The New York Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1872, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD —_—_—_— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, past NEW The Registration and Election Laws— A Warning to ALL Whom It May Comeern. ‘The present Presidential campaign has been one of deplorable personality, and has been ive of much ill-feeling among those who take an active interest in politics. Old ‘All business or news letters and telegraphic | Parties have been broken up, and mon who despatches must be addressed New York Hnaxp. have for years past been fighting on the same side now find themselves for the first time arrayed against each other. It has been a Letters and packages should be properly | season of civil war among the politicians, and eealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. oops. MUSEUM, Broad: 5 Thirtieth st.— ‘Tunse Mus-xu-reEns. Alternoon ‘and ening. . THEATRE UB. 514 Broadway.—Forcrsr—Tax Powzr or Music. tines at 2d. FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, Twenty-fourth street — Diamonps. Matinee at 1s. WALLACK'S -street.—Promation ap GaLarea. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Fourteenth street.—Iraxtax Orans—Gramp Lucca Marine at 1. * BOOTH’S THEATRE, Twenty-third street, corner Sixth ‘avenue.—Kxany—Jussix Brows. Matinee at 2 BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Brraxers—Pousa ‘eo. 5 ‘ GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st, and Eighth ‘av.—Ro1 Canorrx. Matinee at 14. . THEATRE, Broadwa: between Thir- teebus and Fourteenth airecta—aaxes.” Matinee at lig between Houston » Broad OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broa: Dee nutee eee and Bleecker sts.—GxNEvIEVE DK MRA, F. B..CONWAY'S BROOKLYN au Honsymoon—Biow ror Buow. Matinee at 2. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st.. co} 6th av.—Necro Minstretsy, Eccentricity, &c. Mj 720 BROADWAY, EMERSON’S MINSTRI Ermiortan Eccenrricitixs. Matinee. WHITE'S ATHENZUM, 585 Broadwsy STRELSY, &C. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Granp Variety Entertainment, &c. Matinee at 234. SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, St. James Theatre, corner ot 28th st. and Broad’ ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY. BAILEY’S GREAT CIRC’ ND MENAGERIE, foot of Houston strect, East Riv DEN STONE'S CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE, foot of ‘Thirty-fourth street and East River. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Matinee at 2, Rupinstein Concret. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Third av., between 63d and 64th streets. aN, PAVILION, No. 68 Broadway, near Fourth street.— Granp Gata Enrerrainwent. ‘ o NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Scrmnce anp Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Oct. 26, 1872. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE REGISTRATION AND ELECTION LAWS! A WARNING TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CON- CERN!—EDITORIAL LEADER—SIXTH PAGE. OUR SUFFERING HORSES! THIRTY THOUSAND SICK WITH “TYPHOID LARYNGITE!” IM- PENDING MORTALITY! A HORSELESS FUTURE! HACKMEN MASTERING THE SITUATION—Tarrp Pace. THE NORTHWEST BOUNDARY LINE! THE GER- MAN JURISTS' NAMES AND REPORT: DIPLOMATIC FELICITATIONS AND PRESS COMMENTS—SEVENTH PaGE. THE TELLER OF THE VIRGINIA STATE BA) ABSCONDS! A PRETENCE OF SUICIDE: HIS LETTER AND THE DEFICIT—Seventu PagE. CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE AND AUs- | TRALASIA—MISCELLANEOUS TELEGRAMS | —SEVENTH PAGE. THE POLITICAL CORRUPTIONS IN PENNSYLVA- NIA! A CONGRESSMAN’'S SCHEMES: RE- PUBLICANS IMPLICATED—Srventa Pace, AMUSEMENTS—PERSONAL NOTES—ART—Sixta PaGE TOURING THROUGH THE STATE! THE POLITI- CAL BIAS OF THE SOUTHERN TIER: LIBERAL HOPES: KERN S$ RELIGION: THE KEYNOTE OF THE KEYSTONE—Fovurta Pace. all the passions engendered by internal strife have been called into play to embitter and intensify the contest. There has never been an election since the formation of our govern- No. 300 | Ment in which it was more desirable that prudent citizens should do all in their power to calm the troubled waters of political con- tention and toallay the popular excitement provoked by the struggle. The party organs have been reckless in their attacks and care- less of the result, their apparent object being to fan the flame of discord and to increase the violence of factional hate. THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth | In this city the complication of our local politics has added to the natu- and some alarm has been felt least the election should be marred by disorder and violence. Under these circumstances we regard it as un- fortunate that any difficulty should have arisen in regard to the registration and eleo- tion laws, now enforced for the first time in a Presidential contest, or that those charged with their exécution should have found it necessary to put themselves offensively in con- tact with the people. The case of Mr. Heinrichs has already been fully reported in the Hzraup. This citizen, a German by birth, was grrested