The New York Herald Newspaper, September 2, 1866, Page 4

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ACADEMY OF MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway, (California Minstrels).—Sincing, Dances anD Erurorian BuRLEs@uns. Ecigza Janu Get Back. . TONY PASTOR'S OPERA fOUSE, 201 Bowery.—Camic VooaLism—Neoro | MinstRaLST, Baiar Divertissement, 4&c.—Tae Devit's Brorser. CHARLEY WHITE'S COMBINATION TROUPE, at Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broadway—Ix a Vanwery or Licut nD Lavowaste Hnrearainexts, Corrs py, Batuxt, &c. Stace Sravck CudmpanmatD. EY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Eratoriax Mis- HOOL! qramsy, Bavans, Bunvusques axn Pastowiues. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY. 618 Broadway. — Laocrones with tae Oxy-Hrprocey Microscorx twice no kay awp Riout Arm or Proast. Open from 3 4. Mun 10 P.M. SUNDAY (THIS) EVENING—Gagann Sacuen Conceny at Fevwa Hatt, Irving place. New York, Sunday, September, 2 1866. : EUROPE. Our special correspondents in Europe report through the Atlantic cable news from Russia, Italy, Bavaria and Prussia, dated to the evening of the 8st of August. We have intelligence from England and France to the Ist of September, with the financial, commercial and marine reports of yesterday. ‘The Bavarian Chambers rejected the motion for a anion with Prussia. ‘The Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt refuses the peace treaty and the Prussian rearrangement pian. Ausiria is to complete the evacuation of Venetia on the 6th of September. ‘The Czar of Russia reserves to bimself liberty of ac- tion with respect to the question of a European Congress. ‘Three batteries of British artillery have been despatched to Quebec, and the Cabinet in London is giving ‘‘serious’’ attention to the Fenian attitude towards Canada. The London Zimes recommends retorm of the Eng- lism neutrality laws, so that foreign Powers may be held to “strict account” if their subjects violate thera. Consols closed in London at 893, for money yester- fay. United States five-twonties were at 73!;. The Liverpool cotton market was dull yesterday. Middling aplands closed at 139d. Rreadetuffs were doll, with prices unchanged at the close. Provisions were more rm and upward. THE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR. Auburo waa lively with music and fireworks all through the night of Friday in honor of the distin- gtished visitors who had halted there for the evening. Rariy yesterday morning the party took the train for the Falls, At Cayuga, Seneca Falls and Goneva the waual popular demonstrations were made. At Clifton Springs, the sister and two sons of Stephen A. Douglas wore received on board on their way to Chicago. At Canan- daigua where Douglas was educated and commenced the atudy of law, a grand reception awatted the party. At Rochester they were escorted to Congress Hall, where a eapital collation was partaken of, and an address of wet- ‘come was made by the Mayor and responded to briefly by the President. 41 Brockport, Albionand Medina simitar huge demon- strations were made, although the time allowed for excl was too short $0 satisfy the popular masses rasembtnd. At Lackport quite ag extensive demonstration was qetten up, the usual adiiress of weloome being delivered ead responded to by the President. Oa reaching Niagara Falls ho waa escorted to the Ine ternational Hotel, and deliverod a short addres from the balcony to a demonstrative crowd assembled in the vicinity, Mr. Seward also inado a speech, in which he said that President Johnson was being abused @ present just as President Lincola was immediately Prior to bie assassination. Ia the evening a bail was ‘Fron by the proprietor of the ote! to the party, which yred a grand affair. Tho President was, however, una- to attend. THE CITY. ‘The mortuary report for this city for the week eading at two P. M. yesterday, gave the number of doa!ti« beiow vix hundred and fifty, There were three new cases and seven deaths from cholera reported yestertay. The teports from Brooklyn yesterday show a continued abate- ment of the cholera in that city. Wo pndlish this morning additional particulars in tegard to the Nassau bank defaleation. It is state? that the amount abstracted by the paying teller of the bank George H. Briggs, will pot exceed $61,000, and the loss to the bank A siatemont from the President of the bank !/kcwise appears in our columaus ‘The cave of L. M. Montgomery against General Santa Anna caine up again yesterday before Judge Barnard in Chambers of the Supreme Court. A motion is now mare to vacate the order of arrest granted against de fondant in the prevent sai’. Montgomery claime to have been the agent of Santa Auna in lis iatest Mexican scheme, and now ask® $25,000 for services rendered. During the reeding of the afidavits Judge Bernard handed an anonytous letter to counsel which he tad feoeived offering him 4 bribe incase he devermined the questions before Bim in favor of Santa Anna, At the Surrogate’# Court, Brooklyn, the will of Ellen McCann, of that city, Was admitted to probate Letters Of administration were gianted in the estates of Phittp W. Lowery, of the village of New Utrecht; Mary E Nosbitt, of Ftatbush; Serah Murphy, Julia A. Control, Maria