The New York Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXVIII...... No. 78 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND’ EVENING, § SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway — Fourth av.—A Business Woman, Matinee. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip GARRICK, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth venue.—Davvy O'Down, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—UNCLE Sam, BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—An Inisny Fance— ‘Destiny, do. THEATRE COMIQUE. Burixsaue anv O10. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad. sway.—ALLE WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Ernami. Afternoon and Eve § No. 514 Broadway.—Dnama, ati Bri ‘ay.—Granp Vanrety En- ATHENEU®M., No. SERTAINMENT. Matines ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect.—ITauian Orrra—La Favonita. RMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third Dik JUGENDIAURE FRIEDRICH DES GROSSEN. RY. NIRLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo and Lotos. ST, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.—Bur- esque Orrra—Lucrezia Borgia, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleeeker streets.—Humrry Dumpty. Matinee at 2, MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Monte Cristo. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner Gth av.—Neoro Minstretsy &c. ‘TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HO! Waniety ENTERTAINMENT. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av,—Oration, “SToRMING THE BastiLe.”” E, No. 201 Bowery.— STEINWAY HALL, Foi B—Reapines FRoM Suaxsr’ h street.—Afternoon at RE. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmener anv Arr. New York, Wednesday, March 19, 1873. a ara se : THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “O'RELLY'’S GREAT FEAT OF REACHING THE CUBAN CAMP! THE REROES OF THE IN- DEPENDENT PRESS!)—LEADING EDITO- RIAL ARTICLE—Sixtu Pace. & PERILOUS MISSION! THE GALLANT HERALD COMMISSIONER HEARD FROM! HE LOSES Wis HORSE EN ROUTE TO, THE EBEL LINES, PROCEEDS ON FOOT AND NEARLY DIES FROM FATIGUE! THE CUBANS FOUND! RELIABLE NEWS FROM CUBA LIBRE! THE EDGAR STUART SUPPLIES—SEvENTH Pace. WO MEN WOUNDED IN A SANGUINARY AF- FRAY ON A THIRD AVENUE CAR! A ROW WITH A ROUGH AND HIS gWOMAN!” THE PISTOL RECKLuSSLY USED—RAMPANT RUFFIANISM—Tump Pace. LOOKING INTO THE MANAGEMENT OF ERIE AF- FAIRS! ‘ATTORNEY GENERAL BARLOW EXPLAINS HIS CONNECTION WITH THE COMPANY! WHY HE REFUSED A FEE— ‘THIRD PAGE. BPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CArt- TAL—THE MUNICIPAL BUREAUS—MARINE NEWS—TENTH PAGE. WABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EURUPE—MEXICAN AND LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—SEVENTH Page. FOSTER YIELDING HOPE AND SINKING PHYSI- CALLY! HE READS AND REVIEWS GOV- | ERNOR DIX’S LETTER! HIS VISITORS— Tump Pace. FURIOUS DEBATE OVER THE TWEED INVESTI- GATION IN THE STATE SENATE! THE BOSS FEARS NOT HIS FATE! “SOMEBODY WILL GET HURT! REPORTING THE CHARTER—THIED PAGE. BENERAL CANBY AND THE MODOCS! PEACE PROSPEC!S ! THE SAVAGES . SUR- ROUNDED—SEVENTH PAGE. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL BUSINESS! THE PRICES REALIZED FOR GOLD, STOCKS, MONEY, GOVERNMENTS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE—Fourti PaGE. IMPORTANT BANKRUPTCY DECISION! FERRED CREDITORS! TO THE PAYING POINT! BUSINESS—FovrtH Pacr. AUSTIN THE REAL CULPRIT IN THE WALL STREET SWINDLE—REAL ESTATE BUSI- NESS—FourtH Pace. WHE .SEVENTY-FOURTH STREET STABBING AFFRAY! THE POLICING OF THE NINE- TEENTH PRECINCT—SOUND STEAMERS TO COME BELOW CORLEAR’S HOOK—FirTi PaGE. PRE- GREEN BROUGHT GENERAL LEGAL Porren’s Prepicament.—Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, member of Congress, is one of those honest Representatives who have refused to ac- cept the two years’ extra pay voted by less conscientious members into their own pockets. But Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, M. C., has paid the amount into the hands of the Sergeant-at- Arms of the House of Representatiyes at Washington, and we do not clearly see how it tan find its way back to the National Treasury through that source. Now that the officer has got the money, what will he do with it? Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, M. C., could at any future day take it back again if he wanted to do so, no doubt; but this isnot likely. The financial Ordway might use it himself if he felt.so dis- posed, beyond question. But how is Uncle Sam to get at it? Hon. Clarkson N. Potter, M. C., is in a predicament. He had better take the money back and spend it or pay it di- rectly into the United States Treasury. does not he may find it as difficult to trace hereafter as were Oakes Ames’ little initial checks. Tue Gurrrin(Ga.) News publishes the story of a dissatisfied Georgia black who went to Arkansas to better himself. He gives the gloomiest account possible of the condition of uflairs there, and reports the negroes in a ter- rible condition. Here