The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1872, Page 6

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Wo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. RADAR seehy “THE OLOSING WEEK OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ! THE STRENGTH OF GENERAL GRANT AND THE WEAK POINTS OF THE OPPOSITION ALLIANCE”—EDITORIAL LEADER—SixtH PacE, THE EQUINE MALADY! NEW MYSTERIES! EPIZOOTIC BECOMING EPIDEMIC! OVER- TAXING THE POOR BEASTS: PRESENT CONDITION OF AFFAIRS—Tuirp Pace. BLEEDING ARKANSAS! HISTORY OF THE SE- CRET LEAGUE : AN INVESTIGATION : THE FATE OF TWO NEGROES—Tirra PacE. LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GRANT ON THE IN- DIAN POLICY—THE MEMPHIS BANK SUS- PENSION—SEVENTH PaGE. INTERESTING CABLE TELEGRAMS FROM EU- ROPE—SEVENTH PaGE. PERSONAL NEWS—THE FEAT#RES IN AMUSE- MENTS—SixTH Pac. A COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES—FORNEY’S RETURN TO THE REPUBLICAN FOLD: OTHER NEWS FROM WASHINGTON—SEVENTI PaGE. fUTURE HOMES FOR THE TASTEFUL! WASH- INGTON HEIGHTS AND ITS LOVELY VICI- NAGE : EXTENSIVE SALE AND ENORMOUS INOREASE IN VALUE OF REAL ESTATE : NEW COLUMBIA COLLEGE SITi—E1caTH Page. MORE LIGHT ON.THE JERSEY BANK ROB- BERY! McWILLIAMS’ OWN STORY: PRESS WARNING: THAT “SMART” WITNESS: TAMPERING WITH JURORS—Tuinp Pace. MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB MEETING! ALL THE FAVORITES BEATEN: DETAILS OF THE EVENTS—SEVENTH Pace. LEGAL! GARVEY’S TESTIMONY CONTINUED : INDICTING EX-ALDERMEN: VANDERBILT'S DEPOT: SISTER MARY’S SANITY: REGIS- TRATION TROUBLES: UPTOWN IMPROVE- MENTS—FourTH PAGE. OPERATIONS ON 'CHANGE! LAPSE OF NEARLY NINE PER CENT IN PACIFIC MAIL: MONEY RATE ADVANCE; ERIE AGAIN A FEA- TURE—Firt Pace. JERSEY RAILROAD MONOPOLIES ! ANSWER OF THE NATIONAL RAILWAY COMPANY— SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS—MOVEMENTS OF SHIPPING—TENTH PAGE. SPEECH OF THE DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL NOMINEE—THE HEADQUARTERS—KINGS COUNTY POLITICAL NEWS—Tznru Paas. STOLEN DIAMONDS! OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE JOHN STREET ROBBERY: WHAT WAS STOLEN—HEAVY BURGLARY UPTOWN— Fourtu Page. THE NEW ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP LINE: AR- RIVAL OF THE GLAMORGAN—Firta Pacer. OBSEQUIES OF FATHER McGUIRE—SUICIDE— Eiguru Page, Pacmrtc Mar. Sans declined about nine per cent yesterday, offering strong confirmation of the Henatp's recent views of the volatile character of speculation in them. + Empznor Wu.11am's Posrrion Towarps Prvs- SIAN PaguiaMentary Aristocracy.—The cham- bers of the Prussian Legislative Diet, the Lower House and members of the House of Lords, have just been in Parliamentary ‘dead- lock,”’ and this to such a point of unyielding conflict ag to cause an interruption of the pro- ceedings of the joint representation. The Deputies having passed o bill which secures to the people a larger share of power in the management of local affairs in the rural dis- tricts, the aristocrats, or Lords, have deter- minedly refused to sanction it. The Deputies threaten to resign their seats. Emperor Wil- liam approves of the democratic reform meas- ure. His Majesty gave audience to the Presi- dent of the House of Lords on Sunday, and in the course of his remarks “insisted’”’ that the Upper Chamber should adopt the project of the Lower House, endorse the act and thus bring the “deadlock” crisis to an end. Em- peror William-is as prudent as he is far-seeing. Federated obstinacy against the progress of events and the logic of facts are misplaced in Europe just at present, Prussian attempts to revive or exercise it may prove exceedingly dangerous not only to the present privileges, but to the very existence of the class, The Emperor estimates the sitnation NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. The Closing Week of the Presidential Oampaiga—The Strength of General Grant and the Weak Points of the Opposition Alliance. We congratulate our readers, of all parties, creeds, races and colors, on the consoling fact that we have entered the closing week of this most exciting, embittered, tedious and ex- hausting Presidential campaign, and that with the setting sun on Tuesday next the demoraliz- ing contest will be ended. The State clec- tions of October have so broadly foreshadowed the re-election of General Grant that the issue of the great national field day of November is hardly questioned in any quarter. Indeed, not only are the financiers and stock jobbers of Wall street discounting on another term to tho present national administration, but the public mind is adapting itself to this expected con- tingency. That which seemed to be against the party in power, the rising of an overwhelm- ing ‘tidal wave’ in July, was reduced to an ordinary groundswell in the North Carolina election of August, the force of which was ex- hausted in the September elections of Vermont and Maite, and the last ripples of which wera overwhelmed in the heavy reactionary break- ers from the October cyclone of Pennsylvania and Ohio. And now, with the result of this Presidential engagement as distinctly indicated by the test elections of October as was that of 1868 or 1864, we may, without prejudice to either of the