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THE ERIE RAILWAY, ‘Herald Special Report from London. The New York Special Legislative Committee Report Re- ceived in England. Capitalist Distrost in American Investments Becoming Mitigated. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘The following special despatch to the ‘Hanarp has been received from our cor- respondent in the British metropolis: — Lonpon, May 19, 1873. A telegram from New York announcing the ‘report of the Special Committee of the Legis- lature on the Erie Railroad has been re- feived here, and causes wuch satisfaction. The nows tends to mitigate the extreme distrust which was created by recent legisla- tion in the United States bearing on American investments held in Europe. ~ O’EKELLY. Herald Special Report from Havana. Two Hours’ Exercise Daily Accorded by the Spanish Jailors., Conditions of the Rampart Walk--- Mr. 0’Kelly’s Health Failing. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Havana, May 19, 1873, Governor Burriel, of Santiago de Cuba, has granted the imprisoned Henaxp commissioner, Mr. James J. O'Kelly, two hours’ exercise daily on the ramparts of Fort Morro, wherein he is confined. THE CONDITIONS OF THE EXERCISE. "The exercise is taken under the charge of a military guard, and the Governor has given the prisoner the privilege of choosing morn- ing or evening for his circumscribed open-air promenade. THE CONFINEMENT TELLING. Mr, O'Kelly has been suffering lately from pains in the chest. FRANCE. ene The Constitutional Crisis at a Point of Issue in Parliament. President Thiers’ Policy To Be Debated—An Ex- citing Scene at Hand. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Paris, May 19, 1873. ‘The members of the National Assembly reassem- bled in session, at Versailles, during the afternoon to-day, fhe Right Centre presented an interpellation, esking fora thoroughly conservative Cabinet and @emanding explanations irom the government of the recent changes in the Ministry. The Assembly voted that debate on the interpel- lation be opened to-morrow. M. Dufaure, Minister of Justice, submitted con- Btitutional bills organizing the public powers and providing for the establishment of a second Cham- ber. Two test votes were taken during the sitting Which show that parties in the Chamber are evenly balanced. The conservatives are well disciplined, resolute and fully prepared jor the issue on Cabinet and constitutional questions. Amotion made by the extreme Left for the dis- golation of the Assembly was voted down by a Reavy majority and indefinitely postponed. ENGLAND. Bullion on Balance from the Bank—Condition of the Crops. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, May 19, 1873. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank of England on balance to-day was £28,000. AGRICULTURIST PROSPECTS. ‘The weather throughout Engiand to-day is fair, ‘but unfavorable to the growing crops. SPAIN. The Parliamentary and Cabinet Presidencies— Charges of Cruelties Against the Carlists— The American Naval Flag. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, MADRID, May 19, 1873, ‘Xt ts anticipated that Sefior Orense, chief of the federal republican party, will be President of the Constituent Cortes, and that Seflor Figueras will vemain President of the Ministry. BABBARO! ORUBLTIES CHARGED AGAINST THE se OARLISTS. It fs reported that the Carlists have in some cases not only shot soldiers who fell into their hands, but wantonly mutilated before killing them. THE UNITED STATES NAVAL FLAG. ‘The United States steamer Shenandoah has sailed from Port Mahon. CUBA. . Passengers Released from Quarantine and at fea for New York. TELEGRAM TO THE HEW YORK HERALD. Havana, May 18, 1873. ‘The authorities having given the passengers on the steamer Yazoo permission to leave on another vessel for New York, they sailed on the steamer of Saturday. The Yazoo remains in quarantine. RATE OF EXCHANGE AND SPECIE PAYMENT. Exchange firm, but not quotably higher. An export duty of five per cent has been imposed he papcnscl A NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Advices from Panama of the 9th of May report the United States steamer Portsmouth arrived at ‘Valparaiso on the 8d from Talcahuano, She was to leave for Honoiula disect. eer \ONBW YORK HERALD, TOKSDAY, MAY 20, 1873—THIPLE SHEET. BORDER BANDITTI. AOS TE ee gen Rep ei 3 Mexican Robbers vastating Texas. A GUERILLA WAR IN PROGRESS. Hundreds of Horses and Cattle Taken and Many Citizens Killed and Wounded. KICKAPO0S ON THE WARPATH. Rumored Capture of a Government Train Near Fort McKavett. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 19, 1873. Mexican robbers, Kickapoo and, Lipon Indians, are again on the warpath. Soon after the United States Commission left the lower frontier Mexican robbers again commenced depredations upon the defenceless citizens, robbing their ranches and driving off herds of horses and cattle. Several skirmishes have een had, and numbers have been killed and wounded on both sides, TWO HUNDRED HORSES CAPTURED. On the 8th of this month a band of eighty Kicka. poo and Lipon Indians made their appearance eighty miles northwest of San Antonio, and drove off over two hundred head of horses and some cattle. On the 10th instant, while several Tanoheros were before the United States Commis- sion, & courier came in the office and reported that A BAND OF KIOKAPOO INDIANS were sixteen miles from this city, herding stock and shooting down every one who interfered with them. Several of the above rancheros have re- turned since, and reported that nearly all of their stock is gone. it S€6ms that the Indians have taken advantage of the absence of the rahcheros, while before this Commission, to steal their stock. WAITING THE PLEASURE OF THE KICKAPOOS, id Schuardt, United States Commercial Agent at Piedras Negras, Jiexico, writes to the San An- tonio Express, that he cainot complete negotia- tions for the return of aatolen captive boy until his captor, a Kickapoo Indian, return’ nom a raid into Texas, A GOVERNMENT TRAIN SAID TO BE CAPTURED. There is a rumor on the street to-day that a gov- ernment train en route from Austin tu Fort Con- cho had been attacked this side of Fort McKavett and robbed, and seven Mexican teamsters mur- dered. GARRETT’S VICTORY. Tom Scott and the Pennsylvania Central Over- ridden in the Harrisburg Supreme Court— The Connellsville Struggle at an End. PirrssuRG, Pa., May 19, 1873, This afternoon the decrees of the Supreme Court at Harrisburg arrived here, granting the Connella- ville Railroad a preliminary injunction to restrain the Mount Pleasant and Broadford Company from further interfering with their rights and privileges. This is a great legal victory for Garrett's Corpora- tion, and isa strong evidence that the Pennsyl- yania Railroad does not exercise the same influ- ence over the Courts and Justices as it does over Legislatures. This decision gives evident satisfac- tion here, frem the fact that such a verdict was entirely unexpected; no one for a moment thought that the Connelisville Company would ever regain possession of this brauch, over which there was such @ desperate dispute and struggle. THE MAIN FACTS are well understood, Some six or elght weeks ago the directors o/ the Mount Pleasant Branch Railroad, which was being operated under a lease by the Pittsburg and Connelisville Railroad Company, de- cided that the terms of the lease had not been complied witn, and severed their connection with the Connellsville road by tearing up a portion of the branch near Broadford junction, and placing the road tn connection with the south- western branch of the Pennsylvanta Cen- tral. The President of the Connellsville com- pany some three weeks since ordered a force of men to Broadford to repair the damage and restore the connection with their line. In compliance with his instructions about thirty men commenced the work assigned them, but be- fore they had made any appreciable progress nearly two hundred employés of the Pennsylvania Ratiroad Company, in the interest of the Broadford branch, appeared on the scene and demanded that she work cease. Acting under explicit orders from he President of tie Connellsville Road the force withdrew on the arrival of the opposing parties. CAPIRAL, PR ened THE STATE emeaiad and Indians De- | Interesting Information Rela- fn tive to Gas. HINTS AS TO GAMBLIN The Proposed Arrangement as to the Congressional Districts. Latest About the East River Bridge. ALBANY, May 19, 1873, Last Friday, when I was endeavoring to get at all the facts relative to the job of the Gas bill, I was unable to find the House Journal of the 25th of April, the day the resolution was passed which snatched the bill trom the clutches of the Senate, for the reason that the printer had not yet completed it 1 was enabled, however, to ascertain beyond question by the record book of the Assembly and the journal of the Senate three things:—First, that the bill had passed the House; second, that, two days afterwards, Mr. Coggeshall, of Oneida, offered a resolution recalling the ill from the Senate for the purpose of amendment; third, that, in compliance with the resolution, the bill was promptly returned by the Senate even before it had time to reach the Committee on Trades and Manu‘actures, to which It was referred. Now, ow- ing to the Journal of the House of the 25th of April not being available, it became a question what had become of the bill when it got back again to the Assembly. I was informed on good authority that it was recommitted tothe Committee on Trades and Manulactures, but I have succeeded to-day in getting A LOOK AT THE JOURNAL ofthe 25th ult., and J find that, although this com- mittee did not get it, the lobbyists aid play their game so well that the bill was scalpea in a more scientific manner than any com- mittee could have scalped it The journal of the Assembly of the date I refer to shows that the bill was returned to the Assembly, That fs the simpie record. There is not a word on the lobbyists who are trying to prevent bill from ever becoming a law can be the more easily understood I will state that it is now too late to have the vote by which the bill was passed by the Assembly last month reconsidered, Had the motion to recall it from the Senate ‘for amendment” been made in good faith, either the member who made the motion or the introducer of the bill would have the day after it was re- ceivea, nad the vote reconsidered and the bill recommitted to the proper committee for amendmeit 28 proposed. But not a bit of it. The idea of the Woixersin the