The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1868, Page 4

£ . NEW YORK HE ERALD. proapway AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROTR IETOR. All bustacee or news letters and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yout ‘Bisnawp. § Letters and packages should be properly sealed. + Rejected communications will not be re dutned. - b, az Volume XXXIIL.........ccscesereerssees Ne. 19 BBLIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BUNYAN HALL.<Rrv. Cass, B. Suvrn, on tax “Porn, pera, PrormstaNrism AND Pi "rT; OR THE POPERY PROTESTANTIAM ae Tu jamais or Porsry.” Sirernoon and evening. bs pt) or rae. EasU SRRCwON: .eeQupearien, 70 Zon wr kay. Mosan Diz, D. De catverncon “> “dltunoe OF THE ANNUNCIATION.. pvt ae Rs] D., szvors tuk BRoTuRRHOOD (NUN cuanto.” Evening. CHAPEL OF ey HOLY APOSTLES CRatgers lege.—Rev. ae Cowman (morning), aND ba BS fiowuann, D . (evening), ar te ns CANAL STREET SL peda al CHURCH.—Reyv. ‘David MitcaxLL, on Hovssnowp or Farra."’ Morning. CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rav. Janne B. Dunn (morning), and Twen! eager Anniversary of the Missionary assoclsvion (eve! * CATHOLIC POSTOLIC » CHURCH. Comune oF Tum Evening. Pa HALL.—Mas. Marnarp on “Srimitvatisu.”” “Fara in THE Y aon SEOOND STREF Rev. J. L. Nevins on Cua.” Evening. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 125TH STRBET.— Preaching by Rav. Wuttam T. Basing. Afternoon, FRERSXTERIAN CHURCH. aious CONDITION oF “MASONIC HALL.—Mns, BULLEND (medium) om Spratt DALISM, ' a7. ANN’8 FRER CHUROH,=Rav. 8, F. Houwns mom- ing. Sexvice FoR Duar Moras afternoon. SPIRITUALISTIC CONFERENCE—%5 Bleeck$r street. TAR UPPER CHURCH OF ASCENSION,—Preaching morning and evening. THE PEOPLE'S MEETING.—Discuasion—“How To ‘Save rax Coonrry rrom Existing amp Impxnping Evits."’ TRINITY CHAPEL.—Musicat, Sarvice ann Sxxwox. Bvening. UNIVERSITY, Washington square.—Bisnor Sxow on Reasons rox Exrecting wae SreeDy¥ Arrsakine or OUR LOUD. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yester- day evening, January 18. Messrs. Goorze #rancis Train, Grinnell and Gee, pas- sengers ou board the steamship Scotia, from New York, wore arrested on that vessel at Queenstown by the Irish police, om the 17th inst, on @ charge of Deing active members of the Fenian organi- zation in America. The proceeding produced much excitement all over the United Kingdom. The Duke de Persigny objects to the proposed new press law of France as being too liberal. The King of Sweden opened the Legislative session with a speech, The French Minis- reception of the strongly indicative of an idea of w: ter in Rome attended the New Y: ex-King of Sicily. The Prossian Di railroad loam, ‘The It been defeated on the Consols 92%; for money in London. 72 in London and 76.4 in Frankfort. Cotton advanced 1 of a penuy in Liverpool, middling uplands rating at 7% pence with an excited market, Breadstulfs frmer, Provisions firm. CONGRESS. ~ Yo the House yestorday Mr. Ross, of Illinois, apolo- gized for tis remarks the day previous in reforence to Mr. Farnsworth drawing pay as a brigadier general and ae a member of Congress at the same time, saying that he bad no information of bis colleague having done 0, ‘The House then wont into Committee of the Whole on the Stave of the Union for general debate on the Presi- Gent's Message, and Mr. Baker, of Tijinois, addressed the committee on the subject of the recent treaty for the acquisition of the Russiau American possessions, con- Five-twenties tending that the treaty could not be complete until it | should receive the sanction of Congress by making an ‘appropriation to carry itowt, and that the acquisition ought to %e disapproved and the appropriation rejected. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, next addressed the com- mittee on the subject of tue industrial interests of the country, and asserted that (ho war for the suppression of the rebeilion had developed a productive power in the states more than equal to the indebtedness, national, State and muvicipal, and attributed to the contraction of the currency and the inordinate taxation the present paralysis of trade, Messrs, Woodward, of Pennsylvania, Blaine, of Maine, and Habbard, of West Virginia, epoke om ibe subject of the fimances aud the national dept, and Mr. Axtell, of Cal. fornia in opposition to the Reconstruction bill, after which the committee rose and the House adjourned: MISCELLANEOUS. Our special Caba table telegrams convey the iatelli- gence that several merchants in Havana had suffered heavy loses owing to inaccurate gold auotatious for- warded through the calle for the press of that city. A shoek of earthquake was felt last Friday at Trinidad de Cuba. In Porto Rico the quarantine rogu!stion: axain enforced on account of the cholera at St. Thomas. An American bark had srrived @ith provisions. In Honduras the cholera was raging at Truxijlo and a revo. Jutouary outbreak was apprehended. The old wash. ings wore actively prosecuted. In the state Constitutionat Convention yesterday a resolution was adopted for the appointment of a com- mitine to report upon the manner and form ich the constitution as amended shall be submitted to the peopie for their adoption, and the form of notice and