHTH PAGE.
GOLD AND STOCKS ADvANCINGi A NEW ISSUE
OF WABASH MONEY ACTIvEi THB LON
DON MARKETS DISTURBED BY FEARS OF
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TROUBLES--NMTH PAGE
"A LIVELY CORPSEi BOYD's BOGUS AssAssI
NATIONi TOURING UNDER AN ALIAS
RECOVERED UNDER THE ExTRADITION
TREATY - SMALLPOX CAUGHT - NINrH
PAGE.
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The RUSSIAN ADVANCE AGAINST KmvA has,
we are told from Calcutta, completely failed,
IN consequence Of severe and bloody defeat
'of the troops Of the Gar by the Urgani people,
allies Of the Khan.
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TIE PENNSYLVANIA sENAToRsH1p.
HARRISBURG. Pa. ia,

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 20, 1873,
In the Senate tonight Messrs. Cameron Wallace.
and ii. b. Wright were nominated for United States
Senator, and in the House Messrs. Camerons
Wright, Randall and Phillips we're nominated
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Opening OF the New Fifth Avenue
Theatre. I'm Broadway.

opening OF the Now Fifth Avenue
Theatre. In Broadway.
The new French play of ''Alixe" is to be
produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre this
evening under circumstances that are as
promising as they are unusual. Broadway
reclaims one Of its comedy theatres and sdown
town" shows that it has not yet agreed to let
90 it's hold upon the amusement business, II
is question in which most people are inter-
ested as to what is, indeed, the theatrical
centre Of the city. Perhaps the answer is that
the centre is where the entertainment is most
artistic. AT any rate it il fair to assume that
Broadway has not yet yielded to other and
less important streets in its influence upon
theatre-goers, and, consequently. the class of
entertainments given by the very strong
comedy company which still clings to its
name of the Fifth Avenue Theatre Company is
as likely to prove acceptable in Broadway as
in Twenty-fourth street. It is only twenty
days since the old theatre was burned, but in
those twenty days what. was formerly the
dingy New York Theatre has been so COM
pletely overhauled as to be, in fact,
new house. Its patrons will meet with
most enjoyable surprise at the
complete transformation which has been
effected in its appearance. The opening
piece, too, is likely to prove suspicious.
"Alixe" is play of singular emotional
power" according to the singularly emotional
advertisements that have been printed in
regard to it, from which the inference is fair
one that it is after the "Frou-Frou" and
Fernando" class of comedy. These French
plays have strong fascination for American
playgoers, perhaps because there are many
things in common between French and Ameri-
can sentiment. and hitherto the Fifth Avenue
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THE LATE GENERAL LEE
Celebration OF tho Birthday OF tho Rebel
Chtef-Paradc Of Military.

w SAVANNAH, Ca, Jan. 90 1873.
Lees birthday was celebrated with great ec1as
here to-day, on which occasion the first parade Of
the military since the war took place. The First
Georgia volunteers, the Eighteenth battalion, the
Cheatham artillery battery and the Georgia hus-
sars paraded in Uniform. General Wade Hampton
delivered an address. The day was generally OBJ
served as q holiday, and resembled the Fourth OF
july before the war.
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BETTING ON THE GEORGIA sENAToRsH1p.

ATLANTA, Ca, Jan. 20, 1871
General Gordon was the favorte and sold three
to one in the Senatorial pools tonight: STEPHENS
brought the next highest price and I'LL the lowest
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THE LOUISIANA MIDDLE.

Bal1otihg for senstor-Fusionists Ex-
pclis6> by the Kelloggites.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 90 1873
The fusion Legislature to-day balloted for Sena-
tor unsucccssfully
In the Kellogg Legislature Senate to-day Messrs.
jerks swords and warrar. who withdrew on the
10th, taking seats with the fusionists, were ex-
PEELED. Resolutions were introduced expeliing
nine members OF the House on similar grounds and
were postponed until to morrow.
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A MISSIONARY FOB MEXICO.
Rev. William Butler and Wife Going ON
Missionary Work to Mexico.

BOSTON, Jan. TO- 1873.
Farewell missionary services were held to-day al
the Bloomfield street Methodist church pending
the departure Of the Rev. William Butler and wife
for missionary work In Mexico Bishop Simps IN,
Rev. DR.. Clark and Rev. s. F. Upham took part in
the exercises, which were numerously attended.
India.
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Tho Necessity OF Flood warnings.

