The New York Herald Newspaper, December 27, 1865, Page 5

> » ok ~ NEW: YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1865. 1 RR Biatted sense; but it is small art only—the art | Phe Industeial Resources of the South = Phat flatters the vanities of that aristocracy. Convene 4 we: the Commercial Pros. fhe true, nurse of art is freedom—the bold] Bory tee etcal consid fn the spirit and universal intelligence of the peo-| present material gondition of the South. ‘The restora- ple—public pride, public taste—the greatness j tion of the Union 1s not practically complete until we re- that grows up everywhere in a free atmos- | establish the eels aitan et’ fhe aR phere, While patriotic men of all classes are vying w! gi ma ond Sane to be commemorated by other in that section to build up the ancient fabric of the ‘e shatterea iion, the bei | We see all this in the bold and magnificent prvi tinte = of pediment by Pres manner in which art starts into existence here. | dent Johnson, other men, equally alive to the interests American art in its beginnings not only sur- | °f the ll ge at Lat oe - ‘passes the beginnings of art elsewhere, but it | Commerc r prosperity. Promoting this object they look to the co-operation of Se Bidet 0 ant ea he ee | mime nsane elon meee contributed to cotton supply of the sglance at its themes. The large thought of the | swept away by the war. The land alone remains, but ‘first Napoleon recognized its greatness in this ae pac ey pa hey eres as beara Zespect; and one of the first recognitions of porn aha 2 prt Detar, sill reps sgn Me Amorican art in the world was made by that | soutn is un absolute meses iposisineane ‘commer. ‘wonderful man toa picture by an American | cial and foancial independence of the North. So much -@f Marius Sitting on the Ruins of Carthage—e | more interest, however, is attached to. this matter in Breat one of one fallen city desolate on the Europe than it receives at this time in the United States Quins of another fall: clit Fe that we published but recently a practical illustration of by the eae sei pet wes — it, In our special despgtches from Liverpool we stated, touched 3 ‘upon the authority of the United States Consul at that those few the same painter chose another in‘his | port, to whom it was communicated by the Secretary of Zanding of Columbus. This grandeur of pes Hing punapye estimated jg of mn fe thought characterizes American art, and, by wade capture wvannah : . th of this growth Hooping it above pitiful themes, gives it a na- ee ties Bier a uo i From fional spirit. It predominates. in the works of ‘those living American artists who are most ‘worthy of the fame they haye already won. It 4s seen. in the pictures of Church and Bierstadt, ‘whose pencils are devoted to the most magnifi- ‘cent phases of the American landscape; in the attention which we have recently given to this sub- Ject we are disposed to believe that the statement of the those of De Haas, devoted to the. treatment of the element that is wrought into our national ‘Secretary of the Treasury is correct. But inanother point of view thanasa statistical fact does this statement re- history by so many‘ naval glories; in Powell and Thompson, whose work in the world commend itself to consideration. It shows that a spirit of ansiety prevails in the public mind of Great Britain respecting the future growth of the raw material, and to will be to individualize for the eyes of the ‘future those great-men whose achievements have made their names the household words of our the United States alone the manufacturing interests look for its supply. Our India and Egyptian correspondence establishes the fact, heretofore questioned, of the failure of the cotton-growing experiments in those remote regions, and compels the Europsan consumer to depend on the more favored land of the South. The paucity of the supply of this year’s growth of cot- ton, the first after the war, naturally sugrests a compari- son with the annual product of the more prosperous years Lap Lada hema ec plane es ache preceeding. The aides of the census for 1860 ahex the nucleus of a national pantheon. They are & | cotton crop for the year 1859 to have been 6,198,077 complete circle, They typify the glories that | paies, ‘Tho total value of cotton goods manufactured in American art is to achieve, as well as the direc- | the United States for 1860 was $115,137,926, against tion it is to take. Such power in expressing hag a his et ras soeesese ‘a a general po ness of nearly seventy-six r cont in ten years. Cane ee nna at Te teeee ig | number of hands employed nthe matnactare wns g » ergs, T18CS | 45,315 males and 73,605 females, not to enumerate the far beyond what has hitherto been sup- | various other chaunels of industry through which this posed the limit of painting in that direc- | universal interest flowed, tion—and gives that gentleman the control shite ees heleteel ar pe beerts Of 8. New ‘spheres “hitherto jindiscoversd | scares of tub foulhito the work fhe which nature value of art. The world has seen nothing | has adapted her and given to her the triple royalties of finer in the attempts to represent the splendors | soil, sunshine and showers, with skill on tn@ part of her of nature on canvass than Bierstadt’s picture of | people to make her, as she bas hitherto been, the great koe ay Meena. an aw see | at ot ha pipachasouat eaelvbeles in this connection, is the landscape pictures as completely as its apbject | yore of our manufacturers for the raw material of cot dwarfs the hills that are the usual favored | ton to say nothing of the necessity of its supply for ex- themes of landscape painters. Powell’s splen- | portation, by which we were enabled to regulate our ex- did Discovery of the Missiasippi by De Soto in- | changes ah ae the 6h a of ber d in ie ae x "4 y is evident that if our great manufacturing industry is to eee earned oa acre ied be stimulated to its ee necessity there mi, bo a ry ty deficit of seven hundred thousand bales within the next ropean or Asiatic legends for subjects capable | tweive months for home manufacturing purposes. It is of giving the noblest employment to the imagi- | manifest that this large deficit cannot be obtained from nation. Launt Thompson’s genius gives pro: foreign countries. mise of a future that will leave him without a The frecdman of the South is a