The New York Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1873, Page 8

} Volume XXXVI... 8 NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY; MAY 25, 1873-QUADRUPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, AMUSEMENTS TO-MORROW EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humrry Dumpty. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Oun Auxrican Cousin, BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth @venue.—Amy Rossart NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- way.—Mapxuxin Monzi. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bamsoosuinc—Tux Bor Burcuar. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. “514 Broadway.—Tar Two Bozzanvs—Lirrix Jack Snurranp, &c. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Mowre Cristo. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broad: Cartain Jack. Afternoon at , corner Thirtieth st,— vening. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince Fouston sts.—Aznaxu; on, Tux MaGic Ouane, om UNION ARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.— _ , trout A Heart, ATHENEUM, 585"Broadway.—Granp Vanizry Erans ‘TALNMENT. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Divorce. i CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Svumurer Niaats’ Cox- cunts. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- and 3d avs.—Orgretra anv Ligut Couxpy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanuery ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner av.—NeGro Minstretsy, &c. NEW YORK ‘Actance ana MUSRUN OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— QUADRUPLE SHEET New York, Sunday, May 25, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. 'To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE €RENCH ORISIS! OF PRESIDENT THE RESIGNATION THIERS” — EDITORIAL LEADER—ErcurTa Pace. “ PRESIDENT THIERS DEFEATED IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY! WARM RECEPTION BY THE “LEFT!” A LEGISLATIVE VICTORY FOR THE OPPOSITION! RESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT! MACMAHON ACCEPTS THE EXECUTIVE! INTENSE AGITATION IN FRANCE—NINTH Pacs. INVASION AND COUNTER-INVASION! HOW Mc- KENZIE FOUGHT THE MEXICANS AND INDIANS ON THEIR OWN TERRITORY! A | DARING SOLDIER’S WARRANT FOR ACTION! OFFICIAL RETICENCE ON THE MATTER— Ninta Pacs. @ARLIST DENIALS OF THE BUTCHERY OF PRISONERS! THE REPUBLICAN LEVY EN MASSE! ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE DON ALFONSO—NinrH Pace. - & PAPAL ANATHEMA AGAINST THE ITALIAN CABINET AND LEGISLATORS—IMPORTANT CABLE AND GENERAL TELEGRAMS—NintTH Pace, TROUBLED ARKANSAS! ANOTHER FACTION COMBINING AGAINST GOVERNOR BAXTER! McCLURE’S DESPERATE ALTERNATIVE— NintTH PaGE. TOE SUFFERER AT THE VATICAN! IMPROVE- MENT IN THE POPE’S HEALTH! SUNNY ‘ WEATHER AND CATHOLIC GRATULATION! BENEFITS FROM A SANCTIFIED STOCKING! THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE POPE AND THE ITALIAN RULER—SEVENTH PaGE. OUR MUNICIPAL RULERS AND THEIR SAL- ARIES! THE TERMS OF OFFICE! THE MAYOR'S DUTIES—THE REFORMERS AND RAPID TRANSIT—FirTH PacE. GEORGE W. MATSELL! VIEWS OF THE NEW POLICE SUPERINTENDENT! VIGOROUS ACTION AGAINST THE “DANGEROUS CLASSES” GIVEN A PROMINENT PLACE ON THE PROGRAMME—FirTe Pace. DEPARTING FOR EUROPE! DELIGHTFUL AN- TICIPATIONS! THE ADVANTAGES OF THESE FASHIONABLE TOURS—THE TRAINS AND OTHER LITIGATIONS— TWELFTa PaGE. SPECIAL NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL CITIES OF THE STATE AND NATION—THE EXCISE BUREAU—Firrs Pace. THE INDIAN TROPBLES—NEWS FROM BRAZIL AND COLOMBIA—NInTH Pace. HELP FOR CUBA—INTERESTING BASE BALL CONTESTS—MARINE NEWS—TWELFTH PaGe. WHERE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES WILL BE DIS- PENSED TO-DAY! THE VIEWS OF CORRE- : SPONDENTS! THE STRANGE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON IN CALIFORNIA! THE ST. MALACHY PREDICTIONS! GENERAL RE- LIGIOUS GHEANINGS—S1x1u Page. EXIT ANNIVERSARIES! THE FADING GLORIES OF THE GREAT MAY GATHERINGS! THE REASONS! WHAT HAS BEOOME OF THE VARIOUS SOCIETIES ?—SIxTH PAGE. THE CARPENTERS’ EIGHT-HOUR DILEMMA— REAL ESTATE SALES AND RUMORS— ANOTHER QUEER VERDICT BY A CORO- NER’S JURY—SYNAGOGUE SERVICES— SeveNntH Par, BUSINESS IN THE FINANCIAL EXCHANGES! GOLD, STOCKS AND COTTON ! THE BANKS’ REPORT—SEVENTH PAGE, NEW YORK CITY ITEMS—Tentn Pas, ‘Wat Srreet.—The transactions on’Change during the last six days may be summed up in as many Bes. Thestock market has been insufferably dull. Gold has become strong, under the manipulation ofa few operators, and there is a feverish impression that some- how the peace of mind prevailing in the “gtreet’’ is to be disturbed by influences that may develop themselves within the next ten days. Meanwhile money is easy and abun- dant, and government securities are appre- ciating in value, and are being asked for, at home and abroad, to a degree that makes the present supply fall short of the actual demand for the purposes of investment and trade, Tae Rexrto1ovs May Meermes.