The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1875, Page 3

CABRERA AND DON CARLOS, Conspiracy of the Cemmander Against the Pretender. The Maroto Incident of the Old Carlist War—Attempt for Its Revival. WHO I8 CABRERA? The Proposed Convenio—Planks of the Secessionist Platform. DON CARLOS’ ENERGY MARS THE PLO! BAYONNE, March 15, 1575. A storm Of indignation and excitement has been caused among the Carlists every where by the dis- sovery ol the treachery or supposed treachery of | Cabrera, | CABRERA. Cabrera, it shonid be stated, la not now and never bas been in the present Carlist army; but he Was one of the most trusted and most success- ful of the generals of Charles V., the grandjather of the present Prince, in the Seven Years’ War, it was he who raised the standard of Carlism in Catalonia, and who commanded the Carlist forces there throaghout the whole period of that long, bloody and ruthiess straggle, in which it was the cnstom to shoot all prisoners of war, and even women and children. Cabrera’s own mother was taken and shot by the liberals, and he | revenged bimself vy shooting Mfteen or twenty women, wives apd mothers of | liberal officers, who fell into his hands. At was he who defeated and outgeneralled Espar- tero througuout a whole campaign and finally led Don Carlos within sight of the towers of Ma- Grid, and it was he who continued the straggle in Catalopia for mere than a year alter the treason of maroto had brought 1t to an end in the north. His name 1s still remembered with terror among the liberals of Spain, and his memory has been, until withm the last few months, revered by the People of the revolted provinces beyond auy other. Of all those who fought in that bloody civil war Cabrera’s name is probably the only one that has reaily survived in the traditions of the people. HIS POLITICAL CREED, Woy is it, then, that Cabrera is not with the Carlists of to-day, end why. alter having fought so Jong and desperately tor Charles V., should he not have raliied to tie banner of Charles VIL ? This is 2 question which only Cabrera himself can answer; putas yet ne has not thought proper to | doso, While giving out in a hatt-hearted way that he is sul a Carlist, that he recognizes Don Carlos as the only rightful King of Spain, ne has, hevertueless, never given the support o1 presence, or even of ‘bis mame, to the cause. To all the questions, lesiers, hopes, requests and prayers that have | been adaressed nim by the partisans of Don Carlos, he has always given evasive replies. Sometimes he has answered that he would come; again, that the proper moment had not yet ar- rived, or that there were certain circumstances which would prevent him ior the time being irom taking part in the confilet, giving it to be under- stood at the same time that political reasons were Qot altogether foreign to his hesitation, But he bas never declared himself frankly and openly | either for or against Carlism. He has never given A straightforward answer to the many and press- ing invitations he has received, and his conduct toward Don Carlos himself has been anything but rank and loyal. His own partisans in tne Cariist camp have never been able to explain this hesitation, ana everyusdy bas been ata loss to account for his behavior. 13 HE A REPUBLICAN ? The trae explanation of bis indecision and vaciliation is probably this, When he foally gave ap the struggle for Charies V. in 1840 he went to England. {here the doe appearance, gooa looks and military ‘ame of the dashing young Carlist ebieftain, which was worldwide, made bim very popular io society In spite of the pars the English government had played during the war. It did | got take him long to find a young, rich and beau- Uful wite, aud be soon married and settied down in London, where he has lived ever ance. Now, | Qo young man, however fixed in his ideas of | absolutism and divine right, cam hive with | | | | | | | | | impunity tnirty-fve years in England. He will imsengibly ana in spite of himseif imbioe liberal ideas ana fall into Ilveral ways of thinking and | looking at vuings. The prowvabiity is that Caorera | bas become a liberal, and possibly @ republican. | For this of course he is pot to blame, but rather | on the contrary to be praised. His double dea | ing and Want of frankness, however, are not to be | justified soeasily. Itheis no longer a Carlist at heart, it he can no longer accept the absolute doc- trines which Don Carlos represents. he ought to | bave said so honestly and frankly long ago. Even | when the papers announced, a short time since, that he had offered bis adhesion and SUPPORT TO DON ALFONSO oe did not honestiy come oat and aM@rm or deny the report, bat contented bimself py an- nouncing that it was prematare. It is probable that old aasociations, —id ties and old recoilection bave a great deai to do with this hesitation and Vaciliation. In spite of his new ideas and new | political faith he probably does not find it easy to | bring hiroxeli to cut loose forever from a cause With which his name bas been associated tor haif century, @ cause in’ which be won bis fame, io Oghting for which he spent the best part of his youth and manhood. The memory of the old days | of sieges and vatties, the hope of victory, the | despair of defeat, of the long days spent on the | march, of nights around the bivonac fire, tue | Vicissitades of that strange, terrible, scareely | human struggie in which he spent seven years of bis ife 1s sull strong upon Bim, and he does not find tt easy to break the coarm by separating him- self from it forever. CABRERA CHOSEN BY DON CARLOS. | Before the present Cariiet insurrection broke oat be even wert «0 far as to take charge of the projecte| operations, and came to Bordeaux, Where he remaimed eight months making the | necessary preparations. But it was easy to see that his heart was notin tie work, and that be did not beleve in its success, He said that rat!