The New York Herald Newspaper, December 7, 1872, Page 6

NEW, YORK, HERALD, SATURDAY, DEVEMBER 7%, 1872.—TRIPLE , SHEET., “NEW YORK HERALD] "Steet, Some te 2 o —— BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. GE) Sr ase JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Volume XXXVII, AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TNEATRE COMIQUE, 614 Broadwi Liv INGSTONE AND STANLEY. inee at AFRICA: OR, . Twenty-third street, cormer Sixth Ir, Matinee at 2. BCOTH'S THEATR avenue. —As You bi OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. between Houston sud Bleecker sts—Bive Bean. Matinee at 2. ROWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tom ayo Jeanry—Gun- mAxeR oF Moscow, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. coraer Tuirtieth st.— Oy Hany, Aiternoon and Evening. ACADEMY OF MUSIC Orewi—Matinee at 1—Lo: Fourteenth strect.—Traiaw ez1A BoRraia. GRAND OPERA HOU Twenty-third. st, amd Eighth ay.—lounp tae CLocg. 1} 4 inee at 115. GERMANUA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third BY. —STIPTUNGS FEST. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston streets, Lod axp Lotos.' Matinee at 1s. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway, between T teenth aud Fourteenth streets.—Acaus. Matinee at FIFTH AVENUE THEATR. Mukuy Wives or Wixpson. Twenty-fourth street.— linee at Dy. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway ana Thirteenth sireet —Ove Axrxrcan Cousin. Matinee at 15. MRS F. B CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THRATRE.— Son ov THe Nignt. BROOK Aratian ' \ STRINWAY HALL, ‘crnrs. , BRYANTS OP Cthay.—Nrcne Min OF MUSIC, Montague st.— ACA enty-third at. TRICITY, &C. corner Matince. ATRE, Broadway, be- ARIETY ENTERTAINMENT, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOU: , No. 201 Bowery.— Onan Variery ExierTainment, & \_ £AN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, corner 28th st. and Broadway.—Erurorian Minstretsy, &c. PARNUM'S MUSEUM, MENAGERIE AND CIRCUS, /Pourteenth sirect, near Broadway.—Day and Evening. NRW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— New Yerk, Saturday, Dec. 7, 1872. "TRIPLE § )SSRSS vac neers wre ene mn van /THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. THE POLITICAL CUNFLICT IN NEW ORLEANS! FEDERAL BAYONETS AGAINST THE STATE AUTHORITIES" — EDITORIAL Stxtn Pace, JA FEDERAL COUP D'ETAT IN NEW ORLEANS! THE LOUISIANA STATE CAPITAL SEIZED BY UNITED STATES TROOPS OVERNOR WARMOTH AND SENATOR KE ING FOR LEGAL ENDORSEMENT—Turp Par. M. THIERS' DEFEAT IN THE ASSEMBLY! FRENCH COMMITTEE OF THIRTY! ROWING THE EX VE SPHERE! GOVERNMENTAL DILEMMA! EXCITEM SEVENTH Pace. WAR POSSIBLE BETWEEN JAPAN AND PERU! A COOLIE SHIP CAPTAIN ROU TREATED IN JAPAN: THREATENING COM- PLICATIONS—NiNTH PAGE. THREATENED CONFLICT BETWEEN THE NA- TIONAL AND STATE AUTHORITIES IN NEW ORLEANS ! WRONGED AND BAGGERS AND SCAL- WARMOTH’S DISGRACEFUL CA- WHAT MAY BE EXPECTED—Fovurta THE NAR- THE POPULAR EUROPEAN NEWS BY CABLE! INUNDATIONS (ON IN ITALY: AN ION AT AUDIENCE AMERICAN DEPU' WITH THE POPE: LISH “M. P.”’ ON ANGIO-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP—Tuirp Page. PERSONAL iWS GOSSIP—THE WORLD OF AMUSEMENTS. XTH PAGE. FEDERAL CAPITAL INTERNAL RE’ SENATE COMMITT! L TILT SCHURZ'S DEFENCE. 18 THOMAS C. FLEMING? <A MYSTE- RIOUS GENTLEMAN IN HAVANA: HIS SUD- DEN ARTURE FOR FRANCE: PLENTY OF MONEY—Tuirp Pace. SPANISH OFFICIALS IN CUBA THE WIVES AND WIDOWS GENTS! DISASTER TO BRIG—TurrD Pace. WHO ARRAIG OF INSUR- AN AMERICAN LEADER — | HLY | | days of the old Tammany rule in New York. | Municipal offices filled with fortune hunters, | for the enrichment of a “‘ring;’’ newspapers | of no character or influence subsidized to do NING | FAILURE OF THE ASPINWALL AND WEST INDIA | CABLE TO TRANSMIT MESSAGES—SEVENTH Page. AT THE MERCY OF THE HUNGRY SI OTHER SURVIVOR OF 1 N DAYS’ HUNG 2 INVESTIGATED—LIT- GOSSIP—HIPPOGRAPHS—GERMAN REFORMERS—FourtH Pace, ANOTHER LEGAL STRANGLING! EXECUTION OF BROOKLYN: HE FFOLD: A FEARFUL HISTORY OF THE CRIME—EiguTn Page. BARNEY WOOD EXECUTED! DETAILS OF THE MURDEROUS D AND OF THE TRIAL AND EXECOTI 1GHTH P. FIENDISH MURDER IN PENNSYLVANIA! A TER- RIBLE ENGINE OF ‘TRUCTION! BLOW- ING OFF AN OLD MAN'S HEAD: HIS WIFE'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE—FirTH Page. CONGRESS! THE SELECT AND STANDING COM- MITTEES OF THE 8) A WALL STREET INQUEST: THE ARKAN- SAS TURMOIL—Firtn Paar, ‘WILLIAM M. TWEED'S CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED: THE DOCK COMMISSIONERS AND NORTH RIVER PROPERTY OWNERS: THE WALL- KILL BANK CASE: THE NOONAN EXTRA- DITION—ELEVENTH Pace. EDWARD 8. STOKES TO BE TRIED ON MON- DAY! JOSIE MANSFIELD NOT CONNEC’ WITH THE CASE: HER WHEREABOU' THE SHOOTING OF FISK: THE PRISON- ER'S STORY—ELEVENTH PAGE, THE {MPEACHMENT OF JUSTICE CURTIS! THE CASE CLOSED FOR THE PRESENT: THE RESPONDENT'S ARGUMENT: THE ENTIAB ‘NATE TO HEAR THE FINAL ARGU- MENTS—FirTH PaGr. ON 'CHANGE! MONEY STRINGENT: A CLIQUE CONSPIRACY: STOCKS DECLINING: MA- NIPULATING GOLD—NixtH Pace. THE GREELEY PRESS FUND—WAR IN A RUS- SIAN