The New York Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pecuditeeeeseentil JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVITML...........csecsceeseee NOs SL AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Roszat Emmet, Ta" {isu Paraiot—Dzsziny, &c, JEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, se amp Oxio, Matinee at 214. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Nuw Yuan's Evz. Matineo at 135. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— BNANL Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. 6 Broadway.—GRanp VaRiztr Ex. fertarwuent. Matince at 24. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Irauian Orxra—Afternoon at 1—Der Faxiscavrz, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third AV.—Feenande, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and louston strects.—LxO AND Lorox Matinee at 1. 87, JAMES' THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st—Bua- uxsqus Orgra—Lucerzia Borcis. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Huxrry Duxrrr. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Cousin Jaca. Matince, WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Garricx. Matinee at 14. BOOTH!'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappr O'Dowp. Matinee at 2, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—UNcLE Sam. Matince at 13 MRE. F. BR, Bos Roy. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE, Matinee at 2—Monre Cniaro. 7 BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st... corner 6th av.—Nxono Minstaersy &0, Matinee at 2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Vanuery Enrxnrainuant. Matinee ai 2. ssid STEINWAY HALL. Fourteenth street.—Afternoon at READINGS FROM SHAKSPEARE. ASSOCIATION HALL, 234 street and 4th av.—After- Boon at 2—Reapinas. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science anp Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, March 22%, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE AWFUL SPECTACLE OF JUSTICE AVENGED ! TWO MURDERERS HANGED YESTERDAY | —EDITORIAL LEADER— SixTH Pace. WILLIAM FOSTER HANGED AT THE TOMBS! HIS LAST NIGHT UPON EARTH AND THE FINAL SCENES UPON THE SCAFFOLD! AN AFFECTING FAREWELL TO HIS. SUFFER- ING WIFE! THE KEEPER'S TALE! AN ASSURANCE OF PUBLIC SAFETY FROM “THE DESPERATE COLASSES!—Tuap Pac. @ DIAGRAM OF THE TOMBS PRISON—Tnmp PaGE. GANGED FOR MURDERING HIS WIFE! McEL- HANEY SACRIFICED TO THE DEMANDS OF IMPERILLED JUSTICE AT BOSTON! HOW BE PASSED THE HOURS! THE AWFUL GALLOWS SCENES—Fourntn Pacz. PRESIDENT GRANT COMMUTES THE DEATH SENTENCE TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT IN THE CASE OF O'BRIEN! WRIGHT'S CASE UNSETTLED—HICKEY, THE ALLEGED WIFE MURDERER—Fovsrn Paas. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER OR SUICIDE | BROOK- LYN THE SCENE OF A CASE AS IMPENE- TRABLE AS THE ROGERS AND NATHAN CASES! A WEALTHY AND WELL-CON- NECTED CITIZEN FOUND SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD AND WITH HIS POCKETS _ RIFLED—Fovrtn Page. GENERAL CANBY “6OING FOR” CAPTAIN JACK! THE COUNTERVALLATION OP THE MODOC WARRIORS! GETTING THE ARTILLERY IN POSITION! A STERN PEACE COMMIS- SIONER—SEVENTH Pace. CAUGHT IN HAVANA! THREE PERSONS AR- RESTED FOR COMPLICITY IN THE FOR- GERIES UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND! THEIR NAMES AND APPEARANCE! EX- TRADITION WITHOUT A TREATY—SEVENTH Paas. THE ERIE RAILWAY DEPOT IN JERSEY CITY AGAIN DESTROYED! ENORMOUS LOSS! ALL THE BUILDINGS BURNED! NO OB- STRUCTION TO TRAVEL—Fourtn Page. GT. DOMINGO! 4 TOUR IN THE LATEST EL DORADO! THE MOSQUITOES AND THE LAZY BOATMEN OF THE YUNA! SWEL- TERING UNDER TROPICAL SKIES! AN IN- TERESTING SKETCH JF THE COLONISTS’ DESIGNS AND OF DOMINICAN HABITS AND NEEDS—Firtn Pace. . ERIE CONTROL ! THE MANIPULATIONS OF THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SHAREHOLD. ERS! THE ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURES BY MESSRS. O'DOHERTY AND GOULD! TAM- MANY INFLUENCES—SHIPWRECKS—Ninta PacE. THE WASHINGTON TREATY RULES DISCUSSED BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT! THE GEN- EVA AWARD UPHELD! TEXT OF THE OB- NOXIOUS ARTICLES—SEVENTH PAGE. NO MORE FRENCH AID FOR THB CARLISTS— NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN—SEVENTH PagE. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON! CORRUPT CALDWELL! FLORIDA’S LAND GRAB! THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA—Seventn Pace. BUSINESS AT THE FINANCIAL AND COM- MERCIAL BUREAUS! GOVERNMENT BONDS IN DEMAND! A GENERAL DECLINE IN THE OTHER MARKETS—THE BULL'S HEAD AND STUYVESANT BANK TROUBLES— EIGHTH Pace. Tre Mopocs m tae Lava Beps occupy o fost unenyiable position at the present time. According to our special despatch, published in the Hzratp to-day, General Canby has so planted the United States troops and the howitzers at his command that Jack will neither be able to escape nor organize raids on the settlers in the neighborhood. The Indian camp is to be completely surrounded. The movements of the soldiers are somewhat fnysterious, but enough is known to venture the opinion that within the next few days Jock ‘will either have to come to terms or fight. A Lawson yor Rovons.