The New York Herald Newspaper, October 24, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'B GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tax Back Croox. WALLAOK’S THEATRE, Broadwi Thirteenth street—Our AmEnican Govan. seh . ACADEMY OF MUSIC, lth street and Irving place.— Atala Orxua—Banani, UNION JUARE THEATRE, ware, near wrosdway tne Guxzva Cross, heel ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— ‘Davy Onocxurz. Afternoon and’¢ evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Fancuon, tax Crtcxxr. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE, 14th st. and 6th av.— Notes Daux, Langan THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vagiery THEATRE COMIQUEB, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanierr Ewrertauimxnt. aac “ MRS F. B. CONWAY’S BRUOKLYN THEATRE.— Mapacein More. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— Lapr ov Lrows, mm y BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Givcer Snars—TuE ‘Torv Digoxr’s Doom—Nornx Daum BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— Fairs, Our Greuan Covsix. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third st—Unper tux Gasticut. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Mons. Cuourtauni, £0. PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— TONY Vanmery ENTxRTAINMRNT. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Gerusx Orgna—Ronxnr ter TevreL GERMANIA THEATRE, léth street and 34 avenue.— Dex Bastarp. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—NeGuo Minsrreisy, &c, HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Francisco MINSTRELS. TERRACE GARDEN THEATRE, 58th st., between Lex- {ington and 3d avs.—Lx Warte—Saon Exster Kuassx. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Tuz Roran Manionsrres, Matinee at 3. P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th ‘avenue. Afternoon and evening. FERRERO'S NEW ASSEMBY ROOMS, Mth street— Magica, EnrertaLyMent. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FA av., between and G4th sts, Afternoon and Fetus J ae NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- “Way.—Science aNp ART. DR. KAHN’S MUSEU: Ne r yey ts SEUM, No. 683 Broadway.—Scrmnce TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 24, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. MARSHAL BAZAINE, FRENCH POLITICS' AND THE ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC! MARSHAL NEY’S EXECUTION! ARMY CHANGES AND REORGANIZATION! “ON TO BERLIN’— SEVENTH Pace. THE FRENCH POLITICAL FERMENT! CABINET AND ASSEMBLY ACTION—THE KING OF SAXONY DYING—Sgvents Pace. SPLENDID SUCCESS OF THE CARLISTS! 200 OF THE GOVERNMENT FORCES KILLED! WHY LOBO RETREATED! FRENCH NEU- TRALITY—SEVENTH PAGE. THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND HIS PRIME MINISTER AT THE VIENNA EXPOSITION ! INTEREST IN AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL TROPHIES—SEVENTH PGE. A BENEDICTINE AMBASSADOR FROM THE VATICAN TO THE FRENCH BISHOPS—A CONSERVATIVE ELECTION TRIUMPH IN ENGLAND—SEVENTH PaGE. DENMARK FOSTERING TELEGRAPH CABLE EN- TERPRISE—THE HAYTIAN HURRICANE—A CUBAN RAID UPON COUNTERFEITERS— SEVENTH PAGE. “ANDY STILL LIVES!” WARM WELCOME OF EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN WASHING- TON! HE RESPONDS—TgENtTH Pace. HEAVY HAUL OF COUNTERFEITERS IN THE SECRET SERVICE NET! PROMINENT CARO- LINIANS ARRESTED—SEVENTH Pace. PREAKNESS, LOCHIEL, HARRY BASSETT AND TOM BOWLING THE WINNERS OF THE FIRST DAY’S EVENTS AT BALTIMORE— SPLENDID TROTTING AT PROSPECT PARK— THIRD PaGE. EDWARD 8. STOKES TELLS THE STORY OF THE GRAND CENTRAL TRAGEDY! FISK’S ‘WOUND! INJURIOUS EFFECTS OF MOR- PHINE, BRANDY AND CHLOROFORM— FourtH Pace. THE IMPRISONED JOURNALIST, MR. W. F. G. SHANKS, DISCHARGED ON HIS OWN RE- COGNIZANCE! LEGAL SUMMARIES—FovurtTH Pace. PRESIDENT GRANT'S LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILLIAMS CONSIDERED BY THE CLEAR- ING HOUSE! A RATHER WEAK DE- NOUEMENT {| THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS—Firtu Paces. THE MONETARY MUDDLE! THE MEANING OF THE PRESIDENTIAL EPISTLE! FINANCIAL MOVEMENTS YESTERDAY—Eicuts Pace. A HOT SPORTING “MILL” IN INDIANA! THE PRINCIPALS AND THE SPECTATORS IN POLICE “CHANCERY”—TuiRp Page. MEETING OF THE NEW YORK YACHT CLUB— THE KELSEY CASE BEING INVESTIGATED BY ONE OF GOVEROR DIX’S STAFF— THIRD PacE. CANDIDATES FOR THE COUNTY OFFICES! THEIR PROSPECTS! AN UNPRECEDENTED BREAKING UP OF PARTY LINES EX- PECTED—REGISTRATION RIGHTS AND PENALTIES—Firru Paas, MAYOR HAVEMEYER’S “PET LAMBS” SLAUGH- TERED BY THE ALDERMEN! THE VOTE ON THE POLICE JUSTICE NOMINEES— Fourta Pag, Reawrratton.