FACTORY—Firtn Page. D ' ' Cirenit Judge, under the color of whose order | Tae Paoavevrmans Have Hap a Common | Couwom investigation of alleged bribery and corruption in the matter of wooden pavements, The evidenge wag contradictory. Of course it was, The committee are, in consequence, un- able to fix the charges upon any one, course they era. Of | this plan the aid of the federal troops is re- leans—Federal Bayonets Ageimst tho State Authorities. ; The political conflict in Now Orleans has assumed a painful interest within the ~pust twenty-four hours, and a crisis has been reached which is not free from danger to the public peace. Our full special despatches give a stirring picture of the scenes trans- piring in the Crescent City. The contest, it will be remembered, is between Covernor Warmoth on one side and the republican can- didate for the office’ of Chief Executive in tho recent election, Senator Kellogg, on the other side. Warmoth claims the election of McEnery, the liberal Governor, and others, and with the Board of State Canvassers, as remodelled by himself, as he asserts, in accordance with law, has canvassed the returns of the election officers and issned his proclamation declaring tho result. Senator Kellogg has obtained an order from the United States Circuit Court, of the Fifth dis- trict, enjoining Governor Warmoth from can- vassing the votes and reinstating those officers of the Board of Canvassers displaced by the Governor. ‘There are, therefore, two Boards of Canvassers, the one holding under State authority, the other under the authority of the United States Court, which. claims jurisdiction under the laws for the enforcement of the fif- teenth amendment to the constitution. The complaint of Senator Kellogg is that a num- ber of voters sufficient to elect him and the republican Legislature, and who would have supported his party, were refused registration, and the law in question provides that, on proper affidavits of the fact of such refusal, the votes shall be canvassed as if actually cast. At half-past two o'clock yesterday morning a detachment of federal troops, comprising two companies of the First artillery, seized pos- session of the State Capitol. Part of the troops quartered in the Senate Chamber and part in the Chamber of the House of Representatives ; the officers entered and appropriated the ante- room of the Executive Chamber ; the doors were closed and guarded by federal bayonets. This coup d’ état, executed while all the city was at rest, was the result of an order of a United States Circuit Court of the dis- trict of Louisiana, issued in consequence of the official proclamation of Governor War- moth announcing the canvass of legisla- tive votes by his Board of Canvass- ers, and directed to the United States Marshal, ordering that officer to take posses- sion of the State House and prevent the as- sembling of the Warmoth Legislature. Tho order purports tobe granted to prevent the further obstruction of proceedings in the cause of Kellogg against Warmoth and others, now before the Court, to prevent the violation of the orders of the Court, and to avert the im- minent danger of a disturbance of the public peace. The United States Marshal immedi- ately called upon General Emory, command- ing the department, for a military force to carry the instructions of the Court into effect, and the result was the night capture of the State House and the temporary overthrow of the State government. For, disguise it as we will, cover it up in any phraseology we may please, the result is a revolution—a displace- ment of the State authorities by federal bayonets. In connection with this disquieting news the graphic letter of our New Orleans correspond- ent, published in to-day's Heranp, will be read with especial interest. From that com- munication we shall be better abla to judge of the circumstances which have led by natural steps to this crisis, of the character of the men who are thus rashly hazarding the peace of the city and of the outlook for the future. Our correspondent’s description of the political condition of New Orleans and of the State of Louisiana calls vividly to our miuds the worst shoulder hitters, criminals and “‘roughs’’ of all grades; jobs in every item of public work the work of the State Legislature waiting anxiously to be corrupted—not a feature of the picture but will be familiar to the mem- ories of our own citizens. When we inquire how this lamentable condition of affairs came about we receive the old familiar answer, “Through Congressional reconstruction and carpet-bag rule.'’ Warmoth was the prince of carpet-baggers; bold, unscrupulous, am- bitious and avaricious; reckless of the means by which he accomplished his end, and pre- | pared to lend himself to any intrigue through | which he could secure power. The radical politicians who were looking to the control of the State of Louisiana in its relation to the Federal government—to its Presidential vote | and its United States Senators and Represent- | atives—discovered a convenient instrument in public robbers; a this young and daring adventurer, and were not slow to avail themselves of his services. They elected him Governor of the State, | by what means we need not now inquire, and forced bim into power through military aid before his term had properly begun. Opposi- tion was made to his authority by the oppo- nents of the radical party, and a riot occurred in New Orleans, in which several colored per- sons were killed. This outbreak, which by many was asserted to be purposely provoked by the radical politicians, was made the occa- sion of bestowing unusual and arbitrary powers upon the Governor to be used in favor of the party with which he was then acting. But Warmoth is now on the other side, and the weapons with which the radicals armed him to be used in their favor are now turned against them. In an interview between our correspondent and Governor Warmoth last night the Gover- nor expressed his firm determination to resist the authority claimed by the United States the federal troops took possession of the State | House, the legislative chambers and the execu- | tive offices, and declared his determination not | to yield up the election returns, but to protect the rights of the people of the State, The plan of the Kellogg party is to install such a Legislature as they declare to have been elected and to pronounce Senator Kellogg duly | chosen Governor of the State. He would then recognize the Legislature as regular and would teceive the prize for which he is contending with Governor Warmoth—the United States Senatorship for the next term. To carry out quired, for without thom Seuator Kellogg has no power, tho police, the State Courts and nearly all the State authorities being in**ym- pathy with Governor Warmoth. If Governor Warmoth shoutd now be driven from power it will be by the same instrumentality originally used to install him in power. There seems to be a retributive justice in this as well as in the action of Warmoth towards those who be- stowed arbitrary powers upon him for their own purposes, But the prospect seems to bo that Governor Warmoth will not yield, and from the character of the man we are only too apprehensive that at any moment, by a coun- ter coup om his part, a collision between tho federal troops.and the State authorities may be precipitated. We have been for some days looking for a violent outbreak of this kind in Ver- saillos, for France ia the land of sud- den surprises and revolutionary move- ments. But although the Frenchmen have had far better cause for trouble than have the people of New Orleans, they have suc- ceeded in preserving. law and order and in carrying on their government peacefully and decently. It has been reserved for the mo- tropolis of the South to emulate Paris in her worst days and to bring discredit upon repub- lican government, The whole affair is a dis- graceful scramble between two ambitious politicians, so greedy for power ns to be reck- less what disgrace they inflict upon the coun- try, what misfortunes they bring upon the people, in their effort to secure success. Our special Washington despatches state that Presi- dent Grant takes this sensible view of the indecent conflict, and avows his determi- nation not to suffer the interference of the United States troops unless it becomes a matter of necessity to maintain the law and protect the people. The country will applaud tho President for this determination. The error that has been committed by the Kellogg party has been in placing federal bayonets round the State Capitol and seizing forcibly upon the State government. Governor Warmoth is known to be a reckless and unscrupulous man, and he would have found no sympathy on the part of the people of the United States in his bold attempt to usurp authority or to stretch the laws to his own purposes. But the example set by the men who have thus hastily invoked the violent interference of federal troops is full of danger and repugnant to the principles of free government. The actors in the drama evince their sense of the unpopular character of their course in their efforts to cover up the fact that it was the State House they seized—the halls of legisla- tion and the Executive Chamber they in- vaded with armed troops. Senator Kel- logg, in his interview with our special cor- respondent last night, was evidently anxious to avoid responsibility for the revolutionary coup. The best thing President Grant can do is to give positive orders to General Emory to stand neutral between the parties and to leave them to fight out the battle they have pro- voked among themselves. As the President says, it is a disgraceful scramble, and federal interference for one party or the other will only make the disgrace deeper. Whe Greeley Fund, In another column of the Herat we print a feeling editorial from the New York Tribune on the subject of the endowment fund for the orphan daughters of Mr. Greeley, which we ventured to propose some days since. It will be gratifying indeed for the public to learn that the assistance is not needed, at least in the form proposed; that while it will