The New York Herald Newspaper, April 2, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD eGpacinipasines BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROFEISTON. All business or news lettess and telegraphic deapatches must be addressed New Yous Herawp. No. 03 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVER. UNION opens THEATRE Dyee square, between Broadway and Fourth av —Covsts Jace. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. vanaree. Twenty third street, corner Sixth per O' Down. GRAND OFRRA nlovar, Twenty-third st and Bighth av —Uncun Bam. GBRMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Third ev ogee THRATRE, Rewery—vsee Haanawar— Lorene in rus Connen THrATRE coOMmIOUR. “Ko ote Broadway.—Daams, Bumsseque arp Orso Matinee ait 25, NEW FIFTH A NUE THEATRE, 728 and 7% Broad way. —New Year's Eve WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirveth &— Mave Cxe. Afternoon and Bventng. ATHENEUM, No fp Teetainment, Matinee at 2%, NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway, between Prince and ‘Wouston streets —Tne Scours oF tue Pnaiate Maunee. Gg PS tis. SHRAge, Booey Broadway, borwsee, Bonsen ng MRE. F. B. conway's. BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Ovuns. BROOKLYN aoapeny OF MUSIC, Montague a. Guanv Concent, Saleen BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st. 6th av.—Nagro Minstretsy, TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. Mi Bowery — Vanirvy Enrentainsent. STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Matinee at 2~ Granp Concerns. BARNUM'S GREAT SHOW. —Now | Night. Rink, 34 avenue and 63d siree! LENT'S CIRCUS, MUSEUM AND MENAGERIE, Fourth - AY. and 26th st, Alternoon and Kvening. corner a, Afternoon and NEW ange ty uma OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — TRIPLE SHEET New York, i sducanonatcteed April @, 1973, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “WRECK OF THE WHITE STAR STEAMER AT- LANTIC! BETWEEN SEVEN AND BIGHT HUNDRED LIVES LOST!" — EDITORIAL LEADER—Sixtn Pace. STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC, WITH A THOU- SAND SOULS ABOARD, GOES DOWN AT SEA! OVER SEVEN HUNDRED PASSEN- GERS PERISH! THE VESSEL, THROUGH A FATAL ERROR, STEERED UPON MEAGHER’S ROOK, TWENTY-TWO "MILES FROM HALIFAX! HORRIFYING DETAILS OF THE SCENES OF TERROR!—Seventa Page. CHARTER PROGRESS! THE APPOINTING POWER GIVEN TO MAYOR HAVEMEYER! FOUR OF THE PRESENT MUNICIPAL OFFICERS RE- TAINED! GREEN SHELVED—Tentu Page. REORGANIZING THE BULL’S HEAD BANK— WHAT THE MAYOR HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE CHARTER AND GREEN'S OVER- THROW—SEVENTH Pace. SPANISH REINFORCEMENTS FOR CUBA' THE PEOPLE ATTACK THE CHURCHES IN BAR- CELONA! A CARLIST DEFEAT—SEvENTH THE PAGE. THE GOODRICH INQUEST! IMPORTANT POINTS DIVULGED iN THE EVIDENCE! AMY STONE'S SAD STORY! ROSCOE ON THE * STAND! OTHER LINKS TO BE SUPPLIED IN THE CHAIN OF EVIDENCE—Tuinp Pace. SISHING IN THE SEA OF ERIE CORRUPTION! LARGE AND SMALL FRY CAUGHT! THE “BOSS” FISH SWALLOWS A MILLION “JONAHS” AND IS BROUGAT TO THE SURFACE BY THE COMMITTEE OF IN- QUIRY! “EXTRA LEGAL” AND “LEGISLA- TIVE” NIBBLES! THAT DIVIDEND—EicuTa Page. GREAT EXCITEMENT IN THE FRENCH ASSEN. BLY! THE PRESIDING OFFICER MAY KE SIGN—SEVENTH PAGE. THE RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE ALEXIS IN SHANG- HAE, CHINA—GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. OPENING FOR THE PROSECUTION IN THE NIXON TRIAL! TESTIMONY OF THOSE WHO SAW THE KILLING OF MR. PHYFER! THE STOKES JUDGMENT RECORD FILED AND A WRIT OF CERTIORARI ISSUED! | OTHER LITIGATIONS—Fourtn Pace. AN IMMENSE DAY AT THE REAL ESTATE EX- OHANGE! HEAVY SALES AND VERY HIGH RATES—FirTa PaGs. FINANCIAL EXCITEMENTS! THE GOLD, STOCK AND MONEY MARKETS IN A MOST CRITI- CAL CONDITION! THE FIRST TAKES A TUMBLE, THE SECOND HAS A GRAND | RALLY AND THE LAST DEVELOPS SEVERE STRINGENCY—Eicnra Pace. | ON 'CHANGE! ONE PER CENT PER DIEM FOR MONEY! GOLD AND GOVERNMENTS DE CLINE! AN EXCITING STRUGGLE IN THE | THE STOCK BOAKD! THE “BULLS” TRI- UMPHANT! TREASURY RUMORS—Firrn Paos. THE APRIL STATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT! A REDUCTION OF $1,000,000 | EiguTa Pace. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Owing to the unprecedented quantity of our advertisements advertisers seeking our columns are requested to send in their adver- tisements early in the day. This course will secure their proper classification and allow us to make timely arrangements for our news. Advertisements should be sent in before nine ®. M., either at this office, our only uptown bureau, 1,265 Broadway, or at our Brooklyn branch office, corner of Fulton and Boerum | streets. Let advertisers remember that the | earlier their advertisements are in the Henaxp | Office the better for themselves and for us. “OountiIna THE CuicKens,” &c.