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through the South, and that in a short time not only Tennessee and Mississippi, but Ala- ‘Dama and Arkansas will have their well established farmers’ organizations. The cru- sade against the slavery of railroad monopolies and absurd tariff regulations ought to spread all over the country. Tae German Crry oF Fnranxrort was teriously disturbed by riot yesterday. The sffort of the mob was directed against the beer sellers and breweries. Many of the brewing establishments were gutted by the people, and the crowds were dispersed only by military action. The soldiers held the squares and the principal points of the municipality at nightfall and a renewal of the disturbance was feared. The ancient German free city possesses a very active democracy, which has been even yet scarcely reconciled to imperial- Ism and the aggregation of capital in the bands of the few. . As rae Enz Investication progresses the complications, the wheels within wheels of the inside machinery of that extraordinary corporation brought to view, become posi- tively bewildering. The legal steam con- denser was so fearfully strong that the only wonder is how they pried it open. Tae Lave Rawway Massacre.—They are going to investigate the late shocking railway disaster. A proper investigation of that bridge in season was the investigation which should have been made. ‘Tue Inpran Commissioners of the peace establishment meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day. Captain Jack will not be present, nor will General Canby. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. ‘Gustave Deré is at Braemar, in Scotland. Senator Morton left St. Louis for the Hot Springs fast night. Judge O. L. Woodbury, of Boston, is registered at ‘the New York Hotel. The Prince of Wales will open the Town Hall of Bolten, Engjand, in June. Colonel B, S. Roberts, of the United States Army, {s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is regis- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Major M, A. Reno, ol the United States Army, has quarters at the New York Hotel. General J. 8. Casement, of Paintsville, Ohio, is Btaying at the Fifth Avenue Motel. Ex-Mayor A. L, Ellett, of Richmond, Va., is re- gistered at the Metropolitan Hotel. L. Crooker, United States Vice-Consul at Panama, has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. The poet John G. Saxe will soon become domiciled in one of the prettiest quarters of Brooklyn. Ex-Congressman John Rogers, of Black Brook, N. Y., has arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. aptain J. Y. Buchanan, of Her Britannic Ma- Jesty’s steamer Challenger, is at the Everett House, Bir George Prescott and the Hons, Messrs, Maxwell, Prescott and Grant, of England, are at the Gilsey House. Ex-Judge Shipman, late of the United States Cirpuit Court for the district of Connecticut, is «omning to live in this city. Queen Victoria has just presented to the Histori- ‘cal Museum in Derby an original letter from Prince Charles Stuart, dated in 1745. Count Von Moltke was born on the 28th of Octo- her, 1800, at Paschen, in Denmark. His father was @ Danish Lieutenant General. William Schwartz, of Hillsboro, Ohio, has just drawn $293 from the government for his share of the $100,000 reward offered for the capture of Jeft Davia. General Farnsworth, of Illinois, will distribute bis back pay ‘where he thinks it will do the most good”—to wit, through his own Cengressional istrict. Ex-Governor Warmoth, of New Orleans, is about to be made President of a Southern railroad com- pany. Look out for the locomotive when his little dell rings! Messrs. D, Cruikshank, H. Manning and Hoare, Who are connected with the project of a new Atlantic cable telegraph, yesterday arrived at the éstor House. Mr. A. T. Stewart is convalescing, after an illness @ almost a month’s duration. His appearance in fle streets now waits only upon the arrival of pod weather. A Terre Bonne (La.) paper announces that that Prish is so poor that no one will trust it fora thee-foot plank to stop up the holes made in the jal by the last inmates. feneral Howard having urged that citizenship shuld be conferred on the Indians, a Western papr suggesta that Captain Jack would make a ‘cherful citizen—at long range. @meral Canby was a nephew of Mrs, I. N. San- Act, of Iowa City, Peace Commissioner Meacham’s fater, an old man, nearly blind, is now living in Nerport township, Johnson county, Iowa. 4 correspondent wants to know if General Gikm, who allowed Captain Jack to slip away, fs te right man in the right place. He was “geod enagh” forthe great rebel chief, John Morgan. “he Man Who Laughs" is a United States Sena- torfrom Mississippi. His name is Alcorn. He daugs at those members ef Congress whose con- sciece troubles them about the back pay steal. be Watts, daughter of Mr. Ridley Watts, of this City/lied at Florence on the 26th ult. of Roman fevé She had recently visited. Rome with her anc, Mr. Moses H. Grinnell, and there contracted the ital