—Justice is some- times swift footed in this city. The particu- lars of the assault on last Sunday night on a Madison avenue car by two youths named Jobn Green and John Canghlin on Mr. Stini- alao Antoldi have already been fully given in the Henaup. After Antoldi left the car, it will bo remembered, they knocked him down, cnt off one of his ears, tore his overcoat into shreds, stole his moncy aud valuables and then let him. On Monday they were arrested, on ‘Deeaday indicted, on Thursday arraigned he. fore the Court of Oyer and Terminer and yes- terday they pleaded guilty and were each son- danced to fifteen years in State Prison, fF NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEKT. Yme Awful Spectacle of Justice Avenged—Two Murderers Hanged Yesterday. 2 The execution of William Foster, which took place yesterday at the Tombs, has vindi- cated the law. Men will feel that when mur- derers can be hanged there is some chance of grappling with crime. Seldom in the history of capital trials has one been fought over so bitterly to the end as the Foster case. Every possible influence was brought to bear to obtain a commutation of the sentence, The public had its own emphatic opinion of the ‘matter wherever ita voice could be heard. However it may be touched with the sufferings of the families of those who bring the death penalty upon themselves, it will not consent to see society at the mercy of the cut- throat by encouraging 4 mistaken leniency. With Foster the argument has finished. Society is victorious in the battle for its right; but the Tombs has yet its dozen of murderers whom we must not forget. The wretched man who yesterday rendered up his existence was not by any means the worst of the offenders who have done hideous wrong to society. We call upon the authorities to pursue this salutary work of bringing crime to its knees. We call upon the press to unite in the assertion of the principle which our brave old Governor has inculcated—that: ‘law, and order must pre- vail, cost what it may.’’ It is high time, too, that juries should act with something like a sense of their responsibility, and consider the public safety with at least as much tenderness asa fifth rate lawyer can awaken in them for the interests of » common murderer. One murderer executed will be as little likely to make our great city an Arcadia as one'swallow is proverbially unlikely to make a Summer. In the offences against human life New York has asad history forsome years past. We have seen murder grow up with fearful suddenness. We can almost shudder as we admit that homicide seemed likely to become ao fashion. It had its votaries in every class, and knife, pistol and axe again subdivided. The murderer became the hero of the hour. The victim was hurried to his grave, and all men and women who value law and order looked at the sight with blank dismay. The gallows seemed as superannuated os the rack and thumbscrew, ond murder, in self-conscious jauntiness, declared “hanging played out.’” Murder trials became shows for the exhibition of the human butchers and the frothy self-consequence of a few criminal lawyers. Juries were pared down to the lowest grade of intelligence. Their decisions were looked forward to in fear by the people who loved peace and in unconcealed pleasure by the brotherhood of crime. This was a ter- rible state of affairs. Insecurity became a password and law a byword. Thero is a state of society in which, when law cannot be trusted to do the work of justice, rough and ready honesty in a fever of indignation arrogates power to itself and creates a terror by irresponsibly taking’ the law into its own hands. This is something which. the man who loves his country would almost equally deplore with the impunity of crime itself, Well ordered Bociety delegates its power to persons specially chosen for that purpose. That over life and death is guarded by unmistakably strong restrictions; but nothing can be so demoralizing as to see these restrictions act as insurmountable barriers between a murderer and the gallows. So they seemed to have been acting in New York; but at last a gleam of better light appears to have come. A conviction reaffirmed through every grade of appeal was obtained. The grim scene in the yard of the Tombs yesterday, with a breathless murderer under a gallows beam, pointed its story tq the rampant riffian- ism which has dreamed itself secure. To make this lesson the more impressive we have the story of a similar vindication of the law from Boston, and we take it that when the stories of these triumphs of justice have been laid to the minds of the criminal classes they will see that the people, in deadly earnest, are resolved to take their share of the terror-striking into their hands. Fora long day has