The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1873, Page 8

‘AN AUSTRIAN IMPERIAL BANQUET! 8 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ++sNo. 124 ATHENEUM, 585 Broadwi ‘TAINMANT. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts—AzRaxL; on, Tax Magic Cuanm. Geanp Vapiery Entrr- OLYMPIC: THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker street.—Huwrry Domrry. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—! ‘ROU FRov. WALLACR’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth btreet.—Tue Squire's Last Suivuins. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth fv.—Monte CRrisTO. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappy O'Dow: THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Burirsqux anv Uii0. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Beagp. 8T. JAMES' THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st.— McKyvor's New Hisernicon. Fourteenth street.—Bius BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Hetp in CuEcn— Gavgaasrk Comepisttas, NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—Drvonce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Witty Beruiy. Afternoon and evening, MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Onpee tHe Gastigar, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanity ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner 6th av.—NxGro MinstRetsy, &c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— SCIENCE AND ART. QUADRUPLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 4, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “CABLE TOLLS! THE INTERESTS OF THE PEO- PLE AGAINST THE PROFITS OF A MONOP- OLY”’—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— EigutTy PacE. STRENGTHENING THE BONDS BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW WORLDS! THE GREAT EASTERN, EDINBURGH AND HIBERNIAN, TO BE ENGAGED THIS SUMMER IN EN- LARGING THE ATLANTIC CABLE FACILI- TIES! REPAIRING THE OLD AND LAYING NEW LINES—NinTH Page. TEE VIENNA PRESS ON THE OPENING OF THE GRAND INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION OF ART AND INDUSTRY—NINTH PacE. THE EMPEROR ENTERTAINS ALL THE PRINCES, RESIDENT AND VISITING, IN VIENNA, AND THE AMERICAN MINISTER! THE NEW AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS PREPARING THE UNITED STATES EXHIBITS FOR AN EARLY DISPLAY—NinTH Pace. GENERAL PORTILLO REFUSES THE COMMAND OF THE SPANISH FORCES OPERATING IN THE CINCO VILLAS!—A GENERAL RISING AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ANTICIPATED IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN— NINTH Pag. AVENGING THE FALL OF CANBY! GENERAL GILLEM PREPARING HIS TOILS FOR JACK'S FIENDS! MORE ABOUT THE RE- CENT DISGRACEFUL SLAUGHTER—EicHTH Pags. PRESIDENT WATSON PUBLISHES IN LONDON A ROSEATE EXPOSITION OF ERIE AFFAIRS! $35,000,000 IN NET EARNINGS FOR SEMI- ANNUAL DIVISION! JOHN BULL NIB- BLING—NINTH Pace. ®USSIAN HONORS TO THE GERMAN EMPEROR— IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS—Ninta Page. CHARTER SNARLS! NERVOUSNESS OF THE CITY HALL PEOPLE OVER THE SUPPOSED DEFECTS! THE APPOINTING POWER OF THE ALDERMEN! HEAR THEM! THE AP- POINTEES—FirTH Pace. SPEAKER CORNELL ON THE RETENTION MAYOR HAVEMEYER—Firti Pace. READING +OR RELIGIONARIES! MINISTERS AND SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY! CHURCH OF AND STATE IN MICHIGAN! SCIENCE CHALLENGED! DENUMINATIONAL NEWS— FirTa Pace. OONSECRATING ARCHBISROP BAYLEY’S SUC- CESSOR IN THE SEE OF NEWARK! GRAND SERVICES AT THE INSTALLATION OF BISHOP CORRIGAN, THE YOUNGEST BISHOP IN AMERICA! HIS DIOCESE— Sixtu Pacs. CHARLES FECHTER IN MONTE CRISTO- YACHT- ING NEWS—MR. BROOKS’ FUNERAL—FirTH Pages. @® PACIFIC MAIL SENSATION—THE PAT- TENBURG TRIALS—ANNEXATION OF BRIT- ISH AMERICA—MARINE INTELLIGENCE— TWELFTH PAGE. MICHAEL NIXON’S COUNSEL APPLIES FOR A STAY OF PROCEEDINGS! THE FOLEY- PALMER SQUABBLE PERHAPS’ TER- MINATED—SEVENTH PAGE. YHE MONEY RATE DOWN TO FIVE PER CENT! THE “BEARS” HUGUWING PACIFIC MAIL, UNION PACIFIC AND “C., ©. AND I. 01” GOLD STEADY! AN EXCELLENT REPORT FROM THE BANKS—TenTH PaGE. BUCCESSFUL AND UNSUCCESSFUL LABOR STRIKES—THE SHIPPING COMMISSIONER AND THE SHIPMASTERS—THE CUHAM- BERS-SEDDONS MATCH—Firta Pace. WHERE AND WHEN THE MAY ANNIVERSARIES WILL BE HELD—REAL ESTATE AND AN- NEXATION—SEVENTH Pace. THE HERALD’S DESPATCHES FROM VIENNA, Our weekly and European editions of the Wenatp will contain in full the graphic and instructive accounts of the opening of the Vienna Exposition as presented by our four correspondents, Berthold Auerbach, Louise Miblbach, Edmund Yates and John Russell Noung. The accounts of the two distin- wuished German writers will be published in the German language. om Vienna Exrosrrion offers a wide field for