skilled cotton day living “euperior ‘in sculpture. Already his laborer. This ifimense power is to lie cormapt if not ‘Trapper, his Hamlet, his admirable -pieces_ ot portraituie and his Napoleon have fixed his | fame by their rare and positive excellence ‘He has been commissioned to make a statue of the grand old leader of the Sixth corps, General Sedgwick, that will be an achievement in his true field—a field in which his labors will undoubtedly cast a splendid lustre on American art. De Haas is one of the few’ marine painters whose pictures have the very atmosphere of the sea—whose style is as crisp, cleas, fresh and invigorating as thé breeze that fills the snowy sails he paints. His sphere is to loom up as grandly in the American Pan- theon as do the names of Hull, Bainbridge, Porry, Lawrence, Decatur, Farragut and Porter on the pages of our history. : American artists are different from the major part of those of other lands, in being mon of independent character. They never have pa-» trons, and are never the property of picture brokers. Not yielding to any in the fidelity with which they study alf the moods of nature, they do not bend to study the moods of any minor power, and thus never de; le art to eaprice. They hardly ever, therefore, become the slaves of necessity, and we do not find in their lives any account of the pitiful shifts that bdelittle so many of the sons of genius, and are inyoluntarily kept in memory as we glance at their pictures. In the labors of men such as we have named it is easy to foresee the future glories of art on this continent. And when literature, music and the drama shall have the same free ehance—when they shall feel the in- . gpiration that rises directly from the people, ‘and shall cease to be copied as servilely as the “Paris fashio: also will be equally great. Then, and then. only, the American mind will be recognized in gil the spheres of intelleétual effort, just as distinctly’ as the grand qualities of the American people sre recognized in the fast four years of our history. fP* we nsvelsand Emperors. * {seems that ex-Governor Harris made an ab- sard blugder in supposing that he had had an in- terview with the Emperor and Emprese 6? Wass ‘at the imperial palace—“the far famed halls of the Montezumas’—as asserted in his recent letter. ‘The man he saw at the palace, according to his own statement, was obliged to employ a ag an interpreter; but the following me from Wil- liam A. Buffam, Bsq., formerly Consul of the United Btates at Trieste, who knew the Emperor abroad, establishes the fact that Maximilian speaks Eng- lish, as he does the other modern ‘languages, per- foctly well, and could net, therefore, have required an interpreter:— 4, CMe 10 THE EDITOR oF He HERALD. pron « New Yorn, Deo. The letter of Isham 6. Marra ox Governor ot Ten- slow to tearn new avocations, and, shoullt they be ever so apt, it is nod to their advantage at this time to learn them, ‘as every other field of labor is crowded, and this one, the most importefat, stands most in neod of accessions. ‘The negro is free, but he is poor. Freedom, with {ts Inestimablo blessings, has enjoined upon him the neces. sity to clothe, to feed, to shelter,.to medicate himself and family. All these responsibili¥iés he has incurred with- out work, stock, agriculturat iiiplements, money, credit, home or land. For all theso jes he ig a beggar. The only consideration he can give; with the great mass of the freemen of the world, is hfs Iabor. What should be done for him? The whites of the South acc*pt the new order of things in,good faith, and will do all in their power, as it is their interest as well as duty, to ameliorate his condition, but are as helpless as he is unless they can employ him. They cannot employ him unless they can pay him and furnish him with the implements of Industry to work. , Cotton is specie—no longer king. When*we had the benefit of good cotton crops the balance of trade, as we have seen, was in our favor. Such had been the accu. mulation of gold that our bank circulation was converti- ble into specie at any time. In connection with this subject somo general proposi- tions have been submitted bearing upon the resumption of specie payments. Tho most recent was the commu- nication addressed to the Chamber of Commerce a few days since, in which a national cotton growing conven- tion was recommended. It was thought that a crop of five million baies could be raised the next year, which at gold prices would be worth one thousand million dol- lars, We hardly anticipate such results in such a brief space of time. All that we can expect at present is that the attention of the North, and with it the whote coun. try, will be aroused to the necessity of aiding the South in the restoration of its industry and re-establishing it 00 something like a self-sustaining foundation. New Buildings. FIFTH AVENOR RESIDENCRS. On Fifth avenue, cast side, between Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth streets, and directly opposite St. Luke's Hos. pital, there have been huilt(or Mr. W. H. Smith two pri- vate dwelling houses/twenty-five by sixty-five {oot cach, with cellar, ‘and four stories. The fronts are of heavy brown stone, with heavy ornamental trim- mings, architraves, &c., over windows, and stone porticoes over the doors, with fancy brown stone railing, bay wiz.dows in thé rear and plate gings in all thesaeh. The stairs and balls are of black walnut, and the {nternil woodwork ia finished with the same wood, with marblo halls on the first story. The basements will arranged for villiatd room, —privaig afore room, Kitchen, laundry, séfvanis’ baths and water closets. Tho first story is divided into parlor, dining room and butler’s pantry, and the upper stories inlo rooms and chambers, bath rooms and water closets. The whole of ilding ig ponted by stcam Apparatus, There » tp eb apes fg pe a at] and luxury of the occupants. The buildings were designed *. by John archi and ate to be oceupied by the Spi te veshoncn, are to be finished by the jst of January, and will cost, in the aggregate, $120,000. The block will dorive much attraction from the con- Miguity of the Park and grounds of St. Like’s Hospital, which have beon latterly improved and beautified at a cost of $20,000, and at present constitute one of the pleasantest localities in the avenue. BROWN STONE BUILDINGS ON