The New York Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1868, Page 4

4% NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, * PROPRIETOR. The Fall Season at the Charches aud Theatres. Sunny days and 0001 nights betoken the ad- 1868, with its follies, frivolities and fun, is fast drawing to a close. The butterflies of fashion and the hummingbirds of pleasure are winging their flight homeward from seashore and moun- tain side; the watering places and summer resorts begin to' wear the drear aspect which follows the departure of their festive company; carriages loaded with trunks rattle away from the steamboat landings and railroad depots. Broadway is alive with the brilliant hues of Dive licen By pee i Mi ao fall fashions and the ruddy. faces of summer oat tourists, On all sides is sounding the note of the bustle that ensues in the interval between the season of pleasure and the season of busi- ness, when people settle themselves down from the illusions of the one to the realities of the other. The signs of an active fall trade are not wanting, despite the distracting strife of a Pre- sidential campaign. The inbound trains are laden with merchants from the country coming to make their purchases for their fall and win- ter business. Every steamer from the South brings its share of buyers, too; for the disturb- ing questions of the canvass, the uncertainty of the financial problem and the excitement of the public mind seem, curiously enough, not to affect the necessities of the people. Our city merchants are buoyant in spirit and hopeful of increased business during the autumn months. The signs in the world of pleasure, no less than in the world of trade, point to a season of unusual animation, All the arrangements in- dicate a busy season of amusements. The theatres are redecking themselves for the fall months. New paint, new gilding, new drapery will add their attractions to the programme. New operas are promised, new opera compa- nies are engaged, new theatres will be opened with new companies; the old ones will be reopened with new plays and new ballets. If the play of ‘Humpty Dumpty” and the Neo. 250 RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BROOKES' ASSEMBLY ROOMS—PRracuinG AND SiN@- ina. Afternoons, BLEECKER STREET UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.—Bev. Day K. Les. Morning and evening, CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION.—Rey. Dn. FLAGG. Morning. CENTRAL M. E, CHURCH.—Rev. Guo. 8, Hare. Morn- ing and evening. EVERETT ROOMS.—SPIRITUALISTS. Dx, WILLIS. Morning and evening. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF ST. JAMES. Morning. forty-sECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Morning—Rey. Du. Scorr. Evening—REev. Mu. CaMPLELL FIFTH AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH.—Moring and evening. GREENPOINT CHRISTIAN CHURCH.—Rev. MARTYN SUMMERBELL, Afternoon and evening. MADISON SQUARE CHUKCH.—Rev. Dk. ADAMS. Morning and afternoon. P. E. CHURCH OF THE REFORMATION.—ReEy. Ab. uorr Brown. Morning and evening. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rey. Dr. Eaton, Moruing aud evening. E ENTH STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH kev. Wa. F. Conpir.. Morning and evening, ST. THOMAS’ CHURCH.—Ray. Dr. Moroay, Morning and evening. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET REFORMED CUURCH.— Rev. Isaao Kinky. Morning and evening. IVERSITY—Washingloa square.—Bisuor SNow. Af- ternoc w York, Sunda aE VHWS. EUROPE. ‘The news report by the Atlantic cable is dated yea- terday evening, September 5, Minister Johnson, in a speech to the corporation of September 6, 1868. — | Seymour's Nominntion—Some Glimpses Be- hind the Scenes. : The disclosures recently made of the work- Convention give us a pretty clear solution of the mystery of Seymour's nomination. He had two strings to his bow—the: New York managing clique, a Seymour clique, sud 7084, and the Western Pendleton managing clique, who, if they could not secure Pendleton this time, wished to keep the field open for him next time, which would not be the case with the nomination for this contest of any other man from the West. Hence in the final shuffling and cutting of the cards the New York clique found the Western Pendleton clique shuffled into their hands against both Chase and Hendricks. It appears, however, that the bargain and sale thus brought about has disgusted not only the Chase men par excellence, but many of the Pendleton men, whose stomachs recoil at the effort to swallow the bitter pill—Seymour’s nomination. A Mr. Henry Reed calls it ‘‘the coup de thimble rig,” an expressive term, and nota bad idea. The Hon. Alexander Long, of Cincinnati, in a lengthy statement of the convention jugglings, says “ihe scheme for nominating Governor Seymour was concocted at Delmonico’s on Wednesday night, and fully agreed upon on Thursday morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel; that the parties to it were Wash McLean, George E. Pugh, Allen G. Thurman, George W. McCook, George W. Morgan, Hugh J. Jewett and Joseph C. Butler, all of Ohio, aad all Pendleton men, and Sam- uel J. Tilden, Ben Wood, Peter B, Sweeny and Sam Barlow, all of New York. Of these New Yorkers only Tilden was a delegate, and only he and three others of the New York dele- gation knew anything of the bargain until Seymour was sprung upon the Convention.) It further appears that after this coup, and on the twenty-first ballot, the Ohio delegation in consultation were drawn into line by McLean and company, on the plea that immediate con- Shefleld, repeated his assurances of American friends ship for Englarm, and claimed that the United States ‘asa nation was English. The London Standard,a | the summer recess, what may we not expect Disracll journal, says England is ready for a fatr set- | during the cool evenings of