The New York Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1878, Page 4

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GERMANIA THEATRE: UNION SQUARE THE. COUP'S GREAT EQUE STANDARD THEATR FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE NIBLO’S GARDEN—Coxstc. BAYMARKET THEATi BT, JAMES THEATRE (HEATRE COMIQU! OLYMPIC THEATRE BAN FRANCISCO M TIVOLI THEATRE—Vanier TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT ARMORY—Grtwone. BTEINWAY HALL—Witueums Matinee. BROAD ST. THEATRE, Philndelphia—Ronent Heurn, TRIPLE The probabilities are hist the “bathe te Ves York and its vicinity to-day will be cool andcloudy, possibly with rains. To-morrow the same condi- tions are likely to prevail, followed toward night by clearing weather. Watt Srreet Yesterpay.—The stock market was active and feverish, with a good deal of weakness at the close. Gold was excited, open- ing at 10073, falling to 100%, and closing at 1014g. Government bonds were firm, States dull and railroads lower. Money on call was active, lending at 7 per cent, except at the close, when it lent down to 4 per cent. Genera McDoweELt yesterday expressed re- gret that some of his expressions while on the Witness stand had been considered offensive to counsel. But who ever heard of a counsellor making so honorable a statement tw offended witnesses ? THE Or1GiN VAGE, wher desiring to make love, first clubbed the object of his adoration and then manifested his affection ; but the police, man who put his arm about a lady’s waist and clubbed her afterward suffered yesterday a ver- dict of $1,500 damages. 1t is never well to reverse the original order of things. Tue MurpereR LanGiey, who was hanged in Texas yesterday, killed a negro years ago, but was not even arrested. The consequences of this encouragement to crime have been thirty- one additional murders. New York has hun- dreds of embryo ruffians who will be just as bad if nothing more severe than our city type of jus- tice is meted to them. Mr. Joun Forry and his committee did not eall on the Comptroller yesterday, as had been expected, so city politics and finances must re- main unreformed until eleven o'clock this morn- ing, when the visit is positively to be made: Our readers will console themselves with the reflection that only two or three hours remain of the old style of things. Actinc ManaGer Bisnor, of the east side elevated railroad, makes some cheering prom- ises. Thirty-five “parlor” cars are soon to be put on, extra trains are to be run from Frank- lin square during the busier hours of the day, running time is to be reduced, the erection of iron work in Chatham street is to begin next week, and every one is to have a seat—when sufficient cars are put on the road. Pecuntarty Arnoros of the warlike rumors from Central Asia are the remarks of Sir Camp- bell Brown, which are reproduced in another column. Sir Campbell is a soldier of long and arduous experience in India, and his recollee- tions and practical opinions are far more inter- esting than the political surmises that have thus far constituted our all on this prominent topic. Tue Late Commoporr VANDERBILT evidently believed that disembodied spirits should be made useful as well as other beings, but when we read that he consulted the ghost of Jim Fisk upon the indications of the stock market we are compelled to assume that the old gen- tleman had in miud some private grudge that he owed the late Colonel-Prince-Admiral. There are some unpleasant occupations assigned by certain authorities to some denizens of the un- known world, but to ha © hear again about the stock market after ing shuffled of this mortal coil is u little the severest torment that bas entered the mind of man to conceive. No wonder the Commodore doubted the accuracy of the reply that came back from the shades; bo ghost in its senses would attempt to tell the trath under such provocation. Tue Weatner.—The depression has entirely off the coast over Nova Scotia, and it is followed by a large area of high barometer which has moved northward from the Middle Atlantic coast districts. In the West the storm tentre has made but little eastward progress, but has moved farther north. The pressure has risen considerably within the area of depression. Another area of low barometer is advancing northward over the South Atlantic coast dis- triets. The pressure has risen decidedly over the Gulf districts. Rain has fallen over the South Atlantic coast, the Central Valley dis- triets and the lake regions. Clear weather has prevailed west of the Mississippi River. The winds have been from fresh to brisk in the lake regions avd the Southwest; elsewhere they have been generally light. Temperatures have fallen generally in the lake regions and the Middle Atlantic and New England States. Elsewhere there has been a decided rise. The stormeentre in the Northwest will move eastward over the Canadian provinces, so that it will affect our district very little. The weather in New York and ite vicinity to-day will be cool aml cloudy, possibly with rains. To-morrow the same com ditions are likely to prevail, followed toward night bv clearing weathers NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, Metropolitan