The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVIIL,..............2426.:NO0 LOL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Reneu's Last Buon, &c, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Buregsque axp Onto, NEW FIFTH AVENUEK THEATRE, 728 and 730 5 way.—OL Hxabs axp Younc Hxants. vice ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Law in Naw York. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Graxo Vantery Exter- TAINMENT, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tue Scovrs or tax Prarnis. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleecker streets.—Humrry Duwrry. UNION SQUARE THEATER Union square, between Broadway and Fourth av.—C NJ ACK—MICAWBER, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth t—Davip Gannick. GERMANIA THRA @venue.—Das Stirtun GRAND OPERA HOU Twenty-third st. an@ Eighth fav.—Uncix Sam, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Danpvr O'Down, ‘ourteenth street, near Third MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Sxa or Ice, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner 6th av.—Necxo Minstaeusy, 0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d st. and 4th ay.—Afternoon at 2—Granp Concxnr. BARNUM'S GREAT SHOW.—Now open, Afternoon and Night. Rink, 3d avenue and 68d street LENT’S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fourth ay. and 26th st, Alternoon and Evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— BciENCE AND Aut, EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, 80 Union place, corner of Seventeenth street. TRIPLE SHEET. = — New York, Friday, April 11, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NEW YORK CHARTER FRAUD IN THE SENATE! SCHEMES OF THE LOBBY’— LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC—SixtH Pace. THE CHARTER PASSED BY THE SENATE! AN ALMOST UNANIMOUS VOTE! HOW GREEN'S RETENTION WAS ACUOMPLISHED! THE PARK TREASURY RECORD! SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE—MARINE NEWS—Tentu Pace. WR. O’KELLY AND THE SPANIARDS! HE ASKS FOR A TRANSFER OF HIS CASE TO HAVANA! THE TRIAL ORDERED TO BE HAD IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA! UNAVAIL- ING INTERCESSION! A SHARP CONFLICT, WITH SEVERE LOSS TO BOTH SIDES, NEAR MANZANILLO! A PERSONAL SKETCH OF O'KELLY—Turrp Pace. BRIGHAM YOUNG DEFINES HIS POSITION AND WHE STATUS OF “THE CHURCH OF CHRIST 1” UTAH a SAFE ABIDING PLACE AND ARIZONA A LAND OF PROMISE! HE HAS NOT AMASSED WEALTH AND PLACED IT IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND, AND DOES NOT INTEND TO RELINQUISH HIS LEADERSHIP—SEVENTH Pace. ACTIVE PREPARATIONS FOR A RENEWAL OF THE MODOC WAR! CAPTAIN JACK WANTS NO MORE “GAS! HIS PONIES CAPTURED! THE PEACE MEN DESPAIR OF DOING ANYTHING—SEVENTH PAGE. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR VIENNA EN ROUTE—GENERAL TELEGRAMS—SEvVENTH PAGE. THE CARLISTS ASSAULT PUICERDA! A RE- PUBLICAN VICTORY! A FORCED LOAN DEMANDED FROM VILLA FRANCA—MANY PERSONS INJURED BY AN EXPLODING SHELL ON A BRITISH WAR-SHIP—GENE- RAL EUROPEAN CABLE NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. A GREAT GALE CUTS OFF ALL COMMUNICA- TION WITH THE ILL-STARRED ATLANTIC! THE VESSEL MAY GO TO PIECES! A BODY RECOVERED FORTY MILES OUT AT SEA! ARRIVAL OF SOME OF THE DEAD AT THIS CITY! REPREHENSIBLE CON- DUCT—Tuirp Pace. TUE GREAT FORGERIES IN ENGLAND! McDON- NELL, THE BIDWELLS AND NOYES CLEARLY PROVED TO BE THE GUILTY PARTIES—NEWS FROM CUBA AND MEX- ICO—SEVENTH PAGE. SOTHERN AND THE FLYING FEAT! A FINALE ACCURDING TO THE CODE DUELLO IN PROSPECT! HOW THAT BIG CROWD WAS “DONE BROWN"—Tuirp Page. SENERAL SHERM SAYS NO WAR WITH MEXICO 1S CONTEMPLATED! BANK TAXES! GREAT REV E FRAUDS UNEARTHED IN NEW YORK! THE PRESIDENT’S INDIAN POLICY—Tuirp PaGE. BEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS AND THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL SERVICE! HE GIVES THE REASONS FOR HIS RESIGNATION AND BIS Vi ON THE ADMINISTRATION! IMPROPER INFLU. ES AT WORK—Fourta PaGE. POSTAL TRANSMISSION! THE DIFFICULTY BE- TWEEN THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT AND THE RAILROAD COMPANIES—RELI- GION AND THE MARINES—LOCAL ITEMS— EIGHTH PAGE. SCHOOL TRUSTEES! TROUBLE ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF APPOIN'TMENT—LEGAL PRO- CEEDINGS IN THE VARIOUS COURTS— Fourti Pack. (NE LOUISIANA JUCKEY CLUB PREPARING FOR THE COMING MEETING! THE STABLES AND THE PURSES—ART MATTERS— FOURTH PAGE. fiNANCIAL OPERATIONS! FOREIGN EX- CHANGE, STOCKS AND GOVERNMENT SECURITIES ON THE RISE! GOLD FIRMER AND THE MONEY RATE STILL SYRIN- GENT—F itn Pace. & DEFEAT OF THE STRIKING GASMEN! A FULL SUPPLY UF GAS! NO MORE VIOLENCE— THE OTHER STRIKES—A SHAMEFUL DI- VORCE SUIT—E1cutH Pace. {THE EVASIONS OF THE USURY LAWS—REAL ESTATE—ANOTHER EAST RI BRIDGE— A CURIOUS VESSEL—A NEW STEAMSHIP— Firt PaGE. Goop Frmar will be observed as a close boliday by the Stock and Gold Boards and by the Cotton and Produce Exchanges. The Cot- ton Exchange has adjourned