The New York Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII.. "AMUSEMENTS THIS. EVENING. —Granp Vantety En- . £85 Broadway. ATHENEUS gentainuen?. ca ei STRLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and RO Mecets LEO AND LOTOX T. JAMES’ THEATRE, uae Oruna—La Somna! dway and 23th st.—Bor- OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Muarry Duurry. Union square, between UNION SQUARE TH uNESs WOMAN. TRE, Broadway and Fourth ay.—A B ACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth AVID GARRICK. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twe: ayenue.—No THOROUGHFARE hurd street, corner Sixth ND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth GRA y.—Roucmine It. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wairs or New York— Tue Maniac Lover, &c. GBRMANIA THPA’ Qy.—Die SPiTzENKOENIGI Fourteenth street, near Third ACADEMY OF MUS! ‘ourteenth street.—IraLiaw Orkea—Der Faeisew THEATRE COMIQU . SU Broadway.—'98; on, ‘tae Munper Ar Tus FARM. NEW FIFTH AVEN RE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.-ALIxE, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Darine Dice, Atternoon and Evening. MRS. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Ausrrion. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Keter—Aunau-na-Pocu F. B, Montague st.— BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., 6th av.—Necro MInsTRELs' corner TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! Vanwty Byteerarn STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- cent. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Sermvcr axp Art. ‘TR SHEE a eee THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. E, No. 201 Bowery.— .ET. IPLE 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. *THE PRESIDENT’S SUPPLEMENTARY AND MORE EXPLICIT INAUGURAL!—EDITO- RIAL LEADER—SIXTH PaGE. @ GRAND CUBAN ONSLAUGHT UPON THE SPAN- ISH LINES! FIERCE BATTLES AT LIMONES, NAJAZA AND IN BAYAMO! THE INSUR- GENTS VICTORIOUS NEAR FUERTO PRIN- CIPE! THE DANGERS TO WHICH THE HERALD COMMISSIONER WAS EXPOSED! THE AMERICAN FLEET IN CUBAN WA- TERS—TuirpD Pace. CUBANS SLAIN IN COLD BLOOD BY SPANISH SOLDIERS! NO QUARTER GIVEN ON EITHER SIDE! THE ASSAOLT UPON HOL- GUIN! SPANISH OFFICERS MASSACRED! NOCTURNAL INCURSIONS! A VALUABLE OFFICIAL EXPOSE OF THE WAR IN OVER- OPPRESSED CUBA—FouRtH PaGE. STORMING THE HEIGHTS OF MONRIAL! DES PERATE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE RE- PUBLICAN FORCES ‘HOSE UF DON CARLOS, IN SPAIN! REPULSE OF THE FORMER! BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVILY— SEVENTH PAGE. SPECIAL ITEMS OF NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL—THIRD PAGE. TION AC PTED! PAR- ! DISRA COMMIS- ED AS THE HEAD OF A NEW MINIS- THE CO VATIVES DISORGAN- IZED ! PROSPECTIVE RECALL OF THE RETIRING PREMIER! P. IAMENT WILL PROBABLY D LVE! HOW THE MATTER 18 KEGARDED— H PAGE. EUROPEAN CABLE AMS—GENERAL TELEGRaPHIC ENTH PAGE. FREEING FRANCE FROM THE INVADER! M, THIERS IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE | PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT! PAYMENT OF THE REMAINDER OF THE INDEMNITY WHAT IS PROPOSED BY THE REPUBLIC— SEVENTH PAGE. ANOTHER OVATION TO THE SHOVELOCRAT OF THE BAY STATE! AN EPIC OF BRIBERY ONE WHO KNOWS! THE EX-VICE PRESIDENT HAUL. OVER THE COALS! “GREAT IS THE CREDIT MOBILIER, AND NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The President's More Explicit Inaugural. The views expressed by the President to our Special Commissioner in Washington, as given to the public yesterday, may be regarded as supplementary to and more explicit than his Inaugural on the 4th of March. Here we have, in the neatest and most. concise form and divested of all surplusage of words or State formality, the opinion and policy of General Grant on the prominent public ques- tions of the day. Every one felt a desire to know if there is to be a reconstruction or material change in the Cabinet, especially in view of Mr. Boutwell leaving the Treasury Department in consequence of being elected to the United States Senate; to know if there would be any change in the financial policy of the government through the retirement of Mr. Boutwell; to learn the views of the Executive as to Cuban affairs and the prospect of peace or trouble with Spain; to ascertain what the policy will be toward St. Domingo, the Samana Bay Company and “Hayti; to learn if the President will make a journey through the Southern States to speak words of peace and encouragement to the people there; to know what course is to be pursued in the Louisiana difficulty, and to understand how the Mormon and the Modoc Indian questions aro to be dis- posed of; and the President has spoken frankly on all these subjects. His 4th of March Inaugural was very good, but it was characterized by that generalization’ which all such official and formal docu- ments have. There was the difference between his expressions then and those made to our Commissioner that there is between what one | says in speaking in open meeting and to a confessor. The President is naturally disposed to be reticent, and is