The New York Herald Newspaper, March 26, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIIL ee == = = a AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 79 Broad- ‘way.—Auixe. WOOD's MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Bexy, Afternoon and Evening. FENBUM, No. $8 Broadway.—Grano Vaniery Ex- penvaprunee, Mauinee at 234. GQPRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third fy.—Aus DkK FRANZOSENZE IT, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Priace and Houston streets.—L&0 4np Loos. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston ‘fod Bleecker streets—Houmrrr Duwrrr. Matinee at 2, UNION SQUARR THEATRE. Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Covsin Jack. WALLACR'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stroet.—Davip Ganmcx. AOOTH’S THEATER, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avente.—Dappy O'Down. GRAND OPPRA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Mighth ay.—Unchn Sam, BOWERY TNEATRE, Bowery.—Jack FAReiwAy— Lovens in THe Conen, THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 5i4 Broadway.—Dramas, Bua.eseok aNd O1io, Matinee at 234, MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Rosepaux, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Granp Concert. PRYANT'S OPBRA NOUSK, Twenty-third st., corner 6th av.—Necro Minsrretsy Ac. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Vanurry Enrenrareent. STEINWAY TALL, Fourteenth street.—Matinec at 2— Be.tew's Reapinas. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 615 Broadway.— Scruncr anv Ai TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, March 26, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Diy’s Contents of the Herald. “THE SPEEDY TRIAL OF ACCUSED SENATORS AND ACCUSED MURDERERS!""—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SIxTH PAGE. A CONFIDENTIAL CUBAN COMMISSIONER TO AMERICA! THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ISLAND! MR, O’KELLY SAFELY WITHIN THE PATRIOT LINES! THE DONS DE- MORALIZED! A BRIGHT FORECAST OF THE RESULT OF THE STRUGGLE—Turnp Pace. DEBAUCHERY FOLLOWED BY CRIME! DRUNKEN ORGIES IN AN INFAMOUS TENEMENT! A WOMAN MURDERED AND A CHILD BURNED IN THE HOUSE ONE BITTERLY COLD NIGHT—TuIRD PAGE. CLEWS SECURED IN THE GOODRICH MYSTERY! THE POLICE BAFFLED AT EVERY POINT BUT ONE! THE FIRST AND THE SECOND WOMAN—Turrp Paae. PATCHWORK PEACE! THE MODOC COMMISSION AN “EXPENSIVE BLUNDER!” THE DiFFI- CULTIES GENERAL @ANBY LABORS UNDER FROM SELFISH AND UNASKED ADVISERS! THE MINORITY REPORT OF MR. APPLEGATE—THIRD PAGE. SEIZURE OF AN OHIO RAILROAD BY DESPER- ATE PITTSBURG CAPITALISTS! THE TRACK TORN UP, WIRES SUNDERED AND ALL TRAFFIC SUSPENDED! SERIOUS OPPOSI- TION! LIVELY TIMES IMMINENT—SEvVENTH Tar. BISMARUK REJECTS THE AUSTRIA AND RUS! MOOD! NEW CAPTAINS GENERAL FOR CUBA AND PORTO RICO—SEv. i PAGE. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM ALBANY! THE CHARTER BILL BEFORE THE SENATE vE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY—SEv POSTAL CARS! THE GOVERNMENT EXERCISED OVER THE SUBJECT! YOUN sKRANT'S PROMOTION! SENATORS COVERING UP CORRUPTION—SEVENTH PAGE. THE RUSSIANS BENT UPON THE COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF KHIVA! DISPOSITION OF THE FORCES—SEvENTH Pace. 4 PATENT-RIGHT CONGRESS TO BE HELD IN VIENNA DURING THE EXPOSITION! AMERICAN HORTICULTURE IN aUSTRIA— Srvexta Pace. EURUPEAN CABLE NEW: CIALIST ARRESTS IN FRANCE! THE PRO- POSED RUSSO-FRENCH ALLIANCE—Serv- ENTH PAGE. TRAVELLING IN THE SOUDAN! THE OBSERVA- TIONS OF A HERALD COE PONDENT IN THE WHITE NILE VALLEY—TeNtTH Pau. @RRAIGNMENT OF MCDONNELL, THE ALLEGED FORGER! FANNY GRAY IDENTIFIES HIM! HELE TO AWAIT DYEPOSITIONS FRUM LONDON! WHAT THE LISH DETECO- TIVES HAVE DONE! SUPERINTENDENT 80 SERVED WITH A WRIT OF AT- IMENT—PounTe Pace. MAGRUDER'’S CHIVALRY! HE AND SENT TO WR STATE PRISON FOR TEN YEARS! } yD IN THE HEGG1 POISONING CASE! GENERAL LEGAL BUSI- NESS—Fourts Pace. MONEY AND GOVEREME ADVANCED! A RALLY CHARGE UPON THE “BEARS” ALONG THE ENTIRE PINANCIAL LINE! ERIE AND T Ne E AND MISSOURI HELD IN CHECK— Focxtn Page. THE CASTLE GARDEN INVESTIGATION! HEATED DEBATE AND A FINAL TRIUMPH FOR MULLER’S FRIENDS! $700 FOR A STAIR- WAY—MARINE NEWS—TentH Pace. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JERSEY LEGISLATURE! THE GENERAL RAILROAD LAW! THE JURORS’ BILL WORKED THROUGH THE SENATE—CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION— Turep Pace. Enotaxp anp Her Navz.—Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty, has just sub- mitted to the House of Commons the naval estimates for the ensuing fiscal year. They exceed those of last year by $1,702,880. The wavy has long been the special pride of Eng- Jand. It has become, however, a very expen- sive branch of the public service and it is one of the liveliest questions of the hour in political Circles whether the navy as it now stands is worth the money it costs, It is quite manifest from this increased expenditure that the British government is resolved at all hazards to maintain its ancient supremacy at sea, In the altered and rapidiy altering state of Europe all her efforts and all her vigilance will be needed. Foreign navies are increas- ing in bulk and power at the same time that the demand becomes londer at home for Himinished expenditure. In spite of her great wealth! England will have hard work by and by to maintain her proud position. ; —————— + Ta®“forrrom Times (democratic) affirms that every candidate on the democratic ticket jin that State is “capable and honest.” And x0 NISH REPUBLIC! SPANISH AND SO- Is CONVICTED BONDS ACTIVE AND IN A SIMILAR | ‘wme Speedy Trial of Accused Seneters and Accused Murderers. The need of speedy trials is the great want of the country at this time. It is felt alike in the criminal courts of New York and in the Senate of the United States. The Tombs and the Senate house are both fall of accused persons, In the one case the accused men are charged with murder, in the other bribery and corruption are the alleged offences. The one crime is scarcely less heinous than the other; each is too destructive in its effects upon public and private morals not to require the speedy trial and punishment of offenders. Laxity in bringing the guilty to justice is at the bottom of the prevalence of crime. Murderers are incited to commit murder by the belief that “hanging is played out;” politicians are incited to purchase their way to high public trusts and to sell themselves again when they have obtained high places by the belicf that bribery and corruption will not be punished. If a host of criminals had not escaped, one after tho other, the Tombs would not now be fall of murder- ers. If the Senators who first bought their way into that body had been speedily punished a majority of the Senate would not now stand before the country as unconvicted ‘culprits. It makes little differ- ence whether the jury fails to convict Scannell or the Sonate to expel Harlan or Pomeroy; in either case it is an incitement to fresh crimes or gives birth to fresh scandals. Had this man been convicted, had these been expelled, there wonld be # healthier moral tone among the community to-day, and less reason to de- mand the speedy trial of accused Senators and accused murderers. Let us glance for a moment at tho Senate. Day after day it sits in secret session at Wash- ington judging of the moral fitness of men for public position. When its doors are open it spends its time discussing. the delinquencies and crimes of its own members. An august body, such as the United States Senate was long regarded, thus engaged, isa fearful satire upon republican government. It isa pitifal sight at best, but it can only be removed from before our eyes by boldly facing it. We want no more whitewashing, as in the case of Pomeroy; no more delay that the guilty may escape, as in the case of Caldwell. Every Senator who is ac- cused of having obtained his seat by bribery must be tried at once, and if he is guilty he ought to be punished. Resignation is no condonement for his offence. Expulsion and ignominy are not sufficient. Every honest man in the country knows that Caldwell shonld be in the Penitentiary. If he had been properly punished his former colleague would not now think it possible that he could return to take Caldwell’s place; nor would the guilty men still remaining in the Senate be so confi- dent of holding their places. Many of them went to Washington on the 4th of March with soiled reputations, and followed by rumors of political corruptign and forthcoming exposure. Mr. Bogy, of MisSouri, who is probably not guilty, has already asked for an investigation. Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina, has not yet demanded an inquiry, but is sadly in need of one. Other Senators are in a like situation with him. All who are accused must be tried and the guilty punished, and the sooner it is done the better for the country. Delay in the trial of accused Senators does not rest, it seems, entirely with the republican party, even when the Senators are republicans. The country has long complained of the failure of the Senate to determine the case of Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas. It is one of the earliest investigations into the derelictions of Senators, older even than the-case of Caldwell, which has just been withdrawn from Senatorial consideration. The testimony was taken more than a year ago, making a printed volume of over eight hundred pages. The understanding was that the case should be taken up as soon as the Caldwell investig@tion was disposed of. Clayton was anxious that this should be done, and his party friends were agreed. Indepen- dently of the question of his guilt or innocence, it was clearly due to a man in his position that he should be tried at once—due to him for his own sake, and due to him because the country demanded it. Yet there was opposition, and the opposition came from democratic Sen- ators. Mr. Thurman, of Ohio, was hostile to its consideration because of his own neglect to read the testimony. Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, opposed taking up the case because he believed Senators had not had an opportunity to become acquainted with the facts, though Senators had more than a year in which to become acquainted with these stubborn things. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, urged the same views, and fourteen Senators, with one exception all democrats, voted against taking up the subject. Other Senators had read the testimony—then why not these? Justice must not be delayed be- cause Senators fail to do their duty; nor must party considerations be allowed to delay | inquiries, as it was designed in the Clayton case. The country will hold democrats to the same responsibility for delaying # case like that of Clayton’s as the republicans for failure to expel him if it is found that the charges against him are true. It is a cause for con- gratulation that the Senate determined to go on with the case, and now the only fear that remains with regard to him is that his judges will forget their duty and their oaths and fail to punish if he is guilty. Turning from the Senate to the courts, we find some comfort in the evident desire to dis- pose of the murderers in the Tombs. On next | of—Blakeley, Monday Nixon, the alleged murderer of Phyfer, in Chatham square, will be brought to trial before Judge Brady. The case of Magruder, who tried to kill a fellow-boarder in Madison street, on trial in the same Court, was con- cluded yesterday and the prisoner convicted of the high crime charged against him. Magruder's offence was one of special atrocity, and he only escaped the gallows by the fortn- nate recovery of his victim. His sentence of ten years in the State Prison will, we hope, have the effect of preventing others from the commission of like crimes, The case of Heggi, charged with poisoning Siegfried, is nearly concluded before Recorder Hackett. Other cases of murder are understood to be ready for trial as soon as the case of Nixon is disposed the murderer of his niece, known as Mand Merrill; King, for the murder of O'Neill; Sharkey, for the shooting of Dunn, and Simmons, who so yet it is extremely doubtful if they will all be | barbarously murdered Buryea in Liberty elected, strech, Benides, theve the cage of Stokes xet_| Republia remains for final disposition ; Scannell is still to have another trial, and other wretches await the verdict which is either to eet them free or to pronounce their doom. All this gives encouragement for the hope that the future will be better than the past, and leads us to trust that both private and public life may become purer as it becomes more and more certain that punishment will follow crime. It is in itself a sad circumstance that the duty of a public journal should compel it to demand the punishment of murderers and Senators at the same time. But the necessity of the demand is patent to every eye. Try the man-slayer, punish the corruptionist, is heard‘from every tongue. It is not comfort- ing either to the Senate or the country that it is so often heard ; but men like Caldwell and Pomeroy and Harlan and Crédit Mobilier Patterson, men like others in the Senate, whose offences have not yet been shown, are as baleful in their influence as the crimes of the worst murderers in the Tombs, Drank with passion, the murderer killed a fellow man. Drank, with ambi- tion and the desire for gain, the cor- rupt and faithless Senators, are destroying ® whole people. A nation which endures men in high station who have bought their places with money would not be much startled at daily revelations of crime, even when Senators are the criminals. Familiarity with anything, no matter how atrocious, makes it at least endurable. The frequency of murders makes the latest murder less surprising. In fact, that two-thirds of the Senate are corrupt and corrupting is less appalling to some minds than if only one out of the seventy-four Sena- tors was a villain. Unfortunately, the con- trary is so far true that we almost despair in looking for as many honest men as Lot was commanded to procure to save Sodom and Gomorrah from destruction. Unfortunately, the Tombs, full of murderers as it is, com- pares favorably with the Senate of the United States—so favorably that the example of the New York courts, in bringing our criminals to justice, is one fit to be copied by the highest legislative body in the land. The Tombs preaches to the Senate chamber, and the Senate echoes back its answer to the Tombs, and in the meantime the country demands the speedy trial of accused Senators and accused murderers. The Commissioners of Emigration on the Question of Head Money. The bill now before the Legislature at Al- bany, by which it is proposed to increase the head money paid to the Commissioners of Emigration for every emigrant landed at Castle Garden, is calculated to inflict serious injury on the commerce of this port. Tho steamship companies are unanimous in their resistance to the additional tax, and signify their intention of landing their passengers at Boston and other ports rather than submit to such imposition. At the present rate of head money the Commissioners are in the receipt of no less than six hundred thousand dollars annually, besides having borrowed nearly four hundred thousand dollars from banks and on mortgages. The railroad companies pay the greater amount of the salaries of the Castle Garden employés, and the steamship lines, in addition to the per capita tax, are compelled to sign bonds in a thousand dollars for every pauper landed at this port. There is not the slightest reason for the proposed increase unless it be to create