- roads and telegraphs had changed the conditions of Wariare so mMucuK tuat the chances Were very Much agarnss the success of the unvertaking, and he finally abandoned the project tor we being. Woen Don Carlos again decided to ta the deld, having learned oy experience the neces- BiLY oF confiding the direction uf the operations to @ man Who believed in the success of the under- taking, ne chose O10, Wo bad aiso distinguisned himuse:f in the Od Carlist War. It was Olio, there- who entered Spam at the head of twenty- three men, about the beginuing of the year iy73, | and ruised the standard of revolt; and it was pe Who conducted tae war until he was killed at the siege uf Kilda, | THE DIPLOMACY OF CUNNING. | Cabrera has during tie whole ume remained | ipactive. So jar as 13 KnOWn he has dene nothing | either ior Or against Doo Curios, giving to all the adjurations aadressed aim on the subject oy his | Partisans evasive and unsatisfactory auswers. | There always has been what is termed a Cabrera | ally amoug We Carists; toat is, a party waich eeved that wut Cabrera could be imduced ty join the cause there was iictle chance of success, and pac Don Carlos ought to make some ad- vances to fia. Jaols tne latter refused to do, WaMtaning that aiter Woat had passed vetweea them it Was Cabrera’s place to come forward aud offer fis supmission; and, finally, to put au end to the = negotiativns = mu- taal .repds were carrying om without Ws permission, mserteu a note (o that effecc in the Juertel Real, tue OMeiit Catust paper. To tuis Cadrira replied in a letter ty some of the papers, Wiles Don los considered studiously msvlent, althougn polite, and Wales he auswered iu another Seimi-oMlcial gore, by saying that ve ¢ sooked Uoun Cabrera as a Cariss, pnt as Honist, Woo Was None [ie leds anyerous couliog bis reui sentiments, This, of cou Hops oO w recongiiadoa —_—— | half a dozen old NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, I875—TRIPLE SHEET. struggle Without cis Seip. Ths occurred some mou'hs ago, and it was thought no more would ever be heard of Cabrera, until the other day, when the whole Cariist country was electrified by hearing Of bis Intended treason. ‘THK CONSPIRACY, As told by tha Carlists, the history of the affair is as and it discloses such infamous treachery oo the part Oi Cabrera that altaough the truth of the story is vouched for by Don Car- jos himself | am still inclined to doubt it and to believe that Cabrera has possibly been siandered, Lene the story, however, as current among the Jar As s00n a8 Don Alonso was proclaimed, or per- haps even before, Cabrera made his anbmission | the presence of the President in New York. | secretly to the young Prince, and with Canovas ae Castillo and others, concocted the iollowing plot:—Foresecing tbat the Cariists would be un- able to maintain the immense line they bad taken up irom Los Areos to Carraseal, and that the troops would be discouraged and demoralized by the consequent re- treat, and. the loss of Pampeluna, whieh was almost within their grasp, the cry of treason was to be circulated by Capre! agents during the retreat jrom Carrascal, ana the crime grad- ually Nxed upon General Mendiri aati the troops sbould inaly demand hig arrest and trial. Then, Cabrera Was to be culigd for apd forced upon Don varios as Command@rau-Culef; his partisans would, Ol conrse, unwitttogly play a pars in the plot and belp to induce Don Carlos to accept him. ONCE IN COMMAND of the army, Cabrera was to simply seize, upon a charge of treason, all the principal Carlist gen- eraisand throw tuem into prison, seizing Don Carlos atthe same time by men especially em- ployed for that purpose, then to make @ con- venio and band over the army to the liberal Com. mander-in-Chief and thus end the war. Monstrous, | absurd and impossible as the whole story seeins, it should be remembered that it is uot the first time such @ thing has occurred in Spanish hissory. Indeed. this plot only an unsuccessiul and clumsy piagiariam on the con- spiracy Which succeeded so well during the old Cariist War, 2nd which the infamous Maroto cur- ried ont with such savage ferocity by snooting six of the most iaithiui geaerais of Charies V.—bis own brothers-In-arms. Whether it entered into Cabrera’s plans to shoot klio, Mendiri, Perulia, Eyana and Mogrovejo 1s not Known, but It is aiftl- cult to see* how he could have hoped to succeed without doing so, and the Man who was capavle of shooting fliteea or twenty innucent women in cold blood, even though it was to avenge his mother, Would pot certainly hesitate to murder generals, Who have not jong to live anyhow, suoald if further his plang to do so. DON CARLOS’ ENERGY MARS THE PLOT, The pian, 1s iS sald, had a commencement of execution, Cabrera bad received 1,500,000 pe setas With woich to work upon the troops, and the cry of treason Was actually raised in a threatening way on tbe retreat irom Carrascal, and this is why Mendiri, 10 @ prociamation to the troops a Jew days aiterward, bade them to beware of everybody Who talked of treason, for suca per- sons ouly were traitors, Tne most curious part of itis rhas 49 was owing to te energy of Don Carlos bimself that the plan was thwarted for the mome foough the conspirators had by no means abandoned it, It was the victory of Lacar wich put the troops in a good humor and made the cry of treason impossible, and it is to Don Carlos himself the nouor of this victory must be ascribed, as be ordered tue attack here against the advice and most urgent representations of iho and Mendiri. Tne pian, it 18 said, had not been abandoned, and Cabrera was only awaiting @ favorable opportunity for recommencing opera- tions. ‘Nevertheless, 1 am inclined to doabt the story. Don Carlos may possioly bave been deceived. ‘Yreacnery of this kind is @ very piack and in- famous thing, Maroto, the tr4itor, found it im- possible to live ii Spain after bis act of treason, even among the very people whose cause be bad served, and he went to Chill to die, It is said, nowever, toat @ Spaniard will do anytbing -ti he will sacrifice bonor, patriotism, religion, affections, every thing—for revenge; and it was a sentiment of personal vengeance that drove Maroto to his act Of treason. Cabrera nas 4 PERSONAL GRUDGE against Don Carlos, owivg to words that passed between Chem some years ago, When, aiter having accepted the miss} he Onally declined to head tue insurreetion. Tis, 1¢ 18 huintamed, with the note Don Varios had in- serted in tue i would be sufflelent to | drive Caorera to the meditated act of treachery. It is besides evident that tne despatches of Reuter, Wherein ae announced several times in the most posiiive mapper (hat a conrenio would be made, whetaer Don Carlos agreed to it or not, must have bad reference to some Such conspiracy in which the government jelt sure of success. 