The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1872, Page 8

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To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. i “THE SLAVE TRADE IN AFRICA! THE DUTY AND THE POLICY OF ENGLAND IN THE SUP- PRESSION OF THIS INFAMOUS TRAFFIC: EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXTH PaGE. BLOOD FOR BLOOD! MRS. FAIR PURSUED BY CRITTENDEN’S SON! AN EXCITING SCENE IN SAN FRANCISCO—FourTH Pace. CALEB CUSHING AND THE GENEVA TRIBUNAL! HE THINKS THE AWARD TO THE UNITED STATES A GREAT SUCCESS: HOW THE WORK WAS DONE AND THE REASON FOR SECRECY—Tuinp Pace. i OUR TROUBLESQME MEXICAN BORDER! WHAT THE COMMISSIONERS WILL PROBABLY REPORT: THE NEWS FROM WASHING- TON—SEVENTH Pace. HE GREAT TROT BETWEEN GOLVSMITH MAID AND OCCIDENT AT SACRAMENTO, CALI- FORNIA! THE MAID WINS! THE DRIVER OF OCCIDENT ARRESTED—SEVENTH PAGE. WAILURE OF THE SPANISH 1NSURRECTIONARY EFFORT—INTERESTING NEWS BY CABLE FROM EUROPE AND ASIA—SEVENTH PaGE. (RELAND FOR SEVEN CENTURIES! FROUDE ON THE NORMAN CONQUEST AND THE ONUS OF CELTIC SUBJECTION—SEvENTY PaGE. PENNSYLVANIA'S POLITICAL FERMENT! WHOLE- SALE CHARGES OF CORRUPTION IN LUZERNE COUNTY! ARRESTS OF LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES! FUN ANTICIPATED— Turrp Page. «TAMMANY COMPLETES ITS CITY AND COUNTY TICKET—LOCAL POLITICAL DOINGS—Tump PAGE. PERSONAL NEWS—MADAME LUCCA AS MAR. GUERITE—THE REPORT OF “OLD PROBA- BILITIES”—SIxTH PaGE. WHE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS—LEGAL PRO- CEEDINGS—SHIPPING—TENTH PAGE. ON CHANGE! THE SYMPATHETIC AND FINAN- CIAL BOND BETWEEN LONDON AND NEW YORK! THE WALL STREET MARKETS AS AFFECTED BY THE BANK OF ENGLAND: STOCKS DEPRESSED—Firtu Pace. CRIMINAL CHAPTERS! A BARROOM RENCON- TRE: BROOKLYN'S MURDERED POLICE- MAN AND POISONED TEA CASES: FATAL DRUNKEN ROW: THE JERSEY BANK ROBBERY—Firta Pace. EVENTS OF THE SECOND DAY OF THE PROS- PECT PARK MEETING—BASE BALL AND ORICKET MATCHES—Fovrra Pace. PROCEEDINGS, DINNER AND EXCURSION OF THE NATIONAL BOARD UF TRADE—HOW THE VIRGINIUS ESCAPED—THE BAPTIST STRICT COMMUNIONISTS—FovurtH PaGE. PROSECUTING THE OLD WHISKEY RING! REVENUE TAX DEFAULT: DISSOLVING A STAR CHAMBER—WERE THERE MATCHES IN THE BIENVILLE’S CARGO ?—EicuTo Page. Tae Hack Drivers’ Onrprvance.—The regu- Jar hack drivers of the city, it appears, are wpposed to the proposed change in the city wrdinances by which the drivers were to be puthorized to leave their carriages for the pur- jpose of soliciting passengers. The President wf the Coach Drivers’ Benevolent Protective sepa 4 states that the change is sought only y & few outsiders, and considers that it would tbe detrimental to the public interests. The | ‘Board of Aldermen will, no doubt, in view of Shis testimony, reject the proposed alteration in the ordinances. Tene 1s PLentirct Sugorstion in the re- port of the British National Lifeboat Associa- tion, that during the last twenty-one months the institution has been instrumental in saving one thousand one hundred and sixty-five lives from different wrecks, besides aid- ing to secure thirty-seven vessels from destruc- Rion. Where bas America an association which wan make o parallel declaration? We havea flong coast, upon which, though wrecks may be less frequent than in the seas which gird Great Britain, many lives are annually lost which a proper organization for succor might preserve. Shall we permit our cousins across the water to lead us in the practical benevo- dence of assistance to those whom the winds pod waves threaten upon ous NEW. YORK HEKALD, THURSDAY, UUTOBER 17, 1872.—TRIPLE SHEET. The Sinve Trade im Africa—The Duty and tne Policy of England im the Suppression of This Infamous Traffic. The very interesting and instructive letter which we published yesterday, with an illus- trative map, from our special correspondent at “Khartoum, in the Soudan,” describing the character and ramifications of the African slave trade of the basin of the Nile, discloses a more important subject for Christian interven- tion than the barbarism of the Hottentots or the cannibal feasts of the King of Dahomey. From this letter we can clearly comprehend the import of the venerable Dr. Livingstone’s declaration that he would rather be known as an instrument in the suppression of the East African slave trade than as the discoverer of the utmost sources of the Nile. The horrors of this traffic, which Livingstone describes, in the regions of his explorations south of the Equator, we now find, from this letter from Khartoum, cover an area equal to that of the United States; that to this remorseless Moloch of the slave trade throughout the African Continent, directly and indirectly, more than a million of souls are yearly sacrificed; and that, not only in the