The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1873, Page 4

{ 4 NEW YORK HSRALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1873.—rKIPLE SHEET. RUSSIAN QUESTIONS. Invasion of Asia, Army Reorganization and the Bulgarian Church. Se ENGLAND'S INTERESTS IN AFGHANISTAN, Shall Russia Govern Central Asia or Protect It? ADOPTION OF PRUSSIA'S ARMY SYSTEM. a The German Eagle Watching the Russian Bear—Troubles of the State Church Still Unsettled. BERLIN, Jan. 4, 1873. Tne three great questions of the hour in St, Pe- tersburg are the Central Asiatic question, the pro- posed military reform and the Bulgarian Church diMculty. With regard to the Central Asiatic ques- tion, Imay begin by saving that at a meeting re- cently held under the presidency of the Emperor it has been decided to take Khiva and flnish these wretched anachronisms, the native governments of Central Asia. General Kaufman, Governor Gen- eral of Turkistan, isin St. Petersburg at present, where he will remain till near the end of January, when he will start for Central Asia. Khiva is tobe attacked in the Spring by two divisions of the army now in Central Asia, starting from Tashkeut. Another division from the army ot the Caucasus will assemble at Krasnevodsky Bay, which is situ- ated nearly due east trom Baku, on the Caspian, and to the southwest from Khiva. Krasnovodsky is the best harbor on the eastern shore of the Cas- pian, and is situated at the former mouth of the Amoo Daria, or Oxus of the ancients—a river which now empties into the Aral Sea, though it formerly discharged into the Caspian. The re- | mains of its former bed are visible, and the Russians hope to divert it into its former course, thus giving direct navigation to the heart of Asia. | A third expedition, consisting of one division, | ‘will start from Benburg and pass between tlhe Caspian and the Aral. Judging by the history of Russian conquests in Northern Asia, these forces | seem more than sufficient to subdue Khiva, The Petersburg Cabinet has recently received a de- spatch from the British Foreign OMce, caused by these preparations against Central Asia, The pur- port of the British note was as follows:—We have no objection to your taking Khiva, but as the Emir of Afghanistan isa dependent of ours, your new boundary must not interfere with his. If his boundaries are interfered with ana he considers himself justified in going to war, we shali feel obliged to assist him in maintaining his territorial rights, The British note hints at taking the Amoo Daria as the boundary along its whole extent, ad- ding, probably, a certain amount of territory on its | leit bank from Khi to the Caspian Sea, | In every cause we see that there is much room for future intrigue and misunderstand- ing tn regard to those regions lying between British India and the Russian possessions. The boundaries of Afghanistan are very indefinite and Emperor, and I have been informed by a Russian of distinction that the Minister of War bas not been averse to use Von Werder'’s assistance in ob- taining the Emperor's approval for his scheme of military reorganization, THE BULGARIAN CHURCH DIRPUTE is of long standing, and has its origin mainly in the political ambition of the Greeks, who have been the ecclesiastical despots of European Turkey for centuries, The Bulgarian Church has established its local autonomy, but has been excommunicated by a council of Eastern patriarcks, held at Constan- tinople. The Patriarch of Jerusalem alone oppos- ing this verdict, he was, in consequeace, ¢xcom- municated and deprived of his office. The Haasan Church did not take part in the Constantinople Council, and all interested in the Bulgarian ques- tion looked to the decision of the St. Peters pure Syned. That decision has just. been given, an tt 18 that the Russian Church remains neutral. : was supposed that the Synod would take sides with the Bulgarians, ana the Russian clergy lean that way most decidedly. The influence of Count ‘Tolstoy, Procuror of the Synod, bas produced the lecisien of neutrality. CENTRAL ASIA. renin British India—Reports of the Progress of the Russian War Against Khiva—Cap- tures by the Czar’s Troops—Native Re-= taliation and Its Consequonces—The Russian Imperial Envoy at the Court of the King of Kashgar. {From the Indian Public Opinion (Lahore), Dec. 10.) The followimg,nteresting reports of the progress of affairs on the frontier have just reached us from trustworthy sources:—The Amir of Cabooi was in. formed of the presence in his city of @ nessenger on the part of Abdurrahman, son of Afzul Khan, with letters for various persons from that fugitive as well as from the Russian authorities. The Kasid was called and asked about the roads, &c., but would give ne information. Promises and threats were equally useless, and after being subjected to torture and imprisonment without any news being elicited from him, he was blown fromagun, The letters he had carried were not found, but had already been delivered to the persons in league with Abdurrahman at Cabool, Russians. A Yarkandi, formerly in the service of the Atalik, gives us the following account of his master’s doings for the last years:—In Yakub Khan’s absence in China the Russians captured three towns be- longing to Yarkand. On his arrival Yakub Khan, formally taking the title of Atalik Ghazee-ha-daulat, and Leary | himself at the head of 9,000 troops, de- feated the Russians. He even suceeeded in recap- turing Kochar bai from the Russians, The follow. ing towns are now in the possession of Yakub Khan:—Yarkand Orumehi, Kocharpai, Takhtapua, Khotan, Kashgar the Great (in contradistine to the “Little Kashgar’ of Chitral), Andijon, A. and Khotan had belonged to China. About six months ago Juma Khan, Atalik’s Com- mander-in-Chief, succeeded in capturing thice police stations of the Russians. Baron Kaulhass’ Russian Mission to the King of Kashgar. {From the Delhi (E. I.) Gazette, Dec. 13.) aaron Kaulbass, at the head of the mission, which, by the way, it is hardly necessary to pre- mise, Was, of course, purely a commercial one (our distant first opening of communications with Oriental Powers are invariably commercial leaving the last Russian outpost on the trontier towards Eastern Turkistan, called Fort Navinsky, crossed the Karakayon Valley towards the pass of Tasbrabat. Up to this spot the land was not incog- nita, having been previously visited and described by Baron Von Osten Sacken In 1867, From the named spot the made bis way to the called Tehatyr & the river Tayon towd tween the lake and for a two-wheeled cart, but through a part of the route there is no forage or g) for herses tobe found, For a considerable portion, too, ofthe route, some very dificult conntry has to be passed, che road runuing at times through rocky defiles, easily capable of being defended and protected by forts in lmpregnable positions.’ Ou ke 1 thence by the left bank of is Kashgar. The road be- i} dle claims may be increased or diminished to suit cir- cumstances. In the southern part of the terri- tories of Khiva, and partly in the extreme north of Afghanistan, are the Turkomen tribes who turp an | honest penny by stealing Persians and selling them into slavery in Khiva and other slave marts of the | East. The Russian occupation of Khiva will take | the bread from the mouths of these gentle Turko- ten. They will, of course, endeavor to carry on | their slave hunting expeditions as before; will be | ursued and some will no doubt cross the Afghan | youndary, and callisions between the governments may become more and more dificult to avoid. At) St. Petersburg there is a variety of opinions on the | Central Asiatic question. Geni ‘chernyaet, the captor of Tashkeuk and Chemkeuk, who first led the Russians into the heart of Central Asia and who may be considered as the chief exponent of the opposition to the present policy, declares that Central Asia as DOW Managed Will be a source of Weekness iD- stead of strength to Russia. He has recently writ- tem an exhaustive statement of the present comdi- tion of atfairs, addressed to the Mimister of Finance. | The Minister sent it to the Emperor, who, alter a | careiul reading, semt it to General Kaufman, A | council was assembled shortly afterward, at which | Tchernyaet was not present. The intent to une | dertake further Central Asian cenquest remained | unshaken, notwithstanding the vigerous attack of | Tchernyaef. His ietter says “The advance of Russian arms in Asia has taken | place partly in spite of the central government and partly without its sanction. This results irom | the force of circumstanct and cannot well be | avoided. Russia, however, should see that her | acquisitions be self-sustainimg, instead of | being a burden and a_ source of weal nese to he inhabitan of Asia were wear! 1 of their rulers ed with the unendur nd were Rot opp new masters. This is im part the secret of the | rapidity and ease of the Ku an conquest, The proper condition for Russia in Asia is that of arbi- trator. She should confirm tn oiice native oficials | selected by the people; or, if those elected wer not ol the right Character, appoint mew ones. In short, the Russian authorities should ve the jusiges | of the governing native oificialg, and the prete tors of the governed population in cases of opp sion by the jormer, Instead of this an expen and numerous bureaucracy is organized tor the purpose of carrying on the entire administration ef the country. This bureaucracy requires more money for its support than the country is able to pay, and the deficit, which now amount to 4,000,000 rubles yearly, must be taken frem the taxpayers of Russia itself, who at present carry as great @ burden as their shoulders can well bear. This minute interference of Russia in their local affairs displeases the natives, and consequently a much larger number of soldiers is necessary to hold the country. At | present tkere are 30,000 men in Turkestan; 10,000 | would be ample under different management. Kus- Sia’s system must be changed, otherwise England | Will be able to threaten ber frontier and render | her tenure of Asia a costly and dificult one. By Proper management Russia wight wield an almost unbounded influence in Asia, It is for the govern- ment to ponder over this serious question at the | present moment. It may be too late hereatter to correct mistakes which are beginning to ve pro- ductive of very evil results, Such are a few of the ideas in this remarkable paper. 1am toid that some of the ablest menu of the country accept them fully and hope tor their adoption. It but remains for the government to become convinced of their justuess, In case such should be the result probably General Teh er himself will be sent to Asia to put his system in , practical operation. ARMY REOR The question of military Russian government for a number of years. It followed, indeed, closely upon the other reforms begun during the present reign, being imtroduced by the Minister of War, Gemerai Milutiu. He was a herd im one of the military academies at St. Petersburg, and later chief! of staif under Princ Bariatinsky, Viceroy ei the Caucasus, General Milutin was present at the capture of Senamy!|, and aiter the close of the War in Daghestan returned to St. Petersburg, where hic was soon made Minister of War, a post which he still occupies. Alter the Franco-Prussian war the Czar resgived to intro- duce obligatory military service for all, modelled on the Prassian system. This project has been subjected to a committve now im Session at st Petersburg, Whose labors will be finished before the end of the present year, when its report will be submitted to a second committee, which will clude Field Marshal Prince Bariatinsky, Count jerg, Viceroy or Poland; General Kotzebue, Gov- eruor General of Southern Russia; Todtieben qnd other celebrities of the Russian army, The prop- osition is very severely attacked by some or the highest” military authorities of Russia, among others by General Yad cient, the well-known author of “The Armed Power of Russia’? “Sixty Years’ War on the Caucasus” and other writings, most of which have been translated into the differ: ent European languages, He has reeently pub- | lished @ series of ‘articles in the St. Petersburg | Russian World, criticising very ably and severely the so-called “reform,” which, hie says, seeks to combine two irreconcilable systems, the French and the Prussian. The opposition to General Mi- | luton’s pian is not to the part relating to | univel Military serv but to the or- ganization of the ‘army, which, it is contended, ig | lefective, and, ifcarried out,’ will eudanger the position of Russia in Europe. | One thing is sure, Prussia is watching with sleep. | less eye the course of military development in Russia, and if there is a weak spot in the armor of the Northerm Giant the Germans wil Know where to strike whenever the tug of war comes. A few days since it seems that the Grand Duke Alex. der, the heir to the throne of Russia, ventured to remark to the Ozar, his Jather, that the treqnent ‘visits to His Majesty of Von Weruer, the Prussian military agent, might cause the people to think that the latter was gaining an undue influence over him. The Grand Duke, it ts said, received a reprimand for his suggestion, Von Werder is ve. | t have much inducuce with tue | AN ATION. 1 has occupied the | anid w | sent him an Envoy some time sinc ; distances a | were married during t ending into the Kastgar valley the scenery totally changes, and the traveller pursues his way cuilivated plains and gardens. Here, at a subsequent interview, the King told the Envoy that he looked upon the Russians as his intimate friends, “and it is for this reason,” ne “Thave shown you my army; had I thought ‘e to become my enemies TF eat Te should not have done so.” He further stated how sin- cerely he desired the friendship anc Russians, and that tn spite of the nglish having e he still gave the preference to the protection of His Majesty the Czar as his most mighty and most infiuential neighber. Recept researches in Eastern Turkistan have shown that the country is ric in mineral ores and | has a large supply of coal, beside possessing an ex- tremely fertile soil. These are little matters which may serve to quicken the Uzar’s sense of the obliga- tion he is under to protect the interest of his Chinese stalking hors' MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Miss Agnes Ethel plays “Ag! Trey from this to Saturday evening. Portland eught to be happy, for next week it