the balance on the people’g side been high in air. As when Brennus flung his sword into the scale and brought it down, the might of the people’s will has brought down the side of order, and, spite of all the influences of affection, of interest and of money, the side of the murderer has been thrown upward. In| that position, too, it will be the work of those who cherish order to keep it. The wretched beings who yesterday were hurled out of existence are merely types. Others there are behind them who will feel in a way they have never before seemed to realize how great has been their crime. It is natural that when law is lax and unreliable the murderer should be able mentally to disburden himself of guilt. They knew that murder was deadly sin; but if the sin was measurable only by the punishment, they could, in their immunity, flatter them- selves that it was not so great a sin after all. The two executions detailed elsewhere will bitterly change all this. The dishonored corpses, the shameful and degrading form in which death came, will tell our murderers what murder truly is, They will cast the eyes of their soul from the scene where they took human life to that where avenging justice will with heaped up horror take theirs. The courtesies of jailers, the words of faltering hope from the lips of friends, the pious ministrations of clergymen will serve but faintly to veil the forecast of their miserable fate. It is not true that these lessons are thrown away upon the multitude, The actual hanging is a disgusting as well as & deplorable exhibition ; but let the rowdy with his hand upon knife or pistol but catch one searing glimpse of that death scene, and he will falter before he stabs or fires. Terrible as are the means that fhust be used we welcome the reign of law in all its stern majesty, Tho Henaxp through all the despair. ing time of New York beset by homicides has steadily called for justico—for punishment where it was due. We never advocated the straining of a single point of law to find a man on trial for his life guilty. Once s murdercr was pronounced so by competent authority we have withstood the most persistent pressure to weaken our unbending call for justice. The mere conviction of a man we held to be nothing if the contempt at first held for ‘law in’ all forms could be succeeded by contempt for a deliberate verdict. In the carrying out of what punishment that ver- dict implied we saw the great test of the principle on which the pact of society is based. We knew thats crime had been committed; we knew, farther, that the law declared an individual guilty thereof; wo then asked that the penalty of the crime be exacted from the criminal. We have made no exceptions in this, and shall make none. We do not cham- pion the gallows, but the safety of the person, which the elimination of the gallows from our Practice of law had threatened. ‘We count in the effect of these executions the terrifying of all evil-doers. It is from the strength of their well-founded fears that society will gain liberty to breathe once more. For this reason we have given a large share of our space to-day to the affrighting tableaux The great reason that the public good is paramount over all private ‘considerations leads us to display these scenes of agony. Some days since we received the following letter, praying us to take another course, which we print as written. It comes froma source to command respect: — To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— I take the liberty to address myself to you as the head and front of American journalism—a position which the world has admitted that your paper holds in the cause of justice, in the cause of right— and I, a8 one of your subscribers, ask that you forget not charity, nce your Governor ix has decided the fate of William Foster, whe, by his decree, shall suffer death next Friday, cannot yor, on behalf of his loved ones, withnold giving the doings on the day of his execution from the columns of hay paper ? He is soon to surrender his lite to the law. His dear family are now bewed to the very earth in their deep distress for his fate. Let the curtain fail at his end—not to speak harshly of him when he is dead. “Have charity.” Will you not, Mr. Editor, use your werlul paper in an editorial, and call on the editors and Bropraiars of all piston panes to remember with mercy bis afflicted family and not come out aiter his death with horrible. wood-cut engravings showing his sad death scene ? What good can come from snch descriptions ? Only puts more arrows.into the bleeding hearta of his amily. Beneeper “without charity we are nothing worth. As your journal is the head and front in power show your power to withhold from publishing any scenes—and ask others {o—what shall transpire at the Tombs this week, Very respectfully, PHILADELPHIA, March 17, 1873. J. ‘When we referred above to private con- siderations it will be seen from the foregoing how pathetically touching they may be. We are