The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘ PROPRIETOR, Wolame KXXVIT,.......:6s0sscseeere/NOe 139 —— AIRUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, UNION UARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frov Frov. WALLACK'S THRATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth sireet.—Tuz Squinz's Last Sumiino. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth &yv.—Monts Cuisto. {_ BOOTHS THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth gyenue,—Dappy O'Down, {THEATRE COMIQUE, BUULESQUE AND ULIO. | ACADEMY OF MUOSIC, Fourteenth strect.—Buntesor OF ALLapIN. (gr, JAMS’ THEATRE, Broadway and 2th st— MoKvor's New Hinernicon. No. 614 Broadway.—Drama, ROWFRY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tas Rovaw Du- won, &0. {NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728and 780 Broad- Wway.—Divonce. = WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Witty Rxtuix. Afternoon and evening, ( @ERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth streot, near Third Bvefue.—Genuan Comey. j ATHENEUM, 85 Broadw: AINMENT. \_NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and jouston st&.—AZRazL; OR, THR Magic CuaRm, —Granp Vantety Exter- MRS, PF. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— yocugss on Noruinc—Lapixs’ Barris, &o. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— fanietTy ENTERTAINMENT. ‘_ RRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner /Bth av.—Necro MinstRELsy, £0. { NEW FORE SSS Ue OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— ir. ‘TRIPLE SHEET. errr TRIPL ee WHE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. (o-Day’s Contents of the Herald. WTHE STATE OF CIVIL WAR IN LOUISIANA! THE DANGER AND DISGRACE TO THE REPUBLIO”—EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixru Paas. LOUISIANA’S CIVIL CONFLICT! A DECREASE IN THE CASUALTY REPORTS! NO TRANS- PORTATION FOR ANY FORCES BUT THOSE OF THE RESISTERS! ARREST OF A MAYOR FOR HIGH TREASON! VOLUNTEER SUPPLIES FOR COLONEL LE BLANO’S COMMAND! SHERMAN ON THE WARPATH! HIS ORDEXS TO GENERAL EMORY! A PORTENTOUS CALM—Turrp PaGE. MAP OF THE DISTURBED DISTRICTS IN LOUIS- IANA—Taird Pas. ENGLISH NAVAL OFFICERS VISIT MR. O’KELLY, AT MANZANILLO! STRONG DIS- APPROVAL OF THE INHUMAN TREAT- MENT OF THE IMPRISONED CORRE- SPONDENT! THE WRETCHED CALABOOSE! SANITARY EFFORTS OBSTINATELY COM- BATTED BY THE SPANIARDS! CONSUL GENERAL TORBERT’S ACTION! MR. O’KELLY TO BE REMOVED TO SANTIAGO DE CUBA—SEVENTH -PaGE. G& CONVERSATION WITH O'KELLY, IN FORT GERONA! THE SPANISH “BLACK HOLE” SKETOHED! MR. O’KELLY’S OPINIONS ON HIS CONFINEMENT, HIS CAPTORS, THE PATRIOTS AND HIS RELEASE—Fourta Pags. PISASTERS TO THE BOURBON FORCES UNDER DORREGARRY! BANDITS “WORKING” THE RAILWAYS! RUMORS OF A FORCED PAPER CURRENCY—SEVENTH PAGE. {HE SPANIARDS IN PORTO RICO OPPOSING THE ELECTIONS FOR THE CURTES! AP- PRAISING FREED “CHATTELS’—CUBAN PRESS DENUNCIATION OF THE CONSERY- ATIVES—SEVENTH PAGE. @NOTHER WAR IN CENTRAL ASIA! RUSSIA AND BOKHARA EMBROILED! THE CZAR ADVANCING HIS STANDARDS—SEVENTE Pas. DEMISE OF THE LAMENTED CHIEF JUS- TICE CHASE! HONORS TO HIS MEMORY BY THE COURTS, THE BAR, CORPORA- TIONS, THE PEOPLE AND HIS STATE! THE FUNERAL RITES AND PLACE OF IN- TERMENT! SUCCESSION RUMORS—FovurTa Paas. ®ESPEOT FOR THE MEMORY OF THE VENER- ATED DEAD! THE BENCH AND BAR AND THE ENTIRE NATIUN TESTIFYING THEIR ESTEEM AND ADMIRATION FOR THE DEPARTED CHIEF JUSTICE—SEVENTH Pags. 10 NONO RECEIVES AND ADDRESSES FRENCH AND SPANISH DEPUTATIONS! HE IS SE- RIOUSLY PROSTRATED AFTERWARDS ! THE RUMORS OF HIS DEATH AND AS TO A SUCCESSOR, IF ANY—SEVENTH Pace. HE STATE ASSEMBLY DEBATE THE WINSLOW BILL! FINAL ADJOURNMENT! THE GOY- ERNOR EXCITED OVER tHE QUESTION OF LOUAL OPTION—TENTH Pace. OAKES AMES DEAD! HIS FUNERAL AND PER- BONAL HISTORY—TELEGRAPH CONSOLI- DATION—SEVENTH PaGE. BLEAKLEY CONVICTED OF MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE! LIFE IMPRISONMENT THE EXPIATION FOR THE MURDER OF HIS NICE! THE CHARGE AND CLOSING SCENES—Firra Pacs. 4LL OF MAYOR HAVEMEYER’S NOMINEES AC- CEPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL! THE NEW HEALTH AND TAX COMMISSIONERS AND ALDERMAN! EXCITEMENT OF THE CITY HALL “BOYS! MORE NOMINATIONS EXPECTED—FirtH Pace. ‘Te Oanuists anp Tam Recent Derzats.— Jt does seem ag if at Jast Carlism was about played out in Spain. All the recent fights of which we have any account have gone against them. At Vera, in Navarre, they sustained a ignal defeat, fifty being killed and twenty prisoners. While we write a band of Warlists, near the town of Iqualada, some Mhirty-three miles northwest of Barcelona, is yurrounded by republican troops, and its warrender is confidently expected. The Car- php any move; butit is difi- to say who else are winning in Spain. Whe situation is still x6 near chaos as possible. y Tae Hearts ory tHe Porr.