The New York Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, a Hanae Volume XXXVUI,, AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tax Soupiex's Prog- eres, £0. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728and 730 Broad- way.—Divone. WOOD'S MUSEUM Four Kwaves axo . corner Thirtieth st.— ternoon and evening. Granp Variety Enter. ATHENEUM, £85 Broadw: ‘TAINMENT. NIRLO’S GARDFN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston st&—AzRari; on, Tax Magic Cuan, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Fuou Fw ACADEMY OF MU: Geseciscnort. OLYMPIC THRAT! and Bleecker stree Fourteenth street.—Avs Der Broadway. between Houston pry Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Tue Squire's Last SHILLING. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monre Cnisto. BOOTH’S TREATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth avenue.—Amy Ronsanr. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. S14 Broadway.—Drama, Burvesgue aNd ULI0, . MRS. F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Fatnt Heart Neven Won Fare Lapy, &c. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth Concert. Matinee at 2! street.—Granp CENTRAL PARK GARD! cents. ‘Summer Nigats’ Con- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner €th av.—Necro Minstretsy, &c. TAMMANY ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Fourteenth strect— Bintiagp Marten, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618Broadway.— Few NCE AND Ant. a EET. TRIPLE SH New York, Friday, May 16, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE MARCH TO KHIVA AND THE REAL CEN- TRAL ASIAN QUESTION’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL ARTICLE—SIXTH PAGE, LUSIGNANI HANGED YESTERDAY! INCITING CAUSES OF THE WIFE MURDER! A BLOODY REVENGE FOR DESERTION ! THE CRIME, THE CONVICTION AND THE PUN- ISHMENT ! THE EFFORTS IN HIS BEHALF— FourtH Pacer. NIXON TO BE HANGED TO-DAY! SOLEMN AND PATHETIC SCENES IN PRISON! THE DES- PAIR OF THE CONDEMNED! HIS BE- QUESTS—FovurtH PaGE. DISASTROUS CONTINUATION OF THE DRUM- MOND M ‘S CALAMITY! TERRIFIC FIRES RAGING A’ STARTLING NOISES COMING FROM THE SHAFTS! DELUGING THE PITS! MOURNING THE LOST! THE OF- FICIAL INQUIRY AND VERDICT! POWDER BLASTS THE CAUSE—SEVENTH Paar. 4 DECIDED IMPROVEMENT IN THE HEALTH OF THE HOLY FATHER—CABLE COMMUNICA- TION BROKEN BETWEEN ASIA AND AUS- TRALIA—SEVENTH PaGE. VIENNESE DESPAIR OVER THE MONEY CRISIS! SEVERE EFFECTS ELSEWHERE—DORRE- GARAY’S VICTORY OVER THE GOVERN- MENT FORCES—SEvENTH PAGE. A FIERCE WIND AND RAIN STORM PREVAIL- ING IN VIENNA! THE WESTERN FRONT OF THE FAIR BUILDING BROKEN, VISIT- ORS INJURED AND GREAT DAMAGE DONE TO GOODS! THE PRATER BE@OMES A MORASS—SEVENTH PAGE. «A KHIVAN LEVY EN MASSE TO RESIST THE RUSSIAN INVADERS—INTERESTING NEWS DESPATCHES FROM CUBA, MEXICO AND ELSEWHERE—SEVENTH PaGE. MORE MAYORAL NOMINEES CONFIRMED BY THE ALDERMANIC BOARD! ADDITIONAL APPOINTEES—ANOTHER MUNICIPAL COM- PLICATION—Tuigp PaGE. EXCELLENT OPENING OF THE TROTTING SEA- SON—RUMORS AS TO THE CHIEF JUSTICE- SHIP OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT—THE CIVIL RIGHTS JUBILEE OF THE PEOPLE OF COLOR—THIRD PaGE. IMPORTANT LEGAL PROCEEDINGS! THE BEI- GIAN AND PHYFER MURDER CASES! CON- VICTION FOR MANSLAUGHTER! THE BANK FRAUDS—FIFTH PAGE. MEASURES PASSED UPON BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE Y ERDAY — MARITIME NEWS—PEACE ON EARTH—TENTH PGE, 2 RICHMOND AGITATED OVER THE RECENT DUEL! McCARTY UNDER GUARD! THE SECONDS MIS EVENTH PAGE. THE DUTCH CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE AGHEE- NESE! GLOOMY PICTU! OF THE DEADLY MORASSES OF ACHE A SLIM CHANCE FOR THE HOLLANDERS! A MAHOMETAN “LAST DITCH” —FirtH Pace. MONETARY EASE ON ‘CHANGE! THE STOCK OF BULLION IN THE VAULTS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND! WHAT OF THE FUTURE? GOLD AND sToc IGHTH PAGE. Coxtasions on THE River.--Two collisions between vessels on the East River, occurring within twenty-four hours of each other, should serve as a warning to pilots to exercise more wvigilance. The opening of the Spring and Summer season of business blocks up our water thoroughfares as well as the streets, and calls for a strict attention to duty on the part of those to whose care life and property are hourly entrusted, There is entirely too much tecklessness displayed by some of the pilots on both rivers, and the infrequency of fatal disasters may be regarded as providential. ‘The recent collisions will, it is to be hoped, Prove a beneficial lesson. Tue Corvmnra (8. C.) Phoniz remarks that “another proof that no Southern man will feel comfortable in Philadelphia at the Centennial Celebration is offered us by the Bulletin, of that city. It proposes that a national hymn, com- posed during the late war (!), shall be sung upon the occasion.” The Phenix is mis- taken. The hymn referred to was composed during the Revolutionary war, itsname, “Yan- kee Doodle.'’ It was sung at the battles of Cowpens, King’s Mountain and Yorktown. It is a choice American air, and well known to ail nations, Rosstan Apvices From Kurva indicate that the Khan is making an active endeavor to muster a force which will enable him to meet the Russians in the field. It appears also as | if his stronghold had not been completely re- duced, as was at first reported, by the im- perialiste. Anornen Great Victory over the Modocs! A whole day’s fighting, two savages killed and no squaws or pappooses visible. Three times three for Gillem and Davis! NEW YUKK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1873.—TRIPLE Tne marcn to Khiva and the Keal Central Asian Question, Tho intelligence of the Russian advance into the classic region of the Oxus invests the theatre of tho Central Asian war with new in- terest. ‘The dreary and Sahara-like wastes in which the Czar's military expedition is now manceuvring, ostensibly for the possession of Khiva, but really with an ulterior object, were trodden, 329 B. C., by the veterans of Alex- ander, and, in modern times, by the fierce troops of Tamerlane, Although surpassed in historic celebrity and political importance the Valley of the Oxus is to-day less known than many portions of the Arctic and Antarctic lands, A glance at the physical and political Geography of the Eastern Aral and Caspian basins will greatly assist in uncovoring the Muscovite designs in now forcing their warlike columns against the contemptible and insig- nificant mud walls which form the only forti- fications of the village of Khiva. The great interior slopes, which converge in the Caspian and Aral basins, are among the most forbid- ding and desolate regions of Asia, and pro- sent in themselves not a single object to tempt the conqueror. Out off from the geographical advantages of nearness to the sea, these arid and sandy deserts sustain only a small growth of brushwood and tho thorny herb, and the climate is one of fiercest ex- tremes. The temperature in Summer, whero- ever observations have been taken, is fearfully high, ranging from 108 degrees to 144 de- grees, while in Winter, with a dry atmosphere, it falls to twenty-five degroes below zero, The army of Tamerlane in its Winter campaign was destroyed by intense cold on the banks of the Oxus ; but their terrible fate was repeated by the Russian army in 1839, in its snow- bound march against Khiva. So utterly worthless is the Caspian watershed in itself that in 1739 the Empress Anne ordered tho evacuation of the province of Ghilan, won by the arms of Peter the Great, and it was abandoned on account of the un- healthiness of the climate. So far as the rescue of Russian captives is concerned— which is ostensibly the plea of Russia in defence of her present formidable movement against Khiva—it is well known that the Rus- sians at Khiva are mostly deserters, convicts and those who have fled from political persecution in their native country, and who would be the last to favor the appearance of the Russian flag in the country of their adoption. But it is said by those best acquainted with the situ- ation that since the Khan’s treaty with the Czar in 1854, by which it was agreed he should never purchase or hold Russian prisoners taken by the Téké Turcomen, only a single Russian captive has remained in Khiva and he in the voluntary employment of the Khan as his gardener. The design of the present campaign in the lower Valley of the Oxus cannot be disguised, and has, perhaps, more than one object. The lofty and snow-clad mountains of the Kuen- lun, the Bolor Tagh and the Karakorum, together with the great Pamir tableland, which Humbolt regarded as a north and south link between the Thian Shan and Himalaya, look down on the great valleys, which alone afford transasiatic communication. These valleys, through which the swift current of the Oxus and the turbid volume of the Indus are supplied with water, contain the trans-conti- nental highways of history and the immemo- rial tracks of merchants passing across Asia between the Western world and China. There are two principal caravan routes across Cen- tral Asia, one leading by Bokhara and Samar- cand, the old capital of Tamerlane, over the Terek Pass to Cashgar, while the other passes up the Oxus Valley by Balkh and then along a gorge of the Pamir plateau to the eastward. The former was seized by Russia in 1866 and the latter is now an object of her strong desire. It was mainly by this latter route, through the Pamir gorge, that, from the most ancient times, com- munications were maintained between China and the Western World. It was this thorough- fare which was traversed by the celebrated Marco Polo in the thirteenth century, and also by the great explorer, Benedec Goez, in 1603, as also by the latest travellers who have made the transit of Central Asia. The posses- sion of bo‘h these caravan highways, the only available ones for transasiatic commerce, would give Russia a direct communication and an immensely profitable monopoly of trade, and enable her to exclude English manufac- tured goods from Turkistan, on both routes of entrance, as is now done on the route over which the Russians have control. It may be that the design of Russia in this campaign is to secure the great commercial advantages to accrue from the possession of the great roads from the Caspian Sea to the Chinese frontier. But when it is remembered that for many years the conflicting interests of English East Indian policy and Russian ex- pansion in the Oxus Valley have been