The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1855, Page 4

4 NEW YORK FisERALD, JAMES GORDO’ gogyyETT. PROPRIETOR / ey EDITOR, $1 €9a$1 10 asked. White Southern was s.aroo, ‘end a small lot wae first sold at $1 18, and re sold at $1 20. Ryesold st $1 80. Pork and other provi- sions were generally firm, and in good demand, 15,000 bushels of corn, in shiy’s bage, were engaged for Liverpool at 3d. Freights, however, were dall. BPFICE MW; CORMER oy Wassay AND FULEON O° ERMS, cash im ade =~ Be DALY HER (2D°S cents per BB WEEBLY AERALD every Bleck ak the cents ‘The Convention at Philadciphia, by opt Port I Great, Brithin Paa'ss to ony part ofthe | We publish elsewhere a letter from a corres- a4" ate Tinements sme money” (Skittade th oF Volt me XX. SRS te Mik! toe Subscriptions or swith Adver- | pondent at Philadelphia, referring to the Kaow frst yo the putape il be deducted from Nothing Convention there, which eontalas several ideas worthy of very grave medi- Ne, 159 | tation. It appears that, independently of the naturalization laws and the religious question, on the details of which much division of senti- ment exists among the members of the council, the body is arrested in the transaction of busi- ness by the insurmountable difficulty attending a eettlement of the slavery question. It seems that a part of the Order, being the members rom New England, are resolved not to waive their anti-slavery prejudices; while, as a mat- ter of course, the bulk of the Southern menare prepared to resist by any and every means all attacks on their institutions or their property. HOUSE, 589 Brosdway—Bvex- | Thus brought toa dead lock between the two bivainled contending parties, the wiser members of the convention are devoting their theughts to the search of a plan by which this Gordian kaot of 068 Brosa: | SJavery can be cut ; and the plan mentioned by our correspondent is one that has been pro- jected. We refer to his letter for the particulars. ‘The News. Here ‘we may say, briefly, thnt it is proposed to We devote 2 large portion of our space to. | leave the slavery question an open one until “day to a repost of the proceedings which | after November, 1856, in order that the Order AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE. Bowery—Tunee Bayisnen Mew Svownr or Onanuin—Basvir Hosr. HIBLO’S GARDEN, Brondway—Bouzmax Ginx. WEBTROPOLITAN THEATRE, Broadway—Rir Van ‘eee —Kerruckian—Wuo Sreaxs Fras. |—Morning -Wno Sreaxs Frrer— im, Afvernoon and B f MUSEUM. AND CRASHER. aint See! Wow Farm Lapy—Maip or tHe Moun- WOOD'S MINETRELS—Meobanics’ Hall—473 Broadway ‘ ASSEMBLY ROOM: ae BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, rian Orska TROUPE. LEY’S OPBRA ian OP: 539 Brosdway—Pane- JEBASTOPOL, Wew York, Saturday, June 8, 1855. took place at the grand banquet given in Phila: |! ney scarry the intervening State and the delpbia on Thursday evening, to the delegates | presidential elections, pro-slavery men in of the American party there in nie the South, and anticlavery men in the emRaibee. The banquet was ‘given, as the North agreeing to unite on some ‘fair man *®f atmission say, by the Mayor and citizens of Philadelphia, and was presided over by Mayor | for President.. That, when Congress meets Gonrad in person. There were some four hundred | after the lection, the slavery question and-fifty guests present, including all, or nearly all, | be fairly opened and discussed, and if possible ‘Wie Uelegates then in the city, and the after dinner | an understanding badbetween the North and the speeches were of an interesting character. One | Sonth, as to the admission of future States, and feature in them is remarkable-—that they are, with- | al) such other matters as may he likely to in- cua single exception, national, patriotic, constitn.’| - ive the question én the future. If an under- upon Massachusetts, and her two prominent dele- are likely to acquiesce peaceably, cannot be getes_S-nator Wilson and Gov. Gardner—to come | rived at on the-basis of the present constitu- firwerd and expose their -hands; but—to use no | tion, then that Congress adjourn and a conven- more offensive term—they dodged the responsibil- | tion be called composed of delegates from all ity, and declined to respond to the challenge. At | the States, for the purpose of ascertaining ength another delegate, Mr«Eiy, responded for the | whether or no some other constitution cannot be State of Mascachusetts, declaring her to be sound | framed which will settle the point in dispute; in on the constitution and the Union, and ultra sound | Gener words, to amend the constitution so as to ca Native American princivies. An interesting ines 36 to's ith the magnitude of in- teature of the occasion waa, that the States were | Pe are Poe eatled seriatim in al shabetical order, and one dele- terests and conflict of opinions existing iu the rate from each representation assigned to respond | Present day. And finally, if after due and tor each, The whole affair is highly important | earnest discussion, it is found impossible to ard enggestive. invent any compromise which can be received The Kuow Nothing Convention yesterday com- | willingly by both sections of the country, that pleted its organization. Mr. Bartlett, of Keatucky, | peaceable separation be effected between the we stone Frpeidaly in place of atest bh rene North and South, and such treaties passed as r. ler, of New Jersey, was re-elect orres. pt spe pale Pervisearto ib oucusnenn| OAT ‘be suitable to their future independent Barker delivered an address, which was received ee with great enthusiasm. Subsequently a committee Startling as this plan may Sppean to the om the preparation of a platform was chosen, A] Conservative masses of the country, it will be partial list of the names of the gentlemen composing | no surprise to those who have carefuily watch- this important committee is incladed in our report. | ed and duly pondered the events of the past The Democratic State Convention of Georgia has | few years. It has long been obvious that with peminated Governor Johnson for re election. all the prosperity of the United States, while The steamship Mlinois arrived yesterday from.As. | the power and wealth and growth of the coua- petite