The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1878, Page 7

THLEGRAPHIC NEWS From All Parts of the World. THE BERLIN TREATY. England Urged to Correct Its Errors at Once. POLITICS IN FRANCE New Caledonia Still Ravaged by the Rebels. SPEEDY JUSTICE IN SPAIN. (BY caBLE TO THE HERALD.] Loxpos, Oct. 6, 1878. The Times, in a leading editorial article, comment- ing on the recent speeches of liberal members of Par- liment, holds that mere party criticism should be postponed to the duty of promoting the work to which the country has put its hand. The article says:—‘It is mapifestly unfair to criticise the gov- ernment for difficulties created by the passions or un- eecrupulousnesses of Russian politicians. If inade- quate measures aro being taken to carry out the Berlin Treaty by all means let the inadequacy be exposed, but let it be exposed with a view to the adoption of more effectual measures for carrying out that treaty, not for the purpose of discrediting and breaking it. England, with the support of Western Europe, has pledged its name and fame to rescue thé East alike from anarchy and from absorption in one vast despotism. If possible, let better means be pointed out for attaining that eng, but let it neyer be left out of view. Asimilar despatch says it is stated that the inhabitants of Kohistan have rebelled and murdered the Governor, and that the Ameer has sent a large force thither. to restore order. ‘The Post's Berlin despatch says:—‘It is announced that in tha event of new complications Ger- many, as far as possible, will suppért the cause of poace, but will not join in any combined action for enforcing the treaty of Berlin.” A despatch to the Standard from Vienna says Count Andrassy will probably announce at the opening of the session of the delegations, the conclusion of a convention with Turkey relative to Novi-Bazar. BUSSIA’S RESPONSIBILITY. It is officially denied from St, Petersburg that Rus sian officials are participating in or conniving at the Bulgarian instrrection. General Todleben has issued fresh orders to the Russian commanders on the East Roumelian frontier to prevent the organization of in- surgent bands and to watch the movements of the in- surgent committees. Confirmation of this statement is found in the announcement from Constantinople that the Russians yesterday arrested 500 Bulgarians who were about to enter Macedonis. The Russian imperial yacht Livadia left Livadia on the 2d inst. for Odessa, having on board the Grand Duke Sergius, son of the Czar, and suite. The yacht was swamped during fog and heavy gale, but all the passengers and crew were safely landed. The yacht was after- ward thrown on the rocks, and will probably go to pieces. A Constantinople despatch says the British member of the Commission for Eastern Roumelia has proposed a very liberal constitution for that prov- ince. The same correspondent says 5,000 Russian troops land at Bourgas weekly. FRENCE POLITICS. Official information from the departments in which @lections were held on the 27th of October for Com- munal Deputies for the nomination of fresh Senators confirm the previous reports of the result of these wections. These Deputies, together with the other Senatorial electors, are to mect on the 5th of January, in the chief town of each department, for the purpose of nominating fresh Senators, The republicans will carry forty-six of the seventy-fivo Senatorships to be filled, being s gain of twenty-eight. M. Balthazar Jacotin, a three years’ Senator of France from the De- partment of Haute-Loire, a republican, accused of cheating st cards, has resigned his Senatorship on tho Gemand of the Minister of Justice. RENEWAL OF THE NEW CALEDONIAN REBELLION. A despatch from Sydney, N. 8. W., dated Octo! 99, says that it is reported there that the New Cale- énian rebels have commit further massacres. It is officially announced at Paris that Kanakas mur- dered a Frenchman and his wife on the 14th of Octo- ber. There are wandering bands of rebels in the Bourrail district, but the remainder of New Caledonia {s quiet. The general situation has improved. PAPAL POWER IN RUSSIA. The negotiations between the Vatican and Russia Aave beon suspended, as the attitude of Russia affords no hope of a satisfactory result. The Pope will prob- ably issue his protest shortly against the violence which the Catholics of Poland endure from the Rus- sian authorities. The Vatican, apprehending Russian preponderance in tho East, is endeavoring to bring beck the Armenian separatists to allegiance to Rome. DEPRESSION IN ENGLAND. In the mills at Wigan 1,070 looms and 94,000 spindles are stopped, and 2,500 looms and 310,000 spindles are running on short time, being equivalent to thirty per vent reduction in operatives’ wages. CABLE ITEMS. ‘The United States ship Portsmouth passed Lizard light yesterday, en roule from Havre for New York. A despatch from Madrid states that the counsel of Moncaéi, the would-be asd#sin of King Alfonso, re- quested threo days time to prepare for the defence, but the tribunal refused to grant the delay. The prisoner’s counsel will appeal to a higher court. The Hungarian Diet yesterday rejected a motion for the impeachment of the Ministry by a vote of 170 to 95. ‘ Tho telegraph lines for nearly one hundred miles round Vienna have been destroyed by s severe snow storm. THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. {py TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD. ] Quenec, Canada, Nov. 5, 1878, The Comptroller of the Marquis of Lorne’s house, hold, who arrived here on Sunday from England, the Hon. Richard. Moreton, brother to the Earl of Ducie, will remain here for a few days engaging servants, purchasing horses and arranging for the new court, asthe