The New York Herald Newspaper, October 4, 1873, Page 6

(NEW YORK HERALD) woe BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII. AMUSENENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, roadway.—Tux Gexxva Cnoss. Matinee at 1. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— ‘Bun Fane. Afternoon ani evening. near GERMANIA THEATRE, lith street and Sd avenue.— Dix Banpitey. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Van Winkie ‘th ay. and Twenty-third st— nee at }) NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st and 6th av.— Wortre Daux Matinee at 2. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 885 Broadway.—Vanterr Enrextaivwent, Matinee at 245. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Tnz Jewsss—Lirs; Urs Morn ann Sunset. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Anout Town, Matinee at lis. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston sand Bleecker sts.—Mapaue ANnGor's Cuma Matinee at 2. THEATKE COMIQUE, SENTERTAINNENT. Matine NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘ouston sts —Tux Biack Cxoox.” Matinee at 1). * WALLACK’S THEATRE, etreet.—Banwisw’s Boox. Matinee at i's. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- sway.—SciENce aNp Ant. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, October 4, 1873. ——— = {THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. *To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE YELLOW FEVER IN SHREVEPORT! WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SUCCOR, WHAT TO PRE- VENT"—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE— SixTH PaGE. @ECIMATION BY YELLOW FEVER AT SHREVE- PORT, LA.! THE INDESCRIBABLE SUF- FERINGS OF THE PEOPLE! ANOTHER HEROIC PRIEST GONE! THE DEAD AND THK SAVED—TENTH PaGeE. WANGING THE MODOCS! THE LAW FULFILLED AND THE MURDEROUS REDSKINS SUM- MARILY SENT TO THE “HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS!” CAPTAIN JACK WANTS TO SEND A SUBSTITUTE TO THE GALLOWS! WHO KILLED GENERAL CANBY?—Tump PAGE. BPANISH INSURGENTS PREPARING TO ATTACK VALENCIA! QUARANTINING ENGLISH VES- SELS! A CABINET OFFICER TO VISIT THE WEST INDIES—SEVENTH PAGE. WHE SOVEREIGN PONTIFF DECLARES HE “NRVER WILL LEAVE ROME”—THE FRENCH POLITICAL WATERS SEETHING— SEVENTH PAGE. ‘FURTHER HEAVY SHIPMENTS OF BRITISH \ GOLD TO TRANSATLANTIC PORTS—CaP- TAIN WERNER'’S COURT MARTIAL—Sey- ENTH Pace. MATTERS FINANCIAL! STOCK OPERATORS TO | RECEIVE THE ATTENTION OF THE EX- CHANGE! CANCELLING LOAN CERTIFI- CATES—FirTH PacE. BTOCKS RALLYING AND THE MONEY MARKET ‘ IMPROVING IN TONE! A WARNING TO WALL STREET! FOREIGN MARKETS! THE EBB TIDE OF ENGLAND’S PROS- PERITY—A MONEY ORDER DEFAULTER— NINTH PGE. @HE SIXTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PROT- ' ESTANTISM FAIRLY AT WORK! RE- LIGIOUS CONDITION OF THE WORLD! THE OFFICERS, DELEGATES, REPORTS AND DEBATES—Fountu PAGE. OCEAN RACES OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB! THE PRIZES, COURSE AND SAILING REGULATIONS—THE GRAND OCCASION AT JEROME PARK TO-DA IFTH PaGs. NATIONAL CAPITAL ITEMS—CHARLES BRAD- LAUGH ON THE ENGLISH REPUBLICANS— THE WINSLOW OBSEQUIES—Tenta@ Pace. TAMMANY’S VICTORY! KINSELLA’S KILLING! APOLLO HALL AS AN UNKNOWN QUAN- TITY! CREAMER’S ROW—THE NIAL BUILDING—Fovrra PaGE. THE LEGAL “OPENING DAY! THE WORK CUT OUT FOR THE JUDGES AND BARRIS- TERS! NO NEW “STYLES” IN THE LAW— YESTERDAY'S COURT BUSINESS—EicaTu Page. GOVERNOR DIX iNSPECTS THE QUARANTINE STACIONS! HOW MATTERS ARE MAN- AGED! HIS IMPRESSIONS — ANOTHER BOND ROBBERY—lirtn Pace. MIAVEMEYER VS. GREEN—BEECHER’S FIRST TALK—ErGuTi Pace. AFFAIRS IN THE FEDERAL OFFICES—ELEVENTH PaGE. the proceedings of the General Conference yesterday at the Hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, which we publish this morning, will be found exceedingly inter- | esting. A Sromp Sreecu 1A New Pracz.—It is all very proper to give credit where credit is due and to “render unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s,’’ but we do not see the precise necessity of injecting into the official monthly report of the condition of the public debt a stump speech in favor of the present mdministration. It is true the debt has been ery handsomely reduced under General ‘Grant, but it really seems to us that the people swho have paid their heavy taxes without com- ate escun credit therefor fully as uch as the administration under whose eye jpnd cognizance the late Congressional salary gtab occurred, and at whose connivance the galaries of the President and other public jofflcers were enormously increased, for all of the people will have to pay in the way of enhanced taxation. Commva To A Heap—The monarchy in france. But what said Louis the Fifteenth? After ms the deluge,” NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDA Broadway and Thirteenth | Yellow Fever im Shreveport— Can Be Done to Succor, What to Prevent? The public has for some weeks past heard of the movements of the yellow fever in the South with the same pained feelings that it would listen to the finctuations of a tide of death creeping up in ghastly breakers to a city of life, or receding in sullen waves with the wreck of ruin behind. When we know that the homes laid waste and the lives gone out are those of our fellow citizens the heart is moved with greater pity and compas- sion, although the horrors be ever so re- mote from our doors. The dark plague wave has rolled in its fotid fatality over the city of Shreveport, La. We hear of physicians dying by their patients’ beds; of dauntless priests yielding up their lives, true unto death in the service of their Master; of the people dying in a horror of desolation and isolation which recalls the gloomiest pages of Defoe in his terribly realistic picture of the Great Plague in London. New York cannot better test the feeling of ap- proaching doom which the coming of the yellow fever causes than by recalling how the mere rumor of its advent in the Lower Bay has set the fears of the city into activity. It is true that we feel in a great measure secure against its inroads, but it is not more than three years since the little graveyard on Governor's Island received a large and sudden accession of dead from among the garrison, cut off by this terrible visitant in a few days. We feel something of the gravity of the disease, when we learn that the Quarantine physicians hide the occasional ship-arriving sufferers from public knowledge, lest the mere knowl- edge of their condition should produce a dan- gerous scare. Many times more horrible than its brother plague, the cholera, it has the pre- eminence in loathsomeness, in malignity, over all the scourges that remind us of the tremen- dous uncertainty of life. There comes an hour in the history of every country when affliction seems to fall with a particularly heavy hand upon some one por- tion, and the whole community is called upon to lament and sympathize. This is the case with Shreveport now, and cer- tainly the accounts which come thither are enough to thrill every heart that is not drugged with apathy. The ghastly hands of the pestilence are laid upon her. Yellow fever has marked her for its own. It is easy to let the imagination run away with one in picturing the details of such an affliction as this; but it is not easy to exaggerate the Tne actual amount of dread and _ horror experienced by the wretched inhabi- tants. Yellow fever is peculiarly loathsome disease. Everything which can complete an ensemble of hideousness and agony enters into its accessories. In all its varieties it is terrible. It is the bosom friend of the king of terrors. It rides postilion upon death’s pale horse. It strikes down victims right and left, without respect to age, sex or apparently to those conditions which deter- mine health and disease. It exhausts every art in accomplishing the horrible victory that ends in death. Sometimes its approaches are insidious, and it lurks in the frame like a cumulative poison. Sometimes it falls like an avalanche or blasts like lightning. Often those of its symptoms which are most fatal bear a treacherous resemblance to health. There are cases in which those who are dying of it walk about declaring they are well up to the last moment. There are others, and these are by far the greatest number, who yield at once as though stricken with a dart, and in whom the dry and swollen tongue, the agony-twisted features, the icy hands and feet and the horrible black vomit proclaim quick dissolution. There are patients who lose themselves in muttering de- liriums, dwelling with a horrible iteration that resembles idiocy upon a happy and distant past; and there are those who retain full con- sciousness up to the latest moment of the mortal strife, and have an exquisite sense of the things of time while fluttering on the black verge of eternity. But under all its as- pects yellow fever is terrible. It is one of those plagues which in a few months undo the work of years, causing the grass to grow in public thoroughfares and moss to settle upon the very market places. Where it reigns the undertaker fattens like a respectable ghoul, turning his natural instincts into the current of trade. New York has never been behindhand in giving aid to sister cities visited with afflic tion. It is particularly befitting that such aid should be proffered now. We cannot afford to lose a moment. Humanity calls to us to send instant and effectual aid. Almost always, in such an hour as this, men and women with the spirit of martyrs arise and show the world the beauty of holiness, the angelhood of duty. They reach that altitude than which