The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII..........-:00000 rs = AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTHS THEATRE, third street, corner Sixth Avenue.—Brutvs, on, or Tanguix. THEATRE COMIQUE. Broadway.—Keno np Loto. OLYMPIC THEATR and Bleecker streets. Broadway, between Houston LAMBRA. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Stasner anp Crasnen. Tux Tweive Terrations. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— tp Car. Alternoon vening. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- Way.—ALixk. GRAND OPERA HOUS ay.—Catanact or tur O. wenty-third st. and Eighth s ATHENEUM, No. £85 Broad —Granp Variety Ex. TERTAINMENT, a NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Breadway, between Prince and Houston streets—Lxo axp Loros. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—CuRistiaN®. UNION. SQUARE THEATRE Thirteenth and Fourtee: st Broadway, between —ATHERLEY Court. roadway and Thirteenth WALLACK'S THE ereet.—Bromuer Saw. ( MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— (Tine an tox Hour. BRYANT'S OPERA HOU (tb ay.—NeGRo Minsrei TONY PASTOR'S OP Vagusty Entertainm! y-third st, NTHICITY, &C, corner A HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— corner 28th st. and SAN FRANCISCO M nLsy. &c, , Proadway.—Enioriax M NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— &CLENCE AND Ant. ¢ r New York, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1873. “THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. (To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. 4“THE MISSION OF COUNT SCHOUVALOFF! THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN DIFFICULTY IN CEN- TRAL ASIA”"—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIxTH Paag. a {MINNESOTA'S DREADFUL SNOW STORM! A FIERCE HURRICANE OF SNOW AND SLEET, WHERE HUMAN EFFORTS WERE UNAVAIL- A ING! A FATAL BRWAL TRIP! SOU ACK- ENING DETAILS OF THIS WINTENWS GREATEST CALAMITY—FirtH PaGE. jUPREMACY IN ASIA! THE RUSSIAN INVASION AND INTENTIONS! HOW THE ENGLISH ! INTERESTS ARE AFFECTED! ARMY REOR- GANIZATION AND AN IMPROVED ARMA- MENT—FovurrH PaGE, HE TWILIGHT MURDER IN CHATHAM SQUARE! NIXON, THE MURDERER, A NOTORIOUS SIXTH WARDER! THE VICTIM AN INOF- FENSIVE CARMAN—NINTH PAGE. AMES! ASTOUNDING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS! THE CREDIT MOBILIER “STOCK AND SHARE LIST!" THE DAMNING RECORD OF CON- GRESSIONAL CORRUPTION—Tatrp PaGE. 'MOBILIERIZING CONGRESS! MORE OF THE SECRETS OF THE LITTLE GAME THAT. WAS OSTENSIBLY “PURE BUSINESS !* “KIND-HEARTED” AMES DISGUSTED WITH THE NAUGHTY CONGRESSMEN—FI1FTH PAGE. BUTLER OPPOSED TO THE SY ATE! THE BUREAU OF COMMERCE JOB BADLY SWAMPED! THE NAVY BILL PASSED! MINOR ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON—Tuirp Pags. WEW YORK’S CHARTER! THE ASSEMBLY COM- MITTEES IN SESSION! THE ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON ON THE NEW BILL—Sgv- ENTH PAGE. AGITATING FOR RAPID TRANSIT! IMPORTANT MEETING UF THE WEST SIDE ASSOCIA- TION! WEST SIDE PARK IMPROVEME: ! JUDICIOUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS— TENTH PAGE, PORT DEPOSII’S PERILOUS DILEMMA! AN {CE GORGE TWENTY FEET HIGH! PROPERTY OF ALL KINDS FLOATING AROUND LOOSE! FEARS OF FURTHER DAMAGE— SEVENTH PaGE. EUROPE BY CABLE! THE SPANISH CORTES AND PORTO RICAN SLAVERY ABOLITION ! SELLING CUBA! MOURNING FOR NAPO- LEON IN FRANCE AND GERMANY! MAN EMIGRATION TO AMERICA! TE TREATY OF WASHINGTON—SEVENTH Pace. BONAPARTIST CONFERENCE AT CHISELHURST! EUGENIE AND JEROME NAPOLEON a8 HEADS OF THE FACTION! THE YOUNG PRINCE'S TITLE AND MOTTO—SEVENTH Pace. FOSTER'’S RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CAR- HOOK MURDER! THE COUR? OF APPEALS DECIDE A NEW LEGAL POINT! JUDGE ANDREWS’ EXHAUSTIVE ANALYSIS— TENTH Pace. RE-ELECTING ROSCOE! THE LEGISLATIVE CEREMONI THE NEW QUARANTINE REGULATIONS—Sgventu PAGE. FORMAL APPROVAL OF THE SAMANA CESSION TREATY! OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE COM- MISSIONERS—THE COMING ELECTION IN HAYTI! THE HAYTIAN TREASURY ROBBED! ANOTHER REVOLUTION—Fovrrn PaGR. A PLOT TO DESTROY THE PERUVIAN PRESI- DENT! THE CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED! THE MURDER OF MORALES! NEWS FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND THE BRITISH WEST IN. DIES—FourtH Pace. THE WALL STREET EXCHAN BUOYANT OVER THE SYNDICATE EN. DORSEMENT! THE EFFECT ON GOVERN- MENTS ! GOLD LOWER—THE REAL ES- TATE MARKET—Nintu Pace. AN IMPORTANT JUDICIAL SION IN THE DEPUTY CHAMBERLAINSHIP WAR! FO- LEY’S APPOINTMENT INVALID! LEGAL BUSINESS IN THE OTHER TRIBUNALS— EiguTH PaGE. S! STOCKS Tre Frequency or Mvrper.