vicereyal household will doubtless prove to be. Lady Sophia McNamara, lady in waiting to Princess Louise, wjll arrive out with the viceregal party. ‘The nis and Princess intend to proceed direct from Malifax to Ottawa without waiting at either Quebec or Montreal. “THE HEATHEN CHINEE” IN OREGON. San Franctsco, Nov. 5, 1878. A despatch from Portland, Oregon, says a fight has occurred between about twenty white and sixty Chinese operatives in the wollen mills at Oregon City, Oregon, the whites being the aggressors. Several coe on both sides were severely injured, and one inaman probably fatally shot. The authorities finally quelled the disturbance, but fears of an early renewal of the combat are entertained. BOILER EXPLOSION. Moxtoomeny, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1878. At half-past five this morning one of the stock boil- tes in the Walker Paper Mill at this place exploded with terrific force, Tho shock startled the whole vil- lage, and was felt for milea around. The boiler was situated in @ wing of the main building, between snother boiler and the main building, This second boiler broke the force of the shock, but the débris toll with crushing force on a dwelling on the south, ten fect from the oe boiler, forcing in the roof. A portion of the boiler fell into the river, while the portion took # westerly course, cutting down and demolishing everything in its course. Tho ly person injured was A. L. Young, an employs, whe received severe bruises, The roof and a portion of the main building abovo the first floor was almost sompletely demolished, but the machine and boiler oom are intact. Loss over $6,000; no insurance, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1878.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE ST. CATHARINE’S MURDER. SENTENCE OF DEATH ON FARRELL FOR THE KILI- ING OF CONWAY. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] QueBEo, Nov. 5, 1878. The trial of Michael Farrell for the St. Catharine's murder closed to-day. The prisoner was accused of shooting Conway, a neighbor, on the railway track, which crossed his land, because he left a fence open after passing through. fi Judge Monk, in charging the jury, directed them 5 find a verdict of wilful murder, which they did after being locked up two hours, The prisoner heard the verdict unmoved, but his wife, who was present, ut- tered a piercing shriek, and was remoyed from the court loudly sobbing. Still Farrell remained un- moved, and when asked what he had to say before sentence was pronounced replied:—‘‘If that man had put up the fence after him he would have been alive to-day and I would not have been here. I did nemy to throw it down. ed me to fight, and had threatenedto smash my ."" He spoke with ex- treme vindictiveness. Judge Monk, who was much affected, addressed the prisoner most impressively, reminding him of the sanguinary drama which he enacted when without Beoreeation he shot a neighbor in the presence of his other and little children, hurling him into eternity without a moment's notice. He told him to expect no mercy on this side of the grave, but to prepare to meet his doom, and_senten: him to be hanged on Friday, the 1ith of January next, A NEGRO MURDER. VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY BF THB CASK, OF WILLIAM A. REESE, [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Pererssuna, Va., Nov. 5, 1878. The jury in the case of William A, Reese, charged with killing the negro, Trotter, at Hicksford, Green- ville county, brought in a verdict of not guilty, about midnight last night, after a very brief withdrawal. A strong case of self-defence was made out by the pris- oner’s counsel, strengthened by the bad character of Trotter, as a desperate negro, and by Rees’ gcknowl- edged je disposition. The defence showed that Trotter struck Reese several blows with a petty eee before the latter, who is a small man, fired st ter, who was almost an athlete. The precautions taken to maintain order prevailed. A small crowd of negroes was resent when the verdict was rend owing to the lateness of the hour. The nature of the evidence fore- shadowed the result and reconciled the more reasona- ble negroes to it. The case of Wood Williams, a white charged with shooting David Stith, colored, was set down for the next court, and the prisoner remanded tg jail, counsel not asking for bail. GRAIN TRADE FAILURE. San Francisco, Nov. 5, 1878. ‘The suspension of Dresbach & Co., the extensive shippers of grain, is announced. It is understood the suspension will not have any material effect on the grain trade. The firm has loaded ships and sold im- médiately, carrying but fow liabilities. Some few losses will accrue Tec! the ships engaged by the firm at reduced rates. It is thought that some large grain raisers in the interior may be heavy losers. e THE DEPARTING SCOURGE. LIGHT REPORT OF YELLOW FEVER CASES IN THE SOUTH. New Orxxans, Nov. 5, 1878. ‘The weather here is clear and pleasant. The’ num- ber of deaths reported is 9; cases, 52; total deaths, 8,967; total cases, 13,296. NINE INTERMENTS IN MEMPHIS. Memruts, Tenn., Nov. 5, 1878. From six o'clock last night until noon to-day the undertakers ey cpe orders for nine interments of per- sons who died in or outside of the city. THE PLAGUE IN JACKSON, MISS. Jackson, Nov. 5, 1878, There were two new cases and two deaths from yellow fever to-day. ONLY ONE DEATH IN CAIRO, ILL. Cano, Nov. 5, 1878. ‘There has been one death from yellow fever in the jy twenty-four hours. No new cases. There are it four cases on hand, of which two are critical and two con valescing. a FREE LUTHERAN DIET. bY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 5, 1878, The second Free Lutheran Diet in America, under