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, This is well. 6 NEW YORK HERALD ecadeh ob ie A £9 BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volame XXXVIIT,........:cssseeeeeeesNOe 132 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monte Cristo. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Amy Ropsarr. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Drama, BURLESQUE 4ND OL10, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rir Van Winxtr— Ovun Jemrmy, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Divorce. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtleth st.— Tux Howgrmoon. Atternoon and evening. ATHENEUM, [85 Broadway.—GRanp Vanizty Enrer- ‘TAINMENT, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and ‘Bouston sta.—AzRari; on, Tux Macic Coarw. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Frov Frov. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker street.—Hvmrry Duurry. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tux Squirx's Last Smicuing. GERMANTA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—Gunaan Comxpy. MRS, F. BR, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Unper rie Gasticurt, &c. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Peencu Orxma—La PeRIcHOLe. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner 6th av.—NuGRo MinstRELsy, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Afternoon at GRaND Concert. ‘NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Monday, May 12, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE LOUISIANA TROUBLES! THE TRUE POL- ICY FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PEOPLE”—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— Sixru Pace. GREAT PERIL OF THE GERMAN KAISER IN RUSSIA! SHOT AT BY A PRIEST WHILE REVIEWING THE MUSCOVITE TROOPS! THE BULLET PASSES THROUGH HIS HEL- MEI AND WOUNDS ONE OF THE STAFF! A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT—SEVENTH PAGE. ‘SUDDEN ASSAULT BY THE KHIVANS UPON THE RUSSIAN OUTPOSTS! THE BARBARIANS IMPALE ALL THEIR PRISONERS OF WAR— SEVENTH PAGE, > AMOB MARCHES AGAINST THE ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES! THE POLICE DEFENDING THE QUIRINAL PALACE— CABLE AND GENERAL TELEGRAMS— SEVENTH PAGE. ANXIETY ABOUT THE POLARIS LESSENING! THE VESSEL IN EXPERI ED HANDS! THE MEN THOUGHT TO BE SAFE! FAIL- URE OF THE MAIN OBJECY OF TIE EX- PEDITION! A VE L TO BE SENT IN SEARCH OF THE MISSING—SEVENTH PAGE. A LETTER FROM FORT GERONA, CUBA! MR. O’KELLY NARRATES SOME OF THE SCENES WITNESSED BY HIM—OAKES AMES QUIETLY BURIED—Tuinp PacE. THE MODOCS HAVE NOT LEFT THE LAVA BEDS! THEY ARE DISCOVEKED, STRONGLY INTRENCHED, IN A NEW PUSITION— SEVENTH PAGE. THE FAILING FATHER OF THE CRURCH! THE PAPAL IL SS AGITATIN INTRAL AND SOUT! UROPE! THE ‘LECTION OF A NE POPE! ROME BIRTHDAY! CHURCH ATE IN ItALY—Tutkp PaGE. AN EXCITING ELECTION IN PROGRESS IN SPAIN! SUCCESS OF THE FEDERALISTS! THE SPANISH DEBT—SEVENTH PAGE. WASHINGTON HONORS THE MEMORY OF THE is DEAD CHIEF JUSTICE! THE REMAINS TO LIE IN STATE IN THE SENATE CHAMBER TO-DAY! FLORAL AND PASTORAL TRIB- UTES—SEVENTH PAGE. SOWING THE GOSPEL SEED! THE SERMON COMPEND! LESSONS FROM THE LIVES OF THE LAMENTED CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE AND JOHN STUART MILL! ARCHBISHOP MCCLOSKEY LAYS THE CORNER STONE OF ST. BERNARD'S! 100 CONFIRMATIONS BY BISHOP CORRIGAN—FourtH PAGE. STOKES’ CASE REVIEWED! THE POINTS UPON WHICH THE FINAL APPEAL WILL BE MADE! THE PRISONER EXPECTS NO MERCY FROM THE GOVERNOR, AND PRE- FERS HANGING TO IMPRISONMENT—Firto PAGE. RESULTANT IN THE NEW YORK MARKETS OF THE VIENNA XCITEMENT AND THE ADVANCE IN THE ENGLISH BANK RATE! A DROP IN STOCKS AND A BRISK AD- VANCE IN THE GOLD PREMIUM! _IN- CREASED EXPORTS AND DECLINING IM- PORTS—EIGHTH PaGE. AN ARKANSAS EXECUTION! A NEGRO MUR- DERER HANGED IN PRESENCE OF A LARGE CROWD, PRINCIPALLY BLACKS— Firta Paar. INDIAN FIGHTING! TACTICS OF THE WIIITES AND TRE REDS! REDSKINS PITTED AGAINST REDSKINS—TentTit PAGE. TEE @ovennorn Drx.—A cruel hoax was perpe- trafed yesterday in the startling rumor set afloat in the city, and announced in two of the churches, that Governor Dix was dead. So widely was the rumor circulated that it re- quired despatches from Albany, giving assur- ance of the Governor's continued good health, to dispel it. The family of the Governor were for a time plunged into the deepest affliction. It was a hoax as contemptible as it was cow- ardly and cruel. In Thr Present Conprrton of the country it is difficult to see what good can come from the general election in Spain. It is impossible that the result can be a fair and full represent- ation of the nation’s wishes. With a large sec- tion of territory in the hands of insurgents, with o disaffected army, part of it inopen mu- tiny, with an empty exchequer and broken credit, was ever a nationin such a plight? It does seem as if the hand of doom was resting on unhappy Spain. Tae Frnancran Carsts rx Austria Exprp.