The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1873, Page 5

ad —_— NE CONTEST FOR A CROWN. Intigues in Paris Over the Vacant Spanish Throne. “\IVA CARLOS VII!” Fitting for «Dios y Rey” in the Moun- tains of Navarre. MNTPENSIER AND ALPHONSO. Jinance and Diplomacy on Be- half of Isabella’s Son. WEAKNESS OF THE REPUBLIC. Lacking Men and Money, It Must Soon Starve Itself Out. CARLIST PLANS. ++ They Have the Basque Provinces, and Will Hold the Line of the Ebro. Paxis, March 17, 1873. The recent success of the Carlist bands has thrown a new life into the party. Both the Lon- don and Paris committees, which are enabled openly to support civil war in Spain—thanks to the fact that neither France nor England has yet Tecognized thee Spanish Republic—are obviously regaining all the hopes and energy which had been lost by the party since Amadeus’ accession to the throne. The activities of the two committees seem to be quite distinct, the London one being more concerned with money and armaments, and the Paris one with the diplomatic part of the busi- ness. The importance the movement had lately obtained seemed to justify your correspondent’s endeavoring to have an interview with the lead- ere of the Paris cominittee. It took place yester- @ay, at Count D’Algarra Vergare’s residence, 33 Rue Blanche. The Count was most amiable, and quite willing to communicate his views and hopes to the HeRALD, And, first of ali, he showed your correspondent the subscription list which the com- mittee had just started, and which within the first day reached the sum of 22,000f., both.French and Spanish royalist families figuring on the list in various amounts. The number of subscribers did Rot exceed fifty when I saw the list, and among the names there were hardly half a dozen without seme sort of title; but, om the other hand, there were several marquises and viscounts who put themselves down for as little as 20f. Count D’Al- garra said the subscription in London was much more important, and added that the Carlists have never troubled themselves much about moncy Guring all the long time they have been defending the sacred cause of their King. As jar as your cor- respondent was able to remember (taking no uotes), the following is what the Count sald :— \ THE OLD CARLIST’S STATEMENT, “Money is with us of much less importance than tie American people would be disposed to think; and as a man’s wealth is much better estimated by his expenditure than bis income, so is ours too. A man can be rich with 6,000f. and poor with 600,000f., according to his establishment and ex- penditures. When had the honor to take actual part in the war for our King I had, in addition to my ration of bread and bacon, something like sixty francs as three mopths’ salary, and even this was always in arrears by several months. It was some twenty years ago, and I was then a major. Sinee then our cause bas never been abandoned, thougk it was often considered as being 2 desperate ene, and money has certainly not been flowing in till now. Our soldiers have the moral satisfaction of their work, and they come to enlist them- selves in our ranks quite armed, hay- ing often beught a gun out of the pro- ceeds of the sale of a watch or clothes. All that ts published here about the Carlist extortions and requisitions is calumny. We do nothing of the sort; and it is madness to believe that our troops would have been so welcomed and supported wherever they behaved had they behaved themselves as they are reported to do. The Agence Havas is 801d to the Republic and has always been in the hands of the usurpers of the Spanish thrane, and all the false news is spread through the tele- grams of that agency. But now, since tne le North is already in the power of King Charles VIL, @ regular telegraphic and postal service 1s about to be established with Eurepe, id everybody will have the opportunity of ge! orrect in- formation instead of tniarmous lies about women being shot and peasants bastinacdoed to death.” ur correspondent asked the Count whether really the whole North could be considered as being in possession of the Carlists. “Most certainly,” he replied, “‘we have now eight provinces in our posses: and our eet 4 a a8 soon as po le the line of the Ebro. In that way our flanks will be secured by the sea, and the King will at once establish a regular government in the whele portion of the Peninsula Rorth of the river. His Majesty must already have pe d the frontier at the present moment. His militar: formed around him, and his appvarance among the loyal people of Catalonia, Navarre and the Basque Provinces will have results to astonish the whoie of Europe.” Our correspondent asked how strong the Count estimated the total of Carlist forces. “In the north we have not much more than twenty thousand; but there aro at least ten thou- sand more scattered over Spain, and in some in- stances in places from which no news of them has t come, though some will come soon. As soon, owe the King appearsin the country the pumbe! his followers is sure to be three or four times as great. Nodoubt a considerable portion Of them will have only a lance or @ revolver for a weapon; but our flag and our saith will do more than the Kemington rifles of the Republic. You Must net ferget that we do not want either money or rations. The evuntry wiil supply us with every- thing, while the Republic must pay and bribe everywhere, and they have not got more money than we have. The proceeds of the Rio Tinto mines, sold to an English firm, have been spent to the last penny, and din veil MEW LOAN OF FIVE MILLIONS a8 yn made under the mo! of the Porto Rico mines. That will last dnear beet five days.” Your correspondent remarked that sheula the war take a more sanguinary turn there may be some interference on the part of European diplo- mew, and that the Duke of Montpenster couid ly come forward with all the infuence of his Orleans relatives id all the money he can get from them and through them, both in France aud Engiand, Concerning the Duke ofMontpensier, unt de Algarra maintained a spiteful silence, but meerning the European diplomacy, he said:— “But has any European nation, except Switzer. tand, which is no power, acknowledged the Repub- lic? You most not think the fact of their not hav- ing done so to be without significance. They are all ak interested in the re-establishment of the legitimate monarchy, and will certainly take the Grat.opportunity to aid it.” PRESIDENT GRANT'S BLUNDER. hmetion, 1 ain sorry to say, has made a great mistake