The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. =— AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth ‘Street.—Tue Squine’s Last Suriuina, Matinee at 1s. ..No. 130 GRAND OPERA ‘@v.—Monte Cristo. BOOTH’S THEATRE @venue.—Davpy 0'Do THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—Draua, BuRrxsavr any Ouio, Matinee at 2. ACADEMY OF MOSI ALLapiN. Matinee none. Twenty-third st. and Eighth ird street, corner Sixth Matinee at 2. Fourteenth street.—Buaursqus 2, Broadway and 2th st.— : “4 Matinee at 2 sf. J MocEvor's Naw “ ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tus Iatsa Extcnant— num Dwarr, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- Mway.—Divoncy. Matinee at 1g. ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirticth st.— Wuxy Reiry. Atternoon and evening. THEATRE, Hinernicon. ' GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third myvenue.—Genuan Comepy. 4 aTHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Graxp Variety Enrter- PAunowr. Matinee at 234. * ,NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Princo and Bouston sts—Aznazr; on, Tux Magic Caaum. Matinee. ‘ er UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union juare, near (Broadway.—Frov Frov. at 1}. bi OLYMPIO THEATRE. Broadway. between Honston ind Bleecker street.—Humrry Dumery. Matinee at 2 MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Won Casaz ve Bazay, dc. Matinee at 2 } if TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— raniety ENTERTAINMENT. Matince at 235. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner @v.—Nxceo MinstRELsy, &c. Matinee at 2 ' STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Afternoon at Rad CONCERT. t NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— ounce anv Ant. “TRIPLE SHEET. ‘Slew York, Saturday, May 10, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Xo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. PNEWS FROM THE POLARIS! DEATH OF CapP- TAIN HALL! TWENTY WAIFS RESCUED FROM AN ICEBERG"—TITLE OF THE LEADER—SIXTH PGE. MANOTHER DISASTROUS POLAR EXPEDITION! THE POLARIS GONE TO THE BOTTOM AND HER GALLANT COMMANDER AND HALF THE CREW DEAD! DRIFTING 190 DAYS THROUGH 1,500 MILES OF THE ICE SEA! ALMOST AT THE POLE! THRILLING ARC- TIC ADVENTURES! SORROW OF THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE—Tarrp Paag. APraln JACK ABANDUNS HIS LAVA-BED STRONGHOLD! GONE TOWARDS CLEAR LAKE! A WAGON TRAIN ATTACKED AND A@ BURNED, THREE MEN WOUNDED AND MANY HORSES CAPTURED! SCHONCHIN NOT YET DEAD! OPERATIONS OF THE WHITES—SgvENTH Pace. (UR. JAMES J. O'KELLY TRANSFERRED FROM FORT GERONA TO FORT MORO, AT SAN- TIAGO DE CUBA! THE TRIAL TU BE CON- TINUED THERE—SEVENTH PaGE. WILD EXCITEMENT ON THE VIENNA BOURSE! A FINANCIAL CRISIS! A LEADING FIRM FAILS! BUSINESS IMPOSSIBLE! PU BLIC INDIGNITY TO ONE OF THE ROTHS- CHILDS—SEvENTH PAGE. Frenna FAIR TROUBLES—INTERESTING CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS—SEvENTH PaGE. RoxFiicrina REPORTS OF CARLIST SsUC- . CESSES! AN UTTER ROUT OF THE REPUB- LICANS BY GENERAL DORREGARRY CLAIMED, BUT DENIED BY THE GOVERN- MENT! GENERAL VELARDE TO ORDER A LEVY EN MASSE! ARREST OF ADMIRAL TOPETE! A MUTINY IN BISCAY—SEvEeNTH Paag. QUBAN ASSAULT UPON ZUCAYHAMA! A RE- PULSE! THE SPANIARDS ATTACK AND CARRY AN INTRENCHED CAMP! BIDWELL OFF FOR ENGLAND—SgventH Pace. AN AWFUL MOMENT IN A MARYLAND COURT! MURDERERS DROP THEIR FETTERS AND SPRING OUT AMONG THE AUDIENCE! MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE—Tentu PaGE. Wrrn THE KUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA! A HERALD CORRESPONDENT TELLS WHAT HE SAW OF THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF THE KHIVAN KHAN! ‘THE DEMARCATION BETWEEN CIVILIZED EUROPE AND BARBARIC ASIA—Firra Page. RHE MEXICAN POLICE ORDERED TO PROHIBIT . JESUIT SOCIETIES IN AJACA! ARRESTS ORDERED! AN EPIZOOTIC SWINDLE— SEVENTH PAGE. NaTION'S HIGH REGARD FOR THE DEAD CHIEF JUSTICE! THE REMAINS TO LIE IN STATE TO-DAY! THE DISTINGUISHED MOURNERS AND PALL-BEARERS! ACTION OF THE MAYOR, THE CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE AND THE BROOKLYN BAR—FourTH Pace. MORE MAYORAL NUMINEES! EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE CITY HALL! THE NOMINA- TION LISTS LAID UPON THE TABLE! WHO THEY ARE—Fovrtn Pace. BUYING FORGED PERMITS! SOME NAUGHTY FACTS BROUGHT FURWARD AGAINST THE ALDERMEN AND THEIR CLERKS—Fotarit Pade, Oe QOMBATING CABLE GREED—NEWS FROM TRE STATE AND NATIONAL CAPITALS—THE LATE JOHN STUART MILL—TxNTH Pace. (A BANK SENSATION IN SCRANTON, PA.—COL- LISION BETWEEN A NORTH RIVER STEAMBOAT AND FERRYBOAT—NEWS FROM THE YACHTS—LITERARY AND ART GLIMPSES—Frrta PagE. Srxon, THE MURDERER—OFFICIAL ABSOLUT- ISM IN JERSEY CITY—WORK OF THE TEMPERANCE REFORMERS—REAL ES- TATE—Eicuta Pagr. B CONSUL GENERAL ARRAIGNED FOR MISAP- PROPRIATION OF MONEYS ! HELD TO AN- SWER! LEGAL BUS ‘SS—FRIDAY NIGHT IN PLYMOUTH CAHURCS—E1¢nTA Paag. FINANCIAL FEATURES! MONEY ACTIVE, GOLD LOWER! HEAVY DECLINE IN DRY GOODS IMPORTS—Nintn Pace. Tae Vienna Exumpitioy.