The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1869, Page 6

an) é NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. Allbusiness or news letter and telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Heratp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. Volume XXXIV.......... RELIGIOUS SERVICES TO-DAY. BEULAH PARTICULAR BAPTIST CHURCH.—ELDER James S. MAPES. Morning and afternoon. BROADWAY TABERNACLE CHURCH.—Rev. Dr. R. 8. Srares, JR. Evening. CHURCH OF THE STRANGERS, Large Cha pel, Univer- pity.—RV. DR, DEEMS. Morning and evening. CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOUR, Thirty-fifth street.—REv. 3..M. PULLMAN. Morning and evening, COOPER INSTITUTE.-Rkv. NoAu M. Morning and evening. EVERETY ROOMS.—Mus. NELLIE BeicHaM. Morning ‘and evening. “ FORTY-SECOND STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— Rev. De. Socorr. Morning and evening. GAYLorp. FREE CHURCH OF THE HOLY LIGHT.—PREACHING BY THE KeoroR. Morning and evening. JOHN STREET METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.— Rev. W. P. Cousrr. Morning and evening. LAIGHT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. PREACHING BY “Tar UNKNOWN MAN.” Morning and evening. MADISON SQUARE PRESBYTE De. Samvrt W. Fisuen. Eveni MURRAY HILL BAPTIST CHU: wey A. Corry, Morning and evenin, IAN CHURCH.—Rev. -Rev. Dr. Siv- NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.—Rev. THoMas ATREET ON “LICENTIOUSNESS.” Evening. SPIRITUALISM.—No. 85 East Twenty-soventh street, ag. ST. STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—Rxv. Dr. Paice. Morning and evening. THIRTY-FOURTH STREET REFORMED CHURCH.— Rev. Isaac REY. Morning and evening. UNIVERSITY, fternoon. Washington square.—Bisuor Snow. NSTER CHURCH.—RRv. G. M. MoEcknon, RV. DR. BUROHARD, Evening. TRI TR. PLE SHEET. New York, Sunday, May 9, 1869. poomen ze TO ADVERTISERS. All advertisements should be sent in before eight o’clock, P. M., to insure proper classifi- ‘cation. THE HERALD IN BROOKLYN. Notice to Carriers and Newsdealers. BROOKLYN CARRIERS AND NewsMeN will in future receive their papers at the Brancu Orrice or THe New York Henatp, No. 145 Fulton street, Brooklyn. ADVERTISEMENTS and Susscrrprions and all Jetters for the New York Heraup will be ‘received as above. ‘The cable telegrams are dated May 8. The London stock market has been unfavorably affected within the past few days by the increase in the rate of interest in the Bank of England to four and a half percent. A still further advance is anti- eipated. Mr. O'Sullivan, the present Mayor of Cork, will Hot become a candidate for Parliament. It is asserted that Marshal Serrano will be ap- pointed Regent and General Prim President of Coun- cil and Minister of War until aking is found for Spain. Cuba. Additional despatches have been received from Admiral Hoff, dated May 1. Rafael Estrada, an American, had been released from prison at the Ad- miral’s solicitation ; but Dr. Livermore was still in continement. The Penobscot is anchored oif Reme- dios ana Caibarien, where Americans have property to the amount of $2,000,000, Hayti. Admiral Hoff forwards a report from Commander Abbott, commanding the Yantic, at Port au Prince. ‘The currency had depreciated until over 300 guardes greaemanded for an American dollar. The popu- lace are driven almost to desperation by the want bf the necessaries of life and threaten to pillage the town, The Legislature. Inthe State Senate yesterday several bills were ordered to a third reading and reported. Bills were passea authorizing the consolidation of railroads forming continvods lines; authorizing an increase of Central Railroad stock; the Brown Underground Railroad bill was reconsidered and passed (19 to 8); the Charity bill (22 to 8). At the afternoon session a Jarge number of bills were passed, including one rela- tive to the Commissioners of Quarantine (18 to 10); for canal repairs (22 to); amending the registry faws. The New York City Tax Levy came up; a sharp discussion ensued. The Senate refused to concur in the amendments aud a new conference committee was appointed. A large number of bills were passed in the Assem- bly. Resolutions of thanks to the Speaker and other oMcers were adopted. Tbe Canal Repairs biil ‘was considered in Committee of the Whole. At the evening session the Brown Underground Railroad ‘Dill was ordered to a third readingjand the Canal bill ‘Tecommitted with instructions. Miscellaneous. ‘The last rail on the western half of the Pacific Railroad was laid yesterday with imposing cere- onies, and on Monday the, eastern half Will be joined to it, The road will then be complete from New York to San Francisco. ‘The event was generally celebrated by commercial classes in all our great cities. The officers of the companies that control the road were in consuita- ‘tion yesterday and came to a temporary understand- ing that the fare from New York to San Francisco tor second class passengers should be se y-five and for first class one hundred and seventy-five dollars. A radical movement is being made to secure im portant changes in the Cabinet. It 1s proposed to place Sumner in the State Department and Stanton Jn the Treasury, There are no particular objections to the present occupant of the State Department, except that he is not as fully identified with radi- calism as Sumner, and it is urged that Boutwell is without force as a financial manager. None of the present