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APOCALYPSE. Revelations of Prophet Brig- ham Young. ‘THE SAINTS’ CASE STATED. * Special from the Head of the Mormon Church to the Herald. HE RESTS FROM LABOR. _ But Is Still Chief in Things Spir- itual and Temporal. “FACTS AS THEY ARE.” He Has No Hoarded Wealth in the Bank of England. ‘ UTAH IS A SAFE PLACE. “The Result of Mormon Labors, Peace, Prosperity and Civilization. ALL GOOD CITIZENS WELCOME. Arizona To Be Made a Garden and the Apaches Tamed. ’ THE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH ‘Posterity to Do Justice to the Prophet and Glorify His Name, Sart Lage Crry, Utah; April 10, 1873, “To THe Eprror or rae Henaxp :-- Your telegram is received. I thank you for ‘the privilege of representing facts as they are. “I will furnish them gladly at any time you make the request. For over forty years I have served my people, laboring incessantly, and am now nearly seventy-two years.of age and I need relaxation, ‘MY RESIGNATION ' g.Trostee in Trust for the Church, as Presi- dent of Zion’s Oo-operarive Mercantile Insti- tution and of the Deseret National Bank are made solely from secular cares and responsi- bilities, and do not affect my position as President of the Church. STILL IN COMMAND. In that capacity I shall still exercise super- vision over business, ecclesiastical and secular, leaving the minutia to younger men. 4 OUR INSTITUTIONS are well established and competent to succeed me, and my own investments remain as they were. ‘HL 8. Eldridge is now President of / THE MERCANTILE INSTITUTION. He is a merchant of long experience and well known to business men in the East, The paid up stock of this institution js nearly three quarters of a million. It carries a stock of merchandise of about a million and a half. The purchases for the past half year are over a million and a half in currency and about one hundred and forty thousand dollars in coin. The business done during six months reaches two and a half millions. It paid for the half year a dividend of ten per cent. ‘MY SUCCESSOR IN THE DESERET NATIONAL BANK is the Hon. W. H. Hooper, well known as our late Delegate to Congress. This institution is perfectly sound and is conducted on the safest business principles. OUR RAILROADS are in good condition. The Utah Central is thirty-seven miles long; its gross earnings for 1872 were $420,000. The expenses in round mumbers were $210,000; the net earnings were $210,000. I state these facts as efforts may be made to damage the credit of these institu- tions, There is ' ANOTHER RAILROAD here also doing good business. The Utah Southern is built about thirty-two miles, narrow guage. Roads connecting with this are being constructed into Little Cottonwood, Bingham Canyon and American Fork, to meet the demand for transportation to and from the various mining camps of these regions. The Utah Northern is being constructed from & junction with the Central Pacific through our principal northern settlements into South- eastern Idaho, and other narrow guage roads are in construction or in contemplation, THE APACIIES TO BE CIVILIZED, Wo intend establishing settlements in Ari- zona, in the country of the Apaches, persuaded that if we become acquainted with them we can influence them to peace in accordance with President Grant’s Indian policy, and open up that country to settlement by the whites, Our cities, towns and villages now extend about four hundred miles in that direc- tion; and, in view of the railroad crossing that country, we hope to be prepared to as- sist in its construction, and when completed bring a large portion of our emigration that way to settle the country. GOOD CITIZENS WELCOMED TO UTAH. In Utah wo have a fine country for stock raising and agriculture, and abundance of minerals awaiting development, and we wel- come all good citizens who loye neara and good order to come and settle with us. It has been OUB POLICY FROM THE FIRST to promote the agricultural interests, seeing this was the foundation of all others, and we have been for years furnishing staple products to the surrounding States and Territories, and we are now able to supply any demand likely to arise for grain, vegetables, &c., at market prices, to those engaged in mining pursuits, THE FRUITS OF THE EARTH. We have iron ores and coal in rich abun- dance. We have called merchants in every department of business, but WE LACK CAPITAL, and there is no safer place to be found in the United States, where property of almost every kind is less taxed and better protected—all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. NO PERSONAL HOARD IN THE BANK OF ENG- LAND. It has been frequently published that I had a deposit of several millions of pounds sterling in the Bank