The New York Herald Newspaper, May 17, 1873, Page 6

| NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHKET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. ————__-—-———_ JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVUII "AMUSEMENTS THs AFTERNOON AND EVENING, FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 130 Broad- Divorce. Matinee at ls WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Four Knaves an Tuy ack. Afternoon and evening. > Vauiety Eyter- padway. TAINME } y. hetween Prince and NIP Magic Caanm, Matinee at2. uO Houston sts. JARDEN —ARUARL | 0 Union square, Matineo atlg. = near UNION SQUARE, TULATRE, Prov Fi Broadway Broadway, between Houston urry Duaery, Matince at 2, wen Matinee at | x CRisTO, ‘S THEATRE. Twenty-third street.corner Sixth wy Konsant, Matinee at 13g. He avenue, ERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Carrais Kyp—Graxp —CAnTOUCHR. EATRE COMIQUE, No. 5I¢ Broadway.—Drama, 4 sgur AND Oto, Matinee at 25. ve . GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and Sd avs.—OreRetta AND’ Commpy. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— MIts. F. B, CONWAY! tay HoNoHBACK—JENNY Linn. SSFINWAY TALL, Fourteenth — street.—Graxp Coxcrer, Matinee at 244. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Scwmer Nicuts’ CHRTS. Coy- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Varrery ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 24. BRYANT'S OPERA HO! 6ti AV. —NeGRo MinstE: Twenty-third st., corner Matinee at 2, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScreNce AND Aw’ TRIPLE SHEET, New York, Saturday, May 17, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day'’s Caahckitie of the Meralda. *A DAY OF RECKONING WITH MURDE JUSTICE MUST TRIUMPH! WA MALEFACTORS "—EDITORIAL SixtH Pace. UANGED FOR MURDER IN NEW YORK! JUSTICE Mi SS OUT TO MICHAEL NIXON SWIFT PUNISHMENT FOR THE SLAYING OF CHARLEY PHYFER! HISTORY OF THE CRIME! THE TERRIBLE ENDING OF THE TRAGEDY OF TWO LIVES—FourtH Pace. A MOST VILE MURDERER EXECUTED YESTER- DAY IN ILLINOIS! JOSEPH O'NEAL GIVEN SHORT SHRIFT FOR BRUTALLY STAMPING OUT THE LIFE OF HIRAM REXFORD, A RIVAL—FourtH PaGE. ANOTHER MURDERER EXECUTED! CALIFORNIA JUSTICE ADMINISTERED TO A WOMAN SLAYER! HIS WAISKERS AND HAIR IN THE GRASP OF THE DEAD! A MODERN SIREN! A RECKLESS ATTEMPT AT RE- LEASE BY HIS BROTHER! REAL OR SIMU- LATED INSANITY—Fovrtn Paces. CAPTAIN JACK ASSAULTED IN HIS NEW POSI- TION! A BATTLE IN PROGRESS! NO TIDINGS OF RESULTS—SkvENTH PaGE. ANOTHER POLITICAL WAR PROBABLE IN ARKANSAS! MILITIA GUARDING THE STATE HOUSE! GOVERNOR BAXTER RE- ORGANIZING THE MILITARY AND WILL FIGHT—SEVENTH PAGE. FALSIFYING THE RECORD! THE SPANISH- CUBAN DIARIO GIV A HISTORY, COL, ORED BY ITS OWN FANCIES, OF MR, O'KELLY’S MISSION! THE PRISONER HIMSELF GIVES A FEW OF THE VILLA- NOUS MISDEEDS OF HIS CAPTOR: BRU- TAL ORDER TO BAYONET HIM—Turrp PAGE. UNSURPASSABLE TAMENESS OF THE ANIMALS IN THE ALDERMANIC CHAMBER! THEY SWALLOW THE MAYOR’S APPOINTMENTS WITHOUT A GROWL! PEEPS THROUGH THE BARS—THE DUEL AT THE VIRGINIA CAPI- TAL—THIRD PAGE. LEGISLATIVE ADJOURNMENT NOT YET SET- TLED! GAS FOR THE METROPOLIS! THE CORNELL BREEZE! EIN LAGER—TentH PAGE. AN EXCELLENT CONTEST BETWEEN DALY AND DION FOR THE BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP! THE FORMER WINS—THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY—A RABBIS FAREWELL—Tarep Page. FINANCIAL CONSTERNATION IN VIENNA! ONE HUNDRED FAIL REPORTED FOR YESTERDAY! SUICIDE OF A WEALTHY BANKER’S SON—SEVENTH PaGe. GERMANY WAG A RUTAL WAR UPON THE CATHOLICS! CHURCH SOCIETIES AND CO; TS TO BE SUPPRESSED WI' SIX MONTHS—SEVENTH PA , DIVISION AND NTIFUL LACK OF ACTORY ACCOUNT | ENGLISH AND AM AN YACHTS AS SEEN BY BRITISH —THE GRAND Jt MEETING ON THE MONMOUTH © work OF THE LI! ATI —~ SCLE AND PRAYER—Firtu Pace Tur Question OF CHURCH AND StTaTE IN Germany is being agitated with deeper and a more earnest intensity daily. The resolution of the Prussian government to expel from the territory, within the space of six months, the members of ten of the chief monastic estab- lishments, without regard to nationality or title right of incorporation, will bring the matter to a crisis. In the meantime the Jesuits, with the heads of other Roman Cath- olic religious houses, have found new and un- expected allies in many of the leaders of the Protestant cause, as will be seen by our cable despatches and other news facts which are published elsewhere in the Henan, Our Impnocrio at Vienna.