the suspices of the committee appointed last year, met this morning in St. Mark’a Church. Rev. Dr. E. Greenwald, of Lancaster, presided and delivered an address congratulating his brethren upon the assem- bling of the second Free Dict. An essay on ‘The Grounds of Hope for the Lutheran Church in America” was read v. Dr. W. H. Harkey, of Was! yn, Il. fessor 8. A. D. D., of resented an essay on ‘The Con- uutheran Church,” after which the Diet adjourned until half-past two P. M. ‘At the-afternoon session the paper of Professor Repass was discussed by Rev. Dr. J. F. Reinmund. Rev. Dr. Seiss joined in the discussion, and after that Rev. Dr. H. Ziegler, of the Seminary of Selin’s Grove, Pennsylvania, a pal e Value to the Lutheran Church of her Confessions.” This perer waa discussed by Rev. Dr. C. P. Krauth, Rev. Dr. W. J. Mann, Rev. Dr. C. W. Schaeffer and others. In the evening an casay was read by Professor A. Martin, on “What is Embraced in a True and Reasonable Sub- scription to the Confessions.” . THE SHELTON FIRE. New Haven, Conn., Nov, 5, 1878. ‘The loss by the burning of Wilkinson Brothers & Company’s paper mills in Shelton, last night, is $300,000. The insurance is $124,000, divided among the following companies:—Liverpool, London and Globe; Royal Canadian; Howard, of New York; Home, of New Yqrk; Scottish Commercial; Queen's, of London; North German, of Ham! 3 Imperial and Northern; Lancashire; National, Hartford; Fire Assistance, of Philadelphia; North British and Mercantile, of Edinburgh; Guardian, of London; of New York; Blom rer ing hen A] Under- writers’ Association, of New York; ueil Hall, of Boston; Commonwealth, of Boston; Prescott, of Bos- ton; Shoe end Leather, of Boston; Merchants’, of Newark; Newark Firo, of Newark; La Caisse Generale, of Paris. The amount in each company has not been ascertained. One hundred persons are thrown out of MIDNIGHT WEATHER REPORT. ‘War DepaRtMEnt, Orrick oF THE Crier SIGNAL OFFicen, ‘Wasaixoton, Wednesday, Nov. 6—1 A. M. Indications. For New England, partly cloudy weather, occasional light snow; westerly winds, backing to southwest- erly; stationary or higher temperature, and in the west portions lower pressure. For the Middle Atlantic States, partty cloudy weather, cold westerly, backing to warm southerly winds, falling barometer. For the South Atlantic States, clear or partly cloudy weather, variable winds, mostly southerly, stationary or higher temperature, génerally lower pressure. For the Guif States, clear or partly cloudy weather, winds warmer, southerly, stationary or lower pres- sure. For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, warmer, partly cloudy weather, occasional rain, southerly winds, generally lower pressure. For the lower lake region, warmer cloudy weather, with rain or snow, increasing southerly winds, falling barometér. For upper lake region, partly cloudy weather, occa- sional rains, cold northerly winds, rising barometer, preceded in south and east portions by warmer southerly winds and falling barometer. For the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri val- loys, cleat or partly cloudy weather, preceded by occasional light rains; warm, southerly, shifting to cold northerly winds. ‘The rivers will remain nearly stationary. Cautionary signals continue at Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit, Section Four, Port Huron, Alpena, Mackinaw City, Grand Haven, Section Three, Chicago, Mil- waukee, Section One, Escanaba, Marquette, Duluth, and are ordered for Cleveland, Section Five, Erie, Buffalo. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. ‘The following record will show the changes in the temperature for the past twenty-four hours, in com- ison with the corresponding date of last year, as Fodicated by the thermometer at Hudnut’s pharmacy, HERALD —— ate Broadway :— +. 1878. 1877. 1878, $1 3:30 P. M..... 57 42 WD 6PM... BR 40 . 32 OP. M. oT 38 12 M. weeee OB Senasie + 8 35 Average temperature yes ) Ae te 35% Average temperature for corresponding date last 1% -WASHINGTON. GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasurxetor, Nov. 5, 1878. MEETING OF THE CABINET—ACTION IN BEFER- ENCE TO THE SILVER DOLLAR. ‘The Cabinet was in session not more than an hour to-day. Attorney General Devens and Secretary Evarts were absent. The State Department was rep- resented by Assistant Secretary Seward. Some routine business was transacted, and there was a general con- versation regarding the points to be brought to the attention of Congress in the Presidential annual Mensage. « Itis unanimously agreed that the Message should contain some recommendation for the enactment of legislation either to increase the weight of the stand- ard silver dollar or to diminish its coinage, or té adopt both of these means of preventing further de- Preciation of its value. The subject will be again considered at a future meeting of the Cabinet. THE RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS. The Star this evening says it can be stated on good authority that when the resumption of specie pay- ment by the United States Treasury begins it will be a gold resumption and not a silver resumption, although if the run on the Treasury for gold in exchange for United States notes should come close to the amount of that coin in possession of the government, it is stated that a retreat may be made to silver. The Coif balance in the Treasury yesterday at the close of business was $228,526,453 26. Of this amount about $137,000,000 was gold available for resumption. There are outatanding about $326,000,000" in United States notes to be redeemed if presented. The plates for the five and ten thousand dollar green- back notes are nearly completed and the notes will be ready for