of England. Were such the case I would most assuredly use the means to gather our poor Church members from the old countries and bring them here, where their condition might be im- proved. All my means are invested here in improving this Territory in agriculture, manufactures and commerce. THE RESULT OF MY LABORS for the last twenty-six years, briefly summed up, are: — The peopling of this Territory by the Latter Day Saints of about one hundred thou- sand souls; the founding of over two hundred cities, towns and villages in- habited, by our people, which extend to Idaho in the north, Wyoming in the east, Ne- vada in the west, and Arizona in the south, and the establishment of schools, factories, mills and other institutions calculated to benefit and improve our community. THE SACRED CHARACTER. All my transactions and labors have been carried on in accordance with my calling as a servant of God. NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL AND TEM- PORAL LABORS. God has seen fit to bless me with means, and as a faithful steward I use them to benefit my fellow men—to promote their happiness in this world in preparing them for the great hereafter. MY WHOLE LIFE 18 DEVOTED TO THE ALMIGHTY'S SERVICE, and while I regret that my mission is not better understood by the world, the time will come when I will be understood, and I leave to futurity the judgment of my labors and their result as they shall become manifest. BRIGHAM YOUNG. SKETCH OF BRIGHAM YOUNG. A Glance at the Lite and Characteristics of the Chiet of the Latter Day Saints. Brigham Young was born in Whittingham, Wind- ham county, Vermont, on the 1st of June, 1801, and is consequently now within a few weeks of com- pleting his seventy-second year. Mis father re- moved to Smyrna, Chenango county, in this State, while he was still a child, and from that time until the thirty-first year of his age, when he empraced Mormonism, New York State was the home of the Rocky Mountain Prophet. BRIGHAM’S PARBNTS were very poor and could only afford to give him eleven and a half days of schooling, and, naturally without any ambition for the attainment of learn- ing, he did little for himself, and has never been able to write a sentence in the English language correctly. There was nothing before him In early life but hard work in the flelds, and as he approached man- hood he learned the trade of @ carpenter, painter and glazier. Brigham had no penchant for any feligion in particular. Some of his father’s family and rela- tives were Methodists, but whatever opinions he ever formed concerning preaching, praying and the Bible were inclined to scepticism. No form of religion ever presented any attractions to him until he heard of Joseph Smith, the young Mormon Prophet. He was at once convinced of the veracity of the new revelations and BECAME A DEVOTED DISCIPLE, After being baptizea he was ordained and sent out by the young Prophet as a missionary, and from that time (1882) he states that he “never did @ day’s work to build up the Gentiles.” In those days he was a fanatical enthustast, an excellent shouter, @ desperate exhorter, and he early imbibed the idea that “GOD HELPS THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES," deducing from this that Brigham’s first duty was to Brigham’s self. This he has never failed to re- member, The only time that he was ever known to dispute the dictum of his prophet-lecader was respecting the propensity which he even then evinced to ap- propriate to his own use the tithing which he had gathered from the poor disciples. Smith insisted that Brigham and the other apostles should give bonds for the honest performance of their auty in gathering the tithing, and that they should not use any of it for their own private purposes, Brigham retorted with the words of Scripture, which de- clare that it is unlawful “to muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn;” but the young prophet was MORE THAN A MATCIT for his wily disciple, and while admitting the truth of this statement, added that it was never said that the ox should be permitted to eat up all the corn. Brigham was unable to reply and very wisely relinquished the point at issue. The juture leader of the Saints was for many years & man of no particular mark in the Mormon Charch, for among the apostles and elders there were not a few whe were in every way his su- periors. He was chiefly DISTINGUISHED BY A TENACITY OF CHARACTER, and what he purposed at any time to. accomplish he never relinquished until it was done. In the troubles and persecutions of the Saints in Mis- sourt and Iliinofs he had his share, and when Smith Was assassinated he claimed that the tweive apos- tlea should lead the Church, and thus he, as Prest- dent of the twelve, became