The New York Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1873, Page 6

a ee NEW YORK HERALD —__-—_——_ BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR No. 311 XXXVIII.. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston aud Bleecker sts.—Kir Van Winkie, GERMANIA THEATRE, 1th street and 3d avenue.— Ein Scuuitr Vou Wrox. BROADWAY THEATRE, Unpen Tax Gasiicur, GRAND OPERA HOUS st.—Rounp tix CLocx. and 730 Broadway.— Eighth av. and Twenty-third NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston sta—Tus Brack Croow between Prince and WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Sux Stoors To Congr. ACADEMY OF MUS! Trauian Urera—Les lvece: UNION SQUARE THE Broadway.—Tax Gan 1, Union square, 4 Cross, near WOOD'S MUSEU, Proadway. corner Thirtieth st— Rorap in, Afternoon and evening. BOOTH'S THEATRE, Sixth av, and Twenty-third st.— Hauer. METROPOLITAN THEATRE, 58 Broadway —Vaniery Entertainment. BOWERY THRATRE, Bowery.—Danixt Boowe anv 4 | Favourtx Farce. * mM MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— JustiCn. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall— ‘Vietims—SoLon Suincie 514 Broadway —Vaniety THEATRE COMIQU ENTERTAINMENT. STADT THEATRE, Nos 45 and 47 Bowery.—Genxay Ormra—Zaura, pe Reiss TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 20) Bowery.— Vagiety ENXtentarnennt, BRYANT'S OPERA HOUS Twenty-third st., corner Sixth ay.—Nxano Minstaetsy, &e. P. T. BARNUM'S WORLD'S PAIR, 27th street and 4th avenue. Aiternoon and evening. COOPER INSTITUTE.—Lavcuine Gas axp Magicat AINMENT. IGAN INSTITUTE FAIR, % av., . stg Afternoon and evening. between 63i NE\\ YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 613 Broad: way. ENCK AMD ART. TRIPLE. s New York, Friday, November 7, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the | Herald. Ml. BUFFET UNANIMOUSLY RE-ELECTED PRESI- | DENT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF | PRANCE! AN INTERPELLATION PRE- | SENTED! NEW MOTION FOR A PLEBIS- CITE—SEVENTH PAGB. GERMAN IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR LAYS BEFORE THE FEDERAL COUNCIL AMER- CA’S INVITATION TO THE CENTENNIAL— SEVENTH PAGE, MUVEMENTS OF AMERICAN TRADE VESSELS AT EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN HARBORS—THE TAMMANY WARRIORS GoO- | ING FOR SCALPS—SevENTA Pace. HEAVY WITHDRAWALS OF SPECIE FROM THE | BANK OF ENGLAND FOR SHIPMENT TO | AMERICA! A SEVERELY FATAL RAIL WAY COLLISION—sgVENTH Pack, THE CUBANS MAKE A DETERMINED ASSAULT UPON THE SPANISH TROCHA! THEY ARE REPULSED BY THE CONTRA-GUERRILLAS, AFTER LOSING 100 IN KILLED! CAPTAIN | GENERAL JOUVELLAR'S FIRST PRONUN- | CIAMENTO—SEVENTH PaGE. THE VIRGINIUS AFFAIR! FEELING IN NEW YORK, WASHINGION AND THE CUBAN CAPITAL, AMONG SPANIARDS AND | CUBANS! WHO AND WHAT WERE ON | BOARD—TENTH PaGE. TERRIBLE FIRE DISASTER TO A ST. LAW- | RENCE RIVER STEAMER! FOURTEEN LIVES PROBABLY LOST—TENTA Pace. AN UTTERLY DEPRAVED WRETCH H#. NGED | FOR MURDER IN PENNSYLVANIA! SHOCK- | ING CONDUCT AND EXPRESSI “DIN, ING IN‘HELL AT TWELVE!” THE USUAL BUNGLE—NINTH PaGe. MEETING OF THE SPRAGUES’ CREDITORS! ABSOLUTE SURRENDER OF THE PROP- ERTY OF THE FIRM! MESSRS. WATER- MAN, LOCKWOOD AND NIGHTINGALE APPOINTED TRUSTEES—Tuinp PaGR. GOLD, 10651 YESTERDAY'S OPERATIONS ON ‘CHANGE! A BETTER TONE OBSERVA- BLE! THE REASONS POR THE PREVA- LENT DISTRUST—THE FINANCES OF THE CITY—FirTH PaGE. LABOR STRUGGLING WITH WANT! PROGRESS OF THE STRIKES! THE TRADE PROSPECT EXCEEDINGLY DULL HERE AND ELSE- WHERE! REPORTS FROM IMPORTANT MANUFACTURING CENTRES—Fovurtu Pace. NAST’S NEST-EGGS!| THE BUCHU BLACK: BOARDER TO BE PREVENTED FROM BROODING NEEDLESSLY OVER THE IN- GRATITUDE OF HIS EMPLOYERS! “PENI- TENTIAL” OFFERINGS—SeveNTH Pace. EMINENT AMERICANS DEAD—IMPORTANT GEN- ERAL NEWS—SEVENTH Pace. THE AN | Tae Tammany GenznaL Commriter, at its meeting last evening, made fierce comment or the delay in publishing the election returns by expelling Police Commissioner Charlick from the Wigwam. The braves recovered some of their old time spirit and vim, and suspecting that more than delay was attempted voted to employ counsel to inquire into the matter, and resolved with a rush tosprosecute anybody, “mo matter how high in power,"’ against whom anything illegal in that respect could be proved. It is exhilarating to see Tammany so thoroughly reformed as to be virtuonsly in- dignant about violating the sanctity of the ballot box. Long may the sachems and win- skinkies continue so, and never may they do what they now so loudly condemn! Tne First National Bank of Buchu will pay thirty cents on the dollar to its creditors to- morrow. The earnest efforts of the friends of the bank are directed towards preventing a fall exposure of the secrets of the institution through bankruptcy proceedings, and this probably accounts for the prompt dividend. It is to be hoped this first dividend will not be the last as well. Tuat Erourn Junor.