The New York Herald Newspaper, November 18, 1873, Page 6

rin Geared NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway-and Thirteenth stroet.—Ouns. UNION SQUARE THEATR’ Broadway.—Tux Wickey Wor WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Vior LON SHINGLE, Afternoon and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st— Buurus; ou, tax Fav. or Taro METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—V artery Enreetainment. = MRS, FB, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATRE— Pavuine—Caarces tax Tw eLrre, Union square, near PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall— | Fascuon. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vaxretr ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATR' and Bleecker sts.—Rir NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw Houston ats.—Tue Back (x00: GERMANIA THEATRE, 14th street and Sd avenue.— Dim Scuo‘nx SUENDERIN. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street and Irving place.— AxstRcmENTaL Conc TONY PASTOR'S O Vanicry Enti gray BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSR, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nucno MinsigeLsy, & COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavauinc Gas 4xp Macicat ENTERTAINMENT. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th avenue.— Lecrurx or 4oux Brovouax. ROBINSON HALL, sixteenth street—Cuariry Cox- cree. Broadway, between Houston WINKLE , between Prince and A HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— atinee at 2h. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—Scrmenck anp Art. T RIPLE SHEET. New York, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “SHALL WE VINDICATE OUR HONOR ?"—LEAD- ING ARTICLE—Srxra Pace. GREAT BRITAIN WILL HOLD SPAIN TO A STERN RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE SAN- TIAGO MURDERS! BURRIEL PALLIATING HIS CRIMES! THE ISSUE IN WASHING- FON AND THROUGH THE ANTILLES—Segv- ENTH PaGE. ANOTHER RIGHTEOUS UPRISING OF PEOPLE! '61 OUTDONE! TAMMANY STEINWAY HALLS CROWDED BY THE SOLID MEN OF NEW YORK! THE CLAMOR AGAINST PUSILLANIMOUS DI- PLOMACY—TuirD Pace. LOCALE OF THE VIRGINIUS OUTRAGE— THIRD PaGE. DENIAL OF THE RUMORED SUPERSEDU OF THE SPANISH MINISTER AT WASHING- TON! EX-CAPTAIN IN SPAIN—SEVENTH PaGe, OUTRAGED AMERICA! BURRIEL GROSSLY IN- SULTS THE UNITED STATES CONSUL AT SANTIAGO DE CUBA WHEN HE PRO- TESTS AGAINST THE FLAGRANT INJUS- TICE TO THE VIRGINIUS CAPTIVES! THE TORNADO COMMANDER'S OFFICIAL RE- PORT OF THE CHASE AND CAPTURE— Fourtu Pas. SPANISH ATROCITIES STIRRING NANCIAL BULLS THE AND ‘THE UP THE AND BEARS! MINOK FAILURES! MONETARY MATTERS—LEAD- ING BUSIN. MEN ON THE LABOR CRISIS—NINTH PAGE. & HONDURAN FILIBUSTERING STEAMER CAP- | TURED BY A UNITED STATES WAR SHIP! THE VESSEL TO BE BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY AND HER COURSE TRIED! HER CAREER AND CENTRAL AMERICAN POLITICS—Firra Pace. DN TO COOMASSIE! SUCCESS OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITION IN ASHANTEE! LANDING THE SUPPLIES Al CAPE COAST CASTL ROUT OF THE NATIVES! NAPIER’S CAM- PAIGN IN ABYSSINIA TO BE PLACED IN THE BACKGROUND—Seventu Pace. BIESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF FRANCE TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY! A SEVE! YEAR TERM AND CONSERVATIVE AS- SURANCES! ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE— SEVENTH PaGE. a BATTLE BETWEEN TURKS AND ARABS! 300 OF THE LATTER AND 70 OF THE FORMER KILLED! GREAT B AIN TO PREVENT TURKISH ENCROACHMENTS — SEVENTH. PaGE. ‘THE STORM LAST NIGHT | OFFICIAL AND TELE- GRAPHIC WEATHER REPORTS — SEVENTH Pace. ELECTION TO THE MEXICAN CONGRESS OF AN ADVOCATE OF THE FREE ZONE THE NATIONAL FORCES POSTED IN MONTEREY AND SALTILLO—SeEv: H PAGE. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS! THE DAMAGING SI- LENCE OF RAILWAY AND BANK OFFI CIALS! BUSINESS AND PRICES IN WALL STREET—CANVASSING THE VOT EIGHTH PAGE. Very Lixery.—The opinion prevails at ‘Washington that by the Ist of December Eng- ‘land will have twice as many vessels in Cuban waters as the United States. It is probable fAhat she will; but nevertheless we have ships, fmen and means enough to settle with the Tar Trovnrxs w Crntnan Amentca.—-We ublish in to-day’s Hera an interesting let- r from Panama in relation to the doings of steamer General Sherman, now fying the \Hondurns flag, and named the Coronel Ariza, (which has been seized by the Wyoming asa illibuster, and will be sent home for trial. Our correspondent gives an instructive résumé f the troubles and intrigues in the Cen- ‘tral American republics; and some points of ‘his letter will be read with pecaliar interest in view of our present complications with the | cousins and fellows of those very Barbary Spanish authorities in Cubs, “Unver Tuesr Ormcumsrances,” asks the Bt. Louis Republican, “what is the proper, the only sensible course for our government to pursue?” And it gives as the answer the per- tinent reply :—‘‘To settle the Cuban ditficulty ‘at Havana, and not at Madrid.” “No Inpemnrry,” asserts the Chicago Post “{eepublican), ‘that can be offered for the ‘wrong that may have been done (?) to Ameri- can citizens at Santiago will be satisfactory without the amplest guarantee for future ‘goourity.”” Briefly, “indemnity for the past nd security for the future” are what the ost wants. Give Tarm a Caancr.