The New York Herald Newspaper, November 3, 1872, Page 10

THE SCOTT MUNUMENT. ‘nauguration Ceremonies at the Park Yesterday. if Fine Day and a Large Assemblage—Eloquent Tribute to the Wizard of the North by W. C. Bryant. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATUE. Yesterday afternoon another monument was mdded to the artistic treasures of Central Park— ‘the statue promised by the Scotch residents of the city at the Seott Centenary being formally pre- sented to the Park Commissioners by the commit- ‘tee then appointed. THE DAY ;Was.all that couid have been wished—clear, bright and bracing, with a gentle breeze stirring through ‘the Autumn foliage, and scattering leaves of red and gold and purple through the air, Tempted forth by the weatler, therefore, as well as by the eocasion, an immense assemblage gathered by ‘three O'clock at the southern extremity of the Mall, @ Mttle to the north of the Shakspeare statue, the mite which has been selected by the Commissioners for the monument of the Wizard of the North. Facing the statue a great number of park benches had been arranged, and on either side of it were a few score of reserved seats for the accommodation ef the invited guests. The platform for the speak- ers and the committee was very small and much ‘too low to allow of the orators making themselves heard, except with extreme difficulty. The monu- ment itself was, of course, draped With the ational colors. Behind it were ranged the band, under the direction of Mr. H. B. Dodworth, while an open space was marked off by ropes for the Seventy-ninth regiment of Highlanders. ARRIVAL OF THE HIGHLANDERS, At three o’olock the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, headed by the Committee of Arrangements and ‘the special guests of the day, and accompanied by five bagpipers, marched with colors flying and their full musical force exultantly playing from the Casino to the site of the monument. They ‘were received with tremendous cheers by the.as- Bembiage, and made a fine appearance as the; arom up in line and assumed their appointer station. THE PRESENTATION. fi The ceremony of inauguration was.opened by Mr. Richard Irvin, the chairman of the Scott Monument Pommittee, who formally presented the statue tothe Wark Commissioners. Unfortunately Mr. Irvin was aatterly inaudible, even to those who stood within 2 few feet of the platform; but.he was understood ‘0 express his great pleasure in seeing a worthy Memorial of the great Scottish poet and novelist serected in the Park, As he closed, Mr. William Wood stepped forward, wand, having quoted Shakspeare’s lines— Fless he lived, and his dead likencas, I do well believe, 3 whatever yet you have looked’ upon or hand of ‘man hath done. qave the signal for UNVEILING THE of the statue. The flag was withdrawn with the puddenness of magic, and a cry of applause and de- @ght broke from the audience and was again and again repeated, while the five pipers marched sound the statue playing “Bonny Dundee.” As soon as the pipers had concluded Mr. GRE accepted the statue, on behalf of the Park Com- missioners, in a few brief remarks. He said:—In ‘the absence of the respected President of the Park Board and of my associate Commissioners, it is my agreeable duty to represent them in the reception and acceptance of the admirable work ofart which, by your now passes from the hands of those ‘who have created and placed it here to the public are and guardianship. From this time this monu- ment becomes public property, ana to those who are eharged with the keeping ofthe grounds the people fwill look for its proper protection and preserva- ‘tion. In accepting it on behalf of the city and of the Park authorities, I join, sir, with you in the most ample recognition of our obligations to those ‘to whom you have so Kindly alluded as the chief — of its origination and transposition to this ce Which it is to embellish and where it is to ‘tand, at once an ornament and an example. In ‘tre disposition of works of this monumental char- acter, always dimicult in public grounds, it is the Antention ‘of the Park mrmissioners 80 fo arrange them that the visitor, whether witizen or atranger, as he roceeds along this spacious Mall, shall on either side recog- nize endnring memorials of the worthiest and best Of all climes and nationalities. At the head of one of these columns, by the munificence of your asso- ciates, stands first the representation of the man ‘who did so much to illustrate the land of his birth, and to celebrate the people of whom he was, and the annals of whose glories and sterling virtues he haa introduced to successive generations. Dodsworth’s band followed with an overture, “Montrose,” after which the orator of the day, Mr. ‘W. C. BkYANT, was introduced and spoke as tfol- ory MR. BRYANT’S ADDRESS, The Scottish residents of this city whose public *pirit and reverence for genius have moved them to present to the people 01 New York the statue of their countryman, which has just now been un- ‘veiled to the public » have honored me with @ request that I should go far take part in these ceremonies as to speak a few words concerning ‘the great poet and novelist, of whose renown they are 80 justly proud, AsIlook around on this as- 1 perceive few persons of my own age—few ‘who can remember, as I can, the hey and settin; of this brilliant luminary of modern literature. ‘weil recollect the time when Scott, then thirty- ‘ty-four years of ape, gave to. the. world his ‘Lay of the Last trel,” the first of his works which awakened the enthusiastic admiration that afterwards attended all he wrote. In that poem the spirit of the old Scottisn ballads—the most Deautiful of their class—lived again. In it we haa all their fire, their rapid narrative, their unlabored gc their pathos, animating a story to which had given a certain ye breadth ne aa We read with scarcely less ht his poem of “Mar- mion,’ and soon afterward the youths and maidens of our country hung with rapture over the pages ef his “Lady of the Lake.” I need not enu- merate his other poems, but this I will say of them sak that no other metrical narratives fm our language seem to me to possess an equal power oi enchanting the attention of the reader, and carrying him on from incident to inci- dent with such entire freedom from weariness. These works, printed in cheap editions, were dis- | es anoares over our country; they found their way almost. every fireside, and their popularity yaised up both here and in Great Britain a multi tude of itators now forgotten. This power over the mind of the reader was soon to be exemplified fm a more remarkable manner, and when, at the age of forty-three, Scott gave to the world, with- out any in tion of its authorship, his romance of “Waverley,” all perceived that a new era in tne Mterature of fiction had begun. “Here,” the: said, “is