The New York Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK Hi ~ @RUADWAY AND ANY eer, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. -No. 97 Volume XXXVIII.... oe AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Unour Sax. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venue.—Dappy O'Down. BOWERY. THEATRE, Bowery.—Tue Resew's Last THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5l4 Broadway.—Daama, Boruasque anv Oxo. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 780 Broad- ‘way.—New Yuan's Eve, : WOQD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corne! — mln Gir. Aftarnoed aud eveultge rer Thoth ot ATHENEUM, $85 Broadway.—Granp Variery Enrsa- TAINMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw: ‘Houston sts.—Tax Scouts or tw ween Prince and 1E, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Homery Dumrrv. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Covsix Jack—MicawaEr, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Garrick. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Granp Con- cent. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘8xa oF Ics. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-thira st, corner 6th av.—Nugro MINstRELSY, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Wanisty ENTERTAINMENT. BARNUM'S GREAT SHOW. —Now open, Afternoon and Night. Rink, 3d avenue and 63d street. LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fourth ay. and 26th st, Afternoon and Evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Botence anp Ant. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, noar Third Avenue.—MARION. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, April 7, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “IMPORTANT FROM CUBA! THE ARREST OF OUR CORRESPONDENT BY THE SPAN- IARDS!""—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE— Suxra Pace. MR. O'KELLY ARRESTED BY THE SPANIARDS |! CAPTAIN GENERAL CEBALLOS RETICENY AS TO THE COURSE AND PROBABLE RE- SULT OF THE INQUIRY NOW IN PROGRESS ! A GRAVE CHARGE OF BEARING SUSPI- CIOUS DESPATOHES—Sgventu Pace. A SPANISH COMMANDER ARRESTED FOR TREA- SON! THE SURRENDER OF BERGA! THE CATALONIANS COMMANDED TO DEFEND THEIR TOWNS AGAINST THE CARLISTS | ARMED GUARDS FOR THE CHURCHES— SEVENTH PaGE. SPANISH SITUATION IN DETAIL! THE CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE CARLISTS! THE DISASTROUS REPULSE AT MON- REAL! BOURBON UNITY AND REPUB- LICAN DISORGANIZATION! THE RED FLAG SIOUTLY UPBORNE IN BARCE- LONA! THE AMERICAN NAVAL COUR- TESIES—TENTH PaGE. NO GAS! THE SUPPLY FROM THE WORKS OF THE NEW YORK GAS COMPANY CUT OFF! THE SKILLESS ITALIANS CANNOT MANU- FACTURE AS RAPIDLY AS NECESSARY! THE STRIKERS UNDAUNTED—SEVENTH PacE. RUSSIA PREPARED FOR THE ADVANCE UPON KHIVA! OVERPOWERING FORCES AND IMPERIAL PLANS OF THE CZAR! THE PROBABLE TRIUMPHAL MARCH OF THE MUSCOVITES—SEvENTH PaGE. SYMPATHY FOR THE SHIPWRECKED! THE ATLANTIO’'S SURVIVING PASSENGERS WARMLY WELCOMED AT THE HUB AND IN THE METROPOLIS! HARROWING RECITALS OF THE SUFFERERS! JOMNNY HANLEY’S TOUCHING STORY! NAMES OF THE LATER ARRIVALS—Tuirp Page. PALM SUNDAY DISCOURSES! THE 'SAVIOUR’S SORROW, THE CALAMITOUS WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC AND NIXON’S DOOM AS SPECIAL SUBJECTS—FovurtH PacE. LAVA-BED STRATEGY! WHAT THE MODOCS AND GENERAL CANBY ARE DOING! FINE NATURAL FORTS! THE HERALD COMMIS- SIONER VISITS THE SAVAGES’ CAMP! THE GRAND ASSAULT—Firra Pace. A FURIOUS STORM IN IOWA! A HOUSE BLOWN DOWN AND TWENTY-SIX PERSONS KILLED AND INJURED—GENERAL TELEGRAMS— THIRD PacE. 4 MURDERER APPEALS HIS CASE TO THE COURT OF LAST RESORT! TRIED, CON- VICTED AND DOOMED! THE SENTENCE LAPSES BECAUSE OF PREJUDICE AGAINST COLOR—TuIRD Pace. PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN THE STATES OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA! BOUNDARY AND OTHER FXCITEMENTS—Tuimp Pace. NEWS FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS—SPE- CIAL ITEMS FROM WASHINGTON—SEvVENTH PaGs. THE DANGERS OF THE GOLD INFLATION! THE INCEPTION AND PROGRESS OF THE CLIQUE MOVEMENTS IN THE MONEY AND GOLD MARKETS! STOCKS AND GOVERN- MENTS—FIFTH PAGE. ARREST OF AN ALLEGED MURDERER! A NE- GRO CHARGED WITH KILLING A MER- CHANT AND BURNING HIS STORE TO CON- CEAL THE CRIME—FirtH Pace. REAL ESTATE OFFERED FOR TRANSFER—GUN- POWDER AS A PILE DRIVER—NEWS FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE—EicutH Pace. OIL AND WATER COLOR PAINTINGS ON VIEW— LOCAL AND LEGAL ITEMS—Firti Pace. THE Tae News rrom Spary.