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BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘WOOD’s MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Hexr. Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. £5 Broadway.—Granp Vanity Ex- TERTAINMENT, GERMANTA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—AUS DER FRANZOSENZEIT. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadw: Mouston streets.—Lxo aNp Loos. between Prince and OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—H Dusty. UNION SOUARE THE way and Fourth a WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Davip Gaxnick. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third strect, corner Sixth avenue.—Danpy O'DowD. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—UNcLE Sam. ROWERY THEATRE, Lovers in THE CORNER. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, BoRiesque AND O1i0. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad way.—New Yrar’s Eve. Union square, between iN JACK. Bowery.—vack Hargawar— MRE. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Rosepate, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— Graxp Concent. T'S OPERA HC KGRO MINSTRELS TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. ane HALL, Fourteenth street.—Graxp Con- RT. . Twenty-third st.. 0. corner NEWYORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrence AND Ant. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, March 27, 1873. THE NEWS OF ‘YESTERDAY To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE RAILROAD POWER! A GREAT ISSUE LOOMING UP”—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIO—Sixta Paas. BRIGHT PROSPECTS FOR THE INSULAR REPUB- IC! THE CUBAN VICE PRESIDENT IN THIS CITY! HIS VIEWS OF THE PROS- PECTS FOR FREEDOM! THE EDGAR STUART SUCCESS NARRATED BY ONE OF ITS LEADERS! THE SPANISH FORCES FORCED TO THE COAST—TuiRp PaGE. GUBAN NEWS—THE BULL'S HEAD BANK— SEVENTH PAGE. SENATE CAUCUS UPON THE CHARTER! IM- PRISONMENT FOR LIBEL! STATE CAPITAL ITEMS—TENTH PaGeE. PERTURBED MEXICO! LOZADA RETREATING BEFORE THE NATIONAL FORCES! MUR- DERS BY APACHES—SEVENTH PaGE. ANTI-CATHOLIC LEGISLATION IN PRUSSIA! THE PRUSSIAN SOLONS IN A RAGING FE- VER OF DEBATE! PRINCE BISMARCK’S SPEECH! HE ATTACKS THE CONSERVA- TIVES! THD GOVERNMENT MEASURES CARRIED AND THE CHURCH PLACED UN- DER STATE CONTROL—Turnp PAGE. PROGRESS OF THE TWEED INQUIRY! THE SENATE WILL NOT ACCEPT HIS RESIGNA- TION—TENTH PAGE. SPAIN AGAIN TROUBLED WITH HER CABINET AND THE BOURBONS! CARLIST WAR MU- NITIONS SEIZED IN FRANCE—EXCITE- MENT IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY—CABLE NEWS FROM OTHER EUROPEAN STATES— SHVENTH PAGE. MAIMING TRAVELLERS! A RAILWAY TRAIN THROWN FROM THE TRACK AND SEV- ERAL PASSENGERS INJURED! NARROW ESCAPE OF SOME LADIES—HEGGI AC- QUITTED—ART MATTERS—SEVENTH PAGE. A COLORED MEMBER OF THE ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE ON THE RAMPAGE! MO- TION TO EXPEL HIM—NEWS FROM WASH- INGTON—SEVENTH PAGE. BIDWELL, THE ALLEGED FORGER, EMPLOYS COUNSEL IN BHAVANA—GENERAL TELE- GRAPHIC NEWS—SEvENTH PacE. A GREAT LABOR STRIKE IMPENDING! THE CAPITALISTS AND TRADES’ UNIONS OR- GANIZING FOR THE CONFLICT! MEET- INGS OF VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS—TuiRD PaaE. THE CAPITAL-REMOVAL AND RAILROAD BILLS DISCUSSED BY THE JERSEY LEGISLATUR: THE HUDSON COUNTY BOULEVARD—TuHirp Page. AN ISLAND GIVEN FOR SCIENTIFIC PUR- POSES! A GENEKOUS DONATION BY A NEW YORK MERCHANT — MARITIME NEWS—TENtH PaGE. A WIFE THROWN FROM A WINDOW! THE IN- QUIRY INTO THE DEATH OF JULIA HICKEY! DANIEL, THE HUSBAND, HELD FOR GRAND JURY ACTION—A VILE MUR- DER—Fourtn PaGe. WHO MURDERED CHARLES GOODRICH? THE POLICE UNABLE TO ANSWER THE QUES- TION! WHAT HIS BROTHER KNOWS ABOUT THE MATTER! A $2,500 REWARD! FRUITLESS EFFORTS OF BROOKLYN DE- TECTIVES IN MURDER MYSTERIES—WORK FOR THE GALLOWS—Fovurtu Pace. CLOSE OF THE HEGGI POISONING CASE! THE JURY STILL JT! THE COUNTY THE SOLE PROSE! OR IN THE FAMOUS IN- GERSOLL SUIT! RECOVERY OF $2,000 GOLD GIVEN FOR THE PURCHASE OF DIAMONDS! GENERAL LEGAL BUSINESS— Fourtn Pace. GOLD QUOTED AT 116%! TUE BANK OF ENG LAND DISCOUNT RATE FOUR PER CENT! FEATURES IN GOVERNMENTS AND STOCKS! THE OPERATIONS AND QUOTA- TIONS—REAL ESTATE AT THE EX- CHANGE—FiFTH PaGe. ROWING IN ENGLAND! THE GREAT UNIVER SITY MATCH! A FINE SCULLING RACE ON THE TYNE—BILLY EDWARDS TWICE VICTORIOUS IN ENGLAND—YACHTING NOTES—THE WESTCHESTER ELECTION— ErouTa Paas. SITY AND FERRY FRANCHISES! SINKING FUND BUSINESS—THE COAL SALE—EDUCATION— FourTi PaGE. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the unprecedented quantity of our advertisements advertisers secking our columns are requested to send in their adver- tisements early in the day. This course will secure their proper classification and allow us to make timely arrangements for our news. Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue may be sent in on Thursday or Friday, and not later than nine P. M. on Saturday, either at this office, our only uptown bureau, 1,265 Broadway, or at our Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Bocrum streets, Let advertisers remember that the earlier their advertisements are in the Hepatp office the better for themselves and for um ‘ \ NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1873-(WIPLE SHEET. | Whe Ratlroad Power=A Great tisue | fhe improvements they projected—improve- "Leeming Up. menta that no" Coincident with our remarks yesterday on | efit to the country. ‘Up the the railroad power of the country and the con- | markets, if they keep the produce of the soil flict between the railroad companies and the | rotting on the ground through imposing high Post Office ¢ regarding the mail | freights, and take all the surplus oarnings o | service, the Postmaster General expressed | the people through burdensome charges, in similar views in an interviow with our Wash- | order to get interest on inflated stock, bogus ington correspondent. After saying that the | capital or bonds that represent nothing, of compensation for mail service by the railroads | what use aro the railroads? They only de- was fixed by law, and that he could not change | stroy or prevent other means of communica- the rates prescribed by Congress; that all he | tion without affording the needed facilities to could do now was to prepare for any emer- | internal commerce. We have no donbt that genoy; that if the companies will not perform | the capital represented by railroad bonds and the service—and he had not sufficient power | stocks throughout the country is over double to control them in the matter—he must wait | the actual and fair cost of construction and and do the best he can till Congress meots, ] equipment; and it is upon this inflated capital and then would ask for more power. When | that every passenger and every pound of asked what additional compensation the rail- | freight are required to pay exorbitant charges. roads demand he replied, ‘They want to | It is this that keeps back the enormous pro- force us to pay for their postal cars such ex- | ducts of the soil, particularly in the West, traordinary prices that we cannot employ from market; that paralyzes internal com- them.” In answer to the question | merce and retards the progress of the country. if the government could compel them Where are we to look for a remedy for this to. come. to terms he remarked:— | evil? The soveral States may do something “The extent of the powers of the gov-| when fully aroused; but we must look to a ernment over the railroads has not yet been | greater power and one less subject to corrup- clearly defined; but if the roads brig about | tion and local influences for a complete an issue they will find what the power of the | remedy. That only is in the federal govern- government is. If it comes to that Congress | ment. The Postmaster General touched the will probably decide that railroads, being post | key-note when he said Congress would have ny of vast bon |’ routes, are under the control of the govern- to give the railroad -corporations a scorching. ment‘and may be compelled. to afford proper | He has no doubt that Congress can assume facilities at such reasonable rates as may bo the power to aid his Department under the determined by Congress, and if the railroads | authority to provide and regulate post routes. should refuse Congress may declare that tho Postmaster General shall have power to for- But Congress can take these railroads in hand by. authority of the constitution to regulate ward the mails by his own post cars and loco- | commerce among the several States. The motives as often and as rapidly as the public railroad lines are as much the arteries of com- interest may require, and then the companies | merce among the States as the great rivers— will be admonished to clear the tracks, and, | a8 the Ohio, the Missouri or the Mississippi— not clearing them, the army will see that they | or, in fact, as the waters of the sea that be cleared.” Then, after expressing the hope | wash the borders of the Republic. that there may be no such occasion for exer- | Congress can say to railroad corporations that they shall not tax the whole cising the power of the federal government, he ndded:—*But these corporations, which | community to pay interest on a bogus capital, have received their franchises from the people, | and shall not obstruct commerce by imposing certainly owe in return certain duties to the unreasonable charges. There is no other way people. They not only owe the duty of trans- of protecting the people effectually. Though porting freight and passengers, but the still greater duty of.transporting the mails with facility and despatch; and the people will see to it that their rights are enforced.’’ His con- cluding words indicate what may result from this conflict, and ought to be a warning to the railroad companies:—‘If,"’ he says, ‘‘they persist in this course they’ll get a scorching from Congress next December.’’ Tho minds of our public men and aspiring politicians are as sensitive to popular senti- ment and coming issues as the barometer is to the weather. Such language as we have quoted from a member of the Cabinet has no ordinary significance. It is responsive to public opinion and feeling generally that the stupendous railroad power and monopoly are becoming overbearing and dangerous. The legislatures and judiciary of the different States have been the supple instruments of this power. The people of this State remem- ber well the control the New York Central exercised in connection with the Albany Re- gency, and since, at the State capital, as well as the influence of the Erie Railway magnates. ‘The Legislature and every department of the government of Pennsylvania have been the mere tools of the Pennsylvania Central. In Illinois lately the judiciary acted so palpably in the interest of the railroads and against the people that even Mr. Washburne, who is away from his State as Minister to France, felt compelled to denounce that action and to call upon his fellow citizens of Illinois to con- tinue their fight against the railroad monop- oly. We have seen New Jersey struggling like the laocoon in the folds of serpents against the power of Tom Scott. Had it not been for the press, and particularly the independent press, the Legisla- ture of that State would have suc- eumbed and have sold the people to the railroad monopoly. Even now we are not certain that its money and influence will not prove stronger than public opinion. Our readers ore familiar with the difficulty between the New York Central and the federal govern- ment. The company has refused to pay what is due to the Internal Revenue—has, in fact, defied the government. Even when, the Col- lector seized property for taxes the company frustrated his object. For seventeen locomo- tives seized the government could only get seventeen thousand dollars at auction. They | Senate? were bought in by the treasurer of the com- pany. Such are the defiant attitude and power of this corporation. Need we revert to the gigantic Pacific Railroad swindle in corinection with the Crédit Mobilier, or to the number of railroad bills with enormous grants of land and extraordinary franchises, to show how the railroad power has invaded and controls Con- the railroad influence is great in and over Congress—for many of the members, if not a majority of them, are personally interested or can be controlled—the shock the monopoly has lately received will be apt to make Congress- men more careful to do their duty. As an evidence of this news has just come from Washington to the effect that the Senate has ordered the Committee on Transportation to inquire what the relations are between the gov- ernment and the railroads, and where addi- tional legislation is necessary. Of course this refers especially to the difficulty with the Past Office Department about carrying the mails; but it is the entering wedge, and, if we mis- take not, must result in the end in some gene- rel action to regulate the railroads. This ques- tion may really become an important issue in the coming political contests of the country. The Adjournment of the Senate. The Senate of the United States adjourned yesterday sine die. We sincerely hope that no future session of this august body will close leaving its memory covered with the disgrace which the late session has heaped upon itself. Above all things it passes into history as the session of moral cowardice. The Senators who have just voted themselves into inactivity as legislators have, in doing so, accom plished the only praiseworthy act of which they were capable. They proved them- selves repeatedly ignorant of their high trust, and when they rose to the level of un- derstanding it, it was only to betray it. These are harsh words, but richly deserved. Cer- tain Senators will claim exemption on the ground that they could not control the majority; but where can they point to a manly effort to stem the tide of corruption, or awaken the Senate to a sense of the cowardice which allowed its honored name to be fitly described in the epithet applied by the Master to the Temple as defiled by the Jewish money-changers? Why was Patterson allowed to slink into obscurity With the power still remaining to insult those who advised his expulsion on charges too well brought home? How did a member of the majority in the Senate muster shameless audacity enough to present this pious and pitiful shuffler’s whining and insolent ‘‘justification,”” and ask and obtain a place for it on the records of the Why was Pomeroy permitted to go unwhipped? Why was not Caldwell expelled, instead of his resignation being accepted at the last moment? Not brave enough to under- take the task of self-purification, the Senate, by its cowardice, has identified itself with the most impure. It can have but one excuse—that its moral standard as a whole was so lowit could not dare to condemn even gress? These things are well known. To go | those of its