The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1873, Page 6

6 INEW YORK HERALD pena BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXVIII a. ..No, 312 AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ». SU Broadway. —Vaeirry 236. AMUSEMENTS THIS THEATRE COMIQUE, Enwrmntawaknt, Matinee OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway, between Houston vand Bleecker sts —ikur Van Wixxer, Matinee at2 lith street and 3d avenue.— GERMANIA THPATRI Evy Scunirr Vom Wan. BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.— Acraess of Papav. Matinee at 2—Unper tak Gasticnt. GRAND OPERA HOUSE, hth ay. and Twenty-third at.—Roonn rin: CLock. Matinee at lig. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway, Houston sis—Tuk Buick Croox. between Prince and Matinee at 145. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—Suu Stoors To Conguzn. Matinee atl's ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Mth street and Irving place.— Traian Opens, Matinee at ly—Manrits. UNION SQUARE THEATRE, Union square, Broadway.—Tnx Guxuva Onoss.’ Matinee at 1) WOOD'S MUSEUM, Broadway. corner Thirtieth st— ‘Rorxp In. Atternoon and evening. ROOTH’S THEATRI Hawuet. Matinee at) near xth rn y-third st.— av, and T: Laby or Le METROPOLITAN THE . 585 Broadway.—Vanrerr “Exrerzainuent. Matince at BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Danist Boone aNd 4 Fayonite Farce. RS. F. B. CONW BROOKLYN THEATRE.— Love Cuask. Matinee at USTICE. PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn, opposite City Hall.— (Vicrims—SoLon Suincux. Matinee at2, TONY PASTOR'S OP 201 Bowers.— /Vaurery ExtertainMe’ BRYANT'S OPERA HO Twenty-third st., corner Sixth av.—Nxcro MinstRew: ke. Matinee at 2. P. T. BARNUM’S WORLD'S FAIR, 27th street and 4th lavenue. Atternoon and evening. AMERICAN INSTITUTE FAIR, Sd av, ‘and 6ith sts. Afternoon and evening. NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No, 618 Broad- ‘Way.—So1xcr amp Ant, Ss between 631 D. 1873. \New York, Saturday, November 8, ‘THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the Heraid. “TBE OUTRAGE OF THE VIRGINIUS {"—LEAD- ING ARTICLE—S1x7H Ps (POUR OF THE VIRGINIUS PRISONE SHOT BY ORDER OF A SPANISH TRIBUNAL! THE AMERICAN MINISTER IN SPAIN INTER: VENES, BUT TOO LATE TO SAVE> THE LIVES OF THE VICYIMS! WHO AND WHAT THE MENT OF FRANCE! A REPUBLICAN MA- JORITY ASS IN THE COMMITTEE ON THE PRESIDENTIAL TENUR SEVENTH Pag. A WHEAT-LADEN NORWEGIAN DONED IN MID-OCEAN! BARK ABAN- ‘3 OF AMERICAN TRADE VESSELS IN EUROPEAN | WATERS—SEVENTH PaG PANICKY TIMES FOR E MARKET FLAT AD BANK RATES ADVANCIN' THE REMARKABLE ADVANCE RATE OF THE BAN ! THE STOCK NTH PaGE. IN THE DISCOUNT OF ENGLAND! YORK BANKS GAINING IN LEGAL R SERV. 7 THE UNIO! NSYLVANIA RAIL- ROAD DIVIDEND—Fovrtu Pack. FINANCIAL OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED | STATES AND ENGLISH MONEY CENTRES! | THE ENGLISH BANK RATE NINE PER | CENT! WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?—Ninte PAGE. ‘HOW SPECIE PAYMENTS WERE RESUMED IN ENGLAND IN 1821 AND HOW AMERICA MAY DO LIKEWISE—Turep Pace, GERMANY SELLS 20,000,000 SILVER THALERS TO AMERICA—THE LIVERPOOL (ENGLAND) AUTUMN MEETING—SkvEsta Pace, IMPORTANT NATIONAL TREASURY STATISTICS! OUR BONDS, EXPEN: ND SHIPPING INTERESTS—MR. GE CREASED ESTIMATES OF EXPENSES EXPLAINED— Eionty Pace. EMPLOY FOR THE WILLING-HANDED IDLERS! THE CITY WORKS WHICH COULD BE AND SHOULD BE PUSHED FORWARD NOW~ WHAT THE EMPLOYERS AND THEIR MEN ARE DOING IN THE VARIOUS TRADES— Pier Pace. AT A S$ TROU- A RAILROAD COMPANY—Tarrp Pac HANDS FOR WN HELPING AST, THE BLACK- AID FLOWING IN WICH A T LOOSE! ‘—TentH Pace. WILLIAM M. TWEED'S TRIAL SLOWLY PRO- GRESSING! THE AND POL! b EB. GENERAL PIELTAIN’S LAST AD- is TO THE CUBA A MARKABLE LAWSUIT—IMMI TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD—! THE POSTAL TREATY BE’ AND JAP. SEVER! EXPERIMENTS—A ELEVENTH PAGE, TAMMANY AND THE ELECTION FrRaCps—rr THER RESULTS OF THE NOVEMBE ELECTIONS—Tump Paar, Tae Internarionauists Are Tanxtxc Now- sense already about labor and capital apropos of the hard times. In times of difficulty all round wild people will invoke sid from government with much brandishment of frothy threats, and it was scarcely to be ex- pected that the Internationalists could resist the present temptation. But these people are not to be confounded with the respectable laboring class, who work contentedly where | work is to be had, and do not expect juice from squeezed oranges. Should the aid of Congress be necessary, and we hope it will not be, to meet the distress of the working people, we are sure it will be accorded with- out any socialist bluster from the howling | class who learn to flourish best in times of trouble to the community. Cuances my tHe DrrLomaric Service.