The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, Volume XXXVIII AMUSEMENTS THIS EVERING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Cups. Afternoon ani evening. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway. between Prince and louston st. —Koourr, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Way.—Seouxt Maniacs, &c, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. and Bleecker streets.—Fipxiis. Union square, near between Houston WALLACK'S THEATRE. Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Mora. NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 723 and 7% Broad- way.—Mapuieix Monzt. ees . BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery,—Uanna, tox Gini or tax Factory, 4c, THEATRE COMIQUE. No. 514 Broadway.—Mapcar— Pasrxst Bor 1x New York. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, corner Ih av.—Nxcno MinsTRELSY, &c, AMERICAN INSTITUTE HALL, Third av., 63d and 66th sts.—SumMER Niguts’ CONCKRES. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN—Soumxn Nicnts’ Con- exnes, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, 128 West Four- teenth st.—Crrrian axp Loan CoLtections OF Art. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- ington and Sd avs.—Dix Vientonuxa Bit bm LATERNE, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Science ann Ant. New York, Tuesday, June 17, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. *CESPEDES AND THE HERALD’S ENTERPRISE! THE ATTITUDE OF THE UNITED STATES" — LEADING EDITORIAL SUBJECT—SixTH PaGE. ‘LEITER FROM THE CUBAN PRESWENT TO THE PROPRIETOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD! OTHER DOCUMENTS FROM PATRIOT HEADQUARTERS! ELOQUENT TESTIMONY TO THE RPRISE OF THE INDEPENDENT PRESS AND THE INTREPID COURAGE OF ITS SPECIAL COMMIS- SIONERS! AN APPEAL TO THE AMERI- CAN UNION—Tuirp PaGE. SPANISH PRESS CENSORSHIP IN CUBA—IMPOR- TANT CABLE AND GENERAL NEWS—SEV- ENTH PAGE. @ MEXICAN PROTEST AGAINST MACKEN. ZIE’S PUNISHMENT OF THE RIO GRANDE ROBBERS! STIRRING VINDICATION OF THE FEARLESS CAVALRY CHIEF BY GENERALS SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN! PEACE TO BE ENFORCED ON THE BORDER! THE IN- DIANS’ FRIENDS BUSY—SEVENTH PaGg. THE TIGRESS TO BE DESPATCHED IN SEARCH OF THE POLARIS! THE STEAMER BOUGHT BY GOVERNMENT AND ON HER WAY TO THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD TO BE PRE- PARED FOR HER POLAR VOYAGE—SgvENTH Pags. STEERAGE ABOMINATIONS FULLY REPORTED BY A HERALD “SPECIAL” EMIGRANT! WHAT ONE MAY SUFFER WHO SEEKS PASSAGE TO THE NEW WORLD OF PROM- ISE! OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT, VILE FooD AND NO REDRESS! THE PROFITS AND DEFECTS OF THE SYSTEM—Turrp Page. REGAL PREPARATIONS OF THE BRITISH QUEEN AND PEOPLE FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE SHAH OF PERSIA! GRAND NAVAL ESCORT FROM CHERBOURG TO DOVER— SEVENTH PaGE. ANOTHER ATLANTIC CABLE! 176 MILES AL- READY REPORTED “PAID OUT FROM THE GREAT EASTERN—SEVENTH PAGE. MURDER MADNESS! THE GILLEN WIFE-SLAY- ING! A BRUTAL CRIME! THE AXE BUTCHERY IN HOUSTON STREET! THE OAK STREET STABBING AFFRAY—TgNTHa PAGE. EXECUTION OF A SANCTIFIED NEGRO MUR- DERER IN THE OLD DOMINION! EDIFY- ING CONFESSION AND CONDUCT OF A MANSLAYER ON THE GALLOWS—FovurtTao PaGE. THE SHARKEY-DUNN TRAGEDY! SUMMARIES OF LEGAL BUSINESS—MANSFIELD T, WAL- WORTH—RAID ON AN ILLICIT WHISKEY STILL—EicutTu Pace. CURIOUSLY CONFLICTING TESTIMONY IN THE KANE MURDER TRIAL, IN JERSEY CITY! THE “CROWNER’S QUEST” IN A MAZE OF DOUBT—ElGuTu Pace. DIABOLISM IN CONNECTICUT! ATTEMPT TO THROW A RAILWAY TRAIN FROM THE TRACK—SEVENTH PaGE. HATCHING A NEW CHARTER! IMPORTANT 3! A NEW MUNICIPAL BUREAU— NTH PAGE. ACHTING NEWS—TU-DAY’S RACING AT JEROME PARK—THE TROTTING AND RACING AT PROSPECT PARK YESTERDAY—BURNING OF VALUABLE HORSES AND OTHER PROP- ERTY AT FLEETWOOD—Fovrtn PAGE, HEAVY FALL IN THE GOLD PREMIUM! MONEY FINANCES IN AN —REAL ESTATE—THE CHRISTENSON BUTCHERY—A CORNER- STONE LAYING—BRUOKLYN AND THE BRIDGE—Firtit Pace. CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON WARD'S ISLAND—THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS— nTn Pace, MUNICIPAL DOINGS—Fc Tse Srarco For tHe Porarts.—We are glad to learn from Washington that the government has selected the steamer Tigress s a courier in search of the Polaris. This vessel seems to be specially adapted for the purpose, and the fact that she was the in- strument of saving Captain Tyson and his fellow voyagers from a horrible death lends additional interest to this new enterprise of the Navy Department. The story of the survivors has struck a chord in the Amer- ican heart, and every one now is anxious to hear what Captain Buddington and his associ- ates have to say on the question. The war steamer Juniata proceeds this week to Disco nd Uppernavik as an avant courrier to the Tigress. We are confident that the expedition will be successful, and that many useful hints to future Arctic explorers will be gleaned from the search after the Polaris. Tax Cuorers 1x Mempuis.