The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1873, Page 6

6 : ear ans Adit teas Slits SRA DARAMALRS eeecnh RENTON NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Wolume XXXVIII............ .No. 143 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw iv. hebweae: Prince and JHouston sts —Aznazr; on, Ti eMasicOusnm. UARE THEATRE, Union square, near irHoUT 4 Heakt, UNION Broadway.—' OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broatway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Hoxrty Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Sstreet.—Our Auxnican Cousin, ROOTH'S TREATRE, Twenty-third street.corner Sixth pvonue—Aur Ronsant NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ray. —MADBLEIN MOREL. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Lire in tue Streets— Wack Sugrrarp. , THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Diziz; on, uk Cooney Brorurr. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth by aMowrs Cristo, WoOoD's MUSEUM, Broaiway, corner Thirtieth st— Mavurs. Afternoon and evening, ATHENEUM, 535 Broadway. ay.—Gnaxp Vanisry Exter- Wravmant, MRS. F. B. camer. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Ss Poxvox Assomaxce—Pen: ' CENTRAL PARK GARD) ‘crurs. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 88th st., between Lex- ton and 3d avs.—Orgretta anv Ligut Comkpy. juuen Nicuts’ Cow- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘anipty ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HO {Sth av.—Necro Mainstreet: ‘wenty-third st., corner THIRTY-FOURTH STREET THEATRE, Mth st., near av.—N eGo MinsTRELSsY. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Brondway.— wee AND ART. “TRIPLE SHEET. Friday, May 23, 1873. New York, —— THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ?7To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE LOUISIANA DIFFICULTY! THE PRESI- DENT’S PROCLAMATION! KELLOGG SUS- TAINED’—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— Srxra PacE. PRESIDENT GRANT SUSTAINS THE KELLOGG GOVERNMENT IN LOUISIANA! HIS PROO- LAMATION OF WARNING TO THE “RE- SISTERS!” WHAT CAUSED THIS ACTION! FEARS OF THE KELLOGGITES—Tuorp Page. RIAL BY SPANISH LAW! THE CASES OF MESSRS. PRICE AND O'KELLY! NO ONE ALLOWED TO SEE THE FORMER! THE AMERICAN CONSUL DENIED INGRESS! A CUBAN COURT MARTIAL FOR MR. O0’KEL- LY—SEVENTH PagE. DNNED STATES TROOPS PURSUE MEXICAN AND INDIAN ROBBERS INTO MEXICO! A SHARP ACTION, AFTER A FORCED MARCH OF EIGHTY MILES! NINETEEN OF THE SAVAGES KILLED! THE MEXICANS OPEN FIRE UPON THE AMERICANS! A WAR LOOMING UP—TuHIRD Pags. UNTENSE AGITATION IN FRANCE OVER THE COMING DEBATE IN THE ASSEMBLY! PEACE PRECAUTIONS! RUMORED PLOT TO KILL M. THIERS—SEVENTH Page. YHE CARLIST ATROCITIES UPON THEIR PRIS- ONERS! POPULAR EXCITEMENT AND A DE- MAND FOR RETALIATION—SEVENTH PaGE. DESTRUCTION OF THE PALACE OF THE MIKADO OF JAPAN—IMPORTANT CABLE AND GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PaGE. YHE PERSIAN RULER WARMLY GREETED IN RUSSIA—THE LONDON “LANCET” PRO- NOUNCES THE PAPAL MALABY WORSE THUAN REPORTED—SEvENTH PaGE, REBELLION AGAINST BRITISH RULE! FIERCE FIGHTING ON THE AFRICAN GOLD COAST! THREE THOUSAND KILLED! THE CAUSES AND PROBABLE RESULTS OF THE WAR WITH ASHANTEE—Fovrrn Pace, HE RICHMOND CLUB SCANDAL! MEN'S AND WOMEN’S TONGUES LASHING FIERY BLOOD TO DUEL TEMPERATURE! THE DETAILS! THE SECONDS ON TRIAL- Firta Page. ‘COMPETITION FUR A WEST POINT CADETSHIP! A FIRST WARDER CARRIES AWAY THE ROBERTS PRIZE! WITHDRAWING THE NOMINATION—NEWS FROM WASHING- TON—TENTH Pace, TAKING HUMAN LIFE BY WHOLESALE ! A TER- RIBLE SERIES OF CRIMES IN OHfiv! * — POISON THE DEADLY AGENT EMPLOYED ! DAMAGING EVIDENLE AGAinsi “rose ARRESTED—Nintu Pace. {MUNICIPAL PLACE HUNTERS SEEING THE MAYOR! SOME RESULTS AND RUMORS OF OTHERS! THE PARK COMMISSION AND THE POLICE JUSTICESHIPS—Firru PaGE. ‘THE WASHINGTON PARK SPRING MEETING! A GOOD TRACK AND FINE TROTTING! THE WINNERS—FirTH Pace. CATCHING SHAD! FACTS AND STATISTICS ABOUT THE HUDSON RIVER FISHERIES— EigutTa Pace. {INTERESTING CATHOLIC DEDICATION IN NEW JERSEY—ASCENSION DAY—Ninta Pace. {THE HOME AND FOREIGN MARKELS! WORK OF THE GOLD CLIQUE! SPECIE PAY- MENTS—THE JONES’ WOOD AND OTHER SALES OF REALTY—E1onrn Page, TRAIN STILL LIVES AND IS LIKELY TO GET LOOSE! INTERESTING LEGAL SUMMA- RIES—MURDERERS IN BELLEVUE—Fovurru Page. THE YALE BASE BALL NINE DEFEATED BY THE PRINCETONS AT NEW HAVEN—THE NEW DOCK BOARD—LABOR RIGHTS— OBITUARY—FirTH Pace. AIR-GUN ASSASSINS—DOHERTY'’S WIVES-— STATEN ISLAND STEALING—KICKED TO DEATH—Nintu Pace. Domes at Aupaxy.