The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1868, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD | o BRUADWAY AND ANN STREST, JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. All business or news lette: despatches must be addressed New York and telegraphie Herat. Letters and ps sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Yourteenth street. Travian OPRKS BALLOT MASOHRRA. RROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway. An Moen ty SEVILLE Farky (inoue WALLACK'S THRATRE, Broadway and 1th street. — ar Lacoste Lass. . ARDEN, Broadway.—AFvER DARK, OF LON- NIBLO'S PATRE, Bowery,—Nep ScarLer—Law: corner of Bighth aveaue and NOH T auth street and Sixth aver PENS VIRVE DE BRABANT, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway. -Ho were wiru New FEATURES. Matinee at 1g. MAS. ¥. B. CONWAY'S PARKS THEATRE, Brooglyn.— Mus. DP. BOWERS aS QUEEN Bu BRYANTS' OPERA HOU aniany Building, 14th Rirer tC MIORLAN MANGT 0. KBLLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, PIAN MINSERELBY, BURLEHQUE.—OR| ntwar. KL H1O- AUX Exr rus. 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OPERA HOUSE, Whiiam«burg.— HOOLRY'S MINSTEELS—IXI0N, ae NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, eorne: Bd #1 and 4th oY. —EXULUITION OF PICTUBYD aC. NB RK MURBUM or ANATOMY, 615 Broadwer.— SOPRNOR AND Arr. TRIPLE SHEE T. New Work, tb egemarem November 25, 188. | taxa News Europe. ‘The ouble reports ave dated S The London press comments favorably on the Oninese mission and advises a dy ratii¢ation of the tresiy. it also urges the commission for tie wettiement of the Alabama claims to sit alternatively to London and Washington. The last Parliomentary election returns show 4 reduction in the liberal ma- | jority. Mr. Gladstone was defeated in Southwest | iancashire. } The provisional government of Spxin has redaced the import duties, and the elections for 1 ay ary announced for December 15, The Cortes will meet on January 15. Arms and tr ritpped to Cuba. Tho eruption of Vesuvius ts anbsidtag The French govern lucting the pro Cations against the press with unusual Count Bismarck’ makes ps wre betug ff his join ag the liberal ¢ ation. have declared ibat tie course of | cai | from flung Kong © the Lith of Oct 2 Burlingame is’ s riticised by | tue English press in Ob suropean steamer had been fired upon by Chuves pvoats for not | dipping her flag as the inese Gov- eraor General at Chin Kiang had received instruc- tons to accede to the Brith demands in reference | to the outrages on missionaries rebels nad envered Ning rhe Japan. Adytoes from Yokoharfta are to the 2yt The Mikado had becn growned Em Jeddo stil remained closed, ti was ready for opening to oreign trade as soon as the conference between the authorities and the foreign consuls came to an end. Sagat and Hakodedi had been seized by the south- “rn troops. ‘The foreign citizcus escaped tu safety to Shaaghae, of Gedober, or. Cabe. Havana despatches state that ua abandoming the revolutionary forces and returning ro their homes, The revolutionists are reported wakiug vvertures to the government, and, In conse- auener,Count Balmaseda has allowed three days’ ¢ before commencing active Operations. Colombin. The representatives of Colombia in this country annousoe that the late report about the levying of onerous (axes on Commerce if not of national ex- tent: it has taken place only in (ie ‘The announcement in the last news of two provi+ mai govermaents claiming sway since July last refers solely to th State of Panama. Excepung in that State and In the State of Cundinamarca the peace and order of the Colombian republic reteia mndisvurhed Miscelinnenas, Ont Washington correspondent expores very com pletely the 07 ons of a rag of emigrant runners, which has not oly dgured lirgely im Castle Garden wut has effected its purp: ca in Congress, It ts alleged to have arranged toutiers so that by " Congres4 ii can we grata into servitude, levy eavy tolls upon the “Wor i id tnati¢ute o kind of 1of then. Generai Sheridan's Hans is pu It contains, } the war, a rep ed by! of lians during t rt the murde September and Hott The i on the atityect of may surat 4 « e ato, has been nade is. He holds lo the same potoid tn goneral Wat were expressed in the former wbstrad Henry Rives Polar, ct he senthern Opt dom, & Richmond ‘ aud Kid ‘ ‘ by James nu ehogting On @ met in vb Doom coreluded not to # of «photograph of Nes Cole on tue por log findin of ¢ kages should be properly pDourey, | j ISL | bides and rags, on September 18, and all hands | White, of the Gulic | Brooklyn. oung men are } of Panama. | Plc | balmy N aid YORK IMR five men, oue of wlio waa killed and tae