conscious of the load of heart-breaking grief‘ which the events of yesterday have brought upon the innocent, the good and the pure. We would not willingly lay o hair's weight upon their burden; but it would be an inexcusable mistake in us to cover over exam- ples intended for the world, and earn at such cost a character for hollow sentimentality. But there isa deep reason for this publication which must not be ignored. The horror, the anguish of loved ones and the heart-wringing partings are the very things from which many ‘men would shrink sooner than from the gal- lows. Foster, so far as we know, was just the man whom these things would have influenced had they been before his eyes in time. To the very class from which the Fosters are recruited surely a picture of that anguish and parting would be a great preventive of future crime. A reckless man may often be careless of his own gafety; but he will think long before exposing those he loves to the tortures that Foster brought upon his family. Those who read our accounts out of morbid curiosity will find before they have ended that another and deeper feeling than gratified mor- bidity has impressed itself upon them. It is out of no desire to pander to such a taste that we print them. The details of the crime have been. spread abroad because society demands to know its dangers and is the safer for knowing them. A new system of burglary, a novel mode of garroting, a fresh plan to rob, are all necessary to be published that people may know what they have to fear, what to prevent, A fortiori is this true of the crime of murder. The same reason which prompts the publication of the offence calls for the details of its punishment. The first may tend to the incipiency of panic in the orderly elements of society; the second we desire should have the same effect upon the criminals and a deterring effect upon those hovering on the borders of crime. The les- sons of yesterday are not likely to be soon for- gotten. They preach to men’seyes and minds as the Gospel of the tangible alone can preach. They grimly and emphatically proclaim that murder is something which demands the immolation of the murderer on an altar which is a gallows, by a celebrant who is a hangman, and before an audience which embraces all civilized mankind. The British Press~faking Lessons from the Herald, When men see and admit the superiority of others over themselves in the prosecu- tion of their calling it is a hopeful sign of their willingness to learn and disposi- tion to improve. Therefore we are led to hope that British journalism will gain from observation of American newspaper enterprise. The London Telegraph of the 27th ult. devotes an editorial column to an interview with M. Gambetta, by what it styles “an ad- venturous correspondent of the New York Henatp.”” Our English contemporary seems astonished that the ex-Dictator should have defined his position in the long conversation which he held with our correspondent ‘with @ frankness that has astonished his foes.'’ Possibly before this date the very interesting and instructive report from a Hera corre- spondent of the opinions held by another dis- tinguished Frenchman, the venerable M. Guizot, the despatches of Mr. O'Kelly from Cuba, and the startling bulletins from our correspondent at the stronghold of the Modocs, in the lava beds of California, may have im- pressed upon the editor of the Telegraph the fact that the energy of an independent news- paper is able to secure the services of brave and dignified as well as intelligent correspond- ents, and that they are wont to win the con- fidence and enjoy the respect of those with whom they converse, As that paper has sent @ savant to look after the archives of Babel, it should not hesitate to try its enterprise upon matters of present interest. A day later the Standard followed the lead of its rival in a long editorial upon the same Henatp text. Scotland, too, is studying “Yankee reporting.” The London corre- spondent ef the Dundee Advertiser records the efforts of a representative of an American journal to interview Count Schouvaloff at the Russian Embassy in London. In reply to the correspondent’s card soliciting ‘the honor of an interview,"’ the diplomatist returned a re- fusal and an assertion that he could commu- nicate no valuable information. To this the correspondent answered, intimating that American sympathy might be useful to Rus- sia in the Asian question. But not even this consideration influenced the representative of the Czar, and the correspondent was defeated. Telling this incident with such minuteness of detail as the Scotchman has done indicates that he is carefully studying the tactics he re- cords, and will, if possible, imitate them. Again, the Paris correspondent of the London Times, under date of February 24, copies the main part of the Hznatp Gambetta interview, thus enabling the readers of the British Thun- derer to see at second-hand and months after their original