The New York Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1873, Page 6

- NEW YORK HERALD, THUKSVAY, VUCTOBER 16, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXV1II. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Insuavocur. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanietr ENTRRTAINNENT. THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Intsa Love—Orns110; or, Tux Moon or Viexior. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— Max, Tux Meaney Swiss Boy. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third street —Itavian Orxna—Macic FLUTE, OLYMPIC THRATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Tux Graxp Ducuzss, NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston st—Tax Biack Crook. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Barwisk’s Book. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lth street and Irving place.— Oruri.o. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadway.—Tax Gexxva Cross, * WooD's MW Narry Buaro. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixta ay. and Twenty-third st— Faxcuoy, tar Oxicksr. ith st and 6th av.— NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, Worke Dame, GERMANIA THEATRE, lith street and 3d avenue — Exrupr, £c. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— ‘Vanuery ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—NxGro Minstusisy, &¢ UM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— jteriioon and evening. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— Ban Francisco MinstRELs. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th avenue— Granp Concert. CAPITOLINE GROUNDS, Brooklyn.—Circvs ND Mrnacenin, FERRERO’S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street— Macical EnrertarMent. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 8d ay., between 634 and 4th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘Way.—BciEeNce AND Ant. . DR, KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Screxcx anp Arr, TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 16, 1873, THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE VACANCY IN THE SUPREME COURT! HOW THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP HAS HERE- TOFORE BEEN FILLED’—LEADING AR- TICLE—SIXTH PAGE. AGRAND ONSLAUGHT TO BE MADE BY LAND AND SEA ON TITE CARTAGENA INSUR™ GENTS! THEIR COMPLETE DEMORALIZA- TION—SEVENTH PaGE. i GREAT BRITAIN LOOKING AFTER HER SUF- FERING EMIGRANTS TO BRAZIL! FREE PASSAGE HOME FURNISHED BY THE BRA- Zin GOVE! ENT—SrvenTH Pace, BAZAINE’S CONDUCT OF THE SIEGE OF METZ! THE URT MARTIAL DECLARE THE COM- MANDER RUSPONSIBLE FOR THE GAR- RISON! THE MOVEMENTS OF MAC- MAHON—SEVENTH Paar. RUMORS OF TROUBLES BETWEEN ITALY AND FRANC THE AUSTRO-T H IM BROGLIO— THE PARTY FRAN SEVENTH PAGE. JOHN BULL'S PRE SHIPPED TO 1 FERMENT TES! E ET OF THE FLURRY OF YESTERDAY. RESUMrTION OF SPECIE FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN PLANNE. ERAL GRANT AND THE CH, k IT THE SEE-SAW SUCCE: tL OUTION! IN STOCKS—TuinD Pace. CONDITION OF THE WALL STREET MARKE’ THE BU. SS DONE AND THE PRICE CAPITAL ABUNDANT! LOW KS—FIFTH PAGE. SUPERB STREGGLES OF THE TURF FLYERS AT JERUME PARK YESTERDAY! VICTORIE SCORED BY ALL THE FAVORITE) ULL DETAILS OF THE VARIOUS EVENTS— FourtTH Pace. LATEST RETURNS FROM THE STATE ELE! OF TUESDA THE, DEMOCRAT: FUL IN THE BUCKEYE STATE—SEVENTH PaGk. TREASURY THE A BIG STEAL! THE STATE 1 300,000 SUFFERER THIS WHERE THE WOODBINE 1 THE MODUS OPERANDI AND COULNESS OF THE ROGUE—TENTH Pace. GRAND CATHOLIC CEREMONIES IN: PHILADEL- PHIA! THE Dit CONSECRATED TO THE SACRED HEART! THE SEKMON—SEv- ENTH PAGE. AMERICAN WO. SUPFRA BN “MAKING AN EFFORT!” AND FREE LOVE DROPPED TENTH PAGE, FOR SHERIFF, FOR THE NONCE TAMMANY'S SLAT CLERK, CORO. AGE COUNTY SAV- THE AND SLAUGH 1H—POLITICS IN| BROOKLYN iW JERSEY—THIRD PaGE. ICAL ALLIANCE DELEGATES HAV. ING A GRAND BLQWOUT IN WASHINGTON! 1 PITOL BUILDING AND AT WIL- NTH PAGE. 38 AGAIN FORMALLY AR- RAIGNED FOR TRIAL ON THE CHARGE OF HAVING MURDEKED JAMES FISK, JR.! TESTIMONY FOR THE PROSECUTION— FourTH PAGE. LEGA, SUMMAR SAD DEATH OF LANT YACHTSMAN—Foyrra Page. REAL ESTATE SALES—PROCEEDINGS OF THE EDUCATIONAL BOARD—FtrTH Pace. EDWARD §S. STO A GAL- Tue Exrcrions.—The result upon the State ticket in Ohio is still in doubt, and the vote is likely to be so close as to require the official eanvass to decide which party has trumphed. The democrats, however, carry the Legisla- ture and secure a United States Senator. The democratic vote shows large gains everywhere except in Philadelphia. Tur Torze Pare Doxne—Nilson, sweet and captivating; Murska, brilliant and thrill. ing; Lucca, grand and soul-stirring. Tux Women’s Conoress now in session in this city have a programme of subjects for dis- eussion which comprehends almost everything important or interesting to the sex, in its domestic, conjugal, social, fashionable, lit- erary, scientific, religions, philosophical and political relations with mankind. They will talk all these subjects over in all their bear- Sings and applications; they will resolve that gmany