The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. — Velume XXXxvim.. eee heme citnt AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—Dix Tocutsr DER HOELLE. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twen! avenue,—ARRAB Na Pocur. No. 116 -third street, corner Sixth atinee at 2, fT. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.— McEvoy's New Hisgrnicoy. Matinee at 2. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—A Carita, Comnpy— A Bap Lot. THEATRE COMIQU Burixsque ann Oxo, Mati 514 Broadway.—Dnama, t 2g. THIRTY-FOURTH STR: THEATRE, Mth st., near 3d av.—Vanuery Exrentainaest, Matince at 235. NEW FIFTH AVE: THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Divorce. Matinee at 1); WQOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st— see raon Sina Minc. Alteriogn and eveulug. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Vaniety ENTER- mainaxnt, Matince at 235. NIBLO’S GARDEN. Brosdway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Wuonc Man IN THe Rigut Pace, &c. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleecker street.—Humery Dumery, Matinee at 2 UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union are, near Broadway.—Peou Frou, Matines at lig. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Davip Ganuicx. Matinee at 134. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eigh: ay.—UNDER THE Gacocan Madines at a iis MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Green Busuxs. Matinee at 2. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner av.—NerGRO MinstRELsY, &c. Matinee at 2. TONY PASTOR’S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanitty ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 2. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth 4nD Concert. Matinee at 2. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av.—After- moon at 2—Lectunz on YANKER CHARACTER AND Humor. street.—OnaTori0o APOLLO HALL, corner Broadway and 28th street — Grav Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613Broadway.— EcteNcK AND Akt. New York, Saturday, April 26, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE REPUBLIC OF SPAIN! IS A REPUBLIC POSSIBLE ON THE CONTINENT?—LEaD- ING EDITORIAL TOPIC—SrixtH PAGE. GLOOMY PROGRESS OF THE NEW SPANISH FREE STATE! THE GOVERNMENT, THE PEOPLE AND THE ARMY SLOWLY THROWING OFF THEIR MONARCHICAL SHACKLES! EMANCIPATION, CARLISM, AND SUCIALISM! THE STRUGGLE BE- TWEEN THE CORTES AND THE CABINET! AMERICAN DIPLOMACY—Fovrti Paas. OPERATIONS OF THE SPANISH COMM UNISTS! ELEVEN BATTALIONS OF VOLUNTEERS REVOLT IN MADRID! FOUR KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED! THE CORTES VADED BY AN ARMED MOB! ALARMING PROGRESS OF THE COUNTER-REVOLU- TION—SEVENTH PaGE. SPORADIC CHOLERA RAGING IN TRIAN CAPITAL! THE AUs- TWENTY OF THE VIC- TIMS BROUGHT TO ‘HOSPITAL! FIVE FATAL CASES! AN EFFORT MADE TO CONCEAL THE FACT OF THE EPIDEMIC— SEVENTH PaGE. THE NEW MUDOC STRONGHOLD IN THE BLACK ROCKS! A MORE IMPREGNABLE FOR- TRESS THAN THE LAVA BEDS! INDIAN DESERTERS! THE STRENGTH OF THE SAVAGES! REINFORCING THE TROOPS! EPIZOOTIC TROUBLES—SkVENTH PAGE. REMOVAL OF THE MOBILIER COMMISSIONERS TO VIENNA! SECRETARY FISH'S VIEWS IN THE MATTER! THE ABUSES OF THE ATLANTIC STEERAGE PASSAGE TO BE IN- QUIRED INTO—Turep Pace. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT IN FRANCE! INTENSE AGITATION IN PARIS! THE MONARCHISTS WILL OUST M, THIERS AT WHATEVER COST—SEVENTH PaGE. . LOUISIANA MISRULE—FINE PIGEON-SHOOTING MATCHES—TROTTING AND RACING—Tuimp Pace. LEGISLATURE AND THE REPEAL OF THE USURY LAWS! PROBABLE SETTLEMENT OF THE NEWSPAPER CLAIMS! THE PO- THE LICE JUSTI ! ANNEXING WESTCHES- TER! THE CAPITOL CONTRACTS—TentH PAGE. EVIL EFFECTS OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE ‘NEW SHIPP: LAW ! THE BOARDING- HOUSE K S OPPUSING THE SHIP- MASTER: FIFTY OF THEM ARRESTED— THIRD PAGE. A STRIKE TO BEGIN ON MAYDAY! THE JOU! YMEN CORDWAINERS MOVING FOR REDRESS AGAINST CAPITAL! THE FEATURES OF THE MOVEMENT AND NEW PRICE LIST—Tuirp Pace. HIDEOUS SC ‘3 IN THE ATLANTIC! THE CORPSES AND THE CARGO OF THE | WREC EAMER JAMMED TOGETHER | IN A HORRID MASS! DIVERS’ PERILS— | THIRE Page. CARL VOGT REMANDED TO AWAIT AN INQUIRY INTO THE & MAN TRAGEDY! THE PITTSBURG BANK ROBBERY CA 5 CONFLICT 01 fi AUTHORITY! | ESTING LEGAL § WOWERING THE EX! GOLD DECLINES AND GOVE » VANCE! THE FOREIGN MARKE GOODS IMPORTS—A CURIOUS AY RAILROAD ACCIDENT—E1GuTE Pace. Tue Mopoc Wag has degenerated into a \game of hide and seek between the surviving members of Captain Jack’s band and the grtillery, cavalry and infantry of the United States and the Indian auxiliaries. Ourspecial | Wespatch from the lava beds affords us mo ground for believing that the exciting wod somewhat ridiculous game is near fits close. The last report states that the savages had retreated to Goose | SLake ; but we may hear to-morrow that they | pre firing away from Gander Bluff. General | Gillem was to have made ‘‘a quiet” attack on them yesterday ; but Jack, itseems, suspected | ‘that it was about time the army moved on his works, and withdrew to avoid a disturbance in | his household. Under these circumstances it | is comforting to be assured that more batteries | of artillery are en route to the front. , Conca axp Stare my Genwany.