The New York Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1869, Page 6

NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR Volume XXXIV. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—FOOTMARKs IN THE BNOW—CATTLE STEALERS, BROADWAY THEATRE, Weer ov tus WISH-TON Broadway.—Faancn SPY— i. BOOTH’S THEATSE, Twenty-third at., between 6th and ‘Tth avs. ROMEO AND JULIET. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tue BuRiesque Ex- ‘TRAVAGANZA OF THE FORTY THIEVES. Psy cree THEATRE. Broadway and 18th street.— Mucu ADO ABOUT NOTHING. BROUGHAM'S THEATRE, Twenty-fourth st.—JaNNY LinD—PO-O4-HON-TAB. WOOD'S MUSEUM AND THEATRE, Thirtieth street and Broadway.—Afternoon and evening Performance. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Noc. 45 one 47 Bowery.— Sie Ist WAHNSINNIG—EIN HORFLICHER Mann, OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Homprr DomPry, ‘wiTH NEW FEATURES. THE TAMMANY, Fourteenth street,—Tue Honsz Ma- RINKS, &C. MRS, F. B, CONWAY'S PARK THEATRE, Brooklyn.— Heney Dcenwag—Rvstic Prima Donna. BROOKLYN ACADEMY oF \F MUSIC. ITALIAN OPERA— Faust. 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All complaints of ‘‘short counts” and spoiled sheets must be made to the Superintendent in the counting-room of the HERaxp establish- ment. Newsmen who have received spoiled papers from the HeRaup office, are requested to re- turn the same, with proof that they were obtained from here direct, and have their money refunded. Spoiled sheets must not be sold to readers of the HERaLp. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTIONS. The Dairy Heraxp will be sent to subscribers for one dollar a month. ‘The postage being only thirty-five cents a quarter, country subscribers by this arrangement can receive the Heraup at the same price it is furnished in the olty. ‘The cable telegrams are aated Marca 3. ‘The ex-King of Hanover has issued a protest against the confiscation of his property by the Prussian government. Anumber of Carlist leaders were arrested yester- day in Arragon. A quantity of ammunition and arms were also discovered and seized. Important letters, it ia further stated, fell into the hands of the govern- ment. Central Asia. ‘The latest advices received from India say that the difficulties in Cabool are not as disastrous as at first reported. Cuba. ‘The reported surrender of the revolutionary Gen- eral Arango is denied. One thousand additional troops have arrived from Spain. J. M. Utley, the clerk at the American Consulate, who was im- prisoned a month ago, has been released. The brig J. D. Lincoin had finally obtained a clearance. Admiral Hoff has half his squadron in Cuban waters, and is displaying considerable activity. The Cathoiic clergy are Havana 1s subscribing to the sup- port of the volunteers. The departure of a large filibustering expedition from Nassau is reported. Congress. In the Senate yesterday the Deficiency Appropria- tion bill was passed. A joint resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to make no payments to W. W. Corcoran for the use of his property during the war until he takes the test oath, was reported and passed. The report of the conference commit- tee on the bill to strengthen the public credit was agreed to, after considerable debate, by a vote of 31 to 2. The resolution of sympathy with Spain was reported back with amend- ments from the House, in which the Senate refused to concur. The Army appropriation bill was then taken up, and Mr. Sumner’s amendment for the payment of the Massachusetts claim was re- jected. The Senate then went into executive session. In the evening session an appropriation for the Charleston Sisters of Mercy called for a violent speech from Mr. Howard, in which he attacked the Catholic church, and it was defeated. In the House, after the usual opening prelimi- naries, Speaker Colfax delivered bis farewell ad- dress. At the close he surrendered the chair to Mr. Wiison, of Iowa, whom he had requested to preside pro tem. Mr. Woodward, on beualf of the demo- crata, offered @ resolution of the highest respect for the retiring Speaker, which was adopted unani- mously. Mr. Pomeroy, of New York, was unani- mously elected Speaker of the House for the rest of the session. Mr. Broomall offered several resolutions connected with the report on the disbursement of the contingent fund, which were adopted. Mr. Hooper, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a bill to amend the act of July, 1868, imposing taxes on distilied spirits and tobacco, It extends the time for the withdrawal of whiskey from bonded warehouses until 1870, Under the pressure of the previous question it was passed. The conference report on the bill to strengthen the public credit ‘was agreed to. Im the evening session the coim- mittee reported that they were unable to make acon- tract with the proprietors of the Globe for printing the reports. The Ontgoing Administration. President Johnson has prepared a valedictory ad- dress, defending