in having so hurriedly recognized the Re- public. The American government was utterly misinfarmed as to the real state of aifairs in Spain, and I am surprised that a country carrying such Slarge trade and having such considerable in- terests engaged tn Spain should bave taken so ‘hurried a step. Look what a posttion the United States government has been placed in with refer- ence to Spain. They were friends of Christina, friends of Lsabella, friends of Prim, friends of Ser- Fano, admirers of Amadeus, the only supporters of men like Figueras and Gastelar, and all that within @ short time. Such an attitude towards espa d tT Seater not rovi felations of the countries in the Ton rane ia Staff, as well as his Cabinet, are already | Testored, and within a very short time regular com. munication of every Geseription will be in full working order ail along the frontier.” Spanish Politics in France. Panis, March 18, 1873. The plan and position of the Montpensier-Al- phongo party appears at present to be this:—Since the revolution of 1868 and the overthrow of the ex- Queen the Duke of Montpensier, who is her brother. in-law, broke up all relations with her and did not resume them until quite recently, when it became obvious that Amadeus could not remain long on the throne. The conservative party, which includes in Spain pearly all rich landowners, was constantly opposed to Amadeus for the eneouragement he gave the liberals, as well as on account of bis non-Spanish origin. A comparatively small portion only of this party was on the side of Don Carlos, in the first place, on account of the little chance of success he was always considered to have, and, secondly, on ac- count of the fact that Spanish as well as foreign jurists having declared the abolition of the Salic law by Ferdinand VII. to have been a perfectly legal act, and the legitimacy, consequently, being on the side of Alphonso, not of Don Carlos, In this respect the two monarchist factions in Spain are quite in a different position from the Bourbons and the Orleanists in France. Hence the fact that, while the conservative part of the peasantry are for Don Carlos, the educated and wealthy portion of conservatives are on the Alphonso side, The Duke of Montpensier has for a considerable time hoped to be able to play some day in the Pen- insula the part his father, Louis Philippe, played in France. But the Amadeus experi-» ment stowed him distinctly that no foreign prince, however wise and sympathetic, would ever be able firmly to establish himself on the Spanish throne. He consequently gave up all attempts of forming a party of his own, and be- came willing to treat with Isabella, The negotia- tions were long and difficult. Had they been car- ried out more successfully and peace between the two parties concluded sooner, tue Republic would prebably never have been proclaimed, and the con- servatives would have been able to seize the Power whem Amadens gave it up and the Cortes showed a@ disposition to repudiate the constitu- tion which prescribed that Amadeus* son should be proclaimed king and a regency appointed in case of Amadens’ retirement. Keeping in view that money can do anything in Spanish politics, and that the conservatives @re the only party that have plenty of it, the occasion is copsidered as having been a@ very favorable one at that mo- ment that it was missed, on account of nothing having been agreed upon then between Montpensierand Isabella. Itis only about five weeks ago that they concluded an allisnce on the basis of a prospective marriage between Don Alphonso ana the youngest daughter of Mont- |Site The ex-Queen was to give up all political Interference, and the Duke to become the Regent till the majority of his nephew. Measures were at ence taken to work the country in this direction; large amounts of money were prepared for emer- gencies; the foreign Courts were intluenced through the Orleans Princes and their party, man’ of the members of which are among tne Frenc! Ambassadors in various countries. M. Thiers was worked in the same direction, and apparently uite secured to the Alphonso cause, while DyAumale and the Count of Paris were preparing in the Lundon money market all that their large credit was abie to do. The postponement oi & recognition of the Spanish Republic by all the European Powers is to a considerable extent credited by the members o/ the party to the work | they have been doing. THE CUBAN BUGBEAR. It is, pers worth while mentioning that as far as the provincial population of Spain is con- cerned, one of the points of the Montpensier pro- | ‘ramme was to insist upon the Cuban question. fhe provinces have been told over and over again that the Republic would be compelled, for want of money, to sell Cuba to America; that, in fact, ne- tiations for that purpose were already gol on; hat no other government would ever think of put- ting its signature to such’ a degrading and unpa- triotic treaty, and that the first care of the Al- phonsists would be to give new laws to that colony which would secure it peace and prosperity. READY FOR SOMBTHING 0 TURN UP. The other points of the Montpensier programme were almost all contained in two werds: wait and be ready. ‘They regard it as much better to be called than to make @ call, and much more economical to come with ready money when the country shall be finally exhausted than .to spend money right and left beforehand. Mont- pensier seems periectiy certain that the Carlist war and the general all over the country will open. partisans. €; to offered a bet to same of his friends that it would never come in Spain to new elections and to the meeting of Congress. The fact that Figueras had been compelled to leave Madrid at such a critical time, to go to pacify in person the Barcelona ied- eralists, was to the Dake a new proof that “ihe Republic must tall to pieces within a month.’