—In another place in the Henatp of this morning will be found an interesting and instructive résumé of the various religious conventions or confer- ences which, according to long-established custom, have been held throughout the coun- try in this rather unpleasant month of May. Year after year, since the close of the war, the anniversaries have been declining in in- terest; and this year, it must be admitted, they have been singularly dull. We refer our readers to the brief but exhaustive review to be found elsewhere in our columns. It reveals the actual situation of tha various religious bodies, and the reser will find it peither uninteresting nor unprofitable. Crasn or a Conner 1x Lumpen—The nine million crash of the lumber combination at Troy. The Wooden Horse has thus again be-. @ayed the Trojang The French Crisis—The Resignation of President Thicrs. Another and most serious crisis has been reached in the affairs of France. Yesterday the debate which was commenced on Friday on the interpellation was resumed. The Hall of Assembly was crowded to excess. Excitement stood on tiptoe when President Thiers mounted the tribune, and when hé gave emphasis to the remark of his Minister on the previous day that the time had come to make an end of the provisional government and definitively to proclaim the Republic, the cheers from the Left were deafening, but the Right was silent After tho Prosident’s speech the Assembly adjourned until two o'clock. At two o’clock the Deputies reassem- bled, when an able and energetic speech was made by M. Casimir-Perier, the Minister of the Interior. M. Perier, of course, justified not only the recent appointments but the gen- eral policy of the government. At the close of the speech a vote was taken, when 362 against 348 voted down the simple order of the day, which had been proposed by a member of the Left and supported by the government. This, however, did not end the fight A motion was made by a member of the Right to the effoct that the present form of govern- ment was not under discussion, and regretting that the reconstruction of the Ministry did not afford conservative guarantees. This motion was adopted by a vote of 360 against 344. On the announcement of the result it was Preposed that there should be a night session. Minister Dufaure declared that France would not be let without a government. There was a Republic. and there was a President; and the Minjsters would be responsible for the maintenance of order. The Right demanded that as the crisis was serious the government should promptly decide. A night session was ulti. mately agreed upon. At eight o’clock the members reassembled. » Dufaure announced that the Ministers had tendered their resigna- tions to the President, and that they had been formally accepted. He then handed to M. Buffet o message from President Thiers, In this message, which was read amid the profoundest excitement, President Thiers formally tendered his resig- nation, sending back to the Assembly the high functions with which he had been en- trusted. General Changarnier and the Duke de Broglie moved that the Assembly immediately appoint a successor. Amid the wildest uproar it was moved by the Left that the resignation of the President be not accepted. This motion was rejected by a vote of 368 to 339. The resignation was then formally accepted. After motions had been made by the Left and the Right—the one for delay and the other for immediate action, the As- sembly proceeded to vote for a successor to President Thiers, when 390 voted for Marshal MacMahon, the members of the Left not taking any part in the vote. So for the present the matter stands. President Thiers has aban- doned his post and the high position has been tendered to the late Napoleon’s leading gen- eral. What is to be the result of this change no man can tell. It is impossible to refuse to admit that in a fair fight the monarchical and conservative Right have won the day. On no former occasion since the establishment of the present government has the attendance of members been so large. All that could be done was done by all the factions to have in the House a fall representation, and the figures show that some seven hundred voted. It was a test of strength in the Assem- bly. President Thiers ayd his Ministers fare responsible for bringing about the crisis, The recent ministerial appointments conveyed a challenge to the Right, If there had been doubt that a challenge was in- tended that doubt was removed by the lan- guage of M. Dufaure on Friday and by the repetition of the same language by Presi- dent Thiers yesterday, that the time had come to make an end of the provisional government. and to declare the Republic. The Ministerial appointments provoked the Right and gave birth to the interpellation. The speeches of Minister Dufaure and of President Thiers put the Right and the Left equally on their mettle, The voting brought