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NEW YORK MUSBUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmnce anv Ant, <2 a en TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Jane 28, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE RAILROAD QUESTION IN ITS ECONOMI- CAL AND POLITICAL BEARINGS"’—SUBJECT OF THE LEADER—SIXTH PAGE. THE RUSSIAN TRIUMPH IN CENTRAL ASIA! FULL CONFIRMATION OF THE KHAN’S SURRENDER! IMPORTANT RAILWAY EX TENSION PROJECT! ENGLISH PRESS DE- NUNCIATION OF SUCH A SOLUTION OF THE EASTERN QUESTION—SEVENTH PaGE. ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR THE GREAT CABLE- LAYER! THE sNEW ANGLO-AMERICAN LINE COMPLETED! A STORM PREVEN THE ATTACHING OF THE SHORE END! THE HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION AND A DESCRIPTION OF THE CABLE—TuIRD PAGE. A STREET FIGHT BETWEEN PERSIANS AND THE POLICH OF CONSTANTINOPLE—LM- PORTANT LATE NEWS—SEVENTH PaGE. ANOTHER MANSLAYER HANGED! A FATAL FLIRTATION! THE OLD LOVE HANGED FOR MURDERING THE NEW ONE! A NOVEL HISTORY OF CRIME—FirTH Page. THE MOST REMARKABLE CRIMINAL TRIAL OF THE CENTURY! FRANK WALWORTH’S DEFEN MANSFIELD TRACY WAL- WORTH’S CRABLE LETTERS READ BY COUNSEL IN OPEN COURT! DIRE THREATS AGAINST THE LIVING, AWFUL ABUSE OF THE HONORED DEAD—FourtH Page. AMERICAN OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE ACHEE- NESE WAR! ITS INCEPTION AND CON- DUCT! DUTCH OPPRESSION ON THE ISLAND OF SUMATRA—TaIKp PaGE. SPAIN’S NEW CONSTITUTION! CARLIST PROG- RESS IN BISCAY! THE EX-QUEEN’S TOUR— SEVENTH PaGs, ELECTION TURMOILS IN A RIOT IN BATH! TH PAGE. RUNNING THE BLOCKADE TO CURA LIBRE— BEECHER’S FRIDAY NIGHT THOUGHTS— THE OOLLEGES AND SCHOOLS—Turmp PaGE. ‘ DEATH OF HIRAM POWERS, THE FAMOUS AMERICAN SCULPTOR! HIS LIFE WORK— SEVENTH Pace. EXCELLENT TURF STRUGGLES AT FLE! WOOD, WAVERLY AND UTICA PARKS— TENTH Pace. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS AGAINST EPIDEMICS! THE MEASURES TAKEN BY THE TH BOARD TO FORTIFY THE METROPOLIS AGAINST THE APPROACH OF CHOLERA— FirtH PaGE. JAPAN TO HAVE A NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE CONGRESS! FINANCIAL EMBARRASS- MENTS! AMERICAN LABOR SAVERS REC- OMMENDED—SEVENTH PaGE. BRAZILIAN STATE OPPOSITION TO PAPAL BULLS AND EXCOMMUNICATIONS! THE PARAGUAYAN WAR—SEVENTH PAGE. THE CONDITION OF THE CROPS THROUGHOUT THE UNION! COTTON DAMAGED BY HEAVY RAINS IN THE SOUTH! CORN AND WHEAT ‘ PROMISING WELL—ELEVENTH Pace. D! ARS OF SEVENTH Tae Suan or Pzusta, after all, is to have a reception by the city of Paris, and it will be in the acceptable form of an Oriental night féte and illumination in his honor. Meantime the “King of Kings” is doing up England on a liberal scale, and as the lion of Liverpool was ® great success. A Stonmicanr Distinction wirHour A Drrrerence is that made by the Spanish government in accrediting Sefior Rubio as “Representative of Spain to England,’’ instead vf, as formerly, ‘‘to Her Majesty the Queen of England.” Her Majesty has not yet recog- nized the republican government of Spain, and this is the way the slight is treated. It is said all representatives of Spain to Powers which have not recognized the Republic are similarly accredited. Spain would not be Spain if she did not stand upon her dignity. However, if the Spanish people can maintain their repub- lican government they need not care much about monarchical recognition or in what form their representatives are accredited or re- ceived, Himam Powers, the famous American sculptor, is no more, A despatch from Florence informs us of his death in that city yesterday, after a lingering illness, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, hard upon the Psalmist’s limitation of threescore and ten. Elsewhere in these columns we give a sketch of his active life and his great achievements in his high vocation. For many years he had made his home among the treasures of art in the charming city of Florence, and hundreds ot Americans, who during this period have made the tour of Italy, will recall with pride and pleasure their visits to the workshop of their world-renowned countryman, Hiram Powers. From iron poverty and obscurity, with his charming creation of the Greek Slave he rose to distinction, to liberty and to a profitable field of labor, which he held to the end of his long and industrious career. His mame and his fame, with those of numerons other distinguished Americans in the fine arte, belong to the brotherhood of the.world ; and yet wherever his bones may rest his fel- low countrymen will not forget that ho, too, was an American, NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JU The Railroad Question in Its Eco- momical and Political Bearings. The farmers’ movement in the West for cheap transportation and to check railroad monopoly begins to have an influence and to take shape in the politics of the country. The Iowa Republican State