H.C. Hanson, James Roloy, Poter Borgner, Frank Shaffer, Jr., Jeromiab Ju R. Fitch, Josiah 1. MeCutcheon, George Aanolman, Helena EB Qrahite, Henry Maas, Johu PF Maas, James Doulan Fiten Sullivan, Maré Alpas, Daniot Clark, Joseph BR. Rollinaon and John Glassey, all of Brooklyu. The stock market was higher and closed firm yestor ay. Governments were firm in the morming. but after wards became heavy, Gold closed at 146%, with aa up ward teadency. Business way dal! yesterday, and comparatively little waa doue either in foreign or domestic merchandise Coffée was steady. Cotton was quiet Shear was meady. On Change choice and low grades of tour were dull and scarcely so firm. Wheat was 2. ade. lower Coru declined 6, While ont advagoet Ic 2. vader NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER. 2, 1566. aa improved demand. Pork opened firmer and active, | tough job in swallowing the iron-clad test oath. butclosed dull and heavy. Beef was steady. Lard was | ang now, dul, Froights dull and nominal. Whiskey unchanged, Petroleuw was steady. MISCELLANEOUS. In another column will be found a highly interesting letter from our special Nova Scotia correspondent, who describes the remarkaine discoveries made by treasure seekers at Oak Island, N.S) Many years ago, when the entire Eastern coast was explored by seekers for Captain Kidd’s treasure, some men discovered upon an umobab- ited island traces of the white man, aud upon pushing their discoveries further they found that a shaft bad been sunk into the earth and filled up, For overs cen- tury joint stock companies have been at work sinking shafts and sunnelling under the island in hopes of striking the bottom of the pit; but the sea water has in- variably rushed ip and driven the workmen out. A few years ago the mouth of a tunnel, running from the sea under the island, was discovered, which, it is supposed, admita the water. The company now operating are building a dam to shut the water o@, and feel confident of success in obtaining the treasure, At a distance of one hundred feet down pleces of barrels, oak boxes, grass peculiar to the Spanish main aud subterranean chambers have been struck, which the water prevented them exploring. ‘The delegates to the Radical Convention at Philadel- phia are arriving quite freely at that place. Several gentlemen of color are present with imposing creden- tials, and Fred Douglass ts anxiously expected. Fero- cious handbills, detailing the wrongs of Southern Union- ists of all complexions illuminate all the dead. walls of the city, A meeting preliminary to the grand occasion was heid yesterday, when Governor Brownlow, John M. Palmoys, Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, and others advocated negro suffrage and vilified the President. Goy, Wells, of Louisiana, has determined to raise a militia force composed entirely of persons who were not connected in any way with the revel army. The force will be composed of both black and white troops. They are mainiy intended to keep order during the coming elections. There were two deaths from cholera in Cincinnati and twenty-two in New Orleans on Friday. Sixteen deaths were reported yesterday in Memphis, Head Contre Stephens addressed a large meeting in Cleveland last night, He said that he was afraid the Trish were fighting in Ireland now, being tired of wait- ing for belp from this couniry. An attempt was made by some of the Roberts faction to create a disturbance; but the police secured order and suppressed the dis- turbers, The Canadian militia at Thorold were to have been ro- viewed yesterday. Another gunboat has been purchased for duty on Canadian waters, This will make eight war vessels doing duty on the iniand waters of Canada. The breech loading American rifle to be purchased is the Peabody patent. Mr. Harlan’s resignation as Secretary of the Interior having taken effect yesterday, Mr. Browning was ac- cordingly sworn in. ‘The United States steamer Rhode Island arrived at Halifax on Thursday, with Rear Admiral Paimer on board. The Radicals in Congress—Laat Chance for the Preservation of the Republican Party. We believe that all sensible men in the republican ranks are pretty thoroughly con- vinced by this time that the signs of the times portend no good to their party, and most of them find no difficulty in tracing effect to cause. When the Thirty-ninth Congress opened its session on the first Monday in December last the people of the country at large—North and South, East and West—felt that the hour of compensation for the evils of a four years’ war had at last arrived, and that in a firmer and healthier bond of Union than had previously existed the republic had taken a new lease of existence, and was about to enter on a career. of greatness and prosperity unparalleled in history. Everything seemed auspicious. Such of the recently rebellious States aa had held con- ventions had their constitutions so as to recognize the emancipation proclamation, disavow the principle of secession and repudiate all responsibility for the rebel debt, whether State or Confederate. Noth- ing more could have been reasonably de- manded from a people who but a few months before were waging war for slavery and State rights. Allevidence concurred in showing that, however