—Under the present election law no citizen can vote unless he is duly regis- tered. The fact that he registered and voted a year ago does not qualify him to vote at the election next month; the business of registra- tion must be gone through with again this year. ‘To-day and to-morrow are the last days ‘on which any person can register, and no citi- zen who neglects to do so can vote in the com- ing election. Judges are to be chosen, and a State Senate which will act on the election of a United States Senator, as well as a State Assembly. If we can secure some improve- ment on the legislatures of the last two years by helping to elect the best candidates it is our duty todo so. Albany lobbying and cor- ruption are a scandal to the State, and every good citizen should do his best to promote the success of honest and respectable representa- tives. Jobbers and corruptionists will be sure to register, and reputable men should do the same. If they fail to do so to-day or to-mor- row they will not be able to vote, and will do- serve the continued disgrace of corrupt legis- Jation and incapable government, The Trial of Marshal Bazaine—The Interests of France, the Army and the Monarchy. We submit to our readers elsewhere in these columns some interesting tacts and reflections on the pending trial of Marshal Bazaine, em- braced in a letter from a. special Heratp cor- respondent at Paris and in a letter froma Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph. In the first of these letters we have some sug- gestive comparisons between the case of Mar- shal Bazaine and the cases of Marshal Ney and General Dupont, and some important in- formation concerning the superficial reorgani- zation of the French army and its serious de- ficiencies. In the second of these letters we have a glimpse behind the scenes at Metz in reference to the extraordinary part played by M. Regnier for a capitulation, the essential condition of which, in behalf of France, was to be a restoration of the Empire. It ap- pears that the mysterious individual who, upon his own responsibility, and unknown and unbefriended, had gained the ear of Prince Bismarck, the Empress Eugénie and Marshal Bazaine, and who almost suc- ceeded in negotiating a treaty of peace between France and Germany without having any authority from the principals, and who thus came very near a restoration of the Em- pire, in which he had no perceptible interest, age is described as a stolid looking yeoman, with bushy white hair, a square, sturdy face, and, in striking contrast with the glittering soldiers around him, he appeared in the court clad in a light tweed shooting suit, and bear- ing in his hand a round felt hat; and, thus appearing, he was an object of interest only second to Bazaine. In the official indictment against the unfor- tunate Marshal it is asked, ‘“Who_was this personage, who rose to the stirface thus inop- portunely in the midst of these serious events, and whose fatal intervention was destined to draw Marshal Bazaine into the most guilty resolutions?’’ And the official answer is that ‘Regnier was born in Paris in 1822, and that he received a very imperfect education is proved by his strange style and his vicious orthog- raphy.’’ It appears, further, that ‘he busied himself with magnetism,” and “exploited a quarry of paving stones”—a remarkable man, and an extraordi peacemaker. And yet in making out its case against Bazaine the prosecution toa great extent depends upon the evidence of this Regnier, who is de- nounced as an audacious man, whose man- ners are vulgar, who is extremely vain, who fancies himself a profound politician and who has published numerous pamphlets. Never- theless, the story of this volunteer diplomat’s negotiations for the restoration of the Empire through the surrender of Metz, does present astrong though a ludicrous case of cireum- stantial evidence against Bazaine. The old Marshal was devoted to his Emperor, and he regarded with undisguised contempt the Pro- visional Government of National Defence, which had taken the place of the Emperor. Doubtless if Bismarck had acted upon the hint from Regnier, and had proposed for the surrender of Metz, to treat as with the Regency of Eugénie, and to release the beleaguered French army, Bazaine would have accepted the terms; but with the German Chancellor the chaos which in France followed the displacement of Napoleon was preferable to his restoration on any terms. But, so far, the crime of treason against Bazaine is not established from the testimony of Regnier, nor from all the evidence of all the witnesses produced against him. Nor does the opinion appear to prevail to any ex- tent in France that Bazaine, if convicted of treason, will be sacrificed. Oonsidering the time, the place and the circumstances of this trial it is a shrewd bit of strategy in favor of the meditated restoration of the Bourbons. In this view of the subject it is a curious fact that outside the discussion which is kept up concerning the guilt or innocence of Mar- shal Bazaine, the questions which attract most attention are, Why has his trial been de- layed so long? and Why does it take place at the present juncture? A pretty general opinion has it that France is in need of a scapegoat for her imperial sins and warlike misfortunes, and that Bazaine is foredoomed to play that part. It is undoubtedly true that there exists among all Frenchmen a desire to vindicate the fight- ing nation against even a part of its terrible collapse in the face of armed Germany; but the shrewd monarchical