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committee on the Park place extension being una- ble to agree was discharged and the Board ad- Jenraed until Thursday, * At the meeting of the Board of Counciimen last evening an ordinance was unanimously adopted subseribing $1,500,000 on behalf of the city of New York to the capital stock of the New York Bridge Company tor the construction of @ briage across East river, ‘The Blatsdel! distillery case, which is based-upon an indictment against Aiwah Blaisdell and J. J. Eckel for frauds upon the revenue while running the large distillery on Forty-fifth street confiscated by Collector Bailey last fail, came up before Judge Blatchford yesterday. Mr. W. Fullerton and Judge Beebe appeared as counsel for defendants. and moved @ postponement, which was strongly opposed by District Attorney Courtney, a lively discussion ensuing between the opposing counsel. Judge Blatchford refused the postponement and fixed the YORK HERALD AY AND ANN STREET. JAN.CS GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR All business er news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York ” HeErRanp. No. 365 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. i THEATRE, Fourteenth street and Sixth ave- ENEVIRVE DE BRaBANT—BARBE BLEUE. Py PIKE'S OPERA HOUSE, corner of Eighth avenue and 28d street. CHANSON DR FoRtuN1o—L¥S BavakDs. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homrr® DoMPryY. with Niw FEATCRES, Matinee at 1}, punoapway THEATRE, Broadway.—Tae EMERALD ING, NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway.—Ta® BURLESQUE or Base BLEUE@BELLE HELENE. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and 13th street. — MoNkY. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—ArTes DARK; OR, Lon- bon BY Nigur. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Ciaups Duvar— Maato FLUTE. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtioth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. MRS. F. B. CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— ALADDIN. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, Brooklyn.—Tae CmiLp oF THE REGINENT—Tit FoR Tat. KELLY & LEON’S MINSTRELS, 720 Broadway.—ETm10- TIAN MINSTRELSY, BURLESQUE.—GIN-NEVIBVE DEGRAW SAN FRANCISCO MINSTRELS, 585 Broadway.—EtTa10- PIAN ENTERTAUNMENTS, SINGING, DANGING, &c. BRYANTS' OPERA HOUSE, Tainmany Building, 14th street.-ETU10PIAN MINSTRELSY, 40. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, 201 Bowery.—CoMio Vooarism, NEGRO MINSTRELSY, &c. Matinee at 25j. HIBERNIAN MINSTRELS, Apollo Hall, corner of Broad- way and 28th st.—O'FLaugety's DARAMR. NEW YORK CIRCUS, Fourteenth street.—EQuest nian AND GYMNASTIO ENTERTAINMENT. Matinee as 239. CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.—THxo. THoMas' GRaxD P2oMENADE Concent. Matinee at 3. z STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth street.—Prorzssor J. HAwL's LRCTURE. HOOLEY’S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—HooLEy's MrinereeLs—“SaNtTa CLAvs," GIFTS, &0. HOOLEY'S (E. D.) OPERA HOUSE, Williamsburg.— HOoLey’s MINSTRELS—“SANTA CLAUS,” GiFTs, £0. BROOKLYN ATHENAUM, corner of Atlantic and Clin} ton si3.—SIGNOR Giirz, Matinee at 2. NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— SOIRNOF AND ART. New York, Wednesday, December 30, 1868. HS WEews. Europe. rams are dated December 29. rn ce to attempt the settiement of the Fastern question will commence its business in Paria next Saturdey. Turkey will not take part in it if the Cretan question is to be discussed, Ajcolliston between a band of invading Greeks and a Turxish force is reported to have taken place in Albania, and that the Greeks were victorious. ® {tis reported that Russia has denied giving author- ity to Greek merchant vessels to Sati under the Kas- Bian fog. 1i has declined a commission in the Grecian Astartling report was prevalent in Loudon yes- terday regarding the foundering at sea, off the Irish . Coast, of an emigrant ship named the Starry Banner, {i is said one hundred and, twenty lives were Jost. The report, however, lacks contirma- tion, The Spanish General Cabellero has been ordered to take troops co the provinces of Seville and Granada in artt ation of (rouble, A, new Spanisa loan las been contracted, Caba. Adviccs from Nuevitas of the 26th inst. state that “General Valinaseda left San Miguel on the 22d with 2,200 men, moving toward Puerto Principe. On the aud there was fighting between his columa and the panish officials say that at Moron cooked a quantity of food prepared ne and left it beaind when they re- ug the Spantsh troops to eat tt on {at che rebel camp. we their 4 St. Dominga. We lave dates from St. Domingo to the 14th inst, The gu i troopa defeated the revolutionisis under Oxando at La Matas, which virtually et the war and left President Baez in full and possession of tho whole country. The railway com- pany of Paria have offered Baez aloan of 6,000,000 francs, secured by the pledge of Samana, but the offer is not Likely to be accepted. Messrs. Rice and Packard arrived from New York on the 6th to tn- ralogieal survey of the country, and ° tions in the district mbus."