The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1875, Page 7

THE PANDORA HEARD FROM, A Pleasant Voyage to Disco and Waygart Straits, THE CREW WORKING WELL. Some Ice Collisions, but No Damage Done. CAPTAIN YOUNG'S POPULARITY. [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE, ] Lonvon, Oct. 11, 1875. Letters have been received here from ‘Captain Allen Young and one of the officers ‘of the Pandora, dated Disco, August 6, and Waygart Straits, August 9, The letters describe the voyage as having been pleasant. The Pandora coaled at Disco. ICE COLLISIONS, They had some collisions with icebergs in the course of the voyage, but the vessel was not injured. THE CREW WORKING WELL. ‘The officer's letter describes the crew as working well. The doctor, artists, officers and the Herarp correspondent have at times lent a hand at the capstan. All on board fare alike, YOUNG'S KINDNESS, Captain Young is greatly praised for his kindness and his strict maintenance of dis- cipline. THE FOX SEEN. In Ivigtut Bay they saw the Fox. THE DUELLO IN FRANCE. TWO YOUNG AMERICANS FIGHT WITH SWORDS NEAR PARIS—AN OLD FAMILY VENDETTA— ONE OF THE COMBATANTS WOUNDED IN THE ARM. {SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD BY CABLE. ] Panis, Oct. 11, 1875. A duel was fought with swords at Vesinet, near Paris, yesterday, between two young Americans, named respectively Riggs and Paine. AN OLD FAMILY VENDETTA. The cause was an old family vendetta, which was renewed last Thurday night in the Renaissance Theatre. Blows were ex- changed before the audience and the police interfered. ; PAINE WOUNDED. The result of the duel was that Paine was wounded slightly in the arm. THE WAR IN TURKEY. BERVIA AND TURKEY SHOWING A PEACEFUL DISPOSITION. Lonpow, Oct, 11, 1875. The Daily Telegraph has a special telegram this morn- ing stating that Servia and Turkey have mutually agreed to withdraw the troops from the frontier, ENGLAND AND FRANCE IN COMMUNICATION RELA-~ TIVE TO THE TURKISH DEBT. Panis, Oct. 11, 1875. It ts reported that the British and French govern- g@onts are in communication relative to the steps to be taken in view of the recent eaict in regard to the Turkish debt, SPAIN. GABALLS GOING TO SWITZERLAND—THE MADRID CABINET TO DEMAND HIS EXTRADITION— RELATIONS WITH THE VATICAN. Loypoy, Oct, 11, 1875, The Carlist General Sabalis goes to Switzerland. Spain intends to demand Ais surrender as a robber, The Spanish Minister to the Vatican has presented a goto to Cardinal Antonelli relative to the Concordat, FIRE AT SANTANDER. Saytanper, Oct. 11, 1875. A great fire is now raging in a timber yard near the failway depot, in this city, The premises contain @ great quantity of pine timber. CARDINAL M’CLOSKEY. Roms, October 11, 1875, Cardinal McCloskey will leave this city to-morrow. He goes first to Paris, He will afterward visit Cardinal Manning at London and Cardinal Cullen in Ireland, He has ordered here » splendid marble altar for the Roman Catholic Cathedral of New York, costing 340.000, ITALY AND THE CENTENNIAL. — Rome, Oct. 11, 1875. Italy will appoint a committee of Italians resident in America to act at the Centennial Exhibition at Phila- delphia, The Pope will send two mosaics representing ‘the Madonna, by Raphael, and St. Agnes, by Gentili, HOLLAND AND VENEZUELA. STATEMENT OF THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER. Tar Hacen, Oct, 11, 1875 ‘The Minister of Foreign Affairs stated in the Chamber of Deputies to-day that the situation with regard to Venezucla was not such as to cause disquietude, but serious enough to counsel prudence. BEGINNING AT PHILADELPHIA, MOODY AND SANKEY TO COMMENCE IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE AND NOT IN THE CITY OF CHURCHES. Prinapevpnta, Oct. 11, 1875, Ata meeting of clergymen and laymen held this afternoon a telegram was received from Mr. Moody, the revivalist, reading as follows:— “1 have asked Brooklyn to let me off. 1 will com. mence work in your city on October 31, God willing.” GOLD DISCOVERY. EPORT FROM MR. JANNEY, OF THE BLACK HILLS EXPEDITION. Wasuivetos, Oct. 11, 1875. ‘The Commissioner of Indian Affairs received the fol- lowing despatch to-day from Walter P. Janney, geolo- gist, exploring the Black Hills:— Camp on Rapip Creek, Sept, 29, 1875. T have discovered gold in small quantities in the Bear Lodge Mountains, about twenty miles east of the Litue Missouri Buttes, in the northeastern portion of the Black Hills. The fleld is limited in area, not exceeding fifty square miles, and ts wholly in Wyoming, being soparated from the region about Harney's Peak by the Red Water Vaijey. The gold is derived from the de- composition of Wetgen of feldspar porphyry, carrying oxides of iron and maganese, no ce being found in the region, and the deposits, as as examined, are gravel bars of limited area, near the heads of the moun- tal 8 flowing In belts from the river. [have moarly completed the work of survey, and expect to reach Fort Laramie, on my rewurn, about October TROUBLE AT THE COLLIERIES. FIGHTING AT SHENANDOAH—AN ATTEMPT AT MURDER—A TRAMP SEIZES A COLLIERY COL- LECTOR—A SKIRMISH WITH REVOLVERS. Porrsvituz, Pa., Oct. 11, 1875, At Shenandoah up to noon to-day all was reported quiet, but affairs were in an unsettled condition, busi- ness being at a standstill and precautions being taken in every direction to prevent another outbreak. ‘The situation this morning was unchanged, But ono _arrgst was made last night by the police, and that o? & ian who was out after nine o'clock, heedle: of the Deputy Sheriff's Proclamation. There was some excitement this afternoon ca by a detachment of police starting in Pursuit of a tramp who had attacked Joseph Taylor on the outskirts of the town, Taylor had business at the William Penn colliery, and had collected some money, The tramp demanded his money, when Taylor felt for nis revolver, The former suddenly sprang upon Taylor seizing his hands, and at the same time drawing a revolver, and The tramp discharged ‘the ng for Taylor's —_ heart. Taylor made a sudden turn in time to save his life, the bafl grazing his ear and passing through the rim of his hat, Taylor then shot the man‘in the hip, and came to town fearing more trouble. The man has not been found, and has wobably been taken care of by parties in the neighbor- ood. ‘There is some excitement in the city to-night, occasioned by a watchman being fired upon at a colliery in