The New York Herald Newspaper, December 26, 1868, Page 6

6 Me ae lle 5 oceania NEW YORK HERALD er BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Al! business or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New Yore Heravp. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Letters and packages should be properly sealed. seeeeNo. 3GL Volume XXXIU. Ts THIS EVENING. AMUSLE BROADWA iJ Broadway.—Tie EMERALD Ring, Matinee at 1). a \TRE, Broadway and 15th atroct.— WALLACK'S TIL 1-Woopnooca's Litter Game, Captain OF TUE \ RDEN, Broadway,—ArTER DARK; 08, LON- Mowery.—Ton FEMALE DETEC- WERY THEATRE 1Vz, £0. Matinee ai Pourteonth street and Sixth ave- FRENCH THREAT SeAGaNT. Matinee at 1. hue. —GENEVIEVE 1 ner of Fighth avenue and PIKE'S OPERA TIUSE, NIO—LES BAVARDS, Md street.—CHA Nou ay. HUMPTY DUMPTY. eat 1%, 3 PA RK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— OLYMPIC THEA wird New Peaic MIS. F. B, CONWA ALADDIN. oy STEINWAY HALL, Poortenth street.—Firta GRaxpD BuNbaY Co: n WOOD'S MU CHRATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Aliera.o evening Performance. * KELLY & LF ', 720 Broadway.—ETH@10- ARLER BLU. U8, 585 Broadwey.—ETHI0- YG, DANCING, PIAN MINSTRELBY, BO SAN FRANCISCO ™ Plan ENTERTAt TONY PASTOR’ OUSE, 901 Bowery.—Comro VooaLise, NEGh sx, ac. Matinee at 23. Apollo Hall, corner of Broad- y's DHRAME. vteenth atreet. NEW YORK CIRCUS, ¥ . vr. Mating AND GYMNASTIO 5.5 as 2)9. CENTRAL P. ‘THRO, THOMAS’ GRAND PROMENADE at 3. ‘acé.—GRAND SuNDAY Con- IRVING HALL, } oF: HOOLEY'S 58, Brooklyn.—HoouRy’s MinsTaere—“ 1rTs, &c. Matinee. HOUSE, Williamaburg.— syed CLaus,” Giris, &0. cormer of Atlantic and Clin: sage at BROOKLYN ATHY tos sts.—Siu Nor Gist »¢ ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— NEW YORK MUSEUM Sorrxox » December 26, 1868. ruws. PC. The cable te’ are dated December 25. The Greek Che .ve granted the demands of the government fur and money. The Patrie, of Paris, publis tespatch on Thursday, dated Athens, Decein! 2 hich says that the Greek people are in favor > peace, and do not desire war with Turkey. 7 \v/tcian Ambassadors have both been withdraw: igus and Constantinople and others appols ir places. The confereice « ‘ veat Powers on the Eastern question Will mnec! via in January. Russia has asked that hos’ © suspended until the pro- posed conference } ed its deliberations, ‘The Sublime xtended the time for the departure of Ur ne Turkiah dominions, The Earl of Sua sed on the 24th. araguays ve bave news from Paraguay forces, under the command 4 desperate attack upon tronghold, and were de- + led and wounded. Nuncouss ’ proclamation of President ent in Washington and little moment by demo- »icans. Extreme radicals, another Presidential “out- more violent suggest an- By the Atianti to the 2d Inst. of Marshal Ca Villeta, Preside feated with alow ‘The general ais j son excites is regarded as 4 crata and modera' however, deem rage,” and a tew other impeachw It is reported (a will ower Hon. 3 tion of Attorney ¢ ful friend in Spea of the West for @ ington that General Grant '. Wilson, of Towa, the posi- Mr. Wilson bas & power- 1x, and is also the choice ‘eneral Grant’s Cabinet. The Peruvian purchased of our govern- ment, which ha® or some weeks lying at the mouth of the river, have proved to be unit for sea an ‘\Ken to the Pensacola Navy Yard for r eravians are reported to have been bad ! im the purchase of these vessels. The famiy of * Donald, of Philadelphia, were suifocatod lay might by the gas from a@ coal stove wv + barning ali night in their bedroom, One iu is dead and another ts not expected to r Alar ir i vy © Philadelphia was burned ‘eral firemen were badly adders, | in Springfleld, Mass., yes- ‘of Samuel Bowles, the edi- Vhis evening he will hold a f the Springfield Clap. sand cigars were seized yester- yard the steamer Cuba, from i 9 of the revenue law. generally celebrated in this ‘han ever before. In Boston, Wasciicton and other cities stores vere clos. and business Was almost en- Speaker Colfax u terday, and ts ‘the cue its Convention at Concord, N. H., and showed that the sont have many sympathizers the Granite State. Among the arper, colored, who claimed for her ‘ace the right of suffrage the rhite women. t between negroes and Germans 1 a ballroom in McKenzie street, Newark, mas ¢€ \t the commencement of the i ts were put out and the greater part git took piace in the dark. Five persons ired and nine negroes were arrested, ported to have been swindied ont of $ 9 worth of re @ by means of fraudu- lent tax titles and f eas. relary Welles I clully accepted the transfer eague Island, made by the city authorities of Puiade phia v the government for a navy yard, The City. About eleven o'clock, on Christmas evo, a gang of burglars forced their way Into No. 646 Broadway, broke open @ sae, from which they