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CUBA. A Proclamation to the People of the Cinco Villas District. Valmaseda Acknowledges the Sore Straits of the Spaniards, ———+. Executive Advice tothe Loyalists— What the Rebels Reply. Havana, March 28, 1875, The Diarto de la Marina punishes a proclama- Vion by the Captain General addressed to the People of the Cinco Villas district, SPANISH EXECUTIVE REVIZW OF THE SITUATION. Valmaseda says:—‘The insurrection ts of tne game character now as in the beginning—a fight between civilization and barbarism, ‘The insur- gents in less than two months have completely de- stroyed forty plantations and burned several ranches and settlements. THE DANGER OF ANNIMILATION—THE PLAN OF CURE, “They rod you, destroy your houses and leave your lamilies homeless, Society is threatened, And it is the duty of all to save it; soms with their Wealth, others by advising the troops of the where- abouts of the enemy, or by furnishing such ald as they can to the government. Even the ladies can help with bandages and lint for the wounded. “4 SUPREME EFFORT"? NEEDED. “Let all unite in one supreme effort to end the svil which threatens all, and socicty will soon see Its troubles diminish and rebeilion will again re- treat to its rugged mountains, where pursuit and bunger will soon finish it. A CALL TO REPENTANCE. “Rebels who repent can attll obtain pardon. “Those who remain obstinate in their criminal sarcer will be surprised by death, sooner or later. “Loyal men and rebels have had opportunities heretofore to know my system of command in Cuba. Its purpose ever was to protect the good and untiringly pursue the bad. “This policy will be continued so long as I govern this island in the name of the King,” REVEL REPLIES TO TB ROYALTY, An oficial report states that the insurgents appeared at Las Lajas on Wednesday lass. They were immediately pursued by five Spantsh columns and compelled to retreat to the Caridad Rodriguez plantation, where several were killed. On Yhursday they were again encountered at the Delgador rancho, and Jost tive killed. The damage done by this raid was limited to three or four plantations, where no resisiance was Offered. EASTBR HOLIDAYS. The nolidays have been observed Havana, and passed off quietly. SPAIN. usual In PROVINCIAL IMPOVERISHMENT BY THE CARLIST LEVIES—THE CABRERA SECESSION MOVEMENT PROGRESSING RAPIDLY FOR ALYONSO—WHAT THE FRIENDS OF THE PRETENDER SAY. LONDON, March 28, 1875, It is reported from Estella that deputies from the four provinces occupiea by the Carlists have met to consider the request of Don Carlos for con- tributions, and have replied that “the country ts exhausted, fresh sacrifices are impossible, and that Don Carlos ought to procure funds abroad,” This they obstinately maintained, notwithstand- lpg Don Carlos threatened to retire from Spain. CARLISTS FRATERNIZING WITH THE ALFONSISTS. There have been additional instances of the Jraternization of the Carlist and government troops oa the banks of the Orla. In one of the Cariist camps placards headed ‘Viva peace, the fueros and General Cabrera,” have been posted, The Spanish government annonnces that six Carlist generais, three colonels, and many other piticers have entered France and declared their adhesion to King Alfonso. (HE PRETENDER'S PENALTIES AGAINST CABRERA SECESSIONISTS. Despatches from Madrid report that Don Carlos has ordered persons found reading Cabrera’s manilesto to be shot, WIIAT 18 SAID AT SANTANDER. A telegram from Santander asserts, on the other hand, that the hops of settling the war by a con- vention is fast dying out. General Loma is expected there to meet a threat- ened invasion of the province, Don Carlos, with sixteen battalions and artile lery, 18 marching on Ramales, twenty-five miles trom Santander, A SPANISH INDEMNITY PAID TO GERMANY. LONDON, March 28, 1875. Spain has paid to Germany 11,000 thalers of the indemnity for the Gustav ontrage. FRANCE. —_ + _—__. ENGLISH BETTING HOUSES ‘‘PULLED” PARIS POLICE, Panis, March 28, 1875, The police to-day made a descent on all the Eng- lish betting offices and seized the books and cash found on the premises, GERMANY. ee & CATHOLIC CHURCH COUNCIL ABOUT TO ASSEx- BLE AT FULDA. BERLIN, March 28, 1875, The Roman Catholic bishops of Prussia are to hold a conserence at Fulda next Tuesday, BISMARCK. BY THE LONDON, March 29—5:30 A, M. The Cologne Gazette says there 1s no truth in the report that Prince Bismarck is to be made Duke of Lauenburg. LONDON, March 29, 1875, A special despatch to the 7imes from Trieste says that great preparations are being made for the inauguration of the monument in memory of Maximilian, the late Emperor of Mexico, The ceremeny wiil take piace early in April. All the companions of. the Emperorin Mexico have been invited to attend, THE AMERICAN CENTENNIAL. QTAIIAN EXHIBITORS TO RECEIVE A PARTIAL Al FROM THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT. ROME, March 23, 1875, LOpintone says the government has decided to give assistance, within certain limits, to Italtan exhibitors in the United States Centenniat Ex- position; but it proposes to appeal mainly to in- dividnal effort, and will recommend that only Buch articles be sent as are of exceptional merit and great commercial importance. A VICTORY FOR Cas THE WORKINGMEN OF SCHUYLEIL HAVEN RENOUNCE ALLEGIANCR TO THEIR TRADE ASSOCIATION AND RESUME WORK. POTTSVILLE, Pa, March Information has jy ed here that all the émployés of the Pailadelphia and Reading Railroad Company belonging to the Schuylkill Haven Branch of the Miners and Workingmen’s Benevolent As#o- ciation have renounced their allegiance to the Order and will resuine Work for tne railroad come ny to-morrow. It now comes to the suriace President of that Order, & cordwatner by tr uso been & prominent ofictal in tne Order oi rangers, whieh he has assumed with a VIEW to assist farmers in obtaining the best terms Jor prod ol the Miner o¢, While his position as President i Workingmen’s Benevolent As- yclation would compel lili to use every endeavor > obtain produce at the lowest possibie price. he principles Of Lue two Ofices thus directly con flict with each other, VENEZUELA. THE CUSTOM HOUSE AT MARACATBO CLOSED BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT. (HERALD SPECIAL DESPATCH BY CABLE FROM ST. THOMAS. | Sr. Tuomas, W. L, March 28, 1875. j Via Havana. Special Hzraup advices from Venezuela, received at this port, supply the following intelligence: —President A, Guzman Blanco, ot this Republic, has closed the Custom House at Maracaibo and transferred the business of Cabello, CHINA AND JAPAN. SUCCESSFUL FINANCIERING BY THE VICEROY OF CANTON—THE SPANISH-CUBA COOLIE TRAFFIC CONDEMNED BY A COMMISSION—THE YOUNG “@ROTHER OF THE SUN” IN GREAT SORROW— THE OSAKA CONFERENCE TERMINATED. San Francisco, March 28, 187! The steamer Vasco de Gama brings the following news:— CHINA. Hone Kona, Feb. 27, and SHANGHAE, Feb, 28, 1875. The Viceroy of Canton’s proposed foreign loan has been taken in hand by the central govern- Ment and just negotiated at Shanghae with the Oriental Banking Corporation, wiich has ad- vanced 2,000,000 taels. It 1s @ private transaction, and no bonds have been issued, THE DEAD OF THE STEAMSHIP JAPAN. Many dead bodies of Chinese have been taken from the wreck of the Pacifico Mall steamship Japan, a'l of which were kept under water by money fastened about them, THE CUBA COOLIF TRAFFIC CONDEMNED. » The report of the Chinese Commissioners sen’ to Cuba to examine into the condition of the coolies has been completed. It 1s strongly adverse to the system pursued and to the Cuban authorities, THE TELEGRAPH. Work on the Fou Choo teicgraph line continues suspenued, RUMORS FROM THE CAPITAL. There have been continued rumours from Pekin pointing to public disturbances, but nothing au- thentic to show any likelihood of an imerruption of the arrangement in regard to State affairs. 1¢ is generally agreed upon by the hignest authori- tles. PRINCE KUNG’S POSITION AT CouRT. Prince Chun, father of the new Emperor, has resigned bis position as Commander of the Tartar garrison at Pekin. It has been Jound expedient to rendmit Prince Kung to at least a part of the official power tormerly held oy him, lis experience in ioreizn affairs being especially required ac this time. A MONARCI IN NEED OF CONSOLATION. The infant Emperor is said to be extremely wretched in bis new exaltation, which separates nium from his companions and parents. iorever. Proclamations have already been issued as pro- ceecing from him, itis announced that he will continue in mourning for three years, JAPAN. THE OSAKA CONFERENCE TERMINATED, YoxkouaMa, March 8, 1875, The Osaka Conference has terminated, and tne Participants have returned to their usual places of residence. These meetings are understood to have been organized by the influence of Ukubo Josimiti Satsuma, the Secretary of the Interior, recently distinguished for naving conducted the negotiations on the subject of For- mosa, at Pekin. The purpose 18 solely to reconcile differences between leading public men, former oMctals, and others, with the view to bringing back into the direct service of the country certain able men who had been tem- porarily estranged. A:most every leading mem- ber of the government was present ai some time during tne gatneriog. Macn curiosity emong both natives and loreigners, and the British Minister went so tar as to strenously insist on a jull and .detavied explanation, which it was not possiole to give. THE RESULT of the conference is a partial accomplishment of thedesired end. Some of the importan’ abv- afew of those lately out of office have been re- ceived personaily by the Mikado, which fact points to theit early resumption duties, Chand in the heads of depart- ments are doubtiess impending, bur to what | extent the Gsaka debates will produce gevern- ment retorms cannot be known. It is universally admitted that the aaministration needs strength | ening. ROYAL VISIT TO THE NAVY YARD, The Mkaao visited the governmént navy yard at y Arch 6 to witness the launch of the man-ol-war constructed on foreiwn principles. A general celebration was held in the vicinity. The Seiki 13 a gunboat 197 feet long, 40 feet beam, 16 feet depth of hold ard £40 tons dise placement. She carries three Krupp gurs—one a swivel of six inches caltbre—and ler eugines are Of 700-horse power. cHaRity, A hospital college has been established at Osaka. for the instruction of women, and alter a certain period no female physician 18 to be allowed to practise who cannot show a certificate of attend- ance THE FOREIGN TROOPS MANCIL AWAY. The English and }rench troops leit Japan on the 2d of March, INDUSTRY AND COINAGE. The annual exhibition at Kioto opened March 1, A new silver coin, equivalent to the american trade dolias, 1s about to be issu d trom the mints, A “RING” SPECULATION EXPLODED. At the end of last year a plan was Adopted for the construction of new harbor works, docks, &c., in Yokohar The scheme was supported by the British Mints+ ter and was on the point of being executed, when at the last moment Investication showed that the Works proposed would result in no public benefit, but were a private speculation for the benefit of individul foreigners, ‘The orders were countermanded and the chief 2 Japanese service. THE MEXICAN EXCURSION. THE PROPOSED VISIT OF SENATORS AND THEIR FRIENDS TO OUR REPUBLICAN NEIGHEOR EN- TIRELY DEVOID OF POLITICAL, SIGNIFICANCE— COMPOSITION OF THE PARTY. WASHINGTON, March 28, 1875. Personal affair, and the State Department has assured the Mexican Minister that it has no political significance whatever, either immediate orremote. It was projected months ago, and as the United States steamer Despatch Is tn commis- sion and was to proceed South this spring, the Secretary cf the Navy, as a matter of courte the Committee of Foreign Relations and projector of this excursion, the accommodations of that ves- sel from New Orleans to Vera Cruz. The entire party Wii number twenty ladies and gentieman, Way: MeVeigh, of Penns: Poor Tom Scott, Ben Pere: and ex-Governor J, E. Brown, of Georgia, among the civiltans fnvited. ‘Most of the party leave here to-morrow morning, in palace rs, for New Orleans, where ali who’ are going | take the United States steamer Despatch and proceed to Vera Cruz and thence to the city of eXxico, Tom Scott says that the trip bas no business significance; that he was invited months aso and did not think he could spare