The New York Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1873, Page 6

8 ‘NEW YORK HERALD * BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR +.No, 290 —— = Volume XXxXV1II. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th av.— Norns Dams, PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— Insnavocux. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broaaway.—Vaniety Entuwtatnuxnt, THEATKE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanierr Enreetainaenr. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Inisu Love anp Hau- usr. BROADWA Y THEATRE, 728 and * Mas, rmx Munuy Swiss Boy. Sr eter GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av, and Tr K—Tratian OrgRa—La somnsnoole bi Usa hieds OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houst and Bleecker sta—Tus Guann Docuiss, er NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and ‘Houston sta—Tux Buick Cxoon.” " ‘ BANDACWS ig “rp Broadway and Thirteenth ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Mth street and Irving place.— Avauian Orgna—Eanant. be “ z UNION jUARE THEATRE, Union juare, mear Broadway.—Tux Gzxxva Cuoss. gh + WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st— Natry Bumro, Aiterioon and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixt ay. and Twenty-third st— Fancuon, tux Cnicxer. GERMANIA THRATRE, 14h street and 34 avenue.— Dun Recistearon avy Reisen. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Grrman Orusa—Dis Zavexerioste TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ‘Vagiery Extserainexnt. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner ‘ixth av.—Nearo Minstaetsy, &c¢ TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- Angton and 34 avs.—Dex ineicx dunce Mann 11 Doxvs. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Tuz Roran ARIONETTES. Matinee at 3 CAPITOLINE GROUNDS, Brooklyn.—Ciseus axp Mauxacenie. FERRERO'S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street.— Magical Enreatainuent. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 8d ay., between 634 and G4tb sts’ Afternoon and evening. COOPER UNION HALL.—Lrerun:, “Bzuixp Hx Pourticat Scenxs.’? _.NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- “way.—Scixnce anp Aur. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scisncr "TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 17, 1873, To-Day’s Contents otf the Herald. “THE LATE ELECTIONS! THEIR GENERAL RESULTS AND WHAT THEY SIGNIFY”— LEADING ARTICLE—Sixtg Pace. STORMY TRIP OF THE POLAR SEARCH STEAMER TIGRESS FROM GREENLAND! ARRIVAL AT NEWFOUNDLAND LEAKY! OFFICERS AND CREW EXHAUSTED! THEIR JOY OVER THE SAFETY OF THE BUDDINGTON PARTY! 1THE POLE AGAIN— SEVENTH PAGE. MR, LEIGH SMITH’S YACHTING TRIP TOWARD THE POLE! SAFE RETURN OF THE PARTY! WHAT THEY SAW! HALL’S MYS- TERIOUS DEATH—FovurTH Pace. THE O’CONOR DON ON IRELAND AND AMER- ICA—CHAMBORD’S CROWN INTRIGUE FAILS—A GREAT ROWING FEAT IN ENG- LAND—S&VENTH PaGz. ADMIRAL LOBOS REMOVED FROM COMMAND OF THE SPANISH FLEET FOR ACTING WITHOUT ORDERS! A NAVAL COURT MARTIAL TO TRY HiM—Sgventu PacE, DESTRUCTIVE FLOOD IN CHI HEAVY LOSSES OF LIFE! FOREIGNERS’ CLAIMS AGAINST JAPAN—SEVENTH PaGE. RUSSIA'S WAR UPON THE FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS AT ZURICH UNIVERSITY ! WHAT A HUNGARIAN COUNTESS HAD TO SAY ABOUT IT! A RARE CHAPTER! LADIES AS COMPARATIVE ANATOMISTS— FourtH PaGs. THE DRAIN OF GOLD FROM ENGLAND FOR AMERICA UNABATED! NO CHANGE IN THE DISCOUNT RATE—SEVENTH PAGE. COMPARISON BETWEEN SILVER AND GREEN- BACK VALUES! EXPORTS AND IMPORTS! AMERICAN PROTECTION IMPLORED FOR THE SAMANA BAY COMPANY—Tainp Pace. WALL STREET SPECULATORS RUNNING UP THE PRICES OF STOCKS ! A BRIGHTENING OF THE FINANCIAL SKIES! RESUMPTION DISCUSSED—Firru PaGE. STOCKS HIGHER A»xD GOLD AT THE LOWEST POINT IN ELEVEN YEARS! MONEY EASIER AND CURRENCY ABUNDANT! BUSINESS AND PRICES—E1cutTu Pace, WOMAN'S BETTERMENT CONSIDEKED IN CON- GRESS OF THE SEX—THE CONFERENCE OF THE FREE RELIGIONISTS—GOY- ERNOR’S 1SLAND—Tentu Pace. POUGHKEEPSIE’S HONORS TO THE HEROIC FIREMEN! MR. OARPENTER’S REMARKS EULOGISTIC OF THEIR BRAVERY! THE MONUMENT! TO-DAY’S PRIZES — TuiRp Pace. STOKES’ REARRAISNMENT FOR THE KILLING OF FISK! REPETITION OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE PROSECUTION—LEGAL SUM- MARIES—REAL ESTATE—THE COMMON COUNCIL—Firru PAGE, THE SUCCESSION TO THE CHIEF JUSTICESHIP AND THE OFFICE ITSELF AS VIEWED BY REVERDY JOHNSON AND JUDGES PAS- CHAL AND CASEY! THE CLAIMS OF THE SOUTH—Tump Pace, THE BIG STEAL FROM THE STATE TREASURY— APOLLO “BRAVES” N THE WAR PATH— POLITICAL CONVENTIONS IN BROOKLYN YESTERDAY—A NOBLE CHARITY—Tuiap Pas. MERCHANTS TESTIFYING BEFORE THE CHEAP TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEZ—ARTISTS’ WORKS—FirTH Pace. INTERESTING CONFIRMATION CEREMONIES IN THE CATHOLIC PROTECTORY AT TRE. MONT—WORKS OF THE LITERATI~Fovnra PacE. Esnonation 10 Brazm Nor Svocessrvn.