—Twenty-one in- terments for Memphis in one day indicates an extraordinary mortality for that city, and the cholera patients are increasing. The disease, also, on both sides, appears to be extending into the interior. We may, therefore, have it in New York before many weeks are over, and still the question recurs, How is this city of ‘filthy streets and pestilential holes and corners prepared to meet this unwelcome guest? Messrs. Savace anv Roxzs, the Commis- sioners sent to investigate the Mexican border Kickapoo outrages, saw Secretary Fish yester- day. Their’ ort ought to be warlike in tone. Cespedes and the Herald’s Enter- prise—The Attitude of the United States. Among the documents which Mr. Millen, our secret commissioner to Cuba, succeeded in bringing through the Spanish lines is one in the handwriting and bearing the signature of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, President of the Cuban Republic. . It is the patriot President's testimonial to the enterprise of the Henatp, as he in his forest fastness has experienced it. A similar document is one of the points most paraded by the Spanish authorities in the case against Mr. O’Kelly. Valueless as it would be in establishing even the semblance of crim- inality where none existed, it is most valuable as proving beyond a doubt the triumph of the brave men who, in the name of the Herat, carried the spirit of the nineteenth century into a territory around which a strong government had vainly attempted to draw a chain of silence. The President compli- ments the Heratp and thanks it for the in- terest it has exhibited in the affairs of Cuba. He does not forget to note that it was a HERap commissioner who penetrated another terra incognita to find a great traveller, whom one of the strongest governments in the world had left to his fate. Doubtless tho hope was in the mind of Cespedes that the success of the Hzranp commissioners in Cuba would be as good an omen to the cause he served as the triumph of Mr. Stanley in Africa had been to Dr. Livingstone and the cause he wished to advance—the abolition of slavery as well as the discovery of the headwaters of the Nile. Cespedes receives the Hznaxp regularly, and, therefore, he has seen the English govern- ment move for shame’s sake to put down the slave trade on the eastern coast of Africa. The hope, in , whether founded on the good omen of the Hrratp Livingstone expedition or not, finds pointed but brief expression in the letter. He bears testimony to the light being shed upon the long-obscured subject dearest to his own and his fellow patriots’ hearts, and then proceeds to ask whether the government of the United States will take action on the information gained. It is a question which he has every right to put, and to which we hope some answer will be returned. The chief of a people who, in the cause of independence, equality and re- publicanism have fought a fierce fight during nearly five years with their oppressive rulers deserve some recognition from humanity beside an interest in the moving details of the bloody warfare waged by them. There is, to be sure, a republic of some kind in Spain; but the in- dignant remonstrance addressed by the Cuban leaders in arms to the Spanish republicans shows conclusively that the fighting Cubans expect as little quarter or alleviation from the latest form of government in the Peninsula as from any that preceded it. The latter manifesto is exceedingly bitter in tone; but it will, we fear, be very diffi- cult to gainsay anything contained therein regarding Spain’s haughty, high-handed and oppressive treatment of the Cubans. President Grant is himself responsible for the statement that the American nation has a deep interest in the “struggle at our doors,”’ and, much as Madrid thought fit to be angered at the President's allusion to Cuba in his Message, there is ap- parently nothing for Spain to apprehend from our government in the matter as our foreign affairs are at present conducted. Butis this just, not to say manly, on the part of our government? Have we no nobler part to take in this struggle to the death than as spectators, to look on and see men battle like wild ani- mals ? In the Cuban question the aspect which should first attract attention is that the war in Cuba is that of a people who demand self- government as the sine qua non of termi- nating the contest. The causes for this demand are notorious. They are primarily material and secondly sentimental. The material causes were contained in the fact that Cuba was but a stock farm trom which Spain, half or wholly bankrupt herself, drew an im- mense revenue for which Cuba never received the slightest benefit. Instead, the island- ers were given Spaniards for governors whose principal business was to retrieve ruined fortunes by squeezing more money from the Cubans, while treating Cuba as a conquered province instead of as a colony whose kindliness and good will they should foster. Cuba, in fact, found herself ruled by an insatiate Power, whose whole object was to wring as much gold from the “Ever Faithful Isle’ as possible. The denial of political power to the native Cubans was another material loss, aggravated by proximity to the United States, where, under frec institu- tions, the