The New York Herald Newspaper, March 8, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Sreinc or Pranis— Jace June, GRAND OVERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Eighth ay.—Rovouine It, Matinee at 15. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- way.—Auxs Matinee at 1} ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— NxoK anv Nuxck. Aiternoon and Evening. GERMANIA THEATRE, av.—Manta UND MagpaLr: ATHENEUM, No. [85 Broadway.—Granp Vaniety En- TERTAINMENT. Matinee at 2's. ‘ourteenth street, near Third ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Orena—Matinee at 1—La ‘ourteenth street.—Itauian VORITA. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, hetween Prince and Houstom strects.—Lxo anv Lovos.” Matince at 1g. ST. JAMES' THEATRE, Broadway aud 2th st.—Bpr- iesgus Orena—La SOMNAMBULA, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Mouston and Bleecker sirects.—Husrty Dumrty. Matinee at 2, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Owe Honpep Years Oxp, WALLACR’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ‘wireet.—Davip Gannick. Matinee at 13g. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twei Avenue.—No Tuonovenranr, y-third street, corner Sixth jatinee at 2. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—93: or, vax Murpen At Tux Farm. Matinee at 2}5. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN TIHEATRE.— Matinee—Diana. Evening—Lucretia Borata, &c. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUS) 6th av.—NxGro MixstRELSY, Twenty-third st.. Maiinee at 2. corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS Vaniety Entertainment. Matin . No. 201 Bowery.— ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av,—Reapines NEW YORK HERALD, SATORDAY, MARCH 8, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The Republic of Thiers Betrays the Republic of Spain—European Reac- tionary Coalition. The progress among the civilized peoples of the world toward republican institutions, on which President Grant felicitated America last Tuesday, has many an obstacle in its march. From the day when Bonaparte drowned the first French Republic under the glittering tide of his military genius and built an empire of which bayonets were the spiles republican- sm in Europe has furnished traitors to the people with stepstones to absolute power. The news that the wily little man now called President of the French Republic has accorded belligerent rights to the Carlists in Spain is strong evidence that he is to be added to the number of those traitors. When Amadeus fled from his throne the Spanish “Republic arose bloodlessly in his place. It wasa grand moment for France, rid of her Empire, to give an example of the coming day of the peoples by extending a welcoming hand to the young Republic of Spain. But Thiers folded his arms, in servile imitation of the kings and emperors of Europe, The fossil elements of the French Assembly were in a fever of anxicty lest republican France should speak its mind. Even the sometimes fiery Left looked on coldly at the spectacle and resolved to leave Spain to her fate without one word of cheer. It had always been a mystery how Thicrs, the life-long mon- archist, could ever have favored a republic in France; it was now visible that he had not forgotten his old affection for sitting on the steps of a throne. The recognition of the Carlists as belligerents has definitely shown where he stands—the foe of the people and the champion of the doctrine of ‘divine right,’’ which can never be mentioned among intelli- gent men without laughter or loathing. vnom THE Ports, Ac. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Serencer anp Ant. The position is full of anomalies. The Don Carlos faction, which is playing its bloody pranks in the name of God and the King, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, March THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE REPUBLIC OF THIERS BETRAYS THE RE- PUBLIC OF SPAIN! THE EUROPEAN RE- | ACTIONARY COALIT{ON’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—SIXTH PAGE. MENERY’S GOVERNMENT “STICKING” TO THE FIGHT! THE KELLOGGITES TO BE RE- SISTED BY EVERY MEANS EXCEPT A RE- SORT TO ARMS—SEvENTH PaGE. RENEWING THE WAR WITH THE MODOCS! THE TROOPS AGAIN MOVING UPON CAP- TAIN JAC INTRENCHMENTS — Srxru PaGE. EUROPEAN NEWS PER CABLE—GENERAL TELE- GRAPHIC NEWS—SEVENTH PaGE, “LET US HAVE PEACE” WITH THE MODOCS! MATILDA, THE SQUAW, TELLS ALL ABOUT | HER MISSION TO CAPTAIN JACK'S CAMP! | INDIAN “GAS!? MEACHAM’S FRANTIC EFFORTS TO RETAIN HIS SCALP—Fourtu PaGE. SCANNELL’S FATE IN THE HANDS OF THE JURY! A STRANGE SCENE IN COURT! A TWELVE TOURS’ SESSION TO CLOSE THE TRIAL! THE SUMMING UP AND THE CHARGE! THE JURY STILL OUT—Tamp Pace. CAPITAL NEWS! THE MEXICAN SUPPLE- | MENTAL TREATY RATIF! POLICE CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS! FREMONT AND THE FRENCH BOND FRAUDS—SzEv- ENTH PagE. LOBBYING AND LEGISLATING AT