— It appears that a number of English emigrants to Brazil were so unsuccesful and suffered so much after arriving in that tropical country that the Brazilian government, on the pressing demands of Great Britain, has given them a free passage home. White people are tempted to seck s home sometimes in tropical regions from the glowing accounts given of the rich- ness of the soil, the wonderful productivencss and gorgeous scenery and climate, without re- . flecting upon their inability to sustain health and strength as cultivators under a burning sun. To persuade white laborers of the tem- perate wone to emigrate to tropical countries is asnare and cruelty. The temperate climate of the United States or British colonies is alone suitable for Etropean emigrants. The negro nd Malay races can only persistently culti- Yate tho soil of the tropic, NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. Tne Late Elections—Their General Results and What They Signify. The returns from the recent elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, measured by their majorities, republican and democratic, of this year, as compared with those of last year, indicate serious republican losses and encouraging opposition gains. Indeed, upon this standard, in the cutting down of General Grant’s majority of one hundred and. thirty-seven thousand in Ponnsylvania to twenty thousand or legs, and in recovering the State Legislature of Ohio and probably the Governor, the democratic party have made such important gains that, in the same gen- eral ratio, they will, in the elections of 1874, secure the next national House of Kepresen- tatives by on overwhelming majority. But our State elections, in the years when there are no national tickets or issues directly involved, with hardly an exception, since the time of General Jackson, have, upona short popular vote, gone by default; and, in reference to the relative strength of our politi- cal parties upon the Presidential question, the results of these intermediate local elections are of no practical importance. A few illustrative figures, we think, will serve to satisfy the inquiring reader upon this point. We will begin with the State of Perm- sylvania. In the year 1867 the contest in that State was for a Justice of the Supreme Court, and the popular vote was— For Sharswood, democrat For Williams, republican.. Democratic majority...........- - 027 In the same year the democrats carried the _| October vote for Buckalew. rats actually cast for the lamented Horace Greeley. How far the old line democrata were disaf- fected and rebellious against the Cincinnati candidate was strikingly developed in Penn- sylvania last year in the coalition vote for Buckalew (regular democrat) for Governor, as compared with the coalition vote for Greeley: — 811,760 211,841 Loss of old line democrats............+0+4 105,019 This democratic vote withheld from Gree- ley satisfactorily accounts not only for General Grant's majority of 137,748 in Pennsylvania, but for the general collapse of the Cincinnati and Baltimore coalition, with the disclosures of last year’s October elections, From these instructions the Ohio democracy last summer led the way for the democratic party of the Union, in a return to their old sanctuary and in cutting adrift from the libe- ral republicans. The results have established the sagacity of the movement. The unity of the democratic party is restored, and the liberal republicans as a third party, we see, can operate to some purpose. And it appears somewhat surprising to us now that tho liberals in 1872 did not profif from the dect- sive examples before them as to what may bo accomplished by a third Presidential party on ® new depariure. It was the little abolition party supporting Birney that defeated Henry Clay in 1844; it was the third party of free soilers, under Martin Van Buren, that de- feated General Cass in 1848 ; it was the third party, that of Fillmore, that defeated Fremont November vote for Greele; State Legislature of Ohio, which secured them the election of Mr. Thurman as United States Senator, and the republicans had a narrow escape with their Governor. For this officer the vote was: — For Hayes, republican. 243,005 For Thurman, democra‘ 240,622 Republican majority... 9,083 These and other democratic victories’ in 1867, in local elections which the republicans permitted to go by default, were widely av- cepted by the demoeracy as the rising tide of & political revolution which, in 1868, would: carry them triumphantly into the White House. But what were the results of the Octo- ber State elections of 1868 in Pennsylvania and Ohio, npon which the Presidential issue was regarded as directly depending? The test in Pennsylvania was upon the Auditor General, and upon this officer the popular vote was thus divided: — For Hartranft, republican For Boyle, democrat.... 321,739 Republican majority..........2..ssscse00e 9,677 In the same year tho October trial of strength between the two parties in Ohio, on the Presidential issue, was upon the Secretary of State, and the popular yote was:— For Sherwood, republican. For Hubbara, democrat... 249,689 Republican majority........ seceee 17,872 These results, in Pennsylvania and Ohio, in their October elections of the Presidential year, 1868, show that the democratic victories in those States of 1867 rested upon a sandy foundation—that they really signified nothing but a “general apathy,’ which operated to the benefit of the democrats. In the difference, for example, between the popular vote of Pennsylvania of 1867 and that of 1868, the mystery of the differing results is solved :— 1867—Popular vote. + 534,575 1868—Popular vote. 653,255, Reserved vote of 1867. « 118,680 Of these one hundred and eighteen thousand and odd voters who did not go to the polls in 1867, but who did vote in 1868, it appears from the record that there were 64,592 repnb- licans and 53,659 democrats, which will fully account for the democratic victory of 1867 and the republican reaction of 1868. The same rule will apply to Ohio and to all these State elections in which there are no national candidates or questions directly involved. Public indifference prevails in these local con- tests, and the figures we have given are suf- ficient to show that it prevails on the republi- can side. But wherefore? Because a larger proportion of the republican than of the dem- ocratic strength lies in the rural districts, the voters whereof do not generally care to lose a day in attending an election, the results of which, one way or the other, they regard as of little consequence. In other words, in the aggre- gate, the democrats—whose strength lies mostly among the working classes of our vil- lages, towns and cities—are nearer to the polling places than the republicans, and hence a rainy election day, for example, is always considered an advantage to the democrats. But the results of this late election in Ohio cannot be fully explained upon the assumption that the republicans permitted the battle to go by default. The separation of the liberal re- publicans and the democrats into two distinct parties was @ shrewd bit of democratic strat- egy; butit was broadly suggested from the lamentable failure of the coalition of 1872 upon the Cincinnati Presidential ticket. It was supposed by the managers of this coali- tion that in the adoption of Horace Greeley as the democratic standard bearer he would bring over to the solid phalanx of the democ- racy in many States, including Ohio, the re- publican balance of power in the popular vote; but this estimate was completely overthrown by the intractable old line Bourbon democrats, The vote of Ohio in October for Secretary of State, and in November for President, last year, will show where the shoe pinched in this liberal and democratic coalition, This vote was :— 331,416 267,061 In October. In November. Republican vor 265,990 281,852 Coalition vote. 1,780 244,321 Here is an increase in the republican vote | from October to November, and a decrease in | the opposition vote, which can be explained only on the theory that some thousands of democratic Bourbons, who voted for a demo- crat for Secretary of State, would not and did not vote for the democratic candidate for Presi- dent, It was deemed necessary by the demo- cratic managers in this late Ohio canvass to bring back the Bourbons into line, and they were recovered in the regular old line demo- cratic departure adopted and in the nomina- tion of that veteran old line democrat, William Allen, for Governor. On the other hand, the liberal republicans, in the nomination of their independent State ticket, simply took away some thousands of yoters, who, if reduced to a choice between Allon and Noyes, would have supported the latter. From tho rogults we cannot doubt that, had the liberal republi- cans run their Presidential ticket as a third party, the democratic vote for a regular demo- cratic candidate would have been larger in every State than the vote of liberals and demo- im 4856 ; and had there been only one demo- cratic party in 1860 Lincoln would probably have’ been defeated. In the general results in Ohio, whatever: may be'the exact details, from the action of the democrats and the liberals, each as a separate party, there is encouragement to the opposition forces, under the same plan of operations. in New York, looking to our approaching November election. ‘General apathy,” as we have shown, operates against the party in power, and upon a short-vote, in New York, the probabilities in an ‘‘off year” are strongly in favor of the democrats. In 1866 (a Congressional year) Fenton (repub- lican) was elected Governor by 13,000 ma- jority; but in 1867, on: the short vote of an “off year,” the State was carried by 47,000 majority for the demoerats, This is an: ‘off year,’’ and Ohio indicates the prospect in New York, provided, always, that the democrats appreciate their opportunity. And yet, if they resover the State, in an-election on a short vote, going by default, their victory, like all these other incidental successes, will, for Pre- sidential purposes, signify nothing. Next year, in the elections for a new Congress, the reserves on both sides will be drawn into the battle, and the results.will-have an important bearing upon the contest for the Presidential succession. This year; we repeat, whether democratic or republican, the party glorifica- tions over our local: elections, beyond their Aleutian Islands and stretched thence to the Oregon coast, may be considered as almost completed. The gap from the Aleutians to the off-lying Asiatic Islands is no more than five hundred miles wide, and from Attu, the extreme Aleutian Island, to the Japanese port of Hakokadi, is only about one thousand miles. The Employment of Lobby Counsel by the City Comptroller—A Left- Handed Compliment. The Comptroller's special counsel, Mr. Dex- ter A. Hawkins, publishes a long communica- tion, in which he seeks to show that the ser- vices rendered by him at Albany last winter were worth the large remuneration paid to him by Comptroller Green—namely, one hun- dred dollars a day fee and from nine to twelve dollars a day extra for ‘‘expenses.”’ Porhaps they were; but that is not the point. Comptroller Green had no right to appoint Mr. Hawkins as ‘‘counsel at Albany,” and no right to pay him nearly eight thousand dollars, for some seventy days’ alleged “services,” out of the city treasury. In so doing, between May 1 and May 31, the Comptroller violated an express provision of the charter, for Mr. Hawkins was not ‘‘as- signed” as counsel to the Comptroller's De- are concerned. ft {3 thus plain that the Eastern question is not dead because Russia has found ocoupation in Khiva. It never will be dead until the Church of St. Sophia, now a Mahometan mosque, shall be what it origin- ally was, a Christian temple. Return of the Tigress—More Aretic Explorations. The return of the Tigress safe from a search which could not be other than fruitless will be hailed with joy by those whose fears had been aroused in her regard. From the special Heraup despatches published elsewhere the story of her voyage in the waters of Baffin Bay may be gained. It will be seen that the trusty little vessel en- countered a series of severe storms, threaten- ing at one time a necessity for cutting away her foremast. The season of storms, whose first breaths they encountered, happily with- out damage, hastened their return to St. Johns, where they first learned, to their joy, that Buddington and his party were already in the United States. This closes finally the expedition to the North Pole, which cost no life but that of the deplored commander, Captain Hall, Propo- sitions for a new expedition are already on partment by the Corporation Counsel. Nor does the attempt to draw Mayor Havemeyer im and to fix a share of responsibility upon him help Mr. Green, for the Mayor had no more’ authority than the Comptroller to em- ploy and pay counsel. Mr. Hawkins believes that but for his efforts the Legislature would have involved the city in millions of dollars needless loss and expense—rather a back- handed compliment for a Senate and Assem- bly three-fourths reform republicans, either in regard to their wisdom or theit honesty. We have nothing to say in regard to the value of Mr. Hawkins’ services. In a conver- sation with a reporter of the Himaup he re- cently placed his‘ own estimate upon them at tiie modest sum of eighty thousand'dollars for about seventy-four days’ work. If se, Comp- troller Green employed him at a moderate remuneration when he paid him one hundred dollars a day and his board bill of from nino to twelve dollars a day'in addition. We charge that. although the old charter, under the favorite policy of the: Tammany Ring,;, may have given the head of a department a'show of leg#i right to take money out of the public treasury to pay for lobby services at Altiany up to May 1, 1873, Mr. Green followed ‘the example of the corrupt Tweed and Connolly régime in availing himself’ of the power. But even under the old law Mr. Green had no bet- ter right than any other head of a city depert- ment to pay for a counsel at’ Albany with the public money. In retaining Mr. Hawkins at the people’s expense. after May 1 the Comp- troller wilfully violated a provision of tiie present charter which prohibits the employ- ment of counsel by any department of the city government without a formal assignment from the legal adviser of the Corporation. An apologist for this lobby bill contends local results, are mere ‘‘sound and fury, signi- fying nothing.” An Important Discovery by the Pna- cific Exploring Expedition—A ‘Tele- graphic Pilate” for the Pacific Cable. The Bureau of Navigation has just received an important and interesting despatch from Commander Belknap, of the Pacific Explor- ing Expedition. Commander Belknap, it will be remembered, was sent out for the purpose of condueting the great Pacific survey and deep sea researches, with a view to obtaining information for the laying of the proposed Pacific telegraph cable. The despatch in question is sent to. Commodore Ammen,. Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, and states that the soundings were ‘‘very favorable from the Aleutian Islands to Victoria, increasing grad- ually in depth to 2,530 fathoms in latitude 54 north and longitude 153 west, a distance of 1,100 miles,’’ This telegram was sent from the Tuscarora, in which Commander Belknap had just returned to Victoria for coal, after carefully sounding through the deep and be- fore unfathomed caverns of the North Pa- cific, This intelligence is of the most impor- tant nature, and settles the grand and long agitated problem of the feasibility of a Pacific telegraph. When the Atlantic telegraph was: first conceived the question arose whether the bed of the Atlantic would afford a suitable place: for it to repose; and the discovery: of the celebrated submarine telegraphic plate between Ireland and Newfoundland solved the matter, showing that upon such a plate a cable might repose as safely as in a closed and uninterrupted cylinder. The discovery of Commander Belknap, made under direction of the Bureau of Navigation, will do as much for the great Pacific cable intended to bring Yokohama and Pekin within speaking distance of New York. No railroad engineer could desire a gentler gradient for his track than that sounded by Commander Belknap in the deep-sea bed of 2,530 fathoms, in 1,100 miles, or about one mile in 400. The officers of the Tuscarora, in working their deep-sea sound- ings, used Belknap’s sounding cup, which gives excellent specimens both of the abyssal water and the bottom mud. They have been using an experimental wire, 22 gauge, piano, which in the despatch is said to be ‘“une- qnalled,” and will greatly facilitate other sub- marine researches yet to be made by the Tuscarora, These soundings have been can- ducted under directions carefully prepared by Commodore Ammen, after consultation with Sir William Thompson, of England. Buta new and very valuable improvement on Sir William's plan has been introduced, yiz.:—to oil the wire both before and after its submer- gence, by which its corrosion is prevented and its tenacity proserved. Instead of hauling up the sinking ball of thirty pounds weight after the apparatus had touched bottom, os in the old process, the ball is now detached, and the time and labor required fora sounding aro greatly diminished. These admirable and highly beneficial in- vestigations in the North Pacific are among the most useful evr undertaken by the gov- ernment, and, we are glad to hear, are to be prosecuted still more extensively in this long neglected field of oceanic survey. Apart from the scientific interest that attaches to this splendid investigation of the great ocean whose vastness first enraptured Vasco Nunez and kindled his enthusiasm, we may regard the discovery of its submarine topog- raphy as assuring tho early undertaking of a Pacific cable. The demand has long existed, and is now proved as practicable as it is im- Derative, Tho cable, gnoe landed on the that the services of Mr. Hawkins were in fact: ® “contract” which could not be affected by the law repealing the old Tammany charter: The absurdity of such a proposition is evident, , and proves how utterly indefensible is the illegal and improper conduct of the Comp-- troller. The most scandalous feature of the transaction is the fact thatthe enormous fee and the expenses were paid to the counsel for; many days during which the Legislature was not in session at all. Im this feature, it is true, the employment of Mr. Hawkins seems, to have taken the form of a “‘contract,’’ and: of a most audacious one at that. A financial officer notorious for paring down the paltry wages of laborers and: scrub-women when their daily labors have not been regularly per- formed cannot be excused for ‘‘contracting” to pay one hundred dollars a day for services never rendered and nine to twelve dollars a day for expenses never incurred. We shall see from Mayor Havemeyer’s action in. the matter whether he really approved and sanc- tioned this lawless.and outrageous. squander- ing of the public money at a time when the city’s finances were, as they are yet, in an embarrassed and critical condition. The “Advancement of Women.” It is pleasant to observe any movement which has for its object the real advancement of womanhood, and we shall therefore feel glad if the new association which met yester- day and on Wednesday at the Union League Theatre, and which professes to entertain this aim, proves that it has not been started in vain. The senseless efforts of ignorant, women and the meretricious efforts of vicious ones have been criticized in this paper repeat- edly and been met, with all the ridicule and obloquy which they so well deserve. But we shall be among the first to offer felicitations to any association of intelligent and virtuous women working fora sensible purpose, or, in fact, to any association whatever of women whose aims are pute and who possess suffi- cient sense to perceive what advice is good and to solect suitable leaders. Sensible and good women have a mighty work to do for their own sex—a work which men cannot hope toaccomplish. Mrs, Julia Ward Howe, for instance, spoke pertinently when sho said at the meeting on Wednesday that ‘‘the woman who had too much on her back was liable to have nothing in her pocket and less in her he "" This is so sadly true, and there is such abundant reason for the criticism having been made, that the sooner the ‘Association for the Advancement of Women" achieves something the better. No sensible man can walk down Broadway without feeling commis- eration, to use no heavier word, for a largo proportion of that sex whom he is bound to honor by all the traditions of chivalry. He istoo apt to come home saying to himself that woman