The New York Herald Newspaper, October 3, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Suu Faxk Aiternoon and evening. GERMANTA THEATRE, Mth strect and 3d avenue.— Din BanvitEn. BOOTH'’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st— Bir Van Winkie. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, lith street and 6th av.— Rom: Dixy. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—V anrety ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tux Jewxss—Lirr; Irs Monn AND >UNSET. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.—Anour lownN. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Mapamx ‘Axcor's Omit. ane THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tnz Buacx Croox. WALLACK’S THEATR: eee nen E, Broadway and Thirteenth GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third st.—Hauntep Hovuszs. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ldth street and Irving place.— Travun Orxra—F ast. MRS. FB. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THKATRE.— ‘Tax New Magpacen, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway.—lux Geneva Cross. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Varury ENTERTAINMENT. Union square, near PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Romxo anp Juuixr. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Geruan Orgna—F aust. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street.—Tuz Manionerres. Matince at 3 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Montague st.— Traian Orera—F aust. BRYANTS OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nxcro Minstaeisy, &c. Roray HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Conrt street, Brooklyn.— FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. STEINWAY HALL, léth st., between Sd av. and Irving place.—Lecrurs—'Rerusiican MovEMENT IN ENGLAND.” AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 84 av., between 634 and 64th sts. Afternoon and evening. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street, between Broadway and Bowery.—Tux PineRix, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—Scimnck AND At. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 3, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACY! THEIR WORK AT UTICA! THE STATE CAMPAIGN’—ED- ITORIAL LEADER—SIXTH PAGE. CUTTING OUT THE WORK FOR THE STATE DEMOCRACY! THE TICKET NOMINATED AND THE PRINCIPLES ENUNCIATED AT UTICA! GRANT, THE SALARY STEAL AND THE CREDIT MOBILIER DENOUNCED! SPECIE MUST BE PAID! HANDS EXTENDED FOR LIBERAL GLOVES—FovrtH Pace. CIVIL WAR RAGING IN CENTRAL ASIA! AC- TIVE HOSTILITIES IN PROGRESS AGAINST THE RUSSIANS, CHINESE AND PERSIANS! BOKHARA PLAYING A SERIOUS GAME— SEVENTH PaGE. A RUSSO-JAPANESE IMBROGLIO! THE TWO GOVERNMENTS QUARRELLING OVER THE PROPRIETORSHIP OF AN ISLAND—Szy- ENTH PAGE. 4 WHITE MAN CAPTURED ON THE CONGO RIVER BY NATIVE AFRICANS! FEARS FOR LIVINGSTONE—BRAZIL CELEBRATING HER INDEPENDENCE DAY—SEVENTH PaGE, MODOC MURDERERS INTERVIEWED! CAPTAIN JACK CHARGED WITH KILLING GENERAL CANBY! HIS SQUAW WILL NOT LEAVE HIM! SETTLERS EAGER FOR THE DEATH OF THE FHENDS—Tuinp Pace. A&GERMAN NAVAL COMMANDER 10 BE COURT- MARTIALLED FOR SEIZING A SPANISH INSURGENT STEAMER—MORE BULLION FOR NEW YORK—SEVENTH PaGE. HOPEFUL REPORTS OF THE SPANISH SITUA- TION FROM MADRID! ARMY DISCIPLINE REGAINED —M. THIERS SUMMONED TO PARIS—SEVENTH PAGE. INTERESTING CONTEST FOR THE BENNETT PRIZES BY THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FLEET! THE EVA AND VISION SUCCESS- FUL—THE NASSAU BOAT CREW DEFEAT THE ANALOSIAN CREW—SEVENTH PAGE. SIR SAMUEL BAKER TO VISIT AMERICA! THE INVITATION OF THE AMERICAN GEO- GRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND HIS REPLY— SEVENTH PAGE. YELLOW FEVER RAVAGES IN THE SOUTH- WEST! A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER IN SHE ORT! TWENTY-SEVEN BURIALS IN MEMPHIS YESTERDAY—Tentu Pace. A OST EXCEEENT BILLIARD MATCH! GARNIER THE POSSESSOR OF THE CHAM- PION’S CUE! GREAT EXCITEMENT—Turap PAGE. INTERESTING SOCIAL REUNION OF DELEGATES TO THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND THSIR FRIENDS—Texru Pace. REFORMING THE FINANCIAL COLUMNS! A GOOD SHOWING AFTER THE RECENT SKIRMISH! THE AMBUSHES REVEALED— Fourti Pace. BUSINESS AND PRICES ON ’CHANGE YESTER- DAY! THE ACTION OF THE BANKS! STUCKS HIGHER! GOLD LOWER—EicuTH Pace, THE FAILURE OF THE OLD DRY GOODS HOUSE OF PATON & C©O,—FAILURES IN THE SMOKY C:TY- POLITICAL BLACKMAIL— Fourti Pas. INTERESTING LEGAL SUMMARIES—LUCETTE MYERS ON THE GOODRICH MURDER— TROTTING AT DEERFOUT—A “MUTUAL” VICTORY—FirTH Paz. “Toe Loenat Rervewicans are to have 9 State Convention at Elmira a few days hence. Thomas Raines, liberal republican, having been thrown out by the republicans, and hav- ing been placed on their State ticket by the democrats, may perhaps serve as a new treaty with General Cochrane. But if he is re- solved to build up a new party on reform he will probably run an independent State ticket. We shall see. Arter a Storm Comes a