—We are gratified to learn, from a despatch of Mr. Secretary Fish on the subject, that Mr. Jackson $. Schultz, the new Chief Commissioner of the United States at the Vienna Exposition, is on the ground and has entered upon the important duties of his appointment. He will have a heavy task before him in undertaking at this late day to get into an attractive shape the | United States section of the great Fair; and yet, from his practical business qualifications | for this duty, we have hopes of his suocess We do not expect a great victory under the | circumstances ; but we have hopes that even on the far distant Danube the show of Ameri- can products of genius, taste, skill and in- | ilure, dustry will not be a complete | | | A Day of Reckoning with Murder- ers—Justice Must Triumph—A Warn- ing to Malefactors, Our columns to-day exhibit the death stories of three wilful murderers. The city of New York will be made aware of the strangulation of Michael Nixon, in the Tombs, for the murder of the unfortunate German, Phyfer. From Mount Carroll, Il, we learn that Joseph O'Neal was hanged yesterday for the murder, under extraordinarily brutal circum- stances, of Hiram Rexford. Our despatches from California tell us that the day before yes- terday Charles Mortimer parted from life by the rope at Sacramento for the killing of Mary Gibson Shaw. The day pre- vious, our San Francisco despatches tell us, John Devine died on the gallows for the murder of August Kamp. On Thursday, at Morristown, N. J., Luigi Lusignani, for the murder of his wife, ended his life on the scaffold. There have been many outcries in this city for justice upon murderers. Homicide after homicide was committed, and a feeling of doubt of law and distrust in American justice was engendored which filled all lovers of order with deep regret. It seemed as though the semi-gestated border civilization was about to be thrust back upon us, and that the knife in the hand and re- volver on the hip were the only prospect be- fore us. Amid allthis doubt and fear, when every day brought forth its murderer and its victim, the Henaup, penetrated with the threatening danger, rolled forth its te for justice upon all murderers, ric and poor, with ‘dinfluence’’ and without it. ‘There was a danger to our institutions which many ignored. ‘The reputable citizen can, under ordinary circumstances, take care of himself. He feels that he is safe; but the dread that many of those near and dear to him were menaced by a lawlessness which he could not control came to him in the days of rampant murder with a force that was agonizing. Then we clamored for justice. We invoked the people in the name of outraged order and invaded peace to assert the superiority of the pAceable over those who did not abide by law. Many of our brethren of the press followed in the same strain, and»we begin to see the day of the knife and the pistol meet its reward in the day of the -gallows. We knew that rely- ing upon the intelligence of the community, its instincts of self-preservation and its ad- vancement in the path of discretion, that we could afford to call upon it to sig- nalize its detestation of murder run riot without fearing that panic would take the place of sound judgment. We have not been mistgken. From many points we learn that wretches undoubtedly guilty of murder have, so far as their lives went, atoned for their, crimes. It may, perhaps, a century or two hence ap- pear curious to the historian that a leading journal of the United States of America should trouble itself about the carrying out of the law upon criminals. But, when he will be able to deduce from the firm-toned utterances of to-day the security which the honest citizen will then enjoy we may fairly claim that his comment will not be uncomplimentary. Upon the borders of our pushing civilization such a wretch as John O'Neal isa common product. Where life is held cheap it does not by any means follow that death is welcome. The telegraph brings the cases of O’Neal, Devine and Mortimer in juxtaposition with those of Lusignani | and Nixon; -and, for all the penitence or bra- vado, we see that the felon’s grave has its painful victory and that shameful death has its sting. It cannot be advanced as a reason- able proposition that the hanging of murder- ers is ‘played out’? as a corrective. The feeling that murder may be committed with impunity is one that would lay a large portion of the community un- der the heels of the worst elements of our cities. An opposite belief, with a few examples of unrelenting retaliation, such as | that visited upon Nixon yesterday, will tend to make honest men breathe more freely. There is one feature about executions which never fails to excite a sentiment of pity in the breast accessible thereto. Seldom in | the East a murderer dies upon the | gallows without some parting - from those who love him. When the details of these partings are written down, and the reader with tear-dimmed eyes pictures the agony on the side of him who turns to death | and the shame and agony of those who turn away from the condemned forever on this side of the grave, a pang of commiseration strikes gently upon the chords of our human nature. “It is horrible !’’ the daughter says, when she thinks for a painful moment of her good father in the murderer's place ; ‘‘It is awful!’ says the mother, as she grasps her darlings to her heart; ‘My God, how terrible!’ says the young wife, as the husband reads aloud. What is felt in the dim ranks of those whose | trade is crime we can only judge by resulis. ve know that when corruption | obtained in high places, when the ‘‘boss’’ of & primary was as guaranteed from doing any- thing that the law could recognize as wrong as the King according to English privilege, the criminal classes were not troubled with such painful reading. As a consequence crime flourished. The criminal classes, we are aware, make their heroes out of the men who ‘die game.’’ The bravado of the man about to be hanged for a crime from the contemplation of which mankind turns aghast is certainly pitiable material for heroism. When a man is exe- cuted with the faith in his heart that he dies because he has done a misunderstood duty to humanity, to religion or to country, there is some foundation for a feeling of admira- tion of him who faces death without flinching. In all other cases the bearing of the doomed is a matter purely dependent upon the animal organism, 80 far as it can be acted upon by the emotions. Those who, in the few moments that elapse between the standing of a criminal beneath the gallows beam and his being hurled into eternity, have watched the tace of the wretched being have generally the one story to tell. The same white face, the same wandering eyes; — Now bent on rowd, now turned to the sky, As if they w ing in doubt and fear ‘The path of the spirits’ unknown career, The eyes of the spectator grow misty with | the sight, and as he turns away he hears a crash. A struggling form, soon to become | limp and cold, is all that he sees when he glances gallowsward again. Such is the hero- ism of the scaffold. In face of the numerous executions we hay chronicled within the last two days we look tothe genoration of a wholesome fear in the most depraved classes, and a feeling of greater seourity in the millions of the good and true. Crime has had its day, and justice, with sternly drawn brows, now takes its place. The be- ings who have deluded themselves with the belief that the invented pleas of able lawyers will save them from doom, should they carry spleen into murder, have in to-day’s Heraup a significant rebuke and reminder, We have no hope that through the gallows and the rope the golden age of good- will can be inaugurated. It is fresh within the public mind that on the morning when Avery D. Putnam's murder was avenged bythe hanging of Foster, that the community was horrified by the finding of the corpse of Charles Goodrich in his house in Brooklyn. Murder had been done without doubt while the man in the Tombs was waiting in anguish of spirit for the morning that would dawn upon his death, The murder pointed tho fact that no punishment is a com- plete preventive of crime; but it left un- touched the influence which the hanging by the neck until he was dead of Foster has had upon the rowdies of New York. While the law stands as it does the gallows must groan with the weight of every murderer to whom guilt is brought home. The long score which crime has laid up in blood prints is not wiped out even in New York. The efficacy of justice is not in spasmodic efforts to assert itself, but in a persistency and a relentlessness which do not interfere with its discrimination. The acquittal of the unjustly accused is as much a duty as ever. The rejection of all false pleas, supported by willing perjury, is as great a duty. What we cry for is justice to the murdered, and that means justice upon the murderer. As the voice of society the press should pursue the enemies of society to the end. 'The Heraxp has done so, and while crime dares to lift its head we shall continue to perform the unpleasant but necessary task. A Complimentary Dinner to Our Min- ister in Mexico. Our latest Mexican despatches note the | tender of a complimentary banquet by Sefior Lerdo, the Mexican President, to Mr. Nelson andthe members of our legation prior to the departure of the Minister on his return home. This indication of the cordial rela- tions between the two great North American Republics is particularly cheering in reference to the adjustment of the pending claims of citizens of both along the border for spolia- tions by lawless plunderers. It also prom- ises well for the adoption by our South- ern neighbors of a policy which will tend to repress the abuse of the long