-- The money crisis in Vienna, which threatened to bring the Exposition toan abrupt and dis- graceful close, has happily been got over. The bankers of the city came to the rescue | with twelve million florins, and the govern- ment, by an arrangement with the National Bank, increased the sum to twenty millions. Let us hope now that all things will work well at Vienna, and that the Ex- position, which has not yet been much of a success, will come up to the high expectations NEW YUKK HEKALD, MUNDAY, MAY 12, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘wme Louisiana § Troubles—The True | is by no means certain that peace is established. Policy for the Government and the People. The first need of the South is peace—peace maintained by a policy at once conciliatory and firm. This is peculiarly true of Louisiana, where a condition of disorder always seems to be impending. If affairs like the recent outrages at Colfax and the troubles in Grant parish are to occur whenever some ‘uneasy spirit chooses to raise the banner of resist- ance to some real or fancied usurpation, Mexico will become a paradise in comparison with the Southern States. Looking back at the St. Martinsville difficulties we can see no good and much harm in the supposed pur- poses of Colonel De Blanc. Now that it is virtually over we can see what a miserable and wretched affair the whole thing was. All the talk about De Blane’s purpose being from the beginning only resistance to the Kel- logg government, and not the shedding of blood, is mere idle sophistry. Such resistance necessarily means bloodshed, and surely such men as De Blanc are not constituted by Heaven to be the final arbi- ters of the time when resistance becomes a duty. Indeed, with the courts open and all the ordinary means for determining Kellogg’s right to be Governor of Louisiana at the com- mand of the McEnery party, it is mere mad- ness, disorganization, civil war, not to crush out the movement in the beginning and to prevent future difficulty by a wise foresight and preparation. : Though the occasion has gone by in Louisi- ana when any great strength will be required to subdue Colonel De Blanc’s party, the ne- cessity for vigilance has not passed away. Now, as much as before, the administration should show that it intends pursuing the only policy which can lead to peace—firmness and conciliation. The more troops the President can send into the State to act as a police force, whereby outbreaks and disturbances may be provented and the integrity of the federal Law preserved, the better it will be for Louisiana and the general peace of the country. Foreé is never lost when it is exhibited before its employment becomes necessary. There would have been no draft riots in this city in 1863 if the government had shown the purpose and the power to prevent them. If the Hibernians had been told that Orangemen had the right to parade, and the words had been supported by an order to the militia to hold themselves in readiness to prevent any disturbance, there would have been no bloodshed on that mem- orable 12th of July. Even the rebellion might have been crushed out in its inception if the purpose had been shown to preserve the integrity of the Union. The presence of force generally renders its use unnecessary. If the Mexican presidents had been able to crush out any incipient insurrection that country would now be freer, happier and more prosperous. A country which is politically unsettled is simply a country overrun with thieves and bandits. Unless the present state of affairs in Louisiana is speedily corrected worse evils than the State has ever suffered will follow as the result of a feeble and nerveless policy in dealing with the enemies of order. Outside of the necessity of preserving the peace it is not easy to discuss the condition of affairs in Louisiana without passion or preju- dice. Each faction evidently has some of the elements of right on its side, and both are doubtless much in the wrong. The charges of usurpation on the one hand are answered by counter-charges of disfranchisement, The allegations on both sides are probably true. In any event they are disgraceful. But there is one aspect of the case which must not be overlooked, and this is in the moral quality of the offences these men charge against each other. The old motto, ‘One may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb,” though it illus- trates a homely bit of selfishness, is not true in ethics. To an enlightened political con- science it is scarcely more heinous to deprive a man of the