belligerents, briefly inquire into the mys- teries of the undiminished popular strength of General Grant and the unexpected deficiencies of the new opposition coalition. The general plan of operations adopted by the opposition managers, democrats and anti-Grant republi- cans, was singularly bold, ingenious, aggres- sive and comprehensive. It comprehended an active offensive system of warfare upon the incompetency of General Grant in tho Prosi- dential office, and upon the despotic acts and designs and the abuses and corruptions of his administration, with the acceptance by the opposition alliance of the new amendments to the constitution, and a demand for a universal amnesty and the moral restoration of the South through a general policy of fraternal good will and reconciliation. By this now doparture it was supposed that upon the issues of the war the most effective guns of the administration would be spiked, and that in being reduced to the defensive, with those powerful leaders from his own camp who had revolted leading the columns of attack, Gen- eral Grant might be dislodged from his in- trenchments and dispossessed of his citadel. In pursuance of this well-considered and formidable opposition plan of the campaign, Messrs. Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Fenton and Tipton, as republicans in the Senate, opened their fire, and developed their line of attack in their resolutions for the investiga- tion of the alleged violations of international faith committed in those sales of arms and ammunition to France; of the alleged abuses and corruptions, encouraged for party pur- poses, in the New York and other Custom Houses, and in the administration of the Treasury, the Navy and the other executive departments. But as the tremendous Sona- torial broadsides of Sumner, Schurz and Trambull, delivered against these declared usurpations and abuses, in being brought to bear upon the spring elections in New Hamp- shire and Connecticut, resulted in no per- ceptible damage to the administration lines; and as, in the next place, those Senatorial in- vestigating committees brought to light no very extraordinary official crimes or mis- demeanors on the part of the administration, this line of attack, by which the main fortress was to be carried by storm, was reduced toa fitful and straggling bombardment. But the leading idea of the new opposition alliance was that by which Missouri had been wrested from the administration by forty thou- sand majority—the idea of the fusion of the democratic party with the anti-Grant or liberal republicans upon a_ liberal re- publican platform, sinking all these old, offensive democratic war and reconstruc. tion issues in this new movement and flank- ing the administration on the vital issue of the reconciliation of the South. This bold and splendid idea was inaugurated at Cincinnati and ratified at Baltimore in the nomination of the common opposition ticket of Greeley and Brown. Under this arrangement the anti-Grant republicans, with their candidates and these principles, were brought to the front, and the rank and file of the democratic party were placed in the rear, in recognition of their fusion in this new organization. This fusion had, in stealing the thunder of the ad- ministration, succeeded in revolutionizing not only Missouri, but Tennessee and Virginia; | and why should it not succeed in the country at large? The logic of the proposition was irresistible in favor of the experiment, and with the adjournment of the Baltimore Con- vention in July thore did appear to be a gen- eral reaction in the public sentiment through- out the Union, which promised a political revolution in November. But this promise was like those clouds which sweep down from the Abyssinian mountains upon the neighboring desert, only to vanish in the burning air. The calculations of this ap- parently resistless opposition alliance fell short upon several essential points. First, it was shown in North Carolina that Mr. Greeley, in opposition to General Grant, could draw no reinforcements from the black vote of the country; next, it was disclosed in Vermont and Maine that the anti-Grant republican white element, as a balance of power, gave no perceptible strength to the democrats; and next, the unexpected and astounding collapse of the ooalition in Pennsylvania involves something more than election frauds or mis- calculations of the strength of the liberal re- publicans, There must have been some scat tering democratic Bourbons whose objections against Mr. Greeley or the Cincinnati platform wore stronger than their sympathies for Mr. Buckalew. Considering the heavy vote—a vote without a precedent on either side—cast in this Pennsylvania election, the anti-Grant republicans voting for Buckalew, unless very few indeed, must have been counterbalanced by anti-Greeley democrats who voted for Hartranft. The miscalculations, then, of the coalition managers in regard to the black vote, the anti- Grant republican strength, and in regard to the solid fusion of the democrats in this new departure, will, perhaps, account among the politicians concerned for the fading away of the luminous rainbow which, as a bow of promise, hung over the dispersing