The New York Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1873, Page 8

ot a 3 Nc a a a saa a aaa al ate ce SM ron lin : * - f 8 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL, 29, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD | ™*. "ate. Hicetions in Brance—The BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wiup Cat Nep— Osuigine 4 Frienv. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Bumiesque aNd OLI0, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Divorce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Bioop Monxy. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Vanrerr Enter. TAINMENT, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Azkar.; on, Tuk Magic Cuars, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker street.—Humrry Dumpty, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frovu Frov. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth atreet.—Davip Gannick, &c. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth | versal ‘fv.—Monte Cristo. BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth a@venue.—ARRan NA Pocus. GERMANIA THRATRE, Fourteenth strect, near Third @venue.—Ein Moprener Bannan—Bxt Bismancx. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, 3th. st., near av.—Vanixty ENTERTAINMENT, Matince at 234. fT. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 28th st.— McKvoy’s Nuw H1sxRwIcon, MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— UncLe Sam. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner th ay.—Nzoro MinstRexsy, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vanity EnteRtainmxnt. Matinee. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av.—Lecrons ow Funny Pxorix. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth —street.—Lecrons on Tor Wanvenine Jew. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— cence anv Art. QUADRUPLE SHEET. — —_ oroemcccen New York, Tuesday, April 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. “THE. LATE ELECTIONS IN FRANCE! THE BE- PUBLICAN PROSPECTS IN EUROPE”—TI- TLE OF THE LEADER—E1cuTa Pas. 4 LETTER FROM THE IMPRISONED CUBAN COMMISSIONER! WHAT CAME OF READ- ING “DON QUIXOTE!” HE IS SEIZED BY THE “GRANDLY AWFUL” DONS, HIS PA- PERS TAKEN FROM HIM, THROWN INTO A DUNGEON AND TRIED BY A SECRET COURT! ATTEMPT TQ SECURE FALSE WITNESSES—TuiRp PAGE. QUIET ATTHE LAVA BEDS! A GLOOMY OUTLOOK IN THE MODOC TROUBLES! NO REINFORCEMENTS TO BE HAD FOR THE TROOPS! A BATTLE WITR THE BLACK- FEET INDIANS IN MANITOBA—NINTH PAGE. CONTINUED SERIOUS ILLNESS OF PIO NUNO! PUBLIC ANXIETY—THE FRENCH ELEC- TIONS—AFFAIRS IN THE SPANISH RE- PUBLIC—NintH PaGE, TUE MONEYS PAID TO THE AMERICAN COM- MISSIONERS TO VIENNA! THE CHARGES REITERATED! A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR TO THE FAIR! CABMEN ON STRIKE— NINTH PaGE, SPECIAL ITEMS FROM THE NATIONAL AND STATE CAPITALS—MARITIME NEWS AND CUANGES—TWELFTH PaGE. QUEER DOINGS IN THE SHARKEY MURDER TRIAL! LATIBULA PROVIDED FOR IM- PORTANT WITNESSES! THE CASE CANNOT GO UN! SHARKEY DOES NOT WISH TO BE HANGED—SIXTH PAGE. PATTENBURG RIOTERS ARRAIGNED AT LAST! DETAILS OF THE RIOT! TESTI- ALL TuE Republican Prospect in Europe. The elections which have just come off in France have resulted in radical and repub- lican victories. Most importance, of course, attaches to the radical triumph in Paris, The result in the capital has caused, it is said, “No. 119 | the greatest excitement there, and the prov- inces haye echoed the surprise. A panic has fallen upon the Bourse, and when the purse- holders and purse jugglers become fearful the political barometer is generally falling in anticipation of bad weather for somebody. Taken altogether, however, it is impossible to refuse to admit that the results of these elec- tions indicate with tolerable distinctness, as well as with some emphasis, the tendency of the current of popular sentiment in the great cities of France and in some of the more popu- lous departments. For some weeks past the eyes of the outside world, as well as the eyes of France herself, have been turned upon Paris; for it was universally felt and con- fessed that the election contest in that city would reveal the strength or the weakness of President Thiers. Nay, more, it was the uni- conviction that the result of the election would have a powerful effect in determining the future policy of the government. M. de Rémusat has been a prominent and useful member of the government, although he has not had a seat in the Assembly. When one of the seats for Paris became vacant it was natural enough for the Prosident to desire that the place should be filled by his friend and fellow laborer, M. de Rémusat, M. de, Rémusat was accordingly nominated by the Mayors of Paris, who are the creatures of the govern- ment. The subsequent appearance in the field of M. Barodet, ex-Mayor of Lyons, a pronounced radical, and of Baron Stoffel, a well known conservative, so diminished M. de Rémusat’s chances of success that M. Thiers was advised to withdraw his candidate. This, however, he did not deem it proper to do ; and so the decision was left to the ballot box. The result is now before us. The vote is as