face of Christendom, but with the guilty co-operation or connivance of almost every European and American consul and missionary concerned, this infamous com- merce still goes on. Our correspondent, from the statistics within his reach, estimates the slaves actually carried out of the territory between the Red Sea and the Great Desert north of Livingstone’s ex- plorations at twenty-five thousand a year— from Abyssinia, carried to Jaffa or Gallabat, ten thousand; issuing by other Abyssinian routes, five thousand; by the Blue Nile, three thousand; by the White Nile, seven thousand. And to secure these twenty-five thousand Afri- cans for the slave market fifteen thousand are annually killed, and the general mortality often reaches the frightful figure of fifty thou- sand. If we remember it correctly, Living- stone estimates the slaves annually carried from the districts within his line of travels around Ujiji at twenty-five or thirty thousand, with a corresponding destruction of the natives from the merciless raids and wars of the slave hunters; and he, too, charges that Christian officials and adventurers are confederates with the Arabs in the business, and are apt to se- cure the lion’s share of the spoils. But our faithful chronicler from Khartoum advances the encouraging opinion that if among the Christian nations there had been a determined, persistent and thorough agitation of the suppression of this slave trade in East- ern Africa it would have killed the traffic stone-dead years ago. As it is, he says that the intrepid Sir Samuel Baker has been the only vigorous European combatant of the evil on the Nile; that he is throttling the monster; that he hates this slave trade as Wendell Phillips hated slavery; that he is mighty, too, and the most resolute Pacha of the Turkish Empire, but that against even his vigilant watch on the upper river the slave traders have been too much for him. Our correspondent suggests, however, that the cosignatories of the treaties by which Egypt maintains inthe Nile basin almost imperial independence could require the Viceroy to maintain the closest surveillance upon the actions of notorious traders; but as the Vice- roy, through his agent Baker Pacha and other agents, is actively engaged in suppress- ing the trade in slaves, he needs not so much a requisition from the great European Powers as assistance from them and generous co-operation. And the keynote to the intervention re- quired was given in the Queen’s speech on the prorogation of the British Parliament in August last, and in the brief announcement that ‘“‘my government has taken steps in- tended to prepare the way for dealing more effectually with the slave trade on the East Coast of Africa.’’ Her Majesty’s attention had been drawn to the subject from the publica- tion of the reports brought from Dr. Living- stone by Mr. Stanley in reference to the slave traders, whose chief market is Zanzibar, and we infer that the steps taken by Her Majesty's government to prepare the way for dealing more effectually with the traffic were some proceedings calculated to bring the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Imaum of Muscat and other slave dealers along the Indian Ocean coast.and the Red Sea to the practical abolition of the nefarious business. So far, then, Dr. Livingstone in his Nile explorations and Stanley in his supposed wild- goose chase after Livingstone ‘‘builded better than they knew.’’ The recovery of the in- domitable old Christian missionary from the mystery of his African adventures has awak- ened not only the agitation of this African slave trade (which our commissioner at Khartoum believes will speedily kill it stone- dead), but has brought the British govern- ment to active measures looking to its extinc- tion. We presume that these measures will be treaty stipulations with the Sultan of Zanzi- bar and other high and mighty barbarians along the East African seaboard, binding them, under conditions which they cannot safely disregard, to put an end to this buying and selling of slaves. But these restrictions will hardly reach this traffic of the Nile Val- ley, of which Khartoum is the central depot, and from which the slaves are carried into Lower Egypt, and thence to Tunis and Tripoli and to the Turkish provinces of Asia Minor and to Constantinople, and even to Persia, by thousands. For fhe suppression of this great African slave mart of Khartoum and its dependent establishments the intervention of the great European Powers will be required, and 1n the form of decisive treaty stipulations with the Egyptian Viceroy and the Sultan of Turkey, embracing the co-operation and assistance of the European States concerned through their ambassadors, consuls and other agents in the