The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1870, Page 8

a 5 {ip after ne had provecded rome distance along Ree RED RIVER. Si basond Fort Abercrombie, Tas SOME Oe weer cause of the Fenian sensation along Canad ‘The jan managers AFFAIRS AT FORT GARRY. biWibdoaltven sabe: to ralee mone rer ins, anailan end bnived :, Fo ee ee tae Eee Rerbuce. whtle taey % THE TRANSFER QUESTION NOT SETTLED. Yrere ail the time qthety propartng to push &, strong — River ony Arms and Fenian com) were 2 and Movements of ‘portion of the Nasetnswe ware ase month taken Plans ’ from the ‘officers in charge of them in those the Fenians. ‘While the officers were told to hold their commands in readi- ness for a long aad transit. ‘The action of the Canadian Parliament uy) tmtmatatons by the Ref River delegates at Ottawa that the whole Northwest dimiculty would be amicably adjusted upon the basis of that bill, and the news of the expectation at Fort Garry of a friendly adjust. ment bad the effect of check! vogramme of the Fentan leaders, who dha the Red Iiver people were nob ng them. Fenian — relnforements to plan of concentrating two or three thousand Fentans by detachments at Garry was abandoned, aud the Fenian wauagers then tok up the scheme of operaung Independently, and SPRIKING THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION ou ‘ts pamful march along the route from Tort Wil- Mau to Red River, -They proposed to quietly trans- fer their forees in small parties into the vast, unset- Ued regions of Northeastern Minnesota, with subor- diuate headquarters at St. Paul and Duluth. The men were to get employment on the new raiircads in process of construction, and the arms and sup- piles were to be forwarded in small quantities by ditfereat routes to a rendezvous in the far northern forests. When the Red River expedition should have left Fort William @ few experienced scouts wer? to watch its pre and select and map a favorable spot at some dificult fordage for ambuas- cading the expedition. As scon as the troops had arrived near the designated spot the men were to be suddenly collected and moved rapidly in light marching order, conveying a few supplies and some extra ammunition on pack horses to the vicinity of the proposed ambuscade. About three bundrcd men were to be en; in the undertak- ‘0 Ave ont ti » Northwes fore starting. roun ammunition to tothe Washington governme! hat the Northwest Man. tie’ were tar Roproacis iG saDEALSIOUSTY question had been amicably adjusted, and that the | camp at midnight, when it would be strung out expedition from Cauada was simply a peace mission guarding irae tons of Suppties, strewn Seep 08 : arms of setiiement, occasions great | 4 0f @ portage to another, an ifs members Ww carry out ve (ernis of setilement, occasions great | coi in sleep, wearted by the exhausting labors of surprise here among all intelligent persons coaver- | the day in-catrying bales and packages around the sant with Red River amu: A prominent ciizen wi rapids. Au preconcerted sigoal a grand rush was from Fort Garry, who arvived here yesterday, ex- | to ve made, with loud zis gad tania, indiscrmi- presses the utmost astoulsiment at such an idea nate fring pon the start leepers. The troops, We their s0- being entertained. This genueman, who has been ly unacquainted with warfare (for called regulars are only militia and an influential party to the Red River revolution, and | ‘Melt volunteers the rawess of raw re whose opinions are entitled to much consideration, gays, after carefully informiug himself here upon the craite), being total strangers to their sur- roundings would naturally be stampeded and announced policy of ibe Dominion government, that while that policy may, wiih modiltcattony, be as- would ily back precipitately upon their trail. The most experienced of the Canadian officers would realize the hopelessness of rallying their men under sented to by the Rel River poopi such an attack In the darknes@, and would fall back nothing avout it and may prove far less tavorably disposed to the “miitar, on”? than the san- guine Parliamentaria wa Loan f Indian Difficulties and the Military Defences of the Northwest. 22, 1870. St. Pavn, Minn., May The. Red River matl arrived last pight, bringing news from Fort Garry dated May 10 Perfect quiet prevailed in the settements, awaiting news of the Tesuit of the Red River delezates’ negotiations with the Canadian government at Ottawa, The Jatest in- telligence received at t Garry (rom Canada prior ‘to the departuré of the mail ouly gave the particulars ‘of the arrival and coo! reeeption.of the delegates in Ottawa, nothing having been heard yet either of the character of the expedition now being fitted out, or of the legisiation of the Dominion Parliament on the Northwest question, Bishop Tache, how- ever, Who returned to Fort Garry cone time ago trom Canada, where he had spent the winter, had given assurances to the Rea River people that a con- ciliatory policy would be pursued by the Dominion government, and upon these assurances Riel and Lis coadjutors were maintaining a sort of masterly inactivity. MINISTER THORNTON'S STATEMENT to some famidar spot they passed over In the day, to reform thelr compauies, This would be all the could desire, for while a portion of their force would keep up ahot fire from every thicket eeranaeinat by chor Oke upon the confused and nolsy mass of troops, the re- siniled . mainder would quickly destroy the suppiles and thata 1 by daylight, when the Canadians would Garry be ready to assuine tue offenstye, the Fentans would i government's programme Was just the away. ‘The suppl been destroyed, Dominion bus wh befure th D- ition would of Course be cempelied to re- ‘ i ort Wikiam, and Peutenisin would glory in led at ai, nor | 28 cs, J adjustment any turther ten’ the This wai t developed programme of the led action of the Domuion tarda. | Peman u bat It is now believed to have been ding of 2,000 picked trocps, with abandoned. z known to be going on n ein » hovpital department and rement at present, military suppiles, does n look revalis in circles gen- to th an like a very weil po: ‘ations, there Is every > for Fort Garry ini- for i snee with the Cana- ‘or a War Bepartment at Washingion yecting the rumored concentration 5 in Minnesota, have replied that there was atever in the repor: Vas the muli- les ought to kn » moving Nn their juriedict! obub.e to be is nol at preseut a 1 Warrior in the State, The Canadian authorl- owever, seem to think civerentiy, and have not 1 erutssaries prowling about in Wis- consin and Mamesota hunting Fentans, but have sent agents W.th p.eseuts to bay the good will of the scattered Indians Itving along the roule of the expe- d.uon. The-e indians are @ miserable race, totally ualike the warake Sloux and Chippewas of Minne- so'a—degraded even for a savage, and incapable by nature of making a respectable tight, They would nut resist a Fenian party passing through their forests, st give prompt notice to the expedition of the outs Of any strange company of men in that i At any rate Canada 1s busy “treating” with them, and many a lazy, half-starved Indian in the swamps of Rainy Lake and its tributaries witl soon be astonished