The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK. HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Velume XXXVIII. Scene AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway:—Granp Vamety Exrer- TAINMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts —Tax Betas ov tux Kirenen. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Huamrry Durty. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frov Frov. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth atreet.—Davin Garrick. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—UNDER THE GasLi ROOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappy O'Down. ACADEMY OF MUS: Bourrs—Lxs Cxnt Ve £7, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.— McEvor'’s New Hinexnici GPRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—Diz Graxrix RIVE. BOWERY THEATR' Yous. Fourteenth street.—Orzra ry.—Fastest Box in New THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Ben.xsque axv O10. THIRTY-FOURTH STREEL THEATRE, Sth st., near 2d ay.—Vanrety ENTERTAINMENT, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Divonce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tak Gampier’s Crime. At oon and evening. MRE, PF. RB, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Tur Wirr—Pocanontas. BRYANT’S OPERA MOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner (th av.—NxGRO MINSTRELSY, £0, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniaty ENTERTAINMENT. BARNUM’S GREAT SHOW.—Open afternoon and night. Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn. ST. PETER'S HALL, Twentieth st. betwoen Eighth and Ninth avs.—Mne. Jantxy’s Wax Works, AFSEQOTATION PALL, 28d street and 4th av,—Lecture, “PETER’S AMBITION; OR, A STRAY.” NEW YORK MUSEUM 0: Ecrence anv Ant, NATOMY, 618Broadway.— THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Merald. “THE FLURRY IN WALL STREET! THE SAME OLD STORY "—EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixru PAGE. PANICKY AGIOTAGE! UNEASINESS OF THE BROKERS aT THE STOCK EXCHANGE! ANOTHER FAILURE A PARTIAL RALLY! INTERVIEWS WITH THE UNFORTUNA' WHAT CAUSED THE PANIC—EiguTu Pacr. BUSINESS IN THE FINANCIAL AND COMMER- CIAL EXCHANGES! THE MONEY RATE AD- VANCED TO 187 PER CENT, BUT FALLS 4 OFF! STOCK FLUCTUATIONS! A BREAK IN FOREIGN EXCHANGE! GOLD FEVER- ISH —EIGHTH PaGE. CONSUL ERAL TORBERT INTERCEDES FOR MR. O'KELLY! CERALLOS' ANSWERS IN- DEFINITE! THE CHARGE OF BUTCHERY RS REFU' —THIRD PAGE. SIR SAMUEL AND LADY RAKER SAID TO HAVE N H BY THE NATIVE d ANXIETY FELT IN | LORD GRANVILLE SEEKING RUTH—SEVENTH PAGE. BEVERE CONFLICTS B! THE DUTCH AND NATIVE ‘OOPS IN THE BAST INDIES! THE DUTCH ASSAULT AND CARRY SOME OF THE ATOHEEN POSI- TIONS! THE SULTAN’S PALACE BESIEGED! HEAVY LOSSES—Srventu Pace. CARLIST ASSAULT UPON AND CAPTURE OF AN- OTHER SPANISH TOWN! FATAL STORMS IN WALES GERMAN AMBASSADORS CHANGED—SEVENTH PAGE. MODOC EXTIRPATION IN DEMANDED! FUR- THER REINFORCEMENTS TENDERED TO GENERAL GILLEM! PUBLIC HONORS TO THE REMAINS OF GENERAL CANBY AND DR. THOMAS! THE BATILE GROUND DE- SCRIBED! THE “BIG PAPER” MAN—e THIRD PAGE. PRESIDENT GRANT ASKS FOR A FULL RE- LEASE OF SATANA AND BIG TREE, THE SAVAGE CHIEFS! THE TEXAN GOVER- NOR ORDERED TO REFUSE THE RE QUEST! THE PEOPLE VIGILANT—Turrp Pace. ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENTIAL EXCURSION PARTY AT THE SMOKY CITY! WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAYS ABOUT TRE MODOCS— SEVENTH PAGE. SHARP PRACTICE IN THE BIDWELL FORGERY CASE! A FUTILE ATTEMPT TO STEAL THE EXTRADITION PAPERS! THE OPERATOR ARRESTED! PROGRESS OF THE INQUIRY— SEVENTH PAGE, SOLICITUDE OF THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT ABOUT THE ILLNESS OF THE POP: CONTRADICTORY REPORTS AS TO THE SEVERITY OF THE MALADY—Sgvenrn PAGE. THE VIENNA WORLD'S FAIR! THE BUILDING WILL NOT BE FINISHED, BUT MUST BE OPENED ON MAY 1! CAUTION TO Vis- ITORS—Seventn Pace. SHEFFLIN’S DE: E! SOUL-SICKENING NAR- RATIONS BY THE MUTHER AND HUS- BAND! AUCTIONEERS CAUGRT IN A MU- NICIPAL SNARL AND AUCTION BUYERS “CAUGHT NAPPING LEGAL NE IMPORTANT PR T ON USURY LAWS—Firtn Pace. LEGISLATIVE Do! BLOODY WORK OF THE “K. K. K.” IN KENTUCKY—TwWEtrtn Pace, WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE NEW CHARTE THE REAL ESTATE—THE BROOKLYN WIFE MURDER—NINTH Pace. ENFORCING THE DEMANDS OF LABOR! THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL SOCIETIES! A MASS MEETING CALLED BY THE INTER- NATIONALS—THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE GASMEN AND THE COMPANIES AGAIN UNDER WAY—FourrH Page. SENATOR JAMES WOOD SAYS HE “BORROWED” $10,000 FROM JAY GOULD! INTERESTING CIMONY ABOUT ERIE CHANGES—MU- NICIPAL DO! ‘OURTH Pa@r, NOTICE 10 THE PUBLIC. oe Owing to the unprecedented quantity of our advertisements advertisers seeking our columns are requested to send in their adver- tisements early in tho day. This course will Becure their proper classification and allow us to make timely arrangements for our news, Advertisements intended for our Sunday issue