abstracted $10,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry and made Good their escape with their booty. ¢ Inman line steamship City of London, Captain vks, Will leave pier 45, North river, at one P. M. ot rs was Mrs, were tt ‘ 00 to-day for Queenstown and Liverpool The Euro- Poan Malis will Close at the Post Office at tweive M. The Gencral Transauiantic Company's steamship Captain Locande, will leave pier 60, at wo’, M. Wo-day for Brest and Havre. The malis for fraace will ciose at the Post Oftice at twelve M. The Merchants’ line steamsuip Sherman, Captaip Henry, will be despatched New Orleans direc: The Steatustup Sautiagy de Cuba, Cay mid, will lea ler #4) North river at three day for Havana and ‘ew ‘The steamship \ 17 Dutkley, will from pier 2i Bast 1 1. toda Orivans. ‘we seams cy swell, Captain Val NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1868.—TRIPLE SHEET. will leave pier No. 9 North river at three P. M. to-day for New Orjeans, ‘The steamship Alabama, Captain Limeburner, will sall at three P, M, to-day, rrom pier 22 North river, for Movile, Via Fernandina, Pla. The steamer San Jacinto, Captain Atkins, will leave pier No, 8 North river at three P, M, to-day for savannah, , The steamship Champion, Captain Lockwood, for Charleston, 8, C., will leave pier No. 5 North river at three P, M. to-day. The Old Dominion line steamship Isaac Bell, Cap- tain Bourne, will leave pier 37 North river at three P.M, to-day for Norfolk, City Point and Richmond. The Express line steamship Valley City will sail from pler 15 East river at four P. M, to-day jor Wash- ington and Georgetown, D. C., and Alexandria, Va. * Prominent Arrivals in the City. George Francis Train, Colonel! Kinney, John J. Knox and J. M, Davis, of Washington; W. P. Kellogg, of New Orleans; E. IH. Rollins, of New Hampshire ; General W. S. Schaffer, of the United States Army, and Major Kendrick, of West Point, are at the Puta Avenue Hotel, Governor Walker, of Jamaica, W.1., and G. C. irahan, of the Royal Artillery, are at the Clarendon Hotel, Samuel J. Carrington, of Richmond, Va., is at the New York Hotel, Colonel J. Foster, Ir., of the United States Army; Mr. Morris, of Philadelphia, and M, Porter, of Lan- caster, are at the St, Julien Hotel, Colonel H. W. Freedley and Captain FE. P. Doherty, of the United States Army, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. ¢ General Clinton B. Fisk, of St. Louls, and 8. S. Marshall, of Mlinois, are at the St, Nicholas Hotel. General Brewster, of Philadelphia; General A. B. Pauling, of Michigan, and J, B. Abbott, of Kansas, are at the Astor House. Colonel Reed and Major Robert Russell, of the United States Army, and Professor Robertson, of Montreal, are at the St. Charles Hotel. ‘The Issue Between Congress and General Grant. “Coming events cast their shadows before,” and a great and dark. shadow is being -pro- jected over every interest in the land by the looming up in Congress of a determination not to remove from the Executive of the country the shackles which, in a moment of party hatred and fear, the radical majority were enabled to impose upon the President. When the Tenure of Office bill was passed the pre- text was that it was necessary to control the occupant of the chair, and no means or argu- ments were used to assist its passage except such as were exclusively personal to Presi- dent Johnson;. No man who advocated the measure, in or out of Congress, dared to proclaim an intention to disturb the har- mony of the powers of government, as ad- justed in the constitution, and which, from the first moment of our national existence, has contributed so greatly to our national growth and greatness. Had such an intention been avowed by the framers of that bill it would have been received everywhere with a burst of popular indignation and ®eorn, and Presi- dent Johnson would have become a martyr instead of a reproach in the public esteem. To-day the position is changed. A man endowed in the highest degree with the confi- “dence of his fellow citizens is about to assume the Executive authority, which they have con- ferred upon him in the hope that his wisdom will bring back the glad sunlight of peace to the land and his integrity restore simplicity and honesty to the overgrown and corrupt branches of government. Across the field of this fair hope a dark shadow portends, and the disposition of Congress to bestow distrust where the people have conferred confidence is its canse, One-third of the last session of the present Congress has already expired, and from what has therein passed we may know the spirit that animates the body and what will be its course in the remaining eight weeks it has to sit, unless some great power forces it to depart from its intended course. As at present limited by the legislation of Congress the