The New York Herald Newspaper, June 5, 1873, Page 6

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TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Uncix Tom's Canin. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner av.—NzGRo MinstRELsy, &c. Matinee at 2 AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., 684 and 66th sts.—SumuuR Nignts’ Conceres. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and 3d avs.—Opxretta anv Ligat Couxpr. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Bcrence anv Arr. Con. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, June 5, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Xo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “CONDITION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT! GENERAL SPINNER URGING SPEEDY PAYMENT’— EDITORIAL LEADER—SixTm Pags. (THE WAR IN CUBA! INSURGENTS CAPTURED! LIBERATING PRISONERS! THE POLITICAL STRIFE—SEVENTH Page, WO LIVES LOST BY THE WRECKING OF THE DRUMMOND CASTLE—CABLE AND GEN- ERAL TELEGRAMS—SkEvENTH PAGE. & DUTCH MAN-OF-WAR FIRES INTO BRITISH MERCHANTMEN IN THE HARBOR OF ACHEEN! THE ACHEENESE “PUSHING THINGS !” RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY AMONG THE FARM LABORERS—SBVENTH Pac. SEVERE FIGHTING IN SPAIN! THE CARLISTS ATTACK IRUN! DORREGARAY BATTLING AGAIN WITH THE REPUBLICANS—SsvENTo PAGE. ({LLNESS OF THE GERMAN KAISER! HE IS UN- ABLE TO ATTEND THE BANQUET IN HONOR OF THE SHAH—RUMORED SEVERE ILL- NESS OF THE RUSSIAN CZAR—SEVENTH Pas. GOVERNOR BAXTER’S LEGAL VICTORY! THE ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT IT HAS NO JURISDICTION AND RE- FUSES THE QUO WARRANTO—THE BEACON PARK EVENTS—TenTH Pace, THE KILLING OF MANSFIELD TRACY WAL- WORTH ! THE SON’S LINE OF DEFENCE! WHAT HIS COUNSEL HAD TO SAY OF THE CASE! THE INCITING CAUSES OF THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY! THE POST- MORTEM—TaIRD Pace. NEW DOMINION ANNEXMENT! THE REASONS FOR PRINCE EDWARD SO LINKING ITS FORTUNES! NATIVE DREAD OF RAIL- WAYS! WHAT THERE IS IN THE ISLAND— THIRD Pace. : GABLE MONOPOLY AND THE RIGHT OF PRE- EMPTION—THE WEST POINT CADETS’ ORDEAL—SEVENTH PaGE. {HE REGATTA! THE ENTRIES FOR THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB PRIZES! THE START, THE COURSE AND THE CUPS FOR THE WINNERS—Fovrrs Pacs. AQUATIC SPORTS ON LAKE MAHAHAH! TWO FINE RACES—THE CRICKET MATCH BE- TWEEN THE ST. GEORGES AND MANHAT- JANS—TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD AND PROSPECT PARKS—FovrtTH PaGE. GEORGE M’DUNNELL, THE ENGLISH FORGER, EN ROUTE FOR OLD ENGLAND! THE WIND-UP OF THE CASE BERE—Fovrta Pao. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS AT HOME AND ABROAD! ADVANCE IN THE DISCOUNT RATE OF THE BANK OF ENG- LAND TO SEVEN PER CENT—COMMERCIAL STATISTICS—Firtn Pacr. @ROCEEDINGS IN THE VARIOUS CUURTS—THE MASONIC GRAND LODGE—THE BIG BRIDGE—THE WARD'S ISLAND TROUBLE— PARADE AND REVIEW OF THE SECOND DIVISION—FourTH Pace. Tae Durch War Acainst AcHEEN.—By elegram from Penang, in the Straits of Ma- acca, we are informed that one of the Dutch var ships cruising off the east coast of Suma- ra has fired into three British merchant ves- els as they were leaving the harbor of Acheen. The war between the Hollanders wd the Acheenese is likely to be renewed. Commerce and agriculture are most seriously listurbed in consequence of the agitation which prevails in the Archipelago settlements. (t may be that the Dutch naval commander will accuse the English traders of having been mgaged in running the blockade which has been established against Acheen by order of His Majesty the King of Holland, and also in violation of Queen Victoria's proclamation of neutrality in the war, already notified by the suthorities at Singapore. Should this be the tase the action of the Dutch officer will be sustained. The war in Acheen may, not- withstanding, lead to complieations which Were not by any means contemplated at its Sommencement. McDownett Orr ror Evrops.—The last legal effort to stave off the mandate of the President of the extradition of George McDonnell, one of the notorious Bank of Eng- land forgers, was made and bafiled in Supreme Court, Chambers, yesterday. On the previous | day, in accordance with the decision of the Judges of the United States Courts of this tity, McDonnell was sent to Fort Columbus for safe keeping, and while counsel were wainly arguing on writs of habeas corpus and ertiorari, McDonnell was steaming down the Day on board the Minnesota in custody of the English detective Webb, in the sure and certain hope of meeting the reward of his | merits or demerits on the other side of the ocean. Pity ‘tis there should be such dif- ference ‘tween tweedledum and tweedledee where criminals are concerned either on this or the other side of that same channel. Conaition er che Public Debt—Gen- eral Spimmecr Urging Speedy Pay- ment, The publication of the June statement of the public debt by the Treasury Department furnishes little that is