The New York Herald Newspaper, April 30, 1873, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, ——— Wolume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THEATRE COMIQUE. JURLESQUE AND OLIO, M: No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, ince at 234. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- “Way.—Divorce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Buoop Monxy. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, £85 Broadw TanmenT. Matinee at 235. Granp Vaniery ENTER NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and on, | "Houston sts—Aznar thar Cuakm, Matinee, OLYMPIC THEATR! yand Bleecker street.—Humrry Dumrry. . between Honston Matinee at 2, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. ars Another Battle from the Invisible Bfo- docs—Bloody Repulse of the United States Troops—A Call tor General Sheridan. A reconnoitring column of the United States troops on Saturday last suffered another and most disastrous repulse from the invisible Modocs in the lava beds, The details of this bloody affair, which we give this morning from our special correspondent on the ground, are more thrillingly interesting than the fullest reports of many battles in which thousands of men on both sides wero engaged. The extraordinary character of the scene of combat, which lies inside an area of a hundred square miles and more of volcanic ruins, resulting from o gigantic up- heaval of a. deep rocky formation, fractured and tumbled about in endless confusion, the» vast field of these lava beds abounding in holes, chasms, caves and underground pas- UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near ‘Broadway.—Frov Frov. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth wtreet.—Davip Gaxnick, & GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ‘@v.—Monte Cuist0. ROOTH'S THEATRE. Twenty-third street, corner Sixth m@venue.—Anran NA Pocus. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third tavenue,—Das StirTUNGsrkst. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, 34th st., near ay.—Vanigty ENTERTAINMENT, fT. JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st— “McEvoy’s New Hinernicon. : & BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Wip Cat Nep— MOBLIGING 4 Fuienn. MRS. F.'B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— "Dwove Sam. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner Wth av.—Nucro Minstreisy, &c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Wanuerr Enrentaunnunt. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— CIENCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, April 30, 1873. —————— - ‘THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. YLo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ANOTHER BATTLE FROM THE INVISIBLE MO- DOCS! BLOODY REPULSE OF THE UNITED STATES TROOPS! A CALL FOR GENERAL SHERIDAN”—TITLE OF THE LEADER— EIGHTH PAGE. @ SECOND BUTCHERY OF THE WHITES BY THE BARBAROUS MODOCS! A RECONNOITER- ING PARTY DRAWN INTO AMBUSCADE AND SLAUGHTERED ! TERRIBLE SCENES IN THE LAVA BEDS! THE LOSS OF WHITE OFFICERS AND MEN AND OF THE INDIANS! FEARFUL EXCITEMENT AMONG THE PIONEERS—Turmp Pace. MME TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LAVA BEDS! MAP OF THE SCENES OF THE SLAUGHTERS— THIRD Pack. M@REGON INDIANS TAKING THE WARPATH! MASSACRES OF WRHITE SETTLERS IN- EVITABLE! THE SPOKANES IN WAR PAINT AND INTRENCHING—NINTH PaGE. GENERAL CROOK'S COMMENDABLE PEACE WITH THE SAVAGES! THE TERMS EX- ACTED! NOT A SHADOW OF A PATCH! APACHE IGNORANCE—SixTH PaGE. §VORSE THAN SAVAGES! TWO HEARTLESS FIENDS OUTRAGE A GIRL OF FOURTEEN AND BEAT HER BRAINS OUT! ARREST OF THE VILLAINS! PUBLIC EXCITE- MENT—TENTH Pace. BATTLE BETWEEN SPANISH ROYALISTS AND REPUBLICANS! ROUT UF THE LATTER, WITH SEVERE LOSSES! THE FIGHTING CURE OF SANTA CRUZ AGAIN DISPLAYS HIS VALOR—NINTH PaGE. WEWS FROM ALBANY—MARINE CHANGES— i TWELFTH PAGE. @ MOST INTERESTING PAPER! THE WILL OF NAPOLEON THIRD! SOLEMN WORDS FOR THE YOUNG PRINCE! LOVING RE MEMBRANCE OF HIS DEVOTED QUEEN! BOTH COMMENDED TO FRANCE AND THE ARMY! INSPIRATION FROM ST. HELENA! HORTENSE’S TALISMAN—NINTM PAGE. ‘MURDERED WITH A BREAD KNIFE! A GER- MAN DEFENDS HIS PREMISES AGAINST TRESPASS! FIERCE STRUGGLE WITH A DOG—REAL ESTATE—TenTH Pace. UNFAVORABLE DEDUCTIONS OF THE VIEN- NESE FROM THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN COMMISSION! THE NEW AP- POINTEES BADLY HINDERED IN THE DISCHARGE OF THEIR DUTIES! AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL AID MAY HAVE TO BE IN- VOKED—NINTH PAGE. WHE PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING DAY OF THE GREAT INTERNATIONAL FAIR AT VIENNA! THE BUILDING IN A VERY BACKWARD STATE! ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF GOODS FOR DISPLAY! WHAT IS BE- ING DONE BY AND FOR AMERICA—SrxTH PaGE. @NNEXATION TO THE METROPOLIS! THE LOWER PORTION OF WESTCHESTER DE- SIROUS OF JOINING ITS DESTINY TO THAT OF THE EMPIRE CITY! PALPABLE AD- VANTAGES—THIRTEENTH PAGE. & FRENCH STEAMSHIP STRIKES THE JANA ROOKS, ON THE BRAZILIAN COAST! THE VESSEL SUNK, THE PASSENGERS SAVED! A TERRIBLE LAND-SLIDE DISASTER AT THE RIO NAVY YARD—TaInTEENTH PAGE, BNOTHER “BLACK FRIDAY SENSATION! AS- SAULT UPON JAY GOULD IN DELMONICO’S! PARTICULARS OF THE RENCONTRE— ELEVENTH PAGE. BE-LAXITY IN MONEY! GOLD OFF A FRACTION! THE SALIENT POINTS IN WALL STREET BUSINESS—ELEVENTH PaGE. PHE JEROME PARK SPRING MEETING—CRIME IN BROOKLYN—THE SANDWICH ISLANDS— THIRTEENTH PAGE. BIX CONVICTS ESCAPE FROM THE BLACK- WELL'S ISLAND PENITENTIARY! THREE CAUGHT—THE SINKING FUND—TaIRTEENTo Pace. TABLE GREED! HOW RELIEF MAY BE HAD FROM THE EXACTIONS OF THE ATLANTIC COMPANIES—DEATH OF MACREADY, THE FAMOUS ACTOR—BAY STATE ITEMS—SixtB PaGs. WO JURY YET IN THE BLEAKLEY CASE! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—TRIAL OF ONE OF THE PATTENBURG RIOTERS—A GRAND EIGHT-HOUR LABOR STRIKE PROPOSED— SEVENTH PaGR. ACQUITTAL OF THE SOMERVILLE posta, CLERK—TAINTOR INDICTED FOR THE AT. LANTIC BANK DEFAULT—THE TROUBLES BETWEEN THE SHIPMASTERS AND SAIL- ORS' BOARDMASTERS—SEVENTH Pace. ART—THE STREETS—PATHER QUINN’S FARE. WELL—Tkntu Pace. Tae Creprrons oy tux ATLANTIC BANK are likely to ‘are better than they thought from first appearances they would. A num- ber of missing securities have been brought to light which will materially help redeem the bank's indebtedness. The greatest sufferers ‘will be the directors and stockholders, who ought to have been less neglectful of their sages, difficult for a hostile force to enter and more difficult to escape from, surrounded by the invisible sharpshooters of a cunning and desperate enemy, give to this unequal fight of Saturday last, a terrible fascination which we find in no other conflict of all our Indian wars. Ina military application this unexpected misfortune may be briefly stated. In the morning, at seven o'clock, the weather bright and pleasant, Captain Evan Thomas anda force of sixty-nine men—infantry and artillery- men, but all acting as infantry—were detailed by General Gillem to reconnoitre a certain position in the lava beds where it was supposed the wily savages were secreted. The instructions to Captain Thomas were to recon- noitre this position in order to ascertain if the Indians were really there; but, if there, he was to avoid bringing on a general engagement, as it was the purpose of General Gillem to send up a battery or two of his mortars and to shell the position before entering it. After a march of two hours along the south flank of the lava field the reconnoitring party, in approaching alava butte, or little mountain of volcanic rocks, discovering no signs of Indians, signalled back accordingly, only the next instant to find themselves under a destructive fire and envel- oped by the deadly Modocs. The death of Captain Thomas, Lieutenant Howe and other officers, the killing and wound- ing of more than half the little com- mand and the precipitate flight of the remainder, the approach of reinforcements and the removal of our dead and wounded under a night of rain and darkness, were the closing scenes of this bloody drama. Captain Thomas, it thus appears, must have committed a dreadful mistake in getting his command into a cul-de-sac, and in a lo- cality where he had expected to find the Modocs. He seems to have discovered that he had marched into the trap set for him by the Indians only on discovering that they had closed the door against his escape. The bat- tle of the 17th of January was a blunder and a waste of heroism in being fought all day in a thick fog against the unseen savages, when, at the very outset, our troops, as they could have been, should have been quietly with- drawn. But in this dreadful affair of Saturday last the skies were bright and the Indians were suspected to be where they were found; and we are irresistibly drawn to the conclu- sion that, while Captain Thomas died bravely as a soldier, his life and the lives of his com- rades slain with him were sacrificed to an excess of confidence or to negligence in his re- connoissance, or to a lack of knowledge in the peculiar strategy and tactics of Indian war- fare. But, again, while the orders of General Gillem, that in the event of a discovery of the position of the Indians, a general engagement was to be avoided, in order that the mortars might first be brought forward to shell the place, were good, and, if strictly carried out, would have saved the command of Captain Thomas, the question still recurs, why was not a mortar or two detailed to accompany his ex- ploring party, in order, before marching his command into the trap, to shell the position where it was expected the Indians were lying in wait? The answer will probably be that the difficulty of moving artillery over