the autumn, when Uementof the Alabama claims. France repeats her Peace assurances, Count de Sartiges took leave of the Pope as French Minister in Rome. A serious fire, attended with heavy losses, occurred among the shipping at Southampton, England. The North | houses? The managers, no less than the mer- German exploring vessel Germania has been again heard from; all well. The London ’Change was closed for a holiday. Five-twentles closed at 7534 in Frankfort. Cotton slightly declined, with middling uplands at 103d. Breadstuils and provisions without marked opera of ‘‘Barbe Bleue” could meet with such unequivocal success during the heated term of | Centration upon Seymour was the only way to defeat the nomination of Chase. But the nu- merous protestations of Mr. Seymour that he was not and could not be a candidate, and his arguments and pleadings in favor of the Chief Justice, and the written speech which he had ready in a side pocket of his coat to produce and read in seconding the anticipated nomi- nation of Chase, were considered as reducing Seymour's nomination, when made, to nothing more than a compliment to be declined. But Vallandigham, it scems, spoiled this calcula- the fashionable gatherings of Saratoga, New- port and Long Branch shall be transferred to the boxes and sofas of our theatres and opera chants, are sanguine of a season of the utmost prosperity. The question occurs, what is the prospect in the churches the coming season ?—for the churches, like their congregations, or rather NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1868. with Mr. Johnson's highest duties. Mr, Jobn- son, however, has other duties ; and we know that when the proper time comes he will be vent of the fall season. Th summer of | ing of the wires at the late Democratic National | as firm and decided in the discharge of these - —_ | duties as he has now been civil and compli- | mentary to the master cutlers of Sheflicld. The Alabama claims are not yet settled, and Mr. Johnson knows the fact. Banishment of a Catholic Bishop to Siberia. We are informed briefly by telegraph that the Czar of Russia has banished a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church to Siberia for re- fusing to attend an ecclesiastical synod sum- moned by the Emperor. It is rarely that the Czar, as the head of the Greek Catholic Church, comes into collision with his clerical subjects of the Roman faith, who, in their spiritual capacity, owe allegiance to the Pope. We are not informed by the barren despatch of the circumstances attending this case; but we know that the intimate connection of Church and State, in Russia as elsewhere, is always liable to result in such collisions. The Roman Catholic religion prevails in Poland, and the sympathies of that Church have always been on the side of Polish liberty. This may have something to do with the severity of the Czar, as well as the natural dislike towards the ecclesiastics of the Roman Church existing in the Russian Court. The Greek Church—of which the Emperor of Russia is the head—has always been regarded at Rome as a schism, while the professors of the Greek form of Catholicity have always claimed that it is not entitled to be called a schism, but that the deposition of ecclesiastical jurisdiction was not placed in the hands of St. Peter ex- clusively, but was shared equally by St. Paul, under whose banner they claim to fight the battles of Catholic Christianity. They claim, further, that there is extant a letter from Paul to Peter refusing to bring the Eastern Churches under the discipline of the latter as head of the Church established at Rome. The conflict of the two systems has, therefore, been one concerning discipline and the centre of authority more than of dogmas and doctrines. That the deposit of faith was left to many others besides Peter is, we believe, an essen- tial point of belief in the Greek Church, and hence, while accepting most of the doctrines of the Roman Church, the dictation of Rome on points of discipline is rejected and the unity of its authority is denied. The Czar may find himself in a somewhat similar position to Henry the Eighth if he ne MISCELLANEOUS. the more fashionable members thereof, have Our Panama letter ig dated August 28. Continnal | their seasons, And, like the theatres, will shortly squabbles were occurring between President Ponce | reopen after the summer vacation. The par- and Colonel Correoso, both of whom by a compro- | gonshave been away at the seashore and at mise measure command troops in the city. An out- break was feared at any moment and the people had cea! Benen.) come many vee aed lost confidence in Ponce. A revolt in Dolega had why they abandon their charges, or rather the been quelled. A manifesto from the exiled Mos- | Poorer portions thereof, who have not the quera, setting forth the wrongs he had recelved at | means of going away from the city in the the hands of the opposing party in Bogota, was gen- | hot months, and withdraw their care at a erally circulated, and it was believed that, as any tion, in his speech declaring that Seymour had | Persists in sending the Roman Catholic digni- no longer any option in the matter and that he | aries into exile—that is to say, he may pro- must bow to the will of the Convention. voke%he thunders of the Vatican ; but they will Then the delighted Tilden, we are told by | 0 him as little harm as they did bluff Harry, Mr. Long, “‘was the first to look after the Gov- | Who got as many wives and robbed as many ernor in the confusion that followed, and found | Churches as he wanted in spite of the fulmina- him in the anteroom adjoining the stage | tious of the Roman Pontiff. The Czar is no suffused in tears.” They tell a similar story doubt resolved to maintain his authority as of Andy Johnson when waited upon by the | head of the Church, no matter how many committee