—His Holiness Pope Pius IX is, according to a telegram from Rome to London, again prostrated in to a fatal degree of debility. It was in Rome that the Pontiff had fied, but the assertion was not confirmed Jast night. The question, Is Pio Nono the Yast of the Popes? remains for solution, By @ despatch direct from Rome we are ‘wssured that the Holy Father received Spanish deputation yesterday, mado a note of the receipt of a large money subscription forwarded by ‘faithful sons” of Church in that country, and in roply ex- & most paternal hope for the welfare the peoples and princes of the world, The ‘atican is becoming a centre of press news ee ce eae NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1873—TRKIPLE SHEET. The State of Utvit War in Loulsi- ana—The Danger aad Disgrace to the Republic, Fi The deplorable state of affairs in Louisiana has not yet culminated in the worst horrors of civil war; but all the elements are ready. Weill be told that the United States is at peace ; rapid concentration of United States troops in New Orleans, the sending forward of de- tachments of United States troops, and they tell of a people whose attitude can ‘be described as on the verge of insurrection. Itiseight years since the last of the Southern armies surren- dered to the Union forces. Eight years haye passed in which the party that congratulates itself on saving the Union has had the power and the opportunity of healing the wounds caused by the war, What is the result? We find ourselves to-day on tho borders of that supreme horror, a war of races. The massacre of the wretched, misguided negroes at Colfax, in Grant Parish, was a terrible commencement, for which the repub- lican party, as well as the bloodthirsty whites who committed the atrocity, will be held responsible by history. Such is the disorgani- zation of the State of Louisiana that the mas- sacre has passed by without any steps being taken to inquire into the matter. The usurping government placed in position by the bayonets of the United States troops has found itself unable to preserve order without the further aid of these bayonets. Negroes may be massacred by whites or whites robbed and killed bynegroes, but the Kellogg govern- ment are unable to punish the offenders on the one side and will not do so on the other. The position of the Metropolitans or ‘‘police’’ of the Kellogg party at St. Martinsville is almost ridiculous, They are supposed to represent the might of a great commonwealth ; but they are defied and beaten back when they attempt to move by a body of volunteers under the command of a man who holds a commission from McEnery. Unable to send the United States troops openly to dragoon the people, the convenient plan of using them as a posse comitatus is resorted to. So far the policy of the resisters has been very crafty. . They have avoided all collisions with the United States troops, as that would place them at the mercy of the federal government. They have re- fused to allow the assessment of taxes to sup- port the Kellogg party, and have shown their readiness to fight the hirelings of that party whenever the United States forces were out of the way. The present condition of affairs is perfectly anomalous, and can scarcely continue for any length of time without end- ing ina desperate conflict, in which it is in- evitable that the ‘“‘resisters’’ will go down as such. The word “insurrection” is freely used in the highest army circles, and the temper is such that, if the slightest excuse is offered for calling insurrection a fact, a reign of blood will be speedily inaugurated. It is fortunate, so far, that no battle has oc- curred between the contending forces that represent the State parties. The shameful side of the matter is that only the presence of United States soldiers can prevent a sangui- nary combat. ‘The cure is as discreditable as the malady. The country where the disturbances are in progress is, as will be seen by our map, in the swampy district of the bayous near the south- ern coast. The position held by the McEnery commander, Colonel Le Blanc, is on an island accessible only by three slight wooden bridges, easily defended. The country people around are said to be bringing in supplies for his men, and the hostility of the whites in the section egainst the unfortunate blacks is illustrated in significant hints from New Iberia about “measures necessary to the protection of the white race being coolly and openly taken.” The white man on the streets who threatens to raise the negroes appears in our despatches also, and it would seem that all the explosive materials of human passion are waiting only for chance ignition to spread havoc. In the chaos all the rights of the citizen are lost. The first great crime in the nullification of the ballot has led to a hundred others. The military heel which trampled on this great bulwark of free govern- ment crushed all other liberties at the same time. Where those who have been deprived of their share‘in the government are in the numerical majority they, in turn, have disre- garded the citizen rights of their opponents ; the party made insolent by success spares no effort where numbers are in its favor