those masses of volcanic rocks is the reason that not even alight howitzer was sent with the expedition. But time and labor in war are as nothing when they will secure the means to accomplish the particular end desired. In the three days’ fighting which followed shortly after the murder of General Canby and his companions on their last and most melan- choly peace mission, the best service, and per- haps the only effective service, rendered wax by the artillery, in shelling the nooks and fissures in the rocks where the Modocs had established their headquarters. Against those destruc- tive shells the Indians are hardly safe, even in their caves; and now it would appear that an exhaustive shelling in all our approaches over those lava beds is the only method for avoid- ing a disastrous reconnoissance. But what do those Indians among those rocks live upon ? They must have something in the nature of a base of supplies besides the scanty rations of the rabbits and lizards of those lava beds, and .some ways and means of com- munication with Allies outside. If these Modocs, then, cannot be hunted out or shelled out of their volcanic fortress, surely they can be starved in these hiding places by scouring the country around them. Since January they have contrived to baffle and defeat a force of a thousand regular sol- diers of all arms, and to keep in fighting trim with no visible means of subsistence. This is the most remarkable and puzzling fact of all the difficulties of this Modoc war. And what a commentary upon the general Indian policy of the administration it will be if the example of Captain Jack should spread like 4n epidemic among all the warlike tribes of the West! A despatch from Portland, Oregon, informs us that fourteen hundred warriors are encamped at White Bluffs, on Yakuna River, and are putting up breast- works, As they are warning the settlers to leave the country they evidently mean war. The Spokane Indians are also reported threat- ening. In this view the immediate suppression of Captain Jack and his Modoes becomes a matter of the highest moment. But how is this ob- ject to be achieved? It is suggested in our despatches that United States regular troops and regular army strategy and tactics are not adequate to the work; but that old Indian fighters and the Indian system of warfare, each man his own general, are required to conquer the Modocs. There is much force in these hints; but have they not been beaten into all of us in all our Indian wars? We think that General Sheridan is competent to make short work of those terrible Modocs, and that President Grant should detail him at once to the task of their subjugation, because of the danger of the reyjval of the war dance among other tribes from the prolongation of this in- glorious and lamentable war of that desperate savage, Captain Jack. In the history of our Indian wars it may be said this Modoc campaign will cut but.a piti- ful figure, considering the numbers of the killed and wounded on both sides, and the pitiful fragment of a half-starved tribe which our troops are pledged to exterminate. In this light, indeed, these small battles of the lava beds would probably be overlooked by the future historian of our Indian tribes but for the death of General Canby. And yet with a contemptible force of fifty or sixty warriors in his volcanic stronghold, the re- sult of Captain Jack's strategy and tactics against a thousand enemies—horse, foot and artillery—is even more remarkable than Braddock's defeat, or that terrible disaster to the whites in the Northwest, of which years ago the flat boatmen on the Ohio used to sing:— St. Clair was our commander, AS may remembered be; For there we lost nine hundred men On the river St, Marie, Or that complete rout of General Harmar by the Indians near Chillicothe; or that of General Butler on the Miami; or with the most suc- cessful of the many wonderful achievements of the Seminoles in Florida against Generals Scott, Gaines, Jessup and Taylor--achieve- ments which have immortalized Osceola and haye made a permanent hero even of the whis- key-drinking Billy Bowlegs. Nor, from present indications, will the ex- termination of Captain Jack and his band cost the government in the end less for each Indian than the subjugation of the Seminoles. The Seminole war, under President Van Buren, extracted from the national Treasury the sum of forty millions of dollars as the cost of the complete subjugation of a thousand warriors, or at the rate of forty thousand dol- lars per warrior. At the same rate the seventy-five warriors of Captain Jack will make the sum of three millions of dollars, which is, perhaps, already covered in bills of peace commissioners, Indian agents, army contractors and of white settlers for horses, cattle, provisions and forage. It was charged at the time that the Seminole war was a war of army