a fow more sinecures for the favorites of the Board. Reform has not lessened the craving appetite of political harpies for spoils, and the vicinity of the Battery has long been an attractive place for them. Considering the large sums of money that find their way into the hands of the Commissioners, and the entirely dis- proportionate character of the legitimate ex- penditures, itis easy to discover the nature of the attraction which Castle Garden has for hungry politicians. But the principal con- sideration now is the blow aimed at our com- merce and all our business interests through the bill in question. Every one having the prosperity and welfare of the metropolis at heart will join in a petition to the Legislature against this monstrous imposition. Political greed frequently overreaches itself, and this ery for more from Castle Garden may lead to some ugly inquiries in that direction. The sooner the better. Imprriuiist Acrion AGAINsT THE SPAXISE Vox Poprvr1.—Telegrams from Madrid to London report that the imperial governments of Germany, Austria and Russia refuse to recognize the Spanish Republic. Prince Bis- marck, it is said, leads off in the line of denial of the Peninsula democracy on the ground that the Madrid Executive does not represent the tone of the Assembly, the legislative body having yielded to the pressure of the masses in proclaiming it. Russia and Austria accept the theory of the Prussian Premier, and have, we are told, adopted a similar course of action. Should this news be fully confirmed the three great crowns will have accepted the gage of contest with the peoples—not only with the people of Spain, but the peoples of Europe generally. The sovereigns will enter the list with the banner of divine right opposed to the ensign of the vor populi. Should Bismarck prevail the Spaniards must take either a Bour- bon or a Hohenzollern for their King or Em- peror. It will be very difficult to convince either of the imperial Powers of the exact mo- ment when a parliament has voted a republic, notwithstanding the fact that the Prussian and Austrian cabinets received an exciting lesson as to how rapidly the people march on in the year 1848.. Envorstnc 4 Bap Nore.—Ex-Senator B. F. Wade, for whom Washington continues to have attractions, although his inside legislative ca- reer has closed, writes a letter, which we publish elsewhere, endorsing the unfortunate Colfax and expressing the opinion that the ex-Vice President's explanation of his Crédit Mobilier dealings ‘ought to be satisfactory to all candid minds."* It is unfortunate that, while the republican organs are endeavoring to shift on to the shoulders of individuals the responsi- bility of this Congressional infamy, the lead- ers, by their indiscreet acts, are doing their best to fasten the shame on the party. The most charitable course the friends of Colfax can pursue is to suffer him to hide his shame in the seclusion of private life. No endorse- ment of such a man, from however high a source, can alter the verdict of the people or remove the contempt they feel for the man The Modec Commission bag. ‘The letter from our special correspondent at Van Bremer’s ranch, which we print to- day, fally reveals the secret cause of failure of the first Modoc Peace Commission. Our correspondent has been with the Indians, with the Commissioners and the military; he has conversed with the settlers, who are per- fectly conversant with the history of the trouble, and with the would-be peacemakers, and his conclusion is that the appointment of such men as Meacham, Case and Applegate, in a matter requiring the utmost delicacy, diplo- macy and disintercstedness, is generally con- demned. Coming from the scene of action, where every item connected with this affair has been freely discussed, the remarks will have greater weight. Captain Jack and his rival, Schonchin, evinced a desire to garnish their belts with the scalps of two of the gentlemen named on the occasion when the Henaup cor- respondent first entered their stronghold—a proof that they were obnoxious to the Indians. Deceived and betrayed on previous occasions when confiding in the servants of the Indian Bureau, the reds looked with special disfavor on a Commission formed in part of the same men whom experience had taught them to re- gard as their worst enemies. Hence the in- tentions of the government have been foiled, and the hopes of the people that the trouble might be brought to a speedy conclusion dashed to the ground. The people of UVali- fornia and Oregon make it a subject for banter and derision, and no wonder. Already the cost to the country by this feeble dallying in the attempt to remove a handful of savages has been enormous, and unless the policy adopted by Lincoln in vesting greater dis- cretionary power in the military commander is resorted to we may yet have a bill sent in for several millions of dollars on account of the Modoc ‘‘war,’’ so-called. Meacham is still at the head of the new Commission, so that it can scarcely be more successful than the one preceding it. The continuation of war means wealth to the settlers, and so long as those directly or indirectly interested in land or other property near the lava beds are allowed to negotiate for the