The New York Herald Newspaper, March 15, 1874, Page 9

ASHANT The British Army Embarking for Home—Coo- massie Occupied. TELEGRAM 70 IKE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, March 14, 1874, A despatch was received at the Admiralty Office fast evening from Cape Coast Castle, dated Febru- ‘ary 22, saying:— “All the troops, except the Highlanders, have re- embarked for home. Sir Garnet Wolseiey will em- ‘bark on the 7th of March. “Captain Glover, with 1,000 men, entered Coo- massie two days after Sir Garnet Wolseley occu- pied the town.” ROME AND AUSTRIA. ‘What the Pope Thinks of the Imperialist Legis- lation on Church Affairs—Vatican Missive to Franz Joseph. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Rowe, March 14, 1874. ‘The letter of the Pope to the Roman Catholic Bishops of Austria exhorting them to combat the pending ecclesiastical bills in the’ Reichsrath is dated the 7th inst. His Holiness says the measures are calculated to piace the Church in ruinous ser- vitude, and takes occasion to renew his protest against the rupture of the Concordat. APPEAL TO THE EMPEROR. The Pope has also written to the Emperor Fran- cis Joseph personally, adjuring him to protect the Church within his dominions, ENGLAND. Electoral Endorsement of Disraeli’s Minis ers— Loss of Life at Sea, TELECRAMS 10 THE NEW YORK HERALD. LONDON, March 14, 1874. Jr R. Baggallay, member of Parliament for Mid- Surrey; Mr. Rowland Winn, member for North | Lincolnshire, and Sir J. Elphinstone, member for ‘Portsmouth—all conservatives—who, after accept. ang office under Mr. Disraeli, went beiore their ‘constituents for re-election, bave been returned ‘without opposition, Wreck of a Steamship and Loss of Life. Lonvon, March 14, 1874, The steamship Glasgow has been wrecked off Tarifa, Spain. Fourteen persons were drowned. ‘ MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO NOTES, Lotta appears to-morrow night in her favorite Ole “Zip” at the New Park Theatre, “Toodles” and other attractions too numerous to mention are on the bill of the Olympic Theatre, Bryant’s programine from Monday night includes & Soirée d'Ethiope, Varieties and “Les Brigands Noirs.” ‘ The Theatre Comique presents Monday evening ‘an extraordinary bill of attractions. Fun for the amitlion, The Bowery has & new and startling sensation, “Revenge; cr, the Midnight Mask,” by Stanley McKenna. It will be produced to-morrow night. Mr. Fred Lyster’s new play, dramatized from Brete Harte’s poem “Her Letter,” called “Luck,” has been brought out at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, Paul Taglioni’s ballet, “Flick and Flock,” at the Alhambra Theatre, is said to be the most brilliant and beautiful work seen on the London stage for many years, Boucicault’s romantic drama “The Colleen Bawn” ‘will be revived on Monday night at Booth’s theatre, ‘with the author in his original character of Myles na Ooppaleen. A melodrama of the old school, by Messrs. Den: nery and Carmon, under the title of “The Two “Orphans,”’ has been periormed at Porte St. Martin with marked success. At Brussels Dumas’ ‘Monsieur Alphonse” has been played forty-six nights successively—quite s remarkable fact, as the good people of that city do not encourage long runs. i Astupendous gathering of artists is announced atthe Metropolitan Theatre. “Through by Day- light; or, New York in Slices’? will be one of the ‘thrilling attractions for Monday night. The success of Richard Wagner's theatrical en- terprise at Bayreuth is at length assured. The “King of the Nibelungen” will before long be per- formed on the stage of the new theatre. In honor of the nuptials of the Duke of Edin- burgh, Mr. Chatterton announces for this month the revival at Drury Lane of a spectacular drama, | founded upon the well known work of “Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia.’”” ‘The success of “Orphée” at the Gaité has already wet the parodists at work, and M. de Jallais has composed a little piece jor the Folies Marigny en- titled, “Une Cascade Comme Orpheecose en faire,” which will be immediately produced. Mr. Robertson’s “School” has been played for the five hundredth time at the Prince of Waies’ Theatre. Such @ triumph, accomplished in so short @ time from the first production of the piece, is unprecedented tn theatrical nistory, Atchison (Kansas) possesses the original Puff, | who holds forth in this wise:—“Eliiott Grey, in | ‘Rosedale,’ was a splendid and most perfect | | costumes, give animation to the scene. The study NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1874,.