the psalmist tells us man is little lower, and force the most cynical of us to respect humanity. These are the kind of men and women whom Shreveport needs at present. Almost isolated from the rest of the world, a panic raging in the place, physicians dead and dying, it is necessary that something should be done at once, We are glad to see that some of the cities near to Shreveport are exerting them- selves in her behalf, and shall be greatly sur- prised if New York does not render speedy assistance of a proportionately valuable kind. ‘The yellow fever has one peculiarity which gives us an opportunity of hoping that science may be able in the end to grapple effectually with it. This peculiarity is that, although in- fections, it needs certain conditions of soi] and atmosphere to germinate its poison with overmastering rapidity. It is a well-known fact that since General Butler cleaned New Orleans the yellow fever has never exhibited a tithe of its virulence in the Crescent City. The miasmatic vapors which seem to give the disease sustenance can, we believe, in all com- munities where the will and the means are strong enough, be annihilated. We know how proper drainage has driven off the fever and ague from cities subject to its regular recur- rence, There is a subtle connectidt between the condition of the air we breathe ond the health of our bodies, which is only partially known to science and not half suspected by people, at large. The Roman Campagna, with ite malaria stealing ever up to the Eternal City and threatening in the end to make the city of the Cwsars and the Popes a city of ihe dead, is an instance of how con- tinual the struggle must be against death in the soil. distilled into death in the air. Tha want of energy and the want of funds, which prevent the draining of the Pontine Marshes, are, we fear, repeated in the listlessness in the South which allows the yellow fever to claim its thousands year after year without an effort being made to prevent its coming again. It is a subject well worthy the atten- tion of the best scientific minds in the country. A special and exhaustive investiga- tion by competent and responsible hands into the physical conditions on which the yellow fever has this year built such a hecatomb of dead would be a great service to the country generally and to the devastated regions of the South particularly. Something might result from such a labor which would place a prevent- ive within the reach of every community energetic enough to take advantage of the means proposed. The City Finances and the Commis- sioners of Accounts—-How Do We Stand? The city charter imposes a very important responsibility upon the Commissioners of Accounts. They are the guardians of the people, empowered to overlook and scrutinize the details of the municipal departments, and are answerable for the efficiency and honesty of all. The law confers upon them the authority to examine books, papers and accounts and to demand from the Comptroller arid Chamberlain any information they may desire to obtain. It is currently reported that these Commission- ers have not found in the Finance Department a willingness to admit their authority or to supply them with such information as is neces- sary to a proper understanding of our present financial condition, but that they have found the books, papers and accounts of the Comp- troller’s Office terribly confused and almost unintelligible. Wedo not know how much truth there may be in these reports, for the Commissioners of Accounts have not yet made a report. There are some points, however, to which we desire to direct their attention, for we caution the Commis- sioners that should any embarrassment or mischance occur in the Finance Department of the city government this winter they will beheld responsible by the people equally with the Comptroller. If they perform their duty faithfully, and are not incompetent or dishon- est, they have full authority and opportunity to discover the actual condition of the public finances now, before any crisis has been reached, and when a thorough investigation may save us from disaster. We suggest to the Commissioners to ascer- tain and make known to the people the actual amount of city and county revenue bonds now afloat which fall due this year or in the first half of next year. It is impossible to obtain this information from any statement which the Comptroller has published, and it is esti- mated by those in a position to form a correct judgment that the amount of these bonds aan- not be less than seventeen millions! It is the bounden duty of the Commissioners of Accounts to discover and report the actual amount. é It is said that there will be due to the State over four millions during the same period and to the school fund over three millions. The