discussion in the German newspapers, and the o day at Vienna naturally evoked exten: comment from the leading journals Berlin. As the character and tone of that Opinion must necessarily interest the German people in the United States our correspondents telegraphed the articles and we present them, fresh and sparkling, in German text, to-day. Paxswent Watson's statement of Erie financial prospects to the English public will be found elsewhere epitomized in our special despatches from London. The British specu- Gators appear to be satistied with the exposé. NEW ‘YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET Cable Tolle—The (nlikexts of the People Against the Profits of a Monopoly. A cable despatch from London brings the information that the steamer Hibernian will leave England to-morrow to attempt tho repair of the French Atlantic cable, and that the Great Eastern and Edinburgh will start towards the close of May on their expedition to lay the proposed new cable from Valentia to Heart's Content. After this work shall have been accomplished the Great Eastern will undertake the task of recovering and repairing the broken Anglo-American cable, and the Edinburgh will proceed to lay two new cables between Placentia, Newfoundland, and Sydney, Cape Breton. If all these under- takings prove successful there will be four cables working across the Atlantic and five across the Gulf of St. Lawrence before the first of September; those across the Atlantic being the present working Anglo-American cable, the other Anglo-American and the French cables, now broken, and the new cable. This programme certainly seems to promise an effective telegraphic service between England and America, and if we had any assurance that the company in whose hands the business is now coneentrated would use the advantages at their command in good faith in the interest of the public we might well be satisfied with the prospect. Inter- national telegraphic communication is now a necessity of commerce. The telegraphic com- munication between the States is scarcely of greater importance to our people. The evil has been that Atlantic cable telegraphy has not, up to this time, been popularized by reason- able rates. This has been due to the fact that there has been no opposition in the business. The original proprietors, having held control, have made the public pay all the costs of early experiments and failures, as well as enormous profits on the total investment. The mischief of an exorbitant tariff is that it gives large capital an undue advantage by confining the use of the cable to the wealthy operator. This was a subject of complaint when the Anglo-American Company commenced its business with almost prohibitory charges, and every one will remember the gratification with which the intelligence of the success of the French cable was received. There was then a prospect of competition and a probability of fair rates in consequence. The power of the Anglo-American Company soon sufficed to com- pel a union of the two lines, and the hope of’ more liberal treatment was atan end. There were then three cables at the command of the united companies, but the people derived no benefit from the increase of facilities. The unreasonable tariff was kept up and the ad- ditional cable only served to increase the profits of the stockholders. We may therefore fairly conclude that the four cables now promised us by the early part of September next will only swell the receipts of the com- pany and not decrease the rates to the public. Few corporations are more completely en- titled to the bitter words, greed, extortion, bad faith, in the description of their conduct, than the Atlantic Cable Company. Never in ita history has the company treated the press and the public with fairness and common business integrity. During the Franco-Prussian war it raised its tolls because the news necessities of the Hzratp and other journals required a constant use of the lines. In ordinary busi- ness transactions this would have been called by a word very like swindling. The moral qualities of the act were not less heinous, for it was taking advantage, not so much of other people's necessities as of their business pat- ronage to extort money from them. No usurer ever demanded a higher rate of interest from his customes; no pawnbroker ever hig- gled more narrowly and meanly to make a few cents out of misery. Now that the Vienna Exposition has commenced, in conse- quence of which the business of the company is likely to be largely increased, we have a repetition of the same policy, and that, too, in face of a promise that the cable tolls should be reduced to the old rates. The first increase was from seventy-five cents to one dollar per word ; now from