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4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All busiuess or news letter and tefegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Herarp. Letiers and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the Foor cents per copy. Annual subscription year. KLY HERALD, every Saturday, at FIVE rcopy. Annualsubscription price:— ‘Ven, Copies. Any larger number addressed to names of sub- scribers $4 SO each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten, Twenty copies to one addresss @25, and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WEBKLY HERALD the cheapest pub- icatoin in the country. nure ive cents per copy foe three months. PLAN EDITION, every Wednesday, at Six yer copy, $4 per annum to any part of Great 2 to any part of the Continent, both to one ye ain, © include posiage. The CaLive \ month, at Six CENTS per copy, or #3 TION, On the Ist, 9th, 16th and RNTA 24th of ea per a ADVEWTISEMENTS, to a limited number, will be in- serted in (he WEEKLY HERALD, European and Cali- fornia Editions. JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereo- typing and Engraving, neatly and promptly exe- cuted at the lowest rates, Volume XXXIII.. RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rrv. A. MOULELLAND, evening, CANAL Dx, ScuArr, morning; RE CONEY ISLAND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.— Preaching at three o'clock. Progress ef the Presidential Canvase—Vere mont and Maine. Greeley says ‘the combat deepens,” which is true; he says ‘‘we are in the thick of a struggle,” which is also true, or very near the truth; but he also says of the struggle, ‘‘we can see through and beyond it’—a gift of vision which may be considered extraordinary. He says, furthermore, ‘‘a few weeks more of resolute effort will usher in a long, bright season of tranquillity and safety"—a pro- phecy which, in its fulfilment, we think ex- ceedingly doubtful. We are rather inclined to the opinion that we have entered upon a new political agitation or modification of old issues which, for its settlement, will be carried over to the election of 1872. Monster political meetings of both parties, East and West, North and South, are becom- ing more and more the order of the day as we approach nearer and nearer the sharp test of our introductory fall elections. The repub- licans, looking to their general successes of the last eight years, and confident in the popular strength of Grant and Colfax, seem to entertain high hopes of a glorious victory. The democrats, looking at the results of the elections of last October and’ November in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York on the negro question, and of this year’s elections in Connecticut, Oregon and Kentucky, and full of the idea of a coming groundswell on the money question, appear to be sanguine of a political revolution in November which will give the victory to Seymour and Blair. Nor can it yet be said that in this idea they are building upon adelusive foundation. The late Oregon and Kentucky elections were mainly controlled by the general issues of this Presidential contest, and the results clearly indicate the continuance of the political reaction which marked the great State elections of last year. Assuming, however, that the result in neither Oregon nor Kentucky fairly indicates the gen- eral drift of public sentiment north of the Ohio river and Mason and Dixon’s line, or east of the Rocky Mountains since the nomination of Seymour and Blair, we shall certainly have some pretty distinct foreshadowings of the grand summing up in November from the re- | sults of the coming September elections in | Vermont and Maine, and especially in Maine. These are two of the strongest republican | States, and so one-sided and fixed in her po- litical character is Vermont that her election, FoRTY-§ Rev. WV. A COND STREET corr, D.D. Mo: YTERIAN CHURCH.— nd evening, HOWARD MISSION.—Rry. W. C. VAN MrvER. After- noon, PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. GroncE C. Lort- Mt. Morning and evening. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rev. Morning and evening. Dr. HOLME. UNIVERSITY—Washington square.—Bisnor SNow. Af- ternoon New York, Sunday, August 23, 1868S. EUROPE. The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated vening, August 22. English Foreign Ofice had no information beyond the news telegram relative to a conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria in Switzerland. The Prussian government is investigating the emi- grant passenger transport service system, with a view to its improvement, The international race between the Sappho and English yachts is post- poned to Tuesday. A renewed attempt to publish La Laterne newspaper in Paris was suppressed by the police. The London *Change was closed for a holiday. Five-twenties 75%) a 754s in Frankfort. Paris Bourse firmer. Cotton heavy, with middling uplands at 10%d. a 10%d. Breadstuff dull, Provisions without marked change. Produce unchanged. By steamship at this port we have interesting mail details of our cable telegrams to the 11th of August. Max Fessler, of Bregenz, Tyrol, was the winner of the first prize at the Schuentzenfest at Vienna, and he was as such winyer and as king of German marksmen awarded the $1,500 Steinway piano sent