The New York Herald Newspaper, May 29, 1873, Page 6

6 EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREIT. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. No. 149 Sa Volame XXXVIII =— AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NEW FIFTH AVENUE NIEATRE, 723 and 730 Broad- Way.—MapeLarn Mone. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Bamaooziinc—Tue Bow Buxcuan. No. 514 Broadway.—Tar Two THEATRE COMIQU eprarn, &e. Buszanps—larrix JAC GRAND OP RA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—Monte € 0. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Breaiway, corner Thirtieth st.— Carrain dack, Atiernoon and ¢ NIBLO'S GARDEN, ween Prince and Houston ats.—Azn. 2s Inion square, near nano Vanizry Enter. iy. between Houston pry DuMPrY. OLYMPIC TI and Bloceker str: WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street, Twenty-third street. corner Sixth YS BROOKLYN THEATRE,— xT. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Suamer Niawts’ Con- cerns. TERRACE ington and sd DEN oP Licur Comxpy. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vianuety ENTERTAINMENT. MRYANT'S OPERA HO 6th av.—Nrcro Minstnens NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway,— ScueNew AND Ant, Twenty-third st. corner Matinee at 2. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. he dee ies To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ©THE PROPHET AND THE SPEAKER! THE QUESTION OF POLYGAMY IN UTAH FOR CONGRESS"—LEADING EDITORIAL TOPIC— Sixta PAGE. CUBAN ATTACK UPON GUANAJA! REPULSE AFTER A VIGOROUS FIGHT—FEDERAL CAPITAL NEWS—SEVENTH PaGe. SENOR IGLESIAS DECLARED CHIEF OF THE SUPREME COURT OF MEXICO! YELLOW FEVER IN YUCATAN—SEVENTH PAGE. THE GREAT ENGLISH RACE DAY! LONDON ALL AGOG FOR THE DERBY SPORT! THE WIN- NERS AND THE BETTING—SEvENTH PAGE. THH TERRIBLE STORM VISITATION IN IOWA! HUMANITY MADE THE SPORT OF THE GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROP- VIVID DETAILS—Tuirp Pag. BOILER EXLOSION IN BELGIUM— BY A CONFLAGRA- N TO CABLE CONSOLIDA- EVENTH PAGE, TRADE POLICY OF THE NEW ‘H CABINET! DECLARIN HE RE- LIC—CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS— ENTH PAGE. IN THE FIELD AND UPON THE WATER! ‘! EXCELLENT SPORT! DETAILS OF RS IN FACH—Tninp Paar. GRAND SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE LYN—NEWS FROM ALBANY—-Tryta PAGER. WITH CABRAL! HIS STRU ES AND PROSPEC WHAT HE A SCHEME AND OF N TOIL FROM A ‘oURTH PAGE. iT SUCCESSES MY LEGISLATIVE IN BROOK. TROPICAL STA THE Wak HAYT! IN THE NORTH 3 MATCHES! BO- GARDUS AND PAINE DEFEATED—AMERI- THE CAN DIPLOMACY IN ISLANDS—FourtHi Pace. LEGAL NEWS! McDON FORGER, SECUR: SANDWICH ALLEGED JUSTICE EPRESSI- Fourtn BLE G. F. TRAIN AGAIN IN COU PAGE. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL FF. THE HOME AND FOREIGN MARKE HEALTHY STATE—MU PAL ‘AL ESTATE—FirtH Pace. HOW DECORATION DAY WILL BR G OBSERVED—NEWS FROM TH NOTES— Growina Wraruer.—With a few more days in these parts such as yesterday we shall have watermelons coming from Jersey. Paice Pierre Napoteon Bownapante is in Paris. He lost no time in going in when he heard that Thiers had gone out. Prince Plon Plon will probably drop in next. The Prince Imperial, from present appearances, will ‘remain at Jericho till his beard be grown.”” Unsrtep at Last.—After a long period of quasi-independence the people of Prince Ed- ward Island, through their Legislature, have voted unanimously to accept the terms of onion with the Dominion of Canada. So now, we believe, all the Provinces on the Northeastern British peninsula, including Canada and the adjoining islands, are em- braced in the New Dominion. It is a large territory, and as a well established, inde- pendent republic will some day, no doubt, become a highly respectable Power on earth. Tae “Srronc-Mixpep"’ of the New Eng- land Woman Suffrage Association have been holding their fourth annual gathering in Boston. Not to use an indelicate expression where ladies are concerned, the Convocation is Pronounced a ‘fizzle.’ The business was principally confined to scolding the Massa- chusetts Legislature for giving the petitioners for woman suffrage “leave to withdraw.” Tae Drevicunries or Domixco are many, and Cabral, the revolutionary leader, who has been interviewed by a Henanp correspondent, as be may seen in another column, has very decided views thereon. The epithets which he ap- plies to President Baez are strong and numerous, and his opinion of the future of the Samana Bay Company is not very encouraging to the trustful shareholder. He is not himselt opposed to the introduction of hard cash into the country by Americans, but he is sorrowful when he thinks how the introduction of Ameri- ean hard work will play an angering tune on the spinal cords of the deliciously indolent natives. So must he whet his sword and hang like an