The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1873, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIMI.........00:cceeseeees No. 3023 AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Susan Hortar— Satan. MRS F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Diawonns. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— UKLIEU. STADT THEATRE, 45 and 47 Bowery.—Genman Ormka—Makris, THEATRE COMTQPm. No. 514 Broadway.—Vagrerr Enrertaunuent, Matinee at 234. ILYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts-—-Rir Vaw Winkle’ Matinee at, BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Fair, Our Gemuan Cousin, GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third s.—Rouxn tHe CLock. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts.—Tur Buack Croox. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth stroet.—Suz Stoors 70 Conqurr, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ith street and Irving place.— Travian Urera—Lucia vi Lamuexmoon. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—Tux Geneva Cross, Matinee at lbs. near WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Witty Rey, Atternoon and evening. BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth Sancuon, tax Cnicert. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vagiery BBpempraceent. Matinee at 234. if and Twenty-third st.— ¥ PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— ENtTgRz4.NMRNT. ats @’ERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner av.—Nag a0 MinstRELsy, &c. HOOLE¥"s OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn.— San Fran€ sco MinstRELs. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth Manionertxs, Matineo at 3 P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th fvenue. Afternoon and evening. street—Tuz Roya. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 3d av., between 63d and 64th sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No, 618 Broad- ‘way.—SCIENCE aND Azr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wednesday, October 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “BUCHU, THE RAILWAY KING, AND THE MID. WAY RAILROAD! THE BUCHU PHILOSOPHY OF WATERED STOCKS’—LEADING EDI- TORIAL—SIxTH PaGE. ITALY'S ARMED MEN! THE ARMY REORGAN- | IZED ON A BASIS OF 240,000 MEN FOR | THE PEACE ESTABLISHMENT—SEveENtH | PaGE. THE AUSTRO-TURKISH IMBROGLIO! THE PORTE TO BE CONCILIATED—AGRARIANISM AGAIN RAMPANT IN IRELAND—SEVENTH PaGE. LIBERAL SUCCESSES IN THE GER! TIONS! MUNSTER CARRIED BY CAL PARTY—SgvENTH Pace. FIGHTING IN CUBA! AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE SPANISH TROOPS AND THE INSUR- GENTS—SgvENTH PAGE. VESSELS ARRIVING AT EUROPEAN PORTS FROM AMERICA AND DEPARTING FOR THIS COUNTRY, YESTERDAY, SPECIALLY REPORTED BY CABLE FOR THE HERALD— SEVENTH Pace. AN INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH OR- GANIZED IN JAPAN! MEMBERS OF THE LATE EMBASSY ILL—CHINA MAKING WAR UPON COOLIE SLAVING! JUSTICE FOR JAPAN FROM COREA DEMANDED—Seventa Pace. ENGLISH FINANCES YESTERDAY! A RAILWAY FATALITY! LONDON IN A FOG—SEvENTH Pace. “LITTLE RHODY” IN A FERMENT! RUMORED FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS OF THE SPRAGUES! FEARS UF A SUSPENSION— SEVENTH PAGE. IMPROVEMENT IN THE MONEY MARKET! STOCKS GAINING STRENGTH AND THE CURRENCY OF THE BANKS INCREASING! THE FIVE-DOLLAR SPECIE BASIS OF THE GUVERNMENT! THE FACTORY SUSPEN- SIONS—Firra PacE, FINANCIAL MATTERS GENERALLY REVIEWED! THE BANKERS’ AND THE MANUFACTUR- ERS’ TROUBLES! THE UNION TRUST COMPANY’S AFFAIRS—FovurtH Pace. WEDDING WESTCHESTER! REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ANNEXATION! REA- | SONS FOR AND FEASIBILITY OF ANNEXA- TION—Tenta Pace. RACING ON THE PIMLICO COURSE! THE EVENTS AND WINNERS OF THE CLOSING | DAY OF THE MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB MEETING—TROTTING AT DEERFOOT— THIRD PaGE. STOKES’ FATE TO BE AGAIN PLACED IN THE HANDS OF A JURY TO-DAY! THE PRO- CEEDINGS AT THE TRIAL YESTERDAY! THE MYSTERIOUS WITNESS IN THE CASE—TutRp Pace. ARREST OF EIGHT UF THE KELSEY TAR-AND- FEATHER PARTY! WHAT IS TO BE PROVED AGAINST THEM—PHELPS, THE DEFAULTER, COMMITTED IN DEFAULT OF $15,000 BAIL—Turrp PacE. TAINTOR'S TRIAL FUR EMBEZZLEMENT Ya? CONCLUDED! THE DODGE BANK- RUPTCY CASE! GENERAL LEGAL BUSI- NESS—Fourtn Pace. NEW AVENUES FOR TRADE TO AND THROUGH WESTCHESTER COUNTY! REAL ESTATE MOVEMENTS—DONATIONS BY THE AL- DERMEN—FovntH Pas, NOT Warxtnos or Winter.