the time, but goes beaause he believes tt will he recreation and agreeable to his fe, Who accompanies iim. Minister Foster is from Indiana, and he has urged Senator Morton to ‘come on acconnt of his health, The Mexican Mints- ter has given Senator Cameron o number of personal letters of introduction to the prominent oMicials and citizens tn lis country, and wishes more Americans would visit: Mexico, believing that it woud remove prejudice and estabi sit more friendly relations. THe has no doubt tne party will be hospitavly welcomed and vained during their siay among his countrymen, The report that the Senat Amer) the soldiers of the Mexican war are Interred, has no foundation im fact, Colonel Mack, of the War Department, 1s Officially assigned to the charge of all soldiors? cemeteries, and has made several trips to Mexico, to see that the grounds are kept in good order. secretary Bristow and whe were expected to accompany the party; bat aver the unfavorable criticisms In the press, he thought it best not to give hy is presence the slightest semblunce of a political character to the excursion. NAVAL INTELLIGENC THE SWATARA AT HOBART TOWN. Hopant Town, VAN D: 'S LAND, Feb. 9,1 The United States steamer Swatara, Cap’ Chandler, arrived on January 30 from Cha Islands and Blut Harbor. She will sail again next week, All on board are well, the collection of duties for that port to Porto | sentees have already returned 10 the capital and | English agent in the project was dropped irom the | ‘The Senatorial excursion to Mexico is entirely a | | | | | { | | | ol | tendered Senator Cameron, who is Chairman of | enter: | Ors are to Inspect the | | on the coors of the Ashiand NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. WASHINGTON FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. WASHINGTON, March 28, 1875. LOUISIANA’S INCREASING BURDENS—CIRCUIT JUDGE WOOD NOT PERMITTED BY Law TEMPORARILY FILL THE VACANT DISTRICT BENCH—THE PRESIDENT AND THE ‘COURTESY OF THE SENATE,” It would seem as if the very genius of evil has orawn a charmed circle about Louisiana, to pre- vent those of good will from doing anything to even partially relieve the State of its troubles, As ithad been decided the President had no right 10 fill the vacancy of District Juage in that State dur- ing the recess of Congress, the next hope was that Judge Wood, the Circuit Judge, could under exist+ ing laws designate and appoint another District Judge in his Circuit to fuifll the duties of tie omee; but it is now contended, also decided by the Attorney General, that section 581 of the Revised Statutes does not confer that authority, as the law is based the jact that the oMlce is already filled and the Judge 13 prevented by disability trom holding avy stated or appointed term of his District Court. The next section, 592, contemplates the presence of @ judge unable to attend to the accumulation or urgency of business, So 1t would appear that most important interests and cases are to be post- Poned until the meeting of Congress in December next, The President says he was most deeply im- Pressed with the importance of selecting a man as Durell’s successor who was Atted for the office, but one who would re- trieve the honor of the district and command the confidence and respect of all classes in Louisiana, The same stories repeated in executive sessions | ofthe Senate were brourht to his notice while the nomination of Pardee was pending, and he personally investizated all 6f them to ascertain 1f he should withdraw the nomination. The more he investigated them the more firm he became in his conviction that Mr, Pardee was worthy of the Position, and that the storles were maliciously circulated toinjure him. It appeared some what remarkable to bim that the Senator from that | State should display so much zeal for the purity of the ermine of the United States District Judge of Louisiana, but had failed to discover the unfit. | hess of the nominee for the office of State Judge, | to which position he had ben twice elected. “It 1s not surprising, then,” said a prominent oficial, “that the President should have resisted such Senatorial tyranny, and leit to those who are will- ing to take it the obloquy of fastening greater financial burdens on the people of Loulsiana,”” COMMUNICATION WITH MEXICO ON THE BORDER TROUBLES—AMERICANS AND EX-CONYEDERATE SOLDIERS ENGAGED IN BRIGANDAGE—EN- FORCED STOICISM AS A POLICY. As Secretary Fisnis absent it is impossible to anticipate what measures will be taken to pro- | tect the Texan frontier from further incursions of the outlaws and banditti infesting both sides of the Brazos, The frequency of these raids has been the subject of extensive diplomatic cor- respondence between the State Department and the Mexican government. A few weeks atter Postmaster General Jewell entered upon his du- tles he had occasion to oMicially call attention to interference by Mexicans wita our mail service, and asked what could be done to prevent a recur- rence of these treubies, The Secretary of State informed him that the Mexican government coin plained of depredations committed on its soil by Americans, accompanied with such evidence as to make the charge appear reasonable. impression that lawless men of both countries were engaged in these predatory ratds. The Mex- ican government was anxious to give the needed protection, but as often as troops were sent to the locality infested the bandittt would have fled, and 1U was as impossible for that government asit was for our Own to protect so longea stretch of fron- tier with the few troops at the disposal of the commanders on either side of the river. It was a diMcult question and one in which the corre- spondence seemed to show that Mexico had as much right to complain of our dereliction as we had to accuse the Mexican governinent of permit- ting the outiaws to disturb the peace o! the people on the American sive, The Mexican , Minister, Sefor Mariscal, says that it is certain that the border troubles are as much the work of Americans as Mexicans, who ire- | quently raid upon the Texan settlers diszuised | as Indians and Mexicans, and, In discussing the remedy, he said that people who live in an Cident to that section, It was impossible