The New York Herald Newspaper, April 12, 1868, Page 6

6 : NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, BAPTIST CHURCH, Fifth avenue.—Rrv. J. Howanp Smitu. Afternoon. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rgy. Da. Flaca Morning and afternoon, ide CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rey. Josera B. DUNN. Morning and evening. CHRYSTIR STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. Joun Evans. Afternoon, CHAPEL OF THE UNIVE Rey. Da. Deras. Evening. COMTE SCIENTIFIC RELIGION, Fifth avenue and Four- teenth street.—HNkY EDGER, Morning and evening. RSITY, Washington square.— CHRYSTIE STREET P. HURCH.—Rey. Wu. Warp- Law. Morning and evenii DODWORTH HALL.—Spiartvatists. evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SriniTuaLie76, Mus. SARAH A. Bygnz6. Morning and evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY REY. 8. GF. Kratei, D.D, Morning and evening. MADISON SQUARE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—REv. D. Avams. Evening, MEMORIAL CHURCH OF BISHOP WAINWRIGHT.— ‘Gomrinuation BY KEV. Dns. POTTER AND OXON, Evening. NEW JERUSALEM HOUSE OF WORSHIP.—“SwepEN- gona AB A THEOLOGIAN.” REV. CHAUNORY GILES. vening, ST. ANN’S FREE CHURCH,—Ssrvick ror Dzrar MUTES. Afternoon. ST. JOHN'S M. E. CHURCH.—G, 8. Esray. Morning and evening. = * Morning and UMIERRAITS, Washington square.—Bisuor Snow. Af- on. New York, Sunday, April. 12, 1868. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisers should. bear in mind that, in order to insure the proper classification of their business announcements, all advertisements for insertion in the HERALD should be left at the counting room by half-past eight o'clock P, M. THS NEWS. IMPEACHMENT. Tu the High Court yesterday General Thomas Cluded ais testimony and Lieutenant Genera! Sher- man took the stand, In the course of his examination he was asked to give the conservation between himself and the Presi- dent when the latter tried to induce him to accept the War Office. Mr. Butler objected to the testimony, and after some argument the Chief Justice ruled that it was admisaibie, but the Senate overruled him by a vote of 21 to 28, and the evidence was not admitted. Under this ruling and similar ones General Sherman was ena- bled to give very littie evidence, the time he was on the stand being main|y occupied in arguments among the counsel and Managers. It was agreed that he should be called again tf necessary, and the Court adjourned until Monday, THE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate yesterday the Eighteenth Ward Pub- lic Market bill was passed. The Erie Railway bill Was made the special order for Tuesday. In the Assembly Mr. Glen offered his resignation, claiming that the investigation called for by his reso- lution relative to corruption of members was not fairly conducted. A bill for a railroad in Third street was reported. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yesterday evening, April 11. The working of the new French Army bill, with the knowledge that “extraordinary and vast’ prepara- tions for war are being made by the government, creates widepread agitation and discontent in the empire. The semi-oMicial journals declare that the great war movement gives a “pledge” of peace. The Easter holiday season prevailed in London and Liverpool, Five-twenties, 725; a 72% in London and 75 a 75% in Frankfort MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Woodward, of Pa., introduced a bill in the House of Representatives yesterday to test the con- stitutionality of questions vetoed by the President and passed over his veto, by providing for a suit on feigned issues, to be entered by the President and his Attorney General, and to be contested by the Speaker of the House, the decision to affect the bill finally, either in whole or in part. We have special telegrams from Cuba and Mexico of a later date. In Mazatlan and on the west coast affairs are complicated. Santa Anna is in another law suit in Havana and claims to be penniless. General Meade has disapproved of the arrest of Judge Pope, of the Circuit Court of Calhoun county, by a Lieutenant Johnson, who caused the arrest use Judge Pope had empaneiled juries which were not co! sed of negroes, The Generaiin his orders cen: $ the heutenant, and says that the Reconstruction acts do not require that all juries Should have colored men upon them, but merely that there should be no objection to a colored man sitting as a juror. Evidence is said to be accumulating against Whelan, zed murderer of D'Arcy McGee, and it is con- sidered certain that his conviction will ensue. In the Court of Common Pieas Chambers yesterday, before Judge Barrett, the Gould contempt case came up for hearing. Mr. Jay Gould did not appear, and upon the affidavit of the officer who had him in cus- tody, and who averred that he refused to come to New York, the court issued an order to show cause why Mr. Gould and Mr. Hamilton Har- ris, his counsel at Albany who advised him inthe matter, should not be punished for this misconduct alleged against them, An officer of the Custom House, in the appraiser's department, was yesterday held to bail before Com- missioner Kenneth G. White in the sum of $6,000, on a charge of having aided and abetted other parties in the importation and smuggling of goods in avoid- ance of the duties imposed by law. Yesterday, before Commissioner