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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-11
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

From his cavalry experience MacMahon Is relied
on for stable government in France.
The historian, Friedrich Won Raumer, celebrated
on the 14th inst. his ninety-third birthday
High Church English clergyman at Wolver-
hampton has Just gone over to the Greek church.
western editor recently rode sixty miles on q
cow-catcher and failed to catch the cow, after all
Alexander Heron, faxdresser. OF Dundee, Scot
land, met his death by falling three feet from bale
OF jute to the sidewalk.
"New Chicago" Is what they call it now. It is
to be hoped that the morals of the old city will be
improved under the new.
English papers tell us that the r!vet headers in q
boiler shop at Yarrow lately struck. That's natu-
raj. Wonder they didn't think OF it beiorel
John Francis Kearns sentenced TO fifteen years.
confinement for treason-felony, in connection with
Fenianism in Ireland, has just died in an insane
asylum at Cork.
Four Scotch fishermen named Walker were re-
Gently drowned together near Aberdeen. Itwoud
have been more serviceable IN their occupat ton
had they been swimmers.
Sixty thousand dollars has been offered the
government. by Western man, for the use OF
Captain Jack Tor sixty days. 1t must have been a
Jack OF another sort who made the proposition.
The London correspondent OF the Scotsman hears
from trustworthy source that at the unwilling or
the statute of Lord Derby in Parliament square,
early in July the 6lOge will be delivered by Mr. Dis
raeli.
The Cincinnati Times insidiously remarks that
"there creeps out in several OF the best Kansas
papers, fellow feeling for Pomeroy, as his trial ap
prOaches, that looks as If they had been assisted to
start national bank.u
Charles N0rdh0r has written to Ex-Governor
Hayes, OF Ohio, letter on constitutional reform.
which is regarded as very pertinent AZ this time,
considering the fact that the State Constitutional
Convention is now sitting.
The Ipswich (Engand) Journal states that on the
18th OF May, at L0westoft, Lady Smith, aged 100
years, gave dinner to 107 old people. whose united
ages amounted to 8, 22s years. about an average
OF seventy-seven to each.
Western papers are somewhat divided upon the
propriety OF the appointment Of John A. Bingham
as Minister to Japan. majority, however, seem
to regard his departure, in view Of his Credit
Mobilier record, as very fortunate.
Colonel A. X. Mcclure declares his intention to
retire altogether from politics upon the expiration
OF his present Senatorial term He expresses him.
self warmly in favor OF Alexander Henry for Mayor
OF Philadelphia during the centennial year.
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SENTENCE OF DEATH.

ANNAPOLIS Nd, June 10, 1873.
In the Circuit Court this morning Joshua Nchoi.
son, convicted OF the murder OF Mrs. Lampley, was
brought up for sentence and when asked II he had
anything to say why sentence OF death should not
be pronounced upon him, he rose and said he was
not guilty OF the murder, and declared that iles
was made to Detective Crone on promise that he
fNicholson would be made state witness. Judge
Miller then proceeded to sentence the prisoner to
be hanged at such time as the Governor may ap-
point, Governor Whyte will doubtless TX the lst
OF August, to which time Haahan, his accOmpllce
In the murder, has been respted, and then the de-
sire OF the latter to have the company OF Joshua ON
the platform Will be ratified
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THE SUMNER CONCERT SEASON ON THE
EAST SIDE,

The huge hall which the American Institute has
taken under Its special direction, near the Third
Avenue depot was opened to the public this week
for season Of Summer concerts. Mr.. Felix J.
Eben, conductor OF note in this city, has organ
lied an orchestra OF fifty performers and last
evening these musicians interpreted very choice
programme. somewhat lighter in calibre undoubt-
edly than the classic OutpOurings Of
Thomas on the west side, bus neverthe-
ess, interesting and, in general, rendered
with a commendabe degree OF spirit and effect.
The most ardent devotee OF the music OF the fu-
ture could not object 10 the "Rienzl" march, and
the admirers OF the French school were solaced by
an overture. "Roi d'Yvetot." by Adolphe Adam. the
habttues OF the Academy wept over the finale to the
second act OF "Traviata," or smiled at the shadow
dance Of ''Dinorah." Steinway Hall concert goers
found relief in Abts "Schlsf wohln or were re-
minded OF the panjandrum OF the Hub" by
"Tne Artists Life Waltz" Then came sparkling
from the an sf ws coo Of
structed fantasia on national airs by KOppitz,
OF Boston. The immortal 'Tell" overture formed .
prominent feature on the programme. The or
cnestra played WELL and with sufficient evidence Of
careful rehearsal to ensure artistic success. There
and support good music during the dog days as
well as the more aristocratic Seventh avenue.
band over which Mr.. Eben waves his wand cannot
clpnsd veterans Of Thomas, but they show
spirit and elan In their interpretations which
give satisfaction to the numerous pilgrims from
the Third and Second avenue cars. At all events
there Is not the slightest danger of q controversy
arising between smokers and anti-smokers at the
Rink, and the sturdy Teuton and his hebc frau sit
down under the metaphysical fgtree Of the huge
pirders OF the American Institute Hall in perfect
contentment, drinking In wagner, Strauss, Rude
sheimer, Meyerbeer and lager beer and watching
the cloud OF smoke that cigar and meerschaum
send in spirals to the lofty roof East and west on
Manhattan Island are now provided for during tho
haa I'D Tor In m
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A Now Literary Home.

