The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. pinnae sane JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news letters and telegraphic despatch: HEBALp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- es must be addressed New Yore AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker sté.—Grnevieve Dk BRapant. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— ‘Ture Mvs-KE-reERs. Afternoon and Evening. THRATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Fouceny—Tur Powss or Music. FIFTH AVENUE THEAT! Twenty-fourth street.— Diamonvs. ei WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —PYGMALION 4ND GaLatea. . ACADEMY OF “MUSIC, Fourteenth strect—Inatian Orxua—Don Grovanst. ROOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth avenue.—ARRAH NA Pogue. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third av.—Onke. Moses—Wer Zuuerzt Lacat, &c. THEATRE, BOWERY Jew, ac. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. and Eighth agy.—Ror Carorrs. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth strects.—AGNus. Bowery.—Breaxers—Pouisn MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Dramonps. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twonty-thind st.. corner 6th av.—NxGro Minstreisy, Eccuntnicrry, &c. 70 BROADWAY, EMERSON Erniorian Eccentaicitixs. MINSTRELS.—Granp . WHITE’S ATHENAUM, 585 Broadway.—Necro Mrx- BTRELSY, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Granp Vanizty ENTERTAINMENT, &C. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, corner of 28th st. and Broadway.—Eturor1aN MinstRELsy. BAILEY’S GREAT CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston street, East River. DEN STONE'S CIRC AND MENAGERIE, foot of Thirty-fourth street and fast River. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Matinee at 2, Rosrxstew Concent. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d st. and 4th av,—Lxcrone on Ineuanp. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 63d and 64th streets. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 613 Broadway.— Science anv Art. = —=—— TRIPLE SHEET New York, Friday, Oct. 25, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE SAN JUAN SETTLEMENT! THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE ADMINISTRATION:” EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixtu Pace. THE EPIHIPPIC PESTILENCE! SIXTEEN THOU- SAND HORSES INFECTED! THE DISEASE NOT DANGEROUS: ITS DIFFUSION THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AND DISAS- TROUS EFFECTS: MORE REMEDIES—TurrpD Page. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S DECISION OFFICIALLY COMMUNICATED TO THE BRITISH AND AMERICAN AMBASSADORS! CANAL DE HARO THE PROPER BOUNDARY—SEVENTH Page THIERS’ TREASURY DEVICE! HE URGES A LOAN UPON THE BANK OF ENGLAND: THE OFFER DECLINED: HIS REASONS— SEVENTH PaGE. THE INDIAN ATROCITIES IN BRITISH HONDU- RAS! THE TROOPS PURSUE THE SAVAGES AND KILL FORTY—SEvENTH PaGE. THE WEST INDIES! COOLIES MASSACRING PLANTERS IN DEMERARA—SEVENTH PaGE. NEWS TELEGRAMS FROM ENGLAND, FRANCE, AUSTRIA AND ROME—SEVENTH PaGE. TWO PATENEURG RIOTERS RELEASED: NE- GROES ARRESTED—MARINE NEWS— TeNTH PAGE. HE EXTRAORDINARY TAX IMPOSTS IN CUBA— THE GERMAN NATIONAL CONVENTION— THE SEVEN'Y SAGES—SEvENTH PaGE. JERSEY CITY’S MALEFICLUNT POLICE CHIEF AND DETECTIVE! A STARTLING PLOT UNEARTHED! CLOSET SECRETS—Testu PaGs. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS! MAYOR HALL’S TRIAL: THE CENTRAL UNDERGROUND RAILWAY: COMMISSIONER DAVENPORT’S ARBITRARY ARREST—FourTH PaGE. AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC COMMENTS ON AR- BITRARY SPANISH ARRESTS—ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH STEAM YACHT EOTHEN— Fovrti PacE. GEORGE . WINS THE UNFINISHED TROT AT HALL'S PARK—ENGLISH CHALLENGE TO TURFMEN—Fovrta Pace. BUSINESS AND QUOTATIONS AT THE WALL STREET EXCHANGES: LAPSE IN PRICES—Firtn PacE. QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE ROYAL FAMILY: MISS FAITHFULL ON ENGLISH LOYALTY— TENTH Pace. THE “Tae Metancnory Days Have Come” al- ready, according to the poet, but toa good many politicians they will not come until the first or second morning after the 5th of No- vember. Remember, remember the fifth of November. Brooxtys ms Lucx.—The farmers of Long Island are beginning to carry off the dirt from the streets of Brooklyn without charge, for they have an idea that it pays them in po- tatoes, onions, cabbages, &c.; and they ought to know. Tue O'Coxor Dox, the head of the house, and D. M. O’Conor, both members of Par- liament from Ireland, came over in the Scotia. They are going to make a short prospecting tour round this country, but it is understood that their object is not a Presidential canvass in behalf of Mr. Charles O’Conor. Tux Evrme Srate.