members whom the whole world through the whole catalogue of assumptions | has declared to be criminals. With such a of power—of acts of cupidity, intolerance, cor- personnel what could be expected from its acts? ruption of legislatures and judges, of the | It was abjectly subservient to partisan dicta- imposition of burdensome rates of fares and | torship, bold only in spending and appro- freight to pay for watered stocks and inflated | priating the people’s money or upholding bonds, and of all the rest of the arbitrary and | arbitrary power. With sucha record the ad- oppressive doings of railroad corporations— | journment can be hailed as the only relief the would take pages of the Hznarp. The rail- | Senate could give to the country. road power in the United States now is the Reet Te most corrupting, uncontrolled and dangerous An Apvancr ux Gop To 116} yesterday was one ever developed in the history of any coun- try. Abroadthe governments exercise more or less supervision over it and protect the people, but here it is supreme, This state of things, however, cannot con- tinue. The people are chafing sorely under it, and the government, as we see by the lan- eccasioned by the sudden raising of the Bank of England discount rate to four per cent, as against three and a half per cent, the previous minimam. The action of the Bank of Eng- land is doubtless precautionary, and, perhaps, preliminary, in view of the anticipated demand upon London in connection with the active guage of the Postmaster General, is being pro- negotiation there of all sorts of loans on the eye, so to speak, of a fresh movement of voked to resistan In the Western States thi warble bes: . money to Germany in further settlement of farmers, “oranges ped Bal prepa uncon, | the French indemnity. More importance was “ bh “ monopoly, The Sons of Hus- attached to the matter because the alteration bandry, the Granges ond other societies have was made at a special or extra meeting of the felt the urgent necessity of association to check it. The tide of opposition is swelling more | Taz News rrom Mexico, dated in the capi- and more every day, and neither legislators nor | tal of the Republic, on the 15th instant, pre- the judiciary can arrest its progress. Those | sents no new feature of interest, but, on the who have sold themselves to the railroads will | contrary, réporta a serious aggravation of beoverthrown. Aspiring politicians will learn | many chronic social ills, in the way of civil to go with the popular impulse, ond we shall | war, legislative lobby financiering, Indian first see the good effect upon the State Legisla- | raids and murder. tures, and then upon Congress. But it is no easy task to unseat or control a power that has Tus Jackson (Miss.) Clarion says the such vast resources and armies of employés. | régime of the carpet-baggers in that State has 'The matter will have to be forced upon the | been financially an utter failure. The nomi- country and government as an important | nal debt of the State on account of current ex- issue in our politics, We look to the | penditures in carrying on the government West for such a movement. Indeed, it has | has grown to two million dollars, and is in- commenced there already, a8 was said before. | creasing. The carpet-bag rule has been suc- ‘The railroad companies have had unlimited | cessful only in the imposition of intolerable . sway, because the people felt the necessity of. bardens. The Great Boed of Reforad Emigration Commission. will probably open the eyes of the State Legis- lature to the necessity for the immediate passage of some law by which an opportunity may be afforded to the Governor to remodel and reform the Commission and to purify its present management, The mere question of the admission or non-admission of the repre- sentative of a railroad corporation to sell tickets to emigrants inside Castle Garden may seem undeserving of such consideration as has been given to the case of the Erie agent re- cently appointed to that position by the “eformed” Erie direction. But in this par- ticular instance serious objections were made to the agent by some of the Commissioners, who did not regard him as a fitting person to be allowed to approach immigrants, and tho facts developed certainly justified their opinion. In a Board whose first and most sacred duty should be the protection of the immigrant it would seem that this protest of at least half, if not of a majority, of the mem- bers should have been respected; but, on the contrary, a suspiciously vigorous effort was made by certain of the, Commissioners, and especially by the Superintendent, to secure the agent’s endorsement or admission to the Garden. To accomplish this object all sorts of tricks were resorted to. The Mayor of Brooklyn, who seldom, if ever before, took part in the proceedings of the Board, was present at several meetings, only for the pur- pose of supporting the admission of the agent to the depot. Special meetings were called, notoriously