—The eighth juror has come to some grief, and may come to more. Judge Davis has imprisoned him for thirty days and imposed a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars upon him, with a fur- ther incarceration of the same length if the fine should not be paid, for con- tempt of court. Meanwhile the Grand Jury tis making an annoying investigation into still raver offences charged against some of the ‘Btokes jurors, This example will have a de- moralizing effect, no doubt, upon the Tweed jury; but what is the ‘Boss’ going to do about it? ath street and Irving place.— | wme wrencn Sation and Kepublican Government—America’s Word of Sym- pathy. To the people of the United States the pres- ent contest in France must have a deep in- terest. The republican form of government, under which this country has grown and pros- pered, may have its weak points here and there, but as a government of the people by the people it has held out a glorious banner of hope to the oppressed millions of other nations less favored. Take it for all in all it has answered its purpose admirably. What the royalist Englishman or German imperialist has said of our failures in one direction, of our excesses in another, of our civil war, of the corruption in high places, is met on every hand by the splendid front which a free nation makes, conscious of its strength and its rectitude. Abuses we have and have had, but they never yet in the coun- try's history took the form of right, as they do where a privileged class are the abusers and the formulators of codes | of law and ethics, In matters of the kind | which our unfriendly critics fasten on the | final appeal is to the people, and when the | latter see their danger it is safe to count that | it will be remedied at whatever cost. The more unfortunate episodes of our national progress have been favorite ‘frightful ex- amples” with the opponents of republicanism ; but when these have failed, the lover of caste and kingship has had his ever ready spook at hand wherewith to frighten old women and children—the spectre rouge of France. Among the great nations of Europe France has | oftener and more bitterly struggled to gain a republican form of government than any other. Goaded to revolution by the evils of the old | monarchy she stood up alone in Europe to assert the right of the people to rule. Infuriated by the conspiracies of the over- thrown aristocracy within and the coalitions of kingly powers without, the revolution turned its hands upon those it deemed respon- sible, and wreaked that sanguinary, indis- | criminate vengeance which has made 93 a red ghost to kings forever and ren- dered ‘the Terror’’ an ineffaceable epoch. Like all excesses, it defeated itself, and for half a century after the Republic was once well strangled the suggestion of its reappear- } ance in France frightened old women and children everywhere. In 1848 the flame of revolution in the name of the Republic broke out in France and spread with ill success | over almost the entire continent of Europe. Republican ‘‘ideos’’ were once more on trial, | but the defence was so badly conducted that the people handed over its conduct to an adventurer who soon found means to betray his clients. But after the collapse of the Sec- ond Empire a republican form of government | came into being, not merely by chance, but by necessity, and in this fact alone demon- strated that, in spite of episodal abuses in gov- | erning here and the existence of a red ghost in France, the Republic is the ultimate form of government. That, under these cir- cumstances, a conspiracy of great strength is struggling to drag France backward into the folds of the monarchy is | matter for the careful contemplation of the American people. It will show them the value of every right which it is theirs to guard. It should strengthen their resolve to firmly oppose the foes of sound popular gov- ernment, under whatever specious disguise they may appear. The conspiracy which stands between the French people and their right to govern themselves may never have its exact analogue here, but many a valuable hint will be found in studying its attitude and its acts. The message of President MacMahon has a soldierly pointedness, and leaves neither his opinions nor his desires in doubt. It is evident that, in common with other mon- | archists, the unexpected unmanageableness of the Comte de Chambord has soured the hopes of MacMshon for a time at least. So he asks for a strong government and