most progressive spirits were enabled to apply all the inventions of science to the development of the country and its resources. Neither the Spanish nation nor its Spanish representatives in Cuba cared tg expend money in improvements which would benefit the islanders. To build an aqueduct would be, as it were, to deflect moncy from official pockets or from the bottomless Spanish treasury. Cuba suffered perpetual pillage and could not accustom herself to the process. Sentiment in this practical age has few claims that diplomatists respect. The ‘war for ideas,”’ as Napoleon IIL, with his theatri- cal cunning, named the wars undertaken to turn Frenchmen’s eyes from France and to acquire territory for the Empire, had material bases whose very grossness, when unmasked, has made the phrase a byword. But there are nevertheless ideas which, when wronght out to facts, command the admiration of ciy- ilization. Such was the anti-slavery movement here which triumphed through the war of the rebellion. To this very sentiment the Cuban leaders who took up their country's cause appealed, and marked their devotion by manumitting the slaves owned by themselves while declaring universal freedom to all. This and the natural revolt of feeling against sordid oppression were the first sentiments that led to the Cubans seeking to be masters of their destinies. As the years of the contest have rolled on other and fiercer sentiments have been forced into the war. Cruelty and inhumanity have done their fell work of set- ting passions in a blaze, and the war for inde- pendence has taken extermination as its alter- native. Between the contending forces the American people were not long in choosing those fight- ing for freedom as worthy of their sympathy, Until the Hznatp had determined at all hazards to publish the truth regarding the war this sympathy had some small excuse for not taking a very active shape. Now the gov- ernment and people, through our columns, have been enabled to ece the naked facts of the case, and can no longer give blind- | mess as an excuse for blamable in- action, What every friend of freedom and humanity would desire is that this horrid war should be brought to an end. The people of Cuba, as well as other peoples, have certain inalienable rights. They have the right to declare what form of government they desire to live under. Spain has no title to Cuba beyond that of the conqueror who prescribes his own terms to the vanquished. In the case of Cuba these terms have proved intolerable, The hecatombs of Spanish and Cuban dead, the plantations burned by the hands of their owners, the wasted land and the unconquered ardor, enthusiasm—ay, desperation—of the patriots militant prove this. The Great Powers, headed by the United States as the most interested, should, therefore, bring such pressure to bear on Spain as would give Cuba a fair chance to peacefully decide her future. There is much reason to fear that Spain would be very loath to consent to such a manifestly fair proceeding. Should she contumaciously refuse a more decisive course is open which would soon settle the matter. We have not touched upon the question of annexation, as we have no very strong desire to see it accom- plished. The Henaup has done its share of laying the case of Cuba broadly and impar- tially before the world. What does the gov- ernment say to the appeal of Cespedes? Emperor William, Germany and the Condition of Europe. For some days past the idea has been im- pressed upon us that Emperor William is ina critical and dangerous condition. One of our latest despatches has it that the Emperor is seriously ill, and that according to private ad- vices his condition is alarming. We have of late become familiar with reports regarding the serious illness of illustrious personages in Europe. The Holy Father has been dying for ever so many years, but in spite of all reports to the contrary the Pope, .we have good reason to believe, is, considering his advanced years, in a remarkably hale and healthful condition of body and mind. The wish is oftentimes the parent of the thought, and like and dislike are equally liable to give birth to the wish. Pope Pius the Ninth and Emperor William are, beyond all question, the two most prominent rulers in Europe at the present time. They have their friends and their enemies, and, bearing in mind the wishes of the one and of the other, it is not difficult to understand how in either case the rumor of serious illness might be magnified into the tact of death. Happily Pio Nono still lives, and it would not be at NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. royal British reception, with a cordial greet- | Khan ; for, with the loss of his capital, we may ing from the English people. The army, the navy, the Court and the populace are all agog, from London “all round to the sea,"’ in ex- pectation of the event. Guildhall will shine forth in the full splendor of its municipal glory, so that His Highness Nasr-ed-Din is likely to have an excellently good time. The Emigrant Stecrage Passage—Ex- perience of a Herald Commissioner. We publish to-day, in another part of the