for Mex- ico to keep a standing army along the border to prevent the raids from the Texas side. So, too, he did not see why the United States snould be put to tue enormous expense of keeping its border alive with cavalry, It was to be ceeply regretted that this was the condition of affairs, but both sides suffered allke, and it was the misfortune of those who choose to live in so exposed a region that they should be at the mercy of reckless out- | laws. itis sald that the more daring of the parties en- gaged in these frequent raids are ex-Contederate soldiers, who, ruined by the war and deprived of te support of slave labor, prefer the life they are leading to earning an honest livelieood. THE STOPPAGE OF THE FRENCH IMPORTATION OF HORSES FROM EAST PRUSSIA—A GENERAL ORDER OF THE EMPEROR'S COUNCIL AND ITS POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE, In the HERALD of the 15th inst. there was printed a short despatch from London announcing that a special from Berlin said:—A large con- signment of tiorses, purchased by French dealers | in East Prussia, was recently stopped in transitu at the Bertin depot.” Yesterday the State Depart- ment recetved from our Consul General at Beriin a despatch announcing that the Emperor’s Council had passed an ordinance forbidding the exporta- tion of horses irom any part oi the Empire, and to remain in force indefinitely. This oftictal intorma- tion, communicated to the Secretary of the Treas- ury by the State Department, bas been the subject of sericus consideration, not only in official but diplomatic circles, und the opinion expressed is that the rman government has reached the conclusion that tt may need for its artillery and cavalry force all the horses in that country, and that the order means something more than merely preventing French agents trom purchasing for the use of the forces of the Republic. The fact that such an order has been so recently promutgated leads those acquainted witn the situation in Europe to anticipate news of serious import. NATIONAL MEDALS TO BE STRUCK FOR MERI- TORIOUS BRAVERY IN SAVING LIFE AT SEA, Congress at its last session ordered that three classes o! gold medais should be immediately pro vided, the designs for wich have been approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the dics Will at once be made, under the direction of Dr. Linderman, Chief Director of the Mint. ‘he first design is for the medal to be presented to Cap- fain Jared Crandelt and others for savi lives of A number of the unfortunate pa: on the steamsht etis, The second design is for the life-saving medal of the frst class, to be pre- sented only to those who have shown extreme and heroic daring in saving the lives of otners at the risk of their own. The otner 1s a medal of the sec sea where there Is lesser danger than that which would merit a medal of the first class, SUSPENSION OF A SAVINGS BANK. THE MISFORTUNE CAUSED BY THE 1873. PorrsvILLE, Pa., March 28, 1875, The following notice of suspension was placed avings Bank yester- nd, in tis county :— nic of 1873 the limited resources of this bank have veen (axed to their utermost, ‘This resulted partly (rom the tasecurity naturaliy felt by depositor daring (he crisis, but was aggravated oy damaging ce. ponged pane troabies have wade it more Unable to reaiize trom our securities, ales, We LER, to suspen PANIC OF day, at Ashi ince th To | upon | not only | It was his | nd class, to be presented for saving life at | THE DANGER ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. POPULAR APPREHENSIONS OF DISASTER—THE | | WATER RISING—LOSSES OF PROPERTY IM- MINENT—PROBABLE FLOODING OF LOCKHAVEN. | LOCKHAVEN, Pa., March 28, 1875. The people of this section of the country are | turning their eyes appretiensively to the situation of the threatened valley of the West Branch of the | Susquehanna, between thts city and Northumber- | land, It is one of the most beautliul stretches of Mountain, river and lowland to be found apy- where in America, far out-rivalling in magnificence the more noted Valley of Wyoming, on the East Branch, which bas been so recently devastated by the inundation, The West Branch, rising in Clear- fleld county, sweeps with a great, but graceful northward curve through an extremely moun- | tainous region before it reaches the Bald Kagle | valley at Lockhaven, and rung thence nearly an eastward course until it bends sharply around the en1 of Bald Eagie Mountatn, and, ranning south- | ward, joins the North Branch at Northumberland, Along this historical valley are situated the hand- some and prosperous cities of Williamsport, Lock- Daven, Jersey Shore, Watsontown, Muncy, Mil- ton, Lewisburg, besides many populous and | thriving towns. | PREMONITIONS OF GREAT DANGER. | Between Glen Union and Whitham, just above | this city, an immense gorge has formed. It 13 ten | Mies long, and the ice is piled up twenty-five ieet. | Such a vast formation of ice has never been Known | | before in the West Branch. All the mountain | | streams are pouring forth great volumes of water, | | and this, combined with the melting of tne snow, | Must soon send a disastrous flood through the Susquehanna Valiey. At Glen Union and other | points many milion feet of logs are embedded in | the ice masses, which not only assist the inunda- tion to overwhelm the surrounding property,-but | will be carried away, causing a heavy loss. J. B. | | Gray, a prominent lumber dealer, states that at | | least $25,000 worth of lumber will be lost at Glen | Union, On Friday there was a warm rain in | | Clearfield county, which was followed yesterday | by @ thunder storm. By these storms ‘the flood | iM Increased SIX feet IN height in that section of country, | THE RIVER RISING, | The river has been siowly rising all day. The | citizens are apprebensive that the whole lower part of Lockhaven will be submerged, and the de- | Struction to property greater than during the | Memorable mundation of 1865, The village of Loyalsack, Which Was recently overflowed, 1s agin menaced, Above Mortonville the river is | | full of gorges, while all throug the mass are | thousands Of sawlogs. Tois immense jam ex- | tends as lar up as Spring Garden Mills, At Loyal- ck the bridge escaped wita but