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passengers, it will be seen, were so badly treated by the stewards that medical treatment was found necessary. The medical treatment— and it could not have been otherwise in the -circumstances—was, however, little better than mockery. For over one thousand persons, including the crew, there were but two doc- tors. During the voyage six persons died. It is amazing that the death list was not larger. This is not the first time that our -attention has been called to the shameful treatment to which steerage passengers re subjected on the voyage across the Atlantic, We are well aware that there are chronic grumblers among steerage passengers 8 elsewhere; and that many of the charges brought against the companies and their officers are ill-founded and unreasonable. It is impossible, however, to refuse to admit that things are not as they ought to be, and that in all the steamship lines which do a steerage “passenger trade there is great room for im- ‘provement. The public will be grateful for Mr. McDonnell’s letter of exposure. It must result—and were determined it shall result— in thorough investigation and a complete dis- ‘closure of the actual facts. If mismanage- ment is confined only to one line, that line should be not only discountenanced but put down. If mismanagement is a general fault, chargeable upon all the lines, it is high time that the truth were told and vigorous measures adopted to eradicate the evil and to inaugurate -reform. Topics of Ministeyial Thought. Yesterday was one of those beautiful, crisp, invigorating days that we find scattered throughout all our Winters in this latitude, and which woos and wins both young and old from their palaces and tenements to taste and enjoy the pleasures that God has provided in nature or in the institutions of the Gospel. It is not surprising, therefore, that so many of ear city churches were filled with worshippers yesterday. Among the sermons preached and transferred ‘to our columns was one by Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, at the dedication of the Presbyterian Memorial church, in Madison avenue. He discussed the commission of the Saviour to His disciples to go and preach the Gospel. ‘This commission he showed was general in its relations and obligations, and there was no one appointed over the Apostles—‘no archbishop, ymuch less a pope.”’ But while the commission was general it was also special, and was given ‘to the individal Christian, and hence, the Doc- tor contended, every Christian has as good a tight to preach, and it is as much his duty to do so as it is the right and duty of a minister to dothis. But Dr. Cuyler believes that the rea- son why conversions are so few and far between in these days is that ‘‘we have very few now who lead Godlike lives." This expresses but very partially the reason or the experience in sthe case. We believe there are as godly men end women living to-day as have lived in any age of the world, and more of them, too, than sany other age could produce. But there are reasons of an intellectual and social character sas well ag religious reasons which make the preaching of the Gospel of these days less effective in certain localities than it was in the days of the Apostles, The circumstances are changed, and the Gospel is not now a new thing to the world as it was eighteen centurics ago, and hence more people hear the ‘joyful sound’’ to-day with indifference than heard it from the lips of the Apostles. But to every one that believeth it is now as it was then, «the power of God unto salvation.” “Joy, the Chief Thing in Religion,’’ was the theme chosen by Mr. Frothingham. He showed that he had no sympathy whatever with the melancholy, long-faced presentation of Christianity. Nor have we. ‘A joyless faith,’ as he declared, ‘is no faith at all. Beliefs that do not exhilarate are not fit to be called such. Human nature blackens and per- ishes in gloomy beliefs."’ But in the analyza- tion of the sensation which we call joy Mr. Frothingham finds that it is ‘mostly a matter of temperament, and the relation existing be- tween belief and temperament has never been found.” And if the proposition stated is correct there is no need to look for this relation at all, since, should we find it, we cannot materially affect either the temperament or the be- liefs of men. And, besides, the world has Produced too many examples of naturally austere temperaments who were among the most joyous Christians to allow us to believe that faith is mostly or to any appreciable ex- tent a matter of temperament. Rey. Dr. Holme’ presented the financial dearing of practical religion or the consecra- tion of one’s substance to the Lord as the sure road to wealth. The Doctor showed that the principles of industry, frugality, humility and unfliuching integrity that secure success in business are essentially the principles of the religion of Christ, The iifter impossibility of serving God and mammon was illustrated by Rev. Dr. A. R. Thompson, who inculeated perfect trust in God, who careth much more for us than He "does for the birds of the air or the beasts of the field, whom He continually supplies. The Doctor protested against the conduct of men who forget that, with al) their money, they are still the servants of God, who openeth His hand and satisfieth the desire of every living thing. ‘The foundation of the Christian Church on the rock of perfect truth, its immutability and ultimate triumph were the thoughts presented «by Rev. Dr. Flagg. Faith in Jesus, it is true, ig no common belief. It incites to a perfect manhood below and to everlasting beatitude in the great hereafter. God covers the be- liever ‘‘with the shadow of His Christian wing, and what edifice built in that holy shade shall fall?’’ The foundation of God standeth sure, and the Church resting on that founda- tion cannot be moved. The Bible everywhere takes for granted that men have opinions about religion, and hence addresses men such inquiries as ‘Why halt ye Aetween two opinions?’’ Mr. Hepworth ad- dressed the same inquiry yesterday to his peo- ple, and pressed home upon the hearts and consciences of business men their inconsis- tency in halting between two opiniofs when the claims of Christ and religion are presented, but what they do for worldly gain they can do quickly and earnestly, There is no wisdom, he maintained, in indecision, and hence he urged the people to have a purpose through life and to let that purpose be to serve Christ. Dr. Gulliver, of Binghamton, demonstrated from the Seriptures that prayer might be tested, and that it might be so tested for “NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JA ee Oe ee RO en ne mum NUARY 27, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. physical as well as for spiritual blessings. Hence he would not hastily denounce Profes- sor Tyndall's idea of testing it. We should try if our prayers are of any service, and we are enjoined to prove all things. But prayer is not and cannot be peremptory, but conditional. And there is efficacy in prayer when God’s will isnot known. One would hardly have supposed that selfish- ness has a right side and a wrong side; but, after reading Mr. Beecher’s sermon, we pre- sume very few will refuse to admit that it hasa right side as well as a wrong side. The right side of selfishness is presented when we love our neighbors as ourselves and when we love ourselves for the good that we may do and be to others, “Gospel archery’’—that is the mode and manner of using as well as the instruments used in carrying conviction to sinful hearts. These weapons, according to Mr. Talmage, consist of ‘‘a bow made out of the wood of a cross, anda sharp, straight arrow, feathered from the wing of a dove of God's Spirit.”” As far as Mr. T. could calculate, this weapon has brought down about sevonty-five millions of souls. If it strikes a man in the head it kills his scepticism ; if in the heel it turns his step, and if in the heart it conquers. Mrs. Celia Burleigh hit off the sensational- ists of the day very cleverly, and rebuked that spirit of indifference which takes more account of the preacher's figure and fashion and habili- ments than of the truths which he te. Dr. Wild illustrated the educating powers of Christianity, and paid a compliment to Pro- fessor Tyndall, whom he placed in contrast with Mr. Froude. Dr. Tiffany, of Washington, pointed ong some directions in which Christ is now reigning in the world—in literature, civilization and religion. The Oldest Man in America. In another column of the Hxratp we pub- lish an interview with the champion old man of the United States, It will’be found refresh- ing toread. In the believers in the ‘good old times”’ it will waken up a host of recollec- tions that are only regularly called forth on the Fourth of July; to those whose sadly shaken faith in humanity nowadays has led them into a belief in the omnipresent bad it will be an evidence that some innocence re- mains, although it is one hundred and fifteen years old; to.those who oppose the suppres- sion of whiskey and tobacco it will prove a valuable argument, as the old man has used the articles fora century. George Le Barre, the venerable individual in question, has shaken hands with Washington, has seen Lafayette and gallant General Sullivan, and was considered a tory in Revolutionary days. He was too old for the service in 1812, and ‘was not expected to volunteer in the late civil war. Old men of his age or thereabouts are pleasant subjects for ingenious minds. When he tells the Hznaty man that he remembers his grandfather, who was a French Hugue- not, relating how he saw Louis XIV. at Sevres, we are carried back 80 far that we must take breath before contemplating the immense sweep of sugges- tiveness in the long interval of time between then and now. Perhaps the most refreshing part of tho interview is that wherein a com- parison between swindling before the Revolu- tion and in the present day is indicated. The pious Pennites of early times, like pious Con- gressmen of to-day, had a way all their own of absorbing their neighbors’ lands. The Indians would allow them as much land as they could walk over “without giving up.” The Quakers accordingly hired a champion, walkist, named Ned Marshall, who could walk in a hundred miles at a stretch. The Indians resented this pious fraud. They took a walk and massacred everybody within reach to make matters even. Old George thought this walk- ing business a wonderful instance of smartness, but when informed of the walking powers of such men as Hoax Ames, Sim Cameron and others he felt ashamed of the mean propor- tions of Ned Marshall’s fraud. Old George may not survive many years longer; he will now, however, pass into eternity with a re- duced estimate of the days when he was a boy and George Washington was still drawing morals from his little hatchet. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. VICE. President Colfax has reappeared in Wash- ington. Judge Isaac Sharp, of Kansas, is at the St. Nicho- las Hotel. General A. M. Stewart, of St. Louis, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Earl of Offaly is making an “awfully jolly’”’ tour of the Holy Land. Mr. John M. Bellew, the English reader, is the guest of Arckbishop McCloskey. Mr. L, H. Holton, member of Parliament for Mon- treal, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel McClure, of tne United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. £x-Governor L. P. Langford, of Montana, yester- day arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Secretary of State Henry ©. Kelsey, of New Jersey, is stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel. Bass, the beer brewer man, is to be made a baronet. This will be a bitter draught for some of the peers. James L. Orr, appointed Minister to Russia, was the guest of Secretary Fish yesterday and leaves for St. Petersburg on Wednesday next. Charles Hale, aiter retiring from his position as Assistant Secretary of State, will resume his resi- dence in Boston. He was only “subbing” for Ban- croft Davis as Assistant Secret®ry. Colonel Jack Brown, ‘for reasons best known to himself,” withdraws from his attempt to contest the election of General Philip Cook to a seat in the Forty-third Congress frem the Third Congressional district of Georgia. M. Louis Blanc supports the government of M. ‘Thiers only to prevent anarchy. He dislikes the Presidential institution, and hopes that the pres- ent government may calmly. if slowly, be merged into & more republican form. The French papers announced lately as news from New York:—‘M. Stock has been found guilty of the murder of M. Fish.” The Paris Figaro pro- ceeds thereupon to joke on the subject of Stock- fish. The cable people have much to answer for. Monroe county, Ga., boasts of s negro woman— yet hale and hearty and not over middie-age—who is the mother of thirty-three children—three by her first and thirty by her second marriage. This latter matter might be called doubling on the fifteenth amendment. ‘The Hartford Courant regards the appointment of Bancroft Davis as Assistant Secretary of State “4g fitting recognition of his services in the Geneva arbitration.” Inasmach as Mr. Davis occupied the position before he went to Geneva, we do not see where the particular ‘fitneas’ comes in. Sir Arthar Helps, in an address before a school of science and art, expressed the opinion that inten- tional lying does not @ quarter as much harm as inaccuracy. He noticed the charge against women of general neglect of accuracy, and thinks a more general study of practical art and science will help that deficiency. Nice datinctions, Signor Negri, sergeant tn the [tallan army, lias Deen notified by the Minister of Foreign Affairs that he has been bequeathed $19,000,000 by an uncie lately deceased in Lima, Peru, The “better be born lucky than rich” proverb is again in use in his military district, and the Sergeant's cool recep- tion of the tidings is ‘the theme of universal com- ment,” The London Pall Mau Gazette man feels a “chok- ing in the throat and a sutfusion of the eye," re- sulting from the message of good-will toward the British soldiers, confided to Miss Emily Faithfull by the inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Milwaukee. He infers that arbitration is accepted aa a bridge over hostility, and that hereafter everything will be “lovely,” Mr. Gladstone 18 represented by the London Standard to have hia Ministers in just such situa- tions as they are unfitted for, thus following the example of the tyrannical King of Persia, wno chose for each of his six sons a wife other than the maiden the young man loved, This policy of “put- ting round men into square holes,"’ the journai predicts, must bring the Ministry to disaster. Wish father to thoughts. Mr. Paul Bert, a French physiologist, has suc- ceeded in making an artificial pair of Siamose twins by joining two young white rats, He cut away a strip of skin from each, sewed the two to- gether by the edges of the wounds, and nature united them by the healing process, They were not amiable toward each other, therefore he killed both by poisoning one. Probably he would not like a superior being to make similar experiments on his own body. William Clarkson, of Selby, England, has a great wish for smallpox to come into his family in the natural way and just as often as it pleases. He has just been fined by the magistrates in the sum of #6 for refusing