—It is no longer safe to speak of ‘our latest murder.” Reports of a later are in order up to the hour of going to press, and an exclama- tion of surprise is hardly expected in relation to capital crime, unless it be that a day has passed without its bloody record. As assas- sinations are now taking place in our city at arate far greater than the capacity of District Attorney and Courts to try the cases, it seems fit that a new Court should be organized, with special prosecuting officials, to be charged with bringing up the arrears of murder and assisting society to get square with capital crime. In no other way is it apparent how the Tombs can be cleared of culprits who have taken human life. Ifa prisoner is innocent he can justly claim a speedy trial and Aeqnit- tal, and if he is guilty the city demands con- viction and speedy punishment. Pistols, knives and bludgeons scoff at such delay as that which disgraces law. Justice should take a lesson from crime and quicken its pace. Aspeedy trial and prompt execution is the Deady cbse for the fashion of murder. NEW YORK HERALD, I'HURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1873.-TRIPLE SHEET. ee Sn aeee The Mission of Count Schouveloff— The Anglo-Raussia Di@iculty in Central Asia. Our news for some time past from St. Petersburg and from London bearing on the Khivan difficulty has been, though vague and uncertain, yet fitted to inspire alarm. A late report led us to believe that the mission of Count Schouvaloff, who was sent as a special messenger from St. Peters- burg to London, to secure, if possible, con- certed action between England and Russia in the subjugation of the semi-barbarous tribes of Central Asia, had proved a complete failure. It was even stated that the nows had a disturbing effect on the London stock market. A cable despatch which we printed yesterday gives an entirely opposite view of the case. The London Daily Telegraph has had a special despatch from Brussels which contradicts the rumor that the mission of Count Schouvaloff had proved a failuro, and affirms that the British government had agreed to co-operate with the governmont of Russia in the measures contemplated by tho latter in Central Asia. These contradictory reports leave us little room to doubt that the situation is considered grave, and that the utmost anxicty prevails as to the course which the British government may decide to pursue in the premises, It is well known that Russia has already made an advance on Khiva and that she has met with an opposition of unexpected strength. From various sources for the last eight or ten days we have been made aware that at more than one point the Russian troops sustained defeat; and one of our very latest reports has it that at the hands of the Urganj people, after long and severe fighting, the Russians had been de- feated, and that the attack on Khiva had com- pletely failed. It is easy to understand why this fresh trouble in Central Asia should be a source of perplex- ity to British statesmen. If they act con- jointly with Russia in suppressing the native governments of Central Asia they know that the certain effect will be to alienate the semi- barbarous tribes that skirt the borders of Northern India’ and to make it possible for Afghanistan in the not distant future to prefer the alliance of Russia to that of England. Such a result it is clearly the interest of the British government to prevent. On the other hand, if they refuse to act with Russia, the hands of the Czar will be unfettered, and he will be free to subdue and.annex the entire territories of Bokhara, Khokand and Khiva. It is impossible for Russia to submit to de- feat at the hands of a few tribes of undisciplined barbarians. If it be true that the soldiers of the Czar have sustained defeat Russia has no choice but to send on more powerful armies. Ultimate defeat is impos- sible, and it will be left to the Czar and his ministers in the hour of victory to decide whether they will patch up a peace with the native rulers or whether they will place the whole of Central Asia under the control of a Russian Viceroy. Such a result could be scarcely more pleasing to Great Britain than the former. How Russia may finally act it is hard to tell. It is well known in official cir- cles that Russian statesmen are divided as to the course which it is most advisable to pur- sue with regard to Central Asia generally and with regard to Khiva in particular. One party advocates annexation, and another party is bitterly opposed to it. General Kauffman, the Governor General of Turkistan, who is now or was quite recently in St. Petersburg, is at the head of the annexation party; and it is his opinion that these territories should be immediately annexed and placed under Rus- sian authority. The views of General Kauff- man are combated by General Tchernyaeff, who holds that Russia should act as an umpire and protector in those regions, and that by this means she would in the end win greater victories than she can now win by assuming complete control. According to Tchernyaeff Russia has already too much on hand. Her yearly deficit exceeds four million roubles. The annexation of Khiva would necessitate the maintenance there of a large army, and so the tenure of Central Asia would be costly and