one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents per word, making the increase fifty percent on the new and one hundred per cent on the old rates. In the first instance the increased rates were the re- sult of greed and extortion and a criminal dis- regard of the rights of the public. Now down- right bad faith and the violation of a pledge of long standing are added to a repetition of the old offences, All this exhibits a meanness and effrontery that few men would wish to have written in their obituaries and handed down as an inheritance to their children. The excuse put forth for this extortion is that the company has now but one cable in operation, and hence desires to drive away rather than attract business. If we exact ex- orbitant rates, say the managers, we shall deter people from using the cable, and thus keep business down somewhere near its ca- pacity, while at existing rates we shall have more business than a single cable can accom- modate. This is a very poor apology for the greed of the company. It would be an easy matter for the cable offices to refuse to accept @ greater number of messages than they could despatch in the twenty-four hours, unless the senders were willing to submit to the delay. The raising of the rates is simply dictated by the avarice of the company. They have now but one wire in operation, and they intend to realize as large a profit from that as they would make if they had two or three cables in working order. It is self-interest alone that prompts the doubling of the rates. The convenience and accommo- dation of the public have nothing whatever to do with it, and the pretence that the greedy and extortionate action of the company is instigated by any other than selfish considern- tions is a fraud and a falsehood. It may be true that all the business that can be done with one cable, although employed without cessation, day and night, will not pay ‘as heavy dividends to the company as have been heretotore realized; but the question is two broken cables shall be fastened on the public, or whether the corporation which has made enormous profits out of the people before the accident shall bear a portion of the loss. This is the true issue, and the object of the cable directors in doubling their charges is to save their corporation from any injury by the suspension of two of their lines and to make their patrons pay all the cost. Where are we to look for relief? We can have no assurance after our experi- ence with the French Cable Company whether the whole damage of the injury to the | has acted in no way to invalidate his claim to | hold prisoner on board by such an hour, or that o line laid by private company will not sooner or lator be absorbed by the old monopoly. A powerful corporation, hav- ing complete monopoly of its business, Sonerally finds it easy enough to strangle or crush or absorb a new enterprise threatening to compete with it. This is the danger to any line built by private capital. We recognize-| the difficulties, too, which are in the way to prevent a line being laid by the combined efforts of the two governments, nevortheless the benefit to be secured is worth the effort. The English and American governments should combine in laying a postal cable, the use of which should be fixed by treaty. There is no objection to such an undertaking so far as principle is concerned, and there can be no doubt that it would be most salutary in its results. But before it can be done a powerful and unscrupulous lobby in the houses of Par- liament and of Congress would have to be conquered. A corporation which has ono hand on the throats and the other in the pockets of the people of two continents will not easily let go its hold. And all this re- quires that a determined effort shall be made to secure safety to our business interest by the construction of a new line, over which the directors of this company can never hope to exercise any control. The whole subject is one of the profoundest importance, and the conduct of the cable company requires speaking of the plainest kind. We cannot entreat men for justice who show by their acts that they despise every principle of fair dealing. They must be taught the lesson which meanness and disre- gard of the rights of others are always sure to teach in the end—the lesson which the East India Company, the Hudson Bay Company and many others equally grasping and selfish have learned when their outrages became un- endurable. The outrages of the Atlantic Cable Company are unendurable now, and there is no escape from the wrongs of the mo- nopoly except by the laying of an independent line. We must have competition if we expect honesty in the telegraph business between this country and Europe. Mr. O'Kelly, the