The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD] BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR No. 74 THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and Houston steeets.—Lxo axp Lotos. Matinee at 134. AMUSEMENTS ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st—Bur- esque OPkRA—LA SOMNAMBULA. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, and Bleecker streets.—Hunrry Dy TION SOUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—A Businxss Woman. Matinee. between Mouston Matinee at 2. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sweet—Davip Gannick. Matinee, urd street, corner Sixth ROOTH THEATRE, Tw ane t tince at 2 avenue.—No THoRovairrane Twenty-third st. and Eighth at 1g. GRAN OPERA HOT ay.—Rovcnine It, Matin Wairs or New Yore— BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery~ ‘Tax Mantac Loven, 4c. Fourteenth street, near Third ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Granp Com- cxat. Matinee at l—Itarian Orrna—MiaNon. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—'98: on, gux Munper at THz Fan. Matinee at 23. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- Avixe. Matinee at 1. way. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Danine Dick. Afternoon and Evening. ATAHENEUM, No. £8 Broadway.—Granp Varrety En- geutarnwent, Matinee at 235. MRS, F, B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Axnition. Matinee at 2—Sxntous Famity. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUS! 6th av.—NeGro MunstRretsr, Twenty-third at, corner Matinee at 2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vanery Entearainment, Matinee at 24. ASSOCIATION HALL, 234 street and 4th av.—After- oon—Granp Concert. Evening—Recrrations. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmnce anp Art. TRIPLE SHEET. NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. "IJNEXORABLE JOSTICE! WILLIAM FOSTER TO DIZ UPON THE SCAFFOLD !"—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIxTH PacE. 80 HOPE FOR FOSTER! THE SENTENCE OF THE LAW TO BE CARRIED OUT ON FRIDAY NEXT! SHERIFF BRENNAN INSTRUCTED TO MAKE THE NECESSARY PREPARA- TIONS! THE DOOMED MAN CONSTANTLY GUARDED—THigp Pacs. TRENCHANT BLOWS STRUCK FOR FREEDOM! SPANISH ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF DEFEAT IN CUBA! MASTERLY STRATEGY OF THE CUBANS! HANGING A BRAVE MAN IN RE, VENGE FOR DEFEAT—SEvVENTH Pace. PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH MINISTERIAL CRISIS! DISRAELI CONSULTING WIT THE QUEEN AND EARL DERBY AS TO HIS COURSE! THE PAOBABLE RESULTS AND PUBLIC OPINION—SEVENTH PacE. CARL SCHURZ DENOUNCES CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION! SCATHING REVIEW OF THE CALDWELL ABOMINATION! SAPPING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC—Tuirp Pag. DISAPPOINTED OFFICE-SEEKERS GET UP A POLITICAL RIVT! A REIGN OF TERROR IN LAKE CITY, FLORIDA! FIKING INTO PRI- VATE RESIDENCES! THE UNITED STATES MARSHAL WOLDS THE CITY! THE AR- RESTS! DIREFUL APPREHENSIONS—Teyta PacE. 4 BANK CASHIER DESTROYS $100,000 WORTH OF BONDS AND SECURITIES, AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF—Seventu Paas. THE MODOC “BRAVES” CANNOT BE FOUND! A SAVAGE COALITION—SixTH PaGE. EUROPEAN NEWS BY ATLANTIC CABLE! THE REPUBLIC IN SPAIN! CARLIST CRUELTY! AMADEUS AN ITALIAN CITIZEN—Skvgenta PacE. GANGING FOR MURDER NUT “PLAYED OUT” IN ILLINOIS! A DIVORCE FOLLOWED BY A MURDER! THE HELLISH DEED DONE IN PRESENCE OF THE CHILDREN! THE RUIN IN RUM! AFFECTING GALLOWS SCENES— Fourth PaGr. 4 HIRED MURDERER! ANOTHER EXECUTION IN THE SUCKER STATE! A BRUTAL FIEND BEATS THE LIFE OUT OF A LONE WO- MAN! HISTORY OF THE CRIME—Fovrra Pack. @° MANSLAYER SENTENCED! THE CORDES TRIAL TERMINATED! NOVEL LIFE-INSUR- ANCE DECISION! THE PALMER-FOLEY TROUBLE! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS— E1ontH PGE. CHARTER DISCUSSED AND AMENDED! WHAT THE ALBANY LEGISLATORS ARE DOING! THE DEDICATION OF EAST RIVER WHARVES TO THE OYSTER TRADE— TENTH PAGE. NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL! FILI- BUSTERING ON THE MEXICAN BORDER— THIRD PaGR. JOHN C. FREMONT AND THE MEMPHIS AND EL PASO ROAD! THE GENERAL ANIMAD- VERTS UPON THE FRENCH AGENTS! HE DECLARES HIS IRRESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FRAUDS—Firtu Pace, & LAPSE IN THE MONEY RATE AND THE GOLD PREMIUM! STOCKS LOWER! THE RESULT OF THE TREASURY CHANGES! LESSENED IMPORTS OF FOREIGN MERCUANDISE— NINTH PAGE. AWARDS FOR THE NEW BOULEVARD GROUND! SALES OF NEW YORK REALTY—A MyYS TERY OF THE SEA—SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN—Eicurn Pace. SHALL THE MODEL NEW STATE CAPITOL BE SENT TO THE VIENNA FAIR? A BEAUTI- FUL FAC-SIMILE OF A FINE PUBLIC EDI- FICE! THE DIMENSIONS AND THE COST! COMMISSION CHANGES—Firtu Pack. NAVAL NEWS AND OFFICIAL CHANGES! OCEAN- BED SURVEYS—ARTISTS AND THEIR WORKS—FiFTH PAGE. OUR PLEASURE NAVIES—CATHOLIC EDUCA- TION—LITERARY JOTTINGS—OBITUARY— FourTH PAGE. “Manrrest Destixy” on THE Rro GRANDE.