over until Mon- @ay morning. In London Saturday and Mon- sy will also be observed as holidays. As Good Friday is not a legal holiday the banks ‘will have to remain open as usual to meet the payment of drafts. The expediency, if not the propriety, of making the day a legal holi- day, is getting to be more striking every year. Governor Dix might make the matter the sub- ject of a special message to the Legislature, or the Legislature might take it up without any NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, The New York Charter Fraud in the Senate—Schemes of the Lobby. After three months of plotting, counterplot- ting and chicanery over the New York charter, the lobby have taken the matter in hand, and have at last fairly exposed their game in the Senate. Their object is to defeat the passage of any new charter, in order that the present office-holders on the democratic side, the remnant of the Tammany Ring, Police Commissioners, Fire Commissioners, Commissioners of Charities and Correction and others, together with the old Connolly heads of bureaus in the Finance Department, may retain their positions. The surest method by which they could accomplish their object was by obtaining enough votes to retain Comptroller Green in office—a proposi- tion which the Senate had repeatedly defeated by a decisive majority. This they succeeded im doing yesterday, and from the character of the lobby agents employed in the work it can be readily understood by what means the result was secured. Asit is univer- sally conceded that Comptroller Green is not capable of discharging the dutiés of the head of the Finance Department to the advantage of the city, however valuable may have been the services he rendered in the early hours of the reform movement through his relations with Comptroller Connolly, and as it is noto- rious that the Assembly is largely opposed to his retention, this new scheme of the lobby is depended upon for so embarrassing and com- plicating the issues as to render the final defeat of the charter highly probable. The democrats in the Senate, of course, aided in this plot, and it is said that the dem- ocrats in the Assembly are to be ‘‘convinced’’ by the customary legislative ‘arguments’ of the policy of following the example of the democratic Senators. A rumor prevails that fhe Custom House Ring is assisting in the work for their own ends. The prior action of the Senate in placing the appointing power in the hands of Mayor Havemeyer and retain- ing four of the present republican heads of bureaus for the balance of their full terms was not acceptable to the Custom House poli- ticians. The officers retained are not of the stripe of republicanism that finds favor in the Murphy wing of the party, and the Mayor's bitter denunciations of the men who ‘“gam- ble all night to cheat each other and plot all the day to cheat the people’’ give them but little hope of receiving favors at his hands in the distribution of the remaining offices. Hence they prefer the present muddled and disorganized government to one which would be likely to strengthen the Mayor on the one hand and the opposition faction, in their own ranks, on the other hand. If, therefore, the disgraceful tampering with the interests of the city of New York which has been witnessed at the State capital for the past two or three months should end with leaving the remnant of the Tweed democracy undisturbed in their comfortable positions the responsibility will rest with the republican majority in the Legis- lature and with the Custom House Ring. The dishonesty of the ‘‘reform’’ professions of the republican managers, made prior to the last November election, is now exposed in all its nakedness. Their duty to the people de- manded at their hands a fair, honest charter for this city. ‘They could have secured this if they had chosen to place the appointing power where it properly belongs, in the hands of the Mayor, and to sweep away all the old office-holders in a body, or at least all who were objectionable either as Tammany Ring democrats or as incompetent public servants. This was the honest course to have pursued. They might have even succeeded in giving us a good government and have satisfied the people had they chosen to make a partisan question of the spoils and to take all the offices for republicans by the creation of commissions or otherwise. The citizens were indifferent as to who might fill the public de- partments, provided the offices were placed in the hands of honest, capable and enterprising men. Instead of either adopting a straight- forward, honorable course or carrying out boldly a decisive partisan policy, the republicans have been squabbling among themselves, and the Oustom- House Ring has been grasping at dictatorial powers until the lobby has stepped in and taken the game into their own hands. It is openly stated at Albany that a large amount of money has been raised by the present demo- cratic office-holders whose