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ASHANTEE. Herald Special Report from | the Seat of War. ‘Peace Between King Koffee and Queen Victoria. ‘African Indemnity in Money and a Re- | tirement from the Coast. Commerce Made Free in the In- | terior to Coomassie. Three. Kings Submit to the Conquerors. HUMAN SACRIFICE ABOLISHED. | General Wolseley’s Official Statement. “TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpo, March 10, 1874. Mr. Stanley, the Hrnarp special corre- spondent at the seat of war in Ashantee, tele- graphs the following despatch by way of Lisbon :— Lisson, March 9, 1874. The negotiations for peace between King Koffee and the English government have been completed. a ‘WHAT KING KOFFEE STIPULATES TO PERFORM. The Ashantee King agrees to pay fifty thou- | sand ounces of gold; renounces all claim to Adansi and Assim, Denkera, Akim and Was- saw, and will withdraw from Appoloma and | the points near the coast under the protec- torate of Great Britain; engages to keep the | toad free through the bush from Coomassie to the Prah River, promises to protect commerce, | to prevent human sacrifice and to keep peace for ever. MAKING READY FOR SIGNATURE. Sir Garnet Wolseley has settled the points of thgsjoint stipulation as far as existing circumstances permit. BRITISH OCCUPATION. An English garrison is to be kept at Prahsu. ECONOMICAL CALCULATIONS. General Wolseley does not expect that the ‘entire amount of the indemnity will ever be paid, but regards the other stipulations of vastly greater importance, and more likely to be adhered to. General Wolscley’s Report of the Nego- tiations. Lonpon, March 10, 1874. A despatch received at the Colonial Office fast night from General Sir Garnet Wolseley, dated February 16, says: — ‘The King has sent me 1,000 ounces of gold, | as the first instalment of the indemnity, with | @ request for peace. TREATY MAKING. “I received his envoy at Fommanah, and sent the treaty to Coomassie for the King’s signature. | QUIET IN THE CAPITAL. “An officer from Captain Glover's force | passed through Coomassie on the 10th inst. | unmolested, though his escort consisted of | only twenty men. | to the eager specials, | smiling and assured and the happiest mortal under | | tered, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH Il, 1874.—TKIPLH) SHEET. stream on the left fank and a morass in front. The men were ntfully harassed by the con- tinual annoyance of the enemy, the heat anJ the deficiency of drinkable water. Nevertheless, they kept up their spirits wonderfully, and embraced every occasion of making & dash at the Ashantecs with the greatest alacrity. The native carriers were with great difficulty kept to their work, dis- playing the most abject fear at the first sound of firing. Some who were leit in charge of wounded men ran away and disappeared in the bush. It is doubtful whether all would not have done 60 had they not been in deadly terror of the Ashantees, who torture any whom they catch, The enemy never showed in large force within a distance at which he could be well reached by small arms, ex- cept in places so densely covered with bush as al- most entirely to conceal him from view. The Ashantees fought much better than it was antici- pated they would, What most Irightened them was the rockets, BAD NEWS FROM THE FRONT. Invalids are coming in in large numbers from the front, with some wounded, They report that the hardships suffered by the troops in the ad- vance irom Prahsu were very severe. Many were obliged to drop out of the ranks from exhaustion, and itis feared that some may have thus fallen into the hands of the enemy, KING KO¥FEE A8 A VOLUNTEER FIREMAN. The London Daily News of February 25, writing on the subject of the personal habits of His Majesty of Ashantee, says:—‘‘The people of this country will look upon one at least ol King Kof- | fee's personal habits with a good natured leniency. He has a custom of attending such fires as may happen to break out 1n his capital, and he will even suddenly and hastily leave a iormal audience in order to help in extinguishing the flames that have seized upon the dwelling of some one or other of nis subjects, It is an amiable trait, Kings must nave their amusements like other foiks, and surely this one is harmless enough. It is, indeed, in the case of the King of Ashantce distinctly pralseworthy, for it is said that the na- | tives never work so well as when he ts present, and that his attendance at the extinguishing of a fire has become almost a necessity, as it has be- come a fixed custom and duty, Ul course the King serves himself in serving his people, for a King without a capital of some sort would be looked on as odd, even in Africa; and it is quite possible that what we should consider a very tri- Ning fire indeed, if it got suiticient mastery, would speedily destroy Coomassie in a fashion never dreamed of by Sir Garnet Wolseley.” THIRTY MILES OF COOMASSIE. ——_+—____ From Prahsu to the Adansi Hills—Life in the Gloom of the Forest and at the Cabin Fireside—Skirmishing with the Enemy— Fetish Ceremonial Against Con- quest — Biood, Spittle and Bones—Human £acrifice. Quiza, ASHANTEE LAND, Jan. 21, 1874, You will observe I date my letter from Ashantee | Land, tor we can at last truly do so, having ar- rived in Ashantee proper yesterday morning. | There are no more doubts as to whether we will really invade Ashantee territory, for the act has been done, and we are but thirty miles from the Ashantee capital. RELIEVED FROM A DANGEROUS POSITION. When 1 wrote last we were in a difficult po- sition; the transport threatened to be a woeful failure; the desertion of carriers was fast becom- ing general; the laint hearts were increasing in number and deporting themselves ¢o in- accessible hiding places, and, in our