a genius of a new order. What ‘wealth of materials, what free mastery in Moulding them into shape, what invention, humor, pathos, vivid portraiture of character, nothing overcharged or exaggerated, yet all dis- tinct, spirited and life-like! Are we not,” they asked, “to have other works by the same hand 1}? The desire thus expressed was soon gratified. he expected romances came forth with a rapidity ‘which amazed their readers. Some, it is true, as- cribed them to Scott as the only man who could write them, ‘It cannot be,” said others; “Scott 4s occupied with.wri histories and and editing work after work, which require great labor and research ; he has no time for writing romances fike these.” he went on, throwing oif these re- markable works as if the writing of them had been but @ pastime, and fairly bombarding the world with romances from his mysterious covert. It was like what in the neighborhood of this ra we see on a fine evening of the Fourth July, when rocket after rocket rises from the horizon and bursts in the air, throwin; of to right and left jets of fame and fireballs o! of every brilliant hue, yet whose are the hands that launch them we know not, So we read and won- dered and lost ourselves in conjectures as to the author who ministered to our delight, and when at Jength, at a public dinner in the year 1827, Scott avowed himself to be the sole author of the “Waverley Novels,” the interest which we felt at this disolosure was hardly jess than that with which we heard of the issue of the great battle of ‘Waterloo. I bave seen a design by some artist in which Seatt is shown surrounded by the per- gonages whom, in his poems and romances, he 4alied into being. They formed a vast crowd, face ‘beyond each with its characteristic expres- #ion—a multitude so great that it reminded me of ‘the throng—the cloud I Bit att it—of cherubim ‘which in eertain pictures on the walls of European churches surround the Virgin Mother. For forty Fd has Scott laim in his grave, and now his coun- Tymen place in tkis Park an of the noble row, so fortunately copied by the artist, beneath which the personages of his tin: ition grew into ‘being. Shall we say grew, asif they spr: up spon- ugly in his mind, like plauts fonts Realerui #ojl, while his fingers guided the pen that notea down their words and recorded their acts? Or should we imagine the faculties of his mind to have Dusied themselves at his bidding in the chambers of that active brain, and gradually jo have ‘ the characters of his wonderful fictions to their perfect form? At ali events, let ne that He who breathed the breath of into the frame of which a copy 1s before us Stparted with that breath a portion of his own creative power. And now as the statue of Scott is set up in this beautiful Park, which, a few years since, sed no human associations, historical or poetic, conmected with its shades, its lawns, its rocks and its waters, these grounds become with Aew memories, Henceforth the + earth at tg apot will be eloquent of old NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1872-—-QUADRUPLE SHEET. treattions, the airs that stir the branches of the trees oy? gn te of feats of chivalry to the visitor, All crowd of ideal worcienee page by the imagination of feos wiwenver ~ sculptured and remati (01 Melvor, Meg Me 8 and Dirck iteraik, the Antiquary and his Sister an@ Edie Ochiltree, Rob Roy and Helen Mi r, and Baillie Jarvie and Dandie Dinmont ani jana Vernon and Old Mor- tality—but the night would be us beiore I could a ae Mmuster-roll of this great army. wil) pags io endiess procession around the statue of him in whose prolitie brain they had their birth, until language which we speak shall perish, and the spot om which we stand shail be again a woodland wilderness. Mr. Bryant was ponaly lauded as he closed, andthe ceremony concluded with an admirable rendering of “God Save the Queen,” mingled with “Hail Columbia” ty Dodworth’s band, The S.atue. Considerable interest hasbeen felt in the value of the Scott statue ae a work of art. Our native public monuments are, with @ few exceptions, so absolutely w8rthiess that there was excited a na- tional curiosity 10 learn whether “they manage those things better in Scotland.” As the best of our American statues is placed within sight of the Scott memorial, every facility was afforded to make @ comparison. It 1s not usual nor very desirable to duplicate public statues, unless the work in ques- tion is of great and STRIKING MERIT. When such duplication takes place we look for some justification in the excellence of the work itself, For these reasons there were entertained expectations in regard te the Scott statue that were certainly not tulfilled. If we were content to regard the work from a merely popular point of. view we would allow it the merit of picturesque- ness, It has all the qualities of @ picture, but is lacking in the purity and grandeur which 4s THE ESSENCE OF TRUE SCULPTURE. It may be that this very defect will gain for the work a popularity far above its deserts with peo- ple whose artistic education is defective. The figure is of heroic size and cast in bronze, the better tobe able to resist the climate. It is placed on a pedestal of polished Aberdcen granite, which is in admirable eement with the super- posed statue, The whole presents a solid and Massive appearance. Scott is represented seated on one of his native rocks, in @ contemplative mood. He has been reading, and holds the closed book with his left hand on the left knee, which is slightly raised. The right hand rests lightly on the volume, which 1s closed. This posture is easy and natural, and well in keeping with the idea expressed in the composition. It has, however, THE DEFECT OF WEAKNESS, and this is one of the most serious faults in sculp- ture. In modelling the head, which is turned slightly to the left, the artist has exerted all his wer to express the reflective and genial charac- ristics of the man, as well as portraying his high, intellectual nature. In order to impress the intel- lectuality of his subject on the spectators the artist has fallen into the error of exaggeri t velopment of Scott’s head, giving bim rehead of abnormal proportions. e lower portion of the face is well modelled and expresses happily SCOTT'S KINDLY NATURE. Apart from the exaggeration we have aireaay mentioned, the likeness “eee to be a good one, but somewhat idealized. There has been an evident effort or the artist to avoid the difficulty of the modern costume, and this he has endeavored to do by a compromise which is false both in art and nature. Not having sufficient daring to present the Scottish writer as an old Roman, he clothes him in the modern dress and then covers him over" with & mass of drapery which resembles neither the toga nor the plaid, but is let an expedient for covering up the dress