paper, a narrative of the experience of a gen- tlemen who was commissioned to take a steer- age passage from Liverpool to New York for the purpose of investigating the subject of emigration and treatment of emigrants on board ship. As will be seen, he took passage on the finest ship of the National line, the Egypt, which carried about a thousand emi- grants and whigh has previously carried nearly double tit number. This vessel is five thousand and sixty-four tons burden and the largest of the line, and has, therefore, great capacity for this business. The first matter of interest spoken of by our correspond- ent is the extreme sensitivencss of the com- pany and its officials as to any information getting before the public about their business of transporting emigrants. Though he paid his passage money, six guineas, in the usual way, he had to be very careful to make it appear that he was a bona fide emi- grant, and not either a man of the press or a government official. The company, having heard that the American government was employing agents to go by vessels and to secretly investigate the treat- ment of emigrants on board, was on the alert to prevent such unwelcome passengers going on to frustrate their object. He had, conse- quently, to disguise his purpose ahd to adapt himself to the dress, habits and life of the steerage. Such sensitiveness or precaution of the company would be unnecessary if the treatment of the emigrants was what it ought to be. Evidently the company fears the light. We are inclined to think that is the ease, too, with other steamship companies which transport emigrants. While there are, probably, more extreme cases of suffering, bad management and de- moralization on board some of the emigrant ships than is reported on the Egypt, the evils there require notice and the attention of the government. The bad food, the brutality of the sailors, the indifference of the officers and company to the comfort and welfare of the passengers, the crowding together of both sexes without proper separation and disci- pline, which necessarily leads to demoraliza- tion, and the bad management generally call for a better enforcement of the laws and more stringent ones if needed. The details fur- nished by our commissioner will give all wonderful if, in spite of his much care and anxiety, the old man rejoices in the thought that he has falsified Papal tradition by out- living St. Peter himself as the occupant of the See of Rome. Some hate, some likehim. By some he is regarded asa friend of humanity anda potent agent in the advancement of modern thought and modern civilization. By others he is regarded as the foe of all that is good and true in modern life. It is not to be denied that any moment may bring usa confirmation of the report of the Emperor's serious illness or the announce- ment of his death. He is already in the sev- enty-sixth year of his age; and, although his late campaign against France, at the head of the combined armies of Germany, gave proof of wonderfully robust health, it ought not to be forgotten that the seventy-six years very nearly complete the allotted span of human life. The strength which hitherto has given character to his career must soon become ‘labor and sorrow,’’ and, Kaiser as he is, he must pass away. Few rulers, in modern times, have been permitted to live so long. Fewer still have had so much success crowded upon them in their later days. In the government information which it may not have obtained or cannot obtain from its agents. Emigrants, for the most part, are respectable, honest and industrious people, though poor, who come to the United States to better their con- dition and to become valuable citizens. Yet these people are treated as if they were dogs. The coarse sailors continually insult and push them about in the roughest manner. Why should not the officers and sailors treat them with proper respect and attention? Though they do not pay as much for their passage as cabin passengers they pay proportionately as much for the food and accommodation fur- nished and afford vast profits to the steamship companies. A man buying a yard of cloth at a store is entitled to respect as much as another who buys six yards. The truth is steamship companies are heart- less, their grasping cupidity overcomes every sentiment of humanity, and they manage this emigrant business much as the old slave traders did the ‘Middle Passage.’’ Nor is there any remedy for this heartlessness and cruelty but through the government. How many millions now in the United States can 1861, when he ascended the throne of Prussia on the death of his feeble brother, who could have predicted that he would live to humble Austria, to avenge Jena, to become Emperor of Germany? Since the twelve yenrs which preceded 1815 no such twelve years have been known in Europe. All the glory of those twelve years Germany has reaped, and that glory has mainly centred in Emperor William. Germany is now the most powerful nation by far on the Continent of Europe. Russia courts her; Austria is submissive; France, smarting from recent punishment, dare not speak, and England, contemplating the gigantic strength of her Continental neighbor, can only flatter herself that she is mistress of that ‘streak of silver sea.’ Since the days of the First Napoleon no such changes have taken place in Europe as those which have taken place during the reign of Kaiser William, and particularly during the last six years, and as then power centred in France, so now power centres in Germany. It cannot be said that the Emperor owes his great success so much to his own personal qualities as to the men whose counsels he has enjoyed, and to the circumstances by which he has been surrounded. Sturdy common sense has been the characteristic of the man, and by yielding to, rather than opposing the tide, he has floated to success. As a great man, in the high sense, he will not take a place in the world’s annals ; but in his own land, and by his own people his name will be associated with Charlemagne, with the First Otho and with Frederick of the Red Beard. Under him, it will be said, the dreams of ages were realized and the German Empire was restored. His death to-morrow would exercise but little effect on the policy or condition of Ger- many. It would not materially alter the con- dition of Europe. The Emperor is strong be- cause he gives expression to the sentiment of Germany. The sentiment would rule through his successor as it now rules through‘him. On the life of no great ruler at the present mo- ment does so little depend. Unlike France and the Southern nations—unlike Russia even—Germany is to a large extent self- governing, strong and confident of her strength. Emperor William does not repre- sent the one-man power, and so his passing away would make but little change in his own country or in the general condition of Europe or the world. Tue Swan's Vistr to Enorann.--His Majesty the Shah of Persia, the successor of Darius in governmental authority, will arrive in the British metropolis to-morrow, the 18th inst., on a visit to Queen Victoria, the successor of Boadicea. He will enjoy a right bear testimony to the evils we speak of and our correspondent has in part exposed! At the present rate of immigration the population is being increased from that source from four to five hundred thousand o year. These people soon become citizens, and some of them or their children eminent ones. From them o good deal of our wealth and prosperity spring. Ought wo, then, to neglect them? Ought not the gov- ernment to protectthem? Should these hon- est and industrious people, our future citizens, be treatod like dogs, or as African slaves used tobe when the slave trade flourished? The carrying of emigrants isa vast and profitable trade, and the soulless companies which make enormous sums of money out of it should be compelled to provide comfortable quarters, good and wholesome food and proper treat- ment from their officers and sailors. Above all, they should be forced to protect the morals of the floating communities under their charge. The federal government should undertake the reforms needed, for immigration isa matter of national interest. It ought to coliect a mass of facts bearing upon the subject by the time of the assembling of Congress, and then that body should pass such a stringent, com- prehensive and humane law as will effectually cure existing evils. A government that has manifested such a tender regard for the blacks of the South can hardly neglect the suffurings of the four or five hundred thousand white people who are agtiving here yearly to replon- ish our wealth and to become valuable citizens, Let us have protection for the emigrants against the cupidity of steamship companies and the brutality of sailors. . Procress or THE Russtan Camparan AGAINstT Karva.-—Our latest despatches from St. Peters- burg inform us that the Russian army column of General Werewkin occupied Kungrad, one hundred miles north of Khiva, on the 20th of May; that thence the General had advanced along the line of the Oxus to Khaijah and Khunia Urgenj, the enemy flying before him, and that meantime the Russian flotilla had entered the Bay of Aibuigir, on the southern ond of the Sea of Aral, or Salt Lake, where a depot of supplies was to be established for the army column of Werewkin. In other words, the advanced Russian army column had reached a point within fifty miles of Khiva and without resistance, the enemy flying beforo it as the column advanced. It is probable that the troops of the Khan are acting under instruc- tions in these retreats, and that thoy are con- contrating their forces at Khiva for a decisive battle, We expect, too, that Genoral Werowkin in this battle will mako short work of the say his resources, his prestige, his army and his khanate are gone. Sunday Ram and Murder. The Sabbath day in the metropolis has of late years acquired an unenviable notoriety for crime, especially where murder is con- cerned ; but last Sunday's record shows a lower degree of depravity than what we might have been accustomed to from previous ex- perience. The morning was signalized by a family quarrel and general spree, during which a ‘‘lad’’ of sixteen wound up a domestic dobauch with a