Railroad a “Nulaance There was begun yesterday and is to be continued to-day, before Mr. Schoonmaker, the Attorney General of the State, who visits the city for this purpose, a hearing of the complaints of property holders on Sixth avenue against the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad. We think the Attorney General is quite in the line of his duty in attempt- ing to acquaint himself by this method with the facts of the situation, The recent pre- sentment of the road as a nuisance by the Grand Jury was not a docu- ment which would justify any official action against the road by the chief law officer of the State, but it is neverthe- less a fact which it would not be proper for him to ignore. It is one of his duties to hold corporations created by the authority of the Legislature to their responsibility, and since the questions now raised are novel and not without difficulty Mr. Schoonmaker is to be commended for the pains he is taking to understand the sub- ject, in order that he may act intelligently when it comes before him in such a form as to compel his official cognizance. He listens to the worst that can be said against the road by men whose zeal is prompted by self- interest, and he allows replies to be made by the counsel of the road, whose owners have an equally selfish interest on the other side. It is a wholesome and salutary thing for corporations to be kept under the close surveillance of officers of the law. If strict justice is done private rights will be reconciled with the public advantage. We believe that there is never any real neces- sity for sacrificing one to the other. It is asserted by residents along the line that the noise of the road is intolerable, that burning coals from the locomotives are frequently dropped into the street, and that the dripping of oil from the en- gines upon foot passengers below is ruinous to bonnets, dresses and other apparel. There is probably some exag- geration in the two last heads of com- plaint, but they are to some extent real, while the first is, beyond all question, a great and serious annoyance. The drop- ping of burning coals and filthy oil admits of an easy and complete remedy, and the apologists of the road assert that it has already been remedied. Of this the state- ments made yesterday before the Attorney General do not enable us to judge, because the persons who testified to the facts did not give any dates. If this annoyance has been permitted to continue the road is inexcusable, since there can be no diffi- culty in dealing with so simple and easy a problem. The complaint about insufferable noise is more serious and formidable. It is not to be wondered at that people whose ears are vexed from morning till midnight with the incessant roll and din of the ever-passing trains lose their patience. This evil may be abated in time by new mechanical con- trivances which have not yet been dis- covered, or at least not yet tested; but there can be no question that so long as it lasts it is a real and substantial grievance. It is unlucky for the road that it happened to be put in operation at the beginning of summer, when the heat of the ensuing three or four months made it necessary to keep all doors and windows open for the admis- sion of fresh air. Had the trains commenced running in November instead of June there would not have been such a tide of com- plaints in the outset of the experiment. For seven or eight months of the year our climate compels us to keep apartments closed, and noise is shut out or deadened. In the rear rooms along the avenue the noise of the elevated road will be scarcely perceptible in cold weather, and it will be so diminished in the front rooms as to pass without notice by persons who are accus- tomed to it. During the two hottest of the four or five warm months so many people go into the country as to diminish, to some extent, the felt an- noyance ; but it is very trying to the larger number who are compelled to remain. We suppose that there will be but little com- plaint against the noise of the trains when cool weather has fairly set in. This year a summer temperature has extended so far into the autumn that the nuisance has been more prolonged than it is likely to be in average years. Moreover, in the long period between now and next June it is to be hoped that the road will have discovered and applied some method of abating the noise. As to the alleged injury to property along the line of the road we believe it to be a chimera. All real estate is depreciated, but not more in Sixth avenue than in Broad- way. It will nut do to attribute to the elevated railroad a depression which re- sults from other causes and is universal throughout the city, ‘The real effect of the road will be to diminish the value of Broadway property by diverting its busi- ness, and to increase the value of Sixth Is the avenue property by making that avenue the principal line of daily uptown and downtown travel. Trade naturally follows this kind of travel. It is true enough that the road ren- ders the street undesirable for residence, but rents for shops are always higher on the same street than rents for