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and I understand he Kas tried to reform the club, But it will not reform, Every night some one wins 200,000 francs at baccarat. Johnnie Chamberlin money. Only some of these clad chaps would ruin Johnnie, even.” And 60 on in 8 long narrative, whieh would not be useful to publish, perhaps. THB OTHER SIDB OF THE SUBJECT. “wnat makes some of our friends here #0 vexed with your club?” 1 said to ® member, as we sat ooking out of the window on the brilliant waves ef Mfe that rolled along the boulevards. “Oh,” was ‘the response, “you've been talking toso and perhaps. Well, we black-balled him for & many reasens. We must be particular here, hore ve than in New York. Whenever an American cheats his creditors and runs to Paris to keep out ef Ludiow Street Jail he visite the club and de- mands admittance. So we must look carefully at all comers, Most of our members are men of for- tune—men who come here to see life and enjoy 1t; to educate their, children, and gain know! ‘edge of foreign manpers. If, a8 you say, ‘Shey choops to piay at baccarat for 100,000 francs, it is no business of yours or mine, They can afford to play and pay, ‘and they have notbing else to do; and, so saying, ‘we strolled throngh the rooms. of the club, which are sumptuomsly (urmished with large mirrors and &@ bust of the late lamented George Washington, bis country’s father, and all the recent news- papers—a convenient founging room in every way. ‘There is no trouble,” said my informant, “in obtaining entrance to.the club, if @ man isin amy way decent; but it won’t do to have the police watching our doors with warrants for the arrest of mewly-elected members, who have obligations to ‘their native land that can only be answered by the Treaty of Extradition.” THE VALUE OF THE EXPERIENCED COLONIST, But, not to dwell upon this, there is the attrac- tion of Paris to the art amd literary.portions of the colony. These fragments lic off by themselves and are not attainable at the Grand Hotel. If you come here a stranger and under suspicious stars, and gain entrance into the art sone orithe literary gone, you are blessed among waylarers, and Paris comes to you as you would never see it were you to tramp the boulevards twenty years. The American Colonist, thoroughly seasoned im Paris, with his European habit full upon bim, is, in the main, ® delightful, person.. He has acquired the best qualities of the French and thrown eff the worst qualities of the American. He docs not Acid you at arm’s length and give you his views His home animosities about politics and se on are deadened, and in their stead you sec a genuine full-grown patriotism—a leve of the whole country, democratic and republican, Then come the tramps into side streets—the discovery of the oddest out-of-the-way places for dishes, or queer prints or books, or odds and ends of a desirable character, You see in time what underlies the French varnish of Paris life—that French varnish which foreign eyes so frequently see and nothing else. You have glimpses of the true life in France and learn what itis that has made this people, with alt their fanits and misadventures, the richest and thriftiest in the world. Yon will also observe the reasons that led to the Commune. “THE EUROPEAN Be WARNING TO ENTHU- ta! This edge of colonial life is full of interest; but has it.no drawback? I have spoken of what is calied the “European habit” and of the advantage thatene finds in foreign travel when he has it upon him, ‘Ab, my friend,” said a wise man that iknow, whe has lived many years here, to one who spoke with him in a hopeful, bright way about foming to live in Paris and making it a home, “Ab, my friend, don’t; you will never have any true home elsewhere should this Paris fever come upon you. It will not come at first. Madame, your wife, will see many things to annoy her. She ‘will have her troubles abeut the candles and the ‘wood and misunderstandings with the concterge. Then, if she is religious and bas our Puritan Motions, as most women have at home, whether Catholic or Protestant, she will not under- stand the theatres being open on Sunday and races at Longchamps after church. Then there are social and personal freedoms permitted te men and women which fall rudely upon eyes that have always looked at such things behind vail. But this in.time passes away. You see that nature, among other things, docs not require fish balls and mutton chops for breakfast at nine, and that coffee with milk is a good dish to werk on till noon. That is the hardest thing the women have to learn, but they learn it. Then comes this never-ending pano- rama of life and brightness and activity—these boulevards, the passage Choiseul, the Palais Royal, the Champs Elys¢es—God biess me! where do you find its counterpart? If you are poor you an dine at Duval’s for two francs; if you are rich you can pay a hundred at Bignon’s, which is just opposite. You can live inthe Rue du Bac at flity Srancs a month, or in the Avenue Gabriel at a thou- sand, and you will neither lose nor gain in respect- ability. You select your café. You give John a Jew sous now and then, and the cayé is your home ‘to your friends. 0 in time the “habit? grows upon you. Life is 80 smooth! The government be- |. ing of the paternal kind, doés 90 inany things for ou that you la) Into eas; ways, Then fhe e0~ Siraread sléchack st ths Inbol surpeilag Frenchman is always pleasant, but it is only cour- tesy. You know him twenty years, and he is as agrecable in the end as in the beginning— no more! It never is home. You like the city, you grow attached to certain ways and places, I would not have a good week unless I had my stroll along the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs—dear old Thackeray’s pet street. You form a sincere regard’for your concierge; but it is mot home. You never take root. But what are you going to do? You cannot go home. Whom are you going to see? The houses one visited ten or Oftcen years ago are open, tobe sure. But the head of it sleeps after dinner and is gouty; and the little girls that you tumbled over your shoul- ders and gladdened with sweetmeats sit