LEXINGTON AVENUE. There are also several private dwelling houses being erected upon Lexington avenue, between Forty-fourth and ew, fifth streets. Ono located on the north side, y near Forty-fourth street, is the property of G. Fountain, 5 giving an account of hie interview with the | twenty by forty feat in dimensions, and has three stories, Emperor mpress of Mexico, which has at- | basoment and cellar. Basement eight and one-half feet, 80 much attention, contains evidence that | frst story thirteen foet, second ten and one-half, end Mr. Harris must have been Eeiealgenty imposed | third nine and one-half (eet, On the first story there are upon, Harris states that be in escap- | two parlors and marblo hall, the basement 1¢ uaed for the vigilance of the federals, and, after & Jong and | dining room and kitchen, while the uppor stories aro di- e journey in company be is confederates, | vided Into bedrooms, each of whicl bas marble basin reached the city of Mexico, w! ‘was very cordially | with hot and cold water. It ix to have all the imprave- mecoived by Wie Emperor Masimilian and mMpress | ments of a house of the first class, It 1y approachod by Charlotte; and that at this audience the Em: whom | a fight of brown stono staire—twelvo steps; parlor win- fhe acknowledges to be a clever sh as in- | dows, vestibule doors and headlights ate glazed with pol- ing this statement it ts only Reces. | ished plated giast. The carved. trusses, Circular hords gary to romark that the Emperor speaks English about as fluently as anybody, and certainly as well as Harris, and he could, therefore, have no possible use for the services of an interpreter, unless Harris on that occasion ke Choctaw. PPRanning away from the federal troops bas been too uch for our worthy ex-Governor, A journey of fifteen undred miles on horseback, under the circomstances, ‘would have upset a stronger man. He was fatigued, no doubt, and excited on hig arrival at the palace, and pro- ly ‘mistook some of their attendants for the imperial frm ly. Our runaway Tennesseean is like Othello, of ® simple, loving nature, and thinks men Emperors that but seem to be #0; and he has—‘‘not wisely, and cornice caps are handsomely worked over the front door, ani the front wall has heavy carved cornice on top. Win to be Gnished the Ist of March mext, and will coat $16,000. A¥eve this ace two brown stone buildings belonging to Cornelins 0 f iy, an ntended one as a family resi dence, Me other to Each building is fifteen and a halt Af tures fect, Cour stories high, rear wall, faced n Kk; has large bay windows to the parlors on the frat sty’ and upper stories commodious! portioned into Garters ond apartments, each eu with hot and coldwater, and ail heated by nir con from the furnace wh-cellar, The windows and doors aro trimmod architraves and éor- Sut too well” -—-permitted himself 10 be slightly imposed | pices, and main, orna SE eS tee ee on by some ish Jupiter Jeemes and his pretty wite, | are of marble, and mantels and (ro places elaborately who “speak igh a leotel.’? It is really to be hoped, | carved. The buildings wi mot bo cornpisted till the 18 for his own sake, that his magnificent coffee and ba- } of March, 1866. Cost of boris, $40,000. na plintation of ax hundred and forty acres, near Po- ON FLPTY-PIPT MepeET ‘atepetl, 18 not also a ludicrous mistake, derived solely yon ti upposititious Emperor. W. A. The truth is, these ox-rebels have got so in the ‘habit of blundering in their ideas of government that they are not safe in trusting themselves to their own notions anywhere. ‘We would strongly Gdvise others, who think of going to Mexico, to pall at Brady's gallery and procure an imperial Hiotograph of his Majesty, in order that they may, with certainty, distinguish Ay irom Is ules. Some ten foct from the latter but 8 the salle pt four othor private dwelling Noebes” ve nog on Fifty-fitth streot and situated on the core avenue They are eighteon feet and thtee inc forty ax foot, (hree stories high, with basement aud un dor collar, and have front walls of One brown steno from Middlesex quarries. Thoy ure enpplied wrth all modern improvements, will cost sixiy thousand dollars, and wore finished about tho Ist of Novernber. ON FORTY-SIXTH STREET. ® Mossrs. Disbrow & Whiteweld » building five larger houges on Forty.sieth at north side, ono hundred aad \wepiy Ovy dee, yest uf Lexiugion avenue, os by employed: ‘The mass of’ the freedmen of.the South are | ‘They ‘go ees by twenty-five feet each, cellars, basement, three stories, heated and furnished throughout with all pee superior class of dwe! ig the architect. The outside be tasteful—there will be marble vestibules, and the halls also will be marbled. They will cost fifteen to twenty thousand dollars each, and will form a very fine Baiag Dock. ‘The work will be completed about the Ist of pril, 1866, THE BROOKLYN TRAGEDY. ° Further Particulars of the Affair—State- ment of an Eye Witness, &c. ‘The Russ-Dayton shooting case still attracts considera- ble public attention, and from the very full published reports both parties in the affair have enlisted sympa- thizers, RUSS AT THE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL. William H. Russ, the chief actor in the affair, is atill at the Brooklyn City Hospital, in Raymond street. He oc- cupies the double position of patient and prisoner, as he is tn charge of and constantly watched, day and night, by officer Powers (who arrested Russ) and officer Layton, both of the Forty-third precinct police. On yesterday he was visited by numerous friends, among whom were Mr. Corlies, of the Mexican Loan Agency, ‘67 Broadway; two young gentlemen, whose names did not transpire, who, it is said, travelled with him in Hayti; Miss Day- ton’s brother; Mr. Smith, a city surveyor, of New York, and wife, with whom he boarded eight or nine ain Bap Russ’ housekeeper, who is now taki: of. On. With all these visitors he conversed with some and directed his conversation to the shooting Dayton, at all tines requesting hiv own death and that of his intended victii To victim. inquiry wl fhe still dosired the death of iiss Dayton ‘he replied he. did, years; ing care at! but with the qualiacation that if she wished to live as much as he was led to suppose he had no objections. HIS FRIENDSHIP FOR MISS DAYTON’S BROTHER. When young Mr. Dayton visited him erday the ition was