growing more serious and threatening, it is natural for the world to suspect that the overspreading power of Russia in Asia means still further encroachment if possible. It has been held by military writers for nearly the last half century that Herat (lying southeast of the Caspian), near the Afghanistan border, is the “key to India;'’ and it has been strongly argued of late that the occupation of the region immediately contiguous to this ‘‘key’’ involves the real Central Asian question. Once at Khiva, and holding that Khanate in its grasp, the Russian Bear will have no difficulty in helping himself to the Upper Oxus and the avenues which lead, in a fortnight’s march, to the British frontier of the Punjaub and to the world-famed Vale of Cashmere. The famous Catherine of Russia, during her memorable reign, it 1s said, caused to be fixed at the northern entrance or gateway into the Crimea a mile-post, bearing the inscription, “This is the road to Constantinople.’ Having established a strongly fortified base of opera- tions at Sebastapol, the late Emperor Nicholas, thinking the time had come for pursuing the | road of Catherine to its appointed terminus, found, in the holy places at Jerusalem, matter for a quarrel with the ‘Sick Man of Turkey," and so followed the Crimean war. This war, however, instead of carrying the Ozar to the Golden Horn, cut him out of the strong posi- tions at the mouth of the Danube which had been conquered by Catherine, and reduced his half-way military station of Sebastopol to a harmless peace establishment. But no one supposes that Russia has aban- doned her original design in this direction. The flanking of Turkey in Asia, through Northern Persia, may be an ulterior object of her present designs upon the deserta of ‘Cur- kistan. But, taking British India as the real design lying behind this march upon Khiva, what is the prospect of success to Russia? Let us suppose that she is in complete and undis- puted occupation of Turkistan ; that sho haa established a line of forts and military depots along the river Oxus, from its mouth at Lake Aral, up the stream to Koondooz, a line overa thousand miles.in length, on a desert river, and that at this point, at the cost of two or three hundred millions of dollars, she has os- tablished an army of fifty thousand men, for the invasion of the Punjaub, and that march of some four hundred miles is all that is left between her army and the Vaile of Cashmero— let us suppose all this, and still the most diffi- cult portion of the task is before her. Between Koondooz and Cashmero rise the vast moun- tain chain of the Hindoo Koosh, part of the Himalayan range, the ‘oftiest mountains on our globe. To carry an_ invading army over the lofty ridges and through the deep defiles of the Hindoo Koosh, or even across the intervening desert and the Afghanis- tan range to the Indus, will require the genius of a Hannibal or a Napoleon. The desert country of fifteen hundred miles between the Caspian and Koondooz, the fierce extremes of heat and cold peculiar to this inhospitable wilderness, and the wild tribes which wander over it, will occupy Russia yet many years ere she is firmly established in it ; so that before her army, destined for Hindostan, can be advanced to the barriers of the Hindoo Koosh the living generation of men will probably have passed away. In limiting, therefore, the march of Russia upon Khiva to designs upon certain overland channels of trade, we cover this invasion, perhaps, to the extent to which the living generation will be practically in- terested in its designs and results, Deep Sea Soundings—The Juniata— Cable Monopolies. We had congratulated our readers upon the fact that one of our vessels of war, the United States steamer Juniata, had been prepared for deep sea sounding by the Navy Department, and would shortly proceed to map out tho Atlantic basin for the cable-laying of the future. It seems, however, that our congratu- lations were somewhat premature. The time for the ship to sail upon this useful and nec- essary duty was drawing near, when, without any apparent reason, the sounding apparatus put on board the Juniata was removed and all preparations suddenly stopped. It seems, then, that the soundings will not be taken. We would like to know the reason of this, for it is something unusual to prepare a ship for special service, at considerable expense, and then not send her to sea. At least there is generally some good cause for taking such a course, and in this case we can see none whatever. The prosecution of deep sea soundings in the Atlantic is an important matter, especially at the present, when new cables are about being laid down. The Navy Department will have to bestir itself in this matter. It is of the greatest consequence that the company now forming for the purpose of opposing the monopolists of ocean telegraphy should have every legitimate support from the government, and no assistance at this stage would be more valuable than would be rendered by soundings of the line of ocean best suited to laying down cables, which will put the ocean telegraphy of the world upon a fair, honest basis, and pluck from the hands of the present companies all opportunity of levying excessive