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i} —_—_— SPAIN. ‘The Intransigentes’ Bombarding Fleet Moved from Before Alicante—Heavy Losses of Life on Deck—The “Beds’” War Almost Closed. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Mapp, Sept, 29, 1873. “The insurgent frigates Numancia and Mendez Nunez have left Alicante for Cartagena. The commanderfof the Numancia admits that “there was a serious loss of Ife on his vessel during the bombardment of Alicante on Saturday, 27th wnat. It is generally believed that the failure of the in- surgents to capture Alicante will cause the imme- diate surrender of Cartagena, thus ending the Antransigente insurrection. NUMBER OF THE KILLED IN ALICANTE. Eight persons were killed in Alicante during the ‘bombardment. The Carlist Cause Disorganized and Dis- solving. MApRID, Sept. 29, 1873. ‘The Carlists in the north have recently met with ® series of damaging reverses. Discontent and demoralization are spreading in their ranks, It is reported that the famous chief, Saballs, has ‘been deprived of his command, and that Gene- tals Tristany and Miret have resigned. In the meantime the enthusiasm for the na- tional cause is increasing in the northern prov- inces, * BERGA REINFORCED BY THE REPUBLICANS. The town of Berga, which at one time was in danger of falling into the hands of the Carlists, has been reinforced and supplied with provisions and ammunition. POLICE MORALE AND DISCIPLINE. The police have closed the gambling houses in Madrid. ENGLAND. A New Lord Mayor Elected for London—Fever in the Metropolis, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Lonpon, Sept. 29, 1873. The election for Lord Mayor of London took Place to-day and resulted in the choice of Mr. Andrew, Lusk, at present an Aiderman and also a member of Parliament. The right honorable gentleman 1s a liberal in po- lities. He is sixty years of age. He is im business 48 & merchant, sbipowner and shbip’s provision dealer. Mr. Lusk supports the ballot and short parliaments. He was returned to the House of Commons as member for Finsbury, in 1865, FEVER 1N THE METROPOLIS. ‘The cases of typhoid fever in this city are daily increasing in number, and alarm is felt in some of the infected quarters. IRELAND. Freedom with Reform. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, DvBLIN, Sept. 29, 1873, ‘There was a large meeting at Drogheda yester- ay in favor of the release o! the Fentan prisoners. Several Members of Parliament were present and participated in the proceedings, HOME RULE DEMONSTRATION IN THE NORTH. ‘There was a great popular demonstration at Cavan to-day in favor of home rule. A Rough Election Contest Delicately Avoided, DUBLIN, Sept. 29, 1873. There will be no election in Tralee, Tne O’Dono- ghue, Member of Pariiament for that city not hav- ing received the expected appointment to a Min- isterial office, and consequently not requiring re- election. FRANCE. Dr. Nelaton’s Fortune—Pere Hyacinthe Among the Tailors, TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. Panis, Sept. 29, 1873, The late Dr. Nelaton left property valued at “7,000, 0001. PERE HYACINTHE. Galtignani says Pére Hyacinthe has abandonea ‘the clerical garb. OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. Ceble Communication Interrupted on an Asiatic Line. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. ‘ LONDON, Sept. 29, 1873. Communication by the telegraph cable between Wong Kong and Singapore is interrupted. ° CHOLERA. Cases Shipped Into the Port of Liverpool. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD, Lonpon, Sept. 29, 1873. ’ A vegsel with’ cholera on board arrived at Liver- ‘pool this morning. AFRICA. ‘The Ashantee War Reports “Satisfactory” to England—Semi-Starvation of the Natives— An American Marine Trader Seized. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. LonDon, Sept. 29, 1873, ‘The latest news of the progress of the Ashantee ‘war is satisfactory. ‘The natives are in a state of semi-starvation, and it is supposed that they are waiting for the endsof the rainy season, unable until then to make any movement, An American vessel was discovered in the act of ‘selling them powder, and has been seized by the British commander, and a blockade of the coast bas beon declared to prevent similar occurrences, ‘CUBA, ‘Murder by the Insurgents—A Suspicious Look Ont to Sea. Havanna, Sept, 20, 1873, 4 railway train, while wooding between San Jose and Juanita, was attacked py a party of in- surgents. One officer’ and two passengers were injured. A suspicious steamer has been seen off the south coast near Zaza. PORTO RICO. Citizens in Collision with the Military, San JUAN, Sept. 29, 1873, Several conflicts have occurred between the in- habitants and the soldiery at St. German, Agna- Aillo and Cayeylares, YACHTING NOTE. Yacht West Wind, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Iselin, from ‘New York for the eastward, passed Whitestone esterday. NEW YORK THE ANGLO-AMERICAN MONEY CRISIS. Progress of the Consequences of the Movement in London—Failure of Three City Brokers by Dealings in Erie—Bank Ac- tion—Discount Advanced—Ship- ments of Bullion Outward. TELEGRAMS TO THE NEW YORK HERA| Lonpon, Sept. 29, 1873. ‘The failure of three brokers in consequence of the fall in the price of Erie Railway shares, has been announced in the Stock Exchange. FAILURE IN GERMANY. One fatiure ts reported from Hamburg. LONDON LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL FAILURES. It isexpected that additional suspensions will be announced in London to-morrow morning. e The Bank Rate of Discount. Lonpon, Sept. 29—2 P. M. An announcement which was made at 1:45 P. M. of an increase in the rate of discount of the Bank of England, caused much surprise in financial circles. Erie Railway