The New York Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1874, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD AND ANN STREET. BROADWAY JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the wear, Four cents per copy. Annva! subscription Price SIZ. | AU business or news letters and telegraphic | despatches must be addressed New Yorx | Herarp. Letters and packages show! sealed. Rejected communications will not be re turned. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. §ubseriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. 1d be properly | Volame XXXIX....... 72 AMUSE! ERAS SN BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth avenme and iwenty-third street -THE COLLEEN BAWN, at 745 P.M; closes at 10:9 P.M. Dion Bouci- cault WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Vhirteeuth street—THH RIVALS, at 8 PV .cloesatll ’. M. Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Jeffreys lewis. ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Yourveenth street—strakosch [allan Opera Troupe— La TRAVIATA, at 8 P.M closes at 11 P.M. Nil i. Dei Poente. 1 Houston and Bleecker streets.— VILLE and NOVELTY £NTERTAINMEST, at ML, closes at 045 P.M BROOKLYN Ps te Cliy Hall, Brooklyn. K THEAT! “ir, ats ‘RE, P.M; closes at oP u BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery REVENGE, and | VARIETY | ENTERTAIN. | ended by the entry of the British me castliias a yiceaiairete sss. 1/545: | troops into Coomassie, the flight of the STROPOLITAN THRATRI <i i ¥ Sait res TEN TERTLINMENT, a | King, the sacking of the palace PM ‘and the destruction of the capital. Our NIBLO’S GARDEN, correspondent’s narrative, though writte: Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets —DATY ic Lod src ae hag be aaa ©ROCKETT, at5P. M.; closes at 10:30. M. Mr. Prank | hastily and necessarily condensed, pre- | en ste ha sents a clear view of the march on Coo- | LYCEUM THEATR’ i 2 ¥rench 0; massie. One week from Coomassie found epne = SP. M.; closes at lo 45 WOOD'S MUSEUM Broadway, corner Thirtieth NICK WHIFFLES, at2 P. M.; closes at $4) THE MAN FROM AMERICA, at SP. M. jh a P.M. GERMANLA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving place.—KRISEN at 8 P.M: closes at il P.M DaLY'S FIFTH Tweniy-eich M. : closes Davenport UE THEATRE, war.—CHARITY, at 8 P. Ada Dyas, Miss Fanny . Begins at 7:45 P.M; Maruneti Family n =—V 30 TR Q ARJETY ENTEB! P.M. T COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway TAINMENT, at 8 2. M.; closes at iv Ey wery.—Grand German Opera—THE MARRIAGE OF GAKO, at® P. M.; closes at il P.M. Mme. Lucca. RA HOUSE, ENTERTAINMENT, at 8P. Twenty-third sireet. n STRELSY, fc., até P. cou 4 corner of ih street.—PARIS BY Broadway, y-ffth M.; closes at5 ¥.M.; same at7 P. MOONLIGHT. at! P. ‘M.; closes at 10. TR IPL Friday, March 20, New York, 1874. From our reparts this morning the probabilities ave that the weather to-day will be colder and partly cdoudy. Tse Gnanp Cuinrry Matinre, managed by Messrs. Daly and Wallack, was a most gratify- ing success. The wealth and fashion of New York crowded the Academy of Music, and a Bum of over six thousand dollars was realized. Anrrvat or THE Harpy Parr.—Our London correspondent describes with his customary vivacity and picturesque personality the ar- rival at Gravesend and London of the Duke | of Edinburgh and his princess bride. Fase Atans.—After all the lauded sagacity of the detective who was thonght to have dis- vovered the murderer of the man at Oyster Bay the person arrested bas been discharged for want of evidence against him. | | | Exoqgvence aT Aupany.—It is good that eloquence occasionally bursts forth at Albany, for in that delicious capital eloquence and in- formation go together. ‘That good old man, Alvord, of Onondaga, wanted three additional doorkeepers appointed. Jt was mod: for Alvoni When he was in the Legislature in 1871 ther. were 232 officers of the Assembly ; this year there are only 162 and Alvord wanted the number made 105. These facts, however, made Mr. Sherwood so eloquent that he defeated Alvord’s resolution, aud in consequence the distinguished orator from Onondaga is sad pver such reckless eloguence. | Lovisiana Bonps iy Evnorg.—It is one of the penaltics of the corrupt and ignorant Jegisixtion ia the South that injury is done to American credit in foreign markets. The meeting of the Louisiana bondholders in London, to protest against the Funding bill recently passed bya donbtiul Legislature, is | an evidence of this. It is to be regretted that there should be any such thing as Louisiana bonds in Europe; but to o certain extent the | bondholders have only their own lack of fore- sight to thank for their nnpleasant situation, | for inquiry of any American banker of fair standing would have revealed the danger of | this class of investments. Prooxess iy Japan.