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6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JATAES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. 128 Volume XXXVIII.... AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway. Frov. ‘WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Street—Tux Squire's Last SHiL.inc. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monts Cristo. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Dappr O'Down. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, Burwxsqve anv Oxi0. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street—Ronix Hoop. 87. JAMES' THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st— MoEvor's New Hiarknico: BOWERY THEATRE, Tausm Emigrant, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728.and 780 Broad- ‘way.—Divonce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st— Wuir Reitty. Afternoon and evening. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue,—Das StirrunGsrEst. ATHENEUM, 58 Broadway.—Granp Vanrery Ewrse- PALeENT. wery.—CLavpe Duval—Tax NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston sts—Azraxt; on, Taz Magio Cuanm. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker street.—Homrry Domrry. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Unver tax Gasuicur, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No, 201 Bowery.— Variety EWTERTALNMENT. -third st. corner BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twen Munsrazisy, &o. Matinee at 2 6th av.—Nzaro NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— Scrmvce anv Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. co = THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE DEATH OF CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE! ANOTHER OF THE GREAT LIGHTS OF THE NATION REMOVED"—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SixTH Pace. GNOTHER EMINENT AMERICAN GONE! CHIEF JUSTICE SALMON P. CHASE, OF OHIO, SUDDENLY DIES OF APOPLEXY! AT- TENDED BY GRIEF-STRICKEN RELATIVES AND FRIENDS TO THE LAST! HIS OBSE- QUIES! LYING IN STATE! THE SUCCES- SION! THE NATION MOURNING ITS GREAT LOSS—Turrp Pace. LOUISIANA IN REVOLT! A BATTLE AT ST, MARTINSVILLE! ATTEMPTED ASSASSI- NATION OF GOVERNUR KELLOGG! NEW ORLEANS INTENSELY AGITATED! A RIOT TO BE SUPPRESSED AT ALL HAZARDS— SEVENTH Pace. NORTH CAROLINA SWEPT BY A TERRIFIC HURRICANE! EXTRAORDINARY DEVAS- TATION! WONDERFUL ESCAPES—SEVENTH Paar. THE WAR IN CRINA! A REBEL STRONGHOLD CAPTURED BY THE IMPERIAL FORCES IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—SEvENTH Page. CARLIST DEFEATS! SPANISH POLITICIANS PRESENT IN THE PORTUGUESE CAPITAL— SEVENTH PaGr. HEALTH OF THE HULY FATHER! HIS OON- DITION STILL DOUBTFUL—THE VIENNA WORLD'S FA®—Saventu Paces. AUSTRIAN RAILWAY PASSENGER CAR- RIAGES WRECKED! TWENTY-ONE PER- SONS KILLED AND FORTY MAIMED— SEVENTH Pace. DENIAL OF THE KHIVAN SURRENDER NEWS! THE “NOKD,” THE RUSSIAN ORGAN IN BRUSSELS, SAYS THE KHAN HAS RE- LEASED PRISONERS, BUT WILL NOT SUR- RENDER—SEVENTH PaGE. & POLICE STRIKE IMMINENT IN THE’ IRISH CAPITAL—AN ACHEEN WAR BILL PRE- SENTED TO THE DUTUH CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES—SEVENTH PAGE. SIR BARTLE FRERE TO RETURN IMMEDIATELY TO ENGLAND! THE OBJECTS OF THE EXPEDITION—THE CHESTER (ENGLAND) RACES—SEVENTH PaGE. NO DAY FIXED BY THE LEGISLATURE FOR FINAL ADJOURNMENT! THE SENATE PASSES THE CHARTER SUPPLEMENT AND THE NEW POLICE BILL—TentH Pace. OAKES AMES SLOWLY SINKING INTO THE GRAVE! THE DIAGNOSIS OF THE DIs- EASE! HIS FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS GATHERING AROUND THE DEATHBED— TENTH PAGE. STOKES’ MOTION FOR A NEW TRIAL DENIED! THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES A UNIT IN THE DECISION! JUDGE FANCHER DELIV- ERS THE OPINION! STOKES OUTWARDLY INDIFFERENT—Fovrti Pace. t:) ».¢ Tas Rerorm Movement in Exotanp.—In the House of Commons on Tuesday night Sir Charles Dilke moved a resolution to the effect that, in the opinion of the House, it was desirable to redress the inequalities in the dis- tribution of political power in the United Kingdom. In the opinion of the radical Baronet ‘‘the time for tinkering had gone by, and a complete and thorough revision was the only remedy.’’ The motion of Sir Charles, although it led to something like a debate, did not command the approval of the House. The figures produced by Sir Charles, and by others who spoke in favor of the resolution, show that there is much room for improvement in the distribution of seats. Mr. Gladstone settled the question and determined the vote, which was subsequently taken, by a few pointed re- marks. He acknowledged the force of the reasons on which the motion was based, but he could not support it. He was not opposed to a redistribution of seats, but he did not feel that the case was urgent. The whole question would have to be dealt with in © broad and comprehensive measure ; but as this was the last year of the present Parliament it was impossible fully to consider and satisfactorily to settle a question of so much importance. It was not his belief that such @ measure was demanded by