The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1873, Page 6

NEW YUKK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, —__——— ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. ADVERTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in the WEEKLY HeraLp and the European Edition. ‘The Evrorean Epition, every Wednesday, at Six Cents per copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great Britain, or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include Postage. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates, Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Une Two Buzzaxps—Littix Jack Suxrranp, &¢, Matinee at 23, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth av.—MowrtE Cristo. Matinee at 1%. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Tux Buack AveNGER. Afternoon and evening. between Prince and NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadwa: 1cCuarm, Matinee, Houston sts.—AzRaxL ; OR, THE UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—AGnxs. Matinee at lig. near ATHENEUM, 585 Bri TainmENT. Matinee at OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker streets.—Humety Duurry. Matinee at 2. dway.—Graxp Vantery EnteR- WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Brotuxe Sam. Matinee at 135. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Twenty-third street.corner Sixth 3. avenue.—Amy Rossart Matinee at NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broad- ‘way.—MapeLxin Moret. Matinee at 1. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Uncue Tom’s Cantn— Tax Bor Buaciar. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Scnmer Nianrs’ CERTS. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and 3d avs.—OrxeRetta anp Light Comxpr. Con- TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS Variety ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee at 201 Bowery.— ®RYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. corner av.—Necro Mintreersy, &c. Matinee at 2. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th av.—Dramatic anv Poxtic Reapinas. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— ScmeNce AND Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. w York, Saturday, May 31, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BOSTON! ANOTHER WARNING AGAINST COMBUSTI- BLE BUILDINGS IN OUR CROWDED CITIES’—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE— Sixta PagE. BOSTUN AGAIN SUFFERS FROM A FIRE CYCLONE! MORE THAN A MILLION AND A QUARTER IN VALUABLE PROPERTY SWEPT AWAY BY A DEVASTATING TORNADO OF FLAME FOUR ACRES IN_ EXTENT! FIVE FIREMEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN THE TERRIBLE FIGHT WITH THE FIRE! THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS DESTROYED AND FULL DETAILS OF LOSSES—Tuirp Page. DIAGRAM OF THE DISTRICT JUST SWEPT BY THE FIRE FIEND, AT BOSTON—Turrp Pace. THE WAR IN SPAIN! A DESPERATE STRUGGLE WILL PROBABLY OCCUR TO-DAY, NEAR LOGRONO! THE CARLISTS SEIZE A PROM- INENT ENGLISH REFORMER! HIS LIFE IN DANGER—SEVENTH Pace. RUSSIA IN KHIVA! KAUFMANN’S COLUMNS CONCENTRATED — IMPORTANT CABLE NEWS FROM FRANCE AND SOUTH AMERICA—SEVENTH PaGE. FEARS FUR THE SAFETY OF GENERAL DAVIS! HE ACCOMPANIES THE TREACHEROUS SAVAGES ON A SCOUT FOR THEIR FOR- MER LEADER! THE LATEST MODOC FOLLY DISCREDITED IN WASHINGTON— SIxTH Pace. STREWING THE FLOWERS OF REMEMBRANCE UPON THE SOLDIERS’ SEPULCHRES! IM- PRESSIVE OBSERVANCES OF DECORA- TION DAY THROUGHOUT THE UNION! UNIONIST AND DISUNIONIST DEAD HON- ORED UNDER THE ONE BANNER! SPECIAL CEREMONIES IN NEW YORK, BROOKLYN AND WASHINGTON—NINTH AND TENTH PaGEs. DECORATION DAY ON 'CHANGE! THE EFFECTS OF THE BOSTON CONFLAGRATION AND THE CUBAN STRUGGLE! THE FOREIGN MARKET—PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS— EIGHTH PAGE. LADIES’ DAY IN ENGLAND! A BRILLIANT RACE FOR THE OAKS STAKES! THE BET- TING AND THE RACING—SEVENTH PaGE, THE LAST DAY OF THE MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB'S SPRING MEETING! AN EXCEL- LENT WIND-UP! WHO CARRIED OFF THE PURSES—THE GRAND TROT AT PROSPECT PARK—SEVENTH PAGE. THE LEGISLATIVE FINALE! THE LONGEST SES- SION EVER HELD! THE REFORMS PROM- ISED AND THOSE CONSUMMATED! A GOOD SHOWING! WORK OF THE LOBBY Firtn Pace. AMENDING THE STATE CONSTITUTION! WHAT WILL BE SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE IN 1874—CRICKET—FIFTH PAGE, WHO WILL SUCCEED PIO NONO? THE PAPAL CANVASS ABLY ELUCIDATED BY AN EMI- NENT ITALIAN! THE POLITICAL STATUS GRAVELY AFFECTED—Fovurti PagR. POLICE REFORM! HOW THE NEW BROOM IS OPERATING IN THE DEPARTMENT! CLEAN STREETS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION! CHARLICK’S RESIGNATION—THE PRESI- DENT'S PARENTS—Fovats Page, HOW IMMIGRANTS ARE RECEIVED AT CASTLE GARDEN! CHARACTER SKETCHES! THE STUFF TO BE FOUND IN OUR PROSPECT- IVE OITIZENS—ELEvanta Page. Tae Spranisa Constituent