may be later P. M, office, in not than nine at this sent either our only uptown bureau, 1,265 Broadway, or at our | Brooklyn brauch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum streets. Let advertisers remem- ber that the earlier their advertisements are in the Hznavp office the better for themselves and for us, The Flurry in Wall Street=The Same Old Story. The stock and money brokers and spec- ulators in Wall and Broad _ streets are never so much in their ele- ment as when there is great excitement, when stocks are tumbling down or run up under a “combination,” or some too adventurous operators are smashed. Weare just witness- ing one of those frequently recurring ‘‘panics,’” ay they are called, through over speculation, and the consequent failure of one or two stock-jobbing firms, with the possibility of others being sorely pressed or breaking. But there is nothing alarming inthis. It is as much the chronic habit of Wall street as the inevitable recurrence of fever and ague in swampy, malarious regions, every Fall of tho year. None know this so well asthe shrewd and experienced stock-jobbers who carefully watch the times and seasons and profit by the changes. They, however, overreach the mark sometimes, and get tripped up. But gener- ally the victims are tyros, less experienced and venturesome young men. The present little panic was brought about directly, though there were other indirect causes, by the failure of a somewhat con- spicuous stock-jobbing firm failing to meet its obligations. It had undertaken to make more or heavier contracts than it could carry. The tide had been swelling for some time past in the general rise and activity of stocks, and this firm was too sanguine as to the future. A tight money market came, a high, usurious interest was demanded for money, and this necessary article could not be obtained through the available means the col- lapsed firm had in hand. That is the simple story, and it is, as we have said, an old one, It is said there was a good deal of sympathy expressed at the Stock Board and among the speculators generally for, the firm which failed. his is natural and proper, for all these gentlemen are sailing along in the same boat. It is an exemplification of the old adage, that “a fellow fecling makes us wondrous kind.’’ The bulls will gore and the bears tear each other mercilessly till their victims are down and helpless; but then the balm will be applied, and if the dis- comfited be plucky and good fellows, ac- cording to the sentiment and morality of the street, they may be as vigorous and in as good standing again as ever a few hours after their fall, This stock-jobbing business is sheer gambling, and it would be of no conse- quence to the general public or commercial interests of the country how many of the speculators fell or how often, if values and the money market were not disturbed. The legitimate commercial or trading business of the country is another thing, and ought to be, if that were possible, entirely independent of stock-jobbing. But the failure we refer to, together with the second one, reported yesterday, or others that may occur in consequence of these or from like causes, must be regarded only as a ripple on the surface. In the excitement some of the stocks have fallen three or four per cent, and the more fancy ones, which always feel the pressure most, have declined more than that. There has beon, probably, less alarm among the shrewd speculators than was pretended, as they were watching all the time for any and the least pretext to set the caldron of stock speculation in motion. How often have we seen during a perfect calm an effort made to create excitement by bogus news from abroad or from Washington. At the present time, however, there isa deeper cause for the perturbation in Wall street than the failure of a prominent stock-jobbing firm or two. Money is scarce and interest ruinously high. This has been caused in part by the great demand for stock operations. The banks and capitalists, looking more to their own interest than to that of the public, have lent extensively to the speculators at high rates during a period of rise and activity in stocks. ‘This, of itself, was sufficient to make money scarce and dear. But the merchants have needed an unusual amount to meet the extraordinary im- portations and duties on them this Spring, especially as the season has been so back- ward, and the demand for goods from the country not being equal to what was expected. ‘Then, the growth, expansion and necessities of the interior, particularly of the West and South, for currency, have hada tendency to create a scarcity at this financial centre. We should not lose sight of the fact, in this con- nection also, that while the volume of cur- rency is stationary and the drain of specie beyond the production, the business and necessities of the country are growing enor. mously, hiss tetlinena There is no reason to believe the incidental disturbance in Wall street, and, perhaps, we