dominions of the Sultan. In this work of Christianity and modern civilization it is particularly the duty and the policy of England to follow up the steps she has already taken to the complete expulsion of slave-catchers and buyers from the African Continent. With their expulsion, and with the dependent and independent African tribes of the Nile basin rendered secure in their lives and property against the slave hunter, the Viceroy of Egypt may supply the mills of Manchester with millions of bales of cotton, and England may establish protectorates and colonies south of the Nile basin from which, in all the products of the tropics, she will realize the profits of an unlimited commerce. Ratiaved of the incubus of African slavery, at a sacrifice of blood and treasure which swells to the proportions of the men and money sacrificed by the First Napoleon in the conquest of Europe, the people and govern- ment of the United States are free to speak to England touching her duty and her respon- sibilities in this matter of tho slave trade in Africa. England left this blotch of slavery as legacy to this country. She agitated the abominations of the American institution and the abolition cause here for thirty years, and when the issue was joined in battle, slavery or emancipation, she turned against us, took the side of King Cotton and slavery, and hence those Alabama claims. But asthe High Joint Commission and the Geneva Tribunal have settled that entanglement on the basis of brotherly love, we will let by-gones be by- gones, and simply urge upon England her duty and her policy in regard to this slave trade of Eastern and Central Africa, She has the glory, through her bold explorers, of fixing the names of Albert and Victoria to the great equatorial fountains of the Nile; buts greater glory will be hers (and our govern- ment and people will give her a helping hand in the good work) in winning tha glorious dis- tinction of the liberator of Africa from tho slave hunter and the slave trader, The United States Treasury and the Bank of England Bulling and Bear- ing the Market. The Secretary of the Treasury on this side the Atlantic and the Bank of England on the other are continually meddling with the money and stock markets and disturbing the natural currents of business. The operations are somewhat different, but the object and effect are the same, The pretext in both cases is to regulate the money market, and the con- sequence is to disturb and change values gen- erally. The Bank of England, finding its specie reserve declining a million or two sterling, or at most a few millions, from some unusual exigencies of trade for money or from some unusual demand for specie abroad, raises the rate of discount in order to check the drain from its vaults. In former times such action on the part of the Bank affected generally not only the business and exchanges in England, but throughout the commercial nations of the world also in a measure. Although this great power has been declining of late years, with the enor- mous increase of trade and wealth both in Great Britain and other countries, with the growth of other powerful banking and moneyed institutions, and with the grow- ing independence of other great com- mercial nations, the Bank still has considerable influence over the market and money values. The time is coming, how- ever, when its power will be little felt. The action of the Bank is really illogical, though operating as a temporary expedient and though it has the sanction of long practice. To keep a few millions of specie in its vaults it may derange business and values to an amount of hundreds of millions. By checking trade at one time through raising the rate of discount, and then by stimulating it at another through lowering the rate, it keeps up a sort of seesaw in the market, which pro- motes speculation and unsettles values and the regular current of business. Just the same results are produced by our Secretary of the Treasury entering Wall street—fitfully or periodically, as the case may be-—with his gold and bonds, By the use of a few millions of bonds, or by con- tinuing to draw gold from the market, he can send the price up and seriously embarrass our merchants, and, by selling some mil- lions suddenly, as he frequently does, he can run the premium down and disturb values in that way. It is this more than anything else that fosters gambling in money, stocks and bonds; that interferes with legitimate business and demoralizes the whole community. There is no authority in law, if even there be no direct prohibition, for such practices, and the Secretary goes beyond the proper functions of his office in thus inter- fering with the trade and values of the coun- try. Mr. A. T. Stewart, who