ee She aera bin try were an unexampled phenomenon, there e end # comp passe » brought down cp the Pacific side by the Sonora, eg eg ee iG secu: glans Onr files of Panams papers are to the 31st of May, Dey a ae ee strengtl sh but they contain no important news. The steamer | fre. That canker was the anti-slavery Gelden Age was afloat at Taboga on the 23d ult, | ®eitation. For years and years it slum- aud was preparing for ‘immediate departure for | bered, only rising into view at rare intervals, San Francisco. Aspinwell city was improving ra- | to be crushed out by sheer force through the pidly. The rvitroad improvements had been alittle | disinterested patriotism of leading men. But interrupted ny heavy rains, but were being carried | Jatterly it has acquired too much strength, it nas rapidiy as possibie. Our files of Kingston | hos spread its roots too widely to be dealt onde tae Pete ee with thus. Many SO have elapsed already usnal spring storme and rains had been very d o, | Sinee it became the leading question of Ameri- tive at the n ide of Jamaica. Several estates | °*D politics. Even then it would have proved in the neighborhood of Trelaway were entirely | 80 insurmountable barrier to the working of fleoded, a woman was swept from her bed, and the | {ree institutions, had it had full scope. But town of Rio Buewo had a narrow escape from ruin. | the leaders of both political parties, working At Saint Vincent, Demarara, Tobogs, and other | for private ends, agreed to iguore it: they pisces, the weather was unfavorable to the maturing | promised each other not to inquire into each of the sugar cane. In Saint Lucia it was feared | other's creed on this head ; and 60 successfully we apr oprnednn gd rre gags Mesereteay aid they carry on this political masquerade ‘The Kinney expedition case was up again yester. that for many Presidential terms they reaped day in the District (Cours, but the Colonel bimself | —first one, then the other—the solid reward was net forthcoming, and for the present, therefore, | °f the government spoils. An understanding thie matter is laid on the shelf, The United States | of this kind, a practice of this corrapt and uo- squadron withdrew from the East river at four | principled character could not but terminate © clock in the afterncon, to the great relief ot Captain | in confusion and rain; it has done so 3 both Graham, the purser, the small boy, and the two | the whig and the democratic parties are in the etambermaids of the steamer Uuited States, which | Iast stage of loathsome decay. And the ques- ga * ser Sap ae Baaees * ee ee tion now to be laid befure the mind of every fe an ge renner guano * | American citizen is this: It being impossible port, put into Norfolk yesterday in a leaky akan condition. I: was with great difficulty that the to carry on the government of this country in crew aud passengers ¢:uld keep her sfloat for three the manuer heretofore used, in consequence of days previous to making a harbor. There bad been | the irreconcileability of the pretensions of the toree deaths from yellow fover on the voyage, | a0ti-slavery men on the one hand and the Among her passerger#, # list of whom may be found | claims of the slave owners on the other, what in another column, is Col. Cazeneau and family, our | new plan does it behoove the people of the commissioner to St. Domingo. United States to purene ? op delegation from the City Temperance Alliance We are bound to admit the plaasibility of the a a mica members of ae eee reasoning of our correspondent from Philadel- a rage td ed ed second ward, in the Metho. phia. The scheme he proposes would settle the jst church in Forty third street, last evening. . -! . 4 Rev. Mr. Warren, Mr. 0.0. Lee and Mr. Horace C slavery question, even if it cost the dissolution Smith, Prosecuting Counsel of the Massachusetts | °f the Union; and it appears to be the ouly one Booiety, addressed the members on the relationg | that would. American citizens are not in the ha- existing between the City Alliance and the Carson | bit of canvassing the prospect of a dissolution of League, the future action of tie body, andthe ne | the Union, because they are taught from child- ceesity which exists for all temperate eltizens to | hood to regard it as a sacred legacy from their few alia Prous pe Saved the new probibitory | forefathers, which it is sacrijeyious and parri- The forere! service of the late Dr. Brodhead was ae a Rape Seria re attended yeaterday by large assemblage, at the ole until the slavery question is settled, and no Nerb Duich church, in Fulton street. Addreases Settlement of that question cao be arrived at wire delivered by Dre. Bethune and DeWitt, A | Short ofa diseolution, why allow amore feeling rejort of the eervices will be found in another | Of reverence for the past to stand in the way of column, aa inevitable consummation? Our national The Board of Aldermen were in session yesterday, | interests are opposed to anything of the kina ; A rumber of reports from the Coanciimen were | dissolution would destroy our national power, pre aie sa Per to the Grand street | put an end to the carcer of the stars and stripes, 7 eb aig ent ~ _ on as een ve oe — rr = ar’ trade, —_ us, psy nO More money on the contrast, until he is a, Ie Ee a ee phos eh ab atieflod that {ts terms are strictly complied with, raoy. But if we cannot get on without a fiual The Board adjaned tit Monday, having held a folution of the slavery problem, and a destruc #eeoion each day for five consecutive days. tion of the Union is the ouly solution, we must The Board of Coun-ilmon iset evening were | come to it, sooner or later; and why postpone cocupied with the third reading of bills relating | the evil day? principally to streets, sewers and assosemonts. It is quite idle to expect that the anti-slavery An interesting and graphic account of the annual | men of the North are to relinquish their pur- eg of the New York et Cleb will be found | poses or recede from their pretensions, Nor is elsewhere, The prizes, consisting of three silver it lees absurd to expect the South to consent to cupe, each worth $125, were woa by the Ray, the * Alpha, ard the Jalia. ° make away with the property of its citizens for ‘The