res® were a] badly hort, Bikin’s Hotel, in Southampton, burned yesterday morning, and two men perts ‘he dames, four others being seriously injured. Canty and Burke, who were to be hung tomorrow in Westchester for complicity in the murder of Etlen Hicks, in August, 1866, have had their sentence com- mated to five years’ imprisonment. The nancial crisis iu New Brunswick Ia probably over, The St.Stephena fank directors confidently expect to resume buaineds soon, | The City. ‘The Erie litigation ts becoming a# complicated aa the fight over the same stock last spring. On Mon- day night Judge Sutherland vacated Judge Barnard’s order in the Mcintosn suit and appointed Henry &. Davies, in the Belmont auit, recetyer of the company, in piace of Jay Gould. On the same night Judge Barnard “stayed” Judge Sutherland’s proceedings, and yesterday morning gndge Sutherland granted an order requiring the defendants to show cause at | ten o'clock this morning why the stay granted by Judge Barnard should not be vacated. ,Two new eulls were also instituted yesterday by the Erie Railway Company, both compiaints being verified by Jay Gould, as president. tm one action Daniel Drew, Frank Work and Richard Schell are sued for the recovery of $429,250 paid by the company to ‘hell, a8 a condition for the compromise and set- Hement of the old litigation of last spring. The other action is brought against Drew, Schell, Work, i August Belmont and E. ©. Lucke to enjoin the two last named from discontinuing or compromising the Sutt now pending on their complaint against the Erie Company, and for the recovery of $1,000,000 as damages for losses sustained by the gom- Canada, was din | pany in the old titigation, ‘Tye — tigation has also peel Hrotight into the United States ; courts by a bill of complaint Med by Henry | B. Whepley, on whose application Judge Blatchford appointed Jay Gould, the treaanrer of the company, | Teceiver over the property of the company to the amount of eight millions of doilara, the amount of ued stock a8 claimed by Whepley. olive of the Erie Railroad Company in Weat Street was closed yesterday, and @ clerk told all visitors that business was suspended, The transfer office in Pine street, however, was open as usual. The following named parties, against whom bills of indictment were lately presented by the Grand Jury, at present in session in the United States Cir- cuit Court for the Southern district of New York, have been arrested ana bailed:—Willtam Fullerton, Jacob Depuy, Alfred A. Belknap, D. C. Birdaall, K. J, Windust, Alfred Blaisdell and Abraham Powelson. ‘The charge, as set forth in the warrant of arrest, declares that the parties are charged with having, on the 11th day of June, 1868, knowingly and wilfully combined, conspired and agreed together to obstruct | and impede the due administration of justice in a court of the United States, and to commit divers other offences against the laws of the United States, The bail was fixed in each case at $2,500, Mr. Fulierton’s case was fixed for hearing on the 3d of December. In the United States Circuit Court, before Judges Nelson and Blatchford, the argument on a motion 10 quash the indictment against Benjamin B. Rosen- berg for issuing forged naturalization papers was proceeded with by Mr, Stoughton in support of the motion to quash and hy Messrs, Plerrepont and Davies in opposition, The ground taken on behalf of the defendant is that the United States statute of under which the indictment is framed, has no retevancy to the case, it being simply an act of legisjation to restram annaturalized aliens | from serving on board of the public or private veseela of the United States; that Congress has never, even if it had the power, legisiated on the Sibjcot of irregularities in elections in the States ; and Hut, even admitting that the act did apply to ihe case of Rosenberg, the mdictment is defective in {18 overments, Counsel for the government un- dertook to reply to and w overcome these objec- tions, ‘The argument, not betug concluded at the adjournment, will be continued to-day. {rhe sf&p Vaiparaivo, from San Francisco, reports | having spoken on September 22, ta latitude , lon. | gitude Lis west, the ship Lawrence, from San Pran- cleo for ew York, she being on fire at the time. The Valparaiso received on board her crew end brovelt them to this port. Captain Johnson, of the Lawrence, reporta that the fire was discovered among the cargo, which consisted principally of worked for three days and nighia to extinguish it, but without avail, The cause ofthe dire is supposed to lave been spontaneous combustion. A senll race Was rowed on the Hoboken course, North civer, yeguemlay