The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Hera. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tarned. Volame XXXVIII. ..No. 79 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth etreet.—Davip Gannicx. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twen svenue.—Dappr O'Dowp. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—UNcLE Sam, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—An Inisa Farce— Destiny, dc. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Burwesque anv Ov10. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ird street, corner Sixth way. ALIKE WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad Erwan. Afternoon and Eve corner Thirtieth st— ATHENEUM, No. £8 Broadway.—Granp Variety Ex- ‘TRRTAINMENT, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itauian Orgra—Manrna, * GERMANIA THEATRE. Fourteenth street. near Third ay.—Dik JUGENDJABRE FRIEDRICH DES GROSSEN. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets.—Lxo axp Loros. ST. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.—Bur- Lesgur Orrra—Lucrezia Borgata. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humery Doxey. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—A Business Womay. RS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Monte Cristo. BRYANT’S OPERA HOU: ‘6th av.—Nearo Minstretsy & TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘Screnex ann Art. Twenty-third st.. corner TRIPLE SHEFT. New York, Thursday, March 20, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “HOME RULE FOR IRELAND! A GREAT QUES- TION FOR BRITISH STATESMEN”—LEAD- ING EDITORIAL TOPIC—SixTH PaGE. PREMIER GLADSTONE SUBMITS HIS NEW CABINET TO THE QUEEN! THE COURSE OF THE LIBERALS NOT YET ANNOUNCED— SgventH Pace, CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM THE EUROPEAN STATES! THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY UNANI- MOUSLY RATIFIES THE TREATY FOR GERMAN EVACUATION! HYACINTHE IN SWITZERLAND! THE AMERICAN ENVOY RECEIVED BY THE CZAR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS—SEVENTH PaGE. IRISHMEN AND ENGLISHMEN ENGAGE IN A FREE FIGHT! THREE THOUSAND MEN, ARMED WITH KNIVES AND PISTOLS, IN CONFLICT! SANGUINARY RESULTS— SEVENTH PaGE. CONKLING SHIELDING CORRUPTION! CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS! A “RAKE” ATTEMPTED BY THE SCIENTISTS! OUR NEW WAR FLEET—Tarmp Pace. NEW JERSEY FORCES THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD DICTATOR TO ABDICATE! A GREAT DAY FOR TRENTON! POPULAR EXCITEMENT OVER THE REDEMFTION OF THE CIDER STATE—SEVENTH PAGE, ENVIRONED MODOCS! NO IMPORTANT MOVEMENT OF GENERAL CANBY’S FORCES! THE CAPTURES OF THE SAV- AGES’ LIVE STOCK !.THE TROOPS AND THEIR FUTURE POSITIONS—SEVENTH PacE. INSURANCE TROUBLES AT ALBANY! HENDEE ASSAILS THE LEGISLATIVE COM- TdE THE MITTEE! THE TWEED INQUIRY! THE CHARTER AGITATION—Tgntu Face. HOW ERIE AFFAIRS ARE MANAGED! EX- SPEAKER SMITH AND MATTHEW HALE TESTIFY As TO WHAT THEY KNOW OF THE COMPANY! THE TROUBLE BETWEEN THE TWO BOARDS OF DIRECTORS—SEVENTH Pace. THE SHADOW OF THE SCAFFOLD! WHAT FOS- TER AND HIS FRIENDS ARE DOING! WITH- OUT HOPE, PREPARING FOR THE FINAL SCENE! “A WIFE AMONG A MILLION!" — THIRD PAGE. BARKER, THE BOY WHO SHOT HIS PLAYMATE, PLEADS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGRTER! THE SIEGFRIED POISONING! A LITTLE BILL AGAINST THE CORPORATION! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BU FOURTH PaGE. BUSINESS AMONG THE “BULLS” AND “BEARS!"* RUNNING UP THE CASH-GOLD RATE! THE FEATURES IN STOCKS AND OTHER SECU- RITIES—FoURTH PaGE. REAL PROPERTY! EXT! IVE SALES OF WEST SIDE AND BROOKLYN STORES, HOUSES AND GROUNDS—Fovurtu Pa RETRIBUTION FOR ERIE SINNERS! THE ALBANY LOBBY—Fir1H PaGE. SPEEDERS ENTERED FOR THE MONMOUTH PARK EVEN’ A FINE SHOWING— MARITIME TIDINGS—TentH Pate. IMPROPER CONDITION OF THE TOMBS PRISON! THE REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR! SANITARY VIEW. FEEING THIRD PAGE. Tae Bars Mousrenit Crisis has termi- nated. Mr. Gladstone will resume office, with all his colleagues, and announce the fact to Parliament to-night. A very important move- ment for Mr. Gladstone, his political friends and the members of the opposition. Sovra Canora Looxrxe Up.—Theappoint- ment of ex-Senator Sawyer, of South Carolina, as Assistant Secretary of State comes the nearest to a Cabinet honor that that State has enjoyed since John C. Calhoun was Secretary of State under President Tyler, in 1844. Rarm Transrr in legislation is wanted in Illinois. The Legislature there has been in session eleven weeks and virtually only one bill has been passed. And yet the Chicago Tribune seems disposed to crow over this slow- coach legislation when it seys :—‘With this standard of measurement the present Legisla- ture, with its solitary chicken, is the best one | we have ever had.” Tue Savannan Advertiser thinks that Gen- eral Grant will not go South, ‘because radical leaders fear that his presence there just now ,might embarrass the party."’ The republican party is sufficiently embarrassed by the mani- fold corruptions of its leaders without heeding the results of a social visit of the President to the Southern part of the country at this or CITY SANITARY | WHAT IS WANTED IN A | ftome Rule for Ireland—A Great Ques- | to meddle with imperial ‘policy or taxation, tion for British Statesmen. A America as a nation does not take kindly to officious meddling in the affairs of other na- tions. It haa, however, never turned a deaf ear to the voice of Reason claiming recogni- tion or the cry of Misery asking relief. When the voice comes from a land whence millions of our citizens have sprung we should be traly unjust not to listen. Ireland just now is en- gaged in making a special appeal to England to be allowed to govern herself, to make her own laws in matters which do not touch the legis- lation for the British Empire in general. On Monday last all over the world the children of Ireland commemorated her memory. On the day previous we learned that the Irish popu- lation of London, England, had held a monster mass meeting in Hyde Park favoring home rule for Ireland and amnesty to the im- prisoned Fenians. We are glad, indeed, to observe that the growth of liberal ideas is such in England as to permit this gathering, and we are equally glad that, with a single excep- tion, there was no disturbance of the peace growing out of it. It is not many years since the event. would have been impossible on account of the strong prejudice against the movement which this mass meeting repre- sented. This prejudice would find its active exponents more among the English people themselves than in the government. The effort, indeed, to shut the parks against agita- tors is very recent. That the English people were obliged, in protesting against their own exclusion, to make room for Irish agitators is one of the evidences that a good rule will work both ways. The rule that admits Mr. Bradlaugh must admit the followers of Mr. Isaac Butt. We all understand the reason why the Irish residents of London should ask for amnesty to the imprisoned Fenians. Mr. Gladstone himself has, in his partial amnesty, given them a fair right to demand that the rest of the Fenians should be pardoned. The pris- oners set free were notoriously the leaders of the insurrectionary body, and it seems a very lame argument that the smaller fry should be held when the tritons are let go. The dis- tinction having once been made between their offences and ordinary felony the friends of the prisoners have right on their side in claiming that it be applied to all. Home rule, however, is not a question on which the caprice of a Premier can be relied for a settlement. It is a wide measure, which many Englishmen who look to the integrity of the United Kingdom will carefully con- sider before taking the justice, reasonableness or logic of the case into account—before even they consider the wishes of Ireland itself. This is the unfortunate part of the matter so far as Ireland isconcerned. Every concession to Ireland has first to be strained through English prejudice, and is consequently likely to come out very much thinner than before the process. There are two points in all these propositions for curing Ireland's ills which are the bugbears of Englishmen—namely, how far will they threaten the national strength, and will they lead to Catholic ascendancy? The broad question of justice is overlooked in the first, and the second is merely the evidence of a religious intolerance not yet rooted out. If the average Englishman, however, puts one query to himself he will arrive at o conclusion which may soften his antip- athy to what Irishmen demand as home rule. That query is, What, under the present circumstances, is Ireland’s strength to the Em- pire? We fear that the answer will be the more unsatisfactory in proportion as he is able to measure Irish feeling. The first question will then recur in a more favorable light as he asks, What will home rule do to quench Irish disaffection? The most earnest home rulers aver that the disaffection is largely curable by good local laws, which an imperial Parliament can neither spare time to discuss nor gain sufficient knowledge of Irish wants to see their necessity. There are some people, doubtless, in Ireland, to whom this concession would still be insufficient, notably the Fe- nians. Members of Parliament elected from Trish constituencies on home rule pledges, such as Isaac Butt, John Martin and Mr. Munster, are unanimous in declaring that this class would fail of the sympathy which they now command as heroes and martyrs, and would ultimately become so diminished in numbers as to be utterly powerless to embar- rass an honest, well-meaning government. They contend that a Parliament in Dublin having power to deal with the large wants and small grievances of the poorer classes would attract the loyalty of the very class to which Fenian-' ism looks for its recruits. The Fenians, who support home rule as a stepping stone to their larger demands, would thus find that -they had unintentionally secured a reign of peace and prosperity, which they would, if really patriotic, be the last to upset. The | other element which opposes home rule among Irishmen themselves is composed of the ultra Protestants, of whom Mr. Froude, while here, constituted himself the champion. He pro- tesses to fear that the Catholic majority in the island would soon make existence very un- comfortable for their Protestant fellow coun- trymen. He went so far as to picture a war of religions, with