hatchet, cutting open his brother-in-law’s head. When the shades of evening covered the city the knife was used with deadly effect on two occasions—once on account of jealousy, and again the result of rum. The laxity of our criminal law, by which murder seems to be the safest item on the calendar; and the condition of affairs in this line, by which a dozen mur- derers still defy justice in the Tombs, will account for the cheap estimate in which dangerous characters hold taking a fellow being’s life. It may be regarded as an incon- trovertible axiom in the annals of crime in New York at the present day that the cheapest arti- cle in the market is human life. The purloin- ing of property, from the smallest sum upward, is attended with signal punish- ment. Burglars, highwaymen and forgers meet with stern justice when they aro brought before a court, and they never find any com- miseration, either from the public or the pre- siding justice. But murderer, unfortu- nately, is lionized to such an extent and is fortunate enough to have so many loopholes of escape, that his crime seems to be the most difficult to punish. Our criminal code should be simplified and made more appli- cable to murder cases, At present, where blood has been shed, it is a labyrinth of ex- ceptions, pleas of insanity, new trials and such like nonsense, so that justice is often defeated and the criminal escapes, until the dangerous impression gets abroad that murder cannot be punished. An execution or two, long after the crime has been perpetrated, will not mend matters. What we want is a long rope and short shrift and an end to the vexatious ob- stacles which interfere with justice. Where blood has been wilfully shed the life of the perpetrator should pay the penalty. A few executions in this city will prove of incal- culable advantage. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, is at the Astor House. Prince Azuma, of Japan, is still at the St, Nicho- las Hotel. Generat L. H. Warner, of Philadelphia, is at the Hotfman Hayse. Caleb Cushing arrived at the Astor House from Washington last evening. Commander E. P, McCrea, of the United States Navy, is at the New York Hotel. Captain F. A, Ree, of the United States Navy, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General John E. Mulford, of Richmond, Va., is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. Major General L. Barrow, ©. B., has returned to England from long service in India and retired on @ pension. ‘The Maharajah of Vizianagram, being musically minded, has given 600 reals toward the purchase of &@ public organ for Calcutta, Colonel Meares, of the I'wentieth regiment of the British Army, is at the Grand Central Hotel, on hia way home from the Bermuda station. Indian intelligence says that “His Highness Amenda Bai, one of the two surviving Ranees of the last Rajah of Eragpore, died on the 3d of May.” A Western editor insists that he wrote the word “trousseau” plain as a pikestaff in cgnnection with certain bridal presents. The printer, however, vulgarly put it “trousers.” Senator William B. Allison, of lowa, and his bride have reached the Brevoort House on their wedding tour, and will sail for Europe on the steamship Algeria to-morrow, to be absent uftil the Autumn. Father O'Keefe expects his action against Car- dinal Cullen to be tried again, and will occupy the meantime with suits against Bishop Moran, Dr. McDonald, the Dublin £vening Post and the Kil- kenny Journal, Lord Hobart lately appointed his brother, the Honorabie Captain Ho»art, to the post of Superin- tendent of Army Clothing at Madras, India; but, the Indian press having protested against the nepotism, the Secretary of State refused to grant a confirmation. THE KANiAS SCANDAL TorEKa, June 16, 1873, The trial of ex-Senator Pomeroy for the bribery of Senator York, on motion of Pomeroy’s counsel was to-day postponed until the December term of the District Court. Mr. Pomeroy claimed to be ready for trial, but his counsel had nos had time for preparation. There were thirty-five witnesses present sor the State and none fer Pome- roy. The prosecuting attorney urged, in a forcible Manust, that the application for a continuance be ened, WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 17—1 A. M. | Probabiuties. For New England tight to fresh westerly and northerly winds and generally clear weather are probable; for the Middle States light to fresh westerly and northerly winds and generally clear weather; for the lower lake regions light to fresh northerly and easterly winds and generally clear weather; for the South Atlantic States light to fresh southwesterly and southeasterly winds and partly cloudy weather, with occasional rain areas; for the Gulf States east of the Mississippi and Tennessee generally cloudy weather and rain areas; trom the Unio Valley and Missouri to the upper lakes wind veering to light and fresh easterly and southerly and gene- rally clear weather; for the northwest diminishing pressure, southerly to westerly winds and partly cloudy weather, The paoriey of the midnight telegraphic reports from Florida, the West Gulf States, the Indian Territory, Kansas, Michigan and Dakota have not yet been received. 