out the full strength of the Assembly, and the result proves that the Right had more correctly measured its strength than the Left and that its leaders had canvassed the situation more thoroughly than President Thiers or his advisers. So far as we know the facts it must be admitted that the battle has been fairly fought and honestly won. Presi- dent Thiers, in forcing this conflict, has not shown his wonted caution, and in his resigna- tion he has been wanting, we think, in his usual skill. ‘ In present circumstances the resignation of President Thiers must, in our judgment, be regarded as public calamity—a calamity to France and a calamity to the world at large. It is difficult to see how his place can be filed. In the interests of the Re- publio his presence at the head of affairs must be regarded as @ necessity, and Gratitude ag well ag interest ought to have made the French people patiently submissive to hig rule. | What has he not done for France? Aftera defeat, which is without parallel in tho history of the nation, he was called to power. He found his country in wreck and ruin, the invader upon-her soil, her com- merce dead, her internal trade ruined, her in- dustry paralyzed, and an indemnity to pay sufficient to daunt the bravest pirits and to render recovery next to. impossible. For more than two years ho bas managed to keep the factions at bay; and during that time he has not only revived commerce, given an impetus to trade and restored France to her- self, but brought the nation nearer to the blessings of the Republic than she had ever been brought before. His retirement, what- ever may follow, must be regarded as a serious blow to the Republic. In the circumstances MacMahon is, perhaps, the only man fitted to rule. It is possible that he may refuse to accept the situation. If he should accept the responsibilities of the situation France will once more find herself at the mercy of a military dictator. How often will the French people fling away their liberties and their hopes? Rubinstein’s Farewell. On Thursday night the American public heard for the last time an artist whose genius has not only shed o lustre on musical art in this country, but has proved a lasting benefit. The results of the visit of Rubinstein to America may not yet be wholly apparent outside this city; but here they already show , themselves. He came to teach us that the piano may be used for higher and nobler purposes than filtering out grotesque variations on operatic airs or tum-tumming the irrepressible polka and waltz. We have had apostles of this kind be- fore, and we have earnest workers in the same field among us; but lessons caught from the fingers of genius were necessary to rebuke the sordid, inartistic, grovelling spirit of the music publisher; the Aippant nonsense of the idol of the salon; the ‘“Maiden’s Prayer” aspi- rations of chattering belles and the widespread contagion of Offenbach and ‘‘Tommy Dodd.’’ In vain did our local artists endeavor to stem the tide of corruption in music. The strong mind of Rubinstein was necessary to open the eyes of the public to the ocean of trash that was known under the title of ‘popular music.’’ His mission, which closed Thursday night, lasted eight months; but the memory of his wonderful powers as a virtuoso will not be eradicated for years. 4 During these eight months Rubinstein has ‘been the principal attraction at two hundred and fifteen con- certs, and in’ no case has he departed from his high standard of classical music. When the ‘ion pianist’ was first announced many wiseacres shook their heads and whispered the most dismal forebodings. According to their Jeremiades'America was not sufficiently schooled in high art to appre- ciate such a pianist—the rapid octaves and brilliant polkas of a Sanderson or the languid style and ‘stunning trousers’ of a Wehli were better calculated to enlist the sympathy of our public, and the Rubinstein season must end in financial ruin. Mark the result. The aggregate receipts for the season reach the un- precedented figure of one-third of a million dollars, of which New York may claim the honor, for the fifty concerts given here, of contributing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This is a significant proof of the reverence in which music is held in this coun- try and of the certainty of success which should inspire every manager who engages the best representatives of the divine art. Not a taint of sensationalism can be found in this extraordinary season. The great pianist has never descended from his pedestal as an exponent of classicél music. One remarkable circumstance connected with this engagement may be mentioned here. Boston, filled with the recollections of the Panjandrum, at first turned up her Athenian nose at the artist, while New York extended to him from the beginning a cordial welcome, and, at the end, areluctant farewell. It will be long before the king of instruments in this country will