with the object of springing a trap upon those Commissioners who regarded it as their duty to insist upon the exclusion of the agent, and were left withouta quorum as soon as it became evident that the result was doubt- ful. On Tuesday last the allies of the agent succeeded only by a cunning device. The ne- cessity of proposing a resolution that the agent be excluded from the Garden was forced upon one of the Commissioners who opposed his admission, and the vote was a tie. The resolution was therefore declared to be lost, and the objectionable agent was admitted; but the fact that four of the Commissioners voted affirmatively and four negatively should of itself have insured his rejection, unless the Board regard the interests of a railroad ticket agent as more deserving of consideration than the interests and protection of the immigrants. This is not the only reason, however, why the State Legistature should immediately pass alaw by which the Governor may be em- powered to reconstruct the Board. The Castle Garden Commission is the last relic of Tam- many misrule.. There are some good men on the Commission, no doubt, who could be re- tained with safety and advantage. But the Board is not at present divided in accordance with the prevalent idea of ‘‘non-partisanship,”’ nor is it of such @ composition as to invite the confidence of a republican Legislature and a republican Governor. Six out of nine Com- missioners are democrats, and five out of the six are Tammany democrats. The Mayors of New York and Brooklyn are ex officio mem- bers of the Board. The four Commissioners who voted for the exclusion of the Erie agent were Messrs. Wallach, Kaufmann, Forrest and Nicholson ; the four who voted for his admis- sion were Messrs O'Gorman, Hart, Lynch and Powell, all democrats. The analysis is sug- gestive, and may well be studied with advan- tage by the republican Legislature. i The Latest Tenement House Horror. Yellow-covered literature, in which low life in large cities is photographed in its most re- volting features, is generally regarded as the unhealthy offspring of a diseased imagination. But it would be difficult to find in the pages of Sue or Reynolds anything more horrible than the account ofa double tragedy which comes to us from the purlieus of Scammel street. Drunkenness and murdet could scarcely as- sume an aspect more (rightful. One wretched woman killed in a brawl and a child burned to death present a sight calculated to bring a blush to the cheeks of those who vaunt of our civilization. An officer,.speaking of the house and its inmates, remarked, ‘‘It is one of the most awful dens in New York city, and its inhabitants are the lowest types of the worst classes in any civilized community. You would think they were beasts instead of human beings.’’ The miserable woman ac- cused ‘of the crime of murder at the den in question lies in the Centre Street Hospital, suffering from the effects of a beating from her husband, and the child came to its death from the overturning of a candle, while, according to the police, its mother was was stupefied with drink, A great deal of talking is indulged in and large sums of money are collected at the May anniversaries for foreign missions. Would it not be well for the parsons and the old ladies who annually unloose their purse strings for the benefit of the Ashantees, the Hottentots and the Fijis to look nearer home, and inquire whether it is always necessary to cross the seas in quest of ignorant savages? We have home missions, it is true, but they deal too gingerly with the evils they are in- tended to correct. Such a tale of horror as the one we have mentioned is a sad commen- tary on the usefulziess of home missions. Cuna Lipne rx New Yorx has at present considerable food for excitement. In addition to the agent of the patriots, Sefior Zambrana, whose story was detailed in yesterday's Henatp, Captain Rodrigues, who took charge of the stores of the Edgar Stuart on their ar- rival in Cuba, presents himself for the ad- miration of the friends of Cuban independ- ence. His frank account of his late suc- cessful mission will be read elsewhere. with considerable interest. He was fully informed of the presence of the Hzratp Commissioner, Mr. O'Kelly, in the Cuban camp before leay- ing the island for Jamaica. This gallant Cuban gives President Cespedes credit for the belief that the United States will shortly recognize the Belligerency of the insurgents and that their cause will succeed in any event. An important piece of news is that wherein the genuineness of our late Commissioner's interview with Cespedes is vouched for. ‘We are naturally glad of this testimony to our Commissioner's veracity, which, however, we may remark, has only been impeached from the side interested in proving Oespedes o myth and the insurrection a canard. Whether the arrival of the Cuban Vice President, Agui- lera, in this city indicates an increased activity among the Cubags remains to he aegn, Our City Railrosda Tn