understands this matter better, perhaps, than any other busi- ness man, properly censured such meddling of Mr. Boutwell in the interview one of our com- missioners lately had with him. Nor do we suppose there are any of our intelligent mer- chants or bankers, who are not blinded by the favors of the Secretary or by partisan preju- dice, that do not condemn his meddling with the market. The duty of the government should be confined to collecting and disbursing the revenue. It should have nothing to do with the money or stock market. The sooner Mr. Bout- well understands that the better, and if he cannot Congress should restrain him by law and keep the Treasury Department strictly within the limits of its duty as the simple fidu- ciary agent of the public for collecting and disbursing the revenue. A Jersey Railroad War. An attempt is being made by interested par- ties to prevent the National Railroad Company constructing a line of railroad through the State of New Jersey. We have in this an example of the indifference of monopolies to the well- being of the public. We hope the parties re- sponsible for this attack on public interests will receive a merited reproof in the Courts of law. The progress and development of New Jersey were for a long time retarded by the monopoly of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. This monopoly was obliged, however, to aban- don the obstructive position it had taken up, and we hope that no combination of vested interests will be allowed to hamper the free development of the resources of the neighbor- ing State. If the attempt now being made should be persisted in the duty of the Courts will be clear. They must secure the right of way to evéry citizen, and monopolists, by pre- venting the establishment of new lines of communication, practically deprive the people of their natural right to go where they please, and in their own way. With the experience of past years before us of the value of railroads in encouraging the growth of industries and developing the latent resources of the districts through which they pass, there can be no reasonable doubt as to the advisability and advantage of multiplying them wherever the tacilities exist. As the roads are built at the expense of private companies these ought to be allowed to be the best judges as to the neces- sity for their construction. In no case ought we to permit a rival corporation, for its own selfish interest, to arrest a work of public utility, The Distinguished Lecturers and Artists Visiting in America. When Charles Dickens first undertook to describe his experiences as a young author in the United States he gave us only the adven- tures of youthful architect seeking his for- tune among us. TWenty years later Mr. Dickens came again, partly as » guest and partly as a reader of his own works; and the sum of money he carried away with him showed the esteem in which he was held asa man and a novelist, His example is now followed by many other distinguished English writers and scholars, Some woeks ago Ed- mund Yates, the novelist, appeared before an American audience for the first time; and last night the historian Froude began a series of discourses, in which he purposes giving his American hearers the English side of the Irish controversy. However opinions may dif- fer upon his viow of the relations between England and Ireland, ‘his coming has in it the compliment of appealing to the intellect as well as the humanity of a people who have always shown a deep interest in the misfor- tunes of the Irish. But not only do foreign celebrities come among us to discuss with us questions relating to the political condition of men, but Professor Tyndall's presence at this time is proof that, in scientific matters, American progress has been so great as to make America a place of interest to the most learned scientists of the day. As regards musid and dramatic art, this country for a quarter of a century has been visited almost every year by one or other of the leading artista of the Old World. Edmund Kean owed his European success to his American reputation, and other actors followed him to America in spite of his American experiences. Grisi and Jenny Lind only paved the way for the singers who camo after thom, and the Nilsson of last year is succeeded by the Lucca of this. Perhaps American taste and progress are shown with even greater distinctness in the visits of such men as Wieniawski and Rubin- stein, There is nothing meretricious in the accomplishments of a really great pianist, and the want of this quality in Rubinstein’s music would have made a visit among any but a cul- tivated people an experiment too dangerous to be undertaken. All this tends to show the im- portant place America has assumed