—The Apper House of the Prussian Diet has passed the government bill authorizing a complete control of the Church by the State govern- ment. The ‘measure applies to the Roman Watholicand Evangelical Communions equally, as will be seen by the synopsis of its pro- visions which is set forth in our columns to- Gg The Republic of Spain—Is a Repub- Me Possible on the Continent? In the dissolution of the Permanent Com- mittee of the Assembly the republican govern- ment of Spain has done a bold and hazardous act, We must recognize that this advisory Committee was left bf the radical or monarch- ical majority of the late Cortes as a watch and arestraint upon the free action of the present government. It was the last feeble endeavor of the Zorrilla party to stay the influx of republicanism. As @ mere incon- venience it might have been submitted to until the coming elections in May had not the Committee made a clean breach with the Ministry by refusing to recognize Pi y Mar- gall as the temporary substitute for Figueras during his late domestic affliction. The popu- lace of Madrid, like that of all the large cities of Spain, strongly favors the government, and the late tumults have shown that Madrid, like Paris in 1793, was determined not to allow any obstructions to the march of its pet ideas. Hence the riotous demonstrations against the Committee. The prudence or otherwise of the government in dissolving the com- mittee cannot be easily judged at this distance, and scarcely in Madrid. It is clear, however, that it has acted under the coercion of the Reds, no matter héw much the act was in sympathy with its own real desires, and to obey a mob is the most dangerous of all governmental weak- nesses. It could not hesitate. It was a question of championing a body of grumbling enemies of the Republic against the fierce frieads of ultra republicanism or , of abolishing the Committee to preserve the confidence of the dangerous Reds. It chose the latter alternative, but it remains to be seen whether the victorious mob will allow the government it has once controlled to stop short in obeying its further and wilder behests. The crisis isa terrible one for the young Republic. Unless the elections are reached in peace the future of Spain may pre- sent many scenes from which humanity must turn aside sick at heart. The mob has risen and been obeyed, and it may not be long before the temperate, well-intentioned govern- ment may find in its present friends a bitter foe and a relentless master. The difficulties that have surrounded the Republic from the beginning are dishearten- ing. Wecan well understand how Mr. Cas- telar, in the speech which our correspondent reports in his letter from Madrid, published in another part of the Henaxp, should have passionately rebuked the apathy anf unkind- ness of the Assembly towards the government; but yet it was in the nature of things. The old Cortes was ‘chosen to support the dynasty of Savoy. It contained a majority of monarchists. The Republic had been proclaimed really in spite of the Cortes, for all who read Span- ish events clearly will see that behind the As- sembly wasa pubiic opinion that could not be resisted—a public opinion that saw no peace for Spain but in a republic. Men holding power do not surrender it willingly. Even when the substance departs the shadow remains with all its illusions, The Cortes clung to power with desperation. The radical majority could not believe that it was dead to them, and that they could at best only hold its lifeless body in acold embrace. This is the experience of all revolutions. Statesmen as a general thing— statesmen, at least, of the class of Serranogand Yorrilla—yield too late. The most gratifying point in the republican victory is the circumstance that it was achieved by moral pressure. The outbreaks in Spain since the advent of the Repulflic have hitherto been the work of the monarchists. In the north the partisans of Don Carlos are in- terrupting trade, tearing up the railway tracks. taking travellers. prisoners for purposes of ransom, levying tribute upon peaceful villages and destroying industry. While we have an alien Bourbon prince making war Spanish noblemen live in Paris and sup- port him with money. It is the old “emigration’’ over again of the great revolution. This is the principal cause of the unrest and misery in Spain, and we have little doubt that more has been lost to the nation in material wealth and prosperity from the ambi- tion