scene-shifters who are preparing the grand tableau of ‘‘the Res- toration” have their own object in this minor stage picture. While the beauties of the peace and order which are to follow the ascension of the throne by the Count de Chambord as Henry V. are preached all over France as a salvation from radical or Communistic excesses it is something to be able to pillory the Empire in the person of its faithful and once mighty henchman, Bazaine. No Frenchman, filled with the warm pride in his country’s history which isa characteristic of the Gaul, will object to Bazaine’s being found guilty. The shrewd royalist leaders know this, and they know that the more they iden- tify Bazaine’s alleged treachery to France with s conspiracy to save the Empire the more ready will the people be to accept anything which relieves them from the odium of a ruling power that could thus sacrifice the nation to itself. With the Duc d’Aumale pre- siding in the name of the outraged military honor of France the royal house itself will share in the melancholy glory of revenging the nation by sentencing the ex-Commander- in-Chief under Napoleon to death. This is the secret of the scene in the pleasant little palace of the Trianon, where, on the 6th instant, so much of the living history of the present epoch in French affairs was represented by its leading men. It is to be carried out by finding the Marshal guilty, sentencing him to death, and then pardoning him or commuting his sen- tence about the time that the moody recluse of Frohsdorf is crowned King. ‘Thus the op- portunity for condemning the Empire, vindi- cating France and practising royal magnanim- ity is made to converge around the scene of which the coronation of Henri Cinq is to be the central point. There is very little doubt entertained anywhere that the Military Com- mission will find ample cause for the convic- tion of Bazaine; so the programme we have sketched out is pretty sure of its completion. The presence of the Duc d’Aumale at the head of the Commission, and his pressing inquiries regarding Bazaine’s reasons for his intrigues with the Prusso-Napoleonic creature Regnier, his unpatziotic inactivity and his alleged treacherous surrender, with the strongly fortified city of Metz, of an immense army of 163,000 men, suggest some thoughts on the irony of history. Had the Marshal possessed the military brain of Napo- leon Bonaparte, the patriotism of, the entire nation and the stern, unsurrendering spirit of Cambronne, it is possible that France might not have failed so terribly; that in an extreme possibility invaded France might, as before, have swallowed her invaders, and that the Empire might have arisen from the war more highly enthroned than ever. Then Chambord, d’Aumale, de Paris, Nemours and the whole Bourbon and Orleanist cabal had burrowed away in ob- scurity for the term of their natural lives. But Bazaine was morally and mentally un- equal to the occasion, and the Bourbons and Orfeanists came back. It has a comic aspect of its own now, this scene in which a man in power sits in judgment on the man who did great deal to place him there. Patriotism is a fine thing to swear by and to judge by. It may, perhaps, be in recognition of this in- -debtedness thet, after the trial has served its political turn, the offender will be let off with a slight punishment. If the Marshal is really guilty of the charges no considera- tions should save him from the death he merits. The crime of a traitor in such @ position is unpardonable, if any crime is. Small shrifts and sudden shots met the unfortunate Communists on the plain at Satory, whose crimes were nothing compared with those charged against the Marshal of the Empire. On the question of Bazaine’s ability to leave Metz with his army, and the suspi- cions of treachery which, even during the siege, wero widely circulated, a conversation cecurred, with an opinion worthy of note. President Grant and General Sherman were present, and the former was asked what he thought about the motives, honorable or otherwise, which prevented Bazaine from moving. He replied that he did not, for manifest reasons, wish to give any opinion on the motives for inaction ; ‘‘but,” he added, “if I werein his place I think I should fuss around there a good deal and manage to wriggle out somehow.” There is much meat in this plain view of the case, Bazaine did not get out nor act as if he desired to. Va victis! John Bright at Birmingham. On Wednesday evening the Right Honorable John Bright made his first public appearance in several years in the town of Birmingham. Mr. Bright was so long in delicate health that, although one of the principal supporters of Mr. Gladstone and one of the Prime Minister's warmest friends, he found it necessary to resign his position in the Cabinet. His health restored, he was solicited to resume his place in the Cabinet. His appointment to the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ne- cessitated, according to established custom, his re-election by his Birmingham con- stituency. His re-election was an easy