-QUADRUPLE SHEET. WEATHER REPORT. _—— WAR DEPARTMENT, O#vICE OF THE CHIBF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINGTON, March 15—1 A. M. Probabilities, Fos Nsw ENGLAND AND TH’ MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES CLEAR AND PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER AND CONTINUED LOW TEMPERATURE WILL PREVAIL, WITH NORTHWEST TO VARIABLE WINDS DURING THE DAY. For the lake region and southward to the Ohio Valley and Virginia, easterly to southerly winds, rising temperature, falling barometer and increas- | ing cloudiness, with possibly light rain in the lower Ohio Valley, and with light snow or rain in the upper lake region. For the Northwest, southeast to southwest winds, with cloudy weather and light rain or snow, followed by clearing weather. For the Guif States and the southern portion of | the South Atlantic States generally cloudy wea- vher and light rains, with east and south winds and rising temperature, The Ohio River will continue to fall slowly at Cincinnati and Louisville, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the vast twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last | year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, H&RALD Beilding:— 1573, 18:4. 1873. 1874 3 A.M. 24°22 B30 PL . 49 87 6A. M. 23 6PM. 3B 9A. M. ‘ 30 OP. M. 29 12 M...- 743 40 2PM: a Average temperature yesterda: . 3046 Average temperature for corresponding date last Year. ...sceeee Reseesshesstaces ssc BONG Average temperature for last week......... 28 4 Average temperature lor corresponding week last year... + THE WEATHER IN GALVESTON. GaLvEston, Texas, March 14, 1874, The wind has been blowing almost a gale trom the west since yesterday morning, The sea is heavy. SIUDIO NOTES. A visit to the studio of James 0. Thom is almost as good as an excursion to la belle France. Dur- ing his long years of study among French artists | and French scenes he has almost become natural- ized, and bas certainly borrowed the charm of French art, An ¢léve of Frere, he has the same sympathy with the humbler life of France, s0 full of simplicity and picturesqueness, but without | Frere’s sadness. In the work of Thom there are a joyousness and artlessness which are part of his own nature transferrea to canvas. He delights in children, and is in his happiest mooa when among them, “A Strange Visit’? is the title of an‘ important canvas now on his easel An organ man is seen ap- proaching a French village through the fields, preceded by amonkey. A group of children hud- die together, frightened somewhat by the intrud- ers, supply the interest. The work is full of char- acter, and is very brilliant in color. ‘The New ‘Toy’ is another interesting child-subject. A child, Seated on the ground, his thrown away the old toy and stretches out eagerly her hands to the grandfather, just returned from the village, who exhibits triumphantly his purchase. James 0. | Thom ts one of the few American figure painters who have achieved a solid success in Europe, A conscientious studeut by hard study in the best schools, he succeeded in winning honors in com- petition with the best European artists, Julia Beers has completed a charming sketch of a bit of wood and water, which she calls “Silver Creek." David A. Johnson, whose style is decidedly im- proving, is still limning his favorite Lake George, Whose quiet beauty seems to have for him an ir- resistible attraction. A strongly painted brown and gray picture gives a view from Dresden. In the foreground a spit of land, with birches growing down to the water’s edge, 1s admirably painted; but the most charming effect is a break in the clouds showing the luminous sky beyond and bathing the brown mountain tops in light. The atmospheric effect is truthful and delicate, “Sabbath Day Point," with Ratvle Snake Bluf in the foreground, gives just the opposite efect, and shows the influence of a passing cloud upon a mass of foliage. Without losing their cool grays this artist’s works are improving in color and solidity of work, The colors are laid on more boldly than in his earlier pictures. Wordsworth Thompson has on his easel-an im- portant work—“A Scene on tne Lago diComo,’’ It shows a diligence at Mennagio awaiting the ap- proach of @ steamer. Groups of tourists, gen- darmes and Italian peasants, in their picturesque of the quaint ola houses 1s extremely interesting. This canvas promises to be a very successful pic- ture. Bispham has some cattle in a romantic but somewhat conventional landscape, William Hart bas turned his attention to the coast and gives a clever picture which he cails an “Opening in the Clouds.” In the right foreground there is @ mass Of rocks with the sea extending away inthe distance. Masses of dark clouds ob- scure the sky save in one spot, where they are riven, and the sinking sun pours through the open- ing a flood of warm golden light along the sea and turns the rocks tuto glowing masses, gulden-tinted. The eftect is very beautiful and is careiully worked out, “Autumn on the Lakes’! recalls us to Hart’s usnal mood. Gray clouds rising off