opinion, the star of General Sir Garnet Wolseley, hitherto so bright, was waning. Very lew of us believed in his heart of hearts that the General was a fit man; he was liked and ad- mired for his soctal qualities; partial men were numerous and willing to volunteer pleas in his be- half, and many chivalrous officers there were who were ready to defend him from each and every detraction ; but the feeling of distrust was spread- ing. We were to have moved forward on the 15th, in four columns—Captain Glover on the extreme right, with bis Haussas and Yornbas; Captain But- ler leftof him, with an unknown number of Akima; Sir Garnet and his two brigades to the leit of But- ler, from Prahsu northward, and Captains Dal- rymple and Moore on the extreme left, with an Incomputable host of revengeful Wassaws and Denkeras, altogether between 30,000 and 40,000 in number, Our future movements, marches and strategies had been formulated and elaborated, and Coomassie, the Ashantee capital, was predes- tined to fallon such and such a date, until the transport arrangements and all concerned, from the home government in Englana down to the lowest subaltern on the control staff, were pro- nounced a “miserable failure.” The officers of Sir Garnet's staff had no word of consolation to offer though Sir Garnet seemed The chief of staff, Colonel Graves, dared even on the evening of the 18th that the arrangements were not al- that the force would really move 15th, though we who knew that the sun. to say on the | the force could not live on bamboo leafage and blades of tiger grass or on twigs of cottonwood mentaliy doubted the possibility of the contem- plated move. The morning of the 15th an officer | of the staf, whu had heretofore been remarkable tor nothing save a sullen contempt for the press corps, voluntarily surprised us by saying that the headquarters would not leave .Prahsu on the 16th, probably not until the 23d. A FELLOW FEELING. Even this was satisfactory. A week’s postpone- | Ment coulda not be set down as a failure. | Americans, who remember the many times that a HOME AND HEALTH. “The last detachment of white troops will embark for home on the 22d inst. | “The sick and wounded are doing well.’’ Three Kings Submit to the Conquerors— Koffee’s Kingdom Supposed To Have | Passed Away. Loxpon, March 10—Midnight. | Additional despatches from the Gold Coast report that General Wolseley recrossed the River Prah on the 15th of February. Three of the six kings tributary to King | Koffee have given in their submission to the | British. The supremacy of the Ashantee throne is | considered at an end and the kingdom hope- -lessly disrupted. The Battie of Aboyentum—Desperate | Gallantry of the Native Warriors— Severe Suffering of the English Sol- diers. A mail despatch, dated at Cape Coast Castle on the 6th of February, supplies the followiug inter- esting details of severe fighting between the Ashantee warriors and the English troops at Aboyentum :— DESPERATE FIGUTING hake At Aboyentum, in front of a a stream, eatrong party of Ashantees attempted to dispute the further passage of the troops, not. ‘withstanding the severe chastisement they had received at Amoaful, They were posted on &@ ris- ing ground, covered with an impenetrable jungle ot underwood, and for a long time the position of the bulk of the detachment could not be made out, A$ the troops advanced the enemy betrayed -himaolf by delivering a heavy volley, and fire was | immediately opened upon hiin with effect. Before | half a dozen rockets had been pitched the under- wood took fire, and the Ashantees could be seen | scampering om through the smoke, | HARASSING FIRE. During the whole advance the enemy’s tactics consisted in a persistent harassing of our forces, They moved about with astonishing rapidity over ground which would have been impassable for any | other than natives of the place. At one period | they were firing all along a semicircular line e tending in front from points parallel with that o cupied by the main detachment of Sir Garnet's | force. their aim been more accurate the | losses to the troops must have been irightful to | contemplate. The number of men engaged on the side of the enemy must have been at least ten times as great as that of our army, to judge by the | ‘varlety of positions occupied by them and by the | weight of their fire. Every Knoll and thicket | swarmed with them, all provided with firearms of | one kind Gr another and not @ few with breech- | loaders. STRATEGY FOR A SURPRISE, Avout haifa dozen miles trom Coomassie, in a g@outheasterly direction, a very large torce of | Ashantees was observed endeavoring to steal to the | rear of the marcn, and they would probably have succeeded in doing 80 had @ space of open ground ‘which they must have traversed not been effect- ively covered by the fire of the troops. On being discovered they delivered a scattering fire and re- treated in the direction from which they had come, Their object, as became clear a little later on, was Q akg our little army in the reas, with @ wide | of acontrol oMcer’s duties. | at once certain General in command of the Army of the Potomac deferred his forward march, and that when he finally did move moved backward, and how they firmly resolved to believe him to be not @ failure, will not be sur- prised to know, perhaps, that I do not believe Sir Garnet to be a failure, because he had this once | deferred his departure from Prahsu for a week. Indeed there has been nothing in the Generai’s | conduct to criticise, unless it be the gratuitous re- lance he placed in negrces’ promises, faith in ne- gro honor, confidence in the integrity of a savage blackamoor, and acting according to that belief to the detriment of the expedition. Not without some labor and anxiety had a force of 5,000 