British Gunboat and the Spaniards. Among many curious phases of the rule of Spain in Cuba the fear exhibited by the Spanish officials of the Hzraup correspond- ent, Mr. James J. O'Kelly, is the most re- markable. He quietly returned to Manzanillo from the insurgent lines, where he had been performing his simple duty, and through the British Vice Consul made known his presence tothe Spaniards. He was straightway hur- ried to a dungeon—this dangerous man of peace and impartiality. Don Whiskerandos de Swashbucklero had double guards placed over him, and if diabolical frowns would kill a man Mr. O'Kelly should have died on the first day. They were five days meking up their minds whether they were not afraid to allow Mr. O'’Kelly’s telegrams to pass. They have feared, in fact, that Mr. O'Kelly would be able, in fairness, to tell more of the in- surrection than they desired, and so they were afraid to let him go. Mr. O’Kelly’s letter from the headquarters of the insurgent President, Cespedes, has shown the clear frankness of our correspond- ent’s views, and would with any people, short of Spanish officials, have induced the sensible action of freeing a man‘ngainst whom they have no case. They now find themselves face to face with a difficulty of another sort, A British gunboat has dropped into Manzanillo and demanded Mr. O’Kelly’s removal to Ha- vana and the amelioration of the unwhole- some conditions of his imprisonment. Weare not yet informed of the reply of Don Whisker- andos de Swashbucklero, who misrules for Spain in Manzanillo, but we feel very certain that he will be led to consider gunboat argu- ments with as much alacrity as the circum- stances require, The British government has acted commendably. The Captain General in reply to the demand has descended to the smallness of a transparent subterfuge. He, General Pieltain, is the republican military commander there, and supreme in authority. He may not, to be sure, dare to call his soul his own in face ot the bloodthirsty volunteers of Havana, who murdered the students; but he is the military master, and has no need to hide his authority from the British gunboat behind s farcical form of military regulations, inapplicable to the case of Mr. O'Kelly. If there is anything wanting to complete the picture of governmental folly which this whole question presents it is that the Spanish government in Cuba should affect to despise American public opinion, which its every act shows it to fear. Taking advantage of the fact that Mr. O’Kelly’s release could not be officially forced by the American government, it presumed that his character as an Ameri- can journalist would prevent the British gov- ernment, whose subject he is, from interfering. Its ignorance of the fact that no government on earth is more jealous of its honor than the British was lamentable. It now has to deal with the Power that sent an army into Abys- sinia to rescue English subjects from the barbarian Theodorus. The republican gov- ernment of Spain, under which Cuba is at present ruled, has not been recognized by England, and no tortuous diplomacy is pos- sible. The navy, with its rifled guns, is the only meams of communication possible be- tween England and Spanish authority in Cuba at present. What new device the Spanish authorities may invent to evade their respon- sibility we cannot say, but none would be too ridiculous to imagine. The Captain General has led the way in this shirking matter; but if the commander of the gunboat Plover sends, as the captain of a British man-of-war sent before to the Governor of Manzanillo, this message, ‘Bring the British subject you I shall bombard the town,’’ the evasion, trickery and shirking will be at an end, and Mr. O'Kelly will be free. The British govern- ment is by this time aware that Mr. O'Kelly its protection; that he has carried out his mission to Cuba strictly as a neutral and a gentleman, and that nothing but a ridiculous Spanish fear of the truth being told actuates the authorities in detaining him. We shall not, therefore, be surprised to learn that such a message has been sent and promptly com- plied with. Tae Weex i Waut Srneer closed upon a feverish stock market, but with an easier and more cheerful condition of affairs in the money market, The honk statement pub- lished yesterday, is the best return in many months, and shows that the banks now hold a surplus of nearly three millions of dollars. The stock feature yesterday was Pacific Mail, which fell six per cent on rumors that a prominent debtor of the company was unable to take up his notes, James Brooks. ‘To-day the remains of James Brooks will be taken to their resting place. They will be followed not only by the profound sorrow of a devoted family, but by