by the unexpected reception of a 35 not yet didon wil Ww! for 1 by the Cavadian pe 5 coming aa they do from an in ciuzen, throw # ew Ustit upon Uh tion, aod Minister Th fred River liwest ques: rhion nay Glscover that he has been migled by b sadian proteges. Whether not Kiel will reor; hig forces aud prepa 4 upon the rece, r , remains to ve det Riel will pot qi pied by the Canai of immunity fr a vengeance ud as the Do- ays nothing minion programme, as announced, sa) Whatever about the course to be pursued revolutionary leaders, tere is a fair prosp considerable noise being made at Fo: arry the new Licatonant ( nor of Manitoba geis 1 bis seat, affairs have been quieted at Fort Garry ly by the assurances of Bisitop Tache that Can- | red blanket and an old musket. and it has y (THE EXPEDITIONARY ROUTE develop has obstacles enough to be overcome, however, oi the Red er peop! without being tmiercepted by Feni~us. A glance at staicd, the transfer cues the map of that country shows by the numerous setiled at ai with jakes and water courses lala down that it must be aad the Ottawa x au most mupeneirable labyrmath in summer of grounds for u | Swamps and tangled thickets. A portion of the fue Engl’sh pe a on gable; but with over 00 miles of tern- question wal : | tory to be crossed and the inexperience of the men “stopped ove {- | taken iato cousideration, there secms little pros- ple had a vole *, and the of the expedition reaching Fort Garr; eee a aia mag reba very fore autumn. Correspondents ~ of Canaiian Inuch as Mr. Johnson did to Boltimore from his spaper’, writing from Sault St, Marie, roast beef and plum) pudding. the Chiccra was stopped, compiain ‘The omission of a1 varatitee for the indemnity | bitterly of the long delay that will be occasioned of inose who to lied rebellion is | by the necessity Of transporting the expedition by provavly the chie/ p the Ked River | kind around those rapids. At that point there are people will base thelr opposition to the but two nules and a half of portage, with pieuty of teams, over a good, solid road from one landing tothe other. If this portaze be so serious an ob- stacie, how it be av the numerous postages along the river Seine and Ramey river, all of them infutely worse than that at Sauit St, Marie, and itis mot Impos sent pri Canadian programine, Canadian goverment has assurancesto Riel aud the otler members of the provisional government of personal saiety; but this Would Hot protect them irom the jezal consequences Adjutant General; Brevet Major R. Chandler, Cap- taia Thirteenth imfuntry, Acting Assistant Adjutant y Lieutenant Colonel G ge Lieber, ‘Aavooste; re may oh = ‘Thirteenth Infantry gna 3 Brevet Brigadier General &. Us‘Holaird, Chief QUuAr- termaster; Brevet ‘Colonel J. H. Giman, ; Surgeon Jonn E. tendin Surgeon Brevet Liew Al 3 Brevi Charles Larhed, Chief Paymaster; p, Chief , and Captain J, wnelling na oad Sykes ta i oe Brevet Major Ge! im CO} of peor E, Twentieth ‘infantt . Fort Ripley 18 rrisoned by Company G, Twentieth infantry, under e command of Brevet Colonel KE. CO. Mason Fort Abercrombie las Com) F, Twentieth in- under lirevet er 1.0, Hunt; Fort Wadsworgtt has Companies B and H, Twentieth infantry, under Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. ©. Bates; Fort Ransom has Company D, ‘Twentieth infa under Brevet Major L. M. Kellogg; Fort Totten Companies A and ©, Twentieth infantry, under Brevet Lieutengnt Colonel G. A. Williams; Fort Ridgely 19 withdut m, in charge of an ordnance sergeant; Fort iy has Companies A, I and Hi, Twenty-secona infantry, under Brevet Major General A. H. Stanley; Fort Rice has Companies B and G, Tweaty-second infantry, under Brevet Colo- nel E.'S, Otis; Fort Randall has Companies © and D, Twenty-second infantry, under command of Bre- vet Colonel J. N. G. Whis ; Fort Stevensgn has Companies E and F, Twenty-second infautry, under Captain 8. A. Wainwright; Fort Shaw has Compa- nies A, F, Land K, Thirteenth infaniry, under Brevet ier General P, R. de Trobriand; Fort Ellis has Company D, Thirteenth infantry, and Companies 1’, G, Hand L, Second cavalry, under Brevet Lieuten- ant Colonel E, M. Baker; Fort Benton has Company Tuirteenth infantry, 1. . Buiord = has ry C panies E and H, Thirteenth infantry, under Brevet Colonel H. A. Morrow; Camp Cook has a detachment of yon ge B, Thirteenth infantry, under Lieutenant J. Bishop; Camp Baker has Company G, Thirteenth infantry, under Captain #. W. Clift, and the new post at Pembina has Compa- nies I and K, Twentieth infantry, under Brevet Licu- tenant Colonel Lloyd Wheaton. General Hancock is accompanied on his trip-to Forts Randall and Sully Pt Quartermaster Holabird and Captain Wharton, and in the absence of General Greene Major Chandier is performing the duties of the commanding eral at headquarters. are quiet at present within the d ent, but there is no telling when Indian trout may not break out, The peace of Dacotah and Montana depends in a great measure upon the solution of the Red River question, Involving, as it does, the interests of the Sioux, and the next news from Fort Garry may be of no less importance to the people of the United States than to those of Canada, ART NOTES. Again summer brings around its brief compara- tive respite to the world Of art—reapite from galle- ries in the full glory of their eclecticism, from stu- dios where anxious hearis beat, and hungry, un- wearled mouths drink and pulf and sound unfag- ging praises and admiration in honor of thelr brother artists. Respite 1s brought from the collections, each one better than the preceding, till a dizzy cli- max is reached which makes the imagination giddy with reading or writing the puMng and hunibug- gery; respite from receptions reeking with falsehood and flatiery, fooicry and insincerity; respite from the fear of failure and the agonizing suspense of certain success; respite from Arcadian views aud phoiographic and melodramatic landscapes; from inconceivable studies and contortions of the human form divine; respite from making them and seeing them, and praising, condemning, admiring and lodthing the respite from saying what one doesn’t feel and feelimg what one docsn’t say. Lay down the trumpet and the thunder “and the warwhoop, and Nourish the olive brauch and smoke the pipe of peace! The summer brings re- spite to the grieved and disappointed fledgling, Whose rubbish, so highly prized by himself, hag, sad and strange to relate, found little favor, and who will bleat the story of bis unappreciated genius in the impregnable self-satisfaction of ignorance; re- spite is brought to the weary crowd of neither good nor bad, who during summer months can fad no luring auction falls nor markets for thelr wares; ahd must perforce cram their empty noddles for the next campaign; respite to the great lion, whose name and lustre make good his feeblest efforts, and whose roar makes crowds fall prostrate in admiration; re- spite even to the noble critic, who toils but does not reap, Who wins the love and veneration of all in the pursutt of his agreeable calling, and who, if he praise or blame, or do both, recelves just about the same amount of love and gratitude and credit for impar- tality. All the manewuvring