The New York Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1873, Page 6

‘ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume xxxvVull AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stroet—Our Amuntoan Cousix, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Iéth street and Irving place.— Oruxi.o. UNION QUARE THEATRE, Union square, near Broadwa vA CRoss, woon's UM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Davy Crocxert. Afternoon and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Fancuon, Tae Cricket. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, Mth st. and 6th ay.— Note Dany. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vagcetr ENTERTAINMENT. yay THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i¢ Broadway.—Vaniery ENTERTAINMENT, MRS F. B, CONWAY'S BRUOKLYN THEATRE.— Mapecein MOREL. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— Ricuecixv. HEATRE, Bowery.—Gincer Sxars—Tne BOWERY Doom—Buiack-KykD Susan. Torr Dia The Sucha Sanker—How to Begin Business om Nothing and Fail for @ Million. Woe are afraid that some of our contempora- ties do not do justice to the merits and achievements of our friend, the head of the famous buchu banking house that failed the other day. Thore is a selfish assiduity on tho part of the writers for the press as to the exact condition of his assets. Have we not the assurance of the Morning Pantry Echo, that eloquent and unwavering supporter of the administration, that no house, not even Rothschilds’ or Barings’, could have stood the run upon its credit that unfortunately came upon this honored firm? Do we not learn from an elaborate and scientific article in the Buchu Financial Examiner that the whole diffi- culty came from ‘the movement of wheat” from the Black Sea to the Atlantic coast; that there were scientific and business problems in- volved in this movement calculated to destroy any firm? Are we not aware that this house is the chosen financial agent of the administration, selected by Mr. Boutwell after convincing himself that there was something rotten with the house of Barings and in English banking generally—an absence of those subtle and metaphysical principles which have so long BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Faiz, Oux Genwan Covsix, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st.—Unpex tu Gaszicnt. C THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston CnovrieuRt Matinee. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—!'ux BLack Croox. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vantety Extertaraent, GERMANIA THEATRE, 14th street and 3d avenue.— Dee RecistRaToR aur REISEN. BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nxano Minstretsy, &c. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MINsTRELS. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth Maagtonertxs, Matinee at 3 IRVING HALL, corner of Irving place and 15th st.— Taio Somnx CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES,—Aer Eytertary- \MENT—"SWITZERLAND AND THR ALPS.!" street—Tux Rorau P. T. BARNUM'’S WORLD'S FAIR, °7th street and 4th ‘venue. Afternoon and evening. FERRERO'S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street.— Macica, EnrentarxMent. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 34 av., between 634 ‘and (th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF, ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ‘way.—ScieNnce aND Arr. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 688 Broadway.—Scrence anp Art. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 23, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “THE BUCHU BANKER! HOW TO BEGIN BUSI- NEsS ON NOTHING AND FAIL FOR A MIL- | LION” —LEADER—S1xTH PAGE. MURDER IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE! A WIFE KICKED TO DEATH BY A DRUNKEN HUs- BAND! HOW THE HORRIBLE DEED WAS COMMITTED! A SCENE TO CURDLE THE BLOOD—SEVENTH PaGe. VALENCIA ABANDONED BY THE INTRANSI- GENTES, AFTER PLUNDERING TEN M MERCHANTM ADMIRAL LOBO’S IN- SUBORDINATION—SEVENTH PaGE. THE REVOLT IN SONORA, MEXICO! MANIFES- TOES FROM BOTH SIDES! A FIGHT— IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SeEvENTH Pace. A PALL UPON THE FEVER-SCOURGED SOUTH! A HEAVY RAIN STORM INSPIRING HOPE! | SPREAD OF THE DIRE CONTAGION INTO | THE LONE STAR STATE! ANOTHER SISTER | OF MERCY DEAD—SEveNTH Pace. EVIDENCE OF THE FATHER AND MOTHER OF | EDWARD 8S. STOKES AS TO HEREDITARY INSANITY! THE CAUSE OF FISK’S DEATH! CONFLICTING MEDICAL TESTIMONY— | Fourrs PaGE. FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OUTRAGE! THIRD PaGE. NARROWING THE SCOPE OF NATIONAL FINANCE! POPULAR ECONOMY A CONDITION PRECE- DENT TO RESUMPTION! E PRESIDENTS VIEWS! DUTY OF THE BANKS—Fovrru PAGE. ADMINISTRATION AND THE FINANCIAL ! A FAIR LEGAL USE ! PRESIDENT GRAN’ LETTER! BUSINESS AND PRICES ON 'CHANGE—IM- PORTANT REALTY SAL Furta Pace. KELSEY THE | the establishment of the Buchu London house, THE CALIFORNIA CANARD— | ? NATIONAL | | war he lived the life of a modest clerk, and marked the business career of the honored Buchu? Do we not know that the real cause of the failure, as described in touch- ing terms. to our reporter by the eloquent Buchu himself, was the aggre- gation