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SPAIN. First Scenes in the Life of the New Republic. A CROWN RESIGNED. Last Message of Amadeus to the National Assembly. REPLY OF THE CORTES. Republican Farewell Courtesies to a Chivalrous Prince. ELOQUENT UTTERANCES FROM CASTELAR, He Sings the Epic of Spanish Independence. COLUMBIA GREETING CASTILE. Impressive Ceremonies Attending Gen- eral Sickles’ Recognition of the New Government. Maprip, Feb. 17, 1873. The Oficial Gazette publishes the following as the text of the letter of the King abdicating and of the Cortes accepting the act, a translation of which 1 send to the HERALD:— ‘The Chamber of Deputies and the Semate of the Spanish nation legitimately constituted as a sov- reign assembly, received the following communi- cation and message from His Majesty the King Don Amadeo I. of Savoy :— PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS:— Most EXCELLENT StR—At half-past one o'clock to-day, in company with the Minister of State, I re- paired to the royal apartments at the invitation of His Majesty—whom may God guard!—who handed to me the accompanying document, which I have the honor to transmit to Your Excellency in order that you may communicate it to the Chamber of Deputies. May God guard Your Excellency many years! MANUEL RUIZ ZORRILLA. Mapnip, Feb. 11, 1873. THE LETTER OF THE KING TO THE CHAMBER. Gis EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CHAMBER or Derutizs. Great was the honor bestowed upon me by the Spanish nation when it elected me to occupy a throne; an honor all the more appreciated by me since it was offered to me envirened by the dificul- ties and dangers which accompany the task of governing a country so deeply agitated. Animated, however, by the firmness of purpose fatural to my race—which seeks rather than shuns dangers—fully determined to seek my whole inspi- ration in the good of the country and to raise my- self above all party level; resolved to fulfil reli- fiously the oath I took before the Constituent Cortes, and ready to make all manner of sacrifices in order to give to this heroic nation the peace it needs, the freedom it deserves and the greatness to which its glorious history and the uprightness and constancy of its sons entitle it, I thought that the limited experience of my life in the art of gov- erning would be compensated by the loyalty of my ature, and that I should find powerful aid in warding off the dangers and conquering the 4im- culties, that were not hidden from my view, in the Sympathy of all those Spaniards who, loving their native Jand, were desirous of putting an end to the bloody and barren struggles which for so many years have been gnawing at its vitals, T realize that my good intentions have been in vain. For two long years have I worn the crown ofSpain. Spain still lives in continual strife, de- parting day by day more widely from that era of peace and prosperity for which I have so ardently yearned, Had the enemies to her happiness been foreigners, then, at the head of our valiant and en- daring soldiers, I would have been the first to give them battle; but all those who with sword and pen na speech aggravate and perpetuate the trouble of the nation are Spaniards; they all unite the kal- lowed name of fatherland; they all strive and labor for its well-being; and amid the din of combat— amid the confused, appalling and contradictory clamor of the contestants—amid so many and 80 widely opposed manifestations of public opinion, it Js impossible to choosé the right, and still more im- possible to find a remedy for s"ch gigantto {lid. ~ T have earnestly sought it within the bounds of law. Beyond this limit he who is pledged to obey the law has no right to go, None will attribute my determination to weak- ess of spirits. No danger could move me to remove the crown from my brow if! believed that T wore it for my country’s good. Neither have I been influenced by the peril that threatened the life of my august wife, who, in this solemn moment, joins me in the earnest hope that in good time free pardon may be given to the authors of that attempt, Nevertheless fam to-day Armiy coivinced of the yreaness of my efforts and the impossibility of realizing my aims. These, my Lords Deputies, are the reasons that move me to give back ta the nation—and in its name to you—the crown offered to me by the national suffrage—removing it for myself, my children and my successors. Be assured that in relinquishing the crown I do not give up my love for this noble and unhappy Spain, and that I bear away with me from hence no other sorrow than regret that it has not been possible for me to accomplish for her all the good any loyal heart so earnestly desired. AMADEO. PALACE OF MapRID, Feb. 11, 1873, THE REPLY OF THE CORTES. This letter is known to be from the pen of Cas- telar:— THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO HIS MAJESTY DON AMADEO I:— Stre—The Sovereign Cortes of the Spanish na- tion have heard, with solemn respect, the eloquent message of Your Majesty, in whose chivalrous ‘words of uprightness, of honor and of loyaity they have seen fresh witness borne of the high endow- ‘ments of intelligence and character that distin- guish Your Majesty and of the exalted love you bear to this your second country, which, generous and brave, cherishiag its dignity even to supersti- tion and its independence even to heroism, can never forget that Your Majesty has been the head of the State, the personification of its sovereignty and the chief authority within the sphere of its Jaws, nor can it fail to discern that in paying honor and praise to Your Majesty it honors and ennobies itself, Sire, the Cortes have been faithfnl to the com- mands of their constituents and guardians of the iustitations they found already established by the Will of the nation in the Constituent Assembly. In ail their acts and decisions the Cortes have re- etrained themselves within the bounds of their pre- rogatives, and have respected the will of Your Ma- featy and the rights belonging to Your Majesty under our constitution, While proclaiming this loudly and clearly, in order that upon them may ever