The New York Herald Newspaper, November 14, 1871, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROVRIETOR. Volame XXXVI ~ ABLUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNIIA AND EVENING, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowers.—Tar PurxourNnon— Brurua. NIBLO' ARDEN, Broaawar, between Prince and Bee ree a Un ANPRICA™ COUSIN. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, corner ot Sh av. anc 2d sth EmLsEs OGk. jr LINA EDWIN'S THEATRE, No. 720 Broadway.—Orera Bourrk—La Grands DucnxasR, FIFTA AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-foarty strect,— Tur New Duawa or Divouc OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tog BaLLat Pan. Tomine oy Luxrry Dowrry. ST. JAMES THE, shih etrcet and Broad: way.—FaNcunr?® Pa LED WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Uh mreet.— ROGEDALE. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corasr But st.—Parform- ances afternoon end evening—Tux Boy Dergcrive, ROOTH'S THEATRE, 88d et, between Sta and 4 ava. -- Dor; O8, THE CrIOKET ON Tit HEART, STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth etreet.--RUS9AN CON- orer, 3 BROOKLYN THSATRR— MRS. F. 8. CONWAT Divorce, PARK THEATRE, opposite City Hail, Brooklyn.—Oorry Goorr. ONION SQUARE THEATRE, Fourteenth st. and Broad- way.—NrGRO ACTS—BORLEBQUR, BALLET, £0. THEATRE COMIQUR, 614 Broadway.—Couto Vooar WB, NEUKO ACIS, AO. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTREL MAu! ihek Tur Sax Feascisco Missranie, AUl* 58 Broadway, RRYANT'S NEW OPERA HOUSE, 884 st. detwoen 6th 80a (ub avs.—Baya41"s MINSTBRUS, TONY PASTOR'S OPFRA HOUSE, No. 201 Ro: — NFGRU ECORNTRICITING, BURLESQUE, £0. Matinee at i ASSOCIATION HALL, &¢th street _ Fg Soe t and $4 ave,—Leorurr NEW YORK CIRCUS, Pourteenth strest.—Sczxes SATS, &O, Matinee at 234. r i ‘k, Tuesday, November 14, is7t. OF TO-DAY’S HERALD, vertisementa, Advertisements. S—Municipa! matiers: The Situation Yesterday in the Public _Departmenis; Kemowals and Ap- Polutments by the Comptrotler—\Novements of General Sherman—The Connecticut Murder- ess: Adjournment of the Trial of Aira, Lydia Sherman—About Botts: Who Gave Him the Whiskey ?—Atiairs on the Pacific Coast—New Railroad m_ Colorado—Phe Misaourt Rail- Toad Disaster—stscellaneous Velegrams—The Cuuren ‘Troubles in Hudson, 4—The Wreckea Whalers: Full Detat's of the Great Disaster in the Arcue Ocean; Thirty-three Snips Crushed by icebergs; Loss $2,690,000 27,000 Barreis of Ul; List ot ken, Women aud Chi:dren saved; Probavle Loss of Life— Loss of the American Brig Shelehot with all cept the Captain—The Kvan, : What the Delegates ‘Themsely About their imterview with Gortchakott - cicty of the Army or the Camberiand—Hign- way Robbery in Westchester, S—Brookiyn’s Burdens: The City of Courches Awake to Her Wrongs; Redress Near at and; the Worx of Rooting Out Repeaters Progross- wag; A Photograpa of Public Opinioa—Meetin; of the Brooklyn Common Council—Fiestwoo Park: Two Capital Trots—Trotttog m Phtia- delpma—Workingwomen s Protective Uoton— Fatal Accident on Smipboard—Bold Highway Robbery. €—Etitorials: Leading article, “The Popular Up- Tisiug in New York—The Necessity of Thor- ougit Municipal Reform’—News; from Wash- ingtun—Amusements—The Weather—Amase- Ment Announcements. 7—Judicial Prosecution of the Ne ireland—"he Pope and Pr Taters and the Bovapart: Switzerland: Wisustrous and E: in Geneva—Teiegrams from Engl) and France—important Irom cuba—federal Ou Tages in North Carolina—The Luxperial Musi vite: The frince Stii Neptune's Guest; turn Visit of Admiral Rowan to the Abreck ‘Te.egrams—Busi- Yesterday — Misceilaneous ness Notices. @—The Hroaiway Widening: Argument on Ap- peal to the Supreme Court, General Term— The Riverside Park: Legal Controversy over te Awards and Assessments—Financial and Commercial Reports—Cattle Market—Vomestic Markets—Marriages, Births and Death:—Ad- Fertivonents, 9—Advertisements, 4@—New York City and Brooklyn Courts—Small- pox: The Epidemic tm the City—vnolera: Forty Veaths on Board the Steamsnip rank- ln—Shipping Intelligence—adverilsements, 31—Advertisenents, 19— Advertisements. Tae Bartimore American says:—Mary- leand—‘My Maryland”—will go for Grant in 1872. It will bave a big democratic majority to get over if it does. Tae Troops in Sours Casoxina, enfore- ing the Ku Klux law, recently invaded Cieve- land county, North Carolina, and arrested a oumber of South Carolina citizens who had fled. The people of Cleveland county look apon this as a flagrant violation of “State rights,” but State rights is such an unseemly phrase just now that it is an unforiunate one for them to use. Governor Gratz Brown, having declared himself a temperance man, the Cincinnati Hnguirer says he merits there- for the approval of all good men, and adds, “4f other men in high position would go and do likewize public morality and virtue would be greatly promoted.” This is a wise sugges- tion, especially adapted for the consideration of those mon in “high position” who get “high” on Cincinnati whiskey. Tae News rrom Cupa.