on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Daven- port, who acts as Supervisor under the national election law, charged with a violation of the provisions of that law. A deputy ap- pointed by the Supervisor visited Mr. Hein- tichs’ house for the purpose of verifying the registration list. It is charged that he acted insolently and arbitrarily, that he endeav- ored to force his way into the premises and that Heinrichs resisted his entrance. At all events a dispute arose, resulting in the arrest of Heinrichs, and it is certain that in the sub- sequent proceedings Commissioner Daven- port, before whom the accused was taken, evinced no spirit of conciliation. Mr. Hein- richs was held to bail, and other arrests on similar charges have subsequently been made. The trouble arises from a conflicting interpre- tation of the law regulating the powers of the Supervisors of Election. Commissioner Da- venport holds that in the verification of regis- tration lists his deputies have powers equal to those of the takers of the census, and may enter houses, demand answers to their ques- tions of the;inmates, and arrest all who resist or refuse to make reply. On the other hand, it is contended that the Supervisors of Elec- tion and their deputies possess no such powers; that the law authorizes them to “verify lists” of persons who may register or votein elections tor federal officers, and to act as witnesses in the election proceedings, the counting of votes and making returns. As originally passed the law possessed some objectionable features, giving very arbitrary powers to the deputies; but an amendatory law passed at the last session of Congress expressly provides that the super- visors ‘‘shall have no power or authority to make arrests or to perform other duties than to be in the immediate presence of the officers holding the elections, and to witness all their proceedings, including the counting of the votes and the making a return thereof.’’ These are the words of the supplemental and amendatory law, and it would seem that they are distinct and plain enough. But Commis- sioner Davenport falls back on the plea that this clause docs not apply to the supervisors in cities of over twenty thousand inhabitants, and that the powers of arrest given by the original law—to wit, powers equal to those of the census commissioners—are still in his hands. ‘This position we believe to be untenable. It was clearly the intention of Congress to limit the arbitrary and objection- NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN COURTS! GARVEY TESTIFIES IN MAYOR HALL'S CASE: HOW ONE OF THE MILLIONS WAS STOLEN, WHO KEPT IT, AND CONVERSA. TIONS WITH THE ACCUSED—Fotrrn Pace. TRANSACTIONS ON ‘CHAN THE PACIFIC MAIL SALE AND DIVIDEND: STRONG TESTIMONY AGAT IN THE JERSEY C. BANK BURGLARY! SECRET CORRESPONDENCE —FIFTH PAGE. A “SMART” | WITNESS—FountH PaGu. | FROUDE AND IRELAND! THE LAND T 2] EVIL: CELTIC HOPE AND DUTY—MARINE | NEWS—Tento Pace. | ANNA DICKINSON N THE ROSTRUM! SHE | THINKS GRANT tHE MAN: WHO | SAVED THE CO) GHOSTS IN GEORGIA—GRANT MEETING IN BROOKLYN—LI y LEM COURT HOUSE—POLITICAL—Fovnra INT PAGE. | Rusera anp France.—Some weeks ago we | were made aware that Russia had withdrawn or qualified her kind wishes to France and to the government of President Thiers. What | Russia said in the second instance we were | not told. It now appears that the Russian | Minister of the Interior, M. Timaschoff, pri- | vately qualified the congratulations he had formerly addressed to M. Thiers, by warning him that if M. Gambetta made France a focus of revolution it would be necessary for the external Powers ‘‘to smother the flames.’’ It is evident that the Holy Alliance spirit is not dead. The Congress of the Emperors may, after all, have been brought about by a dread of the Republic. News rrom AvsTranisia iN TwENTY-Foun Hovns.—Electricity enables us to perform the journalistic feat of publishing in the columns of the Herap to-day news from Australasia dated in Melbourne on Thursday, the 24th inst. The despatch was forwarded from the colony of Victoria to London, re- ceived there the same evening and repeated to us from the British metropolis through the cable yesterday evening, reaching the Hznanp Building at ten o'clock P, M. The report announces the existence of a hostile demon- stration by the natives of the Chatham Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, against the white settlers, who are threatened with ex- termination by murder. Thus does the elec- tric wire pulsate to us the throbs of the world’s sorrow, just equally os it has reported the joys and triumphs of the ¢° ‘lizations, | the supervisors of | giving them every facility to act as a | of the United States which secure the people THE PRISONERS | against unreasonable searches and seizures in able powers at first conferred upon election, and, while | supervising power over registration and voting, | to prevent them from doing acts in clear con- | flict with those provisions of the constitution their persons, houses, papers and effects, and which provide that no warrants shall issue except upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. We