circulation by the day fixed for resumption. They are intended to do double duty—for convenience in handling large amounts of greenbacks and to take the place of coin certificates. Their size will be the same as that of the rest of the greenback currency. GEN. MILES AND THE BANNOCKS. AN EXPRESSION OF OPINION BY GENERAL SHEB- MAN FAVORABLE TO GENERAL MILES. Wasnineton, Nov. 5, 1878, ‘The attention of General Sherman having to-day been called to the statement of alleged cruelty of Colonel Miles toward the Bannock Indians after they had proposed to surrender, the General said he had received no news about the matter, but Colonel Miles ‘was a good and trusted officer, and had no doubt acted properly under the circumstances, well know- ing the deceitful character and purposes of these Indians, who, after committing all the outrages of which they were capable, proposed to purchase im- munity by a proposition to surrender. He did not be- lieve that Colonel Miles would do anything detrimental to his chi ter as a soldier, or would fail to discharge his duty faithfully under any circumstances. The General expresses much gratification with the sea- son’s campaigns against the hostile, roving bands of Indians, all of which having been brought into subjec- tion, some promptly punished, others restored or driven to their reservations, and some of them held either by the military or the civil courts for trial. He considers it especially gratifying that the army on the frontiers, comparatively small, has accomplished such satisfactory results in such extensive sections of territory, General Howard's operations alone, extend- ing over 2,000 miles. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 5, 1878. Commodore F. A. Parker, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, and staff; Commanders F. V. McNair and 8. D. Greene, and Lieutenant Hamilton Parkins, paid an official visit to Governor Carroll at the Execu- tive mansion to-day. A MYSTERY CLEARED. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] Aspury Park, N. J., Nov. 5, 1878, The excitement consequent upon the discovery of s wounded man in the woods near Halfway House yester- day has subsided, it having been found that there was no foul play. The two men, Cook and White, both of Monmouth Beach, started for Shark River. After leaving White there Cook started home, and his horses becoming frightened ran away. Cook was thrown violently to the ground among some sharp stones, one of which inflicted the wound in his neck. After ‘being removed to Long Branch, and receiving medi- cal atten » he recovered sufficiently to exonerate White. His injuries are of such a nature as to make his recovery extremely doubtful. SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. ‘TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN THE REPURLIC OF SALVADOR—LO8S OF LIFE AND PROPERTY— ARBITRARY ACTION OF THE AUTHORITIES IN COLOMBIA. Pawama, Oct. 26, 1878. At six o'clock, on the evening of October 2, a severe earthquake was experienced in the village of Jucuaps and neighboring towns, in the Department of Usulutan, in the southern por- tion of the Republic of Salvador. Nearly all the houses in Jucuapa were destroyed and many fami- lies buried in the ruins, particularly in the outskirts of the town, where the means of escape were confined to narrow streets and where the houses were not .s0 solidly constructed as in the centre. Here the plaza furnished security to the distressed people who were trying to avoid the crumbling walls and falling roofs of their ruined dwellings. At last advices ten bodies had been recovered and many more were supposed to be under the ruins, as many people are missed by friends or relatives. The towns included in the ter are Guadalupe, Nueva Guadalupe, Chinameca, Usulatan, the Caserio del Arenal, Sali- tiago de Maris, which is ent ruined and some lives lost, 4 condition which are also found Tecapa, Triunfo and San Buena Ventura. In Nueva Guadalupe and Chinameca the ruin is complete, and the loss of life is also to be la- mented, San Miguel, fort: , escaped without injury. The shock which produced the damage was at first a kid of osc movement, which lasted over forty seconds and terminated in what felt like a general upheaval of the earth and was so violent that solid walls and arches and strongly braced is were broken and severed like pipe stems. The movement proceeded from the southwest to the northeast and are supposed to have been occasioned by an eruption of the voleana of Tecaps. GOVERNMENT AID. ‘The government has begun the houses for , and work of erecting the unfortunstes, will su: them selves. of the most thickly settled portions of the country. The people devote themselves to the cultivation of indigo sugar cane and tobacco, are industrious economical, and boigg op s m were in very comfort- able circumstances, failure of the indigo crop, on account of the locusts, and the destruction of their homes by this dread visitation, are double calamities which should awaken pity and active sym- thy for them in the bosoms of their neighbors. e Idea of Santa Ans ports that apprehensions exist in the public mind that the volcano of Santa Ana is about to be ina state of eruption, from the effects of which serious consequences are feared. LAW IN COLOMBIA, Mr, B. ier, of the firm of Hoffman, ar- dior & Co., and French Vice Consul at Aspinwall, has been arbitrarily confined in prison by order of a a tice of the peace for all Sar. of court. caso has been carefully by the American and English consular authorities at Aspinwall, aud ronounced most emphatically to be an ou! ue +h of authority and a foul wrong telegraphed the President of the State to that effect, and he answered — orderii Mr. Leignardier’s