ruinous to the Empire. Councils have been held on the subject ; in the presence of the Emperor the views of both parties have been fully stated, but with what result has not yet been made known. That Russia will now send out a powerful expedition against Khiva must be taken for granted. It is reasonable, however, to conclude that the question of an- nexation will be reserved for future consid- eration. Russia and Great Britain may get over this difficulty. The difficulty, however, casts o dark shadow upon the future. It isa sign of evilomen. Year by year the two great Powers are approaching each other, and just as they near each other the world’s peace is being en- dangered. Itis believed in Russia, it is be- lieved in England, it is believed the wide world over, thata great battle must be fought— a battle which will involve many of the na- this route from the northeast; hitherto the region west of the Oxus has been left free; but now, a8 we have already seen; there is a strong desire on the part of a large section of Russian statesmen to reduce to subjection the whole territory between the Oxus and the Caspian. In this region there are tho three important khanates, Bokhara, Khokand and Khiva. The two former havo already sub- mitted, and now Russia has found her oppor- tunity for subjugating the latter. It is not in the nature of the Russian people, it is not consistent with Russian tradition or in har- mony with the principles of the Russian gov- ernment to allow such an opportunity to slip. It is gratifying to know that the mission of Count Schouvaloff to London has not been wholly unsuccessful. It is well that some understanding has been come to by which the peace of the world is for a little while longer to be preserved. It will not be well, however, for Mr. Gladstone if, when Parliament opens, he shall have no choice but confess that the peace of the world has been preserved by tho fresh humiliation of England. “I Just Pulled Out My Pistol and Shot Him.” Four orphaned children and a poor widowed woman in Williamsburg have felt the fell force of tho brutal words at the head of ‘this article. They have rung through the public ear, awakening a thrill of horror; but the sor- row and the tears they have caused are centred in the litttle group of desolated beings that wondered through the night why the husband and father came not home, and who found on the morrow that foul, red-handed murder had darkened the eyes of their bread-winner for- ever. Justice is a mild term to use in refer- ence to what this case of the quict teamster Pfeifer, murdered by the ruffian Nixon, de- mands. It is a casé where vengeance, swift and sure, might be invoked, let those with murder in their hearts interpretit how they may. Magruder, who on Sunday last gave his victim warning that he was going to shoot him on Monday, invokes for his own benefit some satisfaction in the thought that he has kept his word. Possibly he will, when brought to trial, plead this warning in refutation of any criminality in the act. We have no objection ; but should young Lockwood die let Magruder’s neck be broken at an early day upon due warning by the Judge to have himself prepared. Let the law show that it can keep its word as well as a murderer. At present it is only those who load pistols and sharpen knives who can make a gory contract with Death and keep it. Law in New York when it agrees to deliver a mur- derer’s strangled corpse to Justice is as unre- liable as the meanest shystering straw-bails- man around the Courts of Sessions. There is a small class of people to whom this plain talk will seem repulsive. It is a class in New York not numbering one-tenth what it did a week ago, and which has steadily decreased within the past twelve months. Every unpunished homicide in Murderer’s Row has added to the numbers of those who clamor fora reign of law in New York. To the weak-kneed senti- mentalists that object to an emphatic call for the execution of murderers we say that we have the less respect for them, because they include in their ranks the murderers themselves. Foster, Stokes, Scan- nell, Blakely, King, Simmons, Magruder and Nixon will all join the false humanitarians in any cry they may raise for mercy instead of vengeance. There have existed times in regions of America in which all these men named would have been slain instantly beside their victims or else have gone scot-free. But socicty, such as it was, finding that the well-disposed many were powerless before the murderous few, found a rude corrective in Judge Lynch. It is a state of society to which we do not wish to confess we are reduced, although many a man in Gotham is thinking now that ridiculous jury laws, slow moving District At- torneys, writ-issuing Supreme Court Judges and pardoning Governors are poor substitutes for the long rope and short shrift of the judge of the backwoods. The murderers, with their off-hand explanations, suggest off-handed