English Protestantism stepping in, sword im hand, to make matters even once more. From the programme of the most ad- vanced home rulers we are assured that this state of things would be the very reverse of what would be likely to happen. While the Protestants of Ireland number barely a mil- | lion the ultra Protestants cannot claim one- half of that number. They certainly make noisy protestation of loyalty enough for ten times their number, and from no other cause than their domineering swagger manage yearly to irritate their Cathglic neigh- bors ina few northern towns, and through @ consequent riot or two give Ireland a very bad name for peacefulness. No home rule statesman worthy of the name would think | for a moment of substituting the foaming, cudgel politician of one religion for that of the other. As the extremist who represents Fenianism would be frowned down by the mass of a contented people so would the ultra Protestant find his exuberant loyalty little, if anything, in advance of the Catholic. Such @ programme is certainly attractive and well worthy the consideration of English statesmen. The quieting of that seething mass of Irish disaffection, whose present existence is as dangerous as it is undeniable, would be a great achievement. : The home rule Parliament does not propose but to give attention to the questions of tho land, education, harbors, railroads and such public improvements as would make the ‘peo- ple better off. Its advocates have certainly the best of the argument when they say that an Irish Parliament in sympathy with the people would attend to these matters more cordially and more successfully than tho im- perial Parliament where Irish members, even if all united, are only as one to five. Thero is, of course, in this,'as in other delicate questions, a ground of limitations of power or jurisdiction to be battled over. If liberal English statesmen decide on making it a Par- liamentary issue they will find much of their difficulty to lie in drawing the line where imperial prerogative should end and that of the Irish Parliament begin. The militia, for instance, will be a bone of contention. ‘There should be even in this little to disquiet Eng- land. No honest home ruler would reject a native Parliament because the citizen soldiery was not in its hands, It might bea griev- ance tosome members of a martial race like the Irish that its Parliament. could not call a soldier its own; but, as it cannot claim the war power in any case, the complaint would be merely sentimental. The strength of the home rulers in Parliament is at present not large, but they hope in the general election of this year to increase it to at least seventy members. If this number held together they might be a serious obstruction to a Ministry; but we cannot profess the highest faith in these unterrified opposition combinations from our recollections of them. If home rule is granted at all it will not be because of any obstructive policy pursued by its representa- tives. It must come from the broadening good sense of England, in obedience to the general and emphatic wish ot the Irish people. Atasocial gathering of Irishmen in this city on St. Patrick’s day Mr. Munster, an Englishman, the home rule member of Parlia- ment for Mallow, Ireland, said some earnest words in support of the movement. Mr. J. M. Bellew, who also spoke on that occasion, asked that Irishmen of all opinions here should support the constitutional agitation in which the mass of Irishmen in Ireland were engaged. ‘This we believe to be reasonable. It is absurd to encourage impracticables in seeking what it is impossible to obtain and to the exclusion of what is practicable and promising of such good to their unfortunate country. Those who, admitting the long ill-treatment of Ire- land by England, see in this a possibility of a better order of things, should wish the move- ment well. England herself in regarding it should remember that she has, up to the pres- ent, only shown herself capable of misunder- standing and so misgoverning Ireland. The News from South and Central America. The Panama mail, under date of the 8th inst., brings us an interesting budget of news and special Heratp news details from the South and Central American States and Co- lombia. A gang of coin counterfeiters was broken up at Panama in the midst of a very extensive and demoralizing operation, tending to depreciate the currency of many States and to disarrange commerce. The names of the prisoners are given. The prevalence of fever at Panama caused some of the neigh- boring peoples to take the precaution of quarantine. The Cuban question, with that of the relations and policy of the United States towards Spain with respect to Cuban and Spanish colonial affairs generally, excited a vast deal of interest in Peru, and the popular feeling was, as it appears, extending. Quiet prevails very generally. The religious debates, eliminated by the act of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Nicaragua, remain a cause of excitement. Isthmus canal projects, the surveys connected therewith, active financier- ing and a general increase of travel go far to prove that the cause of industry and trade is progressing under the neighboring govern- ments despite the local losses which