release. The judge refui to obey the order, and this morning the President took the train for Aspinwall to personally examine into the affair, Business in Colombia is without animation. Ex- change is still at unfavorable prices, ninety-day bills caning from twenty-six to twenty-cight pence per sol.: Exchange on New York is at ninety per cent premium. FAILURE IN BOSTON. Boston, Nov. 5, 1878. The failure of Mesars. Clark, Adams & Clark, one of the largest importing and jobbing crockery houses in Boston, is announced. A meeting of their cred- itors will be called as soon as a statement can be prepared. A FAILURE AT MONTREAL. Montneat, Nov. 5, 1878, B. O'Hara & Co., merchant tailors, have failed, with liabilities of $10,000. BURNED TO DEATH. Lowen, Mass., Nov. 5, 1878, Two children were burned to death on Jefferson street this forenoon, ther mother having left them | in a cradle near ihe «tov, where their clothing caught fro. | | i a TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. ©. H. Bronson was shot and killed at Barnwell Court House, Ga., Monday night, by John Bostock. All the stone cutters in the quarries at Beamsville, Ont., struck for higher wages yesterday morning. ‘John W. Bowker was ‘arrested yesterday afternoon for the alleged embezzlement of $10,000 from the Eastern Railroad Company some months ago. The house of Eben Wheelden, at East Hampden, Me., was burned yesterday afternoon. Loss $7,000; insured for $4,000 in the Phoenix Fire Insurance Com- pany. Philip Carman, a farmer, aged seventy-eight, re- siding in Walker Valley, Ulster county, N. Y., hanged himself in his barn on Monday morning. No cause for the act is known, The boot and shoe manufactory of Joseph Dill, at Rockland, Mass., occupied by three or four sinall firms, was burned yesterday morning. Total loss, $8,000; uninsured. From news received in Chicago the steamer City of Montreal was supposed lost, her pilot house havinx drifted ashore onthe east coast of Lake Michigan. She has, however, been seen, stripped of some rig- ging and equipments, in safety at Manitous. ‘The dead body of D. B. Abrahams, the proprietor of ® livery stable on West Lake street, C! oO, Was found Monday night lying in the middle of the road near the corner of Jackson and Green streets. From a letter on his person it is inferred to be # case of sui- ide or possibly of murder. The Hickory Ridge Colliery, owned by the Mineral Railroad and Mining Company, near Shamokin, Pa., was destroyed by fire last evening. The cause and the loss are unknown. This throws about 200 men and boys out of employment. As the steam barge Niagara was leaving Genesee on Monday for Toronto, Captain Moryan slipped off the hurricane deck into the hold, a distance of twenty feet, breaking his arm and sustaining serious internal | injuries which may prove fatal. Captain Morgan was carried to Toronto and taken to the hospital. A despatch from Leavenworth, Kan., says one of the large government stables at Fort Leavenworth was bu on Sunday noon. No canse has yet been aseigned for the fire. stable contained fifty-three mules. Forty were rescued and the remainder con- oe It is thought the loss will not fall short of Despatches from Kansas say that the great threo story stone barn of John Taylor, in Dickinson county, some miles from Abelene, waa burned one night last week. The barn was filled with 5 ultural implements, lumber, wagons, and twenty-five head of fine horses, all of which were destroyed. Loss, Spon no insurance. Mr. Taylor, the owner, was formerly of the firm of John Taylor & Co., of Cinciu- nati; ut for several years has been an extensive farmer, A body was washed ashore from the Sound at Matti- tuck, R. I, yesterday. name Robert J. Tullock was stamped on the inside of his vest and a bill for the schooner Mary Tice was found in his ket. The Coroner's inquest elicited the fact that the body was that of Captain Robert J. Tullock, master of the ves- sel above named, which foundered off Brantford, Conn., October 23. ‘The Postmaster General yesterday rendered a de- cision of some general interest in the case of-a Boston yublisher who has claimed a right to distribute to ton subscribers his periodical, The Missic Her- ald, by sending copies to a news agent in Brookline, to be by him mailed to subscribers in the city at the und rates of tage. «Judge Key decides that this js. a wholly in: issable evasion of the law, which prescribes local rates of either one cent or two cents upon each newspaper or periodical that is published in a city peoyated with letter carriers. The same ruling will be applied to business circulars, of which many thousands are understood to be distributed in the large cities after escaping payment of the proper rate of by the same ingenious evasion of car- to be mailed from some closely neighbor- rying i post office. The loss to the postal revenues is the dis between the rates of two cents per pound and one cent for each circular. FINE ARTS. MONTHLY BXHIBITION AND RECEPTION AT THE ABT STUDENTS’ LEAGUE, ‘The second of this season’s monthly exhibitions sand receptions was held at the rooms of the Art Stu- dents’ League, in Fifth avenue, last evening. There ‘were present s number of the students and professors, seWeral well known artists, and s number of invited guests. The art display, which was one of the best and most important yet made, consisted of work by the professors, the members of the league and by foreign hands. At a business meeting, at which several new members were elected, President Waller in a few words presented to the league five oil studies, six drawings and forty photographs of celebrated drawings by masters and of other works. The oil and crayon studies, which are by Munich hands, hung on the