of assets, the surplus of values, the necessity of doing too much business? Do we not understand that the last load will sink the ship, the last cartridge burst the gun, the last straw break the camel’s back? Should we not generously, patiently inquire into the philosophy of the success of the illustrious Buchu and learn wisdom from it, rather than mock him in his fall and distress his noble soul with appeals for money? For as we learn from the Morning Pantry Echo, so ably edited by our friend John Thomas Yellowplush—own brother to the dis- tinguished author of that name—no man has been more loyal to the republican party than the famous Buchn. Others have proved false in the time of trial. Rich men, claiming to be republicans, have failed to support the party and subscribed meagrely to the cause. But Buchu has ever been liberal. It was enough for him to know that the republican party was in power and that Grant was Presi- dent. A President in possession is always a strong point tothe Buchu mind. It seems only yesterday that his eloquent voice was denouncing the Heratp for its course on Cwsarism, and demonstrating that this journal had been purchased by democratic gold, and proving that there was no assurance of con- tinued prosperity for the United States unless Grant was chosen President a third time. Why such a loyal man should fail shocks us and exhausts the rhetoric of our sympathizing friend Yellowplush. So much loyalty needed a better fate. Was he not a member of the last republican Convention, chairman of the Com- mittee on Resolutions and candidate for the office of Mayor? Who more eloquent in the Committee of Seventy, at the Union League Club, in the antechambers of Long Branch? Was he not known all over Europe as the one banker whom Americans loved? Barings a3 we fear, among the principal creditors of his house. The dinners brought business, and when dinners were over we had receptions at the Union League Club. Buchu in evening dress, and the Marquis of Blatherhampton, his guest, at his side, and New York hurrying to see them. Was it not allin the next Weekly, ® full page engraving, ten thousand copies sent over the world, at Buchu’s own expense? So the house became more and more famous every day. Buchu himself subscribed to churches of every denomination and became the treasurer of all the charitable societies. His suecess in floating and popularizing sun- dry loans and stocks is known, He first pro- pounded the celebrated axiom that ‘‘a national debt isa national blessing ;" that no matter how much, money one owed, so long as he had credit, his debts were only so many in- ducements to industry and enterprise. It was Buchu that floated the “Munchausen Petro- leum Company,”’ the ‘Cagliastro Oreek Lubri- cating Oil Company,’’ the “Jonathan Wild Silver Company,”’ the ‘‘Apollyon Quicksilver’ shares, the “Buchu Lead Company,” the “Bubbling Spring Gold Company,” and other celebrated stocks of this class. These stocks are not quoted to-day. We are afraid their selling price is altogether by the quan- tity ; but the fact that there was neither oil nor quicksilver, nor lead nor gold, that the dividends ceased to come after the last instalments on the shares were paid, the fact that many poor men who read the Pantry Echo and other journals in the Buchu interest were large owners, should not tarnish the financial fame of our unfortunate fellow citizen. For, as no reader will deny, true financial success is found in making money out of nothing. The simplest trades- man can sell gold and silver for their values, Any bagman or padding pedler on the high- way can find a price for cloths and gems. But to sell printed paper, with vignettes and graceful type and worth ten dollars a ream, for thousands of dollars, requires the rarest order of genius—the genius of a Buchu. It was this success that led to his becomirg the financial agent for some of our Southern States. When some of our fellow citizens, who had not prospered at home, went into the South after the war to act as Governors and Senators for the reconstructed States, they found it hard to obtain money. They had no credit before leaving home, and were not calculated to inspire credit abroad. Old- fashioned bankers did not care to have dealings with gentlemen who escaped from the Penitentiary at home to become the Governors of States ruled by negro legis- lators. But the financial genius of Buchu came to their aid. It sounded well abroad to be financial agent of this State and the other. So, by the advice of Buchu, money was promptly raised in the South. Our gifted friend simply applied the economical principles adopted so suc- cessfully by Cortes and Pizarro and Rob Roy and Warren Hastings. There was money in the South, and, if it did not come legally, take it, It was Buchu who in- vented the ingenious policy of issuing bonds by one Legislature, and, after they had been sold in the North or in England, to repudiate the issue at the next session. To be sure, the bonds did not bring much, but they brought might fail or the Rothschilds go into in- | solvency, but behind Buchu was the financial strength of the United States. This confi- dence on the part of the administration led to and the advertising of