The New York Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXVIII...... -No, 282 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. Broadway, between Prince and NIBLO'S GARDE r K CROOK. Houston sts—Tne & WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street. —Banwise’s Book. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third sireet—ITaLian Oreka—Lucia pi LawMenmoon. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mdth street and Irving place.— Tux GLADIATOR. MRS _F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— | Many Siuarr. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Broadway.—Tuk Geneva Cross. Union square, near WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Sravek Buinp. Aiterno d evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixtli av. and Twenty-third st ~ FPaxcuon, tax Cricket. NEW_LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st and 6th av.~ Norge Dame. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Travian Oruga—Lvcia Di LAMMERMOOR, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanisty ENTERTAINMENT. 1OWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Frencu Sry—Fiyinc Dtouman. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Brondway— Max, tux Mexry Swiss Boy. OLYMPIC THBATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts;—Mapamg ANncot’s CHiLD, THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5M4 Broadway.—Vanytr ENTERTAINMENT. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— ‘Tickxt-or-LeavE Man. GERMANIA THEATRE, léth street and 3d ayenue.— Dix Baw! x ROBINSON HALL, ixteenth street—Taz Roya Mantonetres, Matinee at 3 BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner fiath av.—NecRO MINSTRELSY, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MINSTRELS. HARLEM MUSIC HALL, Harlem.—Rocyp tHe CLock, AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 84 ay., between 63d and 64th sts, Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- Way.—Science ap Ant. DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Scizxce anp Ant. RIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 9, 187 THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of Herald. the “THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE AND THE RO- MAN CATHOLIC CHURCH! A FIELD DAY FOR SECTARIANISM’—THE LEADER— SIxTH PaGE. MONARCHICAL QUESTION IN FRANCE! BAZAINE’S TRIAL—THE UNITED STATES STEAMSHIP * WACHUSETT AT _ VIGO, SPA THE BOMBARDMENT OF CARTA- GENA! SICKNESS IN THE SPANISH RE- PUBLICAN CAMP—RIOTING CORNISH MINERS! ENGLISH RACING MATTERS— ¢ AGRICULTURAL TROUBLES IN IRELAND! PROPOSED EMIGRATION—SEVENTH PaGE. FEARFUL RAVAGES OF THE YELLOW FEVER! THE SCOURGE IN MEMPHIS AND SHREVE- PORT! SIX HUNDRED SICK AND FORTY- TWO DEATHS IN THE FORMER PLAUE IN ONE DAY—SEVENTH PaGE. PROTESTANTISM VS. CATHOLICISM! DISCTS- CUSSIONS OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLI- ANCE! THE ERRORS OF ROMANISM! IN- FALLIBILITY AND THE FRENCH PILGRIM- AGES! A DINNER AND A PUBLIC MEET- ING IN BROOKLYN—Turep Pace. MEETING OF THE LIBERAL CONVENTION AT ELMIRA, N. Y.! GENERAL COCHRANE ON THE SITUATION! THE TICKET—Tamp THE , NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Evangelicai Alliance ana t! Roman Catholic Church—A Field: Day for Sectarianism. Yesterday the Conference of the Evangelical Alliance massed its forces to make an attack along the whole line upon the Roman Catho- lio Church. It was, of course, not to be ex- pected that the Alliance would shrink from this part of its plan of campaign. With its centre resting upom Associatlon Hall, its right upon the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church and its left upon St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, the line of battle made an imposing appearance. At ten o'clock three rousing trumpet blasts were heard, and the Protestant Church militant moved forward on the foe, against which it has struggled since the time its forces numbered no more than a corporal’s guard. Yet we do not imagine for an instant that the most enthusiastic members of the Alliance believed that they were making anything more than what, in fighting technology, is termed a “demontration."” The day of national conver- sions has gone by. The peculiar mixture of brute force and human reasoning, backed, as we are to suppose, by the special beneficent grace of the Divine Spirit, which were the visible and invisible agents for the proselytiz- ing of entire nations in the early ages, has no longer its field for action. All Europe has been Christian, and America, peopled from Europe, is, in the great ‘bulk, Christian too. Since the last European heathen died Chris- tianity has had divisions, greater or less, among its members, and, although one divi- sion or the other has triumphed in various times and various localities, it must be admitted with regret that, counting by heads, Christianity in Europe and America has only loss, by fall- ing away, to dread. If we look back to the beginning of the seventeenth century we shall find that, whereas the activity of Christian sects may have altered in sporadic cases the shades of Christian belief, European nations and their direct offshoots in America preserve the same religious complexions