CauM, for in- stance, in the present comparative hopeful and promising calm in Wall street. It gives promise of the day when the bull and the bear will lie down together and a lame duck will lead them. Lucerre Myers has been arrested at last, and detained as a necessary witness in the Goodrich murder case. It is fortunate, per- haps, in this case for the prosecution that the witness had waited so long under the idea fat it was all over. NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, The New York Democracy-—Their Work at Utica=-The State Cam- paign. The New York democracy, through their late State Convention, have proclaimed their State candidates for our approaching Novem- ber election and the principles and measures for which, on their part, the intervening can- vass will be conducted. Tho two great parties being thus brought face to face in the field the real work of the campaign will now actively begin. The competing State tickets are as follows :— Republican. Democratic, Secretary of Staté....Francis S. Thayer. Diedrich Willers Comptrotier.... son K. Hopkins Asher P. Nichols State Treasurer ante! B. Vor Thomas Raines. Attorney General... Ben}, D. Billiman, Cana Commissioner. sidney Meade. State Engineer und Surveyor ..........Wm, B, Taylor. State Pris'n InspectorMoss K. Platt Each of these is a respectable State ticket, and, assuming that the gentlemen named on both sides have been selected with a special regard in ench case to fitness and qnalifica- tions for the office indicated, the interests of the State will be safe with the success of either ticket. The resolutions of the two high con- tracting parties with the people are of the usual materials of our party platforms, with the addition of the latest modern improve- ments. The republicans introduce their articles of faith with a recapitulation of the great achievements of the republican party of the nation and the State; the democrats in the outset invite the co-operation with them of all citizens upon the fundamental demo- cratic principles enunciated by Thomas Jefferson. The republicans claim that in what they have done for the United States and the State they have established the strongest title to the gratitude and confidence of the people; the democrats condemn and denounce the republican party as utterly unworthy the public confidence. The republicans declare that the Tammany Ring, with its colossal plunder of the people, the pollution of the ballot box, the defilement of the Bench and all its abominations, were the direct fruits of democratic rule in the State; the democrats affirm that the republican party, after assist- ing a corrupt ring to grasp all the powers of our city government, has seized the occasion to create a new and more corrupt Custom House Ring on the ruins of municipal reform. The republicans claim that they have proved, by their Local Option bill, the true friends of temperance; the democrats have nothing to say on this dry subject. Furthermore, in the republican platform on the transportation question, we have a resolu- tion calculated to tickle the ears of the farmers, while the democrats hold out to the sturdy yeomanry of the United States the right hand of hearty fellowship in their just resistance to the exactions of monopolists and in their just demands for great reforms. On the back- pay question the republicans ask for a bill which will restore this back- pay money still untouched to the Treasury, while the democrats condemn and denounce the “salary grab’’ and all con- cerned in it, particularly the President, and demand a bill of repeal. The republicans point with pride to their adminisirations, both of the State and the nation, while the demo- erats condemn and denounce the party in power right and leit, and especially on the Credit Mobilier business, and they denounce the conduct of the President in the matter of the Kellogg government of Louisiana as a flagrant violation of the constitution and the rights of a sister State. The republicans have no changes to propose on the tariff and general financial policy of the government; but the democrats on these subjects bring their heaviest accusations against the powers that be, and demand a revenue tariff, reforms in every direction and a cur- rency as good as gold. To conclude this parallel on these two party platforms, while the republicans denounce the liberals as a small faction of deserters from their party on false pretences, the democrats recognize them as worthy coadjutors, and cordially invite them to assist in the general work of reform. Here are materials enough for all the labors of all the party organs and orators on both sides that can be performed within the short interval to our November election. But this is what is called the ‘off year’ in our national politics, and it is the dullest year, unless under some extraordinary condition of things, in the interval between one Presidential clec- tionand another. Our next Presidential contest is three years distant, and the new