—By cable telegram from Havana we bave important news from Cuba. The Spaniards are becoming more vindictive. Colonel Estrada, of the iosurgent army, the son-lo-law of General Aguilera, was executed -by the authorities, acting in the name of the monarchy. King Amadeus bad created a special Order of the Cross for the the island, Affairs are again beginning to look decoration of Spanish volunteers on exceediugly serious in the Gem of the Antilles, His Housess tHe Pore bas not requesied jhe privilege of an asylum in France from President Thiers, The first report to that effect is untrue, to-day by a Henan telegram from London, The Roman Catholic Caurch is evidently dis- turbed at the centre of unity, but we incline to the opinion that the exact cause of the com- motion is scarcely known as yet outside of the Vatican. Disposixne oF THE offenders. penalty of the law. Uo must not further stain iteclf with blood, Tue Fopalar Uprising tm New York—Thoe Necessity of Thorough Municipal Reform. The revolution that swept over New York on Tuesaday last was made by the people, and not by the politicians. It was intended to accomplish two objects—the rebuke of official corruption and the overthrow of tho oligarchy by which we have been raled for the last five or six years. The result of the election was in reality accomplished by the citizens who seldom vote or take any interest in politics. They determined to prove the strength that lies behind political organizations ; and they moat effectually succeeded. The politicians were, of course, active in the movement. The republicans naturally united in any com- binalion that could break down the democratic preponderance in the cily. Tae outside democrats put forth their favorite candidate and worked with ardor in the cause. Bat the republicans proper cou'd not have raised over forty thousand votes, and twenty thousaad is the outside streagth of the Young Democracy, The remaining twenty thousand votes by which the defeat of the Tammany candidates was secured came from the non-politicians, who gave themselves up for one day to the cause of honest government and political regenora- tion. Their action is as encouraging to the hopes of those who sincerely desire municipal reform as it is promising to the future of the republic, that there is a latent power in the people which, on great occasions, can spring forth into light and accomplish’ mighty worke, It shows that while the great miss of business men are willing, in ordinary times, to leave the machinery of political action tv those who make a business of politics, they are, nevertheless, ready, when the necessity arises, to vindicate their own rizhts, and able, when thorouzhly aroused, to overthrow the plans of the shrewdest of politicians. Nevertheless the political revolution made by the recent election is thorough and sweep- ing, and its effects will long be felt in New York. It has broken down old lines, and utterly destroyed the great preponderance of one political party at this end of the State. The enormous democratic vote cast in this city for the past six or eight years has frequently swept away the repub- lican majorities in other parts of the State and has been the terror of that organizatioa. Metropolitan commissions, reg- istry laws and all sorts of schemes have been year after year concocted by the State Legislature, with the object of breaking the power of the democracy in their strong- hold; but they all resulted in failure, and it has been left for the unscrapulousness, ava- rice and dishonesty of democrats themselves to accomplish the end for which their political opponents have so long labored in vain, The political portion of the republicans entered upon this crusad: for city reform for the pur- poss of securing a great partisan advantazge— the disruption of the New York democracy, This is now effected, and, moreover, a Legisla- tare is chosen in which the republicans have sufficient strength to frame just such a law as they may please for the government of New York. The victory ia this city, however, be- longs to the reformers, and not to the republi- cans alone; and nothing is more certain than that they will take advantage of the powot they bave won and will accomplish a com- plete reorganization and reformation of the municipal government, The people have grown so heartily tired of misrule, and so dis- gusted with the bold corruptions of office- holders, that they are prepared to receive wits favor any change .that promises to rescue them from the hands of. political hucksters. They will not be content simply with a transfer from one set of scheming It proves of Missouri, So are we specially informed Communge.—In our telegraphic columns this morning it will be found that the Courts Martial at Verauilies are rapidly disposing of the Communist Over ten thousand have been dis- charged and nearly eight thousand have been convicted. It is gratifying to know that no Communisi has, as yet, suffered the extreme If President Thiers really wishes to found a republic it will be weil for him to be magnanimous. We shali be glad to hear thet the sentence pronounced upon poor Roses! has been commuted. The infant repub- partisans to another. The reform they de- mand is one that will give them honest, intelligent public officers, without regard to politics and independent of all party obliga- all municipal offices from ‘the 1st of The February and either leave tho President of the new Board of Aldermen to discharge the duties of Mayor until the spring of 1873 or give to that Board the appointment of a Mayor until the next charter election, If the newly elected Aldermen select John Cochrane as their President the city will, in the former Case, secure an acting Mayor who thoroughly understands the whole machinery of the New