find such a Titan to unloose its thunders, such an Ariel to press with almost noiseless step its ivory keyboard, or such an Anacreon to sing its love idyls and heart songs. The New Local Option Prohibition Bill. Governor Dix, by refusing to sign the act empowering the people in each town to decide for itself by vote whether the sale of intoxicat- ing beverages should or should not be licensed, put the advocates of the measure upon their mettle. He objected to the clause which in- cluded fermented with spirituous liquors. They have, therefore, introduced in the As- sembly a bill conforming to that view, under which any town may allow the sale of the milder stimulants and still fully prohibit the traffic in distilled spirits. This new bill has already been rushed through the preliminary stages and is ordered to a third reading in the House, with the apparent certainty of passing when it is mext reached. No effective opposi- tion is anticipated in the Senate, and, the Governor having intimated in advance his favorable opinion, it is pretty sure to become alaw. In effect we shall have localities regu- late the liquor trade by the ballot. In some towns the business will be forbidden and made a misdemeanor, while in the neighboring communities it will be legalized, and license fees will be counted upon as a source of municipal revenue. Many experiments have been tried in this and other States at legislative regula- tion of the liquor traffic. Well intentioned innovations, born of sanguine zeal in behalf of public virtue, have failed to cure the diseases of intemperance and panperism for which they were confidently prescribed. In spite of the most stringent laws the toper has con- trived to get fuddled by contraband spirits, while his wife and babies baye found places in the pocr house. Whether this new fostram of local option prohibition will, on trial, be found any more satisfactory to the temperance reformers in particular and the people in general, can only be decided after time has tested it. Under its action each town can be as abstemious as its voters may decree, end any who ftel its workings to be tyrannical will have no foreign despot to blame for the unpleasant’ restriction. It is not likely there will cease to be cakes and ale wherever people approve of them in consequence of the law. If it effects any amelioration in the condition of any portion of community all good citizens will rejoice. If not it will be in order for repeal or amendment. , The Frequency of Suicide—The Cause of This Dreadful Act. At last suicide has become one of the most frequent of the great crimes. Twenty-five years ago it was almost as rare in its commis- sion as it is unnatural in its wickedness. But now three or four instances of ij are reported every day in the niorning journals. Ordinary murder is not at all so common, nor even is arson or highway robbery or forgery it- self. In fact, from having been a comparatively unknown offence it has become more com- mon than any of the other leading felonies in the penal calendar of the Courts. In ihvestigating the frequency of this odious crime in our midst we have discovered that more than ten out of eleven of those who perpetrate it are Germans and Americans. Our Irish fellow citizens scarcely ever take their own lives. With this singular and honorable exception self-murder has ita doers in every position in society and at every period of life. One day it isan old woman of eighty-three, who has hanged herself in her own cellar; on another, it is a young girl of eighteen, who has drowned herself in a river ; then comes the story of a well-to-do mer- chant, a man happy, or seemingly 40, in his wife and in his boys and girls, who has destroyed his life with a pistol; next the news is of a young man, not yet twenty, who has taken poison ; then, again, the bloody record is of a prosperous farmer, who has put the razor to his throat at midnight in some secret part of his premises, In short, with the remarkable and honorable exception given, the fiend of suicide has his victims at all times of life and in all positions in society in the United States, What is the cause of the act? Itis in no way a mystery. Inthe majority of instances suicides leave after them written lette:s or oral testimony that give clear intelligence of their motive for self-destruction, and this motive is the belief that suicide is a lawful act and that it directly leads to the enjoyment of eternal happiness with God the Creator. In but a very few instances have we found the convic- tion that the act of self-murder was wrong ; in all cases we have found the presumption that the deed certainly and directly leads to Para- dise. Is it a correct presumption? Do sui- cides take the shortest road to Elysium? That is the question. Now how can the act of a suicide lead an immortal soul to heaven? Does perjury do it? Doesrobbery do it? Does forgery do it? Does arson do it? Does blasphemy do it? Does