The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1868, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business or news letter and telegraphic espatches must be addressed New York Hepa. NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1868. ‘The Presidential Discussien—Not Buch Im- | lessons of our national elections for forty, nay Prevement Therein, frem the Leasose of | seventy, years show that libellous attacks Forty Years. ¥ upon the personal character of ‘popular candi- The scandalous and general reck- | dates have reacted against the inventors, our lessness (with pictures to match) of the party | Party journals and party stumpers and man- press and moss of the partisan stumpers on | aging politicians are forty years behind the both sides in the discussion of the Presidential | ge, and that the only fair and candid expo- conflict of 1868 show very broadly that our | sitions of modern progress, public opinion and active party politicians and their organs of the | the political situation are to be found in tho present day have made precious little advance- independent press. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Humery DuMPtY. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway—E.izapeTi, QUEEN or ENGLAND. ‘WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broad d 18th street — Free Fir. mae, NIBLO'S GARDEN.—Bagnr BLEUR. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Livs iN THE STREBTS— FaisE CoLons. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Fout Puay. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tammany Building, 14th streot—ETUIOPIAN MINGTRELSY, £0. KELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, 730 Broadway.—Eti10- PIAN Wiweresuse, BURLESQUE ‘40.—BaRBEB Buv- BAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—ETHIO- Play eutentaremunse, SINGING, DANOING, &c, ASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE 201 Bowery.—Comro wo poy MUNSTRELSY, &0. THE. UE, 514 Broadway.—Tax GREat Ont- ona AT oAnD AnD VAUDEVILLE "Goupany. Woon's MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening ctocmase CENTRAL PARK GARDEN, Seventh avenue.—PoruLan GakpRN ConcERT. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Hoo.rr’s MuxsTRELS—Hoougy’s Crnous, NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIENOE AND ABT. New York, Monday, August 31, 1868. THE NAWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cablo is dated yes- terday evening, August 30, The question of peace or war, with the prominent one of Napoleon’s position and intentions, are can- vassed with great anxiety. Garibaldi resigned his Seat in the Italian Parliament. Austria will compel the clergy to carry out the civil marriage law. MISCELLANEOUS. Cable advices from Paraguay confirm the report of the evacuation of Fort Humaita, The Paraguayans still express confidence and a determination to con- tinue the fight. A St. Louis despatch states that reports are re- celveafrom Arkansas to the effect that war had broken out in a portion of that State between Union men and ex-rebels and that the courts had been closed in three counties by armed men, An engage- ment took place near Lewisburg on Sunday, and Governor Clayton had gone to the scene witb a small force. A member of the Legislature had been killed as Osceola. ‘i A large number of children and about twenty ‘adults were poisoned in Boston yesterday by eating freely of castor beans, which they mistook for pea- nuts. The beans were thrown Into refuse barrels by 8 firm engaged in the manufacture of castor oll and ‘greedily seized upon by the children, many of whom. also ieasted their parents, No deaths have yet oc- curred, but it is quite likely some of the cases will prove fata!. The National Academy of Sciences, after a quiet session of four days at Northampton, Mass., ad- Journed on Friday to meet in Washington in April next. Interesting papers on “The Tidal Currents at Hell Gate” on “Deep Sea Dredgings in the Gulf Stream” and other subjects were read. The State Department has officially promulgated information of a cattle quarantine imposed by the Canadian Dominion and of the wreck of the steam- ship Constantine at Sitka. The news was pnblished in the columns of the HgRaxp ten or twelve days ago. ‘There was a large democratic torchlight proces- sion in New Orleans on Saturday evening, in which several colored men’s and foreigners’ clubs were Tepresented. The Commissioners of Virginia and West Virginia met at White Sulphur Springs on Saturday, and con- cluded @ contract for the completion of tne Chesa- peake and Ohio Ratlroad, extending from the sea- board to the Ohio river and passing through the only passin the Alleghany Mountains that is at present unoccupied by ratiroads. This is said to be the shortest line from Chicago to the Atlantic. On Monday last the sheriff of Twiggs county, Ga., had occasion, with a posse, to arrest several negroes engaged ina riot the week previous. One negro at- tempting to escape was killed, and the rest gave themselves up. A great many others, not engaged in the riot, gave themselves up, being apprehensive that the white people intended to killthem. They stated thit one Jeff Long, a negro, was their district commander and they were under his orders, he being an officer of the Loyal League. Mrs. Alice McMahon, charged with strangling her husband at a tenement house up town, on Friday night, was discharged yesterday, the Coroner’s jury finding that death ensued from disease of the heart. Allen, the wickedest man, who