Rio Grande frontier by making it a screen to shelter cattle thieves, who prey upon the herds of the Texan stock farmers, and a disposition to facilitate the exertions of our authorities in capturing and punishing those who may undertake to cross the river for pur- poses of robbery. Since the accession of Sefior Lerdo his just and liberal views, and his ad- | mirable administrative tact and wisdom, have done much to foster the hope that under his judicious lead our sister Republic is about entering upon an era of foreign and domestic peace, and the systematic development of | those wonderful resources which nature has so bountifully provided, and which, with a stable government, a virtuous, intelli- gent and enterprising population, would make one of the richest and hap- piest lands that the sun shines on. After the long reign of ignorance and misrule, | | a prey to pronunciamentos and petty military usurpers, it is time Mexico should rest from strife and enjoy the inestimable blessings with which she is endowed. When a comprehen- sive system of railways, radiating from the city of the Montezumas, shall bind all quar- ters of the nation by ties of easy communica- tion with each other, offering a short and at- tractive avenue of traffic between the Gulf and the Pacific and convenient routes for the exchange of products of her mines and trop- ical vegetation and our own grains and manu- factured articles, there will be produced, as by | magic, a condition of society throughout the Republic of the South which will shine brightly in contrast to that which has afflicted her during a long period of rapine, pov- | erty and oppression. Daylight seems dawn- ing with rich promise after the dreary night which has so long enshrouded the fair realm in which Spanish heroism planted European civilization and Catholic zeal preached peaceful Christianity to the | worshippers of the sun. It is to be hoped that our new Minister, now on his way to the Mexican capital, will succeed in continuing the most cordial relations between the two governments, and that the citizens of Mexico | and of our own country may soon, through the beneficent offices of an intimate and re- ciprocally profitable commerce, become closest friends—rivals in commercial and political greatness, each proud of a noble history, told in the language of Cervantes and of Shak- speare and vieing with each other in universal intelligence and virtue, unblemished liberty and perfect protection to the rights of all. Such is the bright promise which peace and a firm, free government in Mexico offers to republicanism in North America. Tae Lare Cumr Justice—Wao Is to | Take His Pracr?—Quite a number of highly respectable names have been mentioned in connection with the vacancy on the Supreme Court bench occasioned by the death of the late Chief Justice Chase. No doubt either one of the number would fill the position with ability and success. But there seems to be no necessity for any great hurry in making the appointment. The President has wisely de- termined to await the assembling of Congress, in order that whoever he nominates may re- | ceive the confirmation of the Senate before he takes his position on the Supreme bench. The friends of the several aspirants, therefore, may as well be patient. The nomination will be made by the President in good time, and there is every assurance he will select a good man. Tur Escarey or tar Porants, through the medium of the ice floe, will be brought to the United States at an early date. The United States steamer Frolic was despatched yester- | tended were from foreign countries. day to bring them on, France—The Ramored Com! the Bourbon Interests. It now begins to be more and more manifest that President Thiers, with all his great power, is likely to experience much trouble between now and September, when the Ger- mans, according to treaty arrangement, must finally leave the soil of France. Of late there has been much trouble in the Cabinet. The resignations of M. Goulard and M. Jules Si- mon most unmistakably reveal serious inter- nal dissension. Ono report has it that the legitimists and the Orleansts have made up their differences ; that they have resolved to overthrow President Thiers, and that they have sent a trusted commissioner to Vionna to obtain the consent of the Count do Chambord for the nomination of the Duc @’Aumale as President, in room of Thiers. A still later report, which will be found else- where in our columns this morning, has it that President Thiers has made up his mind to reconstruct his Cabinet on a purely repub- lican basis. We are not at all surprised by this intelli- gence. It has long been apparent that a con- flict between the Ministry and the Assembly was inevitable. The Assembly, as