The New York Herald Newspaper, April 17, 1873, Page 9

NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. rain clouds of the long and discontentfal season have a silver lining in the promise they givo ofa fruitful soiland an abundant grain harvest in the coming Autumn. The Shefllin Wife-Murder Trial, A jury in this case was completed yesterday and the evidence for the prosecution presented, making a strong case against the prisoner. He had for some time lived at Harlem, apart from ‘bis wife, who remained, with his father’s fawily, in a rear tenement in East Eleventh street. Hoe admitted having been at her resi- dence, drunk, the evening before the discov- ery of her dead body, and said he supposed the wounds on her scalp had been caused by kicks. The evidence indicates that rum was the zeignivg power in the miserable home where the death occurred, two other women being found there, stupid from intoxication, while Mrs. Shefilin had been several hours dead in the next room, without attracting their notice. Death probably resulted from alcohol and jealousy, in a family whose degraded con- dition is a disgrace to civilization. It may be ‘that the evidence for the prisoner—which will come out to-day—will throw such light on the affair as will reduce the degree of the prisoner's guilt to one of the lower grades of man- slaughter ; but as it stands the prospect is not hopeful for him. To-day will probably con- elude the trial. As the prisoner is poor there is little inducement for lawyers to practice the usual delay of justice. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge {ra Harris, of Albany, is in town at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge McFarland, of Washington, D, C., is at the St. Denis Hotel. Rey. William Alger, of Boston, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Delane, editor of the London Times, is about to visit this country. Judge M. H. Wentworth, of Syracuse, is at the Grand Central Hotel. General A, J. Diven, of the United States Army, ‘Yas quarters at the Hoffman House. Visions of the Virgin have been eifecting miracu- 4ous cures of invalids in Paris. Commander B. Leuch, of the United States Navy, ia stopping at the Sturtevant House. Congressman Charles Hayes, of Alabama, yester- flay arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain Brooks, of the steamship City of Ant- werp, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor William Dennison, of Ohio, among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Postmaster General Creswell and his party leave Memphis, Tenn., to-day fer Nashville and the Mam- moth Cave. The Prince of Wales is believed from his frequent attendance at the House of Lords to be taking a ‘course of political training. Paris has a new lion in the person of a son of one of the most notable chiefs of Algeria, His nanie is Belcassen ben Cheik el Matkar, and he is a ward of the French government. Pere Hyacinthe is in nigh favor in Geneva, Switz- erland, About one hundred and twenty-seven thousand people were disappointed of hearing his lecture there on the 2d inst. M. Bousquet, of Lyons, France, upon the procla- mation of the Spanish Republic, wrote to Selor Castelar, saying that 3,000 Lyonnese had started to support the new government. Duke George of Saxec-Weiningen was privately married to an actress named Fraulein C, Franz at his ducal palace, on the 18th ult. His wife is to be known as Freifrau von Heidburg. A polemical prisoner in Portiand Prison, in Eng- land, lately emphasized his disagreement with the Rev. Mr. Hill's theology by crying out during a ser- mon, “You're a liar; Christ never told you to say that.” Mr. Charles H. Upton, our Consul at Geneva, Switzerland, having been appointed Chargé d’af- faires during the absence in this country of Minis- ter Rublec, was presented to Presideut Ceresnole, in Berne, on the Sist ult, Mr. J. Fred. Myers, of the Treasury Department, isat the Astor House. He isen route to Europe to inquire into and report upon the treatment of steerage passeners on cccan steamships undera resolution adopted during the last session of Con- gress. The sale of the effects of M. Heindrich, the former Parisian executioner, revealed that he was strangely rapt with his horrible pursuit, He had made a large collection of paintings and engrav- Ings, whose subjects were always connected with capital punishment and its instruments, is THE WRECKED ATLANTIC. ‘The Work of Recovering Bodies Not Yet Resumed. Hairax, N.8., April 16, 1873, A high wind and a rough sea have agvin pre- vented the divers from resuming work on tne wreck of the Atlantic. The offering of a reward to ‘the submarine workers of $50 for the body of each cabin and $20 for each steerage passenger recov- ered Will be likely to somewhat stimulate the ef- orts of the divers in bringing up corpees, as weil as cargo, when the weather aliews them te re- sume work. The steamers Lackawanna and Per- rit, on their way hither from New York to engage in the service of the Wrecking Company, have not yet arrived. MANUFACTURERS, Boston, April 16, 1873. ‘The annual meeting of the New England Cotton Manufacturers’ Association was held in Boston to- day and the following officers elected for the ensu- Charles Nourse. Borden, of Fall River; Jehn Kilburn, ef Salem: A. G. Cammock, of Lowell; F. E. Clarke, of Lawrence. A discussion was had upon spindles, steps and bolsters tor cotton spinning, and models of inven- tions in this department were presented and explained, A KU KLUX VICTIM. LexineTon, Ky., April 16, 1873, ing of three persons, were taken from their heme in Jessamine county, and, it is supposed, were drowned by Ku Kiux. On Sunday lust a negro, while fishing, drew up the half decomposed body of Mahala kins, the wife, who was recognized by her clothing. Her arms and iegs were pinioned and a sixteen-pound rock was tied to her ieet, A VILLAGE IN ASHES, CINCINNATI, April 16, 1 A special despatch to the Gazette from Frankfort, Ky., says:—It is rumored that the village of Horse ave, Hart county, was burned to ashes, Ten business houses @ several dwellings were destroyed, Loss, $20,000. NOVA SCOTIA. Hauirax, April 16, 1873, of Woonsocket, R. 1; Thomas J. | SPAIN. A Decisive Defeat of the Carlists in Gerona Reported to Madrid. pala Sy Reinforcements to the Loyalists at Puigeerda— Heavy Losses of the Bourbonists—Prince Henry's Son Said To Have Been Killed—- Colonial Calm im Porto Rico. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapa, April 16, 1873. The Spantsh government has recetved intelli- gence ef a crushing defeat by the republicans of a Carlist force at San Lorenzo de ia Muga, in the province of Gerona. A detachment of the Carlists under Saballs, which, before the attack on Puigcerda, was sent vo hamper the march of the regular troops who were hastening to the relief of that town, were re- pulsed by the republicans, and lost 300 men, ex- clusive of prisoners, A BOURBON PRINCE SAID TO WAVE BEEN KILLED. It is reported that a son of Prince Henry of Bourbon, Duke of Seville, who took up arms in the cause of Don Carlos, was killed in a late engage- ment between the national forces and the insur- rectionists, THE GARRISON OF PUIGCERDA REINVORCED, STILL THREATENED, Additional reinforcements of government troops have arrived at Puigcerda, where they were re- ceived with great enthusiasm by the populace, BUT ing year:—President—Governor E. A. Straw, New | Hampshire; Vice Presidents—A. D. Lockwoed, of | Boston; John ©. Paifrey, of Lowell; Directors— Messrs. Rhinetras Adams, of Westchester, N. H.; The Carlists are again threatening the town, REPENTANT CARLISTS PREPARING FOR PARDON, Many Carlists are surrendering to the govern- Ment troops in the North in the hope of receiving amnesty. fe 3 Spanish Statement of the Milltary Situa. tion in Porto Rico, MApnip, April 16, 1873. The report that the Spanish troops in the Island of Porto Rico have revolted against the govern- ment is untrue. ‘The soldicrs merely asked tor an increase of their pay, which was granted them, and no demonstration was made, THE POPE. “ we His Holiness’ Health Improved, and the Pa- tient Pronounced Out of Danger. Invalided For a Time, But the Convalescence Hope.ul—Joyous Even in Suffering. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rome, April 16, 1873. Itis announced this morning that His Holiness the Pope is improving in health. The reports which allege that the Ponti is in a critical condition are false, The physicians believe that his attack of indisposition will last some time, but 1s not dangerous. RESIGNED AND JOYOUS, The Hely Father remains in an exceitent tone of | mind and spirits. GERMANY AND FRANCE. Prussian Military Compliment to the French | President. TELEGRAM TO THE KEW YORK HERALD. Pants, April 16, 1873. General Manteuffel, commander of the German Army of Occupation, gave a dinner to-day at Nancy in honor of the birthday of President Thiers, The Prefect and Mayor of the city were present. Toasts were given to the health of the President and General Manteuffel, President Thiers has attained the seventy-sixth year ofhis age. WOMAN'S MISSIONARY MEETING. REE: Sere Addresses by Miss Brittan and Rev. Dra Taylor and Batchelder. A quarterly meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society of America was held at the chapel of Rev* Dr. Crosby’s church, corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street, yesterday afternoon, There was not a crowded attendance, fully one-fourth of the seats being vacant. Miss H. G. Brittan, a fine-looking little lady. who has been for a number of years at Caicutta, India, laboring for the society, delivered an address re- plete with interesting facts relating to the progress of missionary work in the fleld trom which she lately returned. AT THE ZRUANA MISSION, where there are sixteen missionaries and fifty. two native teachers, 800 pupils are taught. Cen- nected with this mission is an “orphanage,” where Ce little ones are taught and supported by specific contributions, They are being educated in English and Bengali, for teachers and mission- aries, The persons in charge of this orphan- age also have supervision of the Founding Asylum, & government institution, established sul Seventy-six native girls were thus brought under the influence of church teaching. The speaker detailed the story of six little enes who were rescued from sacrifice and placed in this asylum. They belonged to the knad, and they were about to be offered up as A HUMAN SACRIFICE by having their flesh cut piecemeal from their living bodies, They were rescued at a place about a hundred league: th of Calcutta, The Rev. Dr, Batchelder, who has also been em- ployed in this mission work im In gave a brief sketch of his experience, to which the audience listened with great apparent interest. The princi- al ground had, however, becn covered by Miss Britfan’s address. Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the Tabernacle, spoke of the equent to the terrible famine of 1966 in India, | | value of missionary work in Africa and India, and | Last Fall a negro family named Hawkins, consist- | | partly concealed beneath some ‘The troop ship Tamar, from England, arrived at | Bermuda on the 28th ult. with the Two Hundredth Regiment to relieve the Sixty-ninth Regiment, which she will take to Gibraltar. A letter received here from Georgetown, Dema- tara, saysa large fire occurred there, destroying $150,000 worth of property. Late advices say that the imperial government Will spend haifa million sterling on the fortitica- tions of Halifax this year. The steam yacht Eethen has arrived here from Baltimore, bound to England. She is owned by Mr. Thomas Brassey, a member of the British Par- diament. ‘The Great Eastern will call at Sydney, C. B., on her way here with the French Atlantic cable, lor 20,000 tens of coal contracted for by the owners with the General Mining Association, One liwndred miners employed at St, Allerton in tne A\ coal mines, without any notice, qmit work on Saturday, and all the remaining men have | been forced out by the strikers. work was entirely suspended. A large force of laborers are employed digging trenches aiong the several streets to Point PI ant tor the subterrancous portion of the French Atiaatic candle This morning ¢ - | moved to ft claimed that he jelt particularly bitter when he heard persons deprectate the importance of church labor among the benignted hea- then of these Jands, One brand saved from the burning he thought repaid almost any expenditure of mere money. At the con- | clusion of Is remarks the meeting was adjourned, and large numbers ef ladies congregated about | Miss Brittan and vr. Batchelder, who shortly alter withdrew, driving home with Mrs. Doremus, with whom they dined. | A SUPPOSED MURDER. New Maven, April 16, 18% On Friday afternoon last two boys rambiing in the woods ou Mount Carmel, nine miles north of this city, came across the dead body of a man, bushes which boys reported jury of inquest was was found to — be considerably decomposed. It wax well clothed, and appeared to be that ofa man about thirty years of age. In his pockets Was jound a handker- chief marked E. money and a few oth it. a laid upon matter, and a called, The body articles: also # small bottie Was found at the side of the body. In che side of the bottle was biewn the words, “Kent, plarmacuetist, Chicopee, Mass.”” The jury, Without causing a post-mo » turned a verdict that the death from @ cause unknown to them. The body Was then given a pauper’s burial, [ft ts new thought that the man was murdered, and detec. tives are at work on ihe case, to be made, re- sed came to his Near the Reseville depot of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad in Newark last even- ing, a man named Patrick Dunning, residing in | Newark, met a terribie death, While walk. ing along the track he was struck by the Summit accommodation train, ron over and instantly killed. The body of the unior- n was mnangled frigni(wily, 80 as to be It was picked up and re- ase, The County Physician ual in sich casey, the facts st willbe het | tuna scare iy was uOli beg 89D CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, WASHINGTON. Colombian Territorial Boundary | Irregutarities in the New York Rev- Definition with Venezuela. Shas bath Oe sel Legislation on the Subject of Foreignersl Fishery Privileges—Murderous Outrages Against Indians—Gold Mining Enter- prise—Railway Developmentin Pera— Argentine Relations to Chile. The following correspondence reached from Colombia aud the South Americun territory, us Colombia, Panama, April 3, 1873, The excitement about the probable upshot of the present misunderstanding between Venezuela and Colombia on the question of boundary limits be- tween the two countries hasa good deal calmed down, This effect has principally been produced by @ note sent to the goverament of the State of Santander by Dr. Murillo, the President of the Union, showing that there was no cause for alarm on account of the relations now existing between the Republics. ‘The question at present is with respect to the line separating the State of Santanuer from that of ‘Tachira, in Venezuela, and known as the Territory of San Faustino. Any dificulties that may arise will be submitted to arbitration, The principal cause of alarm consisted in certain expressions of President Guzman, wherein he states that the commander of tue military forces on the frontiers had orders to see that the provisional line of Linits assumed by Veuezuela was respected, FISHERIES LEGISLATION, Among the bills now betore Congress at Bogota is one to prohibit foreign vesse!s capturing whales within the limits of Colombian waters in the Bay of Panama. The bill has passed its firat reading and been referred to acommittee. The in- tention, doubtless, is to protect the vessels of citi zens and residents in the country from competi. tion, and to encourage Colembians to embark in the whaling business. MURDEROUS OUTRAGES AGAINST INDIANS, A great deal of excitement has latterly been caused on the isthmus by the lawless conduct of | the Cancho collectors in banks of the Buyano River. dreds of men, chiefly from Carihagena, employed in this business, and dispersed through the forests of Vhepo and Chucunaque. They have been commit- ting murders aad depredations on the personsand properties of the San Blas and other Indians. Hay- | ing been driven away by the wild Indians of the Cordilleras, they have taken a cowardly vengeance upon the quiet and semi-civilized Indians employed about the farms on the Pacific slope. A party of these vagabonds met, in descending the Chucunaque, seven Indians, and killed ali of them, and committed a great many outrages and assassinations of a similar character, The Alcalde and inhabitants of tue District of Chepo signed a petition to the government here to turnish a mili- tary force to keep order and repress disorders, A force of fifty men, under an ofMicer, was despatched on the Ist inst. to be stationed at Chepo. MINERS ON THE MARCH. A number ef Californian miners arrived here in the Great Republic on their way to the mining region of Barbacoas, in this republic, under the guidance of Mr. Weaver, whose discoveries of alluvial gold formations were noticed in the Panama Star and