The New York Herald Newspaper, October 22, 1872, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Your ¥ v —Baxaseas—lis Fi BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery ad a OPERA HOUSE, Twenty third st and Eighth av. Canorts. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston ‘and Bleccker st. —Orana Bourrs—La Gnawve Docunsss. MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtteth st.— ‘Tunes Mus-xe-rexns, Afternoon and Evening. THRATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway —Fomcray—Tax Powss or Nome. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street.— Diamonpe. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—PramaLion axp Galates ROOTH'S THEA avenue.—AKgan-na “Twenty (hind street, corner Sixth 0%. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourtecnth street, near Third av.—Lixe Vareniann Kannet Reus Sein. MRA F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE. Diamonvs. BROOKLYN ACADEMY Gamer, MUSIC, Montague st— BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. corner Qv.—NeGuo Minsteetar, Bec wcrtY, Ae. 72 BROADWAY, EMERSON'S MINSTRELS.—Gaasp Ernsorian Kocxxtnicitixs. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 58 Broadway.—Neoro Min- ETRELSY, AC. ; TONY PASTOR'S OPERA fC Granp Variety Entxntainme: SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRE: St. James Theatre, Corner of 28th st. and Broadway.—Eraiortan MinstaKisy. ’SE, No. 201 Rowery.— c. “Matinee at 2s, BAILEY'S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston strect, East River. DAN RICE'S CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Thirty-fourth street and East River. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 634 and Géth streets. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ND Ant. NATOMY, 618 Broadway.— jay, Oct. 22, 1872, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE NEW INDIAN POLICY OF THE GOVERN- MENT! THE RIGHT PLAN AT LAST:"’ LEAD- ING EDITORIAL THEME—SrIxtu Pace. THE EQUINE EPIDEMIC IN WESTERN NEW YORK! ROCHESTER EXCITED, LIVERY BUSINESS AND STREET CARS DEAD- LOCKED—SxvENTH PacE, SPANISH ARRESTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS! OPINIONS OF THE AMERICAN PRESS IN MR. HENDERSON'S CASE—SEvENTH Page. WASHINGTON NEWS: THE AFFAIRS OF CUBA; PEACEFUL INDIANS—SEVENTH Page. NEWS TELEGRAMS FROM ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL—OBITUARY—Szgy- ENTH PGE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND COMPTROLLER GREEN—FURTHER ADJOURNMENT OF THE PATENBURG RIOT INQUIRY—MARINE NEWS AND CHANGES—TenTH Pace. THE POLITICAL FIELD: LIBERALS ENDORSING TAMMANY NOMINATIONS—KING OSCAR'S SUBJECTS—Tump Pace. THE PENAL LAWS AND THE VICES OF THE CELTS! FROUDE’S VIVID PRESENTATION OF HIBERNIA IN THE PAST CENTURY— THIRD PaGE. OUR ROWING NAVIES! THE NEW YORK CREW DEFEAT THE ARIEL CREW IN THE PA- TAPSCO REGATTA—TuIRD Pace. THE MAYORAL CANVASS! EX-MAYOR HAVE- MEYER TENDERED THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION—Tuimp Pace. LEGAL OPPRESSION! ARBITRARY ACTION OF A FEDERAL COMMISSIONER—PARADE AND BANQUET OF THE OLD GUARD—FourtH PacE. LEADING MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC EVENTS OF LAST NIGHT—PERSONAL AND POLITI- CAL—SIxTH PaGE. EXCITING TURF STRUGGLES Af PROSPECT PARK! THE GRAND FREE-FOR-ALL PURSE NOT WON—MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB— FourTH PaGE. ON 'CHANGE! STOCKS ACTIVE, GOLD FEVER- ISH, MONEY EASY; THE LONDON MAR- KETS; AMERICAN RAILWAY BONDS AS INVESTMENTS—MUNICIPAL—FirTa PaGE, 4 SOCIAL ENORMITY! RECRUITING THE RANKS OF THE UNFORTUNATE: A BRAVE WO- MAN'S BATTLE—TENTH PaGE. (NTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN THE COURTS: BROOKLYN'S CARTRUNG MURDER—LITE- RARY ORITIQUES—Fovurta Pag, Dissunsive THE Geneva Awarp.—It is now anderstood that so soon as Congress shall meet a Commission will be appointed to take evidence with regard to distributing the lump sum awarded at Geneva among the claim- ants who suffered from losses by the Anglo-Confederate cruisers during the war. Some fears appear to have entered the minds of claimants that the fate of the French Spoliation claims, which date back to 1803, would overtake them. There is not the slightest danger of this while there is an inde- pendent press to keep lazy or unwilling legis lators to their duty. Tas Horse Ermemic.