to make defeat galling to its opponents, Crime is heaped upon crime. Outrage is offset hy massacre. Passive resistance is faced by un- mistakable threat. It only remains for the rash op one side or the superserviceable on _the other to precipitate civil war. We have from the commencement of these troubles sincerely hoped that the sound sense of the people of Louisiana would resist all temptation to invoke a conflict, which, apart from the bloodshed that must follow, will render the material condition of the State more deplorable than ever. Plundered as it has been by rascals, some of whom are now in the party of resistance, there isa depth of misery still greater which a state of civil war would produce. The disgust which the usurp- ing action of the federal government will pro- duce throughout the nation can only be re- moved by ill-advised acts on the part of those robbed of their rights. The Executive of the nation is hastening homeward from his Western trip, and it is worth while asking what he will think of his work when the numerous telegrams reach him which were chasing him and each other over the country yesterday. He may that his power is such that ho can act with- out being held responsible to the nation or to humanity. This, however, is not the case, History has its revenges on individuals as well as on nations. The party which gave him all his present power may see such consequences flowing from his first ac- tion in Louisiana that it will fall away from him as from a leper, The danger which Mmenaces true republicam government in the South will not be forever justified by repub- licans in the North and West on the selfish Ground of party necessity. The disgrace which it brings upon the nation will. be felt even by radicals, who are not office- holders, as the great stain upon their party. The constitution of the United States is invoked to justify what future action the federal authorities may adopt. But the world will note the bitter irony of this, as the origi- nal infraction of that constitution is seen to be the manag. ouge leading to tag agtiro, po bloody, illustration of the fourth article. We suppose that President Grant among other things looks forward, in imagination, to his name holding an honorable, if not a great place in history. The story of Louisiana and his connection therewith will be one of the very black clouds upon whatever figure he may make in the tale of the future. Tho echoes of the rebellion can only be wakened now by the guns of federal soldiery, and if they are aroused the true patriotism of the nation will loath and. desert the whilom leader of federal armies who, in his Lonisiana usurpation, gave the first signal. It is a saddening outlook, We cannot afford to have another bloody rebellion. That is a proposition easily understood; but the ro- sponsibility for making rebellion a probability will be fixed and justice done in the people's measured way. Our Late Chief Justice @ Politician and Presidential Candidate, and Others im the List Withdrawn. In the character of a politician and Presi- dential candidate our late Chief Justice for many years filled a position so conspicuous and wielded an influence so great and far- extending in shaping the vicissitudes of our political parties and the destinies of the coun- try that in this réle he doubtless stands more prominently to-day than in any other before the minds of our readers of all parties. Look- ing to the White House, his claims, his aspira- tions, his plans and movements, his hopes and disappointments will, from our city million- naire’s town residence to the miner’s cabin in the Sierra Nevada, be a theme of discussion for days and years tocome. His case will be added to the examples of Clay, Calhoun, Web- ster, Seward, Cass, Douglas and others, as con- firming the opinion that obscurity, and not distinction, is the passport to the Presidency, and that the prize for which our greatest statesmen have struggled all their lives in vain is sure to be won by some military chief- tain or given to some second rate politician as a compromise in our juggling party conven- tions. There is too much truth in this opinion; for it cannot be questioned that from Jackson to this day the important question of “‘avail- ability’ has superseded all other considera- tions in the nominations of our Presidential candidates, and that accordingly the Presiden- tial succession has been controlled by military glory or the chapter of accidents among the hucksters of our party conventions from Gen- eral Jackson down to General Grant, except- ing Van Buren, who was nominated and elected as the choice of ‘Old Hickory’’ for his successor. But when we come to consider the Presidential aspirations of our leading politicians of the last fifty years, the claims of Salmon P. Chase, on the basis of party services and personal merits and qualifica- tions, we think, were superior to those of any other disappointed candidate, always except- ing Henry Olay, ‘‘the noblest Roman of them all.” Military