in the p: Jer, and find you in the way when the beardie: chaps, with shiny boots and very tight gloves, ome around. Then you have your European ways, which are not the ways of America. You want your coffee 80, and 80 it never comes, and life be- gins to fret you. One heme has gone, and youhave mot gained another. This ever-running, rippling stream of life, many-tinted as the rainbow and as full of joy a8 a Summer wind. Thisis not home! Then think of dying here and of being buried ina hearse with plumes and coachmen with mourning garments—garments that have mourned over three generations and will mourn over three more, per- Raps. No, my friend, do not let this Ewropean Dabit come upon you or you will one day be, ina dreary sense, @ man without @ country and s dome.” 4 CYNICAL VIEW OF COLONIAL LIFE. These are the werds of a colonist who knows France well—a satisfied celonist, no matter what his griefs may be, one who loves his Paris well, But we come to the dissatisfed celonist—the American who sees in New York the consummate fulness of all civilization. He cannot leave Paris. He must educate his children or attend to certain business, or What not. He is always angry with the French people. He reads the American newspapers with hungry eagerness, and is in @ state of constant excite. ment over events in New York. Yeu meet him on the boulevard and he flashes into specula- tions upon Tweed’s trial or the Message of Grant, and disturbs you by bis averments that the jury willnever agree to convict that negro of arson down {m Arundel county. His French is not of an illumi- Dative, descriptive quality, and he supplements it by swearing at the coachmen, who take his speeches for compliments, and smile in answer, Be has hada quarrel with his concierge, with his Lootmaker, with a florist, It was s question of ten francs with the iatter, and it was taken before one justice of the peace and another, and after paying 600 francs in costs he won his cane, = =“Al,” he said to this writer, “you can never trust the French. Bismarck should have exterminated them. They are all cow. ards, all bypocrites—all—worse than that. I have lived here five years, and I tell you! never saw & Frenchman who would not steal. They are mon- keys and barbers, I was at a French party the other night, and it shows just what they are. None of your square-up-and-down partiea—cham- pegne and cards in the back room and boned tur- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Rey and terrapin, lke civilized people—l’4t, ices and meringues and thin little cakes *.4q liquors, and you rush out into the cornd?’, sna emeke a cigarette and burry back, ‘94 then a young clap with a stubby ‘mustache stands up and reads an origi7.g) poem, and you cannot understand what ‘se gays exeept that it is about France and Ger any, and Alsace and Lorraine; and it ends ‘Re'venge! Revenge!’ and they ail shout and cry, 824 the men rush up and kiss him on both checks—yes, on both cheeks, the fools, If] had my Way—But let me tell you about a pill got las: month and a charge for candles.” This legend your correspondent disentangied himself from—as it 18 an old, old story—and leaves our dissatisfied colo- nist on bis way to the “American oyster” saleon, where he will find semething to remind him of home. “OUR FRIEND, THE MARQUIS’? Butis there any society abroad for the colony? Ob, yes; very charming circles—French, Rogheh ‘and American. I am afraid a good deal ef the in- harmonious feelings that now and then offend you come from the French society. The colonist who cap speak French, to begin with, isan object of envy and reproach to those who eannot, I discover also that it is a great card te know a nobleman. I Dave heard of one family who entertain largely, ¢8- pecially foating Americans in Summer, who, tt 18 said, “keep a Marquis.” Thts nobleman was in dis- tress and had @ dismal home down in Mont- martre, But one’ enterprising American found him out, and during the Summer, when he gives @ dinner, the Marquis, with a red ribbon in his lappel, is present and presented, This gives Gignity to the dinner, and has @ majestic, if a de- pressing effect upon the American guests. Before he arrives it adds to the zest of the conversation to discuss whether the Marquis will come, whether his engagements will allow him to come, whether the rumor is true that he was suddenly summoned tothe Count de Chamberd. iter he goes (which is early, His Highness not finding the avcrage American conversation stimulative), comes the discussion ef the Marquis and his pedigree—Mont, morency at least—grandfather guiilotined by RoLes, pierre—and such noble names! The circumstance of the Marquis being actually under contract to wine and dine at so much a day, for the benefit of free and independent American travellers, Ido not guarantee, It came to me as gossip froma satirical, slighted colonist, who had not been asked to meet the Marquis; and who, rot being much in the society of French noblemen, has the conviction that they are very poor and know nothing except to play on the violin and Ite in wait for the daugh- ters of wealthy American gentlemen, who, having garnered in their milliens in the development of our petroleum industry, or in furnishing supplies to our brave boys im the field, crave a coronet for their family, if even only a French one, But hold! For now I come upon enchanted ground, and before one stretches a vista that would lead far beyond the patience of the most industrious and constant reader of the HERALD, if I have not gone so far already. When I begin to speak of comets and beautiful American lions I fear—I fear lest in idly telling tales that have been told to me words would fall wounding where we have no right to wound. So let the curtain fall and gather the puppets in, for the play of “America im Paris” must end here. But know, fair maidens of Madison square, who read these lines, and have your own hopes and fears in the matrimonial way, and ambitions pure and high mounting, that thore really is a markeg in Paris, even as in New York, for blooming cheeks and beaming, lustrous eyes and hearts of love and truth, and that such have been sold and delivered to