—The chief man- Sgement of the great industrial fair in Vienna has come to personal variance between the Archduke Charles, the patron, and Baron Bohwartz, the superintendent of the under- taking. They appealed to the Emperor. Wrancis Joseph decided in favor of Baion Schwartz. Archdake Charles has taken um- tbrage at the royal pronouncement and in con- | sequence left the capital. The daily average attendance of visitors in the building is of a | ‘very goodly number. The amenities of so- ciety and our universal civilization have not been much improved or very perceptibly ex- pited by the show so far. VERY. News from the Pelaris—Death of Csp- tain Hall—Ninetecn Waifs Rescued from an feeberg. Onur special despatches from Newfoundland bring us a startling tale. The Polaris expe- dition to the North Pole, under the command of the veteran explorer Captain ©. F. Hall, seems to have failed, and Captain Hall himself is dead. This story, startling as it is in its barest outlines, comes to us through a source which will cause a profound feeling through- out the civilized world. On the 15th October, 1872, in latitude seventy-seven degrees, thirty- five minutes, @ party numbering some nine- teen souls left the Polaris to put some pro- visions on an ice floe. A gale came on; the Polaris parted from her moorings, and the un- fortunates, to their dismay, saw the ship steaming away, unable to give them the slight- est assistance. The ice at the time had for- tunately a southerly set, and the tide and wind drove the great iceberg, with its living cargo, down through Baffin’s Bay and Davis’ Straits until, on the 30th of April of the pres- ent year, after one hundred and ninety-six days on the ice, they were taken off by the steamer Tigress, in latitude fifty-three degrees. thirty minutes, near the coast of Labra- dor. Thus it is that the yet unfinished story of the Polaris comes to the world. It is a thrilling recital, and when the full tale of that almost miraculous drift upon the ice is recorded it will surpass in interest the most sensational fiction that has ever come from human brain, The sufferings which men of fixed ideas en- dure on behalf of their favorite project can have no better illustration than in the records of Arctic exploration. The dream of reaching far Cathay, that sent the great Genoese navi- gator from Court to Court of Europe, was founded first on the idea that by sailing toward the setting sun could the Indies be gained. Since his time, as the unbroken coast line of the Northern and Southern con- tinents of America was traced from north to south, the dreamers turned their visions to the northward. There the passage was to be found. It was tried by Henry Hudson, the discoverer of the island of Manhattan and the Hudson River, and also Hudson's Straits and Hudson's Bay, that bear his name in the cold regions of the north. The story of what Hudson suffered in all these explorations amid the frozen seas is familiar, and his tragic death in the open boat, after the mutiny on his ship, in the last of his expeditions, 1610-12, has furnished a moving theme for poets and painters since. The melancholy death of Behring, the Russian navigator, in his expedition of 1741, to at- tempt, from the west, the same problem of the Polar Ocean, inscribes another name in the great graveyard of Arctic heroes. His vessels were wrecked and a remnant of the crew returned in a small vessel constructed by themselves. Shalaroff, another Russian, with his whole crew, perished of starvation in 1760, while attempting the same route. The English navigator, Captain Cook, who sailed in 1776 through Behring Straits, nearly perished, too, in the ice that closed around his ship. Relief was attempted to be sent him, but the ice barrier prevented it from reaching him. In what is almost our own times the fate of Sir John Franklin is too fresh in the minds of the public to need much com- ment. It will be remembered in the great trait of woman's love that it evoked in the efforts made by Lady Franklin to reach and rescue her long-missing husband. How, after many. vain searches for the lost explorer, the cairn with the scroll detailing his sad death was found by Captain McClintock, of the Fox, will long be remembered. Connected intimately with this long fruitless search for Franklin is the life story of the brave hearted man, C. F. Hall, whose passion for Arctic exploration was first awakened in the desire to rescue the missing mariner. The stout-hearted Ohio blacksmith, without any training in naviga- tion, and indeed without any scien- tific knowledge whatever, accomplished wonderful results in traversing the