The New York Herald Newspaper, March 21, 1873, Page 4

4 ST. DOMINGO. High-Handed Outrage by the Dominican Authorities. An Ex-Governorand His Two Sons Dragged from the Shelter of the British Vice Consulate. BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY. Interview with the Victims in the Prison Under Ground. Excitement Among the For- eign Population. A BRITISH MAN-OF-WAR SENT FOR Porto Puata, St. Domingo, March 6, 1873, Afeér a rough ride of sixty miles from Santiago, etcupying two days, through rain and mud, over mountains as steep as the slope of a mansard roof, fording and swimming rivers, I reached here to- day at noon to find this community tremendously agitated over the case of ex-Governor Nuezi, some- times called Lafitte, who, along with his two sons, was forcibly taken trom under the roof of the British Vice Consul, Mr. Hamburger, ,and cast into the prison of the fort which commands the harbor. He is there, as I write, in a most loathsome dun- geonr and heavily ironed. I had been buta very short time in town when an aide from Governor Won- zales, who is in charge of this province of the Re- public, came to say His Excellency would be pleased if I made a call upon him @s soon as possi- bie. I came across the county in the light- est possible marching order, a flannel shirt and pants, a hammock and a few odds and ends that might be carried in a capacious vest pocket; but a iriend put me in the position im- mediately of responding to the Governer’s sum- mons. I found Gonzales far better lodged than his superior, President Baez. The audience chamber ‘was resplendent in yellow and crimson damask, and the private bedroom adjoining was fit for a prince. It was here I met Governor Gonzales, sit- ting in an armchair and suffering from a recent attack of fever. Gonzales is small, as most Do- minicans are, but he isa man of mark. He has de- cision, energy and ambition, and if this Republic {s to retain its individuality he will some day de its President if the rash act he has just committed does not disgrace him forever. He has done a thing which may give his name a world-wide no- toriety. He has done something similar to what our Admiral Wilkes did at the opening of the Southern rebellion. He has forcibly taken from under the shelter of the British fag three men who sought shelter there, and a teverish anxiety pervades the com- munity as to wnat action the commander of the British man-of-war, which is daily expected, will take under the circumstances. (nce upon a time @ British commander, with his bulldog, knocked a town on the Haytian coast into splinters for an offence like this, but, perhaps, the forthcoming courier of Mars will be less impulsive. Accom- panied by Mr. Victoria, the Chilean and Dominican Consul at St. Thomas, I called on Gonzaies and learned his version of how he came to burst into the dwelling of Mr. Hamburger, the British Consul, and take out the three persons seeking refuge there. Having already heard the facts, as far away as Santiago, I found the Governor's narretive con- firm some of the princtpal points, Before giving it I might state that in my first letter from here, on the 10th of February, I men- tioned that a “revolution” had come off in the mountains, headed by Nuezi—otherwise Lafitte— who, protesting against the surrender of territory to the Samana Bay Company, had taken the fleld and disputed the authority of Baez. Gonzales moved against him, as he moves in every matter, with vigor and promptitude, and crushed him most instanter. Nuezi was well known in this town—a very popular man he is along the northern coast—and they say who know most about the matter, that only for him Baez would never have been President. Nuezi was formerly Governor of this district, and was well liked for his many good qualities of heart. But to the STORY OF GONZALES. We said that for some years there was a Mr. Paradis living in Porto Plata who had fied from Porto Rico, where he had been condemned to ten years’ imprisonment for assassinatien. Paradis was inimicable to the Baez administration, and conceived the design of assassinating Governor Gonzales, one of its representatives, as a political opponent of General Grant's might meditate put- ting an end to the existence of Governor Dix. Paradis was arrested, and on the examination it turned out thata son of Nuezi, named Claudio, was implicated in the scheme of assassinating Gonzales. The latter, from motives of friendly con- sideration for the father, wrote to the elder Nuezf to the effect that a8 his son’s name had been con- uected with the plot of Paradis, he should be glad to see the boy and have tbe matter properly cleared up. Nuezf answered that his son could not and would not come. Gonzales made a second request, intimating to Nuezf that if he did not send his son he should be obliged to have him arrested— ® proceeding he desired to avoid for old acquaint- ance sake. No reply came, but in place thereef mews reached Governor Gonzales that Nuezf had gone into the country, and proceeded to gather men to march on Porto Plata, He succeeded in assembling forty and approached this town. At a distance of about four or five hours (that’s the way they measure space in this country), where, being met by the soldiers of the government, under Gonzales, they were dispersed ignominiously, the government troops taking about ve or six prisoners, who declared that they haa been misled by General Nuezi, who, in calling them out, pretended that he was complying with govern- ment orders. The men who escaped presented themselves subsequently and declared that they, too, had been misled, Nuezi, his three sons and two more men remained in the meantime hid among the woods near Marmolejo. They were actively pursued, and in the middle of last month, being surprised early, before daybreak, they fled almost naked, jeaving their arms behind them. The pursuit of Nuezi and his sons was very close—so much so thaton the night of the 23d of Febroary they made, as it were, one despairing effort by seeking refuge in the house of Mr. Hamburger, the british Consul, who on the next morning sent to Governor Gonzales the following letter :— A NOTE FROM THE BRITISH CON! Sin=T have the honor to inform you tha: Nuezi, former Governor of this city, and hls soms, Martin and-Ciaudio, are pow at my house, ihey having claimed ie protection of the Br: ay. ave the hoi be, dey Yose KR UAMBURGER, ‘to tie Govenxon ov Punto Puata. This document should have been dated the 24th, fn place of the 25th. On the 23d of February Mr, Hamburger had been conferring with the wife of General Nuezi, promising her protection for her husband and sons if they should come to his house. Shortly after writing the letter jast quoted, Mr. Hamburger called on Governor Gonzales, and said ‘to him it would be @ politic stroke for him to make if he would state puolicly that he had been aware the day before that Nuezi and his sons were coming to seek an asylum at tne British Consul’ to which