—The Assembly devoted ‘yesterday to considering the proposed amend- ments to the State constitution, agreeing in fhe main to the propositions of the Commis- sion, but rejecting the changes in election of Senators, In the Senate most of the day was spent in work upon the Appropriation bill. Reports were read relative to the work on the State Hospital at Poughkeepsie and the Re- formatory at Elmira, showing a reckless ex- \penditure of the bounty of the State, and the probability that under the present manage. ment immense sums beyond the original esti- mates would be roquired for their completion, ‘At the close of the evening session the Senate Shad progressed through about one-third of the bill. © stat Cini ‘Tam after Juno i, it is an. mounced, will be at its former rates of one ‘dollar per word to Greot Britain and ten dol- ars for ten words to France. Wo may hope, for the sake of the commercial interests of the avonly, to.n0e this xate aepsibly lowared ret. “ - NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 2%, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Presi- Suse whe Louisiana Dificulty—Tho dent's Proclamation—Kellogg tained. on In the President’s proclamation on sh Louisiana difficulty, which we publish this morning, all doubts are removed as to his position and his purposes on this vexed ques- tion. He sustains the Kellogg State govern- ment and commands “certain turbulent and disorderly persons’ who ‘‘have. combined to- gether in force with arms to resist the laws and constituted authorities of said State’ “to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within twenty days from this date, and hereafter submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of eaid State,” or, as he leaves it of very plainly to be inferred, the military forces of the United States will disperse them and put them down. In this proclamation the President’s consist- ency, at least, will not be questioned. Nor will it be doubted that to any extent that may be necessary to enforce the authority of the Kel- logg government he means to employ the army and the navy. But he assumes higher grounds for his consistency for his proclama- tion. He justifies it.as a constitutional duty from which there is no escape. He contends that ‘under a pretence that William P. Kellogg, the present Executive of Louisiana, and the officers associated with him in the State administration were not duly elected, certain turbulent and disorderly per- sons’ have combined in arms to resist said State officials, although duly certified by the proper local authorities, and judicially deter- mined by the inferior and Supreme Courts of said State as lawfully entitled to hold their re- spective offices. This ‘‘pretence,’’ we appre- hend, is entertained as an honest conviction by a majority of the citizens of Louisiana, who participated in their last November State election; but we shall return to this question presently. The President next justifies his proclamation upon the ground that ‘‘Congress, at its late session, upon a due consideration of the subject, tacitly recog- nized the said Exccutive (Kellogg) and his associates, then and now in office, by refusing to take any action with respect thereto; and upon ‘his plea our national Executive is strongly entrenched. Towards the close of the last session of the Forty- second Congress, which, by its constitutional limitation, ended on the 4th of March, the President transmitted several special messages to the two Houses, and among them were one urging a reconstruction of the organic Terri- torial law of Utah, in order to enable the United States officials in said Territory to enforce their authority, and one appealing for @ agttlement of the Louisiana difficulty. a this appeal the President had no special lino of action to suggest. Ho left the matter entirely to the discretion of the two Houses, notifying them at the same time, however, that in default of any legislative action on their part he should adhere to the Kellogg government. The two Houses were so embarrassed, be- fogged and demoralized by the pressure upon them of the Crédit Mobilier scandal, Sen- atorial election _briberies tions, the regular appropriation bills and various other things, all crowded upon the deck at the close of the session, that the Utah and Louisiana cases were neg- lected. In the Senate, however, by Mr. Mor- ton’s special ¢ committee on the Louisiana en- tanglement there was something approaching at least ‘‘a due consideration of the subject.” But what were the results? One member of the committee reported in favor of the Kellogg government as a choice between two evils; another member reported in favor of the McEnery government as entitled to recogni- tion; another reported in favor of a compro- mise between the contending parties, anda fourth member of the committee reported in favor of the rejection of both Kellogg and McEnery, and all concerned with them, and that a call be issued for a new election. Arguments wero made in support of each of these propositions, but the strongest argument of them all was that ex- posing Judge