tenements, During the period of transition, while fami- lies are withdrawing from the upper stories and business tenants are coming in, there will be some temporary loss, but it will be more than compensated after the change is accomplished, It will probably take two or three years to develop the real effect of the elevated road on the value of Sixth avenue property; but that effect, when it comes, will be to convert all the front rooms into shops and thereby improve rents, It is to be taken for established that rapid transit in this city is not only an indispen- | sable necessity but a fixed and irrevocable fact. Allreal injury inflicted on private property ought, of course, to be compensated, but the estimate of damages should be calculated on the ultimate rather than the present effect. We shall support every reasonable attempt to hold the quick transit roads to a rigorous responsibility and compel them to fulfil all their just obligations to the public. They must not L be permitted to drop coals and oil. their. | OUYUBEK 1Z, 1878.—-TKIPLE SHEET. engines must consume their own ee their noise and racket must be abated ; but a sense of these evils does not justify any- body in attempting to abolish the roads and put ull city travel back into the horse cars, Another Th re Disa: Some of the horrors of the Brooklyn Theatre fire will be vividly recalled by our despatch relating the sad and utterly need- less result of a quarrel in the Colosseum Theatre at Liverpool. The audience heard ® noise, some foolish or vicious person shouted ‘‘fire,” a panic ensued and nearly forty persons were crushed or smothered to death, To guard against repetitions of these causeless but terrible panics the managers of places of amuse- ment should either post regulations and suggestions or embody them in the programmes. One fact which should be forced upon the attention of the public is that if neither smoke nor flame is visible on the stage, which is always in sight, there is no likelihood of there being fire elsewhere in the heuse. The audience should also be informed that if each member of it, in case of alarm, will not only go out, but go from the building, so that no crowd about the doors can impede exit, neither fire nor smoke can spread rapidly enough to injure any one. An Untamed Socialist. If the German Parliament should vote the bill against the socialists just as the government wants it, inspired thereto by disgust at the words of the wild socialist Hasselmann, it would not be an event likely to eclipse all strange things that have hitherto happened in the world of politics, An extreme partisan, who states the case of his party in a way to fully sus- tain all that the government has said of its dangerous tendencies, whose threatenings and denunciations call for blood and com- bat, and imply that if the government is not enabled to lay powerful hands on the sogialists they will lay powerful hands on the government and on all that the government is organized to de- fend—such a man is the latest developed opponent of the measure for the repression of thesocial agitators in Germany. His ap- pearance will excite reflection on the part of all other opponents of that measure. Many of them will be astonished to find them- selves in such company. All the liberals who have stood in the way of the govern- ment project out of devotion to liberty, but who comprehend clearly enough that liberty cannot exist apart from order, will see more clearly in Hasselmann’s words than they saw before what they must con- template as the alternative of the repression to which they object. Undoubtedly this orator against the government has strength- ened the government’s case. Play Day. To-day there will be given, in the various respectable places of amusement in New York, nearly forty performances, before audiences which will probably aggregate more than fifty thousand people, and the day is not an unusual Saturday either, nor are the bills of the various theatres more attractive than usual. The hearty support given to the various entertainments alluded to is as cheering a sign in its way as the revival of business, the failure of the green- back tickets, or the extension of rapid transit facilities. Every person who works in any way needs occasional diversion, and this is particularly the case with the resi- dents of large cities, where all business and social activity is intense and constant. Physical and mental wear and tear are often so severe that the man or woman who has completed a day or week of labor is too weary for recreation, such as society affords to those who are disposed to exert themselves for their own diversion, so the theatre and the concert room become of inestimable value. It is peculiarly proper that the last day of the week should be most used by those seeking amusement; tor whether Sunday is observed as a day of worship or merely asa day of rest, its influence is far more bene- ficial if the strain of the week's cares has been eased in some way before Sunday comes. As the season progresses amuse- ments will become more numerous and probably be better patronized; but the ex- cellent support which some of the theatres are already enjoying