The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1873, Page 6

NEW YUKK HERALD, THUKSDAY, APRIL 10, 1873—-TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HER ALD The Mormon Question—Significant Re- BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVIII...... sevens seeeeeeessNOe 100 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappr O'Down. BONERS. THEATRE, Bowery.—Tae Reszx's Last 07, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, BurLEsque aND OLi0. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—New Yxan’s Evz. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Law uv New York. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Vanisty Enter- ‘TALNMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston sts.—Tux Scouts or tx Pi between Prince and 'RAIRIR. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humpry DumPry. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—Cousin J sck—MICAWBER, WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip GannicK. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—Dix Lixpkz Des MUSIKANTEN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Uncixe Sam, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Sea or Ice. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 6th av.—Nxagro Minstretsy, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. ASSOCIATION HALL, 28d st. and 4th av.—Afternoon at2—Granp Concxrrt, BARNUM’S GREAT SHOW.—Now open, Afternoon and Night. Rink, 8d avenue and 68d street. ‘s LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fourth @y. and 26th st, Afternoon and Evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Somnce anv Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, April 10, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MORMON QUESTION! SIGNIFICANT RE- PORTS FROM SALT LAKE CITY! PRE DENT GRANT'S VIEWS! BRIGHAM YOUNG'S EXPECYED HEGIRA”—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SIxTH Pace. MORMONDOM PREPARING FOR ANOTHER EXODUS! IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SALT LAKE CITY! ARIZONA TO BE THE NEW SEAT OF PULYGAMOUS RULE! THE LAT- * TER DAY SAINTS AND THE ADMINISTRA- TION—SEVENTH PaGE. OUBAN INTEREST IN MR. O’KELLY’S IMPRISON- MENT! 1HE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES APPEALED TO BY THE FRIENDS OF FREE CUBA TO INTERVENE! THEY .FEAR HIS BLOOD WILL BE SHED BY THE SPANIARDS! PRESS COMMENTS—Tuirp PagE. CARLISTS PREPARING TO MAKE AN ASSAULT UPON PINGCERDO! THE TOWN WILL BE DEFENDED! THE JESUITS EXPELLED FROM SALAMANCA! RIOT IN THE BALE- ARIC ISLES—SixTH Pace. THE SPRING FRESHES IN NEW YORK STATE! THE ENTIRE GENESEE VALLEY SWEPT BY THE FLOODS! THE CANAL BADLY IM- PAIRED AND HUMAN LIFE IMPERILLED! RAILROAD TRAFFIC ESTOPPED—SEVENTH Paar. TWENTY-FIVE MEN BURIED IN A FALLEN BUILDING! FOUR KILLED, OTHERS FA- TALLY INJURED ! MANY OF THE VICTIMS YET IN THE RUINS! THE NAMES SO FAR AS KNOWN—MARINE NEWS—TENTH PAGE. TROOPS CONCENTRATING ON THE RIO GRANDE BORDER! A WAR WITH MEXICO THE DREAD RESULT FEARED BY THE TEX- ANS! SHERIDAN AND OTHER “WAR”? GENERALS AND THE SECRETARY OF WAR IN CONFERENCE—TENTH Pace. GREAT FIRES RAVAGING VIRGINIA! EX- TENSIVE DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY— SIXTH PaGE. TN THE ATLANTIC MAUSOLEUM! THE DIVERS AMONG THE DEAD! FIVE MORE OF THE RELICS AND SOME OF THE CARGO RE- COVERED! THE REVEREND HERO! THE ROCK-BOUND COAST A MENACE TO ALL VESSELS—THIRp Pace. THE EMPIRE CITY IN THE HANDS OF THE LEGISLATURE! THE STRUGGLE OVER THE CITY CRIB! GREEN WILL NOT YET BE DISPOSSESSED! THE POLICE JUS- TICES—THIRD PaGE. A GRAND PRESIDENTIAL TOUR! AMERICAN IN- TERESTS IN HAWAII! THE NEW MEN-OF- WAR—SEVENTH PaGE. NEWS FROM CHINA AND JAPAN—MISCEL- LANEOUS TELEGRAMS—SIxTH Pace, GAS FOR ALL THE METROPOLIS! THE NEW YORK COMPANY RAPIDLY FILLING ITS RETORTS! A CONGREGATION OF ROUGHS IN THE VICINITY OF THE WORKS! THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE PRESENT STATUS— FourtH PaGE. FAOTS AND RUMORS ABOUT THE SPRING STRIKES—COMPTROLLER’S RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS—THE NEW REVIEW GROUND— Fourtu Pace. McDONNELL, THE ALLE FORGER, DECLARED TO BE AN OLD OF DER! DRAMATIC AND DIVORCE SUITS! HIGHWAY ROBBERS SENTENCED TO TWENTY YEARS’ IMPRIS- ONMENT! DECISIONS—Fovrtn Pac. ALDERMANIC ACTION UPON THE DEMISE OF MR. PETER SEY! MAYOR HAVEMEY- ER’S COMMUNICATION—THE SCHENCK ART SALE—FovurtH Pace. FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MONEY RATE! ACTIV- ITY IN STOCKS! TWO AMERICAN-RAIL- WAY SYNDICATES IN LONDON! QUAR- TERLY EARNINGS OF RAILROADS! GOLD AND GOVERNMENT-BOND FEATURES— Fir Page. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION! THE STANDING COMMITTEES—REAL ESTATE OPERATIONS—EXCISE LICENSE FEES—Fovurtu Page. NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE! STATISTICS AND COMMITTEES—THE MASONIC FAIR A SUCCESS—Fovuntn Pace. Tae ‘Parnons or Hospanpry’’ in Iowa, at @ meeting held in Waterloo, in that State, have resolved ‘‘that the interests of the farm- ers have been betrayed and sold out by all parties,”’ and have nominated a ticket of their own, namely:—D. W. Adams for Governor and James Wilkinson for Lieutenant Gover. nor. The Chicago Tribune opines that this action will not stop at Waterloo, which it regards as ‘‘a very proper name’’—for the old party hacks at any rate. Brawron Duncay, of Kentucky, is out in a manifesto in the San Antonio (Texas) Herald, in which he declares that ‘if principles are to govern, the democrats have a bright fature before them.’’ What a pity it is that Colonel Duncan had to go all the way from Kentucky fo Texas to let this pregnant truth be known. Ports from Salt Lake City—President Grant’s Views—Brigham Young’s Ex- pected Hegira. In view of recent reports from Salt Lake City of the retirement of Brigham Young from the most important business trusts of the Mormon Church, a correspondent at Washington called yesterday at the White House to learn the views of President Grant on the present situation of affairs in Utah, and, from the report given by our correspondent on the subject, it will be seen that the President adheres to his declaration of a month ago, thatif the Mormons obey the laws they have nothing to fear, but that “they must obey the laws.’ In the ab- sence, however, of an enabling act from Congress in behalf of the United States Courts, not much can be done by those courts, but in the event of a conflict between them and the Territorial courts, the army may possibly be called to intervene in support of the United States authorities. Meantime, though no official information on these matters has yet been received at Wash- ington, we accept the reports from Salt Lake City that Brigham Young is retiring from active business affairs, but still holding on to the leadership of church and people, in Utah. We published on the 8th instant a commu- nication from an intelligent writer on Mor- mon affairs in which—referring to the reported announcements on Sunday last of Brigham Young to the General Conference of his Saints in the Tabernacle of Salt Lake City, of his re- tirement from the control of the Deseret Bank and from his pet scheme of ‘Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution,” and after adverting to his probable retirement from his office of ‘Trustee in Trust for the Church of Jesus Christ’s Latter Day Snints’’— our correspondent submitted an explanation of these movements. It was to the effect that the invasion of the Gentiles has become too strong for the Mormon Prophet; that his schemes for freezing them out have signally failed and are reacting upon himself; that he is, accordingly, as fast as he can, shuffling out of his perilous Crédit Mobilier projects and leaving some of his trusting henchmen the bag to hold, and that, finally, fully satisfied that Prosident Grant is determined upon the extirpation of Mornién pdlygamy, the saga- cious Brigham is preparing for a hegira to Arizona, on the Mexican border, and in view of a permanent settlement in Mexico. In support of this explanation we give to- day, from another well-informed source, a statement of the reasons and the purposes governing the wily Brigham in the relinquish- ment of these aforesaid important and hitherto profitable trusts, as the head of the Mormon Church and people. He is, it thus appears, only shuffling out of these offices because they bring too much direct responsibility upon him. His pliant Territorial Legislature has also been helping him out of these difficulties, and now, relieved of his financial dangers and responsibilities and still retaining his sovereign authority as the President and prophet of his people, he is free to order his transportation train, and, bidding a long farewell to his beautiful little city of Zion and his River Jordan, strike for a new Land of Promise far to the southward at a moment's warning. He has accumulated an immense fortune, variously reported at five, ten, fifteen and twenty millions of dollars. He is unques- tionably a very rich man, and from his hun- dred thousand faithful and industrious fol- lowers his yearly income for the last ten years has doubtless been a fortune in itself. He is, therefore, prepared to offer the needy govern- ment of Mexico a sum of money which it and the Mexican landholders concerned can hardly resist. He could make a good bargain, say, for a large slice of the State of Sonora, to be settled, cultivated and developed by his people. In 1847 (two years after the exploring party under Fremont trod the shores of Great Salt Lake and navigated that mysterious inland sea) Brigham Young and his band of Mormon pioneers crossed the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, settled in Utah, and laid the foundations of Great Salt Lake City, under a contract with the sovereign authority over all that country at that day, the government of Mexico. Their success in developing the hidden resources of that howling wilderness and in pacifying the Indians would doubtless suggest with the first hint of such a proposition to that government the advantages to Mexico