—The city of Nashville is a little exercised just now about whether Commodore Vanderbilt's offer of a half million shall inure to the benefit of the present Nashville University or be allowed to take a clear track on its own account, with puch conditions as may accompany it, and in regard to which it appears the ‘Trustees of ‘ the Central University of the Methodist Epis- Bopal Church South’ have a good deal to say. Nashville should first be sure of the prize be- fore she makes arrangements to dispose of it. | and ‘NKW YORK HERALD; WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. Wreck of the White Star Steamer Atlantic—Between Sevem and Eight Huadred Lives Lost. Another frightful disaster on the sea comes with its roll of horrors to us. The steamer Atlantic, of the White Star Line, is a total wreck on Meagher's Rock, off Prospect, Nova Scotia, with the appalling loas of more than seven hundred lives. But meager details of the wreck have reached us. She ran ashore at two o'clock on the morning of yesterday, and, out of over nine hundred and fifty passengers and the usual crew, but two hundred and fifty reached the steep rocks of the coast alive. Among the saved, it is stated, there is not one woman, not one child. All not brought ashore have, undoubtedly, perished, as the ship became a total loss. * To look alone at this in the naked numbers of the perished suggests such a widefelt, heartrending sorrow, that the mind recoils from its contemplation. Tho do- tails of a battle, with its mighty death- roll would not so touch the general soul as this disaster, with ita helpless women and children, stifling their cries in the visible arms of death, When we remember with what a freight of faith and hope the emigrant steps on board the ship; when tho love that is left behind and the love that so often lures on are thought of, we can be certain that in searoely any men and women can higher and more active emotions be centred than in the human cargo of an emigrant ship. When they awake in the dead of night with the great ship broak- ing her giant frame upon the rocks it is the extremity of human agony that rushes in on the heels of sloep, after a fow frantic moments to be followed by the pulseless sleep of death amid the tumbling and the raving of tho waters, Then the sorrow lifts from the broken ship and scatters over two continents, where it seeks out and wrings the hearts of those who were watching for the faces that will not come, and those whose prayers, love and wishes followed them from the home land across the sea. Such in the awful matter of human lives is the loss of the steamer At- lantic, @ name long to be sadly remem- bered. It i# little more than two months since the ship Northfleet was sunk off Dungeness, England, by collision, when four hundred and thirty human beings perished. There the cause of the fatality was plain, and the abandonment by the Spanish steamer that ran the Australian emigrant ship down has been condomned as murder bya higher authority than the law which failed to reach the offenders. With the facts, so far as learned, of this latest addition to the tragedies of the sea before us, we must proceed to judge what or how much criminal- ity attaches to those whose duty it was to pro- tect the lives and properties lost. The iron steamship Atlantic was a long, narrow vessel, whose lines resembled a pointed lead pencil. She was three thousand seven hundred tons register, four hundred and twenty feet long by forty feet beam. She was not two years old, having reached New similar number of York from her first trip on the 23d of June, 1871, after o run of ten days and a few hours. She possessed “all the modern improvements,’ steam steering gear, compound engines, &e.; but the most vaunted feature of all was the economy of fuel by the use of steam ata low pressure after it bad been used at high pressure. With this arrangement it was calculated that she could be run at full speed on fifty-five tons of coal per day. All that could make travelling easy sumptuous for saloon passengers was done. ‘Safety, speed and com- fort’ was the constant phrase of the owners, and the performances of the line in rapid its vessels suddenly into favor. Ten days in Summer time, we are aware, is not an extra- ordinary passage; but they made swifter trips, and the advertisement seemed nothing but a fair statement of fact. We are the more willing to admit this as the sequel goes to prove on what light chances lives and reputa- tion are staked. The ill-fated Atlantic started | from Liverpool on her last voyage on the 20th of last month. She put into Queenstown for | mails and passengers on the Ziet, oud