The New York Herald Newspaper, January 14, 1866, Page 5

her. ‘The [rail row. two hours in the pro- | gna fod companions for life among those whose re- , the son ‘and agnin off in the die- | fitout, ascociatious, edncation amd prospects are om the until the two brave of L moely on he samo plane, Now and thea @ departure from this rule, Sareea onan Ud reeds va bs ccns. | Teenrene oe emanctle td UetaTucet) nh saperenoett Fee ee ed tris pres astcrataasion, wich wo | mn ceactel tote lr Weee vocat neppincas muss bs Cb [oe PT no obstacle could change, they suc- | ine affections, and thes? are to b> tnstened om those and had the’ pleasing satisfaction and bappiver } yy5ra! and meatal qualitications «bic are ia themsclies at last of ‘the tustruments of rescuing from watery | joveiy, Such marrisges are almost invar ably happy. graves all on ofthe Mary A. Boartman. © | and s6 simrle and easy and pleasant Is the prescription, Previous to the propeller being discovered by pilot | ic iy wonderful that even young people do got inke it an the steamer Charles Clamberiain, Capiain | yy je rather than reoture their iife interest ov the vid Bird, pm — ae a han hacardonesea of matrimony with all the chancos aguinst ter maki Bess offorte > | them. Captain Bird devermined to go to the city and got a suf Il. THE NEW THEORY OF MARRIAGE, oat and return with {t so as to enable him to reson her. 1 tig only within few years that the new theory of the He returned inebout Ave hours with the suri boot, uot | oqnal rights 0° married people has had any hold io the Pe eee not get to the propeller, the se] Fctigious world, None can have forgotten tho amaze the boat away a: every attempt todo no. | mont with which the poblie mind recived the fact Int oe pra? oeped Sg Seng With thelr litte | winter that several of our orthodox religions Journals Sed exertion, Wey hat rescued tend te trsptier more | LT. ionrerguion ze the fe ued ea st seen noaring the Chamberlain, and whew (iy zewebrd | tmarriags, and abotish imarriage vows allogother, Tt came na deoien pune. = - dat that the bereay was jatrenchipg ite-I in the bosom of with ropes, it beng utterly impossible to got them 68 | tiyo Charen, aad ministers of the Gospel approved hat eee ee ey eee toe. ane ir right mon and Women knew to be “as bud as bed cam The two pilots then made two move trips pro. | be.” ‘alenc? of this septimaent i at the root of the Poller end renoued lhl ee cmmbertcin oy ropes, | Til the laws of marriage are lald dow very pleisiy fe ere alao hauled on of tie CBamberlaln vy ropes. | «to ible. The Apusties tauplt them clearly under Chriet By this time the little boss me so clogged Wu | ict thousands of Christians knore an essential element of fee a8 to render her perfectly pilots SeguINe | Christian arriage, which I» that “the husband ix the fand Jones had to be eae eee ante Se - 1 head of the wife as Chriet ts the head of the Chureb. iain Wy ropes, Seete echiy a out with the labor and | \yi5y merringy ceremonies are periormed where this exitcring they bad so-mobig undergone, |) principle fs not revogw ‘xe, Wliou tov abounds it is the ‘There were oii Lair Pee ee viney main ona | Meceet of harmony, — The husband. bs then die house Toller to be sawed, Bogaing said nithey mist dud | and as lis uame imports. Where tix principle it wot Shall be saved, aa tr ended to by wo ofthe. | Sdmitiod, and (he ruie of the Gowpel « kmunpled euder the sree. Rwer-responded to by wo of tht: | foot perpetad! strife i the result, ahens‘tom often be crew of ae ain and two of | the sared | our separation, and this ie followed If not preceded by Pasongors, Who made thes wey te the opteT [| ddeliy. To doubt or deny thts sule of (ivint w inl- and tenumbel with cold to do 80; at mounted Into the pitot house of the ve directions from itto those who _iaatrctin or irprovement or pomanisii Clete feed advocating such a reform I have been ch ; There vol Female ote aoe on cia’ tnetaie | who know better, with trying to write up th and sgn Mo ict casteite T cunt cowa crite ikem down til they ere mate decent, Some of the most popalar operas, many of the favorite player, pearly ali the sensation novels, are Cxhibitions of social vee, rendered so attractive and seductive as to wo hearer or reader that the “real fun,” the chief pleasure wine evuld be K | cf Hfe, 9 im secret and uboly “lore.” A om, Deriain, ‘directions (amen ‘old me recent! it ao an ores for the management of the | TAN coat to te Acudemy of Mut to heart fe Hy tar moder is and war vo ashamed " pig sreaee credit is due wo Capain Bnd of te Cham, | Si debheoihi t Ne ths ladies i he fae hae'we board of the Boardman, and also fur their kindness and wae performed. Yor these are tho oporas that draw cree cate them after’ they bed been placed In eatery | crowds of farbionable aad re'igiows people. | The theatas Siete wr | revi ae es Sh he ‘ school, theit name ae the Sonics of his easel, when isd boon byt Pret the operas, In the retirement of her boudoir a fashionable Talon down, to Pilot ceeata of ths terri, | YOMAN, waning excitement, reads these incendiary dle scones he documents aud te aet on fire of hell, The subtie por words: works her ruin, Sach novels are a morsel pentil Be Novel ns ig dangerous, such novel read: ‘a rola -—f one. Yet the coantry. fs Booded with it; and thee rs novelased pis 20d shia ihe load with ine wrecks of aurainta of virtue t wi rv domestt: bites, 8 tee IREN-EUS PRIME. Tease sovleties Brooklyu City News. ss : and a rubber overcoat that saved his life ab oe SHIPWRECKS, | fivtlosh Simhapen tet co sak om € . ¥ The Schooner