The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1873, Page 6

w EW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Rejected communications will not be re- fumed. Se ee ee THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription i $12, Wolume XXXVIII ..No. 357 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ‘, IYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street—Lavy or ONS. NIBLO'’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Wlouston sts —Cuiwpren iv tHE Woop, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth Btreet.—A Man or Honon. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Lxp Astnay. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— TA New Way ro Pay Oxp Deets. Afternoon and evening. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— ux Woman in Waite. GRAND OPERA HOUS $t.—Homerr Duwery Aun PIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, 28th st. and Broadway.— Panniers. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Bry; on THe ARKANSAS TRAVELLER. OLWMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston Bud Bleecker sts.—Gasrixsi Gru». ‘ighth ay. and Twenty-third GERMANIA THEATRE, lith street and 3d avenue.— Bisveice Hews, BROOKLYN ACAD: PuaRtorre Cusnma: PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Eyocn Anpes. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 535 Broadway,—Vantery Barerrarwmenz, MRS, F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Bux Wicxep Worn. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Variery NTKRTAINMENT. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— fanuety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Bixth av.—Nxoro Minstretsy, &c. OF MUSIC, Montague st.— RADING. STEINWAY HALL, léth st., and Frving place.—Gnaxr Concent. PAIN HALL, Great Jones street, between Broadway }nd Bowery.—Tnx Pron, | THE RINK, 34 avenue and 64th street—MenaceRie xp Muska. ‘Afternoon and evening. jaune HALL, sixteenth street—Macicat Exter- ALN MENT. ' NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 613 Broad- Wray.—Sorencr anv Arr. — in ‘TRIPLE i= “= New York, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1873. between 4th ay. i= THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. (o-Day’s Contents of the Herald. FLIGHT OF GENET! WHO IS TO BLAME?"'— LEADING ARTICLE—SixTH Pace. WHE FIRST ESCAPE! “HARRY” GENET GETS AWAY FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES! NOT A CLEW TO HIS HIDING PLACE! PROBABLE ACTION OF THE DISTRICT AT- TORNEY—Fourtu Pace. QHANGE OF BASE OF PROMINENT RING CUL- PRITS! FORFEITURE OF RECOGNIZANCES— SHARKEY NOT CAPTURED—Fovrtn Pace. ABOMINABLE TREATMENT OF THE AMERICAN CAPTIVES ON THE FINAL NIGHT IN PRISON! THE VOLUNTEERS AGAIN DE- MAND AN INSULT TO OUR FLAG—Turep PacE. PHuE CUBAN DEBT—IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS-— SEVENTH Pace. B TRAIL OF BLOOD! DOUBLE MURDER OR MURDER AND SUICIDE IN THE THIR- TEENTH WARD! A BROTHER AND SISTER FOUND DEAD IN THEIR SINGLE APART- MENT IN A BROOME STREET TENEMENT— SEVENTH Pace. PAPAL ALLOCUTION AND APPOINTMENT OF FOUNDING OF OUR LIBERTIES IN A GRAND BANQUET—TentH Pace. ) (MEXICAN REVOLTS DISCOURAGED! AN AMERI- CAN EXPRESS COMPANY PROHIBITED— 4 SEVENTH PAGE. #ONZALEZ THE NEW PRESIDENT OF ST. Do- MINGO—ARMING THE PORTO RICAN MI- LITIA—AFFAIRS IN BERMUDA—SeEvENTH Pace. ig HE FINANCES! JUDGE KELLEY’S VIEWS ON THE PROPOSED TAX INCREASE, THE BAL- ANCE OF TRADE, SPECIE PAYMENTS AND A 865 CONVERTIBLE CURRENCY! HIS REMEDY FOR THE CRISIS—Eicutn Pace. [) GOADS TO RESUMPTION! FAILURE RUMORS WAFTED THROUGH WALL STREET! FI- NANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS YESTERDAY—THE VALUES SHRINKAGE— 4 CHEAPER CEREAL IMPOSTS—Nintu Page. 64 ‘POSTPONEMENT OF EX-MAYOR HALL'S | THIRD TRIAL ASKED AND REFUSED! HIS ADDRESS TO THE COUKT! A JURY OB- TAINED—ELEVENTH Page. i @RE ENOYCLICAL OF POPE PIOUS THE NINTH 10 THE CATHOLIC DIGNITARIES OF THE f WORLD—ART GLIMPSES—FiFTH PacE. (PUURT MARTIAL SCENES AT THE TRIAL OF | ‘THE LATE MARSHAL BAZAINE! HOW HE | BORE HIS FATE—METHODISM—Elcura Page 1 ff. NICHOLAS IN HIS GLORY! THE STORES OF GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GIFTS PRE- | PARED-FOR THE DAY OF PEACE AND | _ GOOD WILL—WasHINGTON sociEry— | FEMININE TIPPLING—Firra Pace, | GRANTS’ QUARTERS AND COMFORT LOOKED | A¥TER BY THE COMMISSION! AN INCREASE | OF “BEAD MONEY”—A CANADIAN MUR. | _ DERER HANGED—Fovrra Pace. GLISH MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE! KIMBOL- | TON AND LONDON ALL AGOG OVER THE UNION OF THE FAMOUS DUKE OF HAMIL- | TON AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE DUKE | OF MANCHESTER—Firt Pace. ‘Hayti—Stens or Anornern Revowvrioy.