libertinage do it? Does ordinary mur- der do it? It is clear that none of these crimes lead to heaven, for if they are crimes how can they lead to heaven? It is impos- sible. But none of these acts is so heinous as suicide. It is said that aman’s life is his own, and, therefore, that he has a right to destroy it like any other kindof property he pos- seases; und, consequently, the act being thus lawtul, leads to heaven. But it is false that man owns his own life. His life is not given to him by himself; itis not conserved in its existence by himself; and the natural law of right and wrong tells every man that suicide is a crime which is as wicked against divine justice as it is abhorrent to the human family. Suicide, therefore, must be a crime. Nay, it must be of necessity a crime of the worst degree. For, as life is the highest good, so the wanton destruction of it is, of logical and moral necessity, the most wicked of acts. But how can the most wicked of acts lead to heaven? Ifthe most wicked of acts leads to heaven, heaven can be nothing but a place of wickedness. That is natural common sense. Nor is this all. For what is life given? It is given, says religion, for the falfilment on earth of the divine justice, so as to merit heaven. Death isa visible proof of the responsibility of man to his Creator. But, if the end for which life is conferred is to merit heaven how can the act of the destruc- tion of life lead to heaven? It is clearly out of all possibility that it should do 80. It will be said that God is infinitely merciful. So He is, for He is an infinite being—the Creator, the Eternal Father, the source of all good. But how can God ba merciful to suicides? Is His justice eternal? It must be that, or He has no jus- tice at ali; for tagive an eternal God justice whicn is not eternal is absurd. The Creator must be allowed to be consistent with Himself in His eternal nature. But suicide is the most wicked acta mancan do, Therefore it has against it the absolute, eternal justice— that is, it is under eternal condemnation, which means that there can be no pardon for it. Therefore there can be no mercy’ for it. We are not here curtailing the power, the mercy of the Creator. The Creator Himself, by His natural law, which He has implanted in every human soul, and by His Christ, declares and has always declared that His nature has an infinitely perfect consistency in it in all its attributes ; that self-murder is the worst of deeds, and that there can be no mercy for it. Every crime can be re- pented for but one—suicide. When a man kills himself he has terminated his power to repent, to do reparation to the Almighty, and the consequences must be taken. And let not the tongue of blasphemy break out in ribald language against God for His eternal justice, for there is no injustice in Him, no imper- fection, but He is infinitely perfect in all good, and this He coufd not be if self-murder were a pardonable deed. Apart from its religious terrors, what act, ina mere human sense, can be more dastardly than suicide? There is none. The dogs, the pigs, the crawling reptiles, the skunks, the lowest animals do not destroy themselves; they protect their lives to the last. The man who commits suicide slays all that is noble in his nature ; and this has always been the con- viction of society. All shudder with horror, inflamed with disgust, at the corpse of a self- murderer. There was a time when those who took their own lives were buried, not in the tistattmman resting place of a ceme- tery consecrated by religion, but in some road- side ditch, deep and vile and everlasting in the etal aboniigation. And, in some regions, lofty and fearfdl reprobation of the most of crimes is’ still faithfully observed. Certainly life is offen fUU of adversity. That is the natural, the providential order of things. Man is fallen, peccable, a mortal creature. A life on earth free of all adversity, of all an- of all sorrow, of all distress, for sich o being is beyond the capacity of the eartleto bestow. Trouble, then, is a certain and a com- mon lot. It is a universal condition. But, as that is the most noble and elavated life which meots all the afflictions attendant on it with an unbroken spirit, so are they the most cowardly and despicable wretches who destroy them- selves sooner than withstand the inevitable viciasitudes of their race. Thete can be no doubt that the pulpit is exceedingly lax in this most jmportant matter, $22 Wappoars to be certain that suicide would not be so dreadfully common as it is if the clergy did their part in showing that it is an act by which the human soul is surely lost for- ever. We admit that it is unpleasant for a minister, a rich merchant or 6 broker of whose congregation has slain himself, to speak out according to his inward heart that the suicide’s soul is condemned. But minis- ters never have the law on their side for hold- ing back the wholesome truth, however harshly it may sound on the ears of their flocks, In the meantime it is better late than never. The cowardly wickedness of suicide is . The clergy can put a barrier before it by in- dignantly refusing to deliver eulogies over the biers of self-murderers, and by showing ex- plicitly on all becoming occasions that, by the natural and the revealed law, suicide, far from conducting the wretches who perpetrate this enormous crime to heaven, justly and naturally and inevitably buries them forever in the place of eternal weeping. It is, as- suredly, a frightful thing that there are three or four acts of self-destruction to announce every morning—chiefly Germans and Ameri- cans. Let the ministers do their duty. Quexn Vicroria’s Annivensany.