believe that Commissioner Davenport has transcended the law in the course he has pursued towards Mr. Heinrichs, and that while he has unquestionably the right to verify the registration lists by all reasonable means within his power he has no authority to issue warrants and arrest citizens at his will for alleged violation of the law he is called upon to execute. If penalties have been in- curred under the law they must be enforced in a legal manner. Apart from the letter of the law, we regard the course pursued by Commissioner Daven- port as unwise and dangerous to the peace of the city. A statute such as he is called upon to enforce is necessarily of an objectionable character. It authorizes a sort of espionage towhich the people are unaccustomed and | Which is naturally offensive. A good registry law is approved by all honest citizens, and | scarcely a reputable man would be found | unwilling to aid cheerfully in its enforcement. | But the clear object of such a law should be to prevent illegal voting and to facilitate the | polling of every honest vote in the city. There are two evils attendant upon fraudulent voting at elections—first, that it misrepresents the popular will, and next that it deprives quali- | fied voters of the opportunity to deposit their ballots. A fair registration law provides against both of these evils; it renders it dif- ficult, if not impossible, to commit frauds | upon the franchise, and it clears the way to the polls for honest electors. Unfor- | tunately the registration laws in this | State have been tinkered by politicians | for their own purposes, and have been framed as much for the purpose of obstructing | the honest, full vote of the city of New York as for putting a stop to the shameful frauds ‘initiated by democratic ballot-box stuffers and } YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Purpose, was tobe used to accomplish such & result, and the conduct of Commissioner Dav- enport throughout gives color to the suspicion. The most important essential of a law of this character ig that its enforcement should be free from every taint of partisanship. The good men of all parties are interested in pre- serving the purity of the ballot box, and no frauds ever concocted by the old Ring democracy could bo half 80 offensive and dangerous as frauds Perpetrated by one party against tho other under the cover of a State or Federal law. Hence it is desirable that every officer charged with the execution of a registry or election law should be especially courteous, fair and impartial in his action, and should studiously avoid giving cause of offence to the citizens. We do not think that Commissioner Davenport has filled these requirements, and while it may be proper enough for him to em- ploy bad characters as detectives on the prin- ciple of setting a thief to catch a thief we ro- gard it a8 extremely injudicious that he should assume doubtful powers or exercise such authority as he legally possesses in an overbearing and insoleut manner. ‘The interference of the Federal government at all-in elections is of very questionable ex- pediency. Our present State registration laws may be considered as perfect a safeguard against illegal voting as could well be devised. Indeed, in some of their provisions they seem to throw unnecessary and vexatious obstruc- tions in the way of legal voters, and especially ot naturalized citizens. If they are to be sup- plemented by a system of national espionage, it should certainly be conducted in a manner as little offensive to citizens as possible. We can conceive of nothing so well calculated to incite a riot ina large city as illegal, arbi- trary and partisan conduct on the part of an officer charged with the execution of a Federal election law; for, as we have said, federal interference in elections is of itself repulsive to the citizens. We should therefore advise those having charge of the matter to exercise great caution and pru- dence. The ordeal of the State registration is by no means an easy one to pass through, and the verification of the suspected names that may get on the lists can be easily accom- plished without contentions and arrests. Where questions are not satisfactorily answered suspicion may be justly entertained, and it is then easy enough to mark down the names for challenge. Every good citizen will second the efforts of the proper authorities to enforce the laws designed to secure a fair election, however objectionablo may be the character of the statutes; but no man worthy of exercising the franchise would hesitate to resist an attempt to defraud the honest voters of their rights under the pre- tence of legal authority. The ballot is the constitutional right of every citizen, and no law can deprive him of it. The very sus- picion that obstructions may be improperly laid in his way should be an additional incen- tive to every elector to register to-day while there is yet time and to cast his vote when the day of election arrives. The Horse Malady—Its West. There may be counted now in this city and the territory immediately surrounding it pro- bably not less than thirty thousand