York government, whose honesty, in- tegrity and capacity will be admitted by all, and whose intimate acquaint- ance with our public men would enable him to make excellent selections for the seve- ral departments, shou'd the appointing power be loft in bis hands. The reformers could not probably adopt a better programme, or one that would give us more speedily or more effectually a sound reorganization of our muni- cipal government. The work of cnacting a new charter, to take effect in 1873, could then be proceeded with deliberately, and suffl- cient time could be expended on it to insure its perfection in every feature. Our oilizens have rendered thelr verdict emphatically enough this month, and would willingly be spared the excitement and trouble of an-elec- tion in the spring. They have signified their faith in the reform movement, and hence will accept the action of the Logislature cheer- fully, and give their support to any municipal government it may provide for us, 60 long as the character of the officers chosen to conduct it is such as to warrant public confidence. John Cochrane wou'd make an eflicient, honest and popular Chief Magistrate, and there should be no opposition to his selection as President of the new Board of Aldermen in view of the probable action of the Legislature. The cer- tainty of the coming change In the city admin- istration does not, however, render it less imperative o1 the present Mayor to fill the vacancies existing in the depart- ments with competent and acceptable officers. With Greeley, Tilden and Stewartin the Do- partments of Parks and Public Works the reformation of tie city government would -be already commenced, and under such a Mayor as John Cochrane no unneccasay changes would be made. The people look to the reform party for the regeneratioa of the city, but (bey also expect Mayor Hall to perform his duty faithfully so long as he remains their chief executive officer. The time has gone by for political strategy. What we want now is a reformed government, inde- pendent of party, and the sooner the work is commenced the better, . 0 Cholera Come. The German steamer Franklin arrived in the Lower Bay yesterday from Stettin, Germany, having put into Halifax on the route for asupply of coal, She has cholera on board, forty-one deaths from that diseaso oc- curred during the voyage. The -most stringent restrictions of quarantine were at oncs brought to bear upon the unwelcome visitor, and hopes are entertained that the cool, frosty weather will modify its con- tagious character. Now that it is here, how- ever, we must relax no efforts at cleanliness as to our strects and houses, Dooiors disa- gree as to its virulence in cold weather, and the fact of its sudden appearance upon the ves- sel afier she had been ten daya at sea would tead to confirm the opinion held by some physicians that the cold weather does not affect the viru- lence of the contagion at all. But in addition to the new arrival the smallpox is on the in- crease here, and Jude Bosworth, of the Board of Health, even intimates that that Board is unable under present circumstances to combat the disease with any success. We must, therefore, be especially careful, and we must urge upon our quarantine officials the greatest vigilance. In an emergency like this let not Perth Amboy and the avarice of some of our shipping merchants step between us tions and intrigues. This they are determined to secure as the result of their recent victory, and this must not be denied them by the suc- cessfal reformers. The old political leaders who have been overthrown by this tremendous revolution should accept the situation and not endeavor foolishly to fight against fate. Those public officers who have been convicted before the people of corruption and unfuithfulness to the trast confided to them must, of oourse, stand on one side and give up all thought of again acquiring influence and prominence in any party. But the partisans who are not implicated in official mis- conduct, and who yet, for old associations and from pride or fancied principle, still cling to the Tammany organization, may as well give up the ship, and do the best they can to assist in lifting the city government out of the mire of politics and putting honest men in office. There must neces- sarily be an interregnum of from two to three months’ duration between this time and the organization of thé State Legislature before any decided change can be made in the municipal government tbrough the means of » new charter or by amendments to the present law. Several prominent officers have already resigned their positions, and the retirement of Tweed is only a question of a few hours. If Mayor Hall will read the lesson of the recent election aright he may do much to prepare the way for a non-partisan adminis- tration by fillng the existing vacancies with good men without distinction of party. Horace Greeley, with his practical good sense and his sturdy honesty, would make an ex- cellent Park Commissioher in place of Sweeny, while Judge Hilton's office might be well filled by Samuel J. Tilden, who has dis- tinguished himself in the cause of re- form. The Department of Public Works, which has been so grossly abused by Tweed and his gangs, should be placed by Mayor Hall at once in the hands of some practical and efficient man such as Stewart, the well known builder. With such appointments as these Mayor Hall would