—For some time past wo have been led to believe that the wondertul revolutioa which has been going on in the Japanese Empire was in danger at the hands of the reactionists. The news which we print this morning shows that the young Emperor is warmly enlisted on the side of | progr On the 29th of January he broke | through the established custom of centuries and xeccived the wives and families of the | h, United States and Belgian Ministers, Aso further proof of bis willingness to yield | to the spirit and requirements of the age he NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, The Fall of Coomasste—Our Spectal | ment, an order was given to sack the palace, Correspondence Describing the End | but the booty amounted toa sum much less of the War, i | than the expenses of the Hmazp correspond- ‘The Henatp correspondent with the British ¢@t during the expedition. On the following forces in Ashanteo forwards us a full and | day the palace was blown up, Coomassie laid graphic correspondence, which we publish | i= mins and the British troops began their this morning, completing the history of the | homeward march. second war in Africa, “al! of which he saw Sir Garnet Wolseley has achieved a triumph | | and part of which he was."’ Whoever will | which will teach a stern and useful lesson to | | carefully and thoughtfully peruse this vivid | the Ashantees, who have long and defiantly maintained a terrorism on the Gold Coast. and truthful narrative of the operations of the He has done what Kaufmann did in the con- gallant little army commanded by Sir Garnet Wolseley will find in it the lesson of a cam- paign which adds many new chapters to the | where every former attempt of his country- ison, | Zl fortune to be prostrated by fever at the NEGRO MIN. | - | Ordasu, among the dead, the dying and the | moment threatened serions consequences; | the prize which bas excited all Ex history of savage warfare, illustrating the con- | spicnous daring and bravery of the British | soldiery when ¢alled upon to meet concealed | enemies, and proving that England has in- deed generals to whom may be intrusted with | national confidence enterprises of scarcely cal- ! culable difficulty. | Sir Garnot Wolseley went to the Gold | Coast of Africa simply instructed to cap- | ture, reduce and humiliate the entire j | Ashantee kingdom. He was harassed with | | the usual and always perplexing supervision | | of the War Office, instructed by sapient field marshals who loaded the columns of the Times | | with the plans for his fature operations, and | he was even saddled with a railway, and daily | reports of the movements at Woolwich pre- sented such gigantic preparations that the | public was led to believe the expedition | would return with nothing short of the con- quest of a continent. Sir Garnet sailed, how- | ever, with his troops, and, although it was his | outset of the campaign, he was not long in appreciating the difficulties and opportunities | of the situation. His operations up to Janu- | | ary 31 have been hitherto recorded in these | | columns, and now we shall briefly glance at | the closing days of the war, which finally | the British in Bekwah, a village of some five | thousand souls, which was captured only | after a brisk and continuous musketry fire di- | rected at the habitations by the Highlanders | | and Fusileers. Lifelike pictures of African | jungle warfare are painted by our correspond- | ent with admirable touches of the pen, espe- | cially that of the little Albino child, who, like | Theodore’s son of Abyssinia, may become a | living souvenir of thecampaign. ‘The terrible | sacrifices to fetichism, ominous indications | of the temper of the Ashantees, with their teet | | toward Coomassie and their ghastly faces | turned toward the invader; the groves of In- | | dian corn, the quantities of grain, shady | groups of cottonwood and the native palan- | , quins, ail bring to our minds the severe, | | gloomy, yet picturesque, country passed | through during the many days engaged | in fighting a determined and ambushed | | foe. The battle of Ordasu, which was the | last serious struggle at any long distance from the capital, gives a fair idea of the | character of the campaign. Of this conflict | | our correspondent says, after giving a thrilling | | account of the loud and effective fusillade | _ | against the Ashantees:—‘Shortly afterward | we found ourselves in the little village of | | wounded, and among the heterogeneous | | humanity huddling on the ground to avoid | | the sings. The bushes seemed filled with smoke, the air with sound of musketry, the | | ground was red with gore, and Ashantee mis- | siles struck everywhere—against mud wall | and thatch, against human faces and | hands, against our clothes, startling our ears and hurrying the flow of blood in our veins.” The Snyder rifles were, however, too destruc- tive and rapid in execution for the old Dutch arms of the enemy, and ten thousand flintlocks | were not equal to fifteen hundred breech- , loaders, with every advantege of position in | favor of the former. The account of the battle | of Ordasu is one