might say the periodical disturbance, is going to have any serious or permanent eifect upon stocks or values. The result will be, probably, as heretofore, more caution for a time, a more extended purchase of stocks at tho lower rate to which they have fallen, and, con- sequently, a readjustment and more ease in the course of a few days. This is as likely to follow as that a calm succeeds a storm in the weather. Then it is thought the Treasury De- partment may come to the rescue soon by making an early payment of interest on the debt which is becoming due, It is likely, too, that we shall see the usual return of money to the financial centres and a rise in stocks with the coming of Summer. Looking at the ques- tion of the existing little disturbance and the immediate prospect there appears to be no cause of apprehension—no cause for an imme- diate or serious decline in stocks and values. But what of the future? What is the pros- pect next Fall or Winter, or next year? If we continue to import as we have been im- porting, far in excess of our exports, includ- ing the export of the precious metals, we must bg called upon in time to pay the difference or make a settlement. Our extravagance is in- volving us deeper in debt every year. Hereto- fore we have paid the balance by an extraordi- nary exportation of national and other securi- ties. But this resource will fail us in time, while the interest to be paid to foreign holders augments in proportion to the amount of those securities that go abroad. As long as foreigners will reinvest the interest due to them invest their capital in the United States we may not feel the pressure of our in- debtedness so much, and such investments willadd to the general stock of wealth and improvements in the country; but still, as a debtor nation, we are always at the mercy of our creditor and cannot have the control wo ought to have over our financial situation. A war or any other great disturbance in Europe would be apt to throw us on our beam ends. What we really want is a solid and uniform currency and financial system that could not be disturbed seriously by foreigners, a cur- rency properly distributed and commensu- rate with the vastand growing.necessitics of the country, cheaper transportation for the enormous products of the West to the sea- board and a consequent augmentation of ex- ports, a change in our registry and navigation laws, which would increase American tonnage and give us a larger portion of the profits of the carrying trade and the enlargement of markets for our products and commerce, especially with those countries of tho West Indies and the American Continent near us. We are rich enough within ourselves. No country is so rich, But it is the surplus wealth that comes from external commerce which makes up the balance between nations, aud which gives one power while it keeps another in poverty and dependence. It is this which has made England the richest country in the world, as far as money goos—that has made all other nations tributary to and de- pendent upon her. Wemay havo disturbances in Wall street, and, perhaps, always shall toa greater or less extent; but those would be of little consequence if our monetary, financial and commercial systems were on a sound basis, for no other country has such resources or such a fuiure as the United States. A Waste of Valuable Time, The Assembly Committee charged with the duty of investigating the present Erie Rail- way management, with a view to ascertaining whether any legislation is necessary to protect the interests of the American people in that public highway, against the speculations of English stock-jobbers and the designs of the English sufferers by the Atlantic and Great Western bubble, are spending whole sessions in examining clerks of committees as to whether they ever received fees from # notori- ous Albany lobbyman. Why does the com- mittee thus waste the brief time remaining for its work? What has a hundred or a thousand dollars paid by a lobby agent to a clerk got to do with the important subject of the Erie Rail- way management? Why are not the books of Erie examined and submitted to the test of an expert to ascertain whether the recent dividend yas earned or paid by increasing the debt of the corporation? Why has not Mr. Vanderbilt been subponaed and examimed? To these questions the people will demand an answer. Have the committeemen, or a majority, any solid reasons for turning this important investigation into a farce? Curi- ous rumors are afloat, and the action of the committee will be closely scrutinized. At present it seems as though they had been in- duced to depart from the original intention of the investigation, and to waste their time on immaterial side issues. The people have had enough of this sort of investigation, and the committee will do wisely not to try public patience too severely. The Spanish Republic and Its Prospects, From one of our cable despatches of this morning it will be learned