The New York Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR No, 345 Volume XXXVIL AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street.—Lapr or Lrons. a THRATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanierr ENTERTALNMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Ricuaxp ITT. between Prince and tx Woop. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadw Houston ats. Tue Cuitpres WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenta street.—Hom, UNION SQUARE THE Broadway.—Lup Astra Cnion square, near WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Hate at Law, &c, Afternoon and evening. GERMANTA THEATRE, l4th street and 34 avenue.— Aur Homer Six. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— LAN, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third 6t.—Humery Doarry Askoap. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Jace Cape, “ FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Nuw Year's Eve. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth E.uuen Oox. METROPOLITAN THEATRE ENTeRTAINMENT. pine MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE,— Geneva Cross Rist TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HUUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vagiery Extenrainment. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Necuo Minstrersy, &c. h st. and Broadway. — nd Twenty-third st— 586 Broadway.—V aniery BAIN HALL. Great Jor and Bowery.—Tnx Pure strect, between Broadway THE RINK. 84 avenue and 64th street.—M eNaGenix any New York, Thursday, Dec. 11, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. SRANCE DOOMS ANOTHER FIELD MARSHAL! M. BAZAINE ADJUDGED GUILTY BY THE COURT MARTIAL AND SENTENCED TO DEGRADATION AND DEATH! ELOQUENT DEFENCE! SOLEMN ASSEVERATION OF INNOCENCE BY THE PRISONER—SEVENTH PAGE. MARSHAL MAcMAHON’S SEVEN YEARS’ PRES- IDENCY! BREAKERS AHEAD FOR THE CONSERVATIVE COALITION AND THEIR EXECUTIVE FIGUREHEAD—FourrtH Pages. OUR CAPTIVE CITIZENS IN CUBA REMOVED TO HAVANA! FRANCE DEMANDS HER SUB- JECTS! THE AMERICAN CONSUL'S PERIL! RUMORED SURRENDER OF THE VIR- GINIUS! THE BELLICOSE CASINUS—THIRD Paas. ANOTHER AMERICAN WARSHIP ON THE WAY To CUBAN WATERS! THE SHENANDOA LEAVES GIBRALTAR FOR KEY WEST. SEVENTH PAGE. SPAIN'S SANTIAGO IN MY! A FULLER HIs- ARDLY DOIN THE BUTCHER BURRIEL! COMMANDER BRAINE'S INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL MORALES! HONEST SPANISH SHAME FOR THE MURDERS—Fovrrn PaGE. THE CUBAN QUESTION BEFORE THE LOWER HOUSE OF THE AMERICAN CONGRESS! THE FINANCES AND THE BACK-PAY SIN AGAIN UNDER CONSIDERATION! PRESI- DENTIAL EMOLUM FirTH PaGE. THE SHAH OF PERSIA “IMPRESSED” WITH THE FALLACIOUSNESS OF RELYING UPON BARON REUTER! THE PUBLIC WORKS CONCESSION REVOKED—SgvENTH PAGE. FIRE CONCENIRED ON THE CARTAGENA FORTS BY THE SPANISH LOYAL BAT- TERIES—AUSTRIA TO RAISE A NEW LOAN—SEVENTH PAGE. FOG FATALITIES IN ENGLAND! WAY COLLISION ! SBVENTH Pace. MINISTER JEWELL PRESENTS HIS CREDEN- TIALS 10 THE CZAR—POSTPONEMENT OF THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN ROYAL MARRIAGE— SEVENTH PaGeE. THE DOMINICAN CAPITAL REVOLTS AGAINST BARZ! THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM! A BAD PROSPECT FOR “IHE USCRPER”— SEVENTH Pace. REVOLT AGAINST A FORCED LOAN IN VENE- ZUELA! THE PEOPL ATTACK AND DISPERSE THE GOVERNMENT FORCE— EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS IN ST. THOMAS— SBVENTH Pace, FOUR BANK ROBBERS PUBLICLY WHIPPED IN DELAWA STARTLING Si 30 NIGHT OF TERROR—TentH Pac: INTERNAL COMMERCE OF THE UNION SECRETARY ROBESON WILL ONLY GIVEN $4,000,000! THE. NATIONAL CULORED CONVENTION—TuHIRD Pace, ROAD TO NATIONAL PROSPERITY AND SPECIE PAYMENTS! ECONOMY MUST BE ENFORCED AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY FOSTERED! THE BANKS, THE MARKETS AND OUR SECURITIES—RESUMPTION IN GOIN AND ON THE CANALS—Ninra Pace. SERIOUS RAIL- MANY LIVES LusT— THE TOE Sap Summary or tHe Mexican Expepr- mion.—Maximilian shot; Carlotta in a mad- house; Napoleon dead in exile; Bazaine degraded and condemned to death. Harsor Oxsrructions.—Our magnificent harbor, of which the people of New York may justly be proud, is made a dumping ground by unscrupulous corporations to an extent that threatens to damage materially its efficiency. The street cleaning commission, it seems, forget the prohibitory Jaw in this ease; vessels of all nationalities are daily dis- covered as delinquents, and the New Jersey Central Railroad has encroached upon the harbor to an unwarrantable extent. The Pilot Commissioners have complained in un- measured terms of this serious nuisance and state their inability to suppress it without assistance being afforded them by the Gover- nm or Legislature. The obstructions in the harbor at present diminish the tidal flow over twenty-five millions cubic feet. It is a subject of grave import and demands immediate attention, Tae New Arzantic Canie.