slight damage, but the valuable farms and roads have been Washed out, he loss 18 considerabie, It 1s Jeared that a second overfow will cause still greater disaster, FAVAL DESTRUCTION OF BRIDGES, | The rapidiy rising wud turbuleat waters have | occasioned destruction elsewhere. Tne costly | | bridges at Bech’s, near Hamburg, aud Thompson's | have been swept ‘ay, and it Is autventically re- | | Dorted that two men and a child were drowned, | They were upon one of the bridges when 1t was | destroyed, aud feil into the stream. | PREPARATIONS FOR THE DELUGE. | | The river is so rapidly rising at this point that | 1t1s expected that belore midnight the city will be | | overwhelwed. ‘fhe people residing along the | | river banks are preparing to remove their effects, | | Mayor J. W. Smith has just received a despatch | from Glen Union to the efect that the enormous ice blocks at that point are moving down tie Susquehanna, ana there is @ great mass of heavy | | logs. Consideravle damage nas occurred along | | the banks of the stream. As your correspondent | | writes cuis despatch numbers Of persons are going | | toward the Susquehanna to watch the progress of the breaking up of the ice, which 18 now ina | honeycombed and decaying condition, Anxiety is | depicted upon the countenance of every dweller | along the banks, ‘The proprietors of the iandsome | Falton House are busily engaged in moving their | property in the lower stories to more safe quar- | | ters. The teeling of insecurity gains strength mo- | ; Mentarily, and many are apprenensive that Lock- j Haven will be desolated before many hours are | | past. THE WATER AGAIN RISING AT WILKESBARRE— PART OF THE CITY INUNDATED. WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 28, 1875. The water has risen three feet on the Kingston | | Flats since yesterday, and communication by foot | 13 again cut off, but there has been no impression | made on the gorges. At the same rate the water | will rise two feet more through the night. The | | thaw was not as rapid to-day as yesterday and to- | nightit is cloudy and threatens rain. ‘The Stick- | | ney Ciub have succeeded in digging out their boat house, which was jammed in the ice near the | bridge, and nave removed it to a place of sateiy. Toe people are all on the watch lor the coming | 1¢ Mood, and there 18 no reason to fear any loss, of lile, however great tre destruction of property ma A low portion ot the city, lying along the Lenurch and Susquehanna Ratiroad, was flooded tos e could find but Siow passage to the river. A great deal of the | drainage trom the huis ran mto the North Brancn of ‘| Canal, whien was within a foot ol being as nigh country could not expect to escape the disease in- | as last week, when 1 | street. A nuibver or ¢ and severai colored iam second story of thelr aweilings, ‘Its, however, | Wii jast but afew hours, uniess the river should | | get high enouga to fill the canal again, inundated part of Canal ais are filled with water ve movea into the | AN ARTIFICIAL CHAN} | CUT THROUGH THE ICE | AT WILLIAMSPORT, | WiiLiamsrors, Pa., March 28, 1875. | The rivernas been rising since yesterday at the rate of one and a half inches an hour. It is now | seven feet above low water mark, ‘The cutting of | the channel, 100 feet wide, through the ice, be- tween here and Linden Bridge, seven miles above, which was commen several days ago, was | completed to-day. No trouble is now anticipated Unless a heavy rain sets im. The weather is cola | aud bas the appearance o1 more snow. THE ICE GORGE AT PORT DEPOSIT WASTING Away. PorT Derosit, Md., March 28, 1875, The ice gorge is wasting away rapidly now, ana | people are tull of hope that it will be gone before | a rise or more ice comes down. | | A YOUNG NEGRO MURDERER. | HE SHOOTS A FORMER EMPLOYER AND A CLERGY- | MAN, BOTH OF HIS OWN RACE—PROBABLE DEATH OF Hfs VICTIMS. | MEwrnis, Tenn., March 28, 1875. Tony Dixon, an old negro gardener, was shot | | and facally wounded at his piace near Chelsea yes- | terday, by @ negro boy named Nathan Hackett, | whom he had dischargea from his employ. Charles | Spradien, a colored preacher, being present and atiempuing to preven: Hackett shooting Dixon a Second tine, Was shotover the right eye by the y ‘ado, trom the eflects of which he will A crowd of negroes soon collected, and finding Kett reloading Nis pistol, one of them dis arced & shot £un at him, wounding him severely in Ute right ari and breast. They then bound him, brought him 11 a wagon to this city, and de- | livered tim up to the authorities, WORK FOR THE CORON ERS. | The present week bids fair to be an exccedingly lively one for the Coroners, no jewer than nine cases having already been set down for examina- tion during to-day, to-morrow, Wednesday and | Thursday, At eleven o’clock this morning Cor- | Oner Croker will oid an ipquestin the case of | Richard Lambert, of No. 1,16i Second avenue, who was run over and killea by a Second avenue car on the morning of the 24th inst. | Atvthe same hour this forenoon Coroner Wolt- man Will inquire into the causes which resulted in | the death on Good Friday of livtle Henry Finley, at public se: 23, in City Hall place, the ol Which Were pubilsied ia the ot George Lexow, who died on the 24th inst. trom lockjaw, the result of one of his fingers Ing LeeD Crushed by a collision between avenue car and one of tose of the ana Dry Dock le. The acctaent occurred at tne | Junction of West Broadway ana Walker street. |, the death of Richard Pily, on the 5 | the Union ‘eegraph Compan: | buitdin sv be We sulyect of an inquest toe | | morro voner Croker, Also Michael Dolan, who died at tb K » | Jrom the eft n ived Liree years ago oy Leng thrown down | | stairs at No, 8) Muiverry strect, | | Next Wednesday an inquest will be neld on the | body of James Food, who was killed by being run over it Sevenicentli crosstown car. the body, Michael Leonard, of No, 506 Kast Thirty-sixth street, hear uvenue A, by a dis head was almost severed irom . Was rok over and Ktied by the steam cars th avenue, ue: Hirty-third sircet, on the This case Wil be vestigated on Wednes+ as willalso thatorthe a Feornary 6 by the ¢ tHe child, Frank O'Ne rsof the Lindson Rive ear Porty-fourth » Ibis asomewn heidence