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THEATRE COMIQUE, 514 Broadway.—Bostoy Baier anp Panrouiux Trovurr. KELLY 4 LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Brondway,—Soxas, Daxcrs, Eccentaicitixs, &c.—Granv Doteu “3.” SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broad way.—Ermo- PIN ENTERTAINMENTS, SINGING, DANUING aND BURLMSQUES. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE. 201 Bowery.—Comic Vocattsm, Nxcuo MiNsTiE BUTLER'S AMERICAN THEATER, 2 Broadway.— Baier, Fancy, Pantout BUNYAN HALL, Broadway and Fifteenth street—Tae Puorim. Matinee at 2, STEINWAY HALL.—Reavincs rrom Suacsrearr— CoRioLanus. IRVING HALL, Irving Place.—Sorreee of Cnawenn Mvsic. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Jeasux Brows. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Prooklyn.—Erurortax Minstasisy.—Buecesque or tHe Wity Fawn, Impeachment—The Congressional Charges Against the President. In & commonwealth of the ancient world there was the usage that whoever proposed a new law came into the assembly of the people with bis neck in a halter. If his law was accepted he was honored and rewarded as a public benefactor ; but if it was rejected he was taken out aud killed with the rope he had himself brought in. In this usage we see the experience of a people harassed by over legislation, and who had observed in neigh- boring States that the very life was rotted out of government by tampering lawmakers. And that such a usage should become a national institution is quite in accordance with natural law; for as @ wise and good enactment is always a real advantage to the State, so a bad or even only an unnecessary one is so much an evil, and an evil of such extended influence that proposing it isa crime against society. It is in virtue of this natural law that the Con- gress of the United States, now coming before the people with its immensely trumpeted pro- ject of impeachment, stands as one with his head in a noose. For if impeachment is necessary to assert the majesty of the law and to guard the threatened liberties of the people from the encroachments of ambitions power in the person of the President, Congress deserves well of the nation for impeaching him; but if it be not neces- sary, ifthe law is not in danger, if there is neither the fact of crime nor a criminal intent, and if this great final appeal is made only in the interest ofa partisan quarrel, then to have made it and to have agitated the nation and stirred up dangers of every sort against our tranquillity is such a wrong that the law has hardly put in the hands of the people a pun- ishment adequate to the offence ; for an abuse ofthe power of impeachment is as great a crime as any that impeachment was intended to punish or prevent, Is Congress abusing this power? Is it bringing a great constitutional process into contempt by appealing to it where there is no case? Is it unnecessarily disturbing the public peace? Is it striking at the President for doing things for which the law gives him full power? Congress admits and publishes to the world that it is doing all this, It reiterates in every form of phrase and with all particulars the declaration of its own offence. Every line of its ten articles makes a boast of its guilt before the nation. Its ten articles of impeach- ment make nothing so clear as that impeach- ment has not a sound foot to stand upon—that it is only the insane dream of men who, in indulging an intense party passion, have driven away from them the guides of reason and judgment; of men who, having acquired the arrogant habit in Congress of forcing their will on a feeble ma- NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAr, MARCH 2, 1868, such paltry material. Really this simple con- versation between the Presidont and a general, distorted into a conspiracy by heated imagina- tions, has not the dignity of the great con- spiracy of Boum, Puck and Paul against the peace of poor Fritz ; and it would be infinitely more laughable than that famous affair if one did not feel in the midst of his mirth that the fair fame of tho country was in a dogreo in- volved, It must surely in the future be the most satisfactory declaration in Mr. Johnson’s history that bitterly hostile partisans, using all ingenuity to frame charges, could allege against his honor, good conduct and probity in office nothing more serious than this “conspiracy with General Emory.” skill of the land appeals for aid, and the Hgpatp’s proposition for them to unite with American capitalists in entreating Congress to abandon for a moment the all-absorbing desire to grasp the spoils of office and repeal certain onerous laws of taxation, that the oppressive burdens which have almost caused the extinc- tion ot American commerce may be