humiliated at their defeat, the people of the South were honestly and conscientiously resolved to abide by the arbitrament of the sword, as they termed it and to conduct themselves in future as thoroughly loyal citizens of the republic. It only remained for Congress to have abolished— as it should have done the very. first day of its session—the test oath, facetiously styled “ the iron-clad,” and to have admitted all who pre- sented themselves duly accredited as Senators and Representatives. We think we are justified in saying that the country expected this to be done and that it has great cause to regret that it was not done. We think we may also assert that a large proportion, if not a majority, of republican Senators and Representatives were individually in favor of, and would gindly have supported, that programme. Unfortunately, however, it so happened that ‘the man who was charged with the bitterest malignity ead most unrelenting hatred to the people of the South was at the same time the man who, by his great talent as a political leader, possessed a controlling influence over Congress. Of course we refer to Mr. Stevens, of Pennayl- vania, In a party caucus held before the House was organized he laid down and en- forced the adoption ,of his programme, the spirit of which was to treat the Southern States as ao much conquered territory, entirely at the mercy of the conquerer, and entitled to no rights save such as Congress might see fit in‘ its sovereign discretion to extend to them. That course was pursued in both houses. There bad been no attempt to organize the conservative republicans or to make any de- termined resistance to this destructive policy. That was sad mistake. President Johnson and Secretary Seward should not have yielded the field without making every effort to com- bine the conservative element of both parties and to make an obstinate stand against the radicals. But no resistance was made; the field was abandoned without a contest, and a joint committee was appointed, styled, as if in mockery, the Committee on Reconstruction, when its sole and only object was to prevent reconstruction. All the reports made by it to Congress were designed to render impossible the practical reunton of the States, even going so far as to require the late rebel States to decree the disfranchisement of their own white citizens who participated in the rebellion— meaning the whole white male adult popule- tion—and to enfranchise, and thereby give the political control of their State goveraments to, the negroes. In these wicked and unfortunately success. ful efforts to frustrate and render barren the achievements of our army and navy the ses- sion of eight long months passed away, every month adding to the bitterness and discontent of the South, and widening the breach between the sections more than the continuance of ac- tual war would have done. Within a week of the adjournment the State of Tennessee was declared admitted, with Senators and Represen- tatives. some of whom. at least, had a terribly so far as Congress is concerned, the restoration of the Union practically appears more remote than when the rebel lines were within gunshot of the federal capital. It was in vain that our patriotic Presidvat discharged with judgment and good sense tie duties of his high office. Congress felt itself omnipotent, and acted as if it were, and the President nar- rowly escaped impeachment and deprivation of office because he dared to disagree with such omnipotence, And now where stand wet If the policy of Congress is to be endorsed by the people at the coming elections, then, indeed, we may abandon all hope of seeing the States consoli- dated into a republic, one and indivisible. Will the people endorse it? We hope not. We believe not. It may be that the republican party will have a con- trolling majority in the next Congress; but we think it will be # majority that will be no more overpowering. The people are deeply disappointed with the present condition of public affairs, and want to see peace and har- mony between all sections re-established. -The trinmphal procession of President Johnson is daily winniag over to his sensible policy thou- sands who belere were opposed to it. Let him continue and extend his tour and the effect will be beyond all estimate. Not only will its effect be great on the approaching elections, but we should not be surprised to see it pro- duce a converting influence on the republican members of the present Congress. It may not yet be too late for them to save their party. Let the conservative republicans, warned by the signs of the times, go to work, organize an opposition, take into it the conservative demo- crats, undo thoroughly the destructive work of the last session, get control of the fortieth Congress, and taking up General Grant as their candidate for the Presidency, they may yet be able to save their party, and at the same time save the country. Rev. H. W. Beecher—The Great Champion of the Church Militant with the Administra- tion. The letter which we publish this morning from the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on the all- absorbing question of Southern restoration is an eloquent, strong and convincing argument in support of President Johnson’s