—The Madrid de- spatches, under date of yesterday, contain very little that is fresh or important as news. They afford additional proof, however, of the ferocity which characterizes the conduct of the war against the Spanish Republic, and also of the condition of public demoralization which is being rapidly produced or confirmed by the contest. The Madrid official statement of the surrender of Berga to the Carlists asserts that the act was accomplished through treason to the government, and that the Bourbonists bayoneted sixty-seven prisoners after its com- pletion. The telegrams from Barcelona and the entire State of Catalonia are pretty much of the same tenor as those which have lately preceded them from the same districts. Por- tugal and Belgium watch the Spanish develop- ments with intense interest, particularly the Portuguese. er Tax Avavsta (Ga.) Constitutionalist (demo- cratic) does not agree with the Chicago Zrit- une that the democratic party, “the great party of the people,"’ is defunct. There are quite @ number of other democratic papers that have expressed themselves in the same way, " YORK HERALD NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, from Cuba—The of Our Correspondent by the Span- iards. Mr. Jamés J. O'Kelly, our special com- Missitor in Cubs, has been arrested, as will be seen by» despatch from our Havana cor- respondent, publishea in another part of the paper, by the Spanish authorities. This seems to have occurred at or near Manzanillo, one of the cities and a seaport of tho ‘island, in the Eastern Department. The despatch is dated five P, M. of the 4th, and was sent immediately after an interview with Captain General Ceballos. The partic- ulars of the arrest or ‘the specific charge against Mr. O'Kelly we are ignorant of. The Captain General was pro- vokingly reticent, and said, in fact, that he had only just been informed of the arrest and that he knew nothing further in relation thereto. He added, however, that Mr. O'Kelly had come into Manzanillo from the insurrection, and that a court of inquiry was being held in that city with regard to the case. We can hardly suppose this is all the Captain General knew. [t is not probable that a court of inquiry would be held without refer- ring to General Ceballos and receiving instruc- tionsfrom him. Then it did notlook well that the Captain General appeared determined to keep our Havana correspondent in suspense about the matter. There was a rumor, it seems, that documents of the Cuban insur- rection were found on Mr. O’Kelly. The despatch does not say documents of or from the insurgents, but of the insurrection. It is possible he might have had notes, or, if the Spanish authorities please, documents of the insurrection, for he went out to Cuba ex- pressly to note overything pertaining to the war and to report the same to the Hrrarp. And that, until we know to the contrary, we feel assured would be his only offence, and for that the Spanish authorities would not be justified in arresting him. In connection with and bearing upon this outrage we reproduce the despatch of our Havana correspondent of March 4, giving an account of his interview with the Captain General relative to Mr. O’Kelly’s progress in the island. General Ceballos pretended to believe Mr. O’Kelly was hidden away at San- tiago de Cuba, in the Eastern Department. When assured by our correspondent that Mr. O'Kelly was with the insurgents the Captain General became exasperated. He wanted to know, he said, ‘what or who the New Yors Heratp and its correspond- ent were to thus mock the Spanish laws of Cuba,”’ and then declared that he would have O'Kelly tried by a drumhead court martial and shot as a spy if he returned from within the insurgent lines. Afterwards, however, he appeared to be more mild, and said he would give orders to have O'Kelly, expelled from the island immediately upon his coming within the Spanish lines, adding that this latter punishment, expulsion, would be the mildest possible under the circumstances. We hope the sober second thought of Gen- eral Ceballos, on the present occasion of our commissioner's arrest, will take possession of His Excellency’s mind, as it did when he sub- sided from the’ court martial and shooting declaration to expulsion from’ Cuba. That will be so if General Ceballos is a man of sense, discretion and humanity. In short, if he be a gentleman not a hair of the head of our correspondent will be touched. And here it is proper to say that we and the civilized world will hold him responsible for the fate of Mr. O'Kelly, because he is the su- preme Spanish authority in the island of Cuba, and no court martial or other power would venture to injure Mr. O’Kelly without his con- sent. He was, aceording to his ownstatement, immediately informed of the arrest of our Important Arrest commissioner and that a court of inquiry was to investigate the case. This shows that he was