whic! Scott wore and which the artist felt himself unable to treat successfully. No such liberty as this would have been taken by an ancient sculptor nor by any great artist of present day, ath is now looked upon as ESSENTIAL IN ART asin literature; and it is as much an anachronism to wrap a writer of the nineteenth century in a Roman costume as it would be tospeak of Napoleon Bonaparte as @ contemporary of Alexander. If the life of Scott had one lesson it was the value of painting the characters of anage in the colors of the age in which they lived. His works sent us back among the High- land clans and made us move among living and thinking men; but Bt in regarding this statue of Scott, will find in it not one of the characteristics ofthe times in which he lived and created those pictures of the past which have MADE HIM IMMORTAL. Nor has the artist shown that skill in the man- agement of his drapery which might have been accepted as some excuse for the use of doubtfal means to secure artistic effect. The drapery is heavy rather than Massive, but is almost entirely wanting in the ceful disposition and serene simplicity which end their chief charm to the drapery of the Gre- cian masters. Here are no sweeping lines and broad etfects, but the heavy {lds are broken with- out order, with the single of relieving their mas- siveness, Instead of ian the form this it massive drapery completely ides the con- tours of the figure, and at & few points that we catch a gimp of the figure beneath. Un account of this clumsi- ness in the drapery, the figure from some points of view appears to be out of proportion or dis- torted, ‘hen looking at the statue in front from the left side the leit shoulder appears too large, and in the back view the right shoulder seems to be higher than its companion. These apparent defects are caused by the unskilful manner in which the drapery is disposed, and ought to have CORRECTED IN THE CLAY. Some unlucky idea made the artist resolve on in-’ troducing the poet’s favorite hound into the com- position, and, having resolved on do! 80, he was evidently puzzled bow to dispose of the animal to advantage. We are almost inciined to think toat the dog was an bagpipe which was “worked in.” At least, this is the only theory upon which we can account for the disposition made of him in the composition. The hound is placed on the right side of the poet in a recumbent posture, so as to in- teriere as little as possible with the interest of the main figure. The dog’s head, however, is raised so as to continue the line of the drapery down to the base. This arrangement shows a good deal of TECHNICAL SKILL, but why the d should be made to regard sympathetically master’s back israther @ puzzle tous. Had the dog been so placed as to be able to see his master’s face then the action would have been appropriate and effective; but under the present conditions it is impossible to ine what can interest the hound. But in mp of these short- comings the statue is a respectable addition to our public memorials of greatmen. No transcendent merit can be cluimed for it as a work of art, but the qualities it possesses will, in all probability, secure for it A FAIR SHARE OF POPULARITY. It is pleasing to note that American Lgl sage is Tapidly advancing to @ position of equality with Euro} work. Much as has been written by some persons inclined to be very seriously critical about the proportions of Ward’s Shakspeare, the American artist’s work stands out well in contrast, with the Scott statue. And it is not too much to say that both in the excellence of the execution and in correct conception of the aim and scope of sculpture Mr. Ward’s statue shows ap unquestion- able superiority. TROTTING IN TENNESSEE. Two Good Matches om the Nashville Blood Horse Association Course—Flush and Repeater the Winners. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1672, Two races came off to-day on the Nashville Blood Horse Association Course. The first wasamatch between Double Out and Flush for $1,000 aside, two mile heats. Flush came in first in both heats. Time, 3:504s; 3:5144. The second race was for an Association Purse of $200; two mile heats. The following is the sum- Repeate Evelyn Mobry 212 Mid: . -3 38 Time 334714, 8:4734, 3:5054. Flush was the favorite in the first race at two to one, and Evelyn Mabry iu the second at about the same odds. YAOHTING NOTES. The London Court Journal of the 12th inst., Says:—“No one has accepted Commodore Douglas’ challenge to sail against his schooner yacht Sappho toCherbourg amd back, the best of (what would be called upon the tarf) three-mile heats, and, there- fore, the gallant owner may return to his own country proud of the character his vessel has at- tained in England. During Mr. Douglas’ séjour at Cowes he has won golden opinions from all true lovers of maritime pursuita. His hospitality has Deen unbounded, and those who have e1 ed the privilege oi @ sail cam bear testimony to the feet- Devacnt. ‘Dougiaa Ms. “Wiliams H.Y.C. a Heat telegraph station yesterday inorning from Harlem en roule for Greenwich. THE PATENBUBG RIOTS. FLEMINGTON, N. J., Nov. 2, 1872, The constables sent in search of the negro rioters to Virginia have returned with five prisoners, supposed to be ringleaders in the fight, among them the celebrated Charley Perkins, the banjo player, who, it is ex- pected, will throw light upon the or! and pature of the dimculty. As some spicey political develop- ments are promised, the interest in the matter, which had almost died out, is again ruined. Mrs. Van Halst, of No, 280 Mott street, is left in a destitute condition with four children, owing to the\death of her husband, who committed suicide in Cl°arleston, S. C., one day last week. The news of the ‘eath of her husband was given to Mrs. Van Hulst av Police Headquarters rday, where the inte! xg had been received from Charleston, 4 THE EPIHIPPIC ENDING. o.