from New York as a donation. MISCELLANEOUS. General Sherman has offically informed the Secre- tary of War that the Indian atrocities in Kansas are too horrible to detail, and that he has directed Gen- eral Sheridan, who is in pursuit, to inflict summary punishment upon the perpetrators. The President and the Secretary have both acquiesced in General Sherman's instructions in the matter. The new incumbent of the Register’s office has written a note stating that he intends to make changes in the subordinate departments of his omice for the benetit of his party friends where he can do 80 without detriment to the public service. ‘The figid investigation of the alleged frauds in the payment of colored bounties is again going on in Washington. Representative Cobb's report at the | end of the last session stated that no evidence of | anything beyond irregularities was to be discovered, | but the pr nt investigation is apparently uncarth- ing several very distinct and well laid schemes for money making. It is now stated that the radicals, if necessary to carry the Presidential election, will gave ali the re- publican Legislatures in the Northern States cast the vote of their several States, provided the p tdoes not meet with too decided a rebull from the New Eugiand republicans. Mary Ann Jordan, an Irish woman, was taken into custody in Brooklyn yesterday on a charge of having Killed Joseph Nicholson in a drunken brawl at a tenement house on Navy street, near Tilary, on Friday evening by striking him across the breast with an iron bar, She acknowledges the striking, but the Coroner reports finding no external bruises on Nicholson's body. The husband of Mary Ann | was sent up yesterday morning on a charge of dis. orderly conduct, having been implicated in the row which apparently led to Nicholson's th. \ The trial of the express robbers was continued in ) Toronto yesterday and the women implicated were discharged. ‘Two colored men were among the defeated con testants ina champion regatta at Ottawa, Canada, yeaterday. Four bodigg were found in the Delaware river at Philadelphia yesterday, and a daughter of General Kilby Smith was drowned at Torresdale, in the same river, during the day. Judge Underwood, in the case of the Alexandria (Va.) Railroad, yesterday directed that the road be | returned to the old lessees, on the rendering of requisite bonds, until the Commissioners’ report wae made. A fatal case of cholera occurred at Brighton, Mass., yesterday. The stock market was irregular, but on the whole steady yesterday. Government securities were dull but firm. Gold closed at 1443; a 144%. Business in most departments of trade in commer- cial circles was extremely quict yesterday. Coffee qwas in fair demand and firm, while almost ali other kinds of groceries were dull and heavy. Cotton was only moderately active, but firm, at 50c. for middling September 1, will probably go by default. At | all events, the democrats seem to be making there no extraordinary efforts to increase their vote or to reduce the republican majority. Comparatively, therefore, but little interest is felt in regard to Vermont; but the case is widely different in reference to Maine. That State has for many years been regarded as the State which opens the ball of the Presidential election, and as giving the first distinct and definite foreshadowing of the Presidentiab vic- tory. working as vigorously for the vantage ground as they worked for it in the initial election of Hence we find both parties in Maine 1868 of New Hampshire on the primary ques- tion of the popularity of General Grant. What, then, is the prospect in Maine? In the figures of her State election of 1867, as compared with that of 1866, the democrats have some encouragement for a vigorous fight. Here are the figures: — 1866. 1867. Republican vote 69,626 57,649 Democratic vote. 41,939 46,035 Republican majority........... 27,687 11,614 Here we have a republican majority of over twenty-seven thousand reduced to less than twelve thousand in a single year, involving a loss in the republican vote of some twelve thousand and a positive gain in the democratic of over four thousand. The republican loss may be mainly s#ributed to general apathy ; but the demoesatic gain no doubt includes considerable accessions from the republican side. The Maine election will come off Sep- tember 14, and to some extent, great or small, it will be affected by the result in Vermont, whatever that may be; but more directly and powerfully Maine will be controlled by the issues pending between Grant and Seymour. If, therefore, in this coming Maine election the democrats substantially hold the ground which they gained last year, we may assume that the same general causes which reversed the posi- tion of the two parties in Ohio and Pennsyl- vania last year will still prevail. Our readers will remember that, with the receipt of the vote of Maine of 1866 on the constitutional amendment, article fourteen, the Henan pre- dicted a complete sweep of the country by the republicans on that platform in the elections of that year still to come, and they will re- member how thoroughly that prediction was fulfilled. So with the republican loss and democratic gain in Maine last year our pre- dictions of a general reaction were borne out in the great Central States. : From the time of