— | Gre sorry to report that the news from | @ colored Republic of Hayti is not satisfac- | It appears that Nissage Saget will vacate the Presideney (and they want him 2 )) unless his friend, General Domingue, a be chosen in his place ; but as there is a hin the House of Representatives deter- not tohave Domingue trouble is appre- Domingue says, however, that they want him or not he is bound ) ident, Meantime Saget seems to be of the situation, as he has been for [ being a sort of African Cromwell stor of the Commonwealth. But the convenient process of inflation d his paper money so far that four bd dollars of his promises to pay are ly to one dollar in coin, his people disgusted with him, and he will | ize Blight of Genet—Who Is To Blame? Another ible practice—another abuse of public confidence scarcely less mis- chievous than our wholesale municipal robber- ies—is forced conspicuously upon public atten- tion by the escape of Genet, and by the evidence it furnishes that the reforms in the administra- tion of justice here which drove out two or three judges did not go deep enough to afford any rational security to the public for the punishment of rogues. Much has been done recently and done well to purify our local ad- ministration—so much, indeed, that a natu- ral terror has seized the hearts of the culprits and inclined them to seek safety in flight. Norton, Coman, Walsh and Miller have not ventured the chances of a trial before running away, and Genet has indicated his perception of the fact that the last rotten place he was likely to pass on his journey through the hands of the criminal authorities was the Sheriff's office, and he has tried that rotten place with success. That the bravado and audacity of rogues has given place to fear is a gratifying evidence that they are at last convinced that the days of sham justice are gone, and that they are just now dealing with the genuine power; but this gratification will scarcely compensate the public for the failure of justice in the case of a convicted offender, whose escape impeaches our whole system of detaining prisoners. Genet’s case is typical. His disgrace was settled forever by the verdict against him, and could be made no worse by flight. All that he could hope for by longer facing justice was that some legal technicalities might prevent the infliction of the penalty for the crime of which he had been pronounced guilty; but this was a dim possibility, and all the chances were against it. In this position he found himself on Sunday night, and between his freedom and a term of years in the State Prison, what was there? Only two human creatures of that particular kind of which in this city we make deputy sheriffs—that is to say, two men without any clear sense of any moral obligation to the public, incapable of conceiving the higher idea of duty, venal and coarse, who sought their positions and received them as_ the reward for party services that were perhaps just within the category of acts allowed by the law, but very near the limit, and who regarded their offices not strictly as the means of fur- nishing an honest support, but probably as affording opportunity for further pecuniary advantage. Into the keeping of two men of this stamp the Sheriff placed such a yaluable piece of property as the personal liberty’ of aman who could, and doubtless would, pay fifty thousand dollars rather than go to prison. So there was asum of twenty-five thousand dollars for each, and all the lesser magnates of democracy—all the roughs and strikers who have sought or held in past times these places in the Sheriff's office—are filled with chagrin that the opportunity was not theirs, and envy with epic force the grand good fortune of the two who are now ‘‘weeping’’ over Genet’s es- cape, and one of whom Mr. Brennan supposes could almost ‘‘cut his own throat.’’ But the culprit is gone; and who is re- sponsible? Sheriff Brennan, of course. It is moonshine to pretend that, as the law regards it, the prisoner was in the custody of any other person. As a convicted prisoner he passed, by the ordinary and well recog- nized operations of our system, into the custody of the Sheriff forconfinement; and if he was not confined it was through the exer- cise of an indulgence that was improper without grave necessity, and that in any case the Sheriff could venture upon only at his official peril; and since there is a. public opinion that gives backbone to justice, and a State government with positive ideas on the CARDINALS IN THE VATICAN—IRISH i ii it i i RAILWAY ENTERPRISE. AID scioad subject of official honesty, it is possible j Pace. Mr. Brennan may discover that there - BONS oF THE PILGRIMS CELEBRATE THE | 9° other things to be considered in | the office he holds besides the large fees paid to the incumbent. Let it be noted that this