The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letters and telegraphio despatches must be addressed New Yore Herawp. Letters and pockages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. 2 THE DAILY HERALD, published every day tn the ear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. —— SSS Volume XXXVIIT..........:.0ssceeeeesN@e 263 MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATEB.— Bicnaap Il, Matinee at 2—Himisr. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broatway, corner Thirtieth st—, ax MoCuLLovom. Afternoon aad evening. BOOTH's THBA’ Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st— Van Wurara, Meatines at ia nore NEW LYCEUM THBATRE, léth street and 6th av.— Noras Dauz. Matinee at 2. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vasistr Entsntaument, Matmee at 24. BOWERY THEATZE, Bowery.—Marcep vor Lire— Jenny Diveas, WALLAOR’S TIHRATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Dust axp Diawoxps. Matinee—C: OLLEEN Baws. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Orzra Bourrz—La Guarps Decnesse Matinee at ie OLYMPIC THBATRE, Broadway, between Houston ‘and Bleecker sts.—SinsaD ram Sarton. Matince at 2. THEATRE COMTQ No. 514 Broadway.—Vanisry epneeieec eae at 256. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Britas ov ux Kircmen, Matinee at 15. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tum Buacx Croox. Matinee at 14. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st.—Wanpeuina Jew. Matinee at ly. ACADEMY OF MUSE, Iéth street and Irving place.— Ingomar. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Tazs Roran Manionxrrxs, Matinee at 3. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Yauiery Extxrvaueemrr. Matinee at 234. GERMANIA THEATBE, lith street and 8d avenue.— Das Stirruncsrns® BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner fixth av.—Neeno Murereessy, &c. HOOLFY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco Mrvgrexis. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street. between Broadway and Bowery.—Tas Pricaim, Matinee at 25. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—Scmuxr Nicurs’ Con vents. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 84 av., between Gd and 64th streets. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MOSBUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—SciEnce axD ABB DR. KAHN'’S MUSBUM, No, 68 Broadway.—Scrence an Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Sept. 20, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. ‘THE THUNDER STORM IN WALL STREET! THE SKY CLEARER AND THE AIR PURER! NO GENERAL CRASH TO BE FEARED !"— EDITORIAL LEADING ARTICLE — SixTH Page. GROUND AND LOFTY TUMBLING OF THE WALL STREET BULLS AND BEARS! NUMEROUS FAILURES AND INTENSIFIED EXCITE. MENT! WHAT THUSE WHO FAILED BAD TO SAY! THE BANKS BESIEGED! THE PANICS ELSEWHERE! TALMAGE ON THE TROUBLES—PourtH Pace. TREASURY HELP IN THE MONETARY ORISIS! ALL DUE BILLS TO BE PAID! THE SIEGES OF THE BANKS! THE COOKE HOUSE BRANCH IN WASHINGTON—Tump PaGs. RESULTS OF THB GREAT FINANCIAL RUMPUS! THE FISK & HATCH SUSPENSION! THE CHEERFUL ASPECT OF THE MONEY MAR- KET FOR THE FUTURE—NINTH Pacs. BUDDINGTON’S STORY OF THE POLARIS DIS- ASTER! HOW THE TYSON PARTY WERE MISSED! THE WINTER AT OLSEN! IMMI- NENT PERILS AND GREAT SUFFERING! THE RETURN OF THE SURVIVORS AND OF THE JUNIATA—SEVENTH PaGE. CIVIL WAR RAGING IN MOROCCO! A STRUG- GLE FOR A THRONE! TRADE PARA- LYZED—SBVENTH PAGE. PORTY-ONE FRESH CASES OF CHOLERA IN VIENNA YESTERDAY! TOTAL, NUMBER UF CASES, 2,755! DEATHS, 1,100—SsvENTo PaGE. BRITISH STOCKHOLDERS IN FRIE TO BE EN- LIGHTENED AS TO THE COMPANY’S AF- FAIRS BY PRESIDENT WATSON—SsvenTu PaGE, THE FRENCH ENGINEERS IN THE ALPS OR- DERED HOME! A BITTER ATTACK UPON FRANCE IN THE OLD CATHOLIC CON- GRESS—SEVENTH PaGE. KELSEY’S BLOOD SPRINGING UP IN A OLOUD OF WITNESSES! A GORE-SMEARED SHIRT! SAMMIS’ BLUDGEON! STRONG CORROBO- RATORY TESTIMONY! DR. BANKS’ LET- TER—E1ontTn Pack. ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT SARMIENTO, OF THE ARGENTINE REPUB- LIO—SgvanTo PacR. THE OUTLETS FOR THE PRODUCTS OF THE GREAT WEST! CANALS VERSUS RAIL- WAYS! ENLARGING THE ERIE CANAL— TenTn Pace, A STEAMSHIP STRIKES A BAR OF¥ SABLE ISLAND! AN OFYIVER AND BOATS CREW ABANDONED—Ssventn Page. THE DIRE WORK OF “YELLOW JACK” IN THR SOUTH! AID FOR THE AFFLICTED—Trunp PaGE. MR. MONTGOMERY BLAIR ON THE GRADUAL, OASARIZING OF THE REPUBLIC! His TORICAL COMPARISONS! THE GOD Mam. MON—FirTH Pach POLITICAL NEWS! THB FIGHT BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATIC FACTIONS IN THE METROP.