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8 ——— Second Session, SENATE. WasHINGTON, March 13, 2868, PETITIONS. Mr. JOHNSON, ‘dem.) of Md., presented a petition of the Colonization Society praying that the Postmaster General be authorizee to enter into a contract to carry the mails to Liberia. Referrec to the Com- mittee on Post OMices and Post Roads. Mr. SUMNER, (rep.) of Mass., presented the petition of drafted men of New York asking to be placed on @n equal footing with volunteers w gions, Mr. SUMNER also presented a number of petitions from “shoe and leather manufacturers of various parts of Massachusetts praying for a reduction of ‘the tax. Referred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. CAMERON, (rep.) of Pa., presented the remon- Btrance of the journeymen printers of Pennsy ‘against the passage of a copyright law; also th ton of Lucretia Mott, President of the Society, praying for the establishmen form of government in every State. dudiciary Committee, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N, resented the Referred to the tition of citizens of New Yo d New Jersey ying fora reduction of the army and navy, and ‘@f the general expenses of the government. Referred to the Committee on Finan e. Mr. Mortos, (rep.) of Ind., presented the petition @f the workingmen of Ohio for the passage of an } eight hour law. Referred to the Comm: merce. AMENDNFNT OF THE JUDICIARY ACT. The bill to amend the Ju ry act of September 94, 1759, passed last evening, came over from the House signed, and received the signature of the Pre- Bident pro fem. RELISP OF THE HEIRS OF ASHBURY DICKENS. Mr. TRUMBCLL, rep.) of nl Ned up the bil for ‘the relief of the heirs of A ury Dickens, making @m appropriation on account of his having acted as Secretary of State. Mr. Trumbull offered an amend- ment provid that none of the heirs who have taker part in the rebellion, nor their assignees, shall Participate in the benefit of this act, Which was @greed to. The bill, afer some discussion, was passed. TER DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL. On motion of Mr. MORRILL, (rep., of Me., the Sen- endments to the Consular and ic Appropriation dtl, non-concurred tn >: the House, and Messrs. Morrill, of Maine, Howe an Buckalew were appointed as a comm:ttee of confer- ‘the part of the Senate, 9 p.) of Ne introduced a joint carry {nto effect the resolution of March providing for an exchange of documenta. a to the Committee on bait né Senate here assumed she functions of a Court @f impeachment for the trtai of the President. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, March 13, 1868. THE CHAPLAIN’S. PRAYER. In the Chapiain’s prayer this morning on opening the pr ceedings of the House the {mpending event in ‘the Senate was thus referred to:— In this great and solemn cay tn the history of the land draw Thou = near to all the public men to whom the destinies of the land are especially com- Mitted inthis great transaction. Grant unto them especial wisdom for the special occasion, and may the world be led to see in the issue of this great ria! that righteousness prevails over all passion and eee aloe. and party interest; that everything here is lecided on its merits as judged by the principles of eternal right; and may th example of one that does } and with proper regard to and the rights 2. READING THE JOTRNAL. Mr. FARNSWORTH, (rep. Feading of the journal be disp Evprivgz, (dem.) of Wis., ob hhe understood a bill had been Gay without the knowledg the amendment to the bil a= t, taking appellate power from certain cases). CONFERENCE COMMITTE! The following conference com: {nted by the Speaker:—On the b e fessrs, Greathouse and Kelley, Mi Farnsworth, Ferry and Johnson, of Cal.; on Consular and iplomatic Appropriation bill, Messrs, Washburne, u., Beaman and Morgan, PETITIONS, ETC. Mr. KELLEY, ig of Pa., presented a petition of six slaves of the late George W. P. Custis, setting Porth that they had labored on his Arlington estate severally from thirty-five to fifty-nine years without Wages, and had frequently been promised provision on the estate for their old age, and praying Congress to grant to each of them a homestead of twenty ecres out of the estate, which is now the property of the Uaited States. Mr. Myers, (rep.) of Pa.. presented a petition from three hundred employés of the morocco manafac- turere in the T istrict of Pennsylvania, ask:ng at goat skins and sumac may be imported free of nd be presented as an ar of God the pation 8) d reso! SPEAKER presente: Fiorida Ww ee on Appropriations. NDERSON'S CLAIM. 1 ENEEAL A Mr. of com Ande Doe war on the property Clinch, made a report, the su! ince of which is that $15,000 be paid to Mrs. Anderson in trust for the ex- elusive use Eliza B. Anderson during ner tife tt ne sum remaining at her death to be held in trust for her children. x ‘ops, (rep.) of Wis., opposed the report, and stated to the House the facts of the case, from which 4t appeared that General Clinch had left eight heirs, seven of Whom Were residing im the rebel States, who Lad been adherents of the rebel cause, and had given to Mrs, Anderson a sort of mongrel document, be- d in Semi- | her father, General Tween an assignment and a power of attor- mey; ‘that the claim was @ vague an - @efinite one for injuries to General Ciinch’s plantation in Florida tn 1852 and 1833, and that there Was no evidence whatever In the case that would entitle a party examined, nor any report made on the case in the Committee on Claims, of which he {s a member. The ciaim was based not on justice but on lobby- ing. It had been before Congress for @ great num- regard to pen- | or Com- | n court to any kind of relief; not | & single paper in the case had ever been read or | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. to the Senate from day to day, as the it Dawes moved that to-day the members pro- the Senate in a body. is was ow to, . Ross, dem.) of M., inquired whether tt would be in order to summon all the people of the Cuited oe to appear? ¢ SPEAKER ied that it would not, and thai the Secretary of the Senate was now at the bar of the House for the purpose of delivering a messarre. ‘The Secretary then announced that the Senate in- sist on the amendments to the Consular, and Diplo- matle Appropriation bill, and ask a committee of conference, ‘The Secretary also announced that the Senators were now in the chamber and ready to pro- ceed with the trial, and that seats nad been provided for the accommodation of members of the House, THE WHISKEY FRACDS AND LIFE SAVING COMMISS:0N. Mr. Van Wyek, (rep.) of N. Y., offered a resovution that five thousand extra cop!es of the report of Committee on Retrenchment on the whiskey frauds ) be printed for the use of the House. | Mr. Daieas, (rep.) of Mich., also offered a resolution nog for the printing five thousand extra | copies of the report of the Life Saving Commission | convened at New York, th resolutions were referred to the Commit! pro’ DEPARTURE FOR THE SENATE CHAMBER. coved that the House re- of the Whole on the stale of the UI ’ b arpose of proceecing ib @ body to the dar of the Sezate. This was agreed to. a The SPEAKER appointed Mr, Washburre, of Ciinols, to preside. ‘ne members then formed in line, the Chairman, supported by the Clerk anc the Doorkeeper, being at the head, and at fifteen minutes past one o'clock proceeded to the Senate chamber, The members of the House returned to their hal! at twenty minutes past five o'clock, wher Mr. WasH- BURNE, as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, reported that according 10 the order of the House they had attended the High Court of Impeachment, accompanied dy the Man- | Agers, and tat the court, having receivec the re- Byrd of the counsel of the accused, adjourned unti the 23d inst. The House then adjourned, THE STATE CAPITAL. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. Proposed Railroad in Fifth Avenue—Regula- tien of Competing Lines of Telegraph—Des, feat of the Bil] to Reduce the Freight on Milk on the Harlem Railroad—The Com- mittee on Commerce and Navigation to In- vestigate the Alleged Grievances on the Williamsburg Ferries. ALBANY, March 13, 1863. To-day Seing the last on which biils can be intro duced this session which shall receive csnsideration finaly before action shall be taken on those tntro- @uced subsequently, @ perfect shower of bills del uged the clerk's desk when the order of bufiness was Teached. Overeighty bills were introduced in the few minutes preceding adjournment this afternoon, Some of these concern subjects of deep interest to New York city, as the summary given below of them willshow, The bil! for a raliroad in Fifth avenue, introduced by Mr. Irving, took everybody by aur. prise. REGULATION OP CONNECTING LINES OF TELEGRAPI. The following bil, introduced by Mr. Younglove, looks to an adjustment of the rights of the nity in the present struggle betweer the vari: competing lines of telegraph. It is entitled “AD to amend an act to provide for the incorporation Tegulation of telegraph compantes, passed Apri } 1s4s. SECTION 1.—It sha‘l be the duty of any ind! association or company owing or using or oper under lease any telegraph line whotty or par this State, or of auy foreign association or | company having offices tu this State, to | receive all despatches offered by any indi vidual firm or eompany for points at which they may have offices, or any part of thetr lines or con- nections and to transmit and deliver the same promptly in the regular order in which they are re- ceived to their destination at an equal and impartiai cost to all parties, associations or companies 30 offering such messages, such charges not to exceed the rates charged on messages originating with the company thus receiving the same, with the addt- tion of not more thar two extra words at pro rata bre when transferred from one company to an- other. Sc. 2. That the proviso contained in section two of the act passed April 12, 1845, be and the same ts hereby repealed, Ske. 5. It shall be the duty of all telegraph com- panies when messages are offered by other telegraph companies for transmission under section first of (his act to return promptly the answers to ‘he same to the company originating the message at the oftice at which it wa8 transferred, paying to the said com- ny'tariff from the point at wich {t was 40 trans- ferred vo destinaticn. Sec. & Al! telegraph companies, whether wholly or partly in this State, and all foreign companies having OMices oper in this State for rece!ving and transmitting ‘eiegraph messages, shall ve and transmit auy and ali messages o‘fered by any in- dividual association or company marked to be coi- jected at destination, provided the party offering the same shall deposit the amount of ‘ts tariff to destina. tion on the condition that the amount thus deposited shall be refunded when collected, and said company shall report to the party depositing when the same is collected free of charge. THE MILK EREIGHT QUESTION. ‘The Committee on Ral!roacs reported adversely to the bill to reduce the rates for freight on miik on the Hariem Railroad, anc as a minority repert was sub- mitted in favor of the bill a lively little contest en- sued on the foor of the House this morn ing. Is ended, however, with the adoption of the majority report, and many have drawn the inference that Commodore Vanderbtit proved too strong 4 man against the friends of the measure. THE WILLIAMSBURG FERRIES. A resolution was adopted to-day anthorizing the Committee on Commerce and Navigation to roceed to New York to take testimony regard- jing the alleged grievances on the Willlamsburg | ferries. A similar committee iast year returned without remedying any of the evils complained of. present ormmittee has an opportunity of im- ing upoh the exampie of their predecessors, rov! ber of years, but had never passed efther House until) now; that it was taken up and sou, | mre on the merits of a distinguished generai w & appened to be the husband of one of those claim- Mr. Houman had the preamble of the bil! read, as eontaining the facts on which the bill rested, in- eluding the point that the family of Genera: Ander gon had need of the appropriation. Mr. BinciaM, (rep.) of Ohio, sustained the biil, and urged that the House agree to :he conference Feport. Mr. HoLMaN justified the appropriation, arguing that the claim ‘was a just and eqn one. and that It wou.d be exceedingly ungra on the part of Congress to ignore the distin, eo services of Generai Anderson. He proposed, as « compromise, that the amount be reduced to ten sand douars. e The SPEAKER tuformed him that thai could pot ve jone. Mr. HOLMAN then suggested that the conference report ve rejected, hat suggestion was agreed to, and then the House f e tpotion of Mr. Ho pd from ent and ed tO buh, Ww r ing the amount from Gfveen thou- sand dollars, of Pa., moved that the 6. passed o for the presen’ THe is AL—PRINTING THB REPORTS, Mr. MAYNaKD, if Te #Xed leave to offer the following resolution, which was read for tnfor- mati Reso! mittee « excement é, and then return to Mr. Span. important a G, (rep.) of OF nLON to. . objected, EACH MENT TRIAL. e It was too n, to each ng after the nd bind inembers nin the Daily Giobe sand copies when pr 5:18 NR, red at what nt to be | Troy; incorporating the Buffaio Park; against the appointment of commissioners to examine into the system and management of New York common schools—which wae = agreed to; ending the or the city | Bi for the extension o: spect Park, bi Such fuvestigations always arr suspected of a “striking” character. Th mittee should see j to it that they correct tke general tmpression in this respect so far as (hey are > aed. NEW YORK LEGISLATURE. SENATE. ALBANY, March 13, 1868, Nearly the entire morning session was in discussion on the ole aboushing Board, but without any definite resus They were made a apecla: order fcr ne. evening. BILLS REPORTED. Authorizing the Syracuse Board of Education to transfer certain property; relative to te offices of Re. corder, Chamberlain, Assessor and City Attorney of yn; auth other's By M sidera rat rizing’ the street ra! acks by mutual agre 'DONNELL—A