The New York Herald Newspaper, June 17, 1868, Page 5

NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. WWITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT—IN ADMIRALTY. Collision Case im Appeal. Before Judge Nelson, Town vs, The Western Metropolis.—This case occu- pied the court the entire day hearing arguments in appeal against a decree of the District Court. De- cision reserved. ‘The case of Anne Cavan ve. The Steamboat George | Washington and the steam ferryboat D. 8. te to be heard to-day. The case is an appeal from a decree of the District Court, in which $10,000 was ordered to the libellant as compensation for Bek | sonal injuries and fractures which she received in a | eileen betwéen those two steamers, in September, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT—CRIMINAL CALENDAR. Prosecution Under the Internal Revenue Law— The Kentucky Bourbon Company. The United States vs, Dantel H, Messmore, Clark H. Sanborn, Allen H. Mills, Ethan C. Frost, Pred- | erick J. Tinkham, Highland D, Chafer and Charles 4. Sanvborn.—In this case bills of indictment containing four counts were found by the Grand Jury in January Jast. Yesterday Morning Mr. Courtney, United States District Attorney, who has recovered from a late indisposition, was | resent’ to conduct the prosecution on the | art of the government. When the case was €alled by the court applications for a postpone- ment were made by several counsel for their re- Spective clients. Mr. Messmore, one of the defend- | ante, addressing the court, said that one of his coun- | wel, Mr, OC. A. Seward, had stated to him that he | would withdraw from the defence on the ground that | his senior associate, Mr. Donohue, was at that mo ment engaged Layee Nelson, and he (Mr. Sew ard) Was not sufficiently Instructed to undertake the | defence, Jus Blatchford said the case had been ealled on the first day of the present term and set | down for trial yesterday, and if not tried now it could not be tried this term, but should go over to ‘the fall, The parties had ample time to be ready for |, and it must have been from sheer negligence that they were not ready os that a postponemen| was | gouge for the sole purpose of delay. Mr. said that if forced to go to trial under existing circumstances his client, Mr. Mess- More, Would be in danger of an improper con- vietion. It would be a positive slaughter of the case 0 go to trial as matters stood. ‘rhe motion for post- ponement was opposed by Mr. Courtney and his as- g@stant, Mr. Bell, and after a long and desultory dis- cussion Judge Blatchford said he was very reluctant to consent to a postponement, but under all the e1- cumstances he would allow the case to stand until morning next, and on that day the trial should go Ee A Mr. Courtney moved that as the trial was stponed the defendants should be held to bail in larger sums than those in which they were at present at liberty. ‘The conrt de- cided that as many of the defendams had answered when called upon to plead he would not increase the bail in those cases; but in the cases in which the de- fendants did not answer when called he ordered that ba baie in each instance should be jor- Two of the counts in the indictment are for de frauding the government of the tax on 114 and 100 barrels. of whiskey, one for doing business as recti- ‘ders without having paid the special license tax re- ired by law, and one for a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using and having in their pos- session counterfeit and spurious plates and labels on caske of whiskey, representing those used by the Internal Revenue {fn cases where the tax is paid, Condemnations in Internal Revenue. Decrees of condemnation in internal revenue cases ‘were yesterday issued by Judge Blatchford, on motion of Mr. Rollins, United States Assistant District At- torney, on the following goods:—A still and a quantity of spirits at 231 Elizabeth street; a stil and #- quantity of spirits at 102 Heefer street; thirty-two barrels game at Forty-fith street and First avenue; | i ‘two hundred cases and forty kegs Royal Italian bit- ters; thirty-two cases PN. & Co. Angoxsiura bitters: one trank containing twelve pieces of silk and fou! Sometaine onan H tele P Late of black (te and smo pes; twelve pieces of biack wilk; one box conta fifteen pieces of sk; one pI ss case containing twelve pieces of silk. UNITED STATES “DISTRICT COURT—IN BANKRUPTCY. 4 Jury Trial in Bankruptcy. Brock and Nwkerson vs. Eli Hoppock.—in this oase it was alleged that the defendant had conveyed away or concealed portions of his property with the Intent to defraud his creditors. He was furth charged with having conoealed and secreted himseif | to avoid service of the legal documents issued | against bin to compel hie appearance in court, SUPREME COURT—CIRCUIT. @ Recovery Against the Star Fire Insurance Comp Before Judge Ingails. The Goodenough Horse Shoe Company vs, The Star Fire Insurance Company.—This was an action brought to recover on a policy of insurance on certain machinery and appliances, the property of plaintitts, insuring the property for one year in the sum of Action Gregory | | der, but that the Street Commissioner refused to ac- k | money. } the ct Mr, ©. R, Norcros, late of RL. {he street inseualbls on last and con eee eecteD a uere death ensued. FaTaLty ScaLpsp.—Coroner Schirmer held an inquest on the body of Johanna Fogarty, who io to infant sixteen months old, whose death was the result cn ae received on the 4th inst. by 03 coffee. jury setting uy her of a cup of boiling Pendered's verdict of accidental death, The parents of deceased live at 585 Grand street. Farat Faut.—Christian Banserger, a German, thirty years of age, who was employed in Kohe’s pork packing establishment, No, 264 West Thirty- third street, yesterda, moraine £1) from the fourth floor to the cellar and was terribly injured, He was conveyed tocBellevue Hospital, where death ensued soon after admission. Coroner Rollins was notitied to hold an inquest, BoaRD OF AUDIT.—The only claim of importance presented before this Board yesterday was that of W. H. Adams, who claims $5,000 for building pier 29 North river, His statement was to the effect that the contract was awarded to him as the lowest bid- iowledge the award: that he finished the work. ans now claims the above amount as indemnity, CONVENIENT ELECTION Districts haye lately been made by the Common Council in the more thickly populated districts, In the Tenth ward the number of election districts has been changed from ten to twelve, in the Fourteenth ward from ten to eleve: in the Seventeenth ward from twenty-four to thirt: five, in the Nineteenth ward from seventeen to thirty- _ one, in the Twenty-first ward from fourteen to nine- teen—thus making 108 districts where there have | been but seventy-three, FARMERS’ CLUB.—A very interesting season of mterchange of ideas aud experience was the session of the above club yesterday, <A dis cussion upon the best means of preserving fence posts elicited the fact that the end of the posts that goes in the ground should be dipped in a pot of hot tar, Persous who have tried it ported thac posts thus treated before piauting were wice as durable. Inquiries a8 to the best wood for rails resulted in reports in favor of chestnut and yeliow locust, One gentleman stated that he had upon his farm yellow locust rails cut by his father seventy years azo that show no traces of decay. Shallow and deep ploughing was discussed, but no material facts were elicited. A discourse on bread was read, made by Professor Horsfod, of Harvard University. DPATH FROM VIOLENCE ~ MYSTERIOUS CASE. — | Coroner Flynn was yesterday called to the Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island, to hold an inquest on the body of Thomas Underhil!, alias Movtahan, who was admitted several days ago, suffering from in- flammation of the brain, the result of injuries re- ceived in some manner unknown, Underhill on being questioned regarding the manner in which he Was injured refused to give any information what- ever concerning it, and consequently the affair re- mains a profound mystery. The jury found that death resulted from imfamm tion of the brain, the result of tnjuries received at the hands of some person or persone unknown. Deceused was thirty-four years of age and a native of Ireland. THE SCHUETZENFEST.