cotton market yesterday was yery active, and the sake of philanthropic considerations. Yet the sales reached the large amount of about 15,000 | ‘B¢se two parties must concur, must unite, and baler, included in whish were 7,000 in traosita, | #2T¢e, or the government of the country cannot ‘This may be set down as one of the largest sales | be carried on. What is left but aa attempt— ever made in & single day in this market, at least for | to be made with all the seriousness and al! the many lopg yeare. The market was firm, but rather honesty of purpose the importance of the sub- irregular. In.eome cases an advance of 4c. was ob- ject demands—~first to exhaust our present tained. Inferior and common graces of flour declined | means of conciliation; then, these failing, to About 1% cents per barrel. Wheat was more activa devise others; and finally’, n0 agreement sec ‘wi'th sales of Canadian and Michigan white at $2 54 | ‘ 5 wp rt ta Mata la gg @ $2.55 and $2.56. Corn was quite active, but lowet | °S possible on the old, or wa any new basis or for Western mixed, which ranged from $102 to | Compromiee, to reeort to the oy means left to $105. Th chief gales wero mate ot #103 a $1 04, | Satisfy both parties, namely, to leave cach to Palen were m. Ve for delivery in Jaly at $1, and one | cerry out its principles, and act a*coré wall lot celive “blo to-fay at $1 01. Yellow was at | ite coneclence separately, aud iw peice? og to | ww Pad vied | He" An Inpecenr Ovrnace.—The city of New | York has been disgraced during the past week by a most beastly exhibitvon, called a beJoy show, and gotten up by the notorious Baynum. We might lavgh at some of his other faats—we might consider the me’;maid a good joke—the woolly horse a small ¢ 4nd comparatively harm- less swindle—the 09 nonization of Jenny Lind asa piece of absur dity—but in ase the hero of Iranistan, the patron of Joice Heth, and the agent of the fire annihilators, has in- fi:cted a last styin upon the fair fame of the city—affixed & lasting stigma upon the names of many inng cent children, deluded their con- fiding moth’ srs, and placed before the public an exhibiti yn the details of which are too dis gusting fr publication. We ha’ ve given our readers some of the facts connect ed with this affair; but it is impossible to der cribe the loathing—the feeling of utter disgu st, which is the controlling feeling in the wiv d of every decent visiter to this exhibition. People go, we presume, for the same reason Yuat they pay high prices for good places to see “a notoriouscriminal executed. In the one case |, it is a morbid appetite for the horrib!e—in the other it is an intense craving for what is inde- cent and disgusting. We pity the respectable matrons, if any such there be, who have from avaricious or other motives.allowed their infants to be examined, handled and tossed about by half the thieves, prostitutes, and pickpockets aboat town. They will one day hang their heads for shame at the disgrace they have brought upoo their children, upon whom the sins of the pa rents will be vieited tenfold. The case stands thus:—In the hope of gaining tenor fifteen dollars, you, Mrs. B., have shown up your child —the holiest of the secret mysteries of nature have been laid open io a gaping crowd—the health of your offspring has been -endangered— your own character, in the eyes of all good men and women, hopelessly ruined—and all this has resulted in nothing but evil to you, while it has put many dollars into the pockets of a man who is proud to call himeelf the greatest swindler in his way in the United States—who is bereath-criticism, and insensible to shame, It seems, too, that Barnum does not keep faith with his victims. An indignant mother writes to the_Hzraxp to say that he refused to pay the expenses of bringing the children here, unless the mothers consent that the fatigaed and worn out. infants remain on exhibition four weeks longer! How long will it be before peo. ple come to know that they cannot touch pitch end remain undefiled? If the fathers or mothers or guardians of the uphappy children who now form the materiel of the disgusting exhibition at ‘the eorner of Ann street and Broadway, have any sense of decency left, they will remove thejr,children at once. Their lives are in danger. It is mon- strous that such outrages on the.proprieties of life are allowed.in a city which is supposed to be inhabited by civilized, Christianized men and women, Such o thing as this baby show would not be tolerated in Timbuctoo ; but itis supported in the refined metropolis of the progressive Western World. Decency iv Hicu Praces.—The scenes that have lately disgraced the sittings of the Board of Aldermen will, if they serve no other pur- pose, at least point a moral that may be useful at future elections. When we see individuals representing large constituencies conducting themselves like the veriest rowdies and bullies, we feel asense of shame and humiliation at the bare thought of our being supposed te partici- pate in tke selection of such men. It is to ba hoped that the scandal caused by the acts of personal violence and unmanly attacks upon temale character, of which the Board was, the other day, the theatre, will awaken the electors ot the different wards to the necessity of choos- ing public officials less tor the violence of their pertizanship than for the general integrity and respectability of their conduct. If this bo not done, the dixcredit of such scenes as those to which we refer, will be reflected back upon the whole community. Such is the force of example. How can ‘5 he expected that when our Albany aud Massacau- setts legislators conduct themselves like sots or abandoned libertines, our New York Alder- men: shonld be over-nice about the decencies and proprieties of life? Unless the public, who are daily shocked by the repetition of such con- duct, undertake to read these worthies a lesson when the fitting opportunity occurs, we run the risk of being all confounded in a common cate- gory of blackguardism. ForEsTaLLIne THE MaRKETS.