Gonzales replied that he could not tell the public a lie, for if he had been aware of any such thing he should certainly have taken measures to apprehend them. While this conversation was goihg on Gonzales sent one of his aids to ascertain whether the Nuezis were at the British Consulate or at Mr. Hamburger’s private house. After Hamburger had left, and it had been discovered that Nuezi was at his private residence and not at the consulate, orders were given to the Alcalde, or Mayor, to surround Hamburger's house and de- mand of him, in the mame of the government, th surrender ol Naezi and his sons. burger re fused to comply, and the Mayor, author- wed by the Governor, drew the attention of the Consul to the fact that a wide difference was made between his private dwelling Bud bis Consniar office, Hamburger turned round ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. and asked the Nuezis whether they desired to be delivered up, and they. like sensible people, said they should prefer not, There and then the Alcalde drew up a verbal, in which no reierence whatever was made to the British Vice Consulate, as the authorities looked upon that ofice and the flag which covered it as being confined to the store ot Mr, Hamburgery wicre the archives of the office and the British coat o1 arms are deposited. Here and here alone was the representation of British nationality recognized, From time immemorial in Puerto Plata all loreigners, lay and official, have en- joyed the right of hoisting their national colors, ut this right did not imply that under the flag above any private dwelling traitors to the govern- ment of the country. amenable to local laws, could find refuge and jaugh establisned authority to scorn, While the proces verbal was being drawn up Hamburger closed all the windows and doors of his nouse, leaving the Alcalde waiting outside. THE CONSUL'S HOUSE FORCIBLY ENTERED. ‘The latter, according, to the legal /ormality in such cases, thrice summoned the Consul to sur- render up the relugees, and, receiving ne answer, had one wing of the entrance door unhinged, whereupon, accompanied by a guard, he entered the dwelling and mi prisoners of the three Nuezis. As they were being taken away in custody the Consul said to them, ‘Fear nothing; I'll save you.” The Aicalde sent to have the door repaired, but his polite consideration was rejected. Next day the Alcalde went again to the house and leit a copy of the proces verbal, and again offered to re- pair the door, but in vain, Nuezi and his sons were taken to the fort, and there confine in irons, One o/ the sons on being brought up for examina- tion declared that his father was opposed to the Samana lease, and nad determined to oppose it by hysical force. ‘And now,’’ said Governor Gonzales, in concluding the narrative of this transaction, “the opposition on the part of Nuezi to the Sa- mana lease is the most surprising part of his con- duct, because two years ago, When annexation was up, Nuezi was its supporter. He has been always more or less fidgety, but there was @ general disposition to overlook his’ eccentricities and deal and speak kindiy with the old man. To help him ont of embarrassment I advanced him five months of my pay. When the Samana Bay scheme was published he wrote me a letter, in which he declared that such a measure would be the salvation of the country. The real reason of his course was an insatiable love for office. He wanted to be Governor again, and the only way that occurred to him of reaching the position was by revointion, In case the law had its way he would have been shot. As the case stands now I await instructions from St. Domingo,”’ There you have the story of this diMiculty, as told by Governor Gonzales. THE BRITISH CONSULS VERSION OF THE AFFATR. But the version Mr. Hamburger gives of the affair and the light in which he places it go a long way to show that the officials of this government, of this ridiculous parody of a republic, are as ignorant as they are arbitrary, Having heard Gonzales, and given his side of the story exactly as he stated it, 1 called on Mr. Hamburger, the British Consul. In the course of conversation he said, in reference to this aifair, that on the night of the 23d of February, about ten o’clock, General Nuezi and his two sons called at his house and asked permission to enter, a request which was immediately granted, jor Nuezi was an old acquaintance, who for three years had been Governor of Puerto Plata to the ‘entire satisfaction of both the native and foreign population, He was a man universally liked, but not being in harmony with Mr. Baez on the subject of annexation he was removed to give place to the present Governor Gonzales, The day following his coming to the house of Mr. Ham- burger the latter, complying with the custom in snch cases, wrote to the Governor saying that Nuezi and his sons were stopping at his house, claiming the protection of the British flag. To this the Consul received -no reply; but during the day the Alcalde called at his house with a civic and military guard and made a demand for the sur- render of the refugees, with which the Consul re- fused to comply. ‘The Alcalde retired twice, and on his third appearance, despite the protestations of Mr. Hamburger, the door of his house was forcibly unhinged and the guard entered and took away the refugees to the fort, “The Alcalde,” said Mr, Hamburger, “feeling that he was committing @ wrong act, and perhaps, also, out of regard tor myself personally, decline at first to pass across the threshold of the house, and the policemen showed the same reluctance to enter. The house was surrounded by soldiers, and the street in front was full of armed men.” THE OUTRAGE DIRECTED BY MINISTER CURIEL. While the Alcalde was debating in his mind whether to enter or not, Minister Curie], one of the Baez Cabinet, who is new travelling in these parts representing the Executive, came on the scene and commanded the soldiers, in peremptory lam guage, to go into the house and drag out the refu- gees, Finding some hesitation on the part of the oficer in command, he took, with his own hands, and actually pushed the soldiers into the house, though the British flag was flying overhead. Gonzales at the last moment felt that he was deing something not altogether right, but Curiel, the Minister of Finance, insisted that the Consulate should be entered and Nuezi and his sons dragged out of there. Mr. Hamburger in the meantime called a meeting of all the foreign Con- suls, who unanimously endorsed the course he had taken in the matter. Gonzales must have been convinced that, he committed a blunder, for ever since he has been laboring to convince the foreign population that his action was right, and he is never tired dwelling on the distinction that the office, and not the private house, is alone the place sheltered by a Consular flag. He says all the fereign residents the fags of $uoy the privilege of hoisting heir respective countries; but