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ify é E é i E E of i eer fh | Se z i irish Potato Bight papers of August 30 will have it that the blight worst form has attacked the potato crop ‘The fact of its actual appearance there times noticed in the , but tale is told more circumsiantially than re t down as a flying rumor. of ult. says:—We regret to nny that, SEEES Ea ckee ube Be878 Bxaminer Be 3 5 4 i é Z i wo £500, is now become absolutely In many cases half ee. ipoan tome ue and even two-thirds of REESES val E ib : i F i 3 has been for last three years, but in yield and juatity it has been greatly superior, Unfortmmatsig, how- ', in no year has the tuber been so rapidly dosti red potato melts away almost when i fields have been abandoned a8 not being worth the cost #22 of digging. With 'd to the other c; dn that dist the same corres; ent slates that wheat has been found not nearly 80 productive as in 1858, oats on the other hand much more prolific, and barle} Petoning p Hh cad in produce, but far WE. appearance of the which commenced between eleyen and twelve o'clock, by. a very extensive halo in the horizon, 4n appearance like that from a full moon just before rising? ‘subsequently the ordinary cringon naa eew TAyS, VOY Pou EAG wp to the malian, the wh extending from weet to east across full half of the horizon. Be- of lights, ike faint utes of thing darting ts, summer yy to meridian. The most brilliant appearances wore from a quarter past twelve to a quarter to one. Iam, &c. J. ELSWORTH. Eanz’s-court GARDENS, KRNSINGTON, August 29, 1859. (From the London Herald, August 30.) Farly this morning, between twelve and one o’clock, a most beautiful display of the above phenomenon was ob- served in the northwest, north and northeastern hemi- Ep. and extending to the zenith. The appearanco in northwest was as if a great fire was raging, but in the north and northeast it was of a violet color, and flashes of Aight of the same color darted along the heavens with great brilliancy. This beautiful display lasted for about 4n hour, and then gradually died away, leaving behind a cloudless autumnal night. ‘The aurora borealis was seen in Brussels on the evening of August 29, going from south to north. The meteor ap- peared towards midnight, and only disappeared at half- past three in the morning. A great many persons, says the Independance, thought that it was the glimmering of a large fire, and gotice after notice was received at the bar- racks of the garrison and at the stations of the flremen and of the police. NORTHERN LIGHTS IN THE TROPICS. [From the New Orleans Picayune, Sept. 7.] All our exchanges from the northern coast of the island of Cuba (from the southern side we have none so lave), come to us with glowing descriptions of the recent aurora , which appears to bave been as bright in the tropics as in the northern zones, and far more interesting. At Havana it made its appearance a few minutes after nine o'clock, and in the most approved style—not as here, gradually crimsoning over the sky—but quick as thought, it shot up, and in a moment spread over the whole north- ern zone, from the horizon to the zenith. At first it was vory brilliant, but at balf-past nine it begun to lose some what of its coloring, as it did of its length, and at ten it disap) altogether. ‘The sky was as clear as before. ‘At one in the morning it made its appearance again in the same sudden and luminous manner, and at the same great height, but it disappeared as suddenly and myste- riously a few moments after, only, however, to appear ape. ‘And now began a most interesting period of the enomena. The sky was no more, or at least but for a moment, completely lit up from the horizon to the pole, Dut the light came and went, now here, now there, now in this direction, now in that, and each time varying in outline and brilliancy. During the three hours which fol- Jowed it seems to have had almost every latitade and Jongitude possible in its field, and to have described every possible figure. Finally, about half past four in the morn- ing, only yielding to the true aurora, it disappeared alto- gether. But twice before have the northern lights been seen in Havana within the remembrance of the oldest inhabi- tante—the first, Nov. 14, 1789, the second, Nov. 17, 1848— both in the same month, a curious fact which has been duly noted by the wondering islanders. It is likewise re- marked as curious facts, that the aurora of 1789 was fol- Jowed two years after by a terrible hurricane, while that of 1848 was, by precisely the samo number of years, pre ceded by one.” It has also been thought worthy of notice by one of our cotemporaries, that lin considerable quantities fell in various parts of the island in the early part of the late month of August. Personal Intelligence. A Madrid despatch, of August 28, states that it is proba- Die that the successor of General Concha, as Captain Gene- ral of Cuba, will be sent out next fall. ‘The American Minister in London, and family, have left London for Brighton, where they have taken a house for a month. Marshal Bosquet has had a relapse, and part of his right side is paralyzed. Marshal Neil, to whom the public is indebted for an ac- count of the seige of Sebastopol, is said to be preparing a work on the late campaign in Italy. The London Star remarks:—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews are about to make a trip to the United States Buen they were so popular. They will go by the Grea tern. ‘The Counters de Montijo, mother of the Empress Eugenie, has arrived in Paris. ‘The following distinguished Costa Ricans have arrived ‘at the Astor Place Hotel, in this city, viz:—Juan Rafael Mora, President of the Republic, from which he has just ‘been expelled in consequence of a revolutionary move- ment there; C, Medina, Manuel Arguello, C. Medina, Jr., and A. Bronilla; also Sebastian Lorente Chijos and Manuel M. Galvez, of Peru. Amonument to Agnes Burns, eldest sister of Robert Burns, the national bard of Scotland, has been erected in St. Nicholas’ churchyard, Dundalk, Ireland, where the mortal remains of the poet’s favorite sister are interred. The monument looks streetward, and has a very chaste and characteristic effect. About $350 were contributed by the inhabitants of Dundalk and its vicinity towards its erection. ‘The Toronto Globe says of the Governor General of Ca- nada:—‘‘The only sentiment which Sir Edmund Head has excited in Canada is disgust. The one hope of the people at the present moment is that he may be recalled; their one fear that another like him may be appointed in his place. If he is removed the people will breathe more freely. If it is announced, in spite of all we have heard to the contrary, that his term of office is renewed, thou- gands will leave the province in despair.” ‘The late M. A. Bowder left, by his will, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars to the Glenville College and Military Institute. The interest on this sum is to be ap- plied to the payment of professors’ salarics and the edu- cation of poor boys.”” Gen, H. K. Oliver, of Lawrence, Mass. , will address tho Hillsborough Agricultural and Mechanical Society on the ‘30th inst., at its annual fair, to be holden at Milford, N. H. Among recent marriages is that of Mr. Oliver S. Leland to Miss Ella D. Clark, daughter of Lewis Gaylord Clark, Esq., of the Knickerbocker. Mra. John Thompson, of Stratford, completed her 95th year on Thursday, the 8th. She visited Bridgeport on that day to soe her humerous children and grand children still living. Ske was ten years of age at the breaking out of the Revolution. Commander Maury has thought it worth while to con- tradict the romantic fable about his'mharriage toa Sand- wich Island princess. A recent letter says :—Paris is ‘just now a sort of Penn- sylvania avenue, fnill of ‘political faces. Mr. Seward is here; Mr. Sumner is here; Mr. Winthrop, of Boston, father and son, With thelr Wives. Gen. McDowell, of St. Louis, who has recently fosigned the Consul Generalsbip ‘at Constantinople, because the richest government in ‘the world cannot afford to pay its servants a salary which will enable them to live, is also here. Information has just been received at_ the State