New Philadelphia. Apprehending trouble during the night a number of special police left in carriages for New Philadelptna, in charge of Detective Kaencher, to make arrests and bring the guilty parties here. MURDER OF A COLLIERY WATCH- 4 MAN, Porrsviz, Pa., Oct. 11, 1875. Thomas Devine, the night watchman at the Palmer Vein Colliery, near New Philadelphia, was shot and probably mortally wounded to-night while on his way to work. ‘His’ assailant escaped, CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD, A MOVEMENT BY THE VIRGINIA HOLDERS OF BONDS-—THE COMMENCEMENT OF LENGTHY LITIGATION—OPPOSITION TO THE FORE- CLOSURE SALE, Ricumonp, Va, Oct. 11, 1875. The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad case assumed a mew phase to-day, in the filing of a petition by the Hon, James Lyons, trusteo for the Virginia holders of bonds, in a million loan to the Virginia Central Rail- road, in 1854, the latter road being afterward merged into the former. This petition prays that these bond- nolders be made parties to the suit now instituted, in order to protect their interests, which, they claim, are paramount to all others, as the one million loan to the Virginia Contral is a first lien. This petition was id will be served on the receiver and tho ze bondholders to-morrow morning. On the other hand, the latter deny that the issued by the Virginia Central Railroad are a superior or prior lien to their own, and they further state that the first mortgage bonds which their clients hold omer 3 confers upon them a first paramount and absolute lien on the property of the entire Chesa- peake and Ohio road. From present indications there will be endless litiga- tion, either for actual or technical grounds, which will ostpove any foreclosure sale to an indefinite period. Weakwhite the meagre receipts of the road will be swallowed up in legal proceedings, and this great line, 428 miles in length, will daily become less valuable. The suspicion is $0 strong here that the hasty appoint- ment of a receiver {s the beginning of a movement to secure control of the road by the Baltimore and Ohio, or some other foreign corporation, that a foreclosure sale will be mot with the strongest opposition. To-day the receiver inspected the offices, the workshops, the wharves on the Janies River aud all other buildings be- longing to the company. He also opened a bank ac- count, set a corps of clerks to work on the accounts of the road, and wound up the day’s work by engaging local associate counsel, A BATCH OF INDICTMENTS. THIRTY-FIVE BILLS OF INDICTMENT FOUND BY THE MERCER COUNTY GRAND JURY, INCLUD- ING FIVE AGAINST THE DEFAULTING STATE TREASURER, SOOY—EX-ASSEMBLYMAN PATTER- SON INDICTED BY THE MONMOUTH COUNTY GRAND JURY. Trenrox, N. J., Oct. 11, 1875. The Mercer county Grand Jury came into court this evening with thirty-five bills of indictment. Among them are five against the defaulting State Treasurer, Sooy—four for embezzlement and one for misconduct in office; one against James Keenan for murder in the first degree, and two for assault with intent to kill, re- spectively against James Tooley and David Whittaker, prisoners will be arraigned on Wednesday and Thursday next. In Monmouth county to-day the Grand Jury indicted George W. Patterson, ex-member of Assembiy and defeated candidate for State Senator before the late Democratic Convention, for embezzle- ment, while in the office of Collector, of county funds. NORTH CAROLINA CONVENTION, AN ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE—IMPORTANT OR- DINANCES PASSED—FAILURE OF THE REPUDI- ATION SCHEME, Ratricn, N. C., Oct. 11, 1875. The State Constitutional Convention adjourned sine die this evening at six o’clock, after a session of thirty- one working days. In the last few days of the session many important ordinances were passed, amounting to @ general emanctpation of the Legisiature from the re- strictions under which it has labored since 1868, and giving it larger powers. The public debt question was not interfered with, but several ineffectual attempts were made to repudiate the special tax bonds, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE FROLIC AT BERMUDA. Brraupa, Oct, 6, 1875 The United States steamer Frolic, from Norfolk, bound to South America, arrived in Murray’s anchor- age yesterday morning, In want of coal, ORDERS. Wasutycrow, Oct. 11, 1875. Captain J. C. P. De Kraft is ordered to duty as Cap- tain of the League Island Navy Yard. Assistant Pay- master W. C. McGowan is ordered to the Pawnee, at Port Royal, 8. ©. Passed Assistant Engineer Joho Pemberton js detached from the Plymouth and placed on the sick list. A PILGRIMAGE PROCESSION. Orrawa, Ont, Oct, 11, 1875. The congregation of St. Patrick's church held their flgrimage procession here yesterday. There wore 000 persons in the procession. All passed off quietly. GUIBORD’S FUNERAL. Monrreat, Canada, Oct. 11, 1875, No day has been appointed for the funeral of Gui- bord’s remains, and it is possible {t may be deferred for @ considerable time. THE STORM IN NOVA SCOTIA. Hauspax, N. 8., Oct, 11, 1875. The storm of ust night did considerable damage in Onpe Breton. at North Sydney a number of vessels were much damaged by dragging their anchors and colliding. Several buildings were blown down, but no lives were lost. At Sydney @ new warchouse on tho whart was lifted by the wind and carried into the sea. At Port Hastings the gale commenced at nine P. M. from the southeast, and continued three hours, when the wind veered to northwest, blowing a hurricane, cansing all the vessels in the harbor to drag their anchors, EVENING WEATHER REPORT. War DRrartMent, Ovrice oF THR Ontey SioxaL OrPricen, Wastixaros, Oct. 11—7:80 P, M. Probabilities. For the upper lakes, the Lower Missouri, Upper Mississipp! and Ohio valleys and Tonnessee, rising barometer, cold, clear or partly cloudy weather, north- west to northeast winds ana frosts, For the Gu!fand South Atlantic Statos, rising barome- ter, northwesterly to northeasterly winds and cooler, partly cloudy weather. ‘ For the lower lakes, the Middle and Eastern States, northwesterly winds, falling temperature, cloudy or partly cloudy weather and occasional rain, clearing during Tuesday. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- feitene crise Gorm Loe of last year, as indi e thermometer at dna’ Hanaio Building: — sigh enclraid 1574. 1875. 