scheme td defeat the bill was simply to get it out of the hands ofthe Senate where it was certalii to pass, and let it re- main untouched in the Housé and thus be for- gotten altogether. It is now too late, 1t will be seen, to have the vote by which it sed the As- sembly reconsidered, and even if Mr. Smith, who introduced it or Mr. Coggeshall who had tt recalled from the Senate were anxious to have it amended in the House it cannot be done. The only alternative left, therefore, is to send the bill hack to the Sen- ate, where it will be certain to pass, or to leave it where it now is—to be found, alter the session is over, among the debris of “unfinished business” on the Clerk’s desk, Mr. Smith introduced the bill, and as it is A GOOD ONE 4 ifthe interests of the people he must make a mo- tion to have it sent back to the Senate or he will be left open to the suspicion that he has all along allowed himself to be manipulated by the lobby. There is no getting over this view of the case, If Mr. Smith should decline to make such @ motion Mr. Coggeshall, who introduced the resolu- tion which placed the bill in the queer position it new is should insist upon its being sent back to the Senate, If he offered the resolu- tion innocently, simply at the Fequast of some friend, without knowing what the lobby intended should be the result of his action, he owes it to his own reputation to clear his skirts of the suspicion that will attach to him of being connected with the lobby in the matter. He can easily do so by moving, in case Mr. Smith should not make the motion, that the bill be returned to the Senate. GAMBLING, It will be remembered that last month @ bill for the suppression of gambling was passed in the Senate. It came down to the Assembly and was referred to the Judiciary Committee, and this com- mittee referred the bill to sub-committee. Since that reference nothing further has been heard of the bill, and Mr. Vedder, the member of the sub-committee who is—to use a slang lobby | Neha Saderkben, on it, has not as yet seen fit to havo it reported, favorably or adversely. ‘Among other bills recalled by resolution in the Assembly this evening was THE WESTCHESTER ANNEXATION BILT, which is to be so amended that the people of the city and the towns concerned can vote on the ques . tion of annexation. There is A GOOD JOKE about the concurrent resolutions offered by Mr. Rose to adjourn sine die, passed by the Assembly on Friday. It appears that the resolution reads, “That this House adjourn,” inatead of this Legis- lature. So it amounts to nothing. When the Senate takes hold of it it will douptiess extract a ood deal of fun as well as fragrance out of the Branaer of the blooming Rose from St. Lawrence county, and then amend it so as it will really mean iness. The resolution will then have to go tothe House for concurrence, where it will be robbled up and the final adjournment be fixed, as. F°intimated on Friday that it would be, to take place on the 30th instant. THE LOCAL PROHIBITION BILL. The Governor has until to-morrow evening to sign the Local Prohibition bill. What his action will be is The Pennsylvania force, in order to render any future attempt to restore the track more difficult, SET FIKE TO TWO BRIDGES located between the point where the track was originally torn up and the main line of the Con- nelisville road. The Directors of the Pittsbur; and Connellsville Railroad, claiming that they hai been illegally deprived of their rights, applied to the Supreme Court for an injunction to restrain the Mount Pleasant and Broadford Company from any further interference. The case was argued belore the Supreme Court at Harrisburg, anda de- cision rendered granting the preliminary injunc- tion prayed for. GARRETT'S MEN AGAIN AT WORK. Early to-morrow morning a force of men under Superintendent Cohen, of the Connellsville road, ll proceed to Broadford to relay the switch and rebuild the bridges destroyed by menin the em- toy of the Pennsyivania Railroad Company. Mr. hen, in conversation to-night with your cor- respondent, said he had heard since hig arrival in the city that the opposition parties were not dis- posed to yletd very peacefully, but he could not credit the fact that they contemplated a resistance to an order of a Court, and so Jeared no trouble, He would proceed early to-morrow to Broadford and make the connection, aad wanid have en, sion of the Mount Pleasant and Broadiord Road before night. It is hardly possible that the Penn- sylvania Road will offer the least resistance, Hav- ing gained this important victory over his ald enemy, Tom Scott, Garrett is anxious for a renewal of hostilities. He seems to be prepared for the Pennsylvania Railroad in every turn they make to control business. COUNTER REDUCTIONS. Last week the Pennsylvania Railroad advanced the rate on coke coming from the Pittsburg, Wash- mm and Baltimore Rallroad to Pittsburg, via Brintons, and to retaliate for this advance the Pittsbui Washington and Baltimore Railroad have in reduced their Kast bound rates. Their rates East bound on special class are as follows:— To Baltimo 1éc. per 100 ponnds; Philadelphia, mc.; New ork, 27¢; Boston, 30c, If the Pennsylvania Meets this — reduc- tion it will be necessary for it to tend the same rates from its local stations to