mountains, with amass of brilliant foliage in the foreground, ex- hibit @ rich harmony of color and in the artist's best manner. piece of acting, a complete idealization of the character as the autior drew it, and stamped Mr. Kendal as an artist second to none in the land.” This genius ought to come on to New York. PAOIFIO RAILROAD ACCIDENT. A Train Thrown ‘Thirty Feet Down | an Embankment—Several Persons in- jured. | San FRANCISCO, March 14, 1874, A despatch from Elko gives the particulars of the accident this morning on the Central Pacific Rail- road, ten miles west of Toano. The westward | bound train was one hour behind time, but was | running at the usual rate of speed, when a rail | | | Tait’s chickens are good and can be recommended, | we hope the next batch will not be so long de- A. F. Tait nas returned, not to his moutons, but to his chickens, He has on his easel the first group for eight years. Rather long hatching this. As Jayed, “Maternal Affection’ 1s the title of a deer subject, just completed, by the same artist. Swain Gifford has on his easela strong coast | study—groups of rocks, with the seain the dis- tance. The work is cool in color, and the rock study very careful and good in quality. “Rossetti Gardens,” from a house top, is one of those East- ern pictures, warm and glowing in color, which we | have become accustomed to expect from this artist, It is marked by pleasing sentiment. broke, precipitating the rear coach and the ewi- grant car down an embankment a distance of thirty feet. The coach, which was filled with pas- sengers, turned completely over, but the emigrant car was not overturned. | ‘The following 1s @ list of the injared:— | James Dick, of Colorado Springs, slightly. | Benjamin Cawson, of Providence, R.1., cut in the forehead, but not dangerously, | Mrs. W. M, Roe, of Dundas, Canada, seriously in- jured, Her condition 1s regarded as critical. Several other persons sustained slight injuries, | but the wounded, with the exception of Mrs. Roe, ‘will be able to proceed to their destinations. NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1874, Judge Louis Dent, a brother of Mrs. Grant, ts Gangerously ill at his residence in this city, with but littie hopes of his recovery. He has been suf- fering from a tumor in his stomach for several Months, and it has now assumed avery serious | condition, and he lies at the point of death. Senator Boutwell, who has been quite sick for several days, is much better to-day, and was able | to walk out. He expects to resume hits seat in the Senate on Tuesday. 4 DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR MALEPRACTICE, Dr. Norton ©. Ricardo, a homeopathic physician j ‘at Passaic, N. J., was arrested on Friday night for | Alleged malepractice, suit having been brought | against him for $5,000 damages. it scems that Dr. Ricardo had been engaged to attend the son of | Mr. Abraham Shaffer, who had accidentally broken the cap of his elbow. Dr, Ricardo, mistaking the mature of the wound, dressed the arm for @ fracture above the cibow, and bandaged ‘up that portion of the arm very caretuily, while ne neglected entirely the portion really injured, through mistake or ignorance. The consequence was that the wounded limb began to mortif and | became so bad that it had to be amputated near | the shoulder, In consequence of this suit was brought against the Doctor, on behalf of the boy, Jor the recovery of $5,000 damages. The Doctor gave bail for his appearance at (we AOATTGK AM the suUD ¢ | | brought into the station house, | the deat! Fanny Elliot Gifford pamts a “Red Lady Fia- mingo” and a “White Egrette.”” Both stadies are well drawn and good incolor. They are treated with masculine power and decision, and are far ahead of most of the work done by the male stu- dents of natural history, A MYSTERY OF BLOOD. An Inexplicable Death This Morning. At one o’clock this morning a number of police- men bore into the Ninth precinct station house the body of James Shea, a@ laborer, formerly living at No, 10Grove street. He was found lying dead at the corner of Grove and Hudson streets by Sergeant Croker, of the Ninth precinct, and at the time be was discovered the sidewaik and gutter were saturated wit blood, Nothing could be m- agined more repulsive than the appearance of the body last night when it was It was saturated | With biood from -head to foot. Dr, Walker, con- nected with the precinct, after @ careful | examination of the body, pronounced the death | as occurring from natural causes, hemorrhage | of the lungs. Friends of the deceased spoke of hia a8 @ Steady, responsible man, who at- tended to his business and was not likely to get into trouble, Yet the appearance of the body, frightful in every sense of the word, suggests a careiui investigation into the cause of Will the police authorities make