members propose to resign, however, until ‘the President makes a request for their resignations. * Ithas been discovered by a careful review of the Appointments made at the last session of the Senate, Yhat several persons obtained minor offices under Taise representations from their political friends, The work of weeding them out has already com- ome and in the State Department several laces have been renderea vacant, y A party of Sioux Indians recentiy surprised a Bmalier band of Snake and Bannock Indians, near Bouth Pass City, and killed twenty-nine of them, The City. Two printers, Messrs. Brett & Jones, No, ey Nag. sau street, and one John Burr, have been arrested op acharge of negotiating for the issuing of ¢400,009 of forged Haytien bank notes, of which $600,000 are oaid to Dave been put ip circulation ia Hava. Jus. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. tice Hogan, before whom they were taken, set down theirexamination for to-day. MreHoimes B. Kelly, a broker of Philadelphia, was arrested and temporarily commutted by Justice Hogan, at the Tombs, on a charge of attempt ing to negotiate with a guilty knowledge the sale of some bonds alleged to have been stolen in August last trom the Syracuse Savings Bank at Syracuse. He claims to be abie to show innocent possession of the bonds. ‘The stock market yesterday was strong in sym- pathy, with a further advance in New York Central, while the general market was better in consequence of arise in governments and a@ decline in gold, resulting from the proposed funding of the national debt to the extent of one million dollars a week. Gold declined to 1373¢ and closed finally at 137%. The aggregate amount of business consumated in commercial circles yesterday was diminutive, though some of the markets exhibited a fair degree of activity. Coffee was dull and heavy. Cotton was steady, with a moderate demand. On ‘Change flour was but little ‘sought after, but held at former prices. Wheat was in fair request, but the business was light, being restricted by the increased firmness of sellers. Corn and oats were dull and heavy. Pork was slow of sale and prices were irregular. Beef and lard were steady. Petroleam—Crude was duil and nominal at 17}gc., While refined was active, but lower, at the close, when standard white was quoted 324%¢. Naval stores were a trifle firmer, though the business was light. Freights were quiet, but generally firiner. Prominent Arrivals in the City. Rev. E. G, Klose, of Pennsylvania; &. Fountaine,~* of Fort Wayne; and KE. Monet), of Pennsylvania, are at the astor House. Colone! Stewart, of the United States Army; Dr. Daniel R. Simpson, of Montreal, and R. J. Vincent, of Quebec, are at the St, Julian Hotel. J, V. Ferry, of Philadelphia; Dr. Wuson, of Toledo; C. H. Fitch, of Massachusetts, and J, C. Spaulding, of Boston, are at the St. Nicholas Hotel. E. Thornton, of Washington, is at the Clarendon Hotel. L, Tilden, of Australia, and J. L, Adair, of Indiana, are at the St. Charles Hotel. J. Cox, of San Francisco; H. C. Blackford, of Phil- adelphia; S. H. Le Fevre, of Greenwich, and G. T. Gardiner, of New Haven, are at the Westminster Hotet, Prominent Departures. Hon. G. Villiers, son of Lord Clarendon; the Lora Bishop of Nassau, Colonel Powel and G. R. Bristow sailed yesterday in the steamship City of Boston, for Liverpool. A. Taussig, Rey. F. F. Hagen and Rey. S. H. Dixon sailed yesterday in the steamer Bremen for Bremen. Colonel De Meza, C. Pinkham and Mrs. Julian Angel satled yesterday in the steamship Cella for London, 1. J: Broderick, Henry S. ritch and Rev. Robert Henry sailed yesterday in the steamship City of Bal- timore for Liverpool. The Pacific Railroad—The Wealth of Fremont’s Prospect. To-morrow, finishing at noon, the last sleeper (of mountain mahogany, tipped with Nevada silver) and the last rail (of Missouri steel) and the last spike (of pure California gold) required to make a through connection by rail between New York and San Francisco, three thousand two hundred and eighty-five miles, will be laid at Ogden, in Utah Terri- tory, the junction of the Central Pacific Rail- road from Sacramento, on the Sacramento river, in California, and the Union Pacific Rail- road, from Omaha, on the Missouri river, in Nebraska. The length of these two national roads, separate and collectively, is as follows: — Union Pacific Railroad, westward from OMANA LO ORIEN. «+... sever eeseeeseeee 1,032 mites. Centrai Pacific Railroad, eastward from Sacramento to Ogden............0e.00e Last Rail— Great Basin—The 864 miles. ‘Total length of the two lines 1,896 miles. This (linking by rail the Pacific and Atlantic oceans) is the Pacific Railroad, built by such liberal subsidies of lands and bonds from Congress as to enrich the two companies concerned in its construction. The first act on the subject was passed in 1862, in the midst of our late civil war. At that time the pros- pect for building the road within a shorter period than twenty. years was very slim. There were, first, the heavy drawbacks of the war, and, second, the forbidding character of at least twelve hundred miles of the region to be traversed—a waste of timberless plains, chains of continental mountains and Asiatic deserts—a region which, excepting a few small patches here and there, ap- peared to be utterly worthless. Hence the liberality of Congress in its subsidies of lands and bonds. Since then the boundless mineral