1 nad alreaay heard of the terms of the convenio which was to be offered to the Carlists, and [ knew, from very good authority—that o: the Ger- man Consul im Bayonde—that Caorera was in- trusted by the Madrid government with the nego- tiation Of the affair, but no bint of treason on Ca- brera’s part ever reacned me, THE FAMOUS CONVENIO. ; ‘The terms to oe offered the Carilsts were as fol. ows :— Firet—The recognition ot Dou Carlos as an Infante of Spain, with au unpertant position in the government, Iu case Dou Alfonso die without heirs or heir the sun of Don Carlos to succeed to the throne. Secunt—Kecogriion of the rank of all the Carlist offi- cers who should wish to enter the liberal army. Third—Recugnition of the /ueros of the revolied prov- luces. Yuerth—Recoxpition of the old and new Carlist debte— that is, of the debt contracted by Charles Y. in the bevea Years’ War, as well as of the present Carlist debt This is the convenio Reuter humorously to- formed us Was to be forced upon Don Varios. The offer of such terms as these, for the exactitude of which I am ready to answer, shows bow feebie Don Alionso’s government is and how little bope 2 Don Varios confided to bim, | is entertained at Madrid of crushing Carlism by © force of arms. CaBRBRA’S PLOT is said to have been discovered owing to the im- [| togees Oi bis nepuew, Ove Mauuel Homedes, it . Was an agent mtrusied with the itssion writiug up Caorera’s par- sans, or that portion of the Carlists who, while periectly loyal to Don Carlos, Devertheless ve- heved that Caore: rengthen the cause. Finding that the Cabrerists eXpressed @ good deal of aisg! it the Way thipgs were managed oy Don Curios, and especially at his Dot maxtng peace with Cabrera, be Jumped to the conclusion (hat they were disgusted with the cause Co the extent that they wouia abandon It at ino first signal from Cabrera, and in a mo- ment of rasan confidence he incuutiously let oat tue whole story. i$ occurred at Bayonne. The Caoreruts tw whom the disclosure was made, ia- stead Of sailing in With the views of their leade! rios of the conspiracy. One iact is into strong reilef by the disclosure, whether real or pretended, and that is the loyaity Of Che Cariists to their cause, and it proves now adie was all Che taik about a convenio. Nut even the desercon of a man like Cabrera can shake the ddelty of even the peopie who most believed in bim—ols own parusans and frienus. THE TACT OF DON CaRLos. ‘The truth is that Dou Carlos seems to inspire with a certain affection and devotion all the people Whom he comes into contact with, which Inakes them proof against treachery. I have presence would greatiy | Spoken in a previous jetter of his tact in manag- | ing bis geaerais. When it is remembered how easily Spanish pride is ofeaded, how treacherous | and ‘vindiclive Spaniards are, and woat a iirue thing sufices to arouse these sions in them, one 8 astonished to see Don Carivs moving lus generals avout, giving them commands i placing them, setting them up and pulling t sown wWithoot offending them, shaking the! fidelity or even losing tneir affections. It shows that Ge possesses at least One great necessary qualicy ina raier—tnat of attaching men to nim personally and making them drown thetr mutuai eecumes to Work in unison for the common we “POLICE ITEMS. — James Coddington, real ate broker, residing im Batier avenue, East New York, was arrested yesterday, by detectives Seileck and Doyle of the Ceutrai office whlle trying to negotiate tea $1,00) New Jersey State bonds. These oonds it ts sup- | posed are a portion of those stolen from the dington is at present locked up in the Centrai Oftice. Au officer of the Twenty-ninth precinct found gutter corner of Seventh avenue and Sixteenth street. Josephine Lambert, aged twenty-sevex, residing at No, 65 Sudolk street, uttempted to commit cide last night, ta Division, wear Attorney eet, by swallowing Paris green. Sue Was at- tended by Police Sargeon Powell aud sent to Bellevue Hospt John Gatien, aged thirty-five years, residing at No, 419 West Thirty-sixth street, had an aiterca+ too yesterday afternoon with Wiliam Conners, of No. 421 West Thirty-sixta street, im an entry. Way ieading to nis house. Aiter having some starp Words Conners arew a katte and stapbed Gaingan in the left side, 1ailicting @ severe wound, Vouners then escaped. About eight o'clock last evening Henry Allen, seventeen years of age, jell irom the sixin story of the St. Germain Hotel to the first floor, tarough the space occupied by the eevator. Al broke his lew and sas:ained severe internal injul was attended »y Police Surgeon Whi! moved tu Bellevue Huspital. BURGLARY IN WILLIAMSBURG. About half-past one o'clock yesterday morning OMicer Feigenbaum noticed by tne ligats buraing im the pariors of Mr. 8. H. Mills’ residence, No. Bediord avenue, that tie front of one of tue win- dows bad bean broken. He found the doors fas- tened, and, suspecting that ali was aot right, he rapped for assistance, o which Officer Burns Tespouded. Coincident with the rapping the lights were eXtiwauished, and a moment afner two men eimefved [rom the building and ran down the street. Burns followed one and fired two shots ac fim when he .ouod the burglar was guining ground, one of which evidentiy nit the MAD, DUE he eVentaalily eseaped. The orher was captu he gave tne mame o Wiliam 0, wiv Wacer street. New York, Mlusscuccer by occupation, A ud o8 Him Woeu he was fe dirk knue wai | Digbt at the mausion of his brother-in-law, Mr. | Treasury safe of Jersey City some time ago. Coa- | | remained in the store, 2 Was arraigned and eid ior eXami- | os Je | ments, now says Gordon hadn’t the pluck and | so vivid « His Excetieacy will retura to the seat of gov | Average temperature for the bowy of # Mewly-porn infant last might 1M te | Z a HIS EXCELLENCY’S VISIT. HAS IT ANY RELATION TO A THIRD TERM ?— VIEWS OF A POLITICIAN—MOVEMENTS OF HIS EXCELLENCY DURING Y#STERDAY—HIs EBX- CELLENCY’S RETURN TO WASHINGTON. “it 18 @ mistake to suppose that His Excellency has no settled policy,’ said & well knowm poll- | tician (who played a prominent part in the Gree- | ley campaign) yesterday, while commenting on | “He bas one, you may be assured, and that is to make himself the candi- date of the republican party for the next Presidential term, and he will succeed. There 18 no event in the future more certain than his nom- imation for the third term, whicn you HERALD People prognosticated wes nis desire and iten- ton, The number of delegates to the convention will correspond to the 369 members of the Electoral Coliege. Grant will get every one of them. Inthe South the niggers” (be was a dem- ocrat, be it remembered) “and the carpet-bag- gers regard His Excellency as the Moses of a new | exodus who is to bring them on through the wilderness to. a land where the grapes are very large, where the hopes of the present will find full Jruition in legialative jobs without number for one class and forty acres anda mule for the othe! Une hundred ana thirty-eight votes to start with, and do you think it would be a matter of muca difliculty jor the ofice-holdera ana other support. ers O| the administration to make up the less than filty votes necessary to constitate a majority, or, ifyou please, the one hundred and fifty necessary to two-thirds’ Not mucn, The fact is that His Excellency and bis supporters have no idea of anyuning else; everytning 1s coneldéted with ref- erence to that end, Grant at one time had a strong idea of bringing the conservative element of the South to the back of the one hundred ana thirty-eight delegates who will vote for his noml- nation by CHANGING HIS POLICY and throwing over the