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 bg of last ¥ ar, as indicated by ee hermometer at Hudnut's harmacy, HERALD Building :— F872, 1873, 1872, 1873. 5 8:00 P.M. 78 (92 last year. 1 THE SINEWS OF WAR STRONG IN LOUISIANA, WASHINGTON, June 16, 1873, Attorney General Williams has received an oficial telegram from New Orleans from Governor Kellogg, in which the iatter, contradicting a re- ported interview with him, says:— ‘ tf requisition catling on the President was tully justified, and the President's proclamation has had @ most salutary effect in all respects, Taxes are being paid more rapidly than ever before in Louisiana, After providing for the January and February interest we have over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars in State tunds to-night in the hands of the discal agents, We will pay the March, April and June coupons early In July. The injunctions only restrain the payment of the inter- est on five series of bonds out of twenty-five, There is money enough to pay the interest on all the bonds in the hands of the Oscal agents, ——$<—<—$ $e, $n \ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. Mr. Farnie's “Nemisis” and Mr. Leopold Lewis's “Wandering Jew” will shortly be produced in this city. English Opera is to be given at the Lyceum, Lon- don, in the Autumn, under the management of Madame Parepa Rosa, It is announced that the Bureau of the Paris theatres, which hitherto has been at the Direction of the Beaux-Arts, is now transferred to the Ministry of the Interior, ‘The principal attraction of tne testimonial com cert to Mr. John P. Morgan, the organist at Dr. Hepworth’s church, this evening. will be Weber's Mass in G, to be sung by the Church Music Asso- ciation, Oying to a mistake in the announcement Mr, James Lewis’ benefit did not take place at the Fifth Avenue Theatre last night. In consequence Miss Fanny Morant will receive her benefit on Wednesday evening—last might having been origi- nally assigned to her—and Mr. Lewis on Thursday evening, The new Summer piece at Niblo's. entitled “Koomer,” produced last night, is not 4 dramatio success, being devoid of situations and interest. The “dialect” part is not dialect as a matter of course, and Mr. Phillips (Oofty Gooft) plays it like a limber Yankee imitating broken Knglish. All the fun is in dislocated sentences, made piquant by some commonplace profanity. Asan actor Mr, Phillips shows considerable ease, but it is evi- dently not the resuit of study or experience. His part, aside from its noxious grammar and ob- noxious pronunciation, is not & creation—it is simply nothing. Unfortunately, too, though there are good actors in the cast, the play is otherwise without characters. Mme. Ponisi, for instance, has scarcely anything to do exeept to look surprised and indignant in an actor two. The only real feature is the simple beauty of Miss Lulu Prior, but we doubt whether a young girl’s pretty face can carry @ play. Mr. Phillips was called before the curtain at the close of the second act, and he was received with considerable favor by a large audi- ence. Somnolency seems to be the general character of the Summer plays this season. A piece called “Fidelia, the Fire Waif,” written for a young girl who is called ‘Little Nell,” was produced at the Olympic Theatre last night. It partakes of the usual characteristics of Summer pieces, and serves only a8 a vehicle for certain little tricks which Lotta first was taught and which “Little Nell” hag learned with considerable aptness, Many persons are willing to forgive the dulness for the eccen- tricities and to find the silly little tricks as pleas- ant as they are frivolous. ‘Little Nell” is fresh and piquant and as good, if not better, than any of her predecessors in the same school. People who’ like clog dancing and the banjo business, and “comic” ballads, sung in a shrill young voice, and a bold girl, dressed as a flashy, impertinent boy, will take her to their hearts and say that she is “bright” and “clever” and all that sort of thing. Many persons did it last night, and she received seven encores for her banjo performance, singing and playing at the same time, and she was rapturously applauded thronghout the piece. There ean be little doubt that “Little Nell will grow in public esteem, for she evidently had her audience with her on her first appearance im this city. NEW YORK DISTRICT CONFERENCE. First Semi-Annual Meeting—Committees Appointed, Discussions and Addresses. During the last session of the General Conference. in Brooklyn a plan was adopted for the organiza- tion of district conferences whenever a majority of the quarterly conferences should assent to the Mian and ask for such conferences, The authority and sphere of these district conferences are in some respects much larger than the quarterly conferences, which they are designed to supersede. The district conferences are to be composed of the travelling and local preachers, the exhorters, district stewards and Sunday school su~ perintendents, The presiding elders are made THE PRESIDENTS OF