case is not at all to be confounded with one of ordinary negligence in the discharge of official duty. It is of a totally different nature. But a little while ago we saw Mr. Brennan de- fying public opinion and the whole administra- tion of justice in refusing to inflict the penalty pronounced against Tweed, and in shielding that criminal from the law until he discovered, | by intimation from Albany, that he could not put his will in place of the will of the whole people of this State. In the case before us we | see @ repetition of the same sympathy with convicted criminals as against the people and against justice ; but this time there are dif- ferent consequences. It would, perhaps, have | been difficult for the State authorities to take hold of this flagrant abuse of power in the Sheriff's office without a case in which such proceedings had defeated the operation of the law; but sucha case is now turnished, and the proper authorities will be derelict if they do not make it the occasion of vigorous action, and do not util- it to furnish an example that will deter any future occupant of the position now held by Mr. Brennan from these immoral if ,not criminal lenities that defy justice and by which one man takes it upon himself to nullify all that may be done by prosecuting officers, judges and juries in the detection and the trial and punishment of offenders, It must yet be learned in how great a degre the flight of Genet was the result of con- nivance. There was some knowledge that an attempt at escape would be made, and the Sheriff was informed of this, and was warned | in time by the authorities of whose warning in the case it was his duty to take notice, What notice did he take? Did he limit in the least degree the liberty of the culprit ? No. We see the criminal going to his home ‘s usual, entertaining his friends all day on Sunday, and goimg to bed in one room while the officer does the same in another. Mr. Brennan trusts to the culprit’s honor! What an irony there is in it! He is convicted of getting four thousand dollars on false pretences and is under indictment for for- gery, but he has honor enough for the Sheriff of New York county. Was this insult to justice, this trusting to the honor of a man proved to have none, merely negli- gence, or was it connivance at whatever might be the consequences? Neither do we consider that the Judge was altogether blameless. He should have insisted upon the incarceration of a prisoner held subject to sentence. It isa strange commentary upon the whole story, Legislature, elected since his indictment ; v this convicted and fugitive oulprit, whose honor was relied upon by his friend the Sheriff, has betrayed his other friend, the Police Commissioner, who was his bondsman for ten thousand dollars on the indictment for forgery, which bond was forfeited yesterday. Such are the intimate, confident and amiable relations between crime and those who are chosen to repress and punish it. The Status of the Virginius from & Spanish Point of View. The opinion of Attorney General Williams as to the status of the Virginius at the time of her capture by the Spanish man-of-war Tor- nado. will neither serve to clear up the confu- sion surrounding the case nor to improve the position of our government. In the protocol signed by Mr. Fish and the Spanish Minis- ter at Washington it was agreed that the flag of the United States should be formally saluted by Spain on Christmas Day, as an atonement for the insult to which it was subjected by the act of seizure, unless in the meantime Spain should prove to the satisfaction of our govern- ment that the Virginius was carrying the flag without right and improperly. In that con- tingency the Spaniards were to be spared the humiliation of a salute. ‘The Attorney Gen- eral finds from the evidence submitted to him that the oath of ownership made by the re- puted owner of the vessel, Mr. Patterson, upon which the registration in his name was allowed, was a false oath, and that atthe time it was made Patterson was not the true owner, but that the vessel was the property of certain Cubans in this city. The act of 1792 provides that to obtain the registry of a vessel the owner must swear that there is not a subject or citizen of any foreign prince or State directly or indirectly, by any trust, confidence or otherwise, interested in such ship or vessel or in the profits or issues thereof. ‘Obviously, therefore,’ says the Attorney General, ‘no vessel in which a foreigner is directly or indirectly interested is entitled to a United States registry, and if one is obtained by a false oath as to that point, and the fact is that the vessel is owned or partly owned by foreigners she cannot be deemed a vessel of the United States or