The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, ‘MARCH 29,°1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Velame XXXVIII. =—_—_ AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third @v.—Aus DER FRANZOSENZEIT, bet Pris and Matinee at ti NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Wouston OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Honston and Bleecker ier, Matinee at 2 sireets no AnD LOTR streets.—Huurry Duurry. UNION SQUARE THEATRE. Union square. between Broadway and Fourth av.—Cousin Jacx. Matinee at 134. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Ureet.—Davip Gannicx. Matince at 134. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third streot, corner Sixth Wrenue.—Dappy O'Down. Matinee at 2 GRAND.OPBRA HOUSE, Twenty-third st and Bighth Qv.—Uncix Sam. Matinee at 134. BOWBRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Jack Harkawar— ~ Wovens mo tux Commen ~! ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth strect—Lxcrune, > *Ouivan Goupsarrn,” wirn Reapinas. THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Buresqux any Ox10, Matinee at 234. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Naw Yxau’s Eve. Matinee at 1}. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— ‘Baur, Afternoon and Evening. ATHENEUM, No. [8 Broadway.—Grayp Variety Ex- fzrranment, Matinee at 244, MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Gove. “Matinee at 2—Cartaur or Tax Warcn. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Tren -third st. corner 6th av.—Nzaro Minstreisy, &c, Matinee at 2, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— ‘amixiy ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 234. ane HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av.—After- Boon at 2—SuaxsreRian Reapinas. AMERICAN INSTITUTE BUILDING, corner Third av. Gnd 63d st,—Musxum, Menacemi anv MirropRomE NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ENCE AND ART. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, March 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “SPAIN! THE REPUBLIC AND THE CARLISTS ! THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND THE REPUBLICAN PROSPECT IN EUROPE"— EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXxTH PaGE. A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE BOURBON AND REPUBLICAN FORCES IN SPAIN! CARLIST CLAIMS OF VICTORY AND PREPARATIONS TO MARCH ON MADRID! A TOWN CAPTURED! STREET FIGHTING IN BARCELONA—SEVENTH PGE. CEBALLOS, THE SPANIARD, PLAYS A WRONG CARD! HIS DISCOMFITURE! REMOVED BECAUSE OF HIS THREAT TO SHOOT MR. O’KELLY! FEARS FOR THE HERALD COMMISSIONER—SEVENTH PaGE. DIFFICULTIES ARISING OUF OF BIDWELL’S ARREST! HE PROVES TO BE AN AMERI- CAN AND AN OLD OFFENDER! CUBAN REPAYMENT FOR SPANISH SLAUGHTERS! LATE WAR NEWS—SEVENTH PacR. 4ROUND THE LAVA BEDS! WHAT THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS AND THE MODOCS ARE DOING! BOGUS CHARLEY SPEAKS— SEvENTH Pace. @WO MEN HANGED FOR MURDER YESTERDAY! ONE NEGRO KILLS A MAN FOR A SILVEK WATCH! ANOTHER SHOOTS A STORE, KEEPER AND RIFLES HIS STORE! GAL- LOWS PENITENCE! THE RUIN OF RUM! IMMENSE CROWDS VIEW THE EXECU- TIONS—TuIep Pace. MORE WORK FOR THE HANGMAN! A WOMAN BEATEN TO DEATH LAST NIGHT! THE MURDERER ESCAPES—Tuiep Paap. EUROPEAN OABLE AND GENERAL TELE- GRAPHIC NEWS—SgEvENTH Page. CHARTER LEGISLATION! THE NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN BILLS DISCUSSED BY THE STATE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY! PARTI- SAN ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE THE ANNEXA- TION OF BROOKLYN! SPECIAL ORDERS FOR TUESDAY NEXT—Fovurrn Paar, ERIE LEGISLATION IN THE PALMY DAYS OF THE RING! TWEED AND THE LEGISLA- TORS SWAYED BY THE POTENT IN. FLUENCE OF THE SHAREHOLDERS’ MONEY! $181,000 SQUANDERED — Firtu Paog, WHO MURDERED CHARLES GOODRICH? LU- CETTE ARMSTRONG’S ARREST! A SORROW- FUL WORD-PICTURE ! THE DISTRICT AT- TORNEY SAYS HE WILL HOLD LUCETTE IN DESPITE OF THE CORONER ! PROCEED- INGS AT THE INQUEST—Fourtu PacE. A TENNESSEE HORROR—THE FEATURES OF AMUSEMENTS—TuiRpd PAGE. SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL! THE POSTAL-CAR TROUBLES—MARINE NEWS—TENTH PaGE. NEWS BY STEAMER FROM THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICAN STATES! A PEACEFUL STATUS! THE CUBAN QUESTION—Firra. Page. TRAIN AGAIN “SPEAKS IN PUBLIC! RE MANDED AND AN INQUIRY “DE LUNATI- CO” ORDERED! BROWN AFTER HIS EX- TRA STREET-CLEANING MONEY! AMEND- ING THE STOKES JUDGMENT RECORD— Nunta Page, GOLD RISES ANOTHER FRACTION! IRREGULAR FLUCTUATIONS IN THE VARIOUS MAR- KETS! THE PUBLIC DEBT AND THE TREASURY POLICY—Eiauru Pacr, A GENERAL LABOR STRIKE ANTICIPATED ON THE 1TH PROXIMO—THE NEW STEAMER CASTALIA—EIGHTH Pag. ANOTHER ATTACK UPON THE PRESS BY A SCOTTMAN! THE JERSEY CAPITAL-RE- MOVAL BILL—UPTOWN PROPERTY OWN- ERS OPPOSED TO ELEVATED TRANSIT— ART SALES—THE SCHOOL TEACHERS— OLIVER GOLDSMITH—Firrs 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 tay be sent in not later than nine, M., either at this office, our only uptown burenn, 1,265 Broadway, or at our Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Bocram streets, Let advertisers remember that the earlier their advertisements are in the Hzratp office the better for themselves and for us. dX. B.