the policy of his administration, which willbe found elsewhere in the H&®ALD this morning. The Incoming Administration, General Grant's inaugural, it is mnderstood, will strongly support the Reconstruction acts of Con- gress, and favor economy in the departments. ‘The Alabama claims will be among the first matters con- sidered by his Oabtnet. A committee of New York merchants, headed by A. T. Stewart, waited upon General Grant yesterday NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY MARCH 4, 1869—TRIPLE SHEET. and paid him $65,000 for a bli! of sale of his present house ahd furnitare on I street. This bill of sale and $35,000 additional were then presented to Lieutenant General Sherman. The crowd of strangers in Washington ia 80 great that it is said places much worse than stables are in use as dormitories. The Albany Burgesses Corps arrived in Washington yesterday and were received by General Grant, whose son accompanied them. Miscellaneous. The Maren statement of the public debt has just been issued, It shows @ decrease of $10,363,754. Indian advices state that about 1,000 warriors, composed of Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Kaws and Dog soldiers, are on the warpath, moving south towards the “Staked Plains.” General Custer was preparing to move upon them with a large foree, Pardons have been made out for Callicott and Enright, The people of Rockland county, N. Y., where a fatal case of hydrophobia occurred recently, have formed a vigilance committee for the destruction of dogs. Mr. Munson, a member of the [llinols House of Representatives, yesterday announced to that body that he had been offered $400 as a bribe, $200 of which he handed to the clerk, John Van Horn, an ex-Alderman of Chicago, has been heid in $5,000 bail in that city for shooting at his two daughters, one of whom he wounded. In the Michigan Democratic State Convention to nominate a candidate for justice of the Supreme Court yesterday the republican candidate for the office stood next highest on the ballot. The New Jersey Senate has passed the bill abolish- ing transit duties on railroads and canals passing through the State. A boy of nine years, named Frank de Blois, was drowned in @ pool in Newport yesterday about the same time that two carpenters fell from the roof of hus father’s house. The exammation of Pyke, the allegedtwife mur- derer, has been further postponed until the 24th instant. The West Virginia Legislature has ratified the new amendment, ‘The City. ‘The ship Chieftain arrived at this port on Tuesday from Calcutta in charge of Mrs. Maguire, the wife of the captain, who was prostrated during the en. tire voyage by the fever. The testimony for the defence in the “Grimth Gaunt’ libel suit was concluded yesterday. R. H. Stoddard, Henry Sedley and Richard Grant White were among the witnesses examined. Mr. Whitney commenced his address to the jury and the court adjourned until this morning. The North German Liloyd’s steamship Main, Cap- tain Von Oterendorp, will leave Hoboken at two P. M. to-day for Southampton and Bremen. The European mails will close at the Post Office at twelve M. The sidewheel steamship Magnolia, Captain Crow- ell, of Arthur Leary’s line, will leave pier No. 8 North river at three P. M. to-day for Charleston, S. C. Gold opened yesterday at 132%, advanced to 192}, fell of again to 131%, rallied and closed at 1317. Governments improved towards the close of business, upon greater ease in the money market, and the favorable reports respecting the Schenck bill. Stocks were heavy in the morning but rallied in the afternoon, closing tirm but off the highest prices of the day. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Colonel Wiegal, of thefUnited States Army; W. A. Ryan, of Texas; George Woods, of Springfleld, !ii.; Thomas Lafferly, of Kansas; and J. T. Prescott, of Massachusetts, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Judge G. F, Comstock, of Syracuse; H. W. Todd, of Ohio; isaac Hinckley, of Philadelphia, and F. W. Bennett, of Baltimore, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. General J, H. Martindale, of the United States Army; R. G. Myers, of Philadelphia; John Stevens, of Montreal; Harry Hawley, of Pittsburg, and E. Hays Trowbridge, of New Haven, are at the Hom man House. General Tyler, of New York; Dr. P. A, Jewett, of New Haven; Lieutenant Commander Dickerman, of the United States Navy; W. M. Ely, of Binghamton and the following members of Assembly:—A. E. Hasbrouck, Wesley M. Carpenter, James Suffern, George C. W. Cooke and Samuel! Mitcheil, of Albany, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. George McClesky, of Savannah; John M. Gannon, of Atlanta; John B. Young and Robert Mitchell, of Philadeiphia, are at the Maltby House. C. H. Castle, of Syracuse; George A. Guilford, of Cincinnati, and E. F. Martin, of St. Pal, are at the St. Charles Hotel. Senator E. D. Morgan, of New York; Asa Packer, M. Meylert and D. P. Southwick, of Pennsylvania, are