— Exciting rumors are floating on the winds of political gossip in Washington of a revival of Bhields’ scheme of 1848 to seize a part of Northern Mexico and reconstruct it into a State of the Union. Itischeerfully hinted that Give thousand men can be collected in Mobile and New Orleans for this purpose, aud we have no doubt of it. There is very little probability, however, in the light of the President's recent conversation with a Henaup Commissioner, that the government of the United States would permit so gross a breach of international law. Mexico is familiar with the horrors of war, and it would be ernel to inflict on her the greater horrors of carpet bagism, which would surely follow an armed seizure of her territory by American fii- | pusters, amesorabio Justice—William Foster To Die Upon the Scaffold. William Foster is to pay the full penalty of the law and to suffer death upon the scaf- fold on Friday next. The decision of the Executive was made known to the Sheriff of New York yesterday by Colonel De Kay, the Governor's Military Secretary, and the reasons which induced refusal of the application for commutation of the sentence to imprison- ment for life will be made public on Monday or Tuesday of next week. They would, no doubt, have appeared simultaneously with the announcement of the result but for the domestic affliction which has temporarily withdrawn the Governor from his severe official labors. The near approach of the day of execution and the unwillingness of the Governor to grant a further respite, rendered it proper that the unfortunate prisoner should be at once informed of his fate, in order that he might prepare himself for death. Before this time Foster knows that all hope for him on earth is over, and that on Friday next he must stand in the presence of his Maker to answer for the life he took in a mo- ment of drunken passion. He can lean no longer on human aid; he can count no longer on human mercy. His reliance now must be on the Saviour, who died for all sinners—on the divine mercy which flows trom the atonement on the Cross, Governor Dix has filled the Executive chair but a little over two months, and for the sec- ond time he has been called upon to discharge the most painful duty that falls to the lot of any public officer. Twice in that brief period hs has held the life of a fellow being at his mercy. Twice he has been compelled to listen to the touching cries of heartbroken relatives, of wives and children, fathers and mothers, who have prayed for the lives of those who were dear to them despite their crimes. Twice he has firmly resisted such appeals, in the conviction that justice to the people who have honored him with their con- fidence demanded that the penalty of the offended laws should be fully paid. The case of Foster was one of peculiar difficulty. Never, perhaps, in the histosy of the State have such tremendous efforts been made to secure the Executive clemency as have been exerted in behalf of the murderer of Avery D. Putnam. Ministers of the Gospel, judges, lawyers, politicians, men of large wealth and of high commercial standing have united their voices in favor of a commutation of the sen- tence passed upon the prisoner. The jurors who tried him, with one exception, have de- clared their verdict to have been rendered in the belief that it would insure the sub- stitution of life imprisonment for the death penalty, and have expressed their opinion that the lesser punishment was sufficiont atonement for the crime. A legal doubt has thus been thrown about the case toadd to its embarrassments. The wife of the murdered man has begged the life of his murderer at the hands of the Governor. The father and mother of the unhappy pris- oner, bowed down with shame and grief, have supplicated for mercy. A wife, whose devo- tion to her guilty husband has been almost un- paralleled, and children, just old enough to feel the loss of a father, have prayed that he might be spared the gallows, although doomed to perpetual separation from them during the remainder of his days. To all of these Gov- ernor Dix has listened kindly and patiently; but, while his heart has no doubt yearned to grant their prayers, and while he has, we know, been torn by conflicting emotions and has been seeking strength and light at the throne of Grace to guide him in his painful task, he has never lost sight of the stern demands of justice and of that broader and deeper mercy which belongs to the people whose lives are endan- gered by the reckless ruffianism of the city. His sense of duty has prevailed. He has felt that the red-handed murder, which has too long held a reign of terror in the metropolis, must be dethroned and crushed forever; that the gallows must gather in its harvest in order that peaceful citizens may walk the streets in safety and that happy homes may no longer be rendered desolate in a mo- ment by the cruel hand of the assassin. The people of New York will honor Gov- ernor Dix for the Roman firmness he has dis- played in this most trying and distressing