—We will issue a sunblament. Spain—The Republic and the Car. Hsts—The Abolition of Slavery and the Republican Prospect in Europe. We print this morning a cable despatch, special to the Hzraup, which shows that the Carlista in the Northern provinces of Spain are not only maintaining their ground, but gaining victories over the government forces. According to our despatch there has been a severe engagement in the Northeast. The government troops retreated, much de- moralized; Gronollers was captured by Sabalis, one of the Carlist chiefs: Tho small garrison surrendered, In Tarragona, as if to show how completely Spain is wanting in unity of sentiment and unity of purpose, we are told that Communist demonstrations were being made. In Barcelona there had been some fighting in the streets, and six persons are known to have been killed. We do not much wonder that the great Powers refuse to recognize the Republic, although the Republic is just as likely to be successful os any other form of government in unhappy | Spain. Almost all our recent reports have been discouraging. We shall be glad to learn that some of these reports are ill founded ; but, in the absence of contradictory evidence, we must take them as we find them. With the Cortes dissolved and with a general election on hand, it is in the last degree desirable that the members of tho Cabinet should stand by each other. The last act of the Cortes before dissolution, although im- perfect, did honor to the republican cause. The bill, which was passed by # unanimous vote, abolishing slavery in Porto Rico, provides for immediate emancipation. Pity that the bill was not more thorough. Immediate emancipation is more a name than a reality; for we find that the so-called emancipated slaves are to be compelled to serve, for three years, their present masters or other residents of the island, and that for five years to come they aro to be denied the rights and privileges of Spanieh citizens. How much money in the shape of indemnity it is proposed to pay the slave-owners we are not informed; but, what- ever it is, the bill provides that it shall be charged exclusively to the account of the Porto Rico budget. With the passing of this abolition bill the dissolution of the Cortes ‘was unanimously voted, and the House broke up amid the wildest excitement in the Hall of Assembly and in the streets. ‘ That the Spanish Republic has taken, in this abolition movement, a step in the right direction, we cannot refuse to admit. Slavery has been, for generations, a standing disgrace toSpain. It is now many years since Great Britain set her a good example, and since, in @ variety of ways, she was placed under bonds to hasten abolition and to make an end of slavery and the slave trade throughout her territory. So long as slavery was an institu- tion, privileged and protected in the United States, Spain had a show of reason for main- taining the relic of barbarism in Cuba and Porto Rico. Since our civil war, however, and especially since the close of that war, when slavery was crushed out by the might and the majesty of the freedom-loving people of the North, that flimsy excuse for refusing to do justice to the unfortunate slave has been wanting, and from the time of Isabella each successive government has had something to say about abolition. To the Republic, however, belongs the honor of having spoken and acted with effect. It is always a source of pleasure to us to be able to speak kindly and encour- agingly of the republican cause in Europe. We have been watching Spain with attention and interest. We are pleased with what the Republic has done in this matter of slavery so far as it goes ; but we must be allowed to say that what it has done it has done imperfectly, and that it has not done enough. Its action is imperfect, because emancipation ought to have been immediate and unqualified, and because the indemnity, instead of being charged exclu- sively to the budget of Porto Rico, ought to have been provided for out of the national Treasury. Its action is incomplete ; the Re- public has not done enough ; for every reason which calls for