consulted and had control in the matter. It is certain, therefore, that if any harm should come to Mr. O'Kelly the Captain Gen- eral will be responsible. The position of our Commissioner is too conspicuous to admit of any plea that the blood-thirsty volunteers or small Spanish officials dare to sacrifice him without the approval of General Ceballos. Nor can we believe the Captain General would injure Mr. O'Kelly without consulting the Spanish government. We shall hold, and this country will hold, both General Cebellos and the Spanish government responsible for the fate of our commissioner. Should the Spanish authorities in Cuba sacrifice or injure Mr. O'Kelly that would be the strongest evidence that they are afraid of the truth being known with regard to the warin the island. Our commissioner is no partisan, and went on his mission simply and only to learn the truth for the-Heratp, that had employed him, and for the public. Ifthe insurrection is on its last legs, as the Spaniards have continually asserted, he would say so. If otherwise he would be equally truthful. The Spaniards themselves, at least, the government of Spain, ought to be thankful for such information, and ought to Honor our commissioner for his cour- age and impartiality in procuring the facts. But the Captain General said, in his anger, ‘‘What is the New Yor Henaxp that it should presume to investigate this matter ?”’ We will tell him. The Henatp is the repre- sentative of the press and people of the United States in this case, and the people of the United States ate deevlv interested in the or, / APRIL 7, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. fate of Cuba ; and this frightful civil war that has raged for yoars on their border, prox- imity to the island, our extensive commerce with it, the slavery question, the controlling power that this great Republic naturally has « right to assume in the status and well being of neighboring American countries, and vari- ous political considerations combine to make the Cuban question one of great impor- tance to our people and government. It was the duty of the independent press to lay bare the facta with regard to the horrible and unparalleled civil war in Cuba, in order to bring the public opinion of the world to bear upon and end it. It was necessary to know whether the Cubans had the means and power to attain their inde- pendence, or if the Spanish government could subdue them. For the sake of humanity, as well as for the interests of the United States, we wanted to get at the truth. This was the sole object of Mr. O’Kelly’s mission. We do not believe he has violated his instructions or taken any partisan action in the affairs of the island. Should the Spanish authorities be so inhu- man and impolitic as to injure our commis- sioner we shall demand just retribution; and, if we mistake not, the press of the United States will unite with us in such action. There is little doubt as to the feeling of the American people. They will appreciate our efforts and feel tho deepest sym- pathy for our heroic and faithful com- missioner. The government itself could not resist the storm of indignation that would arise should the Spaniards be cruel and imprudent enough to sacrifice or seriously injure Mr. O'Kelly. We call upon the President to require the immediate release of this gentleman, for he is in the service of the press of the United States and of hu- manity, and, therefore; is indirectly in the service of the government, Havana and Madrid and the court martial at Manzanillo can be communicated with at once by the tele- graph, and we call for tho release of Mr. O'Kelly without « delay. Our Fiag in the Mediterranean, We are sorry that Captain Bryson, of the Brooklyn, thought fit to use offensive terms in denying two or three correspondents of the newspapers the privilege of being present on his ship when he received the President of the Spanish Republic in the harbor of Barcelona. No one will venture toquestion the full author- ity of a man in his position to admit to the deck of his ship, or to exclude therefrom, any person he chooses, however any one may doubt the taste of such exclusion when it is merely the expression of an arbitrary whim; but an officer of the navy may be even arbi- trary if he likes, though we have never heard that he might be wanting in good manners or in the ordinary courtesies and civilities of life to his countrymen whom he may meet beyond the seas. Our corregpondents have, we believe, never before been denied fair treatment on such occasions, and are accustomed to cour- tesy at the hands of Captain Bryson’s su- periors.. One of them was warmly welcomed to the deck of the flagship by the gallant old Admiral