follows:—For M. Barodet, 180,146; for the Count de Rémusat, 135,406 ; as = Paws. f * for Baron Stoffel, 27,058. An error in the transmission of the cable news from Paris on Sunday made Baron Stoffel second and the unt de Rémusat last in the field. It is quite clear that Paris put forth her strength on the occasion, for the vote is unusually large. In spite of all the strength which the government could put forth M. Barodet, a violent radical, who caused the red flag to be hoisted in Lyons, is now one of the members for the city of Paris in the Assembly. We are not surprised to learn that the result has been accepted by the government as a defeat. The election in Paris has demon- strated that the radical sentiment in Paris is much stronger than was believed by the Presi- dent and the other members of the govern- ment, With a similar radical triumph in Marseilles and anothex in Bordeaux, it has now become a necessity for the government to look facts in the face and so to shape their course as to meet, as far as possible, the de- mands of the situation. It was a common rumor in Paris yesterday that the Ministry of M. Thiers would be considerably modified, but our latest despatches declare no change to have taken place. It was considered probable that the Count de Rémusat, Minister of Foreign Affairs; M. Léon Say, Minister of Finance, and M. Jules Simon, Minister of Public Instruction, would resign, and that M. Casimir Perier, formerly Minister of the Interior, and M. Grévy, late President of the Assembly, would take places in the new Cabinet. It may be difficult to induce such men as Perier and Grévy to accept office, but the fact MONY FOR THE PROSECUTION—SEVENTH | that a rumor of this kind is put in PaGE. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN DEFENDS HIMSELF! THE MAUD MERRILL MURDER TRIAL UNDER WAY! WHO IS TO PAY FOR Tak- ING THE INSANE PARSEE TO HIS INDIAN HOME? THE FECHTER SUIT! THE PITTS- BURG BOND STEAL! TAINTOR COM- MITTED—SixTH Pace. A DESPERATE NEGRO EXECUTED IN MISSIS- SIPPI! HIS MANY CRIMES AND sPEECH ON THE SCAFFOLD! AN IMMENSE CROWD OF NEGROES PRESENT AND THE DOOMED MAN HANGED BY A NEGRO SHERIFF— ELEVENTH PAGE. WHE ATLANTIC BANK SWINDLE! APPOINT- MENT OF A PERMANENT RECEIVER! MEETING OF DEPOSITORS! THE DIRECT- ORS SAY THEY SHALL BE REIMBURSED! A PREVIOUS TROUBLE OF THE BANK— TENTH PAGE. BAILORS' AND SHIPMASTERS’ TROUBLES! SHLPS STILL IN PORT FOR LACK OF SEA- MEN—THE JERSEY MAIL ROBBERY— YACHTING NOTES—SEVENTH PaGE. VICAR GENERAL QUINN SURPRISED! A PRE- SENTATION—THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE— THE CRISPINS’ STRIKE—SEVENTH PAGE. FLUCTUATIONS IN THE MONEY RATES! A FALLING OFF IN GOLD AND STOCKS! FOREIGN EXCHANGE ADVANCED! THE LONDON MARKET—Tentu Pace. CONSUMERS DOOMED! THE COMPANIES COMBINING AGAINST THE P THE ICE MONOPOLY WILL 5 THIS SUMMER—SevVENTH Pace, A WIFE KILLED BY HER JEALOUS SPOU THE REHLSEN CLUBBING—LOCAL ITE SEVENTH PAGE. NATIONAL PROHIBITORY LAWS DEMANDED BY {CE THE METHODIST MINISTERS—REAL ES- TATE—MUNICIPAL MATT ERS—ELEVENTH PaGE. MRS. JUSTH TESTIFIES AS TO THAT CON- SPIRACY—SixTH Page. Tue Favre or tux Atiantic Bans led to ® depressed stock market yesterday and an uneasy feeling in monetary circles, but without occasioning further trouble. The decline in stocks was brought about chiefly by sales of tho shares held for the defaulting cashier by his Wall street brokers, his position leaving them no alternative but to dispose of his unprotected holdings. The features of the de“ueation are about as at first given in the Fonatp. The losses to depositors will be ( vons two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, {2 which the stockholders (generally rich are liable to the extent of their stock— “uree hundred thousand dollars, tueb Wize, Tos Cuxerynatt Times (republican) de- clares that it is the firm determination to run the democratic party into power on the free trade doctrine, and warns the far- mers to look to it that in their present movement “they are not made catspaws of.” The chances are about equal of their being led by the republican as by the democratic What the farmers should do is to let ice alone severcly. circulation is itself proof that the members of the Left are jubilant because of the victory they have won, and that a more pronounced republican policy on the part of the govern- ment has become a necessity. Latterly the Right have been led badly. Since the Treaty of Evacuation was signed they seem to have lost their wits. All the glory of the treaty was theirs, and they might do as they thought proper. They supported speakers like M. Temple, whom President Grévy had to call to order; and they sustained the Marquis de Grammont, who refused to withdraw an insult launched at one of his colleagues in the Assembly, even when ordered to do so from the President’s chair. It was not wonderful that M. Grévy, whose heart is bound up in the Republic, and who has as earnestly labored as he has ardently longed for its success, should, in such circumstances, resign his position. It was not only, as he said, that he felt his office insulted, but that he could not resist the con- viction that the Right were “juggling away the Republic.’’ M. Grévy refused to return to the chair of the Assembly, because, as he said, he wished to devote his whole strength to the advancement of the republican cause. The Right were evidently resolved to make an end of the present uncertainty, and M. Grévy was also of opinion, in view of the action of the Right, that the time for conclusive action had come. The result of the Paris election goes so far to show that the Left are also of the same opinion. The Right are to blame for precipitating a crisis; M. Thiers is so far to blame for forcing his candidate upon the peo- ple; but the Left have no reason to regret the conduct of either, as the victory is theirs. Whether M. Grévy and such as he will or will not take places in the Cabinet of President Thiers, the result must still be the same—the President must lean more towards the radical and republican Left and less towards the con- servative and monarchical Right. The elec- tion of M. Buffet as President of the Assembly and of M. Barodet as member for Paris re- of the Assembly, which is in the last degree discouraging to the hopes of the monarchists, We look upon these election results as a re- Enrope at large. The defeat of the reaction- ists in France will ring like a note of triumph over the whole of the South. It will inspire Castelar and his friends with fresh courage, and will powerfully tell on the result of the Spanish élections. It will give hope to the waiting though silent republicans in Portugal. And in Italy the sound will be heard; and the they beheld at last the dawn of the long- deferred day of liberty. In September the German invader will finally leave the soil of France; the Bordeaux compact will be ended and ihe I'rench people will be free to veals a state of feeling, both inside and outside | publican gain, not to France alone, but to | despondent disciples of Mazzini will feel as if | decide on their future form of government. In a short time from now the Assembly will be again in session, and in view of the evacu- ation, which is to take place in the first week of September, arrangements must be made for a dissolution. The truce which has so long reigned is already practically at an end. From the moment the Assembly meets the factions, one and all, will eagerly seek the advancement of their own interests. The Legitimists, the Orleanists, the Bonapartists, each will do their best. Notice of a motion has already been given to the effect that within two months after the departure of the Germans the As- sembly will dissolve itself. It is not at all improbable that a section of the Assembly may oppose the dissolution even then, believ- ing as they do that delay isa gain to the cause of order and good government. It is difficult, however, to see what good could come from further delay, and it is more difficult to believe that, even if the Assembly should re- fuse to dissolve, the nation would tamely sub- mit. It the people are in favor of a monarchy, there for regret in a people changing their place of residence, or even nationality, if they can better themselves? To our Nova Scotia friends we say:—‘‘Come on, if you want to. There is room enough on ‘Uncle Sam's farm’ for all of us.’" The Atlantic Cable Company Monopoly— The Governments to the Rescue. A telegram from London, under date of this morning, states that the Anglo-American, the French and the Newfoundland cable com- panies agreed on Monday to an amalga- mation of their interests, Of the many monopolies of which the public have reason to complain there is none to be deprecated more than that which lays an embargo upon or restricts intelligence. The Atlantic Cable Company assumed to do this in its proposition to combine all the tele- graph cable interests for the purpose of advanc- ing the tariff of charges. The object in pro- posing this combination is, of course, to prevent competition, and thus to leave the or if they prefer the Empire to the monarchy, or if they prefer the Republic to either, they ought to be allowed to say so, Gambetta and his friends have long been impatient of delay. The nation, they say, is ripe and ready for the definitive proclamation of the Republic. The Bourbons cannot agree and the Bona- partists are withouta head, Why, then, should republicans wait? The Bordeaux compact alone prevents them from acting. When that compact shall cease to be binding, why should not the strength of parties be fully tested and mn end made of the present uncertainty? During the coming Summer and Antumn France will be the scene of much political activity, if not of political strife. But the promise is good for the Republic; and the triumph of the republican cause in France will be a republican gain to the rest of Europa Imprisonment of. Our Cuban Commissivner. We publish in to-day’s Heratp a communi- cation from Mr. O'Kelly, our special commis- sioner to Cuba, giving the history cf his adventures within the Spamish lines from the date of his arrival at Manzanillo 6n his volun- tary return from the Cuban camp up to the eh of April. The main facts were previously iowa, but the details, which are graphically related, Will be found of much interest. While the Spanish