The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1873, Page 3

News Brought by Prominent Patriots . from the Struggling Republic. ARRIVAL OF VICE PRESIDENT AGUILERA. What Ne Says Abont Genera) Sickles and the Policy of Our Government. PEDRO RODRIGUES. The Captain of the Soldiers of the Edgar Stuart Expedition Tells His Story—Rumors About the Herald Representative—Conversa- tions with Cespedes—Condition of the Camp and Army Near Holguin, The Spaniards Closely Confined to the Cities, and Free Rule in Full Sway in the Rebellious Region. Bhortly before the sun had set last evening the glad news was flashed up the bay from the Sandy Hook telegraph station to several Cuban patriots that the French mail steamer St. Laurent, from Havre, wasin the offing bearing the Vice Presi- @ent of the Cuban Republic, F. V. Aguilera, and ‘would be at her wharf within three or feur hours. Shortly after the news had been received a num- ber of prominent Cubans, including José Maria Mayorga, general agent of the Republic of Cubain the United States; Colonel Pio Rosado, and many others of leas note, were on their way to pier 50 North River to await the arrival of the vessel. After remaining patiently for several hours the goble craft, with the French vwricolor flying at her peak, came alongside the wharf and commenced mooring, and swarthy faces, with black flashing eyes, scanned the vessel’s deck in search of their Vice President. At last he was dis- covered in converse with the Captain, and a friendly shout of welcome was uttered by the Cubans. Mr. Mayorga, burning with impatience to get on board, managed to scramble on the still moving vessel by the aid of the well known Rounds- man Muldoon. A few seconds later the two friends were clasping hands and talking with deep interest ‘on Cuban matters. THE VICE PRESIDENT OF CUBA is @ man of singularly imposing appearance, of over six feet in height. His face shows great deci- sion of character, but in spite of this he has a Kindly and congenial aspect. He wears a patri- arohal white beard, which flows down on his chest+ A HERALD reporter subsequently had a short conver, sation with Mr. Aguilera on Cuban subjects previous to the disembarkation of the passengers, while Mr. Aguilera was walking up and down the crowded decks where Parisian dandies, mechanics from Alsace, peasant girls from Normandy and others were all hurrying to and fro, awaiting with impatience the time when they should have passed the Custom House inspection of their luggage and . enter the great city. The following is the conversation in question :— INTERVIEW WITH MR. AGUILERA. REPORTER—What do you think of Cuban pros- pects in England, Mr. Aguitera? Mr. AcuiLERA—The English people .sympathize Geeply with us and desire that we should be ridden ef Spanish tyranny. The question of slavery is being very extensively canvassed all over the country by the Abolition Society; but here, unfor- tunately, the matter rests, and the same stereo- typed answer is constantly received, “It isan American question; we cannot interfere in Cuban matters beiore the United States, but we will will- ingly do our part when the time comes,"? INTERVIEW ‘A REPORTER—You have deal of time {7 France, I believ Mr. AGUILERA TO6, that 18 80; public opinion is Somewhat divided there on the subject of free Cuba. Some say we must not harassour sister Republic, Spain, by making remonstrances on the Cuban question, Others, knowing the pwier of Spain trom time immemorial down to the presont day, say that a remonstrance on. the slavery ques- tion ought to besent to Madrid. My friend, M. Gam- betta, is a great sympathizer with our cause and will do anything in his power to befriend Cuba Libre, but in France they say, as in England, ‘It is an Ameri- can question; no European Power can interfere. Why will the United States not intervene ?” and so on. GENERAL SICKLES AT MADRID! Mr. AGUILERA—Betore you leave I want to make statement to you, which I think is important. You know, of course, that the American Mipister at Madrid, General Sickles, has been giving consider- able advice and aid to the Ministers of the new Re- es of Spain, and they think that he is so friendly t the passive character of the policy of the country with reference to Cuban aifairs can be re-. lied on for some years to come. In a word, cd want time, and they belicve that they can ‘nood- wink the United States thraugh its Madrid Minis- ter. Ican assure you that Spaniards are, gener- ally speaking, delighted with the success of the ruse—for such they consider it. MR. JAMEY O’KELLY. Mr. AGUILERA—Have you any news of your bold correspondent, Mr. O’Aelly? I sincerely hope he will escape froin the jsland with his li/e. REPORTER—The lgest news received through Mr. Zambrana states that he would be with Presi- dent Cespedes abeut the 7th of March. Mr. AcuiLens—He las undertaken ® bold mis- ston, but I believe he will be spared to see New York in—mat is my fervent wieh. The Cubans owe a deep debt of gratitude to the HERALD, THE GUEST OF MR. MAYORGA. At this 2Noment word was brought thot the bag- of tr. Aguilera had been carried up from tie steamer’s hold and had been taken to the customs oitice: for inspection. Colonel Burton, of the Depity Collector's omMce, kindly gave permission » Aguilera to pass his baggage without it being examined, on the undersianding that no dutiable goods were contained in his valises, Mr. Aguilera thanked the official for bis courtesy aud leit the pier in company with Mr. Mayorga, who drove Mr. Aguilera home to his residence in Lex- ington avenue, where he will probably remain for eeveral days. Sketch of Aguilern. Francisco Vicento Aguilvra, who is now tn the Mity-first year of his age, was born in Bayamo in the year 1822, His father was a Colonel Aguilera, of the Spanish Army, who had considerably distin- guished himscif as a courageous officer in Oghting against the Great Napoleen in the Peninsula Young Aguilera, leaving home, proceeded te the University at Havana, where he rapidly distin- guished himself as a student of greattalent, At the request of his father he returned to his nome Rear Bayamo and co-operated with him in the management of the large family estates, which contain about two hundred and fifty square aniles, and are divided inte sugar and coffee planta. tons. Stock-raising was also extensively carried on. The fortune of Mr. Aguilera after the death of bis father was estimated at @ couple of million dol- lars. One of the sugar plantations on.the estates, mamed Cabanignun, is one of the mest celebrated spots on the island, and its name has been given #0 one of the crack cavalry corps of the patriot Garces. STARTING THE REVOLUTION, To Mr. Aguilera belongs the honor of being one ofthe three men who started the revolution in uta in 1867, The other twe were Francis Maceo, (gvho.ts now alive, fighting with the patriots, ana Ghe ather is Pedro Figuerdo, who