abolition in Porto Rico calls for abolition in Cuba. When the British govern- ment decided, in 1833, to make an end of slavery throughout the Empire proper the indemnity, amounting to twenty millions of pounds sterling, was paid out of the national Treasury, and the joy produced by eman- cipation was not marred by any invidious or vexatious exceptions. We have no good reason to believe that the decision come to by the Cortes is completely satis- factory to the Spanish people; and we may take it for granted that, while it will be felt by the Cubans to be an open insult, and regarded by them as a justification of their policy of resistance, it will goad the inhabitants of Porto Rico into open revolt. The insult to Cuba is plain and unqualified, and Porto Rico is told that if she will have emancipation she must pay for the privi- lege and abide by all the consequences. It was not so that we emancipated the slaves of the South; and the present chiefs of the Spanish Republic ought to have benefited somewhat more from the lessons and experience of the We regret that we cannot write more ap- provingly of the young Spanish Republic. In Spain, quite as much as in France, the hopes of European republicans are centred. France, since the close of the war, has been in a condition in which it has been difficult for the national sentiment to find expression. She hag been burdened with » heavy debt and restrained by the presence of the exacting and relentless invader. What is to be her futare form of government we cannot yet tell. We know that the Republic exists, and that, as President Thiers is forced, from time to time, to remind the monarchists, no other form of government is now possible. Not until the indemnity is paid and the invader gone and France has had a fresh opportunity to speak out her thoughts and wishes at the ballot-bor shall we know whether France will again bow the knee to the crowned monarch or maintain her place in the ranks of free and self-governing nations. We wait for France; but we look upon the Re- public in Spain as a fact. Free to decide after the abdication of Amadeus, and unaffected by any outside influences, the Cortes declared in favor of republican institutions. In spite of Carlist risings in the North, in spite of the intrigues of the monarchical factions, and in spite of the chilling opposition of the civat oligurchicg, who bate, because they fear, the Republic has held its ground; and there is a reasonable presumption that, if the army can be held in check, the general elec- tions will give the republicans in the next Cortes a large and united majority. Tho Re- public established in Spain, the Republic could not fail to succeed in France. With a pros- perous republic in Spain and a prosperous republic in France the Pyrenees would indeed be levellod, and a grand step would be taken towards the confederation of the Latin races. The thrones of Portugal and of Italy are al- ready tottering ; and it requires but a little solid encouragement to awaken the spirit which demands Iberian unity and togive prac- tical shape to the bright dreams of Magzini. Tho European nations are much more ripe for republican institutions than most people are disposed to believe. Spain gives us one example, France gives us another. The return of Mr. Gladstone to power, with all the attendant circumstances of the case, shows that the privileged orders in England have permanently lost their hold on the masses of the people, and has furnished a fresh proof that only the men who are in sym- pathy with the masses can hold the reins of authority. It was only the other day that the coronation of the King of Sweden was pro- nounced a mockery in tho Swedish Parlia- ment, and, although the coronation was pro- ceeded wilh, it was proceeded with in opposi- tion to the wishes of a large and influential section of the Swedish people, There is no people better qualified for self-government than the Germans; and Bismarck, although he is, perhaps, but little aware of it, is has- the time when a united people will ungrudgiagly dispense with the gewgaws of royalty. It is because we are satisfied that the European nations are rapidly ripening for re- publican institutions that we wish the present exporiments to succeed. Much depends upon example, Failure in France or failure in Spain would throw tho ropublican cause in Europe backward for at least a quarter of a century. Success in the one or other now will be a proportionate gain. We should like to see Spain so acting under her republican leaders as to command the sympathy and support of all free people. We confess with re- gret that this abolition act has slightly damped our hopes and marred the prospect. The