— There have been some changes among our re- presentatives abroad. The Consul General at Paris, Mr. J. Meredith Read, who was Goy- ernor Morgan's Adjutant General at the com- mencement of the war, goes to Greece, with the promotion to Minister Resident, in place of Mr, Francis, of the Troy Times, who comes home. The Consul General at Havana, Mr. ‘Torbert, who was an excellent friend of the Spaniards, steps into General Read’s place in Paris, and his Vico Consul General, Mr. Hall, fakes Mr. Torbert’s place at Havana, Tho patter change is a good one, FRENCH ASSEMBLY AND THE GOVERN- | MONEY AND | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET, The Outrage of the Virgintus. With barbarous alacrity the Spanish officials in Cuba have vented their fury on certain of the persons taken in the Virginius—a course on their part which was anticipated, for the ready ferocity of the Spanish character is too well known for it to be supposed that officials of that nation could ever be dilatory in any case where there was the shadow of a pre- text for killing defenceless persons. Four men are reported to have been summarily shot upon the finding of a court martial at Santiago de Cuba, and their names are given elsewhere, though it does not seem clear whether they were citizens of the United States or Spanish subjects. There were apparently no proceedings against the ‘ship in any Admiralty Court; there was no inquiry and no judgment before any competent tribu- nal touching her nationality or the character of her operations; no opportunity was given | for hearing or defence; but all was done.with an ostentatious disregard of regularity, as if the actors would express their contempt for all the restraints that the usage of civilized nations might impose; and, indeed, as if they were less concerned with the mere slaughter of the victims than intent upon grossly outraging, by the manner of the slaughter, the flag that the victims claimed as their defence. It is an act of which it may safely be said that only Spaniards among the nominally civilized nations could possibly be guilty. With every other people of the world there is some con- sideration of right and law and justice—some deference to opinion, and some respect for usage and humanity. Only Spaniards are capable of rushing to the commission of an atrocity in the apprehension that delay might deprive them of a bloodthirsty pleasure. There are not many occasions in which Span- iards can act with promptness, energy and decision; but at ieast one case in which they can exhibit these qualitics is in the taking of lives that the morrow would compel them to spare. it is very possible that the Virginius was en- gaged in attempting a hostile descent upon Spanish territory, and was endeavoring to land men and munitions for carrying on war | against the Spanish government. It is equally possible that on this voyage, or on other recent voyages, she had, as it is said, forfeited her right to protection as an American ship. But a Spanish court martial cannot in any contingency whatever be the judge of such iacts, or of any facts with reference to a ship taken on the high seas; and to execute men on the judgment of a court that has not juris- diction of the case is, of course, the same as to kill them without the judg- | ment of apy court. For the Spanish author- ities to have a shadow of justification for acting as they are reported to have acted with these men they should have captured them, if not in the very act with which they charge | them, at least within the limits of Spanish territory, on the land or in the neighboring | from the Cuban coast. 1t will doubtless be | in the attempt to land men and pursued and | captured in consequence, and was thus con- structively caught in the act, though in the ardor of the chase the whereabouts of the | capture seemed a matter of indifference to the commander of the Tornado. But there is no | such consecutive relation of events. There was a collision of some sort with the people of the Virginius and some Spanish armed force on the 29th ult. in which collision the telegraph reported, erro- | neously, it seems, that Bembetta was killed. It is probable that this collision happened in an attempted landing from the Virginins. But the Spaniards then evidently lost sight of the ship, and only saw her again when she | was sighted by the Tornado two days later at | Such a distance from the Cuban coast that in { arun of seven and a half hours she reached | point within six miles of the coast of | Jamaica. There can, therefore, certainly be no pretence that she was surprised while land- ing men or arms, and it is barely possible, even, that she was in Cuban waters when sighted by the Tornado while she was | most assuredly on the high seas when taken. of the world, whatever her character may have been, to trial and judgment before a tribunal competent to determine on the rules of international law, and it is insultingly | carrying the American flag was an affront and an indignity to this nation, and was so in- tended. Certainly, the United States cannot be | charged with holding lenient views toward the violators of neutral obligations. Our posi- | tion as a nation