The New York Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Wolume XXXVIIT...,.......0-0eese00% AMUSEMENTS THiS AFTERNOON AND EVENING, D OPERA HOUSE, Fighth av. and Twenty-third pues Tux Gasuigut. iinet Le. wv NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broad I. Houston sts.—Tux Buack Croox. Matinee at WALLAOK’S THEATR street—Ouk Ammnican C between Prince and tg. and Thirteenth at Lig. street and Irving place.— Dbg—Micxon, ic Broadway Matinee ACADEMY OF MUS! Travian Urera, Matin UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union near Broadway.—Tux Gexeva Oxoss. "Matinee at inare, ae WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Davy Crockert. Atternoon ay evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st.— Fancuon, tax Cnicknr. Matinee at 13s. NEW LYCEUM THEATRE. Mth st. and 6th av.— Norns Dax. Matinee at2—Hamter, METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585, Broadway.—Vanierr Enrenraixuat, Matinee at 25). THEATRE COMIQUE, No, 5l¢ Broadway.—Vanrerr Exreutainuent, Matinee at 23, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Gixcer Sxars—Nores Daux—Tux Tour Digger's Doow. MRS F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Wew Yuan's Eve. Matince at2. PARK THEATRE. BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— Qapr or Lroxs Matinee a BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broa dway.— Purrz, Oux Gunwan Covsix. Matinee at 1h. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, y, between Houston ‘Bnd Bleecker sts.—Mons. CuourLeuri, i ac. Matinee at2. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vaniety Exrertainwint. Matinee at 244. GERMANIA THEATRE, léch street and 31 avenue.— en BASTARD, »,,BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Bixth av.—NeGro MINSTRELSY, Matinee at 2, &ec. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— Ban FRaNcisco MINSTRELS. NEW. YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1873.—TRIPLE SHEET, woe Currency—Financial Condition and Oatlook of the Country—A Significant Hint trom Washington. In taking a general view of the condition and prospect of the country, financially and commercially, one of the most important ele- ments to be considered is the currency. While the demand and supply of foreign trade regu- late exchange between this country and other countries our currency is the life-blood that regulates everything at home. Among the various, and, we might say, numerous measures proposed to cure existing evils and to promote the welfare of the country through the agency of the currency is the reported scheme of the United States Treasurer. Ac- cording to the despatches from Washington Mr. Spinner will recommend, in the report he is preparing for Congress, a most important change in our system of currency. The plan is to issue a series of currency bonds, convert- ible into greenbacks and back again into the same currency, at the option of the holder. The idea is, evidently, to have an elas- tic currency, so that when money is searce the holders of these proposed new bonds can take them to the Treasury or Sub-Treasury and get legal tenders for them, and when money is abun- dant can take up bonds again. To make this practicable the bonds of course must bear in- terest readily calculated. We suppose, there- fore, the proposition will be to make the bonds three-sixty-fives, or bearing a cent a day in- terest on every hundred dollars. With such convertible and reconvertible bonds, if made easy to obtain in every section of the country, the interest on money would never be high and must be pretty uniform throughout the Republic. Usury laws might be dispensed with toa great extent when money could be so easily obtained and when the rate of in- terest generally must be three-sixty-five per ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth jARIONETTES, Matinee at 3. STEINWAY HALL, léth st., between 3d av. and Irving Matinee at 2—Soiker Musicaue. KNABE’S MUSIC HALL, Plusicate. . P, T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th ®venue. Afternoon and evening. street—Taz Roray 12 Fifth avenue—Somre FERRERO’S NEW ASSEMBLY ROOMS, lth street.— laGicaL Entertainment. Matinee at 2. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 34 ay., between 634 @ihd 64th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- ray.—Scixnck anv Ant. DR. KAHN’S MUSEUM, No. 683 Broadway. vAND Agr. ation AVEO BUTE! TRIPLE New York, Saturday, October 25, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. *Lo-Day’s Contents of the Herald. | THE CURRENCY! FINANCIAL CONDITION AND | OUTLOOK OF THE COUNTRY! A SIGNIFT- CANT HINT FROM WASHINGTON—TITLE | OF THE LEADER—SixTa Pace. ‘CLOSING UP THE FINANCIAL RANKS! HOYT, SPRAGUE & OO. DROP TO THE REAR, BUT DECLARE THEY WILL SOON “FALL cent. Such a comprehensive measure would make a revolution in the monetary affairs of the country. How tar the Treasurer will be acting upon his own judgment, or with or without the approval of the administration or Secretary of the Treasury, in making this rec- ommendation, we are unable to say. If, with the approval of the administration, we are, perhaps, on the eve of a most important change, at all events such a proposition from the