good work, however, must go on; and, although Spain may bungle and France may fail, the dark days of bondage and of sorrow will come to an end, the sun of freedom will arise, and in his light the peoples will rejoice. We cannot close this article without saying a word in favor of Ouba. If there is no re- bellion in Cuba worthy of the name—as the Spanish authorities would have us belicve— why this exceptional legislation? If there is @ rebellion such as justifies this exceptional and offensive legislation—a rebellion which, if it exists now, has existed for years, and which Spain has been unable to put down—- then it is time that the voice of sympathizing humanity should be raised in behalf of a suf- fering people, and that brotherly hands should be stretched forth to help. The Spanish gov- ernment talks of its determination to preserve the integrity of the Spanish dominions, but the preservation of this integrity may overtax the patience of the world. The Western Farmers Moving. ‘We have noticed on several occasions the combinations of farmers, merchants and traders in the West, under different organiza- tions and names, to protect and promote their interests, Their principal object is to resist or make war on the railroad corporations in order to bring down the high rates for carrying freight to market, The farmers cannot get their produce to market with the present rail- road freight charges, But they have other complaints and are moving throughout the Western States with great vigor and much unanimity to bring their grievances before the country and government. The Farmers’ Con- vention, held at Topeka, Kansas, this week, seems to have been an important gathering. It has recommended the farmers all over the country to become members of some local clubs, and has made » permanent State organ- ization, to be known as ‘The Farmers’ Co- operative Association.’” At the same time we learn by a despatch from Peoria, IIL, that the farmers in. that section are organizing for war against the railroads. A meeting was held there, a permanent organization effected and @ feeling of earnestness and determination manifested. It is probable this general move- ment yill have considerable influence on the political affairs and parties in the country hereafter. The active and aspiring politicians are not likely to neglect the opportunity it will afford them. The railroad corporations are powerful, but the people may prove stronger than they in this contest, Cornecticur Exection.—The annual State election in Connecticut takes place on Monday, April 7. The campaign has ex- hibited no animation whatever, and had it not been fora little disruption in the repub- lican ranks the fact that an election was to be held at all would scarcely have been known outside the limits of the State. At the State election last Spring the republican candidate for Governor was elected by over one thou- sand majority, Grant’s majority last Fall being 4,758. At the Spring election 1,549 votes were cast for the temperance candidate for Gov- ernor and 399 for the labor reform candidate. The Congressional districts all went republi- can in 1871, with the exception of the Fourth district, which elected W. H. Barnum, demo- erat, by 1,076 majority. The following is alist of candidates of the principal parties to be voted for on Monday next: — R. Tagetsotl. ‘4 my Geot a. a Marvin Hi. Sanger, Win. E. Raymond, Alired RB, Goodrich, Simon B. Kendall. anes E. Tue Serruement or Tae Mopoc Dirricurty seems as far off as ever. According to the special despatch to the Hera, which we publish to-day, another reconnoissance of the lava beds took place on Thursday, when one of the Commissioners accompanied the cavalry and was also present at a brief inter- view with two of the rebellious Indians. Ab- solutely nothing has been done, and, as we predicted a few days since, nothing is likely to be accomplished, while a commission of opposing and interested members are en- trusted with the task of concluding peace. It is even hinted by our correspondent that there ore sivalry and icalousy caisting between the Peace men and the military leaders, both of |] Ceban Affairs —Bidwell’s whom are desirous of securing the honors of this glorious campaign. Let the government have the medals struck and documents of honorable mention prepared. The Detectives amd the Goodrich Oase. We were but too well prepared for the de- tectives to blunder in the Goodrich murder case. From the absurdly incompetent treat- ment of the Rogers and the Nathan cases in Now York we were scarcely ready to be san- guine that the Brooklyn Dogberries would improve on it. Eight days have elapsed since the discovery of the murder and ‘‘the woman” is still missing. Tobe sure a woman has been arrested, and thereupon, from the full- blown Chief down to the humblest patrolman, an air of owl-like wisdom has per vaded the Brooklyn official world, The importance which swells the most incompetent detective’s bosom, when the public eye is upon him, is a study for the curious; but the overpowering effect which this official mono- syllabic reserve has wrought upon the report- ers of the local Brooklyn journals moves our deepest feelings. Every time the eye of the Chief deliberately winks it is noted down, and the patrolman who shakes his head sagely when questioned is in imminent danger of im- mortality. To a weak-headed chief and be- fogged detectives this problematic immortality has proved a very strong temptation to diverge from fact in regard to the woman who had been arrested. The poor, hard-working illy-paid, badly dressed, pale, thin seamstress, of twenty-six, Lucette Myers, or Lucette Arm- strong, who was hurried over by the detec- tives to the Central Office, is hinted by the Chief to the reporters as @ wonderfully delibe- rate woman, who lives in furnished apart- ments and on whom the deceased used to call often twice a day. ‘There, too, the de- ceased would occasionally go to take tea. Then he could throw out hints that Brooklyn would be ‘“‘thunderstruck” when they found how the deed was done. We fear Brooklyn must wait for the thunderbolt. And as to the facts about this woman. She knew the de- ceased, the Chief says, and calls him ‘‘Char- ley.’’ So probably did a great many people, women included. She admits, says the Chief, having been to the house three times, and, says the Chief, with emphasis, she calls him her ‘‘beau.’’ She did not, says the Chiof, wish to see the man as he lay murdered. All these things, breathed as though they were only a tithe of the information he had gained, filled the listeners with’ creeping sensations. We confess, however, to not being much moved. Lucette Myers lived, previous to her arrest, with her aged parents, whom she sup- ports by her hard-won earnings in the shirt shop of Mrs, Levy. The family—five in all— habited two poor back rooms on the fifth floor of crowded tenement house. They are furnished rooms, wonderful to re- late. How much furnished nothing but the implied magnificence of the Ohief would indnce us to say. It can be judged from one fact—the poor people make their beds on the floor. owner of a row of houses in Brooklyn used to go take tea! These are the furnished apartments of la petite maitresse, Some time since the family were turned out of a tene- ment house hard by for non-payment of rent. Three dollars a week and five in family make this plain, too plain, we fear, for the oracular Chief and his luminous detectives. If the detectives were not so clumsy we would tell them that they had committed an outrage in arresting this poor woman, when all these facts and a good many more were within easy reach, without laying bare the honest poverty of these people. The woman, they could have learned, was at home on the Thursday night and at work the next day. Fortunately for the family, Foster's execution enables them to ix these points with precision, What the relations of Goodrich were with Lucette Myers we do not care to take on the word of the Chief. A detective who had learned his business would have found it all out without an arrest, and could have discovered the greater part without the woman being once aware of it. Tobe sure they knew no better than to drag her from the workshop and put her through a course of cajolery varied by browbeating in the Central Office, and then we must remember that their conception of duty was to furnish morsels for the Chief to hold before the bulging eyes of Brooklyn’s reporters. Mr. Goodrich seems to have been a ladies’ man in a wide sense. The “woman’’ with whom he had the quarrel and who wrote the reproachful letters about the child hinted at as being born of the intimacy is not the woman arrested, all the furnished apartments, tea-taking moonshine of the Ohief to the contrary. Every day wasted in furnishing sensation when it should be devoted to clear thought and rapid, careful action, is a gain to the criminal or criminals, At the inquest yes- terday it was hinted by Mr. W. W. Goodrich that his brother's body had been dressed after the murder. Beyond that nothing novel was adduced. In addition to our warning to the detectives not to further befog themselves with theories, we now tell them not to waste valua- ble time in building empty sensation. Their stupidity in arresting Lucette Myers does not promise much for the rational course of their future movements. The woman against whom the evidence they possess points is still at large. The possibilities of an accomplice, who he is, or whether the murder did not spring from motives altogether unconnected with ces dames, are, to the detectives’ shame, yet unexplored. But they have made a sensa- tion. Haxoame ror Wirct Murpen.