The New York Herald Newspaper, April 13, 1873, Page 8

8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, seereesNOe 103 Velume XXXVIII a AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Yori. jowery.—Fastest Bor 1x New THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Buruxsque axv Oui0, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—ALixz, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broa Tas Gamocen’s Crime, At’ ATRENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Guanp Vaniery ENTER- TaAINMENT. Matinee at 255. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broad Houston sts.—Tax Bevixs 0 OLYMPIC THEATRE, and Bleecker streets. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near way.—Frou Frov. corner Thirticth st.— and evening. between Prince and WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Davip Gaxnick. — GRAND OPERA HOUS av.—Unper tux Gastt BOOTH’S THEATRE, avenue,—Davpy 0'Do' BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st.— ‘ux Scovrs or TUX PRAInIB, Twenty-third st. and Eighth 'wenty-third street, corner Sixth 87, JAMES' THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.— ‘McEvor's Nuw Hisernicon. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, Sth st., near 8d av.—Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT, RS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Daviw Gapnice. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner ith ay.—Nxcro Minsrruisy, £0. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. BARNUM'S GREAT SHOW.—Now open, afternoon and night. Rink, Sd avenue and 63d strect. . COOPER INSTITUTE, Third avenue and Fourth st.— Lavon Gas Exurmition. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— 'Bcirnce anv AR, QUADRUPLE-SHEET. SSS - _ Sew York, Sunday, April 13, 1873. =—_— THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MODOC MASSACRE OF THE PEACE COM- MISSIONERS ! GENERAL CANBY AND PEACE COMMISSIONER THOMAS KILLED!" EDITORIAL LEADER—EicuTn Pace. MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD! GENERAL CANBY AND THE PEACE COMMISSIONERS EN- TICED INTO THE LAVA BEDS! BRAVE CANBY SHOT DOWN FIRST BY SAVAGE JACK! COMMISSIONER THOMAS ALSO KILLED! THE OTHERS PURSUED AND THE CAMP FIRED UPON! A LIEUTENANT WOUNDED! SAVAGERIES! THE WAR TO BE VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTED AT LAST— EIGHTH AND NINTH PAGES. TREACHEROUS SPANIARDS! O'KELLY SAID TO HAVE DIED FROM EXHAUSTION ON TRE WAY TO SANTIAGO! THE GENERAL DISQUIET AS TO HIS FATE! ALL NEWS TELEGRAMS BARRED BY THE AUTHORI. TIES! TORBERT TO USE HIS INFLUENCE IN MR. O’KELLY’S BEHALF! THE VICE PRESI- DENT ADMIRES HIS PLUCK! PRESS COM- MENTS—FirTH PAGE. THE CRITICAL CONDITION OF THE POPE! GREAT ANXIETY IN THE VATICAN! LATER REPORTS MORE FAVORABLE—Firti Pace. CELEBRATING EASTER! GRAND MUSICAL AND RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES! THE ORIGIN OF THE CUSTOM! CHURCH SERVICES! THE JEWISH PASSOVER—FirTg Pace. @ PAINFUL TERMINATION TO A DIVORCE SCANDAL! CROSS-ACTIONS FOR ANNUL- MENT OF MARRIAGE FOLLOWED BY A CKIMINAL INDICTMENT OF THE LADY! THE MIDWIFE’'S TESTIMONY—TWELrro PAGE. DETAILS OF THE CARLIST ATTACK ON PUIG- CERDA! DON CARLOS AT THE’SCENE OF CONFLICT! BURNING THE DEAD—Firrno PAGR. EUROPEAN CABLE TELEGRAMS! FATAL CON- FLICT BETWE URKISH REVENUE OFFI- CERS AND UGGLERS! BELGIUM RE- STRICTING ENGLISH FISHERMEN—Firra Pac. ESCAPE OF BIDWELL, THE ALLEGED FORGER, FROM PRISON! HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE HIDING IN HAVANA—FirTH Pace. THE CASHIER OF A HOBOKEN BANK DISAP- PEARS WITH $30,000! HIS PROBABLE ARREST—THE EGYPTIAN MONKS—Firta PaGE. RACING AT NEW ORLEANS! THREE FINE EVENTS! THE WINNERS AND THE DE- TAILS OF THE VARIOUS RACES—MARI- TIME NEWS—TWELFTH PaGeE. BUSINESS IN THE FINANCIAL AND COMMER- CIAL EXCHANGES! GOLD MANIPULATED BY THE RING AND QUOTED AS HIGH AS 119%! STOCKS DECLINE! THE BANK RE- SERVE—S1xTH PaGE. & DRUGGIST TAKES PRUSSIC ACID AND “SHUFFLES OFF THIS MORTAL COILL"— Sixra Pace. Arrm Frowers.—Should the weather bé favorable they will blossom by thousands in our city churches and on Fifth avenue to-day. Tae Werk in Watt Srreer was noted for the persistent and extraordinary stringency in money, the stock brokers paying on the last day all the way from 7 to 160 per cent per annum for the use of balances during the in- terval to Monday morning. The gold clique took advantage of a thin market to run the price up to 119}. With all this stocks stood the pressure with remarkable firmness, while government bonds were exceedingly strong. The bank statement proved favorable and Promises relief to the money market, We Wave Recerven twenty dollars from Mr. George G. Sickles, of this city, as that gentleman's donation towasd a fund for o fitting testimonial to Rev. Mr, Ancient, the Episcopal minister who disp!nyed so much Gallantry and humanity in rescuing Mr. Firth, the first officer of the Atlantic, from the wreck, ‘The object is a commendable one, and we hope that the example of Mr. Sickles will be fol- lowed liberally enough to secure a proper and substantial recognition of the courageous act. Sim Great Sronm of yesterday, ons of the ‘heaviest of our last six months of heavy stormg,,2Wept over an immense extent oi"coun- try, and wi.'l, we fear, be followed by destruc- <tive freshets : Many of our inland rivers, al- peady filled to the brim or overflowing. Sour Viran Srarwn 8.