Presidential office and power which General Grant will assume on the 4th of March next will be utterly useless for good in tho path where most is expected of him. Not only can he no€ control the policy of his goverament in affairs of State, but he cannot appoint his Cabinet council nor remove the head of a subordinate bureau, nor even kick out of office any corrupt inspector who may be in league with the whiskey ring. This de- gradation of the Presidential office to a mere nullity is destractive to our form of government and will be ruinous to national and private interests, It is incumbent on Congress at the earliest possible moment to restore to the Presidency the powers which the constitution conferred upon it, In the person of General Grant there is not the slightest shadow of a reason for continuing the distrust which has: been heaped on President Johnson, and a re- fusal or neglect to repeal the Tenure of Office bill will simply amount to a determination on the part of Congress to deprive him of the power to do the good which the people have appointed him to do. Should Congress fail to do this necessary and just act there will be but one course left for General Grant to pursue. On taking the chair he must appoint to positions in his Cabi- net men whom he knows and whom he can trust to agree with him in any great question that may arise. And should any not agree with him let him displace them at once and trust the people to sustain him. The constitu- tion, it is true, makes the secretaries of de- partments the advisers of the President; but they are his subordinate officers, not his mas- tera, and any other interpretation of our plan of government is simply to impose confusion, contention and impotency. upon the head of the State. At a time like this, when every branch of the administration requires to be purged of the foulest corruption and jobbery, and when we have elected to office the man of our chajce to do this work, it would be folly or madness, or something worse than either, to tie his hands with the present Tenure of Office law. On Congress rests the onus of the act. They are calied upon to move before General Grant assumes the office, and if they refuso or fail to do so there can be*but one deduction as to the reason for their course—they either dis- trust General Grant, or they are determined that he shall not have power to purge the gov- nt of its manifold corruptions and wick - N THR New Car ind Washington that Ger ral ant as a peace offering to the position of Attorney Grbinet. It is doubtfal whether ) | bo ehould yot exhaust the Cuba—Is it Annexation or a West India ? Confederation ? The report of our special correspondent at Havana, published in another column, of a conversation with one of the secret agents of the revolution in Cuba gives a clear and prac- tical idea of the views and wishes of the revo- lutionists, Whatever. may be the position of | the gentleman in the present moyement it is evident that he has intellectual grasp aud some | breadth of view; and as we read his expres- sions we find much that is in accordance with the ideas of many of his countrymen with whom we have conversed. A long repressed hatred’ of the unwise and exclusive rule of Spain breathes in every expression, and a longing for some foreign sympathy and aid is apparent throughout the conversation, But there are two points, not so pungently expressed as those to which we have referred, latent in the document, and to which we would more par- ticularly direct attention, The aim of the present revolutionary leaders is evidently independence, and not annexation to the United States, This is apparent in the conditional form in which the speaker places this result in his statement of the objects and interests of the war. These are, he says, “the independence of the island, the establishment of a Cuban republic, the abolition of slavery, and the ultimate annexation of the coun- try to the United States, when its people are satisfied that it can enter the Union as a sovereign State and re- main so.” This ‘‘when” is a diplomatic sop, evidently thrown in for the purpose of concili- ating popular: sympathy in this country for the revolution, At a later period of the con- versation a more frank expression of the ob- ject of the revolutionists is given in these words:—‘‘For that reason the annexation scheme has been postponed, and it is probable that if the revolution is successful the Cubans will adopt a new plan—viz., a West India confederation, uniting Cuba, Hayti, St. Do- mingo, Porto Rico and several other islands under a federal government.” This is exactly the aim and tendency of the revolution, as the Heraxp pointed out some time since in review- ing the movements now going on in the ‘Amer- ican Mediterranean. But it matters little what the present aims of the leaders