—Over fifty ex-naval | ‘officers have written to the Navy Department tendering their services. fin casting about for efficient officers for his ships, give some of these old sea dogs a chance to prove their training and their amettle. GENERAL PIELTAIN | FI- | LEGALLY | | | present; while it is an act of fla- grant unfriendliness, if not an indignity, |; to determine sizh a point without | authority of inquest even resides with any WEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Shall We Vindicato Our Honor? Tt was at one timo, and we trust still is, one of the opinions of General Grant, that ‘the will of the people is the law of the land;’’ and by looking at such facts as the meeting held in this city last night he may see very plainly what is the will of the people in re- gard to our relations with the Spaniards in Cuba, If there were any doubts on the Presi- dent's mind as to whether ho could have the sympathy and support of the people in an ex- treme assertion of our rights in this case, thero is enough to remove them in the speeches made Jast night, and in the fact that such speeches were welcomed and applauded to the echo and accepted as their own utterances by the vast assemblages that filled Steinway and Tammany halls. All through the country the sentiment is the same. From every sec- | tion the press echoes the universal thought that further endurance of Spanish barbarity and hectoring would be shameful, and that we must now energetically vindicate our horor. If the refusal to give complete and satisfactory reparation for the injury should make it necessary to occupy Cuba, Congress will scarcely have called for men before they will be ready in any number deemed neces- sary. It is to be hoped, therefore, that these evidences of the will of the people will be properly weighed by the President against the that an ill-timed hesitation will not cripple the energetic action which the country ex- pects and requires. Several vessels of our navy have already gone forward and every other available ship | ds te follow, and this, as far as it goes, is an indication “of a positive purpose. Although the orders on which the commanders of these « ships are to act will not transpire, it can scarcely be donbtful that their first duty will be to cover with their guns the Virginius and any Spanish man-of-war in whose custody she may supposititiously be, wherever they may now be lying, in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba or elsewhere, and to require her surren- der or to make such other legitimate demand as the case viewed on the spot may seem to justify, unless it shall be shown to the satis- faction of our officers that thé captured ship is not entitled to the protection of the United States. An important and early issue will therefore turn on the ship's papers and on the facts of her voyage as affecting her status. Here the principles in point are very simple. Ships on the high seas are legally regarded as por- tions of the territory of the country whose colors they bear, and they are subject only to the sovereign power of that country, and amenable only to its laws. Each country fixes for itself the terms and conditions upon which it accords to ships the right to carry its flag and otherwise cover them with its na- tionality, and it is, therefore, the only alto- gether competent judge whether those condi- tions have been fulfilled. And although this extreme operation of sovereignty is limited practically by the existence of competent courts, yet it can never be admitted that the point of natiumality has been properly ad- judged without o trial at which a consular representative of the ship's country might be reference to the ship’s nation, where such reference san be readily and easily made, and where the delay it would cause could have no other than the good results of giving time for passion to coo! and the truth to be made clear. Such, then, is the position as to her rights of aship of any nation on the high seas, and against these rights there is no legal power anywhere in time of peace. No absolute nation over the ships of another nation, and this immunity results simply from the right that all have to the freedom of the seas as the common highway for the commerce of every people, and to this general immunity there is but one recognized exception, which is in the case where there is substantial reason to be- lieve that a ship is a pirate—a case which can- not possibly apply here. But aside from the points that our officers may have to consider in the harbor of San- tiago de Cuba, there is something in this case broader and deeper than any mere discussion of the regularity or irregularity of a ship's