contractors \and speculators in army supplies, and that these men contrived to prolong the contest in order to increase their profits, until the awakened wrath of the country aroused the administration. Let us have an end of this lamentable busi- ness of the lava beds. Let General Sheridan be detailed to the duty of a settlement with Captain Jack, and to a general overhauling of all the tribes of the far West, reservations, Indian agents, peacemakers and all,.and we shall have peace. ‘‘Let us have peace.” The Bleakley Murder Trial. Ten jurors have been secured in this caso by two days’ labor, the additional panel of talesmen being exhausted yesterday. A new list will be called this morning to complete the requisite twelve. Such difficulty and delay in finding men competent to pass upon the guilt or innocence of a person indicted for murder suggests the jnquiry whether seven or nine jurors would not answer the demands of justice just as well as the larger number? If the community has no absolute belief in the virtue of a round dozen there seems great likelihood that five would discharge the duty of a jury justas well, perhaps with greater sense of individual responsibility, A change in this direction would greatly hasten busi- ness in the courts. After the completion of the jury the case for the people is a plain one, the evidence of the shooting being simple and direct. Bleakley admits killing his niece, and avers that he is responsible therefor, but his counsel will attempt to show that his client is a victim of religious mania and committed the fatal act when incompetent to distinguish between right and wrong. This defence will bring up the oft-repeated and unsatisfactory discussion upon the wide field of insanity, which nowadays forms so large a portion of almost every murder trial. Tae Proposep Mzetinc or Governors of several States, in Atlanta, Ga., on the 20th of May, will be an affair of more than ordinary interest if the subjects treated of bear, as they should, upon public concerns of moment. It isnot only matters connected with trade and commerce that demand attention from a representative body like the one proposed, but great political questions might be discussed in a way that would have a salutary effect upon the popular mind. Prominent among these questions is that of the Louisiana usurpation, in relation to which the Governors of several. States—notably Virginia—have expressed themselves in unmistakable terms. Let this Congress of Governors, then, take up the Louisiana question and discuss it in an enlightened and liberal spirit, and much good may come of its sittings. Tae Vienna Exrosrrion Scanpat still wears all its humiliating phases, Our special despatch informs ua that General Mayer ¢ontumaciously refuses to deliver up the plans of allotment and space in the American department, It is believed that the new Commissioners will appeal to the Austrian authorities for aid in the matter. The aristocrats at Vienna comment on this little piece of contemptible trickery with many just sneers; but aristocracy is very far from having all the sneering on its side. There may be no American law to punish offenders of General Mayer's stripe; but if ever @ man was likely to meet with national scorn Mr. Mayer is that man. We sincerely hope that whatever villany may be hidden in this matter will be brought to light and the culprits dealt with summarily. Tax Coyriventit Banx.—Insinuations against the credit of the Continental Bank having been in circulation for some days past in Wall street, an examination of its affairs was invited, and the Committee from the Clearing House who made the examination yesterday put 4 quietus on these rumors by emphatically asserting the bank’s soundness. Now THat the democratic free traders pro- pose to read the protectionists ont of the party, suppose the protectionists should con- clude to read the free traders out? Where will your democratic party be then? The Will of Napoleon I1l.—<Power Is a Heavy Burden.” Our special despatches from London bring us the terms of the will of Napoleon IIL, the ex-Emperor of the French, who died at Chis- elhurst, in England, last January. His per- sonal property is sworn to as under six hundred thousand dollars, and this is said to be reducible by debts to half that amount. ‘Truly this is not an imperial fortune; but there are a great many ways of\-disposing of property, so that it will not turn up in last testaments. It may or may not be that this sum is all Napoleon saved from the wreck of his fortunes, The publio ‘will care very little whether it is or not. On three hundred thousand dol- lars as a capital a widow and her son can in England lead a life far above poverty. It is more at any rate for the boy, cursed to have the golden dream of empire forever before his eyes, than his father possessed when he lived in Hoboken. And it is