is an excellent theme dor the colored orator, Downing, to descant pon in his proposed tour of enlightenment among the Southern blacks. a.) Sun says some of the begroes in Sumter county are breaking faith with their employers and have no regard for their contracts. The easiest way to surmount this difficulty would be for the employers to | engage reliable white European laborers, and let Sambo seck the lively swamps of Arkansas, in which he can shiver and shake with the | fever and ague to his heart's content. Why will not the intermeddling Northern carpet. | haggers let the poor Southern blacks alone and allow them to enjoy the blessing of kuow- ing when they are well off? If he | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. wKelly’s Great Feat of Reaching the Cuban Camp—The Heroes of the Independent Press. The despatches from Havana which we print on another page of the Heraxp, contain- ing intelligence direct from our Special Com- missioner, written in the insurgent camp, 0on- firm fully the information already published of his having arrived there. ‘The interesting missives themselves are in the hands of our correspondent at Havana and in tho hand- writing of Mr. O'Kelly. From them will be learned what perils and almost deadly fatigues he has bravely undergone in the performance of his duty. After leaving the city of Santiago de Cuba on the 19th of February he journeyed into the mountains, accompanied by five Cuban guides. Owing to the steepness of the mountains over which the trail led he was obliged on the night of the first day out to abandon his horse and proceed on foot to his destination. The fatigue consequent on this effort must have been, ashe describes, very great ; for it was equally dangerous to halt or turn back. In a letter to a friend in Santiago de Cuba he says that when he comes to write in full the story of that terrible toil he will be accused of writing romance. Passing, indeed, in the vicinage of the Spanish outposts and over such rugged country, the trouble and fatigue must have equalled the peril he ran. But the unconquerable heart was rewarded with a throb of pleasure at last, as on the 22d ult. he tramped wearily into the outlying encampment of the Cuban patriots. ... .. * This unselfish devotion to duty in o jour- nalist will challenge the highest praise wherever throngh the wide world it is read of. It will stand fitly beside the achievement per- formed by Mr. Stanley in the heart of Africa, and will have this deeper element of chivalry in it that it was done not in the face of igno- rant savages, but in the teeth of the army of a civilized Power given, like its Cuban enemy in the forests, to barbarous means in the conduct of its war. Mr. O’Kelly had, then, no other assurance of his safety in returning to the Spanish lines than his own, stout heart could find in the equivocation of the Spanish officials who threatened him with death should he be once caught after seeking and finding the rebels. It was many days after his arrival in the rebel camp that Captain General Ceballos took the wiser and humane course of countermanding the brutal threat of General Morales and sim- ply ordering Mr. O'Kelly’s expulsion from the island on his reappearance. This journey, therefore, apart from its physical difficulties, becomes heroic, for its penalty at the time was, or appeared to be, death. Had he been a Cuban spy, as General Morales ab- surdly, and with a knowledge of its inconse- quence, insisted, the action would be measur- able by the acts of many brave men who have staked all on a partisan cause. Mr. O'Kelly, on the contrary, took sides with neither Span- iard nor Cuban, but risked his life with both in the cause, as wide as humanity—the‘cause of impartial and fearless truth. From no other secular power in the world beside the independent press could he re. ceive the credentials which made him the ambassador of truth. Neither Emperor, King nor President could sign the brevet of an emissary in such a case, whose mission would be the collection of uncolored facts between two peoples fighting for what are called ideas. Such an envoy would, how- ever upright in intention, be forever under the suspicion of viewing facts as his mas- ter would wish to see them. This fact would discount his statements of what he had seen, and would, above all, tell heavily against the implicit acceptance of his deduc- tions. Either, as in olden times, the searcher after truth must represent only what honesty is centred in himself or must go forward pledged on the faith of the independent press asaman above suspicion and reproach. In the latter weighty representative capacity Mr. O'Kelly began his mission; recognizing its grave responsibility he has carried it on, and, unbending to threat or cajolery, will jhe continue, with the best efforts of his manhood, to reach its fair conclusion. The Empire, the Monarchy or the Republic which the envoy of any of them would represent might pass away, as they have passed ; but the great spirit of truth and justice