shares at 41%. The Directors of the Bank of England at a meet- ing to-day fixed the minimam rate of discount at the bank at five per cent. THE DEMAND ‘The demand for discount at the Bank of England to-day, as well as in the open market, has been heavy at the rate ot five per cent, BULLION IN MOVEMENT OUTWARD, One hundred abd twenty-four pounds sterling of the £638,000 drawn from the Bank of England on balance to-day are for shipment to America, The remainder goes to Germany. Two hundred and twentty-flve thousand pounds sterling in bullion were shipped trom Plymouth for New York on Saturday by the steamship Silesia, The steamship America, which sailed from South- ampton on the same day for New York, took out £16,000, Engagements have been made for the shipment of £50,000 by the steamship Donau, which will sail from Southampton to-morrow. It is satd £500,000 are booked for shipment this week. BULLION FROM THE BANK ON BALANCK. The amount of bullion withdrawn froin the Bank of England on balance to-day is £638,000, DISCOUNT ON 'CHANGE. The rate of discount in the open market for three months bills is five per cent, which is the same as the Bank of England rate. THE CRISIS IN THE COUNTRY. SUR LEEe, The Payment of Depositors in Certified Checks by National Banks Pronounced legal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1873, Application was made to the Comptroller of the Currency to-day for an opinion as to the tegaltty of the action of the national banks in substituting cervifiea checks in payment for their current in debtedness to depositors. The Comptroller promptly replied that the action of the national banks In entering into such an arrangement was filegal, and in direct violation of the National Banking act. Several parties, in consequence of this opinion, reported to the Comptroller that the National, Metropolitan and Sec- ond National banks had refused to cash checks of depositors, whereupon the Comptroller said that he would be ready to-morrow to enter- tain an application to put both banks in the hands ofareceiver. The Comptroller positively declares that every bank that has substituted certified checks in payment of actual indebtedness at its counter has incurred the penalty amxed by the National Banking act, and that he is not clothed with discretionary power if such banks are re- ported to him. The Situation in Washington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 1873, ‘The city is free from financial excitement. The recent statements received from the North of the improved condition in affairs have bad a tranquil- izing effect in Washington to such an extent that several gentlemen connected with the banking combination say that in the course of a few days checks for small amounts will be cashed at the counters of their respective institutions, instead of being, az now, merely certified. Another favorable sign is that many of the large depositors in the Washington Savings Bank are concerting with @ view to the resumption of its business. There were drawn from the F:eedman’s and Washinton City Savings banks within ten days $575,000, and from the other banks in this city about $800,000. On Friday one person alone drew from the National Bank of the Metropolis $16,000, and placed it in the Safe Deposit Company. Most of the money drawn is still in the hands of private persons. ‘Wool Brokers Suspended delphia. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 29, 1873, Benjamin Bullock’s Sons, extensive wool dealers, suspended this morning for a large sum, but they have ample assets to pay all their obligations, Their suspension was caused by the failure of the Glenham Manufacturing Company, of New York, who owe them about $600,000, Joseph Bullock, one of the firm, is a director of the Corn Exchange National Bank, but they owe that institution only $45,000, which is covered with coliateral for twice that amount, This att has caused no unusual excitement, and in business circles generally there is a conf- dent tone. in Phila- Pittsburg Refuses to Suspend Currency Payments. PirtsBuRG, Pa,, Sept. 29, 1973, Everything in a financial way wore a bright, cheerful and natty look to-day, and the painful de- pression and gloom of the past week which per- vaded in commercial as well as financial circles seem to have given way before the united and vigorous efforts of financiers and the public gen- erally. The Clearing House Association met this Morning and discussed the matter in hand of using certified check, a system among themselves in accordance with the New York plan. It was said at the meeting that the majority of the cities had adopted the rule, and as Pittsburg rather stood isolated as a currency-paying city an effort would ultimately be made to drain the city of currency and at such a distance that it would be a long time before it would return, and most disastrous resulta might follow to the general business interests of the city. But aitera carefal consideration of the question, and in view of the brightening prospects throughout the country, a majority of those pres- ent were against suspension. ‘the action of Chicago in resuming was indicative of a healthy re- turn of the ola business relations as they existed before the panic, consequently the following reso- lution met with unanimous endorsement :— Ata full meeting of the Cl Hi P elit resolved: that uo change was Fequired in the mag: eo ‘the business of the banks and Clearing John D. Scully, ofthe First National Bank, was very decided in bis opposition to foliowing in the footsteps of other cities as to suspending currency aoe He said that instead of Pittsburg eing drained of her currency by suspended cities about her, the resuit will be that sh ny currency, as she will be doing business upon this basis, and will