that a denial has been given to the rumor which was current two days ago that a crisis in the Spanish Min- istry was imminent. This is the second or third time that this ramor has been put in cir- culation. The denial has as frequently been repeated. It is not unreasonable, we think, to conclude, in spite of the repeated denials, that the rumor must have some foundation in fact. It is well known that some of. the members of the Cabinet are distrusted by the majority of their colleagues. As yet there is no solid agreement between the conservative and aggressive republican elements. The Re- public is, to a certain extent, in danger from this cause. The one hopeful sign for the Republic at present is the spirit which seems to prevail in the army. It is well known that the army, at the time the Republic was pro- claimed, was in a badly demoralized condi- tion; so much so was this the case that the republican leaders felt it necessary to call into existence a national militia. The army seems now to be fighting with a will; and good re- sults are following from its efforts, ‘The Carlists have sustained a crushing defeat at San Lorenzo, in the province of Gerona: Puigcerda, it seems, is still threatened by the Carlists; but the government troops, in all the recent encounters, have won compara- tively easy victories, and, considering the large reinforcements which have arrived, there is but small likelihood that the frontier town will fall into the hands of the adherents of Don Carlos. The Carlists, in fact, are being demoralized, and large numbers are sur- rendering to the government trodpa:in the North. If the troops continue to stand by the government the elections will, to a cer- tainty, result in a republican victory. Unity isstrength; and it will be well if the repub- licams can agree among themselves, Sm Samver Baxer.—We have rumors again of the murder of Sir Samuel Baker by the savages of the interior of Africa, and this time rumor has it that his constant companion inall his African explorations, his devoted and heroic wife, has been sacrificed with the great explorer. But, considering how often Dr. Livingstone was killed before he was found by Stanley still alive and equal to the full measure of a soldier’s rations on active duty, and remembefing that Sir Samuel Baker has already been murdered three or four times since his disappearance in the wild regions of the Upper Nile, we are disposed to attach very little credit to this latest ramor concerning him. It comes, no doubt, froma blind con- jecture of the Arabs up the Nile, enlarged into a rumor in its course down the river. We hope to hear before long that Baker, moving south around his Albert Lake of the Nile, and Livingstone, moving north from the Lualaba, have met, and, having solved the Nile prob- lem, are, from Ujiji, by way of Unyanyembe, heading for Zanzibar, homeward bound. Hoxors To THe Memory or W. H. Srwarp.— Before the two houses of our State Legisla- ture at Albany to-day Mr. Charles Francis Adams is to deliver an oration on the life, character and public services of the Jate Wil- liam H. Seward, one of the most distinguished of the many distinguished statesmen of our Empire State. Honor to his memory is “honor to whom honor is due.’’ We have no doubt that tho oration of Mr, Adams, a scholar and statesman admirably auglified to do justice to his broad and comprehensive subject, will make this a memorable day in our State capital. The Vienna Exposition. The backward state of the Exposition build- ing in Vienna is not by any means a novelty in the history of these world’s fairs. Our spe- cial despatch from the Austrian capital in- forms us that the building cannot possibly bo completed for the grand ceremonial opening on the lst of May. The European sovereigns are already invited, and will be on hand, so that every effort is now being concentrated on the rotunda, where the cyes of Europe are to be dazzled with the imperial and royal gath- ering. This will be something of a disap- pointment to the intending tourists who wished to include the sight of a group of live crowned heads among their experiences of, the Exposition. This, of course, only applies to the economically inclined; for should a month pass before the build- ing is finished and the goods displayed, those who have seen the opening show, and have time and money to spare, can pass the interval very pleasantly indeed in exploring the’ Empire from Galicia to the Adriatic. There are quaint old towns hidden away where the tourist tide has not yet swept, and they will repay the time spent in hunting them up. A run down the Danube to its many mouths would astonish those who think that all the picturesque river scenery of Eu- rope is exhausted when they have rushed down the Rhine. They could thence proceed to Constantinople and return to Vienna via Trieste.. Our correspondent’s hint will, in spite of these side attractions, be found worth noting. He thinks all the ends of exhibi- tion seeing will be attained by arriving at Vienna on the 1st of June. Tue Case or Mz. O'Keuiy Stun Remars Unpecwpep.