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6 NEW YORK HERALD NEW. Y ORK .HERALD,..WEDNESDAY, OUTOBER.,22,, 1873,--TRIPLE senator Soutwell on Finance end the Panic=A Polities! Speech on Eco- nomic Principles. BROADWAY AND ‘ANN STREET. Senator Boutwoll’s lecture last night was JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII... sree NOs 905 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRES, Broadway and Thirteenth streot.—Our Amxaican Cousin, ACADEMY OF MUSTO, 1éth street and Irving place. Iranian Orrea—Don GIOVANNI UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, oear Broadway.—Tiux Gexsva Cxoss. Matinee. OOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— piv Crockers. Afternoon and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third sh— Faxcaon, THe Cricket. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE. Mth st and 6th av.— Norns Daax. Matinee at2. METROPOLITAN i ideo ay Broadway.—Vanrery Eyrertanment, Matinee at 2 ATRE COMI No, 514 B pV ancere Eynatimame Matinee ace OM ™*Y MRS F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— ‘Mapsvein Moret. ” PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall— Tousus Casan, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ginces Sxars—TaE Torr Diccer's Doox. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Pairz, Our German Cousin, GRAND OPERA HOU! et —Unper tax Gasticn’ OLYMPIC THEATRE, B: and Bleecker sts.—hons. Cxo' NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Bouston sts.—Tax Buick Crook. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery. Vartery ENTERTAINMANT. GERMANIA THEATRE, lh street and 34 avenuc.— Dm Banprrex. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nxcro Minstretsy, &c. ighth av. and Twenty-third y, between Houston HORE HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— Gan Francisco MinstrELs. TERRACE GARDEN THBATRE, 58th st., between Lex- fngton and 8d avs,—FRravenkanrr. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Tne Roran jeTtes, Matinee at 3. P, T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th Svenue. Afternoon and evening. FERRERO'S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street— Magicat Entertainment, CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES.—Ant Enrertain- ment—"Paris and VersarLurs.’’ AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 3d ay., between 634 and 6ith sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘Way.—Sciknox aND ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Sciexce AND ArT. TRIPLE SHEET. Wew York, Wednesday, October 22, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “SENATOR BOUTWELL ON FINANCE AND THE PANIC! A POLITICAL SPEECH ON ECONO- MIC PRINCIPLES”—TITLE OF THE LEAD- ING ARTICLE—SixtH Pace. MR. GEORGE S, BOUTWELL’S SOLUTION OF THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM! THE PANIC, SPECIE-PAYMENT RESUMPTION, THE BALANCE OF TRADE AND EXCHANGES AND CURRENCY INFLATION FULLY CON- SIDERED—TENTH Pace. LIVELY TIMES LOOMING UP IN WALL STREET! CONFIDENCE RETURNING, WITH MONEY EASY AND FOREIGN EXCHANGES FIRM! A RAILROAD STOCK COMPARISON—TampD PAGE. FINANCIAL NEWS AND OPERATIONS! THE BANKS AND THE MONEY MARKET! A GOOD PROSPECT! THE $44,000,000 RE- SERVE—Fourta Pace. BRITISH GOLD STREAMING TOWARD AMERICA! DAILY STEAMSHIP SERVICE BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND NEW YORK BY THE CUNARD LINE—SEVENTH Pace. TUE SPANISH INTRANSMGENTE FLEET AT VA- LENCIA PLUNDERING MERCHANTMEN! ANOTHER VICTORY SCORED FOR LISAR- RAGA—SEVENTH PaGE. CUBAN REBELS STORM THE TOWN OP BAIVE! A RETREAT AFTER FOUR HOURS’ FIGHT- ING—SEVENTH Pas. PLON-PLON IN PARIS! HIS CAREER AND IN- TENTIONS! PERSONAL SKETCH OF THE PRESENT LEADER OF THE BONAPARTISTS! THE NEW DEPARTURE—SEVENTH Pace. THE FRENCH ORISIS! MacMAHON’S PARTY FEALTY AND TENURE OF POWER! THE LEFT ON THE ALERT—SEVENTH Pace. BAZAINE’S DEFECTIONS! EVIDENCE OF CAN- ROBERT, LADMIRAULT AND BOURBAKI— GERMANY AND THE PACACY—SEVENTH Pack. MONTARGIS WINS THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES AT THE NEWMARKET (ENGLAND) RACES—SzEvENTH PAGE, THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC IN THE SOUTH BUT SLIGHTLY AFFECTED BY THE FROSTS! DEATH SUPERINDUCED BY THE COLVER WEATHER—SIXTH Page, TENNESSEE COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED! UNITED STATES OFFICIALS ENGAGED IN f THE NEFARIOUS TRAFFIC—Tamp Pace. THE POLITICAL STATUS IN THE BMPIRE STATE! RURAL REPUBLICAN SQUABBLES! THE BAKER BRIBERY CASE—Turmp Pagz. THE GRAND CENTRAL TRAGEDY! THE DE- FENCE OFFER NEW AND STRONG EVI- DENCE AS TO FiSK’S THREATS AND A SECOND PISTOL! ANOTHER VERSION OF HIS ViSIt TO THE HOTEL—Firrg Page. POOR GOTHAM MULCT IN THE COURTS! THREE VERDICTS AGAINST “RGONOMY!” THE GUINKA’S JINGLE HELPING HURT HONOR! GENERAL LEGAL SUMMARIES— Firta Pace. “THE GREATEST OF THESE 18 cmariry:' THE NEW ASYLUM FOR FOUNDLINGS THROWN OPEN YESTERDAY! DESORIP- TION OF THE