__ . Horses Recovering from the Ravages of the Hipporhinorrhea and Returning to Their Daily and Nightly Toil. Bergh Proclaims a Sabbath for the Poor Beasts—The Febrequobronchiatis in Brooklyn and Other Cities. Yesterday the prevalence of the hipporhinorrhea ‘was much less conspicuous than at any other time since its.ravages began, and the perfect and Speedy recovery of most of the horses in the city is now an assured fact. There is certainly a large number who have been so abused by belitg com- pelled to labor while they were sick that their death is inevitable, but their rapid demise for the last few days has quickly lessened it, while the Majority of the animals are fast getting better. This is proven by the appearance of Broadway at mhdday yesterday, when THE GREAT TIDE OF BUSINESS AND PLEASURE rolled on aa it was wont to do before this dire visita- tion, and was almost as strong and majestic, The stages were running in nearly thelr usual num- ber. The Twenty-third street line had fifty-four in use, the Fourth avenue line had forty, the Four- teenth street line had twenty-seven, the Madison avenue line had fifty-six, and the Fifth avenue line had thirty-seven. The trucks and carts and car- riages crowded the pavement from curb to curb, and it was almost as dificult to cross the roar- ing stream and the services of a pollceman were as necessary as ever. The sun shone on fair women and brave men who walked the pavement, but with their beating feet and the deafening roar of vehicles and clashing hoofs sounded like a rush- ing torrent that foams over jagged and flinty rocks. The impulse created by ‘THE DELAY OF COMMERCE already occasioned by the disability of the dray horses 1s overwhelmingly powerful, and all other considerations will subordinate to it for the next few weeks to come until the arrearages of labor are satisfied. ‘The mighty flow of mercantile busi- ness will crowd the streets until the fruits of the lost labor of the season of epizooty are regained and the wheels of the city run in the old grooves, But as yet this cannot be so soon ex- pected. Yesterday the pricés of transportation were still at premium, and there was not enough horses available to fulfil even the common daily re- quirements of the mercnants. THE STREET CAR AND STAGE HORSES. The street car lines yesterday showed signs of the improvement of their stock in the increased num- ber of cars that were running. Still, however, some of the horses that were in use were very palpably suffering {rom the disease, and some in & really pitiable form. ‘These latter had the febre- juobronchiatis in its worst phase, and the object of their owners seemed to be, knowing that their death was inevitable, to make them earn as much Toney as was possible before they- finally should shuttie off the mortal coil. But every day these clegusting cases in this clty become rarer, and this is one of the most reliable evidences of the ending ofthe disease, since no new victims attain this dangerous stage. THE MEANS OF TRAVEL. On the Third Avenue, yesterday, there were 90 cars drawn by double teams, ‘The Grand Central pot Line was using all the cars it ordinarily em- ploys, so were the Fourth Avenue and the Sixth Avenue lines. On Broadway and Seventh avenue they were running 70 cars. MORTALITY. The mortality in most of the street railway stables seems to be decreasing, yet at the Third Avenue depot, yesterday, there were five deaths and at the Fifth Avenue Stage stables there were two. The list given by the police is as follows 5 at 84 avenue depot. 618 West 47th street. etand Lexington av, 549 West 44th street, 72d street and 2d avenue. 58th street and North River. 116th street, near3d avenue. 57th street and North River. 20 West 13th street. 7th avenue, between 57th 1 West 18th street. ‘and 58th streets. Hudson street, near Laight, 280 East Houston street. 530 East 13th street. 81 Perry street. B07 West 13th street. 318 Heury street, 16 Hester street. 225 East 80th street. SUL West 48d strect. 110 East Broadway. 78 Wooster street. 40 Elizabeth stree! 48 Wooster street. 107 Mott street. 236 East Twentieth street. 86 herr; 622 Greenwich street. 582 Greenwich street. 16 Morton street. 512 West Thirty-fifth street. gh av. becwoen 23th and stree' 540 East Fifteenth street. 526 Last Twentieth street. 591 Washington street. 13 Jones street. 748 East Twelfth street. 54 West Twenty-seconi st. 412 West Twenty-seventh street. 1011 Second avenue. 218 East Forty-ninth street. 2 at bth ay, stage stabl ad and 1241 ay. Mule 150 West Filty-third st. 157 West Fifty-second street. 529 West, Worty-fourih street. 7th av. near 47th street. 26 City Hall place. 43 Sufiolk street. 55 Columbia street. 71 Pike street. 200 Clinton street. %4 Blizabeth street. . Corner Duane and William 14 Dominick street. 560 West Thirty-seventh st. 5 16 Clinton street, 820 East Eleventh street, 202 Webt Eighteenth st. 263 West Filteenth street. 438 West Twenty-seventh st, Twenty-fourth street and 136 Mulberry street. Eleventh av. In Brooklyn the horse does not improve with marvellous rapidity, but the number of deaths yesterday was reduced to twenty-one, and there seems to be there a very just popular {dea of the treatment which properly he should receive. Since the sppearenes of the malady the street cars have on all the lines been greatly lessened, and on many of them have not been run at all. Street Car Stables—West Side. BLEECKER STREET RAILROAD STABLES. No deaths are reported at these stables, The President of the road, Mr. Conover, has re- ceived a@ letter from Mr. Bergh, copies of which have been sent to all the city railroad companies. Mr. Conover states that Mr. Bergh has said he would spend $100,000 to prosecute the Bleecker street line and its President, Conover. Th elatter claims author- ity under the charter of the company to run with- out interference from Bergh, and claims that the latter is impotent to carry out any measures sup- pressing the working of the line. The following isa copy of the letter address ed by Bergh to Conover :— Tux American Society ror rar PREVENTION OF CRURLTY TO ANIMALS. ‘New Yorx, Nov. 2 1872 To rae PResivENt oF THE BLEECKER STREET AND FuLTON Fenny RatRoad ComPany :— Sin—To-morrow will be the Sabbath, which the Supreme Ruler has declared shall be one of rest for map and beast. Out of respect for this ordinance, and from con- siderations of mercy and humanity to the toiling brute, let there be a total cessation from travel by car, carriage and other vehicle on that day. 482 Eleventh avenue. ‘Twanty four hours of repos to the sick and weary horses will turn eminently to the pecuniary and moral profit of their owners. Letit, therefore, be shown to-morrow who are the mercitul and who the avaricious among proprietors and the public, Respectfully, HENRY BENGH, The Bleecker street cars will run as usual to-day. TENTH AVENUE RAILROAD STABLES. One horse died yesterday at these stables. There are twenty bad cases now in hospital. Eighty cars will be run to-day on this line, the horses having rested four days, and some of them five. NINTH AVENUE RAILROAD STABLES, No horses have been reported as dead in these stables during the past twenty-four hours. Thir- teen additional cars were run yesterday, The cars will run Sty in spite of Mr. Bergh. General condition of adairs improving. BIGHTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, No deaths are reported here to-day and the con- dition of the horses is improved. The cars will run ay unless they are stopped by the Fourth Street SIXTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES. One horse died in these stables yesterday. The others are improving. Mr. Bidgood, the Superin- tendent, has ordered that no cars shall run to-day. He wishes to give the horses a rest, and believes that a cessation