case, yet they will not withhold their pity from the unhappy man who is so soon to give up his life to the inexorable demands of justice. No heart can be so hardened as to be unmoved at the thought of a human being, in the vigor of manhood, in the full enjoyment of health and strength, going forth to meet his death upon the scaffold; looking out for the last time upon the light of day, upon the glories of sky and earth, upon the living faces of his fellow creatures, in the certainty that in one moment eternal darkness will fall upon his eyes and his soul will be hurried forward on its awful journey into the presence of its Creator. No one can refuse sympathy with the innocent relatives of the criminal, who will be crushed by the weight of their heavy grief; with his loving, faithful wife, who must weep alone over her father- less children; with his parents, who have lived an honored and useful life, and whose virtues entitled them to look for a far different fate for their offspring. Yet very few will believe that Governor Dix has committed an error in the course he has pursued, or refuse to give him crodit for an earnest desire to discharge his duty faithfully, regardless of his personal feelings and despite, an unusual and almost resistless pressure. Even those who have been the most untiring in their appeals for mercy will be forced to admit that it has been denied them only in the cause of justice. This does not imply that the efforts made by the friends of the unhappy prisoner to secure a commutation of his sentence have been in any censurable or improper. It was the privilege of all those to whom the guilty man ig dear--of all who honor and respect his parents and who feel compassion for his wife and children—to use covery exer- tion in their power to save him from the scaffold. Nature prompted his rela- tives to untiring and persistent labor in his behalf, to the exhaustion of every means by which the Executive clemency might be secured. If they had faltered in this work they would have been less than human; they | would have been undeserving of that affec- tionate respect that is now felt for them in | every manly heart, The crime for which Foster is to suffer and the manner of his death can leaye no stain upon them, for careless | Wainips gad bad gxuply did wet dead bina into sin. Neither should they affect the good name of his wife, for a devoted, faithful woman and interesting children should have made his home dear to him and withheld him from drunkenness and ruffianism. Hence the almost superhuman efforts made by all his family in his behalf were the true and praiseworthy promptings of nature, and no word of censure or of re- proach should ever be uttered against them. The duty of the Henaxp in this distressing case has been no less painful than that im- posed upon theGovernor. While we have felt as sincere pity for the family of Foster as could be entertained by their nearest friends, we have been constrained to study the public interests and to insist that mercy to the individual should not be yielded at the price of cruel injustice to the people. Ruffianism has been and is still rampant in the city, and the palsied arm of Justice has hitherto been powerless to check its infamous career. So lax had become the administra- tion of the law that a short time ago assassins did not dread to perpetrate their crimes in the broad light of day. It was the duty of an independent press to stand forward as the protector of peaceful citizens and to demand the stern execution of the law upon all offenders. The newspaper that for sordid motives, or through any other inducements, can be tempted to palliate the offence of a murderer, or to intervene between the gallows and its lawful pray, becomes the accomplice of ruffians and assassins. It has been charged that the Hznaup is bloodthirsty ; that it has followed the criminals who populate the Tombs as a sleuth-hound follows its victim. We can disregard all such revilings, for in insisting upon the exaction of the full pen- alty for murder we have been in truth most merciful, for we have helped to check the tide of ruffianism which was fast overflowing the city. Tho life of the murderer is not the only stake in this fatal game. The life of the victim and the peace and happiness of the innocent relatr@s of both are to be taken into consideration, and it is a false humanity which prompts us to ignore all these for the sake of prolong- ing the days of a convicted assassin. These considerations alone have prompted the Heratp’s course and will induce us to con- tinue our demand for the exaction of the penalty of death in the cases of other mur- derers yet untried or unhung. These con- siderations prompt us, while deeply sym- pathizing with the family and friends of Foster, to applaud the firmness with which Governor Dix has resisted the vigorous assault made upon his feelings, and given forth the word, even at the very moment his own heart was lacerated by the sting of death, ‘the convicted murderer must surely die on the scaffold.’’ His task is not yet accomplished. Gaffney has been hung in Buffalo; Foster is to be executed in New York. The crimes of both of these men were committed under the frenzy- ing influence of liquor. Wild with drink and incensed by losses at gambling, Gaffney rushed upon his victim in the street and killed him. Wild with drink and incensed by a quarrel in a street car, Foster rushed upon his victim and took his life. Tho law is vindicated in these cases. It is shown that the murderer wh», under the excitement of furious passion, kills 8 fellow being must pay the full penalty of his offence. It may be true that he was beyond self-control, that he pulled the trigger or struck the blow unconscious of what he was doing; that he became a mur- NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, in a fit of depravity and drunkenness slew the | its chief actors, If the Mexican Republic, wife of his bosom and the mother and support of his children. The crime of John M. Osborne, who was ex- ecuted at Knoxville, IIL, yesterday, was even worse. Prior to his execution he confessed to having murdered Mrs, Matthews, an unoffend- ing, peaceable woman, under an alleged con- tract with some wretch who was determined to put her out of the way rather than she should appear in Court as a witness in a case in which he was interested; but it is known that he added the abominable crime of outrage to that of murder. The Cabinet Crisis In England. By special cable telegram and the latest news reports from London we have a detailed account of the progress of the British Cabinet crisis, and of the efforts which were being made for the formation of a new Ministry to the hour of midnight yesterday. Mr. Disraeli, when at audience with the Queen, pointed out to Her Majesty the diffi- culty which he would have to confront after assuming the Premiership in the face of a hostile majority in Parliament. He begged the Queen to permit him time for considera- tion. The great Commoner did not, therfore, accept office, nor did he decline the honor. His tactic of delay was used evidently to enable him to mect the Earl of Derby, who was then on his way to England from Paris. This result has been accomplished. Lord Derby reached London yesterday and im- mediately sought an interview with Disraeli. The consultation was an anxious one. The result is, so far as can be judged from a mass of conflicting statements and club rumors, that Earl Derby will undertake the work of Cabinet making, and that he will constitute a Ministry, with himself as Pre- mier, Disraeli Chancellor of the Exchequer, and with Lord Salisbury, Gathorne Hardy, Sir Stafford Northcote and other well-known conservatives in prominent places. Gladstone's return to power is a favorite idea. Earl Granville is spoken of as likely to form @ mediatory, or ‘scratch’? Ministry, and with it to endeavor to tide over he Easter recess or longer, A dissolution of Parliament is contemplated by all parties, The conservatives like it. It is said that they are sanguine of a successful result for their cause. Gladstone may attempt to work on for a short time longer with the present House of Com- mons—in which he has a positive majority despite his late defeat—and could scarcely be made worse by an election. If Lord Derby consolidates a government a general election would be likely to benefit his party in the Commons, for there is no doubt but that very many of his political friends are just now in an exceedingly hungry condition in consequence of their involuntary and lengthened Lenten fast on the opposition benches, A dissolution of the English Parlia- ment, and a general election in consequence, are exceedingly probable events, likely to occur during the present Summer. The con- test will be an exciting one, but it must inure to the constitutional advance of the cause of the people in Great Britain. The contending party men must give solid assurances of ma- ternal popular gains to the nation. Spain—The Republic and the Carlists. Our news from Spain day after day is not helping us toa strong faith in the contin- uance of the Republic. The success of the Carlists on the Heights of Mourial isa bad omen. It is quite evident that the fight was severe, It is hardly conceivable that the gov- derer without premeditation—almost without thought or knowledge of the act; but he must die upon the scaffold nevertheless. So far so good; the example was needed. But now that the reckless, unreflecting, drunken murderers are properly dealt with, it is time to turn our attention to the sober, cal- culating assassins, who premeditate their cowardly crimes, who track their vio- tims to a convenient spot and _ shoot them down like rats in a trap. Gaffney is gone; Foster is to follow; how long shall the murderer Stokes be permitted to cheat the gallows? His fate is already sealed, for the Governor, who has refused a commutation to Gaffney and Foster, could not even entertain an appeal for mercy for the deliberate