treasures of all those Territories have been revealed—the richest discoveries of all being those of only the other day, the White Pine silver mines of Nevada, in a district rep- resented in the best maps of last year as a blank. Never was there such a run of luck to any great enterprise since the first voyage of Columbus westward in search of the Indies. The richest States of the Continent in their mineral treasures are springing up over all that vast Asiatic section which twenty-four years ago was thought to be a second edition of Arabia, hardly worth the mules lost by Fremont in his first explorations—we mean that interior desert region of Fremont’s Great Basin. From the facts and figures of a map and report before us of the White Pine silver mountains of Nevada, it is, we think, likely that they will not be exhausted with the ex- traction of a thousand millions of silver. They are, evidently, richer and more extensive than those of tecas in Mexico, from which seven hundred millions of silver have been drawn, and are much of the same formation as those of Potosi, in Bolivia, which have yielded sixteen hundred millions of silver. This Pacific Railroad will be the only outlet for these treasures of Nevada and of those of Utah, the line of travel, and more or less the line of exports and imports of the miners of Nebraska, Kansas (Eastern Division branch road), Wyoming (Montana has the Missouri river), Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Nevada and California. This way business of passengers and freight, with the through passenger traffic, will be the munificent support of this Pacific Railroad. Over a line of thirty-two hundred miles by rail there canbe no heavy freight business between San Francisco and New York. It will be cheaper by way of Panama or Cape Horn. The teas and silks of China, for instance, coming by this road from San Fran- cisco and in the way of trade, will hardly in any considerable quantities come farther east than St. Louis or Chicago, so that San Fran- cisco, in the Eastern Asiatic trade, will be the port of entry and delivery for this Pacific road, and New York will hardly experience a change: Thirty-two hundred miles of rail is too much to divert the trade of Eastern Asia across our Continent to New York. Only an isthmus ship canal will draw it for the United States east of the Mississippi away from the route of Cape Horn and Good Hope. But the gold \ and silver of our mining States and Territories through to the Pacific must come to New York, and the advantages of this completed road, The Reported Expeditions Against Cuba. + Certain Bohemian sheets have lately been with the new impulse which it will give to the’ | making efforts to prove that gigantic warlike peopling of those new States and Territories, will be felt by our New York dealers in Euro- pean dry goods and bij. ie. General Grant, in his fnaugural address, refers to our Western gold and silver deposits as furnishing ample security for the payment of our national debt. With proper legislation from Congress those specie deposits might be made to pay the debt. But in nothing has Congress been so wasteful in its loose and corrupt legislation as in its squanderings of the public domain. In nothing has it been so corruptly negligent of the claims of the public Treasury as in its failure to adopt any system of revenue from these government mines. In the interval to the reassembling of Congress next December (assuming that there will be no call of an extra session) we pre- sume that the developments of the enormous resources of those Western mineral lands will be such as to call the attention to them of the President in connection with some special recommendations for the benefit of the Trea- sury and the taxpayers at large of the United States, and for the encouragement and pro- tection at the same time of the honest emi- grant and the honest miner. Meanwhile we hail the completion of our railway connections between New York and San Francisco as one of the most important events of the age, and as the herald of greater things under wiser legislation, soon to follow. The Anniversarics. With the return of smiling May New York city again finds itself crowded with parsons and priests and other religious deputies. May is the season of Christian reunion, and New York isour American Jerusalem. Hither at least once a year the tribes come up. There is this difference, however, to be noted be- tween the two Jerusalems. The Jews went up to worship and to make their offerings. The religious pilgrims come to New York from all parts of the United States less to worship and present gifts than to replenish their purses and see what is going on in the midst of us. They come to take, not to give. New York in this particular is a London, an Edinburg, a Berlin, rather than a Jerusalem, a Mecca, or a Rome. We are glad, however, to see the religious societies in the midst of us, and it is gratify- ing to know that the object for which they come seldom fails of accomplishment. It will be seen from our religious intelligence to-day that though the societies which present their claims for support are not quite so numerous as in former years they are here this year in goodly numbers. Dr. Thayer pleads the cause of the Presbyterian Board of Missions to-day in the First Presbyterian church. The claims of the New York Bible Society are to be set forth at different centres by Drs. Hastings, McVickar and Foss. Dr. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, will make an effort to get at the hearts and the purses of New York merchants in the interest of the Seamen’s Friend Society. The causes represented by the Home Mission- ary Society and by the Female Guardian So- ciety are respectively to be advocated by Dr. Storrs and Mr. Eddy of Brooklyn. Thus the campaign is to open. During the course of the week the Anti-Slavery Society, the Tract Society, the National Temperance Society, the Bible Society and the Congregational Union will hold meetings. With one exception these societies are all doing good work, and we shall be glad to hear that they have not appealed to the New York heart and purse in vain. We make one exception ; for, now that slavery has been abolished, we know no good reason for the continued existence of the Anti-Slavery Society. Of mutual admiration meetings they have surely had enough. [tis time they were devoting their energies to some practical end. Of the progress of vital godliness and Christian benevolence throughout the Union we cannot write until the reports of the different societies have been submitted. We have little doubt that the reports will be encouraging, and we are certain that New York will uot be slow to give what may be necessary to send the brethren on their way rejoicing. If, however, the parsons and their lay brethren, who have come up with them, will step into Niblo’s and take a peep at the “Forty Thieves’—a most attractive company of vagabonds—they will see that in spite of all their eloquence, and in spite of all that the Heratp has been doing to assist them, the cause of Satan is still powerful in the midst of us, We dare not advise them to go; it might be dangerous; but the devil has some temples in New York in which they might learn something. Nothing like being well posted. To know the strength of the enemy it is well to look at his strongholds. We shall have more to say of these anniversaries before the appointed weeks are ended. No ATrTENtIoN.—The telegraph company prints on its paper forms the conditions on which it sends a message. This is to prevent the people having a proper remedy against its misconduct, as it calls this printed condition an agreement. But now it is informed that an agreement must have on it a five cent stamp, and, presto! the agreement is no agreement. That little piece of printing was only meant to be a security against the people and no expense to the company. No Frer Lacer.—It must be a great con- solation to the Germans to know that the pro- posed amendment of the Excise law in favor of their chosen beverage was lost by a strict party vote—all the democrats in favor of itand | all the republicans against it. Trovee at Bota ENps.—Strikers at the other end of the Union Pacific Railroad keep 4 tight hold of the head men, and strikers at this end have driven them out of town, Tat Gotnen Sptke.—How long will it take the crowd that assembles where the last spike is driven in the Pacific Railroad to dis- perse? How long will each person linger in hope to be the last? Coats TO Newoastie.—Mr. Sumner has been looked upon by black men everywhere a8 a friend and champion of their race ; butnow the sable government in Hayti looks upon him as the foe who has been instrumental in pat- ting upon it an international affront, in the shape of @ darky revresentative of the United States, expeditions have been fitted out from this port and others of the United States to land troops and munitions of war upon the island of Cuba for the benefit of the revolutionists. Much of this noise is, in reality, created to cover up the immense war stores which Spain herself is constantly shipping to Havana from New York and other of our cities. Many of our manu- facturers are to-day busily employed making improved weapons for the purpose of killing those brave Cubans who are struggling for independence and liberty. It is a well known fact that the journals which are supporting the effort to overthrow the insurgents are very hard pressed for funds, and are obliged to resort to a species of mendicity to sustain themselves. They send their agents into the country districts to solicit subscriptions, and are thankful for the smallest favors. It is very natural, under these cir- cumstances, that Spain, taking advantage of their poverty and easy honor, should try to use them as tools—how suc- cessfully the late sensational news is the best proof. It is for Spanish interests that three or four columns of weak newspaper arti- cles should be used as wadding to every bul- let that leaves our shores for the Cubans. It is a curious fact that some of the journals we allude to are the representatives of the party which has heretofore clamored most loudly for the acquisition of Cuba. Their party has already assisted in launching several fillbus- tering expeditions against the island. We are reliably informed that a Spanish agent whose name is known to usis very busily engaged in scattering Spanish gold among those news- papers which stand sadly in need of a finan- cial propping up, and are willing to receive it even at the expense of their independence. Through such journals our government is forced to take cognizance of every musket or ounce of ammunition which may be intended for defence against Spanish atrocity or bar- barism in her dealings with her colonists. We are ashamed that we have newspapers among us