That q number of gentlemen who sympa-
thize with the interests Of art and literature
should intend establishing home for the ben
eft of literary and artistic workers who have
become reduced by sickness or other misfor-
tunes is circumstance both honorable and
amiable, and we hope that the institution Of
that character which, it is said, is shortly to be
built near Binghamton will be success in
all the best senses Of that term. We cannot
say that our expectation is very strong, how
ever. In the true literary and artistic temper
ament there is an element which shrinks with
more than mimosa-like sensibility from any
touch bearing the remotestapproach to charity.
And even if the project should be successful,
SO far as the occupancy Of the home by GER
tain number of the order Of candidates de-
manded is concerned, it is scarcely pos
sible to imagine more melancholy spec
tacle than the ensemble would present;
and the fact which would deepen the
melancholy would be the ludicrous element
which it would be sure to contain. There is
no knowing (until such home brought the
matter to Lightly how many crushed Longfel-
lows or downtrodden Pages are to be found
among literary and art aspirants whom ''sick-
ness and other misfortunes' have kept at the
lowest round of the ladder. One meets with
o sufficient quantity of unsuccessful geniuses
in the healthy, vital world around him not
to feel pretty sure that the pleas Of sickness
and misfortune conceal many more. Such
home therefore, would be likely to benefit
those who least need benefting Shakespeare
Frustrated by paralysis would scarcely place
the prism of his soul where all life long it
should refract the rays Of charity. blind
Titan would prefer basket-making to fretting
his heavenly visions within the cold domain
of benevolent institution. A decayed
artist is not like decayed tooth. If you fill
him satisfactorily, it must be with the gold he
has earned himself
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THE PROPOSED PARTY OF IRIsH-BonN Crrr-
zENs The indianapolis Sentinel (democratic)
deprecates the idea Of a new political party
composed entirely of Hish-born citizens of the
United States, q convention to favor which is
proposed to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in
July, when IN association similar to the Ger
pledged to support Irishmen for Office in pref
erencc to persons of other nationalities, with
out regard to party lines This movement too
much resembles that of the dead and buried
Know Nothing party to expect the encourage
ment of any right-thinking foreign-born citi-
zsns. whether from Ireland or elsewhere. y
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tails, justice suffers by the process
Law good enough to satisfy society
fastens the halter around the criminal 8
neck, the Judge makes q mistake in knotting
the rope, and the gallows is accordingly
cheated. We admit that if Stokes is to be
hanged the strangulation to its last details
must be done according to law; but when
Judges blunder in the simple definitions of
crime-the A B of the Benefit is time to
be anxious, whether we have any law at all
that is unerring or even reliable in its apppli-
cation to ordinary cases. In spite Of the issues
imported into the Stokes case the killing has
no element that is novel, Either Stokes killed
Fisk or did not kill him; either the killing was
with malice aforsthought and lying in wait or
on an impulse to injure an avowed enemy or
in self-defence. ALI these points have been
raised thousand times; but law so trips up
Justice that the blind goddess cannot tell
what is in her scales. This is lamentable.
The man who shot down Fisk is alone in the
position to laugh at the laws delay. Let the
lesson of this decision be not lost upon the
State. We gratefully observe that, owing to
late modification Of the law, we have this
decision months in advance of the time we
should have had it under the older system.
That change was the result of ll-justifed
outcry against delay at this stage in other
cases. Let us, then, have our laws relating to
homicides and criminal cases generally reduced
to clear code, which will save the Bench from
the indignity of sharp correction and society
from the tableau of Justice playing hide and
seek among criminal lawyers.
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FIRE DAMP AGAIN.
Terrible Explosion in tho Henry
Clay Colliery Mt ShamOkin.
AN OPEN L A M p.
Recovery Of the Bodies Five Sufferers
Taken Out Breathing.

