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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
Pumng as a Fine Art.

The science of puffery, about which so
much interest is now felt, is not modern
institution, although our modern managers
have done much toward bringing it to high
state of perfection. The puff in the past was
a venture, an experiment. Now it is a sys-
tenn. A well managed theatre gives as much
attention to the handling Of the press" as to
the arrangement of the stage or the perform
ance Of the plays. As in the case of Mr.. Bar
num- putting is conducted with so much
genius that its hero obtains a worldwide
reputation. We suppose we have had better
managers Of puffery, more experienced
quacks in America than in any other coun-
try. The American quack understands the
subject. When he decsiyes the people he
does it frankly. He Gentlemen,
am doing trick; tell you
the little joker is under this cup, but it is
not; You think so, but it is under the other
cup" This we can comprehend, and IN our
generous, free and easy way we are apt to ap-
plaud the self-confessed quack. But these
transatlantic buffers who control the cable
and newspapers are like the dealers in three
card monte, who pretend all the time they
are playing an honest game while they are
cheating. They do not understand our peo-
pie, who know perfectly well when they are
deceived. Thus, when the cable tells US
that the Senorita Squaleni is "called before
the curtain nine times, we shrug our
shoulders and feel that any people, Russian
or American, would be incomprehensible
fools to sit stamping and yelling while an
opera singer made nine bows before the cur
tain. An American quack would have
probably said six times, or three, and been
content with that. These foreign buffers are
clumsy, and it would be well for them to
change their system.
While they are making change why not
reform the whole business Here, for
instance, is Nine Titiens, who is brought
before US as a divinely gifted singer. Well,
Nine. Titiens is good prima donna, but
she is only good, not extraordinary. Here is
Wachtel, whose praises are chanted as q
tenor who might have sung in the Garden Of
Eden to entranced nightingales. Well,
Wachtel is fair, good singer but nothing
more. II, instead of putting Wachtel and
Titiens and others like them, who are
worthy enough, SO highly that their true
merit is often denied them by deceived
public, why would it not be much better
for Strakosch to take them and find
company of good stock singers and
give us season of opera? We
have no doubt that an opera season
sustained by Titiens and Wachtel and some
other good singers who could be obtained
would be great success in New York. 1t
would be better for art and better for the
managers than to exhaust themselves 'upon
handling the press" and deceiving the public.
The stockholders of the Academy would do
their part toward helping any such undertake
ing. The stockholders have every interest in
music, and if Mr.. Strakosch can succeed in
founding an opera troupe upon Titiens and
Wachtel he would add a new attraction to
New York during the coming season, and 50
merit the support and esteem of the people.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
The Latest Charley Ross story.

The most popular little boy in the United
States would be Charley Ross if he were ever
found. He was long ago adopted into the
affections Of the nation, just as the little
maiden in the opera became the daughter of
the regiment For him thousands of fathers
have mourned and hundreds of thousands of
tender-hearted mothers have wept All pa
rents have suffered vicarious loss in losing
him, so powerful is the sympathy which
binds humanity together If he should be
ever found there will be personal JOY in in
Vulnerable households, and until that day a
shadow, vague and dim, yet deeply felt,
must rest unremoyed upon the domestic life
Of America. Thus personal misfortune has
been exalted into national grief In an
cient days when o Roman citizen was injured
Rome resented the wrong as done not merely
to him, but to her., and, for reasons equally
vital, in every happy American household
around whose threshold children play, the
abduction of Charley Ross is felt to be q cruel
blow at the sanctity and security of home.
The letter we print to-day from Philadel-
phia is a strange and interesting chapter in
the dark, mysterious romance. 1t opens
another field for conjecture and romance.
But we confess we see no great reason for
hope that the story of Baker will lead to the
recovery of the boy. The letters signed Il
Of the 4" and ''Nelson Boothe, which Mr..
Ross received in September, have sus-
picious look. The motive which Boothe
assigns for surrendering all pecuniary adj
vantage to Baker-namely, gratitude for
Bakers services to him while they were to-
gether in South Carolina-seems inadequate
to explain his action. The letters Of Boothe,
though they pretend that the writer is pitt
full and regrets his share in the crime,
contain brutal threat that only on certain
conditions will the child be restored One
of these conditions is that Baker is to have
the honor of the recovery. 1t is to be noted,
too, that Baker is the only man who ever saw
Boothe that he has failed to produce him
and that there is no proof that Boothe does
not exist only in Bakers imagination. There
are other circumstances which make the
the disappearance Of Baker himself We do
not wish to be unjust to Mr.. Baker, but,
judging him solely upon his own story and
his own actions we should consider him
fraud, who for some unknown reason is play
ing with feelings which should be sacred.
Still it may be that this suspicion is IN
founded, that Boothe is o reality, and that
the story is substantially true. We have
only to say that this question can be easily
decided, and that the officials who are
trusted with the search for Charley Ross will
not deserve pardon if they allow Baker to
escape. He has either thrust himself into
the case or been forced into it by Boothe and
should not be allowed to vanish from the
scene to suit his own desire.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
The Savings Bank Failure.