Durell and his judicial decision in favor of Kellogg as entitled to no respect whatever. Confused by these discordant counsels, and pressed for time in reference to what were considered more urgent matters, the Senate cast this Louisiana caso aside, Congress adjourned without action upon it, and thus it was left subject to the President's discretion, with the understanding that he should continue to support the Kellogg State government, The responsibility, then, for the continuance of the alarming disorders of Louisiana, with all their evil consequences, belongs to Con- gress and to the republican majority of the two houses, This republican majority lacked the moral courage required to meet this ques- tion fairly, and so they waived it and tacitly recognized the Kellogg government in leaving the whole burden upon the President’s shoul- ders, They could not, perhaps, conscien- tiously vote to sustain Kellogg, while they repudiated McEnery ; but still they lacked the courage to adopt even the alternative of providing for a new election, although they had thrown out the Presidential vote of Louisiana, as claimed by the Kellogg party and the McEnery party, from the same election as irregular and un- satisfactory. From this ruling the settlement of the State government controversy by a new election was the proper course, granting the sweeping powers over our State elections claimed by Congress under the fourteenth amendment, and especially over the local elections of the reconstructed Southern States, Here, however, we touch a vital question, upon which we may have yet many years of agitation before we reach a consistent and de- cisive solution. As this Louisiana difficulty is now presented the solution in the interval to the reassembling of Congress is inthe President's proclamation, The citizens of Louisiana, therefore, who be- lieve that the Kellogg State government is a fraud and usurpation, will do wisely by acting upon that wise old maxim that “what cannot be cured must be endured.”” They have, it seems, pledged themselves to offer no resistance to the authorities of the United States in this business; but it appears, on the othor hand, that in many cases they are committed to the ruinous expedient of Tefusing the payment of their taxes to the Kellogg government. In pursuing Ls course of folly the parties aggrieved will be worse off than ever. Of course {he supplies aro stopped the govornmeut and corrup- t cannot go on, except by loans or seizures or | as it advanced from the southwest, tore away, costly processes, which will eventually double the burdens of the taxpayers. For the time being Kellogg is defacto the Governor of Loui- isiana, and from the President's proclama- tion—that he intends, if necessary, to sustain Kellogg by tho military forces of the United States—there is no available appeal but one to the people in their next State election. Right or wrong in his recognition of the Kellogg government, the President has joined issue with its opponents in a form which cannot be resisted by them, particu- larly as a considerable portion of the citizens of Louisiana themselves believe Kellogg to be their rightful Governor, and that the Presi- dent is right in supporting him, As nothing, then, is to be gained to Louisiana or her people by any further resistance to Kel- logg and’ his associate State officials, the parties designated in the President's proclamation as “turbulent and disorderly persons," if there are any such still abroad, would do woll to retire from the field. The supporters of McEnery, who are interested in law and order and the restoration of their trade to its old activity and the gen- eral welfare of the State, will surely accept ‘the situation for the present, reserving their disappointments for settlement on another and more appropriate occasion. The country at large has had enough of these demoralizing political squabbles of Louisiana; and, as the roal issue, after all, is onlya question of party ascendency, the party for the time being ousted, according to the universal American usage, when there is no help for it, should submit to its defeat, and rely for its justification and the righting of its wrongs in another appeal to the sovereign people, Spain—The Progress tion. The situation in Spain does not improve as time advances. To-day the prospect is more hopeless than it was when Isabella fell. How many have been the changes, how large has been the promise, how small has been the fruit! Prim, Serrano, Sagasta, Zorrilla, the Savoyard King—all have come and gone; but what has Spain gained by these three years of revolution? Matters have not much im- proved. Under @sabella the Court was not so pure as it ought to have been; but order was maintained throughout the kingdom, and the country was moving on in @ reasonably pros- perous