the public at present. The vote showed that Mr. Gladstone rightly understood the temper of the House ; for the motion was negatived by 268 as against 77. In the present House of Commons, therefore, there is but small chance for the reformers of the Dilke and Bradlaugh and Odger type. For the present the British people seem to think they have had enough of reform. In the next House of Commons, ld Mr. Gladstone be in power, it is not possible that he himself may attempt, with ects of success, the settlement of of the redistribution of seats. beset with many difficulties, and it a mind of his grasp to undertake it Bud to insure success, NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Beath of Chief Justice Chase— Another of the Grent Lights of the Nation Removed. Another of our most distinguished states- men and jurists, another of the great political lights of the nation, has been removed. Sal- mon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, died in this city yesterday morning, somewhat sud- denly, and to the surprise of this community, for it was here the general impression that his failing strength for a year or two past had of late been sufficiently reinstated to promise him yet: many years in the prolongation of his invaluable public services, On Saturday he came to this city from Washington, apparently in perfect health; on Sunday he rode out with some friends through our Central Park, and highly enjoyed the recreation. On Mon- day he walked down town with the elasticity and cheerfulness of a vigorous man of fifty ; but in the evening the shock came, and in the morning all that remained of the stately pres- ence of our Chief Justice was a lifeless form of clay. On the 14th of this month, wo understand, he had contemplated, with ex- Governor Gilpin, of Colorado, a pleasure trip to that Territory and a stay of a month or two in the salubrious and health-giving sir of those lofty inland mountains and mountain valleys. But short as was the last warning of his impending summons we are assured that he was fully prepared to meet it, and that as a man and a Christian his death was the crown- ing glory of his life. We shall not enter here into a recapitulation of the many conspicuous events and historical landmarks of the long and eminently distin- guishedepublic career of our deceased Chief Justice. For these interesting details we refer our readers to the comprehensive sketch of the great man’s career which we give elsewhere in these columns. But in the associations, the bearings and the far-reaching consequences of the lead- ing ideas and enterprises of this great man’s public life there is so much of attractive matter to the political historian that we cannot forego some passing observations thereon. The initial landmark from which we may trace the whole active political career of Salmon P. Chase was established in that famous case in Cincinnati, in 1837, of a colored woman claimed as a slave, in which the young lawyer appeared in behalf of the poor slave—an undertaking which was so un- popular and unpromising at that day that it was regarded as the essence of folly or fanati- cism. But Chase had seized the grand idea of equal rights, and while, from his legal training under William Wirt, his mind had been anchored on the constitution, he saw that, within the pale of the constitution as it was, there were metes and bounds to the conces- sions made to slavery, and to these he had re- solved to hold the “peculiar institution,” Hence, in defending this helpless slave woman, he pleaded that the constitution gave no authority to Congress to impose or confer power in fugitive slave cases on State magis- trates—a legal point upon which, years after, he was sustained by the supreme judicial authority of the country. In this initial slave case we have, then, the active beginning and the keynote of the political life of Salmon P. Chase. We have here that well-considered and deliberately adopted first overt act which, down to the fourteenth amendment, gavo color, shape and purpose to the political course of this courageous adventurer into the forbidden ground of slavery. Having chosen his line of political action, we find him next the powerful leader in the or- ganization in Ohio of the ‘liberty party,”’ the party which, in 1844, under the flag of Birney, carried off in New York the whig anti-slavery balance of power from Henry Clay, thus giv- ing this State to Polk and electing him Presi- dent. Clay had not answered on the question of the proposed annexation of Texas as a slave State to the satisfaction of the abolition- ists. Polk was the slaveholders’ champion, and so the liberty party, mainly directed by Chase, voted for Birney. The results were: first, the election of Polk; next, the annexation of Texas asa slave State; next, the Mexican war; and next, under the active leading mind of Chase, among others, the organization of the ‘tree soil party,’’ a new anti-slavery move- ment against the extension of slavery into the free territories acquired from Mexico in our treaty of peace with that country. In 1848, with the ticket of Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams, this free soil party, carrying off the right wing of the New York democracy, gave the State to Taylor, and elected him President—the same pro- cess of cutting in by this third party by which Clay was defeated in '44. We next find Chase in the United States Senate, with the forlorn hope of the free soil party in that body, battling first against the Compromise measures of Clay (1850), which included the Fugitive Slave law; next we find him as bravely disputing the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the kernel of which was a plan for a new slave State in Kansas, in violation of one of the Missouri compacts, which had been retained in Clay’s compromises. From this Kansas-Nebraska bill of squatter sovereignty, and in the so-called border ruffian war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Territory, was given to the country the gloomy overture of our great Southern rebellion. We were thrown upon the verge of this frightful abyss with the dis- ruption of the democratic party at Charles- ton in 1860—the cotton States straightened themselv es on secession for the fatal plunge with the election of Lincoln, and on his in auguration, in 1861, he was confronted by a Southern Confederacy, organized for peace or war with the United States on the ultimatum of Southern independence. Through all this period of # superheated agitation of the slavery question, culminating in civil war, we find Chase, at Washington or in Ohio, in the front rank of the anti-slavery propaganda, with Seward, Sumner, Wade, Hale and their small, but powerful and steadily advancing and increasing party, in Congress. In the Chicago Convention of 1860 Chase, after Seward and Lincoln, in the outset stood next 4s the probable nominee for the republican party. The votes of the Convention, until Lincoln took the lead, were divided between Seward, Lincoln, Chase, Cameron and Bates. In the original formation of his Cabinet, con- sidering the importance of harmony in his party camps, Lincoln adopted the bold idea of making a Cabinet of his Chicago competitors— Chase, Seward and others—for the Presi- mey. But this arrangement was soon broken by several changes, including Stanton for the War Office in place of Cameron. Then, with Seward as Secretary of State, Chase as the head of the Treasury and Stanton in the War Office, Lincoln, that earnest and steadfast champion of the Union, was founded ona rock. In Seward he had the cool and skilful diplomatist which the crisis required to avoid a threatened warlike entanglement with England and France; in Stanton’s won- derful abilities in providing for and managing @ million of men in the field he had the very man he wanted for the stupendous mass of work assigned him and its appalling compli- cations, But, as the Great Frederick ex- pressed it, ‘an army is like a serpent, for it moves upon its belly ;"’ and without the indis- Pensable sinews of war we could not have raised the soldiers required to extinguish the Southern Confederacy. In providing the ways and means for raising, equipping and maintaining a million—yea, eleven hundred thousand fighting men—in addition to a gigan- tic navy and a costly civil list during the four years of our great rebellion, the sagacity and the comprehensive talents displayed by Chase in his department will fully compare with the amazing capabilities of Stanton in pushing on the war, or the masterly diplomacy of Soward in maintaining peace, Taking up here the broken thread of the Presidential aspirations and movements of our late Chief Justice, it may be said that if he was not disappointed in 1860 he was in 1864, and most keenly disappointed in 1868. In these misfortunes—if they may so be called— he belongs to that unnumbered multitude of Presidential aspirants of which Clay, Calhoun, Webster, Cass and Douglas have occupied the front rank. But in 1868 tho failure of the Chief Justice to secure the democratic nomi- nation was less a misfortune to himself than to the democratic party. He had discovered that the time had come for a new departure for this oft-defeated but still powerful and energetic party; that the issues of the war were virtually settled, and that the fulfilment of his grand idea of equal rights, after thirty years of unflinching and zealous labor on his part, left him at full liberty to enter into a new party organization looking to those other great ideas of State rights and free trade. But the democratic party, with the old pro-slavery film still befogging its vision, failed to perceive the advantages in 1868 of the ‘new departure’’ suggested under the Presidential standard of Mr. Chase, and so the golden opportunity was lost. The adventure under Greeley and Brown, in 1872, was not only too late, but too abrupt and too violent and extreme as a democratic change of base, and hence its disastrous collapse. Considered as statesman or politician, finan- cier or jurist, or in all these capacities to- gether, the public life of Salmon P. Chase may be pronounced singularly consistent, sagacious and successful. Itembraces, through