General Jackson, indeed, Maine—‘“‘the Star in the East’—has been re- garded in the Presidential year as affording in her State election a pretty fair index of the Presidential general result. Many old cam- paigners will remember the Harrison campaign song of 1840, which included this ringing though somewhat profane stanza:— On, have you heard the news from Maine And what old Maine can do? she went, heil bent, for Governor Ke And ypecanoe and Tyler too, \nd Tippecanoe and Tyler too, And with them we will beat little Van And ever since that day ‘‘the news from Maine,” in the Presidential year, has been watched and waited for with the deepest in- terest by all parties. Three weeks intervene to’ that election, and already the canvass in the State approaches the white heat of the Presidential contest. We shall undoubtedly, therefore, have in the result of this coming Maine election some definite indication of the general drift of the popular tide on the Presi- dential conflict. Nor shall we be surprised to find that indication in favor of Seymour, for we are still in the midst of a revolutionary epoch. a Ovr Panis Fasnioxs Lerter.—It is scarcely necessary to call the attention of our fair readers to our Paris fashions letter, which, with its sprightly gossip about court life, as upland. On ‘Change flour was dui! and heavy and | wellas its minute and scientific record of the prices were lower in some cases. Wheat was dull and nominal, Corn was dull and abont le. lower, while fashions, is read by the ladies every week with oats were quiet and heavy. Pork was in fair de- interest. But it is particularly interesting to- NHW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2%, 1868. the diadem of the African Queen Mohelie, the new and almost indescribable shades from Lyons, the court colors and dress styles and the mantles, hats and bonnets to be worn this autumn. Perhaps, as visits to watering Places are not unfrequently followed by wed- dings, it may seem at Saratoga, Long Branch and Newport that the most important as well as the most startling item of news in this letter is that the fashionable color at the court parties at Fontainebleau, and ‘even at weddings,” is black! ‘The Coming Musical and Theatrical Season. The full account which we published on Thursday of the preparations for the regular musical and dramatic season about to open in this city showed how extraordinarily brilliant the season promises to be. Since that account appeared, with its minute details of what is to be expected at twenty-four places of public amuse- ment in New York and Brooklyn, two impor- tant additional announcements have been made, The Academy of Music has been leased for the fall and winter by Mr. Mapleson, of “Her Majesty’s,” in London, and Pike’s Opera House has been leased by Mr. Bateman. The energy and ability of Mr. Mapleson were thoroughly tested and proved during the Lon- don season of 1868, After his old house had | been burned to the ground Mr. Mapleson had | to seek for a new one, to provide music, scenery, costumes, decorations and all for more than twenty works, and to convince the public that Drury Lane theatre, which he fitted | up at no trifling expense, would answer the | purposes of Italian opera as well as his ancient | building. He resolutely overcame every | obstacle, and, seconded by his inde- | fatigable musical director, Signor Arditi, | brought out, within the — short space | of two months, no less than fifteen | works:—‘‘Lucrezia,” “‘Semiramide,” “The | Barbiere,” ‘The Traviata,” “The Trova- tore,” “Linda,” ‘Don Giovanni,” ‘Figaro,” “Rigoletto,” ‘‘Fidelio,” ‘‘Norma,” ‘The Gazza Ladra,” “The Huguenots,” ‘The Nozze di Figaro” and ‘‘Martha.” These operas were represented by Mlles. Tietjens and Sinico; Mmes. Demeric-Lablache and Trebelli-Bettini ; Signors Bettini, Gassier and Foli; Herr Roki- tansky, Messrs. Santley, C. Lyall and other members of his troop at ‘Her Majesty's.” Among the principal triumphs which rendered the season memorably successful it must suffice toallude to Mlle. Tietjens’ impersonation in “Medea” of the heroine, attesting the undeniable supremacy of the great lyric tragedienne in ! the loftier walks of the operatic drama ; Mlle. Christine Nilsson’s impersonations of Elvira, in “Don Giovanni,” and of Margaret, in ‘‘Faust,” and the other characters in which the new “Swedish Nightingale” took musical London by storm ; and, finally, Miss Kellogg's imper- sonations of Ninetta, in ‘La Gazza Ladra,” and Maria, in “‘La Figlia di Regimento,” and the rest of the characters successfully sustained by our New York favorite. Mr. Mapleson, it is said, will bring to this city several of the most distinguished mem- bers of his troupe, among them Mademoiselle Tietjens, Miss Kellogg, Mademoiselle Sinico, Signor Butterini, who has a fine voice, and Mr. Santley, the only living baritone singer who is entitled to comparison with Ronconi in his prime. It is not improbable that Madame Lumley, who is already in New York, the sister of the London impresario, may be en- gaged as an assistant contralto by Mr. Maple- son. If Mr. Mapleson does not rely too much on a few bright particular “stars,” if he takes care that his principal singers be properly sup- ported, and, especially, if he wisely shuns, in his relations with the one hundred and ninety- nine and a half