ALBANY! THE SIN OF CORRUPTION DECRIED BY OUR STATE LEGISLATORS! DETECTIVES IN THE LOBBY—VALUE OF OUR SWAMP LANDS—MARINE NEWS—Tenta Pace. GERMAN OPPOSPTION TO THE NEW CHARTER— ATAMMAXY POLITICIAN ASSAULTED—THE CITY AND COUNTY TREASURY STATE- | MENT—THIRD Pace. OPERATIONS OF BAKER PACHA! THE EGYP- TIAN SXPEDITION UP THE NILE! THE DANGERS AND DELIGHTS OF CENTRAL | AFRICA! HOLDING FATUKA AGAINST THE NUBIANS=+-Fietn PaGE. THE AXE BUTCHERY IN THE ISLES OF SHOALS! LOUIS WAGNER BARELY iS- CAPES A LYNCHING! MRS. HOUTVET Ss TELLS THE STORY OF HER PERIL AND | OF THE MIDNIGHT DEED OF BLOOD— Fourtu PAGE. CLIQUE MANIPULATIONS ON’ 'CHANGE! GOLD UP TO 115%! THE FINANCIAL SKY OVER- CAST! BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS— BROOKLYN ITEMS—NINTH PAGE. BROOKS’ MOBILIER CULPABILITY!’ HE AP- PEALS TO HIS CONSTITUENTS! DENUNCI- | ATION OF POLAND AND THE REPUBLI- CANS—OUR PLEASURE NAVIES — ST. | PATKICK’S DAY—FOUKTH PaGE. WR. M'DONNELL AND THE STEERAGE-PASSAGE ABUSES! SHALL WE PREVENT OR EN- COURAGE EMIGRATION ?—ELeveStn Pacer. represents in Spain what the .Count de Cham- bord’s fossil partisans represent in* France. It represents absolutism, reaction, supersti- tion, ignorance and the negation of popular right. Its success in Spain would be an event to be deplored by the lovers of freedom throughout the world. For France that suc- cess might be made to pave the way for a monarchy, with Chambord, his fossils and his clerics at its head. France is nominally a Republic, and yet it clothes the ragged, igno- rant, priest-led guerillas of the Basque coun- tries with belligerent rights. It arms the semi-organized cutthroats of the young sister Republic with a weapon to accomplish their work. So far as France is, diplomatically concerned the Spanish Republic does not exist; yet France makes the meanest section of its enemies a power to-crush it, It will be said that Thiers is not Frmnce; but who among the French republicans has risen to say him nay? We can happily turn away from this ex- ample of treachery and cowardice to a point in our own history that is a lesson of shame to France. When France, Spain and England conspired against the Republic of Mexico the Republic of the United States gave them no word of encouragement. When, in the midst ot our gigantic civil war, the troops of Na- poleon overran Mexico, our Republic never gave them a particle of cheer. When the Austrian Archduke Maximilian was crowned Emperor we sent no Minister to his court. The sympathy of our then struggling Republic was with the struggling Republic of Mexico. Our Minister was with the patriots who, under Juarez, fought the usurper until, when deserted by the false Napoleon, he fell a victim to his ambition at Queretaro—a holocaust to the outraged rights of the Mexican people. What aid we could give was tendered to the Mexican people, and our stand upon the question, much more than the patriots in the field, caused Napoleon to | decide on the treachery to Maximilian, with which he supplemented his first great crime against an American republic. By us the right of the people to govern was respected and supported. France, letting Thiers speak for her, to-day pledges her power to support a royal vulture in tearing out the heart of the Republic in Spain. Let republican France take what comfort it can in the comparison be- tween our manliness and its cowardice. Accompanying the announcement of which we have spoken came a curious piece of news which, true or false, has its moral. It was to the effect that all the representatives of Euro- pean powers at the French capital were about to unite ina note to the republican govern- ment in Spain. Therein they were to say that their respective governments would not recog- nize the establishment of a federal repub- lic in Spain. The story had the appearance of a canard upon its face, but it had its LEGAL PROCEEDINGS—THE CUSTOMS BUREAU— MUNICIPAL AND LOCAL 1ITEMS—THE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATIOD iTH PAaE. TROPICAL SURVEYS! THE SELFRIDGE EXPE- DITION TO THE ISTHMUS OF DARIEN— THE CESNOLA ART COLLECTION—HORSE NOTES—F ith PAGE. FOSTER’S CRIME AND RESPITE—DETAILS OF THE WOBURN CONFLAGRATION — Firta Page. Gorp Tovcnep 115} yesterday, which is the highest:it has reached since September, 1870. Wan Acarmnst tHe Rawroavs.