—General PF, formed yesterday by Chevalier Secchi de Casali that the Italian Rifle Company, the Guarda di Colombo, had accepted the invitation tendered them and will attend the Seluetzenfest in a body, both at the opening and during its progress. A very judicious move was resoived on terday by the Committee of Arrangements. Th reception of visi- tors and delegates from = all arts of this oountry and the world at large will be had, aé already announced, on Saturday, the 27th of Jane, the formal opening by procession not taking place till Monday, the 29th. "Nothing had as yet been faa 1 for the intervening Sunday. solv! Island and up to Hell Gate, and, weather au: time’ permitting, also some distance up the sound. ‘This, as a means to show off the beauties of the surround: of the Metropolis and to impress.ail provin- clais and foreigners with the grandeur of our city, is i happy thongnt, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GAMBLING BY STEAM.—Joseph Hempstead and Albert P. Ryder, Monday night, were fellow passen- gers from Troy to this city on board the steamer Connecticut. During the evening Ryder opened a gambling game known as “monte,” and induced Hpmpstead to play against the game, the cards being malt by Rydef. Hempstead, imagining he had a fair chance of winning, providing the game couid be honestly conducted, staked $50 upon the resuit of several games of “monte,” and, of course, lost his When the steamer arrived in this city jtead caused Ryder’s arrest by officer Lyng, of wenty-sixth precinet, and subsequently made a complaint against him before Justice Shandiey. The accused was held for trial. ALLEGED FELONIOUS ASSaULTS.—Patrick Mathews, living corner of Cherry and Pelham streets, was yes- terday committed by Judge Mausfleld, of the Essex Market Police Court, charged with beating his wife so badiy that it is doubtful whether she survives her injuries. She was unable to appear in court, having bad, as was stated, three rmbs broken and injured in- Hlem| $6,000. By the conditions of the policy it was at de- | ternal ~ eerie aie to sibel Ga in self ” ce’ e y d nee, and says thal wife assa\.lred a WI fendants’ option to “replace” the propesty if | * Virdhe ant a trodne, destroyed by machinery of the same kind and quality, and that in the event of differences arising as to the estimate of damage, the loss should be determined by arbitrators selected by the pariles. The defend- ants elected to replace the property, it having been destroyed by fire in June, 1865. The plaintits claimed | breach of such election by defendants and failure to carry it out, and demanded judgment in the sum of $75,000, including loss arising from defendants’ fail- ure to replace the inachinery and the consequent i1 terruption of business and the value of the machiner destroyed, which was estimated by the plaintiffs at $26, The defendants admitted the execution and de- livery of the policy and the condition regarding the option to “replace,” but say that upon differences | arising as to estimate of loss the Fath refused to pmit to arbitration, and upon defendants’ electing replace the machinew in coujunction with other insurance companies which had also executed poli- cies to plaintiff ™ upon the property tle plaintins hindered them from so proceeding to replace it. The defandants also char; that plaintifs fraudutentiy intended to obtain a greater pro rata amount than they were entitled to by reason of the fire and damage, and claimed that the property was in better condition prior to the fire than it actually was. The court in charging’the jury instructed them that plaintias were not entitled here to recover for damages aceruing from delay or neglect of the defendants to replace the property. ‘he jury after a short retirement found a verdict for plaintiffs in the sum of $4,268 94, estimating it on | the basis of two-fifths of the liability of all the insur- ce companies, For plaintiits, Edward H. Hawke and A. J. Vanderpoel; for defendants, J. R. Flanagan. SUPREME COURT—CHAMBERS. The Broadway Concert Saloons and the Pos | Nece—Injanction Denied. | Before Judge Ingraham. Hatch vs, Commissioners of Metropolitan Poiice | et @; Mack vs, Same.—These cases were applica- tions to restrain defendants from placing police om- cers at the doors of plaintiffs’ premises to warn the public against cocky eels | them., Hatch is the pro- prietor of the Palace en, @ Broadway walter girt concert saloon, and Mack is the proprietor of a similar: establishment known asthe “Dew Drop tin.” The conrt denied the motion for injunction, on the ground that the plaintiffs’ remedy, if a is by a suit for damages, and held that the nature of the plaintiffs’ bosiness, as shown by the afidavits, was not such as to entitle them to the equitable interfer- ence of the court. COURT CALENDARS—THIS DAY. Supreme CourT—Crncyit.—Part 1— 1042, 1166, 762, 49, 48, 300, 066, 775, 328, 36034, 738, 778, 814, 817, 658, 987, 1083, 3890, 3802, 114, SUPREME CoURT—CHAMBERS.—N 08. 16, 63, 60, 95, 125, 120, 134, 139, 143, 160, 158, 160, 160. SUPREME COURT—SPECHAL TERM.—Nos. 501, 111, 121, 211, 214, 50, 91, 92, 96, 187, 183, 162, 170, 174, 199, 216, 217, 219, MMON PLEAS—TRIAL TERM.—Part 1—Nos, 1132, 1183, 1 1297, 1299, 935, 831, 673, 902, 1300, 1301, 1310, 1311, 131 Part 21262, 1267, 431, 82, 323, 966, ‘804, '251, 795, 756, 1000, 824, 1868, 507, 783, [ARINE COURT—TRIAL TERM.—Nos, 1461, 1641, 1007, 1490, 1408, 1657, 1647, 1625, 1676, 1471, 1589, 1631, 16247 1678, 1679, 1630, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685, 1086, 1687, 1688, 1689. ‘ CITY INTELLIGENCE. ‘TRE Weatage YaRsteRDAV.—At Hudnut's phar- macy, in the Heratp Building, the thermometer has ranged as follows during the past twenty-four Aver on Mon STOPPAGE OF DistiLLeRies.—The Internal Revenue authorities have ordered the suspension of all the jstilleries in the Fighth collection district. This ‘was deemed necessary on account of the bold snd constant deflance of the revenue law& DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FoR THE PACciFIc.—The steamship Ocean Queen sailed yesterday for Aspin- wall with the mails for California and South Amer- fea. Among her passengers is a numerous detach- ment of United States troops, destined for service on the Pacific coast. AuDDEN DeaTA.—An inquest was yesterday held at the Morgue by Corongr Fiynn over the remaiye | pressed bric! pitcher, futin He was mitted to await the result of her injuries, A charge of felonious assault was yesterday also preferred against David Quinn, before Judge Connolly, of the Fourth District Police Court. It was stated that he beat Jeremiah Curtin, of No. 351 East Thirty-fourth street, the evening previous, ingicting such severe injaries as tocompe! the latter to be removed to Bellevue Hospital. Quinn says that Curtin broke into his room and that he struck him in self-defence, He was committed to await the result of Curtin’s in- juries. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—At one o'clock yes- terday morning, as Christopher McSoley, watchman at the Astor House, got off the car at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty-sixth street, he was at- tacked by two men, who knocked him senseless and rifled his pocket of a gold watch worth $65. Officers King and Jones, of the Eighteenth precinct, who had been watching two men for some time, heard the cry of watch, and at once hurried to the spot. They pur- sued the men, and arrested both of the one was captured on Twenty-sixth street. The other was found an hour after in the Putnam County honse, where he had gone to bed. Under the leg of the dressing table the watch was found. The b aratingd gave their names as Charles Dunlap and Robert Japcott, and denied all knowledge of the robbery. ‘They were taken to Jefferson Market yes- terday and coinmitted for trial. Upon the person of Duniap a glass cutter was found, The prisoners de- clared that they had never seen each other until they were confronted, but apon the person of one of them Was found a melanotype in which both of them and a friend had been taken ina group. [It was this picture that led to the detection of the fellow who took refuge in the hotel, They were recognized by MeSoley as his assailants, PUBLIC EDUCATION, New School for Colored Children. Although the number of “American citizens of Af- rican descent” in the city between the ages of three and twenty years is some thousands, yet there are not more than from tbree to five hundred who regu- | larly attend the schools, This has been occasioned, in great part by the lack of school accommodations for the particular benefit of the young “unbleached”’ and the prevailing antipathy to allowing them to mingle indiscriminately with the children attending, the public schools, But the Board of Education has not been unmindful of the fact that the colored children should be proyided for as much as possl- ble, and in Commissioner Warren an indefatiga- ble advocate was fount for the claims and needs of the large number of such children growing up iy this city. Creat difficulty was experience in obalning a sive on which @ school for colored chil- dren should be erected, ag Property Swaérs had, or professed to have, serious objections to having such an estabiishment in (heir neighborhood, At last a pilot of ground, 100 feet front by 98.9 in depth was + purchased on the north side of Forty-first street, bé- tween Seventh and Eighth avenues, for the sum of aphnd Thefpiane and specifications were prepa by Superintendent Miller; proposals made and con- tracts awarded as follows:—For mason work to Wil- liam Salmon for $52,935, carpenter work to Edward | Gridley for $2 paint to C. B. Cornell for ting | $1,118—thus making the total cost of ground and building $87,303. The building to be erected here will be fifty feet front by ninety-four feet deep, leaving thus yard room of twenty-five feet on each side, The front will show four stories, will be constructed of Philadelphia k and trimmed with Connecticut brown stone, Which, around the door and windows of the main floor, will be vermiculated. There will be a | cellar of eight feet in depth for the storage of fuel and other necessary purposes, and the first, second and third stories will be each fourteen feet three inches in height, while the fourth story, on the front, will be ten feet in height. ‘The frst door will be the playground and janitor’s and committee's rooms; the second and third floors will be devoted to the accommodation of scholars, haying each a large | assembly room, six class rooms and teachers’ toilet room, and the fourth floor will be used for the jani- tor’s Log ty! rooms, The internal arrangements will not materially different from the schooia which have been constructed under the direction of Mr. James L. Miller, Superintendent of Seto) Build. ings, and particular attention will be paid to the method of heating and ventilating | yuilding. This latter subject has been well considered by the Board of Education lately, and many plans have been tried with the purpose of alning a method which would add to the comfort and not act injuri- ously on the health of teachers ond it Ye A Btove hav been congtrugted under the direction of Snperin- He died on Monday, | Sigel was in- | Now itis re- | to charier a number of steamboats and have | a grand excursion down the bay, around Staten | re 80 lagly because of the Aid benefit to the health of the large number | of ants of the public schools which will accrue | from its introduction to the schools, as well as for | the reason that an important item ‘in the mainte- | mance of the schools will be materially decreased. In crowded localities and In school rooms and houses in which extra means of ventilation are ne- cessities the introduction of this apparatus will be a positive blessing. The scoo) under consideration, besides the furniture last alluded to, will be finished lece of in good style, with all necessary accommodation for almost | as wany children as now attend ail the otherschools set apart for the-use of colored children, and will be 80 completed as te add a pleasti feature to the locality, The work has been a iy commenced and the school will be ready for occupation by April of next year, THE NEW POST OFFICE. The Congressional Committees Report on the Proposed New Metropolitan Post Gfice— The Lomediate Erection of the Structure Recommended—Eilaborate Exhibit of the Increased Postal ‘Business of the Country and the Prospective Future of New York— Interesting Comparative Statements and | Statintion. Representative Perry, from the Congressional Com- mittee on Post OMices and Post Roads, yesterday submitted to the House an elaborate and highly interesting report on the subject of the erection of | the contemplated new Post Office and United States Court building in this city. A bil referring to the same subject was also reported from the same com- mittee, later iu the day, which, together with the report, was ordered to be printed. it was then re- ; committed to the committee with instructions to re- port compuete, | An appropriation of $1,200,000 wai! aiso be reported | to carry the bill into effect. Subjoined will be found the mose interesting | features of the report:— The Committee on Post Ofices and Post Roads, to | whom was referred the subject of a new Post Onice | and United States Courts building 1 the city of New | York, under leti ot the Secretary of the Interior aud the Postmaster neral and memorial of the Chamber of Commeree of the State of New York, report: | That so far as the necessity for a new Post Omice | building in the city of New York, adequate to the de- mands of the present and prospective busmess of this continental distributing ofice, your committee have determined that—in great measure determined | from the fact of the purchase by the government of a | mew site for such tiding, under a resolution of cong May 16, 1866—the commision autho} olution, after diligent search and negotiation, were successful in obtaining suita- ble, ample ds eligible = ground, covering an area of 65,269 square feet, equal to about | twenty-six lots of 25 by’ 100 feet at the lower southerly end of City Hall Park, formed by the uniting thoroughfares of Broadway and Park | row and terminating along said streets at poinis upon each J60 feet svom the curved line which , bounds their junction (a specific diagram of | which accompanies this report), and for the nomival sum of $500,000, which has been paid | for by the government, and title to the grounds vesied in the