of a powerful Mormon community on her northern frontier. In settling in Utah the Mormons, who had been driven from Ohio and Illinois and Missouri, supposed that o thousand miles from Omaha, over desert plains and mountains, they were beyond the reach of the Gentiles for at least a hundred years ; but the gold and silver mines of all those new States and Territories acquired from Mexico, and the Pacific Railroad, have spoiled all these calculations, and have made Salt Lake City the half-way house of Gentile travel and trade between Omaha and the Pacific coast. Is this retirement of Brigham Young from his active business affairs, then, the beginning of the dispersion of Mormondom? Do these suggestive proceedings of the Mor- mon prophet foreshadow the abandonment by him of his devoted people, their sacred City of Zion and their holy land of Deseret? Or may we not conclude that having, by his tithes, taxes, assessments and profitable speculations, through o quarter of a century, provided amply for his nu- merous wives and hives of children, and being warned by the gathering infirmities of age that, under even the most encouraging conditions, the end of his reign is near, he is simply putting his house in order and pre- paring for the transfer of his robes of office and his prophet’s mantle to a man of his own choosing as his successor? Is not this a reasonable explanation of the surrender by Brigham Young of all these commanding and Incrative trusts? Yes; but the true answer doubtless lies much deeper than all this. We dare say that the Mormon dictator contemplates nothing less than a timely retreat from Utah for himself and his brethren of many wives, and the gradual evacuation of the Territory by his whole community and their final settle- ment in Mexico, We have reports of the appearance of numerous Mormons in Arizona, that old country of the ancient Aztecs, drained by those wild and wonderful rivers, the Colorado and the Gila. It is supposed that these Mor- mons are the advance guard or the pioneers of @ considerable caravan, soon to foljow, of | the most conspicuous polygamic brethren from Salt Lake City and the Mormon settle- ments, en rowe southward to the Mexi- can frontier. These devout imitators in matrimony of Jacob, David and Solomon know that President Grant wants only the authority from Congress in order to smite them hip and thigh, and that although the polygamy of Great Salt Lake was saved at the late session by the pressure of other abominations nearer home, such as the Crédit Mobilier and Senatorial briberies and corruptions, the Mormon day of reckoning is only for a brief season postponed; for a stringent bill of pains and penalties against the uxorious saints who have more wives on an average than the poor Gentiles will surely be passed next Winter. Thus convinced that ““galt won’t save them,’’ the Mormon high priests in polygamy, we think, are preparing for a timely escape from the United States Courts and their enlarged powers anticipated under a new charter from Congress. Assuming, then, that the Mormon prophet is getting ready with his hierarchy for an early departure from Utah and a temporary settle- ment in Arizona, preparatory to a permanent settlement in Mexico, what will be the destiny of the great body of his followers? The Pacific Railroad, and the Territorial lines con- necting with it, and the recently opened silver mines of Utah, have increased by millions the value of the houses, mills and lands of the Mormons. Their property in the Territory has thus more than doubled in value within the last ten years. In and around Salt Lake City their real estate within the last three years has risen to fabulous prices. Nor will it generally decline in value; for Salt Lake City, which has rapidly grown from ten to twenty-five thousand, will hardly be arrested in its growth short of a hundred thousand population. Whatever, then, may be contem- plated by Brigham Young for the safety of his institution of and followers in polygamy, the main body of his community will most likely remain in Utah to look after their property, and in the end they may choose to abandon polygamy rather than sacrifice their comfort- able homes and the enlarged liberty and chances of prosperity which will be theirs under a local Gentile government. We ap- prehend no trouble between Président Grant and President Brigham in the long interval to the next regular meeting of Congress, and by that time, from the application of a new law against polygamy, the Mormon problem will be virtually settled. Navigation Reform and Marine Re- search. The terrible calamity off the Nova Scotia coast forcibly suggests a new and all-impor- tant departure in the art of navigation. It clearly appears from the testimony of the Cap- tain and surviving officers of the Atlantic that their fatal blunder was in taking the set of the current as southeastwardly instead of allowing for a change from its normal direc- tion to the northwestward. While this is by no means the first time such a