things should be done and that many ‘ahings should be undone, and then they will adjourn; and the sun will continue to rise and set and the rivers to flow down to the IN| | Justice. | qualifications for the position. He stood torth “GONE | The Vacancy im the Supreme Court— How the Chief Justiceship Has Here- tofore Been Filled. The Supreme Conrt of the United States is now sitting at Washington without a Chief Justice at its head, and, simultaneously with its assembling, President Grant has caused it secseeeeseeseseeesN@e 289 | to be officially announced that he has deter- mined not to fill the vacant position until the meeting of Congress, so that the nomination made to the Senate may be confirmed before the new Chief Justice takes his seat. The Henaxp has urged the appointment of a suc- cessor to Judge Chase without any further de- lay than might be requisite for a prudent selection, in the belief that the President, if legt to the free exercise of his own judgment, would make a choice more honorable to him- self and more acceptable to the country than he would be likely to make under the influ- ence of political pressure and Senatorial in- trigue. No greater misfortune could befall the nation than the degradation of this high judicial office for personal objects or to satisfy political expediency, and it is difficult to imagine any reasons for the proposed delay other than those of a personal or partisan character. President Grant has expressed the opinion that it would be injn- dicions to announce an appointment which might subsequently be rejected, but a Senate capable of being influenced in so im- portant a matter by political considerations would be less likely to reject a nomination that had received the popular endorsement than one which had not been subjected to such an ordeal and was known only to its own members. It is not probable that the Presi- dent can see any impropriety in the assump- tion of the ermine by a Chief Justice before his elevation to the position has been made complete by the action of the confirmatory power, because the history of the Supreme Court must set at rest any such scruple. We can safely follow the example of those pure men who, as the framers of the judicial sys- | tem in the constitution, were the best able to correctly interpret its requirements and the most jealous to exact a strict observance of its proprieties. When we find President Washington filling the office of Chief Justice as soon as a vacancy occurred, without regard to the Senatorial action ; when we see that he bestowed the high office on John Ruttledge, of South Carolina, while the Senate was not in session; that Judge Ruttledge presided over a term of the Supreme Court before his nomination had been considered by the con- firming body, and that he was finally rejected by the Senate, we cannot question the propriety of the appointment of the successor of Judge Chase by President Grant during the recess of Congress. Nor do we doubt the Senate’s confirmation of such an appointment as might and ought to be made from among the many able jurists who adorn the Bench and the Bar of the United States. But if the name of the next Chief Justice is to be con- cealed from the country until its confirmation | by the Senate has been secured it becomes more imperatively the duty of the independent press to arouse the popular mind to a sense | of the grave importance of the office, of the danger of its prostitution to personal or polit- ical objects, and of the qualifications de- manded of its incumbent. Of the six Judges who have sat at the head | of the Supreme Court since the adoption of | the federal constitution three were appointed | by Washington and one by the elder Adams. | On the day the bill was approved organizing | the new federal courts under the constitution Judge Jay received his appointment as Chief There was no question us to his prominently as the most fitting person to be chosen and the choice fell on him in conse- quence. John Ruttledge was the only | |mame which seemed to present itself in competition with that of John | Jay for the office, and Rutiledge was ap- | | pointed an Associate Justice, but declined to | | aceept. In those days the business of the | Supreme Court was neither so large nor so im- | portant as it now is, and hence when Jndge | Jay was despatched to Loridon five years after- on the Bench. But on his return from Eng- and the vacancy was promptly filled. time the Senate was not in session, but Presi- withhold his appointment. A political storm was then sweeping over the country. The excited violent opposition from a large num- | ber of the people, and especially from the South. The administration tied themselves wards as special Minister to bring about a set- | tlement of the points in controversy between | the two nations he did not resign his position | | land, having been elected Governor of New | York, he retired irom the Chief Justiceship, | At that | dent Washington did not on that account | treaty arranged by Judge Jay with England had | to the treaty and became committed to its