himself on the occasion of his re- ceiving the Prince and Princess of Wales—a reception quite equal in dignity to that of the reception of Sefior Figueras by Captain Bry- son. But then the old Admiral’s head is not turned by trifles, and we believe there are more heads in the fleet of a good American temper, not carried away by these little vani- ties of foreign festivity so that their owners forget themselves altogether; but Captain Bryson’s head is apparently not of that kind. The Terrible Tale of the Sea. The stories of the escaped passengers of the wrecked steamer Atlantic, which we print this morning, add another chapter to the heartrend- ing tale of tne disaster. In the history of ship- wrecks there is nothing more tragic than has been the Hzratp’s news during the last few days. The stories of the sea, though often terrible, have long had a pathetic and an al- most romantic fascination. This story, too, as it was traced in its lighter as well as its darker shades by our correspondents, had all the fascination which belongs to a subject so hor- rifying in every outline. A great ship wrecked before its unlucky passengers could rise from their berths! All the women without excep- tion lost! Husband and wife refusing to be separated and dying in each other's arms! The bodies of the dead swept ashore by the unfeeling sea and robbed by still more unfeel- ing men! It isall dark and dreadful except in the beautiful examples of love and devotion which show that there is much that is noble in human nature, as well as much that is ignoble. All this the Herat bas told, and told it well. From the beginning to the end this journal has kept the public better in- formed in regard to the developments of the awful story than any other newspaper could hope to do. Indeed, most of our contempora- ries have been obliged to avail themselves of Henatp enterprise in order to print the news at all—some by copying it after it had appeared in the Hznarp and others by taking it under more favorable conditions, at a tithe of its cost. But, great as is this triumph in its journalistic aspects, it is in all other respects a sad and solemn requiem over men and wo- men who were lost in consequence of blunders which were worse than crimes. Tho arrival of the stately ship in port, with ali on board alive and well, would have obviated the recital of the particulars of this catastrophe; for, though it is highly honorable in a public journal to paint a great calamity in more vivid colors than can be done by any of its contemporaries, a thousand hearts in every land are happier when there is no such picture to be painted. Tar New “Irnerresswie Conrutcr.”’—The Chicago Times styles the present agitation among the farmers in the West in regard to the railroad monopolies an “‘irrepressible con- flict.’ It has already been characterized as a war against the ‘slavery of monopolies.” How political history repeats itself! Will the new ‘érrepressible conflict’'—the war now waging against the new form of slavery—be as suecess- ful as former conflicts wader similar watch- worda The Atlantio’s Passenger List—Herald Enterprise Versus the Company's Parsimony. No sooner had the painful intelligence of the wreck of the Atlantic reached us, accom- panied as it was with the startling announce- ment that upwards of five hundred persons had met with a watery grave, than the Hznaup realized the immense importance of having a complete list embracing every soul on board the steamer when she left Queenstown. It was a disaster that affected thousands of families on both sides of the ocean. The friends and relatives of those who took pas- sage in the ship in Europe could be no more anxious than were their friends in the United States, as events have already shown. Out of nearly a thousand persons who embarked on the Atlantic before she proceeded on her last disastrous voyage to death and destruction the first accounts stated that but three hundred had succeeded in reaching the fatal rock, a few yards from where the ship struck. Over ‘whelming as the catastrophe was, there was one solitary crumb of comfort that could be offered to the friends of the unfor- tunate passengers, and that was the cer- tainty as to their fate. The agents of the vessel in New York professed complete ignorance of the names or even the exact number of passengers on board. But they were not in ignorance of the absolute neces- sity of having the list of passengers; it was manifestly their duty to have telegraphed for it. They either did not send to England for it, or the gentlemen on that side refused to send it at the proper moment, The Heratp correspondent in London was immediately instructed to procure a list of the passengers from the company’s offices and forward it by cable to the Henarp in New York. Strange to say, the agents in Liverpool refused to supply the list! Here was an occa- sion wherein thousands had suddenly realized with terror that either a father, mother, hus- band, sister, brother, cousin, niece, nephew or friend might be among the dead, and when all thoughts as to insufficient coaling, scanty supply of provisions, inefficiency of officers or the avarice and recklessness of the mana- gers that could trifle with the lives of the mass of human beings committed to their care, were subordinate to the one great question, “Is he or she safe?’’ Yet our correspondent had the greatest difficulty in even persuading th8 Liverpool agents to supply almost the.only comfort in their power—the names of all on board. The Heraup, knowing the intense anxiety and dreadful suspense of friends and relatives, was desirous of obtaining and trans- mitting at its own cost, no matter what the cost might be, this, the only: comfort to the persons interested in the fate of the passen- gers of the ‘‘ill-fated steamer.’’ This we succeeded in doing. On Thursday morning the Heratp contained the fullest list that could be obtained in Europe on the day pre- vious of those on board the Atlantic—giving fully five hundred more names than either of our contemporaries—and thus we were able to present the names to our readers several days before the steamship company felt it their duty tosupply them. The same grasping tendencies that led to the destruction of hun- dreds of lives, a splendid vessel and her valu- able cargo of merchandise were here percep- tible. These agents in Liverpool must have been fully alive to the necessities of the mo- ment, and that the first thing to be done was to telegraph every available information to the United States, the names of the persons first. If they were not aware of this, then it is manifest how unfit they were to have charge of interests of such magnitude, and the re- sponsibility for the disaster may be the more easily fixed. But they cannot plead ignorance of the demand, as the despatch from the Heratp remains a silent but condemnatory proof against them. For the sake of a few paltry hundred pounds the company delayed telegraphing a list on which hung the hopes of thousands at a distance from the scene of the calamity. The rapidity with which the line had apparently grown into public favor, notwithstanding the parsimonious policy of the company, shows how tolerant and generous is the public; but the conduct of the company in the present unhappy affair is a very poor return for the confidence re- posed in them and the patronage so freely bestowed. Yesterday morning, from their agent, we published o full list of the Atlantic’s steer- age passengers, with these remarks: that “all anxiety can be dismissed by those who surmised that their friends might be on board, if their names be not found in this list, or in that of the saved, already pub- lished in your journal, as doubtless they did not embark in our ill-fated steamer.’’ From this strange conduct of the White Star Company’s agents concerned it might be inferred that they believed, like the silly ostrich, that by hiding their little heads in the sand their big bodies and their long legs and their white feathers would be invisible. It is another instance of human life being sacrificed to the whims and greed of a great corporation, and it behooves the public in future to demand greater security, more efficiency and discipline, and a better return for its support and confidence. We are sorry to say that, from the testimony on all sides so far presented, the company has proved unequal to the situation in the face of the great calamity for which it and the unfor- tunate ship's officers are responsible. Had the company looked properly to the safety of the passengers it would have saved the ship, for there would have been no sleepy sense of security among the ship’s officers, and no trusting to luck, in ‘approaching in the dark a dangerous ironbound coast. Tur Connecticut Exection comes off to- day. There appears to be, with considerable doubts as to the results, very little general in- terest outside of Connecticut as to whether the State is going for the democrats or repub- licans. A Governor, State ticket, a Legisla- ture and four Congressmen are to be chosen, and, in addition to democrats and republicans, the temperance party, as usual, is in the field. The New Haven Evening Register of Saturday last says that the city is full of ballots of every variety, and that fhere are republican, demo- cratic and prohibition tickets, and tickets made up from all of them, and that the only way in which the patriot can fully discharge his duty is to vote early, vote before breakfast ‘‘and not keep half a dozen men running after you all day.’’ We expect to report the general re- aulta to-morrow morning. The Gasmen’s Strike. Our citizens are to be congratulated that the strike of the gasmen employed in the New York Gas Company was not partici- pated in by the employés in other works, and that consequently the city was not left in utter darkness. This we say without prejudice to the cause of the workmen, who in their efforts to obtain a recognition of the Eight Hour law have, so far, conducted themselves with ad- mirable temper and good sense. Whatever the merits.of the question at issue between them and the grasping gas companies, there isa larger interest to be considered, and that is the safety of the citizens. One night of dark- ness, with the metropolis given over, as in a great méasure it would be, to the lawless classes, would, on the principle of the great- est good for the greatest number, be a more serious evil than even the con- tinuance of injustice to the workmen in the gas houses, Travel at night in the city in the full flicker of such light as the gas companies are pleased to give us is, unfor- tunately, beset with too many dangers to allow us to regard with indifference the mere threat of a night without it. Last night came near enough being a night of darkness to forewarn the citizen as well as the gas company of the peril. Had it beon a week-day evening, with all the shops and factories and places of public resort ablaze, the street lamps would’ have been out before midnight. Sunday evening as it was, many distrio!s had little or no light. Before ten o’clock the lamps below Grand Street showed but a faint flicker, and many were dark altogether. It was apparent on every hand that the promise of the Manhattan Gas.Light Company to keep the city supplied with gas was being badly kept ; that the ‘new hands” were not able to do their work effi- ciently ; that the assertion of the officers of the company that the labor of the striking gasmen was not skilled labor was in so far untrue, at least, as to show that the old men had the skill to keep the city supplied, while the new men, under the most favorable conditions, so far failed as to provoke forebodings only too well founded. The company is trifling with the safety of the citizen and the security of the city. This trifling is not a matter easily to be overlooked or endured, and the gas monopo- lists must understand that should the strike become general and the companies fail to supply us with light, the workmen will not be held responsible. The conditions under which these men earn their bread are such as to com- mand the sympathies of the public; and as long as they abstain from violence in their efforts to improve these conditions they will re- tain'the respect of their fellow-citizens. The public censure will fall on the rapacious gas monopolists who, not content with “grinding the faces of the poor’’ and the rich alike by exorbitant charges for light, press hard upon their employés and refuse them proper hours of rest. The workmen, however, ought to consider well before engaging in a strike of such grave consequences to themselves and to the public, A strike is a rebellion, and a rebellion is never justifiable except where there is a reasonable prospect of success. Defeat ora partial vic- tory would be ruinous to those engaged in it, and their condition rendered worse than be- fore. These are considerations for the men who have not struck, and who will doubtless be asked to join the men of the New York Gas Company. Whatever measures they may re- solve to take let them continue to act with moderation and inside the law. Palm Sunday Sermons—The Atlantic Disaster. ‘ Whether designedly or not, the striking gasmen placed the city last night to some ex- tent in sympathy with the suffering and pas- sion of the Saviour and the pall of darkness which covered the earth when the great aton- ing act was finished on the Cross. This festi- val of the dying and suffering God—this passion of the Deity, according to Mr. Frothingham, is a myth which had its origin in the primitive worship of mankind. Nature has its Passion Week, and it is very long, as witness the disasters by land and sea, by flood and flame, the loss of the Atlantic being the latest. The lesson taught by the Son of Man is that the good and wise must die and give the sacrifice freely; but the world is exceed- ingly slow to learn this lesson. Dr. H. C. Potter preached about the sublime devotion of Mary in the anointing of the Saviour’s feet. It was an immortal exhibition of gratitude and humility, and was an expres- sion of true fervor and