time of the siection. The report of the Committee on Educa. Hon was then considered in Committes of the Whole, but withdut coming to a vote on any preposition of im- portance the Convention adjourned, Governor Fenton has tendered to Judge Mason, of Madison county, the office of Judge in pals made vacant by the death of Judge Wr A shocking accident occurred at Yonkers, N, ¥., yes- Serday, by the tumbling down of a building used asa malt Wlorehouse, wherody two mon wore instantly Killed wad five seriously injured. The tuiiding, in which a large quantity of ice was being stored at the time of the sad casualty, was said to be very substantially brill, aad nO reason bas ae yel been assigaed for the g of the Corn Exchan, jopted in favor of th tax, and thatit should be col Tue proceedings of the veution yesterday were em Gator giving another the lie, when each pbair to hurt it at bis adversary, bo wore pre Vented damaging each other, and subsequently mutual apologios were nade. ral Monde sont a communi. yestorday resolu dat the distilery. Reconstruction Con. cation to the Convention stating that thero were no funds udeavor to secure mesus to pay ihe wos of the Convention, and adds ‘al if he tad the fends have been placed beyond his rowh be wili suspend the payment of the salaries of all oMlcers who receive thelr pay from the State Tressury. (overvor Jenkins, in speech at Milledgeville yeeterduy, slated thar the dy had boom sent to New York. The Pos ress agent ot Milledgeville refuse ly appoiuted Treasurer letvers su draeved to Bin fa the Virgtis Convention yesterday the Hil! of Rights was under conmueration, The Judiciary Com. ‘Ved adversely to settling debts incurred prior ents on fhe dollar. vention yesterday. resolution. tod States Sonate : mating Secretary Stanton was adopted. A large mumber Of resolutions Were referred, and © commition waa ap- 9 2'4 Lo Momorialize Cowereg that at leat one-fourte packages ad of the whis. | ght up his - NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY, JANUARY 19) 1868 the tax collected on the cotton produced in the yoar 1867 be expended through the Freedmen's Bureau to food the hungry and clothe the aaked, without regard to color. Ata meoting of the Board of Supervisors yesterday. resolutions were adopted giving to each of the Supreme Court Judges in the Firat Judicial district $3,000 per annum as additional salary, and making the salaries of the Judges of the Superior and Common Pieas Courts $10,000 each, and of the Marine Court $8,000 each. The Evening Telegram and Commercial Advertiser were Gesiguated asthe official county organs. A large amount of routine Business was transacted, after which the Board adjourned, The examination into the case of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad has taken a new phase, The recalcitrant defendants having refused at a previous meoting before the referee, to whom the case was sent from the Supreme Court for taking testimony, to answer the questions propounded, measures were taken to com- pel them to answer. Accordingly yesterday morning, pursuant to previous order issued by Judge Cardoso, the Plaintiffs, by counsel, appeared to move for an order directing that the defendants, Tracy, Tows and Dows, answer the questions which they had refused to respond to. It being suggested that there were motions pending, amd that the examination already had had reference only to one, it would be better to have them ‘al Drought on together, and that the defendants should be required to make affidavits in respect to all the mo- tions. This suggestion having been made in court, it was agreed that the motion to compet them to answer should stand over till Wednesday next, and that the three motions—one for the continuance of the injunc- tion, another for the punishment of the defendants for violating the Injunction, and the third for a receiver of the proceeds of the forty-nine thousand shares of stock—should be held on Saturday next. Meantime the defendants were to be required to make affidavit on two other motions. Notice to that effect was sent to them, and they then refused. Subsequently, however, ‘they sent to plaintiffs’ attorney the affidavits required. Garnese C. Baker, late a teller in the Tradesmen’s National Bank, was again up for examination yester- day. The line of testimony was confined to the mode of doing business in the bank, the full details of which have been reported in the Hexaip. The case will be summed up and submitted to the Commissioner on Tuesday next. ‘The gift enterprise case in which the plaintiffs have sued Mr, James Kelly, Postmaster of this city, for hav- ing detained letters which they claim as their property, was up before Judge Blatchford in the United States Diatriet Court yesterday ; but it was adjourned to Mon- day, counsel for the piaintifis not being in attendance. General Grant is expected at Richmond, Va, on Tues- day next to attend the meeting of the trustees of the Peabody Educational fand. Great distress prevails among the laboring classes inJQuebec, An explosion of fireworks oecurred in Pittsburg, Pa, yesterday, occasioned by the falling of a box of fire- works, and two persons were killed by suffocation and ason of the proprietor of the establishment fataily in- jured. The