papers, and that is the assumption of an abso- lute dominion over the seas of this hemis- phere; the assertion of a right in the presence of which no commerce would be possible save what the Spanish power chose to permit; the declaration of an authority that does not con- sider itself obliged to regard any nationality as an obstacle to its will, and that is prepared to trample on all law and to stamp out the usages of civilization and the very spirit of humanity itself in the pursuit of its purpose. This is a part of the subject on which no authority is competent to decide but the American people, through their Representa- tives in Congress ; and they must determine whether they are prepared to see American ships cruising in the West Indies at Spanish pleasure only, and under penalty of the sum- mary execution of all hands in case any ship's papers shall accidentally prove irregular. Having won some glorious battles in asserting the rights of our sailors against the greatest and most warlike naval Power the world ever saw, and having gone as far as the Mediter- ranean to punish murderous onslaughts on our commerce just like this of the Virginius, we doubt if our people will care to take the law of the sea from a people who are the pirates, and we shall be surprised if they do not make it very clear not only that our flag Let the Secretary, | shall be sacred in future ggainst Spanish in- terference, but that the mere pretence of the right to carry it—the mere claim to its pro- tection, rightly or wrongly made—shall be entitled to respect and examination, and shall only be put aside upon full and proper ingniry. Examine the case as we may, even our own Secretary of State must concede that the right is all on our side, and that the act of the so- called Spanish authorities is simply the act of buccaneers; an act outside of all law and that has no color or pretence of justification; an act that would not be justified even under the most stringent application of the laws of war | against » neutral caught in the act of violating | her presumed neutrality, and 80 much the less | justifiable, therefore, against a nontral capture not under the laws of war but in a time of peace, and taken without any pretence that she was nearer than eighteen miles to the const of oe Cnba. All the facts of the story of the Vir- ginius aro so many evidences that this pre- tended Spanish government in Cuba is simply a nest of buccaneers and cutthroats, fellows who laugh at the decrees telegraphed them from Madrid, and have as much scorn for Castelar as they have hatred for the United States. Spain, that is nom- inally responsible before the world for the actsof these wretches, cannot control them, and her responsibility is, therefore, a sham and a farce. They repudiate her anthor- ity; they scorn her commands. Word is tele- graphed to them from Madrid that not a life must be taken, and the only response they make is to fill threo days with a succession of bntcheries ‘against the slaughter honse wall;"* and in the presence of such a fact our Secre- tary of State—a great master of diplomatic de- portment—would have us be polite to these people; would have us be deferential, and can satisfy his own mind with the small decorums of diplomatic flummery. How are we under obligation to respect the right of Spain ina country where she cannot assert her authority over her own subjects, and where we are the sufferers from the repudiation of her author- ity? No such right can for a moment be con- sidered as binding upon us, and Spain must learn that if she cannot keep her subjects in order we can, and will in all cases in which pitiful palaver of the Secretary of State, and | our own rights and privileges are in any mea- that he will see 60 clearly which to act upon | sure at stake, though the necessity for this should involve a military occupation of the island that is a constant source of danger and disturbance. It is a shamefal commentary upon the fee- bleness of our government that we are tho only Power of which these Cubans have any knowledge for which théy ‘have neither fear nor respect.. Tho name of England is a terror to theif, and knowingly they would not dare to touch a British subject. There is reason to suppose that some of the men on the Vir- ginius were entitled to British protection, but they were all killed on the hasty assumption that ‘they were Americans, for it needed so powerful a sentiment as their virulence against us to overpower even temporarily their re- spect for England. All these men were shot for being Americans, snd we see by their fate that our correspondent, O'Kelly, would also have been shot if he had been an American citizen; but his British protection saved him. It is said that England is now making active preparations to be ready for events in Cuba,’ and there is some supposition that she is to act in concert with us, but it will be the final disgrace of all if we are without vigor to assert our own rights, but must have the moral stamina of John Bull to sustain