Buchu’s name in all European tongues as the guardian and repre- sentative of the financial honor of the United | States. Have we not read it in glaring black | letters in our Cologne Gazelte and Vienna | Free Press, our Paris Figaro and Indépendance | Beige, feeling proud and happy to know that over the folds of our Star-Spangled Banner, wherever it floated in foreign lands, the name of Buchu was written as endorser and guarantee ? But there is this cold, forbidding fact: that if any citizen has money in Buchu’s bank or possesses any of Buchu’s highly-illuminated | paper, wonderfully engraved—Buchu Senior | in one corner and Buchu himself as a vignette in the centre—he must not be impatient for his pay. Buchu fell one day. He had no money, but was “overburdened with assets.” He had arisen in the war times. Before the AMERICAN SHIPPING INTERESTS AND CHEAP | TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD Of TRADE! A NA- TIONAL FIGHTERS’ CONVENTIUN—i'uinp Pace. POLITICS IN THE EMPIRE STATE LATIVE TRICKS OF THI SLATE FOR THE COMING LE A $60,000 VERDICT AGAINST THE CITY! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—THE STEPHEN- SON MURDER TRIAL—Fovnru Pace. “SHADOWING THE DETECTIVES ! TOILS AND PLEASURES! A FEW FACTS—TROTTING AND RACING NEWS— THIRD PaaE. SHOOTING BY BOYS—THE UN- SUPERVISORS—E1auTa PaGE. peeeneeraniee Girt Tur Mexican Revoxvmionists my Sonora de- clare that they have taken up arms for the re- form of the State administration, not for the purpose of secession from the national gov- ernment, The Governor is in the field against them. The rebels have captured Almos, kill- ing two loyalist soldiers. Neutrals and non- combatant citizens are fleeing from Sonora into Arizona Territory—a disagreeable move- ment, but prudent under the circumstances, Heavy Gaxxs prevailed on the coasts of Eng- land yesterday. They appear, over there, to keep up with us in our procession of storms. A Hapry Taovert.—The Acting Governor of Louisiana, having been telegraphed to by a Sheriff in Virginia that he had possession of a defaulting State official and that he would deliver him in Louisiana if desired, quickly replied: —No; we have no sort of use for him.'’ The New Orleans Herald suggests that the Acting Governor thinks there are rascals enough there already—and he is probably correct. For tae Rutir or Mewpnrs,—In response to personal request from a number of our most prominent citizens, General Joseph C. Jackson has arranged to deliver a lecture on “The Sovereignty of Law,” at Steinway Hall, on Monday evening next, for the benefit of the suffering city of Memphis. A good ides, a Good subject, » good cause, and there will ‘doubtless be a good house. THEIR | | when we took to fighting and gold ran up and BANKRUPT LAW—THE FIRE- | | the war—for money at any price—Bucha be- GENERAL POLITICS—Turap Pace | came a banker. He had no capital. But money a | \ SUKIOUS | counted shinplaster notes and passed them over the counter to grocers and tailors. But down, and fortunes were made and lost ina day, and we found ourselves begging from German and Hollander for money to carry on was plenty in those days ; it came from a print- ing press in Washington. And as the country and nearly everybody in it was insolvent, Buchu easily found credit. In those happy days of shoddy and petroleum and gambling in gold and cotton no capital was needed but assurance. Of this quality Buchu was so largely possessed that could we make it a legal tender he would now be a pre-eminently solvent citizen. So he came upon Wall street suddenly as ‘a self-made man,” a loyal banker, and uttered speeches in favor of the vigorous prose- cution of the war. He subscribed to the swords and houses given to prosperous gen- erals—to the house given by democrats to McClellan as well as that given by republicans to Grant. He cultivated the newspapers. Money editors found a hearty welcome in his bank parlors anda glass of generous wine to cheer them up when stocks were down. He | Wrote monthly circulars discussing the wheat movement, the gold supply, the contingencies of trade, the effect on the market of the threat- ened diplomatic misunderstanding between the Mikado of Japan and the Republic of | Audessa; or, rather, he signed these circulars, | which came, no doubt, from a fluent Bohemian in the bank parlor, and sent them over the | world. Mr. Delmonico was called to his aid. | Whenever a country capitalist, or a Canadian railroad contractor seeking money, or an Eng- lish nobleman on his way to the buffalo country, or the Secretary of the Treasury came to New York, Buchu dined him, and next morning the Morning Pantry Echo re- verberated with the dinner, the speeches, the something, and something is everything to gentlemen of the financial necessities and re- sources of our enterprising friend. We might dwell upon the railway achieve- ments of this farhous house, but this would be to make our story a burden. It is only a few days since Buchu was a prince on Wall street. But for that untortunate wheat movement he might reign to-day. There are men who point to him as a quack and a pretender—an adven- turer without capital, credit or capacity, whose assets are worthless bonds and shares, who has been moving on