—The supporters of General Grant appear to be confident of carry- ing this State on the 5th of November, and by ® rousing majority. The friends of Mr. Greeley are equally sanguine that the State will go for the Sage of Chappaqua with a rush. But how many ‘disaffected republicans are there in the State who may be counted for Greeley? And how many Bourbon democrats () are there who will vote against him or stay at home on election day? Upon the settlement of these two questions the issue depends, and they can be settled only by the election. af _ NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Gan Juan Scttiement—The Foreign Policy ef the Administration. The settlement of the long-continued dis- pute over the Northwestern boundary will form a noteworthy event in the history of President Grant's administration. That the decision of the Emperor of Germany has been in our favor is gratifying to our national pride, because it proves through a strictly im- partial judgment that our original claim was just and because it spares us the mortification of withdrawing from territory over which our flag has once been raised. The settlement is ® practical advantage inasmuch as'it prevents @ recurrence of those complications which in 1859 seriously threatened to involve the two nations in war. Apart from these considera- tions, however, we really gain but little in substance by the fortunate result of the arbi- tration; for we are disposed to regard the stress placed dpon the military value of the position.in our Washington des- | Patches to-day as an effort at political effect. San Juan Island, in possession of which we, are now confirmed, has a certain value for its harbor, is fertile, possesses lime- stone quarries, and is a fair fishing station. The other islands of the group lying between the Canal de Haro and Rosario Strait are some fifteen or sixteen in number, of various sizes, Orcas and Lopez Islands being the largest; but none of them are yet settled, and the whole archi- pelago would scarcely be worth fighting over but for the principle involved in its ownership. The English have chosen to put great stress upon the possession of San Juan, because they regard itas dominating the entrance to Vancouver and British Columbian waters. The London Morning Post, in commenting recently upon the subject of the arbitration said:—‘Should the award be against us the effect will be very disastrous to British Colum- bian interests, for, with an American naval station and forts and batteries on San Juan, the entrance to our waters could virtually be closed to us at the option of the United States. And even if this were not so the establishment of a strong American position so very close to the shores of Vancouver Island would, in all likelihood, lead to dan- gerous complications.’’ We are inclined to regard these objections as bugbears, over which our British neighbors have no occasion for alarm. First, because in the unfortunate event of a war between England and the United States the interests of British Colum- bia and Vancouver's Island would be of very little moment, and next, because the quiet possession of San Juan by the Ameri- cans—to whom it belongs—is far less likely than the present condition of affairs, or than a_ British occupation of the island, to lead to ‘‘dangerous complica- tions.’’ However this may be, the boundary dispute now belongs to the past. The judg- ment rendered by the Emperor William is final and without appeal, and all that remains for England is to withdraw her troops from their camp on the northern end of the island, and make herself as contented as she may over the result. She may find some consola- tion, probably, in the reflection that her claim to carry the boundary line through the little back passage of Rosario Strait was from the first as absurd as it was ungracious; could never have been sustained before any fair tribunal, and but for the forbearance and moderation of the Americans might have led to a less happy settlement than that which has now been reached. This affair being now so creditably and satisfactorily disposed of we suggest that the decision of the Emperor William affords an excellent opportunity for such a change in President Grant's Cabinet as the nation has long needed and the people have long desired. Thanks to the Emperor and to the justice of our cause, one bright spot has at length appeared on the dark back- ground of the Treaty of Washington, and Secretary Fish, twining the Northwestern boundary line gracefully around him, can make his bow to the President and afford him the opportunity to fill a vacancy in the office of Secretary of State.” It is rumored at Wash- ington—and we have reason to credit the report—that the resignation of Mr. Fish, if tendered at this time, would not prove un- acceptable to his chief, and the Secretary has now the happy chance of retiring with flying colors in the glory of this single unqualified success. We say this advisedly; for we do not regard complications with Spain as altogether improbable, in view of the temper of that nation and of the condition of affairs in Ouba, and we believe that Mr. Fish, both on account of his peculiar views and of his peculiar relations, would find the Cabinct position he now holds an _ undesirable responsibility in such an event. Besides, it is evident that popular sentiment favors a bolder and firmer foreign policy than that which has _ distinguished President Grant's administration under the advice of the present Secretary of State. The American people do not desire war. On the contrary, they look to a dignified and resolute attitude in our relations with foreign nations as the most certain warranty of peace. But they would rejoice