disease. Avonaldsonville (La.) paper states that J. 0. W. Rictrdson, who has been for some time teaching ® Sioolin the adjoining parish of Ascension, by the tll of the late Horace Greeley has been left the Meatttle sum ef $3,000. La Coventry had a narrow escape in the hunt- ing fid, at Elmly Castle, on the 3d instant. While Jollo'ng the hounds in fullcry, she took a fence ‘with drop of twelve feet on the other side into an olquarry, She was injured and the horse’s backas broken, Juc Nathaniel Shipman, who hag been ap- point to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion ( William D. Shipman, United States Circuit Judgor the District of Connecticut, was born in Soutlary, New Haven county,in 1829. He is a lawy@f considerable eminence and was Execu- tive tretary of Governor Buckingham for four Frits a remarkable man, though he has been All hisfe only a waiter in the Café du Helden, in ParisMemory Woodfall nor Dr. Person had not @ gredr memory, and neither gave himself a task Go difflt as memorizing an Army Register. ‘Yet Fritz (that, and more, became a cyclopedia ef milita; facts and gossip. Indeed, it is often hinteciat Marshal Ney took advantage of a noc- turnatoil in the café to imprisen Fritz in pun- ‘shmefor his knowledge of War Office affairs, fhe wer improved his knewledge while in prisonand during the late wi when the officialmy list was net published, Félix had to cariin his head the name, regiment, terms Of serv and promotion ef every officer in the ser, now abont to retire, while his memory snd fatare still unimpaired, WEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT. Whe Esidential Party at St. LouisA Receion to Miss Nellie and the Chicf Serekled. Sr. Lovts, Mo., April 21, 1873, ‘The Pudential party made an excursion to-day to Kirkyd and Carondelet. At the latter plice they insted the various ironworks, and after a collatiolt the residence oi Mr. Henry T. Blow the parteturned to the city. To-niga reception was given to Miss Nellie, at the reshce ef In¢ian Commissioner Campbell, and thercsident was serenaded at the same NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET, CUBA. The New Captain General Landed at Havana and Received by the People. Ominous Silence During the Progress of the Ex- ecutive Procession—Official H pe of aSpeedy Finish of the Rebellion—Penitent Insur- gents To Be Absolved and Restored to the Family—Programme and Prin- ciple of Government with the Volunteers a Main Power. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, April 19, 1873. The new Vaptain General of Cuba (Pieltain) ar- rived here yesterday and was received with the usual formal ceremonies upon landing. An im- mense concourse of citizens were present to wit- ness the disembarkation. Not a cheer was uttered, not even for Spain, when the new Captain General passed by the crowd, owing to rumors widely cir- culated that the republicans intended to make a demonstration, The republicans, however, firmiy denied any intention of doing anything of the kind. Nothing is yet known of Generali Pieltain’s pro- gramme. The first measure will probably be the ordering of elections for deputies to the Cortes, Ata reception given the new Captain General, he said he hoped “he would soon be able to finish the rebellion with the aid of the loyalists,” He has told the Quartermasters that he will see that they act correctly. General Pieltan has apparently made a favorable impression on all. Exccutive Definition of the Principle of the Government—Three Great Powers To Be Conciliated—The Volunteers More Favored Than the Others. Havana, April 19, 1873, Captain General Pieltain has issued proclama- tions aadressed to the soldiers, the people and the volunteers. To the soldiers he says they will be called on to operate in the fleld all the time that it is possible. He wants them to make another energetio and decisive effort tocrush the insur- rection. To the people he says his missiOn is a dificult one, viz. :—‘To restore peace, so that you can fully enjoy liberty, which, as part of a great nation, now also free because it has become a Republic, you have the right toenjoy.” He will require the co- operation of everybody, that justice may be real- ized everywhere, To the volunteers he says:==“I appreciate your patriotism, loyalty and sacrifices, and count on your active co-operation. 1 will al- Ways act as a loyal Spaniard and give you my confil- dence; consequently you must trust me. United, our difficulties will decrease, and We will soon re- store peace. Ifthe insurgents repent we will re- ceive them with open arms as friends. If they prefer to be enemies we will combat them unceas- ingly.” EXECUTIVE FAREWELL. General Ceballos has issued farewell proclama- tions of the usual nature, A United States Ship With Liberated Sailors on Board. Havana, April 19, 1873. The United States steamer Richmond hasarrived here, bringing the three sailors of the bark Union, which the Santiago de Cuba authorities delivered ‘up on the demand of the Captain of the Richmond, A New Captain General in Rule at Porto Rico. Havana, April 19, 1873, General Primo Rivera has assumed the Captain Generalship of Porto Rico. O°’RELLY, SPAIN AND CUBA, General Pieltain Will Probably Relea: O'Kelly Forthwith. (Courier des Etats-Unis, April 19.] The correspondent of the HERALD in Ouba, Mr. O'Kelly, is still confined in Fort Gerona, Man- zanillo, General Torbert, Consul General of the, United States, has had another interview with the Captain General, and has informed him that his visit was the result of instructions received from Mr. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State of the United States, expressing the desire that the demand of Mr, O’Kelly to be transterred to Havana might be favorably received. The Cap- tain General was very reticent, and refused to re- ply in a decisive manner. The Consul General spoke of the trial, and the Captain General replied that nothing definite in that regard would take place for some time yet. The impression left with General Torbert after this interview was, that the Captain General desired to leave the responsibility of the affair to his suc- cessor, General Pieltain, and that while awaiting his arrival he would continue to delay the case, being unwilling to take any definite resolution nimgeif. The probability is that Sefior Ceballos is embarrassed with his prisoner, and that the first thing Sefior Pieltain will do will be to release him (O'Kelly) on the simple declaration of “no cause,” without resorting to any other form of trial, {From the Memphis Appeal, April 17.) We publishon our first page a very interesting letter from the New York HERALD’s Cuban corre- spondent, O’Kelly, made up of the statement of General Garcia as to the present condition of the patriot army, its ability to cope with’ the troops of Spain and the hopes of the people inspired by constant and steady successes, Every lover of freedom will read this statement with pleasure, and all will agree that it is time the lead- ing Powers of the earth stepped in to prevent any further effusion of blood in a contest that is ac- knowledged to be hopeless for Spain. At least it is time our government was making some effort to impress she govetnment of Madrid, of which the noted repuviican leader Castellar is the prop and Stay, that it would be well for such lovers of liberty to practice what they preach, and yield to the Cubans the freedom they have so long manfully and patriotically contended for. Any step in that direction by President Grant will be hailed with satisfaction by all parties. 6 (From the Kokomo (Ind.) Democrat, April 17.) O’Kelly’s mission was in the interest of the civilized world, Humanity itself was cry- ing out to know the true status of the dary and endless flow of blood that has for @ quarter of a century drenched the soil of that lovely isle. Who can for- get the attitude of England when the United States ordered the arrest of Mr. Russell, correspondent of the London Times, at the battle of Bull Run? It was the unanimous spirit of the British press that caused his release. Great Britain and the federal Union cannot fail to be united in the cause of hu- Mmanity and civilization in Cuba. SPAIN. Carlist Pensioners Arrested in Citizen Costume. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO.. BaRCBLONA, April 21, 1873. several persons who are known to have served recently in the Carlist ranks have been arrested in this city, GERMANY. Biot Against Beer Sellers and Brewers—Frank- fort Property Gutted by a Mob-—-The Crowd Dispersed by the Troops— The Gity Deeply Excited. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. FRANKFORT, April 21, 1873. A riot occurred here to-day which lasted the whole afternoon, and is now only kept from break- ing out again by the military. The wrath of the mob was directed against the beer sellers and makers. Several beer houses and breweries were gutted, The troops were calied out and dispersed the rioters, but a renewal of the disturbance is feared to-night. ‘The shops are closed and the solfliers occupy the squares and guard the brewertes. Several persons were injured, but no deaths are reported, The military did not fire on the crowd, Catholic Movement for an Independent Episcopacy. Bonn, April 21, 1873. Ata meeting of the old Catholics in this city, to-day, it was resolved to proceed to the election of a Bishop at Cologne on the 4th of June. The Mission to Washington. BERLIN, April 21, 1873. It is said that Herr von Stumm will be appointed Secretary of the German Legation at Washington. Baron Liebig’s Remains Interred with Honor. Monica, April 21, 1873. The funeral of the late Baron Liebig took piace in this city yesterday, and was attended by a large number of distinguished persons, including the Rev. Dr. Dollinger. FRANCE. A Military Candidate for Legislative Honor— Presidential Reception in a Palace. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Paris, April 21, 1873, Colonel Stoffel has announced himself as a can- didate for the vacancy in the National Assembly from this city, M. Liebman has retired from the contest in favor of Baron Stoffel. M. de Rémusat’s prospects are considered excellent. PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION. President Thiers gave a reception on Saturday night at the Palace of Elys¢e. Mr. Schenck, the United States Minister to Great Britain, was pres- ent and was intreduced to the President by Minis- ter Washburne. ENGLAND. Parliament Reassembled—Freedom of Con- science—The Law of Libel Against a Humanitarian. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpoy, April 21, 1873. Parliament reassembled in session, after the Easter recess adjournment, to-day. In the House of Commons Mr. Faweett's bill, abolishing religious tests in the University of Dub- lin, passed its second reading. Mr. Plimsoll having stated in one of his recently published writings that the Livonia, belonging to Mr. Norwood, M. P., was unseaworthy, the latter. commenced proceedings in the Court of Queen’s Bench, which has granted the plaintiff's motion for a rule requiring the defendant to show cause against a criminal information for libel. DEEP SEA TELEGRAPHS. The French Atlantic Cable Broken Near the European Coast, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Brest, April 21, 1873, The French Atlantic cable is broken. The elec- tricians of the company locate the break at a dis- tance of 230 miles from Brest. ASIA. The Hollanders’ War Against Acheen Partially Suspended. TELEERAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO. Tue Hague, April 21, 1873. The government has received despatches from Sumatra announcing that at a council of war be- fore Acheen it was resolved to suspend opera- tions by land until Autumn, as the monsoon rendered the receipt of supplies from the sea- ward precarious. The blockade of the city, however, will be main- tained until the resumption of active hostilities. AUSTRALIA. The Colonial and Royal Governments in Active Administration—The Question of Ocean Mail Transportation—Public Edu- cation—Fear of a Fiji War. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 1873, The steamship Dakota arrived here this after- noon from Australia, with datesto March 19. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. Fox succeeds Mr. Waterhouse as Premier. Tne Queen’s government will be asked to pay £20,000 yearly towards the California mail line, The eighty-fifth anniversary of the colonizing of New South Wales was celebrated January 28, THE OCEAN MAILS, The colonial government has asked assistance of the British nome government to establish a trans- Pacific mail. Also, permission to make a treaty with the United States for such service. VICTORIA. “ The Education bill works well. Children are flocking to the State schoels. Witnesses have been obtained here for the Tich- borne trial. Four hundred Germans have arrived at Brisbane direct from Hamburg. Extensive damaging floods are reported at Queensland. Rain fell during January to the ex- tent of thirty-five inches, Further trouble is feared from the natives at Fijl. PORTO RICO. The Military Attempt at Kevolution and Why—The Civil Guard Called from the Rural Districtse=The New Captain General and an Uncertain Condition. ‘ Porto Rico, April 11, 1873. ‘We have for the last few days had some excite- ment in this usually monotonous place. Soldiers think, as there is a republic in the mother country and the law has been promulgated for the emanci- peton of our colored brethren on this island, thi hey should have some iiberties given them an thelr back pay. Some four hundred were sent out of the oy in & perfect state of revolt. The civil guard has been called in frem the coun- try, and have been doing guard duty at the city tes, the Palace and other important points. ly thousand dollars has been paid to the troops, We are to have anew tain General, whe was here second in command some six or seven years 7. He is said to be a worthless person. here has been no trouble on the estates. It is impossible to imagine what will be the end of affairs on the island. all depends on what is done in Spain. THE TRIAL OF BOGART. San FRANctsoo, April 21, 1873. The case of R. P. Bogart, accused of embezzlement ag Ladd iene , has been Fpmanded | e naval author! Bogart w! tried at Mare Isiand immediately, THE HERALD AND ITS GREAT ISSUES. (From the Omaha (Ni Herald, April 11.) The New York HERALD is a wonderful news- paper, as we have often said. As it appeared in quintuple form Sunday morning, the first time since its establishment, it contained 120 columns of matter, of which seventy-eight columns were de- voted to advertisements and forty-two to news and other matter. This is believed to be without parallel in the history of American journalism, tn which, it may be added, for enterprise and sagacity in news and business management the wonderful HERALD is without a peer or rival. {From the Sag Harbor (L, I.) Corrector, April 12.) The NEw York HERALD, which ts the journalistic wonder of the age, on Sunday lust issued a quin- tuple sheet of 120 columns and an