—The Mli- nois farmers are waging 2 fierce war against the railroads in that State. They have established an organization known as the “Sons of Husbandry,”’ and in one case have called upon the Judges of the Supreme Court, who rendered a recent decision denying the | validity of the Freight Tariff law, to resign at once, What will be their doom in default of | non-compliance does not appear; but it is time some steps were taken to check the enor- mous strides our railroad corporations are taking to rule or ruin the entire internal trade-commercial, agricultural and other- ‘wise—of the country, It would not be sur- prising if other interests besides those repre sented by the “Sons of Husbandry’ should adopt similar measures to secure the refo demanded. . Tae Pamapevrna Press regards it as a noteworthy fact that no homicide case was brought before the Grand Jury during tho last | term. Thisis not, perhaps, because no homi- cides were committed, but because the police failed to report them. But if the “City of Brotherly Love’’ is in want of any such capital Mnaterial we can spare a few fine samples from our own Tombs. . meaning nevertheless; We had no need of this fabrication to assure us that the cen- tralized empires and kingdoms of Europe would strongly object to the formation of a republic in Spain or elsewhere. We may | be assured that they would not hesitate to use any safe means that would endanger its ex- istence, To the greed, that looked to the value of French paper we may attri eir acquiescence in the German recognition of | the republican government in France, such as itis, that piedged itself to pay the milliards of the war indemnity. With France it was a temporary compromise based upon money; | with republican Spain they have no such | money dealings as would lead them to | her as possessing any rights | consider they were bound to respect. They see rising before them the red spectre in the thought that the entire Latin race might soon become a chain of republics | confronting and menacing them. | Spain and Italy as federalized republics would the triple alliance of the German, Austrian and Russian Empires. This fear will be a key to any hostile action they may take. ble to see the President of the French Repub- lic constitute himself their superserviceable policeman and their spy? It can have but one meaning—namely, that Thiers counts on time fighting for the monarchy in France, and is resolved on crushing anything within his reach which would interfere with his design and helping anything that looked like a future aid. There is one gleam of consolation in the shameful act—that Thiers has shown his hand, so long and so successfully concealed. With Don Carlos in the name of “Divine right” on the throne of Spain, and with German troops \ once off French soil, France would find herself France, | With such a state of things is it not contempti- { hemmed in by such an array of hostile power that the French Bourbon might once more be forced upon the throne. - We have said words of encouragement to the Republic in France, and words of ap- proval to the Republic in Spain. To look back from the trimming and faltering of the France of the present to that republican France which found ‘itself alone and hated among the kingdoms some. eighty yedts ago brings up a strange contrast. Then the young French Republic faltered not in its faith though the soldiers of Prussia and Aus- tria, led by the Bourbon émigrés, came upon her soil. The ‘Marseillaise’ was the answer of France to the invader, although she could look from one end of Europe to the other without seeing the face of a friend. Great as was her soul, and mighty as proved her arm, how she would have rejoiced to find a sister republic by her side, if only to be assured that one among the Powers was not her foe, To-day she is a republic in name, and when Spain, a republic, finds herself beset by hounds with royal collars and threatened by all the Powers who hold their dogs ready to slip the leash, France, forgetful of 1794, takes sides against republicanism. * We shall look anxiously for further develop- ments. The Spanish Republic seems, at last accounts, well able for the present to hold its own. The Cabinet crisis which was reported from Madrid does not appear to exist. Between the Montpensier, the Alfonso and the Don Carlos factions its way is likely to be a thorny one for some time to come. Whether the repub- lican masses of France will submit to the treachery that Thiers has perpetrated in their name also remains to be seen. Whether they will tamely allow this old intriguer, whose principal bait is ‘internal peace,’’ deliberately to fan the flames of civil war in Spain and in the interest of the most despicable form of monarchy is, we hope, doubtful. Sooner or later, we are assured, his treachery will meet its just reward. The Louisiana Difficulty. President Grant hopes that further trouble in Louisiana will be avoided, especially blood- shed. We all hope that. The probability is there will be no more serious trouble, though it is possible some restless and imprudent men may give vent to their indignation in a breach of the peace and bring down the wrath of the government upon them. It would be more than foolish, it would be madness, to attempt resistance to the power of the federal govern- ment. The words of the President are signifi- cant, if they are reported correctly in the Washington despatches published yesterday. “If the people of New Orleans,’’ he remarked, “are not convinced by this time that he is in earnest and resolved to discountenance all farther efforts on the part of the McEuery government to remain in power, whether de facto or de jure, it will not be his fault. The issue having been made, the admin- istration adheres to its original position, and, right or wrong, Kellogg will be protected, if it is necessary to hedge his office with fed- eral bayonets.’’ We all know the firmness of General Grant, and cannot doubt that he will persistently carry out the policy he begun. What, then, would be the use of resistance? We do not think Governor McEnery and the members of his government will attempt to do anything so futile. They made the issue with the federal government, were put down by it, and must now leave the matter to public opinion. If, however, they were earnest in’ their efforts on Wednesday and had any hope of overthrowing the Kellogg usurpers and grasping the power of the State they did not go to work in the right way. Instead of seiz- ing a police station or two and attempting to get hold of a building they might have seized Kellogg and Longstreet and thus paralyzed the usurping government. They made a mistake, and now we fear the mischief done is beyond remedy. The proper course, even still, for the federal government to pursue would be to authorize a new election in Louisiana and give the people a fair opportunity to express their wishes; but we havo little hope of that being allowed. The administration appears to be determined to crush the McEncry government at all hazards and tomaintain that of Kellogg. What a re- flection upon our republican institutions! What a mockery of local self-government! It has been said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; but we fear the people of the United States fail to sce that, and are losing that watchfulness they manifested in the earlier and purer days of the Republic. Such a usurpation of federal power as that in the case of Louisiana would not have been toler- ated in the early period of our country’s history. . Germany Trying to Recuamm Her Crtt- zens.—A despatch from Berlin informs us that | the naturalization treaty between Germany jand the United States will probably be | amended, so as to provide that Germans who have returged from America and remained two years at hofiié shall be considered to have Fenounced their rights as naturalized 1 Ameri- can citizens. . We caution our govérnment against too readily coming to any such agree- ment. Germans who have become American | citizens can, on their return home, easily, if | they so wish, retarn to their former allegiance. Nor is there any good reason known to us why it should be otherwise. For many good reasons, however, German Americans may desire to return to their native land, without having any wish to renounce their American citizenship. If it is the intention of the German government to obtain the right to compel such, after having been two years continuously in their native land, to submit | toall the conditions and responsibilities of | be a triple alliance that might soon endanger | ‘a German citizens, then it is the plain duty of | our government to refuse to enter into any such compact. American citizenship by adop- | tion ought to imply rights ns sacred and | as in olienable as American citizenship by birth, | Tue Crxcrnnati Gazelle thinks the House Crédit Mobilier Committee ‘strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel’’ when it proposed to punish members for dabbling in the stock of | before Congress) and suffered those who had confessedly been concerned in the way of money taking in the Pacific Railroad Com- pany (a. company that had frequently been before Congress) to go comparatively scot-free. But the Forty-second Congress is dead. ‘Let tho dead bury their dead.” that company (a company that had never been | | portions of Europe. Late News from Sir Samuel Baker. Under date of December 1 we have a most interesting letter from Khartoom, the capital of East Soudan and the chief seat of the Cen- tral African slave trade, at the junction of the White and Blue Niles, Our correspondent chronicles the arrival of a flotilla of boats laden with ivory from Gondpkooro and the White Nile region, bringing word that their commander, Abu Saut, had quarrelled with Baker Pacha, whom he had left in armed possession of a trading establishment at Fa- tuka or Fatika, distant twelve days’ march from Gondokooro. Vague and contradictory stories were told by the Africans in the in- terest of the rich ivory trader, Mohammed Akad, the father-in-law of Abu Saut, in which the distinguished English explorer is charged with an endeavor to get the better of the ivory merchants, who also probably deal in slaves when convenient. These stories have evi- dently been prepared to prejudice the mind of the Khedive of Egypt against Baker, and to induce him to withdraw from, him the command under which he has undertaken his hazardous expedition in the joint interests of geographical science and hu- manity. His mission was to fully explore the country