new, but shows a much leas decrease of the debt for the month just expired than in some previous months. The decrease for May amounted only to $3,525,282. The average rate of decrease a month since March, 1869, has been nearly $7,360,000, or $88,320,000 a year. But during the last three months—that is, from March 1 to June 1—the process of liquidation has been very slow, com- paratively. late. There was on Monday, in coin, $75,588,316, and in currency $6,056,795, be- sides $29,125,000 special deposits held for re- demption of certificates of deposit. The total in the vaults, therefore, was $110,779,115. From this must be dedutted $30,448,600 of coin certificates outstanding. The govern- ment has, then, surplus cash amounting to $80,330,515, of which $75,000,000, or nearly 80, is in specie. The whole reckoned in cur- rency at the present rate of the gold premium would be about $88,000,000. It is evident, then, that the Secretary of the Treasury had it in his power to liquidate or buy up more of the debt than he has bought during the last month or last three months. Why he keeps such a vast and unproductive sum of money on hand is unaccountable, for it cer- tainly has had no effect in keeping the gold premium down. The total debt is $2, 225,073,084. The interest accrued, $35,669,904. In all, $2,260,742,989. But of this there is the non-interest-bearing debt, or legal tenders and fractional currency, amount- ing to over $400,000,000. The interest-bear- ing debt, then, with interest accrued, is a lit- tle over $1,800,000,000. Deducting $80,000,000 cash on hand would leave a clear interest- bearing debt up to date of $1,720,000,000. We take no account of the greenbacks and fractional currency, because they are no bur- den to the people and call for no interest. When a nation is rid of its debt, or a con- siderable portion of it, that, no doubt, is a matter of great satisfaction, and the payment of three hundred and sixty-eight millions of our debt since March, 1869, is gratifying enough. But, while we do not consider a national debt a national blessing, we cannot lose sight of the fact that burdening the peo- ple with unnecessary taxation to pay a debt rapidly may be a greater evil than that of ex- tending the debt over a lomger period. In connection with this subject we perceive that Mr. Treasurer Spinner has been drawn out again to use his pen in defence of the Treasury policy. A kindly, con- siderate gentleman by the name of Riddle, in Australia, has afforded our vener- able United States Treasurer the gratifying op- portunity of writing another letter on the sub- ject of paying the national debt. This is a labor of love to General Spinner, and, having exhausted all the correspondents at home on the debt question, he must feel grateful for this communication from far off Australia. We can picture to ourselves the placid smile that beamed from his benign countenance upon the beauties of his department as he carried this precious document in his hand through the labyrinth of magnificent officesin the Treasury and surveyed with pride the vast operations growing out of an enormous reve- nue and the liquidation of the debt. Midas never contemplated his wealth with more pleas- ure. No young and aspiring author ever read a kindly notice with more gratification than did General Spinner this letter giving him a chance to ventilate his ideas on the all- absorbing theme of his cogitations, There must have been great joy in the Treasury on that day, for there was no bright-eyed damsel among his numerous subordinates but saw the light of his countenance. We are not informed what views with regard to paying the debt were expressed by Mr. Thomas Canby Riddle, of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, nor does it matter much, for we have those ef General Spinner, and know that he is quite capable of penning an exhaustive answer, either in a half column or twenty columns of printed matter. The point made by Mr. Riddle was, it seems, that some hun- dreds of millions could be saved by the United States in the payment of the debt according to a plan this gentleman has, and different from the one followed by our government. We have had some experience with correspondents on easy methods of paying the debt and giving the country a perfect financial system. Indeed, we have had sacksful of such communica- tions. There is no subject upon which people delight to write so much. National finance and ‘‘how to pay the debt’? are questions most people believe they understand well and can write fluently upon. But our Treasurer takes them all down. Without saying what the colonial Britisher suggests, or arguing the proposition advanced, he cuts offall controversy by submitting his plan and that of the govern- ment as the acme of perfection and incapable of improvement. We think General Spinner might have been more considerate to his cor- respondent, in view of the favor received and the gratification the letter afforded. The position, and we might say, perhaps, the almost dogmatic manner in which the Treasurer replies, remind us of another philosopher, who, on the subject of resump- tion of specie payments, said, ‘‘the way to re- sume specie payments was to resume,’’ and as was said also with regard to the cry of ‘On to Richmond’’ during the war, ‘‘the way to go to Richmond is to go.’ Mr. Spinner says: «To my mind the cheapest way to pay a debt that is subject to payment of interest is to pay it at the earliest day possible."’ Then, again, he adds, “the nation that pays its debt at once pays it the cheapest.’ He quotes Mr. Jeffesson as laying it down for a xound princi- ple in political economy that a national debt should be paid by the generation that created it. Had Mr. Jefferson lived to pass through our late and exhaustive civil war, and had he witnessed the enormous sacrifices of the people and stu- pendous debt created, his views, probably, would have been modified or different, It is not a sound principle of political economy to burden the industry of a country, just emerg- ing from such a catastrophe and exhaustion, with taxation to liquidate the debt rapidly. The money thus drawn from industrial sursuits would, in this country, at least, add far more to the national wealth and progress if left in the hands of the people. A hundred millions s wear gurolos qr wonecongacy rovonue may, The decrease for that period amounted only to $7,416,827. The cash in the Treasury, however, has been increasing of NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JUN. when applied to the liquidation of the debt, eave five or six millions in interest; but that gum left with the people, and used by them in industry, would yield far more than the in- terest gaved. Burdensome taxes always crip- ple the industry ofa nation. In twenty years we shall have, probably, a population of eighty millions and an increase of national wealth threefold or more. The burden of the debt would not be, consequently, half what it is at present. The liquidation of tho debt should be gradated with time and the in- creased resources and population of the coun- try. That is true economy. Besides, a na- tional debt that has or is likely to have a long time to run, a debt of such a rich country as ours, can be consolidated at lower rate of interest than one that will be paid off rapidly. It is unjust to call now upon the people of this country, who have suffered so much and paid so much in the war and since, to liqui- date the debt at the rate of a hundred millions @ year, or to pay more than is sufficient for a sinking fund of twenty to thirty millions a year, at most. Mr. Spinner, like the late Secretary of the Treasury, has but one idea regarding the debt. It is a bureaucratic idea of the Treasury Department, which none of the men: connected with that establishment can divest their minds of. They cannot look beyond their money bags and gorged vaults to the country, its interests and the future. They are mere routine clerks, with narrow views and nothing of the grasp of statesmen. We recommend the Treasurer to occupy the time he uses in letter writing on payment of the debt in studying how to reduce taxation and economize the expenditures of the govern- ment. Walworth Parricide-The Mur- derer and His Victim. Familiar as this community has been made with the darkest atrocities of murder, it has never been more profoundly shocked than from this utterly revolting Walworth parricide. Under the basest conditions of depravity and degradation on both sides, and under the deepest provocation, the deliberate killing of a tather by his son would or should be regarded, even in the lowest stratum of society, as a crime for which, if the assassin had a hundred lives, a hundred hangings would be an insufficient atonement. But the enormity of the Walworth murder is pecu- liarly shocking, considering the social position and obligations, the intellectual status, the educational advantages and the life-long moral and religious associations of the mur- dered man and his assassin. Considering all these ordinarily powerful checks and balances against temptations and provocations to crime in any form, we are “perplexed in the extreme”’ to reach the shadow of an apology, or to account upon any theory of cause and effect for this horrible assassination. We know that this young man, legally an irresponsible minor, who could properly do nothing involving. any responsibility without the consent of father or mother or guardian, came down to this city from the house of his mother, at Saratoga Springs, and without her knowledge, on Monday last, and came to ‘“‘set- tle some family matters’ with his father, sep- arated from the mother ; that, not finding the father at his residence, the son left a note for him, as Mr. Jones would leave a note for Mr. Smith, requesting the father to call at the son’s hotel for the settlement of these ‘family matters ;"’ that the father, in complying with this request, was invited up to the son’s room, as Mr. Jones would invite Mr. Smith, and that then and there the son, a presumptuous minor, after extorting from the father, with a pistol at his head, the promises of good be- havior demanded, deliberately shot him, not once, nor twice, but four times, every ball taking effect—one through the head, two through the breast and one through an arm, shattering the bones in its passage; that the young man then coolly retired, and, coolly in- forming the hotel clerk on his way out of the ghastly work he had just committed, proceeded as coolly to deliver himself up at the nearest police station. There, in accounting for his crime, he said that he had threatened his father at Saratoga some time ago to shoot him “if he did not keep away from us and stop in- sulting my mother any more;” and the only regret he had to express for this revolting and most unnatural murder was ‘on account of the effect it will have on my family.’’ This from a minor is somewhat startling, and irresistibly carries us to the conviction that such a monstrous outgrowth of prema- ture independence on the part of a presuming boy must have its roots in the underlying evils of our present estate of society. The pervading affection, the dutiful obedience and the becoming reverence which still may be found in every country in Europe, governing the lives and conduct in everything, of chil- dren toward their parents, are passing away in the United States. These old-fashioned ideas of filial subordination are too slow for our fast young people; but in this view this young Walworth may, at least, serve as a warning of the fearful conse- quences to which these pernicious prevailing no@ons of individual freedom in the family are surely leading us. They are undermining our social structure and making the responsi- bilities of a family dreadful, rather than desirable and delightful. The youthful assassin says, ‘‘I only regret this on account of the effect it will have on my family.” “My family!’’ He assumed the position of head of the house with the killing of his father. His mother is merely a dependent upen his protection and his chivalry—the protection of an assassin and the chivalry of a parricide. Itis given out that the defence for this murderer will be ‘‘insanity.’’ There is, how- ever, much method in this madness; too much, we fear, to satisfy the public mind that insan- ity will cover the crime. If the monstrous offender had taken his own worthless life after the commission of his great crime in- sanity would have been the general verdict in his favor, But as it is the general judg- ment must be that the release of this prisoner on the plea of insanity, if he be sane or in- sane, will be cruelty to him and dangerous to the community. Our Covonep Fetiow Citizens have been holding a State Convention in New Jersey. ‘The session was rather stormy, but not more so than attends the average political convem- tions of their white brethren. They renewed their vows of fealty to the State and re- endorsed the republican party, including the administration of General Graat, The minion of Canada. In another portion of the. Hunanp will be found an interesting résumé of the causes lead- ing the primitive population of Prince Ed- ward Island to aeek and obtain admission into the Canadian Confederation. The results ex- pected to flow in upon the fertile island from the aforesaid union are also touch- ingly dwelt upon. The story is funny enough to deserve a place among the curiosities of centralization which may bother the historian when, either as one grand republic from the Polar Sea (? open) to the canal across the isthmus (not yet opened), or as a ehain of republios, the good people of the North American Continent ‘shall bask in the privileges at present enjoyed only by between forty and fifty millions of them. Our well-informed and astute correspondent has found out that a yard of railroad iron was the entering wedge in the circumstances which finally separated Prince Edward Island from its Arcadian and stagnant past. The old guns that guarded Fort Isolation were railroad “spiked” by a “navvy” with his little sledge-hammer. What is the moral of all this? we may ask, in complacency of spirit. Obviously that as drowsy little Prince Edward Island fell by the sheer neces- sity of progress into the lap of the Dominion, which has its eyes a little more open, they must both in a gentle way find themselves peeping longingly towards the Stars and Stripes, beneath which Columbia, busy and wide awake, is sitting, weaving her network of iron roads as easily as Minerva ever wove a gossamer veil. They have their little pride yet in the few yards of British bunting left them, but, when the children have grown a little, they will be able to ‘‘see through it.” It is simply a case for the ophthalmic doctor, Time, to cure. They are canny, and think that economy is conveyed in the idea of spending grudgingly. The sentiment of English dry nursing nestles in the belief that the Dominion will, some time or other, save money by the connection. The London Times has recently uttered some very signifi- cant words on the subject, which have annoyed the loyal Kanucks greatly; and the root of the matter is in the frequent root of evil feeling, money. The glory of having American colonies that don’t pay is not very fascinating to the English government. When the colonies have got the last possible sixpence from the mother country’s exchequer they will find the glory of the Union Jack about as dear to them as Jack Falstaff considered “honor to him who died o' Wednesday.”’ The Modoc Murderers, Our despatches tell us that Captain Jack, who murdered General Canby, and Schonchin, who mutilated Mr. Meachem, have been ironed together. This we take as a sign that the authorities are making up their minds to treat the Modoc criminals after a fashion worthy of their crimes. We learn that Mr. Scar-Faced Charley took the handcuffing together of his brother murderers very seriously to heart, and protested against the ‘‘outrage.’’ As the military were, luckily, still in charge of the prisoners, the protest was made in vain. Had the ration-and-ammunition-scattering philanthro- pists the custody of the prisoners we feel as- sured that S. F. Charley, Esq., would have been received with becoming respect; the unfor- tunate who ironed the murderers would have got a scathing reprimand, and Jack and Schonchin would have been humbly apolo- gized to after the presentation of a bottle of Boston rum by way of soothing syrup. The indications now are that those against whom indictments have been found in Ore- gon will be handed over to the au- thorities of that State for trial and punish- ment. We cannot, however, admit that Captain Jack and Boston Charley, who re- spectively murdered General Canby and Dr. Thomas, nor, indeed, one of the band con- cerned in the concerted attack on the Peace Commissioners, should be allowed to leave the State of California alive. We know that the stony, impassive attitude of Captain Jack and Old Schonchin after their arrest will not fail to create silly sympathy among young and old women of every sex; but your mur- derer, be he ever so “‘interesting,’’ must go to the gallows if there is to be law in the land. It is the way to deal with the red-skinned assassin as well with him of the fairer skin. Regatta of the New York Yacht Club. * The lovely bay which ushers in the stranger to the metropolis of America and which serves as a sort of aqueous ante-chamber to the com- mercial capital of the Great Republic will put on its gayest attire to-day. The New York Yacht Club, with a score of fleet-winged skim- mers of the sea, holds its annual regatta, and a large number of excursion steamers will be on hand to witness the contest between the watery coursers. Two years ago a saucy craft from the shores of Albiom came across the Atlantic, knight-errant-like, to rescue from the hands of Saracenic Jonathan the cup which an American yacht once bore away in triumph. A tournament, which eclipsed in splendor and attendance even the gentle passage of arms at Ashby, when Cour de Lion was King, resulted in the utter discomfiture of the strange craft. Chivalry has, at the present day, flung out its proudest banner on the sea, and our representative club may be likened to the Knights Templars of old, who were sworn to devote their lives to deeds of chivalric daring and to hold them- selves ready to encounter all comers. The love for yachting has been ever strong’ in the community, and it has, within a few years, been developed to such an extent that it is now considered as a characteristic of American life. A large number of new vessels has been launched during the past year, and the list of the New York Yacht Club has been increased to no small extent. The event to-day is of particular interest, on account of the completeness of the regulations regard- ing the race, and it is to be hoped that the clerk of the weather will not be too niggardly of favoring breezes. The course to be sailed over is well known to New Yorkers, being from the Narrows to the Sandy Hook lightship and back. The Regatta Committee propose to start the fleet punctually at eleven o'clock this forenoon, and it will be necessary for those who wish to witness the race to be on hand at the time designated. There are four prizes, to be equally divided between the win- ning gobooners end sloops. Nothing can be 5, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Prince Edward Island and the De- over a score of flect craft skim the waters of the noblest bay in America. Much interest is evinced in the result, and the public seem to have turned their attention particularly to this noble sport since the memorable Winter when three American yachts astonished the stolid Britishers after a stormy race across the ocean. Burwma or Facronres.