to-day as in the year when the good Queen Bess died. The revocation of the edict of Nantes made no conversions from the Huguenots; it simply transplanted believers in the Reformation. The relapse of the French revolutionists from Catholicism to the worship of Reason was only a French spasm, which, subsiding, left France religiously much as it found it. In America, where European colonies have survived, the religion of the colonists has lived on. England, Scotland, Germany, Scandinavia and Switzerland contributed Pro- testants in the great majority of cases. Spain, Portugal, France, Ireland, Italy and Austria Sent Catholics in the greatest numbers. The | descendants of all these preserve generally the same relative proportions of religious beliefs. The real exception to the rule | in all countries is the comparative growth of infidelity, free-thinking atheism, | positivism, or under whatever name those are | known whose starting point is the complete negation of Christianity. They are the | common foe of all Christians; but, while | agreeing that such is the case, the great sec- | tarian divisions of Christendom have resolved to tilt at each other first to find out who is to | blame for the existence of infidelity. Asa | general statement of the case we may put it in the following form:—Catholicism says that Protestantism is to blame, because infidelity has its parent in the reckless unbridling of belief; it is a sliding scale to infidelity. Prot- estantism says that Catholicism is to blame, because its outrageous assumptions have forced | men into revolt against all revealed religion; it acts like a nauseating drug on the human vessels containing faith. None but the atheist can rejoice in these recriminations, which, diluted with words and spiced with pulpit | malevolence, re-echo wherever the one church | can believe they will come to the ears of the | | other. The great Christian issue of the day | | is how infidelity is to be met; yet at the meet- | PAGE. COLORED REPUBLIVANS CRYING FOR SPOILS OF OFFICE! AN APPEAL FOR A NATIONAL CONVENTIUN—TaRp PAGE. A NEW METHUD FOR ELECTING THE PRES#- DENT OF THE UNITED STATES! OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE—Tuirp Pace. THE THE REFORM ASSOCIATION AND THE COMP- TROLLER! GRAVE CHARGES OF CORRUP- TION AND GE RAL MISMA. M Pt WHAT THE MAYOR WILL DO—TENTu Pace. SPORTS OF THE TURF AT JE GLORIOUS DAY AND A CF WINNERS OF THE FIV MEETING AT THE PITTSBURG DRIVING PARK—SEVENTH PaGE. SAFETY OF THE YACHT ME LITTLE EGG HARBOR— THE TRIAL OF STOKES! SHE, PUTS INTO XTH PAGE. OF THE PRISONER! HIS COUNSE) FUR A) ADJOURNMENT! A QUESTION As TO THE LEGALITY OF THE JURY PANEL—PRO- CEEDINGS IN THE COURTS—Firtu Pacs. THREE FIRES IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY! THE “FIRE BUG” AT HIS DIABOLICAL WORK— TENTH PAGE. 4 FEVERISH STOCK MARKET! THE INFLUX OF ACTION | | lemics are always suspect. Yet the Catholic | | since the infullibility dogma Catholicism was | GOLD! GOVERNMENTS AND RAILROAD BONDS IN E | BANKS AGAIN PAY DERS—ACTIVITY IN COMMERCIAL CIR- CLES—Fourtn Pace, Tue American Jockey Cuvp.—As will be seen by the report in another part of the paper, the races yesterday at Jerome Park were witnessed by an unusually large assem- blage of people, notwithstanding the dispirit- ing effect of the weather in the first part of the week. The five races were well run, and save that in the hurdle race at the close of the day's proceedings, wherein one of the jockeys ‘was thrown and fallen on by his horse, nothing happened to mara day of exception- ally good sport and admirably suitable weather. Tae Trimp Trt or Stoxrs.—The defend- ant Stokes, having been granted a new trial by the Court of Appeals, again puts himself and his cause before the courts and the people of the State upon the issue of a third trial upon the charge of shooting to death Colonel James Fisk, Jr., in the Grand Central Hotel in this city, in Jannary, 1872. Whatever new facts can be developed as are claimed to be in favor of Stokes, procurable now, and which were beyond the reach of counsel for the de- fence in the two former trials, will be soon made apparent. The public will: hail with as much pleasure satisfactory proofs of ‘justifi- able homicide’ as they are anxious for the vindication of justice in bringing to punish- ment the perpetrator of the highest crime known to the law. The trinl was opened yesterday and will proceed without delay to ie ing of the Aljance it has had bat one or two exponents of any ability. For the far narrower | and more vulgar fight between Protestantism and Catholicism it could call forth ulmost every man on its roll of members. Is this consoling? Is this wise? Yesterday the spirit of sectarianism was rampant. Agreeing to differ on all things | Protestant, the Alliance is at one in allowing | no such liberty to the Catholics. Apart from | the interest inspired by the various papers read, we must look upon the attitudes of the contestants as curious to impartial eyes. A perfect statement of an opponent's case when religion is under dispute is something very difficult to get, almost im- possible to expect. So much lies in motive, which an opponent can never measure, anfl which he will never admit to be what the | other party