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

; NNETT, JAMES GORDON BE! ’ i PROPRIETOR ——————— ee ‘AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LITAN THEATRE, 585 Broadway.—Vanirrr weirienms Matinee at 25. | sowes. F. B. CONWAY'S BROOKLYN THEATRE.— " Y Gunnva Saoat: Matinee at 2 ae GRRMANTA THEATRE, Mth street and 3d avenue.— i Das Punsionat. . THEATRE COMIQUE, No. Sid Broadway.—Vanierr ¥ Enrentainment. Matinee at 2 ATRY, Broadway, between Houston salittoker sta usock Anpune Matinee at 2 "3 GARDEN, Broadway, between Prince and jiouton eens BE. eroubon’’ Matinee at 1g. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteentn atreet—Tux Lian. Matinee at 1g. UNION Broadway.—' ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Iéth street and Irving place.— Tratian Orena. Matinee at 1—Orunatic SKLECTIONS. SEUM, Broadway, corner Thirticth st.— viens MN BHINGLE. Afternoon and evening, BROADWAY THEATRE, 728 and 730 Broadway.—Tus Nuw Magpazen. Matinee at 1's. GRA SE, Bighth av. and Twapty-third etn ityursy Duurry Asean. Matinee at ls BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Montague st— Barcus or tux Kircues. Matinee at2 LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth st—Norrs Dauz— Desutants. Matinee at 1s RE THEATRES, Union juare, near an WickeD Wont. Matinee at 12. THEATRE, Sixth av. and Twenty-third st— iscasee oF Vuxice, Matinee at 1g—Tus STRANGER: TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.— Vanuerr Enrertauxmxyt. Matinee at 2 BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, Twenty third st., corner Sixth ay.—Nacro Minsrretsy, &c. Matinee at 2. BAIN HALL, Great Jones street. between Broadway and Bowery.—Tux Pusrim. Matinee at 233. UNION LEAGUE THEATRE, Madison av. and 20th st — Matinee at 2—Tux Hampton Sincens. ASSOCIATION HALL, 23d street and 4th avenue.— Matinee at 2-Ya.e Guns Civs. ARMORY, Mth st. and 6th av.—Grann Promenape Concent, THE RINK, 34 avenue and 64th street. —MENAGERIE AND Museum. Afternoon and evening, NEW_YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- sway.—SCieNCE AND Axr. TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Saturday, Nov. 29, 1873. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. ‘To-Day’s Contents of the} Herald. “THE CONDITION OF THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH SPAIN’—LEADER—Six1H Pace. THE SANTIAGO MASSACRES STILL UNATONED R! FEARS OF FURTHER COMPLICA- ! WHAT IS BEL IT {N AMERICA AND IN © Pace. 4 DONE ABOUT j N—SEVENTH OUR LEADING STATESMEN, THE PEUPLE TH y LISH PRESS ON THE AN ! MATTERS IN HAVANA—Tairp RAVAGES, OF TYPHUS AND SMALLPOX AMONG THE SPANISH REPUBLICAN SOLDIERS! AN ARMY FATALLY CRIPPLED—SzvesTH PacE. AMERICAN CELEBRATION OF THANKS GIVING IN Vv —ENGLISH FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS—SEVENTH Pace. KHIVA AND iTS CONQUEST! THE ENTRY OF THE GRIM, DUST-COATED W. RUSSIA INTO THE FALLE CAMPAIGN! KHIVAN LIFE ‘YOMS—FourtH Pags. GONGRESSIONAL PRELIMINARIES | IN THE FEDERAL CHANGES IN THE PacR. MEMBERS OF THE FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION! THEIR TERMS AND THE STATES THEY REPRESENT—ELEVENTH "PAGE. THE NATIONAL CURRENCY PROBLEM! A SOLU- TION BY THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY! GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATE RESERV EIGHTH PAGE, ! THE CHAMBER OF COM- CONSIDERING THE QUESTION OF RESUMPTION—Eicuru Pace, THE GALLOWS CLAIMS ONE MURDERER AND IS CHEATED OUT OF ANOTHER BY HIS SELF-DESTRUCTION, IN WASHINGTON CitY! THE EXECUTION AND ITS COM. PANION PICTURES—FirtH Paces. AMERICA’S IRON HIGHWAYS! THEIR CONDITION AND PROGRESS! THE GRAND NATIONAL PARK—JAY OOOKE’S BANKRUPTCY— EIcuTH Pace. GRAVE FINANCIAL QUESTIONS! CONTRACTION, SPECIE PAYMENTS AND FREE BANKING! THE BUSINESS OPERATIONS YESTERDAY ON 'CHANGE—Nixtu Pace. RING THIEVERY PUNISHED BY SEN STATE PRISON! INGERSOLL, FIVE FARRINGTON, A YEAR AND A HALF! FOLEY’S, THE SPECIAL SESSIONS AND OTHER LITIGATIONS—ELEvENTH Pace. 4 ! THE AND CUS. CAUCUSES CAPITAL! PROBABLI HOUSE SLATE—Tenra ‘Tur Decision mx THe Great Crepir Mo- | Bree Surrs of United States Circuit Judges Hunt and Shipman, at Hartford, yesterday, is avery important one. It is to be regretted that the law was found inadequate to reach those who defrauded the government and the Pacific Railroad stockholders tbhrongh the ‘well known Crédit Mobilier “ring.” The de- cision sustains the demurrer, which claimed that the damage to the government is too Temote to be reached by the process pursued or by any other, and that the government has no pecuniary interest to be reached by the bill. So, it may be sup- posed, the case falls to the ground’ for the presént. The corrupt Congress which allowed guilty among its members in this matter to yescape will bear its stigma in histsry. 