The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1873, Page 7

6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, No, 134 Velume XXXVIII.......... AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—Amr Ropsant. No. 514 Broadway.—Daama, bea THEATRE COMIQUF. UE AND O10, Matin: BOWERY THEATRE, Bowe Our Jumixr, &c. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728and 730 Brosd- ‘way.—Divonce. OOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st.— vous Kwaves axp tuk Pack. Afternoon and evening. —Rir Van Winaue— ATHENEUM, £85 Broadway.—Granp Vanrery Enrer- . Malinee at 234 pad . between Prince and NIBLO'S GARDEN. ronwe Magic Onaka, Matinee. UNI RE THEATRE, Union square, near eeieer Ra Frov. Matinee at 13. 0 THEATRE, Broadway. between Honston and Bivcckor street.—Humpry Dumrty. Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Brosdway and Thirteenth street.—Tux Squinz’s Last SmLLina, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monte CRisto. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third avenue.—Genuan Compr. MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Unper tue Gasticut, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth sireet.—Afternoon at ;—Granp Concert. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Summen Nigmrs’ Con- oxers. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner 6th av.—Nxqro MinstRELsy, &c. NEW YORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— Sciumnce anp Arr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, May 14, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OUR POLITICAL PARTIES! THE ADMINISTRA- TION AND THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCES- SION”—LEADER—SixTH PaGE. 4&N AWFUL MINE HORROR IN NOVA SCOTIA! A HUNDRED MEN IN A HELL OF FLAME! FOUR SAVED! TWO PERSONS BLOWN TO PIECES IN AN ATTEMPTED RESCUE!|— THIRD Paas. WHIPPING THE REDSKINS! CAPTAIN JACK’S SAVAGES ROUTED BY THE WHITES! FOUR SOLDIERS KILLED! ONE MODOC LESS! THE TROOPS BETWEEN THE INDIANS AND THEIR STRONGHOLD! GENERAL DAVIS TO EXTERMINATE THEM! THE TROUBLES WITH THE “REDS” OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO—Sgventa Page. WR. J. J. O'RELLY SECRETLY REMOVED FROM MANZANILLO TO SANTIAGO DE CUBA! THE BRITISH GUNBOAT PLOVER LEAVES THE SAME MORNING FOR THAT PORT— SEVENTH PAGE. (HE HOLY FATHER RAPIDLY SINKING! FAINT- ING FITS AND EXCESSIVE DEBILITY! A SORROWFUL BIRTHDAY! A PERSONAL SKETOH—SgvENTH Pace. GENERAL AGRAMONTE KILLED WHILE HEROIC- ALLY LEADING HIS MEN AGAINST THE SPANISH FOE! HIS BODY SECURED BY THE SPANIARDS, PUBLICLY EXPOSED AND IDENTIFIED—SEVENTH PaGE. EXTREME FINANCIAL AGITATION IN EUROPE! THE GERMAN BOURSES SERIOUSLY DE- PRESSED! PARLIAMENTARY MEASURES FOR RELIEF! ALARMING RESULTS OF “WILD-CAT” BANKING! AUSTRIA, SUS- PENDS THE BANK ACT—SEVENTH PaGE. 4& FATAL COLLISION AT ,HELL GATE! THE HOPE, WITH TWO OFFICERS AND THREE PRISONERS, SUNK BY THE AMERICUS— THIRD PaGE. THE ILI-FATED POLARIS! SECRETARY ROBE- SON TO THE RESCUE! WHAT HE AND REAR ADMIRAL RODGERS THINK OF THE DISASTER—THIRD Pace. A NEW CABLE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE WEST INDIES—THE LOUISIANA DISORDERS ENDED BY THE SURRENDER OF DE BLANC—IMPORTANT TELEGRAPHIO NEWS—SkventTH Pace. OPPOSITION TO CABLE EXTORTIONS TAKING SHAPE—REAL ESTATE AND ANNEXA- TION—THREE MEN CRUSHED TO DEATH BENEATH A FALLEN HAYLOFT—FALL OF A HOUSE—SENDING POSTAL CARDS— FOURTH PAGE. COMING EXECUTIONS |! NIXON AND LUSIGNANI AWAITING THEIR FATE—CRIME IN WIL- L{AMSBURG—Firtia PaGr. THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MONEY, STOCK AND GENERAL MARKETS! AN UNEASY TONE PREVALENT! PROBABILITIES OF AN ADVANCED ENGLISH BANK RATE— Fourtn Pacs. THE CONGRESSMEN AT ST. LOUIS! THE UB- JECTS OF THE CONFERENCE STATED BY GOVEKNOR WOODSON, MAYOR BROWN AND HENRY T. BLOW—Turmp Pace. STATE LEGISLATIVE DOINGS—GRAND ARMY RE- UNION—THE STRIKES—TENTH Pace. Tue Pertts or Navicatixe THe WarErs or Hew Gare are well seen in the story of the sinking of the coffin steamer Hope, belonging tothe Department of Charities and Correc- tion, by the steamer Americus. The blame Of the disaster it is difficult to fix at present ; but the story of the fatal collision will be found in our columns elsewhere. Tae Deata or Icnacto Acramonte, the famous Cuban general and leader of the in- surgents in the Camaguey, as reported in our special despatches, will prove a severe blow to the insurrection, of which he was one of the most gallant and successful soldiers. The importance attached to his death by the Spaniards will be seen in the fact that the Column Leon brought the young soldier's Corpse in triumph into Puerto Principe and exposed it publicly as a sign of their prowess, snd as a sign of the misfortune that had @vertaken their enemies. It is another indica- tion of how unmanly and inhuman the strife in Cuba has become. ——————____ Tue Brooxtyn Burvor seems likely, ag an Wbsorbent of money, to rival the new Court House. Having used up a greater sum on the