—The Mayor has sent ® message to the Common Council on the subject of a recent movement among the farm- ers around New York to dispense with ihe ser- vices of third men, and sell their produce them- selves, They say that the hucketers, forestall- ers, and others of the same class, have squeezed them out of the markets by usurping all the vacant space; and pray that larger markets may be erected. The Mayor concurs in the spirit of their petition. Sodowe. Let us have as large markets as can be had. Let there be room for as Many men as grow a cabbage and want to sell it here. Let New York emulate Paris, and our people have their Louvre, At the same time, if the farmers, or the Mayor (for really he seems to be of their mind) fancy that by any process of theirs they can dispense with the services of middle men, they are wholly and egregiously mistaken. All at- tempts to effect any such change must necessa- rily fail. The tendency of civilized life is to divide employments; that of savage life to ac- cumulate them. The savage builds his own house, makes his own clothes, cooks his own food, kills his own game, digs his own field. The civilized man basa score or more of per- fons to perform these works for him. Each man does a separate thing, and the consequence is that his euergy and intellect being brought to bear on a smaller sphere, he attains greater results, and what he does is far better done, and more quickly by the savage. Hence, the invariable tondency of civilization to divide employments, to restrict to a narrower and narrower compaes the sphere of a man’s occupation, end to to attain greater pro- ficiency and success in each branch. Every- body has heard the history of the pin, which is £0 useful and so cheap, and yet is the product of the divided labor of six or seven individuals; while 6 single individual working alone, would not make as good an article for ten times the moyty. Now what the farmers complain of is simply division of employments. The middle men or third men undertake to relieve them of the busicese of selling, and leave them to that of growing and planting. It is obvious that this J errargemynt fairly carJeg vu’, us far-cers who :2° (ARR HOY Wa NEW YORK AERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1865. “save nothing to think of but their hashandry, will prosecute it more successfully than they did when they were merchants as well; and the scliers, who do nothing bat sell, will certainly, if placed on a fair footing, and competition is encouraged, carry on the business in a more satisfactory way to. themselves and the public then the farmers could. It is rather to be re- gretted that Mr. Wood should have condescend- ed to avail himself of the arguments of this class of persons in bis message. Men of sense are not to be deluded by chaff about “wringing the hard earnings of the poor from them,’’ because potatoes are 14 shiltings a bushel; it were much to be desired that the Mayor, who, has earned so enviable areputation, should so demean himself as te give no hold to the party that is watching cat tike for an opportunity of pronouncing him a sham, THE LATEST NEWS. BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TELEGRAPHS, ‘The Steamer America at Haltfax. Haurax, N. 8., June 8, 1855. Some uneasiness was felt here to-day on accouat of the non-arrival of the steamer America, from Boston, which was due here between 12 and 40'elock this morn: ing. She finally made her appearance here a little past 4 o’clock this evening, having been detained by heavy weather and dense fog. After coaling, and taking on board the provincial mails, and several additional pas: sengers, the America sailed for Liverpool at about six o'clock, Among the passengers from this port, we notice the Hon. Joveph Howe, late Provincial Secretary, who pro- ceeds to London charged with important despatches, and to report, perhaps, to the Home Gevernmsnt his opera: tions in New York and elsewhere, in drumming up re- cruits for the “ Foreign Legion.”’ New Hampshire Legislature, Conoorn, N. H., June 8, 1855, Tuesday, the 12th instant, was to-day assigned by the Senate for the election of United States Senators, In the House, notice of a motion was given to reconsider the vote assigning Wednesday for the choice of Senatora, Both Houses have adjourned over till Monday afternoon, The Portiand Tf: * Porti ‘ial messe! By as nger from the tary were dismiiaged tis afvernoon, The Prohibitoxy Liquor Law In Illinols, Cuicaco, June 8, 1855. The returns are extremely perplexing in character. The sixty counties heard from now foot up a majority of only thirty votes for probibition. Strong apprehensious are felt that the law is defeated. Five Men Killed by the Caving in of a Rall- way Tunnel, June, 7, 1855. vernor, the mili- Burrato, June 8, 1855. On Wednesday morning a tunnel on the skort Jine, Cinewnati Railroad, caved in, burying a dozen men whe were at work, The Gazette says that six of the men were completely buried in the ruins, and the five following were instantly hilled:—James Pierce, foreman of the epg; Dennis Dryman, John Collins, Philip Devere and B trick bay og The sixth, named James Coleman, was £0 badly injured that he waenot expected to live, The bodies of the killed were dreadfully mangled. An investigation into the cause of the accident is now going on. ‘The Frigate Cumberland. WASHINGTON, Juno 8, 1855. Orders were issued from the Navy Department to-day, for the honorable discharge of the crew of the frigate Cumberland, now ‘hourly expected at Boston from the Mediterranean. The Cumberland has been the flag ship of the equadron. Honorable discharges entitle the crew to three months extra pay. The mariues are to be trans- ferred to the barra Accident to the Steamer Grenada. New Or.RAns, June 5, 1855. The steamship Grenada left here this morning for New York, vin Havawa, but broke her cylinder bead at the Balize, this evening, and must return for repairs to the city, A Ramor Dented. Wasaincton, June 8, 1855. ‘The wide spread rumor that Colonel Greene, of the Boston Post, will succeed Mr. Buchanan as Minister to England, is untrue. The Scat of Government in Canada, BurFaro, June 8, 1855. The Toronto Colonist of this morning says :— We can assure our contemporaries that the seat of government will be removed here without fail, as agreed upon,’ The Late Rev. James Cole Tracey. Baurmwore, June 8, 18655. The funeral of the Rey, James