be difficult for some time to state,exactly the condition of the great journalist's affnirs, ‘‘there is, it is probable, enough to quiet all the generous ap- prehensions of the community;'’ and that in any case the sorrow-stricken girls are in the hands of those who will be able and happy to provide for their future comfort. The proposition of the Hzraup has already been generously responded to, as the letters aud amounts we publish to-day will indicate. ‘The subscription list already foots up over three thousand dollars. Since, then, the family and immediate friends of the deceased with heart- felt thanks decline the proffered kindness, the question remains, To what proper use can these sums, with the subscribers’ permission, be put? Fortunately, we are delicately helped to a conclusion by the article in the Tribune, which says:—‘There may be other methods of exhibiting the public liberality—methods by which the memory of Mr. Gree- ley may be perpetuated, and which would be grateful, not merely to his children, but to the whole broad cirele of his admirers." There is, we believe, a fond in existence for the purpose of erecting a statue to the deceased philosopher and jour- | nalist, which fund was set on foot many months ago, while Mr. Greeley was still in the enjoyment of life and health. ‘To this fund we propose, if the subscribers agree, to turn over the amounts already in hand. So far | as the sum for which the Herat has pledged itself we shall cheerfully do so, and in any other way further the design of perpetuating the memory of Horace Greeley. An Imponrant Decrsion.—The National | Bank of Tennessee advanced over thirty-four thousand dollars to the consignees of a lot of cotton, taking a draft against the shipment, | which was attached to the bills of lading and sent to the Bank of Commerce at Boston, the | destination of the cotton, for collection. The | latter bank gave up the bills of lading without collecting the draft, and before the thirty days had expired the consignees failed. A suit was brought by the Tennessee bank against the Boston bank, and it was contended that it was the duty of the collecting bank to keep the collateral, the bills of lading, until the draft had been paid. The United States Circuit so decided, and yesterday gave the plaintiffs s verdict for the whole amount. Eaarvy Canpages. —-Congress has commenced promptly the work of investigation, The special committee to investigate the Crédit Mobilier corruption charges so definitely made during the Presidential campaign has organ- ized and begins business next Tharsday. It has been charged distinctly that certain Con- | yressmen were bribed to vote for all measures | favoring the Union Pacific Railroad; Iut the | j | i general assertion is made that the members generally were either directly or indirectly rec- ompensed for their support of the scheme. | ‘The committee, singularly enough, has been | made up from the triends of the Union Pacific, ‘The report will, of course, whitewash every- body, as all such reports do, and will find that Congress ism vory & mast, incorvuptible body. The Critical Situation of the French Government—The Only Way of Safety an Appeal to the French People. Tho critical situation of the existing French government grows more alarming to France and to Europe from day to day. This irregu- lar, provisional, temporary and unsatisfactory government, representing a condition of things which has passed away and exercising authorities with which it was not invested, in fact, only continues to be tolerated in view of its chief duty still unfulfilleda—the duty of pro- viding the ways snd means for the re-estab- lishment, as the people may desire, of the Re- public, the Empire or the Kingdom in a regu- lar form. Bat the Assembly is so constituted and the President is so situated that they can agree upon nothing, while President and Assembly alike seem to dread the conse- quences of the first step towards an appeal to the people, Hence the situation at Versailles unsettles business of all kinds throughout France, because no man. can tell whether the lifting of the curtain by the Committee of Thirty will be followed by a voluntary disso- lution, a revolutionary uprising or a military coup a Hat, A special Heraty despatch informs us that the composition of the Committes of Thirty (nineteen from the Right and cleven from the Left) insures'a report in favor of the absolute responsibility of the Ministry to the vote of the majority, the exclusion of the President from the Chamber, the reduction of the Presi- dential veto to a mere fiction by stringent limitations, a resolute opposition to the partial renewal of the Assembly, and opposition to the organization of a second Chamber ; that this line of action signifies a decisive defeat of President Thiers, and that it is considered probable that the government (Thiers) will adopt one of three courses to meet the emer- gency :—Virst, a reorgauization of the Cabinet; second, an appeal for the dissolution of the Assembly ; or third, the acceptance of a Cabinet exclusively