fall the responsibility of this tasue, which we accept with regret, but which we shall meet with energy, the Cortes ananimously deciare that Your Majesty has been @ faithful, a most faithful observer of the respect due to these Chambers, and has faithfully, most faith- fully, Kept the oath made when Your Majesty ac- ceptea from the hauds of the people the crown of Spain, a glorious, most glorious, record in this age of ambition and of dictatorial sway, when the more bumble are copstraiped from yigiding to their NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, temptations by coups @état and the prerogatives of absolute authority wielded from the ingccessible heights of a throne only attained by a few privi- leged ones upon earth. Your Majesty may justly say, in the privacy of your retirement, in the bosom of your lovely native land and by the fireside o/ your family, that if any human being had hed power to stay the irresisti- ble course of events, Your Majesty, with your con- stitutional education and your respect for estab- lished law, would have done so, absolutely and compietely. Convinced of the truth of this, the Cortes, had it been in their power, would have made the greatest sacrifices to induce Your Majesty to desist from your purpose and to recall your re- nunciation, But, knowing as they do, the unswerving charac- ter of Your Majesty, justice to the maturity of your ideas and the firmneas of your purposes pre- vents the Cortes from praying Your Majesty to re- consider your determination, and decides them to announce that they have assumed the supreme power and sovereignty of the nation, in order that under such critical circumstances and with the rapidity demanded by the gravity of the peril and the transcendency of the situation, they may min- ister to the salvation of democracy, the base of our political structure of liberty, the soul of all our rights and of the country, an immortal and joving mother, for whom we are all resolved to sacrifice freely not only our individual ideas, but also our name and our very existence. Our fathers battled with even more adverse cir- cumstances at the beginning of this century, and, inspired by these ideas and these sentiments, it was given them tocenquer, Abandoned by their King, their native soil overrun by foreign hosts, and menaced by that giant mind that seemed to Possess the talisman of destruction and of war, the Cortes, driven to an istand seemingly at the fur- thermost bounds of the country, not only saved their fatherland and wrote the glorious epic of its independence, but upon the widespread ruins of the old social structure they laid the foundations of the new. The Cortes feel that the Spanish nation has net degenerated, and they trust that they themselves will still less degenerate from the austere and Patriotic virtues that distinguished the founders of liberty in Spain. Whem all dangers shall have been warded off and all obstacles overcome, when we shall have emerged ffom the difficulties that attend every epoch of transition and of crisis, the Spanish people, which, while your Majesty remains upon our noble soil will offer you every mark of respect, of loyalty and of deference—because it is due alike to your Majesty, to your virtuous and noble consort, and to your innocent children—the Spanish people cannot offer you a crown in the fature, but they will, then, offer you another dignity—the dignity of a citizen in the midst of a free and independent people. NICOLAO MARIA RIVERO, President. FEDERICO BALART, PEDRO MORENO RODRIGUES, Epvarpo Benor, Secretaries, Cayo Lopez, PALACs OF THE Corres, Feb. 11, 1873. Spain Recognized by the United States. Maprip, Feb. 18, 1873, Much excitement was occasioned here by the ceremonies attending the recognition of the new Republic by the American Minister. During the crisis despatches were sent hourly to the Washing- ton government, and a prompt response was sent by Mr. Fish to General Si¢kles directing him to recognize the new government in the name of General Grant and the American people, The hour fixed for the presentation of our Minis- ter had not arrived when the Alcala, the principal street of Madrid, on which the palace of the Prest- dent stands, was crowded with a vast multitude of people. Two regiments were drawn upon either side of the street. Two official chariots were driven to the American Legation, in one of which was the Count del Seno, the oMcer charged to in- troduce ambassadors. The Minister wore his unt- form as Major General of the American Army, and was accompanied by A. A. Adee, the Secretary of Legation. Upon passing down the Alcala there were loud shouts of “Viva” and cheers for General Grant, the Minister, the Republic of Spain and the United States. The troops presented arms as the General and Secretary entered the palace. The whole Cabinet was present, and as our Minister was formally presented by Count del Seno he stepped forward and said :— SPEECH OF GENERAL SICKLES. SENOR PRESIDENTE—In obedience to the command of my government I come to salute in your person the Republic of Spain, If permitted to forecast something of the future, I would say that the tranquility and dignity which have accompanied the recent transition and the wisdom whicn has confided to your Excellency the executive power are good omens of the happy des- tiny of the new Commonwealth. The United States of America, occupying a con- siderable part of the continent consecrated to civ- ilization by the valor and the faith of Spain, cannot witness without emotion and sympathy the estab- lishment of a republic in the Empire of Ferdinand and Isabella, Taught by the uninterrupted practice of free in- stitutions during the past century their inestimable value in promoting the welfare of a nation, it is a | source Of profound satisfaction to the American people that Spain finds in our example the means by which her prosperity and power may rest on sure foundations. Conveying to your Excellency the fervent wishes of the Presidegt vf phe United States for the success of your administrator, 1 Perform the most agree- able duty of my mission If Fecognizing the au- thority placed in your