is to have the “Black Crook,” in “all its original splendor, M. Victorin, an actor of the Vaudeville Theatre, in Paris, has been condemned to three months’ im- prisoument for having stuien 300 {francs from Mile. Defrenne, of the same theatre. We have read a good deal of awkward criticism on “The School for Scandal,” buta Baltimore paper | competitors by finding in Miss Jane left yesterday for Europe under a four years’ en- gagement to Mr. Bateman, He expects to produce in London some of his own works which he had no opportunity of producing here, They have an exceedingly profitable theatre and me great actors at, McConnellsville, Ohio. The receipts are often as much as $150 a night, and the local pr assures us that the man who piay: Rip Van Winkle is superior te Mr. Jefferson. Stage effects in the West are sometimes unusual, The otner day a pantom: longing to @ strolling ‘Black Crook’? company, e perform: e, at Quincy, Il, and we are told the audience enjoyed it, This season only two new English plays have been produced in this city— Pygmalion 88 La (the capital), and Kola, Dakianus, furlan, Khata liance of the | es"? at Albany and | HAYTI. aeag ea The Coming Election—Specie Versus Paper—Tho Treasury Robbed of $16,000 in Gold—An- other Revolution Expected—bpecches and Patriotic Address by President Saget—Pushing American Claims. Port au Princg, Hayti, Jan. 7, 1873. ‘The chief topic of interest here at the present moment is the election, which takes place en the 10th inst., when it is expected that the opposition Candidates to the government will be elected. The most prominent government candidate for the Chambers is Mr. GC. Haneljens, but his election is far from certain, . General Solomon, who is now in Jamaica, recently applied to the government for permission to return, but the only auswer he received was & decree of banishment, It is reported that he has lately been issuing manifestos and sending them here for distrioution. I have heard from an authentic source that the English Minister, after the emission of the decree, wrote to General Solomon, strongly advising him not to return, and concluded by saying, should he persist in coming, he would be certainly shot before he had proceeded many steps from the landing wharf, The most prominent candidates tor the Presidency are General M. Domingue, General P. Monplaisir Pierre and General P, Lorquet, but, from current indications, General Domingue will probably be elected, ‘The government gunboat Mont Organise has re- turned from the South, where she had been to take $400,000 in silver for the redemption of the old paper. Great dissatisfaction exists, however, over the manner in which the government is carrying on these financial arrangements, and the Secretary of Finance is accused of having a finger in the ple, in the jashion of the New York ‘Tammany King. The Treasury was robbed the other night of $16,000 in gold, and no clue has been obtained as to who the thie! or thieves are. A subject which has caused much conversation lately is that the American Minister, Mr, Bassett, is pressing the government very hard for the set- tlement of the American claims, which he consid- ers just, with the exception of that of Messrs, Oli- ver Untts & Co. ‘The government has now almost entirely sup- pressed the importation ef counterfeit money. There have been rumors lately of revolutionary movements, and the government has been prepar- ing itself for any case of emergency of that kind which may arise, and General Lorquet, the com- mandant of the place, says that he will make short work of any such movement, ‘The present Ministry seems to be composed prin- cipally of jobbers, and tiey have beceme ot late xen unpopular, and a change is ardently hoped r. On the last day of the past year President Saget gave an official reception at the palace, On behalf of the Foreign Diplomatic Corps the American Minister, Mr. Bassett, spoke as tollows:— UNITED STATES MINISTER'S SPEECH. On the eve of a new year, and for the third time since you have occupied the Presidential chair, I have the honor to wis pu,on behalf ot the Foreign Diplomatic and Consular Corps which I have the honor to rep: nt, the highest sentime of our good will. We congratulate you, Mr. President, upon the peace and plenty now reign: ing la the Republic, and also upon the successtul meas- ures which have been inaugdrated during your Ire dency. The President replied as follows:— Hl OF PRESIDENT SAGET. Gentlemen of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps, T vo to thank you tor th kind wishes expressed’ to ur behalf by American Minister, Mr. Bas- © me, one and all, Lam deeply thankful ag of Your friendship expressed on my be- half and that of the Haytian Republic. hope, turther, that the friendly relations existing between our govern: ments may always remain in their present happy condi- tion, THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. General Lamothe them spoke in favar of republi- can institutions and the Uuited States filteenth * amendment as follo — * * “When the Saint, Abraham Liaceln, fell a victim to his philan- thropy, his mantle fell on worthy shoulders—v those of General Grant—who proved a noble suc- cessor to the inartyred President, and carried out his cherished views by affirming the Dfteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States. * * All honor to him! and may slavery soon be banished from this Continent.” AN ORATION BY PRESIDENT SAGET. \ | 1ist and a dancer, be- | and | Galatea” at Wailacs’s, and “False Sname” at the | Fifth Avenue—and it is not likely that any others will be brought out at any of our theatres. Nothing could be clearer proof that New York will accept only the best Engiish comedy. The variety of the entertainments afforded by our New York theatres is illustrated by the fact that scarcely a week passes without a change of bill at one or other of our places of amusement, Now every theatre in the city is playing a piece which had been looked for with interest, but “Atherley Court” gives place to “Le Centenaire’ atthe Union Square theatre next week and the week following Mr. Florence succeeds Mr, Booth. The other pieces promise a long run, though “Brother Sam’ at Wallack’s and “Leo and Lotos” at Niblo's have already had an unQsually success- ful career. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. MARION HARLAND’s “Cook ROOK" ts sald to bea greater than “Alone? or “Ihe Hidden Path. Sarah J. Hate made, some years ago, quite @sensation in the same direction. For our part, We feel glad to see intellect going into the kitchen and ideality sharing with practicality the super- vision of the larder and the domain of the station- ary tubs. A MAN or Wir and learning, of the name of Martin Vaug ‘ a bundle of all ba or illicit, modes of speaking or writing, which are to be met With in French books, journals, &¢., of the day, His publication, which appears weekly, has for its title Faugeius’ Me. It is a most prodigious crop, seers of idiom and style, are contributors to that budget in large proportions. Novelists of notoriety and talent introduce into the vernacular French of Rabelais, Molire and Voltaire the dialectic pecu- Marities of the South aud the North. About and the Alsatians write 4 kind of Alsatian French, The Paris ng forms @ great item in the Figaro and Gaulois. Tar British Musscm has now ready seven vol- umes of a manuscript catalogue of the collection of printed Sanscrit literature tu the library, In LONDON and the suburbs there are issued 282 newspapers and $53 periodical publications. Lon- don has publishers generally and 830 booksell- ers, taany of whom are publishers in a smaller Way, and 381 bookbinders; nor have Messrs, Mudie, south & Sons and other large librarians completely swallowed up smatier libraries, there being still Sixty-8ix lest of tom, success nger. On New Year's Day the President made a patri- | otic address, in which he said:— Haytians—This day is the seventicth anniversary of our national independence. Betore 18M our ancestors’ position in this land was a sad one, and we were looked Upon as mere animals, or, putting it’ otherwise, “hewers of wood and drawers ‘ot water.” Our ancestors, as you , Were transported hither and placed in degrading ry. In desperation they flew to arms, and on the Ist 1504, the tree of liberty was planted, and they swore to be free men or die, and how nobly they sue- ceeded isknown to you all. Let us take no heéd of the aspersions made against us that we are not as advanced as other nations. We have ontend against, but Providence has watched been our unerring guide. As our sacrifices n heavy, our reward shall be proportionate. Be- todie under the h fore we leave this spot let us all swear ruins of our country, 1f we do not live as free and inde- be pendent men. “Long hve the Republic, the Constitution and Our National Independence !” Right Rev. Bishop Coxe, of Western New York, returns home by this steamer, alter a stay of five weeks, and has during that period ordained some ipisvopal priests, nek GERMANS AND THEIR TASK IN AMERICA, ~+ Lecture by Mrs. Clara Neumann. Madame Clara Neumann, a celebrated German lecturer, as well as avery pretty lady, held fortn last evening at Liederkranz Hall, 35 East Fourth street, the theme being “wermans and Their Task in America.”? The room was filled to its full capacity by a highly tntellectnal and appreciative audience, who paid the utmost attention to the the theoriz- ing of the lecturer. Mrs, Neumann viewed her subject from a cos- mopolitan standpoint and proceeded to show that, first came mankind and then the nationality, The Germans in this country are connected with all civ- iized people, but with the Americans they are en- twined in manifold bends, especially in comparison to former periods, When religious intolerance ex- isted, which chained progress and intelligence. The present time may be justly termed one of the utmost freedom—notwithstanding our civilization is by nO means fautless—yet the ambition for prog: ress is not fully developed and has before it a very wide feild of operation. America, notwithstanding the various corrup- tions, isa magnificent land, and it depends alto- gether upon the American public whether it will remain tle same in the future or share the fate of former republics, The republican ideas, which in | this country have wrought such blessed results, Academicians, the natural over: | | tusured in have had a mighty influence upon the destiny ot the European peoples, through whom it was fully monstrated that the German public is no igno- nt mass, rhe lecturer described the various nationalties of the Germans—such as the Prussians, Austrians, Xiinelanders, &c,—characterizing each as to par: traits of the several nations, The Ameri- 8, apprecia the many virtues of the nd i the latter at any tinie feeis himself by the former it is only due to the fact that | the German has' not endeavored to impress the other with his deserts and what is due to his in- telligence. an learn as much from Americans latter from the former; hence he foreig! on his claims of nging to an ¢ ty. Mrs. Neumann cited from the Revolution of 1848, where inteliigence Was trampled upon; but time has arrived for a change, and justice aud humanity triumph. Ask the Germans why they cannot even | sustain ‘a respectable theatre, or linish the hos | in urse of ‘ection? | pital, whic ts so How long does {t take Ameri ns to accomplish sucha project? The reason of this lies m the en- ergetic 1 of the American, It is unfortunate | that the Teutonic people cannot thorougiily appre- ciate freedom, Many, many come to this country, | fill their pockets, return to Europe, and, instead of upholding and advocating the ous institu. Uons of the United States, they live on the means gained in a free country, wholly unconcerned | about and oblivious as to its existence. The lec- | turer particularly ere upon Prederick | Kapp, Who served as an e tude. In this strain Mrs, Neumann continued, paying compliment upon compliment to the high-minded ness and generosity of Americans, and was fre- quently imterrupted With rapturous applause, This ery prepossessing and has a duent and autiful delivery, The language ased by her pure and well chosen. She has long been acknowl edged as the best German lecturer in this city, if Her effort last evening was a ample of such ingrati- not in the country. literary as Well a8 & pecuniary success, FIRE IN CANAL STREET, A fire broke out last night on the second floor of the three story brick building No. 344 Canal street that caused a damage of about twenty-five thou- sand doliars, The floor on which the fire started was occupied by Frankenberg & schultz, manufac: turers of lace goods, Who sustained a loss of $5,000 insured, ‘The frst floor was occupied by S. Ales ander, importer of fancy goods. His stock was damaged by water to the extent of $2,000; he Liverpool, London and Globe for $40,000, The third Noor was occupied by 8. Frank- euthal, bonnet frame manufacturer. Damage by water $500; insured. The building was injured to the extent of about $10,000; insured, It is the property of Juage Mitchell, Fire Marshal MeSpe- doa Will hold au investigation in tue case to-day. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA, The Conspiracy to Assassinate Presi- dent Pardo, of Peru. Organization of the Plot and the Plan of Action. ARREST OF THE PARTIES IMPLICATED, et Royal Congratulations from Europe—Morales’ Murderer Tells His Tale--General Prog- ress, Agricultural and Commercial. PANAMA, Jan, 5, 1873. The South Pacific Times, ef December 28, has the following report of the conspiracy to assassinate President Pardo, of Peru:— Great excitement has been created by the report in circulation that a@ plot had been discovered to assassinate President Pardo, by blowing up the railway train on the Chorrillos line as it was enter- ing Lima by means of a torpedo, which was Ms ared with electric wire connecting therewith. 