avenging spirit on the mountain ledges until the agonized cry of Dominicans called on to labor bids him swoop down upon el gran trajidor Baez, Then will tor dw NEW YORK HERALD 'THUKSDAY, MAY 29, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Prophet and the Speaker—The Question of Polygamy in Utah for Congress. The readers of the Henatp were fur- nished yesterday with the report of a spicy interview between the Hon. James G. Blaine, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Brigham Young, the Mormon Prophet. The points of the conversation were direct and in- cisive and indicate very conclusively that the Speaker cannot be enrolled among those Mem- bers of Congress who have been glamored by Brigham or his agents. The Speaker's clear and emphatic enunciation that ‘Utah can never be admitted as a State sq long as the in- stitution of polygamy is upheld and practised by the Mormon Church’’ fell upon Brigham unexpectedly, although the same fact has been announced time and time again: by the Presi- dent and other members of the government. The Speaker's further enunciation that ‘‘Con- gress will adopt such measures as im its opin- ion may be necessary to maintain the federal authority in this Territory’ was as unlooked for, but a very proper response to the defiant query of the Prophet, ‘‘What are you going to do about 1t?’’ But there is underlying these semi-prophetic political assertions an unpublished history that promises to be as deeply interesting to the public on the assem- bling of next Congress as was the Crédit Mo- bilier scandal during the last session. During the last session of Congress every possible effort was made to induce that body to look at the judicial position of Utah. Presi- dent Grant issued a special message asking the attention of Congress to Utah, and personally interested himself in asking both the Sen- ate and the House to pass some act that would settle the anomalous condition of affairs in that Territory. The Senate passed a bill that would have settled all this trouble, but the House would not look at it. There was no direct and open hostility to the Senate bill, but an unmis- takable determination to kill it by delay. It would be superfluous to repeat all the state- ments made in the Capitol during the last hours of the session upon this bill; but nothing is more certain than the fact that Brigham Young's agents were successful in preventing any act of legislation, and the re- tiring delegate, the Hon. William H. Hooper, gloried in the fact that he had, during his ten years’ representation of Utah, been able to pre- vent any legislation inimical to the wishes of the Prophet. In connection with the defeat of the Utah bill we may state that the Gentile opposition in Utah affirm that they are in por- session of one @heck for $10,000 that was paid to a prominent Representative, and also the checks paid to the publisher of » Washington paper and to a popular correspondent of a Western paper, and, besides these, other evi- dences of corruption in favor of Brigham’s projects. These facts were doubtless com- municated to Mr. Speaker Blaine, and, being added to his own observation of the judicial muddle in Utah, called forth his very direct and unreserved language, which the nation will endorse. So elated had the Mormon Prophet become with his success in Washington during the last session of Congress that he has resolved to send down next December one of his apostles with his four wives to represent Utah at the seatof government. If the sentiments of Speaker Blaine are to be regarded as any indication of the temper of the House, it is very certain that the ‘Apostle’? Cannon cannot hold his seat. He has openly violated the Anti-polygamic law of Congress. Should Congress permit Cannon to take his desk and retain it Brigham will achieve a great triumph. Should Congress maintain its dig- nity and oust the representative of this bar- barism the national legislature will com. mand the respect of the civilized world. Ever since the Territory of Utah was organized the Mormons have managed to keep up a perpetual strife between their own Courts and the United States federal Courts created by act of Congress; and, by some fatality hovering over that unfortunate coun- try, it would seem that this judicial wrangling and confusion will never be brought to an end. At the beginning of last year it did look at one time as if the sway of the Mormon Courts was nearly over, and as if the federal officers and the federal Courts were triumphant. The rulings of Chief Justice McKean and his Asso- ciate Justices, Hawley and Strickland, were direct and trenchant, striking terror into the hearts of prominent Mormons who had been accused of crime, About a dozen of the elders and leaders, including in that number Brigham Young himself, were indicted for murder and placed