—The Balti- more American avers that ‘‘the right thing to do is to make hanging for wilful murder certain.” ‘First catch your fish,” &. It would be an interesting matter to ascertain the sentiment of the public press tor and against the death penalty as a punishment for capital crimes. So far as it was expressed in the case of Foster the course of General Dix in non-in- terfering with the decision of the courts was almost unanimously sustained, Tue Fron ror raz Maronatty in St. Louis is becoming both interesting and amusing. The Democrat having announced Mr. Bain as the ‘young American candidate,” the Repub- lican responds that it is ‘literally true, for, ns an American, Mr. Bain is only three years, one month, eight days and some odd hours old, Here, then, O Chief! is where the | Imprison- moent—Insurgent Movements, The special telofram advices which we pub- lish to-day in reference to the imprisonment at Havana of Bidwell, one of the parties accused of the recent forgeries upon the Bank of England, are very interesting, touching the jurisdiction of the island authorities in this matter. It appears that Bidwell was arrosted at the request of the British government on the supposition that he isa British subject ; but it is represented that he is a citizen of the United States, a native of Indiana, and that his arrest in Cuba is not justified by any extradition treaty with England nor by any other authority, except that of the Captain General, whose will over the island is the supreme law. If it can be established that Bidwell is a citizen of the United States his cage certainly calls for,the interven- tion of Mr. Secretary Fish. The prisoner, it seems, desires a transfer to New York, which is perfectly natural; but we suspect that the international difficulties suggested touching his detention in Cuba will not mate- rially improve his chances of escape. _ Through private advices from Remedios it. is reported that part of the Spanish Cadiz battalion had gone over to the insurgents, in ® recent engagement on the other side of Old ‘Trocha, between the Spaniards and the insur- gent forces of Agramonte. In this engage- ment, it is further reported, Agramonte cap- tured) sixty Spanish soldiers, summarily exe- outed fifty-nine of them, under the law of retaliation, and sent the one man left back with the message to the Spanish camp that, as they, monarchists or republicans, gave no quarter, no quarter would be given them in return. And so, it appears, this Cuban war of extermination goes on. There can be no doubt that the insurgents are being strengthened in arms and men and are gaining ground, and as the season is close pt hand which is favorable to the Cubans in being deadly to the Spaniards in the field, the opinion of General Grant, that Ouban inde- pendence will be established before the expi- ration of the present year, we are strongly inclined to believe will be made good. The Carlists in Spain, without the slightest inten- tion or suspicion in this direction, are work- ing for the Cubans, and it will only be another addition to the many remarkable events of the last ten years if the efforts of those old Span- ish Bourbons in behalf of ‘‘the divine rights of kings” shall result in securing the divine rights of a struggling people. General Cebal- los, Oommander-in-Chief of the Spanish forces in Cuba, has been, we are specially informed, removed under orders from Madrid, and is at Havana awaiting an opportunity to report to the home government. His threat to shoot the Hmnary Commissioner as a spy is said to have been the exciting cause of his official trouble. The Cuban people are anxious concerning O’Kelly’s safety, having had themselves personal experiences of the sort of régime which the Spanish volunteers exercise in the island. The English University Race. The interest felt so recently throughout England and far outside in the doings of her older heads inthe magnificent halls of Parlia- ment on the banks of the muddy Thames very naturally and easily turns to-day three or four miles up the river, to the famous Putney to Mortlake course, whero her chosen younger men will meet in friendly struggle at the oars; for, at three o’clock, London time, Cambridge University will do her utmost, fora fourth time in succession, send away to the little ‘Cam’ the news that Oxford was second at the finish, Many times previously it was first the