in the eyes of the world, and its importance gains addi- tional emphasis from the fact that our distin- guished visitors come asking us to judge of their talents or their thoughts, and manifest o willingness to accept our judgment. In wel- coming them we gain something from their attainments or their accomplishments, and they in return carry away with them fresher feelings, drawn from our younger life. The Metis Disaster Investigation. It is not new to say that life is cheap in this country; still it is but too true. A few weeks ago some seventy of our fellows perished barely twelve hours after merrily bidding adieu to friends at one of our wharves. A Sound steamer, on which they started for Providence, carried them, instead, to the ocean bottom off Watch Hill. An investiga- tion into the causes and responsibility for this frightful catastrophe was ordered by the Treas- ury Department. It was conducted by in- spectors from various districts, in order to secure impartiality. Their report shows that they arrived at the same conclusion the public did—that somebody was to blame and that this somebody was the commander of the steamer, his two pilots and the chief mate. Carrying out this conviction the Commission undertook to do what, by a flaw in the law, it is not em- powered to do—namely, to revoke the licenses of these officers. Only the local Boards are competent to revoke licenses, and, therefore, the case must again come before the Board at New London. Here we have an offi- cial determination that certain men have in effect caused the death of a large number of people, and their punishment is simply to be denied the chance of repeating the occur- rence, In Scotland, a few days ago, fifteen persons were killed by a railway collision, occasioned by the mistake of &switchman. He was at once sent to jail, and is held for trial. This illustrates the difference in the care with which life is watched over on the two sides of the Atlantic, and the comparison is one not flattering to our national self-esteem. Clearly, if the officers of the Metis are at all blamable for the dreadful fatality of the wreck, their culpability merits a heavier penalty than mere loss of employment. Tae Mexican Borpzn Trovsres have entered on a new stage. While we had a Commission taking evidence of the outrages upon Texan settlers along the Rio Grande, the Mexicans, it appears, had a Commission of their own at work receiving testimony on the same subject, but from s purely Mexi- can standpoint. They intend to assert that they are not to blame; that it is only one of the normal conditions of society in such places, and that Americans are inte- rested in the raids.as well as the citizens of their republic. The diaphanous nature of these arguments will be appreciated when our Commissioners make their report. A com- promise of some kind is to be proposed, and the delightful normal state of Mexican society to be offered ag a pattern for the rest of the world. Our govern- ment has all along, for the sake of international courtesy, pretended to assume that Mexico was willing but unable to stop these outrages; but this attempted palliation of their enormity should lead them now to speak as they think. Ofcourse this Mexican apology is of a piece with England’s special pleading regarding the cruisers, and all in the interest of keeping down any future bill of damages. Are we to have a Mexican edition of the ‘due diligence,” &., of the Geneva correspondence ? Montznzorm Rexations Towarps Tur- xEY.—Prince Charles, of Montenegro, has officially pledged himself to the Sultan of Turkey to punish those of his subjects who recently assailed and wounded a number of Turks at Leposa. It is to be hoped that His Highness will execute justice in the case and also take active and persistent measures to prevent a repetition of those outrages against the people of the Porte the recurrent infliction of which tends to agitate and inflame the minds of the border-lipe and mountain popu- lations toward war, and may, at an early day, involve Russia and Austria in diplomatic recrimipation, Ariszona—A Specimen of the Results of) the Indian “Peace Policy.” Aman whose business it is to look over ex- changes, to scan the pages of a thousand or two newspapers weekly, soon arranges them in his mind according to their peculiar local tinge wther than according to their mere poli- tics. He knows where to look for troubles be- tween Americans and Mexicans, between Mor- mons and Gentiles, between whites and blacks, between whites and reds, and in certain rich journalistic lodes he is always sure of finding the extract he seeks. There are three weekly newspapers published in Arizona Territory. From one year’s end to the other the peculiar local tinge is one