then proceeded on her transatlantic way. The | weather was boisterous, but she did not en- | counter any severe storm, and, considering the time of the year, made remarkably good time After being at sea barely ten days it was | found that the supply of coal was almost ox- | hansted, and Captain Williams resolved to put into Halifax fora supply. This was ap parently as coolly and calmly dome as though the failure of fuel after being ten days at sea were a common occurrence. The rest of the story is bgiefly told. At midnight the ship was calculated to be some thirty-nine mile from Cape Sambro. At two o'clock, by mix | taking the Prospect light for Sambro light, she ran on Meagher’s Rock, struck | four times heavily, and) before scarce an effort could be made | three or to save the passengers she keeled over on ber beam ends and sank. Had there beey duper | water off the rock on which she struck it is doubtful that a single soul would be left to tell the tale. She sank so that, excepting her bow, the hull was under water. Most of those who perished had not left their berths below decks. On the immediate cause of the disaster we cannot yet pass judgment. The night was dark, but not thick, and it is curious how, in & vicinity well known ag one of the most dan- passages had mised | gerous and difficult on any sea, the Prospect light could so easily be mistaken for the other. The captain is saved, and, as he will have to anawer for this blunder before the proper Court, we shall not examine it any further. The main and unavoidable question for which owners and agents as well as ship's officers will have to answer is, How came it that after a bare ten days at sea the supply of coal was exhausted? There is no shirking this point, for itis the plain fact above all others, and independent of the last blunder in seaman- ship, that the loss of these seven or eight hundred lives is upon the-head of those re- sponsible for the shortness of thé coal. In England, just now, a member of Parlia- ment, Mr. Plimsoll, is agitating to obtain a law against the rapacity of shipowners in sending rotten ships and overloaded ships to sea, careless of the consequences in’ loss of life, so the inaurance is covered or the re- duced cost pays for the property risk. He has been crying out against the coal trade and coasting trade in particular; but scarcely could he have dreamed that from a pretentious company of transatlantic steam- ships ho should so soon obtain such a fearful example of thia inhuman rapacity. Over one thousand souls on board and barely eleven days’ coal in a season when storms are to be expected and a three weeks’ voyage is among the possibilities! This speaks more than tho weightiest invective that Junius ever penned. We presume that the provisions were calculated with a similar meanness. Everything was on the scale of the coal. Coal was dear in England; but if it was worth ita weight in gold a supply for at least sixteen days should have been on board. Was it the few shillings advance on the price of English ooal that sent this steamer to sea so meanly coaled? It will be recalled here that economy of fuel was one of the first boasts of the owners uf the steamer. The terrible irony of that boast will now ring casiost in the ears of thousands of bereaved families. With the economy of fuel came the economy of space for bunkers; and another question here intrudes that must be answerod—Was the space that should have been used for fuel turned into space for more cargo and more passengers? It ia the more likely of the two proposi- tions. The saving on the coal would have been little; but if it could be saved and atthe same time the space represent fifty or sixty extra passengers the double greed would be satisfied. It is greed, greed, greed. A contemptible avarice has murdered over seven hundred human beings, for we scout as pre- posterous the idea that the Captain sailed in ignorance of the amount of coal he had on board. Look where we will in this black story, the fact that murder has been done stares us in the face. The few dollars that might have been gained will weigh but lightly beside the shrieks of the passenger: who fell, benumbed, from the rigging into the watery gulf below. It is a sickening, horri- ble, revolting story of criminal rapacity— negligence is out of the question. The final question comes :—How many more of these ships cross the Atlantic week after week simi- larly freighted and similarly coaled ? Up to the present writing no record of the saved or lost of the passengers has reached us. ‘There is, we fear, little reason to hope that the loss will be lighter than at first stated. We learn that among the passengers were Mr. William HH. Merritt and wife, Miss Mary Merritt and Miss