? The 4 is improving and the country cout n of President Johnson's household | neanle to their juvenile triends at onse iast evening in honor of the birin- Jout. It was attended by about 150 es wad sev. older persons of note in the ndrew Jolson, the wife of the Presi- resent, e been received from General to the 7th inst, He says the hostile fu- ) warrtors—have separated from the ng around Port given overs ar, t of the von the | le with them, of Lienten- | ior Claflin. Yesterday morning he visited ke of the American Watch Cozapany at i ave @ reception at 1 dangerous chiets w m ce can be oston, the trial iu Philadelphia yeaterday | hell, the prisoner, was ont no testimony of importance. d that the blood stains might have # clothing while he was carrying | ot bathil ne he | A dwelling house in as set on fire yester- | Gay woruing by the careless use of kerosene. Three | quen and a woman gaved their lives by jumping from | vw of te fourth Two brothers, | “i Gard, also took the leap, and both were ody an named Emil Heusman was celebrating | lis birthday in Grand sweet, Hoboken, on Monday night, when an affray occurred, in which a young man named Jobn Passehl was struck on the bead | with atammer and stabbed in the breast with a knife, dying almost instantly. Claus Junge was ar- | Tested as the principal in the murder and Hausman And uine other Germans as accomplices. Tho City. A grand banquet was given to Professor S. F. B. Morse at Delmonico's last evening, at which speeches were male by Chief Justice Chase, Attorney General Evarts, te Priish Minister, Professor Morse and others, The Fisheries Commission met at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, and Colonel James Worrell, of Pennsyivanis, was chosen chairman. A coramittee of two Was appointed to draw up resolutions relative to improvements in fish culture, and the meeting ad- journed. In the Board of Aldermen yesterday several streets ‘Were ordered to be paved with Belgian pavement, | and several donations were mate, among them $25,000 to the touse of the Gool Shepherd. The trial for thi morning, The Cunard steamer Australasian, Captain Mc- Mickan, will sail to-day for Liverpool via Queens- town, The mais will close at the Post Oftice at hall- Past eleven A, M. The Black Star line steamship Thames, Captain Pennington, will leave pier 13 North river at three P, M, to-day for Savannah, Ga. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong and buoy- aut, New York Central rising to 157%, Rock Island to 118 and Ohio and Mississippi to 3434, ‘There was @ falling off from these prices on account of great stringency in the money and the market closed less settled. Gold towards five o’clock was quoted at 154% a 134%. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Judge J. Hardenburgh, of Kingston; Captain Jos. Buckbee, of California, and W. B. Carr, of San Francisco, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Dr. ©. R. Broadbent, of Boston; Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca, and W. ). Murphy, of Albany, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. ©. Wendell, of Washington; Ben Payne and G. A, Woolverton, of Albany, and John Guy Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, are at the Astor House. General Bonham, of south Caroling, and Captain Baldwin, of the United States Navy, are at the New York Hotel. Chief Justice Chase, of Washington; Governor Burnside, of Rhode Island, and Judge Dunlevy, of Ohio, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Colonel Newton, of West Polnt, and Baron Von Koschkull, of Prussia, are at the Hoffman House. The New’York Senatorial Question. The New York Senatorial question is excit- ing a great deal of interest among the repub- lican politicians about these days, and the aspirants and their adherents are busily at work, pipelaying, lobbying and bargaining for votes. The term of Edwin D. Morgan expires on the 4th of next March. The law provides that the State Legislature, on the second Tues- day following its meeting and organization, shall proceed to nominate his successor in both houses, and that if nominations are then made the two houses shail meet in joint session on the following day and proceed to the election. If there should be no nomination or election the Legislature must take at least ong vote a day during the session or until the election shall be made, The .principal candidates for the office at present prominently in the field are Edwin D. Morgan, Reuben E, Fenton, Marshall O. Roberts and Noah Davis, with John A. Gris- wold, William M. Evarts, Horace Greeley and a host of other ambitious gentlemen in the background, by no means unwilling to serve their country in the United States Senate it an unexpected turn of the wheel of fortune should happen to shuffle them forward into the front rank. The fight is confined to the ‘politicians, and no consideration is given to the interests of the great State of New York, not one of the candidates named, except, pro~ bably, Judge Davis and Attorney General Evarts, being qualified to fill the office with anything like the ability demanded by our important position in the confederation of States. The principal struggle will lie be- tween Morgan and Fenton in the first instance, and, in the event of the contest being so bit- terly waged as to insure the defeat of both, the two factions are likely to fall back upon Marshall O. Roberts and Noah Davis. The former will be the second choice of the Morgan men and the latter of the Fentonites; but both have their original sup- porters, who will work quietly to intensify the quarrel between Morgan and Fenton in order that they may bring forward their favorites at the opportune moment. The Griswold move- ment is simply a side speculation of the Albany lobby, intended to bleed the