outhorities may have been justified in the tempdtiry detention and examination of a neutral after his return from the insurgent lines for the purpose of assuring themselves that he carried no contraband in- formation and had not forfeited the character he professed to bear, the treatment to which they have subjected our correspondent, the needless protraction of his imprisonment and the seizure and violation of his legitimate papers, afford conclusive evidence that their desire is to delay, if not to suppress, the information he has gathered rather than to simply protect themselves against a violation of the laws of the island. Mr. O’Kelly’s mission was well known to the Spanish authorities before he started on his hazardous journey. ‘They were aware that he visited Cuba Libre for the purpose of re- porting faithfully and impartially the condi- tion and prospects of the rebellion. He made no secret of his business and his intentions, but brought them officially to the notice of the Captain General and of his subordinates in the government. If he was violating any law, in his proposed visit to the Cuban lines, the Spanish officers were made aware of his design, and it was their province and their duty to prevent its execution. They per- mitted him to undertake the journey and to leave their own lines for that purpose with- out molestation. They even told him that he was at liberty to go at his own risk of being killed on the way, and, when questioned as to his treatment should he return, they gave him to understand that he would be in no danger if he could prove that he had faithfully ob- served the character of a neutral.. Under these circumstances we insist that they have no right to subject Mr. O'Kelly to unnecessary detention or to any indignity. It is a breach of good faith and of honor to do so, When first arraigned before a military court, without counsel to defend him, igno- rant of the charges brought against him and refused the privilege of the presence of his Consul, Mr. O’Kelly very naturally refused to plead or to recognize the authority of the tribunal. It appears that this refusal occa- sioned some embarrassment to the authori- ties, and the result was an attempt to crim- inate the prisoner in some manner through evidence given against him, so as to enable the Court to act upon some definite charge. To this.end his private papers were opened and examined by the Court, but they appear not to have contained the wished for proof of the complicity of the accused in the rebellion. A witness was then found in the person of a negro girl to testify that she had seen Mr. O'Kelly in camp with Cespedes in a spot which he had never visited. Understanding the object of this sort of evidence the prisoner withdrew his objections and recognized the Court. The case against him, whatever it may be, was then forwarded to Havana, and if the Captain General regards a trial as necessary he will so announce. If otherwise, we presume Mr. O'Kelly will be set at liberty. The outrage has already gone far enough, and if the new Captain General has any respect for his own reputation and for the honor of his nation he will put a stop to it forthwith. There is not a shadow of evidence to implicate our correspondent in any manner with the insurrection. He went to Cuba in the true spirit of an enterprising journalist. He prosecuted his work faithfully and in the broad light of day. He returned to the Span- ish lines after his task was completed, trust- ing to Spanish honor and chivalry to respect his rights even as he had respected the rights and feelings of the Spanish nation. We are quite confident that he can stand in no peril of his life, for he has committed no offence against the laws; but his continued imprison- ment isan unpardonable outrage under the circumstances, and will be so denounced by every civilized nation and by eve ty honest citi- zen. It is against this outrage that we now | protest, and wo call upon the republican Cap- | tain General of Cuba to respect the freedom of an innocent man, and to set our correspond- ent free without further delay, The Tue Hautvax (N. S.) Recorder regrots that the exodus from that province to the United public at its mercy. The motive for this action, we are informed, is to make the most out of the increased business likely to arise from the Vienna Exposition. In other words, the greedy monopolists say there will be an unusual amount of business for the cables, and we ought to take ad- vantage of that to increase our profits. It is the argument of the pawnbroker or usurer, who measures his op- portunity to fleece his victims according to their growing necessities. In all other kinds of business, legitimately and fairly conducted, prices are usually lowered in proportion to the amount done. But this grasping monop- oly proposes to reverse this order of things based upon s sound principle of business and political economy. Admitting there is a limit to the capacity of the telegraph cables, they can by proper mand¥ement and known appli- ances convey more messages than they have generally conveyed, and, as the cost is no more, or but a trifle more, the augmented re- ceipts