aTternoon, between James G. Club of thia city, and W. B. rtis, of the Atlantic Ojub of Hoboken. White was the winner. ‘The didtan¢e rowed was three miles aod the time made twenty-seven minutes, The Coroner's jury in the ease offMrs. Carson, who ‘AMT To her death from violence, revarned 9 verdict yesterday charging her husband with the commis: ion of the de were York 6 deaties, 270 births an last week, There were (4 marriages A deaths in ‘The steamship Scotia, Captain Judkina, will sail to-day for Queensiown and Liverpoot, Mails wil! Als AD), WEDNE SDAY, draws near; and as the whiskey rings, with their plunder of one hundred million dollars ® year, are just now 4 power among the politi- cians, it follows that the organs and leaders of thode rings play a prominent part in the attempt to capture the new President, In this city wo have four distinct divisions of these aspiring combinations—one under the management of Greeley and Company, an- other run by Raymond and Company, a third represented by Dana and Company, and a fourth with Thurlow Weed at its head—all of them eager to take Grant under their special care and to instruct him how to dispense the patronage of four hundred million dollars a year for the best interest of the country and of his patriotic advisers. Greeley and Company have expe- rienced some serious drawbacks in the mis- fortunes of Callicott and bis particular ring, in the original opposition made by them to the nomination of Grant tor the Presidency, and in the breaking down of the Fenton party in the State. But they hope, with Butler in Con- gress and Greeley at the organ, to bully Grant into a recognition of their valuable services, and they will make a desperate effort to name the next United States Senator and to defeat Morgan in order to impress the President elect with olesomme ii f their str ugth and influe: with the Be ean pi party in New York. Raymond and Company embrace the whiskey ring of the anti-impeachers, and as they have succeeded in hutmbugging or frightening Andy Johnson into non-inter- ference with the revenue frauds, and have managed to keep themselves in office during his entire term without getting into the State Prison, they believe themselves smart enough to pull the Woolley over Grant’s eyes and to insure for themselves a new lease of power and plunder. Dana and Company represent Morgan, the Conklings and the old Tammany building pool of three or four hundred thousand dollars. They seek to cut between the other two factions and to carry off the oyster while their neighbors are quarrelling over the shells. They make their point on Morgan, and trust to his advancement to the Cabinet for success and for the good, fat, substantial profits of government offices. All these politicians are just now very busy birds, and are singing their own praises at a great rate and endeavor- ing to attract Grant’s attention to the bright- ness and beauty of their plumage. The Thurlow Weed combination, however, comes out ina more impressive manner than any of the rest and bids fair to take the rags off all the other bushes, The whiskey ring organ at the national capital, in an article which we republish to-day, evidently intends to make so tremendous an impression on the President elect that all efforts to supplant Weed will be in vain, and nothing will be left to General Grant but to capitulate and come down fike Colonel Scott's coon. Thurlow Weed enters upon the scene fresh from Europe, renovated, rejuvenated and vigorous, with a tremendous appetite and an improved diges- tion, ready to swallow Grant and everybody else, and to dispense the federal patronage for the next four years with that princely air | attained by the experience of a lifetime as the reigning king of the lobby. We are as- sured that in his renewed lease of life Weed has cast bis skin, as snakes are known to do, and comes out slicker and cleaner than ever. | He is even willing to smoke the pipe of peace with Greeley, and might be induced to consent to confer upon Fenton a small consulship or an inferior revenue office. All he wants is to be allowed to bestow upon General Grant the benefit of his large experience, sagacity and patriotism, and to manage with bis well known business tact the brokerage of four hundred million dollars a year. Well, we have no doubt that General Grant will read the biography of Thurlow Weed with a great deal of attention and interest. We o doubt, too, that after he has read it he will light his cigar, get into bis buggy, trot off on the road at bis usual gait, and turn over have clove at the Post office at twelve M. ‘The Black Star Mine steamsiup Florida, Captain Paircloth, will leave pier 13 North river ai three