—The United States Consul General Torbert informed our Havana cor- respondent on Wednesday last that on the day previous he had had an interview with Captain General Ceballos, in which he made known the instructions of Secretary Fish on the case. The Captain General gave no decisive reply. The Consul General givey his opinion of the cm of Coballos ag exhibiting “A desire to shift tho responsibility of dealing with Mr, O'Kelly from himself to his republican successor, Gen- eral Pieltain, The arrival of this tunctionary is daily expected, and the miserable persecu- tion of a faithful journalist may then, we hope, be expected to cease. for a trial at Havana should not be longer de- layed. The voice of humanity is unanimous in censuring the paltering manner in which this gentleman is treated. Tae Great Storm in THE West of Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday caused a total interruption of telegraphic communication, and we are consequently without news of the army operations against the Modocs. The despatches we publish to-day camo through by train from the Pacific, the railroad having been repaired. Fifty miles of telegraph lines were torn down by the storm, but they will be replaced this evening, and the Herat will, therefore, be able to present to-morrow the long delayed budget of news from the seat of war, Tue Bank or Enouanp Foncerres anp Derxctrrve Porick Exrrnrences.—A special Heratp telegram from Havana, which is published in our columns to-day, goes to show that the Bank of England forgery case and its affiliations and consequences are likely to lead to some curious developments with respect to the progress of the criminal pro- fession on both sides of the Atlantic—in New York as well as London. The English detec- tives who were on board the steamship Morro Castle arrested a man named Wilson, who is charged with being a New York thief and bur- glar, soon after he had endeavored to practise some of his “little joker” sleight of hand even on the lynx-eyed officials themselves. He was excellently well supplied with implements of his calling, and in his baggage was found the key of one of the rooms of one of our most fashionable city hotels. The gentleman was, in police parlance, well calculated to deceive. His more immediate mission on board the steamship was for the purpose of stealing and making away with the English papers which are to be used in the hearing of the extradition case. Our telegram report of the matter is quite interesting. Astatics 1s War Aaaisst tHe Dutcn.—A special Herarp telegram, dated in Singapore, reached us yesterday through the Atlantic cable within a very few hours after it was written in the British poagebsion of South- eastern Asia. The despatch reports the oc. currence of severe fighting in the ferritory of Netherlands India, between the insurrec- tionist warriors of the Atcheen country and the troops of his Majesty the King of Holland. The Hollanders acted with their hereditary tenacity and bravery ; but the results of the actions were of variable success, at one time with the royalists and again with the natives. The Atcheencse were poorly armed. Forts were stormed by the Dutch and the palace of the Sultan was besieged. Several hundred men, among them a Dutch officer named Kohler, were killed in one of the battles. The Dutch commander expected reinforcements from the mother country. In the meantime the coast ports were kept in a state of block- ade and the produce export trade was inter- rupted toa very damaging extent, Lrreratry ‘‘Carryina Coars To New- castiE."’—We learn from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, that the steamship Great Eastern, after laying the new Atlantic cable, is to take a cargo from Cow Bay, C. B., to Europe, on her return trip, to consist of fifteen thousand tons of coal, and that one of the principal shippers in Uape Breton has contracted to load the monster steamer in fifteen days. Who ever thought that the magnificent Great Eastern, when first floated, would become a dingy collier? But the employment, even for the nonce, isan honorable one, and, like the laying of ocean cables, notably in the service of humanity and progress. She will have | the merit of illustrating that the matter of “carrying coals to Newcastle,’ like Lord Timothy Dexter's venture in sending warming pans to the West Indies, where they brought high prices as molasses dippers, iq not a visionary or idle one, for.in the present state of the coal market in England there is money in the speculation Mr. O'Kelly’s request Tue Posran Canps are a new sensation in this country, although they have become quite a feature in London. You write your communication on one side of the card and the address on tho other, and drop the card into a corner lamp-post box. It only costs a cent and is very convenient for short mes- sages. So far, so good. But supposing a dun writes on the card, ‘I have