—According to our special despatch published elsewhere this morning the horse disease is spreading to a serious extent in Western New York. In Buffalo and Rochester the results have already been perfectly appalling. Fully three-fourths of the animals owned by the livery stable keep- ers and railroad companies are affected, and a circus company recently arrived from Canada has two hundred animals sick from this dis- ease, which first manifested itself in that coun- try. In and around Rochester yesterday there ‘were upwards of three hundred fatal cases. In the latter city number of street cars have been stopped, owing to the epidemic, and the fivery business literally suspended. Jxax Hewat Mertz D'Avniony, D. D., died in Geneva yesterday. The demise of the Pro- fessor, the historian of the Reformation, ex- tinguishes a brilliant mind light, which shone beneficially for the cause of the peoples in the Old World and the New. EE Te NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. ‘The ermmont=The that the fighting Apache chief Cochise wants peace and board and lodging for the Winter provokes only derision; that the deputation of redskins under Captain Alvord at Washington are generally regarded as loafers, who ought to be set to work for their living, and that, to correct the evils of our present loose and inef- ficient Indian system of maudlin philanthropy, the policy will embrace the following compro- hensive reforms :— First, the civilization to be taught the red man is to be the civilization of the white man, with all its reciprocities of protection and responsibility. ‘The Indians are to be placed upon suitable reservations and held there. The tribal relation is to be broken up so far as concerns the possession of land and other property, each family bav- ing its own farm or shop, and being assisted in gaining a support from its own labor, and protected in person and property. But the brave who puts on his war paint and seta out upon the warpath or who straggles off from his reservation must take his chances as an outlaw or a vagrant. No vagabondizing whites are to be permitted on the Indian's resorva- tion, although he is to be allowed certain priv- ileges of intercourse for purposes of trade with his white neighbors. And these Indians are to have their own schools, and are to be taught the English languago, and reading, writing and arithmetic. The reservations will be under the charge of the Indian Bureau, and each will be provided with a small detach- ment of troops asa police force. Neither the Sioux, the Comanche or Apache is to be bribed into keeping quiet as long as it may suit his convenience ; nor will he be conciliated with presents or supported in idleness, nor carried about the country for the glorification of agents and missionaries, nor for the edifica- tion of curious old benevolent women and street Arabs. This isgood news. This new Indian policy, as foreshadowed by our correspondent, if fairly tried can hardly fail of success; for, as he pre- sents it, while on the one hand it discards the Eastern philanthropist's view of tho ‘noble savage” as a simple, courageous and truthful child of nature, on the other hand it rejects the Western border settler’s estimate of him as a ferocious, crafty and cowardly brute, fit only to be killed. From too much of philan- thropy or too much of cruelty our noble say- age has been and is being hurried on the way to extermination. The old Puritans of Massa- chusetts, following the example of the children of Israel with the Amalekites and Jebusites, believed they were serving God in slaying the heathen, hip and thigh; and among the rec- ords of the colonial government of Old Vir- ginia there is one appointing a day for “a hunt of ye savages this year, the same as wo had last year."’ And yet Captain John Smith, who was anything but a Roundhead, under- stood the treatment required for the Indian better than Miles Standish. The Cath- olic colony of Maryland got along very well with the aborigines, and William Penn's original Quaker policy, adopted in his peace treaty under that famous elm tree, was a great success. The Dutch settlers of New Amster- dam, being of a peaceful temperament, and intent upon trade For Indian fars and other skins, fought their copper-colored neighbors only when absolutely necessary ; but still in these occasional sorties, those pacific Dutchmen made sad havoc among the natives. From the Alleghany Mountains to the Mis- sissippi River, including the tier of States on the other side, the history of our Indian re- lations is a record of exterminating border wars, and Lord Byron's ‘Man of Ross’ run wild, who" Was Daniel Boon, backwoodsman of Kentucky, was distinguished above his fellows mainly for his superior skill in killing Indians, And the success in this branch of civilization of General Jackson at Emuckbane and Tal- ladega contributed to his election to the Presidency as the Indian slaughter of Tippecanoe contributed to the election of General Harrison, and as ‘old Colonel Dick Johnson's” killing of Tecumseh, more than anything else, made him, in the old negro slavery times, our Vice President as the choice of the democratic party, notwithstanding his negro wife in Kentucky, fat as a porpoise and black as the belle of Ujiji. President