mayority report for fthe Senate to provide for taxt Joint Stock associations at the Comptroi- e. A:bany. je the National Safe Deposits Company to te 118 organization; incorporating the Union © Deposit Company; incorporating the Geneva } Savings f estaWishing the status and civil mghis of the issue of Seneca Indians and their white wives. BiLLS INTRODUCED Ry Mr. O'Dos To impose taxes upon certain laws enacted by the Legislature. Ry Mr. CoarMay—Amending the charter of the city of Binghamton; also authorizing the appointment of commissioners to locate an asy!um for insane in one of the western or southern ter of counties, Mr. FoLGkR—Amending charter of the » Gold Mining Company of Colorado, also, to tn- i n of erte To enad 1a be printed? k—break- ghte Mr MaYsany aguin asked the House to consider he resolutcon Mr. Dawes, \rep.) of Mass., «a! Odjection Was made to {t becau pared tc commit attend the session of th titat elghto’ he presumed the House waa not a every day co Senate, Mr. MAYNARD remarked that the House could at —_ time modify the order. The SPEAKER said that it was expected that at one o'clock a message would be sent to the House invit- ing its members to be present tn the Senate. ir. WaSHBCRNR, Of [, moved that the House take a recess until the message shall be received, Mr MayNarp sald that as a matter of propriety, In view of ‘he fact that this was the gravest triai that had ever taken place, the House ought to go to the Sen ‘o stand by Managers who were engaged in name prosecuting the case, Mr Kenn, (dem, of . remarked that the pro- @eedings were also in United States, e name of the people of the who could not be present in tie Senate pending the trial, He moved that during the tria, the House meet for the purpose of maxing Speeches, Dat transacting 20 legisiative business. Thie motion Was « red 10, Severa. geniiewmes sad “ha. there wou!d be Bo ob corporate the Commercial Credit and Guarantee Ag Company of New York. = by Mr. WiLLiaMs—To amend the Auburn School act By Mr, Mcnpuy.—PFor the completion of improve. us f street, New York. By Mr. Tweep—Incorporating the Association of the Scidiers’ Home, New York. BILLS NOTICED, Mr. CREAMER gave notice of a bili authorizing the appointment of # Pinanctai Exaiuiuer for the city of New York, BILLS PASSED, To facilitate the construction of the New York and Oswego Midiand Railroad, amending the charter of the Irving Fire Insurance Company; {ncorporating the New York Elevator Company. Mr. PARKER Ly aghoy favorably the bill making the amount insured by Ore insurance companies evidence of the amount Gegstored by tire. Adjourned til Monday evening. The Senate committee to investigate the affairs of the Erie ‘road have postponed their meeting until next Thursday, owing to the aosence of impor- tant witnesses. SBEMBLY. ALBANY, March 13, 1868, CONTESTRD SRAT. Speaker announced as the special order the ‘opert of the Committee on Privileges and Elevtions ‘on the contested seat case of John Raber against Jacob Worth. My. Pr made a jority report dectaring that Jacob Worth was éenutied Lo the seat now occupied by him. bi ‘The question on the adoption of wus jost. The vote Was—yeas resvlution reported by the ma) atto Jonn Raber was then adop' 2, mays 47. ‘The oath of oflce was then administered to Mr, Raver. ihe minority re- 7 nays 6% y awarding ac by a vote 3 + REPORTS. Ry Mr. Prusce, from the Committee on Ratiroads, A majority report against the bill to reguiaie the freight on_mitk on the Harlem Ratiroa’ By Mr. NELSON, from the same comm: nority report in favor of the same bili. Mr HUMPHREY moved the adoption of the m! ity report, which was iost. The report of the major: ity against the bill was then adopted—vyeas 76, nays! 2, Mr. J. L. Faa@ reported fer consideration bills to give State aid to the Black River Railroad and al: to the Buffaio and Washington Railroad; ‘ annual sppropriation bill, algo the annuai supp’ By Mr. KiegNaN—To regulate the South and ‘ton ferries, tee, @ mi: 2 e os le am Mr. KIERNAN, from the Committee on Commerce and Navigation, reported the resoution authorizing the said committee to examine into the management of the ferries between New York and Brock:yn, with power tc send for persons and papers. A.s0 to in- corporate the Metropolitan Boat Cl aiso for the erection of wharves and piers in the Harlem river. By Mr. EY—To amend the Hudson City charter, By Mr. Jcunscn—To incorporate the Oswego Board of Trade; aiso relative tc ordinances, contracts and street improvements in New York. By Mr. Locxspcr¥—To amend the Registry law; also tc amend the chaster of the Ononcaga Trus anc Deposit Company; iso toextend the time for the sollectton of taxes in Oswego: also to cede ‘ands re ey near the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the United tes, By Mr. Morrry—To tacorporate the Fulton Bene- voient Association in New York; aisc for the con- smcain and maintenance’ of certain piers in New ork. By Mr. BRiSTOE—To amend the Rochester city charter, BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. PR:NcE—To encourage and aid the con- struiction of railroads, By Mr. invinc—To tncorporate the Fifth Avenue Ravroad Company. By Mr. K:s&NaN—To incorporate the Union Storage jy Mr Company. By M: Y—Te amend the Central Park act. By Mr. K:ERNaN—Tc fx the salaries of oficers connectec with the New York Law Department. By Mr. FREAR—Relative to ald to emigrants and other passergers arriving in New York, By Mr. Hartmas—To tncorporate tne Teutczia bgp i Bank of New Yo By Mr. StmNER—For a bridge over the Hudson river at Aibary and for the removal of we present bridge at that place. By Mr Y:ircuéaN—To incorporate the Arcade Cn- dergrounc Railroad Company. By Mr. TRatNon—For a line of stages from South Ferry to 125th street, New York; also to {nccrporate enty-thire Street Railroad Company. _ By Mr. Vas BRUNT—To ‘ncorporate the East and North River Raiiroad Compary, By Mr. CaMPBELL—To incorporate the City Trust Bevings Institution of New York, Br. Mr, FREAR—To extend Lexington avenue, New ork. By Mr, DEcKER—Relative tc the sate of the Marine Hospital | sian By Mr. LawkeNce—To amend the Revised Statutes relative to divorces, 'y Mr. CAMPBELL—To incorporate the Central Crosstown Railroad Company. A recess Was then taker to half-past seven o'clock, Evening Session. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Tortirr—To provide additional conve- niences for passenyers on railroads oper oy steam, Cenabie raiiroad companies to receive compen- therefor, Mr. Bre ‘o1—An act In addition to the acts Railway Company. eR—In relation to te water front of York. W. 3. ANDREWS—To {mprove Prospect Park, utes rela- By Mr. D. 8uURNS—Prohiditing extra fares for the use of sleeping cars. By Mr. FLaGo—Te prohibit the Hudson River Rail- foes Comieny from using steam be.cw Fifty-nin:h street. By Mr. La Bat—To incorporate the Savings and Loan Bank of New York, by Fora railroad insLexington in New York. THE EXPRESS COMPANIES’ WAR. Mr. W. S. ANDREWS offered the foliowizg:— ANd 60 acon, if per Debate arising, the resointicn was laid over under the rule. FORT LAFAYETTE. Mr, LAWRENCE presented a preamble and resolu- tion providing for the appointment of a special committee to examine the charges in re‘ation to the use of Fort Lafayette during she late civil war. Laid on the tabie to be printed. BiLLS REPORTED PAVORABLY. By Mr. Hasbrovck—Relative to the Wakil Vi ko y B KrzRNaN—For the removal of the Genesee Couege. By Mr, Prick—To amend the charter of the Bustalo Street Kailway. By Mr. SKEBLS—To provide for the construction of @ railroad in Nassau and other streets in New York. Also to authorize the Manhatian Railway Company ‘© construct an undergro railroad in New \ ork. The mbiy then snare to Monday evening at Lall-past seven o'clock. THE ERIE RAILROAD IMBROGLIO. Daniel Drew and His Associates Pack Up and Take Refuge in Jersey~The Business De~ Partment Transferred to a HotelmA Long Encampment Provided for. When the troubdies which aMlict the Erte Railroad stockholders cu!minated some two weeks ago in the gigantic suit against Daniel Drew and othera it was considered on ali sides that the dispute would be solved in the courts, and that the litigation would be confined to this one suit. But the number of appeais which have arisen out of the first has dispeiled these hopes, and how many injunctions and legal stages are to follow no one can even conjecture. Anticipatinga sudden visit of the officers of the law, a regular stampede took place on Thursday morning among the officials, eact. one lugging off an account book, desk, drawer, or as many of the red tape docn- ments a8 could be grasped in the hurry of the moment. A police officer who patrols that portion of West street lying between Chambers and Cortlandt streets had his attention directed to the bustie and confusion; but although guarantees were given that there was nothing contraband tn the pos- session of the fying squadron he had strange mis- givings as to the real object of this exodus, In fact, so complete a clearing out has not taken place since the Fentans fled from Dublin on the night of the sus- pension of the habeas corpus. But whither was the group tending? That was the question. The officer moved cautiously and slyly aong, and at fifteen minutes past two o'clock they pee ed into the Jersey City ferry, and haying reached ‘ersey City they entered Taylor's Hotel. The pro- prietor was cailed fcr; a brief conference ensued, aud the company passed to an upper room of the hotel, strict orders being given as to the admis of visitors, A few were admitted, however, yesterday, and Mr. Fisk appeared to have established a re iu for the transaction of business, The appeared all in good humor, and so far they have fared nothing the worse for the change. They dined and wined during the day, and patronized the hotel to liberally that at the next report of financial atvirs 2 itetn may be expected opposite the “incidenta’ The matter was Kept 80 secret people in Jersey City, if any at ail outside . Were aware of the presence of this mighty corporation, With archives, bonds and assets, the latter amounting to ds or millions, accordin; to different conjectures, But this part of the busl- as been kept a strict secret, and whatever it is now in their possession wii remain a stery to outsiders, being made to transact business hotel tlil the present troubies have passed Ti!) then they will remain 4: of Je Preparations are in the over nsclous securt- ty on the sol ms them free, jlance of detectives. The Jersey oity Ho! Tries on both stags are carefully udrded by detectives who, tt is said, are promised liberal rewards if they aucceed in “bagging their game" and decoving Dantel Drew, Messrs. Goulé and k into the mesies of the law. The refugees are ware at this oni declare thelr determination to “fight it ont on cus itne,’ though they hesitate to add “if it takes ail summer." ee Orders were sent to she different departments yes- terday that the omce in New York {# closed ti! farther orders, and rai of the subordinates called at Taylor's Hotel yesterday to recetve instructions, This hotel, then, witli be the headquarters ttil the party representing Vanderbilt, as ‘ur, Fisk alleges, relents or the exiles tn Jersey be “starved out” in their encampinent—a contingency by Ho means prova- bie with the amount of funds now tn ‘hetr possession, Oourlers were despatched to New York and the depot at the Long Dock and telegrama forwarded to the principai stations along the ne announcing the new urn of affairs. A general consultauion will take place to-day at the hotel, where the freight agents and superintendents will receive tnatructions for the regulation of their several departments. The appear- Snce at the hotel last evening of four of five su! t- nates suggested a night watch, and it {e quite evident that with all their vaunting the beleaguered directors do not consider themselves sectre even in Jersey. They have evaded the process of law in New York; but the system of es; ge which they will be —— night and day, will be the reverse of com- for’ ey, Which prc THE SCAFFOLD. Execution of Andreas Roesch at St. Peter, Minnesota, for the Murder of Joseph Sauer, Jr—The Crimo—lucideuts of the Executiag= The Condemned Asserts His Innocence, {St. Peter (Minn,) correspondence (March 6) of the ‘St. Paul eh, Even! \. Our town has to-day een tae scene of an excite. ment which I trust no one desires to see repeated, An old man between fifty and Cy years of age, named Andreas Roesch, was hanged for the murder of an innocent and promising lad of sixteen, named Joseph Sauer, The circumstances which have led to this execution are aa follows:— Tn the town of Lafayette, in this Siioniee county, about thirty miles west from St. Peter, some of the farmers have for several years been annoyed by in- jury done their horses while feeding on the prairie, Bometiiney they would be found badly cut, as if done with ascythe or an axe, and at others killed out right. y dogs were poisoned—some of thein valuable hunting dogs, Suspicion naturally turned upon Andreas Roesch, & native of Switzerland, who for three years past has resided on his farm in Laren near the Minnesota river, and opposite New 0! During that ume he has been considered @ vicious and dangerous man, and if any of his neighbors sat hoped to have any diMiculty with him they were quite certain W have their dogs poisoned or their cattle or horses wounded by some sharp instrument, Within the year previous to his committing the crime for which he has to-day paid the penalty three horses were killed either by @tabbing or cutting the throat, In August last a horse belonging to one of Roesch’s neighbors was killed, and the citizens determ:ned to have the matter investigated, Roesch was arrested and taken before a justice of the peace for examina- tion. The testimony was so strong against him (hat he was bound over for trial at the November term of cottrt following. But, alas for him, at that term of court he was tried for @ higher crime than that of kiding @ horse, the witnesses at the examination before the Justice of the Peace was the lad, Josep Sauer, Jr., the son of a German who owns and lives upon a farm