The New York Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR AJl business or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Hina. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- tuned. THE DAILY HERALD, pubtished every day in the tear, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE CENTS per copy. Annual subscription price :— One Copy.... Three Copies. Five Copies. . Ten Copies.. Postage five cents per copy for three months. JOB PRINTING ay every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates. » Volume XXXVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanierr ENTERTAINMENT. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Svsay Horusr— Satan. MRS F. B, CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Mupra—Pocauonta: PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall_— Lapy or Lyons. STADT THEATRE, 45 DIGITATION. GERMANIA THEATRE, l4th street and 3d avenue. — Der WarrunscuMieD. and 47 Bowery.—Presti- THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 514 Broadway.—Vanierr ENTERTAINMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts—Rir Van Wink BROADWaY THEATRE, 723 and 7% Broadway.— Farta, Oun German Covusiy. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth ay. and Twenty-third 8t.—Rounp tux CLocg. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts—Tuz BLAck Crook. Matinee at 1g. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth -| stre ORR, et—Sux Stoors To UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—Tus Guxeva Cxoss, ‘WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Wuy Rey, Atternoon and evening. near BOOTH’S THEATRE, Sixth ay. and Twenty-third st— Fancuon, tax Cricknt. NEW YORK HERA Ghoul Buchu—Tho Influence of a Great end Good Man. No one seems to know exactly when Ghoul Buchu first came upon the street, nor from whence he came, nor anything pertaining to his early history. We are so easy on the sub- ject of early histories in our New York busi- ness life that the most successful operator of the day might be a graduate of Sing Sing or a fugitive from New England justice, living under an assumed name. Few would know, and we are afraid very few would care. The story might find its way into some of the journals, but no one would believe it, and it would be denounced as an invention and attributed to slander. Ghoul Buchu came, as we all know, noiselessly upon New York like a thief in the night, as the Scripture says in fitting phrase. He has been with us many years. Unlike most of the Bucha class, the Ghoul avoids noise and ostentation, and does not consider a brass band necessary to his success in Wall street. He is rarely seen, He does not give money to the poor through the pub- lic journals. He never rans for office. He has no interest in the Young Men's Christian Association, It is this mystery about the career of Ghoul Buchu that makes it impossible for us to say when or how he became the master of the Great Buchu Railway—the same road which is now regarded in the money markets of the world as an emblem of American credit. By one of those strange phonomenal freaks which foreigners show when they have relations with America no railway isas popularas an in- vestment with foreign capitalists as the Great Buchu. It has never been known to pay any dividends until within the last year or two. It scarcely paid the interest on its bonds. For twenty years one scoundrel succeeded another in its management in a kind of dynastic suc- cession of villany. The more scoundrels that surrounded the road, the more evil things that were done by its managers and in its name, the more uncertainty there lingered about its dividends and the security of its capital, the more anxiety was shown by our foreign friends to invest in it. Capitalists went abroad to urge the advantages of one road or nother, really sound and good in their way and managed with honesty and skill. They were instantly asked if they had any shares in the Great Buchu for sale, When the answer came that Great Buchu shares were not exactly the investments honest Americans commended to their friends, the answer was a shrug of the shoulder, which probably meant that, as American credit went, the investment which TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanity ENTERTAINURNT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUS Sixth ay.—NuGko MinstneLsy, Twenty-third st., corner HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Court street, Brooklyn. San Francisco Minstrets. ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth Magionertes, Matinee at 3. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavouing Gas—Bervesqve | PERA. street.—Tne Roran P, T. BARNUM’S.WORL) @yenue Afternoon and R, 27th street and 4th AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 8d av., between 634 ening. and 4th sts. Afternoon an: NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. - Way.