the period of his official career, all the great questions, issues, events and characters which make up the political history of the country. It is the record of a conscientious, consistent and patriotic philanthropist and reformer, who never lost sight of the boundaries of the constitution. In liis death we lose a states- man and a Chief Justice whom all parties, creeds and nationalities delighted to honor; anda man in whose majestic and attractive presence, winning manners and genial and instructive conversation, all men were charmed; and a fellow citizen whose purity of life, unspotted record and generous character we may, without qualification, hold up as an example to our rising young men aspiring to a life and name of usefulness, honor and last- ing distinction. It will be difficult to fill the measure of his attainments, legal experience and sound judgment in filling the seat he has left vacant in the Supreme Court. We can only hope that the President, in appointing his successor, will endeavor as far as prac- ticable to perpetuate in our ccurt of last resort the accomplishments and the qualifica- tions of Chief Justice Chase. The Mayoralty Question—ls the Blun- der Remedied? The Hznaty having discovered and pointed out the serious blunder made in the charter in regard to the office of Mayor, the Legis- lature has very properly sought to remedy the oversight by which it left Mr. Havemeyer out of office, or, at least, with a doubtful tenure, by amending section 20 by the addition of the following words:—‘‘The Mayor in office on April 29, 1873, shall hold office until the first Monday in January, 1875, and shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation, shall hold his office for the term of two years, and his successor shall be elected at the gen- eral State election in 1874.’" We are glad to see that Mr. D. P. Wood, who introduced this amendment in the Supplemental bill, was sensible of the importance of the subject. The press and the politicians treated the defect in the charter with indifference, and, although the Heratp pointed out: its grave importance, the venerable Mayor himself was prompted by Comptroller Green to treat it with indifference. It did, in fact, affect all laws, ordinances and bonds to which the signature of the Mayor is by law required to be affixed, and all tenures of office in appointments made by the Mayor. It isa maxim with conveyancers to save a question if you can; to cure the faintest blemish if it be possible; to take no risks, however small they may appear, with a title. In this Mayoralty question the blemish was patent, and the Senate acted wisely in attempting its cure. But is the defect in Mr. Havemeyer’s title legally removed? If the venerable Mayor was really legislated out of office by the new charter he was as dead, officially speaking, on Tuesday last as Julius Cesar or Napoleon the First. The office of Mayor is an elective one, and if it were not the Legislature would not be competent to appoint such an officer. If the venerable Mr. Havemeyer was an official corpse on April 30, the day the charter was signed, the Legislature cannot breathe into his nostrils the breath of life. The amend- ment of Mr. D. P. Wood is in that event equivalent to an appointment. If Mr. Have- meyer had ceased to be Mayor—if his term of office was ended on April 30—he could not be reinstated in that position by any legislative act. His title would be no better after the passage of Mr. Wood's amendment than it was before. The only proper way of now testing the question as to who is legally Mayor of New York lies through the Courts. If we are to know whether the departmental ap- pointments are legally made, whether the city laws are legally approved, whether the city bonds are legally signed, we must have a judicial decision on the question whether Mr. Havemeyer is in office or out of office, Neither the Legislature nor the lawyers can find a path out of the difficulty. If Alderman Wade will not test the important point in the in- terests of the city it should be done by some displaced head of a department. The subject is too serious to be slurred over by any in- efficient legislative tinkering. The Overthrew of Republican Gov- ernment in Louisia: The overthrow of the regularly elected gov- ernment in Louisiana, through the aid of fede- ral bayonets, is producing its legitimate re- sults in disorder, riots and bloodshed through- out the State. A severe fight took place yesterday, at St. Martinsville, between the citizens and Kellogg's police, and serious dis- turbances occurred in New Orleans, Some foolish ‘youth fired a pistol at the usurper; but, fortunately for the good name and cause of ‘the people, without fatal re- sult, When the administration at Wash- ington prostituted the United States Army to the work of driving from power the legitimate authorities of Louisiana and in- stalling the minority candidates in their place the people of New Orleans, compelled to choose between massacre and submission, yielded their liberties to preserve their lives. Their city was in the hands of federal troops; their