correspondent asks the pertinent
question whether the receiver appointed in
a friendly manner for the Third Avenue
Savings Bank is to be limited in the time
for winding up its affairs, or is to be allowed
to postpone sale of the property long
enough to swallow up great part of the
amount that may be realized in clerk hire,
fees and other expenses, and he cites the
case of the Bowery Bank, which failed in 1857
and has not yet rendered final account
to stockholders 1t may be well to go further
and to inquire why an officer of the Third
Avenue Savings Bank should have been APP
pointed its receiver? For three years, &C
cording to the account of the Bank Superin-
tendent, the institution has been unsound,
but new deposits have been invited and
eight thousand people have been victimized.
There has been nothing in the manage
ment to recommend it either on account of
financial ability or honesty. The ability
of the bank officers has been confined to the
ingenuity with which they have concealed
its true condition, and their honesty to max
ing depositors believe that their money was
safe in the keeping of bankrupt concern.
1t certainly seems questionable policy on the
part of the State officers, who are expected to
protect the public interest, to make one of
the officers of such an untrustworthy and
recklessly managed an institution its re-
ceiver, and it is probable that the victimized
depositors will have something to say on
that point. The last report sent to the Bank
Department made false and fraudulent ex-
hibit of the banks condition, showing q
surplus of seven thousand dollars Of assets
over liabilities, and this was signed and
certified to by the then secretary of the bank,
who is now, by friendly arrangement with
the department. its receiver.
There are two important points which
ought to be promptly settled for the protec-
ton of the public and in the interests of the
savings institutions generally. The first is,
how far the laws now in existence warrant
the Bank Superintendent in extending Sin
diligence" to a rotten bank or, in other
words, allowing q bank to impose upon de-
positors after it is known to be bankrupt |?
The second is, whether the directors and Off
GERS of bank who make false or fraudulent
exhibits for the purpose of defrauding de-
positors are not criminally or civilly respon-
sible to their victims We know of no moro
cruel and impudent imposition than that
admittedly practised by this broken bank.
Its managers coolly state that for three years
they have been hopelessly bankrupt that
they have made false statements to the de-
partment; that the object Of its directors
has been to slip OUT and save themselves.
All this time they have been receiving the
hard-earned money Of the laboring classes,
with the knowledge that in the end ruin
must overtake their depositors. 1t is singu-
lar if the laws are powerless either to pre-
vent or TO punish such rascality.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

THE FAST MAIL TRAINS NecsdedterS and
he public throughout the States Of Ne1o York,
Neeo Jersey and Pennsylvania, as 1eu as in the
West, North and Southwest, along the lines of
the Hudson RiUr, Neec York. Central and Penn
sylUdnid Central Railroads and their connections
sciA be supplied aoih The HERALD, free Of post
age, ty sending their orders direct to this office.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

The IsTHMUs OF PANAMA. Admiral
Mullany, Of the United States Navy, has ex-
planned to the President-elect Of Panama
the views Of our government upon the affairs
Of Colombia as they affect American inter
ests. These views and the courteous reply
Of DR.. Arosemena will be found in our de-
snatches from Jamaica.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