—A New Hamp- shire paper states that on the 7th instant, the Governor of the State, accompanied by the Judge of the United States District Court, together with three gentlemen named, from England, selected a suitable spot on the New Hampshire coast for the landing of the New Atlantic cable to be laid between the Western shore of Ireland and this Continent. We are very glad to learn that this cable is ‘half seas over,” but it may not be amiss to inquire whether or not this cable is not a part and reel, @ regalar branch. as it were, of the 4. sent Atlantic cable monovoly. | regimental flag. a a ii a aa maa aaa lialall NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, USUEMBER I, 1873 —THIPLE SHEET. Marshal a Lesson = After a very imposing trial, according to French military law, Frangois Achille Ba- zaine, Marshal of France, has been condemned to military degradation and death for the false part he played in the surrender of his army and the fortress of Metz to the German army on the 25th of October, 1870. The trial com- menced on the 6th of October of the present year, after prolonged delays, and has occupied the attention of the public almost ever since. If it dropped out of sight for a few days in France when the monarchists in the Versailles Assembly made their coup mangué for the restoration of the Bour- bons, it was because the political question of which it was made a part was before France in another and more vital form. The crime of the Marshal was committed against France, and, under the code, deserved the penalty which has been pronounced against it; but the trial, as it took place, artfully tried to make the impeachment of the Empire by the royalists a recommendation of the latter to France as trustworthy guardians of its honor. Guilty, im fact, Bazaine was, long before his trial, condemned by the sentiment of wounded French pride ; and the consummation of arraignment and sentence, for this reason, lost much of the political force which it other- wise would have had, With the Due d’Au- male as the presiding Jadge the political significance of the trial was manifest. The time chosen for its commencement, just be- fore the opening of the Assembly, shows how skilfully the tableau was arranged. As the grand coup failed in the Assembly the side- show lost its political feature, and the Judge, who might have passed sentence as one of the blood royal, now does so as a citizen of the Republic. Itshows how the best laid plans go “aft a-gley.” France has her first victim for the revanche, and the Empire is for- mally condemned in its most trusted soldier, and the poor credit, if any, accrues to the Republic. Such is the political aspect of the trial. The result to Bazaine was discounted in these columns when the trial began. He was found guilty because the guilt was at his door, and because it would serve the purpose of his judges too well to admit of any lighter view of his case. The united action of his judges in signing a recommendation to mercy, and the haste of the presiding Judge in carrying the recommenda- tion to President MacMahon, show what we indicated, that the monarchists Bazaine’s Triait ana Con- ion to Death—What Is the of the conqueror to the Frenchmen who, after the fall of Sedan, held aloft the nation’s sword in a desperate effort, He could, this traitor, call the government of National Defence ‘‘the men of the gutter.’ It was charged in the long indictment that he had failed to send forward reserves at Forbach; that he had failed to destroy bridges which the enemy could use; that im coming out of Metz he had used only one road, when four were open; that he had permitted Can- robert to be overwhelmed on the 18th of August; that he had made no serious effort to come to the aid of MacMahon after encouraging his advance; that he had repeatedly deceived the Emperor, and 80 forth. These charges antedate Sedan, and if his offences were alone comprehended in hesitate before spilling the blood of a man | whose cause, politically, may be sleeping, not dead. They wish to wash their hands of his death as far as they can and to leave the onus ou MacMahon. What fate the latter will de cree to his old companion in arms is doubtful; but there can be little doubt that if he fol- lowed the sentiment of the French nation Bazaine would fall, pierced by a dozen bullets, before one of the posts at Satory, where so many of the wild children of the Red Spectre were relentlessly shot in twos and threes erying ‘‘ Vive la Commune!” But this is a world of false respects and temporary expediencies, and MacMahon will elect be- tween them and justice. We do not believe that MacMahon is a man likely to be moved by popular passion. The weight of appeal to which he is more likely to listen will come from the side of Bazaine’s judges, and if the sentence is commuted to degradation and banishment we shall not be much astonished. The prosecution closed bya cry for a ‘‘ter- rible example,” and the government will probably be satisfied when it has reached a gauge of what punishment on a Marshal of France they think will produce that effect. We may now turn to the man and the crime. No man in the French service could be selected four years ago as a better type of the French soldier, as the First Empire loved to make them. He entered the service as a drummer boy five-and-forty years ugo, and so rose to the ranks and from them. He was the shining example to the tearful conscript of the Empire, who was told to cheer up, for, parbleu, every French soldier carried a marshal’s baton in his knapsack. Serving with distinction in Algeria and the Crimea, he was chosen by Napoleon to lead the French expedition in Mexico, and was charged with the fatal work of building an imperial throne for the Austrian Archduke, Maximilian. Napoleon understood and accepted the failure of Bazaine. His adventurer-soldier had obeyed orders too