manner. Under Amadeus the factions were kept at bay, the insurrectionary attempts of Carlists and republicans were equally put down, 8 and the he Spanish People had 1 little | fur- ther cause of c complaint than ‘that the man who had been elected to rule over them was 4 foreigner. With the Spain of the hour laid open to us, all its sores and all its sorrows fully disclosed, we cannot wonder much that Amadeus, flinging away his sceptre and toss- ing aside his crown, retired from Spain in dis- gust. All the hopes which were formed of the Republio have been utterly disappointed. Its home and foreign policy have equally resulted in failure. Cuba has not been pacified, and Porto Rico has been more irritated than pleased with the attempts made at colonial reform. The state of things at home is worse than any pen has yet been able to describe. The finances are at the lowest possible ebb; so low that it is found impossible to put a suit- able army in the field against the insurgents. What is worse, the credit of the country is so broken that in none of the money markets of the world cana loan be raised. Meanwhile the Carlists are overrunning the entire North, and the possibility is gradually becoming a probability that Don Carlos, the represeita- tive of legitimacy and divine right, may yet sit on the throne of Charles the Fifth and Philip the Second. The elections so far have been in the interests of the federal republicans, A plébiscite for the election of the President of the Republic is spoken of; but a plébiscite, if it does not establish a despotism, may precipitate the ruin. Unhappy Spain! Out of this ordeal is she to come forth purified, like the pure gold from the furnace, or is she doomed to utter extinction as one of the great nations of the past? When she has understood that it is better to be good than great, and better to provide for the happiness of the many than the triumph of the few, she will not grope stumblingly in the dark, as at present. of the Revolu- The Late Solar Halo. The recent solar phenomenon reported to the Henatp from Patchogue, L. IL, and witnessed finch nearet, is Susceptible of clear explanation. Shortly before noon of Tuesday a dense circle was observed to surround the sun, within which the sun shone with intense and apparently concen- trated brightness, through an opaque sphere. This circle was said to have lasted about fif- teen minutes, and to have broken on its west- ern side, The celebrated philosopher Mariotte first suggested that these halos are due to the existence of minute prisms or crystals of ice ig the upper atmosphere, having refracting angles of sixty degrees and their axes turned in all directions so as to reflect and refract the light. These minute crystals, about ten times as light as water, float in the wavy, fine fila- ments of the thin cirrus clouds, which stretch, in our hemisphere, in horsetail form from southwest to northeast, and ride at great heights above the earth, where the tem- perature is low enough in the hottest weather to congeal their moisture, These storm-presaging clouds, when combined with the more moist sheet cloud, or patches of it, coming between the sun and earth, very fre- quently produce the solar halo. The cirrus cloud, which is usually supposed to move at an elevation of ten or fifteen thousand feet, is not connected with the surface current, but belongs to the great upper equatorial air cur- rent, When the sun is high up in the hea- vens, as it was when this last halo was seen, the interposing vapor is too thin to pro- duce any action on the solar rays, and hence the absence of prismatic color in this noon phenomenon, ‘The circle or sphere within the halo described by our correspond- ent as opaque is darker than the external space, for the very simple reason that the rays of solar light refracted by the ice crystals from within cannot be seen by the spectator. The reason the circle witnessed at Patchogue, after remaining for some time, broke on its western side, is already accounted for by the fact that the equatorial air current, in which floated the cirrus cloud with the ice prisms, to whose refracting power the halo was due, was at the time forcing its way northeastwardly in ite acoustomed (rack, and, first the crystals on the western side, and thus dispelled the meteor. An Army Incursion Into Mexico—Sharp Punishment of the Kickapoos—Bor- der War. The Heratp special despatches from’ San Antonio, Texas, give us intelligence of an affair which will doubtless bring our border relations with Mexico into prominence. The Kickapoo Indians have long pur- sued their savage career of murder and robbery along the Texan side of the Rio Grande, and have always hitherto found a perfect asylum in Mexico. The state of terror consequent on these savage visita- tions can only be faintly imagined here. The stock