and toalying, coaxing and threatening, are over for a While, oF, al least, so far as they ever can be where there ix uuman nature, with its good and evil, and conflicting Interests to keep them up, and the art world packs up ifs trea- sures and trumpery, mahi sticks and madders, fends and friendships, and betakes itself off with the rest of the world to the thermal tortures of a sum- mer resort, or plunges innocently into the nameless discomforts, agonies and mythical enjoyments of a “tour,” which none but the initiated know fully to appreeiate, ‘he elegant and wéhlihy Mr. Carmine goes to a fashionable “watering ce,’ and is courted and fooled and flattered a!) summer, til) he hezins to think he really is what people try so of their 2 Which, however deiensabie ou the | Where all of the hundred tons of supplies have to be assumption of exercising te powers of gov- | carried on men’s backs through bogs and thickets, ernment, become criminal, aud even cupi- | and over precipitous rocks around the rapids? This tally criminal, if considers us the acts of | must be donein dense swamps under a July and private subjects of her sigjesty; and ag the | Augustsun, Add to the toll and sickness incident “A 2 to such @ march the clouds of mosquito nT Canadian Parliament bas negl acts of the provisional governm lowers Will pe at the merey of W to legalize the nt Riel and nis fol- oltizen black flies that i) that region, and a fair pie- tre of the route may be imagined. The black o may enter a comp! In the | fly needs no eviogium from my peu. His capacity Wiwens case the privare unadian | for inilicting torture has been deseribed government wili amount tu nothing as securities | Im exhaustive terms, He is an Insatiable against the veng¢ 4 ul.4, Bowton, the rela- | vampyre, a fiend, a monster in miniature. The inos- tives of Scott aud other Canadians who have ocs of the Northwest are the boast of the set- goffered restraint or punishay he hands of ‘3 in Northern Minnesota, One pious old farmer, whore head looked like a withered apple from 113 anuual swellings By mosquito campaigns, was asked by the writer if the mosquitoes were us bad as re sted in Novthern Minnesota, His expression nanee defied description as he slowly and solemnly said, “The Almighty, in His méinite wis- aver put more mosquitoes Into less space.” wir With vast swarms and drive horses st to Madness, Traveliers across tue oods, and & ¥ been foreed to ne become £0 ose their eyes. These are no e tue provisional governt may be promised, bu aioncment for the culrige © traitors, 1obbers aud niurdere vindicating te rigit of th geli-gosermment Ley hiv ut An Bxecutive pardon yould be poor branded a5 for acts done in River people to od in wresting om Canada grauiude of th 3 aod it wouid | are cor hardy Lama! , vie woods, their an instance of 1 Canada to ta Rea ovisional go aut, to jaflict Mist on the in > mosquitoes literally swarm gent leaters } eu cor the lakes and streams between Li r nd the ‘ky Mountains, 1 there is ¢ irora them except upon euineaces swept oreeze, Hunters and explorers who have ‘ COWL P try (aagubes os + Wi seas 1 Red g his bage: © punt sumer stat pat at les f the ex- iia veviaen 400 * 2 Will be unilited for (ot duty. by the eiyort to en ynivoes and black Mies before it has been in the General He Swamps a week, unless the 1 all provided arms in car with good gauze hoods and g command, ties at that fort. according to latest accounts _ Canada, will.uot auything to do w jeave Kort W 4 July. Six weeks the care of 2 will be tie short bie for it to get the fort. through the swampy Wi Garry, and v if 6 accomplishes the joummey by the Ist of Sep- erument at For: temb Wul be fortuna 4 upon his prenis » the Canadian polley respecting tiese a | territory is to receive Ue consilera- General | tio’ River people, and when the expedi- to provect him im case of tion on the sluny marshes upon the General told bitin be had wy to do with t plat t¢ of able-bodied preservation of the arms, bub in ihe ausenes of etyil | me wy find before them o most inhospitable re- ntier he decmed It to be premises trou ii 1p » aud that t ny Outrage from being com- mitied on his property. “Here the matier resied, the ars remaining ticre until the present tine. Some time since the Coliecior at Port Abererombie notified | ; retary of tie‘lreawry of the presenee at Liat piace of a large amount of Canadian arms dnd am- Mmuuition in transit to Red River, and that a de- mond had been made by the Kian authorities for them, The arms nov having passed regularly Virougi the Custom iLouse the Codector had declined to give them up, and asked for tustructions. No answer has yet been i ved by the Collector, bat it 43 uaderstood that the mi ywen reterred by Seeretary Loutwell to the State rement, whitch Will probably cause tie aims iv be tiken Dak to @ansda again. cepUon. onicers on that remote his duty to protect all Amer sion oY trespass when ap troops would prevent 2 TROUBLES. | Leaving the C pedition in the hands of mercittl Providence, it 13 of importance to the i ived States to consiler what effect nm trausier has upon the Indian ques- atcning so much trouble upon the tera froniier. The terrible massacre committed in Minnesota in 3862, when the Sioux, atter butcher- Ing over two thousand people and committing innu- merabie more lorrible atrocitles upon woman, found an asylum inthe British possessions, is too fresh in the mina to be detailed here. These same Indians are to be wou to the support of the Canadian govern- ment ta its occupation of the Northwest territory. They have but two articles Intheiv price of friend- ship, nemely—rifles and amnimnition. It 1s not to be infered that the Canadian government inspires them with any hostility to the frontier settiements of the United States, but the gift of these arms ws a matter of sult re and) ammunition “to shoot " buifalo” affords past wiuter there have t them the means of executing vengeance mens of a Fenian caaracter in tis section, and upon Americans for haaging thirty-nine of one me there seemed a probal B f¢ warrioys and of capturing much plunder, The River country mignt become te Fenian Utopt aralyzation of the business ot the lindson Bay Com- Insh yepublic. it will be remembered py U pany anc the difiteniies at Red Raver have deprived Heaaiv’s read 4 by the pr the Sloux of tuelr customary. supplies. They er had now restless, almost starving and ripe for pillage The large number of reinforcements sent to the Lr dian froutier, the expedition of General Hancock, commanding the Department of Dacotah, to Forts Randail and Snily, on the upper Missouri, and the Trevent establishment of a fert at Pembina, with two companies of iafwatry, ave indicative of serious ap- a) y to ayreat extent te zealous Fenian, aid hos loug beci bator to Fepian pudlicatious iu v He undoubtedly desired Fe: sistance to Vanada, and tt Was perlin pa im Ve “3 a ins sag re sions on tie part of the goverament respect- gece ee ee iano aa Head | Tug Inilan matters in the Northwest, Severai thoa- tl oe el Ne Fori | son Sioux refagees {rom the United States are now aarry to make areangen Fenian force mMto tie hed 3 ‘Yhe writer was @ travelling companton of tt. agent in his trip to