Commissioners of Accounts should lock into these figures, so as to know exactly how much money we shall need within the next eight or nine months. There is a rumor that the Comptroller has encroached upon the sinking fund to pay the expenses of the city government, The Com- missioners should investigate this matter and inquire whether a resolution to take six hun- dred thousand dollars out of this fund for cur- rent expenses was not passed ata recent session of the Sinking Fund Board. The amount of claims now outstanding against the city is unknown to any person outside the Comptroller's Office. The Com- missioners should uncarth this information, for these claims are in fact an addition to the city debt, and they bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum. There is a clause in the city charter which legislated out of office on May 1 last, among others, all the persons in whatever capacity, previously appointed by the Comptroller. This vacated every position im the Comptroller's Office and in all the bureaus attached to the Finance Department. When the charter passed the employés of the Comptroller and the officials in the several bwreaus under him were mainly the old attachés of the Connolly régime, the legacies of the Tammany Ring. We have not heard of the reappointment of any of these officers, and yet they are still performing their official duties. The Finance Department is full of them, from head to foot. They hold control of important bureaus and have the handling of the books and accounts. If they have not been reappointed and their appointments officially announced they are not legally in the service of the city. It is the duty of the Commissioners of Accounts to in- quire into the official status of each of the Comptroller's employés, and to ascertain how far he would be responsible as a public officer, under the law, in case of corruption or pecula- tion. At present it seems as if many of the most important of the Comptroller's subor- dinates, if guilty of an official misdemeanor, might successfully put in the plea that they are not legally public officers. The people will expect the Commissioners of Accounts to examine into all these matters, and will hold them responsible if they fail to doso, The report of the Commissioners will be looked for with interest and not without anxiety. Tne Rerun or M. Tnters to Pants,—Ex- President Thiers has returned to Paris from the country. It is stated that the “old man eloquent’ hurried back to the city at the call of his friends, and for the reason that a crisis is at hand. The monarchists intend to make aspring. M. Thiers is now a pronounced re- publican; is, according to confession, heart and soul with the Left, and it remains to be seen how he will meet this fresi difficulty. In a few days more France will again give the world fresh food for thought. The result may be a monarchy ; it may be the Republic; it may be civil war. Whatever the result, it is safe to say that the days of the provisional government are ended. Tur Last Rosz or Summer, or rather the last Saturday concert for this season in Central Park, will take place this afternoon, should the weather be favorable. ‘All that’s bright must fade,’’ and yet we cannot avoid the expression of our regret at the closing of these deliohtful Saturday reuuigus of gur citizens, | aud the bich character of the management, The Last of the Modoc Murderers—The Indian Question Again Before the World, In the death of the four Modoc captives upon the same gallows-tree a series of horrible crimes has been expiated. The execution at Fort Klamath yesterday was a tragedy as well as an act of justice. It brings before us vividly the Indian question, which, if nations have a common, responsible soul, will meet us ‘at compt” some time. We may wring oar hands over the thought that, as one race against another, we have been of the robbers, murder- ers and depredators; our pitying humanity may weep at the wrongs the red man’s race has suffered; but neither tears nor wringing of hands will avail aught while the Indian, converted into ao demon, defies civilization, and the land he encumbers is wanted for the plough. It is useless to go back over the history which tells in bloody chapters how, before the ever-reced- ing West was cleared of timber and brush, that the bleached plumes of the Indian corn might dance and nod in vast expanses, it was first necessary to expel, to cajole, to exterminate the plumed warriors who believed they held the forests and the plains in fee simple from their God. We may call it ‘Manifest Destiny,” the press of progress, or what we please, when we wish to apologize to our self-accusings; but it is of all things necessary to recognize as a fact that the Indian has gone from the lands he once called his and that he