Depart- ment from our Minister at Berlin, Mr. Wright, that Chris- tian Ernst, an American naturalized citizen, who had been compelled by force to enter the Hanoverian army, has, upon the remonstrance of our government, been dis- charged from the service. Navel Intelligence. ‘The United States steamer Mississippi, Capt. Nicholson, sailed from Shanghae June 15, for the Gulf of Pecheli, and the “steamer Powhatan, Capt. Pearson, followed her ‘the next day. or waves The United States sloop-of-war Germantown, Captain Page, was at Shanghae on the 27th of June. The United States surveying schooner Fenimore Cooper, Lieut. J. M. Brooke, sailed from Hong Kong for Japan on the 23d of June. ‘The ‘United States steamer Fulton was to leave Key ‘West on the’ 8th inst. to cruise on the south ide of Caba. Intelligence. A The following orders have been issued in the depart- gr cre ey Assistant Surgeon P. A, Quinian will I ‘Unpagna and relieve Assistant Surgeon valtum, eo proceed to Fort Crook and report for duty. In the department of Texas Licutenant J. H. McArthu will take command of the troops at Camp Stockton, Texas daring the sbeanoo a09 of. Heutonant, Jones Sherburne. mpany nd cavalry, will report at Fort Mason Major ‘Hoiataman, Ficat infaicy, nd -¢ Professor P. F. Stevens, of the Acad in, Charl sperintendent of tho State Milt. lina. He was immodiately informed by whoo ie Tenge and, on yoster- reply, ai ing his acceptance, was received. Major Stovens is a luate, and has, for se- veral years been connected with these institutions in the capacity of Professor. In December, 1861, he was elected Professor of Mathematics at the Arsenal. In December, 186, he was transferred to the same chair at the Cita- del, which be filled with remarkable abili Professor Hes In Decem- der, 1866, ho was made ‘of Bel , Ethics, &c. But in December, 1858, was restored to the depart- ment of Mathematics. This election, we bave no doubt, will give general sat ‘will take cl of the d ragtraeet of Civil and tary Hat mm an 100} aa boon ected. to the nomy. Mr. N. W. Armstrong has n Professorship of Mathematics. He is a graduate fof the ys NEWS FROM HAVANA. Arrival of the Philadelphia—The United States Steamer Fulton on a Cruise Financial Excitement and the Bank of Havana—Foreign Steamship Purcha- seemMurder and a Batch of Suicides, &e., de, ‘The United States mail steamship Philadelphia, Captain Harrison, from New Orleans, Key West and Havana, ar- rived at this port yesterday evening. ‘The Philadelphia left New Orleans on the 6th inst., at eight o’clock in the morning, arrived at Key West at one o’clock P. M., on the 8th transferred twelve passengers for California and the mails; sailed same day for Havana, at which port she arrived at sunrise on the morning of the ‘9th, and left Havana at 4:80 P. M., bound for New York. ‘This steamer brings forty-one passengers, a fair cargo and $95,000 in specie. ‘The United States steamer Fulton was at Key West, and was to leave on the 8th inst. on @ cruise for the south side of Cuba—all well, Our reporter furnishes the following summary of news:—The body of a white man, seemingly an American failor, and those of two negroes, were found floating in this harbor; there was a very severe wound or contusion ‘on the skull, from which it is supposed be had been mur- dered and thrown into the water, Three other white bodies were picked up in this harbor the sathe day. On the 3d instant the bottom of one of’ the railway cars on the Regia and Guanabueoa Railway fell out, and a gentleman named Francisco Aranzo Quesaro was killed, and another person severely injured, whilst the other par- ties in the car sayed themselyes by hanging on to the windows, ‘The city railway was inaugurated on the 3d inst. ‘The weather is still hot, and the public health no better. Sugar still dull, though there has been a very little more doing the present week. ‘Molasses without operations. Freights continue very dull; nominally rates rule at 458. a 60s, per ton for the British Channel, &c., and 60c, a 75c. per box 18 the United States. Exchanges firm; on London, 14 to 15 percent pre- mium; on New York, three to five per cent premium; on New Orleans, four to six per cent premium short sight. QUR HAVANA CORRESPONDENCE, Havana, Sept. 9, 1859. ‘he Royal Financial Order and the Havana Bank—Ezcite- ment Amongst the Capitalists—Doubls as lo the End of the Affair—Foreign Steamships and the Spanish Flag—An Oficial Murder—A Number of Suicides. We have had a week or 80 of financial excitement among the millionaires, in order to absorb the additional million of stock allowed by royal cedula to the Spanish Bank of Havana, of which you were advised vja New Orleans. There has been also some speculation as to the clauses of the new privileges, especially in relation to the finger pointer, which does not permit the bank “to lend to the government more than ite whole capital stoek paid in» without solid security that can readily be converted into money.” With the new powers to increase its issue of bills covering half a million of the denomination of twenty- five dollars, &c., increase of loans, discounts, &c., which in various applications with our life giving financial intelligence, can be extended ad libitim. We have excited expectation of golden showers upon the lap of our pros- perous Havana, which will give beds of down|to slide through the balance of our days upon. However, we are not yet aware how the game is to be played, as the strings bebind the curtain are not fixed and the schedules upon the “green baize covered tables’? have not been perfected and approved by our superior authority. Another week, perhaps, the turtles will look forth from their shells and creep through our strects on their way from Aquiar to the Palace, and we shall be per- mitted to note their speed with wonderful admiration. ‘We do think it just possible that after we have suffered the penalties of death, destruction, and the pains of the inferno, that we may be saved’ by the intelligence of Goyre and Concha, and that business will no more lan- guish in our shops and streets. We are in expectation that, by royal decree now in pro- cess of composition, we are to be allowed the futro- duction of steamships built in foreign countries, to be covered by the Spanish flag, without the _Probibitory duties which have for so long embarrassed our com- merce. This will be of great advantage to Cuba, and to mother land as well, living upon the nourishment of the child of her anxiety and hope. A most foul and brutal police murder was committed Jast Monday at the quiet villa of Guanabacoa, growing out of bets at a cock fight, where the losing party had not a four dollar piece to meet his losses. Complaint was made to the magistrate in charge. His dogs in “blue collars”” were let loose upon the poor fellow, who was frightened, notwithstanding the assurance of the person who won, that he was paid, and that he did not seek such vindica- tion of his rights. The hot blood was up; prudence was not there; the soldiers drew swords upon the inoffensive, cut him Badly, untit he became a madman. He seized the sword of the person who had been foremost in mal- treatment, and stabbed him in four pluces. The man sought cover by flight in a house of the town, where the excited population gathered, and two gallant youths closed the bloody tragedy by fiving two pistol shois, one in the chest and the other in the throat. If the Governor had been notified in time the disgraceful scene would not have occurred. He was at the place a few moments too late. With alll the investigation there does not appear to be any justifiable cause for the death of the victim. We have had a suicide at the Pinto. A broker drowned himself—cause, stocks of 1857 and a wife. ‘Two others, cause not known, &c. Markets without material change. Kings County Politics. ‘Tae Democratic Asemmnty NOMINATIONS AND JUDICIARY Deixcates.