1t was the duty, and in the power of Congress, to have punished personally, This was evaded in a cowardly manner, and now the law is in- adequate to reach even the pockets of those who prospered through fraud. The republi- can party will keep all this out of sight if it vin at the next election. ne ‘Tae Spanish Government Forces resumed the bombardment of Cartagena on the 27th inst., after the expiration of a brief truce. ‘The insurgents replied vigorously, and the firing was maintained on both sides during the day yesterday. A vessel of the Italian navy has taken a number of non-combatants on board and removed them from the scene of danger. This neutral service was rendered absolutely necessary in consequence of the action of the insurgents in their des- Pernte defence against the authority of the — Madrid covernmepy deal with less tractable persons. Seiior Cus- telar was prepared several days ago, as the story runs, to release the Virginius, and our Secretary of State was satisfied that he would release her. ‘To the consternation and chagrin of the Secretary, when the proper moment came the event did not oceur;’ the order was not given by the author- ities in Madrid or was not obeyed by the authorities in Cuba, and the Virginius re- mained where she was. This was because just as the Spanish Ministry was about to “‘act officially” and send the order for the release of the ship it was compelled to stop in consequence of ‘certain contemplated acts of hostility’ om the part of its political op- ponents in Madrid. That is to say, its in- tention to do justice to the United States and to disclaim the acts of the miscreant Burriel lost it the sympathy of the Spanish public to such a degree that it feared to carry out its intention lest the Ministry and the Re- public should both go down together in the storm of popular odium; and justice is not done us because of this popular clamor and its apprehended consequences. It’ is, of course, obvious that the ‘‘contemplated acts of hostility’? referred to in this explanation are the acts by which it was proposed to make Serrano Dictator or Regent for Don Alfonso, the son of Isabella, in whose favor it was said Isabella was to abdicate—a revolutionary scheme whose outline we gave and whose likelihood we considered a few days since. And this, with as much more of the same sort as the public appetite may require, is given out by a considerate government to ex- plain the halting gait of its diplomacy, for the government, having vainly endeavored to keep the country ignorant of the steps of the negotiation, justly deems that its present impotent attitude needs to be accounted for. There are some points of a certain impor- tance in-which this story does not altogether agree with known facts. It is quite possible that there is on the tapis in Madrid a mo- narchical combination to oust the republican government, but we have only heard of it from Washington, and the people at Washing- ton have carefully given it out, in order that the public mind, being properly instructed, should not go astray; but they first heard it through somebody attached to the person of the Brit- ish Minister. It was a little suspicious that we should be so carefully told how this news first came to Washington; and inasmuch as it now appears that the State Depart ment must’ have known of Serra- no's reported eombination directly from the Spanish Ministry—for that Ministry was pleading this combination in its appeal for delay—it is more suspicious still that in giving an explanation of the source of its informa- tion it should have given one that was inac- curate. Was this because the State Depart- ment in its great delicacy did not care to tell | the country that it was suspending an impor- tant negotiation out of regard to a certain state of facts, and that it had no knowledge of these facts save what was supplied by those who asked for delay in the negotia- tion? Did it suppose that the facts would make a better figure before the public if they came on the authority of some one not directly interested in secur- ing the delay that they were relied upon to justify? If this was its position it must have been that it was not fully confident of the good faith of the Spanish government in this representation in regard to apprehended ‘‘acts of hostility,” and we cannot venture to inti- mate that the State Department did the Spaniards injustice in case it really suspected their motives; for in a matter in which the Department is or should be tolerably well in- formed we should presume to differ with it only after mature reflection. Considering that no direct information has come from Europe to the press in regard to the