states it to be, that religious po- | case was stated yesterday by a dozen Protes- tant gentlemen with the most surprising re- | sults, Professor Dormer, of Berlin, said that Cesarism. Professor Fisher described it as depressing, where his religion was exalt- ing, and a despotism where his belief was | liberty. The proclamation of the aforesaid | dogma, according to Professor Hitch- cock, was an error and a blunder, the | latter, we suppose, being the miserable | earthly quality of inexpediency superadded to the implied violence to right. It was, in fact, neither right nor, what with clerics of all | | crat « | bons were lost. But now we have these libe- | stead of dividing the honors with New Haven, | France, Italy and Austria aro somewhere about the time of the deluge. Paradoxically beside these stigmas of antiquity it will be found that the only good words for Catholics are for those who call themselves “Old."’ On the showing of results we are not much more struck with the roseate glow of things for Protestantism in this anti-Catholic field. Rev. Mr. Lorriaux, of Paris, reports the admirable success of evangelization in France; but he must have looked at the matter through a Popish mag- nificat, or he would not have missed the dis- couraging signs detected by the eyes of Rev. Mr. Fisch, of Paris also, who told about the successful machinations of the Jesuits and the Bourbons in getting up pil- grimages. Professor Pronier gave great encouragement by depicting the ‘Catholic but not Roman” character of belief, which Father Hyacinthe was working for in Switzer- land, and the good “Old’’ revolting Catholics were put down as five thousand strong, with fifty-nine congregations and forty priests. They evidently have left His Holiness the Pope something in the way of a following. Dr. Storrs, while depicting the repulsive nature of Catholic law and doc- trines, dwelt on the seductive and attractive influences of its mysterious ceremonies. The point out of it all to which we would call the attention of the Conference is that no plan was laid down for the conversion of Catholics to Protestantism, nor was any prospect of such a result held out. To encourage a weakening of the Catholic Church, to call it superstitious and class it as an enemy beside atheism, argued Dr. McGlynn, a Catholic pastor, in a sermon published in the Henarp last Monday, is not Christian. With Catholics it is not likely to cause any revolt against their Church, The very effort of the Alliance toward a union of sects, with allits incom- pleteness, places Protestantism on the very ground of a unified church, which, in its log- ical form of a complete unity, it combats. So the great fight was fought yesterday. What effect 1t will have on Protestants we cannot yet say. If it makes them love their Catholic neighbors and causes the latter to reciprocate we shall be pleased, if disappointed. But we still cannot help thinking that those who look on from the outside will be saddened, and that if there is a langh on any side it will be the metallic cachinnation of the infidel. The Liberal Republican State Conven- tion and Its Results. The Liberal Republican State Convention at Elmira was a more imposing affair than was anticipated by either the republican or demo- cratic politicians. The impression widely prevailed that, this Convention would bea “beggarly account of empty boxes,’’ but it turned out an assemblage of nearly two hun- dred intelligent delegates. The State ticket, however, is the mixed ticket that was generally expected, and the resolutions, com- ing as they do from a body of anti-Grant republicans, would have disappointed all sides had they not been particularly pungent upon the alleged manifold corruptions and abominations of the national administration. The liberal State ticket, made up from the republican and democratic tickets, is as fol- » lows: — For Secretary of State—Diedrick Willers, demo- For Comptrotter—Nelson K. Hopkins, republican, For Attorney Generai—David Pratt, democrat. For State Treasurer—Thomas H. Raines, demo- crat and liberal. For Canal Commissioner—James Jackson, dem: oor State Engineer—Sylvanus H. Sweet, demo- Wig State Prison Inspector—Moss K. Platt, repub- an. Mr. Raines, as State Treasurer, was elected as a regular republican, but having in the late Presidential campaign supported the opposi- tion ticket and cause of Greeley and Brown, he was thrown out by the republicans at Utica, and being thrown ont by them, he was adopted by the democrats, and being a liberal repub- lican, he was of course at Elmira the favorite for State Treasurer. He constitutes, in fact, the liberal State ticket, the others, democrats and republicans, being adopted as make- weights for Mr. Raines. The Elmira platform, like the Elmira ticket, is made up of republican and demo- cratic timber, but, as the deserters from a church or a party, being always in earnest, are always its most inveterate enemies, we find | these anti-Grant republicans more eloquent in the expressions of their wrath and hostility against the national administration and the party supporting it than the democrats, sworn | enemies of the dominant party from the beginning. The question recurs, What will be the effect of this liberal movement in our com- ing State election? A party which, on a com- paratively short notice, can muster a State Convention of two hundred delegates, must have a considerable body of followers scat- tered through the State. They were not visible in the results of our last November elections, because for every republican gained by the democratic party in the Greeley move- ment perhaps two or three democratic Bour- rals in a position in which their strength or weakness will be disclosed, and they may, | thus posted in the battle, bring about some surprising results Hartrorp Victor .