re- torts. Whea Nixon says ‘I just pulled out my pistol and shot him,'’ should not society be able to say, a few weeks hence, “I just pulled out a rope and hanged him.” Yet who is it would predict that it will beso? In our excessive care to weave safeguards around the criminal we have strangled Justice. Her hands are fettered as tightly as her eyes are supposed to be bandaged. We may boast of our progress, but Justice in the pillory with Murder, among the scoffers at her fect, is a picture that we cannot but be ashamed of. Civilization has its types, and if the school- house be one the gallows is another. The shipwrecked cynic who was cast ashore, and knew that he had found a civilized land be- cause he saw a gibbet in the distance, was, for all his sneering, as sound in his judgment as if he had seen the cross-crowned eupola of a tions, and that that battle will decide whether Russia or England will be supreme on the } Continent of Asia. In the old sense England isno longer aggressive. She has no desire | for new territory in Asia. Her policy is peace. But she will not let go) her hold of India or allow any of her inter- | ests in Asia to be imperilled. Russia | is young and vigorous, and the spirit of | aggression drives her forward. She cannot | halt if she would. It is this which compels us to doubt whether she will let slip the op- portunity which is now offered her. Her | gigantic schemes of ambition in the East have long been known. There are two routes by | which, if she could only make these routes her | own, she could seriously threaten the British | Empire in India. There is the southward route, which runs from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf and across the broad isthmus | we call Persia. So few and slight are the geo- graphical difficulties on this route that, if un- | hindered by Great Britain, the Czar could, in five years, substitute a Russian Governor- General for the Shah. Such a conquest, how- | ever, is beset with serious difficulties. It | would be the death warrant of Turkoy, for it would place Russia in her rear, and it would | render India so expensive as to make it worth- lesss to England. As no such conquest is possible without a gigantic war, Russia has very wisely hitherto avoided the experiment of the southward route. The second or south- eastward route leads from the Caspian and the Sea of Ural up the Valley of the Oxus, through Bokhara almost to Afghanistan, Already Russia has conquered and erected posts along great Christian temple. While we have igno- Tauce we want schools ; while faith is a ne- cessity we want churches; while we have murderers we want a gallows. We have four- teen or more life-takers in New York and we | wanta gallows wide enough and strong enough for them all. Tue Avsusrment or Canau Tours.—At a recent meeting of the Canal Board it was re- solved to ask the concurrence of the Legisla- ture to fix, for the present year, the tolls on the State canals at the same low rate as last year. It is plainly the interest of the State to make the tariff as low asis consistent with raising sufficient revenue to complete the improvement of our great waterway and keep the canals in perfect repair. This is the aim of the Canal Board, as well as to stimulate efforts to secure greater speed in the transit of freight between the seaboard and the lakes. No doubt the Legislature will fully endorse the action of the Canal Board. Tur Ice Gorces x THe Susqvenanna have wrought very serious damage to the towns on its banks. At Port Deposit the ice was piled to the height of thirty feet, though the water was slowly falling, as it also was at Harrisburg. At Columbia, thirty miles below the latter place, a new gorge has formed, and the river had risen two feet; but as the fall above in- dicates that the volume of the stream was diminishing, it is probably safe to conclude that there will be a general recession, and that we shall hear of no more bridges or other structures destroyed during this January thaw, The Credit Mobilier Confessional, Never was holy fathor better furnished with instances of the weakness of human nature through the medium of auricular confession than Bishop Poland of the Church of tho Crédit Mobilier. He is as mild a mannered bishop as ever gathered tithe or cursed a sin- ner. Sharing in the eye-opening surprises of the good bishop have been four holy clerks in orders—Father Banks, the bumptious ; Father Merrick, the mild; Father Niblack, the nice, and Father McCrary, the magnifi- cent. Never did five holy men have better cause to feel a tingling sensation from the tops of their tonsures to the soles of their slippers than these same reverend props of the State Church in listening to the penitents of the Church of the Crédit Mobilier. Pope Gregory's hair lifting the triple crown clean off his head was not a circumstance to the bound skyward which Bishop Poland’s mitre gave when that awful old sinner, Hoax Ames began