us- MacMahon and the French Presidency. From the message of President Mac- Mahon, which was read by the Duc de Broglie to the French Assembly yesterday, it is evident that the Marshal has placed himself ‘“‘in the hands of his friends,’ He wants his powers prolonged for seven years. It will be remembered that the propo- sition of the Extreme Right was only limited by life in the extension of MacMahon's power. When the Assembly met the Right were anx- ious for ten years, but the Committee of Pro- longation had only been able to agree to five years, until the receipt of MacMahon's message yesterday. They now appear willing to concede him the seven years he asks. The really significant part of the message, how- ever, is that wherein he asks to have his prolongation voted before the con- stitutional bills are considered. ‘This is the most aggressive movement he has yet made, and if we may infer as much from the general refnsal of the committee to give way on any other point, it seems that this rather strong request has been denied. We have no evidence that MacMahon possesses any ability either as statesman or politician. He is purely the President of a fortuitous circumstance— namely, the difficulty of finding any one else to be the figurehead when Thiers was forced to retire. He has been a soldier all his life, who took army promotion from every govern- ment that France has had for nearly forty years. He covered all this quietly under the plea that his sword belonged to France, rule who might. It is « plea that may be very bad or very good, according to the man who makes it, As a soldier he admired the strong tule of the Empire, though his heart hungered in & mild way for strong rule under a Bourbon. His course since the opening of the Assembly shows that he has given himself over pretty completely into the hands of the royalists, who, now that their king has annihilated himself, call them- selves conservatives. When he states that the majority of Frenchmen are , con- servative he says what he is told to say, and which is not true in the sense he would have it understood. If the majority of Frenchmen were allowed to give their opinion through a general election he would soon dis- cover how sadly his monarchist friends of the Right had deceived him. The committee is to be congratulated on their firmness in not yielding to an illogical absurdity, Tue Pouce Justice Law.—Judge Larre- more yesterday dissolved the injunction by which the new Police Justices were sought to be restrained from interfering with Charles Coulter, one of the old Police Justices, in the performance of his duties except by a writ of quo warrarlo, The decision of Judge Larre- more sustains the constitutionality of the law under which the appointments of Mayor Havemeyer have been made, the Judge hold- ing that the Police Justices are not Justices of the Peace or constitutional officers within the purview-and mea: ing of the constitution of 1846. He also decides adversely on the minor points raised by the applicant. This decision will, of course, be appealed, but it is not likely to be reached in the higher court so speedily as the case agreed on by the other elected Justices and the Mayor's appointees. The public interest requires that the final judgment should be arrived at as speedily as possible, “Ont Hoxprep Tuousanp Men,” affirms the Philadelphia Age, ‘can be raised in forty- eight hours to vindicate the Stars and Stripes in Cuba. Will tho government act, or must the people?" “Borner, Botcure any Bunsy,”’ is the alliteration of the Newark Register. ‘Tae Orry Counct, or St. Louis bas spoken. an City Council of Now York— What will it The As! mtoes Turning Thoir Backs On tho Sea. Our special cable despatch from London containing the substance of the despatches forwarded from the Henaup correspondent attached to the English expedition moving against the Ashantees will be found of ab- sorbing interest this morning, It seems that the able General, Sir Garnet Wolseley, to whom has been committed the important task of marching to Coomassie, has in every way, thus fur, justified the confidence of the Min- istry. He has selected his bases of operation at Cape Coast Castle, Accra and Addah. At first it was thought that a railway through the dense and malarial jungle from Cape Coast Castle a distance of thirty miles towards Coomassie would be indispensable to the proper conduct of the war. But from our despatches of yesterday and this morning it appears that Sir Garnet has abandoned the difficult enterprise, A portion of the expedition only has therefore disem- barked at Cape Coast Castle, consisting of munitions, rice and huts. But few troops are now on service at the castle, and even these are colored. Hence we infer that Accra will become the principal point of de- parture, although our correspondent states that the white troops are expected over in six weeks. The hardships of the expedition will doubtless fill many o chapter of misery and death when the chronicler sits down to write a résumé of its