Congress, having been elected last year, our State elec- tions of this year are limited practically to local affairs, save here and there the incidental election involved of a United States Senator or of a member of the lower house of Congress to filla vacancy. Hence the ‘general apathy’”’ which prevails on all sides. Hence, for example, the remarkable «falling off in the popular vote of the recent Maine election, as compared with the full vote called out last on the Governor, September a year ago, as a popular test on the Presidential issne. And the coming October and November elections will doubtless, with hardly an exception, show the general apathy disclosed in Maine. It is the national reaction, particularly under a decisive victory and defeat, from the intense and exhausting excitements of a Presidential campaign. Nevertheless in this State there are sufficient inducements in our next Legislature for a vigorous canvass on both sides to secure the victory. We, the people, have not only the Assembly, but a full Senate to elect this year, and upon the two houses thus to be chosen will fall the election of a United States Senator in place of Mr. Fenton. It is whis- pered abroad, too, that the President is awnit- ing the issue of our State election in reference to the Legislature, in order to determine his choice of a Chief Justice to fill the existing vacancy in the United States Supreme Court. The rumor is afloat that in the event of a re- publican Legislature in New York, which will secure a republican Senator, not only in place of Fenton, liberal republican, but in place of Conkling, should he resign, he will resign in order to accept the distinguished position which will be offered him with this opportu- nity, of Chief Justice of the United States, Of course, with the election of a 4emocratic Legislature, Mr. Conkling will hold fast to his seat in the Senate. But apart from this question we have in the issue of reform in this metropolis, and in the numerous desir- able offices, and in the vast sums of public money, collections and disbursements in- volved, matters which ought to be sufficient for the most active exertions on both sides to -secure the Legislature. And yet, from present Daniet Pratt. Jas. Jackson, Jr. indications, the election, on a short vote, will go by default, from the unity and confidence which prevail on the one side and the divi- sions and doubts which dishearten the other. That wing of our city democracy which marches under the ensign of Apollo Hall, being excluded from the late Utica Conven- tion, as not regularly entitled to admission, is evidently in the mood for another trial of strength against Tammany, not only on the important city officers, executive and judicial, to be chosen, but on the Senate and the As- sembly. Last year the democratic vote, or the united vote of Tammany and Apollo Hall, for Mayor, was 81,347, against 53,031 for Havemeyer, independent and republican. But with the division of the democratic vote, 33,714 for O’Brien, the Apollo candidate, and 47,133 for Lawrence, the Tammany candidate, Havemeyer, with his 53,000 votes was hand- somely elected. A similar contest between Tammany and Apollo Hall this year will pro- duce the same results to a greater or less ex- tent, as the contestof last year. The rotire- ment in evident wrath of the Apollo delega- tion from Utica is generally accepted aso democratic defection which insures the State to the republicans. Unquestionably, if the democrats would overcome the fifty thousand majority by which the republicans, upon a full popular vote, carried the State last fall, the democratic factions and cliques must abandon their family jars and postpone their local quarrels to a more convenient season. But if they are incapable of profitable instruc- tion from the results of their divisions of last year they will probably have enough of the fruits of such folly in our coming November election. Such isthe present promise from their new departure on their old warpath. The Last Days of the Modoc Murderers. Before this paper is in the hands of our readers the dread sentence of the law will, doubt- less, have been carried out on Captain Jack and his five fellow murderers. The Indians of the neighboring tribes will have had an oppor- tunity to gain what lesson the gallows can give by witnessing the execution. It is now many months since the crimes for which the Modoes lose their lives were committed. On the Indians whom the punishment of Jack and his comrades is expected to intimidate the best part of the lesson is lost by the delay, The greater part of the time since their cap- ture has been passed in the forms of a military trial, whose details neither the captives nor the other Indians understand or respect. The swift action proposed by General Jefferson C, Davis, immediately after the capture of Captain Jack, would have had a far better effect. He would have hanged the very Indians who suffer to-day in a week after their capture, and Modoes, Klamaths