1874, 1875, 68 4 50 3:30 P. <4) GP 64 at OP. M 58 12 M.... . 47 12M Averego temperature b nga Average temperature for corresp: a INFLATION TALK. MR. WILLIAM D. KELLEY’S LECTURE AT THE COOPER INSTITUTE. A fair audience assembled in the Cooper Institute last evening to hear Mr. William D. Kelley's lecture on “Finance,” under the auspices of the New York Board of Trade, Omthe platform were Messrs, Peter Cooper, Pliny Freeman, Theodore Tomlinson, Frederteck A. Potts, William H. Morrell, Congressman Willis, Eugene Beebe, Andrew Gilsey, Robert McCafferty, Kichard | Schell and other officers of the Board of Trade. The Speaker was introduced to the audieneg by Mr. George Opdyke, President of the Board of Trade. He began by saying that the occasion afforded him An opportunity of serving acause which he velieved involved the welfare of his countrymen, If there were anything in tho lunacy with which he was charged he had an extensive kindred, His object was to ascer- tain what was money and to show how British and American commerce bad been reduced to & species of gambling He disclaimed any claim to originality. All he had to tell them was learned from others, To Horace Greeley he was greatly indebted for many of the suggestions he might offer. Gold is not money, nor is silver or paper; but all have been used as the material of money. They have been used by nations, but they have been frequently changed without interfering with the value of the coin, No fixed amount of gold or silver embodied in a coin is money. Money is the creatufe of law. In different countries it is variously expressed, Its crucial test is where it is declared a payment of all debts within the Mmits of the country where {t ts ordained. As an ilbus- tration, for nearly 600 years the paper of the Bank of Venice commanded a premium over gold and silver, and when it went to thirty per cent over golda law was passed prohibiting the paper from going higher than twenty per cent above par. In a commercial crisis what men went Is legal tender. In Calcutta, in the year 1864, silver was the legal tender, and gold was dis- regarded. In Germany to-day you can pay debts in silver, but after vanuary 1 you cannot, It 18 silver still, and why is it you cannot pay debts in silver? Because that money ts the creation of law. Paper and gold will not circulate coincidently in the one country, The notes of the Bang of France are full legal tender. The government compels all its people to receive their notes as legal tender, and tne result ts that gold, silver and paper circulate coincidently there—circulate on the same level. The circulation in France to-day is £$469,000,000 legal tender silverand $1,250,000 gold. The trouble with this country to-day Is that green- backs are nota full legal tender. The Senate of the United States, listening to the voice of the charmer— tho creditor of the country abroad—amended the House bill and compolled the interest of the bonds and the dues atthe Custom House to be paid in gold. He could never forget the bitter tears Thaddeus Stevens shed when he saw the disposition of the Senate to favor the bank monopolies and to compel the men who fought for the existence of the Union to be content witl Lew ges while the foreigner gets his inverest in gold. It was this policy that has made the gold room of Wall street the vampire of the country and made such people as Jay Gould and Jim Fisk possible. PUNCTIONS OF MONKY. ‘The speaker asked what were the functions of money ? Tt was the tool by which values are transferred from person to person, It was a circnlating medium that might be compared to the life blood of the nation. There should be enough of money in nicely adjusted quantities to stir every branch of business, but banks find it their interest to contract the current coin of the realm ¢o that their rates of credit may be advanced. Ho did not favor either extreme inflation or extreme con- traction, and he thought extreme inflation the worst evil of the two. He was no inflationist, but what he wanted was a system of money that would meet the varying demands of the tines. What was necded was a currency that would contract and expand to meet the wants of trade, To call a demand for more currency to move the crops | inflation was entirely untair. He referred to the bese I of the war and insisted that only for paper convert into money decreed legal, the North could never have carried on the contest. Here the speaker launched out into @ brilliant picture of the prosperity that reigned throughout the country after the introduction of legal tenders during the first year of the war. The sketch was 80 attractive as to provoke enthusiastic applause from an audience that no doubt found the money mar- ket extremely tight. Mr, Kelley next went into a history of the greenback movement, of Mr. Chase's calling for $50,000,000, quoting his expression that ‘the Treasury’ of the government was mado the savings bank of the people.” Here the speaker, referring again to Horace Greeley, went into a long statement to refute the arguments against him made by the paper which has ceased to be conducted by Mr. Greeley, He concluded his speech amid loud appla WENDELL PHILLIPS. ANOTHER LETTER IN FAVOR OF SOFT MONEY— A REPLY TO THE OBSERVATIONS OF CARL! SCHURZ AT ST. LOUIS—HARD MONEY MEN ““THE PECKSNIFFS OF POLITICS,” Bostox, Oct. 11, 1875, Wendell Phillips will publish in the Boston Herald, to-morrow, the following in reply to Mr. Schurz’s last remarks :— To Tax Error or tuk Boston Hpranp— Mr. Schurz says nothing at’St, Louis that needs or deserves notice. Abuse of me is not argument, and whether true or false is of no consequence to the American people. His facts have no bottom to rest on, He invents them to meet a difficulty, Mr. Carey’s argument that “during the war the amount of our currency did not cause the variation in gold” wholly demolished his theory of inflation, Ho tries to escape by affirming that those variations im gold were caused by men’s doubts of the nation’s willingness or ability to pay its debts. But this pretence will not serve. The years 1863 and 1864 wero our most despondent years; yot the price of gold in 1863 and the opening of '1804 averaged about the same as in 1866 and 1868, when peace and victory had long settled all such doubts, Again, if such doubts during the war depreciated our greerfbacks they would | of course have aiso depreciated our bonds and made | them vary constantly. Yet our 1881 bonds steadily | Tose from 1862to 1868. Of course, such doubts had their influence, but not enough to -touch the hem of | Mr. Cary’s argument. Such hasty inventions make what the Senator calls ‘facts’ and ‘practical States- manship.’’ But this discussion in Ohio is deeper than words. Three-quarters of this nation are borrowers, Only one-quarter are 1enders, A law compellfng specio yients is simply the lenders robbing the borrowers, he gpecio men parade themselves as the party of “public honesty.” Look at it Tho man who borrowed $100 lust month must, if the law | forces resumption, settle his debt a $117 to is Thus the capitalist robs debtor by asking the gov- ernment for such alaw. Let specie ‘resumption como in the regular course of business and it is honest; forco it by law and it is only a trick by which wealth adds | one-sixth to every poor man’s debt. Government has J a right to interfero between debtor and creditor in tho 4 emergency of war and to save the State. This justifies our Legal Tender law. Goverument has no right to change the relations of creditor and debtor in such | time of peace as this, Laws compelling resumption are the basest injustice, the most cruel oppression and wholesale robbery. ‘Let us hear no more of such men’s talk of public honesty, They are the dishonest party, stealing under pre- text of law their neighbor's goods This party of the money men swindled the people when they In- creased the load of the debt by making our bonds, which had been sold to be pad tn paper, to be payable in gold. Thoy swindled usa seecond time when they broke tho pledge and forbid _greenbacks to be redeema- ble in five-twenty bonds, They will swindle us a third time if they force a man who yesterday borrowed $100 to pay to-morrow $117 to settle his debt. Measure, tf | you can, the impudence of such a party—the Peck- sniffs of politics, with their hands in their neighbors’ pockets and boring their victims all the while with everlasting chatter about “public honesty.”” WENDELL PHILLIPS. OBITUARY. SENATOR WILLIAM JOHNSON. A despatch from Seneca Falls, N. Y., announces the death of Senator William Johnson, of apoplexy, at three o'clock yesterday morning. He reacled home Sunday morning, having been !n New York city since Thursday. Tho funeral will take place on Wednesday, Mr. Johnson represented the Twenty-sixth Senatorial district In the State Senate for the last four years, and also represented Seneca county in the Assembly of 1861, He was for many years a manufacturer at Seneca Falls, Ho was born in Volney, Oswego county, in 1820, and was consequently in’ his Aity-aith year, He was a genial gentleman, and in politics he was a democrat, OTIS REED. Otis Reed, actor and elocutionist, and for many years the Lord Dundreary of Laura Keeno’s company, died | in Boston last night, DAVID N. MARVIN, A despatch from Jamestown, N. Y., announces the death of David N. Marvin, cashier of the Chantanqua National Bank, and son of Hon. R. P. Marvin, yesterday morning. A POST OFFICE ROBBED. Tho Post Office on Newark avenue, Jersey City Heights, was entered by burglars yesterday mornivg and robbed of money, postage stamps, postal carda, stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, valued at $200, Tho entrance was effected through a back win- | dow. A large iron bolt was first removed, then tho shutters were opened and the glass was cut out close to | the window fastening, About the samo time the store | of Mr, G. BE. Dudley, on Summit avenuo, near the Post Offica, was entered ip a similar manner, but the thief ‘was very poorly rewarded, as vhore was at little money in the store. Thare ia no clew to the thieves AMUSEMENTS. MISS KELLOGG IN ENGLISH OPERA. The opening of the English opera season, at Booth's Theatre, last night, was quite as briiliant as the warmest friends of Miss Kellogg could reasonably desire, The | house was filled witn an enthusiastic audience, and “Mignon” was sung to geueral satisfaction. The slight resemblance which this to .the noble story upon which it is ostensibly founded, exists to a much greater degree in its plot than in its feeling. The mystery with which Goethe arrayed the most beautiful of bis heroines is necessarily dispelled by the necessary logic of the stage, which is rarely satisicd until it has explained poesy by fact. But the music is charming, the drama- tig effects powerful, and the scent of the rose lingers around the shattered vase. The exquisite ideality aud intense eager passion of “Know’st thou the land? especially as sung by Miss Kellogg, would alone cutitle Ambroise Thomas to the gratitude of the pablic, Much of the music is, however, merely pretty, and without other originality than that of a delicate and peculiar treatment, It is the originahty of a conscious method and not of an unconscious inspiration. Yet it is im- possible for the severest critic to complain of the ca- pricious brilliancy of many of the airs. The occasional overty of their ideas is most felt when they are pro- jonged, as when Miss Julia Rosewald received en- cores for the gavotte and the polonaise, This lady who made her first appearance here, is of petite, pretty yppearance, and has self-posesinom and much Skill as ‘an actress. and much flexibility of yoive. ‘The quality of her voice, molten, ts metallic still, Miss Beaumont made a very delightiul Frederick. The grand eg of the even- | ing was, of course, given to Miss Kellogg, who was almost smothered in bouquets and recalled thrice over, As she bore them from the stage we could not help wondering, in recollection of Pauline, *‘Who could have sent her those beautiful flowers ?”" They seemed to come from all parts of the theatre, And then we thought how easily It {s for Miss Kellogg to realizo the desire of Lady teazle, who wished it was ever summer, that she might always tread upon roses, Mr. Castle, Mr. Peakes and the other members of the company sung their parts admi- rably, and the opening night augurs a season of more than usual brilliancy. THE TITIENS CONCERT LAST NIGHT. The fourth of the sories of Titiens concerts was given at Steinway Hall last night, Mile. Titiens singing an aria from ‘Don Giovanni” in a duo with Mr. Tom Karl and repeating Arditi’s “L’Ardita” valse. The last named piece, it will bo remembered, was her popular success on the night of her first appearance, and it has been repeated at every concert