at the Astor House. The Inauguration and the Inaugural of President Grant—The New Epoch. This day, the 4th of March, 1869, will be an important landmark in American history—the initial boundary monument between the dead things of the past and the living things of the New Testament. The transition has its re- semblances to that of Rome from its civil wars of the republic to the empire of Augustus, and to the English revolution consummated under William of Orange, as given in what we may call the line engravings of Macaulay, and to the great French revolution, with its expul- sion of the Bourbons and its emancipation of the blacks; but in its grand distinguishing features this second American revolution stands alone. Beginning in a struggle to maintain the Union with the inheritance of African slavery, it has ended in the extinction of slavery and in the expurgation of the old constitution founded upon slavery. The great fact which makes the advent of General Grant, as the head of the government, the beginning of the new age, is his complete recognition, not Johnson's, of the ‘‘constitution as it was,” but Grant's, of the “constitution as it is.” ‘Thus the inauguration of General Grant to- day as distinctly marks a new departure in the administration of the government as the English * transition from James the Second to William the Third. Johnson has had much of the hard experience of James, and Grant, we expect, will be crowned with greater successes than William. In the list of our fifteen Presidents elected as such there are seven soldiersa— Washington and Monroe, of our first revolu- tion; Jackson and Harrison, of the war with England of 1812; Taylor and Pierce, of the Mexican war, and Grant, the great Union leader of the war of our second revolution. Thus, as each of these wars but the last has given us two Presidents, we may expect from the surpassing magnitude of this at least three or four. Certainly, the election of Grant as the pioneer of the new government resulting from our second revolution is in every view as happily adapted to the political situation as was the first election of Washington. Each in history will fill the place of first adminis- trator of the new government secured by him as the leader of our armies in a war of life or death to the great cause, Hence the commanding importance of Presi- dent Grant's inauguration. It is the begin- ning not only of a new administration, but of @ new government, under a new constitution. Seymour's election would have been chaos returned again, with his platform proclaiming all the reconstruction laws of Congress not only revolutionary, but null and void, Grant accepts the revolution as its representative olect, and so it is fixed. It is generally under- stood that in bis inaugural address ho qill accept not only the new constitution and the duty of carrying out the reconstruction laws of Congress in good faith, but will advocate the ratification by the States of the fifteenth amendment from Congress, which prohibits, by Congress or the several States, ‘‘any abridgment of the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude,” and which gives to Congress the power to enforce this provision. Reconstruc- tion, then, and the question of suffrage may be considered as substantially settled. So, too, may be the policy of ‘economy, retrenchment, & faithful collection of the public revenue and payment of the public debt.” Here we look to President Grant for a great work of reform, including a great reduction of the burden of our taxes, debt and Treasury spoliations, But it is also given out that Grant's inaugu- ral will be apt to make @ sensation in England and Spain, in reference to those Alabama claims and the insurrectionary island of Cuba. On the one subject the Senate has signified its dissatisfaction with the sweetened milk-and- water treaty of Reverdy Johnson, and on the other question the House has indicated a con- cession of belligerent rights to Cuba which it is supposed will be seconded by President Grant to-day. If so, it will need no prophet to foretell his policy with England, though he may not say much of the costs to us of English neutrality and Lord Russell’s belligerent rights. We do not entertain the shadow of a doubt of the presentation of ‘‘that little bill” from General Grant, arid we predict that Mr. Gladstone will pay it without even the higgling of Louis Philippe over a somewhat similar bill from General Jackson. As the inaugural itself, however, will doubt- less be laid before our readers to-day we may here dismiss our speculations concerning it. That it will define a new departure in our do- mestic and foreign affairs differing as widely from the old Bourbon, do-nothing policy of Johnson and Seward as the Pacific Railroad train of the present day differs from the over- land mule train of five years ago we are morally certain, and we are as well satisfied, looking to a practical working administration, that the inaugural and the