are; all of these islands will be moye prosperous and happy under the protection and control of the United States, to which they are all tending, than in any other connection. There is another idea, not so directly given expression, in the words of the speaker, but yet evident in his mind, to those who read this document understandingly. His words are these :—‘‘The present condition of the revo- lution will not permit me to say what will be the solution of the slavery question.” This means that the speaker, an emissary from the Eastern department, is not entirely in fc- cord with those of the Western department. The former want revolution at all hezards; the latter want revolution, but they want also to retain their slaves. It is this fact which has prevented the wealthy planters of the West from following the lead of the -# im the East, and thus making the movemeat general in the whole island. By this wavering course the Havana capitalists have prepared the ground for the coming of General Dulce, with concili- atory offers from Spain, but they have incurred also a greater danger than what would have accrued to them had they promptly co-operated with their Eastern compatriots and driven the Spaniards everywhere to the shelter of the guns of their ships. By their inaction they are enabling the colonial authorities to throw all their forces upon the insurgents in the Eastern department, and perhaps to drive them to the fastnesses of the country and an imitation of the scenes of St. Domingo. The war in Cuba may thus degenerate into a servile war, whatevor views the Cuban leaders may now entertain regarding independence or an- nexation. Women’s Rights. The strong-minded women of St. Louis are busily exercised at the present moment about women’s rights. It appears that the city boasts an orginization known by the name of the Woman's Suffrage Association. This asso- ciation, which is affiliated with sister assocta- tions that are scattered everywhere over the Union, has forwarded to Congress a peti- tion, which is signed by some two thousand persons and which prays for the privilege of voting. At the same time we learn that of thirteen persons now confined in the Tombs on the charge of murder four are women, and that the combined strength of the associ- ated sisterhood is now being exerted to save one of the murderesses from the gallows. Women really do not know what they want. The one sorrow is that they cannot all get comfortably married. We can discover no good reason why they should be allowed to vote. If a woman has good looks she runs a good chance for a husband, and, having a husband, her mouth should be shut, So far as we can see at present, the best thing that could be done for strong-minded women of the women’s rights order would be to build a few pdditional lunatic asylums, We commend this idea to Mrs. Cady Stanton, Susan B, Anthony, Lucy Stoné and the rest of them. Parnguay—A Repulse of the Allies. The little republic of Paraguay is not yet vanquished. Brazil and her allies have found another hard nut to crack in the strong posi- tion of Lopez at Villeta, for in a desperate at- tack upon it on the 15th ultimo they were, ac- cording to our despatches on the subject of last night, repulsed, with the loss of fifteen hundred men killed and wounded—probably more than fifteen per cent of the whole force engaged, Villeta is situated on the left bank of the Paraguay river, a short distance below Asuncion, the capital of Lopez, and is a very strong’ position naturally; for, as we under- stand it, the fortifications (earthworks) are proof against the enemy's iron-clads, while against a land attack the forts are very difficult of approach because of the surrounding 3. On the opposite side of the main at this point the Pileomayo, an immense tributary from the west, and draining a vast region rich in cattle, comes in, so that it will ome time for the allies to starve out It will not be surprising, therefore if powerful coaii take Lopes viast him with hi Tho Eastern Question—The Poace Conference Definitely Arranged. - Through the cable we are enabled to give our readers this morning quite a budget of in- teresting European despatches, embracing the latest information afloat yesterday in Berlin, Parisand London. The most important item is that the proposed conference of the great European Powers has been definitely arranged and that it will meet in Paris early in January. Next, it appears that all parties concerned, great and small, are peaceably inclined and in favor of the conference, and that of all the leading Powers England is the most indif- ferent concerning it. This may be so, as England is preoceupied and has her hands full with her new reform movement, Gladstone and John Bright, The conference, however, being’ resolved upon, the question recurs what can