P.M. o-day for Savannah. ‘The steamship Virginia, Captain Drew, of the Express Une, will leave pler 15 Kast river at four | P.M. to-vlay for Washington and Georgetuwa, D, C., | and Alexandrin, Va. | cone stock market yesterday was atroug and steady | for che general list, with a slightly drooping tendency after the boards, Erte declined to 37 | at 188s. Prominent Arrivals in the City. | house of # relative in this city. | Sif John Young. the newly appointed Governor of Canada, and secretaries, Lieutenant Colonel MeNiel and Mr. F. Tunill; Lord Alexander Russell and Liea- | tenant jonel Bernard, of England, and Captain | Cook, of the steamanip Russia, are at the Brevoort House, Governor Featun Albany; General Starting, | General H. A. Baroam, General Merritt and General Marvin, of New York: General G. Spaulding, of Washington, and Senator Cornett, of Oregon, are at the Fifth Avenne Hotel. Senator Sprague, of Rhode taiwad, and J. B. Me- | Dowell, of Poftiand, are a! the Metropolitan Hotel. | Paymaster Burtis, of the United States Navy, and Colonel Hildt, of West Point, are at the Hofman House. * Campbell, On soping at ihe wf States Consul at Dresden, * iw at ‘The Politicinme After Grant, The commencement of every new nat yoval viminiatration the opening of a new spring. As with the refreshing showers and waerin sunshine of April the birds begin to chirp aod twitter aod sing, hopping from branch Ay to brouch, rulling their feathers and search- material with which to build their “o with the advent of a new dispenser f patronage the politicians commence to (hetaselves beard and put on all manner of airs in thefr efforts to secare comfortable airs, t or esta, {quarters and plenty of fuod for the next four (years. The first indication we had of the ap- | sion of public opinion at the earliost day prav- proaching change of weather in the political | ticatle forthe purpose of closing up the world, after the frost of disappointment had | revolution and avoiding future complications } the hopes of the Blair family in the | On the whole the today from vin ished hy the noisy chatiering of | prevents a fevorable uspect breed in the W and now ; | the chorus is taken up aad swelled by the Tux JummiaryY ANDO TUK Pitts. —We aps | sarrows, robbing and swallows all over the prove of tho course of Judge Barnard ‘y call vintey, watil it is made evident that «pring | ing for evidence with reference to the tion i} ypened in earn na Cw franda, th in cage anyth roven Le lates u hy enjoyment adlorinistrat ia own ned Genecal Geaut Speaker Colfax snd his wife are stopping at the | in the United States is like | es ty political | io bis mind the question whether it will be an advantage to the country to place the adminis- tration of the government for the next four years in the experienced bands of the great Albany lobbyist. When he has fully made up bis wind upon this important point he will probably send for Thurlow Weed and Johnny Soyle and let them know his determination. We bope their patience and ser: é them until that time arrives. Latest Phases of the Spanish Revolution, Our telegrama from Spain state that the elections for the Cortes are officially announced to take place on the 15th of December, and the Cortes is to meet on the 15th of January hext. It would appear from this that the pro- visional government ig desirous of ascertaining in the shortest possfble time the opinions of the people on the reorganization of govern- ment and the form of one to be adopted, Ac- cording to previous telegrams General Prim had been suspected of deluying the elections with a view of making a covp d'édat and estab- lishing an empire, but from the news now | published such a suspicion does not appear to | be well founded. Large public meetings had | been held in Barcelona by both the monarchists | and republicans. ‘Thongh public spirit ran high all the proceedings conducted | orderly. ‘This we regard aa one of the best | | signa of the revolution, The people were | | preparing to make similar demonstrotions in | were Madrid. ‘The monarcbiats, it ix eo) are in | the aseendar though the repul s are strong and gaining ground every day. This, indeed, muy be the reason why the provisional | | govern t is hurrying ap the elections and assembling of the Cortes, Prim and his party may fear that the republicans would gain the ascendancy by del jlowever, they may be really desirous of geting a fall and fair expres- t It has may 6 habit of the Boston press, incliding its magazines, to wt New York, dighbest sucead of aainat him, he be too long been the and t se avspiciva by com earnest now that si time for his ‘tnalaateleen | NOV (MBER 25, 1868. TRIPLE SHURT, ment upon