of extreme interest. Even after | Lientenant Eyre had fallen, and the English | thonght themselves in possession of the town, a panic seized the English soldiers, which for but there wasa rally, and Sir Garnet, by a happy piece of strategy, dispersed the crouch- ing enemy in all directions. As the line of march was taken up toward Coomassie the Forty-second Highlanders, the heroic regi- | martial spirit, maintaining the same disci- pline that would be exhibited on an English | green, notwithstanding that they harassed on all sides by the tire of the bush- whackers. Thomas Adams, 2 common sol- dier, led the way and maintained it to the capital, and although the target for many hundred guns he was ulways in advance of the command. As the Highlanders moved on Karsi, a post within three miles of Coomassie, they had a bitter struggle with the persistent Ashantees. “Very many,’’ says our corre- spondent, ‘‘were borne back frightfully disfig- uredand seriously wounded , bnt the regimen! never halted, on it went unti! the Ashantees, perceiving it useless to fight against men who would advance heedless of ambushes, rose from their coverts and fled panic-stricken toward Coomassie, perforated by balls whenever they showed themselves to the hawk-eyed Scots."’ It is not unnatural were | | | | | never wavered ; | that coolness and discipline of this character | should teil. The effect was, indeed, imme- diate. The report of the wonderful courage and hardihood of the directions and was carried to King Koffee in his capital, and he thought of no other alternative than flight. There wad little further resistance. On the evening of February 5 Sir Garnet Wolseley, with bis brave band of followers, penetrated the foul marsh surrounding Coomassie and entered the doomed capital as victor. It was a marvel for the inhabitants to see a well organized and march <lown their regular band of sold broad avenue, and, without violence, ocenpy land since has given orders that his own income shall be the last summer. General Wo seley imme- equally taxed with that of his subjects. The | diately commenced negotiations with the tax on the Emperor's property will reach the | King, who, on his own part, made insin- bi: of twenty-five thousand dolla One cere overtures, which did not please f late foreign ambassadors has been the soldierly frenkn and directness ay 1 Minister of Education. On tho of the British communder. He waited whole Japan is doing well, and nnder the one day, and in the meanwhile the British gnidance ot her present enlightened chief | occtipation was celebrated by the execution of a She promises to take her place at no distant day among the civilized nations of the world, to plunder, Koilee mot keeping his engage | men was a disastrous failure. Let us hope, MARCH 20, 1874.—TRIPL | The Reopening of the British Parlia- ment=The Queen’s Speech. | Yesterday the British Parliament was opened after the brief adjournment. The | Queen was not present, and the royal address | was read, as it has been for years past, by roya! commission. Speeches trom the throne } have of late years sadly degenerated ; and it is not unfair to say that of all state papers they are, perhaps, the least interesting. The Qneen’s speech on this occasion is unusually dull. Reference is made to the marriage of Grand Duchess Marie, and the assembled | legislators are asked to regard it asa pledge | | E SHUET. ge NE Fhaanctal Condition of Cuba. 120, and short sight currency exchange on the United States is 97 to 98. Yet the Span- iards and their friends in this country have been telling us all along that the rebellion is on its last legs and that at worst it is only a small affair. Every one knows that the finan- cial difficulties in Cuba are the result of the insurrection, If, then, gold continues to go up higher and higher what other inference can be dinwn than that the rebellion grows more quest of Khiva—secured a victorious peace | the Duke of Edinburgh to the Russian | formidable and that the cost of the war is enormons? Spaniards, as a matter of course, put the best face on the damaging fact and The premium on gold at Havana is 115 to PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Count de Biron, of Paris, is at the Brevoort House, Mayor Charles N. Otis, of Auburn, N, Y., is at the 8t. Nicholas fotel, Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, is staying at the Hoffman House. General James a, Cunningham, of Boston, Tegistered at the Windsor Hotel. ExGovernor A, J. Hamilton, of Texas, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge Benjamin RK. Cartis, of Boston, 1s tem porarily residing at the Breyoort House. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is residing at the Grand National Hotel, in Jacksoaville, Fis. Rochefort is in good health, and the climate of | pathy of all men in their battle for the faith Vee ene See ee eee | Se ee Pe eee 4 Maa] | Ashantec. The fruits of the Abyssinian cam- | the opportunity to praise her troops Roase were nothing, because England aban- | for their courage and endurance. The | doned that well meaning people to become the | Indian famine calls forth from Her Majesty | Prey of internecine strife and clan warfare. | expressions of sorrow, and the public are | If she bad simply kept up a protectorate assured that nothing will be left undone that | over the Switzerland of Africa, and had | oan be done to mitigate the terrible calamity. made an effort i establish a healthy commerce | The estimates are to be submitted to the House along the Red Sea and with India, Abyssinia | of Commons at once ; but no hint is given as would not be found, as it is now, the same | to the financial policy which the new govern- | Parliament is to be | country it was eight centuries ago. The same | ment intends to pursne. truth applies to Ashantee. The mere teaching | asked to consider certain measures which will of a lesson is of no value if the natives are to | haye for their object the more easy transfer of be permitted to relapse into a condition of | Jand, As reform in this direction will touch | ignorance and cruelty, which will be even | closely on the law of entail it may reasonably more unwholesome after the British shall have | he doubted whether any radical improvement taken away ail the gold remaining in the kingdom. Within a few years European Powers have thus waged and closed three wars against bar- barous peoples thathad placed themselves in the way of commercial enterprises and have been borne down and cleared from the path as obstructions. It is a strange sign of the times thus to find England and Russia arrayed as the champions of commerce. It is, above all the war activities of Europe, a pre-eminently | good sign. England in her centuries of impenetrable toryism waged only dynastic or aristocratic wars. Marlborough carried ‘‘the meteor fag of England’ across Europe, | | servative government. The act bearing on the | relationship between master and servant, and | nected with trade, are to be reconsidered ; but | no legislation is to be attempted on these sub- | jects until the royal commission which Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint shall have reported. A bill is to be introduced | the sale of intoxicating liquors. This is a sop for the beer sellers, who proved stanch | friends of Mr. Disraeli during the late elec- | tion. Such are the outlines of the Queen’s wasting the blood and treasure of the nation | speech. It is quite manifest that Mr. Disraeli for a cause in which the British people had | has no intention to make any serious attempt not and could not have the slightest con- | at radical reform. England demands rest, cern; and after a Titanic struggle Wel | andthe Prime Minister, so far as the royal lington conquered at Waterloo, only to | address reveals his purpose, seems willing retard a very little the spreading | enough to yield to the national will. Replies to England from France of the liberal move- | to the address were voted by both houses, ment destined to weaken the domination of although not without some slight opposition. | the great lords. In our own day England res- | Mr, Gladstone can hardly fail to be envious of | | olutely withholds her hand from thus fighting | the comparatively easy chair in which his the battles dynastic and aristocratic of all Europe, and addresses herself to the wiser activity of fighting for civilization against bar- barism and to clearing away the cumberers of | enue Service. the ground that stand to obstruct the advance | ‘Tho resolution reported back to the House of commerce and the social progress and | yesterday from the Civil Service Committee, amelioration that go with it. In this activity | providing for the codification of the laws re- she must have the sympathy of every enlight- | lating to the customs revenue service, is ened nation of the time as unqualifiedly as worthy of speedy passage by both branches of the Crusaders in their time had the sym-| Congress, The laws relating to customs duties and the provisions regulating the rev- enue service generally are scattered through so many statutes that the officers, even where they are honestly disposed to do their duty, are at a loss to know what their duty is. With merchants and importers the difficulties are even greater. It is not to be expected that either merchants or Custom House officials shall be able to construe statutes passed at different times and often contradictory. What is needed is a wise and comprehensive revenue law, by which all previous statutes as separate enactments shall be blotted out, the new act providing all the regulations necessary for the administration of the revenue service. The old statutes should be retained as part of the new law wherever they are not in conflict with justice or with themselves, and are not cumbrous and unnecessary ; but codification and reorganization have become important, and we hope Mr. Woodford’s bill will pass. Voicanic Arremprs.