The New York Herald Newspaper, May 26, 1873, Page 7

Herald Special Report from the Khanates Via London. Khivan Effort for Diplomatic Negotia- tion with the Russians. The Mission to General Kanfmann—Its Route and Chances of Success. we Imperialist Advance Against a Dy- nasty Torn by Family Feud. The American Correspondent at His Post of Duty. Collecting News in the Desert of the Kizil-Kum. Tartars and Khirgese on Guard---A Dictionary and Protracted Vigil, APress Bayard and His De- spatch from the Sir-Daria. Devotion to Duty, Personal Endurance and the Triumph. YELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Eiznaxp, reporting the progress of the Rus- sian war against Khiva, has been received from our correspondent in Central Asia, by way of London:— Lonpon, May 25, 1873. ‘The following has been telegraphed from Central Asia to this metropolis for the Heznatp:—I have joined the envoys of His Highness the Khan of Khiva, in the Kizil Kum desert, on the way from Fort No. 1 of Tomdi, 300 miles west of Tash- kend, where His Imperial Highness the Grand Nicolas Constantinovitch, of Russia, and General Kaufmann, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian expeditionary army, are waiting 40 see them. @HE EFFORT FOR THE NEGOTIATION AND PROS- PECT oF ITs success. * “These envoys, as previously informed you, went to Fort No. 1 with instruc- ‘tions to accept on behalf of the Khan any terms which the Russian military authorities would propose. They, on this occasion, failed to find General Kaufmann there; but they feem now to understand, contrary to what I wrote at the time, that the Russian Grand Duke and the Russian commander (Kauffman) ‘re not pushing on, but, on the contrary, wait the coming of the Khivan Commis- pioners to negotiate. Although the Russian commanders may thus wait, I doubt if there will be any inter- ruption in the steady advance march of the imperialist troops which have been sent forth to secure the fall of Khiva. It appears that the presence of the Russians before the Khanate capital is only necessary to induce this result. Dissension reigns there. His Highness the Khan is at war with his two brothers, and the latter only await the arrival of the Russians to surrender the place to the Czar's officers, The Herald Special Enterprise in Cen- tral Asia—Its Representative, His Toils and Endurance. Lonpox, May 25, 1873. The telegraph report from Central Asia, 1 Fhich I cable to-day to New_York, is from Jon. A. Macgahan, the Henatp special cor- espon, Tent attached to the Khivan expedition. He was },°8t previously heard from when leaving Fort .eTofiski, on the Sir-Daria River, in order to overta,'*¢ the Tashkend column of the Bussian army movit.'S on Khiva. He had to cross the Kizil Kum De. ‘ett. He was accom- panied by two Khirgese, on. Turcoman and a | dictionary ; the latter neces 'Y for the rea- sons that of the languages which %T@ spoken in that country he knows only Russ.‘®® 9nd that the people are ignorant of that to. ™8"° He would be from seven to ten days crossin,* the desert. He could never close his eyes, by night or by day, in sleep with the assurance of any degree of certainty that he would open them again in this life; for those men of the Tartar face, by whom he was surrounded, though superficially,tame while they linger near the Russian military posts, are true savages when they find themselves once more in the desert, ‘and would not forget their instinctive animosity towards a white man if a favorable opportunity for its gratification presented. Though this gallant clear-headed fellow (Macgahan) would be a match for twenty men of their sort, with only half a chance for a fight, it is neverthe- less a fact that a Henaip special correspond- ent has never ventured with his life in his hand more literally than did this one in Uen- tral Asia. HOPE AND JOY. I suppose that after joining the caravan of ~ the Khivan Ambassadors he will go on with them and that he has sent back one of his Tartar couriers with the above despatch for i transmission to New York. I rejoice personally, as will the readers of the Heratp everywhere, that the gentleman, your writer, brave and true as another Bayard, has come safely through the most imminent peril, undertaken with a romantic doyotion fo duty. ‘ NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Herald Special Report from St. Petersburg. M. Ferdinand de Lesseps’ Project Com- municated to the Russian Minister. How the Iron Bond is to Unite Europe and Asia. The Entente Cordiale Between the Muscovite and Briton. FROM CALAIS TO CALCUTTA IN A WEEK. Central Asia To Be Civilized by the Solid Progressive Reformer. General Ignatieff’s Reply to the “Projector. The Undertaking About To Be Launched. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Heratp has been received ,from our corre- spondent in the Russian capital: — Sr. Pererssura, May 25, 1873. It is believed that the Russian imperial gov- ernment assents to the proposition of Ferdi- nand de Lesseps for the construction of a com- plete line of railway communication running across Central Asia from St. Petersburg and connecting with the English railways in India to Calcutta. Ina letter addressed to General Ignatieff, Russian Minister at Constantinople, by Mr. Lesseps, under date of May 1, the writer says:— “A realization of this grand project fore- shadows the cessation of antagonism ketween Russia and England in consequence of the present position of the intermediate territories through which it is proposed to run the road. These territories once traversed by the iron rail, the accomplishment will remove all obstacles which present themselves to the expansion of European civilization, and the rival Empires will be rendered secure by the attainment of a solid, mutual guarantee against the assaults of an aggressive semi- barbarous population. The Calais to Orenburg is already covered almost completely by rail. There remains, there- fore, only for Russia the construction of the line trom Orenburg to Samarcand, fifteen hun- dred miles. From Samarcand to Peshawur is eight hundred and fifty miles ; from Peshawur to Caleutta—already constructed—two thou- sand two hundred and fifty miles. Counting the way from Calais to Calcutta seventy-five hundred miles, with a gap only the third of the distance, travellers from Europe can go from St. Petersburg to Calcutta in a week's time. The preliminary expenditure will be six hundred thousand dollars, and this will occupy two years.” THE RUSSIAN MINISTER'S REPLY. To this communication of M. de Lesseps General Ignatieff replied in complimentary terms. He said he would ‘communicate with His Excellency Prince Gortschakoff on the subject.’’ i THE UNDERTAKING COMING UNDER WEIGH. M. de Lesseps has since resolved to launch the project and form a company; hence it is supposed that he has received the Russian Imperial assent. distance from The British Network of Railways in India. The annual report of Mr. Juland Danvers, the British Government Director of Indian Railway Companies, published in January, 1872, furnishes, among much statistical matter, the following in- formation upon points of general interest relating to railway progress and its profits in Asia, The writer says:— The extent of railway communication open in India {a 6,050 miles, of which 650 Inlles were com: pleted in 1870-71, and 211 since. ‘The three Presi- dency towns and the celeb ai of the Northwest provinces and of the Punjab are united, and the ,. Y8tem of trunk lines laid out by the late Lord Dal- ho, Hie may be regarded as completed, €ommene- ing »'t Negapatam, the most southern terminus of the present Madras system, and proceeding by on tn tora Scents and Lahore to i contin aous length of abons Moultan:<’oi railway ‘has been formed. ‘Ait tine r e,Tected at @ cost Of about £70,000,000, and ir cent en e@X- he Tate Of three and a hal upon this sum Of AbOwt £18,000,000 has pended upon the Other lines open for tri upon those which .°é in progress, making outl of 000, upon railways up the sist of March, 1870, Much progress has not at present been made on what are termed the State lines—viz., thosé Which the government of India has determined to construct under its own immediate supervision, without the intervention of companies. A small branch from tne Great In- dian Peninsular Railway to the cotton mart of Oomrawuitee, ef seven and a half miles in length, has been opened, making the second line of this description whieh has been constructed by the verument in the Central Provinces; but the line rom Lanore towards Peshawur has not been ad- Vauced beyond laying it out as far as Jhelum, a distance of 102 miles, Delay {n proceeding with the works in this undertaking has been occasioned by the roposal to alter thé Been PA gh for the nd to adapt them to the that this question has been designs, which had ‘Xow settled in the affirmative new plans are bein; Ad e fol standard narrow gau; and operations will comence in earnest. lowing are THE STATR LINES IN CONTEMPLATION. Ll The Punjab Norther, from Lah The Indus Valley, froin Moultan wy Roteese ne ‘rom A) Lines in Rajpootana } Frum fit to Jorn ra Delhi to Join neh to seit works: From Indore sular Railway undwa, on Great Indian Penin- From Wurda, tocoal fields at Warora . From Carwar, 4 port south of Bombay, to Hooblee.. + 1,328 END OF THE BROOKLYN GAS STRIKE, Yesterday the directors of the Brooklyn City Gas Company paid off thelr new hands and employed the ‘ strikers,” their old employés, The latter re- turn to work alter @ (ruitiess effort to bring the company to terms. The “strikers” demanded $3 76 per day, ang the company declined to pay more than $8 50, ? CENTRAL ASIA. | RAILWAY FROM BUROPE TO INDIA | THE SPANIARDS AND THE HERALD Herald Special Report from Madrid. The Lives of the American Press Repre- sentatives Continually Endan- gered in the Republic. A Captive Writer Released Through the Exer- tions of the British Minister at Madrid. The Special Interview with Don Carlos Too Much for the Diges- tion of Democratic Dons. Our Representative in Catalonia Sup- posed to Have Been Executed. No News from Him in Thirty Days. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALO, The following special despatch to the Henarp has been received from our corre- spondent in the Spanish capital: — Mapriw, May 25, 1873. The Hznatp special correspondent who was captured by the Spaniards at Pena Cerrada has been released through the good offices of His Excellency the Right Honorable A. H. Layard, British Minister tothe Republic. But for the exertions of Mr. Layard in his behalf and his active intercession with the Madrid Ministry the Hzratp representative would have been shot, as the Spaniards supposed that he was the writer who had furnished the report of the smuggled cannon, and also for the reason that, in a spirit of republican liberality, they are ugly and feel bad because in the publication of the Herat special’ inter- view with Don Carlos the ‘character of the Bourbon Prince is placed before the world in an agreeable light. A gentleman who has just been shot by the Spanish soldiery near Barcelona is supposed, from indications which have been supplied here, to have been the Heraup correspondent employed in Catalonia. The gentleman has not been heard from for over a month. SPAIN. British Radical Democracy Feted in Madrid— Military Mutiny and Attempt at Murder. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, May 25, 1873. A banquet was given last night in honor of Mr. Bradlaugh, the bearer of the English resolutions congratulating the Republic, MUTINY. A mutiny is reported among the military at Berga. Aregiment revolted and tried to kill its colonel, but troops arrived in time from tbe neigh- borhood, The Colonel’s life was saved and dis- cipline and order restored, HOLLAND. Parliamentary Appropriation for Expenses of the War. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. THE Have, May 26, 1873, The States General have voted a supply of 5,500,000 florins to meet the expenses of the war against Acheen. YELLOW FEVER. Progress of the Disease in South America—The City of Montevideo Afflicted. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, May 25, 1873, Advices from Montevideo of April 28 say that the yellow fever prevails there to such an extent that the people are flying from the city and business is suspended, Pt am A ROW IN A CHURCH, eemeerenifiarneciainants Muscalar Christianity in Botton, Lower Canada—The Unbelievers Chastise the Sain Newport, Vt., May 25, 1878. There has been a nice old row in the religious circles of Potton, just across the border line, in the Province of Quebec. The population there is prin” cipally composed of woodsmen and others, who are accustomed to @ lawless life, and the prevailing mode of Christianity is that known as the strictest order of Free Will Baptists; hence there has been ® continued squabble for months. The deacons abused the boys and the béys‘aggravated the dea- cons, until last Sunday there was an open out- breag, regardiess of the sanctity of the day. A man named Highland entered the charch, just after a chapter had been read, wearing a hat descended to him trom his grandfather. The hat was deco- rated with along red ribbon and created a great deal of subdued laughter. Mr. Littlefleld, one of the piliars of the church, told Highiana to leave the building, and, upon his refusal to do so, kicked the hat inte the aisie, This was the signal for a fight, Everybody started from his seat, and, headed by a young fellow mamed Olens, the an charch members ‘“‘went for’ their Christian brethren in a manner which was sad to contemplate. People were knocked down on the floor and out of the windows. One chap was thrown upon the stove and burned severely, and there were many and numerous casualties 0! less moment. The religious services ceased, of course, and were not resumed that day. On the morning following young Highland was arrested and taken to Mousonville for trial, and it was hoped that this would effectually settle the di(- culty. Unfortunately, such did not prove to be the case, for there was another outbreak in the church in the forenoon during the services, which, how- ever, was promptly quelled by the constabulary force. The war bids fair to continue for some time. THE RUSSIAN MISSION. Governor Jewell Will Probably Accept the Appointment, HARTFORD, Ct., May 25, 1873. Ex-Governor Jewell reached home from the West late Saturday night and found the of_icial tender of the appointment as Minister to Russia awaiting him, He is considering the matter and wilb proba- bly accept. THE LUMBER MERCHANTS! COMBINATION, CHrcaco, May 25, 1878. Mr. R, A. Loveland, lumber merchant, of this city, who is mentioned in yesterday's despatch from Troy a8 one of a combination of lumber dealers who recently failed, in an interview jast evening with a reporter, makes substantially the same statement as that of Dodge & Co., telc- graphed from New York last night, and adds that no firm but his in the West is ected by the trou- bles of firms in the combination referred to, which had no intention whatever of attempting to con- au Western tradg, as that would be impos NEW BOOKS. Anybody can write a book im these degenerate days. And anybody's book, unless i¢ is not quite good enough to be great and too good to be utterly trashy, will find readers, Some publishers understand this to the nicest point of calculation. Take Carleton, for example. No one not pos- sessed Of his courage and foresight would have un- dertaken the publication of Miss Evans’ novels, “Beulah,” “St, Elmo” and “Vashti.” He not only undertook it, but made money out of her books and became, too, the recognized publisher of Southern novelists, We observe that he announces as in press new boeks by Miss Sallie A, Brock, author of “Kenneth, My King;” Mansfield 7. Walworth, Richard B, Kimball and Jonn Esten Cooke, The publishers of Mr. Cooke's latest novel, “Her Majesty the Queen,” are J, B. Lippincott & Co. There are two fatal objections to this book; it is not an American novel, and Englishmen can write much better English novels, It is amusing to note how these two publishing houses throw their protecting arms around certain classes of bookmakers, The earlier school of Ameri- can humorists—Doesticks, Artemas Ward and Josh Billings—iound a publisher in Mr. Carleton. His goodness of heart has just induced him to become the publisher of a very dull and stupid book called “Romange and Humor of the Rail.” We were un- able to find either the romance or the humor of the vook, and it is not even absurd enough to be read- able, The Lippincotts, on the other hand, are the gnar- dian angels of bad poetry. They have assisted more poor poets—poor in purse as well as in inspi- ration—to get their verses between the covers of a book than any publishers in the country. Their latest work of this kind is “Leis ure Moments,’ by H. Helen Nunez, It is @ collection of nearly 400 pages of tae most com- monplace verses we have ever seen in print. A most remarkable book is a new novel, published by the Lippincotts, called ‘Why She Refused Him.” It is dedicated to W. W. Corcoran, ‘‘the benefactor of the South,” which means, we suppose, that the unknown author of the book is a Southerner. Like most of the American novels of the present day, the scene is laid abroad, It has the common fault of American novels of being devoted to high art—in this case classical music. One of the earlier chapters opens as follows:—“Jean and I had one day been studying a duo of Kalliwoda, Opus 123, By some tacit agreement he always played the seconda, 1 enjoyed Kalliwoda greatly that day. The alegro agitato, the allegro grazioso; then came the adagio. Somehow my soul thirsted for the slow music when I played with little Jean Paul.” But Jean Paul, like all good children, died young, whereupon, we are told,.“‘Had' he lived his works would have ranked with Lisat’s, Chopin's, Mendelssohn's and Onslow’s.”’ The following is a specimen of the dialogue :— “You will improve, Joujou; bat as you are you suit me very well, for you remind me of enel loved, amd often, in my wild, youthful moments, when in Paris, I have de ef her pure, earnest warnings. I have no (riend like her now. I must leok te you for solace. Play me something of Beethoven.” Iselected his “Sonate Pastorale,” Opus 28, He must have been touched with those beautiful com- binations—ne was leaning on hia hand, his arm resting on the back of the sofa. As if talking to himself, he said :— “She played that, but not so feelingly.” 1 made no remark, but wondered who she was, Then I commenced Beethoven's “Septet,” ar- ranged as piano solo by Liszt, “Great God! Why am I so miserable? Man should not encourage such gloomy feelings when he ¢an be so soothed by the harmony of Beethoven. Were I a practical musician I should choose him as my model—his style is so rigid, too.” stopped alter the allegro movement. “Oh, my child,” he said, “go on forever. Play the adagio.” have not studied it. I can’t play Liszt's fear- itretches without practice.” You do well to playas youdo. You can’t ex- pect to rival the great masters at your age. To- morrow hight Liszt gives a concert.” You must go. I shall take you, Joujou.”” This extract gives a fair ideal of the style of the book, andit only remains tobe added that even musically the novel is of no value, Turning from feeble novels like this one, where pedantry takes’ the place of imagination, we find in a book crammed with facts all the distinguishing qualities we expect ina work of fiction. The series of articles in the London Daily News on ‘fhe Men ofthe Third Republic’ have been gathered into a nandsome volume, which is published by Porter & Coates, of Philadelphia. Beginning with M. Thiers and ending with Victor Hugo, the volume is one of great interest and value and gives a better insight into the France of to-day than anything we have seen, In marked contrast toitis a book called “Life Sketches,” published by Weed, Parsons & Co., Al- bany. The subjects of these sketches are the mem- bers of the present State Legislature. Each biog- raphy is a “puff.” The remarkable thing about the book is that it shows that very few of pur legisla- tors are fitted, either by education or experience, for the duties they expected to perform. NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From Harper & Brethers:—‘Bleak House,” by Charies Dickens (household edition). “The New Magdalen.” By Wilkie Collins. From J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia :—“Why She Refused Him.” By “Lorraine.”’ From Catholic Publication Society:—A Winged Word, and other Sketches and Stories.” By M. A. T. From Lee & Shepard, Boston:—‘Consumption and Its Treatment.” By Dr. Carl Both, From Hurd & Houghton:—“Protection Against Firg pnd tbe Best M f Putting Out Fires, witn Practise Sapkattisth Security ef Life aud Property.” By Joseph Bire, From Thomas Whittaker, Bible House:—“Sanny Days Abroad; or, the Old World Seen With Young Eyes.” a by 5 ae From A. 8, Barnes & Co.:—“Inductive Inquiries if Fpysiology, Ethics and Ethnology.” By A. H. ani por a. “Origin @f All Religious Worship.” Translated from the French of Depais. x ' UNGODLY DOINGS IN A GODLY CITY. enantio Rowdyism in Newark, N. J.—The Pere ive Eloq' ce of the Locust—Chas- ing a Man in the Garb of Adam Be- {pre the Fall. Newark has high claims te be ranked among the most pious and orderly cities in the country, but generally where there is so much Godliness there is sure to be not a goodly but a badly share of un- godliness, Yesterday the latter manifested itself more strongiy than usual, at least on a Sun- day. <A small riot, the root of which was an inordinate consumption of lager and light- ning, @ la Jersey, broke out Hupman street during the afternoon, in which # Jarge crowd of roughs bai Omicer McGee too hand in it, to the great disgust of the rioters, an in police parlance, “necked” ome of the ringlead- ers, Patrick Dunn. Dunn turned on the officer and tried to overpower him, but the latter q i rebellious captive by the persuasive é! nis locus Arriving he police station Dunn a hame was being cm again at MeGee and dealt him a powerful blow in ghe face with his fist. The officer was not hurt much. Mr. Duan will serve the county, if not the State. Within the limits of the Second police station was during the afternoon quite a lively bitof a sensation, Some young men and boys snapped their fingers at the law, and began swimming in the Morris Canal, near the Bleomfeld bridge. Presently the police appeared, and then was a lively scattering. One young man was 80 fright- ened of Jersey jnstice that he ran off, leavin behind him every stitch of clothing. In the gar! of Adam previous to his fall, he few through the streets, astonishing eitizens and ¢itizencsses as well as mortifying the police, who failed to capture him. Another youngster left his pantaloons behind him. He was captured, Uthers leit only their vests and boots. In a large lager beer garden “over the hill” an immense ere of very low people were regaled with a Jree concert by the nobbiest member of the police jorce and a silver-voiced ex-policeman. The nobby man Was off duty, but will be complained of to the police authorities for conduct unbecoming @ police officer, THE LATE J. W. WALLACE. BALTIMORE, May 25, 1873, ‘The remains of Mr. James W. Wallack reached this eity at ten o'clock to-night on their way to New York, accompanied by his widew and his cousin Lester, and Were met at Camden stree’ sta- tion by manager John T. Ford aad tue members of | bis coinpanv. WASHINGTON. The Mexican Minister on the McKenzie Raid. Civil Service Reform. plated Changes. -Contem- Panio in a Oatholic Ohurch—The Funeral of Father Early—The Body Ly- ing in State Yesterday. ‘ WASHINGTON, May 25, 1873, The McKensie Raid—The Mexican Min- ister T! ks There Will Be No Trouble. The Mexican Minister, himself the author of the tacit permission under which it is conveniently presumed that McKenzie went into Mexico, is of opinion that no trouble will ensue trom the viola- tion of tke boundary line. His own. government he cannot concede to be less generous than our own, and Secretary Fish, to whom alone he can look for an authoritativejexposition of the senti- ments of this country towards Mexico, has already set the precedent of generosity in a case analogous to that of McKenzie’s, in which Mexican. troops were the offenders and Texas the violated territory, At the beginning of 1872 a company of sixty moanted men crossed the Rio Grande in pursuit of a band of Indians from the United States, who had been stealing horses in the State of Chihuahua, The scouting party followed the Indians to the foot of their mountain refuge and went into camp near the stage road to Fort Quitman, while a detach- ment went back to Mexico for supplies and guides, neither of which coud safely be obtained in Texas; but, fearing an attack from Colonel Shafter, in command at Fort Davis, the party broke camp hastily and returned to Mexico. The commanding officer excused the emtrance of his troops on Amer- ican soll by informing citizens he had positive or- ders from the Governor of Chiahuahua to cross the Rio Grande, if necessary, to recover the Property, The importance of this) admission rests on fact that in Mexico Governors of States are not independent local officers as in the United States, this being a different case from where small parties of mounted citizens cross over from both sides in search of strayed or stolen stock, Colonel Shafter reported it to headquar- ters as the second occurrence in six months, and asked for instructions. He was ordered to pursug, and, if possible, capture any future bodies and hold them as prisoners of war. The mat- ter being referred by the War to the State Department, Minister Nelson was furnished with full copies of the papers and ordered to lay them before the Mexican government, with a statement that a full disavowal of such acts was expected from the President, and that measures be taken for their future prevention. The papers and statement were received and an investigation promised as preliminary to any reply that Mexico might make, but the death of President Juarez and consequent change in national and State adminis- tration caused the subject to be dropped by the Mexican government, and: Secretary Fish, having done what the national honor required, refrained from embarrassing the new government with a sentimental but harrassing question. Fire in the Georgetown Catholic Church—A Pante Arrested—The Funeral of Father Early.. During service in Trinity Catholic church, George- town, this noon, an arch erected over the altar took fire, producing a panic among the ladies, The presence of mind on the part of the clergy, anda few cool headed men in the congregation, prevented a calamity, The fire was extinguished ina few min- utes, though not until several valuable paintings adorning the sanctuary were destroyed. The chapel at Georgetown College was thronged to-day with the people of the district, to look at the re- mains of;Father Early, the late President of the college. The funeral takes places to-morrow morn” ing; and services will be conducted by Father Keller, the provincial of Baltimore. Contemplated Presidential Trip. The President contemplates a trip to Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond early in June, to be absent from Washington about three days, Civil Service Retorm. It has been ascertained from those having the best means of information that the action of the Civil Service Advisory Board, at their present ses- sion, will encourage the growth and thus render more efficient the contemplated reform. They be- lieve, after their consultation with the President and members of the Cabinet on Saturday, that the administration is determined to give the support whichis needed. It was generally agreed that some modifications are demanded as the results of experience, bat while changes in details will be slight the main features and scope of the system will not only remain unimpaired, but be invigorated. The Board will in the course of a few days complete the work of revision, when changes will be made, Public as- surance is given thas (hey will contain nothing from which the try@ friends of Teform will dissent, while it jg, pélieved the greatest need is a better in- structed and more discriminating public opinion ‘upon the subject, 2 eR orn a The Abolition of the Franking Priv- ilege. The oMcial postage stamps and stamped en- vefopes are not to be used before the 1st of July next, when the act abolishing the frank- ing privileges goes into effect. Those stamps and envelopes are iurnished for postal busi- hggs only, and consequently they must ngt be soni or used of PFivate corrésp ee or biiat- ness, or applied to any private purposes whatever. Under no circumstances must they be sold, loaned or given to any officer, agent or clerk of any other department ¢f the government, A violation of any of these probibitions will be held to constitute good ground for removal. Until further notice stamped envelopes of special design wiil be fur- nished to first class offices only. Other offices will be supplied, as now, with oficial unstamped envelopes for use, with the official stamps, The Union Pacific Railroad=The Gov- ernment Suit Against the Ro: J. Hubly Ashton, one of the government counsel against the Union Pacific Réilroad Company, left last evening for Hartford, and expects to-morrow to file a copy of the bill in equity against the com- pany. He is confident, on the merits of the case, the government will sustain the major part of the bill, the opinion of the counsel of the road to the contrary. A Board of Officers Appointed to Visit Europe and Inspect Ordnance Im- provements. The Secretary of War has appointed Colonel Laidley, of the Watertown Arsenal; Colonel Ben- ton, of the Springfield Arsenal, and Colonel Cris- pin, in charge of ordnance stores, New York, & board to visit England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia to investigate improvements in ord- nance and ordnance stores. They will leave New Yark early in June and be abroad several months. The New System of Collecting Internal Revenue. One of the government officials, who has just re- turned to Washington after an extended tour in the South and West, reports tnat in his travels through the different collection districts he par- ticularly inquired of the internal revenue officers what was thought of the proposed change in the system of collecting revenue, and found, without exception, the new pian most cordially approved, even by some whose terms of service would expire on its going into effect. It was generally conceded that the plan ought to have been inaugurated long ago. Commissioner Douglas is confident the reve nue receipts will be fully kept up,/to say nothing of the great saving to the government in the re- duction of expense of collecting the revenue, THE PROVIDENCE PRINTING OLOTH MARKET. Provipanor, R. 1. May %4, 1873. on eee oe irket ie pie ih Sets, les a) ok were vee, 's lgged wt 66. 96 DY wr adge, MY PNM T ——___ Alarm of Settlers in C; y a alifernis and Ne SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 1873, The settlers of Surprise Valley are alarmed a¢ the fact of the old chief, Winnemaes, having gone north on the warpath with sixty warriors. He was followed by the cavalry and asked where he was going, He'told the officers to mina their owm business, and that if they wanted to fight he was ready. He was warned to behave himself and al- lowed to pass on. VIRGINIA Orry, Nev., May 24, 1873, A telegram from the Deputy Sheritf of Elko county, sent toinvestigate the troubles with the Indians at Spruce Mountain, confirms the previous reports, A large number of Snakes, Goohoots and Shoshones are holding council on Deep Creek im the vicinity of Spruce Mountain, The red skins have all disappeared from around the settlements iu this section, The herders in charge of Gey- ernor Bradley's cattle, near the scene of the troubles, have been notified: by the Indians to leave the country im lately under penalty of being killed, The settlers of Spruce Mountain are securing all the arma and ammunition possibles and preparing to resist Indian outrages. MURDER BY A WOMAN. The Tragedy in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Pa,, May 25, 1873. Further developments in the murder case, im which Lucy F. Cuff, colored, shot. Joseph Price, alse colored, show that the victim was her nephew. 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