The New York Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1873, Page 6

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THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents otf the Herald. WHAT SHOULD BE THE CROWNING EXCEL- LENCES OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT! AN ELABORATE EXPLICATION OF THE PRES- ENT VITAL DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT BY PROFESSOR DWIGHT! LAWS MUTABLE, THE UNION IMMUTABLE—Fourta Pace. FRENCH POLICE CONFISCATE 22,000 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRE-BAPTIZED PRINCE IMPERIAL! CHAMBORD TO MEET DEPUTIES FROM THE RIGHT IN BRUS- SELS—SEveNTH Pas. FRENCH REPUBLICANS ON THE QUI VIVE! MEETING OF THE DEPUTIES AT M. JULES SIMON’S RESIDENCE! A PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES FORTHCOMING! THE BAZAINE TRIAL—SEVENTH PAGE. DOMPLETION OF THE RAILWAY ACROSS THE INDIAN PENINSULA—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH PAGE. OFFICIAL DENIAL OF THE REPORTED CARLIST VICTORY OF THE 6TH INST.! GENERAL MORIONES CLAIMS A SUCCESS FOR THE REPUBLICANS—SEVENTH PaGE. EMPEROR WILLIAM TO VISIT FRANCIS JOSEPH—VICTOR EMMANUEL DOES NOT EXPLAIN HIS VISIT TO BERLIN—Sevente PAGE. LATEST ADVICES FROM THE FEVER- SCOURGED DISTRICTS OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST—NEWS FROM THE Na- TIONAL CAPITAL—SEVENTH PaGE. THE POLITICAL FIELD IN THE METROPOLIS, BROOKLYN AND THE WEST! THE DEMO- CRATIC FACTIONS OF TAMMANY AND APOLLO PASSING AROUND THE PEACE CALUMET—TuIRD PaGE. CUBANS IN NEW YORK CELEBRATE THE AN- NIVERSARY OF THE FIRST BLOW FOR INSULAR LIBERTY—THE CENTENNIAL— THIRD PaGE. ANOTHER INTERESIING LETTER ABOUT THE FRENCH PILGRIMAGES! THE “OUVRIERS” , AT THE SHRINES—GREAT BRITAIN’S WAR UPON THE ASHANTEES—TROTTING AT GOSHEN—JEROME PARK RACES TO-DAY— FIFTH PAGE. THE SAD FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN AND HIS PARTY AT THE “THRESHOLD OF THE NORTH POLE!’ AN “OWER TRUE TALE!” RECOVERY OF IMPORTANT RELICS—Firrn PAGE. MR, JOHN McKEON TELLS SOME MORE UN- PLEASANT FACTS ABOUT 1HE POLITICAL REWARDS THAT ARE REAPED BY THE BIGOTED APOSTLES OF KNOW-NOTHING- ISM IN THIS CITY—Frirru Pace. RETTING A JURY TO TRY EDWARD 8. STOKES! LITTLE SUCCESS YESTERDAY! SUSPECTED TAMPERING! A NEW PANEL—SUMMARIES OF LEGAL BUSINESS—NINTH PAGE. POLICE EFFORTS TO FERRET OUT THE NATHAN MYSTERY! JOHN T. IRVING'S KNOWL- EDGE. NTIL PAGB. MR, ANDREW H. GR THE CITY FIN THE EN’S STATEMENT OF L MUDDLE! THE IR- REGULARIT! AND STEPS TAKEN TO REMEDY THEM—CITY HALL MATTERS— Fourth Paces. FHE NATIONAL TREASURY AND THE MONEY MARKET! THE $44,000,000 RESERVE! SPECIE PAYMENTS! A BETTER STOCK STATUS—REPEALING THE SHIPPING LAW—Eicuta PAGE. EVANGELIZING THE WORLD CONSIDERED IN THE GREAT PRUTESTANT COUNCIL! MIS- SION WORK! WHAT WILL BE DONE TO- DAY! BEECHER’S LECTURE—Fovrtn Pace, MISS MINK’S CRIME—THE CRUEL DEATH OF IDA VAIL—EXCELLENT WORK AT CREED- MOOR—WEATHER REPORTS—TEnNTH Pace, Tae Women's CenTenntat Assocratrion— Mr. Benou.—A feminine organization, enti- Hed “An association of American women, which, while commemorative of the immortal Declaration of Independence and its cente- nary, shall also serve for all time as an incen- tive to excellence in the various departments of science, industry, literature and art,’’ held its first meeting at Steinway Hall the other evening, at which our worthy and humane fellow citizen, Mr. Henry Bergh, presided. But the meeting was 4 failure; and, as Mr. Bergh has taken in hand this work of the en- terprising ladies concerned, he owes it to them and to himself to try again. What if they do say that Spiritualists, women’s rights women, and free love devotees of both sexes predomi- nated at this first meeting and made a farce of it? Is not the idea of a women’s centennial a good one. we should like to know? une Appointment to the Chief Jus- ticeship Still in Shadow—How Si- lence Discredits the Nation. Again the semi-official statements which profess to divulge the intentions of the na- tional administration appear touching the ap- pointment of a Chief Justice of the United States. Their office at present is to reannounce @ supposed determination on the part of Presi- dent Grant not to make his choice public before the meeting of Congress. The public is further tantalized with the hint that the se- lection has been made, but we miss from the inspired declaration any vouchsafement of a reason why this ill-advised course is to be adopted. It will be recollected that the crea- tures who penned these manifestoes a month ago were not so shy of airing supposed Presi- dential reasons, but they were found to be so shallow'and so easily seen through that the public has prudently not been asked this time to trouble itself about the President's regsons for silence. The pretence that the announce- ment of the President’s choice for Chief Justice would disturb the country without any resulting