is, that if this ship was an vessel and sailed from any | American port on hostile — expedi- against Cuba, and could have stopped by ordinary vigilance on ; our part, we would ourselves have become re- sponsible for the damage done by her; and | the most memorable verdict of the age, given | in our favor on this point, binds us to the sup- port of this doctrine. It is very unlikely, therefore, that any point would have becn strained to cover this ship with our nation- | ality if the Spaniards could have fairly shown, | before a proper tribunal, that she was a law breaker. We would certainly have refused her | protection; and it is, and always has been, | the wise policy of this government not to per- | | mit our flag to be discredited by mak- American a | tion been jing it the refuge and the cover for | vagabond adventurers who are of no country, but under pretence of a Quixotic devotion to freedom, and, with a real love for plunder and a wild life, prey on all countries alike in the time of their dis- tress, and would as readily prey on our country as on any other. Our sympathies and our"support, therefore, might, very likely, not have been with the Virginius if it had was not a legitimate trader; but the Cuban authorities have closed the pursuit of the sub- ject in that direction by the arbitrary course of inflicting condign punishment on men taken from the deck of a vessel that must be assumed to be an American vessel, because they have disdained to legally denationalize her, and have preferred, in a spirit of bullyi arrogance, rather to outrage an Amer ship than to inflict a legal penalty npon o ship shown to have no nationality. It is not a question, therefore, of the char- acter of the Virginius, but of our own dignity; and here the case is very clear, An American waters. But the ship was captured far away | | thirty-one beds only in the hospital, twenty- said by the Spaniards that she was surprised | | She was, therefore, entitled by the general law | obvious that the denial of this right to a ship | i been shown before a proper tribunal that she | ship is captured on the high seas, on a voyage not shown to be other than legitimate, and thongh, by the facilities of the telegraph, our government could have been consulted as to her character in a few hours, and though such consultation is no more than was to be ex- pected between two friendly and neighboring Powers, yet with an arrogant indifference to our views, with even a contemptuous ignor- ing of our very existence, the ship is seized and dealt with as great naval Powers have from time immemorial dealt with the ships of their pigmy neighbors who were utterly without any remedy. And the Ameri- can people are the pigmies who are thus meta- phorically slapped in ¢he face by the mighty Spaniard. How long shall they thus abuse our patience? How long shall we permit this one people of the earth, that is utterly con- temptible in every aspect, to play the Hector in our neighborhood? There is but one remedy for this Spanish nonsense. It is to abate the Spanish dominion in this hemisphere as a nuisance. ‘To that complexion it must come at last." Sooner or later we must do it, and it will be a great economy of the national temper to do it sooner. We do not want Cuba. We have got a great deal more land already than we know very well what to do with; but the presence of the Spaniard there is an inconvenience to us and a source of constant irritating complication, and we must act as nations have always acted in similar cases, and give him fairly to under- stand that he is to leave within a reasonable time. He remains on this side the water only by our sufferance, and he has so flagrantly abused his tenure as to have forfeited all further claim on our magnanimity. The Condition of the Park Hospital— A Timely Hint. The State Charities Aid Association have been making an examination of the City Park Hospital, and comment fully on its condition in their monthly report. It will be remem- bered that the hospital in question was started for the special purpose of the reception of sun- struck patients, in the old engine house build- ing. It is necessarily an inconvenient and in- sufficient building, and there was probably little thought at the time of its establishment that it would be turned to the purposes of a general hospital. According to the report now before us it isin fact more of a pest house than a hospital. The roof, directly beneath which the women’s ward is located, is an old, leaky piece of patchwork, through which the rain pours in streams duringa storm. The small, close kitchen, on the same floor, serves also as a dining room for the helpers, and as an ironing room, the heat and smell adding to the unwholesomeness of the atmosphere in the damp ward. The laundry is in the basement—a cellar adjoining the stable and the dead room—and in this dark, confined space, aired and lighted only by two or three panés of glass, mere apologies for windows, the foul clothes