bordering on the upper waters of the White Nile and the lakes of Central Africa, and, at the same time, by the Egyptian mili- tary force under his command, to put a stop to that portion of the abominable Central Afri- can slave trade which had its outlets towards Northern Africa. He found it convenient to avail himself of the assistance of the chief ivory merchant of Khartoom in penetrating with his soldiers into the remote portions of Soudan, Itis evident, from our correspond- ent’s letter, that the agent of this trader plotted to entangle the dauntloss Englishman in the quarrels and jealousies of the Nubian chiefs, with the intention to defeat the Egyp- tian troops by a series of petty battles, break down the authority of Baker and force him to abandon his exploration and let alone the in- famous trade in slaves, which each year costs Central Africa hundreds of thousands of lives for the advantage of the Soudan traders and the mercenary usurers who lend them money for the enterprise. , In the trying circumstances to which African treachery entrapped the fearless Pacha we find him, even according to the reports of his enemies, defeating their plans by his own bravery; and, taking advantage of their feuds, he forms an alliance by which he is enabled to seize and hold Fatuka, one of the most im- portant trading posts in the region of Equa- torial Africa, while the defeated plotter Abu Saut descends the Nile with a diminished supply of ivory, and talks of repairing to Cairo to lay before the Khedive a complaint against Sir Samuel Baker. This story affords a hint of the desperate efforts which will be made to prolong the dark trade in humanity which has for centuries preyed upon Africa. Slave hunting will not mildly submit to the fiat of suppression issued against it by civiliza- tion. It has left Baker Pacha far from succor, and now appeals to his royal master to aban- don him. To this appeal it is not all proba- ble the Khedive will listen. He will heartily act with Europe and America for the full cor- rection of this mighty evil. Nor is Sir Samuel Baker a man to be overcome by the wily strategy of a dusky dealer in ivory and slaves. We shall next look for news from the veteran African explorer navigating the Nyan- zasin a steamer and enforcing obedience from all the wild African tribes who inhabit their borders. é Memorable Winters. The Winter now drawing to a close has had few parallels in the later climatic history of this country. Like the Winter of 18J2-13, which broke in so prematurely upon the French campaign in Russia, the present cold season came early in December. The in- tensely low temperatures through which we | have passed may serve to show that these boreal phenomena are not to be altogether confined to colonial or primeval age. We know that in the remote periods of Eu- ropean civilization the climate of the Old World was much colder than it now is. The “Ttalian sky,’’ now the boast for all that is soft and genial, must have worn a forbidding and very different aspect when the classic an- nalists describe the streets of Rome as blocked with ice and snow, the Tiber as solidly frozen over, and when the tender herds were the prey of frost. The fairest valleys of Central Europe, now famous for their verdure and vintage, were in those early periods the abode of the Arctic elk and remdeer; and the streams which drained them, as Gibbon tells us, were annually covered with firm bridges of ice, which the barbarian armies securely crossed. Even in comparatively modern times intense cold has visited large In 1658 the Baltic was clothed with an immense sheet of ice, over which Charles X. marched his entire army from Holstein to Denmark, a distance of fifty miles. There are not wanting several in- stances, extending as far as 1823, when the Tha: furnish a Sate entertainment to large while just after our Western country was set- tled, at the close of the last century, the ice- covered sea around Holland was the theatre of a Winter's campaign. Arago, the distinguished French physicist, attempted to arguo from the collected annals of extreme Winters that the climate of the continents had in the lapse of ages of the world’s physical life undergone no changes. | But in the light of the present century, now nearly three-quarters passed, such a view must be discarded. Whether we accept the ten year cycle of hot and cold years, or whether we adopt the cycle of forty years, indicated by the rigorous Winters of 1709, 1749, 1789, 1830 and 1871-72, including the present, we find great mitigation in the cold. No Winter in the | nineteenth century will compbre in severity with many that can be named in the previous, the medieval and the classic periods, in which latter Ovid mentions the fact that the waves of the Euxine or Black Sea were strongly con- gealed. The colonial records of America give but very meagre accounts of accurate thermometric data, but a few facts show that our climate, cold as this