Cole Tracey, a'talented young clergyman, and rector of St. Timothy’s Episcopal thurch, New York, who died of consumption at the rest- dence of his father, in thie city, took place this after- noon, at St. Luke’s church Bishop Whittingham offi cinwé, and the attendance of our city clergymen was very large. ‘The Industrial Congress, CrsvaLanD, O., June 8, 1855, At the Industria! Congress last evening, a resolution was passed protesting against the purchase of lends by churches, railroads or individuals for speculative pur- pores. A committee was appointed to collect reports of other sesrions of the Industrial Congress, and also to draft an address to the public. Markets. New Ortxans June 5, 1855, Cotton unchanged with a limitec basiness. Sales of 2,000 bales, Flour, $9 50 a $9 60. Bacon—shouldera, 82. Borrato, June §—12 30 P. Bf. Flour,—Demand moderate avd the market lower. Sup- ply good. Sales, 760 bbly,, at $9373, a $9 75 for good to extra Wisconsin, and $10 a $10 25 tor fancy and ex- tra Michigan, Ohio and . Wheat in moderate Fequest for inlling. Salen, 2,003, bashela Upper Lake sprig, at $195. Corn continues dull—Holders ask 88c. and buyers offer 85¢.—No sales, Oats are 2c. lower. Sales, 18,000 bushels, at Ole. Canal freights easier. Corn'133¢0, to New York we Acapemy oF MustomLast Nicut or tie LAGRANGE Trovrr,—The Academy was crowded to excess last Bight, the occasion being the first performanse of “Norma” here since Grisi’s appearance iu ft, and the last night, for the present, of the Lagtanzo troupe. Mme. Lagrang Norma was 80 good en to surprise every one, and was, masically con- sidered, a much finer performance than Grisi’s, The “Casta Diva’? was very well done. The ia+ vocation was distioguished by the clearest intonation and the most delicate phrasiag. The succeeding eria we have never heard better given, and the vigorous style in which Mme, Lagrange denouaced ths Poilio of the night was as fines thing in its way as we ever en- joyed, Siguora Costini, who was the Adalgisa, hac a good appearance and a good method. Her voice wi not always equal to the requirements of her rdle, but her performavce was fair, nevorthel Signor Mirate seg Pollio’s music well, and asted the part fairly. The per/ormance altogether was 4 fine one, und it was warm- ly recetved. Next week this company gces to Boston, but wiil pro» bably return to the Academy. On Monday Bellia: ts to make way for Verdi, and we are to‘have “Tl Trovatore,? by Steffanone, Vestvali, and others, who make last appesrance at the Boston theatre this afternooa. Tux Pyye nD Hannisox Trovrk.—The “Bohemian Girl” will be performed to-night for the lest time this season, as the management have judiciously doter. mined to keep up the public interest ia their success by the more frequent production of novelties. This is w.se policy, and we would like to seo {t stretched « little further than the compassof their present plans, by its embracing a few repreventationa of the works of the early English compoters, some of which might be ren- dered popular by combining with them fine scenic and choral effects. When ‘‘Acis and Galatea”? was pro- duced @ fow years ago at Drury Lane, it hada run of woveral weeks, and brought large receipts to tne trea- sury. This result was owing less to the musical marits of the piece thaw to its resuscitsted novelty and the splendid manner in which it was put upon tho stage, It would be werth while to make the experiment, and to give the public the opportunity of contrasting the music which delighted our forefathers in the days of Parcel ond Arne with the more scientific and elaborate com poritions of the modern English and Italian schools, Wheiker the management think it worth while to act upon this suggestion or not, we trust that they will con- fine themeclver ae much as possible to pure Kaglish opera. Anglicised versions of the Italian lyrical drama bave rarely or ever succeeded in receiving the natural expression of the originals from artists who were not ‘to the manner born.’’ The well-merited triumph» of thie excellent troupe bave been won on the field of their own nationelity, They only require to extend it a little wore in the manner indicated, to confirm the distinetive character which enables them to maintain so successful & competition with their Italian rivals, MpTROPOLITAN TiteaTRe—Mn. HAckett’s Bewevrr,—This | evening Mr, Hackett takes bis benefit, and at the same time his farewe'l of the stage for some years. He will perform on this oceasion two of his most popular char- ac'trs-Rip Van Winkle and Col, Nimrod Wildfire. The attraction of the enteriataments and the interest at tacbing to mnch ap event as the retirement from bosrds of an old favorite, will, nodoubt, cay a bout. toe owied The Late Bev. Javob Brodhead, BD. THE FUNEBAL SERVIONS—DISOOURSE BY THS REV. DE. DEWIST. Avery large audience was present after- noon to witness the funeral service of the late Dr. Brod- head, im the North Dutch church, corner of Fulton and William streets. Dr. Brodhead died last Wednesday morning, in the seventy-fiftn year of hisage. He was for a mumber of years pastor of this church, and it was his earnest wish that when he died he should be buried in the vaults of the church, under the pulpit where he had eo often proclaimed the blessed truths of the Gos- pel. Dr, Brodhead leaves ason and a daughter, several stepchildren anda large number of distant relatives. They were nearly all present yesterday. His daughter ané her husband, Mr. Geo, M. Atwater, together with Mr, J. Romayne Brodhead, oceupied the front pew. * ‘The pews on each side of the pulpit were filled by the delegates from the Synod at New Brunswick, which is now in session. The delegates entered im the following order behind the coffin, which was placed at the head of the aisle in front of the pulpit:— Bethune, D.D., Hey, H. Fisher, D. 1 Rey, Geo W, june, DD, . Be 2D. bv, Rev. &. P. Stimson,’ ‘Rev. W. Halloway, Rey. L, Van Dyke, ant A. Polhemus. Jacob Brinkerhoff, Soha P. Lyster, George P. Frost, ‘Abrabam Van Nest, Jobu Reed, P. Peyton, ‘The pulpit was draped in mourning. Much interest and sympathy appeared to be felt for the family of the deceased, : Services commenced by sing!ng the seven hundred and twenty: seventh byma:— Hear what 9 voice from Woaven proclaims For all the pious dead The ninetieth psalm and a portion of the fifteenth chapter of the First Epi:tle of Paul to the Corinthians were read by the Rev. Dr. Verm'lye; after which, a fer- veut prayer was offered up to the Throne of Grace by the Rey. Dr. Knoz. The seven hundred and forty- eighth hymn was next sung, beginniag— Thou art goue to the prave, but we will me sh sorrows and darkuess encom! ior has passed through ite 1s before thee, Hak ibe inmap of bislove is thy pains threege the gisom- Dr, Betbune rose anc made a few remarks, explaining why a delegation from the General Synod of the Dutch Refermed Church wes present to-day to take part in the servicos. The day before yesterday they had hardly completed the organisation of their session before the awift messenger reached them with the tidings of their father’s departure to heaven. The Symod had ordered the usual devotional exercise to precede their business, but the first announdement was the tidings of which he had spoken; and the first act of the Synod was one of mammals but not unpleasing satisfaction. They im- mediately took the proper measures to testify their re- spect, and the respect of the whole chureh, for the memory of him who had departed. A committee was appointed to prepare the appropriate record, and the fol- and adopted:- lowing resolutions were presen ‘The Synod havo heard with beloved and vonerated father, t D., hae ceased from his labors and entered into rest. fore, Resolved, That we humbly recognize the han fal God in this solemn dispensation, and bow to the will of Him who gave and hath take Retolvod, That we declare our devout thankfu'noss for the Dlestings vouchsafed to the churoh, in the devoted and most ong period ans’ Glled «prominent, place’ in ua dates of ng a period has ‘@ prominent place jaties. 0: the sacred office, aud hae now boom taken up ikea shookef fully rij “Revolved, That we record our testimony to the many the Spirit, adorned rofouad emotion that our @ Rev. Jacob Brodhead, D. There: Christian virtues which, by the grace of his private as well as his pablle lite, and now embalm c ory. MRevolved, That we offer our prayers through the head of the church for strength to follow his godly example, that our present bereavement may be sanctified to our eternal ved, That s deputation of six ministers and six appointed to attend the funcral in New York, and that they procure the reading of these resolutions in the rse of the exercises on that occasion, ved, That » copy of these minutes, attested by the officers of ‘the Synod, be sent to the family, with the as- surance ot our respeottul and tendex sympathy in their great sorrow, Providence has permitted every one of these delegates to be present at this time, Wo have come to testify the deep aflection which fills every heart of our Christian community at the mention of the name of him whose sacred dust we are now about to commit to its rest. The Rev. Br. Dewirr followed. He appeared to be deeply affected, and spoke with some emotion. He bde- gan by eeying that it was pleasant and beautiful co- incident in the providence of God, that the morning of the-day when our beloved friend and father in Christ was taken to his rest, that the highest judiciary of our church had commenced its session. The im- pression made by the intelligence, conveyed on light ning’s wings, is marked by the action of tie synod inj the resolutions adopted, and » deputation of their members, which it had brought hither. Rest assured, my dear hearers, these resolutions were not resoived in the mere formality of a éraft to give utter- to their respect for the dead, but they were pontan ma proms singe of the heart of the church. For in all lelds which our departed father in Christ labored, he obtained the most profound respect and attachment of hie flosk. And I mark another co- incident in thie meeting of the Synod. There was one present at the seesion who was chairman of the com- mittee who crafted the resolutions, and who is also chairman of the ‘qanten who, im the providence of God, succeeded Dr. Brodhess in three fields of labor in the church.® He occupied it delphis and Brooklyn. W: and le u fidence ani friendsbip, nalified craft these resolutions. hope wile prepare @ tribute to the memory of our friend io Jesus Christ. The lace I occupy in delivering a short address on this event, a8 been astigned me on account of early association. After leaving my college studies, I spent « year in his family. He was then, settled at Rhinebeck.” It was in it intercourse I had the pleasure of observiag the de- nt of hie chsracter and the unfoldings of the , Which to ray latest hour I shall never forget; and I hope 1 have borne, and will bear through lifa, the happy infiuence of this intercourse which f then had with bim. It is related that the well known John Owen, the divine, when approaching death, dictated a brief letter to bie amanuensis for a friend.—‘‘ I am,’ said he, “yet in the laud of the living.” After a pause, claimed, ‘Stop ’—though dying, he was yet’ ti calm possession of his vigorous mind and bis triumy character—* Say lam yet in the land of the dying.’ At in #0; and it is th Capel that enables us to bear and contrast between this dying world and the influences of sim, with that life ¢ternai which is purchased by His death. The doctor, after onlarging ‘at nome length on the prominent traits of a Ch: yn character which were found in Dr. Prodhens. 