stock market was firm yesterday. Government securities were strong. Gold closed at 1385; a 138%. Business in commercial ciroles yesterday was without improvement, though a few of the leading articles were quite freely deatt in. Cotton continued in active de. mand from exporters. § and_—speculators at full prices, the market closing weak, however. Coffee was in improved demand and firmly held. On ’Change, transactions in flour, wheat and corn were Hight and almost entirely for consump- xport demand being checked by the high rates ‘ices were beavy and 2c. lower for corn. Cats were a shade easier, Pork #old more freely, but at a decline of 25c. a 50. per bbl. Beef remained steady, with a fair demand, while lard was uot so active and a shade casier. Naval stores, gilsand petroleum were dull, but unchanged in value. Freights continued firm. Whiskey was inactive and nominal. Our Revolutionary Congress. ‘The country is in great danger. The public mind is uneasy. A feeling of insecurity pre- vails throughout the land. Stagnation and general distrust are unsettling the foundations of industry in the North, and widespread social and political demoralization have prostrated the industry of the South. Wastefulness and unparalleled corruptions swallow up the re- ceipts of the heaviest taxations in the world, and from all the developments of the time we have reason to fear that in this dreadful state of things, before we are to have any change for the better, we have still the worst to suffer. Where lies the responsibility for all this, and where the remedy? The responsibility, we charge, rests upon this | radical revolutionary Fortieth Congress. It has heen faithless to its promises; it has be- trayed the just expeciations and now it boldly defies the will of the people. Professing only a defensive policy ngxinst executive encroach- ments, this Congress, “dressed in a little brief authority,” has audaciously undertaken the absorption within itself of the powers of all the departments of the goverament—legislative, | executive and judicial—in setting up a South- | ern dictator above the constitutional chief magistrate of the United States, and in reducing the Supreme Court to a nullity, touching the laws of Congress among other things. Great excitement prevails at Washington among the politicians on all sides regarding the reinstatement of Mr. Stanton in the War De- partment. According to the newspaper re- ports nothing is talked of in the Cabinet or the capital but this unexpected and most ex- traordinary restoration of Stanton and the probable and possible consequences. Some say that Mr. Jobnson isin a towering rage over the unconditional surrender of General Grant to the radicals ; some say that Johnson has yet @ trump card to play which will astonish them, while others avow that Ashley and Butler are anxiously watching for a plau- sible pretext for impeachment. One would-be wise man tells us that Grant will probably be court-martialed, and that Stanton is to be moved ; and another says, “Ob, no! Jobnson is not going uselessly out of his way to invite fresh insults from Sumner and ‘Old Ben Wade.” But these shallow Washington poli- ticians and newsmongers, “pleased with a rattle or tickled with a straw,” in their silly conjectures as to whet Johnson, or Grant, or Stanton next intends to do touching this restora- tion of Stanton, seem utterly to overlook the | ! | destructive programme of this revolutionary | Congress. The thrustiog back of Stanton into the War | Department is but a necessary incident in this revolutionary game. According to the Tenure f Office law the Senate was bound to reinstate this man, the law being passed expressly for bis retention in the Cabinet against the wishes of the President. The offence is in the law | iwelf, which is a step to the abolition of the | executive branch of the government as estab- | lished by the constitution. And here, in this legislation outside the constitution, lies the danger to the republic. The tendency of things is, from another Long Parliament, another teanafer to the Comnionwealth of a Puritanical dictator, This new Reconstruction bill pro- | poses, for example, to sot aside the President ‘ and the courts and the civil governments and | laws of the ten excluded Southern States, and | to set up over them, th the person of General (Grant, an absolute military dictator. Let us | suppose that this scheme is carried out, and | that those ton outside States are placed abso- lutely under the will of Genoral Grant, with the army st his back; that he hes oarried through the work of Congressional reconstruc- tion; that these ten Southern States are again in Congress—are with radical delegations in both houses, some withasprinkling of negroes and some with all’ white radicals; that these States, so reconstructed, have voted for the radical candidate for the Presidency; that their votes are necessafy to his election, and that in their acceptance by this Congress the radical candidate is declared elected by this Southern negro political balance of power. What next? Unquestionably such » state of tumult and chaos among the political elements of the North as will invite the experiment of a military dictator over the whole land. This Southern negro