The New York Herald Newspaper, October 31, 1873, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD ——_-———_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET, —_-—_—— JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVUII «No, 304 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st.— Fancuon, TAX CRICKNT_ METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 885 Broadway.—Vanistr Enertainment. BOWERY THEATRE, Saran, MRS F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Love—Juxsy Linn. PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, opposite City Hall.— Brournixo STADT THEATRE, 45 Orena—Dew TRousavour. GERMANIA THEATRE, lth street and 3d avenue.— Dex Warrenscumien. Bowery.—Susan Horusr— and 47 Bowery.—Genuax THEATRE COMIQUE, No. 5i4 Broadway.—Vanistr NTERTALNMENT. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston and Bleecker sts.—Rir Van Winx. BROADWAY THEATRE, 723 and 730 Broadway.— Faiz, Oun German Covsix. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Eighth av. and Twenty-third st.—Rounp tuk CLock. NIBLO’S GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and Houston sts. —Tue Biack Croox. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, ldth street and Irving place.— (taLiaN OreRa—MantHa. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street—Sux Stoors ro Conquas. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—Tux Guxxva Cross. WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway, corner Thirtieth st.— Esoarep Fao SixG Sinc. Afternoon and evening. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 21 Bowery.— Variety ENTERTAINMENT. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Necgo MinstREisy, &c. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU. San Francisco MinstTRELS ROBINSON HALL, Sixteenth street—Taz Rora, Maxionurtxs, Matinee at 3 P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th avenue. Afternoon and evening. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, 34 av., between 634 and G4th sts Afternoon and evening. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad. qway.—SOmNcx axD Art. near , Court street, Brooklyn.— TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Friday, October 41, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “THE BUCHU SAVINGS BANK! HOW TO WIN THE EARNINGS OF THE POOR’—EDITO- RIAL LEADER—SIXTH Page. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE BY CABLE TELE- GRAM FROM EUROPE! FIRE ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIP—SEVENTH Pac. CHAMBORD DEFENDS HIMSELF IN A LETTER TO A DELEGATE OF THE RIGHT! HIS “GREAT WORK"? AND HIGH HOPES! MAC- MAHON APPEALS TO THE SOLDIERS— BAZAINE’S TRIAL-S&VENTH Page. FRANCE FREED FROM THE GERMAN IN- VADERS! HERALD SPECIAL LETTERS DESCRIPTIVE OF THE FALLING OF THE | CURTAIN UPON THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR DRAMA! A THRILLING FINAL SCENE—TarEp PaGs. FAMINE INEVITABLE IN INDIA! GLOOMY RE- PORTS OF FAILING CROPS—SEVENTH PaGE. SIXTY-SIX SOULS SUNK IN THE RECENT DIs- ASTER TO THE FERNANDO EL CATOLICO— DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPRESS—SEVENTH PAGE. FATAL DABBLING IN THE ERIE STOCK POOL! A LONDON HOUSE BUYS 50,000 SHARES FROM JAY GOULD AND FAILS—SEvENTH PaGE. THE PERPLEXING CONDITION FINANCES! THE HOf'T, SPRAGUES & CO. SUSPENSION! OTHER 4VWRECKS—Firru Pacs. THE SPRAGUES NOT YET RELIEVED, BUT CON- TINUING BUSINESS! HOYT, SPRAGUES & O.! CONFLICTING INTERESTS AT WORK— SEVENTH PaGE. THE FINANCES OF AMERICA AND EUROPE! RULINGS AND PROSPECTS OF THE VARIOUS WALL STREET MARKETS— EIGaTH PaGE. HARD TIMES! THE DISTRESS AMONG THE LABORING CLASSES ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEARTH OF CURRENCY—GREAT FIRE aT FREEHOLD, N. J.—Firra Page. SUBSTANTIAL SYMPATHY FOR A POOR BUT HONEST ART LABORER! CONTRIBUTIONS | POURING IN FOR THE NAST FUND FROM ADMIRERS AND BROTHER ARTISTS—Firru Pag. SAFETY SIGNALS TO BE RIGIDLY DEMANDED | FROM ALL VESSELS AT SEA—THE GOSS | MURDER MYSTERY—NINTH PaGe. GENERAL BUTLER’S COURSE AT NEW ORLEANS AGAIN SUBJECTED TO LEGAL SCRUTINY! | “BOSS” TWEED’S TRIAL POSTPONED— | FousTH Pace. WHAT STOKES SAYS OF HIS CASE—TROT- | TING AND RACING NEWS—MEDICAL RE- | UNION—FirTH Pace. TRYING THE DETECTIVES! THE McDONNELL EXPUSE~LUCETTE MYERS’ HISTORY OF | THE GOODRICH MURDER—ALL HALLOW: | E’EN—FournTH# PAGE. THE CITY BUDGET! EXPENSES OF THE VARI- OUS DEPARTMENTS AND HOW THEY ARE | TO BE MET—ALDERMANIV DOINGS— E1oara Pace. OF AMERICAN Tae Question or Government mx France. — Count de Chambord has just again defined his crown claims before the French people in ® communication addressed to the members of 8 delegation of the Right. He is emphatic and positive in his reassertion of his position, but, in reality, he presents nothing new. He refuses to relinquish the white flag, and as- serts that he seeks to confide ‘all he holds dear’’ to the soldiery of France. The mon- archists have a great work to accomplish, says the Count, “which