stockholders of the Academy, the perils which have proved fatal to so many managers, we may hope that he will revive with ¢clat the fallen fortunes of Italian opera in New Yovk. The Academy of Music in Brooklyn will doubtless open its doors on cer- tain nights during the season to Mr. Maple- son's company. But whatever may be the fate of Italian opera during the next regular season in New York, opéra bouffe will unquestionably retain the hold upon the public favor which, thanks to ‘La Grande Duchesse” and ‘La Barbe Bleue,” to Mlle. Tostée, to Mlle. Irma and to | M. Aujac. Mr. Bateman has firmly secured for it. Whether at Niblo’s Garden or at Pike's superb Opera House, and whatever the myste- rious projects of Mr. Bateman may keep in re- serve for the surprise and delight of the public, opéra bouffe seems likely to remain ‘‘an insti- tution.” Mr. Gran intends to lend his aid to its perpetuation at his beautifully renovated French theatre. English opéra bougfe will follow the lead of French opéra bouffe, under the guidance of the ers Worrell, at the New | York theatre, the Sisters Galton, at Wood's museum and theatre, and the minstrels of | Kelly and Leon. | With Italian opera and opéra bouffe, both | French and Engl vith the charming con- | certs of Thomas to be continued at the Central Park Garden until winter and then to be suc- ceeded by symphony soirces at Steinway Hall, and with the English Opera Troupe of Miss Richings, we shall have to complain of no lack of music. With the legitimate drama at Booth’s new and splendid theatre, at Wallack’s and at the Stadt theatre; with such attractive varieties as only John Brougham can supply in his | newly fitted up Fifth Avenue theatre; with Jefferson at the Olympic; with Barney Wil- liams and the Florences at the Broadway thea- tre; with pantomimes more amusing and gor- geously spectacular than have ever before been | seen at the Olympic, at the Bowery and at Tony Pastor's; with Bryants’ Minstrels—in fine, with all the manifold attractions, from high tragedy to broad farce, offered by the theatres of New York, the coming season promises, as we have said, to be extraordi- narily brilliant. Never before have the man- agers exhibited a keener spirit of competition ; never have they been more liberal in their expenditures or more anxious to meet in every way the demands of an improved public taste. A happy sign of this improved taste is the almost complete exile of spectacles of the “Black Crook” and ‘ White Fawn” order to “the provinces.” New York has certainly long enough endured such demoralizing spec- mand at previous prices, while beef and lard were | Gay, describing as it does the bridal gifts | tacles. New Yorkers are as pro-eminently a8 quiet but steady. Naval stores were dull and heavy. | offered to the Marquise de Caux, née Adelina | the Parisians a theatre-going people. With Petroleum was almost inactive and heavy for crude | Patti; the outdoor toilets at the Deauville | the encouraging revival of business in the fall (in butk) at 153g¢., and quiet and heavy for refined at Ste. a 92%40. while whiskey was moderately active and a shade demer. Freights were quiet and lower, | races, the travelling costume of Empress | Engénie, the dresses of Queen Victoria and her | auite on the arrival of the royal party in Paris, they will be abundantly able to indulge their passion for amusements. But both opera managers aud theatre managers can win cer-. tain and substantial success in this city only by conforming to the higher standards of a public which is yearly growing more critical and more exacting. New York is now a good market only for the best musical and dramatic wares, The Watering Places, The summer season of 1868 at our fashion- able watering places and country retreats having reached its culminating point, we are enabled to pronounce upon it, and it may be pronounced a genuine success. From the lakes of Maine and the mountains of New Hamp- shire to Newport, and from Newport to Cape May; from the Highlands of the Hudson to the highlands and lowlands of the Jersey coast; from the Saratoga Springs to the famous white sulphur and red sulphur and blue sul- phur and Bath alum and warm and hot springs of the mountains of Virginia, and from Niagara Falls to the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky—at all our summer resorts the rush of summer travellers has been and is unexpectedly and in many cases unprecedentedly heavy. In the beginning, from the lateness of the actual opening of the summer, the prospect was somewhat discouraging; but the “heated term” of July fairly sent the town flying to the country, the mountains, the lakes, the springs and the seashore. Last summer the world-absorbing attractions of the world’s industrial and fashionable expo- sition at Paris and the recent battle fields of Germany and Italy and the rejuvenation of old Venice drew off to Europe such extraordinary shipments of our summer birds of passage from this country that the loss was felt at our summer retreats from the Canadian border down into the heart of the unreconstructed States. This season there has been no special European attraction to divert our fashionable circles over the water, and, moreover, their European expenditures of last year have operated to a shortening of sail and shorter cruises for a year or two. Again, as