horses suffering from the laryngeal or bronchial epihippic, which has been developing itself for the past week. It has begun to exhibit new symptoms here, which are looked on as highly dangerous; the animal pants for breath and’ becomes quite cold at the extremi- ties. At least five hundred cars have been withdrawn from the city railroad lines. In this branch alone, therefore, the disease throws a thousand men out of work, it is to be hoped only for a few days. In a city so crowded as New York the sus- pension of even this large number of cars, with the stoppage of other vehicles, is not easy to be noted at first; but to-day we may look for the thinning out being distinctly per- ceptible and painfully felt during certain of the busiest hours. The virtuous hackmen of the city, with that calm defiance of law which characterizes their class, took advan- tage of the disease to charge exorbitant fares. These gentlemen should now be taught a sharp lesson. The avarice which exhibits itself in times of public calamity should be treated as it deserves. The favorite trotting mare American Girl has a slight attack, but is doing well. Society always has an anxiety about its élite, 80 we refer to this appearance of tho malady among the equine haut ton. The wretched car horse may have his feelings and an inflamed larynx, but society will always have its distinctions. Lucca, with a slight hoarseness, would be an object of sympathy to thousands; but a chorus singer might ‘cough fit to break her back’’ without wringing the public heart to any great extent. Here is a theme for young poets to moralize upon, In this and the Eastern States the disease has undergone no diminution, except, per- haps, at Buffalo. From points South we are happy to learn that it has not travelled in that direction. It has appeared, however, at Corry, Pa.; Indianapolis and St. Louis, which would indicate that it is taking a Western sweep. It is to be hoped that wher- ever henceforth it makes its appearance measures will at once be taken for its eradi- catio. The senseless plan of allowing the disease to develop its worst features before undertaking its cure should be guarded against. It is stated on experience that where taken at its inception and properly treated it can be generally cured in forty-eight hours, whereas a neglect in this regard renders a sickness of ten or twelve days certain, with a chance of death into the bargain. Appearance Presideat Thiers and the Ex-Imperial Family. President Thiers has, according to one of our cable despatches of this morning, forbid- den the sale of coricatures of the ex Emperor Napoleon and his family. This, injour judg- ment, is right, propér and becoming. It has been the business of President Thiers since he accepted office to know no political party, to conciliate as far as was possible, and to govern France according tothe wishes of | the greatest number. He has avoided, and with some skill, giving unnecessary offence to any of the political factions. He has been able to govern France and to restore to France some degree of her ancient prosperity, be- cause he has consulted the wishes of all repeaters. It looks very much as if the Fed- eral Eleotion law, if not designed for the same parties, and because all parties have confessed that he is the only man they can now trust at OCTOBER 26, CUSIP AM ou the helm of national affairs, Hoe has done his best to find out what France wants; and find- ing that no one party was etrong enough to lead he has ruled by a kind of tompromise. France, under M. Thiers, is nominally a Re- public; but the Kepublio has been made a possible success with an Assembly two-thirds monarchical. Caricatures of prominent legiti- mists, or of prominent Orleanista, or of promi- nent republicans, would be offensive and in- jurious to the maintenance of public peace and good order. Caricatures’ of the Bona- partes would be equally offensive and equally injurious. If the President is to retain his authority he must persist in the policy which he has pursued with so much success. In forbidding the sale of caricatures of the Bona- partes he is simply doing right; and we have no doubt that he is equally prepared to forbid the publication of caricatures of prominent members of any of the other parties, Offence must be avoided. President Thiers is doing his best to avoid offence. May he win; and may the Republic be a success. The San Juan Boundary Deeision Pronouncement in Berlin—Opinions of the British Press. The Henaup special cable despatch from Berlin which is published in our columns to- day supplies interesting and important partiou- lars of fact relative to the imperial German pronouncement in the San Juan boundary arbitration case and of the bases on which the decision was founded, after due and mature deliberation, by Emperor William. It appears that His Majesty sought the aid of some of the most eminent scientists resident within his dominion—men distinguished alike for their knowledge of law and study of geography—and that he was guided to the result of which we are informed by a careful perusal of the reports of the juriscon- sults. These documents