virtually the successor of the Prophet. Consequent upon the troubies which ensued after the death of Smith it was resolved that Nanvoo Connery epoenaoned sad Mace Sy Rocky Mountain a e future habitation of tne Saints. Thither, in 1847, BRIGHAM LED THE PIONEERS, returning the same year to the Missouri River. In the following Spring he again set out for Sait Lake teat iean Jrom that time to the present he has never been out of Utah Territory. During the administration of Minera Fillmore he I know APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF UTAH, dat it was net known by either the President or the Senate, when his appointment was confirmed, that he was a polygamist, and at the expiration of four years he was reappointed by Franklin Pierce. The trying dificnities incident to settling in a new country taxed severely the strength and en- durance of the Mormons, but Brigham and the aposties were Ca | in preaching up the necessity and dignity of ‘toil, representing jabor as the highest virtue, and, thus @@couraged, the peo- ple endured for many years the greatest priva- Hons without a murmur. When be first started for the Rocky Mountains, Brigham aimed at estab- AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT. Utah at that time was Mexican territory atfd the Prophet could without dimicuity have taken and held all the soil he wanted and ‘have bid deflance to the Mexican rulers; but the breaking out ¢f the war between that efele republic and the United States over?hrew all Brigham’s pines, for upon the conclusion of peace between the two countries. California, snd ali the territory east to the frontiers was ceded to the United States, and Brigham and the Mormens were, in spite of themselves, foreed in to acknowledge the authority of Uncle Sam, Hom the first occupation of Utah to the present tume, the history oe! Brigham Young and t has Been full of interest, and no local history of any portion of this continent has been fraught with incidents of more thrilling importance. THE AMBITION OF THE FROPURE OE been sleepless, an ie has ne be unless Fengaged in contention with the government or ity representatives. He hag dreaded peace among his people, and has been very successiul in keeping them united yf themselves by embroiling them in troubie with their neighbors, He has had a fancy for a row every few years, just to wake up the Saints and teach them faithfulness, He is A MONARCHIST AT MEART and in every thonght and wish, and he detests with uncompromising hatred all popular and republican forms of government, [He acknowledges no rule but that ef the priesthood—nis priesthood! ie claims to be the mouthpiece of God to the whole world and assumes that his sermons—bias- phemous and filthy though they often are—are divine revelations, and “as good peripture as any within the lids of the Bible.’ During the first years of the occupancy of the Rocky Mountain country Brigham, in common with the rest ef the Saints, was compelled to prac- tise the strictest frugality, and his business resources were inadequate for the maintenance of his numerous wives and children, But he had entire control of the tithing paid by the Beople, and has kept “an open accourt” there and has thus been enabled to live comiortably. He js possessed of A FEARFUL GREED FOR MONEY; he truly loves it, and no miser ever gloated over his gold with greater ecstasy, although he informs the faithful that *‘he likes money only for the good he can do with it,” and all that he the Lord has given him. It is believed that he is now worth many millions of dollars, but he could never have accumulated anything like one millien had he not had the tithing office at his back and been perfectly un- scrupulous “in a trade.” There are few persons who ever dealtwice with Brigham Young if they can avoid it. Before the Mormons left Nauvoo the Prophet, in a Sunday sermon, answered some me were curious respecting his means of support, a HE “LIVED BY SCHEMING.” He never uttered a greater truth, It has been the characteristic of his life. The United States expedition to Utah In 1858 and the bugjding of the telegraph lines and the Pacific Railroad across the Continent afforded rare oppor- tunities to Brigham Young for making money, but in the private speculations in which he has engaged HE HAS BEEN A FAILURE, Te farnishes to the world an illustration of the power of organization, but his reputation as one of the great men of the world 1s founded upon a mis- taken estimate of his character. The organization of the Mormon priesthood originated with his pre- decessor, and to that, and that only, is Brigham Young indebted for his name and influence with the people. He is FEARED, BUT NOT LOVED, and his death ts looked forward to by many of the