The ENGLISH DISPUTE WITH CHINA
Although the British government had re-
ceiyed up to Saturday no fresh advices from
its Minister to China the Independence Beige
publishes a despatch, dated at Tientsin,
September q, which says that Mr.. Wade had
settled all trouble and that war is improb-
able This Is not inconsistent with the
English view Of the affair, and as neither
country really wanted war just now they
have probably agreed upon peace. But the
English policy Of dealing with the Chinese
nj list be changed before . permanent peace
may be regarded as secure.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

The ERIE RAHwAY.--We print in another
part Of to-day's paper the full text of the re-
port made by Sir Edward w. Watkin to the
British bondholders, concerning the present
condition Of the Erie Railway. 1t contains
some interesting facts and suggestions.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

Mr.. MooDY's EVANGELICAL LABoRs in New
plete success. The issue Of tickets Of adj
mission to his sermon in Brattleboro, vt. /,
has caused considerable dissatisfaction, as
appears by our correspondence from that
Vta0a
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

THE PULPIT AND THE PREss.-The Rev.
NJ Murray, of Boston, generally known as
tho Rev. Adirondack Murray, has resolved
not to abandon his preaching in the year
Which will be required to build his new
church. Yesterday he began his clerical
labors in Music Hall, and his SER
mon upon Christian unity will bc
found in another column lie will also
s.art new religious journal called the
ooldcn Rule, and people will be curious 70
sec whether his paper will be as popular as
lis pulpit. Journalism and preaching differ
widely, and if Mr.. Murray can succeed in
both professions he will be q remarkable ex-
ception to the rule.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

The CENTENNIAL Central Executive
Committee Of orr Centennial Exhibition has
been appointed in Florence, and, as that is
one of the most important cities Of Italy, the
labors Of the committee ought to have valu-
able results.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

IYcEUM THEATRE
Boas~HhDISE AS sc & fssn'''''"'n o''''
PARTISAN VARIETIES.
Sixteenth street and Broadway.-vAKIETi a. ; Il NJ
SAN FRANCISCO MINsrRELs.
New Opera House broadway q Twenty ninth street
AMERICAN INSTITUTE.
Third avenue anu sixty hird street-Day and evening
BOOTHS THEATRE,
Twenty third street and Sixth ayenae.-THE FLYING
sCuD, Al r. A. NJ. George BelmoFe.
OLYMPIC. THEATRE;
No G2f Broadway-yARIETY, at Il A. closes at 10 f5
PARK THEATRE.
LAR. ats u Mr.. and Mrs.. Florence Texas Sufferers
-. qILHMoRE,s SUMNER GARDEN. H.
CERT. r. NJ. closes IL r. NJ.
No. 1913 ws FssssH1 ..s SgsErs 2g AIT
TrvoLI THEATRE.
Eighth street, Third ayenae.-yARiETY. at 3 Pm
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE.
pwsMnty-eishth street near Broadway-oUK BOYS, at
COLONEL Sims PARK THEATRE.
BOWERY THEATRE
Bowery.-BEGGARs ON HORSEBACK, at p. NJ. Z. T.
Stetson
HOWE CUSHINGiS CIRCUS
Eighth avenue and Forynnth street-Performances day
and evening.
ACADEMY OF MUSIC,
woEb Is EIGHTY DAYS At 2 NJ closes al Il + N
DARLTNG'S OPERA HOUSE,
Fwentythird street and Sixth avenue.-COTTON REEDS
NEW YORK MlNSTRELS, 8 +. NJ. closes 10 +. N.
THEATRE COMIQUF.
No, 514 Broadway.-yARIETY, At p NJ closes 10 AS
Pm
WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway, OF Thirtieth street-KIT at r. NJ.
aoses az 10 As +. NJ Matinee p. NJ
STETNWAY HALL.
Fourteenth street.-MLLE. TITIENS CONCERT at S
T. NJ closes at 10 +. NJ
METROPOLITAN THEATRE.
Nos SIS and 5S7 Broadw ay.-VAR1ETY. at r. NJ
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

NOTICE TO sUBsCRIBERS.-on and
after January /, 1876, the daily and weekly
editions of the NEW YORK HERALD will be
sent free Of postage.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