—A despatch from ‘Bt. Paul, Minn., of,yesterday’s date, says that «snow had been falling there for the last forty- -eight hours, and that the weather was very cold. The same afternoon and all the night snow fell heavily at Chicago, This may be one of those tidal waves of cold afr from the Rocky Mountains which carry with them to - the seaboa#d sharp snow storms, or a touch of Greenland for several days in the freezing winds trom the northwest. Reronrs Waicu We Ane Sorzy To Hean— The reports which are coming in from all sides of the suspension of furnaces, foundries, factories and public works, with the discharge from employment of thousands of working mon and women. We can only hope that these misfortunes to our industrial wealth- producing classes will be but temporary, and that this financial pressure which weighs so heavily upon them will soon be removed. Meantime, however, the general observance mong our people of all classes of the good old rule of ‘live and let live” will contribute much to lighten the general burden of the Community and the sufferings of the unem- Rlgyed, the helpless poor end the destitute | philosophy. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1873—TRIPLE pucna, tne Ralilway King, and Midway Rallroad—The Buchu Phi- los phy of Watered Stocks. When onr illustrious friend, Bucha, the Rail- woy King, whose fame is now known in every money market of tho world, first became in- terested in the bonds and shares of the Mid- way Trunk Line it was a modest, growing road, running from the metropolis to the growing town of Athens. It had been knocked about in Wall street for a season or two and had been severely ‘investigated’ at Albany. On one occasion there was a famous corner in its stock, which ruined several brokers and made the friends of King Buchu very rich. In some respects the Midway was @ fancy stock, and gentlemen took liberties with it. But the road kept its way, did its work between the metropolis and the West, contributed greatly to the wealth and comfort of the people, and in time was recognized as a necessity to the commerce and agriculture of the State. King Buchu, as we all know, became in time master of the Midway. His first act was to paint in black the brass ornaments of the engines. This saved oil, and prevented the engineers from wasting their time in burnish- ing the brass, and calling the machines pet names, as sentimental engineers frequently do with favorite locomotives. His next act was to reduce all tho salaries. He then de- voted himself to a study of the line. He found it necessary to the people. The people had built it. Large fortunes had been lost in its construction, because it had been built before it was really demanded. Time gave it value. Towns had grown along its path. Farmers came and settled upon its lands be- cause it opened the way to markets. The Legislature and municipal corpozations granted it many privileges, because, they said, the Mid- way helps the State and is an essential artery of trade. It slowly assumed a fixed value to allconcerned. It was a value to shareholders be- cause it paid dividends, to bondholders because it paid interest on the bonds—more than all to the people, because it carried freights with promptness and economy. In fine, it was a useful, necessary agent in the enterprise of the Commonwealth. The Railway King had lived many years in this world and had not been an unobservant man. Hehad avast amount of common sense and was not insensible to the value of many of the principles of Buchuism, which, after our war, became so popular. One of the cardinal doctrines of the Buchu philosophy is that when a man has no money of his own he must supply himself with the money of some- body else. The question of value, or service, or reward is not made a part of the calculations. Our friend was not under the necessity of follow- ing this precept, however, having money enough for the ordinary wants of life. But there was another precept which had long possessed the Buchu mind—namely, that the true science of trade is to sell a thing for twice its value. The world was filled with illustra- tions of the wisdom and beauty of this Not to speak of the higher Tanges of life, the Railway King saw its ap- plication around him everywhere—in the gro- cer, who improved the revenues from his sugar by the judicions addition of sand; the vintner, who added to the resources of* his wine cellar by the ingenious adaptations of liquids and chemicals ; the humble dairyman, who refreshed his scanty yield of milk by ap- plications of wholesome water. ‘‘Why,’’ said His Majesty, ‘‘ifall classes of society grow happy and prosperous by the opera- tion of this harmonious law of business, if even the humblest tradesman accepts it as necessary to success, why should not I, a great financier and money king—my monu- ment already among the glories of my native city—apply it to greater enterprises? Does not true greatness consist in the application of the simplest and frankest rules to gigantic achieve- ments? Did not Napoleon become great when he learned that in war three times three was greater than six? And if this Midway road has been a value to this State and people, why not, by a sudden and daring stroke, double its value to myself?’’ So, one morning, all New York was aston- ished when it learned that at a meeting of the directors of the Midway Trunk Line, the unbiassed mind, With the quickness of genius and a true appreciation of the Buchu philos- ophy ho eaid, “Let the people pay it.” The government came upon him for his taxes, and he sent the government into chancery to quarrel with his lawyers. Some people who did not comprehend the philosophy of the Buchu King’s financial experiments went to Albany and called upon the Legislature to take cognizance of the fact that an article of prop- erty worth twenty millions was selling for forty, and that the people were to be called on to make good the value. But at Albany gifted and persuasive men, eloquent attorneys who had been Secretaries of State, and Lieu- tenant Governors were found, in the pay of the Railway King, ready to show, by book and precept, that the thing done was well done, and the people should pay for it. The rumor ran in the malignant press that some obtuse members who could not comprehend the eloquence of the Buchu rhetoric were convinced in a substantial way. But we all know the victory was won, The Midway has been kept at its new value, and the people have been taxed to pay for it. We are pained to be compelled to say that this sublime achievement has*not been alto- gether unchallenged, Woe manage to worry along with the Midway here in New York, meaning some time or other to inquire into it; but in the West the people are in rebellion. They do not accept the Buchu principles in their railways. They complain that prices have been so far advanced for freight that it is cheaper to burn corn for fuel than to send it to the seaboard. They argue that to pay the interest on the bonds of these railways and the dividends on the extra shares—in other words, to pay the interest of forty millions on property worth twenty—takes the whole value of their crop. As some of their imprudent orators say, they pay twice the value of cream for skim milk, And although able writers and speakers demonstrate that property is sacred, that Ameri- can credit must be preserved, that if a Buchu issues shares to the value of forty millions for property worth twenty the duty of the people is to see that he receives good dividends on the increased value, that to interfere with a Buchu in this work or to protest against it is repudiation, dishonor, bankruptcy, they will not be convinced. And there is no knowing where we are drifting. We have fallen on evil times, and it would not surprise us at all if these wild demagogues of the West were to rise in anger and deal with Buchu and his imitators as the madmen in France in 1793 dealt with the wise, gracious and wealthy nobles of that day, who insisted that there should be forests for wolves rather than bread for the poor. A Question.—lf our contemporaries of the Post Office press see nothing in Cwsarism, why Railway King himself in the chair, it was re- solved to increase twofold the stock of the line and to issue the additional shares to the stockholders in lieu of a dividend. The Bu- chu mind was overcome with felicity over this achievement. In the first place, the King and his friends were made very rich; in the second place the government was de- prived of its tax upon the revenues of theroad—a double victory—Austerlitz and Wagram in one campaign. To be sure the road was only worth twenty millions. This was its actual honest value to the owners and the people. But to make an honest twenty millions carry a market value of forty is, as all observant men must admit, the supreme triumph of the business intellect. When, in addition to this, the government can be de- prived of a million or two of taxes by some evasion or contrivance of law, what more is needed? ‘These things the master of the Midway did. He became in truth a Railway King, « Buchu Prince, and men spoke of him to their children as a triumph of the time, and took their boys around to gaze on his effigy, as hoping Bonapartists, during the Restora- tion, were wont to take their children to the Place Vendéme to look up at the bronze statue of the Emperor and worship him as the glory of France. And as a good example is as good seed sown upon a fat and bursting soil, so the example of the Railway King was followed all Over the coun- try. Railways in the West were doubled in value; extra shares were issued on canals ; telegraph lines worth four millions were con- solidated and published at forty millions, and our Railway King soon had a retinue of rail- way princes in every State, and the country was rich and prosperous, Having thus given the value of forty mil- lions to twenty—having, to use a homely met- aphor, induced ten quarts of milk to assume the marketable value of twenty qnarts—and having sold many of the shares and bonds that represented this added value to honest people, who had not enjoyed the emoluments coming from the sudden rise, there came a new problem. How shali the road really worth twenty pay © due profit on forty millions? As the Railway King had not to solve the problem out of his own pocket he approached its consideration with 4 clear and is it that everybody is talking about it? Tae Foury or tHE Hovz.