prominent men of Utah with something akin to a wish, His latest move shows to what extent he can play the autocrat and how much even the strongest men around him have to bend before his fiat. There is, however, one satisfaction to those who take an interest in the experiment of human government—Brigham Young has taught the lesson that there can be no enduring reign of despotism in the presentage. The Mormon propuet can have no successor. Under the rule of Brigham Young, Jr., Mormonism must crumble. The father has been the “lion of the Lord,” and the son may encase himself in the lion’s skin, but his roar will be the illustration again of the truthfulness of the fable that points to another animal. There could be but one Joseph Smith ana there can be but one Brigham Young, and one of each is as much as any one generation should be expected to endure, SPAIN. Carlist Fire on a Republican Municipality— Government Relief for the Garrison—Black- mail Threats by the Bourbonists. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Parts, April 10, 1873. A despatch from Perpignan says the Carlists operating in Spain under General Saballo appeared before Puigcerda, in the province of Gerona, this morning and demanded the surrender of the town. The government troops refused to yield the place, and the insurgents immediately opened fire. Late advices from Bayonne state that the Car- lists continue to bombard the town of Puigcerda, Rewief for the garrison Mas been seut from Gerona, The Putgeerda Garrison in Great Dan- ger—Fire Spreading in the Town. Panis, April 10, 1873, The following despatch has been received here :— PERPIGNAN, April 10—6 P. M. The attack on Puigcerda continues. No rein- forcements are insight. ‘The garrison and volun- teers are making @ heroic resistance; but their position is critical, Fire has already broken out in the town. Bourbonist Blackmail Demonstration and Threats. Bayonne, April 10, 1873, Mires, at the head of a considerable force of in- surgents, has levied a contribution of 10,000 trancs on Villa Franca, and demands its immediate pay- ment by the municipality, threatening the town with the fate of Berga ifthe money is not forth- coming. The place being well defended, the au- thorities refuse to yteld. GOVERNMENT VICTORY IN THE FIELD. , Brigadier General Camanos has beaten a band of Cariists under Saliva, which were menacing Geioni. FRANCE. Tragic Action by Players Off the Stage—Specie in Outflow from the Bank. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, APRIL 10, 1873. Adesperate fight occurred afew days since in the small town of Olonne, department of Vendee, between two rival companies of strolling actors. Nine of the combatants were killed and several in- jured. BULLION IN OUTFLOW FROM THE BANK. The specie in the Bank of France has decreased 250,000 francs during the past week. "BELGIUM. Wages Movement Strikers Dispersed by Force. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Brvussers, Aprii 10, 1873, The quarrymen of the Enghien district in Hainault, to the number of 2,000, have struck work for higher wages. They attempted to make demonstrations, but the gendarmerie dispersed all gatherings. IRELAND. Severe Distress Among a Coast Line Insular Population. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, April 10, 1373, Great distress for want of food is reported to prevail in the islands on the Irish coast off Galway. The sheep even are starving. Subscriptions have been opened for the relief of the isianders, WEATHER REPORT, Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, April 11—1 A. M. Probabtlities, The small local storm will continue to advance on Friday northeastward from Southern Lilinois to Ohio; for the Southwest increasing southerly winds and ristng temperature; for tie East- ern Gulf and South Atlantic States increasing southeasterly winds and partly cloudy weather; for the Middle and Eastern States southwest erly winds and generally clear weather; for the lower lakes partly cloudy and clearing weather; for the upper lakes rising barometer, northerly winds and clear weather. An area of low barometer will extend auring the day eastward over Dakota, and the winds will back ta south over the Northwest and Nebraska, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. s 7 CAPTAIN JACK FURIOLS. The Peace Plenipotentiary and Squaw Extraordinary Badly Saubbed. NO MORE TALK. Barnard’s Men Capture the Chief’s Ponies. THE COMMISSIONERS DESPONDENT Active Preparations on Both ides for Fighting. Meacham Reports the Difficulties to the Interior Department. Lava Beps Camp, April 8, Via Ynexa, Cal., April 10, 1873. Yesterday the Peace Commission sent Frank Riddle’s Indian woman to Captain Jack's camp for the purpose of arranging fora talk at