would be so much additional profit. Every one must see, then, that the cable com- panies ould afford to lower their charges and yet not lessen thelr’ aiétinoid” dividends, Instead of doing that, however, it is pro- posed_to advance the rates for telegraphing. This is a Shylock prOseéding and a mon- strous injustice to the public. It is a proposi- tion to withhold intelligence and to clog the wheels of trade. The common saying, that corporations have’ no souls, is verified in this case. The Atlantic Cable Company knows very well that compe- tition cannot spring up to its interests in a day or a month, as it might and does gen- erally spring up immediately against a monop- oly in commercial affairs, and, therefore, it may smile complacently at public indignation while carrying out its unjustifiable exactions. We can imagine the directors calmly contem- plating their augmented dividends and treat- ing contemptuously the remonstrances of the public and the press from a consciousness of having it all their own way—knowing that no rivalry can be created, at least not imme- diately, and that the combination they pro- pose will be irresistible. Such a state of things is not pleasant to contemplate. In be- half of the public and the press we protest against it. We claim that the people and the press have rights in this enlight ened age that no monopoly should be permitted to ignore. The interests of civilization, commerce, progress, and even in- ternational intercourse, are involved in this question, for the ocean cables are the media of all these. It would be absurd to admit that a company—a few men—from interested and selfish motives, should have the power to obstruct or control these. Yet the advance of rates as proposed would have that effect. In fact, a combination of the cable companies for the purpose of monopoly or for other pur- poses could restrict the use of the cables toa favored few and exclude the public generally, There is neither justice nor reliability but in the most free and liberal use of these impor- tant agents of communication. How, then, is this monopoly to be restrained and the public to be protected? How are the interests of commerce, the press and the people to be secured? It is clear there is little to be expected from the companies, or at least from the Atlantic Cable Com- pany. Nor can the chartered privileges be invoked to protect the public. There is no way, apparently, of controlling the monopoly and its tariff but by the action of government. The different governments of the world should enter into a convention for regulating these great international lines nearly all the cavalry horses at the seat of war sick with the epizooty. If so, the Indian ponies must also be suffering from the same disorder, and thus probably Captain Jack may possibly still be within the immediate neigh- borhood of his volcanic stronghold. But from Toronto we have some news of the noble red men, which, if grounded on truth, reduces this Modoc war, and even General Crook’s successful repeating rifle campaign agninst the Apaches, to a mere bagatelle. This Toronto news is that there has been fighting between the American troops and the Black- feet Indians (in Dakota Territory, we suppose, and along or near the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad), and that large numbers of the Americans were killed; that it is feared this is the beginning of trouble in the Blackfect country ; that the Indians of Fort Sully are alarmed in consequence of the movements of the Yankton and Tonton Indians (Teton, probably), who have crossed the line, to the namber of seven or eight thousand, and threaten the interior settlements of Manitoba. This is a wild and incoherent despatch, how- ever, and has the odor more of a Canadian- Indian ring on the warpath than of an in- vading army of seven thousand Indians from the United States heading for the half-starved settlements of Manitoba. There are many reasons, nevertheless, for the apprehensions that exist along the line of the Northern Pacific Railway, between Min- nesota and the Rocky Mountains, of serious troubles with the warlike and comparatively powerful Indian tribes in that section ; but in those high latitudes itis, we think, too early for the Indians to take the field for active military operations. The grass of those elevated plains is not sufficiently advanced for this purpose; for, as all those tribes are horsemen in war, they can undertake a cam- paign only when there is grass for the sub- pistence of their ponies, In the Winter and early Spring they are subsisted on the dried grass of their sheltered mountain sides or val- leys; but, with the springing grass on the plains, they come out upon the Great Plains for the practical business of hunting the buffaloes oni their northern migration, captur- ing emigrant 6 ing nd fighting oven the United States troops when the odds are in favor of the redskins, At all events wo fear our peacemakers, carbineers” 80, _psalm- singers will have a lively season “with our copper-colored brethren this Summer betwoe2 the Great Plains and the Pacific const, and from the Mexican frontier to the British pos- sessions. Cenrran Park anv Our Bricape Re- vrews.