government peace will not be restored. The feeling of insecu- rity on the part of the Indians could not be more strikingly illustrated than when on Friday last, after an interview had been ar- ranged for Generals Canby and Gillem, the Heraxp correspondent and an army officer offering to remain as hostages with the In- dians, Captain Jack hesitated to place himself at the mercy of the white men. Applegate, one of the associates of Meacham, has sent ina report to the Commissioner on Indian Affairs, and in six short, unpolished sentences shows why and wherein they had failed, plainly pointing out the mistake made in Washington. His seventh paragraph isa model of terseness and decision :—‘‘Some of the personnel of the Commission being obnox- ious to the Indians, it was a hinderance to nego tiation. Having no power to administer oaths nor send for persons and papers, and the official acts of the chairman having to be re- vised, its finding must have been imperfect and unsatisfactory in regard to the cause of the war, and we therefore consider the Com- mission an expensive blunder.’’ This is for- warded as a kind of minority statement, and shows only too clearly the antagonistic views of the parties and the dissensions and useless debates that have occurred in council. A quick, bloodless and inexpensive termina- tion of the trouble is now ardently de- sired; but if the peace men _ are to be allowed their own time, if their views re- quire so much money and so many soldiers to back them, it is evident the cheapest and best plan would be to let the experienced com- mander of the United States troops try his methods for the solution of the difficulty. The Postal Service and the Railroad Corporations. To the trite saying that corporations have no souls when applied to railroad companies might be added the remark that they are always grasping and dictatorial. The conflict between them and the Post Office Department with regard to the claim for a largely in- creased compensation for carrying the mails, and their threat to withdraw the postal cars on the 1st of April, show how little they care for the public interests or the convenience of the government. The liberal franchises and enormous grants made to them both by the federal and State governments, inspire no gratitude, patriotism or regard for the public. The Post Office Department has never been a paying one, and every year the deficiency has to be made up by drawing upon the Treasury. The government has wisely keptin view the importance of giving the people cheap post- age; and in carrying that out, together with the necessary cost over receipts of extend- ing post routes and post. offices over a vast area of our new and sparsely settled territory, a yearly deficit is created. That deficit is large enough already. Congress at the last session abolished the franking privilege, with a view to relieve the Department of a portion of the burden. But if the claim of the rail- road corporations be admitted the deficiency will be vastly augmented. The people will not consent to this, nor would they be sat- isfied to have the rates of postage increased. If the railroad companies insist upon their demand, or, not having it granted, should obstract the postal service, they will intensify nopoly. The cost of railroad mail service has steadily and largely increased from year to year. It now amounts to over six and a half millions of dollars. A proportionate ad- vance in accordance with the claims of the railroads would carry the amount up, it is es- timated, to over thirty millions. The proposi- tion is monstrous and cannot be entertained for a moment. The truth is the stupendous railroad monopoly in this country has reached | a climax, and the necessity to restrain or con- trol it will be forced upon Congress. The public can expect no relief either from the companies or the local legislatures which they control; and it must come from the federal government. Congress can provide a remedy under the power to establish and regulate post routes, as well as under the constitutional right to regulate commerce among the several States. This is an issue that begins to loom up, and the railroad companies are likely to precipitate it by their monstrous claims for postal service. who has degraded tho sgcond office in the f Tae Russtan Aumy Apvance Acanter Kurva hap for ite _ohieqhaccqnting 0. a. RAeeM, Alle. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET; thority in St. Peteraburg, not only the correo tion of the Khan for his conduct towards Ras- sian subjects, but the complete conquest of the Khanate territory and its unconditional sub- jection to Russian sway. ‘This looks like the truth. Great Britain should mako a note of ——_-———— St. Louis municipal election April 1. Somebody will be fooled. Ex-Congressman T. A. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, is at the Astor Heuse. " ‘ Congressman William Whiting, of Massachusetts, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Complete letter writer on “resignation”—Ex- Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, General George Thom, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Hoffman House. Kansas United States Senatorships—‘Many are called (well), but few are chosen.” Colonel J. B. Symmus, of the United States Army is registered at the Grand Central Hotel. Brigadier General weorge W. (ook, of the United States Army, is at tne Metropolitan Hotel. United States Senator William T. Hamilton, of Maryland, is in town, at the Metropolitan flotel. Senator Kelly, of Oregon, prefers his mileage to his back pay, and makes alittle by the operation. The Turkish Minister, Blacque Sey, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Washington last even- ing. Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is a sister of the wife of Bishop McTyre, of the Methodist Church, South. “Old Probabilities” is a descendant of a Connect- icut family. Probably that’s what makes bim so good on a guess, Is the report true that Governor Hendricks pro- Poses to abandon the name and organization of the democratic party? John P. Bigelow, Chief of the Loan Division of the Treasury Department at Washington, is stay- ing at the Hoffman House. Mr. Oluf Stenersen, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, has left Washington on a tour of inspec- tion in the Western States, The republican candidate for Mayor of St. Louis is named Bain. The democratic nominee is not expected to prove his antidote. Baron Lederer, Minister of Anstria, will soon leave on a temporary visit to his country, and wily be in Vienna during the great Exhibition. Hon. Henry Le Poer Trench, of the British Lega- tion, is expected to return to Washington to-day after @ somewhat protracted visit to bis native land. Minister Mori, of Japan, has “been taking aride around the suburbs of Boston prior to his departure for Europe in company with ©. W. Brooks, Jap- anese Consul at San Francisco. Mr. J. H. Pulestone, formeriy'& banker in this city, but now living in Fhgland, a member of the firm of Jay Cooke, McOulloch & Co., has been re- quested to stand for Parliament by a Denbighshire constituency, Pool selling at races has been decided a misde- meanor by the authorities of Buffalo. It should be 80 regarded everywhere and discountenanced by all decent people. Pool selling in Wall street is about as bad. Henry Ward Beecher and W. P. Shillaber (Mrs. Partington) will be the shining literary lights at the annual Convention of the New York Editors’ and Publishers’ Associatien, to be held at Pough- keepsie in June next. George A. Goss, member of the New York Assem- bly from the Eastern district of Menroe county, has recovered extra compensation for services ren- dered after the expiration of tne regular session last Spring. His case was a test one, “Extra Billy’ Smith, formerly Governor of Vir- ginia, was on Broadway the other day. He is among the candidates for a nomination for a re- newal of the honor, together with R. M. T. Hunter, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Robert E. Lee, son of the Gen- eral, and others, General Whittlesey, formerly an officer of the Freedmen’s Bureau, was yesterday morning con- veyed to the government Insane Asylum in Wash- ington. The General has been suffering for some time past with paralysis, and went to the Asylum for treatment under the advice of his physicians and friends. Miss Faithfull leaves for England on the Atlantic April 5, Steinway Hall has been placed at her ser- vice for a farewell matinée on the 34 prox., asa tribute to her efforts on behalfefhersex. Miss Faithfull will on that occasion speak on the wo- maa question and relate her American and Eng- lish experiences, It is ted that Vice President Wilson, when chairman of the Military Committee of the Senate, opposed making General Grant a brigadier be- cause he was intemperate. But he was made a brigadier. President Lincoln about the same time wished some other Union officers besides Grant took their Bourbon straight. FEMALE PHYSICIANS. Commencement of the Women’s Medical College. At Steinway Hall last evening a very intelligent- appearing audience assembled to assist at the commencement exercises ot the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary. On the piat- form were several well-known physicians ef this city and other distinguished citizens, among whom ‘were Judge Jonn R. Brady and Nathaniel James, dr. Mr. Samuel Willetts, President of the college, presided at the exercises, which, after a voluntary on the organ by Mr. G. W. Morgan, were opened with the conferring of degrees on the fol- lowing named graduates :—Miss Abbie Luelle Fox, of Mlinois; Miss Charlotte Warner Ford, of New Jersey; Miss Ellen Currie Leguett, of New Miss Elizabeth Jeanette Taylor, of New Jersey; Miss Emily Helen Wills, of Pennsylvani Kate Cecilia Woodhull, of New York. le ebliga- tion was read to each of the graduates by Mrs, Emily Blackwell, M. D., Secretary of the Faculty; after crnion the diplomas were presented by Mr. Prizes were then awarded as followa:—To Miss Emily H. Wells, for the best report of the medical Ce ods Nehmeyer’s Practice of Meilicine;” to Mrs. Sarah EF. Crocker, for the best report of the surgical clinique, a splendid case of sargical instru- ments; to the same, for the best report of the eye and ear clinique, a handsome epthalmoscope. For report of the eye and ear clinique, Miss Mary E. Baldwin received “honorable mention." The valedictory was then read by