—To-day’s tele- graphic despatches abound with details of various fires destroying factories, occasioning heavy loss of property and throwing many operatives out of place. This is unusual at this season. In Winter, or late in the Sum- mer, there are matural reasons for such acci- dents, but now danger does not come from long drought or from the necessity of keep- ing warm. Too great care cannot be taken in the management of fire to prevent disaster, and true economy dictates that safer plans of building should be generally adopted, especially in large structures where many lives and property of great value are exposed. Tas Famous Quo Warranto Sort mv ARkaN- 845 has been concluded, Yesterday the final argument on the part of the State was made by the Attorney General, who finally agreed to continue the case on his own responsibility. At five o'clock last evening Judge Grey delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court— Chief Justice McClure only dissenting— averring that as it had been made a case of contested election the Court had no jurisdic- tion. Governor Baxter, therefore, holds the reins of power without the aid of the State militia; and as this has proved sucha severe defeat for Yonley and Brooks it is not.ex- pected there will be any further trouble in the republican camp at Little Rock. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Lieutenant GBvernor Robinson is at the Grand Central Hotel. Ex-Mayor E, 8. Tobey, of Boston, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Judge Nathaniel Paige, of Washington, is staying at the Fifth Aveque Hotel. Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Portuguese India is in mourning for the great- grandmother of the Queen of Portugal. Colonel J. H. Noteware, the Nebraska State Agent of Immigration, yesterday arrived at the Astor House. Mr. Quarles, the first colored Consul ever ap- pointed by our government, has arrived in Paris on his way to Port Mahon, Spain, his post of duty. Rev. W. S, McDiarmid, editor of Lumberton, N. C., the region of the operators of the Lowery gang, was drowned while bathing in the Lumber River on the 29th ult, A son of General D. H. Hill (“Parson Brownlow’s man’’) has been appointed a cadet at West Point, where his father, the General, graduated in 1842, if tg same graduating class with Earl Van Dorn, Longat a ee f ce rd Lydia Murray, ‘actioal woman's rights advo- cate, who follows the calling of cab driver, has lately been fined $5 for fast driving in a London street. She paid up, like atrue Jehu, and drove from Marylebone, to the admiration of a crowd of men and boys. ‘ Mr. William Darcey Dowling, a Dublin barrister, thought he wanted to marry Miss Frances MeMul- lan; but, after having gained her consent, he changed his mind and wedded another lady. For his fickleness Mr. Dowling has been compelled by a jury to pay Miss McMullan £600, The office of a president of the Bavarian Academy of Science and conservator-general of scientific museums tn Bavaria having become vacant by the death of Baron Liebig, the post has been conferred upon Dr. Von Duilinger. King Louis advised the Doctor of his appointment by an autograph letter, In a contest as to who could, with the fewest steps, descend a staircase in the London Junior Carlton Club, Mr. Peter Graham made a spring over the handrail and fell sixty feet, causing his death. He was perfectly sober, and is described as proficient in athletic exercises—too much 80, as it proved. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has just made a joke. A Mrs, Jury being examined as a witness in the Tichborne case, stated that she had had eleven children, whereupon His Honor observed he had always understood it took twelve to make a@ jury. England is still echoing the laugh which convulsed the Court. The people of Boston are likely to realize an im- provement long demanded—the widening of Washington street. The Herald of that city as- serts that “had Washingtor street been as wide as the travel demands between Summer and Essex streets the fire on Friday would not have leaped over it so readily.” WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, | OFFIOR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINeTon, June 5—1 A, M. Probabilities, For New England, the Middle States and the lower lake region southwesterly to north- westerly winds, and clear and clearing and somewhat cooler weather; fromthe Ohio Valiey and Missouri to the upper lakes, westerly to southerly winds and generally clear weather; for the South- ern States east of the Mississippi, soutnwesterly to northwesterly winds and clear or partly cloudy weather. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in 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 Phar- macy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1873. 1872, 1873, 3A. M.. - 60 57 3:30 P.M... 5980 6A. M. -60 57 6P.M. ty 9A. 67 «665 «OO PLM. “ 66 «673 12P.M. temperature yesterday = 69% Average temperature for corresponding date last year. a A TORNADO IN WEVADA. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4, 1873, Atornado at Winnemucca, Nevada, to-day, blew dewn the tents of the New York and New Orleans Circus, causing a great panic, Several men and women were severely injured; none mortally. THE GERMAN CATHOLICS IN AMERICA. Dsrrorr, June 4, 1873. The eighteenth annual Convention of the Ger- man Catholic Benevolent Association of the United States finished its labors to-day and adjourned, Rochester was selected as the place tor holding the next meeting. = fe nary. ‘The following despatch was received to-day by SRE ree: ROME, June 42 P. M. ‘The Pope returns thanks for your congratulations and sends benediction to all delegates of the Con- vention there assembled. ANTONELLL NOVA scotia, Hatiwax, N. S., June 4, 1878, ‘The steamer M. A. Stars, on a voyage to Yar- mouth yesterday, was dismasted in a gale before reaching Lunenberg. ‘The yacht trovice arrived| at Barrington on Mon- for Beston, day en George Brown has challenged Henry Coulter te Trew a race at Springfleld, Mass, for the champion- ship of America. UNFORTUNATE NAVAL OADETS. BaLtimors, June 4, 1873. Conyers, the colored cadet trom South Carolina, and O'Keefe, the New York mewsboy, who were in the Fourth Class at the Naval Academy at Annapo- hat r their examination, and the Febemmendation hes eon made to the Secretary of the Navy that their mages be dropped trom the Tous Qf the Academy, WASHINGTON. Wasuworon, June 4, 1678. The Preside: Departure for Long Branch Postponed. The President has postponed his departure for” Long Branch until Friday. Cotton Claims Decisions. The Court of Claims to-day rendered a decision of general interest and of very great importance im the case of William A. Haycroft vs. The United States, which is precisely identical in principle and Conditions of fact with the well kaown Elmira J. Kelly case, likewise pending. The Haycro(t suit was brought on July 30, 1672, for the proceeds of certain cotton seized and sold by agents of the United States government. The Captured aud Abandoned Property act limited the time within which suits could be brought for the proceeds of such seizures to August 20, 1868, being two years from the date of the termination of the rebellion, as fixed by the Presidential proclamation of August 20, 1866, The Supreme Court decided that the amnesty proclamation of December 26, 1668, re- lieved all persons in the Southern States from obli- gation to prove their loyalty in the Court of Claims, and Haycroft, in filing his claim in 167%, contended that, in consequence of said amnesty proclamation and the decision of the Supreme Court, disloyal cotton claimants like himself had a right to commence their suits at any time within six years after the date of the proclamation of Decem- ber 25, 1868, under the general statute of limita- tions applicable to suits brought in this Court, for the reason that he had no standing in the Gourt prior to the issuance of said amnesty prociama- tion, and that his cause of action occurred at that date, although his property was taken in 1863, The Attorney General filed a plea to jurisdiction on the ground that all suits for cotton were required to be brought within the two years’ limitation of the Captured and Abandoned Property act. Messrs. Bartley and Casey, counsel for the claim ant, demurred, and the Court to-day overruled tne demurrer and sustained the plea of jurisdiction. Counsel for the claimant then appealed to the Sua- preme Court, This decision, if sustained by the Supreme Court, will bar and exclude claims against the government for the proceeds of cotton to the- amount of about fifteen million dollars. In the case of Charles Hill, an alten and a@ sab .Ject of Great Britain, claiming the proceeds of cer- tain cotton captured from his factors by the United States military forces, Hill having resided in Eng- land during the entire period of the rebellion, the Court decided that the presumption in favor of his having preserved his neutrality ts not overthrown by the proof of the mere fact that he was interested in and subscribed money to cer tain adventures for running the blockade. These adventures, the Court say, may never have beem put afloat, or, ifthey were,may never have reached the seat of the blockade. It is therefore held td be necessary to show not only the purpose to give aid and comfort to the rebels, but the fact that the aid and comfort were given. This fact not being proved, judgment is given for claimant, In the case of Warren R, Dent the court decided that a proportion of the proceeds of captured cotton paid by the government to an informer could not now be recovered from the United States, this decision being based upon the general principle of the statute thas claimants can regoygr no More than thé het pro- coeds pad itito the United States Treasury. An important decision was also