places were in dan- ger, and that this fund, aided by the rule or ruin policy of the Custom House Ring, is to defeat the passage of any charter this seasion and to leave the city government in its present deplorable condition, with all the departments jangling and inefficient, and all public progress and improvement blocked. This is the true meaning of the vote to retain Comptroller Green in office. It remains to be seen whether Speaker Cornell and Vice Presi- dent Robinson will defeat the lobby conspiracy by appointing a Committee of Conference that will agree upon an honest charter, and place the responsibility upon those who may be pur- chased to defeat the conference report. Russia and Austria—The Entente Cordi Emperor William, Prince Bismarck and Von Moltke, with a brilliant retinue, are to leave Berlin for St. Petersburg on the 25th of the present month. On the following day, according to the programme, the Crown Prince of Germany and his wife, the Princess Victoria, will leave Berlin for Vienna. This announcement is valuable, chiefly for the reason that it shows that a good ufiderstanding prevails. among the three imperial families, Emperor William, in the most hand- some manner possible, repays the visit which the Czar Alexander made to Berlin at the close of the late war. Austria, however, was not unkind on that occasion; and as Austria is now recovering from her misfortunes and commanding attention through her grand World’s Fair, the Crown Prince and his amia- ble Princess go to Vienna to take part in the opening ceremonies of the Exposition. In itself this interchange of courtesies is all very well, For the present it means peace, Would that it could convince us that the peace would be lasting! Unhappily, it gives us no such assurance. On the arrival of Emperor William with his suite St. Petersburg will bristle with bayonets, and Russia will adorn herself in the gorgeous panoply of war. It will be the same in Vienna on the occasion of the opening of the Exposition. The peace of to-day may be shattered to-morrow; and then Germany, what will signify all those professions of friendship? Poor France, so recently impe- rial, too, is now left out in the cold. But France can afford to be indifferent.. Her time will yet come. a ER The Imprisoned Herald Commissioner. In our latest despatches from Cuba, pub- lished elsewhere, will be found the fullest in- formation we have been able to obtain re- specting the position of Mr. James J. O'Kelly. He was in prison at Manzanillo on the 8th inst., and in view of the impossibility of de- fending himself properly thero asked his removal to Havana. ‘This natural request the Captain General has seen fit to deny, although so urged by United States Consul General A. .T. A. Torbert. The trial has been ordered by Gencral Cebal- los instead to take place at Santiago de Cuba— a point still more remote than Manzanillo—as though the purpose was to throw all possible obstacles in the way of communication. We cannot say which is the more unjust, the ar- rest and detention itself, the nervousness with which it has been kept secret, or the refusal to give their guiltless prisoner the simple right of an investigation where Spanish power in Cuba is: strongest, and where he could at once con- vince even the most wilfully blind of his entire innocence. Why send him still further wvaway from Havana? While all the liberal thought of the civil- ized world is applauding the efforts made by the people of Spain towards emancipation from old despotisms, ancient prejudices and cancerous political evils, what a sad contrast is furnished by the action of the Spanish authorities in Cuba relative to our commis- Whgle Spain is struggling for light Spanish Cuba is struggling vainly against it. Because of the light it will let in upon the dark places of Spain’s old misgovern- ment the Spanish Republic is hailed; be- cause of the light which a niéwspaper writer can let in upon the horrid war in Cuba (bar- barous on both sides) he is imprisoned, threatened and isolated. Mr. O'Kelly has procured information which the American government has expressly stated the neces- sity of obtaining. The civilized world, in fact, asked information about the dark, bloody and endless strife ‘‘at our doors,"’ and Mr. O’Kelly’s only offence is in pro- curing it, Will the Republic of Spain proclaim through its representatives in Cuba that to learn the truth is « There can be no other ac- cusation against our commissioner, let sophistry and prejudice twist his straight- forward action as they may. Captain General Ceballos recognized the neutral, journalistic character of our commissioner, as he did that of his predecessor, Mr. Henderson. He ex- tended more favors to the latter; that is all the difference. In his letter to Mr. O'Kelly he spoke of the dangers that might befall him among the insurgents, and how unjust public opinion might distort his possible death among them into a Spanish assassina- tion. He then told