carpet-baggers, and de- pending on the niggers and white men for support in the future, He committed himself to this policy by his public acts in reference to Texas and Arkan- a8, and still more strongly to individuals, one or two of whom, of some promise in the South, came Out openly in his iavor. Gordon, of Georgia, was i originally in “the 1ing,”’ as you may call it, but he | happened to get down South there in Georgia and fortunately learned the public sentiment betore he had committed himsel!, and so came out with that letter opposing the third term project and denying that he had ever favored it. I don’t suppose be ever did, but he was almost persuaded ; and Governor Hebert, of Louisiana, who, with his natural Impetuosity and without much reference to popular opinion, yielded to Grant’s biandish- couldn’t stand the rattle, and so left him alone to the opprobrium of the Southern people whe far- merly loved him, But the Puilistines were strong and the Soutbern people wouldn’t have anything to do witn His £xcellenc; they had & recollection of Sheridan and Reynolds and Ames, and that lot—and | so His Exceliency became more radical tnan ever, and as the result recognized Brooks, whereas he had recognized Baxter, aud, no doubt, regrets that he didn’t recoguize Davis in Texas. He sent Sheridan to Louisiana to see that the State was kept within the concrol of the radicals, and tried to get the Force bill passed that he mignt send “Litte Phil’? to a number of other States, but thas dign’t succeed. O! as to policy, His Excellency has @ policy. 1 don’t think he cares much about joreign matters or even realizes that the $80,000 paid by Spain in settlement of the Vir- inins claims was really @ reward paid the nited States for a speedy recognition of Aulonso, without which Spain migat find it troablesome to negotiate her bonds in the bourses of Europe. But His Excellency bas a Settied and determinate policy in the maiter of the third term, and his visit to New York, if ithasany political significance at all, has reference to that. Now that journed and Vice Presi- | done his worst, Grant | thinks it weil to come om to this | head centre of management and consult with bis | Custom House iriends and otners as to the pros | So} pects aud lay out the plao ior the coming cam- | paign. And that is the secret of His Excellency’s | presence in New York. THE PRESIDENTS MOVEMENTS. His Exceileacy, who had dined oa Thursday | Hon. Kk. D. Morgan, ex-G-vermor of | arose irom his ved at the eight o'clock yesterday Morning, and vreakfasted at nine im company } with Mrs, Grant, Mrs, Sartoris and other members of the househoid. At the conclusion of the meal His Excellency | retired to bis apartments, aud aunounced bimself ready to give audience. At tea A. M. His Excellency lit a cigar. Among the distinguishes visitors WDo called on His celiency during the morning hour were omus Murphy, First Power Behind tne — Throne; Collector Arthur, First Power Before toe | Throne, and General Bavcock, First Power All Around the Throne, At eleven o'clock His Excellency lit his second from the Massachusetts e ung of Seuator howard and Represeniatives Fitzserald and Tompkins, who tenderea His Excellency the bospitanties of the State upon the occasion of centennial cele- bration of the batties of Lexington and Concord, on the 19th of the present moath, whicn His Ex- celtency was good enough to graciousiy accept. At twelve o’ciock His Excellency lit his third cigar. Senator Dacey and General Burt were admitted | to the presence of Ais Excellency at the same time as the Masgachusetts delegation. Aas the clock struck one Raie Ingalir, Quarter- General, catied on His Excellency. two o’ciock His Excellency lit nis fourth Being tatigued by bia frequent audiences, Pxceliency deciined to see visitors jor toe present. At three o'clock Mis Excellency Ut bis fifth cigar. At four o'clock His Excellency dined in company with Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Sarcoris and otaer members of the bouselola, At five o'ciock His Excellency lit bis sixth cigar, at six o'clock His Exceliencs, accompanied by His Exceliency’s pa and drove to the Jers y At seven «’clock fis Excellency took the train for Elizabeth, N.J., where he Was to pass the Corbin, where His Exceilency’s mother is at pres- ent visiting. eroment this morning. delectation of York lo; had relation soley to domestic affairs, THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-lour hours, in comparison With the corresponding date of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hud- bul’s Pharmacy, HeRkaLD Bouding 1874. I Average temperature yesteraay. Sees urrespondiog dare last year.. DROWNING ACCIDENT AT PEEKSKILL. | Wuliam Wilkins, aged seven, who bad been Missing irom the nome of bis parents, at Peeks- kill, Westehester county, since last Tuesday, was found drowned in Mackellar’s milipond, at that sterday morning. It is believed that tne ceased undertook to paddle bimself across tne pond on a cake of ice, aud, wotle so dommg. to have | jallen neadforemos¢ into the water, Curoner Bas- | sett held an inquest, and @ Verdict of accidental | death was renaered. A TILL TAPPER ARRESTED. About eight o’clock last night three well-dressed | men entered the cigar store of George F. Cook, at | No, 98 Sixtp avenue, represented tbemselves as | cigar dealers and requested to be shown some cigars of the brand known as “Flor de Fumar,” These cigars were kept in aninnerroom. The | men were asked to step in and look at them. Two of the men entered the room while the third While they were loosing at Mr. Cook’s stock the proprietor Was startied bY») hearing the mau Im toe storo heniod the counter, Mr Cook ummediately ran toward the tulel when he Was seized by tue Other men, thrown ou the floor and severely injured abeut the head. ‘ibe tnieves rau out of tne store, followed by Mr. Covk, who callea Officer arr, of the Fireentn’ pre- emict police, Alter an exciting chase of ever six | block’ Carr suceceded in arresting Thomus Haves, Who gave tis aadress as at No. 220 Prince street, and Was ientined py Mr. Cook as our of the men who had entered the room with him. He Wus taken to the Mercer strees station nowse aud jocked up, The amount oi mo: the wii was $50 19 carrenc, Marke) | that constitusion declares “to establish justice, insure | | Philips aod General Logan can s | sulleniy refusea | Northern | EX-SPEAKER BLAINE, THE HON. JAMES G. BLAINE’S ADDRESS TO THE REPUBLICANS OF ¥ HAVEN-—-THE DEM- OCRATIC POLICY DANGEROUS TO THE INTEGRITY OF THE UNION, New Havey, April 2, 19" Hon, James G. Blaine addressed a republican meeting inthis city this evening. He said. that democratic papers were finding tault because the republicans in the Northern States persisted in discussing the issues which grew out of the war and still remained