under arrest. The day of settlement then seemed at hand. The Prophet's arrest told suddenly upon his health. He was dreadfully chagrined and mortified, and but for the fear of his dying in close confinement the Chief Justice would have sent him to the military calaboose at Camp Douglas, overlooking Salt Lake City. He was accordingly, and very wisely, permit- ted to consider himself a prisoner in his own harem, with only a gentlemanly Deputy United States Marshal to give, for form's sake, a glance at him now and again, so that the Mormon people would realize that there was no foundation for the ery of persecution. Everything that wealth and promise of political preferment could accomplish at Washington was enlisted to secure the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in reversal of the rulings of the Supreme Court of the Territory. To this end donations were solicited and collections made everywhere among the disciples and their Gentile friends to meet the expenses of the Mormon agents, and money flowed freely ‘‘where it would do the most good.’’ Curiously enough, a dis- tinguished Representative and member of the House Territorial Judiciary Committee was understood to be retained as one of Brigham’s legal advisers! and, what is no less curious, the decision of the Supreme Court was so well known in Utah before its delivery in Wash- ington that Brigham continued the session of his annual conference from the 6th of April, from Sunday to Sunday, till the decision was telegraphed, and he could appear among the faithful in the enjoyment of the fullest liberty. On the Sunday following he gave the assem- bled taithful his parting blessing, with a soul radiant with the glory of his greatest triumph “over his enemies,” The Mormon Probate Court sprung in- stantly into life again, and, in defiance of all precedent and law, at Brigham’s command, simply upon the unofficial announcement of ington, issued a habeas corpus, commanding the United States Marshal to bring the body of Brigham Young into Court, &. The Marshal protested in vain, and, demoralized by the unlooked-for news, feared to call for military force to retain possession of tho prophet-prisoner till the official document reached him. Brigham cracked his fingers and walked out of Court with imperial step and dignity. Hé had triumphed—ho thought so. Since that day—a whole year ago—the Courts of Utah have been a perfect farce, a joke and & byword among the exultant disciples, and the federal Judges have only held court in matters of civil suit when the contestants would agree to accept the juries selected by the Mormon Territorial Marshal, and whom they have not failed to inform the Bar was not the proper officer of the Court, This statement of Judge McKean was im- mediately telegraphed to Washington and cognizance taken of it at the Judicial De- partment of the government. At first glance it was believed that the Chief Justice of Utah had disregarded the de- vision of the Chief Justice of the United States, but on examination it was discovered that the present Mormon incumbent of the Territorial Marshal's office had been removed from office, by judgment of ouster, by the predecessor of Judge McKean; and Utah is to-day without a criminal court, and has only, by mutual acceptance of litigants, a civil court. Such a condition of things in any Territory of the United States is a disgrace to the nation. Very recently Brigham Young himself ac- Kaapedaed this muddle, and when a case was brought before the District Court, in which the Prophet was plaintiff, he admitted that the defendant’s challenges to the jury sum- moned by his own Mormon Marshal were points well taken, and the suit was struck from the docket. This acknowledgment when Brigham was plaintiff is a clear indication of his intention to challenge when defendant, and practically there is no federal Court in Utah. It is very certain that, whether Congress is willing or not, the subject of Mormonism will be brought before it in a manner that will not admit of either procrastination or prevarica- tion, We shall then find out on whose side the ‘worrying’ will be. The exposure of Mormon intrigue may hurt somebody; but only the galled jades need wince. The aim, however, should be higher than this. The de- nunciation, the conviction of the corrupt, is a duty; but the blotting out of the disgrace of Mormonism has become a necessity. The vul- gar defiance which the Prophet has borrowed from the false and now fallen Prophet of Tammany will be asked in another tone when Congress meets—-What are you going to do about it ? Mecting of the Mexic A Henratp special from the city of Mexico, via Matamoros, informs us of the meeting of the Mexican Congress and of some of its proceedings. In counting the electoral votes it had counted out General Porfirio Diaz and had declared Sefior