edition ef 150,000 copies, There was nothing like it ever done before in newspaperdom, but the HERALD, with its un- rivalled enterprise, resources and popularity, is equal to anything. {From the Americus (Ga) Republican, April 12.) For the first time since its establishment, the HERALD, on Sunday last, appeared in quintuple form, and contained 120 columns, of which Seventy-eight were devoted to advertise- ments and forty-two to. news and miscella- neous matter—all fresh and arranged in the most attractive shape. This certainly is an achievement in American journalism of which that paper has abundant reason to be proud, and we put it on rec- ord with feelings of sincere professional gratifica- tion, The HERALD as & newspaper leads All its contemporaries in this country, certainly, and, in our judgment, cannot be matched even across the water, UTA ae Destractive Fire at Sandy Station—A Sand Storm Damaging City Property. Sau? LAKE Crry, April 21, 1873, The fire at the Saturn Smelting Works, at Sandy Station, fourteen miles south of this city, destroyed $25,000 worth of charcoal and other property. Several cars were burned, and the track of the Utah and Southern Railroad Injured, interrupting the traMc south of the fire. An engine was sent from this city, but was too late to be of any service. A tremendous sand storm visited this city to- aay, destroying considerable property. ‘he Union Pacific trains are now running regu- larly, and the passenger traffic is increasing. ARMED METROPOLITAN POLIOE AMITE, LA, Amite, La., April 21, 1873. About one hundred Metropolitan Police from New Orleans, armed with Winchester rifles, ar- rived here last night and installed Kellogg’s Re- corder and the Parish Judge of this parish to-day. Forty Metropolitans went to Greensburg this morning. ‘ DEATH OF AN OLD BOSTONIAN. Boston, April 21, 1873. Charles Stoddard, of the firm of Stoddard, Lover- ing & Co., died yesterday. He was for many ydars senior deacon of the Old South church and prom- inently identified with Congregationalism and the American Board of Foreign Missions, AT KINGS COUNTY MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS, Meeting of the Board of Aldermen. The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen met yesterday afternoon. Corporation Counsel! William C. De Witt sent ina communication recommending the pay- ment of a judgment of $150 obtained against the city by Jonn ©. Provost and James W. Valentine, The Legislature, m 1867, passed an act appointing Alexander McCue, Seymour L. Hustead and An- thony Campbell a special commission to improve Wallabout Bay and construct the Kent avenue basin. In 1869 the Legislature authorized the expenditure of $856,000. Bonds of the city to the amount of $913,000 were issued. The Legisla- ture of 1870 passed an act directing the Commis- sioners to turn over the works tothe city, making a full report of ali their receipts and expenditures to the Comptroller. The present Senate has rear anact giving the Commissioners a further lease of power. Alderman Rorgs offered a series of resolutions requesting the members of Assembly to withhold their assent from this act, and that the City: Clerk send & Gea f to the members of the Assembly, The resolutions were adopted. Alderman TayLor offered a resolution that the Franklin Avenue and Prospect Park Railroad Com- pany be directed to repairor remove their track on Second street, between Broadway and South Tenth street. ‘The Alderman stated that this company had ap- rently abandoned the road oh this street, and it Raa become @ nuisance by the rails sticking up on the street. ‘The resolution was atopted after an amendment directing the company to repair instead of remove the track. ‘A resolution protesting against the action of the Assembly in excluding Brooklyn from having the benefit of the motor power on the street railroads was offered by Alderman Ropes. Aresolution requesting the members to Include Brooklyn in the bill before it passes the House was adopted. THE BROOKLYN ONE HUNDBED. Another Talk Over the Reform Charter. There was a meeting of the Citizens’ Reform As- sociation of “One Hundred” last evening in the director’s room of the Academy of Music. Mr. Franklin Woodruff occupied the chair. There were twenty-live members present. Mr. MCLEAN, from the Legislative Committee, re- ported that it would be unwise at the present period to press the bill Proposed for a separation of the county. They could not legislate for Queens county, and the five county towns of Kings county, not having a sufficlent number of inhabi- tants to entitle them to a member of Assembly, could not be represented in the Legislature. The report was accepted, and the bill is considered as a dead letter. The Legislative Committee, to whom was re- ferred the resolution of Mr. A, ©. Davis touching the charter, reported the subjoined as a substi- tute :— Resolyed, That while this association, through Its Legis. lative Commit has consented to accept the charter with some of the’ amendments made by the