—Scimnce axp Aur. eee TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Thursday, October 30, 1873, THE NEWS 0: YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents ot the Herald. “GHOUL BUCHU! THE INFLUENCE OF AGREAT AND GOOD MAN"—LEADING EDITORIAL ARTICLE—SIXTH PAGE. A BRITISH WAR VESSEL FIRED UPON BY THE SPANISH CARLISTS! ONE OF HER CREW | KILLED—SEVENTH Pace. SPAIN’S COLONIAL MINISTER TO START IM- MBDIATELY FOR CUBA! A LABOR STRIKE IN HAVANA—SEVENTH PAGE, MOVEMENTS OF THE MERCANTILE FLEETS BETWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA—IM- PORTANT GENERAL NEWS—SEvENTH Pace, PIO NONO TO THE GERMAN EMP<ROR: ANOTHER FULMINATION IN DEFENCE OF THE ROMISH CHURCH—SEvENTH PaGE, THE NEW KING OF SAXONY—BUSINESS IN LONDON SUSPENDED BY REASON OF THE DENSE FOG—SEVENTE PaGE. ANOTHER PANIC STARTED ON THE VIENNA BOURSE! THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT TRYING TO BRIDGE THE FINANCIAL CHASM—SEVENTH PAGE. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN FINANCES! THE VIENNA BREAK! THE BANK OF ENG- LAND TO TIGHTEN THE DISCOUNT SCREWS! WALL STRERT OPERATIONS— THE COAL SALE—Firtn Page. TOE riRM OF A. & W. SPRAGUE TO BE ASSISTED | BY BUSINESS FRIENDS! NO SUSPENSION »PROBABLE! THEIR ASSETS AND LIABIL- ITIES—SEVENTH PAGE. FAILURES AND RUMORS OF FAILURES IN BUSINESS ANALYZED! THE FINANCIAL OUTLOOK—OPERATIONS IN| METROPOLIL. TAN REALITY—EicuTa PaGe. THE WORKING PEOPLE’S BAD PROSPECTS FOR THE WINTER! HUNDREDS DISCHARGED AND THE WAGES OF BOTH SEXES RE- DUCED—Firra Pace, BI. TAMMANY GIRDING HIS LOINS FOR THE NOVEMBER STRUGGLE! A GRAND COUN- CIL OF ENTHUSIASTIC WARRIORS AT THE WIGWAM LAST GHT! THE YOUNG DE- MOCRACY PRESENT IN FORCE—Fourra Pace. NAST TO BE RAISED ABOVE THE LEVEL OF A DRUDGE! SUBSTANTIAL SYMPATHY FOR THE SsTRU ING ARTIST~THE SCITUATE BEACH MYSTERY—Tuuep Pace, OBITUARY NOTICES OF NENT PERSONS RECENTLY DECEASED—THE ANNEXMENT OF WESTCHESTER—Fovrrn Pace, | EDWARD 8. STOKES FOUND GUILTY OF MAN. SLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE AND SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS’ IMPRISON. MENT! THE CLOSING OF THE TRIAL AND WEARY WAITING FOR THE VERDICT— TuiRp Pack. FRANK L, TAINTOR CONVICTED OF EMBEZ. ZLING $400,000 FROM THE ATLANTIC NATIONAL BANK AND COMMITTED PEND- ING ACTION FOR A NEW TRIAL! GEN- ERAL LEGAL BUSINESS—Fourti PaGE, GOVERNOR DIX OFFERS A REWARD OF $3,000 * FOR THE KELSEY OUTRAGERS! THE ACCUSED PARTIES BEFORE THE CORO- NER, BUT REFUSE TO TESTIFY—TENTH Page. MARSHAL STEPHENSON'S MURDERER TO BE EXECUTED—UDDERZOOK ON TRIAL—THIRD , Pags. i —— ieee bore the worst name was very likely to be more secure than those which were trumpeted so noisily over the world. If we are to thank any one for this reputa- tion abroad it is certainly Ghoul Buchu. And as, probably, no follower of the Buchu finan- cial philosophy is more famous than the Ghoul himself—more famous and more gifted—his character will justify a spe- cial study. We have all read the maxim, which our teachers of the young cannot too often write in their books of penmanship, that “The world owes every man a living.”” The founda- tion of Ghoul Buchu’s character is in this maxim. Success has enabled him to develop and cultivate it, however, as it enabled great minds like Bacon and Newton | and Galileo to make useful discoveries and fashion philosophies out of the simplest mani- festations of nature. From Ghoul Buchu we have learned the wise precept that a man owes the world nothing, and those other precepts, which we trust to see engraved on his monu- mental sepulchre:— “Justice is only an extra margin of five per cent.’” “Success is honesty."’ “Religion is a trick of the bulls to put up prices.’’ “Legislation is the good investment of a million of dollars.’’ “The freedom of the press is becoming a license, because it means pay every day.” .advance his personal gain. “Railways are never good unless they enrich the directors.” “God made the people that the railways may live on them.’’ “Railway owners have no rights which rail- way directors are bound to respect.’’ “Victor Hugo says, ‘Success is merit; gilt is gold.’ "” These sound principles of Buchu finance, which have controlled Wall street for so many years, are the teachings of Ghoul Buchu, and we owe to one of his cynical moods, perhaps, this celebrated doctrine: — “A successful man is always honest. Aman who steals a ham goes to the Tombs, as -he should, A man who steals nine millions has only to pay it back at the time most suitable to the market, and invest some of his profits in a newspaper.” To repeat the history of Ghoul Buchu would be like repeating that of George Washington or any other distinguished man. Our purpose is to do justice to his character, and show our young men how the example ofagreat mind isa blessing to the gencra- tion. Ghoul Buchu has made, we suppose, twenty millions of dollars. In making it, he has cost American credit one hundred mil- lions. While some of our Puritanic friends make a great ado over this loss, we say boldly that the example of a Ghoul Buchu is well worth a hundred millions to us