is ready to administer it if the conservative majority of the Assembly will arm him with the necessary powers. He will then see to it that French newspapers, if they must be bitterly written, shall derive none of their gall from republican or free-thinking sources. They may be bilious, but royally or clerically so. The Right received the message with ap- plause, and moved in answer that the execu- tive power be conferred on MacMahon for ten years. Failing o king to hand, he was their man to a dot. The attitude of the republicans with regard to this motion was a very weak one, because they | had nothing to propose instead which they could hope to carry. Indeed, the prolonga- tion of MacMahon’s power was their own last resort, The real fight will come up when it is to be decided what are the powers which Mac- Mahon is to wield. The point taken on the message by M. Dufaure was a good one. He argued, and with good reason, that ‘the message of the Executive expressed the general desire for the adoption of a definite government, but yet ad- vised the continuance of the present pre- carious régime."’ There he struck a note which the government must answer, and very soon. A _ fortnight before the opening, the provisional government was accounted all but dead in the arms of the restored monarchy, and a cry for ‘definite government” was the best in the royalist répertoire. To-day they are in no hurry, be- cause until they have secured a King, framing ® constitution would be, for them, writing Hamlet with the title réle left out. It is not at all impossible that among the Orleans princes the requisite article can | be found. The fusion in the family would, no doubt, be easily broken if the Duc d’ Aumale saw his way to preserving the fusion in the Assembly. It is not clear that he could do this successfully now; but a little more of the present uncertainty might work wonders for him or the Comte de Paris, It will be observed that all these tactics are carried on without any respect to the wishes of the people. The re- publicans and Bonapartists cry for an appeal to the nation. It would be certain success for the former, as matters stand now ; it is the despairing hope of the latter, who always liked the people as sharks love herrings, The motion made yesterday by M. Leon Say, ques- tioning the government upon their neglect to order elections to fill vacancies, will bring the government to its feet upon this question of facing the people. It has been rumored that their intention is to keep the elections back NEW YORK HU until the Election is passed, which will practically disfranchise immense numbers of those certain to vote the republican ticket. It is a question which will severely test the co- hesive powers of the majority. Behind a throne they might vote anything ; but with the possibility of again going before the people under a nominal republic, the waverers would hesitate to register them- selves so distinctly against trusting the people. The present meeting of the Assembly, indeed, is fraught with grave consequence, not only to France, but to Europe. If the republicans, by biding their time and keeping anxious watch, can bring the future of France to the peaceful decision of the French people, a vie- which will be a solid advance and not a spas- modic jump forward, such as France has taken so often to retrograde as rapidly. Thiers and his supporters godspeed. They have to show in Europe that a republic does not mean extravagance in laws or ideas; that the people can govern themselves as no king can rule them. The combination of royal pretenders, old time aristocrats and would-be courtiers which confronts the repub- lican phalanx has no title to our respect as republicans and no claim to our admiration as statesmen. As tricky politicians they may succeed for a time, but the record of substan- tial government on a broad base which M. Thiers left behind him last May assures us that when the French people obtain a chance to decide their future for themselves the con- trast between the republicans who songht and the monarchists who dreaded them will be entirely favorable to the establishment of a firm and moderate republic in France. That once accomplished, what throne in Europe will be safe? The Financial Pressure — Proposed Schemes and Measures of Reolief. By our Chamber of Commerce yesterday resolutions were adopted expressing the con- viction that time offers the only solution of existing difficulties; that the Chamber re- tains its confidencein our national banking system; that it is the duty of the banks and the government to resume specie payments— thatthe failure of Congress to redeem and to provide for redeeming its legal tenders in gold