office to which he is chosen than to rob a citizen of his right to choose. Each is alike inviolable; both are sacred. Wo fear there is too much truth in the crimi- nations and recriminations of the Louisiana politicians, and that the whole State is utterly and almost hopelessly debauched. There scems little to choose between parties and fac- tions in that State, but it is now too late to go back and consider the original crime in regard to the troubles at St. Martinsville. All the questions at issue between McEnery and Kel- logg must be left to the tribunals where they properly belong. If the Courts, the State Legislature, Congress and the Exevutive fail to do justice the people will condemn, at the ballot box, and not the people of Louisiana only, but of the whole country. These mat- ters will all be settled in their season, but they must not be allowed to interfere with the immediate duty of the administration—the preservation of peace. While we think it the President’s duty to spare no effort to preserve the peace in Louisi- ana, and recommend him without delay to send all the troops he can procure into the State, we cannot but deprecate the conduct of Kellogg. His despatches to Senator West and to the government have been unneces- sarily sensational, adding fuel to the fire in- stead of helping to allay the flame. His course has been so utterly indiscreet that he could not have acted with more discretion if it had been his purpose to enkindle a civil war. The telegrams in regard to the attempted assassination were especially blamable. Escaping with his life and without injury, silence on his part would have been gracious and worthy, whereas anything he could say on the subject would add to the excitement. His haste to inform the Presi- dent and the country that, in his opinion, the ‘war’ was over, and that the necessity for troops no longer existed, was also untimely and ill-judged. His despatch was the ill-con- sidered action of a man who would appear in a better light before the people than circum- stances justify. He based his recommenda- tions upon his hopes and his wishes rather than upon what the well-being of his State required. Mr. Kellogg cannot but be aware that he is living from day to day over a volcanc. Yesterday it threat- ened to break into eruption; to-day it is smouldering, but nobody can tell what will be its condition to-morrow. A large part of the people of Louisiana are in a state of almost chronic discontent. A mutinous spirit prevails in many parishes, Already blood has flown because of the deplorable condition of affairs. Whatever may have be- { come of Colona Deo Blane and his fglowors it Peace being the first consideration the ad- ministration cannot afford to pursue a dila- tory policy, and it will be held responsible for disorder if it fails to give the State a sufficient force for police purposes, We would urge the policy of conciliation upon the administration no less earnestly than the duty of firmness. General Grant can afford to be the President of the whole people. His fame as well as his office requires it. But he cannot afford to be the President of a fac- tion in any part of the country. If he lends his ear more to one side than to the other he may have cause to regret it while he lives. The complaints of both sides are well worth his consideration, and he is bound to know the whole truth of the situation in Louisiana. He will add to his own lasting honor by assuring the Southern people that peace on their part means justice from the dominant party. There is nothing which so becomes a soldier President as the magnanim- ity which endears him to the whole people. A word from (ieneral Grant, if spoken in season, may do more to conquer the hearts of the discontented and desperate spirits of Lou- isiana than if a company of soldiers guarded every town and hamlet and there was an armed man for every cane stalk in the State. To the people of Louisiana also we have a word of friendly counsel at this crisis in their fortunes. Peace to them is more necessary than any gift which can be bestowed upon them. Jealously as we would guard for them the rights of the ballot and the sacredness of popular elections we would urge them to con- sider the futility of every attempt at armed opposition to what they may, perhaps, with good reason, regard as usurpa- tion. Every outrage upon the negroes will redound to their great discredit, and every ill-advised movement like that of Colonel De Blanc makes more indissoluble the chains that bind them. And they must not forgot that they, too, have failed in their duty to themselves, their fellow-citizens, their State and their country. Preaching politics is for bo ee 7 them a uséleys gecupation compared with producing sugar aid gotton, They will be better off raising cane thaif {Caiy.”’ The establishment of a successful cotton mill somewhere in the State would be a greater victory than a triumph over all their enemies. Important as may be a wise and conservative interest in politics on the part of the people of the State, an earnest and energetic effort to promote prosperity and peace is more im- portant still. The one may aid in securing political purity, but both together will secure the ‘happiness and comfort of the entire population, and make soldiers as unnecessary in Louisiana as in Maine. The College Races at Springfleld—Why Not Invite the Englishmen ? The greatest water féte ever known in America has been set down for the afternoon of the day nine weeks from next Thursday, and already, at twelve of the best known universities and colleges of the land, busy preparation is making for this ex- citing event. Hundreds and probably thou- sands of students alone will be on hand that day at Springfield to back and encourage their favorites; andthe time of year is so well chosen, as every one almost is then taking vacation, that the gathering promises to be unprecedentedly large. Our purpose at this writing is to suggest to the various competing crews a step which, if promptly and energetically taken, will prob- ably prove successful, and which, if so, will as effectually and surely throw the interest in the coming race, great as that interest is, in the shade as that same interest will surpass any known heretofore. Let the captains of the various crews, or even a majority of them, at once forward a note of invitation, signed in round-robin if they feel modest, indicating how unusual an interest is felt here in the July races and how glad they would be if Oxford and Cambridge would join them in the friendly struggle. The captains of the clubs of the two great English Universities could soon get their eight men, who rowed so very fast but a few weeks ago, again in order, and thus have each two spare men ready in case of need. In fact, Mr. Benson, of the winning Cambridge crew, here in the city within a week, and perhaps others of them are also here. The long vacation would give them abundant time for their trip and training, and they might not feel badly even if it did not. The steamship company which carried the Harvard crew made a most generous re- duction, and any of them would be likely to do even better yet in this case. Though this race is for six-oared boats—craft unknown in England—Jewett or Clasper would soon supply the lack, or any of our builders here would be glad to. Andif the strangers fear that they could not learn to row without a coxswain they have but to remember how easily the London Rowing Club surmounted that difficulty when they beat the Atalanta men so badly last Summer on the Thames, or the picked English professional crews when they did not beat the Ward brothers on Sara- toga Lake in September of 1871. Here, too, will be the easiest sort of a course, only three miles long, instead of nearly four and a half, as the Putney to Mortlake, and almost entirely straight, while the race is the only one the Englishmen know—namely, “straightaway.” And let the challenge, too, go to the London rowing men, whose fame is as wide here as in England. They did the Harvard men every good turn in their power, and the present would be an excellent opportunity to recipro- cate. The race would be among gentlemen, hence its fairness is a foregone conclusion ; and if, in the general scramble that so many boats together must necessarily make, our friends should feara foul all danger of it might be obviated by the Englishmen not competing in the race open to all on the first day, but ina select one on the second, with, say, the first two erews of the day before. And this second day’s tace might be for four-oared boats only, and then the Londoners have already the very boat for their purpose. If our men are beaten they will be beaten fairly, and one such visit from the men of whose rowing all England is so justly proud would do more to perfect the knowledge of that art here than the next dozen yoars will otherwise. We have already men- tioned the proposed races to which these same oarsmen were to be invited on Shrews- bury River, and if they cared to take part in a number of contests and try, for instance, the course at Boston, Poughkeepsie ox Sagatogm they would quickly have the chance. Let the card of invitation go out, then. It can do no possible harm and may be the means of effect- ing the most brilliant aquatic struggle of the nineteenth century. But whatever is done must be done quickly, and if so good an opportunity is lost it will reflect less credit on the brains. of our college oarsmen than we hope that July evening will on