noble descendants of Norman noblemen, waose ancestors were thieves in the day that theft was honor and not a punishable proceeding: Se many steries come of these pecuniary transactions that another chapter would be reqnired to tell them. This, nowever, as a general principle, which I throw out in concluding. so long a6 French counts are poor and Italian princes find it hard to secure the necessary macca- roni—so long as vain citizens of our nation will become very rich and have daughtera—so long as our petroleum dowagers will see in @ coronet a glory far exceeding the giory ef the sun, or of the moon, or of an army with banners, and to be prized even above true, loving, genuine American manheod—so long will our maidens dear be bought and gold in this strange, sad way. M. Sardou and “Uncle Sam.” Panis, Feb. 9, 1873, Our colonial life in Paris has experienced a sensa- tion which has been more or less noted in French and English journals, and, I have no doubt, at- tracted its share of attention in the HERALD. Your correspondent has been at some pains to seek it out, and this is the stery as it comes to him:— HOW THE PLAY CAME TO BE WRITTEN. There is in this Paris eity a clever Bohemian, named Victorien Sardou, who has written many attractive comedies and has a facility fer that kind of work. He wrote ‘Patrie,” which poor dead James Fisk, Jr., tried to play to New York, but New York would not come and see it. Well, “Patric? was a famous piece, of melo- dramatic type, in this melodramatic country. He also wrote @ play satirizing thé manners and cus- toms of the gaudy French Empire, which wasmuch relished in that time, More recently he contrived “Rabagas,’? which was meant as a satire upon Gambetta, and has been layed to large audiences for a long time. Ab’ “Rabagas’? was going into g decline there came @ rumor that the Ingenious Sardou was bent upor satirizing America, and re- publican institutions in general as developed in America, Well, the rumor circled up and down and hither and thither and was discussed in colony circles, and we all resolved to go the first night and have a good time and see how absurd the American appears iu the eyes of a French Bohe- mian, Suddenly the rumor came that the play had been iaterdicted by the authorities, YOUR CORRESPONDENT SEEKS LIGHT, Well, we all thought this was an ingenious adver- tisement of the Bohemian’s play. We heard it was to be played in New York, and there was the aston- ishing story that the Freach Minister had told M. Sardou that he must see our Minister, Mr. Wash- burne, and show him the play and ask his permis- sion before the play could be permitted. It was really feared that unless this was done the play would give offence toa friendly nation. These were the stories and your correspendent set out to see how true they were. Proceeding to the Legation he found Mr. Gratiot Washburne, who received him in a sunny way, and was quite willing to ge upen the rack and be interviewed. This was the resuit. MR. GRATIOT WASHBUBNE'S STORY. “T can tell you all about it,” said the amiable Secretary. ‘I hada call frem M. Michaelis, who is the agent of M. Sardou, My father was in America atthe time. M. Michaelis had been in New York, and had arranged to have his play produced by Mr, Daly simultaneously with ita production in Paris, M. Michaelis told me the censer had informed M. Sardou that his play could not appear unless my father would give his consent, or at least unless he would say, as Minister of the United States, the comedy would not be offensive to the Ameri~ can people, When M, Sardoa heard pis he said be would not as % “Frenchman ask a foreign m inister for leaye te play a French play in Paris, and se the egemt came: at the sug- gestion of the mahages of the theatre, who had spent a great dea) of money in producing the play, and Was anxious to produce it. Colonel Hoffman came in and heard the case, and said nothing ould be done until my father returned. But we satd alse that we knew very well he would have nothing to Say or do about it. But the agent would have no denial, and left the manuscript for our perusal, We read the play. I told the agent I would go and see a rehearsal, and I did. I was very much amused. When my father came back he said he would neither directly nor indirectly, officially or anoMicially, have anything to do with the matter. But the agent again came and said that one word frem my father would remove every obstacle, He said he could do nothing and would not even read the play. That is the situation. The censers say the play is offensive to our countrymen, but if my father will {say he sces no harm in it they wil) remove the interdict, My father says it does not come within his duty and he will have none of it,” WHAT MR, WASHBURNE THINKS OF THE COMEDY. . Your correspondent asked the young secretary what he thought of the play. ‘‘Well,” was the reply, “itis smart and light, and has points that are amusing. It conveys an absurd idea of Ameri- can matiners, and people who do not know our country, Frenchmen especially, would have queer ideas about us, The scenery is good. The Sardon agent brought back photographs and sketches of scenery and places, 80 the scenery is accurate. The jokes of the play are too idiomatic and too Ameri can for Frenchmen to comprehend. Iquestion if the French will see their meaning. They will be more appreciated in New York. As to the interdict, I don’t know what the motive 1s. It nas been said that the government objects to the play aga satire upon republican institutions, They see what ridienle Sardou showered upon Gambetta, and his party, and do not.covet the same ridicule upon & republic, But I cannot say.” Your correspondent said that no doubt thecensor threw the responsibility upom Mr. Washburne, knowing very well he could not interfere. Mr. Washburne said he could not say as to that, an# could not assign motives to the French authorl- ties, It was certain, however, there was nothing in the play of Sardou to annoy any sane American. And so saying your correspondent relieved the handsome young Secretary from the torture, and was bowed out ofthe Legation with a smile that indicated what a