affair ; for the old Tribune of the People, as he was wont to be called, is a great favorite with the class of people throughout England of which Birmingham is a strongly representative centre. On Wednesday evening Mr. Bright ap- peared in Birmingham to thank his constitu- ents. Some sixteen thousand persons, it is said, assembled to hear him. His speech, which, we are told, extended over an hour, was just such @ speech as we had expected from him. Mr. Bright, it is the custom to say, is a changed man; he is not the Mr. Bright of twenty years ago. Then he was a radical; now he is a conservative. This is not a just representa- tion of Mr. Bright’s present position. He has not changed. He is still the man he was. But England has changed. The principles which in Mr. Bright's youth were despised, and for which he vigorously and perseveringly fought, are now in the ascendant. He has fought his fight and won, and now he not unwisely rests upon his laurels. On this side of the Atlantic we have but little interest in the educational question of England as that question now stands. Mr. Bright's remarks on that question, therefore, we can afford to let slip. His remarks on the Ashantee war, on which England is embarked, were almost painfully cautious. Mr. Bright is a peace man,, has a strong peace record; and he ought, as a member of the Cabinet, to have spoken out more decidedly on the one side or the other. On the relations of Great Britain with this country, during and since the war, Mr. Bright's views have always been sound. If by the Washington Treaty and the subsequent arbitration England was humil- iated, as some Englishmen are pleased to say, it was because England in the beginning was in the wrong. In spite of all drawbacks, how- ever, it was his opinion that the Treaty of Washington, in its entirety, had ‘added a nobler page to the history of England than had all the bloody battles recorded in its history.” . Bright's remarks about international arbi- tration, the taxation of the people, the interests of the agricultural laborers and kindred sub- jects, and especially his appeal to the entire country in favor of the liberal party, all show that in his ripening old age he is still faithful to the popular cause. Americans as well as Englishmen have reason to rejoice at the restored health and usefulness of one of the best friends of the people known in modern times. Tue Ketszy Murper.—We are gratified to find that Governor Dix has promptly acted upon the suggestion of the Heraxp, and set on foot an inquiry into the Huntington crime, with a view, no doubt, of offering a reward on the part of the State for the discovery of the most guilty parties in the cruel and infamous butchery. Colonel 8. DeKay, the military secretary on the Governor's staff, was at Huntington yesterday, making a personal investigation of the affair, and held a con- sultation with Coroner Baylis. Time enough has been wasted in a sham investigation, while the persons to whom suspicion and evi- dence point as the real culprits, or at least as accessories to the murder, have been per- mitted to remain at large, with every oppor- tunity to escape as soon as the testimony gtows too strong for them. Decisive steps should be taken forthwith to place them in safe keeping. The murder is one of the most brutal that has ever stained the annals of crime, and no one who has had » hand in the savage deed, whether male or female, should be suffered to escape the penalty. The Increased Salary and Back Pay Bills. The politicians who fear damage to their party or to themselves from the action of Con- gress on the Presidential and Congressional salaries last session are raising the cry that these bills must be repealed and the salaries restored to their former amounts, and that the “back pay’’ must suffer the same fate. Of course the pretence of repeal is a mere elec- tioneering ruse to deceive the people. The President's salary cannot now be reduced during the present term, and the back-pay plunder cannot be reclaimed. But, if it were otherwise, no, political capital could be made out of the repeal of the bill increasing the salaries in the future. The people are not mean enough to begrudge their President or representatives fair pay for their services, and the increased amounts are by no means too high for the present time. There was nothing objectionable in the increase of the salaries to the present scale. The offence of the Crédit Mobilier Congress lay in the ‘‘back-pay” pilfering. If the Congresa- men could vote themselves five thousand dollars extra compensation for services already rendered for a stipulated renumeration they could vote themselves fifty thousand dollars or five hundred thousand. Their action was a bold exercise of power for selfish purposes; it was simply plundering the people and put- ting the money into their own pockets. No sophistry can excuse it; no eleventh hour ‘re- pentance can condone the offence of those who sided the measure, passively or actively. If there be any back-pay Congressman more contemptible than his fellows it is