—During the part ‘week there were in this city 518 deaths, 405° births, 35 still births and’,118 marriages. Five tundred and cighteen’.deaths per week aro sdémething above ‘our average fom April, but the opening of this Spring season 80 far has been anything but favorable to sick peonle or enfecbled constitutions NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Peace Canby and Peace Commissioner Thomas Killed. The horrible crime, the details of which we publish in our special despatches in another part of the Henaxp, is likely to be the death of peace commissionssto warlike Indians. On Friday morning that gallant and ven- erable soldier, General Edward R. §&. Canby, and the pious and zealous Peace Com- missioner, Rev. Dr. Thomas, were murdered by the Modoc Indians during a peace parley. Another of the Commissioners, Mr. Meacham, was dangerously, if not fatally, wounded, and the remaining Commissioner of the party, Mr. Dyar, barely escaped with his life. This hellish piece of treachery will awaken tho whole country to sorrow and indignation, and will result in a stentorian call for the extirpa- tion of every savage of the band. The history of this Modoc trouble is still fresh in the public mind. After some difficul- ties with the whites on the lonely border country between California and Oregon the Modocs gained their first bloody distinc- tion by the murder of a number of settlers upon Lost River. From thence the band under Captain Jack, now forever infamous in history, retired to a position rendered almost impregnable by nature among the lava beds near Tule Lake. Here they remained gathering live stock and provisions to their fortress and raiding on the white settlers in the vicinity for that object. At length the United States resolved to send the army into the field against the Indians. For this pur- pose a force of three hundred men, under Colonel Gillem, proceeded to attack the In- dians. The nature of the country was evi- dently unknown to the commanding officers, for with this small number they undertook to storm the Indian stronghold. The sharp defeat met by the troops and the severe losses there sustained are so recent as merely to require There- The Modoc Massacre of the Commissioners—General notice here. MR. FISH INSTRUCTS GENERAL | after it was resolved to push forward the means for attaining peace upon a double basis. Three hundred addi- tional troops, under General Canby, wero hurried forward to punish the Indians, and a full Peace Commission was organized to pacify them. In the meantime the Indians made a sally, but were repulsed. Before the troops moved again the negotiations were opened. With the first party which entered the memorable lava beds on this peaceful mis- sion was a HerawD commissioner. Ar- rangements were speedily made for a sur- render, in which the Indians were to be protected from the enraged Oregonians and transported to some nice reservation, to be fed and clothed forever at government ex- pense. A day was appointed and agreed to for the surrender to take place. Wagons were sent by the good-hearted Commis- sioners to convey Captain Jack's bag- gage over the rough ground; but no signs of the Indians were discoverable. Days passed, and at length an Indian appeared, who complained that Captain Jack and his fellows were fearful of the troops, and that they wanted to go to their old Lost River reservation. The troops under General Canby now moved forward again and commenced to encircle the savages in their fortress, The circle was drawn gradually closer, and the Indians again professed a desire for peace conferences. They saw the troops drawing closer and closer, and now set up a new de- mand. They objected altogether to leaving the lava beds, and wanted the troops sent away. Notwithstanding this preposterous demand the kind-hearted Peace Commissioners lis- tened to the palaver of the braves. Several in- terviews took place, The story of the last one tells the remainder of the narrative of inde- cision through kind-heartedness met by du- plicity and murder. t Warning of this danger does not appear to have been wanting. Riddle, the interpreter, expressly stated his grave fears, but consented to accompany the too-trusting Commissioners, In order that we might have nothing wanting to show how deliberately planned was this