that does not give them the right to make their houses an asylum for enemtes of the government. He forgets, however, that it is only the merchant flags which ee be used, and that if any one raises the lar, recognized fag of England other than the nau he can be compelled to haul it down in double quick tfme. Then, as to the private house not being covered by the flag, Mr. Hamburger says he should like to know where a British subject would be likely to look for his Consul in the early morning or at night when his store ts closed At his pri- vate house he has always received official visitors. It was there President Baez came when he was here on his travels. It would be there the commander of a British vessel would naturally go to see or to confer with the Consul. The house was recognized as his by the Dominican autherities in Porto Plata, and ra well aware he had but one residence. ie fagstat stood there, and the fing, if not always flying, ‘was ever ready to be hoisted over it. ‘A STRONG PUINT POR THE BRITISH. In giving shelter to Nuezihe was only perform- ing an act which has been done a hundred times over in similar cases. Every single man now in the government of Baez, and Baez himself, has been given shelter under the flag of one consulate or the other. Curiel, who pushed the soldiers into Mr. Hamburger’s house, has been three times given consular protection. Baez would have n hanged by the mob in St. Do- Mingo city in 1866 but for the protection given him by Mr. Landais, the French Consul, who net only sheltered him from the fury of the populace, but escorted him down te @ schooner and saw him safely out of the country. Gonzales to-morrow might be flying for his life; and the first place he would be apt to seek would be the private house of some of the consuls, In this country the consu- lar residence has always been looked upen as a sacred retreat, and the feelings of the foreign and ofall the thinking native population have been grievously incensed at this outrage on the pers of tne authorities. Mr. Farrington, ex-British Con- sul, has had as many as twenty refagees under his roof at one time. In. times of revolution here guilty an‘t innocent are alike exposed to the ven- geance of the triumphant party, and it is more a question of humanity than of law to shield those who are helpiess and innocent from the bloed- thirsty madness of the hour. taken place the anni- After this occurrence hi versary of the Republi he 27th of February— came on for celebration, and all the Consuls were were invited by the Governor to be present at the “Te Deum” and_ afterwards partake of lunch at the Government House. With the exception of the American and Danish Consuls, all the rest de- clined to attend, in order to mark their censure of the course taken towards one of their number and towards the flag he represented. At this the Gov- erner was sorely annoyed, He made a speech to the people who did attend, justifying his action, and again, for the one hundredth time, drawing the absurd distinction between the house and the store of the Consul. BAEZ’S HORRIBLE PRISON, Anxious to see the victims of this over-zealous government I paid @ visit to the fort, which stands out at the end of a promontory which encloses the harbor to the rignt ofthe town. Ina previous let- ter I gave a slight sketch of the prigon, but no words of mine can convey any idea of its utter: revolting character, There is n&thing in New Yor! or anywhere else in America to which I can liken it, and Tam sanguine there is no prisen in Eur at the present day so vile and forbidding. The prison was formerly a powder magagine and con- sists of @ cell underground, faintly lighted, and ventilated from & hole in the floor of the fort over- head, Having waited until my a = ac- customed to the gloom, and e orrible smells pees, out through the barred en- trance had lost their first sickening imfuence, I counted thirty-one men ina space about twelve feet by twenty-eight. The majority were half naked in the stifling heat and stench, and were ieerany piled on each other ever the floor. Near the end of the dungeon, where a ray of light from the hole overhead struggled with the darkness, an English-speaking prisuner pointed me out the figure of OLD MAN NUEZI, lying on the floor chained, and near. by his two sons, fastened in a similar manner. I thought of the dungeons of wag toe and felt that the memory of King Bomba has been overmuch maligned, for he never pretended he was the ruler of @ republic, and his inhumanity and his crimes were never wrought in the name of freedom, like the punish- ment this old man, but recently the honored and beloved Governor of this district, and for whom eople wept aloud in the streets as he was dragged From under the roof of tke British Consul and carried to the fatal fort, were some of the very worst criminals, red-handed murderers and out- laws of society are incarcerated. Filth and all uncleanness were his companions, and the miser- able food he received was only fitior hogs, He was suffering trom a chronic complaint ef the intestines, and his worn face plainly indicated that much more confinement would put him past the troubles of this Weary world. through the kindness of a fellow prisoner, whose Fnglish, without being perfect, was at least plain, I entered into conversation with the old man. f nowired What was the motive of hig gouge into acts of hostility to the government, and he answered that he was anxious to have liberty of expression in the vote concerning the Samana sale. Had he succeeded in capturing Porto Plata the sense 0: the people would have been freely given on the question of renting Samana Bay to the Americans. They would not have been dragooned to vote for the Baez meas- ure, and if the pressure had been taken off a major- ity would have been iound against it, Every man Who voted did 80 in dread of the consequences of recording himsel! i opposition to the government wishes, Only one or two had the temerity to say “no,” but they were mere lads and their conduct was overlooked. He was OPPOSED TO THE BARZ ADMINISTRATION because he believed it was composed of a set of theves, and Baez was the biggest thiet of the lot. The country would never receive any benefit from the money paid by the Americans. It would all go into the pockets o/ Baez and his associates, but principaliy of Baez. He should like to know where all the money went that Baez got from time to time to carry on the gov- ernment, There was none of it expended for the good of the country, and the soldiers were hali starving. Baez not only sold the Bepabiic, but he has also cheated the Americans, and before long they will find that they had the worst of the bargain. Cabra! may be over the border any day, and Baez, with his pockets full of money pelonging to the pcople, will retire to Europe. He (Nuezi insisted the peopie were net in favor of giving up Samana to the Americans, and as that was his wa: of thinking he determined to make & protest, ani he made it with a few men in the fleld; but if his friends had only known oi it in time, he could have carried out bis purpose. ‘The people up towards Monte Christo, who have had no rain in two years, were perishing of the drought, and why was it tha! none of the money of the Baez government has been given to help them? If the government only started a movement to succor these poor people the rest of the country wonld come to their assist- ance; but these jellows are only thinking of them- selves, and thinking of how much they can make while they are in power. Here the officers of the fort came up and the conversation was brought to an end; but, brief a3 it was, it seemed to have given the ola man are- lief to unbosom himself, THE BRITISH CONSUL GENERAL NOTIFIED. Immediately aiter the outrage on his flag Mr. Ramburger sent a schooner to Cape Hayti with a despatch stating the circumstances of the case, to be lorwarded to the Consul General, Mr. St. Jon, at Port au Prince. The schooner returned last Monsey and reported that the letter had been for- warded to its destination. Up to date—sth of March—no reply has been received, but one is mo- mentarily expected in the shape of the appearance off the harbor of a British man-of-war, All the foreigners expect that the release of the prisoners will be at once demanded, and, further, that the dismissal of Gonzales and Ouriel wilt be exacted of the President, who will comply without delay. THE SAMANA BAY SCHEME WORKING MISOHTRP, People say that a vague idea filled the mina of Gonzales that the country was more or less under the Biot HOR of the United States, and that he could treat the flag of England with indifference, It is thought the recent event could never have happened if the American government had not shown more or less of an interest in the island, and filled Domintcans with the notion that the Stars and Stripes were ever ready to interpose on their behalf. They are as yet unable to compre- hend that the Samana Bay Company 1s a purely private commercial speculation, having no greater claim on the protection and interposition of the American government than any 1 Whee scheme of a commercial Sate Many of them believe the United States have taken Samana, or that it will ultimately step in and annex the whole island. ‘The Consul General of England, at Port-au-Prince, is opposed to the Samana enterprise, and so are most of the foreign consuls here, and as Gonzales represents the government which has favored and brought about this concession to Americans, he has little sympathy to expect trom the British, who will be bound to proceed against him with merciless promptitude. Curiel, the Minister of Finance, is the greatest ass I ever met filling a position of any importance. Baez wants no more astute person to attend to the financial affairs of the country, and these affairs it is neediess to add are in a condition of the most inextricable confusion. Gonzales is to be pitied, for I think if he had been better advised—and he is not deaf to good advice—he would‘ have saved himself trom the trouble which is now pending over him. As the Spanish steamer 1s expected TE I cannot forward the news of the arrival of the British man- of-war, for she has not yet put in an appearance, and of the course her commander may take; but she may come in at any hour and short, sharp and (ere will be the style of settling the difficulty on hand. Baez Approves the Outrage—Cabral on the Border with a Force of Haytians. Porto Pata, March 10, 1873. The Spanish steamer has not come as expected, but the English steamer Arno, Captain Dicks, for St. Thomas, is in the harbor and leaves early in the morning. I have been up to the government house and they tell me despatches have been received by the Governor {from St. Domingo City ap- proving his course and ordering the transfer of the prisoners to the capital. They go to-night under a strong guard. Thi¥:makes the muddle worse and worse. A gentleman named Noncs, from St. Thomas, belonging to the well known firm of Hurtsig & Co., came here by the English steamer to collect some debts from the firm of Niemann & Co., in which Gonzales is a partner, but, on the pre- text that his firm supplied material to the filibus- terer Luperon, he has been ordered to brig and he has returned to the steamer after a five, min- utes’ stay in the tewn. Cabral is reported on the border with a large Haytian force. am trying to get around and see that fugitive genius, but the prospect is not encouraging. SAMANA SUMMARIZED. Two Pilgrims Left on the Shores of the Bay—The Wi md Witching Fabens and His Remarkable Son—What the ‘West India Company Has Not Done. Samana, St. Domingo, Feb. 21, 1873, Thave taken my last survey of this future set- tlement of American industry and enterprise, walked for the fifty-first and final time througn the village of Santa Barbara, shaken hands with the two forlorn pilgrims, last of my promising colony, for wnomI had predicted a happy and auriferous fature, and packed up my traps for an indefinite journey across the country without a single emotion of regret at leaving this extremely stupid place, My pilgrims are gone, the Lord knows where, and out of the twenty-three who left New York with high hepes and boundless imaginations I see but two on the shores of Samana. They will culti- vate the farinaceous plantations and nurse the sweet banana, and I only hope their lives may be as peaceful and beautiful as the shores of the bay whereon they*have cast their lot. In the transfer of Samana there was no ceremony. The surrender ofthe bay and peninsula was given at St. Domingo City when the $150,000 in gold (the yearly rent) was delivered over to Baez, and as that was all Baez cared for, he was indiferent to any ceremonial in the matter of surrendering up the property. JOE FABENS, THE WONDERFUL. Fabens is now the sapient Governor of Samana, He is a man of peace, but should occasion demand ofhim an exhibition of belligereacy he can call upon his remarkable son Joe, a Christian youth, with @ tremendous capacity for mild lemonade an ship biscuit, on which he cherishes the hope of being one day President of St. Domingo. Joe is not wisely silent, like his father, and therefore it is that, when he makes his beet effort to secure admi- ration of his transcendent genius, he meets only with derisive applause. i Fabens and Samana are identical. How many lots the handsome Governor owns is not for me to say, because I don’t know,-ner does anybody else; but then he is a good fellow, they say, and above he is a wise looking man, who, for aught oeople be aware of, carries in his head the solution of that bothersome problem of perpetual motion. Santa Barbara, or “Stockwell,” as it ls proposed to call it (great Jebediah, what a contrast of panes), would be @ pleasant place in which to if there was a broad road bulit along by the rs edge; if the sunken valley to the left of the town were drained and filled up, and the bug- bear