United States: for the purposes stated. Pending consideration by the com | muttee objections to the eligibility of the purchased site were presented from various quarters, and while your committee have taken it for granted that the mn of site was foreclosed by the formal action red toby the ‘government, they cheerfully lis tened to the various objections offered by ditferent parues who appeared before them for that purpose when sitting In said city, and found that all such objections were substantially met by the admis- sions of each that no other suitable Jocation within the range of reasonable valuation, with clear Ute, could be obtained under ten yea For no other purpose than jor a Post OMice and federal courts could the consent of the city have been secured to the sale of this property, and when it is considered | that the lowest estimate placed upon its present valuation by the most reliabie real estate judges of the city is not than two and a half millions of dollars, its purchase for the sum of five hundred thousand dollars may be deemed an exceedingly for- tunate negotiation for the government, By virtue of a commission appointed under a reso- Jution of Congress, approved January 22, 1867, plans and specifications were submitted for a suitable building for the place and purposes of a United States lost OMlce and courts. In pursuance of this duty said commission formally adopted rules and regulations, specific requisites for the building, in- cluding a generous scale of premiums for the four most meritorious plans, all of which, after sdootving the approval of the Secretary of the Intenor anc the Postmaster General, were, under circular form, published and circulated with invitation for general eompetition in the submission of plans for selec- tion and adoption of the commission. Fifty-two plans were thus received, thirty-seven of which were at once rejected, the remaining fifteen thereaiter re- duced to five, each of which covered respective features deemed desirable in the plan finally to be adopted. These five—submitted by the several ar chitects, Renwick & sands, N, Le Brun, > «& Schoen, Richard M. Hunt and John Carr subsequently combined in one, with the essential merits of each, and finally adopted as th plan of the commisson, and full; proved by the ecretary of the and the Postmaster General, gether wiih mimute specifications and estimates, in- cluding perspective desigas of proposed completed structure from various points of view, are also here- with subinitted, Under a resolution of the House of Representa- tives of March 1, directing the Secretary of the ‘Treasury “to have detailed estimates of the cost of the proposed Post Onice and Court House buikling in the city of New York, according to the plans pre- sented by the commission, to procure said plans and to report at the earliest moment, with any recom- mendations in regard to the material and mode of construction he may deem = pr ”” a communica- tion from A, B. Mullett, government supervising architect, was submitted’ by tie Secretary to the House March 30, and printed. (The reply of the five architects is here inserted in Mr. Forry’s report.) ‘The questions of necessity and site for the contem- plated buildings having been determined by the ac- tion of the government, there remains but the con- c.uding one to consider, as to the immediate neces- sity for Its erection. ‘The New York Post OMice is the great distributing office for this Continent. Adequaie space and facili- ties for the rapid and proper handling of the vast amount of mail matter passing turough this office, with suitable accommodations for its executive de partments, become not only a question of local con- venience but assume national importance, as the postal intei@sts of the whole country in great mea- sure depends upon the accuracy and celerity with Totenr functions, The present building used for rR office purposes was originally erected and used for a ehuren. It bears apon its front entabiature the date of 1729, and it may safely be said that it is the oldest struc- ture of any considerable size now standing in the city. It yas first occupied for post office pur May 1, 1945, at a annual rent of $5,000, then pur- chased October 20, 1850, at a cost of $206,000 to the government and $50,000 to contributing citizens, Additions Were made to the butiding under contra 62, costing $7,587. present the average expense of ordinary repairs absolutely necessary to render the building service- able has been $3,500 annually. Within the past two months an enlargement of room demanded by the increase of business has been made by means of a Mansard roof, and additional floor partly around the building at ap outlay of about $12,000, The peculiar structure of the building and its dilapidated $8,000 for gas consumed during daylight necessary, and the cost of heatiog more than double the amount it should be; all of which would be avoided by a properly copstracted building. The multiplication of business has been so rapid that the force of ak tee been increased during the last ten years from 298 to 665, until the average space each occu, eg ts try superficial feet, and in 6! @ Mepariment wut ten feet. et this 8 Cohtra-ted with the average room allotted in the following oificea, to wit:— Boston, space to each employé. Philadelphia, space to each emplo. Baltimore, space to each employé. Cincinnati, space to each employ Chicago, space to each etapivy St. Louis, space to each emp: ‘To compress men into the e of thirty feet, and in man; ances ten feet, 13 an abuse of human endurance and calis ioudly for re- form. The following statement of the etical officer employed by the government for the care of the employés ig @ startiing exhibit of tle sanitary re- suits of such requisitions. [t cannot be read-with- out feeling the full force of the fact that the dilapi- dated condition, inconvenient limitation, depriva- ve air enough to neutralize the fatal atmosp! sumMcient to condemn the building and location as totally unfit for the force and labor indispensable to an office of such magnitude. (Here Mr. Ferry incor- porates in his report the testimony of Dr. Walter R. Gillett, medical oMcer of the New York Post Office, which shows that the average number of days lost to the department per month through the illness of the employés is one hundred and fifty or an aggregate of one thousand eight hundred days per annum. The types of disease are pulmonary, rheu- matic and febrile disorders mainly} | With such circumscribed and unwholesome | limits che canis of the fomice aligcarefully classified in adaptability to their respective duties and hours of service, so that day and night the industrial hive in- cessantly labors. Some idea of that labor and its rapid rease may be gathered from the following summary:—The amount of mail matter in gross handled in 1864 averaged 41 tons daily. The daily average of 1867 was ninety-five tons, an increase of 190 per cept jn three years, and averaging two hun- This chosen plan. to- | which this great distributing reservoir performs its | From that time to the | condition are such that an annual expenditure of | is made | uisite for the same has | tion of natural light, general di | GENTLEMEN—I beg to acknowledge receipt of the commu- ceeeelan ve) filth, generating "rn malaria | Bleatiog from your serenasy, ot Nt {Nt Jas, eoaiosing one7, ‘arin re juion of yur cout ve without the possibility of sec! Beth ts rf ‘ander (ha, O48 BF | China and Japan. The number of letters despatched | | is now @ daily avernge of 260,000. Number of | letters and newspapers delivered to carriers dt | | 1857, 