set an example to the State Legislature that might be useful to the city, and would, more- over, prove his readiness to yield to the will of the people, so plainly expressed at the . ballot box. The successful reformers will no doubt effectually perform the work for which they have been chosen as soon after the meeting of the Legislature as practicable. It is proba- ble that they will at once take charge of the city government by an amendment of the present charter, which shall vacate and safety. In the excitement of watching for our royal visitor, the Grand Duke, we had completely forgotten this ghastly guest whom a month or two ago we were looking out for. Alexis’ coming had chasd away all the dismal appre- bensions of the cholera coming. We were preparing to give our Russian guest a joyful NEW YURKK HERALD, TUESDAY, NOUV Chief Junicveo of Ireland aud an Irish Editer. The Heraxp special telegram from Dublin which we publish this morning goes to show that Ireland is becoming really excited over the consequences of the jury verdict which acquitted the man Kelly of the charge of mur- der of Head Coustable Tallot. The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench partakes of the agitation. He has seen fit to put aside the ermine and enter the lisis for criminal argument and recrimination with a newspaper writer. The editor of a Dublia journal bas been arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for some months in the common jail for the crime of libelling his Lordship in consection with bis remarks on the judicial conduct of Kelly’s trial during the period of that investigation. This appears to be a very poor buriness for the “right trusty and well-beloved cousin ard Counsellor” of the Queen of England, as his Lordship is styled officially. Curran instructed a for- mer Justice of Ireland as to the danger of de- scending from the bench in order to fight per- sonal battles, for the reason that if the digni- tary is defeated he may find it difficult to bide his disgrace by again muffling himself in his robe of office. Smollett tells that when Rode- rick Random’s man Strap threw off his coat that he might enter into a pugilistic encounter in the streets of London and got well beaten by bis adversary he found that his coat had been stolen by one of the persons in the crowd, leaving him sore in body and half naked. It may be so again, even with His Lordship the Chief Justice, for this man Pigott appears to be a fassy personage who delights in the troubles of agitation. In the meantime the people of the South of Ireland remain jubilant over the popular ver- dict in Kelly's case, so thatthe Groon Island home atill romains a divided house. Tho Whaling Fleet Wrecks and Other =» Marine Disasters. We have complete reports of the disas- trous loss of thirty-three whaling vessels in the Arctic Ocean, accompanied by a nar- rative of the horrors which attended and fol- lowed the wreck of the American brig Shele- hoff daring a hurricane, when on a voyage from San Francisco for Callao, Pera. All hands, crew and passengers, on board per- ished, with the exception of the commander of the brir, Captain Hopkins, The names of the unfortunates are given by the writer. The scenes which were witnessed in the Arctic Ocean during the ice and snow drift, which attended, or caused, the disasters to the whalers, were of an exceedingly exciting character. Not many lives were lost, fortu- nately, so faras is known at present, The commercial consequences of this visitation to the whalers will be very decided and depressing to the interests of the many persons engaged in the ventures. These events afford one more sad proof of the fact that man, even wit) all his skill and lusty eaergy, is a very weak power when he has-to struggle with dread ocean, in which ‘the Almighty’s form glasses itself in tempesis.” Tae Forton Frery ENoroaonMent on the Brooklyn city property in the erection of their new ferry house was reported upoa by a com- mittee of the Brooklyn Common Council yes- terday. The report stated that the ferry company wants to rent the property for a mere nominal sum, and had refused the proposition of the Councilmen that the fare for foot pas- sengers be reduced to one cent, at all times of day or night, in consideration of permission to retain the property. Therenpon the come mittee recommend that legal action be com- menced against the company at once. The report was laid on the table for two weeks, and will probably not be heard of again. But we would urge it upon the Brooklyn authorities to make an example and a warning of this unruly corporation, not by compelling them to take down their house, as that would occasion great inconvenience to the people of that city, but to make them pay a good round sum for the lease of the ground. They pay now, we believe, one dollar to New York city for the privilege of running the ferry, out of which reception, and to welcome him with banners and bonfires and open arms, and it is a most discomforting reflection that the other guest whom we most dreaded, whom we are disposed only to receive with a strict quaran- tine and closed doors, aud whose visit is so likely to be attended with desolation and mourning rather than with gladness and rejoicing—that this dreary visitor has knocked at our gayly decked doors first. Disastrous Fire in Geneva, Switzen- LAND.