removed, meets with hearty commendation. That such laws, inimical to American industry, do exist no better evidence is needed than an interview with the iron steamship builders of the United States regarding this all important subject, They will tell you of their former prosperity ; will recur feelingly to the many productions of American genius that have been the envy of the world, and then hold up to you the pre- sent depressed condition of the shipbuilding interests in contrast with the prosperous busi- neas of tormer years. In further proof of this we refer to a promised letter in another column from our correspondent at Chester, Pa,, detailing the extent of the works there devoted to the construction of iron steamships and marine engines. Its perusal should hasten the inauguration of the proposed remedial action to.soon again place the United States on a respectable footing among the marine nations of the globe. The Management’ of the Western Telegraph Company and Stockholders, The management of the Western Union Telegraph Company has been for years a close corporation, and the stockholders have enjoyed but littie opportunity to ascertain the true condition of its affairs. The exhibit recently made by the executive committee, like that which preceded it in October, 1865, is a mere aggregation of figures showing certain results, and affords no detailed information such as the stockholders have a right to possess, especially as the law makes each one of them individually responsible for all the debts and liabilities of the company to the amount of one-fourth the par value of the stock he holds. The facts are set forth that the capital stock has been increased since 1865 from twenty million to forty-one mil- Yon dollars; but nothing is said of the terms upon which large amounts have been issued for the purchase and consolidation of other lines, and the stockholders have no means of discovering the nature or character of transactions in- volving sums varying from three and a half million to eleven million dollars each. The bonded debt is stated to be five million dollars ; but no details are given of the manner in which the increase of nearly four millions has been brought about, nor is it shown into whose hands the new bonds have passed. We find from the tables that the gross receipts in eighteen months prior to January 1, 1868, have been ten million dollars; that the working expenses in the same period have been be- tween six und seven millions, and that the small remaiuing net profits have all been swallowed up to within one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, without leaving adollar for the last January dividend, which has consequently been passed. But we are leftin the dark as to the particulars of these enormous working expenses, and have no means of knowing why they bave reached nearly sixty-five per cent of the gross receipts, when the most liberal estimates for working a telegraph line will not exceed twenty-five per Union the Daty of Tho Currency Question—Analogies, Proposi- tions and Suggestions. Granting the desirableness of convertibility as an element of financial philosophy, there is no better way than to introduce it at once and under the present circumstances, One of the causes which contributes to keep gold ata premium has been the absurd hedging about of the gold value by the government. Gold has been set up as an ideal measure of all values and the something without which there could be no value ; and thus gold speculation has been encouraged and rendered lucrative, while seventeen hundred national banks have been interposed between the government and the people, preventing the possibility of direct convertibility. There is but one way, in fact, by which currency can be made prac- tically convertible—upon presentation the government must pay for it in gold, at gold prices. For instance, when gold is at one hundred and forty, one dollar in currency is actually worth seventy-one and three- sevenths cents In gold; and, for pur- poses of convertibility, let the government pay for the currency it redeems at its gold value, and a certain freedom in gold move- ment is at once introduced as a financial ele- ment. The effect of o measure of this sort would be practical convertibility, and practi- cal convertibility is always essential to a sound financial condition of the body politic. Not that it is at all necessary to force gold upon the presenter of the currency. By no means. jority, have forgotten that there is no previous question to cut off debate before the people, and who therefore are now in a fair way to find out that there is after all a difference be- tween“an extravagantly one-sided view of the law and the law itself. It matters not what happens in the Senate, for the case is before the people, and they will judge it on the dis- proportion between the offences charged and the remedy sought—on the utter want of wis- dom, moderate counsel and patriotic purpose of the republican party. If impeachment go through the Senate it will destroy the republi- can party before the country ; for the Ameri- can people will not be dragged at the heels of an organization governed by the failing intellect ‘| and vindictive spirit of Old Thad Stevens. If impeachment fail in the Senate, it will only add to the decision of the people against the BROOKLYN OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.