the year of a Presi- dential contest, from its absorbing political excitement, interferes with business and fore- warns our business classes of a comparatively dull season for trade, it gives them the oppor- tunity for a little more of their summer recrea- tions. These are among the causes which have contributed to fill our fashionable summer caravansaries from the lakes of Maine to the mountains of West Virginia. We understand, however, that, comparatively, the extra contri- butions of visitors at all these places have been much less this season than during the flush times of the war or the flash times which preceded our financial reactiong of 1837 and 1857. Experience is the mother of wisdom. In the soo! old times of “the Union as it was,” when the law of Southern slavery was paramount and cotton was king, Saratoga, for example, reaped its largest summer profits from the tobacco, rice, sugar and cotton lords ofthe South. Their power in Congress Hall at Saratoga was as commanding and overshad- owing as in Congress Hall at Washington. Now mark the change resulting from the rash experiment of an independent Southern con- federacy. The Southern white master, with his retinue of black slaves, is no longer seen at “the springs,” and but few of the F. F. V.’s are registered in the books of Saratoga, Lake George or Newport. On the other hand we have areport, August 21, from the Greenbrier White Sulphur, of the presence there of Gene- ral Robert E. Lee, ex-Governor Pickens, of South Carolina; ex-Governor Letcher, of Vir- ginia; A. H. H. Stuart, of the late rebel Con- gress, and the rebel Generals Beauregard, Echols and Anderson and other Confederate notabilities, with the announcement that ‘Alexander H. Stephens and Generals Ewell and Longstreet will arrive to-morrow night.” Thts is a suggestive Southern social gathering— suggestive of sectional, political and social dif- ferences still unhealed, and of the comprehen- sive issues involved in this Presidential con- test. The wounds of this late terrible war will only disappear with the existing generation, if so soon; but still we say, with General Grant, “Jet us have peace.” Long Branch has within a few years risen to the first in rank among our most popular sea- side summer resorts; but with a few very sim- ple reforms and innovations its highest regis- tered list of summer guests might be doubled. Reduce the passenger fare from and to New York one-half, establish some comfortable houses on the European plan, cut down the hotel prices generally and prices of goods re- tailed at the stores to New York retail figures, make the place attractive to quiet people as well as noisy people, and to people of mode- rate means and wants, and a substantial city may take the place of the few shops which flank the present widely scattered settlement of a dozen hotels. With this hint, freely given for the benefit of all concerned, we close. And thus endeth our fourth chapter. Tne Cmixesk Empassy 1N Bostox.—The Chinese Embassy has shaken Bosting by the hand for ‘exactly one hour,” has seen Faneuil Hall “crowded to its utmost capacity,” and has been greeted with ‘‘deafening applause,” and lived through it. Nay, it has endured a ban- quet from the ‘‘members of the city govern- ment,” and has heard Boston discuss the pro- priety of being polite to China, not for any good reason, but on account of her respectable antiquity; for Boston is a flunkey at heart. More than this, the Embassy has heard Mr. Charles Sumner speak ‘‘at considerable length,” which is a thing to come from China for, we have no doubt. We sincerely congratulate the Embassy onall this, In seeing this great country it had to have Boston, just as the little pilgrims who see life must get at it through an interest- ing round of mumps, measles and scarlet fever, and we are glad it has got safely through. We also congratulate Boston on appreciating the Embassy in its peculiar way, and on seeing nothing in it except that it was all done by a Boston-man. A Proritiess Jupoment.—After all the ex- pense, labor, time and fine arguments of M. Berryer and others, pro and con, on the claim of the United States against the Messrs. Ar- mans, of Bordeaux, for the value of the fron- clads built for the Confederate government, and after judgment had been given in favor of the United States by the French High Court of Appeals, it proves to be a barren and profit- less triumph. The whole story is told in the announcement that the Messrs. Armans have heen adjudged bankrupt; consequently there is nothing to pay Uncle Sam with and he may pocket the loss. Demoralization ef Southern Radicals. Not only does the Southern radical darky slip away from his Northern driver at the criti- cal moment, but even the carpet-bagger is delusive. There are queer sounds from Ala- bama. W. B. Jones, nominated as an elector on the Grant ticket, refuses to serve, and goes for Seymour; Thomas Masterson, a radical light in the Alabama Legislature, is announced as on the Seymour stump, and John Hardy, some time publisher of the radical organ in Montgomery, declares himself as compelled to suspend publication and to shut up shop ‘‘for want of patronage.” Radical literature goes begging for readers and radical office (without pay) for holders. Jones, Masterson and Hardy were great men of the carpet-bag régime, and they are