Treasurer will have weight and lead to much discussion. We are not informed what amount of con- vertible bonds would be proposed for issue, or what expansion of the currency we might ex- pect, but shall logk forward with interest to the Treasurer’s exposition of his scheme. One thing is certain, the proposition will meet with determined opposition from the bankers, money lenders and speculators who now lock up money in order to make large profits, and who get, according to the condition of the market, from six to fifty per cent per annum for their money. They will endeavor to raise alarm about inflation, and talk loudly of specie payments, which they have no wish to see—at least they do not want specie payments unless that would make money scarce and dear, and so increase their profits. We can offer no opinion ot the Treasurer’s plan till we see it IN” AGAIN! FISK & HATCH TU RESUME THEIR PLACE IN LINE—Nixtu Page, BUSINESS AND PROSPECTS IN WALL STREET! A GENERAL SETTLING UP! THE QUES- TION OF VALUES—NInTH Pace. ? AMNESTY FOR THE IMPRISONED FENIANS TO BE ENFORCED BY A MONSTER MASS MEETING IN THE IRISH CAPITAL—SEVENTH PaGE. THE CARTAGENA INSURGENTS TO ARM THE CAPTURED MERCHANTMEN—A BRAZILIAN ENVOY AT THE VATICAN—SEVENTH PaGE. @HAMBORD’S POLICY! CATHOLIC PRAYERS FOR MONARCHICAL SUCCESS—MARSHAL BAZAINE ILL—SEVENTH Pace. ‘CAUSES OF THE FEVER SCOURGE IN MEMPHIS, TENN.! SPREAD OF THE CONTAGION! A WESTERN HEROINE! HEART-SICKENING SIGHTS—FovrrH Pace. THE ITALIAN KING’S VISIT TO VIENNA! LA ° MARMORA’S LIGHT! EUROPEAN POLITICS! THE KNOTTY POINTS AWAITING SOLU- TION! AN ORSINI FOR KING WILLIAM— FOUBTH PaGE. BUILDING UP THE AMERICAN MARINE! NEW YORK’S SHARE IN THE GOOD WORK! THE PROSPECTIVE REVIVAL OF THE SHIP- BUILDING INTEREST — CHOPPED To DEATH —FourTH PAGE, FOUR EXCELLENT TURF STRUGGLES AT THE PROSPECT PARK FAIR GROUNDS AND FOUR AT THE PIMLICO COURSE, BALTI- MORE! THE WINNERS AND RACE DE- TAILS—TROTTING IN KENTUCKY—EicuTa PaGE. 4 TAILOR, DOCTORS AND SOLDIERS TESTIFY IN THE STOKES-FISK MURDER TRIAL! DOCTORS DISAGREEING AS USUAL! THE LATE COLONEL’S PISTOL—Firta Pace. 4 HUSBAND'S ABOMINABLE PLOT TO DESTROY HIS WIFE! A DOMESTIC HIRED TO AD- MINISTER POISON, AND THEN TO BEAT OUT THE WIFE'S BRAINS—Turep Pace. MORE DEALERS IN THE “QUEER” BAGGED BY THE SEORET SERVICE OFFICERS IN THE OLD NORTH STATE! HEAVY OPERATORS ARRESTED—Tuinp Pace. ARGUMENT IN THE SHANKS HABEAS CORPUS CASE! NO RESULT! MR. GREEN TO BE OUSTED FROM THE COMPTROLLERSHIP ! JOHN FOLEY AFfER AN INJUNCTION— Fut Pace. LEGAL RECAPTURE OF $160,000 OF THE FORGED BONDS PROCEEDS! TWO OF THE FORGERS ARRESTED—THE PHELPS DEFALCATION—Firtu Pace. THE ALLEN-HOGAN PRIZE FIGHT CAUSING A SENSATION IN THE WEST! THE MEN, THE ARTICLES AND THE TRAINING—A GOVERNOR'S PET—MATIERS IN URU- GUAY—ELEVENTH Pace. FRENCH WINES! BURGUNDY, * CHAMBERTIN AND TONNERE COMPARED! THE GOOD IN WINE! VARIOUS VINTAGES AND PRICES— THIRD Pace. Tae Governmental Crisis 1v France.— Count de Chambord appears to be very hope- ful of the cause of monarchical restoration, in his person, in France. We are told from Paris that he has already assured the foreign princes by circular that his throne policy will be one of peace, and that he will not champion the Pope in his effort for a restoration of the Church temporalities. Monsigneur Dupanloup, Bishop of Orleans, has instructed his clergy to offer up prayers for the retarn of the royalty. ‘The members of the French Assembly remain prudently and patriotically watchful of the course of events in the Republic. Taury Are Resowen To Snow Tuer Srrevota.—The Liberal Republican Execu- tive Committee of this State, at a recent meet ing, adopted measures to bring ont tho fall strength of the party in our coming November election, And why not, after what this third party accomplished in the Inte Ohio election? developed ; but anything that will bring down and bears may prove a blessing, for they create nothing to the substantial wealth of the nation, and live simply by sending up or pulling down prices. Whatever basis there may be for real value of certain railroad and | other stocks these speculators pay little regard to that, but operate upon the fictitious values they may be able to give to stocks in general. Unfortunately, there may be many merchants and others outside of the stock jobbers and operators who have been imprudent enough to dabble in these stocks or to buy them for investment at inflated prices, but the greater part of the loss falls upon the stock gamblers themselves. To this class, however, the con- sequences are not likely to be very serious, for they are accustomed to ups and downs in life, and generally manage to live in the same style whether they fail or not. As the railroads have such a vast capital and influence to a great extent the financial affairs of the country, it may be proper to remark here that their stocks, really, are to be measured by intrinsic worth or what the stockholders can get in the way of interest on the capital they invest. Some of the railroads could pay a good interest, if properly managed, on the actual cost ; but the stock of many has been watered or inflated in order to make dividends and to bolster up the price in market. A railroad that cost sixty millions