massacre, we learn from the surviving Com- missioner, Mr. Dyar, that Captain Jack him- self fired the signal shot, and with his own weapon took the life of the brave and good-hearted soldier whose name was terrible to the nation’s enemies in our civil war. Falling there, by such base hands, we must honor his memory, as though he had died in the saddle leading a charge in some great battle whose thunders shook the world. He fell at his post of duty, the noblest place where man can fall. Mingled with the sorrow which will spread through all classes of the people at his loss will be a pang of indignation at the temporiz- ing and mistaken policy to which he owed his death. We have from time to time upon this In- dian question presented our views. We be- lieve that what can be done toward civilizing good Indians should be done, But wherever abandora tribe takes up the path of war or outrage we say. Exterminate it, There are white outrages on Indfans as well as Indian outrages on whites; yet the balance will always be found in favor of the whites, who are peacefully endeavoring to settle. After the first fight with this band we believed that the treatment of extirpation should be dealt gut to them, Subsequently, upon our Com- miissioner’s. report we thought that it “would be right to hear these Indians in, their own defence. We were glad when the news of, as was then belioved, & | ened with death on his return? We aro cor- peaceful settlement reached us. The double dealing of the Indians since convinced us that the Modoos were unworthy of this gentle treatment. The massacre of Friday places the seal, not only upon all half measures with the Modocs, but, we hope, with all other re- fractory Indians. Major General Philip Sheri- dan’s plan will be finally adopted for them without reserve. 4 What wo want with the Indians is a clear policy, and one not only simple to us, but per- fectly comprehensible to them. That may be summed up in very few words:—Keep the peace or we shall kill you. Unfortunately what is called a peace policy conveys but one idea to the Indian, for all the trips to to New York, understand the motives of our: forbearnce—namely, that when we treat with him and pet him after he has committed murders and robberies we are afraid of him, There is but one way to meet this line of thought, which is universal among them, and that is to adopt it as our rule for treating them. They see cities occa- sionally; but they see few evidences of civil- ized power in their wild fastnesses, and hence they imagine that when the fearful white man pets them for murder the best thing they can do is palaver the ‘‘peace’’ shibboleth for blankets and rations. We expect to hear that the Modocs will be speedily taught in extermination the error of their way; and if the lesson of the massacre is properly taken to heart it will be tho signal for a similar treatment of all the warring tribes that by turns cajole and murder only to be encouraged to murder and cajole. who does not, Washington and Rumored Death of Mr. O’Kelly— The American Government Moving to His Rescue. An alarming report comes to us from Key West, which we can only hope, from its unlikely source, to be unfounded, that Mr. O'Kelly died of exhaustion from the close confinement he had endured at Manzanillo on his way to Santiago de Ouba. We scarcely dare credit this startling and afflicting news, which, if true, would stamp upon the brow of Spain a crime that torrents of Spanish blood would not efface. We trust, for Spain’s sake as well as for the unfortunate gentleman on whom the Captain General had already loaded such indignity, that the report is unfounded. If Mr. O'Kelly has thus died we shall invoke a vengeance on the heads of his murderers which will be a monument in the path of time. Sinister rumors that poison and prisons and chains could do what dare not be done openly have not been wanting in our ears from those who know the Spaniards well. If our com- missioner has been assassinated in this way we shall know what course to take. It will be the death knell of Spain in America, and of many a Spaniard, too. As we have at first said, we dare not credit this news, but shall wait with intense anxiety for its confirmation or contradiction. It will be gratifying in the meantime to learn that our government have decided to take action in the case of Mr. O'Kelly. In another part of the Hznatp will be found a despatch from Secretary Fish to a brother of Mr, O'Kelly, resident in this country, and forwarded by the latter to us, in which the Secretary informs him that he has instructed the American Con- sul General in Havana to use his good offices with the Spanish authorities to have Mr. O'’Kelly's trial take place in that city. Consul General A. T. D. Torbert is instructed to take this action either in con- junction with the British Consul or