relief his absence must be to the @iplomatic mind. VICTORIRN SARDOD, Your correspondent then set our for M. Sardou. This dramatist was rather pressed by affairs, but im time he admitted your representative. In the body the famous Bohemian is a clever, bright, bouncing little man, with coal-black eyes, radiant With heat and light; long falling hair, as becom @ poet, and speaking the French of Provence, His face is smooth and closely shaven. Of him some other particulars may be added, He is about forty-two, and as 4 dramatist has had a greater success than any one sinee Scribe. His fat- terers call him the Scribe of the age— which is as appropriate ag it, would be to call Knowles the Shakspeare of the time. His ene- mofeg call him a plagiarist—but he has succeeded, and that will account for enmities, among other things ia life, here as well as in many other lands. Sardou was intended for the medical career, and 80 skilled himself, but, to the grief of his family, he abandoned his calling and became @ professor of mathematics. In time he made a marriage that brought him within the Theatre Dejazet circle, and he became a writer of vaudevillea and. trifes which attracted some note. In 1661 he produced the ‘Pattes de Mouches,’? which was performed at the Gymnase and attained a great success. After this came “Famille Benoiten,” which was played in 1865, This is the comedy to which I referred as & satire upon the second Empire, Thencame ‘Nos Bons Villageois’—a satire upon the peasantry, as the former had been upon the bourgcotsie, who sustained Napoleon. Then came “Patric,” to which I have referred, and “Rabagas,” which ran for 200 nights, These plays have given Sardou a large fortune—a couple of millions of francs, ae it ig said. He owns a part of the old park of Marly, near St. Germain—the same Marly where Louis XIV, built one of his palaces, and which was over- turned by the Revolution, The American play, I should add, is called “Uncie Sam,” M. SARDOU’S STORY. M. Sardou said to your correspondent virtually what Mr. Washburne had said, adding, however, that the interdict was really the work of Jules Simon, the Minister of Public Instruction, and net the Censor, ‘Mr. Washburne”’ said M. Sardou, “saw the play. I mean the young Mr. Washburne. He seemed to be amused, and was very kind, and gave the actors and actresses some useful hints as to the pronunciation of English words and phrases, He was kind enough to give me a sketch of a bar on a Mississippi steamboat. He read the play, al- though it was left with him without my knowledge and against my consent. I am told Colonel Hoffman only read two acts, and would read no more, being offended at my making fun of American colonels who have ne commissions, I am sorry to have given a man like the Colonel, who really deserves the title, pain. I made no reference to his ¢lass.”” M. SARDOU DORBS NOT LIKE AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS. Your correspondent asked M. Sardou whether he fancied the action of the government was promptea by the resentment or sensitiveness of the Ameri- cans resident in Paris. “Not entirely,’ he answered, “I have no doubt if it is played the house will be filled with Ameri- cans, for curiosity, if for noother reason, This will be one resuit of all this clamor.” “But, do you,” your correspondent asked, “say many hard things about the Americans?’ “Well,” said M. Sardou, ‘I will say frankly I have no liking for American institutions and cus- toms, Ofcourse one people is as good as ancther, I certainly have not spared the Americans any more than I have spared my own countrymen and countrywomen in my play, ‘La Famille Benoiton.’ A writer ofcomedies must be permitted some license, and I have not gone outside of the Mmitations. At the same time no one can truly say that my play is an attack upon the Americans, The most charming character im the list is an Ameri- can girl The hero is a Frenchman, but I have made the girl 80 attractive that the bachelors in the andience will want to marry her,’? M. Nardon then said be had gold all of iis rights over the play in America to Mr. Daly, remarking that he heard with regret that Mr. Daly's theatre had been butned down. THE PLOT OF “UNCLE SAM,”” Your correspondent having asked M. Sardou for an idea of the plot of the play, he said that it was not usual to divulge the plots of plays bejore their production, Ifthe HERALD were to print anything more than a general idea of the plot it would be reprinted in the French journals. The plot, however, is somet! action of the play begins on Hudsom River. The scene represents, as well as the resources of a French stage will permit, one of our floating palaces. Among the passengers on this steamer are Samuel Tapplebot and his niece Sarah. Samuel is a type of the Yankee—all the good and bad points, the bad rather prepon- derating. When twelve Samuel sold matches; at fifteen he was in the blacking line; at twenty he had made afortune out of sugar. Then he became @ chocolate merchant, and in thts business he lost all he had made in matches, blacking and sugar; but fortune directed him into petro leum. He struck oil, and 80, at the outset of the play, he was millionnaire, Un board the vessel is a French marquis—De Rechemanne—e young nobleman travelling in the States for observation and adventure. He is ® representative French- man, There is @ Mme, Bellamy, who says disa- grecable things; a Mr. Elliott, who is @ journalist connected with the New York press, and, in addi- tion, @ politician, a member of Congress ana @ professional fiddler. There is also a Otzarre char- acter, whe deals in money and is evidently a recol- lection of James Fisk, Jr, ais creation carries the odium of th play. ‘he first act tells you who the charactéz are. In the secomd you are intro- duced into a splendid hotel on Fifth avenue, Here Sarah ie st home and the young Marquis.comes, with an offer of marriage. During this ceremony this conversation ensue! a HOW AMERICAN LADIES DISCUSS MARRIAGE PRO- POBALS. Sanan—fow much are you worth? Marquis—Worth? Idon’t understand, SaRaH—I mean are you very wealthy? Magquis—Ah! Yes. Eighty thousaid francs a year. Sanan—Is your