—Asmo- prus—lnis AssURANCE AND YaNake MovEsty, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway. — Scrance anp Art. 2, 1868. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yes. torday, March 1, King William of Prussia assured the Legislature that ‘no cause’? remains for the disturbance of the peace of Germany or Furope. The workingmen of Genoa ad- dressed Admiral Farragut and complimented the liberal feeling of the American people. The French Transat- lantic eable enterprise ia bemg matured, The Irish gov- ernment has prosecuted Orange proceasionists. Accounts from Crete announce the severe defeat of the Turks near the town of Canea by Corakaand his band. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Bancroft, the Minister to Prussia, telegraphed to ‘the Secretary of State yesterday that a treaty has been signed pn thie part of the North German Confederation providing for free emigration and conceding the right of expatriation. ‘The members of the South Carolina Reconstraction Convention have received their per diem and mileage up to Saturday. Augusta, Maine, was visited by a lively carthquake on Saturday night, which lasted several seconas. Tw) slight shocks were also felt at Victoria, Vancouver's Island, on Friday, At Trinity church yesterday the Rev. R & Howland delivered a sermon in support of the principles enter- tained by the prosecutors of the Rev. Mr. Tyng for a vio- tation of the Episcopal canon on ‘Parish boundaries.” In Plymouth church, Brooklyn, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher conducted the services, receiving several now members inte his congregation and baptising several adults, Rev, G. H. Hopkins, of Boston, preached at the Universalist Churen of the Redeemer, Brooklyn, Bishop Benevo- lence” at St. Mary's church, Brooklyn, for the benefit ‘Loughlin delivered a lecture entitled “Christi of Father McDonald’s free schools, The Church of St, Rose of Lima, a temporary structure on Cannon street, near Delancey, was opened and dedicated by Archbishop McCloskey. Jobn Render, living at 501 Greenwich street, accosted officer Flannigan somewhat excitedly on Saturday even- ing and said that his wife was ill, Something suspicious attracted the officer’s attention and he made Render | return to the house with him, where be found a woman , her clothes lying dead, her body all bruised and gashed, Partially torn away and @ portion of her ear bitten off, A terrible struggle appeared to bave taken place, and a discovered. Tho evi of Render’s boy, eight years of age, that he bad seen his father kick bis mother several timos, induced the officer to arrest Render, who is now in jail, youngest boing less than three years of age. A mass meeting of Germans favorable to the continu ance of the Excise law was held in Cooper Institute yesterday, and @ petition against ils repeal was adopted for transmission to the Legislature, |. There are three children of Render and the murdered woman, the representatives the weight of the Senatorial judgment to the same effect. Through the whole bill of impeachment run two points—one the removal of Stanton, the other the charge of a conspiracy to obstract the operation of the law by means of troops. Stanton’s case and the supposed offence of the President in it is disposed of by the impeach- era themselves. They impeach Mr. Johnson as “President of the United States.” Mr. Bout- well explained that this was thought necessary in order to meet a certain difficulty in the formation of the court—the constitution requir- ing that the Chief Justice should preside on the trial of the President, not on that of Vice President ; consequently there would be “in- conveniences” tg the impeachers if they re- garded Mr. Johnson as Vice President dis- charging the duties of the Presidential office during the remainder of Mr. Lincoln’s term. It may be said, moreover, that the radicals are under a deeper necessity than this to regard Mr. Johnson as President and not as the Vice President acting as President. This necessity is the succession of Mr. Wade. Radicalism, therefore, is unchangeably committed and bound to the point that Mr. Lincoln’s