turns at bay in the lands we send him to. The scene at Fort Klamath yesterday ofa chief and his leading braves strangled before the eyes of a thousand of his race is the result of the unrest that rndely up- rooted associations with land and forest and river create in a barbarian breast. The ferocity, cunning and treachery which made the death of these Indian wretches a small atonement for the acts of their whole tribe, are facts in the Indian character, as we have moulded it, and not their sporadic exhibition in the lives ot a few. It is the consciousness of this truth which turns philanthropy into the condone- ment of crime by praying pardon for what- ever offence an Indian may commit. The doctrine of ‘‘utter depravity,”’ irresponsible for its acts, is the true formulation of what isin the minds of the school of Indian philanthropists when they call the Indian ‘‘a child of naturo.” They see only the gigantic wrong to the Indian race, and are blind to the conscious- ness that the wronged are transformed into living fiends. They would let the Indian’s tomahawk crash through the head of the set- tler’s wife, and say that civilization had justified the Indian. They stand with a piece of frayed sentiment between the Indian mur- derer and justice, and they make a forbear- ance, which the Indian cannot understand, an incentive in his mind to the committal of additional crime. We wish all success to a peace policy which gives us peace, but we cannot join in the cry for immunity to crime, when punishment, swift and dire, is alone what will hold the Indian’s hand. It may be worth while recalling how strangely the trouble grew which swelled into the Modoc war. The Indians were ordered to shift from Lost River, and they wanted to retain their land. Finding no visible force to drive them out they went one morn- ing and murdered the settlers there. Then the tribe fled to the fastness in the lava beds and defied the troops sent out to reduce them. Then overtures for peace were made, wherein the few ragged Indians in the rocks were treated gravely as a war power by the United States. The massacre of General Canby and the Peace Commissioner, out of whatever well- spring of the Indian character it came, was, we say, deliberately invited by the governmental course. Possessed, as it would seem, of the philanthropist’s doctrine in part, and making @ feeble show of strength, the government gave every encouragement to the belief of the Modoes that they were masters of the situa- tion. We can now recall with a sad smile the proclamation following the murder of Canby and Thomas, which handed over the Modocs to extermination, root and branch, At length the tribe, weakened by dissensions, with characteristic treachery turned against it- self. The Indians were all within the grasp of the government, and the redoubtable Captain Jack himself a prisoner. The government, how- ever, had long before relented, and when Gen- eral Davis resolved to make a suitable example of a dozen of the leading murderers his arm was hastily stayed and a trial instituted which must have helped to make the white man’s justice still more ridiculous in the Indians’ eyes. The trial was simply for the massacre at the peace talk. They were made to believe that the murder of settlers, the shooting of soldiers, the robbery of camps, were things not carrying any penalty. With this light, the proposition of Captain Jack that Scar- faced Charley should be hanged in his stead will not appear so ridiculous. They had both equally shed the blood of the whites, and the doomed chieftain could only wonder that a dis- tinction was made, while Scar-faced Charley will only chuckle in the cunning of his Indian heart that the white man cannot see crime in murder, except generals of the army and peace commissioners are slain. This is all that the ‘lame and impotent conclusion’ of yesterday's hanging teaches to the Indians, for whose special benefit the tableau was arranged. Elsewhere will be found a complete descrip- tion of the scenes at Fort Klamath up to the eve of the execution, telegraphed to us from Jacksonville, a distance of over ninety miles from the place where the execu- tion was ordered. Of deep interest to the entire community as are the details of the sad affair, the Henaup has spared no trou- ble or expense in procuring them at the ear- liest possible moment. The details of the execution have not reached us up to the hour of going to press; but the dread fact that, in the righteous strangula- tion of these four wretches, the Indian question is gibbeted once more before the world, is os trae as it is painful. The Jerome Park Races, The fall meeting of the American Jockey Club, always @ pleasurable event for the fashion- able circles of the metropolis, commences to- day at Jerome Park. ‘Tho