BUILDINGS—Fornrn Pace, THE CANVASS IN THE OLD DOMINION—rROoT. TING AT PROSPECT PARK YESTERDAY— Tump Pace. Gorp Reams Sreapy notwithstanding the Bank of England has raised the rate of dis- count to seven per cent in order to check the flow of the precious metal hither. If the balance of trade were not as favorable to us as it is such action on the part of the Bank would have a greater effect upon the gold market, Particularly as the premium came down so reer Sao fluctuations are small and only ions during the day. No better ae ae, be Wp cony of the favorable the flattering prospect during the remainder of the fall pos: A Nartoaz, Convannion oF Fmmamt been in session for a day or two in Baltheote ® convention highly to be commended, its Objects being tho protection of human lives and property. An occasional national con- vention of this sort should be encournged by more an apology for his financial policy than an exposition of the important subject he was announced to discuss. In this connection we use the word ‘‘apology’’ in that higher sense that would enable the Senator, if he chose, to call his lecture his Apologia. Before entering upon a discussion of any of the particular questions evolved by Mr. Boutwell we may characterize the effort as singularly want- ing in suggestiveness, comprehensiveness and vigor. This was to have been expected, for in these respects his apology is eminently characteristic of the Treasury Department under his administration. There was nothing broad or grand in his financial policy. But he hada financial policy, nevertheless, and it is in some measure from the effects of that policy that the country is suffering to-day. It was in other quarters that the Senator looked for the disease, and he seemed to think the remedy was centred in the following of the course he had adopted as Secretary of the Treasury. In beginning his lecture Mr. Boutwell laid down three propositions as the basis of the remarks he was about to make: — 1. A declaration in favor of a resumption of specie payments, qualified by the avowal that the only meaning properly attaching to the word ‘resumption’’ is the equality in value of currency with coin. 2. A declaration that there was a point beyond which paper could not be issued in any country and specie payments sustained, qualified by the assertion that the point is not capable of mathematical demonstration. 3. There can be no resumption while the balance of trade is against us, or at least not until the conditions were more nearly equal than at present. These were the Senator’s principles of po- litical economy, but under the circumstances he called them by a much more felicitous term. They were the “‘pivota” upon which his argument turned, and as it turned out they were only pivots for a political discussion. He simply hinged upon them in- genious but faulty sympathy for protection, ship building and a revival of commerce by subsidies, annual government interference in finaneial affairs, especially in Wall street, owing to the ‘‘exigencies of the autumn” and the necessity for moving the crops, and above all his favorite theory that the Secretary of the Treasury can reissue 4 part of the $44,000,000 reserve if he thinks it necessary and play the pranks of the amateur financier and buchu banker whenever he chooses to forget his proper functions and meddle with affairs with which he has no concern. Mr. Boutwell’s position upon the question of protection was the funniest thing in his lecture, There was genuine humor init. In the first place, he was in favor of protection, not because he liked it, but because, though it came as an accident of the war, it had made everybody rich and happy. As a mat- ter of course he said nothing concerning the many “protected” articles which bring nota dollar into the Treasury and only serve to rob the people to enrich the manufacturer. Even if protection is the beneficent principle Mr. Boutwell affects to regard it this side of its practical operation ought to be denounced as injustice and impoverishment. But the Senator evidently does not believe in protection as a principle of political economy, but only asa political plank in a partisan platform. While he sees blessings without number flowing in upon the country as the result of high tariff duties, he points to other blessings equally beneficent as the result of no tariff duties at all Congress upon his recommendation, we believe, certainly with his encouragement and support, made an ex- ception in a particular case, and took the duties off all articles which enter into the building of aship. The same articles enter into the construction of a wagon—the ship of the Plains and the interior—but if they are used to make a wagon they pay duty. This neat and beneficent liitie-provision ap- plies only to a few shipbuilders, and so high tariffs are made to enrich a few manufacturers, and exemption from any tariff at all is