be careful of what she receives, Mr. Harper, of the Pittsburg Bank; Mr. Martin, of the Mechanics’ National Bank, and also the President of the Exchange Bank, all agree with Mr. Scully. They think that now the panic is so near over it will redound jore to the credit of Pittsburg not to suspend, even if every other city sbould do so. N The Lawrence Bank, which closed its doors last ‘week, reopened this morning and transacted busi- ness as usual. The Board of Directors of the Security Truss Company are still busy at work, but have not yet completed their arrangements to resume. The Diamond Savings Bank, db: prompt action, succeeded in getting ail junds checked out that were in the hands of Clews & Co. This moruing a circular was received from them stating that they were continuing business and would pay all indebtedness as fast as they could realize on collaterals, and that they were re- ceiving deposits which would be used in the most judicious manner possibi HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 29, 1873. The report telegraphed last night that the banks of this city have suspended payment of cur. rency is entirely incorrect, as will be seen by the following resolation passed at a meeting of the eerenratives of the banking institutions on Sat- lay :— Resolved, That owing to the action of the banks in the principal cittes in aeoitning to pay out currency the aNnks of this city unanimously determined to pursue the aaine policy. believing that this course will enable them to aid the business community Small sums are naid at all our banks. aud the HERALD, TUESDAY, SHPTEMBER 30, 1873.—QUADRUPLE SHEET. certimea cneck pian has been adopted for large sums, Confidence Returning in Chicago. Cxicaco, DIL, Sept. 29, 1873. The financial prospects in this city this morning are decidedly brighter. The Union National, the Cook County National and the National Bank of Commerce opened their doors and resumed busi- ness at the usual hour this morning, and although they have paid out considerable money there is nothing that can be called @ run upon either of them, while there have been considerable deposits made. The influx of currency from New York and trom the country continues to be large, not less than $3,000,000 having been received during Saturday and Sunday. Of this incoming currency a gt proportion goes directly into the banks and the rest iato the hands of commis- sion merchants for the purchase of grain by outside parties, But'it ail tends to relieve the present Stringency. So faras can be learned there is no urgent demand trom country banks upon their cor- respondents here and 1p darters contidence appears to be returning. view of the situation is based upon interviews \ ch a number of promi- nent bankers and business men. The Aspect in St. Louis. Sr. Lovrs, Mo., Sept. 29, 1873, The financial situation has been very quiet to- day, and a much more confident fecling has been manifested in nearly all circles. There is a great lack of currency with which to transact business and discounting is quite limited; but the banks are mostly paying checks in kind, and there is a decidedly more tranquil aid hopeful tone, On ‘Change there was a buoyant spirit, and although the volume of business was not large there was more disposition to operate, and near! all kinds of grain anvanced in price. There is still more currency coming to the city than is being sent out, and if the banks would discount more | freely business wou!d rapidly revive and the evi- dences of the panic soon disappear. The Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. MILWAUEEE, Wis., Sept. 29, 1873. The Chamber of Commerce met to-day, but ad- Journed until to-morrow noon, under the follow- resolution :— Resolved, That this Board stood adjourned under the existing reso utions until ‘Tuesday, September 30, pro- vided that their further adiournment shall not prevent the transation of any new business; and this committee recommends that parties having trades in option shail arrange between themselves for a settlement, or acon. tinuance of contracts until the property can be paid for. Financia} Affairs in Utah, SaLt LAKE Crry, Sept. 29, 1873. There is arreatiy improved feeling in the finan- cial situation to-day. The panic has apparently completely subsided, A few certificates from min- ing camps and some accounts presented were paid by banks and banking houses. Bankers are per- fectly confident of meeting every liability. The First National Bank, which suspended on Saturday, is strengthening its resources and will undoubtedly resume in a few days, National Kank Examiner N. H, Langford, from the Pacific coast, is here examining into the af- fairs of the banks. H. Wadsworth has been appointed agent for Wells, Fargo & Company at this place, The tightness in the money market will be likely to cripple business in bullion and ores for the next few weeks, and consequently compel the suspen- sion of smelters. The Situation in Charleston. CuARLEsTON, S, O., Sept. 29, 1873, Ata meeting of the Chamber of Commerce ‘this morning, which included the largest assemblage of bankers and business men that has met in Charles- ton in many years, the, following resolutions were unanimously adopted as indicative of the policy pe bs most likely to facilitate the movement of Southern produce to market, and enable Southern debtors to settle promptly with their Northern creditors, thus relieving the money pressure all around: Resolved, That the President he instructed to prepare a memorial to the President of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury, praying that the Secretary Place and maintain on deposit with the Assistant Treas- rer at Charleston the sum of $500,000, to be used by him in the purchace irom the banks of exchange on New York, and that such memorial be forwarded at once to Washington in the name of the Chamber ot Commerce of Charleston, Resolved, That meanwhile the President of this Cham; ber be authorized to forward the substance and purpose 0! such memorial by telegraph to the proper person in Washington. The Banks in Louisville. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 29, 1873. The German banks, seven in number, which closed theirdoors on Saturday morning, made application for membership in the Clearing House to-day, and were received. Two other banks were admitted, making twenty-one in all. The banks were paying out a limited amount of currency to- day, and the merchants are generally satisfied with the certificate check basia. Manuiacturers anti- cipated inconvenience in getting /uncs to pay of their hands, but the banks have pledged themselves to look for their interests as far a8 possible. It 18 : lly believed that the pressure will be of short on, Albany Under the New York Pian. ALBANY, N, Y., Sept. 29, 1873.9 The banks here are working under the New York plan, Messrs. Ford & Fuller, brokers, announce their suspension until further notice, The Monetary Crisis Felt at Newport. Newport, R. 1., Sept. 29, 1873. The money pressure which it was hoped would not reach Newport has at last come, and all the banks, eight in number, partiaily suspended cur- rency payment this morning. The suspension was deemed advisable, and for the present business will have te be done by certified checks, except Where amounts less than $100 are asked, and in such cases greenbacks will be paid, Manufacturers Stopping Work in New Haven. New Haven, Sept. 29, 1873, The financial crisis has at length commenced to seriously affect the large manufacturing establish- ments in this city. Owing to the difficulty of obtain- ing currency with which to make the weekly and monthly payment of wages of the workmen, and the suspension of orders for work from different parts of the country, three of the largest manufactories in the city stopped k. These are Mallory, Wheeler & Uo., lock makers; 0. B. North & Co., plated ware Manulacturers, and J. B. Sargent & Co., manufac- turers of hardware. Other firms fear trouble, and there is a disposition to Si the eight hour rule. The banks continue to cash checks, but horde all the currency possible. The Boston Savings Banks. Boston, Sept. 29, 1873. Ata meeting to-day of the oficers of the Boston and Charleston savings banks the following reso- lution was passed :— Resolved, That, in the judgment of this meeting, it is expedient and advisable that the savings banks of Boston and vicinity enforce the bylaws of their several institu- tlons relating to the rawal of depo: otherwise advised, that the savings banks cretion, pay drafts tor small amounts only. Portiana Board of Trade. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 29, 1873. A meeting of the Board of Trade was held to- night. After @ long discussion a resolu- tion was adopted opposing the passage of @ law admitting foreign ships to Ameri- can be a A Rone that nothing could be more’ disastrous to the shipping and commerce of the country, and entering into & solemn protest against a policy so calculated to prostrate one of the largest and most important interests of the coun- try. The Board also voted to instruct its delegates to the National Convention to favor a renewal of the reciprocal trade relations with the Dominion of Canada. Geld to Help the Canadians. TORONTO, Ont., Sept. 28, 1873, ‘The Leader says it is authorized to state that the Government has ordered half a million sterling in gold from England, It has aiso received information that @ miliion sterling has been Lag! tiny ig New York, and considerable sums for Oanadi: banks. The feeling in England is confident and petul, The Crash in Paterson, The Paterson banks refuse to cash checks on the New York banks, but they will pay their own on demand, whatever their size. This isa good deal better than the city banks will do. The Paterson banks are considered as solvent and substantial as any inthe country. One hundrea and seventy-five men were discharged from the Grant Locomotive Works in Paterson yesterday on account of the hard times, Over 1,500 men e been discharged from Various Paterson establishments during the Dast week. In Passaic and other places great difficulty is ex- perienced in getting small bills, and some of the establishments were unable to pay oif their em- ployés in consequence. THE REV. MB, ANCIENT REWARDED, HALIFAX, Sept. 20, 1873, The Dominion Government have forwarded a gold watch and $500 to Rev. Mr. Ancient in acknowl- edgement of bis gallant conduct towards the pas- sengers and crew of the ill-fated steymer Atiantic, NILSSON. aA re eS, Her Fentree as Violetia at the Academy ot Music Last Evening. Mme. Nilsson had nothing to fear in coming before the audience assembled at the Academy of Music last evening, To a very appreciable extent it was composed of personal friends—people who mot only loved music and placed a proper value upon it, but who enjoyed an intimacy with the cantatrice and appreciated her not less as a friend than an artist, To expect such an audience to be critical would be to predict a contradiction. It came to enjoy Nilsson, not to vivisect Violetta; to applaud the prima donna, not to depreciate Verai. To say that the only seats left unoccupied were those belonging to unfortunates, whom & wretched fate at the last moment prevented being preseat, is merely to state a fact which every reader will have anticipated. To conjecture why Mme. Nilsson should have selected Violeta, when her repertoire possesses rOles fresher, wholesomer and better fit- ted to the display of her more shining talents, would be to explore a domain from which no pio- neer has