Rea River, and was the British possessions, and the Indians re- on American soll, after committing depre- Sinthe northern Territories, mvariably ily to syium until their pursuers have aban- Wien the agent, who bore a regular vet the’ warpath, In view of the poss. an oiticer of the Fenian generis stam, bility of ‘ier and prolonged ‘agetlienanone special envoy for this mission, learned tL at Red River, consequent npon the sending gut of the #ion was not opportune for treating wilh tie setiie- | Canaaian mi} y expedition, and its legitimate ments at Fort ‘The reasom assigned was (hat | eitect upon tie Signs, 10 18 interesting to giance at ye the Red River people felt stroug euovgh at that time, and that many of the setters feared thatif tie Ve- Niaus were to come there at that season Lb would be Aiupossible to subsist nm. This, with the feartal | includes the State of Minnesoia and the Territories storms which had just set m, obstructing the route } of Dacotah and Montana, under the conimand of the deiences of dnr own people from Indian out- rages, THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF DACOTAT to Fort Garry, aud the prospect of no coercive mea- | Genel Hancock, with headquariers at St. Paul. wures being adopt ihe Canadian governineut | The following officers compose the general statl:— Jeiore sumer, tus she syont ty avandeg thy | Brevey Brigadier Geueral 0, D. Greene, “Agsictant hard to persuade him, ine best and greatest of artists, and cultivates a becoming contempt for his iuferiors, while poor Iniigo stuifs hts flannel shirt and toothbrush in an old knap- sack, and, with his painis and brushes on his back, scrambies of and pbaries himself in the country, enjoying the tne'table satisfaction of ma- ligning and sneering at the rest of the world—a di- vertissement, 1t may have been observed, which may be freely indulged in by Uie meanest and poorest as well as by the riehest and greatest, inasmuch as there is no expenditure of means or wit tnvolved—the only two considerations likely to deter the great majority of mankind from enjoying any innocent amusement whatever to which tlielr neighbors may be made to coniribute. The noble critic, beloved and believed by all, renerves his powers of discrimination and untyersal charity, scrawiing away in his attic, probably per- feetly contented and happy in the consideration“of the good will and wonderfully even distribution of blessings he sees everywhere around hin, THE LAST FLW SALES OF THE SEASON. The main movements of inierest in art have, it would seem, passed off quite satisfactorily to those concerned, and no small number of excelent works haye changed hands—some of tiem works of con- siderable importance, — It is, indeed, quite a notice- able jeavare, ihe excellence of the majority of the collections of the past s 4 At the walleries there seer Juli, and there is little of youd the ordinarily very e: f y on hand at the works of impo: t now to be rather a ‘est on exhibition be- ant works Kept con- important depositories, ice are on the easels of and will shortly be placed Sever some of our better a on exhibition. In the studio of Mr. rt ts, Hart we noticed several works, among which one which has already been veral times on exhibition, but which has laely been retouched by the artist and very greatly linproved; Indeed, it scems now to be one of the sirongest and bi we have seen from the hands of this talen We cannot pass this pal a work by without wort of praise on the masterly manner in‘ wh h Ss treated the wile subject A ¢ tle, with Instinetive fear of an ap) storm, have abandoned their grazing are standing crowded together, under the protection of a tree, with mingled terror and conscious security. The figures in thelr grouplog and action are capita. What seems, however, to us as the greatest point is the power and understanding with which the artist has treated his storm clouds, They are gathered together in that dull, leaden mass one'so frequent! 3 in nature, heavy with rain and about to discharge in a drenching shower. ‘The whole manner and treatment show careful study and much thonght, and the work, when it finally leaves the hands of the Peli Will doubtjess take a high stand Jor thorough comprehension and strong rendering. Several smailer wWorks—two especially of the hurveat season—are very charming their fresh feeling of nature and delicate poetic treatment. ‘There is a very pleasing variety in the works of this artist, which is particulariy agreeable as compared With the limited range not infrequently noticeable in some of our better patntere. A tendency to cattle and country views has not yet become with him @ chronic difiiculiy. MR. JAMES FAIRMAN. This artist, for, doubtless, very good reasons, seems Not to ave accomplished the amount of work since our Jast visit to his studio which previous experience has ied us to expect. Sli, he has done @ great dea!, and some very creditable work too. Mr. Fuirman is one of those artists whose incefatiga- bie labor ieads one constantly to expect someihing: new from him, and inthis respect at least, credit of his industry be it satd, lie rarely disappoints one, His pictures, as a rate, would be far more leasing reiieved of a too great preponderance of he complementary colors of bine and yellow, which seem to form & perpetual see-saw effect, and one nob altogether agrecable. ‘There is evinced in several of his works cousiderable tdeaof the im- portance and harmony of jines which Is very com- mendable, but there 14 a lack of that variety of color which 1s always charming aul satisfying,” A-work, very nearly if not quite completed, is a “SHOWER IN THE VALLEY ANOROSCOGGIN,” which shows a very @xccllent imention. We have spoken before of a higher aim than a mere photo- graphic and commonplace representation of a scene in nature, alike devoid of though! and fcelmg, and the importance of the more frequent rendition of greater truths, and higher nobler thoughts. Thunder and lightniug, however, and storm and tornadoes, although doubtless majestic in nature, frequently lose much of their force on canvas, and are no! aiways quite adequate to the interpretation of the great ideas they may lave been callol upon to ex- press, Atmospheric eflecis, of cours ulco are em- rt 88 a mehns and as one of the mediums be conveyed, , but they m' like ‘the tin and the stage, or they y must be accompanied by = hata ghetto powerless. Fairman jepicted & sky after a shower, with the ‘santght streaming through the rents in broad beams down on the val- blue and yellow are somewhat by the broken ‘clouds fast disper and mel! but there fs still too much even here-the effect. is tance are too broken, and the trees are too round and hard, The idea, as we have said, but It needs different treatment and closcr and more eareful study. eral smaller works from varied subjects show some versatility, with the same ten- foregone Mis "Pleasait River Vailey is sul" pr~ ing. ley’! ia si greasing and shows, we think, more power and study than many others of this artist. prem fair, when tinisned, to be one of bis best works, and shows even now no small amount of study and care. NEW PHASE OF THE INDIAN QUESTION. The Indians Obstructing the Channels of