and all would have felt the lesson in all its severity. As itis, we hope that the effect will not be completely thrown away. In another portion of the Henaip we pub- lish the result of a series of interviews with the condemned Modoes, in which the savage actors in the massacre of General Canby and Peace Commissioner Thomas, and the at- tempted murder of Messrs. Meacham and Dyar, defend themselves after their own fashion. It will be seen that their statements do not accord with the direct evidence of the fact, and the insistence with which Ceptain Jack urges the puerility of his not actually firing on General Canby, while admitting that he snapped his pistol at him in the first in- stance, shows how faint his ideas are of the value of testimony in a criminal case. In the significant statement regarding the furnishing of powder and bad advice by the Klamaths there is something worthy of the consideration of the advocates of the peace policy. As this style of offence is regarded there is apparently no means of punishing it, and the wretched beings, by their escape from punishment, are encouraged in playing the same part over again, with the connivance, in effect, of those who call themselves the friends of the Indian. Beset with difficulty as the successful treat- ment of the Indian question may be, it is cer- tain that the benevolence is mistaken which arms the Indian, loads his musket, feeds him on beef rations, and, while allowing him to be cheated right and left by Indian agents, ex- pects that he will not shoot. The Public Debt Statement. According to the monthly debt statement just published it appears that a reduction of the debt is still going on, though not so rapidly as heretofore. We are no longer liquidating it at the rate of cighty toa hun- dred millions a year. Still, the decrease for the month of September of $1,901,000 and a fraction over is gratifying. We have alwaysad- vocated a steady rather than a rapid reduction of the debt as the best policy, that being less likely to disturb business and a less strain upon the industry of the country. The six per cent coin interest debt is $1,235,000,200, and the five per cent coin interest debt $488,567,300--in all, $1,723,567,500. The in- terest due on this amounts to $31,581,060. The debt bearing interest in lawfnl money is—Four per cents, $678,000, and navy pen- sion fund, at three per cent, $14,000,000—in all, $14,678,000; the interest due on this is $107,620. The total interest bearing debt, with interest due on it, amounts, there- fore, to $%1,769,826,560. The money in the Treasury is—Coin, $80,246,757; currency, $3,289,032, and special deposit for the redemp- tion of coin certificates, $11,250,000—in all, $94,785,789. The demand upon or offset to this is $33,935,400 coin certificates, and the accrued interest on the whole debt amounts to $31,688, 680—in all, $65,624,080. If, then, there be nothing behind or covered up in this statement, the Treasury has $29,161,699 in money over and above all claims upon it. The debt, as it is called, bearing no interest— that is, the legal tender and fractional cur- rency circulating medium—amounts to $402,309,134. Of this $356,079,742 is in legal tenders and old demand notes, and $46,229,391 in fractional currency. In this statement the bonds of the Pacific Railroad’ companies, guaranteed by the government, and the in- terest paid on them are not taken into account, The debt of these companies, for which the government is liable, is—Principal outstanding, $64,623,512; added to this is the interest paid and due to the United States, $16,025,874. The nation is involved in debt for these companies, then, $80,649,386, and the indebtedness is increasing every year. Woe review the figures just as they are given by the Treasury Department, without entering into any critical analysis of the statement or the manner of making it up. The Roads and the Races—The Con- dition of Our Uptown Drives. The races at Jerome Park commence to- morrow, and the thousands of our citizens who are certain to visit the famous track will have an opportunity to notice the condition to which the parsimony and jealousy of the Finance Department has reduced our once pleasant roads, boulevards and avenues in the upper part of the city. The superstructure of these macadamized roadways, of which New York has a right to be proud, was constructed at a cost of at least two million dollars, and, through the ruinous policy of cutting down the necessary appropriation for their main- tenance, the benefit of the outlay is being rapidly sacrificed. When the estimates of the Department of Public Works were made the amount required for the maintenance of these roads was, without any better reason than mere caprice, reduced ten thousand dollars. The insuffi- cient sum appropriated for the purpose was exhausted last month, at a season of the year when the roads suffer the most from neglect. The maintenance force has been suspended since the 6th of September; the roadways have already