policy. Con- sidering, too, that Mr. Beecher was the great champion and apostle of the Northern church militant during the late rebellion—when it is remembered that he was the advocate of the rifle in behalf of squatters’ rights and human freedom, in that dark and bloody overture to the rebellion, the territorial border-ruffian war in Kansas—when we recall the important mis- sfonary labors of Mr. Beecher in. England in behalf of the Union cause, as the cause of universal Wperty and of popular rights the world over, we can hardly exaggerate the value of his example and his influence in behalf of the restoration policy of President Johnson. The religious Union elements of the North, fn ® compact body, formed the Macedonian phalanx of the government in the prosecution of the war. The pioneer church corps, under Beecher and Cheever, marched side by side with the abolition skirmish line of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. With the abolition of slavery officially proclaimed as constitutionally accomplished, Garrison, triumphant from his long and fearful con- flict, tcok off his armor, sounded the recall from the battlefield and gracefully retired with the honors of the war. Phillips, on the other hand, proclaimed a new Northern political crusade againat the vanquished South—the new radical crusade of Southern exclusion from the government until negro suffrage and negro equality, political and social, shall be estab- lished North and South. Cheever, in support of this crusade, joins in the new war-cry of Phillips; but Beecher, wiser in his day and generation than most of his cloth of the late abolition Holy Alliance—wiser and more practical than most of his puritan brother- hood, bravely, manfully, and with the ring of the true metal of Christian faith, hope and charity, comes forward, pleading for the im- mediate restoration to Congress of the ex- cluded Southern States. His voice, in vindication of the President's policy, will ring among the religious Union war circles of the North like a clarion. They cannot fail to hear it, and, hearing, they cannot fail to respect it. He speaks like a siatesman who thoroughly comprehends the crisis and sees his way clearly before him. He speaks like a patriot thoroughly convinced ‘end thoronghly in earnest. “He says that “our theory of government has no place for a State except in the Union;” and who can gainsay this broad and comprehensive assertion? He says that had Congress moved faster in admit- ting loyal Southern members into both houses, “the public mind of the South would have been far more healthy than it is, and those States which lingered on probation to the last would have been under a more salutary in- fluence to good conduct than if a dozen armies watched over them ;” that every month’s delay im this matter still more and more com- plicates the case—that “the army becomes,” by this policy of exclusion, “ indispenssble to local government, and supersedes it;” and that as things go on in this way “the govern- ment at Washington is called to interfere in one and another difficulty,” often inaptly and sometimes with great injustice. Is not all this as true as the Gospel? And is it not likewise true, as Mr. Beecher contends, that “the federal government is unfit to exer- cise minor police and local affairs of govern- ment, and will inevitably blunder when it attempts it?” And with a single brush or two of his constitutional broom, mark how he sweeps away these cobwebs and raw heads and bloody bones, so fearfal to the radicals—these fancied dangers to the country—in the event of a new party coming into power, “made up of Southern men and the hitherto misled and dishonored democracy of the North.” Admitting that such @ transfer of power will follow the overthrow of the radi- cals, Mr. Beecher, like a statesman whose phi- losophy keeps pace with the progress of ideas, contends that there will be nothing to fear— that “the war has changed not alone institu- tions, but ideas,” that “the whole country has advanced,” that “public sentiment has ad. vanced far beyond what it bas been at any former period,” and that, in short, demagogues, factioniats, and destructives, North and South, have lost the power for mischief which they heretofore have possessed, In this view he very naturally hears “with wonder and shame and scorg, the fear of a few, that the South, subdued, helpless, and impoverished, against the mighty North, will yet, if restored to the government, rule tiis nation.” But as every paragraph of this admirable letter is suggestive of a volume of amplifica- tions, we refer the reader for the connected argument of the writer to the letter itsslf It ig an argument which, even in bebalf of the poor freedman, must carry conviction to thou- sands who have thus far joined in the radical cry of derision and mockery against President Jobnson, as “the Moses” of the emancipated blacks. The signs of an approaching political revolution on every hand are multiplying; and when such a leader of the religious elements of the North, identified with the war for the Union, as Henry Ward Beecher comes to the rescue, we may rejoice that the right wing of the radical army is already broken. Spiritualism and the Religious Movements of the Day. The Spiritualists have