Herald some time ago, The min came furnished with the requisite hydraulic apparatus to give Mr. Weaver's representations a fair trial, They will take passage im the steamer Guayaquil on the 16th inst. for their destination. THE RECENT FIRE ON THE ISTHMUS, Further inquiries with respect to the recent fire | at Aspinwall go to fix the attention of the public more particularly the fact that the Panama Railroad Company found to be deficient in any fectual means of checking fire ifit did break out. | This company, besides being tbe owners of several | hundred usand dollars’ worth of inflammable property, also the custodians of millions of del- lars’ worth of merchandise in transition, and yet | could not skew one good steam fire engine that | could be depended on in case of fire, | A MINER DISAPPEARED. | David Haghes, an American gold seeker, has dis- appeared in Chiriqui. Supposed to have been robbed and killed by his boatmen, ~ | | Darien and along the There are some hun- | Peru. ‘The news from Peru is very devoid of general in- terest. Railroads are still the order of the day. | ‘The Minister of State points out that certain rail- | roads of the Seuth and Central, uniess finished, j will certainly become State incumbrances, More | money is therefore wanted for that purpose. A | line of railroad is to be commenced at Cuzco, the capital of the ancient In Em- | pire, and carried on until it reaches the | Valley of the Ucuyall, and thus the | Amazon opening up direct communication with | the Atiantic. Another idea is to extend the Oroya | Railroad to the town of Chauchamayo, on the river of that name, by which a line of rail will be estab- | lished between the Pacific coast and that point of | the Amazon where steamers from Para can arrive. | The cost of realising all this is calculated at | 16,000,000 of soles. LIGHT WANTED ALL ROUND. Certain deputies of the Interior voted against using public money to construct lighthouses along | the coast as net veneliting residents tn the interior | of the Repuvlic. Bolivi: In La Paz Dr. Cazimoro Corral has been elected President of the Republic. Chili. The press has taken up the subject of certain claims that the Argentine Republic seems inclined | to put in force with respect to Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan and its islands, SAN SALVADOR EARTHQUAKE. Fall Particulars of the Calamity Hourly | Expected. The steamer Ormesby, which arrived in the port of New York yesterday irom Aspinwall, April3, brought | no particulars of the earthquake at San Salvador, which was reported in the despatch dated Panama, April 5, received via Havana, The steamer from Central America had not arrived when the Ormesny | sailed. Full reports are expected by the steamer Henry Chauncey, which sailed from Aspinwall jour days after the Ormbesby, and is due at New York to-morrow, WEATHER REPORT. rari WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGToN, April 17—1 A. M. '$ Probabitines, The storm centre in Michigan will move slowly northeastward over Lake Huron; that on the | Middle Atlantic coast will move also northeast- ward; for Thursday, in New Engiand continued northeast and southeast winds, with cloudy and rainy weather; for the Middle Atlantic States northeast winds, backing to northwest and wes: with cloudy and clearing weather; forthe Southern States generaliy clear weather, with casteriy | winds and rising temperatare; for New York and @ pocketnook containing | SHOCKING RAILROAD ACOIDENT IN NEWARK. | Lake Ontario easterly winds veering to southerly, with cloud and rain; fer Lake Erie soutawesterly winds veering te south and possibly southwest; for the Upper Lakes increasing northerly winds, cloudy and clearing weather. Cautionary signals contmue at Milwaukee, Chi- | cago, Grand Haven, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oswego, Rechester, Noriolk, Cape May, New York, New Haven, New London, Wood's Hoie and Boston. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record wili show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in mparison with the corresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s | Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— AST2, 1878. az 42 Average temperature yesterday..... gees Average temperature for corresponding dat last year.........006 vis WV Wve da cive steve GUN STORM ON THE PLAINS, Omana, Neb., April 16, 1873. ‘The western storm continued during last night and up to noon to-day, but has abated since that time, 80 that men are at work clearing the track of snow. If the storm is net renewed the track will be cleared by to-morro' The storm cevered a atrip of country 200. mi | three days and was the worst ever knowty | Porfirio Dias, | as President of Comgress by a majority of sixteen | of | nent when they form by themselves, or in conjunc- wide, has lasted about | enue Districts, COLLECTORS REMOVED AND APPOINTED. Riparian Rights and Harbor and River Improvements. wean I 2 Be GRANT GONE WEST. WASHINGTON, April 16, 1875. Irregularities In the Second New York Coltection District—Government Money Used for Speculatio: The President, accompanied by his family and General Babcock, left for St. Louis to-night. Among his last official acts was the appointment ef Max Weber, Assessor of the Second New York dis- trict, to be Collector, vice W. H. Treadwell, the present Collector, ‘two weeks ayo a special agent of the Treasury Department was seut to New York to examine the books of the Collector's office in the Second district with reference to the eld ac- counts of Joshua F, Bailey, the defaulting Collector of the Thirty-second New York district, and white discharging this duty he became convinced that there were irregularities in the management of the oMice, of which neither the Collecter nor Commissioner of Internal Revenue It appeared that for many months there had been borne on the reports of the Collec- tor taxes collectable but unpaid, amounting to juily $50,009, principally due from banks and bank- ing drain tail times ready to pay the assessments due, The attention of the Comiiasioner of In- ternal Revenue was called to this fact, and = Collector —- Treadwett was asked = to inmediateiy “walk up to the Captain's ofice and settle.’ In less than twenty-four hours the entire amount was turned in and’ duly credited by the United States ‘Treasurer. It appears, how- ever, that the Commissioner was not satistled With this settlement, He was convinced that there had been an improper use of the money collected, Collector Treadwell 1s not implicated, but his sub- ordinates are, and criminal prosecution will be in- stituted aganinst them at once jor using money belonging to the government for personal gain. Attention will also be paid to the report of the Supervisor of Internal Revenue, who, when ia- structed to report how the money had been used, | evaded his duty and wrote that it had been paid at the proper time, and could not have been used tor | speculation, From what can be gathered at the Treasury Department it appears that defalcations have of late not been uncommon, but this transac- tion inthe Second New York district is a modest | affair compared with the suppressed details of Irregularities in other revenue districts. Collapse of the Last Mexican Rebeliion— | The Objects of the Revolt. The latest oMcial advices received here from Mexico are to the effect that nothing remains of the insurrection of Lolzada except the remnant of | his forces, consisting @f about four er five thousand | men who have taken refuge in the mountains, where they are being hard pressed by G ral Corona, commanding the government forces. There is seme misapprehension the United states in regard to Lozada and his objects. He is, in fact, an Indian Casique, Whe sought to make himself independent of the government and to found an Indian State, with Tepic ior its capital. Duriag the whole time of the occupation of Mexico by the French Lozada PRESIDENT in | had opportunity to consolidate his power in the mountains of Nayarit. During all that time he heid aloof both from Maximilian and Juarez. After | the downiall of Maximilian Lozada played fast | and loose with the gevernment of Juarez, | until the country became disturbed by the military pronunciamentos of Porfiro Diaz nd Trevino, He then threw off the mask and de- clared against Juarez without joining in favor of vo that at the mament Lerdo de | Tejada came into office by the death of Juarez, Lozada had had time te organize a sufficient force to make him the object of serious apprehension to the government. if Lozada had succeeded he would have introduced the same state of things in the region of country west of Guadalajara which has existed for several years in Yucatan, where the Indians haye for many years sucseeded in maintaining themselves in the in- | terior in spite of ali the efforts of the government to reduce them to obedience, and producing a state of permanent war between the whites ana Indians | of Yucatan, Fertunately the victory of General | Corona over Lozada im the neighborhood of | Guadalajara has relieved the Mexican Republic from this great danger. At the preparatory ejections for the Mexican Congress Mr. Francisco Gomez Palacio, well known here as Mexican Commissioner, was designated votes, and it is reported that he represents in Con- gress the opposition to the administration of Mr. Lerdo de Tejada. A Money Indemnity from Hayti. The Department of State has received informa- tion ef the payment by the Haytien government of an award of $10,000 against that government for the illegal arrest of a Consular agent of the United States at Mirageane. Appointments by the President. ‘The President this afternoon, before leaving for | St. Louls, made the iollowing appointinents :— Mr. Max Weber, Collector Second district of New } York, in place of M. H. Treadwell; R. P. Lethrop, | Collector Fourteenth district of New York, in place | John M. Batley; Alexander O. Ketchum, | Collector Ninth district of New York, in place of A. | Wiliman; Edward Luke, Collector Sixth district of | Pennsylvania, in place of John R. Breitenbach; | Josiah T. Brown, Register of Laud Omce, Olympia, Oregon; Nathaniel Stipman, United States District Judge for Connecticut; Joseph H. Henderson, of Oregon, Consul at Amoy, and David Williams, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifteeenth | Pennsylvania district, vice Joseph W. Patton, sus- pended. Riparian Rights and the Engineer | Officers. To relieve the engineer omfcers engaged ia works of fortification, river and harbor improve- ments from apart of the embarrassment arising out of the frequently recurring questious of ripa- nan rights the Chief of Engineers has issued o compilation ‘of the principal authoritative de- cisions upon the subj The officers in charge of improvements on the lakes are instructed that the right and title to the shores is vested in the States, except in e com. paratively few instances where title has been expressly conveyed to the United States, But the government can protect its werks constructed for the general good, as well as camse the removal of obstructions to navigation by instituting legal proceedings under certain acis of Congress, The owners of land bounded by navigabie waters have certain rights, independent of whether the title extends to the middle of the stream, such as free access to the ‘navigable part of the water and the right to make a@ landing or wharf, but these rights are subject to general rules and regulations for the protection of the