to hear that Phil Sheridan's troopers were sweeping along the line ot the Rio Grande for the protection of our border, or were on their way to the City of Mexico as an army of occupation to aid the people in establishing a stable government in accord- ance with the will of the majority. They are tired of the Cuban question, and would be gratified to learn that our government was prepared to take a position that would be likely to help its settlement. Mexico and Cuba are our neighbors, and we are inter- ested in seeing peace established in their bor- ders and law and order maintained among their people. The barbarities in Cuba belong to the Middle Ages and are a scandal to civil- ization. If the revolution is a failure and the Cuban Junta ao fraud, let them be so pronounced; but if the struggling islanders, by their perseverance, their courage and their protracted resistance to Spanish authority, have won the title of belligerents, then our citizens would warmly approve the recognition of their rights by our government and the extension of all the ad- vantages accruing therefrom to the revolu- tionists. The resignation of Secretary Fish at this time would do much to render this change in the tone of our foreign policy prac- ticable, and the settlement of the Alabama claims and of the Northwestern boundary question can be claimed by him as sufficiont glory for one Cabinet Minister. A cable despatch from Paris hints that Minister Washburne is likely to return to Washington and to exchange his mission for & seat in the Cabinet. Whatever foundation there may be for the rumor, it is certain ¢! the American people would approve the change from Mr. Fish to Mr. Washburne. The latter gentleman is distinguished for o plain, blunt honesty of purpose which would not be likely to lead to a repeti- tion of ‘such mistakes as were made in the prosecution of the Alabama controversy, and which would be in grateful contrast to the burlesque on profound, secret diplomacy to which the nation has recently been subjected. The accession of Mr. Washburne would at once popularize the new Cabinet; for the cred- itable action of our Minister at Paris during the Franco-German war has not been forgot- ten, Mr. Washburne’s relations with the President have always been of a close and pleasant character, and since his absence in Europe it is certain General Grant has found no better adviser. The people have not loat confidence in the President. On. his own merits, free from the damaging. character of the Congressional policy and from the: objéo- | tionable associations that surround him, Gen- eral Grant would be as invincible to-day as he was four years ago. The surprising strength shown by the opposition is due to the errors and follies of the political hangers-on of the administration, and not to the waning popularity of the President. The memory of Vicksburg and the Wilderness has not passed away, and the vote that will elect General Grant to another term of office will be cast now, as in 1868, for the soldier who saved the nation in its hour of peril. Nothing would gratify the country more than to see such a change in the personnel of the administration as would give promise of a national policy such as it is believed the President approves and desires in his heart, both in our home and foreign affairs. The substitution of Mr. Wash- burne’s name for that of Mr. Fish in the Cabinet would be hailed as an indication of this concession to the popular sentiment, and if made before election would, we believe, add materially to President Grant's majority. There is yet time for such a masterstroke of policy. Will Secretary Fish afford his chief the opportunity to make the brilliant move- ment? The First Autumnal Cyclone from the Tropics and Its Prognostics. The first approach toa serious cyclone on our Southern seaboard this Fall has just oc- curred. It is rare that the first Autumnal month fairly sets in before we hear of violent tropic gales emerging from the West Indian waters, and curving across the Eastern Gulf and along the sea front of Georgia and the Carolinas, playing havoc with the shipping. This year our severest equinoctial tempests have been on the lakes, But on Tuesday last, although the weather reports from the Gulf were deficient through telegraphic failure, the published morning forecasts indicated ‘lower barometers’ and the setting in of cloudy and rainy weather ; and at 4:35 P. M. of the same day ‘Old Probabilities’ foreboded threatening indications and the usual storm winds from the northeast. These Tuesday predictions and the later night probabilities of ‘brisk winds’’ (or from twenty to twenty-nine miles an hour) and threatening weather on the South Atlantic coast were fully verified on the following Wednesday afternoon, when at Savannah, and subsequently at Charleston, the anemometer showed a northeast wind of twenty-eight miles an hour; when, on Wednesday evening and night, as the storm moved northward along the Virginia capes, instead of finding hundreds of small ships and coasting vessels as prey for its menacing waves, it found the ports all forewarned, and the shipping sheltered and waiting its pas- sage before resuming their course. This first instalment of the Autumnal storms on the