unsettled, when at the same time it wes undeniable that the democratic party tm the Southern States, im every county and township, were discussing these same issues from precisely the opposite point of view. For whe republicans to abandon these Issues, which involve the questions of citizenship, of iree suffrage and the supremacy of the consti- tution, with its amendments, would be to sur- render and disband their organization before the legitimate ends of the great struggle had been fully attained, If he was pointed to expressions of democratic acquiescence in these results, be must receive them with caution, because the con- dition of the South did not correspond to these assurances of acquiescence. In this remark he Was pot spectally reterring to personal outrages— elegantly termed the ‘bloody shirt’ issue by the democragy—but to that general condition of tn- equality and oppression under the law which pre- vailed in so many of the Southern States. DEMOCRATS AND THE SOUTH. Nor bad he confidence in the efforts or Intention ofthe democratic party to pacily and harmonize the South on the basis of submission to liw and order, Look members of the House of Representatives in tne settlement of the Louisiana question. The dnal recommendation of the Louisiana Committee, and it was certainly a very able committee, not rash or partisan or prejudicial, was to do two things-- viz., correct the errors of the republican Enroil- ing Board and give the Legistature in its popular branch to the democrats, Second, to recognize Governor Kellogg as the de jacto Executive of the State, as President Grant had wisely and nec: sarily done. fair adjustment, but it was really the only adjustment practicable; any other would have involved wromg on the one hand or marchy on the other. and yet every democrat in the House, save alone Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, voted against permitting the subject to be even introduced, voted against allowing the committee to report the adjustment, voted against even giving Congress an oppor- tality to bring peace to that distracted State, voted to continue disorder, voted to invite a repe- tition of the audacious revolution of September 14, voted that discord might nold high caroival in that ridteriaden State, if only thereby the pros- pect of a democratic victory could be enhanced. And if to-day law and order have supremacy in Louisiana, if to-day revolution and anarchy are kept out, you owe the result wholly to the tact that the republicans were enabled to outvete the democrats in the House of Representatives, A POLICY OF REACTION, Mr. Blaine said he hud never sought to piay the part of an alarmist and aad no possible desire to appear sensationa!, but be ventured to say to the people of Connecticut that it was a sate thing ior {nis country not to put the democratic party in the way of obtaining coatrol of the national gov- erumeat, Sucb # resuit Would be the beginning of @ policy of reaction of which no man could see | the end; @ policy so Vioient that under the impe- tus sequired irom victory ana the conflience grow! the Wuldness of u counter revolution, overturning or aevting aside, or, at least, ausettiing many of the now accepted and most important points of public pohey. The aim of the democraiuc party now is to consolidate the South aod them secure a3 much rtbern sapport as may possibly be obtained. Anu it Most starting fact that, with the united elec- | toral votes of the iormer slave Staves, they need bata traction of the Northern vote to give chem thegovernment. Look at te tigures: Orado gdmixted the totel electoral vote will be 369, of which 185 consutute a majority. Th hetn States united can give 13% votes, leav- tug only 47 to be obtaimed out of the 231 that be- i to the North, The three States of New York, Gounecticut and California can give these ep Votes, aud your own prosperous State gape Vhat 1s always found on the lst of those ‘wisn (© controi tbe government by this com- bination. Ana if tmis design could succeed it would only ve history repeating itself. Against an overwhelming majority of the tree Staies in 1856 a smali fraction of them united witn the South and were eaabdied to jasten the Buchanan dynasty upon the country, With all the unmud- bered evils (hat tollowed, AN UNHOLY ALLIANOE. Are you in Connecticut—I speak to you not as | repubicans aim vot us democrais—but are you as Connecticut men ready and willing to have the political strength of your State used tn an “unholy alliance’? by Whicn the goverument is to be taken from the men who fougat for the Union and | handed over to the control of those who iuugnt to destroy the Union’ Fur to this compiexion wil the impending issue come. Mr. Blaine suid he re- posed ho iaitd in any spectal iorm o1 additional co- ercive legislation by Congress, nor woula be ad- vise or consemt to any Iuterierence with ao ing State goverument except under the ex- press terms of the constitution and under an exi- gency so pressing as to invoive the pubitc saiety. | wanted Is not wore law, but a better | What is public opinion and the only way to bring that avout 18 loc the Northera Staces to hold tue poiitt- cal power of the country tenaciousiy and un- waveringly in the hands of those who held the | country together in its hour of extremest peril. It 1s the Veliel of the South that a small ection of | the North can be detached, aud this tends coatin- ually to consolidate the South ou the issue oi caste | and color, Let Nortuern Urmuess be as conspicu- ous aad as enduriug ln peace as it Was in war, and | the South Wiil weary of the contest and divide on ovner_ tsues, 1 make this appeal to the North, said Mr. Hiaine, not irom unkinduess or prejadice toward the South. God knows | have neither to- ward that peopl restore kindly ieeling, to reeail prosperity, to build ap her waste places anu to make every acre, from the Potomac w the Kio Grande, fertue aud producuve and profitable, I would have every manu in the North iteel the Union Was iormed as the domestic tranquillity, provide jor tae common de- fence, promote tue general welfare, and secure the oiessings of liberty to ourselves and our postertsy.”” Aud I woul have every voter realize That it 14 IMpussibie to eXaugerate the extent and importance of his responsivity. When the name and autoority of the Union shall be everywhere Tespected; When the majesty of the law is every- Where recognized; waen the rights of the bumMblest ure everywhere conceded; when free- dom of specen is nowhere denied; when Wendell eak as treely in Georgia as Gordon aud Lamar can im New Hamp- saire, ana when every man enutied sutrage shail be freely accorded the privilege of voting, the necessity for 'irther appeals ‘o the loyalty of the Dation Wiil have passea away. PRACE DESIRE The great mass o1 tae people in