in @ noisy way, without money enough to pay his current debts; that he has NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. west at Chicago. The object of both is good ; that of the Christian missionaries being directed to the question, ‘What can we do for the heathen?" and the question with the farmers being, ‘‘What can we do for our- selves ?"” Obituary. The famous Committee of Seventy died on Tuesday last, at about ten o'clock in the even- ing, after a lingering and painful sickness, aged two years, one month and seventeen days. Many members of the family were unavoida- bly absent at the closing scene, being detained by public business and by pressing engage- ments with nominating caucuses; but a few faithful relatives were gathered around the death-bed, and the eyes of the patient were affectionately closed by the same physician whose hands brought it into the world. The old medical attendant of the deceased, Dr. Havemeyer, had temporarily withdrawn from the case in consequence of having succeeded to a lucrative practice in another direction; but he still acted as consulting physician, and before the fatal end was reached he made a last vigorous effort to check the progress of the disease and to prolong the life of the suf- ferer. With that object in view he forwarded to the attendant phvsician, Dr. Choate, a recipe based upon the old treatment, which had proved so beneficial to the patient in for- mer attacks, a copy of which we subjoin, in order to assure the absent friends of the de- ceased that no means were left untried to save its life: — Ri Renovat: circul: vitiat: Judic: expedit: Tweed! Civ: bon: pro dignitat Administrat: prob: et fid: in Mx: Div: in pil: Cap: ad lib. Although Dr. Choate had little hope of the dr. xiii. efficacy of the dose, which had been adminis- tered so frequently as to have lost its effect upon the system of the patient, his respect for the venerable practitioner who had pre- scribed it induced him to make the trial. The patient swallowed it unwillingly, and, as Dr. Choate had predicted, it produced only a nau- sea followed by a brief attack of clonic spasms, immediately after which death put an end to the sufferings of the unfortunate Com- mittee, and, at the hour named, it expired in the arms of its faithful physician, amidst the sympathizing tears of the few relatives who were with it in its last moments. The deceased Committee owed its birth to the union of bogus reform with popular ex- citement, Its father was a needy politician, who married for the sake of the bride’s great expectations in money and patronage. The match was not a happy one for the public, but the offspring managed to do very well for its own immediate family. Of its seventy origi- nal relatives, nearly one-half have been well provided for before its death. Fifteen of them have secured valuable public offices ; ten or twelve have received large indirect emolu- ments out of reform, and about the same num- ber have been pertinacious aspirants for pub- lic positions, and are still eagerly seeking to serve the people and draw salaries from the State or municipal treasuries. In accordance with a proverb handed down to us by the ancients, it is customary to speak nothing but good of the dead ; but the truth of history requires us to say that the life of the deceased Committee has been a failure in all but the accumulation of patronage and money. It was brought into the world for the express purpose of reforming legislation, and it aided to give us the Legislatures of 1872 and 1873, which, elected under the clamor of reform, were more infamous for jobbing, lobbying and petty larceny than most of their infamous predecessors. Its mission, avowed at its birth, was to recover the people's money which had been stolen by dishonest officials, and to secure the conviction and punishment of the robbers. Up to.the hour of its death not a dollar of the plunder has been restored, not a single official thief has never known an hour of solvency; that he has sustained himself by falschood, expedients, political alliances, advertisements in news- papers, and that he fell because he was himself essentially a liar and his whole business false and rotten. Far be it from us to repeat these envious, unkind phrases. Rather let us re- gard the noble Buchu as one of those unfor- tunate men of genius, above their time or too high for their time—a man traly loyal to Grant and his party, whose dinners were good, whose smile was sweet, whose reform speeches were models of indignant cloquence—‘‘a man” who, to repeat the words of the discriminating Pantry Echo, ‘was so strong in his business that he only fell before a crisis that would have destroyed the Rothschilds or the Our Railroads. We have something over fifty-seven thousand miles of railroads in the United States, and the cost of them is set down at about two thousand five hundred millions, or a little less than forty-four thousand dollars a mile. But this includes not only the actual expenditure for construction and equipment, but algo the in- debtedness involved by watering stock and additional issues of bonds for a dividend of spoils among railroad directors and managers. The figures we have published in onr articles