The New York Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1873, Page 8

‘W YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, ‘PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Monre Cuisto. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venuc.—Amy Ronsart. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, BURLESQUE AND O110. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rir Van Wineie— Our Jeminy, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Divorce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. cornor Thirtieth st.— Tax Honermoon. Afternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway.—Granp Variety Enter- ‘TAUMENT. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and jouston sta.—Aznar; or, Tas Magic OnaRm, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frov Frov. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston ‘and Bleocker street.—Husrty Doarry, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tue Squins’s Last SHILLING. MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Unper tuk Gasuicur, &c. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Montague st— Faexcu Orena—La Penicnore. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner 6th av.—Necro MinstRELsy, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Afternoon at 2—Granv Concert. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— ForRNcE AND. ART, QUADRUPLE SHERT. New York, Sunday, May 11, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. , To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GREAT DISASTER IN THE ARCTIC OCEAN! th THE PERILS FORK SOIENCE IN THE NORTHERN SEAS”—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—E1¢nty Paas. AMERICA INTENSELY AGITATED OVER THE FATE OF THE UNITED STATES NORTH POLAR EXPEDITION! A STARTLING QUERY! MORE HERALD ENTERPRISE! DR. HAYES’ VIEWS! THE CAPTAIN AND CREW OF THE ILL-STARRED POLARIS SKETCHED! THE VESSEL PENETRATES TO AN EXTREME LATITUDE—NiNTH PaGE. ANTARCTIO PERILS! A BOATS CREW ABAN- DONED IN THE SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, AND ONLY ONE LEFT TO TELL OF THEIR DIRE SUFFERINGS—TweE.rru Pacs. DON ALPHONSO’S AND OTHER CARLIST FORCES ROUTED BY THE REPUBLICANS, WITH SEVERE LOSSES! THE GOVERNMENT. SENDING REINFORCEMENTS TO NAVARRE! THE BISCAY REVOLT—Nintu PaGe, CHASE OBSEQUIES! A DISTINGUISHED ASSEMBLAGE PARTICIPATE IN THE FINAL SOLEMN RITES OVER THE REMAINS OF THE LAMENTED CHIEF JUSTICE! THE FUNERAL ADDRESS! SCENES AT THE CHURCH AND EN ROUTE TO WASHING- TON! THE CEREMONIES AT THE CAPITAL— FirTH PaGE, PREACHERS AND SUBJECTS FOR TO-DAY IN THE VARIOUS CHURCHES! SALIENT EPIS- TLES OF THE RELIGIOUS CORRE- SPONDENTS! DENOMINATIONAL CHANGES! “CRUX DE CRUCE! THE PAPAL ELEC- TIONS! HONOR TO STANLEY—SixTu Page. 4 SANGUINARY DUEL IN VIRGINJA! A REIGN- ING BELLE THE CAUSE! P. R. TACTICS TRIED, BUT BLOOD DEMANDED AND THE | DUELLO THE DERNIER RESSORT! ONE FATALLY AND THE OTHER SERIOUSLY WOUNDED—FirTH PAGE. LUSIGNANI, THE WIFE MURDERER, TRYING TO CHEAT THE HANGMAN BY STARVING HIMSELF! THE GALLOWS ERECTING FOR HIM—Twsirru Pace. FACTION FIGHTS IN PANAMA—SEVERE CON- FLAGRATION IN PORT AU PRINCE, HAYTI— NINTH PaGE. JAY GOULD’S ASSAILANT FINED AND BOUND TO KEEP THE PEACE FOR SIX MONTHS! THE COMPLAINANT TELLS HOW IT OC- CURRED—Sixtu Pace. SODGE PRATT REFUSES A STAY OF PROUEED- INGS IN THE NIXON CASE! EX-MAYOR HALL'S APPEAL AND THE REPLY OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY PHELPs—Sixtu Padi. + em FINANCIAL BUSINE: EFFECTS OF THE VI- ENNA EXCITEMENT! GOLD UP AND STOCKS DOWN! THE BANK OF ENGLAND ADVANCES THE DISCOUNT RATE TO #IVE PER CENT—SEVENTH Pace. Tae Bank or Enctanp raised the rate of discount to five per cent yesterday, and the price of gold, which had been already ren- dered sensitive by the reported panic in Vienna, jumped to 118, but closed at a re- action to 118}. Tue Dvet Near Ricumonp, Vimar, on Friday evening last, the full particulars of which were telegraphed to the Hrnatp and are presented elsewhere in our columns to- day, was one of the most serious encounters we have recently had to record from the chivalrous Old Dominion. Like most of these remarkable combats, the real cause could scarcely be discovered with the aid of a microscope, while the imaginary wrongs were piled up in mid air. Blood alone, it was alleged, could efface the supposed injuries, The combatants, both young men of good social position, met in a secluded spot, and, surrounded by gentlemen whose age and ex- perience should dictate loftier and more en- nobling occupation, fired twice and succeeded in dangerously wounding each other. The moral may easily be seen. Oxsequies oy THE Late Cur Justice.