hands by yous Sovereign Assembly. SPEECA OF PRESIDENT FIGUERAS. Sefior Figueras, the President of the Republic, then said: | Mr, Minister—A grave responsibility Accom. panies the trust confided to me by the sovereignty ot the Assembly, and which has been recognized by the adhesion of the nation, a responsibility suf- ficient of itself to overwhelm me if there were not moments of consolation and support like these when your most eloquent words bear to my ears the mighty voice of the American people hailing with their benediction the advent of the Republic in our own Spain, attained by her moderation and energy, and which she will preserve and maintain by consummate prudence. As the faithful and sensitive interpreter of the sentiments that ani- mate your race you have reminded us of the grati- tude your people feel tewards our people, because the daring of our explorers discovered, the valor of our heroes conquered and the faith of our mis- sionaries evangelized a great portion of the vast domain lit by the shining stars of your glorious Commonweaith. But even had the memory of those deeds not recurred to you and to us who are of the stock that achieved those conquests, and even did they not possess such a glorious character, they would acquire it to-day becanse they forma bond of union between Spain which carried to your shores the gentus of civilization, and America which now gives us by her example the fruits of liberty and democracy. You are grateiul to our people for these immortal and historic deeds, but how much more gratitude do we not owe—we, whose lives have been devoted to the hard problem of uniting democracy and lib- erty—to the noble Pilgrims, the founders of your institutions, who, inspired by their own serene be. lief, sought beyond the seas a temple for their un- | lettered consciences, and founded in the new world @ new order of society, which, organized and per: fected by the republican spirit of the eighteentn century, has united in perfect equilibrium the au- thority of society with the inherent rights of man, the restless vigor of demecracy with the firm sta | bility of power, the free outgrowth of all the aspi- H rations of the human soui with respect jor the in- | terests of others and for the laws—a worthy ex- ample not to be forgotten in the new era of our own country. Mr. Minister, the Spanish Republic will ever count among its greatest privileges the opportuni- ties given to it by its character and origin to strengthen the ties of triendship between Spain and the United States, We possess in the New Worid a considerable and integral part of our na- tional territory, which must ever serve, under the shadow of the Spanish flag, as a bond of relationship between the two conti- nents, In order that our islands may fw) this high mission, and that they may be preserved for this civilizing purpose, under our own nation- ality, we count upon the euergy of all Spaniards, upon the virtue of our new institutions, upon the fruition yet to spring from the abandonment of the errors of the past, and upon pubiic opinion in the United States, whose influence throughout the American Continent is 80 great and so justly mer- ited. ‘These hopes are strengthened by the illustrious name won by the President of the United States and by the credit and sympathy, possessed among us by his representative in Madrid. If the most pleasing of all your duties has been the recognition of my authority, my most pleasing task will be to aid you i all the means by which you may con- tribute to promote the fraternal policy that should exist between the Republic of the United Statss and the Republic of Spain. HB UPPICIAL CALL UPON CASTELAR, ~ At the close of this speech General Sickles ad- vanced and shook hands with the President of the Republic. -and with each member of the Cabinet, He then, at the request of the President, accompa- nied him to his private office and remained with him for.some time in private conference. Return- ing to the carriage, he drove of in the same order, and amid renewed cheers to the Foreign Office, which is in the King’s palace. Here he patd-an oMieial visit to Sefior Castelar, the Spanish Foreign Secretary, with whom the compliments of the occasion were exchanged. OFFICIAL CALL UPON THE PRESIDENT OF THE AS- SEMBLY—ROYAL HONORS TO AN AMERICAN MIN- ISTER, The Minister was then conducted to the Palace of the Cortes, where it was in session. Upon ar- riving his carrisge was driven to the main en- trance—an entrance which hag never been opened but for the King and Queen. Here he was met by two mace-bearers, the secretaries of the Cortes and a deputation, whe conducted him to the chamber .of the’ President, M. Martes. M. Castelar formally presented General Sickles, who said he came by command of the President and as the representative of the American people to | salute the sovereignty of Spain, as represented in the person of the President of the sovereign As- sembly, ‘and to say that President Grant was Pleased to see the creation of a republic, a duly constituted body, which had been established with the of all the great. powers of the State, and which represented the people; a govern- ment lawful in origin, and he was sure permanent in its existence, On behalt of the President he wished hearty and continued progperity to the Spanish people. To this address M. Martes made a brief and felicitous response. ‘The next day the Spanish officials all came to the Legation and returned’ the call. The event was deemed so important that announcement thereof was made in the Cortes, I translate and send you the oficial record of the debate :— CASTBLAR INVOKES THE GOD OF WASHINGTON AND COLUMBUS. M. CasTeLaR—I have rarely experienced more satisfaction In my life than in having to announce to this sovereign body the recognition of the Spanish Republic by that of the United States. As we find ourselves in 8 most unusual situation, being simply and purely the delegates of the will and purposes of this sovereign Assembly, it seems to me that the most rudimentary courtesy and the simplest respect demand that I should give ac- counts thereto of this most important event and of the addresses spoken by the Minister of the United States, General Sickles, in Madrid, and by the President of the executive power in reply; and if the President of the Chamber will give me leave I shall read these documents from the throne. The PRESIDENT—The Minister of State may oc- cupy the throne, ‘M. CasTELaR then read the speeches as pab- Ushed above, and said :—Gentlemen, after uttering these words the Minister of the United States re- peated to us the assurance of the complete adhe- Sion of the government of the United States and of the enthusiasm shown by that great people for our advance in greatness and tor the boundless horizons that open to our hopes. This act isin truth 8 religious act, and we shall lilt up our souls and our hearts to heaven and beseech the God of Columbus and the God of Washington to bless our work. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE RECOGNITION, The PRESIDENT—Alter this important ceremony the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America paid an official visit to this sovereign Assembly in the person of its President, and I had the satisfaction to hear from his lips an address, in which he confirmed anew the sentiments of the friendship ot the American Republic tewards the Spanish Republic, and although I may not here repeat ali that Ihad the satisfaction of hearing frem the lips of the Minister in the private conver- sation that usually follows these ceremonies, the Assembly may divine it from the pleasure I now feel, and without any indiscretion I may say that to-day, more than ever before, we may consider as dissipated those shadows and fears which patriot- ism may have harbored with respect to the integ- rity of our territory, which, if it has been assured in the past by the valor and resolution of Span- iards, is now the more assured by the love and the decision of a people among whom there might otherwise possibly have arisen an opinion unfa- vorable for Spain. Iam certain of being a faithful interpreter of the feeling of this sovereign Assem- bly in declaring that it has heard with the greatest satisfaction the narrative of the ceremony of which the Minister of State has given an account, and also of that which I have just reported to the Assembly, The incidegt then terminated with loud cheers from all the benches in the Cortes, UNITED STATES MARSHALS SALE. eee The Steamships Morro Castle and Colam« bia Put to the Hammer, To judge irom the sparse attendance of builders present on pier No. 4 at yesterday's sale of the steamships Morro Castie and Columbia, of the Havana Mail Steamship Company, advertised for weeks past in the newspapers to come off on Tucs- day, March 11, for the benefit of libeliants against the company, the proceedings were not rife with any material importance to the shipping commu- nity. Whether itis that an investment in foating property has ceased to be remunerative or that the ponring rain of the forenoon dampened the ardor of speculators, the attendance was not large, At twelve o'clock noon, the hour announced for the sale, the uuctioneers, A.J, Bleecker & Son, offered the steamship Columbia for sale. ‘The first bid given was $10,000, and at $21,500 the gavel fell, and Messrs. W. H. Starbrick & F. C. Schmidt, steam- ship brokers, No. 1 South William street, were de- clared the purchasers, The steamship Morro Castle was next offered for sale, the first bid being $16,000, Until it reached $35,000 the cempetition threatened to be pretty brisk, but upon reaching that figure it began to lag, When at $41,000 the auctioneer closed his book, declaring the same gentlemen as in sale No. 1 the purenase''s, A HERALD reporter called on Messrs. Starbrick & Schmidt after the sale and asked of them in what trade they intended to run the boats. They answered him that they had not as yet decided. It having been rumored around the sale that Messrs. Starbrick & Schmidt were tne agents of a@ Mr. Butterfield, a quondam director of the Atlau- tc Mail Steamship Company, and that they bad made the purchase for him, the reporter, tobe sure of the subject, asked of Mr. Starbrick if such were the case, to which he answered negatively. ile also told the reporter that he had made the purchase oe! on his own and * ahi i) ac: count and on their own responsibility. Such lack of competition at so tmportant a sale Mr. Starbrick declared never to have witnessed, the result of which was, as he asserted, that he had obtained the steamers at’one-sixth of their in- trinsic value, A description of these boats has been given in a previous edition of the HERALD; but, as it may not be malapropos at the present, it is again sab- joined :—Morro Castlo—Brig-rigged; deck saloon; Meusurement, 1,680 tons; draught, 16 feet; material, oak, and iron strappings ; iene h, 260 feet; breudth, 41 leet; depth, 23 feet; metailed in 1872; cylim 71.12; boilers nearly new. Columbia—Brig-rigged ; deck saloon; measurement, 1,271 tons; draught, 18 feet; material, oak and chestnut, and iron strap- pings; metalled in 1872; length, 280 feet; breadth, 36 feet; depth, 23 feet; cylinder, 85.11; boilers nearly new. BOARD OF APPORTIONMENT, At a meeting of tne old Board of Apportionment, held yesterday, at the Comptroller's office, bonds for the Broadway improvement widening were issued as follows:—Temporary bonds, $2,000,000: Dermanent bonds, $1,800,000 TOM SCOTT’S TRUCE. He Will Not Oppose a General Railroad Bill. The Rights of Existing Corporations Must Be Re- spected—A Long Sermon of the Committec— The Now Brunswick and Elisabeth Rail- road Bill Passed in Both Houses— Triumph of Monopoly No. 2—Ho- boken Tramplod Down—Can- field wit tne Monopolists, There was great anxiety in every quarter of Trenton yesterday as to the disposition of the Genera} Railroad bill, now in the hands of a speciai committee of the Senate. A report was looked for during the day, but the committee did not meet tll three o'clock im the afternoon. J. Daggett Hunt and other speakers desired to offer argu- ments on the bill, but the committee refused to hear any person on either side. They are willing, however, to receive written com- munications. The cemmittee proceeded rapidly with the