The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1871, Page 6

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, ‘Pace. 1—Aavertisements, 2—Advertisements, 3—Rullo’s Race Run: Execuuon of the Philo Jogival Murderer—National Poltucs: Vailan- dizham Teaching New Doctrines to the Demo- cra Party; the Convention tn Montgomery County, Ohio—Kentucky Republican State Convention--Union of Canada with the United States—Miscellaneous Local Items, 4—The Great Treaty: British Claims for Losses During the Rebelon—The Courts—The Evans Abortion Case: Evans Sent to the State Prison tor Three Years and Six Months—The ‘Mamond Smuggling Case. S—The Census of New York—Religious Intell- gence—The Catholic Protectory—The Putnain Tragedy: Fourtn Day of the Foster Trial— (Catastrophe at Niagara Falis—Maritime Visitors. G—Edutorials: Leading Article, “The Impending Fail of the Commune—What Then for Paris and France ?’—Personal Intelligence—New Publications Receivea—The Cuba Cable—The ‘Trenton Homi ide—Railroad Matters—Amuse- ment Announcements. 7—The Paris Revolt: HERALD Special Reports from Paris and Versailles; Explosion of the Car- ridge Factory in the Champs de Mars—The Latest from France—Important News from entral and South America: HERALD Special Reports from Colombia, San Salvador and Guatemala—The Darien Exvioration: HERALD Special Report from Panama; the Exploration Completed—Muscellaneous —Telegrams—Busi- ness Notices. S—Trotting at Fleetwood Park—Turning Newsboys: Om the Cars—Museam of Natural History— Raiiroad Monopolies—Railroad Matters—The ‘Tenement House Homicide—The Newark Turn- pike Murder—Financial aud Commerciai In- telligence—Real Estate Matters—The Ninth Avenue Saloon Robbery. 9—Marriages and Deaths—Advertisements. 10—News from Washington—The Coal Troubies— Local News—Shipping Intelligence—Aaver- tisements. 11—Adivertisementa, 12—Aavertisements. Rattroap Monopo.ies.—The responses of the press and prominent individuals to our remarks the other day on the danger of rail- road monopolies—some of which may be found in another part of our issue to-day—show that the public mind is keenly alive to this gigantic and growing evil. Let the press and people everywhere move in this matter, and Congress will be compelled to do something to restrain the monopolists and protect the public, A Great Rascal Gonz To Sine Sixe.— The demon Evans has received a sentence of three years and six months in the State Prison for his attempt at manslaughter in committing an abortion upon the person of Ana O'Neill. The old rascal gets off very cheaply ; but it must be remembered that he is only a subor- dinate in the great army of similar demons in this city, although even he at the beginning of his trial was able to give one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bail for his appearance. The higher and grander representatives of the abortion business—the millionnaires in the infanticide line—live further up town, charge higher prices and have more imposing fronts to their houses, Tur Kentucky RervBiicans come nobly up to the scratch in the pending State contest, althongh, with a standing majority of sixty or seventy thousand against them, their cause seems hopeless. It is worthy of note that while adopting resolutions favoring complete amnesty and the restoration of harmonious re- lations with the South, condemning Ku Kluxism and demanding the admission of negro testimony in the State courts—points upop which the most influential demo- crats of the State agree with them— they nominate the best representa- tive republicans in the State. General John M. Harlan, of Louisville, their candidate for Governor, was a gallant soldier of the Union, winning much renown in his section for vigorous movements against the enemy; and General Speed S. Fry, of Boyle, their can- didate for Treasurer, has a national reputation asthe man who killed Zollicoffer. The rest of the ticket is judiciously distributed, a lead- ing German editor receiving the nomination for State Auditor, and a clergyman for Sa- perintendent of Public Institution. The entire ticket shows that the Kentucky republicans are not without bope and that while they have any vestige of a chance of victory thev will Put their best fot foremost. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, ‘The Lmpending Fall of tho Communc— What Then for Paris and France ¢ It is now, we think, quite safe to say that the Commune is on its last legs, and that the respectable people who still find homes in Paris have the prospect of speedy deliverance. The Versailles government bas been cau- tious—painfully cautious and painfully slow ; but while we cannot help blaming them for their caution and setting dowa agaiost them something for inexcusable dilatoriness, we must admit that France bas stood by them and that they have moved toward what now seems certain victory. The Germans, at the request of M. Thiers and his friead Jules Favre, spared Paris, not wisely, as wo thought then—not wisely, as the Germans tuink now; still they spared it, and the world has no good reason to find fault with M. Thiers and those who act with him for not doing what they themselves implored Count Bismarck and his master not to do. The deliberate destruoc- tion of the Vendéme Pillar—a pillar which was justly regarded by Frenchmen, and, indeed, by every man who cared for the past, asa grand historic monument—has re- vealed the character of the Commune. The civilized world interceded to save Paris from the rough purposes and the rougher hands of the men of the sturdy but intelligent North. The Vandalism which Germany was to do, but did not do, has been accomplished by men who call themselves Frenchmen, and progressive Frenchmen and republicans, to boot, The Communists have destroyed the Vendéme Pillar. If they burned the Hotel de Ville and levelled the Tuileries they could not give the world better proof of what they are and what they mean. The fall of the Commune, which is pow imminent, will be a relief to the whole civilized world. As republicans we feel it to be our duty to write guardedly on this subject. The Paris Commune did represent a republican idea. They sought municipal rights and privileges. Their radical idea was that the intelligence of the great Frengh cities was at the mercy of the ignorant rural voter. The idea was good. It was based on truth. It had been built up by experience. The failure of the first empire, of the restoration, of the government of Louis Philippe, of the republic of 1848, of the second empire, was on their side. To give France a new foundation, a fresh and more solid point of departure, was a purpose which no good man could afford to despise. But the men of the Commune have had their chance; all the world knows how they have used it and how France has responded to their call; and to-day we have to confess it that we know no thoughtful man who is not willing to admit that whatever was good in the Com- mune was stained at the outset with blood; that it has been disgraced day after day by unpardonable iniquities, and that the end of this latest Chartist levelling experiment will be a relief. It is a duty which we owe to the European public to say that the republicans of the United States recognize no brotherhood in the men who have revived history and ful- filled prophecy by converting the fairest city of modern times into another and more offen- sive Babylon. Since the days of Robespierre and the Revolutionary Tribunal and the Com- mittee of Public Safety no such iniquities have been perpetrated in the name of Liberty. Liberty of opinion has found expression in the extinction of the Paris press. Liberty in matters religious has been expressed by invading religious uouses, by impris- oning unoffending nuns, by holding the gleaming sword over the head of a man whose only fault is that he is the Archbishop of Paris, aad by other outrages too numerous and too horrible to repeat. New York at the mercy of the Bowery boys and the hopeful lads of the Sixth ward—behold the character of the Paris Commune! Much as we must blame the Commune, let this be said—the Commune is not France. The rural population detest it. The large cities, which at the outset had some faith in it, have given good proof that, much as they desire and pray for fair play, they will not have municipal rights by walking in the dark ways and by endorsing the vain tricks of the Paris Reds. A good solid republic, after Germany sheathed her sword, was in France a possibility, The possibility is no more. It is not impossible that the men of the Com- mune may do for Paris what the Russians, in a better cause, once did for Moscow. But whether the miserable men who now hold Paris burn it or flee from it, we are not allowed to doubt that the end is at hand and, that France, asa united whole, will once more command the attention of the thinking men of the civilized world. In a few days more M. Thiers will be in Paris. What is to follow? Will the civil war be ended? Shall we have fresh disturbances, renewed outbreaks? To speak the truth, the fall of the Commune does not, so far as we can see, promise the bless- ings of peace to France. The future is still dark and uncertain, There is a strong desire all over France for a federal