and has a stock and debt amounting toa hundred millions must come to the level of real values in a crisis when there is a general clearing up and readjust- ment inthe market. Nor can railroads that have been constructed where they are not needed and for speculative purposes merely stand the ordeal of scrutiny when things are brought down to their intrinsic worth. The worst feature of railroad stock inflation are the additional charges that are imposed upon the public in the way of rates for freight and passage to pay dividends on a bogus capital. The time cannot be far off when the Legisla- tures of the States or the federal government will have to control in some way these great arteries of commerce and travel. Happily, the troubles in the stock market and decline of stock values have occurred at atime when the country was most prosper- ous, when specie was flowing in a large stream to the United States, when our ex- ports have been large and imports com- paratively small, and when the balance of trade has been more in our favor than it had been since the war. Then, the fall of stocks to something like their nominal or real value will have the effect, no doubt, of bring- ing foreign capital here for investment after the flurry is over. Although our railroads have been made a football for speculators and their stocks have been inflated, people will see the advantage of investing in them when brought down tos just value, for these great lines of internal improvement must become profitable when earnings are based upon cost and as this great and progressive country increases in wealth and population. The trade and prospects of the country were never better since the war, and the credit of the government is not touched. Let the busi- ness community and people stand aloof while the Wall street speculators fight among them- the rate of interest, equalize it throughout the country and keep the money market steady must prove beneficial to the commercial, trading and farming interests, and lead to a revival of industry and business gen- erally. It is a curious anomaly of our monetary system that, while the national banks and their currency are pretty equally distributed throughout the country, in pro- portion to the commercial, manufacturing and agricultural interests and the supposed relative necessity and importance.of these, interest on money is much higher in one place than in another at the same time. In fact, when money sometimes in the cities of the Atlantic seaboard is worth only six or seven per cent, it is worth in the West or South ten, twelve or more percent. The tendency of money or currency is always to the commercial centres, and it returns sluggishly or reluctantly to the interior. It can be used more profitably in stock and gold speculations in the cities than in promoting industry in the country. No doubt a convertible currency, as proposed by the Treasurer, would go far to remove this in- equality and make money easier and cheaper throughout the interior. Another important proposition, calculated to afford relief and to approximate specie pay- ments, is that of Secretary Richardson, as shown in our Washington despatches to-day. He has decided, considering the fall of the gold premium and the difference between the price of gold and silver, to place currency on a silver basis as far as the government has the power to do so. It is said he is determined to begin next week to pay out silver as green- backs, and will, when desired, pay off accounts against the government in silver, or will ex- change silver for legal tender currency. To prepare for this the Treasury Department is having silver coined at the several mints as fast as possible. Whether the relative value of gold and silver will be affected materially by this action remains to be seen. At any rate there is not likely to be a considerable exportation of silver to Europe, even should the balance of trade be more against us. It might go to Asia, but not to European countries, for gold is now the spe- cial measure or standard of values there. If we can keep the balance of trade and ex- changes in our favor, and the Treasury De- partment should have a sufficient amount of silver to meet the demand, the country will make a long step toward a specie basis. Such changes in our monetary affairs as we have referred to would undoubtedly do much to counteract the effects of the late panic and to prevent the recurrence of any similar dis- aster through the collapse of railroad and other speculators. We have lately witnessed a most anomalous state of things appar- ently between the stock market and the financial condition of the country, though, in fact, there is nothing strange or that cannot be explained. Stocks generally, and railroad stocks particularly, had fallen greatly without having affected materially the great commercial and business in- terests of the country. It was but an excite- ment and a trouble among the stock gamblers themselves—a sort of family derangement and loss among that numerous tribe of kite-fly- ing speculators which crowd Broad, New and Wall streets and fill the air with their noise from morning till evening. As long as the country can esenpe unhurt to nny