well, even to the last cowardice of deserting the Emperor he had created, for the Man of De- cember to find fault with him. A few years farther on, and the creature of the Lower Empire had the opportunity to play false to France, that he might stand by the cause of his master and confederate in the crime of Mexico, He grasped the opportu- nity, but only made Napoleon’s fall complete. It was a gratitude which puling sentiment | outside of France may gloss over, but, rightly understood, it was that side of ‘thonor among thieves” which makes them stand together when there is a chance that both may live to plunder. The crime of Bazaine is the highest known to French military law. The debated treason of Grouchy was small beside the act of Ba- zaine, although it partook of its character. Detested as is the crime of Benedict Arnold, he gave only his secrets and himself to the British at West Point. Bazaine surrendered the strong fortress of Metz, a splendid army, among whom were France’s choicest troops, including at least one hundred and thirty thousand men in fighting trim, with all the | matériel of war belonging thereto, and every That from the day he was shut up at Metz he never made a real effort to fight his way out was unpardonable in a general, but the special taint of dis- honor lies even deeper than that. That might have been incapacity. but the stamping of treason to his country on his forehead was in the fact that he ignored honor, ignored France, to make a bargain with | the enemy which he hoped might reinstate his master and himselt in power. To do this he deceived the generals and soldiers under him, received a vagabond emissary from the Em- press Engénie, who carried credentials only from Bismarck. The Marshal of France lay- ing down his arms in the open field, desert- ing his soldiers in their misfortune, strengthening the hand of the enemy so that resistance became slaughter, could, vet find shameless breath to adopt the evithet them ho might escape on the many pleas which incapacity can bring to cover failure. But from obstinacy in blundering to down- right treason is a long step, no matter how equal may be the result. If ever a case called for a ‘terrible example” it is the treason of Bazaine. He knew the stake he was playing for, and that the honor of a nation, the integ- rity of its territory depended on the hazard of the die he knew full well. The verdict of yesterday and the sentence, no matter how surrounded politically, are simple justice. They condemn the man and his act and, with them, the Empire that was founded on assassination and fell in dis- honor. Men have chosen at times to con- demn the resistance which followed the fall of Metz as madness; but it is that re- sistance alone which gives France the title to condemn Bazaine and rescues the entire nation from the shame with which the Man of December and his faithful creatures deluged France. The sympathy which tollowed the wounded MacMahon into exile has softened any criticism which might fall upon him as a soldier in his last foreign campaign. He can sign the sentence of Bazaine with hands clean of the suspicion of treason. Will he be strong enough to be just? Thus begius the revanche, and, sadly enough for French pride, the first conquest is a false Frenchman. Such is the lesson of the trial. Has The Virginius Been Given Up? We publish elsewhere an important an- nouncement from Washington to the effect that the Virginius has been given up and is now on her way to the United States. This may be only another of the see-saw reports from the powers that be; but should it prove true the country will hail it as the first important step towards an adjustment of our troubles with Spain. The next step should be the surrender of the surviving captives, and then will come the final settling up. After all, this Virginius outrage is but one of a long list of insults to our flag and indignities to our consuls and citizens. Let-President Grant prepare a spe- cial message to Congress, setting forth, in his own blunt and forcible way, all our recent dif- ficulties with Spain growing out of the bar- barous state of affairs in Cuba, and asking for such powers as may be necessary to prevent future outrages. We urge this, not because we desire war, but because this opportunity of finally and forever settling the Cuban question should not be lost. For if to-day's report should not be contra- dicted to-morrow, and the terms of the proto- col should be carried out fully, how much nearer shall we be to a satisfactory settlement of the difficulties and annoyances growing out of the present condition of affairs in the island of Cuba? How long will it be before another Virginius is captured on the high seas and another fifty or sixty human beings butchered without trial at the slaughter house wall of Santiago? While we can understand why Mr. Fish may be allowed to make his unsatis- factory compromise of this present outrage in order to get it out of the way, we cannot be- lieve that either the President or Congress can be indifferent to the importance of a final settlement of the Spanish-Cuban question, or willing to take the responsibility that would rest upon them should the case of the Virginius be repeated. The protocol is simply a compromise to avert war for the moment; probably a friendly concession to the Castelar government, made to afford it the opportunity