money well invested ? Manquis—In shares, land, vineyards, SananH—Bourdeaux vineyards? None of your Catawba, Marquis—Yes; but my dear Sarah-—— Sanan—Do you receive your rents regularly ? And soon, Sarah is enehanted with her Marquis, and runs of with him to Newport—‘the Trouville of America.” And so adventure follows adventure, in one of which the Marquis nearly loses his life at the hands of one of Sarah’s admirers. The mar- riage nearly falls through; but, in the end, Roche- Manne thinks that Sarat, with all her feuits, will make a better wife than m ichwomen, and the curtain falls upon Sai hioness, =] of “Uncle Sam’’—s slight plot, like Rabe but only meant to introduce types of ter. ray will be found to “Tnele seme T have not yet made up my mind as to ‘whether or not this ‘preliminary clamor je an in- wenlopaly arranged advertisement THE MOBOG PEACEMAKERS. ————————— The Herald Correspondent’s First Meet- ing with the Commission. ——__+—____ ANTECEDENTS OF THE MEMBERS. Those Whom Jack and His Band Are Looking For. Great Desire to Measure the Length of " Meacham's Hair. HPRALD Meangva' Donpis! Randy, Can ben Tr ashe. } Awaiting the arrival of tho Peace Commissicn appointed by the Secretary of the interior to ar- range the troubles with the Modoe Indians, the troops are in @ state of inactivity, encamped at Lost River, Clear Lake, Van Bremer’s and Dorris’ ranch, It has bees defintely announced that Messrs, Jesse Applegate, A, B. Meacham and Samuel Case are the three gentlemen who have been entrusted with the diplomatic arrangements about to be entered into with Captain Jack and'hie tribe. THE PRACB COMMISSIONBRS—MRB. APPLEGATB. Mr. Jesse Applegate is.one of the oldest settlers’ and explorers of Oregon, and tn the pursuance of his profession as surveyor has travelled oyer the greater part of the State, and is personally ac- quainted with the Modoc Indians. He is said to be on good terms with Captain Jack and some of the party, but there are some’ of tho men who do. not entertain the most kindly feelings towards him, and are reported to have expressed an extreme in- terest as to the length of his hair, with @ view to adorning thelr wigwam with those revered gray hairs, | 1 have talked with Mr, Applegate on the likelihood of peace, and he evi- dcntly appreciates the diMculties that are before him in the attempt to make a treaty with the Mo- docs that will prove satisfactory to the government and tne settlers, The Jatter portion of the com- munity, especialy those residing in Oregon, are decidedly warlike in their aspirations, thirst for the blood of the lava bed Indians, and are evi- dently opposed to all movements in favor of peace. MR, MEACHAM, Mr. A. B. Meacham was formerly Superintendent of Indian Affairs in the State of Oregon, and was succeeded in that office by Mr. Odeneal, the pres. ent superintendent. Mr. Meacham was in office at the time that Jack and his tribe went to the Yainax reservation, and after stopping there a couple of months left in disgust, stating that they were starved, and had to kill their horses and eat them in order to keep body and soul together. Thissta'ement is, however, contradicted by the friends of Mr. Meaeham, who state that the Modoc Indians were well treated on the reserva tion, and that Captain Jack only made the above statement in erder to make an excuse for return- ing to Lost River. There are others, however, who place implicit confidence in Qaptain Jack’s story, and state positively that it waa only actual starvation drove Jack’s party from the reservation back to their hunt- ing and fishing grounds on Lost River, Mr. Meacham certainly while in office took a lively interest in the case of those Modec Indians, and forwarded their claiinhs to this Lost River land to Washington, with a recommendation that it should be granted, It is also stated that in conseqnence of the lively interest Mr. Meacham assumed in behalf of these Indians, interest was brought to bear in Washington which caused bis removal and the nomination of Mr. Odeneal to the office. It is therefore assumed as Mr. Meacham is appointed one of the Peace Com- missioners, that the government have come to the conclusion that his policy was right. MR. SAMUEL CASE, the third commissioner, is the Indian agent on the Alsen reservation, This reservation is ated on the coast, about one dread and thirty miles south of the Columbia River. He bas been connected and engaged in the management of Indians for the past ten years, but has never had any vusiness whatever with the Modoc Indians, It appears, therefore, that Mr. Case has been selected with a view to being a kind of umpire between the two other commissioners, who are thoroughly well ac- quainted with the Modocs and their grievances, LIFE AT LOST, RIVER CAMP has been very monotonous, and with the exception of an occasional crack at a prairie hen or a jack rabbit there was literally nothing todo, On last Thursday evening @ little excitement was effected by the discovery of some emoke inthe distance, and, as it appeared to rise from the neighborhood of Dennis Crawiey’s log hut, General Gillem sent out a detachment of cavalry, under the charge of Lieutenant Rockwell, tg jnvesticate thé thitier, ‘The Cavairy returfied in about three hours’ time, and Lieutenant Rockwell reported that Crawley's hut was burned to the ground; but he was unable to ascertain the cause, it being too dark to see any tracks, In the morning Colonel Green, several officers and a troop of cavalry rode out to the same spot and discovered the tracks of three or four Indian ponies and also the tracks of two men, who bad crossed the river in a canoe, gone up to the hut, and afterwards beat a hasty retreat. From this it was surmised that a party of Indians, numbering probably four or five, had been out on @ scout, and on tneir way home had sent two men across the river te burn Crawley’s hut, by way of bravado, as they knew the smoke would be seen at the Lost River camp. THE PRACEMAKERS AT LINKVILLE, On Saturday morning General Gillem, Lieutenant Rockwell, Mr. Jesse Applegate, Surgeon McEldery and the HERALD correspondent left Lost River camp and rode over to Linkville in order tobe