quite warm and reciprocal, and evinced the fact that the attachment they had for each other be- fore thts affair remains unshaken. Their conversation was very brief. Russ told Mr. Dayton that there was twenty dollars in his desk at his office in New York, which he wished him to get and retain haif the amount. THR ACT PREMEDITATED—CONFESSION. He confessed to officer Powors that he had determined totake the life of Miss Dayton ten days before he at- tempted the act, and for that purpose purchased one of Smith & Wesson’s No. 1 pistols. HIS CONDUCT TOWARDS HI8 PHYSICIAN. Russ evinces great repugnance towards his attendant physician, Dr, Fox, This arises from the fact that he does not wiah him to effect his recovery, Dr. Enos, the medical gentleman who performed the operation on Russ on Sunday, attends regularly on the patient. He requested his tormer housekeeper to take charge of his effects, From this fact the inference may be de- duced that he anticipates his death. . HIS CONDITION. The hospital syrgeon pronounces the wounded man's condition as favorable; but facts seem to warrant a dif- ferent supposition. A’ portion of the bullet is still in the brain, the left eye has become bloodshot, and yee- torday afternoon a swelling ou the left side of the neck indicating inflammation, was quite visible. The sight of the right eye is destroyed entirely, and it was thought trom the discharge from it that it is running out. MISS DAYTON’S CONDITION. Last evening Miss Dayton’s condition was considered favorable, She retains all her faculties and converses some with her friends. One of the bullets is still in the brain, and so far has baffled the skill of ber physician to extract it, STATEMENT OF MR, HUGH ALLEN. Mr, Hugh Allen, agent, doing business at No, 1 Cocn- ties slip, New York, residing at 60 Harrison street, and one of the eye witnesses to the affair, states that at dusk on Saturday ovening, as he was proceeding up Clinton street, preceded on his side of the way by another gen- tleman, on the opposite side of the street he noticed a lady and gentleman walking along .apparently very quietly side by side. As he looked there was 4 report of what he thought first was a detonating cracker or some other invention salutatory of Christmas, The first report was followed by another, and yet the parties walked on side by side, as if nothing of unusual importance was transpiring, which. circumstance settled the impression in the mind) of Mr. Allen that were a th a ert a young, lady, the for. mer of whom was celebr: the advent of, Cliris ‘im a noisy manner. A third report umséttied “this. ‘eaoviction, and he hastened to the parties on the” other gide.of the street, and, on Jookiag this time he moficed that the young lady tay p te ou the side- ‘wali, and the man bad at that time ‘about ten foet farther. Mr. Allen noticed him on the instant raise a pistol to his head and fire. The tldsh was plainly visible, and made the two witnesses to the strange scene fully noquainted with its nature. Theman, after firing the last shot, ed and laid down beside the body of the young lady. He raised upon his elbow, howover, immediately after und deliberately fired-a shot into the’ body of the woman, who, for the first time throuchout the ailair, gave a slight scream. ately becoming aware of the nature of the scene that was trauspiring in their view, Mr. Allen and the gentleman near him ran across the ‘street to the assistance of the injured perties, On reaching the lady she said, “I am bleeding; take me to No, 193 Clinton street.’ Referring to her companion she said, “He is William H. Russ, of No. 87 Broadway.” The whole transaction did not occupy more th: Taw Mayor Euser.—The Hon. John T. Hofman will receive his friéuds atthe City Halt omNew Year's Day, from tweive’ to swo o'clock. Cie wigs, reer inst., he will take up bis at the Hotel, corner of Fourth ayenue and Kightoonth street. Counctumamc Cavous.—-A meeting of the Board of Councilmen olect Was held during last week for the pur- pose of electing or déciding upon a permanent President and Secrotary, but it was not fully attended end the caucus adjourned’ until last evening. when it ‘held its second session, in the rooms at the corner of Twenty. third street and Broadway. After due organisation an election was entered into, and Alex. H. Keech, of the Sixth district, a republican member, was appointed Presi - dent of the Board, and Mr. Babcork Secretary. This seloction. which it is thought will be unanimously ad- hered to by the members—all but two of whom were prosent at the convention last evening—will bave a ma- Jority of two for the republicans in the newly constituted Board of Councilmen. They stand eleven democrats and thirteen republicans. : ‘Tuw Apraoacnixc Prix Figur.—The second instalment of the stake moncy inthe forthcoming dght between Morris Phelan and Jim Kerrigan wae put up tasi evening at Dau Kerrigan's, 41 Oliver street. The backers of both tho principals were present, the men having gone into training. This makes three bundeed dollars of the amount to be fought for, nainely, tive hundred dollars. ‘The remaining tvo instalments of one hundred dollars 6 aiffe will be put up on Tuesday, the 2d and Tuesday the 9th prozimo. On the putting ip of the final sum an Agreement will bo come to as to the whereabouts of the fight which isto take piso: on the 1éth of January, Great antic\pations are entertained as regards the affal which promises to be well managed, audis alroady c! ating dome excitement among sporting raen. Geta Por Pas ivuniry.— This: well known [raternity holds its annual convention to-day at Cooper Institute. ‘Thoro a considerable business to come before the con- vention, aa this iy the frat scasion hold since the close of the ctas lay side all potitical animosities Gd again receive Southern delegates mo their mystic circle. This will he the mort important convention of the brotherhood for inany years past. Delegates are expected from eli colieges where there are chapters, ‘After the evening session the members will adjourn to ‘one of the hotalt, where a sumptuous ropast will be pres pared for then: Touns Divxer.