monarchial con- spiracy; that no journal has had any special by cable on the subject, and that the regular press messages from London have made no reference to it; that, in fact, it bas been heard of on this side the Atlantic only by way of the State Department, it must be assumed that the friends of Ser- rano and Don Alfonso have not carried their operations very far; have, in fact, kept to the secrecy of intrigue and opinion; have no® taken any step to justify any arrests of their party, nor even gone so far that their purposes or mancuvres have become a part of the public political gossip of Madrid. If we did not know that sucha movement as the one indicated is thoroughly in the order of Spanish probabilities, the fact that it has made so singularly little noise in the world as only to be heard of in our State Department might lead us to doubt whether this conspiracy was not, at least, as mythical as Mrs. Harris ; whether, indeed, it was not a diplomaite buga- boo conjured up by the ingenious men of Madrid in order to frighten the nervous old gentleman who keeps account of our foreign relations. There is one point in the explanation cer- tainly not entitled to credit. This is the statement that before the discovery of the plans of the monarchists Sefior Castelar had communicated his willingness and readiness to surrender the Virginius. Against this we have the direct testimony of our own correspond- ent that up to the time when the negotiation at Madrid was discontinued by reaching the limitation which the State Department had prescribed, no intimation of a readiness to make concession was received from Sefior Cas- telar; and that, indeed, though Castelar was personally disposed to concede our demands, he was overruled by other memberg of the Ministry, and that, therefore, no satisfactory response had been given, It is only since the negotiation was transferred to Washington that we have heard of willingness to concede our demands; and even then we have only heard of it after something has intervened tnat will prevent this willingness having any influ. ence on the events, It is also only since the negotiation was transferred to Washington that we have heard of the Serrano conspiracy, Admiral Polo can tell this story to Mr. Fish in Washington with a good eonulgnance: but Loccunation, of, Cub tion is given that any limit has been assigned to this extension; and we have only to hope that the settlement is not relegated to the Greek Calends. Unfortunately that is the most likely date if the case is only to be again taken up when Castelar’s government shall be free from the apprehension of a sudden down- fall. There has not been a time since the Republic came into existence, and there is not likely to bea time in the life of this generation, when a chimera like this, which we are assured threatens our republican friends in Madrid, might not have lifted or may not lift its head amid the agitations and political intrigues of the Spanish capital ‘‘to fright the souls of fear- ful adversaries.” It is the natural state of the Spanish Republic to be thus menaced with monarchical plots every time that a momen- tary loss of confidence in the republican lead- ers seems to afford the opposition a favorable opportunity for working on the public mind, and the imminence of danger from such sources can therefore only be accepted as good ground for the delay with a reasonable limit. Our natural sympathy with people who have faith in the republican idea will always properly incline us to deal generously with them, and in this spirit to make a readier concession to their necessities than we might to the necessities of those with whom we have no such bond of amity; but all experience teaches that between nations the departure from the right line, even for these amiable reasons, is fruitful in disappointments. How- ever earnest our good will toward another Republic we must be careful that we do not serve it at the expense of our own honor and of justice to our people. The Outlook for the Winter. The winter wave, with its zero temperature and its boreal snow, has at last fully appeared in the West, and is advancing upon the Eastern States. It verifies the prediction we made on Thursday, that the Frost King’s ultimate seal would be fixed on lake and cana) navigation by (he end of this week. The rigor- ous cold of more than ten degrees below zero was yesterday reported from the Northwest. The high pressures which marked the November atmospheric wave come up fo the figures predicted by some of our scientists. This latter phenomenon is, however, consider- ably later this year than it was last year, and by no means so conspicuous in its features, This circumstance, although not easily