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New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

Besides the Tichbone trial, the English public
has been stimulated by what is known as The Great
Bug Case. 1t is touchingly interesting as having
two widows in it. Widow Birch let her furnished
house at Southampton to the Widow Hall, for one
year. but the lessee evacuated the premises at the end
of quarter giving as her for so doing that
the mansion was haunted by Bugs But worse oc-
Cured. While the tenement was shut up after the
widow Halls occupation, something happened
worse than Bugs viz, Burglars These feloniously
did steal and carry away much property. including,
for aught we know, the nculpated bedsteads. Ac-
ton was brought for rent and for the burglarous
damages. The trial came on before the Lord Chief
Baron of England. There was a great conflict Of
evidence. Mrs Birchs witnesses testified that the
house was rather freer from Bugs than any house
was ever known to be before and gave it as their
opinion that Mrs. Hall must have brought the Bugs
in her baggage from Scotland. The defendants
witnesses testified that the place swarmed with
Bugs and that there never was house with so
many Bhgs in it since the beginning of building.
There have been two trials of the chronological
case and we cannot learn that any conclusive decs
ion has yet been reached. Why don't the widows
decide il by single combat !
New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

ART STUDENTS will find in THE TRIBUNI
IKRE ExA published the Of Art Studies recent
delivered 10 National Academy Course Price &C. BY mall &c
New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

Before the lofty candor the delicate sweetness Ana
kindness Of certain Boston editor We are almo.,
srrucK dumb. He observes that no was about %
express astonishment at the Atlantic Bank robberv
but upon second thought he wouldn't Which !,
really good OF him. The reason he gives IS beautiful
IL Is that ne Is prepared 10 accept anything howeyo,
remarkable and outrageous as regards robbery and
murder which may be reported from this locality
Such Christian resignation makes us feel that wa
could, like the artless Twain sit up night after night
r, aiding about it over and over again, and CRYING
And we are grateful TO be told that mot only The
eyes OF the whole country are constantly directed
bither by the reign Of misrule, Of financial pancs
of pubic and private dishonesty. of rapine and Of
murder; but the whole world has learned to Iook
upon New!Hork riyaling all other cities in tbeso
sad experiences OF modern times" More than this.
our gentle critic says that we "defy parallel in any
history with which nc is conyersant." "Are things
what they SCENT Or is visions aboutp Can an
Athenian be so false to the holiest emotions of his
nature as to acknowledge consciously that NewYork
defes parallel in anythingi
New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

newspaper paragraph, for the authenticity Of
which we do not yOuch, states that women preach
ers are increasing rapidly, ten new names having
been added to the list within the last SIX months"
The Quakers have been proving, for two centuries
and over that there is no reason why woman
should not preach" if called thereto by the Spirit.
Women complain that they are kept by the selfish
ness of man out OF the professions. We have always
denied this as regards preaching and physcking;
and it is only partially true az regards making wns
and carrying on actions-at-law. But as to legal
vocatons the troubleI has been that the difficulty
is in positive fundamental and enacted laws, which
are always difficult to change. To allow women to
be attorneys, there is required much greater
breaking up Of the habits of society than to allow
them to bleed and expound the Bible. Still, the OBJ
stacles are not insuperable; and if society should
ever wish for female lawyers as it really seems to
wish for female preachers and medicine women, the
bars to the bar will be let down at once.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

We arc credibly informed that Gov. Dix
will refuse his signature to the Westchester
Annexation bill. on the ground that the pro-
iect has not been submitted to popular
vote. There is, however, very general
informal expression of acquiescence in the ex-
pediency of the proposition, THE TRIBUNE's
lucid exhibit of the various questions in
voved materially strengthening the case. The
defeat of the annexation scheme now only
temporarily postpones its final acceptance by
the people of NewYOrk and that portion of
Westchester which is chiefly concerned therein.
New-York tribune., 1873-05-19

1t is not certain that the police detectives
will be able to establish any connection be-
tween the unsolved mystery Of the Sullivan-st.
dance-house and the murder in Thompson-st.
reported in the city columns But these two
dismal discoveries reveal, as by flash of
light, something of the utter shamelessness
and abasement Of low life in great city.
The white paramour of a negro ruffian found
murdered, and bloody traces of what seems
to be another foul crime,-these show how
the substratum of life is made up. To add to
the tragic events of the past few days, sew
eral peculiar suicides are noted elsewhere,
filing up a dark chapter of sudden and
violent death.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