Cabinet of Presi- dent Grant will give general satisfaction to the country. The Lamentations of Andy Johnson. President Johnson winds up his career at noon to-day, and has signalized the event by sending forth a stump speech to the people in the shape of a farewell addzess. In endeavor- ing to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors, Washington and Jackson, Andy Johnson has made a blunder. When they left the Executive chair they enjoyed the pro- found respect and admiration of the whole people, and their parting words fell like manna upon a famished land. But in President Johnson’s case he has the misfortune of having very few friends—and those not of a very influential kind, the chief among them bearing the stripes of patriotic but involuntary service to the State. These parting words of the retiring President might have done very well at some political gather- ing in Tennessee, and possibly might have aasisted in paving the way for a new departure for him in the future. But as they stand they smack of chagrin, disappointment, ill nature and bad blood. He will now have the reputa- tion of going out as a scold, when he might have retired to the shades of private life asa good-natured man and in a style at once digni- fied and solemn. Goodby, Andy! Tue Heratp Marine Sream Yacuts Be- comin A Pusiio Nexogssiry.—Our steam yachts have proved of great benefit to the merchants of New York by enabling them to give instructions to their captains in advance of their arrival at the wharves. They thus save a great deal of money and time. The yachts are also proving a great convenience to people in distant parts, as we are in daily re- ceipt of letters to be delivered on board of in- ward bound vessels to husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, as well as all other rela- tives and friends, who are expected from foreign shores. The writers of these letters know that if passengers once land in New York it is very difficult to find their stopping places, while through the agency of our ma- rine steam yachts they feel confident that they can communicate with their friends. Specrmmen oF CoNnGREssIONAL ReTRENCH- MENT.—With all the fuss and loud talk about retrenchment in Congress the members vote appropriations for all sorts of purposes in the most extravagant manner. The action on the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill and the Legis- lative and Executive Appropriation bill shows this. As a specimen, we notice that an amend- ment was passed to the latter increasing the sum for salaries and expenses of the internal revenue service from six millions to eight millions. This service was too cumbrous and expensive before, and should have been sim- plified and the expenses reduced. If this be a specimen of Congressional retrenchment our burdens are not likely to be decreased. Dutce et Decorum, &c.—Some of our Spanish merchants are loyal Spaniards and desire most earnestly to see the Cuban revolu- tion put down; they are also good sugar dealers and desire to see the revolution go on. Naturally they are troubled what to hope for. They have gone into sugar heavily and it has gone up. Good. If the revolution keeps on it will go higher. Better. They will make fortunes. Best of all. But alas for Spanish supremacy if the revolution keeps on! Thus they scarcely get to a superlative of delight as speculators before they must be in the dumps as patriots. Tae Best Gas Test.—In the testimony of the gas company men taken the other day there was considerable reference to tests, and none of the tests seemed to show much. But it was testified that the stock of one of our city companies stood at two hundred and eighty to three hundred dollars, and we fancy that the selling of gas by that company pays. Grant AND His Cantyet.—Grant is accused of disregarding popular will in choosing his own Cabinet, but wrongly. His Cabinet will be a concentrated expression of popular will, but popular will a6 he understands it, He dis- regards not the people, but the cliques that are | very apt to call themselves the people, The Fortieth Congrese—Clesiag Proceedings. The Fortieth Congress, among the most memorable in American history, will close ite existence to-day at twelve o'clock noon, when the Forty-firat Congress _ will immediately take its place. The Fortieth Congress met under a special act of the Thirty-nioth on the 5th of March, 1867, and the incoming Congress will assemble under the same law when the functions of the present cease. Literally the two past Congresses and the one onthe eve of congregating have been dovetailed into each other, forming, in fact, a perpetual session of the national legiala- ture since 1865. There have been an extra- ordinary number of sessions of the Congress about expiring. This was occasioned by the conflict between Congress and the Execu- tive. The war against the President was not suffered to have an interregnum. The national representatives in both branches never for a day