How THE CITY's MONEY GoEs.-Commis-
sioner Laimbeer said to the commission
which is inquiring into the administration Of
the Department Of Charities and Correction
that he had proposed to the authorities q
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

From or reports this morning the probabilities
are that the 1cedther today ,oiA be rdy7ner and
partly cloudy.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

FAST TRAINs-A week or two ago our re-
spected contemporary, the Evening Post, sug-
gested that there ought to be fast trains in the
afternoon as well as in the morning. 1t did
not explain that an afternoon fast train would
be for the advantage of the Ecening Post, but
this is, perhaps, sufficiently obvious. 1t
''goes without saying" as the French have
it. But we think our contemporary in the
right. There ought to be an afternoon fast
train as well as the one in the morning The
public convenience demands it; and the
government has q right to require Of the
companies that they shall run such trains
and at such speed Us the public convenience
demands. Modesty forbids that we should
dwell upon the fact that the HERAI.D's fast
train showed the government what can be
done and what was necessary for the public's
convenience in this direction. 1t is right to
add that, in its efforts for fast train, the
HERALD found the leading railroad managers
very ready to make the necessary arrange
ments for the accommodation and interest of
the public and the press. We Join with the
Ecening Post in its demand for an afternoon
fast train.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
NEW YORK HERALD
BROADWAY AND ANN STREET

JAMES GORDON BENNETT,
PROPRIETOR
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
TRIPLE S HE E T.

NEW YORK. MONDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1875.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04
Our Paris Reading Room.

The announcement that the Paris Office
of the HERALD has been removed to Avenue
de POpera and that we have opened read
ing room of American newspapers for the
convenience Of our friends abroad has
excited general interest among the public
and the newspapers of the country. The
new site we have chosen is almost in front of
the magnificent Opera House, and is within
easy range of the Column Vendome and the
Boulevards, the Gardens of the Tuileries
and the Champs Elys6es and the Galleries of
the Louvre. Our reading room contains the
most complete collection of American jour
nails and periodicals that has been formed
by private enterprise. In founding it our
aim has been to have every locality of any
importance in the country represented by
its representative journal, SO that Americans
abroad will find themselves at home with
their home newspaper when they visit the
Office of the HERALD. The advantage Of this
will be appreciated by those who know what
it is to be lonely in great city and the addi-
tional value news from home possesses when
we find it amid novel sights and associa-
response to our circulars are interesting and
suggestive, as showing the spirit of comfy
among American newspapers. One editor,
for instance, not only sends his paper, but
promises to ''take occasion to make due men
ton Of this, another instance of the HERALD's
enterprise" in its editorial columns. For
this appreciation we are thankful, as well as
for the kindness Of many other letters Of the
same tenor.
Already we have seventy journals on file
in our Paris reading room-from the North,
South, East and West-in all from sixteen
States. Before long we trust to have every
State and every important locality in the
country represented. The following news
papers have been added to the list already
pubIiched
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

THE SITUATION IN THE EAST. We print an
interesting letter to-day from Sussex, town
near the Austrian frontier, which, in the in
formation il contains Of Bosnia and the
fugitiyes from Turkish pursuit, will enable
the reader TO more fully comprehend the
latest cable dispatches from the seat Of war.
The description Of the character Of the
Bosnians and the explanation Of the wrongs
complained Of by the Christian Sclaves
throw considerable light upon the difficult
problem which all Europe is seeking to solve
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

The GERMAN ARMY MASGUvREs. -Our let
tors from Liegnitz and Breslau, descriptive
Of the German army manmuvres in that
famous neighborhood, form o picturesque
supplement to the cable dispatches we
printed at the time that grand mimcry Of
war occurred. The incidents of tho En-
peror's visit TO the battle field and his recep-
ton bv the peoUfe are very pleasant reading.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

VOLUME ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 277
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LYCEUM THEATRE
Fourteenth and Eighth aEeuue.-Freuch Opera
BouHe-MADAME ANGOT, 1T ) Z. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

room of the HERALD shall be the most COM
plete Of its kind on the Continent, and that
every American visiting that great metropolis
shall find within our threshold the warmest
and friendliest welcome. There can be no
welcome so warm to the wayfarer in distant
lands as O sight Of his old familiar newspaper
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