—The nominee for Assembly in the First dis- trict is Mr. Andrew A. Myers, formerly President of the Liquor Dealers’ Association, instead of Joseph Wilson, as previously stated. Inthe Second district there is a split. Charles Kelsey claims to be regularly nominated, and Charles P. Leslie insists that he received a majority of votes on the first ballot, which entitles him to the nomina- tion. There will therefore be two candidates in this dis- trict unless a compromise is effected. Each party charges corruption and fraud against the other. The delegates and alternates to the Judiciary Convention are as follows:— First District—Martin Kalbfleisch, delegate; Supervisor Garrison, alternate, Second District—Two sets. Martin Shea, delegate; Chas. Franks alternate. Solomon B. Noble, delegate; Lawrence Hanly, alternate. Fourth District—William H. Peck, delegate. Fifth District—George G. Herman, delegate; P. H. Ken- Dy, alternate. Arrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS. From California via Aspinwall, in the steamship North Star— A F Merritt, wife and child; P A Brock, wife and family; 8 Miller, wife’ and child; M Briton, Mrs Brinton, Mra M Mrs J McKinley and infant, Misa B Clark, Gol J ¥ Sanger and family, G E Howard, J Moore, HC Crampton, E Bl: Geo Burodail J Messick, dirs Dupont, J Moon, K Jenkins, MW Peyser ahd wife, Miss H Britton, TF Stone, Mra W Derrick, W b, Mra Hugis and family, Capt Schibye, J Brition, Capt J 6 Barekley, Mrs Lucas, @ J Mor ‘Mason, H Ea’ ton, W Smith, P Colton, M 8 Temer, BE Prite, C_C Pratt, D'C Pratt,"S H_ Hancock, Hedges, P Barekiey, JM Bailey, HF Comlet, Wm Perkins, C H Cowley, y ville, 8 Woodville, 88 Heaton, Col Robinson, 8 KE Nickels, Mrs M Lane, Mrs Lindermen and three children, RS Thomas and wife, Geo Davidson, Mrs A Dorsan and infant, E © Abrams, G Griffith, E’8mith, J Boydon, 8 A Dorsey, © H Goodings: JE Barton, G W Palmer, G W Earley, H E Samuels, P C Moon, J Merrill, Mrs Steers and infant, Hf Tolsomer, A D Wallace, #z E Gordon, E Haynes, wife and infant, L Branslet, G Lowe, H i, F Poe, Dr E Beavin, AK Tucker, E Bradbury, Lamb, Klien and Frank Taber, N M Clark, John Ruben- hart and wife, J » P Douglass, G pare ‘A Smith, F W Holbrook, H A Pearse, Bet Hotton, Hy ker, Bre y Taylor, Geo Mann, J B Taylor, @ Sharp, 8 8 Moon, F'W Bush. nell, C’'Holt, J Shore, MT Bhauser, G Town, 8 Richardson and wife, Mrs T'T Koff and child, 8 Burbanson, W Son, Wm Davis ¥ Fonsenmault, J Sallygermon, Jag Levey, Le zannvs, # B Dodge R B Rockwell, F Lyner, HM Helth, FB Ellison, John Nerny, G Hayden, A T Davidson, BA Korn, Wm Rankin, J” D Mill G_ Briggs, H Odell, 8 P Good ‘ier, J ‘J Richardson, J A Spring, J Welland, Mrs 3 Hughes and tafant, F Thomas and infant, Mrs JC. Emmon, Allpertser J Singter, H Frida} N O Williams, W Kaap, T Blune, A Liberts, Geo Stroser, Darin, Jn Holley, J W Broach, C Hetymond and wife, A War- ner, Thos Kinsin, A K Smith, Jas Fowler, J Wiley, R Clark, H Eaton, J Taylor, H 8 Weld, A Davis, B Bunster, J Stephens, R M Garwood, T Boyd, John Simpson, D Wild, J M Cress, J J M Welch, J Sperry, A Ross, A Nixon, E Abrams, J Krofer, wife and three children; A Horton and wife, M_ Linderman, J Amory, J H Gareat, A L Fitzgerald, Robt Spearer, Woods,’ J Gray, B Simpson, Tsrael' Wells, N A Hauser, HE Lawrence, B Lineps, A W Clark, B Taylor, J Roach, 4 Barton, Hiram Hill, C Stedman and ‘wife, A Hibbard, Jobo Francis, J O Richardson, E Dupan and wife, D Hall and ser- vant, J 8 Nerellon, T Call, T Arasmault and wife, Capt Colby, M E Abrams, Granger, L Montevedo, H Calawell, wife and son, A Francisu, P Angele, H W Leyer, Wim P Liule, PR Mora, M Arquello, Wm Green, Y Hedschy, E Selburs, ED Farr, EF Walton, © Hail, T CG bavis, HoH Welch, J © Goble, JM’ Hutching, William Kirkshank, J Meskifl, A Hochlin, H Sherber, J Crife, Mrs A Butler and infant, J MLevi, M Early, M Moon, Mrs Burger and family, M Dunerbaum, W Sides, elle, GL Wilson, J M Robinson, ©H Jombs, J Winters, H Buckley, M Comstock, 8 A Dick, € Colomore, M Steets, J Neil, H Brinpage, W Twist, © Mendi- Jr, A Barello, © Mendino and wife, Dt Holland, J W Smith, Franoiseo Angelo, J Jorsergo, 8 Lorenzo, daughter and son; Wm Galves, M Sutro, and $00 in the steerage. From New Orleans and Havana, in the steamship Philadet hia—From New Orieans—Miss Woods, Mrs Klim and child, From Key West—Jas Filor, M Savio, "From Havana~R De Arrmas, Enrique Morris, ate, JN Lurie, F Perez, B Calvo, D Moran, Mr Cardize and faintly, T Marques, Mrs Kon cery, child and servant, F. Marquis, F B Capris, and others, From Biack River, Jam, in the brig Josiah Jex—Rev BR Reinke, lady and 4 children, Mra Jobn Laughton and two chil- dren, Mr From San Francisco, in the ship Harry Hastings—J N Ford- ham, Boswell Hubbard. J themtenmahlp Africa —Me and Mra J Fora For Liverpool, in the ste: ip ica—Mr Misses ‘dank A ors, Y J rij IIs Mr Villegas, 3. Rod Core Cuba; Mrs A_B Barrett and maid, do; Jas Ureery, a Mr anit Mra RS Lyon, Jiio R Pentland, 8 Yorks At A'Witen, abo, Im Braun, New York 7 New York; MA vannah; 8 A AG Findlay, Now York! Louis Hore Prassia Thomas f Groggy, Fi ana Miss Macdougall, New York; Master Hillyard Cameron, r 10; Geo Rineon, age ae teumadn, Baltimore, John F Ported, 0. Consul; Col Hawkins, Vancouver's Island; Alex Wray, ‘hiladelphia’ James Napier, New York; F Neale, do; Tain, J O Haraciomoe™ ip tna MEM Tea EM ane One is, JO Ht Dutort, HF Balle, N York; John 8 Hitman, OF N York; 8 @ Lawion, J M La South, ; FD Parrish. shin; AD Let wax fork, T W Evans, GH N York; Waiter Abbott, Ragland: ' Fu Furi, Hobert Farhi, ——- Crofts, New Yorks — THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER ON STATEN ISLAND, | The Celebration of the Capture of Mexico | THE OPERA DENOUNCED FROM THE PULPIT. Proceedings at the Inquest Yesterday— Some Particulars of the Affair—The Statement of the Murdered Mam to his Mother and the Priest, Coroner Vanderbilt, assisted by Mr. Vermilye, yester- day held an inquest at the Half Way House, Clifton, Staten Island, upon the body of Francis Ducharme, the young man who was so foully murdered in that neigh- borhood a short time since. Michael Lynau, the first witness called, being duly Sworn, eays:—I live at Clifton; on the evening of the 2Ist was at South Beach, about nine o’clock, in company with Charles Goblet and Thomas Wheele- han ; started from Edward Gaffney’s house for home a little after ten o’clock and met deceased near the lane, close by Mr. Christio’s fence; deceased said they had been presenting a watch to Father Lewis; had some hard words with Ducharme then, but do not remem- ber exactly what was said; deceased used the word “liar” in reference to something that I had said; conversed about an hour and a half; we then scparated from Ducharme, our party going up, he going down; when we reached Pennsylvania ayenue heard a cry; first thought it was fire; then heard a ery of “murder,” aud ran back; Charles Goblet picked up a hat in the gutter; Thomas Wheelehan next found deceased in the: road, ly- ing with his face downwards; he shook him, and said “Pat, is that you? Pat Tee, who licked you?” he turned him over, and then we discover- ed that it was‘Frank Ducharme, deceased spoke a little; asked who beat him; said he didn’t know; he talked in- coherently; carried him over to Mr. Kibbler’s, washed him and took him’ home; deceased spoke in French part of the way home; after leaving Kibbler’s, Pat. Durkin, David Howard and another accompanied us to Ducharmo’s house; between the two cries heard a couple of blows, a8 if with a stick upon a soft or hollow body; ran hack im- mediately; saw no one running away and heard no noise; 4 person might throw a light stone the distance we were from deceased when we heard the cry of murder; never heard any one threaten Ducharme. Jobn R. Boardman M. D. deposed as follows:—I am ac- quainted with deceased; -attended him prior to his death; when I was called to see him at 2 A. M. on the morning of the 224, found him partially unconscious; found on ex- amining bis skull a fracture of the parietal bone two inches above the ear; the wound was about two and a half inches in diameter; it was a circular wound; he was talk- (ot Satie incoherently; no symptoms of compression at this time; deceased remained in nearly the same condition for several days; had consultation with Dr. Mott, of New York, on the 80th; laid open the scalp to examine parts more thoroughly ; found depression of bone,fand removed twelve pieces that were imbedded in the brain, some 80 firmly imbedded that Ihad to remove them with a forceps; inflammation of brain set in, followed by soften- ing; he’ died on the 7th; in my opition the wound was produced by slung shot, and was the cause of death; there were several other bruises on his body, but they were not very serious ones; visited him two or three times. aday until his death; asked him one day who did it;said he did not exactly know. Thomas Wheelelan was next examined, but his testi- mony was merely a corroboration of what Michael Lynau deposed, excepting that he stated that the blows were heard before the cries. Joseph Feeney, M. D., deposed that he was present with Mr. Ducharme at the Rev. Mr. Lewis’ house that night; parted with him at the door; Ducharme remarked that he had to go home all alone; hé was perfectly sober. (No- thing further of importance was elicited from this wit- ness. Charles Goblet was next examined. His testimony cor- roborated that of Michael Lynau and Thomas Wheele han, exeepting that he said he heara the cries before the noise of blows. Mrs. Margaret Ducharme, being duly sworn, deposed as follows:—Am mother Francis Ducharme, the deceased; he was brought home to me wound- ed on Sunday night; several men brought him; Dr. Boardman came that night; I nursed him through his illness; he was sensible at times; one day he told. me that it was Louis Keely who had done it; frequently said before he was hurt that he was afraid of Keely and would not like to be out late at night on this account. Reverend John Lewis being duly sworn, deposed as fol- lows:—I am a clergyman; on the night of the 2let de- ceased was at my house to present me with a testimonial from my parishioners. (The witness next corroborated the testimony of Dr. Feeny.) Knew deceased to be a young man of sober habits; was called to see him be. tween two and three o’clock'on the morning of the 22d; administered the rites of the church; visited him fre: quently; on one occasion, when entering the house, heard some one say that he had told his mother who did it; I went to his side and asked him if he knew; he nodded affirmatively; I spoke to him in French ; 1 named Jimmy Wheelehan; he shook his head; named Keely, and he nodded affirmatively; I met Mrs. Christie at the door; she asked if I knew who did it; this question prompted me to again approach the bedside and ask him if he knew who struck the blow; he gaid yes; mentioned names as before; be said no” until TY came to that of Keely, when he said “yes,” I asked him two or threo’ times, Frank, are you . surei!?. ha said each time “I think I’ am;” he was sensible enough to answer all short questions; J said afterwards, on ano- ther occasion, “Frank, do you forgive those who struck you?” he said, “Yes, but we will speak about it another time.” ‘These conversations took place before the surgi- cal operation. Some other witnesses were examined, but their testi- mony threw no new light upon the affair. AS several of the most important witnesses were ab: sent, the Coroner adjourned the inquest to Thursday even ing at half-past six o’clock. Police Intelligence. Arrest or TWO Men CaaRcED worn RonsERY—Rwoovery oF $3,000 WortH oF SUPPOSED STOLEN PROPERTY BY THS TweyTiETH WARD Pouics.—On Tuesday night complaint was entered at the Twentieth ward station house, by Mr. Moses Jacobs, a salesman in the clothing store No. 353 Eighth avenue, against aman named Karl Stein, for retaining a quantity of work which the proprietors had given him to complete. It appears that some few days since Stein called at the store and requested some work. The pro- prietors, being pleased with his appearance, gave him a coat to make up, which he returned, and subsequently ob- tained eleven other coats, which he failed to return. Af- ter waiting for some considerable time, the proprietors ‘becoming alarmed, sent to the place Stein had named as his residence, but which did notso prove upon exami- nation. The case was placed in the hands of officer Charles G. Fisher, of the Twentieth precinct Police corps, and after a diligent search, found Stein quietly secreted in the clothing store No. 782 Eighth avenue, occupied by a man named Peter Cohen. Stein was immediately arrested and conveyed to the station house. Upon searching the store a large quantity of goods in bundles, such as the pri- soner had received, were found, and which it is suspected were fraudulently obtained from various manufacturers, Cohn was {arrested and conveyed to the Twentieth ward station house, as being implicated. Stein’s real name is supposed to be Ferdinand Reigel. The eleven coats taken from Mr. Jacobs were found and identified. On question- ing Stein he cenfessed his guilt, and acknowledged that he had been in the habit of obtaining goods after the above manner, and disposing of them to Cohn, but it is supposed that they are partners in the premises. The principal stock of Cohn’s store was subsequently conveyed to the station house, where it remains for identification. Its value is estimated at about $3,000, but it is not known how far above this amount they have robbed various clothfag establishments in this city. While the officers were loading the carts, Stein managed to give them the slip, but was recaptured after an exciting chase of nearly amile. The prisoners will be brought before the Jeffer- on Market Police Court yesterday morning for examina- tion. Hicaway Rosnery iv Tae Fourrs Wakp.—About one o’clock on Monday morning James Walsh, of 67 Cherry street, was robbed by three fellows in a dark alleyway in said street, under the following circumstances:—Walsh was walking quietly about his business, when, it is al- leged, he was accosted by a young fellow named Law- rence Costello, accompanied by two others, and induced under some plausible pretext to enter the alleyway of No. 20 Cherry street. Here he was immediately seized from behind and held firmly by two of the worthies, while Costello boldly advanced to the front, snatched a silver watch from the pocket of Walsh, and also $2 in loose change which was about his person. Walsh strog- gled hard with the ruffiang, and finally broke away from them, when he immediately seized Costello by the collar of his coat, but the knowing robber dexterously slippe@ out of the fatter garment and escaped with his accom- lices. A few hours subsequent to the occurrence officer Valsh, of the Fourth precinct, succeeded in arresting Costello and recovered the stolen watch. The accused has been committed to the Tombs for trial. A Doo Sreauer Pusissep.—A dog fancier named John Gray, living in Madison street, was yesterday brought be- fore Alderman Smith, at the Tombs, on a charge of having stolen on the 2d instant, from Mr. Michael Cochrane, 0 Centre street, a small grayhonnd worth $50. The ac cused was held to bail in the round sum of $600. Exvorrwent.—Last Saturday afternoon complaint was made by Mr. Francis Bouillard, residing at No, 406 Ninth avenue, against one Antoine Gendrau, who had eloped with his wife, and carried-away with him $80 in cash and a quantity of wearing ‘rel. The case was placed in the hands of a detective, wi prooredat to work up the case. It was ascertained that guilty pair inten Eur }, and a watch was set on the de vessels; but Mrs. Bouillard and her paramour getting wind of the state of affairs, changed their intention to visit the Continent, and departed for parts unknown. The trunks were gub- sequently found at No. 67 South strect, and returned to the disconsolate Bouillard, —_—_____ ‘Jersey City News. Ruor at Hopson Orry.—At a late hour on Monday night a party of dranken men attacked the lager beer saloon of po ei eree te ge ey, v5 a rely a irniture, an lcrable 5 Mre. Schuchart was badly maltreated and her husband also badly beaten, Yesterday a complaint was 'Y Bedford, chat the offence ‘Thomas Foley, John Nolan, Denis S'Patrick McCue, Garret Bradley and.