—The sur ceation ag eeveral times | mate BBP Rati of tho city prison that tn viow the giorious ond happy Onristtiaa wn'*" Srérybody has 60 much onjoyed this year that something a little extra, of sumetliing different from bread and coffee, be provided for tho inmates of ihe Tombs for their New Year's din ner. Capiain € or, the warden, wishes us to say that he proposes to give to all thowe confined in the Tombs (the average boing four hundred) a New Year's dinuer, which aball consist of roast beef, roast turkey, and all ‘fixine,”’ provided sufficient encouragement be of- fered to enable him to raise the “t 3 Va cooking, eerving up, &c., Captain Coulter will assume t responsibility of himself. All thore disposed to con- tribute (o the cause ean do so by sending “turkey,” or an equivalent in greonbacks, to the Tombs any time be- fore noxt Saturday night Bats or tam Travian Bevevonent Socrery.—The third annual bati of the Itallan Benevolent Society is an- anounced to come off at Irving Hall on Friday evening, January 6. This affatr promises to be oue of the most entertaining ond brilliant of the season, The proceeds are to be applied for the benefit of the Italian Evening School, a most praiseworthy institution, Dowes ov tie Saxirany Pouce, —Captain Lord, of the Sanitary Company, yesterday made the following rey to the Police Commissionors :— : Cayteat Derartment or Tan Metrorourran Porscn, 800 MoLereey eet, N. ¥., Deo, 26, 1865, To Tar Honoree tam Boano of Porcr:— GrvticMeN—Tho following is the arount of work per- formed by the members of my command for the week ending Dec. 23, 18¢5:-—Thore have boc ts made, and notices verved for the clea 56 privies, 37 yards, 25 house sewors, 82 houses, 4 slaughter houses, 12 areas and alleys, 4 ceas- pools and cistern#, and for the repairing of 6 winks, 4 ridewnlks, 1 honse, 2 stoops, 1 chimney, Lcoal vauit and 25 hydrants and waste pipes. There bave been cleansed under service of previous notice 194 sinks, 34 privies, 40 yards, 24 cellars, 94 houses, 27 house sewers, 24 areas and alfeys, Lrtable, 4 coxspools, aud repaired § sinks, & sidowallts, 6 chimneys, 2 vault covers and 18 Croton. pipes and bydrants, ‘Tota! complaints, 407; total cloan. sed, 481 Ali of which is respectfully submitted. B. G. LORD, Captain Sanitary Company. Feut Ovunwoary and Drowxev.— About half-pact seven o'clock last evening, as the Fulton ferryboat America was crossing the East river, on her usual route, a plainly dressed man, supposed to be a laboror, fell overboard fromthe bo \d was at once swept under the wheel. The boat was immediately stopped, the small boat lowered, avd every exertion made to recover the anfor- tunute tan, but without success, No trace of the body could be fovod, and it 18 suppoged that ho was killed by } towards tts accomoliahy tay Wheel, Amusements. BROADWAY THEATRE. This: theatre was crowded in every part last evening, the pieces set down for performance being Sam and Mose, in which Mr. Chanfrau took the principal parts, In the character of Sam he displayed wonder- ful powers of versatility; and in the course of the play, ag algo at the conclusion, he was called before the our- tain, where he received the cheera of the aud.ence, who appeared greatly delighted with his acting. Ho was creditably sustained by the other members of the company, Mr. Chanfrau was equally success- ful in Mose, his delineations of that personage fre- quently eliciting bursts of applause, With respect to the capacity of the Broadway theatre *for the accommodation of the public, a few words may be here appropriately said. Christmas night fully put the a- pacity of this popular house to the test. On that occa- sion the admissions numbered 2,052, and the receipts amounted to $1,286 50. The pigcos were Sam and Mose, Mr. Chanfrau, who is a native artist, playing in bote, with which bis name is now so popularly connected. The numbers present in the theatre on Chrstmas night were the largest ever collected within its walls, At the prices of admission charged to ste the Keans during their first engagement the receipts would have exceeded $3,600, and in their last engage- ment of twenty-four nights, when the rates were the same as at Wallack’s, the receipts would have reached $1,882 25. These figures show why Mr. Wood, the manager, has been so.pecuniarily successful. Mr. Chan- frau’s engagement is announced to Inst till the end of next week. Those who desire to see capital comic act-” ing should go see bim at once. ACADEMY OF MUSIC—THE FRENCH COMPANY, This evening the new French company will play for the first time in this city. Among those who will make thelr débiils on this occasion we note the names of Mesdames Pauline Potel and Amelie Hiury, and Messrs, Armand Genty and Edmond Livry, from the principal Parisian theatre, Of former favorites, Madame Larmet and Messrs. Chol, Rousseau and Delignes will reappear. Scribes’ Bataille de Dames (Tho Ladies? Battle), and the Fille de Dominique (vaudeville), will be given. As tho company will play but twice before the new theatre is finished, we expect the Academy to present to-night a grand array of beautiful ladies and brilliant tulets. SAM LONG'S BENEFIT AT THE NATIONAL CIRCUS. Sam Long, that extraordinarily funny fellow, the clown at the new National Circus, in the Bowery, is to have a benoflt this evening. The whole company of the house will come out in support of Sam, assisted by a host of. volunteers, among whom are Mrs. Nat. Austin, the beautiful vocalist; Mlle. Marietta Zanfretta, James Madigan and others, Sam Long himself will introduce first time, his laughable act entitled The Cat-Piano—an octave of cats “running from the little kitten to the large Thomas,” who will discourse most eloquent music. Five other clowns will be present, all with new songs and funny sayings, as they are determined that Sam and his cats shall have a crowded house and a bumper— Misce}laneous Theatricals. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence were announced to ap- pear at Pike’s Opera House, Cincinnati, ou Christmas Day, The French Spy was played there at a grand matinee on the 23d instant. The Sea of Ice, and The Poor Strollers, or Camilla’s Husband, were popular at Maguire's Opera House, San Francisco, when tht last California mails left, Mrs. Jackson played the herome in the first, assisted by Messrs. Boniface, Harry Jackson and Louis Aldrich, as Carlos, Barrabas and Raoul. In the last named piece Mrs. Harry Jackson. personated Lady Camilla Hailstone, The farce, {yesh to the Californians, A Quiet Family, was given in conclusion. Mr. B. E. Bandmann baz had a satisfactory Yoneft in San Francisco. The third actsof Hamlet, twowcts of Narcisse aid the fourth act of the Merchant of Venice were performed on the becasion. Mr. Bandmaun con- ‘cluded a uix weeks’ star engagement. At the Metrppolitan theatre, San Francisco, the Colleen Bawn was brought out in the last duy: of November, The cast included Mr. Wheatleigh, Mr. Pauncefort, Mrs. Sedley Brown, Miss Hinckley, Mrs. Juduh and Mrs, Yea- mang. The Jubilee House, The Octoroon and The Bull in a China Shop were also given with success in the fame honse., ; ets As 8 " Vatie. “F< Vestvalt porsomsited’ Gamea, the Jewish Mother and Fortune Teller, before a crowded andience at the Metropolitan, San Francisco, November 26. During hor engagement at the Metropulitan Mlie, Vestvali will Appear as Afesandro Massaroni, in the Brigands, and piay also in Temptation and Hearts are Trumps. At Maguire's Academy of Music, San Francisco, they lately bad Nine Points of the Law and How to Make Home Happy on the boards. The company includes Mias Emily Thorne, Dan Setchell, Harry Wall, Messru Woodhull, Pardey, Mitchell, Thayer, Sinclair, the Sisters Worrell and Miss Land, Arrah ua Poke, as it 18 termed, provoked’ immense fun during ten nights in'suecession. Mr. Webb, thor of Arrab na Poke, hada benefit in the house, November 28. Joho Brougham's extravaganza Pocahontas was alae on the boards. Madame Anna Bishop and Mr. Charies Lascelles bave returned to San Francisco "from a grand mountain “cam- paicn’’ through the towne extending to Washoe. They propose to give a few concerts ig San Francisco and then sail for Australia, if not induced to prolong their stay by offers which have reached. them from Victoria, British Columbia, Oregon and Northern Californin. Madame Bishop sang y Oukland, Cal., November 28. Arrab na Pogue and Arrab na Poke have been played in Virginia City, Nevada. Mr. John 8. Potter opened his new Academy of Music, in Sait Lake City, with Richelieu, November 14. Ue had cight hundred dollars in the house. Miss Lizzio Parker, the vocalist, bas returned to San Francisca, tand Beard of Trade. Bosros, Dec, 26, 1465. The Transportation Committee or the Boston Board of Trade held a meeting thiv afternoon at which Mr, Horace, H. Day, of New York, presented his system of canals with inclined planes as substitutes for ordinary locks capable of passing steamships of one thousund two hundred tons. He showod that such versols can be passed around the Falls overcoming three hundred and twoaty feet elevation tn the inoredibly short time of half an hour, saving a day anda balf in the round trip of each vessel. By this plan the veatel nover leaves the water, but is drawn up the piane while floating in an iron case or fadveable lock, Mr. J. W. Convers was in the chair, Mr, W. B. Spooner, at the close of the bear. ing éffered, aud the Committee unanimonsly adopted, thy following resolution :— TONE DERN vig Resolved, t the thanks of the Transportation Com- | mittee of th n Board of Trade be and they are Sawaby teat Mr. Day for the able and interest presentation has made of the subject of inclined ibatitdte for lockage on the pri tthe Fails of Niagara, and that Mr. Day Moston aro y may rest dssured that the Comut‘ttge will give such considera- tion to the merits of the questic™ ae its great ance demands. . Canadian Affairs. CAUSE AND PROBABLE SFFECT OF MK. BROWN'S (From the Toronto Lead 8. ‘We are in & position to state that the retirement of Mr. Brown did not arise (as bas been alleged) from personal hostility or or sense of injustin’, or personal focling in any shay bat simply solely because Mr. Brown conld not, phy od be map ogg td poe Red bie @uty to the people © the responsibility of thal which ‘Bic’ collenguen hed resolved upos, Every minister of the crown, on assuming office, takes a solemn oath that he will give advice ou each matter that comes defore him to the best of his jadgment and ability; and to this matter it was the conviction of the President of the Council that the course approved by his colleagues was wrong and dangers. We are in & position to ony with certainty that, how. ever painful niay have often been the position of Mr. Brown and his two reform colleagues—combined as they were in a government with nine political opponenta— and however earnestly Mr. Brown may have looked for. ward to the hour of release from such a ition—stil it Was with the very greatest rogret and reluctance he felt himself compelled to leave the Cabinet at this moment. ‘The great work for which the coalition was formed was unrccom plished ; for cighteen months all the multi rious diMeulties of the situation had been taborio: encountored--and now success seemed almost on the Point of attainment. Was that a moment when so earnest « man could willingly resign ta Aber hands than hin own the completion of the work he had so largely contributed to design and mature? Assurediy not ling Dut the most imperative sense of daty could have im- pelied to such a #tep. m No one can feel more deeply than does Mr Brown the need at (his moment of wise and patriotic and united addon on the part of all the public men of Canada, ff be has left the government, tt was becauer there was no ‘open for bim to remain; and assuredly his leavin ol an change his course in the slightest degree, Out of office be will only labor more earnestly than over for the accomplishment of the ends for which the coalition was formed, and which were the rote justification of ite formation. | And whether the ooatition compact ts for. the liberal party or a purely conserva. takes its place, ao long as the agree i¢ Naroisse Bellen entered the Minin ever that Mr, Brown can give A Will be nuartily and prompt wi try is adhered t YWgven, ITALIAN AFFAIRS. Our Florence Correspondence. Frorenos, Nov. 30, 1865, Ceremonies at the Opening of the Italian Parliament— Victor Emanuel’s Speech—The Liberal and Clerical PartiemRavages of the Cholera at Naples—King Bomba and the Pope—Family Jars inthe Bourbon Household, de., de. The great event of the woek here bas boea the speech delivered by King Victdr Emanuel at tho opening of the present session of the Italian Parliament at Florence, His Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princes Humbert and Amedee, and attended by his military staff, was received by a joint deputation from the Senate and Chamber of Deputies and