benefit exhibited such a distressing regard for the nerves of the robust giant we call America that it provoked only smiles. The vigorous country which refused to be panic-stricken when the buchu bankers and brokers and government agents abroad suspended pay- ment had scarcely much need of the solici- tous care about its nerves which the party in power or its priests of the oracle thought fit to exhibit, lest national disaster should follow discussion on the merits of a Presidential appointment, The simple brusque statement that the President will not make the appoint- ment known until Congress meets is more to the purpose, if humiliating to the country. We have given the President credit for com- mon sense, and one of the best indications that he possesses this saving quality is his ability to acknowledge that he can make mis- takes. With all the care and conscientiousness he could bring to bear in nominating a citizen for so important an office as the Chief Justice- ship there are many things which he might overlook—things which might on examina- tion render the submission of the nominee to the Senate something he would recoil from. Giving President Grant full credit for con- scientious belief in what he advocates as desirable policy and perfect con- fidence in those whom he desires to appoint to office, his own experience will tell him that he is not incapable of urging un- timely policies or naming unacceptable per- sons to office. Attached, with all the steady persistence of his nature, to the scheme of an- nexing St. Domingo, he found that again and again the voice of the country and the vote of the Senate were hostile to such a step. To his credit he formally abandoned it, while placing on record his unaltered personal belief in its feasibility, its ultimate necessity and the unlikelihood of any dangerous results flowing from it. But our democratic Repub- lic looked on it asa mistake. It is also easy to recall the facts surrounding the announce- ment of his first Cabinet. The secret of its projected personnel was kept up to the day the names were submitted to the Senate. It was then found that the nominee to the important office of Secretary of the Treasury was ineligi- ble under the action of an old but wholesome law forbidding the appointment of an im- porter to the position which directed the exe- eution of the laws relating to imported goods as well as other great finan- cial functions. Thoroughly in earnest in his nomination, President Grant sent a message to Congress requesting the repeal of the law which prohibited Mr. Stewart from taking the office. Congress refused. There was no shadow thrown on the integrity of the nominee or the good faith of the President, but Congress declined to repeal the law, and the country endorsed the declination, because the opposite course removed a safeguard which with ninety-nine men out of a hundred in the position was a wholesome one. The President withdrew the nomination. He had made a mistake, and his course acknowledged it. With the momentous considerations at- taching to the appointment of a Chief Justice surely some misgivings might come to the wisest lest a similar error might be committed. In the mature and well considered utterances of Professor Dwight, of Columbia College, upon the matter, which are published else- where in an interview, will be found the sig- nificant sentences:—‘It should be settled beyond a peradventure that the public can rely with the utmost confidence on his (the Chief Justice's) absolute integrity. This is ex- tremely important where life-tenure exists, and a bad mistake can with difficulty be remedied.! From a period in American history which ex- hibits all positions in the government, except the chief one, in the hands of mediocrity addi- itional care should be taken to see also that the great position of Chief Justice is not grasped by the same. The assembled wisdom which was credited to exist in days gone by, when the Senate met to deliberate, has no successor in the servile majority that forms the ruling power in that body to-day. Of this mediocrity, or worse, the President must be well aware. Is it, then, a tribute to the worth and intelligence of the country that these alone should be the judges upon the President's nominee to the Chief Justiceship? In the haste to be subservient any mistake in the appointment would be reared by blind confirmation into the proportions of a national injustice—a crime against the democratic right of pure appointments. Knowing this, could any honorable man be satisfied with such a great position which would come to him through what might, with some truth, be stigmatized as stealth of preparation and hasty servility in accomplishment of the ap- pointment thereto? No. Fora ministry to Japan or a collectorship of customs down South we might not expect the same dainti- ness in the office-holder