as a people. What American would give up the memory of Washington, for instance, for one hundred— nay, for five hundred millions? So with Ghoul Buchu. He is a type of our financial time, even as Washington was the type of his time. Here is a man who has made lying a | Teligion; who has no conception of honor, sincerity, kindness, frankness, fair play; whose hand is against every man, and who would plunge the dagger into the bosom ot hig brother, in the spirit of Cain, to add one per cent to his gains. Could such a man be spared from our history, from our American Pan- theon? Never! We have laws; but Ghou] Buchu can unmake any law in a week after reaching Albany. We have justice; but Su- preme Court judges have only been too glad to sit in his chambers over his wines and sign his decrees in the name of the peace and dig. nity of the Commonwealth, We have a free press; but Ghoul Buchu has only to summon the needy Bohemian into his presence to Tar Axxexation or Lowen Westcnester, Which will be voted on at the coming election, will bring unmixed good to the city of New York, It gives us a chance of cheap rents, _whioh is the great want of Now York make him his slave. The needy man hurries to his journal and prints the Buchu lie, and next morning is dismissed. Perhaps the Ghoul will see that no harm will come to him—no want at least Never! for this would bog concession to weakness and the woman's folly which the world calls generosity, which Ghoul Buchu would never make. The Bo- hemian has served him, has created a lie which gives him a million, has been his agent and partner in swindling the people. His work is done. The Ghoul has no further care forhim. Let him go home and starve with his starving wife and children. These are among the qualitios which make us adore Ghoul Buchu. We loathe and detest ordinary lying. Born of cowardice, it brings with it all the vices of the coward. We believe stealing should be made a crimo—tho stealing, at least, of reasonable sums. But we are not narrow in our appreciation of trae tness, and when wo sec a man like Gncdt Soke who has, as we have said, made lying 9 religion and dishonesty a philosophy—rise to the splendid pre-eminence he holds, we allow no vulgar scruples coming from an early edu- cation to do him injustice. Only yesterday was not thePantry Echo singing his praises ? It was in the crisis of the panic, Buchu houses were failing, Buchu banks suspending, and ruin was sweeping like a prairie fire. Every one knew that Ghoul Buchu had been preparing for this result, that he would be the first to avail himself of the genoral misery to “But for Ghoul Buchu,” said the Echo, in the highest Yellow- plush vein, ‘the market would have broken. He kept the market up, and prevented ruin from spreading by purchasing several hundred thousand shares of Vanderbilt stocks.’’ In other words, the disasters of that day came largely from the effects and achievements of Ghoul Buchu. He had been locking up gold, making corners in currency, striving to de- press public credit and confidence. He had been hoping for chaos, It came, and with it ruin to thousands. Ghoul Buchu fell upon the victims like a vulture, gorged himself with the sacrificed stocks of panic-stricken in- vestors, and, turning to the Pantry Echo, said: —‘‘Honor me to-morrow as the savior of credit and finance! True, I have dono business on the largest capital of false pre- tence ever brought into Wall street; true, I have bribed legislation and corrupted justice ; true, I have plundered o great cor- poration and avowed my shame by an open-day restitution; true, I have done everything to bring dishonor upon our credit abroad; true, that this panic is my work, that these are my friends falling on every side, and that, instead of being a savior, I am a carrion bird, prowling among the dead, and no more worthy of honor than Fauntle- roy, who was hanged forty years ago for too closely following Buchu principles in his banking before their value was known— hanged simply because he was ahead of his times; true all this, and more. Yet I de- mand the honor due to genius and merit in every calling.’’ So the Pantry Echo shouts his praises, and we, who dare not question so high an authority, have only to join in the chorus. At the same time we dread to think what calamities would fall upon this pre-eminent soul were we to be governed by the samo dark and cruel principles of law which led to the hanging of the patriarch of Buchu bank- ers—the lamented Fauntleroy ! The Conviction of Taintor—A Satis- factory Verdict. Before Judge Benedict and a jury yesterday, in the United States Circuit Court of the South- ern District of New York, Frank L. Taintor, late cashier of the Atlantic National Bank of this city, charged with embezzling the sum of $425,000 of the funds of the bank, was found guilty. The rulings of Judge Benedict in the case, in excluding the offer to prove in behalf of Taintor that he acted by and with the advice and consent of the bank directors