was captured by ‘the Spaniards and killed at Santiago de Cuba. THE FIRST MANUMISSION OF SLAVES, (The name of Aguilera has also a preud mention im athe Tells of the Onben contest, in so far that he wamthe Srst large and wealthy slavetolder who gave’ liberty to his slaves. He called them to- gether after he had decidedto take up arms ish tyranny and told them that ail were free. yaar of them, filled with itade, declared their intention of following their mas- ter te the field the },000,000 for his love of country, recently in manner given liberty to his siaves, Uut they unfortunately were the Spaniards when Mr, Al ne om Matanzas, and Gow groaning under nish bondage and treated worse than cattle by je Spanish government, which i# making them work on all estreated sugar and éoffee plantations. Mne-hali of the prpducts of these plantanons NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. stolen by the overseérs and others, and the other pers A paid into the Spaniah Treasury. . ru scampi iB onenta De ment, t of the Rep: ic, has fought ii ta inst the ish troops forces of the patri- ots, and among ones em | be men- tioned Babatuaba, bago, Valenzuela, 4&c., and oe all hands in, merers Is spoken he et ent jes Pod thm a ap gg Age wife an chil- Gren, whv'suill remained ia Cuba, made ex cape from the island in dug-nut boats, dy to the ish. flo- tila of gunboats, safely reached Jamaica, where they now are, with the exception of the eldest son, Ant how in this city, who shortly intends leavit im company with his gallant father, to @ght once mere for the Mberty of Cuba, the abolti of stavery and the permanent establishment of the Republic of Cuba. Alter remaining as Geveral Agent in this city ter nine months he relinquished his office and placec the distinguished Mr. José Maria Mayorga, in his place, which now holds, to the gen- eral satisfaction of the Cubans in this country. The object of Mr. Aguilera his-office was te proceed as Cuban tative to London and ‘aris, and it is from pain that he has now returned, bringing with him a tunds, for the pur, of carrying Cuba and establish! @ native republic. The amount is variously estimated at from fifty to one hundred thousand dollars, Pedro Rodrigues, the Captain of the Sol- @iers of the Edgar Stuart Expedition, Tells His Story. On board the English steamer Claribel, which arrived from Jamaica on Tuesday morning, was Captaim Pedro Rodrigues, who came from Cuba in company with Sefior Antonio Zambrana, an inter- view with whom was published in the HERALD of yesterday. Captain Rodrigues is the brave patriot whe commanded the Cuban forces and munitions of war on the two last expeditions of the Edgar Stuart, and whe so successfully effected a meeting with the’ insurgents on both those perilous occa- sions. It will be remembered, too, that he con- ducted two former expeditions befere those of, the Edgar Stuart, and in none of his daring undertakings in vhe cause of liberty has he ever failed. In the return of this last little party from Cuba Libre to the United States Rodrigues had the full conduct and charge of the miniature vessel which conveyed them through the blockade of Spanish gunboats to Jamaica. The persons of whom he had the care were José Alarcon, Juan Hortis, Andro Blanche and N, Santestian, sailors of the Edgar Stuart, and Antonia Zambrano, Mariano Acosta, Francisco Bucarelez, Caystana Acosta, Luis Bejotte, Frederico Carrasaco and Jose de la (, Labazar, passengers. Captain Rodrignes went from the steamer on its arrival here to the house of his friend, a Cuban refugee, Mr. Zechas, 50 Sixth avenue, where he was greeted with warm atfection by his wife, a beautifal, dark-eyed lady, who has remained in this city during ‘her husband’s dangerous adven- tures, * Captain Rodrigues is a young man with a comely form and a handsome face, which wears a manly expression of gallantry and tole He was be- fore the rebellion ene of the wealtiest planters in Cuba and gave the whole of his fortupe to the cause of independence. He has clear brown eyes and wears dark and silken mustaches. In the course of a long conversation he related bis adven- tures nearly as follows :— THE ADVENTURES OF RODRIGUES. “On the 7th of September, 1872, Iset sail from New York for Aspinwall, in company with Mr. M. Agne- dro, to take charge ef the expedition from Aspin- wall to the shores of Cuba. We lett Aspinwall in the Edgar Stuart en the 25th of December. On the 1st of January we were in sight ef Cuba. It took us twe nights to land the cargo, and on the third we delivered it-into the hands of the Cuban Gen- eral, Jose de Jesus Perez, who was waiting to re- ceive them.” Captain Lng 8 here exhibited the zoonins given by Gene! Perez, which enumerates the articles comprised in the cargo, @ list of which has been already published. “Lwas i ni by General Perez an escort of twenty men, and set out to find the President, General Cespedes. I travelled five days into the interior, and reached the encampment at Butu, where the Commander-in-Chief was stationed with the army of Holguin and General Carlezto Garcia, THE CONDITION OF TEE TROOPS was very fine. Their dress -was good and their arms equal to those ef any nation in the world. Fifteen or twenty days before my arrival they had made an attack on the city of Heiguinand captured and sacked it, taking an immense quantity of clothing, provisions and valuablea This accounted for the good Appearsnes of the solders. General btieleay A fore I took Ln ponerrates resented me with thiy. god. watch (exhibiting it to the visitor) which was part oi the plunder. Holguin is about seventy-five miles from Santiago de Cuba. I remained with Cespedes about fifteen days and talked with him many times, He has a strong conviction that Cuba is already free. In the country they are unmolested by the Spaniards, and ood order prevails. We have possession from the Cinco Villas to Santiago de Cuba, a distance of 600 miles. In travelling there I did not see a single soldier of the enemy. The Spanish remain in the towns, and the policy of the Cubans now is to ferm combinations of forces and attack them, as the; did at Holguin. ipline of the army, ag saw it, was splendid. I should judge the armed portion to be composed of over twelve thousand men, and of course the remainder constitutes an immense body of men, desiring, but unabie, to fight. President Cespedes now tells them that there is no use in their coming to him, as he caunot give them employment without the necessary supplies. He has plenty of guns, but not enough ammunition. HOPING FOR RECOGNITION. “Cespedes told me that he had great hopes that the United States would soon recognize the inde- pendence oi Cuba, which, of ceurse, would be the winning of half the battle, as they could then run the blockade with impunity. But, even if she were not recognized, he felt assured that Cuba's freedom was accomplished, “1 was ssed of