has been pernicious in its consequences; that Congress be petitioned to discontinue the purchase of United States bonds, and that the surplus gold of the government be used in the redemption of Treasury notes. Now, here, after declaring that time offers the solution of existing difficulties, the Chamber proceeds to suggest various things for the assistance of time, and in theend calls upon Hercules to | give us a lift in getting the wagon out of the morass. Chambers of commerce, banks, merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and, in short, all the producing and business interests of the coun- try, are now looking to Congress not only for a deliverance, but for a speedy deliverance, from our existing difficulties. We have heard of various schemes of relief which, as the first measures of business in the new Congress, will be proposed in the House of Representatives immediately after the reading of the Presi- dent's Message; and, doubtless, the Message will embrace a comprehensive scheme of re- lief, embodying the leading ideas and proposi- tions lately thrown out by the President in his conversations with different parties on the causes of and remedies for our present financial embarrassments, But, assuming that Congress can and will give the relief so generally expected, we shall probably have weathered through the winter before any bill is passed involving the reconstruction of our present financial system demanded to meet the public neces- sities of this depression. Meantime, if we go on as we have been going under this pressure, our national paper money will soon become as good as gold, without the assistance of Congress, and much to the astonishment of tory will be gained for popular government, | It is a work | in which the American people can wish M. ERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1873—TRIPLE SHEE. — a The Case of the Ship Virginias. The capture of an American veasel by a Spanish man-of-war is an unpleasant incident, and the report that the persons found on board are to be dealt with as pirates does not improve its character. We are yet without an accurate record of the facts of the capture of the Virginius, and when the whole story comes it may materially change the aspect of the | case; but as it appears now we cannot see that there has been any act of piracy or any offence whatever making the ship amenable to the Spanish law ; and if there shall prove to be no other offence than what appears as the story is now known the execution as a pirate or otherwise of any person on board will be simply one more murder chargeable to the cutthroats who rule in Cuba There is no doubt that the Virginius was beyond the Spanish jurisdiction at the time of her capture. Indeed, it is probable that she | was in British waters, as she is said to have | been “near the coast of Jamaica,” and if she was in British waters this will additionally complicate the case; but whether there or not, she was certainly not in Cuban waters, and her capture, and whatever may be subsequently done with her and with the persons on board, must be justified under international Jaw. Now the international relations of Spain and the United States are those of perfect peace, and there is no legal reason why an American ship should be interfered with on her voyage to the West In- | dies, except for the proper inspection of her papers by the revenue authorities. No blockade has been declared in Cuba, and the ship can- | not, therefore, have been even running a blockade. There is no war in Cuba— so the Spanish government holds— and, therefore, whatever the ship's cargo may have been it was not contraband of war. There is certainly an insurrection in Caba, and the Spaniards have found it a tough one to deal with, and if the ship or her people were caught in the act of communicating with the insurgents or assisting their resist- ance to the constituted authorities, there might be some color for the charge of piracy ; but as the ship was captured beyond the lim- its of the application of Spanish municipal law, the evidence of her offence must be satis- factory to the government of the country whose colors she carries. But the government of the United States should make it very clear to the government of Spain that any precipitate irregularity on the part of Spanish officials that causes the death of an American citizen must be regarded as an assassination. Con- sidering who were on board the Virginius, and what she carried and where she was first sighted by the Tornado, there is, perhaps, little doubt that she was on a filibustering voyage; but nobody is to be hanged on doubts and surmises, nor even on general principles. There must be a