some of the numerous railroad meas- ures introduced at-\Albany there has been "a. discussion os to the tax to be paid inte, tho city treasury by some of New question. t deal of the money expel companies in Procuring the vorable to their interests depleted treasury of the mot lis, and much Usloquy the shoulders of tho is no reason why @ double those of any of ther kindred organiza- tions should not be compellyd to pay a higher tax in proportion. It seem\ that one of the east side lines, the largest in the city, has for along period escaped any taxation, Such a case demonstrates the presence of a suspicious arrangement with the powers that be and a large amount of gwindling somewhere. By the action of the Legislature imposing a pro rata tax on the railroad companies of this city all cause for complaint will be removed. Tas New Onuzans Picayune characterizes Kellogg’s proclamations to the people of Louisiana to pay taxes to his agents and appointees as the ‘‘usurper’s weakness and game of bluff.’’ In that game Kellogg holds all the winning cards, if none of the honors. Now anp Tary.—‘Just eight years ago,’’ remarks the Boston Advertiser, ‘‘General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, led a strong column of the Confederate army of Northern Virginia in | the memorable assault on Fort Steadman, a salient point in the federal line, which then half encircled the city of Petersburg. To-day (March 25) General Gordon sits in the United States Senate.’’ And, the Advertiser might have added, the same General Gordon not only sat in the Senate, but on the above day pre- sided over its deliberations at the request of the regular presiding officer, Vice President Wilson, of Massachusetts, the State of all others best hated by the South. Thus is the practical work of reconstruction and recon- ciliation gradually going on’ in a silent but effective way. Tae Vrenna Appropriation.—It is generally supposed that Congress appropriated only two hundred thousand dollars to enable American Commissioners to do their countty honor at the Vienna Exposition. This isa mistake. Of the million six hundred thousand dollar back pay bonus a large portion of it, no doubt, will be expended by members of the late Congress in making, with their families, the tour of Europe the coming Summer, with Vienna as the central point of attraction. Five thousand dollars is a nice little sum for pocket money on such a patriotic excursion. Szconp Lrevrzenant Frepenick Dent Grant has been assigned to Lieutenant General Sheridan’s staff, with the ostensible rank of Lieutenant Colonel. We suppose that all the old army officers, who commanded divisions and corps during the war, will be careful in saluting the superior rank of the gallant youth who has outstripped them. ‘Tue New Onteans Times refers to ‘Kellogg's opportunity.” When did he ever neglect one? And now that he is the ruling power in Louisiana at this moment he is likely to “take all the chances.’’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Hoax and Oliver Ames are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John T. Averill, of Minnesota, is at tue St. Nicholas Hotel. Major J. H. Archer, of’Troy, is in town, at the Metropolitan Hotel, Congressman L. P. Poland, of Vermont, was at the Astor House yesterday. Admiral Case, of the United States Navy, is stay- ing at the Glenham Hotel. Ex-Congressman James Vilas, of Wisconsin, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Commander H. M. Tallman, of the United States Navy, is at the Grand Central Hotel. United States Senator S. W. Dorsey, of Arkansas, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor Benjamin Pierce, of the United States Coast Survey, is at the Brevoort House. Alex. H. Stephens is sixty-one, and weighs ninety-one, but has weighed a hundred. @Colonel Scrorgs, of Atlanta, Ga., was yesterday rejected by the Senate as Minister to Bogota. Ex-Governor H. H. Wells, of Virginia, yesterday reached the Fifth Avenue Hotel from Washington. The Tnorkish Minister, Blacque Bey, returned to Washington from the «’ifth Avenue Hotel yesterday morning. A Western paper says the Boston Peace Society is negotiating with Captain Jack to come East and deliver lectures. The Cincinnati Gazette wants a name for the new hotel If it wantsa strong and appropriate one why not “Pig Iron?” ‘The Duc d’Aumale will be received as a member of the French Academy on April 11. At his request M. Thiers and M. Guizot will be his sponsors, Ex-Senator Cattell, of New Jersey, has been ap- pointed financial agent of the Treasury Depart- ment to visit Europe in connectien with the new loan. ‘The Emperor and Empress of Germany invited themselves to dine a few days since at Lord Odo Russell’s—a distinction never before conferred on a foreign diplomatist. Some of the members of Congress who pocketed the $5,000 back pay bonus are going to the Vienna Exposition, with their families, being too conscien- tious ta,spend the money at home. The Cincinnati Commercial rather