—Our latest news from | great rival now finds himself seated. Reorganization of the Customs Rev- of Christendom against the denial of the Moslem. On the Way to Canossa. Some time since Bismarck announced, with his customary absoluteness, that he ‘would not go to Canossa,’’ meaning that in his war with the religion of fourteen millions of the Emperor's subjects he would never yield; but if our correspondent, who presents the latest | aspects of Prussian politics, is correctly in- formed, the Prince is already somewhat shaken in his purpose. It isa hard thing to fight a | whole people, and this is practically the un- dertaking in which Bismarck suddenly finds | himself involved. Opposition to the arrogance | of the central authority in Berlin is, of course, | only a question of opportunity, and the oppo- sition has already given its first blow in the deieat of the military bill. All the Church elements will, of course, rally to the support of the opposition. With the Church, the lib- eral thought of the country, the natural resist- is to be looked for at the hands of a con- | | the act of 1871, which deals with offences con- | | having for its object the removal of certain | objectionable features of the laws regulating | | gain for the r | merchant as it is white man spread in all | ance of the taxpayers and the conservative hostility of the Junkers all combined against him, the Prince would be overmatched, though he were forty times Bismarck, unless he could | persuade the Emperor to lay aside all pretence to any but military authority. That he cannot do, and therefore it would not be surprising to find Bismarck, as our correspondent hints, tempering his open tury against the Church in Germany and endeavoring to mancuvre for an ally against the Pope in making a bar- storation of the imperial dy- pasty imFrance. —The Moreries. Importers and Grocers’ | ment of the expedition, ltd the van in splendid Board of Trade yesterday received from a committee of its members a report on the “moiety’’ agitation, presenting views not dis- similar to those attributed te Mr. Claflin. They say it “is as much the interest of the of the government that frauds be detected and punished,’ and they say this while deprecating the harshness with which penalties are inflicted in the interests of informers. They regard the present outery as tending to produce a repeal of laws on which the honest trader must depend for his success against others who would be | the seat of the first endeavor of the volcanic forces to thrust themselves through the crust | | | | ot one of the “Old Thirteen” lcaves it in the condition previously reported. Our cor- respondent appears on the scene, endeavoring to secure a guide, but resolved to go it alone | if he cannot find one. Should we, alas! never hear of him again, we shall suppose he has | put his foot in it, and shall write him down, or up, as auother Empedocles. He tells us how the volcano was first discovered by an | old fellow in the mountains engaged in mak- ing whiskey, who thoughtit was only thunder, till it split a boulder of thirty tons weight. | This we regard as no evidence, for a boulder of that size could easily be split by the North Carolina whiskey, and the introduction of a voleano to account for an effect within the capacity of a more familiar agent is a violation | of literary art :— Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus in- ciderit. Ly tux Frenca AssemBiy on Wednesday a debate of more than ordinary importance in these dull times resulted in a complete vic- tory for the conservatives. A resolution offered by the Leit censuring the government able to sell cheaper in the same imarket | mayors of cities was defeated by a majority if insufficient penalties enabled them to | violate the revenue laws with impunity. | cently pa: | Judge Davis’ statement, made yesterday in | Washington, of his knowledge of the affnirs of | Phelps, Dodge & C | important points—tir | authorities, of whom Jayne was the leader, results of a trial, and pr terms to get the ecipitately seized any subject ont of sight. seems | Hoarse Honses.—I safe conclu- | sion from the facts included in our report | that the present affliction of the horse isa severe cold with fever, such as troubles hu- wanity frequently at this season of the year. No doubt the occarrence of | among animals in this city is dne to the large -, Indicates plainly two | means to cxercise. these diseases | The constitutional laws re- by the Assembly gave the gov- ute the mayors. | of sixty-two. ernment the power to womi sare naturally indig. The late vote shows that the Left is powerless, and that the principle of centrali- zation is dominant in the Assembly. Such a state of things is not encouraging to thos who hope for the continuance and final tri- umph of the Republic. Twrep Remarns.