Annie Serymser, of Fifth avenue, New York. Among the poor as well as the rich the fear- ful tidings will spread their desolation, In one family of sorrow all classes will be mingled and levelled. No greater calamity on the ocean for many years has appealed to men’s sympathies as this will appeal. May the pitying eye of the Almighty look down on the | bereaved and stricken! We appeal to the justice of man for punishment on those guilty of the erlene that led to the catastrophe. | Rallroads ‘Pubic Highways According | t@ the Decision of the United States Supreme Court. ‘The Supreme Court of the United States has jast delivered an important decision regarding the statue of milroads as public highways. The ease before the Court was an appeal from | the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin | and involved the question whether a State had | the right or mot to levy taxes for the purpose of aiding iw the construction of railroads. The opinion of the Court was that railroads are peblic highways, po matter whether they are bailt end operated by the State or by private corporations. Being #uch, then, the decision te that it is just as lawful to levy taxes for rail- roads a» for any other public work, and that the collection of taxes for the purpose cannot be resisted by authority of the constitution of the United Staten, which provides that private property shall not be® taken for public use without just compensa- | tem, The importamee of this decision teaches much farther than the railroads and State of Winconsin. As public highways the railroads are subject not only to State super- vision, but to the supervision and control, as far as public interests are involved, of the fed- eral government. It the application of this principle that we have contended for when | urging Congress to legislate for the protection of the puble as against railroad monopoly | and exactions, Regarding the milroads as public highways, it ix within the power of Congres: to control them, and this power, if it needed any additional support, can be found im the constitution, which suthorizes the federal government to regulate commerce among the several States, the railroad lines being the arteries of commerce between the States, The great issue of governmental control over the railroads is looming up, and this decision of the Supreme Court will tend to infuse into it freah vitality. Tne End of the Charter Muddle in the Senate—A Virtual Triumph for Mayor Havemey Tho protracted strugglo in the Senate over the appointing power in the New York city charter, was brought to a close yesterday by the adoption of a substitute for the twenty- seventh section as reported by the -Committee on Cities, by which the Commissioner of Public Works, the President of the Depart- ment of Parks, the President of the Police Board and the Corporation Counsel are con- tinued in office, and the appointment of all other heads of departments is given to the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the Board of Aldermen. An effort was made to include the present Comptroller among the persons to be -retained, but it was unsuccessful. The Senate decided that Mr. Green should go, and public sentiment will applaud the decision. With the exceptions named above the term of office of all the present heads of depart- ments is brought toa close. There is a gen- eral belief that the Assembly will concur in this proposition, and that in this shape the charter will go to the Governor for his ap- proval. As it is known that the plan of ap- pointment finally adopted is the one most acceptable to the Governor, and as the reten- tion of the four republican officers is a privi- lege which the republican Legislature has a perfect right to exercise, all apprehension of an Executive veto is removed. The result is virtually a triumph for Mayor Havemeyer. He has been contending all along for the dignity and self-respect of his office, which he regarded as assailed by the proposition to strip him of power, and he has carried his point. He has frequently declared that he does not value the municipal patron- age for itself, but because he belioves that the Mayor ought to be in fact the head of the exe- cutive branch of the government. He will therefore care nothing about the retention of the republican officials who are continued in office, since in all vacancies the principle he has advocated is recognized and the appoint- ments are to be made in the manner he de- sires, As it is, he will be called upon to fill alarge number of important positions, and will no doubt be glad to be relieved of thus much responsibility. It will devolve upon him to select a Comptroller in place of Mr. Green, besides Fire Commissioners, Police Commissioners, Park