R. B. Boggs Abandened at Total Wreck of the Ship Wa. Bell in a Bostow, Jan. 13, 1860. the Straits of Fucca. The’ schooner R, B. Boggs, of St. John, from Provi- ’ Additional Particulars of the Loss of the Steamer Mary A. Boardman. dence for Granville, was abandoned at sea on the Sth inst., with six feet of water in ber hold. The crew were saved. The Ship Free Trade at 8 in Distress. San Francisco, Jan, 7, 1866. The ship Free Trade, Drinkwater, which sailed for Boston.on the 15th ult., has returned in distress. Sho sprung a leak and lost most of her sails. Francisco @oble Conduct of Pilots Henry Seguine and Stephen H. Jones. Whe Loss of the Schooners Bnigma Loss of the Schooner Enigma. Wasuixorox, Jan. 13, 1866. Oficial information bas been roceived here that the and Christiana. Enigma, of Bath, Maine, was wrecked at sea in 4 about latitude 27 and longitudo 77 degrees west, on the ae &e he 3st of November last. All the men were found to be in a destitute and starving condition, clinging to the wreck. One died from exhaustion. ‘Wrecks Passed at Sea. Bostox, Jan. 18, 1866. ‘Thé sidamer Cassandra, from New Orleans, roports:— January 6, forty miles from Cape Fear, parsed a piece of wreck which resembled the side of a steamer; also saw piedes of wreck and several bales of cotton, which ap- peared to have been in the water some time. Disabled Vessels at and Near Fortress Monrog. 3 Fortress Moxxow, Jan. 13, 1866. The sebooner Edwin R. Kirk, from Georgetown for New York, has put im here with sails cayvied away. The propeller John Gibson, from Annapolis for Now ¥ork, has arrived here’ disabled: She wilt be towed to New York. Feis reported that the sehooner Lynchburg Is thirty mils north of Cape Henry in-» disabled condition. It is also reported that ther is am unknown schooner near tere disabled and drifting out to sea. DISASTERS ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Breaking Up of the Ice im the River at Louls—Terribie Force of the Ice—Steam boats wed Barges Swept Away, &. Sr. Lows, Jan. 13, 1966 The ice staried'again about eleven o'elock last night occasioned by the breaking up in the Missouri river, and swept past the elty with terribie free, sinking the steamers Nebraska; City of Pekin, Hattie May and Mollie MePike, carrying vay the wrecks of pest disasters, and crushing several Daryes and wharf boats °) Other steamers are-reported as swept down the stream, bat their names are nos yot ascertained. ‘Tho river is now open and very full of heavy ice, but tho ferryboats inanage bo cross occasionally. The los on the Hattic May is. $30,000; on the Nebraska $20,000; on tho City of Pekin $45,000, and on the Sotlie McPike $40,000. The amount of insurance 1 unknown. Wreck of the Ship William Bell in the _, feraite ef Fucea—The Steamer Oregon » Ashore, ’ Portianv, Oregon, Jan. 5, 1966. On the 27th ult, the ship Wm. Bell, of Boston, struck a “feet of rocks in the Straits of Fucca aud went to pieced. row saved. The ship was in ballast. * The steamer Oregon is still aground. Her freight has ‘OU beon saved, : Heavy ice ia the Columbia river prevents navigation | ‘@bove the Cascades, Leos of the Barkantine Hattie Morri- i son—Eight of Her Crew Rescucd. ih Wasuinetox, Jan. 13, 1366. ‘The United States Consul at Antwerp, writing to the Stato Department, says that on the 12th ult. the master, J.B. Perry, and seven men of the barkantine Hattie Morrison, were rescued from the wreck of that vessel by Captain Wylsmas, ef the Dutch galiot Cornelia avd Su- ganna. Tho Huttio Morrizon was shattered to pieces by the severe gales of the 17th to the 20th ult., in lititude qhorth 45 degroos, longitude west 20 dogroes, and was fa sinking condition, and when discovered one man, Edward Bygin, had been washed overboard, and the Master aud two other mon badiy injured. Particulars of the Loss of the Steamer Mary A. Boardman. On, Monday night, the 8th inst., at balfpast eight O'clock, when the thermometer stood at filleen degrees below zero, and the wind was blowing @ perfeet hurri- cane, the propeller Mary A. Boardmay, from Morehead City, bound to this port, grounded on Romer Shoals. Nine o'clock Tuesday morning found the propeller still In the game foarful position, and the sca breaking over There were on board the propeller at this time twenty - three men and one wornan, and death seemed inevitably to all of thom, when in the distanc> was descried a small ow boat, belouging to the pilot boat Isaac Webb, making for her. In tuis sinall boat there wore only two persons, pilots Henry Seguine and Sjephen H. Jones, who lad de- terminod to save all on board the ill-fated vess*l or perish tp the attempt, Pilot Seguino, the moment he discovered the perilous situation of the propeller, with the Bobleness of character which characterizes unsclilah matures and all truly brave mea, immediately famped into the small row boat of thy Webb and Catied for volunteers from his brotuer pilots to join him in bis fearfal enterprise. Ths weather was so ternbly LETTERS FROM THE FIRESIDE, Marriage and Divore tho New York Observer, Doc. 14} Since I last wrote you the daily newspapers have beeu daily dofited with reports of trials of divorce, some of them—two at least—being betwoen parties of the “high. dat respectabitity,”” aud a stale of private morals absolutety astounding. Our law ought to be #o made and admimistered that these detatis of sccret vice shalt not te spread out in. the public prints, Gold, thé sea x0 fearfully rough and the wind blowing | They are in themselves corrupting, and therefore Buck @ flerce gale that KU seemed perfect matucss and