unburdening his peccant old bosom. Never before have the servt servorum Had before 'em Such a breach of decorum, Such flagrant defiance of morum bonorum, And won't have again secula seculorum., It was awful. Hoax Ames on his first visit to the confessional only told a little of the sin he had wrought. The other ponitents came up one by one, looking as devout as the Bishop himself, or, at least, as Merrick, the mild, and after saying they had nothing to confess went awayas gay as larks, or as Father Banks, the bumptious, when he dines with the Friars of Orders Gray. But they each said a bitter little word for Hoax Ames, which much bewildered the venerable Bishop and set him consulting with his reverend clergy. The five put their heads together and whispered Church Latin to each other, until they arrived at the conclusion that Hoax Ames was, like another maligned entity, not so inky-tinted as he was painted. The holy quintet at this moment heard a rustle, and, looking behind them, observed a gentleman, who gave his name as McComb and his profession as Ad- vocatus Diaboli. He pulled a lot of documents out of a black bag and threw them upon the sacristy table and then disappeared up his stovepipe hat. They read the documents, and the Bishop was on the point of calling for “book, bell and candle,’’ to hurl a thumping anathema at Hoax Ames for a gay deceiver of holy men, when Father Banks, who loves fun, suggested that Hoax should be given one more chance to escape everlasting service in the hottest of hot corners. Hoax was sent for and brought before the inquisition. He insisted on having all the other penitents sent for, too, and they came. He made a par- tially clean breast of it, and the penitents grumbled excessively as the old sinner men- tioned their names in connection with shares and dividends by the wholesale. Hoax grew mad as a hatter, and said he was tired of trying to keep these penitents straight in the eyes of the Bishop and his clergy. Then it was he made the statement which caused the skyward flight of the Bishop's mitre, sent the “‘baretas’’ of the four fathers camoming against each other, and the “stoles’’ of the whole five flying around like ser- pents over the heads of the cowering penitents. Small wonder was it the stoles were agitated when there was so much suggestive of sins against the mandate which tells men not to steal. In spite of all denials it became plain that the wily Hoax had fixed upon the long- faced pious penitents the guilt, if such it be, of having received the shares and dividends as below set down. Other equivalents of dividends were told of by the bad old Hoax. “Give us the shares and the money!”’ said the Bishop, as he tried to smooth down his wonder-lifted locks in the attempt to replace his mitre. Hoax then handed in as follows: — Hi. Wilson, twenty share: Scofield, ten shares... Patterson, thirty share: Bingham, twenty shar Colfax, twenty sha: Garfield, ten shares. Dawes, ten shares Kelley, ten shares J. F, Wilson, ten shares. Allison, ten shares.... Brooks, who was bathed in penitential tears and shaking with unconcealable trepidation, was severely dealt with also, though he pointed to his son-in-law as the scapegoat for his transgressions. What bothered the Bishop and the four fathers most in fhe matter, when they were left to themselves, was how they were to deal with such mighty offenders. Are there sins which cannot be forgiven? he said. Are they fit trustees to minister to the great American Orphan Asylum, with its forty million helpless inmates? Should they not be tied neck and heels together and cast into outer darkness, where there is gnashing of teeth and dust in the mouth? The four fa- thers held their peace, but their silence gave affirmative answers to the querying prelate. We think so too. Sambo Leaving Georgia for a Life in Clover in Arkansas. Politioal economists in the State of Georgia have discovered a new and novel cause of alarm in regard to the industrial element in the State. It seems that whole familias of negroes, men, women and children, chiefly from Houston and adjoining counties, num- bering several hundreds, are to be seen going West. Conductors on the Central road state that several thousand have passed over that roud for the same destination within the past three weeks, and that the volume of the ebb tide was increasing rather than diminishing. Agents are employed by Arkansas planters to drum up negro recruits in Georgia for their colored pictures are drawn and circulated to seduce the ‘backbone and sinew"’ of the State from their‘plain hog and hominy to enjoy liv- | ing in high clover in what is represented to be the Arcadia of Sambo in Arkansas, Georgia papers are apprehensive, if this exodus goes on— and they see no way of stopping it—that the question of labor will soon be a serious one in the State. Hence the subject of the introdue- tion of foreign labor to supply the vacuum occasioned by the departure of the blacks de- mands especial attention, and the movement in the Legislature to that end should be encour- aged by every means. It is stated that not a fifth part of the area of Georgfa—once proudly called the “Empire State of the South'’—has ever yet been cultivated. Therefore there need be no fear of a surplus of the industrial ele- ment, nor any antagonism of labor in the State between whites and blacks—no matter plantations, at so much per capita, and highly | whether foreign labor comes 1n “singly or by | Tas Bounson Compsoume.