Southern coast comes from the tropics, and, apparently, is to be regarded as part of a grander storm moving parallel with our coast on the axial bands of the Gulf Stream. If so, vessels leaving Northern ports this week, unless they keep a sharp eye upon it, may become involved in its dangerous cyclonic winds and encounter its high cross seas. It is worthy of careful study that this gale has been, as others of its kind before, preceded by long-continued and cool northerly winds and aérial waves of high barometric range on the Atlantic Coast, which probably evince a con- nection between the infusion of masses of cool air into the saturated and superheated air of the Tropical Sea and the generation of tropical cyclones. While the Signal Bureau gives timely warning of these meteors, it will have opportunity never before known of un- ravelling their mysterious origin. It would be of incalculable advantage to have tele- graphic cables now to connect us with the windward West Indies, so that intelligence of approaching storms might be had a week in advance, and our meteorologists at Washing- ton not left to the precarious reports of a single day, which often, as in the present in- stance, prove wholly uncertain of telegraphic transmission. Mayor Hats’s Trat.—The testimony of Messrs. Storrs and Lynes yesterday proved certain vouchers and acquainted the jury with the routine of business in the county and city financial bureaus during the time of the Mayor's alleged maleadministration. Mr. Storrs testified that in the Summer of 1871 certain papers were in the office which are claimed to have been subsequently stolen. Mr. Hall, in examining the papers put in evidence, ques- tioned his signature to certain of them. Wit- ness Storrs thought, as to one of them, that it was genuine, but others were slightly different, and he was in doubt. -The prosecution stated that the vouchers for the Keyser claim were not stolen with the others, they at the time having been taken from the file to be copied. Mr. Lynes judged all the Mayor's signatures genuine, though two of them, he thought, varied from Mr. Hall’s usual hand. He said that in passing the accounts they were signed as correct by the Comptroller and Mr. Tweed before being taken tothe Mayor. The case will proceed to-day. While the trial was on Andrew J. Garvey, ‘‘the Ring plasterer,” ap- peared in Court and was the target of many sharp glances. Goop Fismmo m Het Gare.—Parties from Hell Gate say that the striped bass fish- ing there just now is ‘perfectly splendid.” Operatic Mismanagement—The Causes of Patlere, There is no subject in which the people of this city feel a deeper interest than in the suc- ceas of the opera and none in which their ex- peotations have been so often disappointed. |Zime and again operatic managers havo learned from experience that one prima donna does not make as successful season any more than one swallow makes a Summer. The di- rector of the Academy of Music is learning it over again this Autumn for nearly the hun- a He makes the most ineffective Faust ever sung at the Academy and as Diavolo he is an excgedingly unromanti engagement. Added to these are other singers for subordinate parts who are too bad to be named or endured, and a chorus which the adjective condemnatory fails fitly to describe. Under such auspices it is impossible that a musical season can be either a financial or an artistic success, and the present venture, like many that have preceded it, must prove a decided and complete failure. The readers of the Hzraup are well aware how strenuously and earnestly this journal has advised a directly opposite course from the one which has been adopted. We have im- plored managers, both for their own interests and the interests of the public, to do what- ever they attempted with thoroughness and efficiency. Only once—in the Nilsson season of last year—was our advice heeded, and that operatic venture was the only one in many years which was a musical triumph and a financial success. Under other conditions the present season would have been equally tri- umphant. There was great eagerness to hear Lucca if she could be heard with proper sur- roundings. Long before the season began every part of the house was taken, and the eagerness manifested in the beginning would have continued till the end had not the disap- pointment been so complete as to be over- powering. Now the enthusiasm has died away, and the interest which still attaches to the opera is due solely to the abilities of Lucca and Jamet. People go to the Academy deter- mined to endure everything elso for the pleas- ure of hearing the brave little prima donna, and they meekly sit through the evening showing a sullen contentment, because Mr. Maretzek has given them one artist who can beguile them for their disappointment. This is the star system in its worst form; for it neither gives the prima donna a fair opportu- nity nor provides the public with such an en- tertainment as will make the season successful. If this were the last disappointment of the kind we could allow it to pass unnoticed; but it can only be the last by making opera in New York impossible.in the future. Distin- guished artists will hesitate about coming to a country where other distinguished