official corruption here. ‘notable fact, however, that they always forget the whiskey rings and general governmental | corruption in their desire to show their jealousy of our commercial advancement. We hope to see a few trials of the charges thus preferred, and let these trials come first upon the judiciary that any stain which may be cast upon them may be refuted ; for if we cannot depend upon the honest administration of the law, then has the moment arrived for revolu- tion. General Sheridan’s Report on the Indian War. We publish to-day in full the report of Gen- eral Sheridan to Lieutenant General Sherman on the progress of affairs on the Plains from March 2, when General Sheridan assumed command of the Military District of Missouri, to November 12, the date of the present report, It is a perapicuous document, charac- terized by the straightforward and simple style of the soldier, imposing upon the reader not a word too much and omitting nothing that can complete a full and succinct history of the Indian troubles which have been seriously embarrassing our Western settlers, our frontier army andthe Union Pacific Railway during | the past four months. General Sheridan's command is somewhat extensive in area. It embraces New Mexico, the Indian Territory, Kansas, Upper Arkansas and Missouri, It | happened that the recent troubles centred in the district of Upper Arkansas, where Gen- eral Alfred Sully was in command, with his headquarters sometimes at Fort Harker and often of late in the field. This district was infested, if we may use the term, by those tribes, 9 8 portion of which are in arms against us—namely, the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas and Comanches, while small bands of the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes also made this region their hunting ground and have since joined in the hostilities; and here the Indian battle field of 1868 was and is located. This district, says General Sheridan, was for these reasons the most diflicult to manage in his whole command, not only because of the hostility of the sav- ages, but in view of its extensive frontier, westward to Colorado and-southward ‘to New Mexico. The duties devolving on Gen- eral Sully and his officers may be imagined from the fact that there were not less than gix thousand warriors in the field, all well equip- ped and each man having some ten or more spare horses for a remount. Against this force Sully marched his troops, greatly inferior in number as they were, south of the Arkan- sas, in September, where he did good service in several skirmishes, but from the difficulty in bringing up reinforcements from so many dis- tant points it was impossible to reach and de- stroy the Indian villages, as. was expected. General Sheridan, therefore, very properly complains that the troops at his command were at that time entirely inadequate to the service demanded of them. Since then more regular troops have been ordered to the Plains by General Grant, and Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has organized a militia force which will relieve, to some extent, the regulars from post duty and leave them free to operate against the Indians. While Sully was pursuing the savages south of the Arkansas Captain Graham, of the Tenth cavalry, was protecting the stage line to Den- ver with a small force. Being attacked by a powerful band of Indians he defeated them, killing eleven and wounding a large number. it was about this time that the attack by seven hundred Indians was made on Colonel George A. Fo.syth and his party of scouts on the Republican river. General Sheridan re- counts all the incidents of this gal- lant transaction, which have already appeared at length in the columns of the Heratp from our special despatches, and - pays a just tribute to the bravery of Colonel Forsyth and Lieutenant Frederick N. Beecher, who, it will be remembered, was killed in the action. General Sheridan testifies to the well known treachery of the Indian character by citing two cases where the Kiowas, Comanches and Arapshoes broke faith with him, showing that they are not to be trusted, coaxed nor made peace with. The first case occurred when General Sherman sent an officer from the Peace Commission to Sheridan, offering the Kiowas and Comanches provisions for the winter if they would retire to their reservation at Fort Cobb. They accepted the offer; but we have the words of General Sheridan for it that it was only a decoy to get their families to a place of safety, when the warriors imme- diately joined the hostile bands. ‘‘When I at- tempted,” says General Sheridan, ‘‘to get the Arapahoes and Kiowas, who met me at Fort Dodge, to