republican members of the Assembly from this county, they have done so only that they might secure a more simple, ef. cient and responsible fundamental law for the govern- ment of the city of Brooklyn than that under which we ow live. Pilesolved, That the association still asserts its convic- tion of the desirableness of single heads to each ot the departments created by the charter; of the divisions of the Depariment of Collector of Taxes and Assessments; of the establishment of @ Department of Arrears, with a head appointed by the Mayor and Common Council; and that they enter their protest against any division of the wards of the city whereby the representatives of one portion of it shall be diminished because of its political complexion. The resolutions were adopted. Considerable debate occurred between Mr. Hunter and Mr. McLean touching the charge that certain amendments to the charter of the Hundred had been made through trade and traf- ficking with the Legislature. It was asserted that the alterations made in the document were of such a character as to have enhanced its value. KILLED ON THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD. The Company Censured. On the 7th inst. Mr. Peter Wingendorf, a German, thirty-eight years of age, then living at 113 Division street, attempted to cross Hudson street, near Vestry street, in front of an engine attached to a stationary ireight train of cars belonging to the Hudson River Katlroad Company, bat there being no flagman present to warn him of his danger, the train started without his being observed by any one, and the unfortunate man was crushed to death. In their verdict of accidental death the jury “censured the Hudson River Railroad Com- pany for not having @ sufficient number of flagmen to prevent liké accidents.” The inquest was held by Coroner Herrman at the Fifth precinct station house, as the Coroners at present have no court room in which to conduct their investigations. FATAL RAILROAD OASAUALTY. Coroner Keenan yesterday held an inquest at the Twenty-sixth precinct police station in the case of Joseph Bell, a.child only five years of age, who on the 20th instant was fatally crushed in avenue B, near Sixth street, by being run over by car 67 of the avenue B line. Deceased in attempting to cross the street fell on the track immediately in front of the horses, and despite the utmost exer- tions of the driver to stop the car the front wheel assed over one of the child's legs, The jury ren- Rered & verdict of accidental death. Mrs. Bell lives at 602 Sixth stree' fi STABBING AFFRAY. During an altercation last evening in the lager beer saloon at the corner of Twenty-first street and Sixth avenue, between Andrew Beatty, of 279 Seventh avenue, and Patrick Nolan, of 337 East Seventy-fourth street, the former stabbed the latter in the left breast with a pocket knife, in- flicting @ severe and probably fatel wound. The inju man was removed the hospital, and Beatty was arrested and locked up. | BIOHMOND SWITOH MASSAORE. Futile Attempts of Friends to Identity the Charred Remains of the Dead Victims—An Oficial Investigation Or- dered. Provipsnos, R. 1., April 21, 1873. Of the seven victims of the disaster at Riehmond Switch, four have not yet been identified. The wife of Jerry Creamer, of Boston, was here to-day to identify the body of her husband, but Was not satisfied and returned without it, She is not certain that he was on the wrecked train. ‘The wife of John Callahan, a sailor, who was on the train, was also here to-day, but the bodies are burned beyond recegnition. Possibly one of the DOUIa Teas be his, ‘arties were here to-day from Arlington, Mass., in search of Miss Ansty Warren, who left her brother's house tn Jersey City last Friday for Ar- lington, via the Stonington route, and had not ar- rived, They found no means of identification. : The Railroad Commissioners have ordered an in- <Vestigation relative to the ratiroad disaster, on Wednesday next, at ten o'clock, at the railroad ‘station in this city. A DBEADFUL ACOIDENT. Seven Persons Crushed to Death by a Falling Floor in Belleville, Kansas. Arcnison, Kansas, April 21, 1873, A letter to the Datly Champion from Belleville, Republic county, about one hundred and fifty miles west of this city, gives an acconnt of a terri- ble prairie fire in the vicinity, which destroyed many houses, stables, cattle, grain, &c. The same letter records a dreadful accident which occurred on Monday night a week ago during a fearful storm which passed over that country, The house of Mr. Crane, near Belleville, was burned on Saturday, and his family, consist- ing of wife and four children, took shelter in the residence of Mr. Bennett. On Monday night the storm took the roof off Mr. Ben- nett’s house—a stone building—and blew in the gable, which fell into the cellar, where the inmates had taken refuge. Mrs. Bennett was severely injured. In the morning Bennett went to procure assistance. When he returned he found that the floor had fallen in, and his wife and three children, together