Van Buren's Florida war, for the subjugation or extermination of about a thousand Seminole braves, cost us some forty millions of dollars; and after the Indian subjugation the proud chief, Billy Bowlegs, in the picture gallery of our City Hall, boasted that he ‘had flaxed out big man Scott and half a dozen other generals, and came very near flaxing out old Zack Taylor." But while pursuing these wars of Indian ex- termination the calls of humanity were not entirely disregarded, and among the benevo- lent enterprises for civilizing the noble savage was Colonel Dick Johnson's Choctaw Academy of Kentucky, To the Colonel financially, from the United States Treasury, this experiment was a success; but otherwise it was a failure, the Colonel declaring that his young Choctaws took to the woods as naturally as young wild turkeys. But « grander scheme of Indian civilization than this Choctaw Academy was substituted by Congress, in the general gathering of Choo- taws, Chickasaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Semi- noles, &c., in that extensive and splendid country west of Arkansas, known as the In- dian Territory. There, governing themselves under the national protection, these numerous fragments of once famous tribes were not slow in imitating their white neighbors in the es- tablishment of negro slavery, and in the re- bellion, under General Albert Pike, “they fought nobly”’ for their peculiar institution. But it went down at Appomattox, never to rise again, and now the emancipated blacks of the Indian Territory are more prosperous than their late Indian masters. This brings us to that vast Western section of our country—of prairies, mountain chains and desert wastes—extending from the fron- tier States of tho Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, the section which now holds all our { wild Indians, In Texas aud New Mexico the whites are atill subject to Indian surprise par- ties; in Arizona, between the hymn-book policy of General Howard and the Oromwelli policy of General Crook, we find the Apaches now safely housed in their tion and learning to ‘‘read their title mansions in the skies,’’ and now the stated preaching of the Gospel to operat upon some tempting emigrant train in passage of the Colorado desert. In Calif nia, Oregon and Nevada, and in Idaho Montana, the early white settlers, having no time to waste in Quaker experiments, have practically followed the philanthropic idea of Kit Carson, that “the surest method of reducing the noble savage to peace is to wipe him out;” but in Utah Brigham Young, who is a practical statesman, has contrived for twenty-five years to get on amicably with the surrounding Indian tribes with very little hunting and killing. But he has not trifled with them, nor permitted them to trifle with him or his people. And so his word is law to them, for they havo learned that it is their interest to respect it. But, with all these wild Indians over all this vast region from the Great Plains to the Pacific coast, something must be done, some policy must be adopted of a comprehensive and decisive character, or our unfortunate red brethren will be exterminated. Our Pacific railroads and the prodigious im- pulse they have given and are giving to the settlement of all our now States and Territories, are operating to the extermination of the buffalo and all the other wild animals, in the prairies, mountains and deserts from Nebraska to California. The Indian tribes, with this wholesale destruction of their game, are driven to the steating of cattle and horses, and to the warpath on the emigrant trails from the pressure of famine. Our pious philanthropists, however, overdo their good work in simply feeding and cloth- ing the Indians and in singing hymns over them and leaving them in idleness, They must be taught to help themselves; they must be taught to respect life and property; they must be held to their reservations by the strong hand until they learn something of in- dustry, law and order. General Sheridan understands tho Indian and how to treat him better than does the wisest tract distributor or psalm singer of them all. 9 General Grant deserves credit for trying the humane policy of Quaker Commissioners, fes- tivals of beef and religious tracts to his red children; but as neither tracts nor hymn books will keep Dancing Bear from slaughter- ing and scalping defenceless white men, women and children, or from pouncing upon unsuspecting emigrant trains, some other plan must be adopted for his pacification. We think, too, the plan suggested covers the ground required, and, as there is every proba- bility now that General Grant will have time enough given him to carry out this policy, he should at once proceed to put it into practice. f 8 I Ege The Bonapartes, the Bourbon, Presi- dent Thiers and the French Re- lie. The monarchists, imperialists and aristo- crats of Europe make a great outcry against agitators and disorganizers when any but their own chiefs are guilty of attempts to disturb the public peaco. When any leaders of the oppressed masses agitate for the suffrage, re- forms or some amelioration of their miserable condition, the monarchical and aristocratical preas finds no language too severe in de- nouncing the ‘‘wretches,"’ the “levellers’’ and “firebrands.’’ But when some anointed scoundrel, some prince of royal blood or im- perialist adventurer plots against the estab- lished order of things or the liberties of the people, he is treated with great consideration. Our telegraphic news from Europe shows that there are several movements which lead to the conclusion that the royalists and imperialists are becoming unusually active. The French Republic is the béte noire of the monarchists and imperialists and their efforts are directed, either in concert or independently, to de- stroy it. The Count de Chambord, that representa- tive of the old Bourbon dynasty and of the divine right of kings, has written a letter pro- testing against the establishment of the Re- public in France, He has the temerity to say that the Monarchy alone can save France, and that in the face of history, which shows that the Monarchy, under various forms, has been the curse of France. If it were possible to destroy such a nation as that of the French it would have been destroyed by monarchy; but, happily, the people and country are too full of resources and recuperative power to sink be- neath kingly misrule and oppression. At the same time that this absurd protest of the Count de Chambord is issued another mani- festo appears from the representative of impe- rialism, Plon-Plon, the Bonaparte, the cousin of the ex-Emperor Louis Napoleon. The eureur General of France for redress against the Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of Police and others who took part in his expul- sion. In the absence of information as to the cause which induced the government to expel Prince Napoleon it is reasonable to pre- sume he had done something inimical to the Republic and established order of things ; at least there must have been ground for sus- picion. While we admit, however, that the government hasa right to protect itself and the country from imperialist or royalist in- mi it To impeach them would look like persecution. Then it should be remembered that the war was popular in France, and that the people as well as the imperial government were to blame for that mistake. French royalists and imperialists against the | race. As the aboli Republic, there appears to be a more formid- able, though more secret, hostile movement inaugurated. We refer to the conference of the Emperors of Russia, Germany and Austria, and to the significaut action that followed—of the former in withdrawing his friendly and approving words to President Thiers. This act of the Emperor Alexander is understood in Europe as implying disapproval of republican- ism in France and as a warning to the radical republicans of that country. The recent eleo- tions in France and Algeria show that the radical republicans have been successful. M. Crémiecux was ahead of all the other candidates in Algeria for the vacancy in the National Assembly, while in Bordeaux and the departments of Oise, Morbihan and Vosges the returns also show majorities for the radicals. This fact will not provo satisfactory to the emperors and royalists in Europe, and may become embarrassing to President Thiers, who earnestly desires to establish @ moderate republic and to preserve peace. The dread of the crowned heads is another general revo- lutionary movement such as French radical republicanism has started in Europe on sev- eral occasions. They might go so far even as to attempt to squelch such a propagandist movement at the start. If the French people would take our advico they would be mod- erate and establish their Republic on a con- servative basis, Then they would have peace at home, would afford no pretext for the im- perial or royalist governments to interfere, and would, in the end, do far more to make all Europe republican than by attempting to carry out at once the extreme views of their radical theorists. The French Republic is beset with enemies within and without, and it will require great prudence to avoid a civil or a foreign war. The Political Questions of the Hour in England. In view of the probable reassembling of the British Parliament within a few weeks from the present time some little anxiety begins to be manifested in political circles as to what shall be Mr. Gladstone's next programme of reform. It is universally admitted that to sustain his pop- ularity and his power the Prime Minister must