barren, ice-bound wastes of the north. Although he did not succeed in accomplishing the object of his daring search, the fascination of peer- ing into the wonderful, untrodden places of the boreal world remained as strong as ever. The open Polar Sea of Kane haunted him with visions of fame. The great, rugged, energetic nature of the man taught him to laugh at obstacles. He had travelled and lived in the wild white regions, and he trusted in himself to find the object of his dreams as the rough trapper of the Plains travels by the light of his experience and not by that of science. He was certainly o man well fitted to manage all the details of an Arctic voyage, except those in which the aid of science was absolutely necessary. His idea was to associate with him men of science to manage the scientific part, and to do the downright hard work of the expedition him- self. Congress placed fifty thousand dollars at his disposal, and he was to reach the North Pole. Everything was accomplished in fitting out the Polaris which experience could sug- gest, and in Angust, 1871, having a) ‘his stores on board, he sailed in good health and spirits from the midst northerly settlement on the west coast of Greenland to accomplish his self-sought task. We have said already that Captain Hall is dead. On the 8th of October, 1872, after returning from an expedition on sledges, in which he reached within seven degrees and forty-four minutes of the North Pole, he died on board the Polaris from apoplexy while in the act of stimulating the hopes and courage of his men. A week afterwards the untoward occurrence happened, through which the nineteen souls on the ice floe were swept away from the ship, The story of the unfortunates as told by Cap- tain Tyson, their sufferings, their manful struggle for life during six months and a half on their strange Arctic craft, and the truly provi- dential manner of their deliverance reads likea fearful dream. That during that fearful time the ice floe drifted nearly fifteen hundred miles, though moving at the rate of little more than seven miles a day, will convey some faint iden of the horrors through which they passed and the death, perpetually menacing them, from which they escaped. Exposure, cold and hunger are but words to indicate what they have survived. Never were such waifs known before in the history of the world. The Polaris itself was leaking badly at the time she was parted, as wo have seen, from more than half of her crew. Oaptain Tyson is of opinion that she may yet return, although ehe was without boats. She is under the com- mand of Captain Buddington, who ranked next to the unfortunate Captain Hall. That the samo Providence which guided those already rescued back to their own land may extend His kindly hand to save those yet among the perils of the icy seas will be the prayer ot the whole nation, The death of Captain Hall will be widely mourned by those who honor a brave, heroic heart, He has erhibited in his lifetime an amount of persistence and sagacity which, though not supplemented by the science of the schools, were worthy of a great object. The scientific results attained it is premature to speak of. The open Polar Sea again comes like a mirage in the story. That seen by the Kane expedition is pronounced to be a strait only fifteen miles wide; but the indications of open water to the north were observed. The highest point attained by this expedi- tion was eighty-two dogrees, sixteen minutes; that of the Kane party was some minutes higher. The scientific bearings of tho sub- ject will be widely discussed until the Arctic fever again takes hold of a bold dreamer, and perhaps, after all, the waters of the North Sea may be traversed. But while reading the story of the sufferings of the rescued, and awaiting anxiously fresh tidings from the ship round whose fate hangs so dismal acloud to-day, the cui bono of all such perilous expeditions will be the subject of much discussion and widely varying opinions. The Escape of the Modocs. Our special despatch from the lava beds indicates a new departure on the part of Cap- tain Jack and the inauguration of a merciless war on the peaceful settlers of Oregon. The savages have quietly abandoned their rocky defences and have taken to the open country. Elated with their success in defeating the troops sent against them, they now deem themselves able to cope with the United States forces in the field. Nor are they altogether wrong in their estimate of their own strength. Well armed and well mounted and pursuing a sys- tem of tactics thoroughly well suited to their kind of warfare and the nature of the country, they have little to fear from the heavily ac- coutred and slow moving troops. Born and bred bushwhackors they will not pay much at- tention to the rules of war as laid down in the army regulations. The