rati- fication. John Ruttledge, of South Carolina, | had enlisted in the ranks of the opposition | with’ that vigor and ardor for which he was | distinguished ; but his pre-eminent qnalifica- | tions for the head of the United States judiciary were as undoubted then as when | he was offered the appointment of an Asso- ciate Justice and was weighed almost evenly with John Jay in the scales for the Chief Justiceship. He stood forth as the most fit- ting man in the nation for the vacant position, and the calm, pure mind of President Wash- ington, overlooking all politi considera- tions, recognized at once the straight path ot | duty. The robes that had been put off by Jay | were tendered to Ruttledge and were grace- fully accepted. The Senate, less independent and less patriotic than the President, refused its confirmation ; but meanwhile Judge Rutt- ledge had filled the office and presided over a | term of the Court. Again the vacancy was | promptly filled ; this time by the appointment | of Oliver Ellsworth while the Senate was in session. Judge Ellsworth, like his prede- cessor, was marked out by special qualifica- tions for the office, and, after Ruttledge, was the most fitting selection for the presidency of the Supreme Court. As a member of the Senate he had been at the head of the com- mittee to frame the bill for the organization ot the United States judiciary, and the construe- tion of the judicial system was mainly due to him. Before the office of Chief Justice was again vacant President Washington had uttered his farewell address, and John Adams sat in the executive chair, Towards the closo of 1800 the | H. Phelps, the cashier of the S: condition of Judge Ellsworth’s health com. led his retirement from the Bench, and weavery much the same as in the good old | there was no hesitation on the part of Presi- @arn of Adam and Eve, | dent Adams in the selection of his guccesgor. | Governor Jay was about to close his political career, and the first impulse of the President was to tender him the position he had for- merly filled so well. John Jay was again ap- pointed Chief Justice, but he persisted in his determination to retire to private, life and de- clined the renewed honor, Than «ame the immediate appointment of Marshall, whose large experience as a lawyer and whose emi- nent ability in forensic argument had spread his reputation all over the United States. The brief delay incident upon the reap- pointment and declension of Judge Jay had been improved by the politicigus, and Associate Justice Patterson, General Pinckney and Judge Cushing had been urged for the place; but those were the pure days of the Republic, when public interests were not made subservient to the interests of party. The precepts and example of Washington were then regarded as landmarks in the nation’s course of honor and prosperity, and President Adams selected a Chief Justice, as Washington had chosen Jay and Ruttledge and Ells- worth, for qualifications which promised to shed lustre upon the judicial history of the country. Time proved the wisdom and ju- diciousness of his selection, for the long career of Marshall at the head of the judiciary was an honor and a blessing to the nation. When death removed Judge Marshall we had reached a new era in our history. Presi- dent Jackson, the idol of the democracy, had proclaimed the doctrine so precious to office- seekers, ‘to the victors belong the spoils.” With this proclamation came that partisan unscrupulousness which secks its reward in a share of the public plunder, and that official liberality which bestows its gifts only on its faithful adherents. In the days of Washing- ton and Adams there could have been no such things as convenient attorney generals and convenient secretaries of the Treasury, eager to carry out blindly the desires of their patron, and no reward for such services. Under Jackson the partisan type, quick of growth, had crept into the public offices, and it grew up until it reached the height of the Chief Justiceship. In a period of heated po- litical strife and intense popular excitement ‘Taney had stood unflinchingly by the Presi- dent in all his strong, energetic measures, whether of principle or prejudice. His reward was certain, and it came when Judge Marshall died. A valuable position was made vacant, a position that would last a lifetime. What did it matter that it wasa judicial office, the highest in the country? What did it matter that the ermine had never before been stained by partisanship? A political adherent whose services had been great was to be rewarded, and ‘‘to the victors belong the spoils.’ President Jack- son resolved to bestow the position of Chief Justice upon Taney, and then com- menced a delay which had never be- fore occurred in the filling of the vacant office. The appointment was withheld to await the result of the elections, for the Senate was at the time in opposition to the administration. The President “kept his own counsel,’’ and the Supreme Court ‘was left without a Chief Justice during the winter of 1835-36. Washington had appointed Judge Ruttledge during the recess of the Senate and had calmly trusted to the qualifications of the appointee for his confirmation. Jackson hesitated to announce to the coun- try his selection of a Chief Justice until he was sure of the Senatorial confirmation. The one acted in the interests of the nation; the other aeted for the interests of his political party and in the gratification of his personal feelings. The one had noth- ing to conceal from the people; the object of the other was to hide his cards until his trick was safe. What wonder that the Supreme Court should haveshared in the degeneration of political offices, and that the selection of the successor of Judge Chase should be looked for with so much anxiety and apprehension? This glance at the history of the appoint- ments to the Chief Justiceship will explain the ‘popular desire for the prompt action of President Grant. The people feel that they have a right to know whether this high and powerful office is to be cast into the political arena to be scrambled tor by hungry office- seekers, like a custom house or o post office, or is to be bestowed upon an eminently qualified man, independent of political. considerations. There is no reason why the appointment should not be made as promptly as were the appointments of Ruttledge, Ellsworth and Marshall, if the selection is to be equally in- dependent and worthy; no reason why it should be held back and concealed, as was the appointment of Taney, unless it is to be con- trolled by the same political or personal con- siderations. President Grant has before him the examples of Washington and Jackson. Which will he follow ? Tam DErancation Prom THE Sratz TREASURY is another startling fact in the general un- soundness of commercial mc Charles reasury, superior, ality. an officer trusted implicitly by hi | State Treasurer Raines, found it possible to manipulate his accounts so that funds of the | Commonwealth to the amount of three hun- } dred thousand dollars, it is said, passed into his personal possession and thence into the vanishing ways of metropolitan speculation. When we see that the defalcators in America are found among the most trusted individuals and belonging to that class denominated ‘‘worthy,”’ we have ample cause to be alarmed. The mania for hastening to be rich whieh drives the official to lay dishonest hands upon money not his own and rush into the wildest speculation has its stern lesson in the shame that overtakes the perpetrators when the in- evitable discovery takes place. hat stern punishment should follow up such offences is what we hope to see. The punishment should be meted out without any compromise insuch cases, and the superior officials whose laxity conspired to make defaleation possible should be held to strict account, Ex-Presment Jouyson my Wasiixotox.— We have already chronicled the fact of the arrival of ex-President Johnson in Washing- ton. No one besides himself, probably, knows exactly the purposes of his visit to the scene of his former official dutics; but it is pretty well understood that he has private in- terests to engage his attention in regard to which it may be no particular business of the public at this time to trouble themselves about. It is stated that arrangements to tender the ox-Pregident the compliment of a serenade are in progress, It has already been predicted that when he revisited the national capital there would be ‘music in the air." This serenade and its results will, perhaps, be the first instalment thereof. The people are anxious to -hear from the ex-President, and when he utters his views on pending political matters he will, no doubt, be listened to with attention, The Kaiser and the Pope. The relations between the imperial govern- ment of Germany and the Holy See are not so friendly as some of the best friends of both would wish to seo them. The Roman Catho- lic bishops of Germany, North and South, have, since the late war, been stubborn in their opposition to the Empire. Rightly or wrongly, they have persisted in regarding the triumph of Germany as the humiliation of Rome. In entertaining this opinion they have not been wholly wrong. In allowing the thought, however, to find expression, as it has found expression, they have, in our judgment, made a mistake. It has not hitherto been the policy of Rome to make open war with civil governments where victory was impossible. A milder policy, in our judgment, would have been attended with greater success. On the other hand, it is not to be denied that the imperial government of Germany has been somewhat harsh in its treatment of the Roman Church. We do not blame the im- perial government for refusing to know any authority within the limits of the Empire superior to its own. An imperium in imperio is never desirable. {n the condition in which Germany now finds herself such a state of things cannot be tolerated. That the pre- tensions of some of the Roman bishops in Germany has amounted to an imperium in iniperio is not for a moment to be denied. Germany, strong as she is, cannot afford to be indifferent to any influence which, in her judgment, is gnawing at her vitals. All this admitted, we still cling to the opinion that a gentler policy toward the Church might have been successful where the harsh policy has failed. The “blood and iron” policy of Bismarck knows no compromise. Good enough in ordinary war, this policy is liable to fail when spiritual weapons only are employed. The correspondence which we published yesterday shows that Rome and Berlin are not reconciled. The Holy Father puts the case well when he says that ‘measures inju- rious to the Christian religion only tend to undermine the throne.’’ Believing that the Emperor is averse to the continuance of the harsh policy, and claiming that all the bap- tized, even non-Catholics, belong in a certain sense to him, he hopes that gentler measures will be adopted regarding the Church, and concludes by praying for the Emperor and himself. The Emperor, in his reply, is as little liable to be mistaken as the Pope. The Emperor declares that he ‘will maintain order and law so long as God enables him to do s0, even against the servant of a church which he supposed acknowledged obedience to secular authority as a commandment of God,’’ This doctrine, the Emperor William says, ‘many priests in Prussia disown.”” He hopes the Pope will use his influence to put down an agitation which has no connection with religion or truth. Refusing to concede the Pope’s claim to the non-Catholics, the Em- peror says:—‘‘Differences of belief, however, should not prevent our living in peace.” It is quite clear from all this that the breach is not healed. The war still rages, and neither on the part of Rome, on the one hand, nor on the part of Berlin, on the other, is there any disposition to compromise. There is but one cure to this disease—one remedy for all this trouble. What is the cure? Whatis the remedy? It is disestab- lishment. The policy which Gladstone ap- plied to Ireland and which at no distant day must be applied to both Scotland and Eng- Jand must be applied to Germany. We have no such troubles here because we have no State church. Let the churches, as by law established, cease to exist in Germany; in place of endowing all, let all be disendowed, sand then Germany will cease to have trouble with Rome. It is clear as noonday to our minds that a church supported by the State must be subordinate to the State. In the interests of both civil and religious gov- ernments the wide world over, we say, ‘‘Dis- endow.” * Decline of the Yellow fever in the Southwest—Phenomena of the Epli- demic. Jack Frost seems at last to have exercised his prerogative in the places in the Southwest stricken by the yellow scourge. The latest mortuary lists from Shreveport and Memphis exhibit a gratifying decline in the severity of the malady, and hopes are entertained that a continuance of frosty weather, in connection with tho imperative enforcement of certain sanitary regulations, will result in its early and complete extermination. In this connection it will be in place to call special atééntion to certain phenomena that have attended the progress of yellow fever in this country. The disease itself is, unhappily, not @ stranger on the American Continent, but from time to time its characteristic movements and peculiarities have been prominently displayed. Yellow fever was first encountered by the Spanish settlers in St. Domingo in 1504, and proved the most dangerous obstacle to the early colo- nization of the New World. Its geographical range was for a long time confidently defined as restrictively lying between 42 deg. north and 23 deg. south latitude, and 60 deg. and 97 deg. west longitude, and until the middle of this century the Amazon River was supposed to mark its southern boundary. This com- paratively narrow area excludes the Asiatic plague districts, and, strange to say, places Memphis—the present stronghold of the scourge—almost outside of the yellow fever region. The malignity and magnitude of tho epidemic at Memphis is, therefore, anomalous. Eminent writers have stated that Memphis is the extreme northern limit of its march in the Mississippi Valley—an observation which, considering the tenacity of its present grip on that ill-fated city, would suggest that it finds there some local stimulus and malarial food. It is not easy to designate the precise con- ditions which favor its epidemic spread, but the local climate and topography of that city appear congenial to the fever. Yellow fever is well known to demand for its development a high temperature; but this it must have under nicely-balanced conditions of humidity. While it never appears in @ climate whose average summer temperature falls below 75 degrees, it seems also incapable of existence except where there is water and a moist atmos- phere or a soil half-dried and suitable for absorption. Scarcity of moisture on the sur- face where previously it had been excessive is said to be one of the most active agents in spreading the work of the fever; but complete and excessive dryness often arrests its progress. To these conditions, it is