the | are energetically devoting themselv necessary @Xamination into this case ? SUICIDE. Shooting After Chloroform. Burrato, N. Y., March 14, 1874. A young man, about twenty-five years of age, supposed, from letters found on bis person, to be Franklin A. Bishop, of Petroleum Centre, Pa., | committed suicide at the Mansion House, at two o'clock this afternoon, by shooting himselt with @ revolver through the right temple, having previ- ously taken chloroiorm. No cause is assigned tor the act. He had abundance of means in his pos- session, THE GRANT PARISH (LA) PRISONERS. New ORLEANS, March 14, 1874, The jury in the case of the Grant parish prison- pti, Court fo | ers, not agrecing Nn A verdich, Were, at cleven Hoe eae laaka wa pbk onda.” . TEMPERANCE. The Movement in Westchester. Although temperance meetings are still being held almost nightly in some of the larger villages throughout Westchester county, there has been little done as yet outside of denouncing the liquor trafic, In Yonkers, where the advocates of the cold water cause are both numerous and en- thusiastic, the clergymen of tye various churches to the sup- pression of intemperance in their midst. At ‘arrytown the same determination is evinced to Put down the evil of liquor seliing, and at a mas meeting held there a night or two ago resolutions were adopted, in which the temperance people solemnly pledged themselves not to vote for an, candidate for a municipal or town office who will not Oppose the granting of licenses for the sale of liquor, and that they will not hereaiter buy gro- ceries or goods Of any person whom they have good reasons for believing to be dealing in or giving away intoxicatiog drinks to others. Wine at the Sacrament. “A Methodist,” who objects to the statement of @ minister in the meeting in Hariem a tew days ago, that he would not take the sacrament ima church where fermented wine was used, reminds that brotner that the frst man recorded in the Bible as being drunk was the only one then in the world worth saving from the flood—Noab. The next drunken patriarch we read of was Lot, the only man worth saving from Sodom. The first miracle performed by the Lord Jesus Onrist was the conversion: ot water into wine at a marriage feast, and (he remark of the governor o/ the feast to the bridegroom our correspondent thanks indt- cates that the party were a iiltle joliy belore that Wine was passed around, “A Methodist” thinks that just now preaching bread and soup and some means of feeaing the hungry would be more Caris- tuanlike and vetter for the souls of all. Exclse Law in Brooklyn. The Board of Police Commissioners have deter- mined upon enforcing the provisions of the Excise law as far as lies in their power. Yescerday they rave their decision in the case of Davia Dee, of jo, 228 North Fifth street, Eastern District, re- voking his license to sell beer. Dee was caught, it is alleged, dealing out lager in his suioon on Sunday, March 5. There are several other simi‘ar cases under consideration by the Commissioners of Police and Excise. Temperance in Newburg. NEwsURG, N. Y., March 14, 1874, The ministers of this city are holding a series of mass meetings in the interest of the temperance reform, and the second of the series was held last night in the Westminster Retormed Presbyterian church, There was a large attendance and much earnest- ness of feeling was displayed. The first resolution offered was as foilows:— Resolved, That the clergymen of Newburg desire to express their deep sense of the appalling evil of intem- Pefance and their conviction of the prosent need of the entire Christian sentiment of the commu- ar against it. ‘The resolution was supported by Rev. W. &. Hall, Rev, Wendell Prime followed in advocacy of the enforcement of the Sunday Liquor law. He deprecated extremism in this reform, and referred to # large and influentiai class who “‘canaot endure nor endorse what they deem the illogical views and intemperate methods of those who are closely as- sociated with the cause of temperance; who think that personal abuse is by no means confined to barrooms.” He urged making the movement 80 broad thut all the moral sentiment of the com- munity might be united in the temperance reform. Other aduresses were made by clergy- men and a layman, and it was re- solved to observe next Wednesday as a day of special prayer for the spread of the tem- erence movement tn this city. Services will be eld 10 the First Presbytertan church in the morn- ing and alternoon of thatday. One of the reso. lutions adopted endorses the woman’s movement in the West. As yet, however, there seems little likelihood that their methods will be followed in this city. The Anti-Whiskeyites in Pennsylvania. WILLIAMSPORT, March 14, 1874, This morning the ladies interested in the tem- Perance movement, in addition to