kuowledge that Zambrana Was in Cuba on a secret mission of some kind, but what it was I do not know. “ “I found in the rebel camps that the newspapers from the United States arrived regulariy every two or three days. The coming of the HERALD was especially anticipated’ MOKE NEWS OF THE HERALD COMMISSIONER. “Have you any information, Captain, of Mr. O'Kelly and his whereabouts’ axked the reporter. “1 left Cespedes before Mr, O’Kelly had reachea the rebel lines. Three or four days afterwards, however, he was with the President, and I was as- sured of this fact because I saw his handwriting at wpe shore beiore I sailed for Jamaica, When the ‘ERALD correspondent reached the camp at Tempu, Colonel Cintra, the Commandant, wrote to General Perez asking him to come with an es- cort toconduct him to President Cespedes, When L had reached the shore everybody there knew that O'Kelly was safe with Cespedes, and Colonel Cintra showed me his handwriting. The supposi- tion then entertained was that it weuld be impos- sible for Mr. O'Kelly to return to Santiago de Guba with his life.” “Captain,” said the reporter, ‘you have often experienced the dangers of this civil war and must have had some narrow escapes.” “Yes, sellor. I have gone four times back and forth between the United States and Cuba in com- mand of expeditions. The Spanish gunboats are now very vigilant, and are passing and repassing along the const every moment, At night, how- ever, the biockade cau be run quite easily.” CUBAN TROUBLES IN NEW YORK. “What did Cespedes have to say about the con- gar conduct of the Cuban refugees in New or! “He knows very littie about the troubles that exist here between Cuban countrymen, aad does not imagine their condition to be as bad as it is He hopes that it will grow better, He spoke often about the HERALD and the obligations under which it bad placed him and his people by its fairness and its advocacy of the cause of liberty, and expressed himseif very wal ing most anxious to see its representativ ve orders to all his gen- to attend him when he should arrive and to him in every way that was possibie. He said that the Henan, in its way, had done more for the success of the rebellion than 60,000 men could have doue in the fleld. * ANOTHER BXPRDITION. “From Cuba tt took us thirty-two hours to reach Jamaica. We landed on the beach at the mouth of Good hiver, On the 16th of this month I was in Kingston, and on the 15th took the steamer for New York. I brought letters for the Captain of the Edgar ae but am not acquainted with their coutents. The Captain thought that perhaps a new expedi- it soon be despatch but of course the rag in would be kept a secret. After seme further, but unimportant, conversa- tion the reporter took his leave amid warm ex- Pressions of kindness from the refugees. Zembrana and the Herald Congratu- lated. The following message, which was received yes- terday at the Henaxp office, explains itself:— PurLapguriia, March 26, 1873. To THe Fprron or tux Henan :—* ne oonerecsiase you for i ' recent yp re- todomitenie, and intafigent special Janka of aione: , welcoming same time our ilustrions representative th: 0 jour well BY the CUBAM ASSOCIATION OF a PaULADRLPHLA. Cuba. On account of the reports extensively published im the mewepaper press of Cuba, in which it was stated by the Spanish General Riquelme and Don Emiiano Aguero that Mr. Headersen, the special correspondent of the MexaLy to Cuba Libre, had are | bot secu PTcakent Ogevedes, the follow! nw commu- nication from Mr, Antonia Zambrana, member of the Cuban Congress, and who left Cuba Libre on the 7th inst., will be read with interest at the pres- ent moment :— oo Goxpon BENNETT, Esq., Editor of the I have great pleasure in informing you that I saw, afew months ago, at government Desdasar. ters in Cuba Libre, your correspondent, Mr. Boyd Emiliano “Aguero to the Spanish "press. tc’ Cuba ano u ress 49 altogether false when he atates that Mr, Henderson did not see President Ces) a8 18 Mkewise that of General Riquelme, who gained his ipformation from the former. All that Mr. Hender- io wrote was a true picture of actual facts. In conferences he had with President Carlos M. de Cespedes all the important members of the Senate ana government were present. THE COURSE OP THE HERALD. The HERALD, in espeusing the cause of free Cuba, has anes. the admiration @1 all lovers of justice and liberty, and has merited by its persistent en- oR behalf of our cause the gratitude and love of all Cubans, and it affords me great pleasure to bn aD opportunity to wake this public declara- n. With feelings of the highest esteem, J have the honor to remain, “ A. ZAMBRANA, New York, March 26, 1873, NEW JERSEY LEGISLATURE. The Removal of the State Capital—Patterson’s Railroad Bill in Peril—The Hudson County Boulevard Bill Passed—The General Railroad Bill in the Honse, In the Senate ef the New Jersey Legislature yes- terday Mr, McPherson arose again to complain of the manner in which he had been treated by the press. The Senator stands in a mest unenviable Dosition, and he is desirous to return to his con- stituents purged of his Tom Scott preclivities, Mr. Sewell offered @ resolntion, which was adopted, that a committee of three be appointed to investigate the charges made by a Trenton evenifig paper to the effect that an engrossed copy of the General Railroad bill had been taken to Tom Scott for his inspection before it was acted on in the Senafe, with power to send for persons and papers. Such cemmittee con- sists of Messrs, Williams, Irick and Hendrickson. The supplement to the charter of the city ef Trenton was ldst by a vote of 10 against 7. This bill has engrossed the attention ef tne citizens ef Trenton for some tine, as it provided for most im- portant changes im the government of the city. The five-codnty act seemed to be the bugbear of the bill, and the fact that no clause was embodied in the charter for its repeal was the reason of its defeat, Several Senators expressed themselves as being opposed to this five-county act. The bill for the removal ot the State capital was, On motion of Mr, Stone, laid over. Quite a lively discuse!on took place when the bill appropriating $40,000 for the improvement of the present Capitol ‘Was called up. Mr. Hewitt warmly advocated its passage as well as Mr. Havens, Mr. Stene in a very decidet man- ner opposed some of its provisions. After some amendments being offered and accepted it was agreed to order it on its third reading. There ig nothing as yet about Patterson’s bill (No. 69). It is surmised that no action will be taken on it this session. The committee of the Senate to whom it was referred has not had it un- der consideration yet. Messrs. Hopkins, Jarrard and Edsall are the committee. ‘The free railroad bill was reported by the Special Committee early in the morning, with amendments and reasons fer such printed on separate sheets. It