rendered in the case of Walter D. Spratt, of Mississippi, to the effect that claimants who purchased cotton from agents of the Confederate government, knowing at the time that the proceeds were to be used in the prosecution of war against the federal govern- ment, acquired no title to their purchases, nd, therefore, have no right of action against thie United States for subsequent capture and sale of such cotton. This decision governs and ex- cludes claims to the amount of about $3,000,000. Am appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, which made an order referring what are known as the Vicksburg cotton cases, involving the proceeds of some 0,000 bales, to Eben Evelith, of Washington city, as Special Commissioner, to disentangle the compli- cated questions of ownership, &c., and report to the next term, and then adjourned till the third Monday of next October. The White Star Line and the Mail Com tract. The contest between the White Star, Bremen and Inman lines for carrying the New York mails will be heard to-morrow. Edwards Plerrepont ap- Pears for the White Star line. This company ad- mits that it cannot fulfil its contracts, and will be unable to despatch a steamer on the 2ist. It is thought that Mr. Pierrepont’s influence in this case will be more successful than it was in behalf of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Modified Civil Service Rales. The Advisory Board of the Civil Service met the President and Cabinet to-day by invitation and submitted their report, maturely considered, pre- posing @ modification of some of the present rules and adding several new ones. These improve- ments are designed to make the civil service more efficient, being based ona strict adherence to ita principles, and will aid in remedying such defects as experience has shown to exist. One of the mod, ifications will serve to facilitate the filling of vacan- cies by the prompt examination of applicamta. It is understeod that the Board has given careful consideration to the subject of securing an equable distribution of office as regards lecality, The views of the Cabinet, se far as expressed, are in accord with those of the Board. The modified rules will not be promulgated by the President until after the next meeting of the Cabinet. The Postal Card Tro The Pogtmaster General is dissa‘ 4 with the Morgan Envelope Company’s execution of the postal*card contract. The experts and Depart- ment detectives are still employed in investigating the matter. Complaints from all parts of the country are. daily received that the material of the card is bad; that it cannot be written upon with: ink; that press copies cannot be taken, and such complaints generally. The contractors have the Department at a disadvantage, because the con- tract cannot be transferred without at least two months’ delay. The demand is constantly increas- ing, while the complaints keep pace. Mr. Cresswell says the cards shall be acceptable to the public, or the work discontinued. Important Appointment in Alabama. A private despatch from Montgomery, Ala., say® that Gevernor Lewis, republican, has appointed Robert C. Brickell, democrat, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of that State, vice Peck, resigned. Special Tax on Retailed Cigars. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue decides that retailers of cigars on railroad trains must pay the special tax of $5. HYDROPHOBIA. Terrible Sufferings and Death of Twe Persons. Baxtimorsg, June 4, 1873. Two terrible deaths from hydrophobia, one of them particularly distressing, occurred in the vicinity of Baltimore since yesterday morning. ¢ About four weeks ago, on @& farm of Mr. Friebe, about three miles from the city, his son, Charles Friebe, reeently re~ turned from Europe, after graduating at the Unt- versity of Heidelberg, while engagea removing @ dog from one side of the garden te the other, waa bitten by the animal. Two German gardeners, one being named Anton Auer, assisted, and were also bitten. nday merning last Auer, who had been pisten but gutly on the little finger of the left hand, was seized with all the aymptoms of hydro- phebia, and died at six o’cloek yesterday morning. ‘On Tuesday about noon young Friebe went to see Auer, taking with him the family physician. became greatly alarmed when he saw Auer suffe ing from hydrophobia. He went home and took to his bed and was soen afterwards seized with violent convuisions. Hydrophobia in its worst. form and much more violent than in Auer’s case manifested itseif and he died at one o’clock to-day. ‘The third party who had been bitten started for Pennsylvania on Monday to consult a female doc- tor, who claims to have a specific for Cg yd has not since been heard from. 6 dom, ‘which was chained in Mr. Friebe’s garden, died @ day or two after bit! the parties, who had ao suspicion that the ani was mad. r. Friebe, the father of young Friebe, sailed fer Europe a iew weeks ain) hi y { | _ -s