publication, the political opin- ions and plans of a prominent leader of French republicanism, and one of the most influential of the men whose counsel controls the destiny of the nation. After thus endorsing the value of the interviewer's labor by republishing his report, thero is a probability that the Times may send its own writers upon similar errands. Great improvement is to be hoped for in the British press when it thus shows the disposi- tion to follow American example; and the British public is thereon to be congratulated. The Attempt to Increase the Emi. grant Tax—A Needed Reform. A bill bas been introduced in the Assembly by Mr. Pierson, of Albany, increasing the emigrant head-money from one dollar and a half to two dollars ands half per head. The increase is asked for by the Commissioners of Emigration, who allege that the present tax does not yield sufficient te meet the expenses of the Commission. The money, although nominally collected of the ship-owners, comes out of the pockets of the emigrants, in the shape of increased rates of passage, or is made up by means of the stinted quantity or inferior quality of the food supplied to them on the journey. The Legislature some time ago de- creased the tax from two dollars and a half to two dollars and subsequently to its present amount, and there is no good reason whatso- ever for its restoration to the larger sum. The bill has found no favor from the New York representatives, not one of whom would consent even to become responsible for its introduction, It is significant that it could find no member to place it before the Legislature except the representative of the New York Central Rail- road, which is one of the corporations allowed to sell tickets to emigrants inside Castle Gar- den. . It is to be hoped that the Legislature will make short work of this impudent attempt to swell the large sum of money annually handled by the Commissioners of Emigration. There has long been a suspicion that the finances of the Board would not show satis- factorily in the event ofan honest and thorough investigation extending overa term of years, and there are ramors that a large amount of money invested in securities of various descrip- tions has never been: properly accounted for. Investigating committees have been from time to time appointed by the State Legislature, but they have ended as such inquiries gener- ally do, and the old ring inside the manage- ment has been suffered to continue its opera- tions unmolested. A lapge amount of money passes through the hands of the Commission, and the business of the depot, in all its branches, including the sale of railroad tickets, is capable of being made a huge vehicle of corruption. The present Commis- sion, although containing some good names, is, in fact, a relic of the old Taminany rule, and as such is not en- titled to public confidence. We have recently seen some of the prominent Tammany politicians on the Board contending for the admission to the Garden of an agent of the Erie Railway, who has amassed a fortune out of emigrant running and emigrant boarding- house keeping, and who has been subjected to a term of imprisonment for a violation of the emigrant laws. Although the Board has not yet ventured to pdopt the dangerous theory that any man, however bad his character, may be admitted to the Garden and placed in close contact with the emigrants so long os he has committed no offence against the rules of the Commission inside the depot, and although the application of this Erie Railway agent for recognition by the Board has not yet been passed upon, we learn that he is actually ad- mitted to the Garden by permission of the Committee, and has thus been allowed to do business with the emigrants while grave charges were pending over him. The Super- intendent has appeared singularly in the in- terest of this agent, and we cite these facts as w proof of the unsatisfactory character of the present management of the Commission: 31: ‘We commend this subject to the attention of vernor Dix and of the Legislature. There no doubt that the whole business of the Emigrant Commission needs ventilation and purification. No proper investigation into the past and no satisfactory reform for the fature can be made until the present management is rooted out, and until the Tammany wheel inside the wheel of the Commission has been removed. New men, and good ones, are needed for this important interest. We do not mean new names for the whole Commis- sion, for some of the present members are puro and honest men, and can be thoroughly trusted; but they are notin the “ring,” and have no realshare in the management of the affairs of the depot. Let us have legislation if necessary; but, at all events, either through the Governor or the Legislature, let us have a reformed Emigrant Commission and a com- plete rooting out of the subordinate officers, who have too long been suffered to manipulate the Board, and virtually to hold the manage- ment of the affairs of Castle Garden in their own hands, A New Licut m Asta.