artists have failed to reap the reward of their talents. If the people of this city were unwilling or un- able to support the opera we could console ourselves with whatever consolation there might be in a fact so unpalatable; but the con- trary is the trath, That New York is always ready to sustain a meritorious combination is apparent from the success of the Nilsson season. Failure only follows from the want of a meritorious combination. If “L’Africaine”’ had been presented with anything like a cast able to render it, the favorite opera of ‘Faust’ would have proved an ovation. When “Faust” gave us nothing but a Gretchen and a Mephistopheles it was impossible that the noisy music of Auber should satisfy. And “Fra Diavolo”’ realized the old complaint, for it was ‘‘Hamlet’’ with Hamlet left out—Fra Diavolo” with a stage ghost instead of a sing- ing brigand. To all these failures must be added the artistic failure of ‘Don Giovanni.” This is an opera which can be only a musical success at best—an opera which sel- dom succeeds even in Paris, with the best talent to make it effective. Without talent, except in one or two parts, it necessarily fails, and helps to drag down with it the success of the season and the prospects of the future. That the failure of the present season has not been even more marked than it has been is owing in a great measure to the sublime patience of our people. If the demonstrative part of an American audience were compelled to stand up throughout the performance, as in the Hof Theater at Munich, the expressions of censure would take a wilder and fiercer form and a bad representation would become a dan- gerous experiment. It does not follow, how- ever, that where financial disaster fails to teach wisdom it will be learned from the disap- probation of a disappointed and impatient au- dience. There is no truth more self-evident than that which the Heratp has been trying to impress upon managers for years. A worthy entertainment will always meet with a worthy recognition. An artistic success is sure to be rewarded with o financial success, If the music-loving public is treated with fair- ness the response is certain to be as generous as it will be enthusiastic. Experience has taught this, though managers have failed to learn it. Whoever will apply honest commer- cial principles to the organization of an opera company for New York will find a fair return for a fair outlay, and it will not be possible to make Italian opera a permanent institution in this city till this is done. All our theatres are successful because they put the best attainable talent in their performances, and the opera fails because a rule so unmistakable is not heeded. Toe Tra. or tae Curr ov Porce and a detective of Jersey City on the charge of con- spiracy to rob the First National Bank in that city commenced yesterday. The develop- ments, if not the most extraordinary, are the most novel which any trial in our generation has revealed. No such charge against such an officer has ever been made in a court of justice in this or any other country, and hence the progress of the case will be watched with great interest. It transpired yesterday that if all other means of escape for the thieves failed the ready and familiar expedient of ob- taining a requisition for one of the gang on the charge of complicity in the Nathan mur- der was to be resorted to. President Thiers and His Surplus Fands. In our telegraphic columns, this morning, will be found special cable despatch to the ‘Henap explanatory of the four million sterling loan, said to have been offered by President Thiers to the Bank of England. According to our special despatch it is not true, as was at one time rumored, that the Bank of England eolicited the loan. The loan was not solicited, but offered. The managers of the Bank of England very wisely, as it seems to us, refused to accept the four millions as a loan ; but they were prepared to receive it as a deposit to be held to the credit of the French government, if President Thiers were so disposed, Our cor- respondent leads us to understand that the whole affair is regarded in cartain circles in London as a skilful movement on the part of President Thiets an@ intended by him ‘to that his government had substantially restored the material prosperity of France; and this ex- hibition of his surplus funds was intended to justify his assertion. It is not at all improb- able that President Thiers is quite proud to be able to inform the world that he has, in spite of the heavy obligations which he has met, a little money on hand. Even if he is disposed to make political capital out of the fact, who can blame him? In circumstances of exceptional difficulty he has done well for France—so well that he has fairly earned the title of Savior of his Country. It is possible, however, that the conduct of Presi- dent Thiers admits of another and more satis- factory explanation. It is well known that there are in England numerous subscribers to the French loan. These subscribers have the choice of paying by instalments or paying the whole sum at once and claiming the benefit of arebate. The President is anxious to have the loaned money under his own control at the earliest possible moment. By transferring