recently hada national convention at Providence, Rhode Island. To the uninitiated aceptic their proceedings were the incoherent jabberings of a lunatic asylum; but President Pierpont (the poct) tells us a' different story. The fat and substantiat brother Joslin welcomed the delegates as “infidels to old creeds and dogmas that have cursed the world,” but the patriarch Pierpont, with his abounding faith, objected to the term infidel. It is spirit that moves everthing. The ultimate motive power of the world is spirit. All change comes from spirit; the spirit is the the man, living or dead in the body, all the same. He believed that in the spirit world he would still communicate with his friends on earth, and know all about them. He knew that from his conversations with the spirits of the departed—of his wife and his father. He was going into the spirit world to meet other spirits; and he believed that there he should continue his communications with his friends on earth, This platform from the President of the con- vention may be considered official; and from other revelations by high mediums their power embraces the healing of the sick by the old apostolic mode of the imposition of hands; and there is no purgatory, no hell fire for sin- ners, but things go on in the spirit world pretty much as if this,even to liquors and tobacco, only in a much higher state of devel- opment. Asa Spiritualist in the dross of the body, however, the brother Henry T. Childs, of Philadelphia, said he “could take hold of a brother and go right through him, and see right through him,” and he ‘liked the free love of Spiritualism, though he seemed to think the outside world could not understand it. Such, from the idluminati of this convention, are the faith, the works, and the manifest des- tiny of Spiritualism. It is comparatively a new thing, started some eighteen years ago, and its believers now, and especially among the practical Yankees, are numbered by thou- sands. This may seem very strange; but in this Spiritualism we have only another effort of the human mind, in its gropings in the dark, to reach some more satisfactory religious faith than the sceptic, enthusiast or monomaniac can find in the Christian, or Mahometan, or Brah- minical, or Chinese or Fetish African dogmas ‘of the day. Throughout the Christian world since Luther’s reformation the spirit of free thought and free inquiry has resulted in divisions and sub- divisions of the Protestants without number, and this work is still going on, and especially in this country. Hence the remark of the dis- gusted French traveller that “the Americans are a strange people. They have three hun- dred and sixty-five religions and only one gravy.’ In Continental Europe; on the other hand, in spite of the strength among the masses of the faith of Mother Church, we see that Vol- taire and the French Goddess of Reason have multiplied their followers on every side. Hence the weakness of the Holy Father and the rebellious spirit of his religious and tem- poral subjects, even in the clty of Rome. In fact, whether we look to the Catholic Church in Europe or to the Protestant sects in the United States, we see that Christianity, like everything else, is ina transition state. That extraordinary French enthusiast Rénan, in his Life of Jesus, appears to have made a power- ful diversion at this juncture on the Continent in favor of a new interpretation of the Christian faith. In England, from the Puseyite detection fromthe State creed and the contumacious Dr. Colenso and his defenders, it would appear that there is a reaction going on from the English baok to the Romana Charch. In Ire- jand the old “irrepressible conflict” between the Orangemen and the Catholics seems to be absorbed in the new political Fenian question— the Catholic clergy being mostly with the British government, while their flocks are fol- lowing James Stephens, 0. 0.1. R. What is to be the general result to Christianity from all these disturbing causes? We cannot divine. Perhaps some new prophet, with a new reve- lation and illumination, may arise from this confusion, and, like Mahomet, draw the third part of the world after him, with some new, simple and sublime idea. Perhaps all these religious perturbations may result in a change as gradual but as radical as that of Rome from the Greek mythology to the New Testament, from the Roman augurs and Sibylline leaves to the twelve apostles and the Sermon on the Mount Meanwhile, from the religious freedom es- tablished in this country, with its popular in- stitutions, here we may expect new systems, new dogmas and new teachers in religion, from generation to generation. Fourrierism has been tried and found wanting; Mormonism, in a distant and secluded corner, has marvel- lously prospered, but it cannot much longer survive the pressure of the Gentiles, even in Utah. The divisions of our Protestant sects, which had much to do with the late bloody Southern rebellion, have not been healed by the return of peace. The Catholic Church, compact and united, on the other hand, “giving to Cesar the things which are Cwsar’s, and to God the things which are God's,” has prospered in this land, and is prospering, as if here, transplanted from ita disturbers in the Old World, it had taken & new lease of life; while in Mexico and in South America it is evidently falling into decay. These facts show that in religion, as in politics, an active and vigilant opposition is essential to « healthy organization. But what is to be the destiny of the new faith of Spiritualism? Crude, foolish and fraudulent as it now ap- peare, may there not be something in it bevond the reach of reason and philosophy? At all events, the religious world, like the political world, in both hemispheres, is full of the ele- ments of agitations, innovations and changes, and from these disturbing elements Chris tianity, Protestant and Catholic, is evidently on the road to some new and wonderful reforms. Another Bank Embezzlement—Who is Re- aponsible ® The case of George H. Briggs, paying teller of the Nassau Bank, as reported in the Heratp of yesterday, reads almost like a romance. For some time past the officers of the bank seem to have been aware that some one of their employés was robbing them, and they even traced the defalcations to the Clear- ing House Department. Unable to ascertain who was the guilty party, they fixed upon a young man named Affick, because he was the most recent of their attachés,and intimated to him that he had better resign his position, which he did. The defalcations still continued, however; but the bank officials appear to have been satisfied with what they had done’ in re- gard to Mr. Affick, and affairs drifted along | without anybody being further disconcerted. In the meantime some of the detective po- licemen noticed that a gentlemanly peréon was in the habit of frequenting the gambling houses along Broadway. How the detectives happened to know where the gambling houses are, and why they do not break up these in- stitutions since they have this knowledge, we shall not pause to inquire. At any rate, the detectives observed the person in question, and upon making certain inquiries about him they were informed that his name was Briggs, that his business was that of paying teller in the Nassau Bank, and that he had been losing very large sums of money. Although the detectives did not know that the bank was being robbed, they very wisely thought it their duty to inform the President of the discoveries they had made. The Presi- dent at once jumped to the conclusion that the losses of the bank and the gambling operations of Briggs were inti- mately connected, and consequently Briggs was arrested. Being in custody he at once confessed: his crime, thus vindicating Mr. Affick, who now learns, for perhaps the first time, the reason why he was advised to resign his situation. The losses of the bank are re- ported to be between fifty and one hundred thousand dollars. Briggs had almost un- limited control over the funds, and the re- porter states that the confidence reposed in him as paying teller was so great that he was enabled to abstract from $500 to $5,000 at every haul without exciting suspicion. ‘This narrative gives us a pretty picture of the manner in which business is conducted in our financial institutions. We hold that the President and directors of the baak are di- reotly responsible for Briggs’ embezslements. With the Windsor and Jenkins cases before them, they cannot complain that they have not been amply warned of the dangers to which they were exposed. Yet when they ascertain that the funds are being embezzled by seme- body they do not institute any rigid investi- gation, but are satistied to dismiss a young man against whom there is.omo ground of suspicion except the newness. of his con- nection with the bank. All this’ while, too, they leave the paying teller in « position in which he can steal any amount ot money with- out their knowledge. What ordinary mercan- tile establishment is conducted in this loose way? What merchant is so careless as to give his employés the opportunity to rob him of $100,000 without detection? These things only occur in a bank which is chartered especially to take care of money. Had it not been for the accidental observation of the police, Briggs might have gone on embezzling for years, until his one hundred thousand doi- lars became a million. How many more men of his stamp are engaged in the same sort of operations in other banks it is impossible to say. After every case of embezzlement we have urged the bank officers to make thorough investigations; but they will not listen to good advice. The presidents strut about and do nothing ; the directors meet once a month and do nothing, and by and by the cashier or teller runs off with the funds, and all con- cerned are greatly astonished. We are only surprised that with such splendid opportani- ties the detalcations are not more aumerons. Some fine day one of our great banks will fail through those robberies, a score or two of merchants will be ruined anf a number of widows and orphans reduced to beggary; amd then, perhaps, we aball have an outburst of popular indiguation and a complete reform. Tur Crown in Broapway.