Winter has been, is not as rigorous as when the prosent century opened, Mr, Jefferson states, in his valuablo papers, that in 1780 the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac River, and at Annapolis, where it is more than five miles between the nearest points of land, gs As §p,tbickty goated with ice se) | Soh urs, | Court of Bankruptcy has confirmed their decision, the ice was so firm that loaded carriages went over it. From this and other phenomenal Occurrences the Virginia philosopher inferred that when the country was cleared the extreme cold would be diminished. The old records of American climate,’ such as those of Rush and Volney, indicate Winters of greater severity than now occur. Samuel Williams, of Harvard, the learned author of a series of thermometric observations during the last part of the previous century, computed the change of Winter climate at Boston at ten or twelve degrees from 1630 to 1788. As before intimated, there are no thermometric records sufficiently comprehensive to afford inferen- tial conclusions as to climatic change in the West and the Valley of the Mississippi; but the carly accounts of the first settlers and ex- plorers all go to show extremes of cold greater than are now experienced. The Canadian set- tlers, until after the middle of the last century, found the climate around Quebec too severe for corn to ripen. It is certain that our coldest Winters since 1800 have not attained the low temperatures of the preceding five decades, in one of which, as wo have seen, the Chesapeake Bay was frozen over, The Winter of 1856 was marked by ex- traordinary and extensive refrigeration, hold- ing the rivers from St. Louis to Philadelphia in its icy grip from December to late in March; but this was an exception, and yct can hardly be ranked with the early colonial Winters in point of intensity. ‘The attempt has been made to explain these changes of terrestrial climate by the changes which man has wrought upon the forest-cov- ered face of the Continent and drainage of the ‘ soil, resulting in a diminished rainfall and snowfall. Whether this be theoretically cor- rect or not the facts remain the same; and they furnish additional proof that the aérial shell of the earth is undergoing physical change, as well as the solid crust and the deep sea beds. “Tere 1s A Revorvrion Aneap,” cries the Pittsburg Chronicle, an independent journal. “The knife must be applied promptly and fearlessly,’’ says the Indianapolis Journal (republican) referring to thé necessity of cutting out the ulcers of corruption in the party. Put that and that together. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. George Wilkes is in Italy. General John C. Fremont is at the Clarendon Hotel. Achille di Gas, of Paris, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Major R. V. Vredenburgh, of Tennessee, is at the New York Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staf, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Wells, of Virginia, arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel last night. Ex-Congressman James F, Wilson, of Iowa, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde are re- siding in the royal palace in Milan, Ex-Congressman J. H. Ketcham, of Dover Plains, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. E. Jacobs, United States Consul to Montevideo, Uruguay, is stopping at the Astor House. Captain Mayne Reid (“Onward”) ts spoken of as a@ reform candidate for Parliament ‘in England. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecti- cut, has again turned up at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. The Russian General Karkowski's‘son has been killed in @ duel, The youth was a student at Ghent. Mr. Groesbeck declines to be a candidate as dele- gate to the approaching Constitutional Convention in Ohio. Ex-Governor Saunders, of Nebraska, and Mayor J. H. Millard, of Omaha, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Novossilsky and Engineer Alexandrov- sky, of the Russian army, have returned to the Hotfman House trom Washington. Ex-United States Senator J. B. Henderson, of Missouri, and General P. E. Connor, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Viscount Parker’s English creditors bave decided | to accept £13,000 in payment of his debts, and the | General Philip Sheridan, with General Georte A. | Forsyth and Celonel M, V. Sheridan, of his stan, left the Fifth Avenue Hotel for Chicago yesterday morning. David A. Wells and other American free-traders are to be entertained ata banquet by the Cobden | Club, of London, some time during the Vienna Exhibition. Vice President Wilson has appointed as his pri- vate secretary Samuel Hunt, formerly clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, of which Mr. Wilson was chairman. Assemblyman James M. Oakley, of Jamaica, is at the Fifth Avenne Hotel, having come down from Albany to attend the inquiry into the claim of Coggswell to his seat. * The