consideration of the act, and they will conclude their labors to-day. No amendment of any importance was inserted. Senator Stone says the committee are working harmoniously, and there is @ prospect that a good bill will be reported. They are especially anxious to avoid delay, as the session of the Legislature will not extend beyond three weeks more. The House passed @ resolu- tion to adjourn sine die on the 28th inst. The HERALD representative obtained some infor- mation of the highest importance in relation to the General Railroad Bill yesterday from the adherents of Tom Scott in the Senate. So far from opposing ‘the bill, they are heartily in favor of a general rail- Toad law, with the reservation that vested rights must be respected, One Senator, who desired that his name should not be published, but who spoke sem{-officially, sai@:—“This ia not anew position we take, a8 you suppose. We have been all along m favor of a general railroad law. When you ask why we opposed No. 3,1 answer that it was a fraud originating with a clique from whom the Pennsylvania Raliroad Oompany would have tobuy the charter within six morths, The same parties had @ charter before, and they sold it to the Pennsylvania Company for $50,000, Had No. 3 bill passed there was nothing to prevent them taking possession of the ferries of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Jersey City or from entering the Harsimus Cove property. Now, before we agree to a general rail- rr bill it must be so guarded that the rights of exiating corporations be respected. Such a bill will be quite acceptable, and under it any company or companies may build a doen railroads and enter into free and unrestricted competition with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In order to test the sincerity of the gentleman the reporter asked why Senator McPherson introduced a general ratl- road bill in the Senate instead of accepting that nding in the House, The reply was that Mr. lcPherson introduced that bill solely on his own responsibility. From this outspoken declaration it is pretty certain that the end of the railroad war that both parties is nigh at hand and to this exciting and fierce conflict will clasp hands, not across the bioody chasm, but across the Delaware in friendly rivalry. There will be some ree in procuring the passage in the Senate of the bil een ee property. When it came up yesterday McPherson showed by his advocacy efit that he is again wheeling into line im the ranks ofthe people. Stone moved that it be referred to the Judiciary Committee, on the ground that there were some important questions of law and the motion was adopted b; He sii It would appear, after all, that the bill validating Jease of the United Raiiroad Companies of New reey to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is in . pan it i® rumored that Tom Scott indiferent whether tne lease be _ legal- ized oor the old Camden exceedingly anxious to bind bim in the matter so that they may re- celve their ten per cent dividends. In his support Of the Genera! Railroad law Scott has evidently in his eye @ road to be built by himself under that act, and this once peompha) d, he will treat the united companies in the fashion of Rip Van Win- kle—give them a cold potato and let them go. his, howe mere conjecture, though the sleep 1 43 enjoying ta the House looks very suspicious. There was another outburst of jubilation yester day in the House over the passage of the Elizabeth and New Brunswick Railroad bill—anotter feather ulled out of Tom Scott’s cap. This is Jarrard’s bill, and it is most remarkable that it passed the House and the Senate on the same day. The Speaker said the tidings would gladden the mearts of six- teen thousand persons in New Brunswick, when Worthington, who is studying Joe Miller, jumped up gnd asked if it would make Tom Scett’s heart gla Lee, of Hoboken, made a gallant fight in the House on the bill to annex the township of Weehawken to Hoboken, He was opposed by Ryder and Schultz and warmly sup ported by Gaede. The latter said the township was really the aera of a huge monopoly that once boasted tt owned the Legislature ot New Jer- sey, and it retained that position till the Pennayl- vania company stepped into its shoes. Lee spoke four times by unanimous consent, and pointed out that the bill was @ matter of simple justice, and the Legislature was bound to restore to Hoboken that valuable portion of its terri- tory which had been wrested from it by usurpation and fraud. The bill was defeated by the following vote :—Yeas—Armstrong, Barnes, oer bell, Cavileer, Cox, Gaede, Gifford, Hopper, Howell, Leaning, Lee, Letson, Luiberry, Macknet, Morrow, | Reardon, Smailey, A. J. Smith, Wilde, Willets—20, Nays—Baldwin, Barton, Budd, Canfield, Carpenter, Cole, Cooley, Doremus, Dorrell, Eldridge, ‘arrier, Foreman, Hemmin ‘way, Iszard, Lindsay, Mar- ter, McKinley, utchier, Plympton, moat Schenck, Schultz, A. W. Smith, Wandle, Ward, Washburn—26, Cole changed his vote to the negative for the purpose of moving a reconsidera- tion. Canfield’s vote surprised everybody, as his record hitherto has been one of opposition to ail monopolies, and the monopoly that hoids Weehaw- ken in its fren, is second only to the Pennsylvania Central, e does not give up the ship yet. He deserved success, if he did not achieve it. CONFLAGRATION IN WILLIAMSBURG. a Destruction of Illig’s Lager Beer Brew- ery—Losses Estimated at $100,000—List of Insurances—T'wo Persons Injured— Narrow Escape of a Third. At ten minutes to twelve o’clock yesterday Iliig’s extensive lager beer brewery, situated at the corner of Leonard and Scholes streets, Wil- liamsburg, took fire and was entirely destroyed, involving losses estimated at $100,000, ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. A workman, named William E. Jenkins, wag employed in finishing @ patent rabber flooring in the icehouse, and it seems that the lamp he was using in his operations was accidentally over- turned and produced a fame that communicated to some inflammable material that he was using, and soon the fire spread to the wood work of the icehonse and thence to the main building, raging 