— ‘The last tribute of respect and veneration to memory of a truly great man was paid ‘pis in the impressive ceremonies which J the removal of the remains of the late Chief Justice of the United States from this city. There was a throng of visitors to St. George’s church during the five hours allotted for the lying in state, and all classes availed themselves of the opportunity to take a last look at all that was mortal of one whose ame is enshrined in the nation’s heart. Some of the most distinguished representa- tives of the American Republic were present when the Rev. Dr. Hall delivered the funeral oration, and every one evinced. a feeling that, in the death of Chief Justice Chase, the nation has lost one of its most upright children and ita highest intellect. We publish in another colamn the particulars of the obsequies of tho ‘The Great Diwaster in the Arctic Ocean—The Perils for Science in the Northern Seas. The special despatches received yesterday from Newfoundland exclusively by the Henaup brought full intelligence of the great and tragic Arctic disaster. Nineteen out of thirty- three souls that embarked on the Polaris in the Arctic expedition separated from their companions, and, driven by the merciless winds of the icy ocean, on a melting and fragile sheet of ice, far away from their ship, landed on the ice-bound coast of Labra- dor, her commander dead and the fate of the steamer herself left ina maze of uncertainty and gloom. Such is the substance of the latest tidings received, the truth of which is confirmed beyond all question. Seldom, since the mysterious catastrophes which overtook Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Hugh Willoughby, William Barentz and Sir John Franklin has a more unfortunate issue to a great undertaking been: furnished the annalist of Arctic voyages. The American North Polar expedition, under Captain Hall, took its final departure from the port of New London on the 3d of July, 1871—not quite two years ago—having on her muster roll twenty-four officers and seamen and two Esquimaux interpreters. At Upernavik, Greenland, just as the exploring party were to bid farewell to th» last vestige of civilization and life, they took on board the Polaris Hans Christian, the famous and faithful servant of Dr. Kane, who, with his Esquimaux wife and children, increased the roster of the ship to thirty-three souls; and early on the morning of August 24 their gallant and obold-hearted commander turned his prow Poleward. ‘The perilous attempt of Captain Hall to reach the Pole was made through Smith’s Sound, ih the very throat of that great torrential river of ice which drains the circumpolar basin of the North. Among the last words of the commander of the Polaris, despatched to his government, when on the eve of entering this unknown region, August 17, 1871, was the assurance that the season was ‘a most extraordinary open season for Arctic navigation,” and that he would ‘improve the opportunity to its full- est extent ;’’ but not without first establish- ing near Cape Alexander, at the east entrance of Smith’s Sound, a depot of provisions, to fall back on, in case his vessel became ice-wrecked in the desperate battle she was about to engage in. | The inhabitants of the most northerly Green- land settlement told Dr. Bessel, of the ex- pedition, that the Summer of 1871 was the warmest known in fifty years, and the effect of it was apparent in an enormous drift of Polar ice fields southward from Smith's Sound and Baffin’s Bay, along the coast of Newfoundland, from February to May. It was also observed at Newfounddand, in May of last year, that a river of ice varying from sixty to two hundred miles in breadth, and two thousand miles long, had been three months incessantly pouring its contents into the tepid waters of the Gulf Stream. No doubt, as the mournful tidings show, Captain Hall pushed his way vigorously in the open sea way caused by this outflow; but it has been foreseen that, with such tremendous breaking up of Arctic ices, his little craft, in a narrow and hemmed- up channel like Kennedy’s or Smith’s Sound, must have been fearfully exposed. The cir- cumstances of an excessively warm season and open weather, which held out the greatest promise, gave rise, no doubt, to the ex- cessive amount of ice drift, in which the ice- beleaguered vessel was threatened with de- struction, and which caused the detachment of the party under Captain Tyson to attempt unloading the stores. It was while this party was at work that they became separated from the ship by the force of the wind, stronger than steam, driving and drifting them away from ‘her, and forcing them to navigate those stormy and icy seas on a@ frail field of ice. Nothing can exceed tho peril in which Captain Tyson and his men were placed, and it is o most extraordinary provi- dence which saved them after their six months’ battling with the waves. But one of the saddest features of the story is the sudden death of their commander and friend. Captain Hall’s loss will occasion uni- versal regret among those who can appreciate the indomitable gallantry and hardy devotion of an independent and fearless explorer. With few advantages of early education or scien- | tific training he had acquired, by the un- tiring application of his natural talent for close observation, great superiority as a leader of Arctic