some point between Jack’s camp and ours. She returned in the evening and reports that while she was there Captain Barnard’s men, camped at Hospital Rock, made a reconnois- ance and captured four horses belonging to Jack. This made them (the Indians) very angry, and they abused her roundly and re- fused to make any arrangement ‘to talk with the Commission. Orders have been given by signal to return the captured horses. THE COMMISSIONERS DESPONDENT. Iam informed by Mr. Fairchild that the Commission begin to feel very despondent. It is the general opinion that if the Commis- sion would withdraw this farce would be ended within three days. BOTH SIDES PREPARING FOR WAR. Jack's men were busily engaged this morn- ing in building rock fortifications. The troops are making every necessary preparation for a fight. COMMISSIONER MEACHAN’S REPORT. eee The Modocs Afraid to Trust the Peace Commission—The Oregon Murderers Fearful of Being Hanged by the Authorities—Malicious White Men Keeping Up the War. Wasminaton, April 10, 1873. The Secretary of the Intertor received to-day & letter from the Modoc Peace Commissioner, Meacham, in which he says the principal impedi- ment to peace negotiations is the fear that that the Indians indicted by the Jackson county Grand Jury will be given up for punishment. The Peace Commissioners and military are, how- ever, working together harmoniously to overcome the distrust of the Modocs. But difficulty is en- countered from the intervention of bad white men, who, from mercenary motives, desire a prolonga- tion of the war, Mr. Meacham says the desire of thé government is well understood by his col- leagues and the military, and that no means will be left untrted to secure peace, Secretary Delano had advised the military not to give up the indicted Indians, but rather to remove them if they sur- rendered, KIOWAS AND CHEYENNES. Superintendent Hoag Reports Trouble Among the Kiowas, Cheyennes and Arapahoes—Alleged Difficulti with White Settlers—The Young Men All Anxious for War. Wasuinerton, April 10, 1873, The Commissioner of Indian Alfairs to-day re- ceived a letter from Superintendent Hoag stating that it had not yet been discovered who were the perpetrators of the murder of the four surveyors. He reports the Cheyennes and Arapahoes are dis- turbed In their buffalo range by the whites south of the Arkansas River, where their treaty of 1867 provides that they may hunt as long as they de- sire. They are also disturbed and injured by out- lawed whiskey traders, and are dissatisfied with the appearance and stay of surveyors on their reservation, but deny any knowledge of the recent murder, Excitement has run high among them in conse- quence of the murder of several of their number lately while returning from New Mexico, as pre- viously reported; but the excitement is subsiding, and Hoag says:—“We shall, doubtless, control them, if the border citizens can be properly restrained.” The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has called the attention of the Secretary of the Interior to the recent murder of surveyors, and requests the Secretary to obtain from the President an order for stationing two companies of troops in the vicinity of the public work west of the ninety-eighth merid- jan. The Secretary will make the desired oficial request. The Murdered Surveyors. LEAVENWORTH, Kansas, April 10, 1873. The Times Arkansas City correspondent men- tions the return of the rescue party sent out to protect and warn the surveyors on the Cimarron River. The party reached the spot where the four surveyors were murdered, and found their bodies horribly mutilated, Denning’s remains were brougat back to Arkansas City for interment. The remains of the other vic tums were buried where they were slain, The res- cue party encountered several bands of Cheyenues, allof whom made hostile demonstrations but did not venture an attack. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. —_---—— The Kitowas, Cheyennes and Arapahoes Enter Into an Alliance and Are \ctu- ally Preparing to Go on the Warpath, . Sr. Lours, Mo., Aprii 10, 1873. The Lawrence (Kansas) Journai learns that the Kiowas, Cheyennes and Arapahoe Indians are preparing for war, and that the government is reinforcing all the forts in Western Kansas and south of that section and that extra troops have been ordered to the front. Two companies of cavalry have already arrived, and two more are on the road, There is every prospect of ludian troubles on the frontier this Spring. The Leavenworth Times of a recent date says that all trustworthy accounts from the frontier rep- resent the Afapahoes and Cheyennes as making preparations for @ campaign of determined fight- ing. The young men of the Cheyenne tribe scorn the peace policy, are