probably not all. But the interest in the document registered at Doctors’ Commons, London, does not cease with the statement of the sum be- queathed, or even in the fact that the ex-Em- press Eugénie is the sole legatee. It runs back eight years with the date alone, and brings before us the days when Napoleon, in the full tide of his power, sat down to write words for the smiles, the cynicisms of history. On April 24, 1865, he wrote and signed the will. Europe was then at peace, and the Emperor could then scarcely see the edge of the black cloud that mounted afterwards upon his horizon. De Morny was dead, but even the Emperor could not tell how much he had lost. The first of his great mistakes— the expedition to Mexico—then looked like a success. Maximilian was nine months upon the imperial throne of the Montezumas. Bazaine was fighting with every assurance of victory there. If the cloud showed above the horizon’s rim it was only the gilded edge that methis view. The Schleswig-Holstein war was ended. It was nearly twelve months from the capture of Diippel, and Prussia and Austria were so friendly that King William and Em- peror Francis Joseph were arranging to meet at Caglsbad for a friendly talk. Sadowa did not seem even a remote possibility at the time. The Southern rebellion had been crushed by the surrender of Lee, atid although Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated ten days be- fore, the news had yet to break upon Europe. There was one circumstance, however, con- nected with the day on which the will was drawn that will not fail to suggest itself to his- tory. Three days previously Napoleon had two imperial visitors at the Tuileries, whose faces were not lit with that joy which emperors as- sume when they meet each other. These wero His Imperial Majesty the Ozar Alexan- der IL, Autocrat of all the Russias, and his august spouse the Empress Maria. There was but little said that day, and the two imperial visitors soon proceeded on their journey to the south. The Russian Em- peror’s eldest son and heir, the Czarovitch Nicholas, was sick unto death at Nice, and the mournful parents were hastening thither to clasp their boy before he died. Napoleon, with what light we have of his character, despite his loud-toned trust in destiny, we know to have been a man of indecision in supreme moments, and subject at all times to melancholy forebodings, which he did his best to conceal. On Monday, the 24th of April, the heir to the throne of all the Russias was taken quietly away from life and its prospective imperial crown. The news of death was flashed to Paris that same day, and then it was the Man of December, in all the glory of his empire, sat down to write the will of the Man of Sedan. The Prince Imperial, a delicate boy just entering his tenth year, was playing in the garden of the Tuileries, innocent of the fact that a pen was tracing out for him, not the path of glory of a future emperor, but the devious way of a weak pretender. Such are the sardonics of history. While death was palled above one imperial house Napoleon III. , was writing the hollow elegy of his own. It was not very elaborate piéce of com- position. It touched the springs of family pride and had a glimmer in it from the sun of Austerlitz, although the ray fell coldly upon the rock of St. Helena. For the rest it was naked of ornament, and men will say that it was hypocritical where it speaks of heaven. He addressed it ‘to the high authorities of State, to the people and army of France.'’ The Empress was to be Regent, his son (just nine years old) possessed “qualities of disposition and judgment which will render him worthy of his high destinies."’ What are those destinies now? Then the Emperor wrote some bare words of advice to the boy who is a cadet at Woolwich to-day. He was neyer to forget the motto of the head of the family, ‘Everything for the French people.’ He was to read and ponder over the words of the prisoner of St. Helena. The prisoner of Ham felt that he could not afford toumention his own long dungeon vigil; the finger pointed only to‘the one figury—that upon the lonely South Atlantic rovg, He was, “when circumstances permitted,” to war for ideas. ‘The cause c7 the peoples is the cause of Finaca” Was his enigmatical way of put- ting it #Fower (8 heavy burdez’ then he said, and it was, of all his testament, that per- haps which he felt most. The rest of the sentence is his only apology for his crimes—- “because one cannot always do all the good one could wish, and because contemporaries seldom render justice, so that in order to fulfil one’s mission one must have faith in and conscien- tiously appreciate his duty." The blood flow- ing in the streets of Paris, the hulks at Tou- lon, the convict settlements at Cayenne, the exiled thousands, the darkened hearths, had not been done justice to by contemporaries. To turn from this to the boy's grand uncle in heaven is a rapid flight. “It is the soul of my illustrious uncle that has already in- spired and sustained me.’’ It was a fashion with the uncle to deify himself as much as possible, as any one can see in the picture over the high altar of the Madeleine where in the bespangled purple he is seen very close to the Divinity indeed. But these gods of the earth touch the clay at last. Then follow the bequests to%he Empress. -When her son came of age she was to live at the Elysée, where President Napo- leon sat with white cheeks and livid lips on the night of the 2d of December, 1851, when his minions were abroad in Paris strangling the Republic, If sho tired of the Elyaée the Emprogs Dowager was to live by tho waves at Biarritz, where Napoleon went in the opinion in any political. dispute, repudiates” Summer to bathe and to plot. The last phrase that refers directly to the Empress is not without its pathos, for he is talking to her as his wife:—‘1 trust that my memory will be dear to her, and that after my death she will forget any unhappiness I have caused her.” In the December previous he had signed the treaty to withdraw the French troops from Rome, and this caused Eugénie much trouble. Whatever else the regret may cover it is not our province to inquire. We gain a curious view of this man’s super- stitious nature in his injunction to his son to “keep as & talisman the seal which I wore attached to my watch, and which comes to me from my mother.” It is childishness itself. He must cherish, too, all the memorials of the uncle. In conclusion he said he would die in the Catholic religion, which his son is always tg honor by his piety. Then the document was sealed and signed and hidden away for five years. When it was taken’ out, the hand of scornful Time rubbed all the gilding of imperialism, regency and heaven-seated uncle quite away, to show what pinchbeck was beneath. In 1866 Napoleon saw the great Power that was to crush him take another giant stride forward when Austria was beaten. In 1867 the tinsel on the last testament glowed brighter than ever when Europe sent her Princes and powers to meet him in the Expo- sition on the Champ de Mars, but even then Maximilian was lying dead at Quero- taro. In 1868 the people’s discontent began to rave like distant waters in his ears, and in 1869 roared nearer and louder still. In 1870, from the Scylla of revolution he rushed to - the Charybdis of foreign war and the Empire went down, ‘Two years in exile and he was dead. And so ends this history for the present, with a lad of eighteen reading, with wondering eyes, his dedication to destiny and playing with the talisman that his father left him from his grandmother. The Republic, meanwhile, is growing stronger in France. The Atlantic National Bank Embez, zlement. It is evident from the facts brought out re- garding the management of the Atlantic Bank that the President and Directors deserve little sympathy for the losses they may sustain by Taintor’s embezzlement. That a bank with only three hundred thousand dollars capital anda limited business should be plundered to the amount of four hundred thousand dol- lars—the amount of embezzlement Taintor is charged with—is astounding. It is more sur- prising that the appropriation, or stealing, we may say, of the money of the bank should have been going on fora long time until it swelled up to.such a sum without the Presi- dent and Directors suspecting the fraud, or taking the precaution to ascertain the condi- tion of the bank. Were these incompetent and reckless officials the only sufferers it would not matter; but, unfortunately, there aro many others, upon whom no responsibility rested and who were too confiding, that must suffer. These are the depositors and stockholders. We know not how far the officers of the bank can be made to recompense the sufferers, but nothing should be left undone to compel them to pay to the full extent of the losses and their means. A striking example should be made of such cul- pable neglect of duty. It js the old story of @ cashier or some one else having access to or charge of the funds of a bank using them for his own private use, and generally for speculation in Wall street. Occasionally we hear of a rascal running away with a bank’s money bodily, and the only speculation is in some woman companion of his flight, but forthe most part these embezzlements arise from ambitious or fast young men being desirous of getting rich or living beyond their means. These defalcations or embezzlements are frequently occurring, and show that many of our ‘banks are loosely managed. The ac- tual condition of every bank should be known at the close cf each day by the Presi- dent or his representative, and a thorough check should be kept by one officer of the in- stitation upon another. All should be con- ducted upon a strict business principle, and nothing left to confidence merely in any officer. Will this Taintor case prove instruc- tive? Or will it be only a sensation for a few days, to be followed by another defalcation arising from similar causes? Te Oana Herald claims the honor of pro- claiming ‘Free Trade and Farmers’ Rights” as the coming motto of the West more than a yearago. The movement has since evinced careful husbandry in its originators, so that its proselytes may now be numbered by him. dreds of thousands. F War Mowrrions Cunrtosrrms oF THE Can- ust Campatcy.