4,806,126; the same during 1867, 19,268,786, being an increase in ten years of per cent, while | | the box delivery has increased in equal proportion, | Number of foreign letters sent and receiv was 4,063,981; the same in 1867, 8,918,168, an increase of nearly 120 per cent in six years. Aggregate value of postage stamps and stamped envelopes sold in the United States for fiscal year ending June 30, 1867, was $12,988,134, of = which $1,814,011 Was sold im the Ne York Post Oftice. Amount of portage slumps and stamped envelopes sold at the New York office in 1857, $464,911; sold in 1867, $1,814,011, an tncrease in ten years of nearly four hundred’ percent. The number of money orders issned at that office in December, 1864, in which year the system was adopted, was 1,116, amounting to $20,814; in December, 1867, 3,898, almounting to $99,059; The mumber of orders paid in December, 1864, waa 5,515, amounting to $41,791; in December, 1867, 34,948, amounting to $577,270, Postmasters’ remittances received ih December, 1864, amounted fo $73,121; De- cember, 1867, $700,180. Pestinasters’ drafts paid in December, 1864, amount to $17,600; December, 1867, AMOUNted Lo$4s4,253. All the government issnes: of postage stamps and stamped envelopes are regis- tered and distributed to postmasters through the New York oMice, and atso a very large proportion of the blanks, twine and wrapping paper thus supptied * to postmasters throughont the country. In this synopsis of tho cutuulative labor performed | the reflection follows without suggestion that aside | from the increased revenue flowing through. the | great postal artery the yalue of the contents of such | vast and varied transmissions rive Lo many million’. Tt may safely be estimated thal not iess than ten millions valuotion pass through this oMice daily. No one who has ever looked down from the second flour that partially sur:ounds the interior court } upon the multiplied and multiform matter which — cro} te nearly suflocation® this ill- adapted building vot mist have. been startled with the gravest apprelensious of peril and conse- | quent liability of the government by fire should it | approach the precincts of this combustible material. | With the utmost caution that is practised under the vigilant and all-pervading knowledge and efliciency | of its tcumbent, Postinaster Kelly, the interior | construction, so largely modern, aided by the tgnita- | ble mass crowding the apartments everywhere, | Would batle every human attempt “against | the ravages of fire, and any day the | misfortune of — tofal 83 nay involve the government aud moi less disivess the people. With, therefore, the { that for over twenty years | the business of the eity of New York has been’ con- | { ducted in an oid, rickety church building, that a | change has been recognized by the purchase of an appropriate site and a suilable structure demanded | by that condition, and the immense amount of rap- idly increasing business and labor, with the extra- | ordinary perils of attendant life and property, there | can be no other conclusion than that immediate steps should be taken to erect a suitable Post Oiice | building in that city, | What, then, shall be a suitable bailding’ Upona | consideration purely of economy any rectangular | Substantial form might be reared with ample dimen- sions, mfternal arrangements, and of the plainest architectural exterior; but none wisely minded would, we trust, suppose that this would confport + Witia the requirements of a great nation, nor contem- pated in the eligible site so generously tendered vy its commercial metropolis. Standing, as it musi, so central to ali the activities of | { tuat’ vast city, considerations broader than lveal enter into a wise and just estimate of what | | should form its material and architectural design. Comprebending the adjacent cites that extend their | limits ia proportion as New York thrives, City Hall Park, the site of the proposed buildmg, may be con- | sidered substantially the centre of the variea inter. . ests of such circuit, and is but a few steps from the monetary and commercial centre of the Union. It is now the focal point to whlch city cars and stages converge, and it is to become the termini of the subterranean sysiem of city railways which the urgent demands of a rapid growth are so goon to render necessary, Here, then, where the | populace of the city and sojourners of the nation in | great measure concentrate, is to stand the arciutec- | tural representative of uation and city combined. | | | New York touches every industrial fibre of the land, | Into her capactous lap pour the fruits of incessant national toil. Railways, in great measure the postal muscular system of countries, are so rapidly ex- tending that the day is not far distant when | the continent will be woven ito a tissue | of mail. In 1855 we had 17,3¢0 miles constructed, | in , 33,860 miles, nearly doubling in nine years. | ‘To-day the United States approximate 40,000 miles of working road, quadrupling that of France, nearly treble that of England, and almost as mach as the total mileage of the United Kingdom and Europe. | Coursing the web, agriculture, science and the arts | combine to enlarge and ‘enrich the source of the national wealth, . and the fittest | type of this advancing greatness is the | strides and grandenr of her concentring. em- porium. Foreigners seeking our shores for loca Uon or observation take their impress of the scope and power of the government from the magnitude of its commercial cent New York 1s tothe United States what London is to Great Briiain and Paris to | France, while in area and prospective population, | wealth and power of expansion, paraileis are as canton to continent Filly years ago the whole Southern mail was carried on one man’s back to | a small boat which crossed the North river. Now it | | takes cight four-horse teams to carry the same, Fifty years hence will witness such a growth South as the past furnishes no paratiel, while the expansion of | the West will be as amazing as its resources are grandly illimitable, The wonderful strength, ability | to maintain free government against formidable pee og ed and treason, and readjustment of funda- mental law upon the base of manhood dignity and equaifty, which this nation, erging "from recent war, exhibits to the world, is to be followed | by such an influx to the national increase of our numbers a8 will surprise and imperil monarchies and unprecedentedly vindicate and populate the American republic, In view of such certain growth the structure to be erected is not alone to meet the wants of the present, but to provide for the teeming future. To do this ina suitable manner It is pro- to expend three and a haif iniliions of money. Following the plan submitted and approved, the des will as pleasing to the eye as its 2 architectural stability and elegance will comport with the juiremenis of so promising a city Private business enterprise has r and costing over @ million of money, one of which, when completed, is to cost more than one-fifth of the pro- posed outlay for the Post Omice building. The muni- cipulity itself has been expending millions upon tie chy Hall, directly in rear of where it is | proposed this butlding shail stand. = Shall the government building in its architeevural scope | be less appropriate in the midst of such sur- roundings? No citizen of this republic has ever re- gretted the millions the nation has expended in the erection of iis Capitol. one tread beneath its | | matchless dome but feel the pride of country in the thrill of patriotic fervor following the proud | reflection that nowhere upon the eapth’s surface can its proportionate and stately grandew be equalied. The same laudable spirit pervades the people respecting all that concerns their countey and | their national dignity, They are proud of New York as ther metropolitan city. ‘They comprehend the growth and influence of their national power. The world regards it. In the dl- | Plomacy of nations she nd longer seeks and submits, but is now graciously sough ad | respected. An empire with uncomputed millions on our west opens its hand and seeks commercial bonds with Americans first, and bids the Embassy headed by an American invite the will of the republic ere committing its destiny to the family of nations, On our east sovereignties are startied at the rebuff of a petty province at our feet, armed with American doctrine as | a continental defence. Simultaneously our naval power receives the ovation of Europe. if such now, what then when, with the Atlantic and Pacific in our hands, we bear the comierce of the world? Then | all ples must pass throug) our metropolitan gates, With arms thus outstretched, if the body would have health and thrift and dignity and majesty, let sulia- ble provision be made for the ercial heart of | | the nation, ; The Comptrotier’s Communication eu the Ape | Propriation of Moneys Accruing from Li- censew—A Heavy Calendar=Number of Li- censes Revoked. | The Commissioners of the Board of Excise met yesterday. All members were present, and Judge | Bosworth occupied the chair. | The committee to whom was referred the applica- tions of persons desiring licenses reported favora- bly on one hundred and eighty-five applications. { The following communication from the Comptrol- | lerin relation to the moneys collected for licenses | | was received by the Secretary and read to the | Board:— CONPTROLLER'S OF F10R, June 12, 1968, METROPOLITAN BKOAUD OF EX and ip iat there can be no doubt as to ie ‘The treasury 8 | | now in want of funds for the purpose of meeting the de- | mands which are being ade against jt, and 1 am, therefore, under the necessity of requesting that | you would direct the treasurer of the Board of Excise | io nay, over monthly to the Chamberlain of the city of New York for the use of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund ail the lieenee fees which have been collected during the year, alter dediicting the various amounts designated by section | six, chapter ava of 1867. Very reapect{ully yours, | RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, Comptroller. The communication was referred to the Finance Committee. The calendar contained the names of thirty-one liquor dealers against whom complaints had been made by members of the police force for alleged violations of the Excise law. Of these four cares were adjourned over for one week, seventeen licenses were revoked, eight were not revoked end jn two In- ] stances the charges were diam imped, | locked uy | stretching out her arms she replied, « Fei. PROM 4 WiINDOW.—George Nelson fell from the third story window of his residence, 135 York | street, on Monday night et!a, and was seriously if not fatally injured, PROSPECT PaRK.—The Commissioners are reducing | the working force on Prospect Park, and retrench. ment being the order of the day it is scarcely possi- bie that as much will be accomplished there this year as was anticipated at the opening of te season. CoRONER’S INQUFST.—At the inquest which was held on the body of Mre. Rosa Shields, before Coroner Slattery yesterday, Dr. Shepard testitiod that he made a post mortem examination of fhe body of deceased and found that she died by strangulation, alarge piece of meat being found fastened in. the larynx. The verdict was in accordance Wilh the fact. STRANGE FREAKS oF LigHTNINe.—During thuneer storm yesterday afternoon the flag stuf in front of the Marine barracks, on Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, was struck by globular lightning and riven to its base, The shock was terrifie, and the fragments of the stat’ were projected to the distance of several hundred yards, The flag was hurled to the farthest extremity of the parade ground, ‘The startliug noise was lke the explosion of a wine and must have been heard the distance of several miles from the spot. pole was placed close to the marine guar the windows of the latter w as Were also those of eve t A melancholy result of this sudden accident was the injury sustained by private A, J. Labagh, who. was doing sentry duty at the time as No. 1 between the stair and the guard building. His rifle, which he bore at a support, was struck by a huge splinter and the left arm of the svidier was so badly injured that | it is feared amputation may become nec¢ was at once cared for by the surgeon in atte PronaBie Homicipe oF A Boy.—A man named | William Shields assaulted Timothy O'Keefe, a boy fourteen years of age, in Hamilton avenue, near President street, on Monday night, innicting injuries which wil] probably resutt in his death. The cireum- stances attending the affair show that seversi boys were playing in a wagon which was standing in front of a harness maker's shop kept by Mrs. Moody. Shieids, who was employed in the place, came out to drive the boys away, he bein; liquor at the time, Young O'Keefe, fatling to get ont of reach as fast as his companions, was caught by the accused, who struck him on the head with a club, fracturing his skull and knocking him sense- less.’ ‘The boy was conveyed to the residence of his parents, No, 9 President street, and physicians were summoned, Who pronounced his injuries of a fatal ' character, The facts coming to the ears of the police, Harri- | Shields was taken into custody by ofMeer gan, of the Forty-third precinct, where he was to await the result of the injuries in fieted, ‘The prisoner states that he was intoxteated alithat day, and he has no knowledge of what occurred, NE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.—The Kings County Board of Supervisors met yesterday afternoon, Supervisor Osborne in the Chair. The Committee on Accounts reported in favor of the Superintendents of the Poor purchasing supplies for the county in- stitutions in the publig markets, Adopted. On the recommendation of the Committee on salaries the jy of the two assistant merpe and the night watch- maa of the County Court House was ised from $800 to $1,000 per year, A resolution was passed au- thorizing the leasing of buildings on the west side of the Court House to parties desiring then unul the Ist of May next. A resolution was adopted fixing the compensation of the seven assessors engaged in making the militia enrolment for 1868 at $1,000 each. A resolution was presented by Superintendent Scholes in favor of discontinuing the work on the new wall in course of construction around the Peni- tentiary, on the ground that the price charged was twenty-five cents per cubic foot, which was fifteen cents more than the usual price. The resolution was jaid on the table, The Committee on Military Affaira were instructed to ascertain what disposition could be best made of the buildings recently occupied by the disbanded regiments, the Fifty-second and Fifty-sixth. DOMESTIC INFELICITIES OF A LITERARY CHARAC- TER.