two unfinished towers than the entire original estimate it bids fair to reach an Astonishing expense before we shall be able to walk upon It at an elevation of a hundred feet above the East River. Though an Aldermanic committee feport that the matter is all right, and their conclusions have been endorsed by the Com- mon Council, taxpayers will be apt to think that private stockholders should be compelled to pay their subscriptions before the city bonds tiom and the Presidential Succes s! je From the exhausting party excitements and decisive results of our late Presidential con- test, excepting the local disturbances of Lou- isiana, our political agitations have ebbed away to dead low water. The tide is out, the wind is down, the sea is calm, and the only evidences of the violence of our late periodical cyclone are in the wrecks and drift of the Cin- cinnati and Baltimore coalition which mark the surf line of the terrific storm. The decis- ive majorities, popular and electoral, from which General Grant has entered upon his second Presidential term, and the effective majority in each House secured by his party for another Congress, make it plain sailing to the administration for the next two years. The last elections required for the new Congress were those of Connecticut a month ago, the national results of which have left the contend- ing parties precisely as they stood before— three republicans and one democrat, although the new Governor upon side issues marks a local change. Henceforward to the Summer and Autumn of 1874 our State elections will be of a local character, so that not till the cam- paign of '74 for the next Congress shall we have any definite indications from the ballot boxes of the drift of our political parties, or of the leading issues for the Presidential struggle of 1876. Meantime the movements of the opposition elements with every little shaking up are as changeable as the groupings of the bits of colored glass in the kaleidoscope. ‘‘A voice like one crying in the wilderness’ has been vigorously calling out to the disheartened rank and file of the democratic party, in be- half of free trade, as the shibboleth which will surely lead them on to victory; but the re- sponses to this call are so discouraging that they apparently settle the question that free trade for the Presidential succession will not be emblazoned, ‘‘In hoc signo vinces,’’ on the ensign of the democratic party, Not only from the protectionists of Pennsylvania, but from other Northern, and even from some of the Southern States,interested in iron, cotton and woollen mills, comes the warning that free trade, as a democratic article of faith, will, instead of strengthening, break up the party. Itis related of Lord Palmerston that ona certain occasion at a public meeting to which he was expected to speak, and at which a score of reporters had gathered ‘‘to take him down,”’ the cautious Premier, not being in the mood just then for disclosing his views on State affairs, passed a slip of paper to the reporters’ table bearing the words, in pencil, ‘This fish won’t bite.’’ So it appears the democratic party, in being offered the glitter- ing bait of free trade, exclaims, ‘this fish won't bite.” Next, a feeblo wail here and there pleads for an adhesion to the Cincinnati programme, but that hastily constructed table of Mosaics is evidently broken beyond any hope of restoration. But may not the democratic managers turn these farmers’ granges of the Northwest and the Southwest to a good account? The mem- bers of these secret societies are numbered by hundreds of thousands, and their common ob- ject is to put down ‘the grasping railway mo- nopolies, which, with their extortionate charges of transportation, eat up the farmer's profits in taking his products to market. Do not these farmers’ granges, then, offer fair ground for a democratic change of base in an organized opposition to mono- polies and grasping corporations of all de- scriptions? No; because, as it appears, these agricultural societies are acting as indepen- dently of our great political parties as are our various orders of mechanics in their trades unions. In short, the opposition ele- ments, democratic and anti-Grant repub- lican, are all adrift, and apparently without any inviting project or prospect of a common field of action upon which they may unite against the administration. We have only, then, to consider the possi- bilities of a Presidential scrub race froma breaking up of the republican party upon rival Presidential candidates. But these rival candidates have not yet appeared, although Mr. Speaker Blaine, General Butler, Roscoe Conkling, Oliver P. Morton and others are named as having set their caps for the White House. But the President is stronger than any Senator with his party, and the party is stronger than its leaders. This fact was made manifest in the first and the second nomina- tion and election of Lincoln, and in the first, but particularly