noteworthy, must be added the fact that the disease is peculiar to large cities or closely-packed streets, and ap- parently avoids all rural towns and villages. So remarkably has this last condition been ful- filled, with, perhaps, the notable exception of Shreveport, that some medical authorities con- tend that the yellow fever requires a certain high ratio of population to a given area for its production, and consequently by municipal regulation the exposed cities might avert the calamity. In the desolated streets of Memphis, New Orleans and Vera Cruz, as also in those of Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro, all these conditions of high temperature, half- moistened surface, densely crowded streets, have been realized. The fact that from the landing of Columbus at St. Domingo, in 1504 (when his men encountered the yellow fever and described it as “yellow as saffron or gold’), down to the year 1850, tho disease found no foothold in the South American coast cities, strongly favors the idea that it needed to wait till time could crowd them with popu- lation and the institution of the filthy tene- ments of European cities could be imported. Whatever climatic or meteorologic condi- tions assist in generating or propagating the great malady, it is evident the pabulum and chief stimulus of the fever are found in the filthy habitations such as abound in “Happy Hollow” and other slums of Memphis. Bya vigorous invasion of the small infected circles of largo cities (within which the epidemic confines itself) sanitary authorities may un- questionably arrest the spread, if not prevent the outbreak, of the decimating pestilence. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Mayor W. D, Stauffer, of Lancaster, Pa., is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman Roswell Hart, of Rochester, is at the Gilsey House. General W. B. Tibbits, of Troy, is quartered at the Clarendon Hotel. Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith has apartments at the Windsor Hotel. Congressman Luke P. Poland, of Vermont, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour yesterday ar- rived at the Windsor Hotel. Protessor J. E. Hilgard, of Washington, arrived at the Astor House yesterday. The Rey. Dr, Asa Saxe, of Rochester, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Senator James Harlan, of Iowa, is among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Ex-Governor J. L. Chamberlain, of Maine, ar- rived yesterday at the Astor House. Ex-Governor W. B. Lawrence, of Rhode Island, is registered at the Brevoort House. General J. N. Knapp, of Governor D1:x’s staff, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General John Hammond, of Crown Point, N. Y., is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A. M. Clapp, Congressional printer, yesterday ar- rived at the Metropolitan Hotel from Washington. Lieutenant Commander 8S. W. Terry, United States Navy, has quarters at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bishop John J. Williams and the Rev. P. F. Lyn- don, of Boston, have apartments at the Everett House. On motion of Assistant Attorney General Hill, Ethan Allen, of New York, was yesterday admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court. Baron Schlozer, the German Minister, has re- ceived the mournful news of his mother’s death. He has but recently returned irom a visit to his home in Germany. THE PRESIDENT AT TOLEDO. The Chief Magistrate at the Reunion of the Army of the Tennessce—The Wele come by the Mayor and Speeches by General Sherman and Other Military Chiets. TOLEDO, Oct. 15, 1873, President Grant and Secretary Belknap arrived at eight o’clock to-night, and went directly to the OperasHouse to attend the reunion meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, General Sherman presided. The address of welcome was made by Mayor Jones, who said :— You have met to preserve the memory of the late civil war and to cherish friendships 1ormed during that period of our national history. We greet you in the young city which collected and sent to ‘the field a greater number than its whole Nag fet at any one period. Through all phases of the war the Army ot the nessee won, by its heroic valor, the respect and admiration of a grateful country. We are proud to know our own city contributed to make up this brave army, and may further say we shared in the grief {gt at the loss of your dead comrade; he fame and glor: achieved by this army has become the inheri- tance of the country. Its chief worthily occupies the position oncé filled by the Father of his Country, As leading representatives of that army we greet you; as protectors of the Union when as- sailed, Whose strong rt never quailed in the death grapple with se ion, we honor you, The eventful scenes which first introduced you are still fresh in our memories, We shail treasure those memories as a legacy for our chiidren. Yo your General, to the officers and members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, to the reprog | sentatives of the navy, and to your great Captain, the President