—Mris, Madelaide E. A, Pollard, the wife of a well known literary gentleman, appeared before Justice Cornwell yesterday afternoon and entered a complaint against Mrs. Crotty and her daughter, re- siding at No. 81 Cranberry street, and procured a warrant forfheir arrest on charge of assault and battery, Mrs. Pollard was accompanied by her hus- band, Edward A. Pollard, and stated that he left her about three weeks ago and she had ecu unable to find him until yesterday, when she went | to his place of business in New York, and he then accompanied her to his present residence, 81 Cran- berry street, On reaching there some explanation was sought by lier of the parties in the house, when, as she alleges, she was assaulted by Mrs. Crotty and her daughter, and summarily he a from the premises, Mr. Pollard staied that his wife came to his place of business and threatened to shoot him if he did not accompany her, Jt dtd not transpire, however, that she had any pistol with which to carry out such a sanguinary design. The Judge at this point inquired If she had any pistol about = and o, Sit; you can search me.’ She then stated that she was cptm- led to pawn her diamonds to pay her hus- pand’s hotel bills: to which assertions Mr. Pollard res} ying that his wife was a maniac, ‘nee =P by and that her conduct, growing out of her excessive jealousy, had'been a source of imucii annoyance to him ‘and interfered greatly with his business. Mrs. P, informed the magistrate that sh had #een married to her husband about thre but soon after discovered that he had another upon which she left him. Subsequently he di- vorced from the other woman, when they came to- gether and were reunited, The fair complainant is of Very ee appearance and superior and ladylike address, The examination of the charge pre- ferred against the parties for whose arrest (he war- rants were issued will take place before Judze Corn- well to-day. NEW JERSEY. Jerney City. SuppEN DeaTu.—A young lady named Miss Mary Fall died suddenly on Monday night at 42 Sussex street. Coroner Warren was notified, Newark. Love, JEALOUSY AND Surcipg.—Shortly afier nine o’clock yesterday morning a young girl named Kelle de Camp, seventeen years of age, died from the ef- fects of a large dose of arsenic, which she had swal- lowed on the previous evening, at the residence of her mother, @ dressmaker in comfortable circum- st ances, at No, 365 Plane street. It appears the un- fortunate girl, in accordance with the wishes of her mother, had dismissed a suitor on Sunday evening. | The following day (Monday) she saw him with an- | other girl, and that evening she took the poison, the | under the influence of | AMUSEMENTS Park THEATRE, BROOELY¥,—‘“Trodden Down, or the Lost Cause,” is the title of a new drama in three | acts now being performed at the Brooklyn Park thea- tre. It is @ homely, unpretentious production, but, | nevertheless, possesses some features that entitle it | to commendation, and while it is perhaps devoid of much scenic effects It is sensible, natural and entirely free from the outrageous tone which, now-a& days generally characterizes such effusions. Through- out the plot is well interwoven, and the dialogue quick, humorous and effective. The piece is founded on one of the numerous ineidents with which the Irish rebellion of ‘98 is replete, Fergus McCarthy (Mr. H. Watkins, the author) is an exile, with a price set upon his head, having previously taken a promi- nent part in the insurrections, and, subsequently, to avoid detection assumes the disguise of a piper and Fortune teller, While pursing his ayocation among the country folks, who are assembled on the grounds surroundiy ond Castle, he ts encountered by | Herrick Woit ( Cc. Hamilton), who, having | dissipated his une, desires to retrieve ; it by espousing the heiress Blanche (Mrs. A. Wat- | kins), Who, however, gaged to Robert O'Mara, | a gentleman of novte family (Mr. J. Saville), Prior to the marriage Lor, eveals to Robert that he is not the fail the daughter of a ) deceased one since her childhood, Wolf plays the eavesdropper, and indices Fergus to represeut him- self as Biunche’s futher, and, having fully diluted himself with whiskey, the latier proclaims himself as her parent and takes her to his home, While there , Herrick importanes her to marry him, but she dis- ‘ully rejects his offer and still rctuins an ardent | affection for O'Hara, who reciprocates (he feeling and brings her the last present of her mother, en- ve of Lord Desmond. In opening X she discovers @ letter which dis- e fact that Fergus is really her father, exhibits the most parental affection. persists in his entreaties and presunt upon the power he jwlds over Fergus, who is liable at any | moment to be landed over to the authorities, at- | tempts to ©: her of. But Fergus, being now | aronsed to anger at the audacity of Herrick, ‘ seizes lim and while attempting to chastise him | for his misdeeds is arrested by the soldiers whom | Herrick had ordered to be in attendance, The | but that she is ' trusted to the the workt third act siows Fergus in prison earnestly attended by his daughter Blanche, He is con- demned to death and awaits the hour of his execu- and recogvizing in the sentinel an old rebel ac- luscusses the naturatization question nestness. But the declines to allow lim to escape and | finally agrees to fire through the prison bars at the lighted candle which Fergus Is to hold in his hand at twelve o'clock, thereby putting an end to his exist- ence us a soldier rather than die a felon’s | death, In vie meantime, however, O'Hara 1s at work, and, having completed the arrangements for the eseape of Fergus, serfs his daughter to advise him of that tact, and while he is just making his exit Wolf enters and again importunes Fergus for the hand of his daughter, Enraged at his taunting air Fergus rushes at him and is about to strangle him when the officers interfere. Woltf, in taking up the {| candle, walks toward the window to draw attention | to where the prisoner had been filing the bars, but at | the last stroke of twelve. is shot by the sentinel outside, ‘hrough the — intercession of — the American Minister Fergus, who had graduated as an American citizen, 18 pardoned his treasonable | offences. Blanche is joined in wedlock to O'Hara, and the drania is brought to a close with the usual | hand shaking and parental blessings, As a whole, the production is well put upon the stage, and the sentiments, being ef the most Hibernian order, appeal successfully to the audience, who manifest loud tokens of approbation. Mr. Watkins, who sustains the principal character, shows that he thoroughly understood his role, and, whether in the humorous or more affecting parts, gives evidence of talent, carefuiness and study. le is ably supported by Mrs. H. Watkins, who, gifted with an excellent voice, enhance greatly her clever P impersonation by the rendition of a few sweet songs. Unquestionably that lady could perform a more pre- tentious part with credit.. As Nelly Friery Miss. Saville is quite at home, while the other characters are more or less fairly portrayed. Altogether “Trodden Down” is not without merit, and aithough perhaps not remarkable for great literary ability tt is fast a8 good ax most. productions of its class, depic ing as itdoes with faithfulness the incidents i tended to be represented. Mrs O'DONOVAN Rossa AT CoorER LysTsruTE.