political balance of power in the Presidential contest is clearly the present object of this revolutionary Congress. In this design the radical fanatics have gone too far to recede. The game is desperate, but there is no alternative; and as desperate cases require desperate remedies, we may be prepared for anything from these radicals resolved upon the perpetuation of their power. Where, then, lies the remedy? In the hands of the people of the Northern States, to be applied in the coming Presidential election. We hold, too, that the man who, single handed, has so far resisted and delayed the usurpations of this radical Congress, and who is the only obstacle to the speedy consum- mation of ita revolutionary designs, is the man upon whom all the opposition elements may be most readily and most largely combined. Andrew Johnson is this man. He is in a posi- tion which demands the instant and most effective support of all men who desire to main- tain the government of the constitution. The most effective support that can be given him is the adoption of bis nanie for the Presidential succession by all the political elements of the country opposed to this revolutionary Con- gress and the revolutionary radical faction which stands behing it Men are nothing in this crisis of life or death to the republic ; but the man who stands in the gap, and who holds the opposition balance of power against these radicals, is everything. The Civil War and *‘ Sick Man’ in Chi Defeat of the Royalists and Appeal of the Emperor to Europe. The Chinese imperialists have veen again defeated in battle by the revolutionary insur- gents, whe have jaken up arms against the Tartar throne and dynasty and seek to over- throw the whole system of rule, with the court religion and philosophy,by which a government, representing an ambitious minority was forced on them after military conquest. Marching from the vast provinces of the southwest the nativists have vanquished the royalist forces in many engagements, and we learn by our latest cable telegrams from Hong Kong and Shanghae that they have just been quite victorious in a sanguinary battle fought at Shintung, rout- ing their adversaries, who were commanded by Footai—a General Grant of the empire in almost everything but final success. This result places the imperialist cause in a very critical condition, as it will give tone, vigor, spirit and consistency to the vast secret organi- zation known as the Tria i Fenians of that part of Asis been working during many years for a radical change in the government of the country. In this great strait the Emperor of China, who rules over existing dominion on the globe, las for- mally appealed to tho Powers of Hurope for assistance to enable him to preserve his throne against the rebels. By this act his Celestial Majesty of Eastern Asia voluntarily invalids himself as a sovereign and places his name on the list of “sick men” alongside that of his Sublime brother, the Sultan of Turkey, who, from the western portion of the same quarter of the earth, called in two of the most eminent foreign physicians some years since, and, perhaps as a natural consequence, bas been in a dying condition ever since, and now also demands a little further comfort and ad- vice at their hands. The foreign doctors will take up the case of the Emperor of Chiua at once. It is a novel and extraordinary one, and will pay, for the patient is rich in lands and specie and goods and chattels, and by treating him, even if to the death, they will be very likely to extend their practice among his neighbors and subjects. The boom of the guns of the British men-of- war which opened the ports of the empire to foreign trade shook the traditions of China considerably, and when the French soldiers, after the Peiho war, stole the pocket handker- chiefs of the Empress from under the sacred pillow im her Majesty’s bedroom, near Pekin, they accomplished almost as much to destroy the divinity which doth “hedge a king” in the reslm, as did their countryman Voltaire in his day in France. The action of the present Emperor of China dissipates these traditions to a great extent, and his people may, with great truth, exclaim, “ wis- dom” and “glory” have departed from the Enst. There is little donbt that the imperial Chinese mission entrusted to the Hon. Anson Burlingame, United States Minister in Pekin, has for its object the invitation of foreign intervention; and it is a splendid acknowledg- ment of our principle of republican civiliza- tion and its effective progress in distant lands to say that the representative of the youngest and most free nation in the world has been selected a8 the confidential envoy of the oldest and most exclusive empire to the fellow mon- archs of its potentate in a matter of such dire national extremity. The great European physicians will soon have the cases of three most illustrious pa- tients on hand, each one the personal embodi- ment of a system hoary in its antiquity, and, as some persons believe, enfeebling in its con- sequences, viz.:—the Sultan of Turkey, the Pope and the Emperor of China, The first two have been “waited” on and the last named bas taken to hiv bed. The philosophers, the theologians, the antiqua- rians, the soldiers, the