— Donnelly, and warrants were is- sce saagundley og ‘The officers subsequently arrested ho and Bradley agd they were committed for examina- at West Point, ‘Yesterday, the cleventti anniversary of the captare of the city of Mexico, wasto have been celebrated in fine style at West Point. The Cadets were to be reviewed by Gen. Scott in the afternoon, and a grand ball was ex- pected to take place at Cozzens’ Hotel in the evening; ‘but Gen. Scott was suddenly summoned to ‘Washington by & telegraphic despatch, which knocked all the arrange- ments, ag the printers say, into “pi” The review and the ball bad both to be postponed indefinitely. ‘The ar- rangements for the ball were incomplete, and the an- nouncement in the papers that it would certainly come off last evening was altogether premature. Two or three hundred visiters, including several leading military men, went to the Point from this city, and from the towns up the river, in anticipation of the re- view; and in order to mitigate their disappointment the cadets were paraded in the afternoon, aud, under the command of Colone! Hardee: their eflient: malitary in structor, went through ihe evolutions of the schoo). battalion, greatly to the delight and edification of the visi- ters. A movement specially commended was the “ ad- yancé in line, double quick time,” the band playing “ Pop foes, the Weuse!,”” and the boys keeping accurate ‘‘Shang- ”? step. Other evolutions were performed in similar style, and the opinion was freely expressed that a better drilled battalion was not to be found on this continent. An accident happened to tho little steam ferry boat yes- terday morning, which resulted in ahole inher boiler that will adi boat useless for a long time to come. The oneeqemner was a harvest of ‘ quarters” for the Doatmen, all the visitors by rail being compelled to cross the river in small boats, greatly to the terror of the ladies and some damage to crinoline from the high wind pre- vailing. Cozzens’ well kept hotel. is full of guests to over- flowing, und Captain Roe’s West Point Hotel had about as many as it Could accommodate. —_—__. City Intelligence, ‘Tae “‘Iuprovemets” on Tun Bartmny.—A generation ago the Battery was one of the most beautiful and at the same time useful adornments, of which the city could boast. It was the evening resort of our citizens when their daily duties over, with their wives and children they would promenade the well kept walks or sit enjoy- ing the bracing breeze and watching the vessels entering and leaving the port at the distant Fort Hamilton, or ob- serving the innumerable smaller craft that were con- tinually moving about in all directions through the har- bor. Such was the Battery of ten years since; but such is not the Battery of to-day. The wealthy and influential citizens who frequented it then gradually removed to the upper part of the city. It was then, when it was thought there would be little or no opposition, that the idea was firet started of improving the Battery, and, a8 was cx- pected, the movement was successful. The improve ments now begun and continued for some time were two or three years ago stayed for want of funds, and nothing has been done since, if we except the level ing now being performed with a strict regard to the for- mer part of the old maxim, “Slow and sure,” although the latter t is sadly ignored. A considerable space has been filled in, varying in width, its widest part not being more than a hundred paces. path beginning at the head of State street and running along Battery place, is covered as far as Greenwich street with a coating of ashes, or rather coal, the monotony being here and there varied by hillocks of clay, which are certainly a decided improvement to the path in rainy weather. From Green- wich street to the water a large quantity of sand is spread out, dotted here and there with ny of sticks, stones, bricks, mortar, lime, old clothing, &c. A few consumptive patches of grass are striving for existence, upon which an unfortimate goat is vainly endeavoring to fatten. The next object that attracts attention is Castle Garden, well known as the place where Jenny Lind was wont to de- light the citizens of New York. It no longer stands in ‘the water, but is now surrounded by a wooden fence and flanked on both sides by a row of old ship chaips. As you approach the entrance you are saluted by a cuacoction of odors as innumerable as they are indescribable. Crowds of emigrants surround the place, while the ground is lit tered with fragments of bottles, old boow, baskets, tin pans dilapidated bibles and old feather beds. Further down you most pick your way with care to avoid stum bling Over a host of rusty anchors and the fragments of decayed boats. Between the baths and Staten Island ferry a small shanty stands, with a sign over the door informing the public that {t is the ‘Governor's Island Barge Office.” This part of the Battery, although it is bad cnough, is, however, infinitely,superior to the other end. ‘These are some of the “improvements” of the Battery. Eyercenic Movement or tHe Crry IxsPecron 10 S¥cURE Cuzay Streets.—It affords us pleasure to record another woll directed effort of City Inspector Delrvan to secure to the citizens of New York the desirab le boon of clean streets. Yesterday morning Mr. Delavan, accom- panied by the Superintendent of Sanitary Inspection, visited all the dumping grounds of the city—that is, the places where offal is deposited—as well as seventeen of the wards, for the purpose of devising the best and most efficient plan that can be adopted to thoroughly clean the streets during the fall and winter months. As a general thing they found the wards in a very good condition, ex- cept a fewof the streets, which the inspectors were directed to have cleaned immediately. In consequence of the Tenth and Thirteenth wards having come into the charge of the City Inspector—the contracts for cleaning them having been rescinded—he will require the whole of the dock at the foot of Stanton and Rivington streets. ‘There is to be new dumping ground established in the Sixteenth ward, which fas atso como within his auper- vision—to be located at the foot of Twenty-fifth street. ‘The contractor having given up the dumping ground at the foot of Fortieth strect, the City Inspector on his own re- sponsibility ordered him to use the dock at the foot of Forty-seventh street, North river, having previously sub- mitted to the Comptroller a requisition for the privilege of using it for that purpose. The City Inspector and his asso- ciate found in their tour that many of the dumping places were entirely destitute of ticket offices, thus exposing a large number of men to the inclemency of the weathor. Mr. Delavan gave instructions to one of his assistants to request the Street Commissioner to have them repaired forthwith. They also found several other piers and dumping grounds out of repair, and the neglect to keep them in proper order has caused the expenditure of thousands of dollars of the City’s money to parties who lost horses while the offal was being dumped. The City Inspector will endeavor to make the present appropria- tion for cleaning streets hold out, but it will be impossible for him to do so, especially when it is remembered that upon assuming his onerous duties, he was compelled to expend large cums of money to put the streets in a cleanly condition. At all events, Mr. Delavan is determined to clean the streets of this city, let it cost. what it may, and, what is more, keep them clean. New Yors Harmon« Society.—The annual meeting of thig society was held at their hall, Dodworth’s Academy, on Monday evening, 12th inst., when the following gentle- men were clected as the board of officers for the ensuing year:—President, E. M. Carrington; Vice President, Wm. ‘A. Cummings; Second Vice President, James Bayles; Se- cretary, Wm. H. Livingston; Financial Secretary, A. W. Hoffman; Treasurer, Archibald Johnston; Librarian, Wil- liam Wild; Tenore Committee, James H. ‘Aikman, Charles ‘Tucker, J. P. Bruner, 8. A. Castle; Bass Committee, John H. Wood, J. 7. Coffin, Dr. C. Prince, J. H. Todd; Conduc- tor, George F. Bristow. The reports of the secretary, finan- cial secretary and treasurer were presented, showing the society to be ina flourishing condition. Mr. Bristow has composed a new cantata for this society, entitled «Praise to God,” which will be produced this season, also several other large choral works. Fire on Board 4 Barx.—Shortly before eleven o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred on board the bark Florence, lying at pier No. 49 East river. It originated in the mizen gaff topsail, and was caused by a spark from the sectional dock at the foot of Clinton street. The flames were soon extinguished. The damage wili be about $25. Fire 1 Caerry Streer.