- Brady yesterday denied the motions of Tweed’s counsel, by which it was songht first to change his place of imprisonment to Ludlow street, and next to | mber of car horses kept. These ani " number of car horses kept. These animals | st irovinte his term by tivo years. On the first brought in from the country, worked in all | ‘ ‘ 46 Be dian deeeMiclentiy: cared top anh heubind motion it was ergued by counsel that a sen- er y cared for and kept to- | tence to the County Jail did not mean te the gether in extensive stables suffer from a | i lowered vital tone ch makes them subject Penitentiary on tho Island, and that the parts to skyey ifinences that otherwise they would | hd Ratt eda es (SR Id eat rsh mentary years were of no effect, because they hoa ii ace | specified no place of imprisonment. For this | 2 Peptic Barus.—'The success of the | last point the Judge heid that the paris of the public baths elready established in this city | sentence were to be taken together, and that the is in itself a sufficient argument in favor of | naming the prison in one place was sufficient, the bill now before the Senate at Albany for |‘and that the prison as described in the sen- youth who had shown a mysterious “tendency | the establishment of additional bathing facil- | tence was the prison in which the culprit is | ities fox the people of the metropolis, | held. for its action in the matier of nominating the | This power the government is exercising and | To the granting of the | that the Treasury | government this power the members of the | Left were from the first opposed. Now that the | mancouvred to secure from Phelps, Dodge & H government, without any regard to the popu- Co. @ compromise, and were eager to have | lar will, is setting up its own candidates, the | that in preference to a trial; second, that | more extreme republica | Phelps, Dodge & Co. were apprehensive of the nant. | refer to the condition of our finances and cur- rency af; the most critical period ot the civil war in this country. They say, for example, that tha premium on gold here rose at one time to near 200 per cent, and that it has never reached with them over 120. . Gold did not remain long at that rate with us, though there is no comparison in the relative magnitude of the struggle. ‘Then the exports pf valuable products from Cuba, though con- siderably seduced, have continued and’ have exceeded the imports. Our commerce was alweys nenrly balanced between exports and imports before the war, and when cotton, the largest yroduct of export, was cut off, the drain anc! insufficiency of specie were seri- ously felt, While gold has remained at a pre- mium it did not continue long very high. There always was confidence in the currency, if not in an early resumption of specie pay- ments, because the currency was based upon the credit of the government. The green- backs weste government promises to pay and the national bank notes were secured by gov- ernment bonds. Itis not so with the cur- rency in Cuba. Neither the Spanish nor colo- nial govexnment is bound to pay or redeem the notes-of the Bank of Havana. The gov- ernment authorizes the issue, it is true, but the bank alone, which is a private corporation, is responsible. The paid-up capital of the Bank of Havana is not more, we believe, than five millions of dollars. Its circulating notes haye been run up from ten millions or so to little short, if any, of a hundred millions. The government, as was said, is not bound for these notes, nor are they issued in its name, though it may be indebted to the bank. Can we wonder, then, that the premium on | gold cotinues to advance? There has been a sudden rise, ‘lately, and it is said that it was | caused by the fact of the extraordinary issues | of the bemk leaking out. If even the insurrec- tion could be suppressed we do not see how the Bank of Havana could take up the enor- mous a:nount of its notes or pay its indebted- ness. ‘Ihe Spanish government is not ina | situation to help the bank, nor is it likely that government would assume the obligations of | the bank under any circumstances. But as | there is: little or no prospect of the insurrec- | tion being suppressed gold must continue to | rise. -As a consequence bankruptcy appears | to be jinevitable. Correspondingly with the | augmented strength and increased activity of the Cu ban patriots the means and resources of the Spaniards are declining. If, therefore, the Cubans can prolong the war—of which there seems to be little doubt—the financial diffictitties of their enemies will serve them as much as powder and arms. Another Police Outrage If the people wonder why it is that the police of this city proves its efficiency principally by killing or clubbing unoffend- ing people and conniving at the escape of cciminals they need only read our report of the inquiry of the Board of Educs- tion and see what sort of men are captains on tae force. That explains the whole subject. The Board of Education is doing an excellent service to the city in its endeavors against houses of a peculiar class in the Eighth ward, aud should receive every possible assistance frara the