restless, impatient and eagerly anxious to go on the warpath, Old chiels who have visited Washington and who noted on the route the extent of the white population have advised peace in the councils; but impulsive young warriors of the lodges will not listen to the song of the Quaker siren. HAVANA MARKETS, Havana, April 9, 1873. Exchange weak. On United States, sixty days’, loa 16s, premium; short sight, 14g a 20 preimiuniy days, cold, $34 a 35 proimiain; short sight, 30M a 40 premium. ‘On London, 49% 4 80 premiau, “On Paris 2! a 53 premium. SOTHERN’S LAST JCEE. The Sequel to the Carnival in Trinity Churchyard. Another Threatened Duel Between Wm. J. Florence and E. A. Sothern. Who Invented the Flying Man from Wisconsin? “Lord Dundreary,"”-“David Garrick,"’ Sothern, who was for many years the terror of the British metropolis by reason of his atrocious practical jokes, has hung up another scalp in the Dundreary wigwam, Again has William J, Florence, the brilliant Irish comedian, been made the victim of this unscrupulous demon of a light comedian, The readers of the HERALD of yesterday will re- member that an account was given in its pages of the congregation of an assemblage of nearly ten thousand persons at and in the vicinity of Trinity church, being led thither to witness a repetition of the feat mythologically attributed to Icarus—the melting of the wax which was em- ployed to fasten artificial wings to his shoulders resulted in his sudden immersion in the waves of the plue Zgean Sea, The following circular had been widely circulated about New York and ada- cent cities for several days previous to the con- templated flight of the supposititious Wisconsin professor :— THE ANT OF FLYING. Professor Cantell A. Biglie, Sclentitic School of Wiscon- sin University, has the honor to inform the public that hho will give ani exhibition of his completed apparatus for navigating the alr_on Wednesday afternoon, the 9th inst., at three o'clock precisely, in the vicinity of Trinity church. The Professor proposes to fly trom house to house, across Broadway, at angles; then from Trinity to Bowling green, and return; and will ascend as high as Trinity steeple, and hover a few moments in that vicinity. An opportunity will be given atter the exhibl- tion toexamine the apparatus. The public are respect- fully invited. Of that immense concourse of people who assem- bled to witness this impossible feat, not more than forty persons were aware that a huge joke was being perpetrated. The individuals chiefly con- cerned in the “sell were Edward A, Sothern, ele- gant comedian; William J, Florence, comedian of the romantic Hibernian school; Charles Gaylor, playwright and author, and the dismal sexton of Trinity church These gentlemen were present in the crowd enjoying hugely the “swindle” on the congregated idiots, Besides the foregoing persons, there were present la the assemblage a detachment of twenty-five members of the “ Ancient and Honorable Order of Egyptian Monks,’’ who were present assisting as auxiliaries, This mysterious body has but one spe- cial characteristic, and that is an ardent and con- suming passion for the imbivation of intoxicating beverages. In addition, they are a solemn and mel- ancholy body of practical jokers, The Grand Prior, the Great Pursuivant and the Grand Standar Bearer o1 the Order were present and engaged in the distribution of circulars, The Ancient Order of Egyptian Monks made a frantic attempt to pene- trate to the belfry of Trinity Church, but were man‘ully repelled by Augustus, the sexton, A reporter of the HERALD, who had on the occa- siongof the mock dinner given to Mr, Philip Lee, the husband of “Miss Adelaide Neilson,”’ the actr sailed upon Messrs, Sothern, Florence, Nels mour and Lee, was again commissioned yesterday to ascertain the perpetrators of this or rid hoax at Trinity church on Wedmesday last. Mr. Sothern was vainly sought for at the Gra- mercy Park Hotel during the afternoon, but could not be found, The next person whom the reporter went in search of was Mr. W. J. Florence, who at preseut resides at the Filth Avenue Hotel. The rish comedian was also absent and could not be sound, Not despairing of gaining the desired in- formation, a visit was paid to Mr. Nelse Seymour, at Bryanv’s Opera louse, West Twenty-third following letter was yesterday received at the HERALD office :— Yo tux Eprrox or Tur Herap:— Will you Kindly state that [ am not reaponsible for the lying Hoax’ at Trinity church on Wednesday, last, Heving with Mr. ington that ibis wrong to tell a “story,” I will simply state that Florence did tt. A. SOUTHERN, Gramercy Pang, Thursday—Noon, On calling at Bryant's Opera House with this let- ter in ts possession the usher, Billy Kicketts, con- ducte| tae