1e ouse in which the flendish preparations were made is situated opposite the penitentiary, and the trains run in close proximity to ivas they approach the Lima station, Various rumors were abroad, ail differing in their character, yet all tending to establish the fact that assassination of the President was intended re- gardiess of the lives of other passengers who were on the train. We have received the following de- spatch from Lima on the sabject, and it is from the most reliable source, ihe fact that the arrange- ments were made and not carried out, by which, probably, many valuable lives were saved, besides that of His Excellency the President, we can only regard as providential. Details of the Causes which Excited To- wards a Deed of Blood. Lua, Dec, 27, 1872, Yesterday at three P. M., at the house of Sefior Bogardus, were assembled the party named, his brothers and a certain Jose 5. Heredia, an old en- gineer on one of the ships of war. It seems that there was a quarrel between Bogardus and Heredia, and violent language passed, Soon after the report of @ pistol was heard, which attracted the police to the dwelling. On inquiry as to tho disturbance the police received no direct reply, but in the excited conversation going on they heard men- tion made of torpedoes, shell sand the assassina- tion of the President. The Chief of Police, Freyre, made no further inquiry but arrested Bogardus and Heredia and took them to the Intendente, to whom the latter stated that he was prepared to reveal everything, saying it was about two months ago, more or less, that he was asked by Pedro Beausejour to prepare some shells and torpedoes for him, but he declined to do so knowing that they were intended to blow up the residence of the President; that he was olfered if he would make the combustibles a reward of from eight to ten thousand soles; that then he (Heredia) went to Sefior Pierola’s house to receive an advance of the amount promised for the diabolical work to be performed; that he saw there Bogardus and Pierola (E.), the brother of ex-Minister Pierola, who was not himself to be seen, but who had d puted Bogardus to enter into the damnable nego- tiations, This is all I can furnish up to this moment about the revelation of Heredia; a further investigation is going on, In connection with this affair a woman named Dolores Valiente has been arrested, as in her house, situated opposite the penitentiary, was found one case of gunpowder, Congreve rockets, wires, torpedoes, &c. This woman states that bo- gardus had in her house a torpedo which was in- tended to explode as the train from Chorillos was coming into Lima with President Pardo on it, but aiterwards he determined not to carry his plan into execution, and took the instruments o! de- struction from her house, SUSPECTS. In addition to the arrest of all the parties named vove, as concerned in this intended crime, Fran- cisco Rogriguez and Ricardo Villarmar, who are supposed more or less to have been in the evident conspiracy to destroy the life of the President, have likewise been taken prisoners. Ali the parties have made depositions, which will form the groundwork of immediate investigation CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE EUROPEAN CROWNS, ‘The Kings of Greece and Portugal and the Czar of Russia have congratulated by autograph letters President Pardo on his elevation to the supreme power in Peru. PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND PARTY POLITICS, His Excellency Mr. Pardo, the President of the | Republic, has been named by the. governments of Chile and Bolivia as arbitrator in all questions pending between those countries, it was reported in Pisco that General Quintin Quevedo had proceeded into the interior of Bolivia to present himself as a candidate fer the Presi- dency of that Republic. NATURAL VISITATIONS, VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE. On the 16th and 17th of December fifteen persons died of smalipox in Lima, The epidemic, says the Patria, goes on increasing in intensity, and if not checked will be found more fatal than even the late epidemic years of yellow fever. There were seventy cases in the Lazaretto om the 17th inst. On the 26th uli. a shock of earthquake was felt at Arequipa of forty seconds’ duration, Bolivia, Frederico Lafaye, who shot General Morales, the President of Bolivia, on the night of the 27th of November last, has given to the public of La Paz the following DECLARATION, dated 30th of November:—At half-past nine P. M. of that memorable night I was in the saloon of the Government Palace, where there are two tables for the game of rocambo, there being present Seflor Medeiros, who was playing with Colonel M. Baron, and also Lieutenant Colonel Mohria and a Mr. Apiricio, I had scarcely been there a few minutes when General Morales vame in and asked for Command- ant La Vigna, his aide-de-camp. On presentin, himself Morales commenced to strike him, an ordered that the window should be opened that he might throw him out of it into the plaza. Other aides-de-camp proceeded to execute the order. 1 then interfered between them, snatching away from Morales the sword he had taken from La Vigna, fearing that as he could not throw him out of the window he might use the weapon in- stead, I tried to get him to be calm and not give rise to such scandal, but with no etfect. He began | to insult and strike every one within his reach. 1 | begged him to desist and consider the honor ef his tamily and the rank he heid in the Republic, and that if he suspected misconduct on the part of his ofticers to have them tried. He then struck a blow which made me stagger back, but I still persisted in trying to persuade him, but ail was of no avail. He began to attack Colonel Lavandez and others inthe same way, when I received another blow, harder than the tirs®, teliing me ab the same time | to “get out of the house.’ My indignation got the better of my reason, and drawing my re- Volver I fired at tim seven shots, and then re- turned to the barracks and put the troops under arms. Colonel Lavandez arriving at the time, I told nim my object was that the Rifles should take charge of the armory and prevent any disorder on the part of the other forces, Having arranged | matters with this object, [returned to my house. Public order is still undisturbed. Chile. A fire occurred at Santiago on the 11th of Decem- | ber, Which destroyed the bullding occupied by the | Banco Garantizaaor, the Porvenier de las Familias and Masonite lodge, and injured two adloining | buildings. The bank saved its books and valuables, | The Porvenier and the lodge lost many valuable | documents. The total loss ts estimated at $200,000, The building was Vaiued at $50,000, and Was insured for $15,000, FROM THE DEEP SEA. | Nearly all of the cargo of the Dover Castle has been suved, A quantity of gold, silver and copper ore from the wreck has been sent to Valparaiso, The French ship Biobio, which arrived at Vaipa- | raiso on the 2d of December, spoke the British ship | Keniiworth in lat. 53 50, south and lon, 82 10, west, leaking considerably, having experienced | bad weather on her voyage irom London, * MUNICIPAL DECAY. The following is trom a Lota paper :—The town is melting away; the smalipox does not decrease; the alarm is great; terror has stricken every one; the government knows itand dovs not stir: the people are abandoning the place, and the plague overruns the whole town. There is not a street, court or alley without its complement of victims. No one thinks of succor or hygienic measures. May God have pity on them ! Colombia. - The Guayaquil Andes of the 25th December last publishes a notice ot the decree of General Mos- quera deciaring the State of Cauca under martia; law, but that in consequence of a representation of the inhabitants of