glory carried Jackson, Harrison, Taylor and Grant into the White House. Jackson carried in Van Buren; Polk and Pierce were mere accidents, resulting each from a make-shift compromise in a juggling convention, Buchanan was forced upon another huckstering council of his party man- agers as ‘‘Pennsylvania’s favorite son.” Fillmore, Tyler and Johnson, each elected as Vice President, became each, in the chap- ter of accidents, with the death of his Presi- dent, the successor to his unfinished term of office, while Lincoln himself was only a bold venture at Chicago in the way of a compro- mise between the supporters of Seward, Chase, Cameron and others. This summing up covers the successful list of our Presi- dential aspirants of the last forty-five years ; and yet Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Fillmore, Pierce and Johnson belonged to the unsuc- cessful list as candidates for another term. We leave Buchanan out of this category, for we believe that in the Spring of 1860 he had seen enough and had felt enough of the rough riders for a Southern Confederacy to be anxious to get out of their way and safely back to the quiet shades of Wheatland. We have, then, only to consider in the period from Jackson down and in connection with the White House those Kings and hets who waited long, Bat diea wi out the sight. = First among these stands the great Harry Clay, who, in 1844, came so near an election that an honest count all through would most probably have carried him in. We need not here enlarge upon his claims and qualifica- tions nor upon his heavy disappointments— first, in being defeated by Polk, and next in being superseded by Taylor on the ground of availability. Calhoun, though disappointed as a Presidential aspirant, abandoned the field in his quarrel with Jackson, and devoted him- self to sowing the dragon’s teeth of his Southern abstractions, which in due season produced, a heavy crop of armed men. Webster had nothing to recommend him for the Presidency beyond his magnificent strength in Senatorial debates and Supreme Court arguments. He was a great statesman ; but there is no great law on the national statute books credited to Webster. He was rathar a follower than a leader in the Senate, and he shrank from those aggressive battles which were the heart's delight of Clay. It was in 1850 that Webster, in support of Clay's compromise measures on slavery, sacrificed Massachusetts for the broader field of the Union ; and it was in 1852, in being cut out by General Scott as the whig candidate for the Presidency, that Webster succumbed to his great disappointment, and he never rallied from the blow. Seward, in 1856, was wet aside by the Re- publican Convention, and Fremont, as “the pathfinder,’’ on considerations of expediency, was nominated; and to this our illustrious “Sage of Auburn” cheerfully consented. In 1860, when superseded by Lincoln, he felt the ungrateful treatment of his party; but, instead of organizing a mutiny and breaking up his party camp like Van Buren, he stooped to the blow, and during the first term of Lin- coln generously proclaimed himself in favor of the President's re-election. It was pecu- liarly » characteristic of Seward to adapt him- self to the situation and to make the most of it, Cass was too phiegmatic to suffer much from his Prosidential disappointments, and too well provided for at his home in Miehigan to care much for the loss of honors or emolu- ments at Washington. Douglas—impetuous, at Charleston, and shortened his life in his desperate and wont battle against the Southern fire-eaters, His rise from local ob- scurity to a commanding national popularity was astonishing, and his fall was the fall of the democratic party. If he perished from the effort, still, like Sampson, he had pulled the temple down upon the Philistines. Our late Chief Justice, asa politician and Presidential candidate, had laid his founda- tions on grent ideas, broad and strong. Gar- rison and his ultra abolition party were im- practicables, because they made their war against the constitution as “a league with death and ® covenant with hell.’ Even Seward, right as ho was in the abstract, weak- ened his cause as an anti-slavery leaderin pro- claiming ‘‘a higher law’’ than the constitution. It was Chase who, more than any other anti- slavery leader, put the party of ‘free soil’ on the road to victory by confining their line of battle within the pale of the constitution. Hence the tremendous revolution, embracing universal liberty and equal rights, which has followed. Hence we may truly say that the Presidential claims of Chase upon his party and upon the country were surpassed only by the claims of Clay in the whole liat of our dis- appointed political pilgrims for the White House. And in the sequel the memorable words of Clay on this subject will also as hap- pily apply to Chase—‘I would rather be right than be President.”’ States at the Vi a Ex hibition—British Views. We bave denounced the scheming and job- bery of the nonentities and shoddy people who were appointed by our sagacious government to represent the United States at the Vienna Exhibition, and we have foreshadowed what would be the result of the inadequate means and want of preparation and management to make anything like a fair representation of our products, skill, art and progress. Our correspondents at Vienna, too, have described the disgraceful incompleteness and mismanage- ment of the United States department, the flag being down on the day of the grand cere- monial of opening the Exhibition, signifying that our Commissioners and exhibitors were not ready. Not being blind to the faults of our own people and country we have censured unsparingly these evils and shortcomings. At the same time we saw that this country labored under pecu- liar disadvantages, as the great distance of. Vienna from it, and consequent want of suffi- cient interest in an exhibition so far off, as well as the cost and difficulty of removing objects to the great show, would prevent much being sent that might be exhibited at or nearer home. European nations had an advantage over us in this respect. They felt the impulse ofthe movement more than Americans, and had greater facilities for sending their objects of industry and art to Vienna. Then, there are some things that cannot be represented at the Exhibition. We could not well show the freedom, equality and happiness of forty mil- lions of people any more than England could show her three or four millions of wretched paupers and the millions of disfranchised peo- ple, who, in a political and social point of The United view, are no better than serfs. A good picture or a fine piece of sculpture from a European artist could be easily transported to Vienna and placed in full view ; but it is not so easyto present to the eye in the Exhibition the wonderful natural and developed wealth, the surprising progress, the education of the masses or the great and near future of the United States. We shall, doubtless, after all, show some good machinery, excellent labor saving seal bil and fine productions that will compare favor- ably with any in the world. In all that per- tains to the well being, happiness or general progress of the people we shall not be behind any nation, and, we think, shall stand first, But our British cousins, who are very affec- tionate and not a little patronizing in their manner, when they want to settle Alabama difficulties, are ever ready to exaggerate our defects and to lampoon us, A full-blooded Englishmen, evidently, writing to the London Daily News from Vienna, gives a ‘‘correct list’’ of the articles to be seen in the section of the Exhibition assigned to the United States. These are:—‘‘Two casesof Oolt’s firearms, three binnacles, one stuffed eagle, two salt cellars, a dentist’s chair and six bot- tles of water taken from the Mississippi River.’ There, countrymen, is the figure we cut at Vienna, according to this amiable and friendly Briton. Let us hope the unpacking of cases that we hear so much of will show something more. We confess to deserving some of this satire, for almost everything our government touches of this character is badly and meanly managed. And our shoddy Amer- icans are too much in the habit of grabbing, and, when abroad, of making fools of them- selves. The yanity over a stuffed eagle is a little pardonable in an American; but the Mis- sissippi water we cannot excuse, because six bottles hardly represent the Father of Waters. Well, we must bear the Briton’s satire and not seek redress by going to war with England. But how about our own Exhibition in 1876— the Centenary Exhibition? Will there be jobs and schemes, and plundering, insignificant Commissioners? Will there be nothing but stuffed eagles, salt cellars, binnacles, fire- arms, dentists’ chairs and bottles of the Mis- sissippi or Susquebanna water? Let us mend our faults and do better, though the merit of doing so may not make John Bull more amia- ble or less patronizing. Tur Comp ann Genenat Rain Storw.— Rapidly succeeding each other, storm after storm is deluging some portions of the country. The northeasterly gale which has prevailed along this coast since yesterday seems to be but a small part of a cyclonic rain storm which, beginning in the southwest, has gradually spread itself northward to the lakes and eastward to the Atlantic, In its incipiency on Monday last floods of rain were deposited in the Lower Mississippi basin, and a large quantity of rain has been reported very generally in the Obio and Missouri valleys and overthe Western States, We may now regard the whole country lying between the Alleghanies -and the grpat Plains es overswept by the broad band of the water-laden equatorial upper current, bearing the evaporation of the tropical seas to the Northern Continent to fertilize the soil and supply the subterranean fountains against the Summer droughts. Scldom has the Great West had a promise of impatient and aggressive—rushed through his cane to the diggolptign of the demogratio party