since, Although it is notan adequate measure of her powers as an artist it is, perhaps, her best effort on a concert stage, 6o far as the general public is concerned, and tt 1s not surprising that its frequent repetition should be demanded. Last night, with an unusually cold audience, it earned, as on every previous occasion, a hearty recall, and was sung a second time In response to an urgent demand, In the “Don Giovanni” aria the prima donna showed that breadth and force which have for so many years distinguished her art; but the duo “Parigi o Cara,” from *‘La Traviata,” was spoiled by the ineffective sing- ing of Mr. Tom Karl. His voice seems a hollow mockery when he attempts to bring it tnto unison with the Laharry eskene of Mme. Titiens, Mme. Goddard played with her usual acceptability, woop's MUSEUM. “Mazeppa”” was produced last evening to a tolerably good house at Wood’s Museum, The play presents a strange medley of high-flown Byronic poetry and farcical dialogue, and might be called either a tragical comedy or a comical tragedy, Both features were highly relished by the audience, which was evidently as fond of bloody deeds of valor as {t was of telling broad jokes and hearty laughter. The “wild horse” which bears off Mazeppa into the wilderness behaved as wildly as could be expected, and Mazeppa, who pro- sented the outlines of a very plump young female, was a tremendous hero of the most finished romantic pattern, GERMANIA THEATRE, At the Germania Theatre last evening ‘Honest Labor” was acted to a house crowded from pit to dome. The performance has greatly improved In finish and smooth- ness and is now one of the most laughter-provoking ones in the city. 1t willbe repeated overy night till further notice, SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS. The San Fmncisco Minstrels interpreted an amusing programme last evening. There wasa fair supply of jokes new to the boards of a minstrel theatre, and pro- ductive of much hilarity, After the first part, during which the singing, by the way, was not nearly so good as the jesting, “Governor Ryman” gave his views on the financial crisis, which, if not 60 profound as those of Carl Schurz, were far more amusing. ‘Our Boys’? concluded the entertainment, and as a “highly emo- tional furniture drama," as the programme announces it, it. was an emphatic success. An attractive pro- gramme will be presented every night this week. THEATRE COMIQUE, ‘This cosey little theatro is well filled nightly, and the performanches are heartily appreciated. There ts a new sketch by John Wild, entitled “A School for Husbands.’ Misses Ada Oliver, Nelly St. John and Virginia petit sper in their songs and character changes, and Allen, Schooleraf and Coes, the Ainsleys and Burnets amuse the audience with various special ties and burlesques. A new local drama called “Tho Picnic’ concludes the entertainment, OLYMPIC THEATRE. Thore was standing room only at the Olympic last night Harper and Stansil continue in their songs and dances, and the Worrell sjsters remain prime favorites, ‘There ure also Rooney, Adah Richmond, the Hamtown Students, the Carlo brothers and the Raynors. A new local extravaganza introduces newsboys, policemen, pugilis and other representatives of metropolitan society. METROPOLITAN THEATRE. Tony Pastor and his well selected company drow ‘a large audience last night Jennie Morgan, the Field- ings, the Freeman sisters and Gus Williams excite the iaughter and applause of the lovers of amusement, but Tony, as usual, does not permit himself to be eclipsed even by such favorites of the public as thesa, MUSICAL AND DBAMATIC NOTES. Theodore Thomas will give concert in Chicago to- morrow night, “Our Boys’’ is successful in three leading cities—New York, Boston and Philadelphia, Dr. Hans Von Bilow, the pianist, arrived yesterday in Boston on the steamer Parthia, His first appearance will be in the Boston Music Hall on the 18th inst, The Cincinnati Commercial says:—“The aggregate of money expended by visitors to places of amusement here In the last four weeks was probably never equalled in this city in the same time.” Brown, the mind reader, thinks about giving a public exhibition this week in Chicago, His hesitation is only due to the fact that he does not know the public mind well enough to judge of his reception. A new society drama was to have been produced In Cincinnati last night, entitled “White Sulphur,” by C. F. Callihan, Itis the first original comedy that has been given in that city for twenty years, The Kiralfy troupe, which has just ended a successful season at the Academy of Music, will return to New York in the holidays, when new specialties are prom- | ised for “The Voyage Around the World.” It ts very plain, after all the experiments have been tried, that ‘Queen Mary” cannot be made a successful acting play, and that its failure ts not to be attributed to any errors of the adaptors but to the inherent unfitness of the poom, It is superseded this week at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia, by the Oates Opera Company ip “Girofé-Girofla,” THE OPERA IN NEW YORK. WHY MILLE, TITIENS WILL NOT APPEAR IN ITALIAN OPERA—AN EXPLANATION FROM MAX STRAKOSCH. To tur Eprron or the Hrraup:— Sin—Believing that each man has some sort of a right to choose bis own business and to conduct it in accordance with his means, and prospects, I take the liberty of addressing you regarding my own, Previous to and since the advont of Mile, Teresa Titiens in New York your criticism has been devoted more to what I ought to do, instead of to that which I chose to offer for the approval of the public. Your criticism ox- presses the belief that the general desire is to hear Mile, Titiens inopera, Iconsidered {t to my interest to engage this lady for converts, she having the same reputation in Europe both In concert, oratorio and opera, [respect too much the treedom of newspaper publication to contest the point whether your comments are within the sphore of legitimate eriticism, especially as I doubt not for a moment that they have been given in the honest attempt, not to injaro me, bat to express the sentiment of the public. And yet f dare to diffor with these opinions, and to belleve that these publica. tons injure me in my business, which [ havo a right to conduct in mv own way and in the certitude of the opera bears | however, is hard, and with all its ease, it | resembles