Miss Emily H. Wells, after which Judge Brady delivered one of his characteristic humerous and philosephical ad- dresses, with which the exercises clesed. The dh id feature connected with the entire affair was the extraordinary promptuess with which the amiable Teuton inc! ae tarned off the lights. The exercises were tL ed at a rather early hour for such exhibitions, and common de- cency at least should have induced the janitor to wait a few minutes and not oblige ladies and gen- tlemen to grope their way out in utter darkness, THE NEW SOHOOL COMMISSIONERS. During this week there have been at the Mayor's office, waiting fer an audience with His Honor, delegations of citizens more or less connected with politics, whose anxiety has been as to the nomina- tions for the School Commissionerships, under the recent act of the Legislature. Yesterday the office was crowded with applicants, and the Mayor was re- ceiving visitors until a iate hour in the evening. In reply to inquiries His Honer said that thre list of School Commissioners weuld not be made public until to-day (Wednesday). THE SEVENTY AND THE CHARTER, At @ meeting of the Committee of Seventy last evening, Benjamin B. Sherman, the Vice President, presided. A series of lengthy resolutions were read by Theodore W. Dwight, the Chairman, evinc- ing great disappointment at the report of the Senate Committee on Cities in reference to the appointing power; that they have reperted a scheme thatis beneath criticism; that the true repository of the pewer of appointment to office is the Mayor, and that the Aldermen may be properly, asseciated with him in the con- firmation of appointments, If the Aldermen factiously disagree with him they must be hela re- sponsible at the bar of public opinion. Their scheme, that if the Aldermen do Boe within five days, ratify the nominations of the ‘or, the appoint- ments to effice shall be made by him and the dent of the Board of Aldermen and the President of the Board of Assistant Aldermen, invites the Board of Aldermen to disagree to the nominations, and thus tends to strip the ir of all real Hd e a and introduces a new authori BAILROAD WAR IW OHIO. Desperate Capitalists in Pittsburg Seize a Road by Foree—Oppesing Forces—One Gang Still Retains Possession, Stopping All Tra@ic—History of the Difficulty. Younasrown, Ohio, March 25, 1873, A railroad war, in which considerable interesus are involved, i8 progressing here just now, and the most intense excitement prevails. Something over & year ago the Liberty and Vienna Railroad Company, of which John Stam- bough and Thomas Strathers, of tha place, are the principal stockholders, transferred their road to the Ashtabula, Youngstown and ritts- barg Railroad for a consideration of $200,000, ef which sum they were to recelve $100,000 in bonds after the completion of the preliminaries of sade, and the balance in stipulated payments before the PRELIMINARIBS HAD BEEN SATISFACTORILY SETTLED. The road was allowed to be taken in charge by the Youngstown and Pittsburg Company, who have run it ever since. They have deferred pay- ment of the amount of money agreed upon from time te time, aad the bonds they issued were net acceptable to original stockholders of the reod, inasmuch ag there was a hitch about. the manner in which they were drawn. ‘The parties could not settle up the diMculties, and the breach growing wider and wider every day until this morning, when the road was agajn taken posses- sion of by Stambaugh and Strathers, who, with large force of men, including many of the coal miners, who have been DRIVEN ALMOST TO DESPERATION by the strike which has been prolonged all Winter. ‘These tore up.the track for a considerable distance, cut the telegraph wire and tore down the posts, stopped the trains and seized all the rolling stock they could lay their hands on, About three hun- dred men were stationed along the route to stopa® trains and take forcible possession of everythi belonging to the company. William McOreery, Presi- dent of the Ashtabuia, Youmgstown and Pittsbut Railroad, was sent tor, and, with other oficers ol the road, seon arrived at the scene, and unpressed into their service a large force of railroad em- ployés, About noon a party of Stambaugh’s men Were at work trying to overturn the bridge of the Liberty and Vienna read, at a point where it crosses the canal. On receipt of this intelligence McCreery hurried up his force, and fora time & conflict was imminent, However, the railroad, partly under McCreery outnumbered the others and overpowered them, THE STAMBAUGH FORCE LEFT the bridge without carrying out their intentions, and the others immediately ran on the structure a locemetive, which was left standing there with 2 sufficient force to prevent it being removed. The track is cut in three places—at Girard, Youngs- town and Briar Hiil, and the Stambaugh party Still held their posts, and are determined to hola them despite any and all epposition the opposing force may bring to bear. It is rumered that a special train is on the way from Pittsburg with re- inforcements for McCreery, who is backed by Tom Scott, of the Penmaylvania Kailroaé Cempany. Allis quiet there now, because the road is effectn- ally closed. Should an attempt be made te