entitled to the benefits or privileges appertain- ing to such vessels.” Starting with this prop- osition, the Attorney General préteeds to recapitulate the evidence from which he has become satisfied that when Patterson made oath as required by law that he was the owner of the Virginius the vessel was in fact owned by Quesada, Mora and other Cubans, resident | in New York, my : ere até some points connected with this evidence which require to be explained before the American people will accept it as satis- factorily disposing of the status of the Vir- ginius, notwithstanding the credulity of the Attorney General. Who are the parties testifying against the oath of the owner, Patterson? By whom and before what au- thorities have they been examined? What proof, other than their mere words, have they given of the truth of their statements? What opportunity has been afforded to Patterson and others to refute them? It is understood that the ex parte case presented to the At- torney General has been prepared under the persuasive influences of Spanish officials’ and agents who well know where to seek such evidence as they desire, and there are rumors that much of the testimony they have secured is unworthy of credit. It seems singularly unfortunate that a question of such grave importance should be decided by the Attorney General of the United States upon an ex parle case made out by the emissaries of Spain, and it will be fortunate if the conclusions which have been reached do not add seriously. to the embarrassments already attending this unfortunate affair. The Broome Street Horror. At an early hgur yesterday morning another of those horrible crimes, on account of which New York is acquiring such an unenviable notoriety, was committed in a tenement house in Broome street. At present the case is mvolved in much mystery; but the detectives are busily at work, and it is to be hoped that in this case they will not fail to make the mys- tery plain. For the full particulars connected with this bloody affair we refer our readers to another column. The fourth floor of the house above referred to is rented by a Mr. Burk. Mr. Burk and family occupy three of the apartments; the fourth room on the floor, a front parlor, was occupied by Nicholas Ryan and his sister. At about half-past two o'clock Mr. Burk was aroused by a peculiar | noise which he describes as like “the squeal- ing of @ cat.’ Opening his door and #oking into the hall, but seeing nothing, he was about to return to bed, when his children called to him that there was something wrong in the hallway. Procuring a light and look- ing into the hall, he discovered that the walls were covered with blood. Calling to his wife that there was murder in the house, he went into the front parlor, where he found Mary Ryan lying in bed with her throat cut, Rush- ing to the window, he’ ca led for the police, when Officer Wilson, of the Thirteenth precinct, speedily answered his summons. On the landing of the second floor the officer stambled over the body of a man who, when a light was pro- cured, was found to be dead, his throat cut from ear to ear. Proceeding up stairs he found the walls and stairway from the second to the fourth floor covered with blood. In the room oceupied by the Ryans there were no traces visible of any struggle. Ona table lay the gold watch of Miss. Ryan, a small gold pencil and penknife, apparently indicating that robbery was not the motive to the maur- der. Later one of the officers found bloody marks as of naked feet on the stairs leading to the roof. Proceeding to the roof he found the blood marks repeated, and suddenly lighted upon the vest of the murdered man, The pockets were empty, and the condition of the vest encouraged the belief that the watch chain had been suddenly wrenched from the buttonhole. Mr. Ryan's watch and chain are missing. Is this a case of double murder or is ita case of murder and suicide? Yester- day the bloody foot prints on the roof were measured with Ryan's feet and they were found to correspond. This adds another com- plication to this remarkable case. Slavery im Cuba. The slave-owners in Cuba are beginning feel uncomfortable at the prospect of the defi- nite establishment of a republic in Spain. They seo clearly enough that even nominal republicans cannot permit the continuance of the infamous system of forced labor, and are therefore anxious to put their good intentions on record, to be used as a kind of shield when NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. which the red men now manage for them- to | selves. There is some force in this argument; but if the lands in the Territory are set apart in reservations for all our Indian tribes tho difficulty of the white man can be avoided. As itis, the