separately. He is further instructed in his dealing with the Spanish authorities (that is, the Captain General), to expréss the hope that Mr. O'Kelly will be mercifully dealt with. As the simple correspondent of an American journal Mr. O'Kelly has earned this mark of interest, and we hope that the Captain General will act upon such sound advice from so high ao quarter. To “deal mercifully’ with Mr. O'Kelly, the Captain General hag gnly to remember his word of hopér and to cep it. He Aistinctly “promised that Mr. O'Kelly would not be shot upon his return to the Spanish lines, but would simply be expelled from the island of Cuba. We are glad to see the representatives of tho national will thus undertaking to champion a man whose pure and straightforward action has been 80 keenly in sympathy with the wishes of the nation. Weare certain that, with the mean- ing of the United States thus authoritatively expressed, the Spanish authorities will find their minds cleared of a great many obscuri- ties that seem to have hindered them from understanding how America can fecl when her warmest instincts are outraged. What- ever small pique may be exhibited in the threats and the harsh conduct of the Spaniards towards Mr. O'Kelly, it will, we believe, need little reconsideration on their part to find out how unworthy as well as dangerous their action appears to the outside world. The determined attitude of the Amer- ican government, indexing yery plainly the desire of the entire press and people, will serve in no small manner to bring the Spaniards in Cuba to a sense of their position, The British government has gained a just reputation for jealously regarding the interests of those who owe her allegiance when their lives or properties are in danger on a foreign soil. The nation that undertook the Abys- sinian war forthe rescue of Mr. Cameron and his fellow captives will surely not desert Mr. O'Kelly in Cuba. In his mission they are almost as deeply interested as America, The bloody war which has devastated the beautiful island is a matter of sorrow to all civilized peoples and certainly to all commercial peoples. There is at present in Havana an able correspondent of the London Times, whose letters have been read with interest on both sides of the Atlantic. He has, so far, confined his labors of light to tho cities of the island; but should he be directed by his superiors in London to plunge into the rebel fastnesses would England sit by with folded arms if he were arrested and threat- tain she would not. The subject which gives the London Times’ correspondent matter to interest his English readers is the same as that for which Mr. O'Kelly is in jeopardy. Neither, therefore, on the ground of her honor or the civilization which our commissioner's inquiry represents can Eng- land decline to take her bounden part in the rescne of Mr. O'Kelly, if the Spaniards have not already murdered him. The views of Vice President Wilson on the subject of Mr. O'Kelly's fate, published else- where, will be found tinged with a trae Amer- icanism and an admiration of the courage which, under all circumstances, Mr. O'Kelly has displayed. ‘The press in its clearest toned mouthpieces has not been wanting in offering its meed of emphatic protest against the at- tack upon its vested rights in the person of our commissioner. Rising in such a case above all rivalries, they remember the isolated American journalist in his Spanish prison at Manzanillo, surrounded by every element of danger, and bravely trusting in his honesty of purpose to deliverhim, It is a subject worthy of their most serious consideration, The documents alleged to have been found upon Mr, O'Kelly are doubtless nothing more than were absolutely necessary to him in bis position as correspondent. The letters brought by Mr. Stanley from Livingstone would be as good subject for court martial as those said to be brought by Mr. O'Kelly from Cespedes. Woe can but sayin conclusion that we hope strongly the deplorable news will prove un- true, and that he may yet return to tell us the painful story himself. The Easter Festival—When Will Chris- tians Unite Under One Fold? This is Easter Sunday, and Easter Sunday is not a recent commemoration in the annals of the human race. To-day is its eighteen hundred and fortieth anniversary, and, as it has happily reached this magnificent age with- out anything being sufficient to expunge it from the calendar of the years, it is evident that it will be a queen of festivals as long as the sun shall be above to make time a fact, and as long as men are on earth to pay the homage of intellect and heart to Him who created them. Mary Magdalen was the first to greet it—to adorn it with the sanctification of her glorious faith and of her unequalled love. But, after more than eighteen centuries, hundreds of millions hail itas did that