of this Prince than would suffice to take Spanish credit from the mire and gain for it the confidence of Europe and the world. So long as there is one crown and three pre- tenders to it there will be wars of succession and internal strife for supremacy. There is only one form of government that does not admit of pretenders—the Republic. The question arises, Is Spain fit for a republic? We in America are in the constant habit of asking questions of this kind about European countries. We have the theory some- how that republicanism is a superior kind of government, fitted alone for a superior kind of people. Men cannot live in high places unless they can breathe rarefied air. It leads to insanity and intoxica- tion of spirits and consequent excesses. So, when nations suddenly reach the high table- lands of liberty, there result the Reign of ‘Terror, the chaos of the Commune, and so on. | Not being insensible to considerations of na- tional vanity we deduce the argument that we alone are fit for this supreme political felicity, and that the other nations—German and French and Spanish—have not arrived at that perfection of nature which makes a@ republic in any way possible to them. This seems to bea preposterous and unsteady argument. We have seen no monarchy lead its people to republicanism. The tendency of Napoleonism, Bourbonism and other divine-right manifestations of power has been to unfit people for a republic. Bourbonism generated the Reign of Terror ; Napoleonism inspired the Commune. That is to say, the people were so repressed and narrowed, and denied generous aspirations and the freedom to grow, that when they found liberty they under- stood it to mean license. It is most unjust to deduce from this that to these nations—to France and to Spain—liberty will always mean license. Were this true then there would be no solution of the political problems of the Latin countries, buta war of extermina- tion, But it is not true, Misgovernment will do with nations what malpractice and improper education will do with men, In China, we have read; they will take a living child and put its tender, growing body into a grotesque porcelain vase, and in a few years, when the vase is broken, you have a living monster. ditions around them. When the conditions ‘are such as we have seen inspired by Bourbons and Bonapartes we must not be surprised with the guillotine standing in the Place de la Concorde and the library of the Louvre in flames. The return of any of the aspiring princes would mean simply the triumph of one party and the extermination or banigh- ment of the other, The mon Yow in power would fly te Périugal or France if they escaped death or imprisonment. Alf the revenges and disappointments taking root in the hearts of the royal partisans would demand satisfaction. This has been the law of restorations. First we haye the intoxica- tion of success, then the enjoyment of revenge. We are happy to win, but none the less happy to punish those who interfered with our winning before. This is one reason, perhaps, why restorations are rarely permanent. The tide of revolution recedes when its force is spent, only to come again with renewed power. Charles IL led to William IL, Louis XVIIL to’ Lamartine in 1848 and Thiers in 1870. It might be demonstrated, we think, that when a nation deliberately over- turns a form of government that has existed for ages, and has all the prestige of antiquity, tradition and power, there is a reason for it so deeply planted in the national heart that no permanent restoration is ever possible. We fear very much that the only effect that can attend the return of Don Carlos or Don Alfonso to the throne of Spain will be a rev- olution as terrible as any known in history. The reds have felt this, as their threatening demonstrations testify, and the government feel it, as their preference to throw themselves into the arms of the red revolution rather than fostet what had the smallest suspicion of the reaction proves. It is difficult not to see this. The Spanish quality is more conservative and more patient than the French; but it is a quality whose anger becomes terrible. We saw this in the war against Napoleon, when every man and woman took arms and assassination was made a patriotic duty. The Republic has come natu- rally to Spain. No law has been broken. None of the powers of the State have been infringed. The men who control the Commonwealth are among the worthiest citizens. Many new problems have arisen, and, while their discus- sion bas not been as thorough as we would ex- pect from Mr. Mill or Mr. Bastiot, they have been honestly met. They have made mistakes, but the gendency of the Republic hitherto has been wise and prudent and patri- otic. Every step it has taken has been un- usually difficult. With Carlism in arms in the field and reaction conspiring in the Cortes; with an Assembly