from the Right. On the other hand, it is stated that President ‘Thiers is expected to resign, and that, meantime, the government will, it is believed, make a statement to the Assembly of the course it intends to pursue. But the French republican journals strike the drifting ship between wind and water in the declaration that this Assembly does not repre- sent the will of France, and that its immediate dissolution is demanded. This is true, and, being true, can we wonder that France is un- settled and uneasy? The Committee of Thirty havs met, and having selevted their officers and agreed toa plan of action adjourned to Monday next. ‘Their ultimate report will un- doubtedly agree with what is foreshadowed in our special despatch. President Thiers at latest reports expresses his hopefulness of the situation. The action of the Committee cer- tainly defers any change or otherwise for some days. This provisional French Assembly is now but the Long Parliament of England over again, and they deal with such incumbrances quite as offcotively in France as in England when the’ public patience is exhausted. ‘The moral presstire from which this Assembly was elected came from the disasters of the Empire and the failures of Gambetta. Between these two extremes of imperialism and radical republicanism stood the Bourbons and their monarchy and a sort of monarchical republic, and hence the prevailing royalist and conserva- tive elements in this Assembly. But it was chosen to make peace with the Germans and then to provide for its own dissolution on the transfer of the government to a permanent organization. The first duty was simple and inevitable, for M. Thiers and his Assembly had no alternative but to accept the condi- tions of Prince Bismarck, who had France as complettly under his foot with the German investment of Paris as was Prussia under the foot of the first Napoleon with his occupa- tions of Berlin. But the more difficult work of providing for the retirement of Thiers and his provisional Assembly, in providing for the creation of a regular form of government for France, has been delayed until the call for the change has become so urgent that further delay is impossible, while the difficulties of a change have become really appalling. Otherwise he would at once submit to the Assembly the convincing argument that its troubles will continue to increase while it continues in the exercise of powers which it never possessed, and would appeal to it to retire, on the ground that the only way of safety to France lies through the dissolu- tion of this Assembly, after providing for the election of a new representative body fresh from the people. ‘To this complexion it must come at last;’’ for, compromise, coup d étal, or revolutionary convulsion, there cn be no settlement in France short of an appeal to the people. Tur Mirvuiw Rattroap Disaster. —The futal railroad disaster on the Pennsylvania Central road, near Mifflin, appears to have been simply au unqualified murder. The train that was run into, although an express, was half an hour behind time. The train which ran into it was half an hour ahead of time. Thus the two trains, which onght to have been one hour apart, by a criminal careless- | ness or recklessness in each, were brought together and smashed up, and the unfortunate passengers were smashed up with them. Mr. W. W. Dantz, who was killed, was a door- keeper of the House of Representatives. His wite and child, it will be remembered, were also among the slaughtered. The men who were executed in Brooklyn and Washington yesterday were not more cruel than the persons | in charge of these two trains. Indeed, the former took single lives; the crrelessness of the latter cost several, and stood a chance of taking many more. Yet, probably, this rail- road butchery will, as usual, be suffered to pass quickly out of memory, and the guilty parties will escape unpunished. ‘Tax Aponirion or Assessors AND ASSISTANT Assussors of Internal Revenue as provided for in the bill introduced by the Chairman of the | Committee of Ways and Means and passed by the House yesterday will please everybody but the — office-holders them- The reduction of the internal revenue taxes will make this not only possible, but peessitous, The revenue collection will be attended to by the collectors and deputy col- lectors, and it is to be hoped that betore long # number of even these pet specimens may be spared to earu their living slong with the lese fortuuste wasensorsy | come the lord of a beautifal Hanging for Murder. The legal strangulation of Hengy Rodgers in Brooklyn and Barney Wood in Washing- ton yesterday for a pair of brutal homi- cides will not be unwelcome news to tho law-abiding community. If there is any virtue in the death punishment. while on the statute books it should not become a legal fiction. ‘The details Of these affairs are seldom inviting. ‘Ihe Brooklyn murderer fainting at sight of the gallows is not much more shocking than the Washington homicide meeting his doom quietly, for the life of a human being was to be taken im each as we