—Efforts are being made to obtain per- mission from the Park officials to allow the brigade reviews of our militia to be held on the plaza south of the Mall. The only objec- tion made to the proposition is that the grass will suffer from being so much trodden upon. This is a very trivial one, for during the Summer months the plaza is ‘‘common’’ two or three days every week, and the additional half dozen days for the military can do no harm. The Park is the only available space large enough for a brigade to assemble for inspection, and the fine opportunity it affords to witness a scene in which so many delight should overcome all objections to it. The idea of “borrowing a parade ground’’ from Brooklyn for our brigade reviews, as hes heretofore been the case, ought to be aban- doned altogether, Tue Orcrnnati Enquirer is happy because the matter of the site of the new Post Office in that city has at last been settled. It ‘trusts that work will be commenced on the new edifice at once, for there is a hint that Con- gress is likely to take an economical fit one of of communication. The United States and England especially, which are the two most important commercial nations, and have by far the greatest intercourse through the medium of the Atlantic cables, ought at once to make & convention for regulating the management and charges of these submarine telegraphs. We hope the President will open negotiations for that purpose without delay. In the meantime we warn the cable companies not to defy pub- lie opinion or ignore the public interests, but to be content with the enormous profits they are now receiving. If there be no other way of protecting the people in this matter, the governments should take possession of the cables at a fair valuation, and, as with the postal telegraph in England, give every facility for communication at reasonable and paying rates. The Indians—Latest from the Lava Beds=—The Blackfeet on Our North- ern Frontier in Motion. We have a special despatch of the 26th from the Java beds, by courier to Yreka, Cali- fornia, and thence by way of Sacramento by telegraph, the gist of which is that nota shot had been fired for three days; that among our troops on the ground there is a difference among the doctors as to the location of Cap- tain Jack and his missing Modoes, some of our wise men believing them to be still hiding away among the caves and chasms of the pedregal, and others believing that they will be scattered about in twos and threes all over those regions {rom the Great Basin to Oregon and Idaho, and will thus probably give em- ployment to our troops and keep the white settlers concerned in a state of alarm all Sum- mer; and that meantime there was to be on the 27th a reconnoissance of the pedregal where the missing Modoca were by Donald McKay, supposed to be. We only hope that Captain McKay States the coming season bids fair to exceed that of any previous year, What reason is | May “see tuem on their winding way.” A despatch from San Francisco reports these days.’’ That is one of those fits that scarcely ever benefit the public. Congress has taken one every now and then in regard to our own new Post Office building. The edifice is now waiting, to use a familiar phrase, for some one to ‘‘put a head on it.”’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Spurgeon will not come here to lecture for any sum. Colonel Forney, of the Marines, is at Cairo, Egypt. Mayor John Screven, of Savannah, is at the New York Hotel. General S. E. Marvin, of Aibany, is staying at the New York Hotel. A Washington paper compares Captdin Jack to Leonidas. Let that “pass.” The death is announced at Paris, April 12, of Hon. Luther Kennet, of St. Louis, Mo. Ex-Congressman Thomas Cornell, of Rondout, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General Hagner, of the United States-Army, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Huxley has just taken his chair as Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, C. C. Fulton, of the Baltimore American,.and his two daughters have gone to Europe. Calvin S. Mattoon, United States Consul for the Sandwich Islands, is at Nyack, on the Hudson. Mr. Justice Miller, of the United States’ Supreme Court, proposes to sail for Europe on Saturday. General James S. Negley, Congressman from Pitts- burg, Pa., has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Emperor William has created the Old Catholic Jeader Professor Von Schulten a Privy Councillor. Architect A. B, Mullett, of the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Indian Commissioners George H. Stuart and Felix Brunot yesterday returned to the Fifth Avenue ilotel. An Austrian subject named Sesson has been ex- pelled from Semindria by the Servian authorities “because he is a Jew.”” Congressman Ellis H. Roberts, of Utica, has ar- rived in Paris, He intends to occupy the Summer with travel through Europe. Mr. H. Stafford Northcote, the Secretary of the Brittsh and American Claims Commission, yester- day arrived at the Brevoort House, A Western paper calls Mark Twain a “sage,” from his intimaey, probably, when an infant in fame, with the