has been preparing for a retorm, made up his mind on Saturday, closed his Water street dance house, attended the Howard Mission services, devoutly engaging in prayer, and dast evening held # prayer meeting in nis old Wa- ter street den. Some Irishmen in Montreal have advertised a pic- mic to be held on Tuesday for the benefit of the pris- oner Whalen, charged with the murder of D'Arcy McGee. On Saturday night, however, a proclama- tion was posted about town calling on all loyal citi- gens to prevent such a Fenian display. An intense excitement is the result and a riot is anticipated. In the matter of a session of Congress in Septem- Der the republican members seem to have agreed that if they do not meet they are in danger of losing the South, and if they do they are in danger of losing the North, They have, therefore, simply to choose which risk is preferable. Two men were arrested last evening charged by a lady with having assaulted and committed an out- Tage upon her in Central Park yesterday afternoon. After she and a lady companion had driven in a hired carriage about the Park, the two men thrust themselves into the carriage and the driver drove under one of the bridges, where the crime was com- mitted, the lady companion effecting her escape by Might. A grand international congress of Jewish rabbis ‘was held in the town hall at Cassel, Hease, on the 11th inst. Our correspondence from that point furnishes @ full account of the proceedings, which related to a solution of the questions threatening a conflict be- ‘tween the old and modern rites of Jewish worship, ‘Three persons were burned to death in a grist mill on the Great Western Raiiway, Canada West, on Saturday night. 1¢ is supposed the mill was fired by an Incendiary. Advices from Alaska state that considerable sick- ess has broken out among the Russian children, ‘Valuable coal discoveries have been made, General Halleck had eailed from Sitka, ‘The town of Hornitos, Mariposa county, Cal, was Nearly destroyed by fire on Thursday night, The Ossipee has arrived at San Francisco from Monterey. Heavy foods have prevailed lately in Arizona. A ‘Water spout in Yuma county destroyed two freight trains and did other damage. ‘The Idaho election is known to have resulted in the success of the democratic ticket. 'The steamer J. R. Robinson exploded her boiler at Jersey Landing, on the Mississippi river, on Satur- day. One man was fatally scalded. One mat was kicked to death on the street ty fuMans in Philadelphia and three were shot and “diy injured fn @ house of {ll fame in thatgity on rdav night. “lond’s bafid and a troop of six hundred Sioux warpath in the neiynborhood of Cheyenne. ris considered iney.tavle, and volun sp, 10s im Cheyenne, om. Batu Rede are on the An Indiay we teors are y ment from the teachings of forty years. The ‘modern improvements” of steamships, rail- ways, telegraphs and photographs have scaled the Chinese wall and revolutionized the policy of that ancient empire in reference t the “brown haired outside barbarians,” and have brought even the naked savages of Australia within the pale of decency and decorum; but the party journals and party politicians of the United States areas savage and shameless in their personal scurrilities and violent abuse of each other as they were when Andrew Jack- son was proclaimed, in the general hue and ery from the whig party, a border ruffian, on ignoramns, a humbug, a charlatan, a gambler, @ tavern brawler, a military despot, a duellist, adulterer and murderer, This outrageous mode of political warfare against Jackson, as we have recently shown, contribpted powerfully to swell the triumph of his first election in 1828, and, to some extent, of his second election in 1882, although in that campaign the case of the people versus the United States Bank monopoly was the ruling question. So strong in the confidence and admiration of the people came the victorious Jackson out of that conflict that he was able to proclaim his successor in Martin Van Buren, and was powerful enough to carry him through, not- withstanding the disastrous blunders of his pet bank system, with its manifest tendencies from excessive inflation and speculation to a fearful, crushing and universal collapse. This pet bank legacy from Jackson to Van Buren, however, rushing rapidly to wildcat and red dog bank paper, to a suspension of specie payments and irresponsible shinplas- ters, issued from city and village corporations, from cross-road taverns and distilleries and by Tom, Dick and Harry, brought about the sweeping political reaction of 1840. There are thousands of men still living who will re- member the wonderful novelties of that memo- rable campaign. There had been nothing like it before, there has been nothing like it since. Personal abuse of Harrison and Tyler by democratic or, and stumpers, and of ‘an Buren and Colonel Dick Johnson by whig stumpers and organs, was liberally indulged in, The whigs immensely magnified and glo- rifled the military exploits of Harrison in two or three Indian fights; his simple mode and habits of life were exalted to the skies, and, in short, from a few disparaging democratic hints and sneers, the whigs raised such a car- nival, yea, such a jubilee, in behalf of Old Tippecanoe and Tyler too, as no nation on the face of the globe had ever seen, and such as even we of this country will perhaps never witness again. The issues of the campaign on the whig side were set to music and sung by choruses of thousands at every city, town, hamlet