—The Japanese gov- ernment has issued a special edict proclaim- ing the toleration of Christianity throughout the Empire, and also opening up the entire country to foreigners, Should the provisions of the imperial order be carried into effect faithfully the consequences of its operation to the cause of Christianity and the commerce of the outside civilizations will be wonderful, almost incalculable. The missionaries of the Church will find an inexhaustible field for labor, with chances of a martyr’s crown as they advance imward. The soldiers of the Lord are numerous and courageous. Tux Osweco Palladium announces that mys- terious rumors come from Albany of a new political combination. The great mystery is that these “mysterious rumors’’ are not more numerous than they are. Some people in Albany have no other occupation than to inflate paper balloons with idle gossip and set them afloat. They keep sailing on until they aro pricked by a new ramor or burst into thin air of their own volition. The Ended—Mr. Gladstone and leagues Agaim im Office. .- For the present the Cabinet crisis is ended. It is undeniable that Mr. Gladstone has won s greater victory than if he had been successful in carrying through his Irish University bill. It has long been an established custom in the British Parliament that the opposition, when successful in voting down the party in Power, should accept the consequence of their own acts and proceed to form a Minis- try. Mr. Gladstone, too proud spirited to re- main in office on mere sufferance, was bat fol- lowing established usage when he resigned the seals of office into the hands of the Queen. If Mr. Disraeli did not foresee the results of his policy of opposition the fault is his own. The weakness of the tory party has not in many years beet so emphatically confessed, Mr. Gladstone has just cause to be proud of the course of conduct which he followed and of the position in which he again finds himself. In spite of all this, however, it is not unjust to say that Mr. Gladstone's Irish conciliation policy has resulted in failure. For four years he has steadily labored for the removal of ancient abuses in the laws and institutions of Ireland. What-isto be the fate of the Irish University bill we know not. But Mr. Glad- stone must be fully convinced that if Ireland is to be conciliated and made contented under English rule he must either make larger con- cessions or adopt a different course of conduct. Much as he has done Ireland is not satisfied; Treland is not contented. When the Irish people themselves have voted against his Uni- versity measure it is not to be wondered at that it does not command the support of the English tories. When Mr. Gladstone came into power after the last general elec- tion he could count with confidence on @ faithful majority amounting almost to one hundred. It was this majority which enabled him to carry with so much ease his former measures of reform. The sudden break down proves that his Irish University bill isnot popular; but it proves more. It proves that from some cause or other he has, to some extent; lost his control of the House of Commons, and the presumption is that the altered sentiment of the peuple’s House is but a reflection of the altered senti- ment of the country. - What course Ministers may now follow it is difficult to foresee. If it is the opinion of the tory leaders, as Mr. Disraeli says, that there is no necessity for a dissolution, it is but little likely that Mr. Gladstone and his friends will voluntarily run any such risk as is im- plied in an appeal to the people. It is not at all improbable that for the present session Ire- land will be let alone, and that the time will be devoted to the consideration of other meas- ures of greater interest to the great body of the people. Mr. Gladstone, however, is more or less bound to prosecute the work which he has begun, and it remains to be seen whether he will halt before he crowns the edifice of Irish reform, to which, for four consecutive years, he has so laboriously devoted his time and his energies. The Atiantic Cable as a Detective. A special Hznaup telegram from Havana enables us to print in our columns the facts connected with the important arrests which have been made in that city of persons charged with having perpetrated or being very directly implicated in the recent frauds on the Bank of England by forgery. The case has been closely pursued, and the results are, 80 far, very encouraging to the cause of jus- tice by the speedy detection of crime, Elec- tricity was made available through the cables toa very efficient extent. Some of the pris- oners travelled under United States passports, which they alleged to be genuine. The ques- tion of the non-existence of an extradition treaty with Spain having presented itself, the Captain General of Cuba telegraphed to Ma- drid for instructions, and received in reply authority to act in