ever brought back a satisfactory response, A prima donna’s motives are labyrinthine—more easily threaded by her manager, often, than by herself, And what is to be said of the manner in which “La Traviata” was rendered? Certainly nothing very new. In Mme. Nilsson’s hands the title rdle remains now what it was two years ago, a beauti- ful idealization of an impure and morbid theme, You cannot refine Phryne into a Penelope; but Mme. Nilsson’s graceful unfaithfulness to the idea of Dumas is compensated by that artistic chastity which cannot touch a theme without communi- cating to it a portion of itselt, This peculiarity, which is a@ strong character- istic of Mme, Nilsson’s, made itself felt last night with all its old force. Still, in Mme. Nils- son’s interpretation there are several minor points which cap be reconciled neither with nature nor with those refined conventionalitics which have their home in the drawing room and the saloon. Among these flaws may be mentioned the farewell vo Alfredo in the second act and the tossing of the bougqnet in the first. These are points to which the inte! Us of the artist has been repeatedly asked and which she has not deemed fit to remedy. They class themselves among those slight apecks of mis- interpretation—those inartistic freckles that mar an otherwise exquisite conception, The manner of the adieu is particularly objectionable, because it 18 a misrendering of one of the most pathetic situations in the opera. No mistress ever bade a final adieu to lover in such terms as these. The prolongation of the 1are- well would have awakened suspicion in a more faithiul heart, and how the Alfredo, under the circumstances, could have avoided rushing aiter the Violetta and demanding an explanation on the spot is more than any one who takes pains to reflect upon the situation will find it easy to answer, It was poctical, it was graceful, it was tender; but it was too lingering, too soitly and sensuousiy prolix to be justified by the conditions -under which it took place. What was required was @ generous resolve ut into passionate and hasty action, Mme, Nilsson, a8 #& rule, creates a rdle so intelligently, 40 conscientiously, 80 sell-sacrificingly that that she can well endure being reminded occasionally of a deiect. Possibly we should cease to give the sun precedence as centre of the solar system if the Spots did not obtrude themselves irom time to me. The reception accorded to Mme. Nilsson was exceedingly warm, and for some minutes alter her entrance upon the scene the course of the opera was stayed. At the end of the first act, also, she was Veliemently recalled and a certain proportion of the applauders expressed themselves in the ac- customary language of flowers. An almost equally cordial greeting was bestowed upon M. Victor Capoul, who presented the same graces which were so often reierred to @ couple of years ago. The novelty of the evening Was the déput of Signor del Puente, the new bari- tone, in the rdle ot Germont. Further reference to the quaifications of this young singer will be found elsewhere. The promises ot the impressario with respect to the chorus and the orchestra were conscientiously kept, but it is impossible to say as much for the scenery and the dresses. The scenery, | indeed, betrayed some attempt at an improvement upon former seasons, but the attempt was meagre when measured with what one has a right to expect, The dresses can scarcely be deeined a brilliant amelioration of the costume of jofmer years. We should like to see a certain homo- geneity of taste and expense among the fashion- able flutterers who made Violetta’s saloons their resort. The disproportion between t'e dress of the hostess and that of her guests is too glaring to escape comment, and we shali hail the hour when the tinsel conventionalitics of stage finery are swept away and something more sterling substituted. Itis pleasant to turn from these shght animad- versions to a theme which enables us to accord hearty praise, The labors of Signor Muzio, the chef @orchestre, have ,borne good fruit. A more admirably organized amd more caretully trained band has never been heard within the walls of the Academy. Even the dainty little introduction, commencing with those shilting harmonies for the violins, borrowed trom Weber, and the lovely theme, of true Italian sensidusness, Hiss ip rst heard in the opera, with its delicate coloring 6: wind instruments, Were given with such artistic effect that to Signor Muzio the first applause of the evening Was accorded. A little more ‘prominence or strength im the reeds in the opening orchestral theme that leads to the first chorus would be desirable. As this spark- ling subject runs through the first scene of the opera, the melody should be well defined throughout. i strings in the orchestra, on which so much depends for those characteristic effects with which Verdi knows 80 well how to enhance the interest of a dramatic scene, were remarkable for their promptness, spirit and elan, The bri passed without exciting any particular attention—a significant proof of the desire of the cuitured audience to await the true musical developments in which the later scenes of the opera are so abundant. The charm- ing waitz that foliows, as a general illustration of the gaiety of the life of the “Dame aux Came- liag” is tempered by the broken dialogue of Violetta and her lover, in which is conveyed, with musical tact, the utter heartlessness of such a life. The peculiarly Verdian measures of the duet, which Violetta commences with ‘Ah! se cto se ver,’ followed by the passionate accent of Alfred, with the elaborate cadenza that closed the duet, were delivered with rare effect. The very commonpiace chorus that followed led into the celebrated scena and aria that