open tt there will be more trouble. WEATHER REPORT. dis Sasa WEL Sete WAR DEPARTMENT, Ovrtce OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFVICER, WASHINGTON, March 26—1 A, Probabitities, The storm centre move more rapidly northeast ward over the Middle Aulantic States on Weduea- day; increasing northeast winds, with rain or snow, continue over the lower lakes and Miadle and Eastern States; tor the upper lakes and thence over the Missouri Valley continued cold northerly winds, with clear or clearing weather; for the Ohio Valley northwest winds and cloudy weather, clearing away in the Lower Ohio during the afternoon; fresh and brisk northwest winds extend from Louisiana eastward to Georgia, with clearing weather; winds back to westerly by Wednesday night in Virginia. Cautionary signals continue at Mobiic, Jackson. ville, Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington, Norfolk, Baltimore, Cape May, New York, New Haven, New London, Woods’ Hole, Boston "and Portland, Me. They willbe displayed at the lake stations from and after April 1. ‘ The Signal Office, at twenty-five minutes to five esterday afterneon, reported it raining at Lynch fers Baltimore, Cape May, Port Stanley, Indi- anapolis, Nashville and Portland, Oregon; sleet- ing at Rochester and Chicago, and snowing at Philadelphia, Sangeen, Memphis, Cairo, St. Louis, Keekuk, Davenport, Leavenworth, Milwaukee and Grand Haven; and at eleven e’clock P.M. as follows:—Raining at Lynchburg and Cincinnati; slecting at New London, Buffaio, Cleveland, Detroit and Port Stanley, Canada, and snowing at Louisville, Nasnville, Chicago, indiau- apolis, St. Louis, Davenport and Milwaukee, and the following Canadian stations:—Toronto, Saugeen and Port Dover. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes ia the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last eat, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s rmacy, bee a pues — 73. 1872. 1873. 3A.M.. 27 3:30 P. +e A at 6A.M 2 6 P. 2» 9A.M 2 9 P.M 28 12M... . 40 24 12 P.M. 28 Average temperature yesterday % ‘Average temperature for corresponding date last yea doves bea GERMANY AND OATHOLIOISM. Mass Meeting of German Catholics in Philadelphia—Resolutions of Sympa- thy with the Church and Condemna- tion of the Course of the Government. PHILADELPHIA, March 25, 1873. An extraordinary large mass meeting of German Catholics was held to-night at the Academy of Music. The vast auditorium was crowded, The object of the meeting was to extend sympathy te the Catholics of Germany. The folowing resola- tions were adopted :— Resolved, That we, German Catholics of Philadelphia, as freemen and zenlous Catholics, do sympattive with and pity Germany’s truest sons ‘and most ta. zens now suffering under injustice unworthy of « lized State. i That we appreciate and admire the bearing of the Ger- man Eptscopacy toward the persecutiny government, and are firmly convinced that, rollowing the sublime ex- asple of our hero Pope, they still will prove shepherds true to their flock. ‘That we look with inexpressible joy upon the nnani- mity of faith and constancy of endurance of the whole body of the German clerzy, and admire their beautitut submission to the Church, and, in consequence, ente: Most attering hopes for the suture of the Church of ie ; That we are firmly convinced that the Catholics of Ger- many will continue to value their faith above all other blessings and persevere in it, and that, should circum- stances require it, they will be prepared to sacrifice lite I for its dear sake, ever mindful that as they must ive to Cesar the things that are Cosar's, they will not fore moment hesitate to give likewise to God what is God's, Many promigent Catholic clergymen were pres- ent, including Bishops Wood, of this city; O'Hara, of Scranton; and Shanahan, of Harrisburg. COCHISE AND HIS MURDEROUS APACHES. WasHINGTON, March 25, 1873. The following has been received here:— Prescott, Arizona, March 11, 1873. COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, WASHING* N, D. C. Cochise. with 1000 of his band, are on the reser- tion at Sulphur Sprinj bik Phot TP RENDELL, Superintendent. A DESPERATE COUNTERFEITER, CUMBERLAND, Md., March 25, 187%. N. A. Creager, of Baltimore, a Deputy United States Marshal, attempted to arrest John Wallace, at Barton, to-day on a charge of counterfeiting, when Wallace made a desperate resistance, beat- ing the Officer severely with his pistol, and them escaped te the mountains. ALONG THE HUDSON. POUGHKEEPSIE, March 25, 1873. ‘The ferry boat at this place has made several im- effectual attempts to reach the west shore, and hag gone back to winter quarters, Teams are stilt crossing on the ice at this point, and ice boats are satling. Nearly every town and city on the east side of the river between Newburg and Albany is short + Cant oe the opening of navigation is anxiously looked for. The weather to-night is very cold, and there ts every prospect of another snow storm. COMPTROLLER'S RECEIPTS, Comptrolier Green reports the following amounta paid yesterday into the ‘Treasury from the city's Bureaus ef Collection, viz. :— PSE Tl S5 intro T id interest....... From taxes, Orlenexaat or annvaras From assessments for Broadway wid other improvements.