have fol- lowed recent shocks of earthquake and a very general demoralization resulting from long continued political agitation. The govern- ments of Peru and Colombia have signed an important protocol and decree in furtherance of the American plan of an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The Tombs—A Disgrace to the City. Even in New York, where so many crimes go undetected, so many culprits unpunished, it is possible that an innocent person may be shut up on a criminal accusation. Society has no right to inflict needless torment upon these. Nor even upon the guilty should we, before conviction, impose greater hardship than is requisite to assure their attendance for trial. We have no right to keep prisoners in cells whose walls are slimy with damp exhala- tions from pestiferous morasses, and whose air poisons the lungs it inflates. Such wrongs we perpetuate at the Tombs, as will be seen by the report made to the Board of Health, published elsewhere in to-day’s Heratp. Built upon a spot which the ‘oldest inhabitant” remembers as the Collect—a deep pond—re- claimed by filling in from the superfluous soil of the neighboring hills, mixed with promiscuous filth and rubbish, this monstrous structure was erected without proper regard for thorough drainage and ven- tilation, and, though strong and secure, it has from the first been deadly in its effect upon the unfortunates and the guilty who have been its involuntary tenants. Thirty years ago Charles Dickens told the truth about it in @ manner which roused tke ire of our fathers; but even his satire produced no thorough im- | provement in the condition of the gloomy | jail. It is crowded. In Winter it has no | proper heating apparatus. In Summer its air is suffocating. New York city is not too poor to redress the wrongs now made known by the | Sanitary Engineer and the Committee of In- | spection. A thorough survey of the building should at once be made by competent archi- tects with reference to the question whether it is susceptible of such internal changes as would give it a wholesome atmosphere. If that is practicable the improvements should be made during the coming Summer. If not, let us know the fact upon good authority. Then it would be the imperative duty of the municipality to set about build- ing, upon suitable ground, a proper prison, as recommended by Dr. Janes, in which it should be possible to confine persons accused of crime without endangering their health. This should not be allowed to become a ‘‘job,”” out of which contractors, officials and real estate sveculators may lino their pockets. A sufficiently large plot of ground should be hon- estly bought for the purpose in a wholesome locality and the jail quickly and thoroughly built in the interest of the city, and not asaminefor any ring. Every consideration of humanity and justice requires that there should be no longer delay in this matter. As it now stands the community is murderously guilty in this matter. It is said that the jail attendants do not suffer. If that should prove true it indicates that the requisite outlay might provide a remedy for the evils which certainly afflict the lodgers in the cells. Pub- lic sentiment demands the immediate atten- tion of the city authorities to this matter. Shall the disgrace continue? Or shall we have even the criminals and malefactors in the Tombs treated as human beings? Civil Service Ex- We have received the ‘Report of the Board of Civil Service Examiners for the Treasury Department to the Advisory Board on the Operation of the ‘Rules and Regulations for the Improvement of. the Civil Service’ in the Treasury Department." The report is even more verbose than its title and as feeble as it is unimportant, While it details at great length the manner of the examination of candidates, it gives no real information on the subject, and has no more national significance than if the Board of Education in this city had re- quired its Examiners to report their method in ascertaining the fitness of a lot of prospective schoolmasters. The report covers fifty-three pages of printed matter, and yet it reveals nothing of greater public interest than an inele- gantand ungrammatical complaint that ‘‘the ex- aminations have brought to light an amazing degree of ignorance, on the part of many, of the most general features of the constitution.’’ Aside from the absurdity of Treasury clerks becoming expounders of the organic law of the United States, this sentence is worthy of careful study on account of the insight it affords into the “‘efficiency’’ of the Examiners. The examination begins by the candidate being required to write his autobiog- raphy forthe inspection of the “Board.” This is placed on file for the information of future historians. Although not rigidly adhered to, it is the rule of the Board to ask one question falling under each of the following heads :— Common fractions, decimal fractions, per- centage or discount, interest, calculation of customs duties, purchase or sale of United States bonds, and conversion of gold into cur- rency orcurrency into gold. Sometimes a question in coinage or the conversion of cur- rencies is added. ll this may be well enough, but it is so thoroughly technical that it re- minds us of the story of the candidate fora place in the Patent Office. His examination had been exceedingly technical, so much so, indeed, that when he was asked who Confucius was he answered, ‘‘The inventor of a religion.” We suppose the same intelligent candidate would answer the question touching the calcu- lation of customs duties by a demonstration of his expected ‘‘divvy’’ and satisfy the Exam- iners of his knowledge of the purchase and sale of United States bonds by informing them that he bought ‘‘on a margin’ and but gen- erally ‘‘short.”’ Our Strect Cars—Another Fearful Out- rage. At a time when the public mind is filled with excitement regarding the fate of Foster one would naturally have concluded that passengers had little to fear on any of the lines of the city. Not so, however. On the morning of Tuesday a scene of violence was witnessed on the Third avenue line which shows that the rowdy classes of this city have benefited little by the teachings of the Foster trial and by the impending fate of the miser- able man now in the Tombs and within a few hours of his death. As the result of that vio- lence one man is now in Bellevue Hospital, dangerously wounded, and the car conductor is wounded in the lip by a pistol shot. The firing seems to have been of the most reckless kind. Persons who have visited this office and who were present on the car at the time say that the excitement on the car was of the most fearful kind. No one knew what might be his or her fate as shot after shot was fired. The affair is yet involved in some mys- tery. What we do know for certain is that it is no longer safe to travel after midnight, if, indeed, at any hour, in some of our city lines of cars. Itseems to have come to this, that to go into a car is to take your life in your hand. What is to bedone? Most certainly rowdyism ought to be mercilessly punished. Special legislation in England some years ago made an end of the garroter. The application of the whip might have a wholesome effect on some of our ward gangs of rowdies. The police, in the first instance, are responsible. They ought to be able to protect life and prop- erty. The car proprietors ought, to a certain extent, at least, to be held responsible. If matters are not soon mended it will be neces- sary for every street car, after a certain hour at night, to be guarded by policemen. This latest outrage reveals the necessity for the vigorous enforcement and execution of the law. The more mercy, the more murder. If peaceful citizens cannot find their homes without passing through showers of bullets we have but small reason to be proud of our Empire City. Cuban Question at Department. Our government has been a long time learn- ing that there was a war in Cuba in the inter- national sense of that term, and that the Cubans had the resolution and means of keep- ing up the war till the Spaniards should be exhausted or defeated. Now, however. one of the departments of the government has, si- multaneously with the light our correspondents have thrown on the subject, ascertained that Cuba has a prospect of throwing off the Span- ish yoke and establishing her independence. The Navy Department, which has special op- portunities for getting at the truth and which can enlighten the obtuse State Depart- ment, hus received advices from naval men that the insurgents had been en- couraged to a more active campaign, and that important engagements had taken place in the Eastern Department of Cuba. The change from a monarchy to a republic in Spain, with the Carlist civil war and other dif- ficulties, has prevented the Spanish army in Cuba from being recruited. Large reinforce- ments had been promised and expected, but not more than five hundred troops havearrived. As @ consequence, to uge the language of the de- The the Navy spatch to the Navy Department, “the ingur- gents have taken advantage of this state of affairs and have become more aggressive than ever."’ This accords with the recent despatch from our special correspondent, which shows that the supplies landed from the Edgar Stuart had found their way to the patriots at the most opportune time. We call the attention of President Grant and the Secretary of State to this important official information, which can- not be suspected as exaggerated, as to the ac- tual belligerent status of the Cubans. France and the War Indemnity. The French National Assembly, during the sitting at Versailles yesterday, approved of the treaty which was signed by M. Thiersand Count Von Arnim, the German Ambassador, last Saturday, providing for the payment of the war indemnity and the final evacuation of the territory of the Republic by the Prussians. There was not one dissenting voice—the only occasion, perhaps, on which the legislative body has been decidedly unanimous since the surrender and fall of Napoleon. The financial condition of France to-day is some- thing marvellous. The annual budget, which has just been presented to the National As- sembly, is most encouraging. In the Treas- ury there is already one-half of the sum due to Germany. In order to be able to complete the payments of the war indemnity at the dates designated in the convention signed on Saturday last no loan will be necessary. On the 1st of July, therefore, evacuation will commence, and on the 5th of September it will be completed. That France was severely punished by her German foes is undeniable ; but on the other hand no one can refuse to admit that during the last two years, despite disaster, wounded pride and honor, France has revealed a recuperative power which may well make the proud German think and tremble for the future, The resources of France are enormous, and it will not be won- derful if in a few years she again takes her place in the front rank of the great Powers of Europe and the world. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General Sherman left the Astor House for Wash- ington last night, General ©. H. Prentice, ef Hartford, is stopping at the St. Nichelas Hotel. Ex-Governor Rodman M. Price, of New Jersey, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Congressman William Whiting, of Boston, is in town, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. United States Senator James A. Bayard, of Dela- ware, has arrived at the New York Hotel. Major Beresford has been appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the Madras, India, army. United States Marshal William Gouverneur Morris, of California, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Solicitor E. 0. Bantield, of the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington, is at the Filth Avemue Hotel. Fhe Marquis of Stafford, Lerd Grosvenor and Lord Lewisham have arrived in India from Eng- land. The First Baptist church, of San Francisco, wants the Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of Boston, to become its pastor. Ex-Congressman John Lynch, of Portland, Me., is te be banquetted by his admirers on the 25th instant. The Cincinnati Commercial refers te Minister Washburne as “the next President of the United States.” The Japanese Minister, Arimeri Mori, yesterday came on from Washington and is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Minister Mori is on bis way to Japan. fs Sir Salar Jang is about te build a large theatre at Haidrabad, India, and keep a theatrical com- pany at his own expense. A good act for poor actors, Spurgeon dislikes the prefix “Reyv.,” and has informed his friends that he will send te the dead- letter office all letters to himself having it in the address, ‘The newly-appointed United States Consul for Aspinwall, J. S, Thorington, arrived there on the Henry Chauncey on the 28th of February, and at once entered on his official duties. Charles F. Adams, Jr., of Quincy, Mass., is regis- tered at the Brevoort House. Mr. Adams has been appointed Commissioner from Massachusetts to the Vienna Exhibition by Governor Washburne, and will sail on Saturday, Four thousand English ministers urge the Arch- bishop of Canterbury to support in the House of Lords the bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Why should the parsons be so par- tial to their sisters-in-law? The Cincinnati Times is treubled with a Congres- sional goblin called “Dodds,” and prints bis name in big black letters, so that people, when they see the same, may be prepared to exclaim, “Avaunt thee, Satan!" Dedds voted for the back-pay steal. An incident for Sardou might be found in the fol- lowing, which we copy from a Southern ex- change :—‘‘The jurors at court in Clarion come in with loaded guns and sit with them in their hands during a trial. Death to the first lawyer who telis a lie! Result—No court.” Also in the Coroner's | verdict in Missouri—‘‘Death from calling Bill Jack- son a liar.” William Morgan must be brave. Not the good- enough-Morgan of the old Anti-Masonic war, but matrimonial William, lately before the Central Criminal Court in London for bigamy. Being only charged with marrying nine different women, and gaining his living by the business, he was sentenced for ten years—one year for each wife and one for himself. He has already served four years for the same crime. A few days ago several young men were amusing themselves firing blank eartridges in @ lead ware- house in Manchester, when Roberts, aged twenty- feur, handed arifie to Waiter, aged nineteen, ask- ing him to fire at him. As the piece had just been discharged, Walter supposed it harmless, and fired, whereunon Roberts fell mortally wounded, Upon him was found a note by which it appears he purposely procured his death by this singular means at the hand of his companion, NAVAL ORDERS. WASHINGTos, D. C., March 19, 1873, Captain Charles H. Baldwin bas been ordered to command the naval rendezvous at San Francisco; Lieutenants George F. Wilkins and Leuis V, Man- sel to the receiving ship Vermont, at New York; Assistant Surgeon E. E. Varson to the naval hospital at Mare Island, Cal. ABT SALES TO-NIGHT. This evening there will be a sale of paintings and statuary at the Semervilie Art Gallery. Most of these works of art are included in the second annual exhibition of the Palette Club. There are, besides, a number of pictures contributed by artists of European fame, such as Van Marcke, Rosa and August Bonheur, Courbet, Caraud, Enillemet, Bakalowiez, Navone, Daubigney and Webb. Men- tion ought also to be made of a pumber of works contributed by artists resident in Rome, and intended for the bemefit of the new American Episcopal Church of St. Paul now in progress im tRat city, Among | artists and contributers herein