to produce the evils the laws are . “toh prevent Or punish, But they. hav Gelf-desiruction for any one fo attempt to reach tha peo- | rough to light this de adtul truth, ibat-with the boasted Poller. In fact, i was an enterprise frangit with the | advaucement of civilization and religion bere is @ vart unceease of crime ivramst the marriage vows. Even in the moral State of Connecticut, the laad of “steady there ts sock au alarming advance in thie dire. ton that the official records of the courts are pronounced fderedible when th:y report the nimber of suite for divorce, It is no better, if wot worse, in the city of New York, and far wora> ip many other parts of our country. If you aste ine what causes tend to the increase of dome tle infeleities and cousequent divorces, Lwhould then RTT DIO TONS WEAR Awe. @reatest danger and well calculated to appal the stoulert ‘heart. Under ali the cireumstances, it ts not st al! sar- prising that the call of Pilot Seguine was not reepoaded © as prompily as he desired; but when ho made en earnost appeal to Pilot Jones to cast aside Bil thoughts of himself and to do bis duty, not only a5 DT ah Ae 8 Mason, in reseulog bbe fellove pase Sram eppeat, and, jumping from the pilot bont to the tral | Contracted wi due rection and sufficient ac- ‘fow boat, the two poble hearted mon, amid the raging ee poor ‘ nase agp ed mage . . as to ee dine) Ig POR . @f the sea, the hurricane and the felds of ice, ma . aa ‘Samely' Rcuat the union sball be pormancatt the , wad, after vory toilsome work, in whieh | arrcoabic. But we know that interested motives, s Samy completaly encased in ice ant — ex- | ax tho question of property, position in ssciety, prospects the doomed vessel, and itimo 1 in jusiness, or mere Persoual beauty, often control the Bee aie oi teres ns to save those 8 | cioice that is to tell upon the happiness of a family for ; and in this, through ‘own lon-beuriod cour- | tive These are not to be overlook'd. Marriages runes ‘and endurance, and the blessins of a iner hon iy successtul. made in defance of there*arxiliary qualifications are often untappy. It is well for young people to sock iro. At the Washingtoa Skaticg Pond, Brooklyo, je in eplendid condition, and ts the ouly pond at prove frown for v Tnomicady. Aprane’ aretees ned eews for Tuesday next at this pond. Semove Can AccibenT IN ATLANTIC StKer.—About half-past six o'clock on Friday morning, as one of the ears which pass through Atlantic street, belonging to the East New York line, was on ite way to (be ferry, while going down the grade, the horses became so um able the gehooner Christiana, but the fotiowing particalars wil! a Lb pore Pages tit was impossible fos the driver to “brake up.” are em White te car rs) rugning down ‘the track with great ey! ane vol » two pagernger*, ne ee yen aud Wil- pon eae [. Willetts, ronicing to Kast New York, w On Mrotay, ino off, pnd both received more or lew injuries by Soa her fag was Sika ioe ‘half mast Roverd i, Later, Conrenpeed worrelar : al al pher rein, Trenearey <a = sis mgaraad BOXING DAY. Bat ANGLO- Spon, * of the Sportsmen London. &e ao. Se. THE ANNUAL BUSH PO OTHER PLACES OF TURNOUT OF THE PEO> FULL HOUSES AND y THOUSAND PERSONS rN TRY CRYSTAL PALACK. ‘Boxing Day,” the groat own ‘val of the Yule-tide holida¢ makers of England, passed " with very grent éclat and more than the usual mows °F Animation on Christmas Eve of 1865, This day, or om Wing) a8 many of our readers are already aware, is aan t of “Jolly” English combination of the fun and trian * Of the Italian carnival, the’ Christmas pageants of France, the Donnybrook Fair abandon of Ireland, anf the #. Derby Day” onjoymonts of England herself, all rendered pa “* ing to the millions. by the pen of the dramatie writers pantomime and harlequinade, and the pencil of the-artist employed with « view to scenic effect, When Byroa MUSEMENT—AN IMMENSH U8 ON CHRISTMAS EVE— scenes always preceded Ash Wednesday, -he wrote: wi usher Lent i, he Or piv naa recpeee™ 1t i# as we take a glass with friends wt parting’ Tn the stage conch, or packet just af starting. 80 it Ig pretty much with Boxing Day. Why sober asa’ domestic, church-going John Bull should let bimsif loose #0 particularly, in excitem *nt, crush, roary perspi- ration and genora! good humvor on the ovenitg preceding Christmas morning, and thus to somo extent fatigue himself just before he sets tote enjoy the good things, spiritual and temporal, of the yreat festival, is sot clearly anderstood ; but itis the custom, and John hag observed it for 80 many years that itmay now be regarded as one of his institurtous, A queer institation it i#, and‘ an in- stitution with a queer uame. There is nv boxing at the theatres, either “hitting from the shodtder"’ or renting of boxes, for every person iF in humor ith every other body, aud of the pemy thousands present in the diferent houses op boxing day. Some thousands will not enter one agnin until Boxing Day of next year, ifthey should live 6 loog. The peculiar amusements of the London theatres at thir great deg of the Christmas season, were introduced int» England about the year 1762, by a set cf Itahan dyolis o “mummers,” and gradually combined into an odd sort of drama, whieb, after a few years, came to be regarded as in antagontem to the legitimate plays wad songs of the country. Drury Lane—the Old Drury, giant in its situa. tion in the very theatrical heart of Loudoa, adopted the ranger, nursed into pantomime, amt radiated the new idex all over the city, % was well received at’ firet, tut in 1760 it was opposed, and in iis