halls of legislation were filled with armed men and surrounded by artillery; their Courts were broken upat the point of the bayonet; their public officers were seized and confined on the authority of orders issued by a debauched United States Judge and executed by an unscrupulous United States Marshal. The President, advised by a partisan Attorney General, approved and endorsed the acts of the usurpers, recognized the Kellogg gang as the regular State government and refused to allow any appeal from his arbitrary decision. If the people of New Orleans had then executed the law on the revolutionists and meted out to them the punishment they deserved the streets of the city would have been swept by United States artillery, and men, women and children would have been the victims of a general massacre. The citi- zens weighed the coét of asserting their rights and declined to pay so heavy a price. They trusted that time and the peaceful but strong expression of indignation that arose from all parts of the State would secure their liberties from further outrage and would at last restore to them those constitutional rights of which they had been robbed. The forbearance of the people of New Orleans was applauded by their fellow coun- trymen throughout the Union. The rebellion of the South had left behind it wounds too deep and memories too painful to suffer our citizens to look calmly upon a renewal of civil strife. The South generally felt that the past needed atonement, and knew that any resist- ance, even to federal tyranny, would be cruelly used to the injury of the Southern States. But the events of the past few weeks in Louisiana render it doubtful whether the patient endurance of the people of New Orleans will suffice to avert from the State the evils of civil com- motion. The Kellogg usurpation, emboldened by the success of its first crime against the laws and the constitution, is seeking to render its power absolute all over the State. The ignorant negroes, rendered brave by the dis- covery that the United States Army is at their back, are prepared to aid in any outrages the Kellogg whites may prompt. Kellogg and his associates have therefore resolved to override the popular will in every parish, and to place creatures of their own in every public office. Appointments are made without any pretence of authority, and the hired ruffians known ‘as the ‘‘Metropolitans,” an armed force created in New Orleans in violation of law, and com- posed of all the thieves and cutthroats whose Imives are at the service of any one who can pay for them, are sent from parish to parish to make war upon the people, if necessary, to drive out the legal authorities and to install the Kellogg appointees. With characteristic cowardice the white ruffians prompt the ne- groes to take a prominent part in the fighting, and hence the trouble is fast assuming the terrible aspect of a war of races. Already one fearful massacre has occurred and the unfortunate blacks have suffered the most severely, their white prompters leaving them to their fate. In the parish of St. Martins a state of civil war actually exists, and a regular battle between the New Orleans cutthroats and the negroes on one side and the citizens of St. Martins on the other side is imminent. St. Martinsville is in a state of siege. We read of the throwing out of pickets, of the arrival of recruits and reinforcements, of the blockade of the Court House and of other military movements, just as if a state of war actually existed. ‘ Do the American people pause to reflect upon the fatal consequences of this condition of society in one of the sovereign States of the Union? Do they persuade themselves that the liberties of the people of Louisiana can be stripped from them, that the legally elected officers of the Louisiana Stage govern- ment can be driven from power at the point of the bayonet and the liberties and rights of other communities and other States be yet pre- served? Do they picture to themselves the horrors of war of races, or imagine that in the event of ao conflict between the whites and blacks of Louisiana the scenes that would follow could be confined to one State of the Union? The occurrences in Louisiana to-day are fraught with danger to the peace of the Union and to the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent persons. The only hope of safety lies in the continued patience and endurance of the unhappy people of that @ppressed State. They may possibly be called upon to endure nearly four years of tyfanny and outrage, but even that will be better than a contest the extended evils of which no person can foresee. The prob- ability is that the ruffians who now riot in usurped power in Louisiana will before long quarrel among themselves and aid in their own destruction. The same result has been seen before in that State. At all events the troubles of Louisiana—and, let us hope, of the whole South—will at least end with the prosent Presidential term, and it may be bet- ter to bear them to the close than to invite worse evils, Whatever can be peacefully and legally done to thwart the