--The popular Vote | of Connecticut (near six thousand majority) in favor of Hartford as the State capital, in- as heretofore, isa great victory for Hartford, | creeds is occasionally as good, sagacious. Professor Kraft, of Bonn, indeed mixed up other earthly reasons against Papal infalli- bility when he said it was in utter disregard of law, right and decency. On all hands it was denounced, but beyond this the case was, we fear, little advanced. The actual change which the dogma brought about from the man- ner in which Catholics regarded the Pope before the last Ecumenical Council was never | fairly examined. This is only one instance of the inexactness which characterized the attacks, An intelligent compari- son between the implied independence of Papal interference enjoyed by the Catholic world before the Council, and its condition since, would, we believe, dissipate all the tall about a new Catholic despotism. It was purely a question for Catholics whether what they claim to have existed at all times should be put into dogmatic shape to prevent all mis- takes. Catholicism was conceded by some of the speakers to have been good enough in its way, but it is too musty for the nineteenth century; indeed one speaker startlingly urged that there was no nineteenth century in Eu- Tope, exeept.in North Germany and Buglagd. and the city should do something as a testi-,| monial of its appreciation of the popular ver- dict. A handsome park would be a good idea, and the example would be a good ons to all | our other State capitals that have not adopted | this most beautiful and valuable of all modern city improvements. New Spores rs Taz Op Hu».—The numer- ical strength of the city of Boston has been increased by the annexation of the towns of Charlestown, Brighton and West Roxbury. The population of the city may now reach somewhere near three hundred thousand—a very creditable figure for a provincial city. By these annexations the “Hub’’ can now boast ef Laving within her limits the ever-to- be-glorified shaft on Bunker Hill, to say nothing of the delectable cattle pens of Brighton. Tae Ustrep States any Encranp.—On Monday last we had a thunder stofm at New Brighton, Staten Island, and on Tuesday last they had 6 thunder storm at old Brighton, England. Did it go over by the cable? ee Tae Frve Ports x toe Game oF THE Brey, Barnan—Five-tyentios, The Demand for the Removal of the City Comptroller—Unearthing the Suspicious Mysteries of the Finance Department. The citizens of New York will B startioa to-day by the disclosure of the profligacy, to call it by no harsher name, with which the public money has been expended by Comp- troller Green for lobby services rendered to the Comptroller during the last session of the State Legislature. The unearthing of the bills which we publish this morning calls to mind the exposure of the secrets of the old Tammany Ring two years ago. Under Tweed and Connolly the squandering of the people’s money without the warrant of law and the payment of counsel ‘for services in regard to legislation’’ at the extravagant rate of one hundred dollars a day, and from nine to twelve dollars a day additional for ‘‘ex- penses,”’ were classified under very expressive heads. We see no reason why they should not be similarly designated when occurring under the financial management of Comp- troller Green. ‘The bills dug up out of the recesses of the Finance Department are those of a “reform” lawyer of this city, who appears, according to his own statement, to have been engaged by Mr. Green to render ‘services in regard to legislation” at Albany at the modest rate of one hundred dollars a day and expenses, This fortunate counsel has drawn out of the city treasury, for seventy-four days’ alleged services, the sum of $7,944 75. The first two amounts paid to him by Mr. Green (five hundred dol- lars each) we take to be for ten days’ work, although the dates are not specified in the bills, and one of them is not sworn to as re. quired by law. In the other items the days on which the “‘services’’ were performed are specified, and we are thus enabled to fix them definitely. We find that for March 19, 20, 21 and 22 the counsel was paid by Mr. Green out of the people’s money $448 50, or a fee of one hundred dollars a day and a little over twelve dollars a day for board at an Albany hotel. From March 24 up to and including May 31 his ‘‘services” were paid for every day excepting Sundays, or sixty days, at the rate of one hundred dollars a day and an average of nine dollars a day for expenses. It is immaterial whether the lobby or legal services of the ‘‘reform’’ counsel employed by Mr. Green are worth one hundred dollars