attractions are greater than on any previous occasion, as six events are on the opening programme, all in- teresting to lovers of the turf. The best horses in America are entered for this meeting, Y, GUTOBER 4, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET. -—— ——- -- Sea aac enn cnnn_-ompommoen anitieeitatnimmnsn aometh insures satisfaction and thorough enjoyment. The great drawback to the sports of the turf in this country has been the encouragement given to irresponsible and unconscionable sharpers, and the want of discriminating judg- ment shown in the admission of objectionable persons to a course. All these disagreeable things have been carefully excluded from the meetings of the American Jockey Club, and now there is nothing to mar the pleasure of the patrons of the favorite course of America. The charming drive through the Park and the attractive surroundings of the course lend an interest to these races that cannot be found elsewhere. The first day's races commence at one o'clock this afternoon, and, to judge from the excitement manifested in betting circles, and the elaborate preparations made in the realms of fashion, the attendance will be larger than ever before. The British Press On the Panic. It appears by a telegram from London that the Times has been commenting on the panic in this country. Of course this thoroughly British journal is severe on ‘‘the recklessness and dishonesty lately characterizing the man- agement of some of the great undertakings in America,’’ for it never fails to be so when an opportunity is afforded. Unfortunately there is too much truth in its remarks. It would be easy enough, however, to recriminate by call- ing attention to the inflated railroad schemes and collapses in England as well as to panics there which have been caused by reck- less speculations and characterized by dis- honesty. We can hardly reconcile the state- ment that there is a chronic nervousness in England momentarily liable to become acute on financial affairs here with the fact, also telegraphed yesterday, that American bonds had advanced in the London market one-half to three-quarters per cent. This would rather indicate confidence than nervousness, Even this journal admits that in another part of the article, for it expresses the opinion that the danger has disappeared for the present. It adds by way of a climax that ‘the entire blame for the disaster rests upon the unsound monetary system of the country.” The mean- ing is, we suppose, that our monetary system is unsound because we have not specie pay- ments. It is desirable to return to specie payments, and with the subsidence of the panic and other favorable circumstances there is a prospect that the premium on gold may continue to decline and that we may ap- proach a specie basis. But the most unsound feature of our monetary system is in having several kinds of currency. To the legal ten- ders, the national bank notes and frac- tional currency there is now added bank cer- tificates. What we really want is a uniform currency, issued by the government and rest- ing on its credit, which would be received as specie for all purposes. The national bank circulation never can answer this purpose, nor is it proper to give private corporations the benefit and profit of a national circulating medium. Congress should remodel our whole monetary system. The New Warlike Troubles in Central Asia. The very interesting despatch which we published yesterday from our special corre- spondent at Tashkend, in the Khanate of Khokand, in Central Asia, is entitled to more than a passing notice. The military subjuga- tion and occupation of the Khanate of Khiva by the Russians appears to have stirred up all the surrounding wild and warlike tribes of that vast desert region known as Turkestan and of the surrounding semi-barbaric nations. Turkestan is a desert waste, of an area of nearly eight hundred thousand square miles, sprinkled with fertile oases, and intersected by several rivers, including the ancient Oxus, tributary to the Salt Lake or Sea of Aral, the valleys of which are exceedingly productive. This extensive country of semi-barbarous khanates or kingdoms and wandering savage tribes of traders and robbers is bounded on the north by Russia, on the east by the Chinese Empire, on the south by the lofty mountains of the Hindoo Koosh, which look down upon the ‘‘Vale of Cashmere,’’ and by Atghanistan and by Persia; while on the west its arid deserts extend to the desolate shores of the Caspian Sea. Over and around all these immense desert regions wars appear to have broken out—wars between the wild Turcomans and the Rus- sians; between a khan and his rebellious sub- jects in one quarter; between the Persians and the Afghans, and between Kashgar and the Chinese. As briefly sketched in our