in the fraudulent disposition which he made of the funds of the bank, will be very gratifying to honest men, and will be found very impor- tant as warnings to the directors of every national bank who have departed from the sphere of their legitimate business to try their luck in stock gambling, and particularly if they are still dabbling in margins, The verdict against Taintor will apply to all con- cerned in his crime, and to all guilty under similar responsibilities of the same fraudulent practices. The rulings of Judge Benedict and the judgment of the jury in Taintor’s case cover the whole ground of these stock-jobbing ventures with the fands of our national banks, A motion, some weeks hence, will be argued for a new trial. Meantime Taintor remains in Ludlow Street Jail. So far the demands of justice have been fairly met; nor do we imagine that the plea in behalf of the pris- oner, which has once been rejected by judge and jury, will be accepted in a new hearing. Nor should any plea of mercy for the criminal be admitted in this or any other case, which will be cruelty to the community, Cueap Rents 1x Lower Westcnzster will mean cheaper rents in what is now known as New York city, if the people vote favorably to the annexation of Morrisania, West Farms and Kingsbridge on Tuesday next, It isa people's matter; let the people look to it. Tue Prisoners in the alleged Kelsey murder have been released on ‘‘parole’’ until Satur- day. Their counsel hinted that he would hold all parties who illegally deprived these worthies of their liberty to a strict account- ability; the Judge could not make out whether he had jurisdiction in the matter, and the Coroner, on the advice of the District Attorney, let them go. Thus closes another scene in this disgraceful farce. If some Bill Sykes had knocked his Nancy on the head and concealed her body no bail would have been taken for him. But these highly re- spectable Huntington church members, with a charge of murder or aiding in murder hanging over them, are released on parole! A Heap Wixp—The wind which headed off the St. Louis prize fighters by blowing their steamboat across the river and the pugilistic excursionists into the affectionate embraces of the Illinois police, The ‘mill on the floss’ was, necessarily, postponed on account of the weather, A Question ron Mn. Brawe.—If Mr. Blaine means to be Speaker and to run for the Presi- dency he must soon decide one question: — “What will he do with the Crédit Mobilier members of the House?" Take Mr, Dawes ond Mr. Garfield, for instance, Does he mean to give these two dishonest reprosenta- tives the chairmanships of the two moat im- portant committees ? The Herald’s Special Cable Reports from Foreign Ports—A New Feature in Oar Shipping News. In the early days of the Hznatp one of ita first and most important successes was gained in the collection of the shipping news in the port of New York. While the old “blanket sheets,’’ as the newspapers of forty years ago were called, were contented to obtain the list of arrivals as the vessels dragged slowly up to their wharves, the Henany’s boats swept the lower bay and dashed out beyond Sandy Hook to gather the names of incoming ships and to hurry up to the city with such intelligence os they might bring. Merchants and shippers, owners and underwriters, got up in the morning to learn over their coffeo of tho safety of their ventures or, it might be, to hear of some misfortunes, that had overtaken them. The news was most valuable. It not only relieved suspense, it put money in the pockets of the merchants by enabling them to trade promptly and profitably on the cargocs they expected and to turn the knowledge that their vessels were coming up to good account, The importance of the shipping news was soon demonstrated by the desperate efforts made by the old journals to emulate our enterprise and by the rapid increase of the Henrp's circulation. The rivalry in this particular department of news gathering was mainly in- strumental in bringing about the establish- ment of the Associated Press; but there never has been a time when the Heraxp’s special reports of arrivals did not embraco a large number of vessels not included in the general report, and hence our shipping news has always been the most complete and the most valuable to be found in the city. While a member of the association, and bearing a full share of all its expenses, we have never abandoned or relaxed our indi- vidual enterprise, and have thus succeeded in making the Heraup the great organ of the commercial and shipping interests of the country. It will be observed that we have now intro- duced a new and important feature into our shipping news. As in former times we availed ourselves of boats, and subsequently of steam yachts, to gather up the arrivals in our own harbor twenty-four hours before vessels could reach their docks, so now we avail ourselves of the Atlantic cable to lay before our readers the arrivals of vessels at European ports