fearful error has been made, when taken with others we may mention, the question forces itself upon public attention how far the science of navi- gation itself demands correction. Naval history abounds with notices of dis- asters attesting the uncertainty and frequent treachery to the mariner of the best known and most powerful currents of the sea. In 1835, after a few days of northwest wind, on the Chilean coast, the British war-ship Chal- lenger went to pieces on the rocks, having made a mistake of reckoning amounting to forty miles, which Admiral Fitzroy, then on the coast, proved to be due to a reversal of Hum- boldt’s current, the ship experiencing a set to the southeastward, just contrary to that of the ill-starred Atlantic. In October, 1707, after hazy weather and a fresh southwesterly gale, the famous Sir Cloudesly Shovel, in the asso- ciation with several ships of his squadron, confounding the tidal set with Rennel’s cur- rent, was lost among the Scilly Islands, when, according to his reckoning, he was in the fair- way of the English Channel, nearly ninety miles distant, In the latter part of the last century, under similar circumstances, a French ship of the line, the Bellequeux, was over- taken in the Bristol Channel, on her way from Quebec to Brest, many miles from her course. And, in more recent years, we have similar astonishing mistakes made by the ablest navi- gators, among which may be cited the striking case of the United States ship Preble, in 1848, on her voyage from Hong Kong to the Loochoo Islands. On this occasion, hav- ing doubled the south end of the Island of Formosa, the sailer encountered a stiff northeast gale, compelling her skilful master to heave to under storm sails for three consecutive days, in which no observation could be taken. When the storm abated it was discovered that instead of being drifted, as he expected, southward by its fury towards the Bashee Islands, lying more than a hun- dred miles south of Formosa, the Preble had borne on the breast of the Kuro Siwo, or Japan Stream, agdinst the wind, to the northern end of Formosa. The current of the Kuro Siwo had thus defied the usual rules of navigation, which make it the sport of the wind, and had actually carried the little waif on its bosom more than a hundred and ninety miles out of her master’s most careful reckoning. Such nautical facts (and they might be greatly multiplied) have never, we believe, received their proper attention in the great science upon which the mariner depends to find his safe pathway through the ocean. In the great oceanic survey which led to the discovery of the hyperborean current off the Peruvian coast, which bears his name, Humboldt first remarked that its velocity in- creases near the land and is there greater than out at sea, and this is true with regard to the Gulf Stream and most currents that ran along the shores of continents. But this generali- zation is shown by the progress of marine ex- ploration to be open to important exceptions, which, unnoticed, lead to fatal disasters. Ad- miral Irminger, of the Danish navy, has in- stanced a voyage in which the equatorial cur- rent of the Atlantic took him 144 miles east- ward, when, by all the charts, it should have taken him in exactly the opposite direction; and Commodore Bainbridge records his own experience, in which the torrential current of the Gulf Stream out of the Florida Pass, usually rushing along eastwardly, with a ve- locity of a hundred miles a day, was reversed and took his squadron westward into the Gulf. It is a mortifying and shameful fact to our own government and that of Great Britain that the current vhenomena, variations, ve- locities, &c,, are left in such profound obscur- ity, and that, too, at a time when a wealth of talent and a mint of money are prodigally ex- pended upon Polar and Antarctic explora- tions. It will, no doubt, finally be established that the surface currents of the ocean (upon & knowledge of which, as just so fatally proved at Meagher’s Rock, when the sky is overcast, the lives of thousands depend) are subject to certain laws of vicissitude which may be determined. If, indeed, as may be found, these highways and ship-lanes of commerce areas inconstant as the winds and oscillate to and fro, like a pendulum, under the influ- ence of storms, tides and barometric changes in the atmosphere, it may be safely affirmed that scientific observation would soon seize upon the laws which control them. There never can be safety for the seaman in thick weather until he has this knowledge, which the world’s present resources do not afford ; and no time should be lost in governmental effort to obtain all the observations possible which may lead to greater security in littoral navigation. Until this all-important field of the highest scientific research has been more thoroughly worked the sentiment of the mari- time nations, ‘The seas but join the nations they divide,’’ must be regarded as only an idle boast. Spain—The Progress of Events. Our latest news from Spain