with Mrs. Crane and two of her children, were crushed to death. A boy and girl of Crane’s were still alive and were carried to a be a but the boy died shortly after reaching ere, OINOINWATTS LIGHT THREATENED, The Gasmen Strike for Ten Hours and $3 a Day—Prompt Action of Managers to Prevent the City Being Left in Dark- ness. CINOINNATI, April 21, 1873. A strike at the gasworks to-day put the city in imminent peril of going to bed in the dark to night, but the managers took “time by the fore- lock,” and provided against that calamity for this night at least. Out of the night gang of forty- two hands thirty are off, and the works are running with the remaining twelve regulars, augmented by totally green hands. There are only twenty-four of the forty-eight benches in opera- tion, but with full meters, and by a diligent super- vision the company expect to save consumers the resort to candles and burning fluids, The day hands, lorty-two in number. have not yet demonstrated, but fears are entertained that they will strike to-morrow. In anticipation of this advertisements are in to-night tor men. me of the strikers got drunk to-night and threatened to cut the gasome- ters, but a strong police force was hurried to the works by the Mayor anda stop put to that sort of malice for the present. The strike is for $3 per day, instead of $2 60, with ten hours @ days’ ser- vice instead of twelve, POLITIOAL RIGHTS IN ARKANSAS, Lrrrig Roox, April 21, 1873, Governor Baxter has issued a proclamation de- claring the ratification of the constitutional amend- ment doing away with. disfranchisement, A SCULLING CHALLENGE. Havirax, N. 8., April 21, 1873, George Brown, having received no answer to his sculling challenge to Sadler, the English cham- pion, will issue a challenge to Ellis Ward, J: hn Biglin, Henry Coulter, or any other American oars- man, for a race tor $2,000, to take place at Halifax in July, Brown to allow his opponent expenses, THE GOVERNMENT OF PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND RESIGN. Hawirax, April 21, 1873. The Prince Edward’s Island government, having THE WEATHER, War Derantuenr, \ Orrick OF THH CHIEF SIGNAL 0: Wasutnaron, D. ©., April 22-1 A. M. Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours, The barometer has risen somewhat since Sunday night over the Middle States and lower lakes; @ storm centre of some magni- tude has advanced eastward into the Missouri Valley, and is probably now central in Northern Missouri; north and west winds, with partly cloudy or clear weather and falling temperature prevail in New York and Western New England; northeasterly wind and cloudy weather in the Middle Atlantic States; north amd east winds, increasing to brisk with threatening weather over Lake Erie, Michi- g and Wisconsin, with snow on Lake Erie and ichigan; southwest winds and calms are re- ted, with clear weather in the Eastern Gulf and jouth Atlantic States, except in Southern Florida, where increasing northeast winds and light rain prevail; the barometer has fallen decidedly over the latter region, and a storm of some severity parently exists in the eastern pertion of the Gi ot Mexico; increasing southerly winds with falling barometer are reported from Texas and the lower Ohio Valley; the pressure has risen, with cold northerly winds and clear weather in Manitoba; southerly winds with fain have prevailed in Calt- fornia and Oregon, but are now followed by clear weather in the tormer ce ait 8, The sterm in the Guif of Mexico extend during ‘Tuesday northwestward toward the centre ef the Gull; that in Missoari Valley extend over Michi and Indiana; for New Engiend and the Middle States increasing northeasterly winds, cloudy and threatening weather; for the lower lakes north- east winds, with snow and rain; for the upper lakes north and east winds, increasing to brisk; for the Ohio Valley and Southern States, increasing southwesterly winds, falling barometer, rising temperature, followed by cloudy weather and possibly rain on the coast, Cautionary signals continue at Duluth, Chi Milwaukee, Grand Haven and are ordered for De- troit, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. The midnight Teports are very generally missing from the Mis: souri Valley. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in been defeated in the recent elections, has re- signed. EAST AFRICAN SLAVERY. [From the London News, April 10. If Sir Bartle Frere has not struck a fatal blow at the East African slave trade he has at least shown that the African laborer is fit for freedom. In a memorandum addressed to Lord Granville he gives an account of a visit he has lately paid to the one free labor estate in Zanzibar. The property is situated at the north end of the island, is owned by a British Indian and leased to Captain Frazer, who has, in a residence of about ten years, changed a Zanzibar rice swamp into a well- cultivated tropical estate. The work on this property—tield labor, road making, building, the carpenter’s, smith’s and cooper’s work, even the