called, sir, at your house a number of times and have not yet suc- ceeded in getting you to settle that little bill’’? Any revengeful creditor may commit such an outrage on an inoffensive citizen, and every carrier will know of it. , But these little un- pleasantnesses. should not be placed in the balance against the general good. Postal cards are very useful, if applied judiciously. Let us hope they may be so used. Tae Axpany Argus (anti-administration) thinks it is a curious coincidence that the conflict between the whites and negroes in Louisiana should have occurred in Grant parish, town of Colfax. What's in a name? A negro’s razor is as sharp and a white man’s bullet as sure by any other name. Tue Gnanp Jury, instead of finding in- dictments for the violation of the Usury law, have united in a recommendation to the Legislature to repeal the law so far as it applies to the city and county of New York, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Sunderland, of Nevada, is stopping at the Hoffman House, Judge Robert Cochrane, of White Plains, is at the Sturtevant House. Judge W. 0. Jones, of Boston, is registered at the Grand Central Hotel. London supports 120,000 paupers, one in twenty- eight of her population. Victor Hugo modestly declines to be a candidate for the French Assembly from Lyons, United States Senator John F, Stockton, of New Jersey, has arrived at the Hoffman House. State Comptroller Nelson K. Hopkins, of New York, is m town at the Metropolitan Hotel. Protessor Felix Heikel, of the University of Fin- Jana, is in New Haven on a professional visit. Mrs, General Robert Andersen has been very ill in Paris, but at last accounts was convalescent. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, has gone to South Carolina to look after his cotton interests, The Boston Post thinks Mr. Roosevelt was right in the selection he made for disposing of the Con- gresslonal back-grab. Jesse Grant, son Of ‘President Grant, passed through Chicago yesterday, en route for- California, in company with Senator Cole and family. “Oakes Ames still silent—Spinner’s littte note unanswered,” is the significant heading of a Wash- ington despatch to the Philadelphia Press, Baron Von Werthern, Prussian Envoy at Munich, is to take the place lately vacated by the death of Count Bernstorifas German Ambassador at London. The Pennsylvania Republican State Committeoa Meets at Harrisburg May 1 to arrange for the State Convention. This is beyinning betimes for the Fall campaign, Oko Jumbo and Ja Ja have settled their latest dispute. Ja Ja sent to Bonny a good slave, to be Killed as a sacrifice, to cement the treaty, as they wanted no bad blood between them. Colonel E. Barksdale, of Jackson, Miss., desires to “open a correspondence” with J. S, Morris, of the same place, outside the limits of the State, fer the purpose of settling a sligat misunderstanding. Morris demurs, Arecent additional dividend of thirteen pence in the pound in the bankrupt estate of sir Morton Peto & Co. gives their creditors the total of three shillings and ninepence to the pound on the proved claims for $5,600,000, “Mr. Speaker, you're a brazen liar!” he said, and they expelled him. He was an Arkansas Legisla- tor. ‘That's what he said,” remarks the Memphis Avalanche, “but they didn’t expel him, He still represents an admiring constituency.” Among the passengers on the steamship Silesia for Hamburg is Major Edward Gottheil, United States Executive Commissioner to the Vienna Ex- position. The Major was appointed by the govern- ment to represent the cotton States. Uniform caps for city railroad conductors and Grivers ‘have been adopted in Boston. Why not in New York? The uniform of many ot our street car conductors and drivers seems to aim at the height of dirt and shabbiness—and it is a success. The Massachusetts Solons purpose to regulate the sale of “‘hen fruit’? by legislation—that is, to have eggs sold by weight instead of by the dozen, It is a sort of contest between Shanghae and Ban- tam—between the barn yard heavy and light weights, Mr, MacAleese, proprietor of the Belfast (Ireland) Northern Whig, was lately sentenced to pay a fine of $1,200, with four months’ imprisonment, fer con- tempt of Court, in criticising the punishment in- flicted upon certain of those concerned in the Bel- fast riets last Fall. Hard place for editors, ‘They must have had a very pleasant Easter Sun- day in South Boston, where the hands of the public clocks were so clogged by snow and sleet that time could not be noted on the dials. The clocks in South Boston, perhaps, like some of the Boston State street capitalists, ‘take no note on time’— unless well endorsed. Ex-Senator Revels, colored, lectured on the “Laws of Health” in Nashville last week. A local paper sums up the keture In these rules:—Eat slowly and without drinking; masticate thor- oughly; keep clean; abstain from tobacco; eat brown bread rather than pastry; quit when you are done, and keep a good conscience; be virtuous and