now consti- tuted, is strongly monarchical, Each fresh election is taking away a monarchist and add- ing a republican. The tide is against the monarchy and in favor of the Republic. Presi- dent Thiers recognizes facts and accepts their teaching, The monarchists in the Assembly see the facts, but refuse to profit by the les- sons of experience. Delay weakens the hopes of the monarchists, while it strengthens the cause of the Republic. President Thiers has confessed himself a monarchist at heart, but he has also said that the Republic exists and that nothing else is possible. This re- modelling of the Cabinet means that Thiers’ is resolved, so far as he has power, to give the Republic a fair chance. This reported union of the Bourbonists means that under the name and shadow of the Republic a vigorous at- tempt is about to be made to keep the door open for a restoration of the monarchy. It is well known that the Duc d'Aumale is willing to accept the position of President of the Republic. It is undeniable, however, that the Presidency of the Duc d’Aumale would be buta compromise in the interests of the monarchy. The Count de Paris, his nephew, is the heir ofall the Bourbons. After the death ot De Chambord he will be the head of the fam- ily. From the Duc d’Aumale as President to the Count de Paris as King would bea simple and easy transition. President Thiers has proved himself a great fighter on a grand scale. It remains to be seen how he will act in the premises. The Bonapartists are watch- ing the situation, and it would not be wonder- ful if they turned the scales in their own favor. tion of The Troubles at The old saying that troubles seldom come singly has been verified in the recent unfor- tunate events at Vienna. Scarcely had the grand Exhibition been opened with much splendor when a financial crisis came that shook values and credit throughout the Austrian Empire, and even beyond. Indeed, it appears by the latest news that the effect has been much more disastrous than people thought it would be. We learn by a cable telegram from London that a despatch trom Vienna says a hundred additional failures were announced on the Bourse on Thursday, yet no important bank had suspended. The failures, we presume, were principally among the stock operators, though probably in other branches of business as well. The protracted panic was so serious that few of the Viennese were seen within the Exhibition build- ing. The Viennese were occupied with more urgent matters than sight-see- ing. The panic had extended to the Bourse at Odessa and had paralyzed business in that city. In fact, nearly the whole Empire has felt the shock. Inflation and over specu- lation seem to have been the causes chiefly. At the same time we learn that a storm of ex- traordinary violence had burst over the city and damaged the Exhibition building, breaking the glass of the western front, so that torrents of rain fell upon a large quantity of goods. The grounds around the building are described as being a morass of mud. Then, the Exposition had not come up to the expecta- tion of the Viennese. The number of visitors was few, comparatively, for some days past and was decreasing. Most of those that at- people of Vienna do not appear to take a great | interest in the Exhibition, and they have spent perhaps, more money in preparing for it than | the event has justified. The prospect, how- ever, may improve when the goods are all in place and the Summer tourists wend their way to the Austrian capital. Oar Board of Health. In Professor Chandler, the well known Chemist to the old Sanitary Commission, Dr. Vanderpoel, the popular Port Health Officer, and Dr. Stephen Smith, the veteran Medical Officer of the old Health Department, we have three officers whose professional and personal reputation insures an intelligent performance | of the important duties entrusted to them. The fourth member of the Board, Mr. Henry | Smith, of the Police Board, has ample knowl- edge of the sanitary needs of the city, with the.requisite executive ability to use the ma- chinery of the Health Department efficiently. If the new Board has failed to receive full and proper authority for its operations under the new patchwork charter it is likely the blunder, like many others in that wonderful instru- ment, will be remedied by a supplementary law. Now’is the nick of time for the new sanitary authorities to enter upon the most urgently necessary work of put- ting the city into proper condition to resist the assaults upon the public health sure to be developed by the fast coming hot season. Not a day should be lost while the weather is still cool and the atmosphere whole- some. Every receptacle of filth and breed- ing place of disease should be at once vigi- lantly