and cross-road in the country. There were whig mass meetings and barbecues gathered from thinly populated dis- tricts astonishing to behold; there were whig processions, compared with which the original Atlantic cable glorification in New York in honor of Cyrus Field was a poor concern. We have before us one of these Harrison and Tyler processions of 1840. Its line extends over hills and valleys for many miles; it is fifty thousand strong ; it is liberally garnished with flags, banners, &¢.; log cabins and canoes from fifty to a hundred feet long, drawn by white horses or oxen, and filled, some with young ladies in white, some with backwoods hunters in deerskin, and some with painted Indians, all singing the Harrison campaign songs. And then come trees borne aloft, their branches filled with raccoons and ‘possums, squirrels, owls and hawks; and then we have a live eagle, and next a bear, and then a mam- moth barrel of hard cider, with a hundred tin cups hanging round it, and so on, a still con- tinuing chain of novelties, curiosities and vocal music for miles along the resounding line. And so it was all over the country—the fun- niest and liveliest and most extensive and most prolonged political carnival and jubilee ever known. But, nevertheless, it was the grand financial collapse of Van Buren’s admin- istration in 1837 and its consequences that swept him and his party out of power in 1840, The campaign of 1844 between Clay and Polk was comparatively heavy and monoto- nous. Personal abuse on both sides was freely employed by the party press and stumpers, as usual, but it amounted to nothing. The most popular and most sagacious and suc- cessful of all our American statesmen in his great measures was defeated by an obscure politician on tho Texas annexation question and by a pitiful factious fragment in New York of his own party. In 1848, according to the party journals, we had in Taylor an old fool and ip Cass an old humbug to fight for, and there is no telling what the result might have been had not Martin Van Buren turned the scale in New York against Cass on the free soil issue, In 1852, strangely enough; poor Pierce carried the election almost by acclamation as the champion of Henry Clay's great compromise measures of 1850 against the abolition affilia- tions of the whig party; and noxt we find, in 1856, Fremont .as the anti-slavery candidate nearly successful with the dead weight of Fillmore upon his back against Buchanan, although the Fremont ticket by terrorism was excluded from every slave State excepting a few bold voters here and there in Maryland, Virginia and Missouri. We need not further pursue our recapitula- tion. In looking over the list of our Presi- dential contests from 1828 down to this day it will be observed that the candidate most shamefully abused has prowed the ‘most ao- ceptable to the people where the fight has been made upon the merits of the candidate; that great issues have sometimes defeated the cal- culations of the keenest politicians and have resulted in some very extraordinary revolu- tions at the polls, as in 1840 and 1862; thata | Mere faction or third party decided the elec- tion in 1844, '48 and ‘56, and that since tho | time of Jackson we have only had one Presi- | dential contest—that of 1840—in which the | result was morally certain from the beginning, | But the main conclusion is this. that while the The news from South America by way of Lisbon informs us that the stronghold of Lopez in Paraguay, Fort Humaité, had beon aban- doned by the Paraguayans and taken posses- sion of by the allies. The tactics of the allied forces, it appears, to reduce the garrison by close siege and starvation had succeeded. It is said that two hundred and fifty cannon, be- sides a great quantity of ammunition and small arms, were left in the fort and fell into the hands of the Brazilians and their allies. It is reported, too, that the retreating Paraguayans were hotly pursued, when four thousand of them were cut off from the main body and captured. Three Brazilian ‘iron-clads had forced their way through the obstructions, passed the bat- terles on the river Paran4 and joined the fleet in the bombardment of President Lopez’s posi- tion at the mouth of the Tebicuari. It was supposed that Marshal Caxias, the allied com- mander, was able to command all the routes of Lopez's retreat and that the Paraguayans would soon have to give up the war. These accounts are detailed with particu- larity and seem to have the impress of truth. But they come from Brazil, from the side to which they are highly favorable, and may be untrue or very much exaggerated. We have had similar statements before from the same source of Brazilian successes which have turned out in the end to be unreliable. They cannot be implicitly relied upon, then, till con- firmed by news from the other side, The Para- guayans have fought nobly and against great odds all through the war, and there has hardly ever been a more heroic defence of a fort than that of Humaité. Whatever may have been the faults of President Lopez, he has shown great ability and has been the defender of re- publican institutions and national independence against a powerful monarchy and an unholy and unnatural alliance. Should he have to succumb to this overwhelming combination it might become the duty of the United States, to see that republican government in South America be not crushed out through the suc- cess of Brazil and her allies. Our Ministers in that hemisphere should be instructed to