research; and _ his enthusiasm and willingness to bear the greatest hardships fitted him to conduct others into places of danger and suffering. A self-taught man, like Hudson, Baffin and Franklin, Hall's promotion to the leadership of the North Polar Expedition excited the arrogant jealousy and ill-judged criticisms of many of the scientific men of the country, who would have resented the straightforward independence of a Scoresby or a Ross. Hall wisely and magnanimously disregarded their envious attacks, and, by his strong character and manly exertions, won the good opinion of the country and the co-operation of Congress and the administration. Although not him- self a trained scientist, he had the judgment to discern able and accurate minds capable of doing the technical work of the voyage, and his selection of Dr. Emil Bessel as the scien- tific director, of Sergeant Myer of tho Signal Service Corps, as his meteorolo- gist and mathematician, and of his officers, Buddington, Chester and Morton—the latter of Kane’s expedition and the first to see the open Polar Sea—were acknowledged as eminently judicious. The route he selected through Smith’s Sound, though only criti- cised by Petermann, Silas Bent and others in this country, has, within the past Winter, been warmly recommended by the most expe- rienced English navigators as the best gate- way to the pole. The effect, however, of the present intelligence must be very decided, and the disaster to the American expedition by the division of its party and its provisions must, we apprehend, so weaken its strength ay to necessitate o return at an early day to the United States. If, as wo think, it may reasonably be hoped the Polaris and her remaining crew are safe, the government should at once despatch & steam vessel to her relief, with orders to bring her and her crew home at ones, The calamity which has overtaken her brave and hardy voyagers, while it sends o thrill of horror through the civilized world, is an- nounced in time to seal, we hope, the fate of several proposed expeditions, especially thatof England, now’ being planned to repeat this grand Arctic tragedy. The perilous enter- prise of seeking a northwest passage, tried by Cortereal, Baffin, Ross, Parry, and attempted since in vain, and so shut by jealous nature with eternal bars, has baffled Franklin, McClintock, De Haven, Kane, Hayes and others, and is one which, if successful, could furnish the world only a few feeble scientific data, which can hardly be valued as highly 8 asingle one of the gallant lives sacrifice! t0 the undertaking. At brief intervals through a, period f more than three centuries more than 9 hundred expeditions have gone in quest of fis goal of geographic ambition. They haw gone forth guided by the ablest navigatorr and sustained by the most lavish outlays of moral sympathy and material aid, and burting with a zeal which the cternal ices of me North could not chill, The paltry advaneges won have been attained only by hercuean labors and weary toiling over ragged muntains of ice, and the personal lustre won by the adventurers them- selves has only served to reveal, like the frag- ments of some noble wreck, the rocks on which the foadest hopes have been stranded. It would seem that the famous apparition of the Portuguese poet, which flitted before Vasco di Gama at the Cape of Good Hope and hovered athwart his ships, threatening death and min as the penalty of discovery, has winged its way to the ice-guarded border of the open Polar Sea. Let us hope that, for the present, no new attempts will be made to in- vade his vengeful and perilous domain. The Italian Government and the Re« Mgious Orders, According to our latest accounts the bill abolishing religious corporations is still under discussion by the Italian Parliament. On Fri- day last Venosta, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, while insisting on the propriety of the measure as a whole, made some remarks which show that beyond a certain point he is not prepared to play the part of an iconoclast. ‘In abolishing the temporal power,”’ he said, “Italy had contributed to the progress of the century, but she must refrain from attacking the spir- itual power.’’ According to Venosta Italy is not bound to preserve the mortmain by which the religious bodies exist; but Italy has no right to prevent the heads of the religious orders from keeping up communication with the Catholic world. The religious reform in Italy has been very sweeping and very severe. Since the sixteenth century no such measure has been attempted in any country. Religious property amounting to some two millions of dollars will pass into the hands of the State, and the bill applies to movable property as well as to real estate. To accomplish such a work requires great strength. It remains to be seen whether the present government of Italy is quite equal to the task. Signor Ve- nosta’s remarks seem to imply that a feeling exists that the government may go too far. In the nineteenth century it