made to enrich a few more manufacturers. This is, indeed, a very pretty joke; but then Mr. Bout- well always was a joker when he was at the head of the Treasury, and he seems not to have lost his exquisite sense of humor now that he is in the Senate and feels called upon to explain his practical jokes outside of the Senate. ‘We have already referred to Mr. Boutwell’s position in favor of subsidies to shipbuilders. It is the one position he assumed during the evening upon which we feel any real concern. His plan is not likely to have any real efficacy, and it is extremely dangerous as opening the way to subsidies of every kind and frauds not less stupendous than the immense land grabs of the last few years obtained from Congress as necessary aids in building railways. Even in its most confined application it would only inure to the benefit of the few ship yards building iron ships which have been 80 long looking to Congres- sional bounty, as more important than any real beneiit to American workers on ships. While speaking ton this branch of the ques- tion Mr. Boutwell took occasion to declare that we needed no tinyy to protect our own coasts, and that the only use of ships of war in foreign waters was “to shOW Our fing.” We need not enter into pny serions discussion of this question, especially at p time 472 8 few wretched Spanish officials at Havana themselves strong enough to constantly fn the American people because the United States have no navy. Mr. Boutwell, it seems, would spend the people’s money b: and save it by the cent. ee Much that Mr. Boutwell had ‘ to say u the question of the national banks ix vom of serious consideration, Especially is this the case in regard to his reprobation of banks paying interest on deposits, The bank which pays interest to depositors must a8 Mr. Boutwell says, look to the city banks for reimbursement, and the city banks in turn are compelled to lean upon mere speculators in stocks or the uncertain securities of the gamblers of the street, But we cannot sympathize with those of the Sen- ator’s ideas which contemplate increase in the number of our national banks and, conso- sequently, of the volume of the currency. ‘Phe whole thing, we foar, is rotten at pottom, and, if it were not for the wise moderation of the people and the high estimation of the credit of the government, the national bank system would fall of its own weight, The na- tional banks generally have not capital suffi- cient to make money in legitimate business, and, in trath, they havo'no real capital at all. Coin is the only real capital, and so resump- tion is the one thing needful. We aro disposed to agree with Mr. Bout- well that the resumption cannot be forced, but if it comes as ho desires it, by currency becoming equal to coin, we hope the currency will be retired and coin allowed to take its place. Resumption is elmply the ability to buy gold with paper on equal terms, and with our present redundant circulation it seems impossible that this should be attain- able, On another important question we differ from and with Mr. Boutwell. He believes in the power of the government to reissue a part, or even the whole, of the forty-four million dollars reserve in an emergency. If he sim- ply regarded it as an abstract legal Proposition we would have no serious objections to urge against his view, and would be ready to join with him in seeking the withdrawal of the power. But he looks upon a temporary reissue not only as right, but as an occasional duty—not as an increase of the volume of the currency, he says—not ‘permanently ;"’ and if he had only been a little more frank he would have said, only for the purpose of controlling operations in Wall street. In keeping with this are his notions about “the exigencies of the autumn” and moving the crops. The whole thing must mean that the hand of the Secretary’ of the Treasury is to be felt in every ‘‘pool’’ and to smooth every ‘‘corner.” In other words, Mr. Richardson and his successors are to be the chief buchu financiers of the country— currency doctors, with as little knowledge of finance as buchu doctors have of physic. We saw similar logio to these latest enunciations of Mr. Boutwell practically applied by him in the famous syndicate transactions. We have also seen enough of the meddling with business on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of helping to move the crops owing to “the exigencies of the autumn.’ We want no more syndicates and no more autumnal exigencies, and we further want to see no Cabinet officer playing his little game with the forty-four million dollars reserve. Mr. Boutwell’s effort was scarcely worthy of him ; and yet had he been much more elo- quent he could not better have explained his own policy and that of his successor in the Treasury Department. We thank him for this, for we hope it will lead the country to insist upon something better than either he or Mr. Richardson has to offer as a remedy for panics, meee as ini da ee % Prince Napoleon as a Pretender, Whatever may result to Prince Napoleon in his new departure in French politics, he is too great a man—from his name, his relation- ship to the great Emperor and his representa- tive association with the politics of France—to be underrated or overlooked. The brilliant letter which we print to-day from our special correspondent in Paris is a contribution to the contemporary history of France as valu- able as Carlyle’s portrait of Mirabeau or Macaulay’s essay on Warren Hastings. It may be truly said that we knew nothing of Mirabeau until Carlyle dug him out of the rub- bish and slime of the French Revolution and painted him in his greatness and his power— what was small and weak and corrupt, his lion look, the face pitted with disease, and that resonant eloquence which awoke the spirit of freedom in France and threw defiance ata king. As to Hastings, he was a name— something less than a name—a shadow, darkened by the angry, persistent elo- quence of Burke—until Macaulay, with his matchless skill, made him one of the best known men in history. What has been done to Mirabeau and Hastings the Henatp essays to do this morning with Prince Napoleon. We commend our letter from Paris as a masterpiece, well worth the careful study of all who care to follow the wonderful events now transpiring over the seas, and to know the men who, for good or evil, have the destiny of France in their hands, Another Slip Up in the Kelsey Case= The Duty of the Governor. It seems that the Coroner’s investigation into the circumstances attending the cruel outrage upon and the very probable diabolical murder of Charles G. Kelsey, in Huntington, L. L, bas been again postponed, making the third or fourth time that a postponement, upon some flimsy pretext or other, has taken place in this remarkable case. Now, in view of the egregious imbecility (or something worse) exhibited by the Huntington authori- ties in this affair, we hold it to be the duty of the Governor to take it altogether out of their hands and place it in those of the legal officers of the State who have jurisdiction in the premises. It is a matter in which not only the inhabitants of an obscure vil- lage have an interest, but one which, af- fecting as it does society at large, concerns every citizen in the State. Hence the propo- sition for the Governor to take action on the subject is clearly justifiable. The trumpery story that Kelsey has been found alivein Cali- fornia is too ridiculous to be credited for a moment. It is a transparent effort on the part of the alleged guilty parties to gain fur- ther time in order to spirit away important witnesses or to allow the public indignation in regard to the heartless transaction ta sub- side. Let us have some State action in the matter. The sooner the better. Eworanp Sun Encroacurxa on Our Com- * -+, Domams.—We learn through our tele- MEE%s. . Mexico that the first vessel of o grams ff -*n of British steamers between new monthly. 4 Oruz had just left the Liverpooland Ver. voyage. This is an latter port on its return . * and legitimate invasion, though a peacefiu In other one, of our commercial domain. * of us words, England continues to get aheau "Oe in commercial enterprise with neighbor, countries, For trade with Mexico our local advantages are far superior to hers, but we neglect them, Our merchants, shipowners 4nd the government ought to direct their attention to the vast agyrogate trade of the American States which is slipping away rela- ane At the provent day steamship are the great medium of we need more of thom, ewe SHEET, A Meteorological Wonder. The storm of the last two days has been a meteorological wonder. On Saturday even- ing it made its irruptive advance upon the South Atlantic coast, having emerged from the West Indies. The cyclonic area was pro- gressing northeastwardly along the Southern seaboard all day Sunday, and on Monday had reached the vicinity of Cape May. By the law of storms it should thence have struck off in a northeastwardly direction, and ninety in a hundred times such a path is pursued ; but, instead of a northeastward direction, the meteor on Monday evening made a straight northwestward shoot towards the lower lakes, and in this eccentric track its power was dis- astrously felt over a wide extent of lake and seacoast country. The barometer fell very low in the Middle States—almost as low as in the Cuba hurricane of the 6th inst, when it passed over Key West and ravaged peninsular Florida. The effect of this depression on land was felt along the Atlantic from the Delaware capes to the mouth of the St Lawrence, and at Quebeo a hurricane wind of seventy-two miles an hour on Monday night was reported, with what calamity to shipping it does not yet appear. ¢ As the winter approaches the Continent is daily becoming more and more chilled, and the atmospheric columns resting upon it being thus contracted, there is a tendency of the oceanio atmosphere to force itself in upon the land—a circumstance which may possibly explain the strikingly abnormal dofloction of the recent storm centre, which, perhaps, ail expected to go eastward. The Henary’s Sunday prediction of the frost and cold weather that this gale would bring to Memphis was fully verified, and we may hope that the great relief afforded the plague stricken cities of the South will out- weigh any marine losses sustained along the lake ports, which had been amply and offi- cially forewarned of the danger impending. Tee Bazarwz Oovet Manriat.