other way. Away back in 1829—has she made a similar effort, and though often victorious, yet for the nine whole years following 1860 she had the disheartening record of nothing but defeat. Then she again tound how to win, and till to- day has made that knowledge stand her in- good stead. Whatever our despatches may tell us at noon, when we recall for a moment the weather of the last six wecks, and that the severe work of preparation of the rowers of to-day has been done in 8 climate that has lately proved but little, if any, milder than ours, and when it is quite possible that this race, as was more than one of its predecessors, may be rowed in the mid- dle of a snow storm, we may readily see how pertinent is the following passage from a let- ter of an eminent English physician, Dr. Humphrey, Professor of Anatomy at Cam- bridge University. Giving his opinion on the effects of boat racing on the health, as shown by members of that institution, after refer- ring to both its benefits and objections, he adds :—“If weare to train in our Universities, as we wish to do and as the country needs, an independent, noble and brave, as well as intel- ligent and industrious youth, we must leave them, to some extent, free to encounter the risks of sport as well as of work which their energies involve. Mediocrity in play is in- ferior only to mediocrity in work, and excel- lence in neither can be attained without some tisk. The nation that is best in one is likely to be best in the other. It is among the glories and hopeful features of England that she excels in sports.’’’ Whatever doubt there may be as to the prudence of singling out so bleak a time of year for hard work upon the water, there can be little question that the qualities desired by the writer have here an excellent chance for a it "Wah os tilak of oneof these sturdy young Britons coming on from a four-mile practice pull at racing pace on such a day as Monday or Tuesday last, and being not only none the worse but apparently far the better for it, we can all the more readily let horse cars alone, and on our way to and from work give “shanks’ mare’ more liberty. While we are slow to admit that because England plays bet- ter than America she works better too, there certainly is a widespread lack among the young Americans of to-day of anything like systematic exercise, and the consequent hardi- hood and vigor of body which might be had so easily. But it is pleasant to note that so far as the more Mvored of them are concerned in this matter of rowing, the interest in physical development is decidedly on the increase. Within a few days there will meet at Springfield delegn#s— not as of old, from Harvard and Yale alone, but trom Harvard, Yale, Amherst, the Amherst Agriculturals Brown, Dartmouth, Bruns- wick, Williams, Middletown, and, we are glad toadd, our own Colurabia—all purposing being on hand to complete the arrangements for the Great inter-collegiate’match of July next on the broad waters of tho Counesticut, Nor do We see why only theso should come; for Princeton, Cornell and Union might make the dozen’ generous, while West Point and An- napolis would finda hearty welcome. Then we would have what all Englishmen know, racing in heats, and the man who broke away for ® couple of days from ‘his work to take a look at our athletes would find ample reward in such s ‘number and varicty of contests, Methodist Middletown ana Baptist Brown might show which creed would best hold water, while orthodox Yale and wicked Unitarian Harvard might have » spe- cial. day set apart for renewing their timoe- honored struggle for the mastery; or the Pointers and the middies might show whether with the army and ite training or the navy lay the supremacy. And from such aburidance of material, and material which showed as good rowing as that of last July, the winner of to- day might find rivals who would do for her the little favor once so willingly bestowed upon Harvard, The time may come when, out here on the Hudson, legislation will, on the day of the Uni- versity race, stop all traffic for hours, as it does now the Thames—a busier river—and so all New York can shut its stores and tum out, as does London, to see who are the best men. In any case the suggestion will show our read- ers how universal is the interest in England in the event of which we have been speaking. Clowm or Cleric, Which? In an age when priests and parsons are crying out as loudly as Jeremiah against the growing disrespect for religion it is significant to note how ministers themselves justify the accusation. Parson De Witt Talmage is the latest offender. His Brooklyn Tabernacle was laid in ashes one raw Sabbath morning last Winter, and the