the regret, also, of a large circle of friends and acquaintances, both in private and political life. In New York especially the loss of Mr. Brooks will be felt and mourned. Not only had he been a suc- cessful newspaper editor and proprietor here, but he had represented this commercial me- tropolis in Congress for twenty years. A man who could attain this distinction by the force of his own talents and industry was no ordi- nary man. He was, like so many of the edi- tors and public men in this country of free- dom, equality and action, the maker of his own fortune, for he began life as a country school teacher and as a clerk in a country store. But he had ambition, talent and en- ergy of character enough to burst through the bonds that poverty, local disadvantages and want of opportunity imposed. From the contracted basis of a country school education he became by study and experi- ence educated in the practical afffirs of the world and attained the position of a statesman and instructor of the public. This, indeed, is the experience of almost all our prominent and successful men, and shows the value of our institutions. The career of Mr. Brooks should prove encouraging to every aspiring young man who feels that he has the ability to rise in the world. Though Mr. Brooks was the representative in Congress of this democratic city he represented more the com- mercial community than the populace. There was a tinge of affected gentility or aristocracy. in lim which prevented him from cordially sympathizing with the ward and pot-house politicians, though a member of their organi- zations and receiving their votes. He was a whig formerly, and naturally so, for the party assumed to havea special odor of respecta- bility about it. But when that party was broken up Mr. Brooks, from his Southern affiliations and hostility to ultra-radicalism, naturally drifted into the* democratic party. His whig views on the tariff and other questions became modified by his later asso- ciation with the democrats, and for some time before the close of his career he was in full harmony with them and one of their most efficient leaders. For some years before his death he was one of the ablest democrats in Congress, and took broad views of public affairs. His unfortunate connection with, or the association of his name with, the Crédit Mobilier disclosures clouded the close of his political life, and, no doubt, was a matter of deep regret to him. He probably drifted into that affair at a period when everything was loose and extravagance and demoralization were rampant, without having any evil design or thinking of the consequences. However, we will not dwell on this subject. No one is perfect. We prefer to speak of our deceased fellow journalist and long time efficient rep- resentative in Congress in kindly terms. There was much in him that calls for commen- dation as a gentleman, a citizen, a public ser- vant and in domestic and private life. Let the good be remembered and the rest be buried with him. The Heavy Rains and the Rivers. The great rain storm which has given such an ugly aspect to ‘sweet May’’ has been an immensely extended affair, and appears to verify in part our anticipations of a wet Spring. The extreme and unusually long cold of the past Winter has left the Continent in such a frigid state that now the returning and moist southerly winds of the season are condensed in floods of rain. The process of rapid and large condensation has exhibited itself on such a large scale that the Western rivers—the Ohio, Alleghany, Youghiogheny, Tennessee and others—yesterday were re- ported rising rapidly; and the rain belt spread its watery folds over the Western States, the lakes and the entire Atlantic sea- board. It is known that the rainfall in the West is generally doubled from March to April and again doubled from April to May. The profusion of rain in the Mississippi Valley and westward gives an appearance of periodicity to the floods of the great rivers. The rivers tributary to the Father of Waters west of its basin have their regular May floods, and at the first opening of Summer they are visited by deluging thunder showers. The streams which take their rise on the east- ern slopes of the Rocky Mountains are not in full flood till June. ,In 1855 the first fifteen days in that month the Kansas, at Fort Riley, was tremendously swollen, and Fremont’s party suffered heavily in attempting to cross it. On the hundred and fourth meridian, and four thousand feet above the sea, in 1853 Fremont found the South Platte greatly enlarged by melting snows of the mountains as late as July 1. ‘ There must be an unusually immense quan- tity of ice and snow to be dissolved and find its way to the Mississippi basin within