police ; yeta captain of the polico | appears before it boldly as the ally and friend , of the keepers of disreputable houses, and answers or refuses to answer, with arrogant | impudence, every question by which the mem- | bers of the Board endeavor to obtain the | information he alone can give. It is a scandal | and a public disgrace that such a man should | be on the police in any capacity, and incredi- | ble that he should be a captain. It will be observed that this captain was ‘‘ordered” to appear before the Board ef Education and | give all the necessary information, the order | being conveyed by a letter signed by the Clerk | of the Police Commission. This order was | defied by him as a thing with which he had nothing to do; and, instead of giving the | New Caledonta perfectly suits his constitution, Right Rev. F, T. Hendricken, Roman Catholie Bishop of Providence, yesterday arrived at the Grand Central Hotel. The Governor of the Isie de Saint Marguerite, having treated Marsha! Bazaine with unnecessary rigor, has been dismissed. M. Bernhard Westenberg, Minister of the Nether lands at Washington, with his bride, arrived yess terday at the Hotel Brunswick, Herr Erwin Stammann, Minister of the German Empire to Venezuela, yesterday arrived from Washington, at the Albemarle Hotel. Mr. Gladstone has, it is said, written to Max Muller, telling him that he intends to devote his future time to philological researches, M, Bertholdi, the new Minister from France to Washington, sailed from Brest for this port on the 15th inst. on the steamship Amerique. Sir Robert Hodgson has accepted the Governor. ship of Prince. Edward Island. He is a native of the island, nas for many years been Chief Justice, and is universally respected by the islanders an@ by all who know him. Marshal Bazaine’s family are with him at his prison. Mme. Bazaive is treated like her husband in one respect, not being allowed the free range of the island, but being confined in her exercise to the terrace tronting the Marshal's prison. Alexanaer H. Stephens has ordered the discon- tinuance of the suit instituted in his name by Robert Toombs, of Georgia, against the Atlanta and Western Railroad, to recover $1,000,000, The ace tion was commenced in Mr. Stephens’ name with- out his knowledge or consent. Pere Hyacinthe and the U!d Catholic Bishop Reinkens, of Germany, are at variance, Pre Loy. son repudiates the latter's jurisdiction, and the Bishop’s official organ replies that the prelate has never claimed a connection with him sluce his marriage threw light upon his revolt trom Roman Catholicism, ‘The King of Burmah bas been disgusted by the French Embassy to his Court. Upon presentation to him the Frenchmen wished to keep their boots on; but finally, with bad grace, removed them, ‘They were determined, however, to retain their hats. The august Lord of the White Umbrella, seeing them thus covered, leit their presence buffed, but with Burmese dignity, Don Emilio Garcia Tribiio, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Island of Cuba, arrived here yesterday on the steamship Colum bus, and is now at the New York Hotel, He will remain in this city a sufficient time to visit our public institutions, and then will visit Wash: ington to interview Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister. He is en route to Spain, While in court, during the tedious trial, the Tichborne claimant used to amuse himself by drawing caricatures of the judges, jurymen, court officers, or oj such spectators as struck his fancy, ‘These were bad as drawings, and, being done with crayons, were remarkable for their coloring. They were eagerly sought for, however, aud will be treasured in many familles as memorials of the obese adventurer. When Mr. Robert Lowe took the office of Home Secretary in Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet he was de termined not to allow apy sentimental ity to interfere with the punishment of murderers. He therefore proposed the fok lowmg form:—‘Gentlemen—Having carefully considered tne points raised in your memorial on behalf of , now lying under sentence of deata at jail, regret to inform you that I see no reason to interfere with the ordinary course of law.” In all cases he made use of this form of reply. PROFESSOR PROOTOR’S LEOTURES. PHILADELPHIA, March, 19, 1874, To THE EDITOR oF THE HERALD:— Permit me, while thanking you for your kind ree marks in to-day’s HERALD, to correct a slight mise apprehension. Ishali bave given, not 73, but 109 lectures during my stay in America (if nothing unforseen happens during the next three weeks). 