would be the true feminine of man, only she paints her faco, drags her dress, wasps her waist and indulges in a score of senseless caprices. Is she o little lower than | the angela? Yes; but there is all infinity in that difference of height. Avernta anv Turkey are growling at each other. The cause of quarrel is small, Aus- tria has been too kind to some of the neigh- boring princes whose duty to-day itis to recog- nize the suzcrainty of the Porte, The Porte is angry, for the reason that Austria is now foot, and, it is said, the route via Bebring Strait will be approved by the Navy Depart- ment, It will be first necessary, we presume, to give some good reasons why the Smith's Sound route, whose advantages are recognized in England as well as America, should be abandoned at this day. On the subject of Arctic explorations and the practicability of finding the Pole, the views of Mr. Leigh Smith, drawn from the cruise of the Diana and to be found elsewhere, will be read with interest. Samana Bey in a Squall, The mariner who puts to sea in a leaking tub in the season of cyclones may well, to use 8 nautical phrase, ‘look out for squalls.” It will be small consolation to the Samana Bay Company that, the prospect of their innocent little argosy being swamped in » Dominican revolutionary squall’ was held’ before their’ eyes when the sails of their new entérprise were about to be bent. It was all‘ fun, no doubt, to the sagacious Baez,. who pocketed the shining elements of the subsidy. Probably he would have been contented to see the equivalents promised carried. out, because it would have meant that he could enjoy his authority as well as his money under the shadow of his own banana.tree. If the ragged creoles who cast hungry eyes on Samana Bay from their mountain eyries-:succeed in whipping the rag- ged creoles who support Baez, the latter gentleman will take wing if he succeeds in retaining his head and fly somewhere like the dove and build him a nest, which he has taken care to have amplo materials for ‘‘feathering.’’ So it comes that the Sa- mana speculators: are looking to-Congress for moral support. What, may we: ask, has be- come of the armies they were: to raise, the fleets they were to build andthe fortunes that were to. result from it all? Have they dwelt only in the realm of tho writer's careering fancy? Whew! @ blast of oir: from the mountains and the successor of the East India Company is quiv- ering like an.aspen leaf in a hurricane. The revolutionists may have some ideas that Baez was an irresponsible swindler,:and they may invoke in their ragged way the spirit which the ragged Americans of Washington’s army were once proud to call patriotism. Shall the United States then be made the instrument to crush that spirit out, because. the banana mer-. chants of Samana, like the buchu bankers of New York, think they have “influence” in Washington? PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Samuel. Bowles, of the Springfield Repudlican,.is at the Brevoort House. Ex-Speaker Littlejohn, of: Oswego, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel, General C. H. T, Collis, of Philadelphia, hag quar- ters at the Brevoort House. Senator John Scott, of Pennsylvania, has apart- ments at the St. Nicholas Hoiel. £x-Congressman R. 2). Hubbard, of Connecticut, 18 staying at the Hoffman House, Lord Lewisham, of England, is among the tate arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Sefior Borges, the Brazilian Minister at Washing- ton, is staying at the, Albemarle Hotel. Congressman Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, yesterday arrived at the Hoffman House, Ex-Congressman, Nathaniel P. Banks arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from Boston, State Senator Wiiliam Foster, of Cleveland, N, Y., 18 registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Ex-Congressman Thomas A. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, is registered at the New-York Hotel. The President, General Sherman and Secretary Belknap are expected to return. to Washington to- day. The President has recognized: William McKenzie Gerting as Vice Consul of, Denmark in and for. Florida. Orlow W. Chapman, State Superintendent of In- surance, arrived from Albany at the Filth Avenue Hotel yesterday. The Governor General and the Countess of Dufferin, with their suite, loft for Montregl;, per steamer, yesterday afternoon, Senator Allison, of lowa, and ex-Senator Corbett, ©; Oregon, who arrived from Europe in the Cuba yesterday, are at the Brevoort House. United States senators Windom, Norwood and Davis, of the Committee on Transportation, ar- rived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yestorday. Senators Edmunds, of Vermont, and Robertson, of South Carolina, and Congressman E. H. Roberta, of Utica, arrived from Europe in the steamship Cuba yesterday, and are staying at tho Filth Ave. nue Hotel. WEATHER REPORT, War DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THR On1gF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasuIngton, D, O,, Oct. 17—1 A. M. Probantitties, The storm contre in Maine will probably con. tinue moving southeastward on Friday. For