definite fact and clear evi- dence. There was no doubt the other day that the Deerhound had landed a cargo of arms for the Carlists; but she was not caught in the act, and when she was canght subse- quently, in French waters, England compelled the Spaniards to give her up. The case is as nearly as possible parallel to the present, and is an instructive example for the people at Washington. It is already hinted from’ the State Department that the Virginius is sup- posed to have forfeited her right to the protec- tion of the government, but supposition is not in point just here. As reported, the papers of the Virginius were all regular when last seen, and it must be known that they are no longer so before the protection to which they entitle her is refused. The Missing Steamship. The missing steamship Ismailia, of the Anchor line, about which much uneasiness has been felt, is still overdue at her trans- atlantic port. She left New York for Glasgow on Saturday, the 27th of September, and is, therefore, already, allowing a fortnight (a long allowance) for her voyage, more than three weeks behind time. The steamer New Orleans, the Secretary of the Treasury, with his petty specie payments in silver. In truth, too, our present financial em- barrassments, looking at the country at large and at its general substantial prosperity and resources, are to a great extent imaginary. From an inquiry into the con- dition of the great manufacturing firm of the Spragues, for example, it appears that “they have o surplus over their just debts of at least eight millions of property, and they confidently believe that if an extension of a reasonable length is granted to them they can pay in full all their liabilities and preserve their print works and considerable portion of their mill property.”* It is to be hoped, therefore, that they will be given o reasonable extension, and that a gen- eral spirit of mutual assistance and protection will prevail among our capitalists, banks and business men, especially in the prevention of failures and suspensions of business, which, if not prevented, will, while greatly aggravating our financial tronbles, throw thousands of honest working men and women out of em- ployment. “The street’ yesterday was less disturbed than usual of late by rumors of Tailway, mer- cantile and bank failures, and the impression is evidently gaining ground that we have reached the ‘bed rock’’ of this panic, and that the way out of it is beginning to be com- prehended. A Laxe Onvanio Disaster —A sad disaster occurred to one of the Canadian steamers of the Royal Mail line between Toronto and Mon- treal on Wednesday night. When opposite Oshawa, on Lake Ontario, about thirty-five miles from Toronto, the steamer Bavarian was found to be on fire. There were, fortu- nately, but thirty-six persons on board, and of these twenty-two escaped in two of the boats, a third boat having being swamped and lost. ‘The remainder are supposed to have perished, including the captain and the steward of the boat and three lady passengers. The line has been, heretofore, fortunately exempt from casualties of a fatal character. Tue Conxouiy Ixpicrments.—Just as the Tweed trial is brought on the motion to quash the indictments found against ex-Comp- troller Richard B. Connolly is made before Judge Sutherland. How are we to account for this coincidence? Would the success of the motion in the Connolly case destroy the indictment on which Tweed is now being tried and nullify any verdict that might be rendered against him? If so, the motion to from New Orleans, which arrived at this port on the 28th of September, reported consider- able detention by fog while outside Sandy Hook ; but, just at that time, although the usual great equinoctial storms were then fully due, it does not appear that the outward bound Ismailia encountered any very rough weather at the outset of her voyage. It does seem a little strange that the steamer City of Chester, which arrived here on the 29th of September, saw nothing of the former vessel, but reported exchanging signals with an American, a Guion, a Hamburg and a Cunard steamer, all of which must have been further from her than was the Ismailia on the 28th. The latter part of the menth of September and the whole of October have been very tempestuous periods this year over the North Atlantic. When the West Indian gales have not curved in upon our South Atlantic coast they have, nevertheless, made their devastat- ing pathway in lines nearly parallel with our sea coast, and pressed onward, in a north- easterly direction, upon the ship tracks from America to Great Britain. The terrible hur- ricane of October 6, which made its fury felt over the leward