—{n a Heraxp sp-cial telegram report by cable from Loudon our correspondent in the British capital aunounces that an exteusive and most seriously alarming fire broke out in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, somo time yesterday morning, and raged with most dis- astrous violence during the day. The flames had not been subdued at the date of our latest despatch in the evening, so that the fire fiend was having his wicked way amid the ancient buildings and c:ntral hives of busy industry in the old Swiss town almost as com- pletely as it was enjoyed by the demon in the granaries, warehouses and private residences of modern Chicago in America. Geneva is endeared to the world for its treasures of art, science and manufacture, but more particularly on account of its having shel- tered the great lights of the Protestant Reformation, Calvin and Cranmer, and afforded a residence to John Knox. Other men of great renown have had their birth within ita walls, #o that people will receive the news of its destruction by fire, should such a mouraful event occur, with feelings of pain and dismay. Tnx Brooxiyn Rerorm Movement is progressing in the light of the New York example very rapidly and satisfactorily to a solution of the frauds and corruptions said to exist in the city government there, The Board of Aldermen, upon whom devolves the duty of canvassing the votes, finding evidence in the returas of either negligence or fraud, yesterday demanded the presenco of the dis- trict canvassers before them to certify to the returns as presented. Water Commissioner Bliss, the only republican on the Water Board, has resigned. The great want of Brooklyn now is an independent, non-partisan Qewspaper to conduct the reform fight they make a million or two yearly ; and they still have the impudence to insist upon a mere nominal rent for their latest encroachment. Let Brooklyn make the ferry company pay a handsome sum for their impudence in building their‘house upon oth2r people's property. Tue MontreaL Gaeetle thinks that the united (reform) action In this city last Tues- day ‘‘was rather too spasmodic to be continu- ous, and that the traditions of New York leg- islators and officials are only too likely to in- fluence for evil the characters of the new men.” Not at all likely. New York city has wrenched herself out of the rat of corruption in which she has been so long galloping, and is now coursing on a splendid and level turn- pike the highway of permanent reform. Ann-Grant Movements.—The Fond du Lac (Mo.) Northwestern Courier is in favor of an alliance of democrats and liberal republi- cans for the specific object of defeating Gene- ralGrant. The Cincinoati Volksblatt, the St, Louis Dispatch, the Sacramento Reporier, are ‘among our recent exchanges that endorse the same policy, which is hardly that of the pas- sive or no-nomination policy of the St. Louis Republican, There may be considerable change in the views of these democratic expo- nents before the time for calling a convention or deciding upon making a nomination arrives, Tax ZANBSVILLE (Ohio) Courier thinks it a remarkable coincidence that two such ablo democratic papers as the Washington Patriot, the organ of the Democratic Congressional Committee, and the Zanesville Signal, the organ of the Muskingum County Ring, should come out the same day in favor of the ‘‘pas- sive” policy. The organs of all political rings, about these days, are ina passive mood, Tur Reve anp THE PuBtio Scuoors.—The New York Schoo! Journal regards as one of the grand results flowing from the people's victory on Tuesday last that our public sthools “‘are at last freed from the galling yoke of the Tammany Ring.” Any change calculated to relieve our present school system, of the incubas of corruption and favoritism that now bears upon {t should be bailed with rejoicing by every friend of sound education. The knife of reform should be applied without delay to the rotten branches that now disflzure our public tree of knowledge, EMBEK 14, 187L—TKIPLI Sikier, AMUSEMENTS. Atalian Upera—Tenth Subscription Night. “Faust seems to bave taken the strongest Rold of une New York public. Last night was tts fourth representation in this city, and we may truly say it best. The Marguerite of Nilason has oeen already described in these columns; but volames might be written on this matchless impersonation without the necessity of repetition in any feature, Her maidenly reserve on being accosted in the Kermesse by Faust, her childish joy on beholding the jewels, her pas- sionate love for the young cavalicr that ensnareé her soul, her of stupefaction when the full realization of the weight of musery brought upon her through the agency of the demon dawns upon her after tne death of her brother, her wila appeal to Heaven in the memorable church scene, and the sublimity of her deatn make up @ picture of betrayed 1mnocence and womanly love such as has seldom been pre- Bented on any stage, musical or dramatic. It Nils- son hed not played another réle in this country but Marguerite she should be received as the first ving prima douna on the operatic stage: for it 18 w dith- cult and subtle me, and cau only be appreciated and impersonutea by a {agen genias, M, Victor Capoul made guite a hit lass might in the title row, Frequent, impersonations oi the character have given him wn ease and command of the rile that wero not perceptible at the first representation of the opera, and bis rendering of ‘Salve