raisers’ cattle and horses are at their mercy, and tho lives and homes of the settlers exist only by special providence. Our duty to the daring pioncers who make their homes on the wild frontiers compel us to insist that adequate protection shall be extended to them. The Kickapoo Indians are not alone in this work. The Comanches, Lipans and Kiowas take a hand in the profitable employment when opportu- nity offers. Nor are the half-breed and white Mexicans of the border themselves loth to gratify their passion for other people's property when the way seems clear for escape. The Mexican government, whatever its inclination, has repeatedly proved itself incapable of re- straining its eow-stealing citizens from their raids into Texas, or of hunting down the savages who make Mexico their headquarters for planning depredations and disposing of their plunder, With this state of things premised we can well understand that the action of General McKenzie, as elsewhere set forth, will be cor- dially approved by the people of the United States. That it will receive the endorsement of the Executive of the United States we can as confidently believe. Theride of the four hun- dred troopers of Uncle Sam, who whipped the Kickapoos near the Santa Rosa mountains after an eighty-mile ride into Mexico will probably decide the question of policing the border pretty effectually. If the Mexican government protests it must at the same time admit its negligence or its inability to prevent the in- cursions of savages into our territory. If the feeling for war extends beyond the line of the Rio Grande Mexico will find that another humiliation is in store for it at the hands of the United States. The punishment of the Kickapoos is simply an act ¢ of police » justice, which 9 United States officer undertook, seeing the impossibility of obtaining t redress by a] lying t to the Mexican goverhinent. That som shots were fired at the troops while recrossing the Rio Grande with their prisoners must not be taken as the act of the Mexican government. The inhabitants of the Mexican border in that vicinity, citi- zens, alcaldes and all, are notoriously in league with the savage and civilized cattle thieves, Their appeals to national pride on the ground of violated territory are perfectly comprehen- sible. Excise officers nearer home have it in their experience that every inhabitant hurled a brickbat when certain low quarters were visited for the purpose of destroying an illicit rum still. If the national pride of Mexico inspires sensible action it will induce the gov- ernment to clean out the bands of pred- atory savages who make Mexico their nest, and maintain a force on the border com- petent to capture and willing to surrender the murderers and robbers who fly thither with their booty. Weare not sanguine that this will be the result; but we applaud the dash- ing manner in which General McKenzie has shown them how we can do it for them. The Negro Murder in the Eighth Ward. The case of the black man, Jackson, who is alleged to have murdered his white mistress, Caroline McDermott, and afterwards, at the instigation of his colored associates, attempted suicide, is one of the most extraordinary in our lately checkered annals of crime. The murder haz nothing but base passions, probably stimu- lated by bad liquor, behind it; but the attempt at suicide has many novel bearings. Men have frequently attempted or achieved self-destruction under the intense pressure of sudden remorse; but that the suicide should be sug- gested and urged by sympathizing friends-as a necessary means of avoiding further complica- tion in this world is remarkable, We may well believe that the bratal murderer did not relish the advice or he would have made a clean shave of his existence when he drew the razor across his windpipe. He, however, must have had considerable confidence in his advisors or he would never have atiempted it. The pschyological features of the deed are well worthy of study. If we mis- take not they will only make clear the arrant selfishness which lies so deep in bad humanity. The wretch with the blood of his mistress fresh upon his hands had all his ideas fixed upon escape—that is self-preservation. These ideas must have been confused or he never would have sought or suffered advice. His friends may have told him how unlikely it was that he could get clearly away. He would be caught and hanged; it was better to use the razor on himself. Selfishness is visible again in the fact that the suicide would save the advisers much prospective trouble and mental distress by being forced to testify against the murderer. The last suggestion must have touched Jackson deeply. No wonder his hand trembled. He failed and will probably be hanged. His want of success brings a curious phase of criminality before the public that his