affection. The Doctor showed how his hearers might imitate this woman in their devotion to Christ by other acts, though this one is denied them. Bishop Merrill reviewed and summarized the Book of Revelations yesterday, and demon- strated therefrom that after this life’s proba- tion is ended every man’s character is un- alterably fixed, so that the idea of a universal salvation and doing away of sin and its conse- quences at some unknown and unknowable period in the future cannot be sustained by the Scriptures. Hence the importance, as urged by the Bishop, of impressing upon the minds of men that now is the accepted time and now the day of salvation. Mr. Hepworth and his congregation spent their first Sabbath in their new church yester- day, and the pastor urged his people to unite earnestly with the brotherhood of laborers for the salvation of men. He wants his church to be a working church, built upon the founda- tion of living faith in Christ Jesus the Divine Lord. They are not bound by dogmas and precedents, but their imperative duty is to save souls, and if he can help it not one, he said, shall sleep during the sermon nor be idle during the week. This is the true spirit, and it should actuate every church in the city, Dr. Morgan urged the duty of obedience upon his hearers by presenting Christ os a pattern. He became obedient, even unto the death on the Cross, and we should be ready to follow His example if called upon. He did it that He might ransom us from eternal death, and when we contrast His sacrifices for us with ours for Him we and our sacrifices sink into insignificance. Mr. Beecher preached on our conflict with sorrow and the uses thereof in this world and in the next. There is a conflict also with conceit. Tears are the alphabet by which God teaches men chapters of wisdom that poetry and philosophy have never taught. Suffering is not necessarily punishment or penalty ; but it is necessary to prepare us for eternal life. Rev, Father Kiely pictured the passion and sufferings of the Saviour in the Gardon of Gethsemane and on the Cross, and reminded his hearers that their sins increased those suf- ferings. Their duty, therefore, was to break sdhereuenn and to suffer with their bleased Dr. \Wild called attention to the trouble that men bring upon themselves and to that which comes upon them not of their own seeking. Referring to the legion of aching hearts whose idols were shattered by tho At- lantic disaster, he said their only gleam of comfort can be found in the promises of the Gospel. Referring to the murderer Nixon's condition, the Doctor believed there is pardon for him if he will only believe that God can save to the uttermost all that come unto Him. Mr. Talmage prayed yesterday for God's forgiveness, of those who had wickedly brought the Atlantic calamity upon this and upon other nations. His sermon was upon the democracy of Christianity, which knows neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uno- circumcision, but Chris ig all and ip all. ‘The preacher selected and described different classes of Bible students, and showed what a foolish book they make of it when they have got all their theories nicely rounded out of it. He had more admiration for Heenan and Mor- rissey and their class than he had for theo- logical pugilists, Dr. Ormiston, of this city, preached the dedicatory sermon at the East Reformed church, of Brooklyn, yesterday, and urged the people so completely to consecrate the build- ing to God that not a brick or stone in its gon- straction should belong to any one but the Lord Jesus Christ. An interesting ceremony took place in St.’ Paul’s Roman Catholic church yesterday, @ full report of which will be found elsewhere. Tur Russtan Oampaton Acamnst Kurva.— This important imperialist movementis being gradually developed towards the formida- ble military proportions which we long since indicated in these columns it would assume. The despatches from St. Poters- burg which we publish to-day prove that the Muscovite power is about to again display its steel-gloved hand in Central Asia. The Khivans cannot, of themselves,’ resist such a force, and the Russians, once in motion, with Khiva for an objective point, cannot go back of their own volition. Can the Khan of Khiva conjure up a powerful army friend to his assistance? or will he be permitted to fall to the obliteration of a royal “wipe out,”’ and then will Russia and Great Britain settle down to an amicable arrange- ment of the Afghanistan boundary and other Asiatic questions of European and Eastern import? It is quite important that the settle- ment shall be of an amicable character. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Professor B. Silliman, of New Haven, is stopping at the Sturtevant House. General T, W. Zerman, of San Francisco, haa quarters at the Astor House. Sefior T. Mella del Castello, of Puerto Plaza, Spain, has arrived at tne Grand Central Hotel. J. H. Roberts, Superintendent of the Oongres- sional Printing Bureau at Washington, is at the Grand Hotel. Leopold Markbreit, United States Minister to Bolivia, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General T. P, Mott, a Commander ia the Egyptian army, and Aide-de-Camp to the Khedive, is regis- tered at the Gilsey House. Postmaster General Cresswell, Senators Cameron and Howe, and Governor Straw, of New Hamp- shire, are at present stopping at New Orleans. A testimonial of the value of $20,000 has been presented in London to the Rev. Dr. Moffat, in recognition of his services as a missionary in Africa. He is the father-in-law of Dr. David Living- stone, the African explorer, and has labored fifty years in the heart of Africa, The postal car difficulty is supposed to have come tean end, at least temporarily; and yet, in the words of a Western paper, “the occupation of a railroad manager is not a ded of roses.” Still tt has avery intimate connection with many sound (and, it might be said, unsound) sleepers. The Cincinnati Gazette asserts that there is a business man in that city whe says the first plank of the new political party he proposes to organize is to be “Resolved, That the love of money is the root of all evil.” He might have added another, “Resolved, That unless you have money it is ‘root, hog, or die’ with all Cincinnatians.” “Connecticut cider,” the New Orleans Republican informs the republican candidate for Governor of Conneeticut, “is made of carbonate of soda, brown sugar, citric acid, iron filings ana water.” I¢ should now tell him what Connecticut brandy ia made of. Perhaps, however, it would only be necessary to refer him to Mrs, Sherman, the whole- sale poisoner. The money changer Mussot, who lately ab- sconded from Paris, was formerly a door perter. Ht was a gentleman concierge, however, and kept man servant to do his work while he occupied himself with speculations. He was compelled to resign his place, and then became a money changer. . Large investments in the Crédit Communal caused his ruin. Even the integrity of the ‘‘Father of his Country” is now questioned. The Troy Times has a story that a gentieman residing in the vicinity of Sandy Hill holds a note against General Washington for $1,500, given for supplies during the American Revo- lution, There isan endorsement on the note for about one-half the amount, and it is alleged that the balance has never been paid. Weep no more, Oakes Ames! Paris has a learned thief, Alfred Louis Anguste Fouzard became a Professor of English in a pro- vincial university at the age of seventeen. Subse- quently he taught in Lyons, Dijon and several other places, ultimately leaving literature for larceny, finding therein, as he says, “the peculiar class of excitement which sulted his dispesition.” He fell in with Captain Gelignier, a rascal in teens about the time ef the reign of the Commune, since when their robberies have from time to time startled Paris by their boldness and success. A London journal reports the following interest- ing pugilistic and religious intelligence :—‘‘The Peo- ple’s Mission hall, Whitechapel, was densely crowded by some two thousand persons assembled to hear Bendigo, the prize-fighter and ex-champion of England, preach, or, in his own words, “‘fightor the Gospel.” It had previously been announced that Bendigo, whose real name is William Thomp- son, had become converted some six weeks since, to the great Joy of the magistrates of Nottingham and the amazement of the Nottingham “Lambs,"" THE HERALD AS A GREAT BUSINESS ORGAN. [From the Urbana (Ohio) Citizen, April 3.) The Sunday edition of the New York Heratp contains one hundred and eight columns ot printed matter, of which sixty-seven columns are compact advertisements. This 1s a wonderful achievement for a single number of a newspaper, and indicates a degree of prosperity that has never before been reached by any paper in this country, The adver- tisements in this single edition of the Heratp, at its rates, would probably yteld $20,000 or $30,000, ‘The enterprise of meeting such a demand upon the columns of a newspaper, and at the same time give its usual amount of reading matter, is wonderful, and well Worth boasting about, PROVIDENCE PRINT CLOTHS MARKET. PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 6, 1873, ‘The printing cloths market yesterday was weak, prices tending downwards. Sales of the week, 36,000 pleces at6%c. a Tc. for extra Ad squared, 6%0. for rejected, U)sc. for seconds .