Osborn, Joseph Bloomgart was charged with having, while in the employ of the government at Louisville, Ky., embezzled $12,000, the property of the United States, ‘The prisoner was given into the custody of the Mar- shal for the purpose of being remitted to Kentucky on the above charge. Subsequently counsel for the prisoner obtained a writ of habeas corpus and certi. orart to review the proceedings had before the Com- mésioner, the return to the writ being fixed for Tuesday next. Thomas Lloyd was committed for trial, in default of $10,000 ball, on a charge of selling or isguing national currency and United States Treas- ury notes. In the United States District Couft in Bankruptcy yesterday, in the matter of the New York Mail Steamship Company, a postponement of the hearing in the case was moved for and granted by Judge Blatchford for a week. In the matter of the bank- ruptey of George A. Wicks a motion for a jury trial was made and granted, and the trial fixed for Mon- day week. ‘There was no specie shipped by the steamers from this port yesterday. ie stock market was weak and unsettled yester- day. Government securities closed strong. Gold closed at 138%, In commercial circles yesterday there was but lit- tle animation, though in some departments of trade there was @ fair business consummated, Prices in some instances were materially changed. Cotton was in active speculative demand and advanced one cent per pound, middting upland closing at Sle, Coffee was sought after and firmly held, On ‘Change four was passably active and Arm. Wheat was in fair dewaud and firmer, though NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1868-TRIPLE SHEET. no higher. Corn was moderately active and 20. higher, while oats were a trife higher. Pork was duil, but steady, at former prices. Beef was very active and firm, while lard was dull, but steady. Naval stores were tolerably active and steady. Petro- leum was quiet and irregular. Freights dull, The Diplomatic Costume and Alabama Claims Questions—Mr, Adams Gains Two Points, Mr. Charles Francis Adams is likely to ter- minate his diplomatic career as United States Minister at the Court of Great Britain in a manner pleasing to the Queen of England, agreeable to himself, flattering to the American people and Congress, and encouraging as to the progress of the great principle of democracy in that country, By the European mail just to hand we have reports of the extremely com- plimentary manner in which Earl Russell, in the House of Lords, referred to the official pro- prieties and deep toned religious sentiment observed and expressed by Mr. Adams in his treatment of the Alabama claims eorrespond- ence; while we learn from the same source that Madame Disraeli, wife of the Premier, had given a most brilliant reception—the first since the formation of the new Cabinet—in Downing street, at which the United States Minister was present, clothed in his own proper breeches of black cloth and the full dress of an Anierican citizen gentleman. Earl Russell, speaking of Mr. Adams, says:—‘‘I cannot mention that gentleman’s name without ex- pressing my high respect and esteem for him ;” “he did everything which honor and good faith could prescribe ;” “his conciliatory con- duct,” and so forth ; while the Lord Chancellor, during a very pious peroration of a speech in reply, observed:—‘‘Mr. Adams has said the sum of all true diplomacy is to be found in the Christian maxim of doing to your neighbor that which you would he should do to you.” As Earl Russell brought all the Alabama claims trouble about the ears of Mr. John Buil and the Queen by his hasty belligerent rights recognition of the Jeff Davis confederacy, he is naturally anxious to have the matter settled as quietly as possi- ble, and hence accords his due meed of praise to Mr. Adams, acting a little on the antiquated diplomatic rule of ‘‘caw me, caw thee.” For this reason the testimonial of the Lord Chan- cellor is much more valuable to the ex- minister; for his lordship—who is an excellent authority, being ‘keeper of the Queen's conscience,” by virtue of his office—fully acknowledges Mr. Adams’ advantage in his pointed allusion to the very essence of the Ser- mon on the Mount during the discussion on privateering, and thus confesses the great superiority of the biblical training of Massa- chusetts over that afforded in Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Adams has made our people more respected in the British House of Peers, and thus gained an important point; but this diplomatic triumph does not com- pare with that which he attained by his reception by Mrs. Disraeli, free from the encumbrances of ,a sword and wig and the tight-laced formality of knee breeches. On the eve of the great debate on the Irish Church Mr. Disraeli was most anxious to indicate a friendly, peaceful purpose and make friends all round; and hence Mrs. Disraeli arranged a magnificent reception at the official resi- dence in Downing street, at which the Prince of Wales and Mr. Adams attended, as duly chronicled in the London journals of the next morning’s date. Here was a very graceful method of accommodation of the sturdy republicanism of our Congress. Rigid court etiquette had excluded Mr. Adams from Buckingham Palace on account of the length of his pantaloons, and as Congress would not permit him to shorten them a great breeches question was likely to be tacked