Indian Territory, from ¢he crimes and lawlessness prevailing among the reds, whites and blacks, urgently calls for recon- struction, the day of straggle comes. Zulueta and his A Stormy Season—Striking Success of companions are graciously pleased to inform the world that slavery is not in keeping with the progressive spirit of the age, and cannot be continued indefinitely; but they think it ought to be abolished slowly. According to their views ten or twenty years would be re- quired to deprife emancipation of its effects. -This belief is very natural on the part of the slave-owners, but what about the slaves? + By the Moret law the children born during the last few years will be free when they reach the age of eighteen. They will hardly, however, be compelled to wait so long. If Castelar be not false to the liberalism he has so loudly proclaimed he will take steps to give immediate freedom to the slaves. The plea of the owners for time ought not to be listened to. Already they have had more than enough time given them. The cry of gradual emancipation is only put forward to gain time, in accordance with the well known tactics of the Casino Espafiol. We have become accustomed to the hypocriti- cal demand for delay which is meant only to deceive. Whether or not the interests of men like Zulueta are subjected to severe strain by giving freedom to the unfortunate slaves is altogether a matter of secondary importance to the world at large. We suppose that in no country have a quar- ter of a million of human beings been relieved from cruel injustice without the interests of the men who preyed upon them receiving rude shocks. Such considerations ought not to stand one instant in the way of justice beingdone. The Spanish Republic has yet to conquer for itself a place among the justice loving and progressive nations of the world. So far its career has not justified the promises with which it was ushered into the community of nations. Civil war at home, cruel oppres- sion in Cuba, and violation of international right, culminating in a barbarous massacre, ara staing to bd Washed out. If Spanish re- publicanism be not a hollow pretence the system of slavery in Cuba should be put an end to at once and forever. It is the one act that may yet redeem the character of the revo- lutio® of September and prove that the men who, drove Isabella from her flrsone were something more than ambitious politicians and frothy mountebanks. Not alone front. sense of justice, but even from motives of safely> Spal ange. to_ seize the opportunity of freeing the ban slaves. Abolition would break the baakbone of the insurrection and efor the” Spanish government the sympathy and moral euppoxs Or. of foreign nations. This must be patent to every one but the selfish slave masters, who sacrifice everything to the hope of immediate gain. Yet the government at Madrid is’ sacrificing the only chance of pacitying island to the clamors of this selfish class. We to | the Congress Storm Signalling. The current weather review, just out, re- veals one of. the stormiest Novembers on record and the severest continental cyclone ever reported by the Signal Office. The equi- vil noctial gales on the Atlantic coast this year were apparently postponed till November, on the 17th of which month appeared the storm in question, having probably originated in northern Georgia. As it advanced the cyclone centre tenaciously moved along the inshore margin of the Gulf Stream, the barometer fall- ing at Boston and Portland to 28.60 and 28.49 respectively—the lowest readings ever made since these places became signal stations. The wind attained the terrific velocity of sixty- four miles an hour on the New England coast and along the wreck-strewn coasts of Nova Scotia, while the cyclonic indraught was felt from the Atlantic to the lakes and the Missis- sippi Valley. The study of this and similar storms seems to justify anew and important deduction never, we believe, before pointed out, that as the winter gales of the Carolina and Virginia coasts approach Nova Scotia their centres experience increased barometric depression, with increasing rainfall and in- creasingly dangerous winds. * It is noteworthy that out of seventy-seven storm warning signals displayed at United States ports last month sixty-two are known to have been actually justified by the storm following. This gives the gratifying per- centage of success as 80.51. General Sabine, peer ic the English Board of Trade, a fow yéars ago, statéd that his examination of the warnings given on the British coaste for two years showed that “‘in the first year fifty per cent and in the second year seventy-three per cont were right.’ The English Weather Office was then under the able and sagacious management of Admiral Fitzroy; but this high average of verified signals does not ual that of the Washington Signal Office. et can be little doubt that but for the many failures of the telegraph lines to trans- mit the weather reports promptly the success would be still greater. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman R. 0. Parsons, of Ohio, has arrived }. at the Fisth Avenue Hotel. “Rev. W. H. . Murray, of Adirondack renown, is staying at the Everett House. Congressman Jay A. Hubbell, of Michigan, is staying at the New York Hotel. General J. L. Donaldson, United States Army, is registered at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. + master M. B, Cushing, United States Navy, is quartexed at the St Nicholas jotel. Liente@tsnt Governor John O/ Robinson has ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel from Albany. r mau Robert M. Knapp, of Illinois, has ar- rived at the Fic Ayenue Hotel from Washington. Commander Henry Wilson, United States Navy, urge prompt abolition in the interest of has returned to Ug 0ld quartext at the Westminster Spain herself, as well as of the unfortunate slaves, and because we know that all plans of gradual emancipation are simply illusory and only meant to deceive. Hotel. Professors G. J. Brashand 7. Yale College, have apartnrepte at ti House. General T. L. Clingman, form¢rly United Stal Senator from North Carolina, yesterday arrived European Immigration in the South— at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Sambo Going to the Wall. The work of substituting white European domestics and artisans for the native colored element is progressing quite rapidly in some parts of the South, especially in South Caro- lina. Among the recent arrivals at Charleston from this city, by a single steamer, were a large number of persons, mostly English fami- lies, selected here by an agent from Columbia, 8.0. About twenty of these are for various parties in Edgefield county; two English and two German families go to Newberry county; a Swiss family go to Chester county; an Irish family go to Abbeville county, and a French family go to Anderson county. There were also several single men and a number of women, ordered by parties in Columbia and other places, as cooks, &. Some of these immigrants intended to go West, but npon due representations they were induced to change their destinations and try their fortunes i the Sunny South. It is understood that many | others, to the number, it is said, of thousands, will make a similar selection for their future settlement in this country. And all this while poor Sambo is fast going tg the wall, or, what is about as bad, giving tp his time and devot- ing his labor for the advantage of sotie tn- scrupulous carpet-bagger or some ambitious plantation or caéMp orator of his own race. In laying down the ‘‘shovel and the hoe” and taking up the howlings of political hustings and caucuses the colored population of the South may be truly regarded as having gained nothing for their own comfort or their own benefit by the change. _A Nice Hoxray Excurston.—The Com- mittee on Transportation of the United | States Senate, embracing Senators Win- | dom, Sherman, West, Conover, Mitchell, Norwood, Davis and Johnston, have left Washington for New Orleans, to gather infor- niption in reference to the wants of the people | and tie Ways and means for securing cheap transpo: seaboard. the Mississippi and Orig Fivers. In the course of their journey they will iss inquire into the feasibility of the project for extending the James River Canal across the Alleghanfes to the Ohio; of the projected canal to connect the Tennessee River with the Savannah, and of the projected seaboard ship canal, and of the proposed Mississippi ship canal to avoid the bars in the natural outlets of that river. The Christmas holidays being the will have a delightful trip, whatever the re- sults may be in the secondary matter of cheap transportation. . Tue Inpun Teretrort—Onsxcrions 10 A TennrrontaL GovernMENT.—A delegation of Cherokees from the Indian Territory has arrived in Washington, for the purpose of op- | », posing the bill to organize said Indian Ter- ritory in the regular form as the Territory of Gexer on his trial swore that he did not he knew how to cut sticks, Oklahoma. They object to sucha and suggests the full picture of the state of | know enough about wood to ment at the Lowell Courter, is proposed for that position, politics in our midst, that this member of the | white pine from black walnut. Prem poee whites Spare gett ro o ‘Territory and of the Indians and their affairs, ,.0n between the interior and the | te Utica N.Y. will probably return by way of | in the Syracuse fix, Gladstone has replied to the charges of being & Papist