of crushing its enemies at home without the embarrassment of foreign complications. It may be carried out in all its parts. Indeed, if the despatch we publish elsewhere has any foundation in fact, we should not be surprised to hear at any moment of the arrival of the Virginius at Charleston, Savannah, New Or- leans or some other American port. But it will leave us in the exact position we oceupied before the vessel was captured, and before poor Fry and his associates were cruelly mur- dered. No security will be given that Spain will no longer claim or exercise the right to seize our vessels on the high seas and to exe- cute our citizens as pirates on the sentence of a drom-head court martial. The question of the release of the embargoed estates, and of the safety from assassination, out- rage or annoyance of Americans in Cuba, will still remain open. Should the Virginins and the survivors of her passengers and crew arrive in one of our harbors to- morrow, it would still be the duty of the Pres- ident to lay before Congress in a special message the whole history of our negotiations with Spain regarding Cuba and the exact con- dition of our interests in that island, and it will still be necesary that he should ask the power to use the army and pavy of the United States for the protection of the lives and prop- erty of our citizens in Cuba. We sincerely trust that he will neither shrink from nor delay this task. So far as Congress is con- cerned, we have no doubt of a proper response to such an application. The preamble and resolution introduced by Mr. Phillips, of Kansas, yesterday in the House of Represen- tatives, does not exaggerate public sentiment on the Cuban question, and the Honse has already shown that it only delays tonching the subject out of respect to the Executive until he is ready to speak, The prompt concession of the snpplies asked by the Secretary of the Navy is an evi- dence that Congress will not neglect the na- tional honor or be slow to act when the proper time arrives. The Fish-Polo protocol, taken alone, is a tame, insufficient and even dis honorable compromise of the Virginius out- rage ; but if it is to be only the prelude toa firm demand for an entire settlement of the Cuban question it will be acquiesced in by the | country, Let us hope, then, that, after the vessel and the vridoners are wafely im guy DOH session, the President will take the further proceedings into his own hands, and compel a speedy decision on the part of Spain whether the island of Cuba is to receive from her a free and stable government, or whether its independence is to be acknowledged by the United States and upheld by the strength of our arms. Congress—The Liquor Question, the Finances, Cuba, the Navy and Other Matters. We have the opinion from Mr. Edmunds, of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, that Congress has no power in the matter of a liquor prohibition bill save in the District of Columbia and the Territories. He said, in ref- erence to numerous petitions for a national temperance law, that this would be the report of the committee on the subject if they were required to consider it. Upon this hint various petitions on the subject presented in the Senate yesterday were referred to the Com- mittee on Finance, upon the ground that, as the prohibition of liquor drinking would se- riously affect the revenues of the government, it may be considered a financial question. But the temperance league will not be put off by any such financiering as this. They are bound to have a hearing, or if not a hearing they will know the reason why, Mr. Sherman reported a bill to anthorize national banks without circulation; but Mr. Ferry (Michigan) introduced a bill which brings into the foreground the main question on money matters between the East and the West—a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue his reserve of forty-four mill- ions of greenbacks for the immediate relief of the present stringency and to restore confi- dence and business activity to the country. In other words, his prescription for the patient suffering from too much brandy is a little more brandy. Mr. Sherman’s proposition, that it is the duty of Congress to provide at this session measures to strengthen the public credit, and directing the Finance Committee to report atan early day a bill providing for the issue of currency at all times redeemable in gold or its equivalent, is nearer the mark, though suggestive of many dangers in u carle blanche to the administration in its currency issues. The Senate at an early hour went into executive session, and confirmed numerous nominations for various offices. In the House, Mr. Phillips, a republican, from Kansas, submitted a resolution proposing very decisive measures in the cause of human- ity in Cuba, in favor of the independence of the island and of the abolition of African slavery, which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, where it will probably remain for some time, awaiting at least the upshot of the pending negotiations. Mr. Wood submitted a resolution, which was adopted, calling for a detailed account of the expenses incurred in refunding the public debt thus far in the five per cents. He wants to know who were the parties benefited as agents in this business and how much. Mr. Scofield intro- duced a bill authorizing the number of men in the naval service to