was made the special order for three o’clock in the afternoon. Some few weeks ago a bill was passed in the nature of a small charter, incorporating the Saddle River Railroad, & small read ruuning through Bergen county. At this time, it seems, the Penn- sylvania Railroad and Midland Railread companies were on bad terms; hence the Midland company Ege the zane of this small charter, while the monopolists let it slide through without any opposition. A reconciliation was since effected be- tween these rival corperations, and consequently a powerful combination was formed. The result was that Mr. Ward (the monopolist champion in the House) offered a resolutien recalling the bill from the Governer’s hands, for the purpose of recon- sideration ostensibly, but really for the purpose of killing it. As is customary with the bald eagle of Sussex, he made some prosy remarks in support of his resolution, and was supported on the right by Carse, of Camden, while towards the lefia tew monopoly hy Pome silently nodded assent. Honest Joe Letson and the enthusiastic George W. Patterson vigerously ep; 1d its adoption. Letson exposed the trickery Which’was attempted to be practised in in having the bill called w for consmeration. Canfield also exhibited his well- Known anti-monopoly feelings ta his remarks when approving the resolution. he Speaker took the floor and vindicated the officers of the House irom any unjust imputation which migtt be cast on them while tne bill was in theif possession. After a warm debate a division was taken, and the resolution was declared nega- tived bye vote of 16 yeas to 39 nays. Tke Hudson County Boulevard bill caused a lengthy and heated discussien. Mr. Ryder led off in opposition. He exhibited a huge bundle of pe- titions which he said he had received from his con- stituents protesting Inst the passage of the bill. He said the people of Hudson county were not pre- pared to expend three or four million dollars just new, as the bill provided for. He characterized it as an unfair measure, and said that there was something wrong. He wanted no rash legislation. ‘This was simply an act to create nine millioanair in Hudson county, as the bill calied for nine dire tors. His proposition was to put three or five men, well known, who would take an oath that they do not purpose to interest themselves in real estate in. Hudson county, and Who would promise to build the avenue from ope end to the other of the county. He could not vete for the bill as it now 8! Mr. Lee then followed, and said that he had not been censulted in regard te the billat all. He knew full well that the people of his county were unan- imously opposed to it. It gave power to the com- missioners which was unconstitutional. He wanted it submitted to the people. He knew such a road was necessary; but it sould be made in the proper big Section 80 tn it ceuld not be defined even by @ Philadeipbia lawyer. It was a fraud from be- Bau to end, and he would pronounce it so fear- lessly on the floor. The writer of it was either a fooloraknave. He did not complain of the men named as commissioners, but the merits of the bill. Mr. Washburn here arose and warmly advocated its passaye. Mr. Farrier passed nigh ewlogiums on the men named as incorporators, Mr. Reardon opposed it for the reason that his constituents did not want it, It should be put to the vote of the people. After some remarks by Gaede and others a vote was taken and the bill was passed by 37 yeas to 14 nays. It ia expected to come up to-day in the Senate, It 18 considered an outrageous measure by many of the residents of Hudson county who were heard to 80 express them- selves after it was passed. The bill establishing courts of summary juriacic- tion in Jersey City passed the Senate with some trivial amendments. It will add the enormous sum of $100,000 to the burdens of the already tax-ridden people of Jersey City without returning any essen- tial equivalent therefor, and will create fat offices for hungry politicians. At eighteen minates to four o’clock Mr. Worth- ington desired that the amendments to the general Railroad bill be read carefully vy the Clerk. A re print of the bill was produced, and the Speaker wanted to know If it was Sac-simile of the nate’s reprint without the new amendments, ir. pean replied that the committee had read the bill cantiously through and he would tuarantee that the new copy was a verbatim one of he old, with the exception of the new amendments, The Speaker asked for a copy of the old one, but the Sergeant-at-Arms said they were all exhausted, Messrs. Canfield and McDanelds said they had given theirs away. The Clerk conciuded the reading of the bill at twenty-seven minutes past four, having occupied forty-ve minutes. A BANKING HOUSE SUSPENDS PAYMENT. NEw HAvEN, March 26, 1873. The banking firm of Edward L. Scranton & Co., of this city, suspended payment to-day. The com- pany have deposits amounting, it is said, to about @ half a million of dollars, and the announcement of the suspension created muchexcitement among the large number of depositors. The firm state thht the suspension is only temporary, and that they will soon resume payment and meet all their Iiabilities, There has been @ run made on the bank during the past few days among the country depositors and the firm say that the; stopped payment rather than sacrifice their securi- ties. The bank lost ere reason of the Boston fire, and itis said that their present embarrass- ment is caused by the firm being obliged to carry the margins of stock jators who sold short and could not cover. The suspension does not affect any of the New Haven banks. OONFLIOTING FREIGHT INTERESTS. LanstnG, Mich., March 26, 1873. Remonstrances were presented to the Legis- lature to-day from a large number of prominent vessel owners and residents of Chicago and De- treit, earnestly requesting that no action be taken endorsiag or encouraging the building of a rail- road bridge across the Detroit or St, Clair Rivers, ‘as they believe such a bridge would not relieve the bemsiness.of the rattroads, but would atly dam- ae. the Jarge shipping interests of the great ak Che PRUSSIA AND HER CATHOLICS An Exciting Debate in the ‘Herrenhaus. BISMARCK’S SPEECH. The Prince Tells the Conservative Peers the Beason of Their Recent Defeats and Loss of the Govern- ment’s Confidence, JUNKER STUBBORNNESS “Confidence Is a Tender Flower; Once Destroyed, Comes Nevermore.” THE GOVERNMENT VICTORY. vl si Sg) The Constitutional Amendments Placing the Church Under State Control Carried. BERLIN, March 11, 1873, The Honse of Peers was yesterday oc- cupied with the first reading of the’ amendments to paragraphs 15 and 18 of the Prussian constitution, which im their new shape are to form the iegal basis for secular su- premacy in ecclesiastical matters, The Lower House passed the proposed amendments, it will be remembered, by a large majority. It