Cortes will as- semble in session at Madrid to-day. It will be an exceedingly important meeting—an event which will mark an epoch in the history ofa country which is fearfully distracted by political dissension. Tae Apsournment oy THE Stats Lectsza- rune took place at four o'clock yesterday morning, and the lawgivers shook Albanian dust from their fect forthwith. In another portion of the Heratp will be found a résumé of the work of the session, together with the amendments to the State constitution to be submitted to the people in 1874. Another Destructive Fire in Boston Another Warning Against Combustibie Buildings in our Crowded Cities. The patriotic observances of Decoration Day were rudely interrupted yesterday morn- ing in Boston by the breaking out of an alarm- ing fire in the heart of the old city—a fierce and angry fire, threatening fora time a work of destruction which might approach or exceed that of the great conflagration of November last. All the conditions but one favorable to an extensive sweep of the flames marked the beginning of this fire of yesterday. It broke out in a furniture factory, an immense build- ing of six stories in height, filled to the roof with combustible materials. This building was in the heart of a densely built district abounding in combustible matter; and the fresh northwesterly wind prevailing at the time, from the moment of the bursting of the flames through the roof of the furniture warehouse, gave thema headway in the inviting field before them from which other buildings must have been destroyed had not all the firemen of the city at this point of time been on the ground. But the one condition needed yesterday for a fire to be recalled hereafter with that of Boston in November last and with that of Chicago in October, 1871, was the condition of darkness of night instead of day, and the general be- wilderment and confusion incident to a raging fire in the night instead of the general readiness, coolness and efficiency with which a fire breaking out in the full light of the day is always resisted. In this view it was fortunate for Boston that this fire of yesterday did not come as asurprise in the night, but at the very period of the busy day when her active citizens, all abroad at their various avocations, were ready, ata moment's notice, to meet the enemy in assisting their firemen in every available way. But’ even with all the advantages of daylight against the fire of yesterday, the wonder is not that so much of the neighboring property was destroyed, but that so much was saved. Our despatches inform us that, when discovered, the fire was in the upper floor of the furniture factory of Haley, Morse & Co., among the workshops (some negligence here); that the flames were issuing from the roof; that the piles of light ma- terials packed away (on the several floors) were like so much tinder; that before the alarm could be given great volumes of flame were rolling up fifty feet into the air ; that the heat generated was intense, and that in twenty minutes the upper stories of the building, from front to rear, a distance of two hundred feet, were a mass of glowing flames. From this magazine of fire, this seething and crackling mass of combustibles, six stories in height and two hundred feet deep, there was no escape for the adjoining property; and so the flames extended to and consumed the adjacent clothing, dry goods and mil- linery stores, and, sweeping into the great piano factory of Chickering & Co., and into the Globe Theatre, the con- flagration speedily assumed its most alarming proportions. Now, if next to a depot of petroleum, or a storehouse of fireworks, or an old museum of wax works and other tinder, a theatre may be pronounced the most likely of allinflammable establishments. A furniture or piano factory filled with seasoned cabinet woods, cut up into kindlings, when fairly ablaze, is simply inextinguishable till its con- tents are consumed. But inflammable as are the paper forests, cottages and castles and all the shifting scenes of the play house, seldom has a great fire resulted from the burning of a theatre. The vast hollow space within its walls between pit and dome gives room for the flames which otherwise, rising higher in the air, would carry destructive brands and cin- ders far and wide. Hence a fire in a theatre, if never arrested short of the destruction of the building, has seldom extended beyond its walls. The burnings of the Bowery, of the Fifth Avenue, the National Theatre at Wash- ington and of numerous other temples of the drama, from time to time, may be mentioned in support of this statement. The fact is es- tablished, and we think we have accounted tor it. But a furniture or piano factory of halfa dozen floors, more or less, packed with kin- dling materials, when fairly ablaze, sends a volume of flame and a shower of