public rights in tke stream, though they cannot be suppressed by special legis- jation, Im this country the ebb and flow of the tide are not the test of navigability from which re- | suits federal jurisdiction, but actual navigation for trade and travel is the legal test. Navigable rivers are within the jurisdiction of the general govern- tion with other waters, a continued highway be- | tween one or more States er from the latter to | foreign parts, | Amertcan Enterp: im Buenos Ayres. | Recent advices received here trom Buenos Ayres give a full account of the opening of the Boca and Ensenada Railway, constructed by Mr. William Wheelwright, a citizen of the United States, who has done more than any other person, not except- tag Mc, Meigs, for the development of tle resousces | ing of Soutk America. ‘This enterprise comprehends not onty the construction of a railway from Buenos Ayres to Ensenada, beiow the cily, but the estab- lishment atso of a port and pane Dineen at Ensen- ada, which will add immensely to the facilities of commercial intercourse with Buenos Ayres, Treasury Balances. ‘treasury balances at the close of business to- day :— Currency $2,572,896 510,000 Special d 8d 71,817,309 600 P 1 fo Mo ona of certificates of deposit in. Including coin’ certiticates, Legal tenders outstanding. —Or nearly $300,000 less than ALLEGED INHUMANITY. Semarang The Coroner's Investigation Into the Cause of the Death ot Mary Thomas and the Conduct of Mrs, Hurley, Mat- ron of St. Mark’s Place Lodging House for Girts—Mrs. Hurley Consured. ‘The investigation into the cause of the death or Mary Thomas, who died in Bellevue Hospital some weeks since trom what was alleged to be the inhu- man treatment of Mrs, Hurley, Matron of the St. Mark's Place Lodging House for Girls, was held yesterday before Coroner Kessler, The girl was found on the street on the morning of the 18th of March, and was prematurely confined in the sta- tion house, where she stated Mrs, Hurley had driven her out of her house. Sergeant Uharles Snyder testified that he was a policeman of the Seventeenth prectnct; remem- bered having scen a Woman named Mary Thomas under peculiar circumstances; left the precinct house at about tweive o'clock at night and came back again and jot a young woman lying on the floor im great agony; her suffering ana distress were very great; Dr. McLay came soon alter, and in about thirty minutes after the woman «to~ livered of a child; she complained bitterly of the treatment she had received at her own lodging | house, 27 St. Mark’s place, at the dead of night, by one of her own sex, notwithstanding the cendition in which she was. Wilham Judge was sworn and deposed he was a detective ol the Police Yepartment; went to the institution to get the girl's tl them; the woman incharge said the girl had working, und thatshe had engaged im Brooklyn, and that the girl attempted to go on the might of the isth; Mrs, Hurley said she did not turn the girl out; she went of her own acc Henry Ross testified that he w ao oficer con- nected with the Seventeenth precinct on the ight of the 18th of Mare saw Mary Thomas that night on the corner of Sixth street and Second avenue ; she said she wanted to go to Brooklyn, but she was too sick, and asked te go to the station house; sne jainted when she got to First avenue, but aiterwards recovered sumeien tly to walk; when she got to the station hous: she sail she had beeu turued out of her lodging house ve- cause of the condition she was in, Dr. A.W. MeLay, police surgeon of the Seven- teenth precinct, said he was called to tae Seven- teenth precinct on tie morning of the isth of March; she was in the last pains of lubor, and was shortly afterwards delivered of a child; she was afterwards sent to Bellevue Hospital; I think her labor pain was accelerated by her removal from the house in which she had lived. To a Juror—To a woman in her condition to be turned out of her house, the effect would be injuri- ous; her removal to Bellevue lospitai alter de- livery would net necessarily be injurious. Mrs. E.'S. Hurley sworn, and deposed that her residence was 27 St. Mark’s place; am matron of the Women’s Lodgiag House; Mary Thomas came | to the heuse on the Ist day of March; she seemed to be ia good health; Iw toll of her condition first by a lady in the house, about ten days after came; when I heard of her condition 1 told her 1 could not ‘) & woman in her situation in the house; she asked what | meant, and indig- nantly denied that she was in the condition 1 alluded to; 1 said to her, “I suppose you are a married woman, and itis all right; Lean get you into a place where you can get sick; | asked her jor her marriage certificate, but she did not have it, and 1 then told her | would try and get her into: a piace in Brooklyn; she was werking in | ® bookbindery and asked leave to stay until Saturday night, as she could not wages svoner; I went over Brooklyn and made arrangements for her; she Kiyn the next day and returne telling me shi the next day; 1 was aroused from my sleep that night by a rap at my a J asked who was there, and she said ‘Mary Thomas,” that she going | to be sick and she was going to Breoklyn; she suid nothing about her condition, oniy that she was going to be sick; she did’ not say and I did not know that she was in the paims of labor; I said to her, “Do you think you can go over? she | said “Yes;” she leit voluntarily and was notforeed | te leave; she went, and when Lgot up tomy w dow she was out ofsigit; | went over next m Urooklyn and found she had not reach there; I did not know she was in bell pital until L read of her death in the paper: pesed she Was in Charity Hospital; it was about a quarter to one in the merniog when she left the lodging house to go to