expectant. In their national insignificance they might reckon on burying their shame, if they possessed any, in the profits of office ; but the emoluments of the Chief Justiceship are nothing beside the honor which should cover the holder as with arobe. If it were sullied with the miry manner of his appointment it could never be called clean. Among those who have distinguished themselves in the Chief Justiceship we have seen that their best efforts to redeem the cir- cumstances of their appointment ltave not been successful. To-day they are remem- bered above the record of a long life, blame- less in almost every other particular. The answer given in some quarters to our argument for an open nomination is that if the President appoints the right man the country will be satisfied in any case. It is the old laisser aller of the contented trader, trust- ing, in a Micawber spirit, that the right thing will turn up in things political in spite of all the chances on the other side- We have shown how the President may make a mistake, and what little chance there is through the servile Senate of its being corrected until it has become a disgrace to the country and a stain tothe administration. If tho name of the right man for the place were submitted to-day. the country, irrespective of party, would unite in praise, and the worst that could come of a poor appointment would be the preven- tion of an error in judgment becoming a re- proach to the entire nation. The dark, plotting ways of European di- plomacy and the stealthy preparation of po- litical surprises, which are there | called statesmanship, are foreign to our soil. If General La Marmora had never told the world that conspiracy and counter-conspiracy in French, German and Italian embassies were the preludes to all the events that have changed the map of Europe after carrying out the fight of diplomats on the field of battle, wo should still have been able to say that these things are for empires and monarchies, and not for a democratic Republic. The silence which would cover the agreed on ap- pointment of an administration partisan, be- cause, as is alleged, its announcement would necessitate a Senatorial resignation, under a clause of the Constitution, would be a re- proach to itself. It would mean that it cov- ered a train of political bargaining, and that no doubt was entertained as to the power to force an appointment through. It leaves the paramount question of fitness contemptuously aside, and bluntly discredits the intelligence of the nation. The President of the British Asso- clation on a National System of Education. The great gathering of the scientific clans, represented in the recent meeting of the British Association, will not be in vain if the opening address of its distinguished Presi- dent serves the declared purpose of agitating a@ new system of national education. This topic, more than any special phase of scientific thought, appears to have riveted attention at Bradford ; and well it might, at a time when the university and college systems of England, venerable as they are, have fallen into a state of decrepitude or decadence In bringing forward the outlines of an educational system the President of the as- sociation makes the grand proposition to or- ganize the different grades of scholastic pre- ferment so that they may provoke a spirit of original investigation and give rise to a band of well qualified and efficient inquirers in the various domains of scientific research, The objective point in the system, which com- mends it to the true educator, is to give the young favorable opportunities of acquiring a clear and thorough knowledge of some truths of nature, with increased opportunities toa selected class desirous of obtaining moro knowledge, while the best students shall be enabled to see what original investigation really is, or to assist in it themselves, and, finally, when they. show the requisite capacity, to be put ina position where they may con- duct researches for themselves. Such is, in substance, the aimed-at desideratum. The means of attaining it are not Utopian, but, on the contrary, practicable and easy. Let the best pupils from the primary or secondary schools be sent to the school next higher in grade and there maintained for one year, and when the highest grade has been past let the best scholars be sent, free of expense, to some col- lege or well-equipped university, on condition of their devoting their undivided energies to research. This maintenance of the young inves- tigator, under competent college inspection, could be kept up two or three years, when he could probably turn his proficiency, without further aid, into the channels of self-sustain- In connection with such a system, establish- ments for the observation of special pheno- mena were proposed, and this latter idea will be easily grasped in America, where the ten- dency is to study and investigate individual subjects and to make specialties in every branch of inquiry. The manifold advantages of such a system of national education are apparent at a glance, and if the suggestion is good for England it is doubly so for the United States. It has been remarked that the majority of European investigators have been men of independent means, who can feel superior to the wants which press so heavily on the mass of hu- manity. In the old countries it is the excep- tion when a poor youth is enabled, as Faraday did, to give the world an earnest of the intel- lectual powers which President Williamson says ‘lie fallow in the great mass of the peo- ple.’’ But it is otherwise in the United States, where, as in Germany, the poorest collegian will, if he displays a high order of talent, out- rank the inferior son of the most opulent patron of the institution. If we are to have original investigators in the various departments of science they must be provided for during the period of their spontaneous and independent researches, and supplied with the material aid and ments required in their high vocation. It may not, perhaps, be feasible to inaugurate institutions like that of the Royal Society, under government patronage, but the great end proposed by President Williamson might be attained by slight modifications in our ex- isting school system, providing for the gratu- itous higher education of the poor but tal- ented élile of the elementary and other tree schools. Procress iy THE East.—A cable despatch from Bombay this morning announces the completion of the railway line from that city across the Indian peninsula to Madras. This line, some eight hundred miles in length, con- nects Bombay, on the Arabian Gulf, with its population of about two millions, larger than any other Asiatic city, and second only to London in the world, to Madras, on the Coro- mandel coast of the Indian Ocean, with nearly one million population, and, after Calcitta, the most important maritime city of the east- ern coast of Hindostan. The line now just finished is but one of the many railwnys of the British Todian Empire destined to carry Western civilization and commerce rapidly into direct contact with the two hundred and { and independent labor. UUTUBER 11, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. limits. These roads are mainly built with Indian money by British engineers and en- ergy. They must exert an immense influence in bringing these vast populations into in- timate connection and sympathy with the in- stitutions and peoples of Europe and America ; and probably the day is not far distant when we shall see the weekly arrival of thousands from those crowded districts to people our vacant lands, which but wait for industry to furnish food to millions. The Great Ocean Yacht Regatta. | On Thursday afternoon thirteen vessels of schooner rig and of four distinct classes, which have never before met. in racing com- petition, sailed forth under a clear blue sky on a grand ocean race. The fact that five vessels of our trim pilot fleet, whose fame in their line of hardy seafaring is world-wide, were sailing beside five saucy schooners of our racing fleet is a circumstance in itself worthy of note. That two working schooners, one from Staten Island and another from Cold Spring Harbor, brought their ruddy crews into competition with the pilot boats and that @ gallant little schooner smack came forward to claim her share of the race, give us a pic- ture well worthy of the genius of some such American painter of marine subjects as Moran. That the race meant down- right sailing under conditions which divested it of the toylike quality of races in- shore was evident from the beginning. It was a test of qualities that are not brought out in races with land calms threatening to spoil all sport » in races with subtle knowledge of tides and currents telling more than the great quality of fast sailing; in races where the exact reach of every tack under given direc- tions of wind can be calculated toa nicety. The vessel, in such a race as. that started on Thursday, is tested as much as the sailing master, and the result will prove much more of the true grit in both than the ornamental regattas which, in their place, are so very ad- mirable. About this race there is another feature which Americans can point to with pride—it marks the entrance of a republican spirit into contests hithprto laid claim to by a class alone. As that class is, of necessity, a rich one, it will be gratifying to think that the men of bronzed face, stout arms and manly heart, by whose lives coasting commerce is made a nursery of hardy seamen—men whose grandfathers manned the privateers of 1812, whose fathers in turn manned the gallant ships that in the war of the revolution so brilliantly contested with England for the supremacy of