not given to make con- fessions; but on this occasion he felt, undoubt- edly, that the medium was a good one and that he could not do better than to make a clean breast to the public through the Heratp. We must say, however, that he adroitly probed or interviewed our representative with as much cleverness as he was probed. On the whole, it was, to use the language of our corre- spondence, “an agreeable conversation on public affairs,’’ and, we may add, of unusual importance just at this time. Well, then, the President did not say who is to be Secretary of the Treasury in place of Mr. Boutwell, for that was hardly to be expected, and perhaps he does not know himself yet; but he did say he ‘‘was not aware of any public necessities requiring a reconstruction of the Cabinet.”” The question was a pretty direct one, though put in the diplomatic way of asking if the impression prevailing that a reconstruction of the Cabinet would take place was ‘well founded.’’ The President reminded his interviewer or confessor that this was a “delicate matter,”’ and then said that he saw no public necessity for a Cabinet reconstruc- tion. Putting these things together, we con- clude ‘that General Grant does not contem- plate making any other changes in his official family than the retirement of Mr. Boutwell calls for, and that, as regards the appointment of a Secretary of the Treasury, he will take time to maturely consider the matter. This means, probably, that Mr. Boutwell will remain where he is till sworn in as a Senator, and that Assistant Secretary Richardson will act as Secretary till the President deliberately sur- veys the whole field of politics and public opinion. General Grant is eminently con- | servative, and, not having the intuitive in- | stincts of a great or an experienced statesman, he acts cautiously in all his movements. As far | as firm adherence to his own views will admit he will be guided by popular sentiment. Our Wall street men, as well as the people | generally, feel deeply interested in the finan- cial policy of the new, or rather renewed, administration. For their information, then, our Commissioner has ascertained that there willbe no change. ‘Upon this point,’’ the President said, “I wish it to be distinctly | understood that no diversion and no new experiments in the financial policy of the administration are contemplated, and that consequently no disturbance in the business affairs of the country is apprehended. Let OAKES AMES IS ITS VIRTUOUS HIGH PRIEST !""—TnirD Pace. THE NEW YORK WAREHOUSE AND RAILWAY COMPANY! THE INSURANCE TROUBLE SECTARIANISM AND THE CHARTER DI CUSSED BY THE LEGISLATIVE SOLONS AT ALBANY—TENTH PAGE. TRYING TO SAVE FOSTER! DUCED TO SHUW THAT MRS. PUTNAM DID RECEIVE A BRIBE! WHAT PUT- NAM'S BROTHER AND MR. ALLEN KNOW ABOUT THE CASE! LATER DEVELOP- MENTS—Fourtn PacE, THE FEATURES OF BU: SON ‘CHANGE! SUDDEN LAXITY OF THE MONEY RATE THE TREASURY PROGRAMME A PROBLEM TO THE BROKERS—Eicutu Pace. BATTLES IN THE PIT! W YORK AND LONG ISLAND MATCH THEIR GAME BIRDS, WITH THE LATYER THE WINNER AFTER A CLOSE STRUGGLE—Fovurra Page. HEAVY SALES OF NEW YORK REAL PROPERTY— IMPORTANT TREASURY ORDER — OBITU- ARY—Eigura Pace. LEGAL BUSINESS! THE CORDES-DANN TRAG- EDY! A LAWYER MULCTED IN $20,000 DAMAGES! HURRYING UP STOKES’ LAW. YERS—FIrTe PaGE. CLARIFYING WINE! A LICENSE DECLARED NECESSARY—ST. PATRICK'S DAY—THE MUNICIPAL BUREAUS—Firtu Pace. Wao Wau Be tHe Fist at the next sitting of Congress to bring in a bill for the repeal of the atrocious back pay salary act, whereby over a million and a half in cash was deliber- ately filched from the public Treasury by mem- bers of an expiring Congress? “Tar Rervsiican Party,’’ says the Boston Transcript (republican), ‘cannot expect to succeed in close States like New Hampshire, if General Butler is allowed to be its Con- Bressional leader. His retrograde salary bill lost Now Hampshire on Tuesday.”” “Tae Baut Has Broun ro Rout,”’ exclaims an Eastern republican contemporary, ‘and it will be apt to crush every candidate for clec« tive honors this year who assisted in robbing the National Treasury under the guise of teagonable compensation."’ —_——_—_——_. fae Boston Traveller (republican) affirms | that the “New Hampshire election teaches a | lesson the republican party must remember if | it is to retain its supremacy in the country.’ There are a number of other republican papers, however, who fail to see in the election any. thing to be disturbed at. This is the “off yer,” you know, EVIDENCE AD- | well enough alone is a good rule until we are | Sure of some thing better. No, sir; no change | is contemplated, with the retirement of Mr. | Boutwell, in the general financial policy of the government. The system pursued has met with the approbation of the country, and | with that I am content.'’’ Such a response | would have been creditable to Talleyrand. | Those who think the President is not astute are mistaken. His re-election turned in part | upon the popular plea of liquidating the debt and enhancing the public credit—a matter not to be Jost sight of, though the heavy taxation and wonderful resources of the country were | more instrumental than the Treasury Depart- ment in bringing about that result. Still the _ President says only that he does not contem- plate any change, thus leaving it to be under- stood that he may be governed by circum. stances. ‘To say the least, his policy, like his | nature, is conservative. Now, with regard to Cuba, the President is merely prophetic. He does not touch the | question of belligerent rights. He does not | say what the government is going to do. But | he does say that it is his ‘impression that before | the end of the year the independence of Cuba will be established.’’ This expression is very significant, while it does not commit the | 8overnment to any particular course of action. | Let the Cubans take heart, The Executive of this mighty nation and of the dominant power of America believes they will acquire their independence, and that within a year. Gene- ral Grant thinks so because of the difficulties of Spain at home and of the inability of that { country to send troops to suppress the insur- | rection. More than that, he ‘does not per- ceive any possible advantage to the Spanish Republic from an indefinite prolongation of the war against the Cubans.’ He expresses sympathy for the Spaniards in their endeavors to establish a republic, and hopes for their | suecess ; and this, no doubt, makes him care- fal not to throw eny embarrassment in the | way through governmental action with regard | to Cuba. Still, while he wishes to encourage the republicans of Spain, he is ‘‘not insensible to the claims of the Cubans upon | our sympathies.” If Spain were relieved of Cuba and the chronic trouble there she would have a better opportunity of establish- ing her own republican freedom. Cuba is an incubus to her and a source of demoralization nd monarchical influence. The concession of belligerent rights to the Cubans, who are Toally entitled to that, ought to be no cause, { trouble with Spain. The administration is too timid on this question, and acts contrary to its own convictions and the sentiment of the American people. St. Domingo still captivates the imagination of the President. He does not propose any governmental action, but thinks the Samana Bay Company will make such developments that the country will, in the course of ten or fifteon years, become annexed to the United States, and that then it will be a bargain at ten or fifteen millions of dollars, That is all right. If the company can make St. Domingo valu- able the people of this country will be pleased to know it, and in that case annexation might not be objectionable. But there is no desire to incorporate a useless territory and a demoralized foreign population or to sustain a stock speculating job by the government of this country. The President has been influenced by speculators around him and has not been able to see the matter in a practical and common senso point of view. At all events he does not an- ticipate any trouble with the black Republic of Hayti in consequence of the Samana Bay project. We do not see why he should if he regards that as merely a private speculation, as it is, with which the United States govern- ment has nothing to do. Regarding the Mormons, the President is emphatic-—‘‘They must obey the laws.’’ He says:—‘I cannot recede on this point.’’ He does not anticipate trouble with them, but is determined to make them obey, which means, wo suppose, that polygamy is to be extin- guished. As to the Indians, he is resolved to pursue a humane policy, even in opposition to “tho prevailing prejudices of our frontier whites against those poor saviges."’ He thinks it only requires a little time to make that policy successful. Being asked about Louisiana, he remarked that his policy had been simply to execute the laws and to recognize the judg- ment of the Courts. This is the least he could say. Unfortunately he did not use the power he might have used legally and properly to sustain the rights of the people and of the State. Then, as to going South, he expressed his regret at not being able to carry out his original purpose, and acknowledged the kind and pressing invitations he had received from the Southern people. We, too, regret he could not see that it would be more important to travel through the South than to take a trip for pleasure or business to the West. How- ever, ho believes the troubles in the South are over and that nothing will occur requiring a meeting of Congress till next December. To sum up, the President looks at things ina rosy point of view, and, above all, is particularly averse tochange, complications or trouble of any sort. It is for the people to judge of this second or supplementary inaugural as given explicitly through the medium of our Special Commissioner. The Cubans Actively in the Field. Our advices from the island of Cuba tell of great activity within the insurgent lines. This sudden outbreak, after a period of comparative inaction, is regarded in some quarters as stimulated by a desire to show the Special Commissioner of the Henatp, Mr. James J. O'Kelly, something of their fighting facilities while within