Oommissioners, Dock Commissioners, Commissioners of Charities and Correction and other officers, and as the positions will all be vacant soon after the char- ter becomes a law the duty must be promptly performed. The appointments will have to pass the ordeal of confirmation by the Board of Aldermen ; hence it will be readily seen that the Mayor will have labor enough on his hands without craving for more. He will not be likely to object to the Senate proposi- tion on mere personal grounds or to question the right of the republicans to keep four of their own party in place, if they are honest and competent officers. If he should have real cause of complaint against the persons retained the charter gives him the power to compass their removal. We believe, therefore, that the charter, in the shape it has now taken, will be acceptable to the Mayor; for while he would probably have preferred to exercise the absolute power of appointment and removal, independent of the Board of Aldermen, he cannot fail to regard the plan finally adopted by the Senate as far better than any of the propositions previously made. We have advocated the concentration of responsibility in the Mayor by giving him the sole power of appointment and removal instead of requiring the confirmation of the Board of Aldermen, because there are many points of difference between the city and State governments, and partly because, as the Alder-» men have already evinced a disposition to control the appointments in their own in- terests, it is not unlikely that they may strive to use the confirming power as a means of forcing the nomination of some of their own friends. But Mayor Havemeyer will be found a difficult person to coerce into any nomina- tion that he does not regard as fit to be made, and probably we may safely trust to public opinion to compel the confirmation of such appointments as meet popular ap- proval. At all events, the danger of.a block between the Mayor and the Aldermen is not so great, now that the former concedes the necessity of having capacity as well as reputed honesty at the head of the Finance Depart- ment and is prepared to name an acceptable successor to Comptroller Green. We may therefore regard the result arrived at in the Senate after so much wrangling as in the main a satisfactory settlement of the question of appointment. It might have been better had the sole appointing power been at once bestowed upon the Mayor, but the Senate proposition to make the appointments subject to the confirmation of the Board of Aldermen is at least preferable to the plan submitted by the Senate Committee on Cities, The ques- tion is, Will the amendments of the Senate be concurred in by the Assembly without further controversy and delay? ‘Thus far ‘the squab- bling of the political factions has obstructed the course of legislation, and already there are rumors of an intention to promote a disagree- ment between the two houses in the hope of throwing the bill into the hands of a confer- ence committee and forcing some objection- able proposition on the Legislature at the last moment through the committee’s report. The Assembly can defeat this scheme, if it really has existence, by promptly concurring in the Senate amendments and passing the charter in its present shape. If they do not avail themselves of the opportunity the people will insist that the disgraceful proceedings shall cease, and that the power of appointment shall be given absolutely to the Mayor. Tue Sraerts or THe Fourru and SrxtH Waanps are ina frightful condition just now. ‘There is, we are sorry to say, no novelty in this, but as the weather becomes warmer the inconvenience of filthy streets is supple- mented by their danger to the public health. The streets centring in the Five Points re- semble lakes. Piled in front of each path- way is o long sierra of snow, mud, vegetable rubbish and animal matter in an advanced stage of decomposition. As the snow melts the soluble rottenness is carried down to the central lakes, and under the warmth of the day the stench is intolerable. If the unfor- tunate denizens Mulberry street no rights Pox or the Board of Health. is riot to re- spect other portions of the community ought to have. In other portions of the city back of the main lines of travel the same neglected and pestilential condition prevails. The Board of Health has no excuse for permitting this dangerous state of things to continue. The Erie Investigation—Curious De- velopments and Practical Sugges- tons. Some curious facts were developed before the Eric Investigating Committee yesterday. Mr. Archer, the ex-Vice President of the road, testified that the rolling stock and track are in @ very bad condition and that the present man- agement is doing