Popayan the government had despatched a circular to the municipal chiefs stat- ing that the decree was to be considered merely in the light of a warning to be on the alert. The Palestra, of Mompos, of the 7th inst., thinks with respect to recent events on the frontiers with Venezuela the government ought to inform the nation what it tutends to do, ag well as tn what | Drummond condinies the gestion < irl seis is with respect to jor au Setior Eustorgio Saigar has been breught forward “Santiago Peren, Felipe. Zapaim, justo Arosemena re: and Rafael Nunes are all candidates for the next President 0: the Union. The mission from Peru to Japan and China, pre- sided over by Captain Garcia y Garcia, arrived in the Arequi; ant general of tho’ district, has” gone 10 Europe as e c ne vo Eui Minister Plenipotentiary of edcador to the gov- ernments of England, France, Germany and Ivaly. ‘Phe Unitea States screw steamer Kansas, three Guns, 900 tons, arrived at Aspinwail on the aiternoon Of the 1st inatamt. The Kansas was ordered out here to assist the Nicaragua Canal Survey now about to be renewed. eee American Steam Packet Company's Vi 3] - wee years “i rom Europe, arrived at Asp! Guatemala. The new constitution has been adopted by the Chamber, Under its provisions the qualifications for voters are to be twenty-one years of age, able to read and write, or im eu of the latter to be possesses of $1,000 capital. The coffee crop was good, Salvador. An agent in Paris had bought and shipped the rails and cars for the new railroad between San Salvador and La Libertad. President Gonzalez on the 8th of December had i rated the commaence- ment of the road in the presence of an immense multitude. ‘The volcano near Santanna gives indications of an eruption, Nicaragua. The Minister of Foreign Affairs had addressed a note of congratulation to United States Minister Blair upon the re-election of President Grant. BRITISH WEST INDIES. An American Bishop in Jamaica—Move- ments of Foreign War Flects—Plant- ers’ Interests. ... Krnasron, Jam., Jan. 9, 1873, Bishop Cox, of New York, has been on a visit to this island, where he has been weil received. He preached in the Kingston parish church on Sun- day last and toek part in an ordination service on Monday. Since then he has been ona trip to the mountains, and before~he leaves for America will visit the scenes ef the insurrection of 1865. The German fleet is momentarily expected from. Venezuela, on its voyage round the world, St. Thomas. The Danish frigate Dagmar and the United States steamer Canandaigua were both in the harbor New Year’s Day, when a grand ball was given at the Government House. The American officers were present and well received. Barbados. The planters were engaged planting the young crop. Owing to the unfavorable weather the crop ree expected to exceed forty thousand hogs- leads. The parties convicted of riot arising out of the recent wreck of the steamer Cuban lave been sen- tenced to various terms of imprisonment, ART MATTERS. The Leavitt Art Sale To-Night. This evening, at half-past seven, a portion of the pictures belonging to the late Mr. Joseph H. Hig- ginsen, and to which allusion was made in last Saturday's HERALD, will be sold at auction, at the Clinton Hall saleroom. The sale wili conclude to- morrow evening at the same place. During the week many connoisseurs have been attracted to the Art Rooms, 817 Broadway, and yesterday more than the usual proportion were present. As the tures since that of the Avery collection, it may be interesting to enumerate some of the more strikiug points :— Frangois Revotlre is represented by some very richly and delicately painted flowers, that appear to be as wealthy in perfume as the genuine arti- cle. George H. Hale’s vase of fowers also deserves favorable mentton. By many the gem of the entire collection is con_ sidered to be S. R, Gisford’s “Mansfield Mountains, Vermont," flooding, as it does, with golden light & gorge between the glittering peaks. Church's “Passing Storm,’ however, will de- servedly bear the palm with the majority. Ir is a fine expression of pow! \d of that kind of power which holds itself in ‘erve ond creates the im- pression of inexhaustibility. “You Can't Have Tnem,” by S.J. Guy, is rich in its contrast of colors, and the sentiment 1s play- fully and therefor strongly wrought out, the sub- ject necessitating a tinge of humor, cemplicated with bright and charming accessories. The late J. F. Kensett’s “Near San Francisco,” brimming with that artist’s vital characteristics, derives an added interest from the fact of his sud- den and lamentable death. “Jeune Fille Preparant une Robe de Bal,” by Frere, tells its own short and pleasant story ib Frere’s happiest manner. 3. G. Brown, the Oliver Optic of the palette, is | represented by at least a dozen pictures, most of | which tell some interesting incideat about boys | and girls and children of a iyttie larger growth. In one picture, “Olid House in Georgetown, D. C.,”” he has {pare d widely irom what is generally recog- j flZed as being his forte. To the excellence of Mr. Wilmarth’s “Nathan Hale” reference has already been made. It is worth adding that more than one skilled physiognomist has greatly praised the truth with which the emo- be to the hour and the incident are repro- duced, David Johnson's fine and earnest feeling is ex- | hibited in “Fisherman's Hannt.”? Among Other interesting paintings which we have not room more particularly to speciiy are R. . Pattison’s “Shelburne Meadows,” D. Hunting. ton'’s “Introspection,” T. L. Smith’s “Glenida Lake, Putnam county, New York; A. Barland’s “Near Abergavenny,” E. Lemmen’s ‘Farm Yard,’’ William Hart's “Midnight,” Mignot’s ‘‘Sangay Vol- cano and Falls of Pastaza," W. H. Beard’s “Indian Summer,” Nehlig's The Crusaders,’ two com- panion pictures by Kuwasseg, Bradiord’s “Coast of Labrador,” Gifford's “Derwent Water,’’ Bre- voort’s “Oid Ruin, Hampton; some sleep by Shattuck, Mount's “Poser,’’ a landscape or two by Casilear, Accard’s “Le Berceau,” Huntington's “Mercy’s Dream," three fine paintings by innes3 and Leray’s “More Frightened Than Liurt.”’ Foreign Art Notes. Mr. Calderon has in hana several pictures for the next exhibition of the Royal Academy. Mr. Eyre Crowe has just completed a capital little picture that comprises a front view of a build- ing at which laborers are at work. Mr. Marks has made much progress with his “Ornithologist,”” representing an old gentleman and his servant rearranging some stutTed speci- mens. Mr. Marks is working besides at two pictures, mediwval in character. G. D. Leslie is working at an important picture in three compartments. In the centre are three girls at a fountain; on the left the darkness showsa young girl teaching another girl to play ona pipe; on the right @ girl stands erect, fondling a black kitten. The general motifs ts idyliic. Armitage is painting a large picture of Chicago, to be hung in the Town Hall there. He has also an” other subject which is scriptural. Yeames, lately returned from Florence, is paint- ing a picture of which Dante is the chief figure, | and likewise one representing an old English wed- ding. At the exhibition of old masters at the London Royal Academy the pictures principally praised thus far (Janu 