— The large ball of the Cooper Institute has had guthered within its walls many meetings for many purposes, and at these meetings there have been many degrees of enthusiasm; but at no gathering there has there been more hearty, more tumultuous, more unanimous enthusiasm than last evening. The occa- sion was the initiatory appearance of Mrs, O’Dono- van Rossain the first of a series of proposed read- ings in this country to raise funds to be used to accomplish the release from prison of her husband, to which, as is well known he has been sentenced for life by the English government on the charge of having incited through the columns ofthe Zrish People, published in Dublin, of which he was editor, the original Fenian outbreak in Ireland. An idtrodictory address by James T. Brady, char- acterized by ail the usual fervor and enthudiasm, such @ cause, of this accomplished the exeraises,’ Mra. Rossa first read | duty inv ned her high genius as a reader she was given three rounds ol cl at her feet fell a shower of bouqu quently she read “ihe Sister of Chavity,? by Gerald Grifin; “The Bridge,” of — wiach’ she is the anthoress, and “Fontenoy,” by Thoiuas Davis. she haz a voice of great compass and flexibility, and her intonation, expression and manner are well bigh perfeci. During the evening spirited addresses were delivered by Horace Greeley and General Charles G. Halpine, and the programme was further pleasingly diversified by reaclings by Prof. Frobisher and songs by Miss Garrison, ‘fhe hall, it should have been stated. was crowded. On the stage were many of our pron inent citizens of Ceitte birth. Altogether the recep. enthusiasin showed of metropolitan Fenia Mrs. KECKLEY IN A W ROLE.—Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley, well known as the companion, /odiste, or personal attendant of Mrs. Lincoln, and who has recently given to the public, in a book watitied * Be- hind the Scenes,’ her recollections of the sayings j; and doings of the great personag with whom she came in contact during her con- nection with the White House, made her debut last evening in the chapel of the University Building, corner of Waveriey place and University place, before a small audience invited to attend “a private read- | ing,’ preparatory to her putdic appearance. The subject selected for this initial erort was “The Assassination Chapter” from her own book and selections from Longfellow’s “Hiawatha.” We have no desire to deter Mrs, Keckley from the fulfliment of her announced intention to invite the criticism of a Boston audience regarding her ta’- pnt as a reader; bat while making every allow seventeen cents’ worth of which she had previ ance for the natural nervousness consequent upon rocured at a druggist’s in Market 8 | a first appearance we were not very favorably ater in the evening, while enjoying some | impress with her attempt last evening, d cream in a saioon she suddenly became sick and cannot but regard the prospect of her st reaching home commenced vomiting excessively. | jn this new rdle as at least equivocal. Her appear- ‘Two physicians were sent for, but their efforts were uselesss to prolong the poor creature's life. A post mortem examination was held yesterday afternoon by the county physician, Dr. Lehibach, and the cause of death established beyond a doubt. Here it ix proper to remark that it is high time some proper restrictions were made by the New Jersey Legisla- | ture relative to the sale of poisons, The law at pre- sent permits druggists to sell any quantity provided | soiely that they label it “potson.’’ The matter has been brought before that body several times, but for some reason not explained it has never been acted upon. | ANOTHER SAD DRowNING ACCIDENT.—During the temporary absence of his mother yesterday @ littie poy, six years of age, mamed Samuel Caulfield, re- siding at No. § Hunterdon street, fell into a well and was drowned. The body was discovered floating on the surface of the water by @ neighbor who went to draw water several hours after the little fellow was missed, This is the third case of a similar.desorip- tion hereabouts within as many weeks. Orange. Fire.—A few minutes before one o'clock yesterday morning the hat factory of Martin Cabill, in Day | street, was destroyed by fire, occasioning a loas of about $3,500, which is partly insured. The prompt turn out of the fire company and citizens saved sev. eral residences adjoining, Which had partly caught fire. Tuert OF DIAMOND RINGS.—Two valuable dia- mond rings were recently stolen from the residence of alady named Peed, at this place. One of them | was a beautiful cluster, elaborately set. Tue Focrtn.—The Common Council on Monday | evening appropriated $150 for freworks, &v. WESTCHESTER INTELLIGENCE. | Tas TRUSTERS OF PORTCHESTER.—The Boar! of Trustees of Portchester held @ meeting on Monday evening and appropriated $2,000 for the repairs of | & roads. A series of bylaws, corresponding with | those prepared for the village of Yonkers, were adopted. Mr. H. P. Seaman was Cg jolloe- | man, and a committee, consisting of Messrs. Horton | and Provost, was appointed to examine and report | on the obstructions along Purchase avenue and the necessary Improvements to grade and condition of the sidewalk In the same. New AVENUR.—Surveyors have gone ‘o work in laying out the new avenue from Mamaroneck to White Plains, At the same time many of the tax- payers along the road have presented remonstrances to the Commissioners against making the new road e hand: le, as contemplated, contending that four rode (ant -bix feet) Wide Would be wide enougn for all the travel that Is likely vo pee over it, and all they feel foe ayy’ to for, naiderable Seepage te is js manifested in the town of to moxipa thy road @¢ Mindted Leas wicte, ance and voice are both certainly pleasing; but we failed to find any distinct interpretation of the senti- ment or embodiment of the thought in either tone or expression, Beyond a moderately careful attention to the punctuation of what she read, or rather re- cited, Mrs, Keckley’s rendering was without niatter for either commendation or criticism. Musical and Theatrical Notes. The Webb sisters are great favorites among the atre-goers of San Francisco, Tue good people of New Orleans are in esta ies over the cancan, The crities pronounce it “a pew and very popular feature.”? Mme, Scheller is playing the part of the lovely Annie, in a dramatization of “Enoch Arden,” to crowded houses in Salt Lake City. Flotow and another composer have composed a | three act comic opera, which has four characters, | but no chorus, Several masculine and feminine stars are at pres- ent lying idle in the city of St. Louls, with but «lim chances of getting occasion to shed their light on the public. et comedy by M. Jules Barbler has been Atte act (ie Odeon with the title of “La Loterie er ane 2 and was but l- Oe Ge essful. is certainly cannot be same play now performing at Wallack’s. It is ead artists are 0 longer to be allowed the privilege of giving concerts at the houses of the | aristocracy. Doing so interferes wit the rights and privileges = eum See nepaeeIen, chi making e | gic ucame Stival, which will commence tn that. city ‘ie 7th and will continue to the Zist inst. About | $4,000 will be expended im decorating the Wabash avenue rink alone. The city will be visited uy over two thousand singers all parts of the United States and Europe. “golon Shingle” Owens is playing the “Victim: with “Forty Winks" to crowded houses in Indian- olls. ‘ iy Rihings opera troupe closed a successful sea- son in Wash vyiety on Monday night, with the new opera of “The Czar and the Carpenter.” poten ti ew ny ye exstatic bisa an \e ‘aw: » “The Black Crook” has reached Raleigh, N. C. a v Naty Ny ger We sw nothing offensive in “Black it a play. It isa tale of magic, which we Dow presented to the hniidhood, and is various shapes in 00 ian resti hood as When the magiclan’s wand wared 1D Taney. cna — this is one of the “Blac ol. oie SFonterson, took rousing “Rip Van Winkle” benefit on Friday evening at the Wainut street Mentre, EMateP ra gey, “Udder the Guslght,” ws Haxer ty anid on the same nut nt the Arch over the in the same city and on atreet theatre. tinel having his ,