of chills and fever ished; if the streets were graded and guttered, and 4 society of a lew hundred decent Americans introduced, As it have no craving desire to pass my exist- but I have no doubt, now that the ade, that the wealthy West India Com- pany will make this place blossom as the rose, and several years hence nobody will recognize the present town of Santa Barbara, 60 much willit be altered for the better. THE FUTURE OF THR SETTLEMENT. There is excellent land around, and the climate is mild and genial, though it rains for an uncon- scionable length of time in the wet season, A ore Tany people age bound to come here when it in operation asa free port, and I am informed nothing but Samana is bow debated throughout the West India Isiands. The managers of this enterprise have it within their power to make Sa- mana either a ‘ificent success or a inost de- plorabie failar far they have done nothing to meet general expectation except to erect a hotel at a place where nobody will care to go, even though it commands a view of most extensive pro- portions. If they were in dead earnest they would ave chartered an extra steamer and sent down a corps of men to lay out the town, organize a government, employ laborers to fill up the sWamp and be at work instanter in every direc. tion, for there are hundreds 0! people anxious to come here; bat where's the use so long as they see nothing but the one old sicepy village of San’ Barbara, where nothing can be found to attract the attention of the most desperate specuiator— nothing but mad when {t rains and notuing but dust and duiness when it does not? Mr. Haisey, who started yesterday ap the Yuna River to gee wuetuer it cau ve made pvauable jor is the man on whom the whole burden ing out the scheme of the West Indi: Company has been thrown, too much for Halsey, for his eye covers everything; but then he cannot be in two places at one time, and while he is away in the interior there is no- body left here to see after anything. Fabens is left, but Fabens is not an eng.ncer, and “Robinson Crusoe” would be more to his taste than studying trigonometry, HALSEY THE MAN OF BRAINS. Give Halsey the men and the means and he could turn this country into a gold mine. Thinking he was a simple civil engmeer, I was amazed to find howhis plans branched out to cover every sort of comme:cial enterprise, railroads, banks, mines, sawmills, aad he even dashed into an in- genlons, scheme for carrying on the government of he whole country when the company took in the entire island. He is practically the head and front of thia whole concern, and on his report will de- pend the future of the West India Company, Thé trouble with him he is too modest, and you have to know him some time before you aiscover the vast extent of his practical observation. But adieu to Sumana, and now for the interior. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Sir Joun Sinciaim, M. P., is preparing for the press a book on the late Franco-German war. It is to be published simultaneously in English, French and German, “Qui nous délivera des Grecs et des Romains?” said a French writer, bored by the ever-recurring inroads oi his contemporaries on Greek and Roman ground, Could not as much be said about the vexed question of the authorship of Junius’ Letters?’ We are now told that the Earl of Aberdeen had the frequent and positive assurance of Pitt that the latter knew who the author of “Junius” was, that Sir Philip Francis was not the man, This negative assurance would be more satisfactory if Pitt had completed it by confiding to Lord Aberdeen the real name of the author, Asit is the controversy has scarcely any new ground to start afresh, THe CaMDEN Socrery will publish chronicle written by Gregory Skinner, who was Mayor of London in the year 1452. The work, which appears to have escaped the notice of John Stow and of all subsequent inquirers, contains much new and in- teresting informatien concerning the reigns of Henry the Sixth and Edward the Fourth. New light is cast on the rebellion of Jack Cade, ana novel and highly characteristic anecdotes of Mar- garet of Anjou and King Edward the Fougth are among the points of interest. THE FOLLOWING samples of Portugnese-English are proverbs taken from a “Manual of the English Tongue,” designed to teach our language in its most correct form to the Portuguese youth :— So many heads, so much opinions. The necessity don’t know the low, Every one for him, and God for all. The stone as roll not heap up not foam, Help thy, that God will aid thee, Spoken of the wolf, one see the tail. we the country of blinds the one-eyed men are ngs. Mr. EDWARD HALu’s book on “The Building and Ornamental Stones of Great Britain and Foreign Countries,” issued by Macmillan, is fall of valuable information to architects and others. The rapid decay and disintegration of the favorite building stones, marble, dolomite, freestone and granite, are discussed, and the greater permanence of some varieties of limestone, of syenite, and even of brick, are insisted upon, London, it appears, is peeling away, architecturally, as well as the brown stone fronts of New York, THE SOLEMN Saturday Review declines to join in the eulogies of other English journals upon Dr. Mayo's “Never Again.” It says the author “is not a first rate periormer, and, indeed, we should be disposed to say that he is not second rate; but ‘Never Again,’ though rather long, and much of it decidedly tiresome, may be read with interest by any one who does not expect too much.” Mr. MACDONELL, British Chargé d’Affaires at Buenos Ayres, has written a despatch to his gov- ernment which must powerfully discourage emi- gration to Brazil. Neither sheep farming, cattle raising, mining, agricuiture, nor commerce pre- sents openings to tempt an Englishman. No doubt a great deal of money has been made in Mexico, Brazil and the old Spanish colonies of South America, and no doubt there is @ great deal more to b¢ made there; but those countries are still enveloped in the golden haze of their former reputgsion—a reputation founded much on fact and ¥ery much more on fable. A BERLIN CLERGYMAN, the Rev. D. A. Rosenthal, has undertaken to form a gallery of all the con- verted of the nineteenth century. Among the celebrated conversions of our time the author has missed Chateaubriand, who, having published in London, at the end of the last century, an atheistic book, wrote, at the beginning of the present one, “Le Génie du Christianisme.”” He became the stanchest supporter ef divine right and ultramon- tanism in France during the Restoration, but con- cluded, in his “Mémoires d’Outre-tombe,” pub- lished after his death, by again advocating free thought and democracy. steamboat pavigntion, of cal A NEW SATIRICAL NovEL on contemperary society, “La Grande Dame et la Normandie,” has just been published. OUT OF THR 1,536 newspapers (daily, weekly, &c.) printed in Great Britain and Ireland in 1873 Lon- don has 285, the provinces 889, Scotland 