very nursery, the Old Drury, as an innovator by an anti pantomime called Harlequin’s Invasion, whieh ended in the complete rout and, as it was deomed, utter defeat of Harlequin, and bis expulsion from the domain of Par hassus and the territory of Shakspere Christmas we® soon foand to be very cold inteed Re. ligion could not do all that wax required to make every English homo happy. The masses sighod a little after the jovialities -of the Catholic precursors to Christus and Easter, evemif the Roman pricsts did condemn thei “to live for forty days @n ill dressed fishes" just after the sport, avn means of reducing the corporal tendencies toward tmmorality then engendered. [t was soon thought te be good poticy, in order to provent the people from glancing very frequently towards the continent, to pe mit Harlequin to-resura, He was a funny feliow, and bia oppononts proposed mo good enbatitute for him. Many “high in authority," too, had a hankering after the fun; 80 Harlequin, disguived, re-entered England, a wotley sort of fellow ia his garb, with good things always oo his tongue and “no retigion’’ in particular as bis creed. He wastaken by the hand, patron zed, paid and eventually naturalized ; eo that he, with tis family, Columbine and the clown, are just now as decent a sort of English people radte be Tuerurmen, bed ideched their eneare)) im tha It would be useless to attempt to describe the scenes which take place at the doors, aud inside the wats of the different places of amusement ia London on Boxing Day. Everybody is determ'ned to get In, and the overy- body of London makes a huge crowd which combines all the matorial of a democratic “ratification meoting’ im New Yosk, # military spotacle in Paris, a Manchester league asseroblage, & Scotch curling party, and an Irish ke, all jostling, rushing, joking, “chaffing,”* antic) pating, criticising, and wanting to pay money to the cashiers. The housesare crowded to the ceiling, the drama rather coldly received, and the pantomime anxiously, looked for, An idea of tho number of persons im the theatres may be formed when we say that the Crystal Patace, London, was visited by sixty-five thog- sand persons on the Boxing Day just passed. We publish below @ full resume of the pieces played ‘at the different houses. From this it will be seen that the pure pantom!me 1, oF about to experience, another cr-sis inits English history, for we obrorve that Increased Prominence was given to the ballot last Boxing Day, and much greater regard paid to. the dratmatic or intro ductory portion of the peatomimes, Indeed, it may be ‘said that the English pantomimes of last Christmas were made up of a burlesque and a batict, wih @ short larie quinade attached to it. ~ “BOXING DAY" AT THE LONDON THEATRSS. ‘The theatrical festivities of Chrisunas Eve (Boxiag Day) were kept up with great spirit before crowded and onthusieatic audiences in London, Drury Lane wae packed to its utmost capacity, and the psatomime ii pro- nouncea one of the most #ignal successes over achieved in the house, It wi ailegor.cal repreecntation, in verse and by pencil, af the effect of Fortunatus’ Wiehing Cap and ihe evile produced by riches too casily wcquired, entitied Little King Pippin, or, Barie- quin Fortanatus and the Magic Parse and Wishing Cap. fo the harlequinade theré wore a double set of pas'om mints: Clowns, Mowers. H. Boleno and ©. Lauri; Panto loons, Mears. Barnes and Mort's; Harlequins, Messrs J. Cormack and Savijio; Columbiaes, Madame Woleuo and Laura Morgan. Many of the sconce were well devised and ingenious, and some quite novel. At the Haymarket theatre the novelty was ® version of Orpher aur Bnfer, by M. Cremionx, of Paris. It was produced im Gac sizie, with the following cast: —Immortale—Jupiter, Mr Ww Farren; Jono, Miss #nowdon ; Veuu: Miss Noliy Moore; Cupid, Miss Elen Woolgar (her first appearance on any stage); Diana, Mies H. Lindley, Mereury, Mise Fanuy Wright; Minerva, Mie Coleman; Hebe, Miss Lovell, Ganymede, Mins Prevot, Mars, Mr. Sander, Morplear, Mr. George. Mortals of paendo-mortals—Orpleus, Mr David Fisher; Eurydice, Miss Louise Keeley; Arist#us (Piuto im disguise), Mr. Bartleman, Noadoscript—Pabitc Opin on, Mivs thelen Howard. Mr. David Fisher, Miss Helen Hownrd and Mr. Bartioman made their first appearance on the Haymarket stage on the occasion. Mr. Sothern re- appeared at the house as Brother Son December 26. Lt in Never Too Late to Mead was playod at the Princess’ to « good house. The new plece, the Master of Ravenswood, was produced at the Lyceum end very weil received. The dialogue of Bir Walter Soott has been pretty closely fol- towed, There was no change at the Olympic, and Benry Donber was again rendered. The chief feature at the Adelphi was Rip Van Winkle, tn which Mr. Jefferson mate hie appearance, He gave mueb satirfaction. Mrs Billing ton played the tormagant wife of the drunken busband. ‘The Steeple Chase ands new farce, Rebiod Time, fot lowed. The Sehoot for Scandal was found to be etl popular at the St James, Th was succeeded by & picoe Which was thas described in the bil! pg est mmorphosed ollapedridical, boy ma psvaammnateery pantornimleal and entirely nomdeser jtt- cal rehearsal, entitled Please to Remember the Grotto; of, The Manegoress ina Fiz, The finishing and seule plece represented The Corat Caves of the Ocean. The Strand Hows bad only recently opened and dit moe change ite programme. The fabic of Prometheus, mpa- dered for the oceasiom, was given at the New Royaly. Little Don Giovanni; of, Lepotelio at ae Oe povett, ied for the eat amen’ pirchanprp