recently, reviewing the financial problem of the time and status of the railroads, make the watered stock, or bogns capital, amount to about two hundred and fifty millions, or ten per cent of the nominal cost. This estimate, however, is very low, for the constraction and equipment accounts in many cases have been augmented far beyond the real cost, the con- tractors either being connected with the rail- road management or having made bargains with the managers to divide the overcharges at the cost of the stockholders and the public. We have little doubt that the actual cost in money of the railroads in the aggregate was at least twenty per cent less than the nominal capital. In other words, the public is charged with five hundred millions more than it would have been if everything bad been conducted honestly and squarely, By this we mean that the public is required to pay, in the way of freight and passage money, higher rates in order to make dividends on that much in- flated or fictitious capital, The question as to how ae public can be protected from this grasping and powerfnl monopoly is looming menu, the guests, several clergymen and prominent journalists, Buchu himself re- sponding to a toast in honor of self- made men, and our eloquent friend, Yellow- plush, answering for the press, both of Eng- land and America.. The dinners were marvel- Missionary dianapolis, lous. and we trust that Mr. Delmonico is not, | the Convention of tho Farmers of the North- up, and, if we mistake not, Congress will have to legislate on the subject at no distant day. Two Mone Impontaxt Conventions were in session yesterday—the General Christian Convention at In and been brought to trial. It was created for the express purpose of securing good men for office; the object of its life has been to secure gcod offices for itsown men. Its godfathers and godmothers at its baptism did promise and vow three things in its name:—First, that it should renounce the Tammany Ring and all its works; second, that it should give us honest and economical government; third, that it should advance the prosperity of the city of New York. It commenced by making a political compromise with Connolly and ended by dallying and trading with Tweed. It has enormously swelled our city debt, in- creased taxation, destroyed or paralyzed most of our contemplated or partially constructed works of public improvement, and left us with & municipal government torn by squabbling, wrangling reformers and writhing in the agonies of financial embarrassment, Some years ago the London Punch, in one of its then admirable pictures, represented an elderly charmer, covered with rich laces and jewels, in the embrace of a gallant young lover, who had evidently made an impression on & heart that had often before been won and betrayed. ‘But you will never leave me, Augustus Charles?’’ anxiously inquires the faded beauty. ‘Leave you, dearest one!" is the warm response of the new Lothario. “Never!—while you've a shilling!’ The latter part of the reply is, of course, supposed tobe uttered ina stage “aside.” Now, the city Treasury, as we have said, is not in a flourishing condition. The public offices have been well gobbled up by “reformers.” The cry which was powerful at the polls one and two years ago is now distasteful to those who have been deceived and betrayed by it in two successive elections. There is very little prospect of any further spoils being carried off by adventurers under the worn out clamor which has been 60 effective for the last two years. Even the annual revival of the «« Tweed trial” has lost its force. In short, the bride of the Committee of Seventy may figuratively be said to have lost her last shil- ling, and the Committee gives up the ghost. Is there an application in all this of Punch’s picture? We leave our readers to furnish the reply. Meanwhile the committee is dead, and let us hope that with it will disappear the last of the race of political bogus reform, Its frnits have been evil. It has cheated the people out of the good, capable and efficient government they needed, in order to foist in- competent men and new rings as corrupt as the old ones into public office. Let it rest in peace; but let its grave be dug that even the great power Junchop"’ cannot brivg abovh it Goverxos Kxt10ce’s Frommia.—The New Orleans Picayune announces that one of the flotill4 belonging to the “navy” of the Governor of Louisiana bas departed on a secret mission, but supposed to be connected with the capture of parties implicated in the negro massacre in Grant county some time ago. It is rather an unusual thing for the Governor of a State to be in reality, as well as in name, ‘‘commander-in-chief of the army and navy thereof,”’ but it may be convenient to have a gunboat or two in sections of the country whore a chronic disposition towards lawlessness is known to exist. Whether or not such is the case in Louisiana it is quite certain that the federal authorities, by their usurpations and arbitrary acts in that State, have gone a great way towards inciting the people to turbulence and deeds of violence. Morx Inprans.