to have his three children vacci- nated, and for neglecting to produce them before the Bench. The solicitor who appeared tor the de- fendant said that his client had already paid more than £30 in fines and costs for conscientiously re- fusing to conform to the Vaccination act, He is evidently pitted against the law. The family of M. Paul Oérésole, who has just been elected President of the Swiss Confederation, is the subject of an anecdote told by M. Thiera in his “Consulat et Empire.” The first Napoleon, while alone one day, on his way to Potsdam, went into a shooting pox in a forest to escape & storm, ‘He was piqned at being recognized by one of several ladics whom he found there, Having been informed by Mme, Cérésole that her husband had been killed in his service and that she was in poor circumstanée, Napoleon promised to provide for her and her son, The latter he sent to a military cofege; but young Cérésole, not being of martial mind, left there. He went to Switzer- land, became a pastor, married and had seven children, of whom the new President of the Con- federation is one, It is proposed to hold an art exhibition in Bombay during February. ‘The Japanese intend to hold a national exhibition next year at Jeddo. The “Place” of Michael Angelo, in Florence, is to contain @ monument to that immortal artist, Heywood Hardy is preparing a picture ten feet by eight, representing a combat of life-size: lions. A monument to Henri Regnanit and his com- rades is to be placed in the Courdu Murier, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. ‘The monument to Ingres, recently uncovered in the vestibule of the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, is from the plans of Felix Duban. “The Battle of Waterloo,” by the late George | Jones, R. A., has lately been added to the Royal Scottish Acatomy Anew art gallery has been opened tn Bedford street, Covent Garden. The collection is one of pictures, ancient and modern. The festival held in Milan recently, in commemo- ration of Leonardo da Vinci has itself been com- memorated in a folio entitled “Saggo Vinciano,"’ by the Cavalierl Mongeri. ‘The English art periodicals are vigorously 1a- menting that the Cyprus Antiquities should have been allowed to be purchased forthe New York useum. The additions recently made to the National Por- trait Gallery, London, are referred to as numerous and interesting, representing the art ol! diderent periods and scPools, Chevalier Pini, keeper of prints and drawings in the Gallery of Florence, is pubes selection of photographed Jac-stmiles of manuscripts of the old masters {rem original documents, Six of the ablest young artists of Florence have banded together to extinguish touting. Mr. Spranger, an Englishman, and Signori Vineer and Conti are among the movers. Three Belgian artists—Alma Tadema, FE. Scamp- fler and J. Franck—haye, it is said, received the medal of the Golden Heart from the Emperor of Germany. bs} At the Winter exhibition of the Society of British Artista, Suffolk street, London, 682 pictures (in- cluding water colors) are exhibited. There are said tobe many examples of great merit among oe landscapes, marine, architectural and .0cal views. Lord Londesborough has promised some armor to the South Kensington Muscum. ihe J new acquaintances there are some beautiful Indian mail, sent by the Mohammedan Chinese government of Momeim: some German work of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; a wood carving, dated 1490; a collar belonging to Sir Rich- ard Wallace, and reproductions of frescoes on the walls of the palace ef Tiberius at Rome. WEATHER SEPORT. —— War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIKY SIGNAL OrricER, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours. Westerly to southerly winds and partly cloudy weather are now prevailing over New England ; light and fresh northeasterly and southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and rising temperature over the Middie States, with snow over the southern por- tion and over the South Atlantic States, with rain; light and fresh northeasterly ana northwesterly winds and cloudy weather from the Ohio Valley to the Central Guif coast, but with partly cloudy weather from the former to the Upper Lakes, Probabilities, For New England falling barometer, higher temperature, light and fresh easterly to southerly winds, cloudy weather and snow; for the Middle States hight to fresh northeasterly to southeasterly winds, cloudy weather and snow, except for the southern portion possibly rain, the wind gradually shifting to northeasterly and northwesterly with possibly clearing weather on Monday night; from the Ohio Valley to Lake Erie and the Upper Lakes, north- westerly and northeasterly winds and generally clear weather; for Missouri and the Northwest falling barometer, with winds shifting to easterly and southerly and very probably increasing cloudiness; for the Sonthern States east of the Mississippi northeasterly to northwesterly winds, rising barometer and lower tem- perature, with clear and clearing weather for the interior and South Atlantic States probably on Monday night. The majority of midnight