Iglesias elected Supreme Justice, which embraces the office of Vice President. In accordance with the time- honored Mexican custom in such cases the next things in order would be the departure of General Diaz to some provincial town, and a pronunciamiento therefrom by him at the head of a revolutionary army against the ‘‘nsurpa- tion’ at the capital. But General Diaz, we presume, has had enough of revolutionary enterprises, and will quietly accept the situation. The Congress had declared itself in per- manent session—that is, regularly organized for business, and with the Interoceanic Rail- road bill before it as the special order of the day. This Interoceanic road is only the extension of the line from the city of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, which has been completed from Vera Cruz to Mexico. Doubtless, from the immense advantages to industry, trade, law and order which have already resulted from the completion of the road to the Atlantic, the road to the Pacific will be promptly provided for by Congress and vigorously pushed through. With even a single line crossing the country from east to west, and one from the north to the south, Mexico should be troubled with no more revo- lutionary factions, in having at the capital the means and facilities for their immediate suppression. Thus, internal peace and security being secured, industry, trade and prosperity should naturally follow, from the centre to the extremities of the Republic. | Meantime bloody disturbances are reported as having attended the State election in Yucatan—a State which has been for some time in very much the uncomfortable political condition of Louisiana. Yucatan, however, is much worse off than Louisiana, in being at the same time a victim of a raging yellow fever and the prey of fighting factions of raging politicians. We shall probably hear, within a few days, something from the Con- gress of Mexico on General McKenzie’s chas- tisement of the thieving Kickapoos on Mexican soil; and we do not anticipate a declaration of war. m Congress. Weather Verified. A telegram yesterday announced the occur- rence at Louisville the day previous of a big local storm, whick did considerable damage, litting several roofs and uprooting shade trees in all directions. The fact is remarkable be- cause a very striking verification of the weather ‘probabilities’ of the night previous, pre- dicting severe local storms for the Ohio Val- ley and the region northward. This severe Louisville gale, happily, did not reach by its violence and destructiveness the importancs of the recent tornado in Iowa, but its correct prediction twelve hours before proves that the inland tornado, as well as the great cyclone of the seacoast, may be successfully presaged by our weather system. When the latter was in- augurated the question was whether the great storms could be in any measure forecast. Now we have evidence that, with sufficient facili- ties, not only can the greater but the smaller meteors of the atmosphere be brought under the power of meteorological prevision and pre- announcement. The cyclone in the Northwest, from the details which we publish elsewhere to-day, appears to have been one of the most terrible nature, and far surpassing in destructiveness any that has visited the country for many years. According to our correspondent the storm was announced by low, rumbling A Remarkable Prediction ‘he decision of the Rupreme Court at Wash: | sounds, like the boom of dimayt caunop, aud ee CiCiCiCNw##N((NttN(((C(t(t(t((t(tCO(CO(C(io.seEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees the hai’s‘orm } r-ceding ths work of destruc- tion by the torcado was extremely violent. The destructive path of the hurricane was fortunately limited to about thirty miles in length and not exceeding a mile in width in any part. No sooner did the tornado strike the earth than the buildings and vegetation in its course vanished as if by electricity. Men, women and children were killed and maimed; cattle were crushed and de- stroyed; immense quantities of material were whirled great distances in the air, and one child, who was endeavoring to reach her home from the school, was over- taken, caught up, carried some distance and then dashed to the earth dead. Altogether it was a fearful visitation. “Incommanicado.” ‘There is a certain pomp of sound about this word which is finely Spanish. It means, when used of man or woman, in the land of the In- quisition of Torquemada, that a citizen has been flung into prisom and all commu- nication with the outer world cut away. Man or woman the prisoner may lan- guish, may die, but the dearest friend is made none the wiser. The prisoner, incom- municado, is placed in the grave, so far as hu- manity concerns him. He may be tortured, poisoned or strangled, according to the old Spanish