are washed, and, sooner or later, must breed disease. ‘There are five in the men’s and five in the women's | ward, and yet thirty-five hundred cases have been treated there during the year, and of these twelve hundred demanded great surgical skill. Although the hospital is only intended as a temporary or ‘‘transfer’’ establishment many cases are necessarily compelled to be kept there for long periods. It is the only in- stitution in the crowded part of the city be- tween the Battery and Canal street where a person can receive medical or surgical treat- ment in case of an accident, and, for the pur- poses to which it is devoted, a building with at least one hundred beds is absolutely necessary. It is very evident that we ought to havea new, spacious and well-appointed hospital in this part of the city in place of the old engine pest house, and now is the time to erect such a building. The work is one which humanity as well as safety demands, and it can be under- taken at no better time than the present, when it will give employment to laborers who have nothing to do. It need not be, like the pro- posed City Prison, a job, and there is imme- diate need of it while we can do very well with the Tombs for some time tocome. The Common Council has the power by a two- thirds vote to provide for this remodelling of the present building, which is demanded by the public necessity, and they should attend tothe matter at once, The present hospital ace, 4 nuisance and a public danger. ave a new one built at once, so that its erection this winter may give employment to some few of those who will soon be cast asa burden upon onr charitios unless they be pro- vided with work. Now Pen Cust. —The Bank of England hag raised its rate of disodint to nine per cent in order to arrest the continued flow of gold from England to the United States. Snch is the mand for our cotton and breadstuffs, how- ever, in England and in all Europe, that even at nine per cent, the balance of trade being | with us, the gold rust come to fillit. Thus the necessities of England, France, Germany, &e,, are continuing, and will, doubtless, con- tinue through the winter to assist us in raising the value of our national currency to the specie standard. Ravrp Transtt.—The friends of rapid tran- sit should avail themselves of the advantage offered by the popular endorsement of an- nexation to push the enterprise with vigor. A rairoad for steam communication between the Battery and the new Westchester wards of the city is now an itoperative necessity, and must be built. The work if undertaken by the city would pay for itself, both as to the | interest and redemption of the bonds, after the first three years from its commencement, and if started this winter would furnish em- ployment to thousands of laborers who will otherwise be a public burden. Let us have | an honest, disinterested Dill for the construc- | tion of such a road by the people, for the | people, prepared by citizens of unqnestion- able integrity, and ready for presentation to | the Legislature at the commencement of the | session. Public sentiment will demand that such a bill be at once passed into a law, and | then the prospect will be good for the snocess | of a work which should long since have been | completed, | Watt Srreer.-—here was a teeling of anxi- | ety on the street yesterday in reference to the financial situation on the other side of the water. The street, however, is still pwnicky, and is | frightened at shadows which under a reign of general confideuce would uot be motigad, . The Commercial and Trade Prospects Provide for the Unemployed. Until the stringency in the money market is relieved the present depressed state of indus- try will remain a growing evil to those who depend on labor for their bread. The one thing cried for and prayed for is the return of confidence. With it money would again com- mence to circulate and most of the industries affected would be able to resume work at full power. Money once in hand now is parted with very ™luctantly, even in the legitimate channels of trade, for every one is fearful that @ deeper gulf of financial disaster lies beyond. The great firms which have overtraded, over- speculated and wildly extended their busi- nesses are the most difficult to help, for there is great trouble in finding the places whero a stoppage of the leaks would do any good. They are too often like ships hastily built of green wood, that after a time become so honeyeombed all over that no amount of plugging or pumping would fit them to pass through a storm. But in all great tempests even stanch ships will founder, and this financial one can scarcely prove an excep- tion. The general indications of ‘slowing down” all over the country show that all the industries are carefully and prudently measur- ing their forces to contend with whatever hard times the winter may bring. Partial or complete stoppage of work with them will not mean failure; but, as we have said before, the