Convention, which assembled on the 25th for the purposo of nominating candidates for Governor and other officers, took the subject up boldly. Among the resolutions, mostly of a partisan political character, passed unanimously by the Convention was the following:—‘Resolved, That the producing, commercial and indus- trial interests of the country should have the best and cheapest modes of transportation possible; and while actual capital in- vested in such means of transit, whether by railroad or otherwise, should be permitted the right of reasonable remuneration, abuse in their management, excessive rates, oppressive discrimination against localities, persons or interests should be corrected by law, and we demand Congressional and Legislative enact- ments that will control and regulate the rail- roads of the country, give to the people trans- portation at fair rates and protect them against existing abuses.” Then, again, in other reso- lutions, referring to the mission of the repub- lican party, the Convention says, ‘‘it will now be derelict to its spirit and duty if it does not protect all our people from all forms of op- pression, whether by monopolies, centralized capital, or of whatsoever kind the oppression may be;”” and, ‘that we insist upon the right and duty of the State to con- trol every franchise of whatever kind it grants,’ meaning the grants to capitalists and corporations for making railroads or other improvements, but declaring at the same time that there is no wish to do injustice to those who invest in such enterprises. It is worthy of notice that the Convention, while avowing its faith in the republican party, declares that to carry out these views it is ‘‘the duty of every republican to oppose the election of a bad man and incompetent official, whether ho be a candidate upon our own or any other ticket.”’ Admitting there is some of the usual bun- combe in these resolutions which characterizes those of political conventions generally, still it is evident the republicans of Iowa are awake to the issues that are looming up, and that they intend to use them. Their State is agricultural, more largely so, perhaps, than any other in proportion to population, and is at a greater distance from markets for its pro- duce than many others. Feeling, then, the necessity of an outlet for their products, which means cheaper transportation to the seaboard, the people of Iowa have entered heartily into the movements of the farmers throughout the West against the railroad monopoly and its high charges. Among the farmers’ granges and other cognate associa- tions in the West for curbing and regulating the railroad interests, which begin to count their members by millions, Iowa has a large number. Though these combinations have not had time to crystallize or show their strength ‘they are increasing, and must, before long, become more united and effective, The material interests of a vast section of the country must give direction to its political action. Cheap transportation, consequently, being of primary importance to the agricul- tural West, the railroad question will neces- sarily enter into the politics of that region. How to solve it is the difficulty at present. The people see, and indeed feel, the neces- sity of doing something; but where to begin or how to proceed is not so apparent. There is the difficulty of invading invested or char- tered rights. Then the railroad power is strongly fortified by capital and by its influ- ence over public men, legislatures and the judiciary. Nor is it clear to the reformers whether they should go to the State govern- ments or the federal government for a remedy. In their inchoate movements under this state of things the farmers’ organizations exhibit some fear that the politicians or political par- ties may defeat their object while pretending to favor it. But are they not independent of one or other of the old political parties? Can they crystallize into a power in the Republic without doingso? The Iowa State Convention has taken the initiative to bring them into the republican organization. Will the democrats bid higher or do better? Or will these organi- zations remain a power in themselves? The answer must be left.to the future. There are about seventy thousand miles of railroad in the United States. The railroad mileage of the whole of Europe is not more. We have, then, as great a length of railroads for our forty millions of people as Europe has for three hundred millions. The cost has been little less than three thousand mil- lions of dollars. Nearly all this vast work has been done in thirty-three years, for in 1840 there were only two thousand miles of railroad. .The earnings of our railroads exceed four hundred millions of dollars a year. It is said eight thousand five hundred addi- tional miles will be completed this year, and that there are thirty-five