relaxed their control of the government, and, already shorn of his chief prerogatives by the Tenure of Office bill, the retiring Executive has been watched with a jealous and a vengeful eye ever since the strug- gle between himself and Congress began. The reconstraction of the South has been one of the great measures of the Fortieth Congress, culminating in the adoption of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, the thirteenth having been adopted by the preceding Congress, and the restoration of six of the ten rebel States, one of them— Tennessee—having previously been restored, leaving three States still outstanding, namely, Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. Another great feature of the Fortieth Con- gress was the famous impeachment trial, the particulars of which are still fresh in the memory of the country. ‘There have also been a number of efforts at financial tinker- ing by the same body, but none that has exhi- bited the possession of an unusual degree of financial ability on the part of any particular member in either house. Stupendous jobs and private plundering schemes, notoriously cor- rupt and involving millions of the public trea- sure, have been passed through this remark- able Congress with inconceivable facility. It has appointed committees to investigate alleged frauds in State elections, in regard to alleged abuses in the collection of the internal revenue, in regard to charges of, malfeasance on the part of government officials, and ia other respects, when, with a higher conception of its duties and a more natural concern for the interests of the people, it should have com- menced its investigations within its own halls, in its own committee rooms, in its own lobbies, The closing scenes of the Congress whose existence is now passing away were not marked, up to the hour of our present writ- ing—two A. M.—by anything wonderful or startling. Mr. Schenck’s bill to strengthen the public eredit—requiring the pay- ment of United States bonds in coin— was passed by both houses after amend- ment by a committee of conference. During the discussion on the bill in the Senate Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island, pronounced it to be a measure “better calculated than any other yet proposed to bring about a repudiation of the national debt.” Mr. Sumner’s proposition to pay Massaachu- setts the interest on money advanced during the war of 1812-15 gave rise to a spirited dis- cussion, in which Messrs. Chandler, of Michi- gan, and Conkling, of New York—colabor- ers in the same political vineyard with Mr. Sumner—took strong grounds against the payment of the claim. Mr. Conk- ling stigmatized it as the ‘“‘boldest and most preposterous proposition for sub- sidizing a railroad company”—Massachusetts having transferred its claim to one of its pet railroad corporations—‘‘that he had ever seen in either House.” The claim was finally rejected, 16 to 25. The Senate refused to concur in the House resolutions expressing sympathy for Spain, passed the Army Appropriation bill, allowed the claim of M. W. Corcoran, and during the evening session the Civil Appropriation bill was taken up and a proposition to exchange the land pur- chased for a post office site in New York for land further up town agreed to. A proposi- tion to make a donation to the Sisters of Mercy in Charleston, for services rendered Union sol- diers during the war, was discussed. In the House Speaker Colfax delivered his farewell address, preparatory to his taking the chair in the other branch, and Mr. Pomeroy, of New York, was elected Speaker pro tem. The late Speaker and the members of the House parted on good terms with each other. During the evening session of the House a lively discussion ensued on the proposition to pay the Louisiana contestants, but it was finally passed by @ vote of seventy-three to seventy-two. A committee of conference on the part of the House on the Army bill was appointed, and a discussion on a bill removing political disabilities from Judge Parker, of Virginia, disclosed the fact that he was the Judge before whom John Brown was tried and hanged. The Post Office Appropriation bill was passed by both-houses, and business was being rushed through at railroad speed, under sus- pension of the rules, until a late hour this morning. Tne Enousn Revorm Dirriovnry.—Siill on the Irish Church in that slow, old British Parliament. In the American Congress such a question would have been settled in five hours, because the American Congress would not have feared the next step. That is the trouble in England; they fear to take one step from dread of the next. If they dis- establish one grand old evil they cannot refuse to do the same with another; and whither will all that lead? If they take out one brick they may let down the whole pile. Kicxina tHe Deap Lion.