—Between three and four o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire was discovered on the roof of an unoccupied building located at No. 462 Cherry strect, owned by the Allaire Works.: The fire was extinguished by the firemen. The damage to the building will be about $500; not insured. The fire was caused by a spark from the foundry adjoining. A member of No. 16 Hose, named Barney Kinney, was struck on the head by a timber thrown from the building and eeriously injured. He was taken home by his friends. A ltte Girt Run Over.—About three o'clock on ‘Tuesday afternoon Mary Lee, a child only eleven years old, was run over at the corner of Pearl and Chatham streets, by a wagon heavily:loaded with starch, and had herright thigh and arm fractured. The wagon is owned and was driven at the time by Mr. Anthony Kipp, who, it .d, was guilty of gross carclessness. He was taken in castody by officers McGuire and Pond and brought be forea magistrate, who committed him for examination. ‘The little girl was conveyed to the City Hospital. New Srkamnoat.—A new steamer is being built in this city for Captain J. P. Tallman, to run on the North river to Alban aday boat. It will be 250 feet long and willbe named the Daniel Drew. She will be propelled by ‘a beam engine, with a cylinder fifty-six inches in diame- ter and twelve feet stroke of piston. Musrary.—The State Guard, Captain Joseph H. John- son, parade on Thursday, 22d inst., to celebrate the ninth anniversary of their organization. They will proceed to New Haven by steamer Elm City, returning the following nigit. They will be accompanied by Dodworth’s band. ‘Tarcet Excursion.—The Ray Tompkins Guard, of Tompkinsville, 8. 1., Captain Wm. Denyse, proceeded on their seventh annual excursion for target practice yester- day morning. They numbered fifty-seven men, rank Oey aie, with @ band’ composed of fifteen pieces.’ After ing piconet the village the Guard ded to the Chfton Park, where they contended for thirty-five valua- bie prizes, and cin f in the evening much elated with their day’s recreation. Drowxep at Friton Frrry.—Last evening a colored ‘man, engaged on the schooner Leonora Gilmore as cook, fell into the slip at Fulton ferry, in attempting to jump on board, and was drowned. The ‘was recovered and taken in charge by the Coroner. * The deceased had $28 63 and a watch upon bis person. Exriosion or a Locomorive—' acRep.—About half-past six o’clock this morning, says the Rochester Union of the 12th inst., an accident occurred on the New York Central Railroad, just west of State street, by which three were injured, two ef them quite seriously, The ive Ontario burst off one of the sheets of her boiler into the fire box, doing con- siderable mischief, besidus jeopardizing the lives of the id engineer and fireman. Sermon by the Rev. Wm. E. Harris on the Opera and its Influence=-The Power and Province of Music, Rey. Wm. E. Harris, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, preached on Sunday evening, by special request, a discourse on the ‘‘Moral In- fluence of the Opera.” The church was crowded by deeply interested audience, a large share of which con- sisted of ladies, who appeared anxious to learn how their favorite amusement was to be regarded by their spiritual authority. Mr. Harris, the preacher, is a man apparently thirty years of age, rather below the average height, but thick set and strongly made, with a deep rich voice, a fluent delivery, nervousness in gesture, and a frec-and- easy way of dealing with his audience which reminds us of Henry Ward Beecher. Indeed, with his long aud rather bushy hair combed behind his cars, and bis un- shaven chin, his appearance in the pulpit is very much like that of the popular preacher. After the usual preliminary services, the pastor gave several notices, among them announcing a “ love feast”” on Wednesday night (to which all who chose to come were invited without tickets), and an adjourned meeting of the congregation on Tuesday in regard to the building of their new tabernacle, He then commenced hig dis. course in an off-hand manner. It was patent, he suid, to the most cursory obser- ver, tat the Opera is an amusement patro: nized very generally by Christians of all denominations, Methodists as well as others, and that was hix reason for. preaching upon the subject, just as he preached upon the theatre, While Christians might be diffident about attend- ing regular dramatic performances at a theatre, many seemed to think the Opera allowable and quite consonant to their character as Christians. He knew that, to be popular, 4 speaker must bave in # large measure the sympathies of his hearers, which he could scarcely hope for to-night. Nevertheless, he was there prepared to take the position that the Opera, in its moral influence uy thote who attend it, is wrong. Some might charge him with taking a one-sided view, from moroseness and asceticism; but there was nothing in bis religion morose or ascetic; on the contrary, it was intended to make men happy, and not to restrict them in the enjoyment of inno- cent recreation. He asked his audience to divest them- selyes of all prejudice, and give him a patient hearing, and then announced this text:— “Is apy merry? let him sing psalms.”—James v., 18. They might say there was nothing in this text to pro hibit the Opera, and that the Holy Spire had no suoh idea when he wrote it. Be that as it might, it was the best text he could select from which to show how far he agreed with the friends of the Opera, and where their views diverged. ‘The epistle of James was the best homily on social duties extant; it was a complete list of moral ‘duties, inspirited by carnestuess and beautified by graphic and. striking imagery of style. He was the most sententitious, terse and pointed of the New Testament authors, How ‘sharp and effective were such passages as this: ‘ When lust conceiveth it bringeth forth sin, and sin. bringeth forth death.” Again: “Show me thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by my works.” Again: “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the devils also believe and tremble.” Aud again in the text—‘‘Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? Jet him sing psalms.”? Mankind may be divided into two classes, the merry and the serious, each having its proper mission; but in the serious there is a natural tendency to melancholy and Moroseness, and in the merry, to a fantastic levity. Each has a natural autipathy against the other. The serious inveigh against the follies of youth, looking with a kind of horror upon all amusements and diversions, while the merry Tush to the opposite extreme. perfect character is formed by a happy combination of both these elements— rejoicing with those who rejoice, and weeping with those who weep. Much as he loved a merry face, he would not trugt it with sixpence if it could never be sorrowful aud weep; and much as he loved a serious face at serious ‘times, he had as lief take a dose of jalap as have a lugu- brious man in his presence on occasions of enjoyment. Men ought never to be so merry as to forget that God is in the world, nor so serious as to forget that men are in the world. ‘The word “ merry” in the toxt conveys an idea not properly found in the original word. “ Merry”? refers now to any light and noisy pleasure, joyful, buoy- ant, pointed with laughter; but the Greek word’ meant only cheerful or pleasant; so that the text might read— “ Are any of you pleasant or happy ’—then sing psalms.’