—The death of battalions,”* A Conspiracy fer the Assassination of the President of Poru=-The Span- ish American Republics. In the copious budget of news from Central and South America which we publish this morning wo have reports of a conspiracy for the assassination of the President of Peru, which recall the infernal machines contrived to shorten the glittering roign of the First Napoleon over France and to cut short the Empire under Napoleon the Third. Between these French cases, however, and this Peru- vien undertaking in the line of wholesale murder, there is this material difference—the French conspirators against the Little Corpo- ral and his nephew were successful, each party, in carrying out their plans to the ex- plosion of their deadly combustibles at the appointed time and place, and they each failed only in failing to hit their intended victim. In this Peruvian case, as in that of the gunpowder plot of Guy Fawkes and com- pany, the conspiracy is discovered in season to defeat the execution of the scheme. It appears that on the 26th of December last, at the house of Sefior Bogardus, in Lima, there were assembled with him his brother and José 8. Heredia, an old engineer of the navy; that there was a quarrel between Bogardus and Heredia and violent language, which attracted the attention of the police; that at length a pistol report drew the police into the house; that on inquiring into the cause of the disturbance they could get no satisfactory answer, but that, in the excited conversation going on, hearing mention of torpedoes, shells and the assassination of the President, the Chief of Police, Freyre, without further ccre- mony, arrested Bogardus and Heredia and took them to the Intendente; that to him Heredia confessed that some two months before he was asked by Pedro Beausejour (sus- piciously Frenchy name) to prepare some shells and torpedoes for him, but that he (Heredia) declined the job, knowing that these instruments were to be used in blowing up the residence of the President, in order to blow up the President himself. It next appears that a liberal reward was offered Heredia for the preparation of the desired pro- jectiles, ond that then, falling in with the scheme, he went to the house of Sefior Pierola to receive the first instalment of his pay, which was promised as an advance; that he saw there not the Pierola of the house—an ex-Min- ister—but his brother, at which point the report of Heredia’s statement ends. Next, there is a woman in the case. She bears the suggestive name of Dolores Va- liente. She was arrested, as in her house, which is opposite the Penitentiary, were found a number of deadly contrivances, including a case of gunpowder, Congreve rockets, torpe- does, wires, &c. This woman’s story is that Bogardus had in her house a torpedo, and that his design was to explode itas the rail- way train from Chorillos came into Lima, with President Pardo on board; but that, after- wards, Bogardus changed his mind and took the instruments of déstruction from her house. Two other parties had been taken prisoners, and they had all made depositions, upon which there is to be a searching investigation. From these details it appears that there was a conspiracy for the assassination of President Pardo; that the conspirators first agreed upon the experiment of blowing him up with the railway train, on which he was to be a passen- ger, as it entered the city; that next, consid- ering this a rather uncertain method, it was agreed to abandon it and to try the plan of blowing up the doomed public functionary, with his own house—a plan which, once upon a time, was so completely successful in Scot- land as to commend its repetition, no doubt, to these Peruvian conspirators. Great excite- ment prevailed in Lima, but after the terrible tragedies there of August last one would think that the mere discovery of a plot for the murder of the President would hardly create @ public sensation. Those August tragedies included first the assassination of President Balta by the Gutierrez brothers, one a dictatorial member of the Cabinet and two others conspicuous army officers, who, with a file of soldiers, literally riddled and cut the unfortunate Balta to pieces. The next performance was from the outraged people of Lima, who took two of the Gutierrez brothers captured in the city, slew them, dragged their bodies through the streets to the principal