80 furtously that by the time the fire engines arrived the interior of the building was burning in ali parta, The situation was so bad at this time that Chief Engineer Smith found it necessary to strike a second fire alarm, THE FIREMEN AT WORK. When the flremen got fairly at work the fames were bursting from ail the windows of the four stories, and for several hours the dense volumes ef water poured into the building seemed to have but very luttle effect; but late in the aiternoon there was a visible decrease in the fiery element, and soon water became triumphant over fire—at least the flames were confined to the brewery, and adjacent property owners were reiieved of their terrors, THE STOCK IN THE BREWERY was quite heavy, consisting of 3,000 bushels of | malt, 4,000 barrels of beer in rermentation and @ Jarge quantity of beer in the cellar, THE INSURANCES on buildings and stock amount to $86,500, distrib- uted among seventeen companies, as follows :— Buildings. ” Citizens’... Bi Germania 4,000 Phenix 4000 Lenox 2.0 National 2.0 Empire City 2.009 stitn i 200 rewers ai Standard 000 Guardian, Adnatic... ta 328 spopeBs pene were, 2eee2 SUALTIES. While the fames were leaping from the windows a@ workman, naj Josep! ~ was noticed hanging on to the outer sill of a third story win- dow, crying lustily for help. He was rescued from his perilous position by a hook and ladder company. A young man, named Iyury Lankenan, tweuty- eight years of age, volunteered his services to the | firemen to carry @ hose pipe from the roof of an ad- aning stabie to a fourth story windew of the burn- ing building. In returning he missed his footing on the ladder ana ‘ell to the roof of the stable, sus- taining terrible injuries. He was conveyed to the si reet station house and received surgical ane nce. It was found that his legs were trac- tured and his skull shockingly contused. He was sent to his residence, No. 2 Harrison avenue. Thomas McCaffrey, veteran fireman, was knocked down by @ falling slate, but was not seri- ously injured, THIS BREWERY was burned about five months ago, the loss amount- ing to $75,000, and its proprietor, Mr. Casper lilig, is entirely unmanned by his continued misfortunes, He says that the building destroyed yesterday was ag Beary fireproof as a building could be con- structed, Wilham BE. Jenkins, the workman who was the innocent cause of the conflagration, was severely burned in the face and hands, He was sent to bis residence, No, 134 Ainltie street, THE UPTOWN OUTRAGE. What the Police Did and Have Not Done— Some Facts To Be Explained—Mrs. -Gardiner’s Statement of Her Talk with Her Captor. Some further very peculiar and interesting de- velopments have come to light in reference to the outrage committed one week ago to-night in the residence of Mr. Gardiner, No, 224 West Fiftieth street, when three ruMfans entered his bedroom, and while two of them held Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner in bed the third ransacked the house and appro- priated all the available money and valuables to the total value of $600. The main particulars were given in yesterday's HERALD. It now appears that if, as Captain Killalea asserts, his patrolman was on the corner of Eighth avenue and pursued the runaway burglars after Mr. Gar- diner had given the alarm, the patrolman must have been as invisible as @ theatrical harlequin, for neither Mr. Gardiner, who was in the street, nor a workman, who sleeps in a shop opposite, saw the pursuer, though they saw the flying crim- inals, In the next place Captain Killaiea asserts that he ‘reported the case next day to Police Headquarters, On Monday Mr, Gardiner, accompanied by his maid serv- ant, went to Headquarters to examine the portraits in the Rogues’ Gallery to see if they recognized among them the features of any of the robbers. Mr. Moore, clerk in the detective oflice, Was first met, and by inquiry derived from Mr. Gardiner all the details of the robbery, and ex- Pressed some surprise that he had not heard ot so extraordinary a case. He then left the apartment to ascertain whether there had been any report made of the case, and upon his return stated to Mr. Gardiner that he could find no entry or report of any such affatr. Avery singular circumstance, however, is the following :—An hour aiter the robbery Captain Killa- lea was in the house and saw the scene of the crime. Within an hour afterwards he brought three pris- oners up te be identified by Mr. or Mrs. Gardiner, Mr. Gardiner had described the rovbers as men, one of them quite heavily built and all full formed and mature. The three “critters”? who were over- hauled by the police were mere striplings, who had been found by the Vidocq of the Twenty-second in an eating house near the Seventh Avenue Kailroad stables, and to crown the matter one of them was 8 confirmed cripple, who is obliged to use a@ crutch to hobble about on—a Ukely man for @ burglar and desperado! Again, it was very likely that three thieves, who knew that an alarm had been given, would stop to eat 80 close to the scene of their exploit! Mr. Gardiner also states, that the money, $150, which was taken, was in denominations of $20, $10 and $6, and not in $6 bills, as the money found on one of the arrested parties was said to be. ain, Mr. Gardiner’s cries for assistance were heard by reons in the residences of Messrs, Wells and ellington, in Fifty-first street, iu Mr, Schermer- horn’s family, in Fittieth street, near Broadway, and by @ clerk in the Kighth Avenue Railroad office, but not by any of the police, and no police- man pursued the thieves as has been claimed. Captain Killalea requested Mr. Gardiner to say nothing about the case when it was first reported te him, and he would work it up, but instead of being worked up it was in @ fair way (and is now, indeed) of being a MOREOT ARG EAE ‘The captain excuses himself by saying that the present ferce, sixty-four men ail told, is too small to properly patro: the precinct. The following is Mrs. Gardiner’s statement of some singular recollections she has of the affair:— While I was held down py the man whe was on top of me he attempted to take my rings trom my