The New York Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1873, Page 10

110 NEW YORK HERALD|*™ ™“"™ NEW YOKK HEKALD, Its Lessons. Policy—Its) Mistakes and | limits galls the red man, accustomed as he oe aol: meine Singularly’ enough, we have had no ade- | was to having a whole continent to himself. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —— = —— ++..Noe 110 |PIC_THRAT! Broadway, between Housten andl Bleecker Gaeeta Honest Dumerr. - UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near “Broadway.—Fnou Frov. ‘og - WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ptreet.—Davip GaRRicx, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Unprr THe Gasiicsr. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth Bvenue.—AxRan NA Poaue. 8T. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st— “McEvor's New Hisenxicow. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Carita, Commpr— & Bap Lor. THEATRE COMIQU No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, mBunineque ax OL. ae THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, Sth st., near 84 av.—Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT. ._NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Divoncr. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Biscarep rzom Sixc Sine. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEOM, 58 Broadway.—Graxp Variery Ewrsr- ALENT. i NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Wagusen aa Nonna pete eiacer ania eae \ MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE— Davip Garnicn—Pocauonrta: BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third corner av.—Nxaro Minsreeisy, &c. mn *, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vantary ENTERTAINMENT. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— ‘Bormnce ann Ant, Soll tee onda = QUINTUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, April 20, 1873. HE NEWS OF YESTERDAY ‘To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “OUR INDIAN POLICY! ITS MISTAKES AND ITS LESSONS’—LEADING EDITORIAL AR- TICLE—TgnTH PAGE. THE MODOC FLIGHT! WIDESPREAD ALARM AND INTENSE INDIGNATION AT THE ABOMINABLE MISMANAGEMENT OF THE “PEACE” POLICY MEN AND THE MILI- TARY! A GENERAL WAR FEARED! GILLEM REINFORCED AND HUNTING FOR CAPTAIN JACK’S MISCREANTS! GENERAL SHERMAN ON THE MATTER! THE KIOWAS AND COMANCHES DIGGING UP THE WAR HATCHETS—ELEVENTH PAGE. NINE TRAVELLERS KILLED, THIRTY WOUNDED AND MANY MORE MISSING! A PASSENGER TRAIN RUSHES INTO THE CHASM CAUSED BY A BRIDGE BEING CARRIED AWAY! THE WRECK SPEEDILY WRAPPED IN FLAMES! HEROISM OF THE ENGINEER AND FIREMAN! LISTS OF KILLED AND WOUNDED—SEVENTH PGE. WOUR PERSONS BUTCHERED ON THE MORRIS AND ESSEX AND JERSEY CENTRAL RAIL- ROADS—SEVENTH PaGE. "REPORTED DEFEAT OF THE CUBANS UNDER CALIXTO GARCIA! THE SPANISH STATE- MENTS OF THE LOSSES—ELEVENTH Pacs. SHE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN SAN SALVADOR! A LOSS OF FIFTY LIVES AND $5,000,000 IN PROPERTY ! IMMINENT PERIL FROM FIRE— SEVENTH PaGE. WB RUMOR FROM CANADA OF THE DEATH OF THE POPE! THE MATTER SAID TO BE KEPT SECRET TO AVOID PUBLIC AGITA- TION—TENTH Page. (BERIOUS ALLEGATIONS OF KNAVERY AND IN- ‘ CAPACITY AGAINST THE AMERICAN COM- MISSIONERS TO THE VIENNA EXPOSI- TION! WHAT WAS PAID FOR THE “HONOR!” DOES CHOLERA PREVAIL!— SEVENTH PaGE. ‘ERIE MANAGEMENT! MESSRS. SHEARMAN, GOODRICH, JUDGE DOWLING AND SUPER- INTENDENT KELSO ON THE WITNESS STAND! LIGHT THROWN UPON SOME DARK TRANSACTIONS—EIcaTH Pace. ‘MONEY COMPARATIVELY EASY ! STOCKS BUOY- ANT! GOVERNMENT BONDS AND FOREIGN EXCHANGE STILL FURTHER ADVANCED | GOLD HEAVY! THE BANK RESERVE A MILLION BETTER—NiINTH Pace. WHE NEW ORLEANS RACES! DETAILS OF THE FINE EVENTS ON THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DAYS OF THE MEETING—MARITIME ANTELLIGENCE—FountegnTe Pace. (PANAMA’S POLITICAL TURMOIL! BOTH SIDES WORKING VI ET ARMIS—MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAMS—SEVENTH PAGE. THE RELIGIOUS PAGE! PASTORS AND SUB- JECTS FOR TO-DAY! FURGATORY, SCEP- TICISM, SIN AND POLITICS THE SALIENT POINTS TREATED OF BY CORRESPOND- ENTS! DENOMINATIONAL NEWS--SixTH PaGE. GLIMPSES OF MURDERERS’ ROW! JAMES 0. KING WAVERING BETWEEN DEATH AND THE HANGMAN! JOHN SCANNELL PRO- TESTS HIS INNOCENCE AND WOULD RATHER BE HANGED THAN IMPRISONED— E1guTH PaGE. ‘BEAL ESTATE VALUES AND MOVEMENTS IN AND NEAR THE EMPIRE CITY! THE QUESTIONS OF ANNEXATION AND QUICK TRANSIT—FiFTEENTH PAGE. OVERNOR DIX, MAYOR HAVEMEYER AND THE NEW CHARTER—LOCAL AND MUNIC- IPAL ITEMS—Ninra Pacer. BIGHT-HOUR ENFORCEMENT AGITATED BY THE WORKINGMEN—AN INQUIRY INTO AFFAIRS AT QUARANTINE—A SAD CASE— EiguTs Pas. Tax Wenx mw Watt Srreer goes into his- tory for the periodical panic at the Stock Ex- change—an occurrence not often known at This season of the year. But then the snow blockade and the severe Winter put everything back three or fourmonths, and the tamble in stocks, which usually happens in Winter, wes delayed with everything else. Tho more gratifying outcome of the week i the decided on in money, which was greatly easier ‘ger the panic, and lonned as low as 596 per vent in some transactions. Gold has held its Grmness pretty well, however, but left off a little under 118. Tas Wan im Cvsa.