7 roceeded to give a short biographical sketch of his lit The Rev. Dr. Wednesday morning last, ing just com, veverty third year. He was born in 1782, 0, His native place was Marbletown, iu Ulster county. Hi father was an Locored citizen of that place, and bore an votive part in the contest for national independence, and was an officer in the Revolutionary army. Dr. Brod: head was the youngest son in the family, and it was the desire aim of his father to train him up for pro- fessional life. His desixe was, if God would #0 grant it, to train bim up to be a minister of the Gospel. Dr. Brod: bead was descended of an ancient ily, whose ances- tors came to this country [rom Yerkshize, Eogiand, about the time that the colony wi rendered to the Epglieh by the Dutch. His ancestor settled amor the Duich, and hence he is directly connec with the Hollanders and the Huguenots, In the year 1706 Dr, B, went to an uncle in Schenectady, where be commenced bis classical studies in the Acad wy. In 1799 he entered Union College, and in 1801 he ideawe. An old ly companion, Dr. Weat- rook, of Kingston, still survives the Doctor, They were born with:n weeks of each other, and went to schoo! together. After leaving college,’ Dr. B. ra moved to Hackensack, New Jersey. In 1804 be accept- ed a call to Rhinebeck, and was ordained pastor of the church in that place. He remained here uatil the close of 1809, when he beceme associated with the pastor of this church. The Doctor's laborsin this cbarch, in Broome street church, in Broeklyn and were fully noticed. In 1849, he rotired duties of the ministry, but not from his labors in the cause of Christ. He was ever willing to supply vacant churches or fi) the pulpit of an absent pastor. Le married to his first wile, Mies Bleecker, He had two children by the first wife, but they both died thts ? and are buried inthe vault beneath this ehurel lis second wife was Fanny Spencer, by whom he bad a son and a mon igo w living. The closing remerks of the Reverend Doctor were confined to the character of deceased. He was @ man of great kindness and tenderness of hea: They who had fea @ grasp of the Doctor’s band, or had intercourse with him, would kvow that there was a deep fountain that opened ic the outpouring of his feelings. It was so in his family, io all his intercourse with friends and his fellow and it we ribingly so in the mit take His and in preaching 1) jorpel. often solved in tears w) x he truths ao forcibly set ferth in the Bible, He was preasive without, bei spoke with a sim- Plicity that touched men, After further eulogizing the Christian character of deceased, and bid- ding the sorrow-stricken family to be comforted, the reverend speaker his seat. The choir sung the seven hundred and ffty-third hymn and the doxology. "Bey, Dr. Bangs, of the M. E. Charch, pronounced the benediction, which closed the services, The greater ‘of the audience left, but th jatives and is waited behind till the coffin was lowered into the 4 1 yault under the church. Mamy of the friends of tha family and old hearers of the church wero greatly dis. appointed in not getting a last look et his fas Tho boay had become so decomposed that they could mot lift the Wa to ehow the face. Dr. Brodheal diad of a rheumatic fever His death, though an old man, was very unexpecte Rapvuction 1s BoaRn av THs Horers,—The St. Nicholas, New York ond Clarendon hotels have reduced the price of boord from three dollars per day to two dollars and fifty cents, Some time ago, owing yto the high price of provisions and the passege of the Probibitory Liquor law, the rate cf board was raised fifty cents per day; " but now that the Liquor law is ascertained to be illegal ond inoperative, and the cropa promise to be abandant, the Proprietors of thees hotela have evncluded to reduce the price to the old standard, The Astor rempins at ee dollasm Fourth Day ef the Baby The Museum was sgain filled there was not so great s rush as curiosity seems to be almost satiated. PREMIUMS TO TRIPLETS, TWINS AND PaT BABIBS.. Troplets. First Premium—s70-—clte, Cornelia, and Julia Bulk Zeond Premivur'825— Wm. A, Seward, John Quiney 001 jum— | — \. Adame and Albert Lamartine Owens, Cayuga Cousty, |. Ye ‘Third Premium-$20—Harrison Taylor, Hannah Jane~ and Barret Elza Sprague, Danbury, Ct. ree 5 cacpiatiovigepieen Frank and James , Addiron, N.Y, Discectionsry, Premiume—Jane, Patrick and Mary McFlynu, New York city. tint, Premium—$60— Wil, Francis and Willard klin Spragu ur’ 7 fecoue Premius—Flora aad Augusta Beerman. Third Premium—Jacob aud Henry Tuss, New York ity. $ Biscroton emivms—Thomas and Mark McCabe) Brook! ie RE 4 pliaeelonsny ea een Fyancie saasenpe MoCrary,, tionary i 'ums— Eliza and Samuel Shoulders; New York cisy. ¢ Diecsetiovary Premiums—Adelia and Amelia Allen, New York city. Discretionary Premiums—Eliza and Lena Bummoell,. New York city. Diseretionesy, Premi and Yanterd, Sk hlagh's plage N Fierce Stanford, Si ‘8 5 " panriates often ae: First mium—$5(—] 2 Second Premium— $25 —Adeiaide Hitsbeock, N.Y. Discretionary Premiums—| aret Stewart, Discrotionasy Premiume— lee Elizabeth Reahers Moe 79 Grand street, N. Y. i Disoretionar, ‘ums—Isabella Premiums—Edmund We Baker. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ‘The Great Exhibitor wishes the baby show te contiaue four weeks longer, but it séems that the mothers of some of the children will not be hired to put more money im his pocket, as there is great partiality in dis- inibuving the ay ‘The deautifal fat girl of Ww cannot be beat, and should have taken the prize, bas been turaed off with ‘except $16 expenses, which is only one half that ‘been paid for her dress, &c. Barnum declines ex per agreement, unless the worn out will remain four weeks longer. This rors humbug, and mothers had better ‘their chil- en at home, ONE OF THE EXHI6ITORS, The Twentieth Ward Temperance Alliance. A meeting of the members of this body, in connection with o delegation from the City Temperance Alliance, was heid last evening in the Metho.ust Episcopal Church in Forty-third atreet, near Eighth avenue. ‘this was © called » Union meeting. Ata quarter to eight o’elock the choir of the church commenced the performance of some very elegant pieces of sacred music, composed ex- Pressly for the occasion, and sung voluntarily by the members. Mr. C. C. Lue, President of the City Alliance, remarked. that after a thirty years’ struggle, the law they had been fighting for would go into operation en the 4th of July, after a persevering and noble fight, If tanaticism: had urged them on, the morale would be lost, and the bubble would be gone forever. From small beginnings the cause has fought against lust, appetites, and power, until the people had voluntarily made liquor selling what it ought to be. The men who called them fanatics: xz either tools or knaves, or both. Had the liquor lealers prayer at their meetings? Did they ever asx a. clergyman to pray for Go«’s blessing on their trade? No; the preyer would