charges. The Secretary of the Navy, it would seem, must be badly advised to abandon so well con- ceived a plan as the one he had developed on the eve of its execution. Our commercial men who stood ready to thank him for this great service when finished will doubtless feel little like doing so when they learn that the Juniata is, after all, not to do this, useful and promised work. We have often claimed and now reassert that our vessels of war cannot be better employed than sounding out the great depths of the ocean, surveying little-known coast lines and foreign ports. The Juniata should be allowed to commence the work for which she has been prepared. At this time, too, one of our war vessels should be sent to search for the Polaris, and, if possible, bring back her surviving officers and crew to the United States. Tar Gattows is at work. City roughs, men with fierce passions and those predis- posed to emotional irregularity will take notice that the prevailing fashion hereabouts is tohang those who take human life—that is, if a jury guiltless of reading newspapers fails to vote the prisoner insane. New Jersey sus- pended the Italian wife murderer, Lusignani, at Morristown yesterday, He went to his punishment much as a Modoc savage might, and his last hours proved him a hardened wretch most dangerous to the community. To-day New York will claim from Michael Nixon the only answer he can make for the cold-blooded, unprovoked slaughter of a hard- working, honest man, the head and support of an interesting family. In the Tombs this morning Justice will take the life of the mur- derer, not alone as the penalty of his crime, but equally as a warning to the dangerous classes. If the pistol, the car hook and the knife threaten orderly citizens, the law has its weapons and its methods of severe self-protection. Long im- munity from proper punishment had em- boldened crime till life was insecure and mur- der awaited its victims in our strects, hotels and public conveyances. We have lately had three convictions for murder. Foster has paid his penalty. Nixon suffers justly to-day. Stokes still proves the power of money in con- tinued delay of execution, His ability to do so will soon be exhausted. He has for many months acted the jolly stoic in his luxurious though narrow cell. He will do well to-day, and for the short time remaining to him, to think seriously on the end of his two fellow lodgers and prepare for bis own, Murder is hereafter to be dangerous to the criminal. Tue Money Panto cy Vienna has prodaced a very disheartening effect on the people of the Austrian capital. The financial tremor is ex- tending from the Guriman municipal centre. Its influence bas been already felt on the shores of the Black Sea, in Odessa, Trade has been completely suspended in the Russian city, and discounts advauced to nine per cout yosterday. ion of the Modocs— Progress of the War. After a half dozen disastrous blunders and defeats we have gained a victory over the ter- rible Modocs which is worth considering. In summing up the results of our successful battle we fiud that the Modocs were driven from the field with the loas of two killed, a number of horses captured, and a good supply of ammunition and provisions. On our side the loss was four men killed (including one Warm Spring Indian) and several soldiers wounded. This fancied victory has renewed the courage of our troops, and would, it was supposed, completely demoralize Captain Gen- eral Jack. But it seems that he has only moved bis headquarters to another strong position twenty miles from his original strong- hold, and that our boys, finding that they would probably get the worst of it in attacking him in hia new position, particularly as he was fortifying it and might have an Armstrong gun or two up in those oliffs, returned to camp. But Captain Jack will or ought to be astonished whon our mortar batteries are brought up and commence to shell him out. | However, a8 two days would be consumed in bringing up the mortars, our fellows may find “the house that Jack built’’ vacated on their return, and Jack himself ‘over the hills and far away’’ or working in the rear on our provision trains. ; Meantime we are rejoiced to hear that our troops at last advices were about to desert their old camp on Tule Lake because it is un- healthy in Summer, and is already beginning to be infested with scorpions and rattlesnakes, enemies as treacherous as the Modocs. Scor- pions, rattlesnakes and Modocs are too much of a bad thing. But those boxes of fixed ammunition and those two tons of provisions captured from Captain Jack perp!ex us more than the scorpions or rattlesnakes. How and trom whom did he get those boxes and bags of supplies and all those horses? Did he find them in the fissures of those lava beds, or did they drop down from the clouds? Or did he capture them or borrow them here and there in the surrounding country and bring them to his camp by some underground railroad? Nobody can tell. General Davis and General Gillem ought to get up a committee of inves- tigation on the subject as soon as they cap- ture Captain Jack, if not sooner. Any how, it will be useless to try to starve out those Modoes so long as they can show a surplus of two