detailed to inform him of the doings | bishops may stand in the way, and any bad change would improve matters, his appearance in Panama would call around him many adherents, The Coco Island expedition has returned, after in- numerable hardships, without getting a sight of the islands. The weather was pleasant and the health good. Our Lima (Peru) letter is dated August 14. Colonel Balta had been declared elected President and was {naugurated on the 2d ultimo. In the formation of his Cabinet Mr. Barrenechea, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prado, has been placed in the same position again. The whole Mimistry meets with general approbation. The offer of mediation made by Mr. Seward fis highly acceptable to Presi- dent Balta. The health of the city was good. Several severe shocks of earthquake were felt on the 18th, causing consklerable alarm, though how much damage was committed is not Known. Several ships got afoul of one another in the harbor and a tidal wave rose up and flooded the lower streets of Callao. Our Valparaiso (Chile) letter ts dated August 3. The savages in Araucania had committed serious expedition is being gotten up by the government to chastise them, They are, however, unconquerable, take to their jungles, A Calvanistic German colony in Valdivia are exercised over an attempt of the bishop to have the pupils in their schools educatea | them a shining example. The Minister of Religion | for their laurels, now that Joho Allen is on the “religious lay,” or they may find them- selves beaten at their own game. denouncing New York and Brooklyn as the modern Sodom and Gomorrah, let them under- take the work of redemption, remembering that in the fate of those ancient cities were in- volved the preachers, parsons and all alike. in the Catholic faith, bas the matter under consideration. The Japanese government has made reparation to France for the late murderous assault on imperial sailors by natives, Lord Stanley is again in Paris. He was enter- tained by Lord Lyons and exchanged pacific assu- rances with Marquisde Moustier. The Russo-Ameri- can alliance troubles some of the Parts journals. ‘The prayer meetings in Jon Allen’s Water street reformatory continue daily. Kit Burns, the famous dog fancier, whe, keeps @ dog and rat pit not far from Allen’?,\has expressed himself dubious of his pleasure-secker, course, 01d has written a letter inviting Mr. Henry Berg, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 10 Animals, to address a representative crowd at his place on the subject in which Mr. Bergh has tate- rested himself so indefatigably. Awrit of habeas corpus on behalf of Dr. Mudd, Arnold and Spangler, the Lincoln conspirators in the Dry Tortugas, has been refused by the United States District Court at Key West. Pinchback, the mulatto who was recently substi- tuted for one Jewell, a white man, in the Louisiana Senate, made a speech in that body yesterday, in which he warned the whites that the negroes would no longer patiently bear the outrages inflicted upon them. When the next o ten thousand torches Will be applied to the city of New Orleans at a given signal, and it will be reduced to ashes. In the Lower House of the Georgia Legislature yes- terday @ resolution was offered declaring negroes ineligible to any State of and vacatt; all such offices filed by negroes. The redbiiition Geree ts the Governor to refuse commissions to all persons of color until the Supreme Court of the State shall de- cide differently. The Secretary of War has directed General Thomas to send a force of mounted men to the ‘counties or Nelson, Marion and Larue, tn Kentucky, where armel resistance was recently made to the law. The national debt statement for August will be made public on Monday. It will show an increase of ten million dollars, which is accounted for by the payment of the Alaska purchase inoney aud the large expenses of the army. The correspondence between Captain Finan, of the Montgomery Guards of Boston, and Captain \ of the Webster Guards of New tate competitive drill between their companies has | {his can be traced to the habitual custom of assumed quite a threatening aspect, In his last carrying concealed weapons and to the facility Captain Finan informs Captain McAtfee that he has | 7 ett iit deave | nothing to retract and holds himself personally re- | With which too many of the community * sponsible. learned to use them upon the slightest provo- A young woman in Elizabeth, yesterday cation. We havea very large and expensive obtained a verdict of $4,000 dame $ against her father for alleged slanders nat here er and chastity. There was a «' pother in the case, George Hoyce and Henry Wilmot were brought up before Justice Shandley yest y on a charge stealing $21,000 in government bonds from the | that crime, bloodshed and violence of all | and before the corporation of Sheffield, as counting house of Thomas Morris, Wall street, In | Kinds should be on the increase. Perhaps it | it was natural to expect that a man of July last, Bergeant Slater, who arrested them, fe: | i ios to the ney ligenc h | his culture and experi fused to testify and they were discharged oo Asda tnt of the police so much | hk and experience would do in the The steamship Ocean Queen, irom Aspinwall, has | a8 to the laxity of the police courts that we | circumstances. Mr. Johnson was not sent | shows on fi 2365, 756. are to look for the cause of this state of things. | over from this country to quarrel with or to | nif amaiip Pereire, for Havre, takes out Wherever the remedy may lie it should be seen | insult the peop'e of Great Britain, but to | $289h270 on freight. after at once, or there will he re resent the dignit r ore | ‘The stock market Was dull, but steady yesterday. |“ “ ce oF there will be no safety Wor say; | Tey se Mlle sient iy 4 ¥ Government securities Were strony, but