and calculating assassin. The singular interposition of a Judge has fora time averted his fate, but the Court cannot and will not make a mockery of justice by granting him a new trial, and the decision of the Governor in his case is recorded in advance. Justice requires his life. Let us hope that her demand will not be long re- fused. Two Executions in Illinois Yesterday. Illinois has been awakened recently to the necessity of meting out the extreme penalty to those whose hands have been imbrued in the blood of their fellow beings, and an illogical public sentiment has been superseded by a return to that stern justice which alone can insure safety to life so long as cutthroats such as are to be found in our sister city of Chicago are permitted to roam at large. George Driver, a special account of whose crime and execution is published in the Henaup to-day, was unfortunately a murderer of a type that is becoming too common among us. After fifteen years of ill treatment and abuse his wife sought and obtained a divorce, the Courts not only granting her petition for a final separation but according her the custody of her four children and the retention of the house in which she had lived with her depraved husband. The unhappy wife, yielding probably to the oft-repeated requests of the husband from whom the law had sepa- rated her, permitted him to return to her house asa boarder. This was the occasion for a repetition of former scenes ; he was a greater drunkard and more depraved than before, constantly demanded the little money the woman was able to collect from time to time, and finally, on the 30th of November last, shot her dead beneath the very roof under which he had enjoyed her bospitality. Like most men under the control of the executioner he admonished his children to shun the evils that had brought him to the gallows, and when about to die held up the noose made ready for his neck and assured the assembled crowd that bad whiskey had been the enemy to put his neck into it. While all this may prove s wholesome lesson to his family and many others probably few will regret the horrible end of this bad man, who abused all the bless- ings bestowed upon him ky thy Creator gad ernment troops were outnumbered ; but it is not to be denied that the Carlists drove their enemies from the ground and justly claimed the victory. The army, it is plain, is without heart. We do not wonder that it should be so. They know not for whom to fight. The republican leaders have been wanting energy. Without the army they can do noth- ing ; but in place of putting forth their whole strength to secure the army they have actually shown signs of distrust. The decrce issued by the government enrolling republican vol- unteers was, toall intents and purposes, a vote of ‘‘no confidence” inthe army. Ser- rano still stands quietly in the background. We hear but little of Montpensier and Al- fonso. We have nothing contradictory of the report that Montpensier had come to an agreement with Alfonso, according to which all the strength possessed by the former was to be given to the latter. Anarchy now reigns in more than one of the Provinces ; the republicans are not agreed among them- selves, and there is a reasonable presumption that time will make the situation more and more chaotic. It is impossible that the Car- lists can finally win. Their whole strength lies in the north. The victory of Mourial ‘was won only twenty miles distant from the French frontier. The Alfonsists are evi- dently biding their time. If Serrano heartily espouses the cause of Alfonso the army may pronounce at ogce in favor of Isabella's son. If Spain is not yet fully ripe for a Republic the next best thing is a constitutional monarchy, and Alfonso’s is the only available name. England Threat ing Mexico. Our latest news from the city of Mexico represents the English Cabinet as threatening our sister Republic with invasion. Spoliations by Mexican citizens upon British subjects in Honduras are stated as the basis ofa claim upon the government of President Lerdo for damages, and neglect to make prompt pay- ment and satisfaction therefor is alluded to in the note of the British Minister as liable to provoke the occupation of Mexican territory by hostile English troops. To this most ob- jectionable document Mexico has answered by civilly affirming her disposition to execute faithfully her treaty stipulations and to pre- vent a recurrence of depredations, but firmly re- fusing to entertain any propogition for submit- ting to any penalty for the acts of lawless men | who may have trespassed beyond the bounds of the Republic. Probably the recent minis- terial crisis in England may change the style of this correspondence. At any rate, England would do well to consider that an armed in- vasion by her of the soil of any nation upon this Continent would not promote pleasant relations where she would doubtless wish to secure and preserve them. It would be sternly resented. Moreover, she would do well to