rule, but his groans will not pierce the walls or fall on a friendly ear. His spirit may go out from his wasting clay; then he is incommunicado in the sense dearest to the heart of a vindictive Spaniard. In the ‘good old times’ this was a common practice. To ar- rest » man without making any charge; to keep him incommunicado for years without a trial or an explanation to himself or his friends; to kill him in prison or to let him go, as the mood went, were all the unquestioned privileges of those who ruled in the name of the Spanish King. Wherever Spain has spread the shadow of her flag the same customs have obtained. They have a hobble-gaited republic now in Spain; but they have not forgotten or failed to use the old in- strument that survived the Inquisition there. They may throw off the monarchy, but the brutal strain of the Goths and Moors in their blood is not so easily let out. The cruel in- stinct of maltreating what is in their power, their barbarous delight in the physical pain of men oranimals, are their tempters when a man is in their clutches. ‘The prisoner incommuni- cado had often better be in the lair ofa hungry wolf than where he is. Mr. Leopold A. Hgice, an American citizen and a corresponden®f the Herap in Havana, was arrested there on the 21st instant, at five o'clock in the morning, and hurried to Fort Cabana. For a week no soul outside the prison was allowed to communicate with him. Don Pieltain, the Oaptain General, re- fused to give the reasons for.his arrest or the charges made. The Heraxp first learned of the fact through the kindness of Consul General Torbert, who stated in addition that the charges were unknown. Day after day the Consul General sent us the stereotyped de- spatch that he had been refused per- mission to see the prisoner; that the charges were unknown. From any less official source we might well doubt that this was all that could be learned by the representative of the government of the United States from the authorities of a bankrupt, tottering Power, existing, so far as its American possessions are concerned, on the sufferance of the United States. We shall not here indulge any classic regrets that a Marcy does not direct the State Department ; we shall simply point to the fact that this state of things was allowed to continue for a week. We hear that the Secretary of State telegraphed to Consul General Torbert, but that he had been unable to obtain a reply. The Consul Gene- ral could, however, telegraph to the Heraup the impotency of tae name of the United States to obtain hith an interview with the imprisoned American citizen. If the Spaniards in Cuba intercepted the despatches of Secretary Fish or the Consul Gene- ral’s reply, there were surely ships of war, monitors and so forth that could with great effect have been used as despaich boats in such an emergency. Our commissioner, Mr. O'Kelly, informed us that the despatches of the British Vice Consul at Manzanillo had been similarly intercepted ; but the English sent a gunboat thither and the telegraph wires were opened once again. With almost any other nation than Spain the policy of waiting awhile might be tolerated. Spain, materially the weakest European Power to- day, should not cause a single tremor to the most nervous American Secretary of State that a convention of patients recovering from brain fever could elect. But, aside from this question, which we may presume does not weigh much one way or the other, the real danger of allowing a citizen to remain irre- sponsibly in the hands of the Spaniards lies in the mysteries of Spanish character itself. It is not safe to trust a Spaniard with a pris- oner who owes allegiance to another State, unless he is made to feel at once that some regard must be had for law in the case, and that he will be held responsible for all evil that may overtake the untried. It is shameful and scandalous, then, that this American citi- zen was allowed to lie in a Spanish prison without a prompt demand for justice from a nation like America. Is the American citizen on Spanish soil to be an Ishmael, without a flag or a friend? The latest despatch from Consul General Torbert informs us that Mr. Price has been at Jast allowed to ‘‘communicate,’’ and that he | has been examined betore a Spanish Fiscal. The charge on which this outrage was founded | appears to relate to Mr. Price’s communication with our imprisoned commissioner, Mr. O'Kelly. That it is a paltry and unworthy | conspiracy on the part of some pettifogging officials to injure the Heratp commissioner we have little doubt. We are also assured that it will fail. As it to compensate Spanish dig- nity for allowing Mr. Price to communicate with the outside world, they have now declared Mr. O'Kelly incommunicado. They evidently desire to keep their backwardness in civilized usages from the world’s