quiet. Gold closed at Lady @ 144% cAtfee, | | york, in regard to the | Now, the frequent occurrence of scenes like time when sickness and epidemics are more likely to render their services necessary ? But we take the facts as we find them, police reports show the wonderful which the powers of Satan gained during their absence, The parsons are, emphatically, responsible for their abatement and correction in the season which is now opening among the churches. They have a good starting point in the new depredations among the frontier settlements, an | Water street Mission—a branch of the Howard Mission, by the way. in the lower stratum of society. because it ts impossible to get at them when they duty to carry it to all grades and all ranks, The ‘Wickedest Man in New York” has set of the Philadelphia Johnson Convention of 1866. Mr. Henry Reed says of Seymour that he was ‘“‘either weak or dishonest, and that his conduct owed its origin either to treachery or imbecility is so palpable as to forbid de- nial ;” and he says a good deal more which it is not necessary here to reproduce. From the disclosures presented touching the intrigues which ruled the Tammany Convention it ap- pears that the nomination of Seymour was arranged by about a dozen men; that it was sprung upon the Convention to head off the nomination of Chase—for which Seymour had prepared a beautiful speech—and that Vallan- digham clinched the matter by declaring Sey- mour’s nomination conclusive against all his declinations and protestations, But the main point is this: that Mr. Sey- mour could have commanded the nomination of Mr. Chase, and had thus the power in his hands of inaugurating a great conservative political triumph in the coming Presidential election and a new departure in the govern- ment of peace, law, order and prosperity glorious to contemplate, but that he threw this golden opportunity away. His political ambi- tion was too much and his political sagacity was too little for the occasion. The radicals anticipated with fear and trembling the nomi- nation of Chase, for they knew that it would be the end of their reign of blunders, usurpa- tions and corruptions; but they hailed with joy the nomination of Seymour, for they be- lieved it would reduce the democratic party to its minimum strength and to the battle of 1864. Itis hard to believe that the Conven- tion settled upon Seymour with any great hopes of success. was, perhaps, that he should prepare the way as a regular democrat for a regular democratic vietory under Pendleton in 1872, just as Fre- mont was accepted by the Seward clique in 1856 to prepare the way for Seward’s nomina- tion and election in 1860. But upon this The sway There has been a reign of ter- ror in the metropolis throughout the summer months. The ‘Black Crook” and like spec- tacles, which the parsons vainly endeavored to cope with, left their leaven of demoraliza- tion in the community. The ministers have a task before them in combating these evils for which they need all the energy and zeal that we may look for them to put forth after the recuperation of their summer sojourn. The reform has begun It is their Let them look out Instead of The fall season is, therefore, fraught with interest and importance to the merchant, the the sinner and the godly man. The merchant, the manager and the minister has each his respective task in the approaching season of business, amuse- ment and religion. It belongs to the last mentioned to see that in the duties devolving upon him he is not outstripped ‘in zeal or suc- cess by his more worldly competitors. Rowdytam Rampant. The fact cannot be disguised that owdyism and violence, the hasty use of the pistol and the knife and fatal assaults upon the person have been greatly in the ascendant of late in this community. In the railroad cars con- ductors have been assaulted and grievously damaged. Steamboats plying to Coney Island have been infested with thieves, rowdies and gamblers. Drinking saloons and disreputable bagnios are the scenes of nightly disturbance and bloodshed, and even the police in the discharge of their duty have become the vic- tims of violence. The latest homicide in a saloon is that of Mr. Henry C. Lyon, of | the firm of Farrar & Lyon, in South street, who was shot dead on Friday evening in a quarrel which seemed to be but of mo- mentary duration and apparently of trifling importance, as far as the bystanders could tell. the great victory of 1863, which he held at his for the present we dismiss the subject. Minister Johnson at Sheffield. We have already called attention to the speech delivered at Sheflield by Mr. Reverdy Johnson, our Minister at the Court of St. James, on Thursday, September 3, and to-day we report, by cable telegram, an address made by the same gentleman to the corporate authorities of that town, in which he re't rated his assurances of the friendly fee! ot the American nation for Great Britain, and claimed that, notwithstanding the stream of | foreign emigration, the United States was English in sentiment. It appears that the master cutlers held their annual feast on that day, and that Mr. Johnson, who | had been formally invited, was present and made a speech on the occasion. It is impos- sible to refuse to admit that Mr. Johnson did well to accept the invitation of the master cut- lers; for there is no more highly respectable body of men in England. It is just as impossible to refuse to admit that Mr. Johnson acquitted himself, at the banquet police force, and although they have done their duty faithfully and suffered much of late at the hands of the rowdy element of city life in endeavoring to control it, it seems strange one from shootings or stabbiags by night or by day. United States. Civility and respect to the | Britain to take it in charge. great British people are perfectly compatible | compromise her