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8 |W BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVI AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Divorce. NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, WAY Y, 1973—TRIPLE SHEET. mna—How Its History Will Be Told in the Herald. ii The great park of the Prater in Vienna will to-day present s scene such as has never before been witnessed in its stirring and eventful history. At all times aspot of unu- \No. 1a1'| 8¥al interest, it will to-day see inaugurated within its limits the most comprehensive, and, no doubt, the most successful, gathering of the world’s industry, products, science, intel- lect and art that has ever been held in any WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtioth st.— | 2Ation of the globe. Twenty-two years ago Buoop Moxxy. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 58 Broadway.—Granp Vaniery Enter- ‘TAINMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadwa: Houston sts —AzRaxt; on, To between Prince and aGic CHARM, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker street.—Humpry Dumpty. Matinee at 2. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Fxou Frov. the grand idea of drawing together the works of industry of all countries for mutual infor- mation and advancement, originating in the mind of Prince Albert, was brought to a practical result by the opening of the English Industrial Exhibition. The success ot that undertaking stimulated similar enter- prises, and the London Crystal Palace of 1851 WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth | W8S quickly followed by that of New York in street.—Davip Gannick, &c. 1853, of Munich in 1854 and of Paris in 1855. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth | It also gave rise to the erection of the perma- ay.—Monte Cristo. nent structure at Sydenham, in the neighbor- BOOTHS THEATRE. Twenty-third street, corner Sixth | hood of London, and was the father of the avenue,—Arnan N4 Pogue. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Dnaxa BURLESQUE AND OLI0, GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—InsrectoR BRaxsia. £7, JAMES’ THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st-— McEvor's New Hipxasicon, BOWERY “THEATRE, Bowery.—Witp Cat Nep— Osiicine 4 Frienv, MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Uncie Sam. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner 6th av.—NxGRo MinstRELsy, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. TRIP New York, Thursday, May 1, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GREAT WORLD-GATHERING AT VIENNA! HOW ITS HISTORY WILL BE TOLD IN THE HERALD”—SUBJECT OF THE LEADER— Sixth Pace. GREAT DAYS FOR VIENNA! THE SIGHTS TO BE SEEN BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE WELTAUSSTELLUNG! A DISTINGUISHED PARTY INSPECT THE BUILDING! BRITISH ROYALTY GIVE FRIENDLY GREETINGS TO THE HERALD SPECIAL COMMISSIONERS! THE GRAND BALL! PREVIOUS EXPOSI- TIONS CONTRASTED—Turkp Pace. BILBAO BESIEGED BY THE BOURBONISTS! THE CITY ALMOST DEFENCELESS! THE CURE OF SANTA CRUZ SAID TO HAVE BEEN SHOT BY HIS OWN OFFICERS—SEvVENTH Pacg. GENERAL GILLEM SENDS AN OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SLAUGHTER BY THE MODOCS! COUNTERVALLATION IMPOSSIBLE IN THE LAVA-BED FASTNESSES! THE PRESSING NEED OF MORE SOLDIERS! WHAT GENE- RAL SHERMAN IS ‘GOING TO DO ABOUT IT”—SEVENTH PAGE. A $700,000 DEFALCATION BY A PHILADELPHIA BANKER! WHAT AN OVERWEENING DE- SIRE FOR FAST LIVING RESULTED IN— THIRD Pace. GOVERNOR DIX SIGNS THE CHAKTER! SOP THROWN TO OBJECTORS! AN EXPERI- MENTAL AMENDMENT OF THE USURY BILL! WESTCHESTER ANNEXATION DE- CIDED UPON BY THE ENATE! THE CANAL FUNDING PROJECT—TENTH PaGE. WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE AGA) DEFEATED IN THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT! THE PROG. RESS MADE BY ITS ADVOCATES! THE VOTE—SEVENTH PaGE. GANG FORWARD WINS THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKE AT NEWMARKET, ENG- LAND! DETAILS OF THE RACES—SEVENTH Page. MAYDAY MISERIES! THE VARIOUS CATCHES INCIDENT TO THE OCCASION—TenTH PxuR. A FIERCE FIGHT BETWEEN LATIN AND GREEK MONKS AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF DAVID AND OF CHRIST! ELEVEN INJURED— SEVENTH PaGE. PRUSSIAN OPINION OF THE PEACEFUL PUR- POSE OF THE KAISER’S VISIT TO THE CZAR! CHOLERA RAVAGES—THE ACHEE- NESE REVOLT AT THE HAGUE—SEVENTH Paces. & PERNICIOUS BILL! AN EFFORT MADE IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO DO AWAY WITH THE UPPER PORTION OF THE GRAND CENTRAL THOROUGHFARE OF THE METROPOLIS! HOW IT IS TO BE DONE—FovrtH Pace. DRIVEN FROM THE TEMPLE! A REVEREND DOC- TOR’S FLOCK REFUSE TO PUBLISH HIS LUCUBRATIONS, AND HE LEAVES THEM STAIGHTWAY—TsxTH Pace. PROGRESS OF THE PATTENBURG MURDER TRIAL—MARINE CHANGES—TENTH PaGE. THE MONEY CLIQUE APPLYING THE SCREWS FOR BORROWERS! GOLD HIGHER! BUSI- NESS AND QUOTATIONS—FirTH PaGE. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE SEVERAL TRI- BUNALS—MAYOR HAVEMEYER AND THE OFFICE SEEKERS—ART ON SALE—Fourtu PacE. PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD—EIGHTH PaGE. JAY GOULD'S ASSAILANT ARRAIGNED—SUC- CESS OF THE STRIKING SHOEMAKERS— THE DISTRUSTED BANKS—Fovurtn Paces. BUSINESS AT THE REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE— THE COAL SALE—POSTAL CARDS—Firtn Pag, PUBLIC SCHOOL Tue Preswent’s Movements.—The Presi- dent and his family are on their way back from Colorado, en rowe for Washington. It is to be hoped that among the first things done atter the return of the Great Father to the White House will*be the promulgation of 8n effective programme for the pacification of all his viciously disposed red children. ‘Wouan's Surrnace m Exctanp.—The wo- later international exhibitions, ending with that of Paris in 1867. But the great Vienna Exposition, which is to commence its brilliant career this day, promises to surpass all that have preceded it in the magnificence of its de- sign, the extent and variety of its contribu- tions and the usefulness of its results, By the time these lines reach the eyes of our readers the Austrian capital will be pouring out its hundreds of thousands along the streets and avenues leading to the people’s park ; the ex- hibitors will be busily preparing for the inspection of their goods by the multitude that will visit the building on its opening morning; the tongues of all nations will be heard commenting on the wonderful scene, and all the life, bustle, confusion, vexation, fun and enjoyment of a first day amidst a mob of spectators and a muddle of hastily arranged and yet incomplete departments will no doubt be at their height. This great world-gathering at Vienna may mark the commencement of a new era in the history of civilization. Through the agencies of steam and the electric wire the nations of the earth are drawing nearer and nearer to- gether year after year, and learning by practi- cal experience the fact that the happiness, ad- vancement and prosperity of the whole human race are to be promoted by association, and that common interests should bind together in friendly ties a common humanity. The time is happily approaching when the people of all countries will understand that they are not necessarily divided by differing nationalities; that the enmities, jealousies and conflicts that have hitherto sprung up between them have been mainly the work of ambitious rulers; that Germans, French- men, Englishmen, Russians, Americans and all others may meet together on the common ground of art and science, of thought and intellect, to their mutual benefit, and may live together forever in peace and good fel- lowship, cemented by an interchange of ideas and a community of interests. These thoughts, floating through all reflective minds, are likely to gain solidity from the influence of the Vienna Exposition, where intellect and art will meet together from all parts of the globe; where the literature, science and in- dustry of every clime will mingle, converse, instruct and lern, and where the strength and power of the people cannot fail to make themselves strikingly manifest. Who can foretell the effect that may be produced upon the world by this fellowship of the representatives of so many different nations? Prejudices that have heretofore existed may be removed ; national pride may be taught a useful lesson of humility; the keenest minds may become convinced that they have something yet to learn; the most self-reliant may find that they cannot safely hold themselves independent of the world; above all, the people may discover that they have interests which are in conflict with the schemes of ambitious and avaricious rulers, and which demand that the peace of nations shall not be reck- lessly disturbed. There are those whose opinions cannot be lightly regarded, who fear the speedy bursting of the thunder-cloud of war over the European Continent, and the turbulent condition of some of the nations of Europe seems to afford ground for the appre- hension. But if the people learn properly the lesson taught by this great world-gathering of peace and progress, their powerful influence may yet avert the threatened calamity. The universal interest felt in this important event has induced the Hzratp to endeavor to present its full history to the American people from the pens of distinguished writers who will view it with equal intelligence and judg- ment, but from entirely different standpoints. To accomplish this object we have secured the services of Edmund Yates, the English novel- ist and journalist; of John Russell Young, the well-known and brilliant American jour- nalist; of Berthold