was feared, however, in view of the intense and vast opposi- tion that has been expressed on the part both of the Catholic and Protestant clerical bodies, in and out of Parliament, that the measure would be de- feated in the House of Peers. It was known that the government was, nevertheless, determined that the bili should be passed. Members of the government and Prince Bismarck himself have ex- pressed themselves more than once to this effect, In the general debate which took place yesterday three speakers were for and three against the bill, The most important speech was the one by Prince Bigm@rck, who boldly charged the peers with inconsequence and stubbornness, though it is well known that ke alone caused their disorganizatien and discomfiture, and that, finally, when he could not break down their resistance to the reform of district administration, he had re- ceurse to the creation of the new liberal peers. In adopting this draconic measure some months ago the Bismarck Ministry undoubtedly foresaw that without it they would stand befere another deadlock in the present movement for the reform of the relations between Church and State. The Prince’s speech yesterday must be considered in thé light of an expression of the intentions of the Prussian government. Though not the Premier he is still the strongest man inthe Cabinet, and words from him beara far different import than would the same coming from the mouth of Von Roon. PRINCE BISMARK’S SPEECH lasted ‘over an hour in its delivery. He began by treating of the conservative regret that “liberal- ism” has of late been gaining ground in the House of Peers, The reason why liberalism has grown, he sald, lies essentially in the fact of the disor- ganization of the counter-party, the conservatives; more especially in the fact that the government has been deceived in the supposition that the con- servative party placed entire confidence in it. The undeceiving took place in the discussions on the the Jaw relating to school superintendence, when the conservative party gave to the Ministry a vote of distrust on a highly impertant political question, and “confidence is a tender plant, which, once de- stroyed, comes never more.” The conservative party thereupon, guided by well-meaning leaders, but at the same time more zealous than is compatible with essential success, fell into disso- lution. In discussions which I did not attend, it has come to pass that this House has annulled its own resolutions, and thereby pressed the govern- ment to @ cul de sac. Those peers on whom the Crown—or I will express myself in a parliament- ary manner—the Ministry of His Majesty the King believed they could trust for support in the carryimg out of ita thoughts have not only not given this support, but have refused it in such a manner that the government can no longer rely upon them for it. How cdn you lay this condition of things to the charge of the government and its measures? We do not live under a constitution by which His Majesty carries ona policy at will, without regard to the constitutional formation of the Landtag. You, gentlemen, have essen- tially contributed to crowd me—who' believed myself able to condact the administration at the head of a conservative party of some importance aud weight—out of my former position in the Ministry. You have destroyed the presuppositions under which I thought to remain at the head of the Cabinet. Do not hold the government respon- sible jour Own work—the work of your own over-zeal; your own pretensions to make your own personal convictions prévail in State ques- tiens which the goverumeut considered to be Cabinet questions. Do not hold the government of His Majesty responsible for that; and do not complain about things which, in my opinion, must be Jaid to the charge of an essential number of you and of the conservative party of the other House, POLITICS AND RELIGION. The question in which we are at present involved is pers according to my judgment, in a false light, if we call it # confessional, religieus ques- it is essentially political; it has nothing to do with the conmfict of an evangelical dynusty against the Catholic Church, as our Catholic fellow citizens are taught to believe; it has nothing to do with the conflict between faith and infidelity ; it has solely to do with the ancient contest for do- minion, which is as old as the human race ; with the contest for power between monarchy and priest- hood, the contest which is much older than the ap- pearance of the Kedeemer in the world; the con- test with which German history of the Middle Ages, up to the dissolution of the German kim- pire, is filled, under the name of the conflicts of the Popes with the Emperors; a conflict which found its tragic conclusion when the last represent- ative of the imperial race of the Hohenstaufens died on the scaffold beneath the axe of a French conqueror—a conqueror in alliance with the then living Pope. We have, indeed, been very near to an analogous solution of the situation, transiated, of course, to our own times, If the French war of conquest (the outbreak o; which corresponded witu the publication of the Vatican decrees) had been successful, 1 do not know What would have been related in the clerical sphere in Germany about the gestis dei per francos, Si ir plans existed before the last War with Austria; similar plans existed before Olmutz—an alliance opposing the royal power as it exists im our land on & basis whiecn is not recognized by Rome. i Ps in my estimation, a falsification of olitics and of history when His Holiness the Pope is considered exclusively as the high priest of any one eonfession, or the Catholic Church aa repre- tion. sentative of churchdom in geueral. The Papacy has times @ political power, Which, With the tion and with the greatest success, in- terfered in all the reijations of this world, meant to interfere and considered such interfer- ence as its legitimate programme. This pi ‘amme is well known. The aim constantly kept in view by the Papal power (like the Khine borders before the eyes of the French)—the programme which at the time of the medi#val Emperors was very realized—is the making the secular subject to the clerical, an aim eminently the effort to attain which is, however, as humanity—for se long have there been person: whether cunning or real priests, who have asserted that the will of God was better known te them than to their fellow citizens; and it is well known that this principie is the foundation of the Papal claim to dominion. THE CONFLICT OF THR PRIESTHOOD WITH THE MON- ARCHY. ‘The conflict in this case of the Pope with the Ger- man Emperor, as we have already seen it in the Middle Ages, must be judged like every other con- fict. It has its alliances; it has its treaties of ace; it bas its cessations; it has its truces, ere have been peaceful Popes; there have been Po who fought and conqu ; there