shows that no real at- traction will go beggingyin a community so anxious to be amused. Managers who are wise will find a hint in this and act persist- ently upon it, knowing that the disposition to be amused is more general than excel- lence of quality in the amusements offered, The Greenback Collapse. The Western nationals were, after all, playing what they would calla ‘bluff game,” and scared the weak-kneed democrats on a very ‘thin hand.” A comparison of their positive pufMishea “claims” before the elec- tion and the net result makes their move- ment ridiculous. The greenback national organs claimed a hundred thousand votes in Indiana and three’ Congressmen. They cast in that State, where they are strongest, only thirty thousand votes, and with the help of the democrats, not by their own votes, elected one Congressman. They claimed one hundred thousand votes in Ohio, and three Congress- men, and they cast, as nearly as we can tell from imperfect returns, less than thirty thousand votes and elected no Con- gressman, ‘They claimed a Congressman in West Virginia, but elected none. Having made a combination with the democrats in Iowa they claimed four Congressmen, but, with the help of democratic votes, managed to elect only two, and it is clear that if they had stood alone they would have got none. That is to sayy they had not in Ohio and Indiana, the two States where they have the greatest strength, a third of the vote they claimed, and if it had not been for democratic help they would not have elected a single Congress- man anywhere. It is absurd for them to talk any longer of a great popular move- ment, The tide is setting fast against them, and they have made their largest showing, and that amounts to just three democratic Representatives elected by the assistance of greenback votes. That is all, and it is a pretiu none second fiddle, Redemption of National Bank Notes. The correspondence between a committee of the New York Clearing House and Secre- tary Sherman, which we print to-day, is, perhaps, of more interest to the banks than to the public ; but still it is tor the general interest that the national bank notes should be promptly redeemed when they get into circulation at a distance from the lceation of the issuing banks. It is the proper office of a local bank in issuing circulating notes to sup- ply a currency for its own neighborhood, and it seems essential to a sound adminis- tration of the system that these local notes, when used for making distant payments, should be promptly sent home for redemp- tion. There is no other sure guarantee against excessive issues. Under the former law the country banks were required to make provision for redeeming their notes at their own expense in the chief commercial cities, In 1874 the law was changed by requiring the banks to contribute toa redemption fund in the national Treasury equal to five per cent of their circulation, and substituting redemp- tion by the government for redemption in the large cities, It has heretofore been the practice under this law for the Treasury to pay the cost of transmitting the notes for redemption, but Secretary Sherman has re- cently issued an order requiring this expense to be paid by the banks which send on the notes. The evident effect of this order will be to continue the notes of the country banks in circulation for long periods in places distant from the point of issue, This is against good policy. It is forthe inter- est of the country that the whole currency should be sound and of uniform value. But with anything like practical, efficient re- demption the currency cannot be unitorm if a possessor of Iowa bank notes in New York cannot convert them into greenbacks or coin without paying the cost of transmitting them either to Dubuque or to Washington. A country bank note is less valuable than a New York bank note by the cost of send- ing it for redemption, so long as Secretary Sherman does not rescind this new order which seems to have been issued in the in- terest of the country banks to the detri- ment of the general soundness of the cur- rency. Ameriean Jockey Club. The Fall Meeting of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park will close this after- noon. The meeting has been a success so far as the racing has been concerned, and from th’ appearance of the assemblages each day we should suppose it has pros- pered financially. The racing this after- noon will be highly interesting, there being no less than five eventson the card. The first of these will be the Annual Sweep- stakes, for three-year-olds, two miles. The Duke of Magenta, Spartan and Garrick are the only colts that will run out of the thirty- three original nominations. It seems hardly possible for either Spartan or Gar- rick to beat The Duke at the distance ; but it may be done, nevertheless, and it cer- tainly is considered worth the trying, for the stakes are worth about $2,800. The second event will be the Homebred Produce Stakes, for two-year-olds, three-quarters of amile, This stake has sixty-six nomina- tions, six of which will start. ‘hese are Mr. F. Morris’ bay colt, by Warminster, dam Remorseless; Mr. A. Belmont’s Fiddle- string, by