- | OLIS! KINGS OOUNTY POLITICS—JERSEY POLITICAL OORRUPTION—Tuinp Pace. SEQUESTRATION IN CUBA—THE COURT- MARTIALING OF THE RIOTOUS MILITIA- MEN—GENERAL LEGAL NEWS—E1gntTu Page. CHURCH VERSUS STATE IN BRAZIL—E.gventa PaGs. Tos Tumtzenta Assematy Dosrnicr Rr- PUBLICANS of this city placed on their ballot tickets for delegates to the Utica Convention the significant motto, “Render to Cusar the things that are Cwsar's.”” If this isa joke it is a very poor one; if it isto be the war cry it is significant. The three delegates and three alternates fitly describe themselves as “things,”’ not men; chattels, not citizens, if it has Come to this with the republican party. NEW YORK HERALD, Tne Thunder storm in Wall Stree The Sky Clearer and the Air Purer— No General Crash To Be Feared. The crash in Wall street, though it involves 8 few of the best known banking houses in the city and has destroyed more than a dozen of the smaller operators, cannot have the effect of some previous panics, notably that of 1857, upon the business interests of the country. Jay Cooke & Co, failed confessedly because they were carrying the bonds of a railroad which was paying little or nothing upon the capital already invested, and which promised 80 little in the future that these bonds could not be negotiated. Fisk & Hatch, who also failed yesterday, were dealing in the same kind of insecurities, ‘The smaller houses wero to some extent dependent on the large ones, and of course were operating in the same class of stocks. It is because of this fact that we think the general business interests of the country will not suffer. Most of the railroads whose stock is now embarrassing the specula- tors aro wild-cat affairs, built, as Commodore Vanderbilt phrases it, from nowhere to nowhere, and it was impossible that they should long continue to withstand the shocks of specula- tion, based as they were upon mythical capital and being without business and without profits. A reputable house which conducted the nego- tiation of their bonds was doing a wrong to all the legitimate commercial interests of the country, When Jay Oooke & Co. undertook to carry the bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad they were laying the foundation of their destruction and the destruction of all similar dealers in similarly baseless enter- prises. The downfall of this house, owing to their relations with this road, was impending fora long time; but now that the crash has come it is to be hoped that the atmosphere will clear and that speculation will no longer be allowed to divert sound and legitimate com- mercial enterprises from their regular chan- nels into the devious way of the gamblers of the street. Too many American business men are in great haste to be rich, They cannot confine themselves to the quiet and plod- ding ways which are the only secure road to wealth. If they were able to pay as they go they would feel that they are not doing the business of which they are capable, and they consequently undertake much more than they can accomplish. Under such circumstances it is not long before their paper is tossed about the street at ruinous rates of interest, and failure inevitably follows. In the language of Commodore Vanderbilt during a recent inter- view, there are too many men who “want to be rich too quick.” It is the story in a nutshell—the keynote of failure, not merely of one, but of hundreds. But for this feeling among business men, this haste in amassing wealth, we should not have been compelled to record the long list of dis- asters yesterday and the day before. It was this desire and the ambition of young specu- lators to be princes of the money market and | kings of the railroad monopolies that brought the crash of the hour. The houses whose failure is in the mouths of everybody are all comparatively new in business circles. Jay Cooke & Co. were built up through the favoritism of Mr. Chase in the early days of the war, and people had come to regard them as in every way as sound as the government bonds, the negotiation of which gave them their financial standing before the country. Fisk & Hatch were also new as compared with other well known bankers, but their established credit would have enabled them to withstand any shock if they dealt only in legitimate ven- tures. The same remarks apply, also, to some of the other houses which fol- lowed in the wake of these, both in their methods of doing business and in their down- fall. These young men in their desire to be rich forgot the old-fashioned maxims of busi- ness, but, fortunately, while by their failure they made a stir on the surface and created widespread fear and alarm among the young brokers who, like them, are indulging in the reckless spirit of speculation, they failed to affect the solid and substantial interests of the country. Many depositors will suffer losses through them, but aside from this individual suffering business will go on without material disturbance. The good results of these failures—for even disaster often brings good—will be to straighten out the doubtful enterprises which have been the ruin of the unfortunate brokers. Ever since the war it has been the custom with many leading houses, and especially with those which acquired reputation during the war, to glut the market with the bonds of projected railroads, The successful construc- tion of the Union and Central Pacific gave great impetus to these projects, and high rates of gold interest were promised on roads where scarcely a rail ora tic was laid. The whole thing was