in the second nomination and election of General Grant. It was feared, on the threshold of the late campaign, that the revolt against the administration of such con- spicuous party leaders as Sumner, Trambull, Schurz, Greeley, Brown, Fenton, Curtin, Forney and others would seriously derange the dominant organization ; it was proved in October and November last that the effect of these desertions was to strengthen the regular republican party. In that uncertain transi- tion epoch extending from Van Buren to Lin- coln a revolt of its distinguished party leaders against the administration like that of the Cincinnati Convention would have overthrown the administration; but in the election results of last October and November we see that the masses of the country have passed beyond the control of their party leaders and blindly fol- low them no more. ‘The Presidential scrub race of 1824 resulted from an exceptional condition of things. The lines between the two old parties had been obliterated, and the people had become “all republicans and all federalists.’’ ‘The Congres- sional caucus system of nominating Presidential candidates had lost its force, and the National party Convention system had not taken its place. Monroe, closing up the business of his second term, had no favorite to name as his appropriate successor, no powerful organiza- tion of dependents or followers at his back, and was but little concerned as to the issue between Jackson, Adams, Crawford and Clay. Monroe, in a word, having met with no oppo- sition to his administration, had no candidate to present and no opposition to fight for the succession. But the case was different with Jackson. In closing up his second Presiden- tial term with his faithful second Vice Presi- dent, Van Buren, “Old Hickory’’ had a heavy account still to settle with his rebellious first Vice President, Calhoun; and he had on hand, too, some unfinished measures in his general Bre all issued. If the two cities are to furnish policy for which he desired a tried and trusty all the fands to complete the bridge it is right | disciple for his successor. He knew, besides, that citizens should go understand it, thathis wish would be accepted ag the law to his party, and hence the nomination and oleo- tion of Martin Van Buren. Now, in the present attitude of our politi- cal parties and of the people, General Grant's position more nearly resembles that of Jack- son in his second term than that of Monroe. Like Jackson, Grant has had a stubborn op- position to fight, from within as well as with- out his party camps. Like Jackson, he has overcome this opposition and is master of the situation; but having, likewise, some out- standing accounts to settle and a definite line of policy to transmit to the succession, he will, doubtless, have a word or two to say as to the man who should succeed him. In this view Grant has many advantages which Jackson did not possess. Grant has opposed to him a weak and disorganized opposition, without leaders and without any common bond of co- hesion. Jackson was opposed by the powerful whig party, under the lead of Henry Clay, and also by the Southern nullifiers, under the guidance of Calhoun. Jackson had the collec- tion and disbursement of some thirty or forty millions a year of public moneys. Grant has the sum of four hundred millions to collect and expend. Jackson had his system of pet State banks, which were the ruin of Van Buren. Grant has his system of national banks, bonds, bondholders and treasury re- serves, through which he holds the money market in his grasp. The revolution resulting from our civil war is not confined to the abolition of slavery and equal civil and political rights to all men, regardless of ‘‘race, color or previous condi- tion of servitude ;’’ but it has so far enlarged the powers of the general government and the political capital of the administration that our old school politicians cannot as yet real- ize the scope of these comprehensive changes. The increased political power of the admin- istration in our new national financial system, for example, is far greater than an increase from forty to four hundred millions in our annual treasury receipts and expenditures. It is the incalculable power of centralization, which is the universal tendency of communi- ties and governments of this age we live in. It is the new order of things, politically and socially, resulting from the railway and the telegraph. States are being absorbed by the central power with which they are associated, and the country is drifting to the town. Hence the unity of Italy and Germany. It is not so much the work of Cavour and Bismarck, as of the railway and the telegraph, Hence the widely enlarged powers of our general government and of our national Executive. Hence the immense resources possessed by General Grant, in reference to the Presiden- tial succession, compared with those of Gen- eral Jackson. Hence, #8 it appears to us, from all