were handed to the Emperor some weeks since, and are now filed away in the State archives in Berlin. The contents of the papers will not, it is said, be published. Itis known, however, that they arein complete justification of the position which has been assumed by the American peo- ple in their channel route claim, and that Great Britain stands accused of vagueness of expression in the treaty of 1846, if not of quibbling in her after-treatment with respect to the provisions, spirit and intent of that instrument. This is about all that the United States required, as right, and right only, is ever right and invincible. The decision of the Emperor of Germany ex- cites anything but the admiration or approval of the British press. The Times says that it “is unsatisfactory, unclear and indecisive, but we accept it with loyal submissiveness;’’ and that “we repudiate utterly the absurd and baseless charge that England intrigued at Berlin with a view of modifying the judgment of the Emperor.’’ The London Post considers the award as ‘damaging to the interests and diplomatjc reputation of England, as was the award of the Geneva Tribunal;”’ and, with the ysual modifications and variations in such cases, these opinions will, doubtless, be re- flected from the whole newspaper press, with a few anti-Saxon exceptions, of the British Empire. Nor in these British exceptions and objections to the decision of an impartial arbi- trator on this boundary question is there any- thing that surprises us, inasmuch as this honest judgment clashes with that long- cherished English fallacy that it is right that England’s pretensions should be the law in the settlement of all international disputes in which her pretensions are involved. In the highways or byways of her peculiar diplomacy touching her territorial usurpations she has not often been so decisively checked or so sharply rebuked as in this San Juan judgment of the Kaiser. Of course, to our bewildered English cousins this judgment is ‘‘unsatisfactory;” but we cannot perceive that it is not clear or that it is not decisive, when it clearly defines the true boundary between the contestants and estab- lishes it as from the court of last resort and as the supreme law to both parties till other- wise ordered in the course of future events. The London Times, however, may regard this judgment as being ‘indecisive’ from the terms in which it is expressed, viz:.—‘‘That the American claim of territorial boundary is most in accordance with the true interpre- tation of the treaty of 1846, and that the boundary line should run through the Canal or (Channel) De Haro.”” ‘Most in accordance’ is a comparative statement which of itself is “indecisive,’’ and may be said to be not per- fectly clear, for it apparently involves the ad- mission that the British claim is to some extent in “accordance with the treaty.” But in turning to the Washington Treaty of 1871 we at once brush away these technical cobwebs. In that treaty, article 34, this boundary dispute is re- ferred to the arbitration of the Emperor of Germany, and it is agreed between the high contracting parties that this arbitrator, having regard to the treaty of 1846, which detines this boundary as the continuation of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, ‘to the middle of the channel which separates the Continent from Vancouver's Island, and thence southerly through the middle of the said channel and of Fuca Straits to the Pacific Ocean’’—having re- gard to this provision of that treaty he ‘shall decide thereupon, finally and without appeal, which of those claims (the American or the British) is most in accordance with the true interpretation of the treaty of June 15, 1846.” “Most in accordance,’’ then, are the express words of instruction of the Treaty of Washing- ton by which the Emperor William had to be and has been guided in his settlement; and in rendering his decision he properly sticks to the text of his instructions, His judg- ment, according to his instructions, is per- fectly clear and conclusive, and if he leaves not a peg to hang a doubt upon it is because he departs nota hair's breadth from the line of his instructions in pronouncing his award. The London {imes, therefore, does well to “accept it with loyal submissiveness,"’ because, even in the last resort of quibbling, there can be no appeal from this decision. With regard to the charge of British in- trigues to procure a modification of the judg- ment of the Emperor, we are not disposed to accept it as baseless or absurd upon the mere assertion of our offended British contem- porary. It is generally believed throughout the Old World and the New that British diplomacy, in extreme cases, does not stick at trifles, and that the ancient maxim that “all things are fair in love and war’ will equally apply to the strategy and tactics of England in the eettlement of ber international differ. ences. It is sufficient for us, however, upon this San Juan ‘boundary dispute we have secured what was asked for—a decision ‘moat in accordance with the true interpreta- tion’ of the treaty of 1846. The:opinion of the London Post, that