the premises as if the Spanfsh Republic had an _ extradition treaty with Great Britain. It is no new doctrine that the progress of science would lead to the detection of the criminal, and so would prove a powerful agent of civiliza- tion in the higher sense. In these times, in fact, the criminal has a better chance to escape punishment than to escape detection. Within the fold of civilization, proper, there is no | longer @ hiding place for the man who has proved himself the enemy of society. One of the latest examples is furnished by the capture of McDonnell, the alleged London forger, in the bay. It will be seen that the steamship Celtic, which sailed from Liverpool for New York on the 13th of the present month, carries out Inspector Webb, of the London police force. Inspector Webb brings with him the extradition papers to secure McDonnell and to take him back to England, In this, as in many previous instances, the Atlantic cable has proved a most efficient detective, Tae Acapama Crarms Awarp DenaTep Nn tae Enousa Pantiament.—The Alabama claims award of the Geneva Court of Arbitra- tion has been made the subject of debate in the British Parliament on motion of the oppo- sition represented by Mr. Gathorne Hardy. The Disraeli party does not impugn the integrity of the arbitrators, nor object vehemently to the payment of the American bill; but its members oppose the principle of international law which was conceived in the Treaty of Washington and matured and adopted as an essen- tial of settlement at Geneva. This principle is set forth in the three rules of the Treaty of Washington, which we reproduce in the Heraty to-day. The British Cobinet defends it on broad grounds, and it is to be hoped that the ministerial inferences as to its operation in the future between Great Britain and the United States may be realized. Mr. Disraeli and Premier Gladstone joined in the expres- sion of » wish that the Cabinets in London and Washington may arrive at a speody and definite understanding on the subject, so that they will submit the whole matter and the rules to the other Powers for their considera- tion. Downing Street appears to be inclined to hurry up the people in Washington. ‘Tae New Haven Register (democratic) says the democratic and liberal nominations in Connecticut have, thus far, evinced more than usual care. A ‘little more than usual care’ in bringing’ out the vote may result in the choice of some of these democratic and lib- eral candidates. Will it be done! es British Parliamentary Crisis | The Bulls Head Bank Defalemionk His Col-/ An alarming suggestion of lack of radical honesty and thorough business system in our Money corporations rises naturally in view of the meagre disclosures about the affairs of the suspended Bull's Head Bank. Establishod. many years, enjoying an enviable reputation, paying for years so large dividends that ita stock was valued at nearly double its par, this old State bank held over a million dollars in deposits, and was considered a model of safe and successful finance. Suddenly the officer who had long controlled its management vacates his post, and the examination set in motion by his successor reveals that no state~ ment can be made of the exact standing of the bank other than that thera $s a large deficit, to cover which the books have been mutilated and the accounts abstracted. Only three months ago the sworn ftatement of the chief officers showed the bank as wealthy and prosperous. Now it is announced as insolvent, and its doors are closed against. the calls of disappointed. de- positors. This is startling news to all citizens who, for convenience, keep a bank aceount, upon which they rely to meet maturing en< gegements, If the funds of the Bull’s Head have been spirited away, is there absolute assurance that there is nothing rotten in any other of our financial towers of strongth? Sixteen per cent dividends wero satisfactory to stockholders, anda sworn surplus nearly equal to half the capital assured customers; yet on scrutiny it is found that the bottom hag fallen out and only the name remains. Ar¢ boards of directors meraly ornamental? Are there no checks in our professional book< keeping by which the missing accounts can be supplied? Where are the eyes of bail officers and clerks when books are used fox fire kindling? And, most momentous query of all, how many others of our banki institutions have suffered from defalcation and live only on reputation? Tae Newsparzr Press throughout the couns, try, with remarkable unanimity, sustain the course of Governor Dix in the Foster matter. This indicates very clearly the drift of publi¢ sentiment in regard to capital punishment, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, William H, Upson, an Ohio M.C.,. scorns the back, pay steal, Judge Levi Woodbury, of Boston, is staying at the New York Hotel. Professor G. W. Green, of Cornell University, is aq the Hofman House. } Captain J. Macaulay, of the steamship Cuba, is at the New