four millions of pounds sterling from the Bank of France to the Bank of England it was not unfair to suppose that the rate of discount would be lowered, and that thus the English subscribers would be encouraged to pay up at once and s0 be entitled to claim the benefit of rebate. This, we think it will be found, is the true explanation of the President's proposed loan to the Bank of England. If the Presi- dent is pleased to deposit the money the de- posit may serve his purpose quite as much as the loan. That such a proposal could be made at all is a credit to M. Thiers. It is proof that the resources of France are great and that the nation is rapidly recovering from her recent terrible misfortunes. Continued Spread of the Horse Dis- enuse. Sixteen thousand horses, by the closest cal- culation, are now afflicted in the New York district with the epihippic, which has come to us, like so many other annoyances, from Canada. The inspections made of this city, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken by our reportorial corps give very little hope of an immediate abatement. The animals attacked before yesterday in almost all cases exhibited worse features of the disease, and it becomes evident that, dating the majority of cases from Mon- day or Tuesday, the crisis can yet be hardly said to have arrived. In the meantime new eases have broken out. The bad and cruel plan of working horses unmistakably afflicted is bearing its legitimate fruit in the utter pros- tration of the wretched beasts, and will in all likelihood entail losses from death which will far more than counterbalance the petty amount gained by taking two or three days’ work out of a tottering animal. The per- centage of horses dangerously sick would not appear to be large as yet, a computation put- ting it down as low as three in a hundred. No deaths have been reported in this vicinity, although some are rumored to have occurred. The railroad companies do not seem over- anxious that the truth in this particular should be announced, and hence possibly a discrep- ancy in our information. The treat- ments adopted are various and depend a good deal on _ the diagnoses made in the particular stables. The short, dry cough, the offensive running at the nose and the debility following all indi- cate that it is allied to influenza; there are, however, frequent modifications of the symp- toms which confound the inexperienced. Rest, swathing in flannels, the external application of counter-irritants to relieve the inflammation of the throat, frequent spongings of the mouth and nostrils to remove the discharge, with the internal exhibition ofa variety of saline pur- gatives to allay the fever, are among the pre- scriptions used in the most successful cases, The suddenness of the attack and the want, up to the present, of an autopsical examination, prevent any specific being prescribed. Boston has much the same story as New York to tell, the injury to business being general. At Rochester, in this State, the utter prostration of the equines has rendered necessary a rescindment/of the city ordi- nance against hand trucks. At Newburg the disease has also declared itself. The best news comes from Buffalo, where a miti- gation 6f the malady is reported. From several points in New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island and Connecticut, fresh outbreaks are reported. South of New York State the disease does not appear to have taken hold, except at Newark, which is in direct communication with Jersey City. Phil- adelphia reports that all is well, and unless it travels thither in a few days the Quaker City may hope to escape. It is nevertheless worth particular attention to note the track of the plague, which, so far, has gone steadily southward. The interruption to business is not in this city very severely felt. ‘Two hundred and fifty cars have ceased running and one entire line of stages. If the horses are disabled at this rate we shall soon find it inconvenient enough. The merchant community, which depends so much for its local transfer of merchandise on horses, will find the inconvenience serious, no doubt; but there is a remedy which will at once suggest iteelf for this in the employ- ment as porters of the drivers and conductors efforts to obtain remunerative references from the impeached judges and a lack of other em- ployment. However this may be, the action of some of the members of the aaso- ciation in regard to the nominees for the Judiciary does not show in a very favorable light At .@ recent meeting a resolution in fayor of op- posing .the re-election of the -present City Judge having: been introduced, Mr. John McKeon, with the candor natural to him, de- | nounced its adoption, unless ‘some one had the courage* to. specify charges as a reasom for the proposed action. Thereupon a Mr. Price: rose, and, after declaring that he pos- sessed the requisite amount of courage for the task, charged that the City Judge had refused to admit William M. Tweed to bail on the criminal indictments found against him some ten months ago, and hence was unfit to sit om the Bench. It scarcely required this episode to expose the fingers of Tweed and his associates im crime in the crusade against the present City, Judge, but the charge made by this member of the Bar Association should have come from some one not claiming to belong to the legal profession. In the civil suits against Tweed and the others implicated in the alleged frauds an amount of bail so large as to be almosta refusal of bail was required. In ex-Comp- trollor's Connolly’s case it was really equiva- lent to a refusal, for the defendant was unable to furnish it and remained in prison until the amount had been reduced. When Tweed was taken before the Court of Sessions the District Attorney moved his commitment without bail, the avowed reason for the mo- tion being that the amount of plunder and the certainty of conviction rendered it proba- ble that the accused would forfeit any bail likely to be required rather than stand a trial. It is discretionary with the Judge whether a prisoner so charged shall be admitted to bail or committed without bail. In this case the counsel for the accused did not oppose the motion of the District Attorney to commit without bail, for the reason that it was known the City Judge would re- quire an amount commensurate with the offences alleged against the accused, while a more friendly Judge could be found who would immediately fix the bail at a compara- tively inconsiderable sum. The counsel there- fore desired that his client should be com- mitted by the City Judge for the purpose of taking him before another Judge for bail, which was subsequently done. ‘The City Judge had but an unopposed motion be- fore him, to commit without bail, and he very properly granted the motion of the District Attorney. This may be good cause for the enmity of Tweed, but it can be no good reason, in the opinion of any lawyer of ordinary abil- ity, why the committing Judge should be pro- nounced unfit to sit upon the Bench. Frenon Emigration to Canapa.—A Paris telegram conveys the intelligence that a large number of the French inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine, who have exiled themselvea from Prussian rule in the conquered provinces, or been exiled thereby, sailed from the shores of the parent land yesterday in emigrant exo- dus to Canada. This is really an important and most noticeable consequence of the late war between France and Germany. The French have not been an emi- grant people hitherto. They are, howe ever, o clannish people, easily contented, frugal and «soon at home in any clime. Should they in their present sorrow turn their faces towards the soil of the new transatlantic Dominion in any great number very many thousands of their countrymen may follow their lead. In numerous districta ot Canada they will meet traces of previous French settlements, the population of which may become rehabilitated and improved physie cally and in its industries by an infusion of new blood from the primitive fountain source. The local effects on this side of the Atlantic would be very decided and apparent at quite an early moment. ART MATTERS, The well known collection of Mr. August Bel- mont will be placed on exhibition at the Leavitt Art Rooms early next week, preparatory to their sale by auction. It has been long rumored that Mr. Belmont would dispose of his pictures before his departure for Europe, which was decided upon some time ago. As the works were selected with great care, and all the best known European ar- tists are represented, the public will be furnished with a real treat, which they can enjoy at pleasure until the 12th of November, when the sale will take place. The exhibition will create quite a sensa- tion, a8 every one who is in any way connected or interested in art will visit tt, Among the attractions at Goupil's gallery is Gerome’s grand picture, “Cleopatra Before Cwesar.’” This work is well known by the engraving, but black and white give but a slight ideaof the sensu- ous beauty of the fair Egyptian as portrayed by the French artist. This work will be on view to the public to-morrow, as will also be “The Vidette,’? by Meissonier, and ‘‘Petrarch’s Laura,” by Cabanal, These three works would do honor to the first gallery of Europe, and their presence in our cil shows with what force the tide of art taste sweeping in to this magnificent metropolis of America. Only a few years more at our present progress and we shall stand in the front ce as patrons of the beauz aris, SCHAUS’ GALLERY. There are here a number of very excellent paint- ings which demand more than a passing notice from the visitor. A little work by Gerome, representing an Eastern soldier, armed to the teeth, holding two hounds in leash. Tne composition is bold and strik- ing and the color extremely happy. There are some effective water colors. Art Sale. The sale of the Maseline collection was brought to a close last night without any marked enthu- siasm having been manifested. The bidding, how- © ever, was a little more spirited than on the former occasion, and some of the works realized compara- tively good prices. The “Necklace,” by Kraus, of Berlin, was sold for $900, and was understood ta have been purchased by Mr. A. T. Stewart. ‘lear. pa a @ Shower,”’ farcisse brought $480, and “The Reverie,” by Giacommotti, $625. were the highest figures ae ation ee the Prsnes coast * Ocareat ea0o4 eiaee Leon te Serta at ntias ha