the facts, movements and signs of the times, the will of Grant, in 1876, will be as decisive as was the will of Jackson in 1836, in the nomination and the election of his suc- cessor, inasmuch as far more than was Jack- son is Grant the master of the field. England ‘ina “the East African Slave Trade. It now appears that the British government is resolved to take decisive action in the mat- ter of the slave trade in Eastern Africa. A despatch from Bombay, via London, informs us that Admiral Cumming has been ordered to proceed to Zanzibar immediately, with all his available force. Arrived at Zanzibar, he is to await instructions from the home government. Sir Bartle Frere’s mission may not prove so great a failure after all. With barbarians like the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Imaum of Muscat powder is much more effective than treaties, and more good will be done by a dozen gunboats than bya thousand useless palavers. So long as the peculiar institutions of Moslemism make slavery a necessity it is idle to expect that in the putting down of slavery any effective assistance will be ren- dered by the Imaum or the Sultan, or, indeed, by any of the Mussulman chiefs of the East. Now that President Thiers has disclaimed any sympathy with the conduct of the French Consul at Zanzibar, and declared himself in accord with the government of Great Britain, let us hope that all the Great Powers, the Tnited States included, Captain Wilson being already on his way to Zanzibar with the Yantic, will act with decision and vigor, and that through their united efforts slavery will soon be as little known on the east coast as it is on the west coast of Africa. The East African slave trade is a dis- grace to our modern civilization. Tae Forrscommna Convention oF Gov- mRnons iN Artanta.—The Atlanta Her- ald—Alexander 4H. Stephens’ organ—in- dignantly denies that the proposed meet- ing of State Governors in that city has any political significance whatever. Itis to be held, it asserts, in the interest of cheap trans- portation and to consider the subject of build- ing the Atlantic and Great Western Canal; and, continues the Herald, ‘‘whoever tries to divert it from the consideration of the matter for which it was avowedly convened will be guilty of an effort to disgrace it and cause it to flash out with no good results whatever.” It is difficult to conceive how a convention composed of such distinguished dignitaries can prove @ “flash in the pan,” no matter for what purpose it may be called. It will be a good thing for the Governors to assemble, chat over the subject of cheap transportation, throw in a few shovelfuls of intellectual talk about the proposed canal, dispose of some good dinners—for which the Georgians are eelebrated—let the subject of politics alone, if they can, and then go home wiser men. But do not let the convocation, by any means, “flash out.” A Fricatrcn Contry Exproston m Nova Scortma is reported in the Heratp special despatches from Halifax. A blast with gun cotton ignited the ‘‘fire-damp,” or explosive gas, and a loss of from forty to fifty lives was the result. Since the time of Stevenson and Sir Humphrey Davy science has devoted con- siderable thought to the prevention of explo- sions in collieries. With the safety lamp it was hoped that the life of the miner would be comparatively safe; but the carelessness of the miners themsdlyes continually proved how fiutile all safeguards could become while it was in the power of ignorant men to remove them, The knowl- edge that every time the miner opened his lamp to light his pipe he jeopardized his life and those of his comrades did not deter him from smoking. The use of gun cotton to blast the coal may prove expeditious and cheap for @ time; but. like the miner's smoke, a single disaster, such as that reported from the The Centennial City. Drummond colliery, will show how costly all | We believe it is generally understood that those defiances of a plain, natural law are in the end. It is tobe hoped that this dangerous mode of mining coal is confined to Nova Scotia, and that it will be abandoned there. A Chance to Exterminate the Modoes. The success of the Warm Spring Indians in the last struggle with the Modocs, as described in our special despatches elsewhere, suggests that the crafty savage in such a country as the lava region can only be beaten by fighting him according to his own tactics. The mortars and mountain howitzers may, under certain conditions, be of good service, and perhaps were in the attack on the first stronghold. The untiring watchfulness and persistent harassing of the’Indian himself tell sooner in an Indian fight than the more pretentious marshalling of serried lines fighting at the word of command. The late affair at the lake is the only brilliant thing for the Union forces in the long series of fights that have oc- curred since the attack on the settlers at Lost River, «nd it must be remembered that to the