little or nothing to improve it. In the fire last year twenty-seven engines were damaged more or less, and but few of these have been repaired. He repeated the state- ment that the dividend recently declared had not been earned; that it had been taken out of the new loan negotiated by Bischoffsheim & Goldschmid and had increased by so much the indebtedness of the company; that it had been paid at the instance of the English firm and was a astock-jobbing operation; and that, in his opinion, the money ought to have been expended in putting the track and rolling stock in proper order rather than in paying an unearned dividend. Mr. Watson, the President of the present Board, occa- sioned a sensation by producing a book pur- porting to have been discovered in the Erio office, showing large disbursements to officers of the road, to lobbymen and, in some in- stances, to legislators, during the Fisk and Gould management, as far back as 1868. Some of the items were certainly of a sug- gestive character, and the only wonder is why so tell-tale an account should have been kept at all, and how, if kept, it could have been left behind by the parties interested in keep- ing its contents a secret, * But while this little account book is of singular interest, it should not be suffered to divert the attention of the committee or of the people from the really important business of the investigation. The Fisk and Gould man- agement is not now in existence. It was con- demned by the public voice long since, and has been removed from power. It does not now hold in its hands the control of the affairs of this abused and plundered corpora- tion ; it is not now running the road as a sort of stock-jobbing placer for foreign specula- nt oe ee that small- of have of tors; it is not accused of paying fraudu- lent dividends for the profit of Eng- lish stockbrokers and of suffering the track and the rolling stock, in which the American people are interested, to go to ruin to the inconvenience and danger of the travelling public. It ia not accused of bribing the Legislature of last year, one branch of which is still in official existence and subject to the laws of the country. This Fisk and Gould management was doubtless bad enough, so far as financial plunder and legislative cor- ruption are concerned, but it has paid the penalty of its offences and the legislators it purchased in 1868 cannot be reached. We would, therefore, suggest to the commit- tee that it should direct its attention to the present management of Erie ; to the discovery whether the money paid to install the ‘‘reform- ers’ has been taken out of the treasury of which they thus obtained possession, -either directly or indirectly ; whether the road is now run in the interest of foreign stockjobbers andof a connecting bank- rupt road; whether dividends are fraudulently declared at the demand of foreign speculators; whether the reform directors have bribed or helped to bribe legislators now in office. In order to aid the committee in this latter ob- ject we desire again to inform them that at a meeting of the Erie directors held on April 3, 1872, a resolution was adopted to pay seventy- five thousand dollars to “lawyers and others’ for services rendered at Albany in securing the repeal of the Classification act and in aiding to install the present direction. To what parties and on what accounts was this large sum of money paid? We would further suggest that the testimony of Mr. Diven should insure the investigation of the New York Cen- tral Railroad, and the immediate examination of Messrs. Vanderbilt and Dutcher. Let us have all the light we can obtain on the old transactions of the defunct management and of dead legislation ; but if investigation for the correction of existing evils and the pun- ishment of live offenders is to be had, let it be made thorough and not rendered a mere farce. Let Messrs. Vanderbilt and Dutcher take the stand. Tax Excrrement 1x Wau Srrerr greatly moderated yesterday, andthe gold premium became steadier in the vicinity of 117, although ‘rumor prevailed at the close that the Secre- tary of the Treasury intended issuing ten mil- lion new greenbacks to help the money market. If Judge Richardson intends any interference of this kind he ought to use his gold to buy bonds direct, instead of going through the double and complicated transaction of selling the gold for currency and buying bonds with the currency. A little while ago the astute rural legislators at Albany refased to abolish the usury laws, which are already abolished in twenty States of the Union; but to ridicule the wisdom of their course in stickling for these antique statutes money is lending daily in Wall street for the most extravagantly usurious rates. If the law is to be retained why does not the District Attorney enforce it? Reorzentne or THE Hupson.