be increased from eight thousand five hundred to ten thousand, which, after some debate was passed. In the course of the discussion Mr. Stark- weather (Connecticut) remarked that noharm could come of stating the fact that the navy was in a good degree of readiness, that there had been only eighteen guns of the service in the vicinity of the Virginius difficulty, but that to-day we have more than three hundred and ninety guns within reach of that place. A good report ; but why only eighteen cruising about there at the time of this Virginius difi- culty? Why, down to these Virginius outrages, was all naval protection to our ships and citi- zens at or near the island of Cuba withdrawn? In deference, no doubt, to the sensitive national pride of the Spaniards, and hence those butcheries of the passengers and crew of the Virginius. As the regular order of the day, after the passage of the aforesaid bill, the House re- sumed the consideration of the bill to repeal the “salary grab’’ of the last Congress. A First Cl London Fog. Yor two days past the swarming British metropolis has been enveloped in a first class London fog, as far surpassing in density ond darkness a New York fog as a tropical storm surpasses a Scotch drizzle. Floundering in their thick fog of the last two days the Cock- neys have hada hard time of it. Numerous collisions among the river cratt are reported on the Thames, and in the streets of the city between foot passengers and carts and drays, from which some lives were lost and many persons were wounded. It appears, too, that this heavy fog extended over a considerable portion of England, for a very alarming railway collision, near Birmingham, is charged to the density of the fog. The obscurity, it is said, was such that it was impossible for the engine driver of either train to see the approach of the other. But where were the engine whistles? There was apparently on both sides negligence in fail- ing to give the warning of the whistle. The same charge may be applied, no doubt, to the steam craft in the Thames, Evidently the river men on the Hudson know how to deal with a fog better than the Londoners themselves, who spend half their lives in the fog. Tae Financia, Docrors or tHe Senate are very busy, and have as many conflicting nostrums as any mixed body of allopathic and hommopathic physicians. Senator Sherman wants to return to specie payments immedi- ately and to redeem the greenback currency in coin at a time when the Treasnry will not have specie enough to meet the ordinary de- mand for interest on the debt and to redeem the twenty million bonds falling due. Where is the specie to come from? Mr. Ferry differed with other members of the Finance Committee, and advocates an increase of cur- rency. He introduced a bill to anthorize the issue of the forty-four millions legal tender reserve. Senator Morton has some sort of scheme for a flexible currency to accommodate the changing wants of trade; but, strange to say, has a notion that this can be made re- deemable in coin. Senator Hamilton pro- poses a constitutional amendment prohibiting the United States from making anything but gold and eilver a legal tender. This is indeed @ procrustean measure, and about as practical as a pope's bull against the comet. Then there were a number of propositions with re- gard to free banking, to permitting the organ- ization of national banks without circulation, and others affecting the currency. All this action goes to show how our national legis- lators are floundering about, with no clear ideas on the questions of currency and finance. Prompt Action on THE Five Mruttons Navy Approrriation.—The Appropriation Commit- tee did not take long to consider the matter of giving the five millions for the navy which Secretary Robeson asked. It has agreed to report a bill for that purpose. We suppose both the House and Senate will act upon it in a like prompt manner. War may not be imminent now, but the difficulties regarding Cuba are by no means settled, and we ought to be prepared for any contingency. Then, our navy needed strengthening and being put in an efficient condition, The five millions will be well spent, whatever may happen, “How Harpy We Wovurn Bz Wirn Erruen.”—The House has passed the bill au- thorizing the increase of the enlisted men in the navy from eight thousand five hundred to ten thousand. And then resumed the debate on the repeal of the salary grab. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Cook, of the steamship Russia, is at the Brevoort House. Rev. Dr. Batterson, of Philadelphia, is staying at the Coleman House. General Cadwalader, of Philadelphia, ts staying at the St, James Hotel. General S. E. Marvin, of Albany, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Sir Hugh Allan arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Montreal. Judge Israel S. Spencer, of Syracuse, ts registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. W. Oswaid Chariton, of the British Legation, is staying at the Breevoort House. Governor John A. Burbank, of Dakota, arrived last evening at the Astor House. Rear Admiral Emmons, United States Navy, is quartered at the St. James Hotel. Supervising Architect Mullett arrived from Wash- ington yesterday at the Astor House. The Armentan Archbishop Stephanowitch, of Lemberg, has completed his 1u5th year. Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth, of New Hamp- shire, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Setor Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican Minister at Washington, has arrived at the Westminster Hotel. John La Farge, the artist, arrived trom Europe yesterday in the Russia and is at the Everett House. Richard Potter, President of the Grand Trank Railway of Canada, is among the recent arrivals at the Brevoort House. General C. G. Sawtelle, General W. H. French, Colonel G. W. Patten and Colonel B. W. Mitchell, United States Army, have apartments at the St. James Hotel. Mr. De ta Plaine, our urbane Secretary of Lega- tion at Vienna, fell out of a third story door of ‘the elevator shait of the Grand Hotel, sustaining inju- ries which will prevent him from discharging his duties for some weeks, Among the distinguished arrivals by the Russia we note the Chevalier Wikof, of diplomatic fame, Who has gone to the Brevoort House. Mr. Frank Corbin came on the same steamer. Mr. Watson, President of the Erie Railway, who was expected to return by the Russia, did not embark ou her. The Albany Journal says:—‘General W. A, C. Ryan, who met his death at the massacre in Cuba by the Spanish a short time since, was engaged to be married to Miss Gebhard, daughter of a promi- bent citizen of Schoharie county, and a very amia- ble and accomplished young lady. The nuptials were to have been celebrated on Thanksgiving Day.” The youth O'Connor, who, some time ago, tried to frighten Queen Victorta Into signing a Pardon for the Fenian convicts, 1s now in Austra- lia, The Queen interested herself im him, short- ened his term of imprisonment, and, when he was released, had him fitted ont and sent away from England. He consumes his time with attention to some clerical duties and composing letters in verse, expressing his gratitude to the Queen. (The Irish emigrants in America have forwarded to Ireland during the past 21 years sums of money aggregating more than was raised in Ireland by tax for the relief of the poor by £1,250,000 sterling; and yet the Irish aristocrats and squireens are continually crying out against their legal labihty to support the poor. The charity of the Irish- American emigrant should put their nopility to the blush, if 1t 1s capable of blushing. The fact of the amount of the remittances is published in English official returns, prepared for the use of Parliament. A Lancashire Lad Tortured and Starved By the Brutal Officers of a British Bark. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 10, 1873. One of the most inhuman cases of cruel treat- ment at sea ever recorded was developed here to- day in the instance of Seth Hollingsworth, a Lanca- shire lad of 19 years, who shipped on board the British bark Magdalia, at Liverpool, on the 3d of October, as an able-bodied seaman for the voyage to Richmond and back. Holiingsworth states that he had been working in one of the Man- chester cotton mills and, as was .saal with the operatives, he took a rik to Liverpool to spend a two weeks holiday. While in that city he was ap- proached by Captain Fleming, of tne bark Mag- dalia, and asked to snip as able bodied seaman for a voyage to this city and back, the captain agree- ing to pay him the sum of £3108, in British cur- rency. He went on board on or about the 3d of October, and was at once put to work at the windlass, heaving the anchor, and when that was hoisted they set sail. From that hour not only the captain, but the mates, whose names are Beard, first mate, and Williamson, second mate began a system of brutality towaras him which has scarcely @ parallel in the annals of nautical inhu- manity. In his Lancashire language he says he was ‘both hammered and starved."’ The voyage was a most tempestous one, the bark being over 66 days at sea, during whieh time Hollingsworth was kicked, cuffed, starved and beaten in a man- her that makes civilized humanity shudder, His first experience on shippoard that was se- rious was being knocked down on the deck and left in a senseless condition by a belaying pin in the hands of one of the mates. None of the officers or crew, ever passed him without adminis- tering @ blow, a kick or & rope’s end. After that, finding the poor youth submitted to these cruelties withont complaint, the cap- tain forced him to sign a paper agrecing to make the voyage for £1. He was never allowed toeat the reguiar shin’s rations, but waa given the remnants of each meal of the crew. Even this was denied him when the vessel had been at sea about one month, and in the unbridied exercise of their tyranny this unfortunate wretch was com- peiled to undergo the most revolting indignity. It 18 impossible to relate the horrors to which the poor youth was subjected on this terrible voyage for he is unable now to speak, crowning outrage of the voyage. Holilngsworth, emaciated, bruised and excessively feeble from his treatment, was ordered by Captain Fleming to row bim ashore. The poor wreteh pulled away; but, not being able to make the boat move fast enough, was struck by the captain with an oar so often as to attract the attention of Captain Post, of the steamer Sylvester, who at once interiered in be- hail of Hollingsworth. Captain Post rescued the lad and brought him to this city, and he is now at the police station in a aying condition, When he arrived his clothes and person were filthy, and he exhibited a spectacie ol