thousand miles more in various stages of progress or preparation ; and what will there be in the near future—in the course of twenty years, or even ten years? Well, do the multiplication and extension of railroads tend to cheapen transportation? Undoubtedly they do, but not to the extent they might if the roads were properly con- trolled, or the growing interests of a wide- spread population considered. Agricultural products and business of all kinds grow faster generally in the Wostern and new States than railroads, though in some instances the rail- toads are pushed forward in advance of settle- ment, and as the pioneers of progress and civilization. The Pacific Railroad was forced beyond settlements, and the absolute necessi- ties of commerce at the time of its construc- tion, by military and political considerations. It was deemed important or necessary to reach California and the other States and Territories on the Pacific, as well as Utah and the organ- ized or unorganized Territories in the centre of the Continent, during the civil war, and for the purpose of spreading and consolidating our republican empire afterwards. Govern- ment was consequently most liberal, and per- haps we might say profusely liberal, to this stupendous enterprise. Still it is worth much more to the country than it cost, and both that and other Pacific railroads will pay good interest in the end. The British government, it appears, is going to follow our example, aud by extraordinary aid force a Pacific railroad through the territory of the Dominion. The bill for this purpose passed @ second reading in the imperial Parliament | The Hace at Spring#ela—winl It Be on the 24th by an overwhelming majority. This ambitious experiment of imitating what has been accomplished’ in the United States will probably cost the British government an enormous sum. Of course a Dominion Pa- cific Railroad could not pay, and, probably, would be a continual cost to keep it going, for there is not the population, the settle- ments or the progress in British America to give it employment. But the English govern- ment wishes to conciliate and flatter the Do- minion colonists, and is looking also, per- hops, to the future trade across the Pacific Ocean with China, Japan and the East gener- ally, and may be willing to sink a large sum of money for these collateral objects. How- ever, that is all in the way of railroad prog- ress on the American Continent, and this Republic will gain by it in the end. With all the drawbacks to more extended usefulness and cheaper transportation by the railroads, arising from unscrupulous monopo- lies, overstocking and overbonding, and plundering by projectors and managers, they are, in an economical point of view, a great blessing to the people. While justly com- plaining of high rates for freight and passage to pay interest on inflated stock or overissues of bonds, and on a capital sometimes double or more the actual cost of constructing tho railroads, it should not be forgotten that these improvements have done much in bringing farm products to market, in enhancing the value of farming property and in developing surprisingly the wealth and progress of the country. Capital has its rights, and enterprise should be rewarded. ‘The question is, how are these and the inter- ests of the farmers, producing classes and public generally to be harmonized? That is the problem at the bottom of the anti-railroad agitation now in the West. No doubt a solu- tion will be found through either the State governments or federal government, or through both. These great railroad highways through the several States are the arteries of commerce, and Congress is empowered by the constitu- tion to regulate that commerce. The federal government has power over them, too, as postal toutes. The first step should be to pre- yent undue consolidation of the railroad in- terests, so as to keep as many competing lines as possible. This would tend to moderate charges for freight and passengers. Then the issue of stock and bonds should be limited by lIgw to the actual capital invested. Bogus construction accounts or watered stock should not be allowed. Nor should exorbitant inter- est on the actual capital be forced from the public through high rates for transportation. Were all the railroads thus regulated the peo- ple would not have to pay on the aggregate over two-thirds the present charges for trans- portation, and the original bona fide investors would receive ample interest on their money. We see no way of checking the railroad mo- nopoly, or of finding a remedy for the evijs complained of by the Western farmers and producing classes generally, but through the action of the federal government. The differ- ent States might do something to that end, but nothing short of general and comprehen- sive legislation and supervision will meet the