on to the Alabama claims difficulty. Mr. Dis- raeli, who notes passing events carefully, recollected Mr. Buchanan's former trouble with a sword and wig at the same palace, and how that venerable statesman ran danger of great personal injury from his court dress en- tanglements, so he determined that if Mr. Adams could not make his official obeisance to the Queen in a citizen suit, the Queen would meet us half way and afford him a splendid chance of carrying out the Congressional rule in Downing street in the presence of the accom- plished wife of the Premier and of the future King of England. This delicate arrangement must be taken as a royal concession to our principles, and it may be fairly claimed that Mr. Adams has gained a second important point in obtaining it. The opponents of the American system of government may claim that the Disraeli people are not at all particular in the matter of cloth- ing, its cut, texture or age, and hence that the compliment loses much of its value; but this ‘line of argument cannot impede our diplomatic progress, and will not, most certainly, alter the traditional usages of the British Premier. The Police Station House System. The facts which we published yesterday, relative to the case of the poor woman who was locked up all night in a cell of the Fifteenth precinct station @ouse, with her dead infant in her arms, suggests the idea that the system at the police station houses is all wrong and needs a thorough reformation. The cir- cumstances of this case are certainly very extraordinary, and exhibit a considerable lack of humanity in the police authorities who had to deal with it. It appears that this woman, while performing the religious duties appro- priate to Holy Thursday in a church, with a sickly infant in her arms—having probably no one to take care of it at home—got crushed in the crowd and upon extricating herself found the child dead. With the anguish natural to a mother she raised a piteous outery, and was arrested by the police and hurried off to the station house for committing a breach of the peace and on a charge of intoxication, often too heedlessly made by the police. Although the sergeant, seeing the state of the case, hesitated to put her and her dead child into a cell with vile criminals and drunkards, the captain of the station, it is stated, peremptorily insisted upon her incarceration; and #0 the living and the dead passed that dismal night in a cell. On appearing before the Justice in the morning no charge whatever was sustained against the woman, This isa matter which the Commis- sioners should look into, The station house system is evidently irregular and inhuman, Ou Bournon “IN A New Cuaracrzn—As peacemaker in the War Oilice. New Religions. Among the new religions of latest date we have duly chronicled the progress of Shaker- ism, of Mormonism and of Spiritualism. The last named development of the religious idea must bave proved peculiarly fascinating to a large number of minds, for at the recent twen- tieth anniversary of the birth of modern Spirit- ualiam its disciples were variously estimated at from five toeleven millions. The autobiogra: by of one of the vestal virgins, Kitty and Maggie Fox, to whom Spiritualism in this country owed its earliest and most startling demonstrations, is about to be-published, with, perhaps, an ap- pendix containing the spiritual letters which were interchanged by one of these ‘‘mediums” and the late Dr. Kane, the Arctic explorer. The brother of Dr. Kane, by the by, was for some reason implicitly trusted by the Mormons, and the United States government once or twice confided to him a very delicate and impor- tant mission to the Saints of Sait Lake City. Doctor Kane was venerated, it seems, by at least one of the Fox sisters, the authors of the table-rapping mysteries at Rochester, as the latest incarnation of the Deity, or, as the Hindovs would have called him in Sanscrit, the Avatar of the present age. The letters of Miss Fox and her Avatar will, perhaps, prove morg interesting than those of Heloise urd Abelard. i But at the very moment that these spiritual epistles are about to be delivered to general circulation as substitutes for the epistles of St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John, St. James and St. Jude, and the Fox sisters are receiving a quasi recognition as the united head of the church of Judge Edmunds and Robert Dale Owen, a still newer religion challenges the attention of the American public. Henry Edgar, who claims to be one of the apostles desig- nated by Auguste Comte to pro- mulgate the principles of the ‘Church ‘of Humanity,” appears at the Music Hall on the corner of Fourteenth street and Fifth avenue, in New York, and announces a ‘scientific religion,” which the great mathematician Comte was induced by the married lady whom he fell in love with, and whom he called his ‘‘sainted Clotilde,” to graft upon the barren trunk of his system of ‘‘ Positive Philosophy.” Miss Mar- tineau and the other English disciples of Comte have, with few exceptions, rejected the gospel according to the ‘‘sainted Clotilde” which Comte accepted, acknowledging the truth of St. Simon's criticism, that the religious or senti- mental side of human nature is not to be despised. It must be provided for. After his love experience, as well as after a previous brain fever, which left him in such a | State that Arago and