illus- trious penitent, and it is progressing with the rapidity of the tides to enroll all man, kind under its benign jurisdiction. God conceived the day. He instituted it by a per- sonal act for imperishable human benefit, and, like Himself, it will stand forever. Thero will never be a morning without the sun, and there will never be a year without the Feast of the Resurrection. Easter Sunday is indeed a great day. St. Paul asserted cf it that if the event it declares did not take place all Christianity is a sham, a fraud, an untruth, and that his own apostle- ship was a deceit, an imposition and a roguery. And he spoke the truth; for, as the Redeemer foretold that, in verification of His doctrine, He would rise on the third day from the dead, it behooved the Redeemer to do so; otherwise He had been what Renan has called Him—a phantast, a deluder, a cheat. Then His crucifixion had effected no redemp- tion; then His law could lead no one to heaven ; then His image and His name could be blasphemed and dishonored with all the impunity license could ask and with all the rage indignation could inspire. Easter Sunday, then, isa great day. Itis the keystone of the temple of the Christian faith. Without it that temple could never have been built; without it that arch could not stand a second. And ‘how much does the world owe to that temple? It is it that has conferred on indi- viduals, on families and on nations all the virtue that is in their hearts, all the peace and content that are in their circles, and all the honor and enlightenment to which they lay claim. Before that temple was con- structed all was dark, paganistic, savage and idolatrous. With its formation came in light, modesty, rectitude, culture, the domestic virtues in all their long lost sweet- ness, and public justice in all its original lofty character. Had Christ not come, there had been no civilization but that cruel one which the Neros and Trajans fought so terribly to maintain unbroken; had He not come, the human happiness and glory and splendor which are so universal to-day could not be seen; had He not come, Europe and America had been in equal degradation with the Mozam- bique and the coast of Labrador ; for, behold, where His name is not heard, there is savagism. The Hottentots are the degraded creatures they are because the light of His truth has never glanced upon their under- standings, because the history of His passion has never entered their eats, because the in- finite glory of His name hag never been laid before them. Tho British were cannibals until the Spirit of the Cross made them recoil from that horrible condition and reassume their proper human dignity. It was as bad a state with the red- haired Picts of Scotland, with the first in- habitants of Pomerania, with all the war- like tribes that are in the Germania of Tacitus. ‘The Goth, the Vandal, the Hun, suppressed the emotion of no crime, quaffed human blood when in the furious thirst of war, could not conceive what a thing justice was, But the Spirit of the Cross con- verted them into populations as chivalrous and as noble as any that have cast their foun- dations on the plains of Europe. And it will be in the future as in the past. There is but one true means for civilizing the various bar- batous nations that now exist. It is the name and the law of Christ. Without Him the Caffrarian can make no advance, the Malay must remain as he is, the Chinese will con- tinue in besotted lust and idolatry to the end, and tho eaters of human flesh will go on de- vouring it whenever they can, and always finding ita luxury, These barbarians are no exception to the general rule, The people who are the most brilliant and polished now, were once almost as degraded as they. Nor in this is there any shade of mystery. Christ is God and Man, and, therefore, it isa natural thing that His law should be',the only civilizing, elevating law the human fave can follow. Were He only a man likea mart His name had long since perished. St. Paul said that His name is the greatest power in the world. It was an assertion which Christendom for nineteen hundred years confirms to be true. Not more evident is it that the sun is the source of all heat and light than it is that the name of Christ is the greatest power in the world, Let it be measured by all it has done, let it be measured by what it is achieving now, let it be measured by the universal, never- ending future which is before it, and this must be admitted to be a visible fact. ‘Si monumentum quosris circumspice.” If you need evidence look around you; if you demand a witness, every civilized man you meet constitutes one. It is not, therefore, a mystery that Christianity should have pro- duced the results that are assigned to it. The thing is o plain one of cause and effect. The effect demands an infinite cause. It is irrational