this award is ‘“‘as to the interests and the diplomatic reputation of England as was the award of the Geneva Tribunal,” is doubt- less correct, looking at each of these judg- ments as a rebuke to British presumption and British pretensions; but in recalling the love feasts of the Joint High Commission, and the happy accord between England and the United States confirmed in those excellent arbitration dinners at Geneva, we would com- mend to all our British contemporaries the example given of ‘loyal submissiveness”’ to this settlement. The Westerm Business Men and Mr. Boutwell om the Currency. The forty-four millions of legal tenders which Seoretary McCulloch withdrew from circula- tion, and which Mr. Boutwell has kept under the strong lock of the Treasury Department, are a great temptation to the business men of the West. A delegation of three Western gentlemen called on the Secretary on Thurs- day to urge the reissue of these legal tenders. The delegates represented that there is great difficulty in obtaining sufficient currency in the West for the purposes of legitimate trade. We have no doubt that the three gentlemen fairly represented the views and wishes of the West generally. With an ample amount of currency in circulation, and money easy and at a comparatively low rate of interest, and with foreign exchange high, the Western farmers can develop their resources and find a market for their abundant produce at the ports of the Atlantic seaboard and abroad. Then, when currency is scarce they have to pay very high interest for money—much higher, in fact, than is paid in the Eastern and Middle Atlan- tic States. It is quite natural, therefore, that the West should desire an expansion of the currency and the reissue of the Treasury re- serve of forty-four millions of greenbacks. The people of that section are looking more to the immediate. effect and the benefit they would derive than to the ultimate conse- quences or to the interests of other sections. Mr. Boutwell did not hold out any hope of |. expanding the legal tender currency, though he spoke of holding this Treasury reserve asa check over the cornering operations of Wall street. He thought the moral effect upon the speculators of holding this reserve in hand would answer the purpose at present. He reiterated the old idea that the currency is too abundant now to admit of specie pay- ments, and that the only way to bring paper money to par with specie is by contraction. Mr. Boutwell is a perfect Bourbon in his fixed notions. He will never learn by experience or by facts that stand out as plain as the sun at noon. We have about the same amount of currency in circulation, now that the premium on gold is thirteen, as when it was thirty or forty. The progress of the country and the exigencies of a constantly increasing trade operate the same as contraction. In other words, we have been growing up to a specie basis, and shall reach that in time through natural causes if the volume of currency re- mains undisturbed. Mr. Boutwell should not touch the currency and ought not to interfere in any way with the money market or currents of trade. Congress might, when it reassem- bles, do something to facilitate specie pay- ments without contracting the currency by compelling the national banks to prepare for such a result. In the meantime, however, contraction would be ruinous and expansion would defer specie payments. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. David A. Wells, the revenue reformer, is at the Albemarle Hotel, . Ex-Governor J. R. Hawley, of Connecticut, is at the Hoffman House. General J. G. Parke, of Washington, is staying at the Brevoort House. Congressman William Williams, of Inaiana, is at the Hoffman House. Colonel Jerome N. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, is at the New York Hotel. Colonel D. P. Rumsey, of Buffalo, is stopping at the New York Hotel. Judge William F. Allen, of Albany, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburg, yesterday arrived at the Flith Avenue Hotel. Governor Hofman came from Albany last even- ing, and is now at the Clarendon Hotel. Mayor A. C. Wilder, of Rochester, is among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Colonel Otty, of the British army, has arrived at the Fitth Avenue Hotel from St. John’s, N. B. David Jones, chief engineer of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, is stopping at the Grand Central Hotel. Secretary of State Francis Jordan, of Pennsyl- vania, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Is ‘Jordan's a hard road to travel?” Can it be calied an equine distemper when so many politicians are hors de combat and so many mayors are in the field? A woman political lecturer in Rhode Island is like taking two bites of an ox-heart cherry. The State is little, but the juice is sweet. o The Marquis of Queensbury and his cousin, Mr. Douglas, will to-day start from the Brevoort House for the Western pratries to hunt Buffalo. A. B. Mullett, of Washington, is at the Astor House. Mr. Mullett is the supervising architect of the Treasury Department. It is reported that he designs aitering the plan