care- fully watch the progress of events and to keep the government at Washington well informed. Licentions Journalism. Under the above title a thoughtful and forci- ble article in the last number of the Round Table justly stigmatizes the indecent, vitupe- rative style adopted by certain journalists, who have lately vied with each other in pandering to the lowest of popular appetites—the taste for detraction, vulgarity and slang. The writer of the article to which we allude says that~‘‘in point of fact novels like ‘Jack Sheppard’ are no worse for the morals of youth than sheets like the New York 7’ribune or the La Crosse Democrat for their manners. Each is in its way debasing and unwholesome, and each is alike unfit for the reading of respecta- ble families. The article published last Satur- day by one of these papers, called ‘Lincoln in Hell,’ is a fitting pendant to the article pub- lished a short time since by the other, called ‘Governor Seymour as # Liar.’ Both are equally disgraceful, both have brought upon their writers indelible infamy, and both should bring upon their respective journals the penalty of permanent exclusion from all respectable society. The names of Pomeroy and Greeley are thus henceforth necessarily linked together in the vile distinction of hav- ing done more to degrade the character of American journalism than any other two men of their generation.” But while the Round Table was denouncing these gross exhibitions of bad manners on the part of the New York Z'ribune and the La Crosse Democrat, it should not have forgotten to denounce the equally gross exhibition of which a democratic organ in this city is habitually guilty, This organ perpetually reviles General Grant as a “drunkard” and a ‘‘butcher.” It borrows, or rather it steals, from the most obscene pages of Pagan, Greek and Roman writers, or of French writers of the school of the infamous Marquis de Sade, or of old English dramatists, the foulest words and phrases, and flings these stolen rotten eggs at every political opponent. Journalists of all parties should remember it is measures, and not men, that are involved in the present Presidential contest. Party journals forget this, and instead of presenting arguments disgust the public by offensive per- sonalities, There is no lack of topics for fair discussion or even for eloquent denunciation. The short-sighted, selfish, malevolent course of the radicals since tho termination of the war in maintaining war expenses in time of peace, in piling up high taxes, in persisting in a wretched financial policy, in insisting upon unqualified negro suffrage and the equality of an ignorant race against the will of the people affords questions of sufficient importance to preclude, the necessity of resorting to vile attacks upon the candidates of the radical party. The candidates of every party should bo protected against such attacks by a healthy public opinion, and 9 healthy public opinion will discountenance and crush out Hcentious journalism. The Atlantic and Great Western Railway. We publish in another column an article from an English journal relative to the revival of this great enterprise under the leading direo- tion of Mr. James McHenry, the English finan- oler, It will be remembered that Mr. Mo- Henry, Sir Morton Peto and others came out to this country some time ago and undertook to carry this railway through to the far West with great éclat, But it will be remembered also that soon after their return te England great financial disasters befol the firm of Sir Morton Peto, resulting, very probably, from embarrassments existing previous to his visit here, and since that time the railway, its projectors and bondholders have been under a cloud, and the whole enterpriso was, in fact, ia daily peril. But it appears that through the patience and strong will of Mr, Molloury Qe danger is The War in Paraguay—Reported Fall of age over and the line is about to be worked vig- orously again. Owing to the sagacity of a New York financier a meeting of the creditors of the road was brought about recently in Lon- don and everything arranged satisfactorily for afresh start. Mr. McHenry was selected to take charge of tho business, probably because he knows more about its history and past operations than any one concerne@ in it, With this view he is about to come to this country immediately, Indeed, he was to have sailed from Liverpool in the Scotia on Saturday last, and is now probably on his journey. He is accompanied by Sir William Russell, Mr. Lang, the member of Parliament, and other gentlemen known in the circles of English capital and finance. We are, therefore, likely to see this great railroad enterprise going on swimmingly before long under com- petent management, Rosecrans and the Southern Leaders. General Rosecrans’ visit to the White Sulphur Springs, Va., and his interview with General Lee and a number of other Southern leaders havé led to a great deal of speculation as to the object. After the matter has been pretty thoroughly ventilated the facts appear, at least some of them that relate to the politi- cal condition of the country. There may be, after all, some things connected with General Rosecrans’ interview with these representative men of the South that cannot prudently be re- vealed, particularly if these should relate to Mexico. However, we must take the Gene- ral’s version of the matter. The ‘‘mission” to the White Sulphur Springs, as it has been called, was, General Rosecrans says, ‘‘one of my own conception, and