—Marshal Bazaine's position before the French court martial was not improved by the testimony which was presented yesterday. Marshal Can- robert, Marshal Leboouf, General Ladmirault and General Bourbaki alleged that various humiliating mishaps occurred to the French troops in consequence of the action, or non-action, of the accused ‘at a most critical moment during the war with the Germans. MM. Rouher and Schneider in- clined towards the prisoner by swearing that he never solicited the chief command. There is evidently a vast deal of personal feeling prevailing among the French officers with respect to the case, and many of them appear inclined to “rectify” themselves for history— “to fight their battles o'er again.” Tae Irantan GoveRNMENET AND THE CHURCH tx Romz.—The- General of the Society of Jesus has been notified by the Italians that the members of the order must immediately vacate the premises now occupied by them in the city. Meantime the government, under the law for the abolition of religious corpora- tions, has taken possession of six Convents in the city, giving toeach inmate a certificate of her future income. Against the seizure of certain portions of the Franciscan Convent the United States and Portuguese Consuls pro- tested, on the ground that said portions were the property of citizens of Portugal or the United States. From these proceedings it may be reasonably inferred that other events of the kind will soon follow in Rome of the highest importance to the Catholic Church and the venerable occupant of the Vatican. Your Burt anp My Ox.—The defalcation of Phelps, the cashier in the State Treasurer’s office, has drawn out much virtuous indigna- tion from the political journals, although the different parties look at the matter from op- posite points of view. The republican organs declare that the robbery of the Treasury proves the State Treasurer, who is a candidate for re-election, to be unfit for office. The democratic organs assert that the robbery of the Treasury shows the State Cdmptroller, who is also a candidate for re-election, to be un- worthy of public confidence. The State Treasurer is on the democratio ticket; the State Comptroller is on the republican ticket. Perhaps this accounts for the difference in the views of the political organs. Present MacManon’s Exrostrion of his executive position and political principle, de- livered to a deputation of members of the National Assembly, gives assurance to the French people that the soldier Chief of State regards himself as an embodiment of the will of the millions, and that in his administrative capacity he is conservative without being a placeman inclined to hang on to office. The Marshal says, indeed, almost in words, Let France will; I obey. Tae Empznor or Gzrmany has been so much pleased with his visit to Vienna this time that he has remained there a day or two longer than he originally intended, and will not leave until this morning. ‘So glad.” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, General W. G. Ely, of Connecticut, is staying at the Astor House. Charies Bradiaugh, of London, has returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. »Captain Truxtun, United States Navy, has quar- ters at the Everett House. Governor Ingersoll, of Connecticut, has apart- ments at the Albemarle Hotel. George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Mayor Eastman, of Poughkeepsle, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Chancellor John V. L. Prayn, of Albany, yester- day arrived at the Brevoort House. Anthony J. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, is registered at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Captain J, Edward Hunter, of the British Navy, is Tegiatered at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. Judge B. Platt Varpenter, of Poughkeepsie, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator George 8. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman H. H. Hathorn, of Saratoga, yester- day arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Frederick F, Low, United States Minister to Obina, is staying at the Albemarle Hotel. The Marquis de Noailies, the French Minister has returned to the Clarendon Hotel trom Niagara Falls. “x-Governor William Beach Lawrence, of Rhode ‘@ among the late arrivals at the Albemarie ~~ h oer s > «ta city, who has been study. Hotel. ~~ s “ta Clty, mn sttidy- Dr. HH. MAM OF tia nae, bas returned ing abroad for the past’, La ‘Be home. 7 " Wilkie Collins has retn."aed £0 the Westminster Hotel, having been obliged to 48’ el, {ngs on account of physical indisyo™~ 9" ¥tenk P, Blair has been appointea unable to iGE306 Dame le ik ‘and sccepted Trae ceeded oda = . the position of Commissioner of Insurance oF | Missouri, and arrived in St. Louis on Monday night to enter upon the duties of his new office. Frederick Hecker, the distinguished German Patriot, arrived in Baltimore yesterday morning on the steamship Berlin and was received and welcomed by a committee of German citizens. Last night he was serenaded by various singing societies, General Butler and Jeff Davis arrived tn Wash- ington together by the same car a day or two ago. Neither, 1t is said, “renewed the assurances of pre distinguished consideration” toward each other, AMUSEMENTS. Salvini as Sullivan. The play of “Sullivan, the Actor,” in which Signor Salvini appeared at the Academy of Music last night, has been made familiar to us by an English version, entitied “David Garrick.” Itis a strange story, and its action 18 not pleasing to prudes. We had been educated by performances of the play by Mr. Sothern to expect something remarkable in Salvini’s acting. There is certainly scope for the nice naturalness which is claimed by his admirers to be the particular charm of Salvini’s delineations, We have-had our expectations realized, and yet we have been disappointed. Signor Salvini as Sullivan displayed a desire to refine some parts of the action, and so he failed to reach the truthfulness of reality. Hardly any better illustration of our meaning can be given than is to be found in the remark of an admirer of Signor Salvini, who, thoughtless for the time, said of the simulation of drunkenness, “’Tis page he inebriety. See how his noble nature fe es th rough the impropriety of the actions.” remark was an tt x Mv ‘iticism of the Pestana: If the audience could see through he disguise, is it likely that ‘love's sharp eyes” would be unable to pierce vu the veil? The assumption of a gentlemanly kind of in- toxication is a refinement to attenuation! Men while drunk act as their passions dictate and not according to the dictates of prudery, or in fear of Mrs, Grundy. Possibly there will some time be or- ed, ey people despairing of making all eir fellows teetotallers, a society for encourage- ment of mild-mannered inebriety, But such a society will Cy properly claim “Sullivan” or “David Garrick’? as exemplars of this idea. The jot of the play of ‘Sullivan’ makes that charac- er simulate the intoxicated antics of a passionate, vulgar rer When Signor Salvani allows ‘‘the at- tributes of @ noble nature’’—that 2, the pretty way the idea is 1 proae! shine through the murkiness of his assumed character he plays false to the drama- tist’s idea. Yet, despite the imperfections to which 80 much orgs Neg given, Signor Salvini’s ui performance ht was pieenne. as it showed that he possesses great ability in a department apart from that of purely tragical art; and none could have been pleased and solaced more than they who believe & man can do vulgar, low actions and still be a gentleman. Musical and Dramatic Notes. M. Sardou is said to be at work upon five pieces, all to be produced in Paris during this season. Victor Emmanuel, while in Vienna, decorated Johann Strauss with the Order of the Crown of Italy. Offenbach has composed an operetta called “La Jolie Parfumeuse,” for the Renaissance Theatre of Paris, Mr. Edward Jenkins, the author of “Ginx’s Baby” and choleric opponent of Mr. Fitzjames Stephen, yesterday arrived at the Brevoort House. He will lectare to-night at Steinway Hall on “The England of To-day.” This evening “Don Giovanni” will be sung at the Academy of Music by probably the strongest com- pany that was ever associated in this city with the opera. The cast embraces three prime donne, Mme. Nilsson, and Miles, Torriani and Maresi, and Signors Campanini and Maurel. Ms. Benfratelli, the new Parisian tenor, who appeared at the recent inauguration of the Italian opera, under the management of M. Strakosch, is now decided to have “a fine metallic voice, issuing easily and under perfect guidance.” The new prima donna, Mile. Belval, has alsoa fine voice and is perfect in ner art, being the daughter of M. Belval, of the French opera, and having been familiar with music since her childhood. The Messrs. Strakosch, not content with the suc- cesses of their company on the operatic stage, have arranged a concert at the Academy of Music for next Tuesday evening, tne 28th inst. All the prominent artists of the company, excepting Mme, Nilsson, are to sing, and the public will have an opportunity to make those closer comparisons of, and to