-~~ A"oSOsSASS ~ 1AVOSA vvSAAAAWSss
The late ice freshets, which have done SO
much damage in the Delaware, the Susque-
hanna and their tributary rivers, prove the
necessity for river observations in the gorges
of the Alleghanies, whence these foods have
been precipitated upon the seaboard. The
Delaware rises in the Kaatsbergs Of south
eastern New York, and is about three hun
dred and twenty miles in length. An observer
stationed at or near its headwaters might have
given notice of the late rise two or three days
in advance. The Susquehanna, rising in
Otsego Lake, in this State, runs nearly four
hundred miles before it is lost in the Chesa-
peake Bay, and an observer stationed in its
upper course might give timely notice of i'm
pending foundations in Winter. Spring and
Fall to the country endangered The same
is true Of the Schuylkill, the Lehigh, the Poto-
mac and James rivers, since the rate of propa-
cation of foods does not often exceed fifty
miles day.
On the great Western waters the Signal
Office has established few stations for watch
ing the rise and fall of the rivers for the pur-
poses of navigation, and they have been ex-
ceedingly useful in preannouncing those
severe floods which convert the gentle water
course of to-day into the expansive and turbu-
lent inundation of tomorrow. It is evidently
of great consequence to the Middle and
Eastern States, as well as to the West, that
such river observations be increased, and that
upon the present organization of the Signal
Service there should be engraited system of
daily reports for all the principal rivers. In Q
month OF two we shall have our great Spring
freshets, with which the late river foods are
scarcely comparable; and no time should be
lost in providing for such service
If, as we apprehend, the reason this has not
yet been done is the insufaciency of the means
provided by Congress for the meteorological
department. and the inadequacy of it's appro-
priations to meet the necessary expenses of
additional stations, the difficulty cannot be
too soon removed and the money appropri-
ated. We are sure that if the Signal Office will
only ask for the assistance needed to carry out
our suggestion it will speedily be extended.
CORRUPTION IN THE BODY PoLrTIc seems to
be spreading like the smallpox in some Eastern
cities Besides the Credit MobiIier abomina-
ton, the various land grab jobs in Congress,
the developments in our own city, the election
of q United States Senator from Kansas and
the five and ten thousand dollar checks in
connection Herewith, we have now calls for
investigation into the manner of the election
of United States Senator from Missouri and
one from Nevada, each of whom, it is alleged,
owes his success to the distribution of large
sums Of money among members of the Legis-
lature the figure in the case of the Nevada
Senator elect reaching, it is said, the snug
amount Of three hundred thousand dollars.
Verify this is an era Of corruption, and the
searching brooms Of investigating committees
ought to make clean sweeps all round. Down
Il
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Theatre has had almosta monopoly of Partisan
comedy. It is fortunate for the manager that
French plays are SO well received by the class
of playgoers to whom he caters, for acceptable
English or American comedy is not to be had
every day, and it is more especially fortunate
because the fire has deprived him for the
present of his facilities for producing standard
plays The admirable manner in which Mr..
DAILY produced 1.-THE Merry Wives Of Windsor"
will be long remembered as triumph of stage
decoration, and as q tribute to the devotion
with which he gives himself to his dramatic
work. After this 'The Inconstant" and ''The
Bellies Stratagem" made the deepest impress
sion, and indicated the really excellent acting
we are yet to have from this company In
his new homo Mr.. DAILY win be able to realize
more fully the ambition which is to him at
once an inspiration and business. The sue
cess which has crowned his efforts hitherto
was something in itself worthy of recognition,
but the pluck which gives him new theatre
almost within fortnight of the loss of his old
one makes the occasion of his rentrsc in the
very building where he began his career pecu-
liarly fitting for kind word Of the young
American manager who has brought so much
dramatic good out Of his own energy and
intellect Though he has not yet shown us
actors Of such great ability as Mr.. Lester
Wallack and some others we have had in
standard comedy, his work has been on the
whole well done and is worthy Of much sim
cere respect and appreciation. s..
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ADJUSTMENTS TINS EVENING

UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway between
thirteenth and Fourteenth streets--ATHERLEY CoURr.
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BOoTB,s THEATRE Twenty third street. corner Sixth
Or, THK FALL or TARoUIN.
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wALLAoK's THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth
street.-BRoTHER SAM.
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THEATRE coMIouE 81. Broadway.-Krso AND
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and That no corrupt bargain was made between
the liberal lobbyist and the benefited Con-
gressmen.' But nothing is said of the necessity
of stopping the mouths and shutting the eyes
of the Senate and House of Representatives to
the fraud Of the Credit Mobilier and TO the
swindling of the government in the Union
Pacific Railroad business, and the shrewd
inquiry of Cakes Ames when O resolution Of
inquiry received parliamentary smothering,
whether the investment in the Speaker of the
House did not pay, is passed over by the party
organs in silence.
We remember to have heard great and q
just outcry against the Tammany Ring and the
Erie Ring for their notorious interference with
Legislation and for the brides with which, both
before and after elections, they were accus-
toned to purchase legislators. 1t is now shown
that democratic President of the Union
Pacific Railroad and a director of the Credit
Mobilier paid ten thousand dollars to Senator
Harlan, o republican, while he was q candidate
for United States Senator, and all we hear
from the party organs is that this is not cor
ruption and cannot be taken as evidence of
improper conduct against Senator Harlan, be-
cause it occurred prior to his election. In the
case of Senator Caldwell, the evidence that he
purchased his seat in the United States Senate
by free and INSCRIPTIONS use of money is
conclusive. There is something revolving in
the coarseness with which the bribery and cor
ruption were conducted. The bargains for
votes and influence were made with as little
delicacy and as little attempt at concealment
as would be displayed by two Western
drovers haggling over SO many head of
cattle. Yet the party papers can discover no
offensiveness in the transaction, and are only
calculating upon the political effect that would
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29

horses. It's no such pleasant journey
either, I can tell you, between the wolves
and sthe frost, not to mention cold
welcome. Come, amt you going to
take something? Here's broth and
brandy and grual-take your choice. :"
"Nay you shall choose for me" said
Ben. "Listen. Unless you take back
the words you spoke when we met last,
unless you give me back love for love,
[ swear | will not taste a morsel of any
thing you have to offer. I'll stay here
and starve rather than take a crumb
of comfort from your hand"
"What did, I say?" asked Louisa,
meekly.
''You said that you could live with
out me"
ooh yes, suppose I could, but I
shouldn't want to-"
''But you refused to marry ME"
'Certainly, because you didn't want
to marry a girl with no more heart
than an adder, Ben."
81 want to marry you, heart or no
heart"
every well; have some broth first,
won't you?"
And then Tim came in, and Uncle
Simon awoke, and there was an end to
starvation in camp.-Harper's Weekly.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29

! "did it make him sober?" Our visitor
took frmer hold of his stick, and re-
piled with increasing emotion:
"Just so. Isuppose it did make him
as sober as a Judge in less time than
you could say Jack Robinson; but,
mister, it made him mad. Itmade him
the madest man I ever saw, and Mr..
John Smith is bigger man than me,
and stouter. Bla-bless him. new
er knew he was half so stout till yes
terday, and he's handy with his fists,
too. I suppose he's the hardest man
with his fists [ ever saw
"Then he went for you, did he" we
asked innocently.
"Just so. Exactly. l suppose he
went for me about the best he knew,
but I don't hold no grudge against
John Smith. Isuppose he ANITA good
man to hold a grudge against, only |
want to see that man that printed the
piece. [ want to show him how a
drunken man acts when you pour wa
ter down the spine of his back. That's
what I came for.'
Our visitor, who had poured water
down the spine of drunken mans
back, remained until about 6 o'clock
in the evening, and then went up the
street to find the.man that printed that
little piece. Thenian he is looking for
started for Alaska last evening for
summer vacation, and will not be back
before September, 1875 Utica Herald.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29
an Iuterestiug gturg.
LOVE AND LOGGING.