the next six weeks, and we repeat our former warning of danger in the Mississippi Valley. Should this be unbappily realized it may cost the country millions of dollars from the loss of cotton and other crops, to say nothing of other losses to individuals. It is estimated that over thirty millions of acres of prolific soil in the Mississippi basin are, on an annual average, the prey of inundations, which, rush- ing through the crevasses, drown the sur- rounding country. The inhabitants through this section cannot be too wide awake or too busy in preparing to avert such a calamity. After to-day we may hope for an interval of finer weather and some of May's radiant charms. Generat Portri10, of the Spanish army in Cuba, is reported to have refused to resume the command of the troops operating in the Cinco Villas district. If the report is well founded the friends of Cuba Libre will have cause to rejoice, for as it cannot be thought for a moment that the gallant soldier has any objection to the shedding of blood it must be inferred that he sees no prospect of success in Rising another campaign against the patriots, And if the General feels discouraged what must be the opinion of the army? May Fashions. So far the month dear to the poet's mind has shown very little of the merriment and brightness associated with it, and no oppor- tunity has been afforded for a display of those bewildering toilets that should bloom about this time. But, rain or shine, no daughter of Eve can be seen in her pew at church to-day with any relics of the Winter styles about her. Woe betide the wearer of a New Year's bon- net should she parade its faded glories along the aisle of a fashionable church, flanked on either side by supercilious high crowns, looped up with clasp and feather, and low soft crowns, almost hidden in floral drapery. Even the dust gray veils of her Spring sisters would blush at such audacity. No lady can complain of a want of variety in head gear, and novelties are more nomerous than in past years. The favorites of bygone generations, which look down upon us occasionally from mouldy canvas, find themselves suddenly revived for this season only, and flaunted over May suits as novelties. Should the May belle fancy a conservatory of flowers she may carry one on her head and be entirely in fashion, Taste and inclination have as wide a field for selection in the line of dress materials and styles. The rage for trimming is more ex- travagant than ever, it being at times no easy matter to know what the original material of a dress consisted of before it was lost in lace, guipure and bands of velvet. The new polo- naises have become great favorites, and deservedly, for they are very becoming. Some of ‘the street costumes are picturesque enough to make a painter’s mouth water, and graceful in their loops and ruffles. The style of coiffure by which the hair is tortured out of its natural growth to form a sort of nest on the top of the head cannot prevail with ladies of taste. Although extravagance, as usual, enters largely into the details of Spring toilets, yet there is much to admire in the latitude allowed to jadgment and good sense. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Assemblyman Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mr. Elisha Riggs has been elected President of the Washington Club, of Paris. Solicitor General S. F. Phillips has arrived from Washington, at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator Sargent leaves Washington for California next Wednesday. His family remains East. Congressman Clinton L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge William Strong, of the United States Su- preme Ceurt, 1s at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge Noyes, of Vermont, and State Senator Townsend E. Cock, of Jamaica, are at the Sturte- vant House. W. A. Howard, of Michigan, the Land Commis- sioner of the Northern Pacific Railroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Rey. Joseph Franzioli, of St. Peter’s church, Brooklyn, sxiled yesterday on the steamship Mosel and will remain in Europe for several months. Dog stealing has come to be a precarious prac- tice in London. The police now arrest every one who has the appearance of carrying “‘ pudding” in his pocket. Senator Corbet, of Oregon, and his wife, have left Paris to be absent until September. They will take upthe meantime with travel through Italy and Germany. General George B. Williams, the Japanese Special Financial Agent to the United States and Europe, has been married to Mrs. Nellie Peake, a Californian lady, in Paris. The Comte de Vernon, a zealous archeologist, has found the heart of Charles VIL. of France en- cased in a small leaden box, in the Church of Notre Dame