Guizot and other eminent contemporaries regarded him as a “lunatic philosopher,” a great change took place in the views of Comte respecting the nature and objects of human life, The first position of bis “Positive Philosophy” was that the human mind in its progress historically and individually passed through three stages of development— first, the theological; second, the metaphysi- cal; and, third, the positive or scientific. His second position was, that in the advance of knowledge ‘‘no longer baffled by the inscruta- ble or misled by the imaginary,” from one gene- ralization to another to a comprehensive percep- tion of the universe as a whole, it pro- ceeds in a regular hierarchial order, mathe- matics ; the application of mathematics to the phenomena of the celestial sphere, or asiron- omy; the application of mathematics and astronomy to the phenomena of the terrestrial sphere, or general physics; the science of the phenomena of the interior of bodies or of molecular changes, chemistry; the science of the phenomena of individually organized being, or vegetable and animal life, biology; and the stience of the phenomena of corporate or social life, which he called sociology and which, as presupposing and containing all the former, he regarded as the queen and divinity of all the sciences. His third position was a demonstra- tion of the statics and dynamics of social life, or of the fundamental principles of order and liberty. Subsequently his ‘‘sainted Clotilde” convinced him that he had left a deeper ques- tion than all these untouched and led him to conceive religion to be the complete harmony of human existence, individual and collective, or the universal unity of all existences in one great being, whom he calls Humanity. ‘This alone is the genuine end and object of all wor- ship, and to this every effort of the good man should converge.” But as eminent individuals, Moses, Socrates, Mohammed and others are manifestations of the grand being, they are entitled toa high yet qualified respect. Ac- cordingly Comte arrayed the formula of an exalted worship of humanity by means of homages and festivals to its most illustrious representatives, He even reformed the calen- dar in view of it and bestows the names of famous benefactors on the months and weeks ofthe year. Thus the preface to his last work is dated the 11th of Cesar, 64, which means May 2, 1852, And it is this new calendar and this new religion invented by Auguste Comte which Henry Edgar preached last Sunday in New York. The Hgnatp published on Monday a report of the apostle Edgar's discourse. Whether the “Ohurch of Humanity” shall flourish on American soil or not, whether its success shall prove that, as Hepworth Dixon thinks, America is a hotbed of new religions, or its failure that, as De Tocqueville thought, America is peculiarly intolerant of new re- ligions, we shall not venture to predict. But it is noteworthy that, like all religions which have ever flourished, it may boast of having in the ‘‘sainted Clotilde,” as Spiritualism has in the Fox sisters, and Mormonism in its “spiritual wives,” and Mohammedanism in its houris, and paganism in its Venus and a long list of goddesses, and the Christian Church in the Blessed Virgin, nay, as even French infidelity in its enthroned Goddess of Reason, what seems to be an indispensable feminine element. An appeal is thus made to the heart and the imagination, and Tom Paine’s “Age of Reason” is still indefinitely post- pou, Tne IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.—The proceedings in the Court of Impeachment yesterday were rendered noteworthy by the repeated refusals of the Senate to allow General Sherman to testify whether the President meditated the use of force to eject Mr. Stanton from the War Office. This action appears to us very singular. Mr. Johnson is charged with having conspired with General Thomas to take possession of the War Department by the exercise of armed force if necessary, aud when the defence brings forward a witness to prove that nothing like force was intended the Impeachment Managers object to the reception of the testimony, and the court sustains the objection. So far as we can see this is simply a refusal to permit the President to defend himself. Common decency, if nothing more, should, in our opinion, have induced the Senate to receive the testimony. Easter Sunday in the Metropolis. The Christian world rejoices to-day. After forty days of penitential exercises, fasting and prayer, the Church flings aside the sombre trap- pings of woe and arrays herself in the gayest and brightest dress, to do homage towards her divine Founder, risen from the dead. From ten thousand religious temples the glad _halle- Injahs go up to heavea in juyful commemora- tion of the event, and ihe smoke of ten thou- sand censers floats through the aisles of many astately cathedral in Enrope. The observance of Easter as a great festival dates from an early period of the Christian era; and although many of its usages and customs have died out, yet reverence for the day itself is still deep seated in the hearts of every Christian commu- nity. The day upon which the festival occurs is never eazlier than the 22d of March and fever later than the: 25th of Aprii, and is celebrated now on the first Sunday after the full moon occurring on or immediately after the 21st of March. This mode of determining the day