bring forward in the next session of Par- liament another grand and sweeping measure of reform. Mr. Gladstone's career as Prime Minister has been singularly sensational. He has been a great reformer, and his reforms have all been on a scale of unusual magnitude. He has been but four years in power; yet, in addition to reforms of minor importance, he has disestablished the Episcopal Church in Ireland, mightily improved the Irish law of land tenure, abolished the system of purchase in the British army, passed education bills of a satisfactory kind for England and Scotland, and has won, as some think, a diplomatic triumph in the Geneva settlement of the Alabama difficulty between Great Britain and the United States. In the same number of years no Prime Minis- ter of England has ever before snocedétully carried through so many and so great meas- ures of refaxm. He has done so much, he has removed so many grievances out of the way, it is difficult to conceive what is to be his next great undertaking. It has for some time been whispered that Mr. Gladstone intended to surprise the British public by a grand comprehensive measure hay- ing for its object the extension of municipal privileges based on the principle of local taxation. Such a measure, if well conceived, would commend itself to the general public, and, if successfully carried through, could hardly fail to make an end of home rule agitation in Ireland. The Imperial Parliament has long been burdened with too much work, and the feeling has of late years become general that much of this work might be better done by local par- liaments or municipal councils. The division of Ireland into four sections, of Scotland into two or three, and of England into six, with something like our State Assemblies, attending to the interests of each section—such has been said to be Mr. Gladstone’s next intended surprise. If, however, such be the intention, the ministerial secret has been well kept, for to-day no one seems to know what Mr. Glad- stone intends to do. There has been some talk of a grand movement to secure the separ- ation of Church and State in Scotlandand Eng- land similar to that which has been effected in Ireland. There has been talk, also, of some movement in favor of a mod- ification of the law of entail. But the appointment of Sir Roundell Palmer to the office of Lord Chancellor, who is opposed to rash and radical changes, and the absence of any really vigorous agitation in support of these latter reforms, leaves us little reason to expect that in the forthcoming session of Parliament either the Church or the land will be disturbed by Parliamentary legislation. The confederation of the colonies with the mother country, much in favor with many persons, has not yet sufficiently ripened. We are prepared to expect to have it announced in the Queen’s next speech that measures have been adopted by Her Majesty for the improve- ment of local taxation and for the extension of municipal privileges. Such a measure will give birth to great excitement and may lead to strange and unforeseen results. The Abolition of the Death Penalty in Spain. Should the bill before the Spanish Cortes abolishing the death penalty for political offences become law we hope that it will be immediately put in force in Cuba. The dis- position to kill all who may be opposed to the continuance of Spanish rule in that island dis- played by the volunteers and the Spanish officials is a disgrace to the boasted civiliza- tion of the nineteenth century. It is true, in- deed, that the selfish indecision of our own government has had something to do with the continuance of a reign of terror in Cuba worthy of the most barbarous periods of the world’s history. But, according to the modern axiom, whoever has might has right, and, as the Cubans cannot pre- tend to equality with Spain in force of arms, according to the morality of a distin- guished historian the right of Spain to oppress them is settled beyond question. As we are not quite prepared to take this view, perhaps Spain would do well to send some of her promi- nent orators to convince us that might is right and that the volunteers, whom we naturally regard as ferocious and bloodthirsty, are, after all, only the instruments of civilization, re- Besides the protests and schemes of the | ducing to ordey a mongrel and semi-barbarous é will be looked upon to promote free institutions at home her sol- diers are crushing with scant mercy a weaker people, who ask only to be free, to pursue “lib- erty and happiness” after their own fashion. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Ex-Mayor W. G. Fargo, ot Buffalo, has arrived at the Astor House. Judge Thomas Allen Clarke, of New Orleans, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Lieutenant ©, M. Thomas, of the United States Navy, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Marshal Bazaine’s trial before a council of war is Positively to proceed in December. David A. Wells, ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, has arrived at the Albemarle hotel. T. A. Trollope, the novelist, will sell his library of 10,000 volumes, at Florence, in November, by auc- tion. Abd-el-Kader’s pension is not to be reduced by the French government. §0 say tho semi-official papers, General Joseph E. Johnston, the Confederate chicf- tain, arrived from Savannah at the Hoffman House last evening. Lord Cowley and Baron Brunnow are the only diplomatists now living of those who were in the Congress of Paris in 1856, The Kmpress Eugénie has discarded fashionable dress, and during her late sta} at Cowes appeared only in black, simply made. Signor Mario has sold the Villa Salviati, near Florence, for 690,000 francs. Baron Hagerman, a rich Dane, was the purchaser, Sir Roundell Palmer, the new Lord Chancellor of England, is to take the title of “Lord Guisbury,” from the parish in which he was born. Rosa Bonheur, the distinguished Freach painter of cattle and horses, has expressed a desire to visit this country, and will probably come within the next year, The Washington Chronicle announces that the gallant Phil Sheridan has at last been captured, not by the Indians, but by the accomplished Miss Morgan, a niece of ex-Senator Morgan. The Baron and Baroness de Bussiére, of Paris, have arrived at the Everett House. They have come from California, where they have been visit- ing Ben Holliday, who is the father of the Baroness. A party of Japanese, eight in number, who havé travelled through Europe and this country, but who havé bédli at thé St. Nicholas Hotel for some time, last evening started for San Francisco en route for Japan. Dr. Warren Stone, of New Orleans, is at the New York Hotel. The Doctor has been for many years the head of the celebrated sanitary institution in New Orleans, where he has had great success in treating yellow fever. It is now whispered in fashionable circles in Washington that both Miss Nellie Grant and Miss Fish will make their début at an elegant enter- tainment to be given at the house ofthe Secre- tary of State in January. Mrs. General Sherman has returned to Washing- ton from Missouri, where she has been visiting her two younger daughters, who are being educated at the convent in St. Louis. Mrs. Sherman is still in mourning, and will not mingle in general society this Winter. Garibaldi has written a letter fiercely denun- clatory of the Jesuits, and laudatory of Bismarck for his action against them. He considers that in them all evil is rooted, and asked if they should have power who have “excited revolution in New York and desolated Belfast ?” Sensible! George Cohen and Patrick Leehan, convicted of robbery with violence in the streets of London, were recently flogged in Newgate Prison, receiving fifteen and twenty-five strokes with the cat re- spectively. Besides the whipping, they, being pre- vious convicts, will have seven and ten years’ im- prisonment, George W. Childs, of the Ledger; A. J. Drexel and & party of the *‘best citizens’’ of Philadelphia, are atthe Fifth Avenue Hotel. The purpose of their visit here is to welcome ex-Secretary Borie, who is expected to arrive on the Scotia to-day. They will form part of the Presidential party in its trip down the bay this morning. The Columbia (8. C.) Phenix calls for a Greeley electoral ticket in that State. When the anti- administration party there does not consider itself strongenough even to nominate a candidate for Governor the prospect for the success of a Presi- dential ticket cannot certainly be very cheering. It is perhaps, well however, to keep up appear- ances. Prince Higashi Tushini, who arrived on the steamship Baltic on Sunday, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Prince is reputed to be the brother of the Mikado, He has been travelling through Europe and is now on his way home. Four young Japanese, who, having just finished their educations in Europe, accompanied him here, will visit Washington and other cities with him and then continue their homeward journey. He was met at the St. Nicholas by his son, an officer of the Japan- ese navy, who has for some time been staying there. ABRIVAL OF PRESIDENT GRANT. President Grant and wife, accompanied by General Porter and wile, Jesse Grant and Senator Henry Wilson, arrived in this city yesterday from Washington. The party put up at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where a large number of prominent citizens called during the afternoon to pay their respects, The object of the Presi- dent’s visit to the city is to meet his daughter, Miss Nellie, on her return from her European tour. The young lady, who is