suffered considerable damage through the want of the usual care, and if means are not speedily supplied for the re- sumption of the labor, the first frost of the season will come and the destruction will be much greater. It is in harmony with the singular financial policy of the Comptroller to allow two millions’ worth of public property to go to ruin in order to save the immediate expenditure of a few thousands, especially when the money is to be expended by authorities distasteful to the head of the Finance Department. But the Comp- troller is not the only member of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and his associates on that Board make themselves responsible for his niggardly and stupid policy when they fail to insist upon a sufficient ap- propriation for the maintenance of our splen- did uptown roads and for the protection of two million dollars’ worth of public property. The Public Works Department has already made three or four earnest appeals to the Board of Appropriation for an additional sum of twenty-five thousand for these purposes, and from the proceedings of the Board it seems that no notice has been taken of the application. If any charge of extravagance could be sustained in regard to the care and repair of the roads there might be some ex- cuse for this captious withholding of the funds required for a work of great public impor- tance; but when we examine the total esti- mates for the maintenance of the Boule- vards we find them to be much less than similar work has heretofore cost under professedly honest and economical management. In 1867 Mr. Green, as Com- missioner of Central Park, expended over sixty-one thousand dollars on the care of two hundred and forty thousand square yards of Park roadways, while the Department of Pub- lic Works asks only sixty-five thousand dollars in all, including the twenty-five thousand now required, for the maintenance of more than five hundred thousand square yards of road- way. The Board of Apportionment should act promptly in this matter. Complaints of the bad condition of the uptown roads flow in from all quarters. The Kingsbridge road, north of 158th street, is said to be not only out of repair but in a dangerous condition, and much work is required on the side roads to put them in proper order. As to the boulevards and avenues, not only are they threatened with serious damage from the parsimoniousness or criminal indifference of the Board, but the scrub-woman polity of the Comptroller prevents the sprin- kling of the roads and smothers the pleasure of driving ina cloud of dust. Ifthe Board refuses any longer to act on the requisition for the sum necessary to properly maintain the uptown roads the Commissioner of Public Works should employ the necessary help on his own responsibility and send the gangs to the Finance Department for their pay. It is his duty to protect the property of the city placed under his official guardianship, He should also make provision for sprinkling the roads on the days of the races, at least, and the people will know that they owe a pleasant drive to his department. It isabout time that our public officers should show the Comp- troller that they have public duties and respon- sibilities with which he has no right to inter- fere, and which they are resolved to discharge, despite ail the obstructions which obstinacy, jealousy or stupidity may seek to place in their way. Central Asia—Another Devastating War. We print this morning a despatch, special tothe Hrrarp, dated Tashkend, September 10, to the effect that another great war has broken out in Central Asia. The state of affairs in Turkestan seems to be strangely, even wildly, confused. In Khokan, one of the three Khanates of Central Asia, civil war is said to be raging. Among the Tnrcomans in the deserts around Khiva the fighting is general and of the most obstinate character. The Afghans have got into trouble with the Persians, and a danger- ous intrigue is being carried on with the Emir of Bokhara. The excitement has spread not only over the whole of Turkestan, it has reached the borders of the Chinese Empire, and Yakub Bey, of Kashgar, is involved in what may prove to be a serious struggle with the Children of the Sun. According to our despatch the whole region known as Central Asia is in a state of demoralization. The late war against Khiva seems to have roused the barbarian tribes of those high latitudes out of their lethargy, and from the bor- ders of Persia to the Chinese frontier the war spirit finds free and full expression. Such is the state of things that our correspondent ventures the statement that Russia will find it necessary to do to Bokhara what she has done to Khiva—con- quer and permanently occupy. It will be observed from all this that, while the trouble is of the most serious character and deeply concerns the future of Central Asia, it does not imply any immediate difficulty with the two great Western Powers—Great Britain and Russia. That “coming conflict” is not