serious oxient this tearing aud tending of bulla selves and all will be well. Above all, let the banks have nothing to do with them, but attend solely to the legitimate business in- terests of the country. Antarctic Exploration. An interesting contribution to science has recently been made by the Meteorological De- partment at London upon the meteorology of the Antarctic. This investigation is mainly designed to furnish the basis of organization for any expedition that may be sent to the southern seas for observing the transit of Venus in 1874, the best view point for which is known to be within the Antarctic circle. The exploration of these antipodal regions is unquestionably the most promising now in re- serve for the geographer and the scientist. Since the year 1840, when the three national expeditions—the French, under d’Urville; the American, under Wilkes, and the English, under Ross—penetrated and partially discov- ered this South Polar world, Antarctic research has slumbered, although the results of the three great voyages were richly remunerative. It was reserved for Ross, who had a few years previously seen—what no mortal eye had before seen—the magnetic needle in a directly ver- tical position at the north magnetic pole, to witness the same magnetic wonder at the south magnetic pole, and thus to furnish the world, what would otherwise have been im- possible, a correct chart of the magnetic lines over the whole habitable globe. The intrepid navigator, after spending three summers in the south seas, returned, however, leaving un- solved the great problem whether the''South Pole is surrounded by an icy ocean or a great continent ; and this problem still continues to engage universal interest. One of the practical issues involved in Ant- arctic survey is the determination and correct charting of the vast iceberg currents by which, over an area of 15,000,000 square miles, the navies and merchant vessels of all nations are, from lack of information, annually im- perilled and often beset. From Australia to New York and Liverpool the run of home- ward bound ships is necessarily on high southern latitudes, because, to avoid facing the fierce westerly gales and to use them by can- vas, they must pass Cape Horn. So powerful and continuous are these gales that a stanch vessel, guarding against ice, may make an average steamship speed; but the ice is the terror of navigation, and the present ice charts, made from old and fragmentary exploration, are felt to be untrustworthy, But besides the practical issues involved in new Antarctic surveys, there is the great ques- tion to be settled whether the South Polar region is covered by land or water. If a land mass of vast dimensions encircles the South Pole completely it might offer in the Antarctic summer peculiar facilities for attaining the highest southern latitude and thus solving the old problem. In 1840 Admiral d’ Urville sighted an iceberg off the Cape of Good Hope thir- teen miles long and of great height, and the enormous ice drifts from the far south—said to be sufficient in size'und number to stud the Continent of Asia—indicate immerse Antarctic watersheds as the receptacles for the glaciers out of which these ice islands are made, and from which, by their accumulated weight, thoy are launched seaward. The present state of our knowledge of these regions is not such ans to warrant any satisfactory stolement ns to she oxicin pnd source of the mighty Aniaratiq | drift-current, which is believed to set into the South Pacific and endanger its ship routes. But the investigations of Ross, Wilkes and d’Urville suggest that the current sets north- ward from latitude 78 deg. south and between the meridians of 167 deg. and 177 deg. west. In view of the recently stated desire of the Navy Department to send out a Polar expedi- tion, we venture to suggest that, in connection with the observations of the transit of Venus in 1874, the purposes of practical science, the investigation of Polar meteorology, the inter- ests of navigation, might be best subserved by an Antarctic surveying expedition. The dis- covery of the physical conditions which pro- duce the celebrated phenomenon of a low barometer, so bewildering to the mariner in the south seas—when, with Sir James Ross, he finds that the mercury at twenty-nine inches there betokens fine weather—is a dis- covery yet to be made, and one which will fecundate the whole science of meteorology, if it is ever made, much more than the finding of either Pole. The Kelsey Murder ana Mystery. We are glad to notice that Governor Dix has taken some preliminary steps looking to an official State investigation into matters connected with the barbarous treatment and alleged subsequent murder of Charles G. Kelsey at Huntington, L. 1 It would, per- haps, have been better had the proper legal officer of the State (the Attorney General) taken the initiative in the special examina- tion. The case was given to the Coroner's jury last evening, but up to a late hour the verdict had not been rendered. The evidence given yesterday presented the usual features of this deplorable affair—namely, testimony offered on one side and flatly contradicted on the other, involving perjury on at least one side. The California skeleton of a living Kelsey having been abandoned, the idea of a “political conspiracy’’ is now intro- duced for the defence of the suspected par- ties. One might as well expect a political conspiracy among the clam shells on the clam banks of Coney Island or Little Neck as a political conspiracy for any purpose among the unsophisticated aborigines of Huntington, L. L, and vicinity. SunsHiIne IN Borries.