Louisa's father had gone off with the
OK team up into the woods, sixty miles
away, to make the camp before the win
ter's logging should begin. She felt
very lonely as soon as he was out of
sight, for more reasons than one. In
the first place, there was nobody at
home but little Tim, who could dig
the paths, to be sure, and look after
the cattle; grandmother, who was COM
panionable enough, with her stories of
old times, but care more than a pro-
tector; and Susette, who helped about
the house, but was only child. The
second reason was that she had quar-
relied with Ben; and last, but not least,
he and her uncle Simon had driven off
on the OK team with her father. If
there had ever been time since their
quarrel when she had felt disposed to
make it up, it was when the OK team
had disappeared from sight and it was
impossible to do so.
The fact of the case was that Ben
had been looking upon Louisa as his
own property ever since he could re-
member. He had beaued her to and
from singing school; he had helped
her out with her hard problems at dis
trict school, and had carried her home
on his sled; at quilting, sewing circle,
or picnic he had chosen her for his
partner in the dance, had paid his for
feits to her, and had revolved about
her daily. And she had seemed to rel
ish the whole thing till she went away
to the city one winter to work in a
1nilliner's shop, and so came home
quite out of conceit with country liv-
ing and country men, and had rather
given Ben the cold shoulder, refusing
his gifts and attentions, and showing
pretty plainly that she looked higher.
But Ben, with the instinct Of a free
born American, felt himself as good as
anybody, and charged her one day with
having come by hifalutin ideas of her
self and life in the city, which didn't
in the least become her, and averred
that she couldn't do better than to
marry him.
"Well, Mr.. Benjamin Thurman, ]
hope you're conceited enough she an
swered him. "Marry you! | won't
say but you're well enough yourself
but to live in this slow, backwoods
fashion forever would be the death OF
me; and not so much as lecture OF
concert to while away the time; to be
wearing homespun all my days, and
worrying about the crops. Oh dear
no, thank you; I've had enough of hard
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29
"A Babe In the House

Is well-spring of pleasure" says some
one of our poets, but q lady at our ell
bow, who has had ample opportunity
of testing the correctness of the obser-
vation, suggests that if the writer had
applied the remark to Sewing Ma
chine instead of a baby, he would have
been nearer thetruth. And we doubt
not that she is right; for who that
knows anything Of the labor-saving
character of Sewing Machines can
doubt that the presence of one of them
in house is indeed source of deep
and never-ending pleasure? Take, for
instance the New Elias Howe machine,
now admitted to be, by far, the best
and most reliable for family use. This
machine hens, fells, quilts, tucks,
plaits, braids, gathers and sews on, ETC.,
and performs its work with such un-
erring regularity and extraordinary
speed that we are almost constrained
to look with admiration upon the man
through whose genius it was given to
the world. There is no machine which
suits the family SO well, and for-man--
ufacturing purposes it is equally reli-
able and effective. always performing
its work correctly, and always giving
satisfaction.-COn Commercial.
W. G. BRENT, Port Tobacco, offers
the most liberal terms to all who desire
to purchase by monthly payments of
five and ten dollars, and no pains or
expense are spared to give full instrue-
tions and thorough satisfaction to eve
ry customer.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29

The umbrella which Washington
used to carry is to be seen in Boston.
The Pittsburg, Pa, Eveeimg Leader,
has special of "Penn. Points" 80
A woman's love for military officer
is generally uniform.
The Persian monarch's smile must
be sad one, as it is simply a Shah grin.
If were in the sun and you were
out of it, what would the sun become?
Sin.
Ladies travelling across the plains
carry their hair in their pockets to a.
void being scalped.
What nation is most likely to sue
ceed in difficult enterprise? Deter
mination.
1t is said that the Digger Indians are
never known to smile. They are grave
Diggers.
We are told that nothing is made in
vain-But how about pretty girl?-
Isn't she maiden vain.
Mrs. Partington thinks that the gro
GERS ought to hire music teacher to
teach them the scales correctly.
At a coroner's inquest witness was
asked, "What was the last thing seen
by the deceased?" "Kerosene," was
the reply.
"Talk about the jaws of death" ex-
claimed hen-pecked husband; Il tell
you they're no circumstance to the jaws
of 1ife.''
Hafz, that charming Persian poet,
saysi in his lastnovel--published a thou
sand years ago-"Every man has in his
heart chapel of eggs, of which each
contains love; in order to hatch one
of these eggs is required only the glance
of woman"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-29

A CHARACTERISTIC story is told of
the most incorrigible of the burlesque
writer's. When a favorite domestic
drama was recently brought out at Liv-
erpool, a terrible wall occurred on the
night of it's production, after the Sec
ond act. The orchestra had exhaust
ed it's repertory, and still the curtain
remained down. Presently a harsh,
grating sound was painfully audible
from behind-the sound of saw strug-
Cling through wood. "What is that
noise?" impatiently asked a gentleman
of the author. "Well, l can't say" an
swered Mr.. Byron, mournfully, "but 1
suppose they're cutting out the third
act"