which loved it not and would have rejoicedin its downfall; with a sensitive, badly-informed, suspicious, easily-moved following, apt at any time to flame out terror and strife ; with Europe look- ing coldly on and no friendly hand but that of America, and America not the most wel- come on account of its Cuban reputation, we cannot imagine a situation of graver difficulty. When we further consider the internal state of Spain, supposing all other conditions satisfied—the want of ‘order in the army, bankruptcy hovering over the treas- ury, insurrection in Cuba, abuses in civil government and the necessary reforms, every one of which will summon new enmity—we can understand how the stoutest heart in Spain would quail at the responsibility, and how sincere Mr. Castelar must have been when he said that he would regard him as his best friend who would relieve him of power. But nothing that lives is born without sor- row and travail. This law of our nature is also a law among nations. The men who rule the Republic cannot abandon their work nor avoid the responsibilities. If they fail now they must leave an example to those who will be called upon to resume the work under happier stars. We hope they may not fail. We pray for their success, at the same time feeling that success can only be attained by efforts and sacrifices and patient, sturdy labors that have no parallel in history, The gravity of the present situation will test all their qualities. Anarchy or bloody reac- tion would be the ative of their failure, Ocean Teleg s—Progress and Monopoly. We hail with pleasure every fresh develop- ment and progress made in cable telegraph communication, for both the press and public are deeply interested. Not only are more facilities required to mect the increasing de- mand for communication between distant nations, but accidents may occur to existing cables at any time that might leave us in the dark and seriously interfere with business, We need, therefore, more cables between America and Europe, in order to accommodate the public and to prevent any interruption to the transmission of messages in the event of accidents. We want more, too, for the sake of competition and to make ocean telegraphing as cheap as possible. It is gratifying to notice, then, that the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company is about to lay the new French cable, as it is called, and that the steamer Kangaroo, in the employ of that com- pany, left New York harbor on Thursday for Hog Island, on the Long Island const, and near Rockaway, for the purpose of laying the shore end of this new Atlantic cable. This is to be connected with the shore end lately laid at Halifax harbor. The Great Eastern is about to lay the deep-sea cable from Cornwall, Eng- land, to connect with these. We learn at the same time that the Portugal and Brazil Tele- graph Company is making progress for com- pleting its line at an early day, the second section to extend between the Portuguese coast and Madeira, to be ready for laying in June. While, however, we have the gratifica- tion to record this progress we are informed that the cable companies, or some of them, are contemplating @ consolidation of their in- terests. Ata meeting of shareholders in Lon- don a resolution was adopted in favor of such consolidation, This looks ominous of a gigantic monopoly and consequent high rates for telegraphing. We live in an age of monopoly, and the public are made to pay dearly for the advantages science and progress bring. If there is to be no competition in ocean telegraphy, and the people and press are to be at the mercy of such a stupendous con- solidated monopoly as is contemplated, let us hope the governments will find some way of protecting the public and of keeping down the tariff for telegraphing to a reasquahle pay- Men natty gtow inte shane with the gan | ing sate. The Vie: Commissioners Come to Grief—More Administration Blunders. The State Department at Washington is un- fortunate. Embarrassment after embarrass- ment comes upon the administration through a diplomacy which, however well meaning, appears incapable of escaping blunders. The eyes of the world are upon the Vienna Expogi- tion, and the first offensiyg sight that presents liself is the picture of the suspension of the paid commissioners of the United States otf charges reflecting upon the discharge of their official duties. This contretemps is the more unfortunate since nothing of a similarly un- pleasant character has occurred with the rep- resentatives of any other nation; and although the misconduct complained of, if it really has existence, will be remedied by the instructions forwarded to Mr. Jay, we are not likely on that account to escape the arrows of those who are always prompt to discover the many assailable points in our political armor. For some time past rumors have been in circulation