fr this festival was established by the Council of Nice, A. D. 325. The celebration of Easter Sunday in the metropolis is principally, if not wholly, con- fined to the churches. It is the ambition of every pastor on this day to have his church decked out in the handsomest manner possible, of every organist to have a choir of extra merit and musical services of the highest character, of every charch committee to look after the collection and of every lady member of the congregation to weave together beautiful decorations for her church, The musical services at all the leading churches to-day promise to be attractive and brilliant. The details of the programme by which they purpose to celebrate this festival may be found in another column of the Heratp. Many of the choirs will have orchestral as well as organ accompaniments, and the greatest works of old and modern composers will be given. The Eyes of Delaware. Tom Hood has happily told us of a peacock that ‘‘felt the eyes of Europe on his tail;” but that peacock and his vanity are destined to become insignificant by comparison with the astonishing Karsner and ‘“‘the eyes of Dela- ware.” Adjutant General Thomas’ testimony gives. us a happy glimpse of one of the humors of our national politics. Thomas was once the great manof an hour. Dur ing that hour we see him face to face with the inevitable bore “from his own town.” There are two thousand men in the United States at this time who are telling to every one they meet, with an sir: of great consequence, that they were born ‘‘in the county with General Grant”—so of General Sherman, Andy Johnson and everybody else. There are even men who have boasted of having been born near where Butler was; so also Thomas had his townsman to bother him in his hour of greatness. The townsman foresaw the conse- quence it would reflect on him when he went home able to tell of his conversation with the “Secretary ad interim.” He accordingly rushed for Thomas’ hand; Thomas with- drew it; Karsnor seized it again, and again and again, not to be shaken off by slight efforts, and, questioning Thomas all the time as to what he proposed to do, at last bothered him into admitting that he would “kick” Stanton. He evidently felt that he would do anything that Karsner desired if that illustrious bore would only carry himself off. How common, how ridiculous, how hu- miliating is this scene in all our public assem- blies where the great men of political mancu- vres are present! And such an incident is made part of the evidence to show that a President of the United States should be ousted from his place! “Between Ourselves.” On Saturday the great impeachment Mana- gers, representing the lower House of Congress before the Senate, indulged a little in that peculiar satisfaction men take in saying bitter and would-be savage things against persons who do not see matters in the same light with themselves. The remarks they made were private—strictly private—intended only to be heard by others, not answered. Mr. Stevens expressed his private opinion of the Senate so as to be heard generally; but when challenged to stand the responsibility of it he admitted Butler's plea, made on his part, that it was “between ourselyes”"—a thing of which the court that heard it had no right to take notice. Stevens’ opinion of the Senate was expressed in a sore-headed growl, the natural outflow of his disappointment on finding that body not willing to be bullied and browbeaten into every- thing the Managers chose. An appeal was made to the Senate to admit certain testimony tending to show that the President's purpose was not to outrage law inthe appointment of Thomas, which testimony the Managers had objected to. The Senate admitted the testi- mony by a vote of forty-two to ten; and in relation to this vote Stevens said of another proposed appeal, ‘‘O, it is not worth while—it is not worth while to appeal to the Senate any more after that decision.” This growl of dis- gust shows the present state of radical feeling ; for Old Thad is the very barometer of his party—a feeling that, since the Senate is dis- posed to be just, impeachment is gone, and @ consequent ill-will against the Senate for daring to be just. hs UNEXPENDED APPROPRIATIONS AND THE Surrivs Funp.—Mr. Blaine, of Maine, offered a resolution in the House of Representatives on Friday, directing the Committee on Appro- priations to inquire into the expediency of defining the time and manner of carrying unexpended appropriations to the surplus fund and returning the same to the Treasury. The honorable member must be a wag, and submitted this proposition as a humorous piece of satire on the extravagant and reckless legis- lation of Congress, The idea of there being any unexpended appropriations or any surplus fund while the radical party remain in power is preposterous. We might as well expect to find gold in the coal measures as any surplus money at the end of the fiscal year or during radical reiga, The resolution was altogether unnecessary. Instead of there being unex- pended balances we shall find startling de- ficiencies, particularly in the War Department; and the reduction of iacome by the passage of the Manufacturers’ bill and from other causes growing out of partisan and sectional legisla- tion will leave the Treasury bankrupt. If Mr. Blaine did not intend to be satirical, but was in earnest, he gave himself unnecessary | trouble. Revival in Awusementa, After the fast comes the feast. After Lent the churches fall back, and the theatres, read- | ing and lecture rooms come again into the fore- ground. So goes the world. So it was when the jolly carnival of Charles the Second fol- lowed the dismal reign of the Roundbeads. be to the end of human history. So we find, from a glance at our advertised list of amuse- ments for the present week, beginning with the night of Easter Monday, the following additions to and changes in our still continued last week’s nightly entertainments :— First, the opening, with Dr. Marigold’ and Mrs. Gamp, of the five farewell readings of Mr. Dickens at Steinway Hall ; second, the first of four Shakspearian readings by Mra, Fanny Kemble at Brooklyn Institute ; third, the pretty opera of “Martha,” by a combination of artists at the New York Academy of Masic, and the first of three performances set down for the week ; fourth, a grand operatic benefit by the stockholders and others at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to Max Maretzek, on Thurs- day evening ; fifth, the return of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams at the Broadway theatre ; sixth, an “‘entire change” and some ‘“‘extra- ordinary attractions” in the programme at Niblo’s ; seventh, a brilliant and sparkling adaptation of “‘La Belle Hélene,” by the Wor- rell Sisters at the New York theatre. Thus it will be perceived that we are to have a pretty extensive revival in the world of amusements with the conclusion of the Lenten season. Mr. Dickens, in fepeating the read- ings which he has given us before, will afford a good opportunity for a hearing to those who have not heard him; for many of those who have heard him are satisfied. Miss Minnie Hauck, Mme. Testa, Signor Bellini and com- pany. ought to have a full Academy, in order to encourage those enterprising volunteers who step forward at a venture for the opera when Pike, Strakosch, the Academy stockhold- ers, and even Harrison, appear to have given it up as a bad job, The new “‘attractions” at Niblo’s, from all that we hear, will be very fine, and quite a transformation from those of the Crook. The English rendering of the Gre- cian Elopement, from the. preparations which have been made by the Worrell Sisters, will be very apt to have a run, while Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams, in their never failing round of funny Irish and Yankee characters, will attract their never failing admirers at the Broadway. We understand, however, that Barney proposes very soon to bring out something entirely new, entitled ‘‘Andy Johnson’s Impeachment,” in which, among the numerous characters to be given, Secretary Stanton, Colonel Schriver and General Lorenzo Thomas, in the division of that little bottle of Bourbon, will be faithfully represented, likewise the old farmer Karsner, | with “the eyes of Delaware.” And why not, when we can beat them in New York in this very farce which they are playing in Washing- ton? The Spring Fashions. The advent of Easter and the resumption of all the gayeties and follies of fashionable life which were rudely broken in upon by the season of Lent will give the ladies the first favorable opportunity of displaying their new spring toilets. Ourlively Paris correspondent discourses this week on bridal outfits. The end of March always brings trousseaux promi- nently into notice, and around those terrible (to the poor husband, at least) affairs admiring groups of young ladies congregate and criticise. Among the items of a trous- seau which excited universal admiration were twelve dozen of pocket handkerchiefs, twelve dozen of petticoats and a formid- able robe of white gros grain. We sincerely pity the unhappy partner of the wearer of such a trousseau if she purpose always keeping her wardrobe to such a standard. Another item was a ball dress consisting of a ruby satin nderskirt, with lustrous white gauze, trimmed in the richest manner, as an overskirt. The only novelty in the bonnet line now is in the ornamentation. Mother-of-pearl and shells, simulating nuts, filberts and berries hang low from slender stems among green leaves on the fanchon. The Baroness Schickler has the richest set of bck pearls which are known, and the Duchess of Fernan Nufiez has a ducal diamond coronet which was exhibited at the Exposition. The new spring styles seem to give universal satisfaction. Tue Two Dromios—Thomas and Stanton. The one as Secretary outside the War Office, the other as Secretary inside; the one as Secretary by appointment, the other as Secre- tary by confirmation; the one as Secretary ad interim, the other as Secretary ad infinitum. Butter's Bupeet—Big Bethel, New Or- leans, Bermuda Hundred, Dutch Gap, Fort Fisher and the Impeachment. NEWS ITEMS. The Southern Press Association has postponed its meeting to May 6 on account of the elections. Andrew C. Johnson, a freight conductor on the Boston and Providence Railroad, was found yester- day in an insensible condition on the night train, having been struck by a bridge, He is not expected to survive. ‘The factory of the Casco Porgy Oil Company, in Peak’s Island, near Portland, Me., with @ portion of tne wharf and all the tools ‘and le property, were destroyed by fire on Friday night. George W. Randall, conductor of a it train on the Montreal Railroad, was killed Saturday morning by falling from @ car