so un-American in principle. By siding with Spain they of course adopt the Spanish ideas and retrogradism. It is a good proof of how far behind the times some of them may be and exist. There is, however, one redeeming feature, they do not receive sufficient support in the United States and only acquire a tran- sient vigor through decrepit Spain. Wanted—Another Indian Campaign. It appears that the winter campaign of General Sheridan only warmed up the Indian tribes. Now that they have used up the few presents that followed the usual treaty of peace they are ready for the field again, Their ponies and stolen government horses are growing fat upon the young grass, and the price of war paint upon the frontier has sensibly advanced. We are really weaker than the governments of Mexico, Chile and the Argentine Republic are in dealing with Indian troubles. The absolute imbecility of our government is nowhere more clearly displayed than in the history of our Indian affairs for the past ten years. Indian scalps have cost us scalp for scalp and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to boot for each one. Now there are any number of bold specula- tors who will take a contract to keep the Indians quiet until the next twenty years put the beggars out of sight. If the gov- ernment is so entirely unfitted for the work let the Indian Department advertise in the Heratp for an Indian peacemaker, The National Debt—Wall Street. There is official confirmation of the impor- tant fact that the government has initiated steps for the reduction of the national debt. The Secretary of the Treasury, as will be seen in another column, has decided to receive pro- posals for the purchase, by the Executive, of United States bonds to the amount of one million of dollars weekly, to be continued until further orders. The proposals have been made public in the terms announced in the Heratp, and from these it will be seen that the debt of the country has now reached a culminating point, from which its pressure will be gradually relaxed by careful manage- ment. The announcement of the Secretary of the Treasury, taken in connection with the aspect of the affairs of the Pacific Railroad, pro- duced a flurry in government stock and on Wall street generally yesterday. After a short time, however, the advices by the cable from London and a more calm examination of the government plan tended to soothe the ex- citement, the different interests beginning to understand that the national burden would be substantially reduced, and in an increasing ratio, yearly This feeling induced an advance amounting to about two per cent in gold, the operations on the street being closed with a stronger feeling of confidence in the situation. The Fashions. It appears by the letter which we publish to-day from our Paris fashions correspondent that the balmy whiffs of spring which a few opening days of April brought with violets and hyacinth bells were soon exchanged for March-like blasts and hail showers. The ladies who yielded to the temptation to throw off prematurely their velvet casaques, fur boas and quilted rotondes straightway fell into the hands of Dr. Gargle. Our corres- pondent gives an account, at once amusing and pathetic, of the sufferings of the Parisian dlégantes who made haste to adopt the latest spring fashions. Those of our New York él- gantes who committed the same error have been similarly punished. Until yesterday, when a bright, warm enn illuminated almost every variety of the spring styles exhibited on Broadway, spring styles seemed to be indefi- nitely postponed, at least so far as walking and carriage dresses are concerned, There has been, however, an ample and splendid display of them at the numerous fashionable weddings which have lately been celebrated, at amateur concerts in private theatres, at theatrical benefits and matinées, and at the final “Germans” of the season. Preparations are even in progress for the fashions which are to prevail at the yearly multiplying sum- mer resorts of our citizena—at New- port, Saratoga, Long Branch and the rest, At all these places there will be no lack of fashionable display this summer, although the exorbitant charges of hotel keevers during previous seasons have contributed to swell to an unprecedented figure the number of families and bridal parties which have already taken their departure for a sum- mer tour in Europe, We do not know how many of these may be induced to extend their transatlantic trip to Jerusalem. The Empress Engénie is soon to leave Paris on her pilgrim - age to the Holy Land, and our correspondent predicts that bridal trips to Jerusalem are likely to become fashionable, Meanwhile the Monday receptions of the Empress, the ball at the Chinese Embassy, the exhibition of the “fastest novelties” in the drives at the Bois de Boulogne, the ivy wreath of the ex-Queen of Spain, the rivalry between the Princess de Metternich and Mme. Musard as ‘‘queens of society,” and a miscellaneous budget of court gossip, afford abundant material for the let- ter of our Paris fashions correspondent. It now requires so little time to steam across the Atlantic that our gay birds of passage who have lately flown trom the Park to- ward the Bois de Boulogne will reach Paris before the court and the Jdeau- monde shall have deserted it for Biarritz, or Trouville, or Etretat, or Baden Baden, or Jerusalem, Financial Policy of Secretary Boutwell. Our