present at the meeting of the Peace Commiasion, Linkville is about fifteen miles due west of Lost River camp, and ts sitaated on Link River, about nalf way between the two Klamath lakes. It con- sists of a store, @ hotel, a barroom, a land officeand @ blacksrolth’s _Bhop, and has gleg been rendered famous in this war a6 the headquarters of thosé settlers whose bioodthirsty threats were the means ofadding fou! mn warriors to Captain Jack’s band in the lava beds, When we arrived we found General Canby and his aide-de-camp, Captain Anderson, in possession @f the hotel. General Canby is the officer im command of tne Department, of the Columbia, but in t ibsence of General Schofield is commanding tbe Division on the Pacific. Mr. Samuel Case had also srrived, but Mr, A. B. Mearcham, the other Cemmussioner, had not been heard from. General Gillem joined forces with General Canby and put up at the hotel and the balance of the party were pilleted glsewbere. WAR-PAINTED APACHES, The Fifth Cavairy Hunting the Hestile Savages—Seventeen Warr! Slain ip One Contest. San FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 1673. Advices from Arizona to February 18 state that Lieutenant Michier, of the Fifth cavalry, foughs the Apaches on January 22, at Tonto Creek, Killing seventeen warriors. One rokiler, named vcorge Hooker, was killed. On the 19th of January Captain Price had a fight near Verde, killing five Apaches. General Crook arrived at headquarters Feb- ruary 17, having been CRIME IN VIRGINIA A Friendly Appeal to Abolish the Death Penalty Rejected. Ricumonp, Feb. 28, 1873. In the Legislature to«!ay the Committee for Courts, in response to the memorial of the yearly meeting of the Soctety of Friends. held in Baltt- more, asking that the death peneny. for crime mr be changed to imprisonment at hard labor for term of years or for life, reported it as the opinion of the committee that it is inexpedient to mal aot ropored change in the criminal law. The re qr almost concurred im it poauimousiy LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. COMMERCE AND TaD are engrossing # large share of attention tn recent literature. Last year appeared Mr. Leoni Levi's “History of British Com” Merce from 1763 to 1870,” and this year’Mr. Joh Yeata bas put forth “A. Manual of Recent and Bxisting Commerce, fiom the Year 1780 to 1872,” Lives of successiul merchants and financiera are alse abondant and widely read. Gronee Bxior recetved £8,000 for “Middlemarch,” the highest,eum ever paid (or a work of fiction, the English papers say. The Blackwoods paid it, A Lonpon correspondent hears that Mr. -‘Tenny- son has In view a poem on the subject of the colo- Ries, which he has Just touched on in bis late epi- logue. Mr; Browning has ready for the press a Dew poem. ‘The scene isiagain laid in France, and the subject, like the ‘Ring and the Book,’ judicial: HERS is an in mitable bit of description froma. letter of Dickens to Forster about his Summer trip to an English watering place :— Everything here at Broadstairs is the same as of old. I have walked ‘twenty. miles.a day since I b ye down, and I wont to a circus at Ramsgate on irday night, where “‘Mageppa” was played in three long acts without an H in it, as iffor a wager. ‘Evvens, and 'eads, and ’orrors and ‘ands were a8 pl as blackberries, put the letter H was neither whispered in Evyen nor muttered in Ell nor permitted to well in any {orm on the contines of the sawdust, Mn. JonN Q’HANLON bas been twenty-five years engaged on his “History of the Saints of Ireland,” which numbers twelve volumes, and will fully manifest ‘the anctent religions giories of Ireland's Dative saints at home and in distant countries,” PROFESSOR W, J, M, RANKINE, Who dicd at Glas- gow last month, was the authdt of several learned Works on eivil engineering, ship-building, ma- chinery and the steam engine, which have a large sale in this country aé ‘well as in England, Tie Independent ‘saya:—The author of “Ecce Cullum,” ‘Pater.Mundi? and “Ad Fidem,” has ‘another book ip presa, We have not yet learned thé title of it, but it. is probably either ‘Tempus Fugit” or “Exeunt Omnes,”” SreNHousE’s Rew book “The Rocky Mountain Saints,” contains'a list of 169 books, pamphlets and magazine articles on the Mormons of Utah. No Frwee than one hundred and seventy-six Almanacs for 1873 have been published in Paris, at prices ranting all the way from three sous to one frano. HeR Masxsry’s Printers have been impeached before the Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge for circulating imperfect prayer books, the imperfection being that some of the smaller editions were deficientof the baptismal service and aome of the Occasional offices. In 38 SAID that over one hundred. students are Bow employed at Jeddo in codifying and simplify- ing the Japanese characters with @ view of adapt- ing them to the sounds used In foreign languages. Tae Coryniaur of Keble's ‘‘Uhristian Year” will expire shortly, after having existed nearly foMy- six yeara, during which 161 editions have been printed, The London publishers are endeavoring to secure the market to themselves by reducing their prices—the best dition from 7s. 6d. to 38, 6d. and the 32 mo. from 3a, 6d. to 1s. Beckens’ residence at Lausanne, Switzerland, delighted him much, He wrote;— The country is delightful in the extreme—as leafy, green and shady as England; full of deep glens and branchy places, and bright with all sorts of flowers in profusion. It abounds in singing birds besides, and the moonlight on the lake 1s no-. ble. Prodigious mountains rise up from its oppo- site shore (it 18 elght or nine miles acrose at this point), amd the Simplon, the S§t. Gothard, Mont Biane and all the Alpine wonders are piled there in tremendous ur. The cultivation is am commonly rich and profuse. There are all manner of walks, vineyards, en lanes, corn fields and pastures full of hay, The general neatness ia as remarkable as in England, I never saw so many booksellers’ shops Crammed within the same space as in the steep up and down streets of Lausanne. As It fs a perfectly free place, subject to no prohibi- tions or restrictions o/ any kind, there are all sorts cf new French books and publications in ft, and all sorts of fresh intelligence from the world beyond the Jura Mountaina, Tux Nsw Ba1or Act in Fngtand is giving birth, like the Reform act, to its special literature, among which we note “The Law and Practice of Parlia- mentary Elections Under the New Ballot Act, with Plain and Olear Directions to Electors,” by Mr. 8, P. B. Hook, solicitor, who takes pains to enlighten unsophisticated John Bull upon the mysteries of secret voting, as hereafter to be practised in that country. 