south side of the room and attracted a good of attention. They consist of a fine nude dra: from life of Ee examining his foot, by G. Jacobides; a striking study of am old woman’s head in red crayon by the same; an old woman in oil colors, and an oid man in black and white by W. Ducr; a strong nude study fm oil ofan old man model; two ad- mirable little head studies, one of a leaning on his arm, and some creditable drawings McEwen. The photographs which formed part of Mr. Waller's gift were hung in the portrait class room LONDON'S PRUDERY. Attempt to Introduce the Ammergau Passion .Play in London. CARDINAL MANNING’S OPINION. A London Manager Condemned by the Public and the Clergy. wie Lonpoy, Oct. 22, 1878, Another dramatic sens#ton; another prohibited play! This time, however, the subject is worth talk- ing about. Cardinal Manning and clergymen by the score have been driven to the verge of madness by an announcement made a few days ago by the manager of the Royal Aquarium, the home of fishes, mer- maids, of acrobats, comic singers, performing fleas, Zazel and the fair women driven from the Duke of Argyll's. The announcement was that Mr. Robertson “chad been able to conclude arrangements for the ap- pearance at the Wesminster Aqnarium of the world famed troupe of the Oberammergau, which is likely to excite a vast amount of interest. The mountaineers have now for the first time been induced to leave their homes, in order to present in England, at the Royal Aqua rium, a series of those marvellous living tableaux representing the most striking incidents of man’s fall and redemption. The German Passionspiel, it is well known, is represented but once every ten years at Oberammergau, and thousands of spectators travel from all parts of the globe to see these tableaux, and prelate, priest and laity have alike vied in according their warmest praise to the representation. In June, 1870, when the Passionspiel was produced, the corre- spondent of the Times wrote of these tableaux:—‘As they stand they are marvellously impressive and living pictures of man’s fall and redemption. Ihave never seen so affecting a spectacle or one more calcu- lated to draw out the best and purest feelings of the heart;’ while other writers of all countries have spoken most eloquently and enthusiastically in their praise. The troupe will appear for the first time in England at the Royal Aquarium en the afternoon of November 4, and will give five other representations on the afternoons of November 6, 8, 11, 13 and 15, these being their only performances in London.” PROHIBITIQN OF RELIGIOUS PLAYS, » So read the advertisement that caused such a com- motion and indignation in the religious eamp. I was about to say “righteous” indignation, but hardly feel justified in so doing, because one becomes in time dis gusted with the constant interference of the clergy in matters dramatic. It is through the influence of the cantish hypocrisy of the Church that many of the most charming operas cannot be produced on the English stage. Thus Goldmark’s grand opera “The Queen of Sheba” cannot be performed in London unless to another and non-biblical text. ‘Moses in Egypt” can only be performed as anoratorio. The Lord’s Prayer cannot be sung on the stage. The word “Heaven” must take the place of “God” in the mu- sical text books. Not long ago there was a semi-reli- gious performance for Sunday school people, entitled “Joseph and His Brethren,” given at a large hall in Sheffield to a very respectable assemblage. The audi- ence was pleased, but the performance was stopped at once by the authorities, who could not permit re- ligious subjects to be profaned by a performance on the stage. Joseph and Solomon and the Queen in the same index of prohibited of Sheba are p! lays in land as the adaptations made by rising Qrematiate “Niniche” and ‘Les Lionnes Pauvres.” ZUGEL 4ND THE CRUCIFIXION. ‘Well, the Ammergau sensation has been an interest- ing one; the more so to those who know that the Am- mergauers never intended to come at all, but that Mr. Robertson had been taken in by a fee theatre director named Schneider, who wand about Austria some years ago giving performances “after the manner of the ee Passion Play” in the small suburban theatres and in provincial towns. ‘The announcement was made in London that the man (forget his name) who had secured the mermaid, the performing fleas, the two-headed nightingale, the whales, had at expenditure succeeded in inducing the ‘mountaineers of Ammergau” (?) to visit London in order to give a limited number of | er icgeten of the tableaux from the ‘Passion Play.” low, knowing the Amm: ers intimately, having lived months among them, I know they are not fools which adjoins the large room where the principal bis ag p> arranged. s In the contre of the west wall hung Professor Chase's ‘Ready for the Ride,” loaned by its owner, the Union League Club. Around this were grouped three striking studies of still life and of street views by the same artist; a couple of admirable heads by J. ©. Beckwith, who has c! of the cast class—the of them full of life, fine in color and modelled, and studies Waller, F. Hirsch! 