go on their reservations on the promise that I would feed them they accepted the proposition, and yet they were the very first to attack Sully on his march.” For these reasons Sheridan is opposed to | peace commissions, especially to their action in making peace last fall; and he has evidently no more faith than we have in the Indian Department, for he says “‘the Peace Com- missioners, the Indian Department, the mili- tary and the Indians make a very balky team.” He deprecates the whole present system because there are ‘‘too many fingers in the pie” and too much money to be made out of dealings with the Indians. He is quite in accord with General Sherman that there should be but one head to the Indian estab- lishment and that head in the War Department. As the result of the recent contests on the Plaine, which he says originated—as we have repeatedly stated in these columns—in the government agents disappointing certain of the | last July, and also to some discontent with | an unpopular Indian agent, ninety-two warriors killed, no villages ed and only a small amount of stock from the Indians. On the other hand lost eleven and scouts | Killed and twenty-six wounded, Citizens to the number of ninety-seven were killed and nine wounded, There were driven off from | the trains bound to New Mexico and Colorado | repor des | captured we soldiers over five thousand head of stock. Many set- | ements were driven in and a number of ranches abandoned. These facia warrant General Sheridan in his opinion that unless the Indians are promptly crushed out there will be a total paralysis of all the best in rests of that section of country. ia conclusion, + | we are assured that the army nader lant | will aot be idle, fue taal a6 good as the grass General Sheridan | | tribes in the delivery of arms promised to them | It is a | fails and the cold weather forces the Indians to come together for winter quarters in the milder latitudes south of -the Arkansas @ movement of our troops will instantly take place. We have already heard that Sheridan means to lead the troops in person, and we have, therefore, the highest confidence in the result of a movement from which Sheridan himself says he hopes the complete restoration of peace. A New Transit of VYonus. Our theatrical astronomers are as much at fault as Professor Loomis was about the mete- oric shower, for they have failed to predict the new transit of Venus which is to occur next week. On Monday evening, November 30, Mrs. Scott-Siddons will make her appearance at the New York theatre. During the six nights of her first engagement this gifted and accomplished young lady will have ample op- portunity to manifest her dramatic versatility and power as Rosalind in ‘‘As You Like It,” as Lady Teazle in ‘The School for Scandal,” as Julia in the “Hunchback” and as Pauline in “The Lady of Lyons.” We are confident that she will justify the encomiums lavished by the London press upon her impersonations at the Haymarket of Beatrice in ‘‘Much Ado About Nothing,” and of Juliet in ‘Romeo and Ju- liet,” as well as of Rosalind in “As You Like It.” When we first bad the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Scott-Siddons we were struck by her re- markable resemblance to Mrs. Fanny Kemble, as that distinguished lady looked when she paid her earliest visit to this country. We are not surprised that Mrs. Fanny Kemble has heartily recognized in Mrs. Scott-Siddons her kinship by nature and by genius. When we heard Mrs. Scott-Siddons read and recite we felt convinced that to her faultless elocution, her clear, ringing voice, her flowing tresses, her brilliant and expressive eyes, her beautiful face, her graceful form and her perfect natu- ralnoss of manner she must superadd no small Measure of hereditary genius as an actress. This great-granddaughter of the famous Eng- lish ¢ragédienne merits far more than the title which she won in_ girlhood— “‘Mra, Siddons in miniature.” With the tragic talent already evinced by her Mra. Scott-Siddons unites an archness which her celebrated ancestress altogether lacked. Thus she bids fair to excel both in comedy and tragedy. She would admirably grace the boards at Mr. Booth’s splendid new theatre. But the bird is of more importance than the cage in which it sings, and in whatever theatre Mrs. Scott-Siddons may appear she will be en- thusiastically applauded. Even the cold east wipds of Boston could not preyent the inhab- itants of that trimountain city, ‘‘the Hub,” from warming into raptures over her superior acting. With the traditional weakness for tea which has characterized them ever since the memorable Boston Tea Party of Revolutionary days, the Bostonians have