falling away to democracy. Well, they must do something for an honest living, and the thing they find it easiest to do is politics; andif a man does politics for a living he must be on the winning side. This accounts for the transit of Jones, Masterson and Hardy. Indeed, if the probabilities of the success of Seymour continue to rise as they have done lately we shall see many more mutations, and the radicals can scarcely wonder if, in view of probable defeat, they lose men who were with them only because they were the upper dogs in the fight. They may reproach themselves, however, that they consented to carry on the great business of reconstruction with such material. MUSICAL REVIEW. Ditson & Co., Boston and New York, publish the following:— “A Little Bird Told Me.” Ballad. Knight. A pretty little song in 6-8 time, with an arch grace and flowing movement which commend it to everybody. “Edwina Waltz.” By Piédad Garcia de Tejada. A very ordinary waltz, with a very poor coda, Any good pianist might improvise a better waltz. “Switzer’s Farewell” and “Die Mailifterl.” From King’s rondinos for little fingers, Good exercises for children, They are arranged without octaves, “Marches Militaires.”” Nos, 1 and 3, opus 61. F. Schubert, Suitable for beginners. “Riverside Polka.” Stillman, One of the popular kind of polkas, accessible to all and brilliant in its way. “The Alpine Echo.” Tyrolienne de Holzel. Weker- lin. To any person who fancies a vocal tyrolienne this will prove interesting. Weare not admirers of this style of composition. “Prithee, What Has Snared Thee, Heart?? Song. Hatton. The weakest and least interesting of this favorite composer's songs. It is not devoid of merit, however, for the graceful and simple accompaniment is very commendable. “Serenade.” For a soprano voice. Briggs. Some- what of the lullaby order; a very beautiful melody, with a fitting accompaniment. “When All Thy Mercies, Oh, My God!” Melody by Pacher ; arrangea for four voices by Stearns, A very charming melody and well arranged in both the vocal part and the accompaniment. “Les Colifichets,” bluette, Egghard. The little triplets interspersed with the melody in the first part give alight, graceful character to it, but the peo gs follows is both in bad taste and badly arranged. “Swampscott Galop.” Atkinson. Not worth the paper a written on, or the trouble of any musician to play it. ° “Black Eyes and Blue,’ song. Proehl. The words, by Susan H. Blaisdell, are entirely too good for the music, which, if not exactly trash, is very near it. “Lascia ch’io Pianga,” from Handei’s Rinaldo, ‘This is the aria in which Miss Adelaide Phillips made such & success in the concert hall. For a contralto voice there is nothing we could recommend in pre- ference to it. “Adieu ! My Soldier Love,” Arnaud. A spirited, stirring piece in martial styie. Pond Co, publish the following:—‘‘Janet’s Choice,” Claribel. A pretty little song, familiar to all concert goers in this city. Schirmer publishes a song by Millard, entitled “After,”? which is both commonplace and smacks of plagiarism. Dodworth & Son publish the following:—“Auld Acquaintance Polka,” J. J. Freeman. Very tame and uninteresting, and not worth publishing. “Roulotte Lovers,” arranged from “Barbe Blene,” by Harvey B, Dodworth. One of the best arrange- menta we have seen of Offenbach’s opera. The themes are well selected, and in the ballroom can- not fail to give satisfaction. “Archery Gallop,” by J. L. K. A dashing, spirited gaiop, of the Carl Faust order, and easy of execu- mn. 0 “The Wreath Polka,” by E. F. Cooke. Sparkling and brilliant. The triplets interspersed in the themes are very pretty, and the finale is in keeping with the rest of the composition, a rare circumstance with pieces of this kind. Tremaine publishes a very beautiful “impromptu melodieux,” called “La Grace de Carthagene,” by Charles Van Oeckelen, It isin 12-8 time, and is of @ pleasing character, both in its melody and treat- ment. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES, The Richings English opera troupe will commence their fall and winter season on September 12. They have added many new operas to their already ex- tensive repertoire. The stalacta of the “Black Crook” at the Walnut, Philadelphia, during the past month, was Miss Fanny Stocqueier, formerly at Banvard’s. Madame Eliza Lumley-Blath, the celebrated con- tralto from her Majesty’s theatre, London, and the sister of the Impresario Lumley, is at present resid- ing in this city. The concerts at the Central Park Garden, under the direction of Mr. Theodore Thomas, have proved a decided success, and Mr. J. Goesche, the manager, is already making arrangements for the next season of symphony soirces, ‘The opera of “Hamlet” has been revived in Paris, with Nilsson and Faure filling their original parts. Manager William Wheatiey, of Nibio’s, takes a benefit at that theatre on the Sist inst., upon which occasion he bids final adieu to the stage. The regu- lar dramatic season at this establishment will be in- augurated with considerable ¢clat on or about the 1st of October. ‘The summer dramatic season at the Bowery theatre terminated with the performances last evening. The house will remain closed for one week, during which time it will be thoroughly renovated and repainted and will reopen again for the regular fall and