is an undying entity, and the man charged with its mission in any spot of the earth has to remember that he is in the service of the immortal and unchanging. The Cubans have taken up arms because they connect Spanish rule with tyranny and injustice. and a lack of right to govern them. The Spaniards defend their rule in Cuba because they believe that long possession gives them their right to rule; that Cubans are merely transplanted Spaniards, and have no just cause to rebel. The Spaniards have a large ‘farniy in the field in the assertion of their right, and the Cubans have a force not so large perched on the mountains and hidden among the valleys in affirmation of their cause. Each is anxious that the world should believe in the possibility of its vanquishing its enemy, and both profess a fearlessnessof the world judg- ing them by their force, their acts and their in- given the highest proof of his impartiality in his writings, and hence it was feared by the | poorest and rashest reasoners on the Spanish side that, because he had found things on their sidéd of the question he could not ap- plaud, he would inevitably praise everything on the Cuban side. When the attention of Captain General Ceballos was called to the fact that O’ Kelly had censured what he found wenk in the Cuban party he admitted the point and withdrew the order which had been issued against our correspondents life. We dwell heavily on this matter, because we observe in our despatches to-day a clumsy endeavor on the part of certain Spaniards to take away from Mr. O'Kelly the impartial ness, he has maintained, As our Commis- sioner states in his despatch and letter, he lost his horse in the mountains on the first night out. After gaining the rebel lines he departed for the interior in search of Oespedes, and from Camp Tampie when two further on his journey. Now comes the report from Spanish sources that the horse was captured in an engage- ment with the insurgents. There might | be nothing unnatural in this except that it | brings the insurgents very close to Santiago de Cuba, where O'Kelly certainly was not at | writes | days the time. This was, no doubt, found to be a very small and suspicious affair; so, last of all, there come false witnesses, who say that in an attack bya thousand Spaniards on a strong insurgent position, and in which the Spaniards would appear to have been worsted, the Hzratp Commissioner was seen waving on the rebels with the sabre of his sire. We could afford to smile at this fig- ment of the Spanish brain were it not that we see in it a deliberate attempt to make out, at all hazards, a case against the neutrality of our Commissioner. They flatter themselves that by a little bold lying they can raise up such a_ feeling among the most bloodthirsty of their class that the assassination of O'Kelly would take place on his return, with or without orders, But this cowardly and bloodthirsty treachery we do not purpose to let pass without nailing it at its proper standard. It would in any case be of little account when it is remembered to be the venomous stab of men fresh from de- feat. Happily, however, we have direct proof of its untruth in the brief but .sufficing despatches from Mr. O'Kelly himself. There is another view of the statement which is as little comforting to the Spanish officers—namely, that the vision grew out of their honest fears; that, like the rogue who saw ‘in every bush an officer,”’ on every horse they saw a sabre-brandishing O'Kelly. To accept still another alternative, it might be that the only valid excuse they could think of offering for their non-success was the invention of O'Kelly “waving on the insurgents’ as aforesaid.. This would be still more comical; but, in justice to Spanish courage, we return to our first charge that it was the deliberate invention of a few narrow-minded dastards to wreak their spite ona man whom they could not rise to the level of comprehending, by pointing out a cause for his assassination on his return to the Spanish lines. We rely upon the word of General Ceballos to show these pigmy plotters the estimation at which such o story from such a source is valued. Leaving this grave matter aside for the mo- ment, we can turn with some pleasure to the work now, we believe, within easy reach of our Commissioner. He is in the heart of the territory which the insurgents hold or traverse as they list. He will be able to give the world full and faithful particulars of the actual state of the Cuban insurrection. He will, doubt- less, long ere this have gained from Cespedes and the other insurrectionary chiefs detailed estimates of their prospects and the general line of their projects. He will do his work thoroughly as well'as impartially, and will give us such light on the intricacies of the Cuban question as has never been let in on them before. In the brief despatches which tentions. Our Special Commissioner has already | character which, with forbearance and manili- | have reached us he has already con- firmed the landing of