—A great deal of inconvenience is occasioned by the constaat throng during the business portion of the day in that portion of Broadway below the City Hall Park, Drays, oyster carts, omnibuses and other vehicles are constantly running into each other, smashing up things generally. The few policemen who are stationed in that neighborhood are generally looking in some other direction, and are either unable to be found, or if at hand look on with perfect indif- ference to these circumstances. Many of the police seem to take greater delight in clubbing some drunken man or other victim whom they have arrested than they do in untangling the jam of carriages that are frequently found in our principal thoroughfares, There are too many men connected with the police force who act as though their whole duty was to use the club over the heads of those whom they arrest. This should be remedied by the Commission- ere, and an additional force be placed on the lower portion of Broadway to prevent the almost constant blockade which exists there and the accidents which are almost every hour occurring, not only to those who are trying to cross the street, but to the vehicles which find themselves bound in by the tbrong. CORONERS INQUESTS. Daata prom Powostna,—A little girl samed Mary Aon Welch, whose parents reside in Sixty-fifth street, near Fifth avenue, died from the effects of poison caused by eating stramonium pods which she picked in an open lot near the house. Coroner Wildey held an inquest on the body and a verdict of death from accidental poisoning 308 renaered by the jury. Fara. Hatcawar Caacatrr.—Coroner Wildey was yesterday called to hold an inquest on the body of John Donobue, a longshoreman, whose death was the result of njuries failing down the batchway of the tientmor Toe Ques, Ing at plor 47 North ever. Drowxen warie Batnixo.—About two o'clock yoster day afternoon » lad eight years of age, named Jona MoBride, was accidentally drowned while bathing in the dock foot of Beach street, North river. Later in the ee an in The French Thoatre—Miss Lacoste. A meagrely filled auditorium greeted Miss Lacoste af again. Miss Lacoste being fair); ported . Boyd, weed been substituted Prt cas for the Marat foes small, was om- oung tragedienne for the drama, cannot hen doubt [ag eg and must begin to admire her perseverance. The Matinee at Wood’s Theatre. The audieace assembled at Wood's Theatre yesterday afternoon witnessed the performance of the Gipsey drama entitled Flowers jof the §Forest. The fdrama ts in itself @ badly constructed work, and the entire inter- est centred in Starlight Bess, one of she which waa represented by Mise Lio Newton. This and was fri ia a piquant juently= applauded. Mr. Pi - Ward, the beneficiary, formed Fry: part very well, but the other characters in the piece were only tolerable. Prior to the drama the Hanlon brothers ex several of their gymnastic feats, as usual, and Caron and Mile. Angelica amused the audience with a omic c Reopeniag of the Park Theatre, Brooklya. Mrs, F. B. Conway opened the regular (her foyrth) season at the above named establishroent inst night. Since its close the house bas been renovated and re- paired, the scenery retouched and incrested, the stage furniture embellished and everything made to have pleasing cflect. fhe company presents a strong combi- gation of stare and favorites, among the former several newffaces to the Brooklyn public, namely :—Mrs, Chariog Henri, Miss Alice Benodict, Mr. L. E. Saviile, Mr. Loulé Mestayer and Mr. E. Lamb. The opening piece was the popular comedy entiltled Everybody's Friend, the characters by (De Boots) Mr. Lamb, (Felix Featherly) Mr. Saville, (Sirs. Featherly) Viola Barnett, ilcebrook) Mr. Mestayer,(Mre. Swansdown) Mra. Henry, (Mrs. De Boots) Mrs, Howard, When the curtain rose aud before the play proceeded Viola Barrett received a hearty ex 2 gition by the applause of the audience. Im her part she displayed hor usual! care and good taste, for which she is proverbially known. Mra. Henry madoe good impression io her character, and will no doubt be @ favorite with the patrons of the Park. She dreasea with taste, hasa clear, sweet voice, and has, what is @ virtue in artists, easy action, without being what ia technwally known us stagy. The bumor, tf not the point of the piece, as is well Known, devolves on De (Lamb) and his charming Aurelia (Mra. Howard). De Boots was capitally represented, as wus repeatediy evinced by the cachiunations of the large audience. At the close of the piece he was encored and mado a short speech.. Mrs. Howard was unexceptionable, The concluding piece was the musical farce of the Loan of « Lover. © musical deparsmeat bas been decidedly improved. Sedgewick and his concertina leadership has: given place to a master violinist, with a good corps of assistauts, To-morrow night Mr. and Mrs, Conway wilt appear in the comedy of tho Love Chase, Several novelties are underlined, and the fair manageress of the Park seems determined to hold fast to the popularity she has so deservedly earned from the Brovklyn public. Opening of the Irving Nall Sacred Concorts. The first concert of the season of 1366 and 1867 took place last night at Irving Hall. This popular place of amusement has been fitted up in astyle surpassing all the manager's previous e“forts, and under the glare of » hundred gaslighis the rich decorations and painting showed to great advantage. This hall will be the prin- cipal musical resort until the magnificent hall of the Mesera, Steinway iscompieted, Last night the following artists