Kingfisher, dam Filigree ; Mr. H. P. McGrath’s Mary Ann, by Leamington, dam Susan Ann; Mr. D. D. Withers’ Bet- tina, by Stonehenge, dam Mimi; Mr. P. Lorillard’s Cedric, by Saxon, dam Fanny Ludlow, and F. Stearns, Jr.’s, Farley, by Alroy, dam Lady Culpepper. This will be a capital race, and from what we have seen of the starters the Warminster-Remorseless colt will be found hard to beat by any of the others. Following this will bea race for a purse of $800, two miles and a quar- ter, the entries for which are Mr. G. L, Lorillard’s Loulanier, 3 years old, to carry 105 1bs.; Mr. P. Lorillard’s Parole, 5 years old, 126 Ibs.; Messrs. IT. Puryear & Co.’s Danicheff, 3 years old, 100 lbs., and Mr. Belmont’s Susquehanna, 4 years old, 120 lbs. Loulanier beat Danicheff and Parole the same distance on Thursday last, with six pounds less on her back, while the colt had three pounds more, and this nine pounds difference may change their positions at the finish. Parole carries one pound more than then, and there is no doubt that he will make a better race than he did on Thursday, as his stable com- panion, Garrick, appeared to be the one selected to win with, and he only failed by a head. This will be a grand race, and Parole, if he is as good a horse as he was when he beat Tom Ochiltree for the Sara- toga Cup last year, will win it ; if not, not. Susquehanna’s penalty of five pounds for winning the Alabama Stakes last year re- duces her chances of success to almost nothing. ‘The race will be well worth wit- nessing. After this the spectators will be treated to a spin of three-quarters of a mile by five two-year-olds. The contestants will be Mr. G. L. Lorillard’s Startle (the colt left at the post on Thursday), Messrs, Nelson & Co.’s Brother to Cuba, Mr. McGrath's Wissahickon, Messrs. Lewis & Co.’s Sur- prise and Mr. J. A. Smith’s. Lilliun. This will be a doubtful affair until the young- sters pass the seven furlong pole, and even longer. Brother to Cuba makes his first appearance, and if he can run as well as his appearance would warrant he ought to win the race. The sports of the day will close with a handicap steeplechase, over the usual course. For this there are seven entries, comprising Mr, A. D. Brown's Problem, carrying 157 lbs.; the same gen- tleman'’s Derby, 152 Ibs.; Mr. L. Wood's Deadhead, 158 Ibs; Mr. Callahan's Bay Rum, 144 1bs.; Mr. Taylor's Lord Zetland, 138 lbs., and Messrs. Daly Brothers’ Lizzie D., 110 lbs., and their horse Patriot, 138 lbs. The contest between Problem and Deadhead will be o good one, alone worth a visit to Jerome Park. In another column the reader will find a recital of a tragedy in Tennessee which ex- hibits very strikingly the singular state of society in Claiborne county. Miscegenation, political intrigue, the colored vote, tho { struggle for office. seduction, female frailty, murder, torture and the apathy of the au- thorities are the materials mingled in this remarkable story. That a husband, ac- companied by the relatives of his wife, should, in Tennessee or elsewhere, pursue and slay the man who had dishon- ored him is not so far out of the range of ordinary human impulses as to bo remark- able in itself; and, supposing this man to be a negro, it is conceivable that the state of opinion in the South would readily in- cline the officers of the law to turn a deaf ear to all reports on the subject. But the coolness with which in the story before us the injured husband is represented as able to suppress his fury during a pending elec- tion gives to the narrative a spice of the in- credible which might seem to quMlify it rather for romantic fiction than for an every day chronicle. The Billings Trial. This case was given to the jury yesterday, and they are still out. In the number of recent murder cases few have received more continued attention than this; and it has been the fortune of this trial to fall ina period when the papers are literally crowded with criminal chronicles and in- quiries of the most intense interest. But neither the Silver Lake inquiry, nor the Stannard case, nor the strange develop- ments of the Bridgeport slaughters, nor a dozen other current narratives scarcely less horrible, have turned attention away from the semi-savage domestic drama unfolded in the story of the North- umberland murder. Husbands and wives at war are, unfortunately, not unfamiliar figures to the reader who gives any atten- tion to the court reports ; but this husband and this wife were apparently at war with a vigor and a viciousness not common, and, while the husband did not appear to adver- tise the domestic dissensions, the wife fairly carried them into the street, made them noisy and coarse scandals, talked of them in terms which it is generally un- derstood decent people do not use, and filled the mind of an only daughter with that tierce feminine hate against her father which the mother herself apparently felt. As soon as this woman was slain sus- picion was directed against the husband, and the general assumption that he had a motive for so great a crime was an uncon- scious evidence of the opinion entertained of .the wife’s acts. No other conceivable person was known to have any motive what- ever, and