a lightning rod struck by lightning—fused and { NEW YOKK HERALD, TUESDAY, UCLUBEK 1%, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. hopelessness of the success of another operatic expert- { ment, The general desire in New York of “the estab- lishment of opera on a permanent basis” (to use the sanctified smd technical phrase) I believe to be all gatemon and moeonshins, 80 much so | 45 to partake of the nature of an unmeaning expres- sou. Having studied the history of opera in New York for the past twenty-five years, and having in ad- dition sadly reflected upon my own experience in the same line, I venture the opinion that the people of | New York do not consider opera a necessity and have never shown a true desire for that oral luxury. For twenty-five years Mr. Max Maretzck bas attempted opera in New York, and has consistently jost in this city the | fortunes he made by itin Mexico and Havana, while, after all, he is now reduced to the necessity of giving singing lessons. My elder brother, Muurice Strakosch, aftor many operatic trials in New York, left for Europe nearly ruined, and succeeded very differ. ently there by his ability, Mr. Ulman, who was iong ago obliged to quit America in destitute circumstances, after three or four seasons of opera in New York, bas made an independent income in Europe by merely’ job- bing in operatic matters. In addition, your own bum- ble servant begs to state that he has made a fortune in concert which he has lost in opera, and bis experience has shown him that there are many persons in America who still have conscientious scruples against this style of entertainment. I could entertaia you at length about the advantages of opera managers in Europe, and the disadvantages of American impresaru, but this has been too often tol d you know tt too well. I came, therefore, agai) the conclusion that Italian opera is | no real want here, but that seemingly there has been a | preconceived determination shown ih your criticisin to force upon mo in ali kindness a business which | do not intend going into, and*which I consider ruinous. — | Yet, after all, I may be mistaken, and your views, | besides those of other papers who have fallen in line | with them, may be right, spite of my experience to the | | contrary, 'I am still quite willing to give way to better | Judgment, and to risk the remains of my fortune in a desire to cater to the true wants of the public. 1 would, | therefore, propose, with great respect, that you still | advocate unceasingly, and with all your great influ- ence, the undoubted’ advantages to urt, fashion and | civilization which would accrue from having a regular opera season in New York, and of hearing the Queen of | the lyric stage, Mile. Titiens, in her grand dramatic roles, surrounded by other great artistes; and [ therefore humbly suggest that conditional subscrip- tions be opened in the Herat office, and in the offices of the other journals whici advocate the same musical - pohey, and if the result of such a subscription should | prove beyond a doubt that opera is really wanted ere, 1 will bind myself to have the principal artists of Her Majesty's opera in London and Others congregated in New York before the Ist of January, and will then produce opera worthy the ex- | pectations of the subscribers and the general public. But until this has been proved I would beg to be ac- corded the right which every citizen has of choosing his own business, and being allowed to conduct it in the manner most conducive to his interest and consistent with his means, remain, your obedient servant New York, Oct. 9, 1875. it MAX STRAKOSCH, RAPID TRANSIT. THE PRESENT PHASE OF THE GREAT QUESTION— TWO IMPORTANT POINTS EXPLAINED. It cannot be denied that thore isa vast amount of | impatience among the public in regard to the practical | accomplishment of rapid transit, 30 mach has been written and said about it by the Commissioners, by | promoters and by engineers, as well as by amateur ex- perts, that people are tired of all this talk, and ask, “When will it all be over? When shall we have at last an elevated road on Third and Sixth avenues?’ The discomforts of street car travel make this impa- tience appear very natural, and there have been so many abortive efforts to solve the problem in the past | that there are a good many persons who are sceptical even now concerning the success of the present under- taking. Nevertheless, {t cannot be said that the Com- missiéners have in any way delayed their work; on the contrary, they have only been slow about it in order to weigh every consideration that can pussibly enter into | the subjectand make assurance of practical success doubly sure by forestalling all possible objections and dificulties, WHAT REMAIXS TO DE DONE. At present their work is practically completed, and they will hold but a few more meetings. Mr. Harrison, the Mayor's secretary and counsel to the commission, is preparing the articles of association for the Manhat- tan Company, which will be laid before the Commis- sioners at their meeting next Monday. The main fea- tures of these articles can be learned from the resolu- tions of the Commissioners, as already published in the Heratp, One of the principal conditions will be that the company will forfeit all their rights and franchises tf they do not complete the road in the time already agreed upon, It must be clearly understood that when the Commissioners adopted both Second and Third avenues as routes, they did not intend that roads should de built on both these avenues. Their idea was to in- sure the building of @ road in case Third avenue was closed to rapid transit. BETTER HAVE A ROAD ON SECOND AVENUE than to have none at all, is what they said substan- tially. Tho articles of association, therefore, will pro- vide that if the road be built on the Third avenue no forfeiture shall attach to the failure of building on the Second, But if the road Is built on the latter the com- pany is still not exempt from forfeiture of their fran- chises for failure to build on the Third All this is a practical enforcement of the requirement to buiid the road, if possible, on the Third avenue and not on the Second avenue, And still it may be well that the Com- missioners have lett open a loophole to rapid transit, so that the sickly and feeble bantling, if he should be killed off by Messrs, Phillips and Hart on the Third avenue, might