claims by taking hold of Spain spirit which may be created by that determi- nation will be only another evidence of the evil of a connection between Church and State, from which we in this country are happily free. The Rosecrans White Sulphur Mission=The Mountain and the Mouse. The resultg of the volunteer political mission of General Rosecrans to the Virginia White Sulphur Springs are before the country in the published correspondence between him and the numerous Southern military and political lead- ers concerned, and it is but a repetition of the old story of the mountain and the mouse, Gen- eral Rosecrans is a very enthusiastic patriot, and a generous one; but he does not reveal himself as an astute and experienced politi- cian nor asa cool and skilful diplomat in this correspondence. His letter deals too much in sentiment and too little in hard matters of fact ; and of course the reply is of a corresponding character. These Southern gentlemen acknow- ledge their devotion to the constitution and plead for their constitutional rights. Very good. But what constitution do they mean? Under “‘the constitution as it was” they pleaded the right of secession, and seceded, and hence our late terrible civil war. Do they mean this constitution or the constitution as it is with the amendment known as Article XIV.? They say nothing upon this question, and so their letter toGeneral Rosecrans leaves the political situa- fton precisely as it was before. After this ex- periment in diplomacy among our Southern politicians General Rosecrans, with all conve- nient despatch, should set out for the more appropriate fleld of diplomacy which awaits The ruling idea, after all, | pin in Mexico. The Corruptions in the Intern Department, The legal investigation now going on in this city concerning certain charges of bribery and corruption against Commissioner Rollins and Revenue theory the folly of Seymour in casting away } ex-Collector Smith suggests that there is a cu- rious imbroglio between the Commissioner of command in the nomination of the Chief Jus- | Internal Revenue and Secretary McCulloch, of tice, only stands out in bolder relief. And so | Which this case now before the United States Commissioner is one of the outcroppings. That the corruptions in the Revenue Department are many and heavy no one doubts. That there exists a jealousy of those who are reaping the profits of these corruptions is apparent. There are no doubt a great many people who would like to get Mr. Rollins out of office in order that they might lay a claw upon the spoils of the Internal Revenue Department; and since Attorney General Evarts has decided that, ac- cording to the interpretation of the Tenure of Civil Office bill, Mr. Rollins cannot be removed, there may be additional reasons to make a case against him which would justify his removal for malfeasance. It is probable that there is as much anxiety to get the present incumbents out of office as there is on the part of the latter to keep themselves in; for the same tempting bait—the spoils—is presented to the lips of both parties. As far as the public are con- cerned, however, it will make very little differ- ence, because whichever party is in power in the Treasury Department they must expect the same amount of corruptions, spoliations and frauds. Tne Stare or Arrams ix Eaypr.—Our | special correspondent’s letter from Alexandria, | Egypt, which we published on Friday last, how wretched is the administra- tion of affairs in that country. he one effectual cure for the sorrows of Egypt is, as we have again and again said, to allow Great France could | centre of the converging crowd. At four P. and Portuga!; and the United States would not be unwilling to barter the growing inte- rests in Egypt for absolute control of the New Dominion. Some general exchanges of this kind have become absolutely necessary. In no other way can the peace of the world be secured and the wealth of nations be de- veloped. A Harp Nor ror Coneress—Georgia re- construction as reconstructed by the Georgia Legislature. MUSICAL REVIEW. Nov that composers, vocalists and pianists are Winging their way homewards and the season of concerte will shortly commence, we may look out for something novel and good in the way of music. During the summer the business of music publishers has been very dull, as scarcely anything new of merit has been brought out. Now, when such eminent artists as Pattison, Pfeiffer, Pening, Hopkins, Breck- elmann. George W. Colby and others have returned to the city, we may expect an improvement in musi- cal publications, The concerts of the ensaing sea- son will be of a higher order, too, than usual, for several European artists of the highest order are about to visit us, Then Theodore Thomas will in- troduce in his symphony soirées some of the latest and most celebrated works of modern composers, W6@ may, therefore, date a new era. in our review and be favored with publications of a higher order chan anne which we have reviewed during the past Dodworth publishes a dashing galop called ‘Os- cawanna,” by Steinmitz, The motive is taken fromm Offenbach’s opera “Genevieve de Brabant,” and ts of the same light character as the rest of this irrepres- sible composer's works, Be & Oo., New York and Boston, publish the “The Woodiana Stream,” song Wrighton. A song of medium merit, pleasing enough without being Pretentious. The arpeggio accompaniment at the end 1s rather far fetched. A more appropriate musi- cal expression of the words “might flow’? would be attained by triplets, “Love and War; T. Cooke, The well known and time honored vocal duet, which will ever be @ po among glee clubs, It is got up ima neat form. “Les Petits Concerts.” A series of compositions for the voice, piano, flute or cornet, This series in- cludes such pieces as “Das Alpenhorn,” “Das Korbehen,’? “fhe Sea hath its