defeated candidate for the Governorship, and to thns enable ¢hem to earn a few dollars to pay their board and whiskey bills at Albany during the early part of the session. ‘The truth is, both Morgan and Fenton ought to withdraw from the contest. They have both proved their inability to carry their own State, and neither 6f them ropresents more than a faction of his party. Morgan was elected six years ago through the agency of Callicot, a renegade democrat, who was re- warded by an Internal revenue appointment, and is now serving out a penal term in the Albany Penitentiary for robbing the government. Morgai’s unfortunate connection with Callicot and others of the whiskey ring would render him a very undesirable repre- eentative for New York in the United States Senate during Grant's term of office. Fenton has managed to run his party vote at this end of the State down to twenty-five thousand, and could not get elected in his own county to the simplest local office. It is an absurdity, there- fore, to put him forward as the representative republican of this State at Washington. He represents nothing but the lowest claes of shyster politicians, and his influence at the cap- ital would not be worth a straw out of an old mattress, He failed to obtain the nomination at Chicago, for which he worked for two years, and he failed to secure the confirmation of State appointments last year from a républican Senate, Both Morgan and Fenton are thoroughly is | used up, fossilized politicians, and should give place toa new man. But who shall the new man be? Marshall O. Roberts played a high card when he spent ten thousand dollars on an enter- tainment to General Grant, and, with the aid of the Bohemians who received the broken victuals on the following day, published the fact in all the papers of the country. But Roberts belongs to the new ring established in the old Tammany headquarters, embracing Morgan himself, Fred. Conkling, Dana and others; and their object is to control General Grant and his patronage and to make a big thing for a select few out of the profits, They seek to get“¥id of all opposition by parcelling out some of the minor offices among their rivals, and are distinguished for their liberality in the bestowal of office, upon paper. It is with this object that they desire to get Greeley out of the city and to pack him off to the Oourt of St. James, with one leg of his pantaloons stuck in his boot and his rusty beaver hanging on the back of his head, This ring of old Tam- many would be a dangerous concern with one of the Conk!ings already in the United States Senate, and the outside politicians would find themselves in a very awkward predicament if its projected combination on Marehall O. Roberts should succeed, It is evident that the republicans are in a bad way in regard to their Senatorial matter, and we do not see how they are going to get out of their difficulty without breaking up into rings in New York, as they are already in the act of doing at Washington. The success of Morgan would be the deathblow of Fenton and his followers. The tryzmph of Fenton would grind Morgan and his men into the dust. The election of Roberts would put the patronage of the State into the hands of the two Conklings and their clique. Griswold is a goose to be plucked by the lobby. Davis is a respectable fossil discovered by the great political explorer, Ben Field, this side of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, but is as great a hoax as the more Western speci- men, Evarts is one of those indefinite quan- tities that seldom amount to much in a close calculation. Greeley remains, and he would probably be the most useful of the batch in the Senate Chamber on the subjects of wo- man’s suffrage, bran bread and specie pay- ments. But the best thing the Legislature can do under the circumstances is to put the office of United States Senator up at auction and knock it down to the highest bidder. This is what it will come to at last, and, in fact, this is what it has come to for a number of years past. The Fisk-Bowles Controversy. This personal matter is again before the public in the shape of a letter from Mr. Fisk and a narrative from Mr. Bowles descriptive of his one night's experience in Ludlow street jail. Fisk is disposed to be severe and sar- castic, and Bowles takes a Mark Tapley view of the situation and thinks it exceedingly jolly. The fact is, both parties are wrong in this business. Bowles should not have made use of an afflicting dispensation of Providence upon a member of Mr. Fisk’s family in order to make a point against his opponent. Fisk was wrong in taking the unusual steps he did to secure the incarceration of Bowles in a common prison, and publicly exulting in the humiliation consequent thereon. Fisk has committed another error. He has suffered himself to appear in print, and his first effort isa blunder. He shows that Bowles’ reference to his father’s misfortune does not touch him very deeply, inasmuch .as he drags the subject again before the public, like Banquo’s ghost, to affright the Springfield journalist. Bowles seems to have the best temper and to be the best judge of human nature. He is far the supe- rior of Fisk in the management of a newspaper controversy, whatever Fisk may bein con- ducting huge thaancial operations. Therefore, Fisk had better drop the newspaper man like a hot potato, so far as writing for the press goes, and after he gets his magnificent opera house speculation under