of the United States, this city ten- ders a cordial and hearty welcome, General Sherman made a few remarks, present- ing the statisticgof the society, and suggested that the society petition Congress for the printing of the regimental records in the War Departincot, estimating the cost at $200,000. ‘Major Meyer, of Wisconsin, read a poem. General Logan, orator of the day, being intro- duced by General Sherman, delivered the oration. At the close of Generai Logan’s speech brief ad- dresses were Inade by President Grant, General Belknap, Sec: ry of War; Generals Sheridan, Howard, Pope, er, Noyes, Muiburt and Admiral Worden, A parade of the various military and civic socie- ties takes place to-morrow, and the reunion will close with a banquet at the Boody House in the evening. WEATHER REPORT. i‘ ep edly Wak DEPARTMENT, Orrick or THe Cnier SIGNAL OFTICER, WASHING D, C., Oct. 16—1 A. M, Probabitities, For Thursday in the Gulf states sontheasterly winds, partly cloudy weather and occasional light rains on the immediate coast, For the South Atlantic States northeasterly winds, faliing barometer and increasing cloudi- ness. FOR THE MIDDLE STATES INCREASING soUTH- RASTERLY WINDS, RISING TRMPRRATUR® AND PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER, For New England westerly winds and generally clear weather, ly For the lower lakes southwesterly winds, back- ing to southeast and possibly northeast, with in- creasing cloudiness, ¥or the upper Jakes and the northwest falling barometer, southwesterly winds, cloudy and pos- sibly occasionally rainy weather, clearing away by Thursday night. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last pat as te by or thermometer at Hudaut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :— a ee 1872, 1873, 63 Bs Aw OT 62 69, 60 el 58 OOP, o 6 60 «66 «12 P, 8 he rature yesterday . + SOY rature for corresponding dato 4 WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 15, 1873. Low Price of Silver in London. The Treasury Department to-day received in- formation that the price gf silver in London yes- terday was lower than it has ever been before. The Annual Estimates of the State De- partment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, have beem prepared, and show a total of $320,720, Of this amount $106,220 will be required for salaries, $86,000 for publishing the laws, $83,000 for postage, $32,500 for contingent expenses and the balance for miscellaneous items, The above estimates do not include those for foreign intercourse, which will amount to about $1,874,000 additional. Tne appropriation for the State Department for the present fiscal year, exclusive of foreign inter- course, is $312,603. Preliminary Report of the Coast Survey. Professor Benjamin Pierce, Superintendent of the Coast Survey, has forwarded ‘his preliminary report to Secretary Richardson in advance of the final report from the field. He reviews the fleld of work onthe Atlantic, Gulf and Pactfic coasts, on which surveying parties have been engaged during the year, and says that inthe uorthern sections work will be continued until the approach of cola weather, when the parties will resume the survey of the Southern coast. Parties now on the coast of Maine are engaged in a survey of Mount Desert Island and the adjacent hydrography on the shores of Eggemoggin Reach, on the coast near Castine, on the islands in that vicinity, including that of Isle in Hart Bay, and on the Penobscot, above Belfast. Supplementary work has been done in the upper parts of Casco Bay and in Portland Harbor, Points have been determined by triangulation in New Hampshire. Special ob- servations are in progress near North Adama, Mass., for the determination of terrestrial gravity, and others at Cambridge, for finding the longitude of points in the interior of the United States. O@ shore hydrography is continued near George’s bank, in-shore soundings near Nantucket, and tidal ob- servations have been constantly recorded at North Haven, Penobsco$ Bay, and at the Navy Yard, Bos- ton. The harbors between Portland and New York have been further examined for the preparation of final sailing directions. Field work 13 advancing on the coast of Rhode Island, west of Point Judith. Special observations in hydrography, inciuding: those relating to tides and curgents are in progress in New York Harbor. Field work on the south side of Long Island, on the shores of the Raritan River, New Jersey, on the snores ol Lake Champlain, with adjacent soundings and sta, tion marks of triangulation in the vicinity of New York, have been examined with reference to their preservation, Determinations have been made for latitude, longitude and the magnetic elements om, Port Jervis, N. Y, Barnegat Lighthouse has been connected with the primary triangulation, which passes from New York to the head of the Chesa- peake Bay. Coast topography has been prosecuted between Barnegat and Absccom; hydrography to the northward of Little Egg Harbor and in the Delaware River at Newcastle. Reconnoissance has been continued westward from Harper's Ferry, Va., for points