140, Ireland 144 and Wales 59, while the Channel Islands issue 19. AN INTERESTING M. S., written in Italian, by the late Emperor Napoleon III., when he was in Italy, an exiie from France, has been published in the Rivista Burapea, COLONEL Ovvry is publishing an account ef the life and lavors of Stein, the great Prussian land re- former. MaRIA Sopnia SCHWARTZ, the Swedish novelist, has amassed a fortune from her writings during the past ten years. MEDICAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. aera rw Aemnn we aeay The Commencement Exercises at Associa. tion Hall Last Night—Conterring of Degrees Upon Nine Ladies. The tenth annual Commencement exercises of the New York Medical College for Women, 187 Sec- ond avenue, corner Tweifth street, was held last night at Association Hall. There was a large au- dience, composed for the greater part of friends and relatives of the graduating members, The platform was prettily decorated with flowers, and many of the ladies in the audience held bouquets in their hands, The nine ladies who composed the graduating class were seated in front. They were modestly dressed in black. Mrs. C. 8. Lozier, M. D., the Dean of the College, read the annual report. She said the college had already conferred degrees upon sixty-four graduates, Nine of them were to re- ceive their degrees this evening. All the former graduates of the college who were now practising medicine were doing credit to the institution. Most of them were receiving more than a bare support. One young lady who graduated recently reported that her income had been last year $1,000, The time would soon be when the trammels of sex would no longer be barriers to the highest intel- lectual development of women. She remembered with pride how much women had done for the sci- ce of medicine, She thought it was but fair that women were doing s© much for men’s cblleges gentlemen ought to do something for this col- for women. (Laughter and applanse.) All that was wanted was $100,000. This amount would establish the college on @ firm basis. The Rev. Henry Powers delivered an address. Mr. De Cordova made a few humorous remarks, He said 100 years ago such a meeting would have been impossible, but 100 years hence it would be considered scandalous that the right of women to devote themselves to this noble profession could have been doubted. He said there were three jasses of ladies—the high-tored, the low-toned and the semi-toned. The high-toned ladies who lolled on seias and cultivated lap-dogs and read novels had told him that these pursuits were “too masculine” for women. He asked, “Why too mas- guline?” (Imitating a whine.) “Because they were masculine.” (Applause.) This was their auswer. He believed that women should enter any profession they liked and be done with it. Some people said that “women should stick to their mission.” This was one of the most effective words in newspapers. He had seen nurses in the chamber of sickness; but where the woman stood he had seen a minis- tering angel Without wings, and disease had to fy before her. (Applanse from the ladies.) He said to women, God speed you and bless you, and he asked them not to be too hard upon men if Be | were called to attend them—althongh men ha given them provocation enough. (Laughter) Miss Sommerville sang a pretty song, and de- grees were then conferred upon the ‘following raduates:—Misses Mary W. Noxon, New York, Emma M, Stiles, Montclair, N.J.; Georgia Merri- man, Ohio; L. A. Ran Dell, Sayville, L. 1; Lucy Almy Baicoc and Mrs. Ellen Brown Sey rsop and SarahJ. White. of New Potter's Hill, R. 1.3; Catheyine bk. | pour, | ART MATTERS, ‘The Beaumont Sale. The second ahd last evening of the sale of Mr. Beaumont’s valuable pictures was finely attended last night at Ciinton Hall, The appended prices were realized:—Landscape, Study from Nature, Lets. a Modern Eve, $60; Fowls, &., $27 50; lew Negadi—Upper $72; View of Minich—Upper ev, $13; A Morning Waik, $50; The Little Coquet 5 Landscape—Summer, Landscape—' iter, $300; On the Chase, 5150; Street View im ‘Delft, Holland, $115; The Green Market at the Hague, $100; View cn Lake Thun, Switzerland, $265; Sorrento, $185; &c., $70; Female Head, ‘La Rose,” lead—The — Geranium, $75; and His Courtiers, The Game ess, $340; The Sand Cart, 250 5 Reg, Sir!’ $15; A Bich Fruit Plece, $65" A Fruit Piece, $05, Love Me? Love Me Not ?—The Prophecy of tl e Flower, $950; Terriers and Cecka- too, $225; A Beautiiul Flower Piece, $800; Land- scape, with Sheep, &c., $1,050; Coast Scene—A Gleam of Sunlight, $200; The Vegetable Market, $170; Interior—Lady with Parroqnet, $140; The Boudoir, $1 45; Interior of a Stable, $140; The Gleaner—& Scene in Wales, $280; Aiter the Fox, $400 The Billet Doux, $450; The Confldants, Venice—Entrance to the Grand Cani Venice—The Campanile, Piazetta and Palace, $60; ‘ne Declaration, Boudoir, $100; Inspiration, — $55; Longings, $80; A Present of Spring Flowers—Vio- lets and Primroses, $90; Rural Scenery, 95; The Pet Dove, $15; Going to Market, $40; Feeding the Pets, $50; In the Library, $130; An Interior—The Spinning-Wheel, $110; The Head of a Horse, $25; Landscape, with Cattie, nit Landscape, with Cattle, 90; Sunset, 104 Contemplation, _$800;, Dead Game, $40; Dead Game, $40; Industry, $40; Effect of Candlelight, $45; Landscape, with Figures, $80; Landscape, with Figures, $750; Returning ilome, $350 Her Toilet, $250; An Inter' 0%, it ng Blossoms, $125; A Grou oat scape, with Sheep, &c., $b, Sweet Violets, $1,450; Reading $1,300; Shepherdess, with Flock of 180; ‘me Billet-Doux, $30; The End of the lay-time, $90; the Bible, Sheep, Miniature, Esineralda, $150; Lilacs, $210; The Hay Cart, $16: A Mountain Pasture, $130; Landscape, with Ani- mals, $120; Female Head, $30; Town View in ‘Holland, $140; Town View in Hol- land, $110; Fowls, &c., $25; Fowls, &c., $25; Landscape, with Figures, $42 50; Feeding the Goat, $20; Sheep, &c., $35; rapes &c., $35; Town View, $40; Town View (companion to the preceding), $40; Effect of Candlelight—Good Night, $82 50. The Kensett Pictures, All the evenings of next week are to be de- voted, at Association Hall, to the sale of pictures by the late John F. Kensett. The pictures are more than five hundred in number, and comprise speci- mens of some of Kensett’s best works, We have never seen any collection which presented so vast and triumphant @ view of the powers of any one artist. Mr. Kensett’s sympathies were true and profound, He leved almost all the aspects of nature, and his soul was impregnated with the rich and delicate tints that are found in glowing sunrise and sunsets, forests tangled with shadow, glittering mists, and quaint, moss covered labyrinths, The present exhibition which is held in the Academy of Design, is entirely free. It is a wonderful evidence of his industry, enthusiasm and skill, Kensett was a genius in one of the purest and best senses of that term. His heart was large enough to sympathize over the shilts and miseries which