—tThe ballooning mania seems disposed to run its course. We are a good deal like boys in our popular fancies. First is one game, then another. Some three or four years ago we were all riding velocipedes, and people talked seri- ously of building a wooden railway over the housetops to enable our people to go to Har- lem in fifteen minutes, This lasted until peo- ple grew stiff in their joints, and the veloci- pede was thrown aside. Then we had a base ball mania, and distinguished citizens spent their autumn afternoons over in Hoboken and Brooklyn watching alert young men throw heavy balls across a field. After it was dis- covered that now and then a ball would cross the bounds and nestle in a hat, or propound itself on an observing nose, serious minded people remained at home. Now we are all going up in balloons, anda London journal informs us that one of the prodigious charla- tans of the age, who has given a long life to reduce the principles of successful lying into a science, means really to send up a balloon. This will continue until some aspiring youth soars too near the sun and finds himself im- paled on the point of Trinity church steeple. Just now it is the folly of the hour. It will have its hour and fade. Ovr Cutsesz Waut.—Mr. Seward, in the book of travels published after his death, men- tions a curious calculation made by him as to the time and money and labor necessary to complete the great wall of China. If we re- member the results of the calculation it would have built our Pacific railways many times over. Yetas science advanced and fighting men, even of Tartar blood, came to know the value of gunpowder, the wall lost its value. It is now monument, not a defence. Yet with this Chinese lesson to warn us we have actually surrounded our country with a wall which costs as much as the great wall that was foolishly supposed to protect China from the Tartars. Who will make a calculation as to what we pay every year as unnecessary taxes upon iron and wool and sult and hides and precious metals, upon tea and coffee and ne- cessary life supplies, upon ships and the ma- terials for ships? It will be found that we pay the value of a Chinese wall every ten years to support the ironmasters of Pennsyl- vania and the manufacturers of New England. Tue Trvez Cry.—Some of our tariff ex- changes call upon the people to rally for the protection of American industry. The cry should be ‘the oppression of American laboe.”’ A Nowance Cuxckep.—It has been the too frequent custom of saloon keepers and others in this city to place what are called ‘“‘orna- mental lamps’’ on the sidewalks, sometimes in front of their own places of business and sometimes nearer to the stozes or residences of their neighbors. These ‘ornamental lamps” are nothing but illuminated advertisements, and it is not always agreeable to have opposite one’s door a blazing notification of oysters, liquors or some other articles sold by other parties. The Commissioner of Public Works has drawn the attention of the Mayor to a case in which the erection of one of these advertis- ing lamps has been authorized by a resolution of the Common Council opposite a private residence, the owner of which strongly ob- jects to this ornamentation of his dwelling. The authority should be revoked at once. If itis not the offended citizen should test the strength of the colored glass with a stone sbout the size of a piece of chalk, Tae Trattan Anmy is to muster two hundred and fourteen thousand men on a peace foot ing. The military law was promulgated in Rome yesterday. What's the matter? Want of industrial ecoployment or a gneck of war? | 1 Thomas Nast end His WN Gentus. Our correspondent “Amicus” makes an appeal in another column to which we gladly |" respond. Thomas Nast certainly- deserves great honor from the republican party. A man who declined one hundred thousand dol~ lars from Tweed deserves something more than a dinner from Grant. We entirely agree with ‘Amicus’ that Mr. Nast is a famous artist. He has the genius of Hogarth, wo are convinced, and has only been prevented by 8 cruel fate from showing it. Any student in the next century would look through Mr. Nast’s work in vain for such a picture of our day and its manners as Hogarth left behind him of the England of our ancestors. Be- neath the satire and political purpose of Hogarth was artistic truth—that quality in art that lives forever. We think Mr. Nast has this quality; but thus far all that any student of the future would see in his work would be the nose of Andrew Johnson, the spectacles of Oakey Hall, the diamond of Boss Tweed, the white coat of poor Greeley and the in- credible legs of Carl Schurz. Drawings like these have a certain aptness and catching quality, especially when tacked on to a loud ringing political cry. But they belong to the season, like the autumn weeds which die with the snow. Art like this has false qualities, and in art, as in all things, falsehood is death. We think Mr. Nast could win a name likethat of Hogarth; but as yet he has won no such enduring fame. He has wide notoriety, but his place in art is like the place of Dan