in the company of ex-Secretary Borie’s wife, is @ passen- ger on the steamship Russia, which ts expected to arrive some time early in the forenoon to-day. Last evening the President, accompanied by General Porter and a few select friends, dined at the residence of Mr. L. P. Morton. Itis understood that he will leave town this evening for Washing- ton if Miss Nellie'’s arrival is not delayed. imeem MB, GREELEY’S MOVEMENTS. Mr. Greeley was busy during part of the day yes- terday, at his room in Dr; Bayard’s residence on Fortieth street, replying to the letters and des- patches which he is continually receiving; but most of the day was passed at the residence of Mr. Johnson, on Fifty-seventh street, where Mrs. Greeley still lies very ill, In consequence of her continued filness Mr. Greeley has felt compelled to decline the numerous and urgent requests to go into the interior on another canvassing tour. While her friends are very much alarmed for Mrs. Greeley itis known, however, that she has been an invalid for over ten years, and has on several occasions suffered relapses as severe as the present one, GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN IN CHICAGO, Curtcaco, Oct. 21, 1872. General W. T. Sherman visited the Board of Trade to-day. He was enthnslasticatly received by the members and acknowledged the compliment in @ {gw appropriate remarks out his prospectus, so that he may be able to carry out all his promises. New faces are looked to with considerable interest and fresh voices always command attention. But disappointment in such cases generally leads to sad financial consequences, Operacan be supported im this city when presented with one great artist and @ number of lights of leaser maggitude; but -buese lights must have a little lustre of their own. We have spoken at length before of the Gretchen of Madame Lucca. ‘tis stamped throughout with the impress of genius. Three scenes stand forth as masterpieces of a great artist. The tenderness and passionate love with which she surrenders her heart to her lover in the garden scene become blank despair, human agony, when she knecla bealde the body of her murdered brothe?. Ia the church scene she is the poor penitent, seeking happiness at the altar’s foot. There is a touch of nature in the shrinking away from her of the vil- lage maidens when Gretchen kneels beside thent, and her soul seems to be poured “forth in her earnest prayer for pardon, But the tempter is ever whispering inte her ear the dire history of her fall and the prayer becomes an agonized appeal. Here M, Gounod. changes the whole character of the scene by an ins’ excubablo fren, gf jpgtyneptstign, Bg brinat, in a phrase of four bars, alternating bé- tween the wind and string instruments, which is a8 unecalled-for as if he introduced an air from “La Grande Duchease.” The closing scene, as interpreted by Mme. Shee iE sufticient to crowd the Academy for a season, It 18 a climax to one of the grandest impersonations ever wit< nessed in opera. The Gretchen ef Lucca will live as long in the memories of opera- joers = as he = Desdemona of Malibran, e Lucia of Bosio, the Norma of Grisi, the Medea of Titiens, the Alice of Jenny Lind, the Lady Mac- beth of Medori or the Donna Anna of Parepa-Rosa. Itisa grana Sepersonalae, artless and natural, and it is suMcient to cover up many of the short- comings of the other members of the cast. To Jamet, as Mephistopheles, and Mile. Sanz, as Siebel, on due for their excellent rendering of these r ‘The tenor—Vizzani—was even more ineffective than before in the title role, Betweem himand the chef d’attaque—M. Grill—the “Salve dimora” was a lamentable failure, and his voice seemed to be utterly beyond control. ‘When aviolinist plays out of tune and @ tenor’s voice goes ziszag. he result is anything but creditable, As for the Valentine, Leased pe he has not the remotest idea of the rdle of the brother of Ma! rite. What on earth has Mr. Santi done »w: the choruad that this valuable body should not. keep om ood terms with the orchestra? Mr. Maretzek ook care of the latter and conducted it with satisfactory results, But those td singers from Covent Garden have not ful- filled the expectations formed of them. In fact wa have a better chorus here, if oan be used, than anything they can send us from London. The English tenors are notoriously thin in voice, snd, they ona Conds ig the balance the cho-' ruses. We have better singers here and more reliable, ihap they can bogat of even the ndon nace 1 gore peerein an itself. Why does not the management try to eo Taak more in the way of scenic effect out of Gounod's opera than is done at prcecniit The Rr ecent ul vu improved by a moi oTidotd nknagement ene Wats “rel gure, that horrible thing, the chandeliers which han; Hike, Mahomet’s cot betwixt heaven and