has even beens I ‘King of France, al Ludwig came into the condition te carry on war. Thus even among our French neighbors there have been feund mon-, archs who had mere Hsing Xe peace than for war. And in the battles of the 'y it bas not always beem the case that Catholic Powers were the ex- clusive allies of the Pope, nor have priests always stood at the side of the Pope. We have had cardi- nals as Ministers of great Powers, in # time when anti-Papal Policy, even to violence. We have found bishops, with their forces united with the German ore, omnaney against Papal interests, There- fore this contest for power is sunlect to exactly the same conditions as every other confiict, and whem any representations are made about the oppression of the Church by.the State they are in- tended only to impress people incapable of judg- i for themselves. The question refers to the deience of the State, te the Placing ot @ boundary, marking how far the dominion of the priests and how far thatef the monarch shal! extend. This definition of boundary must be clearly marked so that the State ney, on tts oe stand firm, for in the kingdom of this worid t! tate has dominion and precedence, PRUSSIA AND THE PAPACY. We in Prussia were not always the special objects of the attacks in this cenflict. For a long time the Roman See did not consider us as its chief opponent. Frederick the Great lived tn perfect peace with the Holy See, while the Emperor of Austria—at that e Pere genie @ Catho- age’ lic State—was engi im the most vio- lent confict with the Catholic Church, Thus, the question is pretty much independent of any confessional tendency, as I will Prove. I can adduce, in this relation, that it was essentially King Frederick William Iil., who, in his orthodox-evangelical, hence anti-Catholic belief, insisted and brought about at the Vienna Congress the establishment of the tempo- ral power of the Papacy; nevertheless, when he he was in conilict with the Catholic Church. Tn the constitutional paragraphs which now occupy our attention we found a modus vivendt, a truce concluded at @ time when the State needed as- sistance, and expected to find it by lean- ing in part on the Catholic Church, Under these impressions a compromise was eifect- ed in this cenflict between the secular and the ecclesiastical sword, though this com- romise in its practical consequences turned out 0 be an error, This truce, however, allowed us to live at least for some years in comparative peace; which, it is true, could only be upheld by constant concessions on the part oi the State, which placed all its prerogatives unreservedly into the hands of a department originally intended to watch over the royal Prussian rights as against the Catholic Church, but which afterwards became a depart- ment actually in the service of the Pope, protect- ing the rights of the Church as against the Prus- sian State. Of course I mean the Catholic Depart- ment in the Ministry of Public Worship, Whoever has looked into these matters more closety must have shared my apprehension respecting the durability of this sort of peace. With my aversion to any internal conflict and every conflict of this kind, [ have always preferred this peace, with all its disadvantages, and have rejected the conflict which I have been urged from many sides te com- Tence, There has probably never been a moment (if the gevernment had not been attacked) in which the government would have been more in- clined to come to an understanding with the Hoiy See than just at the close of the french war. On tnis point many untruths have been asserted with great soalttvenees and ignorance in the Lower louse. Every one who was with us in France knows that our re- lations to Italy, previously so amicable, suffered during that entire period. 1 will not say our relations were clouded, but an ill feeling ex- isted till the conclusion of peace. ‘This was owing to the attitude of Italy, in which love for the French was stronger than the desire to preserve the interests of the land; otherwise Italy ought to have been with usin defending its own indepen- dence, This was a strange phenomenon to us, and there arose doubts as to which influences would ultimately prevail there. Se much is certain; Italian forces under Garibaldi stood Sunoeed tous; we thought their departure trom Italy could have been hindered if mere energy had beer displayed. There was @ disagreement between the Itaan and German policy, but this has now been overcome, GERMAN ULTRAMONTANES. When we were in Versailles I was toa certain degree surprised that the demand was made to Catholic members of parliamentary bodies to de- clare if they were ready to join the coniessional arty, Which we know to-day as the central (cler- ical) faction, and if they would agree, in relation to matters of the Empire, to vote and to urge that these paragraphs, which we are treating to-day, should be embodied in the constitution of the Em- pire. The preaeinis did not territy me so much at the time, If was wishing eat eae to snch a degree. I knew who had issued it, in part a high prince of the Church, who, indeed, has the aim to do what he can for the Papal policy, and hereby filled his mission, and partly the Centrum, Von Ambassador to the old introduced this movement. As to the lat- ter, I did not believe that he: would allow his influence to be felt in a direction hostile to tne government. But I was completely de- ceived. Idid not come back to Germany without being convinced that this party and its effort did hot permit the, principle ef live and let live. First, when I had returned, I saw how strong was the organization of this party of the Church fight- ing against the State; I saw the progress which the Catholic department in the Ministry of Pabiic Worship had made in the contest relating to the German language in the Polish provinces. In Si- lesia there suddenly arose a Polish party, under essential clerical fuvor and the ac- tual protection of the Church—there, where such @ party had never before existed. But this would not have been of itself determina- tive. The first thing that called my attentien to the danger was the power which the new faction had acquired. In obedience to decrees issued from Berlin Deputies were deposed who had been regu- Jarly elected by their distriets; and the election of new members was decreed—members whose names were not even known. This was done not in one, but in a number of districts. Thus strong was the organization, and such was the power it exerted over the popular mind, and tn this manner only pa prominent member of Wigny, Prussia’s eariier bund, who chiely was it possible to realize the programme of the Bishop of Mayence, as expounded in his pamphlets. What did this programme mean ? ad it. His pamphiets are writ- ten with spirit and intellect, pleasant to read and are in the hands of everybody. They pro- pose to introduce into