—The telegram from Havana, which we publish to-day, under date of the 17th instant; givés assurance that the ‘polonial war against the authority of Spain is Yer from ended. Official despatches informed ‘the government in Havana of the occurrence ef a severe battle between the insurgent forces, under command of Calixto Garcia, and the troops of the Republic on the 15th in- stant. General Riquelme reported that twenty-one insurgents and four Spaniards were killed and thirteen Spaniards wounded. The member of insurgents killed, if it is stated carreotly, indicates that there must have been quate explanation of the cacape of the Modoos. After three days of sharp fighting General Gillem found he had no enemy within the cordon he had drawn around Captain Jack's cave. His lines had not been broken, and yet the foe was gone. From this it is plain that a grave blunder was committed, and it seems improbable that the blunder was made after the fighting began. When was it, then,. that the mistake was made? This question is now asked all over the country, and the only rea- sonable answer, apparently, that suggests itself is, “Immediately before or immediately after—most probably after—the massacre of General Canby and Mr. 'Thomas.’’ When the whole truth comes to be known it will, we think, be discovered that Captain Jack re- moved not only the squaws and pappooses, but the greater part of his band, from the lava . beds before the fighting began at all, and that the Indians with whom Gen- eral Gillem fought were only sufficient in number to keep up a show of resistance. In the one case the blame will rest upon the administration for forcing its pet peace policy upon General Canby ; in the other, General Gillem’s delay after the massacre will be the cause. And in all this we see additional Teason why General Sheridan should have been entrusted with the scttloment of the Modoc troubles, Sheridan's fame to a great éxtent rests upon his celerity in action. To the want of this quality in General Gillem is the escape of Captain Jack to be attributed, in all probability, In Indian warfare a delay of six hours may be more disastrous than a delay of a week in ordinary wars. General Gillem should have attacked the savages immediately after the massacre, not allowing the Modocs an hour in which toescape. Failing to do this he failed alto- gether, and the whole country is mortified by what is practically his defeat. Taking advan- tage of his slowness, Captain Jack outwitted him, and. may even now be planning fresh depredations far distant from the lava beds, Apparently another mistake was made in not using the cavalry to watch the Indians outside of the lava beds, so as to intercept them if they endeavored to escape to the mountains. The fires, into which shells were thrown by General Gillem’s orders, were evi- dently intended as a blind to occupy the attention of the troops while the remaining warriors were preparing to escape. A few men left behind to delay the advance of the troops, knowing the country as well as it was known to these Indians, could readily get away while the howitzers were playing upon an imaginary camp. Cavalry between the lava beds and the mountains might have pre- vented the escape of the savage band, or of such part of it as was yet in the neighbor- hood of Oaptain Jack's cave when the fight- ing began. At least the trail of the Indians might have been preserved and followed and the fleeing savages pursued and slaughtered. In a few days we shall understand the whole matter ; but in the meantime the neces- sity of adopting some better method of deal- ing with the Indians generally must not be overlooked. We have already pointed out the fact that both the peace policy of the adminis- tration and the older system of gathering the Indians on reservations had failed. The army has been trying to teach this for months, but the humanitarian view has provailed in spite of fgets and arguments which show that there can be no peace with the savages either on the Pacific coast or in Arizona. There could be no better authority on this subject than General Sherman, and from his letter, which we print to-day, it will be seen that he is unreserved in his expressions of opinion upon our Indian policy. This letter is one of the most logical essays ever written on the Indian question. It is so full of ‘‘meat’’ that any attempt to recapitu- late it would only weaken its force, and so we commend it to our readers, merely premising that it isa most remarkable docu- ment, proving conclusively that the War Department and the army can best manage Indian affairs, and upsetting all the theories of peace commissioners and humanitarian philosophers. Perhaps the strongest thing in General Sherman’s letter is his reference to Setanta. After recapitulating the com- plaints of the Texas people against the treaty Indians, and especially against Satanta, and declaring at the same time that he would not believe the stories that were told him till he went to see for himself, he says, ‘Now I am told that Satanta is to be turned loose again, although I believe he has committed fifty murders and has notoriously violated every promise hitherto made.’’ In itself this isa sufficient condemnation of the peace policy and the reservation system, which are effect- ive only in protecting Indian murderers and marauders. We print, besides, a very important com- munication from a gentleman in Wash- ington thoroughly acquainted with the Indian tribes on the Pacific slope, from which it is plain that something more potent than the mere desire for re- venge prompted the recent murder of General Canby by Captain Jack and his band. The Indians west of the mountains have a prophecy, which has become a religion with them, that the day of their deliverance ig sar at hand. A grand crusade against thé whites is one of the doctrines of this new belief under a deliverer whg 18 come from no one knows where, ‘The tribes that are dead are expected to come to life again and assist in this grand | work of the recovery of the Continent. It is easy enough to laugh at their notions as the foolish dreams of the Indians, but it would be much wiser to prepare for an emergency which | may come when it is least expected as the result of these foolish prophecies. Twenty thousand warriors encouraged by a religious fanaticism are in themselves dangerous to the settlers in California, Oregon and the adjacent States and Territories. Captain Jack’s war may be only the beginning of a series of atroo- ities unequalled in the history of frontier war- fare. The massacres of 1863 must not*be repeated in 1873, and the government is bound to care for the settlers of the: Pacific const, even though the warning be only of the kind indicated in the communication to the Hzzarp this morning. The possibility of an event of this kind shows the necessity of some more effective method of desling with the savas, The Indians on the Pacif slope from i. He is accordingly ready for an outbreak upon the first opportunity. It is scarcely to be hoped that it will over be different while the tribal relations of the Indians are maintained. The duty, then, forces itaelf more sternly upon us than ever to provide against the murderous outbreaks of the savage by adopting the com- bined policy of separation and extermination. Putting the natives upon reservations is to keep them ready to aasist the savage bands from the mountains and beyond the outposts of civilization whenever the latter choose to go upon the warpath. If the truth in regard to’ our Indian policy were fully told it would appear that more murders have been com- mitted in the last few years by Indians from the reservations than by savages who have never consented to treaty stipulations. Look at the matter from whatever side we may, it is plain that not only the peace policy ‘of this administration, but the system of tribal reser- vations, is a failure. All that remains, then, is to kill the Indians in war and to separajg them in peace. In either case it is extermination, but in no event can it be anything else, since it is impossible to preserve what yet exists of the native race with safety to the whites. Not being able to civilize them in any other way, we must utilize them. Tho English in India have been very successful in using the natives in their own behalf, many of the best soldiers in the British service being taken from the very classes against which they are used. The same thing was done by General Gillem, though in a differ- ent way, against Captain Jack’s band. The Indians may be utilized as soldiers, and if they are to be fed there is no reason why they should not be required to work. In a hundred ways the savages might be kept from doing harm by being given some useful employ- ment. In the construction of great public works, on which, in the West, labor is always needed, they would be found very useful. ‘With General Sheridan managing our Indian relations upon the stern principles of a war of extermination, when the savages are at war, and directing the breaking up and scattering of tribes at all times, the record of a massacre like that in which General Canby lost his life would contain fewer heartrending stories, and the grand result would be that the whole question would soon be settled. In a few years the Indians, as a separate people, would have ceased to exist, and in a few years more the race would be unknown except in history. It must come to this in the end, and the sooner it is consummated the better it will be for the teeming and industrious population which has taken the place of the savage in the great land which Columbus discovered. Another Herald Quintuple. ‘We present the public to-day with a Henatp of one hundred and twenty columns. Of these eighty-three are advertisements, leaving thirty-seven colums for news and edi- torial matter. The stormy weather of yester- day did not prevent the advertising public from crowding our business offices throughout the entire day and until nine at night, showing that advertising is becoming more and more a necessity not to be interfered with