—The ponderous and bewildered radical organ of this city, doubtful where it stands and what part it is playing in the story of the present, is sure of only one fact, and that is that the Presidency of Johnson is at an end. Sure of this one thing, it indicates its instincts and its gene- rosity by administering « few final kicks in the shape of feeble lampoons, Alas for the principles that require to be sustained by such ‘an exhibition of ill nature and bad manners ! Asotner Goop PLANK IN Grant's PLAt- rorm—“‘Let reconstruction take care of itself. We have more important matters to look to now.” Fancy the horror of Wendell Phillips. 1 Grant’g Administration—The Now Era. The country iakes a new departure to-day in political life undor the jead of General Grant. The changes made fn thé constitution by the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments, and which it is proposed to rivet upon our political system by the fifteenth amendment, declaring that the right of the citizen to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color, make for us a new constitution which supplants the old one, We have now four races—the white, the original red, the black and the yellow—on the great platform of American progress, To make the thing com- plete we have only to add another color to our flag. This is the accomplishment of a great revolution in our theory of government, under which State rights have disappeared and State lines are rendered inoperative. We have con- solidated in one great empire, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and which will ex- tend from the North Pole to the Equator. It will be the greatest empire the world has ever known; for even now, in its infancy, it sur- passes in geographical extent, in mental activity, in material enterprise, all that Rome ever attempted or dreamed. A retrospect of the past fifty years of our progress throws a vivid light upon the growth and the causes of the overthrow of the politi- cal theories which have passed away. Under the shield of State rights the institution of slavery grew to immense proportions as a social system within the Union. As the lead- ing representative of the two—the political and the social theory—Calhoun fills a large space in that period. But his social theories carried our institutions back to the period of the middle ages, with its serfs and its feudal lords. This was the fight Calhoun made and lost. He had none of the great agents of modern civilization with him, The rail, the telegraph and the modern press were all inau- gurated during his time, and these subtle influ- ences, planted by Stephenson, Morse and the HERALD, were all opposed to the Calhoun idea. The result was that he lost ground while we went ahead. The contest is now ended. A new era com- mences to-day with a population that may be practically estimated at any figure between one hundred millions and five hundred millions of people, marching shoulder to shoulder under a system of political consolidation on the broad path of empire. Their arms are the steam engine, the electric telegraph and the indepen- dent press, and the victories they will achieve are beyond the wildest dreams of human thought to-day. The last generation com- passed progress from the slow coach to the rapid car, from the uncertain sail to the cer- tain paddlewheel, and has served its apprentice- ship with the electric battery. Whoever be- lieves that we stop here deceives himself as greatly as did Calhoun when he believed he could carry our social and political system back to the feudal age. Cuba and Spain—A Significant Resolution in Congress. The resolution upon Spain and Cuba which unanimously passed the House of Representa- tives on Tuesday has something of the true republican ring about it. The sting which it contains referring to the liberties of Spain is an admirable prelude to the sympathy ex- pressed for Cuban patriots in the last half of the resolution. The farther resolution authorizing the President to recognize the in- dependence of Cuba at the proper moment is what we have been advocating for two months past. The Cubans are bent upon obtaining their independence, and there is no doubt but they will succeed much quicker than the Spanish leeches may imagine. The sympathy expressed by General Grant in his conversa- tion with General Reynolds is very opportune, and, coming on the same day with the House resolution, shows how strong the current is setting in favor of Cuba. It is evident that the happy moment is approaching when we shall commence at the right end of the national reconstruction problem by straightening up our foreign matters. We must repay Spain for her kindness to us during our struggle for national existence. We can do this and at the same moment perform a great moral obligation in behalf of the Cubans who are suffering from Spanish domination. As regards England, our little reciprocity understanding with Prince Edward Island is destined to open the true road to the settle- ment of the Alabama claims. Spain, struggling for liberalism, certainly cannot object to the liberal movement of Cuba if she be consistent with her own newly adopted code of progress. Therefore the best thing for the Spanish government to do is to telegraph to General Dulce to withdraw from Cuba and save the lives of the twelve or fifteen thousand Spanish troops who are now dying off like sheep under the compound in- fluences of cholera, yellow fever and patriot bayonets. Quick action should be taken on this subject by both Spain and the United States. Cuba is too closely allied with us in a common progress for us to allow Spain to hold possession of the island simply for the purpose of desolating it. Qurrr.