he who has attempted to escape responsibility by the restoration of his plunder after he has become alarmed at the general indignation called forth by the. dishonorable law. These representa- tives have proved their willingness to share in the back-pay steal if they were not too cow- ardlyjto defy public sentiment. They have shown the instinct of the pickpocket without the courage of the highwayman. But so far as the simple increase of the compensation paid to our public officers is concerned, the action of Congress was entirely justifiable; the salaries determined upon are not too high, and the people are satisfied with the measure. The pretence that the bill can be repealed isa fraudulent one, but if it were not, the senti- ment of the country would be opposed to such action, Forest Laws in America. A few days ago, after some comments on the subsisting contiection between forest con- servancy and the rainfalt of a country, we prontised to indicate some remedy for the pres= ent wholesale deforesting so rapidly progress- ing in the United States. When the early pioneers of the West plunged into its dark and densely-wooded wilds it was natural enough that they should have made war on that which excluded their homes from the sunlight and the soil from cultivation, They soon found that where too thickly con- gregated the tree belts were obnoxious ‘to health and their decaying: foliage productive of the worst types of malarial disease. And in the long winter months the desire to have ‘an open country was felt almost as strongly as the desire of the Arctic traveller, sick of ‘‘the cold light of the planets,” to see the long lost daylight. But experience has fully taught them that both in a sanitary and climatic point of view the agency of forest trees is indispensable. It is now known that the up- lifted and breathing foliage absorbs vast quan- tities of noxious gases, arising from animal respiration, fuel consumption, the decay of organic matter and the exhalations of the very worst and most prolific sources of disease. It has been found that a forest belt interposed between malarious marshes—the green canopy intercepting the miasmatic our- rents and chemically decomposing and recom- bining them—has served as an effectual safe- guard from the pestilence, so that such a belt, could it be planted to the windward of a town or city, would greatly assist in reducing its death rate. Not to dwell, however, on the demonstrated necessity of preserving and augmenting our existing tree supply, on either sanitary, ‘climatic or agricultural grounds, it is evident that the time has arrived for legislation, based on more recent scientific data, furnished by the climatologist, to intervene in behalf of forest culture and forest conservancy. In a paper read a short time ago by Pro- fessor Hough, of Albany, when before the Science Congress at Portland, a strong argu- ment was presented in favor of such interven- tion and also in support of the asserted climatic influence of wooded belts, The eco- nomic value of timber and our absolute de- pendence upon it for innumerable uses in manufactures and the arts had, he showed, proved a consideration of such weight in Europe that the reservations amounted to a very large proportion of the national demesne. In France alone the forest administration covers 8,465,000 acres and has been extended to the arid and once rainless tracts of French Al- geria, where the effect of the planting has been to give several rainy days in the crop- ripening months. The specific lines in which legislation might co-operate in this country for the preservation of timber growing are somewhat different from those followed in Europe. But it is easy to see how the Con- gtessional and State lawmakers may work out the problem suggested. A systematic and official inquiry from the various government scientific bureaus, which furnish any data of the climatology, sanitary or meteorological conditions of the country, embodied in a popular form, and disseminated widely among the people, would instruct both them and their rolers in the necessity of forest laws and in the kind of legislation most judicious. It might be found wise to withhold given belts of timbered government land from sale, and, as Professor Hough suggests, to encourage tree planting by exempting in certain sections all newly timbered lands from taxation, The further encouragement by restrictive and re- munerative enactments would be feasible, and any practical farmer or farmers’ association could indicate just what provisions would be most effective. But, after all, the grand point for legislation to aim at, in the first place, is the elucidation of the problem of forest clima- tology through its own official investigation; and when this has been done by the diffusion of the knowledge gained in the most popn- Jar and comprehensible form, the people themselves may of their own accord enlist, with an enlightened activity. in beautifying NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEE". and improving their lands by the means sug- gested. A New Deau on rue Boanp.