the Southern States continued clear or partly cloudy weather, with light winds and fog or haze. “FOR THE MIDDLE ATLANTIO STATES SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS, INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND POSSIBLY THREATENING OR RAINY WEATHER, For New England and the lower lakes westerly winds, with cloudy or clearing weather, For the upper lakes southeast to northeast winds, falling barometer, cloudy and possibly rainy weather, The We: rf in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenyy-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last looked on a8 the natural enemy of Ottoman rule in Europe. Time was when Russia threatened to wator her horses in the Bos> fax om ambitious designs on the Golden Horn ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s ‘mt 1872, 1873, ++ 63 69 4 “ Seinalbipimialigtes saci ITALIAN OPERA, Lucea and Di Mursks in “The Magic Flate” at the Grand Opera House. One of the largest audiences which was ever gathere together in this city for the purpose of. hearing an opera interpreted, assembled at the Grand Opera House last nigh, the occasion being the production of Mozart’s work “The Magic Flute,” with Mme, Lucca and Mile, Di Murska in the parts of Pamina ad The Queen of Night respectively, The house was full to suffocation, the seats being all disposed of even before the audience began to gather, and the aisles 80 crowded as to make ingresssto and egress from the front rows next to impossible. If the same number of persons or those ot fhe excess of the evening had been distributed over yhe fortnight's periormances there would have beer,more comfort and more emjoymont. As it was, .\ vast multi- tude went to hear a brilliant concert, dignified with the name of opera, and made morea»nticing by the suggestion that the opera was tos be “The Magic Flute.’ Aside from the merits of ¢ prime donne and of M. Jametin the arias which fell to these artists there was nothing worthy of mn ‘mark, and in considering their merits and tria mphs we could have found an egually tava table Opportunity if they had been annom wed to sing in ® “Magic Flute” concert, : The reception accorded to the prime donne ‘9 Vas in enthusiasm something beyond all our idewt, of these demonstrations, ) Warm aa were’ e plaudits of the vast audience, they wre distributes ' With auch exact justice that nobody eould com- plain. Both Lucca and Di Murska received encores equally hearty and equally deserved, the latter it) the second and the former in the last acs-and the, floral tributes were not & flower too fewor too, many to etther of these great artists. } “Die Zauberfidte” is the only opera of Mozart: which may be called a German opera, a8 all his: other works were written to Italian librettos.- The- popularity of the grand spectacle of the same name, which in Mozart's time was one ot the lead-~ ing attractions at the theatres of Prague and other cities, caused the Emperor Joseph II. to suggest to the composer to write musio for, it. He complied, and the richness of his fancy and' Poetical tdeas:were displayed in a lavish manner: in this delicious work, But so delicate and lairy- like is this wondrous structure of music that, like “The Tempest” and “A Midsummer Night's Dream’ of Shakespeare, it is almost impossible, it not quite so, to represent it om the stage’ without mate! injary to the composer, It de- mands first rtistsin every rdle, otherwise, whole scenes are liable to be mutilated; an orches-~ tra virtuosi, ble of interpreting with fidelity aud. intelligence the playful little dialogue with which the instrumentation is constantly enriched, a chorus of irreproachable quality, a mise en Tander and more elabor: than a dozen Black rooks, anda conductor of the highest order, The strange mysteries of the Temple of Isis, of-which Moore has given such a fantastic picture in his “Epicurean,” the witcheries of the Queen of the Night and her followers, the extraordinary churac- ter, Papageno. and the noble Tamino, are rather beyond the resources of the stage for anything like effective representation, The opera is sel- dom produced in Europe or America, botiron this account,as well as the difficulty of finding a bravura singer who can soar into the empyrean notes of Astraflammante. This rdle was de- signed for an exceptionally high soprano who re ed at the theatre of Prague in Mozari’a ‘ime, Among the modern Trepresenta- tives of the role we. may mention Mme. Nilsson, who sang it at the Lyrique, in’ Paris, some years ago, and Mile. Carlotta Patti, who made a sensation ih it, some seasons past, at the: Academy of Music. Marimon essayed it at Drury Lane, in Her Majesty’s opera, since; but, wa believe, without success. Mile, lima Di Murska is admirably suited for such a réle, as her voice 1s not merety a pyrotechnic medium for bravura passages, bnt 18 capable of infusing expression and intelligent phrasing into the two grand arias which are assigned to1t. In the-first, the recitative, ‘Non parentar,”’ in which she-encourages the perplexed Tamino, was delivered by Mile. Di Murska with a power oi declamation ana ease of delivery that betokened the true