? ‘There were no psaitns then but the psalms of David, though there may haye been spiritual songs. The word) however, was “psalms,” yet he thought it did not mean that when a man is happy he is only to sing psalms. In Ephesians the game word was rendered spiritual songs.” “Speaking in spiritual songs and making melody im your bearts,’’ that is in contradistinction to those bachanalian and operatic songs sung in places of revelry as well asin the heathen temples. It had often been a question with him in what way the ancient Christians sung, whether with or without instrumental accompani- ments, by a choir, or the whole assembly, by individuals only, ‘or with responses. That they did sing, and sing most lustily, is chronicled in the New Testament, while the echo of their melody reached even the heathen ear of the historian Pliny, who says they “sang among them- selves hymus to Christ, as God.” He was rather of the opinion that the early Christians had musical instruments in their choral services, and there was much of indirect and theoretical evidence to support the opinion. Hence he thought people were wrong wlio objected to music in the churches, that it was an innovation on primitive simplicity of worship. Wherever there is music—the harmony of #weet sounds—there is the voice of God, and the human ear isthe tuning fork which begets itin humanity. Play ing “‘Yankee Doodle”? upon the fife and with beat of drum makes the heart pulsate quicker, and regulates the step tomilitary precision. The singing of the “Marseilles Hymn” drove France to a bloody revolution, and it is the shrill blast of the bugle that inspires the charge in battle. If the music of the banquet, the theatre and the Opera be such as to contribute to the maintenance of amusement where God is forgotten, surely the music of the sanctuary should not be such as to disgust those of pure and refined taste. Singing in churches should be regarded as an act of solemn worship, in which all should engage, in heart atleast. The music should not be of « light and trivial character, better fitted for the concert room or for Chris- tie’s and Wood's negro delineations than the worship of God. The singers in the choir ought to be Christians; their voices would be none the less sweet, and their plea- gure in the services would not be lessened by having their hearts attuned by angelic love, and sweet voiced choirs in the church below ought to be converted that they may sing in the choir above. There are two classes of objectors to instrumental music in churches. One class object from well meaning motives, and he regpected them; and the other from no motive at all, and he did not respect them—that is, he did not respect the motives. He proceeded to reply to some of the objections to church music. Some men had no more music in their composi- tions than an old tin-kettle, and the squeaking of a litter ‘ot pigs worth a doliar apiece was sweeter to them than the divinest anthem. It was music which first attracted him to the church, and under God he believed led to his conversion. The natural world was a vast concert room, full of music and song. There was music in the rippling stream, in the carol of the lark, in the cricket on the hearth, in the trickling rain, in the loud thunder clap, in the myriad insects that float in the summer sunbeams, in the rustling trees, in the lowing of kine. To all animate creation God had given sound. There was music in the smallest insect, as well az in the archangel’s trump. Why, there was music in the mosquito, though that was of a style best liked in the distance; and there was music, too, in the squalling babe, at least so the mothers said, though he had failed to perceive it, not having been blessed with a babe. There is in nature a tremendous power—a power that can control the heart of man when ail else fails—that can arouse every passion—that can drive to fury, or still the passions as a Sea of glass—that can soothe distraction or drive to despair—that can dissolve the heart, and lift the soulto God in his sanctuary—that can draw tears from the impenitent, soothe the savage breast, soften the hardened, make home joyful, and turn sorrowing into re- jofcing—and that power is music. He would that his text ‘bade them sing all the time, merry or not merry, for this power of music would lighten the heavy heart” In the very hour when Jesus cried out, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful even unto death,” he sung a hymn of praise with his Disciples. Martin Luther tells us that the best thing, next to the Bible, to drive away the devil, was his lute. He says, “Music is one of the fairest and most glo- rious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy,” and adds, “I always loved music, and would not for a great matter be without the little skill 1 possess on the harp.’ ‘There is many a Christian, now gloomy, foreboding, peo- vish, wrapt up in the ghostly slirouds of blue devilism, who could break the horrible spell if he would only sing the praises of his Creator. ©! come, ye poor gioomy Christians, unbar your imprisoned lungs, let God's light stream, and his air flash in upon them, and sing. Sing if you are in sorrow—sing if you are rejoicing. Are any merry, let them sing psalms; and are any not merry, let ‘them sing psalms. ‘“Let everything,” say David, “praise the Lord.” O! come, I w like to have a little singing, just here and now. I feel as though we ought to have ‘singing, and let us get hold of the Doxology just here. Come, my friends, join me in that good old Doxology, choir and all. e congregation, led by the preacher, then sung the Doxology, and following that part of a hymn beginniug, Now I will tell to sinners round What a dear Saviour I have found. Another hymn was begun, but the audience could not follow, and the preacher said: “I have have got the wrong metre there; never mind, God accepts it.”” ‘The preacher then proceeded to state his objections to the Opera, which were— First—Much of the music of the Opera is vicious. Second—It is an amusement without an improvement. ‘Third—The associations of the opera house are general- ly bad and fearfully contaminating. Tf there be honor in antiquity, then is secular dramatic music very illustrious, for we do not know who was its author. The Greeks ‘and Romans sang tragedies and comedies; but as no records of these musical compositions remain, the music of the drama is really of modern in- vention. All we know of the ancient music is that it was descriptive and imitative to the highest degree, and upon these ints sprang up the modern operatic drama. An Opera, then, is a musical drama, consisting of airs, recita- tives,’ choruses, &c., enriched with magnificent scenery, decorations, ‘and the like, and verenaey some, passionate action, The modern Opera originate: with the Venetians, and aes it aaa a Laennaenaiin 4 to France, Germany and England. The Opera of the dramatic music and acting in ‘ie Roman lic. Church, and the first English Opera was the Gorman translation of ‘The Devil Let Loose.”” From the pet ness with which ae enti sane ne ~ judged that the devil had not been i i most de- strange fact that operas rms ngs ne to be serious in contemplating this barefaced ab- surdity, ‘Two thousand or more men, women, and, he was sorry to add, children, enraptured over sentences of which Jarge majority do not understand a mnt syllable. Some future historian, al not aware of this absurdity of taste, may write a sentence like this:— * ineteenth cent Traian tongue was so well un- reed i ihe Unie ‘States ‘Operas were acted upon the il. Zz The Opera goers say thi to hear, not the music. Bat ‘usio "must thought, or a musical entertainment ease, ‘The fact is, Mr. ‘ont ra, and Mr. ports Over anything not Amer times, that tat sentiment Jewd and terribl; cit AH ih i ef i g EH i maniac and the unveiled blush- glances of her whose steps lead down to hell—when music utters her godlike sym| tosuch be- fore such people, and in such a place, then is it the fallot devil and Ms angels from the purity of heaven; the gift of the Creator prostituted to the and the most shocking obscenity. Wonder the Li donna’s gifts may spell-bind, the orchestra may thrill the blood with the enchantment of Leo iloen actors may £2 through their motions with unparalleled exactness, tho }oxes may storm with applause, flowers glowing in their native beauty and purity may cover the performers, gor- dresses and jewels may upon lovely forms, and everywhere be enchantmant and gayety, yet amid the shouts and yplause, dazzle, there comes up an incense, terrible, pestilen- tial, horrible, at which virtue shrinks aud weeps, and chastity: holds its ears with horror. fi i accustomed to its dazzle, and the vicious to its lewdness; but young men and young women of sober and religious training return home from the Opera to dream of its. 4 and awaken dlssatisied with