Bultimore Convention. But there aro broader and and temporizing on the part of Mr. Secretary Fish in reference to Spain and Cubs; he has apparently too much neglected the claims for protection and security of our plundered citi- Rio Grande; he has dealt too too far with our rofractory Weat- Indians, and we fear that he has depended too much upon the bayonet and too little upon the olive branch in his policy of Southern reconciliation. He has certainly alienated many old republican leaders who wore among his strongest sup- porters in 1868, But all these objections and impediments are overbalanced in the public mind by this paramount consideration, that whereas all the financial and business affairs of the country will at least be safo with tho continuance for another term of this adminis- tration, they may all be impoerilled with tho sudden advancement to power of a new party, full of revolutionary reformers and dangerous financial schemes, The fixed financial and business interests of the country, then, hold the controlling power in this canvass, and dissatisfied politicians, however noisy or numerous, are powerless against the conservative judgment of tho people, As for the scandalous personalities of tho party press against Grant and against Greeley they have reacted against the offenders, Certainly while a grateful people remember the inestimable public services of General Grant they will turn a deaf ear to those who recklessly arraign him as an imbecile, or speculator, or despot, in his great office, In the antediluvian epoch—from Jackson to Bu- chanan—when the expenditures of the government were from forty to sixty millions a year, and the financial and business interests of the country were regu- lated in each State by its local banks, it was a comparatively easy task for a combination of active politicians to change the administration at Washington. But now, with a universal national currency quadrupled in the amount as compared with our general circulation be- fore the war, and with this universal currency depending with our national securities upon the national government, the people must be satisfied, not upon political abstractions, but upon dollars and cents, that a change in the administration is demanded, before they decree it. The inevitable negro, sometimes called King Cotton, was the dominating power in our political affairs down to the war and thence to the Fifteenth amendment; but now and hence- forward the king in regulating the Presiden- tial succession is the “almighty dollar,”’ in reference to the general financial interests of the country. In this campaign this potential king is on the side of the administration, and hence the strength of General Grant; but in the next contest for the government of the national Treasury he may be with the opposi- tion. We can only await and watch the course of events. The Pioneer of a New Line. Each year adds to the commercial ties which connect our interests with those of the several European States. We now greet the arrival of the Glamorgan, the pioneer of a new line be- tween New York and South Wales. This line is established by a wealthy company, its promi- nent member being the Marquis of Bute, one of the largest of British landowners, and is de- signed to build up the trade of the port of Cardiff and develop the resources of Wales by a direct trade in its products with the unlimited market of the United States. They will bring us Welsh iron and other metals, and what is of more value to us, # class of hardy and indus- trious immigrants, and carry back our grain and provisions, Every enterprise which brings us direct trade with the ports of the Old World helps to swell the trade and increase the prosperity of our metropolis; but how much more advantage should we reap from them if a good portion of the ocean steamers carried the Stars and Stripes instead of the flags of our transatlantic neighbors? After the depredations of the Confederate cruisers had swept our shipping from the ocean unwise legislation has persistently perpetuated the evil. We estop our citizens from buying ships in the cheapest markets and thus voluntarily offer the foreign capitalists a premium for doing the business which should be in the hands of our own people. Were our shipping merchants allowed to buy the low-priced Clyde steamers and give them American registers we should soon see America taking a leading part in the vast ocean carrying trade, with its rich profits, and giving employment to a large number of American seamen. To amend this is one of the most positive duties of Con- gress, and should be among the first subjects to claim its attention. The Arkansas Trouble. It would appear from the accounts that reach us that the contending factions in Osceola have abandoned theft warlike demon- strations and returned to a state of peace, We hope that their common sense will prevent any future outbreak on the part of either the blacks or the whites. Both parties had better learn as quickly as possible to live together quietly, as they must do, whether they like it or not. The whites may regard the cxistence of the colored race as an unmixed evil, but they cannot be permitted to exterminate their former slaves, and so