by the ele- ments. Time was, and not so long ago, when a heavy shower would keep the advertiser within doors. He would rather be a day later with his proclamation to the million’ titan face the raindrops, the hailstones or the snow- flakes. But we have changed all that, and the citizen who wishes to reach the public on Sunday with his business announcement would no more think of deferring his visit to the Heraxp office until the day following than our correspondent at the lava beds would think of going to sleep after a day’s battle without first writing his de- spatch and seeing the courier on his way to the nearest telegraph wire. The advertiser's anxiety to reach the public at the earliest day through the Heratp is a_ logical sequence to the anxiety with which the Hegatp is imbued to give the public the earliest news. Our success in this respect is the advertiser's opportunity ; and, as these eighty-three columns will tell, he improves it with the keen perception of future benefit which characterizes our enterprising and emulative business community. The advertising columns of the independent journal are superseding all other means of commercial intercommunication for the pur- pose of making known wants or wares. From the Heratn’s advertising columns to-day to the ‘‘mart’’ where, of old, merchant met trader to find out by word of mouth what one wanted to buy and the other had to sell is a long step. The World’s Fair—The American Com. sioners. The Austrian Vice Consul at this port writes to the Heratp in reference to the statement in our special despatch from Vienna which describes the backwardness of the Exposition building at that city. His information on the matter is by mail, and not, therefore, so late ss ours. He directly contradicts the state- ment, certainly not made by us, that the grand opening ceremonial will be postponed. His information regarding the prices of accommo- dation at the Austrian capital will be found ‘interesting. Our special despatch to-day touches on a point which, we think, if true, is more dis- graceful to America than anything we have heard fora long time. It is to the effect that many of the United States Commissioners have obtained their places by purchase. The reason given, too, is one which makes the offence rank among the most contemptible in the eyes of Americans—namely, that snobbery which would induce a man to obtain a position by fraud in which his incompetence would be ridiculously manifest to accomplished foreign- ers, and all for the sake of the ‘official char- acter.” This official character, it may be mentioned, includes free admission to the Exposition building, a good place at all the ceremonials for self and fam- ily, covers at international breakfasts, dinners and suppers, one’s name in the papers and numberless other little privileges. There are, doubtless, many of the rich vulgar who would aspire to such a place, and at such & price as from two thousand to six thousand dollars many would think it cheap. The man who buys his commissionership is not fit for decent society, but those who sell the place are unworthy of toleration in a self- respecting community. We wish to seo this whom the | matter investigated, as, in its present aspect, # good many rebels pregent in the Sabb areatest danger ip to he anticipated axe those | it pjaces Ametion ip a very dimgrosable light SUNDAY, APRIL ions. The narrowness of their before the world ‘of intellect, of which we think a great deal more than woe do of the world of show. Another Railroad Slaughter. The*wholesale slaughter at Richmond switch yesterday morning has brought sudden be- reavement into scores of families and adds another to the sad memories which will rise unbidden in the mind of the traveller as he seats himself ina railway car. Fourteen miles east of Stonington, on the route to Provi- dence, the Shore Line Railroad crosses Paw- catuck River, the boundary between Connec- ticut and Rhode Island. The bridge was a short one, without a draw. It must also have been without a watchman. At eleven o'clock on Friday night a train crossed it coming west. After this time a milldam on the stream above the crossing was swept away by the un- usual torrent of the Spring freshet. Tho rush of water escaping from the pond undermined the railway bridge and carried it away, leaving ®@ yawning chasm, soon to be the common grave of an uncounted multitude, At half-past two Saturday morning the steamboat train loft Stonington, taking the passengers from New York by the evening steamer, whose number was increased by the fact that the boats of the Bristol and Fall River lines did not make their usual trips. One hundred and fifty per- sons considered themselves safe in this train rushing‘towards disaster, death and maiming at the speed of thirty-fiye miles an hour. Twenty minutes brought them to a halt— many of them. to the end of life's journey. Without a word or sign of warning the engine, under full pressure of steam, and with the momentum of the train’s weight, jumped clear across the stream, wrecking itself on the eastern bank, while the cars crashed the one