earth, mai every scene on the stage. But even this nuisance might be modified by some electrical arrangement,’ leaving the auditorium in darkness duri the time the curtain is raised; yet it burns brightly, while the foo lights Ste, lowered, and it sends @ blinding glaré Into thé boxts, éveh in the most im- pressive scenes, We can now speak of the audience. In one of th roscenium boxes, on the ht hand side, sat sident Grant and his family. The orchestra paid him the compliment, after the “Kermesse,” of, laying “Hail Columbia.” The audience hailed im vociferously, and he bowed his acknowledg- ments in due form. On Wednesday evening “Don Giovanni” will be given. Brooklyn Theatre. Last night commenced the third week and “last nights” of “Diamonds” at this theatre. Nostronger proof of its popularity could be given than the fact that there was a large audience to witness the peré formance last evening. Bronson Howard's play of “Diamonds” has been so frequently described and or sketch the story of the phase of fashionable New York society it is specially intended to portray, Like all these society plays, it de. pends much upon its setting, something on the cast and less on the acting. Mrs. Conway has succeeded in presenting, this, play in eo ig A that relative order. The setting is su~ premely attractive in scenery, stage arral and the dress of the actors and actresses; is well ari fed; there are some old facos) t! always do well; there are some new ones that, like wine, need age; the acting is about as good as tha lay will permit, which is not very high praise; Mr. cone especially, is Mr. Roche and nobody else; glitter. “Diamonds” has the one great require- ment of the Erenent age, that it makes but a slight demand on the requirement of the understanding, and has the advantage that it does hold up the mir- ror to the manners of the age. Next week will be given “Arrah-na-Pogue.”’ ‘Wood's Museum. A new burlesque extravaganza, under the title of “The Three Mus-ke-teers,’’ was produced at thia theatre last night. The house was crowded, and the constant expressions of satisfaction on the part of the audience showed that the management hag succeeded in suit the tastes of their garter. Th piece itself scarcely belongs to that class of dramatic work which calls for serious criticism, but is rather intended to furnish food for laughter, This it does successfully, though at times the pund are somewhat obscure and the humor a little broad. Germania Theatre. Entertainments of the lighter sort hold sway at this bright, neat little theatre, which, though re~- cently sprung into existence, already enjoys con- siderable popularity among our German fellow- citizens and their fraus and frauletns. Its situa- tion (Fourteenth street, adjoining the Academy of Music) has been fortunately chosen, being at the dividing line between the upper and lower por- tions of the city, and therefore easily accessible ta the Teutonic element of both. The manager of the new theatre, Mr. A. Neuendorfy, is not unknown ta fame as one of the most efficient conductors of orchestra, The um pernwed last em- braced @ musical farce of no ix, scenes, entitied “ Vaterland Kannst Ruhig Sein.” Patriotic about the heroes of late war—Bismarck, Moltke, Unser Fritz and Sandwiched in at requent intervals, and applauded to the echo, The performers ‘ad prevty well; the others were ra' crude. The nce appeared to be |, and wore that con- a good conscience “ee that you have got your money's we " “] It is but seldom that a “society” comedy ts gives \ at the Bowery Theatre, Nothing fearing, however, last evening the manager of this time-honored temple of the drama produced a new and original | comedy, with the title of “Breakers,” in imitation, probably, of “Surf.” The tendency of the young men who write plays nowadays is to give theny titles with one word, following the standard laid down by Robertson with his “Caste,"’ “Schooi,'® thors of “Orime” and “Battles. en aanees sen- ry few minu' and itis written by a Mr. Le Port, AME. award | ' of a largely crowded house for his high-toi “Ours” and “Far.” Other pl ts have adopted: the same manner of bomen as with the au~ | “Breakers” is @ | very choice play, filled with th timents, which the actors forget e' ‘Wilks made his byte me in “Breakers,” and was quite successiul, receiving the earnest Aue fable calities, On the whole “Breakers” is a ta play, and might be deserving of crowded hy as it will no doubt compel for a week's run, which is a long run at the Bowery Theatre. Taare 4 nt ments and scenery are very well in * ora, and the acting of Mr. Wilks is all that could be | dosued at (ue Howery Theatre, i criticised that it is needless to report its slight plet ~ Mrs, Conway and Miss Conway are the two stars in || this society firmanent, and the rest twinkle and — {