they accept the situa- tion. Of course we do not wish the govern. ment of the South to fall into the hands of ignorant blacks and low, thieving whites ; but the men who are guilty of acts of violence are the persons most responsible for the continuance of carpet-bag rule. If the people of the South would only frankly accept the situation, and prove by their con- duct that they do so, in a short time no gov- ernment would dare to continue in power the class of men who have been plundering the South for the last few years. There isa feel- ing in the North in favor of conciliation too strong for any government to resist, if it wore not neutralized by hostile demonstrations which occur from time to time in the South. As the administration of General Grant during his next term will have no object in continu- ing the present unsatisfactory state of affairs in the South, we look forward to the inaugura- tion of a more liberal policy in our domestic relations, which will secure to the nation peace and prosperity. It is tho duty of the South to Steamship meet the North half way in every effort at con- ciliation, and, for this reagon, wo hope that such scenes as were lately enacted at Osceola will not occur again, no matter what provoca- tion may be offered. The reign of law must be enforced and tho rights of all citizens protected. President Grant's Congratulations to President Thiers om the Progress of Republicanism in France. The President of the French Republic, as will be seen from our telegraphic columns this morning, has just received from President Grant a despatch congratulating him on the progress of republicanism in France, as shown by the recent elections for vacancies in the National Assembly. Simultaneously with this announcement we have this other that M. Lamoreaux, a well known republican, has been elected Municipal Councillor of Paris. It is undeniable that the elections for the vacancies in the Assembly have strengthened the position of the President. Each fresh election for a vacant seat has, with but one or two exceptions, given the Assembly a conservative republican. The Left has gained but little strength, the pronounced monarch- ists and Bonapartists have been equally unsuc- cessful at the ballot box; but the conservative majority, which trusts President Thiers, has maintained its numbers and its power. In the Hzraup of yesterday, commenting on the latest news, we justified the proposed reforms because they seemed to us to be in favor of the continuance of the Republic. An Upper Chamber is wanted in France, whether France remains a Republic or settles down into a Mon- archy or finds it necessary to restore the Empire and recall the Bonapartes. If Presi- dent Thiers wishes to give the Republic a fair chance he must check the power of the Assembly by the creation of a second Cham- ber; and if he would not have the country which he has so marvellously saved fall into the hands of revolutionists, he must pro- vide for the possibility of his own sud- den demise. An Upper Chamber and a Vice President meot the wants of the situation, President Thiers can do but little more with the present Assembly. There are those who think that the President, before he attempts radical constitutional changes, should by a general election consult the wishes of the French people. There are others who think that a general election would prove fatal to President Thiers and to the Republic. We cannot blame Gambetta and others who insist that the present Assembly is not a representative Assembly. It was elected in peculiar circumstances and for a special purpose. The Bordeaux compact provided only for the restoration of peace, which has long since been established. We cannot blame President Thiers and the Assembly for holding on to the power with which they were entrusted, because fresh and repeated elections might have been fatal to France, and because the President and the Assembly have made good use of their power for the general welfare of the people. The question of the hour is, whether the French people will submit to radical and revolutionary changes made by an Assembly which is no longer fairly representa- tive. So much for the situation in France. As to the despatch sent to President Thiers by Pres- ident Grant, expressive of joy at the growing success of the Republic in his hands, we have nothing to say which is not in the way of ap- proval. In the hour of our difficulty with the Mother Country France was our friend, and the aid as well as the sympathy of France ma- terially contributed to our achievement of in- dependence. Since then we have never forgot- ten the French people. We rejoiced in the gtand uprising of 1789, and we praised God for the first French Republic. After the fail- ures and sorrows of many years we rejoiced again when in 1848 the Republic took the place of the Kingdom. It is a proud thought to us that, during the late Franco-German war and during the terrible reign of the Communal, the American Minister, Mr. Washburne, was the only foreign Minister who could protect the stranger within the gates of Paris. It is the earnest desire of the American people that the Republic should bea success in France, It is, therefore, right and proper—nay, it is highly becoming—that the President of the United States should congratulate President Thiers on what seems the growing success of republicanism in that long-distracted country. Young America rejoices that old France seems at last to have a fair chance of achieving genuine and enduring liberty. Tae Guortes AND CHASTISEMENTS OF THE Trarzan Pzoriz.