the region of Guha Libre. It is natural enough that this should be so, and his presence would, doubtless, incite the patriots to deeds of high emprise wherever there was a chance. But Mr. O'Kelly cannot be in anumber of places at once; and, as fighting is reported in all directions, we may presume that there is a wider reason still to account for the resumption of sharp hostilities. The Cubans in the field are, doubtless, well aware of the recent course of events in Spain, and conclude that with the Carlists harassing the Spanish troops in the North, the reinforce- ments to Cuba must fail. A vigorous blow to extend the limits ot the insurrection, if at all successful, would give their cause renewed prestige, and would act powerfully on the Cubans at present neutral. A bloody fight, under the gallant Agramonte, is reported from near Limones, which must be accounted substantially a rebel victory. The Spanish commander was killed in the action. A three hours’ battle near Bayamo is reported by the Spaniards, with an account of Cubans killed, but ominously omitting the Spanish loss, Near the large city of Puerto Principe a Spanish battalion was surprised and routed by the Cubans, with an acknowledged loss of ten killed. It will be seen from these facts that the Spaniards have a foe who seems left completely to himself in choosing his point and time of attack. The prophecy of Presi- dent Grant toa Herarp writer on Wednesday last relative to Cuba achieving her independ- ence within the present year would seem to have something more occult in its cause than mere speculation. The account given to our correspondent at Key West by the officers of the United States steamship Wyoming of Mr. O’Kelly’s enthu- | siastic reception on board their vessel forms a green spot in the desert of difficulty he has had to travel over, They explain the refer- ence made by Captain General Ceballos to O' Kelly's “‘hiding’’ at Santiago de Cuba, by stating that it was after the failure of a first attempt to reach the rebel lines, caused hy his horse giving out. While allowing the animal to recruit he was hospitably entertained on board the American man-of-war. The senti- ment of the fleet in regard to the threat made by the Spanish General to execute the Henatp honor of Uncle Sam upon the sea. The fact that such an awakening of Cuban belligerency has lately taken place will give a high flavor of interest to the Henaup Commissioner's budget of news when he returns to the Spanish lines. We also publish an exciting story from Cuban sources of the struggle in the island during the closing months of last year, Tar Frenca Inpemniry Paymeyts to Gen- many. —The Republic of France continues its noble effort for the complete discharge of the Prussian war indemnity bond and the conse- quent liberation of the soil of the country from the presence of the invader and con- queror. His Excellency President Thiers has, as will be seen by our special cable telegram from Paris, transmitted to Berlin a Cabinet note, in which he offers to His Majesty the Em- peror William and his Ministers to make very rapid payments of the milliards of the ransom which remain due, and also to pay to the Ger- man treasury a very large sum of money in addition, provided the soil of France is made Commissioner is just what we would expect from | | the gallant American gentlemen who uphold the Seppiementary and | and, we think, would be no cause, of serious | clear from the tread of the hostage-guard senti- | sight, was also traced to malicious interference nels by the month of September next ensuing. | with it in the ship's hold, and not to any mag- This is really a noble proposition. Its formal | netic storm, “sweeping wildly across it, with official enunciation by M. Thiers goes to | the fury of a voiceless tempest,” aa 4 London prove that the reproductive resources of France | paper explained its silence, There are no are really indestructible and almost inexhausti- ble, and that the cause of the democracy is atill onward in Europe. The Case of Foster, the Murderer. It is announced from Albany, on what is called high authority, that Governor Dix will to-day or to-morrow commute the sentence on known difficulties in the submarine geography itself likely to affect the cable of 1865 or any other, and we may feel confident that any in- terruption to its working cannot be more than tem 4 Onkes Ames’ Reception. Our special despatches from North Faston Foster to imprisonment for life. The recom- | Will give the public a tolerably clear idea of mendation to mercy of the jury is said to be | how fearfully low humanity may fall without what has most moved him to this conclusion. | appearing to be conscious of it. It will, more- In the absence of the formal decision we still | over, have something to say. evidence how comfortable human- ity can make itself under the de- After a fair trial and all tho resources of | scending circumstances. The celebration appeal within the reach of legal perseverance | of Oakes Ames’ return is simply Oakes and ingenuity Foster's fatelies in the hands | giving a dinner in honor of himself. His of