Dimora’’ and “Dammit Ancor” was well worthy of the ap- plause it evoked. M. Jamet’s Mephistopheles is the most startling picture of Satanic power that our boards have ever bean accustomed. to. The other features in the opera have been already aliudea to at former representations, ‘This season We have at present, or have hac dir- ing the past month. the fotlowing artists in opera in this city:—Ntisson, Kellogg, Parepa-iosa, Vanzini, Gazzaniga, Wachtel, Cuapoul, Santley, lravton and Herrmanus. We migat mention & Score of others, but these are of world-wide reputa- toa. Why cannot all of these ariusis be massei to- gether in one company, thus giving un opportunity toa manager of presenting opera as it has never been Rye in thiscity? ‘The hint 15 worth the atten. Uon of & manager, as crowded houses are sure ior An entire season. Walluck’s Theatre. Mr. Lester Wallack made hts first appearance this season as Elliot Grey, in his popular drama of “Rosedale,” to a crowded house, The warm recep. tion accorded to the favorite actor when he ap peared on the scene showed bow mnch he was appreciated by the audience, who welcomed him with an enthusiasm which there ‘was no mistaking. His rendering of the dashing, careless soldier, Eliott Grey, was marked by ease and nataralness, and made us almost forget that he was acting. Mr. Wallack seems so perfectly at home on the siege, and aiscards so completely the work and tricks of the sock and buskin order that he merits to be called the Mathews of the Ameni- can stage. With the power of a true ar- tist, he so thoroughly identifies mmself with his choracer that we forge: the actor and find our interest concentrated on the fortunes of the character presented to us. It is not loo much to say that duriig the representation last night Mr, Wallack justified the enthusiastic reception which was accorde! to him by his frienas—the public. ‘Tne villain of the piece, Miles McKenna, was played by Mr. Gilbert, who acquitted himself with his usual abiiity. The versatility of this arust is 60 great that he seems equally successful io all his roles; and, without diving too deeply into the regions of melodrama, he gave us a forcible and artistic representation of the heavy villain. Mr. Charles Rockwell’s Colonel Cavendish May was stiff and constrained, and it was patnfully evident during the performance that he was acting. Mr. Stoddart, in Bunbury Kobb, had one of those characterizations in which he succeeds weil, and the picture of the ricp, vulgar squire, if unequal to many of his otner efforts, possessed tne mont of being good as tar as at went... ''wo ladies made tucir first appearance at tits theatre—Miss Isidora Cameron, who played Lady Adela Grey in & Weak, unsatisiactury manner, aud Madame Po- nisi, who took the part of Tavitha Stork, the curi- ous’ old housekeeper, and displayed considerable artistic power ina role which offered only limited Bcope. Miss E'lie Germon, as Rosa Leigh, Was viva- cious in her acting and realized fully the character Of the light-hearted, good-natured girl, Niblo’s. People langh as frequently and as loudly at poor, imbecile Lord Dundreary as at first, and the houses keep up astonishingly well. Tne piece is one which depends for success more upon its power to excite mirth and amuse than upoa its dramatic interest, nd its monotony ts somewhat diversified by an oc- casional change in the text and jokes. For instance, Lord Dundreary does not read every night the same letter from is brother Sam, though these various episties Gro ull equally droll, Mr. Sothern has de- ledly improved, so far as making himself heard is concerned. During tne first week of the piece he was inaudivie to half the house, but now he has pitched bis voice to the right degree of strength. » Ray- mond, as Asa Trenchurd, though still to some extent the impossible Yankee of the British stage, has succeeded in bringing himself American specimens of the sal ‘before, however, the text of his part bristles with cvery vulgar morsel of slang to be found upon any part of tne Continent; but that is the faut of the piece itself. Miss Jennie Lee, as Mary Meredith, ts very successtule She plays quietly and easily, and, defective as tne piece is im plot, the scene in which she learns from Asa the interesting fle about her dead uncie is really interesting. Mr. Sothern we have previously no‘iced at length, and success has not fo far spoiled him. He secms to take even more pains than at first to please his audience. His engagement, however, 1s necessarily Umited in time, and he will give plave in a tew Weeks to the westhete Indeceacies of the “Black Lina Edwin's Theatre—“1La Grande Duchess2.” Like good champagne opéra boufe still preserves ie articie. its attractivencss for those who have many times | been surfeited by both quality and quantity. Aimée, the dashing, Vivacious, versaule and captivating representative of ber religious school of art, ap. | eared last evening as the Grande Duchesae, before @ first class house, vent on feeling revived and full of expectation as to the success. Tul result of the entertainment. Nobody was disappointed, The herome looked pretty, sang well and acted the part to perfection, Glittering with diamonds, she seemed a full blooded duchess in point of wealth, a charming com- mandante so far as her rollicking deportment was concerned, and fairly excelled many of her pre- decessors by the graceful inanuer in which