Auerbach, the graphic and attractive German author, and of Louise Miihlbach, whose fame is world- wide and whose popularity as a novelist is unsurpassed in the present day. The brief sketches of the literary careers of our con- tributors which will be found in to-day’s Henatp will be read with interest by those who may be unfamiliar with their histories, as a prelude to their first communications, which will appear to-morrow. Mr. Edmund Yates has been recently among us, and has well merited the good opinion of the Ameri- can people. We need only say that his keen observation, his genuine humor, and his man’s suffrage question was debated in the British Parliament yesterday. Mr. Jacob blunt, forcible style of writing will afford to the world the best history that Bright moved the second reading of the | could be given of the great Exposition Woman's Disabilities Removal bill. A diseus- | from an English point of view. The Ameri- sion of the essential merits of the measure | can story will be told by one who has not his ensued, after which division was taken, | superior as & brilliant and attractive writer ‘The bill was rejected by a vote of 222 to 155, | on the American press—Mr. John Russell ‘The ladies, with the gallant gentlemen who | Young—and from his pen we are assured of advocate their claim for citizen privilege, will | fair play and honest criticism, as well as of a be disappointed, but not disheartened, at the | most interesting description of the monster legislative enumeration. The granting of the | gathering, as Americans see it. But the right of voting to women would aid vastly in | history of the Vienna Exposition, the the furtherance of a political revolution in | pride and boast of the Austrian Empire Great Britain, so that very many venerable | and the darling of the German people and conservative interests would be almostat | would not be complete without’ the aid once effected. The idea is not accepted uni- | of accomplished German pens. What writers versally, by any means, as one having a bene- | could do justice to the great event so thoroughly ficial tendency for the body corporate, as will | as Berthold Auerbach, the Dickens of Ger- be seen by the history of the bill and its legis- | many, with his keen wit, his intimate knowl- lative fate when embodied for realization, | edge of human nature, and his great descrip- which we present to the readers of the Hunaup | tive powers ; or as Louise Mihibach, with her to-day. bold, independent views, her vivid imagina- interesting style? But to be just to them, their stories must be told in their native language, and we have, therefore, de- termined to give their communications to the Hznarp first in German, for the benefit of our large German population, and to republish them, translated into English, on the following day. This will be a novelty in journalism, which we are sure will be properly appreciated, for when it is remembered that the stories of all our four correspondents will be transmitted by cable, and that on the same day the Hzraxp will contain the communica- tions of Edmund Yates and John Russell Young in English, and of Berthold Auerbach and Louise Mihlbach in German, it will readily be seen that the task is one of no ordinary character. It will illustrate, in a striking manner, the perfection to which journalism can be eventually brought under the enterprise of the American press and with the aid of the electric telegraph. It is mortifying to think that while the American press is thus unitedly seeking to do full justice to the Vienna Exposition, and while American art, industry and intellect will be so satisfactorily represented in the Expo- sition, the national character should have been disgraced by the scandal of the action of the paid Commissioners of the United States. For the shame that has fallen upon us we hold the State Department, the Legation and the paid Commission equally to blame. The dishonora- ble and sordid acts of some of the aides to the Commission have been no more disgraceful than the carelessness, vanity and petty malice that have marked the course of the State De- partment and the Legation, and the whole affair reflects discredit upon our government rather than upon our people. It is no wonder that the scandal occasions excitement in Vienna; that it calls down upon us the unfriendly criticism of a jealous European press, and that it has thrown the American Department of the Ex- position into temporary confusion. Let us hope, however, that the honorable citizens who are entitled to represent us at the Expo- sition will be prompt in assuming authority, and that our exhibitors may not feel any permanent evil effect from the disgraceful episode. The Charter Signed—Necessity for a Supplemental Law. The New York charter was signed yesterday by Governor Dix and is