him to proceed ‘at his own risk.” These unpromising conditions Mr. O'Kelly accepted. His mission was no se- cret and his careful impartiality was evidenced in several letters to the Hznarp. Assured by General Morales of the manner in which he could obtain ‘‘pardon” if he needed it, he left for the rebel lines, The belief that he could be, even constructively, a spy, was never entertained by the authorities. Once past the Spanish lines, he could have left the island without ever recrossing them. This the most rancorous Spanish partisans have hastened to state. But Mr. O'Kelly was an impartial journalist and nota spy. He did not sneak away from the const, as he could have done; but, respecting his own ond his mission’s dignity, returned in good faith to the Spanish lines. This is the man on whom the Spanish authorities seem to imagine they can wreak a malicious vengeance with impunity. With the life of such a representative of the highest interests of journalism in danger we can rely on the press of America in the expres- sion of their opinions, His life is the common cause of all. The attempt to shut out un- biased inquiry in Cuba,’ with murder threat- ened in furtherance of that attempt, appeals in but one way to the American press— namely, os a blow at the cause of intelligence, which is the cause of all. In simple justice to the brave man who has carried the banner of intelligence amid the scenes of this deadly, crime-stained war in Cuba we appeal to all humanity against his persistent persecutors,* convinced that the voice of civilization will be with us, and that the great, godlike voice will be obeyed. Apart from the flagrant folly and injustice of Mr. O’Kelly’s arrest and detention, we would gravely ask the Spanish authorities what they would expect to gain could they even murder him without fear of the consequences? Do they imagine the world would thenceforth be content to let the Cuban war of horrors proceed for another five years with- out question? Supposing that Mr. O’Kelly’s blood could be shed without civilization demanding redress for the deed, do they think that the exact state of the hor- rible strife would escape recital and publica- tion? If their object be to stifle the voice of appalled humanity, the imprisonment, the murder of o Henaupv correspondent will not form one thread for the gag. We have repeated the statement that no effort to identify our commissioner with any bias or partisanship in the qnestion beforebond will do other than injure the sioner ! crime? AFiin 11, 1873—TRIPLE Spanish cause in the eyes of the world. His pledges to speak impartially of what he has seen are too deeply registered to be even effaced by this blind persecution. Look at the question in what oblique light they may, the Spanish authorities will find themselves before the one immutable fact, that they are persecuting, imprisoning and threatening a man whose only crime is honestly, openly seeking the trut in the broad interests of humanity and civilization. This is the light in which the press, the people and the governments of America and England will regard it. Can the Spanish authorities venture to murder such a man? An Epistle from Brigham Young. While the Henarp has been sending its commissioners to Africa and to Cuba, and has its representatives in every civilized nation of the earth, seeking to gather up the facts of current daily history, it has at no time been indifferent to passing events at home, and where energy and bravery have been called for it has had willing mes- sengers ready at moment's notice to go whither duty called. The deep preju- dices existing in Utah between the Gentile and the Mormon have rendered it difficult to receive from that Territory at any time a per- fectly unbiassed report from either side in the controversy that has so @ng continued to threaten the peace of the people and the sta- bility of its best commercial interests. With a realizing sense of our obligations, as an independent journal to spare no effort or expense in placing before the world the facts of all controversies that interest our people, we thought it but fair and just to the Mormon Prophet that he should be heard at this time, when there is so much ramored and so little understood about his purposes and designs that seem calculated to disturb the commercial relations of the Mormon people with the rest of the world. We offered to ex-Governor Young the use of our columns to explain. He has done so in his own way and style, and we give his de- spatch verbatim. It is not fitting that we should at the present. moment comment at any length upon his sentiments and the judgment that he passes upon his own labors and the purposes of his life, but we may properly enough suggest that if the same liberality of sentiment ex- pressed in this epistle were borne out in the sermons in the Tabernacle and in the Mormon press at Salt Lake City there would be little foundation for quarrel be- tween the Saints and the sinners. At tho ripe old age of seventy-two we can well imag- ine his desire for peace, and we would be glad, indeed, that the worldwide publicity which the Henanp gives to the utterances of the Mormon Prophet this morning would be the ushering in of the millennium in Utah. We are, however, given to some cynicism in face of Brigham’s magnificent prospectus of his own and his Saints’ little commercial games. He is prophetic in his despatch, probably the first instance of prophesying by telegraph on record. ‘Time alone tests these things. Goed Friday. An eminent English artist has for the past two years been engaged upon a picture which is entitled ‘The Shadow of the Cross.’’ ' It represents the sunset hour, the scene being a carpenter's shop and the characters the Saviour and His mother. The day’s work is just done, and Christ stands erect, His arms extended in the ancient attitude of prayer. His mother kneels, with her back turned tow- ard theobserver and her face in the direction of her Son. The room is filled with the sacred radiance of a solemn sunset, and as the figure of Jesus intercepts a portion of the light the shadow of a cross is projected from His erect attitude and outstretched arms. Upon this shadow His mother’s gaze is supposed to be riveted, with a tragic prevision of all that it portends. Her face cannot be seen, but her hands and arms are eloquent, and inform us of her agonized amazement almost as force- fully as her features could do. In that grim shadow she reads, with spiritual eyes, the pathway that her Son must tread. The moral of His life for the first time breaks upon her, and she shrinks in speechless anguish before the Divine Mystery to which she has been the medium of giving birth. Perhaps the emotions which the artist has imparted to Mary at this supposititious moment will find an echo in more than one heart during the solemnities of to-day. It is one thing to have followed the ritual during a life- time ; it is another to penetrate the spiritual meaning which underlies itand to take in, broadly and deeply, the whole significance of Christ’s birth, life, sufferings and death. The shadow of the cross has fallen over all human- ity, and that darkness imprints a tender stain upon the garment of every penitent. The sombre poetry of the Passion finds a rhyme in every heart, and all human nature's saddest and most valuable experiences are versified to the metre of the crucifixion. With all shat there is attractive and fascinating about an honest scepticism, faith still continues to soften its millions of hearts, and the world is better for believing that those who are willing may be saved by the death of One who was perfect. But it would be pleasant to antici- pate that the Good Friday which we solemnize to-day would leave an. ineradicable influence upon society, The most that we aro warranted in expecting is that its celebration is one of those beneficent stays which prevent our being quite so reckless as we might otherwise be- come, Human nature in general—and, per- haps, New York human nature in particular— needs as many of these sacred hinderances as can possibly be secured, and we therefore hope that the exalting influences of to-day will ex- tend widely, deeply and permanently, Tax “Damy Graruic’ Has Workep Irs Way to permanency and success. Its first efforts to present illustrations according to the new method did not fill the critical mind with brilliant auguries. In the short space of six weeks it has much improved, and, both from the skill and excel- lence of the work presented and the taste and enterprise in the choice of subjects, the Graphic gives fair promise of its future, In yesterday's issue it gave a fine and accu- rate portrait of Mr. James J. O'Kelly, the Henatv’s Cuban commissioner. The accom- papying memoig we publish elsewhere SHEET. eens The Spring Floods=Danger Impending in the Mississippi Valley. The early arrival of the Spring floods will be noticed with general concern, especially in the broad valley of the Lower Mississippi. For the past week the rainfall. has been heavy through the West, varying from two to nearly five inches through Indiana, Mlinois and Missouri. At Fort Wayne the reports by tele- graph mentioned yesterday the heaviest rain— amounting in forty-eight hours to three and three-fourths inches—known in five years. The floods of the great Western waters occur in February under the snow melting suns of that month, and are followed by the May and June rise, which often commences early in April. The latter inundation is the effect of the Spring rains brought from the Gulf of Mexico in the southwesterly or great equatorial current and condensed in the country, still cold from the Winter's refrigeration. The snow and rain fall returns for the past three months show that, notwith- standing the great droughts in some parts of the Southern hemisphere, for example at the Cape of Good Hope, in the United States an unusnal amount of water has been