inspected and every nuisance abated. This is not an ornamental branch of the mu- nicipal machine. Citizens look to it for pro- tection against all diseases whose sources are found in impure air and other remediable con- ditions. Let us see what thorough hygiene can do towards making New York what her admirable situation indicates—the healthiest city on the globe. This, it is believed, is sure to result from a thorough exercise of their powers by the new Health Board. To secure The | | budget of news from the Far East: | Asiatic empires have been agitated extensively | and seriously just of late. The peoples of men who compose tho new Board, and the | the Congressional Vonacience Fund, his share ef city has great expectations from their good reputation. Let them set at work at once. The Richmond Tragedy—Duelling Must ’ Be Punished as Murder. The recent fatal duel at Richmond is the first case of duelling which has occurred in Virginia, at least the first case to which gon- eral attention was called, since the offence was made murder by act of the Legislature. It is, Consequently, ® case to be punished as mur- der, If the barbarous code is to be made disreputable it can only be done by the stern and ignominions punishment of those who re- sort to it. We hope that this young man McCarthy, if he lives to be tried, will meet tho just doom of the murderer, both as an ex- ample to others who would as ruthlessly sacri- fice human life and as @ punishment for the crime of which ho was guilty. In the history of duelling few encounters have occurred owing to some great and grievous wrong. Indeed, the code itself makes it impossible for men to fight where a real injury has been done. Gentlemen only fight with gentlemen, and, consequently, no gentleman can fight with a criminal. Duels, therefore, are usually based on trivial occur- rences, which would be regarded as ridiculous subjects of a quarrel had they not a tragic ending. The ‘present case is no ex- ception. Ther were some verses attributed to Mordscai which werd supposed by McCar- | thyto refer to a young lady in whom he had an interest. These led to the quarrel and the duel, Both the principals were wounded, Mordecai fatally. Tho killing was murder, and the murder was committed by the chal- lenging party, There are no excuses for the crime, no mitigating circumstances, so for as the facts have been developed, and no reason why the murderer should not be tried and executed for the crime of which he is guilty, The fact that duelling was once a favorite pastime with Southern gerftlemen makes the offence all the more heinous. The Legislature of Virginia had made this pastime murder, and these young men knew it. In fighting each other they disregarded the duties they owed to society, and deliberately violated both the divine and the human law. The survivor, and others through him, must be taught that duelling, like other kinds of murder, is igno- minfods M thé only way it is possible to teach this lesson—an ignominious death on the gallows. When we come to examine into the caused which lead to duels like this we are astonished at their feebleness. A barbarous practice is perpetuated as a sign of manliness and high worth. Eagerness to take offence and to fol- low up the quarrel with the deliberate spilling of human blood thus becomes a cardinal vir- tue. Perhaps the chief reason why Page McCarthy challenged and killed his adversary was because his father had tought and died in the same unholy way. The other man believed that to refuse would be cowardly and dishon- orable, and he was as eager for the duel as McCarthy. Had the fatality of the shooting been reversed—had McCarthy died instead of Mordecai—we should now call for the same direful punishment. Mordecai has already paid the penalty of his crime, and it only re- mains to make the offences of both ignomin- ious by the ignominious punishment of him who yet remains subject to the law. It McCarthy is brought to the gallows we shall hear no more of duelling, and the dishonor which is regarded as honorable will be swept away. The seconds, too, must meet the doom of the principal who survives. They were more than mere accessories to the murder; they were actual participants in the crime. All must be punished by the extreme penalty of the law, that this species of murder, the only one which society ever protected, may be regarded in its true aspects. Exciting News from C nd Japan. By mail to San Francisco and thence over- land by telegraph we have a brief but exciting The China and Japan have been visited almost simultaneously by fire, earthquake, rebellion, summary executions of traitors and the ques- tion of the Churches. A conflagration oc- eurred in Hong Kong on the 22d of March, the flames