4) are: Reynolds’ “Portrait ot Mrs. Abington’ ‘urner’s “Ivy Bridge” and “Dun- stanborough Castle,’ Romney's portraits of “Mrs, Smith,” of “Henrietta, Countess of Warwick, and Her Ohildren,” and of “Anne, Wife of George, Third Earl or Albemarle, and Her Son, William Charles ;" Stothard’s ‘Venus Rising from the Sea, ynoids? “Hebe,” Hogarth’s portrait of Mrs. Hogarth,’ Crome’s “Yarmouth Water Frolic,” Reynolds’ Romney's “Mrs. Trimmer,” L “Count Ugoline and His Children,” one of Van Dyck’s por. traits of “Queen Henrietta Maria,” Reynolds’ ba, rennox,” Rembrandt's “1 Lady Anne Lennox, Rem! ing & Casemen , Cross,” Poussin’s “Wo ady Open- ‘3 “Christ Beating Ht: of the Golden Calf,” s of an Armed Man in Black” and Velasquez’s “Don Andrian T. Pareja.” SUICIDE OF A BARBER, He Takes Paris Green. For some time past Ferdinand Scribo, a German, thirty-four years of age, has kept @ barber shop corner of Thirty-sixth street and Eighth avenue, but lived with his wife at 546 West Thirty-eighth Street. Scribo and his wife, for reasons best known to themselves, did not agree well together, and there seemed to be but little congeniality between them. This manner of living made Seri! despe- rate, and he resolved to terminate his existence in @ summary manner. Accordingly on Tuesday “morning he provided himself with a quantity of Paris green, and, going home, deliberately swal- lowed the poison, and suifered intensely from its effects till yesterday morning, when death ensued. Coroner Young was notified, Deceased has left a widow and fous children, pending sale is the largest one of American pic- | Holbein’s “Two Ambassadors,” Titian’s “Portratt | SAMANA BAY. The Official Report of the Commissioners. Formal Approval of the Treaty—Vacancics in the Board ef Directors To Bo Filled Up on Friday, ‘The Directors of the Samana Bay Company held @ secret meeting yesterday t{ternoon in the rooma of the Pacific Mail Company. Al! but one or two of them were present, and the session was a long one, lasting over a couple of hours, The only business done, bowever, was to read over the report of the commissioners and to dis- cuss and approve the already published treaty. ‘The full board of directors will be composed of twenty-one gentlemen, and six vacancies, thero- fore, still remain to be filled up, This, it is ex- pected, will be done on Friday, when there will be another meeting. THE OFFICIAL REPORT, The following is the report of the commis sioners:— New York, Jan. 20, 1873. To Hon. Aupen B. Srocrwent, Chairman of the Samana Bay Company of St. Domingo, New York Si—We, the undersigned, the Commissioners appointed by you on the 4th uit., with'directions to eye to St. oiningo and to execute a convention with the Domini- can Republic for grants and concessions to the company ot which you are chairman, pursuant to Your instr Hons that day given us, havé the honor to report as tol We sailed from New York on the 6th ult. in the steamer ‘tybee, and reached St. Domingo City, the capital of the Dominican Republic, on the" Mth, Immediately on our arrival we placed ourselves in communication with the SASORR TERS President Hao was, hiunself temporarily” absent’ trom the Capitol, and was at Azua, which is some forty miles to the westward, and 1s the headquarters of the Army of Observation of the Haytian frontier, We therefore pre- sented our credentials to Mr. Gautier, Secretary of State, and Bir, Delinonte, Attorney General, who received us with much cordiulity, and informed ‘us that they were themselves tully authorized to negotiate a convention upon the basis of the correspondence which had becn had With Dr, samuel G. Howe, of Boston. But considera- tion of the draft submitted by us disclosed so many new features as to elicit tre those gentlemen the xnuounce- ment, that it was practically new throughout and en- tirely beyond the Limits of aby discretion veoted in the Cabinet. In the absence of the Executive, therefore, they de- clined even to discuss our propositions, which Cook them entirely by surprise, and suggested apprehensions that to accept them and to allow consummation of your pro- jects would be virtually to surrender the entire country to the control ot a handiul ot American merchants. Couriers were despatched immediately tor the President, who reached the city the morning of the 19th, and gave us an audience the same day. , He expresse adi- ness to execute at once what he called the “Howe Con- vention,” but intimated that such hasty consideration ay he had’ been then able to give to our draft inclined him to advise us of its utter impracticabllity, as subversive of the while policy of their government, He assured us, however, of his willingness to hear us, and to give us the most indulgent consideration, repeat- ing expressions of his adiniration and regurd for the en- terprise and greatness of the American people, and of his longing aspiration for closer relations between them and the Domibiean Republic, and frankly. confessing his readiness to sacrifice his own personal ambitions in the realization of the prosperity which he prophes! native country it he should be able to inaugurate a new gra of material progress uner, the auspices of capital. ists so gagacious and iuiluential as those represented by us. We therefore went to work, and. for ten days had daily and almost continuous sessidn at the Bxecutive office, with the President and ali the members of his Cabinet, as well as with other principal ollicers of the govern: ‘They urged us to send home the steamer ana to remain ourselves awaiting tts return. But to have done so would have necessitated a sojourn of m there, and would have invited the delays whi particularly instructed us to. avuld’ if possible. ayailed ourselves, therefore, of the discretion you had allowed us, and ‘detained the steamer, having on board ourselves, and keeping tere the packages ot gold coin you had furnished us with which, in case of success in the negotiations, to make payment in advance of the first srent, and the result justified us. f= 1 jiscussion Was not always gentle and the roe pect of success not always bright; but, the President and his principal advisers became so well persuaded of the wisdom of accession to the substantial features’ of th plan you had yourself, atter the injormal discussions be teen you anil your associates before our departure, in- structed us to insist on, that, finally, by abandoning | some claims with regard to which you had directed us to exercise discretion, and which were not essential to the accomplistiment of your real purposes, we procured execution of the convention of which the original in ei tee and an English translation are herewith sub- mitted. in form it creates a co-operation, and then becomes @ treaty between the Republic and ds, a8 plentpotentiaries of pe ossessed of many of the attrilutes of sove- relgnt he general laws of the Republic regulatin corporations are little Known beyond its own limits, an are based upon the French civil code, which is itself, m many essential reepects, dilferent trom the systems to which English-speaking people are accustomed in such matters, and might be found difficult of explanation or prootin'the Courts or Exchanges ot New York and Lon: don, in the money markets of which cities you