it do to secure peace on this Eastern question? Unless the Turk and the Greek go into the convention they cannot be bound by it, and it is not yet settled that either of them is ready to surren- der his pretensions to this board of arbitrators. Greece, in fact, is actively arming for war, relying upon the strong arm of Russia, while the Sultan doubtless feels assured that, should the worst come to the worst, England and France will be found to help him from sheer necessity against the Cossack, The only points perfectly clear at present are that Prussia has a peace policy in view from which she expects to complete the unification of Germany, and that Napoleon is too much absorbed in Spain and the republican elements of France to be diverted for the present into other embarrassments. We know, to be sure, that every State in Europe with heavy debts is under bonds to keep the peace; but we know at the same time what a great fire a little spark may kindle, and that the spark as between Turkey and Greece is not a amall matter to extinguish. Progress of the Troubles Valley. Our news from the Plata river and Rio Janeiro is of great interest. Our fleet has gone up the Parana to demand an explanation of Lopez for the imprisonment of Bliss and Masterman; President Sarmiento has released all the Paraguay prisoners ; General Caxias is, in Ta Plata as usual, trying to flank the Paraguayans, and the war moves more slowly than ever. : At Rio Janeiro there is a storm brewing around the ears of Dom PedroIl. The empire is tired—disgusted, in fact—with the war. Drained of financial and muscular power, it cannot longer continue the struggle with any hope of success, The Cabinet has plainly told the Emperor this, and he, knowing, as we have often said, that “he is fighting for his crown as much as Lopez is fighting to hold his own governmental position,” threatens ‘‘if any negotiation be entered into with Lopez it must be carried on by my successor, for I will abdi- cate if such procedure be carried out.” This proves that the war has reached a crisis and that very soon we shall hear of negotiations being opened between the belligerents con- trary to the scandalous and barbaric treaty through which the strife was commenced. The Plata valley belongs to the people who inhabit it, and should be governed by them. It is not for the interests of the civilized world that Brazil should control the whole of Eastern South America. In this view we uphold the gallant defence which Lopez is making aghinst the aggressions of Brazil on the one side and the national suicide which the Argentine Re- public {s trying to commit on the other. We know President Sarmiento well and misjudge him if he fails to see that Argentine interests demard an alliance with Paraguay rather than with Brazil, the natural and hereditary enemy of the Plata valley. Let us have peace in South America, for it is the other half of ourselves. It has a foreign trade of nearly five hundred millions of dollars annually, It is an East Indies lying at our very doors, and its magnificent domain is as yet untouched by our commerce, We want Brazil and the Plata valley to turn their substance into the channels of trade and civili- zation and do as they are fully able to do— double their products in the next decade. In war they will simply exhaust themselves, and at its close they wili find that nothing has been gained except disgust, dishonor and poverty. Senator Trumbull’s Bill on Lynch Law. The recent execution by a mob of the two parties accused of robbing an express car in Indiana, who were delivered up by the Cana- dian anthorities under provisions of the extra- dition treaty, has called from Senator Trum- bull a new bill to preserve the persons of pri- soners so delivered from the violence of self- constituted vigilance committees. Of course the law already denounces such acts and pro- vides for the punishment of those who commit them; but then, unfortunately, the law does not always reach the criminals who deserve to be hanged from a tree, nor the violators of the law, who give them a long rope and short shrift. There are localities in which the slow and dubious process of the courts does not meet the exigency, and hence the fulness of justice often lapses to the people. This may be true in Indiana. It is certainly true in Texas and Arkansas and other Southern States, and we cannot claim that even in our own city, the centre of civilization, our skirts aro entirely clear of the same iniquity. We notice that the vigilance committee at New Albany, Ind., who hanged the express robbers have issued a circular warning all those who oppose their measures that if they persist in their opposition they will be summarily dealt with. This is an unpleasant state of affairs for the people of that locality, But we do not see how Senator Trumbull’s bill is going to mend the matter. What we want is firm and honest judges to enforce the law, and not any additional legislation. Tim Prestpent AND GeNenat Grant.