sweeping over a space of forty-two acres of tenements and other buildings and rendering five thousand persons houseless. A fire broke out in Osaka, Japan, on the 29th of March. It raged during an entire day and night. Many lives were lost. The same city had been shaken just previously by violent shocks of earthquake. A number of native Christians had been released from prison by the Japanese govern- ment. Some of the nativist provincials were deeply enraged at the Executive toleration of Christianity. They rebelled in reaction. Sharp fighting occurred, but the insurgents were vanquished and seven of them executed. A deputation from Corea has gone to Pekin to formally declare the vassalage of the territory to the Imperial Chinese government. The Grand Duke Alexis was still touring it in the principal cities of China, and projects for the further extension of telegraphic communica- Mark Twain is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Randolph, of New Jersey, is at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas M. Pomeroy, of Auburn, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Shah of Persia is to have a great féte at the Royal Albert Hall in London, President Theirs has years ago fought two duels, the most recent one being in 184s, President Grant and General Babcock went to Washington on the noon train yesterday. Hon. John W. Foster, United States Minister to ‘ived in New Orjeans on Thursday. Mme. Cora de Willorst is felicitated on a di- vorce from her husband by the London papers. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Frederick A, Sawyer has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. @Baron de Pomeliec, of France, yesterday re- turned from Washington to the New York Hotel. Mr. J. Rittig, the managing editor of the West liche Post, of St. Louis, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Henry Pittman, the English phonographer, is crusading against the “nasty habit of using to- baoeo."” General Garibaldi is stated to be alarmingly tl. Dr. Rivoli has gone from Rome to Caprera to ationd him, General Sherman made a short stay at the Astor House last evening while returning trom New Ha- ven to Washington. it is well worthy the endoavor of th gentle- } seyavor Casserly bas veld Into the Treasury, (gr the “back pay” robbery. The King and Queen of Denmark and thee daughter, the Princess Thyra, are to visit the Prince and Princess of Wales the latter part ef this month, George Russell, who saved the little boy Johnay: Hanley, the only child rescued from the wreck ef the Atlantic, has returned to nis home, in Eden- derry, Ireland, Dr. Munzinger, Professor in the University of Berne, & National Councilior of Switzeriand, and & staunch champion of the old Catholic cause, die@ on the 28th of April. Lieutenant General P, H. Sheridan is at the Oftm Avenue Hotel, on his return to his department from the Convention of the Grand Army of tho Republic in New Haven. Mr. Gladstone, the British Premier, has approved himself a sktlled vocalist by “raising the tune’ to sing @ Scotch Psalm at family worship in Invernay Castle, at the request of the Duke of Argyll. Rev. 0. L. Hutchings, Rev. W. R. Huntington an@ Mr. W. G. Brooks, the committce appointed ve notify Rev. Dr. Paddock of his election to the Episcopate ef Massachusetts, left Boston for that Purpose yesterday morning. The wife of Hans Coristian, the Esquimau guide of Captain Hall, who was among the persons from the Polans lately rescued from the ice-drift, has, since her return to civilization and good 1ood, eaten not wisely, but too much, and has been sent to the country to recover from her surfeit, A persistent beggar was lately arrested at the palace of the Princess d'Alembert, in Paris, and 1,535 francs were found on him. At his lodgings a fine suit of clothes was found, in which he used to array himself for evening promenade on the Boule- vards. He solaced Freuch self-esteem by declaring himself s German, M. de Villemessant, Director of the Paris Figaro, has retired from journaiism in disgust at the tri- uimph of the radicals. He feels that it is useless to bring out a journal of order, and says he desires “to witness, a8 a simple citizen, the triumphal re turn of the various murderers, robbers and incem. diaries.” He will return—we know he will, Mr. Jonn M. Bellew sails for Engiand on the Bae tavia to-day. Mr. Bellq4w takes with him the good wishes of the numerous personal friends he has made during his professional tour of our country, 48 well as those who have become acquainted with him through the medium of his readings only. He retiras to this Country in September, to full a lecturing engagement, William Stokes, late a ship boy on the British scientific exploring ship Challenger, who was killed by a falling block when off Porto Rico, was buried in the deepest grave on record. His body, wrapped ina shotted hammock, was dropped im water close upon four miles deep, wherein Mont- Blanc, standing upon another peak of equal height, would barely appear above the surface. THE DRUMMOND DISASTER. The Work of Subduing the Fire Nearly Accom- plished—Streams of Water Still Pouring Down the Shafte—Aid for the Widows and Orphans. 