SHAMoKIN, Northumberland county, Pa,
June 10, 1878
This afternoon, about three O clock, while
the inside boss at Henry Clay Colliery, near
this place, was examining some of the inside
works with an open lamp. he passed into .
portion Of the mine marked out when there
fame of the lamp set fire to the gas then
accumulated. causing an explosion which
BLEW OUT THE TIMBERs,
causing q squeeze Of earth and the caving in
of the mine at the point of egress, preventing
the escape of the men therein employed. At
the time of the explosion it is believed at least
thirty-ive men were in the NINE and but few
will probably be taken out alive. As soon as
the accident occurred the alarm was given.
and
EVERY EFFORT MADE TO RELIEVE THE MEN
inside, and at five o'clock, by almost super
human efforts, the men outside. risking their
own lives in encountering the noxious gases,
succeeded in
TAKING OUT THIRTEEN MEN,
eight of whom were dead, and the remainder
will probably not survive.
At six o'clock two more dead bodies had
been recovered, and still the efforts of the
men were unceasing, reliefs being put on as Q
portion of the rescuers were worn out with the
straining toll.
THE BODY OF THE INSIDE BOSS
was found lamp in hand, showing that he had
met his death almost instantly; and the body
of Mr. John Hays the outside boss, who went
into the mine to assist in its inspection, has
also been recovered. The body of Drum
heiser, the inside boss, was terribly blackened
and disfgured.
The work Of the men on the outside for the
relief of the suffocating men inside has been
attended with great risk on account of
THE AFTER-DAMP;
but they have worked manfully, though to
little purpose as most of them were past
human aid when help came.
AS soon as the explosion occurred men were
summoned from the adjoining mines. Before
dark large numbers Of men were present to
assist in the work of recovering the bodies and
to inquire about the safety of friends employed
in the mine and the most intense excitement
prevailed.
The HERALD representative reached tho
scene Of the disaster at about ten o'clock,
going up from Pottsville with Mr.. Fulton, the
operator of the colliery, and Mr.. Hemingway,
the State Mine Inspector. These gentlemen
were very much exercised over the occur
ences of the day, and said that it was thought
that this colliery was as nearly
FREE FROM SULPHUR
as possible to have mine. They could give
no facts about the disaster, and were as much
at loss to account for the explosion as
stranger to the colliery and its antecedents.
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TRIPLE S HEET.
New York. Wednesday, June III, 1873.
THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
TO-Day's Contents OF the
Herald.