artist. ‘The loriturt in the allegro, caning of to Fin alt, were given in the most lant manner, each passage being distinctly [teparel and every note made to tell wita ts full effect. Wwe have heat bravura singers essay this aria, an f 0, eo original key, but after @ fashion. For the first time the entire music was heard, the rari ae sages being delivered with distinctness and effect and the highest notes attucked with an ease au success that were, indeed, marvellous. Great as was the display of Mile. Di Murska’s abilities in the first aris, she eclipsed it in the: next act, in the allegr’o, i angul d’inferno,” in which Astraflammente calls upon her daughter to avenge her on the high priest, Sarastro. The bril+ liant staccato notes, from A to F in alt, were deliv- ered with an effect of the most startling kind, and, withal, in true keeping with the mu- sic, They were flung forth by the Hungarian Nightingale like lances of melody, each tipped with the fire of genius, and the vast audience ws swayed by the electric power of the voice, as if’ a real witch, not a ery donna, was on the bs f e. It 1s a pity that at this early stage of the opera the: Queen of the Night disappears, although eon oly no artist could staud a further deman vocal powers, Mme. Lucca was the other grand feature of Bast night's performance, and the little prima dor ina nobly upheld her position and fulfilled all expec ita-. tions. Her rich voice was heard at firstin the & aee with Papageno, ‘La dove prende amor ricett.o,’» wud then in the measures of the faria “Ah! lo so, piu, non m’avanza,” in which she received an ovation which was fully deser ved: She seemed to be inspired to unusual efort.s cn the occasion, for, her voice had a greater degr ee of thrilling power, melting expression and wom irous effect than even. in her other better known rdles, The expression of her passionate love for T?.mino, when she meets him under the guard of the two men in armor, was another triumph for her voice. Jamet sung the music of Sarastro like thie con- scientious artist, he is, and gave the splend id ari: “Qui sdegno non s’accende,” with a nolility. ol style and delivery that rarely accompanies. the singing of operatic artists nowadays. Altho: the lower notes.of his voice at the cony;iasion. of this aria were not of the calibre of @ Formes, whose voice here had the effect of the pradals.of an organ, yet the completeness of the art gf M. Jamet and the knowledge he evinces in hig interpreta- tion of a role cannot fail at all times to please a musical ear, Want of Hag and the lateness of the hour compel us to omit, tor the present, mention of the other rdles, including Papageno,, the ser- pent, the trio of females, the bears ana the two men in armor, not forgetting the negro, Monosta- tos, They are very extragrdin: im their way, but not in the rignt direcYion, and wore more cal- culated.to excite laughter than applagge. Masical and Dramatic Notes Signor Tamberlik will aing the ‘Y&ye. Maria” at a concert which isto be given at Dr, Hopwortlva church on Saturday evening. Next Wednesday evening Mr. Strakoggh will pro- duce “Don Giovanni’at the Academy of Musto,‘ vath the three prime donne—Nilsson, Torriani and) Maresi—supported by Campanini, Maurel, Del Puente and Nannetti. This ts the. strongest com. bination for the presentation, of this: diMcult opera, that we have badiin years. “Ernani” will be sung this evening. “Die Banditen,” Offenbach’s, “Brigands,” is having o very successtul run at the Germania Theatre. The appegrance of Mr. Lester Wallack at his own theatre is now fixed tor Wednesday evening, the 27th inst. This is a welcome event, for it insures us atleast one tre where legitimate comedy will be acted, and isa great recompense tor the froth with which the season began at most of our places of amusement. Signor Salvini played Othello at the Academy of Music last night before a very large audience, This is the creation in which he hag, most thor. oughly appealed to American theatre goers, ana upon his rendition of the Moor his fame in thia country will rest. LAWRENCE BARRETT'S ILLNESS, 81. Lous, Mo., Oct. 16, 1878, Lawrence Barrett, the actor, is lying very it here from inflammation of the bowels and tha brain. DESTRUCTIVE PRAIRIE FIRE, Twenty-five Miles of Country Swept by Fire—Ton School Chiidren Envelope i in the Fiames=Six Dead and For ic Badiy Burned. OMANA, Neb,, Oct. 16, 187 5, Aterfible prairie fire swept over twenty jive miles of country near the Omaha and South’ yogt. ern Railroad, in Saline and Jefferson ¢OF inties, Nebraska, on Tuesday. Mahy houses aw jargo quantities of grain were destroyed. At Wilbur ten school children were cau cht in the flames. Three perished on the spot, ree more Will die, and four are dreadfully MAWaed, but will recover. Mrs, Morley, mother Of “three of the children, ran to help them, and Tecd.ved fatal in. Juries, NAVAL INTELLIGBY, OB. Surgeon Gibbs has been detar’ned from the Rich- Mond and ordered to return hyyme, Second Asaist- ant Engineer ©. J. oo pee tad ba Apo cetagned ir jo yaugus 0 return north, Second ‘eadaunt |. W. Gardner has been ordered to the gous frown whe Lallgpoues’ aut on Der - so