being better provided and prepared in this way for itp prolife crops ; and if the Joveos of -Telieved from oF Yager —— ella the Mississippi can be secured the prom ect ig still brighter for the Southern and Gul: Btates. Mr. O'Kelly Removed to tiage de Ouba—The British Gunboat. Our special from Havana bring us the information that Captain General Piel- tain received orders from Madrid to remove Mr. O'Kelly from his loathsome quarters at Manzanillo to some moro fitting place. Under the plea that our special com- missioner cannot be removed from the juris- diction whereunder he was arrested, he has ordered Mr. O'Kelly’s transfer to Santiago de Cubs. This transfer is still more objection- abie, as it places him in the hands of the very man—General Morales de los Rios—who was so profuse in threats of shoot- ing Mr. O'Kelly should he return to the Spanish lines after visiting tho insurrection in pursuit of his perfectly legitimate mission. It is besides ao still greater distance from Havana, and therefore more difficult for his friends to com- municate with him. The Captain Genoral has pledged himself to decide the case as soon as the ridiculous sumario is concluded, and of whose precious inoubation Mr. O'Kelly has himeelf given us a graphic pen-picture. The deliberate alowness of this sumario will be in- ferred from the fact that Mr. O' Kelly's papers, which had to be subjected to all this absurd scrutiny, consisted of a letter of cour- tesy from to Mr. Bennett, three vorrespondent’s notebooks and some private letters. Mr. O'Kelly has been in prison thirty-eight days, and the authorities have not yet concluded. The Captain General must be aware that in Havana Mr. O'Kelly would be safer than anywhere else, and that the whole island is under his jurisdiction. The British gunboat Plover, it now appears, was sent at Mr, O'Kelly’s request, and. its officers had no instructions to take any particular steps in his regard. We publish in another part of the Hznatp an interesting in- terview with our imprisoned commissioner, which will show the conditions under which Spain civilizes in Cuba. Russtan Miurrany Operations In CzNTRAL Asta.—The virtual conquest of the territory of Khiva by the soldiers of the Ozar ot Russia has not, it appears, satisfied the Muscovite ambition for dominion in Central Asia. We are told that war is now probable between the forces of the Khan of Bokhara and the Russians. This occurrence, should it come to pass, will be very annoying to the Russians for a season; but we can- not hesitate to anticipate the result. Bokhara will share the same fate as Khiva. Khanate after khanate will be conquered. Then will come the trouble of a permanent enjoyment of the ter- ritorial spoils, When the Russians are fully thawed out under the influence of a very agreeable and warm climate, they will com- mence to enjoy themselves by prospecting and touring around. They will meet Mr. John Bull, who is already pretty well acclimatized, near the border of Affghanistan. Should the introduction be of a friendly character, well ; but should the sportive Bruin attempt to kick up his heels and ran round in defiance of geographical demarcation and the rights of property, there may come a growl, a hug and a mighty roar, after which the civilizations will learn if the aged Lion has become effete in his power for war. Bizax.ey SENTENCED.—Bleakley, the mur- derer of Maud Merrill, was last evening found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment for life, The in- sanity plea failed to work in his case, as it was very evident that both Judge and jury took little stock, in that line of defence. — PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Levi Woodbury, of Boston, is staying at the New York Hotel. The King of Dahomey is having his coffin made in Birmingham, England. Neal Dew is trying to get up an excitement over teetotalism in England. Lieutenant English, of the British Navy, yester- day arrived at the Gilsey House. Governor D. P. Lewis, of Alabama, yesterday re- turned to the Grand Central Hotel, Str Joseph Hawley, having become convinced of the sordid business it fosters, has retired from the turf. The Prince of ‘Wales will make his first stay at Oxford since 1863 during the Commemoration in June. Lord Elcho is a democratic peer. He ts often seen in Loudon with such men as Odger and Brad- laugh. The claimant Tichborne wants to visit the United States, but there are hindrances that he may not overcome, General Q. A. Gilmore, of the United States Army, has temporary quarters at the Grand Cen- tral Hotel. Mr. J. O. Parkinson, formerly of the London Daily News, is Workuig $0 develop the coal mines of Nova Scotia. 