—Yesterday’s warmth, following the recent heavy rains, has so softened and broken up the thick ice in the Hudson as far north as Poughkeepsie that it no longer offers any impediment to naviga- | tion. Probably before the end of the week | boats will be able to pass up to Albany and the | regular business of the season will open, with its cheapening effect upon freight and passen- ger rates between New York and the North and West. PRESIDENT GRANT IN THE OITY. President Grant arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel at about half-past eleven o'clock. He had been detained two hours on his voyage by the bat- ness of the roads. Accompanying him were General Babcock, Miss Nellie and Mrs. Grant, On arriving the President recetved some intimate friends and sat down to supper. The entire party were so tired that all speedily retired to bed. The President occupies parlor No. 64 and salt of rooms attached. Itis not known how long he will re- main in the city. He was not visible last night on any kind of business, | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, John G. Saxe is stopping at the Astor House. Viee President Henry Wilson is in town at the Astor House. Amadeus has been made a Lieutenant General ta the Italian army. General Babcock, of Washington, has arrived at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Colonel C. H. MoNally, of the United States Army, is at the Sturtevant House, Governor Jewell, of Connecticut, yeaterday ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Major J. A. Webster, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Hoffman House. Lieutenant D, M. Scott,of the United States Navy, is at the Grand Central Hotel. Rear Admiral G. H. Scott, of the United States Navy, is staying at the Grand Central Hotel. United States Senator Henry Cooper, of Tennes- see, yesterday arrived at the New York Hotel. United States Senator William M. Stewart, of Nevada, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Marshal Bazaine is to be tried in an iniand town, ‘and Tours, Blois and Bourges have each asked te be the chosen one. Washington Webb, for twenty-three yeara agent of Adams Expreas Company tn New Haven, died on the 29th ult,, of typhoid pneumonia. There are no tidings of Professor Lay, who made ; ® balioon ascension at San Francisco on Monday. Fears are entertained for his safety. Congressmen-elect and members of the last Oon- gress can exercise the franking privilege until July 1, Look out for heavy mails in the interim. The Alla Californta is of opinion that if Judas had lived a thousand years he could not have learned how to get a grab of Crédit Mobitier stook. The widow of Gerard Hallock (late editor of the Journal of Commerce) died at the residence of BK. P. Belden (her son-in-law) at Sing Sing, yesterday morning. Dr. DUllinger, the Old Catholic leader in Ger- many, has lately celebrated his seventy-fourth birthday. He was congratulated in a letter frou the King of Bavaria. In those Congressional districts where the back- pay grab Congressmen are endorsed the question in future will not be, “Is he honest *—is he capable ?” but, ‘How long is hia arm ?” Judge Ohristiancy, the democratic liberal repub- lican candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan, thinks the Detroit Post (admia- istration), will once more be elected without op- Posttion. ‘The late George A. Clark, thread manufacturer ,of Paisley, who died in this country a few weeks since, left $100,000 to his native town to build a Town Hall, and an equal sum to Glasgow Uni- versity. The “Vanderbilt University,” according to-the Nashville Union, is to be the name of the Meth- dist university soon to be organized in Tenmesace upon the fund of $500,000 donated by Cammodore Vanderbilt, of this city. The Empress Eugénie since the deam of her haa- band has only once taken a walk aad twice gone out in a carriage. Except in these and frequent visits to the little chapel where the imperial re- mains repose, she does not leave the house. Sir John Lubbock believes that “La Belle Hélene,"” of Troy, is maligned by popular tradition. dia present Eastern journeying and the study of Homer have vivified his chivalrousness, and he is now trying to convert the Royal Society of Ante quaries to his beliet. CHARLES FEOHTER It is generally understood that Mr. casi Fechter, after building the magnificent theatre Fourteenth street, in which, it is said, he investe@ his entire fortune, was suddenly dispossessed by the agents of Mr, William Butler Duncan, the capi- talist who aided him in the enterprise. The dim- culty between Mr. Fechter and Mr. Duncan was one of long standing, but