Prussia a State dualism by the erection of a State within the State, to induce all Catholics tn their political and private life to receive their guidance from the clerical party. THE DANGER OF DUALISM. This would lead to a dualism of the worst kind. Dualism may exist where the surrounding condi- tious are favorable, such as in Austro-Hungary; but there ft is not a confessional dualism. Bu' here it would be the establishment of two con- fessional States in dualistic antagonism, the one of which would have as its highest sovereign a foreign prince of the Church, with his seat in Rome, a rince who by late constitutional changes in the Church has grown more poweriul than he formerly was. We wonld © thus have in place ef a compact Prussia two distinct State organizations, the one with its general staif in the clerical faction and the other with its staif im the guiding secular principle embodied in the government and bat of His Majesty the Em- peror. Such @ situation was totally unacceptaple for the government, whose duty was to ward off such danger from the State. It would have neglected that duty-ir it had quietly looked on while it saw the astounding progress which had been made, the examination into which had been hitherto considered unnecessary. The government was under the necessity to annul the trnce as laid down in the constitution of 1843, and to prepare a new way of establishing a modus vivendi between the secular and the clerical Vda The State cannot allow the present condition of things to continue, as it must result in internal conficts calculated to endanger its very existence. Should these amendments of the constitution fail to pass this House the govern- ment can no longer take the responsibility of car- rying on the administration, but must leave it to those who consider the paragraphs in their original state asnot dangerous, In this conflict the govern- ment appeals to the House of Peers “for assistance and support in fortifying and defending the State against the attacks and underminings which en- danger its present and future peace. We have full confidence that this assistance and support will not be refused us.” THE BOGUS PROPHET. The Camp of Canaan Broken Up in Georgia—Curry, the Blasphemous “1 Am,” Found Gulity of Adaltery—The Millennium, Certainly Near at Hand— Purity and Perfection of Men and Women—The Queen Prophetess in Holy Garments. Avavsta, Ga., March 26, 1873, Joseph F. Curry, a 80-called prophet of “the new dispensation,” was tried at Appling, Columbus county, to-day, on charges of adultery and fornica- tion, before County Judge Gibson. Curry came from Massachusetts with a colony of about two hundred men ana women, over @ year ago, and bought lands and settied in Columbus county. They lived in tents and held the property in com- mon, Curry called himself “Elijah and “the prophet of Jehovah’’—supreme in things spiritual and temporal. The colony went on well for a brict period, but the “prophet” took to himself too many wives. Jealousy and insubordination ensued in the colony, and ly of the colonists returned to Massachusetts, g provided with free passage to the nearest seaports, either Charleston or Sa- vannab. Finally the colony became so demoralized and Curry so licentious that the Grand Jury in- dicted him and his Queen paramoar. im white linen, with head and feet bare, in'imitation ef the Savior, appeared before the His Queen appeared in he same attire, With white stoc! on her feet, and a white bow on her head. ‘king in his own, defence he maintained that men and women could live together as man and wife without Co Bee ‘at by mortification and prayer they coula ome perfect. He repelled the charge ef insanity, and displayed much erudi- tion and famitiarity with the tures. He said he had revelations alter revelations that a new era had dawned, when men and women should come out “ J natural order ef things to a higher state of purity. After speeches from tho prosecution and defence the jury retired, and alter half an hour’s absence returned with a verdict of guilty, with @ recom- mendation te mercy. Sentence has been deferred for afew weeks, It is thought the prophet and his followers will be given an opportunity to find another Canaan far away irom here in which to these same great Powers carried on a sbrongly | pitch their tenis, “WILL THEY STRIKE?” The Trades Unions in Mo-# tion Once More. LABOR AND CAPITAL IN COMBAT. Meetings of the United Masons, Carpenters, Woodworkers, Horseshoers, Join- ers and Other Trades, A STRIKE EN MASSE THREATENED. Once mere the struggle between labor and capi- tal has commenced, and this time the battle prom- ises to be a flercer and longer one than ever knewn, before. On every side the horny-handed sons of toll are moving in seeret combination, and capital- ists, manufacturers, producers and master me- chanics are marshalling their forces to make fight against the demands of their employés. The Eight- hour League, the growing power of the trades unions, which is in fact formed after the fastion of the Couneil of Ten, and which boasts of being able to bring 80,000 men in this metropolis alone into line against capitale ists, has been making preparations quietly for some weeks, in view of the fact that employers have been persistently, since the opening of the Spring business, attempting to make vheir men work ten hours a day, instead ef eight hours, the time adopted as a law by the State of New York. Manufacturers who have employed large quantities of machinery declare that they cannot afford, with- out severe loss, to allow it to stand idle sixteen hours; and the workingmen, on the other hand, insist that the time has come to prove that capital- ists cannot bind them body and soul, and thateven the claims of inanimate machinery must give way to the lawful rights of fathers of fami- lies and voters of the Republic. In thts general movement of the trades which is now being per- fected, and which in the course of fifteen or vwenty days will burst on the community in all the panoply of full and thorough organization, American, English and Irish mechanics have clasped hands; but the Germans are w hanging back and impeding the movement, and the statement is made almost universally that German mechanics have endeavored te underwork and underbid their English-speaking brethren, thus attempting to bring discontent and discussion among the ranks of their fellow workmen. The United Or ler of Carpenters of Kings County held a meeting in Brooklyn, and have been the first to take decisive action, and in the tellowing reso- lutions have made known their determination to uphold their rights :— Whereas the avaricionsness of some of the master mechanics has rendered it necessary for the journeymen carpenters to combine in unions for their better welfare and protection; and whereas the ungenerous and une manly system of reducing our wages in the harsh, in- clement