into and upon the other, and at once took fire. Only the smoking car escaped, remain- ing on the western bank. In the mass of wreck men were drowned, crushed and burned. Mangled and hardly recognizable as human beings, some eight or ten bodies have been recovered. Probably the fatality will reach double that number. The injured are estimated at forty to fifty. Only the addition of freezing to the deadly horrors is lacking to complete the parallel with the ghastly scene of two years ago at New Hamburg. In the twinkling of an eye death closed the account of these men, till then full of life, courage and hopeful anticipation. Our despatches assure us that this whole- sale, sudden and needless slaughter resulted from no negligence; that the company is fully exonerated ‘from all blame. Hundreds of the bereaved will traverse this assertion. Perhaps the public, too, which supports rail- road corporations, will side with the victims, No railroad track is safe for the transit of fast and heavy trains unless it is thoroughly and constantly watched. This company took it for granted that this bridge was safe. All bridges are till they fail. Every stream is swollen during Spring from rains and melting snow, and shore roads, like the Stonington and Providence, cross rivers and creeks in almost every mile. Yet this company had no watch at this dangerous place, where there seeths to be a switch, nor any telegraph sta- tion nearer than Stonington. The wages of a watchman at the Pawcatuck would have saved ascore of lives. Possibly this company will find itself much the poorer for omitting the precaution of thoroughly watching its line, and especially, in Spring, its bridges. When all railroad companies shall act upon the rule that every rod of their lines need inspection between the transit of each train, and that ‘danger’ is to be assumed unless the signals announce “all right,’’ then there will be a large reduction of these too common “‘accidents,” for which the public is asked in charity to believe there is ‘no fault or neglect of the company.’’ Making Short Work with the Mur- derers. Itis but a few days ago since Foster paid the penalty of murder in this city, and now Fralich has also suffered on the gallows at Syracuse. All the efforts to save them—and extraordinary efforts were made in the case of Foster—proved unavailing. The Governor has firmly resisted all appeals. Yet at other times, or a short time ago, perhaps, neither of these men would have been hanged, for there were peculiar circumstances connected with the killing in both cases. Why is it, then, that the law, the Governor, juries and the public are so inexorable? The answer is on the tongue of every one. Murders and other crimes of violence have been so frequent of late, and so many of the criminals have escaped the full penalty for their bloody deeds, that the public has become alarmed. Every one feels that society must be protected, and hence the demand for punishment that will prove a terrible example. Judges, juries and the Executive are only carrying out the will of a jeopardized community. Let us hope these executions may strike terror into the hearts of murderers and those who carry deadly weapons to take the law in their own hands. Society must be protected at any cost. Tae Acricuitvran Returns or Great But- tatx for 1872 show that only six per cent of the working population are employed in tillage and husbandry. These number two millions. Neither the land tilled nor the labor expended are adequate to furniah food for the dense population of the island. Henge the already large and rapidly increasing trade in Ameri- can food products must continue, and pronix ises to equalize in time the value of the manu- factured articles with which British mines and | manufactories supply the sovereigns of Yan- | keedom. Besides our breadstuffs, hams, beef | and pork, England now eats large quanties of preserved fresh ment from Australia. No doubt proper enterprise could substitute the flesh of our fine Texas cattle for the produce of the far-away antipodes, to the mutual ad- vantage of consumers and graziers. Tas Dorce War mm tHe East.—Holland is now beginning to find out the inconvenience of her foreign possessions. Sumatra has long been a source of wealth to the Netherlands. Sumatra, however, is far away, and, in these days of great navies and large armies, Holland cannot hope to hold on to far distant territory. The Acheenese are giving the Dutch so much trouble that it will not be wonderful if the government at the Hague should be induced to part with it altogether. In such an event the whole island must fall into the hands of Great Britain or Germany, India and Austra- lia are equally interested in the posseasion of Sumatre, 1873—QUINTUPLE SHEET, Spirit of Our Religious Contem- poraries im Regard to the Modoe Atrocities amd Other Matters. The tragical occurrences in the lava beds of Oregon constitute the chiof topic of considera- tion among some of the most prominent of our religious contemporaries this week. It will be seen that difforent views are expressed in regard to the proper