or one hundred cents a day. If Mr. Green valued them at the higher rate he wns per- fectly at liberty to engage them, provided he paid them out of his own pocket. He might have retained the whole Albany lobby at his own expense, to keep himself in office, to increase his own. powers, and to defeat guch legislation as might be desired by co-ordinate departments of the city government to which he is unfriendly, and no person would have a right to complain. But by what authority did he pay these shamefully exorbitant fees and expenses for ‘‘services in regard to legisla- tion’’ out of the money of the people of New York? Who constituted him the lobby guardian of the people’s interests? He had no legal right to pay out a single dollar ot the public money for any such purpose. In so doing he has followed the practice of the Tam- many conspirators, who were condemned for nothing more severely than for their unscru- pulous squandering of the public money for “services’’ rendered at the State capital. In the auditing and payment of these lobby service charges Mr. Green has shown a re- markable absence of the official preciseness and watchdog vigilance he exercises over the payrolls of laborers and scrub women. There is a,looseness, as well as a liberality, in his action in regard to the accounts of his special counsel which is as novel as it is significant. One of the bills thus paid bears no affidavit, as imperatively required by law. Then the one hundred dollar fee for ‘services in regard to legislation” and the accompanying ‘‘ex- penses” have been paid every day, Sundays excepted, during a period of over two months, although it is notorious and was well known to Mr. Green that the Legislature was not in session at all for many days between March 24 and May 31. The Comptroller recently at- tempted to deprive a poor scrub woman of her wages, probably amounting to ten shillings a day, because she had not, as he alleged, per- formed all the services for which she charged. It did not occur to him to cut down the bill for “services in legislation’? at over one hun- dred dollars a day for days when no Legisla- ture was in session and no ‘services’ could have been perfommed. A committee of the Reform Association, headed by Mr. John Foley, waited on Mayor Havemeyer yesterday to lay before him these remarkable accounts, as well as other alleged improper official acts on the part of the Comp- troiler, and to demand the removal of that officer. As the Mayor has promised to give the subject his attention, we place before him for his consideration certain points bearing upon the case. The “services in legislation’ rendered by Mr. Green's special counsel included twenty- seven days in May, while the present ‘charter was in force. In article 6, section 36, of the charter it is provided as follows: — No officer or department, except as herein other- wise provided, shall have or employ any attorney or counsel, but it shall be the duty of the Law De- | partment to furnish to every department and officer such advice and legal assistance as counsel or attorney, in or ont of court, as may be required by such officer or department; and for that pur- pose he may assign an attorney to any department that he shall deem to need the same, &c, No provision is made in the charter for the employment of counsel by the Comptroller, either as a legislative agent or otherwise. The special counsel, whose large bills are now be- fore the Mayor, could not have been assigned to the Comptroller by the Corporation Coun- sel, because the bills bear no autiorization or certification of the latter officer, and because the assignment of special counsel for any such purpose as ‘services in legislation’’ would not have been authorized by the charter,»which contemplates only special legal services ren- dered necessary in a department for its official business in an emergency. The Comptroller has, therefore, wilfully viotated’ the prosent law, at least in his payment of these bills from May 1 to May 31. . In article 16, section 95 of the charter it is provided that “any officer of the city govern- ment who shall wilfully violate or evade any of the provisions of this act * * * shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, in addition to tho penalties proposed by law, and on conviction shall forfeit his office, &c."’ It will be interesting to note whether Mayor Havemeyer will have the Gxmuneas to discharzo his duty under the law and properly investigate the serious charges made against the Comp- troller, in whose leading strings he has been hitherto supposed to be driven. ‘ If the investigation is to be made, and made impartially, we invite the Mayor to further inquire whether the retainer given by the Comptroller last Saturday to this same special counsel to appear on behalf of the city in the mandamus cases before Judge Barrett was authorized by the Corporation Counsel, and whether the assignment of such special counsel to the Comptroller's department has been made in accordance with the provisions of the charter—by the law officer of the city gov- ernment. If, as we are informed, the Corpo- ration Counsel has made no such assignment, but, on the contrary, has advised the Comp- troller that the city has no good defence to the suits in which mandamuses were applied for before Judge Barrett, then Mr. Green has again clearly violated the provision of the law to which we have referred; has done s0 in obstinate defiance of the opinion of the legal adviser of the Corporation and at a needless waste of the public money, and should be at once removed from office. Eantaguares.