finger. I said to him, ‘Oh, don’t take that ring; it is a keepsake from my dead auntie,’’ and the man who held Mr. Gardiner said, “Don’t touch that ring.” 1 told him he might bave the pearl ring, and I took it irom my finger and gave it to him, He said, “We want money.” I said, ‘Well, we don’t keep much money in the house, but you can have all there ig.” I told them where to get it and they gotit; but I afterwards remembered that there was a little more money in a portmonnaie in my cket, which | am sorry they didn't get, as I had ‘old them they should have all the money there was. I said to the man while he was holding me and threatening me with the knife, My friend, you cannot make me afraid, but you should think of what you are doing. You know me. I have done you rhe wrong; but, remember, we shall some day mee AT THR JUDGMENT SEAT of God, and if you kill me you will have to answer for it. We may never meet onearth again, but we shall meet hereaiter.” I said, “If you want money I will leave a check for you in tue vestibule in the morning, and there shall be no questions asked about it, but we have no more in the house now.” While they were in the house and as they were speaking to each otuer they never used any names, and they used no bad language whatever, and by the way they spoke and by their tone ana mode of speech I do net think they belong tu any of the ignorant classes. Their clothing, too, so far as 1 felt it, did not seem to be of a coarse or badly worn description. I think they all wore felt hais, but the one who held me had a@ hat of a higher pattern than the common slouch hat, The portemonnate which they took was an old-fashioned silver framed one, and was inscribed outside with the letters ‘Ss. H. to P, M. G.” The man kept on asking me to make my husband STOP HIS CRIES, but I told them I could not, as he had gone crazy, I believed, and the man who held me suggested that they should gag him; but one of them opposed it. They aiso searched @ little desk at the other end of the bedroom. When the man put his knife to my neck and asked me if felt it I did actually feel it; but I don’t think he meant to cut me as he did, When I opened my eyes I saw the three of them, aod at that in- stant one of them put his left hand on the foot of the bed and sprung on to me and held me fast. I think they must have watched the house and known that Mr. Daniels was away, and | think it ts a blessing that he was away, forif he had been in the house there would have been a fight and struggle, and perhaps a murder would have been committed by one of the thieves, One of the thieves asked me where my husband's “watch and heavy gold chain’ was? 1 toid him he didn’t wear any heavy chain now pose he did wear such @ chain about a year ago). THE VICTIMS. Mr. Gardiner is a cto about ay e, of slight physique, and apparently has not stays enjoyed sy most robust heal h. He is slightly gray, and when the HERALD reporter called at the nouse Monday night he made his appearance at an upper window, accompanied by @ dog, Which seemed to be disposed to “give mouth” to the late comer, After learning who his visitor was Mr. Gardiner admitted him and very courteously gave him all the information in refer- ence to the affair. Mrs. Gardiner is @ modest lady of perhaps forty, with a fresh complexion, and so impresses A person with her sincerity that it is the belief of the re- orter that she would actually have left the check in the vestibule as promised for the robber, though Mr, Gardiner, who evidently does not believe in being “crowded down,” might have checkmated her move by having a policeman there to hand the check to the burglarious payee, THE GAME LAWS, To THE EpIToR OF THE HERALD :— Will you please inquire of the “New York Sports- men’s Club” whether they intend to try, while the Legislature is in session, to amend the Game laws. Whether there are any sportsmen among them or not they have constituted themselves a game police, and if they do not put their present botchwork into reasonable shape they will find some malicious bricks thrown al them. Not a game bird should be aliowed in the market alter the Ist of January, and when that prohibition is taade positive outsiders will see that the law is euiorced If the Club does not; but as it now stands, giving permission to sell game shot in other States, there Is no possibility of enforcing it; for nine out of ten, if questioned, would assert that they were hot in an- other State, when, in fact, they knew knothing about it and do not wish co, In defiance of the present jaw the market has been gintved with half Starved birds up to the ist of March. The greatest slaughter among them is not ate the legitimate shooting season, but in periods of heavy snow: when they are stupid with cold and hunger. have se hem at such times run along belore me on the snow, apparently indifierent as to whether they were killed © . They are then utterly un- fit for the table, and ifthe markets were closed againat their sale the poys and German ‘“pot- hunters’ would probably not put themseives to so ch trouble to trap or shoot them. New Yor, March 11, 1873, A SHOOTIST, ears of THE WAR IN MEXICO. Defeat of the Lozada Indian Forceg at Mohonera ard Rosario, Brilliant Success of the Government Troops Under Flores and Corona. HEAVY LOSSES. Six Hundred Men Slain and Six Hundred Wounded in the First Battle, Altamirano Saves the State of Sinaloa. Guadalajara Panic Stricken on the Approach of the Rebels, MEXICO, Feb. 15, 1873. « The principal and absorbing topic of the day ig the insurrection and movements of the Indians of Tepic, commanded by Lozada. Aa has been already intimated, the fight between the insurgents and/ the troops has commenced, the first battle bein; fought on January 28, at Mohonera, five league! from Guadalajara, with the forces ef Generala Corona and Flores, Lozada’s men numbering up”, wards of six thousand, The Indians were fea routed, losing nearly a thousand men, and finall broke up and fled in several detachments, tha principal of which, under the command of Placida Vega, marched in the directlon of Guadilajaray with a view of occupying the place, but General Corona