—A deputation of eight Utes andone Apache had a talk at Washington with the Commissioner on Indian Affairs yes- terday. The whites are crowding them, and they want to know what their Great Father is going to do about it. We hopo he will so far satisfy them that in returning home they will, like Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, be good Indians. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Bishop Conroy, of Albany, ts staying at the Metro- Politan Hotel, Bishop Wadhams, of Ugdensburg, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Congressman R. ©, P.rsons, of Ohio, is registered at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. General James 8, Negley, of Pittsburg, is quar- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J. N, Knapp, of Governor Dix’s staff, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, General Alexander E, Shiras, United States Army, is quartered at the Hoffman House. Inspector General b. B. Sackett, United States Army, is staying at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Governor John @. Robinson is among the late arrivals at the Metropolitan Hotel, Bishop Thomas F, Hendricken, of Providence, arrived at the Grand Central Hotel yesterday. Henry ©. Kelsey, Secretary of State of New Jer- sey, yesterday arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel. Count Kreutz and Mr. De Gretch, of the Russian Legation, have apartments at the Brevoort House, General ©. H. Smith, United States Army, from Louisiana en route for Eastport, wasin Portland on the 2ist inst, Rey. Henry Ward Beecher preached a dedication sermon in the Congregational church in Middle. town, N. Y., yesterday, George W. Miller, late Superintendent of the In- surance Department, arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from Albany. Four Turkish army officers, with unpronounceable names, arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday. They are going to Providence to inspect a large number of rifles manufactured there by order of the Turkish government, Mrs. Knowles, the wife of the Captain Knowles who went down at his post on the ship Northfeet, after the Murillo had run into that vessel, was residing at Dover, England, and within sight of the place where the Spanish steamer was lately taken possession of by the English authorities. The lady was one of the few survivors of the Northileet disaster. General La Marmora’s book, “A Little More Light on the Events of 1868,” gives the subject for @ cartoon in the Wasp, of Berlin. Victor Em- manuel and Germania are represented as téte-d-tete in a richly furnished boudoir. At the door stands an Italian, who proffers to the royal people a lan- tern, saying:—‘‘Would Your Highnesses like a little more light?” Both Italy and Germania re- ply :—Thanks, we see perfectly.” THE HERALD AND THE NORTH POLE. {From the Dundee Advertiser, Oct. 3.) Our London correspondent states that Mr. Gordon Bennett, of the New York HeRaup, en- couraged by his success in sending “the right man to the right place” to discover Dr. Livingstone, contemplates fitting out an expedition to discover the North Poie. This explains the motive for in- quiries which have been made by an intelligent gentleman in the best informed quarters in Dun- dee, since the arrival of the crew of the Polaris, with respect to the class of vessels most euitable for Arctic exploration, what would be required for their equipment and provisions, the number of the crews and all other details. It will be rather humiliating to the Royal Geographical Society and the British Admiralty to have tne discovery of the North Pole taken out of their hands by the pro- prietor of a New York paper! What an oppor- tunity, too, of distinguishing itself the London Times has Jost. It our Scotch-American friend of the HERALD succeeds in discovering the North Pole he will become the most popular man on the other side of the Atlantic and will certainly be the next President of the United States. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. By Special Wire.) NEW YORK HERALD EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE. 145 FLEET STREET, LONDON, Thursday Evening. } Ihear that Mr. Gordon Bennett, of the New York HERALD, tired of the repeated failures of govern- ment expeditions to reach the North Pole, and with the view of giving the world still another example of what private enterprise may accom- plish in the interests of science, is shortly to equip a “HeRaLD Polar Expedition,” with instruc- tions similarly laconic to those addressed to Stan- | ley when despatched to find Livingstone, and which in this case will be, “Discover the Pole. Spare no expense.” OBITUARY. Rev. Francis T. Gardner. This young clergyman died at the residence of his mother, in Brooklyn, on Monday last, after a short illness, He was the youngest brother of the late Rev. Dr. Gardner, of the same diocese, Mr, Garaner graduated with the highest honors at st. Mary’s Roman Catholic College, Emmetsburg, Md., and also at the American College in Rome. William Comstock, A despatch from Providence, R. L, under date of yesterday, reports to the HERALD as follows:— Captain William Comstock, one of the earilest steamboat captains on Long “Island Sound, died this morning, aged 87 years. The flags of the ship- ping are at hali mast. M. Emile Gaborian. The European