you will be happy. OBITUARY. pa en M. W. Chapin. Colonel M. W. Chapin, former commander of the Fourth and Twenty-third iniantry of Michigan, a& gallant officer during the war, died at St, Mark’s Hospital Salt Lake City, of lingering disease, on the night of the i6th inst. His remains will be temporartiy buried co-morrew to await the action of his friends in Detroit, M. Thibaudeau, The death is announced, by advices from Paris, of M. Thibaudeau, frem injuries received by a fall rom his horse. His liie was an eventffl one. Me was by turns acter and manager of the Odcon Theatre, director of the Vaudeville ane Varictés, where he produced the “Vie de Boli afterwards phan! of Legation at Floreuc journalist, and finally, financier, He was sixty- eight years of age. THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, New Haven, Conn., April 17, 1873, The Executive Committee of the Society of the | Army of the Potomac held a meeting at the New Haven House this evening. There were present, representing the different corps of the Army of the Potomac, General Francis A. Walker, General | A. Yon Steinwehr, Colonel F, T. Locke, Colonel | PD. R. Larned and Charles E. Fowler. Other mem- bers of the committee were expected to be pres- ent, but probably owing to the shortness of the notice were not able to attend. Business of a reliminary nature was transacted, and the meet- hie adjourned to meet at the Gilsey House, in New York, on Friday evening, the 25th inst. In reference to the probability of tke President being here at the time 0/ the meeting, tne rollowing ‘was presented :— EXECUTIVE MANSION, Wasnincton, D. C., April 15, 1873. DEAR Smr—The President desires me to acknowl- edge the receipt of your very kind letter of the 11th inst. sea the invitation of the Court ef Com- mon Council ol the city of New Haven extending to him the hospitalities of the city on the occasion of the Sa of the Army of the Potomac on the i4th ef next menth, and, in reply, to convey to you his sincere thanks, and the assurance of the pleasure it will afford him to accept it if he is enabled, as he hopes to return irom the West in time to attend the meeting of the oles He expects to spend one or two days in New Haven at the time of the re- union, and will gladly place his time at the dispost- tion of the committee. Lam, sir, your obedient servant, 0. £, BABGOCK, Secretary. Hon, Lenny G. Lewis, Maye of Now Daven, Vonp. THE WAR OF RACES IN LOURIANA, Butehering the Negroes in Cold Blood—Fiend<h Work After the Surrender of the Blacks— ‘The Miscreants Fleeing from the Parish Great Difficulty in Sending Troops to the Scene—The Bodies of Sixty Colored Victims Burned. < 2 New ORLEANS, April 17, 1873. Later news frem the scene of hostilities in Grant Parish show that the massacre of the megroes at Colfax Court House was even more horrible in all its details and more complete in its execution than was at first reported. 1t now appears that not a single colored man was Killed until all of them had surrendered to the whites who were fighting witl them, when over one hundred of the unfortunate negroes were brutally shot down in cold blood. It is understood that another lot of negroes was burned to death in the Court House when it was set on fire, The details of the massacre, as they are re- lated by cye-witnesses to the terrible scenes en- acted at Colfax Court House, are positively ap- Dalling in their atrocity, and would appear to be more like the werk of fends than that of civilized men in @ Christian country. After the butchery of the surrendered negroc@ the whites scattered in every direction, few of them going to their homes, It is understood that many of them left for the Texas berder, in hopes of escaping the consequences of their crime. As yet no arrests have been made. Grant parish is ever two hundred miles above the mouth of the Red River, and as there are very few boats leaving this city the State authori- ties have experienced the utmost dimculty in getting suitable trausportation to that region for the militia that has been ordered out to proceed thither, The federal troops, although ready to march to day,could net procure any transportation whatever, Consequently they cannot proceed to their destina- tion, which is very unfortunate for the best inter- ests of the State. Governor Kellogg succeeded, after a great deal of exertion, in getting suMicient transportation on Thursday last to enable him to send oifasmalt number ef the State militia, who got under way last Friday. Owing to the delay in their departure they did not arrive at the scene of the hostilities until Monday, the day after the massacre. ~ These troops burned over sixty bodies of colored men that had been founa by them near the scene ot the slaughter. That seems to have been the whole scope of their operations 80, far as all the whites participating in the battle had escaped belore they arrived, ” Colonels Wright and De Uline, of the Lovisians State militia, arrived in this city this evening, brlaging