yet. Great Britain looks on patiently, but deter- minedly. Russia has to do now in Asia what England did one hundred years ago—keep what she has won. Afghanistan is the grand northern barrier wall of the British Empire in India; and until Afghanistan is touched England has no cause to fight. Some of the best Russian generals wore opposed to the war against Khiva on the ground of trouble ; and expense. These present difficulties, which must cost Russia both men and money, seem to justify this view of the case. Now Russia must remain and make good her position or retire and lose her prestige. With Europe armed to the teeth, and with Germany eager for conquest and pressing close upon her, it will not be wonderful if her Asiatic con- quests should cost Russia too much. Spain—Carlism on © Decline. It is only a few weeks ago since Don Carlos, adding victory to victory, gave fair promise that on an early day he would be King of Spain, King as well by the consent of the Spanish people as by the grace of God. The tide seemed rolling in his favor. Tho aspect of things has changed. Each successive day brings us news of increasing demoralization in the Oarlist ranks. Dorregarray, Roda and Lissaraga have abandoned the cause and sought refuge in France. Large numbers of the rank and file of the Carlist army have sur- rendered to the government troops. At the same time we hear of the complete failure of the intransigentes. Cartagena has become a modern Babel, and we have no doubt that when all the facts are known it will be found that in the Spanish city, on a smaller scale, the horrors of the French Commune have been repeated. Don Carlos must now be counted out. The intransigentes are gone up. The federal Republic has not a ghost of a chance. The promise is fair for the Republic, with a centralized government in Madrid. Don Alfonso and his friends may yet give the Republic trouble, but meanwhile the govern- ment seems to be victorious at all points, and the government is republican. A prosperous republic in Spain would be at once a lesson and an example to the nations of Europe, Sir Samuel Baker to Visit America. The Liberator of Central Africa, Sir Samuel Baker, has accepted the invitation of the American Geographical Society to visit America during the summer season of 1874. His distinction as an explorer and humani- tarian and his wide fame as the only Anglo- Saxon who has ever led a large military expe- dition into the heart of Africa will insure him a cordial reception from the American people. Sir Samuel Baker's has been one of the most remarkable careers of the present century. As the elephant hunter of Ceylon, as the dis- coverer of the Albert Nyanza, as the com- panion of the Hamran sword-hunters of Abyssinia, as one of that circle of brave men who have travelled extensively and who know how to teli and write what they have seen, he has received the homage of the most appre- ciative patrons of courage, endurance and intellect. Of late years there has been a romance about his explorations, in that they have been shared by a heroic wife, who has been his most powerful ally at all times of danger and difficulty. She, too, will visit our shores, and we feel assured that all America will extend to husband and wife a generous and hearty welcome. Tae Protestant Ecumenican Councrt met yesterday and last night at Association Hall, where, with the exception of one meeting to-day at Steinway Hall, the Council will be held during its continuance. The attendance was overflowing, and the enthusiasm of the delegates gave promise of good practical work. Goop For Jxersey—The pledge of seven hundred thousand dollars by the stockholders to maintain the State Bank of New Bruns- wick. Among such men there is no such word as fail. A Nice Question ror THE Bovurnons-- Does the failure of the Carlists in Spain indi- cate the success of the Bourbons in France ? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, John H. Williams, a well-known merchant in Al- bany, is dead, A couple of enterprising young men have started aweekly paper in East Orange,.N. J., called the Gazette, Professor Child, of Harvard, and Richard H. Dana, Jr., have returned to Boston after a Euro- pean tour. Another colored boy, Alonzo McClernan, of South Carolina, has successfully passed this year’s exant- nation at the Naval Academy. They have got it at last down South. His name is George F. Beach; office, Deputy Collector of West Alabama, at Salem—defalcation, $10,000, It is stated that General Longstreet is about to go into the iron business. He has been the subject of @ good deal of irony lately from his former Confed- erates, Miss Clem, of Terre Haute, Ind., has sued I. M. Pierce for breach of promise of marriage, damages $85,000, Why not show a little clemency and make it a round $100,000. In the Maryland Inebriate Asylum they have a literary society named after Oliver Wendeli Holmes. The “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” might write some spirited lines on the