the Edgar Stuart expedition, which has been repeatedly denied by the Spaniards. We ask the wildest alarmist among the Spaniards not to fear that Mr. O'Kelly will appear at the head of any other columns than those of the Henatp or that he will wave anything except the flag of truth. We have the same con- fidence in the neutrality and impartiality of our Commissioner now, and the same cause for belief in it, that we had when we said he would prove impervious to threat and fearless of obstacles which short-sighted officials might throw in his way. The Legislature and Comptroller Green—How the Public Money Is Wasted. ba Several days ago the State Legislature requested Comptroller Green to report the amount paid out for legal expenses on suits to which the city has been a party since his accession to office. The object of the inquiry was, no doubt, to ascertain how. much of the people's money had been squandered in litiga- tion, much of which has been unwise and unnecessary, during the last eighteen months, The reply of the Comptroller has been made, but it is not likely to prove satisfactory. Mr. Green evidently misinterprets the mean- ing of the inquiry, ‘or, understanding it, chooses to avail himself of a technical inter- pretation, and to confine his statement to a very limited class of suits. We have no doubt that the Senate desires to know exactly how. much money Mr. Green has paid out to lawyers, either for counsel fees or in costs in defending suits of all descriptions against the city, whether paid to the plaintiffs in the suits or to the lawyers engaged for the city; in fact, just what Mr. Green's litigious spirit and passion for legal advice has cost the taxpayers of New York. This information Mr. Green withholds from them, and they will probably return his present reply to him, with a sharp request for a more satisfactory statement. If we are correct in our interpretation of the Senate's object in adopting the resolution of inquiry Mr. Green should report to that body the various sums he has paid to his special counsel, amounting in all, it is said, to nearly fifty thousand dollars. In the case of the Fire Telegraph Construction Company’s claim, which could have been settled for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars twelve month ago, Mr. Green contested payment, step ‘by step, through all the courts, and was defeated gn trial and appeal, The consequence wos that about three or four weeks ago, under the force of a peremptory mandamus, Mr. Green was compelled to pay the claimants over one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars fer principal, interest and costs—a clear loss to the city of over seventy-five thousand dollars ina single claim. In the case of Alderman Monheimer’s claim for the paving of Seventh avenue with wooden pavement Mr. Green re- sisted payment and engaged the services of Mr. John H. Strahan to prove the fraudulent character of the claim. Subsequently Mr. Strahan became the counsel for the claimant, instead of for the city, and less than two weeks ago judgment was recovered and the | amount was paid by Mr. Green in two war- rants—one for one hundred and thirteen thou- sand dollars and the other for over nineteen | thousand dollars, the latter being drawn against the ‘judgment’? found. As Mr Strahan received a fee of five thousand dollars out of the latter warrant, we presume the whole sum was for legal expenses and interest. The Senate probably desires to receive in- formation from Mr. Green of just such cases as these, and there are several of them, we understand, on record in the financial depart- ment. The Comptroller should be enlight- ened as to the meaning of the Legislature, and then be peremptorily required to report without evasion or delay. It is important now, when we are about to appoint new officers under tho city government, to ascertain whether the chief financial officer of the city is capable of filling the position he holds, or Whether a certain reputation for honesty is the only qualification he possesses for the office. When the informa- tion the Senate is now seeking shail have been obtained ié will be well to inquire into the toatter of negleeted assessments, in order to ascertain how much money the taxpayers have been made to squander on interest unneces- sarily while the Comptroller has been engaged in newspaper controversies with other depart- ments of tho city government in paltry attempts to cut down the wages of laborers and scrub women. The Legislature will then discover whether Mayor Havemeyer is not correct when he arrives at the eonclusion that the office of Comptroller of the city of New York is not too big for the present incumbent. Proposed Amendments to State Constitution, Since our present State constitution was framed the world is @ quarter century older, the State has largely increased in wealth and population and many circumstances have widely changed. Six ©. ago it was ad- mitted by all that we 1 ) to modify and modernize the organic law. A convention for that purpose