take the life of a dog. Iu the opposite scale to this we must, how- ever, look upon the “death agonies of their victims, and think that, so far, ‘a life for a life’ is the only restraizit, besides religion, yet discovered upon the tendency of men to murder, where human life stands in the way of their ends. We have murderers nearer home than Brooklyn who are legally convicted, but who have settled down into jail life with cheerful hopes of ultimate release, but not by a felon’s death, We have men in prison on whose hands is the blood of fellow beings, but. who rejoice in the thought that there is no lnw to hang rich men. The hanging of a con- wicted murderer, poor or rich, is simple justice, and no invidious distinctions should be made. The written law does not try the purse, but the crime; yet it is fast becoming an axiom much believed in that it is harder in New York to pass a rich man’s neck through a hangman’s noose than fora camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Will this reproach stand always ? Tae Missourt Horrog—A Srrucaue FoR Lire.—Another survivor of the Missouri has been found, and his story is full of terrible interest. This man, Richard Smith, in com- pany with another, named Alfred Steward, reached the steamer’s capsized boat, and clinging to her, as she rode bottom up, was driven about for three days at the mercy of the waves. On the fourth day they managed to right the boat, and, getting in, made a sail of the life preservers, and on the seventh day landed at the most westetly key of Abaco. Steward’s strength failed him and he died soon after reaching land, leaving Smith alone. On the ninth day a welcome rain supplied the survivor with water and renewed his strength, He found some prickly pears and soft shell crabs, on which he managed to live until the seventeenth day, when he was seen by a pass- ing boat, taken off and carried to Nassau. His story is marvellous, for it is almost impossible to conceive how life could have been preserved through so many trials. Smith will be re- garded as an abridged Robinson Crusoe. Tae Acme or InrruDENcE AND YILLANY was reached by a Virginia ex-convict yesterday. As set forth in our special despatch published elsewhere a Northern gentleman was waiting ata railroad depot for the train that was to convey him homeward, and while he was standing on the platform a well known Peni- tentiary patron came up to him, enlisted him in conversation, and detained him by the de- tails of a well-planned story until after the | train had started. The unsuspecting North- erner was next decoyed to Rockett’s, a short distance from the station. Without an in- stant’s warning the thief stunned him by a blow from a slung-shot, stole all the money he had in his pockets, went to the station and secured the stranger's baggage, and quietly departed, leaving his victim for dead. Tae Wreck or Tae Sreamsuie Gvuate- MaLa.—The circumstances which preceded, attended and followed from the fatal wreck of the steamship Guatemala are specially re- ported in our columns to-day by letter from Panama. They will be all strictly investi- gated officially here in New York. The pub- lic will understand some of the many very serious points which will be presented to the Court after a perusal of the Heraxp narrative of disaster. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Frank P. Biair is convalescent. Francis Kernan is attending the Supreme Court in Washington. Ex-Lieutenant William Bross, of Chicago, is at the St, Nicholas Hotel. A statue of Chief Justice Taney is shortly to be dedicated at Annapolis, Md. General J. G. Foster, of the United States Army, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General R. B. Ayres, of the United States Army, is in quarters at the Astor House. General Dyer, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, is again very ill with Bright's disease. Colonel F. Palfrey, of the United States Army, is installed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Captain James Kennedy, of the steamship City of Montreal, is at the New York Hotel. Mr. Paul B. Du Chaillu, the African traveller, will sail for Europe on the steamship Atlantic to-day. United States Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, yesterday came on from Washington. He ts at the Astor House. General Manager J. N. McCullough, of the Pitts- burg and Fort Wayne Railroad, is registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. George Carter has resigned the editorship of Appleton’s Journal. His successor is Mr. Bunce, formerly an associate. Thuriow Weed has given up the fragrant “weed” in'the seventy-fifth year of his age and the filtieth year of his ‘‘smoking.”” General James F, Farnsworth, member of Con- gress (rom Illinois, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel from Washington. Judge Hunt's appointment to succeed the vene- rable Justice Nelson ts very favorably commented on by the lawyers practising in the Supreme Court. Robert Date Owen, the lecturer and writer, has perfected ali arrangements by which he will be- Brooklyn young