and their departures therefrom, ten or twelve days sooner than the intelligence could reach them by mail. This enterprise will be a costly one, it is true; but the importance of the news we thus give to the American peoplo cannot be overestimated. The whole shipping and mercantile community is interested in these reports, and millions of dollars are in- volved in the daily cable list of ar- rivals and departures which we shall con- tinue to publish, We shall lay before our readers every morning the shipping news from European ports simultaneously with that of our own harbor. Shipowners, under- writers and merchants will thus learn of the safety of their outward bound vessels and cargoes when they reach their destination just as promptly as they will learn of their return to our own waters. We shall also give the casualties which occur to ships trading to America, so far as they are known in European ports, and this will save much unnecessary anxiety on the part of owners and shippers on this side of the Atlantic, Yesterday morning, for instance, we published the names of two ships—one bound for New York and the other for Philadelphia—both of which were com- pelled to put back to port, one with a re- fractory crew and the other in consequence of aleak. The delay in the arrival of these ves- sels at their destinations might have occa- sioned much trouble, and probably loss, had it not thus been accounted for by our special cable report. At present our list may not be quite full, but we calculate to make it complete, so that European ports shall soon be as well covered as New York, so far as American shipping is concerned. The enterprise is unprecedented, and will largely increase the value of the Hxrarp as a commercial paper, We have felt that, however heavy the expense of these special shipping reports may be, it was proper that we should avail ourselves of the advantages of the cable for the benefit of this important interest, and thus make good the standing of the Heratp as the leading commercial newspaper of the United States, A Cuance.—If the good men of the republi- can party mean to reform their organization they must do it in the approaching Congress. First, let them kill Cxsarism; second, let them say to the Crédit Mobilier Congressmen, like Dawes and Garfield, “Gentlemen, you have been tried and found wanting, and cannot pre- side over the committees of Ways and Means and Appropriations.’’ The first step towards reform is the hardest. These appointments will be the crucial test for Mr. Blaine, Tux “Nast Rewer Funp” promises to be a success. We wete certain that the Ameri- ean public, pained at the position of Mr. Nast, would respond. The letters published else- where evince the fact that genius has gener- ous patrons in this land of ours, although they are to be found outside of politics. Wo shall hold our columns open for the expression of that sympathy and admiration which are more than words—namely, what the gifted being most wants—money. Tue Forvnz.—The coming strife in our local politics will be between the Yankee and the Irishman, between Jonathan and Patrick, We are afraid that honest Tom Murphy will find it hard to decide. Just now Jonathon is in power, and whittles away at our treasury with an energy that makes us tremble aot the idea of our futuro taxes, But Patrick is busy and means to fight. All this time Hans looks on, with his pipe and beer, and says nothing. What will Hans do? Monnrtsanta, West Farms anv Krxospripar are the portions of Westchester county on which the citizens will vote next election day as to whether they shall be annexed to the city or not. It is a project well worthy of our citizens’ consideration, and should not be lost sight of in the hurry of the canvass, It is the business of the poor man as well as the rich, and politicians will not trouble them- selves much about it. It will give our city- jaded men a chance to possess within the city limits healthy homes, where the population is not overcrowded, at cheap rents, THURSDAY, VUTUBEK 30, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. a ts Hanging Played Out for the Rich. After twenty-two months the murder of James Fisk has been declared to have been manslaughter in the third degree. After three long and wearying trials the dandy man- slayer is told by twelve ‘‘good men and true’’ that shooting down his enemy was a deed barely escaping from being honorable by some miserable points of law, which involved, un- fortunately, four years in Sing Sing. A grand vindication of the law, truly! Civilization has reached its acme when tho assassin and his friends must have consideration. To the rope with the Reynolds, to the noose with the Nix- ons, to tho gallows with the Fosters, They were day lnborers or loafers, bill-stickers or car conductors, and they can be spared from this civilized age, where they neither adorn nor shine. If they kill they are cold-blooded murderers, but the ‘curled darlings of our nation,” who kill with the