conducted to the throne with the customary ceremonies, the Senators and Deputies rising to their feet and greeting bim with prolonged cheers. After the King had seated himself upon the throne, Prince Humbert took place upon his right and Prince Amedec on. tbe left, both being dressed in full military uniform. The royal group included a number of princes and high officials, among whom were the Cabinet Ministers, the Presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, the minister of the royal house- hold and the military and civil officials of his Majesty's staff. The foreign mintsters were present in full diplo- matic uniform, and the galleries were filled with a brilliant array of clegantly drossed ladies. The city was gaily decked out with flags aud banners, ‘The militia and the troops in garrison here were drawn up in a double line, bordering the route followed by the cortege, and a dense crowd filled the streets, notwithstand- tng the drizling rain. In tho Parliament House, after the cheers had ceased, the Keeper of the Great Seal, at tho order of his Majesty requested the Senators and Deputies to be seated. Nex! the newly olected members took the usual installation oath, Prince Humbert being the first sworn in as a Senator. After these formalities had been gone through the King rose and delivered his opening speech fn a strong, clear voice. As you have doubtless already received and published the royal discourse I need not give it here. Both in sentiment and style it is wretchedly weak and insipid. The two main points, relating to the ret question and the negotiations with Rome, are and vigorously treated. As for the remainder, i nothing more than a mass of weak verbiage. Great applause was manifested upon the utterance of the words expressive of the intentign of the government to clear away all the obstructions in the path of progress met with in the past by separating the Church from the State, and by suppressing the various religious corpora tions, This clear and energeiic check given by the Ttalian liberals, through the King, to the absurd and impotent efforts of the clerical reactionists was noble and opportune, and was universally and deservedly applanded, Generally ‘a apeech from the throne is osteusibly a more business like discourse, buf in fact it is the expression of sentiments of the a sovereign addressing himself directly to hia people. In the composition of the speech in question, however, the Italian Ministers of State were not suflicientiy im pressed with the greatness of their task; they neglected many essential points, and were either unwilling or una- ble to soar above the golden mean of official usages and phraseology. That unwelcome visitor and dire scourge, the cholera, hag.been in our midst for some time past, and at present tigre appears little probability of getting rid of its fear- inspiring presence. The epidemic is most scverely felt at Naples, where its victims number over one thousand per day. Business is at a standstill there, and the beau- Uful city wears a gloomy and desolate appearance, The prominent topic of conversation is the cholora, and the statistics of its daily ravages are anxiously looked for and read. Instead of theatres, balls, parties, celebrated singers, dancers and other fushionabie themes, the conversation in social circles is at present almost exclusively concentrated upon the precautions and reme- dies, more or less infallible, necessary to arrest or cure tho dread disease. Were any one, unaware of the sani- tary condition of the city, to find himself in a Neapoli- tan social entertainment, the hygienic, therapeutic, pa thological and chemical character of the conversation would assuredly lead him to suspect that he had through mistake got into a consultation of doctors instead of a private parlor. By nine o'clock each evening the city appears completely deserted, as few ot tho inhabi- tants are to be seen out of doors from that hour until tea in the beeing The scourge ia not confined to the: Jower classes, but has extended to the highest grades of society, eight persons having died from if in the royal household. The vicar ot the cathedral at Naples and the young Duke d’Ovalos are igen the viet ious. Arumer ts current here, which, despite its inyproba- bility, has been cantirmed irom reliable sources at Rome. to the oTfect that the Pope has notified Francis UL. the ex-King of Naplos, that after the 15th December he can no longer ize him as King of the Two siwilies, and that from that date forth all official and diplomatic reta- tions between the two courts strove to change remained inflexible, Letters received from Rome in- form me that the Court of Naplos 18 in a state of con- fasion. The King’s carriages and horses are being sold, and bi« pictures, plate, furniture and other Ne offects are being packed for speedy removal. It is sald that scenes of a most scandalous and indecorous nature Inw, the Queen dowager, and between the ¢1 y " couple, King Bomba taxes his spouse, whore health has broken down under a long course of dissipation and ex- —. as the a - a vem ns on bee of e Tecognition of Ttaly. aria, the country of Fran- cis' qaeen. The Farnese palace, and the property of the @Xx-] in the Papal States, have been offered for sale, and it is believed that the Emperor Nupoleom intends to ‘the same fer a present to Fugenie. Doctor Barry, a surgeon in the English army, recently died at Corft. He was well known as a skiiful surgeon, - and bore a reputation for great ntricity. On his deathbed he gave orders th: hou! buried us he lay, without the usual preparation given to the bodies of the dead. This excited the curiosity of bis attend: and before placing him in his coftin they made ap nation, discovering that the doctor was a woman. Several assassinations have ee at Naples by the Bourbonist agents, ono the victins , being pe! Santini, a pomes oon jeman, who took partin the seizure of the papers of Cozenza, the conspirator. M We aro informed that Mmé. Castetmary Sax, the prima donna gt the Grand Opera at Paris, selected by Meyerbeer for the part of the Africaine, has bad an dction brought against her by M. Sax, of Saxhorn cl. obrity, for takiag a name to which sbe 1s not entitied. A compromise was attempted, and the lady had consented to call herself Saxe, but the negotiations failed, and the suit will be followed up. Mme. Sax