—While His Majesty King Victor Emmanuel is engaged in the pleasing monarchical duty of reviewing the Italian fleet in the Bay of Naples and showing forth to the eyes of astonished and admiring thousands the force and power of his iron-clads for war, the simple river waters of the historic Po have swollen to such an extent as to inundate large portions of the national territory, and thus produce most severe and widespread suffering among his subjects. The visitation comes, as it were, to remind him that the control of man stops with the shore, and that mighty ocean goes forth ‘dread, fathomless, alone; the mir- ror in which the Almighty’s form glasses itself in tempests.”’ The suffering of the Italians, in town and country, in consequence of the inundations, is intense. But this is not the full measure of their present misfortune. A province of Sicily has just been swept by a fearful hurricane. Houses were blown down, and it is reported that thirty-two persons have been buried in the ruins of their dwellings. Such are a few of the symptoms which show forth the majesty of the unseen power which rules the checks and balances of our earthly sovereignties, Tar Ernurric 1s at Irs Wonst among us, and we have reason to believe that, notwith- standing the widespread suffering among the unfortunate animals and the numerous fatal cases yesterday, the disease is on the decline in this city. The disgusting sight on several of the car lines yesterday of wretched, tottering brutes drag- ging the trebly over-laden vehicles was to be witnessed from morning until night. Dum- mies may now be used on the lines in this city ; and it is to be hoped, if the arrangement can be carried on under safe conditions, that the enfeebled horses will get a chance to re- cover. Tho disease has reached Philadelphia and Binghamton, showing that, if it spreads further South, it will be by very slow degrees. Reports from the cities northward and east- ward encourage us to think that they, also, are recovering from tho visitation PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Jefferson Davis bas lost his youngest son, Wille. Bishop Lee, of Delaware, is at the Grand Central The Autumn crop of windfalls has just sppearcd in the Weat, Ex-Congreasman James M. Thayer ia at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Genera: Joshua T. Owen, of Philadelphia, is at the Gilsey House. General Franklin, of Hartford, is in quarters at the New York Hotel. Colonel T. 8, Paddock, of Cleveland, has arrived ‘at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain H. P. Connors, of the steamship Rising Star, is at the Sturtevant House. Ex-Congressman John B, Alley, of Boston, is atop- Ping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Cooke, of Bermuda, is among the late ar- rivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. New England papers encourage Mr. Froude to continue his lectures in that section. Colonel A. R. Lamar has assumed the editorial management of the Savannah Advertiser. General Sherman was taken quite sick.on Satur- day in Washington, but is now convalescent, Koopmanschap, the importer of other chaps from China, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Wendell Phillips has pronounced for General Banks tn the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional district. It has been decided that a man becomes of age on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of his birth, General Benjamin F. Butler was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel for a short time yesterday, while on his way to Poughkeepsie. A Des Moines (Lowa) clergyman advocates theat- rical and other amusements, aud his congregation is not shocked thereat either. Secretary Delano left Washington yesterday for Missouri, and will speak during the weck at St. Louis, Sedalia and Kansas City. John B. Gough subscribed $500 for a suitable testimonial to George Cruikshank, the artist, for his services in behalf of the temperance cause. Byron wrote “The Bride of Abydos” in four days and “The Vorsair” in ten. This is hardly up to the standard of Walt Whitman for the speed of his Pegasus. Fred Busch, lately a woodchopper in La Crosse, Wis., has fallen heir to $300,000, and Robert Roberville, of Wyandotte, Kansas, to a similar amount. The Cincinnati Enquirer (Greeley) having an- nounced that “the tidal wave is coming again,” the Chicago Inter-Ocean admonishes those ‘4who cannot swim to mount the top benches.”” The Boston Glove favors the election of Secretary Boutwell to the United States Senate, to succeed Senator Wilson, and urges republicans to think of that matter when voting for mombors of the Leg- ialature. The Louisville Courfer-Journal terms Vinnie Ream “one of the best-paid stonecutters in the country.’’ The lady in question has certainly been subjected to many hard knocks from the mallets of ungallant members of the American press. Miss Marian Emers, of Hamtramck, Mich., aged eighty-six, was the other day united in the holy bonds of wediock to John G. Hinster, of Van Buren county, aged eighty-seven. Neither one had ever been married betore, and had known each other for more than forty years. An old citizen of Kansas eloped last Thursday with his niece. He has been married fourteen years, and leaves a wife who, instead of mourning his ab- sence, has sold out her household furniture and Proposes to follow him as long as the proceeds of the cooking stove and bedstead last. John G, Whittier, the Quaker poet, declines the nomination of the Woman's Homestead League for Vice President (with Fremont ‘or President) on the “Independence party” ticket made up in Bos- ton on the 17thinst. He advises the Homestead ‘Leaguers to stick to the old republican party. MBS, GREELEY'S CONDITION. Mrs, Greeley remained in a very critical condition all day yesterday. A dropsical affection has made its appearance about her right side and shoulder, and her strength has failed so much that her voice is hardly audible. She is closely attended by her daughter Ida and Mrs. Lamson, an old friend of the family. Mr. Greeley himself is constantly near her, and has given up his daily duties, letting cor- respondence and political work go unattended in the sad sorrow that broods about his home. PRINCES OF THE PEN. Mr. Edmund Yates on Charles Dickens— His Residence, Habits and Virtacs—Per- sonal Reminiscences. " Mr. Edmund Yates delivered last evening a lecture, the subject of which was advertised as “Princes of the Pen,’ but which turned out in fact to simply refér to Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr, Yates having found it too much for him to speak of Thack- eray and Tennyson as well on the same evening. The audience was very thin, but a fair degree of interest was manifested. Mr. Yates began by saying that he should not give them a criticism of Mr. Dickens as 4 novelist; he would simply speak of him as his DEAR DEAD FRIEND. He aimed merely for the nonce to be the Boswell of the great novelist. When he had first known Dickens that great man had already changed very noticeably in personal appearance from the young man who, as some one had said, ‘‘came and calmly took his place at the head of English litera- ture,” and whose features had been preserved for us by the pencil of Maclise. His hair was already streaked with gray; time had carved thoughtful lines about his face, and his complexion had a pe- culiarly weather-beaten red-brown tint, which made him look singularly like some sailor, who had been subjected to every vicissitude of climate and weather. Mr. Yates fan to minutely de- scribe Mr. Dickens’ residence at Gadshill—its guar- dian dogs, its furniture and pictures, its apart- ments and garden, and, more particulariy aud mi- nutely than all, Dickens’ study. Dickens’ HABITS OF LIFE were very regular. He breakfasted at nine, and from ten to two invariably secluded himself in his study or in the little Summer chalet given him by Fechter for purposes of literary work. Dickens be- Heved that literary work shoud be done at stated hours, the same as any other business. Dickens, it might be stated also, worked very slowly. Even when young this was the case, as he con: him- self, when he wrote to Lauy Blessington, ‘that he had just finished a book and had come out of it looking like a murderer.’ Mr. Dickens, as editor of Afi the Year Round, did an immense amount of work, all the real labor of that journal being in truth done by lim. Dickens, a8 Was well known, was @ great walker, and he (Yates) had been Gon surprised, since he had been in this coun- ry, to hear it stated that this was mainly to get rid of the effects of the PREVIOUS NIGHT'S POTATIONS, No calumny could be more unfounded. But Dick- ens’ walks were no mere pleasure strolls. He was ever, on those pilgrimages, busy collecting new scenes and characters for his novels. Dickens was @great actor. His pence of impersonation was something wonderful, though he only played at pri- vate theatricals. Dickens was hei happy and charming letter writer—a faculty which Mr. Yates proceeded to iHustrate by reading several humor- ous and pointed epistles from Mr. Dickens to him- seli and to his mother. Dickens bad been Diag DOWN in the height of his fame and glory, though not ‘without warning. Strangely enough, five years before his death, on the same day—the 9th of June— on which he _ died, e owas in @ rail. road accident at Staplehurst. Dickens then sus- tained a shock which probably shortened his life and from the effects of which he never eet recovered. Mr. Yates went on to allude to Dick- ens’ political opinions and his intense contempt for the aristocracy. All the noblemen in his novels were either foolish or absurd, and he had once told Mr. Yates that tne idea of an hereditay peerage was preposterously absurd. The only public occasion on which Dickens ever lost his venues Yee once ata dinner, when, having been twitted by Lord ty 4 ton for his literary injustice to the peerage, he tarned round and replied, “What amazing devil had possessed him to acouse him of having de- preciated the patrician order.” Before his death Dickens was shown considerable favor by the Queen, and might have obtained any dis- tinction that his tastes and opinions would permit him to accept. . Yates then ‘ated the man- ner of the great novelist’s death, and concluded by tenn in which he paid an_attectionate tribute to the character and genius of the author of “Pickwick.” PROUDE AT ITHACA. Inmaca, N. Y., Oct, 28, 1872. Mr. Froudo delivered the firat of his course of lectures, at the Library Hall to-night, before a large « sadlence. AMUSEMENTS. 