assembled, in which the late Mr. Greeley was particularly prominent, It passed ® new constitution embracing very radical changes. When submitted to the people the verdict of the ballot boxes was against it. Governor Hoffman advised that the subject should be considered by a smaller commission, ‘and, being empowered by the Legislature, he appointed, from the most experienced, judi- cious and intelligent men of the State of all political shades and representing a great variety of interests, a commission authorized to propose amendments which will bring the constitution into proper relation with existing facts, Since December this body has been discussing and deliberating. Its work is now complete and its conclusions reported to the Legislature in amendments which, in the judgment of the Commission, the rights and interests of the State required as modifications of the constitution of 1846. To give these pro- posed amendments the validity of law they must be approved by the present Senate and Assembly, be also passed by both houses next year, then submitted to the people, when, it they receive the affirmative vote of a majority, the constitution, as amended by them, will become the fundamental law of the State on the Ist day of January, 1875. Wherever the old constitution was judged to be well enough it has been let alone, judicious repair and not thorough reconstruction appear- ing to have been the rule kept in viow. Among the changes proposed we note the fol- lowing :—The property qualification formerly required of negro citizens before being allowed to vote is to be erased. Stringent provisions are made against ‘bribery and corruption in elections, and all officers against whom these charges are proved are declared incompetent and their election void. Officers will be re- quired to embody in their oath of office a declaration that they have spent no money or given or promised any valuable thing to influence or secure votes. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Comptroller are to be elected for three years. The Governor is to have asalary of ten thousand dollars a year, with the use of a suitable house. Lieutenant Governor’s salary, four thousand dollars ; Comptroller's, six thousand. Secretary of State, Attorney General and State Engineer and Surveyor to be appointed bythe Governor and Senate. One Superintendent of State Prisons instead of the present three State Prison Inspectors, to be appointed for five years by the Governor and Senate. He is to name all prison officers except clerks, who are to be appointed by the Comptroller. A Super- intendent of Public Works is to be appointed for three years by the Governor and Senate, to have charge of the canals, instead of three Canal Commissioners. A State Treasurer is to be elected by the Senate and Assembly in joint ballot, to hold office three years. Instead of the State being divided into thirty-two Senatorial districts, with a member for each, it is to form eight districts, each electing four members. These are to be so arranged as to give the southeastern portion of the State the increased representation to which its rapid growth of population entitles it. Now, Kings county has two Senators; Queens, Suffolk and Richmond one; New York five; Westchester, Rockland and Put- nam one. By the amendment Kings, Queens, Suffolk and Richmond will be one district and choose four Senators. New York, south of Twenty-sixth street, another district, will have four more; the balance of New York, with Westchester, Suffolk and Rockland, forming the Third district, will give to the counties above named twelve Senators instead ot nine. The Senators first chosen in each district are to be divided into four classes—one to hold office one year; the others two, three and four years, respectively; one Senator be- ing elected from each district each year, gubsequently to hold office four years. Thus three-fourths of the Senators will be experienced in their duty. Members of the Assembly are to be, as now, one hundred and twenty-eight, chosen in single districts for one year. Each member of the Legislature is to havea salary of one thonsand dollars a year. Bills to pass are required to reeeive the vote of majority of all the members elected, and to become laws after the Governor’s veto they must have the vote of two-thirds of all elected in ich branch. Special legislation is prohibited in a large number of cases specified. Among these are the granting of exclusive powers and franchises to individuals and corporations and the conferring of authority to locate railroad tracks. Special, local and private bills must be introduced within the first sixty days of the session, unless by consent of three-fourths. Every tax levy shall receive the assent of three- fifths of both houses. All city governments are to be on a uniform plan, in which mayors and aldermen are to be elected by the people, and heads of departments appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen. Each city shall also have a board of audit of not less