designs of the Kel- logg usurpation and to protect the rights of the Commonwealth should be resorted to; but violence and bloodshed will only entail greater suffering on the people, while it may cause the iron heel of federal tyranny to press with yet more cruel force apon the neck of the un- happy State. General Paez. Yesterday we announced the death of Gen- eral José Antonio Paez, and gave a sketch of the remarkable history of this distinguished man and patriot. Few have occupied as prominent @ position in American history as the friond and companion of Bolivar and the former President of Venezuela. To none, perbaps, do the republics of South America owe more for their independence. Blessed with a robust constitution, acquired or strengthened by his early habits of life as a Nanero on the vast plains of Venezuela, Gen- eral Paez was able to endure war and great vicissitudes in his career, and to live to the ripe old age of eighty-three. From 1791 to 1873 the political world has passed through a wonderful transformation, and this vener- able and highly esteemed man had not only witnessed it, but contributed largely in effecting the changes. The destruc- tion of Spanish power in America not only changed the destiny of this Continent ina great measure, but had considerable influence over affairs in Europe. The important part General Paez took in that movement, and his subsequent career, received the recognition both of European governments and the United States. William IV., of England, presented him witha magnificent sword ; Louis Philippe, of France, decorated him with the Legion of Honor, and King Oscar, of Sweden, honored him with the Grand Cross of the Military Order of the Sword, while the United States placed two national vessels at his disposal to convey him back to Venezuela in 1858. The old hero was well known in New York, where he had lived a long time, and where he was greatly respected for his personal character as well as for his patriotism and remarkable history. Tue Leorstature very properly refused to strike out from the Supplemental bill that amendment to the charter which takes from the Mayor the power to appoint the Aldermen who vote upon the confirmation or rejection of his appointments. When a vacancy occurs in the Board the Aldermen elect the person by whom it shall be filled. Mr. Havemeyer will now, no doubt, withdraw the nomination he sent in with such indecent haste as the succes- sor of Alderman Gilsey. The attempt to fore- stall the action of the Legislature should never have been made. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Amadeus is sald to be writing a history of his reign in Spain. State Senator Roswell Hart, of Rochester, is at the Gilsey House. Viscount Palikao is to wed Miss Butterfield, an American heiress, Vice President Wilson left the Astor House for Boston last evening. Baron Gostkonski, of Russia, has arrived at the New York Hotel from Mexico. Minister Orr's body is to be sent to Mrs. Orr, at Anderson, S. C., from St. Petersburg. Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge, of Vermont, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connecti- cut, is registered at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Secretary of War Belknap spent Tuesday at Peoria, fll. He left for Keokuk, Iowa, in the after- noon. Colonel John W. Foster, our new Minister to Mexico, started from Evansville, Ind., for his post, last evening. Admiral Case sailed yesterday on the Scotia to relieve Admiral Alden of the command of the Mediterranean squadron. Mr. Starzengruber, one of the editors of the Con- Sstitutionelle Vorstadt Zeitung, of Vienna, who has been travelling in this country for several months, leaves for home to-day by the steamer Thuringia, Avenerable Greek ecclesiastic, when about to land at Ismail, where he was to consecrate a church, was searched by custom house cynics, who found a quantity of tobacco which he was trying to smuggle. Senator (?) P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana, has arrived at the Hoffman House. His visit to the eity is to arrange for his coming visit to Europe to exhibit himself as one of the normal products of our civilization. Commander Thomas 0, Selfridge, of the United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House. Commander Seliridge has just returned from Darien, the sur- veying expedition which he commanded having found @ practicable route for the Projected inter- oceanic ship canal. Captain Gilbee, of the Australian volunteers, was “on the loose,” when a fair, frail damsel appeared on the street in Melbourne, arrayed in his martial accoutrements. The Captain having been proven to have hed in the subsequent investigation, the volunteers have sent him adrift. “PRESIDENT GRANT. Reception at the Board of Trade Rooms—A Characteristic Speech. CHICAGO, May 7, 1873, At noon to-day President Grant, accompanied by Senator Logan, Mayor Medill and a number of other distinguished gentlemen, visited the Board of Trade Rooms, and was introduced to the mer- chants by President Culver, of the Board. He was greeted with a hearty round