lady. Mr. Henry M. Stanley has accepted an invitation from the newspaper correspondents at Washing- ton to be their guest at a banquet to be given at an early date, Rev. Mr. Watson, whose death sentence for the murder of his wife was lately commuted to im- prisonment for life, is stated by the British Medical Journal to show no signs of insanity, On this stde of the ocean we never look for insanity alter con- viction. W. H. Appicton, of this city, has forwarded to the Mayor of Chicago a check for $4,500, the amount realized from the sale of paintings cong tributed by the Dusseldorf artists in aid of the Germans of Chicago who were burned out by the grew fire. The Senatus Academicus of Edinburgh Univer- sity has received from the brother and sister of the late Sir John Watson Gordon a communication proposing arrangements for assigning to the Uni- versity £11,000 for the foundation and adequate endowment of a Chair of Fine Art, in memory of their distinguished brother, and to ve called “The Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Art.” ‘Yhe contractor for boots for the Vrench army during the iate war will surrender at Lille, whea the cause will be tried, The defeudaut. Mr. Care Per,toan fngttoman, and it ts anderstood that paw By turers. are sayotved he inquiry, has given tustruc- tions for the consulaf ageuts to watch the Proceedings. Sheddy ta not » purely American in stitution after all. Among the fair debutantes in Washington sootets the coming Winter will be Miss Nettie Grant, Misa Madge Dent, daughter of General Dent; Miss Fish, daughter of Secretary Fish; Miss Sophie Radiord, daughter of Admiral Radford; Misa Kilbourne, who has just returned with her mother from Europe, alter two years’ absence; and Miss Bartley, dangn ter of Judge Bartley and niece of General Sherman, 5 —s 0 Phitharmonte Rehearsal. Tie Academy of Music was pretty well flle@ yesterday afternoon on the occasion of the secon@ rehearsal for the second concert of this time honored society. Mr. Carl Bergmann Came to his post promptly at halt-past two o'clock, and the rehearsal opened witha symphony, No. 4in @ minor, by Joachim Raff. A more commonplace, um interesting affair has never been presented by the soctety to their subscribers. The opening alegro is founded on a theme of Kiicken, and is clumsily worked out; the succeed- ing a@ndante is ‘the only tolerable © part of the symphony, the scherzo "th of the hornpipe order and the finale flashy and thtendbare oideas, One would hardly expect this from the composer of one very popular and very ingeniously con- structed symphony, but it 18 not surpri to those acquainted with the musical career of: a Were it not for Liszt he would ever have ‘been known outside his own narrow circle. he is clever in a certain sense no one will but that he is possessed of any large share of. inat masical no one will have the h wo ideas maintain. He deals largely in machine stealing and culling from everybody, and excitiag xi rom the tnrenulty with dng admiration only he arranges spoil and jhe intimate knowledge he possesses of the rare mechan- ism the orchestra. After Ratf came Berlioz, in an extract from ‘Romeo and Jullet,’” a (Rai) aden which is phic te one of the most characteristic of his individual style of orchestral writing. Berlioz is the most succesalul @: en’ Of that school of eda ade mau et fas so vainly attempted to study, 0) of the resources of an ofchestra seems ‘almost te limitable, but the poverty of musical ideas io hia works mars the admirable handling of the tustru- ments. After the two carpenter 3 came that lovely tone poem, like a transformation scene, ‘“vhe Consecration of the House” overture by Beethoven. it was quite a relief aiter the othera. The last rehearsal takes place on Friday, when Mite. Draadil, an eminent contralto, and Herr Wat- ter, @ violinist, will appear. ‘ Italian Opera—Close _2f the Regulay Beason- The first season of Italian opera, in which Madame Lucea and Miss Kellogg were the principal fea- tures, closed last evening before a very large andience. The bill was of a miscellaneous pattern, consisting of the second act of ‘Fra Diavelo,” the second act of “Linda,” the third act of “Crispino’’ and the last scene ' (under the Mancanilla tree) of “L'Africaine.” We have reviewed at length before the artistic efforts of Madame Lucca, in the above named operas of Mey- erbeer and Auber, and of Miss Kellogg in the w of the Ricci brothers and Donizetti, and ooly say here that both prime donne were in exceiteat voice and spine and that the audience showed » corresponding Gegree of appreciation, CAlling-them out at the fall of the curtain, There will be a mat- iuee performance to-day, and the company appear iu Brooklya in the evening. Musical and Theatrical Notes, Madame Bianca Blume-Sauter, a member of Tam berlik’s company, now singing in Havana, who appeared but twice during the season, once in “Lucrezia Borgia” and once in “La Favorita,” was compelled, on account of the climate and ita:elfeck upon her voice, to cancel her engagement, and she is expected in this city in a