the usual re- ligious exercises, stationed ladies at the doors of such places as were supposed to sell liquor, to take down the names of those entering. Tae saloon Keepers are greatly excited at this new move, and some of them have closed their places in conse- quence. The Work in Ohio. CINCINNATI, March 14, 1874, The Grand Jury of Pomeroy, Ohio, adjourned last evening aiter finding 200 indictments against liquor dealers. CoLumBus, March 14, 1874. The crusaders made @ grand rally to-day, put- ting a procession on the streets of 156 strong. The afternoon was spent in the street, the work closing with a prayer meeting in the rotunda of the State House. The Legislature was not in ses- sion at the time. Several more groceries have surrendered. CLEVELAND, March 14, 1874. The women’s temperance movement in this city has assumed a more practical phase, Yesterday morning a large number of ladies assembled in the parlors of one of the principal churches, ad, after some _ time spent in prayer and consultation, some fifty of them started out in pairs, and proceeding to different sections of the city canvassed for sig- natures to the general pledge, meeting with fair success, An attack upon the saloons will probably be made next week. The crusade continues in most of the neiguboring towns, and meets with varying degrees of success, but there seems to be | no abatement of zeal and determination on the part of the ladies in ary quarter. The Crusade in Indiana. EVANSVILLE, March 14, 1874. A out fifty ladies met at the Walnut street church to-day and resolved to hold a temperance mass meeting on Tuesday next, The general ex. pression was in favor of the enforcement of the present law against the sale of liquor, but in opposition to the metood of crusading upon the saloons, JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., March 14, 1874, Fifty crusaders were out this afternoon, followed | by a large crowd, but their movements were attended with less excitement than heretofore. A number of saloons were visited, but no signatures were obtained. Itis thought the saloonists wil apply for an injunction on Monday to preveut au obstruction of the streets, ‘A HERALD WORM. (From the New Haven Union, March 11.] ‘There are some men who gather all their insor- mation from one newspaper, and whose ideas have grown to run in the same groove which the paper pursues. There is one man of this class in this city. It makes no matter what time in the day nor how often you enter the rooms ot the Young Men's Institute in the Palladium building, you will al- ways find him mufiled to the chin, sitting before a file of New York HERALDS, You may wait as long as you please, but will wait in vain lor that paper. After reading the number through, advertisements and all, he will turn to the old ones and read them also, What is most singular is that he is never seen reading any otver paper. ME, DAWES. {From the Chicago Tribune.] That the alternative has been presented to Dawes to retract his speech, to give a new version to his facts, and clear the Party of all responsibil- ity, or be kicked out of the party, is the present outlook. We greatly fear that Mr. Dawes has not the moral courage to meet this proposition as it should be met. He has on several previous oc- casions made a manly protest against abuses, and | | then permitted himseif to be irigutened out of his opposition, That he has the intelligence and honesty to discover irauds and mismanagement, and to denounce them, has frequently been shown; but he has repeatedly shown a@ lack oi courage in maintaining his position, and by yielding to the demands ol party that he retract. In his pres- ené ofictal position he could have the moral, support of the entire people ti he would face hiv enemies and defy them; but we question whether he can do this, efear that he wilt preter to re. tain his nominal standing in the party to the oer and higner posttion of a great statesman fearlyssly | performing bis daty to his country. BILLIARDS. New ORLEANS, Maroh/'14, i874, A match game of billiards was ptay eq to-night between A. P. Rudolphe and Georgy, 7, siosson. Rudolphe won by a score of 400 to 22%, His average was 31 and his bestrun $1. Slosy yn made a run of 106, Rudolphe announces his readivy.ess to play any man in America at 400, 500 or 0 points, French carrom, for any amount, Irom, $1,000 to. $5,000 a side. He will allow expensey to have the game played here, where he Wul remain to receive re- sponses from the leading ex/,erts, WGeorge M. Allen, publisv.er of the Christian Ban- ner, at Hastings, Minn.,/recently firea four shots at himsel! with @ revol’ver, only one of which took ‘SMgch aad.aven thay’ wes not serione, / PRENCH LITERATURE. Victor Hugo’s New Novel, “Ninety-Three.” PARISIAN OPINION ON THE BOOK. Panis. March 2, 1874. Victor Hugo bas written