still flourish on the Second, ‘There is one feature of the report of the Commisston- ers which has not been understood by the mass of the people—namely, the small capital of $2,000,000, “Why, that isn’t enough,” a great many say. But sbis sum ‘was only intended to bear the expenses OP THR FIRST SBCTION OF THE ROAD, ‘The law authorizes the company to increase its capl- tal from time to ume, as it may become necessary, and it would have been too onerous to compel it to subscribe at once five or ten times the amount needed. The Com- missioners are required to open a subscription book at the office of some banker by the Sth of November. It {8 not likely, however, that these subscriptions to the stock of the Manhattan Company will amount to much. There is no doubt that the two old companies—the Gil- bert and the New York—will build the roads under their original charters.) The Manhattan Company was only organized as an adjunct to the two older companies. If the latter should be prevented from building the roads under their old charters their capitalists can still build them in the name of the Manhattan Company. The intention of the latter was thus merely a piece of legal finesse prompted by forethought. In other words, if the Gilbert and New York companies should by some legal or other obstacle be prevented from carrying out the work, the Manhattan Company can still go on under its franchise from the Commissioners. In both cases the capitalists will most probably be the sama, Twenty thousand shares at $100 each will form the capital of the Manbattan Company. THR FIRST STEP, ‘The New York Company bas already taken some practical preliminary steps with regard vo the beginning of their work on Third avenue. This week six can- vassers will visit every property owner along Third avenue with a view of obtaining his consent These canvassers are supplied with printed forms of three «if- feront kinds—one for a general consent without any condition whatever, the second for a consent to a road in the centre and the third for one to a road along the curb of the avenue. The company, after secing the Hera.p’s returns, as indicated yesterday, does not expect to obtain the consent “of the owners of one- half in value of the property,” as the law provides, Far from it, They aro fully aware of the objections which the majority will raise. But after having canvassed the ground thoroughly they will be able to go before the Supreme Court, show that they have failed to obtain the consent of the majority and be ready to move for the appointment of the commission which is to decide whether Third avenue 1s a suitable place for such a road or not, ‘We mean business,” said Mr. Cowing, the secretary of the New York Company, yes- terday, THE GREENWICH STREET EXTENSION, Meanwhile it is gratifying to be able to chronicle a slight progress in the extension of the Greenwich atreet road, which is the only practical solution of the great question of rapid transit that has actually been at- tained, It was intended to have it completed by this me to Forty-second street, but owing to the delays of | the contractor this pleasant anticipation has been dis- appointed, only for a couple of weeks however. On Saturday twenty columns were set re Thirty-sixth Btreet, and yesterday they had all mn put in their places ag {ar'as Fortieth street. A neat platform, like | that at Warren street, will be erected at Forty-second | street, and In about two weeks—threo at the utmost— traing will be run to that point. Mr, Wyman, the Su- permtendent, thinks that within four or five weeks trains will be run to Fifty-ninth street, which will be a welcome piece of news to all the residents of that viv | cinity. ECLIPSE OF THE MOON. To tne Eprron or Tne Herarp:— It was stated in the Hwravp at the time of the total eclipse of the moon, a year ago, that on the 14th of the present month there would be an eclipse of the moon not predicted in the almanacs, I have verified the pro- diction by a computation showing that the moon will enter the carth’s penumbra at half-past four P, M.A quarter past six P. M. it will be immersed about two- thirds its diameter in the penumbra, and at that time the southern edge of the moon will receive from the sun but about one-fourth as much light as the north- ern edge, To the naked eye or in the telescope, robably this will not be easily perceptible; Bos by reducing the light, by looking at the moon through shades colored as deeply as will permit it vo | while Mr. Hate! 7 ce of differences when the light is brititant. A& Professor Rood says, “A point cau Snally ve reached where sensation does aot increase at ali, even though the actual brightness of the light 18 greatly mai- tiplied.”” The moon leaves the penumbra at eight P. M., without having entered the earth’s shadow at all; and, but for the Herat. announcement, probably none but the astronomers, and very few of them, would have suspected that the moon was shining with dimin- splendor. HENRY M. PARKHURST. New York, Oct. 11, 1876, THE YACHT RACE TO-DAY. FROM SANDY HOOK LIGHTSHIP TO AND AROUND CAPE MAY LIGHTSHIP AND RETURN. This afternoon, at four o'clock, the yachts Resolute, Vesta and Dreadnaught will start from Sandy Hook lightship on the race to and around Cape May lightshtp and return. Great interest is manifested by the whoie community of yachtsmen in the event; and there ts every reason to believe that it will be sharply con- tesied, as each of the boats have been put im the best possible trim and will be manned by picked crewa, The face will be sailed ander the rules of the New York Club and with time allowance, The owners, however, have agreed to do away with club topsails and balloom Jibs, carrying only mainstaysails and working sails, The racing crafts will rendezvous off the elud house at Stapleton, 8. 