— There is now no doubt that amicable rela- tions between the President and General Grant will soon be re-established, The Christmas amnesty proclamation received the entire approbation of the President elect be- fore Mr, Johnson's signature was put to it, and as it is well known that the General has been consulted on various other important State matters it is fair to presume that no- thing remains to confirm the entente cordiale between the ontg ox the wral Graat is determined to have peace. | but of hands. | Grants Policy. Apparently a man cai have @ policy and not know it. The idea tivet the President elect is a person without a polic¥ seems merely to have flowed from a misunderstan ag in re- gard to the use of words, and is par’ of the difference that arises between the commuily and a man who never heard a thing “called by that name before.” Grant bas, in fact, very positive ideas of a great many subjects, and as the world pretty well knows that he is aman who slicks to his ideas we shall be as- tonished if these firmly held views do not in time make a very substantial fabric of policy more puzzling than pleasing to Congress. He ‘has, for instance, rather close notions on na- tional expenditure and simple thoughts in regard to economy. He believes that a nation in debt, as this nation is, and actually not meeting its obligations already incurred, has no right to go on incurring new obligations, and we fancy that the plain people will concur with him in this. Here, then, is a point of policy of the most extensive import. It is sound in morality and in finance, but we cannot hope that the Congressional jobbers will ac- cept it. Tne Press AND THE AMNESTY PRooLAMA- TION.—We give some comments of the press this morning on the President’s amnesty pro- clamation, clearing off the last instalment of the rebel leaders of the South, including Jeff Davis and his farce of a trial, for treason and rebellion, From these comments it would seem that the proclamation does not amount to much, although one radical organ suspects that its design on the part of the bellicose Johnson is to raise a constitutional rumpus with Congress on the fourteenth amendment. We have a hint from Washington that some of the ultras there of the anti-Johnson school think that Andy Johnson, in this last bit of impertinence, has been treading very close to the impeachment trap. But surely when the outgoing President has been rendered powerless to do anything else he may be excused and even approved for exercising his still reserved prerogative of pardoning sinners against the constitution—the blessed consti- tution—which he cherishes as the apple of his |, eye. For our part wo rejoice that-he has put an end to the tiresome and useless mockery of the trial of Jeff Davis and the bail bond of Greeley, whether law bail or straw bail. News From Mexico.—The interesting let- ters from the west coast of Mexico, which we publish to-day in another column, give a faith- ful picture of the process of disintegration and decay through which that country is passing. Poverty and dilapidation is the rule, not the exception; and the only remedy which the hungry office-seekers find for existing evils is the creation of several new State governments, which shall make more offices and more chances for plundering the public. Events on the Pacific coast are pointing with unwavering fidelity to the coming solution. While the in- heritors of a rich soil, abundant mineral resources and a fine climate can make nothiag but poverty and decay of their inheritance, a powerful community is rapidly growing up on their border—enterprising, active and restless in aspiration. Whatever Western Mexico holds of good in its population is contracting new ties with their prosperous neighborg on the Pacific; and some bright day the sleepy powers in Vera Cruz and the capital will wake to find a new state of things, in which they will have little or no part. CunisTMAS AND ITS OpsERVANCE.—The oldest inhabitant does not remember many Christmas days colder than yesterday, and the cold extended over an immense section of the Union. Nevertheless, the day was gen- erally observed throughout the country with a marked devotion to the usual religious solem- nities and social festivities and amusements. The churches, the Park and the skat- ing rinks were well patronized during the day and the theatres and negro minstrels in the evening; but still the intense cold was a serious drawback to thousands short of coal, roast turkeys and comfortabl clothing. We look for & change in the weather to something better by New Year's day; for after one of these freegzing touches of Alaska we are apt to have a relieving south wind from Cuba. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Suppen Deatt OF A TRAVELLER.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Linneus Yale, Jr., of Sheldon Falls, Mass., was found dead in his room at French's Hotel, of which house he had been a guest. There were no marks of violence upon the body nor any evidence of poison eee ee and it was therefore presumed that death had resulted from heart disease or other natural cause, The Coroners’ office was, however, notified, and an inquest will be held this morning. WALKED OVERBOARD.—At five o'clock yesterday afternoon Michacl Burke had succeeded so well in imbibing the necessary amount of liquor for the proper celebration of the day that he walked of the pier at the foot of Fourth street, Kast river. He was fished out by officer Nugent, of the bLlov- enth precinct, and having been wrung out and dried was sent to his home sobered and thankful. STABBING AFFRAY.—Last night, about eleven o'clock, Patrick Callahan, of No. 87 Mulberry street, made his appearance in the Fourteeuth precinct station house, dabbled with the blood which had come from @ severe gash in his neck, and reported that a few minutes before he had been assaulted at the corner of Elm and Howard streets by a party of roughs, one of whom had inflicted the stab. He was unable to give any description of the persons, all of whom were unknown to him, and heice no arrests were made, As Callahan’s wound appeared to be of A serious nature he was sent to Bellevue Hospital by the police. A Mystery IN ANN Strtet.—For some time past Andrew Stabbin, a tatlor, fifty years of age, has been employed at 19 Ann etreet, and latterly was accus- tomed to sleep in the building. It was his habit to retire at an early hour and he was Soabanea mious. Last evening at half-past ten o’clock Edward Parry and Patrick Powers, who do business in the buiiding, hay ‘ing to go to the house, found the body of Stabbin lying at the foot of the stairway. It was already rigid, and life had appa- rentiy been extinct for some time. There were no marks of violence upon it. and the case was pro- nounced to be another instance of sudden death from natural causes. Officers Williard and Schnol- der, of the Second precinct, were called, and taking charge of the body they removed it to the Beekman street station house, where an inquest will be held this morning by one of the coroners. Siror BY ACCIDENT.—At balf-past eleven o'clock last night Louis Brown and Christian Hughjer were in the saloon No. 150 Greenwich street, Brown hand- ling @ loaded revolver, while Hughler stood by listening intently to his explanations of the mysteries of the toy. Suddenly a barrel of the weapon was discharged by Brown's carelessness and the ball struck Hughier in the breast. Brown, affrighted at this untoward event, fled at the moment he saw his friend fail and was not found up to ® late hour last night. Tae wound of Hughier being examined tt was found that it bad glanced downward, but the surgeons were unable to find it, They were, however, of the opinton that the tejury would hot be atiended with serious cousequ snc: LARGE SEIZURE 0 seoven thonse vi. £9. enue ‘Twont . AMUSEMENTS LAST NIGHT. A roaring fire, a soft carpet, a lounge, aye, @ good old armchair, with the anticipation of a smoking turkey and a pudding piping hot, would have been far more preferable than the inducements of all the theawres yesterday, notwithstanding which, how- ever, they were all well attended, for tha attractions Were great and the people anxious to spend money. Pike's Oy House. She display last evening at tls palace of opsra bouge Was slerting, Much as way have been the regret at M!& Tostée’s unfortunate mishap, the aue dience evidently enjoyed tho excelient interpreta- tion of Mile. Irma in “Les Bayards,” while her im. personation of the principal mle in “La Cuauson de Foraninit Was greeted with loud tokens of approval. he matinée to- g uutiful duccions mentiondi whi wile Dusk gi ae eee i La Grande buchesse tus evening, The opera jouse last ment was well tiled, and itis needless to Say that the charging Ofendaclian alra and the recollection of Ledne’s admirable impersonations Stil linger in the minds of the many Christ vis tors Who weal to J ise’s last ight. oA Siegal Fi Theatre Brancais, “Genevitve de lravant” 1s nearing its final nights, and its last nfatioce will be given to-day. It would bach mended tuis bouquet of charmiag nonsense for the holidays specially, In this opera he Showers bon bone of delicious melodies A heir eyes with be- nies good humor by mes. AS & latter of 1@ Prancais—some, toa that Gabel is @ CVery one Locks tO by the way, under te tinpr. Santa Claus, Nible'’s € the Not satisfied w: torleseabout Lo&don, its environs and cl a numerous of young indies and