Brooklyn. Mrs. E, V, Moffatt deposed that she was First 7 258, on the ist of April. | Directress of the Women’s Lying-in-Hospital: saw | Mary Thomas on the 17th of March made ap- plication for admussion; told me she was married | but that her husband had deserted her; Lgave ber acard of admission and she said she weuld go back to New York and get ker clothes und return next day; she toid she had a child before; very kindly of Mrs. Hurley. E. P, Weston deposed teat he saw the deceased ; nversation with her several times; on the of the isth of March I dropped into the Fifth t station house; it was my duty as a reporter | to visit the station houses; I rd of the case, and two or three days alter Tsay “er in Bellevu Hospital; she toid me she had been turned out of the Yeung Girls’ Lodging House in St. Mark’s place; she told me that om the night of the ith she was taken with the pains of labor, and came down te the matron’s room and told her; the matron said she could not stay in the house in that condition; it was against, the rules; that she would not be taken sick for an | hour, and that she had time to go to Brooklyn: Mrs, Hurley said she must go, and Mrs. Thomas ie spoke | said she had too much pride to remain aiter being told to go; | asked her if she had any friends, and she only sobbed; she seemed to be getting on very well when I saw her. Charles E. Whitehead deposed that he was one of the Directors of the Children’s Aid Society, one of the branches oi which is the Girls’ Lodging House, in St. Mark’s place; know nothing of the circumstances of Mrs. Thomas’ death; the rules ¢ the lodging house provide that no girl over pt. | een should be admitted ; this is to prevent any acl- dents, such a8 the one new investigating, srop OC- curing; there are no arrangementy for women in confinement, but on no stcount | would we have wished her turgéd out in the condition she was in on the ity of March, but I think the matron did not ksow of the case and did not turn her out; if soste was very | le. . aries L. Brace, Secretary of the Children's Aid | Society, corroborated the Testimony of the pre- vious witness. Dr. J. 5. Henry Burchid, hon surgeon, deposed that the woman aie she cape to Bellevue Hospi- | tal was very weak. Dr. Farrington depose Wat the post-mortem examination showed thet death was caused by xhaustion. ma exh aUsHOD. a that thotact of Mrs. Thomas having , been removed irom lyf iodging house must have had an injurions effet upon ler; the exerttan at- | tendant upon her Walking to the station dowbtiess weakened her apt in some measure probably su- perinduced the disease 04 Which she died, out about haif an hour and re- r onerating the ofiicers s Aid Society from wii blame, Had atron of the Girls’ Lodg- yiace, has shown a luek of of th that Mos. E ing Heust ' uek of judgnent in allowing Mary Thomas to jeave the hoxse inthe middle of the mglt in the condition ske Was in. STEAMBOAT INSPECTION. | the Board of Inspectors— | Changes and Recommendations=—The Committees for the Ensuing Year. WASHINGTON, April 16, 1875. ‘The Board of Supervising Inspectors of Steam- Session of boats, D. D. Sintth, Inspector General, are now in | session In this city. At their meeting to-day the Committee on Botlers and Machinery were instructed to report to the Board tre dratt of a circular to be distributed among the iron manu tures, boiler makers and inspectors, on the inspection of boiler plates. It was resolved that the Department circaiar requiring one copy i certificate of inspection te be returned to ue Departm nd that the See- retary of the Treasury be requested to abolish the same: and it Was also resolved that hereafter only two certificates of inspection shall be required on all tug, tow and freignt steamers, rhe following resolution was referred to the | Committee on Rules and Regulations oath aR fire extingulshers shat! no be required oniug, tow orirelght steamers, neither shall on passenger steamers of less than 1 100 tons. THE COMMITTEES FOR 1873. ‘The folowing are the committees for 15: Amendments to the Law—Messrs, Rogers and Carr. Hues and Regulations—Messrs, phenson and shepard. Shepard, Devenny, Ste Discipline of Licensed OMicers—Burnett, Deven- | hy and Stephenson. . ‘nual Reports, Printing and Blank Forms— | Carr, Ralph and Low, Boilers and Machinery—Low, Bemis and Regers. } Gauges, Safety Valves, Fusible Plugs and In- strumenis—Bemis, Wrenshaw and Shepar: Fire Apparatas—Rogers, Burnet and Ralph, Life Saving Apparatus—rWenshaw, Bemis and Burnett, Pilot Rules, Lake and Seaboard—Ratph, Low and Wrenshaw. Pitot Rules, Western Riygrs—Stepheason, Deven- Dy aad Care, | mow and the landse John street, curt ont conn CURE may Y 4 Firty-seventh and Fitty-elvh Mother, 9 $$ $$ay > BRIDGING THE BLOODY CHLASUL sgiaeemouimeteca Genera! Sheridan and Secretary Betknag “Lionized” in Texas, _—. Grand Reception Ceremonies in San Antonio~p “Little Phil” and Ex-Confederates Smoking the Calumet Together—Mr. Belknap Delighted —- Triamphal Arches Erected, Municipal Honors Extended, a Ball and Supper and Gen- eral Festivity. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aprit 6, 1873. General Phil Sheridan and Secretary of Wat Belknap reached this city at twenty minutes past nine last evening and were recived at the Munger Hotel by our Mayor, City Council and many of our most prominent citizens, to whom they were in troduced by General Augur, commanding oficer of this department, They made the trip from Austin to this city, a distance of eighty miles, by special conveyance in ten hours, and, althougt doubtiess somewhat fatigued, scemed in high spirits and delighted with their very cordiat re- ception. SHAKING HANDS ACROSS THE CHASM. Among the throng that paid their respects: to these distinguished gentlemen were several old army oflcers who had served with General Sheri- dan before the war and who had fought againss him with all their might during the war, But this seemed all forgotten, and their meeting was that of old friends and ex dingly gratifying te cit’ zens who witnessed tie scene. SECRETARY BELKNAP’S ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS. Secretary Belknap was asxed how he had en~ joyed the change in climate. L will give his reply in his own word “Why, sit, it has made the mest wonderful ime pression upon me of any event of my life. 1 can- hot realize that months have not passed instead of hours, Wh Jleit Sedalia yesterday morning everything was bound in ice, trees bare and no signs of opening bud or vegetation, but when day- light appeared this morning the forests were robed in full foliage and as we approached your city men were ploughing out their corn, the gardens are laden with vegetables, the grass high enough to pe covered with flowers. [ can scarcely believe that two months have not passed instead of thirty-six hours.” His attention was called to a huge bouquet upom the parior table, not less than two feet in diameter, and composed of at least a hundred different varicties of beautiful flowers. His admiration of this proved tim the genial, kind-hearted gentic- man as well as Secretary of grim-visaged war, for what true gentleman can help admiring the frat opening flowers of Spring ? TRIUMPHAL ARCHES IN THE STREETS. Our city had made great preparation to receive their distinguished guests. High poles with fame beau lights have been planted through the princi- pal streets from the Munger Hotel to the San Pedro Springs City Park, a distance of nearly two miles, AG each corner triumphal arches composed of the “Star-spangled Banner,” laurel and flowers will be formed, A corps of workmen have been engaged in preparing the park for more than a week, an@ the oMecial reception and speeches will take place to-morrow evening, alter which A GRAND BALL AND SUPPER will be given in the spacious apartments of the Agricultural Association which form @ por- tion of the park buildings, on which oc- casion also the fair daughters ef San Antonio, robed in Summer costumes and radiant with roses and diamonds, will pay their respects, and such as are not strictly keeping ‘holy week’ will tread the “mazy dance” with these war-worn veterans to their hearts’ content. ‘The morn after, If able, they will take their departure tor the line of frontier posts, with the God-speed and best wishes of all classes of oue people. GREAT LOSSES BY FIRE, HaRtForD, Conn., April 16, 1873, The burning of Weich, Spring & Company's clock factory, in Forestville, yesterday morning, caused a loss of about eighty thousand dollars, on which there Was insurance of $16,000, This makes a losa of about two huadred and fifty thousand dollars b fire in the town of Bristol within a few mont and, loliowing so auickly after the fre ef Su 1asl, Is a serious blow to the industrial interests of the town. The Greatest Modern Jiscovery of the public that H HOUND AND TAR wi PIKES TOOTHACHE cure a consumpt DROPS cure in A.—Detective Agency.—Mooncy’s Detece AGENOY, 162 Broadway; experienced operators; fidelity and despaten: reter to H. . Claflin, 14) Churel street. Who Destre ity should calh ASSAU SirEOt, be A.—Citizets and Strange t FIPS, Manuiaetu eknan ant’ Ann streets A.-Herring’s vat cu goland 252 urraystre st. A.wilerald Branch Office, Brooklyn, nm avente and Boerum street, z Open trom s A. M.to 9 M. On Sunday tr: 4t09PM A Remedy of virtue s Discast, Gravel, 1 Kidney affeotiois and Urini EXTRACT BUCKU, druggists every where. batons Merit ton + Diabetes, Gout and alt diseases—! x Depot tit juaine street.” So ns Aw=Dr. Fisler’s Rueunatie. Remed ’ iy, 2h AG. B Wiliatmion, st Thompson street, ot Chronic ith A.=The Finest, MoS Exten. fui and popsiar Bathson this ¢, Healthe | VAPOR (ARBLED BAtHS, Fourth street, | Hav institution ‘in ary $0 are uch Temperature. we ti f Croton and thot —— ts Into youthiul oo” Dye ‘Trange + instantaneously. Corns, Bunions, Nails, &e.> pain ty br. RICE, 208 Broadwayred Wie ANSUILATOR, by wail, Weenwrner Fulton, lyoke’s Celebrated Fever may be obtained 8 Kiahta avert Ague street betweer tinnd’s Celebrated Vanilla LATES tor family use. Fifth Avenue Hotel, Bream Adon aquare. and alse for saleby all frst Glassy y, ers Royal Havana tiery Extraordin z aIeK ETS, © HL 22, 1578 4 Capital F 12 Capital, F 409 Prizes $50) Seriation fueti Highest rates paid fe ills, Gavernme curity, &c., de, TAY Cu., Bankers, Wall street, New York. Royal Havana Lottery.'The Extraor= ‘ Mrawing takes pluce the J. 8, MARTI. Lary dra fankers, 1) Wall street’ Post office Wox 10%, New York. Spring Hat is e KO be found at either of his stores, 212 Broadway, the Futh Avenue Hotel or scott House ‘Two Years Ago My Son Contracted the Bronchitis, and soon Je go ull he had, to, take ie bed, After naing a boctie ot SAYNe’s Boenere ANT he obtained some ea stro je cot on st his mother Tmyselt be maior, and teowe amity doe » medicine of his je rapidly ty iiuel wo! i. Ii feared he would die, aud mioed § | the EXPEOTORANT . To our gi r y, with the SANATIVE PTULS as they on entirely cured. cof Croup with the EXP ed benericial re: Dwar ite cases ig T can sately say tise m eellent i ‘ine for the throat and lungs” JOUN we eke of Mount Carroll, Carroll county, 1 NEW PUBLICATIONS, — (THE SCLENCE OF HEALTH FOR MAY WE HAVE N.Mieaih Against. Fashion,” “Diet of a Nursing wasonable Dishes,’ “Teeth of Different Na- “Popular Physiology, Flatulence and i “Health of Mechari ‘atts Chiness, to ti oe only her ot this excellent aniue, whieh is $s Yo Benton trial three months for twenty-ve Cony 8. KB, WEL. 9) tcyadeay, New Yor | 3 ti burn,” Medici LL _ OO