or 6,000 | carriers been collected, drilled, rationed and paid, chiefs feed and coddled and their vanities tickled. It was the height of folly not to have protected them against ill-treatment and guarded against their desertion after going to vast expense to secure them. DISCIPLINE AND IMPROVEMENT OF ORGANIZATION. When it might be said that the expedition was verging on an ignominious collapse Colonel Col- | ley—a late arrival from England—had devoted himself, since landing at Cape Coast Castle, to studying the transport problem and to analyzing the nature of the negro carrier and his qualifica- tions. He found a most defective system had been followed with them. The poor negroes, loaded down with necessaries of war, were in the habit of being driven to the front, unrationed, subjected to gross brutality without cause, and, on arriving with their loads at the depots, were com- Pelled to stand for hours in the sun betore they got their food. He found, also, that though they were dealt with severely, very little, If any, precaution was taken to prevent desertion. They were permitted to straggle, singly or in couples, along the entire line of march. One or two native policemen, slouching unconcernedly in rear of the straggling carriers, were supposed to be suficient for 500 or more, A heartless Sandhurst boy, called the Control Officer, received tne carriers at his | depot, and his subsequent treatment of them de- pended on the state of his stomach and liver more than upon the importance of the strict discharge Colley’s presence at Cape Coast Infused a feeling of responsibility into his subordinates. The happy-go-lucky style of doing business was abandoned for an earnest and con- scientious performance of duties on which ae- pended the fate of @ valuable expedition, Along the road a change for the better was observable. At the first sign of the approach of carriers the young contro! oMcers abandoned their pipes and their swinging hammocks for business, The loads were examined, and the carriers being rationed, were marched of to camps under the care of their own chiefs, who were held responsible for tbhetr absence, At the same time two or more policemen were sta- tioned at each village, who were ordered to se- cure any man who returned home without @ pass. weserters soon began to ascertain that to live outside of government employ was impossible; the forest gave nothing to the starving; their vil- loges were in the possession of policemen. The consequence of this wise policy on the part of Colonel Colley was, that on the 16th inst. head- quarters became jubilant on receipt of a despatch from the Colonel announcing that he had collected 4,000 men and 1,400 women as carriers, and that 1,200 of them were en route with provisions but a few miles from Prahsu. REINFORCEMENTS AND FOOD. On the 17th, aga consequence of the good news, the Rifle Brigade’s first wing arrived at Prahsu, and soon after every face was beaming bright at in with loads of rice, sugar, tea, &c., &c., on their heads, On the 16th 600 fellows came in with an additional supply and 500 carriers were sent across the Prah to convey supplies to the advance. On the 19th another force of 500 bearers were de- spatched across the Prah to convey food to the depots in front, The prospect becomes more and more encouraging. Each day reinforcements and supplies are daily arriving at Prahsu. As we do not anticipate another breakdown or impediment before the capture of Coomassie 1t is easy to tell | what our future movements wilt be. ONWARD TO THE FRONT. On the morning of the 19th I left Prabsu, where I had hved for three weeks, for the iront, The first day I reached Assaman, twelve miles from | the Prah; the second day Iarrived at Ackrofuma, | after a ten miles’ maren; the third day brought me to Quiza, at the base of the famous Adansi hills, on the Ashanteee side, and the first real Ashantee village we have seen, LIFE IN THE GLOOMY FOREST, The same eternal forest which has enfolded us in its dusky, humid embrace since we left Inquivim, near the sea, stretched across the Prah beyond Assaman and Ackrofuma, up and across the Adansi hills, seldom lit up by the broad, honest face of day, always gloomy, twi- lighted. Occasionally a streak of sunshine stole through depths of leafage and cast silver bars across thé path. Cottonwood and teak, bombax and phairen, gigantic brethren of the tropic forest, stood up straight and strong, up- lifting mighty globes of green leaves side by side with the bastard mahogany; and the banian, the mangrove and the wild Gg, all strong armed and the Anakims of the vegetable world, nourishing countiess parasites and dwarfing innumerable trees, and mile after mile, curve after curve, every undulation alter another, showed us the same un- changing scene. Yet the country was changing in character slowly. You could not discern the change in the vegetation, nor tn the earth, except where outcroppings of iron- stone stole up from under cover, and where it gave an ochrish coloring to the clay, and where the tamped path gave out a ringing sound to the stamp of nailed boots, Sometimes, too, one de- tected to our right or our left a dark shadow of a hill looming through the forest. The rustling sound of running water over rocks and pebbles tola us that we were approaching hilly coun‘ry. UP THE ADAN: When I came to Moissee I was at the foot of the Adansi Hilis, on the Assin side. Colonel Evlyn Wood was in command of a camp situate here, and was constructing @ stockade which wouid command the descent, Ratt’s artillery, man- ned by Houssas, was also here, After @ hearty breal at the hospitable mess table of Colonel Wood and Captain Furze I started up the ascent provided by the indomita- bie Hume, chief of engineers, and ail those bound lor the front had many