forgetfulness. They forget that in making war upon the independ- ent press, represented by the Herat, they are stultifying themselves. Failing to put down the rebellion in Cuba, they imagine it is heroic to harass those whose mission is simply to tell the truth about the matter. We had hoped better from the Re- public; but the outrages upon our representatives in the Peninsula itself are proof that Svaig bas as vet very liited ideas: of what liberty means. The absurd motive for imprisoning Mr. Price, his unjustifiable isolation, the shameful imprisonment of Mr. O'Kelly, and bis present isolation, are all melancholy specimens of Spain's latest efforts at comprehending liberty. We finally desire to ask the American and British governments how they view the ques- tion? Will they tolerate the application of this Spanish code to those whom thoy are boand for their own honor to protect, as well as for the sake of humanity? A Blow at the Telegraph Monopoly. ‘The Newfoundland government has notified the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company that it will abandon its pre-emptive right if the company will abandon its monopoly of linding cables on the shores of that colony, andif not, that the govern- ment will exercise its pre-emptive right. The term for which the exclusive privilege of land- ing cables on Newfoundland was granted to the company is about to expire. On the ex- piration of that term the Newfoundland gov- ernment has the pre-emptive right to take the property of the company at a fair valuation, based upon the cost, This was provided for in the concession or contract. The company has been making extraordinary efforts to in- duce the government to forego its right or to renew the privilege of the company. Of course the object of the company is to prevent competition and to continue its nidnopoly ; but, fortunately, the govern- ment has independence and honesty enough not to yield to the clamor and influence of the monopoly. It looks to the convenience and welfare of the public. It knows that more cables are needed, and will be laid, and that it is highly important to cheapen the rates of telegraphing between America and Europe. It knows very well there is little chance of the enormous tariff of this monopoly being reduced if it holds the exclusive right to land and operate cables on the Newfound- land shore. Hence the ultimatum presented by the government, either that the com- pany should abandon its monopoly of landing cables, or that the government would exercise the pre-emptive right of taking possession of the property. We cannot com- mend too strongly this action of the New- foundland authorities, for of all the monop- olies we have to complain of none is more injurious than this. It isa tax upon intelli- gence and all the vast business relations be- tween Europe and America. The British home government and the United States should sup- plement this action of Newfoundland by assuming control over the system of ocean telegraphy as far as their territories are con- cerned, either by joint and absolute purchase, or bya convention to regulate the business. In fact, this is a matter that all governments, from the soil of which cables are or may be operated, should unite upon to check monopoly and to exercise control in the interests of the public. Cable PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. SE Se Dr. Reuchlin, the German historian of Italy, is dead. Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, and family are at the Clarendon Hotel. General John Hobart Warren, of Troy, is regis- tered at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Dr. George B. Irving, President of the Massa- chusetis State Senate, is in town. Mr. William Tasker Smith, the British Consui at Savannah, is registered at the New York Hotel. Nelson Dingley, Jr., is the Biaine candidate tor the republican nomination for Governor in Maine. Edgar T. Wells, of Hartford, ex-Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sefior Don Luis de Potestad, Secretary of the Spanish Legation at Washington, is in town, at the Albemarle Hotel. ‘The ladies of the harem of the King of Siam have taken to wearing the European costume. No harem, perhaps, in that. John R. Rempson, lately deceased, was one of the leading writers of the Confederate organ in London called the Zndez. Senator Fenton was alumberman forty years ago. He ought to have known something about con- structing political platiorms, Miss Elizabeth Harrison, who died lately in Shef- field, England, left over three hundred thousand dellars to charitable institutions. Secretary Robeson returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday afternoon from his visit to Long Island, He will go to Washington to-day. Joshua Lebailly, Judge of the Royal Court of the Island of Jersey, convicted of