the Governor of the State. Each step since | thin old arguments about the lying of some the first conviction of murder in the first | people that made matters look worse for them degree has resulted in the affirmation of the | and for him, and the brilliant idea that if they Courts below. Tho highest judicial tribunal | had not lied about it, but brazened it out, in the State—-the Court of Appeals—could find | people would never have suspected that bribery no palliating feature in the crime, no technical | was bribery, were amusing. If his con- irregularity in the trial Up to the rendition | stituents had had @ proper apprecia- of that decision the law alone furnished the | tion of what to do with him, instead of grounds for discussion. Since it has passed | eating his dinner and swallowing his impu- within the sole jurisdiction of the Governor | dent speech, they would have placed in no means, whether of sentiment, religion or volunteer legal opinions, have been left untried every honest voter's hand a shovel, and dug a grave for him as deep as his cunning. To to sway the Governor to the side of clemoncy. | pitch him in and cover him up would have laid | In treating of these the Heraup has hada delicate task to perform. Believing that Gov- ernor Dix should be left to himself, we re- frained from commenting on what his course should be. When, however, we found that appeals of the most extraordinary kind were being made to bias him on issues absurdly apart from anything that should influenco justice we unhesitatingly gave our opinion on the flimsy nature of these appeals and the danger in relying on them. Among them we instanced the letter of Mrs. Putnam, the widow of the murdered man. We spoke of it as creditable to her woman's heart, but observed its want of weight in tho premises. Immediately after this publication we were furnished with the petition concern- ing the means used to obtain that letter from Mrs. Putnam. Onr reporters investigated the matter and obtained strong verbal substantia- tion of the statements therein, Anxious not to do injustice to Mrs. Putnam, this testimony was held back trom publication, while a Heraxp reporter was instructed to seek the lady and give her an opportunity to deny the alleged money transaction. This would have been the easiest and simplest course for an innocent person. Had she done so there would have been an end of the matter. Her course, however, was far otherwise. She de- clined to see our reporter or even to answer his note, and thereby forced a publication of the entire matter. Her subsequent denial, published in yesterday’s Hznaup, may or may not set the question at rest; but in the affidavits on the matter to be found elsewhere will be seen our authority. These relate prin- cipally to accounts of a conversation with Mr. Allen, and responsibly reiterate that he seve- rally told the affiants that Mrs, Putnam had received fifteen thousand dollars for her letter to the Governor. These affidavits are made by Austin G. Putnam, brother of the mur- dered man; H. Henneberger, surviving busi- ness partner of the murdered man, and Wil- liam A. Covert, the murdered man’s successor in the firm. Mr. Allen, who spoke so freely to the Henan reporter before the publication of the matter, now declines to say anything. This change of tactics is especially repre- hensible in his case in view of the denial by Mrs. Putnam. If she denies the receipt of the money why does not he deny his con- versations, or the statement of alleged facts he made therein, We submit all these things to the public as matter of history. They do not make a straightforward showing for those one might suppose interested in denying such lavish use of money in behalf of the condemned mur- derer. It is painful for a journal actuated only by the highest motives of public interest to find itself placed by interested outsiders in the position of clamoring for a fellow being’s blood. To the ery for mercy it is hard to turn an inattentive ear; but the higher issues of public safety demand only the sternest justice from a journal like the Heratp. Pity for the man condemned to the gallows or sympathy for his family is very different from condoning his crime at the expense of the community. To assail the Executive with sentimental cries for mercy on one side and with billingsgate epithets on the other is not the mode of seeking a commutation of sentence which deserves attention. The Governor has charge of the matter, with a full sense of his responsibility upon him, and we trust he will view it from legitimate grounds alone, The Disabled Cable. The late tidings of the silence of the At- lantic cable of 1865, while causing temporary uneasiness, ought to raise no fear for its ultimate restoration. It may be there are yet some vital lessons for the scientific world to learn before our great transoceanic telegraphs are secured from interruption; but every ray of light that has been brought to bear on the feasibility of long cables is gheering. When the cable of 1865 was laid, it was oniy after | | the Metropolitan Hotel. it had been subjected to crucial tests and proved to be many times more perfect than had been required. Sir William Thomson and Mr. Varley, who represented the Atlantic | | Company, and tested the mighty strand as it lay coiled in the Great Eastern, reported that the current of electricity passed through it so fully that, ‘of one thousand parts over | nine hundred and ninety-nine came out at the other end.’’ The galvanometer enabled its inventor, Professor Thomson, to detect the | slightest flaw in the cable or fault in the cur- rent, and when the first monition came that the current was not flowing freely, the spot in deep ocean where the injured or detective piece lay was instantly fixed upon. On this occa- i " ently, whe je iro | sion, and subsequently, when a piece of wire | Ky., in April, and comes to New York to go into not longer than a needle was found to have been driven through the outer cover, and as when a nail driven into the North Sea cable had destroyed its insulation, the mischief was traced to human hands. During the Great Eastern’s voy: quisitly sensitive was the copper strand that the electricians at Valentia could tell by the indications on the mirror galvanometer, incom- parably sensitive, every time the big ship rolled. The final fracture of the cable, when the shores of Newfoundland were almost in e from Valentia Bay so ex- | the Republic under a debt of gratitude to them. Thestrong point which his apologists make for him is that he did not lie. He admits that he was willing to do so at first, and only failed in it because Colfax, Patter- son, Kelley and Garfield drove him into @ corner and forced him to tell the truth. If his conscience were not as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros he would have perceived that this telling the truth only in mad self-defence and to drag down others along with him, when coupled with a willingness to lie under favorable circumstances, is not a very virtuous proceeding. It is the kind of virtue, however, which goes down with the shovel-making community of North Easton, and which they prefer to all other. Let North Easton be happy in having earned the contempt of honorable men. It would be indeed a pity to disturb so complacent o tableau with a shade of distrust of themselves. Their example will long be remembered by constituents who are blessed with a briber as a member of Congress as one to avoid. Let this be their unique consolation. The English Ministerial Crisis. Notwithstanding the defeat of the liberal Ministry on the Irish University bill, the Eng- lish tories exhibit a squeamishness in under- taking the conduct of the government. With a large majority opposed to them on general principles they see that they would simply be @ government on sufferance and always liable to the humiliation of a vote of want of confi- dence. Owing to the bitter humor in which Mr. Gladstone has taken his defeat, it seems that he with such of his colleagues as he can control will refuse to take up the reins snatched so suddenly from his grasp until the nation gives him its voice in unqual- ified terms. Mr. Disraeli is a man of shifts enough to do the bold thing which facing a hostile majority as leader of the House would imply. The spirit of the adventurer which has been his through life need not be expected to fail him now. It would be just the thing to suit his odd ambition, and, while exhibiting the grow- ing weakness of the aristocratic party, which he has led since the late Earl of Derby's death, would be ‘nond the less acceptable on that account. He has led the old conservatives through so many | liberal dances cunningly played to tory | party itself would have no terrors for him, ; To the present Earl Derby, Lord Cairns and others this somewhat ridiculous posi- tion would not be very acceptable. They are away from England at pres- ent, and their voices have not yet been heard in the conflict. The management of affairs for the time being is a matter of little moment. The decisive verdict will be given when the appeal is once | more made to the people. This, when done, will doubtless result once more in a large liberal majority, and, it is not unlikely, in an increased majority. Irish university education is one of those questions on which the masses of the English people have very little in the way of opinion. In Ireland, even, the subject has more interest for the clergymen of the rival re- ligions than for anybody else. It is a measure whose demise scarcely any one in England would regret. By throwing it aside Gladstone can easily come to power. If a Ministry were defeated on such a question as universal suffrage there might be some difficulty in the way of again gaining power, but over the classic education of the ‘mere Irish’’ all that is necessary is to drop it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. _ General Burnside is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The family of Beethoven, the great musical com- poser, is very poor. Congressman Freeman Clarke, of Rochester, is at Ex-President Johnson is im Nashvilie, being “hospitably entertained.’ Our Vice President went to Washington from the Astor House last evening, Admiral Emmons, of the United States Navy, is | Tegistered at the Astor House. | Robert A. Ellis, who served under Lord Nelson at Trafalgar in 1805, is living in Chicago. Colonel S. V. Benet, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Mayors J. H. Millard, of Omaha, and W. Dwight, of Binghamton, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Colonel Rush ©. Hawkins, our dett and conscien- tions legislator of last year, 18 at Naples, with his wile. on his way home. Colonel Robert J. Breckinridge leaves Danville, | the law business, # An enthusiastic antiquary at a Parisian sale re- cently paid no less than $4,500 for a pistol of the time of Henri Il. Wendell Phillips is in favor of expunging the anti-Sumner resolutions from the records of the Massachusetts Legislature, Ex-Senator S. ©, Pomeroy, of Kansas, yesterday arrived at the Astor House. The country ts grate- ful for the “ex,” and would not be sorry if Cald- well's expulsion made it Kansas’ double “ex.” Butler, Banks, Oakes Ames and Ginery Twichell were the four members of Congress from New Eng- Jand Who voted im favor of the Yack pay S104) tunes that the situation of leading the liberal | General N. P. Banks arrived at the Grand Central | | Hotel yesterday, but made only a short stay, being | insured for 3 | #tna, of Hartford, $6,000; Providence, of | | $48,000—in the Columbia Butler ts the only member re-elected to the next Robert M. Dotigias, the eldest son of the inte Ste. phen A. Dougias, was yesterday confirmed as United States Marshal for the Kastern district of North Carolina, Mr, Douglas was until recently Private secretary to President Grant. Mr. WYltam F. Munster, M. P., of England, yea- terday arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. Mr. Mun- ster has been making s prolonged tour of this country. While here a report of his death became current in England, until it was finally stopped by the lucid announcement in the London Telegraph that Mr. Munster was “in health and somewhere near the Rocky Mountains."”” “The democratic party in the State Senate did itself great credit yesterday in throwing its vote solid for Colonel C. G. Greene, of the Poston Post, for United States Senator,” saya the Boston 7ran script, The same party did a similar thing in the same body twenty years ago for its candidate for Secretary of the Senate. The vote in cach case Was two. The democratic Senatorial tree docs not seem to be a plant of very rapid growth in Massa- chusetts, AMUSEMENTS. Olive Logan's New Play, “A Business Woman,” at the Union Square Theatre. Olive Logan's play, “A Business Woman,” is likely to have a very good run, notwithstanding it 1s one of the worst pieces of dramatic work whtch ever claimed the name of comedy. It is difficult ta ~ say in what department of. the drama the plece is to be classed, Sometimes it is broad farce, but it is never comedy or drama. It has ne climaxes and no story. The business woman has icss busi- ness in the piece than any of the characters, The leading part would be that of Maria McBoggs it Miss Hattie Thorpe could play an Irish domestic with any skill. The mission of “the business wo- man” seems to be to save her father, Palissy Ingraham, from beggaring himself by borrow- ing money for furthering his inventions, Mr. F. F, Mackay ieee the part, making out of it alt that isin it, but the dialogue is so wretched and the plot so thin that he is to be excused if all that he makes of it is very little. Miss Mary Griswold plays the business woman very Pretty. and Mr. D. H. Harkins keeps the part of Colonel Collins Wood from becoming utterly insipid in spite ef its insipidity. The other parts are all low comedy, except the low comedy parts, and the lat- ter belong to a new dramatic school of which Misa Logan is the founder. One of the scenes intended to be among the most entertaining consists of am endeavor to put on a pair of new boots. The best drawn parts are those of Mr. and Mrs. Hooker Wood, and they are well played by Mr. Welsh Kd- wards and Miss Emily Mestayer; but these parts are, in fact, low comedy written, and played as if they were comedy. Mrs. Clara Jennings plays Mra. Courtland Potter, the ambitious lady of the piece, and makes everybody laugh at the end of the first act when she hears of the unexpected death of her old husband, the news of which is brought to her by her husbana’s nephew, Mr. Pembroke Potter. The latter part is played by Mr. George Parkes, and is the same in make up and conception as his Max de Maugurs, in “One Hundred Years Old.” The play opens in Centrat Park, the view being trom the piazza of Stetson’s Hotel, with a pretty glimpse of Harlem, the Kast River and the Islands. The other scenes are fancy sketches, Mr. Hooker Wood's law oftice being @ little too familiar to the visitors at this theatre and as unlike the office of a New York lawyer as possi- ble. We are sorry that Miss Logan’s effort did not prove to be worthier of dramatic art. She has had some experience as a playright and might have done better than this; at least she might hava saved us all from the pain of poole that she