Pres- ide ntial term ended with his life, and that Mr. Johnson holds absolutely as President in his own right. This being so, what becomes of Mr. Stanton’s claim to the War Office, even under the Tenure of Office law? This law limits the holding of the Secretary of War. It specifies the duration of bis term. He shall hold office “for and during the term of the President by whom he may have been ap- pointed.” As Mr. Stanton has no authority but that given by Mr. Lincoln, and as itis the ad- mission of his friends that this is a new term, he holds without power or right. Moreover, it is not believed that Mr. Stanton holds any other warrant than that received in the first term of Mr. Lincoln, which expired at the com- mencement of the present term. He was never appointed even by Mr. Lincoln for the four years now running. As if this were not suffi- cient to destroy Mr. Stanton’s case in the law on which he stands, it provides another point against him. It fixes the date to which he may hold at one month after the expiration of the | term of the President who appointed him ; and for all time beyond that one month it with draws its protection. Thus the office of the Secretary of War is, under this Tenure of Office act, and for the first time in the history of our government, one whose duration is limited by law; and the fourth section declares that “nothing In this act contained shall be con- strued to extend the term of any office the Joseph Clark, @ gambler of Worcester, Mass,, was | duration of which is limited by law.” Mr. found dead in bis room recently by his mistress, who | Johnson’s offence, then, is an attempt to en- also discovered a smoll of fire about the house. Moat of Clark's valuables were gone, and two men, nai James, also gamblers, have been arrested on suspicion. One of them yesterday confessed to having committed ft | force this very law of all others. As to the Congressional charge of a con- spiracy, based on the testimony of General the deed, with the assistance of the other, The womae | Emory, it is impossible that any man having lurking around Clark's door digoevered them loaving the | read the testimony can read the charge with @ A company of regular cavairy has been gent tothe Knoxville (Tenn.) revenue district vo support the reve- nue officers who, it will be remembered, were held by Fobbers some time age until they vaid maroma straight face. It gives a lively idea of the position of the committee, compelled to hash up some tigmarole to carry before the Senate, | that it was reduced to the extremity of using cent, As the exhibit called for by the resolution of the Board of Directors has proved thus meagre and unsatisfactory, a few plain facts and figures may serve to enlighten the stockholders as to the practical results of this close corporation management of the company’s affairs, The fol- lowing are the salable prices of Western Union stock for the past eight years :— Date, Market Price of Stock, Let the presenter have his own way, and if the gold is demanded let it be rendered at its premium value. If not, let the currency be replaced by currency, and one element is introduced the effect ot which will be to reduce the value of gold, or rather to reduce its pre- mium; for the introduction of a perfect free- dom of convertibility, value for value, cannot but have some effect in reducing this fictitious premium, before which our financiers tremble like Hottentots in the presence of a lion. In certain respects, in fact, our present financial system is a mistake based upon mistaken English precedent—a precedent which has impoverished tho working classes of England, beggared thousands of able-bodied Englishmen and nourished a moneyed aris- tocracy upon a diet of bonds and taxation intolerable to the people. It is not even sup- posable that Englishmen, with the ballot in their hands, will long submit to this beggaring process which is the main principle of English finance; and that there will be financial tribulation in England within the next half century may be confidently predicted. The bonded debt of the company has been built up as follows :— Date. Amount of Bonited Det January 20, 1865 (the first debt). January 1, 1866. 200s'coo | Democracy and liberalism have, to a certain Po 1s = extent, their own political economies, and January 20. 