difficulty. v4. The New Atlantic table Another Great Victory for the Big Ship. The big ship, that huge leviathan among the smaller monsters of the deep, the Great Eastern, has, in her special calling as the ocean cable carrier and layer, just achieved another great success in the laying of a new transatlantic coil of electrical conductors be- tween Valentia and Heart’s Content. Eighty miles out from Heart’s Content yesterday morning at nine o'clock the cable was cut and buoyed, a heavy gale blowing at the time rendering it imprudent to attempt the transfer and splicing of the deep sea line to the heavy shore end on board the steamer Hibernia. The splicing and running of the shore line will be effected with the moderation of the elementa. The big ship meantime having with remark- able success, and greatly to the credit of all concerned in the work, finished her ap- pointed task, steamed into Heart’s Content, where she lies with her broadside overlooking the village, presenting last night a splendid appearance, with her hundreds of lights fi stem to stern. Appended to our despatches on the subject, which we give to our readers this morning, they will find an interesting article from the London Times, embracing a description of the new cable and a recapitula- tion of the achievements of the Great Eastern in this important specialty. In her original construction her projectors built better than they knew, as Columbus in his bold venture for a new ronte to the Indies stumbled upon a new world. We hope the new cable will prove to be an independent line, and we hope the Great Eastern, in memory of “Auld Lang Syne,” will visit New York once more before her departure ‘“‘ homeward bound.” Tue Kaan or Kurva, as it appears, after. twelve attempts at mote favorable terms, which, it was supposed, were with ‘‘treach- erous intent,’’ has unconditionally surren- dered to General Kaufmann, commanding the advanced column of the Russian army of invasion and occupation. This means the annexation with Khiva of the whole of Turkestan to Russia, and the extension of the Russian railway system projected for Central Asia, via the ancient Oxus River, to the moun- tain barriers of Hindostan and by a branch line to the frontiers of the Chinese Empire. Thus Russia is clearing the way for the march of civilization into the hitherto isolated and unapproachable regions made famous in history by Timour the Tartar and Genghis Khan. Tue. Back-Pay Gnrap.—A Western paper states that out of three hundred and seventeen members of Congress about two hundred and seventy-five have gone into the five-thousand- dollar funeral business, and that there is no use for partial friends and newspapers that bask in their smiles to try to save them. This is pretty much the sentiment throughout the ‘ West, and all that Senator Carpenter or General Butler may say cannot save the back- pay grabbers from their due measure of popu- lar odium. It will be curious to notice how the Massachusetts republicans will act én this matter. If at their State Convention they follow In, the footsteps of their friends in Maine, Ohio and Iowa, and make the denun- ciation of the grab aveature in their platform, where will Butler stand? the Last of Its Kind? In 8 country where most men work too much and rest too little, and where holidays, as such, or even half holidays, are well nigh unknown, we welcome nearly anything which gives a reasonable pretext for dropping work, especially in the hot weather, even for a single day, and resting the weary brain or arm, be it yacht race on the bay, shooting match at Creedmoor, or trial of speed at Jerome Park. In hailing the great rowing race, soon to come off on the Connecticut, as a valued accession to the list, we have not lost sight of the fact and hardly a hundred feet apart, and that too when no single steersman in all the company has been put to such a test before; and when any crew sees -all its work thrown away or thinks it sees it, through the bungling of some other rowing near it, itis easy to conclude that the rowers will in the future be clear ofa trial in which they can do themselves no justice, Nor, again, is the feeling without its sup- porters that the two time-honored institutions which initiated this glorious sport among our students, and for many years had it, as do the two famous Universities over the water, all to themselves, have made a mistake in thus opening the door to let in a whole raft of smaller colleges, some of them very little known. It certainly is not comforting to the: dignity of the youth raised in wealth and ease, and well satisfied with his connection with an institution, venerable, affiuont, and most respectable, to see his representatives suffer a sudden and almost ignomi- nious defeat at the hands of some obscure rustics. whose rowing alono has res- cued them from oblivion. But the country where is