times cause to bless his labors. The original path by which the Ashantees had retreated to their own country was a straight shoot up a hill that was almost as steep as a preci- pice. After haif an hour’s fatiguing tug up we had surmounted the hill, and were permitted to have a view which in a country like this may be | said to be extensive. The Adansi Hills run in a | line trom east to west separate from each other. | The view a.l around was that of an uneven country | deeply wooded, the coloring of whose foliage va- | ried only trom deep to light green, warred | here and there by the leafless and bleached branches of some ancient cottouwood. When we looked at the slopes of the neighboring hills the jorest exposed a variety of tree stems, some of silver gray, tall, straight and smooth; others | Tugged and crooked; some tenuous and gracetul; others colossal, but dwarfed. Where the tamarind and minosa flourished on the hili slopes the scene was more picturesque from the tender green of their foliage and the parachute-like expanding of their branches, ANOTHER CAMP | bad been formed on the top of the hill, and the | officer in command praised the site for its salubrity and breezy, cool airs. One breath of the delight Jul, sweet wind which fauned my heated features informed me of what joys he experienced and of how he must have felt invigorated after bis cam- | paigning in the warm, moist, unhealthy atmosphere | of the lower forests. ARISTOCRACY WITH PLUCK. Lord Gifford, the chief of scouts, states that when he had ascended half way up the hill he | Trousted out of ambuscade some half a dozen Ash- antee scouts, who shouted out vo him to keep his men back, otherwise they would fire on him; but | asthe young nobleman pressed on his men the Ashantees gave way, reluctantly reversing their | guns; or, in other words, turning the stocks of | their guns to Gitford’s party, as a sign that they | did not wish to force hostilities, The summit of | the hill was thus gained without bloodshed, and the most important position which the Ashantees could possibly have held was surrendered without a blow. On the top of the hill an elaborate fetich ceremony had been performed to thwart, if pos- sible, the views and prospects of the British expe- dition, Two goats had been impaled and buried alive, surrounded with sticks, placed ina circle horizontally, their pointed ends directed to all points of the compass; and a centre pole, stand- | ing upright, bore a paper, on which was written with Moorish coaracters @ most horrible curse upon each and every man who crossed the Adansi Hills into Ashantee land. Ignorant of the nature of the dreadful penalties he was incurring at tne hands of the insulted and defled fetich deity, Lord | Gifford plunged down the slope with his scouts, and at the base pacprves some more of the enemy at the village of Quiza, who retired with guns re- versed, as before, from fb they were goin of Fomanngp $5 fight. HUMAN SACRIFICES, In the village of Quiza a more awtul CaM had taken place—a human being had been sacri- ficed to invoke the aid of the stolid tetich god against the English. The poor slave, for such he undvuubtedly was, had been cruelly tortured, and | had undergone a horrible mutilation before he had | finally sunk under his sufferings. The parbarous | spectacle of a dead man, haif buried in the ground, his mutilated organs exposed, an old gun pointed in his nerveless hands towards the approach from | the sea, was What had been prepared for the de- | lectation of those avaricious white men who, uot content with the possession of the entire seacoast, sought to increase their possessions by the invasion | of airiendly country. ‘The most dreadful curses of on most powerlul fetich deities rest on their heads. Village, saying that RURAL SCENES AND TOPOGRAPHY. As I stovd on the crown of the Adansi hull [ tried to obtain as extensive a view as possible of the forested land which was the object ol our journey. The eyes, as they rested on the expanding sea of leafy verdure which lay like a thick green carpet over the uneven earth in @ succession of waves and troughs, seldom saw @ !and which externally seemed more peacelul or seemed to enjoy a deeper Sabbath-like serenity, or better adapted as the abode of peace and rest, It was, indeed, a picture of deep, undisturbed stillness; jor looking from the height of 1,000 1eet down to tue far-spreading lorest land, througa @ hazy atmosphere, not a leaf could be heard rusting, not a branch creaking as it bent, no sound of beast or fowl or insect broke the charmed stillness; but those who knew the nature of the land, the people, the vegetation and the animal and insect lite that swarmed within its depths, knew that the height and distance caused the pleasing illusion of serenity. Turning my eyes away {rom the scene I started to continue my jour- ney, and was soon charging down the precipitous steep on the Ashantee side, the first of my col- leagues that crossed the Adansi Hills ana entered Ashantee proper, In about halt an hour I had ar- rived at the botton and had entered the first real Ashantee village —Quiza, CABINS OR COTTAGES? The first sight of the houses, though they afforded some Amusement jor their very small size, fur- nmished proo! abundant that the Ashantees were a superior people to the faithless people in pay of the government, Any American irame house in the country, unadorned with eu cron or veranda, if reduced to six tect by five feet, would re- present the average specimen of the Asn- antee mud-built and miniature house, I sad | the average specimen, not the house of the | chiet or the head of an influential pear But the | houses generally are mere alcoves, raised about two feet above the ground, and plastered over witha tine red clay, obtained by oe ant