subject. General R, Mackenzie, of the Fourth United States cavalry, who astonished the Kickapoos and the Mexicans recently by the adoption of a vigor- ous, though, at the same time, @ strictly “peace” policy, is in St. Louis, Benjamin ©. Piper, who has been twenty years a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, has been appointed Deputy Secre- tary, in place of Mr. Lovett, who has just retired, after filty years’ service. This isthe right kind of rotation in office. Scene in a Cincinnati court (charge, assault upon @ housekeeper)—'‘Did she ever ask you to marry her?” “Yes.” “What did you say?” “I told her to jwait until her teeth were grown.” “What did she say then?” “Nothing.” “What did she do?” “Went down town and bought a new set of teeth.” Case dismissed. The Philadeiphia Press states that amember of the Society of Friends thus complimented one ofhis sect who had joine Tegular church upon the new organ in the latter. “Why, I thought thee objected to such things as music in worship?’ “And so I do,”’ was the reply; “but if thee must worship God by machinery I want thee to have the best.” The same journal, referring to the fading out of the funny department in the Galazy, asks:— “How is it we grow no funny folks who can stand the wear and tear of regular writing?” Because the funny writer cannot, like the poor sctor, “Smile to please you with an aching heart.” The smiles of your average funny man might have a different cause, The Boston Transcript states that a merchant of that city relates the following conversation between two bell boys at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New york :—Pat asks Mike, “What's this suspension of the banks?’ “Hist ye!'? Mike replies, “I'll tell ye. Suppose ye have five conts.” “Yis.” “Leave it wid me.” “Yis.” “Next day ye want it, and ye ax me forit.”” “Yis.’ “1 tell ye, ‘No, sir, I’ve used it mesolf.’” A report having obtained currency that a resi- dent of a city in Kansas had offered $10,000 to any man who Would marry his cross-eyed daughter, the hotels in the place were so overrun With visitors that the landlords had to roost some of them out on poles projecting from the windows. The ex- citement was somewhat allayed when it was dis- covered that tho daughter In question was “colored, not pial.’ WASHINGTON. —-——_ Wasirnaton, Oct. 2, 187% A Petition to Throw Jay Cooke d& Co. Inte Bankruptcy. To-day Messrs. H. E. Paine, B. F. Grafton, Robert Chester and Hinkle & Arrick fled @& petition in the Supreme Court of the District, im the name of clifford Arrick, against Jay Cooke, Henry D, Cooke, Pitt Cooke, W. G. Moorehead; H. ©. Fabnstock, George ©. Thomas, Jay Cooke, Jr., James A. Garland and Edward Dodge, of the firm of Jay Cooke & Co., to force the latter Into bank- ruptcy—involuntary. The petitioner sets forth that the firm is indebted to hin in the amount of $10,500, on certificates of deposit bearing five per cent interest and charges acts of bankruptcy as follows:—On the 20th of September, being possessed of large amounts of real estate in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the District of Columbia, they did make an assignment of all their real estate lying else~ where than in Pennsylvania to W. S. Morehead, @ member of the firm; second, that on the 18th of September they stopped the payment of their com- mercial paper; third, that on the 18th of Sep~ tember, being possessed of bills, gold, silver and copper, and being aware that legal process had been issued and was about to be issued, they con= cealed and removed said money; fourth, that om the 18th of September they suspended payment, and fifth, that on the 18th of September, being then bankrupt, they did make payments of money to certain parties to petitioner unknown, on the plea that they were special depositors and to defeat and delay the act of bankruptcy. ‘The petition was presented to Judge Humphreys, who granted the usual warrant requiring the par= ties 10 appear on Friday, October 10, at cleven o'clock, and answer why they should not be ad- judged bankrupts, &c. The President’s Mind Not Yet Made Up on the Question of the Chief Justice= ship. The President assured a personal friend a few days ago that he had not yet determined upon whom he would confer the appointment of Chief Justice, and with his present intention he should not make the announcement in advance of the meeting ot Congress. He said that he was fully fmpressed with the importance of making the best selection and would not act hastily. Some of the, friends of present members of the Court had offered their views a3 to who should be selected, while he had received from very worthy men sug- gestions which Would be remembered when he came to make the appointment. It is said in legal circles that the choice is narrowed down to three—Conkling, Attorney General Williams and William M. Evarts. The Supreme Court meets om Monday, the 13th inst., when it is expected the eight Associate Justices will be present. Justice: Clitford will preside