had previously taken possession of the outskirts of the capital of Jalisco, in order to de= fend it against any such surprise, and to reorgan« ize his forceg, 89 that Placido Vega had to retire im haste. But the movements of Lozada's forces Were very intricate and ancertain, and while one corps @armée was making for Guadalajara another corps ef 2,000 men had taken the road to Mazat lan and invaded the State of Sinaloa, THE BATTLE OF ROSARIO. The day after the battle of Mohonera, the 20ty of January, these 2,000 men were thoroughly routed near Rosario by Colonel Altamirano’s com- mand, beating three times their own number, ag Altamirano had but a few hundred men in the battle. The following despatch from General Ceballos, dated Mazatlan, January 30, 1873, brought the in« telligence to the government:— “To THE MINISTER OF WaR:— “Yesterday afternoon, at four o’clock, Colonel Altamirane, with his column, attacked and com. pletely routed a band of Lozada’s men, numbering about two thousand, at Rosario, who had invaded the State, Thisis avery honorable feat of arms, he having defeated forces three times his superior in numbers. Colonels Altamirano and San Mar- tin, as well as Commandant Cristerna, distin. guished themselves by their brilliant conduct, the first being slightly wounded in the arm. The cay- alry pursued the dispersing insurgents. I congratu- late the supreme gevernment on this victory, which assures to us good results from the cam- paige. J. CEBALLOS.” As can be seen from the foregoing the campaigh has opened disastrously for Lozada, and in aly probability the time is far distant whem he will be able to crown himself Emperor of Mexico, as it is Stated the stipulated conditions are a crown fora successiul termination of the strife in favor of tha insurgents, It appears that Lozaaa, notwith- standing his age and infirmities, placed himself at the head of the forces going te Guadalajara, SEVERE LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES, In the battle of Mohenera the gevernment forces Sustained great losses, a single brigade under Geuerai Flores having 300 men slain. The toss of the enemy was greater, however, 300 dead being buried on the fleld, while Lozada carried away 600 others badly wounded. At Rosario the forces of Colonel Altamirano swifered also, forty-four men being slain, a captain, two subordinate omicers and sixteen wounded and forty-six captured. The enemy at tha same place had a chief and seventy-four men killed, the entire forces being dispersed and taking refuge in the moun- tains. Seven were taken prisoners, fifty-nine guna of various calibre, 4,630 cartridges and several horses fell into the hands of the troops. After the defeat at Mohonera 1,000 of Lozada’s men retired to Magdalena, while another party retreated toward Barranca, THE GOVERNMENT WAR DECREES, Immediately on receipt of the news of the in- vasion of the State of Sinaloa by the troops of Lozada and their subsequent defeat by Altamirane the President of the Republic issued a decree or- dering the immediate closing of the port of San Blas, and General Ceballos was authorized to equip a war vessel, which is to cruise off the place to prevent any blockade running, and he has also to prevent the insurgents of Tepic receiving any supplies irom San Bias, A PANIC IK GUADALAJARA, The approach of Lozada’s troops on Guadalajara produced a general panic in the city, the govern- ment of the State of Jalisco not expecting so sud- den an attack, and had not suficient ferces at hand, The city was fortified hastily, a municipal guard was formed composed of the best citizens, and they awaited the arrival of the evemy in a courageous attitude, General Corona became master of the situation in a remarkable easy man- ner, quite unthought of by the citizens, and to-day the city is comparatively tranquil, and business has been actively resumed; but the most reliable cor. respondents from that place say that there ara still some fears expressed that if the campaign i4 not actively conduucted and the bands of Lozada exterminated, the latter will take the fleld again and menace the city. The Lozada troops were compietely demoral- ized. The day after the battie of Mo- honera the Lozadefios commenced to scat. ter and disperse, and on the two following days the dispersion was still greater, the Alica bandits heading to the west in such numbers and so pre- cipitately that many abandoned tue roads and made their escape across the valleys and through mountain defiles. Immense numbers of the fugi- tives who retreated in this disurdered manner became absolutely panic-stricken. Tne dispersion has been such that many persons assure me that Lozada was seen to pass Venta with only 400 men, and that he was wounded in the arm. Porfirio Diaz Elected Chief Justice. Matamoros, Marchi 11, 1873, Telegrams from the city of Mexico state that Generai Porfirio Diaz has been elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico, He be- comes President of the Republic in case a vacancy occurs. RENOUNOING HIS BACK PAY, Congressman W. R. Roberts Refuses the Back IncreasemAn Example to Voters in the Negative. The following letter addressed to the purse holder of the Unton will explain itself, The anx- jety of the public on the question of who would ba first is gratified. It remains to be seen how many will Jollow:— New Youre, March 11, 1873. Hon, Georat S. BovurweLi, Secretary of tue United States Treasury :— DEAK Stel have this day instructed rhe Ser geant-at-Arms of the House of Kepresentat pay into the Treasury of the United stat amount of my back pay a8 a member of the For’ second Congress. ilaving voted agaiust the for the imcrease of pay, chiefly in consequence this particular feature 1 would not feei justified in accepting money, the granting of whivi I opposed with ny vote, I will further say that I was undecided whether to distribute the amount among (he chart tes of my Congressional district or turn it ove? to the Treas, ury Of the United States: but, ou consideration, I deem the course I have tawen (ie proper One ander the circumstances, be, your obedient servant, eo ae WILLIAM Re ROBERTS, Fut Comgressioual district