1 Ig Sarp that Mrs. E. Lynn Linton is the author of the anonymous “True History of Joshua David- son, Communist,” reprinted by Lippincott, Nasmituy’s “Institutes of English Public Law,” just issued in London, is described as a miniature Blackstone, full of interesting illustration, which renders it ag fascinating ag Buckle or Froude. Doubtful. - MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. RE EN ge OBI Miss Jennie Hughes has made a success at the Theatre Comique as Dick Turpin in “The Pretty Housebreaker.” Frédérick Lemaftre, the renowned actor, has been compelled, close on eighty years of age, to open @ class of declamation in the Boulevard Ma- gente, jeer votane ere Pea Veen ye to ah “Mime. Arabetia Goddard will cease altogether to appear as a pianoforte player after she has com- pleted her Australian and American tour. She has given her farewell concerts in England, M. Capoul threw up his engagement at Lyons because of the coldness of hts reception, and re- turned to Paris forafew days before going to Venice and Milan with M. Strackosch, His return to this country seems to be settled. The concert of the Musical Fund Society takes place at'Steinway Hall this evening. Apart from ite charitable aspects, it will be an interesting musical event. Rubinstein’s Concert Overture and alr. George F. Bristow’s new work, “The Great Republic,” will be performed. The revival of “Roméo et Juliette” at the Opéra Comique, Paris, cost no less than eighty thousand francs to mouat. It is put upon the stage in most lavish style—for instance, in ‘one act ten of the characters have dresses, the laced sleeves aione ‘of which, it is said, cost eighty francs each, A strange idea is that which is to form the foundation of a new drama at the Ambign, Paris. It is called “Le Lache,”’ and its hero is an eminent coward, who, to save himeelf from the utter scorn Of soctety, imbues his son with the most exagger- ated ideas. of chivalry and honor. This sounds terribly artificial, though it may be worked out with saficient mgenuity to it at least inter- esting. A YACHT ON FIKE. Mr. John Jacob Astor’s Splendid Yacht Calypso om Fire at Her Winter Quarters in Newport—Damage $3,000. Newrorr, R. 1, Foo. 28, 1873, ‘The. splendid yacht Calypso, of the New Yerk Yacht Club, amd owned by John Jaceb Astor, of New York, caught fire at about twelve o'clock last might, while lying at her Winter quarters at Ham. met’s wharf in this city. The fire burned witn hile, bi tok the pret Arrvahl the Pico Sebel eno scuttled end sunk her. The erigin ef the fire is unknows, but is supposed to have caught from a heated stove if the forward cabin, which was left aakort time before by the person in charge. The forward part of thecraft was badly damaged, and the handsome yacht now lies sunk at her berth. The damage is estimated at about three thousand dollars. NEW STEAM YAOBT. ‘The new steam yacht Americs, which was | built for H. N. Smith, a wealthy Wall street broker, ‘will be launched at half-past ten o'clock this morn- ing from the stocks at Stcers’ yard, Greenpoint, L. | I. The America is one of the finest steam yachts ever built in this country, and those anxious to see & perfect specimen of naval architecture would 0 well to attend the launch, HORRIBLE MINING ACOIDENT. Vingrinta City, Nev,, Feb. 27, 1873, This morning @ young lady named McKay, aged fifteen, lately married, while visiting her huspand, who is an engineer at the Gould & Curry mine, got her clothing caught in the machinery and she was crashed to death, This is the stxti fatal mining accident in as Many diferent mincs within a week, tho other victimes being miners, 5 BOSTON'S LATEST DISASTER. Searching the Debris in Hanover Street for Other Victims. TWO OTHER FEMALE BODIES RECOVERED. Horrible Condition of the Corpse of the Girl Hanks, The Inquest and Proposed Weak- Wall Investigation. Boston, Feb. 28, 1873, At an early hour this morning the firemen re- newed the work of overhauling the d¢bris at the scene of yesterday's disaster on Hanover street, in the hope of finding the bodies of the three victims supposed to be buried, THB REMAINS OF TWO FEMALES FOUND. A little before nine o’clock they came upon the charred remains of a, body, evidently that of 8 wo- man, Shortly afterwards another body was taken out, only @ few feet distant from the frst. This was also the body of a woman. Both were taken to the rooms of undertaker ‘Iinkham, on Howar® street, and thence to the House of Reception, om North Grove street, There it was established be- _ yond a doubt that the bodies were those of Eliza- beth Hanks and Mary Babb, who were reported this morning as missing. The remains of the former were a horrible sight. to behold. The head and upper part of the body were completely burned away, leaving nothing vise iblo but the shoulders and breast bone. The lower parts of the body were not so muck burned, The girl was clothed in a green plaid dress trimmed’ with black. This, together with a gold watehy — necklace and pocketbook, which were found ‘in= tact, made her identification easy. She was nine~ teen ae of age, and boarded at 18 NortyGrove » street. Hes parents reside tn ssnfleld, M THE BODY OF MISS,B. ‘<) had to a largo extent escaped Miutlletlonhy the, fire, not being burned at all below the neck. @ Nos mouth and one side of the face were burned, it was possible to recognize the woman by the fea- tures. The hair, whieh was partisly gray upon the top and one side of the head, was not even scorched, ‘The arms had been thrown up overthe head in the agonies. of death and. were shocking! burned and crisped; the fouscles ofthese it out, ‘With the flesh burned ‘off, arid fi fleab were dropping from the hands, mn On finger was a thimbie tightly Mxed in. the clenched. right hand. The clothing consisted of a checked, gingham dress of small. figure,'with ‘a knit j over the shoulders, It was ap; nt that the woman died from the éffects of suffocation, and sho was perhaps insensible before the fire reactied perl . She was about thirty-eight years ofage, and boarded in Arch place. The mother of the woman is a widow, and lives with her son in Maiden, r THE CORONER'S INQUEST: * Coroner Moore, with the jury of inquest, visited the bodies before pygcacding:to cet the ruins in Hanover street. e taking of testimony will robably not be commenced before Monday. The alarm trom boxes 161 and 17 this mornin; were given to call to the scene of the disaster relie forthe men of steamer Six and hose One, wo were on duty during the night. The funeral of John Prince, Jr., who was killed esterday, Will be held at the Unitarian church, Mertaan stroct, to-morrow at two P. M.. He was only twenty-two years old, instead of thirty-three, as reported yesterday. ANOTHER PEMAL® MISSING, To-day word was sent to the. First police office that Anna McDonough, of 82 Billerica street, who worked in Mr. Sammoett’s establishment, had been missing since the fire. Her relatives had been in- formed that she was safe at tho ‘house of a friend, but on ascertaining that such was not the fact the notification was given. diligent search is now going on for her ye The freman, James Sturks, who died at the hos- pital last Right, was employed by the Boston and Albany Railroad as car mspector, and resided at 24 ‘Woodward street, with his mother, whom he sup- ported, as well as two young sisters, The ce of inquest is composed of stx good citi- zens; includes a builder, an architect and a mer- chant, and all are property owners. It is intended to go into all the evidence bearing not only upon the origin of the fire and the immediate cause which led to the death of the victims, but upon the character and construction of the building, that the responsibility for the uccurrence may be knowp to the public. es, the substitute of Engine 15, who ‘was reported missing last evening, was somewhat inju at the fire, and went home in a hack with- out notifying his foreman. Among the losers by the fire are Smith, Caldwelt & Co., 63 Union street, whose stock of silver plated Ware was considerably damaged by the falling of the walls on the skylight in the rear of the build- ing and the consequent deiuge of water that fell. upon their goods, The Boston City Council, ata meeting on Thura- day evening, adopted a resolution of sympathy for the families of the firemen and others killed and injured at the Hauover street fire yesterday, ANOTHER D&FAULTING CASHIER, ery rae Oeerrersram The Cashier ef the Lechmere Bank, ast Cambridge, Mass., Admits a De- fafestion of $12,500—He Hands. Over Property to Cover the Loss. © =<" Boston, Mass., Feb. 28, 16' ‘The President and Directors of the Lechmere Bank, in East Cambridge, have been sadly disap- pointed in the integrity of the cashfer, John Sav- age, Jr. Upon an investigation of the financial condition of the bank a different come plexion has been put upon’ the matter—a deficit im the funds of the bank amounting to $12,500 has been discovered, and the fact mude apparent that the cashier is a defaulter to that appears that this deficit amount, The fact also hag existed for some time, and has been niously covered up by the Bank Commissioners, sum q is cclualve of a missing bond and package of securities, and comprises a@ portion of the actual funds of the bank, The defaulting cashier has made a virtnal confession of guilt by executing @ deed of his property in fee simple to the Presi- dent an irectors of the Lechmere Bank. The value of the property deeded, it is stated, is sufficient to make good t! tire missing amount. He was present at the ba forenoon assisting in the investigation, but yy of the bank had been taken from him, and he is 20 longer an officer of the institution. The directors of Lechmere Savings Bank, of which Mr. Savage was Treasurer, were engaged during the forenoon in exemining the books and funds of that institution, but up fo the hour of noon no irregularity was dis- cove: ‘The defaulting oficial was a prominent member Of the Prospect street Orthodox Church, and for some time been Treasurer of that society. He resided on Prespect street, Somerville, near the Cambridge line, and has been cashier of the Lechmere Bank since its establishment in 1854. He was one of the last men im the community to whom a dishonest act would be imputed by his fel- low citizens, and the aiee ts, home of guilt to him in this cage hag a tendency to shake the faith of the community in human nature. Scientific Experiments by the School Ship Mereary=—Thermometric Tests at 2,040 Fathome. The following letter, giving results of deep sea soundings in what is known as the “Volcanic Re- gion,” twoumtles north of the equator, in longitude % 16 West, by the schoo! ship Mercury, has a scien- tifle interest :-— New YORK Navrical. SOHooL Suir MERCURY, Wi aio tebe de apenas 1s grat Sin £ I bave been very su im our ee apt sand temperatures, We have icf tizey Pena waa hate titwater to pe very deep in that vietnity. 3 eave “ ‘sad 73 meer ae be Rh ‘Un ratus, men Gn two ocusions we have sounded very near the sition where two v to hat po. easels touched bottom (the Carysolite and the Crown), Aaid found 1,500 fathom. Fas disapproves the ex- iatence of sheal water. The shock noed by, these vessels was undoubtedly ca by volcan! distarvances in the neighborhood. Casella- Miller deep sea thermometer worked admirably. This beautiful instrument test at a dep' of 2,040 fathoms, two tor, in fongitue 22 16 west, wuen It, inuteated S tempers: atesee SEaentaaaeh ti ka a “ a; Bt the burtacd, 8 Fa oF nggrees; the degrees, On our track from the Canary stands to this we found the res at enehom ie Bt 38s vary about two degrees, yar bot! from the volcanic region differ in spect frem those obtained in caner para o the . * © -* Lam, very on obe- dient servant, . Bi ., President Board ‘of viouets of Pubie Charities sua fF