remember that, some ten years ago, an imperial European Power tried the experiment of controlling Mexico under the persuasions of military force. It proved « wryicbed daijue. a sagoking Wacdy, fatal to which is just emerging, under the popular ad- ministration of the new President, from the state of disorder which has long afflicted her, is justly responsible for injury inflicted upon there need be no fear that when the matter is properly approached by the repre- sentative of Queen Victoria she will make all reasonable amends; but the diplomacy which is emphasized by allusions to iron-clads and thirty-five ton guns naturally enough is dis- tasteful to our hot-blooded neighbors. We cannot blame them for meeting it with anger and answering it in defiance. Such a threat from the Mistress of the Ocean, whose drum- beat circles the globe, to a young nation strug- gling nobly to free herself from domestic tur- moil and internal dissension is unworthy of the British name. We hope soon to see it ex- plicity disclaimed by Lord Granville or who- ever may succeed him in the Foreign Office. Ocean Te:egraph Cables. Some days since we advised the employ- ment of our naval vessels to make deep sea soundings. We are pleased to see by our cor- respondent's letter from Washington that the Juniata is now preparing for this most impor- tant service. We again call upon Secretary Robeson to give orders by which this duty shall be most thoroughly and completely executed, He should order every modern appliance to be provided for this vessel and the peculiar ser- vice she goes upon; also that the lines of sounding be carried across the Atlantic, say from some one of our principal ports, for in- stance, from New York to Bermuda; thence to the Azores or Madeira; thence to Lisbon, Por- tugal, and upon her return let the Juniata run ® direct line of soundings from Lisbon to New York city, thus mapping out a direct and indi- rect route, so that choice may be made of the most desirable one for the cable. Secretary Robeson has shown his apprecia- tion of the importance of our cable to be laid, and we call upon him to order this sounding tobe done by at least two routes, one going and one returning. Governor Ketxoaa, of Louisiana (or rather the Governor in possession of the seals and keys of office, with Uncle Sam's bayonets to back him), has issued a proclamation lo the taxpayers, warning them to ‘walk up to the Captain’s office and settle,"’ or take the con- sequences. Perhaps the citizens may resolve to pay their taxes to avoid further difficulty, but accompany the same with a protest against the Kellogg usurpation, which may be of ser- vice as a basis of action when a turn in the political wheel throws the now oppressed class uppermost. Tue Cuarxeston Courier mentions a report that the name of ex-Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, is being formally considered in con- nection with a seat in General Grant’s Cabi- net, and, after a survey of the various republicans in the State, knows of ‘no name which would prove more acceptable.” A recommendation from such a source ought to be entertained, for it is a long time since South Carolina had a Cabinet Minister. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, is at the Filth Ave- nue Hotel. Colonel J. E. Baeza, of Barbadoes, is at the Grand Central Hotel. General John Love, of Indianapolis, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Senator Corbett, of Oregon, is in town at the Brevoort House. General James McQuade, of Utica, has quarters at the Gilsey House. General B. Bruzwal, of Venezuela, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. “Impeachm:nt Jim” Ashley, of Ohio, is regis- tered at the Astor House, Judge E. H. Rosekrans, of Glen’s Falls, 1s staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-State Comptroller Lucius Robinson, of Elmira, 1s staying at the Ioffman House, The President will leave Washington for his homestead in Missouri some time in April, General J. G. Foster, of the United States Army, has temporary quarters at the Hoifman House. Gambetta, who is about to make a tour of the North of France, says he will use very plain lan. guage to the people. Senator H. Hamlin, of Maine, was at the Astor House for a short time yesterday, while on his way home from Wasnington. Professor Max Muller has declined the chair of Sanskrit offered him in the new University of Strasburg. He will stay at Oxford. Dr. Thomas Barclay, Principal of Glasgow Uni- versity, recently deceased, began life as Parlia- mentary reporter for the London Times. Mme. Lidia Rodelrenna has given the St. Peters- burg Academy of Medicine $40,000 to endow an in- stitution for medical instruction for women. Aparty of gentlemen Japs from Jeddo are at Annapolis, Md., on a visit to the Japanese cadets that are in the Naval Academy at that place. General Uhirich, who commanded at Strasburg during the Franco-German war, has retired from the French army after fifty-three years’ service. It is claimed that “honest Joe Hawley, of Con- necticut,” was born in half a dozen diiferent States, as once was written of an ancient classical buffer. The friends of Hon. John Lynch, who repre- sented the First district of Maine im the last Congress, will give him @ complimentary dinner in Portland. General W. H. Morris, Inspector General of New York, is on a tour through the State looking at the troops, armories, arsenals and records of the National Guard. Mr. E. Richmond, who died in Providence, R. 1., on Saturday last, was the editor of United States Senator Anthony’s (Providence) Journal when it Started, a half century ago. Governor Warmoth has appeared in the streets of New Orleans “looking cheerful,” the papers say. His normal condition is said to be both dazzling and dangerous—among ladies. David J, Williamson, Consul at Callae, seeks & transfer to the Hong Kong Consulate, because the climate of Callao is unfavorable to his health. His request is likely to be granted. General T. B. Van Buren, United States Commis- sioner to the Vienna Exhibition, arrived at the Brevoort House, from Washington, last evening. He will sail in the steamship Adriatic to-day, and will be accompanied by his family. Mr. John Livingstone, the brother of the African explorer, has met with a heavy disaster, in the de- strnetion by fire of his business establishment in Listowell, Canada, recently. The same fire de- stroyed a great part of the business section of the wn. ii deputation of the Toleda (Ohio) City Council, composed of Messrs, J. S. Norton, J. T. Maher, H. A. Boyd, GW. Merrill and J.D, Cook, is at the Hoffman House. Its object is to inspect the water works of the various cities in this section of the country. It visited Poughkeepsie yesterday aud poturned to the hotel last evening. rowly escaped a horrible death during the tice- | regal marriage feasts at Cairo, Egypt. His balloon became torn when about four nundred yards fron ' the earth, and the wind enteving the rent, turned the vessel inside ont, Bendet held on to the tro. paze bar until within twevty yards of she carth, Wad then falling upon soft ground was only stuoned and 4 breed slicbiy. Bendet, the aeronautic trapeze performer, nar. | | ‘WHERE ARE THEY? The Modocs Not To Be Seen or Heard Of. The Army Unable to Move in the Matter. San Francisco, March 14, 1873, A courier arrived at Yreka this evening. Noth- ing has been heard from Captain Jack and the Modocs. The army bas made no movement, Every care is being taken to guard the lives and prop erty of the settlers. Itis thought at the front that Captain Jack has made efforts to procure a coalition with other tribes, and there is danger of his success. It is probable that another effort will be made for a con- ference with Captain Jack, but their success is doubtful. No messenger dares to risk his life im going to him. John A. Wright was hung to-day at Yuba City for the murder of Edward Faust, THE HERALD AND GENERAL GRANT. The Policy of the Future. | {From the Courrier des Etats-Unis, March 14} The reinstallation of the President of the Unite® States for a another period of four years has givem rise to the thought that the policy of this new pe- riod, strengthened by the experience and divested of the uncertainty of a first trial, would modify im certain points the course of tha administration, and would open favorable prospects for the solu- tion of certain questions upon which the claims of the public interest for satistaction have been up te the present unheeded. It was but natu- ral that the press sought to dispel the doubt and to ascertain in some precise manner, by authentic information, the point of de» parture of the new administration. It was natu- ral, ina word, that those entrusted with the en- lightenment of public opinion should undertake the task of ascertaining the principal bearings: of the Presidential policy, the fundamental thought of the government, the proposed changes in the Cabinet, and particularly in relation to the ques tion of the finances; the previsions touching the proposed conduct of the government in dealing with foreign Powers, especially with Spain, and, lastly, the views of the Executive upon the re- establishment of order in Louisiana and upon va- rious other home questions, such as the submission of Utah to the laws of the United States and the position to be maintained in treating with tne Indians. To the HERALD it belonged to throw light upon all these points, and it has done so. It has received despatch from one of its ambassadors to Presi- dent Grant, who received him with perfect cour- tesy and who hastened to furnish all explanations which he thought proper to ask. By this meang the representative of the MERALD has learned all that the people were most anxious to know, that the new administration has no important point of departure from the old, that the chief lines of the future Presidential policy are precisely the same as those to which the government has been con- fined in the past, the reign which now com- mences