Philadelphia, as it is not allowed to charge More (rom focal stations than from Pittsburg. It is evident the Pittsburg, Washington and Bal- timore Railroad do not to be trified wit they have it in their power to reduce the rat whenever they are so osed. Pittsburg manu- facturers are jubilant over this wariare, as it en- ables them to dispose of large quantities of iron, ateel, glass, &c., Wiich otherwise would not have been sold, owing to the high tarif for Eastern freights. HISTORY OF ANZSTHETIOS. On Wednesday evening, May 21, at eight o'clock, a cories of interesting discourses “On the History and Chemistry of Ancsthetics” will be delivered in Stein- way Hall by Dr. J. Marion Sims and Professor R. Ogden still a mystery. The temperance people are not so hopeful as they were a few days ago. There are those who believe that the Governor will allow the bill to become @ law without signing it, but as he doesn’t as a rule do things by halves, this idea is scouted by his friends. Mr. Husted, from the Committee on CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT, reported the following bill:— Ax Act dividing the State into Congressional Districts. Section 1.—For the election of Representatives in the Congress of the United states this Btate shall be and is hereby divided into thirty-three districts, namely :— ent mrss counties of Suffolk, Queens and ichmo’ Second District—First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Elghth, Tenth, Tweilth and Twenty-second wards of the city of Brooklyn, Third Distriet—Third, Fourth, Seventh, Eleventh, Thir- teenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth wards of Brooklyn, and the Twenty-first ward of said co iG bounded by section 2 of chapter 814 of the Laws of 1! Fourth District—Ninth ward of Brocka: as bounded by section I, chapter 514, of the Laws of 1868; Fourteenth, fteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth wards of said city, and the towns of Flatt itlands, Graves- end, New Lots and New Utrecht, in the county of Kings. Fifth Dfstrict—First, Second, ird, Fourth, Fitth, Sixth, Bighth and Fourteenth wards of the city of New ork, "s Island, Ellis’ Island and rnor’s Sixth District—Seventh, Eleventh and Thirteenth wards of New York clty, Seventh District—Tenth and Seventeenth wards of New York city, Bight Distriet—Ninth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards, ortion ot the Eighteenth ward lying within an kA gee streets and Fourth and Sixth avenues, New Yor! Ninth District—80 much ¥ the Twentieth ward as lies within Twenty-sixth and Fortieth streets and Seventh \d_ Hudson River, and much of | the Twelfth Twenty-second wards as lies within Fortieth reet, Spuyten Duyvil Creek, Eighth avenue and Hudson ‘enth District—So much of the Eighteenth ward as is east of Fourth avenue, and so much of the Nineteenth enty-first wi ‘said eity as is east of Third av- enue and Blackwell's Island. Eleventh District—So much of the Twentieth ward as Oe aeren Twenty-sixth street, Fortieth street and Sixth and Seventh avenu nd so much of the Twelfth and ‘Twenty-sacond ward: is east of Eighth avenue; and 80 much of the Nineteenth and Twenty-first wards of said clty as es west of Third avenue; and Ward's and Ran- ali's ladands. ‘Twelfth District—County of Westchester, Thirteenth District—Putnam, Dutchess and Columbia. Fourteenth District—Rockland, Orange and Sullivan. Fifteenth District—Ulster, Greene Schoharie. Bixteenth District—County of Albany. Seventeenth District—Rensselaer and Washington. Eighteenth District—Warren, Essex and Clinton. Nineteenth District—st. Lawrence and Franklin. Twentleth District—Countios of Fulton, Hamilton, Montgomory, Saratoga and Schenectady. Twenty-first District—Delaware, Songs ned Chenango. Twenty-second District—Jefferson, wis and Her kimer. Tweuty-third District—Connty of Oneida. Twenty-fourth District—Madison and Oswago. Twenty-fith District—Onandaga and Ceurtland. Twenty-stxth District—Cayuga, Wayne and Seneca. Twenty-seventh District—Oniario, Livingston and Twenty-eighth District—Tioga, Tompkins, Broome and any page of any journal of the House since that | He ca led attention to the great importance of the day 0] anybody's “having ever made & motion relat- ee eas t should not be so summarily dis- ing to the bill, and it fea now just where it has Mr. dacobs eslatned FRE” RAL Jt as it camé lain ever since jt came down from, the | fromthe Senate tave to the stockholders control Senate—on the table, In order that those ot ef i ‘eat enterprise which was to cost from ten revent this Be reén millions of dollars, almost entirely of the ‘ MR. RNGLISH'S CASE. Mr. Herrick, from the majority of the Glovers Committee, "to Whiak —-~ xthnn-4 she Any Stephen wren er Sao EESEETU, 14 omen su! & report, hay ‘1 Cd Phas janthenae ber mperate a harsh oriticisms upon President Winston, there is peeve a is robes Se eee oe of ar improbable that woul award Winston di at all ‘commensurate with #8, fhormous amount which he claims to have ed; and that therefore the bail required of the petitioner Bogie is ex- cessive and oppressive, that his iprisonment is @ just cause of grievance and a proper subject for reitef. The committee conclude with recom- mending the passage of Mr. Crary’s bill, which provides that the maximum bail in a case of libel Shall be $2,000, and that it shall be put $5,000 where there are more than one suit brought by the same laintif. The report is signed b; hallen, N. A. report will be Messrs. Abbott, ‘English, lessrs. Herrick, ite and Townsend. The minority vesented to-morrow, signed by jlessing and Campbell. THR SUPPLY BILL will be reported by the Senate Finance Committee to-morrow, after the adaition of a quantity of new matter deemed worthy of insertion by the Sena- torial watchdog ofthe Treasury. The bill, as re- ported, will show a reduction of nearly if not quite @ million dollars on the Assembly aggregate. All the extra allowances have been stricken out and quite a large total in ancient and untenable claims, Senator Charles H. Adams, of the Albany dis- trict, has received his appointment as COMMISSIONER TO VIENNA, fo ue will leave for the great Exposition next THE THIRD SECTION OF THR LEGISLATIVE ARTICLE of the constitution, as amended by the Senate Com- mittee of the Whole, reads as foliows:— Sxo. 8.—The State is divided into eight Senate districts. The existing Judicial aisteicts are ‘constituted Senate dis: tricts, They are numbered from one to cight by the same numbers as are now given to the several Judicial districts. Territory annexed to the city ani county of New York from Westchester county, shall, upon such annexation, become part of the First district, An alteration iw any other regard of the existing Judl- cial districts shall work no change of the Senate districts horeby established. ‘The, First district shall choose six Senators; the Second’ district shall choose fivo; the other districts shall choose four Sena: tors. AS soon as the Senate shall meet ter the first election held in pursuance of this section, it shall cause the Senators tobe divided by lot into four classes numbered first, second, third, fourth ; in such manner that the first district shall have one Senator of the first class, two of the second class, one of the third class, two ‘of the fourth class. ‘The Second district shall have one Senator of each of the first seconil and third class, and two of the fourth class, ang each of the other districts shall have one Senator of cach class, The seats of Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the year; of the second class at the end of the second year; of the third class at the end of the third year; of the fourth class at the end of the fourth year, so’ that thore- aiter there shall be elected annually one Senator in each district. In tho First district one additional Senator every alternate year and in the Second district an addi- tional Scnator every tourth year, EAST RIVER BRIDGE, The sub-commitiee of the whole of the Assembly reported as proper to be ordered to a third read- ing the bill to amend the act authorizing the or- ganization of a company to build a bridge over the East River between New York and Brooklyn. Mr. Opdyke moved to disagree with the report and commit the bill to the committee of the whole. ople's nionéy, but he had secuyed.an amendment remedying this defect, and he be no delay in acting upon tt. Mr Opdyke withdrew his motion, it being under- stood that full opportunity for discussion would be given when the bill came up jor its final assage, and the bill was ordered to a third read- ing. : oie ts i oped there would AMENDMENTS TO THE BRIDGE BILL. The following are the amendments made to the New York and t ast River Bridge bill, They com- mence with section 5:— Sec. 5.—The New York Bridge Company may, and with the consent of any owner or owne7s of the stock hercin- after mentioned shall, acquire and pay for, out of any moneys of the trengry’ Of said company, all or any ot the shares of the capital stock of said company not now held by the city of New York or the city of Brooklyn, upon the pay- thent Oo” the owner or owners thereof of the several pay- ments made to the said company upon such shares, together with interest thereon froin the date of such payments, All such payment shall be made on the ‘ansfer of stich stock to said company, or as goon there- after as there may be sufficient funds in the treasury of said company. BEC. 68—W! lenever a majority of the stock owned by private stock holders shall be acquired by said company Under the provisions of the preceding section, and on the first Monday of June in each year thereafter, the Mayor of the city of Brooklyn shall appoint ten suitable persons, and the Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Board of Aldermen ‘of the city ot w York shall constitute the board of directors of sald New York Bridge Company, and shall hold their offices One year, or until their successors shall be appointed. The board of directors first appointed under the pro- visions of this section shall hold their offices until the first Monday of Jane next succeeding their appointment, or until their fuccessors shall be appointed, Such ap- pointments shall be made in writing and filed respectively with the clerks of the Common Councils of said cities on or before the first Monday in June of each year, as aforesaid. All vacancios occurring In anid boards from death, resignation or — otherwise among the directors appointed to represent the clty of Brooklyn shall be filled by the Mayor of said city, and all vacancies occurring among the directors