accounted for, is perhaps more sig- nificant as to the omens of the coming winter than the flight of birds, the migration of buffaloes and such signs, on which many of the weather-wise base their forecasts. The most plausible explanation of these winter air waves traces them to solar action in the opposite hemisphere, and their frequency, intensity and magnitude are the conditions which Would seéih to determine the severity of any winter, either as to high winds, heavy and furious snow storms and memorable thermometric depressions. In the “great frost,” known as the severest that has visited Scotland in the present century, the barometer on the Continent to the northeast- ward had the extraordinarily high range of thirty-seven, and nearly thirty-one inches, and from this cold aérial wave the frigo- rific streams descended outwards over Great Britain. During this terrible spell of weather there was traced a1 continuous flow of air from Siberia, over Russia and the Scandinavian peninsula, to Scotland, where the temperature: fell twenty degrees below zero. The great historic frosts— e. g., those in which the Thames, and even the Baltic, have been solidly frozen over—are doubtless attributable to these great waves. Last year, before this time, we had a suc- cession of such meteoric phenomena, and they had not only furiously overswept the country from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic, but had ravaged the ocean from America to Europe. Their tardy and feeble appearance this year is apparently auspicious for a winter milder and less stormy than last winter. We should be unwilling to hazard a suggestion of this kind if it was unfounded or likely to paralyze the energies ot the poor and working classes; but, while preparing for the worst fature, they may take some cheer from the present outlook. Two Murperers Passep Oct or Existence YestEnpay, one at the hangman's hands, the other at his own.” The man who was strangled was colored, and died with the Christian piety of his race on such occasions ; the man who poisoned himself was white and announced himself an infidel. The colored man’s name was Young ; he denied his guilt. The white man’s name was Milton; he defended his crime. Young, who brutally murdered a cattle drover for his money, after witnessing the hanging of Manley, another negro, invited the company in front of the gallows to meet him in heaven; Malone, who shot a man dead, cynically chuckled over the number of people who would be fooled out of witnessing his hanging, and gave no invita- tions for the next world. The contrast.is sug- gestive; but neither in the infidel suicide sneering into insensibility, nor the bump- tiously Christian gibbet convert hymning himself into strangulation, can we detect Tae Vorce or THe Loxpon Pness.—One of the virtues of the English leader writer is that he is not in the habit. of losing his head, of getting what the French call la téte montée. He cannot, therefore, be accused of enthusiasm in treating of such a theme as the Virginius massacre—a question whose solution belongs entirely to the government of the United States, If any one will examine the extracts which are printed in the Herat this morning and taken from the leading journals of Eng- land, he will find that they are not only more warlike than the tone of the Quaker press of the United States, but that their declarations are not a whit less emphatic than have appeared from day to day in these colnmns. ‘The point that was made by Mr. Evarts, in his great speech at Steinway Hall, that the United States should interfere on the broad ground of humanity, seems to be the argument of our British contemporaries ; but they do not the less perceive that a gross outrage has been perpetrated against our flag, and the only compensation is the reduction and permanent first day of the month, Monday next. The President, in the discharge of his constitutional duty, as usual, will submit to the two honses, in his annual Message, “information of the state of the Union,’’ embracing the executive acts of the government since the last session; and, upon our foreign and domestic affairs, he will recommend ‘such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.’ A financial crisis and questions involving the honor of our flag and the rights of our citizens abroad are upon us, and prompt and decisive measures of relief and reparation in regard to these important matters are demanded auel expected by the people from the President and from Congress. Look- ing for relief from our existing financial em- barrassments, and for a definite and final settlement of our complications with Spain and Cuba, the eyes and the hopes of the country are turned to Washington. The gen- eral inquiry. upon these great and weighty questions, now so actively agitating the public mind, is, What will be the President’s report and recommendations, and what will be the measures adopted by Congress ? Is is not yet settled that diplomacy will take the place of iron-clads in the adjust- ment of our difficulties with Spain and her semi-independent colonial authorities of Cuba. Between peace and war the issue seems to be trembling in the balance. We expect, in any event, a lengthened list of recom mendations to and requisitions upon Con- gress from the Message adapted to the conditions ofthe peace establishment, and the peculiar conditions of the peace establish-, ment, we apprehend, will be held by the President and by Gongress as calling for ex- traordinary expenditures 6f the public money in every direction. Carried in by the great tidal wave of 1872, the administration has an overwhelming majority in both houses. No President since Monroe has had such a pow- erful backing in the House and the Senate as General Grant will have in this our Forty- third Congress. With this majority, too, there ia apparently a prevailing opinion that desperate cases call for desperate remedies, and that the administration shares in this opinion, in regard to our present financial troubles, there are many reasons for believing. The country expects relief, and immediate re- lief, and, failing to ive, it, the administration and the pay is Ber ‘know that they will be held Yesponsible in the elections of next autumn for the Forty-fourth Congress. What, then, will be the recommendations of the Message in the form of measures of re- lief from our existing financial derangements? From General Grant's reported conversations on the late panic, its causes, consequences and remedies, he will propose gome radical changes in our national banking system, the conversion of certain bonds into currency, a temporary inflation of greenbacks for immedi- ate necessities, real or imaginary; a postal savings bank, increased taxation in external and internal revenue bills to meet the de- mands of the national debt and increased ex- penditures for the army and navy, including new veasels of war with the latest improvements in ironeclad ships. The Indian tribes and reservations will call for millions of money. The extensive system of projected trans-Alle- ghany and seaboard canals, first submitted to the two houses in December last; a Niagara ship canal, river and harbor improvements and large appropriations for the public works of the District ot Columbja, and for public build- ings in many of the States and Territories, will, it is reported, be among the recommen- dations of the Message. And we know from experience that the annual appropriations of Congress are more likely to exceed than fall short of the budget of the Message. They who expect retrenchment and reform from the opening session of the Forty-third Congress will find themselves atits adjournment, we fear, as grievously disappointed as were the hope- ful believers in the purity of the republican party at the close of the Forty-second Con- gréss. We dare say that the propositions of the Message will require an extraordinary cata- logue of heavy expenditures and increased tax- ation to cover them, and that the two houses will go far beyond the Message in their drafts upon the public Treasury and the pockets of the people. We understand that there will be a larger and more powerful lobby, or congregation of lobby companies, at Washington this winter than at any other period since that hopeful city became the national capital. We are in- formed that conspicuous among the lobby companies will be the third house operating for relief, in the shape of a loan, to the unfor- tunate Northern Pacifie Railroad ; that there will be a joint stock alliance of various Pacific railroads, under way or projected, for grants of lands and bonds; that the Western grangers will probably putin a claim for a double track government railroad from St. Panl or St. Louis to the seaboard ; that various other gov- ernment railway enterprises will be brought forward, and that all the forces of the lobby will be united in favor of the addition of at least one hundred millions to the circulating national currency, and that, in this design at least, the lobby will be successful, there is hardly room to doubt, peace or war. The Senate is already organized. The House will doubtless accomplish its organi- zation on Monday, in the re-election of Mr. Blaine as Speaker, and in choositlg again for the places they held most of the officers of the last Congress. But the Crédit Mobilier scandal suggests the propriety of of a recon- struction of the most important and responsi- ble