until the vacant chair of Chief Justice is filled. The business of the Court does not at present embrace any important cases, Executive Order. The President this morning issued the following order :— EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 2, 1873, By virtue of the authority vested in me by seo tion 1, of an act entitled “An act er SERED. priations for the legislative, executive and judiclak expenses of the government for the year ending the 80th of June 1871,” approved July 12, 1870, it t& hereby ordered that the collection district of the State of Vermont, as now constituted, be c! as follows:— That the counties of rertan jet Rutland, Ad- dison and Washington, of the First Coliection dis- trict, be attached to that portion of the Third Col- lection district comprising the counties of Chitten- den, Lamoille, Franklin and Grand Isle, to be known as the Third Collection district; that the counties of Orleans and Essex, of the present Third Collection district, be attached to the Second Coliection district; that Charles S. Dana and Anson J. Crane be retained as Collectors of the Second and Third Collection districts ep ep Ae se U. 8S. GRANT. By the above order Rollins A. Jones, Collector of the First district, is dismissed. Another order will be issued in a few days consolidating the two dis- tricts of Rhode Island into one. The Vienna Congress and the Signal Service. The Vienna Congress has assented bya unant- mous vote upon, the proposition of General Myer, sustained by Buchan, Buys, Ballot, Jellinck, Niewe- nager, Scott, Wild, Mohn and others, to the follow= ing :—That it is desirable, with a view to their ex- change, that atleast one uniform observation of ch character as to be suitable for the prepara- tion of synoptic charts be taken and recorded datly and simultaneously at as many stations ag practic able throughout the world. The formal announcement of this principle with such sanction tends directly to the exchange of signal service and weather reports between all civilized nations. It is interesting in reference to American reports to know that the Chinese govern- ment is preparing the establishing of a system of storm warnings and weather reports for China and the Chinese coast of the Pacific. Heavy Work in the Pension Office. The Office of the Commissioner of Pensions is overwhelmed by the large number of applications for increase in the Invalid division, growing out of the results of the recent biennial examination; and the great number of widows’ claims, cause@ by the provisions of sectibn nine of the actof March 3, 1873, which provides for an increase on account of children not heretofore included, the force of the office is not adequate to meet the pressing demands, and the claimants must be patient till the work can be brought up. Appointments in the New York Custom House. The Secretary of the Treasury to-day appointed the following new deputies in the New York Custom House:—Robert Desauges, Benjamin F. Wyman, Alfred F. Puffin, James Tanner and John J. Osborne. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, Oct, 3—1 A. M. Probabilities, For Friday, in the Gulf States, northeasterly winds, backing to southeast, with higher tempera- ture and generally clear weather. FOR THE SOUTH AND MIDDLE ATLANTIC StaTES, NORTHEASTERLY WINDS AND INCREASING CLOUDI- NESS, WITH OCCASIONAL FOGGY OR THREATENING WEATHER, For New England, rising barometer, North westerly winds, backing to southwest, with clear weather. For the lower lakes and the Ohio Valley, northe easterly winds, with cloudy weather and possibly light rain. For the Missouri Valley and Lake Michigan, easterly winds, falling barometer, rising tempera- ture, partly cloudy weather, and in the latter Tegion occasional light rain. The Weather in T! City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last iat, As indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s acy, ne oe 872. 73, 1872, 187%, +e 60 62 3:30 P.M... 62 7 53 OP.M.. 58 56 68 OO P.M. 54 61 + 62 =«12P. 64 56 mperature yesterday « 58% Average temperature for correspond last Years. .seeeeereees + OAM OBITUARY, Robert Bigsby, LLD., F. R. 8., F. 8. Ae By cable from London we have the announce- ment of the death of Robert Bigsby, an English author. Mr. Bigsby was born at Castle Gate, Notting- ham, in 1806, In 1843 he published a volume of essays and poems, and in 1848 “Visions of the Times of Old; or, the Antiquarian Enthusiast,” books which earned him some fame. He has since written several plays, poems, histories and novels. In 1831 he presentdéa the astralobe of Sir Francia Drake, the famous navigator, to King William IvV., and subsequently he presented other relics of Drake to the British Museum, The University of Glasgow gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of literary merit. He enjoyed a lite- rary pension of £100 year, was an honorary and corresponding member of several literary socie- ties and secretary of the English “Laugne’’ of the Order of Ht, Jqbn of Jerusaleu.