West Indies, and carved its fiery way through the thick foliage and forests of Florida and southeastern Georgia, had hardly disappeared out on the Atlantic when the telegraph began to give tidings of the havoc it created near and far from shore But this storm was preceded, about one week, by a similar one, which, though keeping somewhat clear of the American coast, may have had something to say to the belated Ismailia. It is with no intention of awakening un- necessary apprehension that we speak of this vessel; but the same causes which underlie the losses of life and property at sea, from reckless seamanship or rotten ships, also serve to explain the detention of steamers, Some movement onght to be at once made from Glasgow with a view to aid the Ismailia, now evidently disabled, but, we trust, yet afloat. Reumonep Covan Expreprtion.—A rumor comes to us from New Orleans that General Longstreet is busy there organizing an expe- dition for a descent upon Cuba, It is alleged that the movement is going on with the con- nivance of General Grant. The story needs confirmation. In the meantime it would not ‘The Winter and the Unmemployed— Public as well as Private \Measures of Relief, Reports from all the Eastern States énnvey the dismal intelligence of factories closing, works suspending, and, as a consequence, thousands of working people of all ages and sexes thrown out of employment. What has taken place in Troy, Philadelphia Paterson, Newark and Pittsburg is taking Place daily in New York, and want among the working class, it is almost certain, will be widespread during the inclement sea- son when it is most felt. It is not a moment too soon to look this fact in the face. In this great Republic no man or woman willing and able to work should want for bread. Unless precautions are taken in time this want will exist in thousands of cases, and may become not merely @ disgrace bata danger. We have already urged that private philanthropy should become active, that movements like that initiated by a gentle- man in Wednesday's Henatp—a relief fund for the poor—should be vigorously supported. The many excellent organizations for help- ing the poor should turn their attention to the problem which the coming winter will present, During our civil war it will be recalled that the blockade of the South- ern ports produced a “cotton famine” in England. Tens of thousands of operatives in the cotton industries of Lancashire were deprived of work; but the energy, generosity and promptness with which the wealthy classes in England came to their assistance effectually prevented anything like suffering, Thus England, by a timely and prudent display of philanthropy, saved her self-respect, retained her skilled artisans for better times, and prevented any of that wild appeal to mob force which ia generated on empty stomachs. Our wealthy citizens cannot do better than act on this example. We have no desire, however, that the American workingman should be reduced to charity for bis bread. Nothing could be more injurious to the morale of the working classes. What we now propose is that all public works—city, State and national— which can give employment to numbers should be carried on on as large o scale as possible. The docks of our city are a dis- grace to @ commercial community. The building of substantial stone piers is a work which we are rich enough to pay for, in spite of the panic. Thou- sands could find employment on this undertaking, who otherwise might starve in waiting for their usual vocations to open. Now that the vote of Tuesday last declares the annexation of Lower Westchester to be an accomplished fact, let us have rapid transit. Here is another opportunity for giving the hand of assistance to men above beg- ging, but not above earning their bread. The fact that rapid transit from one end of the island to the other was about to be accomplished would neces- sitate the laying out and grading of streets, avenues and boulevards in our new urban territory. Homes in Westchester for those | who sigh for pure sir and cheap rents would then be required forthwith, and the growlers of the building trades, master and man, would have an op- portunity to work or let it alone, with the certainty that other masters and other men would do it, if they failed to grasp their op- portunity. In pointing to these great wants of our city we merely indicate the most ob- vious works on which our rulers could provide for the unemployed masses, If it be only held in view that the works have an immediate value to the city the humanity of our appeal will not appear in any extravagant light. By so doing we should come out of the present difficulties the more ready to continue our