politicians and the Peace Society men, are about to have vast fields opened for. their investigation and exertions in China, in Turkey and Southern Europe. They will, most likely, squabble among themselves as to the merits of some new system of civilisaion for Ubina. In this confusion the progressive and soothing diplo- macy of the United States, free from “entan- gling alliances,” will have great force, particu- larly ander the counsel of Mr. Burlingame, who will assuredly enjoy the button of » man- darin—of the most authoritative color—should royalty endure in the empire, Rven if the the most ancient | RC ® plain citizen of the great Western republic, so that in either event both our name and flag are likely to be stil! more honored in the East. ‘The Crisis—The Press and the Party Leaders. For well nigh a century republican institu- tions have been the pride of the United States and the envy of all the other nations of the earth, Never before did any nation in the same space of time make such advancement in all that constitutes genuine prosperity. Our recent success in crushing out a gigantio re- bellion inspired doubters in all lands with the hope that our republican institutions were destined to be as enduring as they had been successful. The forces, however, which triumphed over the rebellion and gave the nation back to itself in all its entirety are now being frittered away in paltry and undignified strife, and peace threatens to be more ruinous than war. The reconstruction of the late rebel States, which in the hands of intelligent, high- minded and honorable statesmen would have been so easily effected, if it has not already brought the country to the verge of ruin, is at least shaking faith in the permanency of our institutions and exposing us to the ridicule of the nations. Reconstruction, in fact, in the hands of our present ralers, has so far proved itself @ more formidable enomy’ than did the rebellion. ‘Three years have well nigh rolled past since the flames of civil war were extinguished, yet the restoration of the Southern States to their full privileges under the constitution seems as distant and as doubt- ful as ever. This, however, is not all. Not only has no progress been made in healing the divisions of the nation, but, what is worse, obstacles to speedy and satisfactory reconstruction are hourly multiplying. The interests of party are blinding our ralers to the interests of the nation, and party strife rages with a growing and almost unprecedented violence. Within the lastfew weeks acts have been committed by our leading officeholders and measures been adopted in Congress which in their re itladlonap . et recall the worst features of t French and English revo- lutions. Neither "the National Assembly nor in the Long Parliament were more arbitrary courses followed than those which within the last few weeks wo have witnessed in the Con- gress of the United States ; and the negloct of constitutional forms on the part of our Grants and our Stantons shows us how possibie, even here, is the rile of a Cromwell or a Napoleon. It was party strife which led to Cesarism both in England and in France; and in both cases Ceesarism was a relicf, Cesarism, however, is at beat buta necessary evil, an evil to be accepted only in some dire extremity, when all hope | of of delives- ance and all power of resistance ‘are “gone. If this extremity would be avoided it is for the people of the United States to come to. the rescue of the constitution. If we are not, asa people, already at the mercy of traitors, we are at least at the mercy of selfish and un- principled men. It is time now to sound the note ofalarm. Silence is no longer the duty of those who love their country. We teel all the more imperatively called upon to speak out that party spirit seems to have taken possession of all those to whom the | people look for guidance. {ya country like this the people naturally look to the press for instruction and aid; but the press is as much {| under the influence of party spirit as are the politicians. Bouad to no party, free to express | our opinions, and devoted to the interosts of the nation at large, we call upon the people, ignoring a servile press and ignoriug party leaders, whether in or out of Congress, to come to the rescue of the country and the constitution. We are swiftly approaching the rapids. Salvation, however, is still possible ; but united and immediate action on the part of the whole people alone can effect it. The Fashions. American ladies are creating quite a sensa- tion in Europe this season, and in some fashion- able circles they are pronounced the hand- somest and most tastefully dressed amid the brilliant devotees of fashion. At one grand hall in Nice the daughters of Uncle Sam were the reigning belles, and everything in the milli- nery and dressmaking line is a ’ Américaine. Fashion is returning to her extravagances in Paris, for the hideous headdresses of the last century are again in vogue, and the hair is tortured into architectural edifices of all kinds. The fickle deity has also devised a bonnet made of puffs of velvet and resembling ® pair of bellows. His Holiness the Pope is engaged ina crusade against short dresses— not those of the ballet order, but for