York Hotel. Assemblyman James M. Oakley, of Jamaica, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. v ! Assemblyman Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. There has been another long roll call for thet heirs of poor Anneke Jans in Chicago, Colonel Foster, our new Minister to Mexico, leaves for his new post about the middle of April. + Is it true that Senator Conkling is “enamored’®, of Caldweil, as alleged by the Boston Transcript * Rev. Robert Collyer, of Chicago, yesterday ar< rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. He goes East thig morning. . Lewis W. Hall, of Harrisburg, ex-Speaker of the Pennsylvania Legislature, is registered at the St, Nicholas Hotet. A co-operative communion called the Ebenezers, of German extraction, long established near Bul- falo, are attracting attention. The senior Senator from Massachusetts (Sume ner) is now called tie “sinner Senator” by soma of the interior radical papers. They wash their children jn the street sewers im Salem, Mass. In olden times they used to dry theiz mothers at stakes in the same place. General D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, is not keep~ ing school in Hillsborough, as stated, but 18 living! 1n Charlotte, editing the Southern Home. \ It is stated that Joe Smith, son of the old prophet Joe, is about to start an anti-polygamy Mormon stitution at Kirtland, Ohio, the old stamping; ground of the sect. Sefior Castelar has written to Mr. Arnold, of the London Echo, to thank him for the assurance “thag the Spanish Republic has the sympathy of all classes in England.” :. A constitutional reform association has bee! started in Connecticut, without distinction party. Governor Jewell and Congressman Hawley, have been writing to it. ‘The ladies of Savannah are raising funds for a monument to their fallen brothers, the corners stone of which is to be laid on the 26th of April, the Southern Memorial Day. r ‘The Boston Journal (republican) says the upshot of the New Hampshire election is, under the cir< cumstances, ‘quite satisfactory.” Somebody is,’ theretore, satisfied at last in regard to that elec- tion. United States Marshal Sharpe having been trane/ ferred to the effice of Surveyor of the Port, an in- teriorpaper says there is nota better surveyor of Old Port on Manhattan Island than that self same General Sharpe. . An interior paper wants to know why a pot of Down East pork and beans is like one of Mark ‘ywain’s works? and the answer is, because they are an article made at home and in no sense (“Innocents”) abroad. It is estimated that there are sufficient number of American citizens going out as special an honorary commissioners to the Vienna Exposition’ to constitute quite a respectable exposition im their own country, if they would only stay at home. The Japanese Minister, Arinori Mori, left the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday for San Francisco, thence to go to Japan. se will spend but a short time im Japan, as he intends to visit the Vienna Exhibitien and make a tour of Europe before his nine months’ leave of absence expires. William 1. Walters, of Baltimore, one of the trustees of the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington (tne opening of which has been indefinitely post- poned), is going to Europe to purchase $40,000 worth of works of art for the Gallery. Could not Mr. Walters find at home some meritorious works by American artists worthy of being at least. glanced at before he goes abroad? The Boston Transcript makes the timely sugges- tion that “national” barrooms and oyster saloons need not take alarm at the recent Congressional action about the use ef the word “national.” The new law only applies to bro! bankers and savings institutions. The phase can still be lawfully applied to the back pay opera- tion of the cracksmen in tne last Congress, THE HERALD NG THE MODOOS, [From the New Haven Palladium.) A correspondent of the HERALD, called, in the present instance, an ambassador, has made bis way to the camp of the Modocs, and interviewed Captain Jack, The report which he brings back is not as favorable to an early close Of hostilities aw could be wished, The warriors profess to desire peace, but are unwilling to place themselves in the. hands of the Commissioners. The current opinion: that the Indians have been badly treated by specu. lators and dishonest agents is found to be true, but under the existing circumstances Genera’ Canby has apparently no course left but to bring Captain Jack and hia followers to peace as best he may. The very latest news would indicate a desire, on the part of the warriors to have ‘another talk,’* but what it may mean it is hard to tell. ‘They will undoubtedly be favored with as many conferences a as they may wish, unless they show treacherous purposes. The whole matter is @ provoking one; but it looks now very much as if the Indian, wnat. ever his grievances, would, ag in previous cases, obliged to go to the Walb batt SS ee I \