had appropriated a “sitaation” trom “The School for Scandal,” Sepa when she failed to make it am effective ending for her second act. But everybody ought to see *‘A Business Woman” in order ta appreciate how ridiculous some people can make themselves when trying to write an American comedy. Masical and Theatrical Notes. Mile. Adelina Patti has accepted an engagement for the forthcoming opera season at Covent Gardep Theatre, at a salary of 5,000f. a night. The Malta journals state that Mr. and Mra, Bene tham, well known to London musical amateurs, have just played there in “Faust” with immense success, ‘The Italian Minister of Instruction has ordered the publication of two interesting works on the histories of the music conservatories at Florence and Milan. Many of our actors are purchasing new equip ments. Mr. Mark Smith has bought the exclusive right to play Jacques Fauvel in Mr. Jackson’s adap. tation of “One Hundred Years Old.” Mr. W. J, Florence nas purchased a new play called forth from Count de Najac, and Miss Carlotta LeClercq a drama entitled “Fate.” These are only specimens, The success of Mr. Sothern’s ‘David Garrick” at Waliack’s is something remarkable in its way. Even Lent bas not impaired the run of the piece, expected, the play will retain its lace fo} come, ‘The Sets skili In his MEE Is Oke hibited ina finer line of acting than in the parts in which he was before more familiar, and he aa- mirably sustains the reputation he had acquired as Lord Dundreary and Brother Sam. Besides this, the part of old Ingot is superbly played. Mr, John | Gilbert is, without question, the finest “old man’ on the modern stage, and he invests this part with @ reality that is wonderful. The scene between Garrick and Ingot im the first act, as these men play it, is something that will always be remem- bered, and to miss seeing itis to miss seeing a thing that is precious. Miss Regers has adde her reputation by her impersonation of Ada, and the youne squiré of Mr. Polk is the best part in which he has yet been seen, Since the first night the after-dinner scene in the second act has mel- lowed into an exquisite bit of farce, and the whole play is rendered in a way to sustain the old time reputation of the theatre. TRE HERALD COMMISSION IN CUBA, {From the Paducah Kentuckian, March 9.} The New York HERALD announces that ite Special Commissioner to Cuba, Mr. O'Kelly, has at last succeeded in reaching the insurgent lines, This isa triumph for the HERALD, as the authori- ties of Cuba would not permit Mr. O'Kelly to pasa their lines until threatened by the HERALD with the most terrible vengeance if they molested him in any way. ART MATTERS, Allen B. Miner & Brother’s Sale ToeDay. An auction sale of paintings will take place this morning, at eleven o'clock, at the establishment of Allen B. Miner & Brother, late Henry H. Leeds & Miner, 95 Chambers street. The works are 150 in number. Among specialties will be found the fol- lowing eight pictures from the well known coliec- terior of a Cabaret,” by A. V ; “Diana and Nymphs at the Bath,” by C, Poelemburg; “Landscape, with Pog by J.B, Weenix; “Frat Butterfites, by J. Van Huysam; ‘jaterior Stable,” by Wonverman; “Tne Rambicrs,” by Caravaggio; ‘Fete Champétre,"’ by Wattead, and “Head of a Child,” by J. B Greuze. THE BROADWAY FIRE, The following is a list of the losses and insur- ances of the firms occupying floors in the building 368 Broadway, Where a fire occurred the night be- fore last. The structure belongs to the Lorillard estate and is damaged to the extent of $3,000; in- sured for $30,000, Andia Rosenthal, manufacturer of ladies’ clothing, who oceupied the 1ourth floor, suffers a loss of $20,000; insured for $23,000—in the London, Liverpool and Giobe, $11,000; in the Man- hattan, $3,000; Springfeld, $2,000; — Adriatic, $3,000; Mechanics’, of Brooklyn, $2,000; Metropoli- ). Hendricks & Tyler, who occupied nt, suffered @ 1088 of $1,500; ,000—in the Commercial, peed Benedick & Co., who occupied the ington, $3,000. first floor, suffered a loss of $18,000; insured for Bowery, $15,000; Jefferson, so saad titan eaves O pital City don and Globe, $5,000; Ca) ', $2,500; $5,000; Commerciai Union, $5,000; German can, $10,000; Globe, $2,000, The second and sixth floors, ironting on Cortlandt alley, were occupied by Steiner, Kahn & Co., importers of fancy Their stock was damaged to the extent of $19,000; insted for $8°,500—im the Manhattan for $2,500, Pacitic, $2,500; New Yor cashire, $5,000; London, Live $8,000; Stuyvesant, $3,000; $5,000; een’s, $5,000; Commerc: The third fleor, iront, was occupied by Wi & Mark, who suifere:! a loss of $1,000; insured for $4000—in the Park for $2,000, and the Liverpool, ndon and Globe, $2,000. Eschelbacher & wes lost property valued at $100; insured for $1,000 in the Mechanics and Builders’, Tee fifth floor was occupied by Lilrenthal & Steiner. They suffered @ loss of about $6,000; insured for $5,825—in the St. Nicholas for $2,500, Mechanica’, of Brook! $1,025; Pennsylvania, '$1,700, An’ inv into the cause of the fire was held by Fire al Mespedon yesterday, but notung defluite could ba argived ah