adjoining that of Roesch. The testimony of this boy strengthened the mar Icio ne against Roesch, and the latter then threatened the life of the lad. THE MURDER. Young Sauer had acquired quite a taste for hunt- ing by often accompanying Captain W. H. Sigier, of this place—for two or three years a resident of Lafayette—on his shooting excursions, and on the 5th of last November he left home, about one ofclock in the afternoon, to hunt chickens, He passed near the house of Roesch, who watched his movements anxiously, He stopped at the corner of a field near by to adjust something aboct his gun, ard from there proceeded across the rairie some three quarters of a mile, toa hay fleld longing to Koesch. The latter, Recning hig eye constactiy on the boy, hurried across the prairie by a shorter route, anc secreted himself where he could intercept hiz intended victim. The doy, unconscious of the danger that ‘awaited him, was juletly stroluing along, watching for game, when Roesch guddenly sprang from his ambush upon him, wrested tits gun from his hands, aad mur- dered him in broad daylight, by bearing him on his head with his own gun! So furtcus was the attack that the gun was broken tn many pieces, and the boas skuli sinashed in terribly. {ttle did this crue, and cowardly murderer think, however, that there was @ witness standing where he could see the whole proceeding. But sc it was, and that witness wae his own son, Andreas Roesch, Jr, a boy some eighteen or twenty years of age, who was raking hay but a short distance off, This boy, although ue was the principal witness at the trial has been reared in auch ignorance and so abused and tyrannized over by his father that he appeared but iiaiee ove an idict when called to the witness stand, His testimony was conflicting, and received with much doubt. He testified at one time that he himself was the murderer, but afterwards said his father toid him to say so, and he was afraid to do other- wise. One ig Was noticed, however, that when he told a straightforward and consistent story tt alway? implicated his father, Alter i ch had killed the boy he carried and Gragged the body nearly a mile to a slough and threw itn. His sco did not see where he went, but the neighbors, after considerable search, found the body, the broken gun, &c. THE TRIAL. Roesch was then arrested, examined before a Jus- tice and committed for trial at the November term. The triai occupied nine days, and was closed on the 22d of November, the jury returning a verdict of guilty after be:ng ot about three hours. The prose- cution was ably conducted by Charles S, Bryant, county attorney, assisted by Ladd and Burnap, and the defence by C. T. Clothier, of New Ulm, and Hanscome and Wallin, of St. Peter. On Friday afternocn, November 29, the prisoner Was brought into ecurt to receive his sentence. He was a tall, powerfully built man, with such @ vicious looking head and face as to hardly leave doubt that he was at least capable of committing the murder. He was requested by the court to st up, and asked, through the interpreter, Charles AKuyser, if he bad anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced against lim. ° He replied with much apparent earnestness and agitation that he was innocent of the crime of which ke had deen convicted, He was then crdered to listen to the SENTENCE OF THE COURT, After a long and patient investigation and the ex- amination 9: many witnesses by the Grand Jury of our county (ey accused you of this crime, The trial ey was composed of the best citizens of the ary and 20t one of them waa hostile or objectionable foe Upon your final trial before them you had the e:p of ad.e counse: of your own choice, who did all could done. All _ testt- you cculd produce, every* circum- stauce that you could suggest, was received and duly considered. Nothing was rejected, and your counse. had no refusal, no order, no de- cision, froin the commencement to-the end, to ex- ceptto. Yettne jury lave, after a thorough and dispassionate examination of ali the facts, pro- bounced you zt of the wilful and malicious mur. der of Josep > , a boy who had hardly arrived at the years accountability, and for this you mony” tat of you had uc other provocation than a thoughtiess trespass on his part. pardoned after the angry moment, but soived upon oe This you should have excitement of the first instead thereof you re death, This wicked pur- pose you for years, and only wait an opportunity to execute it with saicty to youself and death to your victim. The opportunity at last seems to present itself—ihe boy leaves his home at noonday, ex) ing no evil; he has been warned against you, but kuowing you had no cause to injure him, fears you not. ou meet him, dissembii friendship, you spring upon him as @ beast ol prey, disarm him and beat out his brains in broad dayught, and almost within sight of the fond parents and loving brothers and sisters, who but a few moments before sent him out in health and promise, but whose eyes are full of tears and throata of choking sighs forevermore. This deed could only have been done by a hardened criminal—one whose deeds of crime had been many, or whose heart was naturally most corrupt, and whe had long aban- doned himseif to @ brutal and murderous tem- per. Yourself and your counsel are griges wo admit-that you are ilty of this deed, your own son, who hag en chief witness against you, ts not. If he is in fact the guilty party, Still you have a fearful responsibility to answer. You have wilfuily brouglt up your children in ignorance, have taken from them the key of knowledge, have made brutes of them that yon: might the better en- slave them. And this son you have evidently trained in crime and deeds of darkuess. been otherwise you would not have stood here to-day a convicted feion, by the act or word of ‘our own heir, if by any possibility you are innocent of the murder, The sentence of the court is, that you be taken hence into soiltary confinement and kept there unti! Friday, the seventh day of Feb- . When, between the hours of ten o'clock oon and two o'clock in the afternoon of that day you be taken to the place of execution, and that you then and there be hanged by the neck till ead. And may God show you that mercy i denied to others. Since the sentence he has sent for his boy several times and tried to tnduce him to acknowledge com- mitting the crime, telling him if he would do 80 he would only be sent to the State Prison for a ye and then they wouid both be free. Bat the boy the old man’s tmprisoniment seems to have improved, ve independentiy, He admits horse at the instance and through , but persistently denies having last week the old man sonfess the you know you crime, but ¢ killed him; If any dot the time the Tuilt of Roesch at ink lis con- ed as to the gi duct since has removed ail such dow! Aluiough the Judge appointed the 7th of February as the day of execution, the Governor, upon the petition of some of on a new trial, postponed the eth of March, but refused to graut a new trial. THE EXE iN. Accordingly Sheriff Stone proceeded tc make the necessary