1 cannot be limited to precedent in the solution aye of financial problems, The Bank of England has beengthe vampire of the English body politic, and has sucked it nearly bloodless ; the national banking system of the United States is similar in its workings, and tends directly to the oreation of a vast moneyed aristocracy in this country. The principle upon which this financial system is based—for the principle is the same in both cases—is essentially undemo- cratic in its workings, and has no affinity for republican institutions, It is the basis of all financial precedent, to be sure; but all finan- cial precedent, with trifling exceptions, is founded upon the necessity of supporting a royalty and aristocracy in comparative idle- In like manner a floating debt has been created since August, 1865 (prior to which date the company had no floating debt), which now reaches four hundred thousand dollars. As we have before stated, practical telegraph men agree in estimating twenty-five or thirty per cent of the gross receipts of a line as suffi- cient for all its working expenses on a liberal basis. The Western Union line has always been somewhat extravagantly managed, but never on a scale of such reckless and ruinous waste as at the present time, as the following com- parison of the gross receipts and working ex- penses for a few years will show :— Ores Working Per. | e868 upon the legitimate earnings of the Date, ae Saoee centage. | people ; and thus it happens that while tho ; 2,080,700 732, 36 | aristocratic classes of England govern, they boat Laue $8 | compel the muscle and labor of the ¥ s we se bt, Siren $ ae Isnd to pay liberally for the privi- lege of being governed. The essential principle of English finance, in fact, is tho support of a moneyed aristocracy, also titled, at the expense of the laboring classes; and this is the principle (less the titular dignity) upon which the financial system of the United States isat present organized. Gold has been created a god—the absolute metre of all values, monetary as well as commorcial; and yet, in any sound financial philosophy, gold is simply ® thing of straw, having no absoluteness of value about it; while, practically, it is nothing more nor less than a commercial commodity, to be bought and sold at its market price. We say practically, for we presume that its practi- cal position in the market as a commorcial commodity and nothing more is quite undoni- able; nor can any reason be assigned why the government should not treat specie as Wall strect treats it—viz, as a commodity of com- merce. The introduction of the principle proposed— viz, to pay out the value of currency in gold or paper at the option of the presenter for redemption—would havo this practical effect upon the gold market :—Gold would be ina moasure disabused of tho ideal value set upon it, and the consequence would be the libera- tion of large quantities of coin. The libera- tion of any large quantity of coin would again have the reactionary effect to reduce the pre- mium on gold, and thus a return to specie payments—viz, convertibility, dollar for dol- lar—would be rendered the most practicable thing in the world. In proposing this principle, which is sub- stantially that advocated by Mr. Garfield, we propose simply a measure of expediency—a reconciliation of that which is best adapted to mond our present financial tendency to moneyed aristocracy with that procedent ia | The last six months here shown, from July to December, 1867, embrace the period during which the present executive committee have had the management of the company’s affairs, and, as will be seen, the working expenses of the line in their hands have reached the enor- mous and unprecedented amount of sixty-five per cent of the gross receipts, The stockhold- ers, whose property is thus flagrantly misman- aged, should at once apply to the courts for protection against such shameless and reckless squandering of their money. The charter of the company must surely give some rights to those whose funds are invested in the stock, and the law which renders the stockholder liable for the company’s debts and liabili- ties must also be sufficient to protect him from being plundered. The figures we have shown furnish of themselves evidence of gross mismanagement on the part of the executive committee sufficient to make a case to satisfy any Judge of the pro- priety of interfering for the protection of the stockholders, and should certainly serve to-convince the latter of the necessity of some speedy and resolute action if they desire to save any portion of a valuable property from destruction, Commerce—Remedial Necessity of the Hour. ‘The realization that the once powerful mer- cantile marine of tho United States has within a few years sunk into the condition of com- parative decay is daily forcing itself into the minds of the thinking men of the country. With many of them to think is to act, and alroady the botter plan to remedy the evils which have reduced the commercial standing of the country is being discussed with anima- tion. Eloquontly the combined mechanical Americas political economy which, in our opinion, has no American application whatsoever, being essen- tially undemocratic. In