damaging to some of the persons who have enjoyed the privilege of parading themselves with gold badges, as the represent- atives of the United States at the Vienna Ex- position, on the strength of their appointment as the paid clerks or assistants of the salaried commissioner. Of course no care and judg- ment in the selection of such agents can be secure against the intrusiod of ‘some objec- tionable persons in the list of appointees; but the trouble has been that the State Depart- ment at Washington has endeavored to con- ceal the unfavorable reports that have reached it, and has in fact deceived the press and im- posed upon the public a denial that such re- ports existed. Now that the scandal cannot be longer covered up we have the official in- telligence that all the paid agents are sus- pended, subject to the investigation of the charges by Minister Jay, butof course with- out prejudice to any of the accused parties. The Commissioner is included in the suspen- sion, but he and any or all of his agents may be restored to their positions if no good rea- sons should be found for a change. It is fortunate that under any circumstances we shall not suffer for want of a fitting repre- sentation at the great Exposition. All the hon- orary Commissioners appointed by the Presi- dent appear to be gentlemen of character and position, who will worthily represent the nation at Vienna. Those from our own city are Messrs. Jackson Schultz, John H. Sher- wood, Douglas Taylor and Francis A. Stout. The thirty or forty honorary Commissioners from other States are citizens of similar stand- ing. The skilled artisans and scientific com- missioners are not included in the suspension, and nothing has been said against them. It is possible, therefore, to get along well enough without the paid agents attached to the salaried Commissioner’s staff; but this piece of good fortune does not make the blunder of the State Department any the less deplorable. Mountain Telegraph Cables. The recent prolonged interruption of tele- graphic communication with the Pacific States, due to the great sleet storm coating and loading down the wires, is a forcible illus- tration of the need of subterranean or moun- tain cables. In some portions of the Andes visited by the violent mountain storms, de- structive of all telegraph lines above ground, cables have been substituted for wires and laid on the surface or under the ground. Ap- plication having been made to Sir William Thomson, the highest authority asa practical and scientific electrician, to determine the practicability of such lines, he has formally given his opinion that they are of great value, and, except where, very rarely, an avalanche may destaoy them, they are unexceptionable. The telegraph which crosses the Pampas from Buenos Ayres to Mendoza, and thence into Chile by the Uspallata Pass (at a height of twelve thousand five hundred feet above the sea), is nearly twelve hundred miles long ; and in its highest parts, from Punta de Inca, on the eastern side of the Andes, to Ojos del Agua, on the Chilean side, it is a snow cable, buried two feet in the ground along the rail- road, in order to avoid any fault of insulation in the Winter months. And this plan, accord- ing to the report of the English Government Inspector General of Mines to the Argentine Republic, has proved most effective and of the greatest convenience to merchants and all classes on both sides of the Andes. It is very evident that subterranean or sur- face cables would be of the greatest utility, by withstanding the strain which now in every hail, snow or sleet storm encases the suspended wires with vast masses of ice, breaks them to pieces and severs our trans- continental and even local circuits. We all remember the slect storm of January 5, when, to use the words of the Journal of the Tele- graph of the 15th of that month, “though it lasted only a few hours, the results in the de- struction of wires and poles were without a parallel in this section.’’ The prostration of the wires was so general that in the evening the Western Union Company did not havea single wire in operation from their office ; gnd even the fire-alarm system for a time was wholly deranged. But the greatest and most frequent telegraphic derangements of this kind occur between the, Pacific and Eastern States, and such interruptions in time of war, or as now, when the country is anxious to hear from the seat of the late ter- rible tragedy at the Modoc lava beds, become serious sources ‘of public apprehension and danger. A mountain cable similar to that which spans the Atlantic, only smaller, if laid along the line of the Pacific Railroad, in lieu of the present suspended wire, wonld never be in danger of breaking from sleet loads or snow drifts, and we might depend upon it in all weather for regular intelligence from California. In case of @ railroad