discover those contrasts in, the methods of the performors, which could not be made or discovered while they were performing at separate and distant times. WEATHER REPORT. WAR DEPARTMENT, OPPICR OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D, C., Oct, 22—1 A. M. Probabit ites. For Wednesday, in the Gulf States, falling baro- meter, southerly winds and generally clear weather, For the South Atlantic States, light winds, mostly from the south, rising barometer and clear weather. FoR THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES, SOUTH- WESTERLY WINDS, RISING BAROMETER, AND ON THE COAST CLEAR WEATHER, BUT IN THE INTERIOR PARTLY OLOUDY AND CLEARING WEATHER, For the lower lakes continued southwesterly winds, veering to west and northwest, with cloudy weather. For the upper lakes, southwest to northwest winds, with cloudy followed by clear weather, Wednesday night, Cautionary signals continue at Alpena, Escanaba, Marquette and Duluth. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The foliowing record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last ‘ear, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s harmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872, 1 teal) fhe EARTHQUAKE IN WASHINGTON TERBI- TORY, A Slight Shock Followed by a@ Voleanic Eruption. SAN FRanc1s00, Oct, 21, 1873. On Sunday last a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Seattle, bier Territory, and at four o’clock on the same day an eruption from the summit of Mount Rainier occurred, THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE, Report of the Executive Committee of the Board. Carcaco, Oct, 21, 1873, The committee of the National Board of Trade, in session here, submitted their report to-day, The report recommends the encouragement of Amori- can shipbuilding by the allowance of bounties for building, whether the materials used be foreign or American; condemns the credit system of the gov ernment promises to pay, and the national banks founded thereon, and demands a currency resting on @ specie basis; condemns the policy of the banks in paying interest on call deposits; favors the government regulating inter-State transporga- tion, and the reduction of rates, so that the pro- ducer may share in the profits of bis produce; and condemns the system of watering stocks, so that voce are paid on fictitious representations of THE STEPHENSON MURDER Continuation of the Trial at Jorsey City, The trial of Jacob Mechella for the murder of Deputy Marshal Stephenson was resumed at Jersey City yesterday. The testimony was comparatively unimportant, as the salient points of the case were developed on the previous day. Counsel for defence opened their case, and produced, among other witni two sailors, natives of Finiand. The ‘Russian Consul General was present during the forenoon. peiconse was even more dejected, if such were possible, than on Monday. He betrayed extreme nervousness and sat with his head downwards during the proceed. i He looked at the witnesses for the defence 1 20 a meaty tated “ate ine the Court the deputy merits sce fourm ne ear re unibresate wre ah was ry him Out, “tance, The will - YELLOW FEVER. No Marked Improvement in Shreveport. CONDITION OF MEMPHIS. —— Tho Frosts Having Little Effect in Checke ing the Disease. Sureverort, La., Oct. 21, 187%. . ‘There has been no marked change in the state of affairs for the last twenty-four hours, While ythe thickly settled or business portion of the city is comparatively exempt from the ravages of the fever the outskirts are suffering to a great extent. New cases are continually reported, anda further extent of territory over which it has spread is rer ported, Itnow covers a radius of five miles from the river, hardly exempting a family, The one re deeming feature is that itis not so violent, where the treatment ia proper, the preponderance, ofcases that recover are much larger than whem the epidemic first appeared. No prominent deaths to-day, and no prominent aiw cases ure reported, W. P. Ford 1s out of danger ; Isaac Kahn, J. R.:/Boon, and ‘Alfred Nolan, very low; Captain E. Bain and Dr. Ford are convaiescing: Dr. Gray is out; Dr.[Day bas left the city to recuperate. The interments to day were three, The Fever in Memphis. MEMPHIS, Oct. 21, 1873. It 1s particularly requested by the Board of Health that absent citizen do not return untif notified by them, It is impossible to get anything reliable about, the diseuse. New cases are occurring tn isolated districts, and the frosts seem to have little effecs in checking the disease. Dr. Freeman, Secretary of the Board of Healthy is reported dying to-night ; also Dr. Blount. The reports up to noon to-day are not favorable. ‘There have been 24 deaths from yellow fever and @ from other causes; total, 30, The mortuary report for the past twenty-four hours, ending at six P, M., shows:—Yellow fever, 27; other causes, 10; total, 