Pearls,” and aseren- ade by Reissiger. The arrangements are very simple and interest “Karney’s Wooing;’ Lover; words by M. St. John. One of those stereotyped Irish ballads, the name of which is legion, They do not come within the province of criticism, “La Notte @ Placida,” canzone from Pedrottl’s “Guena in Quattro,” arranged by L. W. Wheeler. Monotonous, stupid and weakly arrangea, A very neat edition of Robert Franz’s inimitable songs has also been published by this house. The one called “Evening” is a most delightfulgem. The contrapuntal character of the accompaniment ac- cords weil with the beautiful melody. ‘Wm. A. Pond & Co. publish the aaa Sa Kohler’s first studies for the piano, For the he- ner thege exercises are worth more than half tne ulky instruction books of the present day. They are eminently calculated for Dtrengtheniag the bie and fait them equality of touch. “Under the Lilacs’ caprice mazurka; Eugene Ketter. A most delightful composition. ‘he motive is very but the varied treatment of it is somet! which spree irresistibly to the com- mendation of any musician. “Notturno;” Schumann.’ Who that has played this short, simple, exquisite little piece can fail to do homage to the genius of the great composer? “Madcaps,”” lop; Ketterer. This composer is known as one of the most brilliant writers of saloon music at present in London, and this work is worthy of that ES yom Mr. Walter Fitzgerald publishes a song of his own called “She SI Rule Majesty.” The national and political songs of America, we are sorry to say, have lately become unworthy of the attention of any musician, and this song, music aud words, is no ex- ception to the rule. MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL NOTES. “Foul Play” is attracting considerable attention in Chicago. Mr. E. L. Davenport is astonishing the ‘Saints’ of Salt Lake with his impersonation of “Richelieu.” A niece of Madame Sontag is spoken of as the next sensatio* at the Covent Garden theatre, Lon- don. She is said to possess a wonderful voice, Chiarini’s Italian Circus 1s at present meandering through the interior of California, where it is meet- ing with great success, Mr. Joseph Jefferson is dozing after the approved style of Herr Rip Van Winkle, in Chicago, to the in- tense delight of the good people of that moral city. Miss Jean Hosmer, the tragedienne, will open at Willard’s theatre, Boston, September 14, Marrietta Ravel, the pantomimist, danseuse, sen- sation and tight-rope performer, commences the sea- son at St, Louis on the 14th inst. M. Raphael Felix, a French theatrical manager, has been compelled to pay the sum of $5,040 in gold to two danseuses for having left them at Jassy with- out means, and from whence they were sent to Paris sag ma giving Dumas’ “M eatre jumas’ “Monte- * in full. The piece nas fifteen acts, five of which are given every evening. The same audience must witness the epi for three consecutive evenings or lonse the thre; the “haa Miss Bateman will shorty commence another pro- vincial tour, appearing as Leah at the New Theatre Royal, Bristol, on the 26th inst. She visits several other towns before her London appearance, at the gg ny on October 19, ‘ne ever popular Billy Florence and his better half are expected from Europe to-day or to-morrow. The friends of Mr. Florence will be rejoiced to learn that he has much improved in health during his sojourn in Italy, and they will soon be afforded an opportunity of witnessing the inimitable “Biily” in new novelties on the boards of the bijou Broad- way. “Kathleen Villa,” the summer residence of the pular and hospitable Mr. and Mrs, Barney Wil- tains, at Bath, L. L., will be the scene of a brilitant and talented gathering on Thursday evening next. The affair will partake of the nature of a fete cham- petre, and the magnificent grove ieading to the rural retreat of Gotham’s favorite “Irish Boy and Yankee Giri,” will upon this occasion be illuminated with nearly two hundred variegated lanterns. The pro- fessional and fashionable worlds will be about equally represented. iss Lydia ‘Thompson, the accomplished English burlesque actress, has arrived in this city, accom- panied by a number of artists, all of whom come to us with the best recommendations of the London ress. Miss Thompson's great reputation added to her personal charms, ts likely to make her American debut the great event of the season. She follows Miss Mitchell, at Wood’s Museum, tn a bar- lesque entitled “Ixion; or the Man at the Wheel,” one of the principal attractions of which will be music of a superior order, Signor Blitz, the original magician, whose fame is world-wide and whose name has at various times been assumed by knavish pretenders, appears in this city to-morrow evening for the first time in fif- teen years. Signor Bitz has seen over fifty years of rofessional life and has grown gray in the service, it has lost none of that wonderful cunning which years made his exhibitions the most popular of the kind ever given im this city. He will hold forth at Dodworth Hall, and the public should welcome back their old favorite with a crowded house, Moore's new Opera House at Newburg ts to be opened on Tuesday evening with a grand concert under the able direction of Mr. Hulmes. The pro- gramme isa good one, embracing the aames of many popular singers, aud the affair promises to be a do- cided success, “THE PARK YESTERDAY. Jupiter ‘ius, having expended his energies tn a two days’ tain storm, and having purified and cooled the air, yesterday morning graciously ylelded the baton of the weather to more beneficent hands, Amore delightful Saturday afternoon than yester- day, the sun shining clear froma cioudiess sky and a most eeable and refreshing breeze stirring the airand ieaves, has not for a long Wine presentort Liselt for hen bapteed ot the Park and_ tts strolis and Sails, and sight-seeing and