wretchedness and misery rarely to be see His wounds are all gangrened, his nesh is swolle! Uruises cover his body irom head vo foot, His eyes ists and ropes; his feet are covered with running sores, and his mouth is so badly injured that he can speak only With the greatest diMeulty. The police here supplied him wish clean clothing and showed him every attention possible. To- night the British Consul here is taking active measures in his behalf, and the captain has been arrested by the local authorities at City Point. EXPLOSION IN A PALAGE OAR. Denver, Col., Dec. 10, 1873, ‘The hot water heater in the Pullman palace car Dexter exploded about seven o'clock this morning, while standing on the Kanéas Pacific track, near the depot, ‘The car was badly shattered. One end was blown ous and the fragment carried 2,000 feet, It is osed the cwuse Of the disaster was the The bark Magdaiia arrived at City Point, in the | James Kiver, yesterday, and here culminated the | are blackened and nearly closed by blows from | Sen | | Et He ing nthe ies ‘The car waa ua- \ SS A AMUSEMENTS. “Alixe” at the Fifth Ave “Alixe’’ was reproduced a) nue Theatre last night, with Mins Sara Jewett in the title part and other new faces in the cast. Mr. Charles Fisher, Mr. George Clarke and Mr. Louis James played their parts of the Count, Henry and the Duke in their old manner, and Miss Fanny Morant as Mme, Valory was more impassioned than in the past. Mr. Davidge suceeded to Mr. Lewis's part of tho Marquis, but failed to put in it the unction which made it so irresistible in Mr. Lewis's hands. But the charm of the piece last night was in the fresh bays faces which revealed the resources of Mr. aly’s compauy. New artists coming forward to claim recoguttion and receiving a generous re- ception is some! anomalous in established theatres. On this occasion three young ladies took the places of old favorites, Miss Jewett, as be- fore remarked, taking Miss Morris’ place and Miss Minnie Conway pl the Marquise Césaranne and Miss Nina Varian, Lucienne. The two latter, if they failed to invest their parts with all the case and grace that might have been imparted to them, atleast played them acceptably, and more than acceptably for actresses 80 inexperienced, As to Miss Jewett, her Alixe was not the Alixe of the ar- tist with whose impersonation of the part it. wilt be compared. But it was in its way & performance almost as marked and in every way worthy of re- spect. It lacked the strength and intensity of the other, but it was sweeter, truer to natare and more womanly. If the emotion was not so intense, the love, and especially the motherly affection, was gentler. Miss Jewett was repeatedly called before the curtain. With more experience and compieter study she promises to take a leading place on the metropolitan stage. Academy of Music—Salvini as Samson. A triumph of an extraordinary character was achieved last night at the Academy of Music. The principal sharers in it were Signor Salvini and Signora Plamonti. The play was “Sansone,” the production or the Italian dramatic gutbor Ippolito D’Aste. it 18 not possible to span the efforts therein of the two artists we have named within the compass of a few newspaper paragraphs, We feel ussured that all who witnessed the perform ance last evening (and the audience was one of the largest gathered in the Academy of Music during the Salvini season) will partake of this con- viction. Perhaps, therefore, it will be suficient to the purpose to that “Sansone” is & noble play, written in very picturesque, chaste, powerful and impassioned language. It is one of the few modern plays which might be read with interest as well as witnessed. The theme requires no lengthy explanation at our hands. It is simply that found in Holy Writ expanded to suit dramatic demands, The two pone yal characters, of course, are Samson, acted by vini, and Delilah, per- formed by Signora Piamonti. praise which can be accorded to playwright and artist is to confess that their united eflorts brought the Scriptural simplicity and the grand primitive time face to face with to-day. Ihe Samson of Salvint ts an inspired giant, whose affections throw a soften- ing Heaney over his physical powers. The five acts into which the play is divided allow many very po mersae and affecting ints to be made. nief among these are Samson’s description of the slaying of the lion, in the first act; his defiance of his enemies in the second; his love scene with Dehiah in the third; his malediction upon her in the fourth, and his lament over his blindness and exultation in the sense of returning strength in the fifth. His broad and Biblical treatment of the theme was his most wondertul and most beautiful characteristic. His Samson re- mained dignified even in his drunkenness, The inebriation was almost that of Jove. From first to Jast a massive strength, to which most other ap- plications of such a term must hereafter seem & mockery, warked the embodiment, and the audi- ence, bursting into cheers at the end of every act, was raised to a pitch of exaltation not even achieved py his Othello. Piamonti gained a pro- portionate triumph in the fourth act, being thrice recalled as the curtain fell, and greeted with ani- versal acclamation. Signor A. dalvini also acted the part of Manoah with very unusual pathos. “sullivan” (“David Garrick”) will be given to- morrow night. ABT MATTERS, Art