of business on Sunday will inter- fere with the convenience of the public less than on any other day. East Side. FOURTH AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES. Tne cars on this line were yesterday running aa usual, and the condition of the herses was better than on any day previous. THIRD AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, It is ramored that fifteen horses have died in these stables ina singie day. The stablemen, however, invariably report few if any deaths, They claimed last might that the stock was in wonderfully good order and daily progressing. They still rum four horses to the car, however. SRCOND AVENUE RAILWAY STABLES, The Second Avenue Company is fortunate. If all the horses reputed to have died there actually did die they must have been mysteriously buried. ‘The foreman of the stables still reports them as in excellent health and ta, GRAND CENTRAL RAILROAD STABLES, All the cars on bis line were running yesterday. ,there have ‘The horses are im- Ro cars are run on Sunday. hommes ore tnn- prov! in condition daily and next week. AVENUE B AND D LINE STABLES, lo deaths have been at the Superintend- eat’s oMce as occurring wil the past twenty- four hourg. Colonel Whidden, the foreman of the stables, states thap the horses rapidly imprev- ing. re are two doubttul cai and but little over haif the animals are working. Thirty-four cars are now running. on this line gne trip less than tn ordinary times, ey run on longer time, and thus begin and end at the same hours as heretofore. AVENUE © RAILWAY STABLES, ‘Two horses reported dead during the twenty- four hours, the others Ny. the exception of the seven now remaining in hospital. Ten of the thirty-six cars, a8 announced in vay dey’s HERALD, are now running ten trips per day from Seventeeuth street to Chambers street. None are running above Seventeegth street, though the road extends north to Forty-second street. No additional cars will be run to-day; but should the horses continue to improve others will be added to-morrow. The Stage Stables. MADISON AVENUE STAGE STABLE, Fifty-four stages were running on this line yesterday, six trips each. No horses were re- orted dead last night, and the health of those in ie stables had improved. FIFTH AVENUE STAGE STABLES, . Forty-four stages are running on thisline, six trips per day. No deaths have occurred and the horses are improving. TWENTY-THIRD STREET, STAGE STABLES. ‘The condition of affairs in these stables remains in statu quo, ‘The 8 ave running the same as yesterday and no deaths are reported, THE EQUINE MORTALITY IN BROOKLYN. ‘The veterinary surgeons and city railroad author- ities’ report a more favorable condition among their equine patients, They are, in fact, in hopes that, the present fine weather continuing, there will be po scarcity of horses a week hence. The Hunter's Point ears, Crosstown line, are running only five cars, but on Tuesday next they propose placing ten more cars on their line. The interval between trips yesterday was half an hour. On the lines of the Brooklyn City CORDON, from ten’ to twelve minutes was the running time. Several sick animals that were kept at work until the dis- ease became incurable have turned up their hoofs since yesterday. ‘The deaths reported by the police were twenty-one, The localities are as follow: 675 Lafayette avenue. Ratlroad stables, Myrtle av. 23d street, near 4th avenue. Railroad stables, Franklin 75 India street. avenue, Stables, Bergen street, near 21 McComb street. ‘Third avenue. 953 Dean street. 842 Cumberland street. 450 Adelphi street. Railroad sable, Van Brunt 145 Lorimer street, near ‘street. ‘Johngon avenue, 216 Bridge street. Cumberland street, near Schenck st., near Myrtle av. _ Myrtle avenue. Clove road, near Montgom- Little st., near Navy Yard, ery street. 41 Gerry’ street. Husboldt, near TenEyck st, 685 Butler street. 188 Calyer' street. Brooklyn mourns the loss of 167 horses since Sunday last, The several railroad companies of Brooklyn have ber to withdraw all cars fron the road to-day. ‘The faithful will therefore walk to church, ear errs Serious Business Interraption in Maine. CAMDEN, Me., Nov. 2, 1872. The horse disease has made its appearance here. The stable horses are all sick, also the horses of the stage line between Rockland and Belfast, which are stabled here. The mail is carried by one team. Not a horse can be hired in this place. The farmers are afraid and remain at home, Tradé suffers considerably. One horse has just died in Lincolnville, An Improvement in Boston. Boston, Nov. 2, 1872. There is a marked improvement to-day in the horse disease, under the influence of clear and milder weather, and the streets begin to assume something like the Jormer business appearance. In Stamford, Connecticut. STAMFORD, Nov. 2, 1872, The horse disease has broken out in Stamford. Horses Dying in Oswego. OswEao, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1872. About three-fourths of the horses in the city are affected with the distemper, and as yet there are no symptoms of improvement. Eight horses died last night, Axsany, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1872, There is no abatement in the horse disease. Men and oxen are substituted in drawing carts, trucks and wagons. The Fire Commissioners have appealed to the citizens to draw the steamers to fires, if any occur. Hundreds Sick in Newburg. NEwsURG, N. Y., Nov. 2, 1872, The horse disease, notwithstanding the very favorable weather of the past few days, is on the increase in this city. In one of the livery stables thirty out of forty horses are affected; in another sixteen out of twenty; at another half the animals have the distemper. Several fast trotters are under treatment. The disease also seems to be spreading in private stables. The President of the Board of Health has issued directions for the care of horses affected. No deaths have occurred dur- ing the week. Ten Thousand Sick Horses in the Quaker City—The Disease Spreading in All the Stables. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2, 1872, ‘The horse epidemic has reached us at last, and promises to be very serious indeed before it finally leaves. The singular freedom we have enjoyed while neighboring localities were suffering was but the calm preceding the storm, and now it has burst upon us in its might, For several days past been premonitory symptoms. in the stables of the street car companies, but they were not deemed of a serious nature. All necessary sanitary precautions were taken, and, it is believed, they have tended to alleviate im @ degree the sufferings attendant on this dreaded disease, At this writing there are prob- ably ten thousand cases in the city, and the num- ber stillon the increase. The Pennsylvania and other railroads clas | freight tracks in the public streets have receiver Cog by Care act of city councils to run dumi bee ey uring the prevalence of the epidei ie Philadelphia oF: Passenger Railway Company take off all their cars to-morrow. All the ‘city are suffering more or less already, and will bly discontinue business entirely by the middle of next week, until the disease abates im fact. All the lines will discontinue running to-morrow, hoping to be able to resume by Monday. If not ey Will stop business until they can recommence. ‘The following new cases are reported to-day) Nicker & Wil j, Sugar refiners, 11; Fire Dep 1; Insurance Patrol, 1; Race and 260; Market street une, 60; Chestnut Walnut 75; William Penn, 100; Leh- man Hotel, 10; Craig's, 40; Andrew & Sons, 73 Adams’ brow dtd 125; Straight Hae stable of the Second and Third streets line, 250; Fifth and Sixth, 60; Fourth and hth, 52; Richmond Branch of the Union line, 120; Thirteenth and Fifteenth, 38; Casnell’s Fifteenth and Washington, 80; Seven- teenth and Nineteenth lines, 14; Fairmount branch of the Union line, 70; Columbia avenue branch, 100; Pennsylvania Railroad stables, a4 street, 40 horses and 2 mules; Worthington’s, 45; Hart’s, 60, and 77 in various private stables. The Horses in Baltimore To Have a Rest. F BALTIMORE, Nov. 2, 1872. The horse disease has been more seriously felt to- day than on any previous day. Few cars and drays are on the street. ‘he horse railroad com panies in the city have given notice that no cars will be run to-morrow, for the purpose of giv- ing the horses a rest. The disease prevails very mildly, and should the weather be favorable it will soon disappear. At ten o’clock this morning there ‘was only one hack on Monument square, the grand hack stand of the city. In Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 1872, The horse disease extensively prevails through- out Washington, though ina majority of cases in very mild iorm, No deaths are yet reported, The First Victim in Richmond, Va. RICHMOND, Nov. 2, 1872. ‘The horse malady has at last made its appear- ance in this city. It presented itself in one of Cap- tain John A. McCaul’s horses, which he had on ex- hibition at the State Agricultural Fair, There is the usual running at the nose, and all the symptoms stated in the HeBaLp about the disease among the New York horses. The malady is at present limited only to this horse, which has been placed in hospital quarters, and its extensive spread ts not antci- pated. "one of the livery stable men or car com- y officers are yet aware of the presence of the Eiscase. Its annooncement here would create a lar panic among the owners of equine stock im this city. Epizootic in Cleveland. Nov. 2, 1872, The prevalence of the horse disease was more Sea ee Very Chicago Business Men Unable to Trans- fer Freight. Curcago, Nov. 2, 1872. ‘The absence of horses on the streets is more marked now than it wasthis morning. Even the want of horses to move ireight is interfer- with business. Already @ large Bats ie aaa Seas country a that mice 80 far are not affected by the disease, and the presence of a number of teams of these ‘animals seems to bear out the statement. It such should prove to be the case a number will be brought here at once. On * the tading in flour ment was entirely at & standstill of the impossibility the flour at present, All the Street cars and omnibuses stopped o'clock last night and not a ablic conveyance is to be geen this morning, The Rack stands are deserted. The only horses to be seen are those attached to the delivery wi 8 of retail dealers and a few teams employed in hauling buiding material. Acold rain set in at eleven o'clock last night and continued until late this morning. The weather is still damp and cold. Doubtless many horses are kept up for prudential Teasons. BOUND FOR CHINA. The United States Steamer Hartford to Join, the Asiatic Squadron. ‘The far-famed Hartford, whose historic associa- tions are yet fresh in the hearts of Americans, sails to-day for Gibraltar, and after a short stay at that port will proceed to Singapore via Suez Canal, where she will report to Admiral Jenkins as flag- ship of the Asiatic Squadron, relieving the Colorado. ‘This will be the second cruise of this world- renowned vessel to the East Indies since tite war of the rebellion, Sometime since the Hartford was inspected off the Battery by a board of officers anda thorough examination was made of every department. The result was of the most satisfac- tory character. Nothing was omitted, All the ofMicers in charge otf the different parts of the ves- sel were called upon to state any defects that came under their observation. The magazine, pro- visions and clothing were critically examined, and it was the opinion of the Board that few men-of- war ever left the harbor more completely equipped for sea. The Hartford has a splendid battery of nine and eleven-inch guns and twenty-pounder rifles, She has, moreover, a set of offi. cers inferior to none in the world, and there is no doubt that Uncle Sam will be hand- somely represented in Chinese waters. The frigate is commanded by Captain E. Y. uley, and among the officers are some of the explorers who took such an active part in the last canal expedi- tion, inciuding Lieutenant McCormack, then navi- tor of the United States steamer Nipsic, In fine, jhe favorite ship which Farragut steered to victory at New Orleans, Port Hudson, Vicksburg and Mo- bile, wants for nothing that could make her a worthy representative of our Haven foreign ports. ‘The Harford leit yesterday afternoon tor the Com- 8 station, and will sail to-day about noon. The following 1s_ list of oiticers:— iptain—E, Y. McCauley. ae Commanders—J. Phillips, E. M. Shep- qiiemenants—B, M. McCormack, A. H. Vall, 0. B. Masters—J. A. Rodgers, ©. P. Potter, John Gar- Vee e Colvocoresses. cl ineer—John Moore. Pay ‘—E. Stewart. Passed Assistant Sui H. J. Batin. Assistant fohn ‘vey. Captain of Marines—H. J. Bartlett. TAeutenant of Marines—E. H. Eli. Engineer—J. D. Ford. tdshipmen—Downes, Hunsicken, Baker, War- ng, Fox, Sawyer, Wenlock, Wright, Haines, Mar- shall. Passengers for the Asiatic station—Paymasters iene and Addicks, and Engineers Burnap and inder., ‘The Hartford will probably be at Singapore about | January 15, COMPTROLLER. GREEN AND THE FIRE DE- PARTMENT, Mr. Hitchman Replics to the Accusa- tions of the Comptroller—“The Comp- troller’s Letter Intended to Create a False Impression of the Conduct of the Fire Commissioners.” New York, Nov. 2, 1872. To Tax Epiror oF THE HERALD :— 8in—The within communication ts a copy of a letter ad- dressed to the Comptroller by the Fire Department in an- swer to a communication published by that officer in the ublic press of to-day. Will you be kind enough to give is reply the same pubticity through your columns and oblige yours, respectfully, he Peet WILLIAM HITCHMAN, President. Per W. B. Waits, Secretary. Hxapqvanrens