than five nor more than eleven members. They shall be electors: of the city, and shall be chosen by general ticket by such electors thereof as shall have paid individu- ally, in the year previous to the election, a tax on property officially assessed for taxation at not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, The the ‘The assont of such Board of Audit, by the | vote of a majority of all the members elected thereto, shall be necessary to every resolution, ordinance or other proceeding of the Board of Aldermen involving the auditing of claims and accounts, the expenditure of money, the contracting of debts or the levying of taxes and assessments; and the Board of Audit shall be clothed with no other power. This clause, which proposes to give taxpayers @ ® new and peculiar power over municipal expenditures, isan innovation which will be apt to encounter decided opposition. A census is to be taken in 1875 and in each tenth year thereafter, and Assembly districts are to be equalized and apportioned according to population. The Legislature is to be re- strained from selling or disposing of tho Erie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayuga and Seneca canals, and the expenditures upon them in each year are restricted to the amount of their gross réceipts in the previous year, All the other canals are left to the discretion of the Legislature, Most of these propositions are obvious improvements on the old law; all of them have weighty reasons in their favor. The Commission has done its duty honestly, faithfully and creditably to the State, and its report will probably in the main receive the endorsement of the present Legislature. Still More Deeds of Blood—Where Are the Police? ‘What a commentary on the efforts of those who would save murderers from the gallows are the reports of-fresh and terrible murders which appeared in our columns yesterday! And we have been told that drunkenness should palliate the crime of murder! Let those who reason thus read the report of the fearful deed of blood in East Seventy-fourth street by drunken ruffigns, and then say if society is to be protected by admitting such special pleading in behalf of mur- derers. In the middle pf the day—that is, at half-past oné o’clock—three men, Irish laborers, it is said, entered a Ger- man lager beer saloon, and after drinking what they wanted refused to pay. Upon the proprietor, Jacob Schmitt, remonstrating and taking one of the ruffians by the collar he was felled to the ground by a blow from the ringleader with a beer bottle. While bleeding and insensible from the fearful scalp wound inflicted the ruffians kicked the prostrate man. When his wife ran to rescuo and protect him one of the murderous brutes drew a long sheath knife and plunged it into her back, just below the left shoulder blade. But, not satisfied with this, the fiend continued to stab the poor, helpless woman in her breast and right arm. The three scoundrels seemed to vie with each other in brutality towards beth husband and wife. A neighbor, Mr. Young, who appeared at the spot, from having heard the cries of distress, was also stabbed. Such was the thirst for blood and brutality of the wretch who stabbed Mr. Young that he turned the knife round and round in the wound. A more horrible and sickening event we have hardly ever recorded. And the fiends made their escape. As usual, there were no police near or to be found. We have called attention several times to the want of police- men at Yorkville and the inefficiency of those there, Here is another and terrible case in point. Perhaps there is no part of the city less protected by the police than York- ville, though there is reason enough to complain of insufficient protection everywhere. Where the fault lies we do not know. There may be too few policemen, the foree may not be kept fully up even to the number allowed by law in order to leave room for the friends of politicians, the Commissioners may not be as efficient as they ought to be, the discipline may be too lax and the finance department of the citytmay be too niggard. Something is wrong, in one way or another, The city must be better protected. On the spur of this Seventy-fourth street horror comes another account of bloody row- dyism and the murderous use of firearms by a body of roughs on Third avenue. These four, or five ruffians were drunk also when they seized and took possession of a street car, drew their revolvers, wounded the conductor and another person and fired right and left, to the great danger of wounding many others. Are these murderous scoundrels to be ex- cused too because they were intoxicated? The city must be protected. If more police be necessary they must be had. At all events there is no way of checking these murders and outrages but by inflexible justice. The Political Situation in England. The doubts of some days are at last ended. Mr. Gladstone is still Prime Minister of Great Britain. Mr. Disraeli and his friends in the House of Commons were bold enough and strong enough