a new novel, and itis not a success, It is neitner a great book nora good book;’ it marks a@ decline in the author's powers a8 a writer and a thinker, and it exhibits many errors tn taste and judgment which redound liutle to bis credit as aman, We must make up our minds to it, the Victor Hugo who gave us the “Orientales,” “Ernani,” “Notre Dame ae Paris’? and the “Miserables” is dead, Instead of him we have @ man whom pubiic disappointments and private sorrows have in some sense crazed, Alter being acknowledged the greatest poet of his country at an age when most men are still strug- gling for a livelinoud, Victor Hugo wished to play a part in politics and to become a@ leader in this sphere also, as he was in literature. It was natural to his French mind to think that, baving ruled over the minds of bis countrymen, he could gov- ern them in other ways, and the ex- ample of Lamartine becoming President of @ Provisional Republic in 1848 helped to intoxicate him. But he failed, and since then stung pride has led him to adopt the attitude of a man Who is “misunderstood.” All great men have their hobbies. Byron was prouder of his swim- ming than of his poetry, and Ingres of his violin playing than of his pictures. Victor Hugo's hobby 1g to be a politician, and when Louis Napoleon took the Itberty to slight him as a visionary, Victor Hugo went into exile with a tempest of wrath in his heart. His “Chatiments’’ and “Napoleon le Petit” were like the roars of a wounded lion; his “Miserables was an explosion of bitterness against society—the vindictive shout of @ social re- former. The shout missed tts efect, however, be- cause in wanting to prove too much Victor Hugo proved nothing, and so the book remained a great | literary triumph and little else. But Victor Hugo's subsequent novels or detached poems were not even literary successes, “NINETY-THREE,"? which may be counted, next to “L’Homme Qut Rit,” the maddest of ali in tie poet’s catalorue. It 1s a pwan, and in part a dirge, over the Reign of Terror—a pean and dirge quite uncalled for. No man of sense now harbors any illusions as to the reai character of the men wio guided the most sanguinary period of the Revolution; and to make us look upon them, through the prisms of fine writing and flashing paradoxes, as heroes, is an at- tempt that has been made before and has broken down, as it will again this time. The men of the Terror were not Titans, but pigmies—cruel and imbecile pigmies. The best proof of the emptiness of their work is that France has not secured to this day the political ireedom that they pro- fessed to establish by means of the gull- lotine, Indeed, whenever a sincere attempt has been made to found liberty, the’ mere mention of ‘1793 has been enough to stir up a whole legion of alarmists. “Ninety- three” produced the Napoleons, It has engen- dered preas edicts and other acts of despotism innumerabie, It isa living and perpetual terror to all orderly citizens, and Robespierre, Marat and Danton, who are responsible for its excesses, will merit the eternal infamy of having made ihe mere names of republic aud freedom odious. Victor Hugo, however, does not appear to think this, and his transformation of the three terrorists into cold, stern, philosophical demigods is one of those foolish, dangerous proceedings of which we may see the results in some future Com- mune. Robespierre was a sallow faced, small souled hypocrite, vain as only Frenchmen can be, and implacably vindictive, as Frenchmen also are when it suits their purpose so to be. Marat was a foul mouthed, uncouth mannered madman, and Danton a bellowing bull, ignorant, brutal and greedy. Bothasa HUMANITARIAN and as a poet Victor Hugo might have plied his in- dignation and satire with fine effect on these wretched characters; but then, as aloresaid, he as- Pires to be a politician, and must stoop to the tricks of party men. Ifhe had attacked the crim- inals of “‘Ninety-three’’ he would have angered their successors and disciples, the Keds of 1871, who are his principal political admirers, and who chose him as their parliamentary candidate at the last general election. Victor Hugo is not the first man who has made his ge- nius subservient to his popularity. He is not the first man who might have lightened the dark- ness of his followers, but refrained because the followers loved their own ignorance and gloried init. We must repeat, “Ninety-Three” is “, MISCHIEVOUS BOOK,” and such is the general opinion of sensible Parisians about it. As the novel has been trans- lated for simultaneous publication in New York, London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Stockholm, Am- sterdam, Pesth, Prague, Warsaw and St. Peters- burg, a notice of it has probably appeared ere this in the New YORK HERALD. It heed only, there- fore, be said here that the