'THE STOKES APPEALl DEPLORABLE UNCER.
TAlNTY OF THE CRIMINAL LAwn-LEAD-
ING EDITORIAL ARTICLE-SIxTH PAGE
STOKES AGAIN TRIUMPHANT OVER JUSTICEi
THE COURT OF APPEALS GIVE HIM AN
OTHER CHANCE FOR HIS LIFE RE-
VIEW OF THE CASEi WHAT THE PRIS-
ONER AND HIS COUNSEL HAD TO SAYl
RENEWAL OF THE FORMER FIGHT-THIRD
PAGE.
DEATH IN THE MINESl TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
IN PENNSYLVANIA COLLIERYi THIRTY
FIVE MEN PENNED UP IN THE PITT ONLY
FIVE SAVED so FAR-sIxrH PAGE.
SPANISH ASSAULT UPON AND DISPERSION OF
FORCE UNDER MAGIN DIAZi THE
CUBAN CHIEF AND TWENTY NINE OF THE
BAND KILLED AND SIXTEEN CAPTURED
SEVENTH PAGE
ACTION OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN
MR.. PRICES CASEi COURT MARTIAL PRO-
CEEDINGS PROTESTED AGAINST SECRE-
TARY FISH'S VIEWS ON THE SPANISH
WAR ON THE HERALD-THIRD PAGE.
PROMPT TRIAL OF THE MODcCSl OREGON DE-
NUNCIATION OF THE MASSACREl KILL
ING OF PIUrE-SEvENTH PAGE.
FRANCE MUZZLING THE PRESS EXCITED SEES
SION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
THE SPANISH CABINET CRISIS-SBvENTH
PAGE.
TIE REGATTA OF THE ATLANTIC CLUB AN
EXCITING RACE, WITH THE YACHT AGNES
AS WINNER OF THE SCHOONER CUP AND
THE VIXEN, ANNA AND UNDINE WINNERS
OF THE PRIZES FOR SLOOPS-FoURTH PAGE.
rHE ASCOT tENGLAND) RACEsl ExCTTING
STRUGGLES FOR THE PRIZESi THE SUM-
MARIES-SEvENTH PAGE.
JEROME PARK RACES THE PROBABLE
STARTERS FOR TODAY POOL SALES
THE FINE CONTESTS AT PROSPECT PARK
YESTERDAY-A DEFEAT FOR THE
.MUTES"-FouRrH PAGE.
A BRITISH BARK WRECKED OFF CUMBER.
LAND lsLANDi NINE PERSONS PERISH,
INCLUDING THE CAPTAIN AND HIS
WIFE-TENTH PAGE.
CLOSING OF THE WEST TRIAL. TIE "PRo-
FESsoR" PRESENTED IN HIS PROPER
COLORS THE CHIEF JUSTICE DEMOL
ISLES THE INSANITY DEFENCE-TESrH
PAGE
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEwS-THE PRESIDENT
AT WEST PolNT-LUNG BRANCH ITEMS
CABLE AND GENERAL NEwS-SEvESTH
PAGE.
THE MORDECALMcCARTY DUEL-LOSSES BY
THE NEwBURG FIRE-THIRD PAGE.
4 DISSECTION OF THE CHARACTER OF M. r.
WALWORTH AN INTIMATE GIVES SOME
PERSONAL RECoLLECrIONSi THE GRAND
JURY lNDICTMENT-FoURTH PAGE
THE MITCHELL IMPROVISATION SCANDAL
ANOTHER UNHAPPY MARRIAGEi PROB
ABLE ACTION OF THE SENATE-MINISTER
ORR'S Observation-Disclosures PAGE.
WALL STREET BUSINESS MONEY IN GOOD
SUPPLY GOVERNMENT SECURITIES DE-
yELOPING STRENGTH-EIGHTH PAGE.
THE CONsTITUTIoNALlTY OF THE HABTTUAL
CRIMINALS ACT JUD.CIALLY AFFIRMEDl
GENERAL LEGAL SUMMARIES-FIFTH PAGE.
sBONE AND SINEwn FOR THE wEsT-woRKS
OF THE ARTISTS AND LITERATI-REAL
ESTATE BUSINESS-FIFTH PAGE.
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The MoDocs are to be tried by Military
Commission without further delay. The At
torney General having settled the knotty
points of international law and Of the rights
of independent nations bearing on the SUBJ
6ect General Schofeld has been requested to
bnstruct General Davis to proceed to business,
lsnd General Davis has accordingly been so
INSTRUCTED. They do these things much better
In France.
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will only arouse that disturbing clement In re-
gard to nationalities which natve-born oiti-
zens have long since accepted as substantially
sunk into oblivion. Much better il il that all
nationalities, American M well M foreign
born, should in this country unite in gcner-
GUS and cordial support of our great republic
can institutions than to be hedging and ditch
ing about the paltry ofice-begging politicians
of the land.
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ANOTHER FEARFUL CoLLIERY EXPLOSION,
resulting from the apparently incurable care
lessness Of the men who go into mines charged
with fre-damp carrying an open lamp, has
taken place at Shamokin, Northumberland
county, Pa In this case one Of the foremen
was to blame His dead body and those of o
number of other miners have been recovered.
A full account Of the terrible affair will be
found in our special dispatches elsewhere.
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A MURDERER SENTENCED.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10, 1879.
The trial OF Albert w. Chamberlain for the muir.
der OF George McConnaghey last January, at Sa-
lem, OHIO, came 70 a sudden and unexpected termi-
nation yesterday the counsel on both sides agree.
ing to verdict Of guilty OF murder in the second
degree The Judge sentenced hun TO tmprisonA
meat i9I I'VE,
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PER CoNTRA.--The decision of Judge Davis
affirming the constitutionality of 'the Habit
nal Criminals act is q crumb Of comfort to
peaceable citizens, although the act in ignor-
ant hands. like q two-edged sword, may cut
both WAYS
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HE CHINESE IN SAN FRANcIsco have found
good friend in Mayor Alvord. in his vetoes
OF several city ordinances passed against them
which he fifty pronounces unjust and infa-
nous; and we are glad to be assured that the
action of the Mayor upon these infamous
measures of persecution is approved by large
majority of the citizens of San Francisco.
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SOMETHING WRoSo ON THE RHosE. -The sale
of journals in the streets of cities and towns
an the Department of the Rhone has been pro-
hibited The people Of those cities and towns
have perhaps got hold Of the wrong Republic,
although it is their own.
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STRANGE SPEcrAcLE-The rejoicings in
sMurderers' Row. in the Tombs, yesterday,
over the decision Of the Court Of Appeals in
the Stokes case.
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WEATHER REPORT.
WAR DEPARTMENT. j
OFFICE OF NE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
wAsHiNGrN, d. G., June Ill A. NJ.
WAR DEPARTMENT.