Trade and Commerce Between New York and the Southwest—They Stop the Con struction of Railroads and Levy Tribute o the Internal Trade of the United Statce— Unparalleled Impudence. WASHINGTON, May 28, 1870, ‘The Indian question has assumed a new phase, The hating, swindling and equivocal policy of the Indian Bureau ring will answer no longer. For rea- sons best known to themselves certain members of the United States Senate and all the members of that close corporation known here as the Indian Bureau ring ehave chosen to assume that each wibe or clan of Indians within our bor- der is an independent nation, to be treated with upon the same terms and in the same manner as with actual nations like France, Portugal or Great Britain, and treaties have been made accordingly with the Kickapoo, Quapaw, Cherokee, Piegan, Blackfeet, Choctaw, Osage, Sioux and other similar “nations.” In the matter of observing treaty stipulations the government has had two distinct rules, With foreign nations a tolerably strict observance of stipulations has been maintained on both sides, at least such hag been the theory. With the Indian ‘nations,’ on the other hand, while the United States has been almost with- out exception fatthful to its treaty obligations, and in most instances doing better than was required, the Indian “nations” have never in scarcely a single instance observed their treaty obligations, and for® the reason stated by Commissioner Parker in his last report, viz.:—“Indian tribes are not uations ca- pavle of making treaties, ay nove of them have organized governments of such inherent strength as would secure a faithful obedience of ts people in the observance of compacts of this charactey."? TRIBUTES LEVIED. The ring managers have bean permitted to go on m this nefarious and a bustuess uatil they really appear to , the nationality of these tribes of Savages. A cave tn point is well illus- trated by the follow! which iclip (row a Kansas paper of the 13Ui inst, PROCLAMATION CAMP Bro HILLS, OB A6 To prevent any disturbance betwi ATION, April 1, 1870, n ihe cattle drovers and angoa on account of suid drovers driving through sald Osage country, and wishing to have peace and be in friendship with all people, f deaia ft iny duty, as Governor of the Nation, to do someting In th 08. ‘Avi T, therefor “authorize Messrs, Greenway & Co., now at the crossing of Pond Croex, on the road known asthe Chislora trail, to collect from ali'berda of cattle pass- ing through the Osage country the sum of ten cents for each head of eattle driven thronih sald country on ald ti Now, §€ this amount is. pi Jessra. Greenway & Co., at their said piace of businens, { will seo that the said Osages do not call on the euid drovers for bee for pay for urivin, through said country nor molest any drover on rond or trail. JO& PINLOPEASHA, Governor of the Osage Nation.. Signed in the presence of C. W. Hill and Harry Anderson. A WORD OF EXPLANATION. ‘This most extraordinary prociamation needs a word of explanation. It is weli Known that large herds of Texas wild cattle are driven to Kansas, Missourl, Tilinois and sometimes as far east as Ohio, where they are kept over one season fattening, prepara- tory to being trausported by raflroad to New York and other Eastern markets. I may observe in pass- ing that we have no more Ind an chicis—they are all “governors” of “nations.” In all Indian Jobs there ‘will be found a clique of villanous white nen at the bottom, The white Keepers of ‘‘Joe Pineopeasha, Governbr of the Osage Nation,” have put that miserable pauper savage forward a3 a caispaw or coniederate to blackmail the cattle trade of Texas white on the road to New York. This is no joke, 1 can assure you. Not only does fle “Governor of the Osage Nation” exact ton cents tribute on every head of beef on the road between Texas and New York, but every tudividnal Osage can do the same, The “governor's” guarantee of protection is not worth the paper his white keepers wriie iton. All that any schemer In the Southwest country has to do io set himself up as an ludependent tax collector as to catch an Osage, a Cherokee or @ Quapaw, dub him “governor”? anl proceed at ouce to business. "These tributes are so heavy at times as to nearly break up the Texas cattle trade, and serlousiy aiect the price of beef in ali our Eastera ciue AKE A NOTE OF PHIS. Reef eaters will make a note of ail thi also bear in mind that ifthe Governor of New York, for example, should undertake for a single week to do what this ¢ ie “governor”? and other 'tiugs of the Southwest have been doing for years with tinpa- nity, he would have the federal autivor'tie Ai wiih @ sharp stick. Ergo, the Gove ¢ - have less power under our coustit wey will than these Thugs, These tributes have be levied for years, Any daring drover who attempts avoid payment sub; himseif to the pregerib tye alty—death and o Alon of property. Hon, Join C, Conner, of aS, states: that over 200 of his constituents have been murdered by these Thugs within tie pact y bevertheless the United States observes ail its treaty stipulations with them. One-tenth part of the outrages, if com- mitted by Englishmen, would at once a eal treaties with Great Britain and bring o: These go called treaties never have liad th an actual treaty between nations, [Tf is not neces- sary to quibble over their nacure; they were all ab- rogated long ago, @ thousand times over, by fulfliment of the stipalations on the part of tue In- dians. If any of thei have not been thus abro- gated they have been entirely done away with by the fourteenth amendment of mnstitition of tha United States, which deciar all persous_ bora within the exterior tioundaries of the United tates to be izens thereof, These ‘Thugs f the should therefore, be permitied to plead treaty stipes is any longer as excuses for their barb. le. *shguid be mado to obey the law. ‘Their status lias been Oxed. Let us hear no more of teaty stipulations with these D BY INDIANS. load Com- Missourl, Kansas is 0 made up almost © Mists, who have construct over one hundred and eight y of sound New York and put in ing at tie rate of trunk between Fort "ZO, Texas, on the border n they were igo, stopped and their dviven from the road by Indta the false pretence that its cone through the Indian Terri- tory was prohibi by certain Indian treaty stipul 3 I say faise pretence Lecause fair the laws of Congress and a oastruc of the Indian treaties, acmittlug y have the force of law, which thoy hi , give the company full sto goon with their road through the Indian ‘itory and Texas to the Mexican bound The jon of the Indians only temporarily susp: work on the main Lne through the Iadian 'Tertitory. The work on the company’s br ies through the States of Mi-souri and Kan as is continued same as ever. The outrage Is all the samo, however, ag though they were coupeliet to suspend the whole EXTENT OF TE ENTERPRISE. Thave gathered from the records of the Interior Departinent and elsewhere a few interesting facis to gow the nature of the enterprise that our modern Thugs are permitted by Secretary Cox to levy tribute upon—for it amounts to that and nothing else. When the company get ready to pay wie required tribute to the managers of