friendly Warm Spring Indians alone is due the credit of the victory, such as it is. We cordially wish better fortune to our boys in blue, as they have all through this wretched business shown a worthy courage, if we ex- cept the retreat of a number of soldiers in the reconnoissance that cost so many valuable lives. The attack on the sleoping camp by the Mo- docs was conducted in true stealthy Indian fashion—a volley from their rifles was the first intimation of their presence. The sur- prise should never have been allowed to take place ; but wo may count’ ourselves lucky to learn that, instead of the sleepers being mas- sacred or stampeded, the Modocs themselves were beaten off and followed up by the Warm Spring Indians with all the Indian's persistency. It is now said that the Modocs are being driven in the direction of their first strong- hold, and that the troops will endeavor to in- tercept and exterminate them. We heartily hope that they may not fail in this, as failure, in the face of such a chance to end the war, may present us with desultory and costly’ fighting lasting the whole Summer. Russia and Austria. It was a noticeable fact, freely commented on in certain quarters at the time, that Russia Wag not prominently reprogented. at Yienn pyre ‘odcasion ol the Stones Pees Fair. Germany was represented by the Prince Imperial and Great Britain had hon- ored herself by sending as her representative the Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince Arthur. Representatives of the Russian im- perial family were conspicuous by their ab- sence. It was not unnatural to conclude that the relations existing between Russia and Austria were, if not positively unfriendly, at least not so cordial as they have been known to be in times past. It would now seem that such conclusions, although not wholly unjus- tifiable, were rashly drawn from the premises. On the Ist of June the Czar of all the Russias, accompanied by a splendid retinue, will make his public entry into Vienna. On the follow- ing day he will make the tour of the Ex- hibition; and for six days, during which he will remain in the Austrian capital, a series of fétes, on a scale of almost unprecedented grandeur, will be given in his honor. Not much importance attaches to the announve- ment that the King of the Belgians will reach Vienna three days before the Czar. It isof more importance to know that the visit of the Ozar is to be succeeded by one from the Emperor William. This looks as if the rela- tions of the three imperial courts were not marred by any serious misunderstanding. Let us hope that the Vienna Exposition will mark the commencement of an era of peace and prosperity to the nations. ‘Tae Money Criss 1n Germany—Tae Bank Act Suspenpep 1m Avustnia.—By telegrams from Berlin and Vienna we have intelligence of facts which go to show that the bourses of the principal German cities have been acutely and severely affected by the consequences of the money cataclysm on the Vienna ’Change, The Prussian government has become sensi- tive, and has already made an effort to relieve in anticipation, or stave off by legislation, the effects of the tremor which is being radi- ated towards Berlin from the capital on the banks of the Danube. The Prussian govern- ment has proposed to the Legislature to apply the executive share of the war contributions to the purchase of bills and public securities, to advances for the accommodation of mer- chants, and to the redemption of the debt for railway works, The operation of the Bank act has been suspended in Austria. The policy of the two imperial governments ap- pears thus to be in favor of summary treasury centralization. The facts which we append to our cable reports will enable our readers to understand some of the exciting causes which have more immediately tended to produce the situation. Toe Pore Samo to tHe Port oF Deatx.—A cable despatch from Rome, which we publish in the Heraxp, states that His Holiness Pope Pius IX. is rapidly nearing the termination of his mortal career. He is still more fegble in health, and becomes weaker almost hourly. He had a fainting fit, which lasted an hour, during the day on Monday. His condition was worse yesterday, indicating excessive debility. The Pontiff was eighty- one years of age yesterday. It was o solemn anniversary to the venerable Pon- tiff personally—one of sad import to the universal churchfold which he rules, Many deputations called at the Vati- can to congratulate him on the recur- rence of the day, but the officers of the household were compelled to refuse their ad- mission. Two Hatters ror Tas Wrex.—Two exe- eutions for murder in this vicinity, within twenty-four hours, ought to strike terror into the hearts of lawless men. To-morrow is the day fixed for the capital punishment of the Italian, Luigi Lusignani, at Morristown, and Nixon’s career is to come to an end on the gallows, in the Tombs, on Friday. Immnu- nity for the slayers of their fellows is ‘played out.’’ Society has reversed the observation of Jack Reynolds to the contrary. Let all our murderous community take notice that hence- forth the law which defines and fixes the penalty of their crime is nota dead letter, Criminals are to be relentlessly prosecuted, juries will convict, and the pardoning power is able to resist appeals for mercy, even from wealth and respectability, the one hundredth anniversary of our inde- |. pendence as a nation is to be celebrated in the good old city of Philadelphia July 4, 1876, a little more than three years from the present date. History, that is to say fable (which is generally quite as accurate), informs us that when the hare and the tortoise set out for a race together the hare, presumptuously trust- ing to the speed with which a benignant Prov- idence had gifted him, rested self-confidently by the wayside, and was in the end beaten by his slower but surer rival. Now we would not muke any application which would be unpala- table to our friends, the broadbrims, for the citizens of Brotherly Love are good-in- tentioned on the whole, their solitary weak- ness being that no orphan boy can achieve greatness unless he is educated at Girard Col- lego, and that everybody worth burying at all ought to be solemnly entombed at Laurel Hill. To be sure Philadelphians have their idiosyn- crasies, but these we are entirely too charitable to despise. Your born Philadelphian—we are taking the average man—would not be happy without his gingham umbrella and his Market street mules. With his dying breath he insists that overshoes are ‘gums’ and the ash-barrel on the sidewalk is to hima living and perennial joy. He scrubs his pavement on Saturday morning as religiously as he locks his shutters at night. He believes in Venetian blinds, small houses, narrow alleyways, bricks, drays and coal-skuttle bonnets, He gloats fatly over Philadelphia butter, and points to his market houses with the finger of pride. He believes that man was made for Chestnut street, and would rather be a doorkeeper at Independence Hall thaw dwell in the tents of New York iniquity. All this is very well, and we ad- mire the heartiness with which our neighbor believes in himself. And now that the Phila- delphians are experiencing a sensation, for the first time, we believe, since 1776, our heart is big enough and generous enough to permit us to sympathize with them even in that. The coming centennial has thrilled the broadbrims to the bone. The very bankers hum “Old Hundred,’’ and the brokers’ offices along Third street fairly reek with century plants. The pious Philadelphian will tell you unhesitat- ingly that his fnvorite character in Scripture is the centurion. You can, if ‘You choose, buy a centennial suit of clothes there at a centennial store, order a centennial breakfast at a centennial restaurant and read news about the centepinial out of a centennial ial newspaper. Far be it from us ‘decry such generous enthusiasm ; ill would it become us to be amazed at it, con- Sidering that it has taken just one hundred years to bring it about. Since there is no other city in the world which offers such bril- liant inducements to grow old in, so there is no other city in the Union in which the cele- bration of centenarianism could with such nice propriety be held. Tae Nearest Arproach ro « Repusric Amone THe Monazcutes or Evrore is Sweden. This was evident on the occasion of the coro- nation of King Oscar the Second, an account of which was sent by a special telegraphic despatch to the Heratp and published yes- terday. The coromation took place the day before yesterday. Olcourse there was a great deal of pomp and cerenony, though the pro- gramme was also noticedyle fora pecularsim- plicity and certain ancien. usages. But the remarkable thing was thatthe sturdy and simple-minded Swedes did notgee the neces- sity of spending money for suth a pageant, though the total amount approprated by the Legislative Diet for all the expense did not exceed fifty thousand dollars of our money. The forms:of monarchy are very simple in Scandinavia, and the monarch mingles with the people as our President, here, or as iny ordinary citizen of Sweden does. Englana, with all her boasted freedom, does not ap- proach republicanism as much as Sweden does. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. General E. L. Viele is at the St. James Hotel. Colonel Rush 0. Hawkins is yet in Paris with his wife. . General A. S, Diven, of Elmira, is at the Hoffman House. Ex-Postmaster George B. Lincoln, of Brooklyn, is in Paris. Judge John Lynch, of New Orleans, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Lieutenant Governor Robinson is stopping at the St, Denis Hotel. Ex-Congressman D, McCarthy, of Syracuse, is at the Gilsey House. Ex-Senator Benjamin Stark, of Connecticut, 1s at the Albemarle Hotel. Admiral Godon, of the United States Navy, isin Paris with his family. Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Congressman John Rogers, of Black Brook, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Congressman J, V. L, Pruyn, of Albany, is staying at the Gilsey House. Postmaster John McArthur, of Chicago, has ar- rived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. United States Senator Roscoe Conkling is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Postmaster John F. Smyth, of Albany, yesterday arrived ai the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Joseph Levering, of Cambridge, Mass., is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Governor John L, Beveridge, of Illinois, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-UVongressman Thomas H. Canfield, of Ver- mont, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sir James Brooke, the former Rajah of Sarawak, is to be commemorated by a monument there, President Grant, accompanied by General Bab- cock, left Washington last night for New Haven, General Q. A. Gillmore, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Grand Central Hotel. Admiral William Hughes D’Aeth, just dead in his eighty-eighth year, was at the battle of Trafalgar. Lieutenant Commander Silas W. Terry, of the United States Navy, is in town, at the Hoffman House. Frederick Vinton, Assistant Librarian of Con- gress, has been offered the position of librarian of Princeton College. ‘The ex-Duke Charles of Brunswick protests against the new law of succession to the govern- ment of the Duchy. * Judge Walker, an old Louisiana journalist, has started the New Orleans Herald, Its politics are supposed to be of the McEnery kind, ‘Thomas Moore figures in a reeent London police report as a trainer of young thieves, His name- sake trained a good many young men to the lyrey Baron Adolphe de Rothschild proposes to build and endow at Geneva, Switzerland, a hospital for eye diseases, at & cost of about one hundred thou- sand dollars. M. Barodet, the successful competitor of M. de Rémusat as @ candidate for the representation of Paris in the National Assembly, began life as a schoolmaster, bs A daughter of M, Prevost-Paradol, who became & Catholic several months ago, is now about to take the veil and enter the congregation of Notre. Dame-de-Lion, — WASHINGTON, May 18, 1873, ‘The Cargo of the Wrecked Steamship Atiantic. The Collector at Portland was to-day instructe@ to let the cargo of the wrecked steamer Atiaatic, whiop had arrived at that port, go to New York ‘without appraisement. Appointments by the President, The President this morning appointed Jacksen S. Schultz, of New York, Commissioner to repre- sent the government of the United States at the International Exposition of Agriculture, Industry and Fine Arts at Vienna, vice General Vaa Burer suspended, as heretofore stated. William Simpson Pearson, of North Carolina, has been appointed Consul at Palermo, The following collectors of internal revenue have been appointed:—Johm Brooker, for the Fourth Arkansas district; Wm. L. Fernald, for the Fourth Virginia; Augustus Ford, for the Eighth New York. Cabinet Meeting. The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended by all the members, Secretary Belknap excepted, There Were no important measures which required con- sideration, the business being, as represented, merely of @ routine nature. The Postmaster Gen- eral brought to the attention of the President the subject o1 appointment of postmasters at Sayan- nah, Athens, Atlanta and Macon, Ga., which were confirmed by the Senate during the last session of Congress, The President has delayed issuing their commissions, awaiting the result of investigations into the charge that improper influences were Used to secure the recommendations on which the nominations were made. ‘There appearing no saf- ficient reason longer to withhold the commissions, they have been signed and will be duly delivered. The Remains of Minister Orr. Information has reached the Department of State from the United States Consul at St. Peters- burg, that the remains. of Judge Orr, late United States Minister, will be sent to this country, via Hamburg, in charge of bis son, on the opening of navigation, which will probably be in about tem days. The United Workingmen of America. John W. Browning, Executive of the State of New York for the United Workingmen of America, ar- rived here to-day and has been in consultation with members of the National Executive Commit- tee concerning the immediate organization of his State. Mr. Browning will address the United Order of Bricklayers on Thursday evening. He is the Grand Secretary of the national organization, WEATHER REPORT, War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14—1 A. M. Probabitities. For the lower lakes and Middle States north- westerly winds, veering to southeasterly and south- westerly, low temperature, Clear and partly cloudy. weather; for Canada and Sew Engand—Wirta? “westerly winds, . Tisi barometer, cool and generally clear weather ; the upper lakes and Northwest