standing committees of the House. The question,avises, Will Speaker Blaine reappoint Dawes chairman on Ways and Means, or Gar- field as chairman on Appropriations, or Hooper, a banker devoted to the special interests of the banks, as the chairman on Banking and Currency, or some other man from the interior of Ohio as head of the Com- mittee on Commerce in the place of Shella- barger? The Speaker generally occupies several days in making up his regular com- mittees, and in the exercise of his large dis- cretion it is to be hoped that he will give no iniplied indorsement to the distinguishing corruptions aroma, Jo, thie the Western transportation question—from whose labors we expect some good results. A constitutional amendment. providing tor the election of the President and Vice President directly by the votes of all the people of the Union, States and Territories, and limiting the President to one term of four or six years, would be, we believe, promptly ratified by three-fourths of the State Legislatures ; and some such amendment, it is to be hoped, will be passed by Congress without needless delay, in order that it may give the people a clear field for a new departure in 1876. On the transportation question we expect nothing for the relief of the West which will not relieve the Treasury of heavy suma of money for government railways ; but if the government shall embark in the building, purchase and running of railways, where can it be stopped ? The power of Congress to regulate commerce among the several States is large enough for the regulation of our railways without under~ taking to build or purchase them. In conclusion, from present indications, the President's report of our relations with Spain will probably bring the House of Representa- tives, with the reading of the Message, toa council of war. Rugersoil and Farrington—The Sherif! and Tweed. Judge Davis yesterday sentenced Ingersoll and Farrington to five years and a year anda half respectively in State Prison. That he would make this discrimination was expected and warranted. The sentence upon Ingersoll, it must be remembered, covers only one link in the chain of his crimes, and will not be considered severe even in that proportion. His fate and that of Tweed will stand out as warnings to all time in New York and sig- nalize to those in positions of public trust that there is a force which outmatches the “cohesive power of public plunder’’—that of justice. If their fate has been delayed it points the moral of their fall the more. Had these men been swept to punishment at the hands of the law with the same hot indigna- tion which marked their fall from power, the apologists of their misdeeds would have been loud in reclamation against what they would have termed ‘indecent haste.’ In the politi- cal quiet following an election i i year” these men have been” placed in thé category of criminals, which their doings war- ranted, That force which is majestically | slow but deliborate in moving and inevitable in crushing, exercises a terror which equally strong but impulsive forces often fail to in- spire. ‘The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.” The penalty dealt out to Ingersoll’s accomplice, Farrington, shows to those who hasten to be rich by questionable means, whether as tool or prin- cipal, that personal insignificance will not shield where the crime is intentional. It was a mitigated penalty, but the moral is in the con- viction and the felon’s brand which will at- tach to a servant willing to be as dishonest as his master required. Without such servants great crimes like those of the ‘‘Ring’”’ could not be committed, and if mercy makes a distinction in the degree of guilt the mini- mum penalty is yet severe. The letter of Attorney General Barlow to Sheriff Brennan regarding his suspicious re- tention of Tweed in the Tombs, in violation of-the law, instead of sending him to the Peni- tentiary, may be taken as the utterance of tho jovernor of this State. We do not care to inquire into the motives guiding this behavior on the part of the Sheriff. They cannot be worthy onés, nor be construed as anything but the scandalous piea for shameful dereliction in an important public officer. A sheriff who makes himself the obsequious servant of his prisoner may prove a danger. He makes a law unto himself and evidently wishes the people to believe that when a prisoner is committed to the County Jail that to be in his care is to be in the Penitentiary. Lunatics have had similar fancies about themselves before now, and the Sheriff might be allowed to escape rebuke on that plea, it he would ad- vance it. Illusions take strange shapes, and if Mr. Brennan, from his official connection, has believed that he isthe Black Maria and Blackwell's Island the Attorney General’s let- ter should bring him back to reason, as fur- ther contumacy is not unlikely to result in the exercise of the power of the Governor, who is his superior officer. Tweed must go to the Penitentiary, as Ingersoll and Farrington must go to Sing Sing. The Sheriff cannot prevent that, and this servility to a rich prisoner is little to his credit, seeing that he bundles the poor ones up the Hudson or across the East River with all the despatch which the law allows. Tae Mora, LEvrgcor or THANKsorvine Day.