sundry “gov- ernors” of Indian “nations’” the “treaty stipuia. tions” will not be further insisted upoa. Though the work on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail- road and branches has been pusbed forward very quietly, the enterprise In itseli 18 second only tn im- portatice to the Pacific Railroad. The main trunk extends from Fort Riley, Kansas, on the Kansas Pavilic Railroad, to Camargo, on the Rio Grande, running through Southern Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas, with a view of an extension to the city of Mexico. One bundred aud eighty miles are finished and in operation, and the construction was belug pushed forward, strictly accor img to the law of Congress, When it was stopped, us avove stated, by the Indian! The Tebo and Neosho Rafi the same company from lia, Mo, on the Mis- souri aciiic Railroal, to Gatidhall, Kansas, the point where their main trunk crosses the Neosho river, The Hi ad is being built by n cu of 13 being bu », by the same a rh Pact company, trom Ho tic Rati road, to Emporia, a Nin e roads, tt will be ir the existing sys- tem, and open tp to our ward cies the trade of the great Southwest. The branches mitoned shorten the railroad twansportativa b and Chicago or St. Louis, York, over one hundred mites, The question now is, il the pretended stipuia- tions of an abrogated, absurd and iiegal Inc treaty be permitted to stand In the path of such am enterprise? Letsecretary Cox look to it tween Texas 1 consequently New Allite son of W. P. Smith, In Des Moines, Iowa, got hola of a bot eye-water—which was polson- ous—draik it, and barely escaped death. It required constant slapping, rubbing: pineiing and blistering throughout the night to prevent him irom failing into @ deathly stupor, aud the puptis of his eyes were contracted (o the #ize of a pin head. NEW YORK, HERALD, MONDAY. MAY 30, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. FRANCE. Topporialism and the People—What After the Plebiscitum!—The Industro-Economic Ques- tions—What a Cabinet Minister Thinks of Trade Organizations and the Patriot ism of Operative Leaders, Paris, May 13, 1870, The imperial bark {8 gilding Into smooth waters, but much anxiety has been expressed as to the next move on the French political chessboard. It was expected that ere this a new Cabinet would have been formed; but M, Ollivier determined, however, to make no change until next week. In the selec tion of his fature colleagues he has decided to avold ‘Men possessing political influence with certain par ties, who, thinking themselves of greater importance than they in reality possess, might take advantage of an emergency and resign, like MM. Daru and Buffet, The future Cabinet will be composed of men who will support M. Ollivier and the political programme of January and who have faith that majority in the Chambers will carry into execution the liberal laws it is Intended to propose, Nothing is as yet definitely settled as to the forma- tion of the new Ministry; but 1 believe the following will be the only changes:—The Duc de Grammont will Probaviy be Minister of Foreign Affairs, He is at present the French Ambassa‘ior at Vienna, His wife isan English woman. M. Segris wilt retain the port- folio of Finance, whieh he has temporarily held since the retirement of M. Buffet. Ivis said that M, Braine will be the Minister of Public Works. This latter appointment bas important signification, for M. Braine 1s recognized as one of the chiefs of the Protection League, and should he accept office in the prezent government he must have become a free- trader, Ina previous letter I said that M. Ullivier would probably be the future Mimster of Foreign Affairs. He was lately persuaded by the Emperor to accept that omice; but his political friends were desirous that he should become Minister of Interior; but M. Olivier, after mature refiection, has decided to reject both appointments, Either weuld prevent his devoting suMicient time to the general policy of the country, and he has therefore determined to remain Minister of Justice and Religion, as the work in that department can be done by the Chief Secretary. ‘he remarkable di:ference of opinion which exists between agriculturists and mechautes in France is a subject whieh his caused much discussion throagh- out the world. The agriculturists have given the Binporor a faajorty’ beyond hts expectations. The mechanics, notwithstanding all the bluster of the radicai press, have formed the minority. The ex- planation 18 as follows:—In France every peasant 1s He scrapes together a!l he can, and hoards Mup, depriving himseif of every luxury, in the hope of being able to purchase a piece of land, When once the coveted morsel is boayut (however small it may be) he is a conservative, a fread of order and a staunch supporter of the Emperor, who alone, he has the firm conviction, caa maintain traa- quility. ‘The mechanics, on the other hand, par- ticularly in Jarge cities, spend more than they can earp, and are invariably ludebted to the marchand de vit, When out of work, or without means to satisfy his desires, the mechanic begomes an exalted liberal and wishes(o Jill his own pockets by emptying those of others, Tie reason that the agricultural classes in this ‘e so much Tore powerful than they are in England is tuls:—In France there is at ie! three times more land to be cultivated than in Epgland, and here ail the mechanical contrivances for tho diminution of agricultural work are noi known, and in consequence Manual labor is in great demand, The aove opinion 13_ expressed by one of the most emment Ministers, You inay take it as offlclal. COLONIAL OPINION, The voting in Algeria has disappointed the au- thorities. I yesterday sent you the result by tele- gray Civil, 10,791 yes; 13,481 noes; army, 30,165 yea; 6,020 noes.’ If the ‘majority had been {n Paris Instead of at a distance and had been eye witnesses of Lue proceedings of the irrecoucilabics, uey would not have voted no, With respect to the military, al- thoush 6,000 out of 36,000 have voted no, I do not atiach much importance to tho fact. A soldier is displeased with a corporal and he votes no; a ser- geaut thinks he ought to be an officer, he votes no; an ollicer has not obtained rapid ates ond no marks his displeasure, and so it goes on. But it matters little, for the army is loyal and the noes will do their duty and suppress, with thetr affirmative brethren, any disorder that may occur. Indeed, the fact of there having been so many noes in the ranks is a healthy sign, It is a proof that no uadue tiutine ence was used by the government to lucrease their Majority. NAPOLEON'S AFTER-DINNER REFLECTIONS. Weunesday evening there was a dinner party at the Tuileries, 1n honor of the Central Picbiscite Com. mitiee, On entering the Einperor thanked the five members of the commitiee tor the assistance they had aiforded in the great political struggle, which has just termtnated with victory for the empire—the Due d@Abutéra, the Vicomte de La Guérroniriere, Admiral Bonét-Villaumey, the Comte de Lagrange, milc de Girardi aud Ol-ment Duveraois, His 'y 18 favorable to the proposition that the mittee shail be permacent, and be hencefor' tne great political Jeyer of the conservative-liberal party duriag the elections. idea is that this committee should not be composed of Senators and Deputies only, but that it should comprise the most active mifiucnces, and thas become a permanent bond between the Chambers and the press, The Hmperor expressed Nis determination to carry out the ltv@rat reforms which he has liltiated, and not to allow the recent proceedings of tae opposition to cause any thoughtofr reaction, VERIFICATION OF THE Yorg, The verifiertion of the votes for the plebiseltum of 1870 gives the following re-ult:— YES. Eighty-nine departments..... Army at home Navy * Civil io Algeria, Army in Algeria. y ‘ Civilians in Algeria. Anuy in Algeria. To! ‘Those who have been constant in dire forebodings as to the decline of empire express unteigned aston- ishmuat at the resuit of the pieblsetie, Yesterday suw one of my mething under the frieuds,’’ who for many Years past has dec! “The Humperor is on his lasi legs, sir 7 Now he de- claves that “if the Emperor acts with liberality he may yet save hitavelf."