square, hung them up on the tower of the great Cathedral, and then lowered them to the ground and burned them in the plaza. The third guilty brother was next captured in Callao, and he, too, was slain, and his body, being dragged by the mob to Lima, was burned with the others. A few days later, with great popular rejoicings, the distinguished Pardo, now in office, was made President of the Republic. Whether there was or not anything in the character of the vendetta in this conspiracy against his life is a question which remains to be de- termined. We presume that the conspirators adopted the idea of his assassination as the shortest cut to the public plunder. It was but the other day, the 27th of Novem- ber last, that President Morales, of Bolivia, in a noisy, drunken brawl, met with a violent death in the government palace from some army Officers, the chief of whom justified the assassination on the ground of the insupport- able insolence of Morales; and this is the latest intelligence we have of this affair. The statement of Frederico Lafaye, the officer who shot Morales, is that of a man who holds himself perfectly justified under the provoca- tions given, though why, to quiet the unruly President, he thonght it necessary to discharge seven bullets into him or at him is not stated. Napoleon has given the two houses of the Bourbons their opportunity. If the logiti- mists and the Orleanists can agreo thero is no good reason why there should not be on an early day a restoration of the French monarchy. The presence of the princes of the House of Orleans at mass in the Chapel of Expiation on Tuesday, in commemoration of Louis XVL, seems to imply that the Count de Chambord and the Count de Paris have made up their difficulties. It will be well for the monarchy if such is the fact. It will not, however, bo so well for the Republic. Now that the Empiro is dead the hope of the Re- public lies in the dissensions of the Bourbons. Geoorapnican InreniiceNnce.—We learn from the Philadelphia correspondent of the London Times that at Buffalo about Christmas “tho strong wind from the northeast drove the water out of Niagara River into Lake On- tario,” drying up the city water works, As Lake Ontario, distant thirty miles from Buf- falo, usually receives the stream of Niagara by the operation of gravity, it is quite possible that the writer may have alluded to Lake Erio, which feeds the Niagara at Buflato. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ezra Cornell, of Ithica, is at the Astor Honse. Ex-Mayor William L, Scott, of Erie, Pa., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel R. M, Corwin, of Washington is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge J. M. Tibbitts, of Washington, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. . Oliver Ames, of North Adams, Masa., yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Jolin M. Wilson, of the United States Army, has quarters af the Grand Central Hotel. Laura Ream wants to be Private Secretary to Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, He will re-quire somebody. Mr. Waite, one of the proprietors of the Brevoort Hoitse, yesterday sailed on the steamship Calabria, to be absent in Europe for several months. ‘ Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecticut, isagain at the Filth Avenue Hotel. When this legislator attends to his duties as such is “a thing no feller can find out.” According to a St. Louis paper they have a Pa_ cific Railroad petition there with alarge number of signatures “over forty feet long.” Those must be pretty long signatures, Mr. J. M. Bellew, the English reader, arrived by the steamship Atlantic yesterday, and is now at the Brevoort House. He will begin his entertain- ment at Association Hal! on the 30th inst. A lady in Fort Wayne has cards out for her sil- ver, crystal and tin weddings, which occur on the same day. Her first two husbands (divorced) have received invitations, but perversely decline at- tending. Mr. Keyes O'Clery, of the Middle Temple, has had the honor of Knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory conferred on him bv the Pope. The new Chevalier served in the Pontifical Zouaves in 1867 and again in 1870, A letter published by the Berlin Geographicat Society announces that three African explorers, by the west coast, have arrived at Camereon. Dr. Buckholz proceeded to Bilbia, Dr. Reichneau and Dr. Lichder hope to find an opportunity to pene- trate the interior. Dr, Samuel G. Howe, of Boston, yesterday ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He was one of the projectors of the Samana Bay Company and one of the persons who went to St. Domingo ® get the concession from her government. He attended the meeting of the company yesterday. One of the sons of O'Donovan Rossa is on his way hither from Queenstown, Ireland. The youth, who is intended for the legal profession, has until lately been a student at St. Jarlath’s Oollege, Tuam, Ireland. He