ny A stip Wales, Sodiers’ Wells, famous fine, experieneed the cous! ennual Pon andtener was good natured bat 90/87 woud nye picrbapesr rete Cock-a Dante Do begas to antild themsetver, The drama wae Qari, of, Mume, Sweet Home. Mr. Kitchen acted theeiown, Hewes susteingd by Mr, Abbot ae Pastalbon, Mr Lawree Harlequin, Mec, Graiby sot Sem 98 Sprites, and Mies |= Eade iat ~ Sd 6 Son, kept Aniey) @ & fear pv gly wy great, 1 t live sotmals ead eo forth. The eharancers tn, the herleqataate were — Rowelta, the Clown) Miners Rema Carle oa ery pte Columbinne; Miny Kathie Ast” Martoquina ( (pn), Pactalggn, Mz, Deckiogiam, Barloque, Ws. You SAXON CARNIVAL, in LONDON THBATRES AND TARE FUN-~SIXTY-FIVE | the suminit tris, Besidos these there was a Sprite, Played by Mr. Soxtilian, and a second, entitled the Domo. ' Sri by (« new ) was Mr. Adolph Rowella The New Surrey thoatry house put up on the sito of tet destroyed by My” opened on Boxing Day. It was jammed to ity ui” capacity. Mr. Shepherd, sole lessee and manager, bi the audicnce welcome in a neat specch, ia which be said: — The present building vast improvement upon the old one, you will all admit; bus the change shail not stop here, You shall have the best artiste that judg ment and capital can engage, you shall Lave the Lost picees thal judgment and capital can purchase, and, what is more, they shall be placed upon the stage in the best mannor that judgment and caprtal can command. Already in preparation is a powerful dramatic piece, Written by John Oxenford, and dramatized from the Popular novel of East Lynne, in which Miae Avonia Jones, the celebrated American actress, will make her rst appearance." Honesty is the Best Policy war then Played, Miss Goodall, from the Thoatro Royal, Liver Pool, making a favorabie frst appearance, Mile, Rosier, premiere dans:vs*, mado bor frat appearance in Rnglavt’ Miss Elizabeth Webster appeared as Fon and Misr Rathor Jacobs as Tom the Piper's Son. Messrs, Fenton and Ostan's Christmas pantomime at the Victoria was Hatlequin Old Msop; or, Or. Syntax and His Animated Alphabet. Im the harlequinmado were Mr. Barnard Sy! ventrs, the Clown; Mr. R. Marchant, the Pantaloon; Mr. W. # Hall, the Marlequin, and Mins Elien Powell, the first witnessed the Carnival in Rome, and know thet sue | U'oluwMae: Les Freres. Biliott, gymnists, were called apalter, At the Marylobono theatre the Loves of Heary the Secogdatid Pair Rosamond were made the subject of a goo pantomime, Robin Hood’ and bis true love, Maid Aatinn tig fagodacad with @ liltle boldness by the autior. Sine Beard pleased, la&es and all, at the Alexandn. Titeré was a “folly” audience’ at the rtan- dara, The {real provided consisted of x pantowime with the title Of PataGake, PataCake, Baker's Man; or, Bah" Bah! Black Shoep, Have You Any Woolt ar the } Pavilliow Blue Reard-was given under the® title of Bike Beard and His Seven’ Headless Wives. The programme a the Britanuia wae Old Daddy Longlogs and Sir Regent Circus; or, Tie Race for tho Golden Appin King Plame and Queen Pearly Drop; or, Murlequin Simple Simon, was vory woll rosived at the City of London, The Conrad Family petsonated the sprites. The sisters Linda made weir first appear- ne EM@agham, whore a crowde® house was kept Clown way played by Mr. & Hvans Mr. Ch: was Harlequin, Mc. Pind lay Pantatoon, and Miss Amy'Rosalind Cotambihe, Tho Lorenzo Family were sprites, Signor Ethardo, the Italian gymnast, appearod at!the Crystal’Patace. His performaued ts thus described>—Round atdrou column fifiy feet Liha narrow and simeoth platform whids to Up this Bthardo ereends on a lot mae of wood. Thie globe is only thirty inches in diameter, | and the width of the platfoum twetve inches, avd with no protection to arsist iu the ascent or descent. Theascent, when compared with the rest of the performance, seems omy, but the conting down is a severe tral, Should the ball travel one incl out of the way, of a Hittte oo fant, nothing could save‘the performer from a catamity. The inctine winding from the top to the bottomof the column is more than one humdrod and eighty feet, and the ae complishment of the fent called forth bursts of applause: The pantomime was good. There wore upwaids of airty {thousand persons in the Palace, MISCEL) ANEOUS ITEMS. The Agricultura! Het, London, is again converted into a hipped 1%. The followin: artistes were there in Christmas week:-—Herr Oto Motti, « German juggler; Madame Bridges (formerly of the Cirque Napoleon), Mie, Rose Masotta, and Hore Gorard Goldsclmid tn feats of horsemanship, Mr. Joba Hendersof on the flying ¥ ince, and Mr; Jean Boud on the magio ladder. The two giants, Chang an@ Anak, were ia London ow “Boxing Day’’—the one at the Egyptian, the other ab St. James’ Hail. Colonel Stadare, In his mystery and magic tricks, Lad @ great Lember of visitors im London at Christmas. Eloven thousand three Iandred and forty-six persone paid for admission to the London Zoological Gardeas on Boxing Day, and one thonsand seven hundred and sev- enty on Christraa: Day, making together a larger number of visitorn than on any two days at Christiias tine since the Gardens were openod bo the neg Amphitheatre, Liverpool, under the direction of Mr. John Coleman, of Loeds, England. ‘Ths Theatre Francais, Paris, colebrated the two lun- drod and-twonty-sixth ann versary of the birth of icine, Decomber 22, by the performance of Mishridate and Les Plaideurs by that author, An ode by M. Henri de Bor dier was also read. The Odeon theatre on the same oor- ston played Andromaque and Les Plaideurs The Lanterns Mogique—a pantomime