I am ready to undertake any moment.” “I am the necessary pilot’ for Franoe, and so on to the end of the latest chapter of the divine right. epistle. The very latest news from Paris reports that the Cham- bord declaration is regarded as being fatal to the hopes of the monarchist party. The French republicans are jubilant in proportion to their conviction of a speedy organization of the conservative Republic, and the nation is evidently on the eve of a very eventful crisis. ‘Tue Onanax or Juner Davis 10 THE GRAND Suny made yesterday, and which we publish this morning, is in many respects a remark- eble charge, and particularly in his warnings ‘and instructions touching ‘dishonest jurors, who sell their verdicts or who suffer them- selves to be influenced by external considera- tions.” Let not the reader ask the superfiu- ‘ous question, What is the use of locking the \stable door after the horse is gone? but read tthe Judge's charge of yesterday and be thank- ‘fal that, although Justice is blind, she is not ‘deaf to public opinion. He i" NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. The Bucha Savings Bank—How to ‘Win the Earnings of the Poors Tho first ambition of the Buchu financier is ‘to become interested in the money of his friends. As this resource is apt to desert all gentlemen who do business on Buchu prin- ciples, his next expedient is to obtain the money of the community. Naturally he takes ® philanthropic view of ‘the people” He admires their virtues, their industry, their patience in toil, their patriotism, and thinks nothing is more beautiful than to see an hon- est laborer laying up a little treasure for the day of rain and darkness and old age, when the evening comes, in which no man can work. The result of these meditations is that he should care for their money for them. In this manner came the “Grand Mutual Metropoli- tan Buchu Savings Bank,” the history of which is so familiar to our readers. We all remember when this institution was founded. We were just out of the war. Our people, tired of throat-cutting, and rebound- ing from the strain of combat, were whirling along in a mad financial career. The country was full of money, or rather greenback sem- blances of money, which had one value to- day and another to-morrow. The genius of chance, which is the genuis of gambling and speculation, tempted every man. There was no fixed value in our currency, and we were at the mercy of two irresponsible powers— ‘Wall streot and the Treasury. Rates of inter- est rose and fell without any just cause, and money was made so rapidly by the rich that there seemed to be no reason why it should not be made as rapidly by the poor. This was the argument underlying the statements of the gifted gentlemen who founded the “Grand Mutual Metropolitan Buchu Savings Bank.’’ Poor men were told their time had come. “Why,’’ said our eloquent friends, ‘‘should capital have all the advantages and labor none? Why should patient industry not be rewarded as amply as _ bloated wealth? In England the national debt is owned by the rich. There are only one hundred and thirty thousand holders of consols who have sums less than fifteen hundred dollars. Who owns our own bonds? The poor man? No; the selfish German banker or the greedy Hollanderin Rotterdam. In England we have seen population increase at the rate of fifty per cent, while poverty increased at the rate ofa thousand per cent. In America we are coming tothe same condition. Why? Be- cause the poor man has no friends, no advan- tages, no opportunity for profit. The clumsy and sordid savings banks of the past have paid the innocent working man four and five per cent for his savings. Four and five per cent! Ob, blessed Shylock, of thrifty memory, look not down in anger upon the avarice of these men! Four and five per cent, when America pays six per cent, seven and three-tenths per cent on her bonds, when the National Bucha Bank pays eighteen per cent a week, and busi- ness men in Wall street, who transact business on sound Buchu principles, earn sometimes eleven per cent a day! But now thers is to be a new era, the dawning of a brighter day, the coming of a blessed financial spring time for those who toil.”’ Do we not rememter it—the placards, the advertisements filling pages of the Buchu press in glaring type, at the head of the col- umn; the engraving of a bee hive, and bees flying about laden with honey, and the other picture, equally attractive, of the poor man in his Sunday home, reading the Bible, and his family uround him gazing on the grand square piano which he had purchased with the last year'sdividend? Do we not recall the maxims of Franklin which crept over the newspapers— “A penny saved is a penny earned.” ‘A stitch in time saves nine.” ‘Think of the rainy day.” ‘‘ Put your money in the Mutual Buchu.”