2 \ Italian Opera—Miss Clara Loulse Mele logg as Leonora im “Il Trovatore.” _ Verdi's great work, deapite the wrongs it has em dured at the hands ef irresponsible singers, ama- teur (mpresarit, boarding school misses and organ grinders, has steadily maintained its popularity with the mass of opera goers. Those to whom tt is distasteful judge of it from @ wrong standpoint. When soloists, chorus and orchestra unite in pro- ducing a fitting ensemble, this opera cannot fall to excite enthusiasm. Miss Kollogg’s voice has im- creased in volume of tone within the past couple ef years and has also acquired a certain dramatic quality, which, united to its original limpidity of tome, fits her lyrically as a worthy representative of the heroine of Verdi’a opera. She sang “Taces Ia Notte,” an andante aria which demansts of the ve- calist calmness and repose with a deal of exprea- sion in the first part and a rapturous, passionate spirit in the second. In this Miss Kellogg displayed the new qualities she has gained for her style ef singing. The cabaletta that follows was delivered with due orilttancy, the execution of the sparkling fioriturt showing large resources of pure vocalization, Provably the greatest test of the dramatic power of a prima donna in this work ia the meeting between Leonora and Manrico, when she addresses him with “KE deggio @ poaso crederlo.” The agitation of the meeting and the joy at her rescue from the Count is beanugus expressed in the broken phrases of the music, mediately alter the flerce interchange of deflance between the rivals comes an ensemoe similar im character to what we have mentioned, “questo acquired the dramatie © gogno.”” Miss Kellogg has not Pik intenaity necessary to tothe grandeur of this scene. Shoe invested the well known scena, “D’amor sull’/atl rosee,’” with attractiveness by her pure, intelligent phrasing, judicious mansge- ment of the voice throughout the trying measures and large com) of the aria, and ended it with a cadenza of oes, pel beauty and adaptability. In the suc ling “Miserere’ she performed her share of the music commendably. “Tu vodrai,” “Mira, di acerbe * ana the death scene make — large demands on the reserve power of the prima donna, coming as they do at the end of the opera, after so Many exhausting scenes. Here, we opine, Miss Kelle made the strongest points, and created a favorable impression even on those to whom thia opera is a household word. In fine, she sings the music all through with care and intelligence, and if in some of the scenes she does not realize the ta- tensity of passion Pequsred, and lacked the eme- tional qualities of the ragedienne, she compensates for it to some extent by the music, Mile. Sanz vengeful gipsy, and, luckily, was voice. Of course, the first scene of the act depended mostly upon her, and she gave quite & picturesque portrayal of the wrongs and miseries of the victims of the sanguinary Court. Signor Abrugnedo was not in good voice, and It is un- necessary to enter into particulars ag to the con- sequences, when such @ blatant character aa Manrico ia considered. In one place he partly redeemed himsel!, This was in the andante “Abr si pen mio,” which he sang with muck featiie. But this was an oasis in @ desert of failure, or at least vocal platitudes. Signor Moriami, as the revengeful and tyrannical Count di Luna, proved to be “the mildest-mannered vil- lain that ever cut throat or scuttled ship.” Hela quite an amiable tyrant, and, like Mark Tapiey, tries to be jolly under ail circumstances. And he sings not comme un ange mais comme le—. Weill, let it rest there. Were Verdi present to near this gentleman execute the music assigned to the baritone in this opera we would tremble for the consequences. There would be certainly am émeute, M. Coulon was a sufficiently forbidding Fer- nando—so much so that the audience thought they would rather see him in the character of Di Luna than the gentleman who essayed that part. On Wednesday we are promised “Favorita,” with Mme. Lucca as Leonora and Signor Abrugnedo as Ferrando. Poor Mario! He is now, we G say, artistically dead, but we can never forget glorious interpretation of Ferrando, No matter what artiste appeared as Leonora, Mario was the feature of the opera, Well, on Wednesday we sup- or rather we are sure, that the positions will reversed. Mme. Lucca will be the attract and on her shoulders will rest the entire success the opera. Pretty hard, isn’t it? Old English Comedy=“The Road to Ruin” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. The revival of “The Road to Ruin” at the Fifth Avenue Theatre last evening was an event of some dramatic interest, both on account of the produc- tion of this fine old English