telegraphic despatches indicate a finan- cial movement in the right direction on the part of our Secretary of the Treasury. In- stead of launching a million of gold upon the market every now and then, to cause specula~- tion and aid in the formation of rings, he has given orders to the Assistant Secretary, Van Dyck, in New York, to buy government bonds to the amount of one million dollars per week. This will assist very largely in appreciating their value. It will tend to cause a rise in Europe, while at the same time it will throw a constant stream of gold upon the market at regular intervals. This will, therefore, work to the advantage of the country in two ways— first, a steady supply of gold, which must pre- vent the great fluctuations attendant upon a spasmodic supply; second, a constant with- drawal of a certain amount of government paper from the market. It can, however, only work advantageously while the government revenue is in excess of expenditures. If the Treasury is obliged to borrow the gold to carry on the operation it will have a contrary effect to that intended, and will only redound to the advantage of the brokers who are commis- sioned to make the purchases of the bonds. As It Snoutp Bg.—The world will hear with eminent satisfaction that there is some probability that the experiment of woman suffrage is first to be tried in the State of Mas- sachusetts. Tue Birrerness or Freepom.—Alas for Spain! that she should come to be scolded by that distinguished humbug, Garibaldi. Her cup is full. All the Bourbons never brought her to such humiliation. Victor Hugo will be at her next. Great Rairoap Carasrrorue.—Three grand city railroads were smashed all to pieces in Albany in one day. Two under- ground steam railroads and one overground steam road are thus done for, and the owners must clear away the débris and get ready for another season. What the city does not want it can readily get from the Legislature; what it does want it cannot have on any terms—that is, any terms that will pay at this end of the line. How Tugy Preserve FLowers.—In a case tried in the Marine Court, in regard to the preservation of flowers that had been used at a funeral, it was shown that the flowers were preserved ‘‘in the usual way,” and that the usual way is to preserve some and to substi- tute wax flowers in the place of others. ASSOCIATION OF IpkAS.—Mr. Curtin, United States Minister to Russia, ia president of a company endeavoring to establish telegraphic communication with Europe by way of the Pacific Ocean and the Russian empire. The hand of a telegraph agent in the sleeve of an ambassador. No ReigF on Gas.—Our citizens must un- derstand, apparently, that the domination of the gas companies is continued. For another year those corporations may give as bad a light as they choose, make out the accounts to suit thelr good pleasure and leave every one without light who may have the impudence to grumble. At the end of a year we shall have the same flurry we had this winter, and another gas bill will be killed in the last stage of its passage. Parpon Brokeragge.—One of the strange sights of the time is the way in which our courts are appealed to to enforce bargains that are contrary to all those interests of so- ciety that courts are intended to protect. AMUSEMENTS. CLOSE OF THE PHILHARMONIC CoNCERTS.—We do not recollect a musical or dramatic occasion for years past at the Academy of Music, we refer to both the old and new buildings, on which a more brilliant and thoroughly fashionable audience was assembled together to do homage to the twin Muses of Thaiia and Melpomene. To say simply that the building was crowded would give a very inadequate idea of the mass of people that filled every seat, aisle, lobby and even the family circle. It was a just acknowledgment of the public appreciation of the efforts made b; the Philharmonic Society for true art under the direction of their entertaining and energetic president, Dr. Doremus, and their painstaking, conscientious and talented chef Vorchestre, Cari Bergmann. The programme was also one of rare attraction, every work being of a first class nature. Ginck’s overture to “Iphigenia” and Weber's “Oberon” overture formed a brilliant introduction Anate to the sublime poem of Man- fred,” to which Schumann has given some master touches of orchestration and song, and one of Beethoven's greatest piano works, the concerto In G major. The New York Liederkranz Society wang the choruses of “Manfred”? in superb style, although the voices, 150 in number, were heavily overweighted by the immense orchestra, The most atiractive feature about the poem was the little waifs of melody, chords and descriptive musical pi 68, which accompanied the roange of the poem. The connecting text in the form of prologues was very leverly translated from the German of Richard Pohl by Mr. J. Corne!l, The translator throughout endeavored, and we think successfully, to infuse. some of the spirit of the poem into those narrative passages, Mr. Edwin Booth was we reader on the occasion, and also evinced a desire to render the sublime passages in @ spirit worthy of them. His peculiar intonation, however, and want of real dramatic fire, marred the effect which his careful and scholarly recitation would otherwise have commanded, The ing was to @ consider. je degree monotonous, and the inflections of voice for each of the characters in the m 80 limited, and the