writer through an underground passage ana up stairs behind the scenes to the dressing om of Nelse Seymour. Word was sent for Mr. ymour, and the jatter in @ few moments came olf the stage, accompanied by Dave Reed, who was attired in the costume of a dandy negro wench. Nelse offered his elbow to the reporter to shake, as his hands were coated with burnt cork. The feet of Nelse were covered with a pair of sixteen-inch intation shoes aad @ tremendous shirt collar encircled his swan-like neck. ‘The following conversation then took lace :— bs REPoRTER—I have called, Mr. Seymour, to ascer- tain if you have participated in the perpetration of that cruel joke at Trimity Church yesterday, by which nearly ten thousand people were hum bugged? NELSE SEYMoUR—'Fore God, I know nothing about it. Inever heard of it until Tread about it in the HgRALv, Am | to be persecuted in this man- ner until my gray hairs are brought down in sor- row to the grave? 1 suppose this is some more of the work of Mr. Sothern or Mr. Florence. I give you my word of honor that I kmow no more about it than the child unborn. That last “practical joke” of the dinner to Philip Lee gave me an awiul lot of trouble, and the account you published in the HERALD went all over the world, and I have not heard the last of it yet. Won’t you take a little port wine; I have just got some bottles off the steamer? No! Thou art injudicious in thy resolves. Please don’t say anything about this; 1 don’t want any more practical jokes. Dan Bryant was smart about the last joke; he got upa play about it and the house was crowded night | after nigut. That Sothern is a terrible man, { hear. Im going to have a benefit pretty soon; you must step in and take @ look atit. Ali the boys are com- ing with boquets to chuck at me. I must say again that 1 don’t kuow and don’t want to Know anything about this practical joke. As Nelse Seymour had to go on the stage in the “Laughing Gas” scene at this moment the reporter bade him good evening and left the house, The next visit was to the Arcadian Club, in Union square, in search of Mr. Florence, but he could not nd, A member oi the Club informed the re- porter that probably Mr. Florence could be found atthe nion square Theatre in company with Mr. A. J. Paimer, the manager of that piace of amuse- ment. Mr. Charles Gaylor was at the Arcadian Club, but kept himself carefully secreted from the reporter, fearing that he might be “interviewed” his participation in the hoax. Mr. Fiorence was present among the audience at the Union Square Theatre, and came out imme- uiately the message was seut to him by Mr, Pal- juer. Ue carried his usual cane, and was dressed in the height of fashion, The letter, signed with thy ac of Mr. Sothern, was exhibited to him, and tne reporter asked him what he had to say in his acfence? He carefully examined the letter and passed it to Mr. Paimer Jor his perusal. Mr, FLonence—L pe you my word ot honor, sir, that I know nothing about this matter. Itis another atrocious joke of Sothern’s. I say, Palmer (again examining the letter), that looks very like tay handwriting, doesn’t it? Sothern has imitated my handwriting, that is evident; what a ruffian he is' Why, he gave me his word of honor that he would vot perpetrate ghy more practical jokes, and vow here he is again trying to get me into unother scrape. Blood will yet be shed. KerorTeR—Do you tuink that Charles Gaylor had anything to do with this joke? Mr. FLorENcE—ON! ‘tis just as likely as not that be ts at the bottom of it, Sothern sent three tons of coal to my house on Park avenue the other day, and the gentleman who occupies my house at present was ina terrible rrage at having the coal | delivered without bis orders and lying on the side- walk for a Who day. KeronieR—Wiy do you not pay Sothern back in bis own colu t Mr. [Loxenoe—I wish T contd think of something right away to pay him out, but Lwill get square wiih bim yet. um going to Europe on next Wednesduy to be absent ior four months, and previous tu my departure I shall certainly fix Soth- era for Mis ruffianism. Are you going around to Wallack’s to sce Sothern ? ikevurter—\es, I am going there now. CanI do anything ior ;our Mr. FLORENCE—Do, please, interview him and see What he will say. Wateu him carefully; he may attempt lo Conceal his guilt. ‘Lhe reporter wt this juncture left the theatre and Mr. Florence at once joined Mr, Palner an Mr. Ed, Gilmore in conversation. The reporter then proceeded to Wallack’s Theatre, and on inquiry of Mr. Charles Moss, was told by that gentleman that Mr. Sothern was dress- ing to go on the stage in the Jarce of “Dundreary Married and Settled,” the curtain having just de- scended on the comedy of “David Garrick’ An elegant and handsome usher cenvoyed