—In the midst of warlike alarms it is pleasant to notice that throughout the country, as we receive intelligence through our ex- changes, the observance of the national Thanksgiving Day on Thursday last was a marked one in the annals of similar events. Not # gun was fired, not a demonstration of hostile intent made (except a few local broils), and everything and everybody seemed peace- fal and happy. And yet beneath this placid surface there were slumbering the fires of a patriotic volcano that were only prevented from a tumultuous outburst by the pacific and damp-powder policy of our officials at Washington. By the next day of national thanksgiving it is to be hoped that the moral effect of the day just passed will not be with- out its significant suggestions, when the American people as a unit may be called upon to celebrate and recognize it as a day of deliv- erance from foreign bondage of a neighboring territory and hail that territory as one of the living and independent Republics on the American Continent. Tue Cunrency.—Comptroller Knox has written very elaborate report on the cur- rency, further extracts from which we print this morning. From these extracts it will be seen that he assumes there is a large party in favor of removing the restrictions of the National Currency act requiring the banks of the last Congress in his appoint- | bear he goos to work vigorously to destroy it. mmatior nublic LHe also. ceugate hia recommendations of last to keep « certain amount of money as reserve against liabilities, Having created this bug- General N. P. Banks arrived at the Windsor Hlotot yesterday from Boston. Congressman B. W. Harris, of Massachusetts, it at the Gienham Hotel, Judge Josiah G, Abbott, of Bostan, has apart ments at the Brevoort House. Rev. Dr. Hare, Episcopal Bishop..of Niobrara, it. staying at the St. Denis Hotel. Judge Amaga J. Purker, of Albauy, yesterday ar+ rived at tne St. Nicholas Hotel. Professor: U. M. Mead, of Andoser Seminary, i — registered at the Everett House. 4 United States Senator Dorsey, of Arkansaey (8 _ staying at the St, Nicholas Hotel. Congressman Alexander Mitehell, of Wisconsim, has arrived at the Hofman House. Judge B, Platt Carpenter, of Poughkeepsie, ie regratered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Paymaster P. P. G. Hall, United States army, ip ~ quartered at the Sturtevant House, ‘ John Ripley, 9934, and the oldest inhabitant the region, died in Bath, Me., lately. Richard T. Merrick, the Washington layyer, Us on a “brief” visit at the. Gilsey House. &, Welly Pugin, the eminent English architeot, arrived at the Brevoort House yesterday. Congressman H. H. Hathorn arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday. from Saratoga. And now Governor Moses, of South Carolina is to be impeached for corrupt practices. in office, Rev. Phillips Brooks, Boston’s faverite preacher,, is among the recent arrivals at the Windsor Hotet, Congressman Erastus Wells, of Missouri, is tarry- ing at the Windsor Hotel, on aia way to Wash- ington. It is reported that General Banks’ eldest daugh- ter is engaged to be married to ex-Governor Wars moth, of Louisiana, Semmes is not a candidate for Mayor of Mobile. ‘The ex-rebel “Admiral” is not used to navigating: in political waters. Che-Ting has been charged with swindling & brother Chinee in Cincinnati. Why not spell his name in the right way? Dr. Reinkins, the Old Catholic Bishop of Gere many, has refused to be a candidate for a seat um the Chamber of Deputies. The Emperor William will probably visit Roma early in 1874, He will reside at the hotel of the German Embassy, and not at the Quirinal, Miss Maggie L. Burbridge, eldest daughter of General S. G. Burpridge, of Kentucky, naa been married to Daniel G. Hatch, in Covington, Ky. - Edward A. Vose. for many years a well known politician at the North End (Boston), aud familiare ly known as‘‘Patty’’ Vose, died on the 24th inst. Thirty-three Watertown women were recently: searched for smuggled goods coming from Prea- cott, Canada, and all but four were found trying te smuggle something over. Mrs. Clem, the alleged Indiana murderess, 1s ta! have a fourth