hills, and of which dust they are able to make an extremely | fine-grained mortar, almost equal to plaster of Paris, Each alcove has a steep roof of neat thatch. work, But it isin the houses of the former great ones of the village of Quiza that we observe the | height of superiority which the Ashantees have at- tained over the Fautees. The alcoved houses there assumed the grand proportions of eight feet by SIX, and four of these fori a seiect square or couri, to which @ narrow doorway leads, ‘This is sup- posed to be the residence oO: a family of wealth. Major Russell's headquarters are in the house of the village chicl. from the ridge of one of the alcoved houses to tne ground is about twelve feet, Outside the quad- rangle appears to be jealously exclusive Tae doorway Which leads to the penetralia fronts we principal street, and the outer face of the wall near it is stuccoed with red plaster, and some figures oj ridiculously comic import attract the eye. One of these figures bears some r@embiance vo an ill-formed mar putting the thumé .s his right hand to the tip of his nose, Which bas been from time immemorial among white people as sugges- tive of profound contempt. Entering through the doorway, we find ourselves In a neat but limited courtyard; and the various alcoved apartments, four in number, are presented at once to us, the floors and wails of which are plastered with this lazed and reddish colored stucco, The cen- ral alcove, though it is oply eight feet by six, Js divided into two ky a whifewashed columa, an: the sight of over 1,000 stout, lusty Abras marching | 49 ask permission irom the chief ' the arches are very Moorish in style and appear- ance. The friezes of the outer walls, above the open doorways of the alcoves, are enriched with a curious but boid tracery of involved and intricate deniens, such as the Goths delighted in, alter & more minute and chaste style. Where the roois of the houses joined a wooden trough conveyed the rainfall clear of the walls into the courtyard, which was drained by @ hole under one of the par- tution walls, The village of Quiza was situated on a most strategical position on all sides but that on which the hill bordered, The ground slopeA steeply into dense thickets of bamboo, plantain and eu- phorbia, and @ thousund other outgrowths of marshy or rich aliavial land. iD case of invasion the population of Quiza might have furnished an effective contingent for the defence o! the frontier on the summit of the Adansi. Looking at tt from a military point of view, the village of Quiza may be regarded as @ defensive suourb of the capital of the Adansi king- dom—Fomannab—whence roads branch in ail directions, to Akim southeast and Denkera on the southwest, and northward to different villages in Ashantee. Fomannah is halfa mile or a nile re- moved irom this place, and from the accounts given of it by Lord Gifford, we anticipate many in- teresting sights, The chief of scouts yesterday en- tered the Adansi capital with nis men, and gave permission to them to loot, which they did to their hearts’ content, bringing many strange things appertaining to ceremonials and fetiche As, however, we are all to move jorward to-md row to Fomannah, itis not politic for me to de- seribe irom hearsay what 1 stall have to describe from personal observation so soon. CAPYAIN HUYSHE’S DEATH. Another victim has fal'en to this African climate in the person of Captain Huysue, oi Sir Garnet’s staif, who died of dysentery alter a week's iliness at Prahsu, on the 19th inst.” Captain Huyshe had made himself extremely popular with ail who knew him. His social qualities were of such a kind that endear men to one another and cause men to oepiere the loss of their possession, He 1s the iourth | officer out Of forty woo came out with Sir Garnet on the Ambruiz who has succumbed to the infu. ences of the climate, Twelve other officers, out of the remaining thirty-six, have been inyalided, MORTALITY IN THE RANKS, Fifty men o! the Rifle brigade have given way to African fever and dysentery within the short space of two weeks, We heat of like calamities in other regiments on the down stations. One of the offl- | cers of the Forty-second Highlanders has also died | of erisypelas on board of tie Sarmatian, and at | one time, as several were suifering with it, it | seemed to be of the virulent epidemical kind. « _ A SUDDEN DANGER. Just as I proposed to close this letter bad news | has come from Captain Butten, who, as special | representative of the stuff in Akun, was believed to be doing wonders, Indeed the staif had such confidence in his abilities that they held him up to | the disadvantage and depreciation of Governor | Glover, whereas it seems now a more miserable failure could hardly have been conceived. After dawdling with the Akims for the space of six weeks he sent word last night to Sir Garnet that the Akims refused to cross the Prah with him, and | that he was coming to join Sir Garnet with the twelve policemen he had taken with him to Akim as escort. QUIZA, ENGLAND. A Furiou: Storm with Snow. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, March 10, 1874. A furious snow storm prevaiis in England to-day, ‘The ground is covered to the depth of three inches | io Cornwall. In some places the storm is accom- | panied by lightning. “TICHBORNE. Charles Orton’s Confession Concerning the Convict Arthur—Solid Reasons for His Continued Silence. TELECRAR TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, March 10, 1874. The Daily Telegraph publishes a long statemeht signed by Charles Orton, in which the writer con- fesses that he recognized the Tichborne claimant | as his brother the first time he saw him, and that | silence on his part was bought with £5 sterling, | paid monthly for a year, and the promise of a thousand or two udditional at the conclusion of the trial, SPAIN. The Captain Generalship of Cuba—Royalists Expelled {rom the Capital. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. MADRID, March 10, 1874, It is said General José Concha is to succeed Jo- yellar as Captain General of the Island of Cuba, GUARDING THE REPUBLIC. By order of the government several prominent Carlists have been expelled from Madrid, Republican Army Concentration—Don Carlos’ Operations in the Field. Lonpon, March 11, 1874, Aspecial despatch to the Standard from Spain says Marshal Serrano and General Dominguez are at Castro-Urdiales, twenty-five miles east of San- tander, on the Bay of Biscay. They are daily re- ceiving reinforcements. Don Carlos has ordered siege operations against Trun and Bidassoa, __ FRANCE. Parliamentary Accusation Against M. Gani? betta’s Patriotism. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Parts, March 10, 1874. In the Assembly yesterday M. De Kératry pre- sented a petition in which M. Gambetta 1s accused | of having sacrificed the national defence to | political designs. The Deputies of the Right have resolved to de- | mand the immediate consideration of the petition, M. OLLIVIER AND THE ACADEMY. M. Emile Ollivier will probably be admitted to the French Academy without a public reception, Setzed on the Claims of the Crew for their Wages—The Debt Paid and the Vessel Released. BaLtrmore, Md., March 10, 1874. Yesterday the steamer Edgar Stuart was seized | | by the United States Marsnal upon a livel for sea- | men’s wages. | The Captain claimed that $200 was due him, and that smaller amounts were owed the seamen. ‘To-day the crew were all paid off and the vessel released by the officers of the law. Rumor is rife as to what will be the next adven- ture of the celebrated vessel. THE STEAMSHIP PENNSYLVANIA, The Third Mate of the Vessel Charged With Bratal Treatment of a Seaman— Counter Charges by the Third Mate. PHILADELPHIA, March 10, 1874. Before the United States Commissioner to-day | fore the people of this State for their choice. | the honors on the republican | 1,150, Blackmer 56, Charles Rivers, third mate of the steamship Penn- syivania, had @ hearing, and was bound over in $1,000 to answer the charge of beating and wound- ing a seaman, Charles Johnson, wien outside of the Capes, on Sunday morning. Johnson alleges that Rivers used a belaying pin | over his head and broke two of nis fingers because he would not execute an order immediately. Rivers brings @ cross action against Johnson alleging insubordination, &c, The latter will have a hearing to-morrow, BILLIARDS [N BOSTON, Boston, March 10, 1874. The billiard tournament commenced last even- ing at Bumstead Hall, The first game was played by Ubassy and Daly, the former winning by 133 points. The second game was between Garoler and Joseph Dion, and resulted in the defeat of Dion by 78 points, Jt was long after midnignt when the last game closed. In the first game Unassy’s average was five to Daly’s 3's. The time of the game was two hours thirty-five minutes. Ubassy’s highest run was 28 and Daly's 33. In the sond gaine Garnier’s average was 4% and Dion's 34. Garnier’s highestrun was 30 and Dion's 2% ‘The playing was very poor. Tne second day of the billiard tournament com- menced this afternoon at Bumstead Hall, with the third game of the series, which was between Cyrille Dion and Joseph Dion, The game was for 400 points, and was won by Cyrille by 64 ints. His highest run Was 77, and | oseph Dton’s highest 40. Averages—C, Dion, 5%; Joseph Dion, 51-11, Time of game, two hours and fifteen minutes. In the evening Cyrille Dion Iayed with Maurice Daly, and won the game by Mo points. The highest runs were :—Diun, 46, and Daly, 34 Dion’s average, 5 65-67; Daly's, 3 50-67, | Time of game, two hours and thirty mutes | business community out in the cold, snappin | mined to overpower such dictation by their ballots, | State, NEW HAMPSHIRE. Probable Defeat of the Republican Gubernatorial Candidate. pereecenners Weston, the Democratic Nominee, Ahead. A SIGNIFICANT KEYNOTE, | in the Democratic | Strongholds. Rejoicings Concorp, N. H., March 10, 1874. The annual election which occurred in this State | to-day for Governor and State officials, as well as for members of both branches of the Legislature, has | unquestionably taken a new turn, in the way of excitement, within the past twenty-four hours, Ever since the nomination of the farmer candi- date, so called, Lutner McOatchins, of New Lon- don, on the republican side, very little speech- making has been induiged tn, save in a lew meet- ngs held at the principal cities, and these were addresses by Senator Wadieigh and Fifth Auditor Ela; while on fhe democratic side there seems to have been more animation and perseverance exhibited te bring out the democratic voters, The political leaders of the democratic party have seemingly left nothing undone to secure the election of ex- Governor Weston, who was unquestionably the strongest man to nominate in the State upon dem- ocratic principles, having served one term as Goy- ernor two years ago. He then gave entire satis- faction for integrity and honesty of purpose. His past record stood untarnished, and together with these he nad many executive qualifications. He | has again for tne third time come prominently be- | On | the other side there appears to have been a wide- | spread diversity of opinion in republican cir- cles, Luther McCutchins, the republican nom- inee, 18 a new man in the political arena of New Hampshire. At the convention which nominated this gentleman for gubernatorial honors there was @ predominant spirit among the leaders that to nominate a farmer candidate would undoubtedly give the State to the republi- cans, as the Governors for the past five or