a republican com- munity, in fact, no moneyed aristocracy ought to be permitted to interpose between the gov- ernment and the people, even in a financial point of view; and yet this is just what our present system is producing. The financial relations between a republic and its people ought to be direct; nor should their adminis- tration depend upon a moneyed class, to whom the people are to disburse a liberal percentage for the privilege of having a circulating medium at all. The Revolutio: Japan. In the Heratp of yesterday we printed quite & mass of intelligence relative to the revolution which has taken place in the government of Japan and to the present condition and future prospects of the country. The extracts which we gave from the Japan Herald and the Friend of China are valuable chiefly from the fact that they are entirely confirmatory of all our recent telegraphic letters from our Japan corre- spondents. Of all the revolutions which have taken place in these last times, that which hae occurred in Japan is in many respects the most wonderful. The Shagoon, originally a servant of the Mikado, and holding an office approaching as nearly as possible to that of the Mayor of the Palace in France, or to that of generalissimo under the European mon- archies, had come in course of time, rather through use and wont than by actual usurpa- tion, to monopolize the executive power. The Mikado had become more and more a name, less and leas a reality. Increasing intercourse with foreigners of late years, and especially the vigorous and intelligent efforts of the Shagoon to encourage such intercourse by arranging to open certain ports and to make grants of land to foreigners, have had the effect of rousing the attention of the greater daimios or princes of the empire and of compelling them to look more closely to the machine of government. The result has been a revolution in favor of the Mikado, who, strange to say, is a youth of nine years of age, and in which the Shagoon, just as strange to say, entirely acqui- esces, thus revealing on the part of all con- cerned an amount of respect for the constitution in striking contrast with the conduct of our brawling politicians at Washington. It is very doubtful, indeed, if fifty years’ contact with so-called Christian civilization will leave behind it so large a residuum of honor among the magnates of Japan. It is satisfactory to learn that the treaty arrangements entered into by the Shagoon were to be carried through by the new government, and that Japan is after all to be thrown open to the commerce of the world. It is, as our reports have shown, ® country of immense wealth. The people, too, are industrious and ingenious beyond most of the people of the East, The opportu- nity presented to American capitalists is great, It is desirable that they should take advantage of it, It will be to the credit of the United States if they use it wisely and well. Russian Policy in the Enst. A letter from Tientsin to the Moniteur, dated November 2, shows how skilfully the Russian policy in the East has been conducted. Instead of forcing Christianity and opium down the throats of the Chinese, like the Englisb, the Russians have contented themselves with building up a peaceful commerce with China, which has already assumed vast proportions and which is not without serious political importance. The commerce of Russia with China by the Siberian frontier of Kiakhta has for several years amounted to about sixty mil- lion francs (twelve million dollars) per annum. Kiakhta, on the left bank of the Amoor, is the extreme frontier of the Russian possessions on that side. Opposite to Kiakhta is the Chinese city of Maimaitchin, which is separated from the Russian city only by the waters of the Amoor river. From Kiakhta or from Maimaitchin to Pekin the distance on horse- back is twenty-two days by way of Oorga. The journey by caravans is much longer; it sometimes requires six weeks. In summer the caravan is composed of long files of camels escorted by a few Mongolian horsemen armed with the lance and the buckler. In winter the spectacle changes. Sledges sweep over the ice in the midst of whirlwinds of snow, which the western wind, almost perpetual on this portion of the Asiatic plateau, drives before it. The Chinese, tradesmen by birth, are ready to undergo, when it is for their interest, all the severities of winter; and the Russian mer- chants, who come in winter from Irkootsk in their sledges covered with fars and hides do not yield to the Chinese in courage and energy. The greater part of the merchandise brought to Maimaitchin to be exchanged at Kiakhta for Russian productions is composed of four different kinds of teas. Three of thoso varieties of tea are of superior quality, and come