reception of the Duc d’Aumale as 8 member of the French Academy will take place during the first fortnight in April. His sponsors will be M. Thiers and M. Guizot, . The new King of Sweden is not likely to be formally crowned, a3 the majority of the Swedish Parliament have declared opposition to “the vain and theatrical show.” Western papers publish speeches of their great men, ‘divested of figures,’ as they say, in order, probably, that their readers may know what amount of reliance may be placed upon them. Areport was circulated in Chicago that a lady was running a sewing machine by mule power. On Investigation a local reporter ascertained that the power was that of a person who had been mar- ried to the lady. The following paragraph evinces a complete | knowledge of our colonial history:—Admiral Alden, the Commander-in-Chief of the American Byropeap squadron, 19 the livegl degcondant of fohii Aidew, who was the first to set foot on the Plymouth Rock from the Mayflower.”” i it is rumored in Germany that the young Kingof Bavaria is about to take for better or worse the eldest daughter of the Prince of Anhalt Dessau. It is affirmed that the flangaiues have already taken place in the presence of the whole ducal family. It will be remembered that the marriage ceremonies were ruthlessly postponed between King Lous and the Princess of Bavaria, sister-in-law of the Em- peror of Austria, for some reasons never thor- oughly understoed, The Troy (Kansas) Chtes, in nominating a ticket for the next Presidency, has the humor to say :— “as New York and Missouri seem to have the exclusive right to furnish: Presidential candidates for the democrats and mongrels, it is time to be looking around for the next one. Seymour and Biair failed, as did Greeley and Brown, and the | Blair family is exhausted. How would this do? | For President, William M, Tweed, of New York; | for Vice President, Louis V. Bogy, of Missouri.” | THE HERALD AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. (From the Turf, Field and Farm, March 7.) As an illustration of the vaiue of the HERALD as an advertising medium, we will state that a short advertisement inserted in Wednesday's paper brought no less than 351 responses to tne adver+ user befere twelve o'clock on the same day. If our people fully understood the value of adver- tising in widely circulated papers like the HERALD and Turf, Field and Farm, and availed themselves of the same, they would save themselves @ world of trouble and reap untold advantages. NAVAL INTELLIGENGE, A cable telegram dated at Ville Franche, France, yesterday reports as followa:—The United States steamer Shenandoah has gone to Barcelona. The Congroas ta expegted to axrive here in afew Pourih DETERMINED TO FIGHT. Latest from the Camp in the Lava Beds. THE TROOPS AGAIN ORDERED TO MARCH: Captain Jack Likely to Get Too Much Fight. San FRancrsco, March 6, 1873, John Dolen arrived at Yreka to-night from the front. He reports that Judge Rosborough and E.. Stecle had been to Captain Jack’s camp for. long time, and were unable to make any com- Promise, the Indians being determined to fight. The terms offered by the Commissioners at lasé accounts were that the Modocs should go on Kiam- ath reservation, where they had been before. Rather than do this the Indians had determined to fight. When Dolen left last night orders had been gives for the soldiers to prepare to march to the lava beds, and 300 would start immediately. ‘The com- manding officer is now determined to accept no terms but unconditional surrender. Colonel Sprague, paymaster, started for the front this morning with funds to pay the troops in the fleld, It is believed now that nothing but fighting will satis{y Captain Jack. PIEGAN INDIANS ON THE WAR PATH. SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 1873, Adespatch from Fort Benton, Montana, says & war party of Piegan Indians killed Hiram Cook and Charles Randolph a few days ago, above Eagte Creek, on the Missouri River. The bodies of the murdered men were horribly mutilated. WEATHER REPORT. Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, March 8—1 A, M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has fallen since Thursday night throughout the Gulf and Atlantic States, and is now lowest over the upper Michigan. Brisk southwest winds, cloud and rain prevail over the Ohio valley and lower lakes; westerly winds with cloudy and clearing weather north and weat of Illinois; southerly winds, with cloudy weather, continue on the Gulf coast, and light winds on the South Atlantic coast; south and west winds, with clear weather, prevail on the Middle and East At- lantic coasts. . Probabitiiies. For Saturday the area of lowest pressure will continue moving eastward into Upper Canada, preceded by brisk southwest winds, clouds and rain over the Lower Lakes and’ Middlo and Eastern States; southwest winds and cloudy weather in the South Atlantic States; westerly winds, cloudy ana clearing weather in the Gulf States; cold northwest winds, partly cloudy and clear weather from the Onio ‘alley to the Northwest. Cautionary signals are ordered at Portland, Me. ; Boston, Woodshole, New London, New Haven, New York and Cape May. fs 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 year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnat’s- Pharmacy, Henry Building :— 3 A. M, $72. 