testified as strongly as they possibly could.their admration for Mrs. Scott-Siddons by presenting her with an ele- gant silver tea service. Miss Olive Logan herself, notwithstanding her own rueful ex- perience and righteous indignation, must now admit that Boston ice may sometimes melt. Mrs. Scott-Siddons received her early edu- cation in Germany, and it was her striking performance, when she was but eleven years of age, of the part.of Esther, in the French play bearing that title, and of the youth Morti- mer, in Schiller’s ‘‘Marie Stuart,” and of seve- ral characters in other French and German plays, that induced one of her teachers to con- sult Mr. Charles Kean as to the desirability of her being educated for the stage. .After years of conscientious study and of no inconsidera- ble experiénce she now appears upon the American stage. We must add that she ap- pears at an opportune moment, when an inev- itable reaction is beginning against the sensu- tional and spectacular drama, with its centi- pedal ‘Black Crook” .nudities, its railway smashes and its steamboat explosions, and even against the op/ra bouffe, which, with its gorgeous scenery, its seductive music and its hilarious nonsense, at present reigns almost supreme, The Ulections in Engtand—Their Result, The English elections are now over, or all but over. The result is already known, and that result is clearly, uumistakably, powerfully in favor ‘of the liberals. In the new Par- liament they will have a majority almost unprecedented in the annuals of Parliamentary government in England. The very strength of the liberals, however, may prove their ruin. It is a fact which is very much overlooked on this side of the Atlantic that the measures to which the liberals are pledged .are all of them radical. They are the measures of Cobden and Bright, of the Manchester school gene- rally, only a little broader and more sweeping than the Manchester school in its best days ever contemplated. There can be no doubt as to the feeling of the constituencies. There can be as Itttle doubt as to the principles to which the new House of Commons is pledged. There is, however, small reason to doubt that the old whigs and the entire aristocratic sec- tion of the liberal ranks are rather alarmed at the rapid progress and already terrific power of principles with which they have and can have no sympathy. | It will not be at all | wonderful if Mr. Gladstone finds it impossible to hold the liberal ranks together. The ma- jority is so large that it may prove unwieldy and difficult to control. ing even now to show thata spirit of discord the liberals is to give Mr. Disraeli anot opportunity, which he is not the man to let slip. . Tae Mayoravry.—It is all settled, Oakey Tall will walk over the course. There was a prospect of a lively fight with John Kelly as the general anti-Tammany candidate: when the committee on the subject waited pon bu Evidence is not want- | Goueral Halleck on tho Military Dtvisia® ef the = Pacite-Whot We Went in Alaska. The published synopsis of Genoral Halleck’s annual report on the affairs of the Military Division of the Pacific embraces some inter- esting facts. This military division covers an area of over @ million of square miles, includ- ing the vast Territory of Alaska, the Territo- ee OY and Idaho, the States of Oregon, California and Nevada, and the Terri- tory of Arizona, extending from the frozen regions of the Polar bear down to the gone of the olive and the orange, and it has a coast line, coast islands included, of over twelve thousand miles in extent. The whole Popula- tion of these vast domains is put down at, ye hundred thousand whites and one hundred thirty thousand Indians, while we ae os is capable of supporting at least fifty millions of people from its agricultural resources, its mines, salt lakes, forests and fisheries. General Halleck recommends more troopa for Alaska, but thinks that a regular Territorial government is hardly necessary for its popula- tion of two thousand whites and fifteen thon- sand Indians, the Indians and Esqnimaux of the vast mainland of Alaska not being in; cluded. The General sets down the prevail- ing ideas of fabulous mines of gold and silver in Arizona as decidedly fabulous, but has good opinion of the agricultural oases of this generally desert Territory; and he thinks there should be more troops in the Territory to look after the ferocious Apaches. We think so too, But we are disappointed in the brevity of the General’s suggestions about Alaska. Here we have a Territory exceeding four hundred thousand square miles in extent—a great empire Itself in the matter of spaco—of which we know next to nothing excepting the little