has no other fundamental ideas than that which has just ended, that there is no change in the composition of the Cabinet pro- posed, still less in relation to the finances; that the policy of the government in dealing with foreign Powers will not, so far as can now be foreseen, be less firm and candid, not even with Spain, where Mr. Grant sincerely desires to see the republic flourish; that Cuba would probably be able, with- out aid, to declare her independence; that Louisi- ana is in a normal condition; that the laws are being executed there under federal protection, and that public order is no longer menaced; that the Mormons have aright toa certain amount of respect for the services they have rendered to the State, but that they will be held amenable to the laws; and, lastly, that the policy of peace withand protection to the Indians is in a fair way of being successful, and that his only desire was to concili- ate the general imterests and the rights of humanity. The conclusion is that all is well along the line, that those who have been prog- nosticating some change in the conduct of public affairs have been simply dreamers, that Mr. Boutwell is the only person and the only thing thas is notimmutable in the government, and that he has no reason to expect it will be necessary to con- voke Congress before the regular session of De- cember next, at which time only Mr. Boutwell him- self intends to abandon the portfolio of the Finance Department to ensconce himself in his Senatorial chair. Happy country! Happy President! Happy gow ernment! Happy people! What & difference be- tween this quietude and sstisiaction, between this policy which moves quietly along in its tracks, without a wheel to change, without a care for all the Summer, without a legislative pang until Win- ter—and while these poor nations of the-Old World distracted, weighed down with cares and alarm, obliged constantly to devote all their resources and all their energy to the duty of creating expedients to save themselves from perishing, to repair their worn-out machinery, in propping up their declining institutions and in plastering up their cracked gov- erning structures! Is it not a marvel to witness with what calmness, with what stoicism,. this people models its course and continues on its.way, aban doning all that which in others gives rise to constant indignation and anger? Of what importance; in effect, are these light shades which cross pustilani- mous minds—abuses, corruption, arbitrary use of power, financial disorders, venal legislatures, vio- lated laws, dictation substituted for government, taxation immolated to the rapacity of officials, and all these menus propos which. create matter for the newspapers and cause men of state to- smile grimly? The ship runs by herself before the wind, and has no need of assistance from any other source. What would be the good of changing anything Why touch the saile when they speed the good ship on at such a rate, and when even the storms are all favorable? At Mr. Grant is a prudent captain, and he is not likely to sink the craft for the sake of trying her.over a new course. All is well around him. He finds everything right; but what he approves especially are himself and that which he does. His vision. also: extends beyond that of any one else, in, preat of which read what he says in reference: to Lout- siana:—“My only policy is the execution of the laws and in the recognition of the decisions:of the Courts.” It 1s sufficient in replying to. these. men- tal chagrins to remark that the President is: not compelled to understand the laws in. the:vulgar sense of the word. When ho speaks of the law it is martial law that he means; he only knows. of that, ana if there is any other in Louisiana it is | clear there has been a flagrant usurpation, and, am; arbitrary encroachment upon. civil rigits, .’ a which was wrong has been sustained by la strongest law —by federal bayonets. It is true, that despite the satisfaction which the sisuation. sgves Mr. Grant, he desired, in order to prove: his con- victions to the people, to show his paternad face and make a tour in the South, But one of hia houses has been burned in the West, and@ ‘he hag changed his route; he will go to St. Leuis, and the “reconstruction” of Louisiana will have to give place to the reconstruction of the Pregivicntial ‘estate in Missouri, At the end of the,account we find that General Grant received. a good lesson from the apparentiy indisereet questioner who asked him what, then, he conutea on doing during the four years open before him. hing’ ne replied, with about his habitual onic munner, aud that is suMcient, This is not “, great deal certainly, and when @ government haa such vod arguments im faver oO its service, why should we wish one tota of the policy to be changed? Evidently General Grant is traveling the true constitutional path, and those whe would wish him to turn aside trom it must be treated aa * qk BUDDY TACKQus, Hugh 19 (he Mural aud aul Le