telegraphic reports for the South At- lantic and Western Gulf States, Eastern Tennessee, Lower Michigan, Kansas and the extremo. North- west not received, The Signal Office reports that- at thirty-fve minutes past four P. M. yesterday it was snowin heavily at Corinne, on the Pacific Railr with the thermometer at 35 degrees; snowing: lightly at Indianapoils, thermometer 24 degrees; Louisville, 2a degrees; Lynchburg, 28 degrees; Cincinnati, 80 degrees; Marquette, Michigan, 15 degrees; Mon- treal, Canada, 1 degrees; raining at Nash- ville, Tenn.; Augusta, Ga, and Punta Rosa, Fla. eSignal OMicer reports that at eieven last night it was snowing lightly at the following sta- tions:—Washington, D. O., thermometer 3b de- gos Port Dover, ada, 19; Omaha, Hawego, 19; Pittsburg, 20; Philadelphia, 25; ‘Ball more, 37. it was also raining at Savannah, Ga. The Weather in This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ear, a8 indicated oy the thermometer at Hudnat’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :~ 872 7 1872. 1873, . Me 2 26 3AM 6A. M. 9A. M Jast year.. THE NORTHWESTERN SNOW BLOOKADE. Crea co, TL, Jan. 26, 187%, ‘The recent snow blockade on the railroads has been cleared away, and trains on ail the roads are moking the usual time, ‘ihe woather is vicur and colt CENTRAL ASIA. Highly Important Movements by the Contend- ing Chiefs in Northern Afghanistan. ————e -— Bussian Nativist Sympathizers in Arms and Triumph Near Cabool—The Governor of Fort Hissar Made Prison’'r—An Important Point for Muscovite Advance Gained— Distinguished Captives Handed Over to the Czar's Officers— Special Cabinet Despatches Forwarded from London to St. Petersburg. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Bomar, Jan. 26, 1873, A Lahore newspaper reports that Sirdar Abdul Rahman, acting under Russian instigation, cap- tured Fort Hissar, a dependency of Cabool, and sent the Governor of the place a prisoner to the Russians, RUSSIA'S GAIN OF A GOOD POINT KOR ADVANCE. Hissar is a good starting point for the Russians in any movement they may contemplate against Afghan Turkestan. ANOTHER DISTINGUISHED CAPTIVE HANDED OVER TO THK RUSSIANS, The same newspaper authority states that Sirdar Mohammed {sa Khan has made a successiul attack on Sherabat in Cabool. ‘The Governor of the city was likewise captured and delivered to the Russians. THE HISSAR DISTRICT. This territorial range, which may become the scene of most serious complications in Central Asia, is a mountainous region, which is, doubtfully as to the exact right of rule, included either in the dominion of Roondooz or Bokhara. The chief town, Hissar, 1s situated on an affluent of the Oxus, 130 miles northeast of Balkh, British Cabinet Despatches to the Court of the Czar. Lonpon, Jan, 26, 1873, Mr. T. Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of the British Legation at St. Petersburg, has just left London for that city, Heis the bearer of important de. spatches to Lord Loftus, the British Ambassador at the Court of the Czar Alexander. Austrian Opinion of the Russian March. Vienna reports of a very recent date express the opinion which prevails in the Austrian capital with regard to the Russian march in Central Asia and its consequences, in the following words :— Russia ig pareuing, her grand aim in Asia at once in @ iplomat lc, itary, ecclesiastical, commercial and civ! ng point of view. A Rus- sian proverb says, Vhere date trees thrive not neither thrives Mohammedanism.”’ There may be some truth in this adage. Be this as it may, Russia's advances towards Central Asia and towards India excite the liveliest interest in Viennese military and scientific circles, An un- intermittent and earnest study is being made of the subject. It is here held that Russia is at resent advancing in the direction of Central ia and India with the same nag per- severance and consistency with L7-. ari a twenty years’ war, she not only subjuga' but absolutely annihilated or dispersed ti independent peoples of the Caucasus, whose assi lation was found to be impracticable. Rut ‘8 satiable love of conquest, her far-sightedness and perseverance, are doubtless of @ nature to inspire alarm, while, on the other hand, these character- istics are not the less entitled to a certain degree of admiration. In the same way as miners explore a cosnty. in the hone of discovering veins of ore the Russians scientifically examine and explore those countries which they intend to occupy; and long before the Ca aa ae takes place these examinations and explorations are set on foot and continued without ceasing. The country round about, and especially in the southern parts of the Caspian Sea, and between the latter and the Sea of Aral, has not wah: been carelully surveyed but also levelled. The river valley along the lower Sir-Daria (Jaxartes) is already entirely under the Russian dominion, and as soon as the coal veins presumed to be there are discovered a steamboat communication to Khiva will forthwith be estab- lished also on the Sea of Aral. Itis well known that steamers can ascend Jar up the Amu-Daria (Oxus). One thing is apparently certain, namely, that no known Power can stop the apread of