intonation so precise and deliberate, that the burning passages which light up this, the greatest of Byron’s works, fell coldly on the ear. The concerto ‘was very badly played by Mr, Charles Jarvis, who in @ parlor or a small concert hall might be accepta- ble for his neat and clean execution, but who 1s ex- ceedingly smnall when placed against the bac! nd of an orchestra with such ® Work as that of ec. h more spirit, avery ven before him, To the orchestra all pene, must unanimity and exoresston. the concert given. We never heard them pi ater irse, ', Herr Haase undertakes, he renders in truly ae neat and eloquent address was made to Mr. Booth bh: Dr. Doremus, thanking him in behalf of the society, and then the worthy Doctor was presen! by the bers Goan p oon Plate which Mr. Hill accom- with some engrossed resolutions of thanks. OtymPic THEATRE.—“Humpty Dumpty” had the even tenor of its unruMedway somewhat turned from its usual course last might by the début of Mlle. Rita Sangall, the popular premitre danseuse, a3 a Vocalist. whe occasion marked the first benefit that Mile. Sangali has ever taken in this city, aud we are happy to state that she was greeted by a large audience. The fair beneficary has danced herself into the good graces of the New York public during the nearly 400 representa- tions of the mischievous “Humpty Dumpty," and last night she succeeded in ingratiating herselé still more firmly into their affections by the admira- ble manner in which she sang L’Arditt Walta and “Home, Sweet Home,”’ The last named piece was gtven in English and brought down the house. Mile. Rita 1 has a sweet, pleasing voice, aud with the exception of a little nervousness, conse- quent upon her first attempt to sing in public, ac- juitted herself in a very itable manner. During the performance of the pantomime she favored her patrons with a new characteristic dance entitled “fhe Maniac,” descriptive of a maiden slighted in SS love, hopin which - she was rapturously aj plauded, ‘nile ing, and in whila dancing sbe was made the happy recipient of vari- ous tokens of appreciation from her friends in the audience, not the least of which was @ ficent album, having a suitable inscription upon a gold late fastened upon one of the corners, two racelets and a superb parasol, which srenae frome a large basket of flowers, but which was artistically hid beneath a covering of roses that concealed it from view. Woop’s Muszeum.—The long delayed pantomime “Robinson Crusoe” was brought out Jast night be- fore an audience that filled every part of the house. It would have been better had the production been still longer delayed, as it was evident trom the per- formance that nothing in the shape of a rehearsal had been given. The curtain did not rise untit nearly nine o'clock, and even when the performance commenced there was so much confusion both among artists and scene shifters as to cause great merriment among the audience, The scenic effects in the piece are really very fine, every scene being well worthy of the applause which greeted it, ant had the piece only veen really ready for representa- tion the performance would have over With great eclat. ‘The dresses also were very handsome, and when in running order “Robingon Crusoe’ must be recognized as one of the finest spectaciea ever exhibited to @ New York audience. Of the ladies and gentlemen who took part in the performance it is hardly fair to speak, considering the ver ‘apparent disadvantages under which th labored. Miss Marie Longmore, wno takes the 10 of “Robinson Crusoe,” is a petite blonde, with good stage presence and very easy, pl it style. She sings well and last night did as much as any one to keep the piece from dragging. Miss mn Taylor is also a pleasing artiste, handsome and easy in her style of acting. The Friday of Mr. R. Pateman is one of the best features m1 the piece, and the gentle- man established himself thoroughly in the appre- ciation of the audience. He 1s one of the best pan- tomimists at present on the stage, and is also very lively in this role, which is one that calls for panto- mumic action of the most startling character. Mr. Joseph Irv! as Will Atkins and Mr. Wallace as Kickeraboo the First were also good. When “Kolséu- sun Crusoe”’ has had a few more representations, 80 that the artistic and mechanical department may run smoothly, the piece will undoubtedly take its right place in the public favor and prove a drawing cara to Wood's Museum. Stapr THEATRE.—FAREWELL BENEFIT OF HBRB FRIEDRICH HAase.—Last evening Herr Haase, on completing his engagement in America, took hia farewell benefit. As Book was announced to recite “Manfred” at the Philharmonic concert, Herr Haase concluded to follow the example, and he recited the beautiful and highly dramatic ballad, “The Erl King” of Goethe. Of cou! whatever tion. style and with almost pet ,”? that the moan- unsui And so did he recite ‘The Erl Ki ing whispers of the Erl Elf could aimost be felt and not only heard, and the prayers of the doomed child called by the “King” were as effective. As Marquis de Rocheferrier in “A Game of Piquet” he was the high aristocrat of Old France, and as Count Klings- berg again the light footed roué of easy virtue, such as Vienna boasted in the times of Metternich, It t# to be tted, for the sake of the German drama in the city, that Herr Hasse is to leave us s0 soon. TUBATRE FRANCAIS.