ap- jointed to represent the city of New York shall be filled by the she ‘or. of said city, as hereinbefore rovided, and the Mayor of the city of New York shall appoint five suitable | persons, who shall act with the Commissioner of the Sinking Fund of the city of Brooklyn upon the organization of the Bonrd | of Directors, appointed by the “Mayors of $ 5, said cities as aforesaid, It shall be the duty of their — predecessors in office immedi- ately to deliver to said board all moneys and property of every description betonging to said company, together with all books, accounts, contracts, maps, pling, drawings, extimates and vouchers in. their posse’sion relating to said New York Bridge Company or tothe business thereof. ‘Sec, 2—The cities of New York and Brooklyn are di- rected to complete and fulfil the subscriptions heretofore made by said cities to the capital stock of sald company, and for such purpose the Mayor and Comptroller of said cities respectively are directed to cause to be paid to said company all instalments of such subscriptions as the same may be demanded by the Board of Directors of said company, T MATTERS. Academy of Design— Distribution of Prizes This Evening. For nearly one week the Department of Schools at the National Academy of Design has been repre- sented by @ large number of crayon drawings by the students, Elaborations from the antique school have occupied the parlors and library room in the eastern wing of the building, and those from the itfe school the small lecture room in the west- ern wing. Tne drawings from the antique are nearly seventy in number, a large propor- tion being by ladies, There are about as many specimens of the life school, but in these the contributions by female hands are much smaller in number, comprising scarcely more than one tenth of the whole. The distribution of prizes will take place this evening, the apportion- ment and accompanying remarks being made by Mr. William Page, whose felicity on these occasions is proverbial, and whose term of office not expir- ing until next August, imposes upon him this genial and pleasant task. Many of these drawings, both from the Ile and the antique school, evi- dence the healthy art magnetism exercised by Professor Wilmarth, the Superintendent of Schools, over his pupils. The informal exhibition that has been given is scarcely the occasion for makin; keen criticism public, Among the strongest an: vleverest workmanship by feminine hands ought to be mentioned “The Fates,” by Miss aise Glen, in which the wer, the repose, the majestic simplicity of the model are ex- ressed with happler and more self-possessed ancune SRS S| WA SHING TON. l we Bete eae “ Colonel Wiitiamson, Late C. x Ay Appointed Minister to Central America. Judge Pierrepont Declines St. Petersburg. Sound Reasons for Delaying the Depart- ure of the Juniata. WASHINGTON, May 19, 1873, An Ex-Confederate Colonel Appointed Minister to the South American Re- publics. The President on Saturday appointed Colonel George Williamson, a native of South Carolina, but for many years a resident of Louisiana, to be Min- ister Resident to the Central American States, and his commission was made out to-day and for- warded to him at New Orleans. This mission is composed of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua, and the appointment is made in conformity with the act of Congress of May 22, 1872, which provides that from and after the 30th of June of this year there shall be but one Minister Resident accredited to thoseplaces, to re- side at some place therein to be selected by the President, Heretofore there have been Ministers Resident at these places as follows:—Silas A. Hudson, at Guatemala; Jacob B. Blair, at Costa Rica; Henry Baxter, at Honduras; Thomas Dibble, at Salvador, and Charles N. Riotte, at Nicaragua, each of whom received an annual salary of $7,500. ‘Iho Dew Minister to the consolidated States will re- ceive & compensation of $10,000, and tie old ones retire from ofice on June 30, thereby saving $27,500 annually on the diplomatic appropriation, Colonel Williamsen during the war was an ardent defender of the South, and commanded a regiment under General Kirby Smith in the trans-Mississipp! cam- paign. Since the war he has, like General Long- Street, not only “accepted the situation” in good faith, but has heartily supported the republican Party. The President takes great interest in fos- tering friendly relations between the United States and the Central American States, and his selection of Colonel Williamson was né@t only on account of his reported skill as a diplomatist, but be- cause he believes he would be instrumental in encouraging more intimate commercial re- lations, The State Department is equaly confident that he will so conduct afairsas to re- fect credit upon our country, Under instructions from the Secretary of State Colonel Williamson will first go to San José, the capital of Costa Rica; thence to Leon, Nicaragua; thence to San Salva- dor, the capital ot that confederation; to Camay- | agua, Honduras, and thence to Gaulemala, thus | maxing a tour of all the States, and will theti re- . port to the Secretary the city, in his opinion, most Suitable for the perinanent establishment of his mission. Colonel Williamson, whose appointment | ig endorsed by Senator