treatment of the aav- ages and the mode to be adopted for bringing them to a realizing sense and appreciation of the benefits of civilization, The Evangelist believes it may be » stern necessity that overy warrior who has taken part in this contest should be punished with death; but it does not advocate indiscriminate slaughter. The danger of the moment is that in the fury and frenzy wrought by such a deed the clamor for an indiscriminate and murder- ous revenge will be yielded to by those in command. The Evangelist does not think this is justice or reagon, and makes. the following timely suggestion: — One thing must not be forgotten—that there is a class of men on the border who are interested in stirring up Indian wars—traders, who have all their lives been selling gunpowder and whiske and shoddy blanketa, cheating the natives, an who see in every Indian war a chance for fat con- tracts and for ail sorts of Hae swindling by the sutiers whe hang around the camps. These men, seein Wl te PE tt peng Inifiiens: im campaigns this Summer. Our Presbyterian contemporary trusta the government will know how to deal with these bad white men gg well as with the murderous red men. And if it does know, it might be added, let it promptly make practical use of its knowledge. The Observer regards the act’ of Captain Jack and his Modocs as the heaviest blow that has befallen the cause of Indian civilization in the present century: — it is in vain, says the editor, that we put in a plea for the Modoes, that they ‘have been otrayed and ropes by the white men, until they have lost faith in the intentions of the government; that they feared the Commissioners, though bring- ing terms of peace, and in destroying them were revenging their own wro! many and grieveus. The butchery is unpardona! in the eyes of men, and they deserve to be punished with death who have done this dastardly deed. The Observer thinks that the troops of Gen- eral Canby should have been so near as to render treachery impossible without instant punishment. The trouble has been to get near enough to these Modocs in their lava caverns to make any kind of punishment pos- sible. The Golden Age avers that the massacre of such a man as General Canby ‘‘rouses the heart of the Northwest, and will be atoned for with @ fearful vengeance on the Modoc tribe.” The Liberal Christian is inclined to the opinion that the feeling of the public, so far as the daily press expresses it, is more satis- factory than it feared it would be under the horror excited by the frightful treachery and vindictive violence of the Modoc chief. Most agree that the tribe itself—if a handful of less than a hundred men deserves the name—must be severely punished. But the editor continues: — ‘There is some proper sense of the injustice and folly of changing our recent peace policy tewards: the whole Indian race on account of the barbarous and hateful behavior of a few exasperated and de- eee eee of the aboriginal peeple of this The same writer does not doubt that if the “noble Canby, a Christian gentleman and a humane soldier, could have spoken after he was shot, he would have said, ‘Father, forgive them; they know not what they do.’’’ If he means the ‘Great Father’ of the savages, Captain Jack included—we mean President Grant, and we say it without irreverence—we are rather inclined to think the editor of the Liberal Christian will be disappointed. Presi- dent Grant, instead of forgiving the red vil- lain, has issued directions to give them brim- stone and saltpetre. The Independent affirms that ‘‘the blood of General Canby, of Dr. Thomas and of Mr. Meacham shall not be to usan incentive to vengeance; but, like that of Bishop Patte- son, last year, in the Tonga Islands, shall open our eyes wider to the abuses practised upon these savages and stir our zeal for their civilization."” The zeal of Uncle Sam’s troops is just about this time exceedingly well stirred in regard to the Modocs, but more for the purpose of ‘“‘scalpulizing’’ than civilizing them. Touching the subject of revivals the Baptist Weekly does not agree with the statement of a pastor writing to a religious journal, in which he says, ‘‘The revival here seems to have about spent its force.’’ The editor says he has heard of ‘spent balls,’’ and of storms whose fury was ‘‘spent,’’ but a ‘‘spent revival’’ is a nov- | elty, and the idea it conveys to the mind is unwelcome. Says the Weekly :— A perpetual revival'is @ misnomer, but where a revival has been enjoyed the concession that its force is exhausted 1s one that Christians ought not to make. They ought to feel they cannot recede from the position they have reached, and that those who have been added to them are to augment, the aggressive force of the Church, se that it shall wield a greater power against the kingdom of evil. The Freeman's Journal rejoices over the change for the better in the health of the Pope, criticises Protessor J. W. Draper as an “guthority” for an historical assertion, shows how ‘‘Dominus”’ is to be translated, and treats learnedly upon other subjects. The Catholic Review enlarges upon “Ultra- montanism,’’ ‘Freedom in a Bismarckian sense,” and gives its usual summary of foreign ecclesiastical intelligence. The Christian Leader explains all about “Ram’s Part in Murder,” and declares ‘that strikes are, at the best, clumsy and wasteful methods of redressing grievances.’’