was formerly a singer at a café, where she was remarked by Mme. Ugalde, who gave her instructions and developed her magniticent voice. The pupil is now in her glory at the opera; whilst the teacher, after a short engagement at the Bouffes, is singiug in a fairy piece at the Porto St. Martin, 4 The King of Bavaria has, it is said, personally investi- gated a chndict which had arisen between M. Pfatermaier, the chief of his Cabinet, and M. Richard Waguer, the musical composer. After hearing explonation§ from the parties, his Majesty, we are told, informed M. Wag wer that he hed better pass @ fow monthe in travelling abroad s Reports from Yarsanis of Mile, Giovanni, the prima donna, ato flattering. The Trovatore of Malan says:— Ta Giovanni, tn the part of Amelia, in Zalio in Masch-ro, gave evitence of incortestiplg talent. fhe isa young actress, with a fine, ¢&sh voice, displays much taste in musical phyaséh, and possesses no little dramatic senti ment, fer succese was most brilliant, and the public fecalied her many (meg with the greatest demonstrations of applause. Of Baraglio, the young and handsome tonor from the Italian Opera, Paris, the Paris journals «ay that he pos. wesges (he Ouest dé gracia voice heard since Rubint. Madame Ristori ig ing to the most enthusiastic admirers wherever ee cad Botwith- standing that che had atrendy performed in ali the prin- cipal cities of Europe several times, The éclat with which she is till received is unabated. She closed an ongagement in Varsania in the end of October. From there she went to Pragoo, on the first of November, thence to Hanover, and from Hanover to Amstordam and the Hague, On tie 20d of December she was to be in Home, and make her déOit on the 26th, where she wiil romain until the 13th of February, 1866. Mile, Therese Lublache, grand-daughter of the great basso, has been married to M. Rokitanki, © bass singer known at the Italian thuatres of London. GRIBT AND MARIO IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE. A letter of recent date, from Florence, contains the following notice of the every-day life of these distin. artides in their present home circle: —Mario is of Candin) aud Grisl, with their throe daughters, are now staying at their Villa Salvint), near Fiesole, For beauty of situation, dimensions of the saloons, elegance of furniture, and variety of art treasures, C haye seen no villa in this neighborhood preferable, Madame Grisi, vory good-naturedly, coutributes to the musical enter tainments of private friends, and since Mario's return from bis late tour in England he ts daily envaged direct: ing the works in progress on the estate, Whether Gris! returns to the slage next year, ae reported in London papers, remains yet a secret. The general wish of all her friends end admirers ts that abe wil! limit her voeal exercises to the concert room, Mario returns (0 the Moyal alien Opera, and will not devert Costs ite competition been opeiied at Rouen, Franco, for the design of & monument w the memory of Court, the lifétorical painter, lately deceased. The suc- coagful eandidate is to Lave the right of executing the work, which mast not exceed 6,000f. in val ® Gerome, the French painter, been elected « member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris, by nineteeo vob agua Fourvoou, He yy Sori .eye Yate of ago the Pope's resolution, but his Holiness |, 5 ¢ Personal Inteltigonce. * ‘Tho Momphis Appeal of December 20 has the following? ‘account of the meetings of Gonoraly Sherman and John- ston in that city:—General Joseph £. Jounston, the be loved commander of the late Confederate “Army of Ten neasee,"” arrived in our city yesterday morning, stopping at the Geyoso, His visit Was one purely of’ busneas limited to a few busy hours—leaving, as he did, om the five o'clock packet. He was rapturously welcomed by the few of his olf comrades who knew of his being im town, and who had the to exchange burried greetings with him. It is something of « coincidence tat he and General Sherman should bare met here— the one in the discharge of his ordinary military duties, and the other in the pursuits of private busjtess. ‘Their meeting was characterized by the kindliness which ever inspires the true soldier when hostilities have ceased. ‘Their previous meeting in North Carolina was piegnant ‘with momentous results. Then they metas enemies Now they are friends and fellow countrymen, chi for each other respect and kindness. Cannot the countey emulate the oxample of theve two greatest of living com manders Non-Arrival of the Belgt Portann, Me., Dec, 26—Midnight There are no signs of the Belgian. It is raining. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION. of the New York Datlg Newspapers. OFFWIAL. Year Ending May 1, 1866. = i ? 3 Bun.... Express. New Yor Haratp...... Times, Tribune, World and Sun comibined MAILS FOR EUROPE. Affairs atthe National Capital—The Fe- nian Excitement—The Scare in Cans- da—Our Bnglish Cluims—The Latest News from Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, é&e., d&e. The Cunard mail steamship Java, Captain Cook, wilt leave this port on Weduesday for Liverpool. The mails for Europe will close at fificon minutes past ten o'clock this morning. The New York Henatv—Edition for Europe—will be published at half-past vine o'clock in the morning. It will contain :—Interestifg intelligence from the Na- tional Capital, with a report of the proceedings of Com- gress; Full account of the Fenian diffloulty in the United States, with statements on both sides of the question; Report of the late Fenian Scare dn the Canadian border; The petition of Citizens of Boston asking Congross to de mand Redress from England for the vessels destroyed by the Anglo-Rebel Pirates; Late and important News from Mexico, Central America, .the West Ipdios, and acoounte of all important events of the week. Singlé copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, six conta Are They Going 1—We Refer, Reader, te your teeth. Be careful, to your eyea your tenth’ are the most precious of your facial organs, Use the fragrant SOZODONT. It will at once arrest decay and prevent what Zz are vow but mere specks from being orifices In brief, it will save avd beautify your teeth. -Apdit is the only thing that can save them, ‘Reflect ou this. A Cerd. ¢ ver if 1. 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