without the bar Jequinade—was given at the Chatelet, Pare, Deoember 20 M. Arnal has been engaged at 4he Gymnare, Paria, to play in a new piece by M. Sardrn ‘The Beaumarchais theatro, Paris, is advertived for sale for six hundred thousand franes (twenty four thousand pounds). The present lessee guarantees, he says, a cer tala annual profit to his succomor of sixty thousand francs. M. Edmond About is sid to be in troaty Eighth Public Rehe ) of the New York Phitharmonte Soctety. ‘The Academy catacombs were crowded yesterday with an aodience larger than ever altended a reLeareal there before. The lovers and patrons of music were amply re paid for their attendance, for the rehearsal was superior to many concerts given in this ety by other musical or ganizations, Mr, Carl Bergmann ts anxious that the ap proaching concert on the 27th lnst., the prograrome of which comprises some of the mast diffice't aad trying selections, shall surpass any of the previous triampls of the society. He ix not satisfied with the corgect Inter: procation of the broader oullines of those great works of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Berlioz, but be essays to pro dace the most delicate outlines and details which com plete the idea of the composer, The mont beautifully graduated expression is perceptible throughout each work as rendered Ly the magnificent orchestra ouder the direction of bis baton, We were agreeably 4 say» pointed ia the Overture to Melusina At the last reliewr sal of this remarkable work the orchestra seemed nat to lave @ just conception of it and therefore wo were tunable to trace the band of the compose: of Midwum- mer Night's Dream in it; but yesterday it was performed ins farsuperior manner. There is the flimy web of figures and fairy-tike fluttertags to t that charac terize the schereo of the Midsummer Night's Dream, Beethoven ts remarkable for bis exuberance of melodies and different themes, but he is oearly opprosohed. by Mendelssobn in this charming overture. There ts a oaby opening andasie muveiment, that dued, plaintive tous in 8 queralons agitation in the syncopated measure follow, and afinale inwhich the opening (heme peated, diminishing in tone gradaally wnrit td in the distance, that drew down: loud snd de served epplause from the audience Regarding the Artist's Dream, by Hector Herlion, wo fully described it at the last rehearsal. It is a. most dit cult work, and will require more assudaous rohearnals by the society in order to be successfully ew dered. The extreme length of this rewarkubie and novel production bas compited Mr. Herginaun to omit the fmals, which carries the artist inte (he world of spirits, and. in to some extent too tngliy sieet wih the Walpurgishach! deviliry to be beard wil pleas The principal diMeulty in ik ly to keep tie meioty which represents the artixts tnomerata, satheiently prominent throughout We dowbt ot that Mr ery mann will be suereeeful im this, ae be hay yp owe ais which may be moulded into any shape in mae ne the West. AND GIVR FOUR REPRESENT ATIO! Ine, ePO bea Crvormary, Jan 13, 1908 Pike's Opera Houre was jammed lat might, the totty pistes and every foot of manding room being o cups a dense sad fashionable crowd Th was the fourth rep rentation of L Africaine which weal | mm mate’ jog dchiewe a wurceantul run for aaother werk Could Mm semry be arranged; bet Mr and Mee Florence aepety givem op nights of their went in orter & gratify the operatic ‘poste & courteny duly wpyrooaied Wy Gram The troupe will leave here for Chitagn toumorrr a evening Oren had arrang@ to oyow 6 He aoe oo Both; we yemtorday te receive’ vate thgeoce Vat Ot CommAnSS unt) the let of Fotrow > Ualegrapbed to Crovvy, of the Opens Hass, ahd today made arrangements throagh the | Ahiolog medium Wo Gre four repremotations of L apwnine om Twewtay, Wednesday, Friday snd Matertay/ of wont took A long sdvertisoment passed over the eres \¢ doy aad will duty appeat In the Obiestgs paper, Le mor The Bberi of the Fresdmon's county, 19 ampting Lo reorver who chat, that let wns fine, wie oheot Wes 1p%pm, Wael Wig Cored wae torn! have ome jernen Of Seiten whats negra Nee owmanr of ‘owe from the other by iron arms, The ovelyrstre claire are modots of the Kind and theee hundred wad atty abo accommodate about throe hundred and fifty persun i r. eae “NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1886. WOOD'S NEW THEATRE. Skotoh of the Exterior and Vestibules, Auditortum the House—Preparations ing Night, Mapager Wood's new Broadway thoaire will be Uirown “nto the public to morrow evening. Laying | mode: ‘ed and refitted in an tneredibly elort ay. fimo: 2, Mt the appearance and uccomu aru of ane ane ,nerfect, and that its numerous Toa comfort awd am ‘HY Will be recognized by th the drama eannas fF 8M Instant be doubted who desire to have o* foreshadowing of the the “opening eye,” OY glancing at the programma. and from the jwogramn:¢ $9 the subjoined shoich, » be cnlightened as &% the surprise in swre for Lie aw Diage that will gath ef to applaud their old (rents iu a now play, enacted for Me first time In uew their, rm.” FRONTAGE. The new playhouse is’ possessed of a (rontage of | ewenty-Ave fect on Broadwa,¥, the spectators posing on ward ia a straight hne thro Wl the sovers vesiibules utitil they reach the auditorium, In front of the entrance ate placed two huge lamps, while Uze-tly above the hall way the words “Wood's Theatre’? v “i be embtaroned in jets of red, white and blue flame, On’ he left shines « large'ilitiminater, radiant with many co, 94 glasses and Avuowneing. im letters