generally from the northern Chinese provinces, such as Yunnan and Tse-tchuen. This has probably given to these so-called “caravan teas” their reputation in Europe. The fourth variety, on the other hand, which is scarcely known except to Russians, Mongo- lians and Tartars, is composed of the remnants of the most inferior crops. It seoms that to this are often added tea leaves which have al- ready been used and afterwards dried. Its name, “brick tea,” comes from the form in which it is exported. Dried leaves or not, all is mixed and strongly pressed until it looks “ very like @ brick.” It is in this condition that it is transported to the fair of Nijnii-Nov- gorod, whence it is distributed in all the cot- tages of the peasants. The populations of the steppes of Mongolia and Siberia also purchase from the Chinese of the frontier tea mixed with a kind of grease, which is afterwards rolled into balls before being exported. At Maimaitchin is sold also @ great quantity of Chinese porcelain. The Russians, who have been in business relations with the Empiro of China for two centuries, acquired almost at the samo time with the Dutch a taste for Chinese porcelain, The finest European collections of Chinese porcelain are to be found in Russia, Almost all the Chinese productions bought at Maimaitchin by the Russians go to the great fair of Nijnii-Novgorod, which is held from June to September. Thence they pass to the rest of the empire or to the rest of Europe. In return, besides a cash payment, which is slways in favor of the Chinese, the Russian imports consist of cloths of Russian manufac- ture, of fars from the Siberian provinces, of leathers and moroccos and of motals abun- dantly furnished by the mines of Siberia, It is thus that Russia has built up {a the rear of China « commerce which must facilitate the introduction of the ideas of Western Europe into the Flowery Kingdom. The selection of Anson Burlingame, a Minister of the United States to the Court of Pekin, as the envoy of the Chinese Emperor to America and the European nations, curiously illustrates the influence which the United States, on the one hand, as well as Russia on the other, have acquired by peaceable means in the East, Cuase anp Wape.—A difficulty seems to be springing up in the path of impeachment which may prove more effective in securing the acquittal of the President than all the legal arguments that can be made in his behalf, There as long been a jealousy between the two most prominent figures in the drama— Chief Justice Chase, who presides at the trial, and Old Ben Wade, who, in case of the con- viction of Andrew Johnson, would remove, with all his old clothes and shirt collars, into the White House. If Wade should obtain con- trol of the federal patronage for a month or two before the nomination of candidates Chase’s chances would not be worth one of bis old ten cent shinplasters. The Chief Justice has enough to do to head off Grant, without helping to place his old Obio competitor in a position to insure his defeat. MUSICAL. Sramway Hat.—The twenty-second Sunday concert at this hall last night was mot as fully attended as the groat attraction of the brilliant pianist, Miss Alide Topp, deserved, She played Liszt's ‘*‘ Rnapsodie Hongroise,’”” No, 2, inan unrivalled manner. There is one quality about Miss Topp’s plano playing which deserves special mention. It isthe exquisite delicacy and true poetry with whieh she renders every passage, Mere correct- ness of technique 18 @ quality that most public players acquire, but few have the true, sympathetic touch and interpretation of a composer's ideas that this gifted lady displays, Miss Jenoy Landsman, an excellent con- tralto, sang @ cavatina from ‘Il Barbiere ” and one of Benedict's songs, The orchestra played selections from Mozart, Myerbeer, Weber, Beethoven aud Auber im splendid style, Sacrgp Concert at Sr. Steraen’s Cavron.—A grand sacred concert, embracing favorite selections from the “Messiah,"’ the “Creation” and ‘Stabat Mater,”” was given last evening, before an immense audience, at St. Stephen’s (Roman Catholic) church, Mr, James Caul- field’s execution on the organ was very good, and some of the finer passages in the opening overture (‘‘Obe- ron”) were rendered with excellent taste. The accom- paniments throughout the entire concert were all that could be desired in point of taste, execution and judg- ment and gave the vocalists every opportunity to dis play their abilities to advantage. Mmes, de Lussan and Anschutz ang Rossini’s ‘Quis est Homo” in a very pleasing and artistic manner, and in Curschman’s trio, “Ti Prego,” the fine alto of the latter lady had a very good effect, Thi ists were supported by an excellent chorus, and had the proprieties permitted any demon- atration of applause