operations, since we are- informed at the outset that there will b¢ no tents to keep off the béles sauvage$, and that each officer will have to content hi self with the service of one domestic. Our correspondent calls attention to the contrast between the Abyssinian expedi- tion of Lord Napié? ant that ot Sir Garnet Wolseley, and he evidently expresses the feel- ing of the present expedition whemhe simply alludes to the frightful mortality timé has already taken place among the English troops. We do not by any means believe that Coomas- sie will fall as easily as Magdala. The Ash- antees are united and determined, well armed, a brave, warlike people, who take to them- selves the pride of having beaten the English on several hard fought fields. Abyssinia at the time that Theodore committed his supreme folly of refusing to release the captives on any terms, was in a condition of deplorable civil war, and Theodore was as much despised by his own subjects as he was threatened by foreign retribution. On the other hand, the Ashantees appear to be a unit against their British invaders, and we learn that forty thousand natives are already retreating on the River Prah. But their prowess seems a little insignificant when we read that Sir Garnet Wolseley, with only one hundred marines, is harassing the rear of the retreating army, probably commanded by the King in person. The traders, however, be- lieve this movement of the Ashantees a clever ruse to draw the body of the expeditionary army from Cape Coast Castle, while they fall on the wing of Captain Glover, operating from the banks of the Volta, and destroy the right wing of the English expedition. However this may be, the Ashantees have suffered a severe defestat the hands of Sir Garnet and his brave soldiers. Their villages have been burned and their killed and wounded have been so numerous that they have retired pre- cipitately on the Prah. Here our information ends; but it is enough to indicate that the operations have been entirely successful and that the reduction of Coomassie will hardly be so difficult an undertaking as the tory press has daily pictured since the disastrous affair of Elmina. Tue Monrrean Herald suggests that “there is one plain way by which foreigners may avoid being shot by the Spaniards—that is to remain at home.’’ The ‘Home Guards’ always have been a favorite institution of the Canadians. Tar Enouisa GoverNMENT AND THE Vim- arsius Ovrrace.—Our cable despatches from London state that Great Dritain is taking the subject of the executions at Santiago de Cuba into consider- ation. It is not decided what action will be taken by England in the case of those already butchered, as she doubtless awaits fuller information than she has received. But there is a strong injunction placed upon any further executions of British subjects. Downing street has informed the British Minis- ter at Madrid, her Cuban Consuls and the Governor of Jamaica that Spain and her repre- sentatives will commit further atrocities at their peril. There is no mistake about this language. There is just as little doubt about the decision at which England will arrive if the reported massacre of sixteen of her sub- jects is confirmed by inquiry. “Ty Spary Conresses Her Powernessness ty Cuna,” avers the Boston Post, ‘then there is nothing left for the United States to do but to seize the island and extort the last measure of punishment which outraged justice claims for its own."’ AppreHENDED TrmBeR F amin! ‘The Chi- cago Inter-Ocean is alarmed at the prospect of a timber famine, and suggests that Congress and the State Legislatures should give their attention to thesubject. The alarm is ground- less. There will always be timber enough in the country when we have so many block- heads managing its official affairs. “Tm Pean Is Rirg,"’ cries a Western paper. There will probably be two pairs before Uncle Sam gets through with the game. Occupation FoR THE WINTER FOR THE Fiery Toovsaxp Men Ovt or Empnoyment 1x Ts Crry—The occupation of the island of Cuba. “Every Trevgonam,”’ says the Chicago Times, ‘from the large cities, tell us of the meetings of indignant Cubans.’’ The Times suggests that the meetings for them to hold are meetings breast to breast with the men who are slaughtering their countrymen. “Tose, Spantsn Ovriaws,”’ affirms the Bur- lington (Lowa) Havrle Hye (democratic),” should be tanght that they cannot practise with im- punity, in the face of the American Republic, and upon those claiming its protection, their summary and barbarous notions of vengeance borrowed from the blackest pages of the world’s history.”’ “On to Cusal" proclaims the St Louis ode (revublican), ‘ia the watohword now." The President on the Caban Situation, President Grant is no doubt right in his de- sire to procure reliable official information in regard to the Virginius affair before taking any decisive steps or making any recommendations to Congress in the matter. We appreciate his anxiety thut the government should be certain of its position before it com- mits itself to acts which may involve most serious consequences to the nation, and we are willing to believe that he sympathizes with the popular indignation at the Santiago mas- sacre. We also appreciate the sense of consti- tutional obligation which deters the President from doing any act which may amount to an act of war without the authority of Congress. Tho country at home might be the better for a stricter construction than has on some occa- sions been placed on constitutional restrictions. But meanwhile some lives remain to be sac- rificed by the Spanish butchers, and an Amer- ican vessel is held in custody by the Spanish- Cuban authorities. Passengers to Havana by the regular steamer aro seized and impris- oned ; mails are opened, letters violated and detained. Is our Executive, the Commander- in-Chief of the army and navy, powerless to protect the lives and property of American citizens without the authority of Congress? Isthe sudden flurry and bustle in our naval department only to be an empty show? Lot us wait and see. ~ ~~ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, aes Secretary Robeson arrived last evening at tne Fifth Avenue Hotel, Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Major Lee, of the British Army, is quartered at the St. James Hotel. . Congressman William R. Roberts ts registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Mayor W. L. Scott, of Erie, Pa., is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, John W. Young, son of Brigham, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. E, F, Waters, of the Boston Advertiser, arrived at the Windsor Hotel. = Mr. Morrison, M. P., has started a co-operative farm in Herefordshire, England. Colonel Henry Wells, of Aurora, N. Y., yesterday arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Judge B. Platt Carpenter, of Poughkeepsie, Is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Governor Hofman isnow in Paris with his family. He will leave there for Egypt some time this month, Ex-Congressman Julius Hotchkiss, of Connec- ticut, is among the late arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Francis B. Hayes, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Lieutenant Commander W. ©. Wise and Lieuten- ant W. C. Gibson, United States Navy, are quarterod at the Hoffman House. The mainspring to every action of Mr. Whalley, M. P., is animosity to Catholicism. It was even that, he says, which led him to champion the Tichborne claimant, Henry Bergh, it is announced, proposes to visit the following places in the order named :—Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Louisville, St. Louis, and probably Chicago. An exchange having suggested the introduction of music at public lectures, a contemporary re- marks that some lecturers need a brass band to render their effusions endurable, but the band should play while they are speaking. The Emperor of Austria has conferred on the Emperor William the honorary colonelcy of the Tenth regiment of Austrian hussars. The regi- ment has borne the name of Frederick William Il., King of Prussia, since 1314, has ‘The Comte de Chambord's wife ts said to havea superstitious dread of the result of his acceptance of the throne of France from a small pariiamen- tary majority, and so does all in her power to per- suade him against such an acceptance. ‘PRESIDENT GRANT. What He Will Urge Upon Congress in His Message—The Chief Justiceship. During a brief conversxtion to-day the President said he should tn his Message recommend legisla- tionon Utah affairs in order to relieve judictal matters in that Territory from present embarrass- ment. He would, in calling attention to financial Subjects, submit a plan not yet fully matured for rendering the currency more flexible, and prevent- ing it, 11 possible, from being used, as recently, tor gambling purposes. On being asked as to the choice of a O'rief Jus- tice, the President, after being told that certain eminent lawyers had expressed their belie! that Senator Lonkling would succeed to that oilice, said he bad not yet indicated the appointment, which fact would not be publicly known until the meeting of Congress, OBITUARY, John Arnold. John Arnold, a leading banker of Elmira, N. Y., and one of the oldest and most prominent citizens ot Western New York, died in Elmira yesterday, Mathew C. Perry, United States Navy. Captain Mathew ©, Perry, United States Navy, died on Sunday, the 16th inst, His remains will be inter- red from St. Mark’s Church, in this city, on Wednes- dny, the 19th inst, Captain Perry was a son of the jate Commodore M. Perry, United States Navy. He was born iu the State of New York and entered the service, irom the same State, at a very eurly age. His first commission ts dated July 1, i836, He had 15 years and four months’ sea service, and was employed on shore or other duty for two years and nine months, The term ot his last cruise ex- pired in the month of November, 1861. DEATH OF TWO JOURNALISTS, Richard YcDermott, an old an well-known jour. nalist