now law. But what alaw! So defective and incomplete is it in its provisions that without supplementary legisla- tion it would leave the city government in chaos. The Governor only affixed his signature to it because, as its main principles satisfied him, he was unwilling to throw the whole subject back upon the Legislaturs.at this late day and risk the defeat of any charter this session. But he notified the legislators of the defects in the law and of the absolute neces- sity of a supplemental act. He knew that if the charter should be sent back unsigned a raid would be made by the present office- holders, who go out of office under its pro- visions, to defeat it altogether, and he refused to afford them the opportunity to carry out their scheme. The Legislature should at once prepare and passa supplemental law. Through this they may yet give us a fair, liberal and har- monious city government. As the charter at present stands, the same condition of affairs that has proved so harmful to the progress and prosperity of the city “for the past year will continue until another Legislature assembles. The powers and duties of the Comptroller will be as much subject to conflicting interpre- tations now as they have been heretofore. The objectionable plan, introduced by the Tammany Ring, of allowing the Mayor to ap- point the officer who signs all warrants con- jointly with himself, and who should act as a check upon him, instead of being simply his clerk or employé, will be continued unless the Comptroller should be made elective by the people, as he ought to be. There are other features of the charter which require explanation or altera- tion through o supplemental law, and the necessary bill should be prepared immediately and passed without delay and without a repe- tition of the disgraceful cattle market exhibi- tion which marked the final votes on the charter in the Senate. Death of Mr. James Brooks. The death of Mr. James Brooks, member of Congress from the Eighth New York district, in Washington yesterday, marks the loss of one more of the old generation of metropolitan journalists now so rapidly passing away. For thirty-seven years he has been intie mately associated with the journalism of this city, and this period covers nearly all. the important changes that have occurred in the press of the metropolis. For many years a representative in Congress, Mr. Brooks has supported the democracy since the dissolution of the whigs. In the days of Native Americanism Mr. Brooks and his paper were its advogates; but when the folly died out he returned to the broader prin- ciples of liberty for all His death will leave but few of the veterans of New York journalism remaining. He was ardent in the furtherance of whatever policy he supported, anda cultivated gentleman in the affairs of private life. Itis a rather melan- choly coincidence that the Evening Hepress, with which Mr. Brooks has been so long con- nected, should make its appearance with every sign of renewed prosperity from a new publi- cation office on the day that its founder died. Thus the earliest struggles of that journal from its inception were gratulatingly recounted yes- terday in its editorial columns, while the founder lay peacefully, dying amid his mourn- ing beloved ones. Tae New Artantic Castz.—We are ine formed on good authority that the new At- lantic cable proposed to be laid via Long Island will have its route changed. The company intend to lay it at once between Ire- land and Heart's Content, Newfoundland. A Drrrerence Amoxe tux Doctors.—The faculty of the University of Kentucky, it ap- pears, have vetoed the selection of ex-Presi- dent Andrew Johnson as commencement ora- tor, while the students have entered into a solemn vow to listen to no one else, We like the adhesion of these young men to honest Andy Johnson.” It shows that they are sound, and are bound to be found on the solid ground of the constitution, The sad news from the Indian country makes it too manifest that the long, bloody amalgamation. Purchase, he said, was out of the question. The motion for purchasing the and disastrous campaign of the everglades of | Irish railroads was rejected. Itis well that the Florida is being repeated in the lava beds of | matter is settled, and settled likely for a long California. The wily and treacherous Semi- nole finds his counterpart in the subtle and murderous Modoc. Scarcely has the country recovered from the shock of the brutal assas- sination of General Canby and Mr. Thomas, when another and still more fatal blunder, with all its horrors, is forced upon us. All the experience of the past, all our knowledge of the Indian, his habits, his mode of life, his wicked and disgusting propensities, seem lost upon those who-have the direction of affairs, and we are stupidly blundering on and into a long