Modoc war, then, will be o guerilla war for the future, It has already commenced. A wagon train, insufficiently guarded, has been cap- tured ; three men have been wounded, and seventeen government horses added to the al- ready respectable stables of Captain Jack. How long is this state of affairs to continue, and what is to be the end of it all? The extermina- tion of the citizens in the neighborhood of the lava beds by the savages seems now more prob- able than the extermination of the Modocs by the military. We are told that one hundred Oregon volunteers have arrived at the lava beds, and this piece of news is the most en- couraging yet received ; but several thousand frontiersmen should be immediately organized to fight the Modocs, in their own way and without interference of any kind by army officers or Indian agents. One thousand such men would be more effective against the sav- ages than the whole army of the United States. The Government and Railroad. The old saying about shutting the stable door after the horse has escaped is applicable in a measure to the government and the Pacific Railroad, for that gigantic concern secured two hundred millions of dollars or so in bonds, land and money before the country woke up to the stupendous job and frauds connected with it. Nevertheless, the government has, at the eleventh hour, resolved to save what it can from the yearly drain upon it of interest money, to which it is pledged, on the bonds of the railroad. The exposure of the Crédit Mo- bilier and other grasping and swindling opera- tions of the managers and other parties interested in the Pacific Railroad have checked Congress and made the government more vigilant. The Attorney General has, conse- quently, just decided that the government has the right to retain money claimed for serviees by the railroad company for transportation for the government as long as any interest owing by the company on its bonds to the United States remains unpaid. In other words, the government will pay itself, as far as it can, for the heavy indebtedness of the company out of the charges for transportation. This is about the only way it will ever get anything, and the decision is a proper one. The com- pany, seeing it cannot fleece the government and people any longer, has begun to econo- mize by abolishing the general deadhead system. Perhaps some other way will be found before long to make the Pacific Rail- road pay both the future interest on its bonds and the back interest which the government has been compelled to pay as the endorser of these bonds. ae ie’ —— ue _-tee lite ta oka Ths funeral ser- vices over the honored remains of our late Chief Justice take place to-day at St. George’s Episcopal church, Stuyvesant square, at three P. M., under the direction of the Rev. Drs. Halland Tyng. Tho body will then be re- moved to Washington, where a second funeral service will be held over it on Monday next, in the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal church of that city, whence the casket will be taken to Oakville Cemetery, Georgetown, D. C. Meantime despatches from all parts of the country, in announcements of meetings and resolutions of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman and jurist, testify to the universal veneration in which his memory is and will be held by the American people. There are few men to whom, in departing this life, these words—‘‘Let me live the life of the righteous, and let my last end be like his’’— will more aptly apply than to our Jamented Chief Justice. His life was that of a believing Christian, and death to him was but the portal to a higher and happier existence, the Pacific Tar Recent Heavy Decnease in the bullion of the Bank of England is referable, in view of what is said by the London Economist, to a preparation om the part of the government of Great Britain to pay the United States the Alabama indemnity money, amounting to £3,200,000 ($16,000,000), which becomes due before the 1st of October next. Tax Day Goons Imports the past week fell off to the unusally small total of $1,253,754. John Stuart Mill. John Stuart Mill, the story of whose life and death is told in another column, was the chief thinker of his age in the advanced achool of political economy. The exact opposite in theory and opinion from Henry ©. Carey, his views and arguments were especially prized by American free-traders, because they generally furnished solid answers to the allegations of the protectionists. His death will accordingly be regretted as an irreparable loss by the friends of political and social reform, and especially by the advocates of unrestricted commerce. Mr. Mill began his career as a thinker early in life, and his intellect seemed to grow in power and comprehensiveness while he lived. He was called impracticable— a view