? Have we forgotten the elaborate edi- torials from the uncertain press which com- mended in extravagant rhetoric the genius of these new benefactors of the poor? Then came the vast bank building in granite and the board of directors, gentlemen whose Christian principles were assiduously advertised, and there was scarcely a day when we did not hear some note of the prosperity of the new concern. The fashionable papers told us how the President of the Mutual Buchu had just arrived at Saratoga with his | six horse team, while the distinguished Secre- tary was about to visit Long Branch with his pair of spanking bays. And in those as- semblages of wit and fashion and high society which are published weekly for the informa- tion of our milliners and chambermaids the names of the Mutual Buchu directors were always present. The business prospered. Other banks were started on Buchu principles. Rates of interest advanced. The Mutual Buchu of- fered seven, while the Original Mutual Buchu offered seven—both rising to ten—when the Combination Original Mutual, whose direc- tors were distinguished members of Tammany Hall, came suddenly on the town with its new charter, its donation of ten thousand dollars to the new cathedral, and its offer of nine per cent. So the poor laborer, attracted by these demonstrations of wealth and pity for his con- dition; the sewing woman, the chambermaid, the widow, with her pittance; the brave young artisan, who had saved half his earnings and lived on bread, that he might wed his Bessie and give her a silk gown, carried their money to the Mutual Buchu, and were comforted when they saw the massive walls of the sav- ings bank palace and received their ten per cent from smiling clerks in velvet coats, who showed their teeth and wore blazing diamond pins. But they could not understand the an- nouncement that came out one morning in the press in these words: —‘In consequence of financial stringency, occasioned by the Sul- tan of Turkey threatening to invade the Rou- manian principalities, and the menacing words addressed by Prince Bismarck to Prince Frederick augustus-Charles-Henry, Prince of Lippe-Detmold, on the Schleswig- Holstein question, the directors of the Grand Mutual Metropolitan Buchu Sav- ings Bank have been compelled to sus- pend payments. We are glad to learn that the assets of this justly celebrated. institution are seven times greater than their liabilities, and they will soon make a proposition to their creditors.—Adv.” We say they could not un- derstand this announcement, nor could they gain any comfort at the bank, for access to the bediamonded clerks was barred by the police. What they wanted was their money. What the bank had was assets. It was only when the assets came to be studied that our people fully understood tho principles underlying the Mutual Buchu. The poor had paid to the bank five millions of dol- lars. This money came from hard, cruel, con- stant toil. That was one fact. During its career of two years they had received eighteen percent. ‘That was another fact. But what became of the eighty-two per cent remain- ing? Ah, that is a question that has been asked in tears by many a sad, suffering soul ; the laborer who went into drink and bad ways, the widow whose body was found floating in tho river, and whose children are now in the asylum ; the brave young artisan who had to forego his Bessie and the gown, the saddest case of all, so terrible that we dare not name it, so pitiful is the misery, despair and shame. What had they to do with financial stringency, the wars of the Sultan and the rage of Prince Bicmirck? They wanted their money, which thoy had earned and which never cams. As for the assets, why repeat that story? The enormous salaries for the officers ; the build- ing account, which made the contractor rich ; the million of dollars loaned on the second mortgage bonds of the Alaska, Behring Straits and North Pole Railway; the two mil- lions loaned on mortgages of real estate in the splendid new city of Buchu, which somehow was never built; the seven hun- dred thousand dollars paid to advertise and “popularize” the bank ; the million advanced to the directors on their notes; the half mil- lion taken by the cashier, who resigned from the Young Men's Christian Association and left for Spain about the time of the failure ; the cash on hand, not enough to pay the fees of the lawyers, the receivers and the Sheriff, who now has a bill at Albany to reimburse him for his services—all gone, and no one blamed, no one punished, only the poor, who believed falsehood to be truth. As for the President, you may enjoy his hospitalities in Paris, while the Secretary will show you the attractions of Spain, and regret that an un- toward money market prevented his returning the half million in time, and discuss with you the superstition and sinfulness that have fallen upon the land of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Financial Embarrassment of the Spragues. The financial embarrassment of A. & W. Sprague and of the New York house of Hoyt, Spragues & Co. is one of those events which affect not only a few merchants and manufac- turers but the entire business interests of the country. And while these results spring in- directly from the disturbance of their business not fewer than fifty thousand people are di- rectly affected. Their employés alone num- ber nearly ten thousand. If these are thrown out of employment they and their families must suffer great privation in consequence. The house in this city has suspended already, and every enterprise which the Spragues con- trol may follow in the track of its failure. All this would be lamentable enough if it was due to no other causes than the stringency of the money market and the natural embarrass- ments of their business. But we hear also of other causes. It is said a rival house holds im- mense quantities of their paper and is squeez- ing the life out of them, seeking at once to destroy the Spragnes and their business. If this story is trae—if this rich family has been guilty of conduct so crue] and so unnecessary— the act can only be compared to that of Skip- per Ireson, when, with his hard heart, he sailed away from the sinking wretches at Marblehead. We hope, for humanity’s sake, that they own not a dollar's worth of Spragues’ paper, and that the workingmen of Bhode Island are not to be made the victims of the feuds of these rival families. Mempns Rewieveo at Last.—From the reports of the health authorities of Memphis, it appears that down to noon yesterday there were twelve deaths from the yellow fever and five from other causes; that the Warthall In- firmary is closed, having discharged all but three patients, and that, from the general abatement of the pestilence, it is expected that the theatres will be reopened on Monday. Yesterday's report from Montgomery, Ala., says there had been no deaths from the fever in that city for twenty-four hours and no new cases, and that they had the heaviest frost of the season yesterday morning. With these and concurring reports from other places be- fore us, we are encouraged to believe that from repeated sharp frosts, extending in one case, at least, even to the Gulf of Mexico, the virus of the yellow fever in the Southwest is destroyed, that even Memphis is relieved of the atmospheric poison, and that, in brief, the epidemic has passed away. A Trvcutent Turnxey.—Ono of the jailers at the Tombs is said to have expressed great indignation at the Stokes verdict, ‘Why, before now,” exclaimed the wrathy official, “I have seen a man taken from this place and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for stealing money to keep his family from starv- ing!"’ Yet here is a deliberate assassin, he would have added, who is condganed to only four years’ residence at Sing Sing, “with an easy time before him, no doubt, and the chance of an Executive pardon. Ab, but, Mr. Simple-minded Turnkey, don't you know that the assassin is well connected and that his friends are rich, while the man who “steals money to keep his family from starving’ must necessarily be a poor devil? No band- age closes the eyes of Justice so effectually as a band of gold. Freezixa Economy.—Comptroller Green refuses to give the Coroners coal for their offices. The Coroners, as they are to go out of office within the next two months, refuse to buy coal for themselves, fearing that under our scrub-woman economy they will be unable to recover back the cost, So the Coroners’ offices will be deserted if the weather should continue to grow cold. What a spectacle for the great city of New York—its public officers frozen out and its public offices closed for the want of a ton or two of coal! Is Persevenance Auways a Vistce?—Per- severence is said to be a virtue. But how is itin the case of Mr. Joseph Seavy, a citizen of New Hampshire, who hung himself the night before last, after having twice before un- successfully attempted suicide—once by cut- ting his throat with a razor and another time by swallowing poison? He probably be- lieved in the old superstition shared by Rory O’Moore, that ‘there's luck in odd numbers.” Peete eaiaary hate Aur-Harzow Eva this evening. Let the young people and “‘the old folks at home” 600 to it that the innocent social pastimes of this blessed anniversary are duly remembered. The City Expensee—The Estimates } for 1874. The estimates of the city departments were presented yesterday to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, and there does not appear tobe any prospect of a decrease of the city expenses or of the rate of taxation next year. The Park Department asks for $768,000. The Board of Health requires $227,000, being about $20,000 less than last year. Tho Police Department needs $4,500,000, which is $400,000 more than last year ; but this increase is rendered necessary by the increaso in the number of the force. Mayor Havemeyer sagely remarked that when he was Mayor of the city before the appropriation for the police force was only $40,000, and the patrolmen received only $500 a year salary. Since that time, however, we have reached another gen- eration, and it would scarcely be expected that our police expenses could be made, under any system of economy, quite so low as they were in the days of watchmen’s ratiles and amateur button detectives. The Fire Department also shows an increased demand of $200,000, neces- sitated by additions to salaries and the pur- chase of new and approved fire appliances. The department asks for $1,465,000. The Depart- ment of Public Works, which has shown more real economy and a greater reduction from the old expenses than any other in the city government, requires this year $1,545,000, or about $90,000 more than in 1873, the increase being necessitated by the cost of new lamps erected in the upper part of the city under the orders of the Common Council. The Depart- ment of Charities and Correction also shows an increase of $70,000 over last year’s ex- penditures. We have no fault to find with theso es- | timates, provided the citizens receive the benefits of liberal appropriations in the im- provements which are so needful to the growth, development and prosperity of tho metropolis. The people of New York aro not niggardly in their ideas of govern- mental expenses, but they are not will- ing to see their taxation increased above the rate imposed by the corrupt ring they have recently destroyed, while all public enterprise is abandoned, while the honest creditors of the city are turned away from a treasury almost bankrupted by incompetent financial managemont, and while the city is disgraced by parsimony, favoritism and official discord. They did expect a wise economy and an efficient government at the hands of reform. In this they have thus far been disappointed. They will now demand that if liberal appropriations are made for the several departments we shall have spirit, har- mony and enterprise infused into the govern- ment, so that they may reap the benefits of the expenditures in an improved and enriched city. Our Ship News by Cable. During the past few days we have laid be- fore our readers a record, reported by cable, of the movements of American ships in for- eign seas, as well as of foreign ships on Ameri- can voyages or carrying American cargo. Hitherto nothing like this has been attempted on an adequate scale. The movements of the great steamers of the transatlantic ferry com- panies have been reported by cable both ways, as was proper; but with this effort the regular press enterprise seemed to have exhausted it- self, while the vast body of vessels that make up our commerce and bear abroad or to our shores under our own flag and foreign flags the products of our fields and workshops or the consignments to our merchants from other countries were only chronicled in the good old drowsy way through the Post Office. Hence- forth we shall report regularly by cable all movements of ships in foreign seas in which the American public can take aninterest. Our arrangements have been made to get reports of all arrivals, departures, casualties or other facts of moment, not only in Europe, but in Southern Asia, the Chinese seas and South American waters, and we intend to make this record as complete as it must be indispensa- ble to the shipowners and merchants of this metropolis. France—Presrpent MacManon axD THE Anmy.—General Bellamarre, having declared that, in the event of the restoration of the Bourbons, he should resign his position in the French army, President MacMahon has issued an order of the day to the army denouncing the insubordinate conduct of the refractory General aforesaid, and appealing to the patriotism of the soldiers to maintain disci- pline and support the laws. The crisis, mean- time, approaches when the question between the Monarchy and the Republic is to be tried in the Assembly, and apprehensions of mis- chief are thickening in contemplation of the possible consequences of the struggle. Rarm Taansrr a Question ror LEGrsia- tors.—The Rapid Transit and West Side As- sociations have resolved to ask every candidate for the State Legislature, in writing, whether he is in favor of the construction of a steam railroad through the island by the city, for the use of the people at the lowest possible rate of fare. We presumo that the votes of the members of the associations will be guided by the replies they may receive. If they desire to secure rapid transit, however, they should vote for the law annexing to the city the lower towns of Westchester county. When the city spreads out with her grading, paving, drain- age, lighting and street opening improvements into these towns, rapid transit will become an absolute necessity and will be certain to follow. Arrer tHe Kino.