leaves behind him at that in- stitution a brother, who will enter the priesthood. Pere Hyacinthe made his first public appearance in Paris since his change in ecclesiastical and social position on the first Sunday evening of the year, delivering an address toa large mixed audience in M. Pressensé’s chapel, Taitbout, in the Rue de Provence. He defined his position as a faithfut Catholic, though not accepting certain dogmas. Frank White writes from Baraboo, Wis., to the proprietors of Barnum’s Hetel, St. Louis, that a young man named Albert Winters was killed at sea, about ninety miles frem New York, by falling from a yard arm. Winters had stated that his uncle was proprieter of that hotel, but he is not Known by that name to either of the proprietors. A woman in Vren Cysylite, Wales, was ill, and apparently died, lately. Preparations were made for the funeral, but just before the time to place the body in the coffin her husband perceived that, though insensible, she had moved. Friction and stimulants freely applied caused an indefinite post- ponement of her burial. Take man now pleads temporary insanity for his rash act. Jay Gould's restitution of property to the Erie Cofhpany is the subject of a writer in the London Telegraph. The fact that even the restoration brought to Gould a very large fortune reminds the writer of Steele’s story of a girl whom he met in London after having known her as a homely- garbed village maiden. His wonder at her be- dizened appearance was dissipated by the airy qugstion, “Lawk, sir, didn't yeu know that I was ruined*” The Shah of Persia will quit his own dominions in the month of March, and proceed direct to St. Petersburg, passing by Tiflis; and afterwards visit in succession Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London. His stay in each of tnese capitals will’ be limited to about ten days, Such is the first part of the itinerary. The second, comprising the towns through which the Shah will pass on his return to Teheran, is not yet fixed. The presumption however, is that the Eastern traveller will go to Italy on leaving London, and thence to Con- | Stantinople, which would be his last great resting place. THE NECESSITY OF ANN STREET WIDENING, {From the Daily Witness, Jan. 22.] A new, broad street from the Post Office, we can- not nowcall it the Park, to Fulton ferry, ts the greatest want of New York, and Ann street, widened and extended, is the best route for it. The street should be wide enough for a double track ef rails and a wagon road on each side of them, and with wide sidewaiks kept clear of all en- cumbrances. Were such a street laid out the im- proved value of property on each side would pay for the ground taken, and it would soon be lined with first class stores, banks and off ces, There would be more circulation upon it than any other street in New York ex« pt Broadway, and the blocking of vehicles and passengers in Fulton and Beekman streets would be sensibly relieved. THE MISSING ENGLISH TROOPSHIP HIM ALAYA, No tidings are to hand as we go to press of the | arrival of the English troop transport steamer , We conjecture that as the soldiers supported | the action of Lafaye it was found expedient to take no farther action on the subject. cordingly, the public at La Paz remains un- disturbed. So they go in our Spanish-Ameri- can republics. The root of all their troubles lies, doubtless, in the violent passions of the Spanish race; and so, from Mexico to Pern, it is the same old story of revolutions, con- spiracies, assassinations and the public order of the bayonet. But as Mexico, after half a century of revolutions and anarchy, appears at last to have entered on the right road to internal peace and prospgrity, why may not her example be gradually extended along the whole line of our republics of the Spanish race? At all events, our policy with these re- publics is that of fraternal encouragement and Eurovean non-intervention. ‘ Ace | { | } | | | ins' Himalaya, which left England for Halifax on the 2a t. She had on board 200 men of the Sixtteth rifles, eighty men for the Eighty-eeventh regiment, detachments for the Royal Engineers at Halifax, and for the Fifty-third and Sixty-ninth West India regiments. Many oid sailors express the belief that she is stili safe, in spite of her protracted voyage, The Himalaya 18 a well known vessel, haviug been engaged in transporting British troop to the Crimea, Inala, China, Australia, &c. WASHINGTON, Jan, 22, 1873, Major Robert A. Morris, of the Sixth Cavalry, hag been ordered to report by letter to Major General Hancock, President of the Relieving Board at New York, for examination when summoned. Captain J, kb. Putnam, of the Twelfth Infantry, has resigned, NAVAL INSELLIGENCE. Fort Monros, Va., Jan, 22, 1873, The United States steamer Powhattan droppea down from Norfoik this afternoon, and is aw: the arrival of the monitor Saugus. whi it convoy to Key West in a few tava parte