pistol, must be pre- served, even at the cost of a short imprison. ment, that they may dazzlo on Broadway and lounge about the portioos of the great hotels. Reynolds was wrong. Hanging is not played out in New York—for day laborers, bill-stickers and car conductors like himself and his suc- cessors under the gallows beam. ee What are we to say of the conduct of this case for the people ? How did they so present the facts that killing became no murder? We bow, by a time-honored custom, to the inviola- bility of the jury-box, until an offence is brought home in a particular case. It we havo any blame to cast wo will not in charity Iny it on the Stokes jury, or any of them, unless forced so to do by the finding of another. It is a case like one of murder in which nothing but innocence must be presumed. The question with thom we leave altogether aside. The conduct of the case on behalf of the people will be brought severely in question. It is not merely did the prosecution do their best, but did they do the very best that could be done? The process has been costly enough in all conscience to give the very best service to the people, The result tells us whether they got itor not. Aman convicted of murder in the first degree on a former trial is suddenly found to be merely guilty of man- slaughter in the third degree, It is a pleasant transmutation for the cyrled darlings, an apotheosis of homicide for the jewnesss dorée. You may in future judge the utmost degree of crime ® man can commit by the cut of his coat, by the mounting of his pistol and the curl of his hair. There must be commiseration for the gloved ex- quisite who kills and for his friends. His cold-blooded killing of another must be allowed to be “done in the heat of passion, without design to effect death and without circumstances to justify the killing.”” This is the present stage; but why should we not advance @ step, and gll murderers of the proper sacred lama standard be declared, like the British sovereign, incapable of doing wrong? Passages like the following will then be read with wonder, that a judge could havo spoken so tamely in such a clement direc- tion. Said Judge Davis yesterday in his admirable charge:—‘The effect upon the accused and upon his excellent friends of your verdict should make you act with caution and care, but without hesitation where the evidence constrains you so to act. Wecannot help feel- ing deeply—all will feel deeply—if you convict of the capital offence; we shall sympathize with the circle of friends that surround him.” Foster had a wife and friends, and so had Nixon. God knows whether they deserved any sympathy, or whether the effect which a ver- dict of a capital offence would produce upon them was instanced as inducing to “caution and care,”’ The shades of the murdered seemed sufficiently near to the judicial bench in these cases to hide the ‘excellent friends” of the prisoners at the bar. If the grass-grown mould upon Fisk’s. grave has pre- vented his shadow from coming be- tween justice and the friends of its victim, so much the better for the victim. The ‘excellent friends’ of the murdered man must have taken a very airy form that they presented no object to the judicial vision. Is not the quality of mercy strained through a strange sieve of time when compassion is lost in the process for those who were bereaved but two and twenty months ago? Then a human being was shot down like a dog. To-day the slayer looks pleasantly forward to forty-eight months in prison garb. Will jus- tice be satisfied with this lame and impotent conclusion? ‘The law says that justice is satisfied ; but will that inspire respect for the law, or (with the knife and pistol ruffian) for life, which the law is supposed to protect? ‘osenichanmianiaecanciassaategae Wrra tHE Exzction the blackmailers, in the shape of clubs and independent organiza- tioris, appear upon the scene, They are all endeavoring to strike the candidates for money. They aro all of a class, whether sailing under the colors of reform, labor or nationalities, and if the candidates are wiso they will give them kicks instead of coppers. Tunez Tuovsaxn Doriars Rewanrp for a few words which will fix the crime of the Kel- sey murder is a handsome sum of money, and Governor Dix offers it for the public service indicated. We need hardly say, further, that the party in such o case as this, turning State’s evidence, though o principal in the murder, is absolved in his confession from the penalty of the crime, ; PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. - ——— General Kent Jarvis, of Ohio, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. Lowe, Minister to China, called upon Presl- dent Grant yesterday, General George PeAvody Este, of Washington, is Staying at the St. James Hotel. Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, 1s registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ex-Speaker J), ©. Littlejohn, of Oswego, yester- day arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel, Ex-Senator James A, Bayard, of Delaware, yes+ terday arrived at the New York Hotel. Congressman Samuel Hooper, of Boston, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday from Washington. Colonel W. P. Craighill, of the Engineer Corps, Unitea States Army, is registered at the Astor House, Commodore Guest and Commander James F. Juett, United States Navy, are at the Astor House, Senator Carl Schurz, of Missourt, who has been travelling in Kurope for several months past, ar: rived by the Thuringia on Tuesday might, and is now at the Fifth Avenue Motel. Relatives are not alone displeasing when they are dependants, They are more offensive when they oppose one’s designs. In Bath, England, lately, Mr. John Bright's nieces, the Misses Ash- worth, were loud in denunciation of th® ministerial candidate, and in Staunton, Miss Caroline Briggs, niece of Mr. Stansfield, worked hard at her uncle's present colleague, Mr. Henry James: ——__________ THE DEATH OF 0, W. FORD—A DESPA‘ FROM THE PRESIDENT, — {From the St. Louis Globe, Oct. 26.] The following despatch from the President to Mr. Blackstone, at whose residence in Chicago Mr. Charles W. Ford breathed his last, shows the ess teem in wiich the deceased was held by one who knew bim long and well:— WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 1873. The announcement of the death of 0. W. Ford, at your house last évening, surprised and shocked me. He has been one of my oldest and truest friends. A man above reproach, universally rex spected and beloved by all who knew him, his loss Will be felt by many an acquaintance as that of a kind brother and friend, U, 5. GRANT. ARMY INTELLIGENGE General Philip St. George Cooke, now in comu mand of the Department of the Lakes, has been placed on the retired list. General Geo Orook, Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-third infantry, now incommand of the Department of Arizon: has been appointed Brigadier General, vice Cook retired, The Department of the Lakes and the Department of the ast have been abolished, an the command is now simply the Military Division, of the Atlantic, commanded by General Hancock, NAVAL ORDERS. Captain Charles H. Baliwin is detached from duty at the Mare Island Navy Yard and ordered to command the Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco, Cal., relieving Captain Paul Shirley, who is Ore dered as executive at the Mare Island Navy Yard. Captain William E. Hopkins is detached from the Mare Island avy Yard and ordered to command the Benicia, relieving Captain A. G. Clary, who is ordered home. ART MATTERS, The Sale at Clinton Hall To-Night. ‘This evening, at half-past seven o'clock, the sag will begin at Clinton Hall of the magnificent specimens of artistic furniture belonging to the late Le Grand Lockwood, Their variety, beauty, princeliness and artistic value have attracted toward them a great deal of attention. The sece ond evening's sale will take place to-morrow night at the Leavitt Art Gallery, No. 817 Broadway. General Di Cesnola in Tarin. General Di Cesnola, on his way to Cyprus, there to continue his excavations, stopped in Turin, and was entertained by Count Sclopis, who will be ree * membered as the President of the Alabama arbl- tration at Geneva. At the entertainment Count Sclopis and his wife used for the first time the magnificent silver services which had been pres sented to them severally by the United States gore and the American Repkowen tev lount Sclopis, who has recently acquire the English tongue, and who in giving the toast spoke in English, out of compliment to the guest of the evening, whose language by adop- tion it had. become, said that he could not have desired a more fitting occasion in which to have employed those presents. This compliment wag ail the more graceful coming from one who ha taken from the first a very great interest in the Cyprian Rasa and who, besides having been’ President of the Geneva arbitration, had been mine ister with Balbo and Cavour, Chief Justice, Prest- dent of the Itatian Senate, and is at present Prest- dent of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Turin.’ It is reagonable to expect that the excavations General di Cesnola is at present making in creas will result in something, at least, as valuable ag the collection now occupying the Metropolitam Museum of Art in Fourteenth street, LITERARY OHIT OHAT. A TRANSLATION of the great work on ‘Japan and the Japanese,” by A. Humbert, the Swiss Envoy to the East, will soon appear in London, the version being by Mrs. ©, Hoey, ana the work profusely illustrated. JorL MUNSELL, of Albany, is about printing a “History of the Pemaquid Settlement” including the towns of Bristol and Bremen, in the State of Maine. The work ts written by Professor John Johnston, THE TITLE OF MR. BORROW’S new book, will be “Romano Layo Lil: Word-Book of the Romany, or English Gipsy Language.” It will contain many pleces in Gipsy, illustrative of the way of speak- ing and thinking