drives, and gaia music. Many thousands, iate Ly nag solstice and its sweltering heats have not been fo the Park, were there yesterday, Sun-embrowned — faces, the faces of those who have been sum- mering by the sea shore, or drinking in the delicious air of country valleys and mountains, the faces of those who have not been seen there for a long time were visibie tn large Qumbers. And there aiso were to be seen old familiar carriages and their fashtonadle inmates who have been missing ever since the beginning of the sammer hegisa. Among the carriages were several four-in-handa, their un- wonted presence adding lively animation to the gloriously brilliant pageant presented on the drive, There were likewise more equestrians than usual another token ot Se tenet [hn city and of Towing less criminality in being in 5 o It is needoas to describe the thorough enjoyment experienced by the tens of thousands visiting the Park vesterday, and the diverse facilities for enjoy- ment aud the hearty eagerness With which all we seized. The whole scene Was one of unceasing ani- mation and pleasure—at the Arsenal, where are & the wild beasts and‘ birds; on the green turf, common to everybody, and on which the little ones, as sual, enjoyed themselves uncommonly; along the winding waiks of the rambie, on the lakes and on the mail, the scene of the concert and the grand 1 concert began, lasting, as usnal, some two and a half hours, The prograthine was unusually varied, and the selections most adipirably adapted to the popular taste. eee MIDDAY POAYERS AT JOUN ALLENS. ree % Any person of discrimination, and not ‘od by Prejudice, who wit take the trouble to ae "mo. 302 aneene to the conclusion tuat, ou at the in the vernacular of mate spoon 4 are soiry we are compelied to thus write, but “truth is eterna! and must prevatt, Yesterday, as on previous. days of the week, the barroom—the apartment which rapt de- Voted to the lascivious dances of half-drunken Cypri- ans before sodden sailors, made im appearance by la- temperance worse than the most beasts— and the yard beyond were crowded ; but by whom? Not by ‘the degraded inhabitants of that part of Water street—not by prostitutes and thieves, biear- eyed bullies ‘and deaiers in ‘blue devil damnation,” but by well dressed, intelligent and, in many in- stances, piously inclined gentlemen, Who absolutely know nothing of the terribie life of the suns, of the dens of prostitution, of the hells in which humanity 4s brutified, not only in Water street, but all over New York. And these re! persons—among whom were many elegantly attired women—tn that hot, air diseased, dank den sang and prayed and called each other “wicked sinners,’? while Allen's slave-like courtezans, or a few of them, with traces of debauchery yet on their hard- ened, unblushing countenances, Worked or lolled, as the humor seized them, in the entry or the apart- ments of the second story, scarcely, in their stolid- ness, remarking upon the visitors as the; back and forth, In the very fervency of the respectable looking men assembled below, an pases loudly for each other’s salvation, aud iyrons about Jesus and His pitying nature and Hi saving grace, these poor forlorn creatures were for- otten us were those who, in the homes of infamy mediately opposite, sat in the doorways and in- vited the passers-by to lechery. And where was John Allen all this time? In the ‘ard of his axel ee cham, familiarly with, while fondling, a gray hai man, having the appearance of one who passed his days tn inviting individu- als to insure their lives, paying not the slightest heed to the proceedings which were going on within—the, in fact, least interested personage on the premises, Allen looked and acted like one who had rented his ball for a public meeting, and so long as it was So tor it was a matter of indifference whether it was used for political or religious pur- poses, There is certainly alarge field for the true mis- Sionary in Water street, but otber than sensation preachéns and writers must conduct the enterprise. The annexed communication has been received from a well Known physician in St. Mark's place:— To TuE Eprror or TUR HERALD:— I write to inform you that the article HRuALD, headed “The Water Street I wis published in to-day’s nio,” is far from, being correct. In the first place John All real name is Evert Van Allen, and not Slocum, as you hi it. There is a man by the natne of Slocum, alias Sullivan, who kee] bagnio at 818 Water street, and who is asort of “man Fri- Gay togohn Allene “Jobo Allen's piace. im. at. 204 Water streets instead of iB, “His father ts not, and never wasy a minister; he is afarmer and member of the Baptist Church, He has three brothers who are ministers; two of them are of Presbyterian and the other of Baptist persuasion. Another brother is @ well to do merchant in this city. Ihave known them ali Intimately for years, and what I say is correct. Great, injustice bas been done to Mr. Allen and bis friends by mafly of the articles which have recently appeared tn regard to this now notorious character. Jobn Allen is not the “wickedest man in the world.” On the contrary he ts and always has been more pious than the majority of people in this wicked city. To be sure he has kept a very iow place, where the worst sort of debauchery and dissipation bas reigned supreme; bi ee in his place ut no man was ever poor children ut together, excepting the Missions, of course. The poor ais moana tees this toon hungry. ‘Three chiliren are living with him now who have found a home there for several years. These children are orphans aud were picked up in the atreet by Mr. Allen while they were neatly perished ith hunger and cold. He has always set a bountitul table and it 1s a rare thing for him to partake of a meal without having by his side some poor half starved wanderer who has been turned hungry