West and all the Congress- | men elect from Louisiana, will leave for Washing- tonin @ few days to receive final instructions, He will thert proceed to New York, take the steam- er for Aspinwall, and enter upon the duties of his office without delay. Judge Edwards Pierrepont Declines the Russian Mission. Judge Edwards Pierrepont convinced the Presi- dent to-day that it would not be for his personal, Political or social interests to leave the United States and freeze his future prospects in St. Petersburg as Minister Plenipotentiary. He said he had too many railroad matters to look after, too many friendly cases to attend to, for the next two years, to make it desirable for him to reside 80 far from this country. It is also rumored that Senator Conkling desires to get Mr. Pierrepont out of the country, in order that he may have more con- trol over appointments in New York, and that Mr- Pierrepont is not willing on that account to re- move himself from his present fleld of political usefulness, A Railroad Dispute Decided. Attorney General Williams to-day gave his de cision as to the right of the Cairo ana Fulton Rail- road Company, running from St. Louts to Texas, to build a bridge across the Arkansas River at Little Rock. He decides that the company has the right to build the bridge under the original act of Con- gress donating lands to aidin the construction of the road and the acts of the Arkansas Legislature, if it shall not obstruct the navigation of the river; that the company is not bound to file plans and specifications with the Secretary of War, as is re- quired oy the Citizens’ Bridge Company, chartered py Congress in 1870, as the railroad company is building its bridge indepondetly of the Bridge Com- pany, and is not bound by the laws governing that corporation. Why the Juniata Is Not Allowed to Sail—The Navy Department and the New Cable Company. The Secretary of the Navy hag directed that™the Juniata, which was fitted up for deep sea sound- ings to assist in laying a cable from the Bermudas to the Atlantic coast, delay her departure for the present, The facts which led to this order of the Secretary's are as follows:—A telegraph company, claiming to be American in its origin, but really under the control of parties in Great Britain, had organized for the purpose of laying a cable from England via Azores via Bermudas to the Atlantic coast, To assist such an enterprise the Navy De- partment had the Juniata fitted up, and intended to lay out the soundings for the cable laying. General Myers, Chief of the Signal Bureau, laid before Secretary Robeson a proposition to the effect that if the enterprise was to be carried out through the assistance of the government, terms had better be entered into between the government and the company toward the establishment of fixed rates by which weather reports could be transmitted from the Bermudas to the Signal Service Bureau in the United States. The great value of such reports from the Bermu- das, where cyclones prevail to such an extent, to the shipping interests of the country, caused the Secretary of the Navy to readily acquiesce in the proposition of General Myers. Accordingly the desire of the Department in this respect was communicated to the agent of thecompany some uches that one pupil out of fifty applies. In re- producing the folds of the drapery Miss Glen has managed to express much that is essential in drapery, without resorting to any of those tricks of touch which sometimes far toward aegradi: what pretends to be a work of art to a level will legerdemain. Miss H. F. Parlin, too, has een very successiul with “Laocoon.” Her work is excellent, the dimcuities in the way of execution being per- fectly overcome by means apparently inadequate. Pratse also accrues to the efforts of Mrs. 8. N. Cagney Miss Jennie Brownscombe, Miss Kate Condie an Miss Ciara Keen. Mr. Charles Bragger’s ‘“Gladia- tor” and “Torso Belvidere’ emp! him as one of the more successfal students in the antique school. Mr. &. G. Ebert has a “Study of a Foot” and “Torso Belvidere,” each of which must held @ very prominent place in the estima- tion of such really capable judges a8 have visited the exhibition. The “Ulyssus”’ of Mr. Thomas W. Shietds has been much admired, and justly. It 18 one of the beat examples that have emanated this season from Mr. Wilmarth's antique class. Still, we allow for a difference of opinion in this re- spect, and do not presume to forecast the judgment which the distribution of prizes will make known to-night. In the life school no ladies, in our opinion, have succeeded in aoing anything very well worth mentioning. Among the sagen | specimens handed in some half dozen are real 7 excellent, Mr. R, A. Muller is notable for some strong bp and the same may be sald of Mr. A. E. Emsiie an Mr. Calvin M. Smith, The distribution will take piace this evening at eight o'clock, aud, probably, occupy an hour. Clinton Hall—Sale of Pictures To-Night. One of the last of the tmportant sales of the season, now tapering rapidly toward a close, will occur this evening and to-morrow night at Clinton Hall. The articles consist of the pictures which have been on view during the past week at Leavitt Art Gallery, and among tiem will be in- Schuyler. Doremus, respectively: Experiments Wustrative of