and thence to Missouri and Kentucky, falling barometer, warmer and cloudy weather and rain; for the Gulf States and Tennessee, southeasterly and southwesterly winds, cloudy weather and raing for the South Atlantic States, increasingly cloudy weather, rising temperature, southerly winds and very for Reports are generally missing from west of the MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, —-———— Signor Tamberlik will leave for Europe on Satar- day next, to return probably in the Fall with a new opera company. Afinal farewell performance will be given at the Academy of Music on the 28th inst. by the Mae retzek Italian Opera Company. “Mignon” will be presented, with Mme. Lucca and Miss Kellogg im the cast. There will be a welcome inauguration to-night. Theodore Thomas commences his Summer concerts atthe beautiful Central Park Garden with his un- equalled orchestra, The opening bill is a dainty one, varied enough for every palate. The com posers who will welcome the lovers ef art and good cheer are Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, Weber, Strauss, Michaelis and Wagner. The second recital of Rabinstein takes place at Steinway Hall this afternoon. He will illustrate the third grand epoch of piano music by six so Matas of Beethoven. Among these are the lovely “Moonlight” sonata and the “Appassionata.” No instrument has a more interesting history than the piano. The mechanical development of the modern grand from the psaltery through all the stages of dulcimer, citole, claricytherium, mono- ‘chord, clarichord, virginal, spinet and harpsichord, Would make an Interesting chapter in itself. This mbjature orchestra, which beneath inspired fin- gerscan revel in endless combinations of harmo. nies, hat can limn with startling vividness every passiot.of the mind, is the result of centuries of labor by yreat minds. Miss Sterling had a crowded house at her benefit last night in Irving Hall. Her popularity as a thorough, classical singer cannot be exceeded by any artist at present on our concert stage, and her fine contiito voice has lost none of its pristing charms. Her mlections, however, are, not alway@ interesting, and even “The Three Ravens” have had theirday. The ature of the concert was the exquisite playing of Miss Anna Mehlig. Her rendering of Liszt’s “olonaise,” which she hag made familiar to the New York public, was marked with mingled power and delicay and colored with poetic feeling. The other arthts who appeared were Miss Henrietta Beebe, a favorite soprano in the concert hall; Miss Matilda Toeit and Messrs, Bush, Rockwood, Baird and Aiken, I. was through- out an enjoyable concert and worthy ef the patron> age accorded to it. “That same old Fox” pursues his everlasting nocturnal run at the Olympic, and Humpty Dumpty, with variations new, pretty and very funny, is still a welcome character on the boards to full houses. Several novelties have been added this week. On Monday evening Ala, a new sen- sational gymnast, who performs {eats of extraor- dinary skill and daring on the atrial platformand bars, appeared for the first time and created a genuine sensation. Ala is somewhat peculiar in possessing a form that is singularly feminine in ita soft and delicate contour, and he is very reckless in the way he dashes through space in his doubie somersets. His is a swift, bold and impetuous grace, that marksa strong contrast when compared with the evolutions of Moriacchi, in her exquisitely soft, poetic and classic Terpsichorean displays, which, beyond question, illustrate the “poetry of motion” as nearly a8 the “human form divine” ia eapable. The danseuse is dreamy, delicious and sylph-like in every pose and sauit, while the acro- bat Ala actually hurls himself about in a manner that shows plainly in him the lack of fear, the desire to excel and the ability of a wonderful athlete. OBITUARY. Rev. Thomas Robinson, D. D. By cable telegram from London under date of yesterday we are informed of the death of the Rey. Thomas Robinson, the eminent English divine, Canon of Rochester and author of many theological works. He was eighty-two years of age, Dr. Robinson was the youngest son of the late Rev. T. Robinson, Vicar of St. Mary's, Leices ter. He was born in the year 1790; edu- cated at Rugby and Trinity Coliege, Cams bridge, where he was thirteenth wrangler in the year 1813, He was ordained soon afterwards and served in India for a space of thirteen years as Chaplain to Bishop Heber, thet of Calcutta and subsequently Archbishop Madras, On his return to England he became Lord Almoner’s Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. He held arectory during several years, and was Master of the Temple. He was appointed Canon of Rochester in the year 1854. Canon Rovingon was & fag and prolific writer, having hept his pen usy in the production of most valuavle religious works and Scriptural translations simce the year hove: A al he published “The Last Days of Bishop o~ I ay IIe gee