of blood—white man’s blood very often and red man’s blood occasionally. It is the murder in a lonely canyon of a set- tler; the robbery of a stage coach with the same murder it; the burning of a homestead; the running off of live stock and murder of the ranchero, with unheard-of outrages upon his family; a cattle herder is murdered and the cattle stolen. In every page it is murder, murder, murder, and the Indi. ans, with whom civilization. dallies, are the fiendish, implacable, cunning and treacherous perpetrators, By times there is a sudden leap for revenge and a few blood-stained savages have bullet and bayonet justice meted out to them, but it is very rare. A policy which is neither peace nor war, although avowedly one of peace, trifles with the lives of white settlers and makes Arizona the best Territory in the Union to live out of. the Arizona papers, with their endless cata- logues of Indian outrages, brings the follow- ing editorial extract from the Arizona Miner of the 21st ult., published at Prescott, out of the realm of exaggeration into that of stern reality: — It will soon be ten years since we first arrived in this Territory, and, in looking back over our lo residence here, memory fails to point out one wee! in which one or more white men have not been murdered bovine Boca in which valuable prop- erty has not been n or destroyed by the same People. For five years of this our duty as editor of this paper has compelled us to record most of the bloody deeds that have been enacted, as well as to note and comment u) the losses that have been sustained by.our citizens, And, again, it has fallen to our lot to view the mangled remains of many of the victims of savage ferocity: to feel for those whose last dollar’s worth of property was taken from them; to lose property of our own; to be made a target of by Apaches; to be on the watch against surprise, and to have our hair erect itself, and to stand, ride and walk in fear and trembling of lurking savages. Need we say, then, that we are tired of this state of affairs, fred of the un- Bearcatr duty it has forced us to perform? “The article then recounts the outrages “within the past few weeks,’ which exhibit ten men killed and about a hundred cattle, eight mules and several horses stolen. The melancholy part of all this is that a pet theory at Washington condemns those who have the temerity to live in and open up this Territory to be robbed and mur- dered by the ruthless. brutes for whom the “peace policy’? was inaugurated. The Indians on a reservation start out and murder and rob right and left. Instead of swift punishment being dealt out liberally the savages are cosxed and besought by the agents, with tears in their eyes, to come in and be fed out of the public crib. The stage robbery on the road from Wicken- burg, in November last, by which six persons were murdered, was stated at first to be the work of Mexicans. This view was supported, we learn, by those interested in proving the Apaches wingless angels. An invegtigation, balked at first by the peace policy authorities, has now been carried out by that stanch Indian fighter, General Crook, which fixes the guilt on the Apache-Mohaves. A stratagem was resorted to for the pur- pose of capturing the offenders, which did not completely succeed, as the Indians suspected the ruse, and, at the at- tempt to arrest one of their number, showed fight. The result was seven Indians killed and a soldier mortally wounded. Since then one hundred Apache-Yumas have returned to the reservation, ‘‘anxious to live at peace with the whites, but determined to kill Iratraba,’”’ an Indian who gave information about the Wickenburg massacre to General Crook. These red gentlemen are to be fed, and have been mildly requested not to kill Iratraba. Is it not time all this child’s play with human tigers should cease? Vast territories are rendered worse than wildernesses by this policy. In a wilderness men may perish struggling against the odds of nature; but in addition to these difficulties we have® premium put upon mur- der through this policy, which the cunning Indians themselves laugh at. Indians who will adopt no other life but one of murderand rapine should be exterminated, on the same principle that a city vagrant is sent to prison. We want Phil Sheridan’s policy for this kind of Indian, and then, when the well-disposed red man will settle down, let him be treated in all kindness and with a view to making him at some time worthy of the fellowship of civiliza- tion. “Tue Contarse or THE Latest Spanise In- sunrection.