man out of work can get only a _ prospective benefit from the ability of his industry to resume work when money gets easier. In small communi- ties this prospective benefit may allow of the workman's case not being so very hard, as credits for necessaries of life may be easier to obtain; but where enforced idloness exists to @ large extent in the great commercial centres like New York, Philadelphia or Pittsburg, the situation of the unemployed could hardly tail to become deplorable. Our reports from the Eastern States, published in to-day’s Hzraup, are gloomy enough, with, however, a few exceptions. In Boston the merchants com- plain that demand for home and foreign goods has fallen off terribly. Great quantities of imported silks had been thrown back on the European market. This particular feature of the crisis will not work very injuriously, for it means that gold will leave the country in smaller proportions; but thousands are out of work, and the number, it is feared, will soon be largely increased. The manufactur- ing towns and villages of New England, such as Lawrence, Manchester, Lowell and Fall River, are meeting the stringent times by running the mills and factories on half to two-thirds time. They wisely adopt this system in preference to reducing their hands, for, as the Mayor of Fall River re- marked to 8 Heranp correspondent, skilled operatives are of real value to the millowners and cannot be allowed to wander away under the stress of searching for a living. At Pitts- burg the iron trade is under the same diffi- culties of scarce money, and many hands are unemployed. The iron workers have pru- dently accepted a reduction of wages, gen- erally of fifteen per cent, and further accorimodate their émployers by taking pay- ments of half cash and half on promise to pay when times improve. If labor’ and capital all over the country can only thus } accommodate their mutual wants to the cir- cumstances a great deal of suffering may be fought off. In Connecticut signs of depres- sion in its varied industries are evident. From Ohio and Indiana reports of dulness in the pork trade are forwarded, with an unusual number of men out of work. All this must be of serious portent, and in many cases the dan- ger is aggravated by the dismal belief that the worst has not yet come. The advance of the Bank of England rate of discount, intended, as it is, to check the flow of specie to this country, may tend to keep the restoration of confidence here further out of sight; and if there is any truth in the rumor that a panic may take place in the London market it will not help matters on this side. The banks yesterday showed a slightly improved condition, but the chariness to extend banking accommodation is kept up as a measure of self-defence. Tho private hoards of currency are still in their mysterious hiding places, helping to keep matters at a standstill. The declara- tion of a scrip dividend by railways may be very consoling to those who expected less— namely, nothing ; but wherever 1t occurs the issue is a poor consolation when stocks are low down and buyers scarce at that. A man would often find it hard to live on the legal interest of his expected income, and those who build their hopes on cash dividends may in these times be compelled to put up with that tednction of their expectations” “> For the uneniployed poor of New York the winter will be a hard one. Our reporters have ascertained that there are many public works in this city upon which a great deal of this surplus labor might be employed to advantage. All that can be done in this direction should be done—and quickly. In the Brooklyn Aldermanic Board a motion will be introdneed at its next meeting direct- ing the Mayor to confer with the Comptroller and the Board of Works to find all possible means for employing those forced from their usual industries. This is a step which might be copied with advantage in New York. Let the philanthropists now take their cue and set to work. Every little will help, and all will be needed. We must not desert the poor even while we pray Heaven to help the rich. The Lull After the Elections, The lull in politics after the late State elec- tions is unusually noticeable. The republican papers have very little to say by way of ex- planation in regard to their late reverses other than averting that, as it is an ‘‘off year,” their party had no particular incitement to rally its forces, and the democratic sheets are content with giving their old and almost for- gotten roosters an airing and printing in con- spicuous type the election returns in their favor. These exhibitions have already sub- sided, and the admonition, ‘‘Crow, Chapman, crow!” is no longer echoed through their col- umn. Things political are again moving in their wonted placid channels, and peace reigns thronghont the camps of the once heated partisans. There will be nothing to distarb this phase of quietude until Congress meets next month, when the tocsin of political