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. George Wilkes ts in Paris, Protessor B. Silliman, of Yale College, is at the Fifth Avegue Hotel. Judge W. & Lincoln, of Waskington, is at the Grand Central Hovel. Colonel Washington Lee, of Wilkesbarre, is stay- ing at the Hoffinan House. Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, ig at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Clifford, of Massachusetts, arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening. President J. F. Joy, of the Michigan Central Rail- road, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Victor Marlow, of the British army, is among the recent arrivals at the Hoffman House. Count Von Plato, of Germany, who arrived yes- terday from Havana en the steamship City of Me- rida, is now at the New York Hotel. ‘The Russian Consul General, W. Bodisco, is stay- ing at the Clarendon Hotel, and the Consul General of Colombia, Don Miguel Salgar, at the Everett House. Among the passengers to the Panama Isthmus from England per steamer Elbe was the following party, en route to California, where they intend settling :—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sumner, family and servants; Captain Jacobs, Royal Navy; Mr. Arthur , Buttemer. Hon, Joseph Howe left Ottawa yestevtiay ona visit to his friemds in Boston previous to his assum- ing the Govyernerakip of Nova Septia, to which ne hasbeen appointed. He was accompanied te the train by a large number of members of Parliament of both political parties. Susan B. Antheny is likely to prove too much for the United States District Attorney at Rochester. “Is it a crime for s United States citizen to voter’ is whatshe is asking of the people of every town and village in Monroe county, and the District At- torney wrathfully asserts that, as he will be unable to get an impartial jury for her trial on May 13, he must move Susan's case into another county. Su- san courts the change. She will continue stumping until the official himself is a convert. : THE POPE. Canadian Report of the Pontiff’s Death. Orrawa, Ontario, April 19, 1873. A private despatch has been received here to-day saying that the Pope died on Monday last, but that the fact has been kept secret to aveid public agita- tion respecting his successor antil the matter hall have been decided in Rome. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. There ia arumor that the new theatre in Four. teenth atreet, which was built under the direction of Mr. Charles Fechter, is to be managed next sea- Son by Mr. W, J. Florence, and that the latter's de- Parture for Europe was hastened in consequence Of an arrangement with Mr. Duncan, Mra. John Wood takes her benefit at the Grand Opera House on Friday evening, appearing in “The Happy Pair,” as well as in the delineation of Peach Blossom, in “Under'the Gaslight.” Although Mra, Wood has long been a favorite on the New York stage, her powers as a burlesque actress have not suffered by years, and she never played a more brilliant engagement in this city than the one which is about to expire. Her Sarah Tapplebot was especially noteworthy for its nice discrimina- tion of what was due to truth, in a picture which ‘Was at the same time an exquisite portraiture of M. Sardou’s ideal. Mr. Boucicault’s “Daddy O'Dowd” has been with- drawn from Booth’s, and to-morrow evenmg “arrah Na Pogue” and “Kerry” will be produced, These delightful Irish dramas, and especially Mr. Boucicault’s own delineations of Michael 0’Dowd and of Kerry, will be long remembered for their purity and pathos. Though “Kerry” is only what Mr. Boucicault sometimes calls {t—‘‘a cabinet picture”— it is one of those delightful bits which can be seen again and again with renewed pleasure. The artist’s picture of the faithful and affectionate old servant will remain in the memory for years and years, and we cannot doubt that many old gentie- men and ladies, young men and maidens now, will say to the next generation, “You should have seen Mr. Boucicault play Kerry.” Next week the new pantomime, “Azarab, or the Magic Charm,” will be produced at Niblo’s with, as has already been announced, Mofit and Bar- tholemew as Clown and Pantaloon. But outside of the pantomime the attraction is expected to be found in Lulu, known to fame simply as “Lulu the Sensationist.”” Lulu is the beautiful, graceful and fearless. Lulu is the eighth wonder of the world. She was born at Orkotsk, on the Danube, in 1854, but that is so far away that nobody is certain whether Lulu ts a boy or a girl, but this, we might assume, would make no difference, considering that she speaks five European languages fluently and springs at a single bound thirty fest into the air. Yet we are assured by a leading London newspaper that it does make a difference, and that when Lulu performs her great feat that “society