? I told you in «former blotter that the Emperor is heart and sont for itberal re- jorms. I know for a fact hat nobiing will divert hint from hia purpose; but, at the same time, all atiempt at disorder will be crusted b with vigor. People are dmgusied with this perp b is disasirous to commerce, and the its suppresston moriable jou 2d to tie r i RIOT AND Rioters’ disiike Tram. revoutionary ardor Wi trating plavial dischar: blouses cling (0 the bow tenrcity. The Cmeutiers, at ar glad to creep home to thely gavre's ant dens, miser- able a8 withou! doubt fu tie majority of cases they are, for there was nothing to be gamed In the streets bat rieumatizin and hard knocks from the lice, With the atdicion, Wf necessary, of bayonet prods and Chassepot drillings. At about jour P.M. a crowd of roughs turew stones at the windows of the barracks ou the Place dia 1a) uw. The frends of glaziers were Immediately dispersed by the potice. wo hours later criwds collected at Beieville, where @ gang of about one hundred and fifty, haviog for geueralissimo a gentleman in his shirt sleeves, with a repulsive express.on of countenance, rashes into a gaioche manufactory, from which they were ejected, however, In most masterly fashion. At half past nine it Was thought advisable to close the shops und stop the passage of omnibuses, as these latter articles are well adapted for barricades. An editor of a democratic journal addressed the roughs on the Place du Chatoiu d’Eau, told them the time had not «rived, and urged them vo disperse. There are always wowen mixed up in everything. Some of our.sairsistors called the rlotera who ran away on the approach of the police cowards, Unheeding this patriotte appeal to stand nmuckiedusted,”? the roughs fed swiltly ed they Were outof danger, The troops behaved weil everywhere, Some gungs of white blouses shouted “Vive Rocafort |? and sang the Mar- seijiaise, but I failed to detect any sign of organized attempt at insurrecuon. The police arrested about one hundred and forty individuals, on many of whom were found revolveis, daggers, casse-tétes and sharpened tools. Lt rained tard aud I was not sorry to return home, as bevore midnight all was quiet. 1 was roused shortiy afterwards by the unmistakable sount of cavairy. A strong force of cavalry was descending the Faubourg de la Potssonniare,en route for quarters, ‘The mea were wrapped in thetr large white cloaks, and as they passed along, drenched and silent, thet swords gtistened in the gastligiits and were reflected on the wet pavements. I reflected on the amount of cleaning of horses and accoutrements which the poor fellows would have to accomplish, and the curses they would bestow on the voyous who had caused tho-unnecessary labor, SANITARY AND JUDICIAL. Smallpox is on the decrease; revolution has ‘at. tened out.” In Paris we do everything by the “rule of three We had three nights of attempted riot, and, therefore, notwithstanding. stuisier reports, f anticipated that nothing would occur last evening. AS in duty bound, I went through the dis.arbed dis- trict. Lfound all quiet—a perfect calm after the storm. The Place du Chateau dau had resumed its usual aspect, except that no omnibus passed up the Faubourg du Temple. Sightseers caue, lingered MMyht thetr ya fine, pe je «the white sof Ube Wearers with chilly ‘ouable hour, were | ated at once, as the police e! for a few minutes, and, satisfied by the state of the Tevolutiouary barometer that no would take place, returned to more lively districts, {roo} police were Taster tn foree, hidden in the bat iacovened z cases of nearly all the prisoners ing judicated before Monday. None of those arrested will be liber- ho captures made. About forty of with having dischai struck the police soldiers, were arrested by civilians, who cease a Parbian oueaks: 80 police who was wounded at the attack on cade in the Rue St, Maur, has since di hoo a r9 rt that'a sentinel bad 3 it was lefé behind when his regiment left the ugene barracks, On issuing from the bari a few minutes later, he asked which way the had ere He was surrounded by 1 persons, who led him away in the pony, direction, and he eesti picainet area tis atiques. It a] often punished for ‘Trankenness and absence with- out leave. This last adventure has been converted by some journals into deseruon of @ soldier on duty to join the émeutiers, CORBECTED, BUT NOT IMPROVED, On the occasion of my visit to the Pyjson de la Ro- quette, a few days previous to the departure of the criminal star, Traupmann, for the next world, I cailed attention to the fuct that, although the prison “pets” wereurntshed with wooden spoons only, to avoid any chance of damaging their sweet selv they were plentifully suppited with articles “ot @ more dangerous nature, My rehensions: hhaye been realized. The morni fore last, shortly after the convicts had entered the workshop -one of them, who talked In a loud tone of voice, was called to order by a turnkey named Carelte, pas he paid no attention unttl threatened with cachot. A prisoner sitting next him, named Pichard, said aloud, “Don’t hold your tongue; if he does any- thing I will defend you.” ‘The turnkey im seized Pichard, who struck the oficer a violent blow ia the neck with a large pair of scissors, within a hair's breadth of the carotid arvery. Two turnkeys immediately rushed to the assistance of their com- yade; the prisoner who had been the cause of Carelte's rebuke and another took a with Pichard. Aregular fight ensued, during which the turnkeys were severely wounded by the convicts, who slashed away unmercifully with their scissors; but the turn- keys, before the arrival of reinforcements, had al- ngs the best of the affair, The repo rt that one of urnkeys had dicd from his wounds was current yesterday; but itis unfounded, altior Officers were taken to the infrmary. ‘The other con- victs in the workshop, of whom there were many, artin the uffray; they quietly looked on Qpprovingly. The fight must have whiled away most pleasantly @ few minutes. ‘The type of tenance i saw in the Depot of the Condemned I shall never forget. CLO WORLD ITEMS. The project for the great Russian railroad