—A violent earthquake oc- curred in Darmstadt, Germany, on Tuesday last, causing great terror among the inhabi- tants, shaking the city greatly and doing considerable damage. This shows that the earth is getting feverish again, and now we fear that next the city of Paris will be greatly shaken, for the signs of a coming earthquake in that quarter aro in the air. Curcaco Reprvrvus.—This day two years ago the city of Chicago, from her great fire, was a plain of blazing or smouldering ruins. But look at her now, recta in curid—glorious in her strength, radiant in beauty and arrayed as a bride for the reception of the bridegroom, one of the modern wonders of the world, Tae Desrrvctive Fieg in our neighboring village of Mount Vernon yesterday was owing mainly to the absence of water. They had firemen, on the ground in time, but they had no water. Experience is the mother of wis- dom, but we have to pay very dearly for her instructions in neglecting them too long. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor-elect James Otis, of San Francisco, is at the Brevoort House, General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Bishop John Sharp, of Salt Lake City, has arrived at the $t. Nicholas Hotel, Captain Locock, of the British Army, has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Brewerton, of the United States Army, nas quarters at the Astor House. Collector James F. Casey, of New Orleans, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Weeks, of the United States Army, has quarters at the Metropolitan Hotel, Lieutenant Commander Woodrow, of the United States Navy,.is at the Glenham Hotel. Major P. P. G. Hall, of the United States Army, is registered at the Sturtevant House. The President will leave Washington to-morrow to attend the Maryland State Fair held at Pimlico. Count G. de Lichtervelde, Secretary of the Bel- gian Legation at Washington, is at the Brevoort House, General Gustavus W. Smith, Insurance Commis- stoner of Kentucky, 13 registered at the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel. The Marquis de Noailles, the French Minister, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House from Newport. Secretary Charles B. Robertson, of the British Legation, yesterday arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Washington. Lieutenant Governor J.C. Robinson and State Engineer Wiiliam B, Taylor have arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Admiral Polo, the Spanish Minister, left the Clar- endon Hotel last evening for Washington, but he will return to this city to-morrow. Wilkie Collins was yesterday entertained by Governor Dix, Colonel F. T. Martin and Mr. Little- field, President of the Young Mens’ Association of Albany, Judge Settle, of North Carolina, called at the White House yesterday to extend to the President an invitation to attend the North Carolina State Fair to be held at Raieigh. The President yesterday appointed Samuel L. Glasgow, of Iowa, to be United States Consul at Glasgow, Scotland, and John A. Bridgeland, of Indiana, to be United States Consul at Havre, France. Count Corti, the Italian Minister, sailed for home yesterday, in the steamship Russia, having ob- tained leave of absence from his government. He takes with him to London the records and evi. dence used belore the British-American Claims Commission. ANOTHER INDIAN WAR. The Cheyenne Tribe To Be Punished By the Troops—A Sqaally State of Affairs at Fort Sil, WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 1873, Secretary Delano to-day received the following telegram from the Commissioner of Indian Af- fairs:— ’ Fort Srut, Oct, 4, Via Cappo, Oct. 7, 187: To Hon. C. Delano, Secretary of the Interior: Governor Davis and party arrived yesterday. They have held a preliminary council with thi Kiowa chiets, The severe measures probably n cessary with the Comanches here make it very im- portant that the Cheyennes raiding near Pueblo should be struck and destroyed or captured. Their chiels told me that the men went against their wishes and in defiance of their agent. They dis- claim all responsibility for them. A blow there will make the solution here much easier by preventing the tribes from joinine the Comanches, The In- dians must be kept on the reservations oy unish- ment When other means jail, ED. P, SMITH. The contents of this despatch were communi- cated to the War Department, and it being agreed to take immediate action the Secretary tele- graphed to Mr, Smith as tollows:— WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 1873. -E. P. SmitH, Fort Sill, Indian Territory : Orders have been given by the War Department to strike the raiding Cheyennes near Pueblo as 800N as possible. eep me advised of events, ©. DELANO, Secretary of the interior, WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OPPICE OF THE CHIRF SIONAL OFFicnr, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 