The New York Herald Newspaper, May 27, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the vear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Our Amsnican Cousin. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth @venue.—Amr Rossart NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 130 Broad- ‘way.—Maps.ein Mong. BOWERY THEATRE, Bor Buacian, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Tux Two Bozzanps—Lirtiy Jack Suxrranp, &0. 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New York, Tuesaa THE NEWS OF {To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. Fa PEACEFUL CHANGE IN THE FRENCH EX- EOUTIVE! WILL IT END IN PEACE OR A BLOODY REVOLUTION ?’—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIxTH PaGE, PRESIDENT MacMAHON OUTLINES BIS POLICY! A CONSERVATIVE ADDRESS! ORDER TO BE RESTORED, THE NATIONAL TERRITORY FREED AND THE ARMY RE- ORGANIZED! THE PRESENT CONSTITU TION OF THE CABINET! THIERS AND THE ORLEANS PRINCES—SEvsEntH Pace, AN HOUR’S*CONVERSE WITH THE DUU DE BROGLIE! WHAT THE PRESENT FOREIGN MINISTER OF FRANCE HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIERS AND THE REPUBLIC! MONARCHICAL DISAGREEMENTS—SgventH Pas. A NATION VERSUS A NEWSPAPER! CONSUL GENERAL TORBERT TELEGRAPHS THE ARRIVAL OF MR. O’KELLY IN HAVANA! NO ONE PERMITTED TO SEE MR. PRICE! THE INQUISITION-LIKE SECRECY OF HIS SJAILERS—SEVENTH Pace, UNCLE SAM SUES THE INFAMOUS MOBILIER RING! THE COLOSSAL SWINDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ABOUT TO BE FULLY EXPOSED IN CONNECTICUT! IM- MENSE OUTLAYS WILL SOON BE RE- QUIRED, , AND THE UNION PACIFIC ALREADY INSOLVENT! THE INSIDE WORKINGS OF THE INIQUITY—Turep PagE. DAPTAIN JACK STILL DEFIANT! THE ATTITUDE OF OTHER TRIBES—CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. @RE INDO-EUROPEAN THROUGH LINE! THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN M. LESSEPS AND MINISTER IGNATIEFF PUBLISHED IN THE ENGLISH PRESS—Sevanta Pace. STOKES AT THE END OF HIS LEGAL TETHER! THE FINAL ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE APPELLATE COURT! HIS STATUS—Tuimp Pags. DIVERS OPERATING UPON THE SUNKEN AT- LANTIC! MORE BoDIES TAKEN OUT! THE REMAINS HORRIBLY MANGLED—THE EIGHT-HOUR STRIKE OF THE OCAR- PENTERS—Tamep Pace, WNFOUNDED @HOLERA SCARES! RIGID QUAR- ANTINE MAINTAINED—TELEGRAPHIC AD- VICES—MARINE NEWS—TentH Pace. OPENING DAY AT DEERFOOT! THE TROTTERS AND THEIR TIME—THE FLEETWOOD MEET- ING—WORK OF THE MAYOR AND THE 4 MUNICIPAL BUREAUS—Tarrp Pace, PRAUDULENT ERIE DIVIDENDS! BILLS PRO- GRESSED IN THE LEGISLATURE! THE TEMPERANCE AND ALDERMANIC QUES- TIONS—Tenta Pace. QWMPORTANT MEETING OF THE JERSEY EPIs- COPAL CONVENTION! CLERGYMEN'S COM- PENSATION! THE EPISCOPAL SYLLABUS— PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY—TeEnxTH PAGE. @HE TAINTOR HALF-MILLION EMBEZZLEMENT ! » THE OCEAN BANK CASE! DR. BROWN SENT TO SING SING! GENERAL LEGAL SUMMARIE! IFTH PAGR, BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS IN THE WALL STREET BOARDS ! A QUIET AND HEALTHY TONE PREVAILING! LIVELY TIMES PRE- MONISHED—Fovrtn PaoE. Waat 4 Bressixo To Be AN Amentcan Crmzzex!—How more than Roman are his fights abroad! He can be hurried to jail by Bpanish pettifoggers, immured in a Spanish fort, refused any communication with the Hutside world, and the mustachioed Don, who lives in a palace and plays turnkey, can, with impunity, refuse to give any account of his action! A United States Consul General who humbly ventures to inquire the reason why a Bovereign citizen is placed in durance vile can be snubbed day after day by the Don afore- said without a protest from the United States government. Hold your heads high, citi- gens of the American Republic, who tread the soil wherever waves the blood-red and Jellow-jaundiced fing of Spain! Hold your heads high while you are eut of prison, for once inside the dungeon you may rot before the Don will be incommoded by a sharp, firm interrogatory that could jar on his sensitive perves | , Tur Conoresstonan Excunston Panty, pome seventy members in number, en roule up the Mississippi from New Orleans, have struck for St, Louis. It is surmised they are travel- ling for recreation, information, speculation good dinners, and that their tour so far been very encouraging. Cuammva—Our Central Park just now, in Yle blush and flush and delicate freshness. of ‘iV Spring beauty, A precious emerald ino A feaceful Change in the French Exccutive-Will It End in Peace or Bloody Revolution? We, who are in the habit of gliding smoothly from one executive chief to another when the change has been provided for by the votes of the people, cannot but indulge the hope that France will pass through the change from one President to another without danger to the Republic. It is gratifying to learn that, so far, the powerful republican party in the National Assembly and the people haye not resorted to violence against the decision of the majority of the Assembly in virtually deposing M. Thiers and choosing Marshal MacMahon to succeed him. We say deposing M. Thiers, because the vote of the Assembly really amounted to that, though the venerable chief voluntarily tendered his resignation. He might have resisted, and thus have forced the majority of the Assembly to a direct vote on his deposition if it should have been s0 disposed. It is not unlikely such o vote would have been given, considering the temper, combination and resolution of the factions arrayed against his government. At all events he would have been a powerless Executive under such hostility, and the whole machinery of government would have been paralyzed. Tho majority might even have impeached him, To avoid the possible or probable consequences and the anarchy that might have followed M. Thiers acted in a patriotic and conservative manner. He was chosen President by the Assembly, and when that body showed its persistent factious hos- tility he resigned into its hands the authority it had given. Had M. Thiers been elected by the people, as the President of the United States is, the case would have been different. His position was more like that of a British Premier or Ministry, which, under the theory of constitutional government in England, re- signs office when the majority of Parliamentis persistently opposed. There is every reason to believe the Assembly does not represent the views and wishes of the French people; but it is the only regular and supreme constituted authority. The change of the Executive, therefore, is regular, however antagonistic it may be to the unexpressed sentiment of the people at the ballot box. Happily, both the powerful minority of the Assembly and the people, up to this time, do not resist the decision by violence, Should they main- tain that attitude and dopend upon peaceful means to overcome the monarchieal factions they will obtain the admiration of the world, and do more tor the republican cause than by any other course. We may be sure that Marshal MacMahon will show not less modera- tion and conservatism, and let us hope that the majority will also. But we cannot close our eyes to the danger that besets the French Republic and France. The factions that menace both the Republic and the peace of the country are, undeniably, in the Assembly itself. They are the mon- archists and imperialists, Though they have but an _ insignificant © majority, even when combined, over the republicans, as we have seen by the votes in the Assembly on Saturday and Sunday, they have had under that combination the power to carry out their will. Dare they and will they go further and attempt to squelch the Republic? That is the question upon which, probably, hangs peace or terrible civil war in France, The first vote, emanating from the Left and supported by the Thiers government, on the simple order of the day, may be considered asa test one. It was 348 for and 362 against the motion, thus showing, in a full house, 14 majority only against the government. On a motion of the Right to the effect that the Ministry of M. Thiers did not afford conservative guarantees the vote stood; for 360, against 344, thus giving 16 majority against the President. On the motion to accept the resignation of M. Thiers there were 368 for and 339 against, a majority of 29. We see, then, how com- pact and close the votes were, The differ- ence all through was small. The vote for MacMahon as President was 390, the Left abstaining from voting. This was an in- crease of 42 over the first vote supporting the Thiers government. Such a result, though still showing the out-and-out republican pha- lanx strong, was brought about, doubtless, by a few moderate men, not pronounced republi- cans, but who saw the necessity of promptly supplying the place M. Thiers vacated. Again, we ask, will the majority attempt to destroy the Republic in the face of the powerful republican party in the Assembly and the republican sentiment of France behind it? If they should they need not expect MacMahon will be their instrument to accomplish that. We are inclined to believe there is no un- derstanding between the monarchical and im- perialist factions, known as the Right, to es- tablish any government in place of the Re- public, No doubt they desire to destroy the Republic ; but each has its separate ambition and purpose, and is waiting for whatever chance its factious and disorganizing course may develop, The first thought was, we suppose, to preserve order after driving M. Thiers from thé Presidency, and this led them to choose the popular and able soldier— MacMahon—as Executive on the instant. Having been o Marshal of the Em- pire the imperialists hope, perhaps, that he will lean to the Bonapartes, and either by acoup d'état or insidiously re-establish impe- rialism. The legitimists and Orleanists may entertain @ similar hope, or, at least, the hope that in the scramble or anarchy that may ensue, they may come to the top. It matters little to any of these factions how France may suffer or bleed, or how the liberties of the people may be crushed, so that they may have a chance to rule. They are playing a desper- ate game, like a gambler in the last extremity, depending upon the chances that may arise, But MacMahon is ao true patriot and as honest as he is a brave, and will disappoint them. He will study the will of the French people rather than yield to the schemes of factions and politicians, ' Marshal MacMahon, though nota politician, eannot be ignorant of the causes that led to the deposition of M. Thiers. He must know that the republican sentiment of the country, as expressed in a remarkable manner at nearly all thé supplemental elections to the Assembly, and, as shown in many other ways, induced the retired nd yenerable Executive to lean to the Republic aa the only NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1873.—TRIPLE determined to overthrow him, As long as the Orleanists believed M. Thiers would adhere to his old love for their dynasty, and would use his power in the end to favor their ascendency, . they supported him ; but when it became evi- dent he looked more to public sentiment and the welfare of the country than to their party they united with the other monarchists against him. His great services in bringing France out of her terrible condition, which the war of the Empire had precipitated and the Commune had aggravated, were no longer re- membered or appreciated by the monarchical factions. Whatever might have been his pref- erence for any particular form of govern- ment he ssw the Republic only was practicable, and, as a patriot and far-seeing statesman, he gave that his sup- port. In this lay the great offence in the eyes of the monarchisjs. He was for the country; they were for themselves and party. Had the Right really dreaded the spectre of the Commune there was no need to supersede M. Thiers, for he had been and was the im- placable enemy of the Communeand all other disorganizers. Marshal MacMahon could hardly be more conservative. In fact fear of the Commune was a pretence. The Republic is what the Right and all the reactionists feared, Wo police that Marshal MacMahon will study the will of the people while holding a firm rein over disorganizers of all classes. Now, that the exeoutive government is rehabilitated in him, he will, perhaps, foel the profound responsibility of the position and be more ambitious of serving the country than any faction or party. The Ministry he has appointed is especially conservative, and, though its members or some of them may have had royalist or imperialist proclivities, they, too, may be careful not to plunge France into civil war by a reaction that would be most distaste- ful to the people. Marshal MacMahon, in his address to the Representatives of the Assem- bly, accepts the charge of President of the Republic, and it is fair to presume he will be loyal to the trust conferred. Again, in his message to-the Assembly yesterday, he de- clares emphatically his purpose to be con- servative, to maintain order and to establish the government. It is not at all probable that the royalist and imperialist factions can continue to act together in any reactionary scheme to establish another form of government. The republicans, on the other hand, will be united, probably, and be strengthened by the support of M. Thiers. The present provisional gov- ernment may be continued for some time, for the members of the Right are afraid to go be- fore the people in an election for a new Assem- bly. A coup d’éat by any of the factions would bring fearful bloodshed, anarchy and great misery to France; for the Republic is too strongly intrenched in the Assembly and hearts of the people to suppose otherwise, Then there is no doubt that Marshal Mac- Mahon will observe his oath as President of the Republic and pursue. the prudent and conservative policy he has avowed. The Flood of Immigration, Last week seventeen thousand prospective citizens were landed at Castle Garden. Thoy are the weekly instalment of that ceaseless flood of population which, crowded out by the innumerable oppressions of European mon- archies, bids adieu to all the endearments of home and native land to seek beyond the broad Atlantic new homes in this land of equal rights and absolute freedom. This stream of immigration is the most precious of all our importations. It costs us naught, while its value is beyond gold or gems, From this wholesome current the life of our young nation is constantly renewed. It supplies us with fresh hope, industry, energy, thrift and economy. It is a steady check uporapy ten- dency to luxury and the worship of wealth. These successors of the Plymouth pilgrims and Jamestown colonists, like the founders of our national fabric, have felt the grinding injustice of privileged classes, have tasted the woes of ill-paid toil, have learned in the harsh school of parental governments to hate aristocracy, and come here to enjoy freedom for themselves and ready to grant it to others. They are true republicans, real democrats, sure to cast their weight into the scale with liberal measures. Besides the great gain to the nation by the virtue and honesty of the immigrants, it is calculated that on the aver- age they bring in money one hundred dollars each. At this estimate we have nearly one and three-quarter millions of dollars as the contribution to our curreacy. And, if we count their labor, no doubt we must credit each immigrant with the value of a thousand dollars at least, which would add to the na- tional wealth the round sum of seven- teen million dollars for last woek’s ar- rivals. From English, Irish, German and Scandinavian’ papers we learn that their seaport towns are crowded with emigrants seeking transportation, and there will be no diminution of the stream till the Fall frosts make the journey dreaded. Ger- many vainly places obstacles in the way of her subjects, who, though they dearly love fatherland, yet do not care that all their song should waste the best years of young man- hood in the army. England’s thousands of half-paid laborers look for just wages here. Treland sends hither her generous quota to join their relatives who have come before and find homes where they need serve no foreign mas- ters. Here the hardy Danes, Swedes and Norwegians bring their industry to fields which reward them more freely than their snowy hills. All our immigrants should be welcome, as they are. We have room enough and work enough for al] in our growing cities and on our broad prairies, and shall have yet these many years. And while the wholesome stream continues to flow in upon us we need have no fear for the decline of freedom in this asylum of the oppressed of all nations, Resvrrecrion JuBiLez in Cntcaco,—The good people of Chicago propose to celebrate the restoration of the city to its proportions prior to the great conflagration—with “mod- ¢rn improvements"’—by a grand jubilee on the 6th of next month, and lasting several days. The programme is gotten up on a most magnificent scale, Lord Dufferin, Governor General of Canada, is to be one of the lions of the occasion, All the German, Scandinavian and Italian singing socicties haye enlisted their full strength for the grand choruses. Morning and evening concerts are to be given. practicable government for France under éxisting circumstances, and that, as a conse- quence, the royalists and imporialists were Jubilee Gilmore, of Boston, is to superintend the orchestra; the school children will parade and sing; @ grand dinner is to be given to the SHEET. city’s guests, anda splendid ball, whenall the ‘fair women and brave men’’ of the resur- rected city, and the burned district particu- larly, will be present, will conclude the fes- tivities. Verily, that little kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow has been the means of creating a huge commotion among the Chicagoans. There is every prospect the affair will be a complete success, and we trust it will proveso. The Code of Honor—How Murder By Duelling Can Be Abolished. When Foster killed Putnam for daring to resent an insult toa young gisl an indignant public proclaimed him a murderer, and law, goaded into justice by a persistent press, atlast sent him before the Supreme Judge of all. Though New York breathed more freely upon being told that Fisk had been stealthily shot in the back, the dead man’s greatest enemy did not lose sight of the crime, and stays of proceedings are not likely to absolve Stokes from the penalty of his dastardly action. When the illiterate, thoughtless Nixon shot Phyfer, no clergymen interfered to save him from the scaffold. Society does not hesitate to brand .Foster, Stokes and Nixon as murderers; but circumstances alter cnses, and what at one time society calls murder at another time society tolerates and not unfrequently applauds under the more euphonious name of “honor.”’ It is criminal for Simmons to kill Duryea, notwith- standing that each thirsted for the other's blood, and both fought desperately for su- premacy. It is honorable for two ‘‘gentle- men’’ engaged in a dispute about a woman's eyebrows to settle the color by making targets of one another and coolly firing until one drops dead or wounded. The survivor is a hero, whom many men regard with envy and upon whom many women shower their most bewitching smiles. If inconsistency were a jéwel the Kohinoor would have a dangerous rival. We denounce the hari-kari of Japan as barbarous, and, being civilized, we allow the code duello to exist, Evidently Christianity has deeply impressed the average mind. Virginia is the home of first families. On her sacred soil once stood cavaliers and now blooms chivalry. Two of its fairest flowers have recently been engaged in an affair of honor, though the written laws of their State makes the survivor of a duel a murderer and the seconds accessories before the fact. But what of this? Is not honor honor? and will any jury be abject enough to hang a duellist? Cortainly not, and MoCarthy, lying as an interesting invalid ine ‘cell elegantly carpeted, surrounded by friends;'sworn in @s officers of the law in order to preserves flower of chivalry from contact with regular practitioners, has every reason to congratulate himself upon being a noble example to hot-blooded youth. Why? The story deserves repetition, McCarthy writes somewhat questionable verses con- cerning a reigning belle, which are in duo time published, . Mordecai excoriates them and their author, whereupon all Little Ped- lington bubbles with gossip started by clubs and ornamented by women. Through the kindness of good natured friends McCarthy hears of the criticism. He is assured that his honor is in danger, that nothing less than blood will atone for the insult. A challenge is sent ; a truce succeeds it ; a quarrel ensues, during which the following dramatic dialogue takes place: — “Do you intend those remarks for me, sir?’’ “And pray, who are you, sir?’’ asks McCarthy, with withering contempt. “I am a gentleman,” retorts the passionate Mordecai. “Ah!’’ drawls McCarthy, scornfully. Where- upon Mordecai knocks McCarthy down and, because of a lacerated nose, a swollen face and blackened eyes, McCarthy feels that he will be branded as a coward unless his ‘honor’ be avenged. A duel follows close upon the fight. “I demand another fire,” says McCarthy, when Mordecai’s seconds suggest a settlement, after the first fire leaves both uninjured. He carries his point and kills his man, after which little pastime his honor is intact, What is the killing of o man compared with the approba- tion of Richmond clubs and Richmond women? As in most duels the less offender is launched into eternity, so of course the jus- tice of duello becomes apparent to the most illogical mind. Already this maniy encounter in Virginia has borne deadly fruit, and we ask whether there is enough healthy sentiment in America to put down the wretched superstition that a Man can make wrong right by exhibiting a certain amount of physical courage? Moral courage we leave entirely out of the question ; for to refuse to fight a duel is, in the present age of stupidity, to possess an amount of back- bone of which the duellist is utterly incapable. McCarthy proved his cowardice by his chal- lenge. He dared not face public opinion. He preferred disobeying the laws of God and man ; he preferred running the risk of taking life and rendering at least one family miserable to braving the verdict of tattlers and scandal- mongers. Yet we pity rather than blame him, The real murderer of Mordecai is publig opinion. Streams cannot rise higher than their source. It can hardly be expected that Mordecai should disbelieve in the utility of duelling when his own venerable mother is said to have remarked, when her son doubted whether his friends would bear the challenge to his opponent, “Be of good cheer, my son. If they refuse, I'll carry it myself.’’ Women Kept the Southern rebellion alive, women taunted McCarthy into murder. It is thoy and the men of the clubs who are the greatest sinners, They sin because of ignorance. The greatest enemy of mankind is ignorance, and ignorance is not confined to the South. The code of “‘honor’’ taints the air, and even amid the intelligence of the North the curied darl- ings of the clubg arg gyer hovering on the verge of a challenge, Every man feels that the next dispute may lead to insult, and if insulted how can_ bis manhood be proved except by resorting to pistols? ‘Will public opinion be satisfied with a knockdown argument if the insulter boasts the stouter wisdle? fe Is extremely doubt- ful, and therefore weapons are demanded, though the man of musele bes equally famous asa dead shot. The insulted person dies for having been told that he lied or cheated at cards or gossiped about a woman. But what of it? He has protected that delicate, micro- scopic, intangible thing men call. “honor” in order to be their own worst satirists. Again we ask if it be not time that moralists turned their attention to this vital subject? . Will not pulpit and press join in condemming the most utterly senseless custom that noblesse obliges? Will not mothers begin the crusade by inculeating nobler ideas of responsibility than now obtain among their sons? Can not silly women be made to realize the gross immo- rality of scorning and vilifying the man who respects himself too highly to place his life in the hands of one whom he either hates or despises? Is it not possible to invent a code of honor, more compatible with reason and Christianity? If violence must be done, and muscle be wanting in either one or both cases, why not hire equally matched pugilists, pay them for their manly pummelling, and when the Iast round has been fought shake hands across the victor’s bloody nose? if public opinion becomes sufficiently civilized to set up the creed that a man’s best defence of his honor is defence of right and acknowledgment of wrong arbitration will be the panacea for private as well-as-national grievances. England and America have not lost their honor by appealing from’ war to argument. Why, then, should individuals? How is right vindicated by the death of the person wronged? Is not the duello prepos- terously. illogical? Virginia appreciates its crime by stigmatizing it as murder. Not a State in the Union but should so insoribe it on its statute book, and not, one should shrink from making the law respected by its enforce- ment on the scaffold: The sooner we are fur- nished with an example the better for public morals, The American patrons of murder by duel- ling, shooting on sight or from behind a fence are either the decivilized beings called “border ruffians,”” who form the camp fol- lowers of the.pioncer army in the great West, or-else the loafing, chattering scions of the Southern chivalry, From whatevér social grade they are taken they are parasitic non- producers, ‘In the South it is most frequently better men than themselves who are brought toa hostile meeting. Oan the civilization of the nineteenth century take its code of honor from such sources without a blash? Civiliza- tion has.long ago recognized cow stealing as robbery;. yet ‘baron, or squire, or knight of the shire,’’ in feudal.times, when the challenge to mortal combat was imperative among peers, found ‘cattle lifting’ an honorable as well as profitable pastime. ‘The cow thief we now send to the Penitentiary, and we hope soon to see the surviving principal and all the accessories to the act ina fatal duel sent to the gallows, This McCarthy, who is now in Richmond jail recovering from his black eyes and his bullet wound, is the first under tho law of Virginia indictable for murder as a duellist. We demand the trial ofthis man and his accessories for the crime of murder. As the law stands his conviction and theirs should follow. Then, beneath a stout gal- lows beam, we shall expect to sce the duello die in the persons of the man and his accom- plices who murdered_Mordecai, With this example we shall in a few years find killing by the code more disreputable than cow- thieving, because much more dangerous, The coolness of seconds in 9 duelis proverbial. Treated as the delicate high priests of murder, they glow all over with a kind of sanguinary unctuousness and sanctified complacency. Treated like their compeers, the ruffians who hold s man down while the murderer stabs, cudgels or pistols him to death (that is, with another noose on the gallows), seconds will be as scarce as principals. The Colonel Tabbs, the McCarthys and Mordecais will find some other way out of their difficulties besides pre- posterous “‘ truce cartels” and brutalizing mur- der, The duel never made a gentleman, sel- dom, if ever, satisfactorily redressed a wrong, while it has elevated contemptibly petty quar- rels into bloody feuds, has made valuable life cheap, and has, wherever it has flourished, given birth to a race of insolent bullies, whether known as knights, border ruffians, bravees, fire-eaters, Mohicans, blood-tubs, plug-uglies or nigger-driving chevaliers. The cartel has been the only means through which the bully committed murder, with impunity, We now invoke the extremity of the law upon all the survivors criminally concerned in the Mordecai murder, that the young ‘‘bloods” may learn to make their fantastic ideas of ‘honor’ subservient to the law's dictum of the inviolability of human life and the safety of the citizen. Tae Mexican Minister on Coronet MoKewztr’s Incurston.—We are pleased to hear that Sefior Mariscal, the Mexican Minister at Washington, is of the opinion that no trouble will ensue from the invasion of Mexico by Colonel McKenzie and his United States troopers in pursuit of those thieving Kicka- poos from Texas, who had learned to believe that in crossing the Rio Grande with their plunder they were perfectly safe. Sefior Mariscal has very good reasons for his opin- ion, iriasmuch as within the last two years, according to his testimony, the. Mexicans, on their Indian hunts, have several times pur- sued their game into Texas, $0, then, upon the good old rule that “one good turn de- serves another,” — BeKenzie’s incursion is an act of feciprocity and is all right. But it isa little curious that the seeret of these Mexican military incursions into Texas should leak out at last from the Mexican Minister. Pantres 1x. France.—There are.the old Bourbons by ‘divine right,” thoroughly dyed in the wool, ‘who never forget anything and never learn anything;”’ and the younger Bourbons, only partially dyed in the wool; and the imperialists, who believe that the “Bonapartes always come ‘back again;’”” and the conservative républicans, ‘‘arf-and-arf,”” and the .radical republicans; gnd, tast and most dangerous of all in a evolutionary out- break, the Comsiiintsts; but stendily gaining’ ground over them all is the practical party of the Republic. FerprmanD pe Lessrrs’ Gnranp Astatic Rarway Provsgct is simply a scheme to con- nect Russia by rail with British India. The gap tobe filled on the line indicated between St. Petersburg nnd Calcutta is only a stretch of some ‘twenty-five hundred miles across the deserts of Central Asin, where, in tho Winter, everything is snowed in and frozen up, and where, inthe Summer, evérything is burned up. It would cost Russia, with ‘her system of contractors’ rings, hardly less than one hundred thousand dollars a mile to build this road, so that the gap mentioned will re- quire the sum of two hundred and fifty mil- lion’ dollars to rail it over with o single track. But what is this sum compared with the pos- session of British India, which this road will transfoy to Russia? That is the question. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, pam De Sea Ex-Mayor John L. Flagg, of Troy, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Dr. Pusey has returned. to England with health re-established, General J. B, Stonehouse, of Albany, is staying at the Astor Heuse. Judge Nathaniel Page, of Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Queen Victoria has gene to Balmoral Palace, in Scotland, to stay until June 27. : General Sherman, who is now in St. Leuis, wilt return to Washington to-morrow. George H. Pendieton is a passenger on the steam- ship Java, which is expected to arrive to-day, The Rochester people are growing crazy over twe Poor little sad recently caught in Lake Ontario. The death is announced.of Herr Von Bodel- schwingh, Prussian Finance Minister before 1866. Baron Von Ktibeo, the Austrian, Prime Minister to the Holy See, died on the 14th instant, at Gratz. Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith has started from Dun- dee, Scotland, on an Arctic expedition in a steam yacht, Sidney E. Morse, of the New. York Observer, ar+ rived from Europe on Saturday in the steamship Parthia, The Hon. L. Poer Trench, of the British Legation at Washington, yesterday reached the Westmore- land Hotel. Isaac Eokert, Commissioner to the Vienna Ex- hibition from Pennsylvania, is registered at the Astor House, : John Pyne, s Manchester bricklayer, is to pine in prison two months for personating in the late elec-) tion 'a dead voter, > Earl Derby is wiliing to join in any mark of re- spect for John Stuart Mill which does not endorse his political opinions, General Butler, the “hero of Big Bethel,” has gone on 8 trouting expedition down in, Maine, with Bethel as the objective point, The President, accompanied by General Babcock, left Washington yesterday morning for Harrisburg. He will return to-morrow evening, Shakespeare was banquetted by the Maharajah of Benares on April 15,. Shakespeare was retiring from a sort of Commissionership at the time, Herr Jobann Herveck, an Austrian, who was too. il. $0 conduct the music at the opening of the Vienna Exhibition, is to receive trom the Emperor the Order of the Iron Crown. Iwakura, the Japanese Ambassador, arrived tal” Florence, with bis suite, on the 8th instant, amd this is what the newspapers there call him:— Savonii-Herouboumi-Juakura. Under Secretary of State Dr. Achenbach has been appointed to the German Ministry of Commerce, vacant by the resignatton of Count Itzenplitz. He will not be created Baron Lumbago. Herr Stumm will leave the Brevoort House thir’ morning for Washington to begih the performance, of his duties as Charge d’ 3 of the German Le- gation during the absence o1 Minister Schlozer, The Congressional delegation from the St. Lonis Convention have had quite a jolly time in Texas, The Galvestonians “Iaia themselves out” for the occasion and acquitted themselves handsomely. The Philade)phia Age thinks that Colonel McKen- zie has done a good thing. in pursuing Indian ma- Tauders across the Mexican border. General Jack- son did the same thing in Florida when that coun- try was owned by the Spaniards. Luke C. Poland, Member of Congress from Ver-’ mont, of Mobilier Committee fame, has arrived at the New York Hotel, The Judge has come out younger and iresher from the severe strain of the trial. Ho is en route to West Point as a member of ‘the Visiting Board. The Ann Arbor (Mich.) Lecture Association on ® ‘course of fourteen lectures has lost nearly $50, John’ B, Gough netted $198; Beecher, $83 70; Pro- fessor White, $69 75; E. L. Godkin, $52; William Parsons, $12 75; Mrs. Scott-Siddons, $6 75; Ed- mund Yates, 25 cénts, while the following netted a loss:—J. T. Fields, 50 cents; Dr. Chapin, $1, and George Macdonald, $20; On Mr, Curtis the specu- lators just cleared thentgelves.. Inspector Hagen, a Scotland Yard detective, who has been in attendance on the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur atthe Vienna Exhibition, was ar- rested by the Austrian police for pressing too close upon the princely pair as, they were leaving the British section after the banquet therein to the British workingmen. The police thought hemeant te harm the Princes, and the inspeetor, vainly as- suring them of his wish to protect his royal mas- ter, was borne to jail. MUSIOAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, - The new piece, “A Boy Burglar,’’ by Stanley Mackenna, was produced at the Bowery Theatre last night. 3 It ts reported that “Oofty Gooft” is soon to ap- pear at Niblo’s, and that he will be followed by Misa Lulu Prior in a new play written for her by a young journalist of this city. The Summer season at the Olympic Theatre opens with the Coleman Sisters, and it is reported that the next regular season will begin with the new Lydia Thompson Burlesque Company, ‘The names of several literary adventurers are mentioned as the authors of the play, “Without a Heart,” at the Union SquareTheatre. Suggestions of this kind are more wicked than literary piracy, for they are made to injure the real author of an unsuccessful play by attributing the authorship to persons whom itis known cannot write successfal pieces, NAVAL ORDERS. WaAsninaron, D. C,, May 26, 1873, Surgeon ©. G. Wells is ordered to ‘the New York Navy Yard. Surgeon M. Bradley hag been detached fron the New York Navy Yard ‘and awaits orders, DISOOVERY OF A NEW PLANET. ‘WASHINGTON, May 26, 1873. Professor C. F. Peters discovered on the morn- ing of the 26th inst. a new planet of the eleventh magnitude, right ascension, 161 deg. 14 min. sout! gue ail deg. is min. deelination. Motion due wea, STRANGE gVIOIDE A Gir) of Fifteen Takes Poison. Coroner Kessler was yesterday called to No. 15 Suffolk street to investigate @ singular case of suicide which oc- curred there the night previous, Emma Kurz, a way- ward, self-willed girl, not fifteen years of age, for several months past had been learning the dressmaking business with a lady at 229 East Tenth street, who noticed at_in- tervals that Emma acted somewhat strangely. Last Friday evening Emma left her father's house for her lace of business, and, 7: Tour hours later, said to her Mep-motner that she had taken something bad. ‘i confessed te having taken. Rarls green because ir she was tired of life and said she had to apply to two or three drug stores before she could procure the ison, the druggists being somewhat afraid to sell it het Emma utterly refused to give the motive whict prompted her to swallow the fatal draught A doctor ‘was called and administered yh) but with no permanent result, and death ensued Sun pa, as y ¢ parents of deceased being an: ous Know whether she had any organic disease reauest Deputy Coroner Leo to make « eee eg eg ina tion on the body, which he will do to-day. ere is no doubt, however, but that Emma died from the effects of ill be essler poison to reviously stated. Thi ELAR, intel bg iets etal fe nan ruggist who so) deceased. ¥° ae de tise SRoOKLYN COMMON COUNCIL. = What the City Work? Demand to Ran Their Department Next Year—Oppost- tion to the Assembly Bridge Charter Amendments. The regular stated sossion of the Brooklyn Board of Aldermen was held yesterday afternoo, President Clancy in the chair. The estimate of the Commissioners of the Board of City Works of expenses of said Depart- ment to be raised tor the year ending April 30, 1874, was yey read. This Department or din ene estimate of last your: The ie an the estima’ . Ts are as follows i=BSalariey of Commissto eservoir, $2145; Ridgewood Reservoir, ; pon and wate $8; ea, $2,000; distribution and re- i ! } Feth A to aah tide on derman oncerning the proposed Assembly amendments to “Act to.amend the bridge charter :!— “Resolved, That the members of the Senate and Aw sembly from Kings county be and they are hereby ear- nestly, requested to use their best efforts to detent the amendments made in the Assembly to the Senate bil entitled ‘An act to amend the charter of the Now Yor! Bridge Company,’ having for Its objcet the acceptance by the cities of the stock held by priyate stockholders and the appointment by the Mayor of a Board of ten di- fectors, “Resolved, That the City Clerk be and he is hereby directed to forward forthwith to the Governor of the State, also to each member of the Senate apd Assembl from Kings county, a copy of the foregeing resolution. Alter a warm seban e resolution wi adopts: an ae Beth ‘The Wth of May bel it dorud that ali Dubie oticeg don Water and Drainage. presented the following resolution the