of the English Gipsies, specimens of their poetry and an account of certain Gypsyries, or places inhabited by them, and of various things pertaining to Gipsy life in England. Mr. H. VAN Lavn, the translator of M. Taine’a “History of English Literature,” is engaged on a version of Molitre, which will be illustrated with thirty original etchings by foreign artists. It ta nearly acentury since Molitre’s plays have been printed in English. A JAPANESE TRANSLATION has been made of Mr. S. Smile's “Self-Help.” The English work forms an octavo of about 500 pages. In Japanese it hag been expanded into a book of 1,500 or 2,000 pages. A NEW MONTHLY journal is announced at Dublin, called the Zrish Independent Trade and Labour Journal. A SAD CASE of undue devotion to the Interests of learning was that of the late Herr Pietraszewski, formerly Prussian Consul at Teheran, and after- wards an Oriental professor in the University of Berlin. His later years were entirely devoted toa new translation of the works of Zoroaster, whicl he not only undertook to write but to print at bis own cost. In the end he died with his works un- finished, and left his unfortunate widow abso- lutely penniless, TWO NEARLY SIMULTANEOUS WORKS, by different authors, on Cuba have been published in London under the same title, ‘The Pearl of the Antilles.’” One is by A. Galienga, the other by a Mr. Good- man. The Atheneum says that Mr. Goodman's book 1s the less valuable, but the more amusing of the two. Comparative Value of Silver Coin and United States Currency, Mcasured by the Gold Standard. The following data, prepared by Dr. Lindeman, Chief virector of the United States Mints will ex- plain the comparative value of silver coins and United States currency, both being measured by the United States gold standard :— : Fine silver is worth, in gold at present about $1 25 per ounce, making the price of standard sil- ver (nive hundred thousandths fine), $1 124 per ounce. The weight of two half doliars, as fixed by law, is $85 8-10 grains, and since 480 grains (one ounce Troy) are worth $1 124 gold, two half dol- lars, 335 8-10 grains, are worth 904-10 cents, Witls go at $1 0844, the currency value of two half jollars 13 98 cents, The above calculation refers to silver coin— halfand quarter dollars and dimes—already is- sued. For the outturn from the mint in fractional silver coin we will suppose 100 ounces standard silver to be sold to the mint at $1 20; the existing mint purchasing rate, payable in such coin; 100 ounces standard silver bullion, at $1 12% gold per standard ounce, equal to $112 50; add 83g per cent, premium on gold, $9 56, which ives as the currency cost $12206 This ullion, if sold to the mint would, at the present purchasing rate ($1 20 per standard ounce), return to the seller $120, or $2 06 less than cost. it will thereiore be seen that with the ce premiam at 834 per cent the price ot standard silver must fall to about $1 0054, Bold per ounce before it can be converted at a suilicien profit into coins to be paid out at their nominal value and circulate conenrrenty with United States currency. Silver bullion will go to the mint for such coinage whenever it is the best market tor it, It should be added that these coins are issued by the government at the rate of $1 26 per standar ounce, the difference between that rate and the purchasing price ($1 20 per ounce) being the selgniorage to the government, the latter manufacturing the coin on its own account and consequently defraying the expenses of coin- age. The standard for the trade dollar is 420 grains, or 84 2-10 grains more than two half- dollars, and is, therefore, at the present market rate for silver, worth about 95% cents in gold, or 106 810 cents, currency. In all countries where gold is the standard or measure of value silver coins are overvalued and of limited legal tender. In Great Britain the difference between the nomi- nal and intrinsic value is about ten per cent, and the recent coinage laws of Germany, Norway and Sweden and Denmark provide for a similar seign- forage, The Latin States—France, Belgium, Swit- zerland and Italy—also issue a subsidiary silver coinage, the seigniorage being, at the present value of silver, nearly equal to that of Great Bri- tain, Subsidiary silver coim® are intended for in- internal circulation, and not for export. They are not money of ‘commerce, and do not leave the country of their issue until expelled by an in- ferior currency—as, for example, excessive issues of irredeemable paper mone; A correspondent of the Albany Journal, com- menting upon the proposed amendment to the constitution of the State providing for the appoint- ment ofjudges, instead of electing them by the Tama evaceit t gave us a Kent,@ intment ga’ Lavinga 7m ass , eee a Cowen, & Bah ete a Bron- son, a Beard: ey, an Oakley @ Duer and a Sand- ford. “In the more than haif ® century that it pre~ vailed it never gave us & judge that was chargea with or suspected of dighonosty or corruptions