this common thought has kept interest alive through many phases of the ease. With the evidence for the prosecu- tion put in it was generally believed that Billings was a dead man; but when the evidence for the defence came it was conceded that the facts sworn to established a clear alibi. In his address the counsel for the prosecution has somewhat revived the first impression against the prisoner, and has shaken the dependence upon the alibi; yet it remains the great feature and hold of the defence, and stands upon the straightforward evidence of some sincere witnesses. The cloud raised as to the mis- sile with which the murder was done has been also all in favor of the prisoner, and in virtue of these two great points there is fair ground for doubt of the prisoner's guilt, and this doubt might well vitiate a clearer case than that made out for the prosecution, There seems very little like- lihood, therefore, that the verdict will be that the prisoner is guilty, but there may be a disagreement. The Indiana Senators! The democrats of Indiana have a majority on joint ballot in their Legislature, and they can, if they desire, elect Senator Voorhees to the United States Senate. If they do so they will please Mr. Voorhees, but they will deal the democratic party in the country at large a damaging blow be- tween the eyes. It is {or them to decide whether they want to do that. They prob-' ably hope to help elect a democrat to the Presidency in 1880, but they ought to see by this time that their party is already carry- ing a heavier load than some time ago they imagined. They ought to see, too, that the inflation movement is not so sweeping as they believed. If they do not see that now they will know it in November. It is very certain already that if the democratic party goes into the next Presidential canvass as the party of inflation it will get badly beaten, as it will deserve. But if they make Mr. Voorhees Senator the Indiana democrats by that much pledge themselves to the wildest and the most ignorant kind of inflation. We advise them to be careful. They can send Mr. English to the Senate, who will represent their State well, or they can send Mr. Hendricks. They do not lack for men better than Mr. Voorhees, and he, ia the interest of the democratic party, ought to be carefully kept at home, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Secretary Evarts is Geperal Jubal A. Early, of Virginia, is at the Now York Hotei. Mr, Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Lord Rosebery says that government ought to make music cheap Lord Salisbury Lord Beaconsfield, who is dramatic, ley is only slightly inaisposed. He was resting 1a Albany yesterday and will leave for Niagara Tilden has tried introducing the comman repievio. Peter’s pence was a million doliars a year, and now it 18 @ hundred thousand dollars on account of hard times. Bancroft will be able to return to Wash. of next week. He that Senator Thurman has bad an atiack of paralysis is untrue, Hie iliness was oo- casioned by a severe bilious attack, from which be is fast recovering. The Hartiord Ciab gave a dinnor of welcome to General Hawley last nigh!, on the occasion BI from ‘ope. Governor Hubvard presided, at by General Franklin, Hay and oats are so cheap that the Detroit Free Press says it t# cheaper to be a jackass than @ man. This is the first time we ever knew that the editor of the Free Press is economical. KE. A. Hoyt, Commissioner * 1 Affairs, lott Wasbington y or rritory ona tour of inspectio other pabile business, Chief ee Clerk Leods will be acting commissioner till bis re tora, London Truth:—“What is wanted in the daily fe mt dry tacts, As it is their facts are le, and tho dreary comments which they ipflict upon their readers respecting tbem in ning Cases out of ten unread. To write a leading article is the easiest thing imaginable; to write a readable lending artisie one of the most difficult.” London Truth :—‘“Tourists are not likely to select Italy for a wintering country when they bear of pigh- way robberies in the immed neighborhood o Rome and tn that delighttul district round sbout the Bay of Naples. There have been similar occurrences near both Castelamare and Salerno, and the excur- sion over the bills from Sorrento to Amelf can hardly be undertaken without an escort, A jeature in the present revival of brigandage is the frequent abductions.” The body of the died in New York, late Bishop Galberry, who ived in Hartford yesterday, and was Qroceived at the depot by twenty one priests ana a concourse of over twq thousand spectators, An escort by procession wai given the remains to the episcopal residence, where they were arrayed in full canonicals, The body wil He 1a Bt the convent chape! until Monday, when il! be removed to the Cathedral, where the funeral ervices will take place on the following day. Arch: bishop Williams, of Boston, will celebrate the mass and Bishop Wadbams, of Ogdensburg, N. Y,, will preach the fuveral sermon, The tal in Leadville, Col., ia about a vagabond of a miner, Bassick, who tramped into town without a cent io his pocket and jumped into aa income of substance that formed the entire eminenee, body laughed at the beggar and derisively called his find “Bussick’s Whitewash Mine.’ But Bassick fouod the stuff rich in carbonate of lead carrying sil Ver, and, digging cown, found boulders ai that wore coated with silver chloride, Fro’ face down 200 feet the mine has paid richer than any other im the county, yielding thus far $64,000 a month, The English acouse us of being able to say severe things, and yet thia is trom the London World:—““We remember some twa years ago reviewing a book from Mr, Gey’s pen, the topic of which was the Prince of Wales’ visit tolodia, We remember then expressing the opinion that when Mr. Gay bad been at school for a few years; when be had learned to spell; when he bad acquired some facility in writing Englisb, in com trudistinetion to a bybrid patos whieh might bt termed Zelegraphese; when he sboula have submitted bimseif to the discipline of being kicked reew larly three times ith intent to purge him of the mixture of cock: ger and provincial bu: tlousness which scemed his most salient character. istic; and when, finaliy, he sbould nave achieved some rudimentary couception of the meaning of being a geatioman—he would prooably be able to write s book less bad tban the unfortunate volume which we felt it a duty, iu the interests of civilization, to de nouace,’”” AMUSEMENTS, STEINWAY HALL-—THE WILHELM CONCERT. So macy complimentary words bave been written concerning Wilhelm) that It js uonecessary to make more than a comment. The audience which assembled last night at Steinway Hall was large und appreciative, The programme was admirably chosen, and opporta- nity was aflorded to cach of the artists to makea point, It was as follows:—Sonata ia D minor, Bectboven, Mme, Carreno; ‘*Spirito Gentil,”?—"‘La '—Donizetti, Six. Lazzarini; Batt, jon Giovanni’’—Mozart, Miss Salile neerto, Paganini, Herr Aug pring,” ‘Thomas, Miss M ‘Rhapsodie Hongroise, Lizt, Mme. Ernst, Herr August Wilhelm); ‘Robe: adoro,” Meyorbeer, Miss Kato L. James: tasiestueck,” composed and played by Wilhelm). i tbe rendition of bis snare of the per!ormance Wilhelmj helm); Kan; can compare with bim in tecanique, tenderness or beauty of illustration. said, He is a master of the violin, and can _ with it what he will, Tbe other artists named gramme wore fully equal to their respectt the performance, takeu all in all, was one of enjoyable of the season. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES, Signor E. Marzo has returned from bis Kuropeas tour and studies, and will probav)y resume bis posi- tion as the organist of St. Agues’ Charch, A Rew opera company bas been organized ‘n Boston calied the Martinez Eoglisn Opera Company, in which Mies Isodora Martinez is to be the prima donne soprano, Miss Adelaide Nelison enters upon a farewell gagement under Max Strakosch for one nights, commencing about the 15th of next J She will end her American tour in California and ‘0 thence to Australia, OBITUARY, WILLIAM MORRIS, MINSTREL. William Morris, familiarly known as “Billy,” died day moraoing after an iliness of sev. part proprietor & Trowpriage’s Minstrels. “COLONEL” JAMES CLOYD, esident of Hoboken, died ay night, irom heart disease, He was cighty-ove years of age, and had resided ia Hovoken for pearly fifty yeirs, Hall a century age he was manager of the stage line between New York jelphia, owned by the late James Stevens, GENERAL ALEXANDER TULLOCH, ©. B, General Alexander Tulloch, C. B., the oldest gem ere! officer in the British indian army, died on Sep tomber 15 at Dawson place, Bayswater, aged niaety, He was appointed to an @ iy, 1804; aud served with assemoled on the Tombu Xpediti present at the taking o Do: and Melowa (medal with clasp). On the appuin' on to the Mysoro Commission ef of ihe commissariat vi o whicu he uad served in Depurtment, M/JOR GENERAL JoHN SIMPSON, © B, 1 Joon Simpson, 0. B., di arly ia Fy nig, near Petersfield, aged nearly sev- enty years. He obtsined his first commission in 1835, served with the Tnitij-lourth regiment im the Crimean campaign, aod went throu the Indias campsigns tn 1857-59. For bis serviess in the Crimes he Was promoted to brovet tiew ceived the medal with ciasp, Un rrr Oltu ciass Of the Order of the Meajid'é una to dal, aud was made w Koight of the His nam aioe “aie ritorious services.’ He went om 4¥ im September, 1861, having been pi in April of the sume year, and became major ee i March 6, 1563, GENGRAL EDWARD ROWLEY BILL Mail advices trom England anu Brighton, on the 17th alt, of colunel ef tno Fifth (Northamberland) Fasileera, aged cighty.twe years, The deceased General wag wre of the few romaining officors of the campaigns of Weilington, Me served in the Peninsula from 181g to the ond of th at tn 1814, baving in hie early 0% ined his Commission at tho battle of Vite son and at the battler rr ot ‘Nivoile for bis ser vices during t ir medal with tour sorveu ia El ed to the eu regiment he or ded in the sdvsequent to the fail of Sevastwvel, Irom tne Ti November, 1869, wot tue end of to Russias war in 1806. Subseq Jenily he ba niajor—were by p k of euseuant colonel in J November, 1854; major « , 1862; lieutonaut genera, May, 1 eral on the rewired list, Oot provisions of toe Royal warra a Bae