is moved by surround- ing considerations,” and that consequently ‘it is ‘an impertant question whether Lulu 1s a beautiful girl, with the strengtn and agility ofa boy, or an exceptional boy, with the rosy freshness of a girl. Under all these circumstances there is no help for it, and everybody, we presume, will go to see Lulu, because society is moved by surrounding consider- ations, The fifth edition of “Humpty Dumpty” ts an. nounced for publication to-morrow evening. The pantomime is entirely new, with the exception of Humpty Dumpty himself, and he is ever new. The new pantomime is extremely local in scenery and familiar inaction. It opens witha conference be- tween Burlesque (Miss Marion Fiske) and Romance (Miss Rosa St. Clair), in whieh the great career of H. D. is foreshadowed and everybody prepared for his transformation by the Spirit of Good or some other sprite. If Humpty turns out to be a bad egg afterwards and gets him- self into peck of troubles it is to be attributed more to Harlequin than to his own evil nature, Besides, all gooa people who read their story books and their Bibles know that Humpty Dumpty, like Adam, had a “fall.” The ‘variety business” is to include, among other specialties, the Wilsons, the Jee brothers,.the Nelson family and Mrs, 0. V. Winterbura, who is to sing a number of simple ballads. The new edition promises to be both re- vised and improved, with illustrations by Fox en- graved on the old frontispiece. There will be no change at Wallack’s this week, “David Garrick” and “Dundreary” continuing to draw large houses; “Under the Gaslight” is in ite last week at the Grand Opera House; “Frou-Frou’”’ still pleases, as a matter of course, at the Union Square Theatre; “Divorce” brings large houses to the Fifth Avenue, and the Vokes family-finish their engagement at Nible’s. At the last-named theatre Mr. George Fawcett Rowe afd Mr. Mackay appear in the sketch of “Micawber,” in addition to the Vokes attractions. A correspondent sends fg the following informa- tion, which he says will have interest for Southern- ers:— An Ebglish eomedian--an “eccentric” comedian—has finally decided on retiriny froin stage, and, in reply to a telegram irom the English government, has accepted the tion ef head detective in the secret service! What will he do next? Doubtless “‘Scotiand Yard” knows its own business best, but outsiders naturally wonder what can be the object of such an Sao There is a rumor that through the information of this [oe oe comedian the Bank of England forgeries ave been traced. But why not let well alone? An insane practical joker scarcely seems the precise man to select as the chief detective of England. In an artistic point of view the festival of music which will be inaugurated by Mr. Theodore Thomas at Steinway Hall on Tuesday next is of tar greater importance than a dozen Panjandrums 01 the Bos- ton type. The programmes for the five perform- ances comprise the highest standard works in ora- torio and symphony. Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” is al- most 98 great @ favorite here as the “Messiah,” and it never yet failed to attract crowded houses im this city. It is selected for the opening of the festival. On Wednesday afternoon there will be a grand public rehearsal, and in the evening a sec- ond oraterio performance, consisting of Mendels- sohn’s “Hymn of Praise” and selections from Han- del’s “Israel in Egypt,” that Colossus of choral works. “Elijah” will be repeated for the benefit of the Brooklyn people on Thursday evening. On Friday afternoon there will be a public rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the ultima thule of orchestral writing, and in the evening a miscellaneous cencert will be given. Rubenstein, Mills and Mason will, on this occasion, play Bach’s concerto for three pianos. A new overture to “Tannhauser’ (MS.) will be performed by the orchestra, Two grand concerts take place on Sat- urday, the festival closing appropriately with the Choral Symphony. To do these great works ample justice Mr. Thomas has secured the best elements that this country can afford and it is doubtful whether they cai be surpassed in Europe, Besides his own tcemparable orchestra he has the Handel and Haydn Vocal Society, of Boston, five hundred strong; Rubinstein, Wieniawski, Mrs, H, M, Smith, soprano ; Mrs. J. Houston West, soprano; Miss Cary, alto; Mr. Nelson Varley, tenor; Mr, Whitney, basso, and Mr. Rudeiphsen, barytone, Such a festival is calculated to do great service in furthering the progress of true artin this city and checking the power of humbug and trashy sensg- tionalism. Euphemia Purver, of Edinburgh, sued Alexander Fraget for £7 188, 734d. for shirts, cravate, butter, cheese, socks, &c. They had been several yearg engaged lovers. He, a shoemaker, had only given her a pair of boots and haifa dozen kippered her- tings. Lately she found him inconstant, and re- meved the suit from a court of love to ene of law, where she got a verdict for the bulk of her claim. Evidently Alexander lost a fortune in neglecting to secure the Willing hand of the thristy Bupbemlt