was inspired by a most earnest desire for the welfare of this nation, for which I am as willing to lay down my life as any one who lives beneath our flag. No party had anything to do with it, no indi- vidual.” It appears he wished to -get from the late Confederate leaders—such mon as General Lee and Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, for example—men in whom the people of the North have confidence—an expression of their views on the political questions of the day, and particularly as to the opinions of the South- erners on the negro and other issues affecting the South. It appears, too, that a well con- sidered statement was drawn up by these lead- ing Southerners and given to General Rose- crans. This, probably, will soon be published, as it was intended, no doubt, for publication, It will be emphatic, we learn, on the sentiment of the South with regard to the status of the negroes and the doctrine of secession. The Southern people, General Lee says, ‘‘rogard the question of slavery and secession as settled finally by the war, and they have no disposi- tion or inclination to re-establish the one or to try the other again.” All they want is that the North should give them its confidence and hand of fellowship, bury the hatchet of sec- tional animosity and discord, and permit the intelligent white people of their section to have @ fair chance in their own government. A publication of such views from these leaders would have a good effect, and: General Rose- crans, if he had no other object in view and accomplished nothing more, will deserve the commendation of every lover of his country. Opening of the Theatrical Season. The theatrical season opens to-night, not ex- actly as the chastely critical taste might desire, perhaps, yet with evident vim and profuse dis- play of bulletins. The first striking event occurs to-morrow night, when Hendrichs, a tragedian of great repute in Germany, appears at the Stadt theatre. If mongrel amusements have driven the drama proper from our stage nd we therefore produce few or no great tragic actors of our own, it is at least the next best thing that we have left the taste to appre- ciate those that come out in the dramatic trials of other countries. Hendrichs may not have the pecuniary success on the east side that attended Ristori on the west; butif he shows half the reason why people should ap- plaud that has been seen in the genius of his countrywoman and predecessor, Janauschek, his heart will be warmed by the reception he will meet; for hands can come together in the Stadt theatre as enthusiastically as in better decorated places. Aside from this promised appearance there is no dramatic event much worthy critical note. There is anew house promised to the drama, and opening with Maggie Mitchell, but it seems to give equal prowiaence to entertainment of the learned seal order, and wo must wait to know which will prevail. ‘* Elizabeth,” with Mrs. Lander, will revive critical regrets; ‘‘ Foul Play” will keep before us the tedious and inevitable Bou- cicault; and there will be other entertainments good to catch the country cousins remaining in town. All this will do to begin with, and we shail have better things by and by. Atrack ON Pugrto CanEiio.—We learn by a despatch from Puerto Cabello that the ine surgents in Venezuela aro still at work. The adherents of Marshal Falcon, ex-President, are holding the port of Puerto Cabello with a small force of five hundred men and eleven guns, assisted by the war steamers Bolivar and Maparari. President Monagas was attacking the city at latest accounts, but at considerable disadvaniage, for not only was the fire from the batteries continuous and severe, but the ships were playing terrible havoc with his troops. We may probably learn by the next news that he has been compelled to abandon the siege. Toe Finst Denatg IN THE JAPANESE Partament.—Tho Kioto Government Gazette has reported the first debate in the Japanese Parliamont. The inauguration of Parliamen- tary discussion in Japan is in itself an event of equal novelty and importance, But tho most auspicious omen connected with this first debate is the fact that, while most of the mem- bers of Parliament took part in it, “all made very short speeches.” Wo recommend the brevity of the Japanese speeches to our own Parliamentary debaters, and particularly to the new fledged colored members of the Southern Legislatures. Demoonatio Leavers at Lona Branow.— B is understood that the leading workers of the demceracy will assemble at Long Branch {Immediately after the State Convention, Pen- dleton ts to be there, and Vallandigham, and Fernando Wood, and the lights of city politics, to hold o grand powwow. They will probably bo engaged in laying out the plan of battle for Novembor, and verg likely laying pipes for the organization of Seymour's Cabinet. Tax Srrvation mv Evrors.—The European journals are engaged in o serious canvass of the political situation on the Continent—for peace or war. It is said that Germany, prepared for war, really desires peace, and that to Austria and Russia the maintenance of peace isan absolute necessity, Marshal Neil, speaking for France, asserts that the empire can preserve its present condition of quiet or undertake war as necessary, and in support of the war idea refers to the splendid condition of the army and the immense resources of the nation, both in troops and money. Napoleon evidently “‘feelé good” since the success of the latest loan, and probably, having some new design for ulterior territorial gain in view, wishes to stand forth again as master or arbiter of the situation, Marshal Neil's ad- dress may be accepted as an excellent profa- tory opening of a new phase in the mighty uncertain policy of e very uncertain man. Tas Vermont Exrxorion.