—Yesterday being the fifty-fourth anniversary of Queen Victoria's birthday, the British ships in our harbor, and the German, too, in honor of the occasion, were gayly dressed in flags and ensigns, and made a fine display. « It was a merry' day in England. A Satrsractory Expianation. —Itis reported from Washington that the late successful pur- suit by General McKenzie of a thieving band of Kickapoos from Texas into Mexico was by authority of the Secretary of War. If so we have a satisfactory explanation of the Secre- tary's late reconnoissance of the Texas border. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Prince Adalbert, of Prussia, is in England. George Macdonald sailed for home yesterday. General Sherman arrived in St. Louis yesterday. Rev. J. L. Miller, of Philadelphia, 1s at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Moses H. Grinneli is in Paris. start for home. Louis Napoleon’s villa at Vichy was sold at auc- tion on the 3d Inst. Congressman L, P. Poland, of Vermont, is stay- ing at the Grand Central Hotel. The German Minister, Herr Schlozer, was & pas- senger on the Donau yesterday. Commodore James E. Carter, of Portland, Me., is among the late arrivals at the Westminster Hotel. Oglonel Beverley Kennow has had the order of the Medjidi conferred upon him for his skill in artillery, working. General Sherman’s order to the army on the murder of General Canby, the London Glove thinks, ‘was very “‘tall writing.” Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, Says a despatch from that city, did not accept his “back pay,” but sent it back to the Treasury. General Thomag G. Rhett, formerly General Joe Johnston’s Chief of Staff, but now in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, is in Paris on sick leave. General Walter H. Jeniter has returned to Egypt after his visit to his home in Baltimore, and has again taken command of the Khedive’s cavalry. Mr. J. Singer, formerly of this city, has taken up his residence at Qldway, Paignton, near Torquay, England. He iserecting a mansion there to cost £20,000. Dr. Edward W. Warren, late professor in the Medical University of Maryland, has become ‘Staff Surgeon” in the army of the Kbedive, and also practices his profession in Cairo. President Thiers has just bought a portrait of Cromwell by Cuyp, at the sale of the collection of Count d’Espagnac, for $1,100. Can it be possible he means to make 8‘ .en Oliver his model? ‘The dowry of the archduchess Gisela amounts to |. 130,000 florins a year, and will be paid out of the Emperor's civil list. Her consort, the Prince Leopold, has an income of only 15,000 florins a year. General R. E. Colstone, formerly in the rebel army, has arrived at Cairo, Egypt, to assume the duties of a professor in the polytechnic school there. He will also hold the rank of colonel in the Egyptian Army. General Colstone was for two years with Stonewall Jackson in the faculty of the Virginia Military Institute. The Baron de Chamerolles, in 1827, bought a life ticket for the Gymnase Theatre for $200, He has been a very constant attendant during the intervening forty-five years. In the early part of last January he was unable to obtain a seat, all the places betng occupied. He brought suit for dam- ages, but has been nen-suited, the Court holding the management not bound to reserve a seat for their old but not very profitable customer. The Countde Waldeck, at the age of 107, has deen appointed the director of a theatre being built at Paris, The Count’s has been a long and busy life. He still considers himself a young man, and he may excel those almost Methuselahs, Old Parr and Vid Jenkins. De Waldeck was born March 17, 1766, in Prague, but he has been a natur- alized Frenchman for alinost eighty years, He has been @ soldier and a traveller, and he is now @ painter. ACCIDENT TO THE REV. HENRY WARD . BEECHER, The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher narrowly escaped hurt yesterday afternoon, He was riding in his open carriage, on his way to the Fulton ferry, and had reached the corner of Beekman and Nassau streets, when the vehicle collided with a heavy truck. The hind axletree and one of the wheels of the carrii were broken, and it fell over on its side, Mr. Beecher being thrown to the pavement. He was assisted to rise by witnesses of the acci- dent, and, having announced that he was unhurt, started afoot for home. MILITARY OOURT MARTIAL, WASHINGTON, May 24, 1873, By direction of the President a General Ceurt Martial is appointed to meet at Ringgoid Barracks, Texas, June 6, for the trial of First Lieutenant Charles T. Davis, Tenth infantry; First Lieutenant Henry F. tt, Twenty-fourth infantry, and such other prisoners as may be ordered before it, The follow! ng ig the detail of the Court :—Colonel Edward Hatch, Ninth cavalry; Colonel Doubleday, Twenty-fourth infantry; ‘Major Wade, Ninth Fed AY Captain Corbin, Twenty-fourth infantry; Captain Gilmore, Hake eb es bg infantry ; Captala Hogen, Ninth cavalry ; aptain, Humfreville,. Ninth cavalry; Captain John W. Clouse, Twenty-fourth infantry, Judge Advocate of the Court. } AVAL INTELLIGENOE. A special letter to the HeraLp from Panama, under date of May 15, supplies the following in} telligence:—ihe United States ship. Tuscarora, CONE DES, is to leave for San Francisco on e 17th. He will shortly Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, May 24, 1873. Detached—Lieutenant Commander William R. Bridgeman, from the Constellation, and placed on waiting orders; Lieutenant A. Baldy, from tne Michigan, and ordered to Sno ‘Saranac; Ensign recetving shi} T. P. Comiey, from ip Potomac, and ordered tothe Juniata; Chaplain Jobo B. Van Meter, from the Naval lemy, and ordered to hold niihgsifin serv’ noe, First Lieutenant C. L. A hay detached steamer iiton, at Wilming- Tomek and ordered. to the Fessenden, at De- ae iiese Lieutenant. @, Shepherd has been Ordered to the Hamilton. OBITUARY. James W. Wallack. Mr. James W. Wallack, the well known actor, died yesterday morning on the cars while retarn- ing from Aiken, 8. C., to this city. His death oc- curred before the train reached Richmond, and his remains will arrive in Washington this morning. Mr. Lester Wallack, his cousin, and other frignds of the deceased actor have gone te Washington to convey the body to the city. About a year ago Mr. Wallack was seized with a pulmonary complaint, and tiie disease asserted it- self a9 rapidly that when he went to Alken for his héaltb, about two months ago, one lung was already, gone. .He apparently improved by his resi- dence in the South and. thought himself strong enough to return ¢o the Astor House, in this city, where he lived for many years, but died on the way, as we have already stated. Mr. Wallack was the son of the late Heary Watlack and a nephew of the distinguished actor James William Wallack, Mr. Wallagk made his first appearance at the National Theatre at the corner of Leonard and @hurch streets, which was under the management of his uncle, He subsequently appeared at the Bowery theatre under his father’s management, and was for many years attached to the Old Broadway Theatre, He also played in England and Austra- la, his most remarkable performances being in “Werner” and the “Iron Mask.” His performances in later years may be briefly told, In‘ ls) mr. J. W. Wallack formed a combination with E. L. Davenport, and they travelled together t! the country as stars, under the man: Palmer. This combination, while betng a success artistically, did not si , and both actors returned to Wallack’s in 1867 and opened im “Oliver Twist,” Mr. Wallack his acter of Fi the Jew, Davenport ag Bill Sykes and Rose Eytinge as Nancy. 'r. Wallack continued : theatre for some time, nraking the ‘test hit im the character of Henr: Dunbar, which drew houses for many nights. nyaged to play a¢ the Globe Theatre Wallack was e ay r) a in Boston, to support . Fechter. Here, inthe Spring of 1870, the well known. di ‘te occurred: Wala eps So aout it Say” feenaSey for a part he wor l vit from the theatre alto- Mr. Fechter withdraw: ether, and Mr. Wallack became the manager for Mr. Arthur Cheney. Here he continued opening at outs ag Soprember ins te pay of 0) at Booth’s ptember in- “one elm’ taking the character of Hiabentane While here he was paid a salary of $500 per week. After playing “The Bells” for two months Mr. Wall supported Miss Neilson, the English actress, playing first Mercutio, in “Romeo and Stuer” and Jaques, in “As You Like It,* giving both characters with great success. Subse- quently, to fill up a week leit vacant by the failure of John Brougham’s drama, ‘The Lily of France,’* Mr. Wallack ay 44 “Henry Dunbar,” in which he had formerly such success at Wallack'’s This Theatre for seven nights. was his last appearance in New York. He has since been playing several engagements im | provincial cities, and had been superintending some changes in his beautiful residence at Long Brarch, where, as usual, he was to spend the Sum- mer, when he died, Mr. Wallack was about sixt: years of age, and even in the last year of his li an apparently robust maa. The Remains of Mr. Wallack. RICHMOND, Va., May 24, 1873. The remains of the late James