does not show that the government is as yet fully awakened to the difficulties of the situation. If it is it has not put forth its energies. We have not heard that the Carlists have been driven from a single position. On the con- trary, we have it that they have received bat- teries of artillery and resumed operations in Navarre. They have been able to destroy the railway bridge at Puebla, and by this means of interrupting railway communication be- tween Miranda and Vittoria. The government has ordered, according to the (azelta, fifty thousand rifles to be purchased abroad. This is good; but is it not too late? Menotti Garibaldi has arrived at Barcelona and offered his services to the republicans. If Menotti does no more good to Spain than he did to France he might as well have stayed at home, It looks bad for the Republic when officers and men até passing over wholesale from the Republic to the Carlists. Surely Spain has not come to this, that divine right and legitimacy are again to have a chance to con- trol her destinies. Where is Serrano? What do the adherents of Alfonso mean? Are they waiting for chaos, to have the honor of creating order? Srreer Names on Sreeer Lamrs.— About a quarter of a century ago New York city—we may as well state that the idea originated in the Hzraup office—inaugurated the system of having the names of streets painted in conspicuous letters on the lamps at street crossings—a plan that has been adopted by all the principal cities in the country. Now we find that the system is going into decay, even in the very metropolis in which it was given birth; for hundreds, perhaps thou- sands, of street lamps do not con- tain the names of the streets they are supposed to be located in, or, if they do, they are invisible to the naked eye. This may arise from the fact that the names are not painted upon them at all, or, if they are, it is in such an obscure place and manner, like those on the new-fangled lamps of the in- verted washbowl pattern, that one has to climb the lamppost to see what the name is. The convenience of citizens, as well as strangers, demands that this neglect or over- sight should be remedied, and as the remedy lies in the hands of the city government it behooves the proper department to see that it is promptly applied. Tae AMERICAN PREPARATIONS FOR THE Vienna Exposttion, we are informed, are be- hind the others. This oughtnot to be. It is not characteristic of our energetic people. Many of the buildings devoted to other nationalities are completed, and elaborate show cases had arrived from all parts of Europe, while the carpenters were still at work, with a great deal yet to do, upon the American building. The distance of Vienna from the United States, and, perhaps, the want of that same feehng of interest in the Exhibition which the people of Europe, who are near, feel, may have caused the delay. For the same reason we may ngt make as good a show comparatively as we might make and as we would make at home. Still we urge the Commissioners and Ameri- cans generally to put the best foot forward, for the productions, arts and progress of our country will be judged in Europe by the exhibi- tion we make at Vienna. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir W. E. Logan, of Montreal, is sojourning at the Astor House. Count Iran des Franes, of France, yesterday ar- rived at the New York Hotel. Captain Montague, of London, England, is regis- tered at the Clarendon Hotel. Congressman J, A. Hubbell, of Michigan, is regis- tered at the New York Hetel. General George W. Cook, of Washington, is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, has arrived at the Brevoort House. Chief Engineer J. W. King, of the United States Navy, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel Ludington, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Congressional Delegate R. C. McCormick, of Ari- zona, is in town at the Hoffman House. Thomas Carlyle has been re-elected President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. J. H. King, President of the Bank of Mentreal, Canada, is in town at the Brevoort House. George W. Carleton, the New York publisher, and family arrived in Bermuda on the 29th ult. Senator 8, C. Pomeroy, that beatified politician of Kansas, yesterday arrived at the Astor House. General Geerge A. Sheridan, Congressman at large from Louisiana, 18 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judges A. H. Bailey, of Rome, N. Y., and D. A. Smalley, ef Burlington, Vt., are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. AC. M. member of Congress has discovered that “living within one’s means’—former pay—is & very mean way of living. Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox. It was celebrated by democrats in Connecticut. William H. Hooper, ex-Delegate from Utah in Congress, succeeds Brigham Young as President of the Deseret Nationai Bank. M. Erckmann, one of the famous twain of French novelists—Erckmann-Chatrian—has been journey- ing throngh Eastern Europe and Egypt. A. J. Falls, Chief Clerk of the department of Justice, will be in New York to-day to make ar- rangements for the better accommodation of the United States Courts here, General Julius White, our Minister to the Argen- tine Ronnbite hag started frou Parig for 4is post. He had remained in Paris for some time to avoid the yellow fever in Buenos Ayres. “Honest Joe Hawley” is at the Hoffman House. He ran fer ahead of his democratic competitor for Congress. Connecticut democrats must rise early in the morning if they expect to overhaul Hawley.g Several of the dozen widows of the late Rajah of Jodhpur were anxious to have the rite of satti per- formed upon them, but the new Rajah restrained the iadies from this burning evidence of attach- ment to the dead, : Judge Baron Martin, of the Norwick (England) City Assizes, was recently presented with a pair of white gloves as a symbol of a blank calendar. The Performance of this ceremony has been balked by criminals for more than forty years. Mr. Haven, the defeated republican candidate for Governor of Connecticut, is largely engaged in the seal trade, He could net have been worse beaten if he had been a C. M. member of Congress and interested in the back pay steal trade. Our Minister at Constantinople, Mr, Boker, has returned to his post from Egypt. He attended the recent marriage festivities in Cairo, and then went up the Nile as far as Assouan on board a steamer placed at his service by the Khedive. His trip occupied two months, Major Powell lett Washington yesterday for Salt Lake City, whence he will go southward 400 miles, down the Green and Colorado rivers, te complete his geological survey. Congress made an appro- priation of $10,000 to finish the work, but it will not be enough to carry out the original plan, The old Charleston Courier and the Charleston News have been consolidated under the titie of the News and Courier. Why not “part it in the mid- dle,” like the Courier-Journal, Inter-Ocean, &c., and call it the News Courier ?—a very good and appropriate name for a newspaper, by the way. A bill has passea the Pennsylvania House of Representatives prohibiting minors from visiting variety theatres, negro minstrel exhibitions and like entertatnments in Philadelphia. Pottsville, then, must be a very poor place for such exhibi- tions, for they are mostly miners who live there. A FIRE PANIC. —+ Frightfal Fires Throughout Virginia— Special Despatches from Danville, Burkville, Norfolk and Gordonsville— Pine Timber, Farm Buildings, Resi- dences and Railroad Property Burned. RICHMOND, Va., April 9, 1873. From many quarters of the State accounts have been received of extensive fires in the woods, by which much damage has been done to houses, barns, fences, railroad tracks and other property. There was a report this ¢ Ve. ning that Danville was on fire and the Gestruction of the city threatened; another of a de structive fire at Gordonsville, where a railroad de- pot was destroyed; while by despatch trom Norfolk comes an account of the ravages of the fire in the Dismal Swamp, which extends over a large area of territory. The fires have been caused by very dry weather, which prevailed for some time through- out this section. THE SITUATION FROM DANVILLE. A telegram from Danville says:i—‘We have had a furious gale here to-day, and several fires broke out in the town, which at one time was thought to be in great danger. A house was burned at Jack- son’s Branch, @ negro settlement, half a mile from here. The woods and fields in the western part of Danville are now on fire; the loss cannot yet be estimated, but it will be heavy. Large fires are reported to have started in the woods near Leaksville, N. C., and have followed down the Dan River nearly to this place. There has been nothing definite yet heard from them. The loss to farmers is supposed to be very heavy. There is censider- able excitement in the city.” FRIGHTFUL DESTRUCTION NRAR BURKVILLE. From Burkville a telegram says:—‘Fires have been burning in the woods and old pine fields, in this vicinity, since yesterday evening. Last night they could be seen in several directions, and reached the barn of Mr. Keys, recently from Penn- sylvania, destroying it, with a lot of timber. To-day tne wind has been very high, feeding the flames. The barn of Mrs. Martha Bradshaw, living near the Southside Ratlroad, thres miles west of here, was burned to-day. This evening the fires reached the Richmend ard Danville road, some four miles west of here, burning along the track for about two or three miles, destroying considerable wood belonging to the company and damaging the track. The sills were burned and iron kinked. Both the Eastward and Westward bound passenger trains were delayed about an hour, but they passed ever safely. It began to rain about seven o’clock this evening. Several residences have been saved by hardwood. The farmers suffered seriously.” THR FIEND IN THE DISMAL SWAMP, A despatch from Norfolk we i—“The dry season has started the fires in the Dismal Swamp afresh, and a