the reais ce matter-of- fe. They. become a prey to the snare Opera— dishonored, virtue dethroned, life ruined, eternity Talen: He spoke not ugainst music’ which was one of the bent gilts of God, but against operatic tausic. Music represents action of some nature, either innocent or guilty, and it is either a symbol of joy or of darkness, periph pated superior to other animals, re, him a voice which in- cludes all the sweet sounds of which other animals are capable; and by his art in placing substances together— expecially by sending the wind through that wonderful work of his genius, the organ—man has found means of producing music the most exalted, fit to purify his own eart, and worthy of the worship of the st Tet young men and women remember that when they come to death the sweetest strains may not be the overture to ‘« Don Giovanni,” but rather a strain like that which Dud- ley Tyng’s wife sang when he was dying. bcs § = his father, who stood by his deathbed—and beyon 3 as if he already heard the music of the spheres—the dying preacher said, in subdued tones, “ Father, sing—sing !? His father could not sing, the friends around could not sing: but as his grief-stricken wife sang that beautiful ynn— Le Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide my soul in Thee— the dying man looked smilingly upwards, his glazed, and he passed toa better land. The pression hext spoke of the beneficial and humanizing influences of music, and appealed to Christian parents to give their chil- dren musical training. In conclusion, he warned young men and women to avoid the dangerous allurement of the Opera house. The paison they would swallow in the draft of delicious music proffered them, would certainly wear its secret way into their moral being. Their best safeguard against this and all other moral dangers was religion. Let them not visit the Opera from curiosity, but remember the words of Pope— ‘Where ignorance is bliss "tis folly to be wise. The Rabbins have a saying that the difference between the Cherubim and the Seraphim is, that the Cherubim knows most and the Seraphim loves most. Had God blessed them with musical faculties? Then let them fur- ther ack Him for the blessing of a new heart, that their lips might utter exstatic strains unheard in the sympho- nies of the most gifted masters. ‘The ery of the penitent soul or the returning prodigal is the sweetest music in Jehovah’s ears. ‘hat can be sweeter music than the words of the Saviour—‘Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Was ever guch music heard at the Opera? Listen to his mysterious dirge for you—‘Father, if it be pos- sible, Jet this cup pass’ by me;’ listen to his terri- vie solo for you—“ My God! My God! Why hast thou forsaken me’? Listen to his sonnet. of mercy for you—“ Father, forgive them ; they know not what they do.” Listen’ to his dying quaver for you~ “Tt is finished.” Listen to the chorus of victory, as the God-man rises from the grave, and angels, in their re- galia, range along the way from earth to heaven, erying, “Open the everlasting gates, and let the king of glory ing? And rising above powers and principalities, and suns stars, our Saviour enters the gates of paradise, while the rapturous throng sifg a nobler song— All hail the power of Jesus’ name, Let angels prostrate fall— Bring forth the royal diadem And crown him Lord of all. Coroners’ Inquests. Axoraer Vicna oF tre Fire 1x Twenty-First StReer.— Coroner Jackman on Tuesday held an inquest on the body of Harmon C. Dahl, the little child only five years old, who was burned go shockingly during the late fire in East Twenty-first street. From the testimony elicited it appear- ed that when Mrs. Dahl awoke her husband and children she intended to leave the building immediately, and there- fore conveyed her children to an open window with the view to escape, when she remembered that her was in one of the apartments. She therefore bade her chil- dren jump out of the window on an awning from which they could be easily seen and rescued by the crowd, antl hastened herself through the smoke and danger to rouse Gallagher, while her husband went to sce about securing his horses. The little boy Harmon instead of following his parent’s directions ran down stairs and tried to open. the door to get into the street. Here he became exhaust- ed and sank to the floor, where he was found by the fire- men, severely burned, and taken to a drug store near by, where everything was done to relieve his agony. The jury rendered a verdict in accordance with facts. A Wanperia Mrvsraet Founp Drowxgp.—The body of man named Charles Potter, was on Tuesday found floating in the North river, at the foot of Robinson street. An in- quest was held on the body by Coroner Jackman, and the testimony elicited showed that deceased was a wandering minstrel, who for some time back had travelled on the steamboat Long Branch, between this city and Red Bank, earning a livelihood by performing on the violin for the benefit of the passengers. He was last seen on Friday, when he was rather “‘high,”’ after returning from one his usual visits to Red Bank. The deceased leaves a fa- mily at Nut Swamp, New Jersey, where his body has been conveyed for interment. A verdict of ‘Accidental drowning” was returned. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE Fivsaixc RAmLRoAD.—A boy named William Huskisson, was killed on last Monday on the Flushing Railroad, by being struck by the cow-catcher of atrain passing, while he was standing on the track, near Newtown Creek. He was severely injured in the left side, and died a few hours after the accident. An in- quest was held yesterday, when the following censure was added to the verdict:—‘The jury is of opinion that the ge ced is censurable for ranning on a curve at the rate of twenty-three or twenty-five miles per hour, and not blowing his whistle while turning the curve.”” Fouxp Drownep.—Coroner O'Keefe held an inquest Tuesday on the body of an unknown man found drowned on Sunday at the foot of Ninety-sixth street, North river. Deceased had on a black coat, brown mixed vest and black pants, and was about thirty-five years of age, with black hair and whiskers. In one of his pockets a thim- ble and a piece of beeswax were found. Dean sy Avorexy.—Coroner Jackman held an in- quest on Tuesday on the body of the unknown man who was found on last Sunday morning lying on a raft at the foot of Eleventh street, East river, in a state of insensi- bility. He died at Bellevue Hospital a short time after being gonveyed there. The deceased was a middle man, *bout five feet eight inches high, was dressed in dark plaid pants and dark coat, and gold and the other silver—on his finge1 dered a verdict of “Death by apoplexy.”” Farat Resvtt of aN Accipest.—Coroner O’Keefe held an inquest yesterday on the body of a little boy three years old, named Emil 8. Nelson, who fell out of the third story window of house No. 99 Madison street, on the 24th of July last. Verdict of ‘Accidental death.’” Bursxp To Deat#.—A little girl named Mary Foster, was burned to death on Tuesday morning, by her clothes catching fire from a candle left burning at the side of her bed. An inquest was held, and a verdict in accordance with the facts rendered. Fata Faui.—Bartlett Colligan, an Irish Jad, eighteen years old, fell through the hatchway from the eighth story of Harris, Evans & Co.'s sugar refinery, No. 28 Leonard staeet, and expired shortly after from his in- juries. The Coroners were duly notified. Raiwroap Accipent.—A Frenchman, named Henry Chevacna, was found yesterday lying on the Harlem Rail- road track, severely injured about the head baving jump- ed off the cars opposite Seventy-seventh street, while the train was going at a rapid speed. He fell to the ground with great violence, and narrowly escaped being run over by the cars. ——_—$—_—_———_ 3 s LINA TUNNBL.—A few Tas Great Sour Gener ie Mountain Tomnet, on the Blue lina, The Governor of the sean eters Mount r Sn beg tiindgagen in pe and Tunnel, selboe paint the hoc tas ia twelve monte all te tas- could be completed, and also tbe ‘the track, i pat Seaham earn aary. Colonel Samuel Green, probably the oldest printer in the Union, died at Hartford, Conn., om the 6th inst., in