—Tho Alder- men yesterday took from the table and re- jected all the nominations made by Mayor Havemeyer for police justices. Heretofore these nominations have been left unacted upon, and the Mayor's hands have been tied. The main reason given by the Aldermen for their inaction has been their conviction that the removal of the present police justices is unconstitational. Alderman McCafferty and three others voted consistently with their former action against taking up the nomina- tions, but were defeated. The new movement looks like a deal for election purposes, but on which side it will be impossible to tell until the new nominations are sent in. Tse French Monancuusts are considerably depressed in their political party and dynastic aspirations, seeing that the citizen sentiment of the nation, as expressed in the National As- sembly, tends more and more in favor of the permanency of a conservative republic in France. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Daneai, of Italy, has arrived at the Clar- endon Hotel. Bishop Tdbbe, of Covington, Ky., is staying at the Metropolitan Motel. Viscount Vilain, of Belgium, has apartments at the Brevoort House, Bishop Williams, of Connecticut, yesterday ar- rived at the Gilsey House. Congressman Loughridge, of Iowa, is quartered at the Metropolitan Hotel. Senator Justin 8. Morrill, of Vermont, is staying at the Filth Avenue Hotel. Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland, yesterday ar- rived at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General John S, Marmaduke, of St. Louis, has quarters at the New York Hotel. Ex-Congressman 0, B. Matteson, of Utica, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Bighops Bissell, of Vermont, and Clarkson, of Ne- braska, are staying at the St, Dennis Hotel. Congressman ©. L. Merriam, of Locust Grove, N. Y,, is registered at the Fifth avenue Hotel. Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Boston, 1s among the late arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Mr. William Shadden, Superintendent of the Illi- nois State Insurance Department, died of apoplexy this atternoon, The report that A. H. Stephens and Herschell V. Johnson were to start a conservative paper in Washington is positively denied by both gentle. men. A Western paper is desirous of knowing whether, when a musical prodigy is referred to as having a very high-roofed mouth, “she should be regarded asa intsical mfsard t* Question befote a Western debating society, “can he be Gailed a shrewd man who marries a shrew ?’ The report of the committee was, “Be- shrew us if we can tell.” The Washington Chronicle thinks the course of the St. Louis Globe very reprehensible in allowing as the signature toa sertés of articles the nom de plume, “A dam Granger,’’ Joseph B. Loring, of Boston, died in Malaga on the 18th instant, He was largely engaged in the Malaga trade, nis father being the first shipper of Malaga fruit to this country, A Southern paper speaks contemptuously of the “dirty greenbacks locked up by speculators,’”? Per- haps the editor has not seen any of the new issues; and still he may only want to make 4 new issue with the North. Mr. Waddell, of North Carolina, announces that he will soon be prepared to prove ‘from the most authentic sources that a civilized colony of Cau cassians existed in North Varolina 2,000 years be- fore Columbus was born.’ Major Hearne, of the Raleigh Zra, attacked Nason, of the Newbern Republito-Courier, a few days ago, witn a cane, and came out ‘second best.’ As the Milton (N. ©.) Chronicle pertinently says, “Brethren, ‘let us have peace.’ ” A Western paper suggests that the immense doorplates worn now by ladies on their belts might be utilized by engraving thereon the wearer's Mame, age, residence, fortune or expectations, and stating whether heart-free or engaged. “Black Jack Bill,” “Prairie Joe,” “Slim Sam Shaw” and “Grizzly Graham’ are among the eu- phonious names of members of the Wyoming Legis- lature. And yet the State stands up nobly for woman's rights! Traly, ‘‘What’s in a name?’ The Boston Traveller says the friends of Mr. Gas- ton, democratic candidate for Governor, boast that they will carry every town on the Boston and Albany Railroad, from Boston Bay to the Connectl- cut River. Perhaps there is a little gasconade in this. David W. Gorham, M. D., of Exeter, N. H., died suddenly a few nights since. He was for nearly fifty years in the practice of medicine in Exeter and in the adjoining towns. He was for many years trustee of Phillips’ Exeter Academy, and generally interested in educational matters. Dr. Gorham ‘was about seventy-two years of age. “Reconciliation” is thus happily put by a Chicago paper :—‘General A. E. Burnside, of Rhode Island, late a Major General tn the Union army, and General Buckner, of Kentucky, late a Major General in the confederate army, dined together at the Sherman House yesterday, and in a glass of champagne drowned all memories of the past.” SMASH AT A RATIPIOATION. The Tammanyites of the Sixteenth Assembly district heid a ratification meeting at Seventeenth street and First avenue last evening. A spacious platform was erected at the corner, Fireworks and bonfires flluminated the space around. Mr, Francis J. Geiss presided. Speeches were made by Hon. 8. 