strip of coast line of which Sitka is the commercial centre. and» excepting the string of islands running along the coast by this pan- handle. We reach the southeast corner of the great mainland of Alaska at Mount St. Elias, on the line of the sixtieth degree of north lati- tude, or about six hundred miles uorth of the northern line of Newfoundland. © From’ the sixtieth to the seventieth degree north fe or to within twenty degroes of the North Pole, Alaska proper extends in one direction, and from the sixty-third to the ninety-third degree of. west longitude from Washington in the other irection. In Colton’ 's Geography the population: of this immense Territory of four hundred and eighty-one thousand square miles is given ap eighty thousand, oearly alf Indians and Eaqui- maux, and yet our government knows less concerning this newly acquired country an® the people than it knows of Equatorial Africa or Central Asia, Some telegraphic explorera have discovered the great river Kvickpack or Youeon of Alaska to be equal to the Misala~ sippi in length and volume, and they tell nw wonderful stories of the sublime Youcom seenery and the magrificient valley openings of thin giant hyperborean stream; and thé United States steamer Wayanda has madd some valuuble discoveries of coal mines and good harbors along the extensive line of the Alaskan coast; ‘but this is all. What we want, therefore, ix «a thorough exploration of Alaska by a well equipped expe- dition for land and water researches, and we are disappointed in not having such an expe dition recommended by General Halleck, Wel call the attention of President Johnson to thet subject, and hope that ho will not fail torecom- mend this scieutiic exploration in bis annual Message to Congress, inasmuch as this impe- rial speculation in snow drifts, granite moun tains, unkuown rivers, rocky islands, walruses, codfish, Esquimaux and Polar bears is the distingnishing achievement of bis administra tion, The tnaextricable Erie Railroad Muddie. It will be seen by the proceedings in ther several courts yosterday, both Siate ant federal, which are published in another part of the paper, that the plot thickens in the Erie Railroad imbroglio and that a terrible conflict rages all round. The outside public must be completely mystified about these injunctions and counter injunctions, receivers here and re- cvivers there, and the confusion of plaintiffe and defendants. It is doubtful if the lawyers themselves can untangle the threads of this dispute, for, 1s the saying goes, the muddle would puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer. One of the latest phases, as will be seen, is the action of Judge Blatchford in the United States District Court appointing Jay Gould as a receiver and ordermg the Erie Railroad Company to transfer to Gould as re- ceiver a sufficient amount of cash and securi- ties to be held by him, subject to the further order of the court, which amount is to be eight millions of dollars, to protect the righta of the plaintiff pending the suit. And it waa further ordered that a preliminary injunction be isaned to prevent the company from parting with any of their property. It is an exciting and interesting fight all round. If the body of the stockholders and bondbolders can be protected it will matter little how many of tho speculators or how much they may suffer io the contlict. Indeed it would be a good thing if these unserupulona gamblers could be reached by the criminal courte: “Te Wonaxt Rixos.— U nites States Din- trict Attorney Courtney's discoveries and dis closures against Judge Fullerton and that side of the honse having been published, wouldn't it be a proper thing on the part of Fullerton to | publish his budget against Courtndy and Con: is already at work, and that division among pany? A Victtasoe Comsitrar Preniortn, te view of the prevailing corruptions in higi places and low places, municipal, State aul national, one of our law and order citizens, \? | a matter-of-fact review of the subject, says him and informed him that they should want | little contribniion of vine fifty thousand dollars to but astounded run the ina the patriotic John Kelly waa taken sick and had rend forthwith for the tor, and, according to the doctor's advi ination wae nec ary bo restore lth of John Kelly And 40 the course | ‘ \ Jakey if \ dreds and it is only « no more, ae that ‘‘what we are coming to, matter of time, is simply tle lews--the absolute necessity of forming a» vigilance committee. Law! There ia no law Ay to the general gorerament! The heads of the departments are & pack of acoun- Resort to the United States ta! 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