—An Illinois Grand Jury have indicted Tom Allen, Mike McOoole (not our candidate for Sheriff), Jack Looney and other St. Louis roughs of the same breed for engaging in a prize fight in that State a month ago. A requisition for their rendition is to be mado on the Governor of Missouri. If the Illinois people succeed in breaking up the prize ring and in bringing its members to justice we may ask them to come to this city and try their hands on the old Tammany Ring, which has thus far laughed at reform committees, judges end proseenting ofcers Barrisn Orviuzation mm Asta.—The Ran- goon (India) Gaselle of the latest date fur- nishes the’ following item of news: —‘Four troopers have been sentenced at Cabul to be blown from guns forthe murder of Mallik Abdul Kadir, a Lughman chief." Why not hang them? They murdored a ‘‘chief"’ and the aristocracy of the empire must be vindi- cated, A Riel Reformer. The troubles of 1869-70 in the Red Diver country, which under the form of a rebellio’ against the authority of the Canadian govern- ment, when the latter took the place of the Hudson Bay Company in ruling the half- breeds of Fort Garry, brought one man to the surface. The man was Louis Riel. Far out in the wilds of the West this young man, having forsaken the counter, took to revolu- tion. He raised the standard of revolt against Groat Britain, and was resolved to win for Winnipeg the sovereignty of an independent State. They hada hot little time of it for a while, and offered up the life of aman named Scott on the altar of freedom. Then Canada moved some companies of volunteers upor the Red River Territory. The horn-blowing, protesting, preparing, shrieking for vengeance and talk of national boundaries, rights and duties of neutrals, which preceded the departure of the volunteers, made far more noise than the march of Kaufmann and his Cossacks apon Khiva. It was not much ofa party after all. There was no fighting, which was a mortification, of course, to the fiery citizen soldiers. Riel had retired and the volunteers were compelled to be satisfied with the glory of calling Winni- peg by the prettier namo of Manitoba. But Mr. Riel was not to be snuffed out so easily, and now we find that he comes back to civili- zation a full-fledged member of the Dominion Parliament for the district of Provencher, Manitoba. Mr. Riel is about twenty-seven years old, and enters parliamentary life as a reformer, after having begun his public career four years ago as a rebel in a small way. Fear or Fasmnz wy Inpia.—A telegraphic despatch from Calcutta, dated yesterday, states that the crops are failing in all parts of the province of Bengal and that there appears to be no way of averting impending famine. This is, indeed, a sad prospect, for the popula- tion is dense in that part of India. A deficient crop and famine means, we fear, the death of millions of human beings. The potato disease and consequent famine in Ireland a few years ago carried off about a fifth of the popula- tion, and should there be a corresponding disaster in Bengal the mortality would be frightful. Yet the prolific soil of India, as, in fact, the soil of Ireland, does or could produce more than enough to support the population even though there may be a partial failure. Is it not the pretended beneficent government of England, with its grinding social, political and commercial system that is to blame chiefly for such distress as occurred in Ireland and that is now feared in India? Undera good government and a proper social and political system starvation ought to be and could. be averted in almost all cases. Tur Nationat Dzsr will be increasefi this month, it is said, about five millions of dol- lars. This is the first time for some years, we believe, that such a statement has been made. Five millions in a month is a con- siderable amount, The causes have not yet been stated, and it seems almost incredible that with the enormous incoming revenue there should be such a deficiency. At least it could only be temporary. The coming months will show, undoubtedly, a different state of the Treasury ledger account. Too Heavy Cuxancen.—Judge Davis earned his official salary in the Stokes case. His three hours’ charge must have been an exhausting labor. No doubt his sense of the heinousness of the prisoner's offence dictated the effort. Butan overloaded gun seldom hits the mark and frequently bursts. Can the mis- directed verdict and the lamentable explosion of justice have been due to the extraordinarily heavy charge poured into the jury by Judge Davis? MRP US Se ss ER Tae Tween Trut is set down for Wednesday of next week. Judge Davis, who presided at the Stokes tragedy, officiates in the Tweed farce. The District Attorney who managed the Stokes prosecution manages the Tweed prosecution. What a pity that the jury which tried Stokes cannot try Tweed ! Tue “Nast Reser Funp’’ begins to show what a philanthropic people can do when a neglected genius is pointed out. The people of the United States are resolved to have no martyrs inthe cause of art while money can buy a loaf. Tre “Tortures or Aroixo.’’—New music for the campaign. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca, is staying at the Astor House. Surgeon H. M. Wells, United States Navy, Is at the New York Hotel. Rev. John A. Williams, of Baltimore, is staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-President Woolsey, of Yale College, arrived at the Everett House last evening. Ex-Congressman R, D, Hubbard, of Connecticut, has arrived at the Hoffman House. Supervising Architect Mullett arrivedat the Astor House yesterday from Washington. + Colonel John Forsyth, of the Mobile Regtster, is among the late arrivals at the New York Hotel. Congressman James M. Pendleton, of Rhode Island, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Rotel. The Vicomte Henri de Chavannes and the Baron de Vinoy bave been arrested in Paris as Commu- nists, Senator Charles Sumner arrived at the Brevoort House on Wednesday night, and left last evening for Boston. Sir John Simeon has left the Roman Catholic for the Anglican Church. His father did the opposite thing some twenty years ago. Professor Ezra Abbot and Alexander Agassiz, gon of the eminent scientist, of Cambridge, Mass., are quartered at the Everett House. Lord Alfred Churchill, of England, yesterday arrived at the Clarendon Hotel. Lord Churchill was delegate to the Evangelical Alliance Con- ference. Mr. Charles Magniac, M. P., has been defending the Gladstone government in a speech at St. Ives, England. His opponents infer much from his name and sentiments, It is said that the Pope is thought, in some of the Catholic districts of Italy, to be tmprisoned by the national government, and in these provinces there are pediers who sell bits of straw from the foul bedding in His Holiness’ dungeon. Aconstant husband in Milan, Italy, lately be- sleged a statue of the Madonna with .petitions for the healing of his wife. They were Ineffective, for the woman died, and the @ngered man, now be- come a aceptic, thrashed the stone Madonna until astrolling gendarme arrested him and relieved the suffering statue. Joseph Arch has written to Engiand to dissuade Agricultural laborers from emigrating to Canada, where, he informs them, the datly working time is from sunrise to sunset, and where the money- grabbing farmers are anything but pretty objects, being fallow in mind, furrowed in face and low- bent in every way from continual totl. ‘That the ipje Bmperor know Prjace Nacoleon LL well, the following answer to his son proves:~ “What,” asked the Prince [mperial, then not more than six years old, “What ts tho difference be- tween an accident and a misfortunet" “If,” replied the Emperor, “your cousin fell into the Setne, that would be an accident; if any one pulled him out, it would be a misfortune.” MOVEMENTS OP THE PRESIDE*T. Battimore, Md., Oct. 30, 1873, President Grant, accompanied by Postmaster General Creswell, Attorney General Williams and Collector Casey, of New Orleans, visited the Mary- land Institute Fair in this city this evening. The Presidential party were met at the depot by a com> mittee of the managers and escorted to the Inati- tute in carriages. On arriving at the Institute they were joined by Mayor Vansant and other citi- wens. The distinguished visitors returned to Washington to-night. THE YELLOW FEVER. Subsidence of the Epidemic in the South—No Further Danger Appre- hended—Absentees trom Memphis In- vited to Return. Sureverort, La., Oct. 30, 1873. Dr. Founey died at his residence, near Green- wood, last night, ‘There were three deaths from yellow fever tn the city and suburbe to-day, and & few old cases are reported quite sick, among them Priton Ward and his mother. Dr. Ciark was out to-day. Dr. Sanders is sitting up. Mrs, Ashton is doing well. Dick Green, a pilot, is out aftera Seige of six weeks. Richard McCall is the only new case to-day. A DELEGATION OF PHYSICIANS from Dallas arrived in the train to-day for the pum pose of ascertaining the true condition of affaira and whether business can be resumed with safety. The Southwestern Telegram of this evening con- tains a report of a joint meeting of physicians of Dallas, News Orleans and Shreveport at which the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :— THE DANGER OVER. Resolved, That we, the Committee of Members of the medical profession of the city of Sirevepert, respectfally recommend that in our opinion it la periectly safe to renew our social and comme! a with the outside world. TA LEN, 4. 