the racucal’ application, of anmsthetics in surgery will Ro’ performed by. Professor Frank H. Haintiton, An address. will "also vered on the occasion by the Kev. Henry, Ward Beechor. i aoe ane ad with tbat of e numerous scholarly and promiy ent of the city, the exercises are to take place. Mr. harles inswuet and th tereat and itor will play appropriate organ airs, will be mady ue ‘OY unpreoodentod jai Twenty-ninth District—Chemung,, Steuben and Alle- ghany, Thirtieth riet—Monroe and. Orleans. con — ‘ Trane ‘Districy—Onaaiaaqua nna Vattaragns, On motion of Mr. Husted the bill was orgpred to be printed at once, amd made a special order for Wodnesday event Mon the notion of Mr. Jacobe ® resolution was cluded to-night some Wonderful fish, by Rolfe, and to-morrow night Troyon’s reaily great “Cattia.”” A Coat of Arms Worth Seeing: A very handsome coat of arms of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons is now to be seen at tho foundry at 209 Forsyth street, It ts @nely executed in bronze, and within a few daya will adora the front of the onic Hall at the northeast, corner Twenty-third street aud Sixth avenue, months ago, and after the Juniata was ready to start on her trip, but, strange to say, the agent bas not acceded to the most reasonable and just proposition, nor has he even condescended to reply to the communication. The Juniata still awaits orders from the Navy Department, but the Secretary states that he will not allow the naval service of the United States to assist the enterprises of private corporations, and im turn place the government at the mercy of tho exter- tionate demands of a telegraph monopoly. The Department !s well aware that this telegraph com- pany is cognizant of the immense value of: weather reports from the Bermudas to the commercial in- terests of the United States, and that the, company does not propose to bind itself by reasonable and stipulated terms for transmitting them, New Revenue Vessels Ordered. Bids were opened at the Treasury, Department to-day for the construction of one, two or three revenne vessels. The bidders were >The Atlantic Works, of Boston; Portland Machine Works,of Port- land, Me.; Chester Iron Works, of Chester, Pa.; BE. J. Fardy, of Baltimore; Malster & Donnoll, of Balti- more; William L. Lance, of Norfolk, and William Wright. Co., of New York, The award will be marie in a few days. The Compilation of the Internal Rev- enuc Laws, under the direction of the Secretary of the Trea. sury, by William H. Armstrong and Charies W. Ek aridge, of the Internal Revenue office, was to-day issued from the Government Printing Office. Frou’, this, book it appears that since the oxgani cerning 14° ten of the Internal Revenue Bureau, in 1842, to the 47. of {ast March, Congress has passed fifty-four law's con- ARKANSAS. Governor Baxter’s Opponents Apparently “Taking Water”’—The Supreme Court Fails to Order the Proposed Writ of Quo Warranto— The Republican Soreheads Non- i plussed—The “Ousting” Clique _in the Background. Lirrin Rock, May 19, 1873, The Supreme Qoivtt met this morning, a fal Bench being in attendaé, but nothing was aone in regard to the writ of qudwarranto spoken of in these despatches a few day days since. After con cluding some routine business tite Court was ad. journed until the 26th inst. The HERALD writer bad a conversatior shis even. ing with Mr. Joseph Brooks, one of the leading spirits inthe matter and defeated rival of Baxter for the gubernatorial honors. Mr. Brooks was ex tremely reticent upon the most important bearings of the affair, but he will in all probability declare his position within the next few days. It has transpired to-day that previous to the Capitol Guards being placed on duty at the State House a number of the State Light Guards entered the armory without permission and seized over fifty stand of arms, The arms recently called in from various parts of Arkansas have nearly filled the armory. Baxter’s enemies say they are determined to en. force whatever action the Supreme Court may on der, no matter what the results, This city is quiet to-night. Baxter still remains on the defensive, and it will probably be a desperate struggle if any attempt is made to oust him and place the Lieutenant Gover nor in possession of the office. Romoving the Arms to Again. Limtie Rocx, Ark., May 19—10 P. M. The arms are now being removed from the Adju tant General's office to the Armory, There are n¢ seatinels on duty to-night, A few guards will sleep in the State House. The excitement appears to be the Armory subsiding. NT An Insurrectionary Movement Has Ale ready commenced among the bloodthirsty housshol Rests, swnleh, can bo put down only by KNOWLES! IN- KO? DESTROYER, The Weekly Herald Contains all the news. Only $2 per year. The only Weekly Newspaper Published every Thursday morning. Contains the most reliatile reports of AGRICULTURD, ~ SPORTING, ARTS. ~~ Gosstr, ~PASHTON: 8, ~~ PHARKETS, “CATTLE, “Forsg, “FINANCIAL DRY Goons, RELIGIOUS, AlsoTHE BEST STORY PAPER. Liberal arrangemonts to clubs of ten or twenty or more subscribers Address NEW YORK HERALD, Rent Now York City. ——) A.—Citizens and Strengers Who Dertre an clegant Hat of superior quality should call a8 ESPENSCHEID'S, manufacturer, 115 Nassau street. 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