? ISABELLA’S. OBJECTIONABLE FAVORITES. Meanwhile some changes have taken place in his relations to Isabella, and some news came trom ; Spain, neither of which he expected. It was un- derstood between him and his sister-in-law that | Marfori and all the rest ef the let influencing the | ex-Queen would be tang aside. Christina was quite on Montpensier’s side inthis case; but the old courtiers of Isabella had so influenced her within these four or five weeks that this clause of the comtract was completely disregarded, so that at the present moment the pte whether Montpensier is still the leader of the party is by nomeans clear. ‘The friendly family relations have not been affected, but there is some political misunderstanding once more," is the ac- cepted phrase of the party to-day. The fact is that the few men surrounding Isabella “are periectly impossible” in Spain in any capacity. For her gon’s sake she will never think of pushing them | forward with him. So Montpensier could easily have'leit them alone. But he insists upon inquir- ing very Seca into the private affairs of his sis- ter-in-law, and this annoys her and renders her courtiers perfectly wild. The result is very un- favorable to the interests of Alphonso’s party; for thowgh the Mentpensier side does its best to con- ceal that there are fresh are the househoid ore f the Bazilefsky Hotel are working freely and indicate a state of affairs which, if perhaps not beyond remedy, is at least decidedly unsatis- | factory. UNPLEASANT FACTS FOR THE ALPIONSISTS. Another very unexpected circumstance quite annoys the Montpensier-Alphonso coalition. It ap- that the leaders of the peasantry eat many provinces carry away and destro§ the public property registers and plunder the private archives in such ol the great estates as they can get access to. These documents being the only le proofs of proprietary rights, the! eh to fecihtave to themselves ta this way H redistribution of landed property. This new socialistic contrivance has spread quite a panic among land-owners, small as well as great. In the Northern provinces a considerable number who had always been Alphonsists have already passed to the Garlist side on atcount of the danger they were exposed to, And new a still greater number seek the same side for protection of the documents | showing their proprietary rights. There are also desertions from the Alphonse to the republican camps on the part of smallland-owners for the same reason. This property register considera- tion may seem quite unintelligible and even absurd in America, but, nevertheless, it appears to have a very serious signification in Spain, and disquiets, to @ considerable extent, the Parisian representatives | tho Alphdhso party. BLACKMAILING. How an Individual Attempted to Obtain $20,000, Edward Reimann, of 994 Second avenue, was arrested yesterday by vetectives Bennett and Dilks, charged with blackmailing. A fortnight ago Reimann wrote a letter to Carl Franks, insurance agent, of 181 East Houston street, asking to see him on important business. On receipt of the letter Franks called on Reimann, who told him that a woman, whose name he refused to give, and who was a former servant in Franks’ family, ‘accused Franks’ wife of poisoning her vious husband, but for the sum of | $20,000 she would ieave ‘the country. Mr. Franks called on Captain Irving on the 27th of April, and that ofticer placed the case in the nands of Detectives Bennett and Diiks. Franks, under instruction of the detectives, made several appointments with Reimann, and finally agreed to pay him the sum of yee) for silence. A contract was drawn up, Which imann was to sign and in which he agreed to get the woman out of the country, Captain irving gave Franks $470 in counterfeit money and $30 in good Money, which he mark and a check for $4,500 on the Germania Bank in the Bowery, Reimann and Franks met at the bank yesterday afternoon, the centract vd Tf ie money paid oyer and Detective Bennett, w thea in the line of a itors at the time, stepped out and ar- rested Reimann as soon a8 the money was in his session. He was then taken to headquarters ‘and locked up by Captain Irving. All search to find the woman prove Le and the statements Opinions of the Press. (From the Steubenville (Ohio) News, May 3.) The New YORK HERALD has engaged Edmund Yates, John Russell Young, Berthold Auerbach and Louise Muhibach as its Vienna correspondents, That paper yesterday had, in addition to ita ordi- Dary reading matter, an eight column account of the Exposition in German, {From the Columbus (Ohio) Despatch, May 3.) The New York HERALD has commenced printing part of its edition in the German language. [From the Lynchburg Republican, May 4.] The opening of the Universal Exposition in Vienna Thursday, with the attendant ceremonies and addresses of the Archduke Charles, the Em- peror, Prince Von Auemperg and the Burgomaster of Vienna, was announced in yesterday's cable despatches, The importance of the event, bringing together as it does people and products of all coun- trigs, cannot be gainsaid, while the interest which ‘attaches to the spectacle merely is of no ordinary kind. Numerous descriptive writers have been employed by the press, both in this country and Europe, to attend the Exhibition. Among these are Edmund Yates, the English novelist, and John Russell Young, a well Known New York corre- spondent, who have sent to the NEw YORK HERALD separate accounts of the opening day. The HERALD also astonishes its readers with a duplicate in the German tongue, including an account written by Louise Muhibach, {From the Sunday Democrat (New York), May 4.] The New York HERALD is not satisfied with dis- covering travellers long supposed to be lost, and whom a nation failed to find—in piercing the depth of the ocean to reveal its hidden mysteries; in breaking through the Spanish lines, and laying open before the worla the sores of Cuba, and in penetrating the Java beds and the haunts of Captain Jack; but it must strike out a new and enterprising path. The Vienna Exhibition has attracted much at- tention lately, and the HERALD, indignant at the snail pace of our slow-coach German papers, pre- sented its German readers on Friday last with a full page in German of a description of the Exhibl- tion, written by one of Germany’s greatest living authors, and telegraphed across the ocean at im- mense expense. ‘Ihis is wonderful enterprise, and could not be equalled by any other existing news- paper, {From the Elmira Gazette, May 3.) While America at Vienna is disgraced officially, and as an exhibitor—a despatch saying the Amcri- can quarters are closed, looking battered and dingy—American journalism has gained its grand- est triumph in connection with the Exposition, which is centring at the brillant Austrian capi- tal personal culture and illustrations of the pro- gress of the world in science, art and mechanism. Thursday, with ostentatious doings, the World's Fair was formally opened. Royalty regally r flected the plaudits of the populace, while tour- ists from the New World and travellers of the Old united to swell the throng and add the | majesty of numbers to the moral and