and irreligious not to bend the un- derstanding before it in the attitude of con- viction. And, as intimated, to Easter Sunday all this is traceable. The event of that day is the sun of the Christian firmament. That was the chosen day of triumph. It was needed, for the triumph was essential. The Church began on it, the Church rests on it; it and the Church keep together like God and His attributes; they are inseparable for eternity. And yet this benign day, to which the world owes its enlightenment, on which, in the divine truths connected with it, all have anchored their hopes of salvation, wit- neases, in each of its returns, many wretched, useless and odious religious differences between men. There are too many conflicting churches; the an- tagonistic theologies are far too numerous ; the independent, self-instituted ministers are much more common than either reason or revelation can vindicate to be lawful. The consequence of this is exceedingly bad. The religious scepticism and indifference that so much disfigure mankind are all traceable to it with mathematical accuracy. When the “doctors differ’ the people hold aloof in dis- traction, and it is difficult to blame them for doing so. The common sense of the multi- tude is a very penetrating faculty. It detects ata glance that when the teachers conflict all of them cannot have the truth to propound or the due authority to declare it. Hence the way congregations break up; hence the in- different respect in which clergymen are held ; hence the vast proportions of atheism and in- fidelity. There was but one Divine Resurrec- tion; so there should be but one united faith. The quarrelsome, mutually destructive divi- sions that prevail cannot have been inspired by the one Redeemer. In the meantime let the great festival of Easter Sunday be duly observed. Happily, all the churches, so miserably divided in other eminent points, are in universal accord upon the Resurrection. The Resurrection oc- curred, for it is verified by nineteen centuries of proof, and in all lands this is the generous and pious and holy belief. The masses accept the Resurrection; their hopes of a celestial im- mortality for their souls, that can never die, are founded on it. Therefore, let the Easter be gloriously honored. Let every church be wide open; let the atmosphere of the entire day be vibrating with peals from all the bells; let every altar be decorated with taste and munificence, inspired by worship and thanks; let every choir give its most noble music; let every pulpit echo with strains of eloquence worthy of so sacred a morning, and let all the people be present with hearts emancipated from the material ties of earth and concentrated with joyous adoration on Him who, as their God and as their Redeemer, made the Easter Sunday. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Robeson is still at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. State Senator Townsend D, Cock is at the Sturte- vant House. Judge Charles P. Hale, of New Hampshire, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor L. R, Bradley, of Nevada, 1s on a visit to his relatives in San Jose, Cal, Governor Thad. ©. Pound, of Wisconsin, is stay- ing at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Congressman John Lynch, of Maine, is regis- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor T. G. Cary, of Harvard University, is stopping at the Hoffman House. Colonel William E. Cameron has become an asso- ciate editor of the Richmend Enquirer. Fourteen children in one county in -Wisconsin have been named after Charles Dickens, William D. Wilson died on his farm of 14,000 acres in Madison county, Ohio, on the 26th ult. Senator (Parson) Brewnlow has arrived at his home in Knoxville, Tenn, in feeble health. Speaker Blaine will not Teave Washington for his home in Augusta, Maine, for some days yet. Ex-Lieutenant Governor George W. Hendee, of Vermont, is in town at the St. Nicholas Hotel. M. Ortolon, the celebrated French law professor, was writing in bed at the time of nis recent death. Castelar says there is more good sense at the base o! the Spanish character than is generally be- Heved. We hope this is true. Lord Romilly, the late English Master of the Rolls, was very ready with his judgments, but they, were very often reversed on appeal. United States Senator John P. Jones, of Nevada, who believes in being elected by the use of what he calls “the mevitable,” is at the Hoffman House, ~Ollivier de Kermel lately died of remorse for the murder of his brother while in the prison at Tou- lon, France, to which he was sentenced for life, Colonel W. A. Roebling, the chief engineer oi the East River bridge, yesterday sailed for Europe, with his family, on the steamship City of Brooklyn. Two prominent eitizens of New Orleans fought a duel on Monday last with rifles, One of them was