sparks up- wards which, under a strong wind ina dry sea- son, may carry destruction to wooden sheds or mansards two or three blocks distant. We are again warned by this Boston fire of the danger of combustible buildings in crowded cities, es- pecially when such buildings tower above the mass of the surrounding houses. But if such establishments in the situations indicated are to be considered as one of the necessary mis- fortunes of great cities, where lies the remedy against this ever present danger of fire? It lies in more rigid precautionary measures, in a more systematic vigilance over these danger- ous establishments and in more effective prep- arations and means than any now in general use for the extinguishment of a fire in such buildings on the first alarm. Nay, as far as human foresight can prevent it, there should not be allowed the occasion fora fire alarm within the walls of any large storehouse of combustibles, night or day. The rules and regulations in reference to lights and fire, to matches, pipes and cigars, should be of a most rigorous character, and the watchman charged with the enforcement of these rules should be answerable for every minute of the twenty-four hours from day to day. A great city can be secured to a great ex- tent from destructive fires by fireproof and partially fireproof buildings. Such structures rendered Paris fireproof against the German bombardment and the petroleuin incendiaries of the Commune, Coming nearer home, we dare say that if all the block on which the two Herawp buildings are situated were con- structed of the same fireproof materials the occupants of this block, after a few trials by the accidental test of fire, would cease to treat with fire insurance companies for their pro- tection. But, again, as a city of incombusti- ble buildings is out of the question with the rush and recklessness of the age we live in, an efficient fire department is our only safety against the dangers of ruinous conflagra- tions. Large districts in the heart of London offer the most tempting food for fire; but fires in London never amount to anything, for the simple reason that that world of a city has & fire department which is on the spot required at a moment's warning. We ap- prehend, however, that the Londoners are, to no inconsiderable degree, indebted to their moist and misty atmosphere for their exemp- oO tion from fires. Their great burning of 1666 | Ome Mimister for All Central Amer-| Let us hope that this good feeling, in spite of was partly due to an exceptionally dry season. The distinguishing peculiarity of the cli- mate of the United States, as compared with that of the British islands, is its dryness, and in proportion to its dryness and its strong, dry winds, here or there, are our dangers aud our losses from fires. Of all the cities of the United States—excepting San Francisco in the fifth month of its long dry season, and with its powerful indriving winds, over the hills and through the gap of the Golden Gate from the Pacific—Chicago, as was proved in her ter- rible fire of 1871, is the city most liable to de- structive conflagrations; for Chicago lies with- in the area of those prairies and great plains over which the strong and withering winds of a dry Autumn render even the green timber in the forests as inflammable as the dry boards of a prairie cabin. But throughout the jurisdic- tion of the United States, excepting Alaska— Where it rains or snows always— our cities, from the peculiar dryness of our climate and its dry westerly winds, are ex- posed to dangers from fire that will not apply to the nations of Europe, from which we have inherited our languages, our institutions and our ideas even of the seasons. We congratulate the people of Boston on their brave and successful efforts yesterday to arrest and subdue within a few hours a fire which in its terrific outbreak threatened an- other general calamity. We congratulate the brave and industrious people of Chicago on the prospect of a July Jubilee which will not be marred by the intervention of any great public misfortune. We hope that from the representatives of all our leading cities at this Jubilee, while rejoicing over the mar- vellous reconstruction of Chicago, the consid- eration of safeguards against remorseless fires will result in substantial advantages to all con- cerned, from the Atlantic seaboard in the East to the Golden Gate of the West. For full details of this Boston fire of yeger- day, with an illustrative map, we refer the reader to another part of this paper. The Celebration of Decoration Day. Yesterday dawned auspiciously for the cere- monies by which the nation gracefully marks a loving appreciation of the devoted heroism and valor of her sons whe, in the late terrible struggle, gave their lives for liberty and the country’s integrity. Brightly beamed the morning sun, while