train being blockaded by snow the conductor could easily attach an instrument to the cable and communicate with the nearest station, instead of being, as now, left with wires broken and poles down, entirely cut off from succor, Professor Silliman, in a recent letter, states that if such snow cables as we propose are laid in insulatory material, proof against natural agencies of destruction, the “electrical leak- age” will be very small—so much smaller than can possibly be the case with wires suspended in the air—as to effeet great saving to the tele- graph companies. The business interests of the whole country, the press, the railroads, the government offices, NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. from the present defective telegraphic com- munication with the Pacific that our telegraph engineers and electricians may well bestir themselves to carry out such a suggestion as we now make. Affairs at Albany. Preliminary skirmishing over Mr. Winslow's Usury bill in the Assembly seems to indinite § disposition among the country members to let the city xoyresentatives haye their own way in regard to making monéy simply a market- able commodity. Having cleared the way by disposing of all other proposed measures affecting the legal interest question, the House will take up the Winslow bill as a special order, and consider it as covering the whole ground. ‘Most probably it will beoome a Jaw, and the State will have the opportunity so many of our financial men have long desired to test the practical working of abandoning the old theories on usury. Governor Dix having advised the repeal, will, no doubt, sign the bill if it shquld pass. The Senate has passed the bill fixing the amount of Commis- sioner Van Nort’s salary, with a direction to Comptroller Green to pay that officer's back accounts, Both houses agreed to the charter for @ cross-town railroad from Christopher street ferry to East Tenth street ferry, the company to pay the city three per cent of the gross receipts. The bill submitting to the people ‘next Fall the question of electing or appointing judges passed the Assembly, as also did the Canal Appropriation bill, grant- ing some seven hundred thousand dollars less than last year for extraordinary repairs. In the discussion on this latter subject quite a gene- ral disposition was shown to cut the State clear of the obligation to keep up the ugpless lateral canals by large annual expenditures ‘which can bring no returns,’ The motion for a commission to settle bills against the New York Sheriff's office was lost. Governor Kerioaa anp His Gunnoat.— Is not Governor Kellogg, of Louisiana, stretching his authority a little in getting up an amateur navy, with belligerent intentions, on his own account? It has, we believe, been generally supposed that Congress had sole power in such cases, and that the President was Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, with a Secretary of the Navy—who, fortunately, at this junc- ture, happens to be a rare old salt+as a Cabinet adviser. But perhaps Kellogg has usurped the title of ‘Lord High Admiral,” like his other arrogant assumptions in Louisi- ana, and it was necessary for him to have a navy in order to complete his sway as High Cockalorum in General of the “Pelican” State, a sobriquet that should be at once dropped by the people, for Louisiana has ceased to ‘feed her young.’’ Now let us see what the Lord High Admiral will do with his’ gunboat, Oren Cars on THE Crry RamRoaDs FOR THE Summer would be a great boon to the public, and we think that they should become general, instead of being confined, as last year, tooneor tworoads. Itisnot, of coarse, yet time for the open vehicles; but we give the companies and the public the hint, that the subject may not come up for ‘‘ventilation’’ when the stifling summer heat is upon us. Present Grant and family have gone to Denver, Colorado, to take an observation or two from the ‘‘Dome of the Continent.”” He will meet with a hearty reception from those gold miners and the pioneers of Pike’s Peak. Govzrnor Drx is looking over the new char- ter, and, meanwhile, our city office-seekers, taking it for granted that he is bound to sign the bill, are bewildering Mayor Havemeyer with their patriotic appeals to serve the pub- lie under this new charter. The Mayor and the office-seekers are to be pitied. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, is reported at the Astor House, Ex-Senator James H. Ramsey, of Albany, 1s at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. 