to defeat the Gladstone Min- istry on the second reading of the Irish Uni- versity bill. Mr. Gladstone was honest enough and daring enough to see the Queen and ten- der his resignation. It was a fair fight; the battle was fought and won, and by the party in power the results were accepted. It is im- possible to refuse to admit that Mr. Gladstone was justified in tendering his resignation. It is just ps impossible, however, to refuse to admit that Mr. Disraeli and his friends have confessed their weakness by refusing to accept the responsibility which for four years they have been sighing for and which a fair fight devolved upon them. We are quite sat- isfied that the tories would not for any length of time hold power in Great Britain ; but we are by no means satisfied that an ap- peal to the people, made at the present moment, would not have resulted in a tory triumph. Mr. Gladstone’s Irish reforms have been guod, but too much of a good thing palls upon the taste, Of Irish reform the people seem to be tired. Session after session it has been the same old tune, and now even Mr. Gladstone's grand performances cease to attract. In addition to this Mr. Gladstone has alicnated from himself and from the great liberal party the potent influence of the licensed victuallers of England by his severe and restrictive legislation. In the large towns of England proper such is the feeling of the masses, in consequence of this restrictive legislation, that it would not be wonderful if, in a general election, they would be tound in opposition to the liberal party. A general election, however, is expensive, and as a con- tinuance of power is scarcely possible to the tories Mr. Disraoli, wisely, we think, declines going, as they say, tothe country. Over the House of Commons, as the House of Com- mons is at present composed, Mr. Disracli could not exercise control. The presumption now is that the Irish University bill will be dropped and that Mr. Gladstone will remain in power until after Easter, when there will be a general election and a test of party strength. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Sherman will leave the Astor House for Washington to-day. Congressman Eugene Hale, ef Maine, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge W. S, Linceln, of Washington, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman 8. 0, Houghton, of San José, Cal. 1s at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman Clinton D, Macdougall, of Auburn, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel, Secretary Robeson will reside at Long Branck during the Summer months, Judge H. Griswold, of Leavenworth, Kan., has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Colonel J. C. Roy, of the United States Army, has quartered at the Sturtevant House, Walter McMichael, ef the Philadelphia North American, is at the Hoffman House. ‘The Duchess de Alba, the mother of ex-Empread Eugénie, has suddenly become blind. Ex-Congressman Thomas H. Canfield, of Ver- mont, is among yesterday's arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte yesterday came on from Baltimore, and 1s staying at the New York Hotel, Rustun Pasha, the new Turkish Governor of Mount Lebanon, is an Italian, whose proper name and title is Count Mariiant, It is surmised that Nana Sahtb died in Napaut six months ago, as about that time his wife dis- tributed her hair among her relatives, Ontario county, according to the Lockport Unton, elects a democratic Board of Supervisors “for the first time within the memory of man.’’ The Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, has ace cepted the Fotectorate of the Hospice to be built near Jerasalem by the Knights of Molta, Celene! Juan Manuel Macias, late agent of the Republic of Cuba at London, has returned to this city from Washington and joined his family in Ninth street. Rey. Edward King, Principal of Caddesden Theo> logical College, has acvepted the hegitis Professor- ship of Theology in Oxford University, succeeding Rey. Dr, Ogilvie, recently deceased, The motive of the youth Sevin, who recently tried to kill his father, in the Department ef the Seine, France, was to make himself the “only son of & widow,” and thus avoid conscription. Congressman H. L. Dawes, of Massachusetts, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. His late bout with Boutweil in the Massachusetts Legislature has not injured him, and he was ready as ever to wrestle with financial measures in the House. > A Massachusetts paper don’t believe that a “cers tain man” (meaning Ben Butler) will be the next Governor of Massachusetts. He may not be the next Governor, but Butler is the most uncertain man now in politics. Monsignor Mermillod, on receiving the decree of banishment Jrom Switzerland, said:—“Voila! a present of value, and which I shall preserve as & passport to Paradise.” The exiled Bishop will preach in the Madelaine, in Paris, during Passion week. On dit, that when Miss Nellle Grant was in Lone don, D’Isracli was asked whether he thought the American