death would have hidden. To the students and admirers of ‘Euthanasia,’’ who at present are discussing in England the exact state at which a sick man_ should be invited to kill himself, or what amount of medical certification should * be legally sufficient to put the hopelessly incurable out of their misery, the case of Jackson will prove deeply interesting. We commend itto them. Meanwhile we observe another reason in the attempted suicide, namely, that the gallows is becoming a substantial terror with such degraded wretches as the black man Jackson and his friends. His Masesty tae Suan or Pensta arrived at St. Petersburg yesterday. He enjoyed a brilliant reception from the Russian Imperial The Imprisonment of Journalists by the Spaniards in Cuba. The average American who has grown up with ideas of freedom naturally regards with astonishment the arbitrary action of the Cuban authorities in successively flinging two writers for the New York Hxznatp into prison. A month's residence on the island would be sufficient to disabuse his mind of the first feeling of just indignation. It would be sup- Planted by a sentiment wherein pity would be the leading emotion. Liberty of the press is not merely repugnant-to the strong intolerance of the ruling classes, but is unknown to them. The masses have never tasted it, and its want is a sensation they must learn to measure by its use. The bitter recriminations which are now the principal feature of the Cuban newspapers remind one of the snapping at each other of animals in a barred cage instead of the con- test of intelligences under unembarrassed cir- cumstances. The censors prescribe the bounds in which the fight must be conducted, and, ongulis et ungulis, it may proceed so long asthe bars are around them. They never at- tempt to question the government on matters of abstract justice. To comment on the con- duct of the war, no matter how loyal the writer or how great the abuses attacked, would expose the writer to the fate of the Hzrap correspondent. The application of this in- quisitorial code to writers of foreign nation- ality who furnish information for the indo- pendent journals of foreign countries is some- thing which the Spanish authorities in Cuba hope to perpetrate. The imprisonment of Mr. Price is a proof that the Cuban authori- ties, in their short-sighted imbecility, imagine they can exclude the light by placing a man or two in prison, They shall be completely convinced of the futility of this conceit, Mr. Price has been absolutely cut off from communication by the Spanish authorities, Consul General Torbert telegraphs us that he (the representative of the United States) has been refused permission to see Mr. Price. The attitude of the American government will decide whether Captain General Pieltain and his subordinates will be allowed with impunity to imprison and incommunicate American citizens indefinitely without stated charges. There is a point at which all free govern- ments must act in self-defence or allow a last- ing stigma to attach totheirname. The petti- fogging of the Cuban authorities in the case of Mr. Price should bring that point to prompt issue, Tho rumors regarding the trial of Mr. O'Kelly in Havana we publish as forwarded to us. The disposition of that gentleman already announced from Madrid is probably an answer to the rumors. + 2E7 Ene GE ETT ek, The Polaris—The Heras anu the Navy Department, The graphic and detailed account of the expedition of Captain Hall in search of the open Polar Sea, and the unparalleled suffer- ings of the nineteen survivors of the ill-fated enterprise (for the rescued crew can be con- sidered in the light of survivors until We hear from the missing steamer), the of laxity of discipline, perversity and so forth Inid against the successor in command to Captain Hall, the romantic tale of human en- durance and almost superhuman fortitude for six months on a precarious ice floe, and the conflicting accounts of the failure of the expe- dition, which were presented to the public in the Herarp of Wednesday, have excited no small commotion among the officials of the Navy Department at Washington. Secretary Robeson is of the opinion that Captain Hall did not come to his death by improper means, and some of his subordinates think that a better selection might have been made for the command of such an expedition. As a fuithful chronicler of news the Hznatp has given the earliest reports of the expedition from the only sources attain- able for that purpose. Without expressing any opinion as to the validity of the charges urged by the rescued explorers, it awaits an opportunity for those still on the Polaris to give their version of the affair. When the Polaris is found there may be revelations that wil! place the history of the expedition in a different light. Meanwhile, in view of