de- spatch—which, to reach this office, has trav- ersed nearly half the circumference of the globe—these wars and rumors of wars appear to be as senseless as the conflicts of so many flocks of kites and crows in the air. Nor do we care particularly to know the purpose of the revolt in Khokand or of the war between the potentate of Kashgar and the Chinese, nor of the difficulty between the Afghans and the Persians, It will suffice for the present that, what with all these warlike disturbances in Central Asia, and what with the active hos- tilities of the Apache Turcomans against the Russians, Russia is promised abundant employment for years to come in the subju- gation, pacification and civilization of Tur- kestan. This is the moral of these warlike disturbances over all those wild countries of savages or semi-barbarians. The warning to the Czar is a warning to prepare for a general war of subjugation if he means to be the mas- ter over Turkestan. We cannot doubt that he intends to be the master in that quarter, nor can we doubt that he will employ the measures and the forces necessary to secure complete success. But the work which it was thought was substantially accomplished in the con- quest of Khiva was only there begun. For years, it may be, Russia henceforth will be so actively engaged in establishing her authority over Turkestan as not to be troublesome to her Western neighbors in reference to Euro- pean affairs. Barrisn Goip.—Over o million and a quar- ter of dollars in British gold is now coming this way in the Atlantic steamers. How won- derfally quick is sturdy John Bull to seize upon every opening in the way of trade! THE COMPTROLLER’S RECEIPTS. Comptroller Green reports the following amounis paid into the treasury :—From the Recelver of Taxes for personal tax, $33,762 33; taxes and assessments and water rents and inter- est, $3,428 11; Irom market rents and fees, $922; from water rents and penalties, $1,874 50; trom licenses, $162 26; from District Court fees, 339, Tobal, $40,178 Ade from arrears of | PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Secretary Belknap has returned to Washington, Where is young Carlton? Echo answers, “Where ?”" Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, of Vermont, is at the Windsor. Right Rev. Dr. Cummins, of Louisville, Ky., ts a6 the Windsor. General Joe Hooker has arrived at the Fiftm Avenue Hotel. Senator A. H. Cragin, of New Hampshire, is a¢ the Westmoreland Hotel. Colonel Brewerton, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Astor Honse. The value of the late Duke of Brunswick's dige monds is now officially estimated at £100,000, Solicitor E. ©, Banfield, of the Treasury Depart- ment at Washington, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Professor Pedtschinka, of Moscow, Russia, was recently frozen to death during a snow storm op Mont Blanc. The Pope received on the 19th ult. a Roman depu- tation that presented him with an album contain- ing 20,000 signatures, Count Cayour’s memory is to be preserved by ® monument in Turin, Italy, which is to be in- gugurated on November 4, President Grant expects to attend the annual reunion of the Army of Tennessee at Toledo, Ohio on the 15th and 16th instant. Dr. Holland wants to see more Christian gentle+ men in politics. There are plenty of “hard Chris- tians” to be found at every ward meeting. The Rochester Democrat says Rev. James Free+ man Clarke holds fast to the right to bolt—the only thing in a long and varied career that he has not bolted trom, The Count de Chambord has lately written to Mgr. Guibert, the Archbishop of Paris, compliment. ing the latter for his pastoral circular in favor of the legitimist cause. The Butfaio Express thinks a member of Con- gress can live in Washington at from $900 te $150,000 per annum, according to the tastes of Mr. and Mrs. Congressmen. John M. Lee, of Nashville, has just given a beaw tiful locality in the suburbs of Nashville as the site for the Tennessee Scnool for the Blind, paying the sum of $15,000 for the ground, Queen Victoria, while at Ballacnlich, Scotland, sipped some ‘mountain dew" from a small silver cup, out of which Prince Charlie drank when @ fugitive after Culloden, in 1746, Bya remarkable coincidence France paid the last instalment of the five milllards to Germany on the same day that Great Britain consummated the payment of the Alabama claims to the United States. Alonzo G. Grant, the President of the Europeaw International Emigration Society and agent for the Florida Immigration Company, who is at present in Ireland, writes that he is hopeful of returning to Florida this winter with seventy or eighty families of practical and experienced farmers, WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, } OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. d—1 A. M. 8 Probabilities, For Saturday, in the Gulf States, south and east winds, partly cloudy and clear weather, possibly with rain on the immediate coast. For North Carolina and the Middle States south. east to northeast winds, cloudy and threatening weather, possibly followed by rain Saturday even- ing. FoR NEW ENGLAND NORTHEASTERLY WINDS, CLOUDY WEATHER AND POSSIBLY RAIN, For the lower lake region northeast winds, veering to southeast and southwest, occasionally increasing to brisk, with cloud and rain, For the upper lake region northeasterly winds, increasing to brisk and backing to northwest, with clouds and rain, Cautionary signals are ordered for Toledo and Detroit. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature tor the past twenty-four hours i comparison with the vorresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, Henatp Building :— Tet, 1873. 3872, 1873, Average temperature yesterday... . 59. Average temperature for corresponding date last year. sesecees 69, A Gang of Two Surrounded, Wounded and Taken Prisoners on the Borders of Canada. BINGHAM, Me., Oct. 3, 1873. For the past six weeks this region nas been freatly troubled by a gang of horse thieves that have ranged through the northern portion of Piscataquis county and this section, creating great alarm among the owners of horses. Eight horses were stolen, but have been retaken. The whole county has been on the alert to catch the thieves, as they have not only stolen horses, but lived on the county. On Tuesday night nine men from Moose River, who had been hunting for the thieves some days, came upon their camp, and, surrounding it, called upon them to surren- der. The party, which consisted of two men, re- sponded by opening a fire upon the pursuers, who closed in upon them, firing as they advanced. The thieves did not give up until both were severely wounded, one through the lung and the other deep in the shoulder, Two of the pursuers, Richard Holden and William Ray, of Moose River, received ugly flesit wounds, but are not dangerously injured. The thieves were captured just over the line, in *Can- ada, and brought to this side, to the house of Otis Holden. They refuse to tell their names. & requisition will be made at once. The people in the sparsely settled country about here feel greatly relieved. A WILKESBARRE MINER KILLED. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 3, 1973. Last evening a farmer named James Warner and his wife, while returning from Hazelton te Dorrance township in a large wagon, were ac costed by some miners, who asked for a ride Their request was granted, and soon after getting in they commenced quarrelling and using indecent Janguage. Warner ordered them out, when they attacked him, and he defended himself with the board which he had been using as a seat and knocked out the brains of one of the miners, War- ner 18 how in prison at this place. A CABBAGE THIEF SHOT DEAD. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 3, 1873, An Englishman named George Law was last night caught in the act of stealing cabbage from the patch of Frank Espey, in Hanover township, below this city, and when an effort was made to arrest him he fired three shots at Espey without hitting him, Espey then fired and shot the thief dead. At the Coroner's inquest to-day Espey was exonerated Irom all blame. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY, Founda in the River with a Bullet Hole in His Head. Yesterday morning the body of a man was found in the East River, foot of Jay street, Green- point. On examination of the body a pistol shot wound was found in the right temple. The de~ ceased was about filty-five years old, five feet nine inches in height, no whiskers, large features and ray hair. io was clothed in a hickory shirt, rown pantuloons, with no boots. The body, which. appears to be that of a German laborer, has been in the water about five days. {tis now at Parker's undertaking establishment, corner of North First street and Union avenue, Brooklyn, E. D., awatt- ing identification, Alderman Charies Miller, of the First ward, who has been ill for over a year past, died at his resi+ dence, No. 113 Willow street, on the Heights, Brooklyn, at hall-past one o'clock yesterday morn- ing. When his death was announced at the City Hail it was received with profound regret, and a special meeting of the Board of Alder: — men was at once cailed to take — suitable action in respect to his demise. The deceased wae born on Long Island, fMfty-seven years ago, and came to Brooklyn whena boy. He has represented the Firat ward in the Board of Aldermen tor thes past four years. He was President of the Fishes mongers’ Association, and it ts said that his inesy was contracted by his close applicayion to DuUsINO a, He igaves a wifg and samuy,