and not a Protestant at heart, that it is “wholly and absolutely void of truth.” General William T. Sherman, the Commander-in- Chief, aecompanted by General 0. M, Poe, arrived at the Astor House yesterday morning from Wash- ington. Sir Lamoton Loraine, Bart., R. N., commander of Her Britannic Majesty’s war steamer Niobe, has received an address from British subjects resident in Central America, thanking him for the service he rendered his fellow countrymen by the prompt Measures he adopted against General Streber in Honduras. ‘The leaders of tne Spanish intransigentes at Car- tagena comprise adventurers of all nations, Among them is a Frenchman named Lucien Am- bpatz. He has been a revolutionist for years. He was Garibaldi’s chief of staff for some time, and became distinguished as a violent person under the Commune in Paris. He escaped from Paris with difficulty and went to London. From there he went to mix in with the Spanish turbulents, and isnow head of the one of the many parties who are in Car- tagena working in discord among themselves for the attainment of the political millennium. ‘What sort of people there are in London tt is hard to know. Either the dead there become all alike, or the living become dazed when tney \see @ corpse, Some time ago the body of a mur- de Ted female, found in the Thames, was identified by 4° Persons a8 that of a friend whom no two of thena, Knew. But the Londoners’ memories were proven. unfaithful, as ali the ladies recognized in the corps e were found to be alive. More recently an old msx * died on a doorstep in Shoreditch, and nine workm *” held him as a fellow-laborer until the latter Mm mself came to look at the body. Subsequently th ‘e old astray was recognized as a pauper by 14 wor. ‘house officials and the pauper's daughters and som in-law. But the body was again or officials, as the old pauper thrown upon the P® " soniniaw withdrew the reappearea and bis funeral expenses. sounwaLisTn | NOTES. oom a ired on ti The New Orleat® Herala ofp, "C4 0D the stn Inst., and ita proprietors having % “iw tag? ve. chasers of the Ploayune the ed omg boys porters, wlerks, printers BNO ne Pica of the Herat took [6 LUTE omar » It will (une wnd wilt become its futare pus Ushers s be an evening paper, iy ‘Thomas D. Curtis, formerly managing ayccneh - ) Herald, has purchased an in be Standard, and will henceforth identified with the last named je ‘urnal. 4 new paper will be estaviisia °4 In Tulare, Cal., On yhe 1st of January. Alexander Botkin, of the Cnicay 0 Times, will be Thé successor of A. M. Thomson ag @ditorial man- ager Of the Milwaukee Sentinel, A new paper, to be catied the Adna “tiser, 1s to be started at Chippewa Falls, Wis., by T,, *+ Hollister. The story that United States Senut °T Matthew H. Carpenter has purchased the Miw, *tkee Sen- tinel has been revived. A new paper is to be started in Oakland, The St. Louis Globe has got into trouble w Cal. ith the paper but recently issued, : Samuel York At-Lee, the venerable editor of Pacific Odd Fellow, 18 the Senior Masonic Past M. ter on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Masons « California. D. W. Lusk, of the Pektn (Iil.) Herald, has pur- chased the Tazewell Aepublioan, The Charleston (S. 0.) Courier intimates that a | « jew daily paper is soon to be started in that city. Colonel Taylor, of the Boston Globe, having de- clined a re-election as Clerk of the Massachaset! House of Representatives, George A. Marden, oj M. D. Kimball, who has been editorially con- nected with the Green Bay Advocate, has resigned ls vosition, 4 BOME. ——— ee ‘Vatican Allocution and Creation of Cardinals, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Roms, Dec. 22, 187% In consistory to-day the Pope delivered an Allo cution and appointed 12 cardinals. FRANCE. Postal Communication and Commerce With America. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. — Panis, Deo, 22, 1873. In the Assembly to-day several members alluded to the imperfect postal arrangements between France and the United States, and urged the gov- ernment to hasten the signing of the pending con- vention. They complained of the present situa- tion, declaring it to be injurious to French com- merce and intolerable to the people at large. The Financial Secretary replied that it was the government's earnest desire to harmonize the im- terests of the two countries, and a speedy under-- standing was expected. ENGLAND. Discount and Bullion on ’Change and at the Bank. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Dec, 22, 1878 The rate of discount in the open market for three montha’ bills is 434 per cent, or % per cent below the Bank of England rate. Tne amount of bullion gone into the Bank of England on balance to-day is £15,000, ~~ gPAIN. Fatal Accident at Cartagena. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MapRiD, Dec, 22, 1878. Eighteen lives were lost by the late explosion of @ magazine in Cartagena. IRELAND. Encouragement Enterprise. TELEGRAM 70 THE NEW YORK HERALD. Dus1iy, Deo. 22, 1873, ‘The Chamber of Commerce of this city has re- solved to build a central railroac depot, at am ex- pense of £750,000, ASHANTEE. ‘The Warrior King Still in Fighting Trim. —_—_— ie Corporate to “Industrial ‘ - TELESRAM TO THE NEW YORK WERALO. box Deo. 22, 1878, Ashantee King * ere won ‘The report of the death of the Proves false. Colored Regiments from Jamaica for the Seat of War—Every Negro Soldier im the Colony Embarked. Krnaston, Jam., Dec. 12, 1873. The Ashantee war has created such a demand for the West India regiments that there is now not @ black soldier in the island, Tne last of them, consisting of five companies, under the command of Colonel Maxwell, embarked a few days ago om the transport Manitoban, which, after calling at Barbados, will proceed direct to the coast of Africa. This isiand is now garrisoned by a white regiment—the Ninety-seventh—under the command ot Colonel Lord Qlarina. ACHEEN. ~erialist Submission to the Advancing ders. Hollan re RW PN Tax Hate, Deo. 22, 1678. * A despa\'ch from Penang, dated December 20, sn- nounces tha t the Dutch troops have occupied both banks of the, Tiver running through Acheen. The Sultan, seeing “defeat inevitable, has given tn his submission to ty 'e Dutch commander. Naval INTELLIGENCE, Launch of \the Steamer Marion. Porn 3MOUTH, N. H., Dec, 22, 1873. The United States steamer Marlon was succes folly launched from the, Navy Yard this afternoon. Naval Constructor Isaiah Haascom and other government officials were 4 ‘resent, The Steamer P.tanklin. Box TON, Dec. 22, 1878, The United States steamer Franklin steamed down the bay today to the Cu'Mpass Station, where she will wait over one tide’ to adjust her compasses and then sail for Key Wem. Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, Dec>,22, 1873, ‘The following changes have been made in the navy :— Commender R, R. Wi Philadelphia Navy Yard; Captain Thomas G. Cor- bin is detached from duty as Lighthouse Inspector of the Fourth district, on the ist of January, and laced on waiting orders; Commander George B. hite from the Philadelphia: Navy Yard and ordered to duty as Inspector of the Fourth Light house district; Master Thomas S, Phelps from the Kearsarge and granted threo months sick leave; Surgeon George H. Cooke from the marine rendez- yous at New York and placed on waiting orders; Assistant Surgeon C. L. Cassin from the marine rendezvous at Boston and ordered to the naval rendezvous, Boston; Acting Assistant Su: Thomas Owen from the marine rendezvous at Balti- more and placed on waiting orders. Work Fallen Off at the Gosport Navy Yard—Stores Still Arriving—The Cape Henry Signal Station Established. PoRtSUOtTH, Va., Dec. 21, 1878, There was® decided decrease of activity mant- fest in naval affairs at the yard yesterday, and with the exception of business immediately around the ships Savannah, Macedonian and Jean Sands, the yard wore a Sunday aspect. Large discharges took place in the sbipjofhers’, riggers’, paint- ers’ and laborers’ departments, and un- less funds are forthcoming there is no immediate prospect of a resumption of work, while the Savannah will leave for le Key West in a day or two, and the Jean Sands also, it is stated. It is now tignght the splendid storeship Macedonian will Bot a” finished before February, because of the nature of the war prospect. However, nu aqull . laily and oMcers PI juon among oml- be great active distribut- fer depot of the Wem. India | Meet . lepo' Me lenry was formal - ine signal station at &. "4 of the Signal Hureau, tablishe to-day, Lt tor 0 take charge. The tele wing from nieation Troc® Norfolk to Cape Hatteras for. signal purposes is Qow being hur- riedly pushed forward, ll THE DISOOVERY OF A CONSPIRACY IW LYONS, PRANOE. ‘the Constitutionnet of the sth inst, brings datalle# of the proceedings connected with certain ar- rests in Lyons, which are thought to ,be of im portance, It appears that upon receiving news of an alleged conspiracy the government detatled a brigade of gendarmes, who all of a sudden took possession of the principal roads commanding the The following arrests wero then made :--M. K, Bertrand, M. 5. Capuis, M, Oha- telet, — Ly ihe wher bo others. The charges inst :—Consy cyeliee i peace of the state; keeping and dis- ibuting arms and munitions of war; incitement. civil War, dc. aE ane SI I0B IN THE UPPER HUDSON. Lager eo apd vatches to-night from above show that “ielnen is alied. with, new 1ce, and that the approach to Annonoy. “upper Des,