im the geodetic connection between the Atlantic and western coasts. The harbors,of the Chesapeake have been especially examined with reference to sailing directions. The survey of James River, Virginia, has advanced above Warwick River entrance; that of Elizabeth River has been completed. Latitude has been de- termined at a station on Knott's Island, Virginia. The survey has been continued in Currituck, Pam- iico and Core Sounds, including Pungo and Chowan rivers, with observations for the latitude of a station near Ocracoke In- let, further southward. The operations of the year include Cape Fear River to Wilmington, N. ©., the coast of Sonth Carolina, between Little River and Winyah Bay, parts of Coosaw River and of Port Royal Island, latitude at St. Simon's Island, Ga., the survey of Halifax Kiver and the adjacent coast below Mata- moras Inlet, Florida, and the extension of hydro- graphy in the vicinity of the Florida reefs. After reviewing the work on the Gulf coast, he says points in the geodetic connection between the At lantic aud western coast have been occupied in Missouri, Wisconsin and Colorado, and now each State and Territory of the Union along the belt which includes the thirty-ninth parallel has at least one point accurately determined in latitude and longitude. The plan of field” ‘an® hydrographic work on the western coast, in the prosecution of which parties have been and are now engaged, comprises hydrographic develop- ments in the victnity of San Diego, the coast o¢ Caltiornia, near Newport, and San Juan Capistrano, Catalina Harbor, Point Hnereme, San Buenaven- tura, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa Islands; the coast north and south of Point Conception, recon- noissance between Santa Barbara and Monterey, the coast between Point Sol and San Luis Obispo Bay, north of Piedras Blancas, the entrance and approaches to San Francisco Bay; latitude, longi- tude, azimuth, magnetic clements, coefficient of refraction and observations on the tides and currents at stations north and south of San Fran- cisco; deep sea soundings near Falmouth Shoal, development of the Cordei! bank, fleld work on the coast north of Mendocino Bay, south of Bear River, soundings between Cape Mendocino and Rocky Point and off shore irom Crescent City Reel, the coast north of Mack's Arch, soundings off the Oxford Reef, extension of the survey of Colum- bia River and of Sweetwater Bay, Budd's Inlet, Puget’s Sound, and geographical reconnois- sance of the coast, including special surveys of the harbors of Alaska. In the offices nineteen charts have been engraved, twenty-three continued and six new ones commenced, in addition to which six | preliminary charts have been published in the drawing division, sixty-three charts have been | worked upon, being either completed or brought up to the date of survey. Fourteen thousand copies of copper plate charts and 5,300 of litno- graphic charts have been printed, tide tables pre pared, &¢, Check to Indian Raiders. The Acting Secretary of the Interior has trans- mitted to the Secretary of War @ copy of @ tele- gram, dated Wichita, Texas, 12th inst., from. the Commissioner of Indian Aifairs, tn which he states that it is important that a strong patrol be placed on the Red River to intercept parties returning from raids into Texas and to fulfil his pledge to Governor Davis, Orders will be issued by the War Departinent to post troops where violations of the peace by Indians are apprehended in this respect as in all other cases. ‘The Pacific Deep Sca Soundings. Commodore George E. Belknap, commanding the United States steamer Tuscarora, now engaged im taking soundings in the Pacific Ocean, telegraphs the Secretary of War from Victoria, Vancouver's Isiand, that he put in there for coal, having sounded 1,100 miles, So far the plateau is favorable and the descent gradual. The last cast of the lead wos the deepest, being tn 2,504 fathoms; in latitude 64 deg. north and longitude 153 deg, west. Red Brethren 'To Be “impressed.” Nine of the principal chiefs who signed the re- cent Brunot Treaty arrived here from Colorado to-day in charge of Agent Adams. They came on by agreement tO settle various details of the plan tor paying their money to them, It is also desired by the government to impress them with a sense of the greatness and power or the country. ARMY ORDERS, ‘The Secretary of War has issued, by direction of the President, a General Order holding apart a tract of land within the military reservation at Fort McPherson, Nebraska, to be used as a national cemetery. Another order by the Secretary of War directs that a previous order prohibiting the issue of boots to foot troops be revoked, and hereafter that en- listed men snail recetve four pairs of shoes or one pair of boots and two pairs of shoes per year. KILLED BY A FALL ‘The Fourth precinct police yesterday afternoon informed Coroner Keenan that Michael Brown, a man thirty-one years of fe and born in Ireland, May dean atied py falling down # fight of stairs, ab No. 31 Roosevelt street, An inquest will be held on tho vod :