possible ‘the sudden change, as by a rub of Aladdin’s lamp, from the attorney’s office in a country town of Illinois to the helm of a great nation’’ in perilous times is not the one to stand long on such an objection as this. Such a feeling might well enough obtain in England; but this is not England, and is altogether too democratic a place to allow such a feoling to be general. Make suro ofa broad enough river and proper manage- ment and then let come every college man who may. There is one lesson to be learned from last year’s race, and, indeed, not from last year’s only, well worthy of mention now. Already all the competing crews are or certainly ought to be rowing several times each week over the course or an equivalent ‘‘on time’—that is, doing the entire distance without a halt and at the best paco they can command. Now, the point to which we would look is the distribution of they strength in this work. Until 1870 these meetings usually took place on Lake Quinsigamond, two miles from Worstslct. “There the track ran_not_to sev. eral parallel stakes, allowing’ 686 for éach boat, but toa single one a mile and a half away and then return. Naturally on such @ course the crew which could first reach that stake could also round it first, and its rival, if anywhere near, must make a much longer turn jn rounding and entirely outside of the leading boat, thus doing more than three miles, or else lie on its oars till the latter got out of the way, either of which plans brought her decided disadvantage. Manifestly, then, the thing to do was to make a fierce struggle on the outward mile and a half and so get the first turn, as they who could gain this advan- tage were about sure to win. Beside the great danger of a foul at the stake, this plan did not fairly prove which crew could row three miles the quickest, as Yale well held in 1870, but onlya mile anda half. In the coming conflict each boat will travel three miles straightway down the river on a course meant to be wide enough to give it ample room. Now, last year happened what seemed a most remarkable, but was really a most natural, thing, though it brought great credit to the doers of it. While Harvard and Yale and all the rest were tearing down the first two miley ata tremendous rate, frequently spurting and quite overdoing themselves, Amherst, away in the background, had taken asteady stroke, and was holding it, never slackening, never quickening, apparently unmindful of all but her own business. She seemed either to have reasoned it out or found by actual trial that by this plan she must conquer, if she did at all, and that by this way only could she do her very best. And right well had she learned her lesson and sound was her conclusion, for, so gradually that you could scarcely detect it, line by line, inch by inch, foot by foot, rod by rod, she crept slowly up, now overhauling Yale, then Williams, now Bowdoin and then the Agri- culturals, until she was actually up in the front rank and alongside of Harvard, and there, so close to the finish that all had con- ceded the latter to be the certain winner, her captain calls on his men, and so does Har- vard’s. But the latter had been called on too often before, and now there was nothing left in them to come, while her terrible rival, never having till then rowed anything but a steady stroke, quickened grandly at the word, and with one splendid burst shot across the line, a winner of one of the most gamely contested races ever seen @ America, leading her distinguished rival a good length or more, Now, was there a captain in all that company who, in his cooler moments, at any time be- fore that race, had the question been put to him, would not have answered that the way to distribute the work during those trying six- teen minutes and 4 half was the way Amherst decided on and held to? What we would now suggest, then, is, not only that each and every one of the whole eleven captains in the coming combat decide in advance on this very selfsame plan of steady work through the greater part of tho race, reserving the spurts for the finish, but that, come what may, each will hold to it, Had Harvard so decided and so Lield in England need she to-day have such unwelcome recollections of Chiswick Eyot? Let all follow this plan, and then there will be a brevst race, not only for a short distance at the start, but over mile out it will be hard work to say who is ahead, who behind. The whole Meet chug, close topethos WA mba, 28, 1873—TKIPLE SHEET. mést magnificent spectacle as 1t sweeps away down the broad Connecticut, and it may yet be-our good fortune to chronicle so gallant a struggle, even to the very goal, that the lead- ers shall cross the line as Oxford, in 1867, crossed at Mortlake, after four miles and three furlongs of almost superhuman effort, winners by but half a boat's length. The Northern Lights—A Good Sign ,im_ a Dry Season. 