and expensive war. There is not the least doubt in the world that this really brilliant success of General Jack and his dusky warriors will incite all the uneasy spirits of the Western tribes, and before the Summer is over we shall have to record per- haps a hundred bloody massacres. Now, what is the government going to do about it? What is it doing? Shall we continue to fight the Indians with batteries of artillery and with Upton’s tactics? Shall the troops con-° tinue to march out to ambush and death, with “their bayonets glittering in the sun?” Or shall we organize a system of warfare adapted tothe country and suited to the foe? The leading traits of the Indian character are those which he shares in common with the fox and the wolf, his prototypes of the Plains. In the fastness of his caves and crevices he has but to wait and watch. The signals from a hundred hills tell him any movement of the troops, which is made with all the osten- tation and glitter of a holiday parade. What folly! What madness thus to sacrifice the lives of brave men! Every soldier and officer who has ever had any experience in Indian fighting knows that the tac- tics of civilized warfare never have succeeded and never will succeed in over- coming a determined band of savages em- boldened by success and made more brutal by the taste of blood. If the bitter experience of the Florida Seminole war is not to be repeated, if we would make short and decisive work with this terrible business, we must provide expedients suited to the emergency. Troops, or rather men, must be selected for this duty who are fitted for the especial purpose, and accustomed to life on the Plains, as the sailor is fitted for the sea. The government should at once, without an hour’s delay, organize several regiments of guides or frontier scouts, selected from all the different regiments of the service. both off- cers and men, adventurous, hardy, cour- ageous spirits, with strong individualities, who can readily adapt themselves to Indian habits and Indian ways; dressed in buckskin and mounted on hardy Indian ponies, each man adapted to sustain himself without a com- missariat; lurking, like the Indian, in secure retreats, ready at an unexpected moment to pounce upon the foe; coming together and separating by sigrals known only to them- selves; officered by men whose marked deter- mination and skill can readily contrive the plans best adapted to outwit the savage. Let these men receive double the pay of the regular ser- vice and let all their exploits be made public. We would soon have the ranks filled up by adventurous spirits from all nations, who will establish with the Indian tribes throughout the entire West a character which will keep them in wholesome and permanent fear. Un- less a force like this, organized on the princi- ples we have laid down, is put into the field, it would be wise to abandon the Indians to their own devices, and save ourselves the mortifica- tion and disgrace which, under the present absurd mode of warfare, is inevitable. The offer of a liberal premium for the scalps of these hostile Modocs would extirpate the tribe ina month, saving the lives of the soldiers and settlers, This suggestion is one which the government may well consider and adopt. It ought to be a part of the incentive to the organization of the scout system of warfare so imperatively demanded. It seems a cruel pro- position, but this war with the Modocsis a war of extermination. And just here we would suggest that the government exercise great caution in regard to the conduct of the Warm Spring Indians, Their actions are, to say the least, suspicious, and it is not impossible that they may be in collusion with the Modocs. Their achieve- ments have fallen far below expectation, and they have not even shown themselves to be efficient scouts. Want of knowledge of the whereabouts of Captain Jack’s band led to the latest massacre, and such knowledge the Warm Spring Indians should have supplied if they were properly used and are not unfaithful to the whites. Careful watch must be kept over them, so that if they should entertain any in- tention or make any effort to betray the troops it may be prevented and punished. And, besides, hanging must be the method of punishment whenever a false or hostile savage is captured. Nothing so deters the Indian from the commission of outrages asthe proba- bility that hanging will be the penalty of his crimes. Wisdom teaches us to adopt every method of curbing and controlling the Mo- docs and other hostile tribes which experience has shown to be effective, and this mode of punishment is one of the most effective ever adopted. Unfortunately, it is necessary to catch the savage before we can hang him, and General Gillem’s course, so far, is not very encouraging. His blundering, as we have al- ready said, will, perhaps, hurry the country into a general Indian war ; and if this should prove to be the case the administration will not be held guiltless. Immediate measures must be taken to prevent a general outbreak, and unless they are taken a general Indian war is almost certain. Tae Barish GovernMENT aND RatroaD Puncuast.