Rocky Mountain sage brush, Mr. Clarence A. Seward, Of this city, has been in attendance at the Mansion House, London, as a witness in the great Bank of England forgery case, President Grant, it is asserted, is certain to be- come one of the richest men in Missouri, owing to the extraordinary rise in his. real estate in St. Louis. William Rounell, formerly M. P. from Lambetn, the celebrated will forger, is illin Portland von- vict Prison, England, and an endeavor to have him released is being made, Justice is no respecter of persons at Cork, as may beinferred from the fact that Mr. Mekles, @ Justice of the Peace there, has just been sentenced to one week's imprisonment for a misdcmeanor. M. Courbet’s picturos are excluded from the Vienna Exhibition because he is a Communist, nut some Vienna students are about to repair that wrong by providing a private place for their exht- bition, Twelve hundred butchers were entertained at tea in Mr. Spurgeon’s tabernacle, London, on Faster Tuestay, aiter which they were addressed by the pastor and Rev, Mr. Cuff, “butcher and preacher.” It now appears settled that Count Arnim js tq re- ceive the German Embassy at London, vacated by the death of Count Bernstorf, and General Man- teuffel is to represent the Emperor at Paris as soon as France is evacuated by the German troops. “Jim” Nye is like to get an international repu- tation, as Un Sénateur qut déménage par la poste, The Paris papers thus dub him, and speak with admiration for a man so futile im expedients as to send his household goods by mail home from Wash- ington betore the franking privileges had run out, Some time ago a servant of the People’s Bank at Viterbe, Italy, was killed by an unknown robber, Apparently there had been a severe fight. In the hand, of the corpse were found a few red hairs. Following up this elew the police have arrested @ man who has the misfortune to have a red beard on suspicion of being the murderer. The proposed Convention of Governors in At- Janta, Ga., on the 20th May, is likely to be @ suc- cess, The following Governors have signified their intention of being present:—Hendricks, of Indi- ana; Woodson, Missouri; Walker, Virginia; Ja- cobs, West Virginia; Brown, Tennessee; Harris, Alabama; Moses, South Carolina; Noyes, Ohio; Carpenter, Iowa; Washburne, Wisconsin; Bever- idge, Illinois; Cook, District of Columbia, and others, All the mayors in the State will also be there. The affair is creating almost as much ex- cltement in Atlanta as if a circus were about to arrive in town, WESTERN SURVEYJRS AND SAVAGES. The Pioneering Parties of the Northern Pacitic Railroad To Be Protected by United States Troops—The Official Orders. WASHINGTON, April 28, 1873. An expedition will be organized, to be assembled at, and in readiness to depart from, Fort Rice, Da- kota Territory, onthe 15th of June next, for the protection of the engineering parties of the Northern Pacific Railroad im making surveys for the location of the line of that road between the Missourl River and the Rocky Mountains. The expedition will be consti- tuted as follows:—First, a battalion of ten companies of the Seventh cavalry, under com- mand of the Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, Second, @ battalion of ten companies oi iniantry, four of the Flgnen regiment and six of the Nin regimenf, undef command of Lieutenant Colonel bP. Bradley, of the Ninth regiment. Third, a battalion of five companies o1 the Twenty-second infantry, under command of the senior captain; two of Those companies to be drawn from Fore ndall, two from Fort Sully, and designated by ite Tespective post commanders. Fourth, a bat- talion a Douccbeapan! es of the Seventeenth in- fantry, two from Fort Rice, one from Fort Lincoln and one from Camp Hancock, under command of EB. A. Crofton, of the Seventeenth in-_ pen = oF Fith—The detachment of seventy-five Indian scouts thorized by special orders No. 62, curren€ series, from the partment of Dakota, and, in addition, five scouts eac li from Forts Totten and Wadsworth, to be selecte the respective Prost Commande?s from those of ther commands who accompanied last year’s Yellowstone expedition. iath—~ detachmeny oF ayailery Sumiclent to “man ‘two Rodman Hitled” gue, be commanded by an officer selected and detailed by the commander of the expedition. The men of the detachment will be selected from the pactajien of the Seventeenth or Twenty-second infanus’: pereinnetre designated as a portion of sitior i the expeu. n, &. Stanley, of the Twenty-second in- tandeoren neat 264 to the command of the expedi- tion. Excepting Such staff officers as may here- after be asstgned to Uni, Ne will select the requt- site staff! from his command. The expe- dition wilt leave For'é | Kice with sixt days’ subsistence and forage. Subsequent arrangements will be Lwde for the far ther fap ly of the command ¢ither froma hd sn to be established on the Yellows tone or trom Fort Butord, Over two hundred six-m we teams will ao- company the expedition and autho tity is even hire Buck number of private teams ,8 may awe quired tor the use of the sick of the c ™mmand. ae less than five ambulances will be ‘Aken. he Special order also prescribes the all. wance clothing for the intantry to be carried in “be knap- sack; authorizes the supplying of portable ae Coal, 3,500 horseshoes and the employment « f me- chanics, and is specific in detail as to the n.