tons of provisions for thirty men in mov- ing from one lava bed to another. We fall back upon our original proposition, that the case of Captain Jack calls for General Sheridan, ‘‘Little Phil’s’’ tactics are exactly adapted to meet this case, We are getting tired of these flaming reports of what our troops are preparing to do and with the small results from these grand undertakings when accomplished. We want a general against the Modocs whose first charge upon them will be kept up till they are all killed* or captured ; and as this is Sheridan’s method of fighting the redskins he is the man to settle with Cap- tain Jack, should General Davis fail within a reasonable time to report a decisive settle- ment with the wily savage and his desperate band of followers. A World of and Goodwill. The heading of this article indicates the humane but remote design with which a num- ber of learned legal and philanthropic gentle- men met last evening in this city. There are and have been many kindly souled beings in the world whose dream of a broad, passionless yet beautiful humanity has led them on to an expansion of the visionary idea into schemes of government for the world of that miraculously harmonious future. It has never been, and we sincerely hope never will be, the habit of cultivated minds to deal harsh- ly with these benevolent persons, When na- tions in good or evil cause have risen to buckle on their armor the dreamers after universal peace have been gently pushed aside, and with all its horrors war enacted as if they never had existed. When the days of peace return they are heard from once more, and while all the world sorrowfully admits the main truth of their argument each nation makes a reservation in its own favor. The difficulty which the Rev. Mr. Miles, of Boston, experienced among the government officials of Europe, the relation of which was the chief feature of his address before the meeting to which we have already alluded, was a gingerly shyness of touching the subject of uni- versal peace at all. Mr. Gladstone, for in- stance, is reported to have given the reverend gentleman assurance of his belief that the ob- ject was good and commendable. It would, however, work harm to the object the reverend gentleman and his learned and benevolent friends had in view if he (Gladstone) was known to be an active worker in the cause. It must come from the outside of all govern- ments, and this would hasten its favor with all the Powers. We may go alittle further than the English Premier went, and say that no government is likely to touch such a scheme, whether in the crude state or crystallized into clear words, if it consists of a pledge of the nations not to engage in war. While Mr. Gladstone was making known the very pro- found fact that his Ministry would do every- thing possible to avoid war Earl Granville was perhaps dictating his sharp and meaning note to Russia onthe Khivam question. The subject of that note isso curious a commen- tary on the stumbling block to dreamers of universal peace that its mention cannot be fairly complained of. The Geneva arbitration, with whatever suc- cess itcan claim in promoting the amity of nations, has stimulated the friends of peace- fulness to great exertions, and, so faras we can judge from the tenor of the addresses made and sympathizing letters read, the im- mediate object of the learned and benevolent gentlemen is to promote a meeting of distin- guished international lawyers in the Fall to formulate a series of rules, to be sub- mitted to the various governments after- wards, for the settlement of all future international disputes by arbitration instead of war. Weare glad that the gentlemen have come down somewhat from the airy level of the confirmed dreamers, and admit that for the present, at least, nations are not unlikely to have disputes. The rules which they may shape must have one value—namely, to indi- cate to nations more or less definitely the rational means by which war in certain cases can be avoided. It is, in this sense, a worthy movement, and we, hope that Wisdom herself may preside at thoir deliberations. But the proposition that war, under all cir- SHEET. $$$ cumstances, is iniquitoos will never be ac- | THE PRESIDENT IN NEW HAVEN, cepted until the world is so satisfied with its status quo that change would be criminal, That blissful time will not arrive until hu- manity is shorn of half the emotions that stir its soul just now. The pride of the conqueror, the bitterness of the vanquished, the over- bearing of the strong, the nervous resentment of the weaker, the avarice of power in the able and unscrupulous, the hatred of the oppression flowing from such a power and a hundred other highly human emotions must all be eradicated before the salutation of the angels is more than a figure of speech. Work in the Legislature. Our law-makers were hard at work yester- day. Evidently they intend to clear their desks for a final adjournment in the course of next week. Among a mass of other action the Senate passed the bill for payment of sala- ries in the Department of Buildings, and agreed to the Assembly amendments to the Commission of Charitable Corrections bill. Both houses passed resolutions for an investi- gation