Books. Not many sales of valuable art “books take place in this city—books, we mean, with which the skill of the engraver and the cunning of the painter have more to do than the printer and publisher. Occasionally some luxurious bookworm finda himself reduced to poverty, and in the enforced sale of his library pays the penalty of persistently neglecting to keep a debit and credit account. Kut these refiections are merely by the way. At Clinton Hall quite a large and valuable assortment of art books is to be found, mingled with others which it is not the province of this department to inspect. Among the illustrated volumes especially worthy of mention are Roberts’ “Egypt and the Holy Land” and a copy of the grand original edition of “Audubon’s Birds and Quadrupeds,”? im folio. Then there are the ‘Boisserie Gallery,” con- taining 118 engravings, after paintings by the old German masters; “British Gallery of Pictures,” proois on India paper; Canova’s “Works in Scrip- ture and Modelling,” “‘Engravings Atter the Best Pictures of the Great Masters,” containing 20 large and finely executed line engrav- ings by some of the best English art- ists; “The Flowering Ferns and Planta of Great Britain,” with more than 300 colored en- gravings, in which nearly 1,500 Bae of ferns are represented; “Gallery of Versailles,” with a large number of plases; ‘Cabinet de Touilain,” contain- ing 120 engravings after the old masters; a collec- tion of engravings from the cabinet of the Duke of Orleans, known as “The Crozat Gallery; the “Galleria Giustiniana,”’ comprising over 300 large engravings of celebrated statues, busts and bas- reliets; “Gellert’s Fabies,” @ series of 150 fine pe proof impressions on India paper; a “Port- folio of Sketches in Belgium and Germany,” being 27 plates colored and mounted in imitation of the original drawings; Hogarth’s works, from the original plates, a very fine copy of a very rare work; @ volume by 1 Man illustrative of Italian art; 100 fine steel plates, illustrative of the Alpine Linens! Lord Kingsborough’s ‘‘Antiquities of Mex- ico,?” comprising. fac-similies of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglypnics; Lacrox's “arts of the Middle Ages,” illustrated with 19 chromo- lithographic prints, by Kellerhoven, and 400 engravings on wood; the “Musée Francais,’? with very fine impressions of the plates; Gustave Doré’s “Wandering Jew; Allan Cunningham's “Cabinet Gallery; ‘Titian Portraits,” contatning nearly 20 engravings after Titian reproduced in photolishography; ‘The Stafford Gallery,” with 126 piates, all proofs on India paper; ‘“Boydell's [lus- trations of Shakespeare ;” “selected Pictures from the Galleries and Private Collections of Great Britain ;” a valuable book on ‘Polychromatic Orn: ment.’ The sale of these books begun last ¢ ning, and will continue every evening this week. Meanwhile they are on view at Clinton Hall. Water Color and Oil Senenck’s. A small cojlection of water colors, imported by Knoedler & Co., successor to Goupil, is to be dia, posed of to-day, at noon, at we rooms of Mr. Edward Schenck, No, 60 Liberty street, Among the more noticeable drawings are, “Pleasant Quarters, '* by Ferdinandus; ‘Che Fencing Lesson,” by Lesret; “The Uard Piayers,” by Teukate; “Landscape,” by ¥ ‘y; “Autamn’’ and “Spring,” by Bellows; “fhe Rendezvous,’ by Dettt; “fhe Sentinel,” by Meis- sonier; ‘“Hait at an Inn,” by Simonetti; “Itatian Wooacutter.” by ‘tapir;’ and “Abbeville and ‘Rouen,’ by Dibdin. Several paintings, forming a distinct collection, Wiil be disposed of on Friday noon, Among, the best are “Coast Scene,” vy M. J. Heade; ‘Coast, Scene near Ostend,” by Dommerson; “Casco we Maine,” by Edward Moran, very strong and pleasant; “The Halt,” by Boorgaard, of Amster- dam; “Antuma” and “Spring,” by Willcox; “Antwerp,” by Kawasseg Jus, and “Eavesdrop- ping,” by Rosierse. WENDELL PHILLIPS OW DANIEL O'CONNELL. Last evening Mr. Wendell Phillips gave his) lecvure-on “Daniel O'Connell,” at the Cooper Instt- | tute, to one of the largest and most fashionabie audiences that ever had assembica in that building. Nearly haif of those present were ladics,and every ntterance of the gifted speaker, when tresting of | the great ugitator, Was hailed with the most en- thusiastic A large number ot the most | prominent Catholic clergymen and prominens cite zens occupied the plattorm, The lecture was de~ livered under the auspices of the St. Vincent de Paul Association Of S*. Stephen's Roman Catholia 0 & collection of Paintings at chareh, and the speaker of the evening was sgtro~ duced by the Rev. Dr. MeGlyan, OBITUARY. Breton de Los Herreros, the Actors The death, at Madrid, is announced of M. Breton de Los Herreros, aged 77 years, He made his début in 1284, with a comedy tn prose, eatitied “A Ia Vilew Viruleas’’ (Midnight at Fourteen O'Ctock), which created quite @ revolution in the Spanist theatre of the period. Since them lis productions have been @xceedingly numerous in every waik of the drama, the most remarkable being “I Retara to Madria,” “The Two Nephews,” “Die and You Will Sem,” “Marte Stuart,” “ines de Castro,'? “Mithiadates” and “The Advocate of the Pgor,'* which was his last piece. He also mado an admir- abiyadaptation of Casimir Delavigne’s “#mianta a’ édouard,” His short poems, oes, epigrams, &6., ere considered as models of style and purity of language, He was Ferootnal Secregary the Suauish A