For New England cloudy weather and rain areas,
winds veering to westerly and northerly during
the afternoon and light with clearing weather for
the Middle Sites and Lower Lakes,
light and fresi westerly to northerly
winds and clear or clearing weather from
the ohio Valley and Missuri to the Upper Lakes and
winds, and very generally clear weather; for the
south Atlantic States, lint 10 fresh southcry and
westerly winds and cleaDr partly cloudy weather;
for Kentucky, TennesseGnd the Gulf states east
OF the Mississippi cloudJweather and rain areas
viii probably continue dring the day.
The Weather In his City Yesterday.
The following record rin show the changes In
the temperature for the,ast twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day or last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
Pharmacy, HERALD Builmg:-
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MASTER FRANK II. WALwoRTH has been in
dicted for murder in the first degree When
he is to be tried we do not know and cannot
even conjecture.
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THE SuEz CANAL--From the traffic returns
of the Suez Canal it appears that in eleven
months of 1928 572 vessels passed through,
against 2ss in the preceding twelve months,
while the tonnage increased at still larger
rate-674, s1S tons, against 293, 1862 tons. This
gives to the short cut twenty-four per cent of
all the tonnage passing at present between
India and Europe and America. Enterprising
capitalists should not fail to note in these
facts the golden promise Of profit to the un-
dertaking which shall shorten by thousands Of
miles the ocean voyage between New York and
the shores of the Pacific, and bring an equato-
with that of Suez for the prize Of the Indian
trade.
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The Spanish MIDDLE.

Our news from Spain for the last two days
has been of a strangely confused and conflict
ing character. Yesterday, whether Figueras
was or was not President of the so-called
Spanish Republic no man could tell. Our
latest news shows that the middle was much
more serious than we had imagined. It is
quite clear that Figueras had resigned his high
position as President of the Republic and that
ri y Margall accepted the vacated position.
1t is also clear that Pi Margall formed o
Ministry which, though it to him seemed good,
the Cortes could not and would not accept
1t also seems clear that Figueras was
recalled by the unanimous voice of
the Cortes, and that the call made
upon him was that he should come back with
his former Ministers. Up to the date of our
latest news Figueras, full Of the good sense
which naturally belongs to him and which ap-
peared prominently in the HERALD Of Mon
day, seems to have done his best to form q
Ministry; but the circumstances were new
and the attempt seems to have proved q
failure The finances of Spain are dreadfully
wrong. All the INDEPENDENTLY the
financial world-knows the fact. Spanish
politicians were, or tried to be, blind. Truth,
however, must tell. 1t has so far told that
Figueras, after resigning and after accepting
fresh responsibility, has been compelled to
confess that he cannot form Ministry. New
names are mentioned-names of which the
world knows nothing and cares less but
Spain for the present, SO far as we know, al
though having Parliament, is without re-
sponsible Ministry. To our correspondent
Figueras said that it must be "a federal re-
public or o monarchy with Don Alfonso. .
May it not first be chaos?
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The Atlantic Bank Dcfalc atfo In.
dictment OF Taintor.

dictment OF Taintor.
Frank n Taintor, the late cashier of the
Atlantic National Bank was arraigned yester-
day in the United States Circuit Court to
plead to the new indictment presented against
him. His counsel being absent, by advice of
Judge Benedict the prisoner pleaded snot
guilty to all the charges, and was taken
back to Ludlow Street Jail This threatens to
be one of those tagging prosecutions which in
the end either never punish the guilty or do
it after SO long an interval that the penalty
loses its proper effect Of lettering others SINH
larly placed from repetition of the convict
offence. We have seen the shameful termina.
ton of the criminal proceedings in the case OF
the Market Savings Bank. A few months
residence in Canada was the only inconven-
fence suffered by an officer Of that institution
accused of the irregular use Of its funds.
After that he comes back with a flourish, and
it is coolly stated that the action against him
has been given up to induce him to return
Are Taintors wonderful financial abilities to
be in like manner secured to New York
Can not Wall street spare SO brilliant an
operator with other peoples money? Why
not press his trial rapidly to an issue and give
him o chance to begin honestly laboring 70,
his bread in the Penitentiary, if guilty, 0,
c1oo r;po him &c bic conduct no, bao. 100000 o