way stick to that little financial job of obtaining fifty thousand dollars damages upon charges of libel or any- thing else against a newspaper editor. The Public Schools and tho Politt:inns. Greeley appears to be as much pazzled and mixed up about the public schools of the city as he is about the whiskey rings and specie payments. In one paragraph in his paper yesterday he condemns the enor- mous increase in the appropriations: for the schools, which have swelled in five or six yeare from between one and two millions to between three and four millions, and desig- nates so rapid a growth in expenditures as o sign of corruption and decay. In another he warmly applauds the present management of the schools, which he says is “all but unani- mously” in the hands of the democrats. It matters little toe the people what particular “ring” happens to have control of a public department—whether it be a Greeley ring or a Tammany ring—so long as the money of the taxpayers is extravagantly or improperly squandered. There are some highly respect- able gentlemen among the inspectors and trustees of the common schools—citizens who would protect the interests of the city to the best of their ability if they had the power to do so and were not deceived by less scrupulous men, But the evil of the present school sys- tem may be precisely the point urged by Greeley in its favor, that the Board is ‘‘almost unanimously democratic.” The best way to gettle the squabbles of the politicians over the schools would be to take their management entirely out of politics by the creation of a non-partisan commission, and then we should have no complaints of the extravagance of local boards and no scrambling after the con- trol of the system by any of the ‘‘rings” on one side or the other. Tux Morse BANQver.—In another place in this morning's Herat we give a full account of the proceedings of the Morse banquet at Delmonico's yesterday evening. The affair, up to a certain point, war quite a success. It was aright and proper thing for this great centre of commercial wealth and enterprise to do honor to a man whom the world honors and whose name will be lastingly associated with the most potent agency of modern civili- zation, The speech of the Professor was in admirable taste and a8 reproduced in our pages is well worthy cf careful perusal. It is difffeult, however, to resist the conviction that the affair was got np less for the purpose of honoring Professor Morse than of advancing the interests of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The speech of the president of that company was in éxecrable taste, and that it was so regarded by alarge section of the assembled company was evinced by the num- bers who rose and retired during its delivery. Tak Conrerence ON tit Eastern Ques- TI0N.—This morning we print quite a batch of news relating to the Hastern question, In Albania a collision had taken place between Turks and Greeks, Garibaldi had refused the commjssion tendered him -by the Greeks in the event of war breaking out. Russia denies having allowed thé Greeks to use her flag. The Sultan refuses to take part in the conference if the Cretan question is to be discussed. At the same time it fs authori- tatively announced that the details of the con- ference have been agreed upon and that the first segsion will be held on Saturday noxt. The Bohemian War Upon the Business Meu of New York. This Bohemian war is still insolently carried on. Indeed, the Bohemians now exhibit greater activity than ever, for they have ,at length pushed the war into a province with which they are all more or less familiar, They have invaded the barrooms of the city. After skirmishing a while in certain vile localities where they felt most at home, and attacking, ungratefully enough, what has long been their meat, drink and raiment, but’ is now stigma- tized by them as the benzine of Bayard street, the fusil oil of the Fourth ward and the double distilled kerosene and creosote of Roosevelt and Water streets, they have sud- denly changed their base. They have grown 80 bold as to venture upon Broadway and to intrude themselves on the society of the gontle- men who frequent the most fashionable restau- rants and lunch rooms along that gay thorough- fare. Concentrating their ragged regiments “upon “a well known restaurant at the corner of Broadway and Chambers street,” they have advanced with a wild warwhoop anda grand flourish of penny trumpets, and waded up to the lips in the brandy, gin, Jamaica rum and Bourbon whiskey of that establishment. They don’t pretend to appreciate its wines. | As is usual on such raids as this, when they can swallow no more themselves they offer a pelit verreto their “chemist” and invite the Board of Health to drink withthem, With a wholesome fear—quickened, doubtless, by recent warnings—of being prosecuted for libel, they refrain from announcing the name of the proprietor of this ‘‘well known barroom,” although they allude to it as being ‘almost historical, and at all events universally known in this city and thtoughout the country.” We may add that the name of Delmonico has been honorably known here for more than a quarter of a century, and that it belongs to a family entitled to the credit of having founded and of condutting on a munificent scale no less than four great restaurants in New York, which are unsurpassed by the finest Maisons Dorées of any city in the world. { If the bibulous Bohemians are not floored in the barrooms which