Bryant—the person who blacks his face and sings ‘Shoe Fly’’—in music. There is genius required to sing “Shoe Fly,” but we do not say that Mr. Bryant is as great in music as the author of ‘Fidelio.” The error Mr. Nast makes is in becoming a partisan or a camp follower of the republican party. Andif General Grant has not given him that recognition which would prevent him from wandering over the country, begging money from country lyceums, he must blame himself and the use to which he has brought his art. General Grant is a soldier, and had abundant use for spies and partisans, whose business was to tell the enemy lies about his army and make a good shot now and then, when the ambush permitted. But he never promoted his spies or partisans to high com- mand, nor has he even given them office since he became President. Men who accept this calling sre supposed to do it from some intu- itive fondness for its risks and excitements, for the pay is small. There is always the risk of hanging, and it is an office of dishonor. The error Mr. Nast has made is in allowing his really fine capacity to be employed ina work that a man of Grant's instincts does not feel bound to reward with anything more than a dinner. At the same time, as every man who shows genius, and especially the genius of Mr. Nast, should have recognition, we are willing to open our columns to ‘‘Amicus,’’ and to any of Mr. Nast’s other friends who would minis- ter to his wants. We are willing, as a sincere admirer of Mr. Nast, to give our share. We should like to see a hundred thousand dollars raised for this needy and neglected artist. We shall give our contribution with pleasure, and see that any subscriptions sent to us will be held for his use. The Harpers are rich and will deal liberally with a man who has con- tributed so much to their business success. We are confident ‘‘Amicus” is mistaken in saying that the members of this populous and wealthy firm have ground the artist and the architect of their fortunes “‘into the dust.” They can do nothing better to destroy this unjust impression than to unite with the Heratp in raising a sum for Mr. Nast. With the assurance of a competence the genius of the artist will take its true, natural flight. No longer compelled to draw libels on a religious denomination to please Bishop Simpson and the Methodist Church, or to compose grotesque and painful caricatures for the gratification of Thomas Murphy and Henry Clews, Mr. Nast will show us the genius of Hogarth. Let us all unite, then, to raise him out of the mud and ruck of politics. A man who sings and dances “Shoo Fly” so brillantly can do something better. A Senswiz Suenrr.—Two men have been arrested at St. Louis on a requisition of the Governor of Tennessee, charged with a fraudu- lent breach of trust. They were to be taken to Memphis, where the warrant was found; but.in view of the prevalence of yellow fever at that place the Sheriff who arrested them concluded to allow them to remain in St. Louis on bail to deliver themselves up to him when the epidemic has abated, and meanwhile to report to him daily. The action of the Sheriff has excited some criticism and is said to be unprecedented. At all events it is sensible. If ‘Yellow Jack” should take off the accused what would become of the ends of justice? And if the Sheriff should himself fall a victim to the disease what would become of the re- ward? A Question or Law.—It appears now that the Taintor defalcation case has been reduced to the question whether, under tho act of Congress establishing the national banks, any officer of a national bank, who uses its funds for purposes of speculation, cannot be held to answer for an illegitimate conversion of said funds, even though acting in this business with the full knowledge and consent of the directors. A common sense application of the law, we think, would hold the offending offi- cer and his aiders and abettors responsible for the misappropriation of the funds of the bank in illegitimate speculation; but there is no telling what may be the issue among lawyers and judges upon a point of law. M. Reo, the volunteer diplomat, who, it is charged, came very near bringing about @ treaty of peace between France and Ger-~ many, involving the surrender of Metz asa condition for the restoration of the Empire, has written to the Duke d’Aumale that he, the said Regnier, on the Bazaine trial, must be allowed to name three qnestions to be asked him, or that he will leave France. We would then say to M. Regnier, ‘Stay not upon the order of your going, but go at once.” A Pozziz.