—The Swiss police in Geneva have just arrested Don Garlos’ chamberlain of household as he was on the eve of de- Pewate from the republican territory for Spain with a howitzer packed in his baggage. The Federal Council of the Republic, says the despatch, has approved the action of the po- lice. This is as it should be. What else could the Council do? If tourists undertake to go about with howitzers packed up in their franks public travel will become truly dan- gerous. ~ Who can know at what moment the “mildest maiinéred man” who sits next to one in a stage coach, or a railroad car, or the cabin of a steamship, may ,take into his head to un- limber his gar and salute the company, either in friendly compliment or mortal strife? The bowie knife, the Derringer and the thumb and finger of the garroter are bad enough, and we sincerely hope that the gentlemanly Bour- bon Prince, Don Carlos, will not introduce the fashion of concealed howitzers. The ladies will become alarmed and pronounce him “horrid,” and the neutrality laws of the great nations be violated to such an extent that Geneva must institute a permanent com- mission of arbitration. “Deap,"’ says an Oregon paper, ‘those twin relics of political clap-trap—civil service reform and the Indian Peace Commission.”’ Hie jacet, &e. Pontuaat aNp THE Repusrtc.—A club has been formed in the city of Lisbon having for ita object the union of Portuguese republi- cans. The Paris election is evidently pro- ducing fruit in Portugal. An Iberian repub- lic begins to loom up in the far distance. Tae Pamapenrma Age (democratic), old enough to carry full weight in a matter of | takes ay interest in (zontior affairs, the proposition to make free trade the corner stone of the democratic party. The Keystone democracy are not at all that way of thinking. | War Burierms rrom Spam.—The Carlist Committee in London has received reports. from Spain which allege the occurrence of severe fighting between the Bourbonists and the forces of the Republic on the 24th inst., with the claim of important victories for the royalists. General Nouvilla’s plan of cam- paign is said to have failed. It is also as- serted that Don Alfonso, Saballs and the fighting curé of Santa Cruz are still actively engaged on Spanish territory. The only thing which can be said with certainty is that Spain ‘remains, socially, morally and in a military point of view, in a very unhappy condition. The Carlist agents in London continue to re- port, under date of this morning, a rapid con centration of the forces under the insurgent leaders in Spain, with some active operations against the republicans. Marshal Serrano and Sefior Sagasta left Spain this morning. Tae Nasuviixz Republican Banner suggests that the democrats adopt. the ‘‘anti-bond ‘ swindle” dodge—a very popular one, by the way, in some parts of the South—with the free trade notion. Is not one millstone around the neck of the poor democracy enough? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. C. S. Bushnell, of New Haven, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge L. L. Bond, of Chicago, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Naval Constructor Hanscom is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. General John B. Gray, of St. Louis, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Horace White, of the Chicago Tribune, has ar- rived at the Brevoort House. Colonel J. N. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressmen F, E. Woodbridge and Thomas H. Canfield are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain W. 8. Worth, of }the United States Army, has temporary quarters at the Sturtevant House. Mr. D. McInnes, Managing Director of the Great Western Railroad of Canada, ts at the Brevoort House, Colonel Ommanny, of England, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House from the West, where he has been to inquire into the prospects of certain mining interests. Monsignor Capel does not believe that England is to be immediately converted te Roman Cathol- icism, but that she is first to undergo a spasm of almost unlversal infidelity. Mr. Weightman, a learned but impecunious bar- rister and writer on legal subjects, has been con- victed of stealing @ book from the Inns-of-Court library, in London. Hence “Pauperism