republic; but the organizing of a republic on the desired basis implies so much work and so many changes that while we can see trouble we cannot see the end. France is not and never can be a Switzerland. She wants the elements out of which it is possible to construct a republic after the fashion of the United States. At the same time we know and must admit that an effort will be made in the direction of a fede- ral republic. The fact is important and must be considered in looking at the future. This, however, is notall. The adherents of the House of Bonaparte are numerous, and at the present moment they are most active, If they are weak in the populous ceatres, they are strong in the provinces; and if a plébescite can be arranged, the restoration of the empire in some shape is all but certain. We do not lay much stress on the Bourbons, On this occasion they have shown themselves weak and without purpose. They do nothing; they risk nothing; at the same time it has to be admitted that a limited monarchy finds favor with hundreds of thou- sands of the best people in France, and a limited monarchy points—not to the Bona- partes, not to any new name—but to the House of Orleans. With the fall of the Commune we must be prepared for a war of the factions—a war which may be bloodless, but which must be fierce, How it will result it is not yet time to say. A temporary republic is not impossi- ble; the restoration of the House of Orleans cannot be voted impossible; and he would be @ bold man who would say that there is no chance for the empire. The republic is in disgrace; the Bourbons are all but forgotten ; the star of Austerlitz and of Solferino is clouded; but France, in settling down to peaceful ways, has but these to choose from. There is only one other alternative, and that is submission to the German yoke. If the French people give further proof that they cannot govern themsslves Bismarck will have no choice; and the restoration of the empire of Charlemagne may be a necessity, as well as the crowning of this latest and greatest Teutonic victory. After all this might be the most satisfactory result. ‘The News from Central American. By way of Kingston, Jamaica, we have later reports from our special correspondents in Central America. The disgraceful revolution in Colombia, of the origin and progress of which we have already published the accounts, had so far progressed that when our do- spatches left Panama the insurgents had arrived before the cily and demanded its surrender. The government forces were stronger in numbers than the rebels, and confidence was felt in their ability to de- fend Panama against all attacks, It seems funny, however, that four or five hundred desperadoes should have been permitted to march unopposed over the country and to actually threaten the most important city in New Granada, although they were in- ferior in strength to the forces of the legitimate authorities. One of the rebel leaders, had addressed three commu- nications to the American Consul at Panama, in which he defended his recent seizure of the steamer Montijo and promised to respect the lives and property of foreigners. At last accounts the Panama government had sent commissioners to the insurgents with a view to effecting a compromise with them. It is likely, therefore, that the revolution will terminate without bloodshed. , San Salvador was peaceful, the new gov- ernment giving satisfaction to the people. Guatemala, however, continued in a state of revolution, and the prospect was that the regular government would be overthrown. This chronic state of insurrection of the Cen- tral and South American States no longer ex- cites even ordinary interest. Perhaps it is because they cannot ‘‘make history” in any other form that they are always in the throes of a civil war. The Darion Explering Expedition. Our special correspondent with the Darien exploring expedition sends us an interesting despatch via Jamaica, which we publish this morning. The altitude of the dividing ridge of the Cordilleras has been accurately deter- mined after a thorough survey, and it is found to exceed seven hundred feet. This height precludes all idea of an open cut for a ship canal, and as a consequence tunnelling will be recommended, and will have to be resorted to if the route is accepted. The practicability of the route was, however, unfavorably regarded, as must any which necessitates the construction of a tunnel exceeding in height and width any work of the kind known to modern or ancient engineering. It is altogether to be deeply regretted that the expedition has failed to discover a depression