—For some time past there has been considerable excitement in England in regard to the question whether the government, which now owns the telegraph lines, should not also own the railroads. The question has been discussed pro and com in the daily papers, in the weeklies and even in the quarterlies. It was proposed, first, to begin with Irelamd, for the reason that Ireland is, of the three kingdoms, the worst served in the matter of railroad convenience. In the House of Commons on Tuesday a formal motion wos made that the government be instructed to purchase the railroads of Ireland. Mr. Gladstone objected. He was willing to aid the time to come, For much centralization is dangerous. The First of May. What the author of “Music and Morals’’ would’ denominate the “passionate self- consciousness’ of the age’ tends to make us question the causes of things, and to wonder, ‘among the various questions that strike home, what the origin is of that insti- tation known as “the May movings,’’ Time seems to hold this goodly city like o kaleido- scope between his fingers, and when tho last day of April has expired he gives us his an- nual shake, anda new domiciliary pattern is the result, Let us be thankful that the change is only yearly. Our sister cities affect to look upon us with derision. Quiet Philadelphia peers at us from beneath her hood of hodden-gray and jeers at our periodic change ofsbase. It is well for us if we too can find anything in it to smile at. Milton, Shakspeare and Her- rick are the principal poets who have some- thing pleasant to say of the First of May. True, they look at the subject imaginatively, and connect it with the coming of birds and the sprouting of flowers. But why should not the newspapers have their little fling, and erect a sparkling superstructure upon the grim foundation? Who has not suffered from the First of May? It is the common corn on New York’s foot, upon which the year in its recurrence regularly treads. Gone are the Maypoles and the morris dances. The only fandango which now celebrates the epoch is that which patresfamilias execute un- der the pressure of smashed crockery and ex- tortionate cartage. History informs us that the First of May used to be sacred to Apollo ; but now it is dedicated to little save vexation of spirit and indiscriminate profanity. The whole gamut of objurgation is run, from the silent anathema that dies between the teeth of the desperate housewife to the thundering in- tercharge of rival cartmen who hustle each other on the stairs. Time was when Druids celebrated the eve of May the First by beacon fires, whose flames blazed high and far; but now the new tenant is glad if.by the time that day is over the kettle simmers comfortably upon the range, and the grate be coaxed into were formerly the patron spirits of the day ; but now we conciliate our landlord and think ourselves happy if we can magnetize Bridget into amiability. The Romans consecrated May Day to Apollo; the difference with usfis that our god is the god of moving, instead of mu- sic, and the festival we keep is one of distrac- tion and inharmony. The only point in which we can claim analogy to the ancients is that which explains the derivation of the day's name. Maius was the mother of Mercury, and Mercury, with wings to his head and heels, is the symbol of sudden flight. Almost every family-man is a Mercury upon the First of May. There is neither the time nor the dis- position for the lingering handshake and the slowly-falling tear. Sentiment is crushed beneath the necessity to pack, and romance subsides beneath the claims of the white- washer and carpet-beater. Who can find time to sing ‘The Old Oaken Bucket’? when the new piano is in imminent danger of being smashed? Who can drop a tear over ‘The Old Arm Chair” when a pelting shower threatens the parlor furniture? Doubtless many welcome the First of May, independent of those who derive considerable immediate pecuniary benefit from it. Itis a golden time to sever associations which one is tired of, and to form new ones in regard to which one intends to be circumspect exceed- ingly. It is a glorious opporfunity for turn- ing over that new leaf which has such a faculty for retroverting itself—for beginning that fresh page upon which dark blots and unseemly scrawls are quick to gather. New resolutions then crop out, pure as the May flowers themselves, and quite as short-lived. A new hope inhabits the new house, and good intentions warm themselves beside the fresh fireside. There