3 General Robertson, of the United States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain A. Piper, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Sturtevant House. Commander Hand, of the British Navy, has ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator Matthew H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House. Assistant Postmaster General C. H. Hill yester- day arrived at the Brevoort House from Wash- ington, The Commendatore Negri Cristofero has been named perpetual President of the Italian Geo- graphical Society. * Dr. Carlier, of Brussels, one of the first to intro- duce homeepatiy into Belgium, has just died at the age of seventy-five years, Mesars. Levi P. Luckey, private secretary to the President; Wm. 0, Avery, chief clerk of the Inter- nal Revepue Ofice, and Mr, Martin, of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, left Washington last night for New York, and will sail for Europe to-day, in charge of bonds for the Syndicate. Mr. Francis A, Stout, of New York, has been re- quested by the Department of State to take charge temporarily, until he leaves for Europe as one of the honorary cymmissioners to the Vienna Exposi- tion, of the office in New York for the reception and forwarding of articles for the exhibition. Joseph Medil was asked if he would ran again for Mayor of Chicago, he replied:—‘There isn’t political, socialor pecuniary inducements enough in Chicago to hre me. Ihave had enough.” Like the savage Danbury canine that had been terribly dosed with howeradish and cayenne pepper, he “don’t want any more seasoning.” ‘The Presideny of the French Assembly fs not the most inviting position in the world, During the first Republic tle Assembly had sixty-three Presi- dents, twenty-two of whom were outlawed, eigh- teen guillotines, eight transported, six condemned | to imprisonmeit for life, four went mad and died at Biestre, andthree committed suicide to escape the scaffold. Oily two escaped. A Parisian laty, who had a singular appetite for needles, and suceeded, in spite of friendly waten- ing, in makingmany lunches upon them, whereby she seemed to tirive, has, at length, died. A post- mortem examitation shows the needles embedded in the flesh, mar the backbone, as neatly as pins done up for sale One Saunderi having been sentenced in Liver- pool, England, 0 twenty years’ imprisonment for the murder ofhis wife, the Pall Mall Gazette is fearful that as ‘wife slaughter had almost become fixed among tie minor delinquencies, this case will cause muc! perplexity in many British house- holds.” Britis) mothers-in-law are reported in danger. THE PRESID;NT AND PARTY EN ROUTE TO COLORADO, JAWRENCE, Kansas, April 25, 1873. President Grnt and party stopped in this city two hours thisnorning on their trip to Colorado, WEATHER REPORT. _ OPFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuint |GTON, April a1 A M ; Probabitictes, oy The temperature will probably increase in the Northwest and thence gradually eastward over the Lake region and to the Ohio valley during the day; (or tag Worth rgat upper lake region and coat, the tan Wlssourt and Lower Ohio Val- leys, southwesterly and southeasterly winds, diminishing pressure and partly cloudy weather; for the Western Gulf States and Tennessee, south- erly winds and generally clear weather; for the Eastern Gulf and South Atlantic States clear weather, light, variable winds and high pressures; for the lqwer lakes and Middle States partly cloudy weather, clearing in the afternoon, except in New York, with light northwesterly winds and low temperature, increasing by Sunday; for New England and Canada low temperature, occasional rains and cloudy weather, clearing by Sunday. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record wiil show the changes tw the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last oar, as indieated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :-— yy BT STB. 1872. 1873. 8A. or ee Average Average tempe! last year... SNOW STORM OUT WEST. Brenan, April 25, 1873. A brisk snow storm hag dust commenced here, It is snowing at Pitteburg also. Despatches received from various poifits indicate & fall of snow at Dayton, Eaton, Middietown and other places in the Miami Valley. There was snow also at Charlestown, W, Va., and at Ironton, Ohio, and It fell to the depth of two or three inches at Anna, Ohio, last night, RIVER NAVIGATION OUT WEST. Dersort, Mich., April 25, 1873. A steamer arrived at East Towas this evening, having left Bay City at ten o'clock this morning. She encountered considerable ice, but reports pavi- gation better and the ice quite rotten. NAVIGATION ON LAKE MICHIGAN. MILWAUKEE, April 25, 1873. The wind changed to-day, releasing the ice bound fleet, with the exception of two sail vessels, which will be towed out to-morrow. O'KELLY AND OUBA LIBRE. [From the Minneapolis Times, April 21.] We print elsewhere from the Graphic a brief a¢- count of James J. O’Kelly, Special Commissioner of the New YorK HeRatp in Cuba. Mr. O'Kelly has proved himself a gallant gentleman and an en- terprising journalist. He deserves a better fate. than to be shot as@ spy by Spanish barbarians, and we have little fear that he will be. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL HANCOCK. FORTRESS MONEOE, Va., April 25, 1873. Major General W. 8. Hancock, commanding the Department of the East, arrived here yesterday morning from New York to visit the Artillery School and inspect the post. He was received with the customary salute, and at ten o’clock re- viewed the troops. ‘In the afternoon he visited the National Military Asylum, near Hampton. He wilt deliver the diplomas te the yraduating clas this evening and afterwards leave for New York. BRIDGING THE BLOODY OHASM. ‘Welcome to the Secretary of War and General Sheridan in Texas. BROWNSVILLE, Texas, April 25, 1873. The Secretary of War and General Sheridan and staff reached here to-day, after making’ a tour of the Rio Grande frontier for several hundred miles. They were received yee City Council, and are gaeats of the city. The streets and houses are lecorated with flags, and a general welcome is be- especially the Weather Bureau, and also the | ne party visita a number of polnts Of mterest telegraph companies themsnlyes, suiler so UGH | pud tucy sesyped, (helt JourDedy = ing extended to the distinguished guests. They will leave on Sunday for New Orleans by steamer, touching for.a few hours at Galveston. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE The United States steamer Worcester was at St. Pierre, Martinique, on the 8th inst. Allwell. She ‘was bound to Porto Cabello, Venezuela. APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR OP MAINE, AUGUSTA, April 25, 1873. The Governor has appointed Hon John A, Peters, mempbér of Congress from the Fourth district, Judge of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy made by the expiratien of Judge Kent's term. He has also appointed Hon. Joshua Nye Insurance Commissioner. STAFF APPOINTMENTS OF GOVERNOR IN- GERSOLL, OF OONNECTIOUT. Hagtrorp, Conn., April 25, 1873. Governor elect Ingersoll has appointed the fol- lowing staff oMcers :—Adjutant General, William P. Trowbridge, of New Haven; Quartermaster Gen- eral,. William H. Green, of Hartford; Paymaster General, William 8. Charnley, of New Haven; Com- missary General, Andrew S. Jarvis, of Weston; Surgeon General, Dr. Frank S. Burgess, of Piain- field, Aides—William D. Hubbard, of Hartford; Milo B, Richardson, of Salisbury; Charles W. Shel- ton and A. H. Robinson, of New Haven. Private Secretary, Jonathan Ingersoll, of New Haven. CANADA, French Canadians Leaving for the States in Unusual Numbers. QuEBEC, April 25, 1873. The exodus of French Canadians to the States from the country districts and this city is greatly m excess of former seasons. A large number of inward bound vessels are re- ported as having passed Father Point and other les below. Yugboats have gone down to meet * them, MASSACHUSETTS, Albert W. Smith Found Guilty of the” Murder of Charles D. Sackett. SPRINGFIELD, April 25, 1873. In the Supreme Court in this city to-day Albert W. Smith was convicted of fhe murder m the first degree of Charles D. Sackett, at Westfield, on ,the 20th of November last, and he will be sentenced to-morrow. The circumstances that led to the crime were that Smith had an infatuated passion for Miss Jennie Bates, of Westfleld, and, meeting her returning from @ theatre in company with Sackett, ta whom she was betrothed, fired several shots from a pistol, wounding Miss Bates in three places and putting bullet througis Sackett’s breast, from thegetfects of which wound he died in a short time, Attorney General Train and District Attorney Stearns conducted the prose- cution; and N. A. Leonard of this city and M. Be Whitney of Westfield the defence. The line of de- fence was that the murder was committed under & monomaniac delusion. BXEQUTION OF A MURDERER, San FRANCTSCO, April 25, 1873. John J. Murphy was executed at Stockton to-day for the murder of Patrick Murray five years ago. THE YOUNG INVESTIGATION, An adjourned meeting of the Committee of Super-. visors as to the above investigation held a meeting yesterday afternoon in the chamber of the Board of Aldermen, The examination of Mr. Andrew J. @arvey was continued and completed by Mr. Dex- ter A. Hawkins. In the cross-examination by Mr. Rufus F. Andrews Mr. Garvey said that he was worth $80,000 thirteen years ago, which was about the time he commenced to do business for the city. He stated that he had seen Wooaward give Young what he supposed to be cheques, The inquiry was adjourned till Monday next. DEATH OF A DETECTIVE, Detective Woolridge, of Police Central Omee, died at his residence, in White street, last night aiter a long and protracted illness, GAS STRIKERS IN OINOINNATI crouM. VENTED, CINCINNATI, April 25, 1873. The strikers at the Gas Works this morning waited on the officers of the company and asked to be reinstated, Vice President declined ta Geen tiled by other mea, wud a fWIL cup a Has has been main igine MA. SORRN. 8 LL