this eduntry of | all patties desire peace, cordiality and kind feel- ing Vetween the North und the Soatn, and all wise Statesmansnip should loox ty that end. The demo- | cratic jeaders, anxious tw prove ihe recoustruc- ton policy of the republicans a tuilare, bave not lent their aid to bring about.narmony, but on the contrary the Soucbera leaders of that party pave thelr co-operation, and the ders, Wita til-concealed delight, have readily made tins refusal the basis of au arraign- ment and denunciation oO: republican policy, It is to-day the evident imcerest and desire of the repuvlican party to have peace, and it is quite cer- tain that the democrats think tat dlsorver leads to thelr advautaue. the republicans desire 13 oased on right and ju-- tice and pacitotiam, and Will necessarily De per- mavent, While the policy of the democrats 1® one | of reaction, if not of revolution, leading inevit+ | ably to fresa troubles, of which no man can see the end or measure tue exient, Can tne people of Connecticut, can tne peopie o: the nation vesitare between the issues thus presented | COHANSEY GRANGERS ON THE PAID PRESS. Bripeeron, N, J., April 2, 1875, To Tut EpITor or THe HERALD You have attacted Uriah Carratn and without | Cause and now we want you to publish these obituary notises give every man a chance they mean jast such as your paper which is bought by tne bloody hunded murder if you dont print em well stop your paper anit wont bave 4 sa:i im this piace He mast be bung. BRSOLUTIONS, The following resolutions were adopted at the last meeting of the Conansey Grange, on the 2uin Wit, Whereas we have heard with pain and horror of the damardiy attempt wpon the lite of Brother Carruil; nerefor Resoived, That we sincerely hope our genial triead and prover may be spared to agaiu cheer us with ais Preveuce and wasist us with his coun-ol. Resoived, That we tender to the afflicted family whose busoand wad facher bh 1 bis prime and sived, That wainst the @ y MANiractUFe svpAthy for sin by witucatng the ri low of our and defamatory manner, e resovutions be pro- a browber copy wmeeie aac, beeen at the course of the democratic | This seemed to be not only a} out ef power it would rust probably to | ‘With Col- | 1 wouid do all io my power to | Moreover, (be peace which , THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, Pe etiiendton The American Expeditions at Kerguelen and Tasmani | A MISSING LINK SUPPLIED. | Glimpses of the Phenomena Through | Clouded Skies. END OF THE EXPRDITIONARY LABOR. ‘The chief astronomers of the American expedt- tion to Tasmania and Desolation Island, for the purpose of observing the transit of Venus, who have been the only parties hitherto unheard from, have at length transmitted to the Transit Com- | mission at Washington the details of the check- | ered circumstances under which they witnessed the memoravie event. The vast distance of Desolation Isiand, its isolated position in the South Indian Ocean and = the delay 80 wisely made by the commander there, have combined to retard the news of the observa- | tions there, ulthough the telegraph injormed us that Lieutenant Commander Ryan’s party had been successiul. The labors of Professor Harkness | in Van Dieman’s Land subsequent to the occur- rence of the transit rendered an eariier account | impossible. The annexed reports are verbatim copies of those officially sent by them to the Com- mission, and are now for tne Urst time made pub- Uc through these columns. THE SUCCESSES AT KERGUELEN. REPORT OF LIKUTENANT COMMANDER GEOHGE P, RYAN, UNITED STATES NAVY, CHIR¥ OF THE | PARTY OF OBSERVERS OF TRANSIT OF VENUS | At KERGUELEN ISLANDS. U D STATES SHIP MONONGAHELA, Care TOWN, South Africa, Feb. 7, 1875., Sin—It atfords ine great pleasure to report that we were successful in obtaining observations of the transit of Venus at Kerguelen, althougn the. | chances were aecidedly against our doing 80. On the morning of the 9th the sum rose clear,. but the sky soon became overcast and remained sv throughout the forenoon, the sun only ocea- sionally sbining through thin spots im the clouds, Halt an hour before the computed tmne of first contact everyone was at his station, Dr. Kidder, the naturalist of the party, being at the cnro- hometer, in the photograpy house, and Lieutenant Commander Train with me im the equatorial | house, where he had the small equatorial, loaned by the United States Naval Academy. THE LABORS OP THE EVENTFUL DAY. Just beiore the first contact the sun shone out brightly, abling me to make a most excellent | observation, much vetter than I had ever been | able to make in Wasbington with the artificial | Venus. My eye piece was the “double tnta a | picture was taken, heavens became so much overcast that mothing! more could be done. OUSTACLES TO THE LATITUDE WORK. In relerence to the latitude observations It mov be remarked that | employed only the new Cape of Good Hope and Melbourne catalogues, aud con sequently the stars composing my palrs were sometimes so far apart that they involved a L deal Of waiting. Still It was found practicalie Wé get time stars between the stars used toe latitude. My expectation was to have got its Pairs of observations for latitade by the eng of October, and afier that to have observed for time only; bus in this I was disap~ pointed, In the records of the time observations the azumuth stars are sometimes aesignated by & number instead of by name. In such cases “a numbers refer to the list of southern ciroum)o! stars, furnished by the Melbourne Observatory and printed in No. 1,946 of the Astronons:/t Nachrichten. setween the date of my revurm& from Melbourne and the day of the transit thera was not a single clear nigut. On November 2% it cleared up at sunset, and I went to the station, expecting to make a nightof it, | begu with latitude slars, because my working list e them ran out early in the evening; but, after get, ting only two pairs, the sky became overcast, ang nothing more could be done, Nor were the day® any better than the nights. On November 2) Kh finished my apparatus for taking the small pic¢ tares during the interval between the first and second and again between the third and fourtit contacts, and, although I watched anxiously iof @ gieam of sunsiine to test it, the opportunity never came, and the first pictures takeu with is were those on the day of the transit. INSTRUMENTAL ADJUSTMENTS UNDER DIFVICULTIE It will be ovserved tnat in the records whic: | sent home there are no determinations of the jevei of the axis of the photographic telescane, nor of the distance between the objective and thd tor this ts that when 1 went to Melbourne 1 did no consider tae azimuth as finally adjusted, ana 1 did not seem worth wDile tO make aby records o| level or distance until thas was done, When T returned to Hobart Town | wated in sy jor an oppertanisy to periect the azimuth, nor could I get any pictures of the sum; conse. quently the apparatas was not used for anything whatever but dummy practice, and no special ut tentioga was paid to if till the afternoon anu © lng of December 8, when I determined the level of the axis, measured the distance between Lie oo- | sensitive place, prior to December 3 Tue oe | jective and sensitive plate and tested and fount correct ull the other adjustments, except (le azimuth, On the morning of December ) tia heavens were black and lowering. About six A. M. there was @ heavy shower, but by hali-pasc eight there were stgns Ol better weattier, wii however, proved delusive. At ten o'clock, although tne sky was hopelessly overcast, tie whole party was at the stavion and ready for work. HOW THR TRANSIT WAS MAPPED. At 11:40 A. M., toe predicted time of ti tact, not a trace of the sun Was Visible: out about twelve o'clock the clouds thinned lor a iew moments suificientiy to suow Venus hall way om to nis Jace. An attempt was made to photograph il, but Witnout success. Tuen the sul Wis agai veiled tll 12:20 P. M., when it was seed lo dostant With toe planet fully upon its disk. 4 tuat there was heavy rain for nearly am Lonr, aense clouds till bali-past two, Wien suddeniy 1% began to break away. Soon @ rift formed aboag the sun, aud at 2b. 37m. 203. P. tirst Although the sky Was never iree jrom ciouds, yet it remained cl sk the neighborhood of the sun wll Su. liu. P.M, and during that time forty-ope pictures were taken, of Which thirty-nine were excellent wud oly two Were spoiled oy the clouas, Por fhe re mainder of the transit taere were only momentary, flashes of Sunshme, but by atilizing every one of m, between Su. $2m. 41s and Se. ss. 2 53m. seventy-lour smail pietares were obtai micrometer,’ with a power of 220, I made six measurements of chords and eleven of cusps while Venus was on the sun’s first limb. betore | the second contact the clouds thickened, ana | | when the sun again shone out the brigbt strip be-. tween Venus and the sun’s edge was too wide to | be called contact, I made, therefore, eight meas- | ures of distances. Owing to cloudsI was unable to obtain any ob- servations Of the third and fourth contacts, and { though | saw Venus when about two-thirds off the last mb I could make no measurements, ta light being too teeble vo allow me to separate the | mage, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENTS. We made jorty-Six contact pictur being en- | abled by Mr. Holmes’ clever arrangement of prate- bolder, tv obtain fiteen upon a plate. In addi- | tion we got tatty iil plate negatives, upon | twenty-six of Walch Measurements can be made. EXcept during the contact exposures the silce had, Im most cases, to be moved by hand. ‘ne first exposure was made trom “ twent, five to toirty seconds after | had marked the fires contact and the Just when Venus was abour naltway of the last imo of tae sun. Lieutenant commander Train ovserved the first cantact | through the smail equatorial, using a power of | aboat eighty; bat ne thougat it noc wortn walle to record tte time, 80 much jater it became ap- parent in his glass than iu mine. Durmg the stay 61 (our Months upon tae island we nad seventy- | live days of rain or snow and but eleven days of 4 clear weather, Indeed, some of the latier would hardly be cailed clear at ome. It is, therefore, L | think, @ matter ior congratulation that the Ker- guelen expedition did not prove a iadiure, WELCOME VisiITORS. The Monongakela arrived in Royal Sound om the | evening of December 9% As I was anXious to stay through the December lunation Captain Thorn- tou, atgny request, Kindly consented to remain | | UNL 1 should ve ready. ‘ine station was broken | up on tue 10th of January. With this report I forward dupiicates of the Observations umaae dur- | jog our residence upon the Isiand, The original and negative plates I shali retain by me, as per instructions, Util Oar arrival nome, I am, very | respectuuily, GEORGE P, RYAN, Lieu\enant Commander United States Navy, Chief | oi Kerguelen party. | Rear Admiral C. H. Davis, United States Navy, President Transit of Venus Commmsiou, Wasa- ington, D. C. THE TASMANIA OBSERVATIONS. t REPORT OF PROFESSOR WILLIAM HARKNESS, | UNITED STATES NAVY, CHTEY OF THE Parr { OF OBSERVERS OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS aT Hosart Town, Feb. ;9, 1875. Sin—Bejore now Mr. Waldo will, doubtless, | have banded you the copy of our records and the | photograpns of the Transit of Venus which I tn- | trusted to his care. He will also have told you | how our efforts were, to a great extent, frastrated | by the bad weather which we experienced; but, as our detailed journal is not yet ready ior trans- mission to the commission, 1% will, periaps, be well jor me to give you a short account of our operations. The transit instrument was mounted on Octover 17, but, owing to cloudy | weather, no observations could be obtaimed sill | the evening of October 21. @ mounting of the | equatorial was Onished on October 21. Toe first experimental picture was taken with the pho- | | tographic apparatus at twenty-five minutes to | ove P, M., October 23, bat clouds prevented.a sec. | ond picture being ovtained that day. By October | 26 the focas of the photographic objectfve had been determined with a considerable degree of | accuracy, and on the evening of that day all tne | adjustments were made approximately. By Uctober 30 the roof over the photo- | grapbic telescope was finished and the | iron measuring rod was mounted. Experiments | with the apparatus were then continued till No- | vember 12, when all the adjustments, except the | azimuto and the beliostat axis, were coasidered | to be as perfect as possivie, and tbe piamb line | was suspended in the plate holder. ' THE TELEGRAPHIC LONGITUDE SYSTEM. On the afternoon of Novemoer 12 I placed the party in charge of Mr. Waldo, and went to Me bourne in order to make arrangements with Mr, Ellery tor derermining teiegraphicaily tne dit ference of longitude between my «ta- | tion and bis observatory. As permission | | to use the cable between Australia and | Pasmania had to be obtained trom London. some ime was spent in the negotiations; bat foauy | everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I re- | turped to Hobart Town, arnving there on the afternoon of November The Tasmaoian govern. | Transit house, and it was expected that the longi- tude work could be completed before the day of the transit. In this, however, we were disap- pointed. The instraments at first provided for sending clock signals turough the cable could not be made to Work om account Of the cable induction, and pew instrumeais (Which Were not finished Ull aiter tae transit) bad to be constructed in thetr place. In reality this made little difereuce; for, during the whole of that period, the sky at | Ht bart Town Was so cloady that no time observa- tions could be made, I kept no regular journal of the Weatser, bat observations Were made with the transit imstrument whenever the state of the sky permitted, aud an iaspection of the recoras | Will snow bow seldom that was, On mustor te nights Ww We did observe wo were much an- | Boyed by Giauds, amd generally oy midaigus tae } the Sun Was again obscured, aud when the ¢ HOBART TOWN, TASMANIA. 