1873. 1872, 1873. 43 + 82% Average temperature for corresponding date last year... i NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. The Granite State Preparing for the Elcctions—Straw and Weston the Ope posing Candidates for the Governor- ship—Speculations Upon the Result, Concorp, March 7, 1873. The present political campaign, although it in. volves the election of three members of Congress, is one of the most quiet ever known in the State. The apparent indifference of the people as to the result is, perhaps, natural, as the election occurs 80 soon after two exciting political contests, There Sie corre this a @ good deal of effective work being done, and it is impossible te igen the result with any degree of certainty. he present indicatiens are that a good vote will be polled by both parties. The republicans claim to have made a thorough canvass of the State, which has not yet been received in full at the head- quarters, but as far as returned ft shows a decided | gain for them over the vote of last Spring. They also claim that they will re-elect Governor Straw by 2,500 majority, and the Senate will stand about as usual. ‘They express coniidence that they wilk elect Congressmen in the three districts. On the other hand, the democrats claim that if a fall party vote is polled, as they think there will be, they will elect Governor Weston. They claim the Congressmen in the First and Third districts, and say the result in the Second district depends: upon the amount of money used therein by the op- josing candidate. They say that the Crédit Mo- Bhier matter and the Increase of Salaries bill have a disheartening effect upon the republican party, and that they will carry six Senatorial districts and jeave no choice in another. The other ticket in the field will influence the result very little probably. Republicans Cauncusing in Manchester for Members of the Legislature. MANCHESTER, N. H., March 7, 1873. Several republican ward caucuses were held this evening to nominate candidates for the Legislature, and in some instances there were sharp contests tosecure the nominations. The denocrats wilk hold their caucuses Saturday and Monda; evening. There is @ disposition to nomi- nate the best men. There is very little political excitement, though Crédit Mobilier frauds and the Congressional increase of salaries consti- tute the leading topics of conversation on the streets, The two leading candidates for Governor, Hon. E. A. Straw and Hon. James A. Weston, are residents of Manchester; also Samuel N. Bell, the democratic candidate for Congress. * en iaaare Fiat fy WittAMsBunG, Destruction of a Store and Dwelling by the Explosion of a Kerosene Lamp— Narrow Escape of Two Girls, At half-past ten o'clock last night @ kerosene lamp exploded in the paper and candy store of Mra. Perry, No. 233 Fifth street, Williamsburg. The flames seon spread throughout the entire building, and two young girls, the daughters of a widow named Perry, who was absent in New York at the tume, narrowly escaped suiocation by heroically forcing their way through the smoke and flame to the street. The girls’ clothing was badly burned, but they fortunately escaped any serious injuries themselves, The family of William Jenni who occupied the second floor, were absent at a sur- prise party at the time, and were very much sur- prised when they returned to their home. butiding was completely gutted. The loss involved in building, stock and furniture is estimated at 1,200, FIRE IN DUANE STREET. Shortly after six o'clock last evening fire was discovered on the third Moor of 107 Duane street. The first door was occupied by Weeks & Co, manufacturers of paper hangings and window shades, whose stock was damaged to the extent of $1,000 by water. The floer on which the fre bad hated, together with the fourth, was occupied by Augustus Siller, manufacturer of hoop skirts, His stock was damaged $600, which amount is cevered by insurance. MORE THIEVES IN JERSEY, Yesterday afternoon Officer Hantahan, of the Hoboken police force, arrested two boys at the ferry, who were in charge of a horse and wagon Rue tney had stolen. ‘The thieves wore brought to the jice station, Where they are heid for examination. A stalwart negro was canght by the same officer with a large carpet, for the possession of which he could not account. The sooty knave was lodged in a ceil to await trial. THE LIBERIAN MINISTER. Boston, Mags., March 7, 1873. J. Milton Tarner, United States Minister to Libee Tia, sailed yesterday from Boston iv the bark Baily Allon for Iya boas - tO neem