4 WESTVILLE, N. S., May 16, 1873. There ia very tittle change in the aspect of affairs here since yesterday. The work of filling the slopes has progressed steadily, and is now about accomplished, the only remaining opening being the pumping shaft, into which a good stream of water is still pouring, The shaft was sounded this morning, and the in- dications were that the water was rising rapidly. It is the intention to cover the shaft with timber and planking, on which earth and other material will be placed to exclude the air and still preserve the shaft, so that as soon as the fire is extinguished it may be utilized for the purpose of pumping out water from the mine. This morning there was scarcely any smoke coming from the shait, but the preseuce of black damp was very perceptible, a fact consid- ered by old miners to be very favorable, as it indicates that the fire is rapidly decreasing and all danger of more explosions is over. It is thought that after all the shafts are filled there will be a suMficient quantity of carbonic acid gas in the mine to effectually put out the fire. A better feeling of security prevails throughout the district as this assuring fact is made known. Deep stillness prevails in and around the neighoorhood. Nearly all the stores in Westville are still closed and very little business: is being done, The miners at the other works have not yet resumed work. Itis very doubtful if any- thing in the way of mining will be done before Monday. The President and Vice President of the com» pany were on the ground to-day, but nothing has yet transpired as to their intention with regard to future operations. There are no new names to be added to the death Toll. Sere Relicf for the Widows and Orphans. Hauirax, N. S., May 16, 1873. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce is to be held to-morrow to open a subscription for the widows and orphans by the late calamity at West- ville. WEATHER REPORT. rE Wak DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17—1 A. M. Probabilities. ; For the Middle States and lower lakes north- westerly to northeasterly wids, rising barometer, cool and generally clear weather; for Canada and New England northwesterly and northeasterly winds, cool and clear weather; for the South Atlantic and Gulf States northeast- erly and southeasteriy winds, rising tem- perature, clear weather in the former and falling barometer and partly cloudy weather in the latter; for the Northwest and upper lakes and thence southward to the Ohio and Lower Mi ssourr valleys northeasterly to southeasterly winds, clear and partly cloudy weatner; in the Mid-Mis- sissippi Valley and thence to Kansas southeast- erly winds, falling barometer, cloudy weather and rain. The Weather in this City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :-— 1872, 1873, 1872, 1873. & wo 3 1 6 ol 6 Averag ure Shacertage. +. 8% Average temperature for correspoding date Jast year.. kd 63: BRITISH EXPLORATION, Arrival of the Challenger at Halifax. The British steamer Challenger has arrived at , Halifax from her exploring expedition around the world, She crossed the Gulf Stream and ap- proached within a few miles ot Sandy Hook when she was obliged to put into the port mentioned. She willleave tor Bermuda on the 18th proxime and undertake @ furtner exploration of another section of the Gulf Stream, after which she wil proceed to the Azores. It is premature at this time to speak of the results already accomplished, put it is believed that when they are fully disclosed they will deeply interest the scientific world. Eye- less fish and curiosities in pisciculture of types never before dreamed of have been discovered, LOUISIANA HEROES. Arrival of General De Blane and Other Prisoners at New Oricans=Fiach Gives $2,000 Bail to Appear for Trial. NeW ORLEANS, La, May 16, 1873. Generals De Bianc, De Clorie< and others front St. Martinsville arrived hvre this evening in charge of a deputy marshal and* a squad of federal soldiers. They reached the rail- road ferry landing ity front of Jackson square about five o'clock, wad upon stepping from the boat were received ‘w:th tremendous cheers by 5,000 or 6,000 people, Wh, had assembled to welcome thems, ba were then ¢aken to the Custom House. j ‘The prisoneya gave ball ia $2,000 each for thet, appearance op Monday, | -* EEE