2 On Thursday evening last, betwoen nine and ten o'clock, there was to the inhabitants of this island and to those of the surrounding country for many miles in every direction, and especially northwestward, a beautiful ex- hibition of the Northern Lights, a remarkable phenomenon for the season of Midsummer in this latitude. It was confined to a compara- tively narrow space in the heavens to the west of Polaris, and was not so brilliant as some of the Autumnal displays we have had within the last three years ; but it was still a beautiful spectacle. The tremulous and swiftly changing parallel lines of light might readily be compared to the squadrons of hos- tile armies moving to the charge; for Anon, as if a sudden trumpet spoke, Banners of fpr and purple were flung out; Fire-crested leaders swept along the lines, * ney eg the gorgeous depths, like meeting Rolled to wild battle. But at all seasons of the. year there isa practical significance in these Northern Lights which should not be overlooked. ‘They indicate an electrical disturbance of the atmosphere, which is generally followed within a day or two by rains and storms over a vast extent of the land and thesea. A dry season has come upon our Northern States, and the proverb is as old as the hills that all signs of rain fail in a dry season ; but still this unusuab apparition in these latitudes of the Aurora Borealis on the verge of Midsum- mer encourages us to hope that refreshing rains to the thirsty land, from the West to the East, are not far behind. Indeed, “Old Probabilities,” in his weather report of yes- terday, with its ‘‘rain areas’’ from the New England down to the Gulf States, recognizes the presence of these electrical perturbations. Progress of the Cholera in the West. Our latest despatches indicate that the disease which has been called cholera in the cities of the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys is gradually abating, in some localities disappear- ing, and in others yielding to medical skill and becoming less fatal in its results. It has raged most violently among the filthy and crowded negro quarters, where the death rate has been severe, doubtless invited by .the poverty and unwholesome habits and con- ditions of its victims, Though exhibiting some of the characteristics of the Asiatic scourge, it is, probably, mot identical with that disease, and is occasioned by causes mainly preventible by thorough sani- tary precautions. In this view it is reassuring to learn that the Health authorities of the metropolis are awake to the necessities of the season, and promise soon to place the city in a fair condition to avert and modify those ailments apt to be produced during the heated term among the eccupants of our tene- ment dwellings. Earnest and faithful work, under jntelligent direction, should place New Yok ts het task ot ate health and longevity. Our topography affords no excuse for defective drainage, while the unlimited abundance of our water supply gives facilities for absolute cleanliness rarcly to be found. No public duty is more im- portant than the thorough removal of all seeds of disease in our streets, public piaces and pri- vate premises, and if the Health Board faith- fully and fearlessly performs its functions we are certaln of a light mortality report, and the members of the Board will merit the approba- tion of their fellow citizens. Tue Atpany Journal (administration) in an article on the coming canvass in this State asserts that there is no reason why the repub- licans should not carry the State, and adds: — “If in any quarter there has been any feeling of distrust it is now seen to have been without sufficient cause. If any clouds threatened at one time to obscure the prospect they have been entirely scattered. Nothing stands in the way of success, and all the signs are favor- able.”’ This will be encouraging to all the “dns,” no matter what the ‘‘outs’” may say about it. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Ex-Secretary Boutwell has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyman G. D. Lord, of Rochester, is at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Congressman P. M. Dox, of Alabama, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman James F. Wilson, of Iowaj’ is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Generat J. B. McIntosh, of New Brunswick, N. J., is staying at the New York Hotel. Congressman William H. Barnum, of Connec- ticut, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Consul General Keith, of Costa Rica, sails to-day to begin the exercise of his functions at Vienna, Commander William B. Cushing, of the United States Navy, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. John Weatherby, one of the “Gallant Six Hun- dred” of Baiakiava, committed suicide in Juilun- der, India, last month. John A. Peters