must, of course, expect to hegotiate Most of your securities ant to have your largest financial and commercial opera: tions. We therefore insisted upon making the treaty exprest in the usualtorm of such 4 regular charter or act of in- corporation as weuld be granted by Parliament or the Legislature of this State to a corporation authorized ta carry on ordinary business operation, all the particulars With regard to the Iranchises of the company, the power of its Boara of Directors, and the rights an? liabilities of the individual shareholders, making it a complete code in itselr of the fundamental law which the solicitors and Courts of all nations must apply to you, and by which aa youand your associates are in those respects to be bound. Your own large familiarity with the affairs of great | corporations had prompted ‘you to turnish us with de- tailed instructions, under which we procured for the company, its Aires of Directors and shareholders all the widest and largest powers and privileges in each ot the aspects of the scheme ever accorded to any cor, tion by the most liberal of charters in the United States or England and to escape most of the restrictions and limitations which are always imposea where the law it most indulgent to joint stock associations. The modifications of the ‘Howe Convention,” which you directed us to procure, and which we have’ actually effected, give this comp: lusive jurisdiction for its offigers aud tribunais, executive, legislative and judicial, inthe Penigsyla of Samana, anid over the waters, islands and reets of the bay; and enable it to impose and col- lect its own duties, taxes, port charges, é&c., for its own use, without any control or interference whatever by the Dom! norany other government. They secure traific between Samana and any point in the Republic against inposition of any discriminating imposts whatever, and entitle it to a juction of fifteen pet cent of. import duties exacted from trade with any | of e neighboring ports—two advantages wihijch must send every merchant on the island to Samana to bily Ris goods instead of to St. Thomas and Curacoa, which hayé heretofore been the entrepots of the West Indies. They tMeure much larger grants of jands than were accorded by the “Howe Convention,” much longer terms than wer@ at first asked for comple. tion of the public improvements to be undertaken, and extort many other unusual concessions, glinost any one of which would be the fortune of any ordinaty company: and finally, by exempting the business ot the company trom itnposts, taxes, assessments and charges of every kind, they enable the company, through its own com: mercial agents, established throughout the Republic, to carry on, if you choose, the entire commerce of a country which now has nearly a million of dollars gold revenue trom its Custom House, and can be developed in time | to proportions many times larger. he concessions of the right to have any of your ves: sels fly any flag you choose and yet to be ‘registered and weated as a Dorninican vessel, in the coasting and other trade, give you, of course, all ‘the carrying trade of the Republic; we the right of all your steamers which may | carry freights between Samana and any other part of the Republic to participate in the, privilege at present ac corded to the Tybee underthe “Funkhouser Convention,” and by the terms ot which the proprietors of that steamer enjoy a drawback of fifteen per cent upon all the import | and export duties on her cargoes is, of course, of im mense immediate and still greater paar value. hort, we are able to congratulate you upon the ac: complishment, under your instructions, of the mos anomalous and one of the most momentous enterprises of | modern civilization. Conducted with the skill and pru- de} with which youand your associates have so siz- nally conducted cther great enterprises, there can be tic t of present rich returns and of results greater and greater every year. Weare happy to have been the medium of your nunication wikh patriots so unselfish and statesuien cious and far-seeing as President Baez, the mem- ora: 3 bers of his Cabinet and the eminent citizens of the Re- | public who compose the consulting Senate, They realize Phat the tuifiment of your purposes will give the ie- | public all the practical benefits and advantages whicir Could have resulted to their countrymen trom annexation to the United States, while it preserves to th their in: dependence and dighity as @ sovereign Staie, whieh is destined to become under your auspices the Loremost of Spanish-American Powers, Tey accede cheerfully to our suggestion, that to put the company beyond the chances of accession of, a hostile government it was best that the convention should by submitted to the vote of the whole people at the polls as- setnbled, which was done. The voting was in progress when we left, on the 9h inst., and, from the assurances given us by the citizens of arious: ports and places visited by us, hat the popular vote will be nearly or ratification, and that the Convention a part of the iundamental and iumuta- public, ot be out of place to add that we received from the leading foreign merchants on the island, and from inany of the Consular representatives of European Pow: pression of their good will and best wishes for your | undertaking; and that nearly every enterprising man of business We met assured us that the free port and city of Samana can be very soon furnished a large and busy pop: wiation ftom English, Danish, Dutch, French ant Spanish West Indies independent of such immigration a may be made from the United States, | After the execution of the Convention we were hand. somely entertained by the President ata State ball, and | durimg the whole period of our sojourn in the country we were treated with the wiost cordial hospitality by the “Chon leaving th ital city we made a special de. yon leaving the capital o e 5 posit in the Treasury grthe Republic of the $1XkW gold you had turnished us, taking an oMcial receipt and obli gation to Keep it intactin the original package, subjec: to the ofder of the gare in the event of failure of the people to ratify the convention at the polls, Upon. furnishing “the company with tormal official certificates of the ratification by the people the government will be entitled t appro. priate that money as payment of our frst annual rent it Advance, Arriving at Samana, upon our return from the } capital, we had the hengr to Be present when “your ap- polutes, Colonel Joseph Warren Fabons, was (ii antict ‘of ratification of the treaty by the people) put in possession at Samana as resident Governor of the company, amid the applause of the populace aad the congratulations of the authorities. We reached New York upon our return on the 15th inst., and a respecttully, your obedient servants BURTON N TARRISON: SAn SAMUELS, T. SCOTT STL There were no new developments in tle proposed coal combination yesterday, Mr. Quintard, the agent of the Reading Company, is out of town, and it is mot likely that any agtive measures will ba taken until he returns, It ls, however, believed that the companies are determined to obtain con- trol of both the wholesale and retail trade, aud that they are directing all their euergies to optain