that Wyners, Wao was condactor o; the train that killed young O'Neal should pimsell have been | run over ata killed by @ train on tne 17th inst. z | any man who has ceased to beleve in | ePS principies. | lawiul game, hunting, sport or dive: | action of | phases. a | AN ALLEGED THE MITCHEL PROCESSION. CONVENTION CALLED YOR NEXT WEDNESDAY— ALL IRISH SOCIETIES INVITED. A sub-committee of five men, appointed by the Committee of Arrangements of the Mitchel dew monstration on Saturday night, neld a conference yesterday with representatives of the Fentan Brotherbood to discuss the best means of doing honor toJonn Mitchel. The feeling aroused by the preparations for the anticipated demonstra- tion yesterday has helped to make the necessity fora grand tribute of respect to the memory of Mr. Mitchel more apparent, and the probabilities are thatwhen it aoes take piace it will far excoed in numbers and respectability anything Irish that has ever been seen in New York, Whether it will be thought advisable to watt for the probable modification of the law forbidding parades on Sunday or to have it on a week day is yet undecided; but it is very probable that a torchlight procession will be the form adopted, 1m order to avoid any interierence with the busi- ness of the city, which would naturally be ob- structed by a procession during Ousiness hours. ‘This Was the chief odject that tue committee tad in view in selecting Sunday, as afer the parade op ue 1ith of March it would be C0 muct to exe pect the business men of New York to look favors | ably On aNotier serious interruption of the city tramic, Ali these things were discussed at the conference yesterday, and it was azieed to leave the flual de- cision to a convention of aelegates Irom the Various Irish socieues which ‘Twenty-third s rect and Second aveuue, ‘The following call has been issued by the chair- man of the Commit'ce of Arrangements, in order to harmonize with the action taken by the Feulan Brotherhood :— ‘To Tus Orvicens 4xp Mexners or THE Inisa SOCLRTIRS ov New Youk aNp Vicixtty = Genrt 3 that ‘the law forbids public demonstrations on sunday, the Committee of Arrause- decited to postpone the contemplated mune: Min honor or dobn Mitchel tl ade ior such a grand n. show our respect for the law and p-operation and work of making the demonstration Worihy of the noble patriot who has Just passed away who died as he had lived, « tlon—aud at the same time Vite all Irisisocieies in this vicinity te a delega. Un of three members to a convention to be held at Le- Milt Hail, corner of Twenty-third street and Second avenue, on Wednesday, Maren SL, a t o'clock P. to Irishmen in the to Make final arrangements tor the deinonsiration. ine commit 6 that on this suletun occaston pers sonal feelines and rivairies of orgacizaions wil! be Lad aside, so that we may silow friends and cnemies alike that We can anite when the natioual mierest demands, @nd that we revard the honor aud dignity o1 our native Land more than sectionat or class pre;uda An early roply wil oblize you y respectfully, JOUN O'CONNOR, Chairman Committee of Arrangements, The original intention of the committee was to call this convention on next Tuesday, but, finding tue Fenians had taken action lor Wednesaay, it Was deculed to uniié the twWo, $0 as to avoid even the appearance of clashing. From the strong | feeling evinced by the majority of the men who buve Luis movement in charge there can ve littie d@ouvt Wat thomas Clatke Luby will be the man chosen to deliver the tunerdl orauon., tis connection with the ‘43 movement, and tae prominent pari he took in tae late revoluuonary | uprisiog in Ireiand, as well as bis undoubtea aoll- wake him more acceptaole than jon Mitch It 18 understvod that fumpkins square wili be selected tor tne deilvery of the oration aud the winding up of tne proceedings, ity as a speaker, THE HONORS TO JOHN MITCHEL IN PHILADEL- PHIA—THE SUNDAY PROCESSION ABANDONED— A MASS MEETING AND ORATION. PHILADELPHIA, March 28, 1875, Tae Irish civic and military societies of this city had determined to commemorate tne death of Jon Mitchel by @ grand tunerdl parade on Sun- day next, to be followed by a eulogium delivered in nemoriam by @ prominent sympatnizer. but Mayor Stokley has decided that the parade shall not take place on the Sabbatn by threatening to | | arrest the Marsnals, and ordering the police to | ‘rhe Jollowing 18 the law | stop the demonstration. which governs the observance of the Sunday in this State, enacted April 22, 1794:-- It any person shall do or perform any worldly em- ployment or business whatsoever on the Lord’s Day, commonly called sunday, works of necessity and clarity only excepted, shall use and practise any un ion whatsoever on tad thereot, & such per- the same day, and be cony son so olfending stiail tor every such offence iorteit and pay $4, to be levied by distress; or, in case he or she | shalt retuse or n ay the sald sum, or goods and | chattels found Whereof to levy the same by distress, he or she shall suffer six days in the House of Correction of the proper count A meeting of delegates trom the several Irish | socictics Of this city was held this alternoon, at the Sheares Ciub, to consider (he matter. Captain Cusack reported the negotiation o1 a spectal com- | mittee with the Mayor, wno had remained firm in his prouibidon, and he offered the lollowing reso- Jution, Which Was unanimously adopied:— Resolved, That in the opinion of this committee the arching of thousanus of sorrowing men in al procession would be an act in keeping thac we are ad- sab ctity of the atl counsel it would tot Violuie any law of but as there exists upon the acter poiat of opinion, and as His Honor or Stokiey, acting, We ‘believe, wr that spirit of firiiness aid imparitadty ‘which charncterizes him as a man and @ ” masistrate, holds to the opposite view, this commitee, out of deter- ence to the ypinion of our present worthy Chief Masis- 18 and with a desire to obey m all things the Laws of trat our {city and Commonwealth, as interpreted by the consutdted authorities, will omit the tuneral pro- | intenaed to take place on honor of our beloved and lamented co Mitchel, and will contive our ooservan nday, April 4 1m atryman, John to a