six years had been selected from the more wealthy and aristocratic circles. Knowing that the con- tests of the past two years had been very close— the elections being carried by small majorities for the republicans—Mr. McCutchins was selected for ‘icket this year. Now that the day of election has. «rived the merits of both candidates are belng thoroughly dissected. People are opening their eyes and evincing a stead- fast purpose for the future weliare of the country. i RUSHING TO THE ST LE. This city is the headquarters oi both factions. All day long the trams have brought carloads of voters to the scene of battle. Many clerks irom | Washington (Senator Cragin among the party) are in town. Every voter, be he democrat or repub- lican, is upon the spot, and the batule 1s undoubt- edly one of more than ordinary interest. Tue aay of election opened with a brigat sunshine; but before noon a driving snow storm set in, disheart- ening almost every one, tue people, uo doubt, wishing to have every vote cast; but betore five P. M. the storm ceased, the sun | made its appearance, and to-night gives lite and good cheer to all. The political gather- ings to-night miss the faces of Hon, Wiliam K, | Chandler, Hon. N. G. Ordway and Hon. EF. H. Rol. lins. Why these three most prominent gentiemen are absent is a mystery, as their votes would un- doubtediy count up on their side of the battle. Per- haps Oraway has lorfeited his vote in this State by his residence in Washington, As for the absence of Chandler and Rollins | am unable to account. THE RETURNS COMING IN. The telegraph begins at tnis hour (eight P. M.) to bring in returus from the prominent towns, | Every indication points to democratic gains jrom all points so far as heard from, The heaaquarters of both tactions are besieged by a multitude of politicians listening to the returns | being read, Filty-five towns heard from up to this hour give 555 democratic gain, principal amoung which are Allenstown, 28 democratic gain; Laconia, the home of ex-Repreventative Hib: bard, 35 democratic gain; Pittstleld, 8; Hook- sell, 13; Newport, Meridith, 14; Landom, 36; New Ipswich, Lancaster, 55. Henry O. Kent, @ liberal republican, has been elected | Moderator at Lancaster, and the town has undoubtediy gone totally democratic. One year | ago it went republican, The vote of these fifty-five towns is very encouraging to the democrats. The pronibitionists have stood nobly by their candi- dates, showing a goodly number of votes from the | fifty-five towns. The prohibitionists have en- | deavored to show a formidable iront; but the real issues of this fight centre upon the democratic and republican candidates. Democratic Gains Reported. ConcorD, March 10—11 P. M. Returns are being rapidly received. Excitement Tuns high. The probabilities are that the demo- | crats have carried the State and elected Weston. Returns from 104 towns give McCutchins 16,971, Weston 17,487 and Blackmer 1,004, The same towns last year gave Straw 16,997, Weston, 16,616, Blackmeg and scattering, 825. Republican loss in 104 towns, 968, Plymouth gives 14 democratic gain over last year, Lebanon 43, Epping 53, Berlin 18, Amherst 13, with other towns of less promineace showing demo- cratic gains, New London, the home of the repub- lican candidate, gains 25 republican, vote Doyer gives McCutchins 572, Weston 881, Black. mer 95, Last year—Straw 878, Weston 678, Black- mer 106, Manchester gives McCutchins 1,871, Weston 2,081, Blackmer 91. Last year~Straw 1,887, Weston 1,546, Biackmer 38. Nashua gives McCutchins 848, Weston 1,096, Blackmer 142, Last year—Straw 949, Weston 862, Blackmer 104. Portsmouth gives McCutchins 1,236, Weston 844, Blackmer 41, Last year—Straw 1,103, Weston 855, Biackmer 43. F. W. Miller, republican, was elected Mayor of Portsmouth by 386 plurality over Macy, democrat, and Robinson, prohibitionist, Concord gives McCutchins 1,414, Weston 1,023, Blackmer 68. Last year—Straw 1,517, Weston Claremont gives McUutchins *520, Weston 327, Blackmer 52, Last year—Straw 575, Weston 26, Blackmer 63. Franklin gives McCutchins 328, Weston 356, Black. mer 7. Last year—Straw 344, Weston 304, Bia mer 17. ConcorD, March 10—Midnight. | One hundred and forty-three towns show an aggrate vote of 50,325, Of this vote McJutchins has 24,100, Weston 24,851 and Blackmer 1,374. The same towns last year gave Shaw 23,902, Weston 22,839, Blackmer and scattering 1,196. Republican loss in 143 towns, 1,992, At this hour the State seems to be conceded to the democrats, Weston having gained 3,083 votes | over the vote of last year in these towns, Compar- ing the figures of last election with those so Jar received to-nignt, the outlook is decidedly against the republicans, Should such be the case | and victory for the opposition declared the country may jook to the victory gained in the Granite State as being the turning point in the political history of the nation, Having had the opportunity to converse to-night with the most prominent politicians of the State, they universally agreed that the recent Butter triumph | over the protests of the Boston as well asthe | business community of New England, has hada terrific effect in the republican ranks. Seeing plainly that the President is willing to accede to the mandates of | one or two political leaders, leaving ue | S| fingers in the faces of the representatives of the business community, they are seemingly deter- New Hampshire to-night has undoubtedly sounded the blast for @ reform, and looks for the | other States in which elections soon occur | demand | opera comique company. | hours with HALE’S TAR, | Belfast, Ireland, are tt | examine, 281 Broadway and 294 Bowery, to follow in her footsteps. When the State 1s now conceded to the democrats by the figures presented from almost every quarter