principalsceues are laia in the Vendée during the war of the royalists against the republicans, aud the author has intro- duced three typical characters—the Marquis de Lantenac, @ young nobleman of the old scnvol; Cimourdain, a renegade priest, converted into a flery republican, and Gauvain, Cimourdain’s pupil, a republican of the pathetic sort. Lantenac is sketched at first as a hotheaded, brutal and fero- cious person; but towards the end of the book luis heart melts at the danger of three children, who risk being burned in a house, and he saves them, though by so doing he knows that he will fall a prisoner into the bands of his enemies. Not to be outdone in generosity Gauvain, Lantenac’s chief foe, goes into the cell where Lantenac has been thrown, helps him to escape, takes his place and gets condemned to death in his place by Cimour- dain, his old tutor and friend. Nothing can be more strained and unnatural than the episode of Cimourdain coming into Gauvain’s prison and talking philosophy with him throughout the night preceding the latter's execution, Victor Hugo has borrowed the notion from Socrates discoursing wisdom with his disciples up to the moment when he swallowed the hemlock; but then Socrates dia not discourse with the men who had condemned him to death—least of all with a man who, after dooming him to the scaffold, still professed to be his warm friend, his second father, and to love bim. Such love as this it was that evoked the remark in the old song:— ‘Twas all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs. After all Cimourdain need not have condemned Gauvain to death, and his doing so was but an | aifectation of that sham stoicism which French- men love, but which verges on the grotesque. ‘There 18 a passage In one of Bret Harte’s most ad- | mirabie tales—‘Tennessee's Partner’—in which he says, talking of Tennessee’s execution by a Lynch court, “When the weak, foolish deed was (gone. So this condemnation of Gauvain by Cimour- dain was @ “weak, foolish deed,” and Cimour- dain in no way adds to the grandear of it by shoot- ing himself through the nead (even in heroic mo ments a Frenchman does not like to spoil his face) at the precise moment when his pupil’s head is rolling on the scaffold. The moral which Victor Hugo seems to be destrous of pointing in ail this 1s that, to whatever party or rank they may belong, FRENCHMEN ARE GENEROUS AND SUBLIME. ‘Thus the ferocious Lantenac is generous and sub- | lime for saving the lives of three helpless peasant children; Gauvain is sublime for talking philosophy | om the eve of his execution, and Cimourdain is sublime both when he needlessly sentenced bis good iriend and disciple to death aud then shot himself not to survive the harrowing incident, There are further touches of subiimity in the con- dact of Lantenac and Cimourdain; tn the first place, when the former makes a didactic speech three pages long to a sailor who 18 going to kill nfm, and by this seasonable eloquence dis- arms the would-be murderer; and, in the second placa, When Qumourdaln. being tei phat be musi not make war upon women, ol! men amd children, | answers pompously, “We must make war upon @ woman when that woman is Marie Antoinette; upon am old man when he ts Pius VI. and is a Pope; upon @ child wnen that child calls himself Louis Capet.” Ail this is sublime, but it makes | one remember the French proverb, “Du sublime au ridicule 4 ny a qu'un pas.” There are, of | course, some splended fashes of genius in “Ninety- Three.” Some of the descrivtions of scenery are grand, and in one or two humorous and simple passages, where Sergeant Kadout ts introduced, | all the author's real power appears. But how | weigh this off against the riet of lurid imagery, the clashing of inflated metaphor, Wild adjectives and yelping interjections ? There are pages which might have been penned at Bicétre, the French Bedlam, and theories which might have been imagined duriag the hailucinations of fever. Whenever Victor Hugo deals with the characters and aims of the royalists he goes stark | mad. He appears to torget that the blessings of republicanism could not be 60 0owery)=—s Manilest to Breton peasants who saw the Republic chiefly concerned in pro- moting fraternity by cutting off people's heads. The Bretons were not crazier or more ignorant in | their (anaticism than were the Reds of that day— | the Blues, as they were then called, The Bretons | lought for @ religion to which they were devoted | and fora king and seigneurs whom they loved; and there is nothing to sneer at either in their en- thusiasm or in their desperate guliautry. If the | royalists possessed a writer of Victor Hugo's | ability, or it Victor Hugo had written this book | jority years ago, wien he himself was a royalist | nd an ardent one, we should have the merits of | the