37. Mortality. in Montgomery. MontTaGoMERY, Ala., Oct. 21, 1873. There were three deaths from yellow fever to- day. Parriok Ragland, Secretary of State, died at his’ home, in Jackson county, of pneumonia. T. R. Terry, manager of the Southern and Atlane tic Telegraph office, died last night about thirty miles east of this city. —— Aid for the Orphans in Memphis. There was a meeting on Saturday, Octobér 18, of the Executive Committee of St. Michael's As sociation. It was held at the counting house of the chairman, at No. 52 Broadway. After the regular business of the committee was finished, the chairman, John D. Kelley, Jr., drew attention to the distressed condition of Memphis; and es- pecially that the Dominican Sisters in charge of the Charity Orphan Asylum had declared the selves teady to receive more orphans, but wel destitute of means for feeding and clothing them. ‘These Sisters, having given up their academies and hoapltals, are without their ordinary means of sup- Lis Pomme chafrman of the committee sont $500 by ex. e Assoc Doon or pontributions, which oan be sent to ME Eugene Kelly, at 45 Exchange place. WASHINGTON. WAsutnaton, Oct. 21, 1878. River and Harbor Imprevements—Esti- mates of Expenditure for the Coming Fiscal Year. General Humphries, Chief of the Engineer Corps, has completed his estimates tor carrying on the work of improving harbors and rivers, and for- warded it to-day to the Secretary of War. The amount called for is about the same as last year, according to the following schedule :— For the improvement of the Hudson River, between Troy and New Baltimore, N. Y., he asks for $100,000, For the removal of obstructions in the East River, including Hell Gate, $400,000. The officer in charge reports this as the minimum amount requisite to prosecute the work with good effect. If a commencement ts made on Flood Rock it ‘would require $600,000, The number of feet of tunnels and galleries driven at Hallett’s Point during the year was 2,731 lineal feet, and the quantity of rock removed 9,554 cubic yards. For the improvement of Passaic River, New. For contingl Chester, For improvement of Rondout tiarbor, N,'¥. For removal of suaken rock in channel o Island.. For improv For ac ean of Pt Island and Connecticut. For improvement of Ston! For i For iin rovement ot ‘or impro' For impr ment of Port Jefferson Harbor, BIA! ....000- 00+ For improvement set ‘Bo f Norwalk River, Connecticut. 15,000 yhode For improvement For improvement of Newcastlo Harbor, De For improvement of Wilmington Harbor, Le! For improvement of Delaware River at Fort hoals, Pennsylvania. . For improvement, of De! Trenton and Bordentow' For improvement of Broa For improvement of Cohansey Cre For improvement, of Shrewsbury sey. ‘orth and South branches, For linprovement of South River, The works now projected are in progress for the improvement and preservation of Bos- ton Harbor are as follows:—The sea walls for the protection and preservation of Point Allerton, Great Brewster Island, Lovell’s Island, Gallop’s Island, Long Island Head, Deer Island; straightening, widening and deepening the main ship channel at the Narrows; widening and deepening the channel through the Upper Middle Bar; the improvement of Naski Rock; completing the removal of Kelley's Rock; the removal of a sunken rock, discovered in September, 1872, lying in the main ship channel at the Narrows, between George’s Island and Brewster Spit; tho removal of State Rock, and the removal of the wreck of the schooner Delos. The whole amount required for these operations in connection with Boston Har- bor in the next fiscal year 18 $225,000, In regard to the construction of the pier near Lewes, Delaware, it is proposed to proceed with this work until the funds remaining shall be ex- hausted, hoping that it may be practicable to put down the piles on hend, thus extending tho stracturé to 1,407 feet from tho abutment, and ppery, to build the superstructure equally far. ff aturther appropriation is made for the work during the next session, it is proposed to issue proposals for the remaluder of the iron material and to resume work ag soon as the funds pecome ayailable. The amount asked for 100,000, to jmptoving the channel of Sotiuylki River, Penn., the present seagon, it is pro to com- Plete the rock work at Locnst street, carry lore ward the dredging at and above Mock froin bridge, also remove 137 gubje yards of rock fro! the channel at South street, Next year 1g pro: ng the channel at Gib. posed to continue dred ia or audio Pouders bm ihc gt Gibson's wharf, hie amount asked for 1s $40,000, Silver Coinage. ‘The Superintendent of the Philadelphia Mint re- Ports that a Chicago firm has sent $50,000 in silver bars for coinage into halves, quarters and dimes. This ta the firat of any large amount from prl- rte mn received. App! vate parties which Lf one are ally, rocelveeepecting the courKe to be , iS pesre aver ia 100 verylog from