—The Scriptures tell us that the Jews found that while one king punished them with whips his successor used scorpions. The people of New York are asking now whether the scorpions of the Yankee masters who now rule our city aro easier than the whips of Tam- many, derful resources in paying off the enormous German indemnity, and such recuperative Power under overwhelming disasters, we sup- pose the loan has been taken on favorable terms to the nation. Revolutions or changes of government, or even the defeat and frightful cost of a gigantic war, make but atemporary impression upon the French. The uncertainty of the political future scarcely affects the credit of the nation. No country in the world affords such surprising evidences of resources and credit. It is a study for statesmen and financiers. Tho secret of all this, apart from the intense patriotism of the French, is found in the industry, economy and admirable financial system of the coun- try. France sells more than she buys, and, whatever misfortunes of revolution or war may come upon her, the resources of the nation accumulate necessarily from the favorable state of ini‘ustry and trade. Then, the finances are manajed with great skill. No one understan’; these things better than the Rothschili s. A Svacesrion.—Boefore wo build any more railways we think it would be well to pay for those we have built. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. M. Guizot is eighty-six years old. Earl Spencer is said to intend to resign the Vice- royalty of Ireland, Captain J. H. C. Cofin, United States Navy, is at the Hoffman House. Bishop Spaulding, of Colorado, is staying at the Marlborough House. General A. 8. Diven, of Elmira, has apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Senator Sargent, of California, is among the later arrivals in Wasbington. Charles Bradlaugh returned tothe Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday from Boston. Ex-Governor J. B. Page, of Vermont, is regis- tered at the St. Nicholas Hotel. John W. Young, son of the prophet Brigham, is Staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain A, S. Baldwin, United States Navy, is registered at the St. James Hotel. Senator Buckingham, of Connecticut, yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Mr. Russell Gurney, late British Commissioner to this country, is to be made a baronet. General N. P. Chipman, Delegate in Congress from Washington city, is seriously {lL Ex- Congressman James K. Moorhead, of Pitts. burg, is staying at the Brevoort House. The Rev. Dr. Jackson, of Trinity College, Hart- ford, has arrived at the Hoffman House, Major Harvey, of the Royal Engineers, British Army, is quartered at the Brevoort House. Ex-Senator H. W. Corbett, of Oregon, 1s among the late arrivals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman H. H, Hathorn, of Saratoga, is among the arrivals at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Titian J. Coffey, late Secretary of the United States Legation at St. Petersburg, is staying at the New York Hotel. General Frank Blair, State Insurance Commis- sioner for Missouri, has appointed Charles E, King as his Chief Deputy. Chin Law Pin, Yang Ayew, Yeh Shoo Tung and Chan Laisun, Chinese Commissioners of Education, yesterday arrived at the Sturtevant House, The Duke of Cambridge chose for the Ashantee expedition as many as he could of the army officers who were in the habit of writing for newspapers. They have had another tar case on Long Island, this time in Brooklyn. If the Long Islanders keep on in this way, their island will soon earn the titie of “New Tartary.”” Mr. Callan, M. P., speaking in Dundalk, said of the Irish Members of Parliament that “a more de- moralized, more rotten, more unprincipled body of men does not exist.’ This is not blarney. How happy Professor Tyndall would be if he had the same faith in the power of prayer as the seve- ral natives of Shanghae, Ohina, who have asked of the authorities permission to pray God to avert & famine from the province of Chekiang, with the condition that if the petition 1s not responded to within a certain time they will suffer death at the stake, WEATHER REPORT, Wak DEPARTMENT, Ovricr OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct, 29—1 A. M. Probabilities. For Wednesday, in the Gulf States, northerly winds and clear, cold weather, For the South and Middle Atlantic States, north- west winds, backing to southwest, and clear, cold weather, FOR THE MIDDLE AND EASTERN STATES, WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS, PARTLY CLOUDY AND CLEAR WEATHER. For the lower lakes, rising barometer, winds veering to northwest, with clear or clearing weather, For the upper lakes and the Northwest, falling barometer, southwesterly winds, higher tempera- ture and clear weather, The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours in comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s Pharmacy, HERALD Building :— 1872. 