a refreshing breeze quali- fied the heat which had made the preceding days oppressive. From earliest dawn the city showed preparations for the work to which the day was dedicated. In almost every street were seen contributions of floral offerings borne towards the headquarters of the associa- tion having the decorations in charge ; and by eight o'clock Union square was thronged by a crowd eager to assist im or witness the proceedings. Tributes of flowers and laurel leaves decorated the monumental statues of Washington and Lincoln, testifying the venera- tion and love with which New York cherishes the memory of the Father and the Saviour of the Union. From thousands of buildings floated at half-mast the Star-Spangled Ban- ner. At ten o'clock the procession formed to march down Broadway, making a more imposing display than any of its annual predecessors. Most places of busi- ness were closed; commercial and official transactions were generally suspended for the day. As the cortége passed, accompanied with music and bearing the battle-scarred flags under which our hero brothers fell, it was sympathetically greeted by one of those im- mense gatherings of the people which can be seen on this Continent only in New York, and which can be niatched in but a few cities in the world. At Trinity church the column paused to mark the graves of gallant Phil Kearny, the intrepid Lawrence, whose dying words, “Don’t give up the ship,” will never pass from patriotic remembrance, and others, whose faithful service claims perpetual com- mendation. At Whitehall the procession em- barked on steamers for the several burial grounds in which the remains of our heroes repose, where, with appro- priate exercises, the solemn and _ touch- ing offices of the day were completed. In all the adjacent cities and in the great number of cities, villages and smaller places throughout the broad domain of American freedom, similar scenes testified eloquently a nation’s sentiment of grief and regret for her martyrs. Full accounts of the local pageants will be found in another part of to-day’s Hznaup, while our telegraphic de- spatches report the manner in which the day was observed in other parts of the coun- try. From all it will be noted that while the mass of our people cherish the legacy of glory left by the dead, the animosities which marked the war are rapidly passing away; and, ac- cepting the glorious results of the struggle, we are willing to forget and bury the differ- ences which arrayed men of the same blood against each other in mortal strife. Eachside has learned to respect its antagonist. All should now strive but to glorify the Union and bear a part in its unparelleled development of individual freedom and national greatness. The Fighting Cure of Santa Crus and the Herald Correspondent, In the Hzrarp of yesterday we furnished another example of the ubiquity of our corre- spondents. One of our indefatigable com- missioners in the North of Spain has sought out and found the now notorious fighting curé of Santa Cruz, the Carlist leader and scourge of the republicans of the North. Hitherto, although we had heard much of the doings of the man, his personality was a mystery. Thanks to Heraxp enterprise, this mystery is no more. Santa Cruz, as he is popularly called, is a man like other men, neither so bad as he is painted by some nor so good as he is painted by others. He is evidently a man of strong will and determined purpose, a firm believer in the Catholic Church and heart and soul devoted to the cause of Don Carlos. Should the Carlist cause succeed, as the fighting curé believes it will, he may yet figure prominently in the councils of nis sov- ereign. Should the Carlist cause again prove a failure it will not be well for General Santa Cruz if he falls into the hands of his enemies. Our commissioners the wide world over are doing good work. While giving us entire satisfaction they are honoring American enter- prise and shedding a lustre on American jour- nalism. Proud, as we are, of what has been done, we feel confident that the successes of the past are destined to be dwarfed by the achievements of the future, feamA Nice Piace for a Healthy Man. By a recent act of Congress our diplomatic establishments respectively in the Central American States of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and San Salvador, five, are to be vacated on the 30th of June, and one Minister to all these little Republics is to at- tend to the interests of our government and people in each of them. Our government representatives who are thus to be displaced by the abolition of their offices are Jacob B. Blair, at the republican Court of Costa Rica ; Silas A. Hudson (reported as a cousin of President Grant), at Guatemale ; Henry Dex- ter, in Honduras ; Charles N. Riotte, in Nica- ragua, and Thomas Biddle, in San Salvador— and the new man appointed to do the work of this diplomatic corps is Colonel George Wil- liamson, of Louisiana, who fought for the Southern Confederacy in the late rebellion, but who has since, like General Longstreet, been completely reconstructed. Each of these aforesaid five Ministers resident receives $7,500 @ year, and by bundling all their official duties upon one man at $12,500 there will be a saving to the Treasury of a little pin money, as thus: — Sum of the compensation of five Ministers at $7,500 CACH.... 0... see ee eeessereesccerseeses f Salary of one Minister in lieu of these five Ministers. 