4 8. Church, Dowdell, » C. 8. Reinhart, Hirschberg, Howison, Ogilvie, and Miss nage The north wall a pet Sit po class wings—some especially noticeab! ing by Hugh Newell, and other black and white work. Among this we note some by Kelly, an excellent Howard for the «Triumph ink sketch drawin; hoof. pond “An Accident in the Circus;” sketches ic, amo. them Cusach’s sterling, Se) ;" an Cine He dor = ; ahd some very admirable pen: of dock and strect oenes By Charles Vander- a screen were some good examples of Hugh figure work and a couple of his excellent little itudies, very true in color and good in draw- Dixon was represented by a very credit- head on aplaque. Professor Hartley senta couple of casts of his charming busts, “Sunflower and Lily.” On the east wall were a series of photographs after William M. Chase’s pictures. ‘ “Tl Don Giovanni” at the Academy of Music this evening. ‘The theatres last night were well filled and enjoyed the election returns given from the Hxratp in the entr’actes and in the lobbies. ‘The Symphony Socicty of New York appear in their first public rehearsal to-morrow afternoon, Noveuber 7, at Steinway Hall. The conductor is Dr. Damrosch. Herr August Wilhelm) is announced as the violin vir- tuoso, and will perform for the first time in America a concerto written expressly for him by Joachim Raff. HURT BY AN EXPLOSION. John Wosdale, while attending a still in the works of the Brooklyn Roofing Company, corner of Smith and Sixth streets, yesterday morning, wae hurled about thirty feet by the losion of a vat. His body, hands and face were ibly burned and one th Pee ee elicge tincnttal, nie tz3! to ng Island College Hospital. juries are con- sidered fatal. COFFEE AND POLITICS. [From the Utica Republican, Nov. 4.) The Women’s Christian Temperance Union will serve coffee at the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Tenth ward polls to-niorrow. As these efforts are attended with expense the ladies should be remembered by the candidates our citizens gener- ally. . The custom of giving coffee and sandwiches at the polls is very commendable. The majority of elec- tors well remember the disgusting scenes that wero enacted at our polls in years gone by, when liquor was too freely used. These acenes are now, thanks to the efforta of Utica’s noble ladies, conspicuous by their absence. Let it be said to the credit of the aterner sex this year that the Indies will not be o! to furnish all the funds for these refreshments. ie ‘Women’s Temperance Aid omy A of West Utica, will serve the refreshments. at tho Sixtigand Ninth ward polls. Donations of biscuits and doughnuts aro asked. The ladies of that section will undoubtedly respond to the call. The Seventh ward will be sup- lied in a similar manner by, the tem: ladies of = — Voter, candi ) every! , Temember tho ladies. AH SIN AS A THIEF. [From the San Francisco Bulletin, Oct. 28.) On Friday evening last a Chinaman, employed at Dode Spencer's, a mile below Dayton, Buite county, robbed # trunk belonging to one Thorne, who was stopping at Spencer's, securing $560 in money, a watch and a pistol, and then made off toward Dayton. On the way he met Thorne, and pulling the stolen pis- tol he easayed the role of a road agent. Thorne not sur- rendering at his command the Chinaman emptied the six barrels of the pistol at him, but not hitting him, made off in the darkness. On reaching home Thorne atonce discovered his loss and started in pursuit with friends. The Chinaman was headed off fore reach- ing town and-started to run across the fields, escaping in the darkness, Ho waa again found early in the morning and captured, tnd the money recovered in- tact; but the watch and pistol were missing. After the money had been taken om him the thiet made a bold attempt to escape, and was making off at a rapid pace when the men who had ured him fired sev- eral shots, and the Chinaman fell over dead. An in- | quest was held on the body by Judge March at Dayton. | enough to come to London a few years before the time for the performance of their decadal vow (1880), and never dreamed fora moment that the announce- ment I have given above would be taken in so serious amanner. But lo! two gerers came, out in long edi- torial condemnations of Mr. Robértson. ‘It is witha sense of shock,” says the M Post, “in which in- with horrence for the ‘Passion Play’ at the Aquarium Theatre. It has always been a debatable aeineen whether a dramatic representation of the sufferings and death of the Re- deemer of mankind could .be admitted anywhere or under any circumstance, so associated is all that ter- rible history with the most solemn feelings that human nature is capable of. INDIGNATION OF THE PRESS. “It would be revolting when upon a London stage with all the vulgar ions of # commercial speculation. It is too much to hope that nobody will go and see it. That most of right feeling will Tefuse it with disgust we fully believe, but there are those who will go to anything that is shocking, simply because it is 4 =e 3 and the more shocking the better they like it. These are the people who would go to executions if they were public, who te when propriety is outraged. or delicate feclings are as when y is ow or delicate feelings are shocked.” These will go to the ‘Passion Play,’ and crowd the house when the thrilling story of the four Evangelists is presented to their eyes and ears as if it were a tragedy of the ordinary type. These are the people that will thunder their applause at the dis- comfiture of Herod and hiss at Judas, and make scorn at St. Peter's weakness, and whistle their cat-calls at Pilate. Their money will probably recoup the man- agement the ‘enormous outlay’ #0 os- ntatiously advertised. But can an; make up for the injury done to a sub- ject, for the insult to feeling of every priety, or for the sense of shame with which all Meoant people will Sh the Reto solemn of oa ty subjects degraded into a theatrical speculation a run of so many nights? The play was tolerable in its simplicity and among the peasantry with whom it ‘With them it was a picty, a tradition. It was to them what an oratorio is to us. But it was not flaunted over Europe as a great stroke of theatri- cal management or last sensational thing out. The eres artierte tales as an alternative with Zazel, nor the Cross of unk oo wate the