1 have already given 83. It has been, however, only since my opening lecture in New York op January 8 that the pressure of engagements haa compelled me to claim the indulgence of corre- spondents. I leave to another opportunity the expression of my sense of the singular kindness which | bave experienced Guring my visit to this country. Yours, respectfully, RICHARD A. PROCTOR, NAVAL INTELLIGENOE, Affairs at the Gosport Navy Yarde Workmen on Half Time—Arrival and Repairing of the Shawm Portsmourn, Va., March 19, 1874. The third rate steamer Shawiaut, which arrived at tie Navy Yard yesterday from Wastington, went into the dry dock ths morning for the pur- pose of cleaning and repairs, A considerable foree of workmeu Were at once put on her, consisting of carpenters, machinists, sailmakers, and riggers, and orders were issued to have her ready for sea by Saturday night, so that she can proceed on her voyage to Key West. A supply of seventy-five tona | | | | | of coal was also ordered to be placed on board. The following are the officers of the Shawmut:— information, he assumes the réle of the ; Commander H. 1. Howison, Commanding; Liew @efender and advocate of the keepers of the | aie OCH eae sap atotare! | # | Iaeutenant William A. Morgan, Navigator; as- di! Saeed | ters, Jobn Garain, A. R, Osborn and W, E. b. Delte | aw Canau ConstrroricnaL AMENDMENT, as proposed to article seven, passed the As- | sernbly yesterday. It was made the special | | order in the morning and was read through. It provides that extra compensation shall not | be made to contractors, except for good cause, and that the Legislature shill not sell or lease the Erie, Champlain cr Gyuga and Seneca | Canal. There is a provision also for sinking | funds to pay the canal dbt and means for repairs. We do not knov what is meant ex- actly by uot allowing extra compensation to cantractors except for gooe cause. Holding a | tight rem upon the contradors is right enough | and necessary, but this exception for good | cause seems to leave a bophole for fraud. Let as hope now the catals will be putin good order and be managed honestly, so that greater facilities may be giten for transporting the produce of the West tothis city. m™ festerday in the | House of Representatives the Legislative Ap- pxopriation bill was take: up and discusse: in Committee of the W: An amend- ment offered by Mr. Herfrd to reduce the appropriations for the salarbs of the clerks of | | Key West. | ordered as executive ofiice: | tenant Commanaer hay; Ensign, Jacob Hunker; Past Assistant Sur- geon, D. C. Burleigh; Past Assistaut Paymaster, Joseph Foster; First Engineer, J, Van Havenber; Pay Clerk, Francis Malony; Captain’s Clerk, Gur. ney St. Clair smith. Chief kngineer Willian B. Brooks, who has been | ordered to the Franklin as fleet engineer of the European squadron, ieft to-night to join his ship at Naval Constructor John W. Easby, who has just completed a two months’ tonr of inspection of the ships and stations trom New Orleans to Boston, returns to his duties at Gosport Navy Yard to-morrow. A scaffold around the Shawmut fell to-day and precipitated six workmen to the bottom of the ‘Two were dangerously hurt and the ightly. Afall in the dock is almost sure ‘To-day there were 514 men on the Navy The yard looks death. Yard roll; ail are on hal! time. comparatively deserted, The Powhatan at Havana. HAVANA, March 19, 1874 United States ship of war Powhatan has arrived here, Naval Orders. WASHINGTON, March 19, 1874 Captain S, R. Franklin is detached from the command of the Wabash and ordered to command the Franklin; Captain Edward Simpson ts detached from the command of the Franklin and ordered te command the Wabash; Lieutenant Commander T. J. Higginson is detached from the Franklin and r of the Dic! jeu Day, from the Congress and ordered as executive officer ol the shenan- doan; lieutenant Commander i. B. Robeson, fromthe Dictacor and ordered to return home} Lieutenants Henry ©. Hunter and EB. P. Wood, from the Congress and ordered to the Colorado} committees was rejected, to the great gratifi- | Lieutenants ye rae : fe “ HL. Dayton, a iy - an a ranklin and orde: o the | tor; Liew cation of those gentlemen ‘The pay of the | phe ACH. W. l.yop, from the Frankiin nnd ordered ice of the Capitol ws reduced. In} tothe Colorado, sale the Senate the disassion of the | SUICIDE OF A NAVAL OFFICER, fiiancial question was ostponed, with SAN FRANCISCO, Mareh 19, 1874. the consent of Senator Shernan. The Army During the voyage of the steamer Great Repub+ Atpropriati vf 7 3 stage. | lic from lHiong to Yokohama Second Lieuten- Spry ereu or! Sub ree aganced a stage | oe Hrederick of the United states Marine Phat portion of it which refes to the South- | corps, committed suicile by jumping overboatis ean claims led to some warmdiscussion. An | The cause of the act is not known. He was at amendment was mtroduced ly Senator Steven- son, of Kentucky, providiry for the entire »bolition of the Southern Clims Commission, but no conclusion was cone to, In what shape this bill will finally jass it is as vet _ difficult to say, tached to the fr e Hartiord, DEATH IN THE sUBE, CAPE May, N. J., Mareh 19, 1874. Robert FE. L. Patton, of Philadelphia, came here from Philadelphia to-day, ran from the train te | the breakers, plunged in and drowned himself. ‘He leit @ note in his hat saying he was tired of life,