she ren- dered some of the weli known arias that fall to the lot of the amorous lady she so admirably nerso- nated, The handsome |\ttle theatre was weil filed, and, taking into consileration the limited dimea- sions of the stage, the production was creditably laced on it. The Fritz of the evening, M. Noe, was in many respects a better actor than any who had represented the low-born soldier on the New York ope @ vouge stage hither. In his manner and gait there was a careless swing and apiomnd, which could hardly be expected in the peasant, elevated from the ranks by the caprice of afemaie and love-struck sovereign. Not to put too flae a point upon it, he Was mure of a gentieman than Halevy and Metihac intended that he should be. But with all his defects M. Noe has tine physical points and he looked ever: Inch a soldier. By the way, his costume made Lim loo! yery like the drawings of Peter the Great in the old ling engravings, a few of which ave how extant, and we would recomend Alexia when he arrives, alter his visit to Father Bjerring, to take a look at Peter hia ancestor, who is represented so carefully in all details of costume by M. Noe. 113 like praisin [fel wine to speak of oe agg re Bore of puchesne, le lapey par ft zat, al lv rite Fiore Es 01 esame old Duchesne of old, Baron Grog (M. Vater), Baron Puck (M. Edyard), are fully quai 10 the éxcellent reputation tua they made jour years patustaking, careful actors, with hardly a flaw in ineir cuaracierization —an last evening they created genuine enthusiasm im the little biyou Of & theatre. ‘Tie Prince Paul of | the evening (Albert Juiiea) is rainer lump as yet, ‘ut it must be remembered that during the eveniag he had to undergo a rigid com; arison witu the late M, Leduc, one Of the best actors that ever appeared on the #8 in opéra bouge. This may account for any shoricomings m the teeing of tne audience: and those who know how critical a French audience nay become where there is any suortcoming or defect Will rewitly ua- derstand that wr. Julien did better under the cir- cumstances Of appearing tor the first time in a character which haa been performed as perfectly a8 possible, without any great talling off in the ex- pectation of @ mixed audience, jv spoak, fairly the entire performance seemed to please, and tat is oue of the reasons, aud te principal one perhaps, why people atiend @ theatre, Theatro Comique. The variety presented nightly at this house 1s almost painful and bewildering to tne senses, for 1m making up the programme the management had, apparently, more regard to quantity than quality. ‘Tne performance would certainly nas lose auy of its aitractions by some julictous curtulling. A local draina, entitled “Work,” is nightly presented, It 18 full of droit] and impossible situations, and the moral sentiment which some of the characters are made to utter appears simply as # sickly parody. One of the marked features of the entertainment 1s the gymnastical performance of the Gamella children. ‘The oit-repeated and vulgar court scene, in which Judge Dowling and Lawyer Howe, repre- sented by Josh Hart and G. L. stoute, are made to figure so prommenily, is still hugely enjoyed by the patrons Ol this house. There were, however, some very amusing features in the periormance as & Whole, and the audience, whigh was by 00 meaus ae appeared thoroughly happy and con- WASHINGTON. Ex-Congressman Stokes, of Ten- nessee, Indicted. Acother Attempt to Recon- struct the South. NN nnn Georgia the Next State To Be Attended To, WasHincton, Nov. 13, 1871, Ex-Congressman Stokes Indicted for Frand. Tue Grand Jury of the District of Columbia to-day found bills of indictment against one W. B. Stokes, ex-member of Congress from Tennessee, and Victor G. vowell, an ex-clerk in the Second Auditor ofice, on the charge of defrauding the government out of $68,000, This 1s the case recently developed by the detectives connected with bounty frauds and false muster rolls of Captain Beatty’s company of mounted infantry in Tennessee, It will come up for trial in a few weeks, Habeas Corpns To Be Suspended In Georgia, Notwithstanding the contrary statements given out, it 13 highly probable that certata counties im Georgia will shortly be proclaimed and the writ of habeas corpus in them be suspended. As a matter of fact the sudject is now under consideration by Attorney Generat Akerman, and there 1s no present warrant for any allegation that his conclasions will be against the enforcement of the Ku Klux act in at least the northwestern part of the State. No doubt Akerman, for spectal reasons, and the admin- istration, upon general principles, would be glad te dispense, if they could, with che euforcement of am act that is only tolerated by the dominant party on the score of ecessity and ac. cepted by no party, and it is still mone Certain that wherever it is put in force the necessities of the caze will be pushed to tne front. ‘The government otticers, too, are dissatisfied with the general confounding of the operations of the Ku Klux act with martial law, which gives it @ harsher character than it actuatly posvesses, Iv goea, at the utmost, no further than to confer juris diction upon the federal courts in matters that are really of national consequence, and the snspension of the writ of naveas corpus ts for no other purpose than to keep off the interference of the State judi clary after the federal jurisiiction has