of fire tbe enga, wemen! of (he “otars’’ performing withis. THE OUTRK VESTIBULE. The cuter vestibate feseparated from the inne, \ hallway by a bigh icon rating. ‘Phe floor iw laid with b, we and While marils tiles aud the coiling frescood in green, White and rose pink, while the walls are dogorated with ch te panelling. To the righo And leit wre two spacious b offices, while light is avfomded the expectant Lundreds® awaiting the openiag of tls door by soveral magnificent broad chandaliors. Tee INNER VENTINOLE. The flooring of the inner vestibule covered with matting, the celling frescoed alik@ahat of the outer venti bule, while large mirrors alternate with the paneiliags of the walls, which bear attegerion! figures of the seasons Bronze chandeliers similar in oppearance and location those already describe? vast Lybt gpow the « Jes (han Ofty jets being equired for she proper illumi mation of the two hallways. THE se DIORTOM. Thive wide doors, with wrchet and glazed bead divided Uy pilustors with Ionic capitals, agin (le erowd into dhe aeditorium proper} although the div taner be twoon these doors and the lest row of Heat justify a seennd title of incer “vestitule and loft of the entrance are lary (ovtor—The Siage of ¥ the Opens or ant plendors ae, we To heads, aad aw immense squere place de vente, wet at angle some fifteen feet abere the gromm tlooy, ond directly fagimg the epottators at they reflecting thete = counteparos#” = (mone & siomll marble fountain, previded with asilvoe drink ing cups, awaite the temperance than) while largo register gives warmil (o the dnfortinates wher 9 brief sojourn in the outer vewitivules hay rounded of the departure of summer. The paneMtng and (resoota of the walls amd ceiling do not differ omseutintty frout those vivcady alluded to, Passing on, them, wpectueor, without further interference on the part of box offiow, doors of railings, will enter the precinets of comety aut tragedy, and imspect the accammodatons ™ the ae diir rium. THE GROUND FLOOR, The rer de chaweds ix divided Into pamyyet and orenoe tra, the fautewsis being reached by Uiree spaciow aéslon passiug. through the rows of wats. Tho'foor of the par quet is matted, while that of the orchentira me beavtiy carpeted, The seate tn the f@mmer part of the hours ave cushioned with light crimson dainask, aud seperated The in number, The rows of bench ® in te parquet wilt The headquart rm of the musicians are-separated from those of the public by a balastrade, with white aud gold balusters, and the flooring is sunken soma telve mehow below tho level of the parquet THE FIRST BALCONT, oe 7 . . one row of balcony chairs, about fifty im number, placed direotly im front, and kept apart (rom the seats by # low partition, the other accommodations serving for three hundgod and fifty spectators, The seats aro separated from each other by trun railings, ax those of the parquet and upper tier, and are cushioned with crimson daimay\ variegated with stripes of a golden hue. THK SECOND BALCONY ‘The upper balcony tier ia reached by stairways leading, from. the lower tier, to which It iy preeively similar in oll respects, the rates of admiamon beiug (he same as thore paid by the occupants of the latter, The acoomeods tious are fully equal in excetlence, and the emp da! ovor the staged house is quite as watiefuctory THE PROSCENIUM BORK There are four prosceniam boxer—two 40 bie felt twotothe loft There ts mo exaggeration in the - ment that the tenants will enjoy a more pertect view of the anditoriam and mimic world tam could be ot tained in any of the lager in other theatres, The wrth rant ine mit + vevluet 1G BLOOMING CHIE sed ua winge ob le 5 Mr Guernsey baw the theatr’, and to sis of the work the ith erty man; Mona, Philippe costar had sole his constant attention to all the « padlic is indebted for the promp! or. charge of tho remodelling which tue | house is rendy for oceupation The upholsterning was confided to Mossrs. Wellmore & Joves, the carpeting to Me. HO. Farrell, the larger part of the decorations | to Mosra. Wheeler & Booth, aud the iNamimating fos\urem to Mr. Thomas Carter, all these non paw forming their tavky im a bighly @re@ table mauner, Av staved Love, the heatre will be Gitewa oped on blouday even a" when our nM wud: caders will be able to pars 1's new Broadway ewtablint “ Theatce Francah- pion performance’ of the vening at the Academy of ye cam fast The house wax very fully and fashionably atte The Oret picee given wax La Ligne Droite, #@harming comedy proverb which we bi wren played by the company of Mile, Rachel Mad , who filled the rofe that Madame Sarah Felix used (o play, snvtained it with the grace and distinction of manner (hat clare torize all the efforts of that charming comedienne She was oxceileutly supported by MM. Genty and Row seas, both talented and conscientious artiste Tho success, Les Domestiques Peints par Bromine Mite. Votel, Mme Bergeon, and Mesars Chol, veligne, Harndorf, Edmond and Rousseau sustaining pal characters. As the ttle indicates, the piece Wa French version of High Life Below Stairy is is full of ludicrous situations, and was reapectably played, Mite the princi Potel winning as usual a large share of the hovers Ow Wodnerdsy next Victorieu Sardou's comedy, Ls Inomen, will be given by request, Mo Larmet making tiv remeré on the oecaston NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. The Callfornia Legisiatare—The Cashicr ff the Sub-Treaeury at 2 Defaalier to t ‘TiNe Francisco Amount of Thirty and Dollars=-Mining Stocks, &. Sacmameyro, Cal, Jao 9, 100 Yr Horily of (he