showing such large democratic gains, it seems hardly possible that a few more towns fo | hear from can turn the tables, The democrats claim five Senators, the republicans three, leavin as far as heard from, three Senatorial distric douotiul. A Jollification at Manchester. MANCHESTER, N, H., March 10, 1874. | The democrats are exceedingly jubilant to-night | over the result of the election in this city and | As soon as the result was known @ meeting was held at the Cily Hall, at which Governor Weston and Mr. Chandier, the suc- cessiul candidate for Senator from this district, made speeches. The democrats clect tieir can- didate for Senator in the Thiru district by about flity majority. THE LATEST. Concorp, March 11—2 A. M. Returns from 150 towns give McCutchins 97,000; Weston, 27,476; Blacker, 4614 This | Sigideaiasy 7 leaves eighty-two towns yet to be (heard from, Weston still requires about 1,200 votes to be elected by the people. These towns are comparatively small, The election wili no doubt fall to the legis- lative body. Itis avery close vote on the mem- bership of the House, but the republicans catch atthe least straw. From a very careful estimate the House wil! be democratic, with no choice of the people jor Governor, leaving still a hope for the democrats, AMUSEMENTS. Janausenek as Queen Catherine, Quite a large audience attended at Booth’s las® night to witness the impersonation of Quees Catherine by the great tragédienne, ‘King Henry Vill.” is one of Shakespeare’s great plays, but un- fortunately for managers, like most great plays, it requires such @ host of talent as few companies nowadays could supply. It is a play capable of ab- sorbing a whole constellation, and yet must be iuminated by one brilliant 8 ‘The company at Booth’s can scarcely be looke upon as an acces- sory; it partakes more of the character of a fotl, and serves by contrast to show the grandeur and brilliance of the one great personage who fills the eens and concentrates upon herself the whoie tn- est. Aeademy of Music—Benefit of M. Victor Maurel, Such an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable pere- formance as thar of ast evening, on the occasiva of the benefit of the eminent barytone, M. Maurel, deserved a better house. The audience was by no means commensurate in numbers to the merits of the entertainment. The curtain first rose on the grand scene of the third act of “Ernant,”’ with Mile. Torriant as Elvira, Capoul as Ernani ana@ Maurel as Cario Quinto, M. Maurel’s noble voice seemed to have gained additional power, sonority and inspiration Im the grand theme with which this act closes, and he was ¢tiictently sup. ported by the other two artists, A_ ree was the unanimous endorsement of the excellence of the performance by the audience The performance concluded with a most humors ous scene by that operatic Puck, Offenbach, called “Les Deux Aveugles” (‘fhe Two Blind Men), in which MM. Capoul and Maure) took part. It can only be described as uproariously funny, and in the hands of two such artists it lost nothing of its irresistible comic Ses The last time it was given here, we believe, was at the ThéAtre Frangais, by two members of Bateman’s The two mendicant humbugs who solicit alms and endeavor to soften the hearts of the obdurate passers by by outrageous ditties, with trombone and guitar accompaniment, were represented, attired and acted by Capout and Maurel with inimitable skill, Such @ performs ance, taken in general, was worthy of a crowaed house. ‘Martha’ will be presented this evening, with Mme Nilsson in the title rdle, Musical and Dramatic Notes. “The Rivals’ will be the next revival at Wale lack's. This is Fox's last week at the Grand Opera House. Janauschek appears to-night for the last time as Medea, ‘ ‘The Mulligan Guards’ Brass Band blow hard every night at Bryant's. The old Filth Avenue Theatre is to be converted into a Paris café chantant. “Revenge” is lying in wait at the Bowery. Stan- ley McKenna is responsible. : The “Colleen Bawn” will be produced at Booth’s on Monday next, with Boucicault as Myles Na Coppaleen. The Easter attraction at Daly’s Filth Avenue Theatre will be Dumas’ successful comedy, “Monsieur Alphonse.” The Gilseys intend to erect a small theatre om the corner of Twenty-nintn street and Broadway for the San Francisco Minstrels. THE FLEET AT KEY WEST. Arrival of Commodore Rodgers to Pree side Over a Court Martial—The F.ect: Lately in “Function” Preparing to Separate. Key West, Fia., March 10, 1874. The United States steamers Brooklyn and Maye flower returned to this port to-day from Pensacola, The Brooklyn brought Commodore Rodgers, who is to preside at a court martial which, 1 understand, is to be neld here at once. The aim and results Of this investigation will be kept secret until alter a full report shall have been made to the Navy De- partment. All the vessels engaged in the recent review im Florida Bay are coaling, preparatory to returning to their respective stations. No further evolutions have taken place since the monitors were exercised. MEXICAN CATTLE THIEVES IN TEXAS. BROWNSVILLE, March 10, 1874, A band of twelve well armed Mexicans drove through a thickly populated ranch about 200 head of cattle on the night of the 5th inst. Depreda- tions of this sort, since Cortina’s reign at Mata- moros, are becoming more frequent than before. The Untted States troops are too few in number to protect persons and property. The Alarm Signal of Consumption is a hard, dry cough. Soften it and cure it in forty-eight MONEY OF HOREHOUND AND ‘PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS cure in one minute. A.—Citizens and Strangers Who Desire a first class dress or business HAT should call at ESP. SCHEID's, 118 Nassau street. 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