1873, 1872, 1873, 33 5S 49 43 47 47 50 (68 4760 5 6 43 12M... 49 «653 12 P.M » 4 40 Average temperature yesterday. vee 4896 Average temperature for corresponding date last year. +4 ARMY ORDERS. _ Captain Willlam F. Howell, Assistant Quarter- master, 18 relieved from duty at Camp Douglas, Utah Territory, and ordered to Grenada, Col., to relleve Captain E. B. Carling, Assistant Quarter. master, of his duties at that point; Captain E, B, Carling, Assistant Quartermaster, on being relieved 2 Bs tain Howell, will proceed to Camp Douglas, h Territory, and report to the command: - cer of that post for duty. ene By direction of the President First Lieutenant uty oe pita? 5 aoa has been detailed tor uty ‘ofessor of military sci ir University, Northfleld, Vt. r seh akie hae By direction ot the President @ general conrt martial has been sported to meet at San An- tonio, Texas, on the lth of November next, for the avai Captain J, L, Humfreville, of the Ninth WAVY INTELLIGENOE Commander Henry L. Howison ts detached from the command of the Shawmut and placed on wait- tng orders. Lieutenant Commander G. H. Wad- leigh, Lieutenants A. B. H. Lillie and William A. Morgan, Master J. W, Graydon, Ensign John H. Moore, Passed Assistant Surgeon Edward H. Ware and First Assistant Engineer G. W. L. Mc- Carty are detached from the Shawmut and placed on waiting orders, Lieutenant R. R. Ingersoll ana F. W. Nichols are ordered to the Kansas at New York. Lieutenant Bioomfeld Mclivaine ts ordered to the receiving ship Potomac, at Philadelphia; Licu- tenant C. A. Schettky to the receiving ship Ver- mont, at New York; Second Assistant Engineer k, anonganela, which a Ay laa CR to dail for the South Pacific Station and report ae commanding that station. to-morrow. This is iral 8 -_ Academy of Music—First Opera Concert. Mr. Strakosch’s first essay to establish this season a series of concerts in connection with the opera, similar to those at Floral Hall and Albert Hall, London, met with encouraging success last evening. The emptiness of the boxes was more than compensated for by the large audience in the parquette and dress circle, and a few of the artiats who appeared were honored with recalls, a recognition of merit which is seldom granted by an Academy audience. With the sole exception of Mme. Nilason, every artist belonging to the Strakosch company appeared. The concert com- menced with the “Tannhiuser” overture, rather too ambitious work for the calibre of the orchestra, conducted on this occasion by Mr. S. Behrens, The materials in this band are ex- cellent and a little preparation in the shape of a rehearsal or two before the concert might have laced them in a very tavorabie light. In two of e vocal numbers they completely swamped tho singers in a tidal wave of brasses and reeds. The fantastic introduction to “Dinorah”’ (Le Pardon de Ploermel), with the pretty elfect of the “Sancta Maria," sung by the chorus bebind the scenes, and. Mendelssohn's ever fresh wedding march were given with satisiactory spirit and finish, the only arawback being the undue predominance of the horns and trombones, The celebrated quartet “A te, o cara,” from ‘Puritan,’ written for Grisi, Rubini, ‘'amburim and Lablache, and sung here twenty years ago by Bosio, Salvi, Badioli and Marini, closed the first part of the pro- gramme, it was rendered with effect by Marest, Campanini, Scolara and Nannetti, it we except the weakness of the lady’s votce beside the fu rounded tones of the tenor, The chief feature o} the evening, however, was the magnificent remdi- tion of the great aria, ‘Fri tu,” from ‘fhe Masked Bull,”’ by M, Maurel, The nobility of the voice, the ppt @nd expression of the delivery and’ the igh intelligence shown in the ‘interpreta- tion of this trying aria, all testified to the completeness J. the art of M. Maurel, Capoul'’s singing of “M’appari’’ is too well known to opera goers to need an additional word in ita praise at the preseutday. It received an over- Miles. Cary, Maresi and Torri- ani sang in selections irom Rossini, Verdi, Belling and Thomas, and Stguor Del Puente created a very favorable impression in the brindisi, from “Ham- let... Nannetti essayed “La Calunnia,” from “The Barber of Seville,” but without any particular suc- cess. After Mme, Nilsson the chief strength of the Strakosch troupe rests in the two barytones. Maurel is second to none on the stage to-day, and it would be worth Mr. Strakosch’s while to bring out “Un Ballo,’ to give this artist an OR DORE RIERY: to sing “Eri tu” with its proper surroundin, ‘The absence of instrumental solos gave the con- cert a monotonous character which detracted much from the individual excellence of the vocal members, We have in this ole, at present pianists and violinists occupying very high positions in the artistic world, and they would prove of incalcula- ble benefit in an opera concert. A programme made up wholly of vocal selections becomes neces- sarily tiresome. Had such works as Vieuxtemps’ “Ballad and Polonaise,” the Henseil concerto or a Chopin concerto been on the programme last night the attractions would have been increased a hundred fold, The management snould take this into consideration at the next concert. Musical and Dramatic Notes, Sefior Delgado, the Mexican violinist, played is, concert the other evening with such success that he will soon appear at Steinway Hall. General Sherman visited the Union Square Theatre last night. The band played “Hall to the Chief” in his honor, and the entire audience