de Celery. x General Charles T. Gorham, our Minister to The Hague, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel He is home on leave of absence, but is said to have no wish to return to his post. Dr. Theluck, the celebrated Protestant theolo- gian, Professor at the University ef Halle, Ger- many, celebrated, on the 7th ult., the fftieth anni- versary of his accession to a prefessional chair. Carlism in Spain is receiving very unexpected support. George H. Butler, our late Consul Gen- eral at Caire, Egypt, and his former Secretary, Major Wadleigh, are announced to have pledged their “fortunes and sacred honor” (?) to it, Aman named Juglin was the cause of a fierce duel with knives between two women, in a house on the Boulevard de Courcelles, Paris. The eon- test occurred on the 10th ult., and one of the love- maddened was fatally and the other severely wounded, The London Calcraft is about to suspend his pro- fession instead of criminals, and pass the rest of his life in seclusion, sweetened by the cultivation of roses, dahlias and tulips. When he hanged Mrs. Cotton, at Durham, he remarked she was the last on which he should “put a night cap,” though he would like to have ended his oficial life with ap- plying his ‘noble art” to a newspaper reporter. His successor is tobe Robert Pickard Evans, a well-to-do Welsh farmer, who, out of pure love for the “art”? of hanging, has assisted Calcraft for fourteen years. LOUISIANA, Resistance to the Authority of Kellogg Advocated—Men and Artillery Sent to St. Martin’s Parish. NEW ORLEANS, May 3, 1873. Twelve houses on Lafayette and First streets were burned this afternoon. Loss $30,000. During the fire a den of nickel counterfeiters was discovered, A large quantity of base coin was captured and several arrests were made. ‘he citizens of Iberia parish fee cea a Tax Resisting Association to-day. Addresses were made by several members of the bar, who offered their services free of charge. Resolutions were adopted endorsing Governor McEnery, repudiating Governor Kellogg and urging resistance to the col- lection of taxes, One hundred Metropolitans, with a’ piece of artillery, have gone to St. Martinsville, St. Martin's parish, to instal Governor's Kellogg's officers. THE CONGRESSIONAL OONFAB. Preparations to Enlighten the Legis- lators—Mayor Brown to Preside. St. Louis, May 3, 1873. Forty-three members of Congress, representing in part the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, | Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin, have already accepted invitations to gai in the Congressional Conference which is to meet here on the 13th inst. Only six of those invited | have so far sesiineds and ee se because of im- rtant business engagem Peoaptain James b. eeas, Captain W. Gould, Cap- tain John A. Scudder and G, B. Allen have been appointed a 8} | committee to report in detail the wants of the Mississippi Valley most requiring Congressional attention. . ‘A Tequest has been received from New Orleans that each Chamber of Commerce or like organiza- tion in the Mississippi Valley be invited to senda delegation to the Conference. it has been decided that Joseph Brown, Mayor Of this city, shall be President of the Conference. TO BE HUNG BY THE NECK. WALKERTON, Ont., May 3, 1873, Five prisoners, James Johnson, James Best, Arthur Best, John Kerr and Edward Bohnster, have been tried here for the murder of George Price, in the Se of Bruce, on the 17th of March last. Johnson was found guilty of wilful murder, and sentenced to be hung on the 3d of July next. The others were fonnd guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to short terms in the Pe! tiary. ANOTHER FIRE IN BOSTON. Boston, May 3, 1873. A fire broke ont at eleven o’clock this evening in the fish curing establishment of Freeman Snow, on Snow's wharf, off Federal street. The entire butiding, containing large amount of ash of va- rious kinds, was troyed, The damage is epti- mated at from ten thousand dollars to twelve thou- wand dollare, ‘THE LAVA BEDS, General illem to Surround the>,Modoes. THE RECENT BUTCHERY. Disgraceful Conduct of a Portion of the Troops. BRAVERY OF THE SURGEONS. Only Two Modoo Indians Killed During the Fight—Reinforcements Arriving. Lava Beps, May 1, 1873, No further action has been taken against the Modocs, and the lessons received by our troops on the 26th ult. are fresh in the meme- ries of those in command. Nothing will be done for the present, while awaiting the arrival of the Fourth infantry, now on their way from Little Rock. They will probably arrive at the lava beds about the 17th of this month, and the additional 500 men will on- able General Gillem to surround the enemy and starve them out. DESERTION IN FACE OF THE ENEMY. From