3. Cox, Mr. D. ©. Calvin, General Spinola and Mr. Peter Woods, During the latter's address tne platform, a very weak affair, fell with @ crash, burying the speaker, committee, band and reporters beneath the ruins. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt, although Mr. Woods and one of the reporters recetvea some scratches. The platiorm was propped up and Mr, Woods finishea his address. TAMMANY ASSEMBLY NOMINATIONS, The members of the Tarhmany Eleventh Assem- bly district met last night at Germania Assembly Rooms. Twenty-sixth street and Seventh avenue, and nominated Oliver J. Buel for Assemblyman. The Tammany Hall Second Assembly District Convention met last night at No. 514 Pear! street, with James Degnan in the chair. The name of William P. Kirk was mentioned and unanimously carried as the nominee of tne Second district for the Assembly. A delegation of the liberal republicans of the same district waited upon the Convention and en- dorsed Mr. Kirk for the Assembly. The Twenty-tirst Assembly District Convention met last night at Lincoln Hall, 116th street and Third avenue. After some deliberation the Con- vention Spremnted & committee of conference to confer with the liberal republicans of that district, Alter holding @ short conference with them Mr. inane was unanimonsly nominated for REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL NOMINATIONS, ‘The Fifth Senatorial Republican Convention met last night at Bleecker Building and unarimousiy nomtnated James W, Booth for Senator. ‘The Seventh Senatorial District Republican Con- vention was held last evening in Republican Hall, Twenty-third: street and Broadway. After calling the roll of delegates a vote was taken, which re- suited in the unanimous nomination of the Mr. Thomas Murphy for nator in that district. A committee was afterwards appointed to walt upon Mr. Murphy and tender him the nomination. he Eighth Senatorial District Republican Von- vention met last night at Brevoort Hall, Fifty fourth street und Third avenue, and nominated Joel Mason for Senator. Mr. Mason, after @ lew short remarks, respectfully declining, and Mr. Walter 8, Pinckney was unanimously nominated in bis stead, LIBERAL BERCBUICAR, ASSHERLE OONVEN- by The Liberal Republican Assembly Convention of the Fifth district wae held last night In Bleecker Building, corner of Bleecker and Morton strects, and Alfred Wagstaff, Jr., was unanimousty nomi- uated momber of Assembly for that district, THE YELLOW FEVER. A Sudden Change of Weather in Shreve port Having Fatal Effect—No New Cases There=The Condition of Mem- phis and Columbus, Texas, SHREVEPOR?, Oct. 23, 1873. The sudden change in the weather Wednesday night hastened the death of all those in @ critical © condition and developed quite a number of new cases, most of them in the outskirts of the city, ‘Tne business portion of the city does not resemble @ hospital any more and there are but FEW CASES THAT REQUIRE MEDICAL ATTENTION. Among the deaths during the last twenty-fous hours are J. R. Boon, cotton buyer; Captain EK. Baines, merchant; Harry Deloach, printer, Wilkim son, the carpenter. At the St. Vincent Academy there are seven patients attended by Dr. Smith, of New Orleans—three Sisters, three pupils and Father Ferrac, Allare doing well. The priest is better to-day and will probably get well. There are NO NEW CASES. Among prominent citizens, W. P, Ford, 0. W. Bosworth, Mr. Dobbs, stage agent; the people's family physician, Dr. Ford and lady, are all re ported doing well. Isaac Kahn, one of our leading merchants, is dying with black vomit. Captain William Flourney, thirteen miles in the country, died with black vomit this evening. Dr. A. Flour- ney will die to-night. A boy servant was very sick. Two of Captain William Flourney’s children will Probably get well. THE DEATH OF THE FLOUNREYS is ashock to the country people at the Four Mile Springs. Mr. Hargrave is improving, but Mra. Brown is seriously ill, The interments in the city to-day were five whites and three blacks. The Condition of Memphis. MEMPHIS, Oct. 23, 1873, The weather ts clear and cold. There werd twenty-one deaths from yellow fever and eight from other cagses to-day. Chief of Police Athey appeals to the chiefs of other cities for aid. Of the sixty men on the Memphis police force eight have died of yellow fever and fifteen are now down, ‘The Odd Fellows have issued a circular in whick they say they need no more heip from brethren, Dr. Blount is still sinking. Among the deaths to day are Dr. J. J. Williams and Mrs. Ethel Porter, the wife of Colonel Ethel Porter, prominent ia raliroad circles. The scarcity of funds with the Howard Associa tion compelied a reduction of pay to nurses t¢ three dollars per day, Three hundred and twenty five nurses in the employ of the Association have struck for five dollars per day and they will tq compelled