it certainly would bave been volun- teered at the close of the chorus, ‘The heavens are telling,” and the solo and chorus, “Ihe marvellous works,’ Doth of which are Haydo’s magnificent pro- ductions. Musical and Dramatic Notes. A new prima donna, Madame Agatha States, will make her debut at Pike’s to-night in the opera of “Er- nani.” Madame States is an American artist and enjoys avery high reputation, ‘The “Grand Duchess’? will hold high carnival at the ‘Théatre Frangais every night this week except Saturday, when the dramatic company will appear. “Rosedale’’ will be revived at Wallack’s this week. There are but few changes from the original cast, Murdoch will conclude his engagement at the Bowery this week. Chanfrau’s Sam Broadway. The “White Fawn,” of course, at Niblo's, ‘Mrs, Frances Anne Kemble will give her first reading at Steinway Hall to-night, ‘Coriolanus’’ will be the subject, Kennedy, the celebrated Scottish vocalist, will appear ‘at Steinway Hall for the last timo on the 4th inst, “Jessie Brown’? will be the sensation for the week at Mrs, Conway’s Park Theatre, Brooklyn. ‘Miss Mollie Williams and Felix A. Vincent will hold forth at the Brooklyn Opera House. ‘The Arion masked ball will be held at the Academy of Music on Thursday next. ‘The bailet and pantomime troupe from the Théitre Comique, Boston, will be this week at our Théitre Comique. Professor Hutchinson and bis trained dogs, the Jockey Club races and the groat Pfau are at the Circus. Maggie Mitchell still at the Olympic. “Nobody's Daughter” at the New York. A great pedestrian and the ‘‘White Fawn” are the at- tractions at Tony Pastor's, ‘The “Grand Dutch 8” at Kelty and Leon's minstrels, Butler brings out at the American theatre a new bur- lesque called “Mazeppa; or, The Wild Zebra of Elm Park.” The San Francisco Minstrels are still under the ‘‘Ke- rosene Lamp."’ The “Wild Fawn of the Woods’ 1s still running at Hooley’s, Brooklya. , ae ramen ache Brig ener of the Piigrim will be presented at Bunyan Hail, the proceeds being for the Catholic Church of the Epiphany. curiae aon Aleyne (Lady Eardley) will shortly retara. Mr Borcrenult bas, it is said, purchasod the Sablontére Hotel, Leicester square, intending to convert tt into a Madame Sass will make a tour through Belgium ia April next, snging at Ghent, Litge and Antwerp, in the be nd and “Les Haguenots.’’ The revival of Barbe Bleue,” with Schneider, is as remunerative as at its first performance; 53,817fr. = been taken at the first fifteon representations. Anew comedy by Mr. Stirling Coyne, “Tne Woman of f- wert, ‘was produced at the Olympic, on LG aremiien that Mile. Stella Colas is likely ere to take possession of a well Known, old established an favorite little West End theatre. Mr. Charles Dillon made his ES since ;. Australian tour at Sadler's Wells on February 17, tn Conservatory of Music gave their fourth 1re 2 their ese oe 24, under the will be the attraction at the OBITUARY. Thomas Ford. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Ford, of Obio, died in Wash- ington on Saturday last of pneumonia, after an iilness of some weeks During the Know Nothing excite- pe he was s prominent member of the order, and for -- My yoars occupied a pat pomape | pollt of bis State, and was not unkn the nation, During the war he com: ently @ brigado in tho Union army, and was many en ents, especially thore about Ty at the time of Lee's invasion of as More recently he has devoted himself to the ocacy of the temperance cause, and was well tor thi hout the country, Ho waa years of poy! ‘at the time of his demise, position ta 4 jown threughout nded @ repose Jobn W. Dana. The people of Maine will learn of the death of ex. Governor Joho W. Dana with sincere repro, He fella victim to the cholera in South America, to which coun- try bi some hed yest ago, Governor Dana was of friends will deepl; Hon Bh Bo in let wore weet | ‘combined all the essential olemente of ® great and good man, both in public and private life, Samuel B. Howe. Rev. Dr, Howe died at his residence in New Bruns. wick, N, J.. yesterday morning, in ¢he seventy-ninth year of be ed He wasa prominent clergyman of the ‘State, been pastor of the First Reformed ohurch oe “yew ¥ Brunswick for more than thirty years, Mereororocicat, Recorv,—Fr the report of the Central Park Meteorological department for the week ending Saturday, February 20, it appears that the weekly mean temperature was 22 di 4 8 jan dredths, The maximum, 35.1, was ronc! of the 28th, and the i So ock AM, of the 23d, when the mneter Indicated 1.4 below sero, Range 96.5, The total duration of snowing tor the Med was twenty-two hours and six minates; toval wae , weven inches, sy ‘27th inst, there wo of snow within the twenty-four hours. fanine elzat hours and forty-dve minuies,