9—1 A. My Probabilities, FORTHURSDAY, THROUGHOUT THE ATLANTIC STATES CLEAR WEATHER AND HIGHER TEMPERATURE, For New England northerly winds, backing to Southwest, For the Southern States light winds and calms, For the Gulf States light winds, mostly from the Southeast, with generally clear weather, For the Ohio Vatley and the lower lakes south- westerly Winds, partly cloudy and clear weather. For the Lower Missouri Valley and upper lake region southwesterly winds backing to southeast and possibly on Lake Superior northeast, with partly cloudy and warm weather. The Weather in This City Yesterday, The following record will show the changes in the temperature tor the past twenty-four hours tn comparison with the vorresponding day of last year, a8 indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s g iiding :— Pharmacy, HERALD Bu 1s 1872, 1973, + 66 67 72, 1873. 43 46 «OP. 62 oo «(64 OP. M. 50 12M. . 65 63 12P.M.. 65 Average temperature yesterday. + 66 tem) ture for corresponding date Average tempera eu IU VGASsseccesannsesamecesreceees “ AMUSEMENTS, ——__— Italian Opera—“I1 Trovatore,” with Nilsson, Campanini, Cary and Del Puente. The Academy of Music was crowded last evening, the performance being the fifth of the subscription series. Although the opera was the well-worm “ll Trovatore," which has been sung in every shape and form in this city until it might be con- sidered an impossibility to give anything new in its cast, yet it proved of advantage last even- ing in demonstrating the ability of Mr. Strakosch to present a company complete im all its requirements and well balanced in cast, chorus and orchestra. It is such @ novel sensation to hear an Italian opera company of such calibre, that there was a degree of freshness com- municated to the familiar numbers of Verdi's most popular work. In this particular the management deserves high praise, since it is a long step beyona the pernicious star system, the bane of art. The four principal singers—Mme. Nilsson, Miss Cary, Signor Campanini and Signor Del Puente—won laurels in their respective rdles, and it would be dificult to say which of these artists was entitled to the greatest degree of praise. Even the minor parts were filled by conscientious singers, and Signor Muzio’s department, with the exception of one faux pas of the chorus, ot which We shall speak again more fully, contributed to the harmony and symmetry of the representation. ‘The HERALD has repeatedly urged the necessity of Such perfection of detail in operatic performances, and to the management of the Strakosch troupe the credit is due in the inaugaration of such a com- mendable course, Madame Nilsson, although she doesnot count the role of Leonora among her favorite operatic char- acters, won such a success last evening as should encourage her to repeat more frequently such @ charming and symmetrical performance. She breathed tenderness: and deep feeling in the “Tacea la Notte” and surprised every one by her brilliant and sparkling rendering of the succec ding auegro, “Di tale amor.!’ The forte of Madame Nilsson does not consist of bravura singing, but here she showed herself an adept in the pyrotechnic line. Her presence and voice infused # degree of warmth into the concluding trio 0, the first act, even beyond the flery ardor of the tenor and baritone. In the agitated measures of the “BE deggio e@ posso crederio,”’ when she 1s rescued. from the power of the ‘Count by the opportune ar- rival of her lover, the dramatic power of Mme. Nilsson was shown to advantage, and the fine ensemole that closes the act was given with promptness and energetic expression, The tower Bcene Was more interesting than ever by Mme. Nilsson'’s exquisite singing in ‘D’amor sull’ alle rosee” and her superb acting during the ‘Mis- erere.” The “Tu vedrai’ was omitted, and by ita omission the Leonora of the evening lost an oppor- tunity of adding considerably to her triumph. She flung a wealth of passion and fervor into the aria, “Vivra! contende il giulilo,” and her death scene was replete with startling power and tenderness, Throughout this well-known role of Leonora in Nilsson’s hands became fresh and delightful, and sppibate greeted her from the rise to the fall of the curtain, Miss Cary astonished even her most enthusiastic admirers by the amount of tragic fire she infused into the rdle of the revengetul gypsy. The first Scene of the second act was interpreted by her with rare effect, and she was called out after her passionate Perec with Manrico by the spontane- ous voice of tne entire audience. Again, when Azucena is taken prisoner by the retainers of the Count, Miss Cary called forth the commendations of those who listened to her. She has evidently labored industriously in her profession since the first Nilsson season; for she has succeeded in unit- ing dramatic talent to her rounded, sympathetic voice. ‘The Manrico of the evening, Campanini, revived the furore of Wachtel, with the additional good quality of presenting an impersonation of uniform excellence. He gave the opening sereuade deli- ciousiy and the gem of the tenor part, “Ati! st ben mio,” with expression and feeling. This lovely aria generally passes unnoticed by the general public, but tue