to pay that rate. President Longst@ has sent to New Orleans for more nurses. The Yellow Fever in Texas. Hooston, Oct, 23, 1873. Telegrams report twenty-two deaths from yellow fever at Columbus since Sunday. The Yellow Fever in Montgomory, -Ala MONTGOMERY, Oct. 23, 1878, There have been six deaths from yellow fever hen within the past forty-eight hours. Contributions for Memphis. . NASHVILLE, Oct. 23, 1873, The proceeds of the promenade concert and hoy last night, for tho benefit of the Memphis sufferers amounted to $1,600. The members of the Gran¢ Lodge of Odd Fellows to-day contributed $300 for the same purpose. New York’s Succor for the Suffering. The following additional contributions are an nounced in aid of the sufferers from yellow fevel in the South:— Received by Messrs. Levy & Barg:— lip 8 £0 25 Levy & sarg. Pra *2 Stemund nor Thomas + 0 J. M. Weith L, Levy, 2100 L. Morganth L 10% Men’s Christian Rey. Vincent Colyer, at Mens Recei’ iz and forwarded to the phis:— 81 viousl; Peet ssascine re- Free Gra Rev. R, S. Satteriece..... Sent to the Hibernian Soctety of Memphis :— By St. Patrick's M. A By Father Mathew, No. ‘and B. Society........$100 7, of Brooklyn........ It is stated that an effort will be made to haw the injunction on the iunds of the St. Patrick’s Alliance Association so modified as to admit of at Sopropriation. of $1,000 for the sufferers in Mem P Received by the HERALD:— Mrs. Th $9 A.B. O. Diessccsseereeee OM A. BM 5 Yellow Fever in this City. The Coroners have taken no action in the case @ Patrick Hennessy, who was found at the Clare House, 73 Washington street, suffering from yellow fever, and who died from that disease at Bellevue Hospital. The health authorities, however, are making every effort in their power to discover tht whereabouts of Mary Riley, who waited on the invalid during his illness, and three men who are said to have stept in the same room with him These persons are said to have fled and concealed themselves, as the o.icers of the Board want them to fumigate the houses they are livin; remove them to the hospital in case they tracted the contagion. Reported Case of Yellow Fever in Brooklyn. Yesterday afternoon a telegram was receiveé from Dr. Mayer, of the Eastern District, a Brooklyn Police Headquarters, setting forth thas @ man named Stern, who recently arrived from Georgia, was sick with the yellow fever at No. 6 Scholes street, The Health Board was notified a the matier, and at once despatched Sanitary In spector Fisk, M. D., to investigate the case. inspector returned last evening and reported t it was simply @ case of intermittent or m fever, and it there was no ground for alarm. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO NOTES, M. Faure is sick. Seflor Delgado, the Mexican violinist, gives & com cert at Knabe’s Music Hall on Saturday. Mile, Pauline Canissa sings the rdle of Isabella t¥ “Robert der Teutel,” at the Stadt Theatre thir evening. Mile, Fernande Tedesco, the young violinist, hag played with considerable success in the Westers cities this season. The ilimess of Mile. Di Murska compels a post. ponement ofthe concert announced to take place at Steinway Hall this evening. Mr. Lester Wallack, during his engagement at his own theatre, will play: in the comedies of Sher- idan, O'Keefe, Colman and’ Holcroft as well as “She Stoops to Conquer.” There is no.actor on the modern stage so capable of dealing with the olé standard comedies as Mr. Wallack, andthe seasom at his theatre promises, in consequence, to be & grand revival of the grand old drama. Mr. Strakosch purposes initiating. a season of opera concerts at the Academy of Music, commeno ing on Tuesday evening next. They will be sim {lar to the celebrated Fioral Hall concerts in Lon- don, at which the arsists of the Royal italian Opera may be heard at popular prices, Miles. Cary, Maresi and Torriant and Messrs. Capoul, Campa- nini, Maurel and Del Puente will sing at the first concert. in an¢é ve COD NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. A apecial correspondence to the H=ra.p from Japan, dated at Yokohama on the 22d of Septem- ber. reports the following naval intelligence :—The ‘United States akip Hartford has not made her ap: pearance in this port. The idaho and Palos are ae Yokohama. The Yuntic left this on the 16th for Ghetoo, and the Saco the same day for Kobe, The Monocacy 18 at Yokoska, \ ‘The German corvette Nymphe left Yokohama om the 15th inst. for San Francisco. THE GENERAL MOOK MUBDBR OASE IN oouRT. Yanxton, Dakota, Oct. 23, 1873, The motion to admit Wintermute, the slayer of General McCook, to ball was argued at length ix the District Court to-day. The prosecution first claim that no such application ai tpad be made risoner has pleaded to the fadtonmante vudge Garkes said he would consides the question before acting on the motion, Ar; ment was heard on the main question and decision reserved until to-morrow. The defence, in the course of the argupant, claimed the readiness ane even anxiety of Wintermute to be tried at this term. aud that be did not desire & continuance.