historical greatness of the hour, The enchanting field is one of keenest interest to the men of letters—the ones who form the current sentiment of the day and record the world’s doings. The great journais of the land have their representatives at Vienna, and while in other matters the United States may not figure favorably, so fur as her newspaper repre- sentation is concerned it is at once creditable, and in fact its enterprise and energy is one of the mar- | vels of this marvellous age. Take, for instance, the HERALD of yesterday. It even out-heralded itself. | Its report of the opening day ceremontes and de- | scriptions embraced sixteen columus—part in Ger- man, the other in English. The German corre- spondence is by the great German novelist and writer, Louise hbach, and Berthold Auerbach; while Edmund Yates and J. Rus- sell Young are its English writing corre- ,Spondents. Such copious reports of the opening ceremonies and the putting of them in type within afew hours after their receipt—to spread before the people on this side of the water such full and comprehensive descriptions, by writers so eminent, @ feat aad triumph reserved only for an Ameri- can newspaper, and that the HERALD. Its contri- bution to the great Exposition Is the greatest exhibition of the world’s progress that will be seon at Vienna. {From the Detroit Post, May 3.) The New YORK HERALD evidently intends to keep | the reputation for enterprise it acquired in the Abyssinian war and the search for Livingstone. It has employed Edmund Yates and John Russell Young, formerly managing editor of the New York Tribune, to tell what they see in English; and Berthold Auerbach, the celebrated German novelist, autnor of “On the Heights,” and “Country House on the Rhine,” and other works less familiar to Ameri- can readers, and Louise Milibach, whose historical romances of Frederick the Great and other heroes are famous. The two latter will write in German, and their letters will be printed in that language. English translations of their letters will appear the following day. The HeRaLp declares that these letters will be sent by the cable, appearing in its columns the day after they are written. If this is actually performed, it will be one of the latest | advances in journalism. {From the Washington Suaday Chronicle, May 4.) The NEw YORK HERALD achieved another great triumph on Friday, as it contained four accounts of the opening of the Vienna Exposition on the Ist instant, telegraphed trom the Austrian capital to New York on the evening of the day on which the Exposition opened. Mr. John Russell Young and Edmund Yates each furnished a description, while Louise Muhibach and Berthold Auerbach | write in their native language, Translations of | these descriptions appeared in the HERALD yester- | day. A portion ot Edmund Yates’ letter, relating | immediately to the opening of the Exposition, will be found upon onr first page. [From the Lynchburg Virginian, May 5.) The HERALD comes out with the rather stunning announcement that it has engaged a quartet of correspondents, consisting of Edmund Yates, John Russell Young, Berthold Auerbach and Louise | Mohlbach—iour writers of about as various qualifi- cations for their task as could weil be selected, The famous German novelists are to send their cablegrams in their native language, and the HERALD is to print them in German. first, and re- publish them in English the next daft. Of course the HERALD sets forth these arrangements with a little Nourish of trumpets, but really they do vast credit to its liberality and enterprise, as well as to American journalism itself. The paper of Friday | contained cabie specials from all four of the above writers—several pages in all—in both German and English. The HERALD is truly @ marvel of enter- | prise. [From the Philadelphia Preas, May 5.) Apart from the sagacious enterprise of the New York H&RALD in securing the best and costliest talent to perfects its history of the Vienna Expo- sition, we must give it credit for the help thus ex- tended the memorial of American liberty at Phila- delphia, July 4, 1876. To quicken the brains of fer- tile writers like Louise Muhlbach, Berthold Auer- bach and Edmund Yates in writing up a foreign | display for an American audience, is to awaken | their sympathy for the grand demonstration in | favor of American liberty and to extend the in- | terest in the Centennial. And so the HERALD is | doubly aiding itself and the country, BANK SWINDLE IN 8T, “LouIs. Sr. Louis, Mo., May 5, 1813, On Friday morning last an elegantly dressed young man entered the West St. Louis Savings Bank and presented a letter purporting to be from BE. D. Randolph & Co., bankers, of New York, in- ‘| House, and therefore convenient for its Judge. A Writ of Supereedas Granted in the Under- wood-MeVeigh Suit. THE CARPET-BAGGER “STICKS.” Fea Se A Attempt by Mr. MeVeigh to Obtain Pes- session of His House. ee a ak Description of the “Confiscated” Property and the Story of the Robbery anda Sketch of Judge Underwood. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 4, 1873. It is impossible to over estimate the interest ex- pressed in Alexandria in the result of the suit decided in Richmond last week in favor of Mr. MeVeigh, late of that city, against Judge Under- wood for the recovery of the possession of the handsome residence of Mr, McVeigh on St, Asaph street, which was, as the popular phrase goes, “confiscated” by Judge Underwood some ten years ago, and has beey occupied by him inno little stylg since. In Alexandria, “to contiscate” 1s acoloquial equivalent for “to steal,” and it is believed by the mass of the community there that the effect of the Richmond judgment will be the restoration of McVeigh’s home- stead t0 its lawful owner; but the confidence of the people in the uprightness of federal courts hag been much shaken, and there is in pop- ular talk an undercurrent of belief that Judge Un- derwood or some of his friends, wil “put an injunc- tion on it and stop the whole matter.” Confidence ig at a low ebb in the power of the State Courts to enforce their decision, however righteous, against @ powerful politician allied with the party in power, DEBCRIPTION OF THE RESIDENCE. The residence immediately atfected by the result of the suit is one of the handsomest private dwell- ings in the town and occupies a commanding site immediately adjoining the United States Court It is built upon a wide, well paved street, and, with its contiguous grounds, occupies nearly haif an acre of and