preparations, Adjoining the int rear, he had enclosed a space ty feet Square and sixteen feet high, to make tie execution as priv The scaifold was erected against the jali, from which the prisoner couia see the Workinen throug the window in hia cell. Rev. Mr. Kinder, a German Lutheran minis* ‘om New Ulm, was hts spiritual adviser, and was with him from nine o'clock :ast night, and endeavored to get the prisoner to confess iis crime. He refused tc jo. so and maintained his innggence, seeming w de very angry that he should be aéked to confess, John O'Shea, jalor, and James Parker spent the hight with the prisoner, He retired avout ten o'clock and appeared to _t soundly all night. He rose at seven o'clock, made hi fast, appearing to manifest but litte anxiety at his impending fave, twe cell this morning. The whole morning was ocen- pied in prayer, and a8 the hour approached he seemed to express more feeling, and at tunes is ia mentations were boisterous and frightful to hear, Some of his neighbors were with him iast night and told him that he would certainly be put to death to-day. He said he wanted a week longer, 4o that he could see hig son and get him to tel vhe trath, They told him it would make no difference tf Lis son was on which seemed to disappoint him very much, At ten o'clock he was told he had but half an hour to live, He said he did not care—he was ready to @0. He persistently denied the report that he had murderett three men in the Old Country, and claimed that benever did aayting of the kind. Tie denied also is bed and ate a hearty breax. | No one bat two ministers were admitted to nis | Had these things |- Nora need effort to have him but he refused. He claimed to the last that son was the murderer, and anki te was sorty lor ‘THR CLOBING SCEN! At nutes past ten o'clock Sherif Stone entered Sal teaont ‘the prisoner h ume the had come, He manifested some fear, but checked it i pene Seereus to maintain his thus assert his innocence. His arms and feet were then firmly pinioned and the white ¢a) placed upon his head and in company with hi adviser he was led outto the scaffold, He ascended the sca‘feld with a firm step, when @ prayer Was offered, after which hp was asked If he still main- tained his innocence, His last words were, “I call God to witness 1am inaocent and forgive all.” At precise.y fifteen minutes before eleven the white cap was drawn, the spring touched and Roesch was launched into eternity, He died without the movemient of a muscle, SPEOTATURS—VOPULAR BRLIEP—CONDUOT OF HIS w IPE. Only forty persons Were admitted into the enclo- sure to withess the execution. Among. them was the futher of the murdered boy. Be- tween one two hundred were outside the enclosure and on housetops, but the utmost good order prevailed. Notwithstanding his protesta- tons of innocence every one tn St, Peter believes him guilty. He expressed no hope for the future, * indeed, his low order of intellect was hardly suficien' to comprehend the situation. He endeavored a few days ago to get his wife to assert his innocence, hop- ing thereby to receive pardon, but she refused. She said, when asked what she wanted doxe with the body, that she did not want it, ART MATTERS. Church’s “Falls of Niagara’—American Triumphs in Europe. {Frox the London Post, Feb, 27.) Just ten years ago, in the summer of 1858, Mr, Frederick E. Church first made himself known to Europe by medns of his “Niagara Falls,” a wonder- ful picture, which made a profound impression at the time of {ts exhibition and opened our eyes to the fact that a great national school of landscape art was already founded and flourishing on the other side of the Atlantic, The works of American artists have since then become frequent guests in our metropoli- tan exhibition rooms; but, excellent as many of them have been (and if we would remem- ber how excellent we need only remind our readers of Bierstadt’s two fine pictures noticed in these columns little more than a month ago), Mr. Church still keeps that lofty pre-eminence to which he ts entitled, not only by his brilliant tal- ents as an interpreter of nature, but by the untiring enterprise with which he seeks his subjects in all kinds of remote and difficult regions. Following next, after the first “Niagara,” Mr. Church's “Heart of the Andes” at once established his reputation ag one of that select few among the gifted many who may lay claim to stand in the front ranks of the er est art. Next came his ‘Ycebergs in the Polar Sea.” a magical plece of color, lumin- ous with strange lights and subtle reflections, the result of a perilous sketching trip off the coast of Labrador ; and next after this, in 1865, we had the “Cotopaxi) and “Chimborazo,” two pictures unsurpassed for splendor of color, harmony of com- positicn and delicate *atmospheric effect, Through- out all these years and with the advent of each suc- cessive picture Mr, Church’s European fame has gone on (ncreasing, and this because he has all the quali- ties necessary to a great painter. He is a delicate and accurate draughtsman, @ patient student of nature under her most difficult and perplexing aspects, a pure and brilliant colorist and a master of that su- preme art of composition which can never be taught and never be acquired, but which is to the painter what melody is to the musician and taste to the critic—a gift, an Instinct, an inspiration. ‘This second “Niagara,” just arrived at that Lon- don home of American art—Mr. McLean's rooms in the Haymarket—tf it does not tend materially to in- crease Mr, Ciurch's) great reputation, will at least worthily sustain it. He has taken his subject appa rently from the ground below Point Prospect, on the American side of the huge cataract known as Ameri- can Fall, for the hero of his pictuge. The great Horse Shoe and Terrafien Tower le back in the middie distance, occupying this time but a secondary place upon the canvas. A wild and broken wal) of ciiff, with a shattered pine or two aud some wind-tormented bushes clinging here and there in its torn ciefilg and crevices closes ip the picture upon the left, Far down, beyond the plunge of the torrent, half shrouded in mist and ciothed with a tremulous rainbow, delicate and transparent like a scarf of colored lights, lies a little group of ite rocks, radiant and rosy in the sun- shine. To the right, partly obscured by great eae clouds of mist, the river, giddy from its terrific fal and broken into @ thousand swirling eddies, rushes headlong away. The daring with which the artist has rendered the swollen surface of this part of the river is worthy \€ observation. Few painters would have ventured literally to depict the rising of #3 stream towards its centre, where, pent an@ narrowed between its banks, {t assumes a domed shape, utterly foreign to all our preconceived notions of the laws of water surface. This is truth to nature, and truth of a most valuable and important kind. As for the painting of the cataract, it is simply beyonde praise. We see the river above coursing to the brink; we see the force and vitality of its first spring; we see how that force