—Nobody who calls to see Grant wants anything. They only drop in to pay their respects. Never was such self-abnega- tion seen. Repustics Not Unaraterut.—Witness the princely donations to Lieutenant General Sher- man. ARMY INTELLIGENCE, Recent Assignments in the Qaartermaster’s Department. The following assignments have been made in the Quartermaster’s Department of the Army:—Brevet Major General D. H. Rubker to be chief of the quar- termaster’s deparment in Missouri; Brevet Brigadier General Morris P, Miller, chief quartermaster of the Fifth military district: Brevet Brigadier General 0. H. Tompkins, chief of the quartermaster’s depart- ment of Alaska; Brevet Brigadier General Frederick Myers, chief of the quartermaster’s department and district of Louisiana; Colonel A. BR. Eddy, chief of the quartermaster’s department of the South; Brevet Brigadier General Rufus Saxton, chief of the quartermaster’s department of the Columbia; Colonel J. G, Chauder, chief of the quartermaster's department of the first military district; Brevet Brigadier General 0. G. Sawtelle, chief of the quartermaster’s department of California; Brevet Colonel J. M. Moore, chief of the quarter- master's department of the Fourth Military district. Lieutenant ogee Fa Hi, 0. Hodges ts ordered to take Yaa, Share of coven 5. A, Tae. meee ett mae arene | ‘AMUSE MENTS, “Faust.”—Miss Kellogg fepeated last Ovening, before a large and appreciative audience, her artis- tic and effective impersonation of Marguerite, ia Gounod’s “Faust.” The plaudits which tbe London press unanimously accorded to this favorite Ameri- can prima donna upon her first appearance at Her Majesty’s theatre, in London, in a character well de- scribed as unquestionably one of the most engaging in the entire repertory of the modern lyric drama, have now been fully endorsed in New York. Miss Kellogg triumphantly sustained abroad we bao ordeal of SAP ROTA. between herseit American origina, Titiens as the italian inn origina, Mme. Miolaw darvatho as the Frencn oognal d Mile. Lucca as the German original of found Interesting Character, ag well as Mile. Adelina Patt: and Mile, Leer most Sanctions London critics agreed in in that ctions between the several impersonations Oral these eminent artists were nel neither proad enough in outline nor subtio enough in detall to be particul: dwelt POD, and and Sey beer praise to Miss Keli Sonate sort the “sentimental” asserted, without the slightest pod acting last nignt was faultless ugération, delicacy and it was traly @ work and her American admirers, who aware how largely the accom: iishmenta of Miss Ae Aa Sosecee havo Fete e growth of a fow pained it earnest and laborious study, bestow all the iho fhe Witte rough as gon aco out seh in the cathedl and inthe prison, nt eat a ‘dramatic SSteuence was red, Plate volce of pia Rai nae Sere ss le, resonant and pure in powerful. The foreign quality, rather than criticism that it fails somewhat in the middie and registers, and that therefore some esis | ‘Marguerite’? hardly within her - m “ are withia is not incorrect. But to most of _ music her soprano voice, with its penet ree, is admira- bly adapted and evinces the fruit ore the SeecEn vocal Senne to which it has been subjected ac- to the best methods. In the plaintive ro- mance at the spinning wheei, in the dimMoult penouee a the jewel song mine boa beautiful duet between Mar- ite and Faust,jthe gem of ee ol oe Miss Kell oe ‘moat amirabiys geen! bute which received abroad wi by Rossint himself of his atification —- she was to sing i his Posthumous Mass, which has been pur- chased by 7 Mr, Maurice Serukosch and ts soon to be oancet ins this city; and the latest proof that asa singer she is not vithout honor in 4 een country a is the offer, which yesterday recei and ac- cepted, of the ‘unprecedented sum of gd fora tg evening at opera house in Elmira tn this Cems HALL.