in the heart or the city. The building is a very commodious three story pressed-brick house, built in the most modern style afew years before the late war, Its grounds are highly ornamented and beautified with flowers and adorned with fountains and statuary. It was purchased by Mr. Under- wood's representative lor $2,800, Upon the break- ing out of the war Mr. McVeigin, upon carrying his Jamil; wonld be the scene of hostilities, left nis Alexandria interests in charge of Mr, Robert Crupper, long bis | confidential clerk, & man o1 great sagacity, the most unblemished integrity and determination, and withal A MOST UNFLINCHING UNION MAN and enemy o! secession, 80 well known in loyalty as to be chosen in the midst of the war the first presiding Justice of the Alexandria County Court when reorganizedg under the loyal Wheeling State government. And it was for- tunate for Mr. McVeigih that he had left such an agent behind him, for there followed the Union army to Alexandria, and remained in its rear during the whole of the war, a@ horde of ad- venturors whose original migration was under- taken for the purpose of making money out of the soldiers by pedling, but who, of course, seized eedily the chances “Confiscation” and‘Aban- doned Preperty” acts offered to prey upon the homes of the revels. There had grown up out of the utterances of a New York paper at the time a feeling among the new-comers to Alexandria that the soil was, in fact, CONFISCATED BY THE ACT OF WAR, and that its occupies held merely by sufferance of the federal authorities, a suderance which 1t was every day promised would soon terminate. ‘Jest agdeé rebil people of dis town have forfit all dat was dairsand am now lying tm the mercy of the President of the United States, jes so does the | whole human family Jorfit its alt in de sin of Adam and he in the mercy of Jesus,” was the simile of a colored preacher whom your correspondent heard preach, Atthe newly organized County Court a f man was indicted for stealing some iron roperty of a gentleman who had gone South. THE ATTORNEY APPOINTED BY THE OOURT to defend the criminal (who is now a leading jurist ig a Northern city) obtained the acquittal of his ent ‘on the ground tiat by the absence o! the oWner the goods were tpso facto forfeited to the United states, and hence no verdict could be given under an indictment which laid the aiid in the absentee, It was during the tull prevalence of this sentiment that Mr. Underwood was made United States Judge for the Eastern district of Vir- ginia, and took up his headquarters in Alexandria, UNDERWOOD’S ANTECEDENTS, He had been at one time admitted to the prac- tise of law, but had come to Virginia as a scnool- teacher, and Herpes there, settled upon his wite’s farm, He had always been thoroughly anti- slavery, aud was fearless in the expression of his opinions and acting up to them, an exercise of freedom which required both physical and moral courage toa high degree. Prominent as an anti- slavery man, he represented Virginia both in her national republican convention which nominated Fremont an‘ in that which nominated Lincoln, and was one of the electors in each campaign. He won the admiration of many of his opponenis for the dauntless courage with which he main- tained, for himself and all others, the right of FREE SPEECH IN VIRGINIA, but was hated by the vast majority of the people in whose midst he dwelt, and who viewed him as an alien stirring up sedition. With the success of tue | republican party came the personal triumph of Mr, Underwood, Be was master of tie situation, and for several years he was the master spirit in the civil government of Virginia, It must be said to his credit that he has never sought to avenge the personal indignities of which he was the victim when slavery was secure of its dominion in Vir- ginia, He was elected Senator (but was not ad- mitted), and was chairman of the convention which framed the present constitution of the State. At the time he was appointed District Judge he found the sentiment that ‘ALL REBEL PROPERTY WAS FORFEIT, and needed only that some method should ve de- vised to enforce the forfeiture,” the current idea in Alexandria. The Commissioners to collect taxes iu insarrectionary States had deciimed to allow the taxes to be patd by any but the person owning the estate or some interest therein, and had advertised for sale half the counties round about; not because the tax could not be collected, but because the Owner was absent. The “abandoned property agents” were claiming as abandoned property tables on which people were eating, and judge Underwood became easily A CONVERT TO THE DOCTRINE, Confiscation, in his view, was not the exercise of aconstitutional prerogative “for tne life of the person attainted,” but a revolutionary method of punishing traitors, dictated by the higher law. “The earth is the Lord’s, and He has given it to His saints, and we are his satnts.”’ “He bath given us the Alexandrian for a spoil and THE BTHIOPIAN POR AN INHERITANCE.” In this spirit of fanaticism and greed he decreed in all the confiscation cases which came before him a forfeiture of the fee simple. Mr. Crupper had succeeded in preserving McVeigh’s estate from all the adventurers who had sougit it, nut before THE COMBINATION OF OAKES AMES, Alley and Underwood he yi a Ls and Un- derwood took possession of MeVeigh’s property. More than one leading republican has denounced his course. He has lost caste with in his party, but he heeps McVeigh’s house and dwelis amid the blossoms which Spring—tnat comes alike to the just and apjust—calis oat on MeVeigh’s fruit trees, Will he eat the fruit ? Mr. McVeigh Taking Possession of His Property=A Scene at the Door of the House—U nderwood’s Pious Prayer for MeVeigh—A Writ of Supercedas Granted by Judge Bradley, of the Supreme Coart. ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5, 1873. In accordance with the writ ejecting Judge Un- derwood, of the United States District Court, from the posession of a valuable residence in Alexan- dria owned by Mr. McVeigh and purchased by the 1864, City Sergeant Stuart, the executive officer of the anctent city of Alexandria, accompanied by Mr. McVeigh and his son-in-law, moved in person onthe house of the carpet-bag Judge and boldly took possession of the front door bell. A house- hold goddess, in form human, in color very blac in appearance shabby, made her appearance. Ser- geant Stuart requested to see Mra, Underwood, who made her appearance in a minute, when the following conversation ensued :— SgrogaNT—I came, Madam, upon unpleasant business. Mrs. UNDERWOOD—What is it ? SERGEANT—It is to put Mr. McVeigh in possession of these premises, by an order issued out of the Finding the discussion of this topic without any made by Reimann to the police were found to troducing James 8. Adama and enclosing a draft Eeertain your co’ paced eae wheat od Ce false. He will be taken re Coart this merning, ~ for $8,000, certified by the Nassau Bank of New in the northern provi a York. The regular cashier of the bank being ab- to be in the possession.of Lon Caron, ‘The | PAST TRAINS BETWEEN NEWPORT AND sent, Mr. Harker, s young man temporarily eating rot ae BOSTON. as Cashier, examined the papers, and, thinking hea & regular custom be cated ah them genuine, gave Adams 2,560, being all ne porvice is oro ued and duties are levied Hantrorp, Conn., May 6, 1873, | di at the time. Later in the day Harker yy the King’s r. There has scarcely ‘The fast express trains between New York and ¢ suspicious and telegraphed to the Nassau as much ware of all sorts through Daue! Bank and to Randolph & Co., receiving replies that se during the last five or six days, | The con..| Boston, vis this city, will be put on May 26. They | noth the letter drait were forgeries, ‘The military are established at Véra. The \ Will leave each city at ten o’clock A. M. and make | police were ni of the transaction, but Mr. masta) Maleakaph apd raumay, services are FUR Of 29 Mes LD ACVED ROUTH LDGluding sippy | Adama conid not pe sound, are , Corporation Court of Alexanaria, Mrs, UnpgRWooD—Is that all ? “THE MOST UNKINDRST CUT OF AJL.” SBRAMANT~NO J have am execution directing out of the reach of what tt was then thought | rominent men | judge at a confiscation sale ordered by himself in | NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET. | THE HERALD AND THE VIENNA EXPOSITION. | ‘THE UNJUST JUDGE. me to levy upon the Judge’s personal effects to eatisfy a jademeant for rent in Mr, Me Veigh’s favor, Mrs, UNDERWOOD—Proceed, sir, and make your levy. I ask no favors and expect no leniency. SenqeaNt—Madam, I would prefer waiting until the Judge’s return. Mrs, UNpERwoop—Use your pleasure, sir. She then bid the visitors good morning. At hali-past twelve Judge Underwood arrived, and the Sergeant, introducing himself, introduced also Messrs. McVeigh and Balwin, who shooks hands with the homely expounder of law. The Sergeant then told him the object of his visit, and the fol- Jowing conversation ensued :— UNDERWOOD—Gentlemen, to save all further tronbte, I willinform you that a supersedeas upon & writ of error has been awarded by Judge Bradicy, one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court ol the Unived States, MeVeian—I don’t understand how this coald possibly have been done, for there had been no boas from the Court of Appeals up to Satur- las ERGEANT—If it is true that a supersedeas has been issued I can proceed no further, MoVeian—Where is Mr. Beach, Judge Under- wood’s counsel? Let us see him, QUESTION BY THE SERGEANT. ‘ SERGEANT—If the super'sedeas has been improp- erly granted it does not invalidate what I have already done in placing Mr, McVeigh in possession of his house—does it, Judge ? UNDERWOOD—No, message delivered by the Sereeant) deas has been granted, but 1 woul consult your own counsel. The superce- advise you to ing for Norfolk, where 1 have to hold Court to- morrow. He then bid his visitors goodby, saying, “Goody, M veigh; God bless you!’? riGH—Jadge, can’t conceal my feelings. 1 don't like you; I can’t like you, UNDERWOOD—That must be with yourself. Tableau—Rxeunt omnes, ‘The denoument was not wholly unexpected, as the Supreme Coart, is looked upon by the loyal Vir- ginians as a political machine, and the members or the Court, who have received their appointments to sustain the truly loyal, are not blamed for their political prejudices against the South, There is one member of the Cabinet whose opinion concern- ing Underwood's course is not at all reserved, and he says if he ts not impeached it will be because the Crédit Mobilier ring will have more influence in the next Congress than it had in the last, ART MATTERS. Mr. E. L. Henry’s New Picture. M L. Henry, whose stadio in the Tenth street building is one of the most chastely, richly and variously decorated of any in New York, is |, putting the-last touches to a new picture entitled “The Meeting of Washington aud Rochambeau at Newport in 1780,” _It belongs to a tavorite class of subjects with Mr, Henry and is treated with mach felicity. The scene takes place in the spacious liall of the oid Hunter House at Newport, the group oc- cupying the righthand side of the picture. To the left ascends the grand antique stairway, one of the most magnificentin this country. A door open at the back of the hall lets in a burst of sunlight and reveals a glimpse of green sward, blue sky and Narragansett Bay. There is a unity of the domestic and historical in this little picture which renders it quite charming. Novelties at the Leavitt Art Gallery. Mr. Leavitt is to be thanked for this—that he is not such a devotee of the humdrum and Beeotian as to refuse to insert a novelty from time to time | among his art collections, Among the pictures now on view at his Broadway gallery are more than fifty painted on porcelain which deserve to rank as novelties. Among these are two by Charles Houry, representing Airican slaves, male and female, painted after nature and wonder(ul tn their vraisemblance, Halfa dozen noticable speci- mens came from the Messrs. Chopin, father and son, and consist of an “Oriental Landscape,” “Dogs’ Heads” (a pair); “Monkeys—Paenlin and Cook” (a pair); *Wheese and Herring” (a pair) ; “The Bath’? (Camayen blue and purple); “The Fe: male Bathers” (a pair,in Camajen purple); a “Landscape” (Camain blue); and “Oysters and a Pie.” In the first eveming’s sale there are 120 lots, among which occur a “Landscape,” by Black- man; several pictures by Brevoort; ‘Ro- man Campagna,” Cropsey; “Sketch tn Italy,” Innes; a couple of patutings by Langs “Coming Through the Rye” and “Neur Garfleld,” by T. L, Smith, and a very large and important work by Charles Houry, called “The Tithe,” and representing a couple of monks re- Joicing over the tithes in country prodace. Other works of note by this artist are, ‘“‘The De- scent of the Cross,’’ in which pus papillage to Cog- nist betrays itself; the “African Slaves,” to which we have already referred, and the works ranging | from 90 to 98. ‘The second