represented are :— Charles Temple Dix, J. 0. B. Inman, Luther Terry, D. M. Armstrong, Prince Von Solms, Mary E. wit liama, William Graham, George Inness, Mr. Tilton, C. C, Coleman, William H. Haseltine, Abby 0. Wil- hams, F. C. Welsh, Elihu Vedder, W. H. Rinehart, George Simmonds. Another important sale this evening is that at the Clinton Hall salesroom, which will witness the disposal of the last ef the pictures belonging to Mr. Beaumont. THE BIGAMIST VANDERWERKER, PovGHKEgrsiB, N. Y., Maren 19, 1873. William Vanderwerker, the ex-Jastice ef the Peace, charged with bigamy, has been held to bail. The defendant presented @ decree of were | granted by an Indiana Court; but the Court here Kelected iv | have been | the Untied States—light and truth are now AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—‘La Favorite.” ‘The role of Leonora, one of the most dramatic ever written by Donizetti, will be long remembered in this city as the brightest jewel in the artistic diadem of Mme. Pauline Lucca. Akin to “La Tra- viata” in its vivid‘tllustration of woman’s wrongs, struggles and heroism; surrounded with mume of the most impassioned character, and limned im strong lines of ligt amd shade by a master hand, @ sort of musical Rembrandt, the character of Leonors offers many splendid opportunities for the display of such impulsive, wayward genius as that of Mme. Lucca. “Ah, mio Fernando!” (that ultima Thue of aspiring contraltos) becomes a tone poem in her hands, and the last scene, where Leonora dies, a victim of love, recalls memories of Rachel and Ristori. She was in excellent votee last night, and sung with unwented spirit ang Gan. A word ot praise is due to the Fernando of Vezzani and the Alfonso of Sparapani, a word of regret for the Balthazzar of Jamet, and @ great Taany words of censure for the others—small people, to be sure, but too small, even, for their circum- scribed sphere, Chorus und orchestra were held im hand commendably by the ches @'o Max Maretzek. On Friday evening Mme. Lucca makes her first appearance as Marie in ‘The Daughter of the Regimens She has a benefit on Monday, which will be positively her fimal farewell to New York this season. “La Figita del Reggimento” wit be the principal feature on the Dill. On Tuesday evening another operatic tavorite, Miss Clara will bid goodby to the oulse Kel eit New York public. She w! i appear for her benefit rformance as Gilda in “Rigoletto,” the best of erdi’s numerous works, This opera was given last summer by Parepa Rosa, Wachtel and Santiey, and was the gem of the season, An engagement was signed last evening by which Mme. Lucca places herself for another year under the manage- ment of Mr. Maretzek. “Rumor has it that the same impresario has secured Mile. Iima Di Murska for the next season .‘‘Der Freischuetz” will be the attraction for the Saturday matinée, The entire troupe go to Philadelphia next week. The season has been unusually successful, Lent being lan ently ignored by the majority of the habitucs of the opera, Charlotte Cushman at Steinway Hall. The audience which attended yesterday after- noon at Steinway Hall was such as would have gives: inspiration and encouragement to any public per- former. Miss Charlotte Cushman, to hear whom the crowd had come, of course needs no inspira- tion other than what she already possesses, and has shown, during her long and successful career, that she cancommand encouragement frem all kinds and classes. It must have been extremely gratifying to her, however, to mect such an audi- ence, both as regards numbers and intelligent ap- peararce, and it is only just to say that those present were treated to an exhibition of talent which not only entertained and amused them, bat which must have impressea them very forcibly with the idea that the drama has indeed fallen to a low level, since there are few, i! any, like Miss Cushman at present within the pale of the profes- sion and since legs and carpenters have usurped the place o! intellect and art, ‘The programme yesterd: rised the second act of “Romeo and Juliet,” the “Battle of Ivry,” “Death of the Old ’Squire,” and “Bets; andlAre Out.” In the first part, “Romee an Juliet,” Miss Cushman showed that advancing years had not robbed her of her earnestness, her force, her knowledge of character or her ready ap- preciation of the subtle intent of the suther. The garden scene was given with a vividaess which could scarcely have been heightened by the addi- tional accessories of stage scenery or machinery. Unlike Mr. Bellew, she does not depend on strutting the stage, but remains seated beiore her readi table, de) nding only on the gesturing wit! her hands an arms, her expres- sion and the proper modulatiens of her veice. The positien more difficult, but the delineation is none the less forcible. Miss Cushmam was especially successful in picturing the old nurse, both in the meeting with Romee and Mercutio and in the interview with Juliet on returning from Romeo. The ‘Battle of Ivry,”’ by Macaulay, gave Miss Cushman an elegant epportunity of aging ing her power of rousing an audience to pat oti and heroic feelings. The ‘Death of the Old Squire’? gave her a chance to show her mastery of dialect and her keen sense of the blending of the and the humoreus, ‘Betsy and I Are Out,” Ww