The new piece "a Boy Burglar" by Stanley
MacKenna, was produced at the BowerY Theatre
last night. tg ss.Ms bS3ia3 On aA fsAH
1t is reported that "Oofty Gooftn is soon to APP
pear at Niblos and that he will be followed by Miss
Lulu Prior In new play written for her by young
journalist of this city.
The Summer season at the Olympic Theatre
opens with the Coleman Sisters, and 1t is reported
that the next regular season will begin with the
new Lydia Thompson Burlesque Company.
The names OF several literary adventures are
mentioned as the authors OF the play, 'Wlthout
Heart,n at the Union Square Theatre. Suggestions
OF this kind are more wicked than literary piracy,
for they are made to injure the real author OF an
unsuccessful play by attributing the authorship to
persons whom 1t is known cannot write successful
niecea. +
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WHAT BLESSING To BE AN AMERICAN
CITIZEN How more than Roman are his
rights abroad He can be hurried to Jail by
Spanish pettifoggers, immured in Spanish
Fort, refused any communication with the
outside world, and the mustachioed Don, who
lives in palace and plays turnkey, can, with
impunity, refuse to give any account of his
action! A United States Consul General who
humbly ventures to inquire the reason why q
sovereign citizen is placed in durance vile can
be snubbed day after day by the Don afore-
said without protest from the United States
government Hold your heads high, citi-
gems of the American Republic, who tread
the soil wherever waves the blood-red and
Sellow-jaundiced flag Of Spainl Hold your
heads high while you are cut of prison, for
once inside the dungeon you may rot before the
Don will be incommoded by sharp firm
interrogatory that could jar on his sensitive
nerves
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BROOKLYN COMMON COUNCIL.

What the city WorEs Demand to Run
Their Department Next Year-Opposi.
ton to the Assembly Bridge Charter
Amendments.
The regular stated session Of the Brooklyn Board Of
Aldermen was held yesterday afternoon. President
Clancy in the chair The estimate of the COMMISSIONER
OF Board Of City Works Of expenses Of said Depart
ment to be raised the year ending April 80 1874
received and read. This Departments asks s3lss70
$4,000 than the estimate Of last year The items
are as follows :saarles Of Commissioners Secretary.
Chief Engineer, &c, $7775 printing stationery, &C.,
$1,000 Ridge wood engine house. SllS63l 75 repairs to
engine NO . slaoo; repairs e engine No szaa5; re-
ki is0 Prospect Hill engine house, s7s6O Prospect Hill
Reservoir S5ll5; Rldgewood Reservoir $3.50; ponds
and conduits S2 $685. taxes 5000 distribution and re-
pairs l94Totai $s $40 rs The communication was
fefeffed to the Committee on Water and Drainage.
Alderman RoPEs presented the following resolution
concerning the proposed Assembly amendments to the
"Act 10 amend the bridge charter!- -
sembiy from Kings county be and they hereby
ncsy requested to their best efforts 10 defeat the
amendments made In the Assembly to the Senate bill,
entitled An act 70 amend the charter OF the New York
Bridge Company having for Its object the acceptance by
the cities Of the stock held by private stockholders aud
the appointment by the Mayor Of Board OF ten d.
.aResolved That the City Clerk be and he is hereby
directed TO forward forthwith TO the Governor Of the
STATE also TO each member OF the Sc nate and Assembly
from Kings county copy Of the foregsna resolution
Alter warm debate the resolution was adopted
The h OF May being national holiday the boaIo Or
dsred that al public otces BE- closed on Frioay ps&s
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STRANGE SUICIDE.
A Girl OF Fifteen Takes Pc

A Girl Of Fifteen Takes Poison.
Coroner Kessler yesterday called to No is Suffolk
street to investigate singular suicide which oc.
Cured there the night previous Emma Kurz, q way
ward sefwiled GIRL not fifteen years of age, several
months past had been learning the business
with lady at 20 East Tenth street. who noticed
tervals that Emma acted somewhat strangely. Last
Friday evening Emma left her fathers house for her
four hours later said to her, steg-mother that
confessed to n.y,... .:sel. Paris green because
she was tired OF life and said she had to apply to two
the druggists being somewhat afraid to sell 1t TO her
Emma utterly refused to give the motive which
prompted her to swallow the fatal draught A doctor
was called and administered antidoes, but with no
permanent result and death cnsued Sunday evening, ~
previously The parents deceased being anxious
70 know whether she had any organic disease requested
Deputy Coroner Leo TO make postmortem examina.
ton the body, which he will do to-day There is
doubt however, but that Emma died from the effects OF
the poison An effort will be made by Coroner Kesser
= learn the name the druggist who sold the poison 70
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THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY.
To-Day's Contents of the
....o Herald.