evening's sale will com- prise the private collection of oi! paintings beiong- ing to Mr. B. F. Corties, about one hundred in | number. The principal contributions are by Arm- | field, Kaemmerer, Lebret, Verhoeven, Grips, Hotl- man, Brevoort, W, T. Richards, Brillouim, Revirre, Heade, Dansaert, Sonntag, W. F. De Haas, Inness and Koekkoek. The eyenings of sale are Wednes- day end Thursday next; the place Clinton Hall sulesroom, THE VERMONT CE: TRAL RAILROAD. The Investigation Fails to Get Evidence of Fraud—VThe Green Mountainecrs Ex- cited and Incensed Against Hypocritical Boston. Sr. ALBANS, Vt., May 5, 1873. The investigation of the charges against the trustees of the Vermont Central Railroad, relating to fraud and peculation, was resumed this morn- ing. Mr. Fifield, counsel for the trustees, made an introductory motion, and called upon the reporter of the Boston Traveller to take the stand. ! amounts set respectively against the names that appeared in the Traveller on Saturday last. Mr. Carpenter, the witness, said the list was not. | printed correctly. In several instances the amounts in the colamn of dollars shouid be cents. The mis- to be. ‘there were four misprints, and he was not | certain that the other items were correct. The witness was questioned in regard to the depo: tions which appeared In the Traveller last week were placed before the committee. + Mr. Davenport, counsei for the committee, stated that Mr. Worthington, publisher of the Traveler, came to him before the depositions were taken and asked if he could have @ reporter present; that he made no objection and the re- orter was present and took notes, ir. Carpenter further testified that he had | been dismissed from the freight department of the railroad for permitting his brotuer, M. B. Car- penter, a lawyer of St, Albans, to ride on his pass amount of money paid out for legal services did not aggregate $5,000 a year, a8 was shown by the | books. A large number of railroad employés in the | shop, master mechanic, heads of departments and | others were examined and Mr. Hatch, general agent, who has in charge ali matters that come up before the Legislature, was also examined in re- gard to retainers to lawyers, but not one particle of evidence was elicited to show that there had been fraud, peculation or improper imfuence at Montpelier. The witnesses summoned by the State have all been discharged, and the counsel has nothing fur- ther to offer, The arguments will be made prob- ably to-morrow. It is not certain what course the trastees will pursue, but the investigation has re- will not take any great pains to proiong it. The hearings have been largely attended, and there has been intense interest in the proceedings, and there is great indignation at the parties woo. have been the getters up 01 the attack upon the trustees, an@ who have attempted to dejame the Judiciary = the Legislature by accusing them of taking bribes. trustees is good, or whether they have made money Cer et? ; bat whether they have made it wrongfully, whether they have defrauded, whether they have bribed men in high position. The trustees, the Judges, the legal Iraternity have come out of | the ordeal with clean hands. ‘There is almost uni- |. versal indignation at tae course pursued by the | newspaper in Boston that has done what It could | to sinirch the citizens of Vermont and that mani- fested ite zeal by sending a reporter to attend the taking of depositions and by having them in type to print the moment the telegraph informed the publisher and editor that they had been presented; and the Vermonters de not quite relisa the two column article that was prepared in Boston and sent over # New York, that was published in oue of your newspapers, accompanies prejsdging t Legisiature, the Judges and the trustees in advance, classing them with Erie Rail- road officials. ‘The Green Mountain citizens are quick to resent such an insult. BROOKLYN'S NEW HEALTH BOARD, Under a recent act of the Legislature the Board of Health of Brooklyn has been reorganized. The | act made the Mayor, Comptroller and Auditor an ap- | pointing Board to appoint two physicians, who, in conjanction with the President of the Board of Police, should compose the Board of Health. ‘The appoint Board met several times, but were unable to agree upon the candi- dates. The ‘or was favor of reappoint- y' ing Dr. Otterson, the present incumbent, but th ‘Auditor was in favor of Dr. J. ©. Hutchinson, who, i¢ is said, wae also the choice of Senator Perry: The Board met on Saturday and appointed Dr. Conkling, Who was Assistant Sanitary Baperintend: ent onder the metropolitan organization. Yester- day the Board met again, when Dr. Hutchinson Was wy appointed, Mr, Beacu (who had arrived in response to a | UNDERWOon—Gentlemen, [am just about start- | He was | | questioned in regard to the list of lawyers and the prints make the amount $25,000 more than it ought | the same day and within a few minutes after they | over the road. Mr. Fifleld stated that the reports in | the Traveller were garbled and false; that the fuil | sulted so greatly in their favor that they probably | It is not whether this or that policy of the | by an editorial | 5 WASHINGTON. a Secretary Fish and the Disgraced Expo- sition Commissioners. SIDNEY WEBSTER SENT TO VIENNA. The Sum Total of the Congres- sional Conscience Fund. MEXICAN RAIDS INTO TEXAS WASHINGTON, May 5, 1878, The Vienna Shame and the State Dee partment—Sidney Webster Seat Out to Settle the Difficulty. The hasty action of the State Department in | dealing with the Vienna scandal ts now deeply re- | gretted by the Secretary of State, who will endea- vor to make amends for the summary deposing of gentlemen whose reputations are quite as good, it is said, as those temporarily appointed, and who, | however innocent, have been subjected to having | their names publicly paraded as guilty of dishonor- able acts. What should have been done, it is now conceded by the State Department, would have been to quietly supersede the suspected parties, Who were as well known at the time Minister Jay first announced the scandal as they are to-day, ‘There are rumors that the precipitate action of the State Department will reflect somewhat person- ally on two or three prominent officials at home and abroad, and the great diplomatic question now perplexing the inhabitants of the | Orphan Asylum building is to let the whole subject down as gently as possible, It is not definitely known that Sidney Webster, Secretary Fish’s son