The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-06
Secretary Fish and the DiSgraced Expo
SiliOn Commissioners.
SIDNEY WEBSTER SENT TO VIENNA.
The Sum Total Of the Congress
sional Conscience Fund.
MEXICAN RAIDS INTO TEXAS


The hasty action of the State Department in
dealing with the Vienna scandal Is now deeply re-
GREETED by the Secretary OF State, who will endea
vor to make amends for the summary deposing OF
gentlemen whose regulations are quite as good, 1t
Is said as those temporarily appointed and who,
however innocent, have been subjected to having
their names publicly paraded az guilty OF dishonor-
able acts. What should have been done, 1t Is now
conceded by the State Department, would have
been to quietly superseae the suspected parties.
who were as well known of the time Minister Jay
first announced the scandal as they are to-day.
There are rumors that the precipitate OF the
State Department will reflect somewhat person
ally on two or three prominent officials
at home and abroad, and the great diplomatic
question now perpexing the inhabitants OF the
Orphan Asylum building Is to let the whole subject
down as gently as possible 1t Is not definitely
known that Sidney Webster, Secretary Fsh's son
in-law, has plenary power to do as he pleases on
reaching Vienna, but 1t is whispered that he has
instructions to heal the difficulties in the best way
he can. 1t is asserted by the friends Of General
Van Buren, that he can show that six OF the original
appolntees were names suggested by the Secretary
OF State himself. The friends OF the latter. how
ever, reply by saying that the Secretary, In the
peremptory order first issued, only showed
how disinterested he was by not making,
IN such an emergency, distinction be.
tween friends and strangers. TO this the
defenders of General Van Buren, answer: Are his
last selections likely to be better than his 1rstP
There is mucn unpleasantness on both sides; and,
as was remarked TO your correspondent tonight
by gentleman familiar with the whole subject
"the HERALD is entitled to the credit OF exposing
what the State Department studiously tried 10
conceal, while the State Department deserves
much censure for not dealing with the scandal az
frankly at first as it bunglingy did after the first
publication OF the report"
Mexican Raids into Texas.
letter from Corpus Christi, dated April q, pub.
lished in an evening paper here, says That ut that
time there were two bands OF Mexlcans, number.
ing thirty each, who devastating that section
Of Texas from Mexico across to Texas, into the
interior and thence to Laredo. They have their
headquarters at Guerrero, Mexico, which is easily
accessible, and where they go when hard pushed
by the uprising OF indignant rancheros who have
been pundered These bands are operating prin-
cipally in Mueces county, within sixty miles Of
Corpus Christi, and defy the civil authorities.
stores are sacked and travel on the highway Is at.
tended with robbery, rope or pistol shot.
Thomas Kearney, ex-COlector OF Customs,
while returning home from Laredo to Corpus
Christi, where he had been called TO
collect government funds, barely escaped both
bands. When these raids are made the farmers
are compelled TO leave their work and shoulder
their muskets to. protect their homes. Fifteen
determined citizens from the surrounding country
OF Banquette pursued the gang of Mexican robbers
They discovered in one chaparral the evidence
that 1875 cattle had been stripped OF their hides
and In another more than sixty-eignt Catching
up with the gang running fire ensued, and they
were fortunate as to return home with seven
captured horses, the saddles being empty. Such
proceedings are frequent. The repeated raids re.
tard immigration, ruin the rancheros, reducing
them from competency TO poverty, and make all
kinds Of trade stagnant.
Revenue Marine Intelligence.
Captain A. A. Fengar OF the revenue marine
service, is detached from the command OF the De.
aware, at Mobile ana ordered to Philadelphia to
report thence to the Department; First Lieutenant
c. W. smith, from command Of the Guthrie, at Bal.
timore, to duty on the Chase, at Ogdensburg, N.
y; First Lieutenant Russell Glover, from waiting
orders to the command OF the Guthrie; Second
Lieutenant A. d. Litte1eld from duty on the Moe.
casin, at Newport, to wait orders; II. L. Sturgis,
from the Campbell, at New London, to the Moe.
casln T. d. Walker, from The Petrol TO the Camp.
bell; W. H. Roberts, from the Racer 10 Washington
City; II. ID. Smith, from the Dobbin to the Raceri
Robert Barstow. from the Nansemond to.the Perryi
L. j. simmons, from the Relief to the Nansemond.
1 the Expectation of Horses and Cereals
from Turkey Forbidden.
Owing to the scarcity Of Arab horses IN certain
! parts OF the Ottoman Empire the Turkish govern.
ment has forbidden the expectation Of horses from
the vilayets OF Bagdad, OF Syria and OF AeppO for
the next seven years, to date rom Aprl9 1873. In
consequence of the bad harvest that government
has also prohibited the expectation of cereals from
the districts OF Raustchauk and OF Yden Tor three
months from April H. 1873.
I'm portant Decision by the Comm sioneR
The Commissioner OF Pensions to-day announced
the following highly important ruling:-
Section Of the act OF March 3, 1873, provides for
no addition TO the So increase pension In any
1t is consolidation OF section 2 OF the act OF
July 25 1866, aud sections and OF the act OF July
~, 1868, with an amendment to the former sections
so as to give the same increase to the widow of the
solder sailor for the children by former wife
as for the children by herself aud to the widow OF
an officer as well as "a solder sailor. IL also
gives the increase to all the children under sixteen
years OF age OF oficers as well as soldiers aud
sailors, instead OF all but one where there Is no
widow or where she has died or remarked. In
other respects II emb0dies the provisions Uf the
three sections named. IL Is proper to add such
was the object OF the section as held by the Com
missioner OF Pensions IN lighthouses OF Congress-.
Senators Casserly and Bayard on on
Tour Of Inspection.
Senators Casserly and Bayard will leave Wash.
ington tomorrow for Richmond where they will
start out OF inspection OF the line OF the
proposed James River and Kanawha Improvement
for connecting by great water course the Chesa.
peake Bay with the Ohio River. Senator Casserly
Is q member OF the Senate Committee on Transport
tation, OF which subcommittee viii sit during
the Summer In san Francisco and perhaps in
Portland, oregon lie and Senator Bayard Will be
accompanied BY the United States engineers who
have surveyed the proposed line, and by Colonel
Darlington, President OF the James River and
Kanawha Company, and other citizens OF Virginia.
The COngressiO nj Coincidence Eund.
The aggregate amount paid into the United States
Treasury up to noon to-day by twenty men,
bers OF Congress, it being their return Of extra
compensation, is slii,O00 o., including the check
received this morning from Secretary OF the senate
Gorham. ON ACCOUNT of Senator Simmer for