the causes o! the troubie have never been explained. There is a rumor that an ction for damages, based upon an alleged waste of the season through the slowness of Mr, Duncan’s workmen, and on the expulsion of Mr. Fechter’s company from the theatre, is contem- plated. If this should prove true the whole story will be revealed. The theatre was to have opened Nosteg, months ago with Mr. Fechter’s play of “Monte © Cristo,” and there was a general desire to see the distinguished actor in his great part in the melo- drama. The public are still to have an opportu- nity of seeing it, as is apparent from the following correspondence :— MR. DALY TO MR. FECHTER, New York, March 28, 1873, My Dear Mr. FecuTer—I am told that the difficulties which have prevented the opening of your new Pe bagel all winter have finally culminated, that you have withdrawn altogether from the concern. Believe me no one can Tie this more than I do, for I have a firm faith in the multiplicity of theatres, and believe that every additional first class enter- tainment which is added to the list of metropolitan amusements immediately ais ina bee the special blic to which each appeals, and becomes directly Beneficial toall. It is for this reason that I sin- cerely regret 1am not to have the opportunity of welcoming you asa brother manager. However, eae is in my power, and I hasten to propose it to The, public have been looking forward with eager- ness lor nearly twenty months togyour reappear- ance on the New York stage and TS splendid production of “Monte Cristo,” and certain that the present dramatic season would be consid- ered wholly incomplete if you should be forced to disappoint them in both. I therefore offer you the stage of the Grand Opera House for the balance of the season. 1am aware that the period I have to offer does net furnish you with the opportunity for the ex- tended ran for your magnificent have every reason to expect, but consider it in the spirit I have si let me have your decision as e: Very sincerely yours, AU No. of Tawril Gene, "Brea 1838, ALY—I really don’t know how to lay which you ‘A beg Me mil a rae posable Dear Mr. answer your kind proposal, or, rather, I answer by accepting it at once. You have taken a irightiul loaa or ik mind, that of breal faith with the ony HE Although | was unlawiully and in @ vile Zz 4 to it, I could a nore oe ae «| wr in my supporters. an rou, tapvotn un anew, and, thanks to ‘3 ‘nf ma Monte Cristo” will be presented Stason in spite all ugly tricks to vent its per formance, Name your terms, Le) them @avance, and shall ‘ever consider myself in your ht your brotherly assistance wilt debt for the 1 % Banige matter. You CUARLES FROHTHR, throw on the w' According to the understanding armved at in this correspondence, Mr. Fechter will appear at the Grand Opera House on the 28th inst.,in “Mente Cristo.” The drama will be mounted in the most Magnificent style, and cast with the full strength of the company. This unexpected appearance of the great actor at the very tail end of the season cannot fail to be a plearant surprise to the admir. ers of Mr. Fechter’s genius, It is said that Mr. Fechter is to receive the extraordinary sum o} $1,000 for each performance, making the snug little fortune of $28,000 for a short engagement of four weeks. FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A DIVORCE A Millionnaire Gets Rid of His Third Wife. Westport, Conn., April 1, 1873, The case of Mrs, Georgiana Alden vs, Stephen H. Alden, an application jor divorce and alimony, was called up in the Superior Court “eo Granger) at Bric rt yesterday afternoon. Mrs, Alden, who Br yeuthfal snd a ap) a in | with her counse New York, and B. Harrison, of New Haven. Mr. Ald not appear, but was represented by Mr. Beardsley, rt, Conn, The hearing oceupied about one half our. Mra. Alden, whose testimony was corrobe- rated her maid, Fanny Larkin, said that Mr. Aldem bad been guilty of adultery with parties aS Ly 9 Rim during the space of t ran that he fliicted personal injury 4 and (hreatened her life more than once. facts had known in social circles here, and Judge granted the petition for divorce and alimon, t} SUM Of $50,000 and Costs—about $60,000 in Mr. Alden is au exceedingly Wealthy man, hat jurchased, some years a, the magnifi jouse and grounds in West) known a8 “Compo,” and owned by the jate ir Wins low, of the firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co., ban New York. With his youthful wife he had o quite a sensation, spending money freely and live ing in luxury. A TERRIFIC STORM IN GEORGIA. AvGUSTA, April 1, 1873. A terrific wind and rain storm, lasting ever an hour, passed over this city this uprooting trees, tearing down fences saa dene consideravie damage generally,