—If the general election which will take place to-morrow, September 1, in Vermont—the stronghold of the republican party—shall result as usual in 8 radical victory it will occasion no more sur- prise than the announcement that the Dutch have taken Holland, The republican majori- ties in Vermont have ranged during the past ten years from fifteen to twenty-six thousand. Even a decided falling off in the republican majority this year would perhaps indicate rather the apathy engendered by over-confi- dence on the part of the radical voters than any significant change in popular sentiment. The Vermont election cannot be regarded as so important in view of its bearings on the Presidential campaign as the election which will take pace in Maine on the 14th inst. The latter election will be far. more decisive and significant, SUMMER RESORTS. : Grand Bal Masque at the White Sulphur Springs—Social Reconstruction of the Coun- try—The Belles of New York, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina and Louisiana En Costume. Wuirs SULPHUR SPRINGS, Va., August 28, 1868. The second grana mask ball at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs, given by Messrs, Peyton & Co. in compliment to their guests, came off last even- ing. Due announcement of the event had been made through the public prints and by handbilis distribu- ted throughout the country. The previous ball had been so great a success that, while the belles and beaux were a-tiptoe with eager expectation, the grave and reverend seigniors shook their sagacious heads doubtingly, and many ventured to predict a failure. Occurrences of this character and magnitude have heretofore been so rare at the water- ing places of Virginia, and the once plenteous purses of the Southern nahobs have been so depleted by desolating war, that a repetition of a dal masqué on @.grand scale was deemed a Utopian experi- ment, hos sie For days beforehand the busy note of preparation had sounded. Quietly, but actively, the work went onin the vast apartments of the cuisine, A cos- tamer from Baltimore was promptly on hand witha brilliant array of fancy dresses. In addition to these hired costumes a large number of richer and more brilliant ones had been epecially ordered from the Northern cities. As the great day drew near vehicles began to pour in from the border counties of Virginia and West Virginia; additional stages, laden to the utmost and toppling over with Saratoga trunks, dashed down the lawn from the neighboring watering places almost every hour of the day; special express trains brought visitors representing the wealth, the intelligence and elegance of all that section of the country from the District of Columbia to the Carolina line, so that the mammoth hotel on the evening before the night of the ball presented a sceno of life, exciting animation and bustling activity and confusion which could only ‘be equalled by a New York hotel during the session of tiie National Democratic Convention. Precisely at half-past eight o'clock, the appointed hour, Rosenberg’s splendid band struck up the Graud March m “Faust’’—the signal that the bail was about to commence, Already the wide porticoes surrounding the bali room were crowded with an indescribable mass of haman bei ing to and fro, as now and then a ft lady or gallant centieman, clad in brilitant costume, elbowed their way with diMculty to the door. From hundreds of cotiaze doors swung suddenly open the ive flashe’t forth, disclosing fora moment the torms of the maskers, who are soon lost in the shades of the ancient oaks and towering elms. And now the smooth paths of the lawn are dotted with groups of curious figures, half revealed and half concealed by the misty silver light of the Aste Moon, as the; wend their way gayly to the brilliantly iitaminated centre of attraction. Lightly they trip up the steps; Goel as the an | tide of gazers will perinit they glide into the ball room. By half-past nine o'clock nearly two hundred “maskers” and nearly twelve hundred people had assembled. Every foot of space had Its occupant, and the very windows were darkened with spectators from the outside, all eager toget a glimpseof the spiendid assembly qithi Again and again the managers urged those who not participate in the dance to move to the wall, but they held their ground as if enchanted by the pano- rama of life and beauty which moved in picturesque variety before their delighted vision. Saratoga and Long Branch were compietety eolij i, and your usually unimpressible correspondent, in common with other Now Yorkers, was amazed at the extent, the variety and the magnigcence of the display. How can we do justice to a scene in which the ton and wealth of the three grand divisions of our common country were 80 harmoniously mingled? Would that thelr political elements could blead in lke harmonious fusion! But who are they who come this way? ‘Tis tho Queen of Night, Ellie 0, Hoyt, of New York, leaning on the arin of Gustave Toutant Beau rd. Following in the rear is Miss Anna J. Davidson, another daughter of the Empire State, arrayed in the “republican court’ costume of Lady Washing- ton. Across the room is Misa Van Wyck, of New York city, surrounded by cavallers from land, Virginia and South