4. M. Schreiber, Professor of Stenography in thé Vienna University, has written the “Iliad” of Homer in the space of a nutshell. The work is on exhi- bition at the Exhibition. The Rev. Mr. Mackie, of Elgin, England, was so much affected lately by the death of the Rev. Mr. Wylie that he announced that, out of respect to the memory of his much lamented friend and fel- low laborer, the Rey. Dr. Wylie, there will be no Public worship in the parison church of Elgin of Sunday next! Prince Massino, who recently died in Rome, claimed descent. from Q, Fabius Maximus, the “Cunctator” of the Punic war, a more ancient lineage than that of the Courtenays and “all the blood of the Howards.” He believed in the tem- poral power of the Pope so earnestly that on the entry of Victor Emmanuel into Rome he closed his Palace gates and kept them so until his death, THE PRESIDENT go FOR WASHING. ~“Omrcado, May 8, 1873, President Grant and family left for Washington this morning at nine o'clock in @ special car on the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne Railroad, NAVAL ORDER, Lieutenant Commander John McGowan has been ordered te duty on the European station, ‘ARMY ORDERS, Captain A. R. Buffinton, of the Ordnance Depart- ment, is relieved from duty in Charleston, S. C., and ordered to the Watervieit Arsenal, at West Troy, N. Y. Surgeon John G. Milhau has been } WEATHER REPORT. —— War Dsranrumr, - OFrice ov ran Onin SIGNAL OPFioms, & Ore: D.G., May 9-14. M a Probabitities. For the mm ‘dle States and lower takes Mortheasterly ang S0utheasterly winds, tau. ing barometer, clomo,’ S04 rainy weather, clearing in Virginia and Maryland; for New England and Canada soutbeaste:|Y 80d southerty winds, diminishing pressure, cloudy Weather an@ rain; for the Gulf and South Atlantic States’ southwesterly to northwesterly winds, highor pressure, warmer and generally clear weather; for the upper lakes and thence to Kentucky and Missouri occasional rain, partly cloudy and clear- ing weather. Cautionary signals continue at Duluth, Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Haven, Weod’s Hole, Bostom, Portland and Eastport, Reporta are generally miasing except from the Atlantic States and lower lakes, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes tn the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last rear, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s rmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. Aver: rature yesterday, » BK Average temperature for corresponding date lagi year. Pe OUR MERCHANT MARINE, ei—mceaientinines Trial Trip of the Steamship Ponnsyl- vania, of the American Steamship Linc—Fast Time and a Successful Trip. PHILADELPHIA, May 8, 1873. Pennsylvania has achieved @ decided success im naval architecture, the steamship Pennsylvania, the pioneer of the line now being constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad to ply between Philadel- phia and Liverpeol, having returned te Philadel- phia to-day from her trial trip to Sandy Hook. The HERALD has already published an article on the subject of this line, and it is peculiarly gratify- ing that the hopes indulged with regard to Phila- delphia’s first international line of steamers have not been groundless, The Pennsylvania left Philadelphia on Monday last and ran down the Delaware, closely followed by three fast harbor steamers and tugs, but, with one exception, she distanced allof them. We leit the city about ten o'clock A. M. and reached the Capes, Cape May, in the evening—a distance of ninety-three milea. We iaid te at Cape Henlopea until Tuesday morning, when we continued our trip. We ran due east thirty miles, and changed our course to the northeast by east for ten miles. Here our ceurse was changed to northeast by east half south, running sixty miles, which brought us abreast of Barnegat at four P. M. The veasel’s course was then directed to the Sandy Hook lightshi which we reached at half-past seven P. The vessel was then changed to the southward. We ran ninety miles and reached the border of the Gulf Stream at three A. M. Wednesday. Then another turn and we re- turned to Sandy Hook, reaching there at a quarter past ten Wednesday morning. ‘TRYING HER SPEED. It was then determined to try the Pennsylvania’a speed. After rounding the lightship she waa headed directly for Barnegat Light, forty miles dia~ tant. We left the lightship at twenty-five minutes to twelve o’cleck A. M., and were abreast of Barne- gat at four minutes to three P. M., making the run in three hours and twenty minutes. From Barnegat to Absecom, twenty-five and a half miles, the was two hours and five minutes, It was then de- cided by Mr. Bartol, Chairman of the Building Com- mittee, that the vessel should comply in every re with the terms of her contract, and to this end it was necessary to keep her out forty-eight hours, As soon as ‘pe Henlopen was sighted Mr. Bartol deternrined run further out to sea. We proceeded some distance out and changed our course for the Capes once more, bound homeward. We reached the Breakwater at foi minutes after four o'clock this morning, and ladelphia at forty minutes after ten o’clock, a distance of 102 miles in six hours, Coming up the Delaware we Tan at a rate of over nineteen miles an hour at one time, which may be considered something extraor- ng ap ler any CY Anymore The engines of the Pénhsylv: which are compound, were found to work satisfactor in every respect; indeed, ib is claimed by professionals that the saving in fuel alone by these engines is something remarkable. Captain Sumner, the commander of the Pennayl vyania, and the directors of the Company, express themselves Wall satisfied with the initial trip of the pioneer of their néw line of Amorican steamshi| and Jam inclined to endorse their very hope prospects. Certainly no steamer ever had @ more flattering trial trip in American waters, Messrs. Wiilliam Cramp & Sons, the builders, have. two more steamers on the stocks—the second of the line, the Ohio, having been launched—and wilt commit them to the waters before two months shall have elapsed. All these steamers are class in every respect, feet long and built in led 363 proportion, él tly fitted up for first class travel and well inten: for all the business which they hey Ay! called upon todo. % ie American Steams! of Philadel- se starts out under Mae those invorsble auspices, ‘he #ennsylvania will make her first trip to Liver- Pool on the 22d of May. THE LAST CONCERT OF THE CHURCH MUSIO ASSOOIAT: Steinway Hall was crowded last night, and pre- sented an appearance reminding one of the Thomas festival. Evening dress was in the majerity, both among the audience and upen the stage. A large chorus and orchestra, numbering probably two hundred, occupied one'end of the hall, The works performed were Haydn’s sympheny in 0 minor (No. 9, “Salomon’s Set’), Weber’s mass in G, and “Die Walpurgisnacht,” Mendelssohn. Three sound works, truly, all belonging to worthy composers, not blighted by the new fangled notions of the ma- niacs who wish at the present day to turn har- mony into chaos, The symphony waa given with spirit and effect, if we except a certain coarseness in the strings, accustomed, as we have been, ta th itlega tone of Thomas’ violins. A delightful toe eR etearrea i the trio of the Heer in which Mr. Fred. Bergner’s matchless violoncello took a prominent part. The mass is se familiar to the Catholic churches of this country that detailed comment on it would be unnecessary, Mendelssohn's ‘work was & ba test for the cho- Tus, and they bravely withs! it, Although the volume of tone was small and the orchestra occa- one obstreperous (when were ever Philiar- monic instrumentalists otherwise ?), yet the = of singers gave unmistakable evidence of higi training in ensembie of expression and phrasing. This is ly due to thé xe! ethod pnd unremitting exertions of the cond ft the Agio= ciation, Mr. C. E. Hersley. The solo quartet, con- Tee Mrs. Galager, Miss Henne, Mr. Leggat an Me, Renner were immensarabi eupetor reyeved from duty in the Department of the South He ordered to Fort Columbus, New york Harbor. Assistant Surgeon #. Knickerbocker has been uty in the Department ot the South and ordered to the Department of the Columbia. Captain George H. Weeks, in addition to his present duties, ts ordered to relieve Pat Potter of his duties, a Chief Quartermaster of the Depart- Ment of the Lakes, pending the arrival of - tenant Colonel Rufus Saxton, to assume the dutigs Quartermaster. The soprano and tenor solos were sung in & man- ner that satisfied even the most exacting ear. The Church Music Association, although they sadiy need a change of name, deserve great credit for the artistic success of their last concert, THE CENTENNIAL, <u, PHILADBLPAIA, May 8, 187%, Ata meeting of thé Qentennial Commission, held to-day, the members of the National Board of Finance were introduced. The Board is composed of some of the first men in the country. The President of the Centenniat Commission called for responses from ex-Governor Bigier, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Welsh; Mr. Patter- son, President of the Western Bank of Penn- sylvania; General Parsons, of Texas; Hon. ir. Pruyn, of New York; Hon. 8. boy! Penn- gpivenia: Mr. Dufar, of Oregon 5 jadge ney, of ich! Edgar Thomson, dent of the Bonk: sylvania Ratiroad Company ; W. V. ean, editor of the itladelphia ". others. reatest enthusiasm was evinced and the best of feeling as to the certainty of the great National Exposition. 4 PROPELLER SUNK BY COLLISION. Dsrrort, Mich., May 8, 1873. The propellers Blanchard and Arizona collided just above St. Clair flate to-lay. The latter sum& in two and a half fathoms of water. She was laden with wheat, and bound down from Sault Vanal, where she had been icebound all Winter. She will be raised immediately. THE AMERICAN MEDIOAL ASSOCIATION. Sr. Lous, Mo,, May 8, 1873. The session of the American Medical Association this morning was devoted mainly to miscellaneous business, a censiderable amount of which was transacted. A resolution was adopted providing acommittec of three to confer with the Royal Nedicat Society of England regarding American representation in the revision of the En; sys- tem of nomenclature and classification of with a view to its adoption in this country. resolution was adopted favoring the establiaument Of 9 Ugtigaal aapitary DuCeaL,