Free Dxranrwexr, ‘Naw You, Nov, To raz Comrrnouien or TH City or New Yo! Sim—I noticed in the newspapers ot yesterd day an article relating to payments miade by the Com troller to the different departments of the city govern: ment, and in which artiele. is set out at length. « lette! writien by you to this department, dated the 26th of Oc- tober, 1 ‘Asthe article published ig the various newspapers 1s the same in all, itis fair to presume that the publication of the letter, together with the comments, was made by your authority. ‘As the article in question tends to create a false im- pression in the minds of the employes of this department and of the public at large in regard to the payment of force under the charge of the Commissioners, I call your attention to the fact that this department replied to your omnmenigation of the 26th October by a letter of the same ate. Moreover, a communication was made to on behalf of the Commissioners, by their counsel, dated the 28th October ult, in which, alluding to the fact that the question at issue n the Comotroller and the Commissioners was pending before the Supreme Court and undetermined, it ‘was stated that, until the decision of said Court, which it ‘was supposed would shortly be obtained, it was desirable | that provision should be made for the pay, 60 the men might not suffer by the delay, and that the Com- missioners would be glad to learn that some arrangement could be le for. that purpose. No notice of this communication was taken by, the Comptroller until the 30th of October ult., when an inter- view took place between the counsel of the Comptroller and the counsel of the Commissioners in regard to the matter, in which interview the counsel for the Comp- troller requested that all communications on the subject should be , Hot to the Comptroller, but to his counsel. Binco that timp, in pursuance of such request, commu nications have been had between the counsel, personally and by letter, the latest of w! communica- tions was on the part of the Comptroller, and was re- ceived by the counsel for the Commissioners this day, and of course after the publication in yesterday’s papers of the article referred to. If the publication of such article was intended to create the impression that the failure to provide a mode of im- mediate payment of the Cay of the Fire Depart ment is owing to any action of the Commissioners (and the Cay Cg Bad een Pe gd for 2 ae par: jose), I tal ‘opportunity 0! i that such im- Peeion ton false one’ and thatthe delay in the, payment of the force will not be occasioned by any act or omission of the Commissioners, The Commissioners haye at all times been sy iting. for the sake of the men in their employ, to yield to almost every suggestion made on the part of the Comptroller, and to make almost aay arranngement by which they could secure payment of the force in their charge, without Ree to the legal proceedings now in the i For any inconvenienée or injury to the men My | from the’ omission to pay them what is honestly ai oo, due them the te Ky alone is res bie. ‘ours, respecttully, ILLIAM HITOHMAN, ‘resident of the Board of Fire Commissioners. COMPTROLLER’S REPORT OF REQEIPT OF TAXES. Comptroller Green reports that the collection ot taxes through the Bureau of Receiver of Taxes of the Department of Finance for the week ending Friday, November 1, has been as follows:— October 26 $648,669 October 28. ‘591,917 48 October 29. 796,450 72 October 30. 913,422 43 October 31.: 964,780 20 November i. 58,474 90 Total... And that the amount of receipt of taxes for the month of October, from October 7 to 31st inclusive, ‘WAS $9,285,416 44, IMPORTANT LIFE INSURANCE OASE. The plaintiffin the case of Hartley against the Guardian Mutual Life Insurance Company, of this city, is the widow of Richard Hartley, whose death occurred in September last, three days after he had made application for a policy of insurance to the amount of $3,900 at the office of the com- pany in San cisco, The agent of the com- any sent on mail to the company’s y eaiquarters in New York, Leahy application, but afew days after he had sent it he telegraphe to New York that Hartley had been murdered, Under these. circumstances the company affirms that no contract was entered into with Hart- to issue policies, the atures of the Smoers of the company in New York being required for the com- gee Beg contract or the issue of any policy. ‘he plaintif contended that Hartley considered the insurance complete after his de: with the agent. THE SEABROOKE MASSACRE, The Jury in the Case of the Eastern Railroad Disaster Remder a Verdict— Somebody “Unknown” to Blame. Porrsmouru, N. H., Nov. 2, 1872, In the Coroner's investigation into the late dis- aster on the Eastern Railroad, at Seabrook, the jury returned @ verdict that the disaster one ue Pangan Of & switch after the ing of a through freight train by some person to the jury unknown, and exonerat the officers and employés of the toad irom in the premlsca, +| their Con, VIRGINIA. The Old Deminion Looking Anxiously for November 5. Politicians Awakening from @ Profound Letb- argy—Republicans Alréady Claiming the State—Strong Hopes Based on the 30,000 Registered Majority of ‘Whites—Sambo Solidly Sup- porting the Ad- ministration. RICHMOND, Va., Noy. 1, 1872, Allof asudden there begins to be displayed am unusual activity among the republican leaders in the Presidential canvass in this State. Their efforts have been redoubled, the campaign has be- come animated, and fabulous sums of money are spoken of in conjunction with the election on the, Sth proximo, Within the past week several distin- guished speakers of national fame and reputation, among them Attorney General Williams and Judge Lewis E. Dent, have addressed republican meet- ings in various parts of the Old Dominion, and to- day Senator Henry Wilson, the candidate for the Vice Presidency on the administration ticket, is to speak at Staunton. I notice, too, that several orators from North Carolina are to address the republicans of Virginiain the next week, the dis- tinguished chairman of the Executive Committee of that party, Mr. Samuel F. Phillips, being one of them. From this indication it would seem that the old North State, being considered safe and sound forthe administration and this State being dount- Tul, the most strenuous efforts are to be made to carry it on the 5th of November. 