their muscles. The Pulpit’s Tribute to the Dead Jurist. Cloudy and forbidding was yesterday for the fashionable church-goers, many of whom aired their silks and broadcloth in their pleas- ant places instead of on the streets orin the sanctuaries. The congregations were not a8 large, evidently, as on the previous Sabbath, save here and there at such churches as fur- nish the pure milk of the Word by which the people are nourished and strengthened regu- larly, and which they could no more do with- out than they could live without their daily bread. Among the topics discoursed upon by those ministers whose utterances we present to-day was the death of Chief Justice Chase. The lessons of his life and character, a8 brought out and elucidated by Rev. Mr. North- rop, were that the dead jurist inherited very much of his noble character from his New England ancestry, and therefore that some- thing is due to the stock from which a man comes. If God visits the iniquities of the father upon the children unto the third and fourth generations the preacher saw no reason why the virtues should not be visited or trans- mitted in like manner, asin all probability they are. Another lesson is the value of riches born of poverty, and of the prosperity born of adversity, and the victory begotten of trial ; and another, that it does pay, after all, for 4 man to purse a course of action born of honest conviction and unbending prin- ciple. Mr. Northrop would have the poli- ticians gather round the coffin of the great Chief Justice and learn there that it is pos- sible for one to bea public man and yet be honest. Mr. Frothingham could not find many more fitting illustrations of wisdom of building character upon solid bases than in the late Chief Justice of the United States and the great English thinker John Stuart Mill. The former, though a public man, never stained another man’s hands with a bribe nor allowed others to stain his own; told no lies and wronged no one. He wasa statue that stood out in full day. Toil and independence were his two great characteristic points, and he earned his own living and stood on his own feet. John Stuart Mill was one of those rare few whose advice is waitéd for by the commu- munity. He showed himself imperial in his capacity to serve. Every subject he took up he mastered. While our Chief Justice was an Episcopalian, Mr. Mill belonged to no church in particular, but to every church; still, neither can claim supremacy over the other. Both fulfilled all the conditions of conduct and character. Dr. Bellows, treating of the significance of death, referred briefly to the late Chief Jus- tice, to whom death is precious, since it has begun for him a new existence, both in history and in his own individuality. Death-is an illusion; the soul denies its power. In heaven there are only so many bright, well- known faces waiting to meet us. The best argument for the immortality of man is found in that inward principle which prompts bim continually to better his condition and to improve upon nature; and all that the world possesses to-day of artificial grandeur it owes to man. But man would never have looked up into heaven had he not been compelled to look down into death. Hence the Doctor be- lieves in the recognition of friends after death. Rev. George Macdonald, the great Scotch novelist, occupied Dr. Robinson’s pulpit in the Memorial Presbyterian church yesterday, and preached about the ambition of the two sons of Zebedee to sit on the right hand and left hand of the Saviour, and about His hu- mility, as exhibited in girding himself and washing His disciples’ feet. Self-abnegation is a necessity to the ambitious, while in the service of God there is perfect freedom and a possibility of reaching heaven. Many, he said, come far short of a due appreciation of how to obtain the kingdom of heaven, whose apex rests upon one point, and that point is the Son of Man. But to get near Him we must go down, instead of up, and asa man gets down nearest to the Master’s grave he gets nearer to the kingdom of heaven. Every man who would serve God need never move a step from his daily toil in order to give full temple service to the Son of God. All of which is true and Scriptural and experi- mental. Vicar General Quinn preached his first ser- mon in the Cathedral yesterday. It was little else than a eulogy of his predecessor and a pledge that he would try and follow in the footsteps of the late Vicar Starrs. Archbishop McCloskey laid thé corner stone of a new Catholic church in Fourteenth street yesterday, and Rev. M. J. O'Farrell preached a sermon on the occasion. The pastor of the new enterprise is Rev. Gabriel Healy, an earnest, industrious pastor. Ten thousand per- sons, itis said, participated in the ceremonies, Bishop Corrigan, of Newark, preached and administered the rite of confirmation in St. John’s Cathedral, in which he himself was confirmed years ago. His discourse was ‘‘on the sacred beauty of the Blessed Virgin.’’ Mr. Beecher baptized a cluster of babies yesterday, gave a mild reproof to illegible writers and then preached a sermon about babies and their parents. He looked at what he termed the dark side of childhood. Chil- dren, he believes, are largely dependent for their chances in life upon their organization, both physical and mental. Indirectly Mr. Beecher expressed a doubt as to the expediency of men and women of impaired physical con- stitutions being permitted to have offspring, But will not Darwin's laws of natural selection and survival of the fittest regulate this matter if there is any truth in them? Mr. Beecher would have young women taught something more about marriage than they are now taught. And then, to have: such mothers, ignorant of the laws of their own being, ap- pointed instructors of children, is, in the light of Calvinism, he thinks, enough to frighten any man away from the marital relation, But there isa bright side to the picture, and, for- tunately for the perpetuation of the race, the @reat majority of mankind look upon that side instend of the other. Greater caution tshould be observed, however, in choosing ‘partners. oa Mr, Beecher sygzested, Tne Polarts—rne Mystery of the Werth Pole—How to Solve It, Our Washington despatches state that the thrilling account of the Polaris disaster, received specially and exclusively by the Hunaxp, continues to excite earnest discus- sion and speculation in official circles at the capital, and especially in the Navy Department. Intense anxiety is now felt for the fate of the Polaris and of the fourteen persons remaining on beard. The doubts expressed by Dr. Hayes, the well-known Arctic explorer, in his inter- esting conversation with a Heraup reporter, published yesterday, seem to be shared by the Navy Department. It is considered singular that the separation of the explorers should have occurred, and it is the intention of Secre- tary Robeson to bring Captain Tyson, Fred- erick Meyer and one or two of the rescued Esquimaux to Washington as speedily as pos- sible, in order thatthe facts may be thoroughly understood. Of all the ‘marvellous escapes from the wintry terrors of Baffin Bay there is none recorded so marvellous and astonishing as the preservation of the lives of Captain Tyson and his eighteen companions from the Polaris, whites and Esquimaux, through a drifting cruise of one hundred and ninety-seven days, on a cake or island of ice, in that stormy sea, at the mercy of the elements, and through all the trials of cold and darkness of an Arctic winter. But in the wonderful preservation and escape of these drifting mariners we are encouraged to believe that Captain Budding- ton and the remnant of the ship’s crew re- maining on the Polaris, well provided and equipped for the Winter, are also safe, and that our next intelligence of the ship will probably be from the Captain himself, report- ing her arrival at Newfoundland. Compelled to abandon the object of the expedition, he would surely avail himself of the earliest op- portunity for a return homeward. It is pos- gible, however, that the Polaris, in her Joaky condition, Fay Tate beddihe hndlsebrth Xx 80, the Captain, in the nearest available inlet, will doubtless remain with his ship and slen- der ship's crew, awaiting a rescue. To meet this possible contingency.the gov- ernment, without loss of time, should order, equip and despatch a steamer for the relief of the Polaris. She may not need relief. Cap- tain Buddington may be able to bring her out, and we hope will bring her out, without assistance; but she was leaking in October last, and after being locked up during the Winter in the ice she may, for all useful pur- poses, be reduced to the condition of a wreck. With the ‘drifting of the Polar ice pack against her on a lee shore she may be left hard aground, In any event, as the report of Cap- tain Tyson is suggestive of danger to the ship, a steamer should be detailed for her relief as soon as practicable. But is the North Pole to be abandoned? Why not? Is there anything to be gained of any practical value to mankind from the planting of the United States flag or any other flag, or from the erection of a whaling station or lighthouse on the North Pole? For three hundred years sturdy navigators had struggled and persevered in the enterprise of discovering a northwest passage, and when Captain McClintock finally discovered it, by making the trip from the Pacific to the Atlantic by way of Behring Straits and Baffin Bay, he only established the fact that this northwest passage