strife will be again sounded, and the champions of either party take up the gauntlet and place shomselves in battle arrav, Meantime lot all good people, politicians and others, think of the poor and their necessities the coming win- ter, and turn their attention to the best and most effectual methods of relieving those necessities. Efforts in that direction should not be left until the wails of the starving and dying come from the homes and haunts of poverty-stricken wretchedness. Westerdey’s Rain Storm and Its Prob- able Eiffects. From the reports by telegraph the whole country this side of tho Mississippi seems to have beon involved last night in a rain storm. For several days past the Gulf States have been under the rain cloud. Yosterday the States lying between the Atlantic seaboard and the Upper Mississippi valley, as well as the lakes, experienced a general rain. The clear- ing away which must soon follow the cloudi- ness in the Southern States will be auspicious for the speedy extermination of the lingering seeds of the fever'plague, The present period seems to be a transitional one, in which the autumn seeks to retain its supremacy and spread abroad the charms of Indian summer before the winter comes. Tor the sake of the poor and unemployed we could wish it a long success, but we must not forget that the win- ter is not far off. Indeod, it will not be sur- prising if a general rain storm like the present should at once usher in the rude Boreal blasts. Last year the arrival of the ‘November air wave,” as it has been called, was the signal for the ice king to seal up our streams and rivers, as well as to give great trouble and cause much disaster to the shipping over the whole Atlantic, from Sandy Hook to the Dan- ish coasts. We have, as yet, heard nothing of the recurrence of such a meteorological phenomenon this fall; but, as we have inti- mated, the general rain storm of yesterday and to-day is not without its premonition. It will be well to be on our guard against its rude in- ‘vasion. Tae Bunnine or tHE Steamer Bavanran, a Canadian boat, near the outlet of Lake Onta- rio, furnishes another case for a rigid investi- gation—first, as to the origin of the fire, and, second, as to the three lady passengers who were left on board with the Captain and ten other persons while the crew made good their escape to the shore in the two boats of the steamer. This matter particularly demands an investigation, as it appears that those four- teen persons left on the burning steamer are given up as lost. It is said that the three ladies were not able to get into the boats; but why, then, were they not helped in? The officers of every steamship and steamboat should be compelled by law in time of danger to look first to the safety ot the helpless women and children in their charge, and the officers concerned should always be equal to the en- forcement of this law. Feyton’s Luox.—‘Fenton’s luck’ is an old saying of the politicians, who hold that no man has been more liberally favored by fortune in his political career than the senior United States Senator from New York, and that his luck “‘banga Bannagher” if it does not beat anothes party, In his formor Sena- torial contest his opponent generously sup- plied him with the money he lacked and Which was necesaary to success. Now that he 18 tabooed by his party and left with only a corporal’s guard of “liberal republican’ fol- lowers, one of these manages, in the whirligig of chances, to get elected to the State Senate. The prospect now is that the Senate will be politically tied; so that this solitary ‘liberal,”’ this David in the cave of Adullum, may drive his bargains with one side or the other and may gather around him a host that may con- quer Israel. Our Starz Lecistature, elected on Tuesday last, will be a pretty close fit in both branches. Some wise men entertain the opinion that this close division between the two parties will be a comparative security against the lobby jobbers ; but the danger is that, where only a vote or two from one side or the other may be needed to turn the scale, a job with money in it will cost less to engineer it through than it would cost if it required the purchase of a dozen or more of our incorruptible legisla- tors; but we shall see, ‘Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereot.”” PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, M. Emilie Ollivier is residing at St. Tropez, in the south of France. ‘The Emperor of Austria will visit St. Petersburg in Jangary next. Senator Reuben FE, Fenton yesterday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Senator-elect Jonn H, Seikreg, of Ithaca, is stay- ing‘at tae Astor House. Bishop John Sharp, of Utah, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Congressman i. ©, Ingersoll, of Iiinois, bas arrived at the Hofman House, James R. Osgood, the Bogton publisher, arrived at the Windsor Hotel last evening. Admiral Godon, United states Navy, ts in Paris, having ended a