mass | meeting and oration on the earliest practicabie week day evening therearter. ‘The Chairman of this city, had cousented to act as orator, A let: ter was read iron O'bonovan Rossa giving the ve New York societies postponing the proposed Sunday parade. Aiter expressing coudemnation of what wero termed the wrong statements of the press about | king to vindicate his chare | Jonn Mitchel, and s acter in a set Of resolntiohs, which were unan- Imously adopted, the meeting aujournea to meet Thursday evening. A STREET PAGEANT ABANDONED IN SCRANTON— A MORE SUBSTANTIAL MEMORIAL FOR THE WIDOW OF THE PATRIOT PROPOSED. SCRANTON, Pa., March 28, 1875, An enthuslastic meeting of the Irishmen of Scranton and viginity was held here to-night to consider the propriety of having @ grand public demonstration on Sunday next in honor of the | memory of John Mitchel. Father Kelly opposed the idea of parading, and said the more substan- tial way to bonor Mitchel’s memory Was to raise a fund for presentaiion to his widow. This senti- ment prevailed, und the meeting accordingly abandoned the proposed parade wiih a view to commemorating the dead patriot’s memory by | something more substantial than a passing pa- geant. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in | the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in comparison with the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the tnermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HERALp Butiding: 1874, 1875. 40 12 perature yesterda: Average temperature for corresponding last year. THE FEVER AT The names of the students and professors stricken with “enteric fever” at Seton Hail Col- lege, Soutn Orange, N. J., arising out of a vitiatea qualtty of water, have not before been maae | | public. | smitten was Rey. Father Schandel, one of tue col- He, however, has weathered the | The one considered most dangerously lege protessors. Worst phase of the maiady and though stil con- fined to his chamber ts regarded out ot all danger and rapidly valescing. ‘the student who aied at the coll was James McLoughlin, a most promising youta of fifteen or so and a near reia- tive of Bishop McLoughlin, of Brookiyn, James belonged to Poughkeepste. Mr. Whelan, son of tne late Captain Whelan, of Elizabeth, is also down, but nas passed safely through the worst WIFE TROUBLE, BEATER IN Information was received at the Sixteenth pre- cinct station house lost night that Jonn Daly, re- | siding at No. 291 Tenth avenue, had brutally beaten his wife sent to the piace. and Oficer Rooney was promptly Here he found Mrs. Daly in has veen catied for | next Wednesday evening at Demilt Hall, corper of Sunsel of all | Mey | nnounced that J. Duross O'Bryan, | 7 i et OBITUARY. EDGAR QUINET, AUTHOR AND MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. A cable telegram {rom Paris, under date of yess | terday, 28th ivst., announces the occurrence of | the death of M. Edgar Quinet, the distinguished author and member of the Assembly from Paris, | He was born at Bourg (Ain), on the 17th of | February, in the year 1803, and received his pre liminary education in France. He pursued nis Heidelberg and graduated with Denoting him to the work | Quinet wielded a fertile pen | at a comparatively early age. His ‘*Tavlettes | da Jui errant,” pipitshed in 1823, was followed | by a transiation of “ilerder’s Ideas on the Philo | #ophy of History.’ This work appeared in 1827, Toe materials for his work, “Modern Greece in | Relation to Ancient Greece,” were collected | by him during a period of service as a member O the Scientific Commission whica was sent by the Frencn government to the Morea tn the year 1828, He was an adie and valued contriburor to the Kevue des Deux Mondes, Surnishing to that period- icalarticies on historical and philosophical subs jects, In toe year 182) M. Quinet was appointed Professor of Foreign Literature to the Facuity | of Letters, in Lyons, and im the year 1842 he was promoted to the newly created chair of | Language and Literature of Southern Europe in the College of France. From that period lis | Works were strongly tinged with the !iteralistic opinion and feeling of the day, Its extreme opin- tons became very distasteiul tothe government ot King Louis Philippe, and be was eventually removed from his new position, He was elected Deputy of the Assembly in 1847, took an active rt iM the reformagitation and sought at the ris barriers tn tue year 1848, He was elected to the Legisiative Boay, ingwhich he emulated the poltueal reaciton of his words and wriuogs, ‘The avowal of his extreme radical opinions led to his expulsion from France im the year 1852. Then he reured to Brusseis, where Ne married the daughter of the Moldavian poet, Assakl. Alter many vicissitudes of fortune, political and | private, M. Quinet returned to France, and, more | lortunate than the Irish radical reformer, John | Mitenel, he died a Paris member of tne republicaa _ Assembly. | | Studies at | great ¢clat, | of authorship, | JUDGE JOHN A. STEMMLER. | Judge John A. Stemmler, late of the Seventh District Court of New York, who died at his reste | dence, No. 129 East Seventy-first street, was sixty: nine years of age at the time of his decease. He was born in 1806, in the Palatinate of Bavaria, passed his preparatory studies at Mayence, and went to the Universities of Munich and Heidel berg. In 1829 he was one of the leaders among the students of tuese seats of learning who espoused ultra liberal ideas and went into open acts of rebeilton against the constituted authorities, | Young Stemmier, in common with others, had tu | flee the country. In the same year (i829) Mr. Stemmler studied law in the ofice of our eminent Judge Brady's father, and subsequently practised on his Own account. At the time of his leaving Germany Mr. Stemmiler accepted a correspondent. snip of the Augsburd Aligemeine Zeitung, and while pursuing his journalistic career in America became at one time oWnher and editor of the New York Staats Zeitung, which he soid (to dr, Neumann, In 1563 Mr. Stemmler was elected Judge of the Seventh Dis trict Court of this ctty, and was re-elected in | 1869, Judge Stemmier held his seat on the bench until recentiy, When he was obiiged to abandon his