such a serious condition of affairs, the Navy Department should be prepared to institute a searching investigation into the conduct of every one connected with this ex- pedition, It should also, without delay, adopt our suggestion by sending the experi- enced Arctic explorer, Dr. Hayes, in search of the Polaris, in some vessel like the Tigress, fitted for the navigation of the tempestuous waters of the icy Pole. This is imperative on the Department, and should be done without delay. Great Britain as a Dealer In Slaves. In the early part of last November there was a meeting of philanthropists at the Mansion House, London, to discuss the duty of Chris- tian England in reference to East African slavery. Sir Bartle Frere had been commis- sioned by Her Majesty to conduct negotia- tions with the Sultan of Zanzibar and to in- stitute measures for the suppression of the infamous trade in human flesh which bas for centuries scourged Africa and preyed upon her population. Mr. Stanley, the Henanp commissioner—who, defying hardship, danger and all forms of discouragement, sought out and succored Dr. Livingstone after the fail- ure: of his British supplies - had left him ‘a ruckle of bones’? to perish by the side of the noble lacustrine river which his scientific zeal has given to modern geography, rediscovering the equa- torial Nile of Herodotus—was among the speakers. In the course of his remarks he advised Sir Bartle Frere “on his way to Zanzibar to call at Seyschelles and the Mauri- tius, and find out how England was impli- cated in the slave trade.”” Hoe said the British government ‘had been selling slaves and taking money for them. For every slave captured and released at Seyschelles, five, six or ten dollars were taken, and that because England had gone to the expense of five pounds a head for the capture.’ Ho termed this a compounding with villany, and urged England to have nothing to do with the ac- cursed thing if she would be called the champion of the slaves, Englishmen of high position in Church and State were surprised at Mr. Stanley's revelations, and some even attempted to break their force by oe facts. Subsequently the Colonial Minister, Court and people. His Highness travels in | the Earl of Kimberley, asked the Govornor at gorgeous style, with a numerous retinue, as | Seyschelles to report upon the matter. A will be geen elsewhere in tho Hanaup, reply from fir A HL Gordom ius mado public, though written with an evi- dent intention to evade the question, fully confirms the truth of Mr, Stan- ley’s assertion. The Governor « admits that slaves rescued by British cruisers from the small vessels employed to convey them to market, when brought to the island are hired out for a term of five years, the employers, upon the execution of the contract, paying the British government a fixed fee, which ‘‘is cal- culated simply to repay the expenses of main- tenance and introduction.’’ Mr. Stanley’s Precise language was, that the captives were “hired out, to repay by the wages of their labor the expenses of their introduction.” He considered them, under these conditions, actual slaves, and the British government as occupying an indefensible position when thus selling men into bondage and at the same time claiming to be their friend and protector. In spite of the protests of those who blamed Mr, Stanley for making these charges, the report of the Colonial Governor entirely sustains him. It will reflect additional credit upon the Henarp Livingstone expedition if the expo- sure of the gross wrongs at Syschelles by its leader shall induce their reformation, Anda foul wrong will stain the British name if the practice thus exposed is allowed to go on. The Constitutional Struggle in France. Paris and Versailles were in active prepara- tion, yesterday, during the night and until this morning, for the advent and management of the grand constitutional debate which is to come off in the National Assembly to-day. Political party caucus has used its most en- ergetic influences and most attractive argu- ments, with the view of securing powerful com- binations om the one side or the other. Pres- ident Thiers and his Cabinet colleagues and legislative supporters remain confident of vic- tory. The monarchist cohesion, on the other hand, becomes more complete and firm hourly, Seven hundred members will attend. The French public is already excited. President Thiers has taken occasion to have the military heldin readiness to preserve the public peace. The possession of executive authority, with ita exercise in this respect, will evidently afford a good deal of extraneous and, in France, not unusual strength to the party of the President. Meantime there is talk of the appearance of an individual spectre rouge, in the shapé of a madman, who has organized a conspiracy for the purpose of assassinating