is of no practical value whatever. But science will have a solution of this mystery of the North Pole. The question then recurs, How are we tosolve it? Howare those intervening icy barriers to be passed which all the bold ad- venturers into Baffin Bay of three hundred years have failed to pierce? In our judgment the work may be accomplished by a very sim- ple change in the plan of operations. The plan followed up to this time has been the plan of detailing one ship or two, three or more ships upon a Polar expedition, and they have all failed because the North Pole is not to be reached in this way. Ina military view it is like undertaking to capture a fortified city by storm which can be carried only by regular approaches. Or the experience of Russia in the conquest of the Circassians will serve to illustrate our idea. For years Russia pursued the policy of attempting to overrun and hold the Caucasus in a single campaign, and in all such attempts she was beaten or baffled and compelled to withdraw. At length she adopted the plan of regular approaches. She advanced to a given point, and there, building a fort, established a garrison to hold it; and so she advanced from point to point, till the Circassians were completely subdued. By this same plan of operations the North Pole may be reached. Taking, for example, the route of Baffin Bay, let a harbor and a mag- aaine of supplies for several ships (steamers, small, but powerful) first be established at Upernavik, in Greenland. Next let the ships be put in Winter quarters at Uper- navik. Still maintaining there a base of sup- plies, next let a second depot, the next season, be established as near the head of Baffin Bay as practicable, and let a whole season be devoted to furnishing this station with boats, sledges, dogs, equipments and sup- plies for the ice-pack which fringes the open Polar Sea, and let the steamers (built ex- pressly to cut their way through the ice) be also provided at this upper station. Then, with the reopening of the brief Summer in those Arctic regions, let the steamers, with the dogs, boats and sledges, push their way through, until, between the steamers, boats and sledges, the North Pole is captured. The intervening five hundred miles remaining un- explored to-day cotild surely thus be traversed. For this system of regular approaches in steamers the route of Baflin Bay is the best. Otherwise it is the last route which should be adopted by Polar expedition ; for it is the outlet from the Polar Sea of that great Arctic current which carries its icebergs in June down into the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic. All the great northern rivers of Asia and the Equatorial ocean currents of the Pacific and the Atlantic roll in their contributions to the Polar Sea, and the main outlet for these sur- plus waters is Baffin Bay. Steamers, how- ever, can overcome that strong outflowing Arctic current ; but only, if we may judge from the experience of the Polaris, by the plan of regular approaches we have suggested. We conclude, therefore, with the opinion that, short of some such systematic plan of operations, the continuance of these Polar expeditions will be only a continued waste of time, labo, money and precious human lives. Am Assassin. ; By special cable telegrams from Berlin and London we have news of the exciting and alarm. ing fact that His Majesty Emperor William of Germany was shot at by an assassin while he was engaged in reviewing the Russiam troops in St. Petersburg He had a narrow escape from death. The ball passed through the helmet which he wore, and’ wounded, even after its transit through the plates of steel, one of the adju- tants of the royal staff who was serving near the Kaiser. The officer suffered severely. Theassagsin was evidently intent on his work. It is said that ho is a priest. The Czar Alexander of Russia ordered a se- ries of military parades in honor of his impe- rial visiting brother from Prussia. Fifty thousand troops were manceuvred on the ground at St. Petersburg on ono of these occa- sions, and it may have been on that day that the assassin made his attempt to accomplish an act venerable personage who now wields the scep- tre of the German Empire, might have pro- duced the most extraordinary and wonderful consequences on the governmental system in Europe—not only in Berlin, but on the banks of the Danube, the Bosphorus, the Vistula, the Neva and the Tiber, and elve- where, The Prussian Prince, now Emperor William, was assailed by an assassin in the year 1849, and our readers have not forgotten the attempt which was made a few years since against the life of the Czar of Russia in Paris, London journals in their issue this morning vary the location of the place of the commis- sion