appeared :—Miss Kate McDonald, Mr. William Castle, Mr. S. C. Campbell, Master Mollenbauer and Mr. G. W. Colby. The programme comprised some exceilent selections. Miss McDonald's voice is much improved since wo heard her last. There is still a want of breadth f tone und sympathetic e: in ily Dut im freshness, parity and eweetness it rable. Alter epme Mic will en- distinct and expressive as the never sang better than lart ni; tono voice, 60 rich and sonorous, seems to bave im- proved te Bee summer. There is still a nasal twang about it which detracts somewhat from its efficiency; but there is no questioning its power. Now and thea some thrilling and sout touching notes would burst out and convince the audience that uo such other voice exists trained voices, but none to rench the beart like that of 8. C, Campbell. Mr, William Castte di inted us somewhat, Inthe opera and the concert hall this gea- tleman shows a remarkable contrast. In the opera he throws his whole soa! into the character, and his voice glows with soul and feeling. In the concert hall! hig voice loses the charm be throws around it in the opera. The entire register is sweet, clear, and well but the soul is wanting. He cannot be said to af technically speaking, worse than ordinary, but there something absent. It ia the mere echo of Don Carlos in the Doctor of Alcantara or the disguised King in the Kose of Castile, Still there are some pieces io which be is admirable, In the charming song, *‘ Beware,’ in sen- timental ballads of a certain passionate kind, and ie some operatic duets, his voice warms up to the feeling of the composer. Master Bernard Molle: er, fos @ boy, is @ very good violinist. There is something crude and unfinished about bis style, but he displays considerable taste and a certain capacity for executing dificult violin passages. His best qualities are a ciear and finished tone in andante movements. In rapid pas- sages he is very often completely indistinet. Mr. Colby is an excellent directer, and added considerably to the success of many of the pieces on the programme last night. The best pieces presented to the large audience were the eplendid duet from Betley, and the trio ta Kreutzer's Night in Granada, To-night the same artiste ‘will appear, with the exception of Master Mollenhauer, for whom & more than adequate substitute will be found in the person of Miss Matrida Toedt. These concerts promise to be the most successful of the seas relief to have some rational enjoyment on evening without being obliged to listen to so tanic individual drouing out the hundredth psalm, or undergotng the ordeal of a sermon with atty subbeads. The sailing of the Tragedienuae Aunounced by the Cable. Motame Adelaide Ristor: has enjoyed muay annorere- ‘ments, aud as many pro‘ess.ona! irinmphs, but the gtenéed anzonncement of ali, associated as it is with thegreatest sciontific achievement of the Gge, 1s pub. Yiehed in the Hara.n tis morning, in the shape of ear despatch from Brest by the Atlantic cable, dated yemer. day, reporting the sailing of the great tragedienar with the members of ber company from that port fer New York, in order to full their engagement with Managee Grau Madame Ristori embarked on the French stexmabip Periere yesterday (Saturday) with the other members of the company, numbering forty-five persons, and her suite, She may therefore be iooked for bere about the 12th instant. The season will probably commence in New York oa the 19th instant, the subscription list for New York and Brooklyn opening on the 12tb. Inclading extra oights, Ristori will piay in eighteen performances im this city at the French theatre, and six at the Acad- emy of Music, Brooklyn. “he will appear in her repre- sontations of Medea, Marie Stuart, Elizabetia, and Giuditta, The preparations in the way of <enery, cos tumes, aad stage appointments, are nearly completed by Mr. Grau, MALITARY AFFAIRS. Tar Usexorsen Motis.—An der similar to the following bas been issued from the office of tho Adjutant General of the State, directed to the colonels of the dif. ferent regiments. The officers of the State National Guard are to command the unuuiformed militia which are to parade on the 3d instant — SPECIAL ORLRRA—NO. 13. Mh RTERS, GaN Y feanacat 4 Apniane, he a 2” Tn compliance with the Stute law, commandants of batteries of thi ot are ordered to notify all = lable ‘o cinery duty io tare respective v mostra pieces officers, comm: Tantoned and_-non-eotm "paras to encore The following order tas armory. eencias onsen, ‘The members of D and H Companies are berehy ordered " wh “ se apeaee se Watney Tepeabier hut are ay to receive G Company on their from Heastyate, om, camer. Mem' giver companion saviet iota AM ST SER, Com manding H Company. Exccasiow op TRoor G, Frnev Reorwawt, NO —On Tuss- day oert thir fine company, which i under command of Hamm, will on ao excursion to Rast Now we The ‘sate bas provided officers and men with new equipments, go that they expect to make « respect. able tur out on the occasion. Smaxvape ro Cartaix Sacea, of tea Treo Rearwert, N. G.—On Friday night Captain 8. W Sauer, of company ¢, Third 1. @, was greeted by tas mambers of his company with @renade on the ‘oooasion of his thirty-ainth , The troop wm commanded by First Lieotement Baus