blatant ‘Di quella pira,” when adorned with the wt de_ poitrine, is sure to bring down the house. The exquisite feelin} which Campanini breathed through every note ol the former aria passed ior nought last evening, as far as applause was concerned, but when bis voice rang out d/a Wachtel, in the high C,in the “Dt quella pira,” every one applauded, and the tenor Was obliged to bow four times before the curtain. He sang the “Ah! che la morte” as it has seldom been.rendered at the Academy. . Del Puente, the barytone, was another feature o1 the opera, His rendering of “Il balen” was so good that the audience demanded a repetition of it, The chorus was excellent, except during the “Miserere” behind the scenes, which was sung @ quarter of a tone below the pitch; and had it not been for the talents of Nilsson and Campanini, and the firmness o! Muzio over his well selected and admirably trained orchestra, this scene would have proved disastrous in the extreme. When will Italian singers learn to sign properly behind the scenes? They bawi out with the full force of their lu when the situation and the composer demand the very opposite. When they are on the stage under the eye ofthe conductor they are held in check, but in the coulisses they are utterly uncontrollable. The Strakosch company will present “Lucia” to the Brooklyn people this evening, with the follow- ing cast:—Lucia, Mlle, Torriani; Edgardo, Signor Campanini; Ashton, Signor Dei Puente, Musical and Dramatic Notes. The death of M. Désiré, the celebrated comedian of the French stage, removes an actor who has graced the Parisian theatre since 1857. He excelled in bouffe parts. Herr Joseph Forster has cémposed, for the Opéra Comique in Venice, aromantic comic opera called ‘Inés; or, the Queen’s Pilgrimage,” in which Miss Minnie Hauck will be the prima donna. Signor Salvini appears to-night tm the tragedy of “Tl Giadiatoe.” The scene of the play is laid in Rome, in the town where Christians were mar- tyred in the circus for the pleasure of the pagan multitude. Niger, @ Thracian slave; the Empress Faustina, a Christian girl slave, Neodamia, and Flavian, @ noble Roman, are the principal characters. Niger had been pre- eminent among the gladiators; but, his wife hav- ing beep sacrificed to incline the gods to the unnatural desires of Faustina, he had, as a part avengement of the crime, burned the imperial palace. He had escaped to Egypt with his daugh- ter, who was stolen from him there. He returns to Rome and meets Faustina in the Catacombs. Her wishes and the promises of the sor- ceress had been realized. A son had been born whose fate, an oracle declared, is linked with that of the child of the sacrificed slave, Faustina, desiring to find and care for Niger’s child, urges the Gladiator to a continued search for his daughter. Finally, after much prolix plotting, the dramatist discovers Neodamia, the Slave-girl, to be the lost child. She is about to be slain in the arena by Niger, when he mptices & mark on her shoulder, and knowing her from this as his own daughter he pleads to the people for her release, But they are obdurate. ‘The Empress’ maternal love rising over her hatred for Neodamia, who had taken from her the love of Fiavian, she declares that the fate of the girl must not be decided until the morrow. She endeavors to procure the escape of Neodamia, Flavian, who had been imprisoned asa Christian, and the Gladiator in the night, But the people, led on by an enraged priest of Juno, revolt, clamor for Christian blood, and finally, aiter killing the Emperor and destroy- ing his’ palace, they attack the prison. As they enter where Niger and his daughter are awaiting them, the Gladiator kills Neodamia, to preserve her from the mob, and then himself. LECTURE BY GENERAL MILLEN. General F. F. Millen, of this city, who did such valorous and intelligent service for humanity and the Hmraup in penetrating the wilds of the insurrectionary districts of Cuba, and describing what he saw and heard, intends to detail his experiences in the form of @ lecture at the Cooper Union to-morrow (Friday) | evening. As secret commisstoner of the Hesaup General Millen had ever! opportunity of becoming fully acquainted witl nls subject, and will no doubt do tt ample justice, His lecture is entitled “fhe Cuban strug~ gie jor Independence,” . NAVAL ORDERS. Captain Paul Shirley ts ordered to command the Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco, Cal., on the 20th inst. ; Ensign Henry T. Stockton ts ordered to the receiving ship Potomac, at Philadelphia; Chief Engineer L, 8, P, Ayres 18 ordered to duty in charge of stores ot the Norfolk Navy Yara; Captain Louis v, Sartori is detached from the Mare Island (Oal.) Navy Yard and placed on waiting orders; Captain Charles H. Balwin is detached from the command of the Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco and or- dered to duty as executive officer at the Mare Island Navy Yard; Lieutenant J. K. P. Raysdall is detached fom the South Pacific station and placed on waiting orders; Second Assistant Engineer Wil~ liam L, Batlie is detached irom the Portsmoutn (N. H.) Navy Yard and ordered to the Fortune; En- sign amir A, Hadden ts detached from the Pen~ Gacola and Diaced on waiting orders,