Henale Judiciary Committee have reported favors Wilt coponting the mpecific con tract law, The majority are oned to ie repeat Haw Fravaeco, Jan 1 160 Wm Mackey? cashier of (ue Sub-Preasury here, wa defauiter to th Ya iount of thirty thowand duila Toe gov at wilFtane Hothiag Major Henate former'y pre mt Bie Navigation Conspany ded Baw Puascrwe tod thet « rehewriog bo 1 tho cane inv ols ag Ue | 4 from Boston, arrived hero law fax Fuasceten, Jan 19) 1860 6 City wast fr Pana to day sure, of whtet 8026, 878 by foe MeLaughtin tar dren armedod q tmplicated im the rob fhett payaromer, at wan wea ty Uae plore Waday recobackes 700. tnd aw Faasenco, Cal, Jao 13, 1a niyads birtter — Sas ay, and Corry, $880, Pap ceamer Lamenete: arccred at Bone h of Ieoombar Temoluiu Amore whaleality Onward ome a Or unee Serth German weao ts om en tnt pe The Gew Brotee steemah ip Hermann belo iag to the North German Lieyd’s @ioe, svled fre youter.my for Breusen. Val of the Hermann wo gave a dencriptinn uf the ve Sut we may howe wiatethet the: main saloon te vene with birds cyemople, tm Gat monidings, gut up Ur ex cabin, KtaOwing room, peutry, wtih ihe enbin, wrond wulonw 9 tur focthe comfort of parsengers modat Gve hundesd persons with & sufficiency of trestle sirnad ig, and w sanity seceanl We fromm the deck thie port The \ercond day after the ant a reed with romewood! nod Meat tate The iadine’ comveced The oT hy eer he sto raye oan acco Hermann hae eee bait wit bh thr beat materia T rere ar Me eno by wll him; Ciel Raguseer, Joseph ¥ Fait” on. Oe Os Doma W. Sel vreiter: Obier Coon, a oe A Roon.—Ward's Ledtes’ Paper Catiace aw vR ALSO GF NTH’, whgdeasirend rv 40f otter sent free tothe irede, with Mat 46 prion. reo ty lee WO WARD, 37 Broedereg, ST sro handsomely decorated with drab and gold paperon, | 8 atte tne | Conaplertom. | Use And the floors comfortably carpeted, the dewantur: being | GLOMOL, W RALRDes bin ON TOUEES ty Ness caob oned with crimson velvet, aud bawg with #ilaen domask and luce curtains. Access is obtained to the upper aul lower proscenium boxes by private wose lending from the front of the parquet THE PROMOENIOM The prowenium, which ehh to Be adioniced Be ity clogant clinplisity and the averdauce af tawdry chery end moulding, compriver, it may ba ratd, » contrak por tion and two wings, these wings Uetng semi cipoular ond thus affording a better view of (he honne and stage The comtral portiow of the to the owners of the boxes prosccniom {6 surmouyted by @ pediment, from te repire of which stamis forth acngved head, whnie the ipper member is surmounted by tour cupid eo dior ot and © central ornament on fama: Helow directly above the-dirmpery of tha cartale 4 on the other aititudes, ped mer tea aniold bearing the “ere nnd Stetpes, uite float the Eoglioh, French wna American, M Ate wings ore murmounted by a Yalaxtrade, forming « rer) ircle, and bearing buste @md a vows, The pitaeters, balasters, meds Minne snd paneling the proscenium combine the peereiling #biteand gold sad | are adorned with a numb spot neat bits of oruamental moun TH STAGE, C CHTAIN AND MH ENRAY The stage hax been widened and ceepened Sunken foothighta have bee mdopted, and “Vight ladders” w | nord The cortes tally dispense? with, the Hhakeperan (eminated by mer ae at “borders Mr recimew Jotn Thorwe, art « oxrelinwt Ut repr mente a hage piece 0 and go 24 fringes shove and below, and ©) Aly be g roaily admired by the appreciative The Arép curtain lat ga yet completed, bat will suortiy be ta | rextiness, The geynery is entirely new, sod number of O2¢ piently painted vate, Bewide located wart p reperty, carpenter and servers t fording fue (aciities in Whe gelon J tae pay green @ » Tae DHCORATIONN OF THR HY The 40 gyntious, viewed ats « ao sunple extreme 4 Guid and white are the proveliioe © Seater pillars supporting tie Lars, the wold balurtred euro ving them, A the mouldings and ortem ote the ails, and prosesmiams being of uniform «haste o te snece The walle are freeset to light vole © peg the haw of most of thepaneiiage = 7 ' be suditoriam ts freyoard wo green, Dury inedallions, besring ornau: lorated at east of the corners of io the mide of which » 1 Lip renews ive stmvowp here of the house eurpay treme | That the public Ws not atone fa teins pro proper eccominotation ix dem matrated by & visit | rowing paoms of the artiste, who are furniehet spacious epartenrvate for woilet parpanes, A privale stair ¥, whieh ie only to be geet stoold ow aterm of Ore be wremdad, gives egress on Crowey eirent, white the entle can bs cleared of tte oreupto' on the Broadway mde, by the maim ealramor, #5 nen wtiver Vow fat of \ue conan. THE PEneons Is CHARGE. ‘The genttemes a of (he nem teers dewerre the thanks of play gorre for Uvete lateors im tate babel ey foe ws Tue bows, (baat, io thelt eforta, Wil he ready for (he | eaten «i orvanly tevtity ther apprecmtme « | the mecemmetel rowwit Of thelt exertions The nemer of | the oftictabs Wh) = MAlert What, manager, Ramert (ol | FAs tenoner’ ay ie, whee monager, HA Beker, care Terr Temammhers, thes) director Retmrt wat, (ari Geeraey, echo, 8 OO Peer” fiw te wey | Wieenehe Gepet 16 Grand etree Bently Marhtme, rh es Tors dine, 33" At Pottet & Son's, Mecrechomm Manw- CaS eT teal coe waaay eae Dt Hae Kreatwng Pond, VST Kee- tee in ty OG order A (hence fer Be. Ac TUE GRRAT BA All Legal Lottery # are 0d boformme thon a J.B, CLAYTON, M0 Wall stoner Le Dye.=The Mest im the ie ond instoot Theenty foot Dye Aleo Mt satiny Wie Reaee, corr ee and restares the betr woreet, Mem Vert. 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