the seas—are taking their places in the race with their fortune-favored fellow citizens. It matters not to whom the prizes fall ifthe race proves where the best contests are to be decided and if it marks an innovation in yachting experience worthy of the aquatic holidays of a republic. The course, covering from two hundred and fifty to three hundred miles of actual sailing, is a splendid one, and one of the results of the race will doubtless be to make it the scene of the future contests of importance battled in by yachts in the vicinity of New York. Throughout yesterday the arrival of the winning vessels was anxiously expected, and the explanation that three hundred miles cannot be sailed in the time of an ordinary race from the Narrows to Sandy Hook Lightship and back was made hundreds of times by ‘those learned in the matter to others not so fortunate, but up to the present time the return of none of the yachts has been reported. The New York Temperance State Convention and Its Programme. The New York State Temperance Conven- tion, which has, at Utica, defined the political position and purposes of our absolute prohibi- tionista, is, we believe, the last of the list of our political State conventions for 1873. It leaves our approaching November election a contest between the republicans and the dem- ocrats; but, nevertheless, upon the liquor question it proposes an active guerilla cam- paign against the adherents of John Barley- corn on both sides. The platform of these temperance men is certainly the broadest, deepest and most thoroughly radical of any of the State temperance organizations of the day. Their first proposition or requisition is pos- itively startling, and if carried out will be de- cisive against all indulgences in or uses of intoxicating drinks in the United States. It is nothing less than a demand for a law from Congress interdicting the importation into the United States of intoxicating liquors and sup- pressing the manufacture and sale thereof within the limits and jurisdiction of the gen- eral government. We can only say of this comprehensive project that it strikes at the root of the matter, and that, if carried into complete effect, intemperance will be abol- ished in this country; but if there is a man child now living destined to see the day when this proposed law of Congress shall be a law of the land he will doubtless be the happiest man and the oldest man that ever trod the earth. In short, if our total prohibitionists intend to fight it out on this line they will have, we fear, to maintain the battle ‘while the grass grows and the water runs.’ Descending to a feasible design, our State temperance party propose to look about them for temperance candidates for our next Legis- lature, and where such candidates cannot be found in the republican or democratic nom- inations they intend, if practicable, to go for independent nominations, and they in- tend to go for the revival of the Local Option bill, for the suppression of the Sunday liqnor traffic, for the prohibition of the manufac- ture and sale of intoxicating beverages by the State and the legal observance of the Sabbath. The democratic and republican parties, there- fore, will please take notice that our liquor prohibitionists are on the warpath, and that candidates for the Legislature are to be sub- jected on the liquor issue to o searching cross-examination. Arrams mm Utan—Mns. Buionam Youna No. 17.—We have some special advices from Salt Lake City by telegraph, from which it appears that the venerable Brigham Young, although his health is declining, has resumed the Presidency of “‘Zion’s Co-operative Mer- cantile Institution,’’ which does a business of four million five hundred thousand dollars a year ; that he is opposed to free schools and insurance companies; that thirty-two of the Mormon elders have been detailed for mission- ary work, chiefly in Great Britain and Scan- dinavia, and that a scarcity of currency in Utah greatly “embarrasses mining operations ; Mrs. Brigham Young No. 17, backed by good friends and able counsel, will soon resume the prosecution of her suit against the Prophet for a divorce and for alimony. We fear, how- ever, that Mrs, Young No. 17, in going intoa Mormon Territorial Court, will be dismissed on the ground of no jurisdiction, and that in going before a United States Court she will be dismissed in having, asa wife, no claims ard no case. But as able lawyers have undertaken her cause they, no doubt, have discovered that she has a case gnd that the Prophet can be. made to pay her bill of damages. The Church and State Question and the Evangelical Alliance. The discussion which took place in the Alliance Conference on the Church and State question has not, we think, converted the American people, Canon Fremantle did his best to make out a case in favor of the estab- lishment principle ; but it is not