of Ezra Cornell's execution of his con- tract with the State in connection with the College land grant. The Senate passed the Brooklyn-New Lots Annexation bill, the Thir- teenth Regiment Armory bill, the bill defining murder and the District Court Amendment act. In the evening the constitutional amendments were agreed to by the Senate, except that relating to the Legislature, which was changed by making the present eight Judicial districts each a Senatorial district, giving to the New York district six Senators, to the Second dis- trict five and to the others four each, as pro- posed by the Commission, thus making the whole number thirty-five instead of thirty- two. The Assembly adopted a concurrent resolution to put over the constitutional amendments for a special session. This lies over, and will most likely be reversed. The appropriation of ninety-six thousand dollars for breech-loading rifles, for the National Guard was rejected in the Assembly, the balance of the conference report on the Supply bill being agreed to, It was rumored at the capital that Governor Dix is inclined to veto the Westchester Annexation bill, but it is to be hoped the assertion is without foundation. Tae Was i Sumatra—An InteRview with CxsarnE Moreno.—We publish to-day in an- other part of the paper an interesting account of the Dutch at Sumatra, the cause and nature of the war there with the natives, as well as of the character, habits, resources and views of the native Acheenese, as given in an interview with the former Prime Minister of the Sultan of Acheen, Celso Cesare Moreno. Mr. Moreno, who is an Italian, and formerly both an officerin the Italian navy and a member of the Italian Par- liament, was known among the Mohammedans of Sumatra as Mustapha Sahib, and was much honored by the Sultan and people of Acheen. He had been previously chief-of-staff to Nana Sahib in the war of that great Indian chief against England, and carries with him the scars of British sabres. He has a thorough knowledge of Asiatic countries, and, conse- quently, the information he givesabout Acheen and the war of the Dutch against the Achee- nese, will be read with interest. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant Governor Robinson is at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge P. Poullain, of Baltimore, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Commander C. V. Gridley, of the United States Navy, is at the Astor House. Commander George P. Ryan, of the United States Navy, is at the St. James Hotel. Senator A.G. Thurman, of Columbus, Ohio, has arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Senator Buckingham, of Connecticut, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant William Watts, of the United States Navy, is staying at the Sturtevant House. President Grant and General Babcock arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel from New Haven last even- ing. Governor Hartranft was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, returning to Harrisburg from the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at New Haven. The Governor of Tennessee has appointed Colonel John C. Burch, editor of the Nashville Union and American, Comptroller of the State Treasury, in place of W, W. Hobbs, resigned, The Duke of Nortelk, who is Premier Duke and hereditary Earl Marshal of England, a Roman Catholic, aged twenty-six, is to marry Mlle, Moatalembert, daughter of the illustrious Count. German papers announce the death of a well knows author, Wolfgang Menzel, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a professor at Heidelf berg and Stuttgart, and fought against Napoleon. Lakana, a member of the Japanese Embassy, is soon to espouse Mile. Hébert, the daughter of a wealthy coal merchant in Paris, and as a pYepara- tion for the event has already espoused Catho- licism. M. Ranic, who has been chosen to represent Lyons in the National Assembly, is one of the principal writers on M. Gambetta’s organ, La Re. publique Francaise, Though he was a member of the Commune, he is not classed as one of the most scarlet reds, The Viscomte de Thonais is to marry, in Parts, @young Chinese lady, the adopted daughter of a French merchant of Canton, who has been edu- cated in Bordeaux. The young lady is a convert to Christianity, and when baptized added Marie to her previous name of In-Tse. Doctor Ziemialkowski, the newly appointed Polish Minister in the Austrian Cabinet, has seen great vicissitudes, having been in youth con- demned to death for high treason as one of the most active of the Polish patriots struggling to | establish the independence of his native land. Monsignor Mermillod, the Archbishop recently expelled from Switzerland, has settled at Ferney, France, in the former residence of Mme. Denis, the celebrated niece of Voltaire. He is said to have written to the Pope this comment on his late and | present places of labor :—“Your Holiness sent me to Calvin; Calvin sent me to Voltaire; I hope to inter them both.’ The Royal Humane Society's medai of England has been conferred upon Alfred Freeman, a seaman on board the war ship Iron Duke, for an act of gal- lantry in saving the life of a shipmate at Amoy, China, in April last year. Admiral Shadwell, R. N., commanding in the waters of China, handed him the medal in presence of the crew, and expressed the pleasure it gave him to do so, WEATHER REPORT. —_— WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 16—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the Middle States and lower lakes north- westerly and northeasterly winds, rising barome- ter, low temperature and partly cloudy and clear weather; for New Engiand and Canada northerly winds, generally clear, cool weather and rising ba- rometer; for Tennessee, the Gulf and South Atlantic States rising barometer, northwesterly winds, clear and clearing weather; for the Upper Lakes and Northwest and thence to Missouri and the Ohio valley northerly winds, lower temperature, partly cloudy and clear weather. Reports are missing from the Southweat and Weal Of (he Migsisaloal Biver. | man, takes a leadin, A Day of Festivity—Honors te the Hero of Winchester=Reception by General Sherman—Seronaders and Pickpockets, New Haven, Conn,, May 15, 1873, To-day the people of this city have made a holi- day and devoted themselves enthusiastically to the service of doing honor to their Chief Magia- trate, Prestdent Grant, and the distinguished generals of the army who are tn hia company. The banks, public oMces, stores and schools, have been closed, and almost the entire populace, enticed by the beautiful weather and the array of notables, have thronged the streets, reinforced with thou- nds of people from the country side. Weanesday’s proceedings closed with a banquet given by the ctty to the Society of the Army of the Potomac, which was not concluded until this morning. In attendance were President Grant, Vice President Wilson, General McDowell, who presided; General Sherman, (General Sheridan, General Hancock, General Franklin, General Deven, General Gibbon, General Haw- ley, General Robinson, and Governor Ingersoll; Governor Converse, Governor Hartranft and ex- Governor Jewell; Senator Buckingham and Preal- dent Porter, of Yale, In response to toasts speeches were made by General Sherman, Vice President Wilson, Governor Ingersoll, General Sheridan, General Hawley, General Deven and Pro- fessor Porter, RECKRPTION BY GENERAL SHERMAN, Between eleven and twelve o'clock this fore- noon General Sherman held a reception at the resi- dence of ex-Lieutenant Governor Winchester, which ‘was numerously attended by leading citizens. THE REVIRW. At one o'clock the Second iment. N. G., assembied in the public square with the Governor's horse and foot guards, and the New Haven and Bridgeport posts of the Grand Army, The column, after forming, proceeded to the residence of Henry Farnam, and there received President Grant, Vice President Wilson, Generals Sherman, Sheridan, McDowell, Governors Ingersoll, Hart- rant and Converse, and Mayor Lewis, in carriages, and escorted them through the central portion of the city. Througttnt the line of march fags and decorations greeted tne eye in profusion, and ali the walks, doorways and win- dows were crowded by the peoyie, who expressed their welcome in a hearty manner. On reaching the public square the President and party were escorted to seats on a large stand erected for the occasion, and immediately General Craufurd re- viewed the Second regiment. At the concitision of the review the President leit the stand, the rest of the party remaining and witnessing the dreas parade of the regiment. When this was over the GREAT THRONG OF PEOPLE Tushed about the stand and lustily cheered the party. General Sheridan was the recipient of much attention, and was wildly cheered. Fully 10,000 people were present. This closed the pro- ceedings of the day. SERENADE TO SHERIDAN. In the evening the American band, of Providence, serenaded General Sheridan at the New Haven House, and he appeared in response and was way, greeted, by a large crowd. At Music Hall, in the evening, a ball took place under the auspices of the Admiral Foote post, An immense crowd was present, the galleries and floor being crowded. The decorations were profuse, the national colors being displayed every- where, and either side of the hall hung with ban- ners representing the embiems of allnations. The battle flags of Connecticut regiments were suspended from the centre of the®hall, while the escutcheons of the several States were arranged on the walls, The stage presented a marvel ot beauty with its hundreds of gas jets and many-colored flowers prettily arranged. The insignia of the Grand Army of the Republic were surmeunted by an oil painting ot Commodore Foote. The entrance of General Sherman at ten o'clock and of General Sheridan soon after was greeted with at ap- plause. In a square dance was noticed the following distinguisned gentlemen:—Generat Sherman, Governor Jewell, General Devins and General Joe Hawley. General Sherman and lady took the head and Governor Jewell and lady the foot, while General Devins and Hawley, with their ladies, were arranged on the sides, The first dance participated in by General Shert- dan was & galop, _with Miss _ Ingersoll as his partmer. Vice President Wilson was on the floor between the dances conversing with a number of friends. The ladies generally wore very fine costumes, and many cities