enas the first act. Here the Diva gave the first evidence of the extension of the volume of her voice, which, united to her exquisite perfection in phrasing and her thorough acquaintance with all the musical re- quirements of the scene, a as with that rare purity of tone that crystallizes each passionate ugterance of a heart awaking for the first time to a holy love, invests this portion of the opera with absorbing interest, The tenor solo, which begins the second act, “pé Miei Bollenti Spiriti,” was sung for the first time in this country oy M. Capoul. He subsiitated for it, juring his previons season here, the romance from “L’Eelair” which, lovely though it may be, was en- tirely out of place in Verdi's opera. But Muzio was inexorable in demanding that the autonomy of the work of his teacher should observed, and M. Capoul created @ far more favorable impression by his artistic rendering of Verdi’s passionate music than anything he could have done with Hi Del Puente, the new barytone, made a mn, and spran, at once into pop ‘by his rendi- tion of the two arias, so full of pi gon" mon—one addressed to the Dame aux Camelias, the portraiture of his daughter, ‘‘Para Siccome un Angelo,” and the other an appeal to his heart- broken son, “Di Provenza il Mar.” The ruses seem to be all crowded into the scene in which Alfred Germont insults Vi letta in the presence of the crowd of pleas- ure-seekers, Here the chorus and _orches- tra were deserving of special commenda- tion. On them depended the chief success of the scene, and nobly they carried out the ideas of the composer and their leader. Capoul was evidentiy laboring under the influence of hoarseness last evening, for, in the second finale of this scene, his voice fell occasionally «# half tone below the pitch. But his long echool- ing in the best of all systeins of music jor training an artist—the Conservatoire of Paris—brought him triumphantly through his arduous role, The last act is replete with orches- tral morceauz of vivid suggestions of the gradual breaking of @ heart which staked its existence in love, Here’the voice of the Swedish nightingale washeard to its utmost advantage. Never has that throbbing duet of the heart, ‘Parigi 0 cara,” been delivered with more tenderness, and never have the last broken accents of Viol 8| best cho- vested with more touching significanes evening. Verdi has many fauite, the worst ot which 18 his proneness to sensation, produced by startling and unnatural transitions. But noone can deny him the power of limning with tue same lurid power that characterizes Doré the storm of humgn passions and grouping musical tableaux with the skill of eat artist. ‘La Traviata” is by no means his best opera; but in it are delicious be in music that never fail to captivate theear of the musician, as well ay that of the profanum ruigus. In his “Alda,” which Mr. Strakosch will shortly produce, we will find tne resuit of his ma- tured powers. Bat while there can be found such @ representative of “La Traviata” as Christine Nilsson there is no fear but that the popularity of the opera will remain undiminished. BOWERY THEATRE, Last evening there was presented for the first time at the Bowery Theatre, “Life, Its Morn and Sunset.” It isa romantic drama, illustrating the vicissitudes and adventures of tife on the English | coast. During its geverai acts, depicting much love, ® good deal of jeal ana = moderate amount of revenge, the play at last accords virtue, _ truth and morality that reward which they always merit. | The incidents of this drama are of the most startling character, and the house was in full ac- cord with those who sustained the principal parts, The “capture by smugglers” and the “rescue of lovera.”’ together with many other scenes, ‘cap- tured” the Bowery patrons, and t! verdict that It wad a very saceossiul plays oe “ME, ANGOT'S CHILD” BY MBS, OATES’ COMPANY, A full house greeted Henry J, Byron’s English adaptation of Charles Lecocq’s comic opera, “La Fille de Mme Angot.” Mr. Byron's success in the field ot burlesque writing would nave warranted a much better English dressing to the music of this piece than he has given it. The play has not been cbanged in the incidents, but @ flavor of punning has been introduced into the dialogue, which smacks more strongly of London than anywhere elise. The company, led by Mrs, James A. Oates, contained a number of aspirants to fame new to the New York boards, Mrs. Oates herself, a viva- cious and pretty burlesque actress, now essays the more aspiring grade of opéra boufe, and brings to it @ fair, fresh voice and a good deal of that verve which 1s essential in the rencition. Her singing Jast uight was correct, and performed without particular straining. She received several encores, Which were generally well deserved. The new tenor, who comes fresh from the shores of Albion, Mr. W. H. Tilla, has 9 sweet voice, fairly trained and well manage: In the part of Ange Pitou, the poet, he made a favorable impression, in spite of his perceptible nervousness at the start. But he is @ poor actor at best, and if he intends to sing in the Comic opera for any length of time he shoold study the poetry o! motion, Mrs, Bowler, as Mile, Lange, the contralto of the piece, was passa- ble, Her voice seems uncertain, and she drops out of tune occasionally, Miss Larkelle as Amaranthe was pleasing. The Pomponnet of Mr. Crane, the Buteux of Mr. H. Brown, and Larivaudiere of Mr. Woodfield will improve when they are more at home in their parts, The orchestra and choruses went very well, with the exception of the female chorus at the beginning of the second act, which is @ pretty piece of music, in lively time. The scenery was ver weil erm set piece in the third act being really Preys The costumes were rich and appropriate. Taken on the whole, “Madame Angot’s Child” was fairly successful last evening and promises to be a success with a little more rehearsul. It is impossibie to preserve the volatile spirit of French comic opera in translating it into English; but we are here presented with an imitation, like some native charapagues, quite as Sparkling as the real articie, but lacking its more delicate Mavor and bouquet. BROADWAY THEATRE—“ABOUT TOWN.” The regular winter season of the Broadway Theatre was begun last evening, The strength of the company was employed in presenting a new English comedy, “About Town.’ The new play, a short one of three acts only, is bright, and pos- sesses & freshness that is charming, when placed in comparison with some other “new comedies” and “society dramas.” It ts a “society play; but it varies in its characters from the idiocy of that kind of drama. In “About Town” the novelty seems spontaneous, and not forced out of the channels of what has seemed to be medern dramatic propriety. This is a great commendation of the plot and the conception of the characters, because even a forced escape from the course made by watery dramatic aptitude would be commendable, The managing mamma— so well known on the stage—is present in the comedy; but, strangely evough, she is thwarted in her plans by her daughter, a generous oung lady, whom one could respect in real tie, though laugh at for affectedness and female Dundrearyism. The wealthy young man who, having gone scatheless through many seasons in the city, is at last smitten with the strength er the untutored grace and beauty of a fondly reared country maid, oe in the play, and the maiden who has snared his heart and lost her own to him has the old-time struggle in mind, pitting father plex lover, and reversing the case. jut the strongest and newest character of the comedy is that of the father of tne pretty rural maid, He has for years, though innocent of crime, carried a shamed brow. He has listened without resent- ment to his own denunciation by the son of the man whose name hé has e has sub- kept clean Lg his silence, and mitted, for the sake of his own child, to be made an instrument by a soulless, grasping, usurious scoundrel, the burden of whose odium from the worid he has carried for years, in the hope some time to be free without dishonoring the memory o1 his dead comrade and iriend. The comedy ends with the clearance of the father from the imputation of evil-doing, and the betrothal of the daughter with the man who had denounced her parent as a felon, but who had become the in- strument of his acquittal, ‘The managing mamma (Lady Westerton) and the thwarting daughter (Florence) are cleverly payed by Miss Deland and Miss Leynox. Mr. ennedy playa Sir Walter Mervyn in 'a graceful, easy manner, that is very pleasing. Mr, Griffiths, however, has the best part, and one well suited to him. This is enough to say; for it will be under- stood that the part was well renderod. SALVINI IN BROOKLYN. The reception given to Salvini at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening was equal to that which he received in New York on his first appear- ance here, Notwithstanding the rain, which driz- zled drearily enough in the streets, the house was Well filled, and the audience wasof a select and brilliant character, without any intentional abuse of this stereotyped phrase. From the moment when the curtain first rose the attention of every spectator was riveted upon the cen- tral figure in the most sublimely passionate of Shakspeare’s tragedies, “Othello.” Tne scene of terrible passion in the third act, wherein the efforts of I are at length victorious over the faith of love, impelled the audience to a display of the wiidest husiasm. The last act was equally effective. Next Monday the Salvini season is con- tunued in Brooklyn by the rendition of “La Morte Civile,’ and ou the Monday after the Italian trage- dian appears there jor tne last time, MISS NEILSON AT THE PARK TEEATRE, BROOKLYN. Miss Neilson appeared for the first time since her return from England at the Park Theatre, Brooklyn, last evening. The audience was large and ex- tremely fervent. During the performance of “Juliew? Miss Neilson was almost constantly being presented with bouquets and caskets of flowers, Among the tributes to her were a heart-shaped mass of flowers, having the words America to Neilson” worked into it. The performance of “Romeo and Juliet’ was very satisfactory on the Part of Miss Neilson’s supporters as weil as on ber own. NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, This institution opened last night. In spite of the rain the attendance was large. Senator Fre- linghuysen delivered an address on the history of Newark’s industries. The opening, a8 a wiole, was @ fair success. THE LOSS OF THE STEAMER MEDWAY. QUEBEC, Sept. 29, 1) The captain of the steamship Medway telegraphs the names of the drowned as follows :— John Harris, fourth officer. Wiittam Smith, seaman, Robert Dorgabie, seaman. J. Taylor, chief cook, William Tiber, trimmer. Thomas Reborough. George Ems. WKENZIE AND THE KIOKAPOOS, Sr. Lovis, Sept. 29, 1878, Colonel KcKenzie, who raided on the Kickapoo Indians In Mexico some time ago, has arrived here from Fort Clark, Texas. He states that only a part of the Kickapoos have lett Mexico for their old reservation in Kansas, The other part of the band has gone still further into Mexico, but it is expected they will return and cause more trouble on the border. MASONIO TEMPLE IN PHILADELPHIA, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 29, 1873. The Grand Chapter Room im the new Masonic Temple was dedicated this afternoon with appro- priate ceremonies by the Grand High Priest, Charles E. Meyer. This morning the visitin; brethren from