of the new Post Office by adding an extra story. A Washington correspondent of the Boston Post says McPherson does not decline being a candidate for re-election as Clerk of the next House of Rep- resentatives at Washington. McPherson has been @ faithful officer, Why shonld he not be re-elected? The Emperor Francis Joseph has pardoned his cousin, the Archduke Henry, whom he, several years ago, banished irom Austria for having mar- ried an actress. He has also restored to him all the military dignities and charges of which he had deprivea him, Among the numerous political announcements we find the following in the Providence Journa! (administration) :—“‘Addresses will be delivered by Mrs, Elizabeth K, Churchill, of this city; Mrs. Lucy Stone, of Massachusctts, and Mrs. Frances Harper, @ gifted and eloquent woman of color, of Mary- laud.” Evidently, woman has taxen the stump in “Little Rhoda.’ MRS, GREBLEY'S CONDITION. Mrs. Horace Greeley remained yesterday in the critical condition to which she had sunk the day before, without improving or relapsing. Her fam- ily, friends and physicians still faith/ully and hope- fully attend her. MYSTERIOUS POIBONING OF A WHOLE FAMILY, NasHvi.se, Tenn., Oct. 25, 1872, ‘The entire family of Isaac Rawis, of Robertson county, was poisoned a few days ago. Mrs. Rawis and @ daughter have died, Mr. Rawis and another Gacenter @nd son are dangerously ili, It is not known how the poisoning occur: whether acci- dentally or intentionallys balanced that there is mo chance particular display for one artist in the cast over another. Lucca’s rendering of “Batti, batti,” and “Vedrai Carino,” those delicious tit-bits of melody, and her naive, vivacious and fascinating style of acting, give to her Zerlina the impress of a great artist, There is always something to admire im Mme. Lucca’s rendering of a rdle, -The Zerlina of Mile. Nilsson was a statuesque, cold impersona- tion; that of Lucca is warm, natural and full ef life. Persons have asked us in which particular, acting or singing, Mme. Lueca excels. The answer ig that so beautifully blended are both qualities that it is impossible to separate them. She looks, sings, and acts a role with such consummate art that her individuality 1s merged into it. Pauling Lucca, by the effulgence of her genius, is suMcient to draw crowded houses to the Academy of Music - for many a night to come. There iso fear of ang critic exaggerating the worth of Mmie. Lucca as am artist. She lends an interest to every opera im which she appears, such as to make it a new Fevelation of art, With Madame Pauline Lucca as the prima denna there is everything in the favor of an impresario. Next to her in last night's representation terms of the highest praise are due to. M. Jamet, whose Leporello is nearly sufficient to reconcile an old opera-goer with the artistic demise of such @ rep- resentative of the rdle as Formes. Miss Kellogg (@ a deserved favorite with the American public. She is an American artist, and hag long ago made her mark on the operatic stage, both here and ia Europe. But she makes a serious mis- take in attempting a dle so uncongenial to her as that of Donna Anna. There ia only one true representative of the character now alive, and that is Madame Lp sr Rosa. Miss Kellogg does not appear to realize tl rapa creation of Mozart, The voice that can invest with sucha charm the roles of Linda and Annetta in “Crispino” fails to give even a interest to the glorious measures of Donna Anna. That this is the case, the verdict of the entire musical public can be adduced as @ proof. Miss Kellogg should make those rdles with which she has been so lo and so favorably identified her Ny Ne she must not try to rank with Grisi, La Grange or Parepa Rosa. Vizzani has proved an utter failure as Don Ottavio, Brignoli, although he the musica well (that is well enough for an Ii > acted.it badly, but Signor Vizzani has no quality either as an actor or a singer to recommend . Mr. Maret- zek, the manager, whose experience extends over twenty-five years, should at once send to Eus to procure an efficient substitute for this tenor, Signor ni (we have made ample allowance for him on the score of change of climate and sick- ness) can only be put down as anything buta success, ‘The same may be said of the baritone, Moriami. He dresses the character of Don Giovanni badly (a la Earl of Essex, with an enormous frilled col- lar), but he acts and sings it worse. After sete he is insufferable. Any baritone with a respet able share ot lyric talent should make @ success with the serenade in ‘Don Giovanni,” but in Signor Moriami’s hands it was a nullity. Again, it 18 ab- solutely necessary for Mr. Maretzek to retain the baton in the orchestra, for his substitute, Mr. Carlberg, is anything but a reliable leader. In the minuet the musicians on the 8 paid no more attention to their brethren the orchestra than if they were playing in a ditfer- ent house. ‘Faust’? will be given at the matinée to-day, with. Mme. Lucca in her best rdle, and two other sterling artists—Mile. Sanz as Siebel and Jamet a8 Mephistopheles. We were nearly forget- ting, and, owing the little display mi by the lady in the rdle, our lapse of memory is excusable. Miss Clara Doria appeared as Donna Elvira; and the part might as weil have been cut from the opera ae all this lady made of it. She was an inexcusabie ure. Rubinstein and Wientawski, On entering Steinway Hall last night and inquir- ing from a Hibernian friend how the house stood, we were politely informed that it was “immense, considerin’ the horse disease.’ The two artists, who have produced such a beneficial effect om music in this city, played some of their very best selections, The fatigue consequent on travelling which was perceptible in their pia; on ‘Thursday night disappeared last evening. Rubin- stein played a number of his best pieces, and Wien- iawski distinguished himself again in some of those delightful violin selections which have placed him above all other artists who have visited this coun- try. Mlles, Liebhart and Ormeny both sung some very pretty songs. The last Rubinstein concert takes place to-day. Musical and Theatrical Notes. The two very valuable snow-white horses en- gaged in the Pompeiian scene at the Grand Opera » House have been stricken down by the prevailing distemper. This is probably the first instance of the disease reaching that grade of the animal im the city, and it isa warning to the owners of pri- vate stables. We have not heard of it extending beyond the horse, else we might fear for the mon- keys in “Roi Carotte.”” Just now two of the leading theatres in this city are advertising for young girls for the ballet. The glitter of the playhouse is sure to attract, but the world sees only the tinsel of such an existence, and it would be interesting if we could forecast the hard-working life before the fresh young women who are attracted by it. The promised appearance at the Olympic ofa prodigy only five and a half years old reminds us of the celebrated “wistitits,” the smallest bird in creation. “This,” said the exhibitor, holding up the feathered phenomenon, is the ‘wistitits.’ Ifit possessed the agility of the panther, the ferocity of the tiger and the strength of the lion it would be the most terrible animal in existence.” ART MATTERS, ‘siping tlensinceen “Cleopatra Before Cresar.”” The most important picture, in point of size, that ever left the easel of Gerome is now on exhibition at the Goupil Gallery. The subject is one that affords ample opportunity for the display of dra- matic power and that delicate apprehension which suggests without stating a fact. The story of the Egyptian Queen’s interview with Cesar is too well known to need repetition. The moment chosen by the artist is that in which Polydorus discovers the lovely form of Cleopatra to the astonished gaze of Cwsar and his four secretaries, An artist with less sense of true dramatic power would have weakened his composition by attempting to give prominence and importance to Cesar, while Gerome makes him little more than accessory to the group in the fore- ground, The beautiful form of Cleopatra com- pletely arrests attention. Graceful in outline, easy in pose, there are a confidence and seif- assertion in the expression of the queenly face that tell of one whose will is used to be law. The light gauze drapery which covers but does not hide the well shaped limbs can scarcely be said to clothe the form, though it tempers the nudity of the figure. The artist has shown his usual boldness im making use of striking contrasts. Beside the lovely form of the Queen crouches the dark figure ofthe slave. While Cleopatra seems wholly uncon- scious of the presence of any one but the man upom Whom she has turned her large, luscious eyes, thia slave seems to share the confidence of his misti and to share, possibly, in the triumph of her beauty. The figure of Cleopatra is drawao with great firm- ness, but with infinite subtlety. The character of the Egyptian form is suggested, but through the sweep- ing tines and graceful contours of the Caucasian type. Ever: ing is soft, luscious and sensuous; but the delightful firmness of the flesh in the well rounded form is well insisted — This has been or through the medium of exquisite an careful modelling. Whether we look at the work 8% & composition or ag & piece of execution it must be admitted to be one of this great master’s best efforts. The finish of the painting is sey. exquisite. It has already been purchased by a Californian gentieman for the sum of $20,000. ‘The work which will attract the largest share of attention after Gerome’s is “The Vedette,” Meissonier. It is larger in size than most of tl master’s pictures, and is marked by a breadth of treatment not often found in such small paintings. Asoldier on @ gray horse, in a bleak landscape, on & cold November day, furnishes the subject, and it has ell imagine he sees the before him in the fesh, There is no evidence of close, painful work, such as often strikes us im Meissonier’s paintings. On the contrary, there isa sense of space and dis- sipates ‘al dee of imived, Meroe teas wore has a ee for ors o “Cabanal’’ is @ halflength female fleure quisitely ted. It is full of character gud im tensely Tenootive Wo expression.