1¢ will be remem- bered that Virginia will then vote for the firat time: in a Presidential election since 1860. Walker, who was nominated and run as @ republican in 1870, re- ceiving the fuli conservative support, and a portion: or fraction of the republican vote carried the State: by & majority of 18,000. Since then various changes have taken place, and several State issues have: Partially disorganized the conservative forces, though it is a question yet to be decided whether these divisions will have any direct bearing or in- fiuence on the Presidential contest. There are only in the State some thirty thousand registered whites’ in excess of the registered black voters; and, it being admitted that there are somewhere tween fifteen and twenty thousand. republicans: among the white voters, it is easy, to perceive that: there are strong and forcible junds on the part of the sepublicans for pushing tha canyass in the State. ere is no doubt that the. entire dated negro vote of the State will he. cast for the: Scene Ran: This settled, the contest Mes THE THIRTY THOUSAND WHITE REGISTERED MAJORITY, and if, as the republicans claim, there are some fifteen or twenty thousand white republicans in the State the contest becomes one ol at doubt in- deed. in the Walker campaign in 1860 the liberal movement was first inaugurated. Wells, whose administration as provisional Governor under Gen- eral Schofield, and subsequently General Canby, had: made himself excessively obnoxious to the w! was so unpopular with his own party that: he failed to P sie its ngth by several thousands, and did not ‘even ‘command: the ne vote, drilled’ as it was. egto Virginia had then before her .as aterrible the reconstructed carpet-bag governments of every . one of the Southern States south of her, and the Plunder and ruin they had accomplished in each.. neral Grant, too, had magnanimoualy allowed a. separate vote to be cast pied the adoption or re- Jection of the obnoxious clauses of the Underwood: constitution, and it was wich such issues as these, which at the time were fully ample to produce -@ popular revolution, that the State was so triumph- ani ares in 1869 by the election of Gilbert ©. Walker as Governor, The issues now. presented are totally different, and 1 find that General Grant ig Not so thoroughly detested and odious to Vir- that some of them will not vote for him im reference to Mr. Gresley Toru ar among them as: @ latter seems to be. en there is a aren: clase which it is useless and foolish to ignore in Virginia. to-day who will ° ‘VOTE FOR NEITHER GRANT NOR GREBLEY, and these are the people who will decide the’ Presidential baie: = Vi ny ns fag Mcp organs, recogn! e aversion rr. x are endeavoring persuade the whites to vo! for the electoral ticket only, lea’ out the names of Greeley and Brown. is so trans- pin that it will not have the d d effect, and in all probability the Bourbons will barely vote for the negroes and contest out among ht-outs hold & an electora) seman, leavil liberals to fight the President themselves. To-morrow the #1 Convention for the purpose of for! ticket for * O'CONOR AND ADAMS, i The attendance, I am assured, will not be large, nor will the body be enthusiastic; but, even admit-: ting their numerical inferiority, heir nce “for good or for evil,” when the State is 80 close, be- Comes an established fact, and 18 seriously felt just, now by the conservative leaders. ‘The alley” — or, a8 it should be rote Shenandoah Valley—i«: the section of the State from which the ‘‘straignt-. outs’ will get their strongest support. This was! the section that rolled up the largest majorities for- Walker in 1869, and, while there will be equal, if not greater majorities for Congressmen at the en- at election, it is gaid the vote for President will. run behind the Congressional ticket, and that. quite a respectable vote will be cast for O’Conor: and Adams. I met to elderly Virgina gentleman, evi met an elder! YY man, evi-- dently one of the F. F. aah with whom I had brief conversation on political matters. “Why is it that you will vote for O’Conor and: Adams when there is not a possibility of their elec- tion?” I asked. “Well, because I prefer to adhere to my political principles rather than become an apostate.” an Gi two republican candidates, which do you. refer : “General Grant, by all means; but I will vote for neither.” “Why do you prefer Grant ?” “Because I think Grant did nobly by General Lee: at the surrender, and showed that he appreciated: him as a great Christian soldier when he refused to: accept his sword. He made his parole to the Confederate soldiers and wed m to take their horses home to till their farms. This was @ great help to us in the Valley.” This 18 an illustration of the stralght-out senti ment in Vu It may amount toa great deal, and it may not, but I am convinced from the class of gentlemen I have seen connected with it that it will seriously damage the liberal cause. . ‘CONGRESSMEN will in all nig lige elected by the conservai;' tives in the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth districts. The republicans will elect their representatives in the Fourth districts, the third being doubtful. This is the district for- merly represented by les H. , Of Palt Ww notoriety. George D. Wise, a nephew ot Henry A, Wise, a young lawyer of ability and rom the John is the conservative condidate, while mbler Smith, @ son-in-law of Senator Lewis and a rising stanch republican, is the republican candie- date. Smith is well connected, uiat and @ goods Canvasser, and being himself an F. F. V., will give Mr. Wise a hard race. The district is close, the registered yote being in Wise's favor. Jt would be pled Of risk, however, to bet upon the election. A TERRIBLE MURDER A Young Girl Killed and Buried in a. ‘Wood in New Hampshire—A Man. Arrested on Suspicion Points out the Burial Place. Concorp, N. H., Nov. 2, 1872. The body of a young girl named Di who has. been aniealng in Northwood since last week Priday,. ‘was found last night. Franklin B. Evans, who was. ps on Pte npily ool having been con- cerne: isa, ‘ance, —accompanted a Sherif to some” woods nearby, and pointed out @ spot where the body was buried under a stump. An inquest is being held to-day. It is probable that Evans has made a confession of the deed. The girl was about thirteen years of os excitement prevails in the village ‘over tho: REPORTED LOSS OF THE STEAMER BELPAST.. MEmpHis, Nov. 2, 1882. It is reported that the steamer Belfast, from St, Louis for New Orleans, struck a snag yesterday 100 miles above here and sunk in five feet of water. No lives were lost. CALIFORNIA JUSTICE. SAN FRANOISOO, Nov. 2, 1872, Jacob Wilkerson, convicted of the murder o} Hattie E. Burkhardt, was to-day sentenced to State Prison for forty-five years, Thomas Ansboro was fined $1,000 to-day for Libelling Baith O’Gorman, an escaped nun. NEW YORK ok Ma SWIFT JUS. A few mornings ago Robert Sullivan and George: Thomas, two noted New York thieves, were caught. by the Newark police just as they were escaping with @ lot of plunder taken from @ book store Broad street, Yesterday they were laced to pl atthe bar of the Court of Special Sessions and pleaded guilty, It wook the Court but a few record the sentence—gix veara each in the Prison at hard labor,