M. Thiers. The freak of tho lunatic, even, will tell in the Parliament, so that the voteran statesman who rules France may come oyt from the legislative test all right, th: to his friends and anxious to absvive even the crazy politician. Giese >| PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, ' ha eR Spee ‘ Secretary Robeson {3 at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Judge A. P. Loring, of Bostou, is in town, at te New York Hotel. Senator Eugene Casserly, of California, yester- day arrived at the Brevoort House. Major W. B. Slack, of the United States Marine Corps, is is at the Metropolitan Hotel. President A. D. White, of the Cornell University, at Syracuse, is staying at the Hoifman House. Colonel Samuel Tate, of Memphis, President of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. John Lynch, of New Orleans, a member of the State Board of Canvassers of Louisiana, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Alderman Newman, of Brooklyn, is about to enlarge his worldly experience by visiting Europe. He will sailon Saturday on the steamship Spain, and Will be absent from home about six months. His punning friends assure him that he wili come back a New-man. Eastern papers are in an estatic etate of punning over the case of the forger Coe. One says ‘Coe’ partnerships will not be so popular as heretofore; another regards as strange ‘“Coe’’-incidents the forgeries on State street, and all agree that crime is “Coe”-eval with the sad lapse of morality and probity at the “Hub,” It is regarded as a somewhat singular coincl- dence that Jefferson Levy, son of Commodore J, P. Levy, United States Navy, and one of the heirs of “Monticello,” Jefferson’s estate in Virginia, should have been admitted as an attorney-at-law in this city on the birthday of the Father of the Deciara- tion of Independence, May 19. A fine of $15 and two weeks’ imprisonment was the sentence lately passed by a London magistrate upon a wretch who pricked out the eyes of a chaf- finch to improve its song. He boasted of having treated forty birds in the same manner in one day. A little of the lash would have improved his song and probably made him “change his tune,” too, A Philadelphia gentleman, of known integrity, ‘was not very much pleased the other day when ha was informed by postal card that ‘unless that small bill for washing was settled Mrs. Mulloney would bring suit befere an alderman.” Another Philadelphian—a church deacon—received the fol- lowing :—‘Dear Gus, I willbe on at 6 P, M.; puta bottle of Reederer on ice.” The Boston Traveller insists that the Chief Justice of the United States should be quite ag much a statesman as a lawyer, and in support of its position instances the fact that the Supreme bench has been filled politically by such Justices, appointed by democratie Presidents, as Taney, Smith, Thompson, William Johnson, Livingston, Baldwin, Catron, Wayne, McKinley, Grier, Bar- bour, Daniel, Woodbury, Nelson, Clifford, Campbell, WAR-PAINTED SHOSHONES. Snakes and Shoshones in War Paint—A General Indian War Threatened— Idaho Settlers Warned to Take Care of Their Scalps. Virarxta City, Nev., May 22, 1873. A settier, who arrived at Eiko to-day from Spruce Mountain, Northern Nevada, reports that Indian affairs there are reaching a crisis, Twelve Snake warriors from Fort Hall, Idaho Reservation, arrived at Spruce Mountain a few days since and held acouncil with the Shoshones. Soon after the latter appeared painted and dressed in war fashion and commenced stealing lead frem the furnaces and buying ammunition. They have held war dances since and notified the citizens to leave or they will have their scalps. The Shoshones are familiar with the Modoc move- - ments. Great alarm prevails in camp, and many of the settlers are leaving. There is a strong im- pression here that a general Indian outbreak ia being planned. OHOLERA REPORTS CONTBADIOTED, CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 22, 1873, The steamer John Kilgour, the boat on which deaths from cholera were reported, arrived here to-day from New Orleans, Officers of the steamer have stated in interviews that, although three deaths occurred, none were from Asiatic cholera. John Schenck, who died between Vicksburg ana Memphis, bad been indisposed before getting on. board at New Orleans, and was imprudent in eat~: tne His illness terminated in cholera mor us. The second man who died had been’ tick in the hospital at Bayou Sara, and was coming North on account of his heaith, Tae deck hands ate frait and early vegetables freely, and towarda the end of the trip a number of them were attacked with diarrhoea and one died, OHIO LIBBRALS AWAKE, OoLvmevs, May 22, 1873. The Democratic and Liberal Republican Commit teo have decided to hold their State Convention in this city on the 6th of August nox,