in-iaw, has plenary power to do as he pleasés on reaching Vienna, but it is whispered that he hag instructions to heal the difficulties in the best way he can. It is asserted by the friends of General Van Buren that he can show that sLx ot the original appointees were names suggested by the Secretary | of State himself, The friends of the latter, how- ever, reply by saying that the Secretary, in the peremptory order first issued, only showed how disinterested he was by not makiog, in such an emergency, a distinction be tween friends and strangers. To this the defenders of General Van Buren answer: Are hig | last selections likely to be better than his first? | There is much unpleasantness on both sides; and, as wis remarked to your correspondent to-night by @ gentleman familiar with the whole subject, “the HERALD {s entitled to the credit of exposing what the State Department studiously tried to conceal, While the State Department deserves | much censure for not dealing with the scandal ag frankly at first as it bungliugly did after the firat | publication of the report.’ Mexican Raids into Texas, A letter from Corpus Christi, dated April 21, pub lished in an evening paper here, says that at that time there were two bands of Mexicans, number. | ing thirty each, who were devastating that section | of Texas from Mexico across to Texas, into the | interior and thence to Laredo. They have their headquarters at Guerrero, Mexico, which is easily accessible, and where they go when hard pushed | by the uprising of indignant rancheros who have been plundered, These bands are operating prin- cipally in Mueces county, within sixty miles of Corpus Christi, and defy the civil authorities, Stores are sacked and travel on the highway is at. tended with robbery, @ rope or a pistol shot. Thomas Kearney, ex-Collector of Customs, | while returning home from Larredo to Corpus Christi, where he had been called to collect government funds, barely escaped both bands, When tiese raids are made the farmers | are compelled to leave their work and shoulder | their muskets to, protect their homes. Ffteen determined citizens from the surrounding country of Banquette pursued the gang of Mexican robbers, They discovered in one chaparral the evidence that 125 cattie had been stripped of their hides and in another more than sixty-elgnt. Catching up with the gang arunning fire ensued, and they were so fortunate as to return home with seven captured horses, the saddles being empty. Such | proceeaings are frequent, The repeated raids re- tard immigration, ruin the rancheros, reducing them from competency to poverty, aud make ail kinds of trade stagnant. Revenue Marine Intelligence. Captain A, A. Fengar, of the revenue marine service, is detached from the command of the Dei aware, at Mobile, and’ordered to Philadelphia to | report thence to the Department; First Lieutenant C. W. Smith, from command of the Guthrie, at Bal- timore, to duty on the Chase, at Ogdensburg, N. +; First Lieutenant Russell Glover, from waiting orders to the command of the Guthrie; Second } Lieutenant A. D. Littlefield, from duty on the Moc casin, at Newport, to walt orders; H. L. Sturgis, { from the Campbell, at New London, to the Moc | casin; T. D. Waiker, from the Petrel to the Camp H. Roberts, from the Racer to Washington | City; H. D, Smith, from the Dobbin to the Racer; | Robert Barstow. from the Nansemond tofthe Perry; | L. J. Simmons, from the Relief to the Nansemond, | The Exportation of Horses and Cereals from Turkey Forbidden. Owing to the scarcity of Arab horses m certain | parts of the Ottoman Empire the Turkish govern | ment has forbiddeh the exportation of horses from | the vilayets of Bagdad, of Syria and of Aleppo for the next seven years, to date from April 9, 1873. In | consequence of the bad harvest tiat government | has also prohibited the exportation of cereals from | the districts of Raustchank and of Yiden for three | montns from April 12, 1873. Important Decision by the Commissioner of Pensions. The Commissioner of Pensions to-day announeed | the following highly important ruling :-— Section 9 of the act of March 3, 1873, provides for no addition to the $2 increase pension in apy case. it is @ consolidation of section 2 of the act of | July 25, 1866, and sections 4and 5 of the act of July 27, 1868, with an amendment to the former sections | 80 a8 to give the same increase to the widow of the | soldier or sailor for the children by @ former wife as for the children by herself, and to the widow of an oficer as well a3 4 sodier or sailor, It also gives the increase to all the children under sixteen years of age of oMcers as wellas soldiers aud Sailors, instead of ali but one where there is no widow or where she has died or remarried. In other respects 1t embodies the provisions uf the turee sections named. It is proper to add such Was the object of the sectioa as held by the Com- | Mssioner of Pensions in botivhouses of Congress, | Senators Casserly and Bayard Off on @ Tour of Inspection. Senators Casserly and Bayard will leave Wash~ | ington to-morrow for Richmond, where they will start out on a tour of inspection of the line of the | Proposed James River and Kanawha improvement | for connecting by a great water course the Chesa* | peake Bay with the Ohio River. Senator Casserly | 1a @ member of the Senate Committee on Transpor- tation, of which & sub-committee will sit during the Summer in San Francisco and perhaps in | Portland, Oregon, He and Senator Bayard will be | accompanied by the United States engineers who have surveyed the proposed line, and by Colonel | Carrington, President of the James River and Kanawha Company, and other citizens of Virginia. The Congressional Conscience Fund. ‘The aggregate amount paid into the United States ‘Treasury up to noon to-day by twenty-seven mem- bers of Congress, it being their return of extra | compensation, is $111,000 97, including the check | received this morning from Secretary of the Senate Gorham, on account of Senator Sumner, for $4,444 60, Fremont and the El Paso Swindle, The friends of General Fremont tn this city, who are deeply interested in his case, hope that the ne, gotiations now going on here will result in the as signment of the fexas land grant to the Paris brokers who negottated the bonds, to be followed by @ termination of the legal proceedings now pending against him in France. Meanwhile the French Minister ts devoting much tinte to the case and the claim bis country has for Fremont under the extradition treaty,