ing the way in which a sul ut loving husband seeks for a separation from his life partner, being so homely in itself and so capitaliy read by Miss Cushman that many points in it must have struck home to many among the audience, judging trom the laughter, applause and semi-confessing looks which were indulged in. The entertainment was a decided and deserved success, and the accom plished lady was greeted with Olt-repeated ap- afternoon com Plause,. scree AA Et i te 8 Masical and Dramatic Notes. m2 Olive Logan’s play, “A Business Woman,” is to be withdrawn from the Union Square Theatre, and on Saturday evening Leroy’s comedy-drama, en- titled “Cousin Jack,” will be produced, The new piece was adapted for the American stage by Mr. W. J. Florence. It was originally produced at the Gymnase, where it was a distinct success, Mr. J. M. Bellew is to read in Brooklyn on Satur- day afternoon. Mr. E. Molienhauer deserves warm praise for the music he composed for Mr. Boucicault’s new play. The music is essentialty a part of “Daddy O'Dowd." This evening the benefit in behalf of the French Benevolent Society takes place at the Academy of Music, and to-morrew evening a complimentary benefit will be given to Miss Julia Gaylord at the Union League Theatre. Onthe 4th of March Mr. John S. Clarke played Bob Acres, in “The Rivals,” the 100th consecutive night at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, and the play is still announced fer every evening til further notice. MR. O'KELLY'S MISSION TO CUBA. (Frem the Cuban organ ef Key West, El Repub- licano.] We have now the pleasure to publish for the edt- fication and joy of the Spaniaras in Cuba, and like- wise for those resident in Spain, the following translation of Mr, James O’Kelly’s letter to the New YoRK HERALD from Palma Soriano. (Here follows translation ef the letter.) The HERALD Com- missioner understands the Spanish character and disposition full well, and appreciates at their just value all the bombastic and threatening utterances that have been made to him while in Cuba. The HERALD, the representative newspaper of thia great Centinent, knew that !t could place implicit confidence in its emissary, Mr O'Kelly, belonging to the editorial corps of that aper, and sent him to Havana, where he saw Captain General Cebal- los, and applied tor @ salvo conducto tw travel the island, which was refused him. Nething dismayed, Mr. O’Kelly continued in hig expedition on behalf of liberty and humanity and also in the name of the free press of the United States. After og eee adventures by the way he arrived at ima Soriano, where he met General Morales de los Rios, one of those bellicose,. fire-eating Spanish soldiers who think that they could conquer the United States witn 25,000 Span- ish soldiers. He said to O’Kelly in substance, “Ge where you like on the island ef Cuba; but if you are caught coming eut ef the insurrectionary lines and entering ours you will be shot asaspy.” But we cannot believe that Morales would be such \neshty gious dolt as to cause O'Kelly to be shot. Te O'Kelly, it may here be remarked, has, in the short time he has been in Cuba, shown that he is a mam ot rare intelligence, who knows his rights ané Makes himsel! respected while demanding them. He entered Cuba making no secret o1 his missiom as an agent of the independent American prese and people te make a correct repert of the pre of the revolution in the isiamd, and ansumed no subterfuge of any kind while pursuing his investi- gations, Mr. O'Kelly has mot earned the title of spy in any way, for his reports of what he has seem | agin to the world. The military definition of the word “spy” is “a person who goes to inspect the works, numbers of men, movements, &c., of the enemy, and secretly reports it to his own officials.” Few people can be found in this country willing to uphold the cenduct of the administration in its Cuban policy, for 1t hasbeen unwerthy of the grand history of the United States. But—thanks to the HERALD, at the head of the imdependent Lge thrown on the matter of the Cuban revolution by the HERALD representative, and the Cuban reiu- gees in this country are under deep ebligations ta the paper which has new so chivalrously espoused eurcause. ‘The mission of O’Keliy was to discover the real condition of the revolution, and we muintain that the Captain General had no right to reiuse Mr. O'Kelly, a represemtative of a friendly Power, the required pi 4 or salvo conducto te travel with in the isiaud. But the truth of the matter is that the Spanish government dread the influence of the H¥RALD and tke American press im the matter, knowing thetr tenets to be aniversal freedom and the wbolition of slavery and tyranny. Sheuld Mr, O'Kelly be shot asa spy by order of General Morales ce los Rios the press of the United States will make common cause in caliing for ven- ance for the cold blooded massacre o1 a beid and ‘ailess newspaper correspondent. THE LIABILITY OF BANKERS. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 19, 1873. In the case ef David Scull against the Kensing- ton Bank for the recovery of $30,000 in government bonds stolen from a box depesited for sate keep- when the bank was robbed in (871, the jury the gg yet bethe out two days, retrrucd a verdict for the plaintit,