away from many a princely mansion. ANOTHER SENSATION, A Letter from Kit Burns to Mr. Bergh~He Is Moved in Spirit and Wants to Be Re- formed—Cruelty to Animals. Annexed will be found a characteristic letter from that ‘jolly old sport,” Kit Burns, to Mr, Bergn, Presi- dent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, inviting that philanthropic personage te visit his ‘rat pit” in Water street and address the “gents” who congregate there on the evil conse- juences of pitting d ‘inst each other and kill- ioe rats, 1 iaeeaning this declaration of ortho- dox Doctor Watts to the effect that delight to bark and bite, Kit sgrten Anis by the Pa ed not set himself up as the “wickedest man in New York,” has been se- riously moved to consider whether his present call- Ing-sthat of Killing rats—is just “the thing.” He does not, however, want of the Dover street missionary people to bother heads about him, for in his estimation they are not “the cheese,’’ and he has besides an idea that they are somehow ‘on. the make.”” But he does ir. Bergh, because he belleves him sincere in desire to protect the brute creation from unnecessary pain ; and if he can convince him and those who patronize lis “pit” of their folly and cruelty he will do them a real service and bring about a greater reform than all the paid reachers in the town ever thought of effecting, His letter is as follows:— To THe Epitor or THE HERaLy:— S1x—Since Johnny Allen has ciosed his crib I've been thinking of myself and my business. 1 own and traln lots of dogs and T kill any number of rats in the pit. A good many first rate fellows, a little rough in speech, may be, but tome that are Justa life touch above anyuig th town ta some a that line. You see Itrained them pups myself. But what I was going to I like everybody to have a fair Chanee, and T = Hergh's on the square froin the word go! Now, if that gentleman will justcall on me any day, I'll fix it so that he can talk to the crowd, deliver his lec- tures to them—and there are sometimes two or three hundred went—and if he can show us we are crue! and are jing wrong, why, all I've got to say ia I'll burst the pit and ilve away or sell out my nd T've some of the finest raters out. I feel kind of dub: out this thing; and T can hardly make myself believe it’s wrong or crvel to tit rats, however it may be about fighting dogs. But I'd ltke to talk'to Mr. Bergh about these things, and I'm sincere, if he'll ‘No. 278 Water street. i - pm atmy place, No. al er BU 3 OBITUARY. Joseph R. Smith. Brevet Brigadier Generai Joseph R. Smith died at his residence, Monroe, Mich., on the morning of the 8d inst. The disease with which he was affected and which eventually resulted in his death was can- cer in the stomach. He was born in Sandy Hill, Washington county, in this State, in the year 1802. ie received an appointment to West Point and gra- duated from that institution in the year 1823. In the class associated with him were Lorenzo Thomas, Alfred Mordecai and others whose names are known blic. He received his first appointment of eutenant in the Second Unit ‘tates infan- try in 1823. In 1832 he was promoted to be first lieu- tenant and in 1833 he was made captain. He was first assigned to duty at Sault St. Marie and after- wards served tn the Florida war from 1837 to 1842, In the Mexican war he distinguished himself and was brevetted major for gallant conduct at Cerro Gord reutenant colonel for his the service he was placed on it in the following year he and disbursing oiicer for atkinp tT ie lon‘ ote i On the out rebellion he oi Ariat fers te Sonera? Seed in 1862 he was on the lel rn ring officer of the State of Michigan. In 1863 he became military commissary of musters. This position he held under various generals. For his long and valuable.services he was brevetted brigadier general in 1865. His health has for some time been gradually giving way, and his death was consequently not unexpected. De- ceased Was sixty-six years of age. Christian F. Schonbein. ‘The cable despatches annonnce the death of Pro- feasor Schonbein, {of Basle, at Baden Baden, yester- day. He was born in 1799 in Wurtemberg, and was at the time of his death in his sixty-ninth Pa, He devoted himselfat an early age to science, r7 to the slender means at his disposal his progress was slow. He visited London tn 1826, and there made the acquaintance of Faraday; two years later he Was appointed professor of the University of Basle, Switzerland, and in afew years he became well Known for the boldness and originality of his eneralizations. In 1839 he discovered ozone; in fais he invented gun cotton, which threatened to revolutionize the whole military system of pro- Jectiles. In 185¥ he introduced antozone, another species of oxygen. He was also the author of sev- eral scientific works. Thomas T. Whittlesey. The death of Judge Whittiesey is announced, at the age of seventy years. He was a native of Con- necticut and Was educated at Yale. His ear years Were spent in lis native State, but on the deati of his wife he emigrated to Wisconsin and took up bis residence in Madison, whero he died. He represented his native district twice in Congress, and both un public as well as private iife he was. universally respecied. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ner Britannic Majesty's ship Chanticleer, with $500,000 in specie, Commender Briggs, of Mazatian fame, arrived at Panaga on the 28th ultimo, She will probably remain there until the beginning of November, and then sail thence for the Sandwich Islanda, The only other war yegacla at Panama at present are the atte Ly J store ship Cyane and the Coiomt var. oopayinaster ie ik has been recently ordered so the United Stptes steamship Powhatan, and to duty, as Fi master of the South Pacific adron, 40 pélieve Paymaster Thomas H. Looker, ‘who Ww ordege tg return to New York.