—We do not know which being does the most harm to the good feHlowship of society, the man in the gutter or the prohibitionist. Both are equally op- posed to the liberal culture of the grape and the healthful consumption of wine—the one from his habitual use of the distillations of grain, in the form of whiskey and rum, in lieu of the ‘liquid velvet’’ described by a Herarp correspondent this morning, and the other, the dyspeptic, dogmatic Puritan, from a fear that a few drops of divine nourishment would destroy the peace of his kingdom on earth. Americans, on the wine question, follow thus the éxtremes of fiery in- dulgence and total abstinence, which leave them no third party on our soil. Tuer Last Dax or Recrsrration.—To-day is the last day of regisiration under our pres- ent exacting electicn law. No citizen can vote in the approaching election unless his name is duly registered this year, and the registration closes finally to-day. Important questions are to be decided in this contest, although there is an evident indifference on the part of the people, and the duty of the elective franchise threatens to be seriously neglected. The judges, the State Legislature, the annexation question—all these are to be settled, by the re- sult at the polls next month, and every good citizen should feel it to be his duty to register and to vote. It is to be hoped that all who have neglected that duty will avail themselves of the last opportunity to get their names on the list to-day. Ex-Presment JoHNnson on THE ConstITU- Tron is an old story, and yet in his discourse on the subject the other evening at Washing- ton there was much matter entitled to the thoughtful attention of the American people. Granting that we have outlived that old-time absurdity that there is a degree of sacredness in the ordinances of the constitution which commands our respect when all other argu- ments fail, and granting that Mr. Johnson’s present ideas were those of a generation which has passed away, his general argument on the dangers which menace the liberties of the peo- ple is none the less adapted to the present time. We know, at all events, that there is no danger in the honest faith and old-fash- ioned patriotism of Andrew Johnson. Warne Ane THE Reronmers?—The fusion undertaken between Tammany and Apollo Hall failed because Tammany thought that Apollo wanted too much. The fusion pro- posed between the republicans and Apollo Hall has been agreed upon because the repub- licans think that half the loaf is better than nothing. The prospect for reform in our city administration, as the famous John Randolph once remarked upon another subject, “is a clear, Mr. Speaker, as the light of that window, which is not very clear.’’ PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. President Roberts, of Liberia, is in London. Bishop H. W. Lee, of Iowa, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Chief Justice George W. Brown, of Maryland, is at Barnum’s Hotel, General James A. Cunningham, of Boston, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. The Duc d’Aumale ia thought to be the richest and luckiest man in France Colonel John W. Forney arrived at the Windsor Hotel yesterday from Philadelphia, General Richard F, Stockton, of New Jersey, is quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, District Attorney N. 0. Moak arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel yesterday from Albany. M. Yon Westenberg, Minister from Holland at Washington, bas apartments at the Westminster Hotel. A marriage ts about to take place between Lord De Grey and Miss Brett, daughter of Mr. Justice Brett, of the English Bench, Captain Thomas Lewis, of the ship Great West- ern, of New York, died in San Francisco on the 12th inst., after a brief iliness, . Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Birmingham Borgia, is the soie occupant of the female wards in the Con- necticut State Prison at Wethersfield, ‘There are several claimants to the Sultanship in Morocco, and as each is Muley there is likely to be assassination before the contest is over. E, 8. Thompson, Auditor of Pike county, Minne- sota, has disappeared. Forged drafts, it is said, are the impelling cause for his mysterious locomo- tion. Mr. Morrison R. Waite, of Ohio, who waa one of the connse! on behalf of the United States before the Goneva Tribunal, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotei, ‘The betrotbal af Rrihes Alired Of Bugiand and the Grand Duchess Mary of Russia will shortly be celebrated at Livadia, socording to the rites of the Orthodox Greek Oburch. The Right Hon. E, Hammond has resigned the oMce of Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, having completed filty years of public service, A Parisian, whose wile lately