—According to one of our latest cable despatches the insurrection which took place a few days ago in Ferrol, Spain, is dead. It was our opinion at the outset that the insurrection was local, not gen- eral, and that it could not but result in failure. Two days ago we learned that the insurgents were hemmed in both on land and on sea. Our news of this morning is to the effect that the insurrection was not at a certain hour put down simply because the government was merciful, The insurgents were shut up in the arsenal, and the command- ant of the government forces delayed his in- tended attack because the municipal authori- ties of Ferrol requested delay on the ground that arrangements were being made for sur- render. The presumption now is that the Ferrol attempt at insurrection has resulted in failure, and that the would-be leaders of a grand national rising are in prison. If such be the fact, then Amadeus has won another grand victory. Pity it is that the victory in Spain should be clouded by cruelty in Cuba! Wait Srreer was all agog yesterday to fathom the proceedings of the Bank of Eng- land directors at their usual weekly meeting this morning with reference to the discount rate, on the alteration or retention of which depend the current speculations in the gold market, and more remotely, but not less in- tensely, the speculationin the stock market. Wall street will do or undo to-day, according i 4 the action of the Bank of England, almost as promptly as the throng on Lombard street. Such is one of the many changes wrought in lsaueies the cable. whose novelty is out- lived by ite gurprives. A constant reading of | Canada, is at the Brevoort House. He will go to Boston to-day. Congressman Oakes Ames, of and Colonel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sir Frederick Arrow and Captain James Webs, of the Trinity Board, England, yesterday sailed for home on the steamship Russia. General George A. ¥orsyth, of General Sheriden’s ~ stad, yesterday arrived in the city and took quar- ters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Leonard Grover, of St. Louis, formerly well known as a theatrical manager in this city, yeater- day reached the Grand Central Hotel. Christian Bord, Consul of the Kingdom of Norway and Sweden in this city, yesterday returned from Europe, where he has been enjoying a eave of absence. ‘He is now at the Hoffman House. ‘Mr. - Bors has held his present position tor a long period. Minister Thomas #, Nelson yesterday arrived om the steamship Cleopatra, from Havana. Having Procured a short period of vacation from his duty in Mexico, he has come home to urge the comple- tion of certain projected raiiroads in Mexico. He - is stopping at the Hoffman House. Colonel W. H. Jenifer was a passenger by the steamship Cuba, that came in yesterday. Colone’ Jenifer has come from Egypt on a furlough from the Khedive, ip whose seryice he is engaged. He was an officer in the rebel army during the tate strife, Several years ago he went to Egypt and was given command of the cavalry in the army of the Khedive. He registered himself at the New York Hotel as belonging in Baltimore. PAULINE LUCCA. “Faust” at the Academy Last Night. With such a Marguerite as Mmes Lucca, Gounod’s opera is a strong feature in the managerial réper- toire at the Irving place opera house, strong enough to cover up or compensate for many de- ficiencies in other respects. Gounod has 9 firm hold of the affections of the public in his illustra- tion of Goethe's great work, for it possesses im some of the scenes the always attractive merit of dramatic strength and melodious gracefulness, even if the composer does not reach the high standard of Spohr, who for homo- geneity of idea and grandeur of con- ception is immeasurably his superior. ‘Faust’? seems to be a misnomer for this opera. It should rather be called “Marguerite.” All the mysticism and philosophy of the original are lost in the ro- mantic story of the poor peasant girl that predomi- Dates in the opera, and the six scenes give asort of Dolly Varden idea of the immortal creation ofthe Ger- man poet. The weakest of all these scenes, musio- ally speaking, is fortunately the first whefe Faust asa philosopher is an intolerable bore, and we experience a feeling of intense relief whem the chorus of villagers’ behind the scenes inter- rupt his meditations. The ‘“Kermesse” is always acceptable, although not Goethean, on account of the brilliancy, well sustained, too, of the music and its popular character, together with the clever and ever changing arrangements of the scene. Here Lucca first reveals her great talent. Every one that has seen her in the opera remembers vividly the first impression produced on the mind when she answers the salutation of the handsome young gallant in the market place. me iret sees of it at length, and need not again refer to it ‘The garden scene is a curious intermixture in a mut point of view. The