Princess pretty? ‘I can’t say,” replied the author of “Lothair,” “for Ihave only seen her once; she was then sitting between General Schenck’s two daughters, and I thought she had some indirect claims to good looks.” M. Stanislaus Juliien, for many years Professor of Chinese in the College of France, is now said to have had no knowledge of that language. Being very witty, M. Jullien was always able to place something insurmountable in the way of would-be students. Thus saving his imposture from being known, he died with the reputation of a wit and savant, . Thus are cynics made. Recently a convict overe powered the turnkey of the prison at Orbe, Swit- zeriand, and locked him up in a cell. Too generous to,leave his fellow convicts in confinement, he opened their cells and bade them be free. None of them having very long to serve, the ungrateful ‘érfminals not only refused to flee, but, te commend themselves to the civil authorities, they basely overcame their escaping fellow and gave him over to the turnkey again, THE HERALD AND ITS EXTERPRISE, {From the Yreka (Cal.) Union.] Our readers are all aware that the New Yore HERALD despatched a Mr. Fox to the theatre of the Modoc war to act as its special correspondent, to forward to it early and reliable iniormation with regard to whatever might transpire. As the journal to which Mr. Fox sends despatches and writes letters is published a long way off, and but few, if any, copies of it are circulated in this section of the country, he had not created much of alocat sensation since his advent at the front. While the correspondents of the Bulletin, Record and Chront- cle—particularly the two latter, by their trenchant, meat-axe style of assaulting ‘men in buckram,”® conjured up by their own have raised the public mind of this State to the highest pitch of indignation at the awful disclosures they have from day to day made, Mr. Fox’s existence has almost been forgetten. But it now seems that while the other correspondents were boiling over with indig- nation at the horrors perpetrated by the Apple- gates, at the outrages meditated by the Oregon “war ring,” at the dastardly character of the Ore- gonians in general and the petty thefts of Captain Kelly and command in particular, and, last but not least, at the high-handed despotim: of the Peace Commissioners in refusing to allow the reporters themselves to become the custodians of the secrets of the Commission—we say it now appears that whiie the other correspondents were boiling over with rage at all these horrors and outrages and larceny and despotism, and holding up their pure hands in holy horrer and asking.can such things be? Mr. Fox quietly saddled up his horse and rode over to Van Bremer’s and thence over the moun- tain to the lava bed, and over the rocks and fissures o/ that untinished piece of the world, up to Jack’s stronghold, so wondrously made by, Nature herself. This teat of Fox has Nees the HeRALp in the yan and distanced all competitors in the race for news, It is, no doubt, invended by the HeRALD office, which planned, and Fox, who executed this move, that it shall rank only second to Stanley’s search for Livingstenc in Central Africa, As will be seen by our correspondence from headquarters, all the correspondents asked permission to accom pany Fairchild and party to ack’s camp, and alt were refused. It is also stated that thereupon Fox had saddled his horse and rode over to Vam Bremer’s; that he left Van Bremer’s two hours be- fore day Monday morning, and had not been heard frem up to Tuesday noon. It was surmised ne had watched for Fairchild’s party to enter the lava bed, had joined and went with them to Jack camp. This conjecture reved correct., He went to Jack’s Fopuopbea witn Jack and his counsellors, wormed out of them all their secrets, spent the night under their hospitable roof, returned the next day to Vam Bremer’s, wrote up his report, using some 5,000 words, despatched a courier to Yreka with it and sent it by telegraph to the HERALD, at @ cost of some $500 or $600. Thursday morning’s HERALD announced to {ts myriad readers, under flaming head lines, all the secrets of Captain Jack’s Cabi- net and all the plans of his generals, obtained by its own correspondent in an interview with Cap- tain Jack and the chief military and civil dignita- ries of his kingdom, at his entrenched military capital, in the heart of the lava bed. Such is @n= ter prise. - THE HERALD AS A BUSINESS BAROMETER, [From the Newark Journal, March 17.) Senator Frelinghuysen’s “golden era” begins to be visible, we are right glad to say. For two con- secutive Sundays the New YorK HERALD has pubs lished @ quadruple sheet, “with over sixty-three columns of advertising! This shows that the Spring trade’has fairly opened. Our faith ts pinned on the HERALD as a first class business barometer. NAVAL ORDER, WAsHrINnaton, March 18, 1873, Captain Francis A. Poe has been detached fronm the command of the naval rendezvous at San Pram cisco, and ts Lemborarily succeeded by Commandee, McDougak