—This establishment, the ac- know ledged head and front of that dubious offend- ing known as French opéra douse, was last night made vocal with the strains of Italian opera by a company of amateurs. The opera was Donizetti's “Lucretia Borgia,” and the performance was given for the benefit of Miss Antoinette Leideker, a young lady of some musical promise and great ambition, for the purpose of enabling her to make her début, in conjunction with M. Berthold, who was also a debutant, and whose lyrical am- bition is apparently even greater than that of Miss Antoinette Leideker. All the per- formers are pupils of Professor M. Duschnitz, and for amateurs oe thee themselves very credit- ably upon this their first appearance in public upon any stage. The opera, all things considered, was ex- cesdingly well given, and all those taking part in tta performance may felicitate themselves upon having done remarkably well for amateurs. The house was well filled with the friends and acquaintances of the débutants, but it would hardly be fair to subject either the prima donna or the tenor of the evening to the severe tests of rigid criticism. Sufiice it to say that Miss Letdeker has yet much room for im- provement, although possessed of an agreeable and strong soprano voice, which at times betrays a little harshness, which, my may overcome with a more thoroug cultivation. She sang and acted, however, in a very cool and collected manner, and was seve- ral times encored. M. Berthold, the tenor, most de- cidedly carried off the honors of the evening, and, with Miss Leideker, was rapturously called before the curtain at the conclusion of the duet at the end of the first act, We understand that it 1s the inten- tion of both débutants to adopt the lyrical stage aa a profession; but we would recommend a longer course of study, especially for the iy. as she will find it quite a different thing when trying to please a cold, critical audience of strangers to what it ts when singing surrounded by ber persona! friends. Musical and Theatrical Notes. Kossini’s ‘ Messe Solennelle,” will be sung this evening &t St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic church in East Twenty-eighth street, with Miss Kellogg and the other members of Mr. Strakosch’s company as- sisting at its performance. This spacious and mag- nificent church, above ali others in this city, is ad- mirably suited for the proper production of this work, and it will doubtless there be heard to a much greater advantage than in a barn-like opera house or a dismal concert hall. The opéra comique entitled “Les Dragons de Vil- lars,” by A. Maillard, will be given for the first time in this city to-morrow night at the Fifth Avenue theatre, with Irma and Aujac in the principal rdtes. The piece has been for some time in course of pre- paration, and is promised to be luced on a scaie of rare magnificence, ‘with ent new scenery, costumes,” &c. We shall see. The “culled folks” com} Lege Min- strels have returned from their rambies thi and will reopen at their cosy hall in Fourteenth street to morrow it at reduced and popular prices. They will their new season with a number of laughable novelties, and the popular Dan will himself appear as Jupt- Au Brougham’s burlesque of “Red lot The Central Park Garden concerts, which were so popular last season, will recommence on Wednesday evening next, under the direction of Mr. re Thomas. Levy, the cornet plaver, has been added to the grand orchestra, Mr, Josche fully appreciat- ing the fact, that the more talent to the pub- lic the more liberal will be tts ire conjured uj lew nj at the Grand Opera House, at Fisk, Jr.'s blading, has now been bag , With all its sublime accesso- ries of artificial lightning and thunder, for thirty- four nights, and still its poetical furies are yet unspent, notwithstanding a great deal of money has been spent by the ‘he ng in thos n i trying to ‘raise the wind.” The nightly expense of roducing a ‘Tempest’? at the Grand Opera House is 700, and the receipts for the privilege of witnessing its effects have averaged $875 per night. We are as- sured that this same “Tempest” is still “hailed? with perfect “storms” of applause, and, further- more, that there is no “blowing” concerning the above figares. The piece will withdrawn on vi - ing next w make room for the heroic io," Field, who, we learn, {8 not a sorrowful Sorosisian, will deliver an essay to-morrow night on “Women in the Lyceum,’ at the Union League theatre. The Laurie pantomime and boreeqee troupe, en- gage for the summer season at Waliack’s theatre, which will be under the management of Mr. Moss, arrived here last evening tm the steamship City of London from Liverpool. ANOTHER Cl AK. ‘The Bohemians of the New York presa still insist in circulating mendactous reports in regard to Cuvan affairs, notwithstanding during the past week they have been obliged to contradict one day that which ‘they published the day previous, Their iast edort in this line was published yesterday, in which was given a bogus report of an alleged interview and conversation between United States Marshal Barlow and the Spanish Consul resident in this city, Mar- shal Barlow states that the entire report is a fabri- cation, with the exception that he had an interview with the Spanish Consul, but not disclose to a : what transpired he dia person. ‘The Prevnded dialogue published aa before stated, 15, therefore, a pure invention of the Bohemian soribbler who Indited tt,