of his philosophy which may or may not have been true; but whether impracticable or not at this time, his works will continue to exert great influence upon the growth of s0- ciety and nations, and under other conditions may prove of incalculable benefit to mankind. His work on liberty is as charming as Cicero de Senectute, and ought in itself to keep the world alive to the spirit of freedom for cen- turies. Asawriter on logic he was unsur- passed by the philosophers of this and every age. It is only asa political economist that men doubt the soundness of his views, and in this regard it must not be forgotten that polit- ical economy asa science is only in its in- fany, if, indeed, it has yet attained the dignity of a science. Whatever of coherency and beauty and truth and comprehensiveness it possesses, it owes more to John Stuart Mill than to any of the men who went before him. Mr. Mill became a thinker at the most active and progressive period in English politics. Parliamentary reform was agitating the Eng- lish mind, and the great questions of com- merce and production were receiving such attention as it was possible to give them. The young clerk in the India House grasped them with a firmer hand than the politicians in the Houses of Parliament, and soon showed himself at once a philosopher and a states- man. All liberal views found hima champion, sometimes even to an extent to which the boldest would not venture, All progressive ideas sought in him an interpreter. After his great chapter on the futurity of labor the laboring classes regarded him as their leader. His “Essay on Liberty’? became a handbook even in the hands of politicians. Every new movement, political or social, beneficial or deleterious, sought his endorsement. Some- times he gave his aid to objects that were unworthy of his support or chimerical and impracticable ; but no one ever doubted his integrity of thought and purpose, and most of those who opposed him were not so much convinced that his judgment was wrong as that he was a man in advance of his age. His death is a great loss to social and political science ; but posterity will never forget the name and the achievements of John Stuart Mill. The New Atlantic Cable Enterprise and the Cotton Exchange. It may be seen by a report in another part of the paper of the action of the Cotton Ex- change in New York that our merchants are alive to the necessity of breaking down the present telegraph monopoly of the Atlantic cable companies. We, who use the cable so much and at great expense, have felt the grasping cupidity of this monopoly, and have urged, therefore, measures for the protection of the press and public. We have argued, and still believe, that the proper remedy for the evil is in the governments of the United States and Great Britain taking possession of the cables, or in laying and controlling one or more themselves, But we gladly accept any proposition that will create competition and relieve us of the intolerable exactions of the existing monopoly. We notice with pleasure, then, the action of the Cotton Exchange in this city yesterday. In the call made for this meeting it was justly said, “The exorbitant cost of ocean tele- graphic messages has led to a good deal of dissatisfaction in all commercial com- munities, especially since rates have been ad- vanced, and it is reasonable to expect that the idea of a new line, to serve the interests of business men, will receive substantial encour- agement.” More than two hundred names of members of the Exchange were signed to a petition for calling this meeting. The meet- ing was held, consequently, at half-past eleven o'clock yesterday. The resolutions passed show both the earnestness of the , cot- ton merchants and their desire for the co- operation of the press in this movement. The first resolution embraced the argument. It was resolved ‘‘That we, as an Exchange, heartily welcome the proposition to lay a new cable, as it is the only means of freeing us from the present monopoly.”” The members of the Cotton Exchange then pledged them- selves to subscribe to the new enterprise and to give it their telegraphic business, and on- gaged also to use their influence to bring other i ae gud busingss Bey te its mp + port. The 4Sinpany, as Mr. Eastman, President, explained, is called the Direct United States Cable Company, and, as its name implies, is to lay its cable direct from the west coast of Ireland to the soil of the United States, that is, to the shore of New Hampshire, The capital has been subscribed and the contracts made. The company is pre- cluded from associating with any other com- pany and promises considerable reduction in the charges for telegraphing. So far it is well. Competition is needed. There is op- portunity ond business enough for several cables. But, as we said before, this