having returned his back pay, an Eastern paper wants to know if this is not robbing Peters to pay Paul Spoford? Secretary Robeson has returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel irom Long Branch, whither he had accompanied President Grant on Thursday morning. Congressman Shanks, a member of the House Special Committee on Indian Affairs, {8 now in Salt Lake City, whence he intends to go to Mon. tana Territory. The Shah, while in St. Petersburg, contended against several learned Russian philologists that the title Czar was derived irom bis own designa- tion and not from Cesar, Secretary Richardson yesterday returned from the East to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. He will ac- company his family to Long Branch to-day and re- turn to Washington on Monday. Detegate Cannon, of Utah, nas appointed to a cadetship at the Naval Academy Frederick F. Nugent, a son of Captain Nugent, of the Thirteenth infantry, who commanded the Irish brigade of the Army of the Potomac during the war. Mr, Guilford Onslow, M. P., is yet convinced that the Tichborne claimant “is the man he represents himself to be,” and that “in spite of the terrible amount of perjury he has to contend with he will receive an honorable and triumphant acquittal.” A Mrs. Hathaway, of Temple, Me., is ninety-nine years old, and has smoked and chewed tobacco since she was a girl, Sie formerly drank spirituous liquors, bat the Maine law was the means of intro- ducing such @ horrid, dead-shot style ot benzine in the shape of whiskey into the State that she be- leved it necessary, in order to prolong her life, to QHARMIA Hus pee Of tg srdgas aliarathar. WASHINGTON. . RT? Wasuinaton, June 27,1878. Important Financial News. ‘The internal revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be $115,000,000, exceeding the estimate $6,000,000, The customs revenue receiptd were estimated at $192,000,000, and will fall short @t least $2,000,000, Secretary Richardson will return to-morrow evening and personally an- nounce his financial policy on Sunday for July. I¢ is understood the sale of gold will be increased, and the purchase of bonds restricted within one million forthe month of July. The receipts from customs have been unusually light this month, while the disbursements have been fully up to the appropriations, and, in some instances, were long since exhausted, Forged Certificates of the District of Columbia in Circulation, It is reported that about $175,000 of certificates of indebtedness of this District was recently ob- tained from engravers of the certificates in this city ona forged order of the Governor and put upon the market in Northern cities, The matter is in the hands of detectives, The New York Central Railroad Against the Government. The Treasurer, Mr. Worcester, and the attorney, Mr. Fairchilds, of the New York Central Railroad, were at the Internal Revenue Office to-day an@ presented a claim and made argument for tie re- funding of the tam lately collected from that com pany at Albany, ttils action being necessary before” they can bring sfit in the United States Courts. ‘The Commissioner will consider the argumént and. new claim and report to the company his conclu- sions within a week. Inasmuch as the grounds om which the claim is made are not materially differ- ent from those first presented, it is not probable’ that the Commissioner will recede from any rulings heretofore made in this case. Communications About the Sioux and Kickapoo Indians. Mr. T. K. Cree, of the Board of Indian Commis- sioners, writes to Commissioner Smith, of the In- dian Bureau, that the special commission to the Sloux Indians report success in their mission, and’ that the Northern Pacific Railroad will be safe from attack this season. J. GC. O'Connor, late Indian Agent at Grand River, and now one of the recently appointed General’ Indian Inspectors, telegraphs to Commissioner Smith, from New York city, expressing his posi- tive opinion that the recent attack made by Sioux on Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota, is entirely at~ tributable to the presence of enlisted Arrickaree scouts at that post, and that the hereditary feud between the Sioux and Arrickarees can be ter- minated only by removing the latter from thetr present close proximity to the Sioux Reservation. Areport received from the agent at Fort Sill Reservation, Indian Territory, dated June 16, states that the Kickapoos in that vicinity are perfectly quiet. A Defence of the Modocs—The Blamo with Bad White Men. Hon, J. K, Luttrell, Congressman elect from the poop chong earowabeqwon aie AadBec asersssee end Smith, of the Indian Bureau, an account of his re- cent visit to the scene of the Modoc war, and says he has been able to arrive at only one conclusion in reference to it, namely :—That it was caused by the wrongful acts of bad white men. He