died, imagined him- self transformed into a weeping Willow and went sbout the streets of Paris with a fower pot on his head to announce his transformation. ‘The death of Dr. Walter Briscoe in Paris is an- nounced. He is represented as an American of & Sportive turn of mind, eighty years old and as having left @ fortune of half a milllion. The Comte de Chambord has given orders to a French horse dealer to purchase the horses and gala carriages necessary to celebrate the Restora- tion of the throne within two months. Queen Oigarof Greece was recently mobbed by her enthusiastic subjects, who are colonized at Galatz. Her dress was torn from her and dis- triputed in iragments, as relics, among her rough Hellenic .overs, Victor Emmanuel while in Berlin was extremely generous to Prussian officials. Besides the pres- ents to higher ones, he distributed among the small oMicials 150 gold watches. ‘The state of the Italian Treasury suggests “tick.” Mr. Ashbury is now visiting the ports of Spain in his steam yacht Eothen, At one ofthe ports the Carlists fired at the yacht, and Mr. Ashbury nar- rowly escaped being shot. He intends to go to Maderira and thence to South America, Mr. L. R. Morton, of the firm of Morton, Biss & Co., has returned from Europe. Mr. Morton's visit to the other side was made for the purpose of ald- ing to arrange for the transmission of the Alabama indemnity fund from Great Britian to our govern- ment. The Hon, William Windom, of Maine, Chairman, and Senators John Sherman, of Ohio, avd 8. B, Conover, of Florida, members of the Senate Trans- portation committee, will soon visit Virginia for the purpose of inspecting the route of the James River and Kanawha Canal. Dr. Nelaton, the eminent French physiclan, just deceased, has left a number of memoranda on the occurrences of his day, of which he was a cluse ob- server, His son intends to devote some of his in- herited wealtn to perpetuating the fame of the great surgeon by erecting a Nelaton Hospital for Incurables in Paris. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. The Fifth Avenue Theatre company appears at Albany next week. Signor Salvini plays Salvini’s Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre this afternoon. Mr. L, F. Harrison commences a series of Satur- day concerts at Steinway Hall this afternoon. “Les Huguenots” ts in active preparation by the Strakosch Italian Opera troupe and will be brought out on Monday week. There is to be an exhibition of Mrs. Jarley'’s Wax Works at Steinway Hall next Tuesday evening in aid of the fund of the Sisters of the Strangers. The price of admission to the “Galaxy” course of lectures has been reduced to fifty cents. The next | lecture will be by ex-Mayor Hail, on “Love, Mar- riage and Divorce.”” ‘The self-possession of Mlle, Marie Belval, one of M. Strakosch’s new prime donne, upon the occasion of her début in Paris as Novina in “Don Pasquale,” was so remarkable as to predispose the audience against her, but she succeeded in spite of this un- favorabie circumstance. Mile. Zaire Thalberg, the daughter of Thalberg, the pianist, is now in Paris, and her early appear- ance on the lyric stage is to be expected. It is said she promises to become as great a singer as her father is @ pianist, Mile. Thalberg is just fif- teen, having been born in this city in 1858, “Ernani’’ was repeated at the Academy of Music last evening, and the large audience which wit- nessed it was a significant proof of the apprecia- tion of the New York public of Mr. Strakosch’s efforts to present a good ensemble rather than a single star. Maurel made even @ more signal success than on the first representation, and‘ Cam- panini in the title rdle was such an improvement on his first impersonation that few could recognize the energetic, expressive tenor of last evening in the listless representative of the same rdle a few nights ago. The other rdles were about the same as before. “Robert the Devil” was served up in German fashion last night at the Stadt Theatre. It was @Tratner crude performance, possessing only three good elements, Mile. Canissa as Isabella, Mme, Lichtmay as Alice and Herrmanns as Bertram. The first of these artists sang “Robert, toi que jaime” with finish and expression, and the rdies of Alice and Bertram were commendably filled. The title réle was represented by a tenor with a voice like a circular saw, and Rambaldo fared no better. The chorus, in the third act partic- warly, gave the idea of the wax figures in @ museum and seemed to be constructed, in appearance, on singular architectural principles. One or two of the wind instruments in the orchestra wandered off occasionally to parts un- known, the baton of the conductor being unable to stop them. With the exception of three of the principal singers, the performance was curious rather than artistic. rt At the Academy of Music to-day “Mignon” is to be sung at the matinée, and next week Nilsson ap- pears im all the operas to be given. “Don Giovanni” will be sung on Monday evening, and Nilsson again appears as Lucia on Wednes- day evening, and in “Martha” on Friday even- ing. The programme for the opera concert on Tuesday evening is a very interesting one. Mlle. Torriani sings the polacca from “Mignon,” Miss Cary an aria from the “Stabat Mater,” Mile. Maresi the “Qui la voce” from ‘1 Puritani,”? M. Maurel the “Eri tu’? from “Un Ballo in Maschera,” M. Capoul “M’appari” from “Martha,” Signor Cam- panini, “Spirito gentil” from “Favorita,” Signor Nannetti “La Calunnia” from the “Barbiere,” Signor Del Puente the Brindisi from “Hamlet” and Signor Scolara an aria from ‘venerentola.” Be- sides these solos Miss Cary and Capoul and Maurel sing atrio from “Messe Solennelle;’ Mile, Maresi and Campanini, Del Puente and Nannetti, the quartet “A te o cara,’’ from “Puritani,” and Mile, Torriani and Signora Garoni and Campanini, Maurel, Nannetti and Boy tie finale to the third actof “Ernani.” The orchestra opens with the over- ture to “Tannhiuser.’’ THE TEAOHERS’ ASSOCIATION CONCERT. A concert is to be given this evening in the Academy of Music, under the auspices of the Teachers’ Association of this city, in which Miles. Maresi and Draxeil, Mons. Capoul and Signor Del Puente, who are all leading artists of Strakosch’s Opera Company, together with the whole orchestra oi that company under Muzio’s direction, are to be the performers. The programme 1s to consist of choice selections from Javorite operas. THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT, Its Trouble Brought to a Crisis, General Funk, commanding the Second brigade, N. G. 8. N. Y., issued an order to Colonel Vilmar, of the Eleventh regiment, to deliver to a staf oMcer of the Second brigade the arms and accoutrements in iis possession atthe armory of the said regiment. Colonel Vil- mar immediately telegraphed to Goyernor Dix and General Knox, Chiefof tue Ordnance Departmen and received @ reply notiiying him that General Funk had no authority whatever to issue such an order, and Colonel Vilmar was directed to deliver the arms and accoutrements to none but an officer of the Ordnance Department, or on @ special order from General Knox, ‘The court martial on the case of the commissioned officers has been aissolved, and a Court of Inquiry, consisting of Assistant Adjutant General Stonehaus, President, and the Judge Advocate General of the State as special Judge Advocate, has been sp- pointed by General Dix. General Funk has ordered a company of the Fifth regiment to act as a funeral escort to the remains of ame Henry Rommel, o1 the Kieventh regi- men’ THE OASE OF JAY OOOKE & 00. PHILaDELenta, Oct, 24, 1873. In the United States Court to-day the petition of Frank N. Sheers was presented praying for inst Jay Cooke & ir to the extent of fanted an order to ednesday. bankers dere, re- cen ccccc ccc n ren ene eee ee ee ee EEE EE nEEEEn Inn EDEnE ESERIES ian THE YELLOW FEVER. : SHREVEPORT, Oct. 24, 1878. The weather continues cola. There has been ne material change in the state of affairs during the last twenty-four hours. Very few new cases are reported either in the city or outskirts, There are probably not over twenty cages of yellow fever under treatment in the business portion of the city, the most of which are doing well, In the suburbs there are probably 150 cases under treat- ment, some of which are not doing well. Further out there are more or less cases on many of the plantations, where cotton picking ts greatly inter- rupted. Dr. A. Flourney was sinking fast when last hear@ from, At the convent the three sisters and two pupils are doing well. One pupil and father Ferree are not so well, W. P. Ford, Alfred Nolan and nurse Arnold are improving. ©. W. Bosworth and Dr. Jelhn, from late accounts, were doing well. Isaac Kahn and Mrs. Tom Jordan died last night, Mr. Clark, the oldest physician in the city, was stricken down tast night. He is the only physician alive who practiced here in the epidemic of 1853, when he had the fever. No other new cases to-day among prominent citizens, The interments in the last twenty-four hours wére three white persons, The Condition of Memphis—Twenty~ three Deaths Yesterday—A More Fa- vorable State of Things—Incidents of the Plague. MeEmpuis, Oct. 24, 1873, The mortuary report to six o’clock this evening shows :—Yellow fever, 23, other causes, 4. A few new cases to-day are reported. Tne prospects are more favorable than since the first outbreak ol the fever. THE ODD FELLOWS have lost by the epidemic to date twenty-eight members, and five members their wives and eleven children, leaving twenty widows and thirty- five orphans, The Young Men’s Sodality make an appeal for ald trom similar societies of other cities. The Evening Ledger contains the following:~ “The appeal made by the Masonic fraternity has met with such a liberal response that they are now in condition to take care of their sick and suffering brethren without asking furtner contri- bations.’” There was a heavy frost last night and ice formed a quarter of an inch in thickness. A yellow fever nurse gave carbolic acid to @ pa tient yesterday by mistake, which caused death im afew minutes. Another nurse attempted to out rage the wife of a patient in his charge. A SAD INCIDENT, A magistrate was summoned to @ residence im this city yesterday to marry a couple, and when he arrived there he found another magistrate hold- ing an inquest over a member of the family whe had died suddenly. The marriage