driving the steam engines and repair of ma- chinery—i8 ail done by tree negroes working for regular wages. These men have ail been slaves, and had at first all the vices of slavery. Even their foremen are all, with one exception, men who have been slaves on some portion of tne East Coast, ‘The excuses urged for Zanzibar slavery are, that the negroes would die out if their numbers were not continually replenished by tresh importations, and that they are content with the barest neces- saries of lile, and, unless compelled, will not work tor more. ‘he experience ef free labor on Captain Frazer's estate proves that both these statements, though quite true of slaves, are not true of freemen. The sense of property, the feeling that what they have is their own, Sir Bartie Frere says, has acted most effectually in raising these laborers from the more degrading vices of slavery. They show great affection for their children, and are as anxious to acquire the ornaments and superiiuities of lite in the shape of dress and household plenishing as more civilized races. Sir Bartle Frere expresses his conviction that, were slavery abolished to-morrow, no general or commercial interest at Zanzibar would perma- nently suffer. Miss Carpenter has lately suggested in our columns that a fund should be raised to help Sir Bartle Frere’s mission, by compensating the Zanzibar slaveholders for the loss the abolition of slavery might impose. Such compensation is, how- ever, altogether neediess, A VOLCANIC ERUPTION IN ICELAND. An Icelandic gentleman has forwarded to the London Telegraph the following account of the eruption of Skaptar JOkull, as witnessed by him from Reykjavik, about one hundred miles dis- tant:— ° REYKJAVIE, March 23, 1878. On Thursday, the 9th January, about three o’ciock A. M., we observed from Reykjavik @ grand fire tn east-northeast direction, and all agrecd that it was some neighboring farm Mertage with haystacks, ‘The fire shot up like lightning, epleying beautirul evolutions in combination with the electricity above. Indeed, it was exactly like a fine display of rockets and wheels, and so bright was it that during the dark morning hours we all thought it must be very close to Reykjavik; but when daylight dawned, and we could discern the mountains, we observed @ thick and heavy column of vapor or steam far in the background beyond all mountains visible; so it was clear that it was far of, and, according to the direction, it seemed most likely to be in Skaptar Jokull, the west part of Vaktna J&kull, the great Wetste of glaciers, in the east and south of the island, and more than one huadred miles due east. Morning and night, this grand display was visible during the nights of the 9th, loth, 1ith and 12th; durin that day the column of steam and smoke stood high inthe sky. Ashes, too, had falien on the northeast coast, 80 that pasture fields were covered so far that the farmers had to take their sheep into the hats and feed them; bat the papers say in the south no earthquakes were felt or noises heard inthe earth, far or near, as jaras Mar- karfijol (near Eyjafjalla J6Kull). Nowhere has been observed any fall of ashes or dust, but every- where a bad smell was noticed, and aiso here, in Reykjavik, in the forenoon of the 10th, the people of Landeyzar_ (op- site Wesmann Island) assert the same to have been the case there on the first of the eruption; but here, at Reykjavik, it was not ob- served that day, but we feit the air very close, particularly on the 9th, from three to five o'clock in the afternoon, with some smell of sulphur and powder, very like the smell from a iately dis- charged gun barrel. No cl was observed in the sun, moon, &c. The sky was clear all these days. The direction of the wind was irom northwest, west-southwest, and the weather fine. At yjum tke wind had been east-northeast on the 10th, with a stro. breeze, and the column of steam rose very hig and mist hid all the eastern horizon, but no fall of ashes took place. This eruption lasted only four or five days, and is not likely to have done an; dam: to inhabited parts or pasture ground, except in 80 far as the fall of ashes might hurt the sbeep. she whole Winter bus very Witic nace hte mie jut very le snow eu 1D the southern part of the country, : comparison with the corresponding aay of last ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872. 1873. 1872, 1873, 68 42 + 62 «42 3 P.M. P. 65 4a 52 88 12 M..... +61 87 12P. Mm 5288 Average temperature yesterday rT) Average temperature for corresponding date i last year......+++ is SNOW STORM IN CHICAGO. Crrcaco, April 21, 1813. Heavy snow has been falling here since sevem P. M. oe ab eu ie od PENOBSCOT RIVER OPEN. Bangor, Me., April 21, 187% The Penobscot River is open to navigation, ald the ice having gone out yesterday. PROVIDENCE PRINT CLOTH MARKET. PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 21, 1878. Print cloths firm at 6c. a 6%c. for 64x64, bess cloths, with rather more inquiry. 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