they have chosen as the scene of their latest explorations and exploits— if they are not utterly put to rout, horse, foot and dragoons, on their new field of battle by some gallant General Fritz, according to the successful tactics which the favorite of the Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein employed in his famous campaign against ‘‘the enemy”— what shall hinder them from extending their predatory excursions into every department of industry and trade in New York? They may at last be reduced to fall back, upon themselves and to expose each other, and surely they cannot boast “there are tricks in all trades but our own.” Meanwhile they are daily slandering their betters, who are engaged in creating and distributing the wealth of this metropolis. The slanders by which they have lately scan- dalized all honest citizens have been published In journals which appear to be run by an irre- sponsible set of hungry and thirsty Bohemians, most of whom are said to be too young to wear the beard that used to be their prede- cessors’ only badge of manliness, The nomi- nal proprietors of these journals are rarely visible at their ofices. They may have good reasons for hiding themselves, like the Grand Liama, from the eyes of the public; but if they are neither myths nor mere men of straw they cannot hope to escape the legal consequences of the libels of which their subordinates are guilty, If the mischievous fellows whom they hire to do this dirty work are not checked in time they will soon feel encouraged to levy blackmail ‘upon our merchants and traders, our manufacturers and mechanics of all classes. They already threaten to infest and to infect the whole town. There is danger that they will prove to be a nuisance more intolerable than the frogs, or the lice, or the griev- ous swarm of flies, or the very goievons mur- rain, or the boils, or the hail, or the fire mingled with the hail, or the locusts, or the darkness, or all the plagues together, inflicted upon ancient Egypt. Let the nuisance be abated. The Loss of the Hibernin=Wurther Pare ticulars. Details of the loss of the Libernia and the dreadful sufferings of those who were wrecked continue to come by the mails from Europe. The last account, which we published yesterday, was the heartrending narrative of Mr. Davies, the second officer of the ill-fated vessel, who had a marvellous escape in one of the boats. Twelve days and nights were he and two others in this open boat, on the ocean, amidst the cold and storms of winter. All the rest that got on board at first—a boat full—had perished either by suffer- ing or by the capsizing of the boat when strack by a heavysea. One after another of the poor souls became mad, and several in that state jumped into the sea and were seen no more. Mr. Davies’ narrative is painful in the extreme, and on reading it we are led to exclaim, Can not something be done to prevent such fright- ful disasters at sea! There are accidents, undoubtedly, which no foresight or efforts can prevent, but there are too many which might be avoided, Stringent and well executed laws. for the construction and management of ship- ping, and for all the means of saving life in case of @isaster, are needed. A good deal has been done of late years to this end, but much remains to be done. Such a frightful catas- trophe as this of the Hibernia should lead to investigation and action onthe part of the different governments to prevent as far as possible the loss of vessels and lives, ComMmRcIAL EX?RAVAGANCR AND Sprov- LATION.—The several failures recently ro- ported make it pertinent to inquire whether a great many of our commercial mishaps are not the result of extravagance and specula- tion as much as the effect of business misman- agement. The members of our great firms deem it indispensable to their reputation to live in the most expensive manner, There are many houses each partner of which is provided with a distinct establishment, includ- ing an elegant house, a business carriage and a private turnout. The profits are so nearly consumed to keep up this display that little is left to the firm wherewith to provide a margin for bad debts and like contingencies of trade. Again, whon the firm is more thrifty and gathers a surplus, the temptation to put it out at the extravagaat rates of interest which NEW YORK ufRALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1868, oceasionally prevail in Wall street is uncon- querable. This money is generally loaned to some friends on stock collateral, whose success frequently induces them to try a venture on their own account. Their legitimate business is soon lost sight of in the excitement of stock* fluctuations, and failure is the evident conse- quence, National Sport=The Development of Yacht ing. . In another column we chronicle the initia- tion of an interesting event to yachtmen in the departure from this port of the schooner Hen- rietta, with General Van Allen and party, for a winter cruise in the waters of the West Indies. Not long since we announced the depar- ture, for similar purpose, of the little yacht Eva. These two cruises indicate the develop- ment and the tendency of a noble sport. Not long since yachting was so much an affair of quiet rivers and land-locked bays that it was likely always to be regarded as a mere senti- mental extravagance rather than a manly, invigorating and ennobling struggle with the elements, We have had our boats running up and down the sylvan streams and to