1 Saved. —besides reductions of contingent ex- penses, This is not much as an offset to Con- gressional back-pay bills, Crédit Mobilier cou- pons and such fat pickings and perquisites; but it is something in the way of retrench- ment, and so we take a note of it. To the archmologist, the naturalist, and to the lover of tropical richness and variety of forms in animal and vegetable life, and to the man who delights in diplomatic dinners and courtly hospitalities in the Central American style, and official escorts and rough riding from place to place, the bundling of all these Central American missions into one mission makes this appointment a mighty nice and most desirable position. Assuming that Colonel Williamson is a man of taste, a devotee of Indian mythology, tropical luxuriance, beauty unadorned, and of those old Castilian hospitalities still maintained in the Spanish American States, we congratulate him on his good fortune in securing this charming mission. What a tour for pleasure and scientific observations its travelling duties will give him! We will briefly endeavor to out- line it. Our Minister to the whole chain of the Central American Republics, we will say, begins his mission st the north end of the line, in Guatemala. To get there he has crossed the Continent from New York to San Francisco, and thence has been carried down the Pacific bya government steamer and dropped at the little Guatemalan seaport of Yztapa. There a state carriage and escort of cavalry meet him and take him over the mountains, with a fine view of several pretty volcanoes, en route to the capital, Guatemala la Nueva, a city of forty thousand inhabitants, where his reception is a ‘public festival. He announces to the President that as within the limits of a year he desires to represent the United States at the capital of each of the five Republics, he can give them only about two months each, allowing the other two months of the twelve for travelling. Then, to make his short sojourn agreeable, it is made a con- stant round of festivities. From Guatemala la Nueva, having finished his cirouit in that quarter, our Minister is conducted back to the Pacific and shipped by steamer or fishing smack to La Union—good name—the chief seaport of San Salvador, where, in his conducta to the ruins of thé capi- tal, and afterward, the honors of Guatemala are repeated, with the addition of a week’s official exploration of some of the splendid vol- canoes of San Salvador, still simmering and bubbling from their late excitement. Thence over the table lands and mountains, by mule train, he goes to Comayagua, the capital of Honduras, where, among other excursions, he will have thé pleasure trip to the beautiful Spanish built city of Tegucigalpa, on the tight bank of the Chalcoteca, in a charm- ing amphitheatre among the hills. Thence continuing his journey southward by pack mules, he crosses the mountains into Nicaragua and to Leon, the capital of the Re- public, on the Pacific side of the Cordilleras. Thence, after his two months of festivities at Leon and via the great lakes Managua and Nicaragua and through the magnificent for- ests of the San Juan River, by flat boat, he descends to the Atlantic coast, whence, by a coasting schooner, he will proceed down the seaboard to the port of Costa Rica, most con- venient for an overland mule train to the State capital, San José, a busy little city, and in full view of a royal line of volcanoes. Here, winding up the first twelve months of his roving commission, our Minister, if satisfied that “enough of this sort of thing is as good as a feast,” will come home and write a book. Otherwise, we shall expect him to repeat the circuit we have indicated from Guatemala. ‘We suppose that Mr, Secretary Fish’s in- structions to Colonel Williamson will embrace substantially the line of travels we have indi- cated; but, if possessing a love of the beauti- ful and wonderful in Nature and if provided with a good constitution, a waterproof over- coat and an old campaigner’s knowledge of mules, the relinquishment of this delightful mission by the lucky Colonel will probably depend upon the results of our Presidential election of 1876. Tue Royan Lrrerany Fouxp Dinen—In- TERNATIONAL Courttsies.