likes the idea of the Haytians making Senator Sumner an idol. His fellow citizens of Massachusetts have been making @ good deal of idle talk about him lately. It 1s conceded by an intertor paper that although this world is terribly given to lying it is equally given to the running away of defaulting county treasurers with other people’s wives a8 well as money. Captain Joseph V. Meigs, of Lowell, Mass., was at the Astor House yesterday, and left for Washing. ton last night, Captain Meigs ‘will sail for Europe early in April as one of the United States Commis- sioners to the Vienna Exposition. ‘The New Haven Register denies a report that Governor English may resign the nomination for Congress, and says the people intend to put Gov- ernor English in the seat now occupied by General Kellogg on the first Monday in April next. ter county, Georgia, has been growing hemp lately, and will vindicate the awful majesty of the law during the mext and the early part of the followmg month of May as follows:—E. F. Spann, the wife murderer, and Mrs, Eberhart, his alleged accomplice and paramour, and Lee Smith, @ negro murderer, Spann wil! be hung on the 11th of April, Lee on the 25th and Mrs. Eberhart on the 2d of May. George M. Pullman, of Chicago, arrived from Europe by the Avyasinia yesterday, and ia now at the Brevoort House. Mr. Waite, one of the pro- prietors, cewygned home in company with Mr Pulls Man. Boch gentiemen wen to rend ws eel duce American ingtitutions, the one to put his palace cars in use there and the oer to arranga for the establishment ef an America hotel in Lon- don. Both have succeeded. ‘The late ex-Emperor Napoleon confided to the Countess de Oastigiioni some State pipers which, ‘when she was leaving Paris at the fall of the Em- Pire, she gave tothe care of the Itallan Embassy, with her plate, jewels, &c. Soon after sone of the documents, jewelry, &c., were stolen from the Em- bassy. The thief has now been found in a brmer servant of the Countess, who had been armsted for sending her a threatening letter to extort money. He confesses to have sold the papers to radical journals in Paris that have of late ben speaking authoritatively on certain subjects, The matrimonial fotbles of Lady Ellenborough, who recently died in Damascus, made ner life very. eventful. She eloped from her first husband with Prince Schwarzenberg in 1842, Soon tiring of the Prince she went to Italy, and before 1848 contracted Sm marriages, In Athens she married Count Theo- doki..When she had dissolved this eighth bond, and whrq travelling from Beyrout to Damascus, she ws Usited in the Arab fashion with Shelk Abdul, @ caMe driver, im whose nomad life ane participated for @ yaar, Finally she built a palace in Damascus and remained there until her death. AMUSEMENTS. Mr. Bellew at Steinway Hall. Yesterday afternoon was as unpropitious for the assemblage of an audience as the malign weather gods could have devised. Hail, rain, slippery side~ ‘walks and an aqueous condition of the atmosphere generally kept a great many prudent people within doors who would otherwise have sought amuse- ment at Mr. Bellew's readings. The hall was half filled, however, with those happy mortals who have ne necessity to go afoot while the family coachmam will obey orders and brave the storm from the for- tress of his many-caped driving coat. The audi- ence was hence a very select one to which the elocutionist read, A well chosen “rogramme, commencing with the sounding curse from Moore’s “Fire Worshippers,” and ending with the ‘Charity Dinner,” was earried out by Mr. Bellew with hia customary success and to the gratification of his listeners, The second part opened with a curse from Byron in the execution scene of Marino Fali- ero, and the force and dignity of that truly Byroniam invective were billy, imparted. A parody onthe “Raven,’? by Robert Brough, which must prove wrath-stirring to the “judicious,” was food for laughter to those who heard Mr. Bellew. This lamentable travesty is called the “Vulture.” The intrusive ornithological specimen is iteriously explained by calling it a “sponge,” which, how- ever, turns out not to be a marine member of the poriferous family, but a man named Smith, who eats and drinks at otger ple’s expense. Ita dea, closing line will give some idea of the daring dese- cration which it ive nose — Take thy beak from out my gin; Take thy body through my door, One of Leigh Hunt's pretty ballads—“The Glove and the Lions’—having, from its pointed reproot to female vanity, been well received by the male persons prosens, the “Charity Dinner’ sent every oue forth in good humor to brave the damp pg ey without. On Friday evening, at the Academy of Music, Mr. Bellew will deliver a leeture on “The Life of Oliver Goldsmith," interspersed with anecdotes and read- ings from that poet’s work. . Mustcal and Dramatic Notes. A now opera comique, entitled “Mina,” by M. Ambroise Thomas, is in the press. It 18 said the Strakosch Brothers have the soie Tight to perform ‘‘Aida”’ in this country. Johann Strauss’ new operetta, “Le Carnaval de Rome,’! is said to have won a complete success at Vienna, Mme, States, who has gone to Mexico, resumed her maiden name, Agatha Mandeville, after obtain- ing her divorce. The practice of hissing a dramatic performance was first introduced at the Théatre Francais on the 14th of January, 1686, Miss Beatrice Amore, who recently made her début in ‘La Favorita,” at Malta, is Mrs. Emeline Reed, formerly soprano in the choir of the Chureh of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn. An aspiring dramatist writes us that he cannot get a hearing irom managers, and tells us that he “bribed” one young man to hear his best play, ‘| “Contrasts and Types.” At the end ofthe first act, whieh would require two hours for the perform- ance—the other four being a little shorter—the young fellow threw up his engagement. This is ter- rible. The young man should have kept his bargain, even if it killed him; and asto the man- agers, it is not easy to understand why they should hesitate to produce a ten-hour play. The managers of Italian operain England are authors of prospectuses more remarkable even than any showman ever printed. For instance, this is the way the manager of Covent Garden speaka of the postponement of Mme. Patti’s tour in the United States:—‘In politics our American cousins have lately outwitted us. Let them take their dol- lars and be content. We can afford the dollars, but our epera cannot yet afford to part with its greatest favorite.” The Atheneum suggests that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer console the House of Com- mons with the remark—‘“We lost the arbitration but we won Patti.” Mr. J. B. Polk,.of Wallack’s Theatre, was engage@ by Mr, Augustin Daly, of the Fitth Avenue, for the season of 1870-71, at a salary of $65 per week and a benefit. On the 4th of April he was discharged, as he alleged, without cause—the reason assigned in the answer being re‘usal to play the parts for which he was cast. After hts discnarge Mr. Polk ‘went a fishing,” without giving Mr. Daly notice; and when the term for which he was engaged had expired he brought suit for the lary and benefit, re- covering $688 10 a8 compensation and an ad- ditional sum on accoum of the benefit. ‘The case was brought before th} Court of Common Pleas on appeal and it has been reversed by Judge Robinson, Without touching the main question whether an actor is required to play the parts for which he may be cast, the Court decried adversely to Mr. Polk on the simple ground that an actor has not been wrongfally discharged if he goes fishing without notice to the manager. THE HERALD AND ITS ADVERTISEMENTS. (From the Baltimore Gazette, March 25.] The New York HERALD of Sunday last presented one of the remarkable features of the advance im American journalism. The paper referred to con- tained sixty-seven columns of advertisements, and was compelled by the preasure of news matter to omit eight columns, which woula have made the unprecedented amount of seventy-five columns of advertising in a single number. OBITUARY. Count A. Von Bernstorff. His Excellency Count Arthur Von Bernstorff, Ambassador of His Majesty the Emperor of Ger- many to the British Court, died in London at seven o'clock yesterday evening. tHe was invalided during some few months past by the effects of dropsy, and has laid at the peint of death during some six days just passed, as already reported by cable in the HxRALD. The Count was sixty-five rears of age. He was born in Berlin in the year 808, and educated in that city. He has been dis- tinguished in the diplomatic profession for very many years, and represented rman interests im the Dano-German Conference which was held in London in the i, He was appointed Am- bassador from the Court of Prussia to England om the 17th of July, 1854, and commissioned to the same high rank by the German Empire immedi- ately aiter the imperialist formation. The Count enjoyed the confidence of Emperor William to the fullest extent, and his presence in London waa equally agreeable to the Queen and Cabinet of England. Rev. Evan Nepean. Rev. Evan Nepean, Canon of Westminster, one of the most veneravle clergymen of the British metropolis, has just died in London. He was seventy-two years of age, and had been for nearly fifty years attached to the parish of St. George's, Hanover square, first as curate at the parish church, and then, for more than forty years, as incumbent of Grosvenor chapel. In the course of that time there are few men who have been mora beloved or more bee dy He was not disposed to take any active part in the controversies of hia time, and his career, therefore, was comparatively ry tone. His father, Sir Evan Napeanm, was of the yo aig A in the time of 8 Secret the great wars with France, and wilt the society” of Londod during tha tant, aie years was singularly extensive. He outlived mang more. Hig rev f his fri 4 a

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