falling. According to the law of weather chances and probabilities recently deduced by M. Kappen, the Russian meteorologist, the weather has o decided tendency to preserve its character, and we may stand cautioned to expect heavy rains and progressive floods from this time till the middle of June. The section most eminently threatened is the Mississippi Valley, south ot Cairo, and if the Ohio, the Missouri, the Illi- nois and the Red Rivers combine to swell the volume of the Father of Waters at this juncture, the dan- ger of overwhelming the Jevees and destroying the cotton crop will be very great. It will be remembered that the memorable flood of the great river in 1858 began just as this has done, early in April, and, gradually increasing, reached its disastrous culmination in the middle of June, inundating the city of Cairo and sweeping like a great tidal wave over the whole country to the southward. The Rocky Mountains are now beginning te dissolve their vast glaciers and snow accumu- lations of this long and terrible Winter, and the thousand streams which will flow from them to the Mississippi within the next month, reinforced by the floods of the Ohio, the Upper Mississippi, the Wabash and Tennes- see, will be likely to make a fearful assault on the already insecure embankments south of Memphis. It ‘is not yet too late to prepare for the probable emergency by fortifying the artificial bulwarks erected against the watery invasion. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Oongressman T. C. Platt, of Oswego, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge George W. Dobbin, of Baltimore, 1s at the New York Hotel. Judge George T. Bigelow, of Boston, is in town at the Brevoort House, Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, yester- day arrived at the New York Hotel. T. C. Callicott, of Albany, the former Speaker of the Assembly, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. J. W. Garrett, of Baltimore, the President of the Baltimore and Uhkio Railroad, is at the Brevoort House. Ex-Queen Isabella ts shortly going to Rome with the Prince of Asturias to have the youth confirmed by the Pope. Lieutenant Wheeler is making the final arrange- ments for resuming the exploration of Southern Utah and Northern Arizona, The Archduke Charles, of Austria, and the Prin- cess Marie, of Braganza, daughter of the ex-King Don Miguel, of Portugal, are betrothed. The Attorney General of the United States has appointed Mr. Peddrick to act as Chief Clerk of the Department of Justice during the absence of Mr. Falls. W. L. Scruggs, Who was appointed Minister to Colombia during the session of the Senate and whose nomination was not acted upon, was again appointed by the President yesterday for that mis- sion. Mrs. Milicent Garrett Fawcett, wife of Professor Faweett, the distinguished English liberal leader, member of Parliament for Brighton, is winning high commendation as 4 lecturer, having recently appeare@ on the rostrum in Liverpool with an able, common sense discourse upon “Luxury and ts Uses.” It is stated that we are likely to have a sort of Teligio-temperance commotion in this neighbor- hood before jong. Unlike the cholera or plague, which usually starts in the East and takes a west- ern course, this visitation comes from the West in the person of a noted backwoods exhorter who has been creating a tremendous sensation among sin- ners and inebriates in the western part of the country. A miner at Helston, England, lately started to go home with three cartridges of dynamile (concen- trated blasting powder) in his trowsers pocket. It is supposed he intended to blow up his wife in case supper should be slew or anything else should go wrong. He was found as bare as Adam betore his illicit fruit desert, deficient of one hand, and with @ large hole in lis stomach, His tin match box is reported missing. Our governmental swallows can scarcely be said to fly, but about this time ot the year they are called, and go in numbers, ‘‘on business,’ to the European Arcadia. On the steamship City of Brooklyn, which sails to-morrow, ex-Senator Cat- tell, of New Jersey; John P. Bigelow, Chief of the Loan Division of the Treasury; Colonel Richard J. Hinton, Inspector of Consulates, and Chief Engineer King, of the United States Navy, will be passen- gers. Mr. Bigelow and Senator Cattell, who was recently appointed an agent of the Treasury De- partment, are charged with a@ financial mission, and Colonel Hinton is going to Europe to overlook and report the condition of our Consular affairs. Mr. Bigelow ts now at the Hoffman House. ~~ ARMY ORDERS. Orders have been issued from the Wan Depart- ment under which General Rufus Ingalls, division and Depot Quartermaster at New York, goes to Vienna, to observe and report upon all appliances there exposed which have relation te the supplying and moving of modern armies by land andwater, his place betng temporarily supplied by Colonel 2Chas, G, Sawtelle. Colonel