—On Thursday night last, in London, came off the annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund. Premier Glad- stone presided. During the course of the evening the Lord Bishop of Derry and Raphoe proposed ‘The Literature of the United States,’’ coupled with the name of John Lo- throp Motley, the American historian. Mr. Motley’s ‘History of the Rife of the Dutch Republic” and his ‘History of the United Netherlands’’ have taken their place side by side with the greatest historical works of this age. Mr. Motley made a happy response. He laid groat stress on the international bond be- tween England and the United States, and spoke of the literary men of both countries as fellow, citizens of a great English-speaking republic. These expressions of fraternal re- gard are not new. They have sometimes been as hollow as they have been casily spoken. It is undeniable, however, that the mutual good fecling between'the two great English-speak- ing peoples is at the present moment genuine. Caleb Cushing and Chief Justice Cockburn, will long continue. The Postal Cards—A Ourious Order from Postmaster James. It is evident from the order issued by Mr. James, the Postmaster of this city, which was published in our columns yesterday, that the Postal card service is liable to abuse, and that the Post Office authorities see the necessity of exercising caution in the matter. While letter carriers are instructed not to pry un- necessarily into the messages or writing on these open communications, to exhibit orto communicate the contents to any one, the superintendents, clerks and carriers of the office and its different stations are told that postal cards on which are printed, drawn or written any obscene, vulgar or indecent words or pictures or any scurrilous epithets or dis- loyal devices cannot be conveyed in the mails or be delivered by the carriers, but are to be sent back to the ‘Searchers’ Department.’’ There is no doubt that the postal card system is liable to abuse and to the injury of indi- viduals from those who are malicious, libel- lous or revengeful; but how the carriers are to know what is improper when, at the same time, they are forbidden to pry into the con- tents, we cannot see. Wecan imagine cases where a person might be injured in his busi- ness, credit or family relations by malicious statements or innuendoes circulated in this open manner by an enemy and no clew be had to the libeller. However, the postal card service is an experiment, and may prove useful to some extent. We can only hope that the evil results may not prove groater than the benefits. Caprarn Jack a8 a Government Derec- trve.—Now that Captain Jack has succeeded in detecting the weaknesses of United States troops in the matter of Indian fighting, sup- pose, when he is captured, as he no doubt will be eventually, unless he commits felo de se, his life be spared upon condition of his exposing the white scamps who have been supplying him with ammunition and provisions to enable him to protract the contest so long? Suppose he makes a clean breast of the whole system of frontier rascality by which the Indians are kept on the warpath and white settlers ina contin- ual state of alarm and dread, all for the benefit of a horde of villanous speculators, land grabbers, whiskey traders and renegade whites? Captain Jack as 2 government de- tective might make some atonement for his past crimes. If the government should not happen to be satisfied with his disclosures it could hang or shoot him afterwards all the same. Tat Boous Cuanzey, Snack Nasty Jr and two of their fellow murderers have been sent as acommittee to ask Captain Jack, on the part of the United States, for his scalp, is doubted in Washington army circles. The fact is, the aforesaid circles do not believe the act would be prudent, and hence hasten to deny it. The latest accounts from California state that great anxiety is felt for General Davis, who is reported to be out on a scouting expedition with the surrendered Modocs. We do not wonder that fears are entertained for the safety of so trusting a general. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Carl Vogt, a Genevese Professor, is coming here to lecture. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. J. G. G@. McKown, D. D., of Chicago, is stay- ing at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman R. D. Hubbard, of Hartford, is staying at the Hoffman House. Congressman T. ©. Platt, of Owego, N. Y., is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell, our new Minister to Russia, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Henry T. Blow, of St. Louis, former Minister to Brazil, is in town, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, The Prince of Wales has offended some of nis countrymen by holding a levee on a Sunday in Vienna, Prince Iturbide left his entire fortune (120,000 francs) to his housekeeper, Mile, Pauline Boufl- artigne, It has become a question whether Bavarian beer or Beethoven's sonata in A major caused Bismarck to assent to the German war of 1866. The Duke of Edinburgh has been “a wooing” to Sorrento, Italy, where the Empress of Russia and her daughter resided until several days ago. M. Ulrich de Fonville, the editor of the Union Republicaine, of Dieppe, France, has been fined and imprisoned for advocating the assassination of Don Carlos if found upon French territory. Mile. Nelly de Malamarre de Trébey, who has just‘taken the veilin France, got much celebrity during the late war for having stabbed a Prussian officer who had entered her father’s chateau and insulted her, The Boston Transcript says the Rev. Dr. Paddock will probably be consecrated Bishop of Massa- chusets in his own church in Brooklyn. It will be recalled that Rev. Dr. Huntington was consecrated Bishop of Gentral New York in his own church in Boston. The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise are endeavoring to raise asum from which the salaries of all clergymen of the Church of England shall be augmented if iess than £200 per annum. A little levelling down among the rich bishops and deans would do it sooner, VIOB PRESIDENT WILSON, Mr. Wilson Ordered te Seck Rest.and Relaxation. Boston, Mass., May 30, 1873. Vice President Wilson is in town to-day. He is suffering from overwork, which has affected his eyes, During the late campaign Mr. Wilson made over one hundred and thirty speeches, and travelled nearly twenty thousand miles. He has attended to his Congressional labors during the past Winter, and atthe same time was preparing the secon volume of his historical work for Re lication this Autumn. His physician, Dr. EB. H. Clarke, now orders a cessation of all work, including corre- spondence, and that Mr. Wilson shall seek rest and relaxation during the Summer. A CURIOUS GEM FROM LAKE SUPERIOR, Dr. Van R. Rich, of Oswego county, has in his possession one of the most curious gems that has ever come before the attent/or of connoisseurs, and is pronounced by jewellers (ad others to be among the most exquisite of rstere’s specimens, Ex- perts in gems have bron puzzled to give it a dis- tinct name. It was found by # Huron Indian on the shores of Lake Superior, and is a compound of four classes of stones agglomorated together so as to constitute a perfect gem of rare beauty. The stones comprised in it are agate, cornelian, perite and chrystal, Among the other remarkable fea- tures of this curious gem are the appearance upon each side, as if from the hand of an engraver, of a resemblance to a miniature crown, the clearly defined forms of a black-and-tan dog, the head of an owl, the tracings of the shores of little lakes and other remarkable phenomena, rarely if ever found in stones of any kind. YACHTING NOTES. The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Steam yacht Julia, Smith, from New York for Stamford. Steam yacht Fearless, N.Y.Y.0., Mr. Lorillard, | from Eaton’s Neck for Now York. THE MODOC FOLLY. General Davis on a Scout with ~ the Murderers. FEARS FOR HIS SAFETY, The Report Discredited by the Sec retary of War. San FRANc1s00, May 30, 1873, Considerable anxtety is felt for General Davis, who has gone on a scout with the captured Modeca after Captain Jack. What 1s Thought in Washington. WASHINGTON, May 30, 1873. The report from San Francisco that General Jem. ©. Davis has allowed any portion of the sur- rendered Modocs to be armed and sent in pursuit ot Captain Jack is wholly discredted by the Secretary of War and army officers generally. Heis theught to be more prudent; besides, after their treachery to General Canby, his own respect would deter him, it is argued, from engaging murderers to d¢ these work assigned to him, ° THE SATANTA AND BIG TRER AFFAIR. The efforts of the Interior Department to get Satania and Big Tree released is condemned bp the War Department. General Sherman is very Plain in his denunciation of the effort to release the barbarians, MOVEMENT IN BRADLAUGH’S BEHALF. LONDON, May 30, 1673, General Kirkpatrick has telegraphed to Don Car- los’ headquarters requesting Bradlaugh's release. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL Orriona | WASHINGTON, May 31—1 A. M. Probabilities. For the. Middle States and lower lake region rising barometer, northeasterly winds, very cool and partly cloudy weather, with occasional rain; for. New England and Canada north- westerly and northerly winds, cool and partly cloudy weather; for the upper lake region and northwest and thenee to the Ohio and Lower Missourl Valley northeasterly and south- easterly winds, high barometer, low but rising temperature, clear and partly cloudy weather and occasional rain; for Tennessee and the Guif and South Atlantic States southeast- erly and northeasterly winds, low. temperature, high barometer, partly cloudy weather and occa- sional rain. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873, 85 a 62 eo 12M, 58 Average temperature yesterday » 645 Average temperature for corresponding date last year. severeevee IK THE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 30, 1873. In the National Agricultural Congress to-day the report of the Committee on Meteorology was re. ceived, and a recess taken thatjthe members might enjoy a drive through the city. ’ On reassembling debate was renewed upon the report of the Committee on Miscellaneous Sunjecta in regard to the resolution touching the Eight-Hour 18W, passed by the federal Congress, and quite a variety of views were expressed, the result being that no definite action was had on the matter. The question of transportation was discussed at considerable length, the general idea prevailing that rates of transportation are exorbitant and that relief should be found through some ehannel; but thes question was, how is it to be obtaimed! The majority of the Convention appeared to be decidedly opposed to bringing about any antagon- ism with the railroad corporations of the country, and preferred to harmonize the interests of prow. ucer and carrier, The subject of Pomology was brought up and delegates were appointed to attend the meeting of the American Pomological Society at Boston. The Committee on Railroad Systems reported a series of resolutions, which were adopted unani- mously. They embody the views of almost the entire Congress and evince a conciliatory aisposi- tion on the part of the delegates, A vice president for each State represented was selected for the current year, and provision was made for the publication and distribution of a large number of copies of the report of the pro- ceedings of the Congress. deneral W. H. Jackson, of Tennessee, was chosen President and Charles W. Green was re-elected Secretary. Atlanta was selected as the place for the next meeting, which will be held the second Wednesday in May, 1874, NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH OONFERENOE. CINCINNATI, May 30, 1873, ‘The Ministerial Conference of the New Jerusalem Church of the United States met here to-day. There was a fair attendance. The Rev. George Field, of Toronto, Canada, in the forenoon read a paper on the proper form and order of public religious worship, which was discussed at the afternoon session. The Conference will continue several days, On Friday of next week the general Convention ofthe New Jerusalem Church commences its ses- sions, which will continue until the Tuesday following. PERSECUTING THE CHINESE IN SAN PRAN- 01800. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 20, 1873, The Chinaman whe was murdered by two white men last night has not been identified, A woman identifies the prisoners, Brennan and Rhodes, as the men who are the jurderers. The Chinese re greatly alarmed and apprehensive of further murders and rioting. Their theatres and stores are all closed. Law-abiding citizens of all classea de- nounce in strong terms the efforts made by unprincipled demagegues to incite to the murder of these people. There is a general determination that the laws shall be maintained at all hazards, WRESTLING MATOH AT WEST TROY, ALBANY, May 30, 1873, The wrestling match at West Troy to-day was between Homer Lane and John McMahon. The stakes gue) were won by McMahon. Harry Hill, of New York, was umpire for Lane. A large number of spectators were present, SUICIDE AT SAG HARBOR. Sa@ HaRpor, L. I., May 30, 1873, Frank Lyon, a brother of B. Lyon, merchant of Sag Harbor, committed suicide this morning at about seven o’clock. He was found in his room lying across the bed with a bullet hole in his forehead, a ool of blood near his head and the pistol lying by his side, He died before a physician could re: his dwelling, He had been ina despondent mood for several weeks. A Coroner’s inquest was held and a verdict of death rendered accoraing te above facts. ROBBING A RAILROAD COMPANY, Sr. Lovts, Mo., May 30, 1873. Some time since the Atlantic and Pacific Rail rogd Company discovered they were being sya tematically swindled out of passenger tickets at various points, and an investigation led to the dis- covery that clerks in their employ had been guilty of the peculation. The loss to the company as far as known would reach $20,000. It was further ascertained that these tickets were disposed of through private agencies in diferent parts of the country. To-day William P. Foster, proprietor of Foster's Express Fore Deliyery, Who has a ticket office connected wi his business, was brought before the Criminal Court on a capias to answer an indictment for re~ ceiving stolen property, he being charged with having in his possession $4,000 worth of these stolen fone Foster gave bail in $5,000 and was te leased.