‘°Ve- ments ot the expedition, subsistence and ot ‘wer necessaries for its comfort and salety. The a. % munition allowance is fixed at 200 rounds per man of the cavalry and infantry, 40 rounds to be carried habitually in the cartridge boxes, the remainder im bulk in the wagons, The commanding officer will determine the amount of artillery ammunition to be taken. The expedition will remain in the field until the loth of October, if its services are required for that length of time, and may, at the discretion of the covamanding omlcer, be kept out until the 1st of November, but not Jater. This expedition has been organized oy General Yerry, commanding the Depa: tment of Dakota, uader the instructions of tie eral of the Army. “FORTRESS MONBOE, Farewell Festivities of the Artillery School—Paiufal Accident—Injuries by Frost. ForTRESS MONROE, Va., April 26, 1873. The graduating hop given by the officers of the artillery school took place last evening, and wag fully enjoyed. The oMicers of the class will be relieved on the 1st of May, and rejoin their respective regiments, Some of them go to Portland, Me., some to Key: West, some to Alaska, and others ge out to fight.” the Modocs. The members of the Class for 1874 are ' arriving daily, and will be here on the 1st proximo, Yesterday afternoon, as the brig Fylie, from Baltimore, bound to Newry, Ireland, was coming down the bay, a sailor on the main topgaliant yard let fall a marlinspike, which struck a young Man named John Kelly im the small of the back, near the spinal column, inflicting a serious, it not fatal wound. Kelly was leaning over the rail, and the sharp point of the instrument penetrated the flesh to the depth of nearly two inches. The Caj tain bro im ashore t oe ntttln f and take him to Baltimore to-night, where he will be placed in the hospital. The farmers report & heavy frost in this vicinity. last night, which, it is feared, has done considere able damage to early fruits and vegetabies, ART MATTERS. The Sherwood Sale To-Night. No one who has visited, with a purchasing eye, the very fine collection of paintings at the resi- dence of Mr. John H. Sherwood, 622 Fifth avenue, ‘will fail to remember that the first evening of their sale, at the Clinton Hall salesroom, by the Messrs. Leavitt, occurs to-night. It was at first intended to dispose of them at Mr. Sherwood’s private residence; but the business prestige and associations of Clinton Hall altered tne pro- gramme in this respect, and, we think, with prudence. On Sunday we alluded at some length to some of the chief features of the collection. Among those in to-night’s sale are Guy’s “Litue Stranger,” one of the most exquisite things in its way that we have ever seen; Cropsey’s “Mountain Brook; “Winter Landscape,” a very tine com- sition, by Boughton; a clever bit called “Nest junting,”’ by Eastman Johnson; Siegert’s tender elaboration, ‘Sunday Morning ;” H. and C. Shayer’s very beautiful painting, “Fairfield Lawn, Isle of Wight;” “Reconelliation,” showing two charm- ing children at the consummation point of # retty quarrel; J. G. Brown’s superb “Strect jusicians;’? Winslow Homer’s ‘snapping the Whip;”” “The Comin; Storm,’ by Bouguereau, @ strong picture, full of sadness and longing; Stein- heil's “Poor Student,” a delicate idea, finely elabo~ rated; Hugues Merle’s “Mignon ;” Jervis McEntee’s “Prosty Morning," one of the most vital and versa- tile pictures that we have ever seen by that artist; and Spitzweg’s “Landscape,” fall of rich contrasts and tender antitheses, OSITUARY. Madison Mills, U, 8. A. brevet Brigadier General Madison Mills, Surgeom in the United States Army, died at his quarters at Governor's Isiand, N. Y¥., at seven o’clock yester- day evening, Surgeon Mills was avery meritorious officer. He entered the service, according to the date of his first commission, on the 16th of Fee ruary, in the year 1847. He was promoted to the rank of lieuténant colonel by brevet on the 29th ot November, 1864, and advanced at intervals since to colonel by brevet and brigadier general by bre- vet. His remains will be interred from the chapel, Governor’s Isiand, HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN BROOKLYN. Knocked Down in the Street and Rol» bed of $800. ‘The police are looking after an unknown highway robber who assaulted a citizen of Brooklyn name@ Henry Hudson and abstracted $800 from his pocket. The gentleman named, it appears, was returning home through Smith street at a late hour on Sun- day night, after visiting a couple of liquor saloons, when he was suddenly knocked down, and was lett insensible on the sidewalk. He was taken to his home, 162 Wyckoff street, by two strange men. The injured man is suffering from a severe wound in the head, caused evidently by a blow from some. heavy instrament. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The United States steamer Congress, Commander Rhind, was at Gibraltar on the 1th tust. from Malaga,