and towns were represented by the fair sex. The music, which was furnished by Gilmore’s Band, was excellent, and enieyed by the throngs in the galleries. This morning the DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT ofthe Grand Army held another meeting at the State House and disposed of miscellaneous busi- ness and elected olficers. General Deven was chosen president. President Grant left the city for Washington on the half-past tour train. ‘The otuer guests leave to-morrow. BAD FOR BUCKINGHAM. Pickpockets have been busy in the crowd to-day. Among the sufferers is Senator Buckingham, who had his pocket relieved of $150, MR. BELLEW’S FAREWELL READING. —+ At Steinway Hall, last evening, Mr. J. M. Bellew gave a farwell reading previous to his departure for Europe, The entertainment was gotten up under the auspices of the Dry Goods Clerks’ Early Clos ing and Benevolent Association, whose officers, Messrs. M. W. Murphy, L. Snyder, J. McGuire, W. McGrath and W. C. Lewis had charge of the hall arrangements, The assemblage was large, quite filling the hall. It was an appreciative and entha- siastic audience, Judge John R. Brady presided, and was received with marked good feeling, The programme was varied, according to Mrs. Bellew’s judicious plan, so as to bring out all his best points. A piece appropriate to the occasion opened the read- ing, being a scene from Morton’s sterling littie drama, ‘All that glitters is not gold,” the dialogue between Jasper and Stephea Plum, the Lancashire cotton spinners, Mr. Bellew calls it “Not ashamed of his trade.” The manly sentiment ef a pride in one’s sphere of labor was liberally applauded the audience. ‘Belshazzar’s Feast’? ‘was the next piece on the programme. It is not highly suited to platform reading; but Mr. Bellew declaimed the lines with what was, neeessarily, measured force. The Eatonswill Election Caplin from “Pickwick,” was a capital specimen of the reader’s powers of comic individualization. He stretches the delicious exaggerations of Dickens to their utmost breadth, without overstepping the possible in ludicrous humanity. The curse of the faithless daughter Goneril, from “King Lear’ was rendered with great tragic power and more vehemence and soul than we have ob- served hitherto in Mr. Bellew. It is dangerovs ground, but he passed safely over. Dickens? touching poem, ‘The Children,” and the humoroug vapidness of Major Namby closed the reading with an audience full of laughter and enthusiasm, At the close of the reading Judge Brady rose, and, after commenting warmly on the welcome which had been extended to Mr. Bellew in this country, said ke would like to ask that gentleman, ere bey left the United States, his opinion of our ople. mon. Bellew replied:—“I am extremely grateful for the reception | have had in this country. E have met so many Kindnesses, both in public and im private, that my voice shall never be heard on the other side of the Atlantic except in praise ofthe people of the United States. I take away with me, besides these pleasant recollections, @ token of good will and success in the substantial , bank account.” He then con- ere 18 8 Movement On foot im this city, in whi believe Judge Brady, our worthy Chair- part, to erect in Central Park @ statue of Daniel O'Connell, the great Irish Liberator. Feeling the admiration that 3 do for that grand mental and _ physical giant, whose services to humanity I cannot suiiciently extol, I now beg to announce whatlam prepared to do in aid of the endeavor to keep Daniel O'Connell's memory green in the hearts of the people of this city, who comprise so many of the countrymen of that magnificent ge- nius, I wish, and thtend, upon ‘my retarn to this city, in September, to give @ reading whose pecu- niary resuits shali be given in aid of the ‘O’Con- neil Statue Fund,’ without deduction of any ex- enses attendant upon the entertainment. ime thank you, and declare my hearty appreciation of your Kindness to me, and now I bid you fare- weil.” OBITUARY, Lieutenant Harris, United States Army. Lieutenant George Montgomery Harris, whose death is reported in despatches from the lava beds, was @ native of Philadelphia. He was porn in 1846 and entered the Military Academy in 1864, whence he graduated with honor in 1868 At the expiration of his three months’ leave of absence he was assigned to the Fourth artillery and ordered to Minnesota. During his five years of service he has been stationed in Minnesota, Texas, North Carolina and the Pacific eoast. Lieutenant Harris was a nephew of the late Bishop Mclivaine. He was a young man of unassuming character, warmly affectionate, of honorable impulses and ambitious to excel in his chosen profession. That he was & brave man was amply shown in the en- ment where he received his death wounds. is mother and brother are now with the remaina in the lava beds camp and wiil bring the body to Philadetphia at once. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS PORTALIS CHI0AGO, TIL, May 15, 1873, The wile of the Count Portulis, of the French Legation at Washington, a daughter of Bem Maili- day, died this afternoon in a palace car on the Bur- lington road, while returning froma visit to san oa Tug remaing will ve takea to New ae