sufficiently low to warrant the cutting of a canal across the isthmus, without resorting to tunnels or locks. At the same time it isdue to Com- mander Selfridge to say that he has displayed zeal and energy in the work of exploration, and if he has failed to realize the expectations of those who believed that nature had pro- vided a route for a canal, it has been because nature has made no such provision. A melancholy accident toa launch belong- ing to the Resaca is also reported by our cor- respondent. She was proceeding to Panama with the mails and official documents when she was capsized by a squall and one of her seamen lost, together with all her cargo. The survivors, after great suffering, succeeded in reaching Panama. The Pluck of New Englaud Women. The women of New England have, throngh- out American history, been distinguished for their spirit. Sam Adams, John Adams, John Hancock and the numberless other heroes of the first rebellion were assisted in their patriotic endeavors by the advice and consent of their wives. The courage and resolution of these great women ani- mated the chiefs of the revolution, which ultimately brought independence to America. Now we finda spirit displayed in the action of a womau’s suffrage convention, held in Charlestown, Muss., on the 17th instant, which provokes some attention and comment, Among the speakers on that occasion were William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and others whose names are pretty well known in the programme of the progressive movements of the age. The ob- ject of the convention was to protest against the decision of the Legislature of Massachu- setts against allowing women the right of suf- frage. A resolution was adopted in effect that while the Legislature allowed the fair petitioners ‘‘leave to withdraw, no valid reason can be adduced against their claim to equal and impartial suffrage without regard to the natural distinction of birth; and no matter how adroitly postponed or evaded, that claim must be asserted and demanded until the women of Massachusetts shall stand the same on the political platform as the men, and be as fully entitled to vote and to be voted for in every municipal, State and national election.” Here we see a determination on the part of the progressive women of New England to se- cure their independence, just as the matrons of 1776 helped to secure the political liberties the republic now enjoys. Let them go ahead. The Legislature of Massachusetts will, in due time, see the necessity of meeting the de- mands of the descendants of the great Revolu- tion ina proper spirit. The pluck of New England women must be commended, and no sensible politician will hesitate about it.’ Enousn Basy FarmMisa.—This subject was introduced in the English House of Commons on the 5th inst, by Mr. Charley. The member moved for the appointment of a select com- mittee to inquire as to the best means of ‘pre- venting the destruction of the lives of infants put out to nurse for hire by their parents. We are glad to see that the motion was agreed to, and we hope tt will resnit in accomplishing good. MAY 19, 187L.-TRIPLE SHEET. The Last of Rulloff. The last of Rulloff was his execution yester- day at Binghamton. He met his fate ‘‘with- out whining.” Ashe had said he would, he faced his death with the stoicism of an Indian, but without the Indian's faith in a future ex- istence. He had nothing to say on the scaf- fold; he had no delay to ask with the rope around his neck; he had declined any assistance in the preparations of his toilet for the hang- man; he had refused any religious advice or consolation on the brink of the dark valley ; he had lived the life of av outlaw, and he “died as the fool dieth.” Yet this man wanted to live, if only a few weeks longer, professedly to finish his great work on the origin of languages, but really because even to him the life of an outlaw under the sentence of the gallows had its attractions, and death had its terrors. When informed that his last hope was gone and that his last day in this life had come he was excited into a violent rage, and devoted the day mainly to cursing and swearing against his counsel and the Governor and all con- cerned in his case, not forgetting his victim and his confederates in the crime which had caught him and brought him at last to his just deserts. . This Rulloff was a strange character. He was a scholar and ambitious of distinction, yet by nature he was a villain and devoted to crime. He wanted to flourish as a gentleman and a savant while pursuing the career of the burglar and the murderer. By day he cultivated tle arts