is a sort of New Year's Day flavor in the gusto with which paterfamilias buckles down to work, resolved to do the better part of his nature justice for the future. May Day is sometimes moving day for the soul as well as for the body. The spirit conveys its effects from place to place, gets rid of the bad and puts the good in safe-keep- ing ; but since the house of the future will probably be too perfect and comfortable a residence to render change desirable it is not unlikely that the May movings will, in a generation, become a theme of the past, and that we shall thereby lose the charming occa- sion for getting even with ourselves which is now offered by so suggestive a crisis as that of changing one’s residence for another year. It is one thing to move and another to move well. The reason New Yorkers do it so “thoroughly is that they have been used to it all their lives. Being always on the move they take quite naturally to the demands of the First of May. Instead of prancing around a Maypole we hover with a dignified sense of responsibility near the pole of ® wagon. French flats and parlor bedrooms are desired in lieu of ‘fresh woods and pastures new,” and the poetry of the old Spring festival evaporates beneath the grinding problem “how to pay the rent.’’ Let us not be quite ungrateful if, in the midst of all the fraud and turmoil, something now and then crops out at which we spontaneously smile, Waar Tey Tats or It ar Wasnryatox.— The bloody repulse of the command of Captain Thomas from the lava beds has, it appears, awakened the wrath of General Sherman, and he is said to have resolved upon sufficient reinforcements to General Jeff. C. Davis to bring this lamentable campaign against Captain Jack to a speedy conclusion, It appears, a modest glow. Robin Hood and Maid Marian: YORK HERALD [noe eee ee enn | iam tar Glowing plotares and her intonsely Our Indian Folly. Tonos at a low mato of interest To advised | Arteries for tue Mortherm Portibas ot Manhattan Island—A Job on Foot. By the terms of a bill which we publish elsewhere, and which is at present before the Legislature of this State, we are enabled to point out to the public a job of a very trans parent nature which some interested partied hope to hurry into the force of law. The job contemplates the practical stopping up of the great Northern Boulevard running from the Grand Boulevard at 155th street along the ridge of the islgnd overlooking the Hudson, and turning finally into the Kingsbridge road. According to law this Northern Boulevard has been laid out by the Commission appointed for that purpose, and the awards and assess- ments made out. The bill referred to proposes to prevent the Commissioners from joining the new road to the Grand Boulevard at 155th street, as at present provided for, and so would cut off the intended communication between that section ofthe island and the southern or built-up - portion of the city. If this peddling bill ‘be- came a law the Boulevard would end in a cul-de-sac at 159th street. When improve- ments of any kind are proposed there are always some obstructives to ba found. Railroads, canals, docks or tele. graph lines could never aid civiliza. tion if every small property owner had the right to prevent his square foot or two of mother earth from being used for the benefit of the community. Of the property owners. along the line of the proposed Boulevard ninety-five per cent have expressed their satis- faction at the route and the terms of assess. ment proposed for the work. Five per cent isa very small proportion of objectors, but on this basis the opposition to the bene= ficial project is raised. The result would be the stultification of the labors of the present Commission without any saving to the city. A large sum has been already expended, and this would be thrown away if the Boulevard is to end in a cul-de-saa and the isolation of the Hudson side of North- ern New York be maintained. It remains to be seen who are the movers in this paltry job; but with their Quaker guns unmasked wa shall not be long in finding the strategista ° themselves. The future of the metropolis depends greatly upon the convenience of the arteries of inter- communication, and no petty clique of job- bers and obstructives can be allowed to impede the car of progress. Tue Consoumpation oF THE ATLANTIC CaBLe Companres is now a “fixed fact,” they say, which means that a cable monopoly is formed in season for the expected harvest of the Vienna Exposition. ‘What are you going ta do about it?” is the remark which the mo-- nopoly makes to the public, and the public, we dare say, will find before long a satisfactory answer to this question. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge Charles Daniels, of Buffalo, is at the Grand Central Hotel. . Captain W. Boyd Stokes, of Philadelphia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A bazaar presided over by Mme, Thiers at the Paris Opera House produced 140,000f. for the orphans ob the war. Queen Victoria has recently presented a suit of colors to the Seventy-ninth Cameron Regiment of Highlanders. The Countess Teresa Spaur, in whose company, in 1848, Pope Pius IX. fed from Rome te Gaeta, died a short time since at Vienna. General Rodinbough, of the United States Army, who has temporary quarters at the Everett House, should be sent to the Modocs if he rode in buff. Captain James Mariner, a veteran mariner, wha has left salt water to cultivate a fine plantation in Cuba, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. Captain 8, G. Whipple, ofthe United States Army, who is at the Grand Central Hotel, should be sent to the Modocs. His name would insure them an infernal whipping, The Archduke Charles Louis, brother of the Em peror of Austria, has been betrothed to the Prim cess Marie, of Braganza, daughter of the ex-King Don Miguel, of Portugal, A London stage driver has just recovered a ver dict tor damages ,agalnst an agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for false imprisonment. Mr. Bergh will take notice. General Drum, of the United States Army, whom we hear of at acity hotel as regularly as “‘taps,’? should be sent to the Modocs to, try if they cam beat him, All through last Winter he was a muf- fled Drum. John T. Van Allen, he of Watkins, N. Y., hag been very quiet since November. Now that he has turned up at the St. Nicholas Hotel something definite about the “party of the future” may be expected. The Comte de Hésdques, of France, and his sister have been sentenced in Paris to six m6nths’ im- prisonment for swindling. Nobility of character ia thus proven to be an infallible accompaniment of nobility of station. A young woman in Cumberland, England, lately threw herself in front of a railway train and was killed. Her conduct was attributed to a love quar- rel. Two weeks later her suitor followed her ex- ample and was killed in the same way. The Hons. J. Bruce Ogilvy and Donald Brace Ogilvy, of Scotland, brothers of the Earl of Airlie, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House from Washington. These gentlemen are ending a tour of this country and will sail tor England next week. “The Biddenden Maids’? were Eliza and Mary Cuckworth, who were joined together like the Siamese Twins. They died in Biddenden, England, about 1134, leaving property now known as the “Bread and Cheese Landa,” for the benefit of the poor, Their memory is kept alive by an annual dis- tribution in April of cakes bearing their eMfigies. Except one, Bishop Mclivaine, of Ohio, was, a his death, the earliest censecrated of all the bishops of the Anglican Church. He and Bishop Smith, of Kentucky, were consecrated on the same day, in 1832, Bishop Smith taking the precedence. Bishop Sumner, of Westminster, who resigne® some years ago, was consecrated in 1826. After him the senior English Bishop is St. David, whose consecration dates in 1840, PHI GAMMA DELTA. Quarto-Centennial Anniversary. The Quarto-Centennial Anniversay of the Phi Gamma Delta Association of this city was celebrated lastevening at the Academy of Music by alively dis» play of poetry, oratory and music, A brilliant as~ semblage of jair and ruddy faces wag on hand to enjoy the exercises of the evening. ie music was select and pach Page the leadership of C. 8. Gratulla, The exercises were opened by a pi ad the Rev, William Guthrie es, Of Al en followed the President’s (Dr. J. 6. Pe ng, D. D.—Alpha) address, in which he reviewed the further, that the government appreciates the necessity of quick and decisive work with the Modocs in order to prevent the war fever from spreading to other and more powerful warlike tribes of the red men, Very good; but the presence of Sheridan on the Pacific slope at this time would suffice to restore law and order among the refractory Indians through all those States and Territories. Tae Usury Br, in the Legislature, seems to be hanging, like Mahommed’s coffin, be- tween heaven and carth, Why not let itjoome down? progress of nations during the past twenty-five ears, An oration, delivered by Dr. Thomas M. zddy, pleased the audience Mehr: and was warinly received at the close. e of his truest witticisms was, “The pen is tier than the poomes medley--epio, Homerté and burlesque, was m—a —e | and bur! Pocited by the on.” Wiliam 4 Horatio Barnes. Is was vel good to be ap Dhiloeoph ing audience, Tre folowing pieces of pk were rendered at intervals during the ¢x~ ercises :— Overture, “Buryanthe," by Weber “Tone.’*{ atl ; selections, wal ith chet oy Mewes “iene Palnoge om! al nna de aria finale, “La by. saa walle, eanageetent By Gunels: College Bightoe jon Chay as a mentors oF tno oath ae Mies ot Wow