"a PEACEFUL CHANGE IN THE FRENCH Elk.
ECUTIvEi WILL 1T END IN PEACE OR
BLOODY REVOLUTION su-EDITORIAL
LEADER-SIxTH PAGE.
PRESIDENT MAcMAHON OUTLINES HIS
POLICYl CONSERVATIVE ADDRESsl
ORDER TO BE RESTORED, THE NATIONAL
TERRITORY FREED AND THE ARMY RE-
ORGANIZEDi THE PRESENT CONSTITU-
TON OF THE CABINET THEIRS AND THE
ORLEANS PRINCES-sEvENrH PAGE.
AN HOURS CONVERSE WITH THE DUO DE
BROGLIEi WHAT THE PRESENT FOREIGN
MINISTER OF FRANCE HAD TO SAY
ABOUT THEIRS AND THE REPUBLICi
MONARCHICAL Observation-Disclosures
PAGE. M2 Nut
u NATION VERSUS A NEWSPAPER! CONSUL.
GENERAL TORBERT TELEGRAPHS THE
ARRIVAL OF MR. O'KELLY IN HAVANA!
NO ONE PERMITTED TO SEE MR.. PRIcEl
THE INQUIslTION-LIKE SECRECY OF HIS
JAIIIERS-SEvENTH PAGE.
UNCLE SAM SUES THE INFAMOUS MoBILIER
RING TIE COLOSSAL SWINDLE OF THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY ABOUT TO BE
FULLY EXPOSED IN CONNECTICUT I'M
MENSE OUTLAWS WILL SOON BE RE-
QUIRED, AND TIE UNION PACIFIC
ALREADY NsoLvENT THE INSIDE
WORKINGS OF THE INIQUITY-THRD PAGE.
CAPTAIN JACK STILL DEFIANT THE ATTITUDE
OF OTHER TRIBES-CABLE AND GENERAL
NEwS-SEvENrH PAGE.
rRE INDO-EURoPEAN THROUGH LINEi THE
CORRESPONDENTS BETWEEN Nj. LESsEPS
AND MINISTER IGNATIEFF PUBLISHED IN
TEE ENGLISH PRESS-SEvsNrH PAGE.
STOKES AT THE END OF HIS LEGAL TETHERl
THE FINAL ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE
APPELLATE COURTS ais STATUs-THIRD
PACE
DIVERS OPERATING UPON THE sUNKEN AT.
LANTIC! MORE BODIES TAKEN QUIT
THE REMAINS HORRIBLY MANGLED-THE
EIGHT-HOUR STRIKE OF THE CAR
PENTERS-THIRD PAGE.
UNFOUNDED CHOLERA sCAREsi RIGID QUAR-
ANTNE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AD-
yICES-MARINE NEwS-TENrH PAGE.
OPENING DAY AT DEERFOOT THE TROTTERs
AND THEIR TIME-THE FLEETWOOD MEET
NG-WORK OF THE MAYOR AND THE
MUNICIPAL BUREAUS-THIRD PAGE.
FRAUDULENT ERIE DIvIDENDsl BILLS PRO-
DRESSED IN THE LEGISLATURES THE
TEMPERANCE AND ALDERMANIC QUES-
TlONS-TENTH PAGE.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE JERSEY EPIs-
COPAL CONVENTIONS CLERGYMEN'S CON-
PENsATIONi THE EPISCOPAL SYLLABUS
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN
GENERAL AsSEMBLY-TESTH PAGE.
EHE TAINToR HALF-MILLIoN EMBEzzLEMENT |
: THE OCEAN BANK CASE DIR. BROWN
SENT TO SING SING GENERAL LEGAL
sUMMARIES-FIFTH PAGE.
BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS. IN THE WALL
STREET BOARDS A QUIET AND HEALTHY
TONE PREVAILING LIVELY TIMES PRE-
MONISHED-FoURTH PAGE.
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FERDINAND DE LEssEPs' GRAND As1Arrc
RAILWAY PROJECT is simply scheme to con-
meet Russia by rail with British India. The
gap to be filed on the line indicated between
st. Petersburg and Calcutta is only a stretch
of some twenty-five hundred miles across
the deserts of Central Asia, where, in the
Winter, everything Is showed in and froze1,
up, and where, in the Summer, everything is
burned up. 1t would cost Russia, with her
system OF contractors rings, hardly less than
one hundred thousand dollars mile to build
this road, SO that the gap mentioned will re-
quire the sum of two hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars to rail it over with single track.
But what is this sum compared with the pos
session Of British India, which this road will
transfer to Russiaa That Is the question.
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The CONGRESSIONAL EXCURSION PARTY
some seventy members in number, en- route up
The Mississippi from New Orleans, have struck
for st. Louis. 1t is surmised they are travel
ling for recreation, information, speculation
Hnd good dinners, and that their tour SO far
has been very encouraging.