near Concord, N. H. A committee of the Coal Exchange of Boston are visiting the coal wharves at Richmond, Va., and will also visit the Schuylkill coal region. General Buchanan, commanding at New Orleans, yesterday issued an order requiring an immediate tn- spection of the Missiasippi ‘levees or dykes by the police juries in each parish and weekly inppections and reports on the condition hereafter. The order reacribes the regulations for the protection of the jevees and repairs in case of breaks OF crevasses, In the United States Circuit Court at Richmond, Va., yesterday the case of Shepherd versus Virginia and Tennessee Railroad was brought up. The road had taken a lot of flour to ship South, but the con- necting road Lg) threatened by the federal army, they refused to take it, and it was put off at Bristol, keptalong time, and finally sold by the company. ‘The Judge ordered that the plaintitt paid for the flour at its value in good currency when'sold. ‘The Montreal banks have exported $120,000 in American silver in order to lessen the inconvenience occasioned by the excessive quantity now in circu- lation. ih So | it has been from the beginning, and so it will | NOTES ON ART. The spring exhibition of the Academy of Design, which opens on next Wednesday, promises to afford quite a fair representation of our different artists, It 1s certainly to be hoped that it may be better than the Barmecide feast which was last fall spréad ve- fore the public, Could they but be made to realize the facts, the counci! of the Academy/have a great opportunity for cultivating the wsthetic tastes of the people, There 13 no civilizer and refiner to be | compared to art as displayed in pictures, Were the masses accustomed to sights and thoughts of heauty, we should have fewer street brawls and | would rejoice in an intelligent populace. Those to whom was entrusted the management of the Aca- demy made a serious mistake when they stopped the free Saturday exhibitions of the winter before last, ‘The poor peopie were thus deprived of the only op- portunity adforded them for self-cultivation, It is melanchoty, but true, that in New York, which claimg to represent the brain of the United States, there is nota single permanent or, with she exception of print stores, a frev exhitetion of paintings. There is not a single place in the eity where a poor man ca indulge himself with gratuitous beauty. Were a labor. | ing man to enter one of the fashionable picture stores he would soon be made to realize his false position, if he were not first turned out. This is all wrong. The poor” have aa much feeling for and as fine tastes to be gratified as the rich tn regard toart, Were a free exhibition opened here we should goon sce its effects in the improved Dehavior of the populace. This chance for benefiting humanity the Academy had; they suffered tt to slip from their hands. How soon will they attempt (o regain it? Owing to the temporary’suspension of the Satur- day receptions the studio building yesterday saw very few visitors. Most of the artista have sent their best pictures to the, Academy of Design; enough paint- ings, however, remain in the studios to well repay a visit. Mr. McIntee has recently completed a picture en- titied “the Last Days of October. It is a vivid repre- sentation of the Melancholy days, the saddest of the year; OF wating winds and naked woods, And meadows brown and sere, ‘the cheerless, gloomy atmosphere and the air of desolation spread over the scene combine to form an impressive painting. He has also in his studio a view of the ‘Valley of the Esopus,’’ noticable on ac- count of the curious sunset effect and for the cool, dewy shades of twilight creeping over the ground. Mr. MeInteg intends to leave the United States in May for an extended tour in England and on the Continent. Mr. R$, Gltford nas how o's Saget a emall_can- vas representing “Camping Out on Mount Mang, field.” Under the shelter of large misshapen rocks is erected a rude hut, wherein repose the campers- out. They have built a fire, and the effect of its light contrasted with the heavy gloom in the background ia very fine. The picture is not as yet completed, but promises to be a fair illustration of Mr. Gifford’s talents in a new line. Mr. Homer Martin has in his studio three paintings upon which he is at present engaged. They are painted in ‘his usual broad, bold style, and are exceed- ingly interesting. One is ascene in the Adirondack woods. In the centre stretches a lake of quiet water; behind this are lifting mists, dissolving and floating away before the rays of the morning sun, The shore curves to one side, overgrown with dark, sombre ines, and at the right rise two towering yellow Birches. Mr. Martin {s an ardent lover of nature, and the fruits of his seeking inspiration at the fountain head are visible in his works. His other two pictures: are “North View of the White Mountains” and “Val- - Jey of Ausaw.’? r. Gignoux is still busily occupied upon his large canvas of “Under the Table Rock.’ It gives every sign of becoming a striking picture—none the less so because painted somewhat differently from this artist’s usual vein, From over the huge, massive rocks droop great stalactites of ice. Reaching back run the masses of stone and over them pour with a mighty rush and sweep the waters of Ni: This is one of the grandest subjects which can be chosen for the igh brush, and Mr. Gignoux promises to do it full justice, Mr. J, G. Brown is painting a charming picture of « Little Bo-Peep,” depicting a merry little girl hiding among a thicket of leaves and imagining, in the ostrich-like simpiicity of childhood, that sne is not seen. Particularly good are the quivering glimpses of sunlight upon the leaves. Mr, Jerome Thompson's piensa pear. of “The Old Oaken Bucket ” is still on exhibition at the Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, and attracts a large number of visitors, A fine Sane eens of it has been recently published by Mr. Benche, which is bab! one of the best, if not the best, ever issu: thi country. Itisa perfect fac-simile of the painting, reproducing its most delicate shades of tint. ‘At the sale of Mr. Avery’s choice collection of works of art on Thusday and Friday event the following brought $500 and upwards:—* Kiver at Anvers,”” by Daubigny, $500; landscape, by “gear $510; “The Amateur Artist,” by Brillouin, $510; “Market at Rotterdam” (nizht effect), by Van Scheu- del, $515; “ Phryne,” by Coomans, $625; ‘Tie Fan,” by Hamon, $550; ‘The Recitation,” by Gide, $675; “The Vase,” by Hiamon, $620; ‘Louis XV. aud Mme, Du Barry,’ by Caraud, $7v0 ; ‘* Swiss Scene,” by Ca- lume, with animals ‘by E: Verboeckhoven, $710; “Barly Sorrow,” by Merle, $725; “The Annuncia- tion,’? by Merle, bg “The Promenade,” by Moor. maus, 3760; “The Surprise,” by Hubner, $770; “Waiting,” by Bareguiet, $775; “Near Florence,’ O. Achenbach, ve “Ave Maria,’ by Koek- ob ook, $380; “Winter in Brittany.” by Brion, $975; Mar. ket at the Hague" (candle light effect), by Van Schen- del, $1,000; The Happy Mother,” $1,000; “ Orphe- us," b} bert, $1,250; “The ‘Wood Cutter,” by Koek-| 755 xis River,’ Connecticut, by James M. Hart, $1,475; “Fraternal Love,” by Bouguereau, $1,500; “La ‘itrice,” & statue in marble, by Tantardint, gold for $1,025, and Meisso- nier’s fine picture, “The Reader,” put up at $3,000, in gold, was withdrawn. CITY INTELLIGENCE. Weekty Morta.ity List.—The number of deaths in this city during: the last’ week was 425, being twenty-eight less than the previous week. METROPOLITAN PoLice.—During the past week the Metropolitan police made the following arrests:— Saturday, 4th, 240; Sunday, 5th, 114; Monday, 6th, 249; ‘Tuesday, 7th, 144; Wednesday, sth, 199; Thursday, 9th, 174; Friday, Loth, 123. ‘Total, 1,242. YounG Men’s TAMMANY GENERAL COMMITTER.—In consequence of the absenee from the city of Richard O'Gorman, the meeting of this committee, intended for April 14, will be adjourned till further notice. OuR PuBLic SCHOOLS.—A meeting of the Vice Prin- cipals of the grammar schools of this city was held on yesterday morning, at grammar school No. 42, in Allen street, near Hester, to take action upon the late resolution of the Board of Education and of its joint committee, inviting the expression of the views of the city teachers upon the system of studies now in vogue in our public schools, and upon the important * question of the abolition of corporeal punishment. After an interesting discussion a committee i 4 ointed to respond at the next ry. which be held on Friday, 17th tnst., at haif-past three P. M., at the school in Thirteenth street, near Sixth avenue, Book TRADE SALE.—The fifth day of the book trade sale. took place at Clinton Hall. The sale of R. H. Johnston & Co.'s invoice occupied nearly the entire day. Following is a list of some of the works sold:— Gleig’s “Life of the Duke of Wellington,” $2; the same, fall calf, $2 60; “Life and Works of Btrns,’ by Chambers, 32c.; the “New Testament," illustrated with wood engravings, after the early masters, chiefly of the Italian school, $15; Guile’s “Lives of the Engineers,” $450; Wood's ‘Homes Without Hands,” $3 75; the same, half morocco, gilt tops, $5; “Davis’ Preparations and Mountings of Microscopic Objecta,’’ 0c. or Mie fle J <a Micro; scope,” $1.50; “Clark's Objects for the erosoore. — ‘ard’s Microscopic Teach! 7 $1 T5c.5 $i, rf ‘fhe Vegetable World,” illustrated with 440 engrav- ings, $3-75;, “Strickland’s Lives of Seven Blahops,”” 1 85; ‘Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, ar i Rah tae popes im hat Hoes $x Emsayacon ‘Taberiyy” oc. “speechos of Prince Ajbert,”” 650.; Churton’s Gon- gora,” 6¢.; “Milman’s Life of Horace," $1 50. Rescvgp FROM DRowNINa.—A man named John Flynn was rescued from drowning 7} Pag boone Yolack, by officer O'Connell, of vent tah th an preguined the man Walked overboard at the foot of pier No, 43 Rast river. FELL OVERBOARD.—About half-past nine o'clock last night an unknown man, dreased in dark clothes, fell into the East river at the foot of Guoverneur slip» He was taken from the water before life was extinct, under the treatment of the doctor. his oy wu the Thirteenth precinct station house. Descent ON A GAMBLING SALOoN.—Last night, about ten o'clock, Sergeant McGiven, of the Seven- teenth precinct, made @ descent on the gambling saloon 287% Bowery, and arrested eleven persons in all, who were found gambling at the time the a entered the place. The descent was made ander the direction’ of Captain Mount. All the amblin apperatas were conveyed to the station Fouse, ine following are the names of those at- Fested <cyorepn Lockwood, John Supple, Joseph Greenfield, Thompson Smith, George Clarke, Stmon Sylvester, William Sayer, E. B. Cuddy, George Sand- ford, deader; Patrick Leddy and Wiliam Peterson.