latest novelty to people sick to of acrobats and the trapeze.” A LETTER FROM CARDINAL MANXING. From the above extract you can see how ban hag excitement grew. Then came s letter from iL Manning, which I may be permitted to quote in fall:— “An advertisement announcing that the Ammergau ‘Passion Play’ is about to be ited at the Aqua- rium was sent to me anonymously laat ht. writer believed that, as the ‘Passion Play’ its or- igin in Catholic Germany, I might have authority to avert ite most imprudent introduction into land. I thank the writer of the letter, and would gl do #0 directly if he would send me his address. I have once before done all in my‘power to prevent what I believe would be a desecration of the ‘Passion Play,’ ascandal to the religious instincts of ‘lishmen, a ee the most sacred subjects of our ith. About eight or nine years ago I received & juest from some persons to sanc- tion the luction of tho ‘Passion . London. I declined to give my sanction, that I should use all influence both here and in Ger- a to prevent it. ao, informed pes a a, not the pions peasant mi n, have endeavo: to ma of the "Passion Play’ in sev- eral parts of Germany, but have been inhibited by the government. The oy. which still keepa alive pert- odically the men & Divine mercy ina time of stilence by the piously intended See at Ximsnergen cannot be transplanted without losing its sacred character. Inced not say that the transition from Bavaria to London, from leas to the Aquarium, compels mo to condemn with greater [iota tness than before so Pave a disregard of the Shristian instincts of our country, ap expressed in letter which appears in the Times of to-day. Lremain, sir, your faithful servant, “HENRY EDWARD, Cardinal Archbishop. “Ancupisnor’s Houser, Wrstmrssten, Oct. 19." 18 IT A HOAX. Tho Cardinal's lotter evoked ‘a very foolish reply from Mr. Robertson, who said he “had yet to learn that piety and reverence are necessarily confined to the circumscribed limite of St Paul's and Westminster Abbey,” and declared his conviction that “if certain tableaux are presented with a due reverence to the subject everything would go Se sn But public opinion grew too strongly excited, and after Mr, Rol had come to the conviction that he had been “let in” by Mr. Schneider, he announced his de- termination to ‘withdraw the announced representa- tions from the list of his attractions.” And so enda the story of the coming of the Ammergauers to Westminster. In the year 1872 the Ammeryauers received good offers to go to America, and in 1873 they Were offered a deposit of $30,000 to perform in Vienna curing the Exposition, This they refneed. Tt is not pi le that the ped vill of Ober- anmmergan have forgotten suddenly their sacred vow at the jingle of |. I believe the fact iw that the Amumergavers are in total of the excitement 7 that is going on here about their celebrated Passover play. The Morning Post thinks it very unfortunate that the attempt should have been made to introduce the play at the moment when the best friends of the drama are endeavoring to break down the prejudice with which so many religious people have the theatre and after so many lights at the recent Church Congress at Sheffield had expressed themseh ves so strongly in favor of the drama as ® means influencing the people for the better, the announcement of the enactment of the solemn mystery of human redemption at the Aquarium had hot then shocked the publie conscience. If it had no doubt the pro) would have been denounced and reprobated with the unant- mous indignation of that large hearted and enlight ened assembly. Very nay has the manager of the Aquarium been condemned by the public voice in this matter. The mantle of the Argyle Rooms has of late fallen on the Royal Aquarium, and the religions feelings of the entire community, both Catholic Protestant, would have been outraged by the perform ance of any religious subject there, much more the representation of tableaux from the ‘Passion Pla; by a band of adventurers, who have probably never seen the highlands of Bavaria, The ‘Passion Play’ at Oberammergau will be potereed again in the year 1880. ill then the public would prefer to wait in order to see there the charming which an entire community of part."* of “But formances, in ious men take OBITUARY. REY. DR. EBENEZER WIGGAN. The Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Wiggan died suddenly of apoplexy at the St. Charles Hotel, Broadway, yester- day. Hé had been boarding at the house for some seven years, and up to the moment of his death seemed in uncommonly good health and physical vigor. The deceased was born in Ireland, and was about sixty-three years of age. He was educated at Rutger’s College, New Brunswick, N. J., and as pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church at Paterson, in that State, for a number of years. His remains wil) be taken to Paterson for interment. ALEXANDER SMITH, LONGRESSMAN ELECT, Alexander Smith, the Congressman elect in the Twelfth New York district, died at Yonkers, N. Y., at ten o’clock last night. Mr, Smith was the republi- can candidate. He was a large carpet manufacturer in Yonkers and employed a large number of hands, He was never in politics before. ‘THOMAS C. DE MOSQUERA, ‘Thomas C. de Mosquera, a South American revola- tionary hero and for many hears the leadetof the Mberal ‘party in the Colombian Republic, which for several terms elected him to the Chief Magistracy of the country, died in Panama, October 25, HOTEL ARRIVALS. George W. Childs and A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, and Professor Francis A. Walker, of Yale College, are at the Fifth Avenue. Ex-Congressman E. W. 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