large extent of territory is being swept over in the very heart of the Swamp, and lai juan- tities of cord wood, standing and cut timber fenc- ing, &c., have been destroyed. Three dwellings near Deep Creek have been consumed by the fires to- day, near Bowers Hill on the Seaboard and Roan- oke Railroad. Yesterday afternoon the trees were ablaze thirty feet high; thelight of the cenflagra- gion can be seen brilliantly from the city to-nighit and if a drenching rain does not set in very soon the destruction must be fearful.” THE FIRE AT GORDONSVILLE. A despatch from Gordonsville says:—“‘The whole country is on fire and the flames are sweeping everything before them. A great many Dlldings are burned down and the fencing destroyed. iL the buildings at Milton’s Landing and about one hundred yards of the track are burned. The rails are so badly injured that they cannot be straightened, The destruction has been genefal throughout most. joining counties and west of Staunton. FATAL BLASTING ACCIDENT, One Man Instantly Killed and Another Terribly Injured While Sinking the ‘Tracks of the Harlem and New Haven Railroads. While Michel Dupuis, aged twenty-one, a native ef Canada, residing at 1,572 Third avenue, and Daniel Geary, aged thirty, unmarried, a miner, bern in Ireland and residing at 143 East Ninety- second street, were engaged in sinking the tracks of the Harlem and New Haven Railroads in Fourth avenue, between Ninety-second and Ninety-tnird streets, pursuant to a recent resolution of the Common Council, a blast which they were load- ing in the main shaft ef the excavations suddenly exploded, instantly killing Dupuis and terribly in- juring Geary, whose left Jeg was broken, his eye- sight eres and his head and body terribly burned. Officers of the bap ag tae precinct rendered prompt assistance, and Police Surgeon White, who was summened, attended Geary, who was imme- diately afterwards remeved to the Reception Hos- pital, in biel ne street, where he new lies in a critical condition. * The mangled body ef Dupuis was taken to the Morgue, where Coroner Keenan, who had been notified, subsequently held an inquest, which showed the fatal occurrence to have been acci- dental, but caused by carelessness on the part of the deceased and the injured man, The body of Dupuis was delivered to friends for transporta- tiom to Canada for interment, PROBABLE SUICIDE OF A LADY. About ten days ago a young woman called on Captain Woglom, of the Fifth precinct station house, and informed him that her father had re cently gone West to settle some real estate matters, leaving her mother and herself at a resi- dence in South Fourth street to await his return, Shortly after his departure the young woman says that her mether became quite despondent and finally left herself, leaving @ note behind, sayin, that ifshe did not return ina few days she woul never be seen again alive, At this interview with the Captain the young woman refused to give the names of her parents or herself, promising that she weuld do so in a few days if she did not hear from either of them. Yesterday she again called upon the Captain, and i Leg oe to be overwhelmed with rief. She said that her mother’s name was Beards- ley, and that their previous residence was 106 South Fourth street. She believes that her mother has committed suicide, but says she knows nothing of the family troubles. She describes her mother thus:—Falr complexion, gray eyes, mixed gray hair, is quite thin, five feet two inches in height, slightly built, and was between forty-five and fifty years ofage. When last seen Mrs. Beardsley was dressed in black. ~~ NAVAL ORDERS. — WasHIncTon, April 9, 1873. Second Assistant Engineer George S. Gates is detached from the Iroquois and ordered to the Ashuelot, in place of Second Assistant Enginees Fallner, detached and ordered home; Second As- sistant Engineer William Rowbotham is detached rem the Monocacy and ordered to the Palos, vice Second Assistant Engineer F. L. Oeoper, detached and ordered home ; Second Assistant Engineer J. P. Mickley is ordered to the Lackawanna, vice Second Assisiant Engineer William E, Sjbley, detached ond ordered OU. SPAIN. _ The Carlist War and Church Question—Proving cial Insular Biot. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Maprip, April 9, 1873, General Sabalis, the Carlist chieftain, with « force of insurgents, is within six kilometres of the town of Pingcerdo, in the province of Gerona, Am attack was expected, and the women were fleeing from the town. The men were preparing to defen@ spe vine seninan ibe sagerte of the insurrectiony CIVIC EXPULSION OF JESUITS. The inhabitants of Salamanca have expelled th@ Jesuits from that city. At Salamanca is the most extensive—immense—Jesuit college, lately used ag @ clerical seminary, in Spain. : PROVINCIAL INSULAR RIOT. : There has been rioting at Port Mahon, in the Balearic Islands. The rioters demand the release of a number of soldiers who have been place@ under arrest. PORTUGAL. The Parliamentary Session Terminated. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Lisson, April 9, 1873. The session of the Portuguese Cortes has bees brought to a close, FRANCE. Political Canvass for a Parliamentary Seat im Paris, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Parts, April 9, 1873. The moderate republicans in ti National Assem- bly have advised Presidens Thiers to withdraw M, de Rémusat’s candidacy for the vacant seat in that body from Paris, as they believe his defeat is cers tain, M. Barodet, a citizen of Lyons, has also accepte@ @ nomination for the vacancy in the representa. tion from this city, and will ceme to Paris to- morrow to take part in the canvass, He issued #& farewell address to-day to the people of Lyona, but the Prefect of that city would not allow it te be published, “GERMANY. Imperial Visits to the Bnssian and Anstrian, re sy Capitals, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. é BERLIN, April 9, 1873, His Imperial Majesty Emperor William, the Chan cellor Prince Bismarck, and General Von Moltke, accompanied by a brilliant retinue, will leave this city for St. Petersburg on a visit to the Ozar Alexander on the 25th inst., and the Crown Prinoa, Frederick William and his wife, the Princess Vios torla, will take their departure for Vienna the fol« lowing day. IRELAND. Munster Fishermen on Strike and in Fatal Come flict with the Police. : TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, DUBLIN April 9, 1873, ‘) A conflict occurred this mornimg in Kinsale—s town situated thirteen miles souh-southwest of Cork, on an estuary of the Bandon River—betweem the fishermen of that town, who ge on a strikey and a force of police. Two of th strikers were killed and several injured. At lat accounts tha fishermen were again assuming a threatening attitude, and a renewal of the disorler was fearedy ROME. His Holiness the Pope Still in ; Critical Condie tion of Health. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORI HERALD. Romi, April 9, 1873. His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninthsuffered consid« erably from sickness yesterday, mt is better im health to-day. He is still confined io his bed. GREECE. An American Admiral in ‘he Capital. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK KRALD. ATHENS, ‘pril 9, 1873. Rear Admiral James Alden, of the Uijted States Navy, has arrived nere. CHINA AND JAPAN. The Russian Imperial Tourist Takes Leave—the Court Costume Question Postponed— Japanese Diplomacy. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, SHANGHAE, April 9, 1873, The Russian Grand Duke Alexis left this cit; to-day for Japan. JAPANESE DIPLOMACY, A Japanese Embassy, of which M. C. W. Legene dre, the United States Consul at Anoy, is a mem. ber and second in rank, 18 on its wa} to Pekin. ‘ The audience question has been pstponed untitf the return of the Emperor from lt annual tem days’ visit to the ancestral tombs. VERDICT AGAINST TOM SOTT. An Injured Passenger Obtins $8,008 Damages in Trentos For the last three days the United tates Circuity Court at Trenton has been engaged n hearing a suit for damages brought by Jerome EPollard and wife against the Pennsylvania Railrid Company; for personal injury done to Mrs, Pollar@yhile in tha cars of the defendants at Jersey City,ntne Sum< mer of 1871, The piaintiffs are residentof Chicago At the time of the accident Mrs. Pollal had been on her way from that city to New York, The traim upon which she was travelling was nea the depot at Jersey City, running at @ slow ratwhile tha lady was standing in the car near heseat, and, when in the act of arranging her daugier’s hair,, preparatory to leaving the traina sudden ind violent dort, was given to the tr, which caused her to fall against the end! the seat, striking her in the spinal joint. The ralt was a serious injury, from which she still sfers. The sum of $20,000 were claimed as damies. Mrs, Pojlard’s depositions were taken in Ctago ang read in Court, a8 she could not put impersonal appearance. Messrs. Abbott, of New ork, an@ Mr W. Creveling, of Trenton, acted aer coun« sel, while Mr. J. W. Scudder conducted = case ont behalf of the one el company. Judge |xon pro« to rge the jury yesterday thalf-past two Svelock. The jary retired, and aftepeii iy it LS THE 8T. PATRICK'S DAY MUIER, Post-Mortem Examination In the case ef Jacob Young, tl Gejan pia baker, of 1,828 Third avenue, Who was Mufred im Seventy-fourth street, on St. Patrick's Dy by a ng of ramans, Deputy Coroner Cushmamesters fay ‘made a post-mortem examination on ‘body, and found that death resuited from es five hours brought in a verdict for tipi: $8,000 damage causing @ large abscess, which was due to & stab wound of the left side he had received} the hands of the ruMans. Coroner Herrman dee cided that at nine o’clock next Monday nrnin: he will give the matter a thorough investigapn a the Nineteenth precinct station house, ninth street. THE WELLAND CANAL. St. CaTHERtnes, Canada, April 9, ¥3. The Welland Canal will be opened for navighion Qn the 2ist inst Eashitty4