our opinion, able as his paper unquestionably was, that he made good his position to the minds of the Anverican portion of his audience. Certain it is that the reported address does not alter the convictions of the American public. It was, we think, a mistake to raise the question at all. Itisthe question which the American people havealready settled, and on which they heither need nor wish light. Itis the ques- tion which reveals thé weakness of tho Alliance, and in America, where the State Church has no_ existence, it would most certainly have been wise to leave the vexed question alone. Our Republic has prospered and it goes on to pros- per, because it has left and still leaves religion to the family and the individual. It will be well if this state of things continues. We have got on very well hitherto—remarkably wellin comparison with the nations of Eu- rope. The speech of President Woolsey was @ magnificent defence of the American posi- tion. In Europe to-day the American system is working its way with great success. Never during the many years of its existence was the Liberation Society so strong as it is now. Disestablishment, in fact, is the order of the day in Great Britain. Mr. Gladstone began his public life by advancing some such Uto- pian theory as that of Mr. Fremantle; but Mr. Gladstone has long since come into the fuler light, and the disestablishment of the Church in Ireland represents Mr. Gladstone's later and more mature convictions, Two- thirds of the Scottish people worship in Christian temples supported by the voluntary contributions of tho people, and a test vote in Scotland to-morrow would demolfsh the Church establishment. The Church is strong in England—strong mainly because of its enormous wealth in real estate; but the nonconformists of England have a perfect right to claim at least one-half of the population, We have no fear that when, some fifty years from now, the last traces of the Church establishment are disap- pearing in England, the American people will be busy building up a great national church. We do not go backward. There were noState churches in the beginning. There will be none in the end. The prominence given to this question will, we fear, have a bad effect on the future of the Alliance, General Spinner on the Operations of the Treasury Department. The United States Treasurer is preparing his exhibit of the operations of the Treasury Department up to the end of the fiscal year for Congress. He will show that the receipts from customs had fallen off about $28,250,000, and from internal revenue $16,900,000, in all $45,151,000. There was, however, an increase of $4,800,000 from miscellaneous sources and public lands, From customs the amount was $188,095,522, from internal revenue $113,729,- $14, from lands $2,882,312, and from miscel- | laneous $29,037,055. The total income from revenue sources was $333,735,203. One of the heaviest items of expenditure was for the War Department, amounting to $46,000,000, which is $10,000,000 over the expenditure of the year before. A few years before the late war the whole expense of the government did not exceed that of the War Department now. Yet the army is not very large. Where does the money go? There has been no great In- dian war, though a few troublesome out- breaks and conflicts. We fear the contractors for the troops operating in the Indian country have been enabled to dip deeply into the Treasury. At all events, the War Department in time of peace, such as we have now, ought not to cost $46,000,000. The expenditure for the navy was $23,000,000. This was $2,000,000 over that of the preceding year. Reckoning the interest on the debt in round numbers at $100,000,000, there would still be left over $230,000,000 of the year’s income for current expenses and to be applied to the liquidation of the debt. This is far too large a revenue to raise. It only leads to extravagance and cor- ruption. A hundred and fifty millions a year over what is necessary for interest on the debt would be an ample revenue for paying the ex- penses of government in addition to a round sum for liquidating the debt. It is hard work to bring the government to the healthy economy of former times, yet we would urge Congress when it assembles to reduce taxa- tion and cut down expenditures, That would both help the industry of the country and give a better economical and moral tone to society. Sm Jomn Franzus.—The story of Arctic exploration seems interminable. This morn- ing we publish another chapter im the volu- minous history of Sir John Franklin’s expe- dition and melancholy fate, It is the expe- rience of a Yankee skipper, who visited the scene of the calamitous termination of the enterprise and bore home to New Bedford im- portant relics of the ship on board of which the great Englishman sailed for that appa- \ rently unattainable mathematical point—-the North Pole. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Jefferson Davis has been quite sick in Louisville, but is recovering, Bishop Talbot, of Indiana, has arrived at the Albemarle Hotel. : Ex-Congressman 8, &, Ancona, of Pennsylvania, is at the Astor House, Judge Charles Andrews, of the Court of Appeals, is at the Winsor Hotel. Congressman William Williams, of Buffalo, is at the Filth Avenue Hotel, Senator J, W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, 1s atop. ping at the New York Hotel. Congressman Heister Clymer, of Reading, Pa., has arrived at the Astor House. filty million people who swarm within her | sixth, and lastly, it apvegrs that Aun Eliza | Colonel q, E. Church, artiyed xestexday ps the ‘Infuse the requisite amount of Fifth Avenue Hotel, after a long voyage through South America and Europe. Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, is regie tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor Charles M. Reed, of Erte, Pa., yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Marquis de Noailles, the French Minister, left the city last evening for Newport. United States Senator Roscoe Conkling, of Utica, is stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Director H. R. Linderman, of the United States Mint, is staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Mayor 8. McClellan, of Wheeling, W. Va., ar- rived yesterday at the St. Nicholas Hetel. Director Francis B. Hayes, of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, is at the Brevoort House. Ex-Secretary of the Interior Jacob D. Cox, o) Ohio, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor T. F. Randolph, of New Jersey, ia among the late arrivals at the Hoffman House. Professors Benjamin Silliman and George P. Fisher, of Yale College, are staying at the Albe- marie Hotel. The Salt Lake Herald thinks “Old Probabilities” isin disgrace because he failed to predict the late financial storm. Lieutenant Fred. Collins, United States Navy, haa been ordered to the Annapolis Academy to act ag Professor of Ethics and English Studies. The Mayor of Cincinnati confesses his inability toclose up the gambling dens in that city, and now the gamblers propose to close up the Mayor. The statement is repeated that Alexander H. Stephens and Herschell V. Johnson are to starta daily in Washington, to be independent in politics. George H,. Butier, late our Consul General to Egypt, is on his way to this country from Europe, itis said, “with the intention of going quietly through to California.” Benjamin Dean has received the distinction ot being set up by the democrats of the Massachusetts Third Congressional district to. be knocked down by his republican competitor, Mayor Plerce, at the election In November. Be ane Ex-Governor Palme? Of fillidls, has written a letter on personal liberty and personal morals, In which he says he has no faithin the ministry of the police office as an agency for the promotion of morals, and pertinently adds :—‘Under our system of municipal’ government the authority of the local magistracy? aud of the police 1s practically absolute, and the helpless and the feeble are often outraged and ‘thousands are made criminals by being first treated'ds criminals.” ITALIAN OPERA. Lucea in “La Favorita.” Mme. Lucca achieved an extraordinary feat at the Grand Opera House last night, carrying the opera of ‘La Favorita’’ on her shoulders alone and bringing it to a successful close. The rdle of Leo- nora is eminently sulted to her-peculiar lyric tal- ents, and in the more passionate scenes the spas- modic outbursts of her glorious yoice were electrio ineffect. She wasin the best spirits for sucha role, and nothing could be more thrilling than the effect she produced in the scenes with Fernando, ‘When in the first act she took up the melody in which her lover addresses her in the pleading accents, ‘‘Den! vanne, deh! parti,” there was mingled love and affright in the agitated tones. The bitter feelings that actuated her heart in the reproach addressed to King Al- fonso in the aria, “In questo suol,” were expressed with indignation and sorrow in every tone. The anathema hurled against her by the representa tive of the Church gave Mme, Lucca an oppor- tunity to display her emotional acting, which she used to advantage, ie fine, expres- sive aria, “0! mio Fernando,” she gained the peineipal triumph of the evening. The wealth of tone and expression which she poured forth in this aria thrilled the house, and in the succeeding cabdaletta, “Scritto e in ciel,’ she comment @ positive triumph. In the finale of the third act, when Fernando first learns the disgrace infilcted upon him by his marriage with the mis- tress of the King, and repudiates her, the voice and acting of Lucca ag enthralled the heart and ear. Over chorus and orchestra its full, rich tenes, quivering with passionate expression, rose