winter season on Monday, the Sist inst. “Foul Play” is still attracting a fair share of atten- tion, and is being rapidly reconstructed. At the Broadway theatre we are to have it minus the ship scene, while at the New York we are to be treated to no less than three dierent scenes on board the “doomed vessel,” the last of which represents her sinking with the men upon the deck. Kelly & Leon's minstreis will not open in this city until Wednesday evening next. The postponement is made in order to obtain additional dress rehear- sals of their latest sensation, the “Barber Blu."” Billy Birch, the minstrel, awoke one morning last week to find himself famous, owing to his hair having mysteriously sprouted out duringthe night in large “chunks” over that part of his pate to which for years it had been a stranger, The comical Billy was so annoyed the next day by his inquisitive | and curious friends tha a fit of angriness’’ he plucked said unks” out again by the roots and is once more as ball as a champion eagle. Fraulein Galimeyer, the enfant terrible of the Carl theatre of Vienna, so shocked the staid and phiegmatic inhabitants of Bremen, by giving them a touch of the cancan that she refused to appear a second time. She was shocked in her turn by the manager sning her for $600 on account of her breach of contract. INTERNAL REVENUE, Important to Cigar Manufacturers=—Communi+ cation from Commissioner Rollins. ‘The following communication, which will explain itself, was received yesterday by Inspector Harvey, TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Orgzoe ov INTERNAL REVENUE, ASHINGTON, August 19, 1 of August 17, in' relation to cigars not has been, receited. that cixar requently deliver to Into cigars, which ser Xx ~J5 Hd ‘ou wish to 4 cigars are returned to the owner in bulk. Know whether this practice can be allowed under the new law. In anewer T have to ray ttint under section 89 of the act of July 20, 1868, all cigare ‘are required to be packed, stamped and branded in the manner required by that Act betore being red from the manufactory. o1 Inne Ita cigar manutacturer, thererore, permite bis cient makers to take tobacco to th for him he must also furniaa ik: ROLLING, Commissioner. Teaaco Harvey, Eaq, stant Assessor district, New York. ‘Thirty-secoad | See WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, August 22, 1660. A Radical Fecler—A New Method of Carry- ing the Presidential Election, It is said here to-day that should the result of the October elections indicate a probability of demo- cratic success tn the Presidential contest, the State Legislatures of the North which have a radical ma- jority will proceed to cheo’e Presidential electors, and thus defeat the popu if vill, The idea seems to be thrown out as a feeler uc present, but it may be- come a reality if it is received with favor by the re- publicans of New England. Plot to Perpetuate Radical Rule in Alabama— Proposed Extension of the Terms of Con- gressmen, i Politicians who have arrived here to-day from Ala- bama give information of a new dodge to perpetuate radical rule in that State. A party of extreme radt- cals there is urging the Governor to call an extra session of the Legislature with a view to extending the term of the present Congressmen from that State for two years, The pretext for this outrageous usur- pation is that the present members having entered upon their duties so late in the season have not nad afair share of the delights of Washington legisla sors, and should therefore be allowed to serve .for two years more, Democratic politicians here de- nounce the scheme, and say the Governor of Alabama will not sanction it, : The Accounts of Indian Atrocitics Confirmed Stringent Military Measures for the Punishe ment of the Savages. Secretary Schofield received a despatch to-day from General Sherman, dated Omaha, August 29, im which he announces that he had just received a de- spatch from General Sheridan, in which he confirms the Press despatches about the Indian outrages. General Sheridan says the outrages are too horrible to detail, General Sherman ordered General Sheri- dan to continue the pursuit and drive the savages out of that section of the country, and when cap- tured to give them summary punishment. The Sec- retary of War communicated the intelligence to the President, who acquiesced in the stringent measures which the Secretary of War and General Sherman were taking in the matter. The Reported Purchase of Moreno’s Isinnd for a Naval Station. A Philadelphia paper yesterday announced that Secretary Seward had completed the purcease of a new island in the Hast for a naval station. The island aliuded to is that of Signor Moreno, ine celebrated Italian traveller; but the statement that the negotiations between him and Mr. Seward had been completed is untrue. Moreno has had several interviews with Secretary Seward since his return from Auburn, but nothing positive has been agreed upon, and will not be uutil the return of Governor Robert J. Walker, who is acting as the friend of Moreno in the business, ‘The Alleged Frauds in the Payment of Col- ered Bounties—Another Investigation in Progress. Within the past two or three days the clerks of the Congressional committee for the investigation of frauds in the payment of bounties have been actively at work upon the records in