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determined to overthrow him. AS long as the
Orleanists believed M. Theirs would adhere to
his old love for their dynasty, and would use
his power in the end to favor their ascendency,
they supported him but when it became evil
dent he looked more to public sentiment and
the welfare of the country than to their party
they united with the other monarchists
against him. His great services in bringing
France out Of her terrible condition, which
the war Of the Empire had precipitated and the
Commune had aggravated. were no longer re-
membered or appreciated by the monarchical
factions. Whatever might have been his pref
erence for any particular form of govern
ment he saw the Republic only was
practicable, and, as patriot and
far-seeing statesman, he gave that his sup
port. In this lay the great offence in
the eyes of the m onarchists. He was for the
country; they were for themselves and party
Had the Right really dreaded the spectre of
the Commune there was no need to supersede
M. Theirs, for he had been and was the i'm
placable enemy Of the Commune and all other
dsorganizers. Marshal MacMahon could
hardly be more conservative. In fact fear of
the Commune was pretence. The Republic
is what the Right and all the reactionists
feared. A.sE is't ae@
we believe that Marshal MacMahon will
study the will of the people while holding
. firm rein over disorganizers of all classes
Now, that the executive government is
rehabilitated in him, he will, perhaps, feel
the profound responsibility Of the position
and be more ambitious Of serving the country
than any faction or party. The Ministry he
has appointed is especially conservative. and,
though its members or some Of them may have
had royaist or imperialist proclivities, they too
may be careful not to plunge France into civil
war by a reaction that would be most distaste-
full to the people Marshal MacMahon, in his
address to the Representatives Of the Assem-
bly,, accepts the charge Of President of the
Republic, and it is fair to presume he will be
loyal to the trust conferred. Again, in his
message to the Assembly yesterday, he de-
clares emphatically his purpose to be con-
sentative, to maintain order and to establish the
government. 1t is not OF oil probable that the
royalist and imperialist factions can continue to
act together in any reactionary scheme to
establish another form of government. The
republicans, on the other hand, will be united,
probably, and be strengthened by the support
of M. THEIRS The present provisional gov
ernment may be continued for some time, for
the members Of the Right are afraid to 60 be-
fore the people in an election for new Assem-
bly,. A coup d ftat by any of the factions would
bring fearful bloodshed, anarchy and great
misery to France; for the Republic is too
strongly intrenched in the Assembly and
hearts Of the people to suppose otherwise.
Then there is no doubt that Marshal Mac
Mahon will observe his oath - President Of
the Republic and pursue the prudent and
conservative policy he has avowed.
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NAVAL ORDERS.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 20, 1873.
Surgeon G. @. Wells is ordered to the New YORK
Navy Yard Surgeon NJ Bradley has been detached
from the New York Navy Yard and awaits orders.
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lCHARsrNo--Our Central Park just now, in
tls blush and flush and delicate freshness of
~ Spring beauty. A precious emerald in .
el}g setting
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DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET.