judicial duties on account ot sickness. It will be remembered that, upon a premature report of Judge Stemmler’s death, Governor Tiiden adopted the somewhat hasty course of appointing nis suc cessor to ofMce. The deceased jurist leaves a large circle of iriends and acquaintances to moure his loss. JOHN WELCKER, OF WASHINGTON. John Welcker, who fora number of years has been famous in Washington, D. C., as the leacing restaurateur of that city, died at his residence to Washington yesterday, Sunday morning, 28th inst. | He was carried off by an attack of erysipeias, | Mr, Weicker was ill during a few days only, and the news of lis unexpected demise will be re- | gretted by numbers of acquaintances, friends and & bons vivants in Europe as well as allover tne | United States. REV. JOSEPH ©. STILES. Rev. Joseph ©. Stiles, a well known divine, die@ in Savannah, Ga., on the night of the 27th inst, aged seventy-nine years. | THE SUCCESSOR OF JOANNA SOUTHCOTT. (From the Liverpool Post, Marcn 15.) Mr. Witham, one of the relieving ofMicers of St, Mary’s, Newington, came beiore Mr. Eilison, at tne Lambeth Police Court, on Friday, and stated | that Mrs. Peacock, who wus weil known as the successor to Joanna Southcott, had died on the previous day at the age of 103, A short time back, In Consequence of the distressed conditioa in which she Was, an appeal was made, re- sulting in some £12 being sent to the Court tor her | benefit. By this she had been enabled to remain outol the worknouse, and bad not received parish relief, The object of Mr. Witham’s applicavon now Was, it possible, to ra some £5 to delray tne expense of her iuneral, and if possible prevent her being buried py the parish. sne had been three times married, aud one cer- tificate he had ovtamed was dated 1801. She had a1ull behef that she should see tne millennium. Mr, Ellison said probably the faith of her followers Would be shaken by her deati FIRE IN FULTON STREET. At ten minutes to one o’ciock this morning | OMicer Mehan, of the Second precinct police, dis covered fire in the basement of the five stor) brick butiding No, 140 Fulton street, occupied by Rudoph Vesmen asa restaurant and lager veer saloon. On the alarm beizg given the apparatus of the Fire Department were promptly on the spot and the flames were quickly extinguished, The damage dove to tne stock and building is estiinated at $250, The cause of the fire 1s at present unkaown. FIRE ON GREENE STREET. At about eleven o’clock last night a fire broke | out in the basement of the three story brick building No. 97 Greene street, occupied by Charles Henz as a restaurant, who sustains a loss of $300, The upper part of the house was occupled by Vic tor Bally, feather manulacturer, who loses about | $200. The building is damaged to tne extent of | $500, Insurea. THE PANIC CAUSED BY THE FAILURE OP | ordinary remedies to relieye the terrible coughs now prevailing has been arrested by the cures accomplished Honey or Honenouxn AND Tan * ‘ooTHacn® Drors cure in one minute, | | | | | by Hat | Pike's N WHO APPRECIATE A FINE Harand a lat of magnificent proportion ine the spring style_ just introduc lanutacturer, LIS Nas ALL KINDS WIRE SIGNS AND BANNERS made, packed and shipped to order by HOJER & GRA HAM, 97 Duane street. A_ GRATIFYING SUCCESS.—THE ELASTIO | TRUSS COMPANY, 6:3-Broadway, patronized by gow ernment for army and navy, adopted by the more ems nent physicians, has superseded ail metal trusses, A.—HERALD BRANCH OFFICE, BROOKLYN, corner Fulton avenue and Boerum street, Open from $ A. M. too P.M. On Sunday {rot 9 P.M. ART NUTICE. Mr. George H. Andrews! entire collection of Ort awe Water Couon Pantines, by celebrated American and foreign artists, will be offered by us, at auction, in our Broadway Gallery, on the evenings of 7th, Sth and 9h of April, GU. A. LEAVITT & CO. BABIES WHO SUFFER FROM COLIC ARE IM mediately relieved by Mik of MAGNESIA, & preparation most acceptable to the latantile palate. Asa laxative fi | children it has no equal, and it is also an excellent ant | dyspeptic. Sold by alt druggists, | | CURE YOUR COUGH BY USING MME, POR TEK'S COUGH BALSAM. Price 25, 0 and 75 cents, LUNG AND THRUAT COMPLAINTS DISAPPEAR when Wistar's Barsam or WiLp Cierny is used; 50 cents, and $1 a bottle; large bottles mach the cheaper. WIGS, TOUPEE: | teal Wigmaker and Importer of Human Hair. | Iwelfth street, near Broadway. | freceniiotstcataitttiont THE ASTOUNDING EFFICACY OF THE EAU | Menver SK 28 AN incomparable beautifier of the com- | plexion has been instantly recognizea by the elite of so. ciety. Itean only be obtained from the proprietor and patentee, LEON DUMAS, No, 8 West Tweaty-ftth street, &U.—@, RAUCHFUSS, PRAC. 44 East NEW _ PUBLICATIONS. | WILL SECURE THE MOST VALUABLE ndium or beautitul fancies that has been | pudhshed Inmany years, F. G. De Fontaine's “Oy | Petia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Diokens.” | Pub. ished by 6. J, HAL& & SON, I7 Murray street, and sold, | by ail booksellers, BPA A, O00 THr i Health,” for April, only @ year, describes what is “tri re also April number uty. enological Jour an unconscious condition, apparently produced | Mohummctee Wt the Haman rae fonts aracte, rf a by violence. A conveyance was sent for | s %r'g3 a year, sent first post by 8. Kk WELLS, 7: and the woman taken to the Twentietn | broadway, New York. street station house, where Police sur. | 3 LOPADIA OF 36422 RECEIPTS AN geon Wace mide ‘an examination and | J i pg athe get jound Marks Of violence on her persow, Apparently | Specimen inde ailod treo. DICK & FITZGERALD, Caused by repeated heavy Kicks. An’ guoulance | Puvlishers, 18 Ann strect, New York she Was removed to _ Bae bbe Mth edad bit | PO BUROPEAN TRAY UL f REGULAR ellevue Hospital. Swiss Round, by Rev. Harry Jot With tuste Later m tue night Daly was taken into custody, ihe Brith Quarterly Keview says: dust hey bat denied having abused his wife, stating wnat | corror book which those who travel for real pleasure her injuries were caused by lallin The Story | or instruction will weicome.” lémo. Cloth $1 hs, ‘ud Was not deemed provavle by the police, who yocked him up to await examination to-day, shed by GEORG ROUTLEDGE & SUNS, 410 Broome sueel, Now Yorm. i sle aaded tuate