of Brooklyn, died yesterday afternoon of consumption at his home on Vanderbilt, near Myrtle avenue. He was attached to the sta? of the Brooklyn Eagle for nearly twenty years. De- ceased was about forty years of age, and leaves a wife and an adopted daughter. Mr. Kdward V, Quigiey, for many years past the local reporter of tie HERALD in Williamsburg, died yesterday alternoon at his residence, No. 169 Fourth sircet. ir. Quigley was about forty-two years of age and a native of Cambridge, Mass, At an early age he entered the printing oMce of Har- vard University, where he remained many years. Upon his arrival in New York he secured employ- ment in the Journal af Commerce, the Scottish American and other papers, until about 10 years ago he secured & position on this paper and was assigned to the post he occupied at the time of his death, Mr. uugley Was Of & generous disposition, social in his habits and had many friends, He has for years been a victim of consumption, which re- suited in his death. Due notice will be given of his funeral, THE CHICAGO TOURNAMENT, Splendid Play by Daly at Billiards. CHICAGO, Nov, 17, 1873. In the billiard tournament to-day the first game was between ‘ge Slosson and Peter Snyder. Slosson won by a score of 490 to 108, The second game was between Cyrille Dion and Maurice Daly. The former won the lead aud made three points. He was followed by Daly with a run 01 39, Which he supplemented on the next inning by 16, and on the ninth inning by 32 This carried him around the first bundre the | game standing—Daly, 113; Dion, 60. Dion turnea his first string in the — sixteenth inning and hissecond on the thirtieth, having tmade runs of s8and 24 Daly, meantime, made 62 on his ¢wel!th and 34 ov his nineteenth inning, tarn- ing his second string, and on the twentieth inping } he scored 49, Prom this time he increased his score by small runs until the thirty-fourth 1oning, by splendid play, the palis having to. be. spotted only once during the run; he made 94, which the game, Dion then en Daly made his thirty. ran 2}, making his seor requisite one, and ended the a flith inning,’ Daiy’s average was 11 1 and Dion's 7 1-7, The firat game this evening was between Gar id Joseph Dion, and was without much ins In the thirty-seventh inning, with the standing Garnier $29 and Dion 168, the latter got the balls together, and, by caretui nurs- ing, made 124 points, the second best ran ol the tournament, In the forty-third inning he made 27; but Garnier followed with 32, and ran the game out, Dion being #44 The winning average was 8 r ‘ion's average, 715-47ths, The largest eared Garnier. sa 60 and 4: Dion, 196, WASHINGTON. — WASHINGTON, Nov. 1%, 187% | Supreme Court Decisions Affecting thei Rights of Colored Citizens. In the case of Catharine Brown, colored, against the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Ratl- road Company, to recover damages for personal injuries in being put out of the ladies’ car, the Sa~ preme Court to-day affirmed the judgment for the plaintit, holding that the Court below had juris- diction and that the action was properly sustained against the Company, although the road was operated by the lessees and receiver, and that the act of 1866, permitting a change of route to Wash- ington did not relieve the road {rom the require- ment of the act of 1863, authorizing its extension across the Potomac River, which was thas no person should be exciuded from their cars om account of color, The Court say that it is idle for the company to urge that they always permitted travel on their road without making any distince- tion on account o! color, because they had always carried colored people in these cars, That was not the requirement exacted by Congress, It was that there should be no discrimination in the use of the cars on account of color, und thatin respect of such use colored and white should be placed om an equality, ‘This condition was imposed by Congress and accepted by the company, and the latter cannot mow evade it, There was no danger that any railroad would refuse to carry colored people in their cars, Self-interest would prevent such # refusal, and it was not necessary for Congressional acon to provide against the contingency. Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion. This does not decide the general question of the right of railroad coml- panies to make regulations separating the races in their carain the absence of charter provisions prohibiting it, The motion for the allowance of a writ of error in the case of Milton Malone vs, The State of Georgia, argued on Friday, was to-day dentea. Malone was convictea of murder by a white jury. The Jury law of Georgia requires in- telligent juror’ to be chosen, and he desired a@ writ of error to inquire whether negroes had not been improperly excluded trom the panet. In refusing the writ the Court says that no tederal question is presented in the record, and that con- sequently the question as to the jurisdiction of the Court to allow such @ writin a proper case Is