embezzlement, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Another Philadelphia Alderman has come to grief, Alderman John Bb. Gallagher has been sen- tenced to $100 fine and nine months’ imprisonment for taking illegal fees, The Richmond Enquirer states that a would-be legislator from Powhatan wants to represent “for nex sission the agricultury and manucultrary intregs” of the farmers. A North Carolina paper thinks that “Captain Jack, of the Modoc Braves,” is no other than Henry Berry Lowery, whose death was reported as a cun- ning ruse te cover his retreat to the West, An unappreciative astronomical genulus out West proposes that the new planet discovered by Pro- fessor Peters should be named “Pete.” There will, probably, be some other competitor for the ciris- tening. THE MODOC HUNT. . Very Extraordinary News from the Lava Beds—General Canby’s Murderers En. listed in the United States Service— Three ot the Surrendered Savages Sent After Captain Jack. SAN Francisco, May 28, 1873. Bogus Charley, Shack Nasty Jim, Hawker Jim and Steamboat Frank, after @ conference with General Davis‘ and a ride througn a portion pf the lava beds, have been furnished with four days rations, horses and Springfield rifles, and started on the trail of Captain Jack, The proposition made by them is to kill him or capture him, with the rest of the band, General Davis is satisfied of their loyaity. Troop F, of the First Cavalry, under Colonel Perry, will start from Fairchilds to-day for the Pitt River country to intercept Captain Jack and his band, if possible, and also ascertain the temper of the Pitt River Indians, Twenty Warm Spring In- dians go with Perry. One Modoe warrior, witha squaw and four children, came in and surrendered May 27. WEATHER REPORT, Watt DEPARTMENT, ] OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinaror, May 29-1 A. M.S Probabilities, For the lower lakes and Middle States southwesterly and northwesterly winds, rising varometer, lower temperature and = gen- erally clear weather. For Canada and New England rising barometer, northwesterly winds, partly cloudy and clear, cool weather; in the South Atlantic and Gulf States and Tennessee southeasterly winds, warmer, cloudy weather and occasional rain; for the Northwest and upper lakes, and southward to Missouri and Kentucky, northeasterly and southeasterly winds, falling barometer, warm, cloudy weather and occasional rain, Reports are missing from the Soutest aud Northwest, THE HERALD PRISONERS. The Charge Against Mr. Leo pold A. Price. HIS RELATIONS TO MR. O’KELLY. The Werald Commissioner Now Declared “lncommunicado.” TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Unrrep Srares Consunare, Havana, May 27, 1873. James Gonpon Banurr, New York: — Mr. Leopold A. Price was put in communi- cation yesterday, after making his declaration before the Fiscal. HIS RELATIONS WITH MR. O' KELLY. The questions asked were altogether in rela- tion to his connection with Mr. James J. O'Kelly. OUB COMMISSIONER ISOLATED The latter gentleman is also confined in the Fort Cabana and declared incommunicate. A. T. A. TORBERT, Consul General. Why Mr. Price Was Arrested. {From El Tribuno Espanol, Havana, May 23.) Having investigated the cause of the arrest of the agent of the New York H&RALD, we learn that it was in consequence of the part he took in refer- ence to the other correspondent of that journal in going to Manzanillo and petitioning the Judge who acted for the government in the proceedings first taken against him. According to the view of the superior (authority nothing had been directly aeposed to against this individual, When he learned that Mr. Price had been conducted to the Carcel Nacional he ordered that Mr. Price \be transferred to Fort Cabaila, a locality much pref- erable to the former. A POLICE BLUNDER. ‘The night before last the College of San Anacleto was searched by the police. As might naturally be supposed, this proceeding gave rise to much speculation, many baseless asser- tions being made concerning it. But the fact is that in looking for Mr. Price they mistook and confounded his name with that of Leprince, a professor, we believe, of that institution. Blunder- ing such as this we now speak of ought not to oceur, as it only leads to uneasiness, disgust and alarm, and it benooves the police to proceed al- ways with great caution and not make such faire steps, upsetting the minds of peaceful and honor- able citizens. FRANCE. A Free Trade Ministry Under MacMahon—The Principle of Commercial Protection in Disfavor—Presidential Responsi- bility and the Term of Office. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALY. Paris, May 28, 1873, ‘The members of the new French Ministry are tree traders, and itis probable that Thiers’ policy of commercial protection will be abandoned. PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND THE TERM OF OFFICE. The censervatives intend to propose a law making the President irresponsible to the Assem- bly for his acts. It is rumored that a motion will be made in the Assembly to proclaim the Republic and confirm MacMahon as President for the term of five yeara, SATANTA AND BIG TREE. Another Plea tor the Release of the Kiowa Cutthroats—Secretary Delano to the Governor of Texa: WASHINGTON, May 28, 1873, The Secretary of the Interior, in his letter to the Governor of Texas again requesting the latter to pardon Satanta and Big Tree, the Indian chiefs now confined in the Texas Penitentiary, explains, in addition to the recently published statement on the subject, that ‘the first request, dated the 22d March, was revoked on the 14th of April in con- sequence of the excited condition of public senti- ment at that time growing out of the Modoc diMi- culties, and because of some objection to the par- don of Satanta and Big Tree made by General Sher- man. Secretary Delano goes on to say :—‘Since the oc- currences to which Ihave alluded this subject has received the full and frequent consideration of the President and myself, Numerous letters upon this subject have been addressed to the Department by persons familiar with the facts and circumstances, all urging the pardon of tie prisoners. Among the writers are Enoch Hoag, Superintendent of Indian Affairs; JaM. Haworth, Agent of the Kiowa and Camanche Indians; Benjamin Tatham, of New York city, and Charles F. Coffin, of Richmond, Ind., clerk 01 the Associated Executive Committee on Indian Affairs of ihe Society of Friends— all gentiemen of great __iutelligence and soun judgment, who concur in «urging the justice and propriety of releasing the prison- ers jor reasons that cannot be ignored, the chief of which is the danger of hostilities should the gov- ernment fail to ete their pardon in accordance with the understanding arrived at between the government and the Kiowa and Qo- manche Indians at the council in this city last Autumn, to the effect that Satanta and Big Tree should be pardoned upon condition of the continued good behavior of the tribe to which they belonged.’ Secretary Delano encloses to Gover- nor Davis copies of these letters, together with a memorandum from the contederatea and civilized tribes of the Indian Territory on the same subject, and says in conclusion:—“I am_ authori: KA the President to say that, in view of all the facts and circumstances connected with this subject, itis the opinion of the President and of the Department that it is advisable, with the con- currence of your judgment, to release the prison- ers referred to, and Icannot omit to add that, in my opinion, a failure to effect their release un- der existing circumstances will endanger our pre- sent peaceable relations with the Kiowas and Comanches, and will be likely to result in hostili- ties with these and other tribes residingin the Indian Territory. 1 have, therefore, respectfully to renew my requests for the pardon of Satanta and Big Tree, and to express my sincere hope that your judgment will approve the same.” THE FAREWELL OF THE OPERA, Maretzek‘s Jtalian Opera Company sang their adieux to the American public last night. The Academy of Music was crowded, every seat being soli, and many were compelled to content them- selves with standing room only, There is little to add to our previous remarks on the opera, “Mignon,” except that Lucca was in glo- rious voice and spirits, and portrayed the heroine of Goethe to the life, and Miss Kellogg gave the role of Felina with more than usual fire. Her singing of the “Polonaise” was of such a brilliant 44 she was compelled to repeat it. whe aame ou “une case with Lucca’s “Styrienne.” ‘The season which closed last night was successfut in a pecuniary a3 well as artistic point of view. Mme. Lucca appeared 104 times in opera and Miss Kellogg aboat eighty times, The receipts of the season, commencing go and ending last hight, amount to 450,000, About six thousan dollars represented the house last evening. Mr. Maretzek has made some very important engagements for the next season, commencing In October, rincipal artists of his company are Mme. Pauline Pucca, ‘Mile, Tima Di Murska, a great favor- ite in Europe, and as a bravura = singer the first on any stage; Mime. Natalie Testa, a contralto of rare ability, and a few years back the reigning favorite in New York Tamberlik, the prince of tenors, discoverer of the ut de pottrine and a human trumpet tn fours de force; Vizzant, Mari, a baritone, very highly spoken of, and Jamet. Such a powerlul combination is strong enough to held the fleld against all competitors, OBITUARY. James Duke, Bart. Sir James Duke, Lord Mayor of London tn 1848, and for many years member of Parliament for Bos ton and London. died vesterday, aged eighty-turee your