and vitality being spent ag it gocs down, tt fallsa heavy, tnert, helpless mags, overwhelmed at last by ite own sebeh km urged on by the never pausing rush from above. The concentric curves and loops formed by the water in its midway fall, the frag- ments of spray caught upwards and whirled ba again by the wind of its own motion, the seething confusion of mist tn which it 1s lost at its last crash, the sense of resistless power of “sound and fury," of confusion and turmoii, are given as we believe no other painter since Turner could have ven them. This l# great praise, and we witend hat it should be go, It may be that Mr. Church's second ‘ Niagara” will attract many persons less than the more gorgeous “Cotopaxi” and ‘ Chimbo- razo,” and surprise less than the * Iceberg’ picture. In color it is sober almost to a fault, and the subject ig somewhat wanting in general interest; but it is rich in knowledge and Vga of the highest order, If, however, as a work of art the ‘ Niagara” should meet with keener appreciation from painters and critics than from the general public, Mr. Church will have bo reason to be dissatisfied with his success. RUSSIA AND THE UNITED ‘STATES, The Milwaukee Datly Wisconsin, March 5, gives an account of the arrival there, on a temporary visit, of Mr. Jeremiah Curtin, Secretary of the United States Legation at St. Petersburg, and his reception by the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce. The Wis- consin states that Mr. Curtin, both from his abilities as a diplomat and his relation to the government of our country, has been received with the utmost cor- diality throughout Russia, He says that it would be Impossible to overstate the genial kindness and friendliness which the Russians feel toward our countrymen. Mr, Curtin said that he was traveiling in southeastern Russia, at least two thousand miles from St, Petersburg, between the Biack Sea and the Caspian. As he speaks Russian readily he had oc- casion frequently to remark the wonderful iove which exists for our coun! even among the s0- called savage Cossacks. asked one Cossack farmer, ‘Do you know anything of America?’ He replied, “I hear it is a country beyond the great ocean.” “Do you know anything of their peopiet”’ Instantly he answered, ‘They are relatives of ours.’? While speaking of the Cossacks Mr. Curtin re- minded us that the Cossack was not a distinct race, but they are of pure Russian blood, who live on the border to protect the frontier, and because of this duty are exempt from taxation, He says they cor- respond very much in character to our Western border frank, brave, impulsive, generous, when insulted, and ready to bury the friendship ts proffered, He 8 that Juable a population in Russia as our r men are in the United States, He remarks that mericans appreciate the civilizing: and beneficia uences which Russia ts exerting upon Asia. is constantiy advancing towards China, and {ts subduing the savage hordes of Central A and finally assimilating them to her population. respect she is not unlike the United States, has a marvellous power to assimilate provinces he character of our Mr. hat the Russian tem unike that of ours ea of the peace, there as here, are elected yple. In this respect the government of ore democratic than that of any ether in The present Czar, being a pure man, has wher tone into all the judiciary of re, and a8 a pure executive head, in an auto. government Ike Russia, exerts an almost influence, The judieiai reform which the prese zar has established ts not less n and memorad.e than his political reforms; but we must close article, which 1s extending toc iong. {tts a favorite theme of ours to dilate on the future of the t nations op we ich are be: se feeling that bh as to make them their interest can mever 60 Ci enemies, INCOME RETURNS FROM THB PRINCIPAL CiTIRS.— The following tables exhibit a statement of the next taxable income upon which tmternal revenue taxes Were collected in the principal cities during 1866-66 and 1866-67; 1865-66. 1866-67, Increase, New York oity.. 117,008,163 $130,940,696 $15,004,378 Philadeip! 64,876,043 = 63,410,569 od Boston. 42,490, 51,010,382 8,420,424 34,070,820 6,487,510 83,670, = 27,046,814 4,769,021 20,283, 263 _ 13,267, 510 83,208 17,801,208 1,104,496 13,027,081 - 17,052,400 4,600,940 1,388,648 875, 4,705,170 2,174,204 2 034,470 AMUSEMENTS. #1an's Grena Hovar.—Mozart’s ches @aeuore, “DOD Glovanni,” was given last night (which, by the way, 4s the lust night of the present brilliant season) before: @n immense audience. | It is something singular ands also gratifying to Mesers. Pike and Harrison that) nearly every audience during the season has been ar Lp heft large one, The opera was mage nificently sung last jame Pare} the renowned’ pina aes, inal Minnie Hauck and Miss Roncont. Pancani and Rone com were the most noticeable of the male sinzers,. and tn the rest of the cast, the chorns and orchestra there was not a defect that the most captious might take offence at. The maiinée to-day will bring ou® Parepa-Rosa in “Fra Diavolo” and will wind up one of the. est seasons of Itallan opera everwitnessed in a é Sreinway HALL—MRS. KEMBLE’S READINGS.—AI3 the seats on the floor of Steinway Hall were occu- pied by “lookers-on in Vienna" while Mra. Kembio read last evening, as only she can read, the interest- ing story of “ Measure for Measure,” Jt ig. amazingy to see how readily a single voices, unassisted by any stage flilusions, can reproduce the’ shiftingg seenes amidst which the muititudinows charace ters of Shakspeare’s creation “live and move and have thelr being.” Equally at home in tragedy and in comedy, the genius of Mrs, Kemble accome plishes what might at first seem impossible, and her Teadings are as effective and memorable af the finest acting of a whole troupe of performers, To-day Mrs. Kemble will read “Macbeth,” as the matinée, which will commence at two o'ciock, Instead of three, as previously announced. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. 4 new drama wit) shortly be produced at the Grow. cian, Loudon, The Academie des Beaux Arts has elected M. Walewski to the chair vacated by the death of M.. Kastner. A new revue, in three acta, by M. O’Squarr, ts tm) Tehearsai at the Theatre Dejazet. On the proposition of M, Emile Augier the commit. tee of the Societe des Auteurs Dramatiques has voted) 600f. towards the cost of the proposed bust to Pon+ Sard, A new five-act comedy, which will have the title of “L’Ecole des Grues,”’ is in preparation by Madame D. Rouy and M. Emanuel. . The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres has: elected le Comte Melchoir de Vogue to the place va+ cant since the death of the Duc de Luynes. ‘ Wagner’s music is growing in popularity. Ine march in “Lohengrin” was recently encored and hac @ narrow escape of being perfcrmed three times. | The eight first representations of “Paul Forestier’* at the Comedie have produced the large sum of 45,882f. 60c. The largest amount received on one evening was 6,587f. ' Robertson's new comedy at the Prince of Wales’, London, 1s thus spoken of:—“Play” is