comedy and because of the reappearance of Mr. Charles Fisher. It is too late, after nearly a hundred years of undiminished popularity, to discuss the artistic merits of the play, but it has made and unmade more actors than almost any other in our dramatic literature. Only a strong comedy company can play tt at atl, and even a strong company may not render it to the complete satisfaction of old piaygoers. It was well presented at the Fifth Avenue on its first representation, but not well enough. The scenery worked badly and this detracted m the piece, a disadvantage gg seriously felt at this theatre from its size and the contiguity of the audience to the stage. Then the acti ng was not always up to the standard of old te h comedy. Mr. Fisher as Dornton showed all his usual care and conscientiousness, but seemed to suifer from his temporary absence from the stage and not to be, as yet, entirely at home in the new fleld of his artistic work. The playwright’s idea of what ia filial and noble in a son is not after the ideal of thia age, and it was in these parts of the play, evidently intended to be its eerever feature and to relieve, in @ measure, what was caricature of the age which the play photographs, that Mr. Fisher’s interpretation was weakest. Required by the dramatist to forgive his son on very 8! rounds, he did not even succeed in showing elief that the you fellow’s conduct was wi of commendation or forgiveness. But he was mucl more tender and natural in the scene where Dorn- ton renounces his spendthrift son, as his acting in this scene was as thoroughly eifective as was possible, Mr. Crisp, as young Dornton, was crude And insufficient, and if his acting last night 1s to be taken as atest of his capacity in light comedy parts we shall despair of ever finding in him the juality which his name would seem to indicate. ir. D. Whiting not oniy looked the part of Sul but he played it well, and Mr. Olark's Goldfi would have been a good performance if he had not overdone it, both in dress and ac- tion, Mr. Lemoyne’s Old Silky ts also worthy of note, but the genuine success of the evening was the Sophia of Miss Linda Dietz. she showed @ much better fe gphed a of her part than she has ‘et exhibited {n anything undertaken La her, and er acting was so light and airy and sensitive as to ive great promise for the future. Mrs. Gilbert's idow hat a little too much of the widow, and the Jenny of Mary Cary, though in some respects & commendable performance, was more the Ameri- can than the & alight sewing maid. The other characters were done with tolerable cleverness; but from what we have said of the acting in this fine it willbe seen that Mr. Daly’s company ts @ ttle too light for such strong comedies aa “The Road to Buin,” ui has much ability and great promise, but the périormatie as yet is not equal to either. Both will come in their tulness and stret in time, and for the present we suail nave tobe content with what is given us. . The Bowery. A new sensation play was produced at this house last night under the title of “Auramania,” whicts the bill translates for us as “Gold Mad.” {t is from | the pen of Miss Johanna Pritchard, who sustaina the character of the heroine through the most startling changes of fortune. Most of the scenes are well conceived but somewhat strongly diawn, and tinged with the deep dramaticiam in which the unwashed delight. ; The Brooklyn Theatre. ‘ At Mrs, Conway's Theatre in Brooklyn last even- ing “Atrah na Pogue” was produced, and, as to stage appointments, in a manner that can hardly be excelled. The cast included Frank Roche as Shaun, Walter Lennox as Michael Feeny, Misa Minnie Conway as Arrah, and Mr. Ken in the character of Beamish Mcvoul. Lit tle space is accorded for criticism of the acting. However, it must be said that Mr. Roche astonished his admirers by his render- pr of the part of Shaun. Miss Conway as Arral did very well, consideri her inexperience in such @ part. Michael Feeny, the des) “process sarver,” was served out well by Walter Lennox, every mean, grovelling attribute of the villain’s nature being visible upon his face. AS & whole the performance was excellent and well de- serves alongrun. It would hardly be proper ta meke no reference to the beautiful scenery with which the play was mounted. THE SECOND AVENUE RAILROAD EXTENSION, An adjourned meeting of the committee of the Second Avenue Ratlroad extension was held yester- day afternoon at 82 Nassau strect. Nearly two hours were taken up with the discussion of legat ints, and but one witness was examined, Mr. Conover, the President of the Bleecker street line, who sald that the new grant to the Second Avenae Railroad was in his estimation worth $75,000, pra- vided that the grant would extend for 100 years. A gentleman who was examined a few days since declared that the grant was not worth six cents to any company, and another one, who knows a thing or two about railroad matters, informed the HERALD reporter that tt was worth $100,000, and that he as an individual would give that amougt for the franchise, The commission who are examining the case, and who are not experts in ratiroad matters, will have some little dilliculty ia settling on @ just sam fea Lthe city.