additional particulars I have gathered relating to the fight of the 26th ult., the great loss of life is mainly attributed to the deser- tion of Company E, Twelfth infantry, and some few of the artillery, who, whgn ordered to fall back and hold a bluff in the rear of the troops, to cover their retreat, started falling back, and would probably be falling back still if they had not struck our camp. HOW THE FIGHT WAS LOST. It appears the command had just reached a little sandhill, and were grouped together talking about their trip, when a couple of shots were fired, afterwards followed by four or five more. Captain Thomas and Captain Wright displayed great coolness, the former ordering Captain Wright to move his men and to hold a position in the rear, while he sent the artillery to the right to take possession of a breastwork. If these orders had been executed there would have been comparatively slight loss. But the men went straight to camp, and when the officers and non-commissioned officers fell back te these points, expecting to be covered, they were MET BY A MURDEROUS FIRE from the Modocs, who had crept round and taken possession of the very position that they expected was held by the cowards then on their way to camp. The gallant little band were then entirely surrounded and left AT THE MERCY OF THE SAVAGES, who poured in an incessant fire. The Warm Spring Indians, who came up later, were unable to be of much assistance, as they hadte keep back to avoid the fire of our own troops. The reinforcement arrived at dark, and, not knowing the country, lay in the rocks until daylight on Sunday, when they proceeded to the relief of the wounded. BRAVERY OF THE SURGEONS. Acting Assistant Surgeon Semig behaved very gallantly, and was wounded while dress- ing the wounds of a soldier. Assistant Surgeon McEldery came out with the reinforcements and remained all Sunday and Sunday night with the wounded, alleviating their sufferings as much as possible. THE BODY OF LIEUTENANT CRANSTON has not yet been found, but there are no hopes of his having escaped. Donald McKay denies that there were four Indians killed, saying there were two scalped and he saw two carried back badly wounded. However, there were only twenty-three Indians engaged in the me REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING. General Davis and staff are expected here to-morrow evening. Captains A. Mendenhall and Hasbrouck, with 113 men of the Fourth artillery, arrived yesterday. The wounded are deing well, and receiving the most de- voted attention at the hands of Assistant Surgeon Dewitt. No Further Movement of Troops—Arrival of General Davis. SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, 1873, There has been no further movement of troops in the Java beds, General Davis arrived at General Gillem’s head- quarters on Friday. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Indications of I Hostility—Gove ernor Ferry Calls for Arms—Acting Secretary Robeson’s Reply. WASHINGTON, May 3, 1873. The Secretary of the Interior yesterday received? the following telegram from Governor Ferry, of Washington Territory :— There are strong indications of hostility among the Indians in this Territory. Emissaries from the Modocs have probably visited them. The settlers have called upon me for arms, There are none im the Territory. I await instructions. This telegram being referred to the War Depart- ment, Acting Secretary Robeson to-day informed the Secretary of the Interior that under the pro- visions of the act of 1968 the Territory of Washing- ton is entitled to atms to the value of $20,000 on ite quota for the militia, and that the War Departmen? is able to furnish about 500 stand of arms, with equipments and ammunition, to be eaten to the uota of the Territory, Kn the requisition of the Governor, either by letter or telegram; but the Acting Secretary desires that the Governor showla distinctly understand that these arms are to be! advanced only on the regular allowance of the Ter- ritory, and that the general government in no way directs or authorizes any militia operations not in- stituted by its order and under its direction and mtrol. come substance of the foregoing was to-day tele- graphed by Secretary Delano to Governor Ferry. ARMY ORDERS, The Superintendent General of the recruiting service is directed to forward to Austin, Texas, via the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, 125 re- cruits for assignment to the Tenth infantry; Cap- tain Edward V. Sumner, of the First caren, is ordered to report to Colonel Jeff. C. Davis, Oom- taander of the Department of the Columbia, for aay oe ee ack he Fagot Lieutenants Lat oe and Johnson, of the cave chgnge places om “autual applioation, yt ~! a eee nO ees. mce se