of cheers, and in re- sponse spoke as follows :— GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD OF TRADE—It affords me great pleasure to come back to see your city now after an absence of little more than a year, and to find it improved even beyond what it was before the great fire which swept over it, just one week alter my last visit; and, gentlemen, I am very glad to meet you, the representatives of this Prosperity. Senator Logan and Mayor Medill being called for, each made brief remarks, after which the party left the hall. OBITUARY. James E. Hayes. Mr. James E. Hayes, the manager of the Olympic Theatre, died yesterday forenoon at his residence, No. 181 West Tenth street, His disease was brain fever, and the period of his iliness was very brief, Mr. Hayes was by profession a scenic artist. Among the members of his profession he ranked high, especially as @ painter of interior scenes, where skilfuiness in perspective is necessary. He was also remarkabiy successful in delineating stat- uary. He had been connected with the Olympic ‘Theatre, first as scenic artist, since 1863, He had reviously been employed at Niblo’s, In 1867 he Became the manager of the Olympic and continued 80 until his death. Though under his management the Olympic had its greatest success, Mr. Hayes was hardly known to the public except as the sinter of much excelient scenery. In character ir. Hayes was kindly and unobtrusive, and many friends will regret his sudden death. He was about forty-sevenyears Of age. He leaves his wile, the daughter of Mr.Jobn iid, An Exciting Debate on the Pacific Rall- road Investigation. OTTAWA, Ontario, May 7, 1873. The most exciting debate of the session took place last night with reference. to the action of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad Investigation. After a long debate a division took place at an early hour this eka when the government was sustained by a@ majority of thirty-one. The pro- posal of the committee Was that an adjournment should take place until the return of Str Hugh Allan, Sir George Cartier and Mr. Abbott from Engiand, a motion to this eifect being carried by the majority above stated. ey THE INDIANS PEACEABLE, paren Ae ae SLT Father Wilbur Reports the Rumors of War Unfounded—Sarrender of 1,400 Apaches. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 7, 1873, Father Wilbur, Indian Agent at the Simcoe Reser- | Vation, has arrived at Portland froma tour of 508 miles in Eastern Oregon and Washington Territery. He says there is not the slightest foundation for the rumors that the Indians of that part of the country are threatening war. Everything ts quiet. At no time in twelve years have the indications of peace been more favorable. ‘rhe body of Lieutenant Sherwood was sent Bast this morning by the overland route. Over one thousand four hundred Apache Indians have surrendered at Camp Verde. The Innocent Cheyennes After a Big Feed of Fresh Beef. WASHINGTON, May 7, 1873, The Commissioner of Indian Affairs to-day re- ceived from Superintent Hoag a letter in which Agent John D, Miller, writing from the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe agency, Indian Territory, under date of April 28, reports that Little Kob, Big Jake, Young Whirlwind and other principal chiefs of the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes, had arrived there with 160 of their people. These chiefs deny having had anything to do with the murder of the foursurveyors, but say that the party previously reported belong- ing to Greybeard murdered them; that it was done just at the time of the return of that party from New Mexico, where they had lost three or four of their nmmber in an engagement with soldiers, and that it was impossible for those peaceably ta- clined to control the murderers, Agent Miles ex- presses his belief that the barrel of whiskey fur- nished from Medicine Lodge Creek apd drank the day previous to the murder had much to do with it. These Indians who have just arrived expect te remain, at my request, close tothe agency—withia fifteen or twenty-five miles—and as we have ne buffalo in this vicinity our beef-head will be checked on pretty freely. THE CHAPIN SILVER WEDDING. The Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Dr. Chapin’s Union with the Church of the Divine Pater- nity—Addresses, Hymns and a Present of Ten Thousand Dollars. The occasion of the celebration of the twenty. fith anniversary of the settlement of the Rev. E. H. Chapin, D. D., as pastor of the Fourth Universalist Society, was, perhaps, tho most enjoyable event in this city yesterday. The church was gaily decked with flowers and the seats were early filled witha large congregation. It was evident by the cheerful countenances to be seen on every hand that the event had long been anticipated, The grand organ fiiled the edifice with charming music, and the choir ably con- tributed toward the enjoyment of the occasion. THE EARLY DAYS OF UNIVERSALISM, The first address was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Moses Ballou, on the early days of Universalism. He paid an eloquent tribute to