and graces of polite society, while by night he professionally consorted with thieves and felons, whose only education was that of the State Prison, His vicious nature drew him into crimes apparently without an object beyond the excitement of the dangers they involved and the pleasure which it gave him to murder. It is seldom that we meet with such a diabolical villain outside the Paris Commune, and yet he was wholly destitute of the political excuses of the Jacobin fanatic. We can imagine no incentive to the mysterious murder of his wife and child in the outset of his guilty career, in 1846, except that of a monomania for human blood. The story is that in the night he murdered the mother and her babe, and, putting them in a chest, with their bodies bound round with iron wire to prevent their rising, sunk them in the deep water of Cayuga Lake, where their remains lie to-day. As their bodies could not be found the crime of murder could not be fixed upon Rulloff in this case; but he was tried and convicted and suffered ten years at hard labor In the State Prison for the abduction of his wife, the circumstantial evidence of the murder being regarded as morally, if not legally, con- clusive. He was tried for the murder on the expiration of his State Prison term, but there was still lacking the evidence to convict him. With freqnent narrow escapes for burglaries and other crimes, he is at last, by some remarkably keen detectives, captured as one of the gang of burglars concerned, last August, in the marder of young Mirrick, in a store in Binghamton. The bodies of two of the burglars had been found in the river, drowned in their efforts to escape after the murder. They had been severely wounded in their fight in the store with Mirrick and his fellow clerk, or by the third and chief burglar, Rulloff, in the river, to get them out of the way, and some of the articles found upon them furnished the clue to Rulloff’s detection, arrest, trial and convic- tion of the murder of Mirrick. Now, for these and other crimes of Rulloff, with his qualifications, advantages and oppor- tunities for comfortably supporting himself and family in honest pursuits, we can supply no motives except those resulting from a natu- rally vicious nature and disordered mind, im- properly trained and delighting in the dangers and excitements of murders and burglaries, and believing that the life of a man is like that of a dog in this world, and that there is no future existence or responsibility for either. There was no escape for such a villain from the hangman, considering the method which controlled his madness ; but still there is some- thing of value to society furnished from his shocking career and his miserable ending in the moral that the ruffian by nature needs something more than Greek and Latin to save him from the State Prison and the execu- tioner. The Italian Opera Sensen. ‘The overwhelming houses that have attended Signor Albites’ brief season of Italian opera at the Academy of Music must surely set at rest all idle charges of the habitual want of in- terest evinced by the metropolitan public toward lyric art. No other public entertain- ment could draw forth such a display of wealth and fashion and concentrate the interest of this great musical community. On Saturday night the tenth and last subscription per- formance will be given and Meyerbeer’s grand opera ‘‘Robert” will be the attraction. The many patrons of the opera, who have been lamenting the shortness of the season, will be rejoiced to learn that Signor Albites, in view of the great and we might say unexpected success of his enterprise, has decided to re- main one week longer with us. The Phila- delphia season has been therefore abandoned, and the denizens of that rural district will have to console themselves in the best manner they can for the disappointment. The pro- gramme agreed upon for the week is the fol- lowing:—Monday, ‘‘Crispino;” Wednesday, “Lucia ;” Friday, ‘Don Giovanni,” and Sat- urday matinée, ‘‘Faust.” Our Brooklyn neighbors will have a treat on Tuesday in the shape of “Rigoletto.” Miss Kellogg has been the reigning star this season, and the new tenor, Villani, has come in for a con siderable share of commendation. The director has made liberal efforts to place each opera on the stage creditably, and, considering the many obsta- cles he has had to encounter, his efforts have been remarkably successful. The experiment of giving a fresh opera every night made large demands upon the resources of the tronpe, and can only be rendered an entire success with the assistance of a double company. If the present season may be taken as a criterion for the fall engagement of Mile. Nilsson there is every reason to expect a triumph for the suc- cessor of Signor Albites. We trust that Messrs. the much advised stockholders will be roused by this success from their usual apathy and catch a little of the spirit of the public, The concessions which they have agreed to make to Nilsson’s manager are en- couraging and ingvire » hope that they will, Soon demolish all the barriers of exoclusive- ness behind which they have been #o long intrenched. At the same time we think some acknowledgment on their part is due to the Present manager, who, when all were discuss- ing the situation and clamoring for conces- sions, pluckily stepped into the field and gave the public what they wanted, disregarding the grave responsibilities attached to the posi- tion of an impresario under the existing régime atthe Academy. The opera announced for this evening is ‘The Sicilian Vespers,” in which Madame States makes hor rentrée. The Dreadful Catastroph: in Parie—The Situation Ontside the Walls. Another calamity has fallen to the lot of un- fortunate Paris. The announcement in yes- terday's issue that a terrible explosion had oc- curred in the city is not only corroborated by the news this morning, but, according to the intelligence received from one of the HgzaLp special correspondents, the occurrence proved to be one of the most melancholy which has taken place fora long time. An accident oc- curred in a cartridge factory in the Avenue at which resulted in its total destruction and the sacrifice of the lives of a large oum- ber of persons, principally women and chil- dren. The effecta of the explosion were felt all over the city. Even in Versailles it was experienced. The HERALD correspondent, who was present, near the scene of the calamity, describes the sight as most frightful. Fora time all thought of war had passed away from the minds of the Parisians, as they thronged through every avenue leading to the spot, where burning buildings met their gaze, and the shrieks of the injured and the moans of the dying fell upon their ears. More dreadful still were the mutilated, bloody and disfigured forms of the dying and dead which they be- held as the forms were borne away on stretch- ers from the place where they met their death or received their death wounds, Truly Paris has cause to be excited, with such dreadful scenes enacted In its very midst. This time it is not men in military garb who have suffered death and injury, but honest, indus- trious, hard-working, innocent women and children, who were laboring possibly for the bread that kept body and soul together. While to a hundred houses a new misery was brought; while father and mother and brother and sister mourned over the deso- lation which this terrible visitation brought upon them ; while the whole populace was ex- cited over this dreadful calamity, which brought death in a new shape to many a poor household ; while burning roofs illuminated the scene of the dreadful holocaust and excited throngs gathered round the spot where was exhibited death in almost every shape ; while this new calamity caused Paris to throb with new grief, the fratricidal strife outside the gates still continued, the guns of the forts still belched forth their flame and ball, and the leaders of the contending forces, both of Paris and Versailles plotted and planned, each for the destruction of the other. In the city the distrust of the Commane grows almost uni- versal; but how is Versailles? The informa- tion reached us that the members of the Right desire the overthrow of Thiers, and that already M. Grévy, Marshal MacMahon and General Changarnier have been approached regarding their acceptance of the succession in case the plan of depriving the present Executive of power is put in force. Grévy and MacMahon decline; Changarnier hesitates. The news from France cannot be regarded in any other light, therefore, with these facts before us, than as most distressing. A battle is hourly expected near Pasay. It is also reported that Marshal MacMahon has asked the assistance of the Germans and has obtained it, and that he is now preparing to make an attack, in conjunction with the Ger- man troops, on the city. In regard to the terrible explosion, which we have previously referred to, some attribute the disaster to treachery on the part of the agents of the Versailles government. Let us, for the sake of humanity, hope that this idea is ground- less. Peace, if it must be bought at a terrible price, let not the blood of innocent women and children stain the eventual triumph of law and