THESE CONFERENCES, and the business of the conferences, as prescribe@ by the discipline of the Church, 1s to take the over- sight of all the temporal and spiritual affairs of the district; to examine into the qualifications and usefulness of the local preachers and to arrange @ plan of half yearly appoint- ments tor the same; to hear complaints against them; to license them to preach or to re- voke the same; to recommend local preachers to annual conferences, aud to deacons and elders orders; to see that the collections for the benevo- lent institutions of the Church are taken up; to look after the missionary and Church extension enterprises and some other miscellaneous duties. A majority of the Meath, conferences of the New York district, New York Conference having signified their acceptance to the pian, the DISTRICT CONFERENCE MET YESTERDAY in St. Luke’s Methodist Episcopal church, Forty- first street, near Sixth avenue. Dr. Brown pre- sided. Bishop Janes, being present during a por- tion of the morning session, was invited to pre- side, which he did, and gave the Conference the benefit of his great experience. Rev. E. 8. Osborn, pastor of Green street church, ‘was chosen secretary, and committees were ap- pointed on literary and devotional exercises, om order of business, on missionary and church exten- sion enterprises, on appointments and on licensing of candidates for the local min- istry. lea fo the Conference is composed of tra elling as of local preachers, yet from the proceed- ings yesterday 1t would seem that it was acourt of inquiry of itinerants to examine local preachers and exhorters, Indeed, Dr. A. M. Osborn publicly denied that the Conference had any jurisdiction over him or over any ordained travelling preacher. The roll was called and less than half of the forty local preachers in the district answered to their names, aid gave brief accounts of their labors dur- ing the year past. It appeared from these reports that the local preachers have, irom one cause or another, grown in disfavor in the Church, and doors that were once open are now closed against them. A few there were who declared that they had more pulpits and preaching invitations opened to them than they could accept. Some of the churches reported BUNCHES OF SIX OR EIGHT LOCAL PREACHERS, and as many exhorters in each, hardly one of whom were present, and few of whom, so far ag reported, had exercised his office half a dozen times, if ‘at all, during the year. An afternoon session was held, at which Rev, J. M. Freeman, Assistant Secretary of the Sunday School Union, addressed the Conference on the relations of Sunday school superintendents to the Church and their qualifications for their work. Business having been again resumed, Mr. Apple- gate offered a resolution making it a cause for the withdrawal of license from any local preacher who shail absent himself from these conferences with- out assigning valid cause therefor in writing. The resolution was amended to cause neglect to at- tenda bar to the renewal of license, and was so adopted, An important discussion arose here on the relations of local preachers to the Church. AN EVENING SESSION — was held also, at which this subject came up again for discussion, led by Rey. J, P. Hermance, of Tar- rytown, and participated in by Dr. Osbon, Rev. C. C, Goss and others. — Rey. A. D. Vail delivered an address on church finances, making some prac- tical suggestions in regard to raising money for Church work. This morning Dr. Foss will address the Confer- ence on elements of power in Methodism, and dur- Ing the sessions Drs. Curry and Eduy will also ad- dress the Coniere: BU RS AT BAY. CutcaGo, TL, June 16, 1873, A desperate fight occurred here this morning, at the corner of Halsted and Erle streets, between three police officers and some burglars, which re. sulted in the shooting and’ probable killing of Jack Allen, one of the most daring and notorious thieves in the country, and the capture of Dave Reggio, alias Rogers, or One-Armed Dave, a scarcely less noied villain, The burglars were spotted last night by Sheriff Mc- Donald, of Sioux City, on the train from Milwaukee, in which city, on Saturday night, they rovbed a foods store of geveral thousand dollars! worth of dry goods. ©. McDonald telegraphed to Police Headquarters here, and three policemen met the train at the depot; but the thieves, catching a of them, fan trom the car and ran. The officers overtook them, and met with fierce resist+ ance on attempting to arrest them, Alien drew &® pistol and fired an inefiectual shot at Omicer Sims mons, who returned the fire, one of his shots striking Allen in the side, penetrating his inves- tines, and inflicting, it is believed, a mortal wound. Reggio also fought desperately, but was finally captured and is now in jail, About $2,000 worth of goods stolen in Milwaukee were recovered, Tne tuird burglar made his escape, NASHVILLE, June 16, 1873. In Ratherford county, about three weeks ago, Joe Woods (colorea) outraged a widow and knocked her in the head with an axe. The woman died Sat- urday night, anda party of Mity men took Woods @ud hung him, tS