Mr. Chapin. The Rev. H. W. BELLows, D. D., was next intro- duced by the Chairman of the Committee of Ar- Trangements and offered a hearty congratulation as one of another denomination. Music by the choir prefaced the introduction of the next speaker. After the conclusion of the music the Rev. Dr. ae of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, rere @ feeling address upon the ministry of Mr. Chapin, which he had watched for thirty as é Rev. J. Smrrn Donor, Jr., of Stamford, Conn., ‘was next introduced and made some humorous remarks. After the sit of a hymn, written for the ecca- sion by Mr, W. ‘the last speaker, the Rev. kt Mr. E. C. Sweetser, of ths Bleecker svreet Universal: tet church, made a few remarks. The ceremonies of the afternoon closed at a: juarter-past five with the singing of ‘Praise God, ym whom all blessings flow.’’ A SOCIAL GATHERING AND PRESENTATION, A social gathering was held at eight o'clock in the evening at the church. The Rev. M. J. M. Pull. man, of the Sixth Universalist Society, in a short speech tendered Dr. Chapin a very substantial arish offering in the shape of a check for $10,000, e reply of the pastor was at once appropriate and characteristic. He thanked the congregation with evident gratitude for their kindly remem- brance of him, and recounted in brief his labors among them. The happy congregation each sever- ace the warmest congratulations to the mi re THE CENTENNIAL. _ May Meeting ef the Commission—The Report of the Committee—Hopes Enter- tained and Progress Made. PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 1873, At noon to-day the members of the United Statea Centennial Commission assembled in the parlor of the Continental Hotel to commence the May session. Thirty-five States and Territories were represented by forty-seven Commissioners and alternates. Telegrams were read and statements made by the members present announcing that many other members would be in attendance to- morrow. The Executive Committee presented ita report, which was very voluminous and covered the operations of the Commission since its last session. The paper recites the plan of operations adopted by the Commission in organizing the Cen- tennial Board of Finance, and in awakening an in- terest and promoting subscription to the project, It alludes to meetings of conference with the Park Commission, Council, Citizens’ Centennial Body of Philadelphia, and with the Pennsylvania State Centennial Commissioner. Reference is made to the mass meeting held on February 22 in this city, Reference is made to the formation of a woman's executive committee in this city and to-the valua- ble aid it has rendered. Te Secretary’s report was also received, and with the above was ap- proved, The expenses of the Commission proper ‘were :—$24,593; to expenses of the Board of Fi- nance, $13,276, and the expenses of the Citizens’ committee $8,467. Speaker Blaine, of the House of Representatives, ‘was introduced to the Commission and made a brief speech, during which he expressed the belief that tae United States government will in due time extend proper aid to the pro- The government having contributed $400,000 to the French Exposition, it will cer- taint: , he thought, give millions in the proper time to the support of its own Expesition. In the alternoon the Commission met in execu- tive session and considered the report of the Com- mittee on Plans and Architecture. WEATHER REPORT. nt War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasuincTon, D. C., May 8—1 A. M. Probabilities, For the Middle States and lower lakes falling barometer, fresh northeasterly to southeasterly winds, cloudy and rainy weather, possibly clearing in Virginia this evening; for New England and Canada easterly and south- easterly winds, falling barometer, cloudy weather and rain; for the Gulfand South Atlantic States and Tennessee southwesterly winds, partly cloudy and clearing weather and rising barometer, with higher temperature; for the upper lakes and the Ohio valley northeasterly and northerly winds, threat. eniug weather and rain; for the Northwest, and thence to Kansas and Missouri, occasional rain, partly cloudy, clearing and colder weather. Cautionary signals continue at Duluth, Mile waukee, Chicago, Grand Haven, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester and Oswego. Reports are missing from stations west of the Missouri River. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in ison with the corresponding day of last year, ns indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s a0 HERALD Building :— Pharmacy, i872. is 72 wr. 49 3PM 65 58 52 12 M.. i 49 Average tempera’ 4% Average tem| last year... 683, THE WRECKED ATLANTIC, The Ship Blown Up and Nothing Visi« ble Above Watcr—Fourteen Bodies Re- covered. HALIFAX, May 7, 1873. The steamship Atlantic has been completely blown up, and nothing is to be seen above water. Fourteen bodies were recovered on Sunday ands Monday. Very few valuables were found. The blowing up of the steamer is condemned as in- judicious. The New York Wrecking Company, it is said. will be heavy losers: