The New York Herald Newspaper, May 28, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YUKK HEKALD WHUNESVAY, MAY 28, 1873—TRIPLE SHKEKT, NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volame XXXVIIL..............002000+.NOo 148 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth evenue.—Amy Rossart NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- way.—Mapeixiy MOREL. BOWERY THEATRE, Boy Burgiar. Bowery.—Bamsoozuing—Tar EATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Tnr Two BosanoecLirrix Thee Suurrann, &0- Matiioo at 2g GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth ay.—Montx Cntsto. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broaiway, corner Thirtieth st.— Captain Jack, Afternoon and evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Itatian Orera—MiGNnos, NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and Houston sts.—AzZRAxL; on, Tue Magic CHARM. UARE THEATRE, imuouT a Hieat UNION Si Union square, near Broadway.—' Va Matinee at 1g ATHENEUM, 585 Broadway. mano Variety Ente. Tainmenr. Matinee at 233. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humrty Dumpty. Matinee at 2. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and ‘Thirteenth street.—Our American Cousin, MRS, F, B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Romeo anv Juniet. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Sowwer Nicnts’ Con- certs, TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and 34 avs.—Orerxtta anv Licut Comxpy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HO! h av.—NeGRO MINSTRELSY, , Twenty-third st., corner c. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ‘TRIPLE New York, Wednesday, May 28, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE GREAT ISTHMIAN CANAL! ONE OF THE PRACTICAL SCHEMES OF GENERAL GRANT'S ADMINISTRATION'—TITLE OF THE LEADER—SIXxTH Pauk. THE NEW FRENCH REGIME! FREE TRADE AND LEGITIMIST RESTORATION DECLARED TO BE UNDERLINED IN MacCMAHON’S PRO- GRAMME! THIERS HARD AT WORK! PAPAL GRATULATION OVER HIS DIS- PLACEMENT—SEVENTH PaGE. HE IMPRISONED HERALD CORRESPONDENTS— THE PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY-JAPAN IN NEW YORK—A COAL STRIKE THREAT- ENED—SEVENTH PAGE. 6PANISH SLAVE EMANCIPATION! THE CUBAN CAPTAIN GENERAL ORDERED TO MANU- MIT 10,000 SLAVES! BALLOT PROCRASTI- NATION—SEVENTH PaGE. ITALY RESOLVES UPON ABOLISHING THE RELI- GIOUS HOUSES! THE CONFISCATION BILL FINALLY PASSED! IMPOSING CEREMONIES IN HONOR OF THE MEMORY OF MANZO- NI—SEVENTH Pace. AMERICAN SCIENTISTS IN EGYPT! A PARTY EXPLORING THE NILE AND THE ANCIENT SEAT OF CIVILIZATION—SEVENTH PaGR. LEVI SOULS EXECUTED FOR THE BRUTAL MUR- DER OF A COMRADE! RUM THE CAUSE! THE GALLOWS SCENES—THIRD PaGE. ADJOURNMENT OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT OVER DERBY DAY! TOM HUGHES PRO- TESTS! THE ANTI-BETTING LAW EX- TENDED TO SCUTLAND! FIRE FATALI- TIES IN LONDON—SEvENTH Pace. BIDWELL, THE ALLEGED FORGER, IN NEW- GATE PRISON—IMPORTANT CABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS—SEVENTH PaGE. FINE TURF SPORTS! RACING AT BALTIMORE AND THE WINNERS—THE PROSPECT PARK MEETING—TROTTING AT DEER- FOOT—TaIRD Pace. LOCAL IMPROVEMENT PASSED UPON IN THE LEGISLATURE! TEXT OF THE MEASURE! THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION! ANOTHER FLAW IN THE CHARTER—TENTH Pace. “STOP THIEF!” DETECTIVE OPERATIONS— ® ANOTHER “MUTUAL” DEFEAT — NEW JERSEY EPISCOPAL CONVENTION. AMONSTER SUNDAY SCHOOL REUNION— THIRD PAGE. LOZADA'S REVENGE! A PRISONER CONFINED FOURTEEN YEARS IN A TOMB-LIKE CELL! THE ROUT OF LOZADA COMPLETE! THE MEXICAN RAILROADS! A NAVAL SURVEY SCARE—Fourta Pace. STOCK SENSATIONS ON 'CHANGE! A DECLINE IN THE PACIFIC STOCKS! THE GOLD CLIQUE ACTIVE! RAILWAY AND GOVERN- MENT BONDS DEVELOPING STRENGTH— REAL ESTATE—FirTH PAGE. BUSINESS IN THE LEGAL TRIBUNALS—WILL THEY STRIKE?—PRISON REFORM—A LOU- ISIANA JUDGE IN DANGER—Fourta Pace. Dornos at Arpany.—There were various matters considered in both houses of the Legislature yesterday, including bills passed and bills lost, of considerable interest to the citizens of Manhattan Island. See our re- ports of Senate and Assembly elsewhere in these columns. Monastic Instrrvtions To Be Suppnressep ty Romz.—The Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament has finally passed the bill for the suppression and abolition of religious corporations in Rome. There is little doubt that the measure will, in its completeness, teceive the sanction of the Crown. The Italian Treasury needs money, and the property of the teligious foundations has become valuable after careful culture, and by an agglomeration of endowments, in many centuries, It par- takes, however, of an international, world wide ownership, to a very considerable extent. This fact may lead to many complications and some fresh difficulties to the government of King Vic- torEmmanuel. Indications of such a result are indeed already apparent. The legislative ac- tomplishment of the measure in Rome will add to the Continental excitement which is tadiating rapidly from Paris. A list of the teligious houses which have already been sup- pressed in the Holy City is published in the Heraup, Ir seems rat the prohibitionists of the State have met at Albany and decided to pre- fer no legislation in their behalf to that pro- posed, which they appear to think means free {or unlicensed) beer and the ‘lighter bever- ages.” The free beer dodge was once tried in England, and Sydney Smith said of it:-- “The new beer bill bas begun its operations. Everybody is drunk. Those who are not sing. ing are sprawling. ‘Ihe sovereign people are in a beastly state.’’ We trust we shall never have to refer toe state of things like that in this country, The Great Isthmian Cansl—One of the Practical schemes of General Grant's Administration. A Hunatp correspondent on the Mexican border in a recent letter, after detailing the enormous losses of our citizens of Texas from the depredations of Mexican cattle stealers, earnestly advocates the annexation of the frontier Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, &., as the only practical solution of these border troubles. This idea, strong in the army, seems to be widely entertained among our people, and from various sources within the last few weeks it has been reported as a scheme of the administration, We had supposed that after the discouraging failure of his St. Domingo annexation experiment General Grant had become exceedingly cautious in reference to all other projects of ‘(manifest destiny;" but the temptations to this Mexican adventure are so powerful that he may not be able to resist them. For example, with tho absorption of the Mexican frontier States between the two oceans our existing border troubles, it is claimed, will be promptly and permanently settled, a new and extensive field for “North American’ enterprise in the development of marvellous gold, silver and copper mines will be secured, and a field for transcontinental and Mexican railways, which, with the com- ‘pletion of two or three lines, will establish internal peace in our ‘sister Republic’? and enrich both Mexico and the United States. These are plausible arguments in favor of this annexation scheme, and when it is further contended that to Mexico there is no alterna- tive but a cession of territory in the settle- ment of a balance of some twenty millions of dollars in the claims we have against her, the question arises, How is President Grant to avoid this adjustment? We answer, that all the real advantages suggested in this annexa- tion project can be secured without it, and that the acceptance of a white elephant, with only the promise to keep him and take good care of him, is a costly bargain. But siill, remembering the ‘‘new departure’ of General Grant, in the gigantic schemes of internal im- provements submitted to the consideration of Congress in his last annual message, we think it possible that the commercial arguments in support of “another slice from Mexico’’ may tempt him to the speculation. We trust, how- ever, that he will not be misled into this wild goose chase, as we hope that Congress will not be diverted to the expensive folly of con- necting the bays, sounds and inlets along our Atlantic seaboard by a ship canal, nor to that other ante-diluvian idea of a half-dozen horse- boat canals over the Alleghany Mountains. But there is one commercial scheme upon which the administration has ventured, mani- festly with a desire to carry it through, which commands our most cordial support. We refer to the scheme of an interoceanic ship canal over the most available isthmus passage anywhere to be found from Nicaragua down to the Atrato River, in South America. The Suez Canal is a success, and is steadily re- calling the trade between Southwestern Asia and Europe to its old channels—that trade which, before the rounding by modern navi- gators of the Cape of Good Hope, built up the commercial cities of the Mediterranean. But a ship canal which will cut off the rounding of the Continent of South America will be incal- culably more valuable to the world at large than the Suez Canal, and to the United States, particularly, will it be a profitable investment, in giving us the command of the enormous traffic of Eastern Asia. Under the auspices of General Grant’s administration we believe that the most available route for this ship canal has at length been found in the newly discovered way across the Isthmus of Darien. The preliminary but decisive intelligence of the success of this Isthmian Ship Canal Sur- vey, as first given by the Heratp recently, will reawaken popular enthusiasm in this great enterprise. The interoceanic water way has been the dream of all the nations of the New World ever sinc the day when Vasco Nunez discovered the Great Ocean —— and all his men Looked at each other with @ wild surmise Silent upon @ peak of Darien, The magnitude of the undertaking has here- tofore been equalled by the uncertainty which overhung it in the point of engineering practicability. But the revelations made by the Selfridge Expedition remove all doubts as to the latter point, and indicate that the ex- pense will by no means reach such high figures as were formerly assigned by en- gincers. Without depreciating the splendid labors of Captain Shufeldt in the Tehuantepec Survey and those of other intrepid and saga- cious explorers for a transoceanic canal route, we may congratulate the country and the Self- ridge Expedition upon its conclusive and triumphant researches. The line now marked out by Captain Self- ridge wholly lies in the territory of the United States of Colombia and passes through the Atrato Valley, which bears geologic evidence of having been once an arm of the sea. As- cending the Atrato (which isa broad stream from one thousand to fifteen hundred feet in width and from twenty-eight to sixty feet deep in the channel, a8 far as it would be required for ship navigation), the proposed canal would enter the Napipi River valley and thence by one of its upper tributaries, the Doguado, strike to within a few miles of the Pacific beach, making a total length of less than thirty miles. The Napipi Valley—the second in importance as a connecting link in the great highway—runs through the hills of Northwestern Colombia, where the Andean chain is almost interrupted, and along the summits which overlook it may be found healthy localities swept by pleasant breezes from the ocean and cooled by numerous monn- tain streams. Such a region would furnish a good base of operations for the labor force, engineer and other parties engaged in the con- struction of the canal. The Doguado is the last link in the chain of isthmian communi- cation, and appears to have the greatest ad- vantages for bringing the Napipi, into which it flows, in direct connection with the Pacific slope, which is abrupt and very narrow. From these facts it is easy to see that there are no insurmountable difficulties in the way of building a canal within a reasonable expen- diture of money and with every prospect of a Temunerative investment, The arm of the sea into which the Atrato discharges its volume lies im the natural track of a sailor, who, ignor- ant of the existence of a land barrier, was seeking an outlet from the tropical Atlantic to the Pacific waters. It was near the upper ex- | tremity of the Gulf of Darien (so distinguished i ttttsi(‘(‘(‘(C(C(C(‘(C;:S:tsC:tsC:tCiCSCOC'CNOCONOO. eee historically), where the Atrato River enters it, that the first European settlement in South America waa established, in 1509. Tho pro- posed route lies also in the most favorable location for sailing vessels using the trade winds and currents of the Atlantic to make their westward voyage, and in this respect it has some advantages over the rival routes by Nicaragua and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The cost of the Atrato Canal, at a liberal estimate, will not execed, it is said, seventy million dollars, which is the lowest calcula- tion ever made for an interoceanic canal. Taking into consideration the enormous ad- vantages and profits that would result from the operation of a ship thoroughfare at Da- rien, this sum is not high or appalling. If undertaken as an international work, by the maritime nations, the outlay would hardly be felt, but the benefits and returns would be most sensible and incalculable. The Croton aqueduct, with its sub-aqueduot, dams and reservoirs and accessory works, was built ata cost exceeding forty millions, or more than ope-half of the entire estimated cost of the Darien water way. The canals and artificial lakes of ancient times on the Euphrates, the twenty aqueducts of Rome, that once brought water across the Campagna, over many thou- sand arches, extending from thirty to sixty miles (three of which now amply supply mod- ern Romo), and numerous mighty works of a former period, which far exceeded in point of costliness our isthmian ship canal, rebuke our boasted progress and civilization for their tardiness in piercing the thin and fragile bar- rier which now separates the two great oceans. The canal is fast becoming the great desider- atum of intercontinental, as it must necessa- rily be, of interoceanic transit and transpor- tation. In view of the transcendent impor- tance of a canal at Darien, we may cherish the hope that no time will be lost in maturing tho plans and perfecting the estimates, in order to place the whole matter before the next Con- gress for serious and decisive action. The Mexican Border Troubles. We have advices from our correspondent at San Antonio, Texas, down to the 26th inst., which state that General McKenzie reached Fort Clark with his command and prisoners last Wednesday; that the prisoners (Kicka- poos) were forwarded en route to San Antonio on Thursday, guarded by a company of cav- alry; that the excitement on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande ran high when the news was received of McKenzie’s bold move- ment, and great was the indignation among the ‘‘greasers’’; that a large armed force was improvised and couriers sent to the interior towns calling for volunteers to intercept McKenzie, but he was too quick in getting back from the “sacred soil’’ of Mexico with his Kickapoo prisoners and their plunder ; that the Indians over the river were in 4 fear- ful state of agitation, threatening vengeance to residents on the Texas side; that our citi- zens in exposed positions on the border were in consequence removing their families, but that our troops now cover the most important fords of the dividing stream. It is generally felt, too, among our border people that Gon- eral McKenzie’s wholesome lesson to thieving Mexicans as well as Kickapoos gives assur- ance of full protection. Better still, it appears that Generals Fanchon, Rodriguez, and other leaders among the Mexicans on the frontier, are exercising their influence to keep the peace, not only advocating the right of the United States troops to cross the river after hostile Indians, but actually favoring the co-operation of the Mexican forces with them when attacking such Indians on Mexican territory. This in- telligence is confirmed by a despatch from General Augur, in Texas, to Gencral Sheridan, at Chicago, which says that the Mexicans on the border (meaning, doubtless, officers of the army and civilians in authority) are well pleased with the punishment given the Kickapoos by McKenzie. General Augur fur- ther says that the remainder of the Kickapoos (the main body of the tribe still in Mexico) threaten retaliation, but that ‘we are ready for them, if they come.’’ It is gratifying to know that the Administration assumes the re- sponsibility of McKenzie’s act, and that the President is determined to enforce the ob- servance of law on the Rio Grande. His position, as explained in our Washington despatch, is well defined. The Kickapoos and Lipans will be exterminated with, it is hoped, the approval of Mexico; but exterminated anyhow. This is cheering news, though it comes very late; for we have every year, from time to time, for the last five, six or seven years, been hoping for and urging “short, sharp and decisive’ plan of operations against these marauders in Texas—Indians or Mexicans— from the other side of the river. We expect now, as there should be, a speedy settlement of these border disturbances, with or without the consent of Mexico. The Alabama ms Payment—Last Kick of John Bull. The British House of Commons, while ocen- pied on Monday night in Committee of Sup- ply, took up the item for the payment of the Alabama award, which, as a matter of course, called forth remarks from the opposition. The item, however, was agreed to, though we are not informed by what vote. Mr. Bentinck, in opposing the appropriation, declared that the government policy on this Alabama claims question had been humiliating and degrading. This talk was simply for party effect and to gratify the grumbling propensity of John Bull. Had Mr. Bentinck been in Mr. Glad- stone’s place he would, probably, have acted much as the Premier has all through this busi- ness. Even Mr. Gladstone felt the necessity of saying something to soothe the wounded pride of Englishmen and money loss to Eng- land, and made the remark, which was alto- gether irrelevant and uncalled for, that the ad- vancement of the indirect claims by the Ameri- can government was a gigantic error. The language used in this debate we may consider the last kick of our burly relative before pay- ing over the Alabama award, and, perhaps, Storms Our West.—Im- mense losses of property are reported from recent excessive rains in Kansas and Iowa, in the destruction of crops, bridges and roads. After all their sufferings of the last six months from intense cold, heavy snows, hurriganes and floods, we hope and trust that the people of the Great Plains will not have to complain of drought and prairie fires before the year is ouded. vT Latest from France. Our latest advices from France give renewed assurances of the maintenance of law and order. President MacMahon having an- nounced his policy to be ‘‘resolutely conserva- tive,’ and having the army and the active business classes of the people at his back, will doubtless be able to maintain things as they are while he holds a majority in the existing Assembly. How long he will hold a majority in that uncertain body is the delicate question. We have a report through the London ‘limes that the French government (President MacMahon) has resolved to adopt the free trade policy, and also to reduce the military expenditures, This report, however, may be conjectured as a departure from the protec- tionist policy of President Thiers and his heavy expenditures for the army, which will be well received by the French people. It will be remembered that Thiers was so stub- bornly resisted by the Assembly in the matter of his protective policy that it was only by threatening to resign that he carried his point. MacMahon may therefore think that some- thing will be gained by his government on falling back upon the popular free trade pol- icy of Napoleon the Third, and in making up his resulting revenue deficiency by army re- trenchments, ‘Nous verrons.”” At Rome MacMahon is heralded as a har- binger of peace for France, while at Berlin the prevailing opinion appears to be that the old hero who went down at Sedan with the Empire will rise in the character of General Monk in behalf of a legitimist restoration in France. The wish in this case, however, is evidently father to the thought. We dare say that the honest soldier in this case will prove equal to all emergencies in carefully avoiding any hasty step for the definitive proclamation of the monarchy, which, in a vote of this un- certain Assembly, may displace him as sud- denly as the ‘‘interpellation’’ for the definitive establishment of the Republic displaced the too confident President Thiers, The Government After the Union Pa- cific Railroad. When o debtor owes the round sum of thirty-three and a half million of dollars, with no prospect of payment, and is running deeper in debt all the time, it is natural to suppose the creditor would be alarmed and be looking out sharply for the assets. This is precisely the case with the United States government and the Union Pacific Railroad. Hence the Attorney General, through his representative, has brought a complaint and bill in equity against the Union Pacific Railroad Company and its offspring and partner, the Crédit Mo- bilier of America, stating all the facts, claims, delinquencies and individuals concerned in the gigantic swindle. It is a curious and sharp document and reveals the names of numbers of persons, among whom are many very prominent in business and public lite, who were participators in the stupendous grab. It is not necessary to recapitulate the charges brought against the parties, for we published them in full yesterday. The term “fraudu- lent’ is frequently used to designate their conduct. This legal paper is a brief and con- cise history of the transactions by which the governmen+ and public have been fleeced of thirty-three and a half millions already, with @ prospect of suffering to a much greater ex- tent. The company is declared in a bankrupt condition and utterly unable to pay its obliga- tions or even to keep up its work. Is it not time, then, for the government to take posses- sion of the property and save what it can? It has begun vigorously, apparently, and we hope it will go on so till a final and just settle- ment shall be made with the Union Pacific, the Crédit Mobilier and all who have been concerned in this greatest fraud of the time. Nationa, Aoricunturan ConvEntTIon.—A National Agricultural Convention assembles at Indianapolis to-day. We trust its de- liberations will have a more practical effect than distinguished those of the late Governors’ Convention at Atlanta, and the Congressmen’s Convention at St. Louis. We suppose that at tho Convention to-day the whole question that has been agitating the farmers of the West and South, and led to the organization of those formidable ‘‘Granges,”’ with their hun- dreds of thousands of adherents, will be gone over, and some standpoint taken against the encroachments of the railway monopolies, the oppressive features of the tariff and the general subject of reform and economy in the adminis- tration of our national affairs. We shall, how- ever, judge of the morits of this Agricultural Convention by its acts. Sovruern Po.rtics.—Scarcely a ripple dis- turbs the sea of Southern politics. It was im- agined at one time that the invasion of the Southern soil by so many Northern and West- ern Governors and Congressmen would have had the effect of ‘firing the Southern heart” and setting aglow the dying embers of the late war. But such was fortunately not the case. The Southern representative men among whom these distinguished strangers mingled only vied with each other in extending to their guests those warm and genial hospitalities for which the Southern people are, in times of peace, so proverbial. Long may the reign of peace and harmonious feeling exist between the North and the South, and the arena of politics in the latter section present no more disturbing fea- tures than it does at present ! Taree Is Trovste in the Republican Gen- eral Committee at Albany, and the Times of that city states that the country delegates, with- out an exception, have withdrawn entirely from the committee. ‘Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Republican gen- eral committees are no exception to the rule. ARMY ORDER, The following order is issued to-day by the Secre- tary of War :—The attention of officers of the army is called to section 17 of the act approved June 22, 1870, entitled “An Act to Establish the Department of Justice,” published in General Orders, No, 80, Headquarters of the Army, Adjutant General's Office, July 1, 1870, and a strict observance of its re- quirements, by which the subject of the employ- ment of counsel at the expense of the United States 1g placed solely in charge of the department of Justice, 1s hereby enjoined upon them. When a necessity arises for counsel to defend officers in cases connected with their public duties, the matter should be reported through intermediate commanders to the Adjutant General for reference to the Department of Justice, NAVAL ORDERS, WASHINGTON, May 27, 1873, Lieutenant Commander Louis Kempf ts detached from the Vallfornia and placed on waiting orders; Master J. R. Selfridge from the Asiatic station, aud placed on waiting orders, WASHINGTON. WAsHINGTON, May 27, 1873. Colomel MeKe Act Approved—The President’s Explanation of the Mexican Dificulty, The edministration ts at last willing to admit that Colonel McKenzie did not pursue the Kickapoos into Mexico without instructions from Washington. When the President was asked by an intimate friend whether the invasion was a departure from the policy of the government, ke replied, “If your neighbor’s pigs come into your cornfield and destroy your crop what use 1s 15 to complain? That will not restore the cord. You would naturally say remove the cause. But somebedy says the cause of the trouble is the pig. I don’t think so. The pig will be true to his instinct, The rea! trouble is we have no fence, The river has been, diplomatically, the dividing line, The United States has been willing to consider The weakness of Mexico and its inability to protect its borders. It would be foolish fer us to complain now. That point was made against the United States during the Fenian raids, We did not pretend that the border was inviolate. All that the British government argued was that the United States, being at peace with England, and having friendly relations with the United States, the crossing of the boundary line im pursuit of an enemy, equally so to the United States and Great Britain, ceuld not constitute @ cause for misunderstanding. If this was true with Great Britain how much more with Mexico? We could not guard our frontier then with the army authorized by Con- gress. Neither can we now; but that is no reagen why our cavalry should not pursue bandits whether they cross the Texan or the Canadian line, We have not complained because the British au- thorities have done so, nor have we complained seriously at the offensive acts of the Mexican gov- ernment. But, as far as I have influence, lam determined our citizens on the Rio Grande sha!t have the same protection those enjoy in the interior States. There will not be war. There is no occasion for hostilities, The Kickapoos and Lipans can no longer occupy Mexican ter- ritory peacefully. Colon 1 McKenzie has already received orders to exterminate both bands, and if his force 1s not sufficient to ask for more. If Mexico isto be an asylum for highway robbers after the United States protests we do not intend to sanction tt. And if the Mexican govern- ment complains this administration has resolved to treat the accessory as guilty as the princtpal.”” ‘The Florida Canal Routes. The investigation in regard to the two Florida canal routes which have been brought to the atten- tion of the special Committee on Transportation have been referred by the Chairman, Mr. Windom, to Senator Cenover, of the committee, who will give the subject his personal attention. He will assign special inquiries in regard to commercial, geographical and engineering topics to persons qualified to farnish information thereto. The Mexicans well Pleased. The Secretary of War received a despatch to-day from General Sheridan, stating that General Augur had telegraphed him, “the Mexicans on the border are well pleased with the punishment given the Kickapoos by McKenzie. The remainder of the Kickapoos threaten retaliation, but we are ready for them if they come.” The American and British Ciaims Com- mission are making arrangements for their business session at Newport, Rhode Island, which is te commence the 3d of June. Mr. Cox, the Secretary, will take with him twelve large chests of docu- ments; Mr. Hale, counsel for the Untted States, two, and Mr. Howard, agent for the British Govern- ment, three. These documents cover only 141 out of 497 cases. The McDonald case is the most elaborate of all the memorials, depositions and exhibits, making three printed volumes of 500 pages each. All the claims before the Commission will be adjudicated by the 26th September, the ex- Piration of the treaty limit. Those who have business with the Commission and the respective ofMcers speak of them as not only being prompt in the examination of cases presented but more than ordinarily courteous in all their transactions, The Comptroller and the National Banks. The Comptroller of the Currency has called upon the national banks for a statement of their condi- tion at the close of business on Friday, the 25th of April last. ‘Treasury Balances. The balances in the United States Treasury at the close of business to-day were:—Currency, $4,428,814; special deposits of legal tenders for the redemption of certificates of deposit, $29,095,000; coin, $74,537,251, including $26,560,200 in coin cer. tificates; outstanding legal tenders, $356,539,800, THE ARIZONA INDIANS, Cavalry Fight h Apaches and Mo- javes. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 1873, Company Aofthe First cavalry, which was sent from Prescott by General Crook on the 1st of April to co-operate with the troops engaged against the Apache and Mojave Indians, found a band of sav- ages at the head of Date Creek, on tne 6th, and fougnt them. In the action five Indians were killed and all their provisions and blankets captured, Immediately after the fight the command recetved orders from General Schofield to proceed to the Modoc country. The latest reports from Arizona indicate that there will be danger of another generat Indian war should the First cavalry be withdrawn from the Territory. OOUNCIL OF BRITISH COLUMBIA INDIANS. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 1873. Four thousané Indians have asscmbied at New Westminster, from all parts of British Columbia, under the pretext of holding @ council. Dr. Powell, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in that region, will meet the Indians to-morrow to hear their grievances. A FALSE ALARM. The War Path Indians in Nevada a Myth, VIRGINtA City, May 27, 1873. Despatches from Humboldt, Wells county, report the recent Indian scare at Spruce Mountain as groundiess. The violent Indian demonstrations were caused by whiskey. The orders warning to leave or be killed were fabrications. The Indians returned from Deep Creek council to their settle- ments and resumed their usual avocations, All is quiet again, A PURE WOMAN'S TRIUMPH. Margaret Leonard Jumps from a Seeong Story Window as Her Employer Threatens to Dishonor Her—Mitraculous Escape=She Receives but Slight In- juries. John W. Elias, of 33 East Fifty-second street, was ar- rested yesterday morning at his house under very pecu- liar circumstances. Officer George A. Flandrow heard a piercing shriek at a quarter past twelve. He hurried to Elias’ house and found a woman lying in the back vard, who was writhing with pain, She had jumped from a root beneath a second story window, and said a man had tried to burst in the door of her room. As he had made improper advances to her the evening before she had gone out upon the roof, and as he had pursued her she had leaped down a distance of cighteen feet, preterring the chances of death to the certainty of dishonor. The officer knocked at the door, and as nobody came he en- tered the house and arrested Elias in bed. He feigned to be astegp, while, the oMicer asserts that he must have heard his knocking, but offered no resistance, The woman recognized him as the man who had pur: sued her, and Elias was taken to the Nineteenth precinct police station He denied the charge ia foto, and assured f.HeKatp reporter that he “never molested the woman in any way.” “This girl was my cook,” he said, “and I discharged her last Saturday. On Monday evening she returned to get her clothes and I asked her to stay that night in the house and to take care of it, as my wire and children had one away. She did not seem toknow whether she had fear stay or goto her friends, but finally concluded, to 8 Thave no idea why she rt is not a pi as isa tall He prefers the charge, but ticle of truth in it.” @11 built man, with dark eyes and sharp iS finshily dressed. The reporter went to ho had been removed to St. Luke's Hos Margaret Leonard—that is her name—is a woman e' appearance, of robust, hardy build. same statement that the officer had given, at she knew Elias had threatened to Kill his t she was afraid ot her life. The physician pital pronounced her mjuries slight, but it w she escaped with her life, She prayed al he hospital that might keep her good ‘and assured the reporter that she would do the same (hing again, Her story is belleved by the, authori. ties, Elias, Who was formerly a partner in the dollar siore, al the corner of Broatway ant Bond street, was taken to the Yorkville Police Court. He was heid in $1,000 bail. THE ST. LAWRENCE FLOODS, Quusno, May 21, 1873. Aheavy thunder storm which broke over this city the other night appears to have been very general, and in addition te the accidents already reported as having occurred, we hear that a boy was killed by the lightning at Point Lewis, and two others at Lewis. The floods oc- casioned by the tremendous rain fall were very destructive in several places, and the quantity ef loose timber that was afloat yesterday and Sun- day showed that in many districts there had bees ap unusual flow of water, 4 BRIDGE REPORTED BROKEN. At is reported that the bridge which carries the Gasford Railroad acress the Jacques Cartier River was broken by the flood, but we have not yet been able to ascertain whether the damage done was od & very serious character. Rumors were afoat in the city yesterday that great injury was done to Hall’s property at Mont Morenci, and that offices ane stables had been flooded or swept away. Hall is the largest proprietor in Canada, owning near tem thousand miles of timber land. However, upon ia- quiry at Hall's office, we learned from him that, though considerable damage had been done it was not of the nature described by rumer. It appears that after the heavy rain the flood came down in such torreats that the ordinary sluices were not equal to give the water vent, and it rose to the height of the head of some of the wharvea and DISARRANGED AND DAMAGED them to a considerable extent, which, at this par ticular season, must cause considerable trouble, The water rese higher than it has been for the last thirty years, when the old bridge waa carried away. The steps which visitors to the falls have been accustomed to use were swept away in the flood, and it is oven said that the new bridge was considerably damaged But in the direction of Three Rivers the effects of the flood seems to have been most severely felt. We received telegrams yesterday, the first of which informs us that the government booms at the mouth of the St. Maurice were broken and forty thousand logs had broken adrift. SAWMILLS SWEPT AWAY. The sawmills belonging to the Messrs. Baptist, at Grays, had been swept away and the water was very high. By a later telegram we were in- formed that the current tu the St. Maurice was too strong to repair the booms, and logs were running cut by the thousand. This message confirmed the report thac the Baptist milis had been carried away. Those who saw the activity displayed by our batteumen (boatmen) yesterday on the river, and the amount of timber that was adrift, can form some idea of the danger existing of a large quantity of lumber being lost; but whether it be picked up or not a@ very SERIOUS LOSS MUST ARISE TO THE OWNERS. We understand that, in addition to the loss sam tained by Messrs. Ge Baptist & Sons, Messrs. Retchie & Cull, the St urice lumber company; Messrs. Benson, Bennett & Co. and James Con- nolly have had 4 great deal of timber swept away by the flood. Serious apprehen- sions as to its recovery are enter tained, although notices have been issued by some of these firms describing their marks an@ offering the usual salvage to persons who may pick up the lumber. We have received further tele- graphic informatien to the effect that the St. Mau- rice Milla are all right and that the boom in the middle of the channel, with 160,000 logs was holding fast at the time the despatch was sent to us, However it is added that from other channels probably fifty thousand logs had gone adrift, Besides the loss of Messrs. Baptist’s iilia another eommunication informs us that Mr. Leander Methat lost at River ‘Trois about twenty-five thousand cords of fine wood, and rom the quantity of 3 LUMBER ADRIFT IN THR ST. LAWRENCE. We have no doubt that many losses have bees sustained of which we have heard nothing as yee No doubt the greatest loss will be from the Maurice, for we are informed that the booms there were not equal to such an emergency ag the flood of Saturday. It appears that some time ago the goverament built new booma for the use of the owners of timber, for which @ charge is made, bat new booms were made in @ place where the stream was so strong that they could not be used. The owners, therefore, continued to moor their timber te the old booms, but they had fallen into @ state of disrepair since the new booms were constructed, and were consequently weak and unable to resist the weight of the flood. To this fact much of the loss is attributed; but it is pretty evident that the force of the water was such ag could hardly have been anticipated, otherwise the loss of Messrs, Baptist’s milis would not have occurred, THE FLURRY IN THE TIMBER MARKET yesterday was semething feartul; the large house who are mainly interested had their men on the streets, and the question everywhere was:—“‘How much you lost?” Cablegrams were in order, and English houses delivered their orders throughout the day. There was no great sensation in the y market, for advances were made as last year; still the Quctu- ations in stocks, slight as they were, affected things considerably. The loss of logs by the great Canadian houses cannot fail to operate in favor of American lumber, as the demand for the present year is extensive and the orders upon the leading firms have been spotied by the freshet, To-night the river is fall of logs, amd steamers and boats are out searehing for them. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICE! ‘WASHINGTON, May 28—1 A, M. Probabilities, For the Middle States and lower lakes, sonth- westerly winds, rising barometer, occasional rain in Pennsylvania and New York, but clearing and clear weather will prevail; for New England and Canada, warm, partly cloudy weather, and occasional rain; for the Northwest and Upper Lakes, and thence to Missouri and Kentucky, south- westerly and northwesterly winds, cooler and clear weather; for the Gulf and South Atlan- tic States, falling temperature, southwesterly and northwesterly winds, partiy cloudy weather and occasional rain in the Western Gulf, Reports are generally missing from west of the Mississippl River and the Southwest. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-fours in com- parison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. O88 S00 PLM... TO ne re Te 59 6P. 5 64 OP. 65 70 12P. 63 Aver: rature yesterday. aes OM Average temperature for corresponding date last year.. . sons C DEATH OF GEORGE ANDREWS, OF SYRAOUBE. SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 27, 187% George Andrews, an old citizen of Syracuse, and for many years treasurer of the Gas Light Com- any, died to-night, aged eighty. He was the father of Judge Andrews, of the Ceurt of Appe: Bishop Andrews, of the Methodist Episeo) Church, and Theodore F. Andrews, @ former Con- gressienal reporter. SAVANNAH ANNUAL REGATTA. SAVANNAH, Ga., May 27, 1873. The annuat races of the Regatta Association of Georgia commenced to-day under the most tavor- able auspices, the weather being clear and pleas- ant, which drew to the scene an immense number of persons, The balconies and every available po- sition commanding a view of the river was jammed with an enthusiastic crowd of spectators, who evinced great interest in the result of the contests. There were three entries for the first race, whic) was between four-oared canoes and gig boats over a straight course of one mile, The race was wor by Maggie, entered by the Vernon Olub of this city. Time, 6m. 328. ‘The second race was between singie sculls over the same course, and was won by Lily, of the Pal metto Club of Charleston. Time, 6m. The races will continue two days more. THE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXOHANGE. The Annual Meeting Held Yesterday= Address by the President and Report of the Treasurer. The annual ‘ing of the New York @roduce Ea- change was held yesterday, President Jewell in the chal The officers who are to sorve for the year IAT are :—Abraham S. Jewell, President; Renjamin W. Floyd, Vice President; Benjamin C. Bogert, Treas ¥. Hulsluger, Secretary. A Board of Managers mittees on Trade, Finance, fd Floor, Ini and Statistics, Law and Arbitration were appointed. osident Jewell made an address, in which he congratu- ated the Board on the prosperity which bad marked it uring the year. The report of the Treasurer was emi. nently satisiactory, and after voting him $2,000 the Board adjourned. The annual election willbe held next Mom jay. Frank J, Sele, fourteen years of age, was arrested last night by Detective WaUing, charged with steab ing property valued at $160 from Mrs, Michaels, o ai kast Pourmn street. He will be brought before Judge Dowling at the Tombs this morning.