journals announce the sudden death, at Paris, from apoplexy, of M. Emile Gabo- oan forty, the well-known French novel Mme, Felix Rachel. ‘The death of Mme. -Felix, the mother of the tragéaienne, Mile, Rachel, is announced, Three of her children died before her—viz., Rachel, Rebecca and Raphael, and three others survive her—viz., Sarah, Lea and Dinah. It was @ son of Rachel's who had charge of the ship which conveyed M. Rochefort to New Caledonia. Lord Howden, Advices from Bayonne, France, announce that Lord Howden has died there. He was born in Dublin and had nearly completed his seventy- fourth year, He sat in the English Parliament for a shore. time ior Dundalk, and from 1850 to 1858 ae as British Ambassador at the court of jadrid, Mrs. A. Gatty. The SheMeld (England) Datly Telegraph an- nounces the death of Mrs. Alfred Gatty, wife of the Rev. Dr. Gatty, Vicar of Eeclesfeld, a lady known in the literary world as the editor of Aunt Judy's thor of several very popular books or fa vite. feuon. Her Iast literary productions parti partly aoe pleasantly gossiping, Tntgdlort be MotB sot ein Zuap eons Se “sun " Mra, Gatty, who hed bia 0 OOUSSSSSSF ER ee TN a NENT ae a ee ne Tene WASHINGTON. Wasuinaton, Oct. 22, 1873. President Grant on the Sick List. ‘The President haa been suffering trom chills and fever for several days. To-day he walked out fora short time, but deeiined to transact any business, Admiral Almy’s Report of His Protect. ing the Panama Railroad, ‘The official report of Rear Admiral AJmy re- specting his action in landing trvogs at Panama ‘was received at the Navy Department yesterday, It ts a8 tollows:— Sp pleiay et Unrrep Staves VL.AG SHIP PENSACOLA, Otc. 6, 1873. Hon. Gzonasr M, Roseson. Secretary of the Navy:—~ Sin—in my despatch dated September 22, 1873, Linformed the Department that i had on that day relieved Rear Admiral Steedman in command of the United States force on the South Pacitlo station, I was not long permitted to be idie and without sometbing todo. A revolution had “been brewing in Panama and vicinity for some weeks. 1tis the same old story which hag been so oltem told concerning Mexico and the Central and South American republics, The opposition, or outs, want to get ion. of power ana the treasury, and — by of arms are endeavoring to do it. Should thoy suc. ceed the other party will, tn @ certain courge of time and under certain circumstances, attempt the same thing. On the 24th of September affairs seemed to be approaching a crisis. I landed a torce of 130 men, well armed and equipped with howitzers and rifles, and ander competent otiicers, and stationed them at the railroad depot for its protection and to be ready to furnish escorts on the railroad trains to yin. to guard the pas- sengers and specie which was daily trans Ported over the road, The President ot Panama had formally notified the United States Consul that under tho Rreoens circumstances he was unabie to give the oy Rauroad that protection and guaran teed ip the treaty. This movement was quite op- portune, as that night at midnight the ball opened ahd the conflicting forces commenced firing wnom each other about two miles outside of the city, but which did not prove serious to either party. firing was resumed and coatinued at intervals the following day, and has continued up to this time of writing. Latterwards increased the force om shore to 190 men, stationed in detachments so as to protect the American Consulate and other Amert- cap houses and American property. ‘there are now four lines of steamers commani- viz.:—The two American lines, 2 and the English and the French, whose passengers, freight and specie have to be transported over tho Panama Railroad. By care, attention and #and work the American naval force has securely pro- tected the transit, and passengers and their effects have been, up to this time, transported over tho Failroad witnout any delay. The United States ship Benicia, Captain A, & Clary, happened to callin here very opportanely, and the ship and officers have done service in rendering me important aid. Lieutenant Com- mander J. D, Granam, of the Benicia, has com- manded the forces stationed tp the city, and Lieutenant Commander A. D. Brown, of the Pen- sacola, hus had command of the forces ** tne rail- road, Both of these officers have performed thetr daty with judgment and efiiciency. The sbipa’ companies have behaved exceedingly well on shore, and have elicited encomiums from the peo- ple and the press. The Omaha is the only cruising ship besides the Pensacola in this squadron. In view o! the fre- quent and prolonged troubles in the way of revo- lutions in these South American republics I would respectiully suggest that until another ship comes out the Benecia be added to the South Pacino squadron, The captain and oficers would like the change of climate and change oi scene to Peru and cy) In consideration of the great length of cruisin; ground, extending to Australia, I would sugges! that there should be three cruising ships as the least number in this squadron. On the 6th inst. hostilities ceased, the outside or besieging party, under General Corrosso, with- drawing a jew miles into the interior, being defi- cient in ammunition and other