long tour in Europe. Abd-el-Kader lias sent three horses of pure Arab breed to President McMahon of France, Lieutenant Commander W. K. Wheeler, United States Navy, 18 quartered at the Albemarle Hotel. Ex-Governor T, F. Randolph, of New Jersey, is among the recent arrivals at the New York Hotel. | Mr. Joseph Arsh, the English labor reformer, sails in the steamship Republic for Hurope to-day, Samuel S. Fisher, late United States Commis- sioner of Patents, is stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Mr. John L. Motley ts visiting the Duke of Buceleuch, at Drumiaurig Castle, in Dumfriesshire, England, Captain Fitz Roy England, of the Eighty-seventh, Royal Irish Fusiliers,and Captain Taylor, of vhe Brit- ish Army, have apartments at the Brevoort House. | Robert J. MeCallan lately died intestate in south Carolina, atid our government is now looking for an heir to his $100,000, in his native county of Armagh, Trelan President MeMahon has remitted part of the term of George Williams, an American seaman, sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for man- slanghver, Colonel Fred Grant was too fll to attend the re- ception at the Walker House, in Sait Lake City, on Thursday eveniug. morning 4nd left ov his return Eas The Norfolk Virginian announ Miss Louisa Tazewell, daughter of the late Gov- ernor Tazewell, trom heart disease, She was quite an aged maiden lady, and was much esteemed in that city. Mr. Martin Maddison, of the firm of Maddise Pierce & Company, of Southampton, Eng Will, It 1s stated, reacn the ripe old age of 116 years | in May next, He is very active, regularly attends to business aud bears po ign of decay or in- capacity. Captain 8, 0, Buddington, sailing master of the Polaris Arctic expedition, has been passing several days at his home in Groton, Conn., with his wife and dauchier. Mra. Buddipgton geyer gave uv He was better yesterday | the death of | nope auring the long interval of donpt regarding his fate after the separation trom the Tyson party. The appearance of Father Hyacinthe’s “bud om earth” has drawn new attention to the reverend gentleman’s name. The Londofi Cosmopolitan suggests that the reverend gentleman shall com tinue to adopt names of horticultural significance, and remarks upon the sweet sounds of Father's Mossbad, Primrose, Holyhook and Sunflower. A Western paper staves that last summer “a gentleman from Sioux City received an Indian scalp from up river. The other day he wanted to show it to some friends who had never secn any- thing of the kind, He asked his wife for 1 and found she had woven it in with her own hair for & front switch.” That Sioux City man ought to be sue-sued for slander, Mrs. Brown, widow of Governor Aaron V. Brown, Postmaster General duriag the administration of President Buchanan, has been appointed Regent of the Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association for the State of Teunessee, The apointment ws peculiarly appropriate, as the lady who is its subject is a relative of President Washington's family and alsc President Madison's. Marshal Bazaine, before he enlisted as a private soldier, was rejected from the military school of St, Cyr. When he had become a Marshal, and was one day examining some cadets who were preparing to enter St. Cyr, he made @ grimace at the weakness of their replies, Noticing that one of the youths was annoyed by his partial failure, Bazaine said, “Bah! don’t torment yourself about that, They would have nothing to do with me at St. Oyr, and yet here Iam all the same.’ Mr. Hammond, who lately left the post of Per- manent Under secretary of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, has a most extraordinary acquaintance with Blue, Red and Yellow Books, and is believed to know the delails ot every treaty England haa made from ner beginning. Lord Palmerston once said, “Hammond's unfortunate memory will drive me mad," and on another occasion that he would “sooner quarrel with Parllament and the Higt Church party than with Hammond." Toe Columbus (Ga.) Sun states that ex-Governor Brown has erected a beautiful and costly monu- ment to his son, Franklin Pierce Brown, recently deceased. The great 1098 sustained by the early death of this excellent and promising youth may be inferred from a remark made concerning him by Mr, A, H, Stephens :—‘Such a prodigy of intel- lect and virtue in a body so fraii I never met with in any other human form, and never expect to, if I were to live a thousand years.’ The same might be said of Mr, Stephens himself, Young Brown was only eighteen years of age. YHE HERALD AND THE NORTH POLE. u epee {From the Cincinnati Commercial, Nov. 4.) We hope the report is true that the New Yora HERALD is about to fit out an expedition to search for the North Pole, Many bold explorers have lost their lives searching forit. Many well equipped expeditions have been lost while trying to find it. Many have been the wonderful adventures and dreadful experiences of those determined to reach it, Butthe anxicty avout it 1s never diminished. It is impossible to express the desire of mankind towards it. There is never any diMculty about getting new leaders and a new set of mento un- dertake the work of finding it. * * * We don't see any reason, therefore, discouraging Bennett, of the HeRKALD, from sending out another Polar expedition. 