the reporter to the’ dressing reain of Mr. Sothern, Descending a cranky staircase, he met Mme, Ponist and Miss Rose Cogbian attired for the respective charac- ters they Were about to assume im the farce. A | few feet farther on the reporter met Mr. Sothern | im th tume worn by Lord Dandreary, and was | warmly greeted by hit, Mr. Sorvnkex—I'm glad to meet you, old jellow; I found your card at tie horel and was sorry | was net into see you. What's afloat now ? This demeniacal practical joker seemed as inno- | cent and unconcerned ag though he had never been guilty of humbuggiug aleliow creature in his KerORTER—! have a letter here, Mr. Sothern, signed with your name and addressed to the editor Lor the DeRaud Ia Which you ghargy Dlr. Wiijaun J. Florence with having originated the “sell” whiely Was perpetrated at Trinity church yesterday, ere the-reporter exhibited the letter to Mrs Sothern, who took it and pretended astonishmen§ at its purport, Mr. SOTHERN—Ob! my dear fellow, this is simply atrocious, I never saw this letter, and never wrote it, You know, my dear fellow, lam as fond of lark as anybody when there are any larks tv but this thing 13 evidently the work of that infe scoundrel, Charles Gaylor, , RerorteR—I have just seen Mr. Florence, and h@ intumated to me that he believed you to be @ ruMan of the deepest dye and capable of commit< ting any crime. He states that you sent three tons Of coal to his house on Park avenue lor the Durpose, of embroiling him in a veudetta with his tenant. Mr. SOTHERN (laughing hysterically)—My dear fellow, I acknowledge the coal, but | have ha® nething to do with this, and [ assert that Mr. Florence has imitated my handwriting, A mam must draw a line somewhere, and I draw it a& forgery, Which this 1s, I'l have Buly Florence ar- rested in the norniug for forgery. ‘The reporter then bade “Lord Dundreary” adiew And quitted the theatre. It is presumed that Mre Florence will be arraigned before Justice Dowling ‘this morning. CUBA, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. HAVANA, April 9, 1873, The name of the war steamer Chickamanga, pur- chased from the Americans, has been changed to the Bazan, She is ready for a cruise and will carry two heavy guns, ARMY COMMANDERS RELIEVED. Generals Portillo and Benegassi have been rev lieved and erdered to return to Spain. THE DINNER-TABLE AGITATION ALLAYED. The meat question in Havana has been settled’ The Aldermen had an interview with the butchers and prevailed on them to reduce the price nearly one-half, POLITICS AND PRESS MANAGEMENT, The Voz de Cuda continues publication for,the present, The attacks of the Constancia and the machinations of the ultras have gaused the resig- nation of Sefier Conti, its chief editor and advo cate of liberal ideas, A new republican journag will appear in a few aa Spanish Army Keinforcements Eme barked for the Island, MADRID, April 10, 1873. A detachment of reinforcements 400 strong em barked at Cadiz to-day for Cuba. THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIES, —_——_—_+ TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, April 10, 1873, The developments made in the great Bank of Engiand forgery case, which was before the Lord Mayor again to-day, conclusively establish the fact that the forgeries were committed by Austin Bid well—now under arrest at Havana and whose sure render has been ordered by the Spanish govern ment—George McDonnell, held for extradition im New York; George Bidwell, whose arrest in Edin- burgh has already been announcedy and Noyes, the alleged clerk of the parties, Who was the first per son taken into custody here. George Bidwell and Noyes were both before the Court to-day and, after examination, were re- manded to Newgate. The Bank of England Property Recove ered in Cuba. HAVANA, April 8, 1873. Mrs. Bidwell has denied, in the presence of the United States and British Consuls Generai and the Chief of Police, that there was any force or com- pulsion used in inducing her to deliver up the bondsin the Bank of England case to the Vice Consul. The English Consul in this city continues his ex ertions to counteract the eforts of interested per sons here who are seeking to prevent the extradi- tion of Austin Bidwell, one of the Bank of England forgers, and the mat: excites much comment, MEXICO. oe TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. City oF Mextco, April 1, 1873. The country is guiet. The revolution in Tepic is rapidly drawing to a conclusion. Several of Lozada’s clef oficers have surrendered, , STATE IDEAS OF CRIMINAL EXTRADITION. ‘rhe Legislature of Oaxaca has petitioned Com gress to autnorize the President of the Republic to conclude the treaties with foreign Powers. 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