to Se- vastopoi is assuming practical form. The work ts to begin this spring. A hospital for sick Russiyn sailors and pligrims on their way to Jerusalem has just been established at Consiantnople, under the auspices of the Czar. The United Kingdom has 160,000 miles of “met- alled,” or macadamized roads, France has 100,000, better managed. ‘The government hassucceeded tn the Panjab-with the young plauts of the eucalyptus gum tree, from Australia, - Prices of accommodation at Rome just now are re- ported to be very dear, A cup of beef Lea costs Alty bree and extra bedding has rated as high as fity liars. Two hundred and sixty-five wofhen are employed in the Russian telegr pn offices, and have done so well that all departments are to be thrown open to them. Soine are to be appointed to signal stations. A statue of Luther ts about to be erected at Eisle- ben, Upper Saxony, bis native towa. A committee has just been formed to raise Us monument to the memory of the great reformer. ‘The harbor dues levied on account of the Chamber of Commerce at Havre, for the works in the port, produce’ in April 77,972f, im the three preced- ing months 186, 746f,; total—264, 717f. An alligator four feet long in tne river Thames Makes a sensation among the London bathers. If there be more of the kind British sportsmen will have a new kind of game to spear and shoot, Anexhibinon of portraits of illustrious men has been opened in the Palace of the Ministry of the In- terior at St, Petersburg. The number of pictures is arenes 600, many of them from the tmperial coliec- tions. The Meaa| $s tne artesian well of the Buttes-aux- Cailles, in Paris, penetrates a thick bed of chalk, which forms the subsoil of nearly all Northern Frahce. It is now 500 metres deep or 448 metres lower than the Jevel of the sea, There. is a small vineyard in Paris, near the an- clent arsenal chet of which few of ihe neignbor- ing citizens have ond knowledge. [thas buds and jeaves, blossoms aud grapes for days in advance of any other vineyard in the region. At a recent trial in France the foreman of tne jury, placing his, hand on his heart and with a voi choked with emotion, gave in the following ver- dict:—“The accused is guilty, but we have our doubts a8 to the identity.”” ‘The Andaman Isiands, in the Bay of Bengal, are reported to be rapidly siuking. There are 6,000 con- victs on t.em, but they wili not be drowned unless they live 1,090 years, that being the term of time computed for the disappearance of the Isiands be- neath the water, At arocent meeting of the Academy of Sciences Marshal Vaillant, the @.reetor of yetormary sindies, spoke against the use of the muzzle on dos as have ing a tendency to produce madness rather than to prevent it. Constantinople ts fall of uumuzzied dogs and they never go mad. SANDWICH ISLANDS. Opening of the Hawaiian Parliament=—Spe of the King—A Sensi Address, HONOLULU, April 30, 1870, ‘The King opened Patiiament at noon to-day. The following is his speech:— NOBLES AND REPRESENTATIVES:—Since the proro- gation of the last legisiature it has pleased Almighty God to take from me the best of fathers, who was, during his lieilme, the wisest and most discreet of councillors, and who, 23 your president, was always revered by you. ‘this has been a bereavement for the nation as weil as for iayself, A long and varied life has been closed in peave and honor, Let us bo tmukiui for his example. You will preserve his memory ever fresh; while the best wish 1 can have for you is that I may ever preserve the remembrance of his prevepts and follow the example of lis pure , patriotism. During the last two years my people have in- erea-ed in prosperity, Crops have been abundant. and markets good. It seems as if, by ocean lines of steamers, our situation in mid ocean is about to be (urued to ow advaniage. ‘The question of aid to oceante and tnter-iskina steamers lias occupied the attention of my government, and again deserves your careful consider.tiion, I especially commend to your fostering care steam communication between the islands, believ that liberaiity in this respect all foreign governments are most satisfaciory. Ihave concluded @ commercial wea y with Russia. The elprocicy whieh Was negotiated with the executive government of the United States is stil before the Senaie of that count . uc Board of Iminigration has endeavored to exe- cnte the willof the Legislature, as expressed In its vasion, With regaid to immigrants from the jan islands. But after two expeditions it has become evident ti .¢ no considerable or perma- nent increase of population can be expected hom that source, ‘Yue report of my Minister of the Interior will show you that an extraordu expenditure has been deemed necessary by the Board of Heaita. The health of the peopie 13 an object of the greatest Bo- lic tude tome, and icomimend to your care-ul con- sideration tie measures alopied by the Board, and request that you will give this matter your gravest attention, * Justice continues to be administered, as I believe, ably and impartially. The work of educntion has bech prosecuted with zeal, fidelity and succe-s, The appropriation of the last Legislature has been used with impartiality, and, as far as I have been able to learn, to the satisfaction of all, The finances of the kingdom still remain in a prosperous condition. + Nobles and Representatives, in summoning you again to the performance of your responsibie dutics. Trely with implicit confidence upsn your wisdom and patriotism, and pray most earnestly that He in whose hand are all the nations of the earth may uide your counsels and preserve our aus ae for a right futuriy, We do now declare the Legislature of the kingdom opened. Count Von Beust, sou of the Prime Minister of Aus- tria, an officer on board the frigate Donan, com- oe suicide on the 20th inst. by taking prassic acid, : Our relations Ww a SUCDE OF CAPTA'N GODFAEY IN SAN FRANCISCO, [From the Alta Californian, May 22.) Captain 0. Godfrey was found dead yesierday in in his room, at a lodging house, No. 208 Post strect. He had been absent for several days, and when the servant went around to iix up the room yesterday morning he was fond lying dead upon his bed, dressed in a sult of black. A vial, half filled with morphine, told at a glance the, medium by which the rash act had been committed. Everything in the room had been placed in complete order. In his memorandum book was foun yhotograph, on the back of which was written that his former wife yas the cause of his death. Captain Godfrey was for many years in the Sr ploy ‘of the North Paciiic Trans- portation Company, and commanded the steaniers Ajax, and lifornta, He brought the steamer Ajax to this coast from the East and con manded that vessel on her first two trips to the Sandwich Islands. It i stated that hecaime bear beaching the steamer Pelican once, for which he Was discharged from the company’s employ, At times he acted very <Iugulariy, so much so 8 to atiract the attention and ‘comments of his Miends and fellow boarders, He was but recently appoivted to the comiaand of the barkentine Web.oot. De- ceased was forty-seven years of age, @ native of Providence, R. L, and had many warm fends in ‘this city. = c