# WASHINGTON, May 20, 1878.
Professor G. F. Peters discovered on the morn
ing OF the 26th inst. new planet OF the eleventh
magnitude right ascension 181 deg. IA min. south,
and I'll deg. Is min. destination. Motion due west
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PARTIES In FRANcE.-There are the old
Bourbons by "divine right" thoroughly dyed
in the wool, ''who never forget anything and
never learn anything" and the younger
Bourbons only partially dyed in the wool;
and the imperialists, who believe that the
'Bonapartes always come back again." and
the conservative republicans, '"arf-aud-arf"
and the radical republicans; and, last and
most dangerous Of all in revolutionary out
break, the COMMUNISTS; but steadily gaining
ground over them oil is the practical party Of
the Republic.
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city's guests, and splendid ball. when all the
fair women and brave men, of the resur-
rected city, and the burned district particu-
larry, will be present, will conclude the fes-
tivities. Verify. that little kick of Mrs.
OLeary's cow has been the means of creating
. huge commotion among the Chicagoans
There is every prospect the affair will be a
complete success, and we trust it will proveso.
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bone Of which the duellist is utterly incapable
Mccarthy proved his cowardice by his chal-
lenge. He dared not face public opinion. He
preferred disobeying the laws of God and man
he preferred running the risk Of taking life
and rendering at least one family miserable
to Drawing the verdict of tattlers and scandal
nongers. Yet we pity rather than blame him.
The real murderer of Mordecai is public
opinion. Streams cannot rise higher than
their source. It can hardly be expected that
Mordecai should disbelieve in the utility of
duelling when his own venerable mother is
whether his friends would bear the challenge
to his opponent, ''Bs of good cheer, my son.
If they refuse, I'll carry it myself" Women
kept the Southern rebellion alive, women
tainted Mccarthy into murder. 1t is they
and the men Of the clubs who are the greatest
sinners. They sin because Of ignorance. The
greatest enemy of mankind is ignorance, and
ignorance is not confined to the South. The
code of "honor'' taints the Dir, and even amid
the intelligence of the North the cufled darl-
ings Of the clgbs are ever lowering on the
verge of challenge. Every man feels
that the next dispute may lead to
insult and if insulted how can his
manhood be proved except by resorting to
pistols9 Will public opinion be satisfied with
a knockdown argument il the insulter boasts
the stouEer nmnuscles It Is extremely doubt
full, and therefore weapons are demanded,
though the man of muscle be. equally famous
as dead shot The insulted person dies for
having been told that he lied or cheated at
cards or gossiped about woman. But what
Of itf He has protected that delicate, micro
scopic, intangible thing men call "honor" in
order to be their own worst satirists. Again
we ask il it be not time that moralists turned
their attention to this vital subject? Will not
pulpit and press join in condemning the most
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eXpect Aacnutuou WILL Do tnelr luStIuIueut 70
accomplish that
We are inclined to believe there Is no un-
derstanding between the monarchical and i'm
perialist factions known as the Right, to es-
tablish any government in place of the Re-
public. No doubt they desire to destroy the
Republic; but each has its separate ambition
and purpose, and is waiting for whatever
chance its factious and disorganizing course
may develop. The first thought was, we
suppose, to preserve order after driving M.
Theirs from the Presidency, and this led
them to choose the popular and able soldier
MacMahon-as Executive on the instant.
Having been Marshal of the En-
pire the imperialists hope, perhaps, that
he will lean to the Bonapartes, and either by
coup d ttat or insidiously re-establish impe-
rialism. The legitimists and Orleanists may
entertain similar hope, or, at least, the hope
that in the scramble or anarchy that NAV
ensus. they may come to the top. 1t matters
little to any Of these factions how France may
suffer or bleed, or how the liberties Of the
people may be crushed, SO that they may have
chance to rule. They are playing desper-
ate game, like gambler in the last extremity
depending upon the chances that may arise
But MacNIahon is true patriot and as
honest as he is brave, and will disappont
them. He viii study the will of the French
people rather than yield to the schemes Of
factions and politicians ttt
Marshal MacMahon, though not politician,
cannot be ignorant of the causes that led to
the deposition of NJ. Theirs. He must know
that the republican sentiment Of the country,
as expressed in remarkable manner at
nearly all the supplemental elections to
the Assembly and, as shown in many other
ways, induced the retired and venerable
Executive to lean to the Republic as the only
practicable government for France under
existing circumstances, and that, as q conse.
Quence, the royalists and imperialsts were
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ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

wALLACK's THEATRE, Broadway and Thirtcent
Dtreot--0uR AnxRICAN Cousin