street wear. He will find to his cost, however, that Dame Fasbion is » more stubborn enemy than even the red-shirted gentleman from Caprera. The coldness of the weather for the Inft few days in thin city has necessitated a change in ladies’ outdoor toilets. °The man- tles worn this month are consequently larger than their predecessors. although not less elegant or graceful, and velvet suits, which are very much admired, are daily seen on Broad- way. Some of these suits are trimmed with Qarrow bands of swan’s down, sable or other fur. of a color that will contrast or harmonize with the shade of the velvet. The square open- | ing or Watteau form of body seems to be the most fashionable for evening dresses. The Grecian and Campana styles in jewelry are the most in favor this month. As the season advances new styles will be brought before our belles, and at the opening of the spring fashions we may expect another revolution similar to that of last year. It will be difficult, however, to devise more becoming toilets than some of those which are now in vogue, and the good sense of our modistes may pre- vent them from rushing again into the extrava- gances and want of taste that ruled in former years, Johnson's Name Before the Peovle=An Ine cident in the Theatre. At Niblo’s theatre, on Friday night, there was an explosion of popular thought—an un- premeditated, altogether spontaneous expres- sion, indicating very clearly the conviction as to the acts and position of some public men that are taking hold of the common mind of the masses. An actor in the play unintentionally fired the train. dle deagged in the phrase that Grant made famous in the Wilderness campaigo:—“T’ll Aight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”. It is one of many phrases that actors d in whenever possible, as it generally “starts the house.” People have got rebellion triumpb be will heve much honor as | used to cherri~g It, eo when it came on Friday night they reovived it in the usual hearty tem- per; butin the very midat of their applause the thought seemed to flash on many minds that the man who first stamped current value on the phrase was no longer what he then seemed. These men then expressed their dis- approbation in hisses. There was a fair divi- sion of sentiment, and to put the point raised beyond all doubt there was a qpil of “three cheers for Grant.” It is hardly possible that the gallant, considerate, reasoning, generous American people will ever refuse this ova- tion of three cheers called for in the mame of a man who has led the armies of the republic to victories almost without parallel. The three cheers, therefore, were honestly given. But they who had first expressed disapprobation, and who had, per- haps, cheered with the rest, desired to carry the matter further, wishing, apparently, to show that these cheers were given to the name ofa gallant soldier, and not as an endorsement of that soldier’s political record. With this view they threw on the tide the opposite prin- ciple in politics to that radicalism in which Grant at present seems lost. They gave the name of Andrew Johnson, and the determina- tion their way was instantaneous, complete, overwhelming, in three cheers so absolute in their power as to put the question beyond the least hint of a further discussion—as if .even repudiating the idea that there was s question. ‘Thus in the political doubts and divisions of the hour Johnson seems to the masses to be the inevitable consequence of the situation. Progress ef the New Reading Sensation. The new “reading sensation” began early in the present season in New York and is rapidly extending to the other cities of the Union. It was heralded by the announcement that Charles Dickens intended to make a second American tour and to read in public extracts from his novels. The Hon. Mrs. Theresa Yelverton got the start of Dickens and opened the season by reading at Steinway Hall about a month pre- vious to the arrival of “Boz” in Boston. Mrs. Yelverton, after reading here, in Brooklyn and in several New England towns, has gone to Charleston and will visit most of the other cities of the South, She will doubiless be wel- comed there with the same sympathetic eurl- osity which awaited her here, in view of her exceptional misfortunes and the pluck and perseverance with which she had struggled against them, resisting to the utmost the cruel and absurd contradictions of the British matri- monial laws, and fascinating public attention by her personal charms as well as. by the genius displayed in her love letters. These letters, it is true, were originally written only for the eye of her faithless husband, but, having been brought to light in the course of her a ous law suits, excited universal sdimirgtge ane will remain as as claasic as the Yottors of Heloise to Abelard. We have duly chronicled, without, however, being led astray into indiscriminate flattery, the success of Mr. Dickens both in Boston and in this city. Now that he has concluded his course of readings in New York and set forth on his tour throughout the United States, Mr. Vandenboff comes forward to give us a taste of his quality as a reader. The reputation which the latter owes to a thorough mastery of read- ing a« an art, as well as