was postponed. Another suicide occurred yesterday, but the name Of the person and the cause were not ascer- tained. The weather is clear and coo!. The Fevor in Alabama. MONTGOMERY, Oct. 24, 1878. ‘There were four deaths from yellow fever during the past twenty-four hours, Georgia {nvaded. SAVANNAH, Oct. 24, 1873, A special to the Morning News from Bainbridge, Ga., says physicians concur in the opinion that the disease which broke out there a week or more ago, is yellow fever. Therd are eight or ten cases at present and new ones are occurring. Simon Agel, a prominent merchant, it is thought will not lve through the day. B. F. Brutton, ex-Senator from that district, is very low. Some families are preparing to leave; but there seems very little disposition to get up a panic. Business is completely at a standstill, and many merchants are speaking of closing up alto- gether. The city authorities are hard at work in- stituting sanitary measures; but no quarantine measures have been taken. The Fever in Arkansas, LittLe Rock, Oct. 24, 1873. Dr. J. M. Bohemien, a prominent physician of this city, died to-day of what 1s generally believed to be yellow fever. T. H. Moody, another old and Prominent citizen, is down with the same disease, and is not expected to recover. Both these gentlemen had charge of quarantine between this city and Argenta, and it is supposed that they contracted the disease while examining fugitives from Memphis. There 1a considerable excitement here over the fever, although it is not believed that it willspread. There was another heavy frost this morning. It 1s clear and cool to-night. Aid for Memphis and Shreveport Suf- ferers. Boston, Oct. 24, 1873. Mayor Pierce presided over the meeting in the Exchange to-day, at which addresses were made and 4 committee appo'nted to raise money for the yellow fever sufferers at Memphis, Shreveport and other afflicted localities, Liberal subscriptions are being made. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 24, 1873. The subscriptions at Louisvilie for Mempis and Shreveport sufferers reach $22,000, without in- cluding a large number of private remittances not reported. Private letters yesterday depict the great dnd urgent need for food, and shipments have already commenced to meet the demand, A bale of cotton will be sold to-day on Change tor the benefit of the sufferers, WILMINGTON, N, C., Oct. 24, 1873. The Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina has issued a pastoral letter requesting that an immediate collection be taken up in all the congregations in the diocese for the benefit of the Memphis sufferers, Considerable amounts have been forwarded by the citizens of Wilmington to Shreveport and Memphis, LOvISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 24, 1878, A bale of cotton, donated to the Memphis suffer- ers by Blair & McDowell, of Lafayette, Tenn., sold on ‘Change to-day for $455, or at about $1 per pound, to J. P, Prather. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 24, 1873. A relief concert here realized $700 for the Mem- phis sufferers. At an auction sale in connection with the concert a pair of sleeve buttons brought — Burrato, N. Y., Oct. 24, 1873. In response to a call of the Mayor, @ large num- ber of citizens assembled at the Council Chamber, this eveniug to arrange for raising funds in aid of the Memphis sufferers, A committee of twenty of the most prominent gentlemen and ladies of the city was appointed to solicit subscriptions. Citi- zens are invited to leave their donations at the banks and other public places. Collections will be taken up at the churches of every denomination on Sunday. Rev. Dr. A. T. Chester was appointed Treasurer to receive funds and forward the same {mmediatelyto Memphis. The Relief Movement in St. Louis. Sr. Lovts, Oct, 24, 1873, A number of the citizens of Memphis, sojourning here during the prevalence of the fever in that city, held a meeting to-day to devise means to furnish further relief to the people of that plague- stricken city. Colonel J. M. Williamson presided, and said that it ‘was impossible for strangers to comprehend the con- dition of Memphis, The situation is appalling beyona pont heey ‘The fever is more like a plagne than anything else, and its ravages are not checked by irost. The newspaper accounts and telegrams ae in no Sense exaggerated the condition of the city. Fourteen committees were appointed to canvass the city for aid, ite An appeal was also issued which says:— “Memphis {8 almost depopulated. Out of 55,000 innabitants only about 10,0v0 remain. Of these more than 1,000 are now sick, Two thousand newt made widows and orphans are dependent on charity, and even though the scourge were to cease at once these helpless people must be assigted dur- ing the coming winter, 6 relief associations are Without fands, dud unless suostantial aid is fur- ished the poor and sick must die of neglect or succumb to hunger and want. | Not only money, but clothing, blankets, an are asked fo: fe seg ee ae atl families may be now! tion. A thi hoanvass of and there is no doubt @ lat led, tit gromt amounts of Glotiiug wad fond, the many thousand dollars already forw: be received and A ARO Gonteibuteds”