rose and greeted him with three hearty cheers The Lyceum Theatre closed last nignt. ‘“Ingo- mar’ was announced to be played with Mr. T. C. King in the title part, but the management was unable to produce the piece. The season since the opening of the theatre was a losing one, and we suppose the house will not be reopened by the pres- ent management. YELLOW FEVER. wheiming enchore, Continual Decrease in the Number of Deaths in Memphis—The Disease Spreading in Texas. Mempurts, Tenn., October 28—10 P. M. The mortuary report for the past twenty-tour hours, up to six o’clock to-night, shows fourteen deaths from yellow fever and nine from other causes, @ decrease of four deaths from the fever, Of those who died to-day nine were negroes, five of whom died of yellow fever. Memphis ventures to feel that her hour of relief has come. The scourge has yi ided to the ice king, and soon business will resume its accustomed activity. To-day has been cold, and to-night ice is 1orming in the gutters, and a big frost is sure for to-morrow morning. Mayor Johnson is sufficiently recovered to re- The Fever in Texas. MARSHALL, Texas, Oct. 23, 1873. The total number of deaths from yellow fever since its appearance here foot up sixty, of which twenty-two died last week. There was a good frost last nigat, and ice an eighth of an inch thick this morning. There are prospects of black frost to-night, which, it is hoped, will prevent the further spread of the disease. Now, seven o'clock P.M., the mercury stands at 40. It ta estimated that there are, at least, sixty cases under treatment in the city and county. Two interments took place to-day. Owing tothe extreme cold weather the inter- ments to-morrow will probably exceed that of any previous day. Five more New Orleans nurses ar- rived to-night. No New Cases in Montgomery. MontTcomERY, Ala., Oct. 28, 1873. No yellow fever deaths and no new cases have been reported during the past twenty-four hours. The Discase Disappearing from Mobile. MosILE, Ala., Oct. 28, 1873, No new cases of yellow fever have been reported in this city forthe past five days, nor have there been any deaths from that disease since Friday last. Proposition for Substantial Aid to the Memphis Sufferers. Utica, N. ¥., Oct. 28, 1873. The following despatch was received by exe Governor Seymour this morning :— CINCINNATI, Uhio, Oct. 28, 1873.4. Hon. Horatio SEYMOUR AND ROSCOR CONKLING:— Cincinnati at the last election raised $2,000 by placing at each of the poiling places in charge of the judges an cxtra ballot box, lapellep, “Give a dime to the Memphis sufferers,’ Their eleven hundred orphans now appeal for aid. It you will announce tu the New York voters at once that you will receive and jointly distribute tne funds, sending the word broadcast over the State, an immense sum can be raised on November 4. Advise each of the towns and cities to print and post at the polls, cant the Memphis Orphans,” and furnish an ex- tra charity ballot box the judges, and say that you will receive and forward all funds to the suf ferers, and please answer and act at once. E. P, BRADSTREET. There is authority for saying that Messrs. Sey- . mour and vonkling will accept the charge, and that they ask for a liberal response to the call fur aid to the sufferers, Appeal from the Memphis Police to the New York Police. A communication, of which the following is @ copy, Was sent toall the captains of precincts im the clly yesterday :— OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, No. 300 MULBERRY STREET, New York, Oct, 28, 1873, COMMUNICATION TO CAPTAINS OF PRECINTS, The tollowing letter from the Cnief of Police at Memphis, Tenn., appealing to us for ald in their great distress needs no word from me to awaken your sympathy; it tells its own sad story :— Orrick or Cnrer oF Fou} Memrais, Tenn., Oct. 23, Tas Steet have delayed fr King assistance wan Sin—| ave ela: ‘om asking of “the Police ‘Departments in. other, cities In an tictpation of tne early abatement of that dread~ ful scourge, the yellow fever, which has beem ravaging our fair’ city for the past six weeks; but ny opes have not been realized, and no abarement, is viatble ; and now I have to report that ogt o of lowe wit e deri ir find pecuniary ald is needed to relieve the wants of iy sick members, rm The Howard Association and other benevolent soo! Lee | are being taxed beyond their meang, and we Now a to you for assistance. Scarcely a Cay pases bub ¥ some one of my force is stricken down while on duty, and the end is not yet, ory repay, inter of Potice. You will read the communication to the members of your command and receive such subscriptions in money as each may feel able to contribute tow~ reporting the same ta me stn ear letignn a made, so that they, may te Or arte K” MATSELL, Superintendent, a THE JERSEY CITY HOMICIDE. ‘The triai of Daaist Webster for the meder of City was concluded ter Gay afvermoom pand the jcy brought in a verdict ‘The prisoner was immediately re- ‘was congratulated by a large circle of