day or two. Reports from Havana represent the baritones 08 Tamberiik’s company as lesa successiul with the Havanese than was Sparapani last season. Madame Mallinger is coming bere next aeasom with Wachtel, Dan Rice, John O’Brien and Dr. Spalding have tnited in the show business, and theit “monster aggregation” starts in the Sj ; The new com- pany is to carry with it an “itinerant hotel and peripatetic stable.” Mra. Abby Sage Richardson is reading in Penn sylvania, and she is soon to appear in this city and in the East. Mr. Buckstone has sued the managers of the Glasgow Royal Theatre for violation of his copy, right in the production of the comedy of “Paul pry.” MRS. STOWE’S READINGS. The finest audience of the present course assem: bled at Association Hall last evening to hear the readings from her own works by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. It filled the hall completely ana represented the best culture and refimemeat of the city. Mrs. Stowe is not 80 well known to our own “city folk’ as to be beyond the necessity of a description, as she has made her home ever since she became famous in the breesy hilis of New England and the tropical everglades of Florida, She ts an old lady with curly gray hair, but a remarkab! bright, merry face. She has the face of her brother, a Ward Beecher, and @ merry twinkle in r eye that continual! reminds her lence of the happy glances occasional with ¢ merry- minded preacher. She wore a gray silk dress on this occasion, with black lace trimmings and a train, while her curly hair was adorned with a dia- dem. She used eye-glasses, and occasionaliy dropped them by the chair to enjoy without ea- dangering their pion re the hearty laugh with which she had intected her audience, Mrs. Stowe began her readings with a Yankee story, called the “Minister's Housekeeper,” aa told by “Sam Lawson” to the boysin the fietd picKiee bueckleberries. It was entir in the broad Yankee dialect as really heard in New La land; and, in interpreting Sam, Mrs. Stowe imi- tated the dialect so admirably, and thrust ga her such @ guc- cession of good things, that the | house was kept in hearty laughter throughout the entire story. Sam’s epigrammatic definition of Huldi “one of these facultized women,” his assertion that “a nice, handsome girl in the singer's pew o' Sun- days isa yee means 0’ grace,” and the ex- pression of his opinion in speaking of the minister's courting “that there’s always folks with their eyes open on Providences, lookin’ out who's to ve the next one,’’ tee by down the house, while the story of “The Tom Turkey’? proved very conclusively that Mrs, Stowe is, as Sam describes Parson Mor- rill to be, ‘ master hand at gettin’ oif a story.’? Selections were also read from “Uncle Tom's bin,” but Mrs. Stowe’s Southern diales so genuine as ber Yankee, and although tne ler enjoyed her account of “how Topsey growed,” the reading was not go faithful atic repre- sentation as the Yankee scenes. ‘he readings concluded with a story cailed “Laughing ia Meet- in’,"” which the reader vouched for as to her by the very soberest of New solemnest sort of ministers, and the audicuce de- paried, having enjoyed a thoroughly picasaat entertainment. SALE OF THE DERBY-EVBARD OOLLEOTION, ‘The sale at Clinton Hall last evening was quite well attended. Though the buyera were in large numbers there was yet a great many “lookers-on in Venice,” who had been drawn by tie announce- ment of many fine paintings being comprised in the collection. The bidding, though not exceed- ingly lively, resulted in the realization of fair prices. Tlie ust inequalities of j at in the choice of paintings was not so marked as on former occasions. Neither good paintings were glari —_ ‘aged, nor less meritorious arercrattoa. tad ie following tle and Figure,” R. niet 3; rhe Dis- pute,” KE. Cartan (Paris), $945;' “Tho Wine Tast- ers,” Hasenclever (Dusseldorf), §460; ‘1 - scape,” Cheries F. $825; Brientz, in Switzerland," ‘ws $ “yhe Marriage of the Adriatic,” Ziem, F. aris) $1,275; “The Combat,” Bug. V khoven, foazs? “On the Nile,’ FE. Fromentin, $230 “Rendezvous on the Beach,” R. Busnier, $2 “Forbidden Fruit,’ Gustave de Jonghe, “Happiness and, Charity,” Carl Muller, “Kgyptian Girl,’ Emile Vernet Lecomte, $5605 “The Amateurs,” V. Chavot, $45; “The Itattan Exites,” 'F. Portail, $025; “Sad News.”* Altred Evans, $2,100; “fhe Toilet,” Gustave de Jonghe, $1, ‘Grandiather’s Birthday,” Gustave Jandt, $870; “The Fruit Setiers by Candte-tight,’”* Vauschudel, P., $1,860; “Presents for Grandfather,’® H. Satentin, ; “Winter Near Strasburg,” Klombeck and Fugene Verbveckhov “The Convalescent,” G. Dansaret, $ ‘the Con- cert,’ Joseph Munsch, $900; “The bet of the Countess,” Florent Willems, $6,400; * and Landscap ugene Verboeckh: $1,860 ‘SiN Lite and Figures, Devster and Gupii, $he7; “The Dead Hunt, * Provessor Joun G. Meyer Von Bremen, $1.6 THIS RVENING'S SAL ’ wilt close thé serics, and at it te most noted ptc- tures of Lhe Collection Will be seta, a, are “The Cay: "by J. ZK, Meissonier; Leare M. Adolphe Hougucrrian aad 4a "L, Bakatowicg