choke in their tnroat ; for they take: nine millious of bushels of grain in the year, and convert it into ruin of men-destroying jim their dis. oat pp This too, at a time when flour was $16 per barrel God has been alwvays with the men. Now they were about to fight the last and they would soon put their foot on the neck of tha infamous trafic. The pastor of the church therefore, confidently pray to Ged before business, as. he aiways did during a term of thirty years. The reverend pastor mads @ prayer. ‘The choir then gave another of their voluntary selec- tions, of the Diseretivnary 238 fa baby show isa Rev. Mr. Wankex, Corresponding Secretary Alliance, then read a report, to the effect that the result. {the action of the City alliance was litile mnown to he incoberent assertions ot the public that the Cit ‘ance. were at ; loagerhea .? | This ce hed no difference with any cther body seeking the rame end, but ft could not ta own existence. For four yeara it hae atr: to There was little use in have a probibitory law passed. prosecutieg then, the need, when six thousand ot ing dens and hoses of People, and eon )be most infemous ution were licensed {or iniamy by the or Com. mon Council. They, therefore, got @ city ordinance passed to prevent tavern licenses being given to a Hes, and thie shut up two thousand ‘shops, fiter- ihis ordinance the late Mayor and two would have been indicted and convicted if the Alliance’ treasury hac bad funds. No heenses were given im the Ninth ward during the lart yrar. The alliance has triumphed over tne liquor ceslers, although they had witzesses under oath who would not tell “whole truth,” and jurors who compiaed not to bring in » ver: dict, The decisions of the courta show that heed aaa ties for selling attach to the prohibition and net to the licenses and no person has hada legal right te sell a crink of brandy or a mug of beer since the Ist of May, and ner have new incurred the penalties by se doing. The altiance knowa that the District Attorney’s ion and that of the Recorder, to the effect that the quor- jaffic is now free, hae no foundation w. Justice ’s cecision in the District was lucid Attorney of New York, the Kecorder of New York, and a Police Justice in Rochester, stand slone in their opinions Against all the eminent State Judges and jurists, In fact, their decisions ware absurd. The Alliance would soon bring suits in all the higher courts against some- ¢t the principal botel [eopers on Broadway, in- order to- = the ark 5 ia Association a chance of ying e int, It was that when. these gentlemen the fives of the law that they will retire from traffic, It was hoped that after Vance would bs able to probit ported liquors. Pudlicance ay free 8 would still be held, complete reform would be mouent Tor, and the ot ‘at lance would also watch the conduct of all publia oleae them if they unfaith- with jealousy, and expose ful to their trust. It would also look for the nomina. tion of persona for city who would uphold fair prohibitory law. All the law opinions which they~ badin their favor would be publi and circulated, and the liquor dealers thus met in their bought opiaions by decisions of the Supreme Court, Pee: aid to the amount of $5,000 additional would be reqat for this purpore during this month. Mr. WaRReN then apologized for the absence of Mr.. Capron, ond called on Horace C, Smith, Eaq., Prose- cuting Attorney of the Massachusetts Society. Mr. Surrm related sapiens of the working of the Jaw ir Massachuretts, and called op all good citizens to- support the enforcement of the new measure here on: July 4th and after, After a few remarks from Mr. BoGart and more sing- ing, the meeting adjourned. City Intelligence, IMPOSITION ON THE PUBLIC—G4S METRE TarevEs.—How- ever much wo may condemn rogues and roguery, we all must admire the astonishing ingenuity they display in the pursuit of their nefarious calling. No sooner is one cunning dodge discovered than another turas up, betraying even greater ingenuity, and showing resources which, if exercised in a reputable employment, would command wealth and honor The Invest devel: it of roguery, we notice, is in a practice which has recently: come to light, of fellows whe supply ven with soldering pans, wrenches, acrews, &c., and enter houses which are supplied with gas, and stave that they are- attaches of the gas company, and have come to see if the metre is inorder, When shown it, they find it wante mending, and proceed te fuss around it for a time, ani tage coely, Cag ag Sod orn ners for their labor. An they generally no 1@ males bs Tadies Hf e house, thinking it is al hts ay te Ne Jow, who proceeds to the adjoining dwel metres. It is seid a great many persons {rvnded im this way, and complaints are continneliy made to rences of this Manhatian Gas Uompany of occar- The gas companies are not to Disme fp this and itis unjust to charge them»: Nok bel they bi 6 comin to answer ded imall con- in nce the gas com; ve lately in- sued a circular in which perdi the follewiags-=" a4 To guard against the admissio tentirg to be employed by th rovided with @ cortifionte, Pro ident and ti His duty is to forbidden to det ‘The crmpapy requ Any of their employés m: It would be well to send a servant to attend persons claiming to he metre menders, as they may take a fancy to any Ftray articles they may see around, Ssrz or tae Usrrep Staves Hotey—Starmmy Howr- And 18 CetaP EatinG House System,.—At noon yester- dsy the United States Hotel, situated at the j of Fulton, Pearl and Water streets, was sold at auction in the Merebants’ Exchange, for $60,000, over and above a wertgege on the property of $119,166 68, making the: total purchase money $117,166 68. The pro is 100 feet on Fulton street, 86 feet on Water, mae Pe roperty was owned by Mesers, +) pt, the hotel; but the first aving died within the post your, tt to make some settlement of the es- The vale of yesterday, mr. Jacoh F, t, was the purchaser, and ‘einformed aright, will continue the hotel aa ‘This hotel was bailt by Mr. Stephen Holt, a ame ehonld ve held im affectionate remem. i New Yorkers, Other men have become of no sort of use to the a.Hied uo oae but the. mi becem tate. and hence Carlton, the surviving parcne if we ard sho bave eum