with them a fall report of the hostile affair, Owing to the lateness of the hour Lam ua- able to glye yeu more than this brief outline. AMUSEMENTS. é Aimee Opera Bouffe. oy Mile, Aimee will favorably compare with an; opéra bouge artist who has made the lightsome measure and seductiye can-can of Offenbach a feature on the stage. Sié has all the peculiar characteristics of the boug# prima donna. Last night she appeared as La Grande Duchesse at the Academy of Music, au@ there were very many people present. Mlle, Airfee gave to the rdle of the grand comic lady all the élan and verve that might be expected, and had she been under the wgis of Bateman a few years ago, the name and fame of Tostée would be now forgotten. But the rest of the Cast, mehercwe! it was bad, in the broadest sense of the word, Juteau plays Fritz as if he was. connected with Tony Pastor's, and poor Duchesne’s voice has departed long since. The absence of Leduc as Prince Paul was severely felt and even De Feicourt, who was so much abused in the clty papers as Wanda, was much better than Mile, Roland lastnight. It is a great mistake, besides, to give opéra boufe on the Stage of the Academy of Music. The délicatesses and peculiar effects of this species of entertain- ment cannot be presented in such a building, This is particularly the case with a mere travelling company, which depends entirely on tne prima donna for success, Mile. Aimeé is a charming opéra douse artiste, but she has a very bad com- pany. She must reorganize this company before she Ventures the big Opera House again, Musical and Dramatie Notes. Mrs. Scott Siddons gives another reading at Asso- ciation Hall on Saturday afternoon. Mile, Schneider returns to the Varieties, where she is about to create the principal part im “La Veuve de Malabar.’ Mr. Mapleson, the impresario of Drury Lane, whe is also Lieutenant Colonet of the Northeast London Volunteers, has Invented @ new and improved mill- tary tent. Mr. J. M. Bellew, the English elocutionist, returns home on the 17th of May, intending to come again to this country next season. He has been guaran- teed not less than six thousand pounds for one hun dred readings. At the Grand Opera, in Paris, the other evening, Mile. Hisson was playing Leonora, in “Il Trova- tore,” when she was suddenly taken ill, bursting into tears and exclaiming, “My voice fails me—F cannot sing—pardon me!” She could not go on, and the curtain fell. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, April 18—1 A, M. Probabdtlities, The area of lowest barometer will develop on Friday, especially over the Lower Lakes andjMichi- gan, with local centres in Indiana and over Lake Ontario; the storm centre near Long Island will move slowly toward Cape Cod; for New England continued northeasterly winds and rain; for the Lower Lakes variable winds, mostly from the east, with rain; for the Ohio and Lower Mis- souri Valleys generally Westerly winds, cloudy. Sha clearing weaker; rising temperature and clearing weather; the be- rometer will continue falling in the Northwest, and the region of southerly winds will extend eastward into Indiana and Minnesota; for the Middle Atlan- tic States partly cloudy and clearing weather. Cautionary signals continue at Chicago, Milwau- kee, Grand Haven, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buf- faio, Oswego, Rochester, New York, New Haven, New London, Wood's Hole, Boston, and ordered for Portland, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as Indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharwacy, HERALD ete I 87: 73, 39 «OPM. 39 «GP. M. . 42 9PM, 12 59 41 12P. M. Average temperature yesterday... = Average temperature for corresponding date last year... THR GREAT SNOW STORM, Omatta, Neb., April 17, 1873. The trains from the East that left here on Mon- day and Tuesday reached Grand Island this noon. ‘The trains from the West that arrived ab Grand Island on Monday morning and had been there since that time left there this morning, and ar- rived here in the evening. Two trains from the t arrived at Grand Island this afternoon. The track is clear, and the trains moving along the whole length ef the Union Pacific Railroad, The storm continued jor three days with great severity, its force being mostly confined to the limits of Plum Creek on the west and Columbus om the east. The people did not dare to leave their houses during Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Thus far but one life is reported lost. It is proba-~ ble that the loss on stock been great. It is known that aconsiderable number ef cattle per- hed, tthe telegraph lines are greatly damaged by the poles being blown down tor fifty miles, but it is expected that they will be temporarily repaired by. To-morrow evening. Porsens who have resided ity the country for sixteen years say they never saw such a severe storia. LAKE PEPIN OPEN. MILWAUKER, April 17, 1873. Lake Pepin tsopen. The ateqmer Northwestern Went through te-day. for the Souther States * a