and fro between watering places, and the cruise to Newport was a great affair. So in England the press could reproach the yachtmen with their fondness for the Solent. To this dispo- sition of yachtmen to still waters there was only an occasional exception, such as Lord Dufferin’s cruise. But woe have come upon better times when the waters of our American archipelago, necessarily involving an ocean cruise to reach them, are taking the fancy of the lovers of sport as a winter cruise. We would not, however, have yachtmen plume themselves on the fancy that they are doing unparalleled things in taking ocean cruises in their taut, trim and per- fectly safe little ships. Much has been said, it is true, over the daring of that ocean race in which the Henrietta won a na- tional fame, and generally from that text on the peril of ocean cruises in such craft. The truth is that the peril and the daring are ex- aggerated through popular failure to perceive the true points in the case. Big ships are hardly so safe in the final event as little ones ; for, after all, what is the size of any ship ever built by comparison with the combined power of the wind and the sea? Handled with the unmeasured impulse of the storm, the Great Eastern herself is a mere cockle shell, and it is fatuity to count feet and inches as against a power that treats that leviathan like a shrimp. On the other hand, the absolute advantages of small ships are their. perfect security from fire and the greater efficiency of discipline and mastery where one man’s eyes can take. in everything and one will direct all, Let our yachtmen remember that the geography of the world was mostly made out in ships smaller than many of the yachts of this time, and that, too, in ages when the art of shipbuilding aud the science of navigation were less understood than they are now. Thus, thongh we would not underrate the spirit and the will that lead to the cruises we refer to, we would remind these gentlemen that they only emulate the Pheesicians of old, the Vikings of Northern story aed the hardy buccaneers in their wandering toward pleasant lands in little ships. We record with pleasure the devel- opment of the sailor spirit that puts our yacht- men in such adventurous company. Doubtless the yachting exciteurents promised for next year will also do mueb for sport. Apropos to Mr. Ashbury’s challenge to Ameri- can yachts for the cup won by the America, there will be several matches of much interest. Two or three races between Ynglish and Yankee yachts will take place in British waters; there will be a race from England here, between one English and one Yankee yacht, and subsequently several races here. The race from England here across the Atlan- tic will be of more interest to sailors than a race across the Atlantic the other way; for it will be a run against head winds—heavy work all the way—and not such a slipping over Old Ocean as formerly carried our boats to Cowes in fourteen days. But it will bea race, in common with the others, to give an impulse to the cultivation of this adventurous pleasure. THE TAMMANY. Reetnauguration of Tan&nany Hallelia Sade den Transformation to a ThentreGrand Kaleidescope of Entertainments—Chenp Amasements Popular=Prospects of Tho Taumany. Tammany Hall opens to-day, formally, for the second time since iis foundation, The contrast be- tween the two occasions verges a little on the humorous, but there is no doubt the latter one will be far more pleasant, agrecabie and doubticas more profitable than the first has proved itself to be. Perhaps no tnstiturion as that intended by the man- agement has sprung into such sudden existence as Tammany Hall; for, eminently unsuited for its origi- nal purpose, it has speedy been traasformed into a grand arena of popular amusement. The Crystal Palace in London is now almost an absolute neces- sity. The entertainments offered there are of a high order, varied and attractive, appealing to all Lasies, while the charge for admission ts unquestionably within'the reach of all. The absence of such an in- stitution in this city has long bi regretted; but now that the matter hav veen unaertaken by practt- success. Tawmaay Hall is ceri Palace in structure, but tt is th of the management to make building within the ps , and most of the, delegate plotely metamorpho. a would not be a litte surprised to behold it in its present magnificeat transformation. They would | find the great hal: changed into the grand theatre of the establisament, the rostram suppivated by an elegant and spacious stage and convention benches substituted ‘by comfortable parque: chalrs, ai galiery sloped backward and upward into a some dress circ with a row of | private boxes, In close coutiguity to the t are to be arranged quite a numb vars in the American, French al Directly opposite the cosinopotitan bar ish divan, where coffee and cigars Will supplement the Orieutal chebougne, and where the genuine Moeha is to be served by attendants dreased tn the garb of true believers, On the same floor there will be @ ladies’ cafe aud giso the “Tammany Club tted up as a reading and conversation hail. Ayoining the entrance hall are reception. rooms and a fancy bazaar, while the extreme ement rooms ave throwa into a promenade, to enliven which a brass baud will be sp detatied. In this sec- tion of the building there will be also bars and re- freshment buifets, and the hall tn which the mighty British drama of “Paneh and Judy’ will no doubt be crowded exclusively