H. C. Ransom, Chief Quarter- master of the Department of Dakota, is transferred in the same capacity to the Department of lhe Gulf, which carries him from St. Paul to ‘New Orleans. Colonel Rufus Saxton is transferred from the Department of the Golumbia to that of the Lakes, removing him from Portland, Oregon, to Detroit, and displacing Major J. A. Pot- ter, who is to have & Southern station in exchange; Colene! R. N, Batchetier is transferred from New Y nd, Oregon; Major Renjamin 0. ‘master at San Antonio, Texas, ; Captain W. B. Hughes is trans- ferred from New Orleans to San Francisco; Ca| tain E. D. Baker from Utah to Dakota; Captain * G. C. Lee from Washington to the depot at Jeffer- sonville, Ind. ; Captain G. 0. Smith from San Fran- cisco to Fort Union, New Mexico, and Captain A. J. MeGonigle from the latter post to the charge of the National Cemetery branch of the Quarter- master General's office. Majors J. D, Bingham and M. J, Ludington are retained in charge of their present duties in the bureau at Washington. NAVAL ORDERS. Wasuineton, April 10, 1874, The President to-day appointed Capt. Wm. N, Jeffers, of the United States Navy, to be Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy Department, vice Rear Admiral Vase, who la to take command of the Etrovean Leet, ENGLAND. The Budget Reduction of the Sugar Dutice— Treasury Proposition for Its Operation—Ex- plosion on Board a War Ship—Bullion in Outflow from the Bank. TELEGRAM TO HE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, April'10, 1873, Right Honorable Mr. Lowe, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, has arranged to carry the reduction of fifty per cent en the sugar duties into effect next month, The reduction on raw sugar will take place on the 8th, and on refined sugar on the 28th. OUTFLOW OF BULLION FROM THE BANK. The bullion in the Bank of England has decreased £548,000 during the past week. ALARMING EXPLOSION ON BOARD A WAR SHIP. A shell exploded yesterday on board Her Majes- ty’s gunnery ship Cambridge, during practice at Devenport. It has been ascertained that many persons were hurt, but beyond this nothing can ba learned, as the authorities refuse to allow detaily of the occurrence to be made public, COMPLIMENT TO AMERICAN TALENT, The British Society of Engineers gave a com- plimentary banquet last night to Mr. Silas Sey- mour, of New York. THE STEAMSHIP CELTIC IN PORT, The passengers who arrived from New York by the steamer Celtic on her last trip held a meeting before reaching port, and adopted resolutions complimentary to the officers of the ship, THE VIENNA EXHISITION. TELECRAM 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD, TRIESTE, Apri! 10, 1873. The United States store ship Supply was towed into port to-day by the Brooklyn. The Supply has the American contributions for the Vienna Exhi- bition on board. VIRGINIA POLITICS. Meeting of the Republican State Central Committee—The Convention to Nomi- nate State Officers for Election in No- vember Next to Take Place on July 30—Radical Hopes of Success, Ricumonp, April 10, 1873, The election for State officers and a new Legislae ture will be held in November next in Virginia. A large meeting of the State Republican Committee was in attendance here to-day pursuant to call. The committee was full, every part of the State being represented, Hon. W. H. H. Stowell, mem- ber of Congress from the Fourth district, presided as chairman, There was entire harmony of senti- ment, Several. distinguished republicans not of the committee were also in the city, including. Congressman Platt, Colonel R. W. Hughes, Dr. Walsh, of Whiteville; Colonel William T. Early, of Charlottesville; State Senator Greene, of Peters- burg, and others, The committee fixed upon Lynchburg as the place and the 30th day of July as the time of hold- ing the Republican Convention to nominate a Gov- ernor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. The members of the committee represent that. there is little, if any, difference of opinion agto who will be the republican candidate for Goverffor, the. general feel! being 1n favor of Colonel Robert W.. Hughes, of Abingdon. There is mo probability of railroad issues being introduced into the republi- can platform, Colonel Hughes remarked that for thirty years political parties in this State had al- lowed their members to think as they pleased on railroads and religion. The disposition 1s to make popular education,, the material development oi the State through aid from the national government and the cultivation of liberal sentiments towards Nerthern. mechanics, manufacturers, farmers and capitalists coming here the leading ideas of the campaign. The republicans will probably express their appre-- Ciation of respectable and worthy carpet-baggers by putting Mr. CO, P. Ramsdell, Legislator from Sur- rey county, on their ticket as candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor. There 1s a general feeling im. favor of Mr. Lunsford