8, CURTIFF, J. F. DAVIS, T. @. FORD, E, L, HURD. The fever is no longer epidemic at Marshall. The telegraph people are all well. Tho Situation More Favorable in Mem- phis. Mempuis, Tenn., Oct. 30, 1873. The weather is moderating. The mortuary re- Port to noon to-day shows 12 deaths from yellow fever and 6 from other causes. Total17. The War thall Infirmary ts closed, having discharged all but three patients, It is expected the theatre awill open next week on Monday. ‘The Board of Health oficially notifies absentecs that they may safely return to the city, but itis urged that the precautions heretofore specifiea be zealously observed, MONBY STILL WANTED. The Appeal will to-morrow contain the follow- ing:— The undersigned desire to announce to the gen- erous people throughout the entire country who have come to our assistance with more than princely liberality, that while as deciared this day by our Board of Health yellow fever no longer exists in epidemic form, there never- theless great need of funds for the 1,200 Une behcn now sick and convalescing, and for e relief of hundreds of families who have been leit destitute, and that this necessity will ne doubt continue to exist ior many weeks to come, aay tunics conteibasions of money oF Sut plies w hankfally received ana properly a) dOHN Joukson, OK. |. J. BUS! Chairman of Citizens’ Relief Committee. A. D. LONGSTAFF, President of the Howard Association, A. E, FRANKLAND, Secretary of the Relie! Association. The Health of Savannah, SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 80, 1873. The mortuary report shows Savannah to be more healthy than any previous season, there being only sixteen deaths this week from all causes. Reports from Bainbridge state there are five new cases of yellow fever there. The Fever Disappearing from Texas. DENNISON, Oct. 30, 1873, The yellow fever is abating at Calvert and has disappeared entirely at otherplaces. The weather is cool and there are heavy frosts every night, MARSHALL, Oct. 30, 1873. Ice and frost formed here this morning. This gives promise of an abatement of the yellow fever. There were no new cases and but one death to- day. The sick are all doing well. Several stores were reopened to-day, anda great many people from the country were on the streets, Arkansas Free of the Fever. Lrrtis Rook, Ark., Oct. 30, 1873. In consequence of the heavy frosts and clear cold weatner, all fears of yellow fever have disap- peared. No New Cases in Montgomery. MontaouERy, Ala., Oct. 30, 1873. There have been no deaths of fever in the past twenty-four hours. The heaviest frost ofthe season occurred this morning, There are a few old cases, and one or two of them very severe, but no new cases. Ald for the Memphis Sufferers. Looxrort, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1873. Apublic benefit for the Memphis sufferers wes given at the Hodge Opera House, in this city, last evening. A fair amount of money was realized, which will be promptly forwarded. Boston, Mass., Oct, 30, 1873. Robert 0. Winthrop has received a despatch from B.S. Bradstreet, of Cincinnati, stating that 1,100 Mempbis orphans appeal for assistance from out- side sources and ask that contributions may be made on their behalf universally. They request that the towns in Massachusetts be earnestly re- quested to raise and forward funds for their re- Hef. Mr. Winthrop will heartily co-operate with the committee already appointed at a meeting held in the Board of Trade rooms, Boston, in the distribution of any fands sent for this purpose to ©. G. Atwood, Secretary of the Boston Board of Trade, ARMY INTELLIGENCE The Superintendent of the General Recrultg Ser vice has been directed to send 100 recruits to Fort New Mexico, for the Fiuteenth infantry, one to st. Paul for the Seventeenth infantey, and sixty-five to Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, for the Twenty-second infantry. pisattieobesicon +4 MY NAVAL INTELLIGENOB. ‘The Buenos Ayres News of the 14th of September reports as follows :— The United States war steamer Ticonde: Badger, has paid a visit to this port Captnteed Seates Minister, Goneral Jullus Whito, of the occasion to invite the Ar- foc ne Pres dent and suite and a distil arty to visit the vessel and inspect ite equipments, The visitors were most hospitably entertained, and naval manwuvres were gone through by the crew. Sehor Sarmiento, who appears never so as when among his friends from the United tea, appeared to be in the height of enjoyment, and the whole party were loud in their acknowledgments of the attentions they had received from their ¢m- tertainers, A NEVADA TOWN NEARLY DESTROYED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.y Oct. 90, 1673. ‘The whole business portion of the town of Reno, Nev., consisting of two biocks, 18 in ashes, with the exception of three or four fireproof buildings. ‘The 1034 1a estimated at over $100,000. There very little pp sraates ae a (eerece cpere ne and waa still raging when was compened ni remove his instruments to @ place Ol safety. icici DISASTERS TO SPANISH GUNBOATS ON THR OUBAN OOAST. ices, received in this city yontorday padi versed ‘state that in the terrible storm of the 6th inst, three Spanish gunboats had beem at Guantanamo, one at Sagua Ia Grande wrecked two tabano, all tn the island of Ouba, and two oF ero ail built in this ctty im 1800, snd! were part of the large “mosquito” feet used for of keeping ap the blockade of the faead ‘and preventing the lsodjpg of Cuban Un- erating expediligns,