of the crime, but all agree that the Kaiser was fired upon, and by a priest. The Man with Wings. He is found at last. Let us kiss the hem of Darwin's overcoat, and discern in Lord Lyt- ton’g ‘“Voming Race’ g deeper meaying than eee there a ST sot Conde’ mine, professor of physiology, publishes, in the “Révue des Merveilles Scientifiques,”” a description of an abnormal family living at Auvergne. We are not told whether each member of the family possesses these anatom- ical peculiarities, but in those that do the muscles of the trunk and upper extremities are greatly enlarged, the clavicles and scapula are abnormally large, and the breast is pigeom~ shaped. A post-mortem examination of one member of the family showed the clavicle to be one-third larger in diameter than the cor- responding bones of the largest men. The scapula or shoulder blade was nearly twice as long as the average scapula, and was bounded by layers and bundles of large muscles. Tha sternum descended to within two inches of the umbilicus, and was more than proportionally widened, and the pectoral and intercostal mus- cles were enormously developed. M. Harnois- Condamine, or whoever veils himself beneath that signature, argues that in this lengthening of the clavicle and scapula, and this very great enlargement of the pectoral, dorsal and ab- dominal muscles, a change from the human to the bird type is indicated. He examined a young son of the deceased and found him to be the counterpart of his father—only more so. The boy triumphantly approached nearer the bird type than his papa, and even dis- played new abnormalities in the shape of third eyelids and rudimentary wings, the latter con- sisting of.a triangular flap of the skin forming ® continuous connection between the upper portion of the arms and back. | We can imagine the delight with which the worshippers of Mr. Darwin will greet every argument which tends to prove that a new departure has been made toward another type of man, and that a new human species, fur- nished with wings, is about to be evolved. We are not so sanguine as M. Harnois-Condamine that the perfectly winged man will make his appearance within a generation. Our heartiest sympathies with him and his investigations scarcely warrant us in expecting more than a few feeble and broken flutterings on the part of the stray members of the winged dispensation, who will, of course, now begin to make their appearance at intervals during the next half century. But, in common with all who take an interest in the theory of evolution and in the ultimate destiny of the human race, we shall look with deep concern upon those more advanced members of the human family whose pigeon= breastedness ignorance brands as a deformity, and we shajl cherish a secret curiosity to know the diameters of the clavicles of all our intimate friends. It is pleasant to know that humanity for six thousand years has been en- tertaining in itself an angel unawares! Only the wings were wanting, and we areas much obliged to M. Harnois-Condamine for telling us what we are going to become as to Mr. Dar- win for informing us what we have been. The emblem of humanity is a crescent, with a monkey at the lower cuspand a bird at the upper one. All that lies ‘between is the swell from beginning to centre, and refinement dwindles up.to consummation. Less than angel, more than ape, is our present condi- tion, and M. Harnois-Condamine is the kindly mediator who reconciles Darwin with David, the “Descent of Man’”’ with the fifth verse of the Eighth Psalm. WEATHER REPORT. —— WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THR CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinaron, D. C., May 12—1 A. M, Probabilities. For the Middle States northeasterly and north. westerly winds, increasing temperature, generally clearing and clear weather; for the lower lakes, and thence to the Upper Ohio Valley, clearing and partly cloudy weather, northwesterly winds veer- theasterly, with slowly diminishing pres. mutes for, the South Atlantic and Gulf States and Tennessee clear weather, northwesterly winds veering to southerly in the Western Gul with higher temperature and part cloudy weather in the evening; for Canada an New England northwesterly winds increasing ressure, clearing weather, with occasional rain, on he coast of the latter; for the Lower Ohio and the Lower Missouri Valleys and northward to Michi n and Iowa southeasterly and southerly wind: faulng barometer, warmer and partly clouag weather, with occasional rain. Reports are missing from the Northwest, the upper lakes, the Soutuwest and generally west of the Mississippl. 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, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnat’s Pnar- macy, H&RALD a. __