le/& undecided, R Washington News. The President returned here this morning on the early train from Elizabeth, N. J. Rear Admiral Sands, commanding the Naval Ob- servatory in this city, reports tnat the comet Gis- covered at Marseilles recently by M. Cozzia was observed here Saturday evening, It is a faint tele- scopic object, and, on account of its rapid motion towards the south, will soon disappear irom the evening sky. The Postmaster General to-day issued an order reducing the registration fee on domestic letter and packages from 15 cents to eight cents, com- mencing on the 1st of January next. METHODIST MISSIONS, Appropriations Yesterday — Wisconsin Trappers Donating Coon Skins to the Missionary Treasury. The Methoaist Missionary Committee, who have been in session since Wednesday last, continued their session and appropriated moneys for mission work within the bounds of the annual conferences, Bishops Ames and Peck presided at the morning session and Bishop Janes at the afternoon. Con- siderable discussion took place over the appro- priations for work in new locations in the West and South, where an increase was asked for to strengthen old stations and to establish new ones, ‘The older conference missions had, in oonse- quence, to be content with a reduction on thele appropriations, THE APPROPRIATIONS ‘ made are as follows :— Conferences. App. . $12,099 W. Virginia. 0) W. New York. 120 Wiimington. 4,500 Wyoming. Phitadelp! Indiana, Central New ¥ Central Ohio.... Central Pennsyivinia J € Michigan Mississippi \ tha Missouri North Ohio... Northwest low Oregon... Providence Rock River. Recky Moun’ Texas... Upper low: 2. 2.00 Total tor domestic missions. eee COON SKINS FOR MISSIONARY COLLRCTIONS, When Philadelphia Conference was called it wae Jaid over until the other conterences had been acted upon. It was feared that prolonged debate would be had on il, as there was where it came up. Philadeiphia contributes more iiberally than any other conierence in the Methodist ptsoopat Church, Its amount sent to the missionary treas- ury last year was over $51,000, and it asked for an appropriation of $10,000; but ‘the committee felt that the conaition ot the treasury, which, on the ist inst, had only $42,063 balance to meet letters of credit of foreign missionaries ofa larger amount, would not atiow it. When Wisconsim Conference was called Bishop Merrill, in advocating the appro- priation for that conference, stated that in one aia- trict. @ missionary collection of eight coon skins was made, Th This clinched the argument, appropriations made for joreign missions $9,009 India..... 60 India—C Bulgaria atingent., 6,007 China— 30,000 Canton ry Foocho Denmark. Pekin Norway Kinking Bweden.... Germany and Swit- le CAPT - 93,400 South America 22OW For domestic missions among foreign popula tons—Scandinavians, $19,900; Germans, $48, Chinese, $7,500; for missions among the Indians, 000, The committee will meet this morning to revicw and Anish up these appropriations. The basis of appropriation, though not formally fixed, will probably be $800,000. Last year it was $900,000; but the dl de ($680,836 64), which, While $19,730 in advance of the previous year, hardly warrant as large appropriations as were made by the com mittee a year ago, There was then @ balance of $86,000 in the treasury, which has been exhausted, FIRES LAST NIGHT. Fire in Bleecker Street. A fire broke out last night at No. 50 Bleecker street that caused a damage of $5,000, The first floor was oceupied by D. Sickles & 0 fe + goods, damagea by water, $it00. Mithe second floor was used by J. Whitmore, wilo suffered @ 1088 Of $1,000, and the third foor was occupted by J. H. Evan (ladivs’ hats), damage $1,000; top floor, %. H. 8. ‘Thomas, damage $1,500, by fire and water. Springmeyer & Co, kept a lager beer saloon ip the busement; damage $500. Fire in West Twenty-fourth Street, A fire broke ont at a quarter to eleven o'clock last night inthe planing mill of Leovard 8, Bur- dick, at No. 606 West Twenty-fourth street, that caused & damage of about $30,000, The flames were first discovered by OMicer Hilman, ofthe Sixteenth precinct, in the oMce of the building, and he gave the alarm. They spread with astonishing rapidity, owing to the high wind blowing, and svon ‘destroyed the premises. Tl loss upon stock is estimated = at $25,000, upon machinery and building | $4,000 and pon other property, inclading two horses, $1,000, Mr. Burdick was insured in five Southern companies for the sum of $1,000, and in the Wii- hamsburg City for the same amount. The police were” prompuy on the — ground, and worked hard to save the — property from being interfered with. Commissioner Gard- ner arrived upon the ground as soon fs the fire broke out, Fire Marshal Sheldon will hold am luvestigation into the cause to-day. TROTTING AT FLEBTWOUD PARK, The unfinished race for the 2:26 purse, com menced on Saturday at Fleetwood Park, was de. cided yesterday afternoon by Blanche winning the heat, beating Joker by two lengths, making the heat in 2:25.