gentlemen and a considerable numbe: wards Nidio’s at ance, however ‘the scene: soace. The afternnon perform- even more largely attended, Siiggesuve of romanes, w hot umiwiiiiar, ui"? Was placed upoa \ditiration, though ‘the in dispensing with a “Humpty Oun ature with the boys yesterday and descrip tions were undouly by their pre- cocious vlspring* to briny them to see Fox pelted with brickbats ”? the policeman, A large number of old lates aud gentlemen was present, but the majority the anudieace was composed of plump litte sei vy3, WhO inust have Un obtaine exau witi everyt SUL gleut Bul) well filled by a decir No doubl the cold w and it Was oid ab all (he ma@unees, stimulated tie audience to for certamiy the “Eme- raid Ring” ne e¢ demoustirative toxens of appro waklog any classi. 5 ithe L ality of the crowded atdience, Barney did Wus jasti- ) ingime to do &@ good Aicaton it was Hable (for were given yesterday. The varied, aud note few Interpretation recelves ob w Work Theatre, stems made their best hit at the noon, When they produced le. The thvee ny saphs ) The Worrel matince yesterday af “Barbe ileus? impersouatl auer which evideauy saisiled Ui A change of pro gram, de @ deemed requisite. wory Theatre. ‘The was uo i " rush yesterday. The placards onus iota all No leas than six new f s Were anoouuced—six that would have takeu auy other company a month to to have eyeu siudted. The result was tremendous, shinent in the € vier that would ret Tuk ol rary “Wizard Skil? movelties, ‘The Low # ¥ot MOTE eveniug than tie inbabicants of mor ant parts could Lave Wituessed reasonably in a munth, Perk Yheutre, Brooklyn. The Oriental drama “Aladdia,’’ about which so Many young gen! u have read In the “Arabiag Nights” without ¢ owlcdge of Watchful parents, Was produced yout » Park iheatre, wil additional tnaj)! 2 Ueatre Was oll filed, wad the © piece Was prescated elicited very fayorabie oe Brookiyn ademy of Music. Waliack'’s com and the “Honeymoon” were the inducements held out to the good people of Brooklyn last Might to enjoy a theatrical de: after their paid. vad turkey. Strong induc too—a charimug Comedy aad a staudard compaay. How is it iat s Anwe Ward was adverc K appear ia Brooi aud at Wallack’s iuoatre @uime hour last wii? Central Park Garden. The gran’ Curisias fesval so happily begun at this winter palace ou Mouday last culuimated yes- terday in a prog vat a that of a Loud werea few New York Harmonic 7 Last evening the seventecnth annual perfofmance of the “Messiah” was given by the New York Lar- monic Society a Steinway lial. Ops of ali whe attractions in the way of puviic entertainments bone was more appropriate to the oceasion, Not . standing the bitter colducas of the night ty cious hall was cruwdet to the doors, prov. mistakably that a love of imusic in its subi has induences paramount, siavere and ‘True the “Messiah? is uot new, but the position is nevertholess fresh aud green mi the 1 of those who ever cherisii Lie distinc! rec of probably the grandest work extant. T formance was reudered somewhat micresting last Juila B. Houston, of & the entire evening created a uecidedly fs pression, Miss Houston wottid probabl to much greater advantage at an ordinal but as it was she ae 4 amanner that merits tbe i Miss Adeinide | au tainly never in be! which feil to her the encore Which gre r ‘ Shall Feed Ilts Flock” was, to say the leas justly demanded. One: of Mr. Simpson's ve efforts was lis niifal interpretation of “ie hola and see." impson Ww deserved applauded, his con rally being wortiy of pri pernenianiy elective in in Darkness,”” an n the Nations?” The chorus of th wasin fail force, aad it is almost needless lo way t ‘with perbaps oue or two of the very sli at tiona, everything went oif fdiuirably. Au energies of the great combination seemed to be ce Which was an Ir in ad tred in the grand “‘Hatlel yah tionably given with powerful © “Messiah,” under the directton Was produced tn a creditayie nm to the artista aud certainly sat dience. Ball of the Mutual Base Ball ©) ‘The annual bail of the M ha given at Irving Hall last ev way a decided success, The hall ¥ decorated with evergreens, and from tie cenwe hung @ large fag with “Mutoal 8. B. Club’ and two clasped hands inscribed ti in. A lyrge name of canary birds were suspeniod around the i warbled sweetly Whenever the music for at ceased. The decorations were vuder the cha Mr, Johan Wildey. ‘The festivals of this club are always looke Ward to as dinoug the events of Vie 8 a 4 witt merry and social party. and select and the ecoasion eb A dificult matter to desert Lancy of the tones of ti casion with thetr presenc music, The ladies fatigue, and their J no rest. ‘Tue Mutua last evening in a showlig arrair ©: “ib would jeyance ood brii- adies who graced (le « Wallace fern 8 we » Mone Pirie ‘ of the many pre'ty j 4 '