the bureau of colored troops. ‘The partial report of Mr. Cobb on the day Congress adjourned was supposed to be the last of the investigation into, the frauds committed in the payment of bounties to colored troops, but for some reason the exainination has been resumed, It has been discovered that the first examination upon which the report of Mr. Cobb was based was not thorough enough to develop the method by which the alleged frauds were carried on, and information has been obtaincd since to lead to the belief that corruption existed in the settlement of these claims. The reports of the experts who were engaged in searching for the cases in which fraud had been used it appears were not incorporated in Mr. Cobb’s report to Congress. These experts re- ported thaf suMctent evidence had been discovered to warrant the belief that the payments of these bouaties were tull of frauds, and fifty-three cases were cited in detail in which the proofs of corrup- tion were undeniable. It can be shown that one of the clerks of the Second Auditor's ofice, who was summoned as a witness, but who was unaccountably discharged before he was examined, can testify that large numbers of claims which were marked for settlement had been detained in the office for the purpose of exhausting the patience of the claimants until they confided their claims to the charge of a certain firm of claim agents in this city, and as soon as these agents were empowered to prosecute them the claims were promptly settled. Other proofs of frauduient practices have ben found suf- ficiently serious to demand the attention of the com- mittee, and it is understood that the investigation will now be pushed with the utmost vigor. List of Gaugers Under the New Revenue Law. The following is a list of gaugers under the new Revenue law appointed to-day:—John Sexton, First district Missouri, at St. Louis; John C. Noylea, J. Mathias Coombs and William J. Newkirk, Second district Indiana; B. Brown Brashcars, Twenty-first district Pennsylvania, and John T. McGonigle, Ninth district Pennsylvania, i Army Bulletin. By direction of the Secretary of War First Lieuten- antJ. P. Storey, Thirty-t th infantry, has been ordered to select about fifty recruits from those now under orders for the Military Division of the Pacifle and report with them to Brigadier General Myer, Chief Signal Officer of the Army, for the purpose of forming a signal party to be stationed at Fort Greble, D.C. Lieutenant Story has been relieved from duty at Governor's Island, New York harbor, for the pur- pose indicated. Brevet Colonel G. Chapin, rifth artillery, has been ordered to report for examination before the Retir- ing Board, of which Brevet Major ¢ rat Ord is president. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel C. ©. Keeney, Surgeon, has been relieved from duty as a member of the Board to Retire Disabled Officers, conv Francisco, and Brevet Lieutenant Colon! mick has been detailed to retieve him. The Weckiy Fractional Carrency Statement. The amount of fractional currency received from the Printing Bureau of the Treasury for ite week ending to-day was $469,500. The shipments for the same time were as follows:—To the Assistant Trea- surer at Philadelphia, $200,000; to the Assistant Treasurer at New York, $20,000; to national banks, &c., $205,627. The amount of United States notes shipped during the week to the Assistant Treasurer at New York was $1,000,000. The amount of national bank notes issued during the week was $83,300. Total to date, $359,382,006. From this to be deducted the following:—Mutilated bills returned, $ 195 notes of insolvent banks redeemed and burned by the United States Treasurer, $743,217. Leaving in actual circulation at this date $299,917,870. The Treasurer of the United States holds in trust for the national banks at this date the following amounts, viz:—For circulating notes, $41,424,200; for deposits of public moneys, $98,052, 350. Fractional currency redeemed and destroyed during the week, $537,000. ° Land Office Statistics. The Commissioner of the General Land Office, im Making up his annual statistics for the fecal year tnding June 30, 1868, has ascertained that 3,776 bounty land warrants for military services have been satisfied by locations covering an aggregate of over 512,000 acres of jand. The warrants were issued un- der the acts of Congress passed in 1847 and in 1850, 1852 and 1855. The lands thus taken were generally for actual settlements in Missouri, Micht- gan, lowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Ore- gon, Kansas, Nebraska and the Territories of Wash- ington, Dacotah and Colorado, KINGS COUNTY SURROGATE’S COORT. Before Surrogate Veeder. The wills of the following named persons were proved in the Surrogate'’s Court during the past ‘week :—Mary Grayson, Philo Price and Jacob Weat- lake, of Brooklyn, and Sarah Jennings, of Hoboken, N. J. In the will of Jacob Westlake appears the fol. lowing charitable bequests:—To the Misstonary So- ciety of the M. B. Chureh, $1,000; to the Methortist Episcopal City Miasion of the city of Brooklyn, $1,000, Letters of administration were granted in the es. tates of George M. Mackenzie, Mary Perrin, John Waiter, Martin Kiely, Ann Nolan, Henry A. Brake, iton, Jr, and Margaret Valentine, ali of lye i

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