Rus- sia’s dominion and her gradual but steady advance in Asta as far as the rivers extend which flow into her iniand seas. These streams touch very nearly the dHindu-Koosh mountains, and here there are neither geographical nor natural boundaries adapted to the tormation of independ- ent States, There is also no possibility of estab- lishing any sort of commodious commercial inter- course berween these vast plains and India, while with the aid of the new lines of communication which are now contemplated, these immense terri- tories will naturally fall iuto the hands of the Rus- sians. The semi-nomadic Mohammedan in- land States in these distant parts owed their existence chiefly to the simple fact that no one interfered with or menaced them, But nowadays, in the estimation of these peoples, the Russians are being regarded as the representatives of not only an immensely supeiior military, but also of a civilizing power. To this circumstance may be attributed a great portion of the irresistibility of her prestige among them. THE BOGY INVESTIGATION. Sr. Louis. Mo., Jan. 26, 1873, A despatch from Jeffersen City the Senato- rial Bribery Committee will report on Wednesday, and will exonerate all Senatorial aspirants ex- cepting General Dorris, and farther states that no member of the General Assembly received any money for votes. THE KANSAS SENATORIAL CONTEST. Sr. Lovts, Mo., Jan. 26, 1873. Despatches from Topeka, Kansas, say that an un- derstanding has been quietly effected between the four leading opposition candidates, whereby they can at any moment concentrate upon one of them, Pomeroy’s friends continue to claim that they have ¢ighty votes, and that he will be elected sure. The oppos tion claim about the same number, and are equally cer- tam of success, As there are only 103 members in the Legislature, one or the other ride must be de- ceived as to its strength, Sr. Lovis, Jan. 26, 1873, J. C. Gunning’s wagon factory at Hillsboro, Il., was destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss about $30,000; insured in the Etna for $5,000; Imperial, $5,000; Franklin, of Philadelphia, $5,000; American Central and Phenix, $2,600 each. The News Letier office, adjoining, was pulled down to prevent the spread of the fire. Most of the material was saved, but a@ cylinder press was destroyed. Loss, $1,800; insured for $1,000 in the American Central, of St. Louis. A PRIZE FIGHT. Colored Bruisers Enjoying Their Sunday with a Mill—No Police—No Arrests. PHILADELPRIA, Pad., Jan. 26, 1873. This morning @ prize fight between two colored men, named George Cornelius, alias “Schuylkill Coon,” and George Lewis, alias “Locust street George,” took place near the Rope Ferry Bridge. rincipals were escorted to the place bya wow of white and black roughs in @ ee During the twelfth round the friends of Lewis claimed a “foul,” which was allowed by the ref- erees, and the stakes ($100) were paid to “Locust street George.” Several hundred dollars changea hands, AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, ‘The American Geographical Society will holt their annual meeting and election of oMcers for the ensuing year on Tnesday evening, the 28th of January, at their rooms in the Cooper Institute. Dr. Le Plongeon, who travelled extensively in south America, particularly in Pern, and whe studied the subject of American archeology, wilt read a paper on the coincidences between the | monntains of ancient America and those of As- syria and Egypt. DEATH IN A WILLIAMSBURG STATION HOUSE, At o late hour on Saturday night William Stewart, a Swede, forty years old, was brought to the Fourth street station house, Williamsburg, in a sickly condition, and died shortly afterward from congestion of the lungs. Being fri mains will be decently taterred by Core 1 bul, ENGLAND. Severe Suffering on Board an American Vessel in the Channel—The Captain Crashed to Death—Royal Aid to tho Northfleet Survivors. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS. Lonpon, Jan, 26, 1873. ‘The American brig Alberti, Captain Herriman, from Loridon for Berbice, British Guiana, after several weeks’ buffeting with adverse winds in the Channel, was run into and disabled on Saturday by a large bark, eight miles south of Lizard Light. The people on the bark refused to give her name or render any assistance. The captain of the brig Was crushed to death while trying to put his wife on board the bark, The Alberti succeeded in reaching port in a badly damaged condition, QUEEN VICTORIA’S AID TO THR NORTHFLERT SUK- VIVORS. The Queen has subscribed $800 to the fund in aid of the survivors of the Northfeet disaster. THE FRENCH BOURBONS. Count De Chambord Again we as the Chief of the Dynasts. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALS. Panta, Jan. 26, 1873, The legitimiat journals report the words of the Duke de Nemours announcing that the union of the Orleans branch with the eldest line of tho house of Bourbon is complete, and that seven princes of the Orleans family have recognized the Count de Chambord as rightful King of France. GERMANY. Imperialist Concentration in the Prussian Par- liament. TELEGRAM TO THE MEW YORK HERALS, BERLIN, Jan. 26, 1873, During the session of the Chamber of Depnties yesterday, after the speech of Prince Bismarck, General Von Roon made a statement as to the con- stitution of the Prussian Cabinet, He said:—"A Ministry of the majority in Prussia is impossible, A Prussian Ministry must be @ royal Ministry and the Imperial Chancellor must always be a Prus- stan.’” SPAIN. Military Operations Against the Carlists. + TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, Jan, 26, 1873, General Moriones is actively operating against the Carlist insurgents in Navarre and the Basque Provinces. BRAZIL. Death of the Empress Dowager Amelia. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALB. LisBon, Jan. 26, 1873, The Dowager Empress Amelia of Brazil died in this city to-day, aged sixty-one years. She was married to the Emperor Peter L. of Brazil in 1829, {A biographical sketch ot Her ex-Majesty was published in the HxgaLp on the 24th instant.) M. Paul Messant. We have announcement of the death of M. Paul Messant, well known as a French journalist and a citizen of the United States, He expired at the residence of a friend on Long Island, New York, at the hour of five o’clock yesterday morning, the 26th inst, M. Messant was born in Paris December 25, in the year 1844. He was for a number of years employed on the staff of La Lanterne, and shared in the vicissitudes of that once famous journal. Be- coming disgusted with the condition of political affairs in France he came to America, arriving here in 1869, On the overthrow of the Bonaparte Emptre he returnea to France, and renewed his connectton with French Journalism. His close at- tention to his duties was too much for his constitu- tion, and this determined him to again leave his native land, and on. the 14th of January, 1871, he declared his intention in the Court of Common f New York to become a citizen of the United In this city he was connected with the Cour- rier des Etats Unts and the Bulletin de New York. A short time before his death he joined the staff of the Long Island City Review, but his failing health made it impossible for him to attend closely to the duties. At five o’ciock on Sunday moruing, the 26th instant, he died at the residence of the editor of the Review, at whose house he, with his wife, the Princess Editha Lolita, daughter of the Countess of Landsfeldt (Lola Montez), was stopping. M. Messant baat ta at the age of fifteen at the Col- lege of Manx, and subsequently attended the clinics at the Ecole de Medicine, Paris, and on his first arrival in this country he attended medical lectures at Bellevue or ata |, and matriculated — there. He shortly after- wards became Assistant Medical Director of Hahnemann Hospital, At one time he was Sec- retary of the International Society, On the 5th of Febraary, 1871, he was married to the Princess Editha Loleta, whom years before he had assisted to escape from the Urseline Convent in Upper Franconia, Kingdom of Bavaria, where she had been placed proaen the influence of her brother. the King of Bavaria. By this alliance she not ouly forfeited a large income from estates in that toes dom, but the favor of the royal household. Shortly before the marriage of the Princess she had de- ited her entire remaining fortune—some thirty- ve thongand dollars in gold—in the hands of the members of a very notorious female banking house. ‘The attempt to regain her money, it will be re- membered, was the sensation of the day, and the case still remains undecided in the Courts, In addition to this money jewels valued at a large amount still remain, it is said, in the keeping of the New York female bankers. Madame Messant, previons to her marriage, frequently lec- tured bothin London and New York, espousing the “Proper Sphere of Women,” which she thinks is not from the standpoint of the women’s righters of this country. Since her marriage she has led a life of seclusion. Monsiear Messant, during his extended career in journalism, became a skilful compositor, and on his last arrival in this country joined Typographi- cal Union No. 6, of this city. A’ ® man he was respected by all with whom he had business con- nections, and his death is regretted by a large circle of friends. Viscount de Roege. e Paris journals of @ recent date announce the |, death of Viscount de Rougé, member of the Jnsti- tute, Professor at the College de France, and formerly Councillor of State, at his chateau of Bois-Dauphin (Sarthe), from an attack of apoplexy. The deceased, who was sixty-one years of age, wan one of the most learned men in Europe in Kgyp- tian science, and published several very !mportant works on the subject. Holmes Coote, M.D. Holmes Coote, M. D., F. R. C. S., one of the most celebrated surgeons in Great Britain, dicd a few days since in London. [In his youth he was an articled student under the late Sir William Law- rence. His professional studies at St. Bartholo- mew's Hospital were prosecuted with great success, and on their completion he was examined and became & member of the Royal College of sur- geons, London, on the 4th of July, 1838, and on the ‘24th of December, 1644, a Féllow of the institution, In the previous year he carried off the college tri- ennial prize for his essay on the anatomy of the fibres of the human brain, specially illustrated by anatomy of the same parts in the lower vertevrata. Mr. Coote, who was a oS and lecturer on surgery at Bartholomew’s Hospital when he was taken ill, did good service during the Crimean war. He was appointed 5 jon of the British Lan ree ey ae in 1855, and at Reakiol and the, Jom in 1856, edie a ANOTHER BOILER EXPLOSION. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jan, 26, 15°C), Yesterday the boiler in the drying house of Me- Voy & Allison’s lumber yard, at Mansfela, Onio, exploded, killing Adam Katn, mortally injuring } dohu Rysmoud, and severely Wounding two others, \ A HORRIBLE ACOTDEST. Scnantow, Pa., Jan. 26, Fiward Mills, an emplagé of the Lack Dardan necting the MA chinery in the rolling mill ght in the gyging wad instautly orisked t ona Tron and Coal Company, While engaged yesterday 4,7 CUBAN INSOLENCE. Gold-Tinselled Spanish Depend- ents Laughing at United States Soldiers. ernie, Amadeus Should Instruct “Mr. Grant.” petites Mie Ae EVEN THE MODOCS BEAT US. ea eres oe A Leaf from a Worthless Book Tendered to Uncle Sam. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK: HERALT. Havana, Jan, 25, Via Kay West, Jan. 26, 197 The Voz de Cuba, in an editorial in its lsue of Saturday, says:— * “The defeat of the United States troops by the Modoc Indians is certainly @ fact that does mot honor much the arms of the Grand Republic. This war of extermination tas veen sustained more years between civilized Americans and the Indiaus than our own war against those who wish to drive ‘us from our homes and country. “This Indian war wounds humanity in ifs nodiest sentiments, and is a real scandal to this century ef humanitarian sensitiveness. “Being so close to the frontters of His Catholic Majesty he ought, in bis next speech to the Cortes, indicate to Mr, Grant how much the Spanish pee~ ple are affected by the proceedings of his govern- ment against the poor Indians, and should tell the whole world that this fight is against a race whe ‘are the possessors of the land whereirom they are to be exterminated. “The King might also indicate to Mr. Grant the means he ought to employ te civilize instead of to exterminate the Indians, giving Mr. Grant's gov- ernment as a guide the policy pursued by Spain against the Indians when conquerimg them tw America.” The Voz also advises the principal Kuropesa journals to send correspondents to find out the truth of what is passing in the Indiam Territory, where has occurred a defeat so dishonorable to American arms. THE MODOC WAR. ERP RNa General Wheston’s Reinforcements Dow tained in Consequence of Bad Roads. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan. 26, 1873. ‘The companies of troops sent from thia place to reinforce General Wheaton against the Modoce were on Friday only six miles from Fort Redding, where they were stopped by the muddy condition of the roads. sats UNHAPPY END OF A LAWYER. SAN Francisco, Cal., Jan. 26, 187%. Several weeks since George W. Salley, a promi- nent lawyer of Martinez, Contra Costa county, was Inissed from his home and his whereabouts could not be discovered by his family or friends. Last night his body was found in a lonely place tive miles from tnis city, ina sitting posture, The right hand grasped a Derringer pistol and there was ® bullet hole tn the side of the Rees, neceine, that he committed suicide. Dom mancial troubles are reported the caui SINKING OF THE STEAMER NIK KING. SAVANNAR, Ga., Jan. 26, 1873. The steamer Nick King, bound to Florida, struck @ snag and sunk near Darien on Friday night. The passengers and crew were saved. SUDDEN DEATH IN A HOTEL. About half-past one o'clock yesterday morning John Earl, & man fifty-five years of age, who boarded at the “Homemade Hotel,” 285 Greenwich street, was found dead in bed by the porter em- loyed in the house. Deceased, who was employed Ih @ store at 183 Canal street, had been drinking to excess of late, and his death, doubtless, resulted from that cause. Deceased has leit a widow and. children residing at West Troy. Coroner Young was notified. HAVANA MARKETS Havana, Jan. 25, 1872 sowing to bad weather the receipts havo fuse te purchase, owing to {Nos 10 to 12, Dutch stand- 1g irons; os 1b to 3% Datos 14a res olasses sugar, a 10 reals fy" Muscowado sugar, inferior to common, 3 fair to good refining, 9% & 104 realn alzreals. Sugar at Havana and Mi in ‘warehouse, 65, Sugar qni eanty, and merchat the high demands of hols ard, 11% reals per tae als; im py be. at eat slo per BbL Coal reals per gallon. Naval stores im demand. ; white pine, $38 3 pitel fale demand mnie ogshonns baovant at fair demand; box, 12% a 13 plasses hh 3s De On north coast to U Ha Peat of molussen, do, 89 a 83.25. Exchange firm; om ae fi the United States, short sight, currency mium; sixty days, gold, 2644 a 27 prem short "a 20% preminm: on London, 40g a4l premium; om Paris, 24 a 24 premium ; Spanish gold, 22 premium. A.—Kadmand Yates’ Story, A BAD Lor, will be commence: No. 276 of the NEW YORK PIRESIDE COMPANTON, OUT MONDAY, JANUARY 77. 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