Siebel last night was Seiiora Sanz, who sung the ‘Parlate d’Amor” and acted the fittle part she had do in the scene very commendably and pleasantly. Then came the tenor, Vizz who was not in good .voice, and the “Salve ra” si considerably at his hands. When the first minor chords announced the entrance of Marguerite the attention of the audience became concentrated ae the gay and the little lady sung the “King Thule” with that artlessness and yet effective- ness that we have spoken of before, The jewel none (a gem in the music of the opera) was given with suc! abandon and sparkle that it drew forth a tumuiKuous encore. But in the sul love scene between Faust Lucca swept away before her the most Con pee of even the professional She had to contend against the serious disadvantage of a very cold and indisposed Faust. But every tone of her voice quivered with tender- ness, and the concluding aria of the scene, when Gretchen, thrilled with the rt of a first love, sings at the window beneath the soft light of the moon, and unconscious of the presence of her lover and his demon adviser, apostrophises her new- found idol thus:—“Ei m’ama,” the audience be- came still as death, as if loth to lose one of those ic notes. tie blatant hat ype Mi the hoxt os ved not particularly mteresting; jignor rapani, who played Valentine, again gave evidence of an excee nely small amount of vocat or dramatic power. The death of Valentine gives a baritone a spien did opportunity to make a de- cided hit, but Sparapani seems to utterly inca- pabie of taking advantage of it. That one short, gasping scream of Lucca in the church scene, when the ominous apparition of the tempter meets her eye and when she falls prostrate in the midst of an astonished congregation,’ is an indication of genius. The artist and the librettist have aone more for this scene than M. Gounod. ‘The composer has dealt with it very queerly, and we might say flippantly, introducing themes and instrumentation not at all in keeping with its char- acter, But Lucca makes one forget the weakness of the music by her grand impersonation of anguish and despair. Every movement of hers, bot dy f tone of her voice, rises above the commonplace of mere Yet she does not reach the climax of her rauerite until the last act, where the expiring effort of the mind of the suffering girt is vividly illustrated. To hear her sing those grand measures, which are worth the rest of the opera, “O del ciel, angeli immortal |” were sufficient to induce one to attend ther ntation of “Faust”? every night for a season. She is the feature of the opera ; for, if we rg M. Jamet, who has made a decided impression by his fine interpretration of the dificult rdle of Mephistopheles (albeit he also had a@ cold), there is nothing else to draw sucha Magnificent audience as that which crowded the Academy from parquet to dome last night. Lucca’s Marguerite will be ever accounted one of those impersonations that shine forth with no common actil lustre in the pages of Italian opera. On Friday she again appears as Zerlinain 1 ira Diovolo.” * THE WEATHER. War DEPARTMENT, Orrick OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Oct. 17—1 A. M. Synopsts for the Past Twenty-four Hours, From the Lower Lakes over the Eastern and Mid- dle States, light northerly winds; high barometer and clear weather prevail on the South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts; clear weather and southerly to easterly winds, with high barometers, cloudy weather, with occasional rain, over Middle Mis- sissippi and Lower Ohio Valleys; in the Northwest and over Lake Michigan, gentle northerly winds and generally,clear weather. The highest barom- eters are on Lake Huron. The barometer is falling in the extreme Northwest. Probabilities, ‘The barometer will rise and continue high, with generally clear, cool weather and northerly winds in the New England and Middle States; in the Mississippi aryl Onio Valleys partly cloudy but clearing weather and occasional rain and northerly to easterly winds; on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts southerly to easterly winds, veering to northerly and. easterly and clear weather; on the Upper Lakes and in the Northwest winds veering to southeasterly, with falling barometer and partly cloudy weather; gen- erally clear weather and northeasterly to south: easterly winds on the Lower Lakes. All trans-Missourt reports are missing. The Weather tn This City Yesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ar, as indicated by the thermometer at Hu@nut’s narmacy, HERALD building :— 1871, 1872, 18Tl, 1872. 6 866s 48 «3:30 6A. 50 6P. 6 8656 9A. 62 OP. nd 12 M.. . 62 12P.M.. 5 Average temperature yesterday « 53% Average temperature ior cor last vear.., ts as