a bubble, and it was certain that all of the worthless companies would collapse in the end. Now the collapse has come, and with it it involves the destruction of banking houses, and possibly of railway corporations, which were sound before they became ex- tended by their efforts to monopolize the en- tire trade of the country. These things not only bring failure to those who undertake them, but the public are victimized and Amer- can credit is scandalized and weakened, both at home and abroad, and especially in forei, markets, When the crash domés the pm thing that is consoling is the fact that the mythical enterprises are swept away and that legitimate business receives more attention than while the bubbles were preparing to burst. It is plain that not only the speculators, but the country, must come back to the true method of doing business. It is unsafe for any man or any firm to buy more than he or they can pay for. Buying on credit and dealing upon hazardous margins are the source of all our commercial evils, When one is in debthe isat the mercy of every waveof fortune. Money becomes a necessity at the very moment it can- not be obtained, and ruinous interest is paid for accommodation ; ruin is averted by the assurance of its certainty in the end. Matters in themselves of little importance will destroy a fair credit. One of the circumstances which helped to overthrow Jay Cooke & Co. was the legal war the government is making against the Union Pacific Railroad on account of the Crédit Mobilier frauds. Public confidence in wild railway securities was thereby weakened, and this was one of the reasons why Jay Cooke tailed to negotiate the bonds of the Northern Pacific, Things that in themselves are trifles help to destroy the calico forts of speculation. People who are in debt are always lost through the inability to realize, and their weakness often comes from the weakest and most tri- fling of outside causes. It was so in this case. Had these houses been pursuing 4 legitimate business upon their own capital they would not have failed. Even a worthless railroad cannot destroy a honse which has paid for all the stock and bonds it has in its possession. The company may fail, but the house loses only what it has paid for. The men who are in debt and the unfortunate people who have invested their money with men who are in debt are tne only ones who suffer in a finan- cial crisis like this one, which affects only the extraneous business of reckless speculators. Outside of this current nobody is hurt, and everything goes on as if there were no Jay Cookes in the world, It is to be hoped the lesson of the crash in ‘Wall street will not be disregarded by our business men. Never has the failure of repu- table brokers done go little real harm or taught so wholesome a lesson. The great business interests of the country are unaffected, and trade moves onas if nothing had happened. A healthier tone is sure to pervade business circles when these wrecks are swept away. The recklesss spirit of speculation will be re- strained. It will be more apparent than be- fore that the legitimate business of the coun- try is sound and safe. A week ago general prostration would have been predicted on the hypothesis that Jay Cooke & Co., Fisk & Hatch and a dozen other lead- ing bankers should fail. They have failed, and yet no serious consequences have resulted or are likely to result from the disasters which have overtaken them. They were found to be only a few men making haste to be rich by dealing in unsound securities and attempting to do a larger business than their capital allowed. While we regret their failure wo re- joice that the crash has had no more evil con- sequences than to clear the atmosphere, and show the world that the true representatives of American business and American credit aro unaffected. It has been, let us hope, liken thunder storm in midsummer. The storm is over, the sky is clearer and the sir purer. The Militia Mutiny. The disgraceful conduct of the members of the Eleventh regiment at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on Thursday, calls for prompt and decisive action on the part of the authorities. ‘The State of New York has reason to be proud of its National Guard, and such an unforeseen occurrence as that which now blots its fair record should never be permitted to happen again. This desirable end may be attained by making signal examples of these mutineers and inflicting upon them the heaviest punish- ment that the military code calls for in such a case. The men evidently were igno- rant of the first principles of military discipline or they would never have been guilty of such unblushing audacity. Tho action of the General in command is praise- worthy for its promptness and uncom- promising soldierly firmness, and such an example will be beneficial to the officers of the National Guard. The mutineers were taught severe lesson, that they were not merely ‘‘playing soldiers,’’ but that the stern discipline of the tented fleld must be main- tained, even at a parade. The cause of the