trial. Some of the newspaper people ous th ¢ are curious $9 know where the money Gomes from to cA¥ky bn thése expensive suits, Senator George S. Boutwell and Representatives Butler, Dawes, EK. R. Hoar and G. F, Hoar, of Mas- sachusetts, yesterday arrived at the Fiith Avenue Hotel. General Butler leit for Washington last evening. Samuel A. Hitchcock, a wealthy citizen’of Brime field, Mass., and a generous benefactor of Amherst College and several colleges in the West, died last Monday, aged 80 years, He leaves an estwte esti- Mated at $3,000,000. AMUSEMENTS. Italian Opera—Aida. The second performance of Verdi’s last an@ most scientific work drew a very large audience ta the Academy of Music last evening. The cast was the same as on the first night and the periormance was very much better in many respects. Mile. Torriani in the third act, in the duets with Am- nasro and Radames, displayed more dramatio power and intensity of expression than her first appearance in the title rdle had led one to ex- ect, ams sa Gury made IMA meee ie part of the Bn Amiberis. The Bletaione of the uncertain tone of the stage trumpets in the grand march of the second act has passed away, and nothing could be more satisfactory than the grand outburst of the entire orchestra, military band, stage trumpets and chorus in the finale, “Gloria all’ Egitto.” The judgment scene in the last act, with its weird surroundings, was a com- lete triumph in’ point of general effect, ‘ampanini in this opera proves himself the most accomplished and conscientious tenor. we have had in this countiy since the days of Salvi. The sombre character of the High Priest is ad- mirably represented by Signor Nannetti. With such, magnificent mise en scene well trained chorus and orchestra and effective distribution of the peace roles, the success of ‘‘AYda” under Mr. trakosch’s management 1s assured. The unceas- ing exertions of Signor Muzio in the orchestra and of Herr Behrens on the stage have borne good fruit, which, it is to be hoped, will prove a financial harvest for the manage/, who nas dared so much tu the cause of true art. Musical and Dramatic Notes. Mr. F. ©. Burnand is about to come out as @ public reader. Herr Rubinstein has been performing qt Milan, in connection with the Quartet Society, The place of the Vokes tamily in the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane will be occupied thig year by Miss Kate Vaughan’s ballet troupe. The following is the most toothsome bit of news to European opera goers which ts found in the foreign papers:—‘‘It is reported from New York that Mme, Nilsson-Rouzeaud is in an interesting situation.” Mme Cecilia Fernandez Bentami, the wife of the actor of that name, ‘has had a great success in the part of Rosina, in the “Barbiere,” at the Come munal Theatre of Ferrara, In English Mme, Ben- tami is plain Mrs, Bentham. Signor Gardini has produced Verdi's “AYda” at Trieste, with Mesdames Fricci and Mariani, MM. Capponi, Pandolfini, and Maina in the principal! parts, The mise en scéne ts said to be supurb, and the opera bouse is crammed every night. The death of Mrs. Ternan, the once popular actress, is announced, She was known as Mis@ Jurman, Her last appearance was at the Lyceum, London, in 1865, under Mr. Fechter’s management, when she played Alice in “The Master of Ravens wood.” The discovery of anew Swedish nightingale ts announced. Martha Ericson, a servant girl of Stockholm, is about to proceed to Parts for edu. cation, She is said to have a marvellous voice, and already figures in print as the ‘future rival of Christine Nilsson.” Madame lima de Murska and her husband, Count Richard Nugent, of the Austrian army; Madame Lucca and her husband, Baron Wallhoffen, late of the Prussian army; Ronconi and Vizzant left this city on Thanksgiving Day by the steamer City of New York for Havana. ‘The director of the Italian Opera House in Parig 16 still in search of tenors and barytones, At present Mme. Krauss and Mile. de Bellocca‘are the chief attractions, but the subscribers are asking for novelties, the old répertoire being exhausted, The tenor, Signor De Bassint, of the San Carlo @ Naples, is to be tried, ARKANSAS, Arrival at Little Rock of the Clarksvilie Desperadoes. Lirt.® Rook, Noy. 27—6:30 P. M. The six o'clock train trom Olarksville, Which is Just in, brings the prisoners Sid, Wallace and Clark, heavily ironed, guarded by 15 armed meu, A rescue on the way was expected. Wallace is 2% years of age and a handsome fellow. He said they were “going to Cuba,” to the HeraLn corre. spondent and others looking on:—"'We are tho wildest fighters you have seen yet."’ They wili bw kept here until mber 23, Wallace will be vaken back to Clarksville iccuaremens Greate ov ee irene