supplies. ‘this en- ables me to move about without the fear of being hit by bullets from the one party or the other. There is not, therefore, the necessity for keeping 80 large aforce on shore, and I have withdrawn all but thirty men to the ships. A small force 1s still required, at Icast for a few days, as a precau- tionary measure at the railroad depot to guard the road in case of the reappearance of the revolu- tionary forces, Conclusion of the Polaris Investigation. The examination of the Polaris crew having been finished, Secretary Robeson will prepare his own report on the subject, and submit it to the Preai- dent before giving it tothe public. The principal interest centres in the statements of Captain Bud- dington and Dr. Bessel. That of Buddington ta unimportant, keeping his statement on the line of defence all the way through. Three days were devoted to the examtnation of Dr. Bessel, The main thing attempted was to dispose of the story of Captain Hall hav- ing died a violent death. To this egd Surgeon General Barnes, of the army, and Surgeon General Beale, of the navy, were present while Dr, Besse! carefully narrated everything respecting Captain Hall’s sickness and death, He first gave a diagnosis of the case, his treatment, the symptoms and the result, which, he believed professionally, was apoplexy. The treatment pur- sued by Dr. Besse! was approved of by Drs. Barnes and Beale, who were of the opinion also that Cap- tain Hall’s death was apoplectic. This disposes of the matter of Captain Hail’s death, as far as the party now in Washington is concerned. Addi- tional testimony will be taken upon the arrival of Messrs, Bryan, Booth and Mauch, of the Polar crew, Who are expected about November 7. Condition of the New York City Banks. It is stated at the oMce of the Comptroller of the Currency that the returns from the national banks of the city of New York, showing their con- dition at the close of business on the 12th of Sep- tember, exhibited an average reserve held by all the national banks of that city of 23% per cent. Nineteen of the banks were in excess of the re- quirement of the law, and twenty-nine deficient. The reserve of seven of the banks was below 20 per cent, and of fourteen alone 26 percent. The highest reserve held by any bank was 33% per cent, and the lowest about 15 per cent. A comparison is made between this and the showing of the New York city national banks on October 3, 1872, Atthat date the reserve of the banks was 242-5 per cent. The banks owed this year to banks and bankers outside the city $13,177,000 more than in October of last year, and to individual depositors about $1,075,000 more, making their total indebtedness to depositors about $14,000,900 more than last year. One of the prominent features of the recome mendations which will be made in the report of the Treasurer of the United States will be in favor of the issuing of a series of currency bonds, con- vertible into greenbacks and back again into cur- rency at the option of the holder, Honors to the Memory of Chief Justice Chase. Attorney General Williams will to-morrow pre= sent to the Supreme Court the resolutions of re- spect to the memory of the late Chief Justice re- centiy adopted by the Bar. The Attorney General will accompany the presentation of the resolutions with appropriate remarks. A eulogy will also be delivered by Justice Clifford. Official Correspondence with Consuls. The Secretary of the Treasury has gracefully ac- quiesced in the request of the Secretary of State regarding direct communication between Treasury tails and United States consuls. In a circular fewer addressed to the ‘Treasury officiais he says all correspondence and circulars of instructiong must pass through his hands for reference to the Secretary of State. AN OOEAN STEAMSHIP OVERDUE, The {smailia, of the Anchor Line, Twen- ty-Three Days at sea—Her Machinery Supposed To Be Disabled. The Anchor Line steamship Ismailia, one of the finest vessels of the transatlantic marine, which left this port on the 20th of September, has not yet arrived at Glasgow, whence she was expected ta start on her return voyage last Monday. The agent, Mr, Henderson, and other officers of the line, say that they velleve an accident has occurred to her machinery, but that no anxtety is ielt by them jor the saiety of the vessel, which is an ex- cellent sea boat and amply supplied with satis. Some of their steamers, when the machinery was disabled, had been iorty-fve days in making the voyage. ‘the Ismailia is @ Mig | boat exclusively and carried no passengers. She was built at Glasgow three years ago, 18 of 1,600 tona burthen and was fiited with engines of about 600-borse power. Her value is estimated at $200,000 in gold. No insur- ance fs effected on any of the vessels of the Anchor feet. She is commanded by Captain John Oven- stone (there are two Captain Ovensiones in the service of this company), Who has had long ex- perience as an officer of ocean steamships. She carried @ crew # about forty men and @ full. io it of her oficers could be: aasotted ORFS) aGvorde of ‘that Mind are Reps: oe the Glaagow office. It is thought that the sup- t+ to the en a have oc- garred een the Ganwol Sivancnd Gn her Tae at ee Wilts ae va