mutiny was liquor, and a strict investigation should be made at the court mar- tial into the conduct or negligence of the officers who allowed their men to drink on the parade ground to such an extent as to be incapable of obeying orders. Discipline should be maintained in every militia regi- ment as strictly as among the regulars, other- wise our national guard will become a dan- gerous and useless luxury. We understand that the Military Commission appointed to try the mutineers will commence their labors at an early day. Report speaks of a lament- able condition of affairs in the Eleventh regiment, cashiered officers and outside parties serving in the ranks. For the good name of the National Guard of New York let not this disgraceful affair be hushed up, but let stern justice be dealt out to all, general or private. Tae Loss or ree Pactrrrc Mam, Sreamen Costa Rica, on Thursday last, at Point Diablo, near the entrance of San Francisco har- bor, was evidently in consequence of the most culpable recklessness, negligence, or stupidity on the part of the responsible officers of the ship. The steamer, it appears, was trying to make the harbor under a full head of steam in & dense fog. when she struck with tremendous force, wrenching her timbers from stem to to stern, and making a hole in her bows throngh which the water rushed in torrents. Of course the ship went down ; but, strangely enough under all the circumstances, all the passengers and crew escaped with their lives, This is but another added to the remarkable list of such misfortunes suffered by tho Pacific Mail Company; but from the present up- heaval in Wall street this loss of the Costa Rica calls for something more from the com- pany than a passing report of the wreck, and the company, it is to be hoped, appreciate the dangers of the financial situation sufficiently to know their duty in the premises and their course of safety. Axt Gasmizns.—The men in Wall street, whether they be bankers or curbstone specu- lators, who bay and sell, and enter into schemes to © money out of fictitiously created values, or by taking the money of un- wary and simple-minded people on a false pretence of values, are not a whit better than professional gamblers. The men who deal at foro and the proprietors and touters of gambling houses are scarcely pursuing o worse or more demoralizing business, The gilding which the names of bankers and brokers and the alr of respectability give does not make the offence less immoral. Ifa man goes to his neighbor making false represonta- tions knowingly, and through the influence of his assumed respectability and cunning argu- ments induces him to buy stocks or bonds that have not the value pretended, wherein does he differ from the mock auction men? If a banker takes the deposits of his confiding customers and invests them in very doubtful schemes to promote his own interesta or to bolster up his bankrupt condition, is there much difference between his conduct and that of a robber who picks one’s pocket? Many of the Wall street speculators are no better than faro gamblers, and though the law may not reach them, they systematically rob the unsuspecting. Need we wonder, then, at the frauds, defalcations and general demoraliza- tion {hat provail in the community ? SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Buddington’s Side of the Polaris Story—The Juniata Overhaaled. The special despatches to the Hznaup from London give us the statement in brief of Cap- tain Buddington. It takes us back at once to the terrible scene on the 15th of Octo- ber, 1872, when the party on the ice-floo were separated from the strained and leaking Polaris. We have had the story of those so miraculously preserved who were drifted fifteen hundred miles on the ice- floe, and the balance of the tale coming from those so fearfully sundered from their ship- mates is like a story from the grave. It will be remembered that Tyson’s party on the morrow of the separation sighted the Polaris steering in under the land, and that they signalled and signalled in vain. It was then an open question whether Buddington’s party had seen them or not. The question was still further subdivided by the doubt whether, supposing the party on the ice had been seen, Captain Buddington had found it impossible to proceed to their relief or had wilfully abandoned them. All these points are covered in Captain Budding- ton’s statement, In the first place, he says, the party on tho ice-floe were never seen by them after the separation. In the second place, the condition of the Polaris leaves no room for doubt that, even had they been seen, any attempt to save them would have been futile. We have also further particulars as to the manner in which the winter was passed in Lifeboat Cove, how the dreaded scurvy broke out among the men, but, for- tunately in a mild form. The party started southward as soon as the water opened, and sighted Osape York on the 3d of June. They were picked up, it is now stated, on the 22d by the Ravenscraig. Thus, out of strange perils and unheard of