wounded in the hip, They had sense enough not to reveal their names, MURDER OR SUICIDE. ~~ . A Man Walking Into a Grocery Storé with His Throat Cut from Ear to Ear after Evidence. Charles Scheld, forty-five years of age, of No, 421 West Forty-first street, went into the grocery store of Charlies Ahrans, on the corner of Sixty. second street and Tenth avenue, last night, and fell dead upon the floor a few minutes after. Upon entering the place he stated to the brother of Ahrans and an ex-policeman, named Stanford, ‘Who was inthe house at tne time, that he had been attacked by three men on the Tenth avenue, one of whom had suddenly ulied out a razor and ewt his throat, ie had barely time to say these words when he ex- pired. Roundsman Morris, of the Twenty-second precinct, happening to be in the vicinity, the pro- prietor of the stere called to iin, and, after a cur- sory examination of the bovy, start to the station house im Forty-seventh street te gr, the alarm and procure assistance, japtain Killelea, after hearing the roundsman’s report, sespatotied two officers with @ stretcher to convey the body to the station heuse, and when it was brought there it was discovered (hat the head Was almost severed from the trunk, and the wrist of the left hand was also badly cut, evidently by the same instrument that had caused the gash under the chin. In Ne ery ofthe dead man was found @ crumpled sip of paper, upon which was written his name and address in pencil. He was evidently from hia dress ® working man, and was, in all Perea going to his home when he was attacked, if that the proper version of the affair. The lice are inclined to think the man committed suicide, as it Would almost seem impossible for any one to wound him in ascuMe as he hasbeen cut, Captain Kille- dea, with a number of oMecers, Went out last night to Investigate the matterand find gut whether it was really a murder or @ suicide, MASSACRE Bloody Treachery of the Lava Beds Indians. General Canby and Rev. Dr. Thomas Butchered. THE ATTACK. Captain Jack Decoys the General and the Peace Commissioners to Talk. Six Indians Meet the Same Num- ber of the Peace Party. SCHONCHIN'S SIGNAL. The Vile Chief, Jack, First Shoots Down the Old Commander. : Bogus Charley and Bostod Charley Murder Thomas. MEACHAM MORTALLY WOUNDED Commissioner Dyar Saves Himself by’ Firing on Hawker Jim. Interpreter Riddle and His Squaw Take Flight. COLONEL MASON’S CAMP FIRED ON.: Lientenant Sherwood Wounded--Lieutenant Boyle Reaches the Picket Lines in Safety, CALL TO ARMS. The Signal Officer’s Report---They Are Firing on the Peace Commissioners.” Rush of the Cavalry and Infantry to’ the Scene of Death. The Dead Stripped of Their Clothing by the Savages. THE FARCE ENDED. General Gillem Orders a Halt Only to Prepare to Annihilate the Modocs, s° vig OY Sad Results of the Persistent Peace Policy. HERALD SPECIAL REPORT. Lava Beps Camp, April 11—3 P. M., Via Yrexa, April 12, 1873, Peace policy and the Indian Bureau have! accomplished the bitter end, and offered as: martyrs to the cause the lives of General’ E. R. 8. Canby, commanding the District of the Columbia, and the Rev. Mr. Thomas, of Petaluma, Cal., Presiding Elder of the Presbyterian Church, As my courier leaves instantly, having eighty miles to ride, I can only give brief details of one of the most treacherous massacres ever perpetrated by the Indians. THE CALM PRECEDING THE MASSACRE, . For several days past there have been en« deavors made by the Peace Commissioners and General Canby to obtain an interview with Captain Jack and the leading chiefs of the Modoc band. The prospects of pence’ seemed to be better, as orders had been sent from Washington to the Peace Commissioners to give the Indians, if necessary, a reservation in this neighborhood. TREACHEROUS EMISSARTES—JACK'S INVITATION. Yesterday evening Bogus Charley came in, and said that Captain Jack, Schonchin and three or four others would meet the Peaca’ Commissioners on a spot near the lake, about three-quarters of a mile from camp. Bogus Chatley stopped in our camp all night, and in the momting Boston Charley also came, and, said that everything was all right, as Captain Jack was coming outto meet the Commis. sioners. DEPARTURE OF THE PEACE PARTY, Between ten and eleven o'clock this morn- ing the Peace Commission party—comprising General Canby, Mr. A. B, Meacham, Dr. Thomas, Mr, Dyar, Riddle, the interpreter, and squaw, and Bogus Charley and Bostom Charley—went out to the designated spot, MEETING WITH JACK’S MURDERERS, There they met Captain Jack, John Schon. chin, Black Jim, Shack Nasty Jim, Ellen's Man and Hawker Jim, They had no guns with them, but each carried a pistol at his belt, This, however, was not much noticed, as in previous interviews they had had their guns with them, POSITION OF THE GATHERING. They sat down in a kind of broken circle,