is a necessity that reform have at least the appearance of justice. American Shoddy at Vienna. It will be understood at once that we do not mean by the above heading shoddy goods or materials at the Vienna Exposition, for we hope there will not be, and do not expect there will be, any of these. We shall, at least, make a respectable show of manufactures and a good show of mechanical skill. The shoddy we refer to isin the schemers and vain-glorious Americans who have brought disgrace upon the national character by buying and selling official positions connected with the American Commission and Department of the Exhibi- tion. We hardly know which to denounce most strongly, the corrupt, trading and mean: souled officials who sold positions or privi- leges, or the contemptible mnobodies who wanted to swell themselves out, like the frog in the fable, beyond their natural proportions by obtaining an official character through bribery to which. they were not entitled by merit. The government at Washington has blundered in this matter, as in so many others, through not having the g§agacity to select the proper men as representative Americans, except in a few instances among the honorary Commissioners. There are plenty of gentlemen, high-toned and cultivated men, in this country who would have reflected honor upon the Republic; but the administration at Washington does not appear to be in contact with or in the way of finding out such. Men of low instincts and political schemers come to the top in almost all cases. Our best citizens shrink from contact with these. Outside of the official circle and a sprinkling of such shoddy people and adventurers as all countries have, the Viennese will see a number of gentlemen and ladies of the best type from America. Euro- peans are too apt to seize any opportunity to disparage our people and country, and the more care should have been taken not to gratify this egotistical propensity. As the government has at last undertaken to remove the cause for further scandal in this Vienna commission business we hope it will peremp- torily make clean work of the reform com- menced. Making the United States Settlement, We are informed, through a despatch from Baltimore, that five Algerian chiefs, who had a Penal been tried in France and sentenced to the penal colony of Cayenne for life, had arrived in that city, having been released on the con- dition that they would go to the United States. Itis an outrage of international comity for any European or other foreign government to send, even in such an indirect manner, its criminals to this country. True, these poor Algerian chiefs. were probably prisoners ofa political character, and such, when they come voluntarily here, we do not object to ; for this has ever been the land of refuge for the un- fortunate and oppressed. But when sent here as criminals by any government it is another thing, and calls for protest. The offence of the French government is magnified by the fact that these Algerians were landed utterly destitute, and besides the distress incident upon not being able to speak any language but their own, the French Consul also refuses to provide for them. Positive cruelty is thus added to the want of respect to the United States. We hope our government will make proper representation of this case to France. NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY, 1, 1873—QuaDRUP=“ SHEET. The spirit of the en Sectaria The chronic dulness of the vtigious press is this week scarcely di by a single ripple of live thought, ‘fhe volemn gloom of great tomb could not b “0re forbidding than are the columns ~ ™08t of the sectarian journals, and e~® their rare comments upon matters wh? form part of the stirring every- day life“ the world still seem undivested of a slee-y and dozed air that is like the appearance ~ the man who comes forth from a dark and dusty study into the broad light of noonday. We find very little in them worthy of mention here. The Braminer and Chronicle takes occasion to make the sweeping charge that most of the writers of secular newspapers belong to the party of intellectual workers who hold anti- evangelical ideas. It then, with what may perhaps by some of its readers be taken for the gusto of self-righteousness, makes tho following statement: — ‘There are several reasons why ‘professors of re- ligion”’ would feel out of place on the staf of one of our dailies of large circulation. The standard of “newspaper enterprise” that has come more and more to be recognized as legitimate requires some things to be done from whica they might well de- sire to be excused, With exceptions that steadily decline in number papers are published daily, Sun- days not excepted, ‘Ihe issue of a Monday morn- ing paper may require some work on Sun: ay, but dally papers are tending to ignore the Sabbath altogether. But we do not believe the religious ortion of the community will long be satisfied with he somewhat distant deference or the courteous forbearance of the more respectable