1., this morning, and about one o'clock they will be towed to the lightship, Several sister ves- sels are expected to be at the starting point to give them a pleasant send off, and ‘t was rumored yesterday after- noon that the Mohawk, which yacht has recentiy been fitted with a false keel, will accompany them over the course. The Resoluie’s judge on board the Vosta will be Mr. W. E. Greenleaf, owner of the Kaiser, ‘s interests on board the Dreadnaught will be cared for by Mr. Jos. P. Williams. On board the Resolute will be found Mr. John H. De Mott for the Vesta and Mr. £, S. Chapin for the Dreadnaught. The Kegatta Commitiee of the New York Clab has furnished the owners of the racing craft the time allowances in the race, which, based upon the distance of 206 miles, makes the Dreadnaught allow the Reso- lute Smo 45s., while the Resolute gives the Vesta 1m. 533. First class pilots will be lound on each of the | yachts, and the Dreadnanght, it is understood, has se- cured the services of Captain Joe Elsworth and Mr. William H. Langley, owner of the Comat, the latter having volunteercd for the occasion, A steamuug may make the journey with the racing boats, The dimensions and tonnage of the yachts that with be engaged tn this race are as jollows:— Reso.uTs, centreboard schooner—Length over all, 114 ft.; tength on water line, 105 ft; breadth of beam, | 25 tt. Tim.; depth of hold, 81; draught of water, 9% 2in.; tonnage, 206 tons, 0. M. Built at City Island, "1871, by David Caril; owner, Rufus Hatcn, Vesta, centreboard schooner—Length over all, 102 ength on water line, 100 ft. ; breadth of beam, 25 epth of hold, 8 {. 7 tn.; dranght of water, 7 ft. 6 in.’ tonnage, 201'tons, 0. M. Built at City Island, N. Y.,'1865, by David Carll; owner, J, M. Malls. Dreapvavaut, keel schooner—Length over all, 117 ft. 11 in; length on water line, 116 ft. Lin.; breadth of beam,’ 24 {t,, depth of hold, 9ft 7 in.; draught of water, 11 ft. 2 in.; tonnage, 251.62, 0, M. Built in Brooklyn, N. ¥., 1871, by Poillon Brothers; owner, C, J. Osbora, HOTEL ARRIVALS. United States District Judge George F. Shoploy, ot Maine, arrived last evening at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Congressman William D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, is re- siding temporarily at the Westminster Hotel. Rev. Dr. W. C. Cattell, President of Lafayette College, has apartments at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Judge Advocate Genera! Charles Hughes and General C. H. Smyth, ot Governor Tilden’s staff, are at the Sturtevant House, Congressman John 0, Whitehouse, of Poughkeepsie, has roturned to his old quarters at the Albermarle Hotel. Commodore Alexander Murray, United States Navy, and General Orlando M. Poe and Colonel George Gibson, United States Army, are quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Registered at the St. Nicholas Hotel are Colonel Marshall 8. Howe, United States Army, and Captain Partridge, Captain Tweedy, Lieutenant Murphy and Lieutenant Melvill, of the Ninety-seventh regi- ment, British Army. Congressman Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, is sojourning at the Hoffman House. Mr. Dewitt C. Ellis, Superintendent of the Bank De- partment, arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel last even- ing, from Albany. Adjutant General Franklin Town- send, of Governor Tildea’s stail, has taken up bis rest- dence at the Hotel Brunswick. Among the iate arri- vals at the Fifth Avenue Hotel are Congressman W. H. Barnum, of Connecticut; Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of St. Louis, and Colonel P. Figyelmesy, United States Consul at Demerara, A FACE WITH CHARMING FEATURES MAY BR rendered actually repulsive by blotches or pimples. Guxsy't Suurave Soar, promptly remodies all eomplexional ble {shes as well as local eruptions of the skin, burns, bruises ecalds, ac. ART IMITATING NATURE.—IT SEEMS AS [8 there were scarcely @ limit to human skill and ingenuity ‘Things heretofore considered impossible are performed every day, and now we have a learned savan of Paris turning out diamonds by the thousand from his laboratory, as beautiful 4s pure and as durable as any ever taken from the the earth. How he does it is bis secret, which he will not divulge. Even his name is unknown, but the fact that he accumplishes this wonderful think is andisputable. Its Panistan DiaMonps are worn by the noblesse of the most fashionable salons and are to be seen only in New York at the jeweiry store of RICHARD HUMPHREY, No. 77 Broadway. They are beautifully set in solid gold, (sadhane| one-thirtloth as iauch as real diamonds, Insting as long retaining their brilliancy forever. A.—PATENT WIRE SIGNS AND POLITICAL OPEN work Banners, H. H. UPHAM & CO., 250 and 252 Canal street. ANY RUPTURED MAN WEARING THE EFFECTIVE remedy of the ELASTIC TRUSS COMPANY, 683. Broad way, passes along life's ploasant pathways singing as he goes, soon reaching perfect cure. A.—THE OCTOBER HAT IS KNOX’S LATEST AND dest production. He has given to its Inception and manw facture bis ripened skill and thorough artistic taste, bence its universal popularity. Buy your Hats at 212 Broadway, Broadway, or in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. A.—RSPENSCHEID’S OLD AND FIRM FRIEND, the public, has this season pho his Silk Dress and Derby Business Lars @ most emphatic and satisfuctory indorse ment, the numerous workmen empl: upon them bein; unable to keop pace with tae demand. Gentlemen who wei disappointed Ry not receiving their hats lat Saturday ay depend upon receiving them during the current week. E! PENSOHSID, Manufacturer of Gentlemen's Hata, 113 Nas saa street Al FURNITURE SARGAINS.—SEE KELTY & CO.'3 advertisement. A REGULAR $3 HAT, $1 90; SILK HATS, $3 80, sold elsewhere for $5 and $3, 15 New Charch st., up stairs, BUSINESS ENTERPRISE OF RUMSEY & CO.— RUMSEY & CO. have taken store No. 93 Liberty street New York, and are now filling it up with a full line of thei Poxps, comprising over 400 different styles and sics, aise Fine Ewcines and other wares of their manufactare. This makes thelr seventh branch house whore they keep In stock « full line of their wares—vis., No. Liberty sti Ne clieuger ity St “Lovis, “San, Francisco, i and; Madrid, pe a Hamburg, Germany, Sat ice making fall time and give ecrployment ‘workmen. ‘They have orders for and are now ship- ping. fre engines for ‘Havcourah, I. ; Indianola, Texas) faysville, Ky; Tolusa, Cal.; Columbia Furnace, Exter, © We ee to an example o| ‘such great success in business as is shown by this firm manufacturers, and it speaks a double praise to their busi oss ability that their manufacturing interests are #0 rapidly Strengthening and expanding at a time when others are com- Baie sanaots etne Sy ear Bose Pens es borace’e ka =a M80) over ioe and more than usual wegrity isned position in the bus! thes rrersd whee fee ‘ray enviable as it is well meritod.— Seneca Falls (N. Y.) 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