in the sens ee i} ver,” and filled the entire building with a flood of melody. But in the death scene she attained a still higher success. The pleading appeal to her husband, her piteous cry lor pardon and her great joy in being once more reconciled to him, was delivered with a pene and effect even beyond what the of the Academy felt last season. Throughout the success of Mme. Lucca was of the most emphatic kind. ‘The next one in order of merit was M. Jamet, who essayed the comparatively small rove of Balthassar, but made so much of it that he deserves to be placed after the prima donna. Signor Vizzani, although his voice was unexceptionable, did not ire into’ the rdle ot Fernando, with the exception of the “Spirito Gen- til,” which was given with due effect, The great drawback to the success of the opera was Signor Mari, who appeared as King Alionso. It is unne- cessary to enter into detail regarding this - tone’s efforts last night, as it would pe impossible to point toasingle instance in which they were even tolerable. As the rdleo! the King occupies a very important part in the opera, the failure of the barytone was all the more perceptible, Spara- pant sang it with success last season, and it ts to ae regretted that he was not retained for it this “La Favorite” ranks very high among Donizetty’s works, and, when given with a complete ensembdie, it cannot fail to please an audience. It is singular how this composer seeins to have, so far, monopo- lized the season in both the Italian opera com- panies. He is, undoubtedly, very dramatic, and gives artists ample opportunities jor display. But Uhere are many other composers more acceptable to the ear of @ musician, However, Donizetth afforded Mme. Lucca last evening a wide field for the exercise of her remarkable vocal and histrionic talents, and her triumpu ts all the greater on ac- count of the poverty of the surroundings, The chorus did well, the minor characters to the cast badly, and the orchestra indulged in unwarranta- bie vagaries. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Offenbach has composed new operetta for the Renatssance Theatre, Paris, entitled the ‘Jolie Partumense.” The words are by Hector Crémieux. Liszt is engaged in composing some music in honor of the approaching wedding festivities at Weimar, where the Hereditary Duke is going to be married, : An Italian version of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has been successfully performed at the Corea Theatre, at Rome. the title r0les were taken by Signor Monti and Signora Adelina Marchi, M. and Mme, Verdi have returned from Paris to Italy. During his stayin Paris M. Verdi was en- gaged in the composition of the mass which he has promised to have executed at Milan next year on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of his yriend Manzoni. M. Paure’s reappearance at the Grand Opera in Paris, in the work by M. Eugene Diaz, “La Coupe du Roi de Thule,” has given fresh vitality to that Jeeble production, which is sustained solely through the acting and singing of the famed bari- tone, in the part of Puddock, the buffo, who be- comes king. The posthumons operayiby Schubert is called ‘Des Teufels Lustschloss”’ (‘The Devil’s Country House’). The libretto is by Kotzebue, but it will be remodelled, The parts of the score were long missing, but have all been found, and every note of the original music is now perfect, The director, Herr Swobada, will produce the workin Vienna Jorthwith, THE PINANCIAL SITUATION IN CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, Oct. 10, 1873, ‘The Clearing House Association of thig city hela another meeting this alternoon and unanimously agreed to retire and cance! loan certificates at the rate of twenty per cent per week, thus requiring five weeks to cancel the entire issue, They algo agreed to.continue the settlement of balances aur ing the process of retiring certificates by the use of the certificates and that banks might loan the same to other banks desiring their use on the de- it of satisfactory security. No day for resump- jon hag yet been fixed: Messrs. Evans & Co,, bankers, abnounce that they wili resume currency jayments' tormorrow. Confidence has decidedly improved to-day. SOOIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. TOLEDO, Ohio, Vet. 10, 1873. It is now ofMcially stated that President Grant will leave Washington on the 14th, reach here on the 15th and remain until the 27th, the object of hia ‘isit being to attend the meeting of the Society of ¢ Army of the Tennessee, Trangements are progressing for a successiul occasion, and a lary number of prominent officers are expected, sides President Grant, Generals Sherman, Sheri. dan, Pope, Logan and’ many others have signified their intention to come, ~YAOHTING NOTE, Yacht Rambler, N.Y.Y.C., Mr. Thomas, from New York for Joswiok, Rassgd Whiteytoue yoatordan,