attached. From current indications it 13 quite possible thas the Ku Klux aci wilt before long be in operation in several other of the tate insurrectionary States, ‘The great mass of those who compose the working force of the Klan read no newspapers and pave no fotere course that reaches beyond their own county seats; consequently the suppressive measures adoptea in South Carolina are not felt in North Carolina, Georgia or Misstsatpp!, and the only way to impress the policy of the government upon the guerillas of any one section of the South 1s to let them feel ite weight among themselves, irrespective of what has or has not been done elsewhere, This 1s not the easiest, but it 1s the only effective way, The Ka Klux Klan in the Southern States is the tail ond of the rebellion, and General Grant, being ordered thereto by Congress, intenda to crush it out at any cost or risk. x i Te Life Saving Stations on the Jersey Coat. Secretary Boutwell expects the new houses, twenty in number, erected at the Ite saving tte tions on the coast of New Jersey and Long Island auring the past summer, will be ready for occu- pancy on the Istof January next, The amount of the appropriation, $200,000, has, it 1s claimed, been Judictously expended under the direction of Captaia Faunce, an experienced officer of the Revenue Marine, and although the amount set apart for the improvement of the life saving stations was nct @# large as the best interests of the service and hus manity demand, yet much better faciiities will ve afforded the employ¢s than ever before in the pros ecution of their labors, The best apparatus and inventions have been purchased for the service, and . such other improvements will be added as the means will permit, Meeting of the Senate Finance Committee—A Revision of the Tarif in Prospect. The Senate Committee on Fipance mot here to day. Senators Sherman, Fenton, Scott, Wright ang Ames were preseut at roll call, and Messrs, Morrill and Bayard were absent, While the Senate, at the brief session of the new Congress last March, were discussing the Ku Kiux legisiation the House, im default of anything e'se to dg and under the spar of an ave and no vote that cut of dodging, sub- tracted the items abolishing the taxes on coal and salt from an unfinished bil of the last Congress and passed them, Acting under the imstractions of the Senate, its Finance Commitiee has now as- sembled to consider these and o'her matters re lating to taxes and the revenue, but they are not Iixely to go any further than to have an interchange of views on the various points con- cerned, and, perbaps, to conditionally agree upon the geueral policy to be recommended to the body of which they are members. It is to be re- Membered that the House Committce on Ways and Means, which has especial charge of the whole sub- ject matter, la yet to be appointed, and its compo- sition will be different from that of tne old com» mittee, Speaker Blaing will not fail to take note of a slow veering of public sentiment relative tothe tariff, and some men who have been prominent on this committee heretofore will have no-chance to speak by its authority in thé coming session, Por these reasons, and because the House fs already Festive under certain Senatorial encroachments om | its exclusive domains, the Senate committee will Not be pronounced in its action upon measures originating in @ now defunct committee, but will wait to see what the new committee of the House will do. Personal. The President and Mrs, Grant have returned to Washington. Among the callers on the President this morning were ex-Senator Walle and the Postmaster General. fnow in the West. At the Signal OMice this morning snow was re- ported at Omana and Nebraska, and at five o'clock this evening tt was snowing at Coriune, Utah, and Duluta, Minn TH WEATHER, Orrick oF THE Calg SIGNAL OFviceR, Wasttxgron, D, (Cy Nov. 14—1 A. Me Synopsts Jo? the Pasi Rien y-four Hours. The area of the highest barometer has moved northeastward on to the coast of Matne. Falling barometer, with cloudy and threatening weather, succeeds along tie entire Atlantic coast, The pres sure i8 quite low south and west of the Onto Valley, with rain, Amal! area of high barometer, with clear weather and brisk northwest winds, has extended southeastward into Missouri and Ohto. Probabilities, The area of lowest pressure will probably move northeastward into Ohio, with fresh westerly winds between it and the Guif, Increasiog and brisk northwest winds with clearing weather in the Missourt valley. Easterly winds, with rain on Tuesday trom Georgia to New Jersey, and cloudy weather in New England, Brisk north and north- westerly winds are probabie for Lake Michigan, and increasing southeast winds, veering to southwest, on the lower lakes and the South Atlantic coast, Warning Signals Ordered. Cautionary signals are ordered for this evening at Charieston, Savannah, Wilmington, and continue at Chicago, Milwaukeo, New Orleans, Mobile and Oswego. The Weather iu This City Yester: The tollowing record will snow tne chan ¢ temperature for the past twenty-four hoars in parison vita the corres) mdime day of (assy, indicated by the thermometer at Hudaui's macy, HERALD Building, coraer of Ana street: 1870. 1871. 1870, 1972. oe 6 44 Wat DEPARTMENT, } BAM 87 3PM. 6A. M a 8 or M oO DA, Ma +9 39 9 P.M. at 12M... +66 40 12P, Me 4 Average temperature yesterday ay Average temperature to last year,