order over demoralization and law- lessness. The Census of the State. We publish elsewhere this morning a very valuable table, showing the census returns for New York State for 1870. The population is classified in this table under the heads, “native, foreign, white and colored,” except in New York city, where, owing to unfor- tunate differences between city and federal officials, the actual census is siill a matter for settlement, The total, exclud- ing Indians and Chinese, amounts to 4,279,904 pereons, of which New York city alone claims 942,337 as actual residents, leaving out of her count altogether the large proportion of Brooklyn's 360,000 people who live their business lives inside our city limits, and the 117,000 in Westchester who do the same. Ofcourse our citizens who sleep in New Jersey would add another heavy sum to onr total, but we must give them up as lost altogether. The total of 4,279,904 shows that we have increased throughout the State by four hundred thousand since the census of 1860, a falling off in the ratio of increase of at least three hundred thousand compared with the ratio ofe increase during the ten years from 1850 to 1860, The cause of this reduction in the ratio of increase must be attributed chiefly to the war, though it is in part attributable also, no doubt, to emigration from our cities to the South and West. VALLANDIGHAM — out-and-out, riproaring, true bine, straight whiskey and straight ticket democrat as he is—has given the democracy the true keynote, He says the constitutional amendments must be accepted in good faith and there must be no distinctions in the demo- cratic party on account of race or color. ‘Tie Taree Sacks who were agitating all of last winter and summer for a Fourth of July convention at Niagara Falls to take into con- sideration the proposed annexation of Canada to the United States have come out with another address to the people on the subject. They propose to further the annexation pro- ject by dashing an old ship over the rapids and creating other exoitements of divers kinds in order to draw together a crowd and thereby enhance the interest and prices of the hotels at that place, Disractl en the Cost of the Alabama Claims. As a sign of the times and as matter of great significance, we draw attention to Dis- raeli’s speech in the House of Commons, The leader of the opposition alludes to the ex- penditure that will be required for the settle- ment of the Alabama claims, as if he already looked upon the new treaty as an accomplished fact. It is a tacit acknowledgment on his part that, acnording to the provisions, of the treaty, the United States have such heavy scores against England as will necessitate special financial measures, involving increased direct taxation of the people. This declara- tion of Mr, Disraeli, coupled with the motion of Earl Russell in the House of Lords @ fow days ago, ought to convince us that the pemd- ing treaty is aot unfavorable to our interests, and altogether as good and equitable an ar- rangement of the existing difficulties as could have been obtained by the American mombers of the Joint High Commission, Whether the increased taxation will not be the last straw on the camel's back of the already overburdened British taxpayer is, however, another matter, and Mr. Disraeli’s criticism of the budget sub- mitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer re- veals a state of fuancial affairs which mast cause serious concern to the British miad. Personal Intelligence. Gencral P. H..Sheridan arrived yosterday at tae Fifth Avenue, General B. £. Stockton, of New Jersoy, ts sojourn ing at the St. James. H. R, Hulburd, of Washington, ts stopping at the St. Nicholas. George J. Troop, of Halifax, 1s residing at tho Grand Central. Colonei B. C. Horn, of San Francisco, is domiciled at the Sturtevant House. Judge B. F. Rexford, of Norwich, N. Y., ts staying at the Astor House. General J, McDonall and family, of London, have apartments at the Clarendon Hotel. R. Worden, of the United States Navy, has ar- rived, from the San Francisco station, at the Everet House. John Taylor, of Montreal, is among yesterday's aorrivale at the Grand Central. General Baird and Colonel George A. Forsyth, of the United States Army, are quartered at the Fite Avenue. Niles G. Parker, Treasuror of the State of Souta Carolina, is stopping at the St. Nicholas. B. M. Clayton, of Nebraska, is a sojourner at the Sturtevant House. William H. McPherson and family, of Washingtea, havé apartments at the St. George Hotel. £x-Mayor George Innis, of Poughkeepsie, sa guest at the St. Nicholas. Dr. 8. B. Schmidt and