the varieus jurisdictions inspected the Temple, The dedicatory services took place at half-past five o'clock. ‘This evening a grand banquet took place at the Temple, given by the Grand Chapter of Pennsyi- vania to invited gnests. The Knights Templar demonstration occurs to-morrow. BLOODY APFRAY IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept, 29, 1873. During @ banner raising at tne tavern of Michael Hannery, No. 1,413 Germantown avenve, to-night, @ row occurred, in the course of which Richard Bell struck Michael Trainer on the head with a hatchet, causing a wound which will result fatally. Beil was arrested. & A SHOCKING ACCIDENT IN DERBY, CONN. Naw Haven, Sept. 29, 1873. Charles A. Burritt, a workman in Wilkinson Bros’. paper mull, in Derby, met @ horrible death noon by being canght and whirled around noe of phetting. Nearly every bone in his Dody was prokep, He Jeayas a wiyr MBd Child. _ YELLOW FEVER. A Sad Condition of Affairs in Shreveport. How the Dead Are Rushed to the Cemetery. Ais An Appeal to the Countrv tor Help. SuRKvEpPoRT, La., Sept. 29, 1878. Within the last four days several: of the most Prominent and useful citizens of Shreveport have fallen victims to the epidemic, The population has been feariully thinned out by sickness and death. We no longer have funerals. The hearses, followed by one or two carriages, dash through the streets Yke @ section of artillery in a battle seeking ® position. Then a few more hearses are driven up, the coffins pushed into the nearses and drawn rapidly to the cemetery. This is the case evem with the most prominent citizens, The Howards have opened an orphan asylum ant are feeding about two-thirds of the resident popu- lation, There are fewer deaths and new cases, be- cause there are fewer people. The physicians. ap- pointed a committee last week to investigate the origin of the epidemic, and evidence has already been collected showing beyond question that the fever was imported here from Cuba. Drs. Chopin, Bruns and Davidson, who are here trom New Or- leans, are fully satisfied on this point, The Shreveport Times of to morrow morning wilt contain the following appeal, which the Howard Association earnestly request the press or the country to publish :— . To OvR FeLLow Crrrrens—Yellow fever, am epidemic that has already swept away more than 400 of the community, is still raging with unabated fury in our midst. @ have now at least 700 siek of all ages, sexes, color and nationalities, all of whom, from the pecular character of the disease, require constant and skilful nursing. In addition to this there are hundreds of people leit without & cent and without employment. Among these are many women and iittle children. All them must, for the present, be provided for and fed by the Howard Association for there is no work to do and no money to be had. The destita- tion in our midst is as heartrending as the disease itself, and there is a tearful number of deaths, The drain upon the funds of the associatiq: has thus far been enormons and the liberal aid sent us by our sister cities is nearly exhausted. Under these. painiul circumstances we are torced to make this Gs appeal to the country for additional aid. e have people among us suffering in want, and dying, from all sections of the Union and from,all nations, and we feel that the great public heart will respond to this appeal, extorted by the most dire necessity. Our own resources are nearly exhausted Tho wealthy are broken down; the poor are threatened with actual starvation; the siek and dying are about to be deprived of the commonest comforts bumanity can offer them. We appeal, not to omr feliow countrymen, but to our fellow mon, for aid. L. KE. SIMMONS, President Howard Association. D. B. MARTIN, Vice President Howard Association. D. P. ete D. THOMAS G. ALLEN, M. D. J. 8, CENTLIFF, M. D. MICKINSON DALSELL, M. D. GEORGE A. PIKE. Taggart, H. Schilling, Samuel Skinn, Emmet Ran- kin, James Arnold, James Moseley (colored), Rich- ard Thomas and a child a week old. Total, 8. Yellow Fever at Caivert. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29, 1873. Special despatches from Barnham and Bryan, ‘Texas, to the Picayune, state that there are panics in those places from apprehension of yellow tever, which has broken out in Calvert, Physicians pro- nounce the disease yellow fever. There is an exo- dus from Calvert and the adjacent points, Calvert. has been quarantined on all sides, The Disease in Montgomery. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept, 29, 1873, ' The Board of Health reports one death from yel« low fever, and five cases within the last forty-eignt hours. Yellow Fever Abating st the Dry Tors eens tugas~ as smsce. ! a , iatotdeapatches from Tortugas report the yel- low fever as abating at that place. Lieutenane James E. Bell, at rave young officer and a gradu- ate of West Point, died on the 11th inst, Colones L, L, Langdon, the Commandant, absent from his post on account of dangerous illness in his family, returned to Tortugas on the 6th inst.,on hearing of the baka of yellow fever there. Privates Heintzieman, Miller, Kane, Selka, Horner, Slattery and others—most of them faithful soldiers of the war and bearing an honorable record—have tallen. victims to the pestilence. MAILS FOR EUROPE. The steamshtp Idaho Will leave this port om Wednesday for Queenstown and Liverpool ; also the steamship Hansa, for Southampton and Bremen. ‘The mails for Europe will close at the Post Office at half-past nine o'clock A. M. and twelve o’clock M. 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BVBRDELL, 302 Broadway, Established PP dr gy-tod on se All St aie aun iland, Swi ered, de. cltand, Swiss, Reabrov : oe 4 X &cQ Manulactorars’ and ‘Tho following deaths occurred to-day :—Williany.