a less fresth and on the whole rather less homogeneous work tham “Caste.” It is, however, decidedly riper, While ita dialogue is not less britilant nor {ts cynicism a subtle, the knowledge of human nature it displays i decidedly deeper and its analyses of motive ara bolder and more successful. ' M. Victorien Sardou's comedy of “Les Vieux Gargons” has been produced under the title of “Los Solterones" at the Teatro del Principe, Madrid, bu has not proved very successful. A French company is performing at the Teatro de Variedades, Herr Stockhausen sang at the sixth concert of thi Orchestra! Association, Brestau, when the prograinme: included Symphony in G major, Haydn; scene from “Iphigenia in Auits,’ Giuck; first: movement from the “Ocean Symphony,’’ Robinstein; Overture to the: “Carnava; Romain,” Berlioz, &c. Vith its seventy-eigiith concert the Musical Asso~ Clation of Gera inaugurated iately the concert room, in the new Tontialle, or music hall, a large and eles gant building in the Theaterplatz. The performanca commenced with Cherudini’s overture to “Les Aben~ cerages,” followed vy Beethoven's A major symphony z a rondo brilliant for piano and orchestra, by Huim-~ mel; scene and air from Marschner’s ‘Hans Helling;’” and the sinale from Mendeissoln’s unfinished opera, “Loreley.” Herr W. Tschirch was the conductor, At the Boutles a bur.esque of “Paul Forestier,” en- titled “Paul, Faut Rester," is in preparation, Mmes.. Dupontavisse and Dambricourt, and MM. Perey, Jolly and Dumouiin will have parts, > “La Vie Parisienne” will shortly be revived at ag Palais Royal, and will be followed by a uew opcrett by M. Offenbach to a libretto by MM. Henrt and Ludovic Halevy ‘The Emperor and Empress have announced thetr intention to be present at a ball given on the 14th of March at the Opera Comique for the beneidt of tha Actors’ Benevolent Fund. Rossini's “Guilanme Tell has been performed five hundred times On the night of the five hun« dredth representat:on the artists of the opera gave a serenade to Rossini The‘overture was piayed pri cisely at midnight by the entire orchestra, after whic! Faure and some of the principal vocalisia sang on or two favorite morceaux. Rossini, who had just recovered from a serious indisposition, appeared an returned warm acknowledgments for the honot thus paid him. Oc nis appearance M. Perrin place upor his head a go\sen crown of bay leaves. it ig. a very curious colucidence that the day th Comedie pera the newly acquired portrait o: Moliere the receipts at the theatre amounted to oe ag sum paid for the picture—viz, nearly 6, inca, Two new vaudevilies have been produced at the Theatre des Nouveastes, The first, “Un Service dq Nuit,” by MM. Henri Normand and Paul Aveuel, is a tolerably amusing trife, showing the manner ig which a husband spends the hours he teils his wife are occupied with night service as one of the Gari Spiional. The second Gaston Marot, and i ted “Tout Pour un Habit.” This alao deals wit the adventures of a husband, What Frenc Piece, indeed, does not? His. wife, befor folng to a ball, locks up his clothes, that may be unable to follow her. He appeai however, in his dressing gown, and is mistaken { @ Persian who is expected. Other mistakes an misapprehensicns follow, and thanks to the clev: acting of MM. Meryot and Terence and Madam Coraiy and Montigny prove sufficiently humorous, The fate of the remarkabie opera of “Guillaum@ Tell’ has deen strange. The following particularg concerning !* are not without interest. It was first played on the 12th of August, 1822. Om the ist of June, 1831, tt was reduced to thre acts. On the 5th of August in the same year it w: reduced tc two acts. ake the six foliowing yeare it was played in one act only, and served lever" du ridean to the ets, which were then the great attractions at the opera. It.thus ushered in Tagile oni's famo:s ballet, “La Sylphide.”’ On the 17th of Aprti, 1837, {t waa performed in three acts for the debut of Duprez. The receipts with it at this thi were unprecedentedly i Not, however, till 1s5é was it restored to its or shape of four act The iast revivai was on the 25th of November las year since which time it has been played twenty- three t.mes. The austrian soil seems pecuilarly favorable for artistic promotion by marriage. ‘That charming: Inger, Fraulein Lowe. became princess and bore tha ame of one of the proudest houses in Austria, and the eprightly littie actress Fraulein Gozmann ts now the daughter-in-law of one of the first dipiomas tists—of him by whom Austria is represented a& Porte. One lady still upon the stage is, ai assert, already the wedded wife of & count with a well Known same. The charm- Re dancer, Fraulein Bianca Lucas, 18 des- ined te become the wife of the future heir to coble estates and a right noble name. = The Arch duke Henry cousin to the Emperor, has just been. married « a young lady of the name of Hofman. [ft Pid hat the enthusiastic applause bestowed on . Auber on the first night of his new opera, “Premier Jour de Bonheur,” waa almost too much for the veteran composer, He said he had but on® ‘hing to regret, and that was his greatage. There ig a report that M. Auber is to be made Senator. When Mile. Lucea made her début at St. Peters- barg ae Marguerite in Gounod’s “Faost," the enthu- Slasin she created Was so great that she was called before the curtain twenty-two times, She hia a Sung in the “Africaine’ and in “Don Giovanni.’? When singing Zerlina she was encored twice in the second ar d the demands for a double repetition. of a iater song were so yellement that the Emperor had tc give the signal for the performance. to pro» ceed. The demands for encores continued to ve so. freqnent that @ public notice was issued by the management to say she could sing ler music only twice, Last month tm the gardens of the Vatican four huhdrec singers chanted a hymn by the Maestro Father Rosati, in honor of the victory of Men The Pope was present and the performance attra Meilina ag imi crowd, though adimittance was only obtained cket. At the conclusion of the lying the Pope presented Father Rosati with a gold medat and gave a silver one to each of the sinyers, The anion of the two London Italian companies, tuch talked about, ander the management of Mr, Mapleson, is sure to lead to disunion, Tietjens, Patti and Lucca tn ‘Don Giovanni” would be a great cast, but who is to pay for such a galaxy of nightin« gales? The pre Costa and his band has maint @:ven to the Roy: fan Opera its renown, Peitl« coat government in a theatre of riva! donnas never oan prosper. Vedremo/ ‘Jaeli has arrived in Paris after a long tour of con- certs in Germany. Tt, Boucicault haa, tt 19 said, purchased the Sabio- niére Hotel, Leicester square, intending to convert it {nto a theatre. It {ge rumored that Mr, Henderson, of Liverpool, has taken the Strand theatre. Rubinstein is expected in’ Paris this month, At Vienna, Munich, Frankfort, everywhere, this great pianist has produeed immense sensation. Miss Menken has brought an action against Mr. T. Smith for alleged‘breach of contract to employ hey as Aatley's theatre,