among the upper classes” has been discussed by several of the London newspapers. “Butterfly Osborne’ and “Plover Will’? wera the descriptive cognomens bestowed on the lately deceased William Osborne, of Fulbourn, Cambridge- shire, England, by the common people who knew bis ardent pursuits. He was an earnest lover ot nature, who, being unable to read and write, only gained a knowledge of natural history by close ob- servation. His perseverance and knowledge gained him many patrons, and he made collections of insects for the British and Cambridge University Museums and several Continental institations, A suit at law of very queer origin is now going on in Paris. The parties to tt are a wealthy bunker and Mile. de Musset, a cousin of Alired de Musset, the poet. Mile. de Musset kept a boarding house at 21 dis Rue de Suresnes, while the banker leased the house 21 in the same rue, and sub-let it to other parties. Acriminal act by the tenants of 21 drew the curiosity of the Parisiana towards the house, And they often mistook Mile. de Musset’s residence, 21 bis, for the house of crime. This annoyed the lady's lodgers and they left for a less notorious neighborhood, Out of these facts grows a suit for 50,000 francs, damages suffered by the lady. English clerics seem to be very erratic. Not @ few of them have suddenly disappeared from their homes and as suddenly returned with queer ex- cuses for their absence, The latest case is that of the Rev. Mr. Godwin, of Bermondsey church, Lone don. Leaving his home for another part of the city, he was absent from it for several weeks. Upon his return he announced that a mental hallucina- tion had urged him to visit America; but that he had waited here only long enough to catch the first returning steamer. Strangely enough none of Mr. Godwin’s friends refer to the existence of the At- lantic cable and the ease with which an announce- ment of his whereabouts might have been made. Mr. Godwin’s story would be taken with salt in this country. Bitter-sweet mast it be to be relieved of the stigma of criminality afier years of patient bearing. M. Dussud, of St. Symphorien-Sur-Cotse, France, has had this alloyed pleasure. Thirty years ago he and M. Lionnet, previously repurable citizens of St. Sympherien, were convicted of nurder, and, with a married couple charged with perury in their behalf, weresent to prison. There M. Limnet died. The reputed perjurers returned from trison and died at St. Symphorien, contemned by tnur neigh- bors. Dussud, after fourteen years of inprison- ment, went back to his home, and, by his cenduct, killed the prejudice against him. Recettly a pauper, dying in a hospital at Symphorien, con- fessed having committed the crime for which Dus- sud and the others suffered, and now that man, at the age of eighty years, is cleared of a charge thee blasted his middle age and made his later yearsq period of constant struggling te redeem his repyta tion from dlegoner. oa THE PRESIDENT AMONG THE PIKES DENVER, Col., April 29, 1873, President Grant yesterday enjoyed a delightfal trip to the mountains on the Colorado Central Railroad, accompanied by his family and friends and a few inyited guests, The party halted for @ few minutes at Golden and Bmckhawk, receiving a hearty demonstration from crowds of citizens. They dined at the Teller House, in Centrat City, and after dinner took carriages for Taho Springs, where they remained only one hour, and, return~ ing by the train, reached Denver at half-past eight P.M. The public reception, at half-past nine P. M., continued for two hours, and about four thousand persons passed before the President, a ma- jority of whom were ‘not satisfied with a grasp of his hand. After the recep- tion the Prestdent’s party attended a ball given in his honwr by the Governor’s Guards, and the dancing continued until a tate hour, The Presi- dent’s party left Denver at eight o'clock this morning, and will proceed direct to Omaha. [tis preposed to name a prominent snow-crowned® mountain in full view trom this city “President's Peak,” in honor of this being the first visit of = President of the United States to Colorado, On the Way Home. CHEYENNE, Wyoming, April 29, 1873. President Grant and party arrived here at noom to~<lay and remained two hours. They were met at the depot by military and Territoria! officials and a large number of citizens, After a fine colla- tion at the Railroad House the President recetved callers until two P. M., when he left for Omaha, MOVEMENTS OF THE SECRETARY OF WAB AND GENERAL SHERIDAN, BROWNSVILLE, Texas, April 29, 187% Secretary Belknap and General Sheridan and party left here to-day for New Orleans, via Galvea- ton, expecting to reach New Orleans ou Wednes- day. The visit of these prominent officials to thia section has created the best feeling among the peo- ple, who regard it as evidence that the government ‘ »