great forward march. We commend these suggestions to the thought- ful notice of the people. Tue Execution or Wane at Wiiisame- port, Pa, yesterday furnishes « story replete with the deepest interest. The culprit, & powerfully built, unscrupulous, heartless man, who has lived under fifty different aliases, was brought to the scaffold for the murder of an aged couple, from beneath whoxe roof he took about seventy thousand dollars, part of a hoard accumulated by the old people after years of labor and economy, but whose distrust of mankind induced them to person- ally guard their wealth. He entered their log cabin, despatched with » huge club the faithful dogs, brained the woman and hacked the old man almost to pieces. Securing the coin, for the old people evidently believed im the infal- libility of the ‘‘hard stuff," he hastened to bury | it, refusing to reveal its hiding place to the | officers of justice. At the bar he sneered at | the evidence, laughed at the solemnity of the Judge and betrayed the worst symptoms of human depravity when condemned to death, remarking that ho was troubled only at the uncertainty of whether his victims were in| heaven or the darker regions. After being partially strangled he fell to the ground and had asecond time to be placed om the trap. | On the scaffold he raved like a lanatic, cried | to God for mercy when he first fell, and finally | died like » half conscious brate. Tre Exection Covnt.— Some grave charges | ore made of fraudulent counting oF criminal | tampering with the returns in some of the As sembly districts. The suspicious delay m the | announcement of the results delay for | which there can be no justification or excuse— gives coloring to these charges. It matters little which candidates may have been success ful and which defeated in these districts, ex- cept to the individuais themselves; but the people are deeply interested in guarding the integrity of the election returns, and it would be a double outrage, deserving of the severest punishment, if professedly ‘‘reform” suthori- ties should be guilty of frands on the fran- chise. It is to be hoped that the suspicious cases will be most searchingly investigated, and that no efforts will be spared to bring the criminal parties to justice if any such out- rages as are alleged have been actually eom- mitted, ‘Tur Porrce Justices’ Case. —The Coulter injunction case, which involves the question be surprising to find that the Virginius matter and the prospect of summary punishment being inflicted upon her prominent passen- gers aroused again the old filibustering spirit quash would be more valuable than an eighth juror to the badgered “Boss.” in the South and led to expeditions like that wo hear rumored about in New Qrignnty of the constitutionality of the new Police Justice appointments, was argued yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas and will be continued to-day. The ccunsel for the new Justices endeavor to prevent a decision on the constjtutiqnality gf the new law and to | decision with Veooming patie: reach the dissolution of the injunction on side issues, without the consideration of that point. The policy of driving off legal solution of the constitutional question is of doubtful expediency. It is of the utmost im- portance that a final decision should be reached at the very earliest moment, both to avoid expense and to avert the possible calamity of a failure of justice. If the shortest road to thia decision is through the Coulter injunction:it should be followed by the new Justices as well as by those who have been displaced. Senves Tuem Ricut.—The brother of the republican candidate for Sheriff of Albany county, in the recent election, it is alleged, attempted to bribe one of the inspectors to commit a fraud on the ballot box. He and an accomplice have been locked up to await the action of the Grand Jury. If guilty they should be severely punished. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, = Judge ©, E. Flandrau, of Minnesota, is staying at the Everett House, Juuge W. 3. Lincoln, of Washington, ts registerew at the Grand Central Hotel. Congressman John A, Kasson, of Iowa, yester~ day arrived at the Glenham Hotel. Ex-Congressman F. E, Woodbridge, of Vermont, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Assemblyman Smith M. Weed, of Plattsburg, N, Y., is staying at the Fiith Avenue Hotel, Assemblyman D, R. synde, of St. Lawrence county, N. Y., is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Platt Evens, one of the leading merchants tn olden times in Cincinnati, died on the 4th inst, Ex-Governor Colby, of Maine, remembers Colby University in his will to the amount of $1,000,000, Captain