Rey. C. Senior, of Montreal, are resident at the Astor House, Lieutenant Jackson, of the Royal Engineers, British Army, is quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. E, P. Merrick, of New Haven, ts staying at tae Hoffman House, General Parke, of Wasbington, arrived at the Bre- voort House yesterday. J. A. Moir, Japanese Minister to the United States, has apartments at the St. Nicholas. Commander R, B. Lowry, of the United States Navy, and wife have apartments at the Fifth Ave- nue. J. B. Stuttman, of South Oarolina, and John B, Carson, of Toledo, Ohio, are among yesterday's ar- rivals at the Hoffman House, Dr. W. H. Compton, of Tennessee, ts abiding at the Grand Central. Colonel Audenried, of the United States Army, and wife are at the Fifth Avenue, P. W. Charrington and John DP. Etnneston, of England, have taken apartments at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Colonel Dalzell ts quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. W. G, Alexander, of Princeton, N. J., is domictied at ihe St. James. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. From Chariea Scribner & Co.:—“A Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical Commentary" on the writings of the Prophet Jeremiah, translated from the German of J. P. Lange, D. D., by Philip Schag, D.D.; “Sermons to the Natural Man,” by Wa. G. T. Shedd, D. D. From John Murphy & Co., of Baltimore:—“The Truce of God,” atale of the eleventh century, by George H. Miles; “The Expiation,” a drama in Unree acts, translated from the French by J. Jamea Kehoe, From Scribner, Welford & Co.:—Who Is Respor- sible for the War?’ by an English author, signing himself ‘“Scrutator.”” From T. B, Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia:— “The Countess of Monte Cristo,” a companton to “The Count of Monte Cristo.” Cheap edition. From American News Company:—“Hit,"” by Dr. Mary E. Walker. rom ©. elps, N. Y.:—'‘A Dissertation on the Principles and Science of Geometry,”’ by Professor Lawrence S. Benson. From the New York Book Concern:—The first part of an illustrated “Child's Bible.'’ Monthiies:—“The New Era,” and “The University Monthiy,”” THE CUBA CABLE. Successful Laying of the Cable Between Punta Rosa and Key West. Av Sea, Five Mices From Key WEst, Fia., May 18, 1871. Thave just laid @ heavy cable between Punta Rosa and Key West, in an air line, by American talent exclusively, both electrical and mechanical. ‘This is the first long cable ever laid without foreiga assistance, and notwithstanding bad weather thit cable was laid by a tow from the shtp in which tt had been colled to be landed, a circumstance which makes the success of the work unprecedented. For the International Ocean Telegraph Cable, W. H. HEISS, General Superintendent. THE TRENTON HOMICIDE. Is Clearman to Have a Trial at AN? It will be remembered that @ man named Clear- man was indicted for kicking down stairs, at Freese’s Hall, Trenton, & man named William Roes- seler, Who died soon after from the Injuries recetved. At the last term of court the trial was postponed, on application of Mr. E. T, Green, counsel for the prisoner, and this term the case shares the same fate. It looks as if Jersey justice was to fall in this case altogether. The ostensible ground for poatpone- ment this term is the absence of prisoner's counsel at Camden, but in well informed circles at Trenton the opinion prevails that the prisoner will not be tried at all. It is rumored that the family of the murdered man have receivea the sum of $700 on condition that they withdraw from the prosecuion of the case. THE NEW HAVEN RAILROAD COMPANY. The annual meeting of the New York and New Haven Ratiroad Company was held at Brewster's Hall, New Haven, yesterday at eleven o'clock, The annual reports were submitted, after which the fol- lowing Board of Directors were chosen unant- mously, with one exception, by @ stock vote of 53,015 shares:—William D. Bishop, Bridgeport; George B. Carnart, George N. Miller, Abraham Van Nest, Wilson G, Hunt, New York; Ezekiel H. Trow- bridge, New Haven; Jonathan Godfrey, Southport; Nathan A. Baldwin, Miiford; Nathaniel Wheeler, Bridgeport; Horace F, Olark, New York. The meev- ing then adjourned. There were abous seventy-five stockholders present. THE CLEVELAND AND PITTSBURG RAILRDAD. ‘The executive committee of the Cleveland and Pittaourg Railroad Company held a meeting tn this city yesterday. An application, signed by ® large majority of the stockholders, asking for a dividond of fill r Cent, Was presented and duly considered, and rit meetin ‘ot the Doard ordered for Tuoadax, DAY 2%, 0 Rese Whe roguualie rosoluden,