beset the artistic “pot- boiler,” while his talents and his opportunities were 80 tet as to lilt him completely above such necessities himself. He plodded none the less for enjoying so large a measure of inspiration. He depended not on moods, but on method; ainted in season and out of season, and may e said to have answered death’s call with the brush and palette in hand. We are not surprised at the vast extent of labor of whick the present exhibition isa specimen. The tesult of his last three months’ work is quite enough to make every student of themayield him profound homage. A few pictures by er artists are found interspersed among those of Kensett, Thus we find the names ef Mignot, Gray, Champney, Litschauer, Dears, Benson, Gude, luness, ‘ant, Carfer, Morgan, Long. Gifford, Leutze, Lambdin, Loop, Waldo, Greer, Baker, La Farge, Anderson, Rossiter, Gay, Eastman Johnson, Boughton, Pohle, Bridges, Pape, Suydam and Castiear. The whole proportion of interpolated pictures, however, is very small, One of the rooms at the Academy of Design is occupied hy Kensett’s last three months’ stndies, and among these are incorporated his private cellection of pictures by contemporary artists, The pictures in this room will not be put inte the sale, but books of subscription will be opened to obtain the amount of $20,000 to purchase # selection of Mr. Kensett’s works, to be placed, with his collection by contemporaneous artists, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among so many Splended specimens of Kensett’s genl ‘us are to be found in the larger ms of the Academy of Design, it scems almost impertinent to particular- ize. But those upon which the cultivated eye will perhaps be found to tasten Be cig delight are “The Glen,” No. 8; “On the Hudson,’ No. 26; “October on the Hudson,” No, 32; “Beverly Coast, Mass,” No. 45, finished by Casilear; “On the Missouri,” No. 48; “Longneck Point,” No. 52; “Near Newport,” No. 63; “Autumn Trees,’ No. 64; “Pleasant Valley,’’ No, 685 “Entrance to the Chigo Villa,” No. 72; “New; ort,’ No. 74; ‘Lake George,’’ No. 78; “White Birch in October,” No. 87; “The Rapias, Niagara,” No. 90; “Shrine near Subiaco,” No. 94; “Street Scene, Italy,” No. 06; ‘Rocks Near Beverly,” No. 98; “Gentral New. York," No. 99; “Rocks in the White Mountains,” No. 104; “On the Sound, Darien,” No. 109; ‘Coast Scene Narragan- sett,’? 111; “In the Vale,” No. 115; ‘On the Hud- son, near Newburg,” No. 125; ‘Road in the Woods,” No, 129; “Near Sunset,’ No, 131; “The Mountain Bridge,”’ No. 140; “Niagara Falls,” No, 146; “Narragansett Coast,’’ Nos. 147 and 154; “Atlantic Coast at Lon; ranch,” No. 162; “Shrewsbury Inlet,” No. 163; “Sea at Nahant,” No. 168; “Point of Recks, Newport,’’ No. 170; “Near Sabbath Day Point,’ No. 176; ‘Mount Desert, Me.” No, 200; “Berenton’s Point. No. 212; “Sunrise in the Adirondacks,” No. 228; “Among the Adiron- dacks,” No. 239;'“A Sketch of Mornin; Autumn,” No, 241; “The Birches,” No. 267; ‘Study of Water and Fog Cloud,” No, 300; “Lake George at Sunset,” No. 314; “Autumn in the Mountain,” No, 821; “View on the Hudson,’ Ne. 827; “The Sleeping Lake,’’ No. 331: “Coast of Cape Ann,’’ No, 882; “The Dell,” No. 335; “Autumnal Sunset,” No. 337; “The Beaver Dam on Clear Creek, Near Golden City, ado,” No, 240; “Evening on the Lake,” N ‘Niawara,” No, 347 (A); ‘‘A Moun- (0. 342; tain Road,” No. 349 (A);_“‘The Autumn’ Twili ht)? No. 350; “Swampscott Beach,” No, 352; ‘Black Mountain,” No. 353 (A) ; “Study of Rocks,” No. 355; “October’ Afternoon, Newport,” No. 360; “The Granite Shore,” No, 870; “Sketch in the Woods,” 3 “Sunset from the Lawn, Newport,” No. 383; ‘Morning in Bergen Park, Colorado," No. 386; “Buffalo Pasture on the Missouri,” No. 31, and a “Whirlpool of Niagara,” No. 400. To thé studies, sketches and pictures embraced in the ast three months o! Kensett’s works we made ame allusion @ lew days ago. Mr. Gladstone and the English Water- Color Society. The London Society of Painters in Wéer Colors has just invented a new order of members, and Mr. Gladstone has been elected one of tint Order, and after him Mr. Prescott Hewett, th¢ eminent surgeon and amateur; Sir Richard Wdlace; M. Maddon, President of the Belgian Society )f Water- Color Painters: and last, not least, Mi Ruskin, The cause et Mr, Giadstone’s election (says an Englisn paper) is not far to seek. He } the first Minister of the Crown who has officially ricognized the existence of a school of art which farishes in England as it flourishes nowhere else, by con- ferring the honor of knighthood on the tresident of the society which ior nearly seventy ears has been its mainstay. Alleged Attempt to Shoot an Ofer. Yesterday morning at an early hout officer McLaughlin, of the Nineteenth precinct, While on duty in Forty-seventh street and Sixthavenue, says that he heard shots fired in Fortypeventh street, towards Fifth avenue. On goingin that direction he intercepted Christian L. tailor, residing at 133 West Filty-third st: was running toward him at full speed.|He ar- resied him and on his person founda jyolver, two chambers of whieh were loaded. [hile on their way tothe station house, Peters triped the oMoer up and recovered possession of the jvolver, which he snapped at the officer's head thi in rapid succession. jt failed, however, and the next moment he was knocked senjless by the oMcer with his club, Withoutfurther trouble he was conveyed to the stati and yesterday arraigned at the Yorkvill Police Court, where the officer made oath ‘to thiforego- ing facts. Tho prisoner, through counselidenicd the attempted shooting, and said if acc@led an. examination he would prove his innoceng of the charge. Justice Bixby, Who was on thqbench, ranted the request, and the case was set dwn jor his morning. CELEBRATION OF THE OOM: One Who Has No Desire To Bi Con- founded with the Germania) Hall Party. New York, March To THE EpiTor oF THE HERALD :— MARAUDING APACHES. Bloodthirsty Cochise Leading His Cutthroats Into Mexico. MURDERS AND RAVAGES DAILY. Deadly Effects of the Peace-at- Any-Price Policy. Arizona Unmolested While Uncle Sam Is Em- broiled with the Sister Republic. Sacred Reservations the Elysium for Robbers and Assassins. Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 24, 1873. The Indian troubles in this portion of the country have at last been nearly settled, thanks to the energetic and untiring action of General Crook, who has succeeded in establishing a tranquillity and peace never before enjdyed by the settlers in this frontier State, At present we hear of no Indian troubles, and as the military are on the alert, moving about in small parties, they consti- tute a check on the marauding savages. COCHISE AND HIS MURDEROUS BAND IN MEXICO. Althongh Arizona is tolerably free from Indian raids, our Mexican cousins from the borders of Sonora send up a dismal wail and a heartrending account of raids recently perpetrated on their country by the renowned Cochise and his band of Apaches, renegades, &c. This is a question that cannot fail to bring about rather unpleasant rela- tions between Uncle Sam and the Mexican gov- ernment, as although the clause in the treaty ceding over territory in Arizona, which made the United States responsibie for the damage done in Mexico by Arizona Indians, has been re- scinded, it is hardly fair or equitable that Mr. Cochise should be placed on a reservation border- ing upon Sonora, with full permission to commit what depredations he may fancy to indulge in on the Mexican side of the line, and to be free from all military or civil iterference as long as Arizoua is left in peace. HOW THE APACHES CAN DEFY THE MILITARY. When General 0. 