papers, or will be indifferent to the openly hostile tone of others. The time will come when papers, however “enter- prising” they are, or with whatever degree of ability they are conducted, if they cast the weight o! their tnfluence in the scale against the Gospel, will repel the support of Christian people. There must be a per a8 wellas weekly press fit to repre- sent the Christian sentiment of the land. It might well be thought at this time that the silly question as to the morality or im- morality of labor on the Sabbath had ceased to be open in any progressive and liberal mind to doubt or discussion. Unlike its Christian contemporary, which supposes itself to be the organ of a later and therefore higher theology than that of the Jews, the Jewish Times, in ro- lation to a distinct subject, utters sentiments on this point exactly opposite and indicating the outlines of a kindly and broad liberality that might be a lesson to the narrow-minded bigots who are still to be found in existence. The Jewish Times agitates the question whether synagogues shall be open for religious service on the Sabbath, and emphatically favors such a conformity to almost universal custom. In this connection it makes the fol- lowing remarks; — Common sense and Jewish theology would de- cide at once that every day, every hour, passed in contemplation of the higher aims and objects of life is time well spent, meritorious and beneficial, whether that day 1s called Sunday, Friday or Satur- day. There are certain days set apart by religious appointment for the performance of worship, ex- pressive of certain ideas and memorials, but we @re net aware that any day of the year is singled out on which Divine service would be improper or out of place, If this be true why should any day be singled out on which labor beneficial to the human race would be wrong and sinful? The reasons given by the Jewish Times for the observance of the universal Sabbath for worship rather than the seventh day of the week, as of old, are substantial and striking ones, They appeal both to the worldly and religious instincts of its readers, and, there is no doubt, will ultimately be crowned with the accomplishment of the reform which they ad- vocate, The great convenience of having one day of rest and devotion im universal observ- ance is as apparent as that of a common monetary medium for all nations. The Catholic journals speak of the illness of His Holiness Pius the Ninth with a tender ex- pression of confidence in his recovery which cannot hide the real anxiety which is felt by the whole world over the real feebleness of the slight thread of life which may break at any time and drop him back into the gloom of the past. They also contain attempts to prove that the cable despatches which represented him as being at the point of death were un- scrupulous canards, gotten up by ‘‘a vile anti- Catholic conspiracy.’ The Freeman's Journal, after branding these reports as the ‘studious contrivance of the Piedmontese usurpation of Rome, meant for an evil purpose,’’ con- cludes in the following rhapsodical manner: — It is not by any means ef Catholic faith, but it is & most_settied thought and conviction among very many Catholics, that this most wonderful of the Popes—who has outlived the “years of Peter’ at Rome; who has been privileged to decree Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Lady as an Article of the Faith; who has decreed the Infallibility of the ores when ia Patient 3 who has declared the honor St. Joseph, as universal patron of the Charch of Christ, and set over all the family of our Lord and Saviour—that this wonderful Pope is gone bet by the prayers without ceasing of he whole one, of the faithful, to live to see the dawn of a bright and glorious revival of Catholic faith and Catholic practice and action throughout the world. This is our very firm human conviction, and therefore we recognize tn all the anticipations of his speedy death—otherwise than by martyr- dom—something, less or more distinct, of delusions insinuated among the faithful by the enemies of the Church. On Bismarck and the clergy the religious papers are not yet silent. The Catholic organs still continue savage predictions that the efforts of the ruler of Germany’s destiny to rule the Catholic Church ‘as well as the State will result at length in a demonstration of the old adage of ‘Pride before a fall.’’ The Méhodist, however, has an article exactly op- posite in tone and sentiment. In the course of an argument to prove that Bismarck is right and the Jesuits wrong, it gives vent to the fol- lowing slip-shod sort of logic, which is its own stultification: — The criticisms in England and this country on Bismarck’s policy have been mostly one-sided and fallacious. It has been represented as a revival of the old tntolerance—as an interference with the rights of conscience. Itis not at all obnoxtous to this criticism. Itis simply a, policy of tolerance, and protection of the freedom of conscience o! Prussian subjects, against the power of Rome, ex- ercised by her preiates inGermany. The idea that it is wrong ior governments to interfere with ecclesiastical affairs is abstractly right. It is the very basis of our own policy toward religion; but it cannot apply in nations where Church an State are still united. Prussia, Italy, Spain, &c., are in this condition; the Church is a part of the government; the Church estates are part of the national property. They are, therefore, legiti- mately subject to the legislation of the State. The conclusion drawn from this false in- duction is in itself sound. There is but one logical criticism that we, as Americans, can make on the policy of these na- tions. It is that their fundamental blunder 1s in still maintaining the incompatible union of Church and State, They will be in aeons of embar- rassments till they resolutely eniranchise the Church by divorcing it, ‘ The Indian policy is, perhaps, the subject of the greatest interest among all the dull ones discussed by the religious papers, But’ even this has now lost its freshness. The bur- den in this regard of several of the leading church journals is an appeal for discrimi- nating mercy toward the Modécs. There is no suggestion, however, that before this mercy is exercised it might be well for the government to get them in its power, in which event only can the idea of mercy be gracefully entertained, "The Chicago Standard advocates a continuance of the civilizing process, lately so unsuccessfal, and thinks that it will eventually mould the Indian character into something more, like statuesque morality. On the other hand, the Examiner and Chronicle thinks that to charge the authorities with weakness or passion in their treatment of the savage is both un- just and silly. While the Hebrew Leader calls attention to the Vienna enterprise of the Hxnaup the Standard in another article discourses on the Vienna corruption scandal and asks the reason for the state of immorality which produced it:s— Ta it that self-government means no government at all, and ts human nature really ‘uke the horse and the mule, which must be held in with bit and bridle?” Or, what seems more probable, do these things grow out ef that intense materialism which 80 readily characterizes communities like our own, in which, from the nature of the case almost, the one universal idea becomes that of meney-making? How to make money seems the first practical thought which enters the head of an American, a8 he begins life, and it Is the last earthly thing of which he lets go as he dics, such @ national passion, grown into @ disease, becomes the in- stigator to endless forms of personal and official dishonesty. Isthere a corrective for it? We see none, except so far as it may be found ip the incul- cation of nobler aims Dy those who have the train- ing of youth and by public teachers of every class, Snare Ficurine 1x Cusa.—There has been some sharp fighting between the Spanish and insurgent troops in Ouba, the resulta being reported, as usual, disastrous to the insur- gents. But still they keep the field, and can- not be exterminated or subdued. On the other hand, it appears that the Spanish government is sending out to Cuba its Carlist prisoners as food for gunpowder—an experiinent which betrays the desperate straits of the supreme authorities at Madrid. It is possible that the Carlists in Cuba may prove that they have no more love for Figueras and his party in power than have the Carlists in Spain. And why should not the man who has been an insurgent in Spain be an insurgent in Cuba? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. M. Emile Ollivier is in Rome. The city of Cincinnati will probably erect a monu- Ment over the remains of the late Chief Justice Chase. The prices of members of the Mississipp! Legis. lature are said to range from $5 up to $100, accord- ing to qualifications and color. Major John 8. Filler, editor of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot, sailed from this port yesterday for Europe. His destination is Vienna, United States Senators Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware and Eugene Casserly, of California, are in Virginia, inspecting the James River and Kanawha Canal. Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., son of the Governor of this State, has not declined the Episcopal Bishopric of Massachusetts, This announcement Is by au- thority. . Baron Haussmann, ex-Prefect of the Seine, re- cently had a long private conference with the Sul- tan of Turkey. is Constantinople to be Hauss- mannized? Captain George Knighé fifty-five years ago took charge of the first steamer that ran between Boston and Portland, Me., and he has continued in the same line up to the present time. Nelson Dingley, Jr., editor of the Lewiston Journal, will go before the Republican State Con- vention of Maine, which meets in Bangor, on Thursday, June 19, as a candidate for Governor, ‘The Abbé Simon, who has just died in Paris, was greatly venerated by the people. He