adventures, and out of the locked empire of the ice, all who sailed away in the cause of science return home, save the gallant com- mander, who lies in his frozen grave near Thank God Harbor, amid the awful silence of the dread regions it was his life's ambition to explore. The action of Consul Molloy, of St. Johns, in its promptness and intelligence and in its success, lays the American people under a deep obligation. He deserves hand- some recognition at the hands of the government, whose well-meant but slow and fumbling processes contrast so un- favorably with his prompt chartering of the Cabot and lucky overhauling seven hours after of the Juniata, which had once more set out for the north. ‘The Tigress is still to be heard from, and many here say that every hour she remains out in this season adds materially to her chances of being frozen in for the win- ter. She is expected at St. Johns, and it is to be hoped will arrive there shortly, or else the necessity may arise of sending another re- liof expedition in turn after her, The further the story is developed it sug- gests the pertinency of the inquiry why the Tigress did not touch at Cape York on her way North in the first instance, or at least on her return from Littleton Island. Commander Greer may, in time, be able to give an answer. There are always plenty of Esqui- maux at Cape York, and it is scarcely possible that they would not have been able to tell something of the course of Buddington’s party, hugging the Greenland coast os tho latter did in their progress south. After having found the deserted hut near Littleton Island, and being informed of the southerly route of the party, it seems inexplicable that Commander Greer should have run direct to Upernavik without secking light on the search question at Cape York. We have every reason to be thankful! for the issue as it stands. If pure providence had been as slow as the government, the story would have been, we fear, different. The Tigress, the only missing vessel at present out of the expedition and the search is much bet- ter fitted for the Polar regions than was the ill-fated Polaris. The Incompetency of Department. With the exception of the banks favored by Comptroller Green and the City Chamberlain, which are largely benofited by the enormous balances left in their hands on city account, nearly every person who has any financial business with the city of New York is annoyed and inconvenienced by the present incompe- tent management of our city finances. The evil falls the heaviest upon the poor laborers, who are kept for months out of their overdue pay ; upon the helpless females, who are mado the victims of the scrub-woman policy of Mr. Green, and upon the school teachers, whose means are limited and who, for the most part, are wholly dependent upon the insufficient salary they receive for the services they so faithfully and patiently perform. These lat- ter public employés are denied their hard earned salaries, month after month, for one or two weeks after they are due, and are com- pelled to waste their time in visit after the Finance visit to the Comptroller's Office, in the vain attempt to obtain their money. The un- necessary delay is a source of much inconven- ience to them, and it is no wonder that they complain bitterly of the annoyance to which they are subjected, cither through tho ineffi- ciency of the Finange Department or through the singular objection of the Compiroiler 40 take the money out of the banks of deposit, Tho Comptroller’s department is more ex- travagantly managed now than it was under the notorious rule of tho Tammany Ring. Mr. Green pays o larger amount of salaries to the old employés of Oon- nolly and Tweed, now in his office, than they received from their former employ- ers; yot the work of his department is not done so promptly or so well as under his predecessor's management, Until Mr. Green commenced his singular financial experiments in the Comptroller's Office the accounts of the school teachers wero ready on the day the sala- ries were due and the amounts were promptly paid. Now the teachers are compelled to hang about the City Hall for a week or more before they can hope to receive money to which they aro entitled. Tue Great Crime at Huntinaton is being slowly brought to light, though too slowly by far. If the dreadful crime of murder has been committed, of which there is little doubt, in addition to the other great crime of tarring and feathering, it will be difficult to find any- thing in the history of modern times more horrible. Yet the incompetent Coroner, jury, prosecuting lawvers apd policg authorities have until now almost made a farce of a terri- ble tragedy. Even now, these Huntington witnesses who are called to testify in the case are allowed, it seems, to perjure themselves, to evade direct and honest answers to ques- tions, and to treat the whole affair in a non- chalant manner. Then why is it that the wretches upon whom well founded suspicion is strongly fastened are allowed to be at large and to meet and consult to defeat tho ends of justice? Each one and all ought to be under confinement or strict police surveil- lance. If the Huntington authorities be incapable of ferreting out this most diabolical crime, and bringing the criminals to justice, the State or some other authority ought to take the matter in hand. It would be a dis- grace to the country and our civilization to allow this monstrous crime to go unpunished, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Governor Cadwallader ©, Washburn, of Wiscon- sin, is in St. Louis, President Grant will exhibit nine horses at the Missouri Stato Fair. Bishop Simpson, of the Methodist Episcopa; Church, ts in favor of female suffrage. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfeld (Mass.) Repud- can was in Portland, Me., on Wednesday. The President and his family will return here in the latter part of next week for the season. Ex-Vice President Schuyler Colfax is on the bills for a lecture in Oneida, N. ¥., on Monday evening next. John 8. Thrasher, of the Galveston (Texas) Civitan, was 1p St. Louis last week en route for home. A son-in-law of General Von Moltke ts on a plea- sure tour in this country, On Thursday he was tn Utica, N. Y. R. A. Palmer has been trying to commit suicide by going up in a balloon at Beloit, Wis., without a car or basket, Solicitor E, C. Banfleld, of the United States Treasury Department, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Rev. W. Hickman Smith Aubry, of the editorial corps of the London Advertiser and London Graphte, 1s at Trenton Falls, N. Y. Secretary of War William W, Belknap has left Washington for Keokuk, Ia., whither he was called by the sickness of his son. Vice President Wilson attended the laying of the corner stone of a new church in Boston on Wednes- day. His health ts nearly restored. Ex-President Andy Johnson has promised to knock Judge Advocate Holt’s statement about the execution of Mrs. Surratt into smithereens. Alexander Davis, the colored candidate for Lieu- tenant Governor of Mississippi, is a carpet-bagger, A few years ago he was a barber in Memphis, Tenn. Lieutenant Commander Samuel L, Wilson has been detached from the receiving ship Vermont, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and ordered to the Saranac. Mr. Samuel Levy, the Mayor of Shreveport, ts one of the best butchers in the State of Louisiana, and is untiring in his efforts to stay the progress of the yellow fever. The suit of Elizabeth Parker against the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, for personal dam- ages, has resulted in a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $19,500. The monastery, near Fort William Henry, on Lake George, N. Y., which is the summer retreat of the Paulist Brothers, of this city, was a gift to the Order from the distinguished lawyer, Charles O'Conor. Mr. Sidney Webster ana family, son-in-law of Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, arrived on Wednesday irom Europe by the steamship Scotia, and immediately after le.t for Garrison’s, on the Hudson, the country seat of Mr. Fish. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Pinchbeck returned home to New Orleans last evening from an exten- sive European tour. He was enthusiastically re- ceived by his friends there, who assembled in large numbers at the depot with music, and a torchlight procession escorted him to Mechanics’ Institute, where he was greeted with applause. Judge Samnei Neison, who, before his retirement, was the Senior Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, is in excellent health at his home, in Cooperstown, N.Y. On Saturday last he was the recipient of & testimonial from the Bench and Bar of the State of New York. Mrs, Ann Ward (colored) had heard a great deal about women being burned to deatn in attempting to fill lighted lamps with kerosene. She insisted that it was occasioned by ‘“durned carelossness.”” She said she could do {t, and last week she tried. Ann had a large circle of acquaintances in and around Dixon Springs, Tenn., and her funeral was numerously attended. A Southern gentleman, who was at Greenville, Tenn., ashort time since, tells the foliowing:—A countryman came into town last week with a bun- dle of jeans, to have a suit of clothes made for his negro, He saw Andy Johnson standing on the corner, and said, “Well, Andy, you used to be the best tailor in these parts, and I wish you’d cut out this sutt of clothes for my boy Jim here.” “All right,” says Andy, and they stepped into 4 shop near by, and in five minutes an ex-President might have been seen swinging round the circle ofa dirty negro, taking his latitude, longitude and bearings for a sult of clothes. MUSIOAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. Mr. Mansell announces a first matinée at bis theatre to-day. “Notre Dame,” with all its varied and charming accessories will be offered. The Wall street failures produced a noticeabie effect last evening in the attendance at the theatres. It is not the first time that the size of an audience has become the measure of the money market. * The Vokes