3 ; this @ serious omission, | tween Tasmania and Austratia were | Feady, Lembarked on the Swatara and saied jor Ment at once carried one of their wires into my | ing the fransit my party were ussisted by Dr. Edward Kersoner, Lientenant George F. Wilkins and Assistant Engineer He ON. Steve ‘ail of the United States steamer Swatara, wa by Major (. J. MeMabon, ot ta Ulery, Who ig &P expert amateur puote ., Without tne kind co-operation Of these geu tie uae it woud not have been possible to secure sv any pictures in so sort a time. A PARTIAL VICTORY AT THE EQUATORIAL. Baifau hour before the third contact 1 weit to {| the equatorial house for the purpose of woking loicrometrical measures, but at d:l4 P. AL. 1 was avout to commence, 4 large cioud ¢ ana hid the sun. It d.d not pass over Ul JO. cou. vous, This Was nearly five minutes besore tue pre~ alcted time of third contact, but the threau of gut between Venus and the sun’s limb seemeujia me 39 narrow that, if there was any (rata in irradiation theory of the black drop, li migut | atany instant. Under these circumstances { not begim making mitcrometrical measures tor of loging the contact. At 3h. gsm. 4%. (we passed over i Saw that the thread of light between Venus and the sun’s limb Was just oroKken, cusps being Very sharp and weil denned, At (ual Jostant the Line was ou, Som. 63. by the caroneiie ter. (Bond & Son, No. 289.) | give this obser fax tiow for What it 18 Worth, but | cannot say bow accurate itis, because | did not xctually see tie toread of Mgkt break. Alter the transit the chro- nhometer Was compared With the clocs, as iol- dows #— Clock, Howard, 625, Bond & Son, 28%. (Sideriai.) (Mean Tite.) a. A. M. 21 6 2 21 6 35 2 6 3 At (nat time the correction to Howara, 62), waa approximutely plus $m. 20s. Hence - OBey vy Boad & _ 289, corresponds approximately te | 3h. 38m. 1s. 0: local mean time, ana the contac to have occurred earlier than was pre dicted. As soon as this observation vorded i turned the double-image microwe' to the proper position and attempted to make measures ‘Of tue cusps, but in vain. The san Was Ouly Vist bie by glimpses So transitory that | could not suc- ceed In getting & single trustwortuy measure, “It may be remarked taat when the sua { peared, at 2b. 37m., the seeing Was tolersb: but vetween that time and db. idm. it 7 weteriorated, until the Images danced and flickered excessively. The suu was then covered by @ cloud ior eighteen minutes, and woen it reap- peared the definivon was mach improved. Proo. ‘ably the very great discurbance exuibited by tag atmosphere Was largely due to the flerce rays of gthe sun causing rapid evaporativn of (the rau Wich bad just ialien. | made tae following METEOROLUWCAL ONSERVATIONS. Barometer. TRErtaaiietery Time. uches. Lege P.M. . ~ Da 7 0 P.M, 26.26 ik rometer empioved Was ny anerold, Casell 1 am scarcely im @ positiom to say why tuing ave ihe physical appearances presented transit; bat, judging irom what the ¢ mitted me to see, Lam ef the opigioa that ine tuird Contact was made periecty, sharply, Willy out amy trace of the so-called “biack Prior to sourteen minutespast tnree 1 drop.” ouce or twice jaucied there were some faint in dications of an «atmospuere we planet, but of this i am jar from certain. From the oeginming of Octwoer tili De emoor Lo tue mooo was carefully watched whevever te Weather permitted; bul that Was 80 seidon (Dae We obtained oniy two occultations and one culate tio T, this 8 Of little consequence, elhave siumce determined telegraphicaily the didereuce of longitude between my Staton ; amd the Melbourne Observatory. FRROKS OF THE CHRONOMETERS, On one point | must crave tue indulgence of the Commission for having unimteutionaly vegiected the insiructions. My ciotk was mounted in one of the cells of tne Multary frison, where it Was bolted agaist an interior brick wi twenty-one inci thick, and as the was kept closed, was sudject to scarcely any change of temperature. Under these COMP (ALCES Its Fate Was provably very steady. chrouometers Were kept in the transit hous>, the temperature varied consideraviy, wud besides being compared with the clock ac ouca Wheuever they were used they were also a pared regularly at nine A, M. daily. At the tim was uncer the impression (hat Cais was all thas the inseructions required, but { find I was mid taken, The chrowometers should have beem compared twice and the temperature shoud have been noted four times a day. & hope the Commission Will not deen especially as | think iam more comparisons fave been mace than will ve required im tae reduction of the observations. Ta Teterence to the amount of work accomplished here between October | and Decemper 15, allow me to say that it bas allen far suort of my expec= tations, Lregret tos deeply, but it is due solely to the unusually cloudy weather waich prevailed daring that period, Day after day and nignt alter night [ watched the sky, and no opportantty of observing Which occurred before muidnigit was ever allowed to pass unused. JOURNEY TO N&W ZKALAND AND CHATHAM ISLAND, Ou December 16, a8 the mstraments for trans imitting longitude signals through the cabie be- Rut yet PT New Zeuland aud Chatham island. During the trip [made complete sets of peadulam observ: tons at Port Chaimers, New Zeatand, oa Decem ve 3), af Chatham isiand on Jauvary 5 and at Wut Harbor, New Zeaiand, on Jaunary it. | returned to Hobart Town oa January 29, and ai then L have exchanged lougitade sigoais by telegrapa | with the Melovurne Goservatory on seven nights, out only on five of them Were @inultaneous We | observations obtained at voth stations. I have also spent two days In Waking ases of magneric vnservations in the Royal Sucety’s Gardens, beat the site of the old Magneue Ouservatory. foe records whic Lsent nome by Mr. Walde Were copied upon feolscap paper for convenicneé ‘Ol carriage, but | will surnisd the Commission Wits) anotner Copy of them, propery entered in toe same book With my jourmai. Ihave not yet iad Ume to read Off the chronograph sheets cousin lug the observations made since January 29, bw that Will bé done as soun as possiolc, Vory res spectiully, WILLIAM f#ARKN&SS, Frotessor United States Navy and Cnet or ray. Rear Admiral C. H, Davies, United Scates Nal ta ‘sanais Gomminsima, Waanidgrouy Lae Oe :