crasade of White vs. Blue stated in very different terms from those which appear here; and those terms would be the true ones, It may be mentioned that “Ninety-Three” has been PUBLISHED AT THE AUTHOR'S OWN EXPENSE, and that he obtained 60,000 trancs ($12,000) from his agent, M. Michaelis, tor the copyright of trans- lation into all tongues. The orders given for French copies of the work before publication were sufficient to cover all the expenses of printing and Publishing (tne book is issued in three volumes at eighteen francs) and to leave the author a balance | of 54,000 francs in hand. Victor Hugo became his | own publisher because the publishers of his former | woiks had become bankrupt and because the firm | of Michel, Levy & Co. were unable to pay him the 120,000 francs he required {or the entire copyright THE INDIANS. OMcial Report from the Colerado Settie- ment—White Men Awaiting the Open- ing of Spring—Cail for Army Rein- forcements. WASHINGTON, March 14, [874 * The Secretary of the Interior to-day transmitted to the Secretary of War copies of a communica- tion from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and @ letter from Charles Adams, agent at the Los Pinos Indian Agency, in Colorado, reporting that parties from New Mexico have taken up ranches and located town sites, not on the lands Proposed to be ceded by the agreement with the Ute Indians on the 13th of September last, but upon the fifteen miles strip of territory south of said lands that is expressly reserved for the southern bands of Utes when they shall be pre- pared toengage in herding. Itds also reportea that 100 or more white men are now in the neigh- borhood waiting for spring to open for the evi- dent purpose of passing over the Ute reservation Af not to settle upon it. Secretary Delano says the great importance of keeping this reser- vation free irom encroachments the | whites cannot be too highly estimated. For | this purpose, and to keep good faith | with the Utes, in compliance with the provisions of the treaty of 1868, which are atlirmed in the agree- | ment recently entered into with them, and to keep or that the goverment would protect their reserva- tion, the Secretary of the Interior to-day formally Tequests that @ sufficient military force be ordered to proceed to the vicinity ol. the reservation with instructions to notily all parties concerned that no unauthorized white persons will be permitted togo upon said reservation, and that those who gre now trespassing thereon must abandon it im- | mediately or they will be forcibly removed. * An Indian Raid Imminent. GALVESTON, March 14, 1874, Aspecial despatch to the News says parties in | to-day from Jacksboro report that a formidable | raid on the frontier by Indians from Fort Sill TOReLER HOO is mmunent. Lone Wolf is leading em. The Position of Sitting Bull and His Band of Sioux—Plenty of Ammunition and Money. WASHINGTON, March 14, 1874. | Major N. B. Sweitzer, Second cavairy, stationed at Fort Ellis, Montana Territory, under date of Feb- ruary 14, reports that the exploring expedition of H citizens organized in Bozeman, M. T., has started down the Yellowstone. It numbers 125 persons, and there are twenty-five more to join. They have seventeen wagons, principally drawn by | oxen, and most uf the party are on foot. They | have 400 rounds of small arm ammunition for each man and two small cannon, with 100 rounds per cannon. Lieutenant Doane, while in the Judith Basin country, met parties from Fort Peck, who reported that Sitting Bull and his band of Sioux were encamped on Big Dry Creek, that runs north into the Missouri near Fort Peck, and that a large band of Sioux are encamped and hunt- | ing buffalo near Bear Paw Mountains, northeast of | Benton. These Indians are North to hunt Bufalo | and trade arms and amrnunition from the Missourt River traders. There appears to be no liinit to the amount of ammunition and arms these In- dians can get, except the means to purchase with. | pbc chabert | AN ENGINE ON THE RAMPAGE, | ALTOONA, Pa., March 14, 1874. An engine standing in the Pennsylvania Rail- road Company’s yard at this place got started in | some way without any person on it, and ran | through the roundhouse, across an open space and into a large machine shop, running the entire | length of the shop, over 300 feet, in which over 500 | menu were at work. One man, named Curfian, | was killed, and another named Bradiey had his leg taken off and cannot live. The engine | smashed everything in its course. | 10 THE STATE PRISON, PovaHkEErsiz, N. Y., March 14, 1874. Judge Barnard to-day sentenced Thomas Hicks, | charged with highway robbery, but wno pleaded | gauity to gtand larceny, to. fifteen years in State | rison. Diea. BLoomrizLp.—On Saturday, March 14, 1874, Katiz A. 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