0. Howard paid his last visit to Arizona he concluded a treaty with Cochise which placed that enterprising chief on a reservation of nis own choosing, within the State of Arizona, and nearly adjoining the Sonora line. Within the limits of that reservation Cochise is free from all inter- ference, as he is protected by the Indian Bureau, and General Crook or his troops dare not trespass within its boundary. This reservation embraces a portion of the richest part of southern Arizona, and forms a highly advantageous headquarters from which to despatch the marauding expeditions of the enterprising Cochise. A little’ dash into Arl- zona is easily made, and the blame thrown on some other tribe, as, within the limits of his reser- vation, Mr. Cochise is on sacred ground that the military dare not prospect, COCHISE ON SACRED GROUND, é Again, the neighboring State of Sonora forms @ highly interesting fleld for the exercise of tne bel- ligerent and thieving propensities for which Mr. Cochise is renowned. General Crook has succeeded in completely subduing the warlike Indians of Arizona, with the exception of Mr. Cochise, who, on his reservation, forms a shining light of the wis- dom of the peace policy now being adopted by the colporteur division of the administration. Every day brings news from Sonora of fresh raids, new murders, horses and cattle stolen, houses and vil- lages burned, &c., and if it is policy to depopulate Sonora General 0. 0. Howard has made a decided success, as the settlers on. the borders are rapidly emigrating to more peaceful climes and giving undisputed possession to the victorious Cochise, THE PRESIDENT AFRAID OF HIM. Nothing is known exactly of Cochise’s move- ments except what comes from the Mexican bor- der; but he was recently interviewed in regard to the treaty he made with General 0. 0. Howard, and stated that he understood he was the Big Chief of the country, as the President was so afraid of him that he sent a general officer to make peace with him on his own terms, This treaty, he says, protects and feeds him while he raids on the Mexi- cans, and keeps nim perfectly safe as long as he leaves Arizona in peace. This reservation ulso gobbles up a large portion of a public highway be- tween New Mexico and Arizona, and thus forces travellers to take @ circuitous route. This last point reminds one of a similar move made by Vin- cent Collyer, about a year and half ago, when he laid out @ reservation for the Wallapal Indians, which took in @ large portion of a public highway. The same influence which sus- tains General 0. 0, Howard 1s also hard at work endeavoring to segregate the White Moun- tain, Grant and Cochise reservations, together with the posts of Apache and Bowie, from Arizona to New Mexico, to carry out the policy of civilizing those Indians who have never, wh & peace which did not countenance t! and plun- dering of Mexicans and Arizonians, PROBABLE TROUBLE WITH MEXICO, General Crook has succeeded in his efforts to subdue the hostile Indians in Arizona, and for the first time since the settlement of that State the settlers experience a sense of security hitherto foreign to them; but they cannot help viewing with alarm the position and privileges grantea to Cochise and his band. Cochise’s reservation is now the rendezvous for all the renegade Indians ana for other hostile Indians that have been whipped by General Crook and broken up into small bands, Cochise’s position enables him to raid on Mexicans and return to his reservation without iet or hinderance from any authority in Arizona or elgewhere, It is very evident that such action must eventually disturb our relations with Mexico, and it will probably result in a series of reprisals on the part of the Mexicans, As it is, large claima have already been presented in Washington by Mexicans for damages done in Sonora by Ari- zonian Indians, Granting even that the clause of the treaty bearing upon that particular point haa been cancelled, the glaring impropriety of locating the most hostile band of Indians that we have on the Mexican border is manifestly apparent, and would not be tolerated by any other government on the face of the earth, Cochise himscif believes, and said in a recent interview, that as long as he does not raid upon Americans he complies with his agreement with General Howard, L&T HOWARD WHIP HIM INTO SUBJECTION. The isolated location of his reservation preventa any one from ascertaining to what extent he raids upon Arizona even, as he can with perfect impu nity carry out an expedition of the kind, return to the security of his reservation and lay the blame upon other tribes of Indians now in proper subjec- tion, There only appears to be one way todo jus tice to our neighbors, the Mexicans, and that is to allow General Crook to carry out the operations he has so successfully commenced, and, instead of holding him in check when three-quarters finished, give him the power to bring Cochise to terms and place him on a reservation, where his movements can be watched by the military and the surround- ing country preserved irom his marauding and plundering raids. THE SEVENTY-THIRD STREET STABBING Arrest of Two M md Arraignment at the Yorkville Police Court Before Justice Bixby on Suspicion, Among the prisoners arraigned at the Yorkville Court yesterday were James McDonald, of No. 423 East Seventy-fourth street, and Michael Buckley, of Seventy-second street and First avenue, ‘They bad been arrested as two of those’ who com- mitted an assault, on the 17th inst., on several per- sons in @ lager beer saloon in Kast Seventy-fourth Street, the ante-mortem statement of one of whom has been taken by Coroner Herrman, The matter having being properly before the latter oni they Were remanded back to the station how On the 19th instant, in your account of ban- quet on the evening previous, you jnseed my name as being present between those offessrs, Pariselana May. Thave the honor to stal, how- ever, that, having nothing in common w§ these individuals or with theit acts, wish Per no pretext tobe mixed up with them, Aspelieve you bad no intention of doing me ao mjurpl trust you will make this correction, Iam, f, your obedient servant, LDMOND Meg. Cgquamunyier yf Fort Issy ugder the Cougung, = Apotker person was also arrested. bi “ the piKht Oe Le Was let go, pein