L. Lewis, of Culpepper county, grandson of Judge Lomax and halt brother of Senator Lewis, as candidate for Attor- ney General. The committee express en- tire confidence that the Convention — wilt be harmonious, and believe that its nominations will be made by acclamation. They also speak with confidence of carrying the State, They say that Virginia gave Grant upwards of five thousand votes over Greeley, though the conservative can- vassers of the votes es counted them 2,000 ma- jority. ‘The members of the committee further declare that the jag in all parts of the State are looking anxiously for aid from Congress for the common schools and for the completion of the Vir- Sate water line, and are disposed to put their tate government in accord with the ruling party Congress. The report that Robert E. Lee, Jr., is to be the conservative candidate for Governor is without authority of well advised men of that party, and’ has no joundation whatever. THE MKEESPORT FIRE. plumes Vee es The Loss by the Destruction of the Na= tional Tube Works Estimated at Half a Million—List of the Companies in which Insurance Was Effected. PrrrspurG, Pa., April 10, 18%8.. The loss by the burning of the National Tube- Works, at McKeesport, last night, is larger than at first estimated. The main building was 285 feet long and 160 feet wide; the most important part of the machinery therein was destroyed with it. A blacksmith shop building, 130 feet by 35 feet wide, ‘was also destroyed, as well as the building over the Gas Producer storehouse, 160 feet by 20 feet. It was full of valuable stores. The total value of the buildii stores of all kinds and machinery is ea- timated at $500,00u. Workmen to-day are removing the débris, when the exact loss to machinery cam be ascertained. The following is a list of companies. in. which the works were insured:—Pheenix, of Brooklyn, $5,000; Franklin, of Philadeiphia, $5,000; Standard, of New York, $5,000; Royal, of Liverpool, $10,000; Imperial, of London, $10,000; Etna, of ‘Hartiord,. $10,000; Orient, of gpg $5,000; Alps, of Erie, $5,000; Connecticut, of Hartford, $5,000; Penn- Pees, $5,000; ndon, Liverpool and Globe, of England, $5, ; Commerce, of Albany, $2,500; National, of Hartford, $5,500; American, of Philadelphia, Bo Lorillard, of New York, $5,000; Commercial Union, of London, $5,000; Narragan- sett, of Providence, $5,000; German, 01 Erie, $5,000; Republic, of New York, $5,000; Howard, of New York, $5,000; Lancashire, of Manchester, $10,0 0; Fireman’s Fund, of California, $5,000; State of Missouri, $5,000: American Central, of St. Lonis, $5,000; Black River, of New York, $5,000; Artisans’, Of Pittsburg, $5,000; Pittsburg, of Pittsburg, $0,000; Citizens’, of Pittsburgh, $2,500. The remainder of, the insurance ($50,000) was in Pittsburg ofices, the Eureka, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Teutonia. City, Peoples’ and Allemania being among the: number. CHASE CITY. iene neniireemteninaenne Chief Justice Chase Waited Upon in Richmond and Presented with an Address Touching the Incorporation cf the Town Named Aftey Him. f RicuMmonp, April 10, 1873. A deputation of English and Northern settle called on Chief Justice Chase, at the residence of General Bradley T. Johnson, this morning, amd presented him with an address on the occasion of the incorporation of Chase City, in Mecklenburg, county. This is the largest and wealthigst Northe ern colony in the Southern States. Among the deputation were Judge Wright, late of Connect~ cut; Rev. J. Yashenburst, late of Ohio; John bk Boyd, last President of the Philadelphia Goid retical aud Mr, J. A. H. St. Andrew, of Eng- and. The Chief Justice, in reply to the address, prom- ised to visit Chase City, expressed the greatest pleasure at the extraordinary progress of Northera and English emigration in this State, and sai! that by this means Virginia would, ere long, sarmount all the dimculties of her present impoverisned con- dition. He was espectally giad to see 30 many Ohio and other Western settiers in the Old Do-' inion. man enpouee to an inquiry on the part of the Chi Justice the deputation stated that both Engli: and Northern settlers generally were fully satisfi with their success in this State. General Johnson entertained the deputation: elegant style, and after toasting sugvess to Unaae ty the visiting settlers withdrew, highly gratued, wi h their reception by the Chief Justice. + THE HERALD AND ITS MARVELLOUS 139023, [rrom the Newark (N. J.) Register, April 10.) The New YORK HERALD 18 ony, of the wonders of the world, On Sunday last it ‘printed a quintuple sheet, and every day since a quadruple sheet. It is a prond satisfaction to Americans tc kuow that the largest Newspaper estaciisament in the world is theirs, The details connected with the publication of last Sunday's edition,read like @ fairy tale. Tne number consisted of ‘twenty pages—that is, 120 columns, ef which geventy-cight were advertiaue Lmenia and forty-two reading matter,