Carolina, Dressed in rich plain and biack velvet, she personates Helen wean aes Moving through the dance wi and Fy ently her own, we see = ses Ounch os dressed as @ reaper; her jai ie Cincinna’ a hat, the sckic ean 7 her sl and the high are! instep of her little foot impart an inde- acribabie charm, of which her prett; uant face stands notin need. Miss Taylor, of Iphia, is ctad in a rich rose colored silk dress with an ample train; it is trimmed with point lace; her ornaments are pearis. Daughters of Commodore Maury pppear as the White Lady of Avenel, ‘#olly,” an & Scotch Inasie, a radiant trio, Mins Hotton, of Georgetown, a ver; pretty young ap ys gd as “Dew Drop;’’ and her mother, who is a low, per. sonated the “Maid of the Mist.” Mrs. Dr. May, of Washington, dressed in gray siik, solitaire diamond earrings of great brilllaney. Miss Thomas, of Balti. more, as the “Greek Girl,’ was dressed superbly in scarlet and biue satin, with an tsite Jreek ca) scariet satin boots and & cent fall set oI cameos, pearls and diamonds. Her sister, Miss Mary ‘Thomas, as a “German peasant’ wore satin ais Of bright colors and all ornaments that character admits of. in black veivi cap ee ee he the most or the evening. Miss Anderson, daughter of Joseph R. ‘Anderson, of Richmond, attired in white satin skirt, with pink’ tunic and powdered hair, to the life the French Marquise.” ae eae of Mobtle, one of the most beautiful women in South, was dressed in flowing white silk, trim: with black lace. The toilet of Mrs. Edward of New or- leans, was dark bine satin, with skirt covered with two sels lace, low © ond pendant brooch; cincture of bine , trimmed with pearis and lace; colvure & Emperat and hair powdered with goid. Miss Buchanan, of Kentucky, pink moire autiqno, with point lace; diamonds. The daughter ot he Hohols, as © Spenith, ,, Was Gressed very handsomely, Miss Fontaine, of bay Oypey Fortune ‘Teller, appro} and _& f attracting much tion. Miss nt, of Baltimore, @ an was more correcti, dressed than any in the room. Mrs. Henry Smith, of Baltimore, Italian peasant. Mis: Frazer, avery beauty, @ Bayadere. Miss the belie ‘of Richmond, Undt , Miss Sarrison, of West Virginia, was splendiay ‘dressed as the Bn- chantresa. General Lee her during tur ovening, Misa Maury, of Richmond, Fille du hey. ‘oy. Mise Bri r—-vory wrcote sting Merkle, of Washington, 1). cx, Ino Rea, por captivaaing. The lovely daiughters of Mr. A. H, Hi, Stuart were present in mouruing, 8 wife OF Governog Fckens dresseA in white, Miss Mason, a oP: a ™ , look charming. Ganeral Gtinen, of South Oarol\a, , attragted much attenvon. Mite st, Of at 1 ro: Baltim im court costume, very Wcoming. Wisdom, of Now Orleans, ale poten meckiace h 2% to be sdon a Dodworta MUSICAL REVIEW. A Detroit publisher sends us some very neat speet~ mens of music engraving, which are equal to the Dest efforts of some of our metropolitan publishers. In spite of the traditional fondness for negro min- strel ballads, breakdowns and those horrtble vocal and instrumental infiictions called medieys to which Western musical literature has been 80 long en- slaved, there are indications lately shown of a better tasteand more elevated tone, We trust that the day is not far distant when a music pablisher will not be obilged to place trash before the public, and that teachers will mot en- courage it among thelr pupils. The estab lishment of conservatories of music in this city with competent professors ts already of much bene- At to the cause of music, Those institutions will render the occupation of charlatan teachers an ua- Profitable one and will bring back the public. tp a love of good music. Ditson & Co., of New York and Boston, publish the following:— “Elsie Vane.” Song and chorus. G. A. Veazie, Jr. Asimple Uttle ballad without much originality or effort, but, nevertheless, possessing a certala |. Balve grace of its own. “Reception March.” A. EB. Warren. Spirited and effective, and good for beginners on the pianoforte. It is one of Gilmore’s band pieces, and is well adapted for a military band. “Landof Home and Beauty.” J, R. Thomas, One of this favorite composer's pretty little ballads. ‘The malady and accompaniment are very taking and on, sweet 1us.?? song. Gou- nod. quaint, unpretending song, of a pisintive ter, with a very beau! accompaniment. “Upon the Danube River.” Ballad. Hamilton Aide, We hardly think that even such an artist as Mise Adelaide Phillips, by whom this baliad bas been sung, can make it jnteresting to any audicnce, There is too much of the “Danube river’ about it, and the melody is monotonous. “Going It Blind.” Comic song. W. T. Meir. Suit able for Tony Pastor’s or some similar establish- ment, and therefore unw: criticism. “Saviour, when in Dust Before Thee.” Quartet and solo. Nowton Fitz. Rather commonplace, bus of suilicient merit to commend it to the attention of chureh choirs, There are somo tuitatlons in It of a popular song. “Beyond the Smiling and the Weeping.” Duet and chorus. Newton Fitz. A capital thing for some old- eee prayer meeting wuere cheerful music is “The Trumpeter.” Song. W. Speler; English words by Frankford. A martial, telling air, with the true ring about it, The English version is very poor and violates accentuation and grammar in ban! Places, “Espiégieries.”” Caprice. Egghard. A charming ore full of grace and beauty and easy withal. J. H. Whittemore, Detroit, publishes the iollow- "fround Drowned.” Song and chorus. McChesnt ey A beautifui, touching meiody, with an accompaul- ment such as a true musician alone could devise. “Yd Be .a Butterfly.” G@. D, Herrick, A simple and pleasing so! "10 re Rite.” Song and chorus. Hazleton. ome Hom Very common; 6 and somewhat of the “Batile Ory of Freedom’ order, We hardly think that Miilie Would respond to such @ call. # in the Storm.’ Graves, Pretty, but hardly oq to the subject—the loss of the Evening Star. “QO, Sing to Me, Allie,” J. H. Whittemore. A vel charming song, with a musicianiy accomp: men’ te ° ry Lee.” Song and chorus, Lockwood. Medi- ie The chorus and duet might be changed for titer. Hall & Son publish the following:— “Oh, ye Twinkling Stars.” . Charles Henry. An uninteresting melody with a very good accompaniment. Mr. Henry should make a change in the last measure but one of this song. ‘The trausi- tion from Ato @ is too abrupt and grating w the ear. Peters publishes a simple, unpretending littic s by Te banks. called “Ouro with the olden .”” It ig pretty, though it be not abstruse. THEATRICAL NOTES, For a Monday night stillin the August weather tls particular Monday night presents a fair range of theatrical entertainment from which citizen or visi- tor may choose recreation or distraction. The event of the night that is announced on the biggest bills and with the greatest flourishes is the opening of Wood’s Museum and Metropolitaa theatre—a new establishment in an old edifice. The edifice ts the former Banvard’s Museum, at the cor- ner of Broadway and Thirtieth street, and upon the new establishment, as we are informed by that un- impeachable authority—the bills—$100,000 have been expended. The result is that Maggie Mitchell is to play there to-night in anew pathetic eccentricity called Lorie,” the theme of which is the same with the whole class of emotional pieces in which this artist has made her fame. Lorie, the heroine, is that exceptional peasant girl who is intelligent and pretty, and of course sie does not love the natural lover of @ peasant girl because he is @ boor, so he enlists and goes away to be, like Cap- tain Jinks, somebody’s “pet in the army." He leaves the field clear for that son of genius, the painter, whom Lorie does love, of course. No sooner said than done, Lorle becomes the artist’s wife, and he, like all other artists from time immemorial, paints his wife’s picture (during the honeymoon) for an altar piece. Things are so serene in the artist’s home that they are dull, so that imp of romance goes and makes love to the Couvateas who used to be foud of Lim before he settled down. Lorie does a very good crazy on account of this, and from these troubled conditions the players manage to extract a satisfactory article of domestie felicity before the curtain goes down. The Metropolitah theatre is to furnish entertain- ment, like the restaurants, at all hours of the day and evemng. There will be, therefora, a chronio matinve, tie feamire of which for Yne present is opéra bouge in the shape of Oifenvach’s “Bixty- six.” The point of the title ix that a peasant sup- poses he has a lottery tloket with thy.t number on it, and as the number sixty-six draw’s a prize he dis- ports himself like a man of wealth only tolearn at Inst that he had his ticket upsi®e down, and of course heid ninety-nine. Im th¥; presentation of opera bouge we are doubtiess te, have the macsiro done down to the level of the-skw ,plest capacity. Mr. Wheatley retires. from. ‘the management of Niblo’s Garden to-day, Maser », Jarrett & Paimor becoming sole lessees and may agers from September 1. Hie does not, as has bem? nnounced, make a inst appearance, having mada.tlw yt two years ago in the “Broker of Bogota.” Jarre i, & Palmer are to com. mence thelr regular seas yn about, the 1st of No- vember. Meanwhile Batemen and his Boulotte rute Supreme on those beag ds, and will, no doubt, for the whole interval. At the Broadway ® cre will occur to-night the “grand opening of tha! ali and winter season,” when Mys. Lander will give her accurate study of Ristort in the tragedy of “£4 .abeth,” supported by “a moss eflicient company.’? ‘At the New You < theatre “Foul Play” keeps the stage, and the af istic management rests itseif on tue certain suce 299 of such an atiraction ass fal rigged ship 1M the piece., It 18 odd that a “fail rigged abip” sly Juid be any inducement to go to the theatre in ® © ity like ours, whore so many better ships may be seen out in the river, At Wallad? 1g Lotta still draws by the “evanescent Coruscatiud 91 of the “Firefy;” and at the Olympto olinmpty Dumpty’, (reconstructed) is mot likely to un an the fall, Lae ‘Te- W's cast side the Bowery fresned renewed, redeco! 7 & 0, ad tid, and W? th a sensation drama unt ino doube will sur the oF ver ready hearts of the ve i sent that temple. This play is called “ile ets, or the Vicissitudes of an Orange Girl.’ -he Stadt theatre opens to-night, and tu-inorrow ight presents a great card in the German tragedian rea ree who is expected to oulsparkle aii the rs stars that have risen above our theatrical veizon, in tue minor amusements there is progress and Mee Five minstrot halis will be in full opera- ion to-night for the dolight of city people acd raral population in Brookiyn. Tony Pastor's boys play a match at “Base Ball.” Kelly & Leon Bhi « Tue Barber Biew." Bryante’ expos. a “True-bad-Doer,” worse than the wicked @nd the San Miustreis do the Brown,” and the tooieys burlesque the buriesque of “Liumpty Duinpty.”’ Lu continues his comic specialties at the Th Came, wale this peculiar line of business a @ recruit in Mr. Jaincs Taylor, Wiavse CuMicalitio