WOODS MUSEUM
Broadway, OF Thirteth street-KIT, at r.
loses AZ 10 ~ r. NJ. Matinee at2P. NJ
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THEATRE COMIQCF,
No, 5l4 Broadway.-EARIETY At Z. NJ. closes at 10
r. NJ
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STEINWAY HALL
Fourteenth street.-MLLE. TITIENS' CONCERT, at
i. NJ. closes at 10 r. NJ.
METROPOLITAN THEATRE,
Nos SIS and 5e7 Broadv ay.-VAR3ETY. at > r. NJ.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-10-04

PARTISAN VARIETIES,
xteenth street and Broadway.-YAAlETI, at 7. NJ
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PARK THEATRE,
Broadway and Twenty second street.-rHE MIGHTY DOL
LAR. ats r. w. Mr.. and Mrs. Florence. Texas Sufferers
Matinee ut NJ
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-02

D,RTrES WISHING TO LEASE OR pUR-
chase Lots In the town of Winnie
muccs, are hereby notified that al sp-
plications for the same. or IN business
relating thereto. an ,uid he al iressed to the
undersigned a. Sscramento. where they will
receive prompt attention.
ay- Those occupying lands belonging 10 the
company. without having bought or leased
the asme are also n,tiAed - a..end 10 the
matter wtlrOnt islay ag8 s.H tf5'N ~
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-03-02

TON rf'rt'rSN - HvrRv yArtrrN
Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1875-11-29
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENT.
Applications ron pATEMr
NOTICE NO. 2sS
q. p. ssrvsy Ne 13e.

TINTED STATES. LAND OFFICE,
Carson CITY. Nevada, september -, lsss.
Legal notice l. hereby given that the West
Hrlcher tsold aud Silver Mining ComIany,a
corporation duly established under tbs laws Of
California. whose postoa1ec address 10 ean
piIcsiion Tor . patent for i.l,o linear feet Of the
w.-' Rsiehsr mine, % the Gold nin wsst
SLye or vvin. bc9ipg gold and silver. With
surface ground 50U feet In width, situate, lying
ard being In Gold I'LL Mining District, county
Of Storey and State Of Nevada. and knosn and
designated By the Geld notep and ofieial plat
on die In thk oeass o. Lot No. iso. In Town
chip n north. Range n east. Mount Dtabio
meridian. the exterior boundaries Of said Lot
No. I'D helm; as follows, TO WIT: Beginning
al Post No. 1, located on Q hortheasteriy slope,
south of Crown Point ItAvine and about - feet
northeast of the Ophlr grade. and whence bears
the hAg-taf on tho Imperial h~olsting works
north ~ degrees 5 minute. east. the fasstan
On Mount Batter north &0k DEGREES wet. the
flagstaff On Fort Homestead north 81 degrees
IS minutes east. Rock Monument north 81 Do
grecs ~ minutes fast, and running frnm said
Poet No. Z, hrst eourve. south S3k degrees
east SO feet 10 Poet No. .: thence. second
roarss. south IN degrees west i.i5o feet 70
Post No. =: thence. third eoar-e. north TN
degree- west so feet tn Po~t No. q; thence.
To Post M. I. the point VI beginning, contain
ins u - 100 acrrs. Prom Po-i No 3 tear- the
-nuthca-t corner of section 81. Township u
north. Range u east. Mount Diablo meridian.
south ~ degrees 81 minutes east, distant i.s5j
feet. bearings expressed from the true me
riiian. The labor and improvements consist
af an incline ,hAft and a%tunncl, exceeding eco
In improvements. Magnetic variation, IGN
| degrees east
The ~locaiiou of this mine l. duly recorded In
| the Recorders once az Virginia City, In Boob
n. pssc So. And any aud all per-oas claiming
adversely any portion of sAid West Belchef
mine or said mining ground - heruin before
claim with the Register Of the I'm ted States
Land ONCE al Csrron City. In the State Of
Nevada. during the sixty days period Of pub
LEGATION hereof or they will be barred by virtue
of the provis.ons Of the statute.
A. WAITE, Register.
j. n. TREAp~ ELL, Atiorney.
-esIsji san Francisco, Cal.