by delightiul children and careful grandmammas. The performances tn'the grand theatre, wkich, by the way, will aecommodate 4,000 persona, will generally consist of burlesque; Ee ballet operatic selections and choruses of Ag Who will sing the old Hnglish giees and madre- gals. In fine, it is intended to make Thejlammany combine the comforts of the club house with @ series of first class amusements, The entire building cost 450,000, aud the present company have expended a+ ad in placing tt in its present tmproved condition, The general admission to the establish- ment is set down at fifty cents—a sum that will an- doubtediy render it exceedingly po) tT. Season tickets will be sold at @ mode! f- ¥ the rivate boxes and orchestra stall alone being extra. Vhatever inay be the result of the enterprise—and it is an one—it 1$ certatn that the manage- ment deserve success, not only for the spirit in which it has been undertaken or the lavish expendi. ture with which it has been so far carried out, out for the evident desire of supplying @ great demand long since severely felt. Chesp o dyes pa 4 epeexcep- there be tothe letter. Never was Hore or the Bin ly and, with caret and) us eet Fics eisai eae aie is most appre - fixed for its e-inw ee oe pte + \ ASSASSINATION. eee A Man Stabbed and Instantly Ritied in tho Twenty-secoud Ward—The Murderer Ax- rested. Another cowardly murder was committed in our city last night, to be added to the long list of terrible assassinations that within the past few months have | darkened its history and made law-abiding citizens stand appalled at the recklessness of some men and the little regard they have for human life, This, the latest terrible deed, has, too, the appearance of pre- Ineditation, Which makes the crime ore hein- ous, although the victim and the mi were to an extent under the influence of liquor. The quarrel which led to the murder had its origin in a low grox- gery, and Its consuinmation was within the vicinity of a portion of the metropolis frmous for its many dastardly roughs, who are not too good to'enter heartily into any erime or without the least provo- cation disturb the peace. About half-past five o’clock lasg night the rest- dents that thickly crowd the tenement houses tn the | neighborhood of Forty-first street and Tenth avenue i heard the startling cry of “Murder!” and pouring from their rooms and hovels in hundreds, joined by the hali-dranken scores that quench their thirst im the adjacent liquor stores, they thronged about the saloon of Mrs. Dennis Larkin, on the corner of the above thoroughfare, bustling and tearing cach other, and almost lighting to obtain prominent places to see whom it was that the dread cry had :ang upon. the air about. Before their wish-could be gratilied or any degree of quietude be maintained the smothered exclamations of “There le goes’ caused the excited multitude to glance and | | then run to the opposite corner, wiere frou y tne groggery of Michael Garvey oilicers were seen emerging, tenderly, but hurriediy, carrying a form, apparentiy lileiess, to a drug store in the uamediate vicinity. it was in vain to tell the rapidly increasing gathering to keep back, and it was equally vain tor te moment to collect from the thousand fying rumors any item that could be regarded as truthful, except that a man bad been murdered and the assas- } sin had escaped. When the body carried by the oficers had been deposited in the drugwist’s, which they hastity sought, and the quick examination told Uhat it had been stabbed co the heart, and the subsequent swift, penetrating glance of the physician the tale that life = Was extinct, that the victiin’s spirit had instantly N fled, inquiries were made of the few cool-headed ones about and tne following particulars obtained:— Putrick Lieman, the murdered man, belonged to a gang of rough, unprincipled mea wandermyg*in that neighborhood, gre: addicied to drink, and reauy at any momelit fur a light or uny event that would interest hia belligerent disposition, Yesterday alter- noon, again being intoxicated, he journeyed vo one of his old haunts—that of Mrs, Larkin—and upon en- tering immeuiate!y calted for more Jignor, and waen furnished him he staggered up to a party of three or four who sat together at a table drinking. The lirst person he addressed was one George Greening, a German, also a noied Character of drinking prociivi- ties and turbulent disposition, and before any answer was heard by those sitting near Tieman struck him on the shoulder and slapped him in the face vio~ lently, At once there was a storm, @ quarrel, and cng | Was secu to put his hanad iato his side pocket and suddenly draw tt out, holding something in it tha’ flashed in ths light. A cry rang through the roe: “Look out; he’s got a knife,” when ‘ieman stepped back, and Greening, returning his hand, said quickly, “No, [ havn't gota kuile; it’s Only a rule.’ At this junc. ture the proprietress came from beliind the bar and, with her son Danicl, ordered Jieman, as he was tho aggressor, out of the place, which in a few moments he complied with. ‘he quictude of the saloon was for a moment restored, when Sroeny, mnuttering someting in a manner not understood by his come anions, ‘foliowed. But iittie importance was at ched to this movement. In fact, the ampression, existed that those remaining were heartily glad te get rid of suck an element, A moiuent or two had only elapsed when a fearful ery, coming (rom the groggery of Garvey. opposite, caused this party to rash to the street, when they saw Teman siaggering into the door, and, pulling off his coat in the middie of the roous, fail against the barre!s, exc’aiming “I am killed,’ and thea pMnge headlong to ine oor before he could be caught. The alarm was immediately given, wii the oficers hastened to the spot, and picking up ti body conveyed if ty the dr 's, as before stuted. When the crowd learne at Tieman was dead they, with officers both of the Twentieth and 7) ty-second precincts, not employed in the duty of re. moving the body to the latter station house, to search for the murderer. As circumstances puiny ed to Grecning, and irom the asseritous of one Michael Casey, residlag at 696 Tenth avenue, who saw Tiemun, and he clinched on the siJewalk, they anxiously looked jor him aa the assassin, ialf an hour having elnpsed and no clue to Greening, the detectives of both the above stations were sent upon lus track, but they were unsuccessful ta their tions. Meanwiile one William Horan, living at No. 49 Tenth avenue, haying been apprised of the terri- ble assassination, and being acquainted with the principais and ot the murderer's escape, walked around to Greening’s residence, No. 452 Weat Thurty- ninth street, ant fortunately found him in, Know- ing him to be a bricklayer by trade, he adroitly en- gaged him im conversation relative to certain repairs he desired in his line, and during the explanations tnat ensued he enticed Green- ing to the street, where he detained him interested ja tho proposed work, until Roundsman Westerveit, of the Twentieth precinct, came along, and Loran, accepting this as the moment he had longed for, gave hin iuto custody, and although be was instantly taken towards whe station house on West Thirty-‘ifth street hundreds of the people in tie neighborhood, still laboring under intense exciic- ment, threatened to lynch tue taurderer, bul the de- soon gathercd termination of brother oflicera that eround W: ‘velt prevented Grveniag being ap- sister at the corner of Flity-ninth street and Eleventh avonue. : Greening, the murderer, is fifty-one*years of age, married, and has a wie and two children living ip the rooms ¢ Horan found him. Subsequently * to his arrest oflcers were despatched to search his aparime d fortunately they found We knife with wiueh crible d was committed, and it 1d with the Ife bivod uf n, Of tie Pwenty-second often been under arrest ‘derly conduct, aud re- cently was tound wandertug up Nmih avenue with open Knife in his band. When sober he was quict 1 harmless, but when mebriated he ts represeated to be & demon. This last act clisracterizes hia treacherous nature. 4 THE ITY. In East Fortyevichth street—Surning of a Whiskey Distiitery—Loss About $19,000. About lalf-past nine o'clock last night fire was discovered in the rear of the three story bric« but! is now, with its blade» Tieman, with Captain He The muraerer img No. 218 East Foriy-cighth street, occupied by Messra. Vrince & Bachrach as ‘a whiskey distillery, ‘The flames spread with great | rapidity, and before sufticient water could be throgyn upon tie burning pile the building tt aud most of the stock and m: net sured for $35,000 in city compa buiiding adjoining, so portion of the di tillery, tok fre # nd was threatencd with destruction; but, by the efforts of the jiremen, it was fluuily saved. Cause of the fire ankuewn, in Warren Street, Yesterday afternoon about natl-past four o'clock a fire was discovered on the third floor of the five story marble front building No, 47 Warren street. This foor ts divided into two apartments, the front portion being occupied by Messrs. Tien- stein, Woif & Levy, shirt manufacturers, and the rear by Isaac Colhert, who is lessee of the building, as a cloth store. ‘The fire originated in the apartment of the former, breaking out in the cros® partition, some distance removed from tue stove. The loss of te former firm will be about $4,000 by fire and water, and that of the latter indt- Vidual $200; both fully insured, The second floor is occupied by van beach, tnporter of cleths and ' cassimeres, Whose loss, wholly by water, is slight; i insured for $10,000. ‘Tne first ‘floor, occupied by Messrs. J. A. Monsell & Co., importers and dealers in hardware, also suffer a trifling loss by water, also, insuved; while the fourth aud fifth floors, occupied pied by f. Roachtid, as a manufactory of hoopskirts, Will be damaged about $500, also by water, The latter is insured for $4,500 in’ city compunies. The fire was first seen by a young man employed by the latter occupants. ANOTHER SUDDEN Drarn.—Last night, about half past ten o'clock, @ man, ciad tn laboring garments, came into the restaurant of Christian Pidgeon, No. 74 Kast Houston street, evidently “much the worse for liquor.’ Without entering inte e™versation he sat down on the ice box and at once appeared to go to sleep. When twelve o'clock arrived, tue Lor Charles Giynn, tried to arouse Nim, that the place might be closed, when, to his wtter astonishment, we found that he was dead. m papers in his pos- kession tt was ascertained that his name is Michael Mencer. His body was Feiuoved to the Fourteonta precinct potice station. . —— ‘Tho sleeping car #ttacted to the night train, on the Great Western Railway of Canada, from Niagara ran off the track at Rast Wood, yesterday vale re apd folled down an embankments eurhiecn feet. ‘oar contained eighteen pet twetve of whom are more or less injured, twe of them, 1 te feared, fatally.