was twice arrested by erder of the Commune and would have been shet, but the populace compelled his release. Earl Delawarr committed suicide by drowning himself at Cambridge, England, on the 22d ult, He was insane and imagined he had caused the death of a young woman who had been under his pro- tection. Judge Nathan Clifford, the oldest Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and who has beenon the Bench the greatest numoer of years, arrived at his home in Mainé from Washington on Wednes- day last. Monsignor Bataillon, Bishop of Noumea, is on his way, with other missionaries, to New Caledonia, to convert the Communist convicts, who, in 1871, marked him for @ death which he marvellously escaped. John Reilly, of San Francisco, wants to wager $1,000 that he can beat a drum longer and louder than any other person in America. Here ts a capital chance for some of the boys of the Seventh regiment drum crops. THE MODOCE. Escape of the Redskins—Six Men After Bogus Chariey. San Francisco, May 10, 1873, A despatch from Yreka states that the Modocs are known to be out of the late lava beds and fleeing towards the Goose Lake country. The Warm Spring Indians and several scouting par- ties are in close pursuit. Six men from Yreka are on the trall of Bogus Charley. Indian Movements To Be Promptly Reported. SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 1873. The following memorandum has been received :— . HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THR CoLvMBIA, PORTLAND, Oregon, April 25, 1873, That timely information may reach headquarters of any unusual movement or hostile demonstra- tons on the part of the Indians, until further orders the commanding officers of Forts Colville, Lapwai and jamath, and oan Harney and Warner will forward reports weekly or oftener, should circumstances. render it necessary, to assist the Adjutant General in any changes in the attitude towards the government of the Indians in this vicinity. H. CLASWOOD, Assistant Adjutant General. Lieutenaet Harris, who was wounded in the re- cent fight with the Modocs, is reported to be sink- ing rapidly, and it is thougttt he cannot recover. SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN VIRGINIA. Fal) of the Floors of a Large Grocery Establishment in Petersburg—Three Men Seriously Injured. PETERSBURG, May 10, 1873. A fearful accident occurred here to-day. The upper floor of Davis, Roper & Co.’s store, in the iron front building, broke tnreugh under the pres- sure of 300 barrels of four. Several persons were seriously wounded, among them H. C. Davis, W. T. Hubbard and Mr. Allen, the bookkeeper. A number of others were slightly hurt. There were & number of miraculous escapes from instant deh. . The store is on Sycamore street, in what is known as the “Iron Front,’ and is owned by Robert Bolling and occupied by Davis, Roper & Co. as a wholesale grocery store. The third floor was used to store flour, of which there were 300 barrels in store. The floor gave way where the joists joined the stairway. The third floor carried the second with it, and Tied the lower floor with broken timbers, bricks, merchandise, &c. Mr. H. C. Davis, the senior member of the firm, was in conversation with Mr. W. T. Hubbatd near the desk when the crash came; both were pros- trated oy the falling mass, butin a measure pro- tected by the ends of the joists resting against the 0 wail. Mr. Davis 1s badly bruised aud has a severe cut on the rightarm. He will recover. Mr. Hubbard was struck on the head and knocked senseless, He 13 better and not considered Roe od hurt. Mr. Allen, the bookkeeper, is seriously hurt, The loss to stock will be about $15,000 and to the building $2,000. Workmen are clearing away the wreck and the business will go on on Tuesday, A DOUBLE SUICIDE IN IOWA, Sr. Lous, Mo., May 10, 1873, A-special despatch gives further particulars con- cerning the double suicide tn Hamburg county, lowa. The forgeries in which Wallingford was im- plicated are much more extensive than at first stated. They have been carried on by ati organized band of thieves and forgers. It is stated that over two hundred thousand acres of land in lowa have been sold on forged deeds, by means of which & The written large sam of money was obtain confession of Wallingford disci the names the parties engaged with him the They are William, John, George and Jamon todes George Ball, J. H. Blake, an od man named berry, his sons di man named Scots. have been arrested, but the tlaglsaders fed, and Officara arain hot DUreUlt, SPAIN, Befeat of Don Alfonso’s Carlist Division, with Heavy Loss in Battle—Royalist Guerillas § Dispersed—Military Assassination by Saballs—Carlist Clericals Ar- rested—Reinforcements for the Scene of the Encoun- ter with Dorregarry. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapkrip, May 10, 1873. A severe conflict has taken place between the band of Carlista under command of Don Alfonso and the republicans, resulting in the total defeat of the former. Hy Sixty-five ofthe insurrectionists were killed and many wounded. ROYALIST ROUT IN MINOR ACTIONS, Information bas been received at the War Office of the defeat of the Cariists in a number of small engagements, “NO SURRENDER,” BUT “WAR TO THE KNIFE.” Saballa, the Carlist leader, recently shot dead one of the officers under his command, who he learned was about to surrender to the government troops. REPUBLICAN REINFORCRMENTS TO NAVARRE, Reinforcements have been sent to the Spanish troops at Navarre, who defeated the Carlists com- manded by Dorregarry. ‘The official report of the late engagement says Six republicans were killed and 114 wounded, CLERICAL CABLISTS CAUGHT. Several priests have been arrested in Madrid on the charge of advocating the cause of Don Carlos, Citizen Preparation for the General Election—Federal Kepublicanism Gain- ing Strength. . Maprip, May 10—Evening, Returns of the voting to-day in Madrid and the provinces for the Electoral Bureaus, as far as re- ceived, are in favor of the federal republicans, English Estimate of the Republican Losses in Onc of the Recent Battles. LONDON, May 10, 1873. A special despatch from Madrid to the Datty Telegraph estimates the number of republicans killed in the fight at Navarre between the Spanis> troops and the Carlists under Dorregarry at 200. The Biscay Army Still in Mutiny. Paris, May 10, 1873, A despatch from Bayonne repeats the statement that the Spanish government army in the province of Biscay had not been paid for some time, and that the soldiers are in consequence in a state of mutiny. Carlist War Committee Report of the Progress of the Campaign, Lonpon, May 10, 1873. The Carlist Committee in this city announce that their latest despatches from Spain state that Don Alfonso is blockading the town of Igualada,, in the province of Barcelona, with 2,500 men; Saballs, with his force, is before Manresa, in the same province, and the band under the command of Tristany 1s at the town of Reus, province o! Tarragona, THE POPE. His Holiness Too Ill to Receive a Deputation of hs Devotees. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ~~ LONDON, May 10, 1873. A telegram from Rome states that His Holiness the Pope was too tll to receive a party of pilgrima from France. ENGLAND. The Bank Rate of Discount Advanced—Fire on Board a Naval Iron-Clad—The . Bank of England’s Alleged Forgers in Court. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, May 10, 1873. The rate of discount of the Bank of England has advanced gne-half per cent, and is now (noon) five per cent. FIRE ON BOARD A WAR SHIP, Fire was discovered to-day on the British iron steamship Agincourt, attached to the Channel squadron. The compartment in which the fire originated was flooded. The extent of the damage has not yet been ascertained, THE BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIES CASE. George Bidwell, who is charged with committing the frauds on the Bank of England, and Edwin Noyes, his alleged accomplice, were brought up at the Mansion House this afternoon, and after ex- amination were again remanded to prison. It is said that Bidwell and Noyes wish to turn Queen’s evidence, or informers in behalf of the government prosecution. AGRICULTURIST PROSPECTS. The weather in England to-day is fair and favorae ble to the growing crops. THE WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC. Official Investigation Concerning the Disaster— The Court Opened in Liverpool— First Testimony. TELECBAM TO THE NEWYORK HERALD. Lonpon, May 10, 1873, The official inquiry into the loss of the steamship Atlantic was opened to-day at Liverpool. The investigation was mainly into the alleged insuMciency of provisions and coal. Mr. Ismay, of Ismay, Imrie & Co,, the agents ot the White Star line, testified that the Atlantic had on board, when she left Liverpool, 933 tons of coal and provisions for a voyage of thirty-two days, in- dependently of the cabin stores. He further testified that she had undergone all the necessary surveys regarding equipment and stores previous to her departure. GERMANY. Popular Canvass of the Imperial Representation at Paris. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. BERLIN, May 10, 1878. A report which was just recently circulated to the effect that General Manteuffel would be ap- peinted German Ambassador at Paris after the evacuation of French territory, is denied, The Bankers and Government Relieve the Money Crisis. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. VIENNA, May 10, 1873, Several prominent bankers of this city have sub- scribed 12,000,000 florins to ease the stock market, and the Austrian Minister of Finance, by an ar- rangement with the National Bank, has increased the sum to 20,000,000 florins. AUSTRO-HUNGARY. ot English Princes Preparing to Visit the Ancient Capital. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Vienna, May 10, 1873, ‘The departure of the Prince of Wales for Pesth has been postponed until to-morrow, when he will leave for that city, accompanied hy his brother, Prigge arthur,