to his theatrical ex- perlence, justifies him in challenging compari- son with the former, if not in defying all competition, so far as elocution is con- cerned. None have studied more carefally than Mr. Vandenhoff the resources of that most marvellous of all musical instruments, the human voice, and few can equal the skill and power with which he has learned to play upon thatinstrument. In articulation, pronunciation, inflections, simple and compound, emphaais, intonation, expression, energy and passion— briefly, in all the requisites of either prossic, poetical, rhythmical or dramatic elocution, Mr. Vandenhoff is a consummate artist. In bis “Dickens readings” he will probably be more accurate than Mr. Dickens in varying his tones and manner to suit the differont char- acters who are to be represented as speak- ing. Mr. Dickens usually contents himself with simply outlining these characters, without always taking the trouble to personate them throughout; and he rarely rises above the colloquial style into what Mr. Vandenhoff would call the imaginative atyle of elocution. This colloquial siyle, indeed, heightens the illusion under which the listener forgets that Mr. Dickens has a book open before him. The listener is entranced by one of the very hest story tellers in the world, and does not stop to ask whether be reads well or ill or even whether he reads at all. Moreover, the majority of any audience that is called together by the name of Dickens is mainly actuated by curios- ity to see and hear the celebrated writer, and not to criticise his readings. It is Dickens, the living Shakspeare of contemporary English literature, whom many are eager to see. Nor are there lacking others who, according to the Philadelphia journals, do not hesitate to avow their wish to stare at “the man that slandered America.” In other words, the unquestionable success of Mr. Dickens as a reader must be what the French call « “success of curiosity,” albeit on a grand and remuner- ative scale. It might be almost equally great were he simply to exhibit himaelt and bis gilt- tering watch chain and read neveraline. Of course 00 one else can personate him to the life except bimeelf. And there ise psychological interest in witnessing an author’s own embodi- ment of the creations of his imagination. On | these grounds, at least, none can pretend to out Dickens Dickens. But if Mr. Dickens wore to hear the “Dickens readings” of Mr. Vanden- hoff we are sure that he would join heartily in | bathe applauding them as equal in some reapects | ‘a and in others as superior to his own. Both Mrs. Yeiverton and Mr. Dickens must largely rely for success upon the public curi- | osity which attaches to them personally—to | { the one on account of her misfortunes and her love letters, and to the other on account of his | novels, But Mra, Fanny Kemble Butler. who | has already, we believe, re-entered the field as a reader, will doubtless bold the unapproach- able position whieh she long ago won. In this field Vandenhoff is more than equal to Dickens and Mrs. Yelverton; but neither these three nor the doxens who are following in their wake can be compared as readers to the niece of Mrs. Siddona. The Shakspeare readings which Mra, Fanay Kemble Butler bogan to give in London p 2 May, 1862, and which she re- peated in “this country, have never been Tals phe reading sensntyn pas adooted aot | also no small number of habitual playgoora. The latter have been disgusted at the decline of the regular drams. The managérs of our theatres should take warning in time and pan- der no longer to the low and corrupt taste which has been inflamed by the dazzling spec- tacles and the heathenish nodities and antios of Black Crookdom. Otherwise, except om those rare occasions when the legitimate drama is properly represented, our theatres will be entirely deserted by the pure, the refined and the intelligent, and “readings” will become a permanent institution in opposition to theatri- cal entertainments. THE SKATING SEASON. ‘The week just past bas boon one of pleasure to the thousands of devotees of the attractive and exhili- rating pastime of stating living ia and around the me- ‘The several ponds, both public and private, im the character of ice, have been especially fortunate, their patronage greater than during any previous The old monarch of the frigid zone, in stilling are closely allied to this healthful prin idraperepoeuapind re-enacted and worthy of the brilliant holiday fetes of ancient and Eastera for; and judging from the hundreds of bright faces both {no the participants and proprietors last evening the same happiness and brilliancy will continue as long as the obilling breath of the ice king keops the glassy surface ofthe Fepeative ponds ta our m bof the same excel- t character, ve During tis season of joy the of he be excelled by one another, exhausted their taeeative genius in te Bt Spay) forward attractions to leene she ore of ries of the art and make their Bright it oryatal nap more ose for the etree of the ee the crisp-raping, runners. Some have ugural recepti wi ee ith brit- Mant prion sven, music, the hours sped merrily away. ieee oe conceived that carnivals with masks and fancy di the same inspiriting music and pyroteobnies or varied character, with the Cr a enjoyment that made a brilliant framework charming ploture of rosy cheeks and ree nied lips, more appropriate, Others had tourneys betwoon ietio eee Ihe tmyateries of “rolls”? forward and backward, the “iap-foot,’? ‘grape vines,”’ with original and lier tmoveatent brought out the nimble p> tees of thé deity Uller, reaeries for “his beaaty, his arrows aod his skater.” In these matches, ae race was combined with labor, there wore flaany perceptible the harm of beauty and the plese. ings of health that follow this exercise. The performance of this science condensed in an hour more grace and po- otry than can be seen io a dav’s dancing, the lly be- ‘ao. cepted idea of the ‘ y of motion.”’ But the pleas- ures that attach to the elinking steel and these open air carntvals will not cease here, as manifold attractions are announced for the present woek at the respective thea- of skatt wey cierdny the ponds, wore filled, and last ovening seemed to increase the gusto of the thousands ¢hat,fre- quented them, x ‘TAR PARK LAK, et, SSE, Loe of Fo rood vig ee lengant many of the number being rae = girls, Saturday Deing to them the only fat unlty to dis themselves upon the frozen shrtace. ke ee ro Fe yond with Fs Ripeteren torn ord sees ‘the covered shrui it i ewondectully beautiful and Mretrdctike, ique performers were there, chee them the , Whose evolutions excil terest and admiration. These public Inkes aro the piaces of ladaite grace in the oe foe skating. Poa peed PARK Fhe situation of (hia pond mado i t yealerday llariy attractive, Frou say i, a constant stream of fate maid Nato in ths monts of the stee!, ate and with the musio discoursed by the added attractiveness to this retreat, To-morrew the gold medal, so unique and artistic in design that it hag excited much admiration, poe the proprietor to the best male skater, will be for, All the figures a by the New York Skating Club will be executed. and “toe and heel’’ movements, with plrowetiee will nt be the pleasant themes of conversation. OATMAN'S P(PTH AVANUR POD. ‘There are one or two carnivals to take place here, and Mr. Oatman bas beea tendered by the professional skatiog artists hereabouts ® grand (testimonial, to take place om ‘Thursday next. MACMILUAN'S PITH AVANUR POND. The carnival of the past weok at this place bas added considerably to the reputation of its propristor as a auc- ceasful caterer, The pond is brilliantly lighted at aight, and there is but little left undone to make ita where exoollence ia all that makes skating attractive te to be noted. JEROME PARK POND. The arrangements to convey hes ——. of the Jerome — Association to wy pond at Ford- ham were yesterda; mA cmiek out my fall, The train fr from tbe Harlem depot was filled with eleganuy reased ladies and their companions, who passed the day in woot ‘a it reunion “, oe) _ bow tt & brilliant display, worthy o! place, the season the attendan The pict ry devel ped by sk hes @ picturesque imagery develo) yy skating here ‘doumod its most attractive phase. The City of Churches boasts of many, besides ‘nein fully equal ia Erace to the professionals Of her larger sister, are equality The spectacle recentiy at holder, whil 7 Tairies than beings of this sphere. bere, and so it is at all the other Satellite and Central, Accomm the Union that ar ties of thia brill ds, the Capitoline, © 8 are notiosd at every respect suited to the foative- urnament of the skate. SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT YOVKERS, Aa Extensive Storehouse Tumbles Dowa— Twe Men Killed and Five Othors Soriounty Injured. A fow minutes before five o'clock yesterday after. 2008 ap extonsive two story brick building, uped asa malt liquor storehouse, situated in a contral part of the village of Yonkers, om @ water-bound patch of Iand known as “Chicken island” and owned by a brewer named Edward Underhill, tumbied down with @ terrific crash, instantly killing two mem named Patrick and James Meagher, brothers, and seriously injuring five others, ai followa:—Dargan Blattery, badly hurt about the head and body; Martin Meagher, a brother of the other two Meaghers; Martin and fifty tons, was supported by briek ey | io masonry. could be assigned aa @ cause for the tropne, the noise of which was neard the vi Ba immense crowd sur- rounded the scone of the sad scciden thrown into s state of the village has be relt be fair. Coroner Smith, lotenae excitement through t! of Hastings, war at once arrived in the village a Th tdict Will be rendered is morning. jecensed Were given in charge of their friends oved to their former residence, prevtuus to la i. The remains presenied a sight af (he most sickening character, the heads of both mou dang crusued almost beyond fecognition. THE STATE CONSTITUTIONAL, ¢ COVVEITION, Avnanr, Jam, 18, 1868, The Conrgation orst 4t (ea 0 clock Mr. Magarrt moved that a commitiee of tevon be ap. pointed to oxamine inte smd report upon the follow ing: First, the mamnor oad form io which the constite tom aa amended shall be submitted to the people for their adoption, ss00nd, the pubdlication of the constite pt eg third, the form of notice of the oles fourth, the Ay Of the baliet or ballots; arn, the dime at hich este hang of amendments shalt oe of the Amor