family concludes its season at the Union Square Theatre on Monday evening week. It goes thence to Newark, and ere the fail and winter season ts over it is not improbable they will be seen here again. Mr. Daly’s company has been singularly success. ful in Cincinnati, The latest play produced by it there is “Fernande,” in which Miss Jewett assumed the title rdle and Miss Clara Morris acted Miss Morant’s oid part of Clothilde. The compauy Gppears in Buffalo next week. Mr, Gayler's “Dust and Diamonds” wit be pro* duced this evening, We hope there ts more dia” mond in it than there is dust. It is stated that it will give a peculiarly favorable opportunity to Mr, Shiel Barry, and that the character that actor por- trays in {t belongs to ime type as Myles pa Copaleen. “Alda” will positively be brought ont at the Academy of Music during the first part of the Strakosch season. In it Verdi has abandoned many of the old conventionalisms of musical com- position and has striven to make the dramatic and musical action 4 unit. “Ingomar” will be brought ont to-night at the Academy of Music, with Salvini as the hero, It was originally written by Halm, the German autnor, It is in five acts, and relates in exquisitely poetic j@nguage and in chaste and beautiful scenes the means by which Ingomar, an old but savage cbiet, becomes a hero of civilization through his love for Parthenta. The latter is a girl who has vol- untarily become his slave in place of her old and infirm father. MUSIO IN CENTRAL PARK. The Department of Parks announce that if the weather is fine there will be music by the Central Park Band, on the Mall, at Central Park, this alternoon, commencing at half-past three o'clock, The following ts the programme :— "luele di Lammermoor," agguastirn te Donteettt Introductory March, Overture, “Merry Wives of Windsor” Walt, “ll Gogno”...; Cornet Polka, “Exceisio Pal Overture, “Midsummei Allegretto, Scherzand Selection “La Ju March, Opus 108. Oo PNAS BEN a nceennesinnenenes | NEBRASKA. The Yellowstone.Expedition Returning After Successfu! Explorations—The Sioux Indians Ag#in Reported on the ‘Warpath. Oman, Sept, 19, 1873, ‘The expedition under Captain W. A. Jones, of the engineer corps, sent out by*the government to survey the routes to the Yellowstone Lake, has arrived at Camp Brown, Wyoming, on their re- turn. They report all well, They found three passes into the Yellowstone Valley from the east and west. One route, via the head of Wind River, is easy for & wagon road, and through @ very fine country. The oe very easy. The distance from Camp Brown ‘0 Yellowstone Lake 1s 160 miles, The other results of the expedition were ge gratifying. General Ord regards {t as certain that a wagon road will f00n be opened from a nion Pactic Railroad to miles. x RE! 8 1D, The Sioux In: are officially reported to be on another raid, Runners into Fort Fetterman state that @ large war party split off from the main camp, which was moving into Fort Fetterman in conse- jnence of the Arapahoes having killed 8 Sioux om ‘war parties are also reported ‘¥ miles north of Fort Fetter- man on the 16th, going east. THE OOSTA RICA WREOK. No Prospect of Saving the Vessel. Sax Francrsco, Sept. 18—Midnight, A boat just returned from the wreck of the Costa Rica reports eighteen feet of water in the hold and DO prospect of saving the veasel or much of the cargo. Soecrceeeeiareeeeee DISASTROUS FIRE, Loss of $175,000. TRERE Havrs, Ind., Sept. 19, 1873. The Terre Haute Iron and Nall Works were to- tally destroyed by fire to-day. The establishment employed 145 men. The total loss ts $175,000 and the insurance $73,000, divided among the following companies:—Home, of New York; Queen, of London; Germania American, American Central, North American, Pennsylvania Fire, German Home, of Columbus; Franklin, of Philadelphia; National, of St. Paul; Connecticut re Gere Lider of Wheeling: Aleman. er, of Dayton; Melville, Hope, Mui an ‘Trad Nf chica Fire and Marine, era, of , and ‘Nort! FIRE IN AURORA, ¥ ¥. British. Burra.o, Sept. 19, 1873. A fire at Aurora, in this county, this morning entirely destroyed Riley’s block, consisting of three stores, oconpied by Ellsworth & Uo, dry gears and groceries; T. J. Hall, druggist, and joberts & Brother’s steam saw and planing mill, and two dwellings. The loss is estimated at $25,000, and is partially covered by insurance. OALIFORNIA ITEMS, A Taxpayers’ Convention—Senator Sar- gent in Advocacy of the Railroad In- terests. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 1873. The Independent Taxpayers’ Convention at Sacramento has issued a call for a State Conven- tlon to meet at Sacramento, September 25, to make judicial nominations, Pierrepont Thayer, a well known actor, com- ma ted Suicide at Ploche yesterday by taking olson. oe Sargent delivered the maugural address at the State Fair at Sacramento. portion of the address was devoted to the defence of the Central Pacific Railroad. The Independent Taxpayers’ State Convention at Sacramento propose to run ex-Governor Henry H, Haight for Supreme Judge, but he has not yet received the nomination. A MASSACHUSETTS MUBDER. Bosron, Sept. 19, 1878. In Saxonville, last evening, Josiah Bigelow, a Dative of that town, called at a neighbor's house to see his wife, with whom he had not lived for a year. Upon her coming to the door Bigelow plunged a knife into her throat, and then went ta the house of another neighbor, where he confessed his crime and gave himself A Mrs. Bigelow’a ‘wound is supposed to be mort RAILROAD ENTERPRISE IN 8ST. LOUIS. = Sr. Louis, Mo., Sept. 19, 1878. A preliminary organization of what will be known as the St, Louts Tunnel anda Levee Railroad Company has been effected, and operations will be commenced at once to carry out the purpose of the company. The project contemplated ts the pur- chase of seven blocks of ground between the Sev- enth street depot of the Atlantic and Pacific Rail- road and the river bank, upon which seven or more railroad tracks and sidings will be laid, the main track to extend from the mouth of the bridge tun- nel to the river front and along the levee to the northern and southern limits of the city, and the erection of new, commodions warehouses along oer side of the tracks from the railroad depot ta the levee. SUIOIDE OF A WAIF. NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 10, 1873. An unknown white man, apparently forty-five years of age, large moustache and slightly bald, committed suicide to-day by shooting himselt through the neck. The suicide was done on the bridge, near the scene of the Yerger tragedy. DEOAPITATION OF A BOY. ARCHBOLD, Pa., Sept. 19, 1873. Willie Bermeyer, a lad about thirteen years of age, was decapitated this afternoon by the enging in the Eureka Coffin Factory. His head, arms and legs were literally severed from his body, and when found he was an unrecognizable mass ot mangled flesh. It is presumed that the accident was the result of carelessness, KILLED BY A TRAIN, PROVIDENCE, R. L., Sept 19, 1873. Hiram Bligh, of Lincoln, aged seventy years, was killed to-day while walking oo the track of tl oe and Worcester road, near Man: ville. KILLED ON THE SIDEWALK. Ap altercation took place yesterday afternoon between James Lestrange, of 838 Fast Thirty-firty street, and Patrick Lyons, of Fast Thirty sixto street, when Lyons pushed Lestrange, causing him to fall on the sidewalk. As he fell the latter atruck ht a the curb and received injuries from hitehs Sad Nase night. ao was arrested by the police of the Twenty-first precinct, Soe ee eee STABBING AND SHUOTIH a. bas James Golden, of No. 337 East Thirty-ninth street, and John Hassett, of 230 Kast Forty-sixth street, gotinto an altercation last night in the liquos store of Steve Geoghan, at Thirty-minth street and Second avenue, During the quarrel Golden shot Hassett in the head and Hassett stabbed Golden in the side, Both were attended by Dr. Wooster, whe prondniiced the wounds not dangerous. Both were conveyed to the Second precinct station house, \ A OHARGE OF PERJURY. Pa a me am * At the Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, before fustice Ledwith, Micheal Fitsgerald, doing business at No. 469 Broadway, was arraigned on the charge of perjary, made by Martin Oolmar, of No, 109 Clinton place. The evidence showed that on the 16th day of August the complainant, Colmar, was charged before Justice Cox by Fitzgeraid with stealing @ case of kid gloves, valued at $650, and on an examination before Justice Cox he (Fitzger- ald) testified to the truth of the charge. Testi- mony was introduced by ha! defence showing that the gloves referred to were delivered to Colmar by, Fitzgerald, as the security for a future loan, whic was subsequently obtained; whereupon Justice Cox dismissed the complaint and discharged Coi- mar, who now charges Fitzgerald with perjury tw testifying aa stated. Corroborative evidence as ta the falsity of the testimony was yea by Charles M. Colmar, and the prisoner was heid in the sum of $5,000 to await the action of the Grand Jury, A NOTORIOUS OBIMINAL Taddy Tne Trenton Darkey Self-Con- victed—Sentence Postponed. Tne Trenton darkey, Howard B, Tuddy, who figured recently in the characters of burger, thief, jail breaker and incendiary, in the counties of Mercer and Somerset, New Jersey, was brought before the Conrt of Special Sessions at Trenton yesterday to answer for his depredations, Fivo charges were preferred against him, to all of whicty he pleaded guiity, excepting one of arson, to whicty he entered the plea of not guilty. While pleading & complacent smile graced his dusky countenance, and he seemed to exuit over, rather than feel sore row for, his misdeeds, The Court suspended sentence until aiver his trial in Somersey county, which will take place next Monday. fH is about twenty years of age, and is beggin 9 full-blooded Atrican, It is more than probabia that, if he lives, the State Prison of New Jerse: will be his home for the next twenty years, pro- viding, however, he does not follow the example set him by Edwards, Liedendorf, Quail and others, who took French leave (rom that institution withi! the last two years