—The annual concert of Mme. de Lussan, soprano of st. Stephen’s church, took place at this hall last night before a very large and fashionable audience, The fair béndficiare was as- sisted by Miss Millet, pianist, and Messrs. Ohol- ler, pages mya Pome h ey Alard. Mme. de Lussan sang @ very beautiful song entitied “A Light from Our Home, ” by Wm. Berge, and “The Vision f St. Cecilia,” with piano and violoncello obligato. We have seldom heard this artist sing so well before, her voice being remarkably fresh and clear. Her school of singing isan excellent one, being a mix- ture of the French and Italian methods, It enables her to guard against straining of the voice and gives her ample opportunity to show only her best notcs, avoiding weak points. Mr. Cloirec, an Irish harpist, played medieys of Irish and Scotch airs. Encores were frequent during the concert. Musical and Theatrical Notes. To-night, for the first time in over seven months, New York will be without the opera bow? How will it amuse itself? ‘The company of the Thédtre Francats, including Mme. Rose-Bell and Mlle. Desc!auzas, will aelight the appreciative citizens of Hartford this eventag with “Genevieve.” Washington will not be slow this evening in the way of amusements, Miss Laura Keene will appear in “Hunted Down,” Ole Bull will do some dddiing, Blind Tom will thumb the keys of the piano, and to conclude with there will be a grand organ concert tn @ Methodist church. pha pene is at present enlivened with the vocal of two minstrel companies. hting the “reconstructed” of wag eithe hie tion of the hing fem wi impersonation. ot gual Clarinda in “Cinderella, Pn The Lancastire eas is holding court at tho a of Music, Cleveland. P. Depens 2 “Snare” ia ensnaring the mace On! ns with much icagoal success. Charleston, S. C., 18 still tortured with a German- Atalian opera company. Mr, James F. Cathcart personates “Richelieu” this evening for the good people of St. Louis. ‘ Rel ibernian Minstrels are holding forth in oe ee Janauschek remains in New Orleans alt An Vtinerant theatrical wae commenced a short season last e1 im Poughkeepsie. The town in queatlon was sadly in need er something of the sort wake It up. Miss Annie org lapels toma crazed the people of a With the canoan. They admire it ex- othe iicket of Leave og et and uae Oniy Leon" Forty Mra 5,7? hn wer fame, = Coal has been running down the price scale in tho wholesale market for some time, yet there seems to be no change of the price in retail circles. Retailers should learn to read newspapers and keep posted aa to the way coal dust blows. A high wind “took the veil” without any cere mony yesterday from a lady in Broadway, and car- ried it above the housetops for several blocks. A crowd of gallants ran after it crying “stop thief.” No arrests were made. It’s all folly to talk about annexing Cuba, as far as getting the inhabitants of the “ever faithful isle” into the Union is concerned, for Cubans are in tuis city at present as thick as butterflies in summer time in the country. The more the merrier. ‘The pleasant gentlemen who are responsible for all the gas in the city contend that the smeil of tt is rather healthy than otherwise. It's strange that they like to reside as far away from the health-gtving source as possible, isn’t it? An old fellow who has, undoubtedly, been barking up the wrong trees, gives it as his agricuiturai opinion that apple trees in this country are surely dying out. The farmers should pomme-i him for his stupidity. It is advised that everybody before going to bed o’ nights should leave his hall door open, with a notice to the following effect on the outside:—‘‘None but health inspectors admitted.” In this way he will not only avoid having his doors broken down at three in the morning by officials who want to know ‘‘how many persons sleep in one room,’’ but ‘Will escape annoyance from the thieves, who disdain to go through open doorways. Has anybody ever heard what became of James McDonald, who kilied Peter McDonald a month ago, or whether Robinson, the station house lodger and Logan No.2 areever tobe heard of again? Mr. Kennedy being in Washington to give vent to his pa- triotism cannot be expected to answer. Some of the pubile school folks are trying to kick up a row because the proper authorities have or- dered all the children to be vaccinated. What is the matter, anyhow? ‘The Nineteenth street gang are disoussing the pro- pricty of moving, out of their pregent headquarters, which has of late became too public to suit their views of privacy. They should be farnished with safe and life long headquarters at public expense up the river. COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION. ‘The reguiat semi-monthiy meetingjof the Cominia- sioners of Emigration was held yesterday, anda number of reports were presented, from which the following figures are gleaned:—Number of emigrants arrived to March 3, 9,090, Balance in bank January 1, ,O41 87: receipts to March 3, 18409, tor boeainutatioa Meangerts be, $112,913 65— Ses Ou; disbursements as per previous ac- cou! February 4, 1869, $69,518 35. Balance, Seine total arrivals at Castle Garden for the month gi Fet were pA 3 of whom 2,665 were frum London, 230 from Glasgow, 615 from mahbors oad 740 from Bremen. Of the ‘ves- sein these frrenty-cight were sae a Bad the steamers rea four of ‘and four Ge ahs Sion yo British North ‘ametionn Comnmerctal Advertiser says it ia ‘the pat down 3 Vackawanna 4 ina intention pony Fail on thet new pm, ea -