Winter weather, when we mostneed the price of our labor, and earn it the dearest, hax made it necessary for us to establish a rate ot hours that we can work @ full day at ail seasons of the year; and whereas we cons sider ourselves us well skilled in mechanics as any of the other branches of skilled labor, and requiring, as we do, a comparatively great outiay' for tools and their re- placement, we consider ourselves the poorest remuner- ated of skilled laborers; and whereas we contend that $3 u day is inadequate to the proper support of ourselves and families; therefore, be it Resolved. That on and after the 7th day of April, 1878, A. D., we, the journeymen carpenters of Kings county, L. L, "demand $3 0 per day of eight hours’ work; and Resolved, That unless the master mechanics accede to our just demands we pledge ourselves to strike, and not tO resume work until Our demands are com. led with. Action has been forced on the United Masons of this city by the action of the Harlem Railroad cor- oration, who have had a number of men employed do some necessary mason work on their track at 104th street. About one hundred and fifty masons who did not belong to the Union were here employed at forty cents an hour of ten hours a day's work, The rules of the society are fiity cents an hour for eight hours’ work. A number ot society men called onthe men at work on the Harlem road, aud told them that they should not work at such rates, and that they ought to jom the society and uphold the Eight Hour law. These men were receiving $3 20 a day. The 150 men listening to this address stopped work, and the subordinates of Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, collected 150 men in Connecticut and New Jersey to take the place of those who had stopped work. A mecting was held last evening of the United Masons at = Demilt Hall, in Second avenue, Mr. William Keenan, President, in the chair. Mr. BANKS moved the following, which wag adopted :— Whereas the members of the Stone Masons’ and the various trades unions in this city have worked eight hours sinee last Spring, in accordance with the law of * : Resolved, That we consider any attempt to deprive the men of their rights (eight hours) by Vanderbilt or his hirelings will be resisted at all hazards by every inember of this Union. Resolved, That we call upon all working men to use every effort to assist us to carry out the Eight Hour law. Resolved, That a committee be appolited trom this Union and others to call upon the Mayor and Common Council and demand the enforcement of the Eight Hour W. SNesolved, That a copy of these resolutions shall be sent to the various trades unious in this city. Mr. Toomry seconded the adoption of the resolu- tions, and they were carried with only two dis- senting voices. The gas stokers have made an attempt to strike against the imposition of twelve hours @ day in~ stead of eight hours, which they have been work- ‘ng since last Summer, The gas companies, it ia said, have built bunks in their gas houses and will feed and lodge those who desire to work twelve hours a day. A number of journeymen horseshoers, employed in Twenty-eighth street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, have struck, for the reason that their em- ployers have, it is sald, violated a rule of the; society in not aying them their full wages, The Order of United American Carpenters of thia city have had some differences on mingr points, and conferences 01 a private nature have been he 16 between the bosses and the tradesmen, the resulta of which have not transpired as yet. Meeting of Wood Workers. The Journeymen Wood Carvers’ (Sculptors) Union, Mr, John Renter, presiding, held a general meeting at the Germania Assembly Rooms last night, for the purpose of continuing the work of reorganization of the union, with a view of being prepared for any emergency which might occur in the Spring im case of @ gen- eral strike, in which the union might become involved. ‘The debate on an amended constitu. tion, which had already occupied several of the previous meetings, was concluded, resulting im its adoption, One oi the main points new in the con- stitution is a provision providing for meetings of delegations representing the different shops at stated intervals and on special occasions in cases of emergency; aiso providing for action to be tuken to establish a society Lbrary, composed of works and pablications in the interest of the trade, The eiection of part of a new board of oM- cers for the ensuing year resulted in the re-elec- tion of most Of the oid board. Several new members were initiated, and a re- port was subinitted by Mr. Ferdinand Jubitz, show- ing that the finances of the Union are in a good condition, and tat there is a surplus of $1,050 im the treasury. The Union numbers over three hundred members, composed of German, French and English spea g Members of the trade, the mujority being Germans. The average wages of this class of Workmen is $15 aud $19 per week, by eight hours’ work per day. h reference to the pending threats of a renewal of a general eight hour strike in the Spring, it was authoritatively stated that alihough the Union has not abandoned the eight-hour principle, no efforts to enforce the eight-hour system or an increase of wages will be made by the Union this year, unless @ general strike should ensue. If the latter should be the case, it was stated, itcould not be avoided to be involved in the same. Ferdinand Jubitz, who represented the Union at the New York State Workingmeno’s Assembly, held in January, at Albany, submitted @ report of the roceedings of that bouy, including a@ series of favor statistics, showing an extensive system of trade unions organized throughout the State. In the course of the proceedings William J. Jes- sup, formerly President of the State Workingmen’s Assembly, briefly addressed the meeting, review- ing the progress of the organization in this State during the past six years, NAVAL PAYMASTER BOGART. The Alleged Defaulter Before the United States Courts in San Francisco. San FRANCISCO, March 26, 1873, Admirat Selfridge, in obedience to @ writ of habeas corpus, brought R. D. Bogart before Judges Sawyer and Hoffman this afternoon, United States Attorney Latimer made @ return of Secretary Robeson’s tehogrepnic order for 8 arrest. Messrs, Pixley and Harrison, counsel ior the pris- oner, contended that the authority for the arrest was insufficient. The case Was partially argued, when the Judges refused to place Bogart in cus- tody. The Marshal then remanded him to Admiral Selfridge. Further argument on the case will be heard on Thursday next, at two P.M. EVANS, THE PENNSYLVANIA CLAIMS AGENT, Pritaperpata, March 26, 1873. The case of the Commonwealth against George 0. Evans will be carried to the Supreme Court, ona writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county, by the Attorucy General, .