1 he should undertake the work, we may be sure that he will get the most competent man that cau be found to command it; that he will secure proper vessels for it; that it will be thoroughly equipped; that there will be no scarcity of money for any purpose, and that its commander will not be hampered nor his plans thwarted by foolish or- ders. Bennett's order to the African Stanley was, ‘Find Livingstoue and draw on the HERALD;"" and we presume his orders to the Polar Stanley will be, ‘Find the Pole and draw on the HeRawp,’ His fortune and his tncome are very ereat., He bas full control of them, and tney are assured against diy contingency for the fuyure. He 1s a bold navigator himsel!, fund of all sorts of marine adventure, and perhaps it will be impoa- sile for him to resist the temptation to accompany the expedition, What limitless glory it would be to Bennett, the ITeRaLp and the American Eagle if nis expedition should actually find the North Pole, and find ft in time to make display of it at the great Ceptennial Exhibition of 1876! But we must not elaborate this overpowering thought, We are sure that those who allow it to gain possession of their imagination will presently be swallowed up and lost in the bottomless ocean of their own wonder, ARRIVAL OF THE POLARIS SURVIVORS. The steamship Glasgow, from Glasgow, arrived at this port last night, having on board J, B. Mauch and J. Booth, of the crew of the Arctic exploring ship Polaris, The Glasgow brought also one of the boats of the Polaris, the one in which tne two men were when picked up by the bark Rayeuscraig, under command of Captain Allen. for OONFLIOT OF AUTHORITY. The Secretary of State of Pennsylvania and the Constitutional Commission Not Agreed as to the Election on the Now Constitution. PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 7, 1873, A special despatch just received trom a Harris- burg correspondent gives the result of an inter- view with the Secretary of State of Peunsylyania as followsi— The special election for the adoption or rejection of the new constitution shall be held under the Registry law of 1869 and the amendments of 1870 and 1872. This is in conflict with the directions of the Constitutional Convention itself which has al- | ready appointed 1ts own commisatoners to condnet the election. The Secretary of state says that he wil inform the commissions mentioned above of his determination so that they may, if they think proper, refer the decision of the matter to Court, THE BAVARIAN, Fourteen Men Lost with the Burning Steamship on the St. Lawrence. Toronto, Ont., Nov. 7, 187%. All hope ts abandoned as to the fate of the four- teen persons left on board the burning steamer Bavarian, Their names are as follows:—Captain Carmichael, Chief Engimeer Finnacane, the steward, Mr. Spence; Mra. Tibald and daughter, ot Brockville, and Miss Ireland, of Kaugston, the three lady passengers, and Mr. Weir, of Chatham. The names of the oLher persons missing are une knowa. DARING BANK ROBBERS, The Cashier of a Delaware Bank Seized and Gagged in His Own House by eis mem i uNaTON, Del., Nov. 7, 1873. Great excitement was created this evening by an alarm proceeding from the residence of the cashier of the Bank of Delaware in this ctty, caused by an attempt of five masked men to gag and bind the family of the cashter with a view te ropbing the bank, ‘The men gamed ad- mittance vo the house by stratagem, seized the cashier, bandewfed and = threw him on the floor. They then proceeded to the dining room where the ladies were at tea, and, wits drawn pistols, enforced silence, One of the ladies, escaping, gave the alarm, Two of the police Jorce hastily repaired to the scene, arriving in time to see the burglars escaping. Chase was given and one of the police gained quickly upon the retreating gang. Shots were exchanged without efleet, when one of the robbers suddenly stopped and allowed the officer to get near him. He then dealt him a murderous blow, and the oficer fell senseless to the pavement, seriously wounded in the head, ‘The robbers so far lave | evaded arrest, but, it is hoped, will be captared betore morning. | COCHISH'S LOVE FOR MBXIGAN PROVISIONS, SAN Francisco, Nov. 7, L&T. Advices from Tucson, Arizona, to the Ist inst., stute that Cochise refuses to stop ratding tote Mexico und New Mexico, and wilt not good discipline and to having bis crit tis fudians continue to draw regular the government whether on or olf Ue tons, aye BOSTON'S NEW FIRE COMMISSIONDRS, Boston, Nov, 7, 1873. The Mayor has nominated David Chambertain, Timothy T, Sawyer and Allred P. Rockwell tor Ura pow Boprd of Fire Gommpissioncr®