fair sisters of his congre- gation have ever since been building ‘“tidies,’* dolls’ clothes, pincushions, portrait albums and all the ‘cunning’ grim-crackery which goto make up the wares of a fancy fair, at which the sweet sisters themselves behind their counters are the chief attraction. The Tabernacle must be rebuilt, and this calling in of beauty with its smiles and its embroidery to aid in the extraction of elee- mosynary greenbacks from the friends of religion is at once innocent and poetical. Venus and Minerva are consecrated to the uses of the presbytery, and the devotees of both the goddesses are ‘bled’ upon tho altar of the Church of Calyin. Perhaps the stern presbyter of Geneva would go howling back to his grave after having overturned all the tables if he once could quit it to witness an ordinary Presbyterian fancy fair at the Brooklyn Academy, But we could not even sympathize with him in his distress and should be the first to assist the fair merchants of the church from under the confused heap of their merchandise. De Witt Talmage, how- ever, with that boldness and decency which characterize him, was not content to follow in the steps of former fancy fairists. He was resolved that his fancy fair should prodace a sensation, and to that end prepared a scene that would shock as many delicate sensibilities as were left unimpaired by the ‘Black Crook”’ and the “Twelve Temptations.’’ In the most sensuous of those pieces the rites of the Chris- tian religion had not been burlesqued, Here, then, was a chance for Talmage—we had almost cutthe word at Talma. He had pos- session of a theatre and he would make “Mar- riage’ abroad farce. It wonld not be a mere simulation. When we see the blessing of the _poignards in the “‘Huguenota’’ we know that the priests are lager bier sellers in reality and that the conspirators murder nothing but the English language with Dutch solicisms in everyday life. Talmage, on the con- trary, would have a genuine priest, with real (!) prayers and a bona fide bride and bridegroom. The long-buried Romish mystery-play would be revived, for the first time on any stage in America, at half a dollar per head admission. Hoe advertised for his marriage aspirants and selected them from fifty-two fools, as a pagan priest would a bull and heifer for the sacrificer’s knife. It was to be heightened by effects borrowed from the “property man’’ of the theatre, and to repre- sent a New England marriage of a hundred yeara ago. That it was as far from being a Puritan ceremony as was the ballet of the bare-legged Amagons, stage manager Talmage knew full well. Madamo de Pompadour might perhaps have looked on it with satis. faction; but no mother of New England’s heroes of the Revolution would have thought it other than a wile of Satan. Talmage knew all this; but burlesque-goers care nothing about exactitude. They want glitter, show, fun and sensuousness, and seldom object to indelicacy in act, gesture or suggestive- ness. To heighten. the burlesque he had issued cards of admission with the definite article spelled ‘‘ye’” to represent English in the age when Johnson and Goldsmith were writing. No wonder the Academy was filled. The stage manager be- came the parson of the farce. The solemn Tite of marriage was performed ‘‘without a ring,’ but with all the prayers that earnest Christian men had composed for hearts filled with the serious love of God and awed by the sacredness of the life-long pact the words were intended to signalize. Not for the langhterof the gallery ‘‘gods’’ or the smirking of the people in the orchestra chairs were the simple, touching words intended. The player-parson kept a steady face, as good comedians do ; but the audience roared with delight and clapped their hands, as though it were Grimaldi, the clown, singeing a ‘Charley’ with a red-hot painted poker. It was humbug; but was he not still a parson, and were not the two Stam- ford idiota man and wife when the shameless scene was over? No doubt. The line where the cleric ends and the clown begins has been receding from the communion rail towards the footlights, and Connecticut is as famous for divorces as Indiana. Talmage may only be ahead of his time. To the spectacle at the Brooklyn Academy people may yet look back a9 American citizens do to the Philadelphia Court House on the 4th of July, 1776. When sermons are preached as interludes to ground and lofty tumbling, and the acrobat is the clergy- man; when marriage is such a jest that the knot which is tied in Niblo’s by a parson- clown on one night is untied by a harlequin- jawyer the next, Talmage will be looked back to as @ reformer, as a prophet, as a, tre priest: but not till then, Minister ot