W. Wallack, the actor, were not sent North to-night, but will be forwarded to-morrow afternoon, AYbert L. Baker. a ‘ Albert LL, Baker, an eminent lawyer and much esteemed Judgé of the New York State Bar, died at Buffalo on the 22d instant. He wasbornin Morean,. Saratoga county, N. Y., December 8, 1615. His’ parents removed, ‘while he was a meré lad, to Fort Ann, Washington county, in this State, and his boyhood was passed in that village. There, at the age of seventeen, he began r law. When nineteen years old went to com- leted his legal studies and he was there admitted o the Bar. In 1838 he revurned to Washi y county, and: remained there until 1847, ime part of the time at Fort Ann snd part of the time at Greenwich. In 1839 he was made Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington LHS Lead he was elected a delegate from that county to the State Constitutional .Convention in 1846, defeating: for that ition Chief Justice Savage. In 1847 he returned to Buifalo with pe 8 The only of- cial position he has held was of Alderman im 1852-53, during which years he was chairman of the Committee on Schools, MURDER IN VIRGINIA A Colored Man Gives His Wife a “Lick” which Sends Her Into a Canal and Drowns HerHis Arrest and Confession. RICHMOND, Va., May 2%, 1873, A mysterious murder figures as one of the city incidents to-day. One ot the guests at John Clarke's colored dance house, corner of Boyd and Blev- enth streets, on Wednesday night, was Mary Holmes, a colored female, of the age of seventeen. She had sustained wifety relations with Horace Venable, also colored, but had severed the connection, When she attended the ball at Clarke’s she dressed in Bloomer costume, and frone all accounts enjoyed herself to the fullest extent. When festivity was at its height, Venable, who had been a general laborer at various places and was then exerting his energies im the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad tunnel, called at ISOS 9 and, by specious representa- induced ary Holmes to accompany him in thé direction oi their former of abode. She was not thereafter seen until Friday, when her - lifeleas body was fished out of one of the locks con- nesting se basin and canal, on the line of which she lived. Suspicion as to her being in any such place was first aroused by Venable’s inquiries Ronsee, and” ‘nis aeking’ permission from the houses, ana asking pel office of the James River and Kanawha Canal ios. 4 and 5 The water rawa off, the lockkeeper found the body of Holmes im the mud. At the inquest, held under the auspices of Coroner Taylor, on the body, which was submit- ted to an autopsy, the jury returned the following verdict :— id Mi: Holmes came to her death arowting ontie might of Wednesday, ‘May. 2, 157, ie one of the locks connecting the basin and dock, and are further of opinion that the drowning was at the or hands of persons unknown to them. Upon the finding of the verdict Captain John Disney, of the police force, arrested Horace Vena-~ ble and one Molly Sykes, as principal an¢é in the Kary ‘Hom accessory murder of Moly Sykes was a rival incarceration, Vepl@ Br, or im the eerie thario. Ince has confessed that he induced Mary Holmy,(® leave the ballroom with him; that his objeq, ran. to give her @ first class beating. That in ad 2 ance of it he initiated a quarrel with her, i her replying saucily he “giv her a lick, Rig demonstration landed her in the canal. H7hen go! frightened and ran off. She was drowned, ‘cnc, Tne “canal” in which Mary tell was a/aterway, with a depth of sixteen feet, enclose igh iia dicular walls of granite twenty-five { ted inqui- conscience troubled him and he pi vhs q ries, which will probably result being, hanged. WEATHER REPBT. Seams Origa OFFICE oF THE CHIR, 2 ‘WasHinoton,Aay 25—1 A. M. Probabit For the Middle States 14 lower lake regiom southwesterly and nor#Westerly winds, rising barometer, slowly fallit temperature and gener- | ally clear weather, /ith possibly occasional, storm on the middie tlantic seaboard ; in New Eng: land and Canada »*ing barometer, clear weather, 7 slowly falling tenperature and southwesterly to — northwesterly “inds; for the South Atlantic and — Gulf States gAthwesterly and nortwesterly winds, partly cyudy and clear weather, with: rising tometer and failing temperatgre. in the former, and increasing lous in me Western Gulf States; or Nortiweat and upper Jakes and southward to T nesce and Arkansas falling barometer, mor essterly to southeasterly winds, rising tempera- sure, partly and increasingly cloudy weather, with occasional rain, The Weather in This City Yest The following record will show the chai the temperature for the past twenty-fours in parison with the corresponding day of last y as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnyt’s , Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873, 62 68 2M . Average temperature yesterday Average temperature for last year \verage last year. Average temperature