important medium of communication, in which the whole public on both sides of the Atlantic are interested, ought to be under government con- trol. While we commend the enterprise of the Direct United States Cable Company we call upon our government to open negotia- tions with Great Britain, and with other gov- ernments if necessary, for a convention to establish or control telegraphic communica- tion, at the lowest paying rates, under the Atlantic ocean. That must come, and the sooner the movement is made the better. Tue Srrvation mw Mexico remains troubled, particularly in consequence of the struggle which is being carried on between the repub- lican authorities and the monastic orders of the Church. The Jesuits suffer just at pres- ent. The mining interests are improving, and the parliamentary presidency has been completed in favor of the government candi- dates. The morale of the provincials docs not, apparently, improve in the meantime, let and Party Contradictions. The Herarp special telogram from Madrid which appears in our columns to-day supplies painful evidence of the fact that the war be- tween the Carlists and the forces of the Spanish Republic is still waged with great activity, and that the contending parties @re moved against each other by that deadly spirit of intense fierceness which has been ever characteristio of Spanish hate. The battle which was fought, just lately, be- tween the Bourbonist army, under General Dorregarry, and the loyalists resulted, it is alleged, in the total rout of the republicans, with the loss of two hundred men killed and of many prisoners and small arms, and one cannon, which were captured by the insurgents, The Madrid government attempts to offset this report by the publication of an official despatch which an- nounces the defeat of Dorregarry. If the papers on both sides refer to the same en- gagement there is a wide variance in the matter of the assertion which they contain ; but it may be that they speak of two different eneounters, in one of which the royal cause was in the ascendant and in the other that of the democracy. Spain suffers severely in the mean time. The army serving in Bis- cay is ina state of mutiny on account of the non-receipt of its pay. Admiral Topete has been arrested—an incident which can scarcely surprise the gallant sailor, as he appears to be hauled up in the wind every now and then by the’ politicians, who cannot, it may be, comprehend his plan of plain sailing and a steady course. Minister of War Nouvillas has been reconciled to Gen- eral Velarde—an important matter for Span- iards, and one which it isto be hoped may influence the campaign favorably. In the mean time the governments of almost all the near and leading nations are being troubled concerning questions of Spanish neutrality and Carlism ; but a quarrelsome family i ever unpleasant as a neighbor. Work in the Legisiature. Contrary to the general expectation, a strenuous opposition to the proposed modifi- cation of the Usury law has sprung up among the “‘hayloft and cheesepress’’ Assemblymen. Yesterday a bit of sharp practice was unsuc- cessfully tried to kill Mr. Winslow's bill and defeat the wishes of the city delegations, who, speaking for the classes most interested in monetary matters, are considered best judges of the effect of the proposed change. Next Wednesday is designated for the continuance of the discussion. The New York City Local Improvement bill was debated at some length in the Assembly on its reception from the Senate, and the vote by which it had passed reconsidered. Purporting to remedy an omis- sion in the new charter, it gives authority to pay for work on Seventh avenue on the certificate of the Commissioner of Public Works, and is considered a stroke of valuable legislation for the stone pavement ring. Being recommitted there will be full opportunity to ventilate its provisions and consider whether it offers the proper method of perfecting that wondrous achievement of patchwork lawmaking under which our mu- nicipal government is to be administered. Tuesday morning was fixed in the Assembly for taking up the Canal Debt Funding bill. The Senate passed, among other bills, one authorizing an increase of capital by the Mid- land Railroad Company ; one fixing the sal- aries of Kings county Judge and Surrogate at ten thousand dollars and Surrogate of West- chester county at four thousand dollars ; also the new Brooklyn charter, which Mr. Murphy opposed, though he admitted it to be in the main a democratic charter. Tue Lire or tHe Porg is a subject on which we might imagine the world could afford to express itself with a strict regard for truth. For some weeks past the chief cities of Europe have unitedin a conspiracy to befog the public on the matter. He is killed in one city one day, and, before the news has time