J. H. Merryman, of the United States Revenue Marine, ts quartered at the Everett House, State Senator William Foster, of Cleveland, N. Y., 9 among the late arrivals at the Metropowi- tan Hotel. The election of General Banks to the Massachu- setts Senate ts favorably referred to by the press generally. The report that tne late Cyrus Wakefield haa left $500,000 to Harvard College is denied by the Bos- ton Pranacript. Professor Peirce, of the Coast Survey, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday, and left in the evening for Boston. The Marquis de Noailles, the French Minister, with his son-in-law, Count Swicykowski, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Newport yesterday. The death of the genial Henry R. Tracy—“racy Tracy” as he used to be called—leaves a void im the fleld of Boston journalism not easily filled, Ex-President Fillmore and four surviving mem- bers of his old Cabinet—Conrad, of Louisiana, Sec- retary of War; Hall, of New York, Postmaster General; Graham, of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy, and Stewart, of Virginia, Secretary of the Interior—are expecteu to visit Washington this winter for a friendly reunton. THE HERALD AND ITS CABLE SHIP NEWS, ee {From the Halifax Recorder, Nov. 1.] The New York HenaD has added to its other feats of enterprise the obtatning by cable tele- gram a very full and complete lst of the arrivals and departures of shipping at and from European ports to the latest moment previous to the trans- mission of the despatch, Thus, the Heka.p of the 28th contains the arrivals on the 27th, among others of the British bark Arnim, at Bremen from New York; ship sunbeam, at Liverpool from Da- rien, and Lizzie Fennell, from Pensacola; bark Constantia, from New York at Falmouth; an@ sailed from Leghorn, bark Jennie and Albert, for Phiadelphia, tire S ey THE WEATHER BEPORT. Wan DEPARTMENT, Orrick OF THe CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, Wasuinoron, D. C,, Nov. 7—1 A. M. } Probabilities, FoR THE MIDDLE STATES, SLOWLY RISING TEMPE} RATURK, NORTHBASTERLY AND BASTRRLY WINDS, INCREASING CLOUDINESS AND OCCASSIONAL RAW ON VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND, For New England, northeasterly and south- easterly winds and partly cloudy weather. For the Gulf States, northerly and northwesterly winds and clearing weather. Por the South Atiantic States, northerly winds, cloudy weather and rain, clearing in the evening. For the lower lakes, southeasterly winds, warmer and partly cloudy weather. For the Northwest and upper lakes and thence to Missouri and Kentucky, southerly winds, cloudy weather and occasional rain. Cautionary signals are continued at Duluth, Chicago, Milwaukee, Grand Haven, Escanaba and Marquetic, The Weather tn T! City Vesterday. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day of last your, as indicated by the thermometer at Hud- put's cone, Miwarp Baiiding :— iia, 1872, 1873. a a oO |0A.M........ 8 29 oP. 53 38 uM . 6 43 2PM 53. 38 Average temperature yesterday. . wee WOM ‘Average temperature for corresponding date last year... ome NAVAL ORDERS. Lieutenant Commander Oscar F. Heyerman is ordered w ordnance duty at the New York Navy Yard; Master A. B. Speyers to the receiving ship Vermont; Chief Enginecr Elijah Laws to duty in charge of stores at the Steam Engineering Depart- tment at the Norfolk Navy Yard; First Assistant Rogtocer W. H. Harris to the Boston Navy Yard; Lieutenant MeRitebie from the Tallapoosa to the commend of the Gettysburg; Assistant Surgeom ©, Wise, tant master East Pires soe Gr tease Mani, Sata a ante James B. Zittig, Richard Tuck and John W. Gardper irom the to the Gettysburg. YACETING NOTES. ‘The yachts Magic and Prospero left the foot of Court street, Breokiyn, on Tuesday last, and pro~ te Port Jefferson, to go mte winter quar- : vere. Mr. Kirby, of Rye, i# buliding twe sloop yachts that are to be delivered to their owners early nexG season. They are modelled for speed. The schooner yacht Tidal Wave, N,Y.Y.C., Mr. Witiem Voorhis, t* at Smith's yard, Nyack, and Work Will soon be commenced with the view furnishing her with a new bow, Te eee ee 23 fe a creased belere next when. it ber owner to enter her for all the New club tan, The ex ‘The Meta. cannot nee. The November meeting, ‘of the Brook Club, tobe held the last Wednesday im ng at lime the several handsome prizes woo during the season WUl be presented to the owners oe Ge fortunate yachts, the evenmmg winding up with am old-time social reun NEW YORKERS ON A SHOOTING EXCURSION, Porrness Mon~nor, Nov. 6, 1873, ‘The yacht Eva, of the New yp squadron, Oap and @ party of genticmen, on a Cee eee coursion, agrived Were Way, bouud Up Whe Jaques mont eee