was informed on what seemed to him reliable authority that the Modoca were compelled to slaughter their horses for food on the Klamath Reservation, and having exhausted this means of subsistence were compelled by hunger to seck the fishing and hunting grounds on their old Res ervation on.Lost River. Mr. Luttrell urges an in- vestigation of the causes of the Modoc war, and regrets to Say that never was there a time since the organization of the government when there was so much corruption and swindiing—not only against the government and the people, but, against the Indians—as is to-day being practised on the. Indian Reservations on the Egelifc coast. General Butler’, Application for War Depariiiéhs Documents to Cicax® Up His Reputation. i The circumstance that has given currency to’ the report of the loss or absence of War Depart- ment records is the fact that since the death of General Canby Benjamin ¥, Butler has made ap- Plication to the Secretary of War for certain papers and vouchers, relating to his financial ad- ministration at New Orleans, which he says he delivered personally to Secretary Stanton. He also says that before his interview with Secretary. Stanton terminated the latter sent for General Canby, who then occupied a confidential position in the War Department, and the General was directed to make a thorough examination of. the papers and report his con- clusions to the Secretary. Butler alleges that at the same time Stanton remarked to him that he had placed his papers in the hands of a competent and faithful officer, who would do justice to him and the government. According to General But- ler’s statement, General Canby made a report which fully sustained Butler’s action. After Canby’s death, Mr. Stanton being also dead, General Butler comes forward in great anxiety about his reputation during the war, at least so far as it was concerned in the papers referred to. His consternation knows no bounds now tnat the papers cannot be found, nor does any trace of their presentation or any report by General Canby appear upon the records of the department. The search is still progressing, but. with no prospect of susta:ning Butler’s claim. Surgeon General James E. Palmer To Be: Placed on the Retired List, Surgeon General James E, Palmer, of the navy, will be placed on the retired list of officers on Sun- day next instant, on account of being over sixty- two years of age, as prescribed by law, and faith- ful service for over forty years. The retirement of Dr. Palmer necessitates his detachment from the charge of the Medical Bureau of the navy, as no retired officer can be placed on duty except in time of war, under act of Congress passed at last session. It has been the practice of the Department heretofore to nominate the senior Medical Director on the active rojl to be Surgeon General, an@ if this course be adhered to now, Medical Director Joseph Beale, of Pennsylvania, will be chief of the Bureau by the retirement of Dr. Palmer. Medica Inspector P. J. Harwitz will be promoted to the grade of Medical Director, Surgeon P. S. Wales to the grade of Medical Inspector, and Passed Assistant Surgeon J. R. Tryon to the grade ot Surgeon. The Montana War Claims. William Kiskadden, through his attorneys, bas filed @ bill for an injunction, &c., in the Equity Court, in this district, against C. L. Stevenson, the vucean National Bank of New York, Nathaniel Wil- son, T, M. Davis, Receiver of the Ocean National Bank, and John J. Knox, Comptroller of the Cur- rency, The suit involves evidences ef indebted- ness, known as Montana War claims, to the amount of $87,000, The . plainti® charges Stevenson held his vouciers for business pur- poses, and without his consent deposited them in that bank and obtained loans thereon. That since April, 1869, the assets of the bank, by operation o! law, have passed into the posses- sion of Davis as yecciver, and Davis refuses to de- liver the vouchers to him. That Wilson is attorney lor Davis, and,as such is charged with the collec- tion of the m@hey duc on the vouchers, That om the 10th of June last Knox undertook to act upon the controversy as to the ownersnip of the vouchers, and decided they were legally hetd by the receiver, and the parties now threaten to collect the amounts due on said vouchers. Pair tiff therefore prays an injunction to restrain them from collecting the same. Probab! it Against General Howard y the Government, ‘The Attorney Gemeral willin the course of sev- eral days forward to the Secretary of War his opinion relative tothe unsettied balances of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and there is reason to believe he will recommend suits against Generals Howara and Ballock for the recovery of money alleged to ‘be due the government, THE KELLOGG SHOOTING OASE New ORLRANs, June 27, 1873, A despateh from Carrollton states ‘that the jury Sale