to grow cold, His Holiness is resurrected in some other city the next day. Berlin and London haive deprived him of life. Paris has had its turnin the mortuary announcement, and even Rome has hurried him before his time into the ranks of the subjects for necrology. In Canada the news of Papal fatality was sent abroad as soon as he had been taken out of his winding sheet in Europe. Pope Pius is doubtless old and infirm, and may not long survive in this fallible world ; but while he still breathes the breath of mortal life we think the rumorists might spare him @ premature immortality. Emvrror Wui1am has left St. Petersburg, and, according to present arrangements, he will arrive in Berlin on Sunday. How much has been arranged during his sojourn in the Russian capital! Russia knows the possible complications which may grow out of the Central Asian difficulty. Is the alliance of Germany secured?. So long as this Asiatic difficulty exists—a difficulty which brings England and Russia face to face—this ques- tion must be one of the foremost questions of the hour. From present appearances it seems pot unfair {9 toh a ge and ex: mtv REAP as *t Tt he aos alliance which makes this new Eastern ques- tion so serious. Our latest news from Central Asia is not encouraging to those who hope for the continuance of peace. Tae Avstatan Bourse at Vienna: labored under a wild excitement yesterday. The agi- tation was produced by the sudden failure of a leading mercantile firm, which caused the throwing of a large amount of stock on the market. Speculators made plaint to the government, The crisis may endure for many days. Its first effects must have been of an exceedingly unpleasant and irritating charac- ter, when we are told that a portion of the *Change folk were driven to publicly insult Rothschild and ancaher prominent financier on the place where merchants most do con- Gregate. Tae Usvry Brut has been made a special order in the Assembly for next Wednesday. As amended go far, it proposes to try the experi- ment for two years of a virtual repeal of the old usury laws. The forfeiture of the prinoi- pal is done away with; but while the bill makes it still unlawful (?) to charge more than seven per cent interest, the lender can bargain for more, but cannot collect the excess if the bor- rower afterward disputes ite The War in Spain—Its Actual Can- LOV).SIANA. —— rr Badger and His Metropoth'828 Masters of the Situation—The General Int ‘Viewed by 6 Herald Reporter—United Sta, “®# Traps Moving to His Assistance—, "far shal Packer’s Despatch to Attorney General Williams. Sr. MARTINSVILLE, May 9, 187% Thave just arrived trom a position near St. Mar- tinsville, where I interviewed General Badger at one P.M. In answer to my interrogations he re- plied in substance as follows:— “Tam in no need of reinforcements, There is 2 enemy before me. I do not know where Colonel De Blanc is. A part of hia command has gone te- wards Vermillionville, part towards Breaux Sridge and part towards Bute a La Rose, on the Atchafalaya, I have had but two men wounded 80 far and none killed. I would be pleased to meet Colonel De Blanc socially, and it would be very dis- agreeable to me indeed to be compelled to cause his arrest, OFFERS TO ARM THE NEGROES REJECTED, “Yes, overtures have been made to me by parties here to arm the negroes for my assistance, an@ arms have been freely offered me for that purpose from New Orleans, but { have strenuously discoum- tenanced the idea and shall continue to resist the measure as one calculated to produce incalculable evils and no good. The Mayor of St. Martinsville, Mr. Dechamps, was arrested by a civil process on & charge of treason to the State government. I had nothing to do with it. I know nothing more of it. Thave raised @ few horses from differenit sources and now have 4 SMALL FORCE OF CAVALRY. “T suppose Colonel Be Blanc has been acting more with a view to creating public sentiment against Kellogg than with the intention of taking us, as he certainly has had the force to accomplish more, and from his reputation should have done so had he desired.” THE IMPRISONED MAYOR. This is about the substance of his statements te us, Mr. Dechamps ts confined in & small room over the Court House, and will have @ preliminary ex- Smination to-morrow. Mr. Seymour is his coum- wel. The severely wounded policeman may recover, General Badger is evidently nonpiussed by THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF DE BLANG. Many of his men, Major Taylor included, were very anxious to know what detained the reinforcing Metropolitans, and all show much greater uneasi- hess than their commander. Knowing ones think De Blanc will capture the Court House factions, THE METROPOLITAN REINFORCEMENTS, A steamboat from Bute a la Rose with forty-three Metropolitans, cavalry, passed Franklin at nine o’clock this morning for St. Martinsville, and are hourly expected here. De Blanc Mysteriously Disappears. NEw ORLEANS, May 9, 1873. Aspecial despatch from New Iberia states that Colonel De Blanc has abandoned hiscamp at Tour- neto and mysteriously disappeared. General Bad- ger has mounted all the men he could and stationed detachments in different portions of the surround- ing country. Forty-five mounted Metropolitana, via Franklin, are expected to-night. Reinforcement of Troops. New ORL#ANS, May 9, 1878. Three companies of the Nineteenth infantry, un- der Captain Bradford, left this evening for Bra- shear City, to join the troops there awaiting transportation to St. Martinsville. General Smith will command the expe tition, United States Troops Moving to the Scene of the Trouble. BRASHEAR, May 9, 1873. The United States troops will leave here by land, being unable to procure transportation by water. There are no Metropolitans in town. Everything 1s quiet as far up as Centreville and Franklin. Forty-three mounted Metropolitans, commanded by Mike Cooney, passed here at nine o'clock this morning and were unmolested. There is nothing now to prevent their forming a junction with those at St. Martinsville. Marshal Packard’s Report to the Attor- ney General. WASHINGTON, May 9, 1873. The Attorney General this morning received the following despatch from Marshal Packard, at New Orleans :— I received warrants for the arrest of De Blano and ten other leaders of the insurrectionary organ- ization at St. Martinsville, the accused being im arms and with strong force. I deemed it best to at once execute the process to prevent the further efiusion of blood, and therefore made a requisition upon General Emory fora military posse of torty men and two oificers, which were promptly fur- nishea, Chief Deputy Marshal De Klyne left with the ssc, arriving at Brashear City yesterday noom rail The reguiar line of boats of Price, fone & Tucker, carrying the United States mail to St. Martins, was withdrawn before the arrival of Deputy De Klyne, and they are laid up at Franklin, and the proprietors refused the use of the boats. There is no other water transportation available there, but it may be sup- plied in a short time through General Emory. Gen- eral Badger, commanding the State militia, has been at St. Martinsville five days, where he pro- poses to install local officers. This parish was returned republican by Lynch, Wharton and Braids. Skirmishing has been going on, and some are wounded on both sides. The latest news is that Badger is nolding the town and protecting the Court in session. He does not intend to go out to attack. De Blanc’s force is encamped two miles out, 200 streng, and they, it ta believed, are not strong enough to safely ‘attack Badger in town. The arrival of the Deputy Mar- shal, with his party, will end the contest, 8. B. PACKER, United States Marshal. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Judge J. G. Abbott, of Boston, is at the Brevoort House, Judge E. Sturtevant, of Chicago, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Rev. W. S, Blanchard